Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

In December 2012, LOORRS announced that Ritchie Lewis would be taking over as the series' director.^[3] He announced the 2013 series schedule; it would continue racing at most of the same tracks.^[3] He also announced that Lucas would be building tracks at San Angelo, Texas and Lucas Oil Speedway to be used in 2014.^[3]

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.

Champions

2012, 2014, and 2015 Pro 4 champion Kyle Leduc

2014 Pro 2 champion Brian Deegan

Sheldon Creed

Pro 4

• 2016 Kyle Leduc
• 2015 Kyle Leduc^[4]
• 2014 Kyle Leduc^[5]
• 2013 Carl Renezeder^[6]
• 2012 Kyle Leduc
• 2011 Carl Renezeder^[7]
• 2010 Rick Huseman
• 2009 Carl Renezeder

Pro 2

• 2016 Rob MacCachren
• 2015 Rob MacCachren^[8]
• 2014 Brian Deegan^[9]
• 2013 Rob MacCachren^[6]
• 2012 Brian Deegan
• 2011 Brian Deegan^[10]
• 2010 Rob MacCachren
• 2009 Carl Renezeder

Pro Lite Unlimited

• 2016 Jerett Brooks
• 2015 R.J. Anderson^[11]
• 2014 Sheldon Creed^[12]
• 2013 Brian Deegan^[6]
• 2012 R.J. Anderson
• 2011 Brian Deegan^[13]
• 2010 Marty Hart
• 2009 Brian Deegan

Pro Buggy

• 2016 Darren Hardesty
• 2015 Garrett George^[14]
• 2014 Chad George^[15]
• 2013 Steven Greinke^[6]
• 2010 Cameron Steele
• 2009 Chuck Cheek

Junior 1 Karts

• 2015 Kali Kinsman^[16]
• 2014 Mason Prater^[17]
• 2013 Ricky Gutierrez^[6]
• 2010 Brock Heger
• 2009 Sheldon Creed

Junior 2 Karts

• 2015 Cole Keatts^[18]
• 2014 Dylan Plemons^[19]
• 2013 Hailie Deegan^[6]
• 2010 Sheldon Creed
• 2009 Dustin Grabowski

Modified Karts

• 2016 Hailie Deegan
• 2015 Christopher Polvoorde^[20]
• 2014 Brock Heger^[21]
• 2013 Myles Cheek^[6]
• 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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series.

• Official website