Sportin' Wood
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Cameron and a few others have adapted to rock crawling pretty well when they get the right help.RG hasn’t had good luck at the hammers, because one has to be good at rock crawling. Not a Speed UTV issue.
What I was saying is that if RG wanted to prove a point at KOH he would be best served by putting a few people in a car rather than try and do it himself or with Max. I had a few more people that come to mind, hypothetically if I wanted a fighting chance in Johnson Valley.
The Gomez Brothers
Dan Fresh
Randy Slauson.
Hypothetically I would pick these people not only for driving skills but for the knowledge of the Hammers they have. It takes more than knowing how to rock crawl, there are so many lines in the trails and desert that you have to know the place extremely well. Some might call them cheater lines, but I think it's just putting in the time to know the area.
I don't have a clue if the Speed car was built with this terrain in mind, but I think hanging with the Ultra4 vehicles in a UTV is pretty impressive. Even more so when you win a race in the same terrain two days earlier. I thought Randy in the Bomber would smoke that Can Am off the starting line, but he did not. The Golf Cart kept pace all day with vehicles that had way more HP and Tire.
Maybe I am naive, but I think RG is the kind of person that could field a UTV in the main race and have a shot at winning KOH with the right driver, team, and homework. I would love to see it.
As a consumer seeing a vehicle perform in that hostile environment gives me the perception I would get a decent vehicle for trail riding and doing the type of stuff I would want to do and not have it fall apart. I get it, these are race-modified race vehicles, but The Win on Sunday sell on Monday campaign still works. Some might say you can do that in Baja, but Baja does not have all the media focused on the entire course as KOH does. KOH is still growing, I'm not sure SCORE is in the same position.
It's going to be really fun to watch the marketing unfold when these Speed cars start hitting the market.