Offroad racing is a format of racing where various classes of specially modified vehicles (including cars, trucks, motorcycles, and buggies) compete in races through off-road environments.

In North America there are several formats. One format is a race across the desert, such as the famous Baja 1000 sanctioned by SCORE International. Another format is a race on a circuit of less than five miles (such as Crandon International Off-Road Raceway), such as the races sanctioned by CORR (or its predecessor SODA. Another format made popular by the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group was called stadium racing, where offroad racing vehicles were used in a temporary offroad racetrack was constructed inside a stadium. The general idea of "offroad racing" can also extend to include hillclimbing or any other form of racing that does not occur on a specified, paved track.

In Europe, "offroad" refers to events such as autocross or rallycross, while desert races and rally-raids such as the Paris-Dakar, Master Rallye or European "bajas" are called Cross-Country Rallies.

See also

• List of offroad racing games

Auto racing by type