Thanks to all our fans and sponsors for supporting us! Stay tuned for photos and a final news release.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
It's Official - Rod Hall Racing Secures 3 BITD Championships
It's Official, Rod Hall Racing won in three classes at the BITD Fabtech Desert Classic. In doing so, the team captured three championships, taking the season total to FIVE. This has definitely proven to be the best race year in the team's history. We are now heading to the SCORE Championship banquet in Primm, with just enough time to clean off the dust and celebrate!
Friday, December 5, 2008
Fabtech Desert Classic - Tech & Contingency
It was a beautiful day in Henderson, Nevada. Seems impossible it is only a few weeks before Christmas. The team pre-ran the course early this morning, which is a short 48-mile loop. Rod said it best, "the course covers the smallest amount of space of any race." A maze of a course, it essentially zig-zags through the desert on the outskirts of Vegas. We expect the visibility to be tough, especially if there is minimal wind.
Obviously the team is focused on grabbing three additional championships to add to the SCORE victories. However, it was a little bittersweet today as we know this is the last race of an incredibly successful year.
Joining Rod for the first lap is a very special guest to the team. KJ Howe ran the legendary Mint 400 for many years. The Mint desert race attracted over 100,000 people to Las Vegas and was the largest event in the famed city for many years. KJ is a dynamic, inspiring guy and we are excited to have him join us. In the photo above, KJ poses with a Mint 400 fan in the tech line.
More to come.
Posted by E. Miller
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Fabtech Desert Classic
The team is heading today to Henderson, Nevada - site of the final race of the 2008 season. All three teams under RHR are well positioned to bring home THREE class championships in the Best in the Desert (BITD) series. Not bad, considering Rod Hall Racing just captured the Stock Full and Stock Mini class championships in the SCORE series at the Baja 1000. This season truly has been the most successful for the team. And five series championships would be unprecedented.
In BITD, Rod Hall Racing runs in the 3100 class, 4100 and 8100. Essentially, these classes are stock mini, stock-full SUV and stock-full truck. In SCORE, Josh and Chad compete in the same class - where SUVs and trucks race together.
I just spoke to Josh regarding his H2 SUT as it experienced some damage at the 1000 to the cross member and right front corner. He reports the truck is prepped and ready, having been repaired this previous week - which also included some rewiring work and new steering parts.
He only has to finish his race to capture the class championships.
Stay tuned for more updates from Henderson.
Posted by E. Miller
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Rod Hall Wins SCORE Stock-Mini Title
In one of the most bizarre finishes I have seen in over 30 years of Baja racing, Rod Hall finished second in the Stock-Mini Class, clinching his third consecutive SCORE Desert Points Championship in the Stock Mini Class and qualifying for a share in the Toyota Milestone Awards for the 2008 season. Rod's friend and partner Mike Winkel was at the wheel of the #760 H3 SUV when the truck took the checkered flag.
What made this finish so unusual was the fact that Gavin Skilton, in the #779 Honda Ridgeline and Ryan Millen, in the #762 Toyota FJ Criuser, had been locked in a battle for the class lead during the entire race. As they entered the final 10 mile dash to the finish, fully an hour and a half in front of the apparent 3rd place winning #760 H3, Millen apparently hit a large boulder, resulting in a devestating crash and ripping the entire front end off the Toyota which brought it to a halt five miles from the finish. Skilton, now thinking he was on easy street, almost immediatly got buried up to his doors in a mound of silt just a few feet from Millen. Both vehicles remained in place, motionless, for almost an hour as the HUMMER H3 moved closer to the finish and the win. After an hour of race traffic coming by, all unwilling to stop and lend a hand, the #862 Dodge came by on his way to a second place finish in the Stock-Full Class. Driver Kent Kroeker agreed to tow Gavin Skilton free from the silt that restrained him, allowing the Honda to take their first SCORE Baja 1000 win. Millen was finally being towed out of the area, as Mike Winkel passed him by for the unlikely second place finish. It just goes to show you that, as Yogi Berra once said, "It isn't over til it's over".
Meanwhile, Josh Hall in the #863 H2 SUT broke another front suspension part (tie rod) back at RM 520 or thereabouts but got back in the race to finish third in the Stock-Full Class. Twenty four hours and forty nine minutes after they began the odyssey that was the 2008 Tecate/SCORE Baja 1000, Josh Hall, Sam Cothrun and Team HUMMER overcame most every obsticle that Off-road racing could throw at them to bring the #863 Team HUMMER H2 SUT home for the Checkered flag.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish Team Owner, Rod Hall, a happy 71st birthday and to congratulate everyone at Rod Hall Racing and Team HUMMER for a great performance.
Good day from the 41st Annual Tecate/SCORE Baja 1000.
George R. Thompson
Rod Hall Racing
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What made this finish so unusual was the fact that Gavin Skilton, in the #779 Honda Ridgeline and Ryan Millen, in the #762 Toyota FJ Criuser, had been locked in a battle for the class lead during the entire race. As they entered the final 10 mile dash to the finish, fully an hour and a half in front of the apparent 3rd place winning #760 H3, Millen apparently hit a large boulder, resulting in a devestating crash and ripping the entire front end off the Toyota which brought it to a halt five miles from the finish. Skilton, now thinking he was on easy street, almost immediatly got buried up to his doors in a mound of silt just a few feet from Millen. Both vehicles remained in place, motionless, for almost an hour as the HUMMER H3 moved closer to the finish and the win. After an hour of race traffic coming by, all unwilling to stop and lend a hand, the #862 Dodge came by on his way to a second place finish in the Stock-Full Class. Driver Kent Kroeker agreed to tow Gavin Skilton free from the silt that restrained him, allowing the Honda to take their first SCORE Baja 1000 win. Millen was finally being towed out of the area, as Mike Winkel passed him by for the unlikely second place finish. It just goes to show you that, as Yogi Berra once said, "It isn't over til it's over".
Meanwhile, Josh Hall in the #863 H2 SUT broke another front suspension part (tie rod) back at RM 520 or thereabouts but got back in the race to finish third in the Stock-Full Class. Twenty four hours and forty nine minutes after they began the odyssey that was the 2008 Tecate/SCORE Baja 1000, Josh Hall, Sam Cothrun and Team HUMMER overcame most every obsticle that Off-road racing could throw at them to bring the #863 Team HUMMER H2 SUT home for the Checkered flag.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish Team Owner, Rod Hall, a happy 71st birthday and to congratulate everyone at Rod Hall Racing and Team HUMMER for a great performance.
Good day from the 41st Annual Tecate/SCORE Baja 1000.
George R. Thompson
Rod Hall Racing
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Chad Hall Wins 2008 Baja 1000
In a tough and diciplined race that demanded a trouble-free drive from start to finish, Team HUMMER's Chad Hall drove a perfect race in the #861 H3 Alpha to win the Stock-Full Class at the 41st Annual Tecate/SCORE Baja 1000. The win marks the 7th Baja 1000 victory for Chad Hall and the finish earns him the 2008 SCORE Stock-Full Desert Points Championship and a share of the Toyota Milestone Awards, which are awarded each year to each driver who finishes every mile of every race in the SCORE Desert Championship Series. Our congratulations go out to Chad Hall and the H3 Alpha crew for another championship season.
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