Renezeder Caps Historic Season with Win at Challenge Cup

Fort Mill, SC – (December 22, 2009) – Team General Tire’s Carl Renezeder capped off his unprecedented dual-championship season in short course racing with another win at the Rockstar Energy Drink Lucas Oil Challenge Cup December 19th at Lake Elsinore, CA.

Renezeder made short-course history this year by sweeping the Unlimited 2 and Unlimited 4 championships in the inaugural season of the Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series, and becoming the first ever seven-time national short course champion.

“Carl’s wins last weekend put the icing on the cake for an unbelievable season,” said Travis Roffler, director of marketing, General Tire. “Aside from his phenomenal driving skills, he’s proven that our General Grabber short-course competition tires are a tough tire to beat in short course racing. We are very proud of his accomplishments this year, and we can’t wait to see what he, Team Renezeder and all of Team General Tire can do next year!”

The 2010 season of the Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series kicks off March 6-7 back at Lake Elsinore. To see Carl’s historic runs at last weekend’s event, tune into NBC on Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 2:30PM Eastern time.

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For more than 90 years General Tire has offered a complete quality line of ultra-high performance, passenger, light truck, off-road and commercial tires to meet all your needs. General Tire is a proud supporter of Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing, Chili Bowl, Pro-Pulling, Late- Model Dirt Series, Drag Boat Series, Boost Mobile FreestyleMx.com Tour, Spec Tire of Trophylite and Pro Truck. Team GT supports off-road and short course teams including BJ Baldwin, Carl Renezeder, Rick D. Johnson, Jerry Zaiden/Jason Campbell, Jason/Rich Voss, Scott Steinberger, Ed “Clyde” Stout, Ted Hunnicutt, Marc Burnett, Kent Kroeker, Mickey Childress, Carey Hart, Josh Merrell, Robby Woods and Sean Geiser.

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