B.L. MCLAUGHLIN / PVT The Best In the Desert-sanctioned TSCO Vegas to Reno off-road race will be staged Aug. 20-24, with pit stops at Cottontail, Klondike, Tonopah and Millers along the 456.5-mile route. More than 200 off-road vehicles, including this truck, were entered in a pre-run last weekend. Advertisement

Beatty and the greater Tonopah area will be included in the running of the Best in the Desert's TSCO Vegas to Reno off-road race Aug. 20-23.

Four (of 11) pit stops will be at Cottontail, Klondike, Tonopah and Millers along the 456.5-mile route.

The race will begin Aug. 22 on a site 6.5 miles north of Beatty and conclude near Dayton. Motorcycle and quad staging will begin at 6 a.m. at Boiling Pot Road. The first professional motorcycle rider will leave at 6:30 a.m.

At 9:30 a.m., cars and trucks will stage at the same site, with the first vehicle to start at 10:30 a.m.

The race after party, sponsored by the Herbst family, will be held from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Terrible's Sands Regency Hotel in downtown Reno. Awards presentations will be held from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the hotel.

Registration will be held from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 20 in Foyer B (outside the Grand Ballroom) at the South Point Hotel in Las Vegas.

Time trials for Classes 1400 and 1500 will be contested Aug. 21, starting at 6 a.m.

Drivers and riders registration will be from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Aug. 21 at the South Point. Car, truck, motorcycle, quad and UTV contingency inspections and technical inspections will be held from 8:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 21 in the parking lot at the South Point. There will be a mandatory drivers-riders meeting at 6 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom.

Pit stops

Starting line -- South Point Hotel in Las Vegas. Vehicles will drive 134.5 miles to start the race north of Beatty.

Escort to starting line -- 1.5 miles.

Pit stop 1 (Bonnie Claire), 33.9 miles from pit to pit, (total miles, 35.4).

Pit stop 2 (Cottontail), 37.4 miles (72.8)

Pit stop 3 (Klondike), 43.5 miles (116.3).

Pit stop 4 (Tonopah), 39.7 miles (158.0)

Pit stop 5 (Millers), 24.7 miles (180.7)

Pit stop 6 (Mina), 49.1 miles (229.8)

Pit stop 7 (Luning), 46.6 miles (276.4)

Pit stop 8 (Hawthorne), 18.5 (294.9)

Pit stop 9 (Remote ... Rawhide), 51.1 miles, (346.0)

Pit stop 10 (Top Gun), 36.1 miles (382.1)

Pit stop 11 (Weeks), 29.3 miles (411.4) (Junction Alt. U.S. 95-Weeks)

Weeks to the Finish Line in Dayton, 45.1 miles (456.5)

Race headquarters in Reno is at the Sands Regency Hotel (45 miles)