The SuperLite Championship launches a robust win purse for the 2012 Lucas Oil Regional Off Road Series Southern California Round 2 race at Glen Helen Raceway this Saturday. The $3,300 cash purse will divide up among the top three positions for the main event with $2,500 going to the winner, $500 to second, and $300 to third. The two-day SuperLite Arrive & Drive package, which delivers a full-service race experience to racers and cross over athletes alike, includes a full day of track testing on Friday followed by qualifying, heat and the main event racing Saturday.

After slinging mud around the test track with SuperLites last week, the small fleet of UTVs Kawasaki recently delivered have fit right into the operation, performing the grunt work in the assigned role of SuperLite Arrive & Drive pit utility vehicles. In preparation for next week's Lucas Oil Regional Off Road Series Southern California at Glen Helen Raceway and next month's Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Round season opener at Firebird Raceway in Phoenix, this Kawasaki Teryx 4 cleans up quite well.

The Lucas Oil Regional Off Road Series Southern California switches its upcoming March 10th race from its new Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park to Glen Helen Raceway. The June 9th race originally slated for Glen Helen Raceway will be moved to the highly touted Lake Elsinore track.

The SuperLite Championship is preparing for the first round of 2012 Lucas Oil Regional Off Road Series Southern California racing action at Glen Helen Raceway with available full day test session followed by a full day of short course off-road racing on February 17-18.

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.

The SuperLite Championship celebrates the unveiling of the 2012 Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series schedule, which debuts its purpose-built Reno test facility as a full-fledged short course off-road race track and features the marquee venue on the motorsport discipline's most heralded date, Labor Day weekend. The coveted stadium-like race course is carved from the dramatic terrain features of the towering Sierra Nevada foothills and will boast unrivaled spectator vantage points.

Digging down into the nuts and bolts of his BFGoodrich Tires-backed Lowe's Home Improvement SuperLite Truck during August's Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series (LOORRS) race at Glen Helen Raceway, Jessie Johnson looks to land back upon the podium during the Las Vegas Motor Speedway stop next month.

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.

There was a game show that racked up acclaim and stirred great anticipation for what was hidden behind one of its many doors. In much the same way, the driver's seat of the acclaimed SuperLite Championship Arrive & Drive truck tugs at the interest of thrill seekers and adrenaline junkies who anticipate hopping behind the wheel and laying deep into the throttle of a short course off-road race truck. One notable personality taking reigns behind the wheel of a SuperLite during the recent Glen Helen test session was Monster Energy athlete T.J. Lavin.

Ricky Johnson is a legend, plain and simple. The man has met U.S. presidents. He's an inductee of the Motorcycle Hall of Fame. And he's one of the most honored Motocross and Supercross athletes of all time. He made a name for himself in the 1980s as one of the great racers of all time and his record speaks for itself: 61 AMA national wins, seven of which were national championships.

A milestone in the emerging development of the virbrant spec truck racing class, SuperLite Championship will launch the SuperLite Off Road Racing School on July 14, featuring legendary racer Ricky Johnson as race instructor at its purpose-built short course off-road racing facility in Reno, Nevada.

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.

Standing second in the 2011 SuperLite Championship points chase and upholding the honor of the third generation FUNCO Motorsports legacy, Chad George charges down into the dirt of Glen Helen Raceway for Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Round 5 and 6 action with a formidable home track advantage and as the face man for the tracks tremendous versatility as a motorsports venue. You may get a glimpse of the SuperLite Arrive & Drive racer upon the front page of the Daily Bulletin sports section at the news stands or upon the online version of the publication.