Thread: Baja 1000

Epic time as usual. We finished 3rd of 4th in 7SeX (protest at finish between two other trucks) with a lot of issues but Im just stoked we finished and didnt give up. Got back last night and slept til 2 PM. Will post a longer report later.

And Thomas, sorry if I dusted you out going to Gonzaga LOL. I was like hey I know that truck... I was gonna walk over at Cocos and say whats up but we had to bail.

Well this was my second time to Baja for a race and we had a great time from ensanada to San Felepi and everywhere in between
the most exciting time was Norman coming at me 100+ and blowing the corner at RM 167 no danger really but exciting none the less

JONES MOTORSPORTS 2010 Champs!

Been to lazy to touch the comp but heres my Share. Spent a good week in Baja for the 1000. As asual Tech was juts a mess and fun drinking those fat ass cups of beer and throwing STEEEEEKERS from the race truck. Getting mobbed for stickers and calendars and kids trying to snatch my beer holding it hostage till i gave them a sticker hahaha

Went to the strip club at night as usual and shit was awesome. Saw alot of friends lose there money and had good times. Got super drunk wednesday and somehow bought about 20 locals hot dogs outside for no reason. Woke up the next morning with empty pockets but i was glad i only took a certain amount of money out.

Shit that happened on race day:

- Started the race flawless all the way till Cocos corner around 320 ish transmission took a dump around 9pm thurs.

- Swapped out the transmission and rebled the brakes and the car left around 2am friday.

- Stopped at the other pits with no problem. Just topped off on gas

- Crossed the finish line around 8:30ish on saturday


We drove back to Loreto and just partied and went to an Island drinking beer and ordered 400 clams for everyone.

One of the best trips i for sure have ever had, cant wait till next year!

VIVA BAJA!

You know the Barba family? Im almost positive your dad called me on Tuesday night and offered up some help for us on the San Felipe side (which we just figured out the night before on Monday).

Left OC Tuesday morning, hung out in SD for a while til my buddy got off work, got to Ensenada around 10 at night. Wednesday I avoided the chaos of tech. Thursday we headed to Ojos, watched everything from the TTs to the 12s go through then went to KM 77 for the Baja Pit, dumped gas and checked the truck over. Went to Valley T, dumped gas again. Drove down to Puertocitos, watched the truck go through the checkpoint. Went from there to Cocos on course, had my dustlight on and pulled over as soon as we saw lights so we wouldnt dust any one out. Went from Cocos to the BOLA turnout, waited on the radio til they cleared the pit enjoying a nice fire. North of Loreto at the silt bed deviation we dumped gas and changed a tire. 10 mins later the truck rolled. Got it over, kept going. At the dump road we swapped out an upper uniball that was toast. Once we made it through the Hills of Doom south of Loreto we dumped gas at Insurgentes and then just pulled into the turnouts to keep in radio contact if they needed anything since Baja Pits was taking care of our fuel. Around 950, we ended up swapping out the other sides upper uniball and welding in a new lower, the cup was coming out of the lower arm. Going to La Paz we heard that they were stuck in silt, paid a dude 20$ to get them out, and in doing so they stole their spare. So flipped a bitch and hopped on course again to the Baja Pit they were stuck at, gave them a spare and a new ratchet strap. Went to La Paz and got to watch the truck cross the line. First time Ive ever seen a truck I was helping cross the line in 7 years of going to the 1000, not because they didnt finish but most of the time we were already in our hotels sleeping or back on the highway coming into town. Slept in our trucks at the finish, drove from La Paz to Mulege, jumped in the Sea of Cortez at sunset for a "shower", had dinner at Rice and Beans, slept in a hotel at Guerrero Negro. Sunday drove from there all the way home. During the race I slept for 20 minutes and that was it. Best adrenaline rush youll ever get.

Sounds like you guys had good time in Baja. Wish I could of made it. 310kid what beach is the last picture you posted?

Tmorf- Naw I don't know the barba family.

Czr- idk some island right of Loreto. It's about a mile off shore the peninsula

Thanks for the info 310kid

Quick recap of our race Palapaboy #722:

Wednesday headed to Tech and signed up and walked around for a bit. Got tacos. Headed to San Felipe to a house south of town on the beach. Went into town and ate at Rice & Beans and hung out for a bit.

Thursday morning headed to RM77 and waited for the truck to get to us. Me and Loomis hopped in the truck in 3rd place at RM77. Pretty uneventful drive besides all the dust just lingering EVERYWHERE the whole damn race. We had maybe 50 miles of clear air all day! Got to RM125 and got fuel, passed a bunch of slower trucks/buggies, caught the Azunia TL around RM200ish south of San Felipe and passed them, now in 2nd in our class. Got fuel at RM225 and were 4min behind first place the Baja Lite. Nothing but sitting dust all the way south of San Felipe.

Entered Frog Canyon (a swamp) at RM320ish and there was about 20-25 vehicales stuck EVERYWHERE! Ended up in line behind Heidi Steele. While we are sitting in line I hear a big V8 coming behind us and next thing I know he runs into the side of us and high ceneters himself on a HUGE bush right next to my window, it was the blue class1 schampa car. Guy gets out and I ask him if he is really that big of a dumbass and just couldnt wait in line. He says he didnt see anyone in front of us....what a fucking joke there was cars and lights everywhere lol. Then Heidi's codriver says they said they found a way around the mess so we followed them. They ended up getting stuck which in turn we pretty much got stuck behind them. Co-Driver got out and aired down our tires a bit and I was able to rock us out. Made it about 500ft and there was another group of cars stuck. It was Heidi stuck this time pretty good in water and mud. I see a ledge covered with bushes off to the side and say F it were going for it. We charge to the side and launch up the ledge and just stay on the gas and we make it by on a little trail to the side. All in all we were in the canyon for about an hour just waiting on people to move out of the way lol.

Make it to RM335 and me and Loomis get out of the truck. Next driver gets in and makes it to RM456 and the motor blows up. Blown head gasket or cracked block, all the water is in the oil pan.....DONE

Finally get the truck out to the highway at 8am Friday morning. Loaded it on trailer and headed back to the states!

It was fun even though it blew up and at least we got to drive our first section of 250 miles. Racing in Baja is just awesome and even though the Frog Canyon sucked it makes the racing that much more awesome than just doing laps around a EASY CA desert lol

Originally Posted by The Piece

Quick recap of our race Palapaboy #722: Frog Canyon sucked it makes the racing that much more awesome than just doing laps around a EASY CA desert lol

Hey FIsh if I was rich I would enjoy Mexico too...but racing "EASY CA desert" is better than not racing at all no? Glad you enjoyed it even though the truck went boom. In 15 years I doubt you will remember the winner, but you will always remember Frog Canyon right? Viva Mejico.

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Originally Posted by TMorf

You know the Barba family? Im almost positive your dad called me on Tuesday night and offered up some help for us on the San Felipe side (which we just figured out the night before on Monday).

Left OC Tuesday morning, hung out in SD for a while til my buddy got off work, got to Ensenada around 10 at night. Wednesday I avoided the chaos of tech. Thursday we headed to Ojos, watched everything from the TTs to the 12s go through then went to KM 77 for the Baja Pit, dumped gas and checked the truck over. Went to Valley T, dumped gas again. Drove down to Puertocitos, watched the truck go through the checkpoint. Went from there to Cocos on course, had my dustlight on and pulled over as soon as we saw lights so we wouldnt dust any one out. Went from Cocos to the BOLA turnout, waited on the radio til they cleared the pit enjoying a nice fire. North of Loreto at the silt bed deviation we dumped gas and changed a tire. 10 mins later the truck rolled. Got it over, kept going. At the dump road we swapped out an upper uniball that was toast. Once we made it through the Hills of Doom south of Loreto we dumped gas at Insurgentes and then just pulled into the turnouts to keep in radio contact if they needed anything since Baja Pits was taking care of our fuel. Around 950, we ended up swapping out the other sides upper uniball and welding in a new lower, the cup was coming out of the lower arm. Going to La Paz we heard that they were stuck in silt, paid a dude 20$ to get them out, and in doing so they stole their spare. So flipped a bitch and hopped on course again to the Baja Pit they were stuck at, gave them a spare and a new ratchet strap. Went to La Paz and got to watch the truck cross the line. First time Ive ever seen a truck I was helping cross the line in 7 years of going to the 1000, not because they didnt finish but most of the time we were already in our hotels sleeping or back on the highway coming into town. Slept in our trucks at the finish, drove from La Paz to Mulege, jumped in the Sea of Cortez at sunset for a "shower", had dinner at Rice and Beans, slept in a hotel at Guerrero Negro. Sunday drove from there all the way home. During the race I slept for 20 minutes and that was it. Best adrenaline rush youll ever get.

You running straps up front? Why were all your uniballs killing themselves? Cool you got to see the truck actually cross the line!

Yeah it's got two double wraps on each corner. I guess they bought cheap uniballs instead of Auroras.

Originally Posted by WannaB-Class5

Hey FIsh if I was rich I would enjoy Mexico too...but racing "EASY CA desert" is better than not racing at all no? Glad you enjoyed it even though the truck went boom. In 15 years I doubt you will remember the winner, but you will always remember Frog Canyon right? Viva Mejico.

Sure racing in CA is better than not at all but racing Mexico just dosent compare. I would personally rather do 1-2 Baja races a year for the same it cost to run a full season in a US series. And ya this was my 3rd time through Frog Canyon but the first time actually getting stuck behind people, it was pretty narly for sure!!

Also, a big FU to 1301 pulling the same shit in the mud. Only this ass wipe managed to get passed us sideswiping the whole way then proceeded to drop in line in front of our truck and sink it with the throttle pinned. There was so much water going in the cab it swamped our water proof Kenwood and intercomm............

Later on in the race (about RM900) we were down a lot on time due to a holed radiator. As were slowing to do another water fill same ass wipe truck comes up and nerfs the shit out of us with no warning.

The race ended shortly after the water stop.........



All I can say is pounding through the whoops with a 5 gallon water bottle between your legs kinda sucks.........

Jesus Fucking Christ that motherfucker tore the shit out of your guys truck. Any more pics of your truck.

Barge what truck were you in?

Damn thats one hell of a nerf right there!! Looks like it went straight into the tire from behind and just cleared off the snout ends huh?

Tire broke off on it's own, not from the nerf.

Todd the driver " I think we have a flat"
Starts pulling off the course. truck gives one last wobble and drops with the rear still in the course.
Todd "What the hell was that? Can we fix it?"
Me looking out the window as the tire rolls past with the snout caliper and everything still in it...... "We're boned!"

I was in 802. This is one of the old Tubeworks pre-runner axles that had way to many miles on it. It has bent bent and straitened, cracked and re-welded several times and just generally abused. We were trying to replace it before the race but the money just wasn't there.

Parybarge, if anyone ever asks you how much to go racing you should send him that pic of your truck for there desktop

matter of fact I think Ill make it my desktop!!

only thing I can say positive about that pic is It had to be one hell of a ride to get there