For most, this time of year carries with it the ability to allow all of us some down time for reflection on what blessings, and challenges, the past 12 months have gifted us. For now, the collective racing world is paused as well, and the off-road world is no exception....

Matt Martelli, CEO, American Off-Road Racing Championship, has joined the lineup of featured speakers for the 6th Annual Race Industry Week, taking place Monday through Thursday, December 1–4, 2025. No charge to attend. Click here to register.Race Industry Week is brought to you by EPARTRADE and RACER. For more information,...

With 15 seconds to spare, Ricky Brabec guided his Monster Energy Honda CRF450 RALLY to victory in the recent Argentine Desafio Ruta 40 Rally.Having already triumphed in the 2024 Dakar Rally earlier this year, the Argentina result further underscored Brabec’s dominance in the 2024 World Rally Raid Championship, increased his...

Like a lumbering freight train finally reaching its anticipated destination, 2020 is finally and thankfully coming to a close. Even for those lucky enough to have found some measure of fulfillment and happiness during this strange year, all of that good fortune is tempered by the grey cloud of illness...

For years now, many in the off-road racing world have tried to deflect their own future. Admittedly, I was one of the naysayers clinging too long to established norms that built the sport. Despite the overwhelming surge of factory interest and the relentless march of technical progress, many of us...

Overcoming an unexpectedly stacked field and one of the most unusual environments in off-road racing history, Bryce Menzies claimed the 2020 Best In The Desert series Maxxis Vegas to Reno off-road race last weekend.Driving the No.7 Red Bull/AMSOIL/Toyo Tire-sponsored all-wheel drive unlimited truck, Menzies repeated his 2019 performance with a...

Well, at least in off-road racing terms, one answer to its collective future arrived in the form of news from the Best In The Desert (BITD) series.Thanks to the solid backing from its group of racers, BITD today announced it is moving forward with the VT Construction Silver State 300...

This week’s rapidly rising concern over the coronavirus pandemic has rattled the professional motorsports world, forcing the postponement or cancellation of major dates, and altering how others will be run. It’s hard to imagine a world-class race set against a background of no spectators.For last weekend’s Mint 400 promoters, the...

I ran into Diane DeLauer recently at the Reno Lucas Oil short-course race. She flashed that same warm smile I had seen hundreds of times before, but then tears sprang from her eyes. Saying nothing, soon mine were doing the same.Time flies. It has been nearly 18 months since Diane’s...

For several years, talk in the desert racing off-road world has been the eventuality of four-wheel drive unlimited trucks as the sport’s next evolution. While history shows that two-wheel unlimited vehicles have dominated the overall victory columns, Justin Matney’s win at yesterday’s Best in The Desert (BITD) VT Construction Silver...