CHAPTER 358 Ft. Brock Heger
Gypsy Tales
Jase Macalpine
4.6 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Brock Heger joins us for Chapter 358. A world-renowned UTV racer, Baja 1000 champion, and DAKAR Rally winner, Brock has quietly built one of the most impressive résumés in off-road racing. His calm and collected mindset behind the wheel is what helped him conquer the toughest race on the planet—Dakar—on his very first attempt. Brock’s not loud, he’s lethal. A driver who lets the results do the talking, and who only shows up for one reason: to win.
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00:00:00 Intro
00:02:20 Born and raised in Glamis California
00:06:54 Working on the farm
00:08:22 How farming lead to racing
00:10:55 Growing up riding dirt bikes
00:14:28 Brock's co-driver Max Eddy Jr.
00:16:55 Winning DAKAR
00:20:42 How Brock started racing Side By sides
00:27:03 How much better is a race UTV vs a stock UTV
00:32:46 How hard was DAKAR?
00:36:12 Brock's calm approach to racing
00:39:48 Pushing through the fear
00:46:10 When Brock's career changed
00:51:14 The cost of racing Trophy Trucks
00:52:33 How often does Brock Race?
00:53:31 Why isn't short course Offroad racing bigger
00:58:21 Developing the Polaris RZR Pro XP
01:04:53 Baja 1000
01:08:11 How physically demanding is the Baja 1000
01:09:34 Visiting Dubai
01:10:34 Brock's dream car
01:12:17 How Brock makes money racing
01:14:14 Rally Car Racing
01:16:28 Winning the DAKAR first try
01:24:24 The Line, Saudi Arabia
01:25:27 Differences between DAKAR and Baja
01:26:28 Close calls racing DAKAR!?
01:28:47 Brock's perspective of DAKAR changed
01:33:51 What makes Brock a hard worker?
01:35:39 Spending time around Jeremy McGrath
01:37:36 What's next for Brock?
01:40:07 Whats it like racing in Mexico?
01:42:49 Reaching a flow state while racing
01:44:30 2025 Supercross Season
01:48:51 The best Supercross race ever?
01:49:43 2025 Pro Motocross season
01:51:41 Brock's life away from racing
01:53:13 Ai's impact on the farming industry
01:56:51 Brock's 2025 race schedule
02:03:14 Outro
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| 0:00.0 | The Dakar Rally is the most brutal race in the world, nearly 5,000 miles throughout the endless dunes of Saudi Arabia, |
| 0:08.0 | with less than 60% of drivers making it to the finish every year. |
| 0:12.0 | It's a test of not just speed, but survival, where mechanical failures, brutal terrain, and pure exhaustion take out some of the best races on the planet. |
| 0:21.6 | Brock Hager grew up on the other side of the world in dunes of his own. |
| 0:25.6 | Born and raised in Glamas, California, |
| 0:28.6 | Brock's life has always been built around the sand, |
| 0:31.6 | chasing speed and chasing competition. |
| 0:34.6 | In 2025, he lined up for his first ever Dakar rally and won it, |
| 0:39.7 | shocking the industry and proving that he's no slouch behind his steering wheel. His calm |
| 0:44.3 | and fearless approach to racing is what sets him apart. Jipsy Gang, what brought Hager to the |
| 0:50.5 | podcast. |
| 1:00.3 | We have the latest and greatest in the Moto gaming experience with Monster Energy Supercross 2025, the official video game. |
| 1:03.2 | Milestone, the studio behind the game, have rethought and redesigned some of the game's |
| 1:08.5 | core mechanics from the ground up using Unreal Engine 5. |
| 1:12.9 | This fresh and redefined experience is not only the best graphics and physics that gaming |
| 1:18.6 | has to offer, but the collaboration with Monster Energy means that this is also the most immersive |
| 1:24.8 | career, bike and story experience. |
| 1:28.0 | The ship has sailed for me ever lining up at A1, so this is about as close as I'll ever come. |
| 1:34.0 | The physics are totally new, built from scratch, ruts change throughout the races, and the |
| 1:39.7 | AI actually adapts to how you ride. |
| 1:42.8 | Not only that, the new career mode is addictive too. It's fully |
| 1:46.6 | dynamic so that every season is different and for the first time they've packed in the full |
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