Starting deep in the pack for the final Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series race of the 2010 season and trading paint with drivers who were waging all they had to earn the SuperLite Championship Series crown, but Kyle LeDuc managed to muscle his SoCal SuperTrucks / Rockwell Time truck through the mayhem, foisting his way toward the front. And shortly after the competition yellow unleashed the army of MazdaSpeed Rotary Renesis 13B machines, LeDuc launched into the lead and landed atop the podium.

Building into a powerful motorsports crescendo, the 2010 SuperLite Championship Series funneled down into the finale at the Firebird International Raceway for the season-ending Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series showdown. It was decision day in the dirt. And with an army of world class extreme sports competitors vying for the coveted SuperLite Championship No. 1 plate, a scant 50 points separating the top five, a battle ensued upon the motocross style off-road truck track, and from the mayhem of the competition mosh pit, Rockstar Metal Mulisha’s Jeremy “Twitch” Stenberg emerged to snatch the championship, beating out some of the best in the business.

That's the man behind the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series. What's Tony Vanillo up to? Well, we were wondering the very same thing. And we were shocked, honored and sincerely grateful to hear the latest addition to the LOORRS hardware stockpile and the thoughtfulness behind it. Tony commissioned a highly sophisticated podium to be built. Equipped with a wheel chair friendly ramp and hydraulic lifts for each of the three positions, LOORRS custom-built this one-of-a-kind podium with SoCal SuperTrucks SuperLite driver Ricky James in mind, who is no stranger to victory.

Perseverance. And you couldn't get away with saying Ricky James is all heart. Because amid a myriad of accolades, he boasts enormous talent in whatever he takes on. He's a natural. He's Ricky James. Back in 2005, while riding for the notorious Honda of Houston, James was 17 and at the top of his game, quickly becoming the next amateur motocross champion. But during the MX national at Lake Whitney, Texas, James suffered a crash that broke his back and left him paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. That didn't stop him. His career continues, heavily engaged in motorsports as well as endurance sports, mixing up NASCAR with his career strategy in the SuperLite Championship.

Ricky James jumped into the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series (LOORRS) Round 5 and Round 6 weekend by earning the top slot in Friday's practice at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada. Charging hard to rival the competition by over two seconds in qualifying time, James piloted his SoCal Super Trucks machine to fast lap in lap three, touting an average speed of 51.064 miles per hour and a time of 1 minute, 17 seconds upon the 1.1 mile off-road race course.

The stage was set this weekend for Ricky Jamesto make his off-season claims a reality by piloting his SoCal SuperTrucks SuperLite towards a winning sweep, but that was not to be at Rounds 1 and 2 of the Lucas Oil Off Road Race Series at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.