NNRC MEDIA • 2026 IFMAR 1/8 OFF-ROAD WORLDS • FINALS

Main Final — Overall Results

David Ronnefalk Wins the World Championship! 🔥

Saturday, October 3, 2026
Written by Max Mört

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After taking back the lead with about 20 minutes to go, David Ronnefalk was able to hold the fast charging Mason Fuller behind and win his second world championship 10 years after taking his first one also on American soil!

David had a good start pulling out a gap of few second before disaster struck and he did two big mistakes in a row and fell into the mid pack allowing Chase Lemieux and Davide Ongaro to start walking away with the race. Ongaro took the lead, pulled a gap and it looked like the top 3 of Ongaro, Lemieux and Fuller was inevitable. First it was Lemieux who got stuck in a pipe and had a very unfortunate flameout dropping him to last. Then about five minutes later it was Ongaro who judged the back double wrong and jumped straight into the structural post and broke his car.

The race was now wide open with Fuller in the lead and a recovering Ronnefalk behind. Mason made a few very costly mistakes which allowed David to close the gap Mason had from doing one pit stop less, and then with around 20 minutes to go David was in the lead with both having 1 pit stop left. Mason pushed hard but David held firm and crowned himself the world champion.

The fight for third was running hot between Berkan Kilic, Juan Carlos Canas, Marcus Kaerup and Spencer Rivkin. Kilic had an issue with a tire and had to change it, Rivkin started to make a lot of mistakes dropping back and then there were just two. Canas and Kaerup went at it for a while but in the end a few costly mistakes for Kaerup allowed Canas to pull away and take a third consecutive third place in the world championships. Brandon Rose fought hard to beat his team mates and Seth VanDalen having one of the best runs of his career and rounding out our top 5.

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