2015 JConcepts Fall Brawl

Over the weekend of November 7th-8th, 220 entries from all over Northern California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Arizona converged on the high-bite clay of Outback Raceway, located in the heart of AMain Performance Hobbies 60,000 sq. ft., Chico, California warehouse. The drivers would battle in 13 different divisions at the 2015 JConcept’s Fall Brawl including the First Family of RC Cup. With only two big events left; one being this race and the last event being the Pay it Forward race on the calendar this year turnout was great. Fall starts the migration of racers back to the tracks and racers trying to one up their resumes for the next year hence laying the path to 2015 JConcepts Fall Brawl.

After one packed day of practice, 108 qualifying heats, 37 main events, 220 entries and 3 days of action on the track, the 2015 edition of the Fall Brawl is now in the books, and what a weekend of racing it was. Racers started to show up as early as 7:00 a.m. on Friday morning to get their first laps on the newly reconstructed Outback Raceway layout that was finished earlier in the week by the AMain Performance Hobbies employees Kevin Jelich (KJ), Jerry Douglas and the AMain Track Crew. The layout was a fast, fun, racy and consisted of seven turns and 5 jump sections. The layout was a hit with all the racers. The layout combined with very consistent surface, two eyes on the racing, “stop and goes” being called and drivers waiting when race incidents would occur made for some of the best racing action we’ve seen at Outback Raceway.

Friday would consist of a full day of practice from 7am to 9pm allowing racers to get really dialed in and to get back and get some sleep at a decent time before Saturday qualifiers started. Friday would start with open practice at 7:00 a.m. when drivers would get their first opportunity on the new layout. Drivers would spend the day hard at work figuring out the best lines and setups in hopes of making one of Sunday’s A finals. The track was super fast and racey seeing mod 4wd lap times in the low 14’s and stock times in the mid 15’s . By mid afternoon open practice had turned to random controlled practice as more drivers started to arrive and prepare for the weekend of competition that lay ahead of them. Signups would keep piling in throughout the day and into the night. Most racers would take advantage of the online signup software at www.rccarevents.com. The site would take the racers to the event page which would make it easy to sign up for the event via paypal and allow them to reserve a pit spot.

Saturday morning came early with doors opening at 7am. There were a few drivers still showing up for their first practice laps as everyone else was trying to get their last few laps before the start of qualifying. Race directors Justin Wilde and Rob Howe at 10:00am would kick off 3 rounds of qualifying with great informative announcing allowing the racers to put down fair qualifying using the IFMAR live loop start process. Racers would work together in this format to put an effort at their two best runs out of four to seed them into their main events. Qualifying would go on all day till three rounds where complete and finished by 9pm allowing the racers to get back get some rest and be ready for round four and main events Sunday.

Sunday would see doors open 7am again with one hour of open practice and round 4 starting at 8am. Another round of qualifying would go down and it was now time for the TQ dash for cash and the main events to start. The TQ dash for cash would be not as action packed as normal but had a few moments of applause and excitement. Jason Moberly running a Losi Stadium Truck with Tekin power would come home with the $ 100.00 bill and be the the only one running on the track at the end of it all. This would put and end to the Shortcourse win streak put on by the likes of Austin Blair and Terry Wickum.

Main events started early Sunday afternoon and now the amazing race announcing of Justin Wilde and Rob Howe would really be heard. Justin and Rob combined with a third set of eyes of KJ would observe most of the main events to ensure clean, exciting racing would take place . Racers would do an amazing job of policing themselves when incidents would happen and this made for some of the cleanest and best main races seen to date at Outback raceway. Some exciting finishes and lots of last lap passes and heroic jumps to the unique finish line location would go down keeping the spectators entertained all day. Mains would finish up early in the evening and the awards presentation would take place with photos of top threes in typical Amain Performance Hobbies fashion.

Needless to say the race was such a success that racers are already planning on coming Dec 19th for the Pay it Forward race. Thanks to everyone who attended and made this such a fun race and good time to get together the competitive racing community. See you all in a month. Remember a toy will cover your entry fee in December and all the proceeds go to the Torres Shelter in Chico

The JConcepts Fall Brawl First Family of RC trophy has been updated with the winners from the event. AMain Performance Hobbies and the sponsors would like to congratulate David and Jordyn Constant on the First Family of RC win. Winning by a narrow Margin over the Diggs family in the final mains. Trophy is up for grabs next year. Which family will be the next one to put their names on the trophy.