Into The Dust 2 (Full Movie)

channel [Music] okay here comes the bike guys that's him i went down like four times four miles ago i went in hard rain ditch [Music] larry just got in he hit some rocks so he went down a couple of times trying to get away from the trucks so we're gonna take a break and see how it goes after this [Music] the baja 1000 is one of the most dangerous places on earth this race is nothing close to safe one of the roughest races in the world people die every year it's as simple as that trophy trucks running up on you if you don't get out of the way they'll run you over it's hot it's cold it's dirty it's dusty it's rocky it's treacherous it's a boulder on the left it's a sharp edge rock on the right a cactus on on the inside of a turn it's just hazard after hazard after hazard and you have to be able to deal with and survive all these elements it's a gnarly gnarly race [Music] when my son tanner and i and some of our friends went on a recreational tour in baja javier our guide told us we were on the baja 1000 course a legendary off-road race across the desert my son tanner decided that we should enter the race and i thought oh my gosh we were actually down here riding dirt bikes in the desert when tanner and larry said that they were going to run the baja 1000 and we thought they were crazy in 2015 with the help of chris haynes motorcycle adventure company we entered that race in the sportsman class a mixed age motorcycle class larry came to us with you know hopes of him and his son competing and actually finishing the event they had no idea what to expect they had never competed in anything of this magnitude in their lives as father and son we would be competing against teams of four five and six riders who could divide the miles among them we would have to split the 822 miles between just the two of us a two-man team one bike non-stop across the hostel desert tanner and i have been riding together since he was five years old and here we were taking on one of the greatest races in the world as father and son having six guys on the team would make it easier but it wasn't about as making it as easy as possible it was about finding a way and digging deep enough that the two of us could finish it's wild out there anything can happen at any moment especially when you're riding that at really high speed [Music] 11 hours in less than halfway through the race we were leading our class then tanner broke the front brake off the bike and took hours to limp it into our pit javier worked hard to get us back in the race take a break i'll fix this guys [Music] we're in third place an hour behind the leader with 400 miles to go it's a great personal moving story about you know challenge of this race and how they competed and how they met the different things during the race and overcame them headlines the headlights falling off they came down here and give it their all i can't believe there's a cliffhanger ending to the baja 1000. we were hoping that larry and santana would be at the finish line first time out of the box it won the thing we were all amazed at 25 and a half hours tanner crossed the finish line 30 seconds before the competition never in the history of the race had there been a father and son team to win on a motorcycle it was an experience of a lifetime [Music] after we won the race in the sportsman class in 2015 you don't think about doing it again you're like okay good it's over tanner is 22 years old he's an extreme athlete and he's always up for a challenge so he decided that he was going to enter the iron man class in the baja 1000 in 2016. the ironman class is nuts the ironman motorcycle class is one rider riding the full distance of the baja 1000 course he's gonna take the baja on solo and run the whole thing by himself regardless of what happens day and night the baja 1000 is the single longest race in north america and for an ironman i think is the toughest race that there is it's one guy and a thousand miles of pure pain and just trying to get your body to push through the limits that you don't even think are possible so i'm thinking hey i lost my teammate here i'm alone you know what am i going to do well i could ride in the chase truck but i thought no i need to enter this race awesome this race is going to be gnarly gnarly [Music] the course is laid out differently each year this year the race would be 854 miles with a 36 hour time limit so if you want to stand a chance of finishing the baja 1000 one thing you have to do is pre-run the course sometimes if you live local you can just go out your backyard and start pre-running sections of the course if you're on a team you just have to pre-run your 170 miles that's all you have to do and you can pre-run it five times so you get to know it really well if you can you ride it more than once but in iron man that's a huge commitment [Music] this is completely on the rider i'm the one rider to take it all the way so it's a bigger challenge and that's what excites me about this race about six seconds into pre-running i hit a watermelon sized rock and went over the bars [Music] okay yeah sure yeah what happened apparently my front wheel is a giant boulder that was in a shadow that i didn't see damn he was on the bike for 20 seconds and he was over the park and then the bike bend him down so that just shows you how dangerous baja is you have to be alert all the time there were shadows from a bush on the rock and the the rock color was exactly the shadow color so it was totally camouflaged and here's this thing sticking up almost a foot i'm a little concerned that after 20 hours of riding that your mind gets a little foggy your reaction time is not as good and your vision and your alertness is not as good and it just takes one second and you're down and uh that's the question of what are you going to hit when you go down just got to be alert well we're pre-running here we're at mile 607 or so we got a long whoop section and tanner just crashed about two miles ago went over the bars and now he's got a cactus in his hand how's it feel tanner ah do you have like little micro barbs what possible difference could it make to take four days to ride one lap over 855 miles think about how far that is from your home now think about traversing that far through the wilderness how could you remember every turn for older route and hazard that's what i was thinking but amazingly it helps dramatically with practice you can make a strategy and be mentally prepared it can also scare the crap out of you when you realize the magnitude of what you signed up for [Applause] [Music] during the race you're not gonna be able to see the lines there's gonna be four bikes in there even though i rode 400 miles in last year's race the most i ever ridden non-stop was 270 miles and i felt half dead afterwards this race i'll need to ride more than three times as far seems almost impossible but we're going gonna find out just how difficult it is on race day [Music] baja thousand is an amazing event it's got a great legacy in that a lot of people have raced this thing over the years and there's a huge lineage of very famous drivers and riders alike that have competed here which kind of adds to the mystique of it it's unreal to see the heritage that's out of this place and just a tradition that you can experience just from being here in a couple days the courses are legendary it's one of the toughest things you can do in off-roading what makes it different is that it's not over-regulated like a lot of the events that are held in the states and other places which makes it really unique you know we race through towns and villages and down the highway across the desert it's just really quite a thing and you know they also attract competitors from all over the world it's not unusual to have people here from 20 different countries competing although the danger and injuries and in life and death is part of this thing and i think that's a lot of what drives people here it's a really compelling event to live through and make it to the end let alone get good results two days before the race we met in a field to ride our race bikes for the first time we had to shake down those bikes to find problems before the race tanner and i were happy to have our crew back from the previous race chris haynes jimmy holley javier gonzalez and chad newman to support us during the race race bike feels awesome you know my personal mission statement is an extraordinary life of shared experiences and so i brought some friends to follow the chase trucks and a secondary chase vehicle for tanner's team and for my team so that when we come into our pit we see familiar faces the mountains are beautiful spectacular coming over we learned a lot from the previous race last year our gps gps's stopped working and gave us false information we had new gps systems this year with bigger screens that made them easier to see at this time of year there's 11 hours of daylight and 13 hours of darkness last year we had big round hid headlights this year we had smaller led lights which was a big improvement with the race only two days away i wanted to rest and let my hands and arms fully recover from pre-running but just testing and adjusting the bike we ended up riding over 100 miles that day [Music] when we first decided to do the iron man for two or three months afterwards there was times i was scared to death most riders are smart enough not to enter their iron man and the ones that are crazy enough to enter most don't finish you know like an overwhelming margin you've got to push yourself in life you've got to try to exceed what you used to think are your limits personal growth is about expanding it's about being willing to fail because honestly i don't know what's going to happen it could be over after a mile sometimes you'll fail but sometimes you won't and sometimes you'll finish if you tackle big challenges like this when you go back to you know sort of normal civilian life the challenges don't seem so big anymore [Music] i think there's something inside a man for him to discover himself and the iron man classes you're going to discover what you got countless hours of training and preparation were behind us now we're at the starting line never before in the history of baja racing had a father and son entered the iron man class they lined all the iron men up i was fourth in line and tanner was fifth the iron man class was filled with elite athletes the best endurance riders in the world my son among them only the top riders would be crazy enough to enter this class at age 52 i'd be the oldest to attempt the iron man part of me wondered if i really had what it took to be here i was about to find out the 49th running of the baja 1000 was now underway hopefully by this time tomorrow we'd be nearing the finish line back here in ensenada about eight miles in tanner passed me go son you got this [Music] if you're out on a recreational ride in baja 100 miles is a long day we had done more than that by 9 00 am [Music] oh it was 80 miles to the first chase truck stop at santo tomas tanner came in and was doing great he only stopped for a few seconds and he was gone [Music] pretty level headed yeah he's he's in the zone [Music] all the bikes are bunched up you know and the still i mean i'm telling you you couldn't see there's times you couldn't see two feet as stocks i'm not charging into the dust after this guy i stopped for a few minutes and then was back on course in the old days there was no speed limit for race vehicles on the few paved roads that are in baja and the course goes on to those paved roads to go ahead and make a transition to get into the desert on the other side of that road well there was a lot of gnarly accidents between race vehicles and local traffic that was still on the road the locals may not even know a race was going on so now there are speed limits on the paved road either 60 miles an hour for open highway or 37 miles an hour through towns and [Music] ranches [Music] tanner pulled into a baja pit and the first and second place riders were there right next to him waiting for gas well there should be no waiting at a baja pit fueled them first but the guy ran out of gas in the camp so tanner told him he needed more then the guy's second gas can ran out and tanner's tank still wasn't full he had to go get a third can to finally top him off it's the rider's responsibility to make sure they have enough gas to get to the next gas pit if you run out of gas your race is probably whoops are another big issue the wheel traffic from race traffic over the years and no one grooming the course makes waves in the sand and they could be three feet deep and so your bike is g out into the bottoms of these over and over again incredible stress on your legs and your shoulders and your hands and your arms and it's really difficult you can have a whoop section that is 50 miles long unbroken tanner was flying he came into his chase truck stop in first place [Music] [Music] we're doing exactly what we need to do boys just be slow and smooth you came into the first stop uh half an hour in front of your dad so you really put the meat on him on that one i was trying to make up ground fast yeah you were doing good you came in uh you came in first yeah teams are in first yeah i passed the last two guys like right before i got [Music] ah i almost lost it just two miles before i saw my chase truck there was a rise on the course and i slowed up to see what was on the other side sure enough there was a trench about 15 feet across and it had water in it when i saw how to jump this thing i was going too slow my front wheel hit the vertical face of the hole on the other side i went from 25 miles an hour to a near dead stop and i almost went over the handlebars when the back wheel finally dropped i thought wow i was lucky but then i realized i'd hurt my neck you plan all year you prep yourself and in one split second it could be over i thought well as long as i could still ride i'm gonna ride and i've got a year to heal up you know if necessary but i need to stick in this race and i don't quit and i just went on it was almost over tanner's at 267. nice he's gonna do it [Music] when i got back on the bike for my third leg i hoped i could just shake it off meanwhile tanner hustled to his chase truck at the el rosario bridge [Music] having fun yet come on tanner we're having a blast you know that plenty of water yep i'll stop longer at the next one [Music] [Music] [Music] i pulled up on a racer that just crashed in front of me you okay he didn't speak english and just point it down your name do you want me to do you want me to tell them yeah it's okay we're at 223 i'll tell them 211 that's 223. his race was likely over there was nothing i could do a simple mistake can cost you the race and even severe injury the difficulty of riding in baja cannot be overstated to ride a motorcycle over bowling ball-sized rocks up steep hills you better have some serious skills lots of energy and guts we're about pit five and they're doing great maintaining momentum we're in third position right now we're doing good and it's gonna come on strong here in the next hundred miles and that's where everybody's gonna start slowing down so that's where our boy's gonna shine tanner was battling through his own race he battled dust the terrain other riders and pain especially in his hands [Music] he approached a drop in elevation and skidded to a stop to find it was eight feet straight down it was the wall of a wash a dry riverbed an eight-foot drop where you're slowing down would likely have you landing on your head and the bike right behind you to pile drive you into the ground sometimes you gotta hang it out there and take a chance to cast someone this rider almost went over the bars as he hits just one of a billion rocks yeah i want to tell you 211x he went down at mile 223. he bent the shifter and he hurt his knee okay reporting down or hurt riders is one way of letting concerned teams know where their riders are i need a sandwich [Music] every step of this race we planned i knew where i should be at what time exactly and i would always ask my team where am i according to plan and then i know how much cushion i have to finish at the end of the race so how am i doing according to plan last time you're on a 30 mile an hour average we expected a 35 and then we expected you here in another six minutes we're up mile 250 255 and what time did i start so you start at 6 16 what time is it now 2 40. probably eight and a half hours i'm almost the third done that's good yeah you got your legs bendy again [Applause] [Music] [Applause] okay thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] so the first helicopter approached we knew what that meant the first trophy truck was coming through [Music] the dragons were coming now the race was about to change again with the trophy trucks there's two hazards one they run you over two the dust they throw in the air makes you lose your visibility and you'll hit something and crash yourself first of all the sound is awesome you're watching them going over the whoops the ups and downs and you look at the suspension of that truck going up three feet and just moving like crazy and you look at the rider in there and it's smooth and you say how is that humanly possible [Music] i tell you this really helps i could win this iron man so i got secret weapons right here the other guys they don't have that who and iron man joe you're so much oh they wouldn't let anybody do this no old guys no stuff the next leg of the race would be the hardest leg of all for me 125 miles mostly rocks it would get dark and would take five hours or more to get through [Music] drive safe all right 16 inch deep silt is a huge challenge on a motorcycle and every racing truck that came through made it worse just getting out of the way of four wheeled vehicles is a challenge it's hard to get off the course when it's lined with rocks cactus and brush oftentimes you could crash just trying to get out of the way my neck was injured i had to admit it and these rocks were making it worse it was hard to find a comfortable riding position to take the pressure off my neck my helmet felt like it weighed 50 pounds [Music] turning my head around to see them coming is getting very painful [Music] i realize my left wrist was also injured i could feel five distinct tendons running up my arm towards my elbow like piano strings they were electrified and hot i tried to adjust my grip to ease the [Music] paint [Music] we're standing here waiting for tanner to come in it's dark now wait for him to get here to put on his headlights and give him his jacket and get him some food so we keep going through the night pick up the bike guys how you feeling terrible [Music] at mile 400 the worst case scenario happened to tanner in the night his lights failed they went out he said that he had the same glitch problem because he was having we were testing where it went from right again and then dim and then quit so it's probably a problem with the light tanner remembered that jimmy set up an entirely different circuit to plug the lights into he got his wire cutters out cut a wire tie to unfold the new plug and plugged his main light into the spare circuit it worked when his lights went out it could have suspended his race until sunrise but jimmy's extra circuit saved his race [Applause] riding a dirt bike in this rough terrain takes a huge toll on your hands wrists and forearms shoulders hurting yeah just on the left side i've looked like a torn muscle there a second we'll do that i was really struggling i had to pull over and lay down on the gravel just for a couple minutes to get the weight off of my neck and it was just mercy when my helmet touched the ground and it was relief but i couldn't lay there for long i had to get up and keep going [Applause] the trucks never stop coming by forcing me to pull over wait for them to pass and their dust to clear in the still of the night the dust was in no hurry to let me see again a truck came up on me so fast and i didn't hear him and i fell getting out of the way it wouldn't be the last time my wrist was emerging as a significant injury making it hard to hold on i saw a face in the darkness and i stopped it was a stranded rider [Applause] it turned out to be six miles to the pit i thought about this the last baja pit which is the gas stop was supposed to be at mile 305 instead it was at mile 289 this interval was 16 miles longer without fuel this rider ran out of gas in the middle of the night in the middle of the desert six miles before the next gas pit that wasn't his fault that's a hell of a way to end your race [Music] [Music] i like that baby all right i like that [Music] [Music] [Music] how you doing terrible okay you want to take a break still running and forth you're doing good take five minutes race mile 505 update for tanner he just came in out of the mountains uh said he turned around to look at a trophy truck coming up behind him and he hit a rock and went down pretty hard put his left hand out landed on a rock put a pretty good significant bruise thumb he come in not very happy you come in pretty winded becoming ready to quit you will hey you can do this all right let's see what you got we're at buddy what's happening like we're at area okay okay you want to take your glove off and look at it wow okay sit down sit here say don't need a banana i'll get it ready for you at this point forget all your technicalities all the all the hard work and math that you put into this and dig deep and focus on that checkered flag don't worry about the numbers there before they pack it up well you will trust me you will average at least stop worrying about the average we're going to focus on moving feeling everything else good jesus man everything's going to hurt dude everything's going to hurt embrace the suck you do it it's 17 hours into the race when you've given all you had and gone hours and hours beyond that you find out what you're really capable of we put him back straight he's on the road so we're kicking ass and taking names again and uh we're keeping on keeping on [Music] check your radiator is really good okay larry just got in get some rocks so he went down a couple of times trying to get away from the trucks he's really tired his hands aren't working very well so we're gonna take a break and see how it goes after this [Music] get warmed up take this yep [Laughter] he had to pull the bike out of a ditch he's he's just a tired man right now but he'll be fine his mind is good you saw the trucks when they came by the dust was so bad [Music] imagine him on the course one after another after another without warning they just come up on this and they have a warning system but they weren't using them it was 36 degrees out and windy and the team was frozen and i was frozen and they asked me if i want to get in the warm van and take a rest and i said i really did and i laid down the back seat of the truck and i told him to wake me up in 30 minutes jimmy and chris suggested that we just let him take an hour these cars are gonna start separating more and uh he's not gonna feel any better at 45 i don't think maybe an hour or even an hour and a half or even two i gotta think of time it's a 36 hour cap 17 hours on the bike already his race but if his hands don't work it's dangerous and we're gonna lose that time anyway i say we rest let him rest [Music] after 50 minutes i got up on my own i'd been struggling with trucks and dust and my neck for hours the pain was so bad i felt sick the team saw my condition and had serious doubts of whether i could or would go on that was tanner tanner told chad to send me a message over the radio keep going and that meant a lot to me and it really gave me a burst of energy and pulled me forward yeah all right [Music] the sun bakes the earth the soil is parched and wheel traffic pulverizes this dust into silt the weightless silt leaps into the air and is in no hurry to settle it blinds you especially at night when your headlights reflect off the dust like driving at night in a heavy fog the trophy trucks make deep parallel ruts and in places you have to pick one of them you have no other choice your eye sees the top surface of the silt and your brain processes that that's where your wheels will be riding but your wheels sink down six inches eight inches 10 or 12 inches into the silt and underneath there could be embedded rocks it's very hazardous [Music] [Music] so iron man [Music] [Music] [Music] significant injury and exhaustion had me making mistakes a fresh me would not make not getting up is not an option you can't just lay there to get run over or freeze to death you have to get up and keep going thanks guys when uh tanner pulled in at mile marker 520 you could see the despair in his eyes he looked like he was ready to throw it in he was shivering he was cold he was miserable we knew that we needed to get him back on track and you know help him to get his spirits up and get him going [Music] again when i saw him at the next stop it was a night and day difference you can see it in his eyes you know he had the player in his belly again and uh you can see he was going after it you're right on your mark you left there at 135 245 [Music] i came out to the road and my shirts underneath my jacket were soaked with sweat and my neck the bike fell on my right side one time and the header pipe burned right through my pants and i felt a searing pain in my leg it burned me bad trophy truck comes by you you can't see a person's thing my helmet feels like a waste 50 pounds on my head my neck is screwed up that feels good that's what i need doing any food sandwich i feel nauseous so are you guys holding up that's another one i think we're a little better than you there was a big rain rut i mean i couldn't see it in the dust like huge and it was gnarly like it went like a snake like a foot and a half deep like and my front wheel went in it oh man i just managed to stop before my back wheel fully went in it and i dropped the bike and here comes the freaking buggy behind me so i turn those helmet lights on the blinker once i'm laying across the course this dude is gonna run me over [Music] well i'm more than halfway there trevor what's the math tell me the truth how many hours am i gonna take to finish at this rate now i definitely took the brunt of it i mean the devil is behind me you know what i mean yeah you have been riding for 21 hours and 17 minutes i have yes and we're off to my current pace your total time is going 40 hours so you've got another 19 ahead of you well the fast part is coming up the faster parts that all that crap was the slowest part and the dust there's less and less buggies passing me now you know being that i'm gonna be the last one on the course i'll have a clear track i had never felt this spent and beat up in my entire life but if tanner was still out there i wasn't quitting i hardly noticed it at first but the sky began getting light giving me renewed hope so so you're doing good proud of you what did i tell you you got your second win you got rolling you got a break i know we got two more to go it seemed like he was gonna get through it in between he said he was getting really tired but every time he came into a new pit it was almost like recharging his batteries i think mentally he was very tired but he knew that he needed to get it done you want to go more about by the fire a little bit or what do you want okay look at my dad he hasn't got mike yet oh wow you're right yeah only 150 more miles that's it that's it all right welcome back maybe we're there this is where your training is going to kick in this last quarter [Music] all right [Music] [Music] i got through a really difficult section and it was about mile 5 55 or so i saw my crew and i was in bad shape and they they massaged my neck and my shoulders and i got a little something to eat and you know i was a little excited because the sun was coming up and the next section of the course was easy at least that's how it wasn't pre-running now it was washboarded [Music] [Applause] and that vibration i should have been going 50 miles an hour on that road and i was going 20. and even then i had to stop and just catch my breath from the pain [Music] at that moment when i observed myself stopping to catch my breath i knew i was seriously messed up [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] at mile 590 i knew if i couldn't hold my head up i couldn't ride i knew what that meant and cried in my helmet not for what i didn't do or for what i did javier pretended not to notice and gave me space i decided to go 10 more miles and meet my team and mile 600. as i rode down the smooth paved road i couldn't hold my head up i lifted one shoulder and tipped my helmet to rest it on my neck brace meanwhile tanner was ahead of me closing in on the finish staying off baby all my hard work's paying off we're almost there brother one more time exhausted tanner pressed to the finish line but his challenges were far from over [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] a buggy was stuck on a hill in deep ruts tanner had to stop another buggy came ripping up the hill and tanner tried to flag him the buggy's tires ran over tanner's wheels pressing them into the ground if his wheels were bent his race was [Music] over [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] just getting out of 18-inch deep ruts when you're exhausted is a huge challenge [Music] um [Music] hmm i made 600 miles i've been riding for 27 hours and 10 minutes and i got hurt at mile 209 and i hurt my neck and i hurt my left wrist and i've been riding with them for 400 miles and i can't hold my head up anymore so i'm gonna have to tap out it's not the result [Music] that i was looking for but sometimes you win you know they ever rode before one day was 270 miles i thought it almost killed me but now i've done 600. [Music] didn't kill me hopefully tanner's finishing by now [Music] father and son with the goal of both finishing the baja 1000 iron man for the father it wasn't going to happen but what about the sun [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so so [Music] hey [Music] good job congratulations tanner you did it i'm done i'm on my way back i went to 600 and i couldn't do any more i couldn't hold my head up my neck is messed up [Music] he's on the podium he just pulled up his body sticks the camera i mean he sounds fine he's like you know tanner right congratulations tanner thanks you okay yeah no drama zero drama tanner crossed the finish line in 28 and a half hours in sixth place to become the 14th rider in history to finish the baja 1000 iron man you just sold the baja 1000 and you made it to the finish line that is a huge feat yeah it's indescribable the feeling i gotta thank uh my whole crew especially chad we're looking forward to seeing you next year you're gonna come out to the 50th anniversary here next november not really sure what the future of desert racing is for me they all say that especially the iron [Applause] [Music] man [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 66min 47sec (4007 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 28 2020