Category: Rock Racing
PowerNation Cable Special Plus Coverage of 7 National Qualifying Events RTM Productions and ULTRA4 Racing are teaming up to telecast the 8th Annual Griffin King of the Hammers Presented by Nitto Tire as a PowerNation TV special. RTM’s PowerNation shows air weekly on Spike, the NBC Sports Network and the CBS Sports Network. “We [...]
Racing Saturday April 19th Starting at 9am in Moab, UT at AreaBFE For the third year running, Dirt Riot will be at AreaBFE in Moab, UT on Big Saturday April 19th. The pre-registered driver list confirms the day of racing will be spectacular. Everyone that has wanted to race a 4×4 endurance race is welcome to come [...]
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This is the official movie trailer for “Element of Survival” The full length movie chronicling the 2014 Griffin King of the Hammers Presented by Nitto Tire. The feature film is expected to debut the end of June 2014. The movie is directed and edited by Heavymetal Concepts and Produced by Hammerking Productions. The movie will [...]
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Team BFGoodrich® drivers Brad and Roger Lovell took on a challenge many wouldn’t: race the King of the Hammers twice in two days. On Thursday, Brad Lovell, with brother Roger co-driving, finished first in the 114-mile Smittybilt Every Man Challenge Legends Class. Following that feat on Friday, Roger took the reins, with Brad co-driving, and finished [...]
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Raceline Wheels is always a major part of the Griffin King of the Hammers, and 2014 was no exception. Among the major events of the week Raceline Wheels co-sponsored the newest challenge: King Shocks Shootout at Backdoor,hosted the best ever Volunteer dinner on Thursday night, saw over half of the field of racers start on Raceline [...]
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Friday February 7th marked the 8th green flag of the now Internationally known Griffin King of the Hammers. JT Taylor is the only racer on the lakebed that can boast seeing all 8 green flags, and has driven the same car at 7 of the 8 events, with a 12th place finish in 2013. “I am really surprised [...]
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Casey Currie returned for the 2014 Griffin King of the Hammers this past weekend, expectations for a win may not have been met, but the odds of finishing the race were on Curries side. The week long event took place in Johnson Valley, CA where over 40,000 off-road/rock crawling enthusiasts flocked to watch 158 entries [...]
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Driver Name Car # Start Finish Adjusted Time Penalty* Total Time 1 LOREN HEALY 67 08:02:00 16:05:25 08:03:25 08:03:25 2 TONY PELLEGRINO 4485 08:09:00 16:27:42 08:18:42 08:18:42 3 BILL BAIRD 5252 08:06:00 16:29:37 08:23:37 08:23:37 4 JAKE HALLENBECK 4775 08:03:30 16:30:59 08:27:29 08:27:29 5 DEREK WEST 4420 08:01:00 16:05:34 08:04:34 00:25:00 08:29:34 6 RICK [...]
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Loren Healy unofficially named 2014 KING of the Hammers!! Healy pushed through todays course but not without overcoming his own obstacles. The jack fell off and busted the radiator…Healy’s crew was quick to fix it but on the last lap he ran out of coolant and the car went into limp mode. Coming into the [...]
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Despite having the physical lead currently at the 2014 King of the Hammers, Tom Wayes will succumb to a severe penalty after he mistakenly missed two sections of the course. Elvis being one of them along with another two miles earlier on. Dave Cole and the competition review board will have to review the tracker [...]
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Last Leg! Early Thursday morning competitors left the start line one last time for the final Leg of the rally. While the distances were shorter, the landscape was more variable, alternating between wide plains and steep valleys. In the distance the “Grand M’daouer” cliffs created one of the most beautiful backdrops in the world. [...]
2014 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles Rankings
Winners of the 24th edition of the Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles du Maroc 4WD Class 1st – Team 161 (Jeanette James and Anne-Marie Borg – VOLKSWAGEN VEHICULES UTILITAIRES) – France/UK - 59.24 penalty points. 2nd – Team 160 (Elisabete Jacinto and Valérie Dot – VOLKSWAGEN VEHICULES UTILITAIRES) – France/Portugal - 65.10 points 3rd – Team 118 (Catherine Houlès and Mélanie Suchet [...]
Gazelles: Another long Marathon leg – Day 2
At 6 a.m., the first teams check off CP6 before heading in the direction of the remaining 8 checkpoints along today’s route, always with the goal of driving the shortest distance possible. They have two options for reaching CP7: drive a straight line across a chaotic zone of sand and rocks, or go down into Oued Draa and zig-zag along the dried river [...]
LEG 4 – First marathon: charged with emotion
Day 1 There is never a dull moment at the Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles. The much-anticipated (or dreaded!) leg in the dunes was followed by the first of two marathon legs: two days of complete autonomy in the desert with no bivouac and no nighttime mechanical assistance. Relieved at having survived the dunes, the novices were now wondering what to expect, alone [...]
12 cities in Argentina, Chile* and Bolivia will play host to the 13 stages of the Dakar 2015 next January, for 14 days of sport in total. For the first time, whilst the competitors in some categories will be resting, the others will continue racing… The Dakar organisers have devoted their week to a first [...]
X-Raid MINI’s DOMINATE Dakar 2014
The Monster Energy X-raid Team and Team X-raid performed a true feat, this year: all the 11 MINI ALL4 Racing that started into the 2014 Dakar in Rosario, Argentina, also crossed the finish line on 18th January in Valparaiso, Chile. First of all, the Spanish-French pairing Nani Roma / Michel Périn who secured the win, [...]
The MINI ALL4 Racing dominates the 2014 Dakar Rally
• Nani Roma und Michel Périn win the legendary desert rally • Three MINI ALL4 Racing on the podium 13 stages, more than 13,000 kilometres, one of the most gruelling Dakars ever – and in the end, the conclusion has to be: the MINI ALL4 Racing dominated the 2014 Dakar in unique style! For the [...]
Peterhansel gives the Monster Energy X-raid Team its seventh stage win
• Fourth stage win for the Frenchman in the 2014 Dakar • Nine of the top-12 positions in the overall rankings held by MINI ALL4 Racing The French pairing Stéphane Peterhansel / Jean-Paul Cottret in the black MINI ALL4 Racing proved to be the quickest in the 350-kilometre special stage from El Salvador to La [...]
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