A top competitor on the WPCA Pro Tour, 2024 will be Dustin’s tenth season on the WPCA Pro Tour. The 2023 season saw Dustin record fifteen top ten runs, including five runs that placed inside the top five. He qualified for the championship final heat at the Dewberry World Chuckwagon Races and additional top ten overall finishes at the Bonnyville Chuckwagon Championship and the North American Chuckwagon Championship in Lloydminster were his best of the year.
Dustin 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 GMC 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 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.
