The 1up West Coast Invitational is a new race taking place at the wonderful Finishline RC Raceway in Bakersfield, CA. This race has a special component bringing the Reedy Race format of invite modified drivers back to the scene for the first time since 2019. Ryan and David provided a great facility for us all to race on!!
Joining the AwesomatixUSA team for the event was Lucas Urbain and Max Machler along with a huge group of both California "local" and national Awesomatix drivers.
It was great to see such high car counts for Awesomatix A800 touring cars across all classes -- Invite, Open Modified, Spec 17.5 and Spec 21.5 -- with more cars in the invite field or a-mains than any other brand.
Reedy Invite
It was great to see the best in the World battle it out in 12 rounds of heads up racing. Awesomatix drivers Lucas Urbain (rnd 3, 4, 5, 10), Sam Isaacs (rnd 1, 7 & 12) and Lex Tyler (rnd 12) secured race wins!
Reedy Invite Best 10 of 12 Results-
- Michal Orlowski
- Bruno Coelho
- Akio Sobue
- Lucas Urbain [Awesomatix]
- Sam Isaacs [Awesomatix]
- Nicholas Lee
- Gonzalo Cortes [Awesomatix]
- Jacob Cruz
- Christopher Krapp
- Matus Benetin
- Lex Tyler [Awesomatix]
- Keven Hebert
- Ryan Maker
- Kyle Klingforth [Awesomatix]
- Rick Hohwart [Awesomatix]
- Aaron Lewis [Awesomatix]
Open 21.5 Touring
21.5 TC would feature a battle between AwesomatixUSA's Billy Spence and Ryan Appleberry for the TQ. Billy would win the TQ, but Ryan would battle back in A1 and A2 to take the overall win!
Triple A-main Results-
- RYAN APPLEBERRY [Awesomatix]
- BILLY SPENCE [TQ] [Awesomatix]
- ERIK STEENHOVEN [Awesomatix]
- JESSE CASTRO [Awesomatix]
- JAMES MORRIS
- DAN DEVEY [Awesomatix]
- TAYLOR MAYHEW [Awesomatix]
- JOHN CAUDILLO
- PAUL DABAO
- JONAH GALANT [Awesomatix]
Spec 17.5 Touring
Within qualifying the battle was between Jan Ratheisky, Max Machler [Awesomatix] for TQ. In the main Jan would run away with Max having to battle in A3 to secure 2nd overall.
Triple A-main Results-
- JAN RATHEISKY [TQ]
- MAX MACHLER [Awesomatix]
- MICHAEL GEE
- ADAM IZSAY
- CRAIG XAVIER [Awesomatix]
- KYLE BERGSTROM [Awesomatix]
- JEFF ROWLAND [Awesomatix]
- BILLY SPENCE [Awesomatix]
- CLAYTON YOUNG [Awesomatix]
- EDWARD WHITECOTTON [Awesomatix]
Open Modified Touring
Open Modified had a good battle between Mattia Collina and track owner David Mayhew [Awesomatix] for the overall honors in both qualifying and the main.
Triple A-main Results-
- MATTIA COLLINA [TQ]
- DAVID MAYHEW [Awesomatix]
- BRYCE BUTTERFIELD
- KYLE BERGSTROM [Awesomatix]
- MICHAEL GEE
- WALTER DIAZ
- JULIAN WONG
- MICHAEL HANULEC [Awesomatix]
- MONTI PANZICA [Awesomatix]
- JOVEN MADRIAGA [Awesomatix]
Thanks
Big thanks to everyone from near and far coming out to race. The teamwork and cooperation across all Awesomatix drivers was excellent and a lot of new setups options / changes were learned and tested.
