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unusual facts about off-road racing



Alain Chevallier

During the 1970s and 1980s, Chevallier designed and built road racing motorcycles using Yamaha engines and campaigned them in the Grand Prix world championships.

Arnaud Vincent

Arnaud Vincent (born on November 30, 1974 in Laxou, Meurthe-et-Moselle) is a French former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

August Auinger

August "Gustl" Auinger (born on 3 May 1955 in Lambach) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Austria.

Centaur Film Company

The "Nestor Film Company" name appears on 184 films (1910 to 1920) - Pictures released by Universal Film Manufacturing Company : Santa Monica Road Race (1912)

Chad Hord

Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR) formed in 1998 and it immediately displayed SODA as the main sanctioning body in Midwestern off-road racing.

The main sanctioning body for the Midwestern United States changed several times throughout his career; he raced in Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR), World Series of Off-Road Racing (WSORR) and Traxxas TORC Series (TORC).

Checkered Flag or Crash

Checkered Flag or Crash is a 1977 film about off-road racing through the Philippines jungle, starring Joe Don Baker and Susan Sarandon and featuring Larry Hagman, Alan Vint and Parnelli Jones.

Chris Blais

Christopher Blais (born 3 January 1981) is an off-road racing rider from Apple Valley, California.

Dave Ekins

Dave Ekins (born 1932 in Los Angeles, California) is an American off-road racing pioneer having set the first Tijuana to La Paz timed run in under 40 hours aboard a Honda CL72 Scrambler in 1962.

Ed Pearlman

Ed Pearlman is a cofounder (together with Don Francisco) of the National Off-Road Racing Association (1966), the first exclusively off-road racing organization, and its first president.

F-1 Hero MD

Autopolis, Fuji Speedway, an oval training course, and a treacherous road course originally designed by the programmers of the video game used in the Japanese version.

Fabrizio Pirovano

Fabrizio Pirovano (born February 1, 1960) is an Italian former motorcycle road racer from Biassono.

Gary Nixon

Nixon was also known for his partnership with legendary tuner Erv Kanemoto when they won the 1973 U.S. National Road Racing Championship for Kawasaki.

Gregorio Lavilla

Gregorio Lavilla (born September 29, 1974 in Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, Tarragona, Spain) is a professional motorcycle road racer.

Holme Moss

It has often been used for domestic competition in British road racing and mountain biking.

Lotus Mark III

In 1951, Chapman began to focus on a car for road racing, rather than trials, to compete in the 750 Motor Club formula, which used the Austin 7 as a basis.

Patricia Alcivar

Patricia Alcivar aka "Patty Boom Boom Alcivar"(born December 12, 1977) is a professional boxer, competitive road and adventure racer, model and commercial/fitness actress.

Sébastien Gimbert

Sébastien Gimbert (born September 9, 1977, in Le Puy-en-Velay, France) is a professional motorcycle road racer.

Stadium truck

Their appearance most closely resembles that of full scale trophy trucks and short-course trucks.

Union Mills

Union Mills village is situated between the second and third milestones of the Snaefell Mountain Course road-racing circuit and is part of both the Isle of Man TT course used since 1911 and the Manx Grand Prix since 1923.

World Series of Off-Road Racing

WSORR events were shown tape delayed on American television on Speed Channel and on Motors TV in Europe.


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Jarit Johnson

Brother of NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and a former NASCAR competitios, he currently competes in off-road racing, driving in the TORC: The Off Road Championship series.

José Manuel Ponce

This was the first time a Mexican American competed in this endurance race known to many as the Nürburgring of off road racing in Germany.

Shane Watts

Known for his unpredictability and disregard to injury, many call Watts the "Travis Pastrana" of off-road racing.

Test Drive Off-Road

GameSpot said for the PlayStation version, "Test Drive: Off Road is an acceptable entry in the suddenly crowded field of off-road racing games."

Vildósola

Gus Vildósola (born 1953), Mexican off-road racing driver and businessman

Yanik Silver

The club has scuba dived off Iceland's Silfra Ravine, been off-road racing with Jesse James, annually spend a week at Richard Branson's Necker Island, had simulation dogfights in Word War II-era planes, and featured sessions with Tony Hawk, John Paul DeJoria, James, and Branson.