SCORE Baja 1000 Peninsula Run

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 »

Class Results 2009 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 as published by SCORE Intl.. Closing the books on the 36th year of the World’s Foremost Desert Racing Series and capping a triumphant return to desert racing on a full-time basis for the first time since 1996, NASCAR Cup team owner/driver Robby Gordon has earned the SCORE Overall and SCORE Trophy-Truck point championship for the five-race 2009 SCORE Desert Series. Today is the Championship Awards Banquet at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas in The Artist Room. Don’t forget: Proper dress code required: no jeans, no t-shirts, no sneakers or hats – no awards!! Attendees not meeting these guidelines will be turned away at the door…. And as we all know this year – SCORE Intl. will enforce the rules! Below you find the class results with penalties as dished out for not sticking with the rules during the Baja 1000 race.

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