TV Towers Jeep Trail – Saint George, Utah
Truck racing, in particular off-road, is a very popular spectator sport in the south-west USA mainly. Again, spectator friendly is the short-course offroad – not the “classic” off-road truck racing. Monster Trucks (almost everybody knows “Grave Digger”) as well have a elevated spectator count across the United States. Now add that up in the marketing oriented thinking process of Robby Gordon and what you get?? A new racing series for 2017 named “Stadium SUPER Trucks” Race Series.
Now with his involvement you can bet it will be, when finalized, something like “Speed Energy Stadium Super Trucks USAC Racing” combined with the “BIGFOOT® – The Original Monster Trucks Action” or such… just contemplating here. Could be also a little longer after all there is Toyo Tires, his long-years sponsor as well 4wheel parts and some more.
But the announcement of the series is real. The whole story about that SST is that SST Racing’s field consists of 30 custom-made trucks, specifically made for stadiums and built by the off-road legend, Robby Gordon. Gordon, a one time champion of the Mickey Thompson Off-Road Series is revitalizing Thompson’s series and making it BIGGER, BETTER and BADDER.
The difference between other series and desert off-road racing is the concept of no teams. This means each truck is built and maintained by SST Racing. All trucks are built exactly the same and is dyno-ed before each event to keep an even playing field for each driver. Before each SST event, a driver will draw for his chassis number and will be dyno-ed on the spot, inspected by a SST official and ready for the provided driver’s sponsored body panels.
12 Jul 2023
About the author
Nicke drives a Land Rover Discovery equipped with a Garmin GPS, Dell Laptop mounted to a Jotto Desk laptop mount to accurately record his off-road trails. He is a member of the Chicago Land Rover Club, Rover Riders and the Solihull Society.
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