As May comes to a close the 1/8th Scale Team headed out to Hutto, Texas for the 2025 Lonestar Challenge hosted by Thornhill Racing Circuit which doubled as the 2025 ROAR Nationals Warm-Up.
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The track crew did a phenomenal job of providing an amazing track as well as giving racers a taste of what can be expected next month at the nationals!
Thursday held open practice all day, moving into Friday there was a round of Seeding and a round of Qualifying. Saturday held 2 more rounds of qualifying with all of the main events taking place on Sunday.
Seeding Results:
Pro Buggy: 1st Seth VanDalen, 2nd Ryan Maifield, 3rd Dakotah Phend
Pro Truggy: 1st Brandon Rose, 2nd Jared Wiggins
Pro Ebuggy: 1st Ryan Maifield, 2nd Mason Fuller, 3rd Jermaine Robinson
Intermediate Buggy: 1st Frosty St. Clair
Intermediate Etruggy: 2nd Smiley Henn, 3rd Calvin Bruce
40+ Buggy: 1st Kurt Kellum, 2nd Frosty St. Clair, 3rd Paul Ciccarello
40+ Ebuggy: 1st Frosty St. Clair, 2nd Paul Ciccarello
50+ Buggy: 1st Mark Morrow, 2nd Marc Robinson
Moving into qualifying it would be standard best 2/3 qual-points.
Qualifying Results:
Pro Buggy: 1st Seth VanDalen, 2nd Dakotah Phend, 3rd Ryan Maifield
Pro Truggy: 1st Jared Wiggins, 2nd Seth VanDalen, 3rd Dakotah Phend
Pro Ebuggy: 1st Brandon Rose, 2nd Ryan Maifield, 3rd Dakotah Phend
Intermediate Buggy: 2nd Frosty St. Clair
Intermediate Ebuggy: 2nd Calvin Bruce, 3rd Smiley Henn
Intermediate Etruggy: 1st Smiley Henn
40+ Buggy: 1st Kurt Kellum, 2nd Frosty St. Clair
40+ Ebuggy: 1st Frosty St. Clair, 3rd Kurt Wenger
50+ Buggy: 1st Mark Morrow
Moving into the main events we would like to congratulate all the podium finishers, especially those using JConcepts products! #GoJConcepts
Pro Buggy: 1st Dakotah Phend (JC), 2nd Seth VanDalen (JC), 3rd Ryan Maifield (JC), 4th Mason Fuller (JC), 5th Chase Lemieux
Pro Truggy: 1st Dakotah Phend (JC), 2nd Jared Wiggins (JC), 3rd Seth VanDalen (JC), 4th Spencer Heckert, 5th Chase Lemieux
Pro Ebuggy: 1st Ryan Maifield (JC), 2nd Seth VanDalen (JC), 3rd Dakotah Phend (JC), 4th Brandon Rose (JC), 5th Jared Wiggins (JC)
Intermediate Buggy: 1st Trent Walker, 2nd Frosty St. Clair (JC), 3rd Wyatt Wilson, 4th Alex Gwin, 5th Reggie Tongue
Intermediate Ebuggy: 1st Trent Walker, 2nd Cody Granger, 3rd Heath Evans, 4th Wade Moore, 5th Calvin Bruce (JC)
Intermediate Etruggy: 1st Heath Evans, 2nd Smiley Henn (JC), 3rd Chris Younts, 4th Reiley Maiers, 5th Zach Burnham
40+ Buggy: 1st Paul Ciccarello (JC), 2nd Kurt Kellum (JC), 3rd Robby Darby (JC), 4th Wade Moore, 5th Reggie Tongue
40+ Ebuggy: 1st Chris Hatch, 2nd Frosty St. Clair (JC), 3rd Paul Ciccarello (JC), 4th Ricardo Fautsch, 5th Wade Moore
50+ Buggy: 1st Mark Morrow (JC), 2nd Matt Sistrunk, 3rd Marc Robinson (JC), 4th Chris Snuggs, 5th Ken Kapson