Wheatland, Missouri. (September 25, 2007)
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Nissan-powered trucks once again displayed their dominance in closed-course off road racing, taking the PRO Light Pickup Championship in a nail-biting finale of the inaugural year of the Lucas Oil World Series of Off-Road Racing (WSORR) series. Chad Hord and his 310-horsepower Frontier-bodied racing machine clinched the title with a victory, appropriately enough, at the "Nissan Showdown in the Show-Me State" at the Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Missouri on September 22 and 23, 2007.
Hord, of Felch, Mich., who began the weekend three points behind PRO Light Pickup points leader Jeff Kincaid, knew that it was going to take an extraordinary effort to win the title. With a second place finish in Saturday's Round 12 race and a victory in Sunday's Round 13 event, the championship was his. This is the second championship in a row for Hord and his Nissan Frontier-bodied race truck, the first coming in last year's CORR series.
"This win shows the dedication of the Hord Racing Team and Nissan Motorsports - our second championship in a row with the Frontier race truck and my fourth year with Nissan," said Hord. "We knew we had to win the race to win the title, and we're thrilled to bring it home for Nissan."
"What a great year for Nissan Motorsports with Chad Hord's PRO Light Pickup Championship in the first year of WSORR!" exclaimed Nissan Motorsports Marketing and Operations Senior Manager Ron Stukenberg. "We knew we'd be facing tough competition in this new racing series, and it's incredibly gratifying for a Nissan Motorsports driver to put his name into the record books as an inaugural champion."
Also displaying incredible strength and resilience was Carl Renezeder in his new-for-2007 Nissan Titan-bodied PRO 4x4 racing machine, chalking up a controversial second-place finish in Saturday's Round 12 competition and a win in Sunday's Round 13 race. This marks three wins and ten podiums in only 12 starts for the new Titan-bodied truck.
"Nissan Motorsports salutes Carl Renezeder, not just as a driver, but as a leader of a great team that took an all-new racing truck and showed the competition what Nissan Motorsports power can do," said Stukenberg. "We're thrilled about a great year in WSORR, and how well the new series represented Nissan as WSORR's 'Official Vehicle' in their first year of operations."
WSORR
WSORR is the newest short course off-road racing sanctioning body in the United States. Based in the Midwest, WSORR features a high-speed, high-impact off-road racing experience for racers and fans at key tracks in Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin.
Nissan is the Official Vehicle of WSORR, with Nissan trucks serving as official WSORR pace vehicles as well as extensive vehicle displays and special events during WSORR weekends. Nissan Motorsports is concentrating their off-road racing efforts on this challenging series, not only as the Official Vehicle of the series, but also offering contingency awards to Nissan race truck drivers.
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