Off Road Truck Tour

Mike Jenkins
Mike Jenkins has always held a passion for high performance automobiles and racing as both a fan and an enthusiast. As the owner of Traxxas, The Fastest Name In Radio Control®, Mike has spent a lifetime around radio-controlled racing cars and trucks, and fulfilled his passion for full-size motorsports with forays into motocross, drag racing, and later, road racing with modified Corvettes and other sports cars. In 2007, Mike and brother Mark began racing the SCCA's Mazda MX-5 Cup series, which features specially prepared open-roof sportscars with strict "spec" rules that keep the cars very closely matched. After a trip to Primm, Nevada for an up-close look at short-course off-road racing, Mike recognized the high-intensity motorsport as the perfect fit for Traxxas, the number-one name in hobby-class radio-controlled cars and trucks. Mike and Mark formed Jenkins Brothers Racing to field a two-truck Traxxas team of their own, with Mark driving a Pro 2WD truck and Mike climbing into a Pro 4X4 machine. Despite racing against a field of drivers with far more off-road experience, Mike finished his rookie season with ten top-10 finishes, one top-five, and two second-place podium spots in seventeen starts. 2009 marked a new chapter for short-course racing as The Traxxas Off-Road Championship (TORC) made its debut. For the first time, the best drivers in short-course off-road racing would all be together in one series that included the legendary tracks of the Midwest as well as West Coast venues. Racing against the nation’s best short-course drivers, Mike scored five top-5 finishes and two podium finishes, including a dramatic win at the TORC finale in Las Vegas.


Chad Hord
Chad Hord was born on August 21, 1976, in Iron Mountain, MI he currently resides in Felch, MI. Chad graduated from North Dickinson County School in 1994. He then attended Bay de Noc Community College, where he received a degree in Machine Tool, CAD and became a certified welder. Chad discovered the need for speed at a young age. Throughout his childhood, he was always on a dirt bike, three-wheeler or snowmobile. As a child Chad attended the off-road races at Bark River International Off-Road Raceway. In 1995 Chad’s parents bought him a Super Buggy. For the next five years the hobby of offroad racing grew. Chad took his top five running Super Buggy and won the Points Championship for the first time in 2000. The next year he moved into the Pro-Light class, where he continually ran in the top five and began to form valuable partnerships.

In 2001 Chad married Amy Anderson. In 2003 they welcomed their first daughter, Ashton Marie, and in 2005, their second daughter, Aiden Mae, was born. As Chad’s family grew so did his race team. Chad’s family has always been his priority and they are very supportive and involved in his racing. Chad and his family enjoy spending their free time at their log cabin, where they go four-wheeling, snowmobiling and watch the deer.

Chad’s persistence and professionalism paid off; in 2005 racing was no longer a hobby. Chad was able to make it his career. In 2006 and 2007 he won back to back championships in the Pro-Light division. In 2010 Chad moved up to the Pro-2WD ranks. He consistently ran in the top five and landed on the podium with both second and third place finishes. He finished fourth in the year end points standings. Throughout his off-road career, Chad has won 30 races, three points championships, four World Championships, and has 115 top five finishes in 155 starts (74.2%), including 24 wins (15.5%) in the pro-truck classes. He is also the first and only driver to have an Oakley Bomb Award for the fastest lap in all three Protruck classes. Current sponsors of the Hord Off-Road Racing Pro-2WD are BOSS Snowplow, AMSOIL INC, Nissan, Fox Racing Shox, Bosch Tool, and Walker Evans Racing Wheels.


Scott Douglas
San Felipe is a sleepy, old-world fishing village located on the Gulf of California part way down the infamous Baja California Mexican peninsula. For the past 20-years, the annual Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 has turned the town into race central, hosting what is widely recognized as one of off-road racing’s premiere events. It was here in 1993 that veteran off-road racer Scott Douglas did the impossible—taking first overall in a Class 7 Ford Ranger mini-truck. To do so, Douglas had to beat the big factory teams fielding unlimited full-size trucks and the incredibly fast Class 1 entries in his Herzog Racing Ranger. An incredible feat to say the least, but it is now just one more footnote in career of this 11-time off-road champion. Scott Douglas began his off-road career racing motorcycles in the California desert.

Douglas moved from two to four wheels in 1980 when he and brother, Steve, took out a loan and purchased an old Ford F-150 race truck off a used car lot. Not ones to ease into things, the Douglas brothers prepped the truck and promptly entered it in the infamous Baja 500. Amazingly, not only did the Douglas brothers finish the race, but posted an impressive 5th in Class 8.

Douglas’ career took another major leap in 1990 when off-road legend Walker Evans recognized the up-and-coming talent and hired Douglas to pilot a factory backed Jeep Cherokee. The result was a class championship for Jeep and Walker Evans Racing. Evans then moved Douglas to a Dodge factory ride in a Class 7 Dakota where he regularly finished ahead of the likes of Roger Mears and Parnelli Jones. At various stages of his career, Scott Douglas has raced with and beaten Robby Gordon, Walker Evans, Ivan Stewart, and Jimmie Johnson. In the desert, Douglas has won championships in SCORE, HDRA, and the BITD series.

Over the years Douglas has driven everything from stock classes to the wild unlimited trucks, including SCORE trophy trucks and Short-Course PRO-4s. The result is no
less than 82 career victories and 11 championships:
8 Desert Championships,
2 Short-Course Championships.
2-time BorgWarner Champion,
3 Baja 1000 Class Wins, and the 1993 SCORE San Felipe 250 overall winner.

This is a record few in off-road racing history can touch. In the mid-1990s, Douglas was hired to drive the Herzog Dodge Ram Pro-2 pickup in the growing Short course Off-road Drivers Association (SODA) series. With winning short course races at the Riverside International Raceway and in Mexico, and posting podium finishes in the Mickey Thompson stadium series, Douglas immediately became a dominant force in SODA. Scott Douglas moved to Pro-4 in 1996, winning the championship for Rampage Racing. The following year, with the added responsibility of team owner, Douglas repeated the Pro-4 championship. To put an exclamation point on the season, Douglas Motorsports also won the highly coveted BorgWarner Manufacturer’s Challenge Cup at Crandon International Off-Road Raceway for Ford Motor Company in 1997. Scott repeated his BorgWarner win in 2006 as well.