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Bikes and ATVs started at 12:00 a.m.
Trophy Trucks and the rest of the 4-wheeled entires start at 8 a.m.
This year the course is a “Loop” circuit beginning and finishing in Ensenada.
My team, 600x - reigning ProMoto 60 Champs, is leading our class and 12th on the race course. I’m not racing this year due to getting a new knee 2 weeks ago.
I hope everyone has a fun and safe race.
Best of luck to your team! I hope everyone has fun! What is your team riding?
Husky 501
That bike is a 2 Wheeled Cadillac 🤣
I’ve been fascinated with the B1K since I was a kid. Always dreamed of trying it someday but that’s tough living on the East coast. I was able to work with some pit crews from 2005-2008 and have some amazing memories from there.
Praying everyone stays safe, I’ll be tracking 600x today!
Local racer Chance Blackwell is racing
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That's awesome. Why do they start bikes and ATVs first? Do the trophy trucks catch them?
Do the Dakar teams race it also?
It’s an attempt…it’s intended…to keep the bikes and quads ahead of those damn TTs! 🤣
Yes - an attempt to keep the handlebars ahead of the Steering wheels. It's quite the experience to be on the course and have a TT blow by you. If you have a good race, with minimal issues then you may not have to deal with this. Have a few issues and you will find out what it's like to have such a beast blow by you. It's really nice if they happen to have a helicopter flying with the lead TT - that helps you know what's coming. If not, you are relying on the co-driver to hit the push to pass button and you get a warning on your transponder. Scares the Sh**!!! out of you if you happen to be cursing along and your transponder screams at you out of nowhere! Definitely something to experience.
Disclaimer - I have not raced SCORE events, only BITD and Legacy, but very similar experience when being overtaken.
Yeah, that was my thought. I have no experience with it, but having BJ Baldwin blow past me at 100+mph seems terrifying.
Why don't they just start the bikes after? I assume it has to do with timing the show and making sure that the trucks are the main event.
Really hope to make it out there one day. Trophy Trucks, to me, are the pinnacle of motorsports engineering.
Yes, has to do with pit closing times and how long you have to maintain personnel at the pits. What they will do is to pull a bike off of the course if they get far behind and miss a (handlebar) pit closing time. Safety is the reason for this. If you are that far back, chances are that there will be multiple steering wheels passing you. This was a point of discussion for my Team last year at the Nevada 1000. We blew a transmission on our machine. We had a spare engine and were waiting to see if we could get the bike back to the pit with enough time for a swap and still not be in a situation of being passed by many, many steering wheels. In the end, the call was made for us, as it took 7 hours to get our bike off of the course and back to the highway - difficult to retrieve a broken machine in a remote area when having to stay away from the live racecourse. There were other issues involved, but I won't go there.....
Also, most of the pit are manned by Volunteers, so the Racing organizations do what they can to limit how long they have to stay out there. There's SOOO much that goes into these events, much respect to the promoters.
Finally. Yes, the Trucks are absolutely insane!!. To be on course with them and see what they can do and handle is unreal. I know that the vids online look cool but there nothing like seeing and hearing them in person. Actually, the SxS are getting VERY close to the trucks at this point.
love to see some pics of your team and bike, as well as some pics of TT’s and SxS’s.
Bucket list item for me being a native Louisianian. Manny, if you ever need volunteer pit help, at no cost in any way, look me up.
Cool, someone else from Louisiana!! I know you are not here anymore but cool nonetheless.
Few of us mud bugs on here. Represent!
I realize this is a dumb queation so please forgive my ignorance, but it doesn't seem that long ago the bikes had a chance at the overall. The trucks get that much faster or did they start routing the course to favor the four-whelers? Also seems like historically we do better Ensenada to Ensenada vs running down to La Paz.
I've been wondering that too
The course is so much rougher nowadays from 800+ horsepower trucks with 40” tires and too much pre running that bikes can’t keep up the speed averages that the trucks do.
As to the TTs winning the O/A all the damn time…
The trucks have come soooo far in chassis/suspension and even more powerful engines that’re super dependable. The speed that the trucks go “in the open” is outright scary. And in the Whoops…? You WILL NOT believe it until you see or for yourself.
The courses these days are MUCH more truck oriented and those trucks are insane.
Pit Row
I was watching some of the livestream and pretty much answered my own queston- literally everything else is struggling over stuff the Trophy teams are just FLYING across... and there just aren't many technical sections where they have to slow down.
And the 7x and 1x are on it, some crazy speed out of those guys too. Over 100 miles ahead of 119x at this point. Granted, not the same classes but still.
Live Feed: Cameron Steele Trophy Truck 2025 Baja 1000
Here, have a LIVE look at today’s race…from inside Cameron’s #16 TT
Let's not forget our boy RJ is out there! Get 'em Bad Boy!
The steering in those trucks is insane. The short time I just watched, they were ripping over some really rough looking shit, and the driver (not sure if it was Cameron or not) was one handing the wheel the whole time.
https://youtu.be/_nR1-J676ao?si=DO1gh3FBU-_GJ2iX
Great watch - shows the suspension working through the whoops. Impressive!
Bad ass
Toby Price out of fuel and out of the running.
Just saw that former Baja winner and Dakar finisher Chris Blais was racing, this time in a SXS. Can I get a hell yeah!
https://www.facebook.com/reel/737370478653596/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
(sorry, not sure how to embed these Facebook links.)
We won our title…a repeat, too…which seems to be the most difficult aspect of all of this…our fellow Desert Assassins are also a huge part of the ProMoto 30 repeat champs, Team 308.
And, then there’s a total bad ass and multi-time champion beyond compare and all around just great dude, Shame Esposito w/70 some-odd-year-old Jim O’Neal on his ProMoto40 team…multiple times…too many too count…they’ve been champions.
It was a great race and an amazing season. The race courses have gotten so damn rough. But, that’s why we do it, right?
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