2015 Speed Energy Formula Off-Road season

2015 Speed Energy Formula Off-Road season
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Sheldon Creed, the series champion.

The 2015 Speed Energy Formula Off-Road presented By Traxxas season was the third season of the Speed Energy Formula Off-Road series, and second with the name. Sheldon Creed won the championship.

Drivers

No.	Driver(s)	Round(s)
2	Matt Mingay	1–3
	Rusty Wallace	10
3	Charles Dorrance	All
5	E. J. Viso	All
7	Robby Gordon	All
17	Lalo Laguna	4-5
	Dale Dondel	6
18	Apdaly Lopez	6, 10
25	Arie Luyendyk, Jr.	All
27	Matthew Brabham	11–12, 17–18
33	C. J. Greaves	10
47	Keegan Kincaid	All
48	Scotty Steele	4-6
50	Burt Jenner	4–6[1]
54	Boris Said	10
55	Gavin Harlien	6
56	Nathan Pretty	1–3, 10, 15–16, 17
57	Bill Hynes	All
74	Sheldon Creed	1-6, 10
	P. J. Jones	7–9
75	Erik Davis	6
77	Jerrett Brooks	10
87	Toby Price	1, 3
	Billy Geddes	2
88	Jeremy Stenberg	10
99	Kyle LeDuc	6
199	Travis Pastrana	10
454	Brad Gallard	1–3

Schedule

Round	Circuit	Location	Date	Pole position	Winning driver	Supporting	Ref
1	Adelaide Street Circuit	Adelaide, Australia	February 27	Nathan Pretty	E. J. Viso	Clipsal 500	[2]
2			February 28	Charles Dorrance	Sheldon Creed		[3]
3			March 1	Charles Dorrance	Keegan Kincaid		[4]
4	Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida	March 28	Erik Davis	Sheldon Creed	Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg	[5]
5			March 29	Scotty Steele	Burt Jenner		[6]
6	Streets of Long Beach	Long Beach, California	April 19	Bill Hynes	E. J. Viso	Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach	[7]
7	The Raceway on Belle Isle	Detroit, Michigan	May 29	Scotty Steele	Robby Gordon	Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix	[8]
8			May 30	Arie Luyendyk, Jr.	E. J. Viso		[9]
9			May 31	Bill Hynes	Burt Jenner		[10]
10	Circuit of the Americas	Austin, Texas	June 7	Sheldon Creed	Sheldon Creed	X Games Austin 2015	[11]
11	Streets of Toronto	Toronto, Ontario	June 13	E. J. Viso	Scotty Steele	Honda Indy Toronto	[12]
12			June 14	Russell Boyle	Keegan Kincaid		[13]
	Goodwood House	Westhampnett, West Sussex	June 28	N/A		Goodwood Festival of Speed
13	OC Fair & Event Center	Costa Mesa, California	September 18	Charles Dorrance	P. J. Jones	Sand Sports Super Show	[14]
14			September 19	Sheldon Creed	Sheldon Creed		[15]
15			September 20	Augie Lerch	Sheldon Creed		[16]
16	Surfers Paradise Street Circuit	Surfers Paradise, Australia	October 23	Bill Hynes	Burt Jenner	Gold Coast 600	[17]
17			October 24	Scotty Steele	Sheldon Creed		[18]
18			October 25	Bill Hynes	Sheldon Creed		[19]
19			October 25	Bill Hynes	Matt Mingay		[20]
20	Valvoline Raceway	Granville, Australia	October 31	Bill Hynes	Sheldon Creed	Ultimate Sprintcar Championship	[21]
21	MGM Grand Event Center	Las Vegas, Nevada	November 5	Bill Hynes	Robby Gordon	Standalone	[22]
22				Sheldon Creed	Sheldon Creed		[23]
	Homebush Street Circuit	Sydney, Australia	December 4			Sydney 500
			December 5
			December 6

Race summaries

Rounds 1–3: Adelaide

The season-opening tripleheader was held in conjunction with the V8 Supercars Championship's Adelaide 500,^[24] one of seven support events for the race.^[25] Of the ten drivers, six were series veterans: Robby Gordon, E. J. Viso, Keegan Kincaid, Charles Dorrance, Bill Hynes, and Sheldon Creed; also comprising the field are Australian racers: off-road motorcycle racer Toby Price, off-road racer Brad Gallard, former V8 Supercars driver Nathan Pretty, and stunt rider Matt Mingay.^[26]

Before the start of the first race, Dorrance flipped in turn 9, and the effort to flip the truck back shortened the race from eight to five laps.^[27] Viso, starting from sixth, moved up the field and took the lead after Pretty's^[28] suspension failed. Gordon finished second, followed by Mingay.^[27]

In race three, backfield starters Creed, Gordon and Viso moved to the front quickly, and battled with Mingay for the lead, but Mingay and Viso made contact and spun in turn 6. Creed and Gordon duelled for second while Kincaid led for the remainder of the race. On the final lap, Gordon passed Creed in the final turn as Creed lost control of his truck; after jumping the second ramp, Creed flipped, hit the wall upon crossing the finish, and landed back on all four tires.^[29]

Round 10: X Games Austin

The series returned to the X Games at Circuit of the Americas for 2015. For the event, various drivers made their series debuts, three of whom being NASCAR drivers: 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion Rusty Wallace,^[30] road course ringer Boris Said^[31] and former Nationwide Series driver and eleven-time X Games medalist Travis Pastrana.^[32] Additionally, Moto X biker Jeremy Stenberg competed in the event.^[33] Of the 16 drivers invited, five are teenagers, with four being younger than 17: C. J. Greaves (19), Sheldon Creed (17), Jerett Brooks and Scotty Steele (16), Gavin Harlien (15).^[32]

Rounds 11–12: Toronto

Indy Lights and FIA Formula E Championship driver Matthew Brabham joined the series shortly before the Friday practice.^[34] The weather for Saturday was dry, though Sunday was marred by wet conditions.^[35]

Round 20: Valvoline Raceway

The series remained in Australia for Round 20; despite initial plans to race at the Sydney Showground Stadium,^[36] the Trucks moved the race to the Valvoline Raceway in Granville as a support race for the Ultimate Sprintcar Championship due to clashing schedules.^[37]

Rounds 21–22: Las Vegas

NASCAR Whelen Euro Series driver Anthony Gandon made his series debut, while Greg Adler made his first start since the X Games round in 2014.^[38]

Creed won the championship.^[38]

Sydney

The Trucks returned to Australia for an exhibition series at the Sydney 500.^[38]

Final standings

Rank Driver ADE STP LBH DET X Games TOR OCF SRF SYD MGM Points H1 H2 H3 H4 LCQ F H1 H2 F1 H1 H2 F2 H F3 1 Sheldon Creed 5 1* 3 1 4 2 1 1* 2 2 1 8 3 1* 1 1* 9 1* 1 5 1* 10 1* 617 2 Robby Gordon 2 2 2 3 3 3 1 6 7 1 2 3 3 5 2 2 3 3 2 4 2 3 8 8 1* 2 584 3 Keegan Kincaid 4 9 1* 2 2 5 4 5 3 2 8 4 1* 6 4 DNS 3 10 6 9 482 4 Burt Jenner 5 1* 3* 3 1* 1 6 1 9 1 2 4 3 1* 6 9 4 11 2 10 399 5 Scotty Steele 10 9 4 6 2* 2 3 7 DNQ 1* 8 2 6 1 9 9 DNQ 11 3 2* 6 7 3 3 385 6 E. J. Viso 1* 4 10 4* 5 1* 2* 1 5 1 7 8 9 344 7 Bill Hynes 8 8 9 6 10 9 8 10 10 3 3 DNQ 7 6 4 5 4 5 8 4 10 11 8 7 3 8 7 310 8 Charles Dorrance 10 7 7 7 7 8 9 9 4 DNS DNQ 5 5 3 7 4 7 7 8 7 6 243 9 Matt Mingay 3 3 4 5 7 4 1 9 9 5 192 10 Matthew Brabham 6 4 2 8 10 10 2 115 11 Paul Morris 3 5 5 2* 5 113 12 Greg Gartner 7 9 6 11 4 76 13 Arie Luyendyk, Jr. 10 8 8 2 3 72 14 Augie Lerch 4 3 3 6 5 6 71 15 Brett Thomas 8 10 7 9 65 16 Aaron Bambach 5 7 6 45 17 Nathan Pretty 9 5 6 43 18 Brad Gallard 7 10 5 41 19 Anthony Gandon 4 4 39 20 Erik Davis 9 8 11 35 21 C. J. Greaves 3 1 4 34 21 Aaron Kaufman 5 10 5 8 34 23 Kyle LeDuc 10 2 9 33 24 Greg Adler 5 8 32 25 Lalo Laguna 8 6 28 25 Toby Price 6 8 28 27 Jerrett Brooks 2 5 27 28 Russell Boyle 9 7 26 29 Gavin Harlien 5 DNS DNQ 20 30 Travis Pastrana 5 2 10 18 31 Billy Geddes 6 15 32 Dale Dondel 7 14 33 Rusty Wallace 3 6 DNQ 8 34 Apdaly Lopez 4 8 DNQ 7 34 Boris Said 4 4 DNQ 7 34 Jeremy Stenberg 4 5 DNQ 7 37 P. J. Jones 7^† 4^† 4^† 2 1* 2 4^1 2^1 5^1 0 38 Mike Whiddett 3^1 4^1 5^1 10^1 6^1 7^1 0 Danny Reidy 6 0 ^† P. J. Jones replaced Sheldon Creed at Detroit, and all points scored by Jones went to Creed. ^1 P. J. Jones and Mike Whiddett replaced Keegan Kincaid and E. J. Viso at the Sand Sports Super Show, respectively, and all points scored by Jones and Whiddett went to Kincaid and Viso.

Color Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green 4th & 5th place (Top 5) Light Blue 6th–10th place (Top 10) Dark Blue Finished (Outside Top 10) Purple Did not finish (DNF) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Brown Withdrew (WD) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race abandoned (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Driver replacement (Rpl) Injured (Inj) Race not held (NH) Not competing In-Line Notation Bold Pole position Italics Ran fastest race lap * Led most race laps miscellaneous notation

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