This week's guest - Rebelle Rally Team 131

Driver: Karisa Haydon - @karisa_p

Navigator: Trista Smith - @tsmith0326

Team Instagram: @team_velocity_nw

Karissa Haydon and Trista Smith join us to give us all the details on their 2025 Rebelle Rally Adventure. Spoiler alert; they did AWESOME! They give us all the dirt on (ba-dum-tiss) on their 2025 Rebelle Rally adventure, how the move to the Ranger Raptor went, those amazing dresses, and why you don't turn at the dead badger. Follow Team Velocity at https://team-velocity.com

I stood in the windy desert of Nevada watching one vehicle after the next launch out of the inflatable arch and into the sand ahead. Cheers and engine blips marked each exit from the Rebelle Rally base camp. These women were heading out into the unknown with nothing more than a map and a pencil to guide them. It was pretty badass.

Video 5:51, I have to start with saying that the women of Rebelle Rally are simply badasses! If you’re not familiar with the Rebelle Rally series, it’s an all-women rally that happens across multiple days. As if driving in the middle of nowhere in windy, wet, dry, cold, hot conditions weren’t tough enough, you can’t use any form of GPS. You have a map, rulers, and pencils to make sure if you make a mistake, you can erase!

Karisa Haydon and Trista Smith from Team Velocity, factory backed by Ford Racing, join us on the show for a live update from the Rebelle Rally! They'll be joining us again when the rally finishes, but we were lucky enough to have a quick call with them during the heat of the competition! 

Two women from the Snoqualmie Valley are participating in the Rebelle Rally this month, a nine-day competition that takes them on an unpredictable journey through the desert.

Rebelle Rally is the first U.S. women’s off-road navigation rally raid, started by Emily Miller in 2016. It covers 2,500 kilometers (about 1,550 miles) of desert terrain in California and Nevada. Participants compete in teams of two — one navigator and one driver — navigating without GPS or cellphones.

The Rebelle Rally is a 2,500 km race across the harsh Nevada and California deserts with a twist: it's exclusively open for competition to women. Ford Racing is a familiar face on the off-road circuit, so, naturally, The Blue Oval fields several Rebelle entries every year, putting women behind the wheel of the Ford Bronco Raptor and Ford Ranger Raptor - and the automaker officially dropped its lineup for the 2025 running of the event.

Trista and Karisa tell the tale of how two privateers who barely made it to the start line of their rookie year of ‪@RebelleRally are now 3 time participants of the Ford Performance team. And is it really the dream most privateers think it is.

Karisa Haydon and Trista Smith’s friendship began with a dead Subaru alternator on a rainy evening near Portland, Oregon.

When we first interviewed Karisa Haydon and Trista Smith, they were the fresh Rebelle Rally Rookies of the Year, but now they’ve grown up to Team Velocity, a Ford factory backed team!

Episode 9: From 2022 x-class rookies of the year to 2023 4x4 class Ford Performance team and a top 10 finish. Karisa Haydon and Trista Smith talk about the importance of having the same goals, how the @RebelleRally can be lost in the car and Karisa tells Trista's deepest plotting secret.

Jan 7th, 2024 at Motofish Headquarters in Redmond, WA .

Learn all about how to prepare and find your way in the country's largest off-road rally from veteran Rebelle Rally competitors and 2022 Rookies of the Year, Karisa and Trista.

Driver Karisa Haydon and navigator Trista Smith, who were the 2022 Rebelle Rally Cross Rookies of the Year and Stage 7 winners, moved up to the 4×4 class in the Bronco WildTrak this year. They finished sixth in the new division.

The No. 131 Team Velocity two-door Bronco WildTrak, featuring 2022 X-CROSS Rookie of the Year winners Karisa Haydon and Trista Smith, battled back through the rankings after a quick-start and finished sixth.

Team Baby Bronco: Winning Rookie of the Year in a Bronco Sport FE by Melissa Clark & Karisa Haydon

KARISA HAYDON AND TRISTA SMITH GIVE US A REBELLE RALLY RECAP!

THE SAGA OF THREE ROOKIES AND AN ACE

For our first Bronco B.A.B.E.S "Campfire Chat" we talk to Shelby Hall, Karisa Haydon, and Trista Smith about the Rebelle Rally and their experiences competing in it.

Local News: Off-roaders map out road to Rebelle Rally By Sabine Poux with KDLL

Karisa Haydon and Trista Smith are gearing up for the Rebelle Rally this October. This month, they took their training to the central Kenai Peninsula.