A CHANGING OF THE GUARD
FROM the UTV race, with over 130 entrants, the fiercely competitive Everyman Challenge with Legends and Stock Classes battling it out, to the ‘mini’ Baja for 1 000bhp desert racing trucks with a cool $100 000 winners cheque, King of the Hammers (KoH) continues to defy belief with how much it keeps growing. But more than its size and the brutality of the course, the main race itself couldn’t have been scripted to be any more thrilling.
Qualifying was just a short blast over the hill outside Hammer Town and a loop back again… but this being KoH, where the levels of off-roading extremities are unimaginable anywhere else, it served to sort the men from the boys. As well as allowing the cream to rise to the top, with a front row of double winner Lauren Healy and triple King Jason Scherer, new names like youngster Jordan Pellegrino and Michael Bou had a chance to shine. Despite being only a few seconds
