Last week, I had the pleasure of joining Emily Miller (pictured above) and a bunch of extraordinary women in Emily and Rod Hall's off road driving academy.



Emily, most recently won her first race from Vegas to Reno. It took a total of three days. She took down some trophy trucks in the race to the finish in the H3 pictured above.



The interior of the H3 is completely custom to Emily's petite size (she's a bit smaller than me). My favorite part of the day was doing the hot lap with Emily. We rallied through the desert, jumped the Hummer a couple of times, and I was blown away the entire time. So much fun!



We did a ton of useful drills. Rod Hall, the legend himself, and Emily were our coaches. Rod Hall started racing in the 50s and has the longest unbroken string of race victories in off-road racing history with 35 total.



Wendy Fisher was there safely guiding her partner around the cone symbolizing a rock.



We drove the H3 and this ford explorer. The H3 was my choice vehicle in every situation, but the Ford was pretty fun to play with too.



We got dirty.



And some wild mustangs even came out to play.

Labels: Emily Miller, Hummer, Michelle Parker, mustangs, off-road racing, Rod Hall

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well, 2008 was a mixed bag for Holmes Racing. My uncle, John Holmes, won the Baja 1000 for his class, but me and my dad, in his new class 7200 truck, we could not even manage to finish a race, until the last one of the year that is, the Bud Light Dash 200 inn Plaster City on New Years Eve. We were forced to enter Class 1, the unlimited open class, as there was no 7 unlimited class in the dash. This put us against the fastest trophy trucks and big dollar buggies on the course. We took the approach of just racing to put miles on the truck and work out the bugs, we pitted every lap (which you would never do in a competitive approach) working closely with our sponsor, Bilstein Shock Absorbers to fine tune the suspension on this relatively new truck.
Somehow, to our surprise, we ended up 6th. Maybe the big guns did not show, or maybe they crashed, or maybe we are just fast as hell and had been previously plagued with bad luck earlier in the year, but it was a nice end of the year confidence boost going into the 09 racing season. Look for HR in the Best of the Desert Racing Series based primarily in Nevada. There are 6 races next year. www.bitd.com

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