Rob MacCachren

Rob MacCachren (born March 24, 1965) is an American off-road racer from Las Vegas, Nevada. MacCachren won over 200 off-road races including seven editions of the Baja 1000.

MacCachren raced the Mickey Thompson Stadium Series early in his career and went on to win championships in Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR), SCORE International, SODA, and Best in the Desert (BITD). MacCachren won his 200th event at Crandon International Off-Road Raceway at the 2012 World Championship Pro 2 race. He has won 20 championships during his racing career, including three BorgWarner World Championships and the 2008 CORR Pro-2 championship. He drives the Rockstar Energy Drink Ford Trophy Truck in SCORE and the Rockstar Energy Drink Pro 2 Unlimited in LOORRS. He is a 2011 inductee in the Off-road Motorsports Hall of Fame.

Career 1980s MacCachren, the son of an off-road racer, began racing dirt bikes in the terrain around Las Vegas, winning the 1973 Nevada State Motorcycle Championship as an eight-year-old.

MacCachren raced off-road in Southern Nevada Off-Road Enthusiasts (SNORE) in 1982, winning the Driver of the Year points and being named "Rookie of the Year" by the Nevada Motorsports Writers Association. In 1983, he was nominated for the Nevada Sports Writers Association's "Top Off-Road Driver" and for their "Competitor of the Year" in the following year. winning at Portland Speedway. With Venable, he also competed at Tucson Raceway Park in the Winston West Series, finishing 14th.

2000s In 2000, MacCachren won the first of three consecutive Governor's BorgWarner World Championship Shootout races. The following year, he competed in SNORE, SCORE, and CORR. In SNORE, he was the overall and class champion.

MacCachren was nominated for the AARWBA award in 2004 after winning the Laughlin Class Championships (1 / 2 — 1600 & Class 12) and SCORE's Laughlin Leap Championship, With the win, MacCachren and Post became the first trophy truck drivers to take SCORE's overall season points championship.

During the 2008 season, MacCachren competed in CORR in the Pro-2 and Pro Buggy divisions, winning the season championship in both divisions. CORR folded at the end of the season, so he raced in the new Traxxas TORC Series in 2009. At the 2011 San Felipe 250, MacCachren took the Trophy Truck class win and overall victory with a margin of 44 seconds MacCachren was also successful in the competing TORC Pro 2WD series where he finished second for the season. In 2011, MacCachren finish second in season points in LOORRS and second in TORC as well with five victories in LOORRS and three wins in TORC. In 2012, MacCachren won the $20,000 Chairman's Cup at Crandon behind the wheel of the MOPAR RAM Pro 2WD. He won his 200th career event later that year at Crandon during the track's second weekend (on the first weekend in September), the Sunday "World Championship" Pro 2 event.

In 2013, MacCachren signed a deal to compete in Robby Gordon's new truck racing series modeled after Mickey Thompson's Stadium series, the Stadium Super Trucks. He won the inaugural event in March at University of Phoenix Stadium and won another round in May. MacCachren ended the season with four wins but finished second in the championship to Gordon. Their Trophy Truck field had 31 entries and they won over 237 overall entries by 29 minutes. followed by an overall win at the 50th BFGoodrich Tires SCORE Baja 500 in June.

2020s During the 2020 season, MacCachren finished second at the Baja 1000.

In 2021, MacCachren won the Baja 1000 (with Luke McMillin) and the Mint 400 (with his son Cayden).

MacCachren won the 2022 Baja 500.

MacCachren, paired with Luke McMillin, won the 2024 Baja 1000. The 2024 win marks his seventh overall win.

Awards MacCachren was named the 2007 Dirtsports Magazine Driver of the Year. He was named the 2007 BFGoodrich Tires Motorsports Person of the Year. He also received American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Association AUTO RACING All-America FIRST Team honors three times.

MacCachren was inducted in the Off-road Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2011.

Motorsports career results Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series (key) (Bold – Pole position. )

Stadium Super Trucks (key) (Bold – Pole position. Italics – Fastest qualifier. * – Most laps led.) Stadium Super Trucks results Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pts Ref 2013 PHO1 LBH3 LAN2 SDG1 SDG3 STL1 TOR2 TOR4 CRA1 CRA4 OCF OCF OCF CPL6 2nd 400