The best desert racers in the world will be in action this weekend as the 2020 AMA National Hare and Hound Championship kicks off in the arid Lucerne Valley this weekend. "The AMA National Hare and Hound Championship has a long history of producing great competition over challenging desert terrain," notes AMA Off-Road Racing Manager Erek Kudla. "Hall of Famer Kurt Caselli and 2020 Dakar champion Ricky Brabec are among those who have won overall AMA National Hare and Hound titles."
Hare and hound racing, popular in the Western desert regions, challenges riders to compete over a natural terrain course at least 40 miles long while passing through a series of checkpoints. Most courses are 70 to 120 miles long and feature two loops that are routed through different types of terrain. Similar to enduros in course length, hare and hound events feature mass starts and are point-to-point races.
This weekend's event is put on by the Desert MC and is the first of the series' nine races scheduled to take place in five states. Click here for the full schedule and more details:
https://nationalhareandhound.com/
