King of the Hammers is, for lack of a better word, batshit. For those who've never heard of it, it's an off-road race in California's Johnson Valley, and marries rock crawling with flat-out open desert racing. There's nothing else on the planet like King of the Hammers.
And for years and years, it's been dominated—absolutely dominated—by full-on race-prepped, incredibly costly buggies and trophy trucks with 1,000 horsepower V8s. Why? Because that's what you need to have when you're sending it off a sheer rock face and into a long desert section that'll see you clip 100+ mph. Did I mention sending it off sheer cliffs?
But in the last few years, UTVs have become to make their presence known. They hadn't won anything but their classes, but the tech and horsepower wars between Can-Am and Polaris have been absolutely stunning, with the two going head-to-head at King of the Hammers, as well as Baja and Dakar. But again, neither has won anything but their UTV classes.
