{"id":50427,"date":"2018-04-04T13:23:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T20:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=50427"},"modified":"2018-04-04T13:23:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T20:23:43","slug":"new-off-road-racing-platform-to-help-replace-2018-torc-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/new-off-road-racing-platform-to-help-replace-2018-torc-races\/","title":{"rendered":"New Off-Road Racing Platform to Help Replace 2018 TORC Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50436\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/new-off-road-racing-platform-to-help-replace-2018-torc-races\/lucasoilblackbg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LucasOilblackbg.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"425,228\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&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=\"LucasOilblackbg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LucasOilblackbg-300x161.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LucasOilblackbg.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LucasOilblackbg.jpg\" alt=\"Lucas Oil, TORQ, Off road short course\" width=\"425\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LucasOilblackbg.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LucasOilblackbg-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lucas Oil and a group of Midwest race tracks, including Crandon International Raceway, Bark River International Raceway, and ERX Motor Park, will partner up to offer short course off-road racing.<\/p>\n<p>TORC, the long-standing short course series was known by their fans as the &#8220;Most competitive and entertaining short course-off road race&#8221; nationwide. And if you ever saw one of their events, it&#8217;s easy to see why. Below are some highlights from last year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sUlnEuDKUnA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So when TORC announced that it will not be holding events for 2018, the short course off-road community was devastated.<\/p>\n<p><em>Unfortunately, TORC: The Off-Road Championship will not hold events in 2018. We will, however, continue to evaluate future opportunities for TORC. We remain grateful to our drivers, partners, and fans for their support and wish everyone a great racing season.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A sad announcement indeed. A number of Midwest tracks (many listed above) withdrew themselves from the TORQ ranks citing the need to ensure the future of competitive\u00a0short course racing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe very much appreciate the effort that the TORC ownership group has put into the series over the past two seasons,\u201d explained Crandon President Cliff Flannery.\u00a0\u201cUnfortunately, recent business developments dictate that as a group we must take a different direction in moving toward the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that Lucas Oil will now be feeding the hungry short course off-road mouths for 2018.\u00a0The new Lucas Oil Midwest Sportsman Regional Series schedule kicks off with four-weekend championship events, for both the PRO and Sportsman categories, which will compete this season under existing Midwest rules packages. Wrapping up the schedule is the 3rd annual championship event at Crandon. For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucasoiloffroad.com\/news\/series-news\/unified-lucas-oil-partners-crandon-bark-river-and-erx-tracks-form-new-short-course\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>June 15-16-17\u201425th Forest County Potawatomi Brush Run\u2014Crandon, WI<br \/>\nJuly 13-14-15\u20143rd Annual Off-Road Race at ERX\u2014Elk River, MN<br \/>\nAug.10-11-12\u201443rd Bark River Off Road Rumble in the U.P.\u2014Bark River, MI<br \/>\nAug.31 \u2013 Sep. 1\u201449th World Championship Off-Road Races\u2014Crandon, WI<br \/>\nSep. 2\u20143rd Annual Crandon World Cup\/AMSOIL Cup*\u2014Crandon, WI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p> Lucas Oil and a group of Midwest race tracks, including Crandon International Raceway, Bark River International Raceway, and ERX Motor Park, will partner up to offer short course off-road racing after TORC announcement. <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":50437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[3470],"tags":[598,41,28,5889,5888],"class_list":["post-50427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-lucas-oil","tag-news","tag-off-road","tag-short-course","tag-torq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Untitled.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-d7l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50427","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50438,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50427\/revisions\/50438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}