Florida States Offroad Series Round 8

Written on July 12, 2007 – 8:28 am | by webmaster | 351 views

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Once again, we are proud to feature another record win by our friend and top driver for Team CEN Racing, Gene “the machine” Hickerson. He won on the previous 5th round at Farmer’s Raceway of the Florida State Offroad Series in the 1/8 truck class and now on the final 8th round, he once again Top Qualified the truck class for the incredible five times TQ. This of course resulting him as the FSORS Champion for the 3rd time in 3 years! Well done and congratulation, Gene!

Gene Hickerson The man at FSORS!

Here the report from the race …

With 152 entries at round 8, the FSORS is one of the largest series in the USA. 6 of the 8 rounds count towards the championship with 2 drops.
Hurricane R/C Club in Tampa was the host of the final round in the championship.

Round #8
1/8 Truck:
CEN Racing’s Joey “Batman” Perez taking TQ in round 1 with his Matrix TR Arena. This was his 1st race with the CEN truck, having just finished the build on Friday. In round 2, it was again all Team CEN with Gene “the machine” Hickerson taking the overall TQ. The 5th TQ of the series by Hickerson clinched the Series Championship, giving him his 3rd FSORS Championship in 3 years.

In the Main event, Hickerson took the early lead, followed closely by Tony Pattishall. About 5 minutes in, Hickerson flamed out and blew a glow plug to end his day as the Series Champion. Xray’s Leon McIntosh worked his was from 2nd position on the starting grid to battle with Pattishall, but it was Pattishall who took the win, followed by JJ Turk in 3rd.
Team CEN Racing took 1st and 2nd place in the Championship with Kyle Sokol in 2nd. While Privateer’s, Anton Watson, Tony Pattishall, and Jesse Olsen, also all drove a CEN Matrix TR Arena during the year to a top 10 finish in the series.

1/8 Expert Buggy:
TTR’s JR Mitch took TQ in round 1 & 2. With the title still undecided, JR Mitch, Ryan Eckert, Gene Hickerson, and Jason Ruona were all ready to battle in the Main event.
At the start of the A-main, Hickerson and Ruona moved from 4th & 5th to 1st & 2nd. Ruona took the lead from Hickerson several laps later as they stayed bumper to bumper for the next 5 minutes. Hickerson then took back the lead as Ruona made a mistake. After stretching a 12 second lead by the 9 minute mark, Hickerson ran out of fuel on his pit lap. That gave Ruona back the lead as he lapped the whole field. Hickerson rejoined the race back in 7th,
1 and a half laps back. He worked his way back into 2nd, and unlapped himself from Ruona to finish on the lead lap. J-Concepts Jason Ruona took the win, followed by Gene Hickerson and AJ Johnson in 3rd.
Mitch dropped out early, while Kyosho’s Ryan “Showtime” Eckert finished 5th.
That gave Eckert the Championship, followed by Ruona, Mitch, Mazur, and Hickerson rounding out the top 5.

Top 10:
1/8 Scale Truck
1 594 Gene Hickerson CEN
2 577 Kyle Sokol CEN
3 576 Anton Watson CEN/Mug/Losi
4 574 Tony Pattishall CEN/Kyo/Mug
5 568 Chris Shadron
6 558 Glenn Napurski
7 557 Duane Sizemore
8 557 Steve Szykulski
9 547 Larry Bergeron Jr
10 532 Jesse Olsen CEN

1/8TH SCALE
1 597 Ryan Eckert Kyo
2 592 Jason Ruona J-Concepts
3 589 JR Mitch TTR
4 577 Gary Mazur Jammin
5 576 Gene Hickerson CEN
6 566 Leon McIntosh Xray
7 553 Michael Jones
8 545 Michael Delay
9 543 Nathan Wincek
10 538 Chris Swauger