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05-20-2010
PROBST MOTORSPORTS HEADS TO VEGAS FOR ROUNDS 5&6 AFTER
IMPERSONATING A PINBALL IN ROUNDS 3&4!
The #9 E3 Spark Plugs Unlimited Pro 2
team of Kevin Probst heads to Las Vegas Motor
Speedway for the 5th and 6th rounds in the
Geico Powersports Lucas Oil Off Road Racing
Series this weekend. The
team is looking to re-group after the last
weekend of racing in Arizona. The
team came away from rounds 3&4 in Surprise, AZ.
with a bad taste after some bad luck had the
team struggling all weekend with issues and
contact that never let the
team get on a strong footing.
Kevin had some things to say concerning the past weekend. "When
you have a weekend like this in racing, it is very difficult to
come up with a good press release on the teams activities. We
just had a horrible weekend. The truck was fast, but not fast
enough. We made changes, some worked, some did not. In this
season, the competition has stepped up, and we have also. We
built a new truck to better compete in the challenging Lucas Oil
Off Road Racing series presented by
Geico Powersports. We had great intentions on
running each and every race with the leaders, and being, in fact
one of them! Our great sponsors, E3 Spark Plugs, and Lucas Oil,
as well as Goodyear and all the others listed below on this
release, have given me opportunity to race at this high level
and I feel that I have let them all down in some respects.
Let me explain!
When a race
team takes sponsorship, at whatever level that
is, it is with high expectations and the hopes for a season
championship. I have raced for 32 seasons in the short course
field of off road racing. In those 32 plus seasons, I have 16
class championships and over 225 wins in all the various classes
I have competed in. I have gone through the rough seasons and
the good ones. The rough ones make you humble and appreciative
of the support your sponsors give you, the good ones keep you
motivated to continue the addiction. That's right, I said
addiction! You see, off road short course racing is that intense
and that much fun to the drivers who are lucky enough to
participate. This sport is one of the few types of racing that
gives you everything you could ask for and takes it all away on
the same weekend. Your successes depend on your
team and your ability to adapt to everything a
particular track, and group of racers you compete with each day,
gives you! The most successful racers always find a way. They
continue on with the battle taking the good with the bad. All
racers face the music at some point. There are those days where
you are invincible, and others when you can't do anything right.
It is a racers life.
I am fortunate to say that in those 32 plus seasons of racing,
there are more good days than bad. You keep digging to find more
speed and durability. You continue to watch your videos and the
races on TV to learn. I am still learning and I hope I never
stop learning about this sport.
I am often taken back by the intensity of this sport. I watch
some of the other classes or my own class on video, and think,
wow, this is the cool stuff! We sometimes, as drivers, overlook
the dynamics of this sport! The fluid motion that makes it all
happen. It has violent G-forces, with an ever changing track. It
has the feel of speed with the finesse of high horsepower on Ice
with no studs. Rounds 3&4 made me feel like a pinball. Starting
14th in round 3 and getting as high as 7th only to have contact
put you in the pits with a flat. Round 4 was just a malaise of
carnage where I started from the pits instead of in 11th due to
an electrical issue. I would gain track position and get taken
out and moved back all race long. (It didn't help starting 2
laps down!) I hope this release gives you some indication of the
dedication we all have to the sport and our sponsors. We are
fortunate, and like I said earlier, we will keep up the fight
this weekend."
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2010
Lucas Oil
Off-Road
Series
Season
Schedule
March 6-7
Las
Vegas Motor Speedway
Las
Vegas, NV
April 17-18
Speedworld Off Road Park Surprise, AZ
May 22-23
Las
Vegas Motor Speedway
Las
Vegas, NV
June 26-27
Miller
Motorsports Park
Tooele,
UT
August 7-8
TBA
Southern
California
September 25-26
Speedworld Off Road Park, Surprise, AZ
November 6-7
Las
Vegas Motor Speedway
Las
Vegas, NV
December 11-12
Firebird
Raceway
Phoenix,
AZ
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