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CORR (Championship
Off-Road Racing)
192 N. State Rd. 267, Ste. 350
Avon, IN 46123
317/272-2827
317/272-2900 (fax)
www.corracing.com
Trail Notes
Once again in 2003, CORR Lucas Oil Series fans will enjoy hours of television coverage on Speed Channel as the sanctioning body is in its second year of a three-year contract. It is expected that the Pro division will enjoy 48 hours of coverage, while the Sportsman ranks will be seen in 36 hours of television beamed to more than 55 million homes. For 2003, it is expected that $1.5 million in sponsorship and contingency awards will up for grabs to the CORR series competitors.
| Important Class Designations |
| Trick Truck: | Unlimited trucks, |
| up to 36 inches of |
| wheel travel and |
| over 700 hp |
| Protruck: | Ivan Stewart's |
| growing class for |
| identical, high- |
| performance two- |
| wheel-drive trucks. |
| Class 1500: | Unlimited open- |
| wheel race cars |
Best In The Desert
For Best In The Desert (BITD) founder Casey Folks, the 2003 desert racing season will reflect both lessons learned after several years of refining his relatively new desert series, and a recently announced media package intended to help push the sport into the future.
While still strongly popular with the two-wheel motorcycle crowd thanks to special motorcycle events, Best In The Desert has made encouraging progress in attracting larger four-wheel entries to their unique and always well organized races. The basis of this strength has been in the Nevada desert, which in 2003 will see the Terrible's Town 250 in April, the Las Vegas 200 in December, and the longest continuous point-to-point race in America-the Tube Specialties Company "Vegas to Reno" event in June. More significantly, the year is set to begin in February with BITD's return of professional desert racing to legendary Parker, Arizona, at the series' inaugural Blue Water Resort and Casino Parker 425. Finally, Folks has resolved to return to Baja for his second annual Baja Mex in August, an event which saw a limited four-wheel entry but promising potential in 2002.
All of this action is truly hard-core desert racing of the best kind, with a majority of races taking on the roughest, rockiest, and remotest terrain that Casey and company can find. More importantly, the series' commitment to limited chase-crew access and prerunning not only opens up more great areas to race in, but also makes "chasing" the event from pit-to-pit easy and fun for spectators.
Expect large fields at special Best In The Desert events, especially the welcome return to Parker and the challenging run from Las Vegas to Reno. Most of the sport's best drivers will be on hand for these races, including the Herbst Motorsports gang from Las Vegas, the two-time BITD Trick Truck champion Damen Jefferies in the beautiful Herman Motorsports/K&N Filters Ford F-150, and the factory Kia of Darren Skilton. You can expect a strong showing from the Protrucks ranks, as well as the giant Hummers of off-road legend and 2002 stock full-size class champion Rod Hall. Not to be outdone, big groups of unlimited and limited open-wheel cars will also add spice to the races, including defending Class 1 class winner Gary Weyrich and the BFGoodrich/ Toyota-powered team of former Indy 500 drivers Mike and Robbie Groff.