UROC

Rockcrawling! Sounds like something a lizard does on a lazy August afternoon. Rockcrawling is actually the fastest growing motor sport in the world. It is four wheel drive vehicles of an extreme nature going over the most incredible obstacles imaginable. Sixty degree walls and greater, eight foot crevasses, and tremendous side hills are bringing thousands of spectators to enjoy a day with their family. It has everything a motor sports enthusiast would want, the sounds and smells, the pits, the competition and the carnage.

The professional side of the sport started in 1999 with the Rockcrawlers' Association of America formation of a point driven series. The first event drew nearly six thousand. Immediately, Goodyear jumped on board and has never left. Now, five years later, the two super giants in the marketing and promotional end of the rockcrawling world, RCAA and The United Rockcrawling and Off-Road Challenge (UROC), have become one. Immediately following, ERoCC, the leader on the east coast, joined the team. Between these, giant steps have been made in the sport. For 2004, the steps are being multiplied! The UROC series of 2004 featured six Pro National Events and eight Regional championship events around the country. At the end of it all, the events were televised on stations like The Speed Channel, ESPN and/or others.

This is where the big dogs run. The Pro Nationals bring the best of the best from around the country and beyond to compete for top dollars in purse and contingent support in a six event series. Points are given for placing in each event and accrued. Events are laid out with ten obstacles all located in close proximity to one another. This ensures that spectators and media will view every obstacle..

Since the merger of the 3 largest rockcrawling organizations, the new UROC is bigger and more committed than ever to continue the growth of this sport. XPLEX Extreme Competition Park has hopped aboard the UROC bandwagon and built the largest man made UROC obstacle in the world. As if that's not impressive enough, XPLEX also holds the title of East Coast National Track.

All the major off-road magazines are covering events as well, and July 8th and 9th brought ESPN2 to XPLEX to film the Pro National Series for television.

It holds true to say that with UROC, you're in for the motor sport ride of your life!

UROC ProNationals

Date: Aug 25, 2006 - Aug 26, 2006

 

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Nap City...Hang on; you're in for the motorsports ride of a lifetime. Toyo Presents, at the X-Plex Park and UROC Proving Grounds, the third leg of the UROC ProNationals! Think you have seen it all in motorsports. You aint seen nothing yet. Watch as the best of the pit man and machine against the nation's toughest courses. 80 degree Walls that are 14 feet tall, 65 degree walls 25 feet tall, twisty nasty stuff the likes of which has never been seen in East of Colorado. These are the sickest of the sick, and they are in town for a chance to steal purse, bragging rights, and a chance to compete in the 2006 World Championship Supercrawl in sunny Phoenix, Arizona in December.

 

Tickets are $15.00 for adults with children 10 and under free. Two for one coupons are available at area retailers.

 

Gates open at 5:00 Friday for round one eliminations and 11:00 Saturday with the semi finals and finals following round two eliminations on Saturday.

 

CAMPING: Available for $10.00 bucks per night on X-Plex grounds (no hookups)