Dakotah Phend: 2021 Modified Buggy Champion!

November 22, 2021

- The full article was originally published on JConcepts (Racing) -

This weekend a world-class event took place in Cocoa, Florida at at local track known as Beachline Raceway. Drivers from all over the world would be attending for the 2021 Florida Carpet Championship! To highlight a few:

Martin Bayer: Czech Republic
Matus Benetin: Slovakia
Max Gotzl: Czech Republic
Daniel Kobbevik: Norway
Jorn Neumann: Germany
Michal Orlowski : Poland

The schedule consisted of the Following: We arrived around 2pm on Thursday to set up and prepare for practice that would run from 5pm to 8pm. Friday there would be open practice divided by stock and mod drivers from 8am to 1pm. Front there we had a round of seeding and then one round of qualifying. This allowed Saturday to finish around 8pm in which we had 2 more rounds of qualifying. We had lower mains Saturday night and Sunday was completely B and A-Mains.

Beachline put down new carpet just for this event, therefore going into it we were unsure of which tire would be the absolute go-to. We had an idea that it would either be the Swagger/Twin Pin duo or the Fuzz Bites. When we arrived we tested both, but by time qualifying came around we all decided on using Fuzz Bites. They were a little edgier to drive but overall were the faster tire. We ran Fuzz Bites all the way around in 2wd and in 4wd some drivers chose to run Swaggers in the front and Fuzz Bites in the rear. The track layout was enjoyable to all of our drivers. Check out the layout below: