Hord Has Stellar Run at Chicagoland's Route 66 Speedway with Second Place Finish for BOSS Snowplow, AMSOIL and Kumho Tires

Joliet, IL (August 26, 2010)—The TORC Series brought off-road racing action back to Route 66 Speedway in a big way. NASCAR star, Kyle Busch was on hand to test his driving skills among the best that off-road racing has to offer in the ultra-competitive TORC Pro-2WD class. The Hord Racing team was eager to get back and prove themselves after making some adjustments to the BOSS Snowplow, AMSOIL, Kumho Tired #9. Practice went well, and Chad qualified fourth, right behind Jeff Kincaid, Ricky Johnson and Rob MacCachren. Chad qualified ahead of the rest of the field, including Kyle Busch and Jeremy McGrath, who would get inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame, live from Chicagoland, later in the evening on Thursday.

Prior to racing action there was a Pro driver RC car race where the top drivers from all of the TORC classes competed against each with replica Traxxas Slash RC cars. Kyle Busch would take the top spot, followed by Casey Currie and Chad finished off the podium in third. The RC race was followed by a driver autograph session where the fans lined up to get their favorite driver’s autographs.

At 7:00 PM there were driver introductions on the track and then the racing action began. Chad started in fourth place, when the checkers flew Chad charged hard to hold his position. With the largest field of the season, the trucks were battling through the technical track. Chad was able to hold his position and finish in fourth place, behind Ricky Johnson, Jeff Kincaid and Todd LeDuc. This fourth place finish moved Chad into fifth place in the Championship standings.

Round 10

After finishing in fourth place on Wednesday, Chad would line up in the 3rd position for the start of Thursday’s race. With a slight adjustment made to the groove of the tires Chad was confident that this run would be even better. On the first lap, Chad got passed by fellow Kumho Tire sponsored Ricky Johnson. After a getting settled in, Chad began to work his way to the front, charging his BOSS Snowplow, AMSOIL #9 around the track at a demanding pace, passing both Mike Oberg and Jeremy McGrath. Chad quickly started reeling in Ricky Johnson who had gotten an early lead. They began to pull away from the field until the mandatory caution bunched them back together.

On the restart, Chad made a run to the inside, but had to protect his line from the hard charging MacCachren and McGrath. Two laps after the caution, Chad began to pull away from MacCachren, and made a run at Ricky Johnson. Nearly landing on the back of Johnson over the 120’+ tabletop, Chad dove to the inside on the tight right hand corner, running side by side through the rhythm section, Chad was unable to make the pass stick, but continued to battle with Ricky, as they distanced themselves from the rest of the pack. Time would run out and the Hord Racing Team was stoked to finish second, after such and awesome performance and their best run of the season.

The truck is working the best it has all year heading into the season finale in Crandon, WI, Labor Day Weekend. The Hord Racing Team currently is in fourth place in Championship points standings following a stellar performance at Route 66 Raceway.