Photo via Stroppe Performance. The Edsel brand had just three short years on this earth, all of which were consumed by a fight to remain in existence, so understandably no Edsel Racing Team ever form...
Desert racing – the Baja 1000, particularly – has its own unique challenges and obstacles, but to Saab in the late Sixties, it stood to reason that if its cars and its drivers could hold up under the...
Photo courtesy Rod Hall Racing. Racing Baja in the Sixties took place at a far different pace than today’s races. One could get lost a dozen times driving used four-wheel-drive rigs and somehow still...
Had muscle cars continued uninterrupted throughout the Seventies, we would have seen all sorts of interesting progressions of Sixties tech, including the ball-stud Hemi, which Mac’s Motor City Garage...
Photo courtesy Mint 400. The signature clouds of dust that once put a halt to Hunter Thompson’s coverage of the Mint 400 could spell doom for the race’s future just outside of Las Vegas if a plan to ...
Volkswagen-powered Baja racers. Photos courtesy Volkswagen of America. In the late summer of 1967, the newly formed National Off-Road Racing Association (NORRA) enlisted the help of Bruce Meyers, bui...
Still from “ 27 Hours to La Paz.” It started out as little more than a lark, an informal competition among off-road racers to see who could make it from one end of the Baja peninsula to the other the...
They have nothing to lose. After both Riot vehicles failed in Parker earlier this year, Riot Racing desperately needs a finish in the Best in the Desert series. The technical, mountainous course at t...
The top teams in off-road racing gather in Parker, Arizona for the opening race of the 2011 Best in the Desert series, Parker 425. Riot Racing joins with Josh Daniel to take on an intimidating 430 mi...
Race-dezert.com coverage of the 2011 SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge. Day 2, Saturday's Trophy Truck race.
Race-dezert.com highlight video of the 6th and final race in the 2010 CODE race season.
Race-dezert.com spent some time with the Desert Assassin's ring leader, Cameron Steele as he walks us through the entire 2010 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 race course. Watch part 1 of this 3 part series.
In one of the most critical and meaningful races of the season, Riot Racing brings home a remarkable 5th place finish at Best in the Desert's Vegas to Reno race on August 20, 2010. Marc Ewing and Jos...
Multiple angles of Riot Racing bumping the #44 car and passing BJ Baldwin with a broken spindle. At 2:00 in a helicopter follows Riot's endos.