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TORC finale features Inagural AMSOIL Cup Race
Friday, September 03, 2010
The 2010 TORC Series season finale is this weekend. Get down to The Big House in Crandon to see who will take home a championship this year. Team AMSOIL is poised for a big weekend with Scott Douglas fifteen points out of first in the Pro 4X4 class and Ricky Johnson vying to best last year’s second place finish in Pro 2WD.
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You can catch all of the action through TORC’s live stream.
Check back on Monday for race results.
Until then, we’ll see you at the races,
Trey Canard to Represent USA at Motocross of Nations
GEICO Powersports/AMSOIL/Honda rider Trey Canard was named to AMA Team USA for the 2010 Red Bull FIM Motocross of Nations. Ryan Dungey and Andrew Short will join him in representing the USA at the September 25-26 race at Thunder Valley MX in Lakewood, Colo.
Motocross of Nations (MXoN) is one of the highest profile motorsports events in the world and has run consecutively for more than 60 years. MXoN features teams competing by nationality to earn combined scores, which determine the overall winning team. Team USA has the strongest track record of any country at Motocross of Nations, with 20 wins to their credit.
“It’s such a huge honor to be selected for Motocross of Nations” said Canard, “I’m so thankful to be able to represent the USA with Ryan and Andrew – they’ve done some great racing this year and I’m looking forward to working with them and giving it my all!”
Canard will race the MX2 class for Team USA aboard his AMSOIL sponsored Honda CRF250R, while Dungey will race the MX1 class, and Short the MX3 open class.
Canard will go for his fifth overall win a row at the next round of the AMA Outdoor Nationals in Southwick, Mass. on August 28.
Originally posted on the Amsoil Racing Blog
Eight spectators killed in California race
LOS ANGELES — An off-road truck plowed into a crowd and scattered “bodies everywhere” moments after sailing off a jump at a California race, killing eight people and injuring 12 others, authorities and witnesses said.
The crash came shortly after the start of the California 200, a Saturday evening race in the Mojave Desert, said San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokeswoman Cindy Bachman.
AP Photo/Dave ConklinBystanders rush to help a victim pinned under the truck Saturday, moments after it plowed into a crowd after sailing off a jump.
Bachman said eight people died and 12 were injured, several of them seriously. Seven ambulances and 10 emergency aircraft responded to the scene.
Most of the injured were airlifted from the area to Loma Linda University Medical Center or St. Mary’s Medical Center.
“There was dust everywhere, people screaming, people running,” David Conklin, a photographer covering the event for off-road magazines, told The Associated Press.
Conklin said the Prerunner truck was among the first 20 off the line in the race, which began at about 8 p.m. It had just gone over a jump known as “the rockpile” about two miles into the race, and he said he watched the vehicle sail through the air. Then he turned to watch for other cars when he heard the commotion caused by the crash.
“When I got up to the vehicle I could tell that several people were trapped. There were just bodies everywhere,” he said. “One woman with a major head wound [was] lying in a pool of blood. Someone else was crushed beneath the car.”
