2011 Baja 500 Race Discussion

Join in & discuss all the action for the 2011 Baja 500 on Saturday, June 4th. Robby Gordon will drive the #77 SPEED Energy / TOYO TIRES HUMMER. The 4 wheel class is slated to begin at 1:00pm/et ( 10:00 am local time ) & Robby Gordon starts 26th. Live tracking, as well as many other important links can be found in our 2011 BAJA 500 Page and raceday chat will also be available.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on June 4, 2011 at 9:35pm

After RM390 of the 2011 Baja 500

1.Bryce Menzies 07:26:24
2.Tim Herbst +00:08:56
3.Andy McMillin +00:10:18
4.Rob MacCachren +00:13:18
5.Nick Vanderwey +00:15:27
6.Gary Weyhrich +00:17:36
7.Robby Gordon +00:19:19

Permalink Reply by Xracer on June 4, 2011 at 10:36pm

It would be interesting to hear if Robby might consider running the hummer in the next 500 even if he got a good draw. Guess it. All depends on the post race debrief. Gas on Robby Good run.

Permalink Reply by TOG on June 4, 2011 at 10:49pm

2011 Baja 500 Unofficial Top 5

1. Bryce Menzies 09:04:47
2. Tim Herbst +00:12:30
3. Rob MacCachren +00:12:35
4. Andy McMillin +00:13:08
5. Robby Gordon +00:14:20

Great job to the entire SPEED Energy team!

Permalink Reply by BajaTuner on June 4, 2011 at 10:57pm

Wow. Made up 6 minutes in the last 60 miles. Not the result we wanted but considering the starting spot and the way the off road stuff has been going I'm happy.

Permalink Reply by Rob Waldrip on June 5, 2011 at 1:51pm

I wonder how he made up 6 minutes like that. Was it the tight twisty stuff that was supposed to be good for the Hummer?

Did Robby have any flats, or mechanical issues, there seemed to be a point mid-way in the race where he was just not gaining like he was and the TT's behind him were gaining a little bit of time back.

What was Robbys overall debrief of the race? And if the rumor is - he's going to start running a Dodge, when does that begin? Is that just for Dakar or the Score Series too?

Permalink Reply by WJM on June 4, 2011 at 10:55pm

Awesome day!

Permalink Reply by BajaTuner on June 4, 2011 at 11:05pm

Just read this on RDC.

"Robby got crazy in the final turn and slid into the fence and then proceded to do about 10 donuts and then crossed the finish and drove right by sal without even stopping."

Permalink Reply by eduardo on June 4, 2011 at 11:36pm

buen trabajo Robby, te fui a ver y la verdad cada vez corres mejor....

Permalink Reply by kurt kern on June 5, 2011 at 12:05am

Great race by Robby and the RGM team!
Thank you TOG for the chat!
Apreciate all the the great input from Mike Kenyon, WJM, and the rest of the un-named regular postive contributers!
The Planet is awesome!

Permalink Reply by TOG on June 5, 2011 at 12:10am

thank you !

Permalink Reply by kurt kern on June 5, 2011 at 12:27am

Alot of chumps out there pullin' your chain. I completely support nixing a few contributors that can't hang. I'm a major constitutionalist, but I can't stand for stupidity in the name of "free speech"! We have Darwin for that! Hang in there, and pull the plug on a few of them.

Permalink Reply by Matt/Canuck on June 5, 2011 at 12:20am