2019 SoCal Monster Trucks Winter Finals

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By Tyler Hooks
LiveRC.com

What a year it was! Our frist full year the 2019 series is now over and it was a blast. Every one of our racers did a awesome job on and off track. As always there was some surprises along the way and that is what makes it so fun. We had 6 race days totaling 12 race brackets and 5 freestyle's as we had to cut 1 freestyle out do to time restrictions. We had planed to have all but one race on the dirt.

The Winter Finals was scheduled to be held at HOT ROD Hobbies on the Dirt Oval. But in the week leading up to the 2nd annual Winter Finals/Championship race the weather decided to send in back indoors to OCRC Raceway on the carpet as we were excepting a lot of rain in So Cal. A smaller track then what we had to use at Hot Rod Hobbies.

But thank you very much to Nick Black and OCRC for letting us get in there with such short notice.

 Leading into finals there was many points races that were very close and many positions that could change and did. The most notable position was for 3rd for the season. Larry Turner had been sitting in 3rd all year and running extremely consistent. Coming I to finals Larry had a 10 point lead on 4th and 13 on 5th. When everything wound down at the end of the night Kris Ribali was just able to squeeze by Larry to take 3rd. for the season. It was a bunch of fun to sit and watch how everything was about to unfold.

The Winter Finals is a 2 in 1 race as it is our Season Championship weekend and the largest Profile Monster Truck Race on the west coast. FINALS did not disappoint we had our top 2 drivers in the season points take 1st and 2nd. Then we had 6 place in season points Michael Letcher having a very good night take home 3rd place for the Winter Finals.

We did the series debut of our new retro class for 2020 4 of the 5 trucks that showed up made it onto the track for a short race bracket followed by a old school car crush. We think the retro class it going to be a big hit next year with our racers. Michael Letcher Mr. Twister took the win in the finals against Kris Ribali's Bear Foot

As most know most of our racers race 2 trucks in the Modified class. Some other series call the class Pro Mod. We keep points of all the trucks but only each drivers top scoring truck counts for the series championship and the Winter Finals championship. We do this so no one racer takes home multiple trophy positions

2019 Series championship top 3 drivers

Trever Adamo 1st 752 points
Michael Iacono 2nd 602 points
Kris Ribali 3rd 380 points

Winter Finals top 3 drivers

Trever Adamo 1st 133 points
Michael Iacono 2nd 115 points
Michael Letcher 3rd 91 points

Winter Finals Reteo
Michale Letcher 1st Mr Twister
Kris Ribali. 2nd BEARFOOT

We have to thank all our WINTER FINALS sponsors

PRO LINE
J CONCEPTS
HORIZON HOBBIES
SPEKTRUM
AXIAL
JB SCALE GRAPHICS
MIP
FAT CAT CUSTOMZ
MKS SERVOS
A MAIN HOBBIES

A Big thank you to Charlee Siengthi and Tommy Mason from LBTV Low Budget TV for coming out to record all of the days Racing, Freestyle and action. 

Here is a few pictures and videos from Championship weekend. As well the first in the video series from LBVT of the Winter Finals.

 

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