Is anyone racing the Baja 1000 this year?

[Haney motorsports]

Just curious who might be planning on running in the 1000

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[bajafox]

I know the Acoplados team from Mexicali is only doing SCORE Baja races this season and the 1000 should be one of them. There was only 1 or 2 at the 250 including them and I think they were the only 9 team to run at the 500 too.

[acoplados]

Just curious who might be planning on running in the 1000

we are going to race the baja 1000 (Daniel Reyes Jr., Hector Ortega and Julian Rivera) on the same car. We raced the 250 and the 500. We are also going to race all the SCORE Mexican Races next year too.

Are any of you guys planning on race in it?

Daniel Reyes Jr.
acoplados racing

[MORE #911]

Look at this from General...

CHARLOTTE – (September 25, 2008) – General Tire will provide $170,000 contingency program for the upcoming Baja 1000 for drivers running on General’s Grabber competition tires. This will be the largest posted contingency for one race in the history of SCORE.
Available to four-wheeled vehicles only, the program awards the winners of four-wheel classes as follows:

Overall four-wheel race winner: $30,000 (In addition to class win award.)
Class Awards include:
· Trophy Truck class: $20,000
· Class 1: $20,000
· Class 10: $15,000
· Class 8: $12,500
· Stock Full: $12,500
· Class 7: $ 7,500
· Class 7sx: $ 7,500
· Class 5: $ 5,000
· Class 5/1600: $ 5,000
· Stock Mini: $ 5,000
· Score Lites: $ 5,000
· Class 9: $ 5,000
· Class 11: $ 5,000
· Class 1-2 1600: $ 5,000
· Class 3: $ 5,000
· Class 24: $ 2,500
· Class 25: $ 2,500

“The inaugural year of General Tire’s return to off-road racing with our new Grabber competition tires has truly exceeded all of our expectations,” said Travis Roffler, director of marketing, General Tire. “We are very pleased to be able to thank the drivers who have put their faith in our product with this contingency program at the most prestigious event in all of desert racing. General Tire is the tire for all off-road classes and we excited to be able to provide such a large bounty on the race.”

To be eligible for the purse, drivers must start, run and finish the race on General Tires on all four wheels including the spare. A minimum of three vehicles must start in class for award payout, and competitors must purchase tires to be eligible for awards. Race vehicles also must display two official General Tire decals (either all white or all black) one on each side in correct official position. Drivers must pre-register with company at www.GeneralTire.com. Awards will be based on SCORE International official results. Program based on product availability

[ACME]

At the MINT we spoke with the General Tire folks and they were coming out with a few buggy specific tires, a rear with a rounded profile similar to the Micky's or Yoks and a matching front. They didn't have sizes but suggested 32" on the rear and 31" on the front with a 15" rear/16" front wheel. I've been looking but haven't seen them yet, anyone else have any insight?

[B.O.R.D.]

I ran it last year in a Jeepspeed but I'm out this year.

[Grant Lenk]

Everyone with Missing Lenk Motorsports will be down there! Looking forward to a great race!

[pcoltrain]

We'll be running the Baja 1000 in our class 9 buggy if all goes according to plan. Any other class 9 entries?

[ML Racer]

I may be brain farting but don't they post the entry list before the drawing?

[MORE #911]

From anther thread..

General Tire is teamed with Baja Pits to provide full pit support free of charge to vehicles running General Tires. For years one of the main reasons people ran BFGs was because of the pit support. Well GT has upped the ante by offering not only free pit support but also huge contingency money, in fact in many cases waaaay more money than you would get from the official SCORE purse.

here is the link describing tire size and stuff
http://www.generaltire.com/garage/baja1000.php