Championship Form Eluded Team Renezeder at Glen Helen

"I'm not sure how I feel at the moment," said Renezeder at the end of the race weekend, looking a bit bewildered. "It's not like we didn't have competitive trucks - we qualified one and two in the trucks on Friday - and all four races started well for us. We just couldn't get these trucks to the end of any of the races, and I'm not willing to summarize it as just bad luck. We've got to get back to being competitive in the closing laps of these races."

LAKE FOREST, CA (August 8, 2012) - As race teams and competitors, it's natural to want to explain away terrible results. Be it a part failure, a driving mistake, something inflicted by another competitor, an oversight by the crew - the list of reasons is nearly infinite when you've been in the game for over a decade. But the bottom line is that the reasons don't really matter to the outside world. There's never an asterisk next to the tenth-place finisher in the final results with an explanation at the bottom of the page because it doesn't change the standings. Carl Renezeder had the worst race weekend of his career, results-wise, this past weekend at the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series event at Glen Helen Raceway, and he's not interested in explaining it away - he wants to get to the heart of the problem, resolve it, and never have to experience a weekend like that again.

After qualifying on the pole in the Pro-2 and second in the Pro-4 on Friday afternoon, Renezeder's best result of the weekend was sixth-place in Pro-2 on Sunday night. Wheel-to-wheel contact in the Pro-4 race on Saturday took out front-wheel-drive, followed by a Pro-2 race that was, in Renezeder's words, "unbelievably awful," with suspension parts ripped off the truck early in the race. Sunday's Pro-4 race was much the same as Saturday, and while the Pro-2 race had a better result than the day before, he wasn't in contention for the win.

"We'll resolve this," concluded Renezeder. "This team is capable of finishing out this season in championship form, and we'll do everything we can to make that happen."

Renezeder and his crew have their favorite kind of venue on the schedule for the next race: a brand new one. They are masters at learning and adapting to a track quickly, and the new track in Reno, Nevada shouldn't be an exception. The team travels north through the Sierras the weekend of August 24-26 for rounds 11 and 12 of the LOORRS season, with a determination to get back on top of the podium.

Summary of results for Carl Renezeder at Glen Helen Raceway - Devore, California - August 4-5, 2012:

Pro-2: Rnd 9 - Qualifying: 1^st, Race: 9^th; Rnd 10 - Qualifying; 1^st, Race: 6^th
Pro-4: Rnd 9 - Qualifying: 2^nd, Race: 8^th; Rnd 10 - Qualifying: 2^nd, Race: 9^th