One of chuckwagon racing’s top competitors, Dustin just completed his tenth season as driver on the WPCA Pro Tour. The 2024 season saw Dustin record twelve top ten runs, including five runs that placed inside the top five. A pair of top ten overall finishes at the North American Chuckwagon Championship in Lloydminster and the Battle of the Foothills were his best of the year.
As a chuckwagon Driver, Dustin has two show championships on bis resume at the Battle of the Rockies in 2017 and the North American Chuckwagon Championship in Lloydminster in 2022. He won the Orville Strandquist Memorial Award as the Calgary Stampede’s Top Rookie Driver in 2017, won the WPCA Clean Driver Award in 2016, and was the WPCA’s Top Rookie Driver in 2015.
Prior to driving chuckwagons, Dustin had a successful outriding career, winning the 2005 Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Championship, twice winning the Calgary Stampede Aggregate Title, and has twice being honored with the Calgary Stampede’s Outstanding Outrider Award.
Dustin started his chuckwagon career as an outrider on the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA) circuit and was the CPCA’s Champion Outrider three times, received the CPCA Media Award in 2009 and the CPCA’s Youth Achievement Award in 1999.
A third-generation chuckwagon competitor, Dustin is the grandson of former driver Art Gorst, son of former driver Gary Gorst, brother to fellow driver Logan Gorst. Dustin played two seasons with the Lloydminster Bobcats of the AJHL and played hockey for the Meadow Lake Stampeders who won the 2008 Saskatchewan Senior “A” Provincial Championship. Dustin works as the Housing Manager for Flying Dust First Nation in the off season. Dustin and his wife Jaycee, the 2015 recipient of the Ty Tournier Memorial Award, have three sons – Klinch, Knox and Grey – and make their home in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan.
