Champlin wins Florida Carpet Championships

In a repeat of last year’s result it was Schumacher pairing Broc Champlin and Michal Orlowski who took the wins at the annual JConcepts Florida Carpet Championship, Champlin however crowned overall Champion at at Beachline Raceway in Orlando.  In 2WD Buggy it was the newly crowned World Champion Champlin who took the TQ with 3 TQ runs from 4 rounds ahead of Orlowski with new 4WD World Champion Marcus Kaerup’s Associated third ahead of team-mate Joona Haatanen, who topped Q3, and the Xray of Dakotah Phend.   In 4WD, again Champlin set the pace this time ahead of his other Schumacher team-mate Daniel Kobbevik, the Norwegian the only other driver to manage a TQ run.  Team Associated’s Aydin Horne would secure third ahead of Orlowski with Brennan Schimmel the best of the Xrays in P5.  In the finals it was Orlowski who took the opening 2WD win ahead of Haatanen and Champlin who had a mistake while out front.  Unfortunately contact at the start of A2 between Champlin and Orlowski ended the Polish drivers challenge as his buggy ended up on its roof while Champlin remained out front to win ahead of Haatanen and Phend.  With another win in A3 Champlin was able to repeat his 2024 2WD victory.  In 4WD Orlowski took the opener from Champlin after a mistake from the pole sitter and he would seal the 4WD victory with another win in A2 after Champlin again had a moment while in the lead just after the 1-minute mark.  Champlin won A3 to finish runner-up in 4WD which together with his 2WD crowned his the  overall JConcepts Florida Carpet Championships winner for the second year in a row.

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