Orlowski Wins Florida Carpet Champs 2022

Schumacher's Michal Orlowski has been crowned the overall Modified Champion at the Florida Carpet Championships 2022. Held at Beachline Raceway, Florida USA over the weekend, the indoor carpet event attracted a star line up of 1:10th Off Road drivers including many Europeans.

2WD qualifying would see a different driver top each of the three qualifiers, topping the final Q3 would be enough for Michal with his Cougar LD2 to secure P2 on the grid with reigning World Champion Spencer Rivkin putting his AE 3rd having topped Q2 and Dakotah Phend taking Q1 to top the timesheets overall with TLR.


In 4WD, Phend was in dominant form taking all three heats. Behind, Rivkin secured second on the grid from the Schumacher's of Broc Champlin and Michal using prototype CAT 4WD's.


In the 2WD A-Main, the Top 3 would finish as they started with Phend getting the job done in A2 with his second straight win.

4WD however would see things go to A3. While Phend won A1 from Orlowski, it would be Champlin with the A2 win as Orlowski suffered a DNF and Phend finished third behind Schumacher's Daniel Kobbevik also running a prototype chassis. It now would be tough for Michal to make the top spot, however it was still all to play for in A3. It was Orlowski who came through from 4th on the grid for the leg win from Rivkin, Champlin and Phend.  Overall it was Michal 1st, Broc 2nd and Daniel a fine 5th, an awesome result.


Taking the overall 4WD win from team-mate Broc Champlin with Phend completing the podium, combined with his second overall in 2WD it was Michal who was crowned the overall Modified Champion of the 2022 Florida Carpet Championships.


Schumacher's Engineer Tris Neal picked up his transmitter for this one and made the stock A main in 4WD, a top result.

Congratulation to the whole Schumacher team for some awesome results stateside.