Chris Leone
3/8/2025
In a spirited battle between entries helmed by past race winners, Dalton Shirey teamed with Sam Pretscherer to take down Preston Campbell and Ricky Brabec in the 2025 BFGoodrich Tires Mint 400 Motorcycle Race. Shirey, who last won the race two years ago, took his fourth victory in six years with a six-lap time of 7:28:44, just over three minutes ahead of Campbell, the defending race winner.
“It was pretty smooth,” Shirey said of the win. “We got a good start off the beginning, had a little hiccup and confusion, but we got it figured out and kept racing. Sam rode solid, I brought the bike back to him, he brought it back to me, and we brought it home.”
100 motorcycles lined up in Primm on Saturday morning to take on six laps of this year’s course, with Open Pro Motorcycle entries like Shirey and Campbell sharing the course with various sportsman, Hooligan, and even EV entries. The past winners would quickly check out on the field, putting a gap on third place Jarett Megla through the first two laps and isolating themselves.
Campbell led the first two laps on time, but the top spot flipped coming to halfway when Shirey gained back nearly five minutes. The #P3 team would make up most of the gap on the fourth lap, only for Shirey and Pretscherer to respond with faster laps on the final two circuits to pad the gap to 3:10 when all was said and done. Megla would hang on for third in the class and overall ahead of Nic Colangeli.
When all was said and done, five different classes would crown their winners in the overall top 10. Nolan Rudd (Over 30 Sportsman) and Danny Cooper (Open Sportsman) would come home fifth and sixth overall, while Christopher Fry (Over 40 Sportsman) and Brian Roberts (Open Ironman Sportsman) would place eighth and ninth, the first two racers off the lead lap overall.
2025 BFGoodrich Tires Mint 400 Motorcycle Race results were as follows:
- #P46 Dalton Shirey, Open Pro Motorcycle, 6 laps, 7:28.44.417
- #P3 Preston Campbell, Open Pro Motorcycle, 6 laps, 7:31:54.500
- #P22 Jarett Megla, Open Pro Motorcycle, 6 laps, 7:58:34.947
- #P15 Nic Colangeli, Open Pro Motorcycle, 6 laps, 8:12:37.234
- #365 Nolan Rudd, Over 30 Sportsman Motorcycle, 6 laps, 8:27:06.174
- #S1 Danny Cooper, Open Sportsman Motorcycle, 6 laps, 8:42:59.829
- #P11 Matthew Grant, Open Pro Motorcycle, 6 laps, 8:55:44.133
- #416 Christopher Fry, Over 40 Sportsman Motorcycle, 5 laps, 7:19:33.807
- #I78 Brian Roberts, Open Ironman Sportsman Motorcycle, 5 laps, 7:22:07.939
- #309 Stephen Berger, Over 30 Sportsman Motorcycle, 5 laps, 7:27:21.844
The Mint 400 has held the title of the toughest, most spectacular off-road race in North America since 1968 when it was first run. Initially, the race was a public relations event promoting the Mint Hotel’s annual deer hunt, but what started out as a hotel promotion soon grew into a legitimate desert race. Since its 2008 revival, “The Great American Off-Road Race” has only gotten bigger and more prestigious, and deeper fields every year only make it tougher to win.
This year’s BFGoodrich Tires Mint 400 will take place from March 5-9 in Las Vegas. More information on the event for racers and spectators is available at TheMint400.com, or follow the event on Facebook and Instagram.
Details regarding racer registration, sponsorship packages, exhibitor vending, spectator tickets, camping, and parking passes for UNLTD Off-Road Racing are live on Unlimitedoffroadracing.com.
