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Greaves’ Monster Energy/Toyota Motorsports Racing teammate Jeremy McGrath calls it “Frickin Huge” after Greaves touches down with WR

CORONA, Calif., (Dec. 28, 2009) – What began as a relatively calm morning in the southern California foothills just outside San Diego literally became the stuff Guinness Book of World Records are made of when Monster Energy’s Johnny Greaves came roaring down a dirt road at 105 mile per hour and launched his 3,800-pound, 800-horsepower TORC off-road PRO 2WD Toyota through the air over the length of an NFL football field.

Landing quite peacefully some 301-feet later despite the overall violent nature of the jump. Greaves looped back around and was met by his Monster Energy/Toyota Motorsports team and off-road racing teammate McGrath.

“He made it look good, made it look easy. But that jump was frickin’ huge,” said McGrath.

With a spectrum of measuring and surveying equipment on hand, Greaves added more than 100 feet to the previous 2WD distance truck jumping record of 193-feet set last year. Check it all out for yourself here.

“I was a little bit nervous,” Greaves admitted the day of the jump. “I woke up and I was going to go ride down there and look at the ramp and talk about what we need to do, but my brother was already in Jeremy’s horse barn tearing the truck apart and getting the gearing right and I was like, ‘All right, it’s on!’”

With a gap of 200 feet (between the take-off and landing peaks), Greaves knew anything below 100 mph on the in-run would cause him to “auger” into the face of the landing. But with some spot-on mathematical calculations provided by his crew, and, believe-it-or-not, some tips on flying a truck like a dirt bike from McGrath, Greaves pulled off one of the most amazing Motorsports distance jumps in history.

“Yeah, you can really manipulate the flight of the truck with the rear wheels – just like a dirt bike,” said Greaves. “I’d actually hit the jump and rag the brake a little to get it to flatten out. Once I got the feel for that then I was like ‘All right, I’m good. Let’s hit this wide open!’”

Wide open in a 800-horse, 351-cubic inch NASCAR Truck motor emits an awesome sound. But Greaves would be a bit impervious to that, with all attention focused on the take-off-point, then, in vain, to spot any discernable landmarks once airborne. “It looked like a house in front of me,” he said. “And when I hit it, you were up there so high that I couldn’t even see the ravine or valley until the truck started rotating down.”

Touching back down onto McGrath’s property – and into the pages of the upcoming Guinness Book of World Records – Greaves and his team were elated with the Monster effort. And when asked if this at all compares to the thrill of racing Traxxas Off Road Championship (TORC) at places like Crandon (Wis.) and Bark River (Mich.) where Greaves is a household name, much like McGrath in Monster Energy AMA Supercross, the grin his face said it all.

“I’m not a stuntman or a jump guy, but Monster gave me the opportunity to do this and I took it,” he said. “It’s the greatest thrill I’ve ever had. You can’t believe how long you’re in the air, just up there in this massive truck floating through the air.”

Follow the story and the photo gallery of the Record Jump here.

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Watch the short but sweet teaser video of the Johnny Greaves World Record 301ft jump in his Pro2. The video is just that a teaser and makes us wanna watch the real full Version video NOW. It sounds angry, it sounds fast and next Monday will be a day to look forward to.

Follow the story and the photo gallery of the Record Jump here.

“He made, you know? As he always does. He made it look good. He made it look easy. But that jump was frickin’ huge. I’m sure driving towards that jump at 105 miles per hour it looked like a toothpick. And it wasn’t steep – it was only angled at 10 degrees – but at 105 miles per hour it probably looked like a Supercross triple jump.”

Johnny Greaves record jump

This was Jeremy McGrath, seven-time Supercross Champion and member of the Greaves Motorsports Monster Energy/Toyota Off-Road teammate, making sense of it all a few minutes after Johnny Greaves – the most prolific driver in close-course racing history – had lofted his 3,800-pound PRO 2WD truck over a mind boggling gap of 301-feet to set a new World Record.

It all began on blustery Friday morning, December 18, 2009, when the Greaves Team, working out of a drafty barn nestled on McGrath’s ranch on the FAR outskirts of San Diego, California, switched out a 500 gear to a 488 gear to conjure up enough top-end out of the 351 cubic inch, 800-horsepower Toyota NASCAR Camping World Truck Series engine to push the beastly Toyota towards the heavens – and more importantly – over a 180-foot gap and towards the 300-foot mark.

Johnny Greaves was laughing after he set the new world record

It didn’t come easy for Greaves and the Toyota as variables such as wheel spin, revolutions per minute, traction, wind and peak horsepower at the peak time (at the peak of the jump) all had to be factored into a certain ad hoc calculus and tweaked with before the Wisconsin native finally, after several attempts, came up aces high at the 301 mark. An hour later and in a small ranch house, we spoke with a happy and admittedly relived Greaves.

Johnny, it’s been about an hour since you touched down with a new World Record of 301 feet. How do you feel? Do you feel happy? Do you feel like you’ve pulled off a huge accomplishment? What’s going through your head? I’d have to assume it’s a different feeling than winning a race?

Yeah. It’s a whole special prize in itself. You know it’s a whole special prize in itself. You know, it’s all that stuff. I was relived. I didn’t want to stop until I got it done. I really thought we were close enough to get it done. At the same, I didn’t know how many times you could push that button! So, I was relived to finally get it done and I’m totally pumped. I was beginning to think we weren’t going to get it today. I just said, “All right. A couple more shots and this is all she’s got.”

It took you a number of attempts to set the record. What was happening? I know Shaggy (Toyota engine tech) showed me the telemetry of the engine after each jump and we could see the RPMs and overall powerband of the engine was all over the place…

Yeah, what really helped out was that he showed me that when I short shifted that I got my speed up so much earlier and it gave me the speed at the ramp. Before, I was gaining the speed right at the bottom of the ramp and I needed that five miles per hour going up. I was 104 miles per hour at the bottom of the ramp and then I was able to easily able to pick up that one more mile per hour. We needed to be at 105.5 miles per hour and that’s exactly what I hit it at and we got exactly 301 feet. It’s pretty cool when you can work with a group of guys that can tell you “this is the ramp we need and this is the speed we need” and it’s done.

Does this accomplishment feel different from, say, winning a race?

Oh yeah. This is something that, well, who is going to take it away? Nobody for a while. You know a race is a week-to-week thing and it’s great and championships are great, but this is going to go in the record books. It’s super to have this kind of accomplishment.

You went 260 feet while practicing on Thursday. When you woke up this morning, did you feel confident about things or were you nervous at all?

I was a little bit nervous. I woke up and I was going to go ride down there and look at the ramp and talk about what we need to do, but my brother was already in Jeremy’s horse barn tearing the truck apart and getting the gearing right and I was like, “All right, it’s on!” I knew the hardest thing to deal with today was that we moved the ramp back 80 feet, so there was very little room for error or to be able to ease into it. Yesterday I could ease into it. I think the first time I hit the ramp, I hit it at 75 miles per hour and flew 200 feet. But I still plenty of cushion. Today the gap was 200 feet, so anything less than 95 miles per hour and I was going to auger into the face of the landing.

This morning, when you came at the jump at 95 miles per hour and in a wail of 9,200 revolutions per minute – the Truck sounded like a Formula 1 car – to make your first attempt, you lifted a little. How was that first jump? We’re just sort of feeling it all out?

We had a plan. Yesterday we didn’t jump with the hood on because they really act different with the hood. So on the first jump, I definitely lifted. I wasn’t even trying for anything but to get across and get the feel for how the truck was going to react. After two jumps, I really got the feel of how to get the truck to fly and rotate right and how much throttle I needed in the air to keep it somewhat flat with the ground.

So, like a motocross bike, you were using the throttle up in the air to keep the truck balanced. Is that why you used the P2 truck as opposed to the P4 truck?

Yeah, you can really manipulate the flight of the truck with the rear wheel – just like a dirt bike. I’d actually hit the jump and rag the brake a little bit and get it to flatten out. Once I got the feel for that, then I was like, “All right, I’m good. Wide open!”

After you nailed a couple of jumps, were you like, “I think I can do this if I can just time it up right”?

There was a little bit of wind and when we caught the tailwind just right, it would give me that extra three feet each time. The last time I went, I was like, “This is everything she’s got” I got on the road just right, got my speed up just right and was at 105 and a half when I left that ramp. It rotated right so the front wheels would land first and it worked out.

Right from when you dropped the truck in gear, can you explain how the final run went?

Yeah – I don’t even know how long the road was, it had to be three-quarters of a mile long – but the dirt way back in the woods was so soft that first gear was just like “WAAAAHHHH!” I couldn’t get hooked-up. So then I short shifted to second to try to load the power and try and get hooked up. So I just short shifted and just let it eat in third as long as I could. That’s what I did. I had to keep the powerband up over 7000 RPM because these motors like to stay up there. But man, that’s a long way to stay wide open.

Hitting the lift off at 105mph to get enough speed

What did the jump look like when you were heading at it, pell-mell, at 105 mils per hour?

It looked like a house in front of me. And then when you’d hit it, you were up there so high that I couldn’t even see the ravine or the valley until the truck started rotating down and where the mark was. I knew, “Okay, I’m getting close to the mark.” It was cool. Originally I didn’t want the truck to be that high in the air, but once we did it, it looked so cool I was like, “It looks so cool, we’ve got to be that high.” For anyone to appreciate it, that really shows the distance and the height.

Has any obstacle you’ve come across in racing compared to this?

No. Thrill-wise, this was the greatest thrill. It’s almost scary because it was kind of getting god to me, you know? (Laughter). But I kept saying to myself “You’re not going to get away with this for 10 laps!” So I finally said, “Let’s get it over with and hold it wide open and do it.” It’s the greatest thrill I’ve ever had. You can’t believe how long you’re in the air and just up in there in this massive truck floating through the air.

What if what you did today sets off a jumping war, would you go out and do it again?

I think so. Maybe next year or something. Now I’ll be able to sleep the week before because I’ve done it. I’m not a stuntman or a jump guy, but Monster gave me the opportunity to do this and I took it.

You’re 2009 TORC racing season was pretty up-and-down. Does the record make up for some of the off-song results?

You know I’m the type of guy that likes to win a lot and I had one of those seasons where I didn’t win much. I won three races. But I go back at it and we had a lot of races where we could have won, but we had a new truck. I kind of just wiped that slate clean and this is like my new beginning. This is the beginning of 2010, so look out boys!

photos by Simon Cudby

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Crandon has a new fast lap Record as of today set by Rick Huseman. The old record of 1:22.66 was beaten by over 2 seconds. That is huge in the world of racing.

Just yesterday Johnny Greaves shared with us that the track is fast “Watch for it. Someone will beat my old record this weekend. They banked two of the turns and with the rain we had its hard packed and fast”

The Race weekend has just started and already during todays practice a new track record was set. What more can we expect during the next 2 days?

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