Aydin Horne sweeps Factory Tracks Invitational

Leisure Hours Raceway hosted the 4th Annual Factory Tracks Invitational in Will County, Illinois this past weekend. While in its fourth year running, each year has crowned a new champion from FTR’s Aydin, Austin, and Allen Horne having all won the overall 2WD/4WD combined championship. The FTR Invitational uses the all out, racing format of the Reedy Race of Champions with points decided by five runs in 2WD and five runs in 4WD allowing for one drop in each class. Running alongside the FTR Invitational was the 2017 JConcepts Shootout, which consisted of the more standard four rounds of qualifying and single A-Main format to decide the winner.

The invite class was dominated early on by one particular driver posting a perfect score in the 2WD portion of the event, Aydin Horne took an early lead going into 4WD. Proving to be too strong for the others, Aydin Horne would follow up his perfect performance in 2WD and carry the momentum into 4WD. With his lowest score being a 2 after one drop, the talented youngster from Michigan would end the event with 9 total points and take the overall championship for the second time. Finishing with 13 points, both Brad Shearer and Cole Tollard would tie, but ultimately the tie-breaker would be decided by most 1st place wins giving 2nd to Brad Shear and 3rd to Cole Tollard.

Mike Himanek would have an outstanding weekend by taking wins in Open 2WD Modified and Open 4WD Modified. Just like the Reedy Race, the Open Class winning is invited to participate in following year’s Invitational class.

Dreighton Stoub would lead the way in the 13.5 4WD class and 2WD Stock class with two TQs and two wins.

Taking the win in the all women’s Powder Puff class was Tiffany Wells and Austin Horne would go on to win the Modified SC.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]