It was a great day for Off-Road racing at SEMA. It started first
thing in the morning with the BFG press meeting. BFG had a special
Q&A session with Frank "Scoop" Vessels who got BFG's first Baja
wins for them in his Ford F-150 30 years ago. BFG located the
winning F-150 sitting in a barn in Canada and over the last 7 weeks
Spirit racing restored that F-150. The F-150 will eventually find a
resting place in the Off-Road Hall of Fame in Reno.
Skyjacker signed Off-Road racing champion
Curt LeDuc for another season of racing. Curt will be defending his
title in the Best In the Desert series and going for a 6th
Championship in the 8000 class. In the short course world, Curt
will be back racing a new Skyjacker Ford in the CORR Pro-4
class.
Easily the biggest news of the day is Toyo
and Robby Gordon. Rumors have been flying for awhile but today Toyo
made it official. Toyo has signed Robby Gordon for a 2 year deal to
race in Baja and the Dakar Rally. Robby will be racing the Dakar in
a specially-prepared Hummer H3 with additional backing from Jim
Beam and Hummer. In the SCORE Desert Series, Robby's Red Bull
trophy truck will be riding on Toyo tires and Robby will be joined
by young gun Andy McMillan.
Moving from Off-Road racing to something we
can drive every day, Rancho was awarded the Best New Off-Road /
4-wheel Drive Product with their Hummer H3 suspension system. There
are hundreds of new Off-Road products but this is the second year
in a row that Rancho has won this award. The new Hummer H3 system
is completely bolt-on and provides 4" of lift. The kit allows you
to run a 37" tall tire on a 20" rim. This combination looks awesome
on the H3. Now if we can find a bolt-on supercharger for the H3 to
supplement the underpowered engine...
We found this Honda Ridgeline in the lobby.
It is has been prepped for the Baja 1000 and will be raced by Gavin
Skilton and Jason LaFortune. We saw quite a few other Ridgeline
Off-Road products starting to show up - among them, Skyjacker's new 2" suspension kit.
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