CORR: A Great Series That Needs a Little Love

In the great wide world of racing, there are several great forms that sadly get overlooked.

USAC, Star Mazda, Formula BMW. All great series' with good action, but often shoved off to the side and treated like the weird uncle nobody likes to talk about. The problem is mostly that these are lower-tier championships that few care about if they're not trying to get into racing.

Among all those forgotten series, there exists one that is finally starting to get the recognition it deserves.

I am of course speaking of the pure awesomeness that is CORR: Championship Off-Road Racing.

This series was very much off my radar until this past season. I always felt off-road sports were meant for dirtbikes and other such stuff that belongs in the X Games.

Don't get me wrong, I actually enjoy the X Games and all associated sports, but I've always felt it just doesn't quite compare with what I prefer.

Then I saw CORR. And all I can say is: HOLY SH*T, this stuff is awesome.

NASCAR, F1, Indy Car, ALMS, Motorcross, MotoGP... All PUSSIES compared to the drivers in CORR.

If you want action-packed racing, CORR is the series for you. There's nothing wrong with it at all. The courses are always great, the passing is always great, the impacts are hard, the crashes are spectacular, and it all happens so fast that you can't look away.

The thing is, no one can be told exactly what CORR is.

You must see it for yourself.

And I'm not just trying to be cliché here, it's genuinely impossible to express how awesome CORR is in words. If I spent days making a 2,000-page entry on how great CORR is, I still wouldn't be able to give the full impact.

And so I'll stop my ranting here and simply encourage you to load up this link and view ANY of the highlight videos shown on the menu (I strongly recommend the 2008 Primm highlights).

CORR, in my opinion, has one flaw holding it back from being able to take on the giant that is NASCAR (or even Indy Car or ALMS): Each round is too short.

I would not want racing of this type to be LENGTHENED (for reasons that are obvious once you've seen it), but I still believe it will be the only thing that will hold it back. Thank God there are several races per day.

Let us spread that word of CORR! While this series may not be capable of dominating the country, we must not let it die out. Spread the word and bring in new fans for the 2009 season!

I just hope after having to cancel their final 2008 round that there WILL be a 2009 season...