The North East team members of the JConcepts 1/8th off-road team headed to Motorama this past weekend to run some 1/8th scale electric classes and short course. Despite some less than desirable weather projections the team had great results and represented well!
The team, lead by Lee Setser and Ethan Mackanick, stared out seeding practice in dominating fashion and simply kept a foot on the gas from there.
Seeding Results:
Expert Ebuggy: 1st Lee Setser, 3rd Gaven Gibler
Expert Etruggy: 1st Ethan Mackanick, 2nd Lee Setser, 3rd Gaven Gibler
Masters Ebuggy: 1st Paul Ciccarello, 3rd Aaron Buran
Intermediate Ebuggy: 1st Bradley Lingerman (JC Privateer)
Intermediate Etruggy: 1st Bradley Lingerman (JC Privateer)
Racers would then battle it out through 4 rounds of qualifying with the best 2/4 qual-points results counting towards main event starting spots.
Qualifying Results:
Expert Buggy: 1st Lee Setser, 2nd Jacob Hardison, 3rd Ethan Mackanick
Expert Etruggy: 1st Lee Setser, 2nd Ethan Mackanick, 3rd Gaven Gibler
Masters Ebuggy: 1st Paul Ciccarello
Intermediate Ebuggy: 1st Bradley Lingerman (JC Privateer)
Intermediate Etruggy: 1st Bradley Lingerman (JC Privateer)
In the Expert Ebuggy double mains, Setser and Mackanick would split wins with Setser taking the overall win. Setser would also go on to take the A1 and A2 victories in Etruggy to make it a weekend sweep.
Expert Electric Buggy: 1st: Lee Setser (JC), 2nd: Ethan Mackanick (JC), 3rd: Jacob Hardison (JC)
Expert Electric Truck: 1st: Lee Setser (JC), 2nd: Ben Decker (JC), 3rd: Ethan Mackanick (JC)
Masters Electric Buggy: 1st: Paul Ciccarello (JC), 2nd: Aaron Buran (JC), 3rd: Jeff Switzer
Intermediate Electric Buggy: 1st: Bradley Lingerman (JC Privateer), 2nd: Gavyn Yoder, 3rd: Shawn Johnson
Intermediate Electric Truck: 1st: Bradley Lingerman (JC Privateer), 2nd: Jordan Updegraff, 3rd: Gavyn Yoder
4wd Short Course: 1st: Van Slutz, 2nd Steve Geist, 3rd: Marco Drogo