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 A living legend in off-road racing and one of only 33 members of the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame, Rod Hall has spent his entire adult life around four-wheel-drive vehicles. His racing career began in the 1950s, as organized off-road competition was just beginning. Traveling from his Hemet, Calif., home to races in the Rocky Mountains and desert Southwest, Hall quickly earned a reputation for going faster than other competitors – and surviving races with less vehicle damage.
As the popularity of organized off-road racing mushroomed in the late-1960s, so did Hall’s success behind the wheel. In 1967 he won the inaugural Baja 1000 and has participated in every one since, claiming a record 17th Baja 1000 victory in November 2002.
 Hall remains the only driver to win Baja overall in a four-wheel-drive vehicle. To date, he has accumulated over 150 major event wins and more than a dozen SCORE/HDRA & BitD championship titles. His string of 35 consecutive race wins in the early 80’s remains, by far, the longest unbroken string of race victories in off-road racing history.
In addition to being the owner of Team HUMMER, Hall’s is partner with Mike Winkel in Reno’s Rod Hall/Winkel HUMMER. His franchise was the first stand-alone HUMMER dealership in the country. Hall regularly conducts BF Goodrich tire seminars, HUMMER Happenings for dealerships and corporate excursions in HUMMER vehicles.
Of course, racing is the foundation of Rod Hall’s future plans. Along with sons Chad and Josh, Rod drives one of the three production race vehicles for Team HUMMER. With GM project engineer, Thad Stump at his side, Hall is the driver of the new H3 SUV race truck, which recently won the 2006 BitD ‘Parker 425’ race, the second win in only the third race for the new truck. |
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