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…...

2010 and 2020 Formula Drift champion Vaughn Gittin Jr. posted a video to Facebook on Thursday titled, “!!BIG NEWS!!”“What’s up friends? For the past 20 years, competitive drift has been a huge part of my life. And with that, I’m announcing today is that we have decided to step back...

A decade almost to the very day… On October 18, 2010 at Toyota Speedway in Irwindale, California – now commonly known as the House of Drift – Vaughn Gittin wheeled his 1,200-horspower, asphalt-wrinkling Monster Energy Ford Mustang to his first Formula Drift championship.Hyped as the Title Fight, Gittin thrilled the...

Crandon International Raceway announced that the historic facility and all its assets have been purchased by business owner and Crandon native Jamey Flannery. The 400-plus acre track located in the Northwoods of Wisconsin has hosted the largest off-road races in the sport since opening in 1984.The purchase will take full...

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...

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...

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...