Offroad Racing

If you guys missed the recap of our first day at the Dayton WeRock rock crawling competition, you can check it out here. Otherwise, I’ll get right into what went down on Saturday.

We were 16 points out of 3rd when we started Saturday and we knew if we wanted to have a strong finish, we had to stay focused on running a smart race without thoughts of our competitors psyching us out.

Our rock crawling team at 4Wheel Drive Hardware headed out to Dayton, Tennessee this past June 25^th and 26^th, 2010 for the second WeRock rock crawling competition. We arrived on Friday all set for the comp at 5pm on Friday night but they ended up postponing it until 7pm due to the heat – thank goodness! Not only was it over 90 degrees outside, but all drivers are required to wear a fire suit consisting of long pants and a jacket – not exactly conducive to the heat. I was pretty relieved.

The 4Wheel Parts Motorsports team was excited to hit the track at the Miller Motorsports Park just outside of Salt Lake City.  Everyone on the team was impressed by the beautiful facility and professional race paddock area.  The team knew there was a disadvantage going into this event because Greg was going to miss half of the practice time in order to catch a flight back home to attend his Dad’s 70th Birthday bash.  Qualifying on Saturday was extremely close between all 15 Pro-2 trucks and the 4Wheel Parts team found itself a disappointing 10th (7/10th of a second from the top spots).

The weekend of May 22-23 kicked off the 2010 WeRock Eastern rock crawling competition at Rausch Creek Off Road Park in Pennsylvania. The rock crawling courses at Rausch are either sprayed concrete, natural rock, or a combination of the two. We ran 4 courses on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.