The Stadium Super Trucks enjoy the niche of fielding off-road trucks on road courses and street circuits, though many still wonder when the series will live up to its name again and return to stadiums. Robby Gordon would certainly love to, but it’s hard to find the right venue when all of them are under the sphere of a hostile company.

“Unfortunately, Feld Entertainment has a lock on the stadiums in Anaheim and San Diego, the hot spots for off-road,” Gordon explained.

The mentioned cities’ main stadiums are Angel Stadium in Anaheim along with Petco Park and Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego. Besides baseball at Angel and Petco and college football at Snapdragon, all three venues have held Monster Jam and AMA Supercross races; Angel and Snapdragon hosted the first three rounds of the 2026 SMX season in January.

Therein lies the problem. Supercross and Monster Jam are both owned by Feld, a family-run company that sanctions several touring shows like Disney on Ice and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Since Supercross and Monster Jam compete in America’s most prominent stick-and-ball sports stadiums, Feld tries to maintain exclusivity for motorsports at such venues.

In other words, stadiums had to pick between SST or Feld. As much as people love the former, you just can’t beat the package that the latter offers.

It’s a frustrating bind for SST that ravaged the series even during the inaugural season in 2013. That calendar started off with four stadiums—University of Phoenix Stadium, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the since-demolished Qualcomm Stadium, and the Edward Jones Dome—hosting the first six rounds. The Coliseum was also where the series was unveiled the year before due to its legacy with the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group.

After St. Louis, however, Feld clamped down hard with its ultimatum. SST consequently canceled races at Soldier Field, the Georgia Dome, Cowboys Stadium, and the Metrodome. In the years since, SST has only revisited stadiums on four occasions: Beijing National Stadium as part of a one-off with, ironically, Monster Jam in 2017; the 2017 season finale and 2018 opener at Lake Elsinore Diamond, and Foro Sol in Mexico with the 2019 Race of Champions. Foro Sol (now Estadio GNP Seguros) and Lake Elsinore aren’t part of Feld’s sphere as one is a Mexican ballpark within the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez and the other is a minor league stadium.

Thus, Gordon turned to street circuits and road courses mainly as an undercard for IndyCar. Save for the COVID year in 2020, Long Beach has hosted the trucks annually and been their only stop for the past two seasons.

While SST doesn’t race as much as it’d like to in recent years as Gordon’s focus shifts toward building Speed UTV and his and son Max’s desert program, he’d like to get the SST ball rolling again.

In fact, he added that “we do have a Stadium race this year.” He didn’t specify further.

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