*Off-Road.com Baja 1000 Reporting*

Check back HERE - this forum - this discussion thread, for updates from our reporters during contingency and on race day.  We'll summarize it on the main editorial site, but you'll get your freshest news here throughout the race! 

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Craig has landed!  He's in Baja with the Factory Ford team, and is filing reports this week via Blog.  Be sure to check them out.

http://my.off-road.com/kickapps/_Live-from-the-Baja-1000/blog/142007/27589.html

Now this is actually kinda funny.  Shouldn't laugh, but I had to.  The Ford Factory Team that our editor Craig Perronne is living the Baja 1000 week with, hit the border with full security detail.  A caravan of six vehicles, including six off-duty police.  Armed. 

According to Craig's first Blog report, they did have some trouble at the border and once in Ensenada, so he was glad they DID have the security detail with them. 

However, at SCORE check-in headquarters, it was one of the Security vehicles that got broken into, and personal items (ID, credit cards and cell phones) stolen from! 

I guess if I had to choose having a team guarding my body or guarding my truck, I'd bring them all with me personally, every where we went.  But - you didn't leave ONE person out with the tens of thousands of dollars of vehicles and equipment?

Oh, this is going to be a really entertaining week.  Can't wait to hear about Scott and Josh's adventures with the VW team!

369 Total entries from 39 U.S. States, 24 countries

Ready for Friday’s start of 41^st Tecate SCORE Baja 1000

NOTE:  Following late registration Wednesday Thursday, here is the final pre-race entry list for the 41^st Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 desert race, which starts Friday morning and is being held in Ensenada, Mexico.  A total of 369 entries from 39 U.S. States and 24 countries will be competing in 28 Pro and 7 Sportsman classes for cars, trucks, motorcycles and ATVs.

     Motorcycles and ATVs will start the technically challenging 631.35-mile course first at 6:30 a.m. (PST). The cars and trucks will start three hours after the last Sportsman Motorcycle sidecar, at approximately 10:45 a.m. (PST).

     With vehicles starting one every 30 seconds in the elapsed-time race, the fastest vehicles are expected to cover the course in approximately 13 hours.  The course will officially remain open for 31 hours, closing in the early evening on Saturday.

See full list HERE

Cameron Steele, No. 16, SCORE Trophy-Truck/No. 742, Class 7SX – I just want to apologize to all the other Trophy-Truck guys, especially the nine that start in front of me whose bumpers I’m either going to hit or go by on a better line. Don’t be mad at me when it happens; just congratulate me at the finish line. I love you guys like brothers but I’m here to kick your (tail).

Pete Sohren, No. 2, SCORE Trophy-Truck – This is a very good course. I’ve never been on a course with this much terrain change. I think the first 126 miles is going to be a test of wills more than anything else. I think the race starts at mile 126, in my opinion, and then it’s going to be game on.

Good morning!!!  Booting things up, checking everything twice.  Bikes should start going off the line in 15 MINUTES.

At the moment, it looks as though the Johnny Campell Racing bike 1x is in the lead. Robby Bell started the race in Ensenada in seventh, and the team is currently in second. The 6x bike piloted by Ryan Penhall, son of two-time former World Speedway Champion Bruce Penhall, is currently in the lead and might have the edge on the JCR 1x bike, as they started in fifth. We'll update you on the progress.

Just a reminder that you can find all of our Baja 1000 coveragby clicking on the MORE BAJA link on the main page of at www.off-road.com.

-Josh Burns

Solo bike 257x of Adrian Lovelace is confirmed OUT by SCORE opps

At the moment, Ryan Penhall on the 6x bike is still in the lead. The bikes are about halfway to checkpoint 1 at this point. Penhall is trailed by the 16x bike of Colton Udall, while Robby Bell looks to be sitting in the third spot on the 1x bike. Rounding out the top five is the 12x bike of Justin Wiberg and the 17x bike of Mark Bradford. None of this is official, but this is what the IRC tracking system is reporting to us in the press room More to come soon.

JB

At the moment, Ryan Penhall on the 6x bike is still in the lead. The bikes are about halfway to checkpoint 1 at this point. Penhall is trailed by the 16x bike of Colton Udall, while Robby Bell looks to be sitting in the third spot on the 1x bike. Rounding out the top five is the 12x bike of Justin Wiberg and the 17x bike of Mark Bradford. None of this is official, but this is what the IRC tracking system is reporting to us in the press room More to come soon.

JB