Have you ever seen any car racing as crazy as this?
This is extreme rock crawling combined with desert racing, better known to those in the know as King of the Hammers. It's a race series designed for Ultra 4 vehicles which I was over in Yukka Valley, CA for recently.
Some of the vehicles have 4 wheel steering and a suspension travel that even Bowler would be proud of, but most impressive is the raw of their 160 GM V8 engines, yes 160 of them. In a time trial line-out start, all vehicles start in a creeping procession before all hell breaks loose in an 8 hour endurance race across the desert, which allegedly, is also the Crystal Meth capital of the U.S.
The race is a true war of attrition, though it does go on a bit, a bit like Le Mans, though here you quite literally have light from classic California and shade from your RV. In a pop-up "town" that numbers in excess of 30,000, "Hammer Town" as they call it, the RV is the temporary home of choice here, as everywhere in the U.S. However, the dust that is kicked up here is immense, so this is not a place for those of you with asthma or a propensity towards ADHD for cleaning.
With that aside, come for the sonic orchestral pleasure of all those V8's, racing for 170 miles over 8 hours.
This year the series makes tracks in the New Forest, England 7 - 9th October.
http://ultra4racing.com/