Off-Road Racing At Its Finest - Speedhunters (blog)
In this day and age, with all the different forms of racing, it’s hard not to. But there are the diehards who stick to what they know best and call all other forms of motorsport inferior. One thing I’ve been getting hooked on lately is off-road racing, and whether it’s traditional rally racing, rock crawling or trophy truck racing, they’re all amazing and awesome. A few weekends ago, I decided to travel to Glen Helen in San Bernardino and catch rounds 9 and 10 of the Lucas Oil Offroad Racing Series (LOORRS). I’ve always known of the series, but because I’ve been fairly busy following the Red Bull Global Rallycross (GRC) championship I hadn’t been able to check it out. Each race weekend is basically two race events, but because of rain, both practice sessions, both qualifying sessions, and an entire race (Round 10) was cancelled for all classes. It was a bummer, but at least the series ran one of the two races on Sunday, so it wasn’t a complete loss. It was like watching rally cars, but instead of Fiestas and Polos there were giant trucks jumping well over 5-feet in the air on the smaller jumps. Just imagine how high they were going on the bigger ones… Even in the designated shooting locations, other photographers and I were still being hit by the dirt these trucks were able to kick up. As predicted, LeDuc won the race – and by an immense... Source: www.speedhunters.com
