Wednesday, June 23, 2010

TORC Opens With Bar-to-Bar Racing

The much anticipated opening weekend of the 2010 Traxxas TORC Series presented by AMSOIL brought out the best in the worlds top off road drivers. Team AMSOIL racers helped set the tone early in what will be an action packed season.

Scott Douglas piloted his AMSOIL/Kumho Tires Ford F-150 to a pair of third place finishes in the Pro 4x4 class. Douglas, who led for much of Sunday's race before getting "bumped" out of the top spot by Steve Barlow, was also the story in Sunday evening's Crandon Cup race. The Cup race features Pro 4x4 and Pro 2wd trucks going head to head on the 1 1/2 mile track. Douglas was able to catch Jeff Kincaid on the final turn, but couldn't push past the Traxxas/AMSOIL driver and just missed the $15,000 payday by less than two feet. Douglas now sits second overall in the points race.

AMSOIL Super Team Pro 2wd drivers Mike Oberg and Chad Hord had up and down weekends. Oberg finished fifth in Saturday's race, despite being down on power with a frayed spark plug wire. Oberg broke a drive shaft on Sunday. Hord's weekend started with a spectacular crash on Saturday. He found his grove on Sunday finishing fourth in the points race and fourth in the Cup race. Oberg finished sixth in the cup race.
Other AMSOIL sponsored teams finding success at the Big House:

Johnny Greaves (Monster Energy) first on Saturday and third in the Cup race.

Jeff Kincaid (Traxxas/AMSOIL) wins Crandon Cup and Sunday's class race.

Andrew Caddell (Traxxas/AMSOIL) wins Saturday's Pro Light race and sets new class track record.

Ricky Johnson (Red Bull) wins Saturday's Pro 2wd race.

The next TORC race will be in Bark River, Mich. July 10-11. AMSOIL will once again stream all of the action live on http://www.amsoil.com/.
Until then, we'll see you at the races.

AMSOIL Race Department