Jan 1, 2008
By:Peter Brock
As wonderful and poignant as this year's 40th Anniversary Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 was, news filtering back from the race was not all positive. Instead, some of it was downright terrifying. While tragedy struck chase crews and spectators alike in the form of several highway accidents and deaths on that lethal stretch of two-lane asphalt, known as Mexico Highway 1, one incident of terrorism (and there can be no other word to describe it) struck the sport and its inner familia at its very core.
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This Year's Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 had as much tragedy, intrigue, and reversal of fortune as it did triumph.
Jan 1, 2008
By:Peter Brock
With SCORE celebrating its historic 40th anniversary of the Baja 1000, every team in the sport was relishing this year's 1,296-mile run to Cabo San Lucas with as much enthusiasm as dread. By terminating the race at the very southern tip of this racers' secret paradise, the logistics, practice and strategies required to persevere and win against the elements and terrain would total more than all the other seasons' events combined. That almost incomprehensible distance, the second longest in SCORE history, would require something more than a tough 24-hour racer's mentality, even for the fastest teams, because the reality of the situation made it closer to twice that combination of body-pounding and mind-numbing hours the field and its hundreds of support crews would be working.
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Nobuhiro Tajima Sets a New Record at Pikes Peak
Sep 20, 2007
By:Peter Brock
It took Nobuhiro Tajima, the man Pikes Peak fans endearingly call "Monster," 20 long years of dedication and frustration on Colorado's famed granite monolith to realize his life's dream of breaking the tantalizing record set by New Zealander Rod Millen back in 1994.
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 | Jan 1, 2007
By:Peter Brock
Calling second generation Baja 1000 winner Robby Gordon a "cross-over" driver from the world of NASCAR is a bit like calling California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger a body builder. Each may have started and done well in a sport they love, but then went on to achieve success and greater fame in a larger and different game. However, that's not to say each doesn't appreciate or care for his origins–especially in Gordon's case. Because America's most versatile racer comes back to his roots in the Mexican desert each November. There's no concern about points or a season record when racing his Red Bull Trophy-Truck. Gordon runs the Baja 1000 for the pure love of racing, flat-out, on the same rugged peninsula where he learned his craft years earlier with his dad and mentor, "Baja Bob" Gordon.
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 | Trying to break the 10-minute barrier at pikes peak
Sep 1, 2006
By:Peter Brock
It was just five years after the first Indianapolis 500, 'way back in 1911, that Pikes Peak's famed dirt highway in the sky was opened for competition, making it the second-oldest racing event in the United States. Almost every summer since, racers from all over the world have gathered at the base of Colorado's most famous mountain to see who could make it to the peak of the 14,110-foot summit with the quickest time. With 156 turns over the 12-mile run (most of which fortunately retain the original dirt surface), Pikes Peak has remained one of the world's most challenging automotive competitions. What makes each timed run up "the hill" so difficult is a combination of factors. Foremost, the weather is often peculiar and unpredictable; it might be warm and dry at the startline while snowing at the summit. As the surface moisture changes by the minute, there's no perfect choice for tires. Recent decisions to pave portions of the road have been met with less than enthusiastic response from racers who've spent..
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 | Score's 38th Running of the Baja 500 is the Lergest Yet
Aug 1, 2006
By:Peter Brock
"We have no less than 37 Trophy-Trucks and 40 Class 1 Unlimiteds contending for the overall win in this year's race," he continued. "That's almost 80 frontrunners in a record entry for Baja of more than 435 in all classes–and they're still coming in right up until the green flag [race morning]."
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Robby Gordon's red & white Hummer and the electric Blue VW of Mark Miller lead a growing American presence at the 2006 Dakar
May 1, 2006
By:Peter Brock
For those of us who grew up racing off-road in Mexico and the
American southwest, always believing the Baja 1000 was the oldest
and toughest desert race in the world, the Dakar Rally comes as a
very sobering experience. While the Baja 1000 is certainly the
originator of modern desert racing and may indeed hold the title of
"oldest," the Dakar, first run in 1979, is a lot tougher. Try six
times the length and two weeks longer. Like the Baja 1000, the
Dakar runs each year through some of the most inhospitable and
beautiful territory on earth. The African terrain is far more
varied and the distances so much greater that they are almost
incomprehensible until you've been there and done it.
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Herbst and Roeseler Ford and BFGoodrich Beat the Second Largest Field Ever at SCORE Baja 1000
Feb 1, 2006
By:Peter Brock, Craig Perronne
If anything, this year's Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 again proved the old adage that in off-road racing, experience and proven equipment will usually triumph over superior but untried, newer technology.
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Adversity, Diversity, Perversity, Dust and Speed
Sep 1, 2005
By:Peter Brock
Robby Gordon came to this year's Tecate SCORE Baja 500 convinced he finally had the right combination to beat one of the strongest Trophy-Truck and Class 1 fields in recent Baja history. What he didn't have was the luxury of time. His NASCAR commitment to qualify and drive in a Nextel Cup race at Dover, Del. on the same weekend meant he had to make four transcontinental jet trips between the East Coast and Ensenada in three days to compete in both events. His self-designed and in-house built, 800+ HP, mid-engined CK 1500 Chevrolet Trophy-Truck had proven its superior speed in last year's 1000, but hadn't finished.
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