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Video Start 00:00
Intro 2:55
Miles Hasselquist & Ian Johnson Open 4:10
Prayer w/ Chaplain Steve Hanson 11:11
National Anthem w/ Cynthia Adame 12:45
Nitto Race of Kings – Off The Line 22:44
AK Whatley w/ Pam Hall 32:20
Paul Horschel w/ Pam Hall 39:50
x4 On Car – OracleLynn, TommyDykstra, TadDowker, CameronSteele 1:22:40
Loren Healy Pits w/ Miles Hasselquist 1:41:38
Jason Scherer Pit w/ Miles Hasselquist 1:42:30
Raul Gomez Pit w/ Miles Hasselquist 1:45:40
Darian Gomez Pit w/ Miles Hasselquist 1:57:05
Cole Johnson w/ Matt Holt 1:59:30
Amber Turner w/ Miles Hasselquist 2:04:36
Motorsports Event Director Ben Napier 2:15:40
Cameron Steele w/ Miles Hasselquist 2:22:15
Motorsports Event Director Ben Napier w/ Miles Hasselquist 3:31:24
Casey Currie Pit w/ Tiffany Stone 3:45:15
Raul Gomez Pit w/ Miles Hasselquist 3:50:44
Casey Currie Pit 3:59:17
Casey Currie Pit w/ Miles Hasselquist 4:00:05
Shannon Campbell w/ Tiffany Stone 4:01:50
Marcos Gomez Pit 4:14:00
Kyle Cheney Pit 4:16:45
JP Gomez Pit w/ Miles Hasselquist 4:36:20
Loren Healy Pit w/ Miles Hasselquist 4:38:30
Chris Corbin w/ Miles Hasselquist 4:41:00
Jason Scherer w/ Miles Hasselquist 4:48:50
Edwin Abd w/ Miles Hasselquist 5:25:39
Edwin Abd Proposes to Lindsay 5:27:00
Bailey Bryant w/ Tiffany Stone 5:35:20
Casey Currie Pit w/ Tiffany Stone 6:10:50
Casey Currie w/ Tiffany Stone 6:39:39
Kyle Cheney Finishes Physical 1st 7:00:00
Kyle Cheney w/ Miles Hasselquist 7:05:50
JP Gomez Finishes Physical 2nd 7:16:35
Brett Harrell Finishes Physical 3rd 7:18:27
JP Gomez Celebration 7:47:40
JP Gomez w/ Jim Marsden 7:52:00
Brett Harrell w/ Pam Hall 8:06:33
Erik Miller w/ Pam Hall 8:25:40
Daniel Fresh w/ Pam Hall 8:42:32
Vaughn Gittin Jr. w/ Pam Hall 8:49:20
Kevin Stearns w/ Pam Hall 9:03:33
Tad Dowker w/ Pam Hall 9:08:08
Raul Gomez w/ Pam Hall 9:13:30
JP Gomez Accepts The Reign 9:16:00
Jordan Pellegrino w/ Pam Hall 9:21:30
Levi Shirley w/ Pam Hall 9:27:45
AK Whatley w/ Pam Hall 9:33:55
Denny Sterndahl w/ Emme Hall 9:41:50
Cody Miller w/ Emme Hall 9:47:00
Matt McCowan w/ Emme Hall 9:57:00
Guy Miller w/ Emme Hall 10:02:14
Jeren Gunter w/ Emme Hall 10:06:10
Josh Sowell w/ Emme Hall 10:11:47
Chad Hundt w/ Emme Hall 10:15:40
Brent Burton w/ Emme Hall 10:19:30
Amber Turner w/ Emme Hall 10:22:12
Garry Easley w/ Emme Hall 10:29:17
Bryan Reid w/ Emme Hall 10:32:52
Pat Backwith w/ Emme Hall 10:37:10
Jeff Waggoner w/ Emme Hall 10:43:23
Bailey Cole w/ Ian Johnson 10:48:30
Chad Owens w/ Emme Hall 10:53:08
Bryan Crofts w/ Ian Johnson 10:58:42
Dalton Hamilton w/ Emme Hall 11:06:55
Mel Wade w/ Emme Hall 11:13:52
Tim Hooper w/ Emme Hall 11:20:00
Hunter Sparrow w/ Emme Hall 11:25:44
Jon Dawes w/ Emme Hall 11:30:10
Phillip McGlinton w/ Emme Hall 11:35:35
Awards Ceramony w/ Pam Hall 11:42:00
Nitto Race of Kings – 3rd Place: John Webb 11:44:10
Nitto Race of Kings – 2nd Place: Brett Harrell 11:46:36
Nitto Race of Kings – 1st Place: JP Gomez 11:49:15
Wrap Up 11:53:16
Tires 11:54:44
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E e He And welcome to Johnson Valley California I am miles hasselquist and it is the big day for the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nto tires powered by Optima batters we are about to kick off the Nitto race of Kings we have a three-lap race here lap
One goes out in the desert and then lap two and three are in the Rocks it’s going to be one heck of a day don’t go anywhere Jim we’re about to get this part already started we’ve been racing all week long for this day right here we have indeed miles what a fantastic
Morning it is here in hammertown just looking out across there the sun is shining there’s a light Breeze already it’s almost perfect race conditions we had rain a couple of days ago that’s steadying the dust I was out there on track myself yesterday and I can tell you now it’s perfect race conditions
Absolutely and let’s talk about that because the rain no dust so I think they’re going to be pushing very hard we saw a lot of ring and pinion breakages because of that because you can really check Chase those people in front of you and you out the far side on the lake bed
There’s nothing you can do about it that is going to be there but the majority of the desert is still showing like that light dirt that dark color when you get onto it which means we’re going to see some very very close driving we saw it yesterday in the Everyman challenge
Drivers getting right up on the backsides of other cars we’ve never seen that quite like that in other years because of dust so I’m really excited to see the racing today on that first lap it’s going to be amazing and in that pole position is Mr Cade Rod he had an
Amazing run a few days ago so he’s going to be the first one off the line let’s uh let’s kind of check out his highlight reel from qualifying just a few days ago yeah and absolutely now when we talk about qualifying at King of the Hammers
There’s some go-to names we go to Lauren Healey we got a sh Jason Shir these are the guys always at the pointy end but this is Cade Rod this is a young man he’s been there he’s seen it he’s done it he’s grown up with King of the
Hammers and to see his rise to the top has been absolutely nothing short of dramatic and it was an amazing run he had he was on the Ragged Edge but he kept it under control on that threemile qualifier and put that car on the pole position for the first time for that
Young man here at King of the Hammers with the biggest names in the sport he’s got a great thing going we has but let’s just talk about this because he didn’t just put it on the top of the box he put it on the top of the box by nearly half
A minute now that is astonishing Pace now Jason Shir is the go-to man when you need to lay down the fastest lap of your life but it seems to me that the hierarchy is changing him miles yeah it’s it’s going to be interesting to see
How it shakes out for sure Kade Rod ran that heck of a race and had so much or a heck of a qualifying run and watch him he’s getting ready to drop that first ledge and then launches off back door makes it look like it’s not even there
It’s going to be very interesting to see and remember he is in a single seater side by side with Paul wolf so two so navigation could play a factor in this cuz it’s two single seats out front without a navigator sitting next to them
Well I can tell you now that this m will have been doing plenty of pre-running he knows these Trails incredibly well but you’re right navigation is a massive issue now we saw yesterday there were wellknown drivers we know that are well-known drivers that were having navigation issues and picked up vcp
Penalties because of it it’s so important that you hit these vcps now if you don’t know what a vcp is it’s a virtual checkpoint it only exists in The Ether basically on a GPS map file but it’s to make sure that you stay honest and that you do not cut course so these
Drivers have to follow the course and they have to hit these secret V well they’re not secret they’re clearly marked on their map but they have to hit them otherwise they will get a five minute 5 minute infringement penalty and that is just a great high and wide of
All these drivers sitting in their car double-checking everything and that’s going through their head right now is there anything I missed what is going to happen here you know they’re going through the mental checklist right now getting ready to race the biggest race of the year for each and every one of
Them these are the biggest and baddest names in our sport there is Oracle Lynn on board the hammer keing production crew has done an amazing job this year with all the we have we’ll have over 30 cameras covering this race a couple helicopters I hope you guys are going to
Have as much fun as we are I can’t wait to get started miles we have the biggest and baddest names in our Sports sitting there if you actually look down the list of these cars it is remarkable how many kings have we got racing today all of them
Mil yeah R Gomez Jason Shear Rusty bler sorry Randy SL and Tom ways he isn’t racing Nei man I’m going through a a little mental there that’s okay mate it’s still early in the morning you’ll catch your toes in a bit I’m getting in here you
Guys right as we continue to look down on the lineup here there are so many cars that we know the interesting thing for me is that we’ve also got cars that are being rebirthed cars that have been going from other cars to new cars but let’s have a look about last year’s King
Ral Gomez and of course his greatest rival Jason sheir amazing battle all the way to the end it was a lot of drama and it was what split at about 30 seconds last year it’s 38 seconds tell me when R cats rolling so here goes Gomez and Shear
We’re going to have a great little uh hit from last year’s race I’m sorry lots of highlights from last year so much fun there sheer blasting through the Rocks Tom it’s going to be a great day isn’t It yeah it’s going to be pretty pretty fun to watch how this uh race transpires today there’s our current and two-time King r Gomez and look at this they’re battling they found that little spot they’re turning Tire to Tire action now the interesting thing for that for me is we
Got very much a different strategy going on there we got Jason Shir who’s going to have Jason um Berger at next to him and of course R’s out there on his on his own now Tom you’re a single seat driver what’s it like being out there
As Jason Shear from last year had a great run he’s won this race three times rul Gomez has won it twice there’s a lot of amazing drivers out there we’re going to see how it all shakes out today for the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by Nitto Tires
Powered by Optima batteries yesterday was an amazing race but I I think it’s just going to get even better and better it is indeed Mars and we’re just looking down now and you can see all the drivers making their final adjustments just going through their final Little Bits
And as you’re saying they’ll just be checking things off in that car they’ll already have checklist they’ll already know where they’re pitting they’ll already know what their strategy is they’ll be where they’re going to be fueling where they’re not going to be doing these things I know about
That yeah so as we continue to watch the action here and the lineup here for the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nto tire and Power by Optima batteries we’ve got our man with the mik Ian down in the pits what have you got for us good morning
Hammer good morning hammertown here we are it is race day it’s time to kick things off right now with our good friend chappie Steve is going to lead us in the prayer for all of our drivers course workers and everyone who’s out there on course right now chaffie take
It away please bow with me as we pray father we are just so blessed that we get to come out here in the sandbox that you created and we just give you glory for that and thanks for that and we thank you for the passions and the abilities that you’ve put in these
Drivers and these Fabricators that made these cars and everyone that’s a pitting for them and the families that are cheering them on that they would just feel your presence today they’d feel them in their lives and everything that they do and great stories and memories would come from today that the your
Protection and favor would be upon this this race course and father just thank you for this country that you’ve you’ve given us that we would take the best care of it and we’d represent you well with our country and the men and the women that protect our freedoms that you
Would keep them safe and their families comfort in Jesus name we pray amen thank you thank you chappie Steve next on our list of to kick everything off today we have the Marine Core air combat Center out of 29 Palms going to come up here with our Color Guard I got to introduce
Her and here to sing what my good friend miles calls the greatest song in the world for the greatest country in the world here is Cynthia adame with our national anthem oh say can you see by the dawn’s early light what so proudly we hail at the Twilight last
Gleaming who Brad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight or the ramp parts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there all St do that Stars Spangled bner yet way
For the land of the free and the home of the [Laughter] bra all right with that we have all of our drivers in their car ready to kick off this 2024 King of the Hammers race the last thing we have to say is simply Racers start your
Engines well we are about to kick this off we have CAD rod and Paul wolf on that pole spot side by side it’s going to be a great day of action again I am miles hasis with my good friend Jim Marsden and we have another special guest the one and only Tom Ways hi guys pretty exciting here start of uh KO it’s the big day it’s we’ve been racing all week for a couple weeks now and it’s all about The 4400 Main Event Yeah so basically like was in R’s pit last night talking to the Gomez’s talk to maros njp talk about their
Strategy for today even Darion darion’s in the hunt this year he’s right there in the mix right in the pocket and in the past you could get away with being 20th or 21st to be 11 throw something like that I mean you looked at Eric Miller in his qualifying Tempo that man
Came to not qualify he came to here for race day and you can’t ever count out sosing but talking to Jason Shear last night too and what his thoughts were he’s always calm and collected yeah but I my advice to him cuz he’s like what’ you think Tom and I said you know
Honestly whose Breakaway are you going going to respect and that’s how early you go in this race and if you’re going to go off the front and you’re going to leave and run a short course Tempo and try to make it stick you’re going to make everybody else run your race
They’re not going to be able to run their own race and that’s the difference we have this year because there’s no dust this is going to be the most passing we’ve ever seen in lap one I think I forget what year it was the year I rolled in qualifying and started 98th
Or something I passed 80 guys in the first desert lap and 16 on lap two well I can verify that cuz I passed 16 yesterday so there’s a whole load of Chase Downs out there that you can get up to and the wonderful thing about the
Desert out the back is there is multiple lines you have not got to sit behind somebody you can get out of their you can get out of their tracks and work way around them and as you say that’s going to make some some very very fast overtaking now some of these cars here
Are capable of hitting speeds of over 120 mph so it’s going to be incredible but we’ve got so we’re way past that now I hit 134 in third lap last year that’s but let’s just talk about let’s just talk about that because running strong let’s just talk about that because
What’s Happening Here is we got many so many different types of vehicles so we’re going to have some Vehicles out there that have two-speed transfer cases we’re going to have some Vehicles out there that are rock Specialists that are running single speed transfer cases and that’s going to make a big difference in
The desert but you could also add the conversation with three-speed versus a four-speed transmission and that’s going to be the difference I mean if you have an RPM Motor and your engine guy is giving you the permission slip granted you can have 8500 RPM exactly and that
That changes everything so and then we but all of this is absolutely irrelevant unless you have suspension so we’re also talking about suspension tuning and we’ve also got some incredible stuff out there let’s look at Lauren Healey’s car as one example where he’s got fox live valve so he’s got computerized
Suspension talking to his engine and to his braking is that going to make a difference out there in the desert Tom I don’t know I mean complexity if you can make it survive is going to be the question I mean for me I think these
Guys are here for the Super Bowl and I think that everybody’s bringing as much as they can possibly bring this is the hardest race in the world I don’t think anything is a tougher tougher deal nobody comes in here crossover wise that’s ever really been able to make it
Stick the guys that are the guys that have been doing it from the beginning are the guys that are rock crawlers you call them Specialists and it used to be an endurance race but now it’s a Sprint endurance well I’m going to throw one name in there there’s one person that
Has come in and made it stick and that’s Bourn G Jr but he’s worked really really hard it’s taken him years but what he has become is probably one of if and I really need to check my records on this we were talking about this the other day
I think he’s possibly the most consistent finisher here at King of the Hammers prata on his start basis he’s always there in those sort of like top 10 top five moments and he always seems to be able to get him to the Finish now is that enough these days for him to be
A contender for the win I think if you look at the race right now it’s going to come down to not getting flat tires I think if you can keep air in your tires and keep moving on track and I I I can’t wait to see what the average speed is I
Mean I think some of the guys are giving up a little bit of top speed for reliability in the drivetrain and it’s a year or two there we don’t have the big runs across Emerson we don’t have the big run across Melville so the top end isn’t going to be quite as important
This year and like last year was the first year I’ve ever finished this race with a straight drive shaft I did a I did over 130 on lap three only because the drive line wasn’t bent usually by the end of the race you’re only doing 80
M an hour with the drive sha cuz it’s it feels like it’s going to come out of the car exactly there is also another Point Let’s this one in there as well we’ve always got had our Kings the Shannon Campell the Jason shearers the Randy
Sson Etc is it time for a new blood to come through we’re talking about Levi Shirley we’re talking about Daran Gomez we’re talking about make it simple Jim who is your Darkhorse pick today my Darkhorse pick I’m going to go for this and I’m actually going to say oh Levi
Shirley okay what about your M let’s go with the queen of the Hammers Bailey Campbell okay that’s going to be popular yeah interesting interesting I still can’t can’t decide I’m I’m I’m I’m mixed on this I one part of me I don’t know I I I can’t commit yet I
Tell you I Amin going to throw a name in there that nobody’s even talking about yet but he’s our highest placed solid axle qualifier and that’s Philip mcgilton okay he’s had a solid season all the way through 23 he was hitting victories he was right up at the pointy
End the whole time now he’s a guy who’s really pushing up through the field and he’s a dark horse right now I reckon there’s a strong possibility he could throw down a top five sounds like about a minute and a half from kicking off The 4400 Main Event the biggest and baddest
Names in our sport for the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by Nitto Tires powered by Optima batteries this is going to be one heck of a run on that front row is Cade rod and Paul wolf both in single seaters and you know what’s going
Through their mind right now when you have a minute to go you have your little butterflies your Jitters you’re checking your straps I I I love coming off pole Nick Nelson I came off pole one one year in 14 and it definitely is you have a little bit of responsibility because you
Don’t want to get everybody else behind you lost if you make the wrong turn yeah it’s a it’s yeah exactly what you just said if you turn wrong way everybody’s going to follow you and you don’t want to be that guy man it’s it
We’re about to kick it off we are we are literally I mean 20 seconds away and sitting there on the inside closest to us is Paul wolf outside of him is our fastest qualifier that is Mr Cade Rod both these guys are hard hard hitters now what a S horsepower these guys
Putting down they’re about sort of around the 700 750 no I think Kate’s got a little more motor than that and Paul Paul’s Paul’s never shy on a lot of motor these down to 10 seconds here we go8 is about to go 6 5 4 3 2 1 let’s go and it’s
Of Kade Rod out of Cortez Colorado with Jimmy’s 4×4 and his Jimmy’s 4×4 single seat machine yeah Andra lining up next to him is none other than Paul Wolf the nearly man here he has won absolutely everything else there is to win in Ultra 4 in the national series but it’s all
About this one for Paul right now he’s running on ifs UFO chassis and it’s Paul wol who gets the whole shot over Cade Rod now this could be tactical here from Cade Rod I know that he was the sit down and let somebody else navigate for him
Off the line now is number 67 Lauren Healey with Jesse AMX riding shotgun out of Farmington New Mexico with fun off-road team in that brand new Triton engineering Mid Engine 2C ifs yeah and alongside him is none other than Levi Shirley off-road armor Euro Fighter running a supercharged lt5 engine Zero Gravity 4
4l8 uh he’s been working really hard with Josh West to get this car dialed in they’ve done so much work to that vehicle and off the line now now is number 76 Jason Sharon Jason Burger three-time King of the Hammers Champion out of Danville California with rage
Fourth Rock royalty with that get get bit Fab 2C ifs Bronco with 74 W portals yeah and next to him he’s none other than two-time King and our reigning Champion R Gomez 2022 UFO single seat chassis Dugan’s engine and this car is unbeaten in competition so far can ra
Put it together today can ra be a three-time king that was the battle last year next off the line number three Jen Campbell out of Gilbert Arizona with Campbell racing in that Campbell Enterprise single seat ifs machine yeah next to him is Young Gun Daran Gomez
This is his father’s uh real Gomez’s old car but don’t let that shot stop you this is a UFO chassis it is an absolute awesome piece of weaponry and Daren is expected to be right at the top end of this race from the go off the line next
Is going to be the number 54 of Ron Prindle out of Belmont California with Prindle racing in that get bit F 56 ifs machine that Tom used to race that one yeah next to him is none other than Carl Cheney now Carl Cheney stepped out of
His Maverick R to get into the X3 on 37in tires he is going to be looking to try and put a UTV somewhere that nobody has ever done before and that is into the top three here at King of the Hammers looks like Jason sheer is out
Ahead of Ral Gomez and getting ready to take off next could she be the queen of the Hammers Mrs Bailey Campbell with Ryan Miller a riding shotgun out of Gilbert Arizona with Campell R Campell Enterprise ch yeah and next to her is none other than Brendan Thompson he is the brother of
Joe Thompson the genius behind the UFO chassis and he’s push going to be pushing hard he’s stepped it up moving into this chassis out away from a solid axle vehicle and Brendan’s Pace has been absolutely blistering can he do something really special here today I wouldn’t count against it we will have
116 cars take the line and we got great battles on screen as we speak and up next is number 24 of Cole Clark out of Cortez Colorado the zrp Army in that Polaris single seat razor yeah and next to him is none other than Cameron steel Cameron steel of course a baraja 1000
Champion and part of the desert assassins now Cameron races in pretty much every single class here at King of the Hammers and knows these Trails inside out he is racing Cody Wagner’s Triton engineering now this car isn’t something else it’s ifs IRS and it is astonishing has portal axles on it as
Well and has been so close to winning this race on multiple occasions off the line next number two is Casey Curry with Orin Anderson riding shotgun out of Norco California with curry racing in the trophy Jeep yeah next him is none other than Cody Addington in the
Original Red Dragon this car has won every race out there there is to win in the hands of Lauren Haley and Cody is really going to get dialed in now is this the year that we can see a red dragon at the front end of the
Pack it’s going to be exciting to see how this race develops it’s going to be an amazing amazing day off the line next is the 9901 of Brian cabara out of Selena California with rock rage racing in that UFO two seat ifs machine yeah next to him is none other than VOR
Getting Jr the uh the drifting Ace who’s won multiple World Championships he’s also won national champions here in in Ultra 4 and it looks like we might have some stuff going on over in Cross grain way Campell possibly yes it is whan Campbell already out of his car hate to
See that for him off the line next is number 47 Philip mcgilton with toml riding shotgun out of Tuscaloosa Alabama with 47 Motorsports in that Jimmy’s 4×4 solid axle machine yeah and alongside him is Brett Harold Bret harell in one of the PO herel cars as he makes his way off of
The line and Brett is very fast indeed but suffered reliability issues in Years Gone by let’s see what he can do this year so Randy coming off the line next with Matthew Macwan Matthew M number 4409 out of Queen Creek Arizona with mrm racing in that Campbell seat ifs Chassis yeah next to him is none other than three-time King Randy sson making his way out in his welln bomber frame there Randy is not going to be that quick in the desert but just watch him when he gets to the rocks oh he’s going to be quick enough in the
Desert up next another beautiful built machine is Jordan pelo number 98 with gun bz riding shot out of Semi Valley California with Gen righ Offroad in that Gen R ifs IRS machine yeah and next to him is none other than two-time King Eric Miller in the Miller Pro Sport
Chassis Eric is here Eric is also one of the nearly men he has nearly won this event on so many other occasions as well and Eric as Tom was saying earlier is looking finishing R is is world class I mean you can’t do anything but look at
His finishing rate and where he is in the mix every year Absolut and uh he’s always a threat to win can never count Eric out off the line next is number 308 James Mahoney in that out of califax California with Mahoney racing that old farani get bent single seat ifs machine
With 700 horsepower yeah and next to him is none other than uh Cody Miller one of the two Hunter Brothers the Miller Brothers sorry that are out here racing he is in an X3 Can-Am and he’ll be tring to put one of those up into the top
10 as we see Paul wolf bottom rank still TR offline next to 86 Marcos Gomez out of lotus California with Gomez Brothers Racing in a Joe Thompsonville UFO ifs IRS single seat yeah and next to him is none other than Kevin Sterns Kevin Sterns coming up from The everyman’s
Challenge classes making his way into 4,400 in his Triton built machine and what a work of art it is he’s been working all year to try and get this car really reliable and he’ll just be hoping to put down a really solid finish Marcos last year you guys he he basically came
Around me coming down spooners and he his Takeaway on last year was he went a little too hard too early he got a little anxious and I think he’s going to try to slow his Tempo a little bit this year on attacking for the front off the
Line now is number 4406 of Brent Burkin with with Jake Smith riding shotgun out of col strip Montana with CI racing that Trent Fab 2C ifs machine yeah and next him is Guy Miller making his way out into the desert now on the line next is number 618 Casey
Gilbert with Tom riding shotgun out of finon Michigan with Gilbert Brothers Racing that Miller Pro chassis yeah and this is PIP Justice pip Justice Racing for Rufus racing he’s in a tribe 16 solid axle vehicle known as donkey pip comes all the way up from Australia
To race here and he is fast in the rocks and he’s also very fast in the desert indeed he’s looking for his first ever top 10 here at King of the Hammers off the line next is number 53 of Jeff Wagner out of Cy Nebraska with Wagner
Racing in that Triton engineering 2C ifs IRS machine he bought from Lauren Healey recently with rock Jo so Jim do you think Casey Gilbert could be a darkh horse pick for you absolutely abely yeah now Casey Gilbert he’s been racing that car for a long time now made the step up
Into 4,400 he’s had some real problems dialing in the suspension and getting it right but if he has a great day yes you’re absolutely right he could be a dark horse there and uh taking off the line next to number 74 jiren Gun with Matt Smith riding shotgun out of zepher
Co Nevada with Jack Daniels racing in another UFO uh qcfs with danzio horow yeah he just got done a big big prep on that thing had that thing tore all the way down to the bottom and fresh Co to steal it on that thing and he did a nice
Job this year he’s really uh really motivated the day I got here he was trying to talk me in the co driving for him but I told him I was going to bug you guys instead there goes chip mlin and Tad dower off the line yes chip mcin with the ruus racing
Team so as those two take off into the desert we’re going to introduce another one of our team members Mrs Pam Hall is down in the pits with some information for us Pam take it away for us thanks guys I am here with AK Wy he is one of
Our rookies out here your first time racing King of the Hammers I know the nerves got to be going but give us your your thoughts of what’s going through your head right now what’s going through my head is it’s time to unleash the chaos and I am so thankful that I got
The support of my wife to come out here and come do this with everyone that’s here so grateful to be here right now well you have Brad over there in that passenger seat so you got a great Co driver but good luck out there hopefully
We see you up there at that Finish Line will do let’s go have fun thank you Pam so there’s the 4489 taking off the line with Austin Thompson out of Grass Valley California with moose Motorsports and at the moment we are seeing in the bottom of our screen that is Paul wolf
Our current race leader EAS the identifiable vehicle there and what do we reckon about that Wing again Tom I’m not saying it twice I thought about it I was like you know that was that was too much in my outside boys saying it was silly I didn’t mean that no that’s cool
Everybody’s up for a new idea and we like to see somebody trying something new as we watch the 4426 there and the 595 of Craig Allen with bones riding shotgun out of norol California with Allen racing as Jimmy’s chass yeah and that was Kevin Porterfield in the 4426
There going off the line and they’re going off in 44th position yeah wide open uh right now about this car I’m feeling pretty good just got to get her to the Finish Line w hopefully we see you out there on that box you guys Dr over there riding
Passengers so it’s going to be a little bit different having a co- driver so good luck out there thank you guys there was Dan fresh taking off out of San Juan uh California with Dan fresh racing in that uh laser nut machine yeah now Dan fresh of course we’ve seen him
On top of the box in the 4800 class many times and also in the 4500 class now Shannon Campbell he’s another Dark Horse for you qualified really well this year in a brand new machine he got some what it takes to be back up at the top of the
Box again we are about to find out as John web uh takes off out of Concord California with hammerheads in that fish mouth Fab that car caught fire a week ago they were able to get it back together and out there on course great to see him with his music blaring
Yeah yeah John Webb a huge crowd favor as we was 1981 there that is Benjamin Miller getting ready to go this is another Paul hersel car next to him is the 1504 of Josh s with Martin Castro riding shotgun out of inanitus California with soal X Motorsports with that bomber Fab
Chassis with Freight Factory yeah it’s going to be really interesting to see what Ben Miller could do now I might be wrong in thinking I think this was his ham last year was his first ever Hammer so it’s his T second time here for Ben Miller right and there is AK Watley on
The outside we just heard Pam talking to him he was the first of our qualifiers the other day to jump down back door so good to see him taking it on and on the inside there it is none other than Bailey Cole Bailey had a good day yesterday winning his
Class yeah very good driver Bailey he’s been racing out here for since I think he was I think his first race was he was 15 or 16 in the old 4Runner yeah in in the original race him and Jeff n son dug a booby trap in front
Of the starting line that we drove over uh the good old days right there’s number 100 of Jeff Bergman taking off so jet head is out in the desert and we’re now watching our lead cars down there on the helicopter I think that was Ral Gomez we can actually see
That with a great run thus far oh it looks like Bon getting junor is on his worn winch already there’s Casey Gilbert getting around him Frank vhy just taking off yeah now I was in Turkey claw yesterday turkey claw’s changed a lot we always think a turkey glor is being one
Of the easier Trails here at hamers no no it’s Tor up it’s torn up exactly that and uh it’s very easy to make a mistake it’s very very easy to get high centered and that’s exactly what’s happened to war let’s hope he hasn’t got any breakages and let’s hope he can winch
Through and get back out on track there goes Tim Hooper and Daniel Parker out of bville Arkansas with fuel works racing so you see there are recovery Crews down there to help There’s Tom Gilpin heading out Joe Gatlin taking off and still the action continues here
If you’re just joining us this is the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nto tires and powered by Optima batteries and we are well into the start of this incredible race this is the Nitto race of Kings there goes Chad Owens and Glenny page
Off the line what a great start to this race picture perfect weather for this race we’ve never had race day conditions quite like this have we Tom no we really haven’t I mean in some of the early 2000 races we had some snow one year but nothing like this there goes the
Three-time king off-road Motorsports Hall of Famer Shannon Campbell with juel Drew Schultz riding shotgun out of Lakeside Arizona with the coupe racing and Fabrication that brand new two seat ifs Campbell car Shannon Campbell with the codriver this could be a pretty interesting yeah but he’s also got a big
Block for the first time so I don’t know it’s a little more interesting saying saying what would Shannon do he’s got big block now exactly I love it there’s Greg Adler on the outside they on the inside sorry that’s a Kirby designs ifs car it’s probably one of the cars that’s
Raced the most at any car in the series that thing’s done the mint 400 the Baja 1000 and every Koh for a really long time now they just remodeled that thing a couple years ago put some 74 well portals on that thing as well as putting
A Bronco on it and that’s got a red line LS7 is probably 450 cubic inch 141 motor that’s a great car look at Lauren Heil in the bottom right with that Bronco really looking good yeah that’s the 4499 there of Clinton Peterson making his way off the line right next to Pat beckworth
Out of Las Vegas Nevada with Beck with racing that bomber chassis and still they’re pouring off the line and that is the number 81 Levi Shirley Levi Shirley laid down that blisteringly fast qualifying run he’s been working so hard on this car in the last 12 months do we know
Where he’s sitting right now Jim I haven’t got a clue at the moment I’m not looking at the tracker off the line next is the 1177 of Mark Nicholson and his son Landing riding shotgun out of Grass Valley California with moves Motorsports in that Dan trout fish mouth Fab
Machine oh a huge bicycle was able to save it okay as the action continues here we’ve got Pam down in with uh with in the pits Pam what do you got for us I here with Paul horel you had a bit of a rough time in the other day but
Here you are starting the you got your car off fixed back up is your plan just to finish today our plan is to just run a smooth run and uh get to the finish line and get there fast well I know the other day you know difficult time and everything but you’re
An amazing Builder you build your cars strong but good luck out there hopefully we see you up there at the Finish thank you guys thank you to all the fans out here thank you uh Dave Cole um we’re going to have an amazing day well Paul
Horel good luck out there back to you guys Thank you Pam and off the line now is Jonathan DAW and Cory day out of moresville Indiana with dirt weapon off-road in that trient Fab chassis right next to Kevin Taylor and Heath day with 911 with 0.1 off-road racing that solid axle Porsche themed
Machine and still the action continues here and that is the 867 sugar Off the line next is Mel Wade number 4451 with his Sun riding shotgun out of Fort Mojave Arizona with EVO manufacturing and whan Campbell’s old Campbell car and that’s Lauren Healey we can see there in the bottom right of our screens Lauren charging hard now Lauren’s had
Some really unlucky lap one moments in the last couple of years let’s see what he can do this year oh a huge upside down 44 third 4333 yeah that is Rich Goldman there oh break here so how was my how was your hammers well I made it to turn one well
We saw Josh s do this yesterday he was able to finish so the race is still early tough break there we’ll see if we can get him rided real quick Daran Gomez did that the other year and the brothers didn’t let him forget about that I think
They made him walk home that year well let’s just remember he’s right in the hunt right now you got to think he’s sitting up there in the pocket in the front and absolutely that’s another person that there’s so many fast guys this year and we’re going to have huge
Passing opportunities now this is interesting oh look at this we got a car down that is the 401 BR Moffett Ben Miller there Von gens on your top right there comes Bailey Cole yeah now all getting I he looks like he might really be uh broken by the looks of it because
There’s no movement and no sign of movement from that vehicle as AK Watley is uh coming to the back we got a parking lot once again there’s Josh S I was just talking about him so two lines are blocked turkey Claw is going to be interesting and look at the crowd what a
Wonderful wonderful start here there’s so much action everywhere believe that’s Brendan Thompson coming into screen in that single seat UFO the 5150 now this is interesting because we’ve got a roll over in hammertown so they’re going to slow down the start order but also we’ve got that
Blockage in Turkey claw so they’ve got time to be able to move that stuff in Turkey claw before we keep throwing cars out on the course from hammertown where they’re clearing the rollover in hammertown so it’s kind of working out I think that’s a great way of handling
Things and for Ops to be able to pull it off on the fly right there that’s going to make for better Racing for everybody all day and now the adjusted time for us is going to be a little tricker cuz we don’t you know half the field is 30
Second they took off two the time every 30 seconds it is on adjusted time but now we’re going to have a a three or four minute extra split there yeah but miles we wouldn’t want to make this easy for you would we you never do do you oh
We got them right it so we’re going to have to call two different uh corrected yeah okay so still the race continues here at the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the ham has presented by nto tire and Power by Optima batteries we’ve already seen drama we’ve already seen that whan whand Campbell is
Already is already uh out of the race we’ll be coming back to you with more info as soon as we can and we’re getting confirmation now on split times it would appear that Lauren Healey is currently our race leader on adjusted time and in second position in 30 seconds behind is Jason sheir
And and then 40 seconds behind them on adjusted time it is Ral Gomez our current King right now exactly so three kings leading the pack right now on adjusted time and off the line there’s the 441 of Russell Jenson and Nathan Livingston riding shotgun out of with oi
Struts so we got Levi Shirley sitting about fourth right now Cade Rod sitting about Sixth and whan and then Darion right there Ron Prindle so right now we’ve got a little bit of a breakaway group in the front right now from Paul wolf sitting in fourth with Raul in
Third Jason Shear in second and Lauren out front there’s Andrew mcin with Harold fidan taking off out in the desert heading toward turkey claw the parking lot now Lauren Heat’s car is a brand new car for this year the car that he was running last year he actually
Sold to Jeff ragner and uh so it’s going to be really interesting this is a car that Lauren is really happy with and it’s going to be great to see what he can do in the Rocks we know in the last few years he been plagued with drive
Shaft issues played with other uh minor issues as well so it be great to see if Lauren can have a solid race this year you know Jim I saw a new gear set that they put in the back of that car for the race day he he he ran that car hard all
Week breaking it in and then had a full repr prep with all new parts I saw this new super top secret diff that went in the back of that car impressive really impressive I love the way that funh and many other teams are pushing the boundaries they really are taking it to
The next level aren’t they they’re looking for those little half percents that make the difference between winning and losing yeah so I know one thing they’re doing in those cars is they’re they’re changing the shock settings and really the biggest thing we’re going to see is where if you’re stiffening the
Front of the car up when you’re descending you’re going to keep the bulkhead up out of the rocks in these ifs cars so that’s where the speed is coming from the the tune if you could soften it or stiffen it okay great but to actually plan on keeping the front
End up and not relying on the spring rate to hold the car up out of the Rocks is what the tech technology really boils down to well that’s always been the big thing between ifs and solid axle isn’t it is keeping it where the ifs cars you’re slamming that Bulkhead into the
Into the dirt the whole time whereas a solid axle is the axle see you’re always unsprung in the capab which makes it feel so much different which means in theory that you can carry more speed in a downhill section well I don’t know because if you have a narrow enough ifs
Car you don’t really have that same thing you’re describing and sometimes a narrow car fits faster through the the Hammers trails in a wide one there goes Robbie Gordon off the line yeah Robbie Gordon is in JP Gomez’s second car this is the car that JP raced a few years ago
And now uses as his pre-runner and last year he took off last off the line and still finished top 10 looks like Jordan pelo in the bottom right and the lambrini still pushing strong yeah let’s not forget this AJ is on adjusted time so your clock starts when you leave the
Line and Von G Jr is still stopped so is Brent Moffett hate to see them put all this effort and be stopped at race mile number two that’s Chase Caper on the left that’s coming off the line in that Campbell car right there that’s a Campbell car ifs car there’s Tom
Prendergast he wants to give a huge shout out to Five Star Tuning yeah Tom Pendergrast he’s been fighting problems for the last 12 months on that vehicle but he’s finally start getting there it’s a URI Fighter 2 built in the UK and he’s starting to get it done in now so
Let’s hope that Tom has a great race and there goes Paul horel who definitely has a shot at this race from towards the back of the pack cuz we remember during qualifying he had a little hiccup but this car really works in the desert it’s
A this is a true hammers car I think I’d call it a yard sale there were bits flying off that car in all directions but that car is another work of art it’s another car that’s pushing the boundaries of innovation Let’s Talk About Kevin Yoder in 4434 he’s been
Around for a long time that man is what this race is all about he got me into he got me into racing and he just went up on the bike and kept it on all four tires usually he has Trevor huskins from wfo Concepts riding in the passenger seat with
Them and he’s a little off Pace already hate to see that hopefully we can get it going there’s Hunter Sparrow on the far side next to Jason Jason blon that’s going to be a good run in the desert Jason Blandon with that big block yeah
Now Jason Blandon he came out here a few years ago with this car and he actually put it if I’m not wrong in thinking he had in toying very very fast qualifying he really impressed me that year he really showed up to drive yeah was an
Astonishing run oh no that is Kevin Yoda yeah completely stopped he still is technically in the hot pit so hopefully his team can get over there and get something figured out yeah nobody likes to see that as we watch the car 44 there which is just chassi running up on the
Line he does a little bicycle’s able to save it as well and look at Lauren Healey in our bottom right two time King out front running a great great Pace in that brand new car that’s only been in the dirt for about a month that’s Cameron still coming to
Screen yeah the nice thing though about um Lauren Healey’s cars they’re building so many cars at the moment but they’re using tried and tested Parts into those vehicles with a Twist of new parts oh you can hear that car cofin and spluttering leaves the line that’s where they’ve been idling for so
Long off the line he took a pretty good tumble during qualifying so we have some Heavy Hitters coming from the back Tom with Paul Paula horel JP Gomez Robbie Gordon it’s be Gordon Gordon and and and those three I told I told JP this morning and last night when I talked to
Those guys when I went over to the Gomez pit I said JP don’t Nerf everybody to get to the front yeah I remember that one a couple years ago that was because of the Dust I don’t think we’re going to have that issue this year I just told
Him to take it easy he really just wanted to talk about what was a realistic amount of people to pass in the first lap there’s Rick lzo taking off with Oracle Lynn I believe they’re in Turkey Claw at a complete stop with all the traffic indeed now Rick lzo was
On Race duties yesterday in 48 sorry in 4500 and now he moves over into his penel Fab car look at the battle with Casey Curry all over the back of Cameron steel this is a a great battle out in the desert well you got to know the trophy
Jeep that’s a purpose-built desert car and the laser nut car is definitely not as big a wheel base and he’s looks like he’s about to get up into him and give him a little iron horn there’s uh Ken hail taking off and there’s Mark Welch right behind
Him so he took off he was supposed to be about 20 spots ahead of that not sure what happened there but Mark Welch is out there chasing down Ken hail but there’s a they’re in single track there Tom so when’s it open up for him
To be able to pass here or is he have to just step out and gamble the bushes well that’s the tough thing so if if if someone will move over not rabbit on you I mean that that’s what we’re coming down to these days is a lot of these
Drivers here all have history with other guys so there’s people that you’re not going to turn the siren on for and that really is something that really becomes apparent so oh here we got as you say that the Class Act of Cameron steel does pull over over and let Casey Curry take
Off Cameron Steel’s going to be driving a smart race here yeah I’ve got to say that massive amount of sportsmanship I saw yesterday on track you hit the horn and people got out the way I was really impressed with that but I will say though over the years there’s definitely
People that you almost have to pit maneuver these days to get to get by them and you know who they are after a while after you know a decade plus race people you know who you don’t want you know what’s going to happen when you get
There but also you get the other problem where you get people that be 100 behind you 150 ft behind you and they’re already hitting the siren well dude 150 ft you’re nowhere near an overtake and I just got an update Casey Gilbert blew a radiator so tough break for Gilbert the
Attrition is already setting in we saw whan Campbell out of the car at race mile point2 as Dan foret we got vaugh Jr and it looks like he’s probably running back to the pits because there was nowhere near his car so already atrian taking a toll here at King of the
Hammers but that’s why we love this style of racing that’s why we take this pilgrimage to come to Johnson Valley every year for the greatest rock event on the planet and that right now is three time King Jason sheira and if you are just that’s Dan fresh oh sorry Dan
Fresh I do apologize if you’re just joining in we thoroughly appreciate each and every one of you make sure you get our premium so when we do step away for commercial you don’t miss a thing go to Koh ultimate.com for that premium package and this is the 2024 Progressive
Insurance King of the Hammers presented by Nitto Tires powered by Optima batteries and there is two-time King physical race leader Lauren Healey out front now do you remember all those years ago when he first brought the red dragon out here for the first time got out on that desert Loop and he destroyed
Everyone with his incredible Pace he’s always one to be reckoned with when he’s in that car and I really think they got this new car dialed in right those Nitto tires are really hooking up out there and that’s the other difference between the race classes that we’ve seen in the last few
Days the tires that these guys are running are all professional race tires they have stronger better sidewalls they have better tread plates and you’ll be able to see them do incredible things in the Rock Trails that you dare not try to do with the full with the Everyman
Challenge style cars Cody Wagner does an amazing job prepping this car for Cameron steel out there what a absolute work of art he’s LED this race more than once as we see Levi Shirley on our left and R Gomez two-time and current King of the Hammers winner but
That’s could change today yeah now this is coming down it’s back at these almost goat Trails out the back of the desert section and there’s lots of little landmine rocks out there you’ve got to be so careful not to tag one of those with your ties these guys are so
Fortunate to have this moisture in the ground right now because normally when you be in this kind of stuff and dust and running someone down that’s when you risk ripping a corner off and ripping a tire off a wheel breaking a wheel because that’s where the I call it the
Stuff on the edges is so important the hidden Boulders yeah those little hidden Boulders are an absolute they are like little mines and it’s so easy to touch them but these guys would have been doing their pre-running these guys would have been out there they would have been
Marking that course but let’s not forget the Everyman challenge was yesterday and lots of those cars would have dug out fresh rocks which have been thrown onto the course so the conversation last night was you know did anybody want to add more air pressure and they were they
Second guess in their tire pressure settings today and that’s a huge one yeah absolutely now me most of these guys are going to be running somewhere between 25 and 30 PSI there’ll be a few guys in might go a little bit higher they’re using the technology of the actual uh the uh Tire
Uh tread plate to get the traction with the softer with the uh soft compounds rather than actually having to bog their tires down so if you’re a classic trailing off-roader you’ll usually let your tires down to actually gain traction by getting a bag and your tire these guys aren’t looking to do that
These guys are going to be using techology turkey cloth this is why qualifying was so important a few days ago they are sitting here I would get my co-driver out to help the guy in front of you help the guy behind you and everybody in between but tough break for
Those late starters yeah there is ways through I mean if you’re going to want to be brave and you want to take it on we passed 25 cars in Turkey claw yesterday in a in a similar situation but again get that Co driver out early get your Co driver working out there and
That’s where comms is so important as well and a lot of these guys are starting to switch over to Bluetooth style comms so there’s Brian crofs I was told he was not going to race so I’m not sure if that’s him or not I’ve got a
Story on this now I don’t know if this is 100% true but I believe Brian cross is a registered racer so he wasn’t going to race because he’s got a back problem but but whan Campbell’s out on course at the moment and he’s broken his car so
What Brian’s doing is he’s put on his race gear he’s not racing he’s going to drive his car out there to Wayland And they’re going to strip it so they can get Wayland’s car back on course cuz you have to start or finish the race so what
He could do is just give him his car as well and then race for Brian cron points I actually do you know what I hadn’t considered that as an option but I don’t know if Brian crosscar is prepped because Brian had already decided because of his back injury that he
Wasn’t going to be racing so I’m not sure that’s the thing but let’s we’ll keep an eye on that story but just how cool is that look at that Von gon Jr has been stopped there for a very long time so it looks like his day is over I hate
To hear that there’s Russell Jensen there’s uh Chase Caprara Robbie Gordon yeah and that was Brian capera there I think who’s just making his way through what a great great just crazy start of this race it is indeed now it’s really important here good coms as we
Cut back across oh Jason Shear just think of this so Lauren Healey Jason Shear they have all this clean air and they are starting to build a gap from everything’s happening in Turkey clock yeah absolutely those top 10 cars we saw this yesterday in the Everyman challenge
As well those top 10 cars create a breakaway group out the front and all those cars behind all those very fast cars they cannot do anything all the time they are stationary they have been prepping for a very long long time everything had to come together to happen right now and
Now it’s race time everything’s out the window it is time to make it happen yeah I tell you someone we haven’t seen for a long time miles and that’s Cade Rod yeah you are right I haven’t seen much of him so we’ll keep our eyes open for him I’m
Sure our production Crews will be looking for him as well but that is three time King Jason Shir a man is in the hunt if you follow him on social media you see he has himself and his entire crew doing CrossFit in the mornings to get them 100% ready for this
Race sounds like when Casey Gilbert’s trans uh radiator went out he end up blowing the engine so tough tough break for him we seeing lots of attrition starting to set in already could be Brendon Thompson for a second yeah that’s really unlucky for for Casey Gilbert oh look at this a couple bombers
Going through the desert what I was going to say Jim is talking about Jason I know that he purposely everything he had in his well-being was to qualify not on pole for him not to be as competitive and go for pole was everything he had to
To to try back it down to have that little buffer of corrected time at the end of the day today because last year that was so hard for him to stomach to run out front all day and then lose by 30 seconds yeah absolutely I mean that’s
Gutting yeah I mean in our Bigger Adventure races that we do back home in the trophy raid events and stuff we do not want to qualify first on purpose because of adjusted time because it’s the only time you get a socket to your adversaries and Jason shear and Jason Burger running
Great Pace out in the desert and the lead pack with luren Healey yeah it just goes to show how you have to look at every small aspect of the race the actually throttling back not to win qualifying and to check I mean and I don’t mean this disrespectfully to check
The ego to not qualify first is an incredibly difficult thing to do yeah but the funniest part is he still did about his normal prep for the short course with pulling the seat pulling the winch he can’t he can’t let it go like that’s truly the reality let’s be honest
It’s in his DNA isn’t it if you want to see someone qualifi poll that man can make speed and break later than anyone on the planet back to Casey Curry in the trophy Jeep with Orin Anderson let’s talk about that co- drivers are so important in this race I feel like and
Orin Anderson is one of the best in the business as you know tremendous amount of experience in the in the passenger seat in all types of different race programs and no stranger to being out here Johnson Valley um Casey is has had uh the worst luck in this race and I’ve
Always feel bad for him I was talking to the other day lining up for qualifying and we were talking about races that we wanted to do this year and what races we enjoy and talking about Vegas Torino and how much he loves that race he he he
Definitely could be a dark horse this year he’s got a car that’s really sorted out lowered the hood about a foot so he can see better and uh he’s got some great clearance under that thing some new arms and you never know he I mean this is such a race of attrition and
He’s in a great spot right now he got by Cameron steel he’s moving up through the pack it’s going to be a great day racing there’s Caprara coming into screen cruising through it’s going to be very interesting to see how this all shakes out oh no unofficial bayy Campbell could
Be out with a blown engine oh I hate to hear this for everyone the attrition is starting to set in heavy yeah we’re not even halfway around the first lap and we’re already starting to see some big hitters out of this race as we watch now and that is Lauren
Healey making his way through the Rocks well it’s been a great start for the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by Nitto Tires powered by Optima batteries I am miles highst alongside Tom ways and Jim Marsden but I’m going to go grab my wrench mik and
Bring in my buddy Ian Johnson so let’s see how this race unfolds have fun Buddies thank you miles thank you miles always good to have you here and great to have you back down in the pits very shortly I’m sure you’ll have all the stories for us as they come through and
If you’re just joining us this is the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nto tire and powered by Optima batteries the racers left the line this morning at 8:00 a.m. 116 of the best rock racing vehicles in the world as we watch Cameron Steel in
His ifs and IRS car making his way through the desert looking really smooth there Jim I think that car is working well I think they put a lot of time into making that thing better every year beefing up the parts they needed to Y I know that rack adapter on the on the
Back of that car in the past has been an issue for those guys and that’s what happened when they were stuck in King’s uh graveyard yeah now look at this we’ got another car on its roof so this is back to Turkey claw this is the first of the rock trials
That these guys will encounter it’s around about 2 miles outside of hammertown you never know what can happen I mean one year we had to bypass Jackhammer because of the traffic jam yeah I remember that that was solid for hours wasn’t it yeah two and a half
Hours a lot of guys sat there changed the day for people indeed as we cut back now and that is Cameron steel again now watching Cameron’s Pace here I’m I think is safe to say he’s running sort of a a 75 80% Pace you can see it from the car
Attitude you know a lot of guys have an attitude that they’re not allowed to pass anyone till lap three and just sit there and be patient and let the race come and know you have a car for lap three cuz you can you can race to be the
Fastest guy through lap two but you’re definitely not going to be there for lap three and that’s going to what’s going to make it or break it today yeah absolutely but the pace of these vehicles in the last few years the last sort four or five years have been
Absolutely remarkable and joining us in the booth right now is none other than Mr Ian Johnson how you doing I’m doing great Jim good to have you in the booth and not out on a race car good to have you and of course the man the myth the
Mustache Tom way good to see the mustache kind of making a comeback here he Tom you know sometimes I get annoyed and I shave it off sometimes I show up with it and uh I still say that’s your secret sauce if you’re going to get back
In a race car you better have that full-blown mustache cuz the best years you’ve raced you had that like beautiful stash I came with a mohawk and a mustache one year and I was pretty happy too there we go all right so guys this is an amazing race so far uh same same
Thing we saw last year we’re seeing or sorry last uh La yesterday just traffic jam and turkey claw I I think it it can change everything but being we also have two corrected times going as well right now so right now we’ve got a different split from when they slowed the start so
We’ve actually going to have to have tracking on two different amounts of collected or corrected time it’s going to be challenging yeah it’s going to we’ve been sort of we’ve played with that yesterday as well messing around that corrected time those split times it ends up being really really important
For us to keep an eye on that yeah we just saw there a minute ago it was Chip m glin in the Rufus racing machine but that is back and I’m just trying to work out who that is I think that is Chip out in front I’m just trying to work that
Second car is but these are the goat Trails out the back of the desert Loop and we’re just talking about this a moment ago it is so easy just to hit a tire here so easy to get a flat and when you get and the trouble with that is if
You get a flat tire right here it’s going to bleed you 5 to 10 minutes no matter how fast you are Jim I think that’s Cameron steel right behind him right there so while we watch this play out here here on screen we’re going to take a quick break from the action
Remember that today is the Nitto race of Kings all part of the 20124 progressive King of the Hammers presented by nto and powered by Optima batteries if you have that premium feed you won’t miss any of the action coming to you live from Johnson Valley today I’m Ian Johnson in
The booth with my good friend Tom ws and miles down on the pit mik down on the bottom and of course Jim Mar is in here out of his race car finally all right we’ll see you shortly you know when I take the bike out like
This all my stresses just melt away I hear that this bad boy can fix anything y tough day of work nice Cruiser sort you right out when I’m riding I’m not even thinking about my painful cavity oh you shouldn’t ignore that and every time I get stressed about having
To pay my bills I just hop on the bike man oh come on man you got to pay your bills you don’t have to worry about anything when you’re protected by America’s number one motorcycle insurer well you definitely do those things aren’t related so ah oh that is a VI vibrating [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Pain [Applause] [Applause] E IB on top of the box baby He [Applause] okay and welcome back to the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by Nitto Tires and powered by Optima batteries today is the Nitto race of Kings today is the big one and the race started at 88 a.m. this morning with 116 Runners and Riders
Taking off the line I’m Jim maren and joining me in the is none other than Mr Tom ways and Ian Johnson how we doing guys we’re doing great Jim the the other thing that we just noticed during that commercial break course fed premium you didn’t miss it we saw Paul wolf dead
Stop in the desert oh now we’ve already seeing so much attrition out there we’ve seen whan Campbell pulled over we’ve seen Bailey Campbell pulled over we’ve seen Casey Gilbert with a blow motor we can see vaugh getting Junior stopped on course we’ve already seen at least three
Rollovers so is Von still broken in Turkey claw it looks that way way at the moment although it does look like traffic is freeing up in but turkey claw just before we went to that commercial break there I can see a line of cars making their way out the backside of
There so fingers crossed things are starting to move I heard it Jim you almost said Q I heard it he caught himself he caught himself just in time but right there that is Lauren Haley look at that speed carrying through that desert car looks nice and flat right
There looks like it’s working really well now this is a new car for Lauren this year and it looks like he has starlink on so really for the premium people right now you could be watching his in car which is mind-blowing to me that we have that cover just crazy crazy
I was actually talking to uh one of the teams they said uh for their comms now they just starlink they bought a burner cell phone they throw it in the car and they just talk the entire race on the cell phone well that’s the best way to
Do it I mean if you think back to what comms used to cost so for Desert Races they used to go open mic on their satellite phones and for One race was like $10,000 just to have coms now Starling technology and the other technology that we have that’s Tom
Pendras there by the looks of it yeah that is Tom Pendergrast he’s in the Euro Fighter 2 so that’s actually a European built car quite unusual out here speaking of the Euro Fighter where is Levi and have we seen Cade well now the last time we saw Levi Levi was actually
Gomez he was battling with Ral Gomez so I’d suggest that those two are right out there physically in the top four cars right now so they’ve made it they’re in that group that got through the there slight little Breakaway in the top five right now in and that’s kind of where
We’re sitting right now was going to go to the split screen in a second here and try to get us some good data yeah the last data we had it was that um Lauren Healey was actually leading as we watched right now and that is Casey Curry in the trophy Jeep been racing
That jeep for a long time out here good to see it still being very competitive now we didn’t see this unfold yesterday because it did take our race leaders quite a long time to come back and finish uh lap one Jim do you think uh because these guys are traveling so fast
Is traffic and turkey claw going to be an issue for those top five guys if we still have cars parked up in there uh I don’t think it’s going to be an issue for the guys who are actually at the lead at the front of this pack right now
I think turkey claw will sort itself out but yeah you’re right I mean there is that possible opportunity for there still to be a cluster bomb in there and the issue is is V’s car is parked on one of the two lines at that key area so is
Vaughn’s car going to be recovered is vaugh trying to collect parts for that vehicle right now let’s think about this though you guys second lap is always when you’re hitting lap traffic when you’re the lead pack so that’s not a ever an unconstant in this race that’s
Something that we have every year lap three some years you you’re by yourself the whole time and then you get all the bonus trails are the hardest in the world and that’s where it really becomes amazing to watch people on their best day now Tom this might be the bad the
Wrong person to ask this question you drive an ifs car yes sir are there I’ve only ever uh raced out here and wheeled out here in a solid axle car are there fewer line see that’s why it’s a bad question for you cuz for you it’s all
The lines but are there fewer lines for an ifs C or is it all all equal across the board well it I think a lot of it depends on how wide the car is cuz it’s always faster to drive between rocks than over them so for me H having the
Right Tires the right compound and hooking up and not sliding off lines is how you win this race and be the fastest up and through the rocks and the in between Trails but check out what’s going on on the screen right now we got Daren Gomez coming up on Casey Curry who
I believe case he’s in third place right now so Daren Gomez coming back up a little bit further into the pack he’s he he’s going to be a threat today yeah Darren Gomez of course is one of our Young Guns and he’s qualified so well I mean it’s only a few short years
Ago we saw him roll on turn two yeah they didn’t let him forget about that so I don’t think they ever would no they did not let him get an inch on that one but this is how you learn racecraft this is how you learn to race there is not a
Single person that comes out here in their first year that shoves it into the top five it’s just not possible it takes years to learn your craft years to learn how to drive these rocks and that’s why these young guns are now sort of in the early 20s but they’ve been Wheeling out
Here for over 10 years but but knowing what you got to bring for a fully prepped race car to know you’re proud when you’re taking the green flag that that really comes down to who we talk about new cars or not new cars but truly everybody now it’s about who can put a
Race car in their program together every year consistently the other good thing that Darion has is that whole Gomez Camp multiple cars out there lots of uh lots of notes to be shared through pre-running I walked through their uh pits and they said they’d already done
The full race car eight times uh before they were even going to leave the start line now this is top news cuz that’s Paul herel do you know what that means that means that the traffic jam at Turkey Claw is clearing because Paul herel was right near the back of that traffic
Jam oh look at this we’ve got four cars going down through here now somebody’s going to have to step out here if they want to make the pass there is multiple lines here as they come on down but I believe this is The Swinging left there
You see someone taking the pass this is a place where you could get into the bushes and the next thing you know you’re going to have a stick puncture and then your efforts of passing or not not not worth it and we’re starting to get some split times in right now and we
Did just hear that there is a 1 second difference between Healey and sheer on adjusted time wow so reeled in really close so yeah we’re going to be watching these uh split time so that split time came in at race mile 44 I can tell you from experience that the shear Camp they
Analyze and and do a full spreadsheet on who they’re going to track during the day so they can give that information to Jason in the car and he can decide what he needs to do at what point in the race so he would track me he
Would track other guys and he’d be like tracking other teams live data to determine how hard they had to push to see where they were in the mix based using that adjusted time and it’s funny you mentioned earlier how Jason didn’t want to sit on the pole and he didn’t
Want to play the game he wanted to be able to work with a little bit adjusted time and you said it’s so gutting for the driver we had Casey Shar in here the other day and I asked asked him about it he said it’s not just a driver it’s
Whole team he said when that happened last year it’s like 30 people just bumped and he said so we kind of readjusted to see what’s going on yeah as we watch one of our cour workers there now I’m just trying to see who that is is that Jason Blandon no I don’t
Think it is as we’re just watching the car but there is Vaughn getting junor and he’s still stationary it looks like he’s in a different spot though miles he was wedged into a rock prior was he not or back up a little bit maybe yeah no I
Think you might be right I think he might have moved further up into turkey claw and you can see his Co driver there I think it is now it looks like they’re getting back into the car so this is good news and as you look behind them
You can see turkey you’re right Jim turkey Claw is clear and if they had to run for parts and run back to hammertown that’s legal that’s not outside assistance so he could go for a long walk and come back with parts to fix that car if they
Wanted to finish now just look at the pace of Lauren Haley here as he pushes on into the desert Lauren Haley is not just excellent in the Rocks he is an absolute tactician in the desert there’s one of our utvs now this is this is a guy that you’d like to talk
About Tom this is 1 191 this is Kyle Cheney I hate to admit it but he’s definitely on my Darkhorse list and uh well this man I mean we we struggle to understand how he can walk as he’s uh yeah let’s just say he’s got big ones
But uh right now we’re cutting back to the Trent Feb car that is the 424 believe it’s the only ifs Trent Fab card that we have out here at the moment yeah that is Tyson shell there that we just saw and we’re back with Kyle Cheney now
Kyle Cheney won the 4900 hammers UTV Championship the other day he knows these trials inside out and back to front slightly different car for this one he was in his Maverick R the other day on 35 in tires this time he’s putting his X3 back to work and this has
To have utvs to be able to race in 4,400 have to have a different diameter um tubes for their R cage and they also have to be fitted with a minimum of a 37 in tire so Jim what I thought was really interesting in that qualifier what was
His second split between the big car and the small car for qualifying two consecutive runs it was like 13 seconds or it it was less than that I think it was only about 3 seconds it was R it was so consistency yeah absolutely but also when you consider that the X3 is an
Older platform okay it’s well tried it’s well tested but uh it’s an older platform it just shows how comfortable he is with it be curious if he winched at all yesterday yeah and still the action continues here if you’re just joining us this is the 2024 Progressive Insurance
King of the Hammers presented by Nitto tire and powered by ultimate batteries and today it is all about the Nitto race of kings and we are really starting to heat up here the weather is nearly perfect for racing in Johnson Valley California we’ve got sunshine we’ve got
A little bit of wind we had some rain a couple of days ago and you can see those dark patches in the dirt and that means there’s moisture on track and that keep helps to keep the dust down as we watch 190 or one yeah that 190 that’ll be one of the Miller
Brothers yeah that is Hunter Miller there making his way through didn’t get place where he wanted in the 4900 Championship so he’ll be looking for Redemption here as 1 199 1 191 kyl Cheney makes his way into the desert now what blew my mind last year is these
Utvs were capable laying down very similar times to the big 4400 Class Cars in the desert you’d think that those big sort of your high horsepower cars run away you’re close but not quite so like those guys were going about 75 miles hour and maybe closer to 80 but they
Really couldn’t get past that and I was told us because they started overheating their belts if they tried to go faster than that so I caught a couple of the hunter Brothers last year in in or the Miller Brothers I’m sorry in the desert and they didn’t give up an
Inch and you know they were making enough dust that it was hard to pass them so really the biggest takeaway for me is like what a great day of racing with the dirt and the moisture and the lack of dust it’s it’s going to be a
Driving race I mean this is going to be something where we just have consistent passing yeah it’s very true to him now we’re starting to get some information coming through on our race leaders now uh and we’re just trying to Source out just trying to keep everybody honest on
This don’t forget this is a race on adjusted time so everybody leaves the line with their clock on zero and here we go right now this is our current top seven yeah as we said before there’s less than a second between Jason oh right now on on adjusted time Jason Shir
Is leading the race so that’s Jason Shir Lauren Hy Casey Kerr Ral Gomez Levi Shirley there’s Cade Rod we were wondering where he was and dar and Gomez all within I guess three we call three seconds yeah but look at that the top three less than a second dividing them
In fact if you break that down there was actually only four 400s of a second dividing the top three cars right now that’s nuts I think it’s a great place for Kade to be right now I think that’s showing some maturity just sitting in and and letting that race develop but
There’s a name missing from that top seven bunch a name that we had expected to see there and that’s Paul wolf so what’s happened to Paul wolf we did get one quick uh shot of him a while ago during the commercial break it was the car was stopped on course we have no
Other information other than that just that we saw the car sitting well off the racetrack as well so we don’t have any information yet uh as soon as we get it we’ll feed it to you but yeah we did see his car stopped it’s a tough luck there for Paul
Wolf but if there’s a man who can get it back up and running again it will be Pa he does all his own prep work he has a fantastic team but he knows every single nut and bolt on these vehicles so if there’s something that he can fix you
Can guarantee he will be trying to do so now is that Jason Shir that is Jason Shir yes and you’re saying he’s a second second and a half corrected corrected time he’s 1 second ahead of Lauren at the last split I think you’ll find his two hunds of a
Second yeah I’m just getting some confirmation here from a gentleman in the crowd it does sound like Paul wolf has lost his steering box now on those UFO casts they have an incredibly clever steering setup so has a steering box that then relays to a uh to a separate
Rack and pinion system it’s usually incredibly reliable so very very tough luck there for Paul wolf now we’re looking at these vehicles here oh look at this look at this four incar live feeds right now so who do we have on screen here Cameron steel bottom right Tommy dexra
Top right yeah Tad daa and Oracle Lynn now Oracle Lynn last time we saw them they were actually stationary inside turkey claw so great to see them still moving but the one I’m really enjoying is that Cameron steel one I’ve got a feeling this is going to be showing us
The view from the front of the race course later today well Jim you’d mentioned that you looked you said it looked to you like he was maybe running about 75% and Tom you said maybe he not pass anybody hold but do you remember it wasn’t too long ago where he was running
Away with this race until the very last king Gra King got well it’s not he didn’t do it once he did it twice true absolutely running away with this race and it looked like he was going to win VTO is a different story I mean that was
That was not early enough to say he was running away with it but yeah he was parked in the middle of the hard spot y yeah that was the year at the winning the leading this race was a poison chalice that was also the year that we saw bayy Campbell winning and then
Having to pull away pull us to the side with broken water pump Kevin Stern’s on uh on camera right now we watched him in uh qualifying talked a lot about him former 4500 guys moved up in 2020 to race 44 yeah this is a Trent engineering
Car and uh eagle and the guys there have really put this together if you get a chance to have a look at it it’s an absolute work of art now I can tell you he told I talked to him earlier in the pits and he did tell me that that front
End of that car is an identical match to Lauren’s car just without the portals so a ARS geometry everything the same just no portals at the wheels yeah and the portals they really do bring something a little bit extra I mean do you think they make a big difference Tom I think
They would make a tremendous difference I think the 74 well portals are super cool I would I would love to have them I think on the right width car it is really really important but if you’re in a narrower car like mine it’s it becomes
A packaging problem for me my my car is only 83 outside a tire yeah and then you add six for the portal at least three on each side so got wheels over it make the whole package work yeah now that’s really interesting you talk about your
Car being 83 from the outside of the tire to the outside of Tire I mean that is nearly a foot narrower than a lot of the ifs cars that are out here racing and I know obviously you built it like that way on purpose to get through the
Trails and I mean I have to notice we pulled the tire we uh changed the back spacing on the wheels of the car that we were racing yesterday to narrow up the track and it makes a big difference on those Hammer Trails CU you can really pinch through places that other cars
Can’t get to Jim is that pelo in our screen right here yeah I’m just trying to look that I I no no no okay yeah the the the the color fooled me I thought maybe that was well he’s chasing down one of our utvs there and it’s one of
The hunter Brothers for sure you can always tell the hunter brothers because they have the max tracks on their roof no I think that was I think that was Jordan pelo in that lambro Lamborghini I respect the name of that car that’s just a fun name to have you know well let’s
Talk about Jordan oh and here we have who is we’re going to fly right by us we’re not going to see but obviously they are out since they’re having a picnic in front of the car sitting on the ground there unfortunately well let’s talk about Jordan Pella Gro
Because he also falls into that young gun category he’s a young man who’s been racing here for all the 10 years made his way up through the 4500 or through I think he started in 4600 yes that is his car you are quite right and uh he’s made
His way out through 4600 the other thing he moved into 4500 and then he’s got got into this car now he’s really looking for a finish gem I think he really wants to have a day clean day knock it out of the car they they fought finishing that
Car for a long time I honestly think that they were just a little when that car was built it’s like it was you know there’s the Leading Edge and then the bleeding edge as they say and I think that car was just a little too on the
Bleeding edge and I think they’ve pulled it back now changed the portal design changed everything inside to use a more what we’d consider now familiar like a 74 weld in it I think if you think about it like the durability the duty cycle what you have to build into a car to
Bring it out here is really becoming more apparent and if you were on the early side of things you were still being light but now we’ve come to a position where guys are building super tough cars that that you can see three laps and be in great shape yeah and as
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They’re all out on track right now but it’s a day of attrition so many broken Vehicles out on track joining me in the booth right now is none other than Tom ways and Ian Johnson how we doing guys very well sir thank you Jim I’m just
Getting some data from uh inside on our tracker so we’re still waiting on a couple split times but right now physically on our tracker we’re showing Lauren Healey first first Cade Rod has moved into second and then Jason Sher wow wow so everything I said about him
Sitting in and letting the race come I’m going to throw it back out the window he’s moving up yeah absolutely but don’t forget we’ve also got separate Rock Trails out there is he just holding back a little bit through those rocks just making sure he saves his tires and then
Get hit in the blast when you get onto those longer sections and we did just hear uh from remote pit one that uh we had Cameron steel stopping for a flat tire replacement all right and there’s the gentleman we were just talking about a few minutes ago that is Jordan
Pelino yeah Jordan pelino that car looks absolutely fantastic right now now this is essentially the sister car to Cody Wagner’s car but there’s been multiple changes made to both vehicles so they don’t actually relate to each other very much anymore but uh yeah yeah when this
Car was first built there was a lot of uh oneoff brand new parts uh put in it and they’ve been redesigning it many many times throughout the years and like Tom said I think that uh he’s just trying to get a finish out of that car
They’ve kind of fought that for a few years but it certainly looks like it’s doing well out on course right now as we move up through the pack here who else have we got that it was Randy that was Randy slson and they also have the other yeah
The other well to right Legend out there with Mike slon driving the desert Loop when they get back into town Amber Turner who’s famous for trying to get that Suzuki through the stock class every year she’s going to get in it and take it out on the Rock Loop now that
Looks like Lauren Healey slowing oh this is the speed zone so this is the now there’s a section out here where a crossover there’s a crossover you have to slow to 25 M an hour if you go over that you will be penalized so where is
He sitting right now is he in second right now uh right now he is in first based on the track but we don’t we we got to wait for a couple more split times to come in the only split time we’ve got so far is is Healey right now
We’re just kind of waiting for a few other people to trick trip through but that’s not a that’s not a a comment on he may not be that far ahead we just might not be getting the data in here yet now this section now this section here is we’ve got some updates coming
Through so we watch Lauren Healey and it looks like Lauren Healey is currently 20 seconds ahead of Casey he uh Casey Curry but now this section of desert here as he’s heading back towards town right now it’s really rough indeed so he’s going to be putting all
Of that suspension to work as he cuts back across and he’ll be making his way down back down towards resolution at this point he is around about sort of the five miles outside of town so it’s not going to be long before we see those lead Vehicles making their way back into
Hammertown gentlemen and then it’s going to be about pit stops and pit strategy we talked about this previously is there what are these guys going to do what sort of size cells are they running on these cars Tom I think a I think a lot of guys are around 60 gallons Now 60
Gallons that’s going to be very interesting are they going to blow through this pit and make their way out to remote pit too I I talked to Jason and I think he’s like in that 50ish gallon range and then that he’s at no two miles per gallon on average so 100
Miles so first lap you could yeah easily do it and get back into town I mean some years you definitely can stack your fuel here and I know he’s always liked to be lighter going into the rocks with not carrying a full load of fuel I’ve played
The game with two cells over the years and I would prefer to skip Main and and try try to get ahead and try to now okay this is interesting because that looks like Eric Miller but that looks like Levi Shirley now Levi Shirley was ahead of Eric Miller if I’m not mistaken I’m
Just trying to work out is that Eric it does it looks like Eric because he’s got the track mats on the back of his vehicle now if ER Levi Shirley is behind Eric that means Levi I’m guessing has had an issue now we know Levi has been
Chasing belt problems so I wonder if he’s had to stop to out of belt but watch this so two time King Eric Miller there ahead of Levi Shirley right now solid axle versus ifs yeah you can definitely see that Miller chassis doing good work uh through this section of the desert and
Yeah just like you said Jimmy’s just chasing him down right now the question would be is there a is there a spot to pass right here now this is interesting cuz levo is carrying around about 200 more horsep he’s trying to step out right here on him yeah he’s trying to
Get out on that so Levi’s got around about 800 plus horsepower whereas Eric is around about the 650 mark and it looks like Levi’s going to try and put it on him right now and he does he puts that extra power to work on that ifs suspension oh things
Little bit of excitement out there now is that Casey Curry going past Ral Gomez this is a speed section I’ve got a feeling that he just tried to outbreak him into the speed section I think that’s exactly what we just saw I think that’s exactly what you just watched Jim
I think you’re exactly right I think he tried to drop in in front of him on the speed section and then now he’ll get like a little Jack Rabbit start at the back Des experience right there gent going to say welcome to b r yeah cuz there it is now he gets a
Little bit of a jack drag race you guys right here this is good racing look at this yeah ral’s going to be putting that Dugan engine to work as we watch Lauren Healey heading on into town now this is really rough out the back here you got to use every millimeter of that
Suspension which is a bit like a small inch if you didn’t know and he’s coming on down the back now he swings down around the back of this hill here comes down the bottom there’ll be a sharp left and the the terrain then becomes very cut up
Indeed and like the pace through here is astonishing because their whoops here are absolutely enormous all right so we’re getting some uh info from inside race Ops we’re trying to get some split times but uh we’re just basically messing around with some of the tractors and trackers and I and
I and I think that we’ve got Jason Shear physically in second place right now okay I’m just looking there that is Marcus Gomez you can always spell Marcus’s Gomez car he has a split rear axle almost like an IRS set up on the back of it and then just behind him just
Trying to see who that is I’ve got a feel is that Bron no it’s not yeah so Marcos there he’s the older brother of all the brothers of the Marcos of the Gomez family and he has the cnh motor motor parts delivery on that car yeah so Marcus getting past there is
They make the way into the left hand turn all right so now Marcus just seems to be not pushing quite as hard as I’d expect him to be doing he could just of course be having his own race Pace have his own race plan but he just look a
Little bit off Pace to me there the way that car’s just going away from him yeah we still have a long uh race day ahead of us who is that that just passed him Jim I’m trying to get yeah I’m just trying to get a visual on that I can
Tell you it’s an ifs car is that any good no it used to be but not anymore not anymore that narrows it down to it has a motor and tires Jim yeah yeah we used to be able to say oh if it’s an ifs car it’s one of four people but now it’s
One of 60 I think yeah no it’s the other way around with solid axle cars trying to get a a side shot of that to see who it is it looks like it had the uh the sort of yaha style Livery up the side but I just really can’t see quite enough of
It that’s we’ll find out in a minute I’m sure but right now the big story is about our top so this is Lauren hey our current race leader this will be coming up that backside of that qualifying course and there’s is that Shira right behind him I couldn’t see it’s either
Shir or Cade Rod now this is the area they where they’re going to be dropping into resolution and this is resolution so Lauren Healey is our first car in to resolution look at that he jumps off the top and in there yeah he’s got to come down through here
Drop into the rocks on resolution but when we had that wide shot there was another car right at the bottom of that climb so we should see somebody else pushing up on him here shortly now we know that Casey Curry we know that ra Gomez have both come through the speed
Control which means that they are on the same part of the course as Lauren right now so this is going to be very tight as they come into town this is going to be down to pit straty or is it yeah I believe that is
Sure is that sure Kate I can’t tell it could be Cade they’re both that jet black car but it just depend if it’s got the big gold uh the gold retro Fox logo on the side I can’t tell we’ll see here shortly could be Cade in my opinion
Though this is the longest bit of passing on the whole race course because from the top resolution to the end of the short course track that’s a huge opportunity to catch people it is and and this there’s a lot of you can see the whole time I think that is Shar that
Is Shar absolutely 100% certain so that is so right there that is physical one two but on corrected time would Shar have hey I think Jason’s sitting there and being patient and not going too hard yet yeah you got Jason of course started 30 seconds behind Lauren so here on
Adjusted time they are within a hair’s bread of each other it’s all right so we’re watching LA to head down into the two drops in back door now back door has got really cut out in the last few days and I’m not expecting to see any of these guys
Crawling down there I’m expecting to see them launch it but let’s see he’s going right I know he’s going to cruel it makes it nice and easy and back down and he’ll be coming round onto the wash and making his way under short bus shortly and he’ll be joining us in town
In literally 30 to 40 seconds as we watch Casey Curry now Casey Curry could be our physical set our third car on track at this point we’re still we’re dancing between him and Cade Rod uh and we’ll just know that we’ll know that for sure when they come up over that hill
Climb and come down into resolution and of course we saw in passing R Gomez who was napping as he came into the speed control that was a great piece of driving there that was so yeah it was Jim and and I I’m surprised we don’t see him closer to the
Back of him at this point to be honest with you yeah that’s what I was just thinking now Casey Curry started in 15th position so we got to watch that adjusted time got Lauren coming into the Bronco Arch here Bronco through the Bronco Arch and Lauren Healey is the first car back
Into town to complete for lap one what a race we’ve got here gentlemen all right so there he is your physical race leader right here Lauren Healey is on the Ford performance short course he’s got a couple of turns to make and then obviously oh and look
Right there that is Jason Shear right behind him so one and two on screen in one at one time this is a close race in it’s incredibly close but we always get all excited at this point ear it’s super super early yeah we get super excited
And then we realize that how how early it is so yes but there is our first official car back into hammertown Mr Lauren Healey coming around our Can-Am corner and then I know our good friend miles halquist is down there with his wrench mic ready to give us an Update okay as we watch Lauren Healey now that looks like Lauren Healey is he going to pit is he going to come into the fun pits we’re just waiting to see right now I think he will indeed and he does indeed now miles is in the pits miles
Take it away thank you guys what a great race this is starting to be Lauren Healey physical out front this Tron engineered Bronco looks like it’s an absolute work of our double thumbs up from Lauren Healey and Jesse amics this thing is looking good they’re getting
The fuel in there the rest of the car looks like it’s in great shape and now I see Jason Shear so we’ll ramble around with Healey for just a second they’re trying to check the steering it looks like but so far so good for Lauren Healey on this Bronco physically first
Adjusted time it’s going to be so so close looks like in and out maybe a drink of quick drink of water and a snack and Lauren Healey about to take off and now Jason Shear is in here I’m going to run down there and check it out Lauren Healey in and out physical
First so back up and again this Jason shears car looks amazing as well Jason Burger getting a quick drink everything’s looking good with everything getting a quick little drink some fuel all these tires are looking good laser focus from Jason shear and Jason Burger there’s the thumbs up I was
Looking for wow these two guys they’ve won this race five times between the two of them can we get a fourth the only fourth King of the Hammers could be Jason Shear he’s going to have to earn it over Lauren Healey this quick little desert run looks like it hasn’t tore too
Much stuff for either of our top two just kind of doing my walk around these cars are looking good and there’s a lot of race Yet to Come remember they will be coming back through the hot pits one more time before the checkers we’ve only been racing two laps before today
Is a thre laap Race So strategy is going to be important and yes again these cars are just ready to rock and roll checking something on the driver’s front couldn’t quite tell I think they’re just shaking stuff around making sure everything’s working Good yes talking we’ll have another one coming in here a little bit and we KN we do know that whand Campbell had an issue early right so he’s broke down so Brian cross was a registered racer he was not able to take a start due to his back so
All of a sudden whan’s out right so Brian takes his car legally can take whan Parts cuz he’s a competitor and then he’s going to take uh Bailey his car cuz he had an engine issue so now Bailey Campbell is going to be driving for the driver of record of Brian crof
So I love the whole Campbell uh family over there making things happen so another great great story there but yes we’re going Lauren Healey out front and Jason Shear getting ready to take off so I’ll send it back to the master energy Jumbotron take it away guys thank
You very M thank you very much miles this is absolutely fantastic now look at this guys we’ve got Casey Curry coming into the short course here but behind him I also saw Ral Gomez coming in as well and I think I saw Cade Rod wow look how close these guys are this is
Absolutely phenomenal yeah Jim talking to Jason last night his strategy generally is to take back tires when he comes into Maine and with him seeing in there that he didn’t do back tires that’s a really interesting strategy so that means that he wasn’t spinning his
Tires as much as he normally is on the first lap and and that’s a great sign that where he he’s at with his car right now yeah absolutely look at this right now just trying to catch her I think that is Cade Rod there coming in right behind two time King Ral
Gomez now you can tell Cade Rod very easily he’s got a huge air filter with the seven on it so this is a great first lap here for the Young Gun Cade rod and there we go we see the split away now what’s Kade going to do so ra Gomez is
Coming to pit does this mean I’m not sure where Kate’s pitting is he on the outside or is he blowing through Jim I think kade’s pit is just a little bit further further down but I think uh we have miles down in the pits right now
With the Gomez’s miles what do you got so round go stop but I don’t yeah Kade Rod or Casey Curry never one never once did stop but our current King R Gomez getting some fuel the rest of the car is looking great all four Nitto Tires holding there these shocks have been
Taking a beating in the desert and they’re getting ready to head to the Rocks our current King R Gomez can he do a three repeat we’re about to find out so so far so good for R Gomez taking out still in that top five physically so
Far so good this race is coming together lots of action everywhere these top five are doing good and ready to play two Rock laps to go and we’ll see how this race unfolds Tom Ian and Jim back to you guys what a great race now that’s fantastic Cade Rod there just made the
Pass on ra Gomez in the pits what a pit stop there from the Jimmy’s 4X4 Crew so fast so fast and uh oh speaking of which what is steel that’s Cameron steel and we got our information that up in remote pit one they put a tire on the back but
This is definitely not Cameron steel uh lighting up the desert like we expect him to let’s talk about what happened coming through Maine right now guys so we we B basically had R come in usually he’s a guy that goes for four tires goes for a full change puts Fuel and they
Leave Lightning Fast the Gomez has Pride themselves on Fast pits but we didn’t see him take tires so that to me is a really interesting thing that we’re seeing here Jason didn’t take tires Raul didn’t take tires and Kade drove right through now the interesting thing for me
As well was Jason Shar let’s just talk about that he was expecting to come in maybe a 20 25 second pit stop putting fuel in ETC and he did that just didn’t happen he was sitting in the pits for over a minute while they were trying to
Look at something under that car and that is bleeding track position so has he got a problem is there something that they’re concerned about that they need to get fixed yeah and as we’re watching right now this is Lauren out of the pits obviously this is back into turkey Claw
On our race course uh so physically first again on track and obviously no traffic to speak of in there little bit of corrected time between him and Jason I think this is going to be really interesting to follow because we’re going to be really close on the splits
Here yeah and then we’ll we’ll B well once we get these guys through that main Arch on the end of lap one we’ll have some good solid spit split times in here which will be great all right so what we’re doing right now as we are watching
All right so we’re just H catch we’re catching up so Tom let’s talk a little bit about that we are speculating what was going on in that main pit right now so uh as you said you you thought Sher was going to take tires Sher did not
Take tires he didn’t take tires so to me that’s just really very noticeable about how these guys can see right now in the desert there’s not a lot of dust so they’re they’re not hitting bushes and getting puncture flats or anything like that I think this is going to turn into an
Interesting yeah you know saw that yesterday with a little bit of water on there which was great so it slowed everything down so I think at that point we’ve got uh these guys are out there running through there and they can just go a little bit faster so it’ll be good
It’ll be good to see so right now here we are we have our current leader right now this is Lauren Healey first on track through turkey claw here is another driver we haven’t talked about too much Tom Randy slson Ry slson ry’s always going to be a threat here the guy spends
More time down here wheeling and putting in SE time than anybody in the field he’s that he’s that threat that when you’re in the Rock Trails playing around later in lap three he just pops out of your back pocket ry’s the fastest and the in between and that’s really where
You can make the most speed in this race is the in between the trails yeah so right now we have uh on on screen we’ve said it before this is our current race leader the next question is where is Jason so now we’ve got our current race
Leader we’re waiting to see where Jason Shar is we’ve had Shera through uh main pit Casey Curry through main pit Cade Rod through M main pit uh who else has gone through there I couldn’t keep up Tom oh oh oh little bit of excitement there for
Lauren all right so here we have uh Lauren uh stretching that Gap and and really you know there’s a little bit of corrected time on Jason’s side but not a lot yeah and that’s a great shot there just shows how soft that sand is as we
Watch three time King Randy slon in the bomber all right so now picking his believe that’s Randy sson is it not it is yeah just saying that he’s just picking his way down he’d be making his way into resolution in probably about two to three minutes time but I I didn’t
See who went across the screen in front of him uh did you see that Jim it looked like it it was a a bright white card didn’t get a quick look on it it would there’s no way that would be Kevin Sterns would is he ahead of Randy it’s
Highly possible Randy doesn’t have the pace in the desert he’ll be the first to admit that he’s quick but can he hang with these big ifs cars and we watch our current race leader that is Lauren Healey in his Bronco as he pushes on into the desert in all fairness though
I’ve seen Randy have a really fast car out here in the desert some years and another years he builds a new car and he’ll self admittedly say hey I didn’t get the shock tuning I normally do some years and it doesn’t always work out where the the fast this car is the
Reliable car so um he he he’s definitely had moments over the years but he always comes with a great race car and he’s always ready to be in the mix where he’s so fast in the Rocks if you ever get an opportunity to actually witness him driving Rock trials it’s astonishing the
Speed that Randy can pick through them yeah talking about spooners yesterday I mean that’s a perfect example of trails telling Dave yesterday you know 8 to 12 miles an hour is race winning Tempo going up spooners yeah which is which is crazy I mean that’s
Like second gear low box isn’t it I mean for from a trail driver or even third gear low boox all right so that is Randy slen right now we did see a car ahead of him in one of the wide shots we couldn’t really ID it very fast but that’s
Another one of our three-time Kings now for Randy and for a lot of the solid axle cars they believe that their race doesn’t start until they get into the Rocks that’s when they believe they come alive and that’s where they really want to start working that’s where it’ll be
The same thing for Eric Miller as well now we need to keep an eye on Eric Miller but I also want to know where is Levi Shirley we saw Levi he must have stopped out there on track because we saw him behind Eric we might be able to
Get an update on that out at remote pit one to find out if he did stop I do all we’ve heard so far is Cameron steel has stopped yeah just trying to work out that is still Cameron steel so this is the first of of our utvs coming into town right now I’m
Guessing that this will be Kyle Cheney 1 191 just trying to get confirmation on it yeah that is Kyle Cheney coming in here so this will be now the interesting the interesting thing with this is that Kyle Cheney who’ll be coming in he has a strategy these vehicles they have
Smaller Motors but they still use quite a lot of fuel right we’re looking here and is that our current race leader I believe that is I believe that is our current race leader that is Lauren Healey out and the the distance that appears in this shot that he’s putting
Between the next cars that we saw come through main unless we get a wider shot here we might be to see it but this is just him alone yeah this will be him alone now this is a desert section they’re making their way right out to
The far end of the Rock Trails so what they’re doing is there’s a desert section and it’s really whooped out through here but there’s some very I mean Tom will tell us there’s some very fast flowing long corners and they’re very bmed out you got to watch your side
Walls and your tires you’ve also got to be so careful it’s easy to take a high line and just find yourself bicycling in and out out of control but these guys are going to be hitting big speeds out here I don’t think the top speed is
Going to be like it has been last year but I think this year is a a race where you could be doing 80 90 mph Max all day long you might not be into the hundreds just because I think this is a more technical race than we have a lot of
Years yeah I mean well give you an idea on P I mean we were in our 4500 car yesterday we we were hitting speeds of up to about 95 and I was running out of motor so I think there is the possibility for these guys to be getting
Bigger all right we’re hearing that Brett harell and Cody Addington have come through main pit as well so that puts them out onto lap two as well oh that’s fantastic great news there particularly for Cody anding Cody anding Ton’s come up through the ranks over the
Years first race was 2013 in the Toyota that can as we cut back now and that’s three time King Randy sson ry’s car is looking really really good you guys I think he’s going to be here for the long halt today and we need to
Keep an eye on him do you know what I find fascinating here with that watching that picture is Brandy believes in things that do things well and it’s the high lift Jack that he has on his vehicle so many people have gone over to flashy expensive Jacks and different
Jacking syst there nothing wrong with the farm jack Jim I have one on my car absolutely they work it’s as simple as that they’re probably the best worst thing you can have in off-road if you’ve ever got hit in the chin by one exactly you would know okay jim I’ve got some updated
Split times as they came through so right now currently on corrected time we have Healey sheer oh Casey Curry Cade Rod Harrell wow that’s amazing so Bret Harold is having eight seconds between our leaders now there just talk about that cuz Bret har is having a fantastic race there
Bret har started in 20th position so he has so let’s talk about a corrected now that is on adjusted time as they came through so the splits have already done that so we’d have to look figure out how much time he’s got to he still has to
Make that up so this includes that adjusted time as well so these are not just physical this is adjusted time later well it has to be on adjusted time for Bret Harold to be up there so that’s absolutely fantastic news for Brett he’ll be super stoked with that one but
The one for me is there’s a name missing from that top pack Ral Gomez we yeah he was out there he was right in that he’s going to be he’s just going to be backing off a little bit but uh we also saw that uh he’s look R’s going to be
Driving his own race he knows this is lap one he knows he’s got two more laps there and he knows he can pick up the pace when he gets into those rocks so right as we continue here we’ve got the man with the Mike wrench himself
Mr miles hasselquist and he is down in the gbr pits miles what do you you go looks like Daren Gomez is coming in another Gomez Brothers racer they’ve got four cars out here five cars out here racing today and it looks like he oh he’s coming in backwards I see what’s
Going on just in another one comes in so R Gomez is coming into the pits all four Nitto tires are looking good but there’s they got tires ready just in case he’s going to shut it off for just a minute while they’re fueling getting a thumbs up from Daren Gomez the youngest
Gomez out here ING with us today see a little bit of uhoh it’s dumping something ooh it stinks too I think that could be that’s not good so something’s coming out of the center of darion’s car I hate to see this it smells hot yeah he lost something in the front
End or something tough tough break for Darion there I hate to see that for this young man as I see Kyle Cheney our highest in the UTV racing with the 4400s so so we’ll see what happens here but tough break for Daren Gomez he’s getting
Out they got their work cut out in front of him as Kyle Cheney is out there running another strong race with cashley Croy riding shotgun he won this race just a couple of days ago in the Canam UTV hammers championship and now he’s heading out for lap two of three for the
2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by Nitto Tires powered by Optima batteries I see Marcos Gomez coming in so the Gomez pits is going to be super exciting super fast Eric Miller’s coming to town so I’m going to throw it back up to the booth and see
Where I’m going next well thank you miles it’s always good to hear from you there now you heard Miles saying that Eric Miller’s coming back into town and as well as meus Gomez now let just talk about that with the Gomez pit they’ve got four cars they need to look after so
They got to split their resources across four cars that’s a difficult thing they’re probably pitting Robbie Gordon as well they got would be theyit that up they say all right we’ll coule CP they do have the full corner locked out as well but you know what uh Jim we heard uh Eric Miller
Coming in but you know what name I didn’t hear is Levi yeah no that’s very very true now that’s tough now Levi’s been putting so much work into his program in the last 12 months really trying to iron out the bugs on that UK right there on the T no that’s Ben
Miller I think you’ll find yeah yeah no that is Ben Miller so identical car but his his blue and Brent is orange okay thank you Jim all right I’m here and we’re getting a little bit of an update from up in remote pit one with another member of our team Mr Matt
Holt what’s up everybody I’m here with Cole Johnson we’re in Ro pit one uh how’s your morning going so far uh the morning was going good about 10 miles ago I lost both front CVS and a transmission both I wasn’t even pushing the car hard just bad luck I guess again
Bad luck it sounds like uh obviously do some get some maintenance check some things out what’s your plan going into this afternoon uh the biggest thing is if we can get the transmission swapped in time and make it cut off a LP too um I’m obviously out of contention right
Now so just get the car going and trying to make the cut off so I keep ra again that’s kind kind of hammers just trying to get to that finish line just trying to get a finish out of it uh again anybody you want to thank while you’re
Out here yeah I just like to thank my uh family and crew Everybody out here that’s been helping us out um that means the world to me we’re up last night trying to work on the car trying to get it going and now we’re out here again so
Um yeah and then just uh Falcon Tire for helping me out this entire race so awesome good luck why see you guys are busy I’ll let you get back to work thank you so much again we got a lot of racing going don’t worry stay tuned we’ll see
You guys soon man that’s a great update from up there in remote pit one thank you very much uh but right now we have miles down I hear he’s down with our good friend Randy Slawson thank you Ian yes Randy SL a it in here they’re doing fuel checking all the lug nuts got a quick little thumbs up but again laser focus out of three time King Randy sosing up there in roughly the top 10 but I’ve seen a lot
Of fast ones going through we just saw Marcos come through grabbing some quick fuel in and out and Daren Gomez his transfer case got hot and it was puking they’re not too worried they’re going to let it cool down to back off and hopefully Daren can head back out but so
Far so good for everybody coming through I saw Eric Miller Kevin Sterns Lots of action down in in the hot pits and this bomber is looking good it’s ready to eat the Rocks he’s fast enough in the desert but super fast in the Rocks remember he raced almost this identical car
Yesterday on lap one and two so pel Motors bomber heading out for lap two of three I see dor pelino coming in there goes one of the Miller Brothers taken out for lap so it’s going to be a drag race before Miller and and Randy slaon lots of action all over trying to
Keep my head on the swivel to make sure everything’s going in but the Lamborghini head now J right Offroad looking good what a great race we are having under our belt I hope you guys are having much fun as we are cuz man I love this day take it away guys thank
You very much miles absolutely fantastic to see now a moment ago we saw Brett Harold making his way through turkey claw followed by Cody Addington in the red dragon so great to see those guys having an awesome race but right there on our screen was our current King Mr R
Gomez working his way and there is Casey Curry yeah Casey Curry now he’s running a really good race right now started a little bit back showing some really good racecraft we saw him outbreaking Ral Gomez for track position and it looks like he’s catching somebody now you tell
Who where that is Jim I’m just trying to look at they looked like they were it had a Blue Roof which doesn’t make any sense to me could be L Ah that’s Ben Miller could be lap maybe I’ve I’m just trying to catch a line on that
One that looks like Ben Miller to Ben Miller but we’ll just come back on that one as soon as I can I’ll keep you honest as soon as I can oh dear tough break here for these guys oh this is H this is the worst time to have incar camera footage is when
Your car is broken down and you’re inside it triy to figure out but it looks like the driver might be getting back in but this is what we were just watching watching Jim so yeah so Casey Curry that’s a helicopter shot yeah now this is interesting I wonder if Ben
Miller here that’s a great shot right there actually had a problem and he’s just got his car back running again because we’re not showing Ben Miller anywhere near our lead Vehicles right now oh a little bit of excitement right there and the looks like Casey make oh
No he’s not going to I thought he was going to go up and give him a little think he’s coming around him right now I on he’s going to give him a nudge right there give him a little bit of the iron hor bit of right there get out of my way
Y he got it there we Curry on the Move two TW two Taps two ton he’s coming on through and Casey showing why he’s so good in the desert that’d be great for him to have a great run this year he he’s really been fighting fighting
The all right so as we watch Casey uh make his way through the desert we’re going to throw it down to Miles back in the pits miles what do you got thank you in this is one of the cooler stories I love for today Mike Lawson took off the
Line this morning now they’re swipping sweets with Amber Turner in the 4848 Freight Factory bomber really cool to see that Mike Slawson drove a great race yesterday morning and now they’re swapping seats again so Amber Turner and this is funny so obviously she’s a little shorter so they’re switching seat
Pads in the in this bomber to make everything go good but Amber Turner making her debut here for The 4400 and this car that won yesterday just such a cool story that’s developing Randy slaon her boss is out there she helps build these car so she knows it and she’s
About to go out and have some fun I saw Dan fresh come through just a moment ago and here comes jiren Gunter these top 20 are going super super fast but so much as going on I’m going to get caught up and send it back to you guys at the
Monster Energy Jumbotron thanks a lot miles but we see something pretty exciting going on right here don’t we Tom yeah we got Lauren out of the car helping his Co driver back left flat tire and they’re both working on it so yeah now this is really interesting they
Don’t have like a real positive look here they’re not like working super fast and practiced and everything they seem to be really taking their time so I’m really concerned that there might be more than a flat tire going on here yeah it doesn’t seem like it’s going to be
Like hey let’s get out change this tire let’s get rolling as as one Cod driver they got the other one out of the rack so that’s yep but yeah how far back is curry from here and how far back Jason sh yeah I mean can you imagine the buzzz
For those guys when they see Lauren stop they Kate Rod’s coming yeah absolutely yeah well there’s a whole bunch of people coming yeah so yeah so we’re just trying to find out and see where Jason is right now but we got our drones in the sky here so I mean
If any other cars come they’ll be sure to find them that is for certain yeah but what we’re what you’re watching right now current race leader Lauren Healey out of the car with co- driver tire off looks like they’re working to get the uh Jack on that trailing arm
This is when they want your farm jack Tom I’m just looking there to see what Jack setup they have that looks like it might be one of the AGM Jacks all right so we’re panning out because here it is here it is there we go here we are so
That is Casey Curry Casey Curry oh wow Casey Curry coming up to take the lead away from Lauren Healey here he comes what a great day for Casey Curry and the bigger thing is is this is Casey look through that dust cloud I see nobody and
Pushing up on behind him and we just saw him pass some lap traffic and there was nobody around him then wow Casey Curry in first place here he goes yeah so Casey Curry making his way out across this lake bed now there’s the big right hand turn that you have to
Make as you make your way into the first of the rock trials so Casey Curry unofficially first vehicle into the Rocks right now yeah pulling into Aftershock Curry is in absolute charge right now he left the line in 15th position this morning so he’s got good corrected time
In his back pocket and he’s got you know good three minutes in there Aftershock being one of the most iconic hammers Trails I mean I always say where would Walker Evans be in the old days you used to show up and be in most random spots
And he’d give you the thumbs up that was a spot he always would be oh and look more more more I think that might be Cade Rod coming through there but we’ll just get confirmation no that’s Ben Miller now hold on now that’s Ben Miller on the
Second lap it’s Ben Miller we got a dark horse here coming up through that’s Shear right there so laurren got the new tire on there looks like they’re tightening up the lug nuts getting ready to get that thing back on tight now Benjamin Miller he started in 5c position so we’re just
Going to try and work that out at the moment well we saw you didn’t see this yesterday cuz you were racing we saw this actually happen yesterday with some lap traffic we had some lap traffic guys get mixed up with our leaders and forget to come back to hammertown cuz they were
Just following the following the leader in the desert which can get dangerous when you’re out there so right now we just saw Cade coming around and he’s basically sitting in second right now behind Casey Curry right i’ be Shear I think it’s Shear than K not see so yeah
I think I we’re not 100% sure we’ll know when we get them into into Aftershock yeah it’s kind of but yeah I believe right now we have uh healing was stopped we saw Casey Curry make this pass I do believe we saw Shir go by as well and
Then we saw Cade Rod so we have a lot of Heavy Hitters obviously up in the front of this pack that’s Casey right there yeah that is our current race leader that is Casey Curry in the trophy Jeep now this is a car that has seen so
Much action on these Trails over the years it’s seen so much action everywhere he’s raced that basically everywhere I believe yes he has yeah it’s been 400 it’s been Vegas toino it’s been you name it it’s raced it and that’s what we always talk about you talked about it earlier Tom about your
Car being small we always looked at that car and it was kind of built to race all that big uh uh desert stuff so we always just assumed it was too big to come here and play in the Hammers it’s it it’s always had a hard time you know
Basically fitting through some of these hammers trails and I know he’s played between using his straight axle and harder years where it’s more technical rock crawling and leaving that thing at home and but but I I think uh you know he’s done a lot of work to that car
Updating it and making it faster than ever yeah and as they come up through these trials now again this is another area we’re talking about where those little rocks sit on the side of the trails and it’s so easy to get a flat tire in these positions so it’s that
Ying and yang do you push or do you try and save Tires I’d like to see where Greg Adler’s at right now cuz we haven’t heard anything about him all day and you don’t know where he’s going to be yeah that’s another one who can just sort of pop out
Of your back pocket and surprise you as well but yes you’re right we have not seen him pop up anywhere but right now this is our current race leader that was Casey Curry that just went by as Jim said in that trophy Jeep we do expect to
See behind him jayon oh we’re spinning around maybe we’re look looking for Shira not 100% certain yeah what a race we’ve got going on here right now absolutely incredible early news Paul wolf is out wh and Campbell has problems on track Bailey Campbell is also out with issues at
We’ve also got Casey Gilbert with a blond motor oh look look at this for some imagery so where are we right now Tom talk us through this Jack Hammer so he’s up on the top side of Jackhammer fissure mountain behind him right there and they’re going to go down into Aftershock then
1920 yep and then un un unnamed Uptown fissure mountain and then they’re heading back towards Sledge yeah and these TRS are gnarly but Casey’s been at here for so many years he knows them intimately he knows where he can push he knows where he can back
It off but there’s no backing off right now this is absolutely full attack from Casey Curry who is currently leading this 2024 Nitto Tires race of Kings here at the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers powered by Optima batteries and presented by nto Tire yes and while we’re watching Casey work
Through here we’re still trying to keep an eye on our other PE our other leaders that are up in that mix so we’ve got Jason Sher Cade Rod um who else we got in there Tom oh that was a pressure question and this is the one we need to
Find out we’ve got someone in race Ops finding out what’s going on right now yeah now is this B Ben Miller has made a a bum turn or is Ben Miller driving the absolute race of his life right now now this is the Paul hersel machine and if that’s Ben Miller up in
That section right there yeah that is 1981 Ben Ben Miller so we should see uh based on what we saw in when uh Lauren was down CH Lauren Hil was down changing his tire on the flat there it is that I believe that should be Jason sheer in that well if that’s
Jason sheer then Ben Miller in if Ben Miller is not where he’s supposed to be then Ben Miller is causing problems for Jason Shir yeah there goes there’s the love tap that’s the get out of my way so here we go this is our current race leader monster back athlete Casey
Curry a winner at Daka a winner at so many other places he’s won Baja he’s been podiumed at Vegas Torino he’s actually won king of Portugal in Europe as well so talk us through this Tom where where is he right now I’m trying to get a handle on it right
Now honestly Ian we’ll get we’ll get a little bit of a back out view here he hasn’t gone through Aftershock yet though no I don’t think he has this would be so this is up in compaction Hill area yeah this is going to be up onto compaction he’s going to be dropping
Back down into s uh to Highway 19 and 20 now I’ve not been out on n 19 or 20 for many many years oh my word it has changed there’s highways down the sides of it and up the sides of it and all over the place and as Dave said hey guys
Pick you why you choose your poison so Tom right here we got some split times coming in so this are our drivers who’ve gone through that uh 91 mile marker split time and we do have some uh some race leaders uh in the mix right here case Rod at 4402 Lauren Healey at
3921 and Casey Curry at 3902 now the one that we can’t uh uh guarantee we’re having some issues with the tracker on Jason’s car so he’s in that mix as well but we don’t have yeah we’re just speaking right um to Ops at the moment and we’re just going to
Try oh look at this this is Lauren Healey so he is back in the hunt again yeah got that tire changed so hey at the moment I would say he probably around about oh is he blowing that corner or has he got a problem no he just blew that corner that
There are parts to this track where you physically just can’t see you become blindsighted on those sides but it does look like Lauren is back in the Chase and I’m guessing that he’s around about 1.2 mil something like that behind our current race leader at the moment who is Casey
Curry all right and right now uh we’re going to have a now that we’re in the Rocks uh we’re going to be super excited because joining us in the booth again is Mr Dave Cole it’s great to have you here because he knows these Trails really
Really well Tom thank you so much it’s been great back thank you all right it’s been great we’ll see he’s going to be back in this afternoon uh so Dave thanks for joining us in the booth thanks thanks for having me here Ian Tom ways absolute Rockstar and Legend thanks for
Being here Tom I I love I way love seeing you make dust but if you’re not making dust I’m glad you’re in here appreciate you I I do love having Tom in here with us okay as the race continues here we are watching our current race leader
That is Casey Curry just behind him is Lauren Healey but we’ve got some race Ops information and miles is down in the pits with Ben napia what do we got miles thanks guys I’m here in race offs with Ben Napier everything’s it’s starting to unfold a little bit what’s
Going on behind the scenes yeah miles we have a great race we’ve seen the leaders come through the end of lap two and head out to the rocks in lap uh lap lap two uh but we do have some penalties from lap one uh the usack team have been
Investigating and have applied penalties to five competitors we’ve got Kevin Sterns number 11 Eric Miller number 21 Greg Adler 210 uh 221 to Cody Miller and 77 a Robbie Gordon all Mr vcp in the desert and and that’s at least 5 minutes automatically 5 minutes and we can add
More or not we usack can add more if they want to yeah so usack reviewed it there’s no further penalty on top of that it’s a 5 minute penalty for each of them uh but what’s really interesting to see today is we’ve got a lot less penalties on vcps than yesterday and the
Day before the drivers are learning that the team in usack race control is keeping an eye on it they’ got really good data this year and we’re really keeping people honest so they’re getting those vcps today which is great yeah so far so good you you’ve been super busy
Thanks for everything you do I know Jason and Liam been running around keeping everything going straight this is the big day and it’s down to this it’s been great absolutely miles I do have one more update we’ve been watching Benjamin Miller tangling with the lead
As he’s right up the front of the race I don’t remember seeing him come through pits he has a serious issue unfortunately on the way back in on lap one at Mile 67 he turned left and went out to Emerson rather than heading on the uh down to back door resolution and
Back into town so he has a uh serious issue with his race today uh that’s a major short course and the team will be working that through actually that’s a long course that’s going to be lap number one with the desert and the Rocks technically yeah and that’s that’s not
Driving our course unfortunately so that’s probably going to be the end of his day but I’ll let you sack work that out and we’ll get back to you on that all right well thanks Ben for everything you’ve been doing I know you got a lot
More to do so I’ll let you get back to work but thanks for the update and I’m sure we’ll be chatting here after a bit again no problems miles we’ll keep you updated as the race unfolds all right Ben napor again thanks buddy and we’ll
Send it back up to you guys Jim what do you got okay thank you very much miles great to see now Dave let’s just talk about a little bit about Benjamin Miller there because as you were saying when you come down to make the change there’s
Uh a crossover point on the track isn’t there where you switch out back out and you can either go out onto Lake lap two or you come back into town it looks like he’s just followed traffic yeah when I was uh watching sitting on sitting in the officer room just watching you guys
Do the thing um that’s when he got starting racing wheel tohe with Casey Curry right Casey came up gave him a little bump that woke him up but he’s like I’m here racing with Casey cryy unfortunately he was racing A different race yeah he probably got a little bit
Excited unfortunately fell into the follow of the leader game but picked the wrong leader to follow but right now okay so Dave uh we we this is what we plan to have you in here for all of our racers in the Rock so right now first
Car in the Rocks Casey Curry uh with Lauren Healey behind him CAD Rod we know Jason Shear is in there as well yeah and I’m seeing R’s roll’s cars park parked up in there as far as uh I guess he is that smoke or just a good dust that’s I
Think he’s just spinning the tires that’s Cade Rod there’s Jason Shir right there yeah so Cade Rod here is running a fantastic race great maturity here just getting it through on our race radios right now it does appear that Casey Curry has an 18sec lead over our
Second place vehicle on track right now who is Lauren Healey and then about then about four minutes behind him is going to be Cade Rod now and then 6 minutes behind him is Addington now next question those splits are going to be down in the desert just
About the point where luren had a flat tire a flat it’s good data but it’s data about 10 minutes old and a lot of stuff have the data we also don’t have data on Jason Shar as well cuz his uh we’re not we’re having issues picking him up but
He’s obviously in that front mix as well cuz we’re physically seeing him in with the cars that we’re talking about oh now look at this we’ve got a Kade rod sandwich going on here we got two-time King Ral Gomez chasing down Cade Rod who’s chasing down Jason Shir all three
Cars in the same picture there that’s how tight it is as they make their way into lap two and that right now is uh just trying to catch that is Bret Harold yeah that’s Bret Harold we saw him come through in a while and he has a lot of
Adjusted time on uh on his side as well yeah Bret Harold is off the line in I believe it was uh oh in 20th position so yes he’s got about 10 minutes of adjustment time over um look watching these guys 8 minutes of adjusted time over Lauren Healey and
Jason sheir I don’t see a lot of difficult difficulty in the course between here all the way to Chocolate Thunder that’s going to separate these guys if if they have medic Mechanicals yeah but it’s it’s fairly quick rocks After Shock down 1920 up without any BCPS you go into pit two then you’re
Taking you have to do Uptown uptown’s easy now um across the Fisher and down Jack and nothing’s nothing’s there that’s just making miles for these guys that’s just miles and for these guys what as we refer to sometimes just nuisance rocks they’re just got to work through the way through the Rock Trails
The next big obstacle is going to be when they’re all in the mix of chocolate thunder that’s correct just look at the pace here oh Jason’s pulling over he’s just going to let Cade go cuz Cade was was pushing on the back of him pretty good now there’s a there’s a kind of
Great maturity here from Jason this is you know he wants to run his Pace he’s quite happy to let that young man just disappear off he knows he going to pull him back in the and if he’s not well you know Jason’s got another gear if he
Needs it I’m going to I’ll will admit I was wrong earlier I didn’t think that uh this isn’t going to be popular everybody gets mad when I say stuff like this but that’s what you hear I made the comment that I didn’t think Paul wolf or Kade
Rod were coming back for lap two well when they left the start line I didn’t think either were coming back and it wasn’t because I didn’t think him could deserve it I just thought that they’d be both pushing too hard and for Cade to carry this pace run with these dogs and
Do the things and and not put himself too too too far out the in the deep end is impressive Dave I I personally completely agree with you if we watched how Kade tackled that that qualifying course it was a man on fire and sometimes it’s hard to turn that off
When you leave the start line so I I think you burn out yeah absolutely but while with more action continues here at the 2024 Nitto race of Kings miles hquest is down in the pits with Cameron steel there is so much dra unfolding down here in the pits I see a
Lot of cars down here broke down I just heard that Paul wolf is out of the race I hate to hear that for him and it’s not looking good for Cameron steel is it buddy no there’s no crying and racing so I’m not going to make tears here but
What a bummer man just uh kind of just cruising loping along just uh having a good race and people were pulling over all over the place our goal was not to be one of them unfortunately it looks like maybe a pinion bearing has failed so we can see the gear set moving back
There the pinion moving and uh and just gutted you know the laser nut Monster Energy number 48 has put in so much time Cody wager my partner and Rodney stoy have put their life into this as I have so it’s really disappointing and um I’m really bummed the words just don’t uh
They aren’t there you know the ball 1000 is our biggest race of the year I would say this is our second biggest effort um it’s right there with it so to be out on the first lap possibly which it looks like we are a lot of people don’t know
But our car is very oneoff all the way around so there’s not we don’t even have spare gear sets for it and uh no one else does either so it’s uh unfortunate when we lose a gear set which we’ve never done before we’ve raced this race five times now and every single time
It’s been a different failure every test has been a different failure everything we’ve done and we’ve never had the same problem twice and uh this year our goal was 60% and that’s what we were given it 60% I’m sure everybody saw Casey Curry Nerf us our monster teammate he was on
The gas and we’re just like you know it’s cool we’re going to let him go if other people pass us we’re going to let him go the idea was just Cruis around to the finish line and uh unfortunately it’s not going to work out well I hate
To hear that for you I mean you’re obviously a crowd favorite you give all your every effort you have for everything you don’t come in without the prep so it’s just bad luck you pre- ran you’ve raced all week long a tough breaker I hate to hear that for you I’m
Sorry yeah thanks I just want to give a shout out to my wife and kids at home and just say I love you guys uh they put up with the most right I’m gone for weeks at a time and months and my kids are crying when I’m leaving the house
And I just want to say I love love them and uh thanks the lord for keeping us safe and I don’t think we’re getting back in this race but thanks to everybody that makes it possible for us to be there love you thanks Cody laser
Nut all right well M respect I hate it for you buddy but but thanks for the Insight so much like I said the the attrition is really starting to set in and we are just now on lap two of three it’s going to be a race to the Finish
Let’s see how it shakes out Jim take it back thank you very much miles now we just watched there that was Chip mlin from the Rufus race team making their way up through in that uh tried Bill ifs machine but out the front right now I
Can tell you oh look at this for a battle that is Cade rod in front and just behind him is three time King Jason sheer we saw Jason Shear pull to the side and let Cade Rod go yeah but the bigger question is how much space do we
Have between Kade and our current race leader right now Curry well the interesting what you also have to remember is that Jason Shir has a minute of adjusted time on Cade Rod so all the time he’s watching him he’s beating him but the qu as you say the question
Right now is Casey Curry is Lauren Healey starting to pull away from the pack and is Lauren Healey Behind These two cars I believe he is yeah Lauren’s behind rall on tracker they are uh oh there is not just behind him on the tracker he’s behind
Him right right there in that shot Dave he’s actually right behind so Dave can you see on the tracker or just by looking at these Trails they’re on the crossover between aftershot going over to Highway 19 20 right now and where is Casey right now Casey is halfway up uh
In Highway 20 he’s just right about right ahead of them uh he’ll be coming into pit two about three minutes so you see those see there’s Casey that’s so check me out is Highway 20 camera and so Casey’s top of Highway 20 and there’s your second third fourth 300 yards
Behind him look at that so right in it’s going to stay high speed we’re going to get those those epic shots across fissure with all four of those cars oh it’s going to be amazing so if you’re in hammertown if you turn around and look behind the booth and look the opposite
Way you’ll see the helicopter and uh probably some dust Trails right on top of that mountain now I’m going to say this I think Cade Rod is pulling in Casey Curry here just looking at that the visually is much closer than it was previously but Casey Curry started in
15th position so he has adjusted time over all of the cars behind him and of the three cars packed behind him Jason Shear has adjusted time over Ral and also Cade Rod so at the moment the second man in this race is Jason Shir I appreciate the math but none of that
Matters now it Telles him we’re in the Rocks so now Dave you mentioned they haven’t even started the the race yet still the warmup phase you mentioned pit two Dave uh do you see any reason for any of these guys to stop up unless it was part
Of their strategy or do you think it’s just if everything’s okay they’re just going to keep rolling well I would assume yeah I don’t think anyone’s coming in for Te like if they’re if they’re good they’re going to keep moving I don’t I wouldn’t imagine why
You would do your heavy fueling in pit two but if it lined up it lined up I mean these guys have their strategies if they had it we see yeah k no Kate every all the leaders pitted though yes everyone did we did see we saw Kate pit
Originally thought he wasn’t but he did around the corner their pit was there so they do all have the fuel certainly have enough fuel to to get it done oh look at this here we got Ral Gomez taking a different line here for to Jason is he
Going to put the move on him yes he is there we go now this is a different Drive we’re seeing here from Jason Shear Jason Shear usually see that car up on its toes and it it has a different type of flow Jason just doesn’t seem to have the flow this
Year oh look at this though that may have been he’s 17 ft out of second place at King of the Hammers he’s doing fine hey it’s my job to criticize but you know Jim as Dave said this we’re still so early in this race this is different this different than yesterday
We can’t look at this and say you know they’re in the Rocks we still have a whole third lap of rocks to play gu Kade Rod look at that just Bap frogged up around him someone got [Laughter] impatient so round now makes his way and Ral would now be hunting Down Casey
Curry but I mean this is a three-lap race but we’ve also got the option trials as well those Choose Your Own Adventure Trails I mean Dave where do you think they’re going to go when they get round to that area I think all everyone will just end up Following the
Leader through big Johnson unfortunately yeah I I be I mean I know they’ve driven it I know that uh that uh Ro has driven Bigfoot oh what oh s high range high range swap right there yes and just when you think you seen absolutely everything to sharks walk past the booth in
Hammertown do you not know the song knock knock who there and shark you not know the Baby Shark Song oh don’t start that okay so here we go a great shot of remote pit two I’ll tell you what I do want to talk about we just heard from
Rice up there let’s keep that drone shot cuz this they can avoid going into pit two and just basically bypass it and stay on the pipe and you’re going to tell that about 300 feet on R and if you pull back out far enough you’ll see Casey go just
Crusting back up over over to xes as well so as Dave was saying this is Ral Gomez and they do have the option if they stay out of the pit far enough they can just stay on full gas no speed control and they can really stretch the
Legs of these cars out in this section of the desert do you know what I really love about this is we got four different manufacturers of vehicles in the top four right now over 90 left right back up the hill Ro avoiding the pits Ro not skipping the pits now here’s coming in
Uh k making the left as well not P not da not pitting not pitting he’s off course oh no he’s he’s perfect I’m sorry I’m looking at the burned line going to fissure there’s your line right there they turned a little quick and they all missed it they all followed
Each other that was the right line right there wild they all played Follow the Leader just like we saw a few minutes ago but to me Dave where’s Casey in this he’s got to be there he is did I see dust that’s dust I’m looking there it is
Man what a shot same Dr pilot just picked up that is rad so he’s so we give we haven’t we haven’t gone up this way historically in a while this is that used to be almost pretty easy that’s the the bailout from Wrecking Ball down to claw and then they’ll scoot across the
Top the alternate way onto fissure and then we’ll see if any of these guys miss miss Uptown that’s going to be the tell we got four guys they’ve three of them are kind of uh reference navigating off their partners and uh uptown’s coming up and it’s a new Trail
For we had some missed missed uh course course compliance in there in previous races now the the interesting thing is we have vcps on our map this year so vcps are virtual checkpoints you can’t see them on the ground but they are on your GPS they’re not hidden they are
There it’s plain as day for you to find so while as we so Miles as we sorry as we continue here with the race action we’ve got miles down in the pits and he’s got some more information for us so Miles what have you got oh you know it’s all about
Strategy out here and sometimes it’s better late than never but I got you a present buddy could you use this yesterday I’ll just turn my mic back on yeah thanks very much miles um yeah a fuel can would have been very handy at about 5 miles from but remember
We’ve been planning that all night just so you know Jim I had nothing to do with that H it’s okay nice go with my other gold fuel can all right so uh here we go Dave where so you were talking about watching them to get on to uh check me out where
Where is the turn in for that for these guys if they pull back a little bit this should be coming back to top of xand he should coming he should be coming into a right hand turn and he’s got to cross it and then go down into the rocks
Okay now that looks like R Gomez just trying to I think that might be Cade in front of him yeah that’s what I’m saying so it looks like uh that Cade has actually got back past ra Gomez yeah looks like these two are just playing with each other out out they’re just
Basically jumping back and forth now the interesting thing here is you can see the dust although we can see through it it’s very difficult for Ral to see through that so he’s got to be very careful here cuz as Dave will tell you there’s lots of little landmine rocks on
The sides of these Trails it’s so easy to get a flat tire and and Jason should be in this mix I just don’t know how far back he’s uh he’s sitting I think Jason’s saving his car I think Jason’s doing what Dave says just’s waiting for
The race to start in lap three could very well be all right so as we watch Cade and Raul make their way up there’s Casey once again yes Casey is our physical race leader right now on adjusted time and on physical position so Dave is this is this what you were
Speaking of this is the check me out section right here is he made the turn into it no he yeah he’s in uh Uptown yes he’s he’s course complying in uptown right now okay he’ll come up on top of the saddle where they drop into fishing
Hole will be but he’s going to just turn left and get back on right there he’ll turn left and get on to fisser you can see hammert there on the background on lap three he’s going to drop off that saddle straight down that Hill that’s upper Bender alley right there in the
Distance and then that trail that he’s driving by on his driver’s right is fishing hole and he’ll have to hit that on lap three lap three that okay so this this where it gets confusing for these drivers we talk about all the time they have to get out there plan this these
Multiple laps you don’t want to mix them up when you’re out there on the GPS and uh these guys are running that that is was that the same is this so far the identical to yesterday correct yes he’s going to he’s going to take a lap to bypass uh and not
Come down to Winner’s Choice from Bender alley onto wrecking ball um and then he’ll will also have a bypass coming down Kings veto this is a this is creative I like this yeah we talk about pre-running and that will be pre-running there so so that section has gotten torn up over the
Years and when you come in on the on the regular dirt you’re completely off camber and if you’re on the brakes you kind of slide out he he went and used the like the natural terrain and came in flat into the corner really cool instead of making that turn that you can see
That was just at the top of your screen so little things it’s 5 seconds in the middle of a 7h hour race that and but it’s a it’s a tire out or a tire or something just less impact on the car it’s good stuff it adds up for sure it
Does but we’ll just talk about navigation for a minute because there are many different ways of doing your navigation you can either use GPS chart plotters um or you can actually use um computers so things like um iPads that sort of thing with mapping software on there that will show these trails and
Then these guys are allowed to pre-run so they can go out there they can map their own lines and that’s exactly what we just saw Casey doing there now the other thing is if you’re running another chart plotter style GPS they’re not really designed for land use so they can
Be quite slow and updating so I mean like myself yesterday we found ourselves going are we going the right way and then we weren’t so swing back around and go the other way which is all good fun right as the action continues here at the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of
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Watson out in the Rocks we just saw him make a pass on uh uh sorry Jordan pelino right before we came back to the action yeah so Kevin Stern’s here having a really good race he’s right up with the front end of this pack it’s great to see this is a man who
Used to race in 4500 made the change a couple of years ago decided he wanted to play with the big dogs and he’s doing a great job here he’s right up inside the top 10 was also great to see Jordan pelino still making moves down through there
Yeah on our screen we’re trying to decide was he just repositioning or was he off course but it looked like he was just kind of getting the car lined up for a different line if you get I I really hope we get a chance to see Jordan pelen eyes car through the rocks
It has so much ground clearance with the ifs portals uh front and IRS portals rear it’s astonishing to watch it pick its way through the Rocks now that looks like a solid axle yeah that is a solid axle car just try to see who that is right now now
Interesting we got report from race Ops earlier on about various people getting vcp penalties uh for missing vcps in the desert one of those was Eric Miller now that surprises me that’s is a man who’s won this event twice don’t expect him to make navigational issues but that just
Goes to show you it can happen to anyone yeah I’m just getting an update from our good friend miles who’s just sort of checking in with all the pits and he said that Shannon Campbell did come in uh burnt spark plug in the motor but they’ve replaced it and he is back out
And still moving and I believe this is the first time Shannon’s run of big block Chevy in that new car he’s always going become an LS guy yeah I didn’t know he had gone to a big block that’s that was news to me right there yeah when they building the
New car he he was sending me text message he said his dad would be proud he always wanted him to put a big block in that car yeah I was just thinking it’s I mean all this time if shanon just would have gotten some horsepower before
We could have seen what he would have done yeah I think Tom way summed it up perfectly when we’re going to have a Shannon moment now it’s going to be really spectacular rather than just spectacular but still the race continues here if you are just joining us this is a 2024
Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by n tire and Power by Tima batteries we have had over a week of amazing races but it’s about the big one this is the Nitto race of Kings as we watch Kevin Sterns picking his way down through the back of Aftershock and
Da and Dave is on the tracker trying to keep up with uh who is where with our leaders looks like we have uh Casey Raul Jason and Cade uh in the Jackhammer coming up on top of Jackhammer area here pretty quick we should start seeing that
Shot we’ll see that shot of Casey uh making the left and coming down uh Jackhammer and that is the left um no that’s not that’s compaction man that’s not Casey Curry no that’s and it’s a right-and turn so besides those three things ites everything I said it
Would so if that was a left and if it was a different car it would have been the right shot but it was it’s not but yes all we have a a lot of guys packed up together in the same Rock Trail section the next time we should
See as Dave said any big action from these guys will be when they get over into chocolate thunder and that is our race leader right there that is Casey Curry in in the easily identifiable trophy Jeep look at that view heading back out towards uh hammertown
Incredible so get us a Time split here we’re going to get this shot again with an 83 7 and a 76 over the next 5 minutes we are sitting at I’m getting my unofficial stopwatch right here taking off your shoes no I I actually use my phone
Oh all right so I will start our unofficial split time stop watchat there Dave and then we’ll uh we can take some uh some Booth math and we’ll figure it out production if we can zoom back and see if anyone’s crusting up there but right there that is your
Current current race leader Mr Casey Curry got to put a shout out to production who bring us these incredible images King of the Hammers is leading the world in coverage of four-wheel drive racing we have something like 40 plus drins and cameras out on track and two helicopters bringing you these
Images right so where is our second place car there we go and that is that does look like ra Gomez there and just behind him is Cade rod now are we going to see Jason Shir in the same shot where is Jason that’s Jason right there that is Jason so where’s Kade rod
That’s Kade Rod behind him it’s rul it’s not there’s rul there Raul that’s Jason that’s Raul that’s Jason yeah that’s what I’m saying where’s Cade back to work whoa I show Cade show Cade moving I show Cade with rul though but that’s coming down still coming down second Canyon of sled
Sometime between the male box and top of Jack and that’s Brett harell on screen now I did uh pick a random rock out there and did an unofficial split so it’s at right at 45 seconds between the two yeah but those cars have got to get ahead of Casey Curry they were actually
Casey Curry starts in 15th those other guys were on the top two rows of the grid can I make a prediction sure Dave I love predictions Jason shears in the lead before the top of Jack North O physical or on time I guess we have matter yeah yeah so physical Jason out
Front making dust I think the I think the rocks are just now going to get hard and I know Casey Casey can absolutely Drive in him he’s he’s bringing a much bigger boat to the to the [Laughter] waves is that oh thought for a second I thought that was Marcus Gomez for a
Moment or Cade I couldn’t see that’s no that’s that’s Bret harell yeah that’s still Bret harell in that shot now Bret harell having a fantastic race at the moment he’s well into the top 10 we get ready to move through uh passing the pit two just now yeah and that’s chip mlin
Who’s also having a fantastic race there seems like Brett’s actually gotten past Lauren Healey who might be in pit two right now yeah Lauren Healey was our race leader and he is in pit two he’ll be rcking a spare wheel right now probably taking on some
Fuel and that is race leader Casey Curry making his way down Jackhammer so Casey Curry Gomez Shear where’s Cade a that’s up in remote pit too Dave you said you called it that was Lauren in remote pit too and out of the car yeah he’s got his helmet off that tells
You more than anything else hoods off the car helmet off there’s a problem all right so once again we are watching current race leader KY Curry I you heard Jason Blandon lost a timing belt yeah just had someone come up on stage and just tell us it sounds like
Jason Blandon has blown a timing belt or a timing chain on his motor so Jason Blandon is out of the 2024 race of Kings no that’s a shame when I was uh in his pit when we saw him have trouble in uh qualifying and that was a he blew the
Front uh ring and pinion out of it as well just goes to show how much it takes to be successful here at hammers you can throw absolutely everything you have at it like Cameron steel and Cody Wagner and still have problems okay kad’s on the move again
Updating the way you should should be seeing him coming down Jack anytime now as well and that’s Casey has moved through the rocks in Jack he’s down trans transitioning over towards down towards uh tumble weed do that little Loop through tack hammer and you go over there at uh Chuck with with thunder
You’re about ready to get the leaders coming in say about 10 more minutes coming down to you yeah this is a really interesting little bit of desert here you got to keep your concentration keep your focus so Dave you had said that uh you get you were throwing some predictions
Out there let’s see if we can get even more prediction out there where do you think he’ll make the pass uh where do you think Jason will make the pass for the lead knowing Jason and how he drives actually I forgot about rule there too um and
I’m going to probably stop stop talking so much junk no no no please carry on we love it I just think that I think in chocolate thunder we’re going to everything’s going to get really tight yeah now chocolate thunder we saw a lot of action up there yesterday and the you
I’m going to call it the normal line that right hand line that so many people prefer to cut out round and come around that other Rock I’m not sure that’s going to be an open option for these guys I think it’s going to be all about
That left hand side but then it all changes after they go up there last night it it was it was a party up there last night yes but uh yeah we watched that all play out yesterday Jim that leftand line was definitely the fast line all day
Yesterday and these guys are so talented in the Rocks these cars are so D he’s taking your is that do we call that your drop yet or oh no that was over there to the left that was you were like a couple I was about to say you were a few feet
To the left correct yeah so he’s going back up into tack Cammer right now this is a wonderful bit of the course here it’s nice and soft you could really lay the power down so when he comes back up he’ll be 10t away from the courses that came out
Of Jackhammer down the tumble weed that course comes very close to each other right there in a speed zone so as I I would think though that um Ru and Jason are are closer to him than they they’re already coming into tumblewood now tumble weed now I would
Assume um relative to being able to see him coming down from Jack but we’ll see this will be a really interesting uh comparison on distance I think we’re going to be able to see all the three of these cars in this trial shortly so as Dave said if you’re out in chocolate
Thunder get ready cuz your leaders are coming in quickly is that Cade coming down Jack I believe it is Dave yeah it looks like Cade’s car I’m looking for that big giant air cleaner yeah that number seven on the front of it yeah that is kite’s car
Now we’re about 2 and a half hours into this race already and our lead cars are just under halfway round the first of the lock first of the rock laps that’s not Kade yeah that’s Kade that’s Kade yep that’s Kade Rod so that’s Kade Rod making his way
Down through Jackhammer David said he saw him moving again on the tracker just looking there right they the spare on the back looks to be okay so I wonder if he’s had a separate issue maybe slipped a belt had a problem we’ve just had confirmation that Levi Shirley is still
Fighting belt issues so tough break there for Levi I do know I talked to Randy Before the Race and they were having uh steering rack issues before their qualifying run and they got that taken care of but it was it wasn’t the perfect fix he said he said it was a fix
But it wasn’t ideally what they wanted to do yeah he said he’s been figh in steering rack issues with that car for some time now Randy if you’re watching good morning I ask if he’s watching of course he’s watching every Pit’s watching all right so we watch Kade Rod
Make his way down through here we should be seeing our leaders up in chocolate thunder pretty soon I would think you could go to her problems right now and see R Gomez not R Gomez Casey Curry will be there first all right so that is chocolate thunder right there you could
See a lot of great spot to watch the race can you guys hear us over there at chocolate thunder because we can see you oh Dave you called it there he is yeah so this is Casey Curry our current race leader here at the 2024 Nitto racer Kings at the Progressive
Insurance King of the Hammers powered by Optima batteries and presented by Nitto tire so Casey’s made his way uh through her problems got to head up and uh get into idle issues and then over into chocolate thunder this is an awesome little trial this Brian Sher was the first one to
Drive it was he really yes he was I really enjoyed this driving up through here yesterday put you to work so Casey K is currently our physical and ontime race leader behind him though is Jason sheer and Ral Gomez and Cade rod and Cade Rod is yeah somewhere now I’m
Guessing that Cade Rod has fallen back about a couple of minutes I think he’s had a problem somewhere yeah we definitely uh Dave did definitely see him on the tracker stopped but then we saw him update again and get moving and we just physically saw him on screen
Moving so we know whatever the issue was they obviously got it fixed uh we know that Lauren Healey who was leading this race for so long is up in uh we are assuming he’s still up in the pit but we saw him out of the car helmet
Off yeah oh and there we go look Raul and Jason right behind Casey now Casey that car is absolutely huge should be getting Casey in the track with thunder in a second too yeah make the turn any second now we were just watching him head down idle
Issues is that huge wheel base and the width of that car going to help him get out through chocolate thunder dive I wouldn’t think there’ be a help no no oh that’s what I’m getting that is that going to be a problem is he going to have issues
There Cas is a Pro driver man I I doubting it would be would be rude the guy’s leading King of the Hammers he’s obviously know what he’s doing but these are the challenges is this is the thing if if Casey starts pushing through stuff like this and holding out then then
You’re starting to really reevaluate yeah Jason in this is the second year for that new car of Jason so he’s in third right physically third on course with Raul right in front of him our current King but this is our Breakaway pack right now it’s Casey Curry there is
Casey in the Thunder as Dave said yeah he’s made the turn and this is where he gets up into the Rock section take left or right got to be left surely yep left hand side steps up through done in and out that done easy look at that good for him quick
Quick and easy up on that left line the same line we saw most of our competitors take yesterday and so now the question will be how long well I was about to say how long until we see uh Raul and Jason so there’s Raul right there Jason just turned onto the
Sand look at the number of people out in chocolate thunder watching this race I mean they’re there’s 30 seconds splitting the top three yeah I it it’s it’s almost exactly 30 seconds yes yeah so right now in a race that takes we are now done lap one into lap two so
They’ve gone over a 100 miles it is a 30se second gap between one two and three but then we also have our adjusted time to deal with as well yeah and Jason Sher looking really smooth here as he makes his way up through chocolate thunder and these guys they’re so
Professional they don’t they really don’t show how the severity of the trail they just make it look so easy okay we’ll step back a second so we have we have um Casey Raul Jason Kade still right there with him in fourth Brett harell was has moved into fifth yeah Bret harell having a
Fantastic race right now we saw Kevin Sterns right up there in the mix but the big stories of the day so far we saw Paul wolf unfortunately having a steering box problem and Kyle Cheney is in sixth wow wow Kyle Cheney is in in sixth place with right there
With Marcos Gomez so Kyle and Marcos back in sixth spot 67 fighting it out yep you got Cody Addington back there and Eric Miller when Eric Miller’s in the top 10 in lap two that’s usually a good sign that is a very good sign Eric will be happy to to see that Lauren
Still in the pits let’s not forget though but I getting reports that Lauren is still in the pits yeah Kevin Stern is right there in front of uh Jordan P Green was hanging out with Eric Miller and Cody Addington and Kevin Sterns are all moving across here we go check this
Out here we go cars coming back into hammertown that is Tom Pendergrass there in the Euro Fighter 2 and he’s mixing it up wheel to wheel and is that though 4499 it is that is Rick lzo yeah that is Rick lzo so that’s the penal Fab ifs
Car no that’s not R oh sorry that’s Clinton Peterson on my apology that’s one of our rookies I grabbed the wrong number off the sheet Jim apologies that’s right nines look like fours if you look at them quickly there’s Kade Rod we were watching uh him he was up in the uh with
The leaders but he and he still is as Dave said right now 1 2 three got a 30 second split uh depending on when we see cake in the chocolate thunder it’s probably going to be maybe 3 four minutes between the two of them or sorry
Between the top four and five now I’m going to guess he’s had a belt issue here and and he slipped a belt the reason I say that is the T and the rack still looks good so the only other reason that you would stop and it’s
Going to have to have been a quick stop 2 to 3 minutes because that’s the approximate time Gap would be if you’ve lost a drive belt obviously only speculation at this point but that would be the the normal thing yeah I don’t know what power plant
Uh Cade’s running in that gym so I’m not 100% well I know it’s big big high hor all the letters are capitalized I believe on that one yes many horsepowers all of the horse poers as he picks his way up through her problem or Dr about to drop down a problem should I
Say and very shortly he will be able to see the crowds round by chocolate thunder okay I believe is that yeah there’s Raul middle the screen Jason at the bottom Casey at the top so Dave they’ve gone through chocolate thunder and just like you said 30 seconds between the two of them oh
Look at this though in that Gap look at this Ral has narrowed the Gap to merely a 100 yards between him and race leader Casey Curry and Dave you were saying you expected these cars to start pulling Casey in and that’s exactly what’s happening I also thought he’d get pass
By now and he hasn’t so keep going do the things now the interesting thing about this is if Casey can stay ahead of these guys I’m going to say that Casey has the pace over them in the desert longer wheel base I don’t know slightly long slightly the scariest thing I ever
Seen in my entire life was coming back from a day of Wheeling a few years ago with r Gomez running back to Camp not during the race when they were pre-running and I saw him in the rear mirror of my car so I think rul can pretty much reel anybody in in the
Desert in that car oh we can dance but we saw last year he was uh he wanted to hang back he didn’t want to push hard in the desert be interesting to see fourth place Cade Rod coming in the Chocolate Thunder yeah Kade Rod through chocolate
Thunder right there so that’s 1 2 3 4 now through chocolate thunder Cade making quick work of that just like our leaders as he exits out the top of chocolate thunder so we now have seen physical 1 2 3 4 through chocolate thunder here in on our live
Stream just a reminder to everyone at home the live stream you can subscribe to the premium package lots of options for you you can pick your camera angle you get the multi- camera view all that kind of stuff and one of the coolest things that Dave pointed out yesterday
Is when you subscribe to that p uh package you’re actually helping out the drivers the money that is being spent on that is being shared with our drivers speaking of our drivers there is a great incar shot right there speak Jason Sher yeah speaking of that
There it is uh that’s Jason Sher I like to you can spot him he wears those bright yellow gloves makes my life real easy Ian let’s just go back a moment how incredibly cool is this not just to bring you the most amazing images of these cars going out these Trails but
Then to be inside the cars as well it’s remarkable stuff it is it is actually incredibly cool there able to cut into this in car I believe yeah that is Jason Shir in that car you can watch him drive it I’m surprised that uh his C- driver
Jason doesn’t have some sort of like you know CrossFit device to use while he’s in there now you can see in his left hand what he’s actually holding is a uh is a cloth and that’ be for cleaning the screen down on his GPS or his iPad or
Whatever he’s actually using in there and you also see they have different color visors and you’ll see Jason is alternating between raising his visor and closing his visor depending on where the Shadows are sitting at whereas Jason berer is using a yellow visor again he opens it again when he doesn’t need it
The yellow visor will actually give him better visibility in the darker areas yeah so those two tubes in the center I actually talked to Jason about that that is the air intake for the motor they actually determined uh with this new chassis design that they were actually
Dusting out their own air filter with the water wash off the rear tires so they completely redesigned the air intake to come between the two of them and actually pick up fresh air from the front of the car yeah and theyve quite interesting to note that they’ve gone
Over to sort of a more of a European style filter system so they’re using big paper filters to get right down to those ultra fine microns to protect that motor but as we cut to this wide shot I I would have assumed we would have seen
There’s got to be R’s got to be right around this corner yeah that’s very interesting I’m I’m looking for and I don’t see him there we go all right there they were oh look at this Dave here we go little bit ofy Curry Le R Gomez just passing Casey
Curry for the lead here in the rocks that was one Trail off that’s okay Dave I wasn’t going to stick you to it I was going to let you just just breathe through there but yes Casey’s not done case’s going to that this is just the
Race this is just I was calling him out at this point this is now nowe is going to be reminded what the pace looks like in the rocks and he’s going to with him oh check this I think Casey’s got a right rear flat just watching that
There it still looks it still looks proud yeah way it went over that rock I think it’s fine but the uh what that let’s talk starting order adjusted time does Casey does he have to get around Raul on corrected time or what where did they leave the line no so Casey Curry
Left the line in 15th position so he was the eighth row of the grid and Ral left on the third row of the grid so Casey Curry has around about 2 and a half minutes of adjusted time so he has a little bit of adjusted time he doesn’t
Necessarily have to get by him but he’s going to want to get by him in these rocks but Ral Gomez is checking out right now making good speed up through there so right there we watching on screen that is our second car on course Casey Curry and right at the top of your
Screen just came in there’s Raul Gomez our current King current physical leader so the bigger the bigger the disparity in speed then is R has checked away from Jason past Casey and Jason has not closed on Casey correct so Casey isn’t slowing down R’s speeding up yes and and
Where like you said where is Jason now this is what Tom was saying get to the bottom of Bender alley this is the waterfall on top of wrecking ball he’s trying the right side and this is where I mean this is some of the hardest rocks on the course especially on the second
Lap is there’s the waterfall on wrecking ball there’s a bypass he’s on on the bypass he’s on the easiest line yeah but that left that left hand line is not the line you need to come slightly to us yeah you need he needs the back end down
To us so the back left doesn’t fall into the into the hole and as we watch him struggle I’m surprised we haven’t seen Jason up in here pushing on him already two more backups so Dave’s calling two more backups and we’ll see Jason up in here there’s
One now the case he’s going by he’s going to go into the original line he made it stick that time and nail it yeah good work Casey good work now pulled that shot back and you should see Jason Shear lining up on the same rocks right
Now all right so as we watch Casey but as he struggled on that ledge Raul was gone gone just gone is halfway down in full of hate right now now this is what Thomas talking about earlier do you respect the checkout are you going to respect the Breakaway or are you going a
Chase well the guy in front’s got two two uh championships so he knows what he’s doing he’s got he’s got two scepter y So all right so as we watch Casey get through this section the question is how far behind him is Jason Shir as we watch Raul uh one shot that climb and basically tear off and as Dave said it’s probably halfway down the next Rock Trail and that’s that’s why we don’t see
Him as we as camera back down production and see where uh Jason’s at with but we don’t see Jason at all do we you’re going to yeah that’s helicopter that’s not drone all right spinning it around might see some can’t believe we’re run we’re running like a thre minute 5 minute
Direct One One camera shot from a helicopter live without interrupting it’s amazing isn’t it okay that is our current race leader still moving down full of hate be coming down which you’re looking down to is that right hand turn into claw excuse me he’s almost down this is
He’ll keep going on a little bit farther and make a right hand turn to the claw he makes his way through the pin trucks this is a really interesting car because it’s not super wide like some of the ifs cars that we see it’s actually a little bit narrower and he can get
Through those pinch trcks the other ifs cars just can’t quite get through all right so on screen right there we just saw Raul as we pull out we’re looking at for some dust and that we’re assuming that little dust trail we just saw it should possibly be Casey and
Then we’re still looking for Jason yeah and Cade Rod of course so once again we cut back this is current race leader and current King r Gomez coming down full of hate into claw hammer I would think all all three of them let me see if I can see Jason pass
Wrecking ball right now all right Dave’s going to jump on the tracker to see what’s happening as we oh there’s there we got him right there Dave so that Jason has made uh made it way through that waterfall so all three of them were all three of them were on full of
Heate so we have on screen right now at the bottom that is Casey Curry that that is physically second on course right above him that is three-time King Jason Shir at the top and then leading the race that we just saw on our big shot
That was R Gomez there we’re back to him right there R Gomez current race leader and current King yeah he’s looking super smooth now as he picks his way through putting those Nitto Tires to work this is a Joe Thompson built UFO car it’s got a Dugan motor in there
Comedy size horsepower I think this is been at something like 900 horsepower so this is really reminiscent remember last year when we were uh seeing him come down turkey claw and it was Jason El lead in that R yeah we’re we’re we’re already shaping that back up
Right now we are indeed and what a battle it was I I mean going on to that I think we got a little short piece here going back to that battle so let’s just check check that out now they are speaking to him we saw Jason Shir coming through here earlier
At half this pace His Radio his crew are on the radio they’re saying Jason go go go the Gomez brothers are on the radio to R saying go go go and we have look at this R Gomez in second only 20 seconds behind the Jason battle I have been
Going back and forth for a few years two of the best guys just laying and all on the line first year we had the battle and there was a helicopter film in the race right there we got to basically televise the most epic battle through the desert where you know we were
Switching lanes the dust was going one way then the other we were trying to find a way to pass each other doesn’t get better this does it and then we ended up having some transmission issues losing that race hurt because I wanted it so bad once I won 2022 I was
Like you know I got to come back and repeat this and then last year couldn’t catch you all day he was definitely on a mission with his new car this Checkers are record of this point Jason is going to be driving as hard as he possibly can
And then I just started pushing there he is there is last year’s King breathing down the neck of Three Time kick and current race leader Jason Shir you get the rematch you always wanted you’re like all right cool it’s the two top guys right now let’s go for it R Gomez
At the moment is looking likely to be retaining his crown here in hammertown but Jason shirro will not give up and he reeled Us in at the very end and I was like oh look at this ra Gomez he comes in down to take the check flag as The Unofficial win
Just at the end of the day back on top for R to do that on three tires chase down driver like Jason she unbelievable so much respect for R Gomez and that vehicle he got us again Jason and I have great friends ra from Northern California here and he’s that
Guy that we’ve always set the standard to be at or be better right so Jason definitely uh brought our level of racing to the next level from where we were at 10 years ago I love racing with all the Gomez Brothers they were really aggressive and they had talent but they hadn’t refined
It all the way even Joe Thompson’s like hey drive a little bit more like Jason he’s got the pace but he’s not hard on the car so they learn quick and you know they Rose the top and that’s cool to see them do that and I was happy for them
All the way you never want other guys to beat you but you always want to see the sport Propel and [Applause] Develop third time’s the charm so we want to go get this one got the whole team ready to go and pumped up for me one more three no one’s on three in a row especially Iron Man single seat and then uh I sit back and fill myself a two-seater car and go out
There and have fun after this I want to you know try to get reel this year and at least we can go out and have that great battle one more time okay wow the Rivalry between these two guys is just absolutely second to numb but just check out the pace they
Had towards the end of the race as Dave said this race is hasn’t even started yet yeah we’re basically watching that same uh competitive race with Casey Curry mixed right into the middle of it right now we have Jason and Raul uh out there mixing it up as we’re watching
Some more action out here on course that’s AK Watley there making his way out through the trails now AK Watley is one of our rookies he’s with the fun have team and that is an identical Bronco to the Bronco of Vaughn getting Jr yeah and speaking of uh the fun team
We did see Lauren still up in remote pit two haven’t got confirmation as to exactly what’s going on with that car but we did see him stopped yeah and there is our current race leader and last year’s winner it is none other than Ral Gomez so he’s coming down Kings veto right
Now he’s in Kings veto coming down right back into pit two they bypass the Choose Your Own Adventure stuff on the second lap they will hit that on the third lap all right so as uh we talked about our current race or sorry current King and right now pH physically first on
Course R Gomez yeah and if you got a check chance to check out this machine do so it’s an absolute work of art the upper eight arms are made of Billet aluminum which is a bit like aluminium but American rear trailing arms exactly the same it really is an incredible car I
Believe this is Casey C yes it is that’s Casey Curry right there and so now we’ll looking Kingo so where is Shera I would say you’ll see him come right into the picture in the next 15 seconds as a guess but he was right behind him the last time we saw
Them uh during that piece we we they were pretty close together but it does look right now like Ral Gomez is checking out on the rest of the field what do you reckon the time split is at the moment Dave between the two still 45 seconds or a minute tops in
Reality Casey is still winning this race he’s not two and a half minutes ahead of him Casey is still the the overall leader in this race on time so on time right now uh we still have cuz as we said before it’s an adjusted time race
So there’s a lot of space that will need to be put between there’s Jason there’s Jason yeah they said 15 seconds so there’s Jason right there no that is Jason you are quite right yeah so that’s Jason Sher dropping into the trail right behind Casey Curry
And this is the trail that we just saw Raul come out the bottom of that’s where right where Casey’s at right now is where Cameron and everybody had their their issues that was right where they got cuz they were right right to his left stuck for body surfing line
Yeah yeah they got hung up right there if you remember that a few years ago that is just in the section where we saw unfortun saw Cameron steel broken and sitting for a long period of time breaks my heart to see him have him and Cody
Have a rough day today like I I honestly I I mean I live out here and to know how hard they work just 100% straight up testing tuning trying to build the perfect car the right race strategy and uh to get snake bitten again is
That’s rough it it is it is tough heart you know feelings go out for them it this truly is a race that you have to have that perfect day to win it and we’re just hearing as we watch Jason Shar no I think that’s Cade
Rod that is Kade that is Kade Rod see the Bill Steen images on or stickers on the top of his roof there but we are hearing that Cameron Steelers managed to get fixed and his back out on track so that’s great news for Cameron yes it’s
It’s got to be my duty here in the booth gym to remind you that it’s it’s Bill Stein like beerstein that’s the easy way You’ think I’d know is the European wouldn’t you and there’s Jason Sher right there right now physically third on course but that’s another thing as well
It’s worthwhile mentioning it’s great to see new manufacturers coming into this kind of racing and billstein they wanted to build a shock absorber to be able to compete in this environment so they Chang their program and they’re producing product that is usable out here that’s awesome and that’ll cross
Over into other Rock Sports and other events that they’re doing around the world top of the box and qualifying absolutely for a new shock manufacturer that’s remarkable that’s Marcus Gomez there so he’s cleared wrecking B he’s wrapping into full hate that would put him in a top 10 I’ll I’ll go back
Through the field here a second I’ll see if I can get us a top 10 I did just uh an update Benjamin uh Benjamin um Miller Miller he got caught up in the in Casey’s uh racing and followed him out on the lap two he has been apprised of his
Situation he has come back on Race off of race course without going backwards on Race Course and has rejoined where he left he is now well back in the field but he’s back on course and will not have he’s already he’s already experiences penalties yep cuz he’s been
Driving around for a while um secondarily was coach Wagner sorry Cody Addington uh made a bad turn in the Rocks I have a feeling he got Criss crossed up as he left pit two going up on top of fisser and he ended up back down in the claw area figured it out got
Himself out of there and he’s now back on Race Course in proper direction uh no further penalties I think we saw that happen yesterday too when they came out of remote pit to we did see one uh I think we saw our leader drop down act then immediately turn around and climb
Back up I think we saw that a couple drivers yesterday make that same Wrong Turn is that V that is van right there on course we see vau out there moving again yeah now vaugh he is mred consistent here at King of the Hammers don’t count him out I would not be
Surprised if he makes it up into our top five all right we’re trying to get a ID on this car right here that is that is Jason Shir Jason Shar no way can’t be that’s not the right one it is who else is running that oh no I’ll
Tell you who that is that Dan fresh it’s car seven it’s Dan fresh Dan fresh thank you yes Dan fresh is that Jordan pelo that’s Jordan pelo right behind him in the lamb brini yes both Dan and Jason running that same color scheme so we’re going to
Have to keep an eye on that try to keep ourselves honest all day today yeah car seven is damn fresh and of course 21 is Jason sheer so case sorry 76 is Jason shear I’m losing my mind we have any pit reporting out it in rem pit 2 I see
Uh looks like Casey is in the pits at remote pit to oh here we go Dave we got a a shot right here you’re right Casey in remote pit two let’s see if we can see what’s going on hard to speculate from that oh Jason also that’s a that’s a back marker
There so that is Jason Sher that’s I think that’s Tom guil p in the 1982 car but I can’t I know he’s in the pits I just can’t tell if that’s him right there 726 he’s and 1982 he’s got his flag right at that yep well done
Gentlemen so Tom Gilpin in the pits Jason Shear in the pits and they’re uh in that wheel well on Jason’s car so Dave if you look at the track is well down into outer limit that was going to be my next question where is Rula and what about Casey oh Casey’s in
The pit we saw with Jason okay so we’re trying to see where there’s Jason just looking to see we had a shot of Casey in there it is there’s a close-up shot we’ll see what’s going on whoa Kyle Cheney is that Kyle chy that’s not Kyle Kyle’s 191 221 is um
Miller Hunter Miller going out of pit two up on top of the mountain right now that being said Kyle Cheney was through uh he’s in Bender alley right now look mixing it up with Brad Harrell and Marcus Gomez lot of action going on on the front of Jason’s car right
Now I can’t tell if they’re prepping that that Jack to or if they’re just getting ready to send them there was a lot of action in and around the front there’s still somebody down in that front wheel well nope okay CLE look like he’s clear to
Go he’ll drive down to the end of the pits turn around come on back out there you go everyone’s got to travel the same distance in the pits can’t remember it’s 15 or 25 mph speed zone and as soon as he comes out past the snow fence here he’ll reach enco to
C course take a 90 left and head down to Outer Limits now the thing is where’s Casey Curry at yeah I was trying to see in that shot Dave if if he would drive by Casey’s pit maybe we’ll see when we unless Casey’s all I can’t see if uh Casey was still in
The pits but as you said Raul is is is well out obviously he did they did not stop in the pits so he’s well out still on the trails ahead of uh ahead of Jason and unless we get I think we said miles is uh decided to do some different
Things he is on a jog as what I’m exercising or doing something all right so there all right so uh I hear speaking of miles I hear we have uh Miles ready to do something with us so miles what do you got thanks I’m down here with whan
Campbell this is your F fourth time back in pits what’s going on buddy I was doing about 15 and just caught a rock wrong and it blew up the steering rack uh spit out all the oil but they’re pain in the ass to change but you said you’re
Going to finish this thing today aren’t you buddy damn right all right well hey I’m going to stop you keep going thanks buddy so yeah Wayan Campbell having a little rough day but he’s still all smiles he’s going to make it happen I’ve been walking through the pits just now
Uh Shear everything’s Cal and collected Gomez Cal and collected Lauren Healey he had steering pump issues but he’s back underway Here Comes Robbie Gordon in lot of fun stories unfolding the attrition is in I can’t wait for them to come through lap two and check it out
Dave back to you buddy thank you miles looks like we have rul Gomez uh dropping down into outer limits right now right into the heart of it we do have Casey Curry out of the out of into outer limits as well and I believe I saw Cade Rod’s
Number pop up in there so we have Casey Jason and Cade all dropped into okay we got a little bit of action that’s Matthew mcgallen in wiland Campbell’s old call it’ll driver right little blip yep she’ll be [Laughter] fine okay okay is this Co Cheney I think
That is Kyle Cheney we don’t see any max tracks on the roof so that would suggest to me that is the 1 191 and it is the 1 191 of Kyle Cheney I’m assuming based upon what I’m looking at he’s dropping down into full of hate right
There and this is Ral Gomez making his way down through Outer Limits now we were talking earlier about he needs to have two and a half minutes clear of Casey Curry to be able to take the race lead Dave I did did is Casey out of the
Pits can you see on the tracker CU I on screen yep Casey’s going down Outer Limits right there perfect that’s right at the very top still uh drop getting ready to drop into the uh upper waterfall section cuz we did not he obviously left before Jason then so he’s
Ahead of Jason no negative oh sorry so he so Jason it should be it should be Raul checked out uh with Shear then Cade then um Casey is is how I’m envisioning it but uh you might be able to see all Casey Cade and Jason all together there in outer
Limits down down trail from Casey you should find the other two all right so we’ll just try to keep that keep an eye on that so Casey was in that remote pit too a lot longer than I had expected him to be we saw Shar up in that remote pit
As well uh look like they were looking at something underneath the front of his car but they sent him back out it’s not the point in the race where you want to start pushing cars that are compromised it’s it’s better to take the 10 15 minutes to make it right oh there
You go David there’s Kade right there so that is Kade Rod working so Kade is taking the optional one whoa that’s that’s kind of ballsy that’s kind of ballsy yeah that’s kind of hard to cross over from there that is a tough one to get back in and yes so he dropped
In it looks to me like he might be high centered there you couldn’t you couldn’t mess up and be there for a minute yeah he you can see right there it looks like he’s hung up right at the front of that trailing arm trailing arms sometimes can
Be your best friend or your worst friend out there looks like it’s got his back back on his belly and and a rear diff in the front front two ifs the front are just hanging in air hanging off the edge y but is our current race leader at the
Moment he’s on the bypass coming up out of uh Outer Limits onto sunb on sun T spooners um Casey and Kade are at the very top of so they’re a trail apart they have all of outer limits separating them from the leader believe that Jason would be somewhere in between them
Probably somewhere around the sand mile coming down the hill drops it off the bypass so we talked about this earlier in the race when we’re looking at the different trails and we talking about how the next time we would see them with any trouble would be chocolate Thunder
Dave uh what is the next trouble Trail for these guys where we could see some some basically get them jammed up there’s Jason and Cade right that is Jason right yeah that’s Jason right there that’s Jason Sher in there and he has no place to go because he cannot go drivers left there
He can’t go left of Kade the rocks are even bigger he can’t go right of Cade Kate is now blocked across the the direct middle regular line so he’s going to be he’s going to be belly bellied and rear diffed but Jason Jason Shir does have a secret
Weapon drive over him right now y he is going to drive over the hood of Cade Rod now Jason Shir does have a secret weapon he’s got Jason burer sat next to him is it time to deploy the burger and get him to help winch Cade Rod
Through I thought we were going to see what Dave just said I thought we were going to see him drive right over it and I I think the only reason he didn’t is he saw the window net come down man now if follow was Jason Shear here I’ll be deploying the burger I
Would be too cuz Kate’s solo right yeah okay this they are losing the race Here Comes Burger out yep they are losing the race right now bro’s getting away from them and Kate’s as a a single seat car with now apparently a jammed up winch yeah he seems to be having trouble
Getting that winch out of there so you can see he’s saying back up get back no he’s saying get back back in y you’re right said you run the winch you sit in that car I’ve got this so they can’t get the winch the free spool so now you’re
Going to have the painful process of watching Jason walk back backwards at 9 Ines an hour it I don’t even know if it looks like it’s going to uh run out he’s struggling with the freeze spol there he goes it’s moving now so now it’s gone in he’s wants it to spool
Out there it goes it’s finally spooling out oh it’s spun on the drum it’s done that drum but why why is a race car out here with an unprepared winch it’s not it didn’t go out it didn’t go out with an unprepared winch it just happened I think and that that speaks to
Being in there alone when you’re out there in the two person winching operation when you see it do that flip over I’m actually going to I’m going to I’m going to come back around on Jim’s side on this if uh this is the first time obviously he’s winched and and and
The reality of it is is you’re going out by yourself yeah that that cable has not been cleared has exactly school boy eror I don’t understand this I really don’t so basically what happens they’ve done great prep on the car and then they’ve missed a vital component in about 10
Seconds you’re going to see Jason pop it in gear again turn left and put tire tracks across that hood yeah I I think you’re right Dave I think they’re making that call because at this point that uh I think that that the problem when it rolls back over on
Itself it’s very hard to just muscle it out from in there you don’t have to muscle it out you can get the wind quit if the winch is working the Winch just isn’t working if they if it was just tight if it had spooled inside of itself
You take it to that point you wrap it around the bumper and then you winch it the other way and it pulls itself out I don’t think that the length it was only coming out 6 inches before it started to go back in I think the Jason taking that
Line up there on the left I’ve been there in a bomber that is either that or he’s backing up and around the rocks to try to help p going backwards yeah cuz going left here is big like really big while the action continues here and we
Watch Jason Shir trying to make his way around Cade Rod miles is in race Ops with Ben napia miles what have we got speaking about speaking about going out you know with an unprepared car apples and oranges not enough fuel I don’t know but anyways I’m here with Ben
Napier with uh with race offs you got some updates for you right yeah miles I’ve got a a big update uh we’ve got a new list of uh vcp penalties and this is going to put some pressure on our leader because number 833 romez has missed vcp
RCP 106 so they will be looking at that and it’s under investigation and Cade rod in the number seven also missed that uh RCP so the usack guys are looking at that they’ll make it official in a moment but um yeah it’s going to put some pressure on those lead cars so
Explain the the vcp a little bit how close do you have to get to it and what exactly does it mean so vcp which is our desert checkpoints is 100 50 ft but the one that they’ve missed now is a rock checkpoint uh which is 50 ft so they’ve
Got to be right in there on it well awesome yeah it’s going to be interesting to see how it all shakes out remember this race is on adjust of time we got some missed vcps it’s going to be interesting how it shakes out Jim back to you buddy thank you very much miles
Now we’re also getting some other information from race Ops and this is very important Ian what have you just been hearing well we do have our leader now has a penalty but what’s more important right now is what we’re watching on screen is exactly what Dave
Was talking about a few minutes ago this is King of the Hammers racing at its finest when someone’s in your way they are an obstacle now on the trail and Dave you said he was going to drive over him he’s driving over him it is now this
Happened to me yesterday I was in Jackhammer with Justin Hall Justin was hooked up in the Rocks he gave us a signal he said drive over me man just drive over me and that’s exactly what we did we put tire marks straight across his hood so big shout out to Justin hall
For his sportsmanship there yeah but I it looks to me like uh Jason got up over but not up over clean so now they are getting out another the the front the front right shock is the front right’s falling in over the bumper suspension is drooped
Out now the shock is exposed to that bumper they can’t afford to have it lean farther to the right it’ll take out the shock so they’re going to have to winch him left and pull him down hill now and the biggest problem with these Trails is although there’s lots of rocks out there
There’s not actually much to winch to it’s really difficult to find a spine or a spike that you can actually get something to winch round or you’d think there was miles of stuff to be able to get to winch cable too so this is going to be really difficult let’s see what
They can do I’m still trying to figure out what they were doing CU it looked to me like he was messing still with uh kad’s winch we can only guess stood here but but here okay so now we’re back into Casey Curry right now has cleared Outer
Limits he’s back into spooners let me look and see ahead I would assume R has cleared spooners at this point and is now on his way back to hammertown but if R’s got a penalty Casey’s stuck or Casey’s moving and Jason’s stuck puts Casey into a strong
Position yeah we just heard from uh from our Motorsports event director Ben Neer that there is going to be a penalty applied so as he said timing will under investigation oh sorry under investigation thank you Dave for clearing that keep me honest so so they are going to have
To review the situation and decide what what penalty will be applied as Dave said as we’re still watching this unfold in here we have Cade out of the car Jason berer out of the car Jason Shira stuck and we’re trying to figure out who winch is doing what right
Now oh it looks like they’re going all the way around behind them Dave try to winch uh winch Cade backwards I’m I’m assuming that’s what they’re doing cuz they’ve looped it all the way around the big rock hooked it into the back of kade’s car putting all the gift wrapping around the
Presents this is so frustrating for these guys so he’s using Jason’s winch basically turn this rock almost into like a giant Granite snatch block and he’s trying to pull him back I’m just trying to work out the angles of things here that that that wheel must be buried into Cade Rod I
Think that’s the problem Oh as you said Dave they got to be so careful here look at that you can see K R’s car is buried in the bulkhead right into where his shocks are at yeah looks like Jason’s also working the steering wheel trying to get him out
Yeah Cade Rod’s in full reverse at the moment trying to get out of there there it goes there it goes separ oh this is playing F to watch and all the time our lead cars are picking their way off into the desert and very very soon there’s going to be a fourth fifth
And sixth car behind these guys right stuck up in this exact same spot be helpful cuz if some if another competitor can come in behind Cade right now back we’re sending cour workers in but they’re going to be 15 minutes out to be able to get down there and pull
Him back so if another competitor comes up the smart mov is for that guy to get out to to clean up the race line burger can direct that traffic but there’s still no one no one in sight now when these guys are down there they got their helmets on those engines
Are still sitting there idling the noise is deafening the actual communication is so difficult I would bet by this point the way it’s gone they have killed the motors talked to each other made a plan those guys there’s all three of them are veterans all three of them have been in
This situation before they are they’re getting their wits about them I disagree we saw the things coming but we you said it was a competitor not long but look we’ve had uh is that Miller or Cheney I can’t that’s so we have a UTV here to
Pull back 4400 or a UTV here to pull off a stupid line going down the scissors oh this could be wild this yeah I was just about to say that exact same thing Dave are we going to see a UTV help recover 4,400 or a UTV driver round two 4400s I
Think we’re going to see a UTV go around this is gonna so Dave where’s the line for him left of Jason so the line for that UTV he can say driver’s right and go behind Cade and drop down what’s called the scissors Dustin emic drove up that he didn’t he
Committed to the the regular line he I do not believe that UTV can climb that driver’s left of Jason but now Kyle’s seeing the situation he’s backed up while we continue to watch the action here I have got some news coming through Randy sson three-time King is out of the
Race oh it’s heartbreaking what out I have no idea I’ll get back to you as soon as I’ve got clarification of what that is we watched kle cheny way through I can also tell you that Levi Shirley has been through remote pit two taking a
Rck and is back on course so that line down behind behind Cade standing there on the Rock behind Cade’s car is doable now the problem is he’s 100% Going to make contact with that car oh it looks like they’re going to get out it looks like we’re looking we might see a a
Recovery of uh of Cade with this UTV which is what we need to have done don’t we or may NOP maybe not Dave you called it that’s the line he cannot do that he’s going to get stuck underneath of Cage’s Tire he’s got to five feet he’s going to have to
Commit five feet further to eating that big rock on the right because if not you’re going to pitch the whole car underneath the back of Kate spare tire he’s got to chew off that is that is quite the angle on the front of that car too Dave that’s that’s insane on that
Front tire oh and what’s this oh there’s another there more Shadows who’s this Dave that looks like uh Bret harell an obstacle car yep all right so oh done oh ni not done yet oh how does this man walk when he’s out of the car I mean seriously
Leed so the problem is now he has no tires touching the ground yeah so he now he has to winch looks like Jason’s made to change they’ve pulled the uh line over to to basically try to pull Jason’s car off of Cades instead of trying to
Pull Cades back out yeah but if was winching I’d rather winch one ton than winch two tons so that’s £2,000 versus 45,000 so check this out when and we were you know high-fiving about Kyle making the pass he did he did make contact with the G carar it did put push
Energy into Jason’s car was he an inch away from the shock was he six inches away from the shock exactly yeah um but Kyle’s now clear of the obstacle well now so who we got past this obstacle we’ve got ra Gomez out there and we’ve got Casey Curry’s already
Through isn’t K Chan is running third in the King of the Hammers right now that is incredible I’m just going to very quick just go through my list and just see where Carl Cheney actually qualified all right it looks like Harold is pulling out winch line and it looks
Like uh that’s Jason Berger at the back of kad’s car looks like they’re going to hook up to pull him back I don’t believe that that that Brad Herald’s car can fit through the same space that Kyle’s car did I think you’re absolutely right that’s that’s a wide car to get through
There and here is the man who’s happy all of this is happening behind him our current King and race leader R Gomez yeah Ral Gomez is absolutely on a charge right now the two-time king he said during the driver’s meeting I don’t want to give up the
Scepter I want to make it a threp and he’s hard on the charge at the moment trying to make that happen as right now we’re watching three time King Jason Sher hooked up with Cade rod and they are trying to pull Cade back right now Brett Harold’s trying to work on but
He’s so buried into Jason’s car the question is it is as Dave said when he hit the C it push it even further do we have tubes hooked in at this point so we can now got Brett harell there now Brett harell the move here as
You say Dave is to pull out Cade Rod backwards I don’t think they can even I don’t think they can even extract Jason backwards I’m telling you he is hung hard he’s not just he’s not just stuck no he’s he’s they are interlocked at this point he’s the rear diff has passed
Around fourth vehicle coming in now is that Marcus Gomez it appears to be Marcus Gomez yes s that single seat car yep that’s Marcos so Marcos is going to be there going if you guys could just hang out here for a while and let my brother
Check out I I no I don’t think he is I think he say out my way I need to catch my brother traction so right where J Berger is standing that crack I’ve driven through there up in the bomber coming down it if he can pull driver’s left and get that
Up on that Big White Rock he goes way up high he’s got to go way up high way up high come on come on yes oh my goodness what a pass what a pass that’s huge that was huge that was that was 8T up in the
Air that was a huge pass now what this is is the best rock racing in the world if you’ve just joined us this is the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by Nitto time powered by ultimate batteries we are here today for the Nitto race of Kings and that
Move right there is why we come here every year to Johnson Valley California for King of the Hammers sorry I became a fan there again we’re all fans Dave we just get to share our excitement with everybody at home and that is Kevin Sterns making his way
Through looks like Kevin did some bodyw work on that car somewhere in that trail it’s called Doors by Bailey he got the other side though so I wow what a pass what a pass that is absolutely amazing to see that happen in that Rock trail that would be
R or Casey that actually might be Casey at this point so we’ll cut back to Kevin Sterns as we still have a literal traffic jam so Kevin Sterns here having an absolutely fantastic Drive unfortunately the rock can openers have opened him up but he won’t worry about that he’s still
Running in this race and he’s around about halfway round lap two right now now this is a brand new car for Kevin out here did he Med it in this car last year to King of the Hammers this is actually I think the third year of the
Car um but the first year didn’t I don’t think it ran the second year he had had corre first time he’s had a that is that accurate yeah sorted package it’s usually about that two and a half year mark it’s hard to come out and win with
One in first year of a car which is made the win for R Gomez two years ago so remarkable came out of here with a brand new car straight out the box no test mileage and one his first ever King title he won his second king title last
Year and he’s now looking like the hot favorite to possibly take a third King title this year Paul just want to get a little update it seemed like Casey was in here a little bit longer than he should have been I seen that you guys were tightening the rear diff what was going
On it just looked like he smashed a rock in the rear diff and it knocked it loose but other I mean we didn’t hear any more time than we normally would have been our fueling is a little slower than most so we just time to kind of take care
Some stuff well uh I know that Casey and Orin look pretty uh well Cool com collected in there as miles would say so he’s out of here remote pick two Casey Curry back out on course and back up to you guys thank you very much Tiffany Stone
Good to see that uh our speculation was wrong he said just little regular Pit Stop just took him a little bit longer than normal that’s what they’re kind of used to nothing serious to report from back out in remote pit 2 yes so Casey Curry still running
Strong out there I think I’m going to take about 5 minutes scoot out come back here here and join my friend Tom Wes and talk about some lap three you ready for that all right d as always it’s great having you and I was even more excited
To have you here for that past that whole traffic jam in that line being able to call that perfectly thank you so much so Dave is going to step out the man the myth the mustache is coming in Mr Tom ways always good to see him in
Here the booth with us Dave we’ll see you back here shortly and right there in your shot that is Casey Curry yeah now Casey Curry’s on the charge right now as he makes his way back towards hammertown now out in front of him is Ral Gomez now
We were talking about this earlier about I I just I’ve got a belief that uh there’s Raul coming down resolu coming down yeah so that’s R com and down resolution he’s got to come to the bottom and then he’ll make that turn to go through back door yeah so Ral Gomez really putting
The moves on everybody else in the field now Tom welcome back to the booth great to be here again Jim thank you Ian so what did you think of that uh pass action in that little traffic jam in the rocks that was going on uh I think it’s
A shame those guys locked up like that and uh I would always love to see everybody get to battle it out to the Finish Line instead of getting caught and getting entangled in another competitor but uh Marcos is probably one of the best rock crawlers out here and a
Lot of people don’t really realize that and you can never never count out Marcos Gomez you know and as Dave said you know that line out there you know it’s it’s hard to to tell from straight down but he that car was 8 ft off the ground
Climbing that rock that car with the IRS in the rear has the ability to drag over rocks that most straight axle rear cars wouldn’t even be able to consider and then you put Marcos in there and it’s it’s it’s a it’s a double deadly weapon so this is our current race
Leader physically and on adjusted time this is Ral Gomez he takes the bypass taking the the Sand Hill Bypass this is sensible right we’re talking about a long race a few seconds is not going to make a great deal of difference in the grand scheme of things he play it safe
Back door is seriously dug out now yeah not uh not at this point he knows he’s got good amount of speed good amount of gap between himself and uh Casey uh but then and then he probably also knows that and well I’m sure he was probably updated as his brother passed that’s an
That’s an update at the line of scrimmage I mean really right there that’s that’s an audible and you know they’re calling that from the pits those guys are always in communication with their guys in the pits and looking exact L where they’re at and making decisions yeah right now they they’ll be
Just calling the pace telling ra what he needs to do and there is your second physical car on course that is Casey Curry I reckon if we start our unofficial stop clock when Ral comes into town we’re going to see something around about a three to
Four minute split here from Ral Gomez to Casey Curry really having a great day start to step on you no that’s I was going to say the good news is we don’t have to start an unofficial stop clock there’s an official stop clock when they come through Township this is very true
It’s almost like we planned it okay so here comes R Gomez he’s making his way up into the Bronco Arch now which Line’s he going to take he takes that left hand line cutting it in half it’s Rocky through there but it does shorten the turn you got to be
Careful here we’ve seen a few rollovers coming into the short course and that sand is really catching you up so what are you predicting guys that he’s going to do when he comes into the pit here you think he’s going to take TI ties I
Mean he didn’t before so this is a point in the race where this could be a big decision I mean absolutely right you’d think about he’s going to head on that third lap all rocks he technically we’re assuming has the time for tires he he didn’t take tires earlier in the day
Which is you know I bet those guys decided right then but with the with the Clean Air and the moisture in the ground he was probably able to not spin his tires as much as he maybe would be if it was dry out and uh you know here he is
We’re going to see what he decides right here so do you reckon with the lead he’s got right now he’s going to come in and have four fresh boots Put on on a refill that that’s exactly what I would think they’re going to do that’s kind of what
We think yeah cuz like just like we said they have the time to do the fuel he’s got enough time between himself and everyone else to take the time put the tires on there’s no no reason to rush this pit stop if that was me right now
I’d make sure I left out of there with the visor completely clean a fresh set of tires and a load of fuel as as you want to leave right now for LP three with the best race car you can well he has the best pit crew here potentially
And I’m going to hit the stop button button on my timer as soon as he stops there we go okay they’re coming with the big Jack miles take it away yeah we’re down here with Gomez Brothers Racing they put two rear tires on the back
Fueled up one more lap to go for R Gomez could be the first one to threee King of the Hammers for the Nitto race of Kings this UFO looks like it’s in absolutely amazing shape the fuel’s in they got the tires almost done on the back and
Minimal damage on this car one more rock lap yet to go what a quick quick run for R Gomez again this car looks like it’s in great shape so far so good for Gomez Brothers Racing he’s seriously looking at the GPS really focused on that getting the glove back
On and R gome is about to take off he did have to take his glove off to play with the touchscreen on the GPS but he is about to take oh the right rear they’re having a little bit of ISS isue there they had to double check something on
That so here we go R Gomez getting ready to take off and he still has a a pretty decent lead I have not seen Casey Curry quite yet laser focused by R Gomez as he’s playing with his oh they are going to put some front tires on now that wasn’t
Planned right away but they found something they didn’t like so they’re going to throw a couple oh looks like just a driver’s front so they did find something there at the end o oh we got something loose okay there we go no it’s just tire change sorry so it left front tire going
On so we got three tires on this one and I haven’t seen casy Curry come in quite yet so R Gomez our current King and could repeat this thing we’ll see how it all shakes out but these King shocks are ready to take on this Third Rock lap
Here for the Nitto race of King and it looks like he’s about to take off R Gomez going to win this thing one more time we’ll see what he can get double thumbs up from R domez he is here to party we saw him talking with Jason on
That little highlight earlier and he said he wants the three p and then he’ll go out and build a two-seater to have some fun and R Gomez is in a really nice spot we’ll see how long it takes to get in Casey Curry but man what a great race
We have on our hands and Jim Tom back to you guys thank you very much miles wow now that was Pit Stop was 2 minutes 15 seconds he took Fuel and he took three tires uh remarkable stuff from the gbr crew looked like they had a problem with
That front right I wonder if they had a stripped wheel stud or something I mean if he has a problem later on the course and that’s to change that tire himself that could be a factor later yeah it’s very interesting that they didn’t take four they took three so I think I think
You’re right I think there’s something going on that right front they didn’t want to mess with they lug nut or they could have had a problem with a stud and they just decided they were going to set off on three and roll the dice but like
You said now he’s got three fresh tires one tire not fresh and if there’s if you can’t change that in the pit you’re not changing that out in the Rocks definitely not absolutely but this is our second place car right now we were just watching that was Casey Curry
Coming into the back of resolution as we watch our current race leader this is RA Gomez heading out on lap three off first car to go out on lap three today here at the 2024 Nitto racer Kings all right so that is Ral Gomez leaving and I believe that’s is that
Whan right there that we just drove by I think it was yeah this portion of the course right here I call it the ditch diving sections we’re calling it cross Green Hill but it’s the ditch diving section and usually coming into lap three this section is tore up and you
Are just hitting Square shelf after Square shelf as we watch Casey Curry he has I believe no he’s still making the climb he’s got to make the climb up through this section drop over the ridge no sorry he’s dropped the ridge already now he’s into outer
Limits and we’ll see uh which way he makes the turn all right we’re watching Casey pick his way down through this section so he’s still coming down through Outer Limits we just saw our current King Raul come through this section and he’ll come down here to This Little Sandy watch
Makes the left or the right we saw Raul take the Sand Hill as Jim said safe lots of no reason to make any risky moves now is he going to attack or is he going to go left does he want the seconds yeah I’m just getting information that Ral Gomez actually has
A penalty pending so we as soon as I’ve got more information from race UPS I’ll get back to you on that under investigation as they told us to say yes yes it’s not being applied or anything it’s under investigation still we have to wait and see for uh race Ops to make that
Decision but this is uh current second place vehicle on course Casey Curry making his way down into this was part of the qualifying course that we’ve been watching for every single day this week so he comes down through this section and then at the s which is right here at
The bottom it’s a left or a right okay right now check this out if I said you at the start of the race that the running order would be R Gomez in first you said yeah okay I dig that Casey Gilbert uh sorry Casey K Casey
Curry in second you’d go yeah okay I dig that but if I said you Kyle Cheney had made his way up into third position physically that’s incredibly impressive I’m going to say I called it last night you did indeed and it’s still a long way this a long way to
Goey has made the Sand Hill Climb and taken the bypass around through the two back door drops and so he should be back into hammertown here pretty soon what’s it going to take to get Kyle Cheney in a 4,400 car probably a few zeros yeah Kyle Cheney of course he’s
Mixing duties he’s not just racing UT uh utvs he’s also stepping into short course as well this year or last year should I say I think I don’t think you’ll get Cal cheny into a 4,400 car I think they’ll just keep trying to get a
Side by side to win The 4400 class well you can’t count out today he’s currently sitting in third position and it’s going to be amazing to watch but this is Casey Curry making his way out towards the Bronco Arch here in hammertown so Casey Curry is the second
Of our vehicles to be completing lap two now be very interesting to see what happens here he I’m just checking my unofficial clock and I was going to say do you have your pit stop stopwatch ready Jim I’m going to get my FIT pit stop watch ready now Ral Gomez was just
Over 2 minutes and 20 seconds stationary so Casey Curry could pick some time up here and you said that Raul had a investigation going for vcp is that what we heard it’s actually an RCP so it’s one of the RCP so it might it’s an even
Bigger penalty than a vcp um but you know one thing we did see we saw Casey up in remote pit two and he took a full load of fuel he’s got a big tank too so he shouldn’t have to stop the rest of the race so in that see what here P now
Let’s have a look here now but we now the the drama to that is of course is that we’ve seen two time King Ral Gomez taking on tires is that going to play a factor if Casey doesn’t change his three laps out here on the same tires is asking a a
Lot so here we go now it’s Casey Curry and he is coming into pit so Casey Curry is coming into the pits right now all right so Jim’s getting his unofficial official uh stopwatch ready yeah I’ve got my fruit-based stopwatch as we watch uh our current
Race leader R Gomez now this is uh he’s up in Turkey claw so this is the first Rock Trail section that they see coming out of hammertown as you can see it’s littered with competitor that didn’t make it through lap one it’s like a graveyard isn’t
It and the tire that we’re going to watch all day is that right or not all day for the rest of the day that right front tire driver side front oh no they look they’re putting oil in the red that’s some rear diff oil going in right there
Yep so let’s take a look and see if we can see any oil in those back wheels so we know if if he’s got leak in oil if it’s going to affect his brakes but not Jim but not no tires no it doesn’t look like they’re changing the
Tires out now the differentials in these use very heavy weight oil to actually pump that stuff in takes time it’s not a fast process I think honestly Jim what we saw there was them checking the oil and it looks like they’re saying he doesn’t need any so speculation on my
End would be is he hearing something coming from the back absolutely well miles is down in the pit so let’s pass it down to miles So I’m down here with Casey Curry pits it looked like a quick in and out I’m here with Brian Smith how’s everything going out there buddy doing good miles how you doing oh I’m doing great so what were you doing I saw maybe put some oil
In the rear yeah we wanted to make sure that the rear third member was uh snug enough and we had to add a little bit of oil to the in other than that car is great so I we just saw R take three tires I didn’t see you guys do any tires
Right no tires we’re already filled up we’ll be flying through and I’m sure you’re paying attention that ra and Casey got ahead and there was a bottleneck behind them so I I assume your your strategy is just to keep up front and keep the pace right that’s
Right just watch your time and make sure we’re uh on track I love the big smile uh coming out of you Brian Casey Curry’s done well in a lot of things he’s never done this well here at King of the Hammers he was leading for a little bit
The curry family’s been running King of the Hammers for a long time it’s really cool to see yeah this kind of been our Nemesis you know the whole time and uh just bunch of freak stuff you know because this course this place is so when you’re in a position like this
It’s really great yeah you guys are you know you’ve ran this with uh with a lot of people you you got a great team out here it’s going to be a lot of fun to see how it all shakes out yeah it’s it’s going to be good I you know we’re on our
Seat the whole time oh yeah you used to ride with easy Rick so you know what kind of position you’re in oh man you bet I mean we lost eight tires in One race here oh well that’s the good old days there for sure so thanks uh Brian
For that and we’ll see Casey Curry’s got to hunt him down in this third lap R still out front back to you guys thanks miles great information coming from you down in those pits yeah I’m speaking about people in the pits at the moment we’ve got Tiffany Stone out a remote pit
To and she’s got some been speaking to Shannon Campbell Tiff what do you got Shannon Campbell here at remote pit 2 now Shannon it seems like your day is almost done you are looking over things to see if you’re actually going to make that decision right yeah we’re we were
Killing it this morning and then all of a sudden I had a plug wire go down and then another plug wire and right before uh We R we pre- ran with it and everything and everything was good and I was like thinking well I need to lean it
Out for the rocks make it a little bit better so it’s easier to drive and I think we went too far and it’s just melting my plug wires I can’t keep plug wires on it and just kind of bummed out we had a good run going and tried to
Keep going but we’re out of plug wires and we’re I’m over it well this is a first year for a two-seater usually you’re in a single seater You’ got your co-driver Drew we heard about that uh epic pass at Turkey claw you guys just sent it you said you know what we’re
Going to go around all these cars and you did it well for the first year coming out here with the two-seater it is really impressive to see you do this I know this isn’t where you’re going to be but percentage wise are you out out
Or uh are you going to try to give another run no we’re out we don’t we don’t have enough plug wires to keep this thing going and like literally we put plug wires on it right after we left that last pit and they started it started missing I didn’t even think we
Were going to make it here it just don’t have no power when that loses them and yeah it’s a bummer I mean the thing was it’s fast and everything I just I went too far leaning it out well uh best of luck in the future Shannon it’s always
Good to see you out here remote pick two lots of action still happening back up to you guys okay thank you very much Tiff always great to hear from you oh tough break there for three time King Shannon Campbell nobody likes to see that but we were talking about this bringing a new
Car to hammers is always a tough gig yeah Shannon actually built two identical cars in his shop one for him one for one other person it was fun to watch him uh take that on but it’s a shame to see that he is out of the race yeah I’m also getting some information
We got to get it confirmed yet but it does sound like Marcus Gomez has passed Kyle Cheney oh wow so he’s we just saw him pull off that amazing pass and now he’s reeled in Kyle Cheney yeah now Casey Curry was also in the pit for yeah
Casey Curry’s Pit Stop was uh less than half of that of R Gomez so Casey Curry has picked up an extra minute on R Gomez and let’s not forget there is a pending investigation on Ral and where is Marco sitting from Maine right now I’m guessing uh working on Direction and
This is purely a guest finger in the breeze that we’re probably expecting to see Marcos in around about six minutes it’s going to be interesting to see what he needs when he comes into the pits and how clean he is cuz if he pass Kyle this is getting to be an interesting race
Yeah this is well you know Dave said it this this morning when he was in here this when we were battling over the front talking about Winners losers he said this race hasn’t started yet it’s all lap three this could be all be lap three and speaking of lap three what
We’re going to be watching is Casey Curry no new tires three Laps on those tires and now we also have Marcos out there with that right front only sorry Raul thank you Raul out there right front not changed so that’s three Laps on that tire yeah and we’ve also got to
Talk about the back story so let’s JP Gomez started near the back of the pack today he’s got adjusted time in his hands did he manage to get through turkey claw without too many holdups is he going to be coming from the back of the pack what about Robbie Gordon absolutely Happ with
Robbie what’s happening with Cade and Jason yeah well we what’s going on out there we got to get our our helicopter back out there to find out did they get untangled in that rock section all right but there he is your current King and current race leader that is Mr
Gomez himself making Fast work across the desert in that UFO fabar he is he’s doing a great job and if you’re just joining us welcome this is the 2024 Progressive Insurance K of the Hammers presented by Nitto tire and powered by Optima batteries we are here
Today for the big dance this is the Nitto race of Kings we are into third lap action I know Tom this is where for you this all takes off it all becomes real this is the big part of the race if you don’t have a car for lap three you
Don’t have a race today so this is it’s all going to come down here yeah so Ral Gomez is making the turn now and he will be heading into the Rock Trails once again and now of course we’ve got that added drama of lap traffic that’s what I
Was going to say I was going to ask and you know it would be great when we get Dave back in here to ask that exact question where are we going to see that lap traffic I’m sure he’s got it figured out in his head uh we just got to uh pay
Attention to here to see what’s going to happen cuz this is lap three there are some differences between lap three and lap two oh and speaking of which we talked about this mess and here it is oh my goodness this is C Jason Jason Kate are still in there there’s Eric Miller
You’ve got uh there’s Stern right there I just saw Steven Watson with his hand out the window saying hey we’re about to drive over your winch line just get a heads up there uh and who what is is that Robbie that is it looks like a UFO I’m
Just trying to pick out who that might be at the moment 82 that’s JP no no no that’s Brandon Thompson that’s JP that’s JP Gomez 82 that is JP yeah so you were talking about that Jim you’re wondering where he was so looks like JP probably took that
Exact same line on that high left probably communic a between the two of them hey trust me stick it it’ll go yep yes so JP Gomez now he’s got a massive amount of adjusted time on his side as he’s coming through from the back so JP Gomez is definitely one to watch and
That looks like that is Kyle Cheney there so Kyle Cheney but uh Jim you were saying he is now physically fourth on course correct oh here’s some on car from Jason Shira we’ve got who was that was that another UTV passing him was that 905 yeah that is the 9005 and the
905 is none other oh would you believe my list misses on 9005 as soon as I see the car properly I will give you a name as we watch our current King there that is Ral Gomez still charging hard making making his way out into the desert on his final
Lap yeah so that may have been we may have just read that too quickly out of Jason sher’s in car it may have been 906 TD dower out there but that right there that’s Kyle Cheney coming yep and he is coming into the back of resolution so
He’ll be joining us in town in about 2 minutes so let’s back up hair so we got rul right now who we got in second Casey third uh we think that in third position is Marcus Gomez so we but we should see him in front of Kyle
Exactly back door right now then we hav we haven’t seen it so what happened to him and that’s Kyle Kyle is our next uh next car that we’ve seen come down resolution go through back so we’re we’re trying to get info on tracker right now to find out what’s
Going on but yeah we did not see him come down I think he could be in back door right now so he could be coming to coming to so here we go so right now you’re watching Kyle Cheney we’re looking for Marcos Gomez yeah as soon as we have him
We will let you know but car chain wow I mean what a race this guy’s having I mean Tom you called it earlier you said he’s a dark horse in this race for sure I don’t I the guy’s definitely a Wheelman and he’s here to race every day he’s on the
Track and we watched him make a textbook pass around both Cade rod and Jason Sher this is Tad dower who we just saw pass yeah and this is out of limits we just saw him going over the top of Jason sheir yep that’s a shame okay so that is this
Right now we’re not sure if this will be our next car car into hammertown but he’s close he’s got to come down through this section take the Sand Hill Bypass it just goes to show how close this racing is is when we’re actually looking on the track and we can’t
Actually work out who’s ahead of the other car well KL Chen’s coming down resolution right now almost to the turn to back door of the Dune and I’m waiting to see if we see another car top up in or pop up into the top of the screen but I’m
Not yeah Marcus Gomez isn’t going to be a million miles away no we were we were expect we thought that Marcus has actually got past Kyle Cheney yeah but we did not see that happen so this is ky making the Sand Hill Climb but we’ll we’ll know here shortly
Because we’ll see him basically drop down and if we see any uh dust trail in front of him will know that yes Marcos is in front but right now uh we can’t tell on the tracker but we’re just kind of chasing him with the helicopter to find out what’s going
On all right we’re p I don’t there’s I see nothing here no there is no dust so it does look like Marcus Gomez is still behind Carl chy as we cut back to Outer Limits and that is JP Gomez yeah that’s JP we saw him just work his way through that mess that
We’ve uh seen sort of Stack up in that trail is that a different car number for him isn’t he usually 90 that that’s a miles question everything Darren Gomez runs the 90 uh normally oh it’s Darion in 90 yes yeah now I’m just having a look back here and just trying to find
Out oh there we go here we go there we go so there’s Gomez we missed it in the big shot but there he is coming through the Bronco Arch so yes maros Gomez through the Bronco Arch coming into the in the main here yeah so Marcos Gomez is
In front of Cheney and what was his starting position in I’m just Jim I’m just confirming that for you right now bear with all so now he what didn’t actually qualify that well from memory uh Marcus Gomez 27th position um whereas kyl Cheney qualified right the way up there in 10th so we’re
Talking at least a sort of a six minute lead there but where is where’s and then he started and then Curry started 20th uh yeah Casey Curry started in 15th he 27th so that gives us hold on I’ll just do some quick math for you I will be back we’ll have some
Uh split times here as maros makes his way through yeah so 6 minutes over Casey Curry at the moment on adjusted time but right there Marcos Gomez physically third car through uh through lap two heading out into lap three now get this now get your head around this I’m working this out very
Very quickly on the math here we’ve got three Gomez Brothers in the top five oh can you imagine the excitement if you you got a Gomez Podium sweep now have you ever been to a Gomez Afterparty yes well yeah can you imagine if all three of them get to the finish in the
Top five it would be remarkable just trying to look that car over and see if we can notice anything here now what why the car looks clean the panels look like he’s not scratching him up all right we’re going to throw it to miles right now I don’t know why miles maybe miles
Can find him miles what’s going on down there yeah thanks guys he’s actually having his transfer case pop out of gear at a high range so they’ve got a bungee cord they’re going to you know zip ties bailing wire duct tape and now a bungee cord we’ll see what how this shakes out
He is going to take fuel he’s taking two tires but Marcos Gomez physically in third position and Kyle Cheney’s coming in as well so far so good Marcos Gomez is going to be super stoked for this one once he gets the fuel in I’ll have a
Maybe have a quick chat with him but Marcos Gomez last time around a couple years ago was having some fun yeah I just told him he’s in 30s like heck yeah well he he said something different I’m gonna say heck yeah but Marcos Gomez is having some fun out here
And running such a great race so far R out front Marcos in third and I think JP is in the top five as I see Kyle Cheney come in he’s out of my range but uh he’ll be he’ll be coming through too so Kyle Cheney running one heck of a race
As well and uh Marcos has taken quite a bit of fuel a couple tires and I’m trying hoping I can have a quick chat with him but they’re still doing fuel this UFO still looks like it’s in great shape no really damage on this ifs IRS
Machine all right I’m not going to be able to chat with him all hands are off they’re still just waiting for it to be fueled so Marcos Gomez this car is looking good oh the rear is breaking off or something no it’s just just the rear
Bumper oh yeah the rear bumper is broken so the rear spare I don’t know cuz that’s their sway bar as well so they’re going to try to do another rat strap it feels me I’d almost take that whole rear bumper off maybe I don’t know that’s
Just me tough break for Marcos and it’s talking about tough break I’ve got the one and only Robbie Gordon you’re out I hate to see that yeah pretty bummer but um you know Gomez boys are doing good our roll is still on there and um they’ve caught a little issue here but
They’ll uh they’ll make an adjustment here and be in good shape yeah you did you had a great showing with the speed UTV and then you know you had a little rough luck with 4400 but you know better than that that Racing’s racing Anything Can Happen yeah Racing’s racing is
Really weird uh it looks like it cracked an intake manifold which is very very odd but um you know it would wouldn’t run over 3,000 RPM and that’s what that’s what that’s going to be but looks like they got some work to here at the
Back here um take the back of the car off I guess huh it’s always something Robbie thanks for coming and always appreciate you buddy so yeah it looks like they’re going to take the rear off so that means he won’t have a sway bar um which that’s fine we’re in the Rocks
But in the desert it’ll slow down a little bit but Marcos should be uh should be heading out here in just a few minutes hopefully they’re still topping them off with fuel and what a great job the hammer King production crew is doing bringing all this amazing
Action so tough break but hey he’s still physically in third I have not seen Cheney come through he was they weren’t expecting to do much other than fuel so I I should see Cheney Cru by here shortly unless I miss it when I was rambling but so so far this car looks
Like it’s in great shape remember when he was battling with Josh bler a couple years ago and he broke an upper a AR Mount so it looks like he is definitely full of fuel so we’re there hey Marcos you having fun buddy it’s time to party and there’s the ra or the
Marcos I was ready for dang it he caught me again but Marcos is ready to have some fun the rear bumper coming off they’re doing some zip ties some bailing wire and a buy cord so so far it’s been a lot of fun down here and Marcos is ready to
Party so I’m going to send it back up to you guys there at the Monster Energy Jumbotron well what do you think boys what do you think what can you say kind of stuck up here speechless at this point how can you top that right well I
Think you know here’s the reality would Marcos pull over and change a tire if he was on a flatter is he going to drive it so especially if he was in top three no if he’s in the top three he’s going to Grave Digger that thing into the finish
Line so this really as soon as these guys get them on the way it’s a race between the chenes and those guys to leave out of this pit and that’s going to be a race yeah it’s worth talking about this as well when you’re in a UTV
The tire the wheels and tire packages are easier to pick up they’re easier to put onto the vehicles they also use less fuel than the bigger cars as well but Marcus Gomez is now making his way out of the pits and heading back onto track he’s running wounded he’s got a transfer
Box that he has to hold into high gear using a bungee cord the back end of his car is missing but he’s still running in this this race yeah and KY Cheney right behind him as they leave hammertown but right there that is your current race leader and current King R Gomez yeah
Chasing him down is Casey Curry Casey Curry yeah we saw Casey Curry in shot a moment ago got that great bit of information there from miles down in the pits they were just checking that rear third I mean you’d think of the hammering these thirds have to take out
Here is it’s incredibly tough so just making sure they’re doing their due diligence making sure the oil was top off so they’re good to go for that third lap in the meantime we saw that cluster of cars in Outer Limits two based on what we saw on that
In car it Jason’s out of the car and both Jason’s out of the car so that makes me think that they’re done their helmets were in the one I saw the one of the helmets inside the car so that’s definitely not a good sign yeah that’s a
Sign where you see a racer with his helmet off that’s yeah yeah we saw Lauren Healey of course earlier today he was leading this race and then he got to remote pit to helmet off we saw the hood off that car as well but I’ve been told
That he is possibly back moving again oh that would be great news for the fun team we also saw vaugh getting Junior pulled over earlier today but he was making great inroads into the field but how’s he going to get through out of limits is he going to struggle there or
Is he going to find a line well I think anytime you get a guy like Lauren out on course a lot like me if you have problems earlier in the day and you know you’re not going to get the win anymore you’re finishing for the crowd and for
Your crew y yeah you’re just trying to get that thing back home with a respectable time but he did the same thing yesterday you know he took over in really really poor position in that stock class but was still able to grab second place on the box yeah he’s a remarkable Talent behind
The wheel a true Wheelman as we would say and speaking of talents though check this out this is Marcus Gomez sorry it’s Gomez I’m catching your disease here it I just say Gomez it’s a lot easier that way whenever I see a Joe tops in UFO just say there’s Gomez you’re you’re
You’re you’re covered a fiercely competitive family if you knew the the the the side bets that these guys put against each other oh now look at this right this is Brett harell who’s running a fantastic race here oh and that right rear is just looks like
He’s limping it back into the pits here yeah his pit is obviously pre the start Finish Line so he came in on just a dead Tire let’s hope that’s all that’s wrong yeah the danger is of course when you do run on those flat tires for too long is
That the wheels can break up wrap around the calipers you don’t want to take out a brake line Jim no you do not or Worse still rip the caliper off of the vehicle well guys we got Dave Cole back here in the box with us pretty excited to have him join
Us all right well I’m going to take a quick break from the action go grab something to e Mr Dave Cole is in here for lap three with Tom wayes they’re going to call some rocks for you guys yeah great to have you back in the booth again we’re just watching Bret
Harold here filling up now you might be wondering what they’re doing so on this the side closest to us you’ll see that that man’s holding a dump can and uh you’ll see him holding a dump can what he’s actually doing is venting the system then the other side of the
Vehicle they actually have their highfill um gravity fed let’s see if get that wheel off Jim now this yeah look at the state of that I mean that’s what we have going right now so right now we’ve got Raul out front but he only took
Three tires coming out of that pit so he may have a wheel stud or a lug nut issue where they couldn’t change that tire so if he has to change that out on course if he does get a flat it’s going to be a problem for him yeah it is indeed now we
Did see him actually when we were just saw him a little bit earlier going across that Ridge line he did take a huge hit to that right front so we’ll have to keep an eye on that story that’s for sure now Dave what do you think so
Far far mate we’ve got a UTV sitting up there in the top four right now yeah yeah he’s fast turns out he’s won here a lot so yeah it turns out he does and also the other big story is we’ve got two Gomez Brothers in the top four as
Well yes yep that seems to be a pattern we’ve been developing over the past few years as well so um that’s Jason Shear back moving so he was he stuck in Outer Limits that whole time yes yeah he was locked up with Kade and then from the
Time that Marcos passed and Kyle on the right and is is Cade still up there in outter limits I haven’t seen a shot we we were asking for the shot change and hadn’t quite seen it yet and that is vaugh getting Jr coming on through so vaugh part of the fun have
Team making his way through did we ever hear about what he had a problem with this morning in chocolate he just got he got stuck in that there’s like a double death spot that that far right line as you go through um turkey claw if you
Just if you don’t get it just right and your front left slips off then you just kind of fall down inside of the rocks and he was buried in there so this is the crossover getting back up into compaction Hill Shannon Campbell’s down back on the move again sounds like the Gomez
Brothers and the Campbell work together to get him going F that’s great news and that’s what we always do our battles are on the track not in the pits and if we can help you out we will do but that is the 4456 of Bret Harold we just saw
There and that to me looks like JP Gomez heading back towards hammertown and if it is that means we might have three Gomez Brothers in the top five he can’t have any more than that there isn’t any more Gomez there isn’t any more Gomez Brothers but JP Gomez
Started right back down the pack after after a rollover in qualifying just checking that out yeah go JP Gomez actually started in 99th position today all the corrected time all of the corrected time and then a little bit more so he has got 25 minutes of
Corrected time on his side so in fact I’m actually going to say he might even be ahead of his brother Marcus right now in fact he depending on where he is see how long his pit takes when he gets back to Maine absolutely right so who’s that
There that’s Tad daer of the 906 but I didn’t see who got by him but whoever did was was moving yeah we had some onboard camera with Tad earlier today which is awesome to see but right now it’s all about that and there is our current King and current race leader Ral
Gomez coming into the top of Aftershock here one of the classic iconic trails that is one of the trails that the rocks are more embedded than loose rollers so it’s one of those ones where you can put a tire on something and stay on the line
And the Rocks not going to roll out from underneath you now Tom we just saw him come to a stop there do you reckon he’s changing into low Buck I mean what what uh Transfer boxes are these guys running I know they’ve played with SCS I know they’ve played with other systems I
Think they have an SC s with a magnum box that they use as a low range so they can basically get a little more reduction and then they stick with the th400 because the were liability of the 400 a lot of the guys that are playing
Around not using a range box or using a four-speed transmission which I I haven’t had had as much success with knowing the reliability compared to the 400 I have to say 400 is a staple yeah I use a 4L at myself and I absolutely love it I think it’s an absolutely fantastic
Transmission but these guys do what works and if a th400 is doing the job that’s what they use so he’s dropping down the the top very top of Aftershock right there when he gets to the bottom of this he’s going to go up his first real legit lap three
Trail that’s a new Trail called check me out it’s pretty flat with really big rocks so he’s on the uh basic we call it the the little Highway above the Finish waterfall here so it’s just down now it looks to me he’s just running a real nice stable
Pace here he knows he’s got time on his hands just playing it safe now Dave when you see people doing this and they start backing off that race Pace does it worry you more than seeing them running at race Pace because these cars are designed to run at a set Pace aren’t
They doesn’t worry me no he’s still in the lead you can save the car if you want to save car moving beat the bottom it’s up to you I understand what you’re saying saying Jim I don’t mean to be difficult but I don’t believe he’s that far off
The pace I mean Claw is this is this is the pace you’d want to run to keep the car together in the position he’s in and the further you get down the bottom of Aftershock the more little getches are on the side and little shelves lots of
Little that are just rocks that are just just enough just big enough just enough I love going right here and there’s kind of a diagonal swooping spot through here that’s my favorite one of my favorite lines in the whole valley we look at the size of the the rocks
That we just casually Drive underneath the car these days yeah these vehicles are absolutely remarkable need sound next year I wouldn’t be able to hear this motor that’s what we’re going to figure out that’d be nice Dave i’ like that I know no production have been talking
About that earlier this week and every year they up the game in the production so if you’re just joining us this is the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nto tire and powered by Optima batteries today is the Nitto race of kings and we are watching
Right now as two times King Ral Gomez stretches his lead this is lap three of this race and joining me in the booth is none other than Mr Tom WS how we doing Tom very well siry to be here very well sir happy to be here great to call The 4400 race
Oh mate we love having you here we’ve watched you out on those Trails for so many years and I know it’s a bit of sweet peill being in here but it’s great to have you and that is JP Gomez making the turn up towards resolution there’s no place I’d rather
Be than the race car but if I can’t be in the race car it’s nice to be here and be here for the sport yeah absolutely and your knowledge of the trials is absolutely Second To None now is this lap traffic ahead of R Gomez yes it is
Now we keep talking about this is it going to be a problem for Ral but he’s a consument professional we’d be expecting to pick this guy off real quick so that’s one of our solid axle cars there in front just trying to get a
Number so R will be on the horn now now most of these vehicles are fitted with very loud sirens usually over the 200 dbel Mark and they need to be that loud because when you’re sa in a race car you got the motor around you they’re so loud
And you’ve got your helmets on a lot of these guys are now wearing what’s called ear cups as well which are actually inside the helmets to isolate you from the noise of the car so if the sirens that you’re playing aren’t loud enough they will not hear you but’s not fails
Than the iron horn absolutely two toots two Taps two ton or in this case about £5,000 and more action here that’s a bomber frame making its way down through and that is the 416 of Howen there is that Randy right there or is that yeah 416 is Brian Reed I’m just
Trying to look who that was on the other one it was the bomber it was a bomber and still the images keep coming here in hammertown then there is that bomber again that is the 4848 I believe this car’s on double duties this is one of the vehicles that raced
Yesterday correct that should be Amber and Mike yeah it is okay they just let somebody come by yeah that was Amber Turner and Mike Lawson you are absolutely correct and it’s right back to our King car 83 it really needs no introduction and the amazing thing about this car it
Is undefeated in any race except for Nationals did it race Nationals he raced Nationals and he also raced Oklahoma I give you back for that one not that I was there but no he didn’t race Oklahoma I’m sure I was there for that one I don’t remember R being there
I might be mistaken I’ve been wrong once or twice you know it’s okay Jim I’m going to make a few mistakes here myself so we’ll just try to make the best of it how about that we just s somea plast over I gave you a little bit of a hard
Time the other day but you know I’m going to I’m going to be I’m going to be calm today thank you very much be my happy place right here and that’s Matthew McGowan there now this was whan Campbell’s old car now he did qualifying the other day
With a huge cooler on the back and uh we were trying to work out why he was doing that and it seemed an interesting move but great to see that he’s got a spare tire on there back of that rig today those bright green Wheels an iconic look for an iconic
Car I believe we actually saw him rolled on his side earlier on so great to see him back up and running again so now we got a shot at is that J Shear right there I’m wondering if that might be it’s either or Dan fresh I can’t tell yeah I know they’re so
Similar aren’t they I think that’s Dan fresh is Dan fresh there’s car number seven laser nut entry yeah so Dan fresh of course no stranger to being top of the box in the Everyman challenge in 4500 and in 4,800 6100 Trophy Truck T2 competitor as well yeah absolutely yep and this is Casey
Curry now this is our physical second place on course right now you know this is a great day for Casey with with with him with his problem with getting to the Finish Line in this race I bet they’re really happy in the curry pit right now
Yeah still a long way to go though and Dave was talking about those extra trials the bonus trials that they put in on lap three they are car Killers aren’t they you know Dave definitely from the time he put King’s graveyard into this race he put everyone in a position where
You could come in in first and leave in last so y it’s it’s really really going to be a race to the end yeah I’m looking forward to it and Casey Curry here just picking his way through in that trophy Jeep if you get a chance to see this
Thing later on in in hammertown check it out it is absolutely huge so one one advantage he has with that car is he has triangulated lowers so it helps protect that rear drive shaft and and a lot of the cars that have more of a drive shaft
By the trailing arm it’s a little harder to keep it protected and you know by the end of this race it’s very challenging to have a a balanced drive line that allows you to go over say 70 or 80 mes an hour yeah I mean I couldn’t believe
It when you were saying earlier last year you’re hitting 130 plus M an hour on lap three that’s remarkable yeah just to have a balanced drive shaft it’s so foreign of a concept to me to to actually have it and take advantage of it it was [Laughter]
Fun yeah every part every component of these vehicles is protected under these vehicles as much as they can but the drive shafts they come out of the transfer case they’ve then got to get to the differentials on the axles or to the ifs system he actually has a speed
Limiter and a cruise control in that car for racing baja so when he’s going on speed sections on the highway he can set and then sit back and you know drink water and eat food well we saw him take advantage of that earlier outbreaking Ral Gomez into the speed section knowing
That he had that covered and as you said earlier that is the experience of racing in Baha where they have multiple speed zones that they have to use so so Jim it sounds like we got miles over in the Gomez pit with JP Gomez can we uh take it to you
Miles thank you Tom yes I’m in here in JP Gomez tits as he just came through the Bronco Arch on the Ford performance short course he is cruising along everything’s looking good Joe Thompson just said he’s here everybody stay calm two front tires some fuel looks like
They’re going to play with the Warren Winch up front a little bit but JP is all over the throttle coming on here here into town what a great day of racing it has been his brother is out front and then it’s Marcos and then JP
Top five for the Gomez brothers so far I did see Brett Harold come through just a moment ago and Kyle Cheney’s in the mix what a great race we have on our hands this will be an absolute race to the finish and JP is not letting up at all
And it sounds like Marcos is uh Bungie strap is still holding the transfer case in gear so J JP is coming on in like Lauren Healey could be coming into town too so this would stay exciting for everybody as JP is coming in so we’ll see how this car looks look at how
Professional this pit is set up they’ve got a person for absolutely everything ooh a left rear flat tire so they were planning on fronts but they need a left rear so they’re going to have to they’re going to go all rears now so yeah they’re going to I think
We’re going to change at least the left rear so we got to put a couple Lux DS down so that’s what happened for Raul also left rear flat tire so now they’re trying to get scramble a little bit and get some lug nuts on the front so they’re getting fuel up as
Lauren Healey’s in town and I see one of the capraras as well so they’re still working good getting out of the way JP looks like he’s ready to go so far so good for JP Gomez out there having fun I’m sure Jill’s tuned in super stoked with
Everything JP’s just in the zone right now oh he sees Lauren right now he’s watching it so I’m going to run down and try to get to Healey’s pit but JP is having fun out there big thumbs up from JP so both rears and a little bit of
Fuel now I’m going to run down cuz Healey will be here in just a minute and we’ll check that out as well so Healey’s coming to town we saw him have some steering pump issues just a moment ago they had to change that pump early this morning but they got it out here
And it’s ready looks like they’re ready to fuel it up so Lauren Healey another two-time king is coming through having a little bit of a rough day but he’s here the bronos still looks good and yes JP Gomez in and out of the hot pits looks like they’re doing some fuel
For Healey getting a couple drinks of water just checking the steering this Bronco still looks like it’s in good shape so Lauren’s in here Marcos chasing down his brother Raul and then coming from the back is JP so the gomz crew is doing good I I so everything’s going good down here in the pits a lot of action a lot of fun thanks again for everybody for tuning in to the 2024 Progressive Insurance King the hamers presented by nto tires powered by Optimum batteries and Lauren Healey is out so much fun out here it’s
Getting exciting one more lap to go how’s it going to shake out back to you Tom thank you miles watching Lauren Hy come out of town H we got Dave Cole coming back into the booth and on the screen right now now we have that is
RZ yeah now that was exciting in the pits there we had Lauren Healey coming in we had JP Gomez we also saw Brian capera coming in there look like Brian had a right rear flat as well so lots of action in pits well how many tires did JP take so
He took some back tires did they do the fronts no I didn’t notice that it didn’t look like they were having problems though it look like they were struggling to clear a Lugnut so now we’re this is check me out then correct he’s at the
Very the he’s in the middle of check me out this is the lap three Trail he’s got to get inside of those rocks in around and he is tried to come in on the ledge he’s single he’s winching he’s not going to winch over that though cuz the front end will wash
Down he’s winching he’s getting out the car and he’s going to be reaching for cable I’m afraid he probably doesn’t want to slide his front left no the front left is it’s it’s 10 ft down where that drone that drone uh Shadows at it’s 10 ft down that
Face the normal line well it’s a new Trail thats on the one line but you climb there on the disturb dirt now this is the disadvantage was trying to take the high line and kind of come across on the Shelf this is I don’t know that that’s doable this is the disadvantage of
Running’s got some some more information for us though looks like he’s a little wide right there to be sneaking across that shelf what a wonderful race we have on our hands for the Nitto race of keing and I’ve got Mr Nitto of off-road Chris Corbett how’s it going buddy uh my that
Was great race right great race it’s there’s a lot of fast guys out there on course and it’s been a lot of fun to watch and so far it’s shaking out to be great isn’t it yeah you know I hate some of the the hang up there in outer limits
Uh I got to give it to Marcos for the smart pass on the side there but yeah just to watch everybody coming through on this last lap still a lot of battle left it’s going to be good it’s going to be a long race yeah this third lap is
Going to be the longest lap they’ve had for a while but they’re excited to have some fun out here and again thanks Nitto for supporting King of the Hammers for such a long time ah we love it we love it all our all our guys are running
Strong still we’ve had great tires were in an issue at this race and so far we’re we’re looking good absolutely so we’re on the last lap for the Nitto race of Kings Dave back to you buddy thank you miles and thank you Chris Corbett thank you
Nto so talk us through this spot Dave okay so the line has been down so far has been down in and come out of it just like squared up on the hill while was trying to go around the high side the rock that he has bellied on there like
Right in front of his left rear I don’t think that’ll stay there as he pulls forward I think that he’ll pivot that rock out and when he does that shelf becomes pretty open and if other people see it then there’s the the line has
Changed so here we go now R Gomez is on the winch this is the difficulty of being in a single seat vehicle you you have to get out you have to pull line yourself you have to set the winch up yourself very motivates you to not have
To repeat it exactly so so we got to see if this rock slides out of the way that Dave was talking about right there it’s starting to move nope move but not nope still there now just as a as an aside here Dave I’ve got to ask this if you come up
There as a driver and you see that rock there is there anything actually stopping you putting the winch around that rock and pulling the rock out of the way to open the line I never even looked at that line before he just did that driven that trail three times now
And I’ve never even looked at that line so get it on him so R getting out the car again now so he’s got to disconnect the winch he’s got to store the W Stow the winch get back in get belted in get his heart rate down and and he’s only
Halfway up this lap three Trail this is not the top he crosses over the Mine Road right here and then he’s got to get to the Steep part it’s a Ral Gomez now in these UFO cars you actually sit dead bang in the center of the vehicle you have a fuel
Cell to the left of you you have a fuel cell to the right of you and you’re almost like sitting inside of a cockpit of an aircraft the visibility out of these vehicles is absolutely incredible it makes them so good in the Rocks so he gets his dut up he now have
To put his harnesses on now most of these vehicles will be running a fivepoint or a Sixpoint harness so to put each of his shoulders over he’s got to make sure they go over his neck brace he’s going to bring those down he’ll have a par shoot tight buckle and they
Have to latch with four different latches before he can make his way Casey Curry just pulled into the bottom of uh check me out it’s a very long flat Trail you can see how how very little elevation change goes down in that way but it’s a he’s a it’s a not an
EAS it’s not a it’s not a quick Trail to get through he’s probably at least three or four minutes still behind I would assume definitely going to be an advantage for him to have a CO driver so you see there’s three the Rocks just at are right of row the Rocks he winched
Off and the other B bigger Rock to the left they had to go between so he got just between that rock that is 100% the line but R’s not out of this yet this is still going to be some T some very technical driving just to get out of
This little location yeah when I went over talked to those guys last night they were strategizing about this shelf move and what they were going to do if they got to this point and uh they were definitely uh 9:00 last night in the dark going out there to take a look at
It one more time to see if they think they could get across that shelf which I thought was pretty great to see them execute it pulled it when you’re when you’re looking at it from this angle it’s so difficult to get the idea of the elevation so difficult
To get the idea of the Rocks I think he’s belting in right now and we’re just we’re just waiting for him to get finished getting situated in the race car oh he’s just putting his steering wheel back on you know you don’t want to rush thinking you can get your belts on
Later or get your head and neck restraint loop back through just take take the time do a good job get locked back in yeah absolutely absolutely is Kyle chany in third yes Kyle chany is still on hasn’t even got Emerson lake bed yet compaction mrail Aftershock
Check me out well it’s going to well actually Marcus Gomez was ahead of K Cheney and they’ come out almost neck and neck but Marcus Gomez is running wounded right now and that’s the 4848 there of Amber Amber Turner with Mike slon Co driving Marcos Gomez is out of the race
Ah I’m looking at a map and I’m just seeing that he’s on the other side of the mountains from race mile 8 that’s unfortunate to hear he’s either out or very lost let me check with the pit and I’ll see what they say okay so R’s working his way back up right now that trail looks really raw when did you break that Dave about a month ago month and a half ago took an
X3 out there I think with three guys from Moto and got free 2/3 of the way up and it looked flat so I went back out there with a bomber when Junior got here like January 5th or so we’ve driven by those rout there that
M rad goes to Highway 1920 we driven by those rocks for 20 years and gone n no and now they’re dropping him so right now we got rul and Casey Curry correct R Casey Curry and then Kyle Cheney uh significantly back probably 25 minutes back here in word we got Jason Shear
Coming into town no which does match the tracker of sh coming down back door here he is coming into the infield yeah he’s still showing great Pace there now what are they going to do did he damage those shock absorbers you can see there the body
Work looks like it’s been opened up on Jason Burger’s side more door panels ripped off this year than I’ve seen in a in a minute I think it’s going to be interesting to see here if they get get him out of here pretty quickly and get him back onto the
Hunt looks like they got a tire that’s chewed up on the back rack doesn’t it or is that rope that’s rope there’s Casey going up and to check me out yeah great Pace here from Casey car you can see up on the hill on the right they’re they’re at that that midpoint so
That’s his that’s the distance down from back from R you can see the really big rock up on the hill up there that’s that’s where Casey’s aiming towards right now at this point he can probably still see R’s dust coming from the upper Canyon and there’s nothing more
Motivating than seeing the dust of another car in front of you getting in the hunt I think that’s better is when you can smell a little oil they cool it that’s a little cruel but you’re not wrong you are so right okay as we watch Casey Curry here going
Through we have got miles hassis down in the main pits miles what have you got thank you Jim yeah I’m down here with Jason Shear he is going to have a quick little chap with me I saw the right front where he was tangled up with Kad
Rod what a bummer you were running such a great race for so long I I hate this for you buddy oh I got to say that’s the toughest I’ve had in a long time when you’re just everything’s going good and you’re uh why don’t you hand them the
Controller um you know Cade got stuck there we asked if he wanted to go over us or what we wanted to do about the time we decided to back up somebody else was coming and he’s like just go over me and we didn’t get aggressive enough
Because I know he got an engine up in the front there and I wanted to not hurt his car instead his bumper hooked into our chassis and was pulling through the car and I’m like we’re in a lot we’re in a big problem here so you know we did everything we
Could I also I wanted to come in and take the time to look at it to make sure the integrity was there putting Burger back in there so we weren’t very fast out of that we had a lot of stuff going on we tried to help guys get by and not
Ruin their race even though ours was done for um it’s such a disappointment because I know we got a flat but like I kind of figured Flats kind of go around you know maybe it’ll even itself back out we knew we hit some vcps that other people missed I thought we were right
There um now we’re not quite sure we don’t want to go back out for the third lap without that winch working and we were going in every direction with that thing so it’s not very happy but uh yeah bummer yeah well again I personally feel bad for you but the Class Act Jason
You’re still here you yeah go out with a healthy car finish the race if you can but if you can’t that’s part of it but man you were right up there once again you’re always a proven a great driver well we sure had fun that desert section
Was great this car work and you know the power the Dugan Ford power is off the charts out there I don’t know what the overall times were but we were cruising and the thing was just so happy so the fox live valve is next level I mean we’re we’re like comfortable going that
Speed the whole time and just enjoying it staying out of Lauren’s dust we got ourselves a little Gap and we just kind of cruise so yeah cars good bfgs are good these methods are light and fast I’m I love this car it’s just we need to
Get a little racing luck on our side and that’s part of you’ve been there so Jason thanks for taking the time to chat with me I hope to you can get back out there and see what happens but man he had such a great race early on and
That’s part of racing he you know you hear him say I should have been more aggressive but he didn’t want to take care uh take Cade car Cade Rod’s car out completely understand that and just just a bummer had by all but again Racing’s racing that’s what’s going to happen so
Good to hear from Jason shear and Jason Burger they’re here I hope to get them back out we’ll see how it shakes out but bummer for them uh so we’ll see how it shakes out back to you you guys thanks thank you miles wow what what a tough break there for Jason
Sheerer you know he’s still not out of it no no he never is but he’s there he’s like yourself he’s out there for the win but we’re watching here as Casey Curry picks his way through and look at the difference there he has a co-driver to help him pull
Rope so Casey Curry now now taking advantage of the fact that he’s got Anderson out of the car to help him pick lines Al so look oh no Casey’s getting high centered there can he pull himself backwards yeah it looks like he can possibly no don’t think he’s come back
Gone backwards quite far enough now the interesting thing about this oh here you go Orin Anderson running down there he’ll be grabbing the win Trope yeah he’s working his way trying to get clean out of here out the out the end of it and he’s in a predicament if he gets
Much more left it’s not going to go well for him yeah absolutely now the difficulty with this is a lot of these guys don’t have coms outside the car some do some don’t that a Bluetooth com situation is a really good thing to Happ you can see here what’s happened is that
Casey’s pulled the winch all the way in it’s got caught in the fair lead and now he’s going to have to power out now depending on what kind of uh shackle or mounting he has if he sucked it back into the fair lead that will be jammed
Up oh check this out we’re in car with Cameron steel so Cameron steel is back on track sorted out that pinion problem and this is another man you can’t count out of this race either the car that he’s driving is an independent front suspension independent rear suspension but also has portal
Axles the clearance under this under those axles is remarkable now this could be a pivotal moment in the race Tom look can’t use his winch he’s trying to drive that back left is sliding down right now he’s going to fall into that hole oh I’ve been there it’s it’s
Huge that looks so sketchy is the King’s graveyard of this year so this is Orin Anderson here now he’s got to try and clear this winch so he you just saw him there with a rock smashed it out and I know so many there’s people from around the world
Though watching this but lots of people from Europe and Australia who do lots of winching and they’ll have their hands on their heads at the moment watching this in despair but they’ve managed to get the winch free and they are pulling Casey Curry up right now he doesn’t have
Enough winch throw there to get him out of that he needs to no he’s now bottomed out the winch again and he’s not out of that he’d be better off running up to that Koso Bush and wrapping it around twice absolutely you’re finding a different line you ever done the Creo
Sil Bush hug when you put like what like a 20ft tow strap around like seven of them I call that a bush Ballard a bush Ballard yeah it’s a nice climbing term for a nice climbing anchor yeah that that he’s not out from there yet that’s gnarly there he goes
Whoa yeah great driving there from Casey great job Casey and all the time this is going on our current King Ral Gomez is making his way round lap three so Dave I saw you writing down on some Bits of Paper there where are we at what
Who what are the runn r in first Casey in second Kyle Cheney third Bret Harold Bret Harold third fourth Lauren in fifth and JP 6th so JP I could be off I’m trying to read the track minut corrected is that what we’re thinking back to almost chocolate thunder on lap three
Well let me just go through that just run me through that again so we’ve got um we’ve got Ry Gomez who started in sixth position today we’ got KL Cheney who started in 10th then we’ve got Brett Harold um just trying to work out where Brett started Brett Harold started in
20th but the uh then we got Lauren Healey there who started in third but the big Shaker and mover at the moment is JP Gomez who started in 99th position so he’s got 25 minutes of adjusted time over the first place car that left the
Line which means that he has uh 24 and a half minutes over Lauren Healey and I’m not even going to do the maths on where he is with Bret Harold but um well he will still have at least 15 minutes over of Bret Harold so JP Gomez is the man on the
Charge at the moment and the man to watch as we watch two-time King R Gomez so he’s be going out now he’s did he make it out xes this looks like he may be at the top of xes already and that looks like is that Brandon Thompson’s car I believe it was
A tough break for Brandon Casey Curry putting the car to work here so where’s this Dave we’ve obviously just come out check me out or is this this is the top of check me out he’s got a really steep climb on the way out of here rolls already cleared that gone
Through pit two again um confirming but I believe he’s at the top of xes this is where having some extra wheelbase is really nice that wheelbase on that card it’s keeping the front end down he’s making good time coming up this yeah confirmed um Brandon we saw him P
Brandon Thompson Brandon Thompson is the top of xes RS clear xes into into um Uptown and then going directly upep he’s in uptown right there and now he’s going to go drop over into our next lap three Trail fishing so why don’t we go go let
The bills get paid for a second then we’ll come back in and get R Gomez driving fishing fishing Hole if you’re just joining us this is the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the hammer presented by nto tire and powered by Optima batteries this is the Nitto race of Kings we are into lap three and right there that is our current race leader Ral Gomez we’re
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Okay and welcome back to the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nto tire and powered by Optima batteries today is the big one today is the Nitto race of kings and what a race it’s been already 116 cars started this morning at 800 a.m. and we’re currently watching our
Physical race leader Ral Gomez I’m Jim maren and joining me in the booth is none other than Tom ways and Mr Dave Cole now Dave talk to me about Ral and where everybody else is in this race right now just blew through fish uh fishing hole almost to the end of
Fissures fish fissure mountain and we’ll be dropping into Sledge and then coming down Jack again right back in front of chocolate thunder the fans in chocolate thunder in about 20 minutes wow that’s amazing stuff and that is our physical second place car right now that is Casey
Curry just came through check me out yeah he’s uh he’s in the middle of xes right now uh so he’s going up ZW walk he is two Trails behind three counting fissure a solid 15 minutes I would say behind uh r at this point yeah R really laying
Down the pace so Tom you’ve been here before what’s Ral Gomez thinking right now he’s in a tough spot he can be where he’s either going to attack or he can sit back in and often times when you sit back in and start trying to baby the car
Things go worse so he’s probably trying to just turn his brain off and just musle memory keep making keep making miles keep moving forward just ticking them off one at a time so behind BR Gomez and behind Casey Curry we have kyl Cheney in third position followed by Brett
Herrell believe Laur Lauren Healey and JP yeah let’s think back to that I mean we saw Lauren Hey of course that was our our race leader at the end of lap one got up into uh had some problems stopped for a flat tire and then we saw him up
In remote pit 2 having to change a steering pump so the team fun have been absolutely on point getting him back out on track this is roll down towards the mailbox you pulled back you’d see the mailbox probably little ahead of them right down there where those Lanes
Split going straight takes you into Sledge and going right takes you to jack right where bombs away comes in I wanted to give it to him this year but I was afraid it we get ugly on top that’s uh coming out as ZW walk then Brendan Thompson we saw him
Before and Brandon Thompson out here this year with his son Austin who is also racing in his old solid axle car so great to see the family back out here again what do you think the hardest Trail is this year Dave H that they’re actually going to drive
On probably Winner’s Choice in going out the top of sledge and that’s the the three more Trails out in front of will he gets through Winner’s Choice then so this is Casey Curry physical second place right now at about 15 minutes behind our race leader R
Gomez so what can Casey Curry do here right now is there any way that he can pull R Gomez back or are we just seeing a master class from the two-time King you you can’t say anything at this point I mean ra could have a tire could
Have a problem and everything can change everything can change so quickly in this race yeah we already saw him out at the car and and he’s through except for Winner’s Choice he’s through the hardest rocks as well so there’s the mailbox just made the turn at the mailbox he’s
Heading up to the top of Jack right now yeah and he’s a good in a good position as well we saw he changed three tires last time he came into main pit so he’s on reasonably fresh Grabber all the way around that car Casey will be dropping into fishing
Hole right now they’re really aren’t but about a half mile apart from each other and in space but maybe six or seven miles apart on course so they turning left and then coming up to climb here Dave yeah go through these rocks up here then turn
Left and go to the top of jackpine that is definitely one of my favorite spots on the whole race course if you hit that thing at about 65 70 mph up the hill that water that little Shelf at the top you can Bunny Hop all the way onto the ridge without even touching
It if you say so dve is now giving Tom one of those sideways looks that said you’re nuts I don’t have a bunny hopping vehicle to do that you asked me if I bumped my head yesterday I didn’t ask I told you you bumped your head okay now this is also
The problem that we see here you are going to encounter lap traffic that is the 5759 there so that’s that hold that line that’s just a sand hill climbing going up to the top of Jack and he uh they had to make that new pass around him it’s an mwac car
Ran Reed I’m not sure who’s there right with him monkey with a knife ahead of him there’s the clim you were talking about Tom yeah little buddy hops coming up and that is Lauren Healey I believe he’s currently sitting in fourth position Lauren was leading this race
Early on in lap one had to stop for a flat tire at the start of lap two then Chang the power steering pump in remote pit two yeah it looked like they had a little bit of a problem with that tire getting it off or maybe they had some
Cords wrapped around the the brakes CU it took them a little while to to get that tire changed both of them out of the car working together that’s the 1505 there are Tim Hooper we just saw a moment ago and there is our current race leader
That is R go and he’s making his way down through the trials as Dave was just saying he’s through some of the toughest Rock trials on this course and he’s going to be coming into chocolate thunder and probably around CR Chocolate Thunder from the camera on Jackhammer that’s a spectacular shot
Right there that’s a narrow spot you guys if you’re doing over 20 mil an hour you’re really paying attention the world drops away feels like 1500 vertical off his left hand side right there and he’s going to start turning in and going down towards Jack main Jack and
Coming back down towards the I call it the S turn where it’s really Rocky and primarily kind of a tougher spot on the trail see hammertown in the distance this is the moment on the race course where you got to force your eyes wide open super concentrate do not think about the
Finish I’m usually thinking about the finish right now that’s probably my problem so if you’re just joining us this is the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by Nitto TI and powered by Optima batteries it’s been a week or more than a week almost
Two weeks of racing what can only be described as the off-road Festival that is King of the Hammers so much racing action we’ve already seen so many kings crowned but the big one is today it is the Nitto race of Kings as we watch our second place car
That is Casey Curry coming down fissure that’s it that’s the that’s where legit turned back into it last year let’s get back to the field can we get uh some update from timing got the uh running order through finishing of lap two that would be wonderful
So the physical run and Riders on course at the moment in first position is JP Gomez in second is Casey carry third on course is kyl Cheney then behind him is Lauren heale in fact I think it’s Brett Harold then Lauren Healey so Kyle chany is at the top of
Check me out uh right now at the at that that part on the Rocks if we have that cam camera and go back there where there we are just there so now did he get it looks like he might have just gotten across based on where we’re
At tough to tell by this angle but I believe he’s already across the hard part to check me out he’s in the upper Canyon right now yeah so this is the first of our utvs on course and he’s are strongly into the top five it looks like he’s in
Possibly a Podium position right now if he can keep this going no utvs to be able to qualify and to race in 4,400 they have to use a minimum of a 37in tire Al R cage diameter is changed as well per weight I’ve got Brad Herold coming up
Check me out and I’ve got um JP goz coming down Aftershock right now with Lauren Healey as well so R Gomez coming down into the sand washes in a moment coming from the turn here the Jack the sledgehammer one of the most iconic spots in the whole valley
So on adjusted time through race M6 Casey Curry is exactly two minutes down six minutes down excuse me to R Gomez so 6 minutes on adjusted time wow but as you said that’s only one tire that’s only one spare that’s only one flat and are there any vcp investigations current for anybody in
That top three as well well we do know that there is a a pending so we’ll have to keep an eye on that story Ben no Keepers oh look we got action here this is JP Gomez closing in on Lauren Healey so I believe that is the 80 three
Just out of shot right now chasing down Lauren Healey two time King yes it is what a race for JP Gomez started in 99th position this morning after his roll over in qualifying now JP has been incredibly successful in the over the years in the ultra 4 USA national
Championships there’s one many races but has never won this one he had a really good race last year in the T1 race in a two- wheel drive truck he was heavily heavily into the front now this is a big sand drop off no problem there from
Ral is that where you rolled right there Dave yes it’s still where I rolled every time we come through there in the same way you’ll never brings it up he’s saying someone br brings it up every time the the competitor reaches that point in race course all right still true
Though making the turn going back up into attack Hammer then Loop right back down into laser nut alley her problems idle issues and up jock with thunder all is and her problem are two of my favorite trials here I really enjoy those really yeah interesting is that a bad thing no I
Just it surprises me can you hear the crowd can you hear the crowd and shock with thunder when you come in there yes definitely you can feel the crowd I think that’s the better way of putting it you guys hear that up there you make an impression
I think we should see if we could get the uh the crowd of chocolate thunder to do a wave for us you think you could get that accomplished Dave sure it’s they’re doing it right now see can you tell so this is Casey Curry coming around taking a different line to R
Gomez there’s lots of cars that going to need recovering from the course tonight there’ll be Crews walking in to collect parts so they can get their cars up and running again now the question is are we going to see any more helicopter Services out here this year well that’s already
Ordered up yeah there’s the helicopters in service this [Laughter] afternoon that sounded really affordable last year I think I would sign up for a year p package I’d like a year-long membership I think it was 2500 bucks 25,000 bucks was it no it was 4500 I heard last year oh was it
Really last year it was actually sponsored by Mony with a knife they paid for it wow cuz the year before they got insta famous doing it themselves and thought it’d be cool to do it again they’re rad people too all right we got Raul coming over back around towards idle issues and her
Problems and back to Chocolate Thunder and this is Kyle Cheney picking his way up through that would be fishing hole probably or or um zand’s let me check so Brett Herold is in 40 is in uh is in check me out Kyle is in zok Casey’s crested Down
Jack and is dropping into Idol issue soon yeah yeah probably a minute and a half out from chocolate thunder thank you everyone out there getting the shots for this this is mind-blowing best ever thank you every year King of the Hammers continues to raise the bar in off-road production bringing you these images
From literally the middle of a desert from mean B and sets the bar for others to follow okay well we’re just getting we’re just getting confirmation from race Ops at the moment that ra Gomez has got a penalty Dave Cole’s got more on that so we’ll cross over to Dave now and
Find out what that might be sounds yep sounds good so R did miss a vcp in the Rocks um it wasn’t uh it wasn’t egregious but it was a Miss BCP he didn’t he didn’t course cut so that’s minutes minuten and what’s his lead right now whoa that’s Bren Harold
Upside down in that same place that we thought that R might fall off that gravity one on Brent Brett excuse me yeah gravity sucks and it sucks big time in this case now they they’ve got options here it doesn’t look like it but they have would be rolling it downhill absolutely
So what he needs to do is take the winch out don’t put the winch directly down put the winch over compromised bad though the a the he took a very hard hit there on the window bar above the driver’s head passenger’s head back on board with Jason Shear moving out on lap
Three so he is not out of this race he is up and running again if y just joining us Jason Shir got into a tangle with Cade Rod coming down through Outer Limits they got their suspension locked together and CAD Rod’s bulkhead or bar locked into Jason’s bulkhead took them around about 30
Minutes before they could get released from each other that’s fourth place on their lid so Casey right now is in the main part of Jack I call that the S turn right there that’s one of the trickier spots but going downhill it’s not too much of an issue ever
But he’s almost to the bottom we got choco Thunder we got a r and chocolate thunder he already blow right through it oh on Q production top of chocolate thunder there he goes you never know some some years it’s an absolute craziness in there and sometimes it’s a
Highway but it also shows the evolution of these cars just how seems like a lot of Lane choice too though you watched Randy in there just hitting that left side like it wasn’t even there yesterday and watching some people struggle yeah very much so but come up
And through there yesterday I was lucky enough to pass four cars in the same place it’s just you just don’t know what you’re going to find but it’s all about this man right now that man there is Ral Gomez already a two-time king we’ve had two pets in
The past but we’ve never had anybody three Pat is this the year that we’re going to see that happen you wouldn’t bet against it right now he came into main pit earlier on he put three tires on topped off his tanks and headed back off into the
Desert anything can happen here Jim I know and I hate Josh bler how close to the Finish Line yeah rolled in back door that yeah anything can happen JP and Lauren are coming up onto Bren H right now I would love to see topa check me
Out uh it was tight with one car certainly going to be tight with three cars especially with the one upside down blocking the line have they got multiple options they took the Shelf they took the Shelf Road around it’ll be interesting to see if they stop to help at all or
So if he drives straight between Brett and that big rock Dave that’s where the vcp is yes but yeah they have to get on the inside of this rock right here yeah I’ve just been reminded anything can happen in this race like running out of fuel 5 miles from town
Who would do such a thing Jim Maron it’s my second golden fuel can that was the easiest question you’ve asked me all day actually exactly there you go long struggled on some other ones I don’t feel quite on my game but that one was a softball man I mean I who else
Is going to do that I’ll light them up you knock him down if you can’t make fun of yourself I’ll tell you what though Jim I would have done anything in the world to Chade place with you yesterday you got to go racing and you
Got to do the things and you were at the front of the pack being a rock star I’m sorry about your luck but you’re a rockar you’re too good JP oh JP just knocked knocked uh Brent down the down the Rocks a little bit talking about him
Needing to roll the car over so he got a little help with that yeah to be fair that’s a better looking spot for Brent than it was a moment ago so uh he might not think that way they definitely need a different anchor for
JP to get up and out of there that one that’s too close to him’s not going to do him much good yeah but if you look at that big rock that’s just up in front of him just here that is absolutely gagging for a line round the top of that to pull
Them up so you see but he’s by himself but he’s got a CO driver there from Brett whether he can communicate or not it looks like he’s there to help and that’s exactly what’s happening yeah look at this trying to find an extra winch point and he’s going exactly
To that rock they’re listening to us I tell you and fact that’s worth actually saying is that all of these teams they’re all looking for perfect communication they’re looking to find out what’s going on in the race and all of the really serious teams will have this live will
Have the live feed going on in their pits so they can stay on top of the latest action out on course okay well we continue here with the action of the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nto time Power by Optima batteries
This is the race of Kings but I believe that Miles has got something for us on the stage right now miles what do you got yeah I’ve got one of my good buddies Edwin Abbot out here you had a rough day I hate to hear that for you what
Happened with the car cuz you were racing and now you’re not oh well we were making good time um had a good Pace going got right outside of Aftershock and just had a weird vibration coming up uh pulled over to check it and as soon as I pulled over I noticed my alternator
Was dead and we’re sitting at 10 and 1 12 volts yeah when you were when you were pulling over here you shut the car off and I had you move it one more time I was like I’m not sure if it’s going to start but it did and again you know
You’ve been raci for a long time always appreciate your efforts and it’s just a bummer but hey you’re all smiles still right all smiles absolutely and you got a great support group so let’s bring your whole team up even though you didn’t finish let’s let’s get a quick
Picture I know some people out here in the crowd want to see how everything’s going on and and man just what a bummer but that’s just part of it right and and who are some of these people coming up here to help you uh so this is Delaney
She’s my co- driver and everyone else here is buddies for decades yeah cuz I mean it’s not just it’s not just the race course right it’s the prep behind the scenes yeah tons and tons of prep countless manh hours countless nights away from families it’s it’s a lot of
Effort that goes into getting out here so let’s uh let’s do something a little special tonight what do you got for me buddy Lindsay I’ve uh known you for a while now and fallen in love with You what you got say will you marry me [Applause] yes how amazing is that so cool Edwin M just asked Lindsay to marry she said yes this is is an amazing addition to today for the nto race of Kings it’s a new bonus on lap three I feel warm and fuzzy congratulations
Edward Lindsay love you guys all right so we got Ru at the top of wrecking ball here he’s doing my line and he’s clean out the top of wrecking ball that means he’s the clear Winner’s Choice which means he’s going to come down he’ll come down um full of
Hate up claw down blue. Thors assuming the round through big J Johnson and then just R pit in two trails and split to Casey right now if he’s got a five minute penalty it was 6 minutes before it’s um with with but not counting the 5minute penalty so down to
1 minute but that was a while back and that was before Casey had problems at the top of um or in the middle and check me out oh here we go now this is Casey coming around to drop into uh ID issues in her problem yeah she’s got a couple
Minutes to get from here to Chocolate Thunder and then I would say to get up wrecking ball you’re probably looking at about he’s got to go up Winner’s Choice first oh thank you I’ll reckon he’s actually four or five Trails back to him right now yeah I reckon RS pulled out
Even more of a gap run hey production how far back in the show were you showing uh showing um how far back in production were you showing uh rul go up track with thunder cuz there’s his Gap it’s not really fair to call them out like that on Open Mic but they’re [Laughter] badasses yeah they’re just sitting there working that one out for us right now the Little voices in our heads that tell us what’s going on in this world as we watch Casey Curry in the trophy
Jeep picking his way out through her problem when you get to the top of this Trail You’ be taken a hard left dropping down through idle issues now one of the nice things about this trial is all the rocks are like set whereas most some of the other trials
The rocks are really rolling and moving constantly the whole time yeah her problems is uh pretty pretty uh big rock it is yeah yeah you’re on the corner of that Ridge coming down to Chocolate Thunder that’s no joke and there he is our current race leader that is Ral
Gomez and he’s getting closer and closer to coming back into town and joining us here but there’s still a lot of rocks there’s still a lot of desert so he’s making his way through right now I reckon there was a last time we look check the time Gap it was around
About six minutes between him and second place Casey Curry but I’ve got a feeling that R has extended that I think we’re up to closer to 8 minutes or maybe even a fractur more now well I think we’re going to have some updated information here from race
Ops in a minute we should know a lot more exactly where we’re sitting yeah as soon as we see Casey Curry in chocolate thunder we’ll be able to make a split So here we have Casey Curry coming into chocolate thunder carrying some speed through the sand there at the bottom coming up into the main area where it splits kind of left or right lines getting uh current standings through lap that started lap three coming for you right
Now so coming through lap two or on adjusted time we had R gz Casey Curry Marcus Gomez Kyle Cheney Chase caprera had pushed way up in there we never caught him that yet we have to go back and see where Chase is at 14 um we got JP Gomez coming down Rocky Top
Right now it’s Chase CA we got to start chasing the chasing the chase Capra story because he’s uh top five on ajust of time Bren Harold still upside down okay so here we now we move to move forward to race mile 144 um currently the the only three only
Three Racers have come through 156 but it looks like about 10 came through 144 and as of them on adjusted time without penalties included R Gomez Casey Curry Chase caprera Kyle Cheney bar herrell Dan fresh Lauren Healey Cody Addington that Eric Eric Miller yep ER Eric Miller Kevin Sterns and Jordan
Pelino now that’s adjusted a little bit probably in uh with uh with Harold’s Uh current predicament let’s take a look at that list again Dave that is Jeff Wagner we see there that is uh in what was Lauren Healey’s race car last year now Lauren Healey
Only just bought the car oh only just built the car and Jeff went out to him and said is that car for sale he said well no not really I’ve only just built it he said everything’s for sale and they had a chat and the deal was done and Jeff’s hearing it this
Year so here we go this is R Gomez and every turn of the wheel he gets a little bit closer to hammer time he gets a little bit closer to making history can he do it this is Edge of the seat staff here and if you are just joining us this
Is the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the HS presented by Nitto Tires and powered by Optima batteries after two weeks of racing here and some amazing action we are here for the Nitto race of Kings Ral Gomez putting that UFO to work started on the third row of the grid this Morning Tiffany Stones caught up with whan Campbell he’s had a rough day today so we’ve got you Bailey Brian your dad and Drew are just in here a little bit ago now walk me through your day right now A man I’ve had a hell of a
Time I left the line I got the whole shot on Daren um got about a mile in and uh I tagged Rock doing about 15 mph and apparently my rack just had had enough so blew up a steering rack uh went back down grabbed a rack hiked it back up
Changed it and uh the servo was bad so I had to go back down grab one of those and I I got everything back together I was well on my way to be being uh to the the cut off time and uh the freaking motor just wasn’t happy so I ended up
Having a call all right so are you staying here remote pit 2 are you going back out with Brian to hike some rocks yeah know we’re going to go uh make sure this car gets there awesome well best of luck to the entire team there is a lot
Of perseverance happening here for the Campbell Crofts team right now I know I’m looking at you and you are not happy but uh still things happening here back up to you guys okay thank you very much Tiffany a girl up oh reporter up at remote pit 2
Doing a great job there she down here in the main pits talking to wh she’s all over the place she’s everywhere yep well Dave what did we see while that was happening right there what did you see what do you see happening transpiring on Race Course right now I think that was
Bailey Cole coming down um Bender alley uh he’s on he’s on his lap two so he’ be going up wrecking ball right now turning right going up wrecking ball so is that Bailey right there Then Campbell I couldn’t keep up with that that one if from that helicopter though
You’re you’re going to be able to pick up Raul in Winner’s Choice coming into wrecking ball in fact you should see this would be a great shot if you could come to the left of where Bailey you just saw Bailey’s car and Wrecking Ball you would see R coming up winners
Choicing the other side of the ridge they’re going to drop into each other at the Uh waterfall and wreck and ball So this is him coming out of outer limits and doing like we call the go Trail to go between Outer Limits and spooners correct Dave that’s correct yes so Bailey’s turned and going up Wrecking Ball and um I’m assuming that Raul is on the other side of that Ridge
Going to be dropping over towards towards there any second now that chocolate thunder that that Gap had moved up to 10 minutes between rul and Casey Curry not counting that F minute extra penalty yeah so he picked up about four minutes there Lino yeah just watching the pace there
Of R he just seem to be on a on on a charge oh this is good to see so Jordan looks like where where’s he sitting right now Dave is at about 11th forgive me if I misspoke but let’s let’s double check that as of race mile 144.350
So much Innovation packed into this vehicle and that is Ben Miller there the car that we saw that went wrong way on course earlier today it’s a rough day so the lambro get the Lamborghini here picking his way down through the rocks and you see he’s catching another car here now I think
That we’re just watching there Jordan pag green I think he was catching Kevin Sterns so rul is all the way we’re looking down blue D Thor right now rul has already gone through Winner’s Choice gone through Wrecking Ball come down ful of he gone up claw G up nightmare
Turning down Thor right now in 15 minutes he’s getting back in pit too in in less than an hour 45 minutes he could be back here it’s really impressive to see the lack of dust that we have on the race course today and the passing opportunities that come with it yeah I’m
Not sure how you managed to organize the rign to be in exactly those periods but thank you for doing that Dave it’s a lot of planning that goes into that gym now we’re doing cloud seating yeah exactly longterm play but honestly if you’d planned that you couldn’t have done it better could
You two days before perfect so it’s a great chance to have a look at the car here and you see those are the big black and red things in the back of ral’s car those are the air filters for that big Dugan’s engine then of course he has the spare wheel on the
Back there and you can see the other toll compartments and think there’s a fluid rack we can see also yeah fluids rack an AGM Daniel Jack on there and yeah one of the three far extinguishers that he will have on that vehicle and you can also see the orange triangle
That he has to carry for safety so if they break down they put that triangle out particularly at nighttime so when you have a mid engine or a rear engine car it’s a little challenging if you ever have a fire because you can’t really tell what happening behind you they actually put
Cameras facing backwards to be able to turn them on to see if they’re on fire wow yeah it’s no fun being in a vehicle fire that’s the sand hill climb up to Big Johnson so he has elected to go all the way down around the bottom end of the
Loop now they we’re saying about this they have multiple lines and options there clear the Sand Hill excuse me for just one second gentlemen so there is our second place card now this is Casey Curry now Casey’s currently running around about 9 minutes behind our current race leader R
Gomez but there is a penalty in play but Casey still needs to make up a considerable amount of time here so Jimmy was sitting around 6 minutes between him and Raul I think that Raul’s extended that Gap a little bit picked up a few more minutes yeah I think he
Checked that out when we come through chocolate thunder I think he was up to sort of that 8 n minute mark But R just seems to be a little bit he seems to have a little bit more flow through the Rocks when we say flow it’s it’s hard to
Describe it isn’t it it’s the just the way you hit those pick and troughs and everything on them the time well the difference between a UFO car and that and that big desert car now is that our race leader is that Ral Gomez oh boy oh my
Word now I don’t have confirmation of that but looking at the shape there that is definitely looks like a UFO to me he’s not out of the car yet I see some hands open in the window net I’m just getting confirmation from race Ops that is R
Gomez yeah we can see him now in his gray suit oh no this is a tough break for Ral now he’s got to think smart which is not easy when you’re in this situation so he’s taking off his helmet that is a good idea allow FOC think Jim
Yes I do just going to give him a moment I don’t think I’d take it off you know getting your helmet back on getting your head and neck restraint reattached is a challenge and usually if I’m taking my ra my helmet off things are going really poorly and I wouldn’t
Consider being on your side poorly yet no now to write his car he’s got to find something substantial enough to winch to and it’s difficult to find things to winch to here the other thing he’s now got to do is if he just pulls directly with the front winch what he’ll do is
He’ll skid the car sideways he won’t necessarily pull the car over but what he can do and he’s got to put the car into park to do this with an in four-wheel drive okay he’s put the winch over the tire and then swing that across and then that will give him a pivot
Point to be able to get the car back on his wheels yeah so practicing winching that’s really an important factor in this race these days as you can see you’re having a great day you’re off the front and this is this can change everything he’s going to need every bit
Of the gap that he’s built up over Casey Curry yeah and all the time that clock is ticking the clock is ticking and we talk about this I mean I’m going to cut back to this the last two years hammers has been won by winch moments they chase seconds in the desert
They chase seconds going through things the one we talk about where can you find extra time for me as a European I look at this and I think he’s looking right now and he’s trying to figure out what he’s going to use for an anchor he
Doesn’t have his strap out he just has the Rope which means he’s going to clip back to himself unless he’s coming back to the car right now to get a strap but when you’re in the really big rocks it can become challenging because your your strap went up be long enough to go
Around the go around the Anchor Point to make a decent anchor yeah now also you got to take this into consideration as well now that’s JP Gomez now we’ve got another thing that could happen here is JP Gomez I think he’s running about fourth or
Foot way in fact I think he could be up to third at the moment on track CU we’ve had Brett harell roll over um well it’s between him and Lauren if they’re going to be moving up we got Cheney in between well we did see JP was right on the tail
Of Lauren Healey so if we can’t see Lauren Healey I’m going to guess that JP has blown past Lauren Haley but that’s a guess well let’s hope Rell doesn’t have to wait for his brother to get rolled back over and he can self self- recover absolutely but now we know that the
Gomez Brothers like to race each other but is JP going to stop and help his brother definitely now that might seem like a strange question for me to ask for people at home but these guys like to race these each other very hard indeed but they’ll also they’ll be on
The radios the communication that these guys have is second to none and I can guarantee you that JP already knows that his brother is on his side I want to see what’s happening with rul and how he’s building an anchor yeah there going to be no quick solution for R that’s for sure
Here we go here we go now he’s trying to find a winch point right behind him so that’s a now to do that he’s going to have to scull drag that entire car the trouble is most of these cars only they’re not only set they’re not set up
For winching he can’t run his engine most of them only have a single battery and usually a very small winch to so to actually ask that winch to drag that car around sideways like that it’s got a big big ask well I know that they actually upgraded their worn winches and put
Bigger and faster winches on because they those guys can learn they pay attention that’s good to know so he’s muscling that thing right now trying to assist his winch he’s probably got his remote in his hand right now so you know you’re talking about One battery Jim I
Know these guys have jump packs built into these cars so in the case that he ran the ran the battery till was absolutely dead he does have a backup starting system okay now that’s just the wind Trope dropped off he all right did it break or did it fall I’ve got a
Feeling it it dropped off but Uh but this is the difficulty when you see these trails and it’s I again there’ll be lots of people around the world watching this going oh come on man learn how to winch there’s a real difficulty finding winch anchors here and that car’s not light none of the
None of the really strong built cars are light anymore I mean I bet that car is 5,800 lb absolutely full of fuel all his parts and Spares yeah and there is Casey Curry Casey Curry is lapping up this mileage now catching up with Ral oh look at this this is JP Gomez
He’s got a flat tire oh so we got JP out of the car working on getting that getting that jack up Casey Curry is only about two miles behind Raul right now who’s trying to sort out getting back onto his tires and getting back on Racetrack yeah now this
Is a now JP is using one of the the AGM manual Jacks very cleverly built Jack this is a jack that’s made in the USA Carl and the crew what they do is they actually use the rattle gun to be able to bring the jack up so
They can get the wheel off but what you’ve got to be careful is you got to make sure that you’ve got enough height on the jack so that when you take the wheel off you can actually get the the uh the spare wheel back on or the soil’s
Soft enough that you can dig down yeah so I stepped away R was upside down now JP’s changing the flat side bottom side of the tire Casey Curry is about getting pretty close to roll Dave he had a 10-minute Gap now it’s obviously shrinking blink and you miss
It this is King of the Hammers this is the greatest rock racing in the world as we watch JP Gomez changing his wheel oh we’re back with Ral Gomez now now looks like he’s trying to change to a different winch point now he snapped the win Trope on that now where it came
Around the win Trope was coming around the bottom of the garden I wondered if it had cut on there and it has yes right now he’s trying to figure out a double fisherman’s right now trying to get now the difficulty with as soon as you put a
Knot into the Rope you lose 50% of your rating you lose 50% of your rating but the most important thing is you then have a knot that needs to go through your fair lead the best thing he can do right now is actually pull his rope all
The way out okay and then reattach the hook to the broken area if he has enough enough length on the Rope or if you’re like me have a big enough hole in your fair lead that that’s all irrelevant now JP that’s another way of doing it but
What tends to happen is the the the Rope never comes in square gets hooked on it and then has another break point so JP’s got the wheel off now now also worth noting these tires are very heavy indeed do we know do they run liners inside their tires or not I
Don’t believe that the G Brothers running liners no no I don’t think they do but uh so the these tires are very heavy so to actually put a good Tire on the rack oh this is interesting or is he using that tire to be able to try and lift that tire up
Onto it those tires are very heavy indeed they’re going to be coming in somewhere just over s 120 lb something like that bad a little heavier than that yeah so probably about 140 lb so com down th that’s Casey so K Casey is coming down Thor’s you may or may not
Know I mean we have enough Communications now and certainly people have seen on the video but he may or may not know that in about another quarter mile he’s going to come across ra well he’s got starlink on that car so does that mean that he has um communication
Back to the pits I wonder he very well could be completely up to date in information or he could not know at all he’s got an msat in the back of the car as well and he’s been racing all around the world I bet you he has his Logistics
Dialed guarantee it I bet he’s and Raul is looking lost right now wait a minute this this is the top of big Johnson so he just got right up at the very top of big Johnson I don’t know if so if you uh if you’re seeing at home
Now and you’re looking at this so R’s got to find a rock or something sticking out that’s at least equal to the weight of his vehicle that he can winch to so that he can actually write that vehicle and that’s what he’s going to be struggling with right now and the way
He’s laying on his side right there he doesn’t have the ability to take his spare tire off and wedge it between some rocks and make an anchor yeah I mean that’s when you’re really desperate you can come up with some solutions well we carry uh we actually carry hooks in the
Car the big steel hooks land anchors yeah kind of things but uh but they are slightly different for wedging down into cracks and they can be very useful into those in those periods but uh unfortunately I don’t suppose he has one of those with him right now
So where is Casey Curry right now Dave Casey Curry is coming down Thors he is uh very close to the bottom of the Sand Hill and getting ready to cross up into uh big Johnson 100% R can hear him right now W he can hear the car coming down the
Trail the frustration level for R must be absolutely 110% and we’ve had races before where the lead has been a poison chalice and we saw early today Lauren Healey in the lead we saw Jason sheir have in the lead we saw Paul wolf earlier today in the lead are we going
To see Casey G Casey Curby the first time King this is a possibility and right now you wouldn’t bet against it so we’ve got JP Gomez is still changing a spare wheel out on track right now and JP where is he on adjusted time we know that he had that 25-minute
Advantage I’m just trying to work that out so he was actually less than 25 minutes with Casey Curry he was around about 20 minutes of adjusted time on Casey Curry but was there also the difference in corrected time from the stopping at Turkey claw well that’s also and right now he can see
R but you’ve got to the other thing to play here is JP must have come through at that point when the car started to move through turkey claw there he is you can see him in the upper part of the screen yes you can look at that you can
See him walking to the right of his car so now Casey Curry can see Raul Gomez so Dave what do we reckon happen to ra here I mean obviously he’s he went left line he got he looks like he just got a little high on that on that left
Hand side and just rolled over flopped over back y either out he was crossing up from the bottom side and trying to go up R gives him the Thumbs Up Now R’s car starting to leak some fluid so that is the pass for the lead ladies and
Gentlemen if you’re just joining us this is the 2024 Progressive King of the Hammers presented by nto tires and powered by Tima batteries this is the 2024 Nitto race of kings and that is where the lead has just changed Casey Curry leading the King of the Hammers for the first time ever if
He had enough throw on his Jack he could lift the top of the car up and it would flop it down that Hill you might not even can be able to throw it up all the way but if he could just lift it fractionally but this is
The now this is the difference between different equipment for different jobs so Tom you carry a high lift style farm jack on your vehicle which would be ideal for using for that kind of situation R’s running one of the AGM style Jacks which is not designed for
That although they do have a foot that they can fit into the Jack which would allow it to then lock onto a uh a tubil am Mount he he’s in a tough place I need to see a replay of that role cuz he’s pointing downhill too request how did he
Get up pointing downhill did he pouette off a wheelie it’s got to have been and all the time there’s another Dark Horse in this race and it’s one that you called Tom and it’s KL Cheney and he’s coming up he’s coming up big Johnson right now so he’s going to go up the
Same Hill turn right and see ra gumz the same way wow so okay let me get this right we’re going to have Kyle Cheney sitting in physical second position when he passes uh Ral Gomez yes in a UTV oh my word I think my little my tiny squirrel brain has been
Blown trying to pick up where he’s still dropping down to full hate I think I Mis I misrepresented that I apologize he’s he’s he’s there but he’s not not right on him Yet so Carl Cheney currently in third position on course but it’s looking likely that is about to change and change very soon so JP Gomez is out there at the moment changing a tire while his brother is trying to desperately wrestle with his vehicle and who’s this behind KY
Cheney is that that’s Randy Slawson that is told he was out of the race well it’s either can’t tell if it’s Mike or an Amber or is it so we’ve got two cars coming down there just trying to identify them so that’s Kyle Cheney in the bottom of
Our pitcher now making his way down through the trail and there is our current race leader that is Casey Curry in the trophy Jeep Casey started this morning in 15th position and he’s just been slowly making his way along he actually pass ra Gomez on the first lap coming into the
Speed control area under breaking but raal managed to get back past him again and has had the lead of the race ever since but if you’re just joining us right now the big news as we watch Kyle Cheney trying to pick his way through lap traffic yeah that’d be coming down full of
Heat and that there is Russell J Jensen with Nathan Livingston in the 4401 that’s a Jimmy’s 4×4 two- seat vehicle and he’s just about to become another statistic in a minute as Kyle Cheney makes his way past just look at the ground clearance of these utvs
Incredible well we just got the map back up Jim with the with the tracking so we’re going to be able to get a little more accurate information quick here for you fantastic can we see if JP Gomez is on the move again yet so if you’re just joining us this is
The 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nto tires and powered by Optima batteries this is also the Nitto race of kings and it’s been drama drama all day we saw uh Cade rod and Paul wolf charging off into the desert this morning and Pa wolf taking
An early lead po wolf then pulled to the side with power steering problem s we then saw Lauren Healey take over the lead and he was charging hard into lap two until he got a flat tire and then also had power steering problems upstep R Gomez to take over the lead a lead
That he’s had up until only a few short moments ago where he rolled his car in big Johnson so JP Gomez is still out fixing his flat tire and showing zero milph on the tracker right now a such a tough luck I’ve got Lauren Healey has gotten around Kyle
Has he wow I’m reading this correctly now that’s very interesting negative negative I apologize Kyle’s buried in here uh in the tracker Kyle’s ahead of Lauren then Lauren um did JP get a hit of Lauren or is J no jtp is back in in um coming down Jackhammer with a flat
Tire he’s at the top of Jack with a flat so there is our current race leader is car number two Casey Curry he’s been racing out here for so many years isn’t he yeah he’s got a Redline motor in that thing it’s kind of a sister motor to
Mine that thing makes a lot of power he’s done a lot of work doing a lot of modifications and changes to that car lowered the hood about a foot and got tremendous visibility portals on the front now different a ARS high clearance and it’s great to see him
Doing well out here yeah case he has an A1 race program previous winner at Dhaka previous winner in Baja um did he win his class in Vegas daro he did last year yeah there wasn’t a tremendous amount of entries as he self admittedly say but you know you can’t forget about the
Amount of time he spent in lcas oil racing Wasing short course yep and he’s also a winner in Europe when he won the king of Portugal race I think that was back in a 18 or 19 looks like Bren Herold we maybe we get a
If we can still have a camera back over there check me out I think he might still be so we got JP coming down Jackhammer right now so he is back and going y oh that’s great news for JP so a good fast tire change there we were talking about Tire changes
Earlier when you look at these cars oh this is Jordan pelo and that is Kevin Sterns behind him actually that’s the 906 I’m not sure that is Kevin 906 is is Tad daer and Chris P Tad daer yeah I do apologize for that that’s looks like Bren H did get out of there
That is the top the the obstacles and check me out Bren H did get out he’s uh I’ll we track him we’re going to pay some bills I’ll have a good top 10 for you when we come Back you know when I take the bike out like this all my stresses just melt away I hear that this bad boy can fix anything y tough day of work nice Cruise will sort you right out when I’m riding I’m not even thinking about my painful cavity oh you shouldn’t ignore that and
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Guy okay and welcome back to the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by Nitto Tires and Power by Optima batteries we are here today in Johnson Valley and what a day of racing it’s been so far joining me in the booth is none other than Tom ways
And Dave Cole wow that’s Kyle cheny coming down THS right now he’s moving that’s the Drone shot that’ll get us R so in about the same thing we just watched Casey do the same move he’ll be coming down and we’ll see if R is anywhere closer to getting back on his
Wheels and while we were at commercial we saw Casey Curry coming into pit two taking some back tires changing re tires and uh I bet they’re going to take a really deliberate pit here and do a really thorough job before they send them back out on Race Course did you
Notice that while they had the Jack under the car they also had a man underneath the car playing with the rear so there’s something going on May potentially with the third member in the back of that car as I they’ll come home without a rear third
Member you’re in pit two 30 mil from the Finish send it rear a rear diff’s not that important dry off home in Reverse if you had to is still fighting oh no so R Gomez he’s trying to gather his thoughts there try to work out a
Plan we’re going to see the cavalry is on the way JP Gomez cannot be that far from R JP can be JP’s way back in uh um Jackhammer right now but he’s moving now he’s got that tire changed um it’ll probably be 30 minutes until he’s there
To be able to help his brother back over though yeah it’s a r either has to sit tight or try and work something out I’ll tell you Cody Addington yeah yeah I just about to say I need to confirm I’m trying to get some lap three
Start times I want to confirm Cody’s on the third lap if he is he has moved up into as high as sixth right now I’m showing I’m not sure about uh John web and and Casey Addington as far as lap two lap three as well as Dan fresh but I
Have Casey r uh Kyle cheny Lauren and Eric Miller with John Webb and Cody Addington and I got Dan fresh I’m soorry pleased here that John Webb usually usually we get usually get a roar of from the crowd at that point that John Webb is still running cuz John
Web brings the party to hammertown he always got his speakers on his roof blasting out his favorite Tunes so just hearing from the the headset here that we’ve got RS roll over and we’re going to play in a second here here we go he’s going to be coming up big
Johnson oh right hand side oh okay he didn’t didn’t quit there though cuz he’s still pointing uphill and now he’s pointing downhill yeah that that looked like he actually managed to go from a forward gear to a reverse gear by looks of it to try and
Pull himself back out of it yeah there he goes the change to reverse trying to write himself I know a lot of people that have practiced writing themselves with RC cars so on in real time they they know which way to spin the and here we go this is CH by
R r giv him the thumbs up yeah look at that car just picking that little car through threading the needle and now who would have thought big Johnson would have been the trail wouldn’t have called that Dave this is where you just lose concentration you start thinking about
Other things things maybe starting to think about that Finish Well when you’re by yourself if if if you get to that point where you’re just going to force it a little bit sometimes it doesn’t it doesn’t pay off well while we’re watching this and watching car Cheney we’re watching K Cheney they’re
Making his way down through the pit we’ve also got sorry making his way down through the got Casey Curry a little bit Cur through rp2 did hear over that they’re going to have to change I think the rear drive shaft it’s smoked right now they
Are making sure that Casey is good to go to finish this race lifting up the trophy Jeep right now adding some more fluids it’s going to be a good day I’ll be back with some more updates for you guys thank you very much Tiffany so now I’m going to start looking at
Where Kyle Cheney and Casey Curry started relative to each other yeah this is so we’re actually live Casey started behind him live live Casey is still on the pit pits Kyle’s Seven 8 10 minutes back from pit two so it’s all drama here what do you got Jim well I’m just
Looking back at what the the race and the history of this race it was a three-lap race it let started this morning with Paul wolf who was leading out on this race then we saw uh Lauren Healey taking over the lead then from Lauren Healey we’ve seen Ral Gomez take
Over the lead and we’ve now seen Casey Curry have the lead but only for a brief period of time we’re now watching Kyle Cheney coming up now how far behind is Kyle Cheney well we got Lauren Healey coming up to a rall right now big
Johnson oh look at this that’s a heck of a charge from where he was when he had to change the power steering pump and a tire well you saw him oh look trying to make his way past he’s got to be so careful here not to get get hooked up him
Ra did he flat tire did Lauren Hy just flatten the front right tire backing up I think he did I saw it looked like a burst of air that this is a very tough climb here yeah the line’s actually to the right you go to the right of the rocks that were
Were even to the right of where Raul’s at is the original line this is this is a dirt bypass that isn’t isn’t easier but he’s through yeah he manages to make his way through and he’s back on track so now Lauren Healey is our physical third place
On on track right now now Lauren did start ahead of Carl Cheney so he would have to get in front of him and he also has to get ahead of Casey Curry no is that is I think that’s chase caprera this will be Chase caprera now apparently Chase Caper has been doing
Great things and the tracker has not been working so yeah young gun out of the caprera family now what can chase do here Dalton Hamilton I just need to get com well okay I’m just trying to get confirmation here Dave we got confirmation that chase capera is on lap three
Well he’s getting okay so check this out that’s Dalton Hamilton it’s not Chase CER oh dton Hamilton I think got caught up in somebody else’s race like the other guys did and he came down came down lap two and with for his Misfortune he has now become Fortune for Raul right
That’s fully getting it this is the toughest part when you’re in a spot where you roll over and the rocks are unstable and too small to use as a legitimate anchor so you’re really at the mercy of the friends that you make on the race course and the alliances you have and
The favors that you return yeah and you start people start remembering those beer tokens that you shared in the kns in the pits we still got Casey Curry in the pits do we still yeah so Casey Curry is still showing zero mph in the pits right now
And all the time is Kyle Cheney is making his way towards him are we going to see a UTV running in first place at the 2020 four King of the Hammers you called it you called it Tom are we going to see it so we just saw dlon Hamilton there in the
4489 helping R Gomez and ral’s not out of this race yet if Ral can get his car back over let the oil settled and that’s the other thing is the oil will have moved in the Kyle’s down Kyle’s down I’m sorry to interrupt Jim Kyle’s down out of off ramp
He is now within sight of pit two Casey Curry still in pit 2 in about 60 seconds if Casey isn’t moving there’s a Can-Am leading King of the Hammers on lap three with two trails to go three trails to go unreal unreal as someone flipped turned and CH
Turned this world up on side its head because this is remarkable stuff here you me this morning you told me I had Casey Curry and all the utvs against the field I still would have thought I had a sucker bet and look what happening but that’s why we love this
Style of racing that’s why we keep coming out to Johnson Valley cuz you never know what’s going to happen so you see those two cars coming down three cars coming down they’re coming down Kings veto that was a lap two bypass Kyle has just passed through Casey is out of the vehicle but
Obviously still in the pits and now they can see Kyle Cheney coming be coming up on the pits right now what does he do does he come in fixing the drive line on Casey Curry’s car this will be the beginning of the fence coming up here for the pits and
You’ll see the pits lay out there in front of you that’s got to be so difficult to be fixing a drive line right now if that thing actually is able to move under its own power okay so there’s Kyle coming from right to left across the screen he would
Go in turn 90 left and come down the pits he has moved through the pits he is on his way in yes Kyle chenny has avoided pit two and is on his way to Outer Limits right now okay so ladies and gentlemen if you are just joining us right now this is the
2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nto tires and powered by Optima batteries this is the 2024 Nitto race of kings and that is our current race leader KL Cheney well gentlemen very very interesting very interesting seriously I couldn’t be more stunned if he tried right now amazing
Stuff Carl Cheney this man is an absolute animal he has four times won the 4900 UTV King of the Hammers championship and right now here in hammertown he is leading the 2024 Nitto race of Kings at King of the Hammers so correct me if I’m wrong here it’s not
The same class but he could be the first five time King no no no you got to fight Mitch Geth by six times in a row ah yeah of course that was all you know we were still doing leted gas and the wheels were not quite fully round back
Then it’s a long time ago when Mitch seni was racing long long long time ago I thought you going to say the wood Wheels were still made of wood love Mitch so here we go this is Kyle Cheney now how far did you reckon he is from town here
Dave 30 miles still yeah see so bad probably are so Dalton Hamilton still trying to write they need to make Gomez they don’t have enough rope to be able to back up and pull them no what they need to do is take that strap and actually shorten it so they can actually
Use it double it up yeah it’s one of the biggest mistakes Lauren Healey on the move through rp2 second on course Casey Curry still in the pit still out of the car so Lauren Hey of course was leading this race earlier on so that makes him around
About what a minute and a half behind car Cheney he did qualify ahead of car Cheney he qualified in third position Carl Cheney he’s got he’s got to pass and put a minute and a half on him yeah in 30 miles uh gentlemen this is the bad
Time to point something out I know this for fact already ready go Kyle Cheney did not do Uptown in the UTV race and got penalized he also missed it in this race oh I know for certain he missed Uptown on lap two they were talking about it back in there so they’re doing
The penalties and doing the things but I have no idea what Lauren has but I know that Kyle has missed the same Trail twice this weekend right okay plot thick the plot thickens now what kind of penalty would it be applied for that five five minutes five minutes
Well it’s up to you sack but I believe that’s where it’s at right now but um yep so this is Lauren Healey now making his way through I mean he won’t like me for saying this but I much prefer the look of Lauren’s car when he’s got the back missing
And that is our current race leader on lap three here at the 2024 race of kings that is kyl Cheney think that back right tires he’s moving down to their top Outer Limits right now this is where we saw Jason have his problems with Kad Rod I’m going to take this chance while
We’re listening everybody that can hear me out there thank you for making this the best year ever you guys all rock absolutely freaking Rock Let’s get home safe we’ll pick up our trash we’ll do the things thank you so much appreciate you All oh wow wow okay you want to the Jim I don’t want to say it but Casey Curry’s out of the race at remote pit too wow okay so it feels like we’re going back in time it feels like we’re going back to that race a few years ago where
Every time you get the lead it’s yours to lose and we’ve had so many different leaders in this race already today but we’ve got a race on our hands right now and this that race is KL Cheney and Lauren Healey let’s not forget about JP Gomez he’s still battling yeah he’s
Still in the all kinds of time in his pocket 20 plus minutes of corrected time in his favor to go back one more time and say it doesn’t matter where you start this race you can come from the back and as long as you can keep working working your way through
Traffic yeah just working that out right now R’s coming down uh down into full of heat and coming up um claw in just a second is that Paul H you see part there yeah with their helmets on that rock y this is Lauren John web is in Winner’s Choice
Yeah this is is this Winner’s Choice no no this has got to this has got to be out to limit surely he’s only 30 seconds behind Kyle chain we just saw Kyle coming through this place so he’s closing the Gap they’re both in Outer Limits yeah we got Haley’s got what kind
Of speeds is Healey going to be able to hit in the desert because these utvs are what 80 mph 90 mph no they’re that that that car is probably de 100 now it can do 100 but it can’t handle the bumps like lawren car could it couldn’t do
Fast open desert the same way oh wow this is going to be some race isn’t it I’m going to I’m going to steal a m saying now this is going to be a race to the Finish they usually [Laughter] are I think Lauren’s going to have a run
For him here that’s my gut feeling on this do you know what I can’t help Lauren’s got a starlink on the top of that he is in full comms with his team backup base they know exactly where Caryl Cheney is cuz have you noticed that suddenly the attitude of Lauren’s
Car’s changed he’s picked up the place he knows where he’s at cuz you can see him cuz there’s Kyle right there there he is a nothing drives you harder than that blood in the water oh yeah this is game on right now I think this would be a great time to take a
Commercial break come back here about an hour hour and a half anybody got pizza out there yeah make sure you sign up for that premium and we’ll see you in [Laughter] 10 so here we go I don’t know if everybody heard that out there that the premium
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Home and watch the whole thing like you’re watching here but with all the other video there and all that money is still going to go to them yeah and I’ve got to say this Dave that what hammocking and you do for off-road racing is is absolutely amazing
With the rookie program you help and assist new people wanting to come into the sport getting previous Kings and champions of our racing uh to help these guys and then also to be able to help give some Revenue back into those racist Pockets a massive thing so thank you so
Much for what you do here at King of the Hammers I appreciate that James but right now Lauren Hy is running him down look at this running him down this is why we’re here ladies and gentlemen this is why we come out to Johnson Valley we love this racing Carl Cheney doesn’t
Know at the moment but he’s man with a Target on his back and the man faring at that Target is Lauren Healey it was it four hours ago we were talking about Lauren Hy being out of the race in pit two yes he had his helmet
Off he had that look like he was done and here he is right now fighting to be another three-time king 10 seconds at at the most behind Kyle and closing it very quickly yeah and the best bit is Kyle doesn’t even know he’s there does you reckon oh yeah
He hears him now can hear him now you think you don’t think he hears that big old Ford motor come on now I mean he’s he’s close enough now that I B I bet he can hear him definitely over his motor what a race you just don’t never know the
Twists and turns it’s going to take do you I mean it was Ral Gomez is race to lose and in one of the tri that he would consider to be one of the easiest trials on the track big Johnson just a momentary lapse of concentration and there it
Is Lauren Healey is once again the leader here at the 2024 nto racer Kings he makes the pass on Kyle Cheney Dave bre a sigh of relief as a UTV goes into second place why you Dave I don’t know more assumptions on Jim marson’s part no I
Know I’m going teasing you to me I’ll tell you it’s remarkable though that if you told me all the times people ask me did I expect anything if you told me there was going to be a portal powered Ford Bronco racing a Can-Am for the winner King of the Hammers I would have
Been mildly surprised till like tomorrow and here we go we got lap traffic ahead now so this is a lap two car it’s just they didn’t give enough space now one of the things we do say to all of the vehicles here is if someone comes
Up behind you and they toot the horn this is an adjacent AR a race un adjusted time if they toot their horn they caught you they’re already ahead of you because they’ve already made up that time get out of their way let them go and that’s exactly what’s Happening Here
And Now Lauren Healey making time on K Cheney okay so I’ll I’ll do the math on this one Jim I just got some word in Kyle has received a 3 minute 30 second penalty for for um Uptown Lauren is run a clean race confirmed to this point Lauren started 1 and 1/2 minutes
In front of them with the 3 and 1/ half minute penalty you’re looking at Lauren having a minute a two-minute no I need a minute and a half Gap yeah lead plus the plus the physical Le he has on course so Cheney has to
Pass him and CH has to pass him or or Lauren has to have some sort of mistake Y and let’s not forget it we are still in the Deep trials we still got to get through spooners yet and it’s just one flat tire so much to play for
Here and let’s we’ve also have JP Gomez with that 25 minute window on adjusted time over Lauren Healey so this is a brand new car for Lauren this year running that Dugan’s Ford power plant gone back to a solid axle rear in configuration car here was running last
Year had IRS he’s now being by hey Jim I think he actually has a Jeff gner motor in that thing I don’t believe it’s a Dugan all right sorry I do apologize no you’re right is a Jeff gint up yeah absolutely right sorry Jeff you’ll be watching at
Home sometimes there’s just so much information you know what you’re saying about he is moving he’s flying like absolutely flying what do you think he’s going right there Dave almost 20 15 miles 15 to 20 yeah I mean he’s put 200 yards on Kyle and one
Trail so that is the 187 seven there and that is Kenneth hail picking his ways through the trials did Rob Butler start the race today who rob Butler’s not here is he no I don’t think so oh there’s a no I’m thinking of the Euro Fighter of uh of Laur Lauren’s got
A Levi Levi’s got a Euro Fighter here yeah Levi has and Tom Pendergrass they got the two sister cars to each other built by Rob uh the Tom Pendergrass car was actually Rob Butler’s car then he sold it to Tom and the other car was uh
Built alongside his car um as a as a different vehicle and Levi’s got the lt5 in that and he’s having belt problems that coffee hits the spot that would too encouraged come this way come this way I got Watching all right okay and if you’re just joining us this is the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by n time powered by Optima batteries uh we still got more action coming on here and that is Bret harell now last time we saw him he was a
Desert turtle sitting on his roof but it’s great to see him back up on his wheels and moving again that’s coming down Thors which means he will be going um up past Raul we didn’t haven’t seen if Raul’s gotten moving again yet let me check the tracker he
Was yeah he was moving Dave yep but it looks like um um Dan fr and Eric Miller have gotten up John Webb as well let’s not count out Eric Miller what do we have for Eric today where’s he sitting at with his directed time let’s not forget Jason Shar Let’s uh
Let’s we’ll just walk it back here for a second so hor is a lap down correct uh that’s not horel that’s Bret Harold so I’ve got I’ve got um Lauren then Cheney I’ve got all the way back all the way back to to wan to Gomez and and Harold are both
In Thor’s right now Gomez has got a lot of time on Harold JP or R JP okay so he’s about to catch I would put R probably right now on the screen Brett Harrell coming up on rul Gomez still trying to get upright oh I was hoping he was already up
Wred yeah JP’s behind Harold or we would have seen JP stopping to help his brother which we might see in the next 20 seconds I really don’t think he’d drive by I think they would put that car back on the tires now this is Lauren Healey right now making his way down into
Spooners in fact this is the back end of spooners isn’t it or is this heading into it this is the end of spooners he is coming out into the desert now he’ll move down through spectator 2 around a resolution back door so that spot right
There is where Matt master so this is a yeah nose dived that was some time ago brutal brutal crash going the other direction yes sir I’m going to find something up there see those Flat Rocks up there with all those Boulders and all that see beautiful mountain ridge right there oh
Yeah you’re going to see a lot more of it next year Tom good so Lauren Healey now I I just doing some very quick math I reckon he’s around about 12 to 15 minutes outside of hammertown I would give him 20 but realistically it’s it’s not I mean it’s
Fast but it’s not super fast back here yeah he’s 92 oh so what’s the top five right now what are we looking at Dave we got Lauren then Cheney then who’s sitting in third we think that might be Brett Harold at the moment so he’s 8 and a half miles
From the finish I’m doing basic math he’s 95 94% complete on 170 Mi it’ll be yeah about 20 minutes yeah 15 20 minutes Yeah Nope okay so right now this is Lauren Healey and he’s back out into the desert he has completed all but two Rock Trails all he has left is resolution and back door two-time King already part of the fun team he was leading this race earlier
On out the back of lap one working his way into lap two he had a flat tire then had pass steering pump issues we saw him in pit two with his helmet off looking despondent but right now he is leading this race he really tried to persevere you can
Tell he’s pushing hard right now for that finish line so who’s led the lap who’s LED this on the third lap so far today on the third lap today I can tell you we’ve had leading this race Casey Curry uh we had um R well we’ve had Ral
Gomez Casey Curry KL Cheney and Lauren Healey leading on third lap usually the last one leading at the end is the winner a nine times out of 10 the last person leading at the end of the race is the winner of the race barring penalties one time out of 10 is
When we screwed up the scoring or if you get don’t do that anymore so it’s okay penalties like I [Laughter] have so Ral Gomez there looking fully despondent and I but they looks like they’ve got a snatch block on there yeah they sending his brother right there
That’s his brother he’s sending him on he just sent him on didn’t think I’d see that yeah so Dotan Hamilton here what he’s go doing he’s got a snatch block or one of these little rotary pulleys he’s put on there uh to try and shorten the
Line to you and get the winch more power to try and write the car 44 is on the wrong trail so was 4489 and now 44 is driving back down to put a second Winan roll yeah 44 is Joshua back so it looks like JP had a used tire in
The rack from that change so he he doesn’t have any spares so it’s coming into pit two right now okay and there for some reason we’re seeing a lot of door damage today or this weekend should I say well he could have done that when he came by uh Jason
And and Cade I think he’d be very happy if it falls off right now he will not care he’s heading back to hammertown and he knows that he is the lead vehicle in this race what an awesome piece of Machinery going out to Tiffany Stone pit two with Casey
Curry I know you’re very disappointed what’s going on you were supposed to just come in for a rck for that flat yeah no just tough man uh yeah Gomez being upside down a bummer but you know it’s racing and he let us buy no problem and yeah literally Spinners and out of
Limits and we’re done and it looks like a dry Chef took out the rear gear and it drained all the oil out of it so it’s all smoked so it is what it is we’ll come back again it the car is super fast and fun to drive and we’re just having a
Blast so I give it up for Orin the team did a great job and K just kills me so it is what it is but we’ll be back well uh definitely be back everything on that live stream watching you race all day flawless flawless I know this is a
Disappointing uh break for you I’ll let you get back with the team all right thank you Casey and like you said everything was running great everything was Flawless he had spooners and outer limits and then you know he came in here just for that and realized there was a
Lot more going on he was able to uh get out and then once he realized how much damage was actually going on here at remote pit 2 he called it so unfortunate break for uh Casey Curry and uh Orin Anderson back up to you guys in the
Booth okay thank you very much Tiffany oh look at that huge jump there from Lauren Healey and he’s giving absolutely everything now as he heads back down towards hammertown I reckon he’s probably only a about seven or eight minutes out from joining us here this is absolutely amazing stuff
What a day of racing we’ve had here would you think at 2:00 we’re about to be finishing King of the Hammers do you know what Tom I’ve completely lost track of time entirely this race just does that to you you can’t help yourself you can’t take your
Eyes away from the screen for one moment last night we we called 2:30 thought it would be it and they come in and exceeded that yet again well it’s not over yet let’s not forget the drama we saw the other year you mentioned it earlier Josh Baer rolling in back door anything can
Happen I guarantee Lauren doesn’t want to walk back to town ever again and Lauren Healey two-time King he’s never won in an ifs car both his previous wins are in solid axle Vehicles is he he was the most winningest there’s a nice American word for you winningest driver in Ultra 4
What does he sit in those rankings right now he’s still right up there I know that a STD well I think for Lauren he’s got a new car out here he’s looking really strong he worked through some adversity this morning war and he’s he’s working on bringing it home right now he is
Indeed I’d love to know where his teammate J Kyle cheny is well out of spooners as well coming down the desert not by about a mile behind Lauren so they still putting the pressure yeah Lauren is about 2 minutes off of resolution and this is some choppy part of the course here isn’t
It the speed he’s carrying through here is absolutely remarkable I sure hope he jumps back door it would be a fitting end wouldn’t it so ladies and gentlemen if you just joining us welcome to Johnson Valley California for the best racing action in the world this is the 2024 Progressive
Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nto TI and powered by Optima batteries and right now you are watching Lauren Healey so 30 minutes ago I wrote down the order and it was Casey r Cheney Lauren now Lauren’s in first Cheney’s in second and Casey out Casey and R Casey’s
Out and R is still upside down and we got Harold and JP got Harold and JP now so that’s Lauren one Cheney 2 Harold three jp4 and we’ve really got to watch out for JP that’s why I think Lauren’s really laying down this incredible Pace I think he’s fully aware that JP has
That huge time advantage on adjusted time so here we go now you can see the back of resolution I’m sorry sl’s this what’s this what’s this what’s this slow that is slow oh god oh no really no no no no no a this is terrible oh no I would strap that strap
That thing like a backpack where to the Finish Line okay now there could be multiple things going on here according to the helicopter they small they sell it’s the smoke come out but now this is this is like slson all over again do you remember a couple of
Years ago where he smoked transmission just outside of resolution yeah are Jason and him battling to the end and this is Lauren oh no the window n comes open and there is Kyle Cheney Kyle Cheney is coming in Carl Cheney is catching Lauren Healey right now Carl Cheney in the 1
191 wow this man just does not know when to say no this man is an incredible racer and right now he’s sitting in second position at the 2024 Nitto race of Kings but ahead of him is a stationary Lauren Healey so what do you think Tom transmission motor something electrical I don’t even
Want to speculate it hurts when you see your friends doing that so on this lap leading so far we’ve had R Gomez we’ve had Casey Curry we’ve had Carl Cheney Lauren Haley oh oh broken front left corner FR left broken coming down resolution and back door with a front left not
Attached what did I say the other day Dave you’re going to have to drive down backwards oh okay ladies and gentlemen if you are just joining us this is the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by Nitto Tires and powered by Optima batteries I’m Jim
Maren and joining me in the booth is none other than Mr Tom ways and Mr Dave Cole guys what is happening here well we had Lauren Healey lose a motor about 5 miles from the finish and now Kyle chenny has I think just passed him but now he’s on three three-legged
Suspension front left corner looks broken completely so just to touch back on this on the start of lap three it was Ral Gomez leading then it was Casey Curry then it was Carl Cheney then it was Lauren Healey and now it’s Carl Cheney but Carl Cheney only has three wheels on
His wagon so how far is Brett Herold back Bren harrold is dropping into outer limits right now which I think is too far back on time to catch up but not for not for JP I’m trying to find JP right now I don’t think I don’t think that
Carl Cheney has actually pass Lauren yet cuz that was the hard left coming back up towards uh are there any rules against bringing the tracker with you and running to the Finish and we’re just getting news that JP is also showing zero on the tracker right now so Bret harell where are
You he’s in Outer Limits so Bret harell is coming down through alter limits that means he has Bret um spooners after that before he comes into the Kevin Taylor right yeah that is and just think of this if Ral Gomez could get his car back on his wheels he
Could still potentially be on a Podium here okay so we got JP on the move again here that is okay I’ve just I’ve just had notification that Lauren lost his transmission so big shout out to Tiffany Stone there for keeping us honest and Kyle has not passed Lauren and is
Struggling yeah I was going to say adom just made that left turn he’s digging the he’s digging the the front of the car into the ground on the sand alone but there is no other choice that looks like the entire front entire front end I think he lost the
Whole shock and everything yeah I think the whole front end collapsed on there that would suggest to me that’s a bulkhead problem I don’t even know where to go with this one now I don’t have enough fingers toes to do math or figure this out and say I’m kind of beside I’m not
What to say right now except for just Wait yeah he that so if he’s plowing the bulkhead in sand it is certainly I mean getting up the rocks to resolution is going to be hard I think you could do it I think you just wouldn’t want to drive off back door CU I don’t think you could
Well I mean he go around have to take back door he can take the bypass but if he’s trying to get down resolution with the front end that low he might be better off going backwards I know you told me my bumped my head the other day with that but you
Got to do what you got to do hey I’m not being funny I’ve seen everything today go a UTV going backwards down resolution to win King of the Hammers hey why not no I think you’re right I think he’s possibly just lost that entire left hand shock absorber and
That’s putting so much pressure on the opposite side that he’s driving it down on both sides you know what this kind of reminds me of Tom and you’re not going to like me for saying this 2015 you were coming in with that wheel missing and the sand coming
Through your car yeah 27 mil on a flat tire is not something I [Laughter] recommend he should be coming up to Lauren soon yeah and there he is there he is so Lauren Ney is currently our leader at King of the Hammers but that’s about to change that’s about to change as KL
Cheney limps and that’s the only word you can use is limps past Lauren Haley and that is the moment ladies and gentlemen that Kyle Cheney once again retakes the lead here at the 2024 Nitto race of Kings wow I have no words hey production can
We get time splits back to JP Gomez at the last thing we can compare with Kyle Cheney so Kyle Cheney started in 10th position today actually I might figure that and JP was in 99th there’s Bret Harold Bret Harold coming down out of limits right now he’s
In in the San highway so he is physically in second physically in uh third place but obviously Lauren he is stopped on course so so give you to give you uh some kind of reference in time this is about where Lauren passed Cheney which seems like hours
Ago but it’s really not just so much has happened since then now where did Bret Harold qualified in 20th position so I’m just trying to work that back on adjusted time between him you know what Bret Harold’s got a really good chance here depend depends on what happen it
All depends on what happens to Kyle Cheney making his way down through resolution can he Force this car down through resolution if he can get to the bottom of there I have no doubt he’ll make it up the sand wash in which case it’ll be a roll into
Town but it’s resolution that’s the one and Brett herold’s got a confirmed clean race going as well which is another 3 and A2 minutes in hand on so he’s got 5 and A2 minutes on Kyle so he’s going to be coming on down three spooners how long does it take Tom
For him to get three spooners do you reckon 5 10 minutes yeah I’d say the most 10 minutes yeah it’s longer to get he got to get back up spooners it’s going to take 10 minutes he’s about 5 minutes from there he’s 25 or 30 minutes
Behind Kyle right now he’d have to cut some if Kyle can keep moving he’s got this yeah but he’s got to be able to keep moving I this even the Rocks right up here just in a second that bul could come to a complete stop if he hit gets that rock okay fall
Off the whole FR could fall off yes so we’re watching here this is the this is Bret Harold okay so I as to come back to here because this is where the rocks are at he’s got to clear these rocks without bottoming out that suspension to the point that
See oh my there’s some yeah it’s getting Western right there you can see the o spring falling out of the front left right now yeah now if that’s if that gets caught up into the tire and flattens the tire he’s going to be in a world of pain
He’s already in a world of pain he’s just going to be in a different kind of world once the once right now he’s going uphill and he’s pulling the front and up every time he’s on the gas once he goes down there’s nothing you can do to get
That bulkhead off the dirt he’s just going to keep dying driving that into the Rocks the whole way down at some point that that’s got to come to a Stop okay so this is chy into resolution right now he’s going to roll he’s barely yeah he’s yeah it looks like the whole bulkhead is collapsing there that’s there’s nothing attached there now he might have a brake line holding that thing together and that’s it now Tom your idea about going down
Backwards that might be a thing very shortly so here we go we cut to it we’re just getting information from race Ops he has to be kyl Cheney has to beat Bret Harold by six minutes and you can see the coil spring there floating around on the front there
Shock at Zorra has left the town and if you are just joining us this is the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by Nitto Tires and powered by Optima batteries we’ve been racing since 8:00 this morning and right now you’re watching our current race leader kyl Cheney limping his car
Back towards hammertown every time that back passenger tire gets up in the air just makes me cringe this is some of the best driving you will ever see we say that this man’s a whe man but he’s taking this above and beyond right now he’s got a broken FR right axle too
Nope it’s turning so here we are Nito race of Kings and there’s been so much drama out on track just in lap three we’ve had so many different leaders Ral Gomez rolling his car Lauren Healey losing a transmission Carl Cheney limping towards the Finish wow what a drive
What do you think he’s got 200 more yards before he goes left about that yep and let’s not forget also Casey Curry who is leading this race I only I don’t know about you guys but my Palms are sweating right now just watching this amazing action go picture and picture to outut
Of limits and spooners and see if we see Harold or JP moving back there so this is Kyle Cheney picking his way down through resolution and in a moment he will be getting down to the split almost certainly he’ll take the left line and there he does he takes the
Left line right now and he’s coming up over the top there is now nothing nothing other than sand and whoops between KL Cheney and a place in history this is something else indeed ladies and gentlemen this is some you are witnessing history being made right now that’s Brett harell and then JP
Coming down uh Outer Limits right now they will put them some 25 minutes behind KY Cheney at the moment and Carl Cheney is just bringing it home nice and gentle he’ll be coming around the bottom of short bus shortly I don’t so JP had a 20-minute time
Advantage over Brett harell so in fact just by JP being in visual contact with him means that JP is ahead of Bret harell and with the speed that I mean the reality this is a this is a minute and a half at speed but it’s this could
Be 10 minutes for Kyle Chen absolutely he could be back another 7 Minutes those next 4ot rollers right there and and be part of the become part of the race course and look at the crowds out there watching as Kyle cheny makes his way around past the bottom of back
Door and he is limping into town this is like going back a few years when cars barely survive to finish hammers it’s amazing stuff and let’s look back at this race so far this morning we had Cade rod and Paul wolf leading the line side by side Paul
Wolf took the L took the lead and heading off out into the desert he lost the steering box it was then overtaken by Lauren Healey who had the lead all the way through lap one into about a quarter of the way through lap two where he had a flat tire and then steering
Pump problems then we saw P ra Gomez dominating lap two and most of lap three until he rolled in up Johnson or big Johnson and then soon as ra Gomez pass the lead onto Casey Curry Casey Curry then had problems in remote pit two and had to call the race Lauren Healey then
Stepped up and was leading the race until nearly resolution when a wounded Kyle Cheney came past him to take the lead and this is Kyle Cheney right now coming on in to hammertown ladies and gentlemen be standing ladies and gentlemen get ready KL Cheney is your current race leader this is the 2024
Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nit o TI and powered by Optima batteries this is the race of kings and right now it’s four times King Carl chainy making his way towards the biggest trophy of his life can he do it can he win this year’s King
Of the Hammers he makes his way through the Bronco Arch his car is wounded he is literally doing only 2 or 3 mph he’s a few meters away from joining us onto the short course Dave Tom what are your thoughts right now oh no he’s come to a stop oh
He’s rolling again what are your thoughts gentlemen before we pass it down to miles in the Pits could getting closer Dave what do you think unbelievable I’m not it’s not over yet it’s not over yet not even close and So I can see the crowds in front of the booth now they’re starting to gather around the stage they’re starting to get ready for this he literally is four turns from the biggest trophy in his life now this is lap traffic coming in behind
Him so here we go we’re going to pass it down to the man with the mic himself it’s Mr miles hasselquist miles Tak it away thank you Jim and Kyle Cheney is going to be our physical first leader coming or first physical first finisher come through as he gets past cuz
Obviously the front of that car is completely damaged but Kyle Cheney may just set the internet on fire right now physically finishing on physically finishing out front but remember adjusted time we have to check everything out you sa got to check it all out but wow Kyle Cheney wins just a
Couple of days for the Canam hammers championship and it’s possible he can win as he comes around the Can-Am quarter for the Nitto race of Kings Kyle Cheney one more jump to go but I promise you he’s not going to get any hang time here he is limping along
But Kyle Cheney is going to be our physical first finisher here with that front in completely damaged Kyle Cheney is in here he’s already crossed the checkered Flags Kyle Cheney is here in town and the crowd is going wild this is absolutely insane if somebody could do it it is absolutely
Kyle Cheney but we’ll see if he can make it up and over this BM so I can come have a chat with him so we’re going to get Kyle Cheney over this way but remember adjusted time JP Gomez and Brett harrold are still in the mix pending penalties and adjusted time but
The left front tire you could see him or hear the crowd every time he was coming down resolution that right rear tire would kind of kick in the air and the crowd would would just go crazy Kyle Cheney may have just won the Nitto race
Of Kings in that Canam wow what a great oh and it’s ter yes it’s Terry Madden riding shotgun I didn’t know that but look at this absolutely insane completely broken right front suspension the shock is absolutely insane what a wonderful the GPS broke off and is sitting in Terry Madden’s lamp right now
What a crazy turn of events so much action had was going on out there but hey it is Kyle Cheney that’s physically first in town absolutely amazing so Kyle Cheney’s in town with this Canam what a wild turn of events we’re going to pull him straight ahead and the front bulkhead is absolutely
Tore up winning this race breaking a can almost in half absolutely crazy out here but what a wonderful wonderful day it’s been here in Johnson Valley Kyle Cheney’s first one in town how far back is JP Gomez how far B is back is Brett harrold but hey the crowd give it up for
Kyle Cheney first in Town what a one crazy turn of events here so I’m think I’m going to stick back and let Jim come on out and have a chat with Kyle Cheney but wow look at the crowd everybody is here in hammertown absolutely crazy change of events here Kyle Cheney first in town
Unofficially first in town remember adjusted time remember some penalties could be out there so it looks like I got my man Jim Marsen up there Jim have a chat with Kyle Chainy thank you very much Ms wow wow wow welcome to hammertown Carl Cheney how we doing oh pretty good right the toughest race in the world and you’ve just crossed the line in unofficial first place although we have got other cars out there what are you thinking right now I’m just glad to
Be back here to tell you truth now that’s a very tough race course did you ever think it would be possible to be here right now in first no not today this is probably the uh worst car I’ve drove it was really bad all day and we
Just kind of kept it together um I I don’t know if we blew our shocks in qualifying but I didn’t drive the car after qualifying and it was like we drove on Blown shocks all day and they finally gave out at the end but uh Terry
Got me here to the end and here we are fantastic stuff now we saw you doing some great drama out there I mean talk us through when you had to pass Jason sheer and Cade Rod yeah we uh seen him there and I’m like Terry’s like I think you can
Make it down through here let’s go and once we got through we’re like well maybe that’ll hold some of the other guys off you know cuz we were just having to kind of cruise around not blow through the shocks and break the car so
We just kind of drove like a a good Pace all day and I really didn’t figure it would be good enough to be here so all of this drama going on and then you saw Ral Gomez on his roof what were you thinking at that point yeah uh well tell
You the truth I wanted to stop and help him um but I don’t think we could have got him back over so no I think that would have been a minnow pulling a whale yeah yeah for sure so we just kept going and then they said Curry was in the pit
And uh you know Terry was trying to do like calculations to figure out where we’re at I’m like dude it don’t matter I can only drive this car as fast as this car is capable of going right now and uh you see how we pulled it into the Finish
Absolutely no so all of this was going on Lauren Healey overtook you and disappeared off into the desert so it must have been a bit bit of a shock to see him pulled up on the side of the road yeah yeah I saw him there and I’m like
I’m like we still got to go down resolution with no front shock and Terry’s like just you know keep all the weight on the right side of the car and that’s kind of what we did and I don’t know somehow we made it here there was
Almost silence as you were coming down through resolution there were so many people holding their breath including Tom ways and Dave Cole who was sat in the booth literally sitting there wishing you down yeah well I’m sure it was exciting but uh I I wish we could have went
Faster and made it more exciting wow it’s very impressive let’s have a quick chat to Terry Madden cuz he always seems to pop up at these moments hey Jim this is actually the last place I thought we’d be today our goal was to get it to
The podium it’s all we wanted to do was Podium for with a Can-Am but to win I I don’t even know well it’s not a sealed deal yet but it’s looking pretty good I have to say so I’m sure you got a heap of people you
Want to thank yeah for sure my whole crew I mean you know we wouldn’t be up here if it wasn’t for my whole crew team momentum Canam I mean they make a tough car I mean you can see we we brought this thing to the finish on you know
Hopes and dreams and here it is and uh you know I really wanted to be able to race the r out here you know it’s a car we raced the other day and uh you know hopefully next year we’ll have some RS built but uh race Line Wheels Factory
UTV I mean the bottom of this thing took a beating um Pete and Gary at G4 Force Fox shocks um Ju Just everybody that helps me I wish I I could remember everybody but uh my head’s cloudy well I’m not surprised you’ve been racing since 8:00 this morning
Which is an incredible achievement in itself but just looking around this vehicle and it’s like you it’s done work yeah yeah there’s uh um I mean we actually play St pretty clean I mean we didn’t make many mistakes um just kind of drove smart absolutely well I’m sure
You would have get out this car and I’m sure you would like to celebrate ladies and gentlemen Carl Cheney and Terry Madden first across the line here at the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nto tires and powered by Optima [Applause] batteries [Applause] good holy sh so
30440 is the time we’re watching if JP Gomez is here by 30 4 and 40 seconds he’s the winner if he’s 304 and 41 seconds he’s not and then we’ll have the first Can-Am ever in the history and the podium of 4400 R WS moving again looks like vau
Might have gotten him over or they arrived at the place same place the same time we saw uh vau might have pulled over rul but he is now trying to go for the pass on him they are dropping down into outer limits that way through pit two so Ian W welcome
Back to the booth do you realize what’s unfolding right now uh I’ve been sitting in the VIP enjoying this incredible uh end of the race and uh now we have JP and he’s on he’s on the uh camera down down by Melville and so Dave we’re
Looking at uh as you said times to watch corrected time so how much time does he need how much time does he have on his side and how far away is he it’s really simple if he comes in before 30440 it’s 249 right now he takes the
Win so 10 basically 10 minutes and Dave you know this course as well as anybody looking out there possible not possible anything certainly possible yes yeah he’s out he’s out of the he’s com com to resolutions right there that’s resolution I mean that’s that’s where Lauren he’s at right there he’s passing
Lauren with the bad transmission he’s coming into resolution he ran he qualified in what seven minutes he has 14 to run half the qualifying course he’s definitely going to back yeah the math they pretty simple so we’re in great shape for him now uh outside of
Him who is is it Harold behind har back there um it’s it’s actually I mean everything’s upside down BR Harold’s back there uh John Webb and Cody Addington are still back there Eric Miller’s in in Outer Limits right now um Dan fresh is back there someplace so
There’s still lots of players in the game but podum still Podium is still wide open and um in about I would say in about a minute you’re going to see dirt coming up dust coming up into that shot in resolution very very exciting end to the
Race today I was in the the VIP that’s the quietest I’ve heard that entire tent all week watching uh Cal bring that card down through uh through resolution I don’t think anybody in there was making a sound when he kept carrying that back right tire every time
Breath yes yes this is the on board with Tad daer getting to the top of some trail not sure which one yet that’s that’s JP JP Gomez coming up the hill under resolution so as you said Dave he’s that’s half the qualifying course and he
Ran it in 7 minutes so it could be could be about four minutes four minutes and he’s got 14 so and really there’s he’s got all the corrected time on his side correct there’s nobody he was started near right at the back so there’s no one to put
Pressure on him this is Tad trying to get back up on offramp but he probably just came through big Johnson’s working his way to pit two so as Dave said Podium still wide open we still have lots of people to bring back into hammertown and then obviously
As we talked about all everything has to be reviewed and checked over over by timing make sure everything’s good assess any but there it is JP down through resolution so that is JP Gomez keep be going faster than this yeah I think this is a camera issue more than anything else Dave
Yeah so this is JP there we go now we’re catching up a little bit of bit refresh R in there so JP coming down through resolution we should see him take that Sand Hill obviously we’re assuming I’m quite certain he’ll do that and then we’ll have him down on the flat here I
Will bet you a dollar he doesn’t take the Sand Hill oh you you say a dollar I think he’s going to send it a dollar that he goes down I assumed he would when it was him and Herold looking like they were going to mix it up I think he’s he’s in communication
With the G pit right now and he is going to push to the very very end I think we’re having some technical difficulties with the Drone in back door right now but we’re going to see JP come around that around that hill Oh here it
Is oh we had it we didn’t have it yeah so Dave uh so the the reasoning as Dave was saying the reason he would go down back door instead of take the Sand Hill would be to pick up any extra seconds that he could he just came down back
Door he just came out of back door Canyon he’s right there and I think the reason down back doors cuz his name is JP Gomez that’s also true yes very much so yes he didn’t realize there was an easier way has nothing to do with math
It’s just his name that is very true Dave yes that’s JP Gomez making quick time here as Dave said now we’re down to just one minute back in the town from about where he’s at maybe minute 10 based on his qualifying time we could have a we could have a brand new
King that’s right and and uh I’m sure that the rest of uh the Gomez will would be happy for him sort of they they R told me that they whenever they have a meeting when he was King he’d always bring the sep scepter out just remind them all before they
Let’s throw this to Miles as he comes through the arch JP Gomez through the Bronco Arch I think he’s going to be our new king Kyle Cheney just drove one heck of a race and physically finished out front but JP Gomez passed every single competitor on course except for Kyle Cheney so it’s
Looking good for the Gomez Brothers three years in a row JP Gomez I think is going to be your new Nitto race of Kings Championship the King of the Hammers may go to JP Gomez just a couple more turns to go and that UFO could be crowning the
New king what a crazy turn of events it’s been today I can’t keep up with with all of it if you’re out front you break Kyle Cheney broke R upside down Shear had some issues Casey Curry had issues but now it’s JP Gomez around the Can-Am Corner getting to R getting ready
To hit the Yukon launch JP Gomez grabbing the checker flag unofficially the new King of the Hammers JP Gomez I know there’s going to be a party in the Gomez pits tonight wow wow wow wow what a crazy turn of events it has been for the Nitto race of Kings this has been
The 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nto tires powered by Optima batteries and the Gomez Brothers stole them from me we’re going to try to get him down this way to get everything checked out but JP Gomez our unofficial new king and look at this
Brett Harold is right behind him so this will be uh probably third position great finish for Bret harell as well so I think it’s going to be unofficially JP Gomez Kyle Cheney and Brett harrold wow JP Gomez is our new king so the Gomez Brothers kept it in the family once again
Unofficially but wow it’s just been such an amazing week couple weeks out here and to see it all end up like this today JP Gomez all by himself out there UFOs have won three times in a row nto tires on the top of the box once
Again and the car still looks like it’s in great shape and look at JP raising the fist super excited heck yeah JP one heck of a drive he’s got the siren he’s letting everybody know he is in town and this UFO still looks like it’s in great shape
JP Gomez you can’t count anybody out until that it’s over so again we do need to check everything with usack is Brett Harold grabs third place unofficially great run by him as well JP Gomez drove one heck of a race the never give up
Attitude is here in town and J P has got to be pumped right now I’m going to Dive Right In here and have a quick chat with JP Gomez I think you’re the new king buddy hell yeah that’s what I’m talking about you had some issues today but you
Adapted and overcame what are you feeling right now first off embarrassing to change a tire on TV in front of the helicopter by yourself by myself I couldn’t leave it out there then I would have got called out put that goddamn thing back on holy Harold back here
He winched me and I burned out on him and I flipped his car over on accident so I guess it all worked out wow what a crazy turn of events it’s been uh just such a great showing so now Monday morning meetings are going to be a
Little better for you aren’t they oh man it’s going to be great my heart sank I couldn’t hear on the radio and Ra was flipped over on big Johnson Lauren passed me like a bat out of hell and I was like man I must to be really driving
Slow and then uh oh man that was a race it Was a Race to the finish what I like to say and man you can’t give up here at King of the Hammers cuz we we went through six or seven leader changes I bet I got down to Outer Limits and there
Was Eric Miller Jason Shear Kad Rod Marcus and ra got through and some other guys so after I got through there thanks Jason for spotting me and let us run over his car and Uh I that was it there was a Harold me and Herold battle here
At the end and it’s pretty open yeah it’s just so crazy how it all turned out I’m going to let you get get a drink take a breath but JP congratulations buddy thanks miles I want to a shout out to my wife and kids Jill Marcela Natalia
Alexa and Mila I love you guys wish are here this is great thank you good job JP Gomez what a wonderful day it’s been it was so crazy but again congratulations Kyle Cheney physically finishing first but coming from the back of the pack JP Gomez what a crazy crazy
Day it’s been and speaking about crazy third place I’ve got Brett harrold and it looks like you’re a little bit out of breath maybe how you doing buddy well we could have had a better day but I’m happy with this we uh we put
The car on his lid on uh check me out right in front of Brian and uh everybody else but uh we lost about 20 minutes or so there I don’t know but it’s a pretty good day so so far I guess I mean only better thing
Would be to win it I feel you but I believe this is your best finish here at King of the Hammers and when I came over to your pit last night to do that little hit with you you said I’m going for the win I’m you know if I can’t win this I’m
Not going to play around but hey a Podium is a win to me I agree with you I appreciate you miles and what you guys do thank you Brett haral unofficially third place what a crazy turn of events I feel so bad for everybody that was out
Front winning but hey that’s part of racing to finish first first you must finish what a crazy crazy day thanks again to everybody for tuning in it’s been a wonderful week thanks for everybody for everything I’m going to send it back to Dave and Jim and I take it away
Guys thanks miles I’m in the booth right now with Mr Tom way Tom what what a finish what a finish incredible incredible racing all day and to have it come down to the wire like that what a testament to how close this race is these days in the town of all the teams
Yeah it sort of seems to be now that we’ve got it seems to be the theme in the past couple years man it’s just leader change over leader change over leader change which is amazing and that just shows you how tough this course is especially within that three
Laps I think you get definitely have to have a car for third place but it’s it’s just crazy that we can have someone come all the way from the back all the way from the back all the way from the back yeah and that is no joke considering how
Long they were racing and then to see you know the leaders change some went Lura just loses transmission just outside of town I know that’s just killing him right now being out there that’s a shame see Kyle coming in and if he didn’t lose that front suspension he
Probably would the time would probably not be an issue I mean he was moving so slow through the desert so slow so what was JP’s official start position off the line I believe he was like almost the the very very back tomy’s hold on I can
Find that for you right here he was 99th yeah he passed everybody yeah so 99th off the line uh and but like I I said when we saw KY break that suspension component he it was just it took all the speed out of that car we just watched him limping it through the
Desert and then crawling down resolution that if that c stayed together he may have been uh our new king all right on screen right now we’re thinking that might be Dan fresh right there it definitely is Ian yes that’s Dan fresh that is fourth place so that would
Be the fourth car that we would like expect to see here back into hammertown Dan fresh good for him to get that car back in he’ll be happy about that but yeah first time competing in an ifs car in King of the Hammers he always ran a
Bomber laser nut entry this year Jimmy’s 4×4 car yeah sharing that uh classic uh Livery as we’re just chasing dust out here in the desert looking for cars with our uh helicopter here to see what’s going on still lots of competitors out on course we’ve only had three uh cars
Come in off that third lap and like uh Tom said we had over a 100 cars off the line this morning so we still have a lot of cars out there racing and you said Jason Sher is still out there right he was able to get untangled definitely
Moving I I saw them come back into main pit so it’s looks like John Webb in the screen right now so he could be um in fifth is where I’m thinking he’s probably sitting all right we were watching him earlier today yes so I don’t know if you know the whole story
About that so he was on his way down in his enclosed trailer had his race car in there went to sleep underneath of it woke up to hearing dripping noises car on yeah I heard that car on fire in the trailer and the car was basically full
Of the brim and it started dripping and uh he opened the door to to to get some light and see what was happening and the thing immediately burst into flames and almost completely burned down I saw that and then everyone joined in over the past few days Parts came out of
Everyone’s trailer to get him back racing so if he comes in Heck if he comes in at all let alone comes in top five top 10 that’s a true Testament to that there’s Eric Miller that’s another person we saw out there in the mix so we still have lots of competitors
Out on course right now we only have three of our racers in everything is unofficial we saw them stripping The Trackers off the car when they first came across the line so they run those into race Ops Ben Napier our Motorsports director will be over seeing and and
Talking to everybody at usach and figuring everything out and then we’ll be able to determine uh the actual finish order of these three cars but unofficial we got JP Gomez Cheney and har har all right so we’ve got as you can see in this shot there’s Brett harell getting
Out of the car as we said we’re just waiting for some unofficial but based on what we see here in the booth just like Tom said looking off the timing that we’ve got it appears that we have JP first we’re assuming that Kyle Cheney will be second and Bren harrold will be
Third but as we said all this is unofficial because we got to make sure that all the timing comes in and right now we’re waiting for uh basically the next group of cars to come in there was a good mixup out there so who’s who are
We expecting to see come in next I saw Eric Miller was one of them Eric Miller John web um I don’t know if there’s anybody else that we saw Dan fresh fres I’m sorry yeah so there oh speak well there’s Eric Miller yep so so we should
See a couple in front of him possibly yep we should probably almost to back door right now yeah so that’s Eric Miller dropping up over uh into resolution so we should see we’re as as Tom said we should see fresh over by back door further down this rock
Trail but that is Eric Miller right there making his way through that section uh of the qualifying course and Eric’s got a lot of corrected time in that’s something to think about he does as well yeah how the question is does he have more corrected time on
Harold let’s grab some sheets here and see what they say as we watch Eric Miller make his way down through as we watch him come down through this section of resolution we’re assuming Dan fresh is in front of him but we haven’t seen him we should see
Dan fresh cuz he was ahead of him on in the desert all right we’re watching Eric Miller work his way down through the trail this would be possibly first solid axle across the line always a topic of discussion here at the Hammers solid axle versus ifs I
Know you’re call Eric with a k for King yeah that is true yep but I do know that uh Tom I know that you you went ifs really early like a lot of people out there so but it’s always kind of been that discuss discussion right which one do
You want do you want solid axle do you want so Dan fresh left the line 46th and we’re looking oh and Eric oh so so fresh and Eric so technically but we can’t we don’t know where Dan fresh is so we’re trying we’re checking tracker to see where Dan fresh is
Because we expected that we would have seen him but uh here’s a big uh wide shot right now maybe we’ll see some action going on uh we’re waiting to see what happens here uh the car that we’re oh who’s this coming up through the wash so is this
Eric that’s Eric that’s Eric so where the question then where is where is fresh so this would be our next uh we expected to see Dan fresh be next car across the line but now I guess it might be Eric Miller could be the king of heartbreaks one more time oh goodness
Gracious could you imagine oh oh oh some that might be fresh is that fresh right behind him I think so Ian it does look like Miller does look like an ifs car does it not Tom you you’d know that like I think that’s I think that’s Dan fresh right there right behind
Eric so that’s Eric Miller right there coming up through the Bronco Arch are we no that’s that’s uh that’s no no that that was John web John web yep John web coming in hot and heavy so that’s John web right behind Eric Miller coming up through that uh Bronco
Arch and into the Ford performance short course Shuffle down Shuffle down Shuffle down here we go all right so that is Eric Miller coming up through that section of our Ford performance short cars Jim maren’s back in the booth frantically doing math on a piece of paper in here desperately
Doing fingertip maths right now trying to work out where John Webb is in reference to uh Eric Miller we got Miller coming across the four performance your course coming into the finish right now so biton doesn’t we we’ll still figure out where he lands and on corrected time
And everything will’ll get all that taken care of in race Ops but either way that is our first solid axle car across the Line Eric Miller in that Miller Pro chassis yeah Eric they’re doing a great job John webs left the line this morning in 50th position and Eric left the line
In 24th so if John web comes in in a moment it does look like that John well will have Eric Miller on adjusted time and there he is right there that 4468 yeah the man who brings the party to Hammerton down Mr John [Laughter] web oh man and you know what John Webb
Is one of the most consistent finishers at this race he had over the years yes he’s always he’s always there he’s always there or thereabouts around that sort of top 10 kind of Mark with the speakers up top all right so there are your next four finishers where is Dan fresh I
Don’t know Ian I think he’s he’s he’s coming off between Melville and the backside of resolution when when we were looking at it I thought he was ahead of Eric I didn’t realize that he was behind him do you think he’s hanging out with his mate Lauren Healey just off the far
Side of resolution I I don’t think you would do that but no I’m sure he won’t he wants to be back here in hammertown that’s for sure so Eric Miller there the first of our solid axle Vehicles there’s another vehicle the 4499 makes his way back into the desert
To start lap three yeah so that it they’re heading out uh once again they’ve just wrapped up their first lap or sorry second lap headed out back out into the uh into the desert that is Clinton pizon one of our rookies oh good to see that now rookie still out there
Tearing it up in the dirt yeah I hope he’s got some lights on that car cuz he’s going to need them I just received some some news about Jason and Jason they’re stopped them both out of the car oh no that’s quite the shame they’ve had just a
Terrible day terrible day out there just unlucky on top of unlucky yeah the racing gods are sometimes on your side and sometimes they just don’t want to see you finish so uh what a day of racing it’s been here at the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented
By nto tire and powered by Optima batteries if you’re just joining us this has been the race of kings and what a race it has been oh there’s Dan fresh we’ve been waiting to see Dan fresh there there he is Tom coming through the Bronco Arch so yes he was out there he
Just wasn’t in the spot that we thought he was he has to be pretty happy to be get pulling into town right now yeah he’s coming through the Ford performance short course so there is our next finisher yeah Dan fresh started in 46th minutes uh at 46th place this morning so
John Webb will be ahead of Dan fresh and Dan fresh is on adjusted time so he could still still just about be ahead of Eric Miller unofficially of course unofficially everything everything is unofficial we should just have that at the bottom of the screen just like unofficial unofficial just big
Parentheses yeah flashes just flashing flashes gently yeah so yeah so that there you go Dan fresh back into town and the reason we say it’s unofficial is because they we have to go through our due diligence we have to make sure there are no V vcps that have been missed we
Also the drivers have an opportunity to file red cards against each other if there’s been an infringement of rules yeah we’ve been checking in with Ben Napier our event in Motorsports director all day today he’s been giving us updates on everything that’s happened which has been fun to see it’s kind of a
New thing about this year another new thing to sort of see the everything unfold in the background yeah but that’s another great thing about King of the Hammers is evolving every time not just the racing but the race Ops and they keep doing better and better working
With usack to make sure they keep us honest and make sure that that we have you know the best racing in the world you know one thing they did Jim that made it much simpler is five-minute penalties and assessments that way instead of taking the average of the
Rest of the field through that specific obstacle and then timesing it by five yeah the math that became very very complicated it did yeah yeah so straight five minute penalty for missing vcps what what uh Tom’s referring to is versus you know how much Advantage did
You get they would compare it to the rest of the field there was a lot of math a lot of math and a lot of of math that involved a lot of too many variables in that mix right there straight straight five minute penalty that’s I agree that’s the best way to do
It and and and the efforts that they’re making at Ops to get that live data back to the teams in the cars so they can decide how hard they want to push or or back it down and that and that’s priceless so if you’re just joining us
Right now this is the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nto TI and Power by Optima batteries and this is the race of Kings as we watch another car working it way through I think this might be a uh lap two finisher here I believe you might be
Right Jim I think that is a lap two finisher headed out onto their third lap that’s I think this is Russell Jensen here yeah this is Russell Jensen uh with Nathan Livingston in the car so this is a Jimmy’s 4×4 ifs chassis so they’re doing a great job there
Making their way through and if you’ve only just joined us there’s been incredible drama here today we’ve seen so much action out on track but the first man to cross the line but he won’t be first overall but the first man to cross the line was KL Cheney just an
Incredible display from him coming in with a collap suspension on the front of his vehicle but then second across the line starting in 99th position today with none other than JP Gomez so just getting some more info about Jason and Jason right now um the information I’m getting is that he has a
Broken thumb and the steering is toast he’s right on the backside of resolution oh it’s too bad they fought hard all day we watched them earlier get hung up in the little bit of car onar action in The Trails lots of winching going on and we saw some great passes in there
When they were uh rammed up in those rocks absolutely amazing work by all the drivers that’s also where we saw Kyle make that crazy High Line Mar on the other side and then Marcos on the other side yeah so when we watched that unfold we were in here we were speculating you
Know is this R they going to be able to be clean and make stick in there and they both managed on both sides yeah and while we were watching it unfold we were saying it is this the deciding factor of the race and based upon what we got
Sitting on the podium maybe it was yeah if you look back at this so many key moments in this race look remember that one where Cade Rod got hooked up chasing for the lead got hooked up coming down through Outer Limits forc Jason and Jason to come out
Take that other line and then they were as Jason said too polite they didn’t want to damage his car so instead of trying to drive straight over his hood couldn’t use him his traction they tried to stay away from his from his shock absorbers got themselves hooked up and
Took him out of the race yeah it’s quite it was quite the shame now is that that’s AK Watley there I believe it is yes so AK making his way down continuing on the trails doing a great job yeah it’s a fine balance when you get into a position like that where you
Decide if you’re going to drive over or not regardless of permission from the other team it’s all because it’s such a gamble you can tear a tire up rip a shock off and then if you just attack and and drive over Monster Jam style it doesn’t always work out no and and it
Could end as quickly as it started yeah absolutely but you do sometimes the most damage you can do to your car is driving over another car absolutely it’s so easy to break a shock at Z we experienced that the other day Rick lzo bent both of our front shocks that’s uh yeah last
Year in Kings veto I chose to winch up El Capitan in yosee it felt like to try to not tear up Cameron’s car call they taking so face full of dirt I think that is the that’s one of our rookies I think we were looking at earlier I might be Miss
I think you might be right no I am wrong there oh is that who is that I can’t see the number on it okay now we’re back into the rocks with Dennis sternal coming down through this section of Rock Trail can’t really identify it because of the angle of the
Camera yeah we’re still still still trying to ID so Ian let’s talk about the coverage and how insane the coverage that we’re bringing to the world right now I think I think people don’t understand like I mean you and I have been around this for so long I was
Talking to Dave earlier and I kind of made a joke about I remember when coverage was text updates on pirate 4×4 from a sketchy looking van out here on the lake bed remember those days to now there’s drones everywhere and the Drone shots are Dron better than the
Helicopter shots almost now drones down in the canyon it turned to where the helicopter shots were the money shots and now we’ve got drones that are shadowing these guys through the trails yeah and then you’ve got the starlink and the cars with full onboard uh feedback into the uh production trailer
Which is absolutely insane when you think about it considering also when you think about where we are I mean this is not like we’re in Indianapolis at the speed let’s think about next year how many cars are going to have inar and the ability for everyone to click and and
And go to your favorite team and sit there in the driver seat watch theage it’s going to be next level next year the next level thing for me is actually going to be the coms that these guys are going to be able to have at the moment
They’re relying on sort of VHF and UHF radio if they’re going to be all running on starlinks they’re going to be able to have instant communication back to the pits and the same kind of two-way conversation we’re having to we’re having now without the need for ptts or
Relays or repeaters that’s going to be a game changer yeah I think you’re right Jim I think we’re talking uh you know Jason uh Sher had mentioned when Casey was in here they said they just grabbed a burner phone hooked it up through the star link and you’re just talking on the
Phone the whole time just just having a conversation it’s not a it’s not a VHF race radio repeating through the Canyons it’s just a a cell phone satellite phone yep Absol stlink I think the next big thing you’re going to see particularly after this year where we’ve seeing so
Much of it is maybe a revolution in the winching out here as well because the at the moment we’re not quite there where are we losing time we’re fast in the desert we’re fast in the Rocks we’re losing time with our winch G as has revamped their whole winch program and
And put bigger and faster winches on the whole more rope so you know there’s guys that learned their lesson last year and they up their winching game I would suggest they haven’t gone big enough yet but there we are well one of them sitting in first
Right now so they can’t be too far off was very very Tri y yeah they did all right they I think they’re okay Jim you know what I’m honestly excited about the trouble is it it always happens when the chips are down it’s not when you’re
Going well it’s when you have a problem and that’s that’s the that for me is the issue I think uh you know I I Jason and I always geeko over a lot of stuff and I actually was talking to him and I think the cool technology that we’re going to
See next is where we see some sort of Hybrid drivetrain yeah because you’ve got the uh if you look at some what they’re doing in the all Drive trophy trucks where they are trying to keep that front end to stay together with lots of horsepower and then they have
You know that one-way clutch in the front end which won’t work in our world cuz you need to be able to back up in four-wheel drive but maybe it’s some sort of uh hybrid e front electric rear engine that’s going to be crazy I’m down with that
Totally and that will also change your fuel characteristics as well there’s so much to play with mileage yeah well we’re looking at that Dakar right now if you look at the Audi’s obviously they’re using hybrid uh electric and Diesel power yep a lot of the P new Porsches are electric electric four-wheel drive
And then the twin turbo for the back axle yeah yeah it’s crazy you can have an electric motor in the front that you only use when you need it and then have uh have your power into the rear axles but also if you built depending on how
It was put in there you could eliminate a drive shaft out of that game all right so we’re seeing the 726 of the SEI entry yeah the 726 I believe that is um Dennis sternal yeah there’s Dennis sternal there making his way through now we were watching Uh Kevin Sterns earlier he was
A mixing up with the top 10 and uh we saw I saw them uh while I was watching on the VIP it looked like they were in with some witching with Eric Miller but now we’ve seen Eric Miller come across the line but we haven’t seen him
Anywhere no that’s a real shame for Kevin he had a great Pace going today he was looking really good lost a bit of nunus off his Bodywork but apart from that he was looking strong we think that might be Josh s there and we’re just waiting to get
Confirmation there we go we’ve been chasing him for a little bit so if you are just joining us this is the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nto timean powered by Optima batteries and this is the Nitto race of Kings we’ve already had several finishes here today but
We’re just waiting to make the results officials dot our eyes cross our te’s before we bring them on stage and present to you the winners but at the moment unofficially it looks like JP Gomez will be a new king this year now if that does work out and JP
Does become a king which is looking highly likely he will where does that put Marcus well I’ll tell you where it’ll put him next year and that’ll be pushing even harder absolutely when we saw Marcus he was actually pushing hard you know right at towards the end of the um he was
Really pushing the leaders very very hard then we saw him coming to main pit at the end of lap two and he had those problems uh with the rear sway bar broken away from the back of the car yeah they to rip that back out the half
Of the car off the the tricky part about that is you know the sway bar goes away the spare goes away that changes everything on how that car works out there in the desert yeah absolutely let’s not forget to 8 a.m. this morning 116 cars left to go into these fabled
Trails we’ve only had a handful of finishers so far we saw Kyle Cheney first across the line today as we watch now and that is vaugh g Jr still powering hard through the lake bed and I think he’s actually making his way back towards hammertown oh that’ll make that’s they’ll be very
Happy for that fun H Team the question will be uh does he stop and pull Lauren in that’s a very good question might be kind of a fun way to end the day you know pulling Lauren across the line with the on the strap with the funs okay as the action continues here
We have miles down in the pits and he’s got some hot news for us miles take it away what an amazing day of racing it was and we have a new official King of the Hammers winner JP Gomez wins the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by Nitto Tires powered
By Optima batteries JP Gomez drove an amazing race all day and we have a new king but it stays with Gomez Brothers Racing so JP’s got to be stoked give it up for JP [Applause] Gomez wow wow wow what an amazing day so many so much
Che so we’re going to send him up to the stage here momentarily but JP does take it away from his brother Hey listen Thanks again to everybody for watching this shake out the way it did so much drama everywhere out there but it is a new king of JP Gomez officially winning this King of the Hammers one okay I I swear to God I told you I was around
All right so right there that is the person that we were just talking about a second ago that is Kevin Sterns out there on the lake bed we kind of been watching him mixing it up all day we kind of figured he’d land somewhere in
That top 10 and it looks like that might be where he is we saw him earlier with Eric Miller out in a Rock Trail which is why I assumed that we were going to see him come in pretty soon I did get a text from his co-driver Steven Watson uh said
That they were fighting a bad Drive limiting their speed in the desert so they had to swap in a different Drive Line uh being able to get out there and keep keep hustling so it’s good to see them moving again as we wait for JP Gomez to get up
Here on stage I know Jim is out there eagerly eagerly waiting to interview him we definitely have some some calculating that Dave’s sitting down right now to figure out I mean we got Miller we got web oh top three are dialed I’m more looking for and seeing who’s going to
Finish lap three who’s going out there all that kind of stuff we have a what what is the cut off Dave for for lap three 637 o00 I believe is going out for lap three going so if they’re not going out for lap three by 6:37 we’re going to
Stop them here in town and hold them so we we still have lots of competitors on course we’ll stick around here just like we did last night bring them in until we officially close this race course cuz a lot of these guys out there it’s just
It’s as we say many many times finishing the race is just as important as winning the race for most of this uh field that’s out there all right so I think Jim is on the main stage with take it away Jim you can say it
Okay thank you right here we are we are in hammertown and right now we are about to announce a new king that King is none other than J Gomez put your hands together ladies and [Applause] Gentlemen JP how you feeling right now oh I’m still tired from the tire change but excited now we’ve been watching new racing all day it all started with qualifying and you had that role coming down resolution what did you think of that moment well my heart sank to about
Negative 2000 and I went to my room and cried for a little bit and then I thought to myself I’m alive and I got three days to prep and I I woke up this morning and I was like I could go get it and that was the game plan from this morning awesome
Now we saw you start in 99th position today now there was an traffic jam heading out towards turkey claw did that affect you in any way yeah my heartbeat went from 150 to about 1500 and I tried to Raw crawl but these things don’t raw crawl so I just waited for about 10
Minutes and we finally got through and then it was game on absolutely now that means you had to make up that extra 10 minutes as well on those people so where did you make up that time uh drive like a dumbass in the desert uh pass people
Left and right um but be smart right there’s GS out there this is the King of the Hammers any given second you hit a bush there’s a rock you could just eat out there so I had to be smart my plan was to get within 15 20 minutes of
The leaders after lap one uh got to about I think 16 minutes and I was like 20th on the road I was like it’s a race now yeah absolutely we saw your ascendants right the way through the pack through the whole day now what what must it have felt like to see your
Brother lying on his side there man my heart sank uh some cars got around me Lauren and Brett Harold and I saw Raul laid over at Big Johnson I’m like and they’re like you’re a 4minute lead I’m like gosh damn I better go faster so
Uh but my heart said I knew we had to keep the the the the scepter in the Gomez Brothers Racing team for sure yeah now Monday morning you’re all going to wake up R Gomez is still going to be a two-time king you going to be a one-
Time King what are you going to say to Marcos well I’ll tell Marcos next year but I’m the king for this year now it takes an army to get here and you’ve certainly got the biggest army out here that’s for sure who would you like to thank first I want to thank
Thank my family my wife and kids at home I love them to death wish they’re here I want to see them tonight uh but my brothers we’ve worked our asses off our whole life and uh everybody in the gers Brothers Racing team and family they all
Earn this as much as I do oh you’re going to have a old blubbing up here in a minute mate J it’s so good to see you here we’re so chaffed and just to see the effort that you guys have put in in the last five I mean it might even be as
Much as 10 years it’s been remarkable you’ve been from the guys who always go fast who always break to the guys who get to the finish and always win that must feel incredibly special yeah we showed up on the lake bed 12 years ago
Or 13 years ago I think I made it 30 mil one year I mean it’s been up and down it B just been trying right Second Twice had the lead a couple times blew it um it you have to be be persistent you have to be smart you have to be dedicated you
Could get anything done life absolutely wise words and wise words indeed but I’ve got a young lady over here who’s got something for you Pam Hall would you like to come forward JP do you want to get out that car ladies and gentlemen real quick my sponsor yeah
Cool uh Nitto Tires I got a flat today I earned it I try to drive like a professional race car driver like Lauren Haley I’m not that good but I made it here uh that suck changing the tire method race wheels I hit so many rocks
Out there I don’t know how the wheels are even still on this thing uh UFO Joe Thompson he built us an amazing machine we put a new steering box in the thing last night and it was night and day driving like a a pickup on the freeway
But a little more extreme and then uh uh King shocks uh they hooked us up from day one I think 12 years ago we had a straight axle car and they were there support AR we were shock tuning yesterday and the day before trying to get this dialed in and obviously the
Gomez Brothers Racing team team in Mountain Enterprise and anything else on there who else you got I think that’s it well J Gomez I think it’s time you get out of this car and it’s time you collect your trophy ladies and gentlemen this is the 2024 Progressive Insurance
King of the Hammers presented by Nitto tire and powered by ultimate batteries and this is JP Gomez and he is the King of the Hammers 2024 [Applause] hell yeah hell [Applause] yeah I can’t run Anywhere The scepter stays with the Gomez family for another [Applause] year and it’s the Sun starts to set here in hammertown history is weighed one more time as JP Gomez adds his name to the list of Kings here in Johnson Valley the hardest trails in the world make for the greatest stories and
The greatest Drivers as the party continues here in town we’re going to pass it back to Ian Dave and Tom who going to bring some more drivers across the line thank you very much Jim yes there you have it we are crowning our new Champion here at the
Nitto race of Kings here at the King of the Hammers we still have more drivers out in the desert coming back into town Dave is over here doing feverish math trying to figure out who’s going to go out on did V get make it back yet I haven’t
Seen him come into town but I saw him coming through the desert uh but we haven’t seen him come back in yet I had 2511 and then the 906 and I’m seeing 906 right there so looking for car number 11 and car number 25 still all right so
That’s what we’re going to be doing right now what we’re doing is we’re keeping an eye on what is going to happen as they get back into town the next ones we saw Von get he was moving quickly through the desert but that is Tad daer right there coming in to finish
This year’s king of the Hammers we are speculating as to what would happen with vau when he was out he does still have to pass Lauren out on the course who’s still out there with unfortunate broken transmission yeah I’ve got I’ve got uh uh vau and Kevin Sterns here on the
Tracker and 906 coming in right now which is tracking Okay Kevin Sterns yes we’re watching him earlier Gomez and Jason sheer should be the next ones in oh that’s good to hear Jason having a tough day out there on course fighting all day long but Tad dower comes across the line
Here on the Yukon launch back into hammertown another finisher here at our Nitto race of Kings Jims up on stage miles is still down bringing cars across the line all right so right here we are watching I’m trying to get an ID on this car Dave can you spot who
That is just by the car I’m trying to I’m looking I’m trying to see is that Raul that could be Raul it is Raul so there’s Raul so you got he got back over and he’s coming back into town so that is him coming down into the top of
Resolution all right so that is Ral Gomez we saw him earlier when he was leading the race unfortunately take that uh bad pivot on that rock he grabbed reverse quickly sure not a problem per all right so that is Ral Gomez as I was saying a second ago we saw him early
Today take that unfortunate spill we watched him try to he got sort of on that pivot Rock quickly grabbed reverse and ended up upside down but now he is obviously back rolling coming down through resolution and he’ll be coming down through that section of uh back door and then back into
Town lots of action out there today in this race multiple lead changes but we have just crowned your new king JP Gomez keeping that scepter in the Gomez Camp as he said was super important to him starting at the back fighting all the way to the
Front we see R carefully picking his way down through this Rock Trail we should see Kevin Sterns out there somewhere in the mix shortly hopefully he’ll come in I think I’ll saw Kevin and vau both showing up here on the tracker they should be out there
Right now all right so that’s sorry I missed them coming in so we’re we’re trying to round out our top 10 Kevin Sterns another one we were watching is as Dave said Von G Jr also out there as Raul takes the Sand Hill to the left
Come up on the bypass around the two drops on back door he’ll come back in so we expect to see R to be the next car in back into hammertown as he makes the pivot gets back into the dirt and starts tearing through that wash we’ll probably see him here in
Maybe one or two well two minutes I guess it be kind of basing it on the qualifying time and he’s going to drop back down into that wash that’s just on the bottom side of the back door Trail then they’ll come around the bottom of that mountain
Up through our Bronco Arch and back into the short course then we’ll turn our attention to the next group of cars that we are going to be looking for out there as Dave said it was Von gon Jr and Kevin Sterns they’re here I’m telling you they’re
Already here oh I’m sorry Dave thank you yes so they’re already here next one in should be Jason Shear after rul Okay so we’re watch we’re watching Raul come across this section of dirt and I can hear JP fire up his car so that means that Jim Marsden will be
Back up on stage with our next Podium finisher as Raul jumps through the Bronco Arch and comes back down into the Ford performance short course just a couple of turns before he goes up over the Yukon launch and becomes the next finisher here at the 2024 Nitto race of
Kings two more turns before he officially finishes this race all right so there is Ral Gomez one more turn before he hits that Yukon launch heartbreaking day for him leading the race rolls the car fights to get it back over but now he’s bringing it back home
Let’s hear it Ral Gomez Another finisher here at our 2024 Nitto race of King through that start Finish Line and he’ll stack up with the rest of our finishers that we’ll all be bringing them up on stage so they can share their days with us out in the dirt
All right there’s Raul he’s going to stack up with the rest of our finishers right here is all right I hear that Jim is ready Jim sorry Pam it’s pam pam took over for Jim Pam take it away thanks I am up here with Brett Harold you’re up here
Officially in this number three spot for the 2024 King King of the Hammers how do you feel I feel great I mean we had a pretty good day uh I clipped a rock pretty good with the derer drive shaft on lap two and had to fight through that and uh we ended up
Putting the car on his lid on lap three so that was kind of a bummer but stuff happens right so we got it recovered um Justin helped JP right above me he he almost rolled me back over when he backed up it got it on its side I’m screaming at Justin telling
Him to back into my roof and roll me on my tires but uh excuse me it was a good day for sure I think we could have pushed a little bit harder on lap two but man when JP went by me I think in spooners he was so
Smooth he was he was on one for sure today well you’re up here though it’s all about you in this number three spot congratulations I know you have a lot of people behind you and who would you like to thank for getting you out here first
Of all I’d like to thank God uh for keeping us safe today and uh my wife my son my entire team Foster Steve um Brent uh Paul horel Mitch Josh Dawson zigg all these guys put everything into these cars and uh we love what we we do with
Them you know this is fun for me but uh I’d like to thank nto for building the best tires out there rigid lights for building the best lights tube Works Bret mid Trucking Fox for keeping this car fast in the desert L&L ornamental Max tiedowns waren wenches PCI for keeping
My communications going and last but not least uh Gomez Brothers for building the most badass drive shaft that there are out there right now well that’s quite the list congratulations we’ll let you guys celebrate let’s give it up one more time for Brett Harold Thank you [Applause] Pam and’ll
Pam all right thank you very much Pam that is our official third place vehicle here at King of the Hammers in the booth with me again is Mr Tom ways Tom what a day of racing it was a pleasure to be in here and I hope everybody enjoyed it
It’s definitely uh a different change to be out of the car and here but thank you for for welcoming me and I appreciate you being in here with me in Tom it’s been great having you in here uh I’m kind of like Dave I prefer to see you
Driving because I know you always put on such a great show but it’s been great having you in here this firsthand knowledge of the race course and uh of the cars the history you know you’ve been around this sport for so long I really do appreciate you being in here I
Think it really helps round out our team which is awesome to have you in here and I’d like to say I hope to see you back next year but I fully expect to see you racing next year oh yeah we’ll be back back with the orange car so maybe we’ll
Get you just in here for the EMC stuff whatever whatever it takes that would be perfect yeah we get Tom in here for EMC and then out to race that would be awesome sounds good Ian thank you all right Tom thank you all right but right now on screen we are
Watching that is 416 monkey with a knife Brian Reed and right here here we go seven Brian Hayes this is coming down resolution that’s as we’ve said multiple times this week that is the back half of that qualifying course we have lots of drivers stacked up out there from what I understand will
Be now that we finished up our interview we’re going to stack up since we now have official one two three we’ll finish those Awards then we’ll start bringing our finishers up on stage find out about their day in the dirt there’s always a thousand stories to
Tell when you get done racing a race like King of the Hammers it’s always good to get everyone up in into hammertown up on stage so they can talk about exactly what happened out there on their day we’ve seen multiple lead changes in today’s race we now have our
Official one two three back in town great to see Gomez Brothers keeping the scepter in their race team JP fighting all the way from from the back that’s absolutely amazing to see today while we race as we watch Brian Hayes make his way down through resolution and now back in the booth
There Jim you’re everywhere now Jim’s back in the booth I know I know I I’ve been up here since 7:30 this morning I thought I might just just pop out for a small Comfort break that happens that happens but yeah that’s the 720 s coming up across the hill there so that is
Brian Hayes yeah Brian Hayes coming back down the the thing with this race is it’s one of the most bizarre things because we start getting cars crossing the line and you’re like oh yeah man the race is over and then you realize actually no there’s 116 cars still out they’re on
Track and for some of these drivers it is going to be a very long day indeed they’ll be coming well coming home well into the night I believe the cut off time for tonight is 10:00 all right as he makes his way through that wash on the bottom side of back
Door this will be the next car that we get back into hammertown and as we said before just like last night we’ll leave the course live and when we shut it down I’m I’ll have to get clarification I’m not sure if we’re setting shutting it down at 6:
Or 700 p.m. but once we shut the course down we also then leave enough adjusted time for the drivers to come in and 100 cars out that usually leaves us about about 45 50 minutes so we’ll usually shut the course down 45 50 minutes after
That yes the 727 here of Brian Hayes now do we know if he’s a second lap finisher I think he probably is yeah I think I think he might be uh Jim I’m not 100% certain was trying to catch it up on on the tracker right now so that is
727 all right so there’s 727 as he makes his way up through the Bronco AR and back into town I’m still trying to figure out if Brian is finishing uh second lap yeah we’re getting uh confirmation that that we do believe that this car s Brian Hayes of 727 is just finishing his
Second lap but uh uh we talked to Dave earlier about when he was going to shut down the course there is going to be a shut off when you come through town uh where we’re not going to let anybody out onto that third lap but we’ll let race
Ops make that calls to the official time yeah it’s a it’s a long night when you’re out there on those Trails oh once the sun goes down here in Johnson Valley it gets cold cold cold in a hurry and it’s crazy because it’s not just when it
Goes down when you’re out those Canyons as soon as you get into the shade it gets cold really cold really fast yeah absolutely and not only that it is so dark you cannot believe how dark it is out there and you got the a lot of these cars are not set up for
Night driving so they haven’t got the big lights some of them have some of them are really well prepped others of them aren’t and it becomes very difficult indeed particularly on that third lap we are trying to get through those Trails like check me out Etc which you’ve seen are dangerous in daylight
Never mind at night time yeah and it’s also the fact that you know when you’re in the car with the lights the lights honestly I I like bombing through the desert with the lights on I think it’s a lot of fun doing that but when you’re
Out rock crawling you don’t want the big lights you want Rock lights you want lights underneath the car so you can see what’s going on but that’s not for you that’s for your co- driver and or for your spotters when you’re out wck Wheeling so that means the Cod driver’s
Out of the car all the time if you can’t pick your way through the Rocks well I’m just looking at this car and I can’t see any lights no that is uh I’m I’m seeing the exact same thing Jim so this is an interesting option unless we’re about to
See them strap some lights onto this car we have seen that in the past where the cars will race uh all day until they get back here and we’ve seen them add light bars at the top of that third lap if they’re going to be out in the
Dark all right who have we got here Jim we’re got trying to get a number off this car right here is that chip mlin yeah that’s chip mland yes yeah that is Chip mlin out there so here’s in the Rufus ra racing car that’s a tribe 16 ifs car when that
First car debuted here at King of the Hammers it was with another driver Alex Wacker and was my favorite car at the time I loved it so much it is uh it is packaged incredibly well the guys at the tribe 16 Camp always do such good
Work with Adam Shir and the crew over there I know I get asked constantly from people that all all they’ll always send me messages where should I get work done where should I get this done and I try to always send them down to to uh to
Adam and tribe 16 they do such good work down there all right we have another car off the stage right now but we’re still waiting for some uh before we move into some awards we’re still working through some of the results in the race Ops right now but we
Do know for 100% certain that we have our new king Jim j and when if if I said to you this morning that uh you know it’s going to be a Gomez would you have put JP at the top of that list if we were running through
That family well if you actually look at JP Gomez JP Gomez has actually won more tit won more races than R and Marcus combined he had a spell right there a few years ago where when he was going to the uh National races he was winning everything let’s not forget last year he
Won a havu this man he knows how to win races he’s just had some tough breaks here at King of the Hammers and today it took coming from the back all the way to make yep and and as he said he they had it planned out he said if I come through
On lap three if I’m 15 minutes to the leader I know I’ll be good they had a strategy in place for him to come from the back and work his way through and it obviously worked out great for him and it’s s super happy for him to see him
Basically hold that scepter high and also good to see the Gomez Brothers keep that in the in the Gomez camp but that is that’s C is Cameron steel back out on track yeah Cameron still went back on back on track earlier today so he had a ring opinion problem oh sorry opinion
Problem opinion bearing problem I heard him say yeah exactly and uh it does look like he got fixed he’s been running now for the at least the last sort of two hours maybe even 3 hours that is not an easy fix in the ifs IRS car that is a
Lot of work to get the diffs out of that car it’s not like a simple solid axle car where you can swap a Yol out and or drop a third it’s a lot of work well if it’s just the if it was just the bearing that collapsed there’s a possibility
They’ve just been able to withdraw the pinion and the support change the bearings and reput the um the pinion back in there could be could be but I I’m not I I can’t remember what diffs are in that I I don’t know if it’s just
A standard 9 in like we have in a lot of the other cars or if it’s something different well I think it might be a standard 9 in but he was saying he has some uh some kind of funky ring and gear set that no one in the world has
Unobtanium as we watch Tim Hooper right now on our screens all right Tim making his way down through that section of Rock Trail as we hold interviews here at the main stage we’re just kind of getting everything sorted out before we do Awards we’re going to let them take care
Of that Pam is running around making sure everything is good yeah Pam doing the great Jo baz way but we have a pile of finishers stacked up down there this is going to be great and these are some of names that we number one we kind of expect to see near
The top but some that just kind of came out of nowhere Kevin Sterns top 10 from the looks of it yeah absolutely Dan fresh a fantastic finish for Dan yeah first year ifs first year ifs good for him Eric Miller first solid axle car across the line there’s a lot of cool
Stuff going on down there yeah it is indeed I’m looking forward to speaking to Eric I mean let’s not forget Eric’s actually picked up a penalty of vcp penalty yeah that’s that’s unusual I’ll be interesting to talk to them and find out how that happened uh usually the
They don’t miss anything out on track so maybe the the GPS was playing around or something happening there so I love those little Back stories yeah I mean Eric consumate professional out here Racing for so long as as you said they’ve kind of got this thing down on
The back of their hand so it is shocking you don’t normally hear a of a penalty or an issue with Eric when they’re out on track they usually run perfectly clean every single time but we have another example of that KL chainy um with Terry Madden sitting next to him
They missed a traal out there that’s very surprising with Terry in the pastor SE exactly that so it can happen to the very best mhm well especially when you start stacking up three laps you’ve got three G and not just three individual R laps we have three laps with a lot of
Overlapping Trails uh I take this bypass on lap two but not on lap three corre it can be very and we we saw it play out uh yesterday where we saw the leader drop down the wrong trail turn around come up we saw it this morning when guys got
Hung up thinking they were racing but they got into the wrong race it’s it can get confusing out there in the desert oh it can indeed I was guilty as charge yesterday there a couple of times we took the wrong turn waiting for the GPS to uh uh waiting for the GPS to
Update so Jim so we we kind of joked about it earlier now you’ve come you’ve raced you got that back into your system so uh back racing next year or is that and and more importantly back racing next year will we see you stuff a car in
The in a container in the UK ship it over or another rental under your belt oh well this one wasn’t a rental this was this was a literally genuine Amy and and Jimmy Jack just said we really want you to drive the car that’s just a ter
That we use in the off-road Community many people rent my cars for basically a bottle of whiskey so it’s okay but yes so that’s the question b laner car or are we going to see you slide over here with something from the UK well I’ve got
One of my crew sitting in the crowd so I’m just going to ask him James what we doing mate apparently it turns out we’re bringing our car over are you sure I mean you may have gotten uh addicted to that freedom seat on the left hand side of the car
You can move it I heard and now I heard you’re looking for a sponsorship from the Uncrustables Camp we’re looking for you got addicted to those little uh I’m going to I’m going to next time you’re here Jim I’m going to change your life Uncrustables in the freezer oh everyone here knows what
Who’s had an uncrustable out of the freezer is that not the greatest yes that will change your life Jim I promise you I I feel like just got Miran right oh it’s full Mir that’s full Liberty my friend the minute you eat it you’ll just be like man I taste all the
Freedom he just lined up for the comedy show Jim and I didn’t even start on running out of fuel yet all right so while we make fun of Jim we’ll jump back into calling the race again I guess so that was the 4499 of that’s the 4499 of Clinton
Peterson Dr Danger he calls himself now I’ve got it down here that he’s a rookie but he’s not showing a rookie number on the side of his vehicle yeah it may have been uh no I’ve got first Ultra 4 USA race uh Montana 2023 so maybe it’s just
First King of the Hammers race first King of the Hammers so first race Montana 2023 which would still make him part of our rookie program yeah so uh we got our heli chasing somebody here out in the desert we’re going to try to figure out who that is
Oh all right so this is we got an i who is this is who is this Jim Dave been saying that he saw Jason Shir out on track but I heard Tom way say that’s not but that’s not Jason Shir that is oh the Lamborghini it’s the Lamborghini oh my goodness the gener
Family will be happy pelo and the crew will be happy if that comes across the line oh I’m so I’ll be super CH for Jordan the work the time the effort that has gone into developing this vehicle it is cutting technology it’s technology that we’re going to see being used in
Years to come oh and there’s a heartbreak there’s Levi now for him to be winching right there Jim is like I’m looking at that is is he stuck is he broke we’re trying to figure out what’s going on right here we’ll see as soon as
They start to pull oh it’s just like oh I they’re just putting the winch line back in the car at this point yeah they are indeed so maybe he just got a little hung up there but yeah so we just saw uh Jordan pelo moving uh through the desert
And that is Levi Shirley now it’s interesting he’s putting the winch away there but he still looks in a bit in an awkward situation yeah couldn’t see what we obviously didn’t oh and there’s uhy yep Watley yeah AK Watley of course another one of our rookies here at King
Of the Hammers now AK was also the first person in qualifying to launch it down back door and that was the gauntlet was thrown down at that moment that was him saying to the big boys if I can do it you can do it show us what you
Got yes so as we continue with the action here it’s Pam Hall is out on stage at the moment she’s got another finisher with her Pam down to you thanks I’m here with Eric Miller we’re out here and you’re saying it was a good day uh
You’re here at the finish before dark so it’s got to feel pretty good yeah it was uh it was a great run um last year you know it was my first enf in like 14 years so that’s hung really heavy every night laying in bed and to get another
Finish here at hammers is awesome the car was uh the car did great all day um we had a couple issues but um I’m really happy kept forward momentum well it’s exciting to see you here who all would you like to thank for getting you out
Here I’m going to be up here for 10 minutes the list is too long um I got to thank right out of the gate I got to thank Jeff gter for building this motor he did it in short order it was last minute he closed the shop put it
Together we had a week to put this thing and uh if it wasn’t for Nate and Cameron and Kenny coming up and help uh I had my buddy Michael in the shop it was a a lot of people came together at the last minute to make sure this car would make
It up on this Podium so big thanks to Jeff for doing that um and then Fox mikee Kim spent a ton of time with me this week uh we tried some crazy stuff and we’ve been chasing around but it was one of my uh best deser setups so really
Big thanks to Mike on that um I’ve been working with tube works we actually went to a high pinion in the rear of this car this year and I’ve been scared as heck to do that since uh I won on one in 2012 but I had a lot of issues so for a
Decade I was against it entirely but sitting up here with a a j re Drive Line without a scratch on it and uh it’s thanks to that high pinion rear so thanks to Jason he’s been working long hours supporting all his customers and uh you know he brought this diff back to
Me yesterday at 6:00 in the morning uh we pulled it after qualifying to check it and just be sure everything was good um and lastly I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for cim Douglas and Optima uh they keep coming back they’re they’ve become like family to me they build an
Amazing product but they really uh you know they Power King of the Hammers and they power our team and it’s and it’s uh it’s awesome to have uh like-minded individuals supporting the program because we’re out here to do this and do it as best we can well congratulations
Up I can’t even talk right now up here on your finish Eric Miller you have uh your family over here as well you’re going to take some pictures and celebrate but congratulations yep if it wasn’t for my family I wouldn’t be here this year was kind of uh it was kind of
Refreshing for me we uh we were kind of late getting out here but I I drove it all solo and brought the boys in the semi with Leah and uh you know I’d like to say we took a good old time but it was you know it was pedal the metal get
Here but it was really nice to to kind of drop down through Kansas and Oklahoma with the kids and them get to see combines and you know the land trains with container stacked too high my boys were like you know wideeye Dad look at this look at that and honestly that’s
What it’s all about this this whole event what Dave’s created um it’s just you know we’re all here to to win and and do well but like we’re creating lifelong memories with family and friends and and that’s what’s so important and my heart really goes out
To you know all the people we had some we had something terrible happen last year and this year you know we there were some other issues and my I just been praying for the blers um and and Austin Austin lost his life last week uh
And it could happen to any one of us it’s it’s terrible tragedy um I got to meet his family and you know I could e very easily be in their shoes it almost happened last year but it won’t deter us from coming out here because we love
This place we love the people and we love the sport and you know what’s a life if you don’t live it so you know I know those people that uh you know looking down I’ve got a lot of good people up in heaven that watch over us
My mom my dad my niece uncle Rodney there’s a lot of good people up there that I I’m racing in their honor and uh proud to do that well congratulations your boys are back here asleep actually in a wagon so uh we’ll let you celebrate you guys have a
Long drive home but again let’s give it up one more time for Eric Miller thank you very much Pam now Jim we were just watching Levi uh do some work with his winch there but do you have an update as to what was going on out there yeah apparently said he had a
Um had an issue um they had a winch line come loose underneath the car and that got wrapped up around a drive line so they had to cut cable off of the uh off the vehicle and look at this now though it’s Jordan pelo coming in through the
Bronco Arch oh this is so good to see oh they’ll be so excited to get this car back in across the line I know they’ve been fighting that finish for the longest time yeah and this is a revolutionary car it’s running IRS it’s running ifs it’s also got portal hubs on
The vehicle as well and they’ve just been chasing little demons every year making it better and better and better so this finish this is going to feel like a win for them this is going to be absolutely awesome yeah I talked to uh Tony pelo earlier and that’s exactly
What he said he said this year we got what we need we’ll get this car to the finish and then uh once we get this under our belt then next year it’s pushing for the win yeah I still got to say I mean Jordan’s been racing out here
For wow how many years now at least 10 12 years he started off in the uh 4600 class then moved into that 4500 class was very successful and uh see in 4,400 in in a Cutting Edge vehicle is awesome yeah super excited for that whole pelo genri off-road Camp they’ll
Be happy to get the lambrini back into town there it is comes across the Yukon launch through the start Finish Line oh Jordan’s going to be absolutely pumped as he crosses the line now and is an official finisher here at the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by Nitto Tires and
Powered by Optima batteries I can hear huge cheers in the background down there yeah hu they the the Pelos have a huge support Camp they always come out we’ll always hear see them around the fire here late at night but that’s them bringing uh Jordan into
Town we’ll get him stacked up and right now we’re watching Josh basy out on course if you’re only just joining us this is the 2024 Progressive King of the Hammers presented by Nitto time powered by Optima batteries and this is the Nitto race of Kings what a day of racing it’s
Been so far it starts at 8:00 this morning and earlier on today we had a new king crown when JP Gomez crossed the line to take his first king Title Here at King of the Hammers his name will go with all the other kings Shannon Campbell Jason Shir Randy Slawson Lauren
Healey his brother Ral Gomez and Eric Miller of course don’t forget Shannon Campbell in that list either I would not I did get him I think I got him first yeah heartbreaking to hear about Shannon losing that motor that’s just such a shame after he pushed so hard to get
That car done and get it out here and lose that motor yeah absolutely and we’re also seeing a change in the hierarchy in second place today was none other than Kyle Cheney in a Canam UTV an amazing run from him and then Brett Harold coming to the line in across the
Line in third position yeah pulling off the stage right now we’re just seeing Eric Miller move that Miller chassis car off of our stage and then we’ll get another finisher up here we have them stacked up in the infield we’re going to bring them all up
On stage for you watching at home and the big crowd that’s gathered around here in hammertown once again as Jim was saying another amazing day of racing out here in Johnson Valley California still lots of time left it’s only 4:00 lots of cars still out on course
You can see right there the sun is starting to set and these canions are starting to get dark is that who’s that Jim is that that’s not I’m just trying to spot that is is that is that Cade no no no no no okay nope it was just a glitch in the I
Thought I saw the little white stripe on the side but no I’m starting to get to that point during the day that I recognize the cars but I can’t actually remember what their numbers are it happens it absolutely happens yes I Think I’m Going Hammer blind well it’s been a long week out
Here racing but a great week yeah and the thing is we all love it we’re all massive fans of the racing we’re huge fans of the drivers and that is Jeff Wagner there in um Lauren Healey’s old car yeah such heartbreak for Lauren Healey out there blew the like lose that
Transmission so close to coming back into town running away from the race such a shame but this is the thing it all can happen at the smallest of times I mean yesterday we saw adversity when somebody ran out of fuel 5 miles away from the finish today we’re seeing
Lauren Healey losing a transmission literally two miles from the Finish you know it’s incredible yeah but right now Pam is out on stage with another one of our finishers take it away Pam I am here with John web you are the man with the music huge crowd back here how you
Feeling right now pretty good actually uh it was a hard course but fun well let’s talk about this this morning on the uh start line you were playing some jazz music was that uh to keep you mellow and calm yeah get into the groove you know and uh once once the checker
Flag dropped it was all it was on well here you are up here at the finish for the Nitto race of Kings for 2024 in one word how do you feel uh amazing there we go that’s a good one I know you have a huge group of people
Behind you who all would you like to think for sure my wife and yesterday was her her birthday so wish her a happy birthday if we could do everybody singer happy birthday that would be awesome and then definitely my crew my car caught on fire last uh Saturday in
My trailer while I was sleeping in it so um they kicked but and got the car all back together um for sure BFG Tire uh dirty life Wheels uh Synergy poly um Baja Designs let’s see I got a list Rob Zombies uh El lrod Pro straps um Fox for
Sure and diffs by Perry he uh builds one badass diff and uh Baja Designs I don’t know if I said that in VP fuels so uh yeah I mean I can’t thank my crew enough literally this thing caught on fire in my trailer and uh yeah we we brought it
Back from the ashes so it’s pretty cool that’s a pretty amazing story you know we hear about fires all the time with racing and everything but for you to be asleep in in the trailer when it happened it doesn’t look uh like anything happened to it so did you get
It all new wrap on it uh yeah the wrap wasn’t on the car at the time but uh the fuel cell the seats the window Nets the speakers the um yeah a lot of stuff got cooked well I’m glad that you’re good you’re up here with us you finished the
King of the Hammers so congratulations on this finish right here a win in itself thank you thank you yeah from here on out I’m in living the bonus life from last week and so Life’s good all right let’s give it up one more time for John
Web thank you very much Pam always good to see John Weber back in town he is the the man who brings the party to hammertown that’s for sure all right as we watch Levi Shirley on screen during that interview we did see uh Bailey Cole out on course still moving Dave said
He’s almost into chocolate thunder right now so we should uh be able to see him again on camera shortly yeah we also saw Philip mcgilton out there we haven’t seen much of Phil today so great to see that he’s still out there and running Levi always fights adversity and
All always keep pushing and pushing and pushing and just like that there’s car 47 Philip millson now this man has been having an incredible 2023 so great to see him here back at the Hammers I I’m assuming it’s someone’s birthday out on stage Jim it does sound that white doesn’t
It yeah so just sing Happy Birthday to John web’s wife there now John Webb do you remember back all the way back in a thousand years I think it was 2014 where we saw Randy slon making that move up through Elvis and it was John Webb who was on the left hand
Line on that day making his way through with his speakers blaring and his yes I do remember that he always has the speakers and always brings the party but while we watch uh Dave where where are we at who who should we be looking for next coming into uh coming back into
Town how about that car there that’s Bailey car we just saw yeah so there David said we would see Bailey and chocolate thunder so this is Bailey going up through chocolate thunder right now so Dave what car is Bailey driving here he’s driving an sxor that car is a
Uh I think a 10 or 11 year old uh sxo car um Brandon Johnson’s I think originally built it sky and Cole John have been racing it for a while and they all hooked up last year and raced the the Baja Baja 1000 this past year and I
Think they uh they like racing with each other so that’s how friendships are formed yep we love that all right so as we watch Bailey come out the top of chocolate thunder if we look at uh so Dave if we were to jump onto the tracker now who
Who would we expect to see come back into town next Josh Josh baxi is the next one in uh based on the tracker okay so yeah coming down through Melville right now probably 15 20 minutes out yeah all right so we just saw Josh on screen so next in the town possibly Josh
Basy into town then then Levi Shirley oh that’s good to hear cuz we were just looking at him as well so Levi Shirley after that we got news that he was coming down our first our first W our first rookie AK Watley oh wow look at that possibly our first rookie that
Would be awesome to see I’m seeing um seeing Jason’s here still stopped I heard some bad I heard I heard he broke his thumb that Tom before left he said he got a text message that Jason Sher was stopped broken thumb and the steering in the car was done can I show
You the picture so when Racers can’t say they can’t tell the difference between the bypass and the Rocks I want you to understand tell me if you can tell a difference between those two things Dave Dave I know this is a bone of contention every time but yes I but I didn’t make
They’re not they’re not I I didn’t make put vcps this is exactly on the left right here yes on the left down on the bottom is where we put the vcp for spoon when we’re putting it in so that you can’t be up there yes but we didn’t put
It in this year we just left the Rocks be hard enough yes yes Dave Dave I I will be the first one to absolutely agree with you that yes when they say I can’t tell the difference they are lying to you 100% but I also I’ve got to mention that
Because I I like the way that you flowed it this year because there was a lot of people what’s Dave going to do this year how’s he going to change up how’s it going to make people stay in the Rocks well what you do is you just put in some
Harder trials and say do what you want to do which is what you did which I I really like that and I’m very intrigued to see what you’re going to do next year I know you’ve got something up your sleeve that’s for sure it’ll be
Fun you know Dave that that brings up an interesting uh topic so we can sort of while we’re waiting for some flow here let’s talk about this how how long do you spend sitting down planning out this is or or do you have like race courses
In the back of your head where you’re like I’m going to do next year I’m going to do this two years I’ll do that or is it just are you thinking about next year next week or is it a few months out from here different just different parts of
It like different there’s different things that I want to incorporate and then there’s J there’s Jason right there unfortunately um so but uh yeah I want to incorporate different features of the race course and then we figure it out we we going to go to Pam real quick I believe we are
Yes I am here with Dan fresh you’re up here on the finish out here uh I asked you if that was your brake line just now when you came up here what happened there you know the brake line broke so somewhere in lap three and the guys just
Put some vice grips on it I didn’t realize they visce gript the whole back brake system so we just had fronts but uh you know we still made it the finish line and that’s all that matters out here what do you think about the race
Course this year uh you know what it was it was a rough course uh I thought the Rocks were really sharp this year so uh you know I think that caused a lot of flat tires but at the same time gives you good traction so uh it was a uh it
Was a really difficult course but uh this vehicle really worked well it was a loner vehicle I just got from Cody Wagner just a couple weeks ago and uh he was nice enough to uh put us in this thing because our our other race car that’s being built wasn’t ready so um we
Had like four days Evan Weller’s crew went to work on this thing prepped it and it made the finish line so thrilled to death well super excited for you who all do you want to thank for getting you out here this weekend you know obviously I got to thank Cody Wagner I wouldn’t
Even be here if he didn’t lend me a car so I got to thank Cody Wagner and Laser nut uh Fox shocks uh you know obviously they helped me out quite a bit Adventure off-road uh they’re one of my primary sponsors and they uh you know a lot of
The crew comes out and helps uh Warren Winch which we have a nice Warren Winch but we didn’t use it all day I was blown away no winching uh Sparco Factor 55 J reel made us a lot of drive shafts I was messing those things up right and left
Um hitting rocks but uh today no drive shaft change BFG tires um our our team they put in a lot a lot of work all week long trying to get things going uh our families you know we they obviously are put on the back burner while we’re
Trying to get ready to go Evan Weller’s team for doing uh some of our pits and last but definitely not least uh the good Lord Jesus Christ for keeping us safe out there awesome well congratulations on your finish out here we’ll let you go celebrate get some
Pictures but let’s give it up one more time for Mr Dan fresh all right thank you very much Pam as we were getting through that interview with Dan in our big pitcher we did see Levi Shirley uh coming across the desert section in that car which is
Good to see we do expect to see him back into hammertown pretty soon yeah and that is AK Watley so is that our first rookie that looks like that is our first rookie indeed he’s making his way out towards the back of resolution see just the little skull and
Crossbone and signs there there to help the drivers out there’s a couple of really big uh ditches there they just take got to be careful on them just not not to knock their teeth out there it is let give a little shout out to the the
Fans over in Turkey claw you guys will be the first ones open to the public but it’s not going to be for another hour or so maybe even two hours we’ve got cars coming in still finishing the second lap soon as we get them back around through
You we’ll open it as fast as we can so Dave what so Dave what time is the shut off first third lap entry it’s shut off at 7:00 and that but uh I’m look trying to on the map there’s not that many people that can meet that and are still
Moving 727 Rod Cav’s in the pits he’s getting ready to go out right now um there’s only a handful that are still coming in that uh all right and there is Levi Shirley right there now Jim what’s go do we what’s going on with Bri Brian croft’s car cuz
Originally this morning we were told he was going out just to assist with whan but I keep seeing it pop up racing I’m not sure if I’m completely honest because I also heard a rumor that wh and Campbell was actually co- driving from father Shannon Campbell uh before that
Car broke again so I’m really not 100% certain as to um what’s going on there with Brian’s car obviously he’s entered the race uh he’s a driver of record um and he can race if he wishes to yeah we saw him leave last off the line and and
What we were told at that time was he was just going out to help whan cuz whan was broke but obviously that didn’t happen and I did see his car pop up when I was back in the VIP and we just saw it on screen there again so we’re going to
Have to figure out what’s going on there but this is Hunter Sparrow right here picking their way through yeah been toughed at the office for the camp today coming down Jack yeah been a tough day for the Campbell today we obviously we saw whan broken only literally 2 miles outside of
Hammertown then we’ve got confirmation that Bailey Campbell had blown her motor then Shannon also same thing blown motor um but the last we heard which was a long long long time ago was that Brian was heading out on track to try to assist whand Campbell so the only thing
I can think of is that it’s actually whand is in that vehicle because that would be the only thing that would explain why he was in remote pit to you’re talking in what vehicle Brian crosscar I believe that is Bailey Campbell cross driving that car oh did
Bailey get in that car make sense baile Bailey is in number nine and good whan has been staying in the race even though his car is not functioning well he’s still um technically in the race in case he can be help to his sister sh and Bailey Bailey Campbell is
In crossing over from chocolate thunder over to uh the lap three Winner’s Choice Trail right now and that car there was the 2023 Ultra 4 USA championship winning car driven by Bailey’s husband ban s well that is super good to hear Dave now that you cleared that up I was kind of
Wondering what was going on but it’s good to see bayy still out there racing a yeah when Bailey went out I believe if I understand correctly the way the the chips fell today Brian Brian broke his back and couldn’t race but his car was healthy and sitting in the pits we knew
That yeah so when Bailey went out of the race she became the backup driver for Brian’s car Brian’s car is out there and she’s driving it so excellent that’s amazing that’s great to hear I always love to see Bailey out on uh of course uh last year she jumped in uh Levi’s old
Car and shared racing duties when they’d lost the uh motor so it’s good to see her out there but right now Pam has another finisher up on stage Pam take it away I am here with Von G Jr you’re out here at the finish for the 2024 Nitto
Race at Kings smile on your face as usual give us a little rundown oh my gosh well what had happened was we decided to let the entire field pass Us in Turkey claw plus like 20 minutes because this race isn’t hard enough on its own we’re like yeah you know what we
Just need a bigger challenge so why don’t we just break the drive shaft in mile three and uh that’s what we did uh Jeremy got out changed the drive shaft unfortunately like where it broke there it was like jamm between the shield it
Was just a it was a huge pain for him to get it out probably 15 20 minute job turned into an hour and I just watched all the guys go by and I’m like oh my gosh you know just getting bumped run over but uh yeah and
Then we got out and and just pushed super hard and um I just switched it from like a race to like a learning um and you know I learned so much this weekend about how hard I can push uh brocky to not break through the desert
I’ve always like a little bit of fear of breaking you know we run a high pinion here which is a little weaker on the coast side of the gear and Lauren’s always telling me don’t burn it down the desert don’t burn down the desert so I
Tried to burn it down the desert today and it didn’t burned down so um and we had a Flawless race the rest of the race I mean I got two Flats one jumping off black back door and then another one coming into resolution today so it was like perfect case
Scenarios um if you’re going to get a flat and uh yeah other than that it was just smooth sailing uh you know Jeremy subbing for Eric my my best bro my normal code dog and he’s just unbelievable um his notes were on point all day and his lines and the Rocks like
We just we drived well and um we had a ton of fun that’s what funs do right exactly as I was going to say that myself but I know you have a ton of people behind you and your whole entire program so let us know who all gets you
Out here yeah obviously huge shout out to Monster Energy uh you know big supporters of King of the Hammers and Ultra 4 and um you know just awesome that all of our partners supporting this what’s going on here and you know Ford and Ford performance you know obviously
We ran the uh 4500 Broncos yesterday or 4600 sorry and um you know got second place with those and it’s just so amazing to see Ford’s commitment to off-road uh Nitto tire just unbelievable what these tires go through I I could literally drive home on these things at
This point um penoil uh shell gasolines um really made us some amazing race fuel for this weekend uh using their V power technology and so the truck stayed cooler than it ever has and it just making serious power and um uh yeah Fox shocks we got live valve in here it’s is
Unbelievable like constantly adapting different modes for the rocks different modes for the desert and you know just like a stock Bronco Raptor Raptor you know it just always adjusting to what’s going on so um but yeah no huge thanks to everyone Optima batteries they got a huge display you know it’s just amazing
To be working with the partners that are so committed to the space and working to bring us great products not only for racing but for the fun wheeling and you know everything that we enjoy doing Offroad so and thank you all for coming out I know it’s a cold morning long day
Getting chilly tonight but you all really really bring the party and the energy and uh make Hammer something special so uh thank you all so much and all the cour workers last but not least they uh they’re out here staying in the desert all day but they’re when they’re
When they need to help they dive in and it’s it’s really cool to see so yeah a lot of gratitude here well congratulations up here on your finish we’ll let you go get some pictures we have your trophy actually from the second place last night of the 4600
Stock class so we’ll try to put that in your car but Von getton Jr here congratulations let’s give it up for team fun Von gon Jr thank you very much Pam good to get Von and while we’re talking to Von who do we see come across the line Jim yeah
We see none other than Levi Shirley crossing the line which was absolutely fantastic great to see Levi now Levi of course was one of our fastest um qualifiers in this race so uh he’s had some bad luck out there today but I’m sure we hear about it very very soon and
It’ll be big smiles all around for the Shirley family as we watch there and that is the 726 of Dennis sternal and that there is Brian Hayes yeah prior to that on screen we had Mel Wade and Mel Wade Jr out still moving through the course we have lots of finishers here in
Hammertown yeah what a day of action it has been if you are only just joining us this is the 2024 Progressive Insurance King of the Hammers presented by nto Tai and powered by Optima batteries and this is the big dance this is the Nitto race
Of kings and earlier today we saw a new king crown JP Gomez brother of last year’s King Ral Gomez brought it home in an incredible battle from the back started in 99th position fought his way through the field to take the prestigious title and to lift the septer
And to make sure that it stays with the Gomez and I think it’s fair to say they’re not just Kings it’s now a dynasty it’s the a dynasty that’s good Jim I like that that’s good to see yeah it you know I know we had Lauren Hy
Pushing for that win that would you know he wants to add that add that triple crown uh I know Raul would have loved to be the three Pat Uh in in the in that club as well but it’s great to see uh JP come back from the very very back and
Pull in that win well if anybody missed it out there you missed a classic lap three I mean Dave and Tom were talking about it they said this race doesn’t even get started till lap three Jim and they were absolutely Bob on we had at
The start of lap three ra Gomez was in the Le lead then the lead was taken by Casey Curry who was having the most incredible race then he got taken out then Kyle Cheney in the Can-Am took up the flag and was carrying it all the way
To the Finish until he got passed by Lauren Healey Lauren Healey looked like he was going to be absolutely Unstoppable and a transmission failure literally one mile from resolution then it was Kyle Cheney that brought his wounded X3 Canam across the line but then out of nowhere came JP Gomez with a
25-minute adjust time advantage to lift and take the checker flag and that title yeah it was absolutely amazing that was a great recap Jem that was awesome all from memory that’s great but right now I hear uh Pam has another one of our finishers on a stage as we watch our
First rookie just cross the line on the screen but Pam take it away thanks thanks I’m here with Kade Rod you were our top qualifier for our Nitto race of Kings you smoked everybody out there on the qualifying run but here you are up on the stage for a finish you got your
Finisher plaque over there but how do you feel I feel pretty good I was kind of bitter pulling onto the stage it’s why I tried to run over these trophies over here but uh um I feel all right you know it’s uh I learned a lot today running with you
Know Raul and sheer I learned their pace which was which which is great going into uh future years being able to know what they do to win this you know um and it puts puts it into perspective you just have to have a perfect day like it’s not an attrition race anymore I
Mean it is there’s a lot of people not finishing but it takes one mistake to ruin the entire day and be out of contention for a win which is insane when you think it’s a 7h hour however long it takes to win you make one wrong
Move or one wrong turn or make a mistake it’s just it’s over well let’s talk about this because out there today we saw Jason Shear go over the top of your car to get through the trail so what was that discussion like well I was uh I was
Stuck there for a little bit and I knew he was coming so I was trying to get out of there so I could stay in front and then he came around and I ended up in that line because I was trying to go around Casey Curry and I knew that line
Was a terrible line but I thought I could bully through it um and then when he pulled up he was trying to go up a different line and then asked if he could go over the car and being a guy like cheer who is a guy who’s always a
Favorite to win this I was like yeah dude of course you can run over it and whenever he came over it it his the belly of his car landed on the front bumper pushing it down but when his front end extended his tire buried under the front bulkhead so we were like tied
Together trying to get out and then when Eric pulled up he buried his rear tire in between the chassis and my rear tire and he couldn’t go anywhere so it was a a King sandwich if you will it was a Outer Limits meets the casting couch in a way
Um it was a long time that we were stuck there it I was there for like an hour and then finally I used my good old spare Nitto tire to jam it underneath the tire to back up out and Jason Shear took off but then I had to pull forwards
To get off my tire and throw it on on the back and I threw it on the back and then hor pulled up behind me and put himself exactly where Eric was so I was like oh my God had to rip the tire off and then put it under the front and I
Was burning rubber from this tire and burning rubber on the spare tire it was it was a nightmare but really other than that the car ran great I uh didn’t have any Flats uh didn’t have any issues um the shocks didn’t fade at all which is insane because when you’re out there and
You’re running that hard and you’re just running through the desert they typically fade and get really really soft but they almost felt like they finally caught wind coming back into town after lap three but she started running a little weird when I let Raul buy across fizer mountain and then Shear
Got past and I tried to catch them and I caught shear and then ended up Stuck In Outer Limits but just just that one mistake just took like an hour of time so but you’re here at the Finish that’s what matters you’re here before dark you can still celebrate for finishing the
2024 Nitto race at Kings who all do you want to thank for getting you out here uh I want to thank all the guys on the side of the car you know I uh went with a different Livery this year and I decided like who if you were to come out
And win this race like who do you feel comfortable splitting the win with and so I put all the name of the guys that have helped me um free of charge or just given their time to come out here on their own dollar or whatever and I feel
Comfortable splitting a win with them and all the companies on the side of the car uh Bill Stein Nitto Vision um L rods my boy Steve schaer over here he’s not on the side of the car but Grizzly habits this guy’s this guy’s an animal I
Seen him like 12 times out there I couldn’t believe the places he was getting to um yeah everybody Jimmy’s 4×4 of course they uh have a guy there that builds an amazing car his name’s Kade Rod he he really builds a sweet car so they got a they got a hammer at the
Shop um yeah everybody you know it’s been it’s cool because I’ve been with nto since the dawn of this and they’ve stuck with me through some of my worst performances and best performances so it’s cool to finally get a finish here and have the performance that we did and
Know that if we didn’t make that mistake today would have been drastically different but I learned the pace of the guys that win this race so hopefully I can remember that and just figure out the issues and don’t make a mistake next year well we know you can qualify good
That’s for sure that is uh in the in the works there but next year might be your year so congratulations on finishing let’s give it up one more time for Kade rod well thank you Pam always great to hear from Cade Rod there oh there’s a you
Know you can feel that emotion can’t you there’s that you can feel it hear that emotion right there yeah you can actually feel the horsepower as well good G um but that’s the whole thing isn’t it it means so much to these teams it means so much
To these drivers and they give 100% And you heard what Kade Rod there said you can drive a perfect race and then just make one tiny mistake and that’s you’re done we we saw un you know the past few years we’ve seen that unfold constantly someone will be leading they’ll run that
Perfect race and one thing goes we saw it a few years ago where Gomez broke upper control arm coming into into town we saw a few years ago where Jason Shear had two flat tires then ran out of gas on lap two we that today we saw to say
Today we saw Lauren Healey lose a transmission a mile from town we saw Cal Cheney lose that shock and if he had been able to run at full race Pace he may have been able to pull it in and win it absolutely and this is what we’re sort of seeing changing the hierarchies
Here a little bit you know we’re not seeing the same winners year on year we’ve seen last three years we’ve seen two different winners away from the the known pack of Kings yes which is absolutely awesome all right but Pam has another one of our finishers up on stage which is super
Good to see so Pam what do you got I am here with Kevin Sterns you’re up here at the Finish Line you have a little bit of a body panel I asked you which rock that happen on what’ you say one of them out there one of the rocks on one of the
Trails but here you are at the Finish how do you feel right now good good it was a a good day um had a really good time and uh great race course so yeah what was the uh most difficult part of this race course I bang the drive shaft in the
Start of lap two so we could only do about 60 in the desert that was the worst part for me so well you’re up here though at the finish I’m sure you have a lot of people you want to thank so let’s hear your list of sponsors uh first and
Foremost my wife um and my kids they put up with me in the shop for I’m gone I’m in the shop and I prepped this car myself this year by myself and that takes a long time and a lot of effort and a lot of resources so they’re
They’re first and for first and foremost uh Jen Briana and Kaden uh secondly uh Stephen Watson um he fixes things when I it up or sorry when I mess it up we don’t have sleep button sorry about that kids watching um you know dirty life for
Uh stepping up and being my title sponsor for the second year in a row um we’ve been with them from the beginning uh and uh you know we wrapped those with the Nitto Tires didn’t get a flat all day I don’t know how uh but I got to
Thank Nido for that um maximum trans uh gear workor sffs um I can’t believe they’re still under the car um fuel lab uh I need a list there’s more on the side of the car um yeah but uh the at the end of the day um my family and and people that support
Me so yeah and that’s what matters and you’re here at the Finish Line your family’s out here congratulations on finishing the 2024 Nitto race of Kings let’s give it up one more time for Kevin Sterns well thank you Pam that’s absolutely great and great to hear from Kevin
Sterns what a finish from Kevin so good to see and like all our drivers out here there’s so many years that work that go into getting them across the line and this is one of the Miller Brothers coming in now this is the 221 of Cody Miller there’s Cody Miller bringing that
UTV back into town yes as Kevin Sterns you know we talked about him earlier when he was qualifying you know he raced with us for so long in 4500 just got that car a couple years ago to jump up into The 4400 and I jumped out there
Quickly to talk to his co-driver Steven Watson he said it just the just the day felt smooth all day all day the day SM felt smooth and now they’re back here home in hammertown with a finish smooth is fast as watch Cody Miller crossing the line now and you can see there’s a
Some slight Rock rash under that vehicle yeah I can’t tell if that’s a I don’t think that’s a strategically placed item there uh J yes I think oh and there is there’s Bailey Cole we’ve been waiting to see him we kind of watching him out
On course yeah he’s making a good job of that he’s doing a good job we’ve been waiting to see uh when he would get back into town yeah he’s an incredibly talented young driver and he’s really starting to push his race program now raced down in Australia in
2023 yeah he won yesterday in our stock class came uh top of the podium so good to see him out there he’s now uh all the he’s got the cars painted up to match and and I had to try to teach miles how to stay this and take it for he’s got
The Js Js you’re getting there we’ll get you there yeah I just I just don’t have that I can’t peel it off the tongue quite as well as you can you got to eat a few more Uncrustables now but the great thing is it’s great to see a young man like
Bailey picking up sponsorship from a major player in the industry and I’m super chuff for him yeah great to see and he as we said he’s still out there looks like he’s carrying a really really good pace so once we get him back in town it’ll be interesting to see uh
Exactly what happened out there what got him off off off the pace that we expect to normally see from him don’t know if he had any problems yeah that is the Triple 7 there which is Brian uh sorry Harold fman or fan should I say now this
Was a brand new car in 2023 I got to see it at havu it was absolutely glorious but it’s certainly having some newness worn off here on the hammer trials that’s for sure yeah but I’m told that Pam has another finisher up on stage so Pam take
It away thanks I’m here with Tad daer you’re out here at the finish at the end we were watching you you were hauling the Mel through that lake bed how do you feel right now uh feel real good um this is our highest finish here at hammers uh
The last two years we’ve been right there and just had silly stuff bite us you know lap three stuff so no it was a good day feels really good to be up here well you’re out here this weekend racing but you had your kid the other day
Racing a whole family affair out there and I know you have a ton of people behind you as well so who all do you want to thank for getting you out here uh yeah I got a huge list um first you know like uh Chris Co drove lap one
Today and that was awesome he did great job Andy hopped in lap two and three and uh killed it and uh you know my family my dad works his tail off in this car with me my wife my kids they all put up with the sport and then all my partners
I can’t do without them um Mickey Thompson we only killed one tire today and and we really tried to kill tires uh AMS oil Warren we didn’t have to use the winch we had to pull uh somebody back once but that was the only time uh Yukon race line Hawk Performance
Off-road Anonymous he’s out here helping us too uh impulse Offroad Baja Designs off-road research you we have like live shocks on this car that allow us to go out and and drive that hard um FTA Josh West and uh Matt Taylor been helping us all week uh Fox epicenter graphics and
Uh just all the fans and competitors you know we we pre for this race for three months and it’s all about coming out here to go to battle with your competitors and and uh see what you can do so hats off to all the volunteers and competitors uh really appreciate it well
If it wasn’t for you guys coming out here racing we wouldn’t be here so congratulations to you let’s give it up one more time for Tad dower than thanks Pam appreciate that Tad welcome back to hammertown good to see you back in home safe and sound another finisher here at King of the
Hammers and right there Jim we’re watch who is this coming across the lake ped here uh that looks like the 4493 which will be Andrew mlin oh so and and this is this his third lap finish is this him coming in I’m fairly sure this is a
Third lap finish here from Andrew so this is a solid axle Jimmy’s 4×4 car you can always spot him he’s got the pinata on the roof which is proof that he hasn’t R the car yeah which which uh you know he did uh that’s another driver who
A few years ago broke the Internet by tumbling the car forward down the qualifying course breaking a rock with the front control arm and continuing to drive and finish his run those were two separate occasions yes so in fact it was one year he rolled the car end over end
And continued then the next year he destroyed a rock like it didn’t exist and evaporated it back into the ground well you know what they say Ian spectacular failure is better than dismal success it’s true yes I I that’s I think you normally say that that’s the
First time I’ve heard that this year if you’re playing if you’re playing King of the hammer bingo at home I apologize yeah we haven’t got to uh got to drop that one yet yeah exactly yeah you’re probably low on your score sheet now but there is Andrew mclaughin coming
Through our Ford performance short course couple more turns watch just one more turn now one more turn and he’ll be up over that Yukon launch and he’ll be back home then we’ll get him up on stage he can tell us all about oh Jim oh we could be wrong you is he just
Coming in for second lap he might be cuz he pulled into the pit he didn’t go over the launch now that’s interesting I could have sworn that he was on on his third lap just goes to show there’s so much action out there sometimes it’s hard to keep up with what what’s going
On so that’s Josh sell 1504 another rookie all right another one of these Freight Factory sponsored machines let’s see what’s going on as he are we uh finished here oh all right so that I’m being yelled at by the crowd that yes they are so that’s the finish all right great for
Them and that’s Jeff Wagner there and that was Lauren Healey’s car last year yeah Jeff making his way up now just look at how loose these trials are oh they’re incredibly hard to get through such especially once all these cars have made their way through these Rock Trails
Jeff Wagner making his way up this section of Trail as back in hammertown we have finished our race new King in place but Pam has another competitor up on stage Pam take it away with r Gomez here we are you’re not where you want to be but at least this
Is staying in the family how you feel right now uh it’s a little bummed out but it’s racing right yeah racing happens that’s what we always say you get to hand it over though here to JP in just a minute give us a little rundown of what happened out there we know that
Your winch line broke but uh let’s hear it in your words I was just running and they gave me a split they’re like hey Casey’s uh 15 minutes behind you and you probably have a vcp penalty and just uh stay consistent and I just hit that rock
And it just flung me sideways and backwards and upside down and and that was it and game over and then I was like well I can either s here try to figure it back out and some guys came by and uh the Havoc guys help me out went you back over and
A little bummed out but super excited we kept this thing in the house today this guy’s been wanting this wind for a long time so fire it up well at least it’s staying in the family like I said but who all do you want to thank for getting
You out here this weekend I want to thank my family uh my fiance Danielle uh everybody else [Laughter] here uh my pit crew uh Travis AJ uh jior uh Bob Joe Thompson UFO he builds an amazing machine no problems with the car all day it was a machine it
Was a monster I was like I was I don’t know I was just going and just like feeling really really good about the race today and the car handled amazing Right Tires nto Tires no Flats today uh Chris and the whole team from Nitto amazing job uh King shocks wow uh Brett
The whole team from King rebay everybody else there uh uh method race wheels uh Dugan Ray from Dugan is amazing motor guy builds me a badass motor every time we come out here and race and the rest of the gbr crew Everybody that comes out here and
Takes the time to come out and spend the time with us the pit crew was amazing today I was worried about trying to get my music on they’re like you’re good get out of here I’m like my music won’t work and so that was I want to know what do you listen to
Because John Webb was listening to a jazz music on the start line uh I just have bunch of ACDC and some Metallica and panta and the rest of the that’s get get your P pumping a little bit in the morning so now I was I was
Rolling I was smooth I was I had a I had a great race today I was running really good I was I was really good I had a good lead and then until I didn’t and so then got car back over and I can’t let
The guys down and finish the race out it was good until it wasn’t it was great till it wasn’t but the good thing is I get to hand this over to the kid all right JP take in the rains JP you got a big shoes to fill you got to come back two
Times next year I was just worri about today uh I told ra this morning at the start line did you dream about me winning and he said nope I’m like I’m coming the you know you know what the best part is you see how the line is
Going next year it’s going to just flow right this way darion’s inside here Dar you better get your line flco you better get your line cuz next year is coming right here just just like this right here just like this awesome well congratulations to gbr you guys had an amazing race out here
Congratulations ra on the Finish not what you wanted but congratulations thanks maam I appreciate it thanks he by the way thank you guys all the fans you guys are amazing you guys kill it sorry for my language but you guys are all red thank you very much hell
Yeah that is great to hear thank you Raul uh certainly not the day you wanted as Pam said but it’s good to see that car get back on four-wheels and back home into hammertown uh and uh have that scepter handoff that’s always fun fun to
See as a fan of the sport it’s always good to see last year’s King hand that scepter off to our new current King all right so R’s back into town and we still have more finishers out on course coming in to finish out this year’s Nitto race
Of Kings we’re stacking him up on the infield and bringing them up on stage but it’s been a great day of racing out here remember this is all part of the 2024 Progressive King of the Hammers presented by Nitto powered by Optima batteries we’ve had lots of amazing
Racing over the past three days their Canam UTV hammers Championship every man challenge yesterday and today being the Nitto race of Kings yes so much action out here on track and every time I see Bri body workk like that on an ifs car I want to say straight away that it’s Jason
Blandon but unfortunately ah yeah I know exactly what you mean but yeah we got news that he was out fairly early unfortunately yeah now this is the Mystery Machine we see now coming at us yeah we saw Jason Blandon struggle uh all week out here uh we see Jason race
With us every single year and Jason unfortunately in qualifying locked up the front differential and then uh had suffered another catastrophic failure out on track today out early you can see out there in the canyons the sun is obviously starting to go behind some of the walls that make up
These Canyons so it’s getting darker and darker and I can tell you from experience when that happens it gets cold out there here in hammertown we’ll be firing up our hammertown fire pit here shortly try to keep everyone warm the nice thing is when they do that the
Announcer Booth kind of smells like a campfire all night which is good to know kind of kind of makes us comfortable up in here all right we still have competitors out some are finishing lap two some are just leaving out on lap three uh there
Will be a cut off for our Racers who cannot uh head back out I believe it’s going to be between 6:30 and 7 so they can still go back out we just saw Andrew mcglaughlin come in we assumed that he was coming in at the end of lap three
But based on how he pitted and then went over to the uh finish out looks like he was headed back out into lap three so he’s headed out there for a late night out in the Hammers as we watch this is team monkey with a knife love the name of that race
Team as Jim gave us that excellent recap earlier lots of excitement out there on the trail all day today as r Gomez pulls off the stage yeah they’re super pumped out there that’s going to be a big party tonight Ian that’s for sure it will it
Will be so now uh now the question will be what happens next year you heard uh you Marcus you heard Marcos claim it I think he threw down I think that was a gauntlet drop from Marcos he’s like yep next year me no questions asked what an
Image that was there did you see that oh it’s AB amazing isn’t it yeah I love that look at the way that Zed’s just coming off of Chip’s car there absolutely fantastic stuff yeah that’s chip mlock that making his way up uh I believe that’s up through her problem
That’s right before he drops into uh chocolate thunder yeah he going to go from here he’s going to drop into idle issues drop down the bottom of idle issues and then he’ll be making his way onto chocolate thunder yeah we just saw Bailey calling chocolate thunder not too
Long ago and and based on the pace that he’s been carrying since then he’s making very very good time out on track yeah it’s great to see chip out out there now Chip was carrying a really solid Pace earlier so Something’s Happened they’ve had an issue out on
Track and actually I’ve got to say a big thank you to uh pip and to uh to um sorry to Chip and pip and an at Rufus yeah absolutely but I’m hearing that Pam is ready out on the stage with another interview for us Pam take it
Away I am here with Jordan you are uh taking a deep breath right here how you feeling beat we’re beat I woke up feeling a little sick this morning uh a little no yeah not not like that just like a sore throat but uh I knew I was
Going to get in the car and make this happen uh God what a crazy day that was that was a sick track um good job for on on Ultra 4’s hands for putting together that course that was phenomenal um we loved it so much we ran like three or four extra
Trails and uh yeah what a just crazy day honestly nothing crazy with the car we we threw on a we pitched a water pump belt on Thor’s hammer on lap three we threw a new belt on um the hood wouldn’t latch back on so I was like dude just pitch it like let’s
Go I want to get back so otherwise uh pretty smooth day uh big thanks to bayy Campbell Brian crofs they winched us through I don’t know what trail that was Paul herel yeah horel spotted us through another Trail so big thanks to those guys so what was your your favorite part about the
Course honestly the desert this car rips in the desert but I do love the challenge of the Rocks I do love the rock I I love the whole course honestly great course well that’s good to hear I know that Mr Cole likes to hear that as
Well you have a great group of people behind you so who all do you want to thank uh definitely every single person on this stage right now these fools kicked ass today uh I got to thank my boy boy Cole and Arnold I don’t know where he is but
Uh those two guys help me day in and day out prep this thing uh it literally wouldn’t be here without those guys yeah gen right Mickey Thompson uh R1 Concepts Fox uh TCO Odyssey batteries edel Brock FK Rodin comedic gaskets Vision X Canon filters Warren Winch Dei uh PRP J re
Drive Lines Griffin radiator Advanced adapters AR P air motive and summers’s Brothers Racing and little guy racing parts well congratulations on your finish let’s give it up for Jordan pelino thank you very much Pam appreciate you doing that we’re here in the booth uh right now I’m being told
That we’re going to be losing one of our favorite announcers for the day we love having him in here I personally like uh having his knowledge this Dave Cole Dave honestly it’s been great having you in your Jim Mar’s leaving right now oh Jim’s leaving right now I take that back
Sir well all the same things apply to you Jim I love having Jim in here yeah I’ve been here since 7:30 this morning I love this place so much thank you Jim for coming over again and congratulations on a great race I’m sorry I didn’t go your way this time but
I hope you bring your car back and I hope you’re showing what’s up who knew that fuel was needed to get to a finish literally everybody apart from me but there thank you Dave Amazing Race it that’s it’s not about me it’s about the races so let’s get back to that as we
Cut back to the action here I’ll be sitting out there as a spectator now and enjoying the rest of it so thank you mate I’ll See You by the fire very soon oh yes thanks Jim it’s been a great day appreciate it so Dave we were just
Talking before that uh we have one more car that’s going to come through for our uh end of lap two because we want to give uh want we going to clear that turkey claw Trail and give it back to the The Spectators wheelers out here well we we are planning going till 7
O’cl but we are uh with with the way the the cars are sorting out on course uh 4493 Andre McGloin and 4423 which I’m missing the name on they just came through 187 is the last car moving on lap two so um or at least last car
Moving anywhere close to the Finish Line on lap two and they’re coming down through resolution right now so when 187 clears through turkey claw we should be able to uh start releasing over that way so 187 being Ken Hall so when Ken when we get Ken Hall back in through town and
Uh back out onto that lap three as Dave said once we get them through turkey claw that will be our uh basically shutdown of the course at that point anyone coming in on lap two will’ll pull them off uh the trail and uh start sweeping things up but right now this is
What we’re watching right now is Cameron steel back moving again in that laser nut car you know who else I saw moving and I see showing up on the map right now is uh Amber Amber Turner we we saw her on screen not too long ago Dave uh yeah we
Saw her plucking along in that uh bommer Fab Legends car I’m super excited for her to be out in that car uh out here on the race as well so yeah good to see her still uh still plucking through the trails uh I I don’t know how much of the
Uh uh skills required to drive a Suzuki transfer over to a bomber but she’s certainly doing a good job out there if you can drive a azuki you can probably Drive anything that’s true that is absolutely true yes it is absolutely true all right so as we watch uh that is
Cameron Steel in that laser nut fabar we uh talked to him earlier saw that he had some problems but good to see they got it fixed and now they are back out on trail who’s that there in front of Hunter Sparrow I see Hunter Sparrow 72 who’s
That right there in front of him I’m trying to grab a number off of it Dave I can’t see it any Philip mcgilton number 47 there we go thank you 47 Philip mcgilton and Hunter Sparrow two longtime Racers coming down based on that view that is them coming down to
The bottom of Thor there’s somebody else making the Sand Hill up the alternate line you see in the distance and whoever that car is up there is out and now Philip and Hunter are going to try to do the sand and get up to Big Johnson they are on lap three
Coming back around to lap two all right so as Dave said oh look we got a couple different lines being taken here all right and I’m told Pam is on stage with another finisher Pam let’s hear what you got I am here with Levi Shirley
It’s so awesome to see you up here a great day for you you’re out here finishing King of the Hammers yeah absolutely it was uh man this one feels earned today um we had the pace I we just did not have any luck and that’s just part of it and that’s what makes
King of the Hammers King of the Hammers um but man am I excited for next year if if anybody else wants to line up tomorrow I want to do it again that’s good to hear so that means you had a blast on the trails did you find any of
Them being a little bit too difficult for you you know the one trail that I absolutely despise this is actually my 14th King of the Hammers is Outer Limits every year going into outer limits I just get this like horrible feeling of of what’s about to happen and again I
Had a little bit of trouble on Outer Limits we uh had a uh traffic jam and sat there for a half hour waiting to get people cleared um man that trail is just so unforgiving it’s like there’s a little gremlins out there getting you right yeah just some little tiny
Gremlins uh lap one we were actually passing Raul got around him and uh tossed a alternator belt uh pulled over changed it which is not a quick job on this car uh pulled in lap two got a drive shaft on Turkey claw which is like turkey claws the bunny slope of the
Trails you know it’s no big deal and uh third lap no big deal the uh the the windline got wrapped around the CV joint oh goodness and uh just stupid stuff all day but you know what we learned from it we’re going to come back even stronger
And the other thing too is you’re in here it’s not dark outside yet you can still get back to your camp and have some fun and celebrate yeah absolutely once my wife gets me a fresh fire suit uh if you know what I’m saying by the after after hydrating all day
Um I’ll be uh good to go but no I can’t thank my crew I can’t thank yokam Tire enough we just had a perfect day on yokahama Tire uh King shocks KDM shock Technologies spider tracks Offroad um RCV all of my sponsors that I did not
Mention um Cory nasso here rid and shock gun and again my crew I could not do without him it was so amazing this year I hardly had to work on my own car I just had an amazing crew uh working on it there in the tent and in the pits
Well congratul congratulations on your finish let’s give it up one more time for Levi Shirley thank you very much Pam it’s great to see Levi bring that car home we saw him struggling out here earlier but it’s good to see that one come across the stage as right now we are watching the
4401 now we have some changes on our notes here so miles out of this is Nathan lington I believe behind the wheel of this car we just saw him pulling some winch cable and we’re trying to figure out why it looks like he wasn’t uh he he’s at check me out
He’s in the he’s in the rocks at the top this is where um BR hurl pitched it this is where rul had problems originally all that’s the exact same shelf line that R was on right there so he could have just been pulling cable just to play it safe
To get up through there cuz he certainly seems to be uh uh struggling right now but as Dave said that is the spot where we saw Raul upside down it was heartbreaking to see that happen but good to see him back on all four that’s where R was successful ining check my
Out he was upside down in big Johnson okay thank you um calling out I’m looking for uh crew for 187 Ken Hill I believe it’s Kenneth Hill anybody here from 187 out here by the fire Ken Hal yes Ken Hal that’s the name Dave yeah7 you guys are an ear shot you hear
This call I’m looking for 187 Ken halil he’s on the other side of the resolution stopped uh we’re going to see if we can get him back in here and start lap three all right Dave and right now full in screen here is Bailey out on course
Again so where are where we just we saw him moving along where is he right now game Bott bottom of spooners through the past the bypass and spooners um working his way up this is about the same about almost the same place where he lost the
Front diff two CVS in are p passenger side door yesterday well hopefully he has better luck in there today in this sxo car so we’re watching him get through here and uh we should uh expect to see him come back into town how about what type what type type time frame are
We looking at from this 35 minutes 35 minutes excellent all right be great to see him come in that is our winner from our 4600 stock class yesterday obviously be good to get Bailey back in here for another finish I’m going to step outside real quick y I
Think I have 187 here in the pits okay Dave that’s no problem so Dave’s going to jump out of the booth while Dave jumps out of the booth we’re just going to watch uh Bailey come through and we are looks like we have another car coming back into hammertown right
Now Dave just oh and this is the uh 4848 this is little Amber Turner so Amber Turner we normally watch her drive that Suz suuki in the stock class during our Everyman Challenge and right now we’re seeing her bring this is the bomber Fab Legends car that we saw take first place
In our Everyman challenge yesterday they did a quick repre on it handed it off to Amber to jump in today for The 4400 class and joining me in the booth now is Mr Matt Hol hello Matt what is up everybody I have been out in remote pit
One we did some chocolate thunder videos it has been a great day obviously I’ve been watching in you while watching the race cuz I’ve seen some incredible Austin when Cheney was coming through I was sitting over in the tent absolutely incredible yeah but right now Pam is on
Stage with another one of our finishers take it away Pam thanks I’m here with AK Watley he’s one of our F finishers but he’s also one of our rookies out here AK Watley you got a big smile on your face as usual congratulations on finishing
Out here thank you so much I always have a smile but today my face hurts from smiling so much out there um really I got to thank my wife I don’t know where she’s at but Maria thank you so much for coming on this journey of chaos with me
And for all of the fans I’m so grateful for all of the fans of chaos all of the community of chaos um for all of our sponsors so waren racing chaos Fab shop fun without team fun helping us get this car prepped pitting for us their support
I don’t think we would have finished today RTR Vehicles Optima battery Sparco ibox springs for getting this thing just juicy dialed uh waren racing Factor 55 RCV axles Fox shocks oh wow thank you to everyone I really noticed these 74 weld portals and that was definitely an advantage today and then
Of course Nitto tire we only had one flat tire and that was my fault that was a rookie move so thank you to everybody that helped us get here well let’s talk about that you just said rookie move but you came out here here you did the trainings and everything you’ve been you
Know doing your homework but coming out here and actually racing it give us your thoughts and how you feel now that you’ve are finished and complete off the course if racing King of the Hammers is on your bucket list come to the rookie program they had all the kings out here
They had so much information I would say that we learned 10 years of racing hammers information just in the few weekends that we were out here so thank you for everybody that took the time to help us learn everything that we needed to do when I was over there on chocolate
Thunder whenever Bailey Cole took us and showed us the lines on chocolate thunder and back door and all of that stuff it made it so simple to go up that stuff so thank you to that rookie program well congratulations again we’ll let you celebrate with your team and your family
But out here for your first King of the Hammers super proud I am too thank you so much Pam this is awesome all right let’s give it up for AK Watley all right Pam thank you very much great to see that rookie driver come back in as he said that rookie program
So important we were talking about that yesterday with Dave here in the booth and we’re talking about how important the rookie program is we’re talking about things like Logistics and racing and all that kind of stuff but he had mentioned that one of the uh drivers in
The UTV race had said that one of the most important things they did was fire safety when they were in that R rookie program he he said they will go out and they will blindfold them how to get out of the car blindfolded upside down how where can you find your fire
Extinguisher if you can’t see and uh he said there was a couple drivers on course that said that they had some issues and that part of the program probably saved them and saved their car when saving that car is super important a lot of guys think about you know
Having that issue with the car or you know catching on fire for yourself being your personal safety but saving the car is also super important as well yeah you want to get on that and we saw that earlier today we had uh a few drivers with that broken oil line right outside
And he mentioned uh right there there’s the person that he had mentioned that Bailey Cole was out showing him some lines in the desert but right now we’re cutting to oh we just lost that shot so that was Bailey Cole out there in uh in a trail and this is the
727 so and I can tell you that 187 um Mr Brian Hayes 727 no 187 I’m sorry 187 was our last car on lap two that was Kenneth in The 4400 uh again you have a ton of guys still out on track we can see the headlights starting to come into play
Now yeah Ken Ken has decided to call tonight he doesn’t one to head up for lap three which means our last car on course right now is 4493 4423 is just barely in front of him but 4493 will be the last car going through turkey claw okay once they’re
Clear there we’re going to have an orderly closing down of turkey claw and and giving it back to the public and let him go do the things I like that orderly is what I’m asking for patience I’m asking for all those things yes on top of that we’re taking those course
Workers that have been sitting there all day long and we’re folding them back into the desert cuz we’re worried if people are going to go go on course I’m asking youall just just hang tight we’re going to be done here in about 3 hours let the cars come off off course be safe
We’re going to have a great night by the fire yeah all right yeah so Dave those poor course workers out there for so long I’m sure they’re going to want to come back into town get something to eat relax and and uh and basically stop their work day which started so so early
Today I hear you wanted to welcome Amber on stage she’s about seven cars back there but you should go welcome her on the line right now I’ll cover you you’ve been stuck here for a minute thank you Dave can it looks like we got car down there in Aftershock again we’ve seen
Quite a few cars come through there today 727 is probably the third third or fourth car from the uh uh from the back of the pack on lap three right now but they are still moving plenty of time to finish too do you know how many cars we actually have
Still on course I’m going to start doing that that little homework real quick before I get out of here and I was it was great to hear some of the content today coming from you obviously knowing the track is super awesome as well as hearing those car counts coming through
And remote pit one we were checking it out it was super awesome to hear some of that stuff and it was uh great for the uh viewership to keep track of all the cars what was the worst breakage you saw at remote pit one this morning um that’s
A really good question we had quite a few guys come with tires slicing um we had did have one crew I don’t remember what car number but they had a change of transmission uh but they did get it fired up and pulled out before we ended
Up leaving so I would say a tring transmission was pretty bad we seen uh the Suzuki Samurai and the 4600 class yesterday swap out of leaf spring a welded nut back on one of their bolts and said yeah we got to finish this so
We can drive it home I was like that’s a brave grave guy but uh definitely crazy to see some stuff com in remote pit one just because it is such kind of a early section in the race you expect to see a lot of more Carnage in the room up pit
Two coming through those later laps so definitely seeing some Carnage again you can see kind of that sun starting to set a little bit there on the screen that would be Andre mlin clearing turkey claw right there 4493 4493 and you can see those headlights coming
In use again how many cars start out the day with headlights and way you and Miles were talking earlier about some guys might be bolting them that on as a later laps uh do you think that’s kind of a plan going into the day or yeah the
Fast guys the fast guys might go out there without headlights on I’ve never started a race thinking I was going to finish before dark yeah gu but some of them I guess but uh I know we’ve seen quite a few guys out there with headlights again hopefully you’re not using them but
Unfortunately sometimes that’s uh way the cookie crumbles there’s going to be a lot in the lights tonight I’m going to start doing the math now but with 4493 through all right we got Emy out there we’re going to throw it to her so she can do a quick award
Ceremony thanks guys I’m here with Danny sternal in the 726 now Denny we were talking earlier and you said you were stoked CU you came in here before the sunset but you didn’t get to use your vision X lights that’s kind of a bummer yeah I’m just glad to make it here
Before it did get dark uh that was the goal uh we did turn on some of the lights um thanks to Vision X um we had a great day yeah what was the best part of the course today the desert lap and you’re like I
Give me I want to go fast I want to go fast 100% it was so fun that the desert lap was so fun uh my son actually got to ride with me in the first lap the desert Loop and then uh I got my my rock guy
With me in laps two and three so any winching that you guys had to do today technically not for ourselves oh you helped somebody else that’s awesome we did we did we uh Outer Limits was a traffic jam both laps so you get a winch
People out of the way he was out of the car helping everyone else so everyone could move well that’s true sportsmanship right like you you want to get them out of the way but you also want to make sure that everyone has a chance to make it here to this finisher
Podium now I know you’ve got a lot of people that you want to thank so tell me who are your sponsors and Shout them out first and foremost sternn doall Enterprises at my father uh my son he helped get our our race file together uh Evan Weller racing and his
Crew Vision x uh meth the race wheels um yeah oh yeah the Coast Guard guys came from uh Alaska and I believe Washington and they were a big part of uh helping us get ready here awesome well listen we’re going to get a photo with you and like all of your family and
Friends here congratulations on finishing here the Nitto race of Kings back to you guys in the booth again that was zy out there we looks like we have Brian croft’s car although Brian coft is not in it currently he had some neck issues so uh
When he when it pulled in remote pit one I was curious who was actually driving it it was bayy Campbell chatted her with for a second um so it’s kind of neat to see Bailey out there so we had uh again tons of people
Pulling a pit so it was great to do some of those pit one interviews this morning and I know I got six cars between the start line and shock with thunder six cars between on lap three the starting line and chocolate thunder okay 4493 4423 727 4401 4499 and 464 still moving
On lap three towards chocolate thunder okay I’m showing co uh Cole Johnson Ron prle 4469 4413 and 2404 are stopped on course and I’m sweeping past Chocolate Thunder right now to see what we see again trying to get a car count for see how many official cars we have still
On the track and moving I feel like that and moving part is kind of important there’s quite a few cars on track but we’re trying to count the in moving Parts yeah as David said we’re basically getting the the next two cars that came through and left out on lap three once
Once they’re through turkey claw we’ll get a sweep going on get those course workers back to town safely that’s Clinton Peterson on the screen there 4499 going through her problem bouncing off those rocks and we request if you are headed out to Turkey claw once it’s opened back up please keep in mind
There’s going to be people coming back from out there so just keep your head on a swivel when you’re out in the desert try not to get too excited wait until you get into the trail before you have too much fun cuz remember there’s going to be some course workers who have been
Out there all day working and when I say all day I mean all day yes again the race starts at 8 but a lot of those course workers are out there you know 5 6 o’clock in the morning we have drone pilots and cameramen that are make their
Way very very out early course workers uh you know people helping Mak you the course clear and we appreciate all those guys the long again they work they’re out there you know 4: 5 6:00 in the morning and they will be out there till late tonight after it’s dark again so so
We appreciate all the guys and all the hard work they do and the long hours they put on on race day and I believe on screen I believe that’s chip mcglaughlin I the lights are right in the camera but I believe I think I saw zand Z on the
Door I believe you’re right that’s correct yes they tried to adjust the camera for the lights and it it didn’t work there we go yes it was Chip mlin although in a few hours that’s exactly what it’ll feel like that Darkness with the just some lights on there well unfortunately when it gets
That dark we pull the camera off the course but as usual what I like to do is I will hang out here until we officially shut down this course I like to stick up here on stage until we get all of our finishers in yes it’s a long day but we
Like to have bring them in but Pam right now is on sorry ammy is now on stage sorry Emmy is’s taking over from Pam ammy take it away and I’m I’m here with Cody Miller here in his Can-Am now Cody you were telling me that uh you had a
Little bit of a rough race yeah we got to uh lap three well first off we had a phenomenal run in the desert we got here to the the main pit after the desert run and started lap two strong with a solid car and I no further made it almost a
Turkey claw before I rolled it over in the sand and thank God for Rufus racing they came over there and turned us over because we were right in a blind spot Cody Taylor had to run up the trail and just you know slow people down the whole
Time there was nothing to winch to I couldn’t flip the car back over but he stopped and and flipped me back over thank you very much for that uh so we we went on and then we lost our brakes uh the front brake lines ripped out so that
Was tough and then we got into lap three finally and blew the front diff uh in some ridiculously challenging Trail and uh and then we somehow uh made it to remote pit 2 and we were like all right you guys got a diff and they’re like no
We don’t oh my God so we went on to do chocolate thunder and everything else and made that whole lap with the two wheel drive and made it finally back to remote pit 2 again and and got a new diff right before we went down Outer
Limits and and we we finished the damn thing out it was really difficult the fact that you did a lot of those Rock Trails in two wheel drive and you’re back here before the sunset Cody that says something about your driving about your C- doogs c-d doing and about this
Canam yeah it was tough I tell you I couldn’t believe it we just got some uh brand new demon axles and I I was just amazed that this thing uh put up with the abuse that I gave it you know when we went up like claw hammer and stuff in
Toel drive it was just like I I can’t even believe it we didn’t even actually have to wiench a single time when we were in two wheel drives so it was amazing you know there’s a lot of bottlenecks out there Dave put together a very challenging Trail this year that
Was probably the coolest Rock Trails that I’ve ever hit in my life I mean this was incredible and uh just to finish this race you know it’s not it’s not where we wanted to be we uh we had dreams about hitting the podium this year in this class but uh didn’t didn’t
Quite happen for us but we’re just super proud to have finished you know this is my fifth year here at King of the Hammers and I’ve run two classes every year between the UTV and the 4,400 and and now we have a perfect record we finished every time that is amazing a
Finish is often a win and I have to tell you your friend in looks a lot better than Kyle Cheney over there so congratulations on that yeah well props to Kyle I mean he put on a hell of a drive today to come across the Finish
Line first and uh you know it’s that’s the beginning of the story for it but uh I mean kudos to him he’s an incredible driver and we have these incredible incredible machines with Can-Am you know our support is great these guys put together a hell of a product I can’t say
Enough about it and uh I’d also like to thank Max’s Tires they uh they they did an amazing job out there I didn’t get a single flat today Racine Wheels has got such solid equipment underneath us Tex ACH arms Elka suspension they come out here with George White and we’ve done
Nothing but test shocks all weeks and and it shows because we’re able to pass 90% % of the people out there in the desert we get to the rocks and we got to pick our way through a little slower than these big trucks cuz they’re so
Beefy but we made it you made it Cody congratulations we’re going to do a quick photo here I’m so stoked to see you enjoy the rest of your time in hammertown have a frosty beverage back to you guys in the booth thanks Emmy great to see him back into town Dave’s
Got a pile of car numbers written down here on a piece of paper going to give us an update as to what we still have out on course I have uh 18 cars on course next one in should be 53 Jeff Wagner 13 Bailey Cole 1505 um Tim
4451 I believe that’s uh Mel Wade I believe it is too yep I think you’re right 72 Hunter Sparrow 4480 yeah and as Dave said that’s uh Chris 6 yep 24 uh that’s Cole Clark I’m counting on him coming in he’s still in pit two right now uh but he’s he’s he’s
Uh coming in on the finish of lap three but he’s in pit two right this second Assuming he’s going to get going 777 4570 4 464 4499 4401 401 727 4469 is in uh in check me out 4423 and 4493 are working their way through the desert so those are all the cars
That we see out there still on course I’ve got six seven broken down um n 19 PA has been down for a while but 888 uh Cody Addington is now stopped next to him I’m not sure if Cody’s helping him or if he they’re in the same spot they
Look like the top battle limits area and the one car that I’m missing there’s Paul right there now let’s see what’s happening so that’s Paul trying to go down through the scissors of the top of outer limits I don’t see Cody there’s a winch line attached to the background but if
You pull back out you’re going to see 888 at the end of that line yeah that’s the winch line right there we’re trying to figure out what is going on here yeah you’re right no no that is not that is just a course worker well not just a
Course worker a course worker a worker yep helping him out so yeah we’re still trying to look for the 888 but while we sort through all of this we’re going to take a quick break from the action here on your Nitto race of Kings this is all
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Guy all right everybody welcome back to Johnson Valley we are here finishing up our Nitto race of Kings Dave’s working through the tracker to figure out who’s still out there but while he gig out figured out I’m going to go ahead and throw it to Emmy on the stage who has another
Finisher thanks so much I’ve got uh Matt maau here and Matt is in a great mood because you have finished in the light oh yeah that was the goal all day long is when I started I was like I don’t care what position I am I just want to
Finish in the light and it’s a good thing cuz I was kind of forced to cuz we lost an alterator after lap one so if I was in the dark yeah I was driving by moonlight so now this is Shannon Campbell’s old car that won in 2014 how
Did you feel driving it oh it’s awesome it was so much fun out here racing this car it’s yeah old girl still got it now tell me a little bit about your trouble that you had in Jackhammer well I uh I prean a line that I thought was a good
Idea um and it worked out in the crawler but it didn’t work out in the ifs car go figure um so I rolled it basically on its lid and then after I scratched my head for like 15 minutes I was like you know what I’m going to try to get this
Thing back over and I ran the winch down under the car and then over the rear axle and uh to a rock and then got it recovered and so thanks Warden Factor 55 cuz boys without you I’d be upside down on Jackhammer still probably making a campfire by now it’s amazing we never
Thought we’d use physics or geometry in racing and yet here we are using it to recover all the vehicles yeah I don’t know how I figured that one out but it’s creative thinking my friend well listen I know you’ve got some sponsors there on your phone so you don’t forget any so
Who do you want to thank to for getting you here well so most important I got to thank all my crew friends and family that came out to support it was a ton of work uh especially Mike day he’s my crew chief he puts in such long hours on the
Car constantly uh Blake Blake Kaufman he’s my cousin he lives with me too and we everybody just works on the car constantly it was a it was a lot of work to get here they did most of it to be honest I just kind of drove um and uh uh
Yeah I’d like to thank Canyon coolers they came on board this year uh the qualifying cooler run that’s uh that’s why uh they on there we had a canyon coolers in the back of the car baby so that was cool um huge transmission they’ve uh they’ve been with us since
The beginning they’re local out of Phoenix and they’re awesome I had zero problems all day and I beat the car pretty good and then uh uh FK rod ends uh PRP and uh Factory 55 Warren Baja design thankfully I didn’t need them today uh which is good because I have adulator to
Charge them anyways but uh yeah all those guys really stepped up and they’ve done great for me and I really appreciate awesome well Matt Lis and you deserve a frosty beverage so we’re going to take a f a photo with all your crew here Matt mcen in the 4409 a finisher
Here at the Nitto race of Kings back to you guys in the booth we Bailey Campbell here ripping through spooners again she’s in Brian cr’s car it looks like yeah that was an interesting story we had Bailey leave the line this morning and unfortunately lose the motor
And then uh you know Brian had his car here and was ready to hand it off so it’s good to see her still charging hard through the desert Now Dave has a list of I’m not going to ask them to raid through all of them CU there’s a lot of
Them but let’s just pick off uh maybe the next 10 cars that we should expect to see uh come back here into town Dave 53 Jeff Wagner 13 Bailey Cole 1505 Tim Hooper um 72 4454 54 4451 Mel Wade Hunter Sparrow 72 um I believe Bailey’s in there she’s not tracking right now
Brian cross number nine car um and also Cameron Cameron steel we see he still moving I’m not showing him tracking the one car I don’t really know about is 1481 Chase capraro he’s been stopped in spooners for quite a while we have um about 25 cars still
Moving 26 in that’s good well we’ll wait for them here in town but as Dave said that is our next uh next group that we should see come back uh into hammertown which is good we still have a a bunch stacked up uh behind waiting to for Emmy
To get him up on stage for their interview which is awesome to see again we saw speaking of Cameron steel we saw him this morning pulling in remote pit one where he had to a tire change and do a few other things so I just saw him on
Camera right a minute ago Whiley was doing her interview we saw him out there ripping through the desert so I think he’ll be coming in sooner rather than later yeah we talked to Cameron earlier and and uh they had had a pinion bearing go out so the question was uh you know
He was pretty BM out about that cuz they put so much time and effort into testing and and uh and come out here all the time and as he said it seems like every time they every time some they’re just chasing it’s not the same problem it’s just a different problem every single
Time and they definitely put in the work both him and Cody Wagner uh from laser nut they’re out here basically putting that car through its paces and again that independent front and rear suspension very very engineered C it’s always excited to see out here just obviously very unique Car kind of one of
A kind so they definitely put it through the races and again it was neat to see at pull and pit one I got talked to him for a little bit this morning and uh yeah absolutely and I believe Emmy has another finisher up on stage that’s right I with guy Miller
Here a finisher here at the Nitto king of race of Kings guy how was your day we had a blast we had to work for it but we had a blast another finish in an old car yeah how many finishes is this for you it’s uh my third K and our second finish
Hey pretty good two out of three we had a great time today though we wored for it though yeah how many winches did you guys do uh we only had to winch uh what was the trail we had to winch uh on the the third lap Trail next to Highway 19
And 20 but I think everybody did it was a pretty Nar line other than that um just minor issues with shifter cables and my rear housing trying to uh split in half but now you’re here just as the Sun is setting we are so excited to see
You who do you need to thank uh I want to first and foremost thank my wife she uh lets you spend a lot of hours in the garage as every guy here knows takes a long time and a lot of work to get these cars going I really got to thank my code
Driver and one of my best friends of over 20 years Keith Nichols um for getting in this thing with me and uh pursuing this dream of mine I got to thank uh Yokohama this is my first year on yokoh Hamas and these tires worked great it’s uh those worked really good
Vision wheel um willwood uh I got to thank the whole Rock rage camp couldn’t race if it wasn’t for rock rage uh winch mob who does recovery for Koh um who else I’m probably forgetting somebody but anyways it’s amazing how much it takes how many people it takes to get
One of these vehicles across the finish line and we’re so glad that you and Keith are here guy and Keith in the 4464 Car official finishers here in hammertown we’ll let you get a photo with your family glad to see you back to you all in the booth
Thanks Emmy but what we’re cutting to right now is there is Bailey Cole he’s coming down uh through resolution right now so I’m I don’t know if we saw another car ahead of him Dave or we expecting him to be the next one Jeff Wagner sorry Jeff Wagner was uh out in
Front of Bailey there and after Bailey will be bayy Campbell that is that’s amazing news so yes we were just talking about that Bailey’s actually in Brian cross car yeah and I it was very surprising cuz I wasn’t sure who was pulling up in Brian’s car this morning rote up hit one
I was like hey hello oh hey how you doing and I wasn’t sure exactly what the issue with her car was but Ian you’re saying it was a motor I believe it was a blown motor in that car yeah so Brian had his car here it was prepped and
Ready to go Brian unfortunately not able to race uh due to a back uh issue but he has handed the car off to her and it’s good to see her out there racing again definitely that family racing crew definitely definitely comes in handy especially unfortunately for
Them cuz the rest of them uh just had bad luck whan bad luck Shannon bad luck I heard Chase caprera is winching through spooners with no front diff oh goodness gracious oh man okay so we’re getting an update from Team Chase capro winching through spooners no front diff
That is not a fun way to spend your night in Johnson Valley yeah winching with no front diff is never a good thing at hammers all right but I believe that is that’s Bailey Cole right out of the bottom of the bypass at chocolate Thunders I’m yeah he’s pass that so here
He is nope that’s Jeff Wagner com that’s Jeff Wagner yep the yellow lights fooled me Dave kept me honest that’s great so that’s Jeff Wagner coming up through the Bronco Arch he’ll drop down onto the Ford performance short course so that’ll be the next car that comes into town right
Behind him we said Bailey Cole and then behind him Bailey Campbell but right now we’re going to throw throw it to Emmy out on the stage with another one of our finishers thanks so much guys I’m here with jiren Gunter a finisher here and we looks like we’ve got a four seater here
With a driver co-driver and a little baby driver and co-driver so it’s nice to have them along uh tell us about your day well it it started off really good we uh didn’t qualify great but we started moving through the pack and we got a flat tire on lap one uh came in
Had I mean very clean lap one other than the flat tire and that was probably my fault anyway um then we came a lap two we had a a little bit of issues with the transfer case bolts coming out backing out and the transfer case was flopping around it’s flopping around in here
Right now cuz it happened again when we tightened it up twice so we limped it back and uh just to get the finish and we lost we lost navigation today we got lost so I’m sure whoever is behind me is actually going to be in front of me cuz
I’m sure there’s going to be some penalties that uh because I had no idea where I was going for a little while so other than that it was a great day it’s a it’s a brutal race we’ve been doing the 44 now since 2020 when this car was
Built and now we got two finishes out of all out of five so it’s pretty good and you know we still have people out there on course and yet here you guys are you’ve gotten lost you had a flat tire you had a little bit of a rough day but
You’re here so we want to say congratulations thank you are there any sponsors that you’d like to thank we know it takes a village to get a car across a Finish Line well the village is probably behind me my crew they are my uh my father-in-law and I together broke
This car down to Bear chassis we started in November and we finished a few weeks before hammers we tore it everything on it was new so it was the best prep we’ve ever had so I have to give a big thanks to Mike Cameron my my father-in-law for
Helping me do that it was uh it was like going to work every day for months to get it all put back together um uh rad flow shocks did great uh we used our Warren Winch today they they’ve been great um FK Rodin Maria over or
Over at FK Rodin has been amazing uh those things uh hold up to the brutal this brutal race I think so uh World Class Property Management for vacation rentals in Lake Tahoe um let’s see I think I think that’s all I really have other than my family my wife we we
Pretty much it’s is a family team my both my kids race 170s now and so it might be time for me to hang my head up and just concentrate on them that’s awesome it is a family sport it’s great to see you guys here let’s get your family in here for a picture
Congratulations oh wait one more and all the crew that’s that helps me you got the molles uh Nick Harvey um everyone that’s back here they’ll come up here they they come out here and they spend the whole time out here in the desert with us and and they uh luckily
We didn’t have to do a lot to the car CU it came fully prepped so but awesome well listen all of you guys thank you let’s get in for a picture congratulations to Jared thanks Emmy good to see Jared back into town Dave Cole jumped out of the
Booth here a second ago because as we just saw Bailey Cole come across the finish line and then after him we should see bayy Campbell yes bayy Campbell bayy Co I think they were pretty close they was keeping the trackers live for us we also had Cameron steelb on camera a
Minute ago checking it out again a lot of guys out there trying to push hard just just trying to get to the Finish Line at this point yeah we have officially closed uh the course out uh after we had our last car clear turkey claw and so what we’re be doing now is
Basically closing the course in sections we’ll have our course workers make their way back into town I’m sure they’ll be looking forward to a nice hot meal here in the uh the volunteer tent it’s great to see everybody in there in the morning packing up their lunches for the day and
It’s also great to see them back in night hats off to uh all the volunteers out there working with with us today uh we’ve had I have a sheet here that tells me but I forget what it is here it is we have over6 cour workers and recover there’s
75 different positions that we have to send people out uh every single day to take care of out there and then also on top of that that’s the course workers but there’s 225 staff and contractors that are here working to keep King of the Hammers
Alive for all of us who want to watch it at home and then everyone who’s here on the lake bed again we’ve been watching some of the comments on Facebook and Instagram and we had one come in Leonard Jones said I just want to say thank you
So much for k for having a great day we love it amazing live coverage and again kind of goes on what you’re saying now how many people it takes to keep this live coverage from all these different cameras spread over you know hundreds of miles for drones and Camera guys the
Technical people in the booth to make this awesome live show happen it it literally takes an army yeah it’s crazy you know Dave and I were talking about it earlier kind of tongue and cheek there was a time literally when we would come out here to race and there was a a
Questionable looking van with a satellite on the roof and it was text updates through a uh cell phone onto pirate 4×4 and now we have live incar footage being streamed around the world but Emmy is on stage right now with another finisher for us Emmy take it
Away you guys I’m here with joshh sell of the rookie uh rookie pedigree finishing yesterday and finishing today what an accomplishment you must be stoked oh it was so good it was so good the rookie program is amazing it taught me so much to be prepared for today I
Got to thank Dave Cole Courtney they set up an amazing program for us to learn and just be able to go out and practice and it paid off what was the one moment today where you were like oh that’s what they were talking about ooh well run your race run your race
Stay away from when the helicopters show up don’t freak out so he wouldn’t tell me when a helicopter was near us because he knew I would get all nervous so it was run your race know what you’re doing and don’t worry about the other people around you right all you’re doing is
You’re trying to do your best and have a good time if somebody beats you that’s fine if somebody doesn’t beat you that’s fine too but you got to do what you need to do to get this rig across the Finish Line absolutely don’t overdrive it just
Stay within your skill set and I know what my limits are and we stayed within those today well now maybe throughout this next year you can learn you can push your limits a little bit more and maybe get back here and get a little bit further up into the rankings yeah
Absolutely that’s I told him I said I’m already ready for next year let’s go pre-run a lot more and let’s get higher up that ranking all right let me see who do you want to thank you know I’ve got an amazing team that built and worked on
These cars both cars we we finished two races with two cars that were almost completely rebuilt in the last 45 days so they did an amazing job I’ve got an office of people that work at Freight Factory that supported me and they allowed me to go do this and so I can’t
Thank them enough and anyone who touched my car you know who you are out there thank you thank you so much for believing in us and letting us go do our thing awesome Josh saell from the rookie program getting this vehicle across the line in the 1504 congratulations we are stoked for you
Back to you guys in the booth thanks Emmy congratulations Josh coming back into town here in hammertown again that’s so incredible to hear one of our rookie drivers was talk about how successful that rookie program is as well as say after finishing you know battling for 12 hours go hey let’s
Go pre-run for next year like like he just wants to he so excited wants to go run some more again that’s that’s so neat and again dedicates the success of the rookie program so that’s super neat to see yeah so right here we’re looking at uh another finisher who’s going to
That’s the drop right there that’s the entrance and in this case exit to uh back door as they’re coming around through that wash think someone is pulling in hammertown I think that’s number 60 I don’t know his first name last name Owens is it Chris Owens I
Don’t have on my sheet Dave I apologize but Asad Owens six he’s been stuck over on back door for a minute and now he’s down through all right so as he as he comes through that four Bronco Arch we’re going to throw it back to Emmy up
On stage with another one of our finishers thanks guys I’m with Chad Hunt in the 456 vehicle Chad you have the best green steering wheel I’ve seen all day well thank you all right tell me about your day what was the very best part uh finishing what was the very worst part
Um third lap was rough it was definitely uh Dave put on a course for sure yeah were you guys out winching a lot or did you have mechanical problems what was up nope we winched twice uh biley Campbell’s coming after my Sportsman of the Year award she was up there pulling
Cable and helping us off with her uh co-driver and uh we got high centered one time so we uh winched off there that was it that’s awesome you know competitors helping competitors making sure that hey if you can’t get to the Finish Line I’m going to make sure that
My other competitors do and that’s what’s great about this sport it absolutely is it’s uh well we’re here with Team Indiana um they are one of the biggest teams out here I believe um they are amazing people pck crew help just we’re a big family and I enjoy them very
Much awesome anyone else you’d like to thank oh yeah absolutely uh my beautiful wife and my wife and kids she’s amazing she lets me do this crazy sport that I love so much um my sponsors which would be waren they helped me out wi worked flawlessly branic Motorsports everything’s still on
The car nothing broken these Mickey Thompson tires they’re coming after those nles I’ll guarantee it we never changed a flat all day and they still look brand new oh strong words from the 456 truck listen we’re going to let you get a photo let you get a frosty beverage congratulations on finishing
Here the Nitto race of Kings back to you guys in the booth thank you very much Emmy all right it’s been a long day for all of us in the booth and as Dave tirelessly works this tracker he’s already kind of given us who to watch for I’m we come back in
But I think we’re going to give Dave a break uh finally get out of this booth he’s been here almost as long as I have but Dave sincerely I know this sounds silly but I talk to people all year long you are probably the number one requested announcer to have in here with
Us we love having you here your knowledge of the Rock Trails knowledge of the course knowledge of the competitors second to none so thank you once again for joining us here in the booth I’m an amateur at this you guys are Pros you carried us through it you
Uh and you have for a long a long time now and it’s been it’s got to be well over a decade we’ve been working together 15 years it’s been a long time yeah absolutely on and off but Dave I always say it we said it without mics on
And I’ll say it again with the mics on Dave thank you so much for having me out here I love coming out here and doing the job and it’s honestly gotten even better now that we got you in the booth thank you very much appreciate you Ian
Yeah thank you brother thank you buddy hey I like C couple updates for before I leave here real quick it looks that as if uh Bailey Campbell will be coming in here momentarily if she just didn’t make it in she’s already she’s on her way right this second and soon after that
Dalton Hamilton’s coming in however bad news Cole Clark 24 has pulled away from pit 2 going down the mine road back to camp so it look like Cole Clark is out of the race that’s a bummer cuz that he’s putting it out there all day today all right thanks Dave well that’s it
Let’s hear it in hammertown here big Che for Dave in here working with us on the announcer Booth thank you very much Dave and we’re going to throw it to Emmy with another finisher on the stage thanks so much I’ve got probably one of the best looking Vehicles out
Here Bren Burton in the 4406 Mystery Machine Brent how was your day today it was good we had power Ste hearing issues we had oil pressure plug blow out lost all our oil one point and lost a couple tiers beyond that it was good so sounds like maybe you’re just going to have
Some like sore shoulders tomorrow going to have some sore shoulders all right K Dog how was your day how did you get this guy keep him in under control oh that was uh pretty easy to do he’s fun to drive with good driver um getting all the oil leaks fixed was a
Challenge challenge caught fire at one point all right is there anyone that you’d like to thank for helping you get out here today uh thank God for keeping us safe uh thank my family uh for coming out and supporting my wife my parents uh thank cold driver here also help me prep
Carr Jake uh the rest of our pit crew Kevin and Mike and Mike and uh everyone else that helps us back at home awesome we’re glad to see you here this is Brent Burton in the 4406 the Mystery Machine we’re going to have you take a photo
First and then you can go relax get a shower and a frosty beverage back to you guys in the booth thank you very much Emmy all right so what we’re doing right now is obviously as you can see the sun is officially 100% down so we call this
Nighttime Matt we’re in the night so uh we’ll be pulling our cameras in uh cuz obviously there’s no sense having them out there and we’re just going to be working through our finishers as they come in into hammertown uh I’ll be here until we shut this course down I’m Matt
You going to stay to the end I will definitely stay I know we got out there doing Awards so it’ll be super cool I I love seeing some of these drone shots that the production is throwing to again especially when they’re coming in hammertown you see the lights coming off
The front lights coming off the back there’s an overall shot of Rocky Top Again beautiful beautiful shot of hammertown I love it it’s I got to go out to Chocolate Thunder and back door earlier this week and have all the lights out there all the festivities happening and it’s always super super
Neat to see that that’s a very very nice that’s a TV friendly word for what happens at chop of Thunder at night festivities yes there’s another word and it rhymes with with MIT show but that’s that’s a whole other story all right but yes uh Matt and I will be here we will
Stick around till we get our last car in and shut this sucker down uh I’m sure our production crew is in the back banging out some killer highlights for you to watch in between uh all of the action uh for that we’ve gotten today but we’re just going to be pulling our
Finishers up on stage and giving them a quick interview and speaking of which Em’s got another finisher up on stage right now thanks you guys I’m here with a fan favorite that’s right it is Amber Turner not in the samurai but in a 4400 rig coming across the line as an official
Finisher we didn’t get to talk to you last night I’m so glad yall are here yeah we’ve actually made it I got this little plaque here did you have any doubts though that you were going to make it today uh I had no idea if the
Car was going to hold up it won yesterday so it did and here we are so this car did the EMC challenge yesterday now you are racing it here today what kind of prep did you have to do last night last night they changed out the
Tires they put the 40s on and they changed the front diff as far as I know that’s all they did too that’s it that’s it that’s it that is nuts Ian it sounds like you might have something to say here to our friend Amber I’m
Going to come in here Emmy and I’m going to pull anank on you because I said that the minute we saw Amber come across the finish line that I had to be the person out here to talk to you so Amber first of all same as Z he said welcome back
And uh so I just want to know like what driving skills uh cross over between a Samurai and a uh bomber Fab car just picking lines surely I mean come on the wheel bait there’s two Samurai in this car you can’t be tell me you’re out
Picking the same lines with this car oh I’m not picking the same lines but I know all the good lines on these Trails so that’s half of it all right so the next question is is it is it time for Amber Turner to put away childish things
And come play with the girl like don’t get me wrong I love Samurai I mean but is it time are we going to see next year Amber fully prepped 4400 car let’s just go with yes a see there we go all right so Amber uh uh anyone you want to thank
For coming back into hammertown uh mostly bomber Fab mostly Randy for a putting this car together and building something tough enough to win yesterday and then come out here and do this today um King shocks BF goodr um bulldog winch and yeah that is awesome well Amber as
We said you’re a look at that crowd out there that’s that’s the biggest Crow so so Amber crowd favorite here in hammertown always fan I’m a huge fan obviously I’m always up here waiting for you to get back home huge fam bomber but super happy that you’re over there I
Always get to stop by your camp and possibly consume large amounts of whiskey with Jason so that’s always up up in hammertown Heights which is good to do but Amber congratulations on finishing in the winning car from yesterday here in Johnson Valley welcome home to hammertown climb on out get some
Pictures and uh next year uh queen queen of the Hammers oh I’m just putting that pressure on you it’s either you or Bailey one of you’s got to win it oh yes please all right I’m going to let you do your thing congratulations guys have a great day
One more thing oh one more thing Freight Factory Freight oh I should have pointed that out I should I should have caught that I apologize made this whole thing happen so it’s great awesome well get out of your car get your pictures congratulations good to see you guys back in
Town that was awesome again that was incredible the ca 44 4,800 car race 4,800 and then come back the next day and race again absolutely thrashing that rig multiple days in a row it’s just incredibly insane to think that car could take that much abuse two days in a row back to
Back sorry to leave you hanging in here Matt but I had to jump out there I’ve been I’ve been waiting for uh you know last a few few years ago we had Amber come back in and that Samurai out of time she’s been trying so hard get that
Samurai across the line in that stock class so you know it it she did kind of mention to me uh earlier that you know the samur it’s time to retire at the Samurai and uh now that she’s throwing down on that 4800 car and bringing it in
For a finish uh I can’t wait to see her in a 4,400 I’ll be super excited I like how you said it was it’s like two Samurai in one like I think that well if we talk WID there’s probably like four it’s like there’s two Samurai here
Basically powerwise there’s got to be at least four or five you know yeah I mean she does her best she takes that Samurai and swaps it over to the samurai one tons being the Toyota axles but you can only ask so much of a samurai but it’s
So great to see Amber coming in in that as you said that winning car from yesterday that’s awesome to see her back into hammertown I know the entire bomber Fab Camp will be glad to get him back uh I it’s no secret I am a huge fan of that chassis I have that
Chassis yeah I’m a huge fan of that chassis I have won myself the trail chassis not the race car chassis uh I I love that car it’s so much fun to drive but it sounds like we’re going to take a quick break from the action here in
Johnson Valley we are finishing up our day here with the Nitto race of Kings it’s all been part of the 2024 Progressive King of the Hammers presented by nto and powered by Optima batteries we will be back in a second you know when I take the bike out like
This all my stresses just melt away I hear that this bad boy can fix anything yeah tough day at work nice Cruiser sort you right out when I’m riding I’m not even thinking about my painful cavity well you shouldn’t ignore that and every time I get stressed about
Having to pay my bills I just hop on the bike man oh come on man you got to pay your bills you don’t have to worry about anything when you’re protected by America’s number one motorcycle insurer well you definitely do those things aren’t related so ah oh that is a vibrating [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Pain Now Welcome back to Johnson Valley where we’re finishing up our Nitto race of Kings Emmy has another finisher on the stage for us right now thanks Ian I’m here with Gary Easley Gary you were telling me you were thinking about taking a three minute lap I mean how
Rough was it out there for you yeah that was a nap not a [Laughter] lap it was uh it was a challenging course it’s Dave it’s amazing everything he puts out there scary sometimes too oh really what was a scary part trying to remember where I was going well that is
Your co- driver’s job Travis come on you got to tell him where he’s supposed to go yeah I was telling him where to go I don’t know if he was listening or not he’s kind of at his own uh path chosen but uh no we made it right oh I see how
The chemistry is in this vehicle all right all right well Garrett do you have any uh sponsors anyone that you want to thank that helped you get to this official finisher of the Nitto race of Kings yeah the we could never do this without BFG tires the kick rocks apparel they were
Great the raceline wheels this year we didn’t have to use the lights so rigid lights weren’t used and all pH construction that’s that’s a really solid list of people that could help you I am so glad you guys are here listen you still have plenty of time to enjoy
The evening we’ve got people coming in we’ve got Frosty beverages to partake congratulations on your finish here we’re going to take a quick photo have a great rest of your night back to you guys in the booth thank you very much Emmy great to see another car here
Across the line I’m in the boot with Mr Booth with Mr Matt Holt Matt uh great day of racing today it was an awesome day of racing again I was out in remote pit one while you guys are up with from the booth uh again getting updates from
You guys at the first uh 30 40 minutes of our day all we do is stay glued to our iph watching you guys getting updates of who’s coming in what’s going on obviously yesterday we had couple cars jammed up at uh um up at the
Beginning of the day we had a big big big traffic jam uh obviously I thought that was really going to change Pit strategy for a lot of people I thought it was kind of erasing the the staggered starts because we had so many cars there was a couple screenshots I was getting
From people back home and then I heard you guys say we had 50 more cars to come off the line and I was like oh my goodness this is crazy yeah we had a parking lot of 35 cars in Turkey lot at one point in time and then we were about
To send 50 more cars in there but uh luckily uh the bigger concern for us here in the booth as we watched it was whether or not that those issues would get cleaned up uh in time for our leaders to come back through because once they’re through main pit they head
Back out the bigger story was uh you know around that time uh but around that time our our leaders were gone but then it was just a matter of like what we’ve seen in previous years it’s just this race when you lead it it’s almost like a
Kiss of death it is it’s almost like the worst thing you can do is lead this race because it just seems that over the past few years what we’ve seen is leading the race something breaks leading the race uh issue uh it never stops and that’s
Exactly what we saw today I was uh when I took my uh uh break around two I was certain we’re going to see Casey Curry come in with the with the win yeah again I was kind of back there for a little bit watching some TV watching some clips
Before we headed out to Chocolate Thunder do some to do some videoing and it was incredible how and like in the 30-minute window I was watching how many leaders we actually changed hands in that 30-minute window all right sounds like Emmy is on the stage ready to go take it away Emmy
Yes I’ve got Brian rear here in the 416 vehicle this is the angry monkey you just never know what’s going to happen and Brian did you know what was going to happen to today well you always have a plan and how did that plan go it went
Really well we had a few little hiccups we had a flat tire we had a bent drive shaft um maybe a couple fights in the car and then that’s about it I’m sorry go back to the fights in the car uh I don’t remember hang on COD dog
Fights in the car we didn’t fight in the car today at all I thought it was smooth as hell we’re already having fights in the car and you guys have finished well I know that Brian you and I kind of share race philosophy so how stoked are you
Here to just be here at this Finish Line yeah so we have a a new sweatshirt and logo is called just F and finish so um that was our goal last year because of what you said and actually you probably have rights to that but um oh no it’s
Great we we put in a lot of time this year we uh I’ve been here for a month now um the race car was fantastic the team did a great job um put in all the work to to make this happen so uh I appreciate all their efforts my entire
Family’s here um my brother his daughter uh my daughter uh who actually raced UTV on Thursday and finished so she has the same philosophy I guess um so and then I guess thank the sponsor Howen tiger they help us out quite a bit and um and couldn’t do it without them well listen
You’ve got a huge group up here that wants to take a photo with you so Brian congratulations stoked that you guys are here we’ll catch up later Brian Reed in the 416 car an official finisher here at the Nitto race of kings and there’s a
Dude in a monkey suit up here you guys I’m so excited back to you all in the booth thanks amies appreciate it so much again we have a ton of racers still out there we got to finish get get across the board but before we do that we’re
Going to take some bills real quick and we’ll be right after these messages a name synonymous with severe Duty work born from the need for equipment would withstand the forces of off-pavement travel made to get you in and built to get you out 75 years later we walk the same path
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Now Emmy take it away I’m here at the 4403 car Pat Beckwith and he’s got his grandkids here they look like maybe they did some Codd dogging or maybe they just got in at the Finish Line Pat you are looking quite dirty uh tell me how did
All this dirt get on your face what’s going on you know we’ve been throwing dirt all day long we’re just we’re just dang happy to be here we’ve been doing this since 2010 out of seven times I think this is our third finish our first one in 4,400 so we’re we’re pretty happy
But it was dirty and rough out there yeah congratulations you know a finish is often a win and we love to see you guys coming across the line just stoked to be back in hammertown uh were there any surprises out there on course today uh no not really just yeah that’s
Surprising how fast these guys are it’s amazing I’m 66 years old and uh it beat me up pretty good I got to tell you but these guys are fast I tip my hat to them they’re awesome is there anyone that you’d like to thank we know that it
Takes a lot of people to help get you this vehicle get this vehicle this far well there’s so many I just talked to Randy slaon you know he builds these bomber chassis that’s awesome BFG they did our pit today they all those guys are awesome tires went well most all day
Long and uh method Wheels most of all my all my pit Crews my family so I appreciate all well we’re so glad to have you here um you’ve still got plenty of time here at hammertown to watch some of these finishers come in get cleaned up have a beverage you’re getting emotional which
Is making me emotional so I’m going to throw it back to the booth thanks guys thank you thanks Emmy another great story from a day out on the lake bed I’m in the booth with Mr Matt Holt we are still uh waiting for our official finishers to
Get taken care of race Ops is still working through a few things soon as they do we’ll jump into uh some awards so stick with us and if you’re in hammertown stick around the fire they’re throwing Uh Wood on there to make sure that it is all good you’re going to want
To stick around to see how this uh pans out uh we do have uh our King crowned right now so now what we have to do is work through everything else uh right now we are bringing uh more finishers up across the line but uh as we said before the break uh
Matt uh well I guess we’re going to take another break right now so once again uh this is finishing up our Nitto race of Kings all part of the 2024 Progressive King of the Hammers presented by Nitto powered by Optima batteries we’ve had an amazing day of racing and we still have
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Trying to figure out who this old guy is you’re asking the wrong question it’s not who he is but how he got here wow no way what the okay that didn’t really just happen and that’s how we got here okay I guess he’s pretty cool yeah for an old
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Think one of them took an access road back so we have about 18 cars left and Emy is out there with another finisher here we go thanks Matt I’m here with Jeff Wagoner in the number 53 Bronco Jeff I got to say you look like this car or
Like this track just beat you up yeah we had a long day we made a lot of mistakes uh but it went pretty smooth after we got rolling again had a great start uh a couple mistakes in the middle couple mistakes in the Rocks uh but we got to
The Finish there was one point where we’re kind of frustrated about done got a wrong turn got back on course kept pushing and we got here to the finish so that’s always important all right so some mistakes but what was the moment you were most proud of uh the start I
Think we got up to 17 starting on 33rd 34th Place so we were cruising pretty well um then we had a flat tire and then some mishaps getting that flat change so we go back to remote pit one and lost a lot of time there and try to get back in
The Rhythm there was we never did recover very well well we’re really glad to see you here but I want to know who helped you get here to the finish line of the Nitto race of Kings yeah team rockjock got us here they did a lot of
Help with for us uh Jeep Jewelers did some prep on the car he did a lot of help my co-driver Joel um Steve Mike Jason Rich Cole Colin of course my wife is here my two daughters are at home watching all day so um probably disappointed them a little bit but
They’re probably happy to see me here too as well um I’m sure I’m forgetting some people Ross um the fun team they they helped us a lot throughout the week uh doing pre-running car prep too um and so there’s there’s a lot of people that got us here for sure Jeff I guarantee
You that you have not disappointed anybody every single person here in hammertown every single person that is watching live is proud of you and Joel for getting this car across the Finish Line okay so don’t ever think anything different all right we’re going to bring your folks up here for a quick photo
Again this is Jeff and Joel in the number 53 rig a finisher here at the Nitto race of Kings I was admiring that beautiful rig today when it pulled in the pit they were doing a little trash checking it out uh independent front suspension independent rear suspensions
I was very cool checking it out as I was pulling away that is uh Lauren Healey’s car from last year that made the big drop off of that waterfall in qualifying that broke the internet it did that’s the car that was uh uh we all constantly
Refer to it as a spaceship because uh there’s so much technology in it but yes uh so it’s good to see that car back here into hammertown right now it was super annoying my Instagram for like 30 minutes all I do was scroll and all it
Was was Lauren jumping off back door or the waterfall and uh just 30 minutes of just Instagram feeds of nothing but that jump all the sponsors him all his media people so it was kind of cool to see the off-road Community reaching that again Ford obviously helping promote that
Quite a bit yeah we kind of joked about it I talked to a couple people in between the seasons and we kind of went back and forth about was that the right decision what happened and and you know for those of us who work in the world of
Of convincing people to buy things which is fancy way that’s my job it’s my job um is uh you know you cannot argue that the return on investment of throwing that truck off that uh that Cliff certainly got uh the whole fun team Lauren Bronco Ford everybody in uh in
Front of a lot of eyeballs it did and uh you know that that’s the thing though and if you were if you can get over the funh pit I don’t know if anyone did earlier did you take a look at their uh little uh little ripar around truck the
El bandito I I saw it at SEMA I think we had it at SEMA SEMA yeah they had it at SEMA uh Ryan Kibby Ryan kib Tech uh put that together for them Absolute work of art uh Ryan uh Ryan and I are like called trade show friends or Instagram
Friends you know so we kind of just chat back and forth and he was sending me a whole bunch of super sneaky pictures of it while they’re putting together and that thing is an absolute work of art for sure so uh I don’t know what’s I’m being
Hand all right so uh I’m going up on stage because I’m going to pull rank on Emmy again and cuz there’s somebody out there that I definitely need to interview Yes again why miles heads up there we’ll uh give him a minute to get out there and get all checked in again
If you guys haven’t seen that fun team truck he was talking about they have lots of cool features about it he had at the SEMA show they were doing some drifting events him and vau were out there in cars and then obviously he got his Ultra 4 car out there and wanted to
What’s up Mr Chad Hunt team Indiana rolling through he just came through earlier part of that team Indiana Crew He was talking about one of the hugest teams on the lake bed he is your Sportsman of the Year driver there again make sure you give him a shout out he’s
A veteran veteran Koh guy been battling a long time does a great job at it all right thank you very much Matt uh they Emmy ran in and handed me the mic and said I got to get out here because uh Bailey Cole is out here we’ve been
Watching you all day yesterday 4600 stock class winner today you’ve brought this car in and I don’t know if you’ve been practicing this all day but I’ve been trying to get Jim I’ve been trying to get everybody in that BR Booth to understand how to say the name name on
The side of your car so I’ll say it and we’ll see if you can get it back it’s not Jags it’s Jags JS oh that is you did it the best of anyone today all right Bailey it is great to have you back in town so let’s
Talk a little bit about your day how did it go out there for you oh it was good um I messed up only one or two times made Sky work a little bit but besides that the car took care of us all day long and we just cruised all day long
Yeah you you just like yesterday you scared us a couple times out there we’d be looking it’s like is Bailey pulling C no he’s all right we’re moving along but so you definitely had an exciting day out there in the rocks oh yeah no we uh actually we cruised basically through
All the Rock Trails we had to winch once and uh check me out and then uh and Bailey Campbell and Brian Croft has helped us out through there and then I got bellied out on Outer Limits once good stuff so uh let’s we we covered that let’s jump over your code driver
How was it uh in the car today for you uh this guy made it pretty easy for me out here so he like he remembers where everything’s at so I kind of just made conversation and had to get out twice like it was it was a good day that is
Awesome all right well Bailey I know you got a long laundry list of everyone that you need to thank we’ve already done the Jag so you can just uh move on to so let’s go right who do you got to thank for bringing you back home into
Hammertown today well firstly I got to thank guy and the sxor team they built the car and let me drive it so thank you very much to them for getting us here 100% um obviously my whole team couldn’t do it without you guys thank you all so much my
Family and Grandma she’s watching Thank you Grandma and then all the amazing Partners Yukon Fox Yokohama Tire Vision wheel SP spider tracks Optima so many amazing partners that help us get going so thank you all oh we already said JS but he can say it
Again JS one last time oh man you honest so I think you got a future in announcing if you ever want to stop driving cuz nobody else in that Booth could say it right so it’s good to have you at Bailey great to have you back congratulations on your finish welcome
Back get out of your car take your pictures and uh welcome home thank you miles for doing that we appreciate again that is Bailey Cole coming up there in the jigs we saw the jigs R out there at uh chocolate Thunder thrown some merch out I see I see some
Js out there as well G Bailey has been crushing it all weekend here this weekend at King hammers today being the race of Kings definitely getting a finish is a super awesome super awesome thing all right Matt I’m back in the booth with you here now that we got bayy
Out there getting his uh hero pictures on top of that car that’s pretty impressive you know brings home the win yesterday that 4600 stock class Bronco and then uh bring in that sxor chassis back into town and you know uh Jim and I were talking about that earlier you know
That’s an older car that’s definitely a car that’s got some miles on it out there but Bailey was able to uh get behind the wheel wheel that thing back into town and get a finish under his belt which is great uh great for him it’s good to see him basically collect
That Hardware yesterday but then also today bring in that finish back into hammertown we had a few people in the online asking how many cars are still left on course uh it’s hard to say because right now what’s happening is we’re getting getting cars on course but
Are they still moving on and that’s what I was going to clarify I think what they’re asking is Cars Moving On course because we have a lot of cars still on course scattered I think they’re referring to cars that are still moving or trying to move on course and it’s
Hard to speculate right now cuz what happens is where we’re in the game right now we have uh a bunch of car not a bunch but probably right now about 7 to 10 cars still out there uh in the mix but the problem is is we’re checking
Their track they’re in the Rock Canyons The Trackers sometimes in the Rock Canyons don’t uh don’t catch up as well uh so sometimes it’ll show them as not moving or ping them as zero miles an hour and maybe they are still moving so we are still watching a lot of cars as I
Said before uh we basically it’s only 6:30 uh we just shut down the course for anyone headed out on a lap three but uh we’ll stick around here until they all come in than yeah it looks like we had one just skied in while you’re were
Talking there I’m not sure again I know camera steel was out there pushing for a little bit I think he still on course all right but emy’s got another one on the stage Emmy take it away thanks you guys I’m here with Chad Owens in the number 60 vehicle and I was just
Asking him is it everything you ever expected and more it was an amazing day we were having a good clean smooth run going and we got out of outer limits on the last lap thinking we cleared the last of the Rocks had a horrible vibration we were trying to run back in
At like 30 mph top speed we got 100 yards from Crescent to drop down resolution and the back drive shaft flew off so we probably lost about an hour out there in the sand changing back drive shaft CU we couldn’t get up over in front-wheel
Drive um but other than that it was an amazing day I love the fact with the rain we didn’t have to deal with dust being from the East Coast we like mud we don’t we don’t like dust as much where are you guys from uh we’re from
Pennsylvania all right all the way from Pennsylvania mud slingers out here in the desert getting it done who do you want to thank for helping you get here uh I first want to thank all my friends and family that make this possible um we built this car out of a little two-car
Garage all ourselves um so they helped me a bunch I want to also big big shout out to all the fellow Line Mountain four-wheel Racers and the whole Big B crew um it was sad to see them not here this week um we tried to do our best for them they
Help us a bunch um we have to thank Highline off-road and dar metal fabricators they make a bunch of the sheet metal parts and body panels for me on this car okay four-wheel drive out of New Jersey they help us a bunch lenck and cosmer Cole Dynamic tourque
Converters this is the first year we ran all day without the transmission ever overheating which was an amazing difference compared to other years um we have mountainhouse hydraulics does are steering Ram Forest Fox shocks n Tires Eric Miller and whole Miller Motorsports crew helped
Us out a bunch too it’s not a Miller car but they still help us a bunch uh who else we got Newton Auto does the paint on here I’m sure that is that is a lot of sponsors I love that you guys are so well supported Chad Owens you have
Finished the Nitto race of Kings coming all the way from Pennsylvania getting out here here and getting it done in the dirt congratulations we’re going to get a quick photo and then you can get off this stage out of that car and into some Frosty beverages back to you guys in the
Booth awesome job again great to see all those finishers coming in again we got some stragglers still coming in it’s still actually kind of early compared to some of the previous years I I know that there’s years I’ve been in the booth late I know you’ve probably been here
Late super late yeah I try to always uh if I can we stick around until uh till we basically get shut down down there were years that we would basically be here till midnight which uh didn’t make for the most exciting uh live stream uh
Going out to the world but you know we we want to make sure that here in hammertown if you’re out there racing and you’ve put in that 12-hour day 13-hour day you deserve your time on stage you deserve your time on stage and we want to make sure that we celebrate
Everyone out there who’s racing comes back in uh just cuz that it’s such it’s such work you know I when I raced this race I didn’t finish in the daylight you know I didn’t even finish in time we just we just came back in the hammertown and honestly just started drinking but
Uh yeah that it it is such it’s such a hard race and so we want to make sure that if you’ve made the effort to stay out there and push through that final lap and get back into town we want to make sure there someone here to keep the
Lights on for you keep the fire burning then make sure you come home yeah and again a lot of these guys coming in they’re so tired you’re mentally exhausted you’re physically exhausted you just want to like crawl on a nice warm bed and don’t like talk to anybody
And you come in and all your buddies are cheering for you and you see the campfire and they’re high fiveing you it’s warm so you’re eating drinking next thing you know you’re being married with all your buddies and it’s it turns into uh just an awesome awesome time again we
Can see we got a group around the campfire now uh cheering the rest of these finishers in so again it’s still kind of early it’s uh 6:34 here in Southern California there’s a great shot of the fire pit there all our fans cheered us on again we got race teams
Every once in a while you’ll see a race team all rush to the stage cheer them on take some pictures with their uh competitors so it’s super neat to see again we have quite a few competitors on the course still trying to get get them all skied
In we got uh I seen I seen a couple of them coming in earlier I know emy’s trying to get them out there all lined up yeah we’re still trying to get uh get everybody up here on stage who comes in we have it’s uh we basically sorted
Through a lot of the people that we expected we expected to see I haven’t seen Bailey Campbell uh we expected to see her as she been in the lineup so she is in town uh Matt’s telling me that she she did make the trip in so Bailey’s in
Town which is great oh someone’s pointing she the next on stage oh I’m going to go steal emy’s mic for that one I’m not going to let her enter around Bailey I I’m I’m in charge of all the Bailey yes all the Bailey I like it
Again it’s uh I believe Brian cross was actually in the car I think I see him in the car I do in fact no no he’s not I’m seeing a headshake no I believe it is his car though that iconic plaid side okay all right
We’re going to take it to Amy I’m going to pull in on this one we could get everybody up in here let’s get the whole family and the whole team cuz this is like this is like a story of a story of a story right cuz we’ve got
Uh baale so who was okay I just need to know who was driving when so you left the line correct yeah I was the left last car that left the line about 20 minutes after the last car okay now when did you drive today uh race mile 9 all
The way to remote pit 2 all right so 9 to two and then I got in at remote pit two finish lap two and all lap three so this is the cool story about this is this car wasn’t even supposed to race today was it no uh I had an unfortunate
Incident where it hurt my back so all we did was decide to put it through Tech just in case this situation happened and it did and it worked out all right and then uh then Bailey gets you know we love watching you race we’re still waiting for that Queen of the Hammers
You know I still blame I still think the year you could have got it’s his fault to got you pregnant took you out of the race that was all a plan on his part I still think that was tactical decision but uh so yeah but you got in there and
Race how did your day go out on course uh you know it’s it’s very lonely in a single seat car um but I you know I missed my two- seat car for the day and um but luckily my awesome husband here lent me his car for the rest of the day
And um we brought him home all right so any excitement out there while you were driving uh yeah I actually did three or four Rock Trails by myself for the first time ever out here so that was a big accomplishment for me yeah I was going
To ask that because normally you two are in the car together and then even last year when we had an issue and you had to get that rental from Levi you still were in a two seat yeah out there but uh Rock Trails first time alone in the car uh is
This a future thing are we going to see absolutely not absolutely sorry so but yeah that’s super that’s a great accomplishment to get underneath your belt then handed the car off to you so how did your day go out there well I’m going to start off with our day with
Bailey that’s a great idea to say our day um we really wanted to make a queen of the Hammers today and everything was was just dialed and then at Mile 9 and a half like something happened and you know that happens to everybody but we felt really good coming in today
And unfortunately this is how we finished this is did not how we wanted to finish we wanted to that that two- seat white car up here in first yeah well we’ve been waiting for it for years to happen but uh kudos to all three of you guys that hammer Spirit never give
Up keep pushing on get it done it’s great to see both you guys back up on stage I’m sure you guys will get that uh Queen of the Hammers it’s still it’s going to happen no one stole it from you yet so I’m sure we’ll get it there uh
Who who wants to take care of the sponsor rundown who am I pointing out I’ll give it to Brian he’s good Brian who do you have to thank for your day here in the Hammers well I can’t thank Bailey enough for helping me get the car together um without the entire Campbell
Team uh Nick Campbell Campbell Enterprises I wouldn’t be up here we wouldn’t be up here today the car wouldn’t be running um Grom Racing for the motor uh of course as you see Dixon flannel uh they supported us all last year and for Koh willwood brakes Fox
Shocks Nitto tire uh we didn’t get one flat except for me driving at like 30 m an hour um you know ibok uh impact just everybody um you know I can’t thank Bailey enough for not scratching my car not so much Miller but but
Um you know hey give him a break he had to get in it he had the dark he had to work through the dark but yeah every everybody here that supported us thank you we can’t thank you enough for what you’ve done all right thank you very
Much Brian any anything left to add or is it just time to call it a day I want to say hi to my wife and my little man RJ back at home he was Bailey is his favorite racer and I know that this morning he was watching saying go Bailey go and
Unfortunately that’s as far as we went so that happens I think I think there’s lots of people out there that Bailey is their favorite racer and so it’s great to see you guys back in hammertown enjoy your time here on the stage welcome home it’s good to see you guys back here
Racing as always thank you again that was bayy Campbell pulling off again Brian Croft also up there several drivers of that car together getting it to the Finish Line again obviously a family Affairs kind of an overstatement especially with that crew but the entire Campbell family pushing it to get it
There again several uh several cam cars out there racing today so again trying to keep those cars pushing and going takes a a massive amount of effort to keep them all on there uh several mechanic technical issues led to them get on the race but it’s super neat that they get to still
Pull at least one car across the finish line and get out there and get a chance to kind of think the fans and all the people to help make it possible all right Matt I’m back in here now going to co you up to my space heater we’ll finish out this night in
Here in this booth it’s great yeah it’s great to see tough luck for that entire Campbell camp today multiple motors going down Shannon uh up up losing it up in the remote pit stinks un whan broke so early in the race uh but uh kudos for them to having a backup car
Not intentionally but just luckily yeah and again I know watching you know Shannon build his new car was absolutely incredible again seeing his craftsmanship going through posting lots of pictures each day it was it was super neat to see again watching the process of him starting with a flat piece of
Steeling by the end he had some incredible awesome Parts he welding he was grinds all his welds down and make him makes me just angry because this his Parts look so beautiful when it’s done I’m like yeah you know good to see that car out here I know Shannon was super
Excited uh especially having that big block in the back of it he’s kind of said you know first time running that big block Chevy engine instead of uh those uh LS uh Motors I think uh I think we’ll see you know I was actually talking to Randy Slawson down in the
Lineup uh about uh future motors for the cars you know like what are we going to see are we going to see a lot more uh are we chasing horsepower with these Big Blocks but uh talking to him you know an Amber the car that Amber was in you know
It’s got a little direct injected uh LT in it so you know that’s new newer technology the the question is is will we see a lot of those lt1’s lt3s LT FS there’s a lot of power and a lot of torque to be made with that direct injected
Engine again I think you’re right I think you know you don’t necessarily need that big massive horsepower uh like like you know some of the guys used to see let me see if I throw out there okay again like Ian was talking about again a lot of guys we have that
LS again I’m an LS guy so hash LS swap the world but again you see lots of guys with big motors I know we talk about horse Paul hor on his car and his big monster engine again we’ve seen some of the Healey team those Ford guys with
Their big monster engines it is interesting to see how the big big Engine versus a small engine pairs uh I we my cameraman today we were coming back uh after going out to remote pit one we’re headed chocolate thunder we passed a propane buggy so uh it was
Neat to see a propane buggy and I explained hey this is a propane buggy what’s up I see some propane fans out there there we go that’s what I’m talking about shout out to all my propane guys my old school raw crawler showing love so all right we got Emy
Hall out there on stage we’re thr it to you Emy thanks guys I’m here with Dalton Hamilton now Dalton you actually only did two laps but I wanted to talk to you because you were the one that was helping out R Gomez out there tell me
Your story well I know we had a slow Pac day we had some problems running in low range we uh had a brake line come loose so we were just you know rolling slow and we come up over the hill and I’m like that’s Raul I’m like everybody else
Driving past him like we can’t let him sit there he’s the king you can’t let your king sit there so we pull up and we start this system and we’re having some problems and the car died on on us and uh the winch uh is connected to the
Alternator so it’s not such a long lead on the power lead and it actually bogged down the starter and caught the starter on fire when we were winching then the car died so we’re all tangled up up there but we kept assisting them we ended up going from another car through
My cage round my snatch block and back to my car and we got R back on his wheels and he took off and uh he got a finish you know I love the fact that you said you can’t let your King sit there that is some really great sportsmanship
And I know that everybody here in hammertown all your friends are very proud of you for doing that that is amazing that’s that’s what I wanted to do it made me feel good and that’s a finish for me that’s awesome but Dalton I have one other question you got two
Steering wheels in here can you switch driver back and forth well yeah when I get tired I let my co-driver drive we just switch some valves over and he takes over I love it listen thank you so much for stopping by you’re not an official finisher but I think you’ve
Won a lot of Hearts people of people here with your good sportsmanship so thank you so much Dalton Hamilton everybody here at the Nitto race of Kings e e all right everybody I’m just getting confirmation from inside our race Ops we finally now have our rundown and we can
Do our Awards everything’s been taken care of so I need the following drivers to return to the stage in hammertown to collect your official Awards so I’m looking for JP gome sorry it’s been a long day JP Gomez Brent Harrell John Ward Dan fresh Eric Miller Von gitten Jr
Tad dower Kevin Sterns and Cade Rod so in about 15 minutes we’re going to be doing Awards here on the main stage uh and if everyone is watching at home make sure you stick around cuz we’re going to be having some fun with that all right so in between now and
Then we’re going to take a quick break from the action so once again I would like to have JP gome Gomez Brett harell John Webb Dan fresh Eric Miller Von gon Jr Tad deler Kevin Sterns and Cade Rod come back to the main stage in hammertown we’re about to start Awards
In about 15 minutes in the meantime we’re going to take a quick break from the action here in Johnson Valley we are finishing up our nit race of Kings this is all part of the 2024 Progressive King of the Hammers presented by Nitto powered by Optima Batteries If you’re wondering why we took totally reinvented the fire extinguisher we’ve got about 8 billion reasons and if you’re wondering why now we’ve got another 45 million reasons that’s how many fire extinguishers have been recalled recently because they might not work we created the Russo to keep people
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Test because adventure begins with seeing where no one else has before John Matthews officially first place in the 4500 youon here all right everybody welcome back to johnon Valley where we’re bringing finishers across the line here in the dark and Emmy has another one for us on
Stage indeed I do I’ve got M Wade here in the 4451 and boy you guys have some fans out here Mel Wade and his son crossing the line here at the Nitto race of Kings you guys look pretty cozy in there uh how was your day oh the day was this this
Race course was super rough I got to run it with my son melway or M4 and uh my daughter did all the prep for us this is a great great to finish across this Finish Line we’ve been racing this race for a long long time and I’ve never had
An official finish during uh you know a reasonable hour so it’s so cool thank you guys we couldn’t do it without everybody all the volunteers uh Nitto Tires man the tires just been awesome the support the guys the way you guys uh want excellence and and to be involved
With the testing is absolutely awesome thank you Chris we really appreciate it and then everybody else has been helping us out curry curry got us some some gears uh last minute for us and then uh had crew fle fly in to help prep this car uh couldn’t do it it’s a family
Event uh we you know it’s me Melvin and Harley uh this year it’s been really tough uh without our wife my my wife passed away a couple years ago and so she would have loved to been here this is one thing that she we uh we kept all
Together and and enjoyed it so very emotional day for me and I’m going to hand Mike over to my son I don’t know what to do my hands man uh yeah we would just like to thank uh Curry RCV helped us out all this a lot
This week uh King always dials Us in with our shocks helps us out all the time and then uh Evo manufacturing that’s our company is the reason we’re able to be out here so awesome to have always have that behind us and uh yeah
It was a good race clean race and uh we finished finally yeah thank you guys we really appreciate it uh thanks to all you commentators in there Ian in miles we really appreciate it and Dave uh Dave man you put on an awesome show out here it’s the biggest barbecue it’s just so
Cool uh we love being out here and we we’ll be out here again well we love to know that you guys this is a family affair you’re already planning for next year we’ve getting your friends and family up here to take a quick photo congratulations on your finish here at
The Nitto race of Kings again that is Mel Wade in the 4451 car back to you Matt what’s up everybody again they’re out there getting the getting the race cars off there we’re going to give a 5 minute warning here in about 5 minutes
We’re going to do a trophy so if you one of the names Ian called you might want to get down here I see the crowd starting filling a little bit I see some wide openen design guys out there in the crowd hanging out I see some fans I see
Some Racers I even see miles out there in the fire pit woo miles was on the mic from like 6:00 a.m. to about 600 p.m so that was like day 37 for him out here so he’s uh he’s logged a few hours out here this week so we’ll give them we’ll give
Him a little bit of a break again Ian me and Ian wrapping up the show again we have quite a few Racers still coming in I know we got a few in the uh down there probably behind the Starting Gate Amy will be wrapping that up here shortly before we do
Awards I know Ian’s got a list over there all right so we’re throwing this out to the world and also out to the hammertown uh cuz I know I told everyone all the racers when they left I said throw your live stream on and you’re
Back at the trailer so we can tell you when to get back here but I need the following drivers to come back to the stage we have this a 5 minute warning till we start Awards we want you to come to the right hand side of the stage so
That is JP Gomez Brett Harrell John Webb Dan fresh Eric Miller Von gon Jr Tad dower Kevin Sterns and Cade Rod this is a five minute warning to get you back up to the stage so we can hand out some laser nut trophies again speaking of
That side by side thrown in the mix there that was kind of crazy today yeah it’s always neat to see these guys out there playing around in the uh in the rocks for sure with these uh different machines but it was an amazing day of racing all day today it’s been it’s been
A long day but it’s been a great day uh we’ve had uh as we watch Mel Wade pull his uh that’s a former Shannon Campbell car off the stage there Mel stepped up into that car I believe it was last year or maybe the year before Mel used to be
Always out there pounding around on one of his Jeeps so it’s pretty cool to see him out there uh knocking it down in that 4,400 class I remember doing some of the broadcasting uh last year year before with uh uh some of the ra the regional races again talking to some of
The racers out there it was always super cool to see different guys who upgraded chassis of those Shannon Campbell cars the Campbell chassis that rear sway bar is so iconic you know how it comes out and kind of squares out of at the end most cars are more getting sleek and
Designer he’s just kind of wide and square in the back it’s kind of neat to see again you would think the sway bar being out there would kind of get beat up but again all of them finished with the sway bar still attached so it clearly works yeah I it and you know
It’s great to see it I I wish I had a Starbucks gift card for Mel we got like a inside joke going between me and him for years every time he finishes he gets a gift card no it’s a it’s I used to tease him he would be posting on
Instagram pictures of coffee and I would tease him cuz he was drinking fancy coffees and not just good old coffees and and so last year stopped by his pit dropped him off a Starbucks gift card as a joke but uh yeah if I if I I should
Have thought of it ahead of time cuz I could have had it here for him at the Finish but we are just a few minutes away from our Awards here in Johnson Valley we’re just getting everything situated on the stage up there but I think we may have another finisher on
The stage right now so we’re going to throw it over to Emmy thanks so much you guys I’m here with Tim Hooper and his little mini driver here in the front in the 1505 vehicle oh your name’s what hon Hooper oh okay well that’s his name I hope you
Understood it cuz I didn’t anyway Tim how was your day out there it was absolutely phenomenal uh we made um little bit of a boo boo some cars broke went way up high trying to pass end up landing on the roof uh but flipped her back over and the old girl she just
She’s just a billy goat well Tim I don’t want to hear about your boo boos I want to hear about the moment that you are absolutely the the moment you thought I am a driving God what was that moment when he started crying after back
Door uh Cod driver why don’t you tell us a story about how you started crying after back door well I’ve come out here with Tim a numerous times this is my first time co- driving for him so I know what this finish means to him I know what it means
To me I know what it means to our families and the fuel works family the Rufus family so it’s just an emotional moment and I’m super happy to be here super proud of my friend and uh he is a great driver so well listen you are not the only
Person to get emotional here we’ve had many many tears as people cross the finish line driver here is getting a little bit emotional we know it’s a lot we’re so glad that you guys are here stoked to have you finished I’m sure your friends and family are excited for
You are you all down there and do you want to come up here for a photo come on out is there anyone that you like to thank really special well first off I mean my wife she’s running here somewhere um you know it’s a lot of time
In the shop we’re a small team your name’s Krist yeah yeah um you know and then um you know Daniel being Cod dog with me um he’s also one of the car sponsors with shway you know fuel works um you know and then we’ve just got such a great family with
The ultra 4 team you know with with Rufus and then Northshore race Works uh both those teams you know we kind of all bond together I don’t know if they feel sorry for me or what but um I just kind of show up in their tent and they just
Kind of Welcome me in and um it’s just a big family and we did this with p y awesome and I see up here you’ve got to finish first first you must finish that is true you are a finisher here at the nid race of Kings congratulations we’ll
Get a picture with your team back to you guys in the booth such an awesome incredible finish again very emotional they’ve been battling out there for hours and hours both both physically emotionally demanding again trying to get that car to the finish line so once you do actually reach that Finish Line
It’s such an amazing feeling again guys spend so many hours prepping the car dialing the car in shock tuning people get ha weeks months and advance so it’s obviously a very very awesome time to see you know guys with their families out there being able to finish that so
So definitely super super cool to see I see some more some more team Indiana guys out there Mr Jody Ford what’s up buddy I he had some family younger family members also racing this week super neat to see those guys out and ladies out racing it was super super
Part of that team Indiana crew very awesome to see I know we’re going to do Awards here shortly we got some guys if you’re one of those names that Ian read off earlier make sure you made your way down to the stage be giving away some Hardware
Definitely don’t want to miss that and we still have some guys on the course trying to get finished I know we’re going to start doing Awards here shortly at the end but we’re definitely going to stay tuned we still have some guys out there still pushing still trying to get
That car across the Finish Line we still have our live tracker up trying to see who’s out there working to get across that finish line and again we’ll be doing Awards here shortly like I said if Ian read up your name earlier make sure you get your
Way down here if you’re out the hauler some of those guys like you said are going to change clothes maybe get a shower get something to eat come on back down get your Hardware don’t want to miss that I just hope the Gomez Brothers didn’t start celebrating too early
Because great to I’m sure I’m sure they they have but it be great to get them back down here but yes we do need uh those drivers back here for awards here in hammertown and for those of you watching at home uh we want to get you
Back in here uh we want we’ve been trying to push to get this done so we can get this all over to you before it’s absolutely pitch block here in Johnson Valley but you we’re on just around the corner we’ll be giving out some awards for everybody which will be great uh
Being that the Gomez W I think we’ll know when they show up as well yeah I well yeah if we don’t know when they show up we’ll know when they’re giv that uh that first place trophy for sure uh once again big shout out to laser nut for building all these trophies uh
Absolutely amazing watching what Cody Wagner does over there at Laser nut oh it’s super cool I have one of his one of his laser nut cactuses in my shop which which is awesome to have it’s it’s so cool to to have that just basically
Hanging out in the in the shop it is I say Clyde picked one of those up those laser n cactuses last year here at King hammers he had his motor home camper and on top of two side by sides had a massive stainless steel Cactus so he
Could haul it back to Mississippi so again cing Clyde hauling that Ma you know massive Cactus back on a open car Tri with some side by sides I’m sure got a few weird looks so that spider off-road shop he owns is definitely cool accessory to it I’m just hearing from
Our good uh co-host miles house acquest that it is also Cody’s birthday today yeah so I’m sure laser nut will be having a little uh there will be some having fun but I hear we are prepped with Emmy on the stage so Emmy take it away thanks so much you guys I’m here
With Hunter Sparrow in the 72 car and you said that uh you know we might have to actually push this off the podium what is going on I think she’s done she’s she’s had a rough rough day but we’re here so I’m pretty happy yeah you know finishing this race the Nitto race
Of Kings it is grueling you’ve been out there battling all day you got to tell me are you going to sleep good tonight oh I’ll sleep good tonight yeah yep I’m I’m glad it’s it’s been a long two weeks we’ve been out here for two
Weeks and I we normally come out and do a lot of pre-running and and studying in the course and we’ve had a rough two weeks and been nothing but work on stuff so this is a really good reward so what was your favorite part of the course
Today um I I enjoyed the rock sessions what was that that last trail that we did the one where um cross was help check me out check me out was a fun trail all right yeah that seemed to be a a favorite of a lot of people we loved
Watching it here on the big screen um is there anyone that you would like to thank out there that has helped you get out here yeah I got a lot of people to thank um for sponsors definitely yokahama Tire Racine Wheels JRE drive shafts Yukon gear and Axle uh
Redline and I’m sure there’s some more but um I I also really want to thank Drew my co-driver um my wife Kimberly Sparrow she was up here yesterday she finished her 4,800 cars so I’m really proud of sparrow Motorsports we got two cross the line and I can’t forget my pit crew Nate
Cory flying hi High Jeremy Hammer guys they uh they came through and really helped us out you know getting one car across the finish line that is an accomplishment but your team got two cars that is amazing congratulations stok that you guys are here sounds like
You’ve got a big family you guys get on up here and take a photo come on come on and we’ll get back to you guys in the booth we’ve got our Awards coming up momentarily thanks Emmy good to hear uh yeah we’ve been waiting all night for
Our Awards uh we had to push it off a little bit because uh race Ops was working through as we’ve been talking about earlier today we had some time penalties to assess inside that race Ops trailer again I’m very glad I’m not on that team just looking at all the vcps
And the checkpoints and again I’m like there’s times if I was a racer I wouldn’t sure what lap I was on much less if I you know checkpoints and you know virtual areas and yeah well I was talking about it with Tom ways early you
Know and and you know there as we know this is a young Motorsports you know you know it’s easy to uh basically you know armchair Cowboy the sucker but it’s not that easy because the truth is you know this is as as we talked this this race
Is only 18 years old you know so and 18 years ago we didn’t use trackers we just you know cuz we only ran like half the Rock Trails and so uh now that we have the these longer tracks and these longer Trails we we put the trackers in we had
To you know that was implemented years ago and and with it uh with basically everything happening we’re in a situation where these guys need to we need to keep them honest yeah and and as Tom said you know that’s all anybody ever asked was like let’s get it fair
Let’s get it honest let’s get a set time let’s get a set penalty let’s figure this out and that’s what they’ve done and so you know we you know kudos for uh everyone in race Ops you know Ben uh Ben Napier in there dealing with all of that
Uh with our being our Motorsports director it’s great to have him in there relaying to me that’s what was cool about the race today getting that information yeah yeah so I think it was neat to be able to get go send miles in there get updates that’s something we’ve
Never been able to do in the past and again we have that that WhatsApp we had some texts coming in from Tiffany she was updating somewhere at one so sometimes they’d pull back in on their second lap or third lap and they would she would she would have updates I know
When Cur pulled in she had some updates for us a couple different guys had transmission issues when Lauren Healey she she said Lauren Healey’s team was saying he has some transmission issues and again you and me were in in watching you just saw them Coast to a stop I
Wasn’t 100% sure what was going on so all right yeah so uh right now we have Emmy on stage I believe she’s got another one of our finishers up there I do I’ve got John Da in the 44117 car and I came up here oh he’s got some fans
He’s got some fans I came up here and I looked at him and I was like man your eyes are glassy how do you feel after finishing the nid race of Kings I feel feel pretty good but I’m definitely tired what part took it out of you all
Of it all the nuisance bumps the and the braking and accelerating bumps they’re awful what took it out of you the breaking and and the accelerating just just all of it all right then uh I’m going to turn it over here to your codog
To see how his day when how did you get this guy under control uh I mean our day was Flawless uh we only got out one time change the tire and tighten up a lower link um but honestly we just had fun in the car all day together just talked and made jokes
And stopped take a couple pee breaks and you know the fun stuff of hammers those are the things you never talk about is oh I I have to go to the bathroom how is that going to work I’m so glad you guys had fun in the car that’s really what it’s about right
You’ve spent too much time too much money to come here and not have a good time time and we’re so glad that you guys finished who do you want to thank for helping you get here I want to thank my wife and my three-year-old uh Hazel they are the
Loves of my life and I am so proud that they will let me come do this it means a lot to me also want to thank branck Motorsports best parts on the planet best people on the planet uh Max’s Tires I I like the tire I get no support from
Them but they changed tires for me no problem we had one flat and it was my fault so Max’s Tires are the best for sure that’s awesome well John do you are an official finisher here at the Nitto race of Kings y’all you got some support
Come on up here take a photo we’re going to get you have a photo get you off stage so you can go get a frosty beverage and maybe get a shower and uh probably go to sleep is what I’m thinking back to y’all in the booth that was awesome again that was
Super neat to see those finishers again we got a few guys still on the course I think trying to squeak it in under time which again we’ll try to get those guys all updated as they pull in again Awards will be coming here shortly we have list miles right off here here a
Few minutes ago again we’re a few minutes away from doing Awards I know the Gomez Brothers should be making their way down here as well they’ll be giving away some Hardware yeah we’ve got uh you know we got a small crowd Gathering up here we’re getting our uh all of our
Finishers up in here that we called out for earlier which is great and soon emy’s going to be setting them up here as we said before those laser nut trophies can you see a lot of fans pouring in again other Racers everybody hanging out again talking about those
Frosty Beverages and life being eating drinking Mar I’ve seen some pizzas around here get some tacos going I might have to uh might have to hit the taco truck or pizza later yeah you know it’s always good to have a it’s kind of ironic I kind of laugh about it you know
We talk about how much this event has changed over the years but back in in 2009 2010 there was this this isn’t what it looked like yeah we had I believe there’s one taco truck that came out I remember having to drive back to yucka to buy chapstick my face was so sore
Being out here but it was uh yeah it it it’s just grown so much I mean especially this year you got the Koh General Store you got did you try the simulator I did not oh my goodness gracious like that’s totally on my Christmas list at this point in time uh
There’s going to be one of those showing up in my shop uh in the ne the only problem if I put that in my shop I don’t know how much work I’m going to get done so maybe I won’t put it in the shop but yeah it’s definitely that think is
Pretty pretty cool to play around with for sure yeah but guys guys we got to get back to work and I love this had king of hammers racing like the short course and stuff in the simulator so again that was super neat to see over there in the Warren VIP
Booth when I was getting some snacks over there earli this week got to check that out very cool and again usually there were some younger people on it but it looked it looked cool I saw some older guys standing around like how do this thing work again so very very cool very
Fun again that was set up in the waren VIP tent yeah I think it’s super neat to see you know you basically get in there you can do as Matt was saying you can do the short course you can do uh you can get out here and actually drive in Johnson
Valley you can go out and you can pick the car that you want to drive so it’s uh it’s absolutely yeah pretty impressive to see just basically driving the anywhere you want in Johnson Valley just uh basically from your living room which is very cool again do a little
Pre-running I guess we could go out and check it out you know get some course markers laid out there yeah we kind of all right so I’m getting in my headset that now we have another change this time it’s Pam who’s ready on stage Mrs Pam Hall take it away thanks and I’m
Out here with Phil mcgilton here you are at the Finish Line Tom Lou over there in the passenger seat how was your day oh wow it was a long day so we’ve been uh we’ve been trying to get this race finished for about six years now so uh
We’re really happy to be able to get it done uh want to put a big thank out to everybody that’s been involved everybody’s like oh when you get up there make sure you thank everybody it’s really hard to do cuz there’s so so many people involved in these teams and uh
These cars to get them out here and get them to run for the whole time big shout out to Southern Ty Mark for being on board big thanks to the BF goodren gang for helping us pet and all the guys at the camp that come out here with us
We’ve been coming here since I think 2016 was our first year and uh it’s pretty much been the same gang the whole time so uh it’s been great to come out here and finally get it across the line and have all their their help and all
Their support and uh Tom Lewis is first time in the car with me this weekend uh and he did a great job in the car uh we we had a good race really uh the car wasn’t it wasn’t where we wanted it to be as far as speed wide but you know we
Really focused on let’s just get this thing across the line that was that became our goal about part quarter of the way into the race he’s like you know what we’re not going to win this race let’s just see if we can get it done and
That was our Focus for the day and we were able to get it across so big shout out again to uh everybody that helped uh Jimmy’s 4×4 did a lot of work on the car getting it ready for the race James SC field performance did a lot of work with
The motor thing ran Flawless all day so we’ve got a lot of good things working and it’s a good way to start the season so we’re going to plan on racing everything we can get to this year and uh so I’m glad to start it out on a
Positive note yes finishing out here is a win in itself but I have to ask because Tom’s been here for quite a while was he an expert on the short course on the short course yeah now it was we had some good communication to the race and some of it was pretty funny
And a lot of it I don’t want to say on this ser microphone but uh we had a good time out there we really did uh I want to also thank Factor 55 we broke our winch on lap two and uh so we came in uh
I don’t know we took a wrong line coming down veto and had had to winch and broke it uh come in main pit to start lap three and and they threw us a rope and we put a new rope in get lap three and actually we never had to get out of the
Car on lap three so it was pretty happy about that so well that right there too is a win in itself so Tom you were racing yesterday out here in the stock class and out here now in the 44 400 give us your thoughts on the
Differences um it was it was a lot longer race today um I had a great time racing with Amber in the stock class yesterday um I was super stoked to see her get a finish but uh today was a war the whole time so we uh we had a good
Race we had a good Pace we tried to just make the best we could with the car and uh pick our way through this hard course and finally got a finish here for Phil so super stoked for him and his team awesome well one more time let’s give it
Up for Philip mcgilton on his first King of the hamers Finish thank you guys I appreciate it all right give a round of applause again that’s Phil mcjilton normally is co-driver is Dr Amanda Ross she’s normally co-driving for him again they uh made a commitment last year to hit
The whole season want to do a bunch of events actually made a Podium at Visions last year was super happy with it but Tom losing their Cod driveing for him today get a heck of a racer but we are going to pay some bills real quick though commercial we be back right after
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That tackled the desert today three laps one big desert lap two big rock laps and they are now back here to collect up their Hardware Mrs Pam Hall is out there as she has been all week ready to hand out Awards so I’m going to
Kick it over to Pam to hand out those laser nut trophies thanks Ian I am here now to finally give out you gu to you guys our race of Kings one two and three so I know all of you are super stoked about this but let’s go ahead and bring on up
In that number three position John Web in that number two position Brett Harrell and in that number one spot JP Gomez Brett Harold I know you’re here I was just talking to you where’s he at so as we wait here for just a moment because we can’t take a picture of our top three without their awesome laser nut trophies JP Gomez has his coming on over here
Come on Brett I got one of those for you over here come on man yeah okay we’re going to start right here with our third place finisher John web you are super stoked to be up here on this Podium right now getting that awesome laser nut trophy big smile on
Your face oh yeah congratulations thank you very much uh it’s it’s crazy to be here right now um considering what happened earlier this week and uh oh man beer fall uh but yes uh I can’t than enough to my team and my wife and uh yeah my codog
And everything it it I’m I’m living in the Twilight Zone I feel like well it’s a whole team effort for sure getting you out here this weekend getting you up here on the podium give us who all you want to thank for getting you up here
Well I I should have a list cuz my memory is not the best but uh yeah Poly Performance Synergy dirty life Wheels uh BFG G only had one fa flat but it was totally my fault um Baja design lights uh yeah yeah uh VP racing fuels um yeah
My crew really my crew came through so hard it’s so it’s unbelievable like if you saw pictures of the car it’s it’s it’s a game it’s a completely different car at this point so I re I really appreciate it well congratulations and I have to go over
Here to your Co driver you have H this awesome coat going on I feel like my hood needs to be attached to your coat right now all right so uh let’s get your words being out there co- driving how many times did you get out of the car uh one
Time just to help him change the flat it was an awesome race he he pointed he shot he just said what line and I said you know what we both Rock crawl we both know what way the car wants to go do what you want to do and the car will do
It and it did it it was awesome time awesome awesome experience and uh you know the week just went from bad to worse with him he went up the waterfall went over backwards pre-run and the Connor the original co- driver end up with a bad concussion and you know
Health is number one and so I stepped in after racing yesterday in the 4800 and just let’s just get it done and let’s just run our race and just see where it ends up and it just went Next Level well that’s awesome to hear congratulations
On your number three spot you got a lot of celebrating to do so congratulations thank you very much all right we’re moving right on over here to Brett Harrell you’re up here in this number three spot you have been on it I’m sorry you’re number two spot short Pam sorry about [Laughter]
That you’re up here though in this number two spot you are one out there that’s always on it I mean you are pushing it to the limits this weekend out here at King of the Hammers here you are proving how hard you drive and how good you drive in this number two spot
How do you feel yeah it was a good day everybody um we could have pushed harder on lap two but we tried to save the car we we came here to win and unfortunately we lost to one of my good buddies you know I freaking love the go as family
They’re great people but uh we had we had a good day Justin killed it um you know I don’t I don’t know what else to say about it it’s a tough course and you go out and you do your best and we we just started Counting Cars
And at one point in time I’m like dude we’re we’re like right there like we we got this and then we we decided to take a nap right so yeah I flipped the car over on its lid and uh Justin got out and helped JP
Get his car waned up and he took off and me and JP kind of battled a little bit and then I I got to thinking about it and it’s like dude he started like in the back of the pack there’s no point in even messing with it right now let him
Go in it so couldn’t couldn’t lose to a better guy well that’s awesome to hear you helped him out he helped you out but here you are number two spot who all do you want to thank uh I’d like to thank God for keeping us safe my wife my son
Paul horel the whole crew uh Foster Steve uh Mitch Josh Dawson Justin my co-pilot Amber um my entire crew Avery Jen everybody that came here to support me and take care of me and my son this weekend Fox Nitto Max tie downs um rigid Industries uh Bret Schmid
Trucking you’re going to make me pull my phone out but I probably don’t get to do this again so um lnl ornamental Max tight Downs Warren winches Gomez brothers from my drive sha PCI Nitto rigid two works like yeah we’ve been to drive shaft on lap two and it’s it’s it’s like bent
Bent and the thing held together so they build the best ones well here you are up here in this number two spot congratulations to Brett Harrell you’re [Applause] welcome all right the man of the day JP Gomez here you are in this number one spot still in this steal in the uh the
Limelight from your brother over here congratulations how do you feel right now thank you uh Brett actually winched me out of the effed up spot on the third lap Trail so thank you guys I owe them little fist bump maybe some Coors Lights some water it was a great day I mean starting
From the back you’re you’re fighting yourself you’re fighting like don’t get a flat don’t hit that guy or hit all the guys so turkey colaw I rolled up and almost ripped the steering wheel off because I was sitting there and once we got through that and I was
Like okay it’s a race and it was a Sprint there was no I want to go slow here I want to go slow there I want to win there I was like nope nothing to lose so it was fun I mean picking off cars no radios today and I kept when
Marco my older brothers are silent that means they’re winning so I was like I kept yelling out Mayo markers nothing came through pit nothing like what the hell’s going on around here so I was like I just it was a battle in my head today and just kept pushing I got a flat
Tire with the helicopter on top of my head that sucked talk about yeah yeah just put the spare tire back on that sucked so you worked for this win right here then didn’t you 100% there was nothing left on out there was just a
Driver in the car I just like I even rub the car like 50 times a day and just kept pushing I mean you got to keep pushing remote two on lap three they said I had a 4-minute lead but I had a flat tire in the
Spare and they said just push just push I said nope I’ll get another flat so I pulled in recked and I just sent it all the way down spooners out of limits I don’t even know how the car is even driving right now um but that’s what it
Is that’s why this is the King of the Hammers race every second every Rock could bite you and you could not finish or you know what I mean yep exactly well you started way back in the pack today you’ve been here you’ve been so close to
This so many times but here you are it’s all about you today you are our race of Kings let’s give it up for JP [Applause] Gomez forgot to uh do the important part the sponsors who do you want to thank for getting you out here well first my wife and kids they’re my biggest supporters uh method wa reels Nito Tire uh my brothers Mountain Enterprise just everybody King King shocks God they worked good
Today oh yeah UFO where’s Joe Thompson at yeah yeah bring up here so uh we we changed a steering box uh last night he said I could drive faster and I didn’t believe him because I don’t believe anything he says and um uh we put it in
And I drove back and I’m like this is amazing and he goes are you sure I’m like I’m 100% sure I’m going to win tomorrow he’s like hey but anyways that’s exactly what I and he said you have nothing to lose and I drove like I had nothing to lose it
Today that’s why we’re here today yeah well congratulations let’s get everybody over here to take a picture and let’s give it up for our race of Kings JP Gomez Bret Harrell and John web yeah we are not done with all of the awards tonight we do have four through 10 so if
We have Dan freshh come on up here Eric Miller Von G Jr Tad dower Kyle Cheney Kevin Sterns and Cade rod please make your way also AK Watley are you here oh look at that we’ll talk over that here let’s have you talk over this really quick trust me I almost
Died right there you have two tires right there two tires come on no
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so how exactly was Kyle Cheney's place figured out to go from first one to cross finish line to 7th?
Such a great race! From the on track drama, the well timed rain to the drone & helicopter footage and great commentating from Dave & Tom.
Thanks everyone and well done JP!
What a race! So exciting.
Wow….. Action packed racing!!!!!! Love it!!!
I will race this race one day!!!