page_title: Auto racing
section_title: Off-road racing
hierarchical_section_title: Auto racing / Categories / Off-road racing
caption_attribution_description: Hall pilots the stock-class Hummer H3 in SCORE International and Best in the Desert off-road races.
context_page_description: Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition.
  Auto racing has existed since the invention of the automobile. Races of various sorts were organised, with the first recorded as early as 1867. Many of the earliest events were effectively reliability trials, aimed at proving these new machines were a practical mode of transport, but soon became an important way for competing makers to demonstrate their machines. By the 1930s, specialist racing cars had developed.
  There are now numerous different categories, each with different rules and regulations.
context_section_description: In off-road racing, various classes of specially modified vehicles, including cars, compete in races through off-road environments. In North America these races often take place in the desert, such as the famous Baja 1000. Another format for off-road racing happens on closed-course short course tracks such as Crandon International Off-Road Raceway. In the 1980s and 1990s, short course was extended to racing inside stadiums in the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group; this format was revived by Robby Gordon in 2013 with his Stadium Super Trucks series.
  In Europe, "offroad" refers to events such as autocross or rallycross, while desert races and rally-raids such as the Paris-Dakar, Master Rallye or European "bajas" are called "cross-country rallies."
caption: Rod Hall in a Hummer H3 during a Best in the Desert race
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