WSORR Pro-4x4 and 2x2 | Crandon, WI

Monster Energy Potawatomi Toyota's Johnny Greaves Gives the Fans a Monster-Sized Win in Crandon – Dominates Pro 4 Class

Crandon, WI (June 21, 2008) – The WSORR was treated to some vintage Johnny Greaves here at Crandon International Raceway as Greaves made "Monster Mash" out of the competition in his Monster Energy Potawatomi Toyota Tundra, winning the Pro 4 race on Saturday by a "Wisconsin mile". Winning in front of his home-state fans and Forrest County Potawatomi following was a special boost to the Greaves team almost mid-way through the 2008 season. The Pro 2 race did not turn out as well but enabled the Greaves team to do some needed trial and error testing as he broke out a new automatic transmission for the Toyota powered Pro 2. Johnny ended up in 5th place in the 2-wheel drive class.

"I really hooked-up well here at Crandon today in both classes. BF Goodrich has given me some great tires for Crandon," stated Johnny. "While we are still putting the Pro 2 package together, the Pro 4 is really working well. I was really happy to get a big win for the local fans that I love here in Crandon. The Pro 2 is getting closer to what we want, it just takes some time to get a totally new and different package streamlined the way it has to be to be competitive in this league. I feel like we are getting really close."

The Pro 4 race began with Greaves on the back row but making his way to about 5th place by the famous first turn at Crandon with Kent Brasho leading the way on lap one. Greaves battled with Brasho for three laps while Douglas was close on Johnny's tail. It was shaping up to be a thriller when Greaves made the pass in the back turn and proceeded to "check-out" on the rest of the field. Douglas took most of the race to get around Brasho but Greaves had the big Tundra 4x4 half-way around Forrest County by that time and went on to another Pro 4 win at Crandon.

This was a good warm-up for the big "Potawatomi Chairman’s Cup Challenge race" to be held tomorrow here at the famed Crandon Raceway. Johnny Greaves has been very successful here over the years and won this race in 2006 and is the defending champion of the BorgWarner Cup.


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Greaves Wins a Wild 'Duel with Douglas' at Crandon in Sunday's WSORR Pro 4 Battle

Crandon, WI (Sunday June 22, 2008) - Johnny Greaves won his third race of the year in a wild shoot-out here at off-road racing's "Big House" in Crandon. The Pro 4 field was limited, but anytime you have two past champions and a solid journeyman like Kent Brasho, anything can happen. The action with Douglas gave the veteran fans in Wisconsin another Johnny G comeback show that left every one wearing the Monster Energy Potawatomi Toyota team shirts smiling. Greaves had to pass for the lead three times to put yet another Crandon race win in the books.

Starting on the back row, Greaves came out of the first turn in third behind Kent Brasho and Scott Douglas. Douglas took an early lead and Greaves followed Brasho for a lap before moving into second. Douglas had a nice lead but Greaves went to work and was able to reel him in with the TRD powerplant putting the power to the ground via the BF Goodrich and KMC wheel combination. Greaves made an aggressive but clean pass on Douglas in the gravel pit turn and built a small lead that he held for a few laps. The lead went away rather quickly though when Greaves slid-out in the back turn, allowing Douglas to retake the lead and put some distance on the Tundra. The first-timers in the crowd probably thought it was over, but the regulars know Johnny Greaves and the crowd screamed as Greaves reeled in Douglas once again, making another exciting pass on Douglas to re-take the lead. With just a few laps remaining, Greaves surprised everyone by sliding out again and allowing Douglas to take the lead late in the race. With only a lap remaining and the white flag flying, Douglas blew an engine and Greaves, who was close behind, made the pass and got the lead just in time for the checkered flag.

"That was a wild one!" Greaves laughed after the race. "I thought I gave it away a couple of times but we just kept racing and it worked out. Scott and I have had a lot of battles and this one was no different. We always race each other hard and it was a lot of fun here on the big track in front of my friends at the Potawatomi tribe. I am just happy we could get the Pro 4 sweep this weekend," Greaves continued.


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'Mud-Fest' Cost Greaves in Run for the 2008 Potawatomi Chairman’s Cup Race at Crandon But Fans Loved the Comeback

Crandon, WI (June 22, 2008) - Johnny Greaves drove his "java-colored" Monster Energy Potawatomi Toyota through "hell and high water" today to finish second in the Potawatomi Chairman's Cup Challenge race at Crandon Raceway in a rain-soaked and muddy affair. (The Tundra is really black and green, but the mud made it look like a Monster Java - coffee energy drink). The rains came down causing the perfectly groomed track to be slick and messy and causing havoc on the high performance racing machines. Greaves had the race in his grasp but a crash involving several trucks left Greaves getting hit hard and off the track momentarily in lap three, giving Kent Brasho the time he needed build an insurmountable lead on a very wet and downright muddy track.

Greaves started the race on the back row of the Pro 4's and had built up to a great position by lap three. The crowd new Greaves was in a winning position already and it appeared Greaves was set to win his third Chairman's Cup race. Greaves was close on the Pro 2 leaders in the turn just after the start/finish line, when a truck came flying onto the track from the infield hitting the truck right in front of Greaves' hard charging Tundra and causing a melee of banging and sliding trucks. Greaves was hit from all angles and found himself off the side of the track and positioned behind a track workers vehicle, blocking his entrance back onto the track. Once Greaves was in a position to enter back onto the track, the officials held him up until he finally entered in last place.

Never to be denied, Johnny launched one of his patented comebacks and started charging through the field of mud-covered trucks to finish second overall. "In the end I just ran out of time," stated Greaves. "I was really charging through the mud when the accident happened and I was really disappointed because I knew I was in a great position to win. It just wasn’t meant to be this time, but anything could have happened in these conditions."

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