With a 3rd class win in as many races ultimately weekend’s Laughlin Desert Problem, 18-year-old Ryan Prosser is the youngest driver to win Finest In The Desert‘s Trick Truck championship.
Though Trick Vehicles are typically among the many high autos in desert racing, the category was comparatively quiet in 2024 outdoors of the premier Vegas to Reno. Prosser was the one TT driver to enter all 4 races, and even then he did the V2R in a UTV Open as an alternative. TT was a Prosser-only present on the season-opening Golden State 250, whereas defending champion Jonathan Brenthel was his solely different competitors on the Silver State 300 the place the latter retired.
In Laughlin, the one different Trick Truck entered was Jordan Dean who retired. Prosser completed seventh general amongst Limitless autos.
Whereas competitors was definitely scant, BITD awards forty-five factors for merely ending, that means a retirement may have simply thrown issues out of order. Moreover, if no driver runs no less than three races (the fourth could be dropped as one’s worst end), a trophy wouldn’t be awarded.
Apart from the title, Prosser additionally claimed Rookie of the Yr honours. Because the reigning champion, he will likely be allowed to swap his #42 quantity plate out for #1.
Satirically, TT nonetheless had the closest factors battle of all vehicles and vans. David Ziegler held off Connor McMullen with a robust outing at Laughlin to assert the Class 6100 title. Chris Woo and Chad Corridor had been the one full-season opponents within the Inventory classes, as was Jeff Harmonson within the Jeepspeed Trophy.
On the other excessive, the battle for the highest motorbike title got here all the way down to only a single level. Though Shane Logan completed behind Hayden Hintz at Laughlin (third to Hintz’s first), Logan’s end result was dropped for being his worst outing of the season and allowed him to carry off Hintz for the championship.
Can-Ams swept the three UTV championships. Dustin Jones, in his first full season with the Can-Am Maverick R after profitable the 2023 Silver State 300 in its racing début, held off Colt Brinkerhoff for the UTV Turbo Professional title. One other Maverick R topped UTV Open with Josh Row, who was the quickest UTV outright on the Vegas to Reno, beating Laughlin general winner Cody Bradbury.
Bradbury, Jones, and Row completed 1–2–3 amongst all UTVs at Laughlin.
Quick course racing passed off the Friday earlier than the principle desert occasions. Joe Terrana received the Class 11 race forward of Brian O’Dor, whereas Chase Mankin and Mason Cotter respectively topped the UTV Quick Course and Youth lessons. Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone pulled double obligation by getting into each the Class 11 and UTV Quick Course occasions, ending second within the latter and 5 laps down within the former.
Laughlin Desert Problem class winners
Automotive/Truck
Restricted
Limitless
Motorbike/Quad
UTV
2024 Finest In The Desert champions
Some lessons didn’t title a champion as a result of none of its opponents ran each race.
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