your dream rally

[randy s]

remember that you've already got all the issues covered . it's already a done deal. everythings been dealt with [ everybody's been greased]. how bout barrow alaska to tierra del fuego in 30 days . 25 stages with a few rest days? something like that? you could conceivably include the baja 1000 in the rally.lol.

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[Chase 2]

Baja racing just seems too easy (and less enjoyable) compared to the endurance rally stuff.

Aloha

How can you say too easy until you've either won over all, or maybe finished first in Class 11 running to La Paz??? LOL JK.

[CaptinCrash]

Alaska to Cabo!

That would get you 3 countries and a ton of varying terrain.

i had that idea to it would be so rad

[jeff]

I'm not really into the individual competition aspect of racing... and that's the greatest thing about desert racing, your biggest competition is against the desert. And that's why long run endurance rally-ing is so appealing to me. To finish the Baja 1000 course is actually relatively easy, assuming you aren't doing it at race speeds. Traveling 7000+ miles in an early 1900's vehicle with no chase crew is now more appealing to me than taking a purpose built modern race vehicle to Mexico and hauling *** for 1000 miles with scheduled pit stops and a crew of who knows how many people.

I think a run from AK to Mex would be awesome. London to Sydney (through Iran?) sounds fun, the 2010 Peking to Paris, eh, maybe. I've spent countless hours talking to people that have run in Rally events all over the world... there's a strong demand for this sort of event but the pool of people that have the means and desire to participate is pretty small.

Right now I'm losing sleep over figuring out a way to help a new friend "Scott" get his Model T to run in and finish the 1000. After seeing the capability of the 'T in China and Mongolia I am very confident it can finish the 1000, it's just a matter of jumping through all of the hoops.

Dream on dreamers!

Aloha

[trent06]

Alaska to Cabo!
Day 1-2-3 Run the Iditarod course backwards from Nome to Ancorage over 1000 miles put on by the people that put on the Iditarod
Day 4 Liason to Canada
Day 5 Run a Canadian Rally Course put on by the WRC
Day 6 Liason to Wasington
Day 7 Run a race in the backcountry of Washington through the farm lands and mountains BITD put this on
Day 8 Liason to Elko Nevada
Day 9-10-11 Run the Nevada 2000 course from Elko through Reno down to Tonopah Parumph and Vegas
Day 12 Liason to Parker
Day 13 Run and extended Parker loop put on by BITD
Day 14 liason to the Altar desert
Day 15 Run a loop across the sand dunes Yuma 4X4 clubs run this section
Day 16 Laison to Mexicali
Day 17 Rest before Mexico sections begin
Day 18 is Mexicali to San Ignacio via Laguna Salada, Felipe, Cocos, B of LA. Sal Fish and SCORE set it up.
Day 19 is San Ignacio to Cabo--again using SCORE. We use the east coast all the way down.
Day 20 biggest after party ever thought of happening the DA host it along with all the major sponsors in any type of motorsports cutting all funds for the year to support this!

This would be awesome and i used some parts of peoples courses already...

[BRINGTHERUCKUS]

Start in alaska run ice roads down to Ancorage ferry to Norcal race through the mountians to Nevada Nevada 2000 course run to Vegas parade dow fremont street run dry lakes down o needles power line roads down 95 to old cali loop of parker go on lap cross bridge do very extended Parker loops run down to yuma run to the dunes go Mexicali go down the Pen hitting the summit Jacube Pass tres posas zoo road erendira mikes loop down to Lapaz
Have the Parker Elks lodge put on an Open bar party with the help on the Desert Assassians (sans dresses)...

[racer951]

Vancouver to Cabo (~ 6000KM)

Finishing stages to directly preceed Baja 1000

Arrive Vancouver: ~ Halloween

Stage 1: Vancouver City (50KM)
Stage 2: Vancouver to Whistler (150KM)
Stage 3: Whistler-Kaloomps-Kelowna (450KM)
Stage 4: Liaison to U.S. Border (135KM), Oroville to Spokane (300KM)
Stage 5: Spokane to Walla Walla (300KM)
Stage 6: Walla Walla to Boise (400KM)
Stage 7: Liaison to Twin Falls (200KM), Twin Falls to Elko (300KM)
Stage 8: Elko to Tonopah (550KM)
Stage 9: Tonopah to Pahrump (300KM)
Stage 10: Pahrump to Needles (300KM)
Stage 11: Needles to Yuma (350KM)
Stage 12: Yuma to Altar Dunes (200KM)
Stage 13: Altar Dunes to Ensenada (250KM)
Stage 14: Ensenada to Bay of LA (600 KM)
Stage 15: Bay of LA to Loreto (550 KM)
Stage 16: Loreto to La Paz (550KM)
Stage 17: La Paz to Cabo (200KM)

[BRINGTHERUCKUS]

Road rally:
Start San felipe highway 3 to Ensenada up the coast to TJ cross to San Diego go up to LA I-10 to Desert Center Rice Road cross bridge to Parker race to I-40 north of Havasu Go to Kingman Jump on the 66 race ends on the east coast somewhere someone finish it i dont know any good roads past that...

[Hog Wild]

I noticed that you have more Cap Headings in your road book than what is provided by the ASO.
Maybe it's just the one page you have posted but when I look at it I feel like I am viewing the plotted course on my Lowrance 6500.
Not knocking, just an observation...
Great job putting this together again, what are the proposed dates?

Good observations about the roadbook. The sample is one of our "Deluxe" versions that have lots of extras like all the GPS coordinates, CAPs, English notes, etc. That's to help the "roadbook rookies" learn this stuff without getting lost too often. In the past we've also offered our routes in a "Pro" roadbook that is pretty much identical to a Dakar roadbook, including distances in KM, fewer CAPs, very little English, and almost no GPS coordinates. We can turn on or off all those options just before printing them, to meet the needs of the individuals. Grider, Blais, Street and the other top Americans seemed pretty happy with the “Pro” versions I did last year.

Despite the blurred stuff in that roadbook sample, I left just enough in there that a true desert rat could figure out where it is and map out those few miles of that stage ahead of time. But there are over a hundred more pages of roadbook that won't be seen until the night before each stage, so good luck!

Dates for our training will not be publicly announced, but it’s early enough that there are a couple of weeks afterwards to work race vehicle issues before loading onto a boat for Lisbon, and as late as we can get to avoid the worst summer heat. Anyone who is in some way associated with Dakar (racer or crew) can PM me for all the details. This year the route is passable by bike, quad, or sidecar, but not car. If any of the car guys want to join in the fun (in a car), I would have to make some adjustments to the roadbooks to get around a few of the obstacles.

[PackMule]

I've spent countless hours talking to people that have run in Rally events all over the world... there's a strong demand for this sort of event but the pool of people that have the means and desire to participate is pretty small.

Dream on dreamers!

Aloha

That's indeed probably a nearly-equal issue to the land access problem. The former getting better with each passing year, the latter (access) more difficult.