NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (March 22, 2015) – Rockstar Energy Drink driver Tanner Foust returned to the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series this weekend in a Pro 2 Unlimited truck for his first stint behind the wheel in competition after a long off-season.
The multi-time Global Rallycross and Formula Drift champion scored a pair of top-10 results over two competition days and made progress in the climb up the learning curve of his newest motorsport challenge.
“My first couple of races in Pro 2 last season definitely gave me a taste for the excitement of sliding and jumping an 800-plus horsepower truck and I’m grateful to Rockstar Energy Drink for giving me a chance to do a few races again this year,” said Foust, who made his Pro 2 debut in the series at the Lake Elsinore race last April. “It’s a huge challenge and the more time I spend in the truck, the more I’m able to focus on setting up the suspension for my driving and gaining some speed.”
Foust drove the Lake Elsinore race in the Rockstar Energy Drink Pro 2 truck formerly driven by veteran off-roader Rob MacCachren, whose team handled the preparation.
“I’m definitely a rookie out there,” said Foust. “I have so much respect for the guys out here who have been doing this for years and I want to say a big congratulations to Rob (MacCachren) who put his Rockstar Energy Drink Pro 2 truck on the podium both nights.”
The versatile Foust plans to run a select campaign of events in the 2015 LOORRS season as part of a packed schedule that also includes dates on the Formula Drift and FIA World Rallycross calendars, as well as a full season of Global Rallycross in the Rockstar Energy Drink Volkswagen Beetle.
He will next appear in competition at the Formula Drift season opener, the Streets of Long Beach, April 10 and 11. There, Foust will make his return to drifting for the first time in five years behind the wheel of the new 2015 Rockstar Energy Drink Volkswagen Passat.
ABOUT TANNER FOUST
Tanner Foust is a versatile and multi-talented driver known for his supreme car control and a proven track record of podium placements, national championships and world records. He is a three-time U.S. rallycross champion (2012, 2011, 2010) who has also won four X Games gold medals (2013, 2010, 2007), and two Formula Drift championships (2008, 2007).
He has also held multiple world records including for the astonishing Hot Wheels Double Loop Dare, which saw Foust drive a car through a 66-foot loop-the-loop. He also scored the indoor speed record for TV’s Top Gear USA, and set a distance jump record with Hot Wheels when he made a 332′ ramp-to-ramp leap in a truck at the Indy 500.
A dominant driver in the sport of rallycross, Foust is the only American driver ever to win a round of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. He made his rallycross debut overseas in 2010 with a select campaign and finished both 2011 and 2012 ranked in the top three. At home, Foust has been a leading driver in the sport since it was first introduced to the United
States in 2010, and in 2014 won the New York round of the Global Rallycross Championship for the new Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross team.
His varied competition experience includes multiple years of open wheel racing, the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, rally racing, off-road truck competition, various types of sports car racing and the SCORE Baja. He has represented the USA in the annual Race of Champions three times, teaming with NASCAR star Carl Edwards in 2008, Travis Pastrana in 2009, and Mick Doohan in 2010.
When he isn’t racing, the professional driver also performs in films and on television. He is an on-air host for the U.S. version of the seminal BBC auto show Top Gear, produced by BBC Worldwide Productions and airing on the HISTORY channel. Episodes of his online documentary series, Life in the Foust Lane, are available on the Rockstar Energy Drink YouTube channel.
Foust also handles stunt driving in numerous popular films, TV shows and commercials. He is featured as a stunt driver in the Need 4 Speed film, as well as other major releases including the Bourne Legacy, Bourne Ultimatum, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, Dukes of Hazzard, Red Dawn and Iron Man 2 movies.
ABOUT THE LUCAS OIL OFF ROAD RACING SERIES
The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series is the evolution of the long-standing support of short course racing by Forrest Lucas and Lucas Oil Products. Steeped in the Midwest tradition of short course off-road racing infused with a West Coast influence, Lucas Oil Off Road Racing brings intense four wheel door-to-door action to challenging, fan-friendly tracks.
ABOUT ROCKSTAR
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