I can’t believe that your coverage is so poor for the 1000. Having been at the first 20 races and races in quite a few, I can’t believe in this time, you cannot provide decent coverage. Your reporters make it seem like everyone is drunk and it is one big party! I know how serious everyone is. You don’t’ show this! Where is your coverage of each class and who the leaders are? Nothing!!! My kids would do a better job than your web page!!! It sounds like your reports are partying instead of reporting. I happened to be looking at Jayski, a top NASCAR internet site and he had you listed so I looked in. What is the image of off-road that is portrayed to many possible new fans? Not professional! Not good!! I know how professional this sport is and wish you could portray it along with the fun part. PR Patrick Ryan
Director, Strategic Accounts
pryan@netforensics.com Patrick,
1) We announced far and wide that we would not do detailed, realtime results for this race.
2) Are you looking at http://www.off-road.com/race/2001baja1000/commentary.html?
3) Official results will be posted within 48 hours.
4) Our wrap up and my story as a co-driver in the wonning Pro Truck will be publised on December 1st.
5) Please tell me about the experience you have about the "serious nature" that we are missing? Do you have first hand experience at these events?
Thanks
PJC  Patrick, Sure, we have a good time, but so does every other dirt-strewn soul that went the distance to the finish line of one of the longest and toughest races of their lives. At the finish line, the party begins and the memories are relived through publications such as this and one or two others. Sure it's a serious sport. But it's not crockett nor is it polo. Hell, it ain't even NASCAR where you have to pay some 100-odd bucks to get through the gates to buy a five buck beer from Joe Red Neck who just slung a booger into your beer. This is off-road racing, where Robby Gordon doesn't spin himself dizzy some one mile from your grandstand seat but blasts through the desert at 150-odd miles per hour only to wind up in your campsite in the middle of nowhere just to beg for a chance to have you, your wife and kids change a tire, swap in a battery out of your old clunker or wrench on his 800-plus horsepower Trohpy Truck. If you're really willing to unleash your kids to upload countless strings of code, text and images to our servers via some tin can sat phone connection, we'll gladly set aside a page for them to do so. Until then, we'll wait to hear from you and maybe just maybe see you at the races. Sincerely,
FG TEAM HUMMERÓ WINS THE SCORE BAJA 1000 Ensenada, B.C., Mexico: Driving like the wind, Team HUMMER's Roger Norman overcame a 45 minute deficit in the final 200 miles of the 34th Annual SCORE Baja 1000 to win the Full Stock production class by seventeen minutes. Team drivers Chad Hall and Roger Norman finished the grueling 1000-Kilometer course in just over 22 hours, 22 minutes which also netted a third place finish for team owner Rod Hall in the #879 HUMMER SUV. Fourth in class went to John Griffin of Mission Viejo, Calif. in his independently owned and Rod Hall built HUMMER soft-top demonstrating once again that HUMMER is the ultimate 4-wheel drive vehicle.  Not content to merely take his turn behind the wheel of his #879 HUMMER SUV, the senior Hall also signed up to drive the #866 HUMMER Pick-up along with son Chad and former teammate, Roger Norman. This win marks the fifth Baja 1000 victory for Team HUMMER since 1993, when the Indiana based vehicle manufacturer first decided to engage in competitive off-road racing. It is also the 17th Baja 1000 victory for Rod Hall, who has competed in every one of the 34 events since the inaugural race in 1967 with a phenomenal 50% win ratio. With this victory, Hall becomes the only man in motorsports to have won a major international event in each of the last five decades! "This was the toughest Baja 1000 course I can remember", said Hall. "There were deep ruts and boulders hidden by piles of silt which we call 'gotchas". It was technically very tight and there were traffic jams of race vehicles lined up on two of the large mountains we had to climb; the Summit and Mike's Sky Ranch, and no room to pass. At one of the hills Roy hooked up to three or four buggies and pushed them all over the crest of the hill like a locomotive so we could get on with our own race. When we arrived at the Summit, some guy in a Ford truck came over and offered to pay me to push him up the hill. I told him to stop by the dealership after the race and I'd sell him his own HUMMER!"  Of the 229 entries that took the starter's green flag, only 103 or roughly 45% were still running at the finish. According to race director, Roy Davidson, "We didn't really have much in the way of problems with the SUV aside from a wiper motor failure. The Pick-up had a fuel starvation problem, which we were able to correct after about 45 minutes by switching to a mechanical backup pump. Our crew did a hell of a job and aside from those minor issues the trucks performed flawlessly." The final race of the season for Team HUMMER will be Best in the Desert Racing Association's Vegas 200 scheduled for Nov. 30th - Dec. 1st, 2001 in Las Vegas, Nevada. - grt - To learn more about Rod Hall and Team HUMMER visit www.rodhall.com. To find out more about HUMMER vehicles visit www.hummer.com. Question: Where's Hibbard?
FG 2001 SCORE Desert Series, Round 3: Tecate SCORE Baja 1000, Baja California, Mexico, November 8-11, 2001 Honda Red Rider Johnny Campbell made history in the 2001 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000. Not only did he and partner Tim Staab win the overall race, giving Campbell a record-breaking fifth consecutive 'long' Baja victory, their feat also made Honda the most successful motorcycle manufacturer in Baja, with a similarly record-smashing 12 overall wins in the 34-year history of the race. At the end of the day, Honda XR650Rs took the top five motorcycle positions. Campbell and Staab covered the 667-mile course on their Honda XR650R in a time of 13 hours, 51 minutes and 40 seconds. They averaged 48.8 miles per hour over the rugged, technically challenging terrain to also win the Class 22 title. Their dominating performance resulted in a victory margin of over 54 minutes.  Don't think for a minute it was easy - nothing comes easily in Baja. First, there was the matter of a spectator on the course with his ATV that Campbell sideswiped. That wasn't too bad - just an adrenaline rush, a twisted fork and a bent brake pedal. The cow that happened to look out from behind a tree along the 677-mile course was another matter, with a literal head-first collision sending Campbell flying sans XR650R. "I was going about 45 miles an hour in a wash when all of a sudden I saw a big, brown head," Campbell recalled. "There was no time to react - no brakes, no nothing, just bam! I didn't even have time to think, it was so quick. The impact flipped me off the back and fortunately I landed on soft silt or I would have been hurt really bad."  Again, he was fortunate, with no injury and minimal damage that required little time to repair at the next pit. "It was, 'Okay, hit a quad, hit a cow;' I'm a little scared for the next section," Campbell joked. From there, however, he and Staab enjoyed a trouble-free run to the finish with a substantial lead, though that didn't mean the pressure was off. Campbell took it in stride, saying, "I didn't think much about breaking the record. It was just another race I needed to win, and that's the way I rode. I didn't go out trying to break the record; it came to me. I think rather than focusing on the record-breaking stuff, I concentrated on winning the race because I didn't want to get shut out this year in Baja." And in the end, he certainly didn't get shut out. Neither did fellow Honda Off-Road Racing Team members Steve Hengeveld and Jonah Street, who had won the previous two SCORE events. Their runner-up finish at the 1000 guaranteed them the series championship, with Hengeveld cinching the Number One plate for 2002. Third overall went to the Chris Haines team on an XR650R, made up of Haines, Jack Johnson, Bob Johnson, and Craig Adams. Baja 1000 Results, Top Finishers 1. Johnny Campbell / Tim Staab - Honda 2. Steve Hengeveld / Jonah Street - Honda 3. Chris Haines / Jack Johnson / Bob Johnson / Craig Adams - Honda | 
