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Mud bogging (also known as mud racing, mud running, mud hogging, mud drags, mud dogging, or mudding) is a form of off-road motorsport popular in the United States and Canada in which the goal is to drive a vehicle through a pit of mud or a track of a set length. Winners are determined by the distance traveled through the pit.
TNT Motorsports was a popular promoter of monster truck races, tractor pulls, and occasionally mud racing in the 1980s. TNT was an acronym for “Trucks n Tractors” founded by the late Billy Joe Miles of Owensboro, Kentucky. Events were shown on Powertrax on ESPN, Trucks and Tractor Power on TNN, and the syndicated Tuff Trax. [1]
In 1985, USHRA held their first monster truck racing event, The Battle of the Monster Trucks, at the Louisiana Superdome. Up to this point, monster trucks had only performed freestyle exhibitions, and although for several years exhibitions would be a part of smaller arena shows, racing became used in all events by the early 1990s.
Off-road racing is a form of motorsports consisting of specially-modified vehicles including cars, SUVs, trucks, motorbikes, quadbikes and buggies racing in off-road environments (e.g. snow, dirt, mud, etc.).
The trucks also had the front spoilers [6] and splitters removed, the grille closed, and the rear spoilers raised [22] and enlarged by 40 square inches to generate more downforce. [20] The trucks' windshields remained, meaning the track crew had to keep the track dry, to prevent mud from making them unable to be cleared. [6]
Truck Night in America (known outside of the US as Monster Motor Challenge) is a History Channel program that debuted in 2018. [ 2 ] The show features five contestants per episode competing through a series of races with eliminations after each event.
Britain’s top truck racing series is The British Truck Racing Championship (BTRC). The sporting regulations came under the control of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) later, to ensure that the vehicles conform to the layout and original style of the truck, whilst defining the safety standards required to race.
In 2013, the Truck Series raced at Eldora Speedway in NASCAR's first dirt track race since 1970. [3] Known as the Eldora Dirt Derby , the event ran from 2013 to 2019; it was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was then removed from the 2021 schedule.