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He began recording victories in the huge AMA District 37 desert races against as many as 1,000 competitors. [3] [4] [8] Roberts teamed with Malcolm Smith to win the motorcycle division in the 1967 Mexican 1000, later to be known as the Baja 1000. [3] [8] He won the Barstow to Vegas desert race four times in a row.
Kurt William Caselli (June 30, 1983 [1] – November 15, 2013) [2] was an American professional off-road motorcycle racer. [3] He was a three-time AMA Hare & Hound National Champion and the 2007 AMA Sportsman of the Year.
Her rite of passage came several months later in 1963 when Harris and other celebrity racers convinced her to enter a desert race, an AMA District 37 Enduro in Jawbone Canyon, California. McGee rode with Bob Drake, Bobby Harris & Al Tinker. The men all rode 650cc Triumphs while Mary rode a 1962 CL72 250cc Honda Scrambler.
Roeseler began his off-road racing career in the California desert racing a Harley-Davidson. [4] He soon moved on Husqvarna motorcycles and became one of the top AMA desert racers competing in desert races including hare scrambles and Hare and Hound races. [4] Roeseler won his first Baja 1000 in 1976 with teammate Mitch Mayes on a Husqvarna. [5]
By the mid-1950s, Ekins was the top motocross and desert racer in Southern California, winning the AMA District 37 championship seven times. [2] His successful race results led the Matchless motorcycle factory to offer him the opportunity to compete in the 1952 European Motocross Championship against the best motocross racers in the world. [2]
A trophy truck in a desert race (2006). Desert racing is the act of racing through the desert in a two- or four-wheeled off-road vehicle. Races, which generally consist of two or more loops around a course covering up to 4,660 miles (7,500 km), can take the form of Hare and Hound or Hare scramble style events, and are often laid out over a long and harsh track through relatively barren terrain.
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Established in 1969 as a club of enthusiasts, it has grown into a major desert motorsports racing event organizer in the Southwest United States and is based out of Las Vegas Nevada. [ 1 ] In 2010 SNORE, announced the revival of the famous Mint 400 off-road race which was subsequently sold to Mad Media and managed by Best in the Desert under a ...