2017
TORC Series
Round #5
Big House Brawl
Crandon, Wisconsin
June 24, 2017 |
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Rodney VanEperen & CJ Greaves
Take Crandon Wins
2017 TORC Off-Road
Championship Round 5 Pro UTV Race Report
2017
TORC Series
Big House Brawl
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Crandon, WI (06/25/2017) - Yamaha
YXZ 1000R Racer’s Rodney VanEperen and CJ Greaves
pulled off another set of victories during the TORC
Off Road Championship presented by AMSOIL UTV races
at Crandon International Off-Road Raceway. VanEperen
won his third Pro Modified race and Greaves remains
unbeaten in Pro Stock, winning his fourth consecutive
race.
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Rounds 5
& 6 of the TORC Series is being held
in Crandon, Wisconsin at Crandon International
Speedway, which is known as the "Big
House"
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With cool weather punctuated by minor rain showers,
the Crandon short course was fast. With dry-slick
conditions and blue groove in the turns, qualifying
was close foreshadowing what would be a pair of
competitive 10-lap races.
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TORC Pro
Mod SxS / UTV Podium (left to right)
Kyle Chaney (2nd), Rodney VanEperen (1st),
Tim Farr (3rd)
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In Pro Modified, Van Eperen took the lead off
the land rush start. The Bikeman Performance Polaris
RZRs of Treavis Poynter and Jason Luburgh were
quick at the start and Luburgh even took the lead
briefly on lap three before he fell back with
a mechanical issue. Poynter then took over second
and did everything he could to pass VanEperen.
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Yamaha's
Rodney VanEperen grabbed the land rush
Pro Mod UTV Holeshot
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After the competition caution at the halfway
point, Poynter again pulled into VanEperen’s mirrors
with the Can-Am of Kyle Chaney in tow. However,
Poynter’s run was cut short on lap eight with
a mechanical issue. From there, VanEperen held
the lead through a slight bobble on the final
lap to score victory, ahead of Chaney, who retains
the points lead. Tim Farr was third in a Can-Am,
followed by rookie driver Elliott Burns also in
a Can-Am. Zac Zakowski was fifth in a Yamaha.
“We don’t like to keep it that close, but we’ll
take it,” said VanEperen. “I made that one mistake
on the finish-line turn and we had a quick recovery.
We have superior equipment and we believe that
Yamaha makes the difference.”
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Yamaha's
Rodney VanEperen held off some stiff competition
to secure his third win of the season
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VanEperen’s son laid down some family rivalry
before his dad took the start. The goading gave
VanEperen an edge in the race. “My little guy
got his third win today and told me he was ahead
of me,” said VanEperen with a laugh. “So he put
the pressure on me. The course was awesome. Crandon
always preps the track perfect for us. Racing
out here in front of all of these people, I couldn’t
ask for anything more.”
Kyle Chaney scored his fourth consecutive runner-up
finish. Despite some good-natured ribbing from
his fellow competitors, Chaney is happy with the
consistency he’s found this year in his Can-Am
X3. Chaney overcame difficulties coming up to
speed in qualifying to capture the podium finish.
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Can-Am's
Kyle Chaney nearly flipped early in the
race when he two wheeled through the finish
line turn
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“Consistency is great,” said Chaney. “We still
have the points lead and we had a super good battle
with pretty much everyone. Treavis and I had a
great battle out there. We had problems in qualifying
and I wasn’t used to this track. I didn’t feel
good going into today. But once the green flag
went, it was on.”
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