Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series

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Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series
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Category Short course off-road racing
Inaugural season2009
Folded2020
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The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, also known as LOORRS, was a short course off-road racing series in the United States and also in Mexico beginning in 2015. The series featured events in Arizona, California, Nevada, Missouri and hosted a weekend of racing in Ensenada, Mexico at Baja International Short Course near Estero Beach. The title sponsor for the series was Lucas Oil Products, whom also owned, sanctioned, and operated the series. [1] It effectively replaced the CORR series starting in 2009.

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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] [2] 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. [3]

In December 2012, LOORRS announced that Ritchie Lewis would be taking over as the series' director. [4] He announced the 2013 series schedule; it would continue racing at most of the same tracks. [4] He also announced that Lucas would be building tracks at San Angelo, Texas and Lucas Oil Speedway to be used in 2014. [4]

In December 2018, the series announced plans to create a historic and long-awaited short course unification race [5] to take place in June 2019 at Lucas Oil Speedway. Regular LOORRS Racers competing against the Lucas Oil Midwest Short Course League Racers with drivers from each series would be able to win points for their respective championships. Unfortunately an untimely tornado [6] wreaked havoc in the area and severely damaged the track forcing official to cancel the event.

In June 2020, LOORRS cancelled the Pro 4 series races for the 2020 season as team participation was anticipated to be low. [7] Rockstar Energy Drink didn't renew their sponsorship of the series or for two top Pro 4 teams of Rob MacCachren and R.J. Anderson. [7] Kyle LeDuc decided to participate only in the Midwestern series. [7]

On Thursday November 12, 2020 Lucas Oil announced it would effectively fold the series due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and uncertainty of another shutdown the following year. [8]

Classes

The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series had the following classes:

Champions

2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019 Pro 4 champion Kyle LeDuc Pro 4 Kyle Leduc Crandon 2014.jpg
2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019 Pro 4 champion Kyle LeDuc
2012, 2013, and 2014 Pro 2 champion Brian Deegan Brian Deegan TORC Pro Light World Champion Reaction.jpg
2012, 2013, and 2014 Pro 2 champion Brian Deegan
Sheldon Creed Stadium Super Trucks Sheldon Creed waiting for second place interview.jpg
Sheldon Creed
2016 The first female Modified Kart Champion Hailie Deegan Deegan Sonoma 2018.jpg
2016 The first female Modified Kart Champion Hailie Deegan
2015 Modified Kart Champion and 2017 Pro Lite Rookie of the Year Christopher Polvoorde Christopher-Polvoorde 2020 600x600.jpg
2015 Modified Kart Champion and 2017 Pro Lite Rookie of the Year Christopher Polvoorde

Pro 4

Pro 2

Pro Lite Unlimited

Pro Buggy

Modified Karts

Junior 2 Karts

Junior 1 Karts

Production 1000 UTV

Turbo UTV

RZR 170

Unlimited UTV

Super Lite

Limited Buggy

SR1 UTV

Modified UTV

Limited UTV

Tracks

The series has hosted race weekends at the following tracks:

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.

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