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I just read an article that stated that the SST will be at Indy on carb day, May 23rd. Any truth to that? If so, another great get for Robby Gordon and the series!
Ed
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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on
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not the formal,but from Facebook
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Permalink Reply by dj zellner on
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Awesome News!!
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Permalink Reply by james heggemeier on
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Fri. at 2.00 ? Good for me but not for a lot who work. Put a good show on Robby..
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Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on
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It's stands to reason then the test that was done to see how the trucks jumping would effect the race surface went well....er how the trucks would affect the surface. Or is it the effect would cause an affect which would in affect effect the series being there or is it effectively soon do to the lack of affect that the .......alright, Mary dried the clothes too long and it affected the fit due to the effect of......damn. Okay, the trucks did not damage the race surface at the test so it has been determined they can race...okay. So in effect.......agghhh them two words !!!!
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Permalink Reply by Bricoop on
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Here's an article that looks like it was a little slow to press, but nice information:
Robby Gordon's Stadium Super Truck Series exciting for fans
Gordon's new truck series delivers loads of racing goodness
By: Curt Cavin on May 20, 2014
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Speed Energy Formula Off-Road - Robby Gordon has brought raucous action to venues and crowds not usually exposed to pro truck racing.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Doug Boles recently called Robby Gordon the most persistent man in motorsports, a good thing to say about a driver but an even more flattering term for a promoter. Gordon's relatively new product has a long, formal title, but it's easier to call it the Stadium Super Truck Series. It began last year and is growing fast.
Gordon is still a driver, but he is becoming more of a promoter, and track officials across the land are taking notice. If they're not listening to Gordon, it's only because he's not been in their ears.
He lately has focused on Boles. Gordon wants to showcase Stadium Super Trucks at IMS on Indianapolis 500 weekend this year, and he won't take no for an answer.
“He's been after me since October,” said Boles, who is holding a test for the trucks at IMS to make sure they won't damage the track's new asphalt.
Of course, racing trucks is nothing new, and Gordon has been an off-road racing star for more than a couple decades. But he's now found a way to take a sport he knows beyond baseball ballparks.
Gordon last July persuaded IndyCar's Toronto-event organizers to let the trucks come play on the 1.75-mile street circuit. His crew brought a few ramps and got the place jumpin'. The crowd loved it. It was much the same at IndyCar's 2014 season-opening St. Petersburg race in March and again in April during Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach weekend.
The cars put on a good show; Gordon's trucks put on a great show. In Long Beach, for example, not only did they jump 130 feet off ramps, they slid through corners and banged into each other like it was Bristol's last corner. Something else not seen much these days in racing: drivers laughing all the way around the circuit.
“You could have heard me in there just having a ball,” said Davey Hamilton, an 11-year IndyCar driver recruited to race St. Pete. “I was out of my element, for sure, but it was a blast. It's wild, [and the trucks are] all over the place. [Gordon's] got something there that people enjoy.”
Gordon has spiced up the show with recognizable names and drivers on the rise. Veteran racer P.J. Jones is a regular. Jimmy Vasser, CART's 1996 champion, raced in Toronto. Recent IndyCar driver E.J. Viso was behind the wheel in Long Beach. Gordon, who also competes in the series, tabs 16-year-old Sheldon Creed, who won two races last year, “the next Jimmie Johnson, the next Rick Mears.” Like Johnson, Creed is from El Cajon, Calif.
And as good as Gordon is behind the wheel—the 45-year-old has won races in NASCAR's Cup and Nationwide series, as well as in Indy cars—he's even better talking up his series. He likes racing IndyCar weekends because there's a built-in audience. He spends as much time as possible explaining his concept to the media.
Speed Energy Formula Off-Road - The high-flying series will even close the X Games in June.
Gordon converted his NASCAR program's Charlotte, N.C., race shop into something of a truck factory. His crew owns and prepares all the series' equipment, bringing everything drivers need to the event, including a mechanic. Gordon said his investment is about $200,000 per truck, including labor and materials.
Want to race in Stadium Super Trucks? Simply bring your helmet, HANS device and $25,000. If the money represents a sponsor, Gordon's group applies the decals. At Long Beach, new series participants gathered in a parking lot away from the track to have their seats finalized and to practice sliding around with no traction control and no antilock brakes. Minimum tire pressures are mandated.
Gordon is part facilitator, part driver coach. He offers tips about how to drive onto the ramps, how to not consume brakes, how to bang over the curbs. Gordon says if a visiting driver doesn't like the truck provided, he or she is welcome to drive his. Gordon insists such transparency is necessary for a series hell-bent on showcasing driver talent. If a driver wads up a truck, Gordon's crew provides another; the offending racer receives no financial penalty, not even an insurance deductible, although Gordon probably won't invite you back if you trash too much equipment.
A driver can bring an engineer, but Gordon shares setups, too; he said they're all about getting maximum traction.
The series isn't for everyone, though. When a driver executes a jump incorrectly, the truck's nose can absorb too much of the landing—and do so quite abruptly. Guest-star Vasser left last year's Toronto race with a sore back.
Three days after the Long Beach race, Viso, who finished second to Gordon, said, “My ass is still sore.”
Gordon's response: “Cowboy up!”
Viso reminded Gordon he broke a vertebrae in a 2009 crash, and he also has herniated discs from skydiving.
Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s crash in April near Primm, Nev., was proof jumping trucks off ramps is dangerous. His truck made contact with another while in the air, sending his out of control. Several violent rolls later, Luyendyk suffered a broken collarbone and a monthlong rehab.
As of now Gordon hasn't secured an event at IMS, but Stadium Super Trucks' schedule is still interesting. The series races twice on Detroit's Belle Isle circuit (May 31-June 1) before closing the X Games in Austin, Texas, on June 8. There's a Toronto return (July 19-20) before a fall swing through Costa Mesa, Calif., San Diego and Las Vegas. Gordon hopes to have even more 2015 events.
“It's something I think everyone can enjoy,” he said. “The fans obviously love it, and the drivers who have been here think it's a blast.
“You're sideways a lot and sliding, and the jumps give it a great visual. We're on three wheels a lot. Thing is, for all the people watching here [in Long Beach], most of our views come online.”
Race wins pay $15,000 and, wouldn't you know it, Gordon has won two of three so far this year: round one of two in St. Pete and then Long Beach, the former in the rain. (Jones won round two in St. Pete.) No one has complained about a stacked deck since, though, because as always, Gordon offers to trade trucks.
“Just come race,” he said with a smile.
He makes a good case for it.
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Luyendyk's crash happened in the TORC series race at Primm.
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Permalink Reply by Sandi Parker on
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The May 23 Indy Entry List is posted on the SST website:
Entry list for the May 23 race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Truck# Driver Sponsor Points
Rank1 1 Keegan Kincaid Traxxas - 2 3 Charles Dorrance RD Motorsports - 3 5 Scotty Steele Steele Racing 8 4 7 Robby Gordon Menards/Speed Energy/Toyo Tires 1 5 18 Apdaly Lopez RPM Offroad/VisitMexico.com 7 6 19 EJ Viso United Fiber & Data 10 7 30 Robbie Pierce Mastercraft Safety/Impact Racing - 8 50 Burt Jenner Gladiator - 9 74 Sheldon Creed Traxxas 4 10 77 Jerett Brooks Synergy Electric 3
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I'm going with Burt Jenner for the win ... he looks pretty good practicing .
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