{"id":1657,"date":"2013-12-09T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2018-05-04T13:26:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T20:26:01","slug":"torc-the-off-road-championship-races-into-sturgis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/torc-the-off-road-championship-races-into-sturgis\/","title":{"rendered":"TORC: The Off Road Championship Races into Sturgis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1658\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/torc-the-off-road-championship-races-into-sturgis\/torc-the-off-road-championships\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TORC-The-Off-Road-Championships.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,339\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Chen, Andrew&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1386258888&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TORC The Off Road Championships\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TORC-The-Off-Road-Championships-300x164.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TORC-The-Off-Road-Championships.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1658\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TORC-The-Off-Road-Championships.jpg\" alt=\"TORC The Off Road Championships\" width=\"620\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TORC-The-Off-Road-Championships.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TORC-The-Off-Road-Championships-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TORC-The-Off-Road-Championships-600x328.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TORC-The-Off-Road-Championships-376x206.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TORC: The Off-Road Championship and \u2018The Chip\u2019 have entered a multi-year agreement to bring the high-energy action of TORC Racing to the grounds in Sturgis. To prepare for this, a new race track for the Series will be built within The Buffalo Chip Powersports Complex for the purpose of showcasing the true capabilities of 900 horsepower race trucks, known to jump over 200 feet in the air, racing side-by-side at speeds of over 100mph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to Rod, Daymon and the team at The Chip, this announcement elevates the TORC Series to an entirely new level and is a game changer for our sport, sponsors, teams and drivers,\u201c said BJ Birtwell, President of the TORC Series. \u201cConsidering the hundreds of thousands of Sturgis attendees who love the open road and horsepower, adding The Chip to our schedule exponentially increases TORC\u2019s attendance footprint providing a much broader reach for our Series and a greater return on investment for all those involved in TORC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Powersports Complex sits on a hillside that provides incredible spectator viewing as well as elevation changes which will make for an exciting and unique track design certain to entertain fans and challenge racers.<\/p>\n<p>Official 2014 Race dates at The Chip will be announced shortly and can be anticipated for early August.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news and information on the TORC Series, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/torcseries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.torcseries.com<\/a> or join TORC on Facebook at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/torc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/torc<\/a> and on Twitter using @torcoffroad.<\/p>\n<p>Check out TORC racing in action:<br \/>\n<object width=\"600\" height=\"338\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lOZepjwrtv0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>TORC: The Off-Road Championship will be getting a brand new race track within the Buffalo Chip Powersports Complex.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[3708,262,261,260],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-off-road-racing","tag-off-road-racing","tag-sturgis","tag-the-off-road-championship","tag-torc","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TORC-The-Off-Road-Championships.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-qJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51398,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/51398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}