Let’s Get Ready To Rumble! CORR Lucas Oil Pro Series Opens in San Diego
By DirtNewz.com Staff
Chula Vista, California (May 16, 2006)
Sunny skies. California girls. Championship Off Road Racing. What more could you ask for? The 2006 CORR Lucas Oil Pro Series season opener begins with qualifying action on Friday afternoon after two-hours of the season’s first official practice session.
On Saturday, the season opener will host terrific race action beginning at 1:00 p.m. with the 2006 CORR Opening Ceremonies. That will be followed by a full schedule of racing that includes various buggy and truck classes.
At 3:25 p.m., the featured races will kick off captivating a lively audience leading up to the main event, squaring off the biggest and baddest off road trucks in the field, the CORR Pro-4 trucks.
The action is sure to be wide-open. The field of racers has grown tremendously since last season when CORR took to the dirt of Southern California. A host of professional off road desert racers have purchased, or had CORR race trucks built, after the exciting action at last fall’s CORR races in Southern California.
In fact, DirtNewz caught up with CORR Pro-4 Champion Johnny Greaves at his DePere, Wisconsin shop only a month ago while he was finishing up a duo of CORR Pro-Lite trucks for Pechanga Resort & Casino sponsored - Mike Voyles and Viejas Casino/FOX Racing Shox sponsored –John Marking.
Johnny and Curt Greaves were hard at work building trucks during the entire off season while late orders rolled in as the CORR fever hit the off road desert racing world. Coyne Motorsports will field several trucks in the CORR Lucas Oil Pro Series this year, as the nation’s top racers all position themselves for a run at a CORR Championship season.
Several CORR veterans, who also race in the desert, have introduced new CORR trucks this season. The gentleman, Carl Renezeder, is poised to introduce a brand new truck after capturing the Pro-2 Championship in his old sled only last season and finishing a scant 19 points behind crowned champion, Johnny Greaves.
Scott Douglas also introduces a new hot rod this season, hoping to capitalize on his return to the elite CORR Pro-4 field. And he’ll be flying around the dirt in his 2005 Pro-2 truck.
A huge field of CORR Pro-Lites will take to the Chula Vista dirt and although some prognosticators have estimated a field of nearly 30 Pro Lites, rumor has it qualifying heats could see 20 per heat pushing that number to nearly 40 CORR Pro Lites. Let’s just say that anything could happen in the Pro Lite field! The action is sure to be off-the-hook.
So you may scratch your head and think to yourself, “Man, California is sure a long ways from Michigan or Wisconsin or Illinois. How am I gonna stay tuned in?”
Ahhh sure, there are the daily reports from a variety of off road websites that provide a daily wrap-up, sometimes late into the evening after many have gone to bed.
However people, we are in the middle of the BOOMING electronic age. With the latest in software advancements, high-speed technology around every corner and the ability to communicate across the world in a click of the mouse or keyboard…let’s get real.
Enter DirtNewz.com! We’ll be bringing 2006 CORR Championship Racing to a computer near you, like you’ve never seen before!
Our passion is dedicated to the Dirt Nation and throughout the 2006 CORR Lucas Oil Pro Series, DirtNewz will provide you with the latest up-to-date race action ever seen in CORR racing action. DirtNewz will travel to each 2006 CORR Lucas Oil Pro Series event nationwide all season long.
You will be able to listen to the DirtNewz crew call the featured races on both Saturday and Sunday live on DirtNewz.com. We will provide you with bold digital imagery from each race and our photo galleries will be populated within an hour of the end of each race. DirtNewz.com will feature captivating videos of three to five minutes in length shot and produced by Zip-Tie Productions, an up and coming off road racing film company.
This will all be at your finger tips for you to watch the action from inside your Crandon, Wisconsin office, or your Michigan cabin.
DirtNewz will provide not only live streaming audio of the featured events, but invigorating interviews with your favorite racers and their team members live from the pits. You wanna know what makes Kyle LeDuc click or why Steve Frederico continues to ruffle the feathers of DIRTsports Magazine Kingpin – Marty Fiolka? Wonder when CORR’s Scott Rehn takes a day off?
If so, tune into DirtNewz.com because we’ll be bringing you the action from the pits, the stands and the race track as never seen before. You might ask, “What’s the price?”
The answer is FREE! Just tune into DirtNewz.com on race day for the full story on what’s hot and what’s not!
Are you a CORR racer? DirtNewz will be making embarking on the DirtNewz Summer Tour from June 15, 2006 through July 15, 2006 making the rounds through Michigan, Wisconsin and places beyond.
Are you looking to feature your team in our CORR coverage this season? If so, email us at info@dirtnewz.com and we’ll book you and your team as we have a host of other teams. Features include full video production and editing of your team or driver interview and hosting of that video on DirtNewz.com. Recently, DirtNewz featured multi-Baja 1000 winner, American Honda’s Champion – Steve Hengeveld, in a three-part series discussing his success at the 2005 Baja 1000.
CORR race action images produced by the DirtNewz staff of photographers will be made available to all CORR race teams at absolutely no cost. Other websites and photographers charge an inordinate amount of well-earned dollars that could be used towards racing, for photographs they are simply privileged to take. We are breaking barriers by providing CORR racers their own DirtNewz photographs available to all CORR race teams at no charge.
Yep, that’s right. High-resolution photographs at NO COST.
It’s the least DirtNewz can do to thank CORR racers for providing wild racing action to the Dirt Nation.
The DirtNewz.com live event coverage of the 2006 CORR Lucas Oil Pro Series is presented by FOX Racing Shox, the leader in off road racing shock technology. Associate advertisers are CORR, MasterCraft Seats, Toyo Tires and The Fab School. If you or your company is interested advertising in the 2006 CORR Lucas Oil Pro Series live event coverage, contact DirtNewz at info@dirtnewz.com and you’ll be contacted at the earliest convenience.
In the meantime, come race day, sit back and click away listening to your favorite drivers and teams battle at the Chula Vista International Raceway.
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Scott Taylor seeks 7th CORR Championship in 2006
Belvidere, IL – (May 16, 2006)
The off-season had Scott Taylor and his team building, from the ground up a new Ford F-150 PRO-2 race truck. It had been several years since the team had tackled such a task. Scott and his team engineer, Russ Wernimont, applied their knowledge and experience to the “standardized” chassis design and believe they came up with a winner.
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John Marking Joins CORR Drivers for Looming Battle in newly built Greaves Pro Lite Race Truck
Santee, California – (May 5, 2006)
John Marking, the 2004 SCORE Class 1 Champion and 2005 CORR Nissan Nationals Unlimited Desert Buggy Champion, will return to CORR off road racing for the 2006 season, entering in the competitive professional Pro-Lite class.
Marking debuted his short course racing career in last year’s CORR Nissan National Championships, where he was successful in capturing the CORR Unlimited Desert Buggy Class Championship. John Marking Racing is forging ahead towards the 2006 season opener that kicks off in San Diego, California on May 20-21, 2006. The 2006 CORR season consists of a 16 race series with eight races in California and eight races throughout the Midwest United States including Crandon, Wisconsin.
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Greaves Brothers Pump Up the Volume in Wisconsin
De Pere, Wisconsin (April 25, 2006)
2005 CORR Champion Racer, Johnny Greaves, and his brother Curt, have apparently been very busy over the CORR off-season bending tube and building race trucks. In fact, rumor has it that the Greaves brothers simply locked themselves in their Wisconsin shop where they “pumped up the volume” kicking out the latest version of Greaves-built CORR race trucks.
DirtNewz staffers had the chance to visit with Johnny Greaves and his brother, Curt, at their De Pere, Wisconsin shop only a few days ago.
De Pere, Wisconsin is located approximately 15 miles outside the city limits of Green Bay and is situated on the banks of the Lake Michigan.
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