The 2026 Wicked Weekend is in the rearview mirror, but the JConcepts team had a fantastic showing taking 8 class wins with both team drivers and supporters of the brand! The most wicked part of the 2026 event would be the weather with massive amounts of rain coming through wreaking havoc on the race surface and everyone’s pit areas.
Despite all of that racers persevered and put in some epic qualifiers and main events for those watching at the track and online! Thursday and Friday morning would be 2 different sessions of open practice with some racers opting for the A session Thursday morning and afternoon. Others would take the B session Thursday night and Friday morning. The Saturday morning practices would be the most affected by the rain storm blowing through.
Friday night would see the first round of qualifying with Saturday bringing the final two rounds. Main events would be set by a qual-points best 2/3 round format. Each main event would have 16 drivers qualified directly in and 2 bump-ups from the lower mains. Check out the top ranking JConcepts team drivers after qualifying:
Pro Buggy: 2nd Ryan Maifield, 3rd Spencer Rivkin, 4th Brandon Rose, 5th Seth VanDalen
Pro Ebuggy: 2nd Jonah Wilson, 3rd Spencer Rivkin, 4th Mason Fuller
Pro Truggy: 1st Ryan Maifield, 3rd Mason Fuller, 4th Spencer Rivkin, 5th Jared Wiggins
Open Etruggy: 1st Benny Komerian, 2nd Sean Kochik, 3rd Maddy Long, 4th Antonio Caputo, 5th Braden Bruce
Intermediate Buggy: 1st Colton Furnari, 2nd Gabriel Santiago, 3rd Maddy Long, 4th Ben Decker, 5th Donato Tradardi
Intermediate Ebuggy: 1st Maddy Long, 2nd Benny Komerian, 3rd Sean Kochik, 4th Colton Furnari, 5th Renato Tradardi Jr.
Intermediate Truggy: 1st Gabriel Santiago, 2nd Colton Furnari, 4th Benny Komerian, 5th Donato Tradardi
40+ Buggy: 1st Mark Moon, 2nd Reggie Tongue, 4th Brent Thielke
40+ Ebuggy: 4th Mark Moon, 5th Reggie Tongue
Moving into the main events the track surface threw in a huge curveball. Despite the huge craters and holes in the track, the grip level called for bar tires making for an incredibly difficult surface for drivers to navigate in the mains. Speeds were super high with driver simultaneously having to be extremely careful with the ruts and holes. Risk versus reward was the name of the game.
Pro Buggy: The Pro Buggy main event was a solid effort from one of JConcepts toughest opponents, Dakotah Phend, congratulations to him on the win. Brandon Rose would climb to 2nd within the first 5 laps and the only time he would give up the position was during pit stops. During the second half of the race he would pull away to take 2nd with a 9 second gap to Seth VanDalen who would come home a solid 3rd. Mason Fuller would fight up to 3rd at his highest point, but would ultimately end up 4th with Jonah Wilson battling up to 5th on the final lap of the race.
1st Dakotah Phend, 2nd Brandon Rose (JC), 3rd Seth VanDalen (JC), 4th Mason Fuller (JC), 5th Jonah Wilson (JC)
Pro Truggy: Truggy was the Ryan Maifield show with short cameo appearances from Dakotah Phend and Mason Fuller. Maifield would take an 11 second win over the field. Dakotah Phend would end up 2nd with Mason Fuller bringing in a solid 3rd. Seth VanDalen would put on a fantastic charge to climb from 16th on the grid up to 4th at the end of the race. Jonah Wilson would once again find himself on the podium in 5th.
1st Ryan Maifield (JC), 2nd Dakotah Phend, 3rd Mason Fuller (JC), 4th Seth VanDalen (JC), 5th Jonah Wilson (JC)
Pro Ebuggy: Jonah Wilson would battle with Pro Ebuggy TQ, Dakotah Phend, early in the main before unfortunately ending his run early. Phend would go on to win the main event. Spencer Rivkin would bring home a solid 2nd place finish just ahead of Brandon Rose in 3rd. Ryan Maifield and Phi-Long Nguyen would climb from starting spots outside the top 5 to finish 4th and 5th.
1st Dakotah Phend, 2nd Spencer Rivkin (JC), 3rd Brandon Rose (JC), 4th Ryan Maifield (JC), 5th Phi-Long Nguyen (JC)
Open Etruggy: 1st Benny Komerian (JC), 2nd Sean Kochik (JC), 3rd Maddy Long (JC), 4th Trent Walker, 5th Peyton Puckett
Intermediate Buggy: 1st Donato Tradardi (JC), 2nd Colton Furnari (JC), 3rd Maddy Long (JC), 4th Benny Komerian (JC), 5th Gabriel Santiago (JC)
Intermediate Ebuggy: 1st Ben Decker (JC), 2nd Patrick Rossiter (JC), 3rd Donato Tradardi (JC), 4th Maddy Long (JC), 5th Enzo Albertoni (JC)
Intermediate Truggy: 1st Donato Tradardi (JC), 2nd Benny Komerian (JC), 3rd Gabriel Santiago (JC), 4th Maddy Long (JC), 5th Aidan Ridgeway
40+ Buggy: 1st Billy Easton, 2nd Brent Thielke (JC), 3rd Reggie Tongue (JC), 4th Timothy Hobbs, 5th Santos Rodriguez
40+ Ebuggy: 1st John Bernard Jr., 2nd Mark Moon (JC), Dustin Loden, 4th Randy Enger (JC), 5th Chris Hatch
Sportsman Buggy: 1st Mason Montminy (JC Privateer), 2nd Breck Burns (JC Privateer), 3rd Max Mejia (JC Privateer), 4th Jacob Reid (JC Privateer), 5th Carter Bright (JC Privateer)
Sportsman Ebuggy: 1st Breck Burns (JC Privateer), 2nd Gene Shrout Jr. (JC Privateer), 3rd Don Hovde, 4th Talan Abbott (JC Privateer), 5th Will Taylor
Sportsman Truggy: 1st Carter Bright (JC Privateer), 2nd Breck Burns (JC Privateer), 3rd Bradly Major, 4th Chris Harris, 5th Adam Raber
Sportsman Etruggy: 1st Zack Milner, 2nd Chris Harris, 3rd Ian Campbell (JC Privateer), 4th Shaun Morrow (JC Privateer), 5th Derek Boddy
Products Used:
- 4034 – 1/8th Buggy Relapse
- 4006 – 1/8th Truggy Relapse
- 4111 – 1/8th Buggy Double Bar
- 4105 – 1/8th Buggy Dirt Web 2
- 4117 – 1/8th Truggy Double Bar
- 3357 – Mono 1/8th Buggy Wheels
- 3369 – Mono 1/8th Truggy Wheels
- Razor Wings
- S15 and P2 1/8th Buggy Bodies
- S15 and F2 1/8th Truggy Bodies
- Radial Bearings
- Fin Titanium