The Pit Guys

The title says it all! We've been quiet recently, but we're still here. And we're still ridiculous! So join us for this week's therapy session and catch up on our shenanigans over the last 6 months!!!

Well, we have to apologize... life has been busy! New jobs, new motorhomes, racing, family vacations... no excuses! We're back and ready go! Except for the first five minutes of tonights show, that all got deleted due to some technical glitches... But then it was all good AND we got to call up our east coast buddy Aaron Lynch! This made our evening much better!!! Check out his story, enjoy our attempt at a comeback and enjoy!!!

Check out this weeks episode with Zack Pollard, he may be a new kid on the block in the Ultra4 4900 UTV Pro Mod class, but he's already leaving his mark! (Especially on trees in Kentucky!) We talk about the new rules package for Ultra4 and he also gives some great sponsorship advice. Oh yeah, We also announce the winner of our North Lights giveaway!!!

Holy cow, Hopper has some exciting news... confusing, but exciting! And then we dial up Alex Reed and Dave Bruntonn from CT Race Worx!!! These dudes are passionate about building some of the best UTV parts out there, and they have a race resume to prove it! We had a blast hanging out with them this evening and hope you all enjoy it too!!!

The stars all aligned for this weeks episode! This is a must listen if you're planning on heading to the Big Sky 200 next week! Erin and Griz sit down with us and give you all the reasons why you should be there, and we can't wait!!! Then we called up the man himself, last week's Red Bull Beach Scramble winner, Hunter Miller, and we get our UTV talk on! This guy has been a great voice in the UTV racing world and we were pumped that we were able to sit down with him and talk about his King of the Hammers experiences and some of his future goals!

Holy cow, what a week it has been! Life, work, race cars... time management is being tested! But then we got to sit down with a good buddy, Randy Burke, and we are sure that this weeks episode will leave you wanting to smile and push thru all that other stuff! We certainly feel better about life, and that's what hanging out with the 2023 King of the Hammers Rookie of the Year will do to you!!!

We're back from spring break and we have updates! Hoppers Suburban project takes another step closer to being with the Angels. Turns out she also leaks like a sieve! We also call up fellow 4900 UTV Open Class racer Trey Price and we get the inside deets on "Scrappy"! You're going to want to check out this car, she's a real work of art!

Join us this week for another rousing round of stories and adventures! Another trip to Denver, upcoming spring break plans, and a killer sit down with Chris Phares of Pharr Motorsports! This dude... well, you just have to listen, because this was an awesome one! Hot Rods, Volkswagons, Rocket Science... Yes Please!!!

Hear all about our awesome adventure down to the big city over the weekend. Epic, as usual. And then we call up Jacob Tuma from Offroad Anonymous! We can't wait to sit around the smudge pot with Jake at the next race and hear more stories!!! (We know there are some good Gilbert/Cantrell stories there somewhere!)

Holy tangent Batman!!! This weeks episode is a definite classic! Hopper can't make up his mind... Ford vs Chevy! And then Tom and Seth from Fire River Racing come by the garage and tell us all about their new race car! It's was a racer's evening in the studio tonight!

My 'O My have we been busy! Give this week's show a listen if you want to hear all about our escapades from the 2023 King of the Hammers!!! It was a great couple of weeks, and because we're podcast guys, it's easier to just sit down and tell the stories then do to one of those formal write up thingies, so ENJOY!!!!

We're back! It's been a crazy month, full of vacations, birthdays, holidays, race car things... Holy Smokes! And to top it all off, we give Matt Holt a call! This guy has done a lot of stuff in the racing world, and to be honest, most of it is the stuff that we never think about. We'll fill you in on what we've been up to the last few weeks and Matt will open our eyes to a whole other side of racing!

Matt Woody joins us this week and we talk about all things BAJA! He talks about some of his experiences prerunning and racing in the 1000, and he gives Hopper a few tips on what to do AND not to do while he goes to Mexico next week for his first trip to a foreign land!!! This one was a riot to record, as anybody that knows Woody can expect! It was an honor to have him come over and recored in the studio with us and to share just a small window into his passion of riding on two wheels!

Winter is upon us, and we have been prepping for the snow! But don't worry, we've got a gem of a show for you this week! We'll get you up to speed in the open segment and then we will give Mick Henson a call and introduce you all to one of the toughest guys on the Ultra4 race circuit! This guy is an incredible example of what grassroots, 4600 stock class racing is all about, AND he does it on a budget! We had a blast learning more about him and we even ask about a wild and crazy idea from Hopper. You won't want to miss this one!

Well, it's that time of the year again... We're one week away from the National Finals Race, Legends of the Fall in Disney, OK! We called up Miles Hasselquist and asked if he'd join us to go over the points battles for National, East and West standings and he asked if he could bring a couple of friends along too! So if you want to get some insight into what next weeks race, and next years schedule looks like and why, buckle up, because JT Taylor and Gus the MacGyver of Mid America Outdoors give us the full rundown!!!

After a whirlwind couple of weeks, and a few new projects, we found our way back in the garage tonight. James Cantrell shares his journey thru Ultra4 and we get to the bottom of a few inside jokes thanks to Casey Gilbert! We had a blast getting to hang out with James, this guy loves racing Ultra4! Hope you enjoy!

Well, it's been a few weeks! Don't worry folks we're not going anywhere, we just had some stuff that we had to get done over the last month. It was a long month, full of highs and lows for sure. But we think this week's guest, Ian Boyce will be a refreshing reminder of the passion that many of us share. Oh yeah, and buckle up for the open segment... Hopper has been holding in all kinds of stuff over the last few weeks!!!

We hope this small fraction of time that we got to spend with Zandy can live on forever for his family and friends. Godspeed brother.

HOLY FREGAN COW!!! This week's episode is full of first's for us!!!! We have our first repeat guest in Courtney Prost from King of the Hammers, we have our first surprise guest when she invites Fregan three time King of the Hammers winner Jason Scherer onto the show, and we share a bunch of awesome news on the first ever King of the Hammers Rookie contest!!! Plus we share a little bit about our trip to the Taylor Park UTV Rally from last week and we give a shout out to our newest sponsor Coloradoland Tire and Service! Buckle up because this weeks show is awesome!!!

What a trip!  We survived the Black Hills Throwdown AND Sturgis Bike Week!!! Memories were created, and some forgotten (for the better)!  This week we sat down with the man responsible for making this race happen, Brian Williams.  This guy can hustle, I mean he has to to be able to throw together an Ultra4 race the same week as Sturgis Bike Week right!?!?  We had a blast and we owe a lot of it to him for making it happen!  Hear a small part of what it takes to put something like this together!

Bare with us folks, we screwed up and the first 5 minutes of audio didn't work, but we picked up and kept on moving! This episode was pretty incredible! We had tons of folks come by, previous guests and new guests as well! The 82nd annual Sturgis Bike rally is upon us and we are ready to race! Hope you enjoy!!!

Whew, well July came and went must faster then we anticipated! Between some much needed family time, and a little adventure out to Oklahoma for the Visions event at Mid America Outdoors, we were able to sit down with Chuck Crossland! Everybody in the Ultra4 pits knows Chuck and his sense of humor and we were lucky enough to get to spend some time with him at the Oklahoma race a few weeks ago. It was a no brainer to get him on the show after that!

We had a blast hanging out with Miles, Casey, Jon, and a few awesome last minute guests!!! Not bad for our first attempt at a "live" podcast!

We have been crazy busy here at the world headquarters running around like chickens with our heads cut off! So sit back and hear about some of our ridiculous tales the last couple weeks, and hopefully we can bring a laugh to your holiday weekend! We also got to sit down with Duane Garretson, the driver of the of the #26 4500 class Ford Bronco, and the owner of Come Get Ya Some Offroad and Performance. Duane is a part of Team Yukon Gear and Axle and was featured in their recent documentary, Visor Down! He shares his story about how he built a successful shop and why he got into racing!

This week we take you on a journey... it is filled with joy and sadness, tears and laughter... and maybe some farting. And lots of unloading and reloading of tools and gear. And Jelly Beans. It was a glorious trip, we hope you enjoy!

Wow! This weeks episode is almost unexplainable!!! We tried something a little new while we were on vacation this week and we sat down with some of our closet UTV friends to talk about important stuff like the upcoming Taylor Park UTV Rally in August, and that led to an unforgettable evening of memories on our last night of the trip in Hill City, South Dakota! Give this one a listen if you're wanting a good laugh! Thank again for being good sports guys!

Holy smokes it's been a busy week! But don't worry folks, we still had time to sit down and record another awesome episode this week! Hopper got a couple more projects, because why not! Zach's been busy prepping for a week of vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Oh Yeah, and we sit down with a couple of badass brothers, Dylan and Josh Dowell! Dylan is the tire carrier for the #19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota Camry in the NASCAR Cup Series and Josh works on the sponsorship side of the sport for KansasLand Tire! We talk racing, family, and maybe a few funny stories in between! These brothers have had an awesome journey thru racing, and it all started in the tiny town of Fowler, KS!

Join us this week for some great tales from Hopper. Apologies in advance, but he's pretty wound up! We also had the opportunity to sit down with the utility player of Ultra4, John Dicus! This guy loves the right seat and he loves racing! Tune in to hear a little about his story and maybe learn a few things about John that you never new!

After a nice quiet week off from the podcast, a pretty exciting week of racing, and maybe a little drama, we're back! This weeks open segment is a doozy, but what else do you expect after an off week from Hopper and Zach! Plus we bring in Aaden Gilbert and we get the inside scoop on what really goes down at the Gilbert Racing World Headquarters! Oh and we might bring the old man Casey Gilbert in for a little bit too!

This week we are honored to have Ultra4 and Mid America Outdoors very own Pam Hall on the show with us! It's been a long gloomy week out here in Colorado with the snow and the rain and broken down washing machines and no racing for us, so it was a real pleasure to get to sit down with Pam and hear a little bit about her racing career. Not only is she the co host with our ole buddy Miles at Ultra4 and MAO, but she's also a racer herself, and happens to be a racer mom too! And potentially a future member of the Ultra4 Grom Gang???

Well first of all... what an awesome open segment on this week's show! You will be entertained, that's a promise! We have a big announcement this week from Rocky Mountain Speed and Fab, we hear about Hopper's 'interesting' week, and then we got to hang out with Zandy Willems from Rufus Racing! A lot of folks have heard of Rufus Racing, a two car team that runs in Ultra4's Unlimited 4400 Class. Well this week we got the opportunity to learn a little more about the team, how they started, and what these crazy Texans are planning next!

Paul Wolff is a wheelman, it doesn't matter if he's driving an Ultra4 4400 Unlimited car or a scrap yard Samurai! Hear what makes the unlimited winner of the AREA BFE Beatdown want to go faster and how he got to where he is now. And just for the record, this episode would have been twice as long if we had kept recording! We had a great time hanging out with him and can't wait to hang with him and his crew at the races! Oh and we recorded a pretty awesome open segment too this week! A few announcements, and a couple of funny stories you won't want to miss!

We say it every week, but wow, what an awesome time we had recording this weeks episode! First off we get to hear about Hopper's adventures from the Ultra4 Area BFE Beatdown! And then somehow we got one of the most badass guys around, an actual King of the Hammers OG13 member and the current race director for the Ultra4 Series, JT Taylor, to sit down with us! This guy has done some pretty badass stuff in his life, and he's got the badass mustache to back it up! He's a true hero, and one of the hardest workers in off roading, so tune in and hear a little bit about his story.

Buckle up, we have a smoking hot open segment and some of the funniest guest to date! Erin and Griz, with Yellowstone Offroad Racing, are true grassroots racers and promotors. And they live in South Canada (Montana)! These folks know how to throw a party and a race! We can't wait to hang with them again in June!!!

When we reached out to Justin Reece about coming on the show, he said he was all in, but only if he could bring a few of his team members from Rusty Nail Racing on the show with him. We said hell yeah, we love the idea. That right there should tell you what kind of guy Justin is and how his team operates. They run an awesome organization, but they're even better people and we're super excited to get to share a small part of their story with the world. These are the kind of people you want to hang around with, whether you're at the races or just out wheeling for fun!

We live in a different world this week then we did last week! Ultra4 has got new owners!!! We were fortunate enough to get part of that new management on the show this week in Joey Beck! Joey comes from Pro Rock Racing and is a part of the leadership at Mid America Outdoors of Jay, OK and he shares a little bit about where MOA and Ultra4 are headed! Needless to say, we're excited! Oh and he's a proud member of the Grom Gang as well!

This week we have the pleasure of having 2 guests! Thats right folks! My favorite little buddy, Parker, joins Hopper and I during our open segment and bestows some 6-year-old wisdom on us, and then we dial up our good buddy Bobby Lindgren. What a ham session it was! As always, we hope you enjoy!!!

What if we told you that we knew a couple of knuckleheads that only had 20 minutes of seat time in a UTV and then decided to race the hardest one day off road race in America? You should call them crazy for sure! But these guys did it, and they did it good too! Rich and Seth went from being off road rock crawling buddies to spending 10 days together in a race car and a small camper, along with a few other firsts too and forging a bond of brotherhood along the way. Plus Hopper complains about Walmart and Zach try's a new kind of candy with his monster!

Wow. There's not much else we can say about this weeks guest, the current back to back winner of the King of the Hammers UTV race, Kyle Chaney. This guy is going to change the landscape of King of the Hammers! We get a small glimpse into where he got his start, what gives him his drive, and where he wants to go. Goosebumps people, that's what we got out of this episode!!!

Well, we survived King of the Hammers 2022! And we had a blast! And for better or worse, we thought it would be a great idea to invite the wives of the Rocky Mountain Speed and Fab team onto the show and let them tell a little bit of their experience from their first KOH trip. Of course we also cover a little bit of Hopper and Zach's escapades and highlights from the first half of the week. Trust me when I say, you will be hearing tails of our adventures for weeks to come! Sit back and enjoy, we had a blast recording with these ladies. Meagan, Kacie, Jen, and Jennifer did not disappoint in the entertainment department!!!

It's the week before Ultra4's King of the Hammers 2022 and The Pit Guys have been hustling! But there's no rest for the weary, and this week we hooked up with Jake and Jon from Hypercraft USA. These guys give us the run down on how they got into the EV game, where they are headed with their turn key retrofit kits, and yeah, we might talk a little Ultra4 EV Spec class racing too!

It's been a few weeks folks, as Zach and Hopper decided to take a little time to spend with the family over the holidays! And to shovel snow! And then shovel some more snow. This week your in for a real treat though! If you've ever wondered who was behind the emails, messages, tags, or pretty much any form of communications at Ultra4, then you've chatted with Courtney! She is the whole communications department, amongst many other things at Ultra4, and she was an absolute riot to have on the show! Plus she drops a huge bomb of an announcement about something new that is happening after the Can-Am UTV King of the Hammers Race! You'd better tune in to here it here first!!!

We're back at it this week after taking a week off and we decided to bring in the big guns! We were able to get John Grounds and Triple J from Proving Grounds Racing and Fly Offroad to hang out with us for a little bit and tell us about their story and how they ended up running 3 classes and every points paying event in Ultra4 in 2021! And we try to get a little dirt on what they might be planning for the new EV class...

This week we have a nice little therapy session with just Zach and Hopper! We talk about our holiday adventures, some current projects, and really just a bunch of non sense! We're less then 2 months away from Ultra4's Kind of the Hammers and we can't wait!!!

We've got a big episode for you this week! A welcome return of the 'open segment' where Hopper and Zach talk a bunch of non sense and an awesome guest in Miles "The Voice of Ultra4 Racing" Hasselquist!!! Miles was a real hoot, a good old midwestern boy like us that started on three wheelers who is still alive today! It was awesome having him on the show!

I had the chance to sit down with my ole buddy, ole pal Bob Neill a few weeks ago and talk about the good ole days! Bob's an old school dirt track racer and like most racers, he doesn't forget a thing! He's a great guy and we had a blast revisiting the glory days!

We got Scott LeSage into the motorhome at Ultra4's Nationals and man, were we blown away by this guys knowledge! And of course we loved his passion for creating something a little different! We learned more about suspension in 10 minutes with Scott than most people learn in a lifetime! He's another great example of what we think Ultra4 is all about and his passion and a drive to race are second to none.

Join Hopper and Zach as they sit down with Dave Cole, CEO of Ultra4 and Hammerking Productions.  We reached out to Dave about joining us on The Pit Guys and chatting with us about the new 4900 UTV classifications for the 2022 Ultra4 season, and for some crazy reason, he thought it would be a good idea!!!  We also touch on the new EV class, and we find out what kind of bacon Dave enjoys!  Thanks to Hypoxiq Enterprises for being this episode's premiere sponsor!

We sat down with Cody Quattlebaum, Driver of the #33 Bandit Offroad Racing Polaris RZR while we were at Ultra4's Nationals at Crossbar Offroad Park in Davis, OK a couple of weeks ago. Cody is a relative newcomer to racing, but is making a big splash in the 4900 class! He tells us about how he got into racing, how his Nationals race went, and we talk a little bit about truck campers. He's definitely our kind of guy!

This week Hopper and Zach give you the real rundown and all of the nitty gritty on their week at the Ultra4 Nationals Event at Crossbar Ranch in Davis, OK!

This is gonna be a good one folks! I know I say that every week, but this week is legit! Josh Smith of Smith Brother Racing came by the garage with his crew and spent the evening with us and I gotta say, it was definitely the funniest episode we've made so far (maybe because of all the AlanYoder's we were drinking!). Josh currently sits at #2 in the Ultra4 National Points and is well within reach of snatching the championship next week at the last race of the year at Cross Bar Offroad Ranch in Davis, OK!