Ed Pearlman is a co-founder (together with Don Francisco) of the
National Off-Road Racing Association
The National Off-Road Racing Association (usually abbreviated NORRA) is a desert off-road racing association.
History
It was founded in 1967 by Ed Pearlman and Don Francisco. At the time it was the first racing sanctioning body devoted solely t ...
(1966), the first exclusively
off-road racing
Off-road racing is a form of motorsports consisting of specially-modified vehicles including cars, SUVs, trucks, motorbikes, quadbikes and buggies racing in off-road environments (e.g. snow, dirt, mud, etc.).
North America Desert racing
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organization, and its first president.
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/ref> The inaugurating event of NORRA was "Mexican 1000 Rally", which has become the Baja 1000
The Baja 1000 is an annual Mexican off-road motorsport race held on the Baja California Peninsula, with a course of up to about 850 or more miles. It is one of the most prestigious off-road races in the world, having attracted competitors from ...
. In 1978, he established the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame.[
Pearlman is an ex-Marine and prior to founding of NORRA he was a florist in ]San Fernando Valley
The San Fernando Valley, known locally as the Valley, is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, Los Angeles County, California. Situated to the north of the Los Angeles Basin, it comprises a large portion of Los Angeles, the Municipal corpo ...
and a four-wheel-drive buff on weekends.[Motor Trend, Vol. 21]
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References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Off-road racing drivers
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