What's in a name? In the case of the now-legendary King of the Hammers races, it's everything.At the end of three laps in the Johnson Valley Off Highway Vehicle Area in the Southern California desert – sounds simple, doesn't it? – 'hammered' describes it. The truck, the driver, the co-driver…...

In this episode of The Creative Drive, we’re joined by Ryan Millen – off road racer and member of one of the most iconic racing families.

It wasn’t supposed to happen this way.For decades, off-road racing’s unlimited Pro 4 category has represented short-course racing’s holy grail – potent all-wheel-drive race trucks purpose-built to maximize the off-road environment for short bursts at a time.No, they cannot fly over the Baja peninsula in 20-hour marathons, but they will...

By all measure, the sport of off-road racing is now enjoying its next golden age.Unlike the mortgage-loan fueled boom of the mid 2000s, today’s environment feels much more like the late 1980s and early 1990s when there was a ton of vehicle development, new technology, enthusiastic support of racers from...

Crandon International Raceway President and 2017 Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame (ORMHOF) inductee Cliff Flannery will serve as Grand Marshal for the 2020 King of the Hammers event.Flannery will be present for Thursday’s Toyo Desert Invitational for unlimited desert T1 trucks (also known as Trophy-Trucks) and Friday's Nitto King of...

This time of year in motorsports brings about an innate sense of reflection, one balanced between what has been and what’s to come.By almost every measure, 2019 will be remembered as a successful one in the annuals off-road racing history, with record fields and watershed events setting up a new...

Off-road racing’s biggest melting pot is in full swing this week on a distant and wind-swept Southern California lakebed. If you know, you know. If you don’t, you are missing one of the motorsport’s world’s most eclectic and successful instances of cultural appropriation.The 13th annual Nitto King of the Hammers...

Using a Geiser-built Trophy Truck, RACER’s Marty Fiolka details the evolution of the trucks and tires that race in the Unlimited class in desert off-road racing.The 2018 SEMA Show, the premier automotive specialty products trade event in the world, takes place from October 30-November 2 at the Las Vegas Convention...

In a ritual nearly as old as the sport itself, off-road racers from around the world will begin final preparations for June’s historic 50th running of the BFGoodrich SCORE Baja 500 as pre-running opens this weekend in the vast desert terrain of Northern Baja, Mexico.Round 2 of the four-race 2018...

It wasn't too long ago that watching the world's most recognized desert off-road race took a trip south of the border into Baja, Mexico. Like so many things today, technology can now bring this year's 50th anniversary BFGoodrich SCORE Baja 1000 directly to our various computers and devices. Under the...