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Carl Renezeder Wins the Lucas Oil Off Road Inaugural Race in Wheatland, Missouri
Carl Renezeder Wins the Lucas Oil Off Road Inaugural Race in Wheatland, Missouri
24 Aug 2017
Carl Renezeder navigating his K&N Filters-sponsored Pro 4 over the technical obstacles
Setting new records is something Carl Renezeder has been known to do in his off-road trucks. Carl has been setting records for almost twenty years now in several different racing organizations. Carl and the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series went to the Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Missouri, for the first race ever held by the series there. The Lucas Oil Speedway is a brand new purpose-built track that is just under a mile and a half long with some enormous jumps and also some very technical sections. There has been one other race held at the Lucas Oil Speedway by World Series of Off Road Racing in 2008, built on the oval track where Carl would be crowned the winner of that race. With Lucas Oil Off Road holding their first ever race on the newly built track, Carl would have a chance to put his name in the record books once again in his final year of racing.
Throwing some roost which is why using K&N Filters is so important in off road racing
The track in Wheatland was built to become one of the best tracks created, giving the racers the feeling of the famous Crandon International track from the large sweeping turns and very fast track to the very technical and large jumps of the traditional Lucas Oil Off Road tracks. With these aspects of the track, they are hoping for huge crowds and to pull racers from all over the nation from both racing organizations. The large jump on the rear stretch has most of the drivers jumping between two hundred feet and up to over two hundred fifty feet through the air. Carl said, “the big jump was built correctly so the landing was very smooth. Nothing matches the feeling of flying a truck that far.”
Carl Renezeder out front with a gap between himself and rest of the drivers
Carl brought his Lucas Oil and K&N Filters Pro 4 to Wheatland to do battle. During practice and qualifying Carl would have very fast times. He qualified sixth for Saturday’s race and seventh for Sunday’s race. In the first race, Carl would start on the third row on the inside and would have to battle to the front during the ten-lap main event. Carl would start his charge from the very beginning, and he would make several passes on the first few laps moving up to fourth after the second lap. He would then battle with Doug Mittag and Eric Barron for the third-place spot until the mandatory caution at the halfway point.
K&N Filters driver Carl Renezeder standing on his Pro 4 after winning the inaugural Wheatland race
After the restart, Carl battled with the leaders Kyle LeDuc and Rob McCachren for a few laps, when Carl was able to make a move for a double pass in the technical S turn section of the track. He would go for the tight inside line just behind Kyle when he pushed a little wide into Rob and left just a small gap allowing Carl to get next to Kyle, and on the exit of the second part of the S Carl was on the outside where he would use his horsepower to push past Kyle for the lead. At that point, Carl would start to get a small gap with the clean track ahead of him until a caution would come out and bunch everyone back up. With the restart and only a few laps remaining, Carl had his hands full with Rob McCachren right behind him. Carl was able to pull away from Rob in the technical sections of the track. Carl said, “The track was technical which usually plays to my favor.” He would keep the lead all the way to the checkered flag putting his name in the record books once again. He said, “It was great to win the inaugural event at the new purpose-built track at Lucas Oil Speedway! In fact, Forrest Lucas was there to see it happen which made it mean that much more.”
Four wide going across the checkered flag in Pro 4 battling for second place
Sunday’s race was another great race with some hard-fought battles where the drivers put on a show for the fans that they will always remember. All the drivers were banging doors and losing their fiberglass body parts from the very start of the race all the way to the end of the race. Carl was one of four trucks flying through the air side by side over the last jump fighting for second place. But with some black flags that were handed out during and after the race, Carl would, unfortunately, be one of the unlucky ones and receive one after the race to put him in the back of all the cars on the lead lap, giving him an eighth-place finish.
The racing was fierce and the crowds got what they came to see in Wheatland. Even though this is the last time Carl will be racing here before he retires at the end of the season, the fans will always remember the great battles he put on and being the winner of the first Pro 4 race in Wheatland. Carl still has the remainder of the season to put on a show for all of the crowds. With two wins so far this season, he is looking forward to even more in the final few races which also moves him that much closer to the championship spot, where he will hopefully retire being in the winner circle with the championship wreath hanging around his neck.
