2010 Baja 1000 Race Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from the 2010 Baja 1000 . The four wheel class is scheduled to begin at 2:45 pm ( eastern time ) on Thursday, November 18th, and Robby Gordon is the 10th Trophy Truck off the line.Live raceday chat will be available , as well as links to live tracking and the weatherman feed. Updates from the race will also be available in the Baja 1000 tab on the main menu.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on November 18, 2010 at 11:01am

Kellon Welsh. It was on a seperate thread in the BAJA group.

Permalink Reply by 7gason7 on November 18, 2010 at 11:06am

Was he BJ's Dakar Navi?

Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on November 18, 2010 at 11:12am

Yes

Permalink Reply by Jamie Stevenson on November 18, 2010 at 6:29pm

Pretty sure Andy is driving a Stock Mini #760

Permalink Reply by 7gason7 on November 18, 2010 at 10:50am

Glad tto see RG has some onboard lighting again this year, but dont forget the light bar...

Permalink Reply by Bricoop on November 18, 2010 at 11:29am

Yep, be prepared for anything and everything that could happen in Baja. Here's to a great race!

Permalink Reply by Chupakabras on November 18, 2010 at 12:07pm

RG is not shown on IRC tracking, ????

Permalink Reply by NIKAL on November 18, 2010 at 12:11pm

Little Course Update:

During prerunning the Loreto Valley silt bed was getting really bad. Prerunners were getting stuck. Score's original plan was to send a blade and two water trucks down to that part and try to fix it. I guess the attempt was not successful and Score knew come race time this would be a graveyard. So yesterday afternoon Score made the decision to re-route the course and bypass the silt bed.

The last time I know of Score doing this was in 2003. We had a silt bed that was close to a mile long and then the week before the race Baja had terrible rains in this area making it impassable. During our prerun of this silt bed we saw TT prerunners buried with blown transmission trying to get threw it. Score had to re-route the course, which come race day helped a bit, but the first smaller silt bed that was kept became a huge silt bed and it became the race car graveyard.

Course Update;

Due to major impassible silt, we have made a course change which adds a new Speed Zone, called SZLoreto.

-At race mile 739+ (400 feet before VCP 11), the new course makes a left turn, so VCP 11 has been somewhat squeezed.

-After 2.0 miles, the new course makes a right turn onto HWY 1 @ KM43.

-The new course runs HWY 1 for 7.0 miles, and then makes a right turn off HWY 1 @ KM 31. At this location there is a small market with a big dirt turnout, so maybe you can find this on Google Earth for reference.

-After 0.6 mile, the new course merges with the original course at race mile 745+. I believe this merging point is at VCP 12.

Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on November 18, 2010 at 12:23pm

Thanks for the update Nikal.

Permalink Reply by ScottM on November 18, 2010 at 12:28pm

damn...i couldnt imagine a silt bed this long. ive been in them a hundred yards long or so and that sucked!!!

Permalink Reply by Bill McPherson on November 18, 2010 at 12:25pm

There is a great live video feed of the starting line at www.baja1k.com.

Permalink Reply by Tooltime on November 18, 2010 at 12:30pm

wish I could stay and play, but work is calling! I will check in later for updates...Have a fun and safe day everyone in here and there on the ground!