Bradbury, Gordon Post Top Qualifying Times for O’Reilly Auto Parts Limited Race at 2025 BFGoodrich Tires Mint 400
Cody Bradbury and Max Gordon posted the top times in Thursday’s qualifying sessions for the O’Reilly Auto Parts Limited Race at the 2025 BFGoodrich Tires Mint 400. Gordon paced the UTV Pro Turbo entries with a 4:47.788, while Bradbury paced all classes with a 4:37.644 in his UTV Pro Open entry and will have the honor of starting Friday’s Limited Race first.
For 2025, top classes competing in Friday’s Limited Race were able to join their Unlimited counterparts in running time trials to set their starting spots for the Great American Off-Road Race. Limited qualifying was split into two groups, with the majority of the UTV Pro classes set for the first group and UTV Pro Open paired up with Class 10 in the second.
In the first group, Sara Price set the early quick time, becoming the first driver to break the five-minute barrier in her UTV Pro Stock entry. She held onto the top spot until Gordon threw down what would stick as the fastest time of the group. Only three other drivers in the first group would break the five-minute mark, as Mint 400 Limited Race overall winners like Dustin Jones and Joe Terrana would come within a few seconds of Gordon to rank second and third in the group in their UTV Pro entries.
In the second, the UTVs would prove dominant over their Class 10 counterparts. 15 drivers would break the five-minute barrier in the group, but all but one—KC Bellefontaine, whose 4:59.389 ranked 13th overall—came from the Pro Open class. The fastest time would change hands multiple times in the group, with Mitch Guthrie, Michael McFayden, and Brock Heger all hanging onto it at various times.
Finally, as the 24th of 26 UTVs on the start list, Bradbury would clear Heger by 1.143 seconds to take the top spot for good. The depth in the second group saw multiple past winners fail to turn top-five times, as names like Guthrie (4:48.506), defending winner Ronnie Anderson (4:49.270), and Branden Sims (4:55.229) would have to settle for the back half of the top 10.
2025 BFGoodrich Tires Mint 400 Limited Qualifying Group 1 results were as follows:
- #T977 Max Gordon, UTV Pro Turbo, 4:47.788
- #P978 Dustin Jones, UTV Pro, 4:50.511
- #P998 Joe Terrana, UTV Pro, 4:51.128
- #PS978 Sara Price, UTV Pro Stock, 4:54.641
- #P915 Chaden Zane Minder, UTV Pro, 4:59.593
2025 BFGoodrich Tires Mint 400 Limited Qualifying Group 2 results were as follows:
- #PO922 Cody Bradbury, UTV Pro Open, 4:37.644
- #PO996 Brock Heger, UTV Pro Open, 4:38.787
- #PO913 Chase Carr, UTV Pro Open, 4:45.485
- #PO938 Michael McFayden, UTV Pro Open, 4:45.966
- #PO992 Cayden MacCachren, UTV Pro Open, 4:46.622
Following O’Reilly Auto Parts Limited Race qualifying in Primm, competitors returned to Fremont Street in Las Vegas for the Mint 400 Off-Road Festival. There, they’ll go through tech and contingency, with festivities continuing on site through 6PM. Live streaming for the O’Reilly Auto Parts Limited Race will kick off on Friday at 7:30AM PT/10:30AM ET at themint400.com/live.
The Mint 400 has held the title of the toughest, most spectacular off-road race in North America since 1968 when it was first run. Initially, the race was a public relations event promoting the Mint Hotel’s annual deer hunt, but what started out as a hotel promotion soon grew into a legitimate desert race. Since its 2008 revival, “The Great American Off-Road Race” has only gotten bigger and more prestigious, and deeper fields every year only make it tougher to win.
This year’s BFGoodrich Tires Mint 400 will take place from March 5-9 in Las Vegas. More information on the event for racers and spectators is available at TheMint400.com, or follow the event on Facebook and Instagram.
Details regarding racer registration, sponsorship packages, exhibitor vending, spectator tickets, camping, and parking passes for UNLTD Off-Road Racing are live on Unlimitedoffroadracing.com.