While the competition at the Optima King of the Hammers presented by Ford Performance has seen its share of agony and victory this week, the next three days of main events are certain to test ...

This week, the improbable but undeniable motorsports phenomenon that is the annual Optima King of the Hammers presented by Ford Performance has arrived. So too have tens of thousands off-road ...

King of the Hammers is touted as the toughest off-road race on Earth, a multi-week event in the Southern California desert that’s open to anyone with a car or motorcycle and a healthy amount of ...

King of the Hammers is often described as “Burning Man for rednecks,” and while the drug of choice is usually Coors Light and the cars are valued for performance rather than artistic ...

A couple of weeks after Dakar and a couple more weeks before the SCORE San Felipe 250 is King of the Hammers, a four-wheel torture-fest in the California desert where rocks chew up driveshafts and ...

What Is King of the Hammers 2023? King of the Hammers 2023 is a 17-day event in the desert encompassing many disciplines of off-road racing. With races for dirt bikes, side-by-side UTVs, trophy ...

King of the Hammers May Be the World’s Biggest Off-Road Extravaganza Some 65,000 fans and racers crowd the desert in Johnson Valley, California, in a show of force, fearlessness, and fiberglass.

I had a chance to really see these machines do battle during the 2024 Can-Am UTV Hammers Championship, one of the first events of this year's King of the Hammers.

Public lands will close as the annual King of the Hammers race event returns to the High Desert’s Johnson Valley in January 2025.

King of the Hammers, considered one of the toughest off-road racing events in the world, is held in the desert north of Joshua Tree National Park.