Category Archives: Off-Road

Still doing work even when the asphalt ends.

Drag Racing On Dirt

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Sometimes when you take a perfectly good motorsport and you pick it up and plop it down on a low friction surface, you get a new sport that’s a lot more fun to watch. For example, trying to do road racing on gravel and snow resulted in rally racing which has produced some of the world’s best drivers and is my favorite kind of racing to watch. This video proves that the same thing can happen when you drag race on dirt. These guys built insane 4×4 drag machines with paddle tires to get the job down on the unpaved quarter mile. It makes for some very entertaining and gratuitous displays of horsepower. I have a feeling these guys would get along very well with the folks who compete in the World Power Wheelstand Championship.

**BAD WORD WARNING** The cameraman drops the F-bomb in the middle of the video when he gets pelted in the head with a rock coming off the paddle tires on the 2000 horsepower alcohol powered dragster. You probably would, too.


Source: The Outlaw Video SS on YouTube

European Superpull Ahoy 2011

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You can tell by the title of this video that it’s going to be awesome. It’s the result of a very strange odyssey of clicking on YouTube related videos. I don’t have too many details besides the fact that this is the 4.5 ton Modified Class for the European Superpull Ahoy. I hope to one day run an event cool enough where I can add the word “ahoy” to the end of its name. It doesn’t get much better than this for gratuitous displays of power.


Source: YouTube user Landbouwfilmpjes

Duel in the Desert: Ford SVT Raptor vs. Mopar Ram Runner

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Pickuptrucks.com ran this head to head comparison of the two top factory built offroad pickup trucks, the Ford SVT Raptor vs. the Mopar Ram Rummer. It’s an important to make the distinction that the Ram Rummer is built by Mopar and not by Dodge. The guys over at Pickuptrucks.com say it’s almost like a factory vs. aftermarket comparison. The Raptor is something that you buy off of the showroom floor whereas the Ram Runner is a purpose built vehicle assembled with a Dodge Ram and lots of MOPAR add-on parts. They turn both trucks over to champion desert racer Chad Ragland to take them through a pretty gnarly timed course. Head over to Pikcuptrucks.com for all the detailed specs and results.


Source: Pickuptrucks.com

Deegan vs. Deegan

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Brian Deegan is currently racing trophy trucks in the Traxxis TORC series but he was also one of the founding members of the Metal Mulisha freestyle motocross team. One of his sponsors, Maxxis Tires, took advantage of Deegan’s multi-faceted off-road skills to make this neat video of him racing himself in his truck with his motocross bike. The fact that they can play on the same playground shows why a lot of motocross riders are finding success in offroad truck racing.


Source: Brian Deegan on YouTube