Offroad
BJ Baldwin to be 2nd Driver in Robby Gordon’s Monster/Hummer Dakar Team
Fort Mill, SC – (December 28, 2009) – ‘Ballistic’ BJ Baldwin will be contributing to the USA Dakar Rally effort by joining legendary off-road racer Robby Gordon’s Team HUMMER for the 2010 edition of the world’s most grueling race. BJ Baldwin and navigator Kellon Walsh will be driving Gordon’s second vehicle, #351 Vanguard Hummer H3, […]
Team Hummer and Robby Gordon 2010 Dakar Rally Preview
Charlotte, December 28, 2009: Just days until the start of the highly anticipated 2010 Dakar Rally, Robby Gordon and Team HUMMER are preparing to head south to Argentina. The HUMMERS are flying like always, except they are soaring above the clouds at 40,000 feet. The No. 302 of Robby Gordon and No. 326 of Carlo […]
McMillin Racing & Wilson Motorsports each planning five entries in this week’s SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge Start draw
LOS ANGELES—McMillin and Wilson, two of the biggest names family names in the world of desert racing, have both made big plans for the new decade, starting with commitments to run high-profile, multi-vehicle teams in the 2010 SCORE Desert Series, the world’s foremost desert racing series. Both with second and third generation drivers, McMillin Racing […]
Put It In The Books: Rock Buggy Wins Desert Racing Series; Kevin Yoder Is 2009 VORRA Sportsman Champion
GRASS VALLEY, CA After a very challenging seven races, Kevin Yoder completed the final round of the 2009 VORRA series and clinched the Sportsman Class Championship. His accomplishment is history in the record books for a Rock Buggy to compete in an entire desert series with 35 competitors in the class and walk away with […]
Volkswagen navigators guide the Race Touaregs to success in 2010 Dakar
A crucial task: Without Lucas Cruz, Timo Gottschalk, Clécio Maestrelli, Ralph Pitchford and Dirk von Zitzewitz the Volkswagen “Dakar” successes would have been unthinkable. The five co-drivers in the Race Touareg cockpits must, like their team mates in the race trucks, navigate their drivers perfectly for exactly 9,030 kilometres during the 2010 Dakar Rally otherwise […]
Bully Dog Finishes Off the 2009 Racing Season On A High
In 2009 Bully Dog Technologies was involved in a number of motorsports activities ranging from motorcycle racing to off road racing. The race season is now over and Bully Dog has had an amazing year. Young Colton Haaker rode for Bully Dog and Lucas Oil in the Geico Enduro Cross motorcycle racing series. Enduro cross […]
Robby Gordon and Toyo Tires head to the Dakar Rally with Hummer H3
High adventure. Radical terrain. A few hundred motorcycles, cars, quads, and trucks racing over mountains, through deserts, and along the Pacific Ocean. This is where heroes are made and legends lived. Welcome to the 2010 Dakar, the craziest, most dangerous off-road rally in the world. And once again, Toyo Tires is covering it all from […]
ALL AMERICAN CHAMPION Rob MACCACHREN WINS Pro 2 at ROCKSTAR Energy Lucas Oil Challenge Cup!
Lake Elsinore, California (December 19, 2009) The world’s top off road racing champion, Rob MacCachren, came into the ROCKSTAR Energy Lucas Oil Challenge Cup event with high hopes, even though he had never before driven an inch of the Lake Elsinore Motorsports Complex off road race track. MacCachren was stacked up against the biggest names […]
TORC ADDS TUCSON’S USA RACEWAY TO 2010 SCHEDULE
Corona, Ca. (December 18, 2009) – TORC continues to enhance its 2010 season schedule with another popular Western venue. TORC will take its high-impact, form of racing to the huge concentration of racing enthusiasts in Tucson, Arizona at the USA Raceway on April 17-18, 2010. USA Raceway is one of the top dirt racing venues […]
Johnny Greaves sets a World Record by jumping a TORC PRO 2WD Truck 301 feet
by Eric Johnson www.racedezert.com It all began on blustery Friday morning, December 18, 2009, when the Greaves Team, working out of a drafty barn nestled on McGrath’s ranch on the FAR outskirts of San Diego, California, switched out a 500 gear to a 488 gear to conjure up enough top-end out of the 351 cubic […]