Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series notebook-83514

Rob MacCachren Rolls On

It's been a heck of a year for Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Pro 2 champion Rob MacCachren as he continues to assert his status as off road racing legend.

Not only did he capture the Pro 2 title (ABOVE), he also finished second in the Pro 4 standings in a season in which the competition in that class got even tougher with the addition of Bryce Menzies and Brian Deegan. But it wasn't only in short course where MacCachren had an amazing year.

Last month he became the first person to claim both a LOORRS championship and an overall victory at the Baja 1000 in the same year. He won his third overall and second consecutive 1000. He also finished second in the SCORE Trophy Truck final standings, and took the "Best In The Desert Trick Truck" title. Not a bad season at all.

Christopher Polvoorde, Mod Kart Champion

While it initially appeared that Christopher Polvoorde had fallen short of winning the LOORRS Mod Kart championship by a single point, after everything shook out and the apparent champ was disqualified from the Lake Elsinore finale for a technical infraction, Polvoorde was declared the champ.

"I thought my parents were joking when they told me," he said. "I didn't really believe them. I felt like I earned it. But at the same time it was disappointing not to win it there."

The 15-year old from Hemet, Calif. scored seven wins and four other podium finishes from 14 races to claim the title.

"It's seasons like this that will rarely happen again. Even when we thought we got second, the season overall was amazing for us. We felt really privileged to be able to do that," he says.

Polvoorde will continue to race Mod Karts in 2016, while also campaigning a Pro Lite in the Lucas Oil Regional Racing Series.

LucasOilRacing.TV announced

Lucas Oil has announced the worldwide launch of LucasOilRacing.TV, a streaming TV network dedicated solely to the world of motorsports – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The new network is set to launch as LucasOilRacing.TV on Jan. 1, 2016. Programming will include live racing, expanded pre-and post-race action, behind-the-scenes content, unseen interviews, automobile build shows and an extensive library of motorsports content and racing.

LucasOilRacing.TV will deliver unlimited access to all types of motorsports racing; the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing series will be featured, of course, plus American Sprint Cars, Pro Pulling, GT racing, Modifieds, Drag Boats, Late Model Dirt, NHRA, stock cars, motorcycle racing, authentic build shows and everything in and around the world of motorsports. In addition to an extensive VOD library of programming,

LucasOilRacing.TV will also include interviews with the worlds most popular and dynamic drivers, conducted by some of the sports most iconic journalists.

Robin Miller with Forrest Lucas at PRI

"LucasOilRacing.TV consolidates all the best racing and automotive programming in the world into a single destination for viewers, making it available to anyone with internet access, says Bob Patison, executive vice president of Lucas Oil. "LucasOilRacing.TV will give viewers access to their favorite motorsports, on demand, anywhere and any time they want it."

LucasOilRacing.TV will be available worldwide across multiple digital media players and mobile devices including products by Android, Amazon, Apple, Roku, Smart TVs and through LucasOilRacing.TV on computers. LucasOilRacing.TV is dedicated to continued development of its platform for additional devices including popular gaming consoles.

No Junior Karts in 2016

The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series has announced that the Junior 1 and Junior 2 Trophy Karts will not be part of the series in 2016. Mod Karts will continue to be part of the big show, while the lower-power machines for younger racers will continue to be a big part of the Regional series.

"This was really a tough decision and I know the junior kart teams are going to be disappointed, but we think in the long run it's the best decision for everyone," series director Ritchie Lewis says. "The way the classes have grown over the past few years has made it difficult to find time on the event schedule for the professional classes. That's really sad news for the kids in the junior kart classes because they need the track time most of all."

LOORRS has streamlined its pro weekends since the series' inception in 2009, dropping UTVs and single buggies in previous years. It had also already dropped the Junior Karts from several of its venues farther from the Southern California base of most of the short course racers, such as Tooele, Utah.