Just a few short days after the 1/8th scale off-road Worlds Warm-Up, a large contingent of the JConcepts team headed to San Diego, California for the ROAR 1/10th Scale Dirt Off-Road Nationals hosted by SDRC Raceway.
170 total entries made their way to the West Coast to battle it out for 8 national titles. The event started with a day of controlled practice Thursday, followed by Seeding and 1 round of qualifying Friday. Saturday held 3 rounds of qualifying followed by the main events on Sunday.
The first time racers were on the clock officially for something that mattered was Seeding and the team got it going with the following results.
Seeding Results:
2wd Mod: 3rd Broc Champlin
4wd Mod: 1st Broc Champlin
17.5 2wd: 3rd Kadin Meeks
13.5 4wd: 1st Jermaine Robinson
13.5 Stadium Truck: 1st Doug Lariviere
40+ 2wd: 1st Kevin King, 3rd Brent Thielke
40+ 4wd: 1st Brent Thielke, 3rd Kevin King
Moving into qualifying racers would have 4 rounds with the best 2/4 rounds counting and no bump-ups for the mains. 10 racers qualified directly to each main event.
Qualifying Results:
2wd Mod: 3rd Spencer Rivkin
4wd Mod: 2nd Broc Champlin
17.5 2wd: 2nd Kadin Meeks
13.5 4wd: 3rd Nate Sutherland
13.5 Stadium Truck: 1st Doug Lariviere, 2nd Kadin Meeks
40+ 2wd: 2nd Andrew Swanson, 3rd Kevin King
40+ 4wd: 1st Brent Thielke, 3rd Andrew Swanson
Every class would have triple main events to decide who would be the national champions for 2026. Check out all of the results below.
2wd Modified: TQ, Dakotah Phend, would get away clean in A1 and A2 to wrap the overall up early. This left just the remaining podium positions open. Aydin Horne would take the win in A3 giving him 2nd overall and Spencer Rivkin would round out the podium in 3rd. Shoutout to Brennan Schimmel and Levi Raymond for moving forward in the main events and finishing just off the box.
1st Dakotah Phend, 2nd Aydin Horne, 3rd Spencer Rivkin (JC)
4wd Modified: Once again the pole sitter, this time Chase Lemieux, would take the wins in A1 and A2 to wrap up the title early. Broc Champlin would win A3 and take the 2nd place overall with teammate Spencer Rivkin rounding out the overall podium in 3rd.
1st Chase Lemieux, 2nd Broc Champlin (JC), 3rd Spencer Rivkin (JC)
17.5 2wd: 1st Domnic Paccione, 2nd Matthew Gonzales (JC), 3rd Sammy Moran
13.5 4wd: 1st Domnic Paccione, 2nd Bryce Butterfield, 3rd Jermaine Robinson (JC)
13.5 Stadium Truck: 1st Kadin Meeks (JC), 2nd Doug Lariviere (JC), 3rd Sammy Moran
40+ 2wd: 1st Allen Horne, 2nd Kevin King (JC), 3rd Andrew Swanson (JC)
40+ 4wd: 1st Brent Thielke (JC), 2nd Andrew Swanson (JC), 3rd Allen Horne
21.5 2wd: 1st Austin Riley, 2nd Johann Buzzard, 3rd Teucer Carrera