PRIMM, Nev. — 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.
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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.
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