Walking around the SCORE Baja 1000 Experience at this year’s SEMA Show, most of the Trophy Trucks qualifying for the Baja 1000 later this month were on display. Most of the trucks are from large, sponsored teams and well-known racers like Robby Gordon, Bryce Menzies, and Rob MacCachren.

Taking everything in, we came across a truck that caught our eye as it looked different than the others, not because it did not have a major sponsor on the side, but because the truck had a different style — the No. 25 truck belonging to Brian Ostrom, a retired airline pilot.

Brian has taken what he has learned from his years in aviation and applied it to his race truck. The truck sits on 40-inch Maxxis Trepador tires wrapped around Walker Evans beadlock wheels and has King shocks in all four corners. To light up the night, it has Rigid Industeries light bars.

We had the chance to speak with Brian and get a little more information on his truck, and to ask what he thinks about qualifying in Las Vegas for the Baja 1000. “We are missing valuable test time, having to come out here and qualify, Brian said. “I am still considered a newbie in the sport, and at my level it is difficult to plan for an event like this. The truck has three races under its belt, but it is running real strong right now.”

“Being a young team we have no spare engine, no spare transmission I have to think if I really want to get out on a dirt track and really ratchet the truck around at race speeds. I paid the entry fee for the race so figured we would come out here, but I may sit qualifying out,” Brian continued.

“The truck is a mid-engine design Trophy Truck. We did this for the center of gravity, with the front engine Trophy Trucks they can get to be nose heavy during the race when the fuel tank starts to lighten up. My aviation background really played apart in the design of the truck,” he said.

“One other thing that we did different is with our spare tires. With most of the trophy trucks running side-by-side spares, if you loose a tire during a race when you go off a jump, not only are you nose heavy, but you now have an off camber landing without that weight. We put our tires right down the middle to keep the center of gravity,” Brian said.

“I also designed the cockpit to look like a real aircraft cockpit,” he continued. “We are also getting rid of our GPS’s and going with a new smartphone app called LeadNav., and it will mount as a tablet for the navigator. It is nice because the app announces our notes via Bluetooth technology, and since we use Bluetooth already it will tie in nice.”

Brian elected not to not qualify for the Baja 1000 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but we will catch up with him at the race later this month. What do you think of his truck, does he have it right? Tell us in the comments below!