The final 2025 Racetime Event and one of the last major American/European match up for 1/8th scale off-road for the year took place this past weekend in Alabama. Just over 425 entries joined in on the action in the always unique event.
All practice at this event was controlled with two unseeded sessions followed by a seeded session. The team was looking solid from the start of practice!
Seeding Practice:
Pro Buggy: 1st Seth VanDalen, 2nd Juan Carlos Canas, 4th Phi-Long Nguyen, 5th Spencer Rivkin
Pro Ebuggy: 1st Spencer Rivkin, 2nd Dakotah Phend, 3rd Ryan Maifield, 4th Brandon Rose
Pro Truggy: 1st Seth VanDalen, 2nd Ryan Maifield, 3rd Mason Fuller, 4th Cole Kasten
Intermediate Buggy: 1st Wilson Cowart, 2nd 4th Trevor Olins, 5th Maddy Long
Intermediate Ebuggy: 1st Kenny Setser, 2nd Wilson Cowart, 4th Patrick Rossiter, 5th Trevor Olins
Intermediate Truggy: 1st Wilson Cowart, 2nd Trevor Olins, 3rd Maddy Long
Open Etruggy: 1st Braden Bruce, 2nd Andrew Bishop, 3rd Patrick Rossiter, 4th Maddy Long
40+ Buggy: 1st Jason Schreffler, 3rd Sean VanDalen
40+ Ebuggy: 2nd Jason Schreffler, 4th Rusty Mihelich
Qualifying was the standard format with the best 2/3 qual-points counting towards starting position in the super-pole finals.
Qualifying:
Pro Buggy: 1st Ryan Maifield, 2nd Seth VanDalen, 4th Juan Carlos Canas, 5th Dakotah Phend
Pro Ebuggy: 1st Dakotah Phend, 2nd Brandon Rose, 4th Juan Carlos Canas
Pro Truggy: 1st Ryan Maifield, 2nd Phi-Long Nguyen, 3rd Jared Wiggins, 5th Juan Carlos Canas
Intermediate Buggy: 1st Maddy Long, 2nd Wilson Cowart, 3rd Trevor Olins
Intermediate Ebuggy: 1st Wilson Cowart, 2nd Patrick Rossiter, 3rd Kenny Setser, 5th Maddy Long
Intermediate Truggy: 1st Trevor Olins, 2nd Maddy Long, 4th Wilson Cowart
Open Etruggy: 1st Braden Bruce, 2nd Patrick Rossiter, 3rd Andrew Bishop, 4th Maddy Long
40+ Buggy: 1st Jason Schreffler, 3rd Sean VanDalen, 5th Tom Petrella
40+ Ebuggy: 1st Jason Schreffler, 5th Rusty Mihelich
Next up would be the super-pole events which don’t remove anyone from specific mains but the 1st place from the lower mains would be moved up to the next main. This 10 minute event would set the actual starting grid for the mains as well as adding that final driver.
Super-Pole Winners:
Pro Buggy: Ryan Maifield
Pro Ebuggy: Dakotah Phend
Pro Truggy: Ryan Maifield
Intermediate Buggy: Wilson Cowart
Intermediate Ebuggy: 1st Patrick Rossiter
Intermediate Truggy: 1st Maddy Long
Open Etruggy: Braden Bruce
40+ Buggy: 1st Jason Schreffler
40+ Ebuggy: Jason Schreffler
The nitro main events would all be 45 minute affairs for every class, each electric class would get 3 10 minute mains.
In the pro nitro classes Ryan Maifield would run a similar playbook for both buggy and truggy, he would sprint out to a lead and even with hard charges from competitors late in the race would not look back for tone to tone victories. Dakotah Phend would win A1 of Ebuggy and a 2nd place finish in A2 would be enough for him to take the overall despite A2 and A3 wins from Canas and Rose. The unpredictability of the track and pit/tire strategies lead to some thrilling main events throughout the field.
Pro Buggy: 1st Ryan Maifield (JC), 2nd Juan Carlos Canas (JC), 3rd Burak Kilic, 4th Seth VanDalen (JC), 5th Phi-Long Nguyen (JC)
Pro Ebuggy: 1st Dakotah Phend (JC), 2nd Juan Carlos Canas (JC), 3rd Brandon Rose (JC), 4th Spencer Rivkin (JC), 5th Burak Kilic
Pro Truggy: 1st Ryan Maifield (JC), 2nd Burak Kilic, 3rd Dakotah Phend (JC), 4th Juan Carlos Canas (JC), 5th Mason Fuller (JC)
Intermediate Buggy: 1st Maddy Long (JC), 2nd Trevor Olins (JC), 3rd Donald Elliott, 4th Connor Ribas, 5th Calvin Bruce (JC)
Intermediate Ebuggy: 1st Wilson Cowart (JC), 2nd Kenny Setser (JC), 3rd Patrick Rossiter (JC), 4th Dustin Gossett, 5th Blake Boggs
Intermediate Truggy: 1st Maddy Long (JC), 2nd Wilson Cowart (JC), 3rd Trevor Olins (JC), 4th Logan Powell, 5th Barry Rowe III
Open Etruggy: 1st Braden Bruce (JC), 2nd Patrick Rossiter (JC), 3rd Hunter Cupp, 4th Maddy Long (JC), 5th Donato Tradardi (JC)
40+ Buggy: 1st Jason Schreffler (JC), 2nd Donald Elliott, 3rd Gary Studt, 4th Philo Hatch, 5th John Blaze
40+ Ebuggy: 1st Jason Schreffler (JC), 2nd Dustin Gossett, 3rd Gary Studt, 4th Donald Elliott, 5th Rusty Mihelich (JC)