Greaves soaking up Pro4 title No.10

Greaves Motorsports powered into Glen Helen Raceway in Southern California over the weekend for the 2025 Off-Road Nationals, and the team was prepared to make things happen.

Monster Energy-backed Greaves was coming off of a big month, building on his momentum from the prestigious Crandon races with wins in both Pro Stock SXS and Pro4. Looking to Southern California-based Glen Helen’s ultra-fast, technical, and unforgiving race circuit, it was exactly the kind of track that suits Greaves’ style, and a circuit where the 30-year old wanted to nail down his 10th Pro4 Off-Road Championship title.

“It was nice to work on the number 10 championship at Glen Helen,” said Greaves, who did ultimately claim the title. “We did what we had to do. Ultimately, the big picture was to come here and win the championship and get number 10 in the books and move on from there. We played it smart and did what we had to do. We’re excited to win the championship. For us, it has been a really dominant year. We’ve had a ton, a ton, a ton of success and brought the Monster Energy Pro 4 Truck to the next level. We’ve just had a lot of fun with it.”

Having competed on the sweeping natural terrain Midwest circuits such as Antigo, Lena and Crandon all year long, the season closer at Glen Helen Raceway presented the racers and teams of the Championship Off-Road tour with a tight and sinuous, almost supercross-themed race track.

“Coming out here to Glen Helen the track, the track is much tighter, right?” said Greaves, who grew up racing motocross. “This is probably one of the smallest and slowest tracks we’ve raced on all year long. 

Almost like a tight and jump-littered supercross track for the burly 4,000-pound Pro4 trucks?

“That’s a really good way to put it, because a 450cc supercross bike has a ton of power, but they still have all the gears in them,” explained Greaves.

“They’re geared to race in smaller tracks in stadiums and domes and they’re using second and third gear on their 450s in supercross and that’s it. And then they go race the natural terrain outdoor circuits and they let their four-speed or five-speed bikes hang out. It’s almost identical, man. This is one of our slowest and most technical tracks. It also has way more jumps as far as double jumps go. It’s just unique. It’s technical. We’ve enjoyed it. It’s really fun to race and drive on and go qualify on. And it has been five years since they’ve ran short course here and eight years since they’ve ran Pro 4. It’s been that long since they’ve had the elite series back here. I think as this track becomes more baselined and streamlined and we get the dirt settled in, it’ll start cleaning up the track and we’ll race a lot better. As the track cleans up, it looses speed but it ultimately provides a lot better racing. It gives a us a couple lies to move aroubd on.”

The competition has been fierce throughout the 2025 Pro4 Off-Road Championship.

“We’ve had the most trucks that we’ve had in a good couple of years," he said. "There have been a lot of really fast dudes. Obviously, Jimmy Henderson has been fast the last couple years. We’ve had Mickey Thomas come into the game and he came out swinging right at the first round. I’ve had some good battles with him. Cole Mamer ran with us this year, and obviously you’ve still got my dad in the mix. There are trucks that can win every week. We haven’t had that in many years. It’s been a lot of fun to be able to go out and win. Everyone ran really hard all season and keeps pushing the limit. I feel like every week we get a little bit dumber and do stuff outside of the comfort zone or the norm or maybe against our better judgement, but it definitely puts on a show.”

Greaves continued on to speak about his father, Johnny Greaves, one of the winningest drivers in short course racing history. 

“Last year my dad got put in the Off Road Motorsports Hall Of Fame, which was huge for our team and our family,” said Greaves. “My dad’s mechanic has been with him 25 years and through it all. Gettig into the Hall of Fame was a big step for our team and our family and all of our sponsors. Now to be able to back it all up has been awesome. We broke 200 Pro wins this year and I’m now at championship number 10. It’s something to be proud of. I’ve won championships in 10 out of 11 years. The only other person out here that can compare are my dad and RJ Anderson. I’m blessed to be a part of it. I’m happy for my crew and my team and just want to keep moving forward.”

And of the future?

“I don’t know, man,” Greaves said. “There is definitely a long ways to go here. Short course is thriving. I think it’s doing well. There is a lot of new ownership. We’re expanding a little bit in the series. I’m also heavily involved with Polaris on the ATV side. I love all racing, man. Dirt track racing, there is some opportunity to run some Super Late Model stuff. I might dabble in that a little bit, too. You never really know. As long as short course keeps going, we’re going to stay in it, but as opportunities come up, we’re definitely going to entertain them and see if maybe there is a mix we can put together. We race seven times a year. There is a lot of opportunity to maybe move around and go do some circle track racing or some desert racing. Who knows? The book is always open. I love racing and just hopefully I can live out my career racing the whole time.”