{"id":89141,"date":"2023-01-11T13:20:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T21:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=89141"},"modified":"2023-01-11T13:20:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T21:20:25","slug":"off-road-racer-robbie-pierce-passes-away-at-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/off-road-racer-robbie-pierce-passes-away-at-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-Road Racer Robbie Pierce Passes Away at 63"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89142\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"89142\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/off-road-racer-robbie-pierce-passes-away-at-63\/robbie-pierce-nasser-al-attiyah-2020-dakar-rally\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Robbie-Pierce-Nasser-Al-Attiyah-2020-Dakar-Rally-e1673471956640.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,344\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Robbie-Pierce-Nasser-Al-Attiyah-2020-Dakar-Rally\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Robbie-Pierce-Nasser-Al-Attiyah-2020-Dakar-Rally-e1673471956640-300x161.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Robbie-Pierce-Nasser-Al-Attiyah-2020-Dakar-Rally-e1673471956640.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-89142 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Robbie-Pierce-Nasser-Al-Attiyah-2020-Dakar-Rally-e1673471956640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Robbie-Pierce-Nasser-Al-Attiyah-2020-Dakar-Rally-e1673471956640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Robbie-Pierce-Nasser-Al-Attiyah-2020-Dakar-Rally-e1673471956640-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Robbie-Pierce-Nasser-Al-Attiyah-2020-Dakar-Rally-e1673471956640-638x344.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Robbie Pierce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Off-road veteran racer Robbie Pierce passed away at the age of 63 after an accident while scuba diving on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our great leader, racer, builder, entrepreneur, and Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame Inductee, Robbie Pierce,\u201d reads a statement from Jimco. \u201cRobbie died in an accident while scuba diving, his second biggest passion in life.\u201cHis dedication to the safety and advancement of off-road racing and motorsports will continue to save lives, and thrill racers and fans alike for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobbie Pierce had one of the biggest hearts in off road,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cm-JrvnvCBL\/\">said 2022 Baja 1000 winner\u00a0<strong>Rob MacCachren<\/strong><\/a>, a longtime friend and team-mate of Pierce.\u00a0\u201cHe jumped at any opportunity to help someone out. His passion for safety helped raise the bar with many racing products, we as racers, depend on every time we hop in the seat. Or even when our crew guys are in the pits. His generosity, passion and friendship will be truly missed by myself, my family, my crew and the entire racing industry. Godspeed my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Off-road veteran racer Robbie Pierce has passed away at the age of 63 after an accident while scuba diving on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":89142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1082,3470,5470],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","category-news","category-off-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Robbie-Pierce-Nasser-Al-Attiyah-2020-Dakar-Rally-e1673471956640.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-nbL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89143,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89141\/revisions\/89143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}