Mike you need to give yourself a 24 hour window before you reply to a post, as you usually come back a day later to backtrack or "explain" your position. Next time you feel the need to give someone your expert opinion, wait 24 hours, then decide if it still sounds like a good idea....or if it has changed.
My point is, you don't need to provide an opinion on everything, enjoy some of your race reports, but could do with less of your opinions.
Awesome, thanks for the response; yeah I assume then that, really, the only reason we're not seeing 1,500 HP engines or whatever is simply that drivetrains/gearboxes designed for that HP level and Baja reliability requirement hasn't been engineered/developed yet. I just assumed with an open rule book we'd of course see top teams running giant turbos on their trucks, but your points help make sense then of why this is not the case (yet).
Ryan, interesting comment. Are you saying all teams that have won a Baja 1000 and have been around your friends for 5 plus days together have only won because they have been in a fight? I know many teams that work as smooth as silk and win these races in their perspective class's. The Green army has been around for many years and I'm sure they have won many times without getting into a fight.
What I am saying is racing is stressful at times and you can really find peoples boiling point after a race as long as the Baja 1000. The friends comment is based on racing passion/stress and fatigue they don't always mix well. Sad part is people go on the internet and talk crap as if they have been there and done it better. Come on people its Baja and people race Baja because its fun and the wild west . Take my view how you will I would rather race in Baja then have the hall monitors watching all day long like in the states.
Understand your point but in my opinion it's worth noting that off road racing and the Baja 1000 are obviously not the only places where people experience high stress, fatigue, etc. You have people here who have military experience, first responders, pilots...all kinds of careers that involve high stress, fatigue, etc. I don't think some of the "keyboarding" here was meant to personally attack any of the Green Army team, just intended as a fair critique of what was presented. With all due respect, on some level it seems like a bit of a cop out to say that it's justifiable to do some of these things simply because it was the Baja 1000. It happens, and the reasons are valid, but those reasons still don't justify that kind of behavior as a normal practice.
