The 1/8th scale team headed out to Georgia this past weekend for the North Georgia Shootout which has quickly become a staple event on the yearly calendar. The crew put in a fantastic layout and a few of the top 25 drivers flew over to battle it out with the East Coast’s best.
The event held open practice Friday followed by three rounds of qualifying with the best 2/3 rounds counting in the popular qual-points format on Saturday and main events on Sunday.
The event also hosted some fun extra events like a pit stop challenge and shootout events.
Qualifying Results:
Pro Buggy: 1st Jared Wiggins, 3rd Seth VanDalen
Pro Ebuggy: 1st Ryan Maifield, 2nd Seth VanDalen, 3rd Jared Wiggins
Pro Truggy: 1st Seth VanDalen, 2nd Jared Wiggins, 3rd Cole Kasten
Intermediate Buggy: 2nd Ryan Rand, 3rd Brandon Melton
Intermediate Ebuggy: 2nd Ryan Rand
Open Etruggy: 1st Shay Brand, 2nd Maddy Long
40+ Buggy: 1st Jader Lopez, 2nd Brandon Melton
40+ Ebuggy: 2nd Jader Lopez, 3rd Ken Rand
Moving into the main events all the Nitro A-Mains would be 30 minutes each and each of the electric classes would have Double Mains to decide the winners.
Pro Buggy: Despite starting down in 5th Ryan Maifield would methodically work his way to the front of the field in between the first and second pit stops. Maifield wouldn’t look back taking the victory and being the only driver to run 62 laps. Seth VanDalen and Julien Oliveras would each climb up one position from where they started to finish 2nd and 3rd with Jared Wiggins and Cole Ogden rounding out the top 5.
1. Ryan Maifield (JC), 2. Seth VanDalen (JC), 3. Julien Oliveras (JC), 4. Jared Wiggins (JC), 5. Cole Ogden
Pro EBuggy: Ryan Maifield would take flag to tone wins in A1 and A2 to win the overall in Ebuggy. Early mistakes in both mains from Seth VanDalen would allow Jared Wiggins to move up and finish 2nd in both mains for 2nd overall. Seth VanDalen would recover to finish 3rd overall. Maddy Long would finish up 4th after a 3rd in A2 and Cole Kasten would round out the top 5.
1. Ryan Maifield (JC), 2. Jared Wiggins (JC), 3. Seth VanDalen (JC), 4. Mad Maddy Long (JC), 5. Cole Kasten (JC)
Pro Nitro Truggy: Seth VanDalen, Jared Wiggins, and Cole Kasten would all keep it close through the first two pit stops before VanDalen would stretch out a lead and Wiggins would fall from 2nd to 3rd with Kasten capitalizing to finish 2nd. Cole Ogden and Aidan Ridgeway would continue to finish 4th and 5th.
1. Seth VanDalen (JC), 2. Cole Kasten (JC), 3. Jared Wiggins (JC), 4. Cole Ogden, 5. Aidan Ridgeway
Int Nitro Buggy: 1. Ryan Rand (JC), 2. Brandon Melton (JC), 3. Hunter Parsons, 4. Dylan Coe, 5. Cole Whitehead
Int Ebuggy: 1. Ryan Rand (JC), 2. Shayne Coffey, 3. Ethan McManus, 4. Big Country, 5. Brian Johnson
Open Nitro Truggy: 1. Hunter Parsons, 2. Ethan McManus, 3. Tim Hobbs, 4. Cole Whitehead, 5. Justin Simonson (JC)
Open E-Truggy: 1. Shay Brand (JC), 2. Mad Maddy Long (JC), 3. Ethan McManus, 4. Jordan Kester, 5. Brian Johnson
40+ Nitro Buggy: 1. Brandon Melton (JC), 2. Jader Lopez (JC), 3. Tim Hobbs, 4. Ken Rand (JC), 5. Marlowe Bright (JC)
40+ EBuggy 1. Justin Simonson (JC), 2. Dustin Gossett, 3. Jader Lopez (JC), 4. Rich Collins, 5. Josh Fine
4wd SCT: 1. Donnie Williams (JC), 2. Alex Cummings, 3. Chad Cupp, 4. Brandon Greenwell, 5. Sean Salter (JC)