BUCHANAN — Off-road truck racing returns to the legendary RedBud MX this weekend.

The TORC Off-Road Championship series will tackle the newly built RedBud track Saturday and Sunday.

The “Rumble at RedBud” will feature rounds nine and 10 of the off-road series beginning at 11:20 a.m. with the Light Buggy Division. The Sportsman UTV will follow at noon with the 1,600 Buggy at 12:40 p.m., the Super Stock Trucks at 1:20 p.m. and the Short Course Carts at 2 p.m.

Racing will continue with Super Buggy at 2:40 p.m., Pro Stock UTV at 3:35 p.m., Pro Modified UTV at 4:15 p.m., Pro 4 at 4:55 p.m., Pro Light at 5:35 p.m. and Pro 2 at 6:15 p.m.

Tickets are $40 for an adult weekend pass, $25 for an adult day pass and $40 for a camping pass. Kids 11 and under are free.

TORC last held races at RedBud in 2012 and 2013.

Multiple series champion Rick “RJ” Johnson, who is one of only five riders to win multiple motocross wins at RedBud.

He was a two-time RedBud National champion (1986-87).

After an injury forced him to switch from motocross and supercross to off-road trucks, Johnson won the 2010 Pro 2WD Trophy Truck championship in the Traxxas TORC Series. He won the 2012 4×4 world championship race at Crandon International Off-Road Raceway, as well as the AMSOIL Cup pitting the two- and four-wheel drive trucks as well as the 2014 Frozen Rush, the first short-course off-road race on snow.

Johnson was on hand Thursday for the TORC media day at RedBud and discussed the newly built track.

“It is great to see how RedBud has evolved as a facility, but kept its integrity as a race track,” Johnson said. “I did a test run and the finish line jump, we are probably jumping 90 feet. On the two step-up jumps, the first one we are jumping about 70 and the next one is closer to 100. They have done a great job with bringing this track in and I think it is going to have a lot of the same characteristics to the motocross track.

“It is not just going to be a big speedway slide from side-to-side,” Johnson said.

Johnson then took local media for a few laps around the newly designed course. He was asked prior to starting the drive what they could expect.

“So, everybody at one point when you get your driver’s license and there is a field, it does not matter if it is your mom’s LTD or a pickup truck or whatever, you go ‘I want to jump it,’ he said. “I have seen the ‘Dukes of Hazzard.” I have seen this stuff. I want to see who this stuff really works. So, you go out and try it and you realize how bad it beats you up.”

Johnson went on to explain all the technical aspects of the truck the reporters were about the climb into.

“It is going to feel a little bit rigid, but you want that for the stability side-to-side,” he said. “But when we jump, you are going to be surprised at how soft it is.”