2013 Stadium Super Trucks season

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2013 Stadium Super Trucks season
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File:Stadium Super Trucks Robby Gordon third place interview Crandon 2013.jpg
Robby Gordon, the 2013 Stadium Super Trucks champion

The 2013 Stadium Super Trucks season was the inaugural season of Stadium Super Trucks competition. The series marked the revival of off-road racing in stadiums, originally created by Mickey Thompson, and reintroduced by former NASCAR driver Robby Gordon.[1] The series is one of four classes available, along with Bigfoot Monster Trucks, Super Trophy Karts and Super Buggys.[2]

The champion was awarded the Mickey Thompson Championship Trophy.[3] Gordon won the championship by seven points.[4]

Season summary

Robby Gordon organized an exhibition race at Crandon International Off-Road Raceway in September 2012 for the series to test their equipment.[5] Numerous TORC and LOORS off-road drivers were invited to participate.[5]

The opening race of the season, at University of Phoenix Stadium, initially was led by Justin Matney, until Lalo Laguna passed him on lap 2. However, after hitting the water barrier, Laguna lost the lead to Rob MacCachren, who dominated the rest of the race.[6] Next, the series traveled to Long Beach for the Grand Prix of Long Beach, with ramps added to the track.[7] Justin Lofton won the race.[8] Afterwards, SST remained in southern California at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, on the first ever asphalt track laid in the stadium.[9]

File:Stadium Super Truck 77 Jerrett Brooks takes checkered flag to win Crandon 2013.jpg
Jerrett Brooks winning at Crandon

At the Edward Jones Dome, MacCachren triumphed; the next race was scheduled to occur at Soldier Field,[10] but was eventually canceled.[11] The Honda Indy Toronto road course was a late addition to the series schedule as a doubleheader.[12] Justin Lofton and Sheldon Creed won the Saturday and Sunday races, respectively.[13] The next stop was Crandon, with MacCachren claiming his fourth win of the season in the first race on Friday night.[14] In the second race on Sunday afternoon, the trucks raced the track in the opposite direction for the second half of the 12-lap event.[14] Creed and Jerrett Brooks battled for the win, with the latter winning.[15] The next three rounds were held at Sand Sports Super Show, and in the first round, Lofton claimed the pole position with a lap time of 58.222, though the grid was inverted, giving Traxxas owner Mike Jenkins first to start the race. Robby Gordon dueled with Lofton, but Lofton eventually struck a water barrier, as Gordon won. Lofton subsequently suffered from mechanical issues, and finished fifth. In the next round, Gordon took the pole with a time of 58.372, though the field was again inverted, and Jenkins led to begin. However, Jenkins entered turn 2 too quickly, and rolled over, giving Apdaly Lopez the lead, though Lofton passed him. As in the previous race, Lofton and Gordon battled for the victory, but a miscue by Gordon allowed Lofton to get the win. Lofton and Gordon continued to dominate the track, and started first and second, respectively, in the third race. With the invert, Lopez led, and at the lap six restart, Gordon suffered damage to his truck, and rolled over. Gordon was able to make a late charge, but Creed eventually won.[16] The season finale was held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, held concurrently with the SEMA auto show.[17] In the race, P. J. Jones claimed his first win of the season, while Gordon won the championship by just seven points.[4]

Schedule and results

Source:[18]

No. Track Date Winner
1 University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale April 6 Rob MacCachren
2 Grand Prix of Long Beach, Long Beach April 21 Justin Lofton
3 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles April 27 Robby Gordon
4 Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego May 4 Rob MacCachren
5 May 18 Robby Gordon
6 Edward Jones Dome, St. Louis June 8 Rob MacCachren
7 Honda Indy Toronto, Toronto July 13 Justin Lofton
8 July 14 Sheldon Creed
9 Crandon International Off-Road Raceway, Crandon August 30 Rob MacCachren
10 September 1 Jerrett Brooks
11 Sand Sports Super Show, OC Fair & Event Center, Costa Mesa September 20 Robby Gordon
12 September 21 Justin Lofton
13 September 22 Sheldon Creed
14 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas November 7 P. J. Jones

Standings

Source:[19]

Pos. Driver PHO LB LA SD SD2 STL TOR TOR2 CRA CRA2 COS COS2 COS3 LV Pts
1 Robby Gordon 3 2 1 3 1 2 6 2 2 3 1 2 4 2 407
2 Rob MacCachren 1 3 2 1 3 1 2 4 1 4 6 400
3 Justin Lofton 11 1 9 9 9 6 1 5 7 9 5 1 2 295
4 P. J. Jones 5 5 3 5 8 6 5 6 9 10 9 5 3 1 289
5 Sheldon Creed 10 2 8 3 1 6 2 1 6 215
6 Mike Jenkins 9 6 7 11 13 8 7 7 6 7 208
7 Arie Luyendyk, Jr. 4 7 11 4 4 12 5 154
8 Ricky Johnson 5 13 2 5 123
9 Nick Baumgartner 6 10 4 12 11 3 120
10 Greg Adler 7 11 8 7 118
T-11 Jerrett Brooks 14 6 3 1 4 108
T-11 Lalo Laguna 8 12 6 6 10 5 108
13 Justin Matney 2 9 5 13 9 105
14 Craig Potts 5 8 6 9 11 8 85
15 Scotty Steele 8 6 6 9 12 8 69
16 Jeff Ward 10 8 12 8 69
17 Apdaly Lopez 4 3 3 10 51
18 Brock Heger 5 8 47
19 Greg Foster 8 8 6 41
20 Davey Hamilton 7 3 38
21 Rino Navera 4 7 32
22 Kyle DeLuc 10 23
23 Townsend Bell 4 18
24 Adrian Cenni 10 16
T-25 Paul Tracy 7 14
T-25 Austin Kimbrell 12 14
27 B. J. Baldwin 9 12
Color Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green 4th & 5th place
(Top 5)
Light Blue 6th–10th place
(Top 10)
Dark Blue Finished
(Outside Top 10)
Purple Did not finish
(DNF)
Red Did not qualify
(DNQ)
Brown Withdrew
(WD)
Black Disqualified
(DSQ)
White Did not start
(DNS)
Race
abandoned
(C)
Blank Did not
participate
(DNP)
Driver
replacement
(Rpl)
Injured
(Inj)
Race not held
(NH)
Not competing
In-Line Notation
Bold Pole position
Italics Ran fastest race lap
* Led most race laps
miscellaneous notation

References

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