Cole Tollard, Alex Vanderbeek and Zach Edenburg win big at the 2015 BGRC Summer Smack Down with JConcepts.
Blue Groove Hobbies is located in West Des Moines, Iowa and was the host of very first BGRC Summer Smack Down. Dave Duncan made the trip from Florida to represent JConcepts and to assist the team attending the race. JConcepts had many strong competitive team drivers in attendance.
Doors opened at 11am on Friday for a full day of practice. The track crew at Blue Groove Hobbies put in a fresh layout and this was the first time any cars had run on it. As the day went on, the groove came up and the grip level began to rise. All the team drivers found that JConcepts Gold Compound Dirt Webs with Dirt-Tech inserts were the tickets in all the classes.
On Saturday morning the doors opened at 7am for practice, drivers meeting and round 1 started at 9am. There was 4 round of qualifying total, 3 Saturday and 1 more on Sunday morning. IFMAR qualifying was used with the 2 best rounds being counted for seating in the mains.
On Sunday morning the final round of qualifying was set and after 4 total rounds JConcepts team drivers were sitting TQ in 5 classes. Cole Tollard was TQ in 4wd Mod Buggy and 2wd Mod Truck. Alex Vanderbeek was TQ in 2wd Mod Buggy and 2wd Mod SCT and Zach Edenburn set TQ in 2wd Stock Truck.
With the grids set, the Mains were under way, first up was stock truck. Zach led tone to tone with his JConcepts equipped AE T5M running Gold Dirt Webs and Dirt-Tech inserts front and rear. Next up was 2wd Mod Buggy, Alex led tone to tone with his JConcepts equipped AE B5M running Gold Dirt Webs and Dirt-Tech inserts front and rear. Next up was mod truck, Cole also led tone to tone with his JConcepts equipped AE T5M with Gold Dirt Webs and Dirt-Tech inserts front and rear. For the 2wd Mod SCT Main, Alex was sitting TQ and Cole in the 2nd spot. The race started and Cole was on Alex’s tail, after about 7 laps in Alex made a small bobble and Cole took advantage and took the lead. Cole never looked back and finished with the win in his JConcepts equipped AE SC5M running Gold Dirt Webs and Dirt-Tech inserts front and rear. The final race of the event was 4wd Mod Buggy. Cole also started TQ and led tone to tone, taking his 3rd win of the weekend winning 3 out of 4 classes he ran.
Thanks to Chilly Duncan from Car Action magazine, Phil and the whole crew from blue groove hobbies for putting on a great race at a wonderful facility. See you all at the next one.
