MacCachren leads two, Freeman one

Las Vegas’ Menzies Motorsports leading point standings In 3 classes Midway through 16-race 2008 CORR Series

Rounds 9 & 10 to be held August 16-17 at Los Angeles County Fairplex in Pomona, Calif.

LAS VEGAS (July 29, 2008) - Menzies Motorsports of Las Vegas, quickly becoming known as the ‘Big Red Machine’, continues to lead the point standings in three of the four classes it competes in this year midway through the 16-race 2008 Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR) short-course series.
     Rob MacCachren, who leads the all-Las Vegas six-driver, seven-vehicle team with 67 career CORR class race wins, is at the top of the leaderboard in both the Pro-2 and the Pro Buggy divisions while teammate Bryan Freeman has been nearly untouchable in leading the Single Buggy class so far in 2008.
     Rounds 7 and 8 were held July 26-27 in front of over 25,000 at the 10,000-seat purpose-built facility on the grounds of “The Quarry” in Chula Vista Calif.
     As a team, Menzies Motorsports now has 15 individual race wins and 20 total podium finishes. through the first eight races of the 2008 CORR Series season.
     Winning three of the eight races so far in 2008 and finishing second and third in two others, MacCachren has 747 points to lead Pro-2 in the No. 21 Rock Star Ford F-150 while in Pro Buggy, where he has four wins and two seconds, he has 783 points in the No. 921 BFG Tires Honda-powered AlumiCraft open wheel desert race car. MacCachren, a three-time AARWBA All-America motorsports team selection, has finished fourth, sixth and 18th in the other three Pro-2 races so far this season and 10th and sixth in the two other Pro Buggy races.
     Freeman, a third-generation desert racer, has won seven of eight races in Single Buggy, with 845 points after sweeping both races in Chula Vista in the No. 307 Nevada Off-Road Buggy Fraley-VW.  He has also been the fastest qualifier in seven of eight races so far in 2008.
     MacCachren and Freeman’s Menzies Motorsports teammates, who are also all from Las Vegas, and their current positions in the 2008 CORR points are: Bruce Fraley (9th, Pro Lite, No. 12 MSD Ford Ranger), Bryce Menzies, team owner Steve Menzies’ son who sat out Round 4 with a neck injury (11th, Pro Lite, No. 7 Fox Shox Ford Ranger), Larry Job (6th, Pro Buggy, No. 907 MasterCraft AlumiCraft-Honda) and Brock Krahenbuhl, Steve Menzies’ son-in-law who has three third place and two second-place finishes so far this year (3rd, Single Buggy, No. 312 KMC Fraley).
     Menzies Motorsports class wins the first half of 2008 have come from MacCachren (7--3 in Pro 2, 4 in Pro Buggy), Menzies (1 in Pro Lite) and Freeman (7 in Single Buggy).
     While Freeman won both of his Single Buggy races in Chula Vista last weekend, Menzies had a break-through weekend with a second and his first victory in Pro Lite. His best finish in six previous races had been two sixths during the opening weekend in Pomona.
     In all, ‘The Big Red Machine’ was impressive in its first Chula Vista visit of the season with three race wins, two seconds and two thirds for seven total podium placements in the two races.
     While MacCachren has more than 20 years of short-course or stadium-style off-road racing experience the rest of the group are either total rookies or close to it in this form of the sport.  Bryce Menzies and Fraley finished one-two in Single Buggy last year, but this is the first year that either of them has driven a race truck and this is the first full season for Job, Freeman and Krahenbuhl in this type of racing.
     “Menzies Motorsports has produced an incredible report card for its first semester, but the school year is only half over and this is our first year together in the school of CORR,” said MacCachren, who also splits driving in the No. 1 Rockstar/Makita Ford F-150 SCORE Trophy-Truck in the SCORE Desert Series. “We aren’t surprising people any more, and last weekend’s performance by Bryce Menzies was nothing short of incredible, considering he is a rookie in a glass of grizzled veterans and yet he finished second Saturday and then won on Sunday.”
     “We are half way through an extremely challenging series and it is imperative for us as a team to keep our focus and never look in the rear-view mirror unless it is to remind ourselves that we can win any race we are in.”
     Next up for Menzies Motorsports will be Rounds 9 and 20 of the 2008 CORR Series, to be held Aug. 16-17 at the Los Angele County Fairplex in Pomona, Calif.
     Rounds 9 and 10 of the CORR Series will both be televised nationally.  A two-hour show from Round 9 is scheduled to air LIVE at 2 p.m. (PDT) Saturday, Aug. 16 on Speed TV and a one and one-half hour show from Round 10 is set to air at 10:30 a.m. (PDT) on Sunday, Sept. 14 on NBC.
     With plans to expand the fleet of race vehicles even more in the near future, Menzies Motorsports is based out of a state-of-the-art 31,000-square foot race shop in southwest Las Vegas and the new team also has a test facility with a one-mile track southeast of Las Vegas which is laid out nearly identically to course at the Las Vegas International Off-Road Raceway in Primm, Nev.
     Owned by Las Vegas contractor Steve Menzies, the team is making a major impact despite being
only in its second season overall and first year with more than two drivers.
     Prominent Kroyer Racing Engines of Las Vegas builds the Ford truck engines and the Honda Pro Buggy motors for Menzies Motorsports while Southern California’s FAT Performance builds the VW Single Buggy engines.
     The chassis for the two Pro Buggy race cars were built by John Cooley’s AlumiCraft of Santee, Calif. while the chassis for the two Single Buggy race cars were built in Las Vegas by Menzies Motorsports’ driver Bruce Fraley.
     While the AlumiCraft vehicles, somewhat similar to Class 10 cars in the desert, are new this season, the Fraley cars, somewhat similar to Class 1-2/1600 cars in the desert, were built for last season and finished 1-2 in the season class point standings with Bryce Menzies and Fraley driving.
     For ticket information and more information on the CORR Series, visit www.corracing.com.
     For more information on Menzies Motorsports, visit www.menziesmotorsports.com.

Menzies Motorsports Team Point Standings
2008 CORR Series (Through Round 8, July 27)
Class
Pos.  No. Driver, hometown, vehicle-engine, (Results), points
Pro 2
1.  No. 21 Rob MacCachren, Las Vegas, Rock Star Ford F-150, (1, 1, 6, 1, 4, 18, 3, 2), 747
Pro Lite
9. No. 12 Bruce Fraley, Las Vegas, MSD Ford Ranger, (16, 11, 7, 20, 5, 13, 12, 20), 584
11. No. 7 Bryce Menzies, Las Vegas, Fox Shox Ford Ranger, (6, 6, 9, DNS, 9, 27, 2, 1), 579
Pro Buggy
1.  No. 921 Rob MacCachren, Las Vegas, BFG Tires AlumiCraft-Honda, (1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 10, 6), 783
6.  No. 907 Larry Job, Las Vegas, MasterCraft AlumiCraft-Honda, (4, 10, 22, 7, 4, 19, 3, 21), 611
Single Buggy
1.  No. 307 Bryan Freeman, Las Vegas, Nevada Off-Road Buggy Fraley-VW, (1, 1, 1, 1, 7, 1, 1), 845
3.  No. 312 Brock Krahenbuhl, Las Vegas, KMC Fraley-VW, (3, 17, 14, 3, 2, 3, 27, 2), 657

2008 CORR Series (Remaining Races)

Rounds 9 & 10
August 16-17  Los Angeles County Fairplex-Pomona, Calif.

Rounds 11 & 12
September 13-14  Chula Vista International Raceway-Chula Vista, Calif.

Rounds 13 & 14
October 25-26  Las Vegas International Off-Road Raceway-Primm, Nev.

Rounds 15 & 16