DETROIT — In a sport where simply finishing
the race is a victory, Team HUMMER once again proved dominant with
the Team HUMMER H2 and H3 taking first-in-class finishes at the
"Best in the Desert" (BitD) Racing Association's
Terrible's Town 250 this past weekend in Pahrump, Nev.
The Team HUMMER race trucks are driven by the
legendary off-road racing Hall family. Team founder and 18-time
Baja 1000 winner Rod Hall pilots the #3111 H3; Josh Hall,
Terrible's Town 250 defending class champion and 2005 "Best in
the Desert" Racing Association Stock SUV class champion
drives the # 4101 H2; and the #8102 H1 Alpha is driven by six-time
Baja 1000 winner, Chad Hall.
"This year's course was extremely
challenging," said Josh Hall. "The fact that we were able to
get all three vehicles across the finish line, including two
first-in-class finishes is a real testament to the strength of the
HUMMERs and the entire Team HUMMER crew."
The Terrible's Town 250 was also the debut
race of the new Team HUMMER H1 Alpha, which experienced the
unpredictable challenges that tend to plague vehicles in their
inaugural desert race. In spite of the Nevada desert's best
attempts to end their day, the H1 Alpha team and Chad were able to
pilot the H1 to a finish.
Team HUMMER competes in the stock class, which
features production-based vehicles with stock frames, stock
suspension designs and production-based engines. Much of the
team's success can be attributed to a cooperative relationship
between Team HUMMER and the GM development engineering group based
at GM's Desert Proving Ground in Arizona. The close-to-stock
configuration of the race vehicles provides engineers a valuable
method of observing the H2 and H3 in extreme driving situations.
In addition to building the race vehicle, the development
engineers provide technical consultation, parts support and even
crew member volunteers for all races. Evaluations of the
vehicles' performance provide valuable feedback that can be used
in the continual refinement of current products and the
development of future HUMMERs.
For more than a decade, The Hall Family and Team
HUMMER have piloted HUMMER's into the top spots of some of the
off-road racing circuit's most grueling and technical courses,
including 10 victories at the SCORE Baja1000 since 1993. To find
out more about HUMMER vehicles visit www.hummer.com.
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