Armin Schwarz – Dramatic season-opener – fantastic speed, annoying DNF

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Off-Road Grand Prix Announces 2009 Race Schedule, Get Ready for Crazy Action and a National Championship Series

Prolite's racing at Perris Raceway

Lake Elsinore, CA (January 29, 2009) – The USAC sanctioned Off-Road Grand Prix (ORGP) announced today that it will be holding eight, points-race weekends plus two sportsman weekends in 2009 with the world’s best short-course drivers from coast-to-coast. The season will take flight at Perris Auto Speedway in California, make a Midwest swing, including the prestigious Crandon International Off-Road Speedway, and end in Las Vegas in November. With the Professional Drivers Group (PDG) kicking in, it is sure to deliver the best racing entertainment going. Read more →

Camburg Presents the 1450 Shootout at SNORE’s Battle at Primm!

Huntington Beach, CA – Camburg Engineering along with AEM, General
Tires, KC HiLites and Magnaflow Exhaust are offering more than $5,500 in
contingency prizes, for the Camburg 1450 Shootout at the upcoming SNORE
Battle at Primm off-road race February 13th-15th. In an effort to spread
out the contingency prizes with so many entries, the first rear link
suspension finisher, the first rear leaf spring finisher and the last
place finisher will be awarded the following prizes. Read more →

Facts and figures about Volkswagen’s one-two win at the “Dakar”

Dakar Rally – two weeks after the event

Giniel de Villiers (ZA) and Dirk von Zitzewitz (D) during 2009 Dakar

2009 SXS STADIUM SERIES AT PERRIS AUTO SPEEDWAY NAMES TITLE SPONSORS AND IS READY TO KICKSTART A NEW SEASON WITH TONS OF SUPPORT FROM THE INDUSTRY’S GIANTS!//

With the ‘09 season getting ready to start – The Mickey Thompson/Kal Gard Lubricant’s SXS Stadium Series
presented by Skin Industries has put together an all star list of support from the industry’s giants & legends
such as Mickey Thompson and Kal Gard Lubricants as well as receiving support from the industry’s largest
media sources including Off-Road Magazine!

Title Sponsors//
Mickey Thompson Tires:
Mickey Thompson, with deep roots in Baja & short course stadium racing, has teamed up with us to bring
short course racing back into the masses in ‘09 & beyond. As a title sponsor, Mickey Thompson Tires will
also be offering an awesome tire sponsorship & contingency program available to all of our racers.***
www.mickeythompsontires.com
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BJ Baldwin fights mechanical issues for a top five finish at 2009 SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge

The SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge is one of the most unique off-road races of the season in that it mixes the best of long distance desert racing with spectator friendly short course viewing. The race consists of two days of racing eight laps around a rugged 6.25-mile course, including an infield with the famous “Laughlin Leap” as part of the course.  Racers start two vehicles wide, drag racing to the first jump leading out into the treacherous Nevada desert. Considered the best off-road race for spectators, it features multiple spectator viewing areas, including a stadium seating area which features the extremely popular SCORE Vision, a gigantic large-screen LCD display, showing live footage from approximately 95 percent of the race course. The 14th annual SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge featured motorsports fans and racers from 17 states, as well as racers from Mexico and Germany all converging in Laughlin, NV, the desert resort town along the banks of the Colorado River. Read more →

Robby Gordon Dominates the 15th Annual SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge

Recap of the Weekend’s Racing Activities

Friday’s Impressive Qualifying Run – On Friday afternoon, Robby Gordon put his No. 77 Monster Energy Toyo Tires Trophy Truck on the pole for Saturday’s 15th annual SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge, the first of five races in the SCORE International Series. Gordon posted a time of 6 minutes, 43.72 seconds around the 6.25-mile lop, nearly nine seconds faster than his 2008 qualifying time.

Gordon commented moments after posting the fastest lap of the trophy truck qualifiers. “I knew we were running fast, but this was even better than I had anticipated. We are really looking forward to this weekend’s race.” Read more →

BFGoodrich Tires Captures Ninth Dakar Victory

GREENVILLE, S.C. – Jan. 26, 2009 –Competing with new BFGoodrich® All-Terrain tires, Volkswagen Race Touareg driver Giniel De Villiers scored the first Dakar win of his career last weekend in Buenos Aires. The South African’s American teammate Mark Miller followed him across the line to hand the Volkswagen team a resounding one-two finish at the first Dakar to take place in South America. For cross-country rally racing’s benchmark tire brand – BFGoodrich Tires – this year’s result takes its total score to nine Dakar wins. Read more →

SCORE – Laughlin Desert Challenge – Results

Anderson wins Class 1

NASCAR’s R. Gordon dominates field to capture Overall victory

And SCORE Trophy-Truck at 15^th SCORE Laughlin Desert

Pfankuch captures two wins, other class winners include:

Moss, Chamlee, H. Steele, R. McBeath, Holmes, Adler

LAUGHLIN, Nev.—Starting his new racing year on a high note, NASCAR owner/Driver Robby Gordon returned to his racing roots Sunday to easily dominate the field to capture the Overall and SCORE Trophy-Truck victory at the season-opening 15^th SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge. With the race split into two days of 8 laps each of an intensely rugged 6.25-mile course, Gordon ran a combined total time of 1 hour, 57 minutes, 54 seconds, averaging 50.89 miles per hour in his No. 77 Team Gordon Chevy CK1500.

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