NBC Sports and Formula Off-Road Presented by Traxxas Team up for 2014



CHARLOTTE, N.C. (March 14, 2014) – NBC Sports Network will broadcast eight SPEED Energy Formula Off-Road Presented by Traxxas races in 2014. Time slots for the eight hours of programming were selected and focused on the powerful millennial-generation demographic with all races airing in primetime on the west coast of the United States due to the immense popularity of off-road racing in the Central and Pacific time zones.

Additionally, ESPN will showcase the trucks live during X Games Austin on June 8.

Formula Off-Road Presented by Traxxas will begin its second season of competition March 28-30 at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg in conjunction with the IndyCar Series. The trucks will race five times with IndyCar in 2014 at a number of the series’ most popular venues including St. Petersburg, Long Beach, Indianapolis, Detroit and Toronto. Stand-alone Formula Off-Road Presented by Traxxas events will take place at Orange County, California’s Sand Sport Super Show, the Coronado Speed Festival in San Diego and along the Las Vegas Strip while the mega-SEMA show is in town in November.

The Stadium Super Trucks that race in the series will hit huge man-made ramps at more than 100 mph at multiple locations throughout each of the circuits hurling drivers nearly 20 feet in the air and 150 feet down course. Robby Gordon created the series to bring the excitement of Baja-style desert racing to large crowds of race fans and with a revamped and expanded schedule for 2014 the Series expects to race in front of more than 750,000 fans in addition to its television audience.

The series features identically prepared trucks which are made to resemble their scaled-down Traxxas radio-control-car counterparts. Like their Traxxas namesake, the trucks are designed to take flight. However, unlike RC trucks, they produce 600 horsepower generating speeds upwards of 130 miles per hour.

2014 Formula Off-Road Presented By Traxxas Broadcast Schedule

Event                                       Broadcast Date/Time PT      Network

Grand Prix of St. Petersburg      April 17, 10 p.m. PT           NBC Sports Network

Long Beach Grand Prix              May 1, 10:30 p.m. PT         NBC Sports Network

Indianapolis                              June 12, 9 p.m. PT             NBC Sports Network

Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix       June 20, 10:30 p.m. PT     NBC Sports Network

X Games Austin                        June 8  (Live)                     ABC/ESPN

Toronto Grand Prix                    July 31, 10:30 p.m. PT       NBC Sports Network

Orange County Calif.                 October 9, 10 p.m. PT         NBC Sports Network

Coronado Speed Festival           October 10, 11 p.m. PT       NBC Sports Network

Las Vegas                                November 20, 9:30 p.m. PT NBC Sports Network


ABOUT SPEED Energy Formula Off-Road Presented by Traxxas

Influenced by the former Mickey Thompson Stadium Off-Road Racing Series, where driver’s such as Gordon, Casey Mears and six-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson got their start, Gordon created Stadium SUPER Trucks to capitalize on the public’s overwhelming interest in trucks and SUVs as well as the fact that the majority of automotive aftermarket parts are marketed for trucks. Keep up with all the latest news of SPEED Energy Formula Off-Road Presented by Traxxas and Stadium SUPER Trucks by liking us on Facebook at http://facebook.com/StadiumSuperTrucks as well as following on Twitter at http://twitter.com/SSuperTrucks. For more information visit http://www.stadiumsupertrucks.com.

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Permalink Reply by Josh Fisher on March 14, 2014 at 1:16am

Why the name change to "Formula Off-Road" when these aren't Formula Off-Road trucks nor are they racing in a Formula Off-Road ruled series?
http://www.formulaoffroad.se/en/
http://www.formulaoffroad.info
http://www.formulaoffroad.net/
http://jalopnik.com/tag/formula-offroad

Video of real Formula Off-Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1ubHrljbEE

Permalink Reply by Head Held High on March 14, 2014 at 11:39am

cuz this is....

Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on March 14, 2014 at 12:16pm

+1 Where's the like button?

Permalink Reply by pdxracefan on March 14, 2014 at 12:40pm

Yes, still.

Permalink Reply by mj on March 14, 2014 at 1:03pm
Amen !!!
Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on March 14, 2014 at 1:26am

Not a question with any bearing I would say considering I can't even tell what planet that "formula" truck was from. The Fri Parkering sounds interesting though, .......does Robbys series offer free parking? No matter. Nice to see the TV package in place. I hope this picks up steam this year and that X games appearence...............that's the sh...that's stuff!

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