2017
TORC Series
Round #3
Twin Cities Takedown
Elk River, MN
June 10, 2017 |
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CJ Greaves Claims Third Straight
TORC Pro Stock Win
::Continued::
In Pro Stock, Greaves took the lead from Zach
Martin on lap three and set sail from there, holding
off the Polaris of Ronnie Anderson and dominating
the race.
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TORC Pro
Stock SxS / UTV Podium (left to right)
Dillon Pointon (2nd), CJ Greaves (1st),
Jake Lunderby (3rd)
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Behind him, though, the battle was on. Dillon
Pointon, who started ninth, was up to fourth by
the mid-race competition caution. Three laps later,
Pointon was up to third, and then second on lap
11 when Anderson fell out with a mechanical issue.
Pointon finished second, ahead of Jake Lunderby,
Kenny Masch and Martin. All of the top-five finishers
were driving Yamahas.
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The Pro Stock
UTV Start with Zach Martin & Jake
Lunderby starting on the front row
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“We have a good car,” said Greaves. “Ronnie Anderson
ran me hard. I don’t know what they have figured
out on that Polaris, but they seem to be the only
ones that can hang so my hat is off to them. We
just tried to stay consistent, run our own lines
and not worry about the race behind us.”
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Yamaha's
CJ Greaves charged his way into the lead
with Walker Evans Racing's Ronnie Anderson
challenging him early on in the race
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Greaves is now unbeaten in TORC UTV Pro Stock
competition this season. Though he’s made it look
easy in the first three races and holds a commanding
lead in the points chase, he knows the level of
competition here is stiff.
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Monster Energy's
CJ Greaves celebrating his 3rd straight
TORC Pro UTV Win
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“We’re not taking this for granted,” said Greaves.
“We know the guys behind us are no slouches. So
we’ll just keep running hard and hopefully we
can keep coming out on top.”
Pointon had to work hard for his runner-up finish.
After finishing third in the last round, he drove
his way through the pack and then held off Lunderby
to score the runner-up finish, his best thus far
in the 2017 season.
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OnPoint Racing's
Dillon Pointon scored a season best 2nd
place finish, which is also his second
straight Pro Stock UTV podium finish
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“The car was just on rails,” said Pointon. “I
just had to wait for the restart to go in for
the kill. We pulled it off. This track is a blast,
and it was so much fun. Coming up over the hill
into the right hander, you had a lot of guys coming
in fast without a lot of traction.”
Lunderby got lost in the pack late in the race,
but laid it all on the line on the final lap.
A banzai three-wide pass on the final lap handed
him the final spot on the podium, his first in
TORC UTV competition.
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Yamalube's
Jake Lunderby was able to hold off Ken
Masch to secure the final spot on the
TORC Pro Stock UTV Podium
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“My motor was getting hot and that was holding
me back,” said Lunderby. “Checkers are wreckers,
so I went for it. I had some fun battles and made
it up to third.”
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Ken Masch
was involved in an early pileup, which
bent his tie-rod, but he drove thru it
to secure an impressive 4th place finish,
which keeps him in the points battle
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The TORC Series next heads the venerable Crandon
International Off Road Raceway in Wisconsin. The
Big House Brawl is scheduled for June 24-25.
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