One doesn’t need to be an engineer to understand that Pro 4 trucks are superior to their Pro 2 counterparts, but the beauty of short course racing is that races between the classes are never actually that lopsided. The Forest County Potawatomi Brush Run is a good example of this: although CJ Greaves three-peated in a Pro 4 from 2022 to 2025, it came after three straight years of Pro 2s winning the event, and he even lost to a two-wheel-drive truck piloted by Keegan Kincaid last year.

2026 decided to drive this point home even harder. Of the seven Pro 4 trucks that competed in Sunday’s Cup race, only one reached the finish. But that solitary finisher was also the man who put the 4WDs back atop the podium.

After missing the first two rounds to injury, Greaves didn’t miss a beat as he won the first points-paying Pro 4 and Pro SxS races on Saturday and finished runner-up in the second. 35 seconds after the Pro 2s took off, he was also the holeshot grabber for Pro 4s to kick off the Community Cup. It seemed like he’d be the favorite as he reeled in the Pro 2s and he worked his way up to sixth by Lap 4, only to hit the inside wall in the final hairpin and suffer a terminal failure.

Mickey Thomas, winner of the second Pro 4 points event, became the class leader somewhat by default. Jimmy Henderson, Johnny Greaves, and Adrian Cenni didn’t even complete the first lap after Henderson spun and got hit by the others. Andrew Carlson never took the green flag. Cole Mamer retired three laps in.

Fortunately for Thomas, his truck held up and he gradually sliced through the field. The “Silent Assassin” caught leaders Ricky Gutierrez and Cory Winner on Lap 6 and passed them. Save for a missed shift that slowed him down, it was smooth sailing the rest of the way.

“Just so grateful right now. Thankful for this place, my team, Forest County Potawatomi for putting on an event like this and letting us race for big money,” said Thomas. “This means so much to us to come out here. We went through so much this weekend, this year. With the new truck, we got the gremlins figured out. Everything’s going our way right now and I’m looking forward to some more battles.

“I was kind of bummed to see CJ go out early in that one. I think we were going to have a really, really fun race so kind of bummed there. I wish it was closer at the end for the fans, but still just super stoked that my team and my family.”

After leading for much of the first half and scoring a points win, Gutierrez finished off the podium in an agonizing final lap. Ryan Beat passed him for second, then a mechanical failure cost third and sank him to sixth.

Kincaid had an engine failure on his main truck before the weekend, but Cole Mamer lent him his Pro 2 for the Cup. He only made it three laps as well.

Saturday’s action was marred by rain that also impacted RallyX Americas’ inaugural race weekend.

Results

Finish	Number	Driver	Class	Laps
1	88	Mickey Thomas	Pro 4	10
2	51	Ryan Beat	Pro 2	10
3	67	Cory Winner	Pro 2	10
4	31	Jacob Rosales	Pro 2	10
5	90	Zac Zakowski	Pro 2	10
6	78	Ricky Gutierrez	Pro 2	10
7	12	Myan Spaccarelli	Pro 2	10
8	58	Mikey Lawrence	Pro 2	10
9	33	CJ Greaves	Pro 4	4
10	35	Cole Mamer	Pro 4	3
11	1	Keegan Kincaid	Pro 2	3
12	44	John Holtger	Pro 2	1
13	22	Johnny Greaves	Pro 4	0
14	11	Adrian Cenni	Pro 4	0
15	15	Andrew Carlson	Pro 4	0
16	44	Jimmy Henderson	Pro 4	0

Class winners

Pro

Class	Saturday	Sunday
Pro 4	CJ Greaves Mickey Thomas
Pro 2	Ryan Beat Ricky Gutierrez
Pro Lite	Connor Barry	Connor Barry
Pro SPEC	Dylan Parsons	Chris Van Den Elzen
Pro Buggy	Michael Meister	Michael Meister
Pro SxS	CJ Greaves	Jeb Bootle
Pro Stock SxS	Cross Kirchmeier	Jeb Bootle

Sportsman

Class	Saturday	Sunday
Pro Am SxS	Code St. Peter	Code St. Peter
Pro Am Turbo SxS	Kevin Hall	Ty Lueckemeyer
Super Stock Truck	Malakai Yakel	Scott Boulanger
Stock Truck	Dustin Rogaczewski	Tyler Hoffman
Sportsman SxS	Isaac Otto	Kody Krantz
1600 Single Buggy	Connor Schulz	Travis Trelstad
1600 Light Buggy	Eugene Reinke Jr.	Evan Hockers
Mod Kart	Lincoln Mandsager	Race Visser
Short Course Kart	Jarrett Meulemans	Axel Lawrence
Youth SxS	William Holtger	Peyton Weisbrod
570 SxS	William Holtger	William Holtger
200 SxS	Finley Pence	Gavin Pence
170 SxS	Weston Brunk	Jersey Kleinkamp

RallyX Americas

Hypercar

Round 1

Finish	A Main	B Main
1	Robin Larsson	Oliver Eriksson
2	Jimmy Henderson	Tommi Hallman
3	Mitchell deJong	Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky
4	Lia Block	Brad DeBerti (DNS)
5	Timmy Hansen
6	Kevin Eriksson (DNF)

Round 2

Supercar

Finish	Driver
1	Tommi Hallman
2	Kevin Eriksson
3	Jimmy Henderson
4	Oliver Eriksson
5	Robin Larsson
DNF	Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky

Round 1

Finish	A Main	B Main
1	Mitchell deJong	Romet Tsirna
2	Lukas Andersson	John Holtger
3	Banks Hovey	Patrick Gruszka
4	Gray Leadbetter
5	Simon Olofsson
6	Tyler Leach (DNF)

Round 2

Finish	Driver
1	Lukas Andersson
2	John Holtger
3	Tyler Leach
4	Gray Leadbetter
DNF	Simon Olofsson
DNF	Romet Tsirna

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