Category: LOORRS
Kyle LeDuc led the Rigid Industries Torture Team to Back to Back victories under the lights at the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series rounds 3 and 4 in Lake Elsinore, Ca. His two Pro-4 victories make it three wins in only four rounds this year establishing him as the pro-4 driver to beat in 2014. Ricky Johnson had high [...]
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At about 6 in the morning on Friday (April 25) Stronghold Motorsports crew chief Nick Griner loaded the team’s new Pro 4 truck onto a trailer and drove to Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park. About 42 hours later Griner and the crew got ready for the trip back to the team’s race shop with two [...]
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After a wild night here at the Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park last night, the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, presented by GEICO, was back at it again here tonight for Round 4 of the 2014 championship. We certainly had some scary moments, most notably the crashes of Travis Pastrana and Eric Barron, and while [...]
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After the season got underway in sunny Arizona last month, the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, presented by GEICO, now enters its second weekend of competition for the 2014 season. Here at the Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park, most people probably expected to find similar, warm and bright conditions like those we had in Chandler, [...]
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Pro 2 Brian Deegan Robby Woods Carl Renezeder Greg Adler Jeremy McGrath RJ Anderson Rodrigo Ampudia Marty Hart Trevor Cooper Bryce Menzies Patrick Clark Jeff Seifert Tanner Foust Myan Spaccarelli Rob MacCachren Travis Pastrana PRO 4 Kyle LeDuc Rob MacCachren Greg Adler Todd LeDuc Brandon Bailey Jerry Daugherty Carl Renezeder Ricky Johnson Corry Weller Eric [...]
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Bryce Menzies & Ricky Johnson take the Menzies Motorsports / Red Bull team to the Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series on a quest for two championship wins in the Pro-2 and Pro-4 classes. Be sure to follow the series “Flat Out” for the 2014 season
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Seven-time AMA Supercross Champion Jeremy McGrath recently announced the formation of Jeremy McGrath Motorsports, the race entity created expressly for his burgeoning off road truck racing career, through social media. This weekend the Jeremy McGrath Motorsports debuted at the opening round of the Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing series (LOORRS), the highly competitive short course off [...]
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Brandon Arthur got a whole season’s worth of experience in only two rounds at the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series season opener at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Chandler, Arizona. Brandon has a ton of familiarity with short course racing from his years of competition in the Trophy Kart class. He earned a M4SX series [...]
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This winter off season has been one of the most talked about ones in recent memory, as there was a lot of buzz about new drivers, returning drivers, and new vehicles that would all be joining the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, presented by GEICO, in 2014. While all this has proved very exciting, [...]
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After a long five-month off season, the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, presented by GEICO, is back in action. The 2014 season is here, and after their winter hiatus, our drivers were raring to go, and today, there were plenty of fans to take in the action here at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park [...]
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Last Leg! Early Thursday morning competitors left the start line one last time for the final Leg of the rally. While the distances were shorter, the landscape was more variable, alternating between wide plains and steep valleys. In the distance the “Grand M’daouer” cliffs created one of the most beautiful backdrops in the world. [...]
2014 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles Rankings
Winners of the 24th edition of the Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles du Maroc 4WD Class 1st – Team 161 (Jeanette James and Anne-Marie Borg – VOLKSWAGEN VEHICULES UTILITAIRES) – France/UK - 59.24 penalty points. 2nd – Team 160 (Elisabete Jacinto and Valérie Dot – VOLKSWAGEN VEHICULES UTILITAIRES) – France/Portugal - 65.10 points 3rd – Team 118 (Catherine Houlès and Mélanie Suchet [...]
Gazelles: Another long Marathon leg – Day 2
At 6 a.m., the first teams check off CP6 before heading in the direction of the remaining 8 checkpoints along today’s route, always with the goal of driving the shortest distance possible. They have two options for reaching CP7: drive a straight line across a chaotic zone of sand and rocks, or go down into Oued Draa and zig-zag along the dried river [...]
LEG 4 – First marathon: charged with emotion
Day 1 There is never a dull moment at the Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles. The much-anticipated (or dreaded!) leg in the dunes was followed by the first of two marathon legs: two days of complete autonomy in the desert with no bivouac and no nighttime mechanical assistance. Relieved at having survived the dunes, the novices were now wondering what to expect, alone [...]
12 cities in Argentina, Chile* and Bolivia will play host to the 13 stages of the Dakar 2015 next January, for 14 days of sport in total. For the first time, whilst the competitors in some categories will be resting, the others will continue racing… The Dakar organisers have devoted their week to a first [...]
X-Raid MINI’s DOMINATE Dakar 2014
The Monster Energy X-raid Team and Team X-raid performed a true feat, this year: all the 11 MINI ALL4 Racing that started into the 2014 Dakar in Rosario, Argentina, also crossed the finish line on 18th January in Valparaiso, Chile. First of all, the Spanish-French pairing Nani Roma / Michel Périn who secured the win, [...]
The MINI ALL4 Racing dominates the 2014 Dakar Rally
• Nani Roma und Michel Périn win the legendary desert rally • Three MINI ALL4 Racing on the podium 13 stages, more than 13,000 kilometres, one of the most gruelling Dakars ever – and in the end, the conclusion has to be: the MINI ALL4 Racing dominated the 2014 Dakar in unique style! For the [...]
Peterhansel gives the Monster Energy X-raid Team its seventh stage win
• Fourth stage win for the Frenchman in the 2014 Dakar • Nine of the top-12 positions in the overall rankings held by MINI ALL4 Racing The French pairing Stéphane Peterhansel / Jean-Paul Cottret in the black MINI ALL4 Racing proved to be the quickest in the 350-kilometre special stage from El Salvador to La [...]
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