The Peach State Classic was one of the final tune-up races before the IFMAR Worlds coming up in a few weeks and the JConcepts team had a big showing at the popular east coast event. Not even some sideways rain could stop the action, so shoutout to the Peach State Crew and the Elite Productions Crew for putting on an epic 450+ entry event.
Practice would take place mostly on Friday before moving into the qualifiers Saturday and the main events on Sunday. The qualifying format would be best 2/3 qual-points with the main events having 15 direct transfers with 3 bump up drivers.
The team would show fantastic pace in qualifying with the following results:
Pro Buggy: 2nd Brandon Rose, 3rd Seth VanDalen, 4th Ryan Maifield, 5th Jared Wiggins
Pro Ebuggy: 1st Ryan Maifield, 2nd Seth VanDalen, 4th Jared Wiggins, 5th Brandon Rose
Open Truggy: 1st Cole Kasten, 3rd Sean Kochik, 4th Maddy Long
Etruggy: 1st Maddy Long, 2nd Shay Brand, 4th Trevor Michael, 5th Justin Simonson
Intermediate Buggy: 1st Maddy Long, 2nd Gabriel Santiago, 3rd Sean Kochik
Intermediate Ebuggy: 1st Maddy Long, 2nd Sean Kochik, 3rd Ryan Rand, 5th Wilson Cowart
40+ Ebuggy: 1st Jader Lopez, 2nd Justin Simonson
40+ Buggy: 1st Jader Lopez, 4th Brandon Melton
15U Ebuggy: 3rd MacCoy Martin
4wd SC: 4th Sean Salter
Moving into the main events, a rain storm would attack the track but the crew would get the affected areas cleaned up and the racing would be underway. All of the classes would have epic main events with awesome results for the team.
Dakotah Phend would take off from the TQ position and not give up 1st for the entire race, despite that Seth VanDalen and Ryan Maifield would stay very close behind but unfortunately not close enough to take the lead. Brandon Rose would have a strong start before falling out of the race early. VanDalen and Maifield would move to 2nd and 3rd following that where they would ultimately finish. Jared Wiggins and Cole Kasten would trade spots for the top 5 for the 2nd half of the race with Wiggins finishing up 4th and Kasten in 5th.
Pro Buggy: 1st Dakotah Phend, 2nd Seth VanDalen (JC), 3rd Ryan Maifield (JC), 4th Jared Wiggins (JC), 5th Cole Kasten (JC)
Ryan Maifield would take a turn having a tone to tone win in Ebuggy for the win in the class. Seth VanDalen would have an unfortunate crash on lap one dropping him down the order and allowing Dakotah Phend and Jared Wiggins to move onto the podium. Wiggins would pass Phend to take 2nd overall with Phend 3rd. Brandon Rose and Tater Sontag would finish up 4th and 5th after battling with Seth for the rest of the main.
Pro Ebuggy: 1st Ryan Maifield (JC), 2nd Jared Wiggins (JC), 3rd Dakotah Phend (JC), 4th Brandon Rose (JC), 5th Tater Sontag
Open Truggy: 1st Cole Kasten (JC), 2nd Aidan Ridgeway, 3rd Will McIver, 4th Ethan McManus, 5th Big Country (JC)
Etruggy: 1st Shay Brand (JC), 2nd Trevor Michael (JC), 3rd Maddy Long (JC), 4th Justin Simonson (JC), 5th Ethan McManus
Intermediate Buggy: 1st Maddy Long (JC), 2nd Aidan Ridgeway, 3rd Gabriel Santiago (JC), 4th Will McIver, 5th Eddy Cordoba
Intermediate Ebuggy: 1st Maddy Long (JC), 2nd Ryan Rand (JC), 3rd Sean Kochik (JC), 4th Gabriel Santiago (JC), 5th Chad Buckland
40+ Buggy: 1st Tim Hobbs, 2nd Jader Lopez (JC), 3rd Gene Hickerson, 4th Chris Pace (JC), 5th Dustin Loden
40+ Ebuggy: 1st Brian Borle, 2nd John Bernard Jr., 3rd Justin Simonson (JC), 4th Jader Lopez (JC), 5th Brian Burnette (JC)
15U Ebuggy: 1st MacCoy Martin (JC), 2nd Ashton Webb, 3rd Bentley Schwartz, 4th Toot Hollingsworth, 5th Tucker Bennett
Sportsman Buggy: 1st Ever Lobos, 2nd Carter Bright (JC Privateer), 3rd Max Mejia (JC Privateer), 4th Hayden Pascale, 5th Dario Delgado
Sportsman Ebuggy: 1st Max Mejia (JC Privateer), 2nd Caleb Roby, 3rd Hayden Pascale, 4th Derek Dent, 5th Chris Harris
Sportsman Truggy: 1st Carter Bright (JC Privateer), 2nd Jean Sabatier, 3rd Chris Harris, 4th Derrick Long, 5th Makenzi Brand (JC Privateer)
Sportsman Etruggy: 1st Shaun Morrow (JC Privateer), 2nd Kevin Moyer, 3rd James Tate, 4th Caleb Roby, 5th Chris Atkins
4wd SC: 1st John Bernard Jr., 2nd Donnie Williams (JC), 3rd Alexander Sheil, 4th Kevin Moyer, 5th Jack Orouke
- 4034 – Buggy Relapse
- 4006 – Truggy Relapse
- 4144 – Buggy Overdose
- 4111 – Buggy Double Bar
- 4117 – Truggy Double Bar
- 3357 – Mono Buggy Wheels
- 3369 – Mono Truggy Wheels
- S15 Bodies
- P2 Bodies
- F2 Bodies
- Radial Bearings
- Razor Wings
- Fin Titanium Accessories
- Truggy Injection Molded Front Wings
- Buggy Injection Molded Front Wings