2019 Off-Road JAM race recap

0 Jan. 16, 2019, 10:45 a.m.

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By LiveRC Staff
LiveRC.com

Each year off-road racing in the Mid-west kicks off with the annual Off-Road JAM event promoted and ran by Mike and Britani Garrison, and hosted by Fastlane Raceway. Throughout the years the event has seen a wide variety of racers in attendance ranging from local novice drivers to multi-time ROAR National and IFMAR World Champions. This past weekend hosted the 2019 edition of the event in blizzard like conditions. Despite the 8-10” of snowfall in the area, some of the best drivers from Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Illinois were in attendance.

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Mike and Britani Garrison aim to provide a competitive race weekend but focus more on keeping the event fun in a variety of ways including fun races, racer raffles, unique awards, and so on. All the racers were automatically entered in this year’s racer raffle with each race entry receiving a free ticket. Up for grabs was a variety of great prizes from this year’s event sponsors which included 1up Racing, Motiv, Gravity RC, Exotek Racing, Wallie Builds, AJRC Designs, and Fastlane Raceway. In addition to the racer raffle was a separate raffle for a new Team Associated B6.1D buggy kit, as well as a unique 50/50 Dash For Cash in which one racer (Kyle Gannon) and one spectator (Adam Wietrick) went home with over $100 cash each.

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The temperature outside was quite frosty, but the racing inside was plenty hot. Congratulations to all of this year’s race winners, and an enormous thank you to all who braved the weather (and skipped the Kansas City Chiefs playoff game) to join the fun! 2020 event plans are already in the works, and will be announced soon.

(Photo by NIKAL Studios)