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Bryce Menzies will drive the new Honda Passport Baja Spec, set to be revealed on Octoebr 29 before it makes its debut at the 2027 Baja 500.
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#Baja500 #SCORE #SCOREInternational
Recently departed NASCAR champs Greg Biffle and Kyle Busch, who respectively dabbled in Stadium Super Trucks and TORC, are the first co-recipients of the Comcast Community Champion of the Year Award.
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#NASCAR #StadiumSuperTrucks #SST #TORC #Nitrocross
SVR is building the 53rd and final Toyota Hilux IMT Evo, ending a line that's won four Dakar Rallies, before moving on to a new model compliant with 2027 FIA regulations.
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#W2RC #Dakar2027 #DakarRally
At the Great Steppe Baja earlier this month, the KAMAZ-435093 made its racing debut with Dmitry Sotnikov. It's the first time the team ever built a truck with independent suspension.
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#RAFRR #Великаястепь
In a massive defection, 2025 King of the Hammers champ Kyle Chaney has switched from Can-Am to Polaris.
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#KOH2027 #KingOfTheHammers #Mint400 #DakarRally
Due to the war in the region, the Extreme H World Cup will not take place in 2026 as planned. A specific date in 2027 was not immediately revealed.
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#ExtremeH #XH
2 months after demoing in San Felipe with NORRA, the Stadium Super Trucks will remain an annual undercard at the Grand Prix of Long Beach in 2027. It'll be SST's 14th year on the city's streets.
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#StadiumSuperTrucks #SST #GPLongBeach #AGPLB
Tim Zijlstra joked he'd do the Dakar Rally in 2030. He hopes that joke will become reality, racing in Spain and Morocco with the Rallye du Maroc and Morocco Desert Challenge over 3 years to boost his chances.
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#Dakar2030 #DakarRally #W2RC
Canadian sports car great John Graham was the first driver to race both NASCAR and the Dakar Rally. The latter was a misadventure with a co-driver who utterly hated him, but also led to an F1 contract...
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#DakarRally #NASCAR #F1 #LeMans24
The ASO didn't announce Morocco as the 2027 Dakar Rally host (expect it "in the coming days"), but confirmed it won't be in Saudi Arabia. The hope is to be back in Saudi for the 50th anniversary in 2028.
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#Dakar2028 #Dakar2027 #DakarRally #DakarClassic
Sometimes our editor wants to write about a convention he visited, has a long-form article that isn't a Storytime, or some other dumb idea cooking.
(We now have a Blogs subcategory)
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Gather 'round the campfire, kids, for we've got off-road stories to tell you.
(We now have a "Storytime" category for long-form pieces)
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Despite the new NORRA Legacy World Championship Series, the Legacy Racing Association will still host its usual schedule with standalone races like the Nevada 1000 and Caliente 150.
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#LegacyRacing
Karolis Raišys will look to go back to back at the Dakar Classic in 2027, once again driving his 1978 Land Rover Series III.
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#Dakar2027 #DakarClassic
The Laughlin Desert Classic wasn't the best for Phil Blurton and he dropped it from his final points but he still secured the inaugural American Off-Road Racing Championship Limited overall crown.
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#LaughlinDesertClassic #AmericanOffRoadChampionship #AORC
It took an extra 13 years due to the World Wars and COVID, but from the inaugural race in 1913 to this past week, the International Six Days Enduro finally reached 100 editions.
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#6DAYS #ISDE #FIMISDE
The Internet basically died because of newly-discovered PHP vulnerabilities that had to be patched. Fortunately, 131 Off-Road is already protected via Automattic so we'd survive this hypothetical apocalypse.
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#PHP #PHP2Shell
Dania Akeel will race Toyota's new hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicle Hilux in the 2027 Dakar Rally's Mission 1000 challenge.
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#Dakar2027 #DakarRally #Mission1000 #DakarFuture
The protests in France led to looting and damage to Dafy Moto in Paris and Jacky Onda in Nice, the former the sponsor of Dakar racer Charlie Herbst and the latter the oldest Yamaha dealer in Europe.
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#France #DakarRally #MotoGP #DafyMoto #Yamaha
The FIA plans to make significant updates to the Ultimate and Challenger classes that'll become mandatory by the 2030 World Rally-Raid Championship.
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#W2RC