CORR Off Road

Greaves' Saturday actually began with Pro 2, where the grid inversion moved him up to the outside of the front row. But Greaves, who was using his No. 4 Monster Energy/Forest County Potawatomi Toyota Tundra for just its second race meeting, didn't quite have enough for the more experienced Pro 2 outfits and came home fifth. "It went fine," Greaves said of the race. "I was still having steering problems; we've got to sort that out. But I was satisfied with a top five." But that wasn't the last folks would hear of Greaves this day.

Pro Lite veteran Jeff Kincaid, meanwhile, wound up making quick work of the field in his Saturday race. The inversion put him back to seventh on the start, but the driver of the No. 4 Traxxas/Forest County Potawatomi Toyota Tacoma blitzed his way up to third by the start of lap 2. By the end of lap 2, he was in second, chasing down Mazda driver Chad Hord. But come lap 5, Hord ran into mechanical woes, giving Kincaid clear sailing to the top of the podium.

"After rolling the truck in the whoops in qualifying at Pomona and having to bring out the backup truck, it was good to come in here and qualify second and come out of the hole really good," Kincaid said. "I think the track kind of played to my strengths, since it's muddy and I'm kind of used to mud, so my experience paid off for me."

Greaves started his second race of the day - the Pro 4 race - in sixth, driving a Tundra wearing numbering and sponsors identical to that of his Pro 2 ride. To his inside was Rick Huseman in the No. 3 Fabtech Tundra, starting fifth. Huseman would pirouette in Turn 2 on lap 2, basically dropping to the tail of the field, while Greaves would get up to third spot on lap 4 after Ford man Carl Renezeder ran into trouble. Greaves kept a cool head while those in front of him were bouncing off the walls, and picked up the lead on lap 11, only to have a scorching-fast Huseman challenge him for it three circuits later. But following the restart from a red flag, Huseman was beset with a drivetrain issue, leaving Greaves to be first under the checkers while Huseman limped across the line in sixth. "I kind of just let things go the way they would," Greaves said. "In the first couple laps I saw a lot of guys pushing pretty hard and getting pretty aggressive in the beginning, and I knew the couple of people in front of me were going to be interesting, so I just let that play out until we could start taking those guys one at a time."

"We had a decent start and then spun and basically ended up in last place," Huseman said, "so we worked our way back up to actually pass first place, and then a CV joint gave out on us with three laps to go. It gave out on us and we lost front wheel drive and spun us out again, so I just cruised it home."

Sunday, meanwhile, was sweet redemption for Huseman as he passed Renezeder for the lead on lap 2 and never looked back, taking a commanding victory in Pro 4. Greaves improved over the previous day's Pro 2 performance by coming home fourth, but retired from Sunday's Pro 4 race on lap 2. Finally, Kincaid made it two Pro Lite podium finishes in one weekend as he fought his way up to third.

SATURDAY
CLASS FINISH POS NUMBER DRIVER

Pro 2 5 4 Johnny Greaves
Pro Lite 1 4 Jeff Kincaid
Pro 4 1 4 Johnny Greaves
Pro 4 6 3 Rick Huseman

SUNDAY
CLASS FINISH POS NUMBER DRIVER

Pro 2 4 4 Johnny Greaves
Pro Lite 3 4 Jeff Kincaid
Pro 4 1 3 Rick Huseman
Pro 4 14 4 Johnny Greaves