Jan. 17, 2025
Chris Leone
After a hard-fought battle among the top Class 10 entries all day long, it was Carib Potts who finally came out on top of the 2025 Parker 400 Limited Race. The driver of the #1061 machine completed three laps in 7:23:40, coming back from a DNF in last year’s race to open the new UNLTD Off-Road Racing Series season with a huge victory.
“Last year we had a blown motor around mile 70, and this year we came out with a bang,” said Potts. “We tried to lay down some heaters. We got a different kind of motor (this year) and I think that helped a lot. Lap 1 was really fast, I got caught in some traffic trying to get by, and lap 2 the course was rough. There were a bunch of square edge whoops, it was really hard to get through those, but we’re here.”
After UTVs dominated last year’s Limited Race, it was a trio of Class 10s that ran up front for almost the whole race. For most of the race, it was the #1077 machine leading the way, with defending Unlimited Race champion Conner McMullen running the first lap and driver of record Brody Aikins set to run the last two, but Aikins suffered power steering issues on the final lap that knocked him from the top spot.
Aikins’ issues allowed both Potts and Yurcho to move up a spot, and made room for UTV Pro Open winner Brice Allen to take the final spot on the overall podium. Other class winners to crack the overall top 10 included UTV Pro’s Chaden Zane Minder (fourth overall), UTV Pro Stock’s Justin Von Metal (fifth), UTV Pro Turbo’s Max Gordon (seventh), and Class 5’s Keith Waibel, who won his class in Parker for the second year in a row as he rounded out the top 10.
Results from the 2025 Parker 400 Limited Race were as follows:
- #1061 Carib Potts, Class 10, 3 laps, 7:23:40.621
- #1042 Andrew Yurcho, Class 10, 3 laps, 8:00:28.952
- #PO975 Brice Allen, UTV Pro Open, 3 laps, 8:13:56.120
- #P915 Chaden Zane Minder, UTV Pro, 3 laps, 8:16:59.816
- #PS974 Justin Von Metal, UTV Pro Stock, 3 laps, 8:21:53.780
- #PO950 Tyler Schmidt, UTV Pro Open, 3 laps, 8:25:07.950
- #T977 Max Gordon, UTV Pro Turbo, 3 laps, 8:37:38.359
- #T899 Kyle Standage, UTV Pro Turbo, 3 laps, 8:43:21.551
- #2927 Noah Wright, UTV Pro Turbo, 3 laps, 8:43:43.736
- #527 Keith Waibel, Class 5, 3 laps, 8:57:22.495
Racing in Parker continues on Saturday with the Youth Races starting at 8AM, followed by the Unlimited Race at 10AM. Fans can follow live timing and tracking all week long at theparker400.com/live.
The 2025 Parker 400 marks the first of four rounds on the 2025 UNLTD Off-Road Racing Series calendar. It will be followed by the legendary BFGoodrich Tires Mint 400 in Las Vegas on March 5-9, the inaugural Reno 600 in Reno on April 16-19, and the season-ending California 300 in Barstow on October 1-5.
For more information on parking Passes, Camping, and Merch, visit theparker400.com.
Details regarding racer registration, sponsorship packages, exhibitor vending, spectator tickets, camping, and parking passes for UNLTD Off-Road Racing are live on Unlimitedoffroadracing.com.
About UNLTD Off-Road Racing
The Unlimited Off-Road Racing league was formed by The Martelli Brothers in 2023 after more than a decade of successful desert off-road race promotion, including The Mint 400, The UTV World Championship and The California 300. The league was formed to promote the sport of desert off-road racing, the off-road industry, and to expand the reach of off-road companies beyond the industry and into the homes of every off-road race fan, globally. Key attributes of the newly formed league include large racer car counts, competitive and challenging race courses, safe and family-friendly spectating areas, multiple days of racing and off-road festivities all located near major cities and markets that positively affect the off-road industry. The Martelli Brothers, owners of the motorsports powerhouse production group Mad Media have made it their mission to grow the league into a four race series that showcases the best off-road racers on the best courses in North America.
