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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

BAJA RACING CENTER COUNTDOWN NOVEMBER 2022


LIVE Reports  From Ensenada Baja California, Mexico, up until the Green Flag, the Start of the event


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By Gary Newsome, Publisher

-THE BAJA RACING HEADLINES

 

 

KING OF BAJA 1000 2022

CIRCUS OF HORRORS!

 

REFRESH OFTEN!-REFRESH OFTEN!

 

-THE BIG STORY

Unlimited vehicle power, unspeakable organizational stupidity (some call it lust), a wildly ragged race course with numerous unrestricted and unsupervised cross-overs and numerous inexperienced drivers - the perfect recipe for road deaths in this racing event.

Operating on publicly used roads. 


We usually ask, 'Who's gonna die?', today we ask,

 "How many are gonna die?".

 

SCORE refuses to take responsibility for race course safety or any organizational responsibility for civil authority over the operation of its events in Baja California, Mexico.

With no traffic control over cross-over sections on paved highways and a raggedly designed course, we are expecting hundreds of documented incidents of injuries, damages and mortal proof of human frailty. 

  

Operated by a greedy, brain-dead owner, soulless main sponsors, the indicted butchers who themselves have allowed the deaths of more than one victims and thousands of drunk, out-of-control idiots - over recent years operations, SCORE International is responsible for a pile of corpses and countless bodily injuries.

Congratulations off-road racing gringos, you have our COMPLETE attention!

Baja Racing News Team, Ensenada BC.


KING OF BAJA 1000 2022

CIRCUS OF HORRORS!

 

REFRESH OFTEN!-REFRESH OFTEN!

 




 

-Here's the official message from SCORE, the 'responsible' organization, the sanctioning body for this race, warns the motos,

 'You'll get RUN OVER!

 

"**IMPORTANT**      Baja 1000 moto participants, watch this video! Unless you are running near the top ten overall moto, you will most likely get caught by the lead Trophy Trucks. As soon as you realize one is behind you, acknowledge them by raising a hand, then get off to the side of the course immediately. Do not re-enter the course until the dust has settled and you can see that no other TT's are coming. DO NOT try to outrun them!! Watch this video. See what it looks like from the driver's perspective. Do your homework and figure the math when to expect them. There are several spreadsheets available to help you with this. The longer they are right behind you, the more chance of a disaster. When you’re caught, don't linger, exit the race line now!"

 


-VIVA BAJA! VIVA MEXICO!

NOVEMBER UPDATE! CLICK HERE 
 

-Here is the condition of the race course today:

Two recent off-the-charts storms. Tropical storm Kay in September and yesterdays northern Baja storm.

There are lasting pools of water, running streams and 'mucho lodo'. Lots of mud.

Wet concrete mud, not quick-sand, but watery, glue-like mud. 

 

-CLICK HERE TO SEE THE STORM that made this race event a Mud Bowl for 2022


-AMERICAN TIME CHANGES, MEXICAN TIME CHANGED LAST MONTH CLICK HERE FOR THE DETAILS

 

-Race course update, Nov. 3

**ATTENTION** there are 3 sections of the Baja 1000 course that have been revised.




-CLICK HERE NEW HEADLINE! FORD RANGER RAPTOR ANNOUNCES BAJA EFFORT


-BAJA Racing Trucks Entries Updated!

This is the time of year we begin ramping up for the night racing of the Baja 1000 and the day rally-raiding of the Road To Cabo, for the turn of the calendar year - New Years 2023.

 

CLICK HERE FOR THE LIVE! RACE

 

+Baja 1000 2022 RaceDay is Friday, November 18. 

 

+RaceWeek Starts Monday, Nov. 14, at 4PM with the Race Kick-Off on Hammer-KING Race Radio!


 


BAJA Racing CENTER Reporting

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***KING OF BAJA 1000 2022 FACT SHEET***

 


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BAJA Racing Trucks Entries

Updated to RaceWeek Start/ November 14

November 1 Update

BAJA Racing Trucks (31*)
6 Dan Myers
7 Bryce Menzies
10 Alan Ampudia
14 Bobby Pecoy
16 Cameron Steele
18 JP Gomez
*21L Gustavo Vildosola Sr
23 Dan McMillin
25 Cody Swanty
*25L Mark Winkelman
26 Dave Taylor
*29L Jim Anderson
*30L Robbie Pierce
34 Broc Dickerson
*37L Rolf Helland
41 Justin Lofton
43 Larry Roeseler
46 Paul Weel
*53L Wade Porter
*56L Greg Adler
58 Tracy Graf
63 Ruben Torres
70 Kevin Thompson
72 Kevin Adler
82 Sam Baldi
83 Luke McMillin
86 Marc Martinez-1st RS
87 Dallas Luttrell
89 Mike Walser
90 Raul Gomez
93 Jeff Bianchi

*BAJA Racing Trucks Old Guys (L)

October 28 Update

BAJA Racing Trucks Spec (13)
207 Mason Cullen
213 Karl Ebdrup
219 Christian Sourapas
228 Ryan Hancock
230 Chad Hall
233 Justin Davis
236 Michael Marsal
240 Chris Miller
244 Oliver Flemate
282 Brent Fox
266 David Ziegler
269 Guillermo Zamacona
299 Charles Dorrance

October 23 Update

(BAJA Racing Trucks 19*)
14 Bobby Pecoy
16 Cameron Steele
18 JP Gomez
26 Dave Taylor
*30L Robbie Pierce
34 Broc Dickerson
*37L Rolf Helland
43 Larry Roeseler
46 Paul Weel
*56L Greg Adler
58 Tracy Graf
63 Ruben Torres
70 Kevin Thompson
72 Kevin Adler
82 Sam Baldi
86 Marc Martinez-1st RS
89 Mike Walser
90 Raul Gomez
93 Jeff Bianchi

BAJA Racing Trucks Old Guys (L)*

BAJA Racing Trucks SPEC (9)
213 Karl Ebdrup
219 Christian Sourapas
228 Ryan Hancock
230 Chad Hall
236 Michael Marsal
240 Chris Miller
244 Oliver Flemate
282 Brent Fox
299 Charles Dorrance


*Early Announced Teams Listed Here:


 

LIVE! ONLINE DESERT RACING!

Safari Club KING OF BAJA 1000 2022 Presented By Mac Meda Destruction Company

Pre-running opened a month ago! on an over-run 828.25-mile course around Baja Norte

ENSENADA, Baja Norte, Mexico—
 

In the KING OF BAJA 1000 2022 webcast, covering the SCORE Baja 1000, the real question is 'How Many Racers Will Die here in Mexico'

Starting and finishing in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, race-week festivities and the race itself will be held Nov. 14-20.

This year’s cluster-fuck desert race will be a loop race of 828.25 miles around Baja Norte, starting and finishing in Ensenada, in the state of Baja California Norte. Baja California Norte is currently banned for travel by Travel Media Group of New York City, USA.

Watch the festivities LIVE! ONLINE on-

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EARLY BIRDS
Texas team of Mike Walser/Jax Redline in BAJA Racing Truck, Bolivia’s superstar Juan Carlos Salvatierra in Pro Moto Unlimited and Mexico’s frontrunner Eli Yee in Class 1/2-1600.

Also among the early entries are retired Army Sergeant Major Jeff Benrud in Pro Moto Ironman, Bolivia’s Fabricio Fuentes in Pro Moto Ironman, USA young star duo of Broc Dickerson/Carlos ‘Apdaly’ Lopez in BAJA Racing Truck, Mexico’s Santiago Creel in Pro UTV FI, Mexico’s J. David Ruvalcaba in Class 10, industry exec Craig Scanlon in Pro UTV FI, and the new budding stars team of Christian Sourapas/Cayden MacCachren in BAJA Racing Trcuk Spec.
 
KING OF BAJA 1000 2022
Most of the world’s best desert racers will be in action at this year’s massive CF
 

Nearly 275 vehicles are expected at the start line with racers from nearly 35 U.S. States and as many as 15 countries anticipated. Pro and Sportsman classes for cars, trucks, UTVs, motorcycles and quads will be competing in the Granddaddy of All Desert Races, this Baja 1000 off-road race.
 
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Next year’s CABO 1000 Off-Road Event will be holding its 70th Year Running Celebration starting and finishing in Southern Baja in the southern state of Mexico’s fantastic Baja California peninsula.

“The Off-Road Capital of the World” is the coastal city of La Paz in Southern Baja on the Red Sea.
We really should have trademarked this, we know a it's a good one when Dominic and Roger attempt to steal it every year!
 
 
EYES OF TEXAS
It’s a tale of the older and the much younger as Mike Walser, 55, Comfort, Texas and Jax Redline, 17, Amarillo, Texas team up in BAJA Racing Truck to successfully drive the AWD No. 89 Walser Racing Chevy Silverado built by Mason Motorsports.
While Walser is relatively new to desert racing, Redline has been racing everything from motocross to sprint cars since he started driving competitively when he was just five years old.

Together they have formed a very formidable team with Redline starting and Walser finishing the races this season.

The dynamic duo started the season with a stunning podium third place finish in the San Felipe 250. In the class for ‘Monsters of the Desert’, [A term coined by our own Atomic Master of Ceremonies, MONSTER Mike] the pair finished 15th in the Baja 500 and most recently were sixth in class at the Baja 400.

For their combined efforts, they enter this year’s Baja 1000 desert race in fourth place in BAJA Racing Trucks, just six points out of third place in the 2022 rankings.
 
REID READY
Cody Reid is officially racing without his mother Shelby Reid as a teammate again for the Baja 1000.
After racing in separate classes for a several years, Cody Reid, 29, Yucca Valley, Calif., was reunited last year with his mom to form a very formidable unlimited Trophy Buggy Class team. The Reids debuted their No. 168 Chevy-powered Alumi Craft AWD open-wheel desert race car by winning their class in the 2021 San Felipe 250.

Shelby Reid, 54, is also a former class point champion and has decided to retire from behind the wheel. After a DNF in this year’s San Felipe 250, the Reids were scheduled to split the driving in the Baja 500, but Shelby dropped out because of a family issue that came up during race week and Colby Reid roared to the Trophy Buggy Class victory driving solo.

In the 2019 Baja 400, Cody Reid finished second in Class 10. In last year’s Baja 400, Cody Reid drove solo and finished on the podium in third place in Trophy Buggy Class. In this year’s Baja 400, Reid endured a rare DNF (Did Not Finish the race).

Last year’s peninsula race saw Reid finish in fourth place in Trophy Buggy Class with his mom as the driver of record. For this year’s Baja 1000, veteran  Adam Pfankuch and Rick St. John will again split the wheel time with Cody Reid.
 
BOLIVIAN AMBASSADOR
After winning the season point championship for two consecutive years in the brutally tough Pro Moto Ironman class for solo riders, Bolivia’s acclaimed Juan Carlos Salvatierra moved to the Pro Moto Unlimited class this year and has won the fastest class on two wheels in all three of his first attempts in this legendary class.

In San Felipe, his co-riders were Mexico’s Arturo Salas Jr, 19, and Shane Logan, 20, Lake Havasu City, Ariz. For the Baja 500 in Ensenada, Salvatierra added Argentinian rally racer Diego Llanos to his team for his second straight class win. For the year, Salvatierra now has 322 season points as the Overall motorcycle point leader in his No. 10x KTM 450SX-F motorcycle.
At the Baja 500, Salvatierra and his team gave KTM its first overall moto win in the 54-year history of the iconic race.

Salvatierra’s team for the Baja 400 were Salas Jr, Logan and newcomer Clayton Roberts, 20, Apple Valley, Calif.

Salvatierra, 41, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, has raced nine years in the Dakar Rally, also mountain biking and triathlons. Considered the most important athlete in the history of Bolivia, in 2011, Salvatierra became the first athlete from Bolivia to race in the Dakar Rally. He is also a nine-time Bolivian National Motocross champion.

Riding on their No. 10x KTM 450SX-F, Salvatierra has entered his entire four-person team from the last race to be competing in the Baja 1000.
 
HE’S BACK
After capping five straight Baja 1000 races by winning the remarkable Pro Moto Ironman class in the 50th  Baja 1000 in 2017, retired Army Special Ops Sergeant Major Jeff Benrud has return to attempt another solo motorcycle effort in this iconic race. Among the early entries in his class are already 14 total entries.
Benrud, 52, originally from Altoona, Penn. who now lives in Raeford, N.C., will be riding his No. 715x Honda CRF450X in the class for unique motorcycle racers.

Benrud finished in second place in the Pro Moto Ironman class in both 2015 and 2016 in the Baja 1000 prior to his superlative class victory in the 50th anniversary of the race in 2017.

Gritty would be an understatement regarding Benrud, who served his country for 25 years as part of over 700 missions in Iraq and Afghanistan before he retired with honors.
 
BOLIVIA’S FAB FUENTES
Still a relative newcomer to desert racing, Fabricio Fuentes, 45, is a highly accomplished and well-known motorcycle racer from Villamontes, Bolivia. The affable Fuentes, known for his trademark special Bolivian Sombrero he wears at the races, is a six-time Dakar Rally veteran. In his last Dakar, he was the 39th overall motorcycle in the legendary Rally.

Fuentes is also a multi-time national motorcycle champion in Bolivia and has remained in the Pro Moto Ironman class for solo riders even though his compatriot Salvatierra switched this year to the Pro Moto Unlimited class after two years competing in the same class.
Fuentes finished second in the 2021 Pro Moto Ironman class point standings and was also second to Bolivian teammate Salvatierra in last year’s Baja 400.
In the series, Fuentes rides the No. 785x KTM 450 SX-F Factory motorcycle.

After three races this year, Fuentes is fifth in the Pro Moto Ironman season point standings following a third-place podium finish in San Felipe, a rare did-not-finish (DNF) in the Baja 500 and another third-place finish in the Baja 400.
 
YOUNG GUNS
With vast Baja racing experience, a pair of young guns have teamed up to race in BAJA Racing Truck at this year’s Baja 1000. Broc Dickerson, 21, Brawley, Calif. and Carlos ‘Apdaly’ Lopez, 28, Tecate, Mexico, will split the driving in their No. 34 Ford Raptor built by TSCO.
From Brawley, Calif. and both former series champions, Broc Dickerson, 21, and his racing champion father Jeff Dickerson, 48, can share the driving duties in their team’s No. 34 but dad will say he is just a back-up in case his son needs some driving assistance.

Like most desert racers, the Dickersons started racing at a young age and have raced in a number of classes in their careers. Broc Dickerson won the 2017 Class 10 season point title and Jeff Dickerson won the Class 20 Motorcycle class championship in 1991.

Together, the Dickersons opened the 2022 season with a 19th place finish out of 34 starters in the marquee BAJA Racing Truck class. In June’s Baja 500, Broc Dickerson drove solo in an impressive second-place overall finish behind the winning Rob MacCachren. Young Dickerson suffered a rare DNF in the Baja 400.

Definitely the second driver in this year’s race will be champion racer Lopez. Apdaly as he is called in Mexico, hasn’t even reached 30 years old yet, but he has earned three consecutive BAJA Racing Truck season point titles (2015, 2016, 2017) when he was driving for the powerful RPM Racing team. With multiple podium finishes, Apdaly has two career BAJA Racing Truck race victories including the 50th Baja 1000 that he won while sharing driving duties with his talented father Juan C. Lopez.
 
CREEL COMPLIMENTS
Mexico’s international motorcycle rally racer and prominent businessman, Santiago Creel, 36, of Mexico City, won two 2019 motorcycle class point titles and became the first racer to earn three Rod Hall SCORE Milestone Awards, presented by Toyota Escondido, in the same season.

Overall Creel has also now won eight total Milestone Awards presented to drivers/riders of record who complete every required mile for the season.
While he has entered in three or four classes in many races over his tenure in Baja racing, Creel is racing this year in the Pro UTV FI (Forced Induction) class. 
 
He is the DOR in the Pro UTV FI class in his No. 2966 Monkey Business Racing Can-Am Turbo XRC RR.
Creel has two SCORE Baja 1000 class wins, 2017 and 2019 in Pro Moto Limited.

In last year’s Baja 1000 peninsula run, Creel finished third in BAJA Racing Truck Spec with Sampietro and 10th overall.

In this year’s San Felipe 250 in Pro UTV FI Creel finished 22nd out of 29 starters and seventh out of a race-high 36 starters in BAJA Racing Truck Spec. In this year’s Baja 400 he finished sixth out of 23 starters in the Pro UTV FI class.
 
R-MAN
First in the Class 10 season point standings is the veteran champion team of J. David Ruvalcaba, 49, Ensenada, Mexico, Esteban Cruz, 52, Ensenada, Mexico. No. 1009 Alumi Craft-Honda. Both have been racing off-and-on for over 25 years and together have won several championships and race in three different classes.

Starting on motorcycles, Ruvalcaba won the Pro Moto Limited season point championship in both 2000 and 2001 and after a sabbatical from racing, returned to win the Class 1/2-1600 season point titles in 2019.
Now racing in Class 10, Ruvalcaba has had a very consistent season. He was sixth out of 19 starters in San Felipe, 11th out of 26 in the Baja 500 and won Class 10 out of 18 starters in the Baja 400. He has a one-point advantage over Ivan Tagle in his class entering the season finale.

In the Baja 1000, Ruvalcaba has six career class wins. He won for four consecutive seasons in Pro Moto Limited (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002) and twice in Class 1/2-1600 (2014, 2019).
 
ELI YEE
Another of the prominent and veteran Mexican racers in the series, Eli Yee, 48, of Tijuana has won numerous races and the 2020 class point title in Class 1/2-1600.

Yee has raced for nearly 30 years and among his recent class wins are in the Baja 500 and the Baja 1000 in both 2020 and 2021.

After an unsettling DNF in the San Felipe, Yee has march back with consecutive class wins at the Baja 500 and the Baja 400 in his class and is currently second in points in his class for the series.

Yee and his team drive the No. 1616 PRC-VW. Angel Barajas, 45, Ensenada, Mexico, is his primary additional driver.

He has three career Class wins in this race. He first won in Class 10 in 2005 with his brother Lobsam Yee before his twin wins most recently in Class 1/2-1600.
 
SCANLON WANTS MORE
Automotive industry key executive Craig Scanlon, 48, Helena, Mont./Orange, Calif., currently with 4 Wheel Parts, has moved to the Pro UTV Open class this season in his No. 1831 Polaris RZR Turbo.

His teammate who will drive once again is Keith Redstrom, 54, Glendale, Ariz.

The pair won the Pro UTV FI (Forced Induction) class in the 2019 Baja 500 for the only race win to date.

In the 2021 Baja 1000, racing in the Pro UTV FI class, Scanlon finished 12th out of 29 starters in his class.

So far in the series, the consistent Scanlon has a pair of third-place podium finishes and a second-place and is currently in second place in the Pro UTV Open class point standings.

Also driving with Scanlon and Redstrom in this year’s Baja 1000 will be veteran motorcycle champion Max Eddy Jr, 39, Barstow, Calif.
 
SOURAPAS/MINI-MAC NO MORE BFGoodrich Bull-Sheet!
After sitting out the Baja 400 for business reasons, young stallion Christian Sourapas will split the driving in this year’s Baja 1000 with Cayden ‘Mini-Mac’ MacCachren who drove Sourapas’ No. 219 Coors Light Herbst/Smith-Ford in the ultra-competitive BAJA Racing Truck Spec class in September’s Baja 400. In that last race an abnormal mechanical issue caused significant down time, but Las Vegas’ young MacCachren, 20, did bring the truck to the finish line as the 18th finisher out of 24 starters.

Christian Sourapas, 26 of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., who often drives with his twin brother Brett, started the 2022 season with a 20th place out of 36 starters and followed that up with a podium third-place finish out of 32 starters in the Baja 500 in June.
 
 Christian Sourapas is seventh in the BAJA Racing Truck Spec season point standings, just 28 points behind third place in his class. While his experience in  Baja 1000 is somewhat limited, he has had significant success in domestic racing, having won his class twice in the Lousy Mint 400 and one season championship in his class in a domestic series.

There is considerable family history as Mini-Mac’s famous father Rob MacCachren teamed with Steve Sourapas for several years in domestic U.S. races, winning several races and two season point championships and a season second-place along the way.
 
PRE-RUNNING HAS BEGUN!
Pre-running on the official race course of 828.25 miles opened over a month ago.

The first section of the race course to the Ojos Negro area will not be available for pre-running from the start until Wednesday of race week when it will be open only for vehicles traveling outbound.
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STARTING POSITIONS
For this year’s Baja 1000, starting positions for all entries that raced in September’s Baja 400, finishing positions determined their respective starting positions if they have fully entered by the close of online racer registration on Nov. 2.

All entries that arrive by Nov. 2 online or by Nov. 4 in person (SCORE Ensenada Office). Late, on-site racer registration will be held in the Red Room at the Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center in Ensenada for four days on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (Nov. 14-17). All late, on-site entries will receive the next available starting position within their respective classes.
 
THE RACE COURSE
The 828.25-mile race course for the 2022 Baja 1000,  runs in a clockwise after the first part to and then back and back from Ojos Negros. It goes up and over the Cordillera de Molina to drop into the desert around Rm 115.

After reaching the La Ventana area it will run south to the El Chinero road crossing highway 3 at Km 192 and will keep going south to Matomi wash. Halfway into Matomi Wash it exits and goes north to Azufre Wash, then to Huatamote wash, Chanate Wash and up to Morelia Junction.

From there the course will exit the desert and go to San Matias Pass road and Mike’s Sky Rancho, down to Rancho La Jolla and will run on the San Pedro Martir road to Meling Ranch. After Meling it will run to the Pacific Coast to Ejido Jaramillo and north to just below San Vicente where it will cross back to Valley de Trinidad then back to Ojos Negros and onto to the finish line in Ensenada.

For safety reasons, all of the Sportsman 4 Wheel Vehicle classes along with Class 11 and Class 7SX will run a reduced course of 695.79 miles and the Sportsman Motorcycle and Quad classes will race on a reduced course of 760.91 miles.

 
GREEN FLAG
The SCORE Baja 1000 will be an elapsed-time race with staggered starts as the green flag on Friday, November 18 will drop first for the motorcycles and quads at 3:30 a.m. (PT) and 9:15 a.m. (PT) for the cars, trucks and UTVs. While the fastest vehicles are expected to finish in around 17 hours, all vehicles will have a 36-hour time limit to become official finishers in the elapsed-time race.
 
 
2022 BAJA Racing Archives! 


-CLICK HERE LIVE! KING OF BAJA SAN FELIPE 250 FROM APRIL 

 

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-2022 DESERT CHAMPIONSHIP OFF-ROAD RACING 2022



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Speculation, Rumor and Opinion


-A Lexus LX 600/ TOYO Tires in the event:

TOYO Tires KYB JAOS Lexus LX 600 enters Baja 1000 2022

 

This MAXXIS Tires HONDA UTV, wa to race in the Baja1K, now it's for sale here on BajaRacingNews.com for $39K!

Honda Talon 1000R Factory Racing From Owner and original Listing: Race ready with spares. Engine and drive train have less than 500 miles. Contact for more information. 
 
Serious inquiries only!

 

 

-A couple of race course notes for this years KING OF BAJA 1000 2022...the reporting crew out of our HQ here in Ensenada has finished about half of the course pre-running already.

This course is old hat by now.

Lots of still wet, deep mud and huge ruts from the last race events and tropical storm kay in September. 

After a couple of recent runs, everyone knows this routing.

 

PreRun November 3:


 


 


 

 

PreRun October 15:



 

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And it's REAL obvious what score is up to...they are in Southern Baja trying to shore up next years plans for their La Paz to Ensenada peninsula run.

The government of Baja Sur has stated in the local press already, they have every intention to cancel the event. Remember, that's just a starting negotiating position.

This deal has to be re-negotiated. Hurricane Kay added millions of pesos of road reconstruction, infrastructure building and new logistics into the original deal for the 2023 Baja 1000.

Just facts. Now, everyone has to figure out how to pay for all that work.

And just because you've already 'finished' the deal means nothing. Everyone associated with the effort has their 'thinking caps' on and are moving through finding new revenue, sourcing new planning efforts and making new friends.

Because, that's what it's going to take to overcome the massive mountain of damages to our Brothers and Sisters of Southern Baja, after that devastating storm from September.

And that's NEXT years event! 2023

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Regarding the norra disaster.

Baja California state and local officials, after having made BIG decisions about running the course through town, with strict speed controls, after the score disasters, by PARADING everyone through the streets of Ensenada, are now forced to figuring out how to engage the racers with the means to enforce, at the START of the race events, strict enforcement of NO ALCOHOL OR DRUGS RULES.

Responsible races, rallies, motor events are dealing with the realities that too many racers are either drunk or many were DRUNK last night, with too much booze in their systems to drive.

They aren't even legal to drive on the streets, not including the race event!

Medical oversight, enforced testing and responsible driver medical record keeping is now in play for Baja California racing. Even desert, off-road racing.

Southern Baja has enforced similar rules for years. 

Such rules protect the sport for future growth in the overall sporting and tourism industries.

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2022 Race Course History

*Race Course Release:

 


 


 

*Race Course Estimated September 25, 2022 

Here it IS! Start Pre-Running!


2022 IS A LOOP RACE FROM ENSENADA BC TO ENSENADA BC/A COMBINATION 2022 BAJA 400 AND 2020 BAJA 1000 RACE COURSES


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CLICK HERE FOR THE COVERAGE OF THE LIVE! BAJA 1000 2020/ WAS TO BE A PENINSULA RUN-BUT WAS CANCELLED TO A LOOP RUN!

 

2023 IS SCHEDULED TO BE A PENINSULA RUN FROM LA PAZ BCS TO ENSENADA BC.


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Baja 1000 2022 RaceDay is Friday, November 18.

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