the Baja 1000 is just one of the
toughest off-road races that exist it’s
in Baja California in Mexico down the
peninsula it’s pretty much the race that
you aspire to do an off-road racing
this year’s event is 828 miles and has a
believe it’s at 33 hour time limit
when most people think of the Baja 1000
they think about trophy trucks which are
these thousand horsepower million-dollar
forces of nature when you see them on
the course we’re kind of at the opposite
end of the spectrum with basically stock
Volkswagens from the 1970s got about 50
60 horsepower in them and very little
modification
sometimes we’re going down the road
sideways almost about to tip over which
is interesting kind of scary at times
well we we really didn’t feel good
coming into the event the car was strong
we had the biggest team we ever had we
had great communications and
unfortunately we had a problem come out
of left field with our fuel system that
caused multiple failures of different
parts of it and it knocked us out of the
race 30 miles in with everything that we
had this year it really stings it just
stinks stinks
this is the sixth time we failed so it’s
kind of a tough thing to face it is hard
I mean there’s one of the hardest things
you can do out there but failing is part
of learning and getting better at this
stuff people are exhausted I want them
to sleep I wanted to get hydrated I want
them to get fed by this afternoon we’re
going to be sitting down talking alright
let’s look at lessons learned what can
we do better next year
when the teen depends
you
toughest off-road races that exist it’s
in Baja California in Mexico down the
peninsula it’s pretty much the race that
you aspire to do an off-road racing
this year’s event is 828 miles and has a
believe it’s at 33 hour time limit
when most people think of the Baja 1000
they think about trophy trucks which are
these thousand horsepower million-dollar
forces of nature when you see them on
the course we’re kind of at the opposite
end of the spectrum with basically stock
Volkswagens from the 1970s got about 50
60 horsepower in them and very little
modification
sometimes we’re going down the road
sideways almost about to tip over which
is interesting kind of scary at times
well we we really didn’t feel good
coming into the event the car was strong
we had the biggest team we ever had we
had great communications and
unfortunately we had a problem come out
of left field with our fuel system that
caused multiple failures of different
parts of it and it knocked us out of the
race 30 miles in with everything that we
had this year it really stings it just
stinks stinks
this is the sixth time we failed so it’s
kind of a tough thing to face it is hard
I mean there’s one of the hardest things
you can do out there but failing is part
of learning and getting better at this
stuff people are exhausted I want them
to sleep I wanted to get hydrated I want
them to get fed by this afternoon we’re
going to be sitting down talking alright
let’s look at lessons learned what can
we do better next year
when the teen depends
you
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