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THE KING OF SUPERCROSS WINS AT THE KING OF THE HAMMERS
Foothill Ranch, Calif. (February 7, 2025) – Dubbed the world’s toughest one-day off-road race, the King of the Hammers saw the UTV classes take to the course on Thursday with Jeremy McGrath piloting his Kawasaki Teryx KRX® 1000 to the Pro Stock NA UTV class win. The King of Supercross showed his meddle in the rocks as he took creative lines combined with the strength and capability of his Teryx® to conquer sections of the course where others had to winch and were experiencing mechanical failures, allowing him to ultimately pass 32 competitors on his over eight-hour race to the finish line. McGrath finished 19th overall after starting in 51st, competing against 128 competitors who started the race, including heavily modified UTV’s and finished second amongst the stock class UTV’s racing turbo-charged competitors despite driving a naturally aspirated car.
Chilly temperatures greeted the racers at the starting line as they took on the difficult course that includes flat-out desert sections as well as technical rock crawls. The two-lap race traverses through world famous obstacles like Chocolate Thunder, Jackhammer and Backdoor challenging the car and driver to make it to the finish line.
In a race where just getting to the finish line is a victory, McGrath relied on quick work from his pit crew to stay in the race and creative thinking from his co-driver Jaren Porter to find the best lines through the traffic-jammed rock sections. Overall McGrath finished in the top 20 and drove his MAXXIS-sponsored Teryx KRX® 1000 to the Pro Stock NA UTV class win in a time of 8:45:30. The King of Supercross finished less than 30 minutes behind the Pro Stock Turbo UTV class winner to earn second amongst all the Pro Stock racers.
“It was a long day, we had a good time and man, it was an adventure, and my Kawasaki KRX held up nice all day. We had a great pitstop and Chris and the boys did a great job getting us back out after battling front lower arm issues. I don’t think we would have made the finish without them. We had to stop several times to tighten some things up, but it worked out great for us. My co-driver Jarren was great out there, using that Warn winch to pull and tow us up some pretty crazy lines. There people jammed up everywhere. Jackhammer was the worst; I think we were sitting there for an hour. We finally got through and we just kept on trucking. The course was super tough, they threw everything at us today. My Kawasaki was running great and my MAXXIS tries were hooked, helping climb all the rocks. It was great to see everyone cheering us on out on the course. I want to thank everyone for all the support we got this year, we couldn’t have done it without everyone pitching in”.
Jeremy McGrath
