SCORE Baja 1000 Peninsula Run

The Oshkosh Extreme Racing team will run its Light Concept Vehicles (LCV) through the rugged 1,061-mile desert course from Ensenada to La Paz. “Oshkosh engineers are dedicated to producing the most advanced vehicle technologies for a variety of highly-specialized industries,” said Chris Yakes, Oshkosh Corporation vice president of Advanced Products Engineering and Oshkosh Extreme Racing team member. “In pursuit of next-generation technologies for future fleets, we’ve been testing our concept vehicles in remote locations in the United States, and we are now competing in the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 — our most intense challenge to date. We are excited about this opportunity Read the rest of this entry »

1061.69 mile for the Trophy Truck showdown between the McMillins and Jesse James for the 2010 desert series trophy Truck crown and championship. The granddaddy of all desert races has 11 of 16 former SCORE Trophy Truck champs entered in the race down Mexico’s Baja California peninsula and without a doubt is a victory at the “mille” a highlight for every desert racers portfolio and top priority on the “to do” list. Yet it’s also the 2010 SCORE Desert Series overall and class championship that will be decided at the brutally-rugged 1061.69-mile Sal Fish signature desert race course. The high-tech, 850 horsepower, unlimited production truck class Read the rest of this entry »

Next week, Ford will enter a 2011 Ford F-150, powered by an EcoBoost engine, to take on the demanding Short Course Off Road Enterprises Baja 1000 long-distance, desert endurance race, marking the Ford EcoBoost engine racing debut. Ford will equip the F-150 off-road race truck with the same stock EcoBoost engine that already has experienced 150,000 equivalent miles of dyno testing and other real-world tests as the final step in the durability torture tests in the EcoBoost Endurance Challenge. In North America, Baja is probably one of the most demanding. The race Read the rest of this entry »

Ryan Arciero confirmed “I will be driving with Mark Post in this years Baja 1000. I am excited to be teamed up with him and his entire team”. So we will see the #3 Riviera Racing trophy truck again. Question to Ryan on how he evaluates the option for the upcoming Baja 1000: “I am very confident that we have everything we need to win this race. Mark Post and I have a lot of miles down in Baja and in Trophy Trucks. I have won this race four times, twice in Class 1 and twice in Trophy Truck and Mark has won it as well in Trophy Truck. We have a great team Read the rest of this entry »

Baja 1000 Pre-Run – first trip impressions originate from Cameron Steele posted on the Race-Dezert forum and therefor credits for this content to Cameron Steele. He made it about 1/3 of the way to La Paz with three buggies and 11 bikes and so far it looks pretty sweet according to his statements. There is lots of hwy construction on Hwy 3 between Ojos and Independencia. The whoops/rocks on the old Puertecitos road, it is HELL. There is 26 miles of pavement where you get on the hwy after old Puertecitos rd. The pavement mentioned stops at El Huffertino below Puertecitos, then 3 miles of nice graded road. About 18 miles of dirt to Gonzaga and its torn up. The Calamuje wash is rally different with the normal sections blown out by water damage. Beautiful now but lots of twists and turns. There is a new 5 mile section before the BOLA Rd. For the interested the northern and southern Baja 1000 early pre-run sections as Google maps to zoom in and look for the different sections of the race track. Read the rest of this entry »