Off-Road Races

Where street races own the city, off-road races own everything beyond it, and this half of the racing scene is now confirmed in motion. Rockstar’s description of Mount Kalaga promises prime off-road trails, official screenshots show dirt bikes and ATVs tearing across the terrain, and the Extended Look adds a 12-vehicle off-road race that previewers compared to MotorStorm: it is clearly a multi-class event, pitting bikes against ATVs and trucks on the same course. Creators also picked out dirt bike riding in the footage as something you will be able to race, with deep mud along the routes. A dedicated off-road circuit gives the map’s rougher half a competitive reason to exist.

Off-road racing trades top speed for traction and recovery: picking lines through mud, riding bumps without spinning out and using the right vehicle for the surface. The multi-class format raises the stakes of that choice, since a bike, an ATV and a truck will each handle the same stretch of swamp differently. Checkpoint trails through the backcountry reward handling and nerve over raw horsepower, and the mud shown in the footage suggests surface conditions will matter as much as the line you take.

GTA has long offered off-road events alongside street races, from San Andreas dirt tracks to GTA Online’s rally formats. With Leonida’s terrain front and centre, off-road races are an easy fit and connect directly to the off-road vehicles in the database.

Off-road and street races are the two racing pillars; together they let almost any vehicle in the game find an event where it belongs. Analysis of the leaked Leonida map reinforces the confirmation, listing off-road racing and dirt bike trails among the activities identified across the state.