In one of the fiercest battles to take to the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, the SuperLite Championship Round 15 race at Firebird International Raceway in Chandler, Arizona delivered epic racing action that not only served as decision day for the season points champion but also lifted two rising motorsports mavens atop the podium. Having rallied momentum that built from a third place at LOORRS Round 6 and second after Round 14, the young Austin Kimbrell out raced series veterans to land a huge season-ending first place finale to his rookie SuperLite career. Following by a scant thousandth second deficit, Kyle Lucas captured second behind the wheel of his Lucas Oil SuperLite machine. Season standout and points contender R.J. Anderson earned third.

Revving up for the final round of off-road racing in the 2011 SuperLite Championship series, a three-way standoff remains amid the season's top three performers. Chad George, poised to take the green flag with a 12-point advantage in next Saturday's Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series (LOORRS) Round 15 finale at Firebird International Raceway, aims to take home the coveted title, but among the projected 17-truck field of racers, he'll first have to beat fellow championship contenders Patrick Clark and R.J. Anderson.

After an eight-round stranglehold on the points chase that ignited with his Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Round 1 victory, R.J. Anderson, behind the wheel of the Walker Evans Racing / SoCal SuperTrucks machine, encountered back-to-back DNF's (Did Not Finish) beneath the lights at Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino, California, which delivered the lead to Pat Clark in the BFGoodrich Tires-back SuperLite and shook up the position of the three front runners to give Monster Energy athlete, Chad George, second in points behind the wheel of the Yokohama Tires-backed Kawasaki SuperLite truck.

TOOELE, UTAH — When the dust settled at the Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah, Sunday two new faces had ascended to the top step of the podium in the SuperLite Championship Series — Patrick Clark positioning himself for a run at the overall points championship and Wyatt Kirchner breaking out as one of the youngest racers to win a SuperLite showdown.

Wyatt Kirchner rose from a stacked 15-truck SuperLite Championship field to take Sunday's victory, for the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Round 8 race on the nine-tenths-mile Miller Motorsports Park race track in Tooele, Utah on June 26, 2011. Kirchner clutched his first career win, racing the Bull Outdoor Products truck for General Tire. Reigning season points leader, R.J. Anderson, behind the wheel of the Walker Evans Racing / SoCal SuperTrucks machine, secured second upon the podium, while Dawson Kirchner, racing the Torchmate CNC Machine truck, captured third.

Patrick Clark shot into the front of the 15-truck SuperLite Championship pack to take Saturday's win for the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Round 7 race upon the new nine-tenths-mile Miller Motorsports Park race track in Tooele, Utah on June 25, 2011. Shoveling roost and never letting loose of his dominant position via his BFGoodrich tires, Clark clocked the race's fastest lap during his lap 12 perforfmance with a time of 47.927 seconds and a speed of 67.603 miles per hour. R.J. Anderson secured second for Walker Evans Racing / SoCal SuperTrucks. Piloting the Kawasaki Teryx, Monster Energy Drink athlete, Chad George, charged into third atop the podium.

As is pre-race custom for the SuperLite Championship crew, SuperLite's Friday morning media session at Miller Motorsports Park for Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Round 7 and 8 lit up the television air waves, landing the stadium-style race truck square into households that span the greater Salt Lake City region. SuperLite driver and Maverik Adventure Card face man, Ron "The Mav" Duncombe, delivered the lowdown on the SuperLite Arrive & Drive program, mixing it up with Fox 13 TV news man, Big Budah, for an informative live TV segment that had quite the flare for humor.

Reno, Nev. — RJ Anderson’s stranglehold on first place in the SuperLite Championship Series will be tested over two demanding races June 25 and 26, as the Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series rolls into the Miller Motorsports Park outside of Salt Lake City, Utah to unleash its ferocious brand of high-flying truck racing into a stadium of adrenaline-thirsty motorsports fanatics.

R.J. Anderson took it to the field to come up first in SuperLite Championship racing for the second time this season in Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Round 5 main event upon the eighth mile Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino, California on May 21, 2011. Racing the Walker Evans Racing / SoCal SuperTrucks machine and on top of the season points chase, Anderson earned fast lap with an elapsed time of 50.208 seconds and best speed of 57.361 miles per hour in lap five. Patrick Clark secured second. Jessie Johnson snatched third.

Seemingly invincible and evading the force of adrenaline and experience fueling the field of SuperLites, the Walker Evans Racing / SoCal SuperTrucks machine of R.J. Anderson expands its 2011 SuperLite Championship points lead after its Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Round 5 and 6 truck performance at Glen Helen Raceway. Anderson, since winning round one at Firebird Raceway, has proven relentless, never letting loose after six rounds of truck racing and extending his lead to 24 points.

San Bernardino, Calif. —

Dawson Kirchner captured his first win of the 2011 SuperLite Championship Series in dominant fashion, and SuperLite points leader RJ Anderson tightened his grip on the points lead in rounds 5 and 6 of the SuperLite Championship Series at San Bernardino’s Glen Helen Raceway May 21 and 22.

Dawson Kirchner stepped up his game to win the SuperLite Championship main event on Sunday for the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Round 6 race upon the eighth-mile Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino, California on May 22, 2011. Racing the Torchmate CNC Cutting Machines truck, the General Tire-backed racer logged the first win of the season.Jessie Johnson, aboard the Lowes Home Improvement truck, stood upon the SuperLite podium for the first time in second place. Austin Kimbrell earned third, also the first time upon the SuperLite podium. R.J. Anderson, winner of yesterday's round five race, earned fast lap with a speed of 57.492 miles per hour and an elapsed time of 50.094 seconds in lap four.

Chad George rallied up the momentum to take first in SuperLite Championship qualifying for Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Round 6 racing upon the eighth-mile Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino, California on May 22, 2011. Behind the wheel of the Kawasaki Teryx SuperLite Arrive & Drive truck, the Monster Energy Drink racer took the fast lap during his lap four effort with a speed of 57.615 miles per hour and an elapsed time of 49.987 seconds. R.J. Anderson snatched second and Jacob Person earned third.

R.J. Anderson took it to the field to come up first in SuperLite Championship racing for the second time this season in Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Round 5 main event upon the eighth mile Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino, California on May 21, 2011. Racing the Walker Evans Racing / SoCal SuperTrucks machine and on top of the season points chase, Anderson earned fast lap with an elapsed time of 50.208 seconds and best speed of 57.361 miles per hour in lap five. Patrick Clark secured second. Jessie Johnson snatched third.

Dawson Kirchner cracks the whip on the Torchmate CNC Cutting Machines truck to qualify his truck first for the SuperLite Championship running in the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Round 5 main event at the eighth mile Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino, California on May 20, 2011. Dawson earned the fast lap of the qualifying session during his lap five effort, carving the muddy short course off road racing track with in an elapsed time of 51.393 seconds and speed of 56.039 miles per hour.

RENO, NV— A showdown looms this weekend on the dirt track of Glen Helen Raceway May 21 and 22 in what could be a decisive weekend in the hotly contested 16-race SuperLite Series Championship. Red-hot racer Jacob Person will battle two formidable hometown favorites — overall points leader RJ Anderson and veteran podium-placer Chad George — before a notoriously vocal, and packed, San Bernardino stadium.

RJ Anderson launched into the season by taking reigns of victory during SuperLite Championship Round 1 and procuring the initial points lead to the coveted 2011 SuperLite Championship . He's maintained the course and has never let up through four rounds of racing. Piloting the Walker Evans Racing / SoCal SuperTrucks machine, Anderson waltzes from Lucas Oil Off Road Racing (LOORRS) Round 4 at Speedworld Off Road Park after increasing the gap over second place Monster Energy's Chad George in the Kawasaki Teryx truck by another three points. With that, Anderson drops a 15-point gap on the field of adrenaline junkies, as the horsepower of the pack ascends upon Glen Helen Raceway for LOORRS Round 5 and 6 action later this month on May 21 and 22.

Jacob Person pilots the Geiser Bros. Design & Development machine to a victory SuperLite Championship during Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Round 4 racing at the 1.1-mile Speed World Off Road Park in Surprise, Arizona on April 17, 2011. Person, in his second-consecutive win, secured fast lap of the race in lap 13 with a speed of 65.839 miles per hour and a time of 1 minute and 0.147 seconds. R.J. Anderson, in his Walker Evans Racing / SoCal SuperTrucks machine, secured second. Chad George piloted the Monster Energy / Kawasaki SuperLite race truck to third.

Jacob Person pilots the Geiser Bros. Design & Development machine to a SuperLite Championship victory during Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Round 3 racing at the 1.1-mile Speed World Off Road Park in Surprise, Arizona on April 16, 2011. Person secured fast lap of the race in lap 10 with a speed of 65.829 miles per hour and a time of 1 minute. C.J. Greaves grabs second in his Torchmate truck clad with Maxxis tires. R.J. Anderson, in his Walker Evans Racing / SoCal SuperTrucks machine, earned third.

Jeff "Ox" Kargola pilots the General Tire machine to a SuperLite Championship victory during Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Round 2 action at the 1.1-mile Firebird Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona on March 20, 2011. C.J. Greaves earned second in his Torchmate race truck, while R.J. Anderson, in his SoCal SuperTrucks / Walker Evans Racing truck, earned second and completed the fast lap of the race with a speed of 84.329 miles per hour in lap 13 with an elapsed time of 46.959 seconds.