The Best In The Desert (BITD) Racing Association is an American desert off-road racing

Off-road racing

Off-road racing is a format of racing where various classes of specially modified vehicles compete in races through off-road environments.-North America:...

 association. It is operated by Casey Folks and it is based out of Las Vegas

Las Vegas metropolitan area

The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...

, Nevada

Nevada

Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

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Events

It has 10 events scheduled for the 2009 season (2009 Schedule).

• Parker 425 - the event began in 1971 as a NORRA
  Norra
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   event. SCORE International
  SCORE International
  SCORE International is an off-road sanctioning body in the sport of desert racing and is famous for its flagship event, the Baja 1000 as well as the Baja 500 and San Felipe 250. SCORE races are held in United States and Mexico...
  
   sanctioned the event until 1998. Whiplash Motorsports held the event until BITD began sanctioning it in 2003. The 2008 had over 300 entrants.

• Nevada 1000 - the longest point-to-point desert off-road racing event in the United States.

• Vegas to Reno - the flagship event of the series.

Media

Events are nationally televised on MavTV

MavTV

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, its website, and the America One Sports Network

America One

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Divisions

The Best In The Desert has classes of Trick Trucks

Trophy Truck

Trophy Trucks are the fastest class of off-road racing vehicles designed and built to resemble modern pickup trucks. Although any truck that meets the safety standards can race the trophy truck class, they, for the most part, feature long travel suspensions and high power engines...

 (aka Trophy Truck), buggies, motorcycles, Quads

All-terrain vehicle

An all-terrain vehicle , also known as a quad, quad bike, three wheeler, or four wheeler, is defined by the American National Standards Institute as a vehicle that travels on low pressure tires, with a seat that is straddled by the operator, along with handlebars for steering control...

. Various events have different classes of racing vehicles.

Notable drivers

• Robbie Gordon
• Mike Groff
  Mike Groff
  Mike Groff is a former race car driver in CART and the Indy Racing League and the 1989 Indy Lights champion. He made 54 starts in CART beginning in 1990 with a best finish of 6th, occurring at Phoenix International Raceway in 1994...
  
  
• Robbie Groff
  Robbie Groff
  Robbie Groff , is a former driver in the Indy Racing League and CART Championship Car series and is brother of Mike Groff. He raced in the 1994 CART season and 1997-1998 IRL seasons with 9 combined starts...
  
  
• Rod Hall
  Rod Hall (racer)
  Rod Hall is an off-road racer. He was inducted in the Off-road Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2005. He has spent his entire adult life around four-wheel-drive vehicles.-Racing career:...
  
  
• Curt LeDuc
• Rob MacCachren
  Rob MacCachren
  Rob MacCachren is an American off-road racer from Las Vegas, Nevada. He raced the Mickey Thompson Stadium Series early in his career and went on to win championships in Championship Off-Road Racing , SCORE International, SODA, and Best in the Desert...