Red Bull Signature Series - The Mint 400 FULL TV EPISODE

Welcome to the suburban desert of Las Vegas Nevada. It is here, in this no man's land of salt and silt, that limitless class stunt trucks with their 850 horsepower and 36 inches of

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travel suspension will attempt to race across this terrain at speeds of one hundred and forty miles. per hour they will do it under this desert sun and well into the darkness of the night, all in the quest to win what is known as the most prestigious off-road race in all of the United States. This is the General Tire

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. 400, you're watching the Red Bull Signature Series Hello everyone, Sal Masekela, your host here at the Red Bull Signature Series and let me welcome you once again to that desert life beyond the synthetic boundaries of Las Vegas, Nevada, now throughout the week.

I have really been celebrating this prestigious race that started in 1967 in downtown Las Vegas, but today is race day, there is a hostile landscape here in the Mojave Desert. Africa has the Mexico car, the Baja 1000, but in reality this is the great American off-road race and it is by far the most challenging and brutal in these United States. We have four 100-mile laps on a really tough race track. I actually got to experience part of the track first hand before. It's crazy that these drivers are going to push their unlimited class machines to the max. Try Bryce Menzies leading the charge as our returning champion in 2013, but his job to get on the podium is going to be tough.

A record 57 unlimited class trick trucks have shown up to compete, which is a new record for this race which is in its 47th year with the green flag. is on standby to drop, so how about we check in with Leader P and Ricky Johnson? Thanks to the more than 50,000 viewers for this year's 400

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. Let's take a look at the starting grid and the unique position of starting just by being the highest qualifier. Go ahead. Don Dale, but on the second row it's Bryce Menzies and Robby Gordon starting together, which will be the best matchup of the class one buggies.

Letner and Lofton, now it's time to hear from some of the guys starting toward the front of the field that we want to have. ahead of Don Dale who's starting first, hope

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y we'll get some clean air and then just run our race and hopefully do what we did last year, back-to-back Mint 400 wins, be awesome with 57 trophy trucks , it's incredible, you really see it. Looking forward to Dale, the fastest qualifier, you have a couple of previous winners, Robby Gordon and Bryce Menzies, right behind you, are you sure you can stop them? We are sure that we are like the rabbit.

We have a pack of wolves after us. Travis, have you exceeded your own expectations? Well, I never thought I'd have a 90 rated shot. I'm looking behind me. I mean, the field is so full, there are so many guys all over this field, this is good, I feel like we're in a good zone where I hope I can keep my head above my head and we can go out and have a really fun race. Having a drag race with Bryce and the Red Bull trucks can be fun, we'll see who has the speed. Now it's time for the course overview that talks us through this rugged terrain.

Ricky Johnson, well, Lee is about 20 miles south and Las Vegas, Nevada, it's a place called Jean and in this overview you can see that there is a lot of different terrain that you approach in the mountains and in the flat deserts, looking now towards the starting line, you see Dale Don Dale, that black truck just after the starting line, we get into the Fox shocks, testing the terrain, these potholes are somewhere three, four, five feet deep from there . go to the quarry, if there is a section of the stadium at the races in the desert, this is where spectators can get close, but not too close, to keep them safe from there, we go to the Rockets, which is the dry lake bed that some of the drivers exceed.

One hundred and forty miles per hour, depending on the vehicle they are in, then arrives at the first place where drivers can get fuel, water, and tires. From there, we entered the Joshua Tree Highway. It is very scenic and beautiful at this point, but as a driver, this part of this track will become increasingly difficult as the day progresses. From there, we are at the southern end of the field, pit B, another place for the driver to get more tires, more fuel, whatever he needs at the moment. At this point we are in what they call crumple zones, the second dry lake bed or once again, drivers are going over one hundred and forty miles per hour from the smooth dry lake bed to huge whoops, the next section is called Thumpers, drivers will go approximately 120 miles per hour. and Lee, you have to be aware of these screams to maintain your speed.

We are ready to go to the unlimited class and the first, as we mentioned before, that Dale Don del has this unique and privileged position of starting only the fastest qualifier and in this 400+ mile race that goes from day to day. nightfall, how much advantage does this Ricky have right now? You can see that he has a perfectly pristine course. The pilots had the opportunity and several eyes in the morning to look at the route. to run and see what happens now you see Robby Gordon and Bryce Menzies facing each other. Bryce has the inside line on the first left turn but then Robbie has the right turn coming up and that will put him on the inside so let's see who comes out with the full shot remember what Robby Gordon said a little earlier let's see who has the speed and we're about to see it right now Gordon runs hello there it's contact Menzies vs Gordon well that's a typical Robby Gordon move right there, hey Robin it's race and Robbie knew Bryce was closer, he wanted get over that berm and now start throwing some dust and Bryce's eyes and you can see this is key because the first mile of the Bryce course is basically blinded and there are so many rocks and so many hazards, as we can see here in the test area of Fox crash, which is very important to have the cleaner Robbie Gordon, let Bryce Menzies know how you are going to run this mint 400 from At the start, each row of the grid launches about 30 seconds after the previous one and Menzies is on the attack .

Now you know exactly what they say, we come up and hit a guy who's supposed to recover, but Robby Gordon is actually a hare that a lot of those drivers don't like, but now we see Robbie stopping all these dramas for Gordon. Obviously there is a problem. I thought he might be getting out of the way because he got hit. It looks like Robbie has a mechanical problem. There you have it, the hare didn't pay off this time and both boys got Justin Lofton off to a good start. This is Tom Bevel Dosa and that just shows how difficult these conditions are.

BJ Baldwin got off to a good start in his battle against Jason Voss Travis Pastrana comes out of 19th place and you can see the focus in his eyes, but he has no idea the beating that awaits him. Bryce Menzies is chasing race leader Dale Don Dale as we work through the stiff. bryce industries quarry section is busy with not only a 500 point pass and scoring champion, he's also the torque off-road

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short course champion, so this is probably one of the places where Bryce has a slight advantage over Dale Don Dale, this is the leader of the race.

Don del and Ricky, how difficult is it to be chased to set the pace? You've done it a lot. There is a fine line here between aggression and patience, when you run a race like the Mint 400, you have 400 miles to go. Think about it all here, we're looking at Justin Lofton, who's in a class one buggy and not a trick truck. The buggies are a little bit lighter and you can see that they have independent front and rear suspension, so they are a little bit lighter. more agile this is a great time for this truck and this team this is Josh Daniel in the 90 is the one from Beaufort astruc and it is a great day Josh Daniel, owner of Dan zo racing, does much of the chassis dyno for the guys what is this truck a turbocharged over a thousand horsepower incredible on the straights okay yeah that was crazy not a great debut and I have to tell you that section when we raced previously that in the morning the drivers are going to about 30 or 40 miles per hour.

I was just doing a lap right now, Josh was probably going over 100 miles an hour and he went from the asphalt to the dirt and missed his mark by 10 feet going in turns into a big rollover, but it's good to hear that it's okay, we changed key and we head to the front of the group and going over 125 miles per hour through the Rockets, this is marked and L, you are going wide open through the rockets and it is incredible and the best thing you can do for the engine is to keep it wide open as much as gas as much air as possible and just try to keep that thing forward because they're like big parachutes with these giant tires, so it's not like you're really going to suck up anyone's airstream and , as you can see, that stream is full of dust.

The top four competitors quickly approach the first of the two pit areas known as PA and Pit B and there is a good battle between Justin Lofton and this man here Harley Letner on board with Steve Allah, I suppose, and that was a move towards Jesse Jones Jesse Jones. He could be having a problem or just saving his gear for later in the race because all these guys are studs, but Steve doesn't pass you on the entire August list and Larry without having a little problem or stopping, look at the impact. of that dust and it's just lap one of four, quickly approaching the middle of this opening lap and Dale Don Dale still leads the way over Menzies Lofton and leaves the best class one machines and Andy McMillan in the top five here is the leader of the race.

Hit Don Dell and you can see the hunting dog. He's back there watching. Here's Dale running a very easy race because he realizes that Bryce has to go through the dust, so he doesn't want to go crazy. Terry gets tired. A colleague has some kind of problem. but here we see a car from before that got stuck on the track, so they have to detour and turn around, so this is the part where you have to be very careful. This is not a good saying for Bryce Menzies, that huge rock in the road. I think the culprit is what bit the driveshaft of Bryce Bizzy's truck and II Macmillan's co-driver Brady Thompson, Rickey shares his opinion on the matter.

Here we can see Bryce trying to help Pete do everything he can. There he is pointing. the drivers make sure no one hits the truck while Pete is underneath and there is the culprit of that giant rock right in the middle of the trail, the winner of last year's Mint 400 and second place until then, this has seriously affected the chances defense of Bryce Menzies. its title look at the size of that rock now we first enter the leader of the warp zone race, Dale Don del, and it reaches speeds of one hundred and forty miles per hour Ricky, only someone like you can tell us what that's like while you were looking at On the left you see that it has a sequential gearbox, it is in fifth year completely open, but these trucks are not designed to go that fast, there we are seeing that it reaches 138 139, but they float around Lee even though it is dry.

The lake bed has a lot of room, these things want to go left and right, you have to work hard to go straight and the guys are very happy with the speeds they were reaching. Justin Lofton isn't that far behind Bryce Menzies now. has been sidelined for the moment Delvin, obviously they will get the information from his well that Bryce is down, but does that change the strategy? We don't see Dale going through these whoops, probably around 100 110 miles per hour, these things are up. He's 4 feet tall and you just have to look beyond the horizon because if you try to focus too close to the front of your truck you'll end up crashing.

Look at that suspension, it's just a job. Someone else had been worked on today. Robby Gordon, good. Transmission failure ended things early for Robby Gordon, but that start to the race was pretty epic, take us through those first few moments because you turn and go into separate lanes, you're clear, go, go, go. Wow, we weren't very clear. We took the line and were able to break free, unfortunately the break is exactly what we did. We made it about 4 miles and we're looking at some decent sized rims and we just went into neutral so I don't really know if it's the transmission or the flex plate but it definitely doesn't turn from the back of the transmission.

A difficult day for Robby Gordon. Thank you, further proof of how difficult this event is. Ricky, even a former winner like Robby Gordon can get bitten early. Here we are looking at Bryce Menzies again. Back on the road and rolling only what they are telling you now is the next hole. I need a tire on the rack. Give me another driveshaft because in the Mint 400 it can happenanything. Many stones, many potholes and many races. then we transition to Andy McMillan, we saw him a little earlier, he was running fifth but he's making progress with the lead runners, a former mint 400 winner, this is our race leader, Don Dale on the microphone, Don telling them to the pilots who have a broken one.

The sway bar is not a broken left front caliper, so they can take that sway bar out, which will make the truck shake a little at speed, but it will turn much better. It's for the man who has led from the standstill. so far, this is holly letna rainey Thompson tells his driver, angry about the milling, to get going, the only one in front Dale Don Dale driving absolutely perfectly now that they removed the front sway bar, so the truck will run better here because it will turn and pivot more here we see Andy McMillan doing a spectacular job he has probably had the cleanest races so far and is about two minutes behind the race leader Don Dale this is Harley Letner very much in the hunt, we see Lettner in a class one buggy.

Slightly different than stunt trucks, stunt trucks probably weigh almost a thousand pounds more. You can see here here is BJ Baldwin, they are a little slower when it comes to the strict technical stuff, but they have amazing suspension and can take a beating a little better than the class 1 cars, big year for BJ Baldwin after to start in January competing in the Dakar Rally on board with boss Jason and off. Of course, let's take a look at where we are around mile marker 34 on the second lap. Dale Don Dale continues to lead a little further down the order although Pat Dean Justin Davis is in sixth and seventh ahead of the tar boat although they are now ahead there. in the corrected time, they physically behind him on the track explain that to us, Ricky, when you get your qualifying position that sets your time, so there may be when you look at the leaderboards, we may see someone in front of someone in time, but they are actually physically behind them, so you get that time back.

This is a race against time, not just competitors. This is Tavo, the Mexican driver, and he is putting in a pretty decent effort. Pat Dean in the class one machine and is being chased by Justin Davis. Those drivers enter the scene and here we see Tavo getting a new spare tire. Pat Dean walks by and here we see Justin Davis entering. This breaks your heart. You work so hard to pass someone and then they pass you in pit 3. :13 okay you can see Paddy, right, right sound, just give us a little sweat, we've filled it all up and the photo right now is a confirmation, yes we passed our arc in the pits, this is handing Macmillan really hunting down race leader Dale.

Give a hard break to our leader Dale Don Dale, he said it was a head butt or something that appeared in the engine. Here we see Andy McMillan charging, let me tell you the excitement they feel in that moment because you work so hard to chase. someone's dust and now you're the number one truck on the track it's an incredible feeling what a spectacle for the man who led from the beginning to this point in the race it's all over seems to be for Dale Don of the look In that, the frustration and the heartbreak, but I have to hand it to this guy, he's a privateer, he builds the race trucks and going out and beating the best of the best, qualifying at the front and leading the Mint 400 is something to be proud of. even though he's on the sidelines heartbroken he was still the fastest guy on the track, this is drama for Holly Letna first in Del and now letting the two guys who have been in the top three for almost this entire race the same thing you hear the engine. you got the engine flickering, you hear the engine popping and that's what happens when we cross these dry lake beds, the guys go 140 miles an hour wide open, it's the fastest these trucks and buggies go, so sometimes a little thing and the next I know you're on the sidelines, that was BJ Baldwin passing through Letna to move up to second place and another leading runner stranded, let's leave the track, let's go to Sal Masekela Sal, now there's not much I can say about this next competitor I don't know yet, he's the most popular action sports athlete on the planet, a living motocross legend and Supercross champion, ten-time X Games gold medalist, rallycross driver, NASCAR driver, Nitro Circus, TV movie star, author, husband and recently father, we now add 400 ladies competitors. and gentlemen mr. 199 travis pastrana The motivation for coming to Mint 400 was just to participate in an off-road race.

I mean, it fit my schedule perfectly and I wanted to sign up. Let's go out, let's have fun. Any red-blooded man would love it. driving a trophy truck a future, a trophy truck would be like heaven, you know, this is the coolest thing ever and I'm definitely excited to get into this whole realm. This is something I've really wanted to do since I was a kid and the results will tell you with anything if you're able to make a career out of it or continue it in the future, but I feel very comfortable in the car or the truck, I guess, so right away, so I'm really excited if you both have a clean day, I think we're going to be in the top 5 and I see him in the fight to win this and the first round or for him and I really need to go out and click together because probably It will take us a turn. turn halfway before we're on the same page, we'll see where we are at that point and you'll get sweaty and from there they won't start pushing, then he'll know the direction, we'll see where we can end up for me, this mint is a great stepping stone in what I hope to be a career in off road racing, new race leader Annie McMillan if you're just turning towards Dale Don Dale led most of the way and unfortunately ran into mechanical issue this is BJ Baldwin, Las Vegas native chasing McMillan, does he have a chance?

Ricky, well, BJ is in a great position because he can now run himself, you can see that he has clean air, here we see it, Gary, why Rick runs very, very hard, but. BJ has a chance to catch up with Anna McNeill. Problems in the hole. Trouble for Baldwin. He is slowing down and clears the pace. This is the third big contender we've seen come off the race course in the last 15 to 20 miles. He talks about problems Thabo has had plenty of. them, what's the story here with vildosola? Well, in a situation like this, he's limping, he's not going to come in.

We've seen him get out of the way for Voss and a couple of different guys, so he does the right thing and makes sure he doesn't get caught. Unlike other races where competitors eliminate each other, it's the circuit that takes these guys down one by one at Dane, which is well into the top five. Pat Dean has won almost every off-road race in the world in class one and that is why he is so strong here in Nevada. OWSLA finally managed to get to the pin he needed. He was treated and released after a troubled career.

Bryce Menzies also struggled. He finally returned. Bricen Peed has the right mental attitude. you just gotta keep pushing this is the mint 400 a lot can happen here we're watching tahoe run so hard blowing a piece off the car its unreal how hard this kid drives he's trying to make up for lost ground i just mentioned a few ago moments when he had problems and limped back to the pits and is giving it his all. The second generation Mexican pilot no longer limps. I love that family. His father Gus the Sol Tavo, they love to race with his Travis Pastrana doing a great job on the mid 400 debut and his teammate Bryce Menzies coming back making his way through it, no one knows this desert better than the local guys and one of them is Bryce Menzies, Gary Wyrick, through the section of the track that Ricky told us about earlier.

They called the beaters and it's pretty easy to see why now go when you're running 100+ miles an hour you can't just look at a specific jump you have to look at the changing horizon because these things are so technologically advanced that it's not just a thing that will catch you, it is the horizon from one Wyrick to another that marks Mark chasing brother Gary checking the leaderboard at Mile 93 at the end of lap 2 and Andy Macmillan leads the Wyrick brothers with Tavo chasing Travis Pastrana is in the top five, time to check in with Kelly as the leaders pass through the pit area here near the start/finish line, marking the end of the second lap and the halfway point of this race we've already I've seen problems for former winners early on, including Robby Gordon, whose transmission broke.

Bryce Menzies, who suffered a flat tire and is now reporting that BJ Baldwin is underpowered, but that opens the door for a new MIT 400 winner right now. Andy McMillan leads the overall and as expected with this classic this historic event the dropout rate is always high Anna McMillan running so hard Steve sir office is waiting to get on the vehicle or right now Lee and he is doing such a good job the The only reason you take him out is If he doesn't feel good, what do you take from the pit area and there's Bryce Menzies, you can see they have the window nets down, they have to nourish the drivers a little, they need to put a little new BF cheese on the back why not.

It doesn't matter, even if they look good, you're hitting the side shell so much that it's a little hard to eat with a full-face helmet, but fill the truck with gas and it's time to go to work and they've been working. after being knocked out of second place and getting back to work goalkeeper that's the voice of God Steve Menzies the owner of Menzies Motorsports he and his wife Terry are so dedicated to this whole racing program check out these 900 monsters horsepower, stunt trucks. just hitting the desert they are going through the Fox crash test range and let me tell you it is definitely doing its job there goes Mach Wyrick this is Tavo who is also trying to catch up and come back and do a good job inside I was down in the top five on this course and there's no easy road in some races, you can go.

I can cut left or right, as you can see, the best way to do it is to just go through the middle. Here we are. We are seeing Travis Pastrana doing an incredible job. Travis is known as one of those guys that sometimes there are tokens or records at this time. He is looking for the chips. The odds of him finishing the first of four laps here weren't very good, they weren't. really in his favor and he is proving the skeptics wrong, yes he is and he is doing a great job, he has a great co-writer with him and he is performing very well, my brothers, the team they have formed has developed, it has grown up, they've matured and they've really done a good job over the last few years, year after year, they get faster and smoother when you start, and as soon as I said, this is Gary Warwick, who was in the top three At his side, his brother Mark approaches, oh, and he's going to help.

I was going to say, you know you have to make sure you help your brother, so what he's trying to do pushes him back, oh wait, don't wait for Mark just yet while the replay comes. it catches on the broom a little too fast, grabs the lip and stops it, now you have to realize it's a 39 inch tire so the berm is about 50 inches and Mach is stuck, look he's trying to give reverse and that thing is getting stuck. Yeah, what happened when you went to push Gary? The rear tires sank a little bit because he didn't want to get close and hit him because he doesn't know what's going on inside the vehicle, but they were probably in radio communication. between them and now the one with the biggest lead is Tahoe but he stands back and is checking to make sure everyone is okay because and now Tahoe is stuck, unbelievable, we have about 1.5 million dollars with the trucks stuck on the track , this is the second third. and the fourth have come to a break and now we have the Yamaha rhinos getting these guys out and getting them going so now we have Mark back on his way and Thabo on his way but there will be some frustrated drivers at this point and Ricky, guess who it is?

Fast approaching this group of three, it is fifth place. Travis Pastrana. I am very impressed with Travis. At this point this race becomes very tough and technical, and there are daggers everywhere trying to take you out. Travis is running an incredible race. Great job, man, it just gets deleted. left there and still avoiding the wrong side Gary Wyrick and we saw Tavo just take off and now he's starting to roll this is Menzies get ready, get ready, get ready, nyla. I wonder what the defending winner was thinking there, huh, now remember the last time I saw this is the Mint 400, you see everything here in a truck on his side, you see it all the time and Andy McMillan is still in the lead in this third of fourturns.

Mark Weyhrich and Travis Pastrana are starting to get closer. in this is Menzies catching Pastrana, is in Pastrana's dust, that's 900 horsepower and Pastrana just moved to the side of the track to let his teammate do that teamwork right there and that's it you know what for, for Travis it was the smart move because Bryce is coming on strong, he has to make up time and as long as he stays in Bryce's dust he will beat him over all those if you just turn it on Minzy started on the second row of the grid, he was second in the rice before getting lost. a driveshaft after hitting a huge rock and made it back up 40th Street.

Travis Pastrana has been working steadily throughout this is Mark Weyhrich. You may be wondering why there is a stop sign. Well they have to take note of every truck that passes in the sequence type even though it is tracked by GPS you still need it on a stopwatch here we see Bryce Menzies on the ground with a dry leg at this stage of the race Lee Bryce has to take risks, he has to push the event forward. He can't wait for anything else, there is still a lap and a half to go and look at the impact of the wind, look how strong it is for the spectators, they hate it, but for the drivers, as you can see, they can get closer. them because if it works for you it removes the dust from the road if you go against the wind sometimes it's the worst possible you can't see everything look how close Tavo is to Pastrana and look how badly He damaged his truck, so Lee, these are bodies of fiberglass and they are there for those reasons, so if something happens, they don't come off and they don't become a danger to drivers, if they do, they just come off, here we see.

Tavo catches up to Travis and Travis is also catching two buggies, so we have a race in the middle of the desert. This is brutal. Can you imagine how poor the visibility is there, but that doesn't stop Tavo as he approaches Travis Pastrana? now he's got it in his sights, he's going to show up, he's going to hit him like, hey, guess what, I'm here, it's time to get out of the way, let me pass and when you're a driver and your drivers as hard as you can through the dust. and someone catches you, frustrates you right now Tavo doesn't want to let him go because then Travis is doing the same thing, he doesn't want to, he wants to go through those guys too, so right now Todd was taking a little risk. and it squeaks because of Gustavo's incredible driving, what a movement by the Mexican that was forceful, now you might think well, his navigator doesn't see anything good, he doesn't need to see anything, he's looking at the GPS and letting him know if he's to the right of the track or on the track and it's coming in the big holes they marked earlier was a move for third place.

This is the driver leading the race, Andy McMillan, and this is setting up for a pretty good final lap. See how this plays out? Ricky right now Ana McMillan is in control but Mark Weyhrich is 30 seconds behind but the guy on the move is Rob Mac, he went from 13th to 8th. Rob wasn't there for the first two laps so he's doing his move, McMillan is the man everyone is after, including this guy, Mark Weyhrich, 30 seconds behind Andy McMillan. You might think it's a long way, but one floor normally takes about three minutes, but this man, on top of Allah, TWO, Allah is in it. load always lack of work on the body but not lack of speed the Mexican is flying he is in third place now you are probably wondering who he overtakes this is a multi lap race so it is a driver who is probably a couple of laps behind like this that Tavo is still in the race's defending winner, Bryce Menzies, is also moving.

It has been a long test of return. It's hard to believe they changed a driveshaft along the way and are now working their way back to sixth place. Travis Pastrana is having a phenomenal career. Dan Macmillan. it's good, very, very consistent, very strong, the first time we've seen them on the leaderboards like Tim Herps and the whole Herps team, great job guys, and there's only one speed that Rob MacCachren knows how to use and It is resounding, it is making good progress. Coming into an interesting phase of the day and race, Kelly is sitting lower in the sky, shadows are lengthening and track conditions and visibility continue to deteriorate, but there are now just 93 miles between these guys and a finish to mid 400's, which for some of them. drivers is a win in itself, quick update as we enter this final lap of the 400 mint and Andy McMillan is still in control with Wyrick and Tavo chasing Dan McMillan, and for those of you just joining us , extreme athlete Travis Pastrana in his debut performance here is in the top five, however, this is his teammate Bryce Menzies, the defending Mint 400 winner.

What Bryce has to do. You really don't want to be in this kind of position. He has to put everything on the line. He has already been. outpacing the truck for 300 miles now that it's starting its last lap and on top of that you have to hope that your competition has a problem, speaking of having a problem, that's certainly what happened to Rob MacCachren a few moments ago, listen to this and now from Rome, the other well, the thing started not working properly, it died in the well area and we just changed the wires, the ignition and things like that, finally it turned it on, but it didn't really work right until the end. here to die there to stop going into the well, then we can come here to put on the light bar, put on some gas and it died again, so keep changing things, you should finish, you know, bring the truck, Well, a lot of people work.

It's very difficult for the truck to get here and no matter what we don't want to give up, so we'll figure it out. Going out, that's one of the things I love about Rob Mack, he's a running back and running backs want to finish some guys if they're not a running back. doing good, they pack up and go home, not Rob Mack, second place, they make fun of Wyrick, can he do it, can he catch Andy McMillan? and what about Tavo? This has been one of the big stories of this year's Mint 400 and we're talking about another McMillan, though, Dan.

McMillan has been on the mark all day without making a single mistake, but at this point Chuck Kobe has gotten behind the wheel and is driving that thing to the finish. Here we are looking at Tim Hertz running strong, another Las Vegas local from 38th to fifth and Travis Pastrana continues his strong streak. Now it's time to listen to Wyrick, who really should be in the running and challenging for that top spot. Gary Wyrick started lap three fighting for the lead, but he could tell by the truck behind me. that things didn't end well Gary, what happened was just a low speed curve that got caught in a rut going probably literally 10 miles an hour and the truck just rolled in super slow and where we did it there really was no way to dump it again.

So unfortunately all the oil drained out of the engine and when I got back it was time to stop for the day. Thank you, that's the man who mastered most of this rice. Andy McMillan will be leaving from the driver's perspective, as you can see. the shadows are getting very long, it's very bright, the sun is setting to the west when the drivers come in, they can't see, it's hard for your eyes to adjust, so you can't see the holes and you're trying to concentrate, so which is actually the worst sight just before the sun sets in the most important phase of the race.

Ricky, how much did Mark Weyhrich kick himself for stopping to help his brother? Or was it the right thing to do? It's always the right thing to do. especially when you see a truck from the side, but now as a racer you're thinking, damn bro, I should have left you there talking about racing. Travis Pastrana has a great life and career story and this is another chapter of that, what a day for the former two wheeler racer, he has done everything from motocross, supercross to NASCAR Global RallyCross and now he is close to completing his first Mint 400 and in a very good way, Travis has done a phenomenal job all day and this is coming from a guy with the inner circle of his friends giving him a hard time for not staying focused, but he has done a great job keeping that truck on the road.

I don't think I've had a single consistent puncture all day for McMillan at the moment when you have a comfortable lead, not a crazy lead, but a comfortable lead, how do you put this together? He knows how to win this event, he's done it before, yes, but you're starting to think, you're starting to hear gremlins in the engine, I hear a vibration, it's everything. Working well, you start to go crazy, but Andy is one of those guys who won the Baja 1000 and this one the Mint 400, so he's going to keep doing what he does and let everyone else make a mistake.

I love that shot where you saw McMillan. via gene rockets on the dry lake bed Ricky these guys are tired, they are fatigued and now it's the most important phase of the race, it's the hardest part of the race, it's great for us to see, but it's hard for them lead and Eve McMillan continues to hold the lead in what she has done for so long, however second place, Weyhrich, is slowly gaining time. Ricky Mark is running very, very hard, the truck sounds good, he looks good, he's doing everything right, he's just kicking himself for stopping to check on his brother, those of you who just attacked his brother Gary flipped the truck, he turned sideways at least and they were in the top three and Mark stopped to help his brother, he got stuck and needed help and that cost him about two minutes in the grand scheme of things time wise let the last frame explain exactly what am i talking about the sky is very bright dilate your eyes but the earth is very very dark here we are looking at travis pastrana we can see he has his hard lights on but the front bar has been knocked down he must have run into someone who turned the light bar a little bit, so you'll have to move the switches up and down to see what the best combination is on the last lap of this year's mint 400, we're 57 tricks.

Trucks participated which was a record in the history of this event, over 100 unlimited class competitors hit the track today and headed into the desert on what has been an incredible day. Chuck, you'll do an amazing job. He's getting a Ford and a McMillan. I've been doing great all day, he's starting to move towards Travis Pastrana and the dust is still a shock. Add to that the light that Ricky was talking about about the fading light and this is the end of the final stages of this final lap, so much more. complex travis pastrana makes his way through the hole to and passed his red ball teammate a bit of frustration from Bryce Menzies running so hard he went backwards forward now backwards here we are looking at Andy McMillan who has had a phenomenal all day, but even though you're the first driver on corrected time, this is a multi-lap race, you have to race in some dust, which is frustrating for him because he knows everyone is trying to catch him, but right now he has to catch it. a buggy in front of him and he manages and in the background is Wyrick's mock making up ground all the time on the McMillan mark.

He has done an incredible job regaining all the ground he lost. Now we're watching Andy McMillan get behind one of the buggies, get close enough, honk if they don't get out of the way, boom, you hit them and then your co-driver tells you you have a line on the left and Andy screeches past and you go, this explains what I was talking about that you can no longer see the outline of the ground because the sun is so bright that you actually have your co-pilot telling you if you are on the right or left of the runway or following you because now he We're going to get up to, we're seeing he's doing about 50 miles an hour, he's running hard, we're showing you first and second, second and first, this is setting up for an exciting finish and possibly for the first time Wyrick can see the leader of the McMillan race and You know what they say about a runner seeing another runner, it's like a shark that smells blood, so it's going to push that truck as hard as it can.

McMillon, who has won this Mint 400 before, wants another one. You know the old saying is very useful when you get to the Mint 400 to finish first, you have to finish first so you can go fast and do everything, but if you break your gear it doesn't matter, still, 20 miles is a long way and the terrain is It's that difficult, but I take my hat off to Mark Weyhrich running. really really strong and chasing Anna McMillan for those of you who just do laps of 94 miles each from daylight to dusk and finally at night it's a long run in the biggest American off-road race there is and you can see Now at night the wind doesn't blow as hard as it used to and with the lights it makes it even more frustrating because in daylight you can look around the dust and get a good idea of ​​where you are and when you're off. track when you are at night and in the dust, all you can see is where the Bema lights are.

Warwick says the whole truck is dead, that's a heartbreak and whatWhat they have to do is turn off everything, turn off all the lights, turn off everything. all the fans left to try to get the truck running again, that's one of the best things about these GoPro cameras: they can capture these things, it gives us a bird's eye view of what the cables are running through. and unfortunately for all of them, his frustration, the race leader, Andy McMillan, saw his closest rival, Mark Weyhrich, eliminated, and that is Tavo, who raced and played one of the best comeback stories of the day he was shot down not just once but several times. and he just won't go to bed and neither will the lord. excitement travis pastrana who is running amazing right now like i said before you're listening to all these gremlins in your truck you don't want to hit any rocks you don't want to make any big mistakes but aunt macmillan has done an amazing job mister steve's office is giving them a championship truck and he will bring home the checkered flag, he wins it.

Macmillan for the second time is a fantastic 400 Victor from the start, he didn't dominate, he had to overcome some of the others. competitors, but he knows what this is like and for the second time he experiences it well, you feel a lot of things at the end, desert rate, this length is fatigue, I can't believe I've reached the finish line, so Just finishing like Rob Mack says is great feeling but to have the day that Aunt Macmillan and the Brady SEC office had today was phenomenal and with that Andy McMillan takes our

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red ball moment when Andy McMillan left the starting line today he was focused and ready to Fighting on both the brutal Mint 400 racetrack and the 57 trick truck field, how were you able to stay in the hunt all day and take home the victory?

Teamwork, preparation and patience, and his co-pilot Brady Thompson helped him navigate and navigate obstacles. Thick, blinding powder, his truck performed perfectly thanks to his team and team owner Steve Serapis, and when the competition faltered late in the race, he stayed patient and maintained a steady pace to the line. of goal. Andy is a third-generation off-road racer and now a legend in the making as he captures his second victory and joins an elite group of racers who have won the 400 overall more than once Andy McMillan gets

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Red Bull moment at the one alongside Kelly Stavis Andy McMillan becomes the first repeat winner since the return of the mint 400 in 2008 and it's also a comeback for you after stepping away from the sport last year, you're back with a vengeance, did you imagine you'd be on top of the podium?

You know, that's one thing that What I've learned about off-road racing is that it's so you know it's so mysterious that anything can happen to anyone at any time, even on the last lap, you know, just by listening. the little clicks and the little nuances that you know from building the truck. Sure everything felt nice and tight and you know the wind picked up all afternoon today so a couple of times you thought you had a flat tire because the truck is moving all over the place, but I never thought that in a million years would come, come and win this race in a field so crowded with this kind of media presence and so much hype going into a race, it's one of the greatest.

It's a race of my career and I'm very excited, even though it's only 400 miles long it looks grueling like any thousand mile off road race. What was the biggest challenge for you today? I mean, I think just staying consistent, you know there were times when we see guys that you know behind us and in front of us and your instincts tell you to step on the gas and go charge at him and try to get away from the guys. behind you, but I knew that if I just kept it cool, you know, stayed off the rocks, kept it semi conservative, you know, just kept my pace all day, towards the end of the race, that it would start to come back to us and that's what I mean, I had my angels watching.

From above, you meet some of my family members and I'm thinking about him all the way to the finish line. It means a lot to me. Congratulations, thank you very much, although that Tardos truck didn't quite look like it did. It started, it was an incredible Drive and Travis Pastrana finishes his first Mint 400 and you can only imagine what the reaction will be and he will cross the line next to the Dan Macmillan Chuck Hobie entrance, but in corrected time we will get Pastrana. with Kelly Stavis, well what a race for Travis Pastrana, you finished 4th beating over 50 tabletop trophy truck drivers in the world, how was this race for you?

Oh, for me it was brutal, I mean, these beauties were amazing, I didn't. getting a flat screen so excited for a bibo and you know, waiting for the team of millions before me to be someone, they were the ones that took me under their wing and tried to kill me in Baja, so I definitely thought I was third when I crossed the line and I saw him retire and I said, "Oh, they already beat my time, but I'm only in the top five for me and up there is where all the losers say, but in the top five for me, as a winning man, I finished , it was below for me." because one lap was twenty to one, so this is the American race and the biggest off-road race and for it to be our first truck trophy race that we finished, I couldn't be happier, I mean, Tyler, my co-driver, he did an incredible job.

I want to thank all the Menzies and you already know about Red Bull BFG AMC and discount tires. Thank you all for letting me because this is amazing, like I'm in a spaceship all day. I had the error, but I never know. Give me a trophy truck. They always thought I would crash it, so I hope we get another chance today. Thanks Travis, they didn't think you would crash, they knew you were a crasher. but you didn't and I have to be the first to say amazing work champion here's the snapshot of the results McMillan vildosola McMillan and Chuck Harvey it's a long day at the site goodbye to your south, the great race through the American desert, delivering an incredible performance today from all your iron men and I can tell you from my little hundreds of miles this morning that it is truly a test of endurance and strength, one of the most brutal things I have ever done, thank you again for joining us today.

I'll see. you next time