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[*] posted on 1-28-2023 at 10:27 AM
2023 Baja 1000


I just noticed on the SCORE race schedule that the Baja 1000 will run from La Paz to Ensenada. I think that is something different. It will be interesting to see how well it goes.
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[*] posted on 1-28-2023 at 10:48 AM


We will definitely be looking forward to this one, any idea what the route will be at this point?



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[*] posted on 1-28-2023 at 10:54 AM


Nothing was said about the route.
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[*] posted on 1-28-2023 at 12:10 PM


It had been posted by Score last year that the next 1000 would run the opposite direction, for a change.



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[*] posted on 1-28-2023 at 02:35 PM


My understanding is that the change in direction celebrates SCORE's 50th year sanctioning the 1000. Yep, we'll be down there somewhere.



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[*] posted on 1-28-2023 at 03:09 PM


How cool is that... and I was at their very first Baja 1000, in 1975!

It was a big loop in the north state, for the first time, starting and ending in Ensenada, over 800 miles long (as were the first 1000s).

Before the race got underway, representatives of Class 6, 7, and 11 requested a short-cut as they feared their 2WD vehicles could not get through the moon-dust in the Seven Sisters area that Score chose to create the distance needed. They got to run Hwy. 1 from Santa Ynez (CataviƱa) to El Crucero. Not knowing of the change, it was very odd to us watching the race south of San Felipe. Mini-pickups (Class 7) were the first ones passing by, not Class 1 or motorcycles!


I was first at Valle Trinidad to watch the racers heading south, then moved over to the Sulfur Mine, south of San Felipe to watch them heading north... It must have been after midnight when they began to pass by? I didn't do much more than look from my cot!




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[*] posted on 1-28-2023 at 04:12 PM


Trying to go back through my records
I finished that one, and it was rough
I think we were about 6th in truck class
At this point they all sort of blur together
but lots of great memories of individual moments in those races.
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[*] posted on 1-28-2023 at 05:16 PM


Quote: Originally posted by thebajarunner  
Trying to go back through my records
I finished that one, and it was rough
I think we were about 6th in truck class
At this point they all sort of blur together
but lots of great memories of individual moments in those races.


COOL!

1975 was the first time Parnelli raced a Chevy powered vehicle in Baja, and he had Walker Evans in a yellow Chevy truck, as well!



After the action in Valle de Trinidad calmed down, I drove to San Felipe on the old road via Diablo Dry Lake (yes it was the race course, but many hours before any race traffic).


This was my fairly-new Jeep Cherokee Chief, which I owned for 2 years and repaired or replaced seemingly everything on it! I love Jeeps, but would never ever own one again!

My friend (Mitch Fleet of the Reuben H. Fleet family) and I went to the Bar Miramar and bought my first 'legal' beer, as I had turned 18 that year (Mexico's legal drinking age)... then headed south to camp at the sulfur mine to watch the racers, northbound.




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