Offroad Press
The motorsport magazine
★ Cover Story · April 2026
From Long Beach pit stops to Toyota's first Supercars win to Trophy Trucks airborne over Baja silt — three series, one magazine, mobile-first.
From the Editor
April 28, 2026 · Editorial
The 2026 racing year is already a banger. Alex Palou has stamped his name on Long Beach for the first time, Toyota has crashed the V8 Supercars party at Taupo with a brand new GR Supra, and Luke McMillin has shaken off a long slump to take the SCORE San Felipe 250 in the Mason AWD Trophy Truck. From the open-wheel cathedrals of North America to the New Zealand street miles and the Baja silt beds, this is where we cover it. Offroad Press is a magazine for the readers who still want lap times, pit-lane gossip, engine talk and the kind of paddock detail that doesn't survive a 30-second highlight reel.
We chase three series with serious North American gravity: IndyCar, V8 Supercars and off-road desert racing. Each gets its own pillar on this site and its own beat, written for fans who already know the difference between a Trophy Truck and a Class 1 buggy, and who want to know which one cleared the final whoop section first. The team is independent. We write about manufacturers without owing them anything, we credit the people who do the work in the data bay and on the wrenches, and we treat results as the headline rather than the footnote. If you want short, sharp magazine-style writing about the 110th Indy 500, the Toyota-Ford-Chevy parity war in Australia, or the AORC unification rolling through the desert calendar, you're in the right place. Start with the IndyCar 2026 hub for the title fight, then sidestep into our V8 Supercars guide for the Gen3 era.
Chip Ganassi, Penske, Andretti and Arrow McLaren on the open-wheel side. Triple Eight, DJR, Grove and Walkinshaw Andretti United fighting it out in the Supercars paddock. Mason Motorsports, Menzies Motorsports and the McMillin family on the desert side. We profile the rosters, the engineers, the team-order moments and the silly-season moves that reshape a championship — like Will Power leaving Penske for Andretti and David Malukas inheriting the No. 12.
The hardware matters. We write about the Dallara IR-18 with its mandatory 48V hybrid ERS, the Gen3 5.4L pushrod V8s in the Mustang and Camaro and the new 5.2L quad-cam V8 Toyota built for the Supra, and the LS-based 6.2L big blocks that still rule Trophy Truck country. Class structures, parity rules, gearbox ratios — the parts of the sport that actually decide who wins.
Race weekends are the heartbeat. Long Beach gave Honda a 1-2-3 with Palou, Felix Rosenqvist and Scott Dixon. Christchurch gave Matt Payne a double and Kai Allen a maiden Supercars win. Kyle Chaney took UTV Pro Limited at the Silver State 300, Jeff Martin won UTV Pro Turbo, and the NORRA Mexican 1000 fires up April 30. We cover the result, the pit work, the stewards' calls and the championship math.
Form Lines · Race Weekend Read
Form lines tell the real story heading into a race weekend. Palou rolled into Long Beach with two wins from five rounds and walked out with a third by 4.198 seconds, courtesy of a 6.9-second Ganassi pit stop during the Lap 58 caution. Broc Feeney leads the Supercars title with 925 points and the Jason Richards Memorial Trophy in the cabinet, but Brodie Kostecki has stacked five wins for DJR and a 59% podium rate. Those numbers, race by race, are what readers chasing Motorsport betting markets, fantasy leagues or just bragging-rights pools tend to study before lights out. We publish the qualifying pace, stint analysis and tire-wear notes that actually move those numbers — not the marketing-deck version. With the Indy 500 Open Test wrapped up at IMS the week of April 27, the next two months of coverage will be loaded with that kind of detail across all three beats.
If you came in for open-wheel, the IndyCar 2026 deep-dive lays out every team, every driver, the hybrid ERS package on the Dallara IR-18, and what the Indy 500 lockout field actually looks like. If you came in for tin-tops, the Supercars guide walks you through Toyota's debut, the Ford-Chevy parity argument and the Christchurch storyline. If you came in for Baja silt and Trophy Truck horsepower, the off-road racing hub covers SCORE, AORC, Ultra4 and the Mexican 1000. And if you want to know who's writing this stuff and why we cover it the way we do, read the about page.
Three series, one magazine. Mobile-first reporting on the racing that defines North America's motorsport calendar — and the international rounds that matter to it.
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