Mike Ingalsbee is an automotive writer and photographer who has covered just about everything that burns fuel or throws dirt for nearly three decades. His work has been published in over twenty magazine titles and websites in North America, Europe and Australia. Mike has been a team member on off-road race teams and worked as a design engineer for several manufacturers in the automotive aftermarket. Mike is a founding member of the Association of Motorsports Media Professionals, (AMMP), a trade organization that consults with race organizations about on-track safety and media relations.
2022 SCORE International Baja 500 Austin Weiland Wins Free-For-All Words: Mike Ingalsbee Photos: GETSOMEphoto Anyone looking at the 2022 SCORE Baja 500 race course closely could tell it was going to be interesting. It was composed of three distinct sections. The first was tight, technical, and extremely rocky; the middle dropped to the desert floor…
2022 Legacy Stateline Shootout Guns Were Blazing on Primm’s Short-Course Words: Mike Ingalsbee Photos: Colby Holt & Chris Goeschel Legacy Racing Association’s State Line Shootout returned in 2022 to the familiar racecourse in Primm Nevada for two days of high intensity short-course action. I say “familiar” because races have been held there for many years.…
2022 BITD Silver State 300 UTVs Take Their Shot at the Overall Title Words: Mike Ingalsbee Photos: WESTx1000 People think racing is all about speed. Speed is important, but there are so many other attributes needed to be successful. Drivers need to be resourceful. They have to be thick skinned to weather the many looming…
2022 SCORE San Felipe 250 The World Desert Championship Series Begins at the Sea of Cortez Words: Mike Ingalsbee Photos: GETSOMEphoto The 2022 Desert Championship went underway in Baja California, Mexico at the 35th King Shocks San Felipe 250. This event is the shortest race of the SCORE International series, but it still packs a…
Shock and Awe Treatment Best in the Desert Raises the Bar at UTV Legends Championship Words by Mike Ingalsbee Photos by Logan Gallagher The Best In The Desert series’ Shock Therapy UTV Legends Race in Laughlin, Nevada has always been a unique format. There is a section of course that runs out into the desert…
A Race That Hurts So Good 2022 King of the Hammers Leaves a Mark Words by Mike Ingalsbee Photos by Logan Gallagher When King of the Hammers was conceived back in 2007, UTVs were not even on the organizers’ radar. It was a single-purpose rock crawler race based on a what-if. What if we held…
Phil Burton Finds His Way To Another Win! Words: Mike Ingalsbee Photos: Brandon Bunch & Justin W. Coffey Nobody really knew what to expect when Best in the Desert announced they were going to run the course in the opposite direction than usual at the season opening 2022 Shock Therapy Parker 250 presented by BlueWater…
Legacy Racing Starts Off 2022 With A Kick Words: Mike Ingalsbee Photos: Logan Gallagher Much of the desert is made up of dirt and rocks. In Pahrump, Nevada, where the Legacy Racing Series held its 4WP Desert Showdown, the terrain is composed of more rocks than dirt. There is still plenty of sand and silt…
Story By: Mike Ingalsbee Photos By: HighRev Photo & GetSOME Photo Desert racing is always tough, that’s what makes it a challenge, but at the SCORE Baja 400, the punishment was at a whole new level. Many of the racers were competing to get a good starting position for the SCORE Baja 1000 (B1K) in…
Story By: Mike Ingalsbee Photos By: Brandon Bunch The heat was on at the Best in the Desert All Terrain Concepts UTV Legends Championship held in Laughlin, Nevada. Temperatures soared to well over 100 degrees, as racers tried to keep their cool on a unique 17 mile course that is either a long short course,…