Bonneville Offroad Racing
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| Sport | Off-Road Racing |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | BOR |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Headquarters | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| President | Kyle MacArthur |
| Official website | |
| www | |
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Bonneville Offroad Racing (BOR) is a desert racing organization based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Bonneville Off-road Racing Enthusiasts (BORE), the predecessor to BOR, was established by Jim Baker in 1989[1] as a local, more affordable, friendlier, alternative to the Southern California and Mexico races put on by SCORE. Even with its lean organizational team, it offered full seasons of challenging, well-planned and well-marked courses, with all the hallmarks and perks of a much larger, professionally run organization (e.g., big-name event sponsors, informative newsletters, comprehensive points-scoring, computerized event-timing). It is believed to be the first of its kind to have state-of-the-art, computerized event-timing with real-time scoring (developed by Potter Engineering & Consulting), which allowed racers and spectators to monitor the up-to-the-minute race status of all event entries. Before his own passing (in 2014), Jim passed the leadership-torch to a team of enthusiastic successors, who continue to put on races in northern Utah, northeastern Nevada, and southern Idaho.