King of the Hammers: The Most Intense, Grueling Single Day Race in America

The year is 2007, and the worlds of off-road racing and rock crawling are about to collide in one colossal spectacle.  The event, dubbed the King of the Hammers, was to be contested in California's Johnson Valley, with many competitors coming from across the country to win the crown.Fast forward to 2012, and the sixth running of the King of the Hammers is set to run.  Now, a growing number of entrants and spectators are threatening to take this underground, specialty race into the mainstream world of auto racing.The brainchild of Jeff Knoll and Dave Cole, the KoH (as supporters call it) was created as an event to test the skills of two different disciplines: desert racing and rock crawling.  Advertised as two separate&nb...

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