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- Douglas
Wins Round 12 & Takes Second Place in the PRO-4 Championship
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El Cajon, CA (November 5, 2007) - Douglas Motorsports headed to Las
Vegas, looking to take the $66,000 Baldwin Cup as well as the PRO-4
points championship home to California. The AMSOIL Kumho Tire Sycuan
Casino Ford F-150 has been quick all year, so taking home a CORR title a
real possibility.
Coming into the weekend, Douglas Motorsports was thirty four points
behind the PRO-4 points leader, it was a long shot to bring home the
title, but a shot nonetheless.
The team automatically qualified for the Baldwin Cup by finishing in the
top-6 in the qualifier series as well.
The special built off-road track in Primm, was a .94 mile long version
of a true High Desert off-road course. The track consisted of four CORR
signature banked turns, a three table top jumps (one was fifteen feet
high and a couple hundred feet long), a tricky step up jump, three
medium sized jumps, and a long rhythm section.
Friday Qualifying
The AMSOIL Kumho Tire Sycuan Resort & Casino Ford F-150 stopped the
timers, second quickest with a lap time of 54.890 seconds.
PRO-4 Round 11
Scott Douglas took advantage of the outside front row starting position
and grabbed the lead. On lap four, Scott overshot turn two, driving over
the berm. He quickly gathered the truck up and entered the fray in third
place. With two laps to go, #36 Huseman crashed hard, bringing out a
full course yellow.
The restart closed all the gaps between the racers. As the field came
through Turn One, there was a lot of bumping going on between the
competitors. Unfortunately, Scott endured some of the contact, causing
the right front axle to break, which in turn bent a tie rod. The
combination of the two made the AMSOIL Kumho Tire Ford a handful to
drive. Scott continued on, at a reduced pace, finishing in eleventh
place.
- “We
really had our AMSOIL Kumho Tire Sycuan Resort & Casino Ford F-150
dialed in today. The Kumhos really hooked up, Bill Smith really had
our Fox Racing Shox keeping our ProPower horsepower on the ground and
AMSOIL as usual, kept everything running at optimum temperatures. The
restart ended a good day for Douglas Motorsports.”
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Sunday Qualifying
Scott Douglas qualified second fastest with a lap time of 52.302
seconds, only .019 seconds off the pole position.
Jason Baldwin Memorial Cup
This winner take all event for $66,000 saw twelve PRO-2 and eleven PRO-4
competitors looking to put their name on the unique trophy and take home
the big paycheck. The starting grid had all the PRO-2 trucks in front of
all the PRO-4 trucks. This put the #7 AMSOIL Kumho Ford on the outside
of row six.
When the green flag fell on the sixteen lap event, the twenty-three
truck field kicked up huge amounts of dust going into the first turn.
The long opening ceremonies allowed the track to dry out and now the
dust made if difficult for the drivers and spectators to see. CORR
officials, on lap three, issued a full course yellow to get some
moisture in the track. When the watering trucks got off the track, the
field went back to green flag racing.
On the restart #22 Greaves spun on the front straightaway, hitting the
concrete wall and tearing up the retaining fence. The race was red
flagged while repairs were made to the fence. About twenty minutes
later, racing resumed. With three laps to go, the AMSOIL Kumho Tire
Sycuan Casino Ford F-150 was in fifth place with only one other PRO-4 in
front of him. Scott made a pass on #5 when contact was made, bending the
shaft on the left rear suspension. This ended Scott’s chance off bring
home the Cup to El Cajon.
Quickly, Bill Smith and the team went to work repairing and prepping the
Ford F-150 for the final race of the short course season. With only two
hours to the final PRO-4 race of the year it would be a battle against
the clock to make the starting grid. As the PRO-4 field was making its
final warm-up lap, Scott drove onto the track taking his front row
starting position.
PRO-4 Round 12
The rolling start saw Scott put the ProPower horsepower to the Kumho
Tires and took the lead coming out of Turn One. Throughout the entire
seventeen lap event, Scott held the lead, fending off all challengers.
First #86 Baldwin attempted to catch Scott, later #22 Greaves moved up
to challenge, and finally #19 Troy Herbst tried to catch the lightning
fast AMSOIL Kumho Ford. The flag to flag win, gave Douglas Motorsports
the runner-up spot for the CORR PRO-4 Championship.
- “I
can’t say enough about my crew,” stated Scott Douglas. “Somehow they
got the truck repaired and prepped in time. The support from Fox
Racing Shox this year has been incredible. There shocks are second to
none. We’ve torn up a lot of stuff because of racing contact and they
are always right there with the support we need to get us back on the
track. Thanks to Greaves Motorsports. We tore up a shock during the
Cup race and Johnny brought over a shock to get us back in the show.
Then we went out and raced each other side by side for much of this
last race. I can’t be happier for AMSOIL, Kumho Tire, and Sycuan
Casino. There the ones that make all of this happen and I’m so glad we
ended the season on a high note. This truck is smokin’ fast, I just
wish we were racing here tomorrow.”
- In 2007,
Douglas Motorsports completed the Championship Off-Road Racing Season
with six top 3 finishes including 2 wins, officially finishing the PRO-4
Championship in second place.
NBC Sports will broadcast the Baldwin Memorial Cup on December 8, 1:30pm
-3pm eastern time.
The PRO-4 races will be aired on SPEED on a date to be announced.
Douglas Motorsports would like to thank all their supporters:
AMSOIL, Kumho Tires, Ford Trucks, Sycuan Resort & Casino, Alloy USA,
Precision Gear, KC Hilities, American Racing, 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, Scott USA, and
McKenzie’s.
For more information or schedule an interview you can contact Jackie
Douglas - DMSpro4@aol.com -
www.douglasmotorsports.com
-Mike Reusche, Marketing - MTG
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