2024 Red Bull Scramble begins with Sand Scramble in Glamis

Season 2 of the Red Bull Scramble kicked off Saturday in the dunes of Glamis. Although many faces ranging from World Rally-Raid Championship stars Seth Quintero and Austin Jones to the great Robby Gordon and his son Max Gordon headlined the card, newly minted Red Bull athlete and real estate agent Corbin Leaverton came out on top.

Leaverton, who won the Red Bull High Desert Scramble and the Best In The Desert Trophy Unlimited title alongside Cody Bradbury in 2023, continued his momentum into 2024 by winning the Pro class final ahead of pole-sitter Chase Carr and Shawn Saxton. Carr had dominated the race by leading the first four laps before Leaverton passed him on the final circuit to score the win.

Jones, two weeks removed from winning the Challenger class at the W2RC’s Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, placed fifth. He narrowly edged out Michael McFayden for the top-five finish, the latter a new Honda Factory Off-Road Racing Talon driver; McFayden’s colleague Ethan Ebert, who races the team’s Honda Ridgeline in SCORE International competition, retired from the final.

“I’m super familiar with this area because I do a lot for Dakar and Abu Dhabi out here in these dunes,” said Jones. “I’ve been here a lot but I’ve never done a race here. The course that they set up was absolutely insane. It was the perfect mix of really fast and fun and a little bit of sketchy to keep everyone honest.”

The Gordon family, entering their first Scramble Series race, had mixed results. Robby finished third in his heat race while Max was forced to retire from his when the belt came off his SPEED UTV. The younger Gordon’s final then ended on the opening lap when his rear tyre clipped a dune and sent him into a roll. Robby stopped to check on Max and another driver who crashed the same lap, costing him approximately forty-five seconds. Max avoided injury while the car remained in relatively good condition with most of the damage being to the trailing arm.

Quintero finished second in the heat but mechanical trouble relegated him to fourteenth in the final. The reigning W2RC Challenger champion was making his return to driving a UTV, having moved up to a Toyota Hilux for the 2024 season.

Kaden Isobella won the Sportsman final for amateur racers.

With Glamis out of the way, the Honda drivers now turn their attention to Saturday’s SCORE season-opening San Felipe 250 while the Gordons continue developing their SPEED UTV marque and gear up for the Stadium Super Trucks opener at Long Beach in April. Quintero and Jones rejoin the W2RC next month in Portugal.

The second round of the 2024 Red Bull Scramble, the Ranch Scramble in Texas, is on 4 May.

Final results

Pro

Finish	Start	Driver	Laps	Total Time	Margin
1	14	Corbin Leaverton	5	15:29.298	Leader
2	1	Chase Carr	5	15:34.538	+ 5.061
3	2	Shawn Saxton	5	15:50.959	+ 21.66
4	3	Ryan White	5	16:30.924	+ 1:01.626
5	8	Austin Jones	5	16:59.546	+ 1:30.248
6	7	Michael McFayden	5	17:01.098	+ 1:31.800
7	5	Chance Gibson	5	17:35.491	+ 2:06.193
8	9	Mia Chapman	5	18:24.871	+ 2:55.573
9	6	Robby Gordon	5	18:26.858	+ 2:57.560
10	11	Daniel Friel	5	18:39.667	+ 3:10.369
11	10	Jerret Kiser	4	15:30.189	+ 1 Lap
12	16	Blake Malgren	4	15:55.887	+ 1 Lap
13	12	John Barnes	4	15:58.075	+ 1 Lap
14	4	Seth Quintero	2	7:32.193	+ 3 Laps
15	13	Sebastian Marquez	1	4:18.605	+ 4 Laps
16	18	Max Gordon	0	DNF	+ 5 Laps
17	15	Ethan Ebert	0	DNF	+ 5 Laps
18	17	Martin Legare	0	DNF	+ 5 Laps

Sportsman

Finish	Start	Driver	Laps	Total Time	Margin
1	9	Kaden Isobella	5	16:42.586	Leader
2	7	Maddie Wroeking	5	16:45.380	+ 2.794
3	1	Devin Smith	5	17:06.299	+ 23.714
4	11	Mitch Wise	5	17:18.601	+ 36.015
5	3	Landon McMath	5	17:20.020	+ 37.434
6	16	Dallin Hymas	5	17:50.777	+ 1:08.191
7	12	Jim Bradbury	5	17:51.039	+ 1:08.453
8	36	Tyler Beranan	5	18:03.705	+ 1:21.119
9	28	Jared Van Schyndel	5	18:04.013	+ 1:21.427
10	17	Zach Lange	5	18:04.775	+ 1:22.188
11	32	Kurt Schupe	5	18:37.188	+ 1:54.602
12	23	Kyle Litten	5	18:48.489	+ 2:05.904
13	15	Matt Smith	5	19:05.670	+ 2:23.084
14	26	Kyler Lee	5	19:22.807	+ 2:40.221
15	24	Mavrik Groff	5	19:23.722	+ 2:41.136
16	38	Michael Werd	5	19:40.523	+ 2:57.937
17	34	Daniel Loredo	5	20:07.513	+ 3:24.928
18	21	Richard Covarrubias	4	13:53.939	+ 1 Lap
19	27	Justin Alexander	4	18:48.961	+ 1 Lap
20	8	Logan Smith	4	18:49.073	+ 1 Lap
21	4	Paul Driscoll	4	19:19.875	+ 1 Lap
22	29	Brock Cress	3	10:26.345	+ 2 Laps
23	30	John Lavender	3	1058.959	+ 2 Laps
24	22	Derek McCann	3	11:34.528	+ 2 Laps
25	13	Christopher Moeller	3	11:37.710	+ 2 Laps
26	6	Mike Meyers	3	22:32.354	+ 2 Laps
27	2	Matt Lasher	2	6:43.797	+ 3 Laps
28	5	Joash Sollenberger	2	7:03.554	+ 3 Laps
29	10	Bret Hanenberg	2	7:48.205	+ 3 Laps
30	31	Greg Wright	2	7:59.166	+ 3 Laps
31	18	Matt Duhamell	1	3:59.475	+ 4 Laps
32	37	Jake Rothey	1	4:12.893	+ 4 Laps
33	25	Susan Rounds	1	4:31.537	+ 4 Laps
34	35	Philipa Vazquez	1	4:36.112	+ 4 Laps
35	14	Steve Geist	0	DNF	+ 5 Laps
36	19	Wyatt Lange	0	DNF	+ 5 Laps
37	20	Garnet Hobbs	0	DNF	+ 5 Laps
38	33	Travis Christopher	0	DNF	+ 5 Laps
39	39	Ray Miranda	0	DNF	+ 5 Laps
40	40	Derrick Wruble	0	DNF	+ 5 Laps

Heat results

Pro

Heat #1

Finish	Start	Driver	Laps	Total Time	Margin
1	5	Shawn Saxton	3	9:41.801	Leader
2	9	Seth Quintero	3	9:59.396	+ 17.595
3	6	Chance Gibson	3	10:00.230	+ 18.428
4	3	Michael McFayden	3	10:02.637	+ 20.837
5	7	Jerret Kiser	3	11:01.621	+ 1:19.821
6	4	John Barnes	3	11:08.533	+ 1:26.733
7	2	Sebastian Marquez	2	7:24.833	+ 1 Lap
8	8	Max Gordon	0	DNF	+ 3 Laps
9	1	Martin Legare	0	DNF	+ 3 Laps

Heat #2

Finish	Start	Driver	Laps	Total Time	Margin
1	6	Chase Carr	3	9:16.474	Leader
2	1	Ryan White	3	9:43.667	+ 27.193
3	5	Robby Gordon	3	10:03.264	+ 46.790
4	8	Austin Jones	3	10:27.930	+ 1:11.456
5	7	Mia Chapman	3	10:49.381	+ 1:32.907
6	3	Daniel Friel	3	10:52.437	+ 1:35.962
7	2	Corbin Leaverton	1	9:30.312	+ 2 Laps
8	4	Blake Malgren	0	DNF	+ 3 Laps
9	9	Ethan Ebert	0	DNF	+ 3 Laps

Sportsman

Heat #1

Finish	Start	Driver	Laps	Total Time	Margin
1	5	Matt Lasher	3	10:38.453	Leader
2	2	Maddie Wroeking	3	10:42.516	+ 4.064
3	6	Steve Geist	3	11:46.224	+ 1:07.772
4	8	Matt Duhamell	3	11:46.428	+ 1:07.976
5	9	Kyle Litten	3	12:30.162	+ 1:51.710
6	4	Jared Van Schyndel	3	12:42.715	+ 2:04.263
7	7	Travis Christopher	2	8:01.982	+ 1 Lap
8	3	Bryan Arce	2	8:59.466	+ 1 Lap
9	1	James Wilson	0	DNF	+ 3 Laps

Heat #2

Finish	Start	Driver	Laps	Total Time	Margin
1	3	Landon McMath	3	10:45.890	Leader
2	1	Logan Smith	3	10:46.691	+ .802
3	8	Christopher Moeller	3	11:39.978	+ 54.089
4	2	Wyatt Lange	3	12:13.525	+ 1:27.635
5	9	Susan Rounds	3	13:20.241	+ 2:34.351
6	7	John Lavender	1	4:27.294	+ 2 Laps
7	4	Philipa Vazquez	1	5:17.146	+ 2 Laps
8	5	Gerardo Carranza	0	DNF	+ 3 Laps
9	6	Dylan Silva	0	DNF	+ 3 Laps

Heat #3

Finish	Start	Driver	Laps	Total Time	Margin
1	1	Paul Driscoll	3	10:50.032	Leader
2	4	Kaden Isobella	3	10:50.980	+ .949
3	2	Jim Bradbury	3	10:58.958	+ 8.926
4	6	Dallin Hymas	3	11:02.530	+ 12.498
5	8	Derek McCann	3	11:26.527	+ 36.495
6	10	Kyler Lee	3	11:27.544	+ 37.513
7	9	Greg Wright	3	11:31.064	+ 41.033
8	5	Ray Miranda	3	12:26.405	+ 1:36.374
9	7	Jake Rothey	2	7:52.906	+ 1 Lap
10	3	Derrick Wruble	2	14:01.416	+ 1 Lap

Heat #4

Finish	Start	Driver	Laps	Total Time	Margin
1	4	Joash Sollenberger	3	10:54.169	Leader
2	7	Bret Hanenberg	3	11:41.294	+ 47.125
3	9	Matt Smith	3	11:54.396	+ 1:00.228
4	3	Garnet Hobbs	3	12:32.996	+ 1:38.828
5	5	Mavrik Groff	3	13:01.190	+ 2:07.022
6	2	Brock Cress	3	13:08.853	+ 2:14.685
7	6	Daniel Loredo	2	13:06.962	+ 1 Lap
8	10	Jesús Hernandez	2	8:28.633	+ 1 Lap
9	8	Lance Robinson	1	4:07.759	+ 2 Laps
10	1	Justin Peterson	1	9:33.706	+ 2 Laps

Heat #5

Finish	Start	Driver	Laps	Total Time	Margin
1	8	Devin Smith	3	10:37.246	Leader
2	5	Mike Meyers	3	10:38.788	+ 1.542
3	10	Mitch Wise	3	10:46.879	+ 9.634
4	2	Zach Lange	3	11:06.327	+ 29.081
5	1	Richard Covarrubias	3	11:07.612	+ 30.366
6	4	Justin Alexander	3	11:35.074	+ 57.829
7	9	Kurt Schupe	3	12:09.472	+ 1:32.227
8	7	Michael Wed	3	12:20.157	+ 1:42.912
9	3	Tyler Beranan	2	9:19.150	+ 1 Lap
10	6	Brock Harper	0	DNF	+ 3 Laps