Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series

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Category Off-road racing		Inaugural season 2009

Official website www.lucasoiloffroad.com

The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series is a short course off-road racing series in the United States. The series features events on the West Coast of the United States. The title sponsor for the series is Lucas Oil. It effectively replaced the CORR series.

History

There were two large sanctioning bodies in short course off-road racing for 2008: CORR and WSORR. CORR had been sanctioning events on the West Coast and WSORR had sanctioned Midwestern events. CORR closed before the end of the 2008 season and canceled its final two racing weekends. LOORRS took over the sanctioning of most of the West Coast events; and TORC, The Off Road Championship, took over most of the Midwestern events.

The LOORRS series was founded for the 2009 season by Lucas Oil and its head Forrest Lucas. Carl Renezeder made short course off-road racing history in 2009 when he won the Unlimited 2 and Unlimited 4 class to become the first driver to win seven national championships.

In December 2012, LOORRS announced that Ritchie Lewis would be taking over as the series' director. He announced the 2013 series schedule; it would continue racing at most of the same tracks. He also announced that Lucas would be building tracks at San Angelo, Texas and Lucas Oil Speedway to be used in 2014.

Classes

The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series has 11 classes:

Pro 4 Unlimited: Full-sized 4-wheel-drive race truck;

Pro 2 Unlimited: Full-sized 2-wheel-drive race truck;

Pro Lite Unlimited: Mid-sized 2-wheel-drive race truck built on a standardized chassis;

Pro Buggy Unlimited: Open-wheel buggies with 1650 cc to 2400 cc motors (dependent on design and manufacturer);

SuperLite: Spec 2-wheel-drive truck regulated by the SuperLite Championship Series;

Limited Buggy: Open-wheel buggies with Type 1 1600 cc VW engines;

Unlimited UTV: Heavily modified UTV utilizing up to 1000 cc engines;

Sr1 UTV: Heavily modified Yamaha Rhino or Kawasaki Teryx spec class utilizing the Yamaha R1 or Kawasaki ZX-10 1000 cc street bike motor;

Modified Kart: Advanced kart class for kids ages 10–15 utilizing 250 cc or 450 cc motorcycle or quad motors;

Junior 2 Kart: Intermediate spec kart class for kids ages 8–15 utilizing the Honda GX390 390 cc motor;

Junior 1 Kart: Beginning spec kart class for kids ages 8–15 utilizing the Subaru EX27 266 cc motor

The premier classes are the Unlimited 4 (4-wheel-drive) and Unlimited 2 (2-wheel-drive) trophy truck The Unlimited Lites class has compact to mid-sized 2-wheel-drive trucks with 4 cylinder engines.

Pro 4

2016 Kyle Leduc

2015 Kyle Leduc

2014 Kyle Leduc

2013 Carl Renezeder

2012 Kyle Leduc

2011 Carl Renezeder

2010 Rick Huseman

2009 Carl Renezeder

Pro 2

2016 Rob MacCachren

2015 Rob MacCachren

2014 Brian Deegan

2013 Rob MacCachren

2012 Brian Deegan

2011 Brian Deegan

2010 Rob MacCachren

2009 Carl Renezeder

Pro Lite Unlimited

2016 Jerett Brooks

2015 R.J. Anderson

2014 Sheldon Creed

2013 Brian Deegan

2012 R.J. Anderson

2011 Brian Deegan

2010 Marty Hart

2009 Brian Deegan

Pro Buggy

2016 Darren Hardesty

2015 Garrett George

2014 Chad George

2013 Steven Greinke

2010 Cameron Steele

2009 Chuck Cheek

Junior 1 Karts

2015 Kali Kinsman

2014 Mason Prater

2013 Ricky Gutierrez

2010 Brock Heger

2009 Sheldon Creed

Junior 2 Karts

2015 Cole Keatts

2014 Dylan Plemons

2013 Hailie Deegan

2010 Sheldon Creed

2009 Dustin Grabowski

Modified Karts

2016 Hailie Deegan

2015 Christopher Polvoorde

2014 Brock Heger

2013 Myles Cheek

2010 Mitchell Dejong

2009 Sheldon Creed

Super Lite

2012 Sheldon Creed

2011 Chad George

2010 Jeremy Stenberg

2009 John Harrah

Limited Buggy

2010 Justin Smith

2009 Bruce Fraley

Limited UTV

2009 Hans Waage

Unlimited UTV

2010 Chad George

2009 Chad George

Modified UTV

2009 Dan Kelly

SR1 UTV

2010 Tyler Herzog

Tracks

The series has hosted race weekends at the following tracks:

Wild Horse Motorsports Park (2010–present)

Glen Helen Raceway (2010–present)

Lake Elsinore Motorsports Complex (2009, 2012–present)

Las Vegas Motor Speedway (2010–present)

Miller Motorsports Park (2010–present)

Primm Valley Motorsports Complex (2009)

Speedworld Off Road Park (2009–2013)

Wild West Motorsports Park (2012–present)

Baja International Short Course (2015–present)

Television coverage

For the 2015 season, the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series was aired on several different networks with 8 confirmed one-hour episodes in HD on CBS and 32 confirmed HD episodes on both CBS Sports Network and MavTV.

References

Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Wikipedia

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