BIO

Born and raised in the Santa Ynez Valley, which is 35 miles north of Santa Barbara, California, Quinn Cody spent his early years on his parents 160-acre ranch deep in the San Rafael mountains, surrounded by National Forest. By age 6 he was riding the steep trails around his mountain home. At age 12 he raced his first off-road race at Palmdale, California and continued racing every weekend, for the next six years, in AMA sanctioned desert and enduro races. He was racing and finishing 50-100+ mile desert races when he was 13, and was the youngest rider to win a novice division trophy in the Best of the West competiton, at age 15, for high points in a series of races in Enduro, Hare and Hound and European Scrambles.  At the age of 15 he moved into the AMA expert desert racing class.

A skilled and experienced long-distance off-road racer, Quinn achieved national recognition in the off-road racing world when he captured the Four-stroke National Hare and Hound championship in 2004. Early in 2005 he made a spectacular Baja debut with his very first overall Baja win at the San Felipe 250. Cody then joined the Honda Off-Road Racing “B” Team  and captured a 2nd overall in that year’s Baja 1000.

In 2006 he joined the elite group of Baja 1000 overall winners, riding with Honda’s Off-Road Team racers Steve Hengeveld and Micky Childress to an amazing 18 hour first overall finish in the Ensenada to La Paz Baja 1000. He has raced the ISDE, in Slovakia in 2005, where he won a bronze, and also the Erzberg Rodeo in Austria, in 2008, where he was one of 35 finishers among a field of 1500 entries.

He joined Johnny Campbell Racing’s (JCR) Team of top racers at the team’s inception in 2008, winning 2nd overall in the Baja 1000 in 2008, a first overall in the 2009 Baja 1000, and a first overall in the 2010 Baja 500.

In 2010 Quinn Cody, in his prime as a long-distance off-road racer, is fitter, smarter and faster than ever.