2017
TORC Series
Round #6
Big House Brawl
Crandon, Wisconsin
June 25, 2017 |
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CJ Greaves Wins Fifth Straight
at Crandon TORC
::Continued::
In Pro Stock, Greaves was on another level again,
taking the holeshot and leading every lap. So
dominant was his run that at the mid-race competition
caution, he had a five-second lead. On the restart,
he again took the lead and checked out from there.
Zach Martin was second, ahead of Dillon Pointon.
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TORC Pro
Stock SxS / UTV Podium (left to right)
Zach Martin (2nd), CJ Greaves (1st), Dillon
Pointon (3rd)
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Jake Lunderby and Hans Ada, in just his second
TORC start, completed the top five. All were driving
Yamahas.
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Yamaha's
CJ Greaves grabbed the holeshot in the
land rush start, but after a red flag,
they were restarted in points order with
Greaves once again out front.
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“This car almost drives itself,” said Greaves.
“We work on setup day in and day out and this
thing is really showing what it can do. The track
was phenomenal. For all the rain we got, a nice
groove came in and it was fast. The corners were
really tacky and manageable.”
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Yamaha's
CJ Greaves claimed his 5th straight win
& remains undefeated
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Martin ran side by side with Greaves on the initial
land rush start and was right there on the ensuing
restarts, the first one on lap one for a crash
and after the competition caution. Despite losing
radio communication on the first lap, he earned
his second consecutive runner-up finish. He sits
second in the championship, 23 points behind Greaves.
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Bikeman Performance's
Zach Martin held off Dillon Pointon to
take the 2nd spot on the podium for the
second straight day
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“It was one heck of a race,” said Martin. “CJ,
Dillon and I had some good battles. At the start,
I was side by side with CJ the whole way. We took
the smarter option to follow the good line behind
him. The car has Bikeman tune and a pipe and it
was just ripping today.”
Pointon drove an amazing race, running several
different lines throughout the event. At one point,
he and Luburgh battled for a lap, swapping the
third position before Pointon held onto it.
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OnPoint Racing's
Dillon Pointon scored his fourth straight
podium finish, which has him top three
in points
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“That was the hardest race of my career so far,”
said Pointon. “I really had to fight for that
third place. Luburgh was running me hard. He snuck
under us, put on a slide job and I got back past
in the next few corners. Then Lunderby was running
me hard. We’re not driving out of Colorado to
lose. We’re giving our full effort here and it’s
paying off. The track was really demanding. I
had to change my lines up throughout the race.
It was a lot of fun, though.”
TORC next heads to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
for the Throwdown in the U.P. at Bark River International
Raceway. That race is scheduled for July 15-16.
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