Chad Hord
| Chad Hord | |
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Hord holding his 2011 AMSOIL Cup
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| Nationality | American |
| Born |
August 21, 1976 Felch, Michigan |
| Traxxas TORC Series Pro 2WD career | |
| Debut season | 2010 |
| Current team | Hord Off-Road Racing |
| Fastest laps | 4 Oakley Bomb Awards |
| Championship titles | |
| CORR Super Buggy (2000) CORR Pro Lite (2006) WSORR Pro Light (2007) |
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| Awards | |
| 2011 | AMSOIL 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).
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.
Hord was born in Iron Mountain, Michigan to Ron and Marsha Hord and was raised in nearby Felch with two brothers and one sister. He played on the football and track and field teams at North Dickenson County School. After graduating from North Dickinson County School in 1994, he attended the Bay de Noc Community College. He received a degree in Machine Tool, CAD, and became a certified welder.
As a child, Hord attended off-road races at nearby Bark River International Off-Road Raceway and he played on dirt bikes / snowmobiles / and All-terrain vehicles. His parents bought him a SODA Super Buggy in 1995 and he continued to gain experience in the class as a hobby for the rest of the 1990s. To support his racing hobby, he worked at a machine tool shop, in the logging industry, and as a heavy equipment operator.
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