After three years of absence, Brian Deegan is back in Red Bull Crandon World Cup this weekend. He will pilot the Pro 2 Truck No. 38, which is run by Ryan Beat Motorsports.

Deegan last competed in the 2020 Crandon World Cup, where he finished seventh, beating friend and rival Travis Pastrana by three spots. He holds the all-time lap record with Crandon International Off-Road Race Trackwhich he set in 2018, and previously he had won the off-road races of the World Championship in the Pro Lite category there in 2011.

His last short course start was the 2021 Forest County Potawatomi Brush Run in Crandon, also a Pro 2 vs. Pro 4 race, where he finished fourteenth. He made his Cross-country championship At the season opener of the same year in Antigo, he scored his first points race, finishing eighth and thirteenth.

An off-road racing icon and one of the most decorated motocross riders in X-Games history, he began racing short tracks in 2009 and won the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Pro Lite title in his first year, adding a Pro 2 title two years later. Deegan also raced in the Red Bull Frozen Rush in 2015.

In addition to his short-track racing, he focused primarily on Global Rallycross in the 2010s, finishing second overall in 2012 and third in 2016. He also competed once in the FIA ​​European Rallycross Championship. He drove in four rounds in the 2023/24 Nitrocross season, a championship run by Pastrana, with his best result being seventh at Glen Helen.

The Crandon World Cup takes place on Sunday 1 September and often attracts one-off names as it is not a points-paying event, although it does support the Championship Off-Road season finale. Keegan Kincaid is the defending champion.