World Championship Off-Road Races
The "World Championship Off-Road Races" were first held in a 101-mile (163 km) race on a 25¼ mile course in 1970. The event takes place on Labor Day weekend. Numerous sanctioning bodies have sanctioned the event. It was sanctioned by SODA until CORR took over the sanction until 2007. WSORR sanctioned in 2008, and after it folded, the Traxxas TORC Series sanctioned the 2009 event. All of the classes compete for a class world championship.
There is a separate overall world championship race. The race pits 2 wheel-drive (2WD) Trophy Trucks against 4×4 trucks with the exception of the 2009 event. The 2WD trucks start ahead of the 4×4 trucks by a distance or time that has varied over the years. Scott Taylor was the first driver to pilot a 2WD truck to victory with victories in 2002 and 2008. In 2010, AMSOIL took over title sponsorship of the shootout race and Chad Hord was the second driver to win in a two-wheel-drive trophy truck. In some years, truck drivers from lower classes were allowed to compete along with the trophy trucks.
In some years of the 1970s, the prize money was split between all finishers or all division winners, on those years the driver with the fastest time is listed. Winners of the AMSOIL Cup World Championship:
- 2012 Ricky Johnson (4WD) {AMSOIL Cup)
- 2011 Chad Hord (2WD) (AMSOIL Cup)
- 2010 Scott Douglas (AMSOIL Cup)
- 2009 Kyle LeDuc (Borg-Warner Challenge)
- 2008 Scott Taylor (2WD) (Borg-Warner Challenge)
- 2007 Johnny Greaves (Borg-Warner Challenge)
- 2006 Scott Douglas (Borg-Warner Challenge)
- 2005 Jason Baldwin (Borg-Warner Challenge)
- 2004 Johnny Greaves (Borg-Warner Challenge)
- 2003 Carl Renezeder (Borg-Warner Challenge)
- 2002 Scott Taylor (2WD) (Borg-Warner Challenge)
- 2001 Rob MacCachren (Borg-Warner Challenge)
- 2000 Rob MacCachren (Borg-Warner Challenge)
- 1999 Rob MacCachren (Borg-Warner Challenge)
- 1998 Curt LeDuc (Borg-Warner Challenge)
- 1997 Scott Douglas (Borg-Warner Challenge)
- 1996 Jack Flannery (Borg-Warner Challenge)
- 1995 Steve Kelley (Borg-Warner Challenge)
- 1994 Scott Taylor (heavy metal: Class 2×4 & 4×4 production challenge)
- 1993 Geoff Dorr (heavy metal)
- 1992 Jack Flannery (heavy metal)
- 1991 Walker Evans (heavy metal)
- 1990 Walker Evans (heavy metal)
- 1989 Brad Mihalko (heavy metal)
- 1988 Jack Flannery (heavy metal)
- 1987 Jack Flannery (heavy metal)
- 1986 Jeff Probst (rear)
- 1985 Curt LeDuc (front engine) and Art Schmidt (rear engine)
- 1984 Mark Seidler (front engine) and Scott Taylor (rear engine)
- 1983 Geoff Dorr (front) and Kevin Probst (rear)
- 1982 John Heidtman (front) and Dave Vandermissen (rear)
- 1981 John Witt (front) and Scott Taylor (rear)
- 1980 Geoff Dorr (front) and Dale Woddard (rear)
- 1979 Larry Statezny
- 1978 Jack Flannery
- 1977 Jack Flannery
- 1976 Gary Slack
- 1975 Jeff Smith
- 1974 Jerry Blaszek
- 1973 Bob Warren
- 1972 Bob Warren
- 1971 Louis Flohr and Geoffrey Dorr
- 1970 Jim Zbella and Wally Schauer
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