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That event was won outright by Les Siviour of Australia driving a Class 6 Nissan Patrol, for Team Nissan. The event started life in 1992, as the 'made for television' Bridgestone 1000 and was the first Offroad Endurance Race in New Zealand to include teams from Australia, New Zealand and the USA. Its flagship event, the two-day, 1000 km Taupo 1000, is a stand-alone international endurance race which is currently held every other year.

In New Zealand, off-road racing runs its own class structure and has a multiple-round national championship. Among drivers, the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is one of the oldest and most popular hillclimbs in the United States. The Frozen Rush features off-road trophy trucks racing on snowy ski slopes. The general idea of off-road racing can also extend to include Hillclimbing or any other form of racing that does not occur on a specified, paved track. There are also several grassroots organizations, one of the longest-tenured being the Mid America Off Road Association, which promotes short course off-road racing in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.

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Both series featured professional off-road drivers and race teams. The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series (LOORRS) focused on promoting events mainly on the West Coast until its closure in 2020.

The TORC: The Off Road Championship, derived from series racing in the Midwestern United States, promoted races in Eastern, Midwestern, and some Western venues before cancelling all events in 2018. These tracks are ordinarily much shorter and feature individual, timed runs.ĭuring the 2010s, there were two major organizations promoting short course off road racing in the United States. Ī simpler, shorter track format is popular at many county fairs, and is called Tough (or Tuff) Truck competition. In 2012, Robby Gordon created the Stadium Super Trucks, an offshoot of the Micky Thompson Entertainment Group after racing primarily in stadiums and off-road courses during its inaugural season in 2013, the series has since placed more emphasis on asphalt tracks like street circuits and road courses. Off Road Championship Series was held by Pace Motorsports in the late 90s and shown on TNN Motor Madness. Another format made popular by the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group was called stadium racing, where off-road racing vehicles were used in a temporary off-road racetrack constructed inside a stadium. The races involves left and right turns of various radii, jumps, and occasional washboard runs and gravel pits. Short course off-road racing is held on a circuit of less than five miles (such as Crandon International Off-Road Raceway).

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Johnny Greaves racing his Pro 4 trophy truck at Crandon, Wisconsin King of the Hammers is one of the most popular desert races and it was started in 2007 by Dave Cole and Jeff Knoll. On August 14, 2010, a modified Ford Ranger pickup truck, racing in the MDR sanctioned 'California 200', careened off the track into a group of spectators, killing eight, and raising questions about the future of off-road racing on public lands. Mojave Desert Racing series has drawn many competitors from the now defunct CORR races. MORE uses tracks set up on desert land in the Barstow and Lucerne Valley regions of the Mojave Desert in California. The Mojave Off-Road Racing Enthusiast (MORE) series started in 1997 as a small, family-oriented race series. One of the most popular is the Best in the Desert series, which is known for the Vegas to Reno race (the longest off-road race in the US with the 2009 Vegas to Reno race measuring 1000 miles). Currently, there are several smaller series. Various classes of vehicles run a different number of laps depending on the size of the engine or the set-up of the suspension system. Most desert races are set up on government recreational land and have tracks that run anywhere from 25 to 1000 miles.

The event is now sanctioned by SCORE International. The event was first called the Mexican 1000, and it later became known as the Baja 1000. The first event was a race across the Mexican desert, south-eastwards through most of the length of Baja California, originally from Ensenada to La Paz. An early racing sanctioning body in North America was the National Off-Road Racing Association (NORRA) co-founded in 1967 by Ed Pearlman. Desert racing began in the early 20th century.

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