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Bully Dog pushes hard in Primm

After a lukewarm start to the CORR season a couple of weeks ago in Pomona, Bully Dog Technologies and their teams rolled into Primm with their sights set on results

CALIFORNIA (May 20 , 2008) — Casey Currie and Chuck Dempsey with the Speed Technologies team hit the track for Friday qualifying with an all new look, their Pro Lite trucks now carry a graphics package designed by Bully Dog and introduced last year at the SEMA show as their “Off Road Motorsports” theme. Beyond the new look, Casey’s truck, built in the 3 weeks leading up to Pomona went through a ton of testing before Primm. Right off the trailer the truck was fast. Casey qualified in the top ten and ran at the front of the pack during Saturday’s race before getting tangled up with back markers and tearing up the rear suspension putting him out of the race. The race on Sunday had Casey sitting on the front row for the start, unfortunately the Nissan motor that Casey is running just could not hold back some of the guys running Ford powerplants, he had to settle for 4th place. New motors are on the way, just wait! Chuck Dempsey, new to short course racing is still feeling his way around and getting up to speed, he ran at the top ten both Saturday and Sunday.

Throughout the event Saturday rumors were flying around that rap super star, Snoop Dogg would be coming out to see the racing.

The infamous rapper will be performing at the Buffalo Bill casino in June, they were using the CORR race as pre-concert publicity. He arrived well after the racing was over but he still wanted to see what CORR was all about so he jumped into the driver’s seat of the Bully Dog Nissan Titan Pace truck, his crew jumped in the back and they took a couple of low speed laps around the track. He jumped out of the truck with a huge smile on his face. After a couple of slow laps he then jumped into the passenger seat of the new 2 seat, Pro 2 race truck built by Baldwin racing and sponsored by Bully Dog. Snoop went out for a dozen or so laps with the truck being driven by legend, Curt LeDuc. By the end of the session they were turning laps at near race pace. The whole thing was filmed for Snoop’s reality show so check it out.

Bully Dog had an up and down weekend in Pro 4 with Josh Baldwin. The truck runs great but is having reliability issues. On the first lap of Sunday’s race Josh bolted from his 4th place starting position into 1st place before the first corner, that first lap was one of the best laps of racing all weekend. Going into the big table top jump on the back straight Josh and Carl were side by side, Josh launched the truck hard, once in the air the Bully Dog Pro 4 was six feet above Carl’s roof line and came down hard, as he pitched it into the first corner the suspension broke putting him out of the race. Another tough break but it is a long season, results will come.

The highlight of the weekend for Bully Dog was the Pro 2 races, both on Saturday and Sunday. Bully Dog backs two drivers in the class; Greg Adler and supercross legend, Jeremy McGrath in the Bully Dog/Monster Energy truck. Saturday’s race was tough for Greg as he got a flat that put him towards the back of the pack. McGrath on the other hand had a great run fighting at the top for the entire race, banging body panels, sliding sideways and battling for every inch, in the end the effort paid off with a 2nd place finish.

The start of the race on Sunday looked like a Bully Dog commercial with the company sponsored pace truck leading Greg and Jeremy, both leading the pack on the front row. The first corner was heavy, Jeremy moved to the front being pushed hard with Rob MacCachren on his tail, Adler got shuffled back fighting hard for 4th place, a battle that lasted for a few laps until his truck lost steering exiting turn four onto the front straight. Without steering Greg hit the outside wall, then bounced off into the infield. Jeremy drove his heart out but with just a couple of laps left was passed leaving him in third place at the finish. A solid weekend with two podiums for the rookie.

By Monday morning all the rigs were back in the shop being prepared for the next race coming up June 7th & 8th in Pomona.