If there is a racer who’s eager to showcase simply what the phrase “winning ways” is about, it is Ricky Brabec. After beginning the 12 months by taking his second-ever Dakar Rally win (an unprecedented feat by an American rider), Brabec and famously mustachioed teammate Skyler Howes had been again at it once more in Las Vegas on the 2024 Mint 400.
The Monster Energy Honda teammates traded in two-wheels for 4, which is becoming since if you happen to add each their bikes collectively, that is the quantity you’d get anyway. We child. Anyway, the formidable pair on any variety of wheels drove their Honda Talon to win the BFGoodrich Mint 400’s UTV Pro NA class on the very first day.
Brabec wasn’t carried out but, although. After scooping that UTV Pro NA win, he and one other Honda teammate, Preston Campbell, saddled up on a Honda CRF 450R and proceeded to win the 2024 Mint 400’s Open Pro Motorcycle division. Yet one other piece of shiny {hardware} for the trophy room!
“Yeah, you realize, was a extremely good weekend for Monster. And a extremely good weekend for Honda. Dakar’s the dream, however to return to the Mint 400 for the primary time in a facet by facet, with my Monster Energy/Honda HRC Rally teammate Skyler Howes, yeah we did a extremely wonderful job. 1st in Pro non-turbo. Really cool to be a privateer crew and beat the HRC Factory Honda Talon Ridgeline program. That’s an enormous push there and we had been actually comfortable to perform this,” Brabec stated later in a press release.
And as a result of he did the double, we’ll do a factor we do not usually do and embed two of his joyous Instagram posts right here:
What About Skyler Howes?
For his half, Brabec’s Dakar teammate Howes expressed shock that Brabec invited him to affix him in piloting the Talon. In reality, he stated, he’d by no means really pushed one earlier than and likewise hadn’t raced on 4 wheels in a minimum of the previous three years. While Brabec powered by means of the primary two laps to safe the lead, Howes was in a position to deliver it house after the extraordinary nine-hour race. Though, we suppose, after a number of days doing the Dakar, 9 hours most likely is much less daunting than it may be to anybody else.
Howes added in an Instagram submit that this Mint 400 win was particularly significant to him, since his household’s early racing historical past was on 4 wheels. In reality, his grandpa was each a mechanic and a driver within the Baja Boot, and likewise had Mint trophies courting again to the early Seventies. That’s fairly a feat to have within the household, for certain.
Congrats to the teammates, their crew, and everybody who likes to have a superb time on any variety of wheels.