After a year off we raced the 2014 Baja 1000 placing 4th in class 5/1600. This year we will be competing in the most famous off-road race in the world. The Canadian YOLO Racing team does a wonderful document.įrom the YOLO Racing Facebook Page: YOLO Racing is a Canadian off road racing team based out of Vancouver, BC. Branden Sims finished second in class (and overall for UTVs) on Live Valve.For the next half hour, sit back and watch the physical, intellectual and emotional effort to take on one of the world’s most grueling races: the Baja 1000. Phil Blurton was the first UTV finisher – on FOX iQS – and 33 rd overall in 26:58:56. The 205 finishers are the third most finishers when the race finishes in La Paz. States and 18 countries) are the fourth-most in race history. In the 22 years that the race has finished in La Paz, 299 starters (from 35 U.S. Mountain Time on Saturday, November 20 there were 205 official finishers (68.6 percent finishing rate) on the long and challenging racecourse. When the course officially closed at 3:13:35 p.m. Two hundred and ninety-nine vehicles left the Ensenada starting line early Thursday morning, November 18 in the elapsed time race. My family was here waving the checkered flag for me. This is one I will never forget, the highs and the lows. This one rates right up there near the top. I’ve done some amazing events throughout my career. Of course, we would have liked to finish better. I think it is easier to drive than to sit in the right seat. I would still be out there sitting if it weren’t for him. I have all the respect for him. Really cool that he gave us a few positions to help us. He pulled us all the way to the pavement. “Robby (Gordon) came up behind us and stopped and offered to pull us in. At the top of the hill with 10 miles to go to the finish line, the truck just stopped.”
He was just pouring oil in and we were just trying to make it to the finish. We literally had gallons in Eric’s (Brandt, navigator) lap and on the floorboard and between us. We kept filling it with oil but it would pour out as fast as we added it. We were lucky to get it to the pits at race-mile 1,000 and put in a couple gallons of oil. But then the transmission let go at race mile 980. “By the middle of the night, I was fourth physically and was hoping for a podium finish. I pulled back the pace a little since it was only 200 miles in. I settled in and we were running a good pace. “We started really good we got by Cameron (Steele) and was running with the lead pack. On the beach, Dan (McMillin) crashed, Tavo (Vildosola) got by me in the pits. “It was an amazing day,” Roeseler explained. Roeseler has 14 overall victories (10 on a motorcycle, two in a race car and two in SCORE Trophy Truck). 43 Baja Jerky Cantina Racing Toyota Tundra. Sixty-four-year-old Larry Roeseler – last year’s overall winner with Luke McMillin – “ironmanned” the entire race, finishing 8th in the TT class with a time of 24:23:31 in the FOX-equipped No. Read “ Just How RAD Is The FOX Racing Applications Development Program?“ Here’s a pre-race tuning session with FOX: 16 Desert Assassins Monster Energy Ford Raptor to third overall with a time of 21:27:00 (57.17mph).
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That made it fun.”Ĭameron Steele’s Desert Assassins Monster Energy Ford Raptor with Live Valve.įOX driver and multiple Baja 100 winner Cameron Steele (53) and Ryan Arciero (48) piloted the two-wheel drive Live Valve-equipped No.
We just stayed on the course and did our thing. We did our homework, we did our pre-running.
He got on the radio and told me it was a perfect truck so that put the pressure on me that it’s go time. “Rob brought me a great truck in second place. “It was a great day,” Luke McMillin added. As a family, the McMillins now have earned a race-record 14 overall victories in the SCORE Baja 1000. When the previous SCORE Baja 1000 ends you started planning for the next one. This is the one we all want to win.”īesides his late grandfather Corky, McMillin’s victorious extended family members include his brother Dan, his dad Mark, his uncle Scott and his cousins Andy and Jessica. I didn’t have any issues at all, just wanted to take care of the truck and give Luke a good truck. Luke did a heck of a job. “It’s an honor to be asked by Luke McMillin and the McMillin Race team to drive with them. “The race was incredible,” MacCachren said.
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