| Pages:
1
2 |
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
11-06 Baja 1000, and More! (Part 2 of 4, the race and L.A Bay)
CONTINUED FROM PART 1 at: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=21081
Our pit gets set up...
[Edited on 11-28-2006 by David K]
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
We wear yellow Baja Pits team shirts...
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
A drive through sun shade is erected where we will service up to 110 contestants (about 45 motorcycles & ATVs and about 65 four wheeled racers).
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
TW shows up to say hello!
He plans on watching the action about 7 miles up the course where some good jumps are located.
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
Notice the 'Team Nomad' on this shirt! This fellow and many others would come see the progress of the 110 Baja Pits team racers we kept posted on the
big sheets taped to Roy's 4Runner. Because of the distances involved in the Baja 1000, Baja Pits used satellite phones to communicate with other pits.
[Edited on 11-27-2006 by David K]
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
The first motorcycle to pass EL CRUCERO was bike number 1x at 12:02 pm.
Here was the first Baja Pits motorcycle we serviced...
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
One of the ATV racers getting fuel and lights bolted on...
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
Baja bug getting ready to race
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
Lights on!
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
Here's a Class 11 (Pure Stock VW sedan)...
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
This Pro Truck had rolled and came in very late... Many racers were stuck in Calamajue wash which reported to have a 4 foot deep water hole!
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
These guys were at our pit for a while, but eventually got it going!
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
I want to mention that La Tijereta (Kris) came by before the racers arrived and was kind enough to give me a program and sticker... I was in Ensenada
too early on Tuesday to get one at the San Nicolas Hotel (Score HQ), and I even asked Sal Fish for one!
Unfortunately, someone took it while we were jumping up to get a vehicle number!
We crashed about 3:30 am and Roy stayed up long enough to post two more of our team passing through.
As it was getting dark on Thursday, one of the chase helicopters landed near us (night flying is forbidden in Mexico).
Here it is getting warmed up to take off, Friday morning...
[Edited on 11-27-2006 by David K]
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
When it lifts off, the dust grows!
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
We drive the 55 miles to Bahia de los Angeles, find rooms for everyone at Las Hamacas Motel for Friday night, and see this... Turns out our friends at
Camp Gecko witnessed the Red Bull race truck flip and explode... Photos taken by aha baja of it are posted in another Baja 1000 thread here on Nomad.
Baja Nomad '4baja' is reported to have saved the racer's life by pulling him from the flaming truck.
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
Before it gets dark, we want to visit friends and show Josh a few of the sites...
Here is the monument to two lovers... Hector & Sunshine.
One of them has been removed! I have photos of this monument as it has changed over the past 6 years! Located next to the road, between town and Camp
Gecko.
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
Mike's Mountain... on top of which is a rock shelter and supplies for camping... a 5 hour hike up. Read Graham Mackintosh's first book, 'Into a Desert
Place' for more on Mike and his mountain.
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
Here's a zoom on the peak of Mike's Mountain...
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
The beach in front of Guillermo's where we had a great fish taco lunch and cold beer... Viva Bahia de los Angeles!
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64858
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
La Gringa area... skipping stones!
|
|
|
| Pages:
1
2 |
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
