RJ Anderson won’t be a Championship Off-Street common as he pursues an Excessive E championship and races in SCORE Worldwide, however he rapidly made an affect in his first COR race of 2023, a lot to C.J. Greavesā chagrin.
Anderson ran as excessive as second for a lot of the Friday Professional 4 race earlier than contact with Cole Mamer resulted in harm that eradicated him from competition, whereas Greaves chased down Andrew Carlson to attain his third win within the class for 2023. The next day, Greavesā race ended with a flip after hitting Anderson and flipping onto the Ok-rail.
Even with Greaves out of competition, Anderson needed to drive away from a wave of chaos as Jimmy Henderson stalled and spun on the 180 hairpin, inflicting a stack-up that collected Carlson, Mamer, and Johnny Greaves. Nonetheless, Henderson was in a position to slip away and rejoin the race, ultimately holding off Kyle Chaney for the runner-up spot by simply .001 of a second. Henderson ultimately apologised for the accident.
C.J. Greaves talked with Anderson concerning the incident after the race earlier than parting methods. On social media, he expressed amusement at an Instagram meme depicting him and Anderson as Brian and Dom within the ending to The Quick and the Livid.
āHad some adversity yesterday, however my staff, I like these guys. We donāt do that all season, however we come out right here and make it rely,ā stated Anderson. His part-time schedule has included ERX since CORās inaugural season in 2020. āIām actually happy with my entire staff for placing the trouble in. Had a brilliant enjoyable race.
āIām simply stoked. Iām going to have a good time this one for certain tonight.ā
Johnny Greaves missed out on the rostrum within the Friday Professional 4 race, ending fourth in his first begin of 2023 after lacking the primary two rounds as a result of harm.
Whereas his Professional 4 weekend didn’t finish as he hoped, the youthful Greaves nonetheless had a profitable weekend by sweeping Professional Inventory SxS, enabling hm to retake the factors lead from Jeb Bootle who completed second in each races. Then again, Carlson went from dropping the win to Greaves in Professional 4 however salvaging a Professional Turbo SxS win on Saturday to flipping in each Professional Inventory and Turbo.
John Holtger and Cory Winner scored their first wins of the season in Professional 2