Chad Hord

Chad Hord
Hord holding his 2011 AMSOIL Cup
NationalityAmerican
Born (1976-08-21) August 21, 1976 (age 48)
Felch, Michigan
Traxxas TORC Series Pro 2WD career
Debut season2010
Current teamHord Off-Road Racing
Fastest laps4 Oakley Bomb Awards
Championship titles
CORR Super Buggy (2000)
CORR Pro Lite (2006)
WSORR Pro Light (2007)
Awards
2011AMSOIL Cup
Last updated on: November 26, 2012.

Chad Hord (born August 21, 1976) is a professional American off-road racing driver from Felch, Michigan. As of 2012, he races a PRO 2 short course truck in the Traxxas TORC Series (TORC).[1]

In 1995, he began racing in Short-course Off-road Drivers Association (SODA). The main sanctioning body for the Midwestern United States changed several times throughout his career; he raced in Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR), World Series of Off-Road Racing (WSORR) and Traxxas TORC Series (TORC). Hord won a championship in Super Buggy before turning professional and winning two championships in Pro Light.

In 2011, he became the third Pro 2 driver to win the AMSOIL Cup, the world championship race in short course off-road racing. He also won the Electric Production class at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb that year. As of the 2012 racing season, he had won three series championships, 31 races (25 in professional truck categories), four world championship races, and 125 top five races in 169 pro truck starts.[2]

  1. ^ "School's Out! Chad Hord entertains local school kids at his shop in Michigan's U.P." Traxxas TORC Series. Archived from the original on July 5, 2011. Retrieved November 24, 2012.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference TORC Drivers Biography was invoked but never defined (see the help page).