King of the Hammers is unique because it combines high-speed, wide-open desert racing with technical rockcrawling. It's called Ultra4 racing and it tests every off-road skill of b ...

Photo: Collecting Cars Only 300 examples were produced to ... and McQueen-customized motorcycle that the actor used for desert racing duties in Southern California, the modern Métisse motorcycle ...

And famed as 'The King of Cool' in Hollywood, he had some notable 4-wheeled racing success, including placing third in the British Touring Car Championship ... Steve McQueen Desert Racer on ...

As we charged across the landscape, I remarked how desert racing seems to involve little drifting. “Yeah, these cars have to navigate everything from sand to rocks to rough moguls, so ride ...

Trailblazing driver Paula Murphy has died. From driving a jet car across the Utah desert to racing nitro-powered cars on the drag strip, Murphy made a name for herself in a sport dominated by men.

The Baja run is just one of McGee's firsts. A decade before she began desert racing, in the late 1950s, McGee began driving sports cars with the encouragement of her husband and her brother ...

During the race, cars can travel over 100 mph across dry lakebeds and open desert tracks then bash their way through narrow canyons choked with dumpster-sized boulders. Each vehicle in the King of ...