Rod Hall

The Hall family has raced every Baja 1000 in a four-wheeled vehicle, first Rod and now his children. Hall pilots the stock-class Hummer H3 in SCORE International and Best in the Desert off-road races.

Josh Hall, Mike Winkel and Rod Hall - The Rod Hall DRIVE Off-road Driving School Principals in front of a few of their Arctic Cat Wildcat performance vehicles. September 2014 Rod Hall ( – ) was an American professional off-road racer. He was inducted in the Off-road Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2005. He has spent his entire adult life around four-wheel-drive vehicles. He competed in fifty straight Baja 1000 races and had class wins in 25 of them. He raced in the first fifty Baja 1000 races with his final start in 2017 when he was nearly 80 years old.

Hall switched to helping to train drivers though his Rod Hall DRIVE program. The Rod Hall DRIVE off-road driving school was located at the Wild West Motorsports Park in Reno, Nevada.

Driving style On a SCORE video, Hall described his driving style, "I was never a fast guy, and I was never the first guy to the first checkpoint. But I did learn that you don’t go any slower than you have to in the rough stuff, maybe you can just pull out a mile and a half faster than the other guys without beatin’ up your car. Anybody can go fast in the fast area, but it’s the slower areas, I think, where I learned how to win races." He had progressive supranuclear palsy for the last few years of his life.

Former SCORE owner Sal Fish said, "Rod Hall was one of the founding fathers of desert racing and certainly a major pillar in the history of SCORE desert racing. Rod was one of the elite racers for over 40 years but he always maintained his humble personality and was as approachable, as friendly and as open with a handshake and a friendly smile as the first time I met him when I did a little racing back in 1969."