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Douglas Motorsports Runs Up Front & Lands on Podium
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Cajon, CA (May 20, 2008) - After back to back third place finishes in
Pomona, Scott Douglas was looking to continue his streak of podium
finishes. The brand new Bill Smith designed, Pro-Fab built PRO-4
performed extremely well at the CORR season opener in Pomona, so the
team had high expectations.
The track in Primm, Nevada was basically the same at it was for the
2007 season finale. The only difference in 2008 was the air
temperature. The weekend saw temperatures exceeding 100 degrees F. The
unseasonably hot temperatures really taxed everyone at the track, the
track workers, the die hard CORR fans, the drivers, and most of all
the crew members of all the teams.
Round 3
The Friday afternoon qualifying sessions saw Scott Douglas and his #7
AMSOIL Kumho Tire Sycuan Casino Ford F-150 stop the clocks second
fastest overall, with a time of 56.02 seconds, just .30 seconds behind
the polesitter.
Championship Off-Road Racing decided to invert the starting order of
the eight fastest qualifiers. This put the AMSOIL Kumho Tire #7 back
in the fourth row instead up front.
Saturday
The rolling start saw the fifteen truck field head for Turn One. In
six laps, Scott passed Renezeder, Greaves, Huseman, Coyne, Cenni,
Baldwin, and Leduc putting his Ford F-150 into the lead. At the
mandatory yellow Scott picked up the added bonus points for leading at
the halfway point of the race.
When the field went back to green flag racing, Scott found a hard
charging Greaves in his mirrors. A couple of laps later, Scott had the
rear tires break loose momentarily twitching the back of the truck.
When this happened, Greaves tagged the rear of the truck causing
damage to the rear suspension. One lap later, Douglas Motorsports
retired from the race as the suspension damage caused the driveshaft
to break, Officially Scott Douglas finished in ninth place.
Quickly Bill Smith, Jason Schampers and the entire team quickly
accessed the damage, and then went to work replacing every component
necessary to be one hundred percent ready for Sunday. By the time the
truck was ready for qualifying, the entire rear end housing, one track
bar, one rear hub, one brake caliper, the transmission housing, and
the driveshaft were replaced.
Sunday Morning Qualifying
The late night thrashing on the Douglas Motorsports #7 was worth it as
Scott won the pole position with a time of 54.802 seconds with an
average lap speed of 61.75mph.
“My team is absolutely awesome,” exclaimed Scott Douglas. “The guys
didn’t just put the truck back together to make the show, they gave me
a real hot rod!”
Round 4
Again the top eight qualifiers were inverted for the day’s PRO-4 race.
This put Scott in the middle of the field. Nonetheless, when the green
flag dropped Scott quickly moved forward.
At the mandatory yellow, the AMSOIL Kumho Sycuan Ford was third in
line. When green flag racing resumed, Renezeder, Kyle Leduc, and Scott
were racing for the second spot. Then with four laps to go, the one of
the axles on Scott’s truck, leaving him with only three wheel drive.
At that point he settled into third place, bringing the team its third
podium finish of the season.
This now puts Scott Douglas in second place in the 2008 CORR PRO-4
Championship standings.
Afterwards Scott Douglas commented, “Our AMSOIL Kumho Tire Sycuan
Casino Ford F-150 was fast all weekend. Bill, Jason and the guys
really worked hard this weekend to keep me up front. Saturday’s deal,
John was coming hard, when the back end kicked out and he hard no
where to go. Today the truck was spot on, until we broke an axle.
Under the extreme heat of the weekend AMSOIL kept everything running
cool, the Kumho Tires really kept us hooked up, our Fox Racing Shox
really kept us fast through the whoops, and I can’t say enough about
my crew. Getting on the podium during this weekend’s conditions really
make me proud of Douglas Motorsports.”
The next weekend of Championship Off-Road Racing is June 6-7, back at
The Fairplex, in Pomona, California.
Don’t forget to watch NBC Sports, May 25, 1:30pm eastern time, for the
ninety minute broadcast of round 2 from Pomona.
Douglas Motorsports would like to thank all their supporters:
AMSOIL, Kumho Tires, Ford Trucks, Sycuan Resort & Casino, Alloy USA,
Precision Gear, KC Hilities, Fox Racing Shox , BorgWarner, Miller
Electric, Raceline Oil Pumps, Mastercraft Seats, Stewart Warner, J & H
Transmissions, Fox Shox, Ringers Gloves, Hawk Performance, Howe
Performance, Phil’s Inc., Pro Power Racing Engines, Makita Power Tools
and McKenzie’s.
For more information or schedule an interview you can contact Jackie
Douglas - DMSpro4@aol.com -
www.douglasmotorsports.com
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