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This Bronco R design will also be made available as part of the 2021 Bronco Instructions service that I have active at present - DM for details.
Returning to the harsh Mexican desert that solidified the Bronco brand’s off-road racing heritage, Bronco, Ford’s outdoor brand of Built Wild™ 4x4 SUVs, will run the legendary SCORE-International Baja 1000 with the Bronco R race prototype, plus an all-new 2021 Bronco Outer Banks™ two-door preproduction support vehicle.
Baja champion Cameron Steele and Rebelle Rally winner and seasoned Baja racer Shelby Hall will pilot the Bronco R race prototype, along with a team of veteran Ford off-road racers including Johnny Campbell, Curt LeDuc and Jason Scherer, who will rotate shifts for the 53rd running of the race that begins today and ends late on Saturday.
The historic race, which serves as a platform for the Bronco Built Wild Extreme Testing regimen, underscores Ford Performance’s race-proven technology transfer as both race and production Bronco two- and four-door SUV at Baja are powered by fully stock Ford 2.7-liter EcoBoost® turbocharged V6 engines and Ford 10-speed SelectShift® automatic transmissions.
With Ford as the official SUV and Truck of SCORE-International Off-Road Racing and official vehicle of the ULTRA4 King of the Hammers off-road competition, the all-new 2021 F-Series Super Duty Tremor and legendary F-150 Raptor will also be supporting the Bronco R race team.
This Bronco R design will also be made available as part of the 2021 Bronco Instructions service that I have active at present - DM for details.
Returning to the harsh Mexican desert that solidified the Bronco brand’s off-road racing heritage, Bronco, Ford’s outdoor brand of Built Wild™ 4x4 SUVs, will run the legendary SCORE-International Baja 1000 with the Bronco R race prototype, plus an all-new 2021 Bronco Outer Banks™ two-door preproduction support vehicle.
Baja champion Cameron Steele and Rebelle Rally winner and seasoned Baja racer Shelby Hall will pilot the Bronco R race prototype, along with a team of veteran Ford off-road racers including Johnny Campbell, Curt LeDuc and Jason Scherer, who will rotate shifts for the 53rd running of the race that begins today and ends late on Saturday.
The historic race, which serves as a platform for the Bronco Built Wild Extreme Testing regimen, underscores Ford Performance’s race-proven technology transfer as both race and production Bronco two- and four-door SUV at Baja are powered by fully stock Ford 2.7-liter EcoBoost® turbocharged V6 engines and Ford 10-speed SelectShift® automatic transmissions.
With Ford as the official SUV and Truck of SCORE-International Off-Road Racing and official vehicle of the ULTRA4 King of the Hammers off-road competition, the all-new 2021 F-Series Super Duty Tremor and legendary F-150 Raptor will also be supporting the Bronco R race team.
My first visit to KOH Ultra4 racing
the bigma 120-300 is still sharp at almost 300mm wide open
Photo: ValtersBoze.com
A test and tune day at Prairie City Off Highway Vehicle Park with a couple friends and racers. The cars are fast.
This Bronco R design will also be made available as part of the 2021 Bronco Instructions service that I have active at present - DM for details.
Returning to the harsh Mexican desert that solidified the Bronco brand’s off-road racing heritage, Bronco, Ford’s outdoor brand of Built Wild™ 4x4 SUVs, will run the legendary SCORE-International Baja 1000 with the Bronco R race prototype, plus an all-new 2021 Bronco Outer Banks™ two-door preproduction support vehicle.
Baja champion Cameron Steele and Rebelle Rally winner and seasoned Baja racer Shelby Hall will pilot the Bronco R race prototype, along with a team of veteran Ford off-road racers including Johnny Campbell, Curt LeDuc and Jason Scherer, who will rotate shifts for the 53rd running of the race that begins today and ends late on Saturday.
The historic race, which serves as a platform for the Bronco Built Wild Extreme Testing regimen, underscores Ford Performance’s race-proven technology transfer as both race and production Bronco two- and four-door SUV at Baja are powered by fully stock Ford 2.7-liter EcoBoost® turbocharged V6 engines and Ford 10-speed SelectShift® automatic transmissions.
With Ford as the official SUV and Truck of SCORE-International Off-Road Racing and official vehicle of the ULTRA4 King of the Hammers off-road competition, the all-new 2021 F-Series Super Duty Tremor and legendary F-150 Raptor will also be supporting the Bronco R race team.
DEARBORN, Mich., Jan. 24, 2022 – Two icons that have tackled off-road terrain for years are coming together to take on even more: Bronco® and Raptor™. Built for desert running and boulder crawling, the all-new 2022 Ford Bronco Raptor gives off-roaders next-level performance.
Bronco Raptor, the newest member of the Bronco outdoor brand of Built Wild™ SUVs, debuts today as the most powerful street-legal Bronco ever, and the world’s first Ultra4 Racing-inspired SUV. Ford Performance, the same team that produces the F-150 Raptor, designed and engineered Bronco Raptor as a calling to hardcore off-road enthusiasts.
Bronco Raptor is equipped with elite off-road technology and hardware. Ultra4 Racing is the epitome of grueling off-road competition, featuring demanding races such as the famed King of the Hammers in the Johnson Valley in California, where Bronco Raptor will be on display on Feb. 3. Ford and Bronco will continue as the official truck and SUV of the Ultra4 series.
With the addition of Bronco Raptor, Ford once again expands its Raptor high-performance off-road vehicle franchise, which also includes F-150 Raptor for North America and Ranger Raptor for global markets.
“Raptor is the apex of our off-road lineup and is now a full lineup with race proven content and design that you can’t get from anyone else,” said Jim Farley, chief executive officer, Ford Motor Company. “Only Ford could create a Bronco Raptor.”
Driving through a large rock course at Prairie City off highway vehicle park in an Ultra4 4400 class race car.
This Bronco R design will also be made available as part of the 2021 Bronco Instructions service that I have active at present - DM for details.
Returning to the harsh Mexican desert that solidified the Bronco brand’s off-road racing heritage, Bronco, Ford’s outdoor brand of Built Wild™ 4x4 SUVs, will run the legendary SCORE-International Baja 1000 with the Bronco R race prototype, plus an all-new 2021 Bronco Outer Banks™ two-door preproduction support vehicle.
Baja champion Cameron Steele and Rebelle Rally winner and seasoned Baja racer Shelby Hall will pilot the Bronco R race prototype, along with a team of veteran Ford off-road racers including Johnny Campbell, Curt LeDuc and Jason Scherer, who will rotate shifts for the 53rd running of the race that begins today and ends late on Saturday.
The historic race, which serves as a platform for the Bronco Built Wild Extreme Testing regimen, underscores Ford Performance’s race-proven technology transfer as both race and production Bronco two- and four-door SUV at Baja are powered by fully stock Ford 2.7-liter EcoBoost® turbocharged V6 engines and Ford 10-speed SelectShift® automatic transmissions.
With Ford as the official SUV and Truck of SCORE-International Off-Road Racing and official vehicle of the ULTRA4 King of the Hammers off-road competition, the all-new 2021 F-Series Super Duty Tremor and legendary F-150 Raptor will also be supporting the Bronco R race team.
DEARBORN, Mich., Jan. 24, 2022 – Two icons that have tackled off-road terrain for years are coming together to take on even more: Bronco® and Raptor™. Built for desert running and boulder crawling, the all-new 2022 Ford Bronco Raptor gives off-roaders next-level performance.
Bronco Raptor, the newest member of the Bronco outdoor brand of Built Wild™ SUVs, debuts today as the most powerful street-legal Bronco ever, and the world’s first Ultra4 Racing-inspired SUV. Ford Performance, the same team that produces the F-150 Raptor, designed and engineered Bronco Raptor as a calling to hardcore off-road enthusiasts.
Bronco Raptor is equipped with elite off-road technology and hardware. Ultra4 Racing is the epitome of grueling off-road competition, featuring demanding races such as the famed King of the Hammers in the Johnson Valley in California, where Bronco Raptor will be on display on Feb. 3. Ford and Bronco will continue as the official truck and SUV of the Ultra4 series.
With the addition of Bronco Raptor, Ford once again expands its Raptor high-performance off-road vehicle franchise, which also includes F-150 Raptor for North America and Ranger Raptor for global markets.
“Raptor is the apex of our off-road lineup and is now a full lineup with race proven content and design that you can’t get from anyone else,” said Jim Farley, chief executive officer, Ford Motor Company. “Only Ford could create a Bronco Raptor.”
The team that created the F-150 Raptor is unveiling a desert-dune conquering, boulder-crawling, street legal SUV it calls the ultimate vehicle for hardcore off-road enthusiasts who want next-level capability. The all-new 2022 Ford Bronco Raptor – designed and engineered by Ford Performance - is inspired by Ultra 4 Racing. It comes with standard 37” all-terrain tires, an exclusive twin-turbo 3.0-liter EcoBoost engine targeted to deliver more than 400 horsepower, and a Raptor HOSS 4.0 race-ready suspension system, with a fully boxed, high-strength steel frame.
Built for highway-speed desert racing and Baja rock crawling, the Bronco Raptor is 9.8”wider than a base Bronco four-door for more confident high-speed cornering. The styling is also extreme with Raptor styling cues like model-specific LED headlights to provide a mincing look and the Ford block lettering at the front stretches across the signature two-piece rectangular grille.
Full details = www.AutomotiveRhythms.com
Shooting our model Emma for poster and 8x10s for Ellett Racing
4470 Ultra4 Race Machine
OG Extreme Off-Road Buggy Shoot
This Bronco R design will also be made available as part of the 2021 Bronco Instructions service that I have active at present - DM for details.
Returning to the harsh Mexican desert that solidified the Bronco brand’s off-road racing heritage, Bronco, Ford’s outdoor brand of Built Wild™ 4x4 SUVs, will run the legendary SCORE-International Baja 1000 with the Bronco R race prototype, plus an all-new 2021 Bronco Outer Banks™ two-door preproduction support vehicle.
Baja champion Cameron Steele and Rebelle Rally winner and seasoned Baja racer Shelby Hall will pilot the Bronco R race prototype, along with a team of veteran Ford off-road racers including Johnny Campbell, Curt LeDuc and Jason Scherer, who will rotate shifts for the 53rd running of the race that begins today and ends late on Saturday.
The historic race, which serves as a platform for the Bronco Built Wild Extreme Testing regimen, underscores Ford Performance’s race-proven technology transfer as both race and production Bronco two- and four-door SUV at Baja are powered by fully stock Ford 2.7-liter EcoBoost® turbocharged V6 engines and Ford 10-speed SelectShift® automatic transmissions.
With Ford as the official SUV and Truck of SCORE-International Off-Road Racing and official vehicle of the ULTRA4 King of the Hammers off-road competition, the all-new 2021 F-Series Super Duty Tremor and legendary F-150 Raptor will also be supporting the Bronco R race team.
King of the Hammers #38
Same spot as the last one. Another design for the Ultra 4 class. Compare the size of this one to image #35 - same class.
King of the Hammer #32
See "Moon Rise...." (first image in the series) for full dialog on the event.
This event was televised world wide, using choppers and drones. A couple of previous images had them charging and tossing sand. They were heading towards and up this hill.
Post: Luminar & Lightroom 5.
DEARBORN, Mich., Jan. 24, 2022 – Two icons that have tackled off-road terrain for years are coming together to take on even more: Bronco® and Raptor™. Built for desert running and boulder crawling, the all-new 2022 Ford Bronco Raptor gives off-roaders next-level performance.
Bronco Raptor, the newest member of the Bronco outdoor brand of Built Wild™ SUVs, debuts today as the most powerful street-legal Bronco ever, and the world’s first Ultra4 Racing-inspired SUV. Ford Performance, the same team that produces the F-150 Raptor, designed and engineered Bronco Raptor as a calling to hardcore off-road enthusiasts.
Bronco Raptor is equipped with elite off-road technology and hardware. Ultra4 Racing is the epitome of grueling off-road competition, featuring demanding races such as the famed King of the Hammers in the Johnson Valley in California, where Bronco Raptor will be on display on Feb. 3. Ford and Bronco will continue as the official truck and SUV of the Ultra4 series.
With the addition of Bronco Raptor, Ford once again expands its Raptor high-performance off-road vehicle franchise, which also includes F-150 Raptor for North America and Ranger Raptor for global markets.
“Raptor is the apex of our off-road lineup and is now a full lineup with race proven content and design that you can’t get from anyone else,” said Jim Farley, chief executive officer, Ford Motor Company. “Only Ford could create a Bronco Raptor.”
This Bronco R design will also be made available as part of the 2021 Bronco Instructions service that I have active at present - DM for details.
Returning to the harsh Mexican desert that solidified the Bronco brand’s off-road racing heritage, Bronco, Ford’s outdoor brand of Built Wild™ 4x4 SUVs, will run the legendary SCORE-International Baja 1000 with the Bronco R race prototype, plus an all-new 2021 Bronco Outer Banks™ two-door preproduction support vehicle.
Baja champion Cameron Steele and Rebelle Rally winner and seasoned Baja racer Shelby Hall will pilot the Bronco R race prototype, along with a team of veteran Ford off-road racers including Johnny Campbell, Curt LeDuc and Jason Scherer, who will rotate shifts for the 53rd running of the race that begins today and ends late on Saturday.
The historic race, which serves as a platform for the Bronco Built Wild Extreme Testing regimen, underscores Ford Performance’s race-proven technology transfer as both race and production Bronco two- and four-door SUV at Baja are powered by fully stock Ford 2.7-liter EcoBoost® turbocharged V6 engines and Ford 10-speed SelectShift® automatic transmissions.
With Ford as the official SUV and Truck of SCORE-International Off-Road Racing and official vehicle of the ULTRA4 King of the Hammers off-road competition, the all-new 2021 F-Series Super Duty Tremor and legendary F-150 Raptor will also be supporting the Bronco R race team.
DEARBORN, Mich., Jan. 24, 2022 – Two icons that have tackled off-road terrain for years are coming together to take on even more: Bronco® and Raptor™. Built for desert running and boulder crawling, the all-new 2022 Ford Bronco Raptor gives off-roaders next-level performance.
Bronco Raptor, the newest member of the Bronco outdoor brand of Built Wild™ SUVs, debuts today as the most powerful street-legal Bronco ever, and the world’s first Ultra4 Racing-inspired SUV. Ford Performance, the same team that produces the F-150 Raptor, designed and engineered Bronco Raptor as a calling to hardcore off-road enthusiasts.
Bronco Raptor is equipped with elite off-road technology and hardware. Ultra4 Racing is the epitome of grueling off-road competition, featuring demanding races such as the famed King of the Hammers in the Johnson Valley in California, where Bronco Raptor will be on display on Feb. 3. Ford and Bronco will continue as the official truck and SUV of the Ultra4 series.
With the addition of Bronco Raptor, Ford once again expands its Raptor high-performance off-road vehicle franchise, which also includes F-150 Raptor for North America and Ranger Raptor for global markets.
“Raptor is the apex of our off-road lineup and is now a full lineup with race proven content and design that you can’t get from anyone else,” said Jim Farley, chief executive officer, Ford Motor Company. “Only Ford could create a Bronco Raptor.”
This Bronco R design will also be made available as part of the 2021 Bronco Instructions service that I have active at present - DM for details.
Returning to the harsh Mexican desert that solidified the Bronco brand’s off-road racing heritage, Bronco, Ford’s outdoor brand of Built Wild™ 4x4 SUVs, will run the legendary SCORE-International Baja 1000 with the Bronco R race prototype, plus an all-new 2021 Bronco Outer Banks™ two-door preproduction support vehicle.
Baja champion Cameron Steele and Rebelle Rally winner and seasoned Baja racer Shelby Hall will pilot the Bronco R race prototype, along with a team of veteran Ford off-road racers including Johnny Campbell, Curt LeDuc and Jason Scherer, who will rotate shifts for the 53rd running of the race that begins today and ends late on Saturday.
The historic race, which serves as a platform for the Bronco Built Wild Extreme Testing regimen, underscores Ford Performance’s race-proven technology transfer as both race and production Bronco two- and four-door SUV at Baja are powered by fully stock Ford 2.7-liter EcoBoost® turbocharged V6 engines and Ford 10-speed SelectShift® automatic transmissions.
With Ford as the official SUV and Truck of SCORE-International Off-Road Racing and official vehicle of the ULTRA4 King of the Hammers off-road competition, the all-new 2021 F-Series Super Duty Tremor and legendary F-150 Raptor will also be supporting the Bronco R race team.
Maxxis King Of Britain 2016
Racing Day 2
# #ultra4europe #ultra4 #maxxis #kob #kingofbritain #bovington
Unpack the scuba gear, it’s time for some racing.
We are now officially half way thru the Ultra4 US & European circuit (6 races down, 6 to go) and it’s worth pausing, even for just a race second, to reflect on how far this sport has come. I need to be careful, as to not repeat myself when returning from every race, but this year has truly been an amazing achievement for our sport and racing in general. From parmesan to corn dogs, Ultra4 is the ultimate everybody come together experience. If asked “can we all get along?” you answer “Hell yeah!” in Ultra4. Do not mistake this camaraderie, in a magnitude unlike any other motorsport on the planet, for lack of competitive drive and spirit. Every race I have hit this year commanded a field of drivers & machines faster than ever before, and in numbers far exceeding my wildest expectations.
Last weekend’s Badlands UMC, hosted at the Badlands Off-Road Park in Attica Indiana, is testament to this growing trend. We watched 40 racers battle it out in the harshest of harsh terrain, a venue increase in over 70% from just two years prior. More racers paves the way for more competition, and it was the fiercest racing battle I’ve seen since King of the Hammers. The best of the best were there, and the carnage even among the great was uncanny. Dead alternators & batteries, blown axles, unhappy motors & transmissions, upside down machines in the woods, double scratched cornea’s (yes, even Chuck Norris needs vision to race), “I lost count” roll overs… it was true racing madness. In a good way of course, all be it the muddiest and nastiest conditions I’ve seen yet.
Let’s talk a minute about the racecourse, and its addition of an optional climb or time penalty that would be a game changer in terms of racing strategy. As in years past, the racecourse was roughly 6 miles long, and from 6:30pm to 9pm drivers battled it out in a lap based, mixed rock and trail driven, endurance style race. As was always the case, the driver with the most laps wins. In the event where drivers tie in lap count, the winner is than decided by best time. The course was wetter than ever, thanks in large part to mother nature crying all over the track sporadically for days and stopping only minutes before the drop of the green flag. It was this rain that caused once climbable obstacles to be near impossible. Enter the optional climb or time penalty.
The final Wall in the rock quarry would be optional this year. Done more in an effort to help control the flow of traffic in this ever so packed race, this option would play out as follows: drivers could attack the Wall, as one would normally do, or elect to bypass the Wall and receive a 5 minute time penalty. Sounded simple enough, but this little mix of option added a deep level of racing strategy, a trend that seems to be finding its home in Ultra4 a little bit more each race. There could be two methods of controlling the penalty, each equally fair but each laying out its own type of strategy. The first method would involve physically holding drivers for five minutes. In this method, if you could knock out the Wall in less than 5 minutes you would be ahead of the game. However, it was the second method that was used, in that you were stopped at a checkpoint, identified and recorded as bypassing the Wall, and free to carry on. You would receive a 5-minute penalty on your total time, but remember it is the total lap count that decides the victor, with time only playing a roll in the event of a lap count tie.
So if you could one shot the Wall, the best strategy would have been to do just that, one or two times more than the lap leader but likely no more, assuming of course you were able to stay on their tail everywhere else and match (or beat) their lap count. It was a strategy that I found myself only truly figuring out after the race was over, the more I thought about it the more I appreciated the added element. Ultra4 is known for its technical flair in course design, notably the rock sections that require careful calculations to maneuver without destruction of vehicle, but the added elements of optional climbs also fuels this technical side, albeit from a different angle. In the end, everything added together makes for a race that requires not only the best drivers, and the best parts, but those with the foresight to find the best path to victory.
Shannon Campbell is fast, we all know this, but I still find it amazing he can travel all the way from his shop in Gilbert, Arizona and be right at home in the 165% humidity driven marshes of Badlands. Shannon qualified in the morning before the race in the top of the field, and like many others tackled the optional Wall early on. While he was able to pull off his first attack with ease, by lap 2 the Wall had already changed by the other drivers who passed, and Shannon would end up on his side nearing the top of the climb. Getting rolled back over, and finishing his work on the Wall that 2nd go around, it would be the last time I saw Shannon attack that obstacle. He elected to bypass the Wall every lap after, and while he was racking up penalties lap after lap, his command for the course and insane 15 minute average lap times, allowed him to complete 11 total laps. If you wanted to beat this machine, you needed better than 11 laps, or 11 laps with a few less penalties. The race was close, as we now come to expect with the prowess of today’s Ultra4 driver & machine, but it was Shannon who took top honors in the end. A huge congrats to Shannon, it was a brilliantly run race and his to win.
It was Shannon’s second win in a row for Badlands (Shannon took the top spot last year as well), and the celebration for the Campbell family was only getting warmed up. Shannon was racing alongside his daughter Bailey and son Wayland, who finished 12th and 15th respectively. That’s enough to earn the entire family spots in the 2015 King of the Hammers, yes that’s three Campbells racing in KOH. I was already having a hard time telling the difference in racing speed between Wayland and Shannon, now we can officially add Bailey to that list. These two young Campbells are only getting faster too, so watch out.
Next up in the top three, we had Mike Colville taking 2nd place. Running an absolutely amazing race in his brand new Spider 9 powered IFS racer, Mike knows this course better than most. He took top honors at Badlands two years prior, but since then the field of competition has grown exponentially. I headed straight to the pits after the race was finished to congratulate Mike, no idea really where he finished but confident enough it was in the top 5. His daughter (guessing around 5 years old?) came up to me, a large smile on her face and hands neatly folded, and proclaimed “we are anxiously awaiting the results” and then stood there, smiling away. I know there’s nothing better in the world then your kids thinking you are the most badass rock star in the world, they were on cloud 9 in that tent. Congrats Mike, it was great watching you in your element.
Finishing it off, we had Loren Healy taking the 3rd place spot. Loren only gives out those big smiles when he takes 1st, I get it… he’s one of the best out there and wants that top spot. As of the writing of this post, I couldn’t find official series points, but running some quick numbers Loren took 1st at KOH, 13th at Hot Springs, 2nd at the Stampede, and 3rd at last weekends Badlands UMC… all in his older than most Spider 9 powered solid axle machine. If he isn’t 1st in the series, he’s got to be close; the consistency race after race really is a mark of an amazing driver who knows his machine inside and out.
We have plenty of photos to go thru, a few extra stories to tell, and in typical fashion we’ll share those throughout the week. Next up in the Ultra4 series is the Ultra4 Grand Prix in San Bernardino, California July 11-12th. That’s right, we have this weekend off… no better break from the action than spending a little quality time with the family. Till next time.
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Spidertrax | Thom Kingston | CC BY 3.0
Maxxis Off Road Rampage Special 21th August 2016 (Car Race 3)
Kirton Off Road Centre
Full Set
Off-Road Rampage UK Championship 2016
# #OffRoadRampage #ORR #devilspit #KirtonOffRoadCentre #4x4 #extreme #Ulta4 #Maxxis #MaxxisTyres #MCF #KING #Odyssey #Wildernesslightings #Allisports #outbackimport #euro4x4parts