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October 31, 2005BFGoodrich® Tires Crawls to Gravity-Defying Limit Las Vegas, NV The BFGoodrich® Tires Krawler™T/A®KX, the most dominant rock-crawling tire ever made, reached new limits at the year's United Rockcrawling and Off-Road Challenge (UROC) SuperCrawl IV at the Las Vegas Convention Center. This year's competition featured a massive rock wall and terrain that demanded a high degree of technical expertise. Staying true to the BFGoodrich off-road heritage, Tracy Jordan and Brad Lovell took home the championship wins this weekend, reinforcing BFGoodrich Tire's dominance in one of the world's most extreme sports. BFGoodrich Krawler T/AKX tires' dominated the entire field in the Super-Modified class by earning all six positions going into the final round of the world rockcrawling championships. After a close battle, Tracy Jordan gained the number one slot by earning a perfect score, knocking fellow BFGoodrich team driver Jason Scherer to second place. In the Modified class, BFGoodrich team driver Brad Lovell rolled over the competition and maneuvered extreme obstacles to help secure another BFGoodrich overall win. 
"We are proud to be a part of this up-and-coming form of off-road competition," said Owen Schiano, brand director for BFGoodrich Tires. "This weekend's victories have reinforced BFGoodrich's solid reputation of excellence with rock-crawling competitors, making it possible to overcome the extreme obstacles of this extreme sport."
Two of rockcrawling's dominant forces, RCAA and UROC, have united to sanction both national and regional series, culminating in the year-end World Championship SuperCrawl. The BFGoodrich Krawler T/AKX has been the tire to beat in this "mecca" of rock crawling from the day it first competed. Since its introduction in 2002 the Krawler T/AKX has won more rockcrawling events than all other tire manufacturers combined. In fact, the Krawler T/AKX tire's 51 wins in 2004 is more than the total number of combined wins from other tire manufacturers during the last three years. BFGoodrich Tires combines technological expertise with vast motorsports experience, delivering a high-performance tire for every type of vehicle from ultra-high performance tuner vehicles, sports cars and SUVs to the hottest sport trucks, pickups and rock-crawling rigs in the world. For more than 30 years, BFGoodrich Tires has used motorsports as a proving ground. Success on the street begins with winning on the track and BFGoodrich Tires is involved in every type of racing, including oval, sports car, drag, desert and extreme rock-crawling. With 19 consecutive Baja 1000 wins, the most wins in rock-crawling history, and an unmatched record on pavement, BFGoodrich Tires has proven the only records it breaks are its own. Visit BFGoodrich Tires online at www.bfgoodrichtires.com. |
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