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Caterpillar-powered ZIL racing truck run by Blackwall-based independent used truck dealer Chris Hodge is seen here loading on a trans-Atlantic ferry in preparation for the first US tour of a European Super Truck racer Making sure it's shown to its best advantage will be team manager Henry Gracia and race truck pilot Han-i Luostarinen who are also going along for the ride along with the ZIL's road-going Pegaso Troner transporter.
'lodge's Truck Racing Developments team has been putting up some stiff opposition to the likes of MAN and Mercedes throughout the recent Super truck race season—even CM's editor was recently seen cheering them on at the Nurburgring in a blaze of patriotic fervour—although of course he denies ever having been 1,000 miles near the place. It's not the sort of thing he'd go to, oh dear me no...
Meanwhile across the pond the bonneted C12-engined go-faster artic will be shown off to Cat suppliers and employees in a three week trip which will take in the engine maker's main Peoria assembly plant. It will also join up with Cat's NASCAR stock car racing team in Charlotte, North Carolina, though probably not for a head to head—which is more the pity Now that would be a race worth watching..