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from Crandon International Off-Road Raceway
FCP Chairman’s Cup Race a “Heavy Metal” Highlight of 2008 Off-Road
Season
CRANDON, WI (June 17, 2008) – The country’s longest running high
stakes off-road Cup race – the Forest County Potawatomi Chairman’s Cup
Challenge – will again be the “heavy metal highlight” at Crandon
International Off-Road Raceway this coming Sunday, June 22.
The “great race with a great tradition” is a big dollar clash between
4x4 and 2-wheel drive 800 HP race pickups and is part of Crandon’s
opening weekend of off-road racing during Rounds III & IV of the Lucas
Oil World Series of Off-Road Racing (WSORR). WSORR racers take to
Crandon’s wide open 1.5-mile circuit on Saturday and Sunday, June
21-22.
It will be the 15th consecutive year a winner will be crowned at
Crandon with the well-known FCP Chairman’s Cup. Crandon Raceway is
celebrating an astounding 39th consecutive year of off-road racing.
Only a handful of present and past top racers have won the Chairman’s
Cup race. The only three-time winner of the FCP Cup is Rob MacCachren,
Las Vegas, Nev. He is also the only back to back winner of the Cup.
Four racers have won the Cup twice including Carl Renezeder, Laguna
Beach, Calif.; Johnny Greaves, Abrams, Wisc.; Jack Flannery, Crandon,
Wisc.; and Curt LeDuc, Cherry Valley, Calif.
Significantly, only Scott Taylor, Belvidere, Ill., has won the Cup in
a 2-wheel drive race truck, performing the feat in 2002.
For other top name racers, the Cup has remained elusive. Scott
Douglas, El Cajon, Calif., a two-time winner of the BorgWarner
Shootout at Crandon, has yet to win a FCP Chairman’s Cup race. So,
too, for Adrian Cenni, New York, N.Y., last year’s pole sitter for the
BorgWarner Shootout, a similar race held at Crandon Raceway at the
annual World Championships over Labor Day weekend.
Kent Brascho is ready to make a bid in his new Lucas Oil sponsored
Chevrolet and Taylor, Douglas and Greaves will be in Crandon this
weekend to do battle for the precious Cup, as will 30-year vets Kevin
Probst, New Lenox, Ill., Dan Vanden Heuvel, Appleton, Wisc., and Dan
Baudoux, Hemlock, Mich.
“Some of the past winners are now in the twilight of their careers,”
said Doug Davis, president & general manager of the World Series of
Off-Road Racing sanctioning body. “Time is running out on some while
others have now retired,” he observed.
“There is much new and young off-road talent out there that is
hungry,” he noted. “New racers like the Traxxas Jenkins Brothers
Racing Team with powerful high tech race pickups. Guys like Ben
Wandahsega and Dave Waldvogel, Ross Hoek and Keith Steele and even
younger guys in other classes that want to jump into the fray soon.
They want a piece of the action, a piece of the big money, a piece of
the notoriety and to be part of real off-road racing history. But they
will have to take it from the veterans. They aren’t going to roll over
for them,” he said.
“The cream rises to the top in this big money race,” said Cliff
Flannery, president of the Raceway. “Many have challenged and many
have fallen short and it is one of the most exciting events a race fan
can witness,” he said. “The winners of the Potawatomi Chairman’s Cup
are truly on an elite list.”
The 2008 FCP Chairman’s Cup race will be televised on SPEED TV later
this year. Previous FCP Chairman’s Cup Champions are:
2007 Carl Renezeder Nissan 4x4
2006 Johnny Greaves Toyota 4x4
2005 Josh Baldwin Ford 4x4
2004 Carl Renezeder Chevrolet 4x4
2003 Johnny Greaves Toyota 4x4
2002 Scott Taylor Ford 2WD
2001 Rob MacCachren Ford 4x4
2000 Rob MacCachren Ford 4x4
1999 Jack Flannery Chevrolet 4x4
1998 Jamey Flannery Chevrolet 4x4
1997 Jack Flannery Chevrolet 4x4
1996 Curt LeDuc Jeep 4x4
1995 Rob MacCachren Ford 4x4
1994 Curt LeDuc Ford 4x4
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