Crandon, WI (May 26, 2009) – After a battle at the “The Great American Speedway”- the Texas Motor Speedway Dirt Track, the Traxxas TORC Truck Series teams will have the long Memorial Day weekend at to prepare to face stiff competition and new and improved track at Perris Auto Speedway.

Joining the three PRO Truck classes on the TORC circuit in Perris, are several other sportsman classes: PRO Super Buggy, 1600 Buggy, UTV, and both 250 and 450 Off Road Karts. SRT classes will be running a West Coast Triple Crown where three races will constitute a championship, and be awarded at the USAC banquet at the end of the season.

The festivities begin at 6pm Wednesday night at Chuy’s in Corona, with a TORC kick off party. Trucks, teams, and sponsors will be on hand as well as Dirt Newz’s own Tim Sanchez broadcasting live from the event. TORC then moves to PAS Friday at noon for Media Day, shortly followed start of what will be an action packed weekend. Fans can look forward to not only lots of fender banging, truck racing; there will also be plenty of action in the pits, as well as the Traxxas “Try Me Track,” where fans can test out an array of Traxxas trucks.

Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster and can be found by going to WWW.TIX.COM. Gates open Friday at 3:00pm.

The Traxxas TORC Series- The Off Road Championship, presented by AMSOIL is the world’s premier short course off road series. TORC drivers push the limits with 900 horsepower, action-packed fender pounding on challenging natural terrain racetracks. The 2009 season schedule includes stops in Texas, California, Nevada, Michigan, and Wisconsin. For more information on TORC please visit www.torcseries.com.