WWE legend “Stone Cold” Steve Austin picked up a victory outside of the ring this month when he competed at an off-road racing event.
Auto company Kawasaki sent out a social media post today congratulating Austin for finishing first in the Stock Mod Pro category at the Prospector 250, a race that Vorra Off-Road Racing held in Nevada last weekend. The results have Austin finishing eighth overall out of the 45 riders with a finish time of five hours and 45 minutes, beating out the only other Stock Mod racer who came in at six hours and 10 minutes.
Off-road racing has become one of Austin’s biggest passions, and his preparation for the Prospector 250 meant that he was unable to appear on the March 16 edition of WWE Raw. It took 6-7 months in total to build the race car that Austin drove. The name of his team is “Broken Skull Racing.” Fittingly, Austin uses “316” as his number.
“We just got finished running the race, a 250-mile race called the Prospector 250 in Yerington, Nevada. We came in first in our class and eighth overall out of 45 cars,” Austin said in an Instagram video. “My class was only two cars deep, so I came in first. But the biggest takeaway from that was eighth overall out of 45 cars. And we will have more cars in my class at the next race.”
Austin will be at the WWE World convention in Las Vegas during WrestleMania 42 weekend this April, so it’s possible that he could be making some kind of appearance at WrestleMania itself. Austin recently told Busted Open Radio that he doesn’t get the itch to wrestle anymore but does like to come back for moments.
The last time Austin competed in the ring was at WrestleMania 38 in 2022, when he came out of retirement for a no holds barred match against Kevin Owens.
