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Sport
  
desert off-road racing

Headquarters
  
Las Vegas, Nevada

Abbreviation
  
BITD

Chief Exec
  
Casey Folks

Best in the Desert

The Best In The Desert (BITD) Racing Association is an American desert off-road racing association. It is operated by Casey Folks and it is based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. BITD runs the Vegas To Reno, The longest off-road race in the United States and since 2012 is the sanctioning body of the Mint 400.

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Events

It has 9 events scheduled for the 2015 season (2015 Schedule).

  • Parker 425 - the event began in 1971 as a NORRA event. SCORE International sanctioned the event until 1998. Whiplash Motorsports held the event until BITD began sanctioning it in 2003. The 2008 had over 300 entrants.
  • Vegas to Reno - the flagship event of the series.
  • Bluewater Desert Challenge
  • Henderson 250

    • Media

    Events are nationally televised on MavTV, its website, and the America One Sports Network.

    Divisions

    The Best In The Desert has classes of Trick Trucks (aka Trophy Truck), buggies, motorcycles, Quads. Various events have different classes of racing vehicles.

    Notable drivers

  • Robby Gordon
  • Mike Groff
  • Robbie Groff
  • Rod Hall
  • Curt LeDuc
  • Rob MacCachren
  • Quinn Cody

    • References

    Best in the Desert Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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