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 »

ATTENTION!! This map is NOT made from a relevant GPS file but hand-drawn from a map-overlay as you find here. This Baja race map is only for viewing giving rough reference points. DO NOT use this map for pre-running or use the map data to program you GPS. There is a fat chance that you will run over a cliff or be screwed otherwise (without being kissed up front) if you do so….
SCORE International has a preliminary course map for the 2010 peninsula run released.(22nd September 2010) You can find the image of the race course map here. We will wait until a version with GPS file is made available by SCORE Intl. to make a course map that reflects the exact race-course.
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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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