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They call it the most challenging automobile race in the harshest racing conditions on the planet: the Baja 1000 in Mexico. The event organizer has announced a new challenge: develop solar-powered electric vehicles to compete in next year’s race. Organizer SCORE and Redstone Energy Group aiming for the best and brightest electric vehicle and solar technology fields to work with racing teams to develop an electric-powered “EVPV” Baja race vehicle with battery charging provided by solar power. The organizers hope the challenge will serve as a catalyst for developing the clean technologies of the future and, in turn, help reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. Racing has always translated to big advances on the highways.
“The goal is to apply technology and ingenuity, at which our nation excels, to create world-changing results,” said SCORE President & CEO, Sal Fish in announcing the new car-racing division and challenge cup.
“By demonstrating that the technology can maneuver the rugged terrain of an off-road racecourse for 1,000 miles, this will show the world that this technology is more than ready for use in typical urban commuter settings,” added Sun Cup Challenge and Redstone Energy Group co-founder, Rick Skelton. Read More→
Everything for the Menzies Motorsports team boiled down to one last race and what may be the biggest race of their 2011 season. Their first ever SCORE Baja 1000 took place just over a week ago and they continued right where they left off and that is by letting the fans, sponsors and fellow drivers know that they are an unstoppable team. The 44th annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 was said to be one of the toughest Baja 1000’s to date, but that didn’t stop Bryce Menzies and Co-Driver Peter Mortensen from taking to the start line. The race was set to start with the first Trophy Truck off the line at 11:30am but with racing and staging ahead of schedule, the race started roughly 15 minutes ahead of the planned start time. Jesse James was the first Trophy Truck Read More→
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Andy and Scott McMillin captured SCORE Trophy Truck & overall 4 wheel victory and Norman/Cody/Holladay win overall Motorcycle at 44th Tecate SCORE Baja 1000. Menzies finishes third in SCORE Trophy Truck to capture class & 2011 overall Desert Series SCORE point title. The 705-mile loop race started and finished in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. Nick Vanderwey, Trophy Truck #84 after the race: “What a race – holy moly!” Vanderwey finished second in class and second overall four-wheel vehicle. Vanderwey shared driving duties with Curt LeDuc. For the second time in three years, the Southern California son and father race team of Andy and Scott McMillin have etched Read More→
Baja 1000 best story in a long time. Kane Fraser watched “Dust to Glory” last year and said to himself “I can do that”. He is a paraplegic who doesn’t sit around feeling sorry for himself. So he gets a UTV, pimps it out including hand controls and heads to Baja and the start line for the 1000. Out in front in the middle of the night he heads off towards the Mike’s section without doing the SF loop. He finally figured it out, got an access road back to Valle de Trinidad and then the highway back to Borego. He overshoots the turn down to Matomi but eventually gets back on course. So over 12 hours later running the San Felipe loop and he is going to do the Mike’s section again. Hammering away at it with a bunch of new fans he doesn’t yet know he has. Trophy Truck #7 Read More→
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We will have some for you right in time….. – 19:18, sorry folks on the down time, we had some “friendly” people “play” with our server. It’s not that we have under-dimensioned servers, heck no, we can (and do at other occasions) handle way higher loads, no we got a thing that is called a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) at several of our websites. Mainly fishy competitors resolve to such activities.
We do have a pretty clear idea where it came from and will publish any findings when we have proof on that. Ain’t like we have no geeks that can deal with such stuff. We run this site more as hobby instead (therefore also often the not corrected english, no copywriters here) a source of income and we just believe in the good of people Read More→
Armin Schwarz and All German Motorsports are well prepared for the race debut of the AGM-Jimco X6 SCORE Trophy Truck at the legendary Baja 1000. After the official presentation in Leipzig (GER), the AGM-Jimco X6 SCORE Trophy Truck now heads to its natural habitat – the desert. For the race premiere of the new vehicle, Armin Schwarz and All German Motorsports have sought out an infamous classic: the legendary Baja 1000 with its start and finish in Ensenada on the Baja California peninsula in Mexico. The final round of the US SCORE Championship is held on 18th and 19th November. 2011 marks the 44th running of this famous rally. Read More→
45th Anniversary celebration of legendary Baja 1000 in La Paz, Baja California Sur highlights five-race 2012 Desert Series. SCORE will celebrate November’s 2012 45th Racing Extravaganza down Mexico’s Baja Peninsula in La Paz. SCORE International today officially announced the finalized schedule for the five race 2012 SCORE Desert Series. SCORE’s 2012 season will culminate with the massive 45th anniversary celebration of the legendary Tecate SCORE Baja 1000. The season will start in Southern Nevada with the 18th Annual SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge. With Las Vegas Events this week approving SCORE to produce the 18th annual SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge, SCORE has announced plans to make each day of the two-day Laughlin event separate race events for purposes of championship points, prize money and trophies. Further, SCORE also announced Read More→
Race course map for the 44th Baja 1000 now available from Puro Off-Road to view online. No need to download files and run google earth, we made this race map from the original SCORE GPS file. You can view the map by clicking the image. This should work in any browser, however, if you have problems to see the Baja 1000 course you can also visit our race map page and select the Baja 1000 map here. The 692.82 mile / 1114.985 kilometer race course is a combination of much of the 2008 and the 2009 courses. The rugged course that travels from Ensenada east through Ojos Negros, down Laguna Salada to San Felipe, down through the three legendary Baja canyon washes of Matomi, Huatomote and Chanate, joining familiar routes to the six-mile turnoff before Mike’s Sky Rancho, heading over to the Pacific Coast crossing Highway 1 near San Vicente Read More→
