The gravel rampaged out in plumes from the tire treads, the engines revved like dinosaurs in battle, and the only part of some drivers’ dirty faces you could see was a row of teeth when they grinned with pleasure through the dust mask.
The first major event on the Quesnel 4x4 Club’s calendar ripped some new features in the tracks and ramps at their ever improving facility. There were armloads of sub-events for the drivers to compete in, and hot sun to make it as Mad Max as possible.
“There were 12 Beater With A Heater participants and three obstacle participants, for a total of 15 racers this last weekend,” said Katie Hough, one of the club’s key volunteers, recounting the June 3-4 set of events. “Beater With A Heater groups were drawn at random for each heat and the final event was everyone together if their rig was still running. Also each heat and final was awarded points for participating in the race (this would be to start a series in the future), so how you finished may be different than how you placed at the end of the weekend.”
“This is the first time that we ran the Beater class on part of the obstacle course track; the racing in the trees really added a new challenge for the drivers and their rigs, exciting, and traffic jams,” said club president Rob Wilkie.
“Before this weekend’s racing we had a whole bunch of track improvements made and a whole new section for ‘rock crawling,’” Wilkie explained. “We recycled a school’s foundation into an almost vertical wall for the buggies to challenge themselves. Farrow Contracting has made something so steep that no one has claimed to be first over the top yet.”
In addition to those improvements, said Wilkie, “Emcon services has stepped up and helped us improve track surfaces and made sure we had equipment available for our next round of improvements, including the ‘burnout pad’ for Billy Bogger Days coming up in July.” (Yes, that’s a clever play on Billy Barker Days, that’s when that event is held.)
The final points placing for the weekend:
1st - Keanne Blight
2nd - Flint Gordon
3rd - Layne Dagneau
4th - Alex McAbee
Obstacle final results:
1st - Sam Davies
2nd - Catlin O’Flynn
3rd - Rob Wilkie
For a full list of the event’s results, check out the online version of this story.
June 3, 2023:
Beater With A Heater:
Heat 1 (Group 1) results:
Ist - Alex McAbee
2nd - Devin McAbee
3rd - Wade Euverman
4th - Pierre Bouchard
Heat 1 (Group 2) results:
1st - Keanne Blight
2nd - Tyler Tresierra
3rd - Jonas Davies
4th - Dalton Crossman
Heat 1 (Group 3) results:
1st - Flint Gordon
2nd - Matt McAbee
3rd - Layne Dagneau
4th - Brock Hawkridge
Heat 2 (Group 1) results:
1st - Layne Dagneau
2nd - Wade Euverman
3rd - Pierre Bouchard
4th - Tyler Tresierra
Heat 2 (Group 2) results:
1st - Flint Gordon
2nd - Devin McAbee
3rd - Keanne Blight
4th - Matt McAbee
Heat 2 (Group 3) results:
1st - Alex McAbee
2nd - Brock Hawkridge
3rd - Dalton Crossman
4th - Jonas Davies
Heat 3 (Group 1) results:
1st - Keanne Blight
2nd - Layne Dagneau
3rd - Tyler Tresierra
4th - Brock Hawkridge
Heat 3 (Group 2) results:
1st - Flint Gordon
2nd - Wade Eauverman
3rd - Alex McAbee
4th - Jonas Davies
5th - Devin McAbee
Obstacle - Big Tire:
Heat 1 results:
1st - Sam Davies
2nd - Catlin O’Flynn
3rd - Rob Wilkie
June 4, 2023:
Beater With A Heater:
Heat 4 (Group 1) results:
1st - Keanne Blight
2nd - Flint Gordon
3rd - Brock Hawkridge
4th - Matt McAbee
5th - Dalton Crossman
Heat 4 (Group 2) results:
1st - Alex McAbee
2nd - Jonas Davies
3rd - Layne Dagneau
4th - Pierre Bouchard
5th - Wade Eauverman
FINAL results:
1st - Keanne Blight
2nd - Wade Euverman
3rd - Layne Dagneau
4th - Flint Gordon
5th - Jonas Davies
6th - Alex McAbee
7th - Pierre Bouchard
8th - Brock Hawkridge
9th - Matt McAbee
10th - Dalton Crossman
FINAL (points) placing for the weekend:
1st - Keanne Blight
2nd - Flint Gordon
3rd - Layne Dagneau
4th - Alex McAbee
5th - Wade Euverman
6th - Jonas Davies
7th - Brock Hawkridge
8th - Matt McAbee
9th - Tyler Tresierra
10th - Devin McAbee
11th - Pierre Bouchard
12th - Dalton Crossman
Obstacle - Big Tire:
Heat 2 results:
1st - Sam Davies
2nd - Catlin O’Flynn
3rd - Rob Wilkie
FINAL results:
1st - Sam Davies
2nd - Catlin O’Flynn
3rd - Rob Wilkie