Off Road Accessory Review

Robby Gordon exchanged his normal NASCAR gear for off road gear this weekend. Gordon ran his Speed Energy Hummer to a 5th place finish at the Baja 500. Bryce Menzies won the 500 in the Trophy Truck class and overall.

Gordon gave a good effort but came up just 14 minutes short of a win. Gordon did have success promoting Speed Energy Drink over the weekend. Wal-Mart in Ensenada put Speed Energy on it’s shelves!

If you havent had your fill of motorsports yet, get ready of the Baja 500! This weekend June 3-5th is the 43rd SCORE Baja 500. This is the 3rd race of the SCORE racing season.

Robby Gordon will bring his off road gloves, and plenty of  Speed Energy Drink to Mexico to attempt to win the desert classic. Gordon says he may run his Dakar Rally prepared Hummer for the Baja 500 and leave the trophy truck at home. Gordon says he can finish the Baja 500 on 1 single tank of fuel in the Hummer! And Gordon says the Hummer can reach speeds of 165 MPH versus the Trophy Truck that tops out at 135MPH!

Either way, best of luck to Robby Gordon. The guy who does everything his way, and does it well. Did I mention he’s also living my dream!

Heart break. Rookie J.R Hildebrand did the unthinkable this past Memorial Day weekend. Hildebrand was leading the biggest race in the world on the final lap with a large lead over second place. All looked well for the rookie until he came out of turn 4 too high and hit the wall.

Second place car Dan Wheldon past J.R at the line to win his second 500. The rookie slid his car against the wall and across the finish line for a second place finish. The race car destroyed and the driver in disbelief.

What happend? Did Hildebrand’s team not tell him that he had a big lead and he could take it easy? Did the young rookie just get jittery and lose control? Either way, Hildebrand is no doubt going to be a star in motorsports whether its at Indy or F1. But that one’s gonna hurt. Reports always say “we always forget who finished in second place.” But I think this time everyone will remember this second place finish.

Memorial Day weekend brought on a whole lot of great racing on 4 wheels. We plan to get back to motocross racing, off-road and dirt bike gear real soon.

Although we haven’t been riding together for very long, me and my family have all chosen the same off road riding glove. The Axo Series 19 glove just seems to be the best for what we do.

As a family, we bought into off road riding just 2 years ago.  My 2 boys and wife enjoy quads and I enjoy my  motocross bike. Finally, we also have a side-by-side when we don’t want to push too hard.

No matter what we ride, we all have the same motocross glove. The comfort and low maintenance is unmatched. Check these motocross gloves out here or at you local moto shop. Try them for yourself if you dont believe me.

After a little over 2 weeks of technical difficulties we are back and ready to share more information on everything motorsports. In 2 weeks time a lot has happened in motorsports.

Ryan Villopoto has become the 2011 Supercross Champion. Not only Champion, but champion of the most competitive season ever.

The month of May brings us to the start of the outdoor motocross season, the Indy500, Coke 600, and the Monaco F1 race. Can’t wait to see Indy 500 ”bump day,” qualifying. There will actually be some cars to bump this year.

May also brings the start of the California Summer of Motorsports. For those of you lucky enough to live in or near California, you will get to see the best motorsports series in the world in a span of 3 months. NASCAR, Grand AM, Lucas Oil Outdoor Motocross, IRL, and of course, X Games.

Put your motocross gloves and hold on for a great summer of motorsports.

We started wrting last week that Ryan Villopoto has nearly wrapped up the 2011 Supercross Championship. This week he did not even make the main event! The Jacksonville Supercross seemed to be everything that you thought would never happen this season.

Villopoto now holds a small 7 point lead over Chad Reed with Dungey 18 points down in third. The season is now wide open.

Can Villopoto recover and build another point cushion in the final races? Can James Stewart get his finishing results back to standard?

The only thing that is guaranteed is that this is the best AMA Supercross season ever. Stay tuned to Off Road Accessory Review.com for updates on this season. For the best in motocross gloves, check us out on ProBikeHelmets.com!

One of the most basic items of motocross gear is the motocross glove. On most casual rides I will at minimum wear my motocross gloves and my helmet. I want to let you know about my favorite motocross gloves.

My favorite pair is made by Axo and goes by the name of Series 19. This motocross glove is so comfortable that I can wear a size smaller.  This motocross glove seems to fit the contours of the hand so well that you can hardly tell your wearing them. The grip is great too. If there is one piece of equipment I would recommend you buy, its the Axo Series 19.

The return to Argentina in today’s special stage 10 brought good fortune to each of the class leaders. Al-Attiyah, Coma, and Chagin all extended or regained(Chagin) their lead today.

The dunes of Argentina proved challenging in navigation and technique. Second place Cyril Despres took a wrong turn early in the stage and lost time to Coma. To make matters worse, Despres went slightly of course late in the stage and got stuck losing more time. In the end Marc Coma extended his overall lead to over 18 minutes by winning today’s stage. Despres and his motocross gear will need to be flawless and much faster than Coma to win this year’s rally.

Carlos Sainz saw his Dakar Rally hopes slip away much like Despres in the bikes. Sainz is now over 12 minutes behind in the overall after getting lost and losing 10 minutes to Al-Attiyah and 18 minutes to stage winner Giniel De Villiers. Saniz’s navigation error now puts Al-Attiyah comfortably ahead in the overall. Al-Attiyah will not have to push 100 percent to stay in front of Sainz during the last 2 stages of the 2011 Dakar. De Villiers was followed to the line by the BMWs of Holowczyc and Peterhansel. Al-Attiyah was 4th and Sainz 5th.

Vladimir Chagin re-took the lead in the truck today by beating his teammate Firdaus Kabirov by 21 minutes. Chagin once again asserts his dominance in the trucks by taking a 17 minute lead into stage 11. Strong stage 11 runs by the leaders can solidify their championships tomorrow.

Today’ was the final stage in Chile before heading back to Argentina. Stage 9 was all about the dunes. The drivers who are comfortable in this terrain ran well today.

To no ones surprise Al-Attiyah and Sainz finished first and second. Sainz beat his teammate by 1:56. The battle through the stage between the teammates was some of the best side by side racing on the rally. Al-Attiyah retains the lead going into Argentina tomorrow. De Villiers finished 3rd on the stage and remains 3rd overall. Peterhansel’s goal of getting on the podium with the Red Bulls is starting to fade. The BMW driver lost 9 minutes on stage 9. American Mark Miller needs to beat Peterhansel in the final stages by 1 hour to complete a sweep of the first 4 positions by Red Bull VW.

The bikes had a unique stage today. The bikes started as a group today instead of individually. The bikes and quads started in waves with the highest in the overall standings going first. The tough to navigate stage 9 saw Helder Rodrigues take an early lead and seem to be in control of the stage. Coma and Despres were not spectacular in this stage finishing 7th (Despres) and 9th (Coma) but holding on to the two top spot in the overall. Late in the stage Rodrigues ran out of fuel handing the stage win to American Jonah Street. The unusual start of the stage caused navigation problems for some of the rider. The remaining racers will put on their motocross gloves on for stage 10 tomorrow.