Saturday

PRIMM, Nev. — Las Vegans Rob MacCachren and Bryan Freeman both captured class victories to lead Las Vegas’ Menzies Motorsports six-driver team during round three of the 2008 Championship Off-Road Racing Series Saturday before a near-capacity crowd at Las Vegas Int’l Off-Road Raceway.
MacCachren won his third-straight race in the Pro Buggy division. In Pro Buggy, MacCachren qualified fourth on Friday and took the lead on lap four of 15 in Saturday’s race and led the 27-car field the rest of the way in the No. 921 BFG Tires Honda-powered AlumiCraft open-wheel desert race car. MacCachren had a victory margin of 2.702 seconds over second-place Greg George and an even larger 10.265 margin over third place Dale Dondel. It was his 65th-career class win in the CORR series.
Freeman, a third-generation desert racer from Las Vegas, qualified first in single buggy, but in the inverted start he was 10th at the green flag. He sped to the lead on lap two in the 14-lap race. He dominated the field for his third-straight win in 2008 in No. 307 Nevada Off-Road Buggy Fraley-VW. His impressive victory margin was 10.469 seconds over second-place Andy Anderson.
In the Pro 2 division, Lake Forest, Calif., driver Ricky Johnson took the victory in a Ford F-150.
In the Pro Lite division, Jeff Kincaid, of Argonne, Wis., was the winner in a Toyota Tundra.

Sunday

PRIMM, Nev. — The new team on the block is quickly becoming the team to beat in the 2008 Championship Off-Road Racing Series (CORR). Las Vegans Rob MacCachren and Bryan Freeman both captured class wins for the second-straight day to lead Las Vegas’s Menzies Motorsports six-driver team during round four of the 2008 CORR Series Sunday before nearly 6,000 spectators as the two-day event concluded at  Las Vegas Int’l Off-Road Raceway.
Racing was held Sunday at the 9,000-seat dirt raceway, which includes a one-mile purpose-built race course, located behind Terrible’s Buffalo Bills Resort and Casino.
Team-leader MacCachren earned his 66th-career CORR class race win and third this year in Pro 2 and finished second in the Pro Buggy division.
After qualifying fifth Sunday morning in Pro 2, an inverted start put him fifth at the green flag and after slipping back to 10th on lap two of the 18-lap race in the No. 21 Rockstar Ford F-150 he worked his way back up to fourth when a competition yellow flag came out after lap nine. Picking a high line to the first turn after the restart, MacCachren got by two vehicles and then passed Carl Renezeder’s No. 17 truck on turn three of lap 11 to earn a 1.36 second victory margin over Renezeder in the 21-truck field.
In Pro Buggy, MacCachren qualified second Sunday morning, started eighth in the invert and finished second out of 27 starters in the No. 921 BFG Tires Honda-powered AlumiCraft open wheel desert race car behind fast qualifier Greg George’s Funco-VW.
Freeman completed a sweep for the weekend in the Single Buggy race. He qualified first and overcame a 10th-starting spot in the inverted field. In his first full season of short-course racing, Freeman dominated the field for his fourth-straight win in 2008 in the No. 307 Nevada Off-Road Buggy Fraley-VW. His victory margin in the field of 33 starters was 1.981 seconds over second-place Sean Kennedy.