50th Anniversary of the Baja 1000

[Music] for 50 years Baja California has been the setting for the granddaddy of all desert races the Baja 1000 this is the 50th anniversary of the Baja 1000 that's only gonna happen once in my lifetime we're down here in Ensenada for the great 50th Baja 1000 over 400 entries and it's crazy there's hundreds of teams racing in 47 different classes in the 50th anniversary Peninsula run but the trophy truck class is at the top of the food chain boasting over 800 horsepower 40 inch tires and over three feet of wheel travel trophy trucks are the most elite desert race vehicles on earth [Music] this year motorcycles took off 10 hours ahead of the trucks and are almost halfway through their race motorcycles are scary I wouldn't want to be riding the bike and have Harambee or BJ go below and buy at 10 a.m. Robby Gordon in the number 77 trophy truck is first off the line vehicles lean in one-minute intervals one after the other in starting an 11th position this year it's the number 19 trophy truck of Tim perks 50 years of this mystique fog peninsula I think we've been in a Middle East 30 of them my dad was in the second one that ever you know happened to be brutally honest with you I want to win all Baja analysis the first drug went off the line at 10:00 a.m. Robbie coordinate they've been 27 trucks off the line so far this year's 50th anniversary Peninsula run is over 1,100 miles long starting in Ensenada and ending in La Paz the ball 1,000 is the longest point-to-point race in the world probably the most grueling day of racing you get yourself involved in it credibly rough but incredibly beautiful you get the Sea of Cortez Pacific Ocean and everything Baja has to offer including epic fans cheering you all the way down the peninsula racing in the hammer class is two-time ultra four world champion Kasey curry there's so many good sports amazing and three times king of the hammers champion and off-road Hall of Famer Shannon Campbell probably the start is probably the roughest part of it you go through a host and and then hit some of the stuff we hit the last couple of years then from there over to San Felipe and hopefully till a pause hopefully I get to see that place trophy trucks can take on five foot wolf speeds upwards of 100 miles an hour and in the wide open washes and dry lakebeds some can exceed 140 the trophy truck is like the ultimate dream machine it should be legal they don't make materials on this planet that will survive 20 hour off-road race you kind of have to pick your battles I could very easily break my truck in 10 or 15 minutes just by driving it as hard as I can here at pit 3 we just heard they're having catastrophic failures electrical components something to do with the motor they're having a hard time getting a fix at this point I think we're done with our 1,000 for 2017 so it's hot to everybody in the air in Mexico and you least expected expected so you can't have any downtime here if somebody's gonna make it [Music] [Music] for us Pat Dean qualified and started so he and his navigator Shane to Gotham Ensenada 14 we just kind of had a plan just run smooth run smart and don't cause yourself any trouble if you go up to start and drive like a bat out of hell and cause an issue you've already lost your race your race really starts win you figure out who's around you where you're at and then you can start stepping up and going this really short race upper position patience is a really important thing in an endurance race like this you know you can't win it in the first 100 miles you know so for me patience is the best [Music] the transition from data and I it's pretty trippy because really if you've been in the car for a while or even if you haven't the shadows are incredible and there's people everywhere you wouldn't believe how many people are along with 500 miles of race course but all of a sudden the car goes you know they're like it looks like people are waving at you they're shifting it's just like plays tricks on you oh you think you see stuff running around it's pretty crazy actually there's a lot of solitude the dust at night is it's insane you know and you turn the lights on in the dust you know what I mean it just turns into a white wall and though there you get the harder it is to still see through the dirt but you gotta have that awareness around you at any second you can get a surprise if we had a hundred miles of looks it is insane that the train was like gnarly super silty sand water we head home we have a mark for 8,500 105 mile an hour and you're running through there you could get a bike ooh stop the truck it stopped there's so many things that you can hit out there so it's it's kind of sketchy when you're sitting there just driving hopefully there's nobody in front of you I don't know I wouldn't want to ride a bike with me driving [Music] what a man Diablo yemeni of being proud to relay lead bike 1x is battling it out of the front from all we heard with 45 x is still in front while bikes in back of the pack make way for trophy truck leaders the number one X bike of ox motorsport makes an epic comeback passing 45 X within 50 miles of the finish line [Music] [Music] this is eleven hundred and thirty four mile race the competition led for 1000 seventy-five miles and I let its last fifty and over till it's over due to a last minute speed infraction after the race score officials tax the One X team with a thirty minute penalty setting them back into an official second place and as more and more lead bikes roll through the finish line at La Paz trophy trucks have only made it halfway through their race rapidly approaching the next pit 4:57 well malavita it's only 80 miles away man right now we're sixth physical or eight minutes out of the lead on corrected time clubs in LA Bay so we're about 20 minutes behind and for we're ready for you what's going on but Cody and I are getting in your brake pad change hopefully toughness a great speed run when I start giving yell don't step on the brake rod as you can okay so on the tracker 83 is first one em7 1/3 16 is 4 they're all starting to show up so we're ready to take this next three oh my leg and get it to Troy you're hoping to get ourselves Egyptian it [Music] I got 83 car first nine minutes down on the leader was number one 20 minutes on the leader is number seven forty minutes on the leader at 16 that was the running order [Music] the last 300 miles of race course proves to be some of the most difficult drivers and vehicles power through fatigue final sprint the finish [Music] [Applause] 20 hours after leaving the start in Ensenada and over 1100 miles later the first trophy truck makes its way through the checkered flag in La Paz [Music] [Applause] you can't see our second trophy truck overall on the course a kiss right not too far out of town battling through over a dozen competitors since the start in Ensenada Cameron Steele locks down the second position overall to be honest I can't imagine anything else like in the world longest non-stop desert race in the world is the real deal after losing the number nineteen truck to a mechanical failure early in the race Tim and Troy Herbst focused their efforts on their number 91 run and in just over 22 hours and 23 minutes the herps team crosses the finish for an official sixth place overall from the start line to the checkered flag it was memorable I'm very happy to be here we're very happy to be part of the the Monster Energy 50th 1000 [Music] this year's bomb 1000 was supposed to be easy so a lot of people get to finish it was the gnarliest ball 1000 I've ever even been around we pass over 70 ice is what we think so we think we finished 29th overall started a hundred so honestly like to do that as pretty per se I already saw fruit because my family got me into it and the reason why I stayed in it for 35 years because the bajas a part of my family part of our culture and the people of Bihar so awesome you can't really put it into words what Baja is and off-road racing but together they're magic [Music] spicy margaritas time to get lit let's go tired

Channel: Monster Energy

Views: 3,392,164

Keywords: Monster Energy, Monster, baja 1000, 50th anniversary, bj baldwin, casey currie, herbst, terrible herbst, trophy truck, offroad, crash, fire, killed, gopro, red bull, racing, motorsports, mexico, shannon campbell

Id: i85ya5wpTzA

Length: 12min 47sec (767 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 05 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/tat2d777]

Its the "50th anniversary of the Baja 1000 and that's only going to happen once in my lifetime".. Thanks Cam..

I hope I live to the second 50th anniversary

[u/TonySki]

So the Baja 1000 isn't 1000 miles? LIES!