15/03/2023
What an incredible weekend of racing and our sport!
The Mint 400 would like to extend a heartfelt thank-you to:
Our racers, teams, volunteers, staff, and partners. THANK YOU for your support, and for making the 55th annual BFGoodrich Tires Mint 400 one of the biggest and BEST in recent history!
Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo, for your continued support of off-road racing and “The Great American Off-Road Race”.
Mayor and Mint 400 Grand Marshal Carolyn Goodman. Thank you for your time, and the “Mint 400 Boulevard” ceremonial designation and proclamation.
Esther and Steve Reincke, for your continued support and friendship of our never ending war!
Mr. KJ and Sandy Howe for passing us the baton with style and class, and for your continued friendship and support! We love you both!
Jeremy Walters, Steve Orrico, everyone at Republic Services, and our Desert Cleanup volunteers for helping us remove 46.56 TONS of waste from the desert this year - bringing our seven year total to 375,740 lbs!!
The Bureau of Land Management, Southern Nevada Field Office, including Stephen Leslie, Kenny Kenneth, and Braden Yardly - thank you for your support and environmental partnership.
To the City of Las Vegas including Jasmine Freeman, Marja Bigas, and LVMPD Events Planning Officers Lucas Abbott and Jason Rich.
To all of our treasured partners who contributed so much to the Mint and helped us RAISE THE BAR once again for the entire world to see - thank you. Especially:
BFGoodrich Tires for helping make all of this possible. You continue to be a shining example for the entire off-road industry. Thank you to the entire BFG family.
Assault Industries...Thank you for producing the 2023 Mint 400 Class Trophies, and our massive Overall Champion trophy!
O'Reilly Auto Parts for three fantastic years of Limited Race sponsorship and showing so much love to our garage racers!
FOX - for once again sponsoring the FOX Proving Grounds! You ARE the leader in suspension and it shows!
Impact Canopies for covering the Mint 400 top to bottom with indestructible canopies, feather flags and more!
Best Off-Road - thank you for backing the Mint and preaching the gospel of off-road racing! Thank you Dana and Ranch!
Belching Beaver - for making the best beer on the planet including our custom Mint 400 beer this year. Thank you Tom!
AND Rugged Radios - our official communications partner - for your expertise and support. Thank you Lance and team!
The list of partners and sponsors of the Mint this year included: Method Race Wheels, ORW, The Strat, VP Racing Fuels, King Shocks, AMSOIL, Vision Wheel, Heatwave Visuals, Dixxon, Raceline, Jimco, AhBEEF, Dirty LIfe, Busch Light, Rigid, Assault Industries, PCI Radios, Republic Services, Peltzer, Formula Drift, KC, Rockford Fosgate, MRAN, Zero 1, Shreddy, Waterloo, The El Cortez, City of Las Vegas, Fremont Street East, Tread Lightly, ORBA, Site Solar, Catalyst, Fabschool. Amplex, and Mag 7!!
Thank you to each and every one of you for helping make the Mint 400 such a massive success!
Thank you to our Event Director Kilian Hamlin for your tireless and often thankless ass kicking. We love you and are proud to go to war with you. Thank you for all that you do!
Jenell Acrea and Rachael Dobrzenski, for keeping us from going crazy! We love you! And CJ Martelli the newest member of the Mint 400 Finish Line crew. Thank you Terry and Mary Hamlin for your unwavering support and love.
Race Operations Manager Jason Prichard, and the Prichard Family for your support, loyalty and friendship. Thank you so much.
David Nehrbass and the crew at Motorsports Safety Solutions for your unwavering dedication to the safety and health of our racers, their crews, our volunteers, media, and the public. You are the best at what you do.
Event Operations Manager John Savino, Assistant Race Operations Manager Johnny Savino, Candice Savino, Randy and Dawn Perry, Scott Hurst, Chris Ward, Don, Tony, and Roxanne French, John Graham, Bill and Ann Slanina, Don Bevans and Sheri Trahan, Andy and Diane Remp, Logan Wilson, Zack Carlson, Hal and Julie Roach, John Graham, Jean-Marc L'Eplattenier, John Aldridge, and Dennis and Vicki Gowey… THANK YOU. We appreciate you very much!!
Bill Savage and your entire team of expert technical inspectors. We appreciate your long hours and (often thankless) safety engineering!
Joe Amey and the entire MRAN moto volunteer crew. Thank you! We appreciate your help and support!
Lonnie Peralta, Jason Markham, Chris Lincoln, Bob Bower, Ricky Johnson, Jim Marsden, Jim Beaver, Tiffany Stone, George Hammel and the entire production team...FANTASTIC!! Another amazing broadcast. Thank you.
Thank you Greg Kirk and RJ Palacios for holding down the top of tech and helping with wavering this year! You rock.
John Pellissier for leading the charge on the Youth Racing and all your help and friendship these past few years. We are lucky to have you!
Thank you Tim and Maria Shelman, Rachael Dobrzenski, Chloe Martelli, Jon Skelding, and Jenn Cole for helping every single Mint 400 finisher have their moment in the spotlight. Can’t thank you enough!
Brandon Friese, and the entire Outlier Pro team - THAT was our best Mint 400 Midway yet! Thank you for your hustle and making our vision even better in person!
Big ups to Jimi Switzer for holding down Fremont again this year. GREAT JOB MAN.
Mad Media crew. Congratulations on covering every Mint 400 race since 2010! Thirteen years of uninterrupted excellence in TV production. Broadcasts on Fuel TV, Speed Channel, NBC, NBC Sports ESPN, The Red Bull Signature Series, ABC and the World of X Games - you are the best in the business. Thank you!!
Vincent Knakal, Mary Byrnes, Connor and Ernesto for your amazing photography.
Brian Agee, thank you for risk managing, information technology organization, desert cleanup help, and once again owning the wavering teams. Thank you for helping keep us all safe! You’re the best in the business!
Thank you Mint 400 Registration & Media Crew: Jeff Adams, Kathi Adams, JD Adams, Katie Adams, Anna Slanina, Sherry Trahan, Christina Murray, Donna Pineau, Scott Pierstorff, Bob Toppin, Dottie Toppin, Tim Kingery, Richard Gomez, Tiffany Landru, Tonilyn Massie, Terry Hamlin, Mary Hamlin, Abigail Gould, Jeremiah Johnson & Katie Johnson! We appreciate all of you!
Chef Roger "Roddy" Browning and your entire staff for two fantastic days of gourmet meals trackside in the BFGoodrich Tires Mint 400 VIP Experience. Bravo sir!
Steve Schnars, Denita Norman, and your security team for your help and support making the Mint 400 safe and secure.
Erica Sacks for help with course marking dangers!
Homer Eubanks for social media moderation magic!
Tim Sousamian, Elena Gurganian, and the Piston Driven family for setting the standard in off-road merchandise!
Jeff Ray and the branding team for rocking all of the setup.
Andre, Justin and all your fearless Rangers for stepping up once again to fill gaps. LOVE YOU GUYS THANKS!
Brandon Rohde and your entire Live Time Scoring team for scoring five races, and all your hard work in the trailer, at staging and at onsite registration & tech.
Tyrone Jackson and your entire crew at Rhythm Tech Productions. Job well done!
YB Tracking team, Michael Sentch, Rachel Watton, and Thomas White.
Dave Hendrie and the entire team at Fireline Broadband.
Mark Yates for your professionalism and support! We appreciate you very much!
Jim McCoy and Eric Everly for capturing amazing and arresting images from the heli this year.
Kim Simpson for organizing and managing our volunteers and helping put out fires left and right.
Christy Melville for organizing and managing the monkeys in guest media.
Thank you Abbie Fernandez for helping us all find warm beds in the middle of the desert!
Thank you Laura Butcher and the entire family at Tread Lightly for your partnership and support cleaning the course this year!
David Lujan, David Rodriguez, and the entire sanitation crew. Gracias hermanos!
Matt, Shannon, Chad, Chris, Tyson, Brian, and the entire dirt engineering crew.
Paul Ames and MOB for expert traffic and parking help!
Eileen Riegert and SNEI professional tortoise monitoring.
To all of our Mint 400 race fans who traveled from all over to celebrate this historic race - and those who were among the hundreds of thousands of viewers we had online… thank you for your support! It’s your spirit and encouragement that make all of this possible.
And finally to all of our VOLUNTEERS, course workers, and check point staff - who took time off of work, who put your family life on hold, who traveled to Las Vegas, stood for hours in the cold and rain, helped us with hundreds of thankless tasks, manned road crossings, and waiver shifts, wrote down hundreds of race vehicle numbers, lost sleep and saw hundreds of race cars pass by you late late late into the night… We appreciate every bit of sacrifice you made because we can only do this with your support. We salute you.
The 56th annual BFGoodrich Tires Mint 400 will return in March 2024.
JOIN US for the second annual California 300 this October 4th - 8th in Barstow CA - and the exciting conclusion of the Unlimited Off-Road Racing Triple Crown!
- Matt and Josh Martelli