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Outer Bounds Racing Baja 1000
We are finally back in the
US. A few of us are about to head out to celebrate.
The
final scores are in and I hear that we claimed 4th in class 1 bar
any pentaltys. Not bad for the first time out ay???
We had a
very clean run, Dad had to nurse the car to the first driver change at the
220mile mark with no rear right limit strap. Light bars on, new limit strap
a dash of fuel and Travis was off to tackle the famous San Felipe whoops.
Trav kept it on the track and managed to pass a few cars but the limit strap
let go again so yet another limit strap was put on the car and he eventually
made it to my pit at race mile 400 with the Jimco running 100%. New set of
rear tyres(thanks to Danny B’s killa tyre changing skills), fuel and I was
off into the darkness at roughly 9:00PM.
Lil’
John(our navi who soloed the whole race) and I looked after the car the best
we could, the fog on the beach section aswell as the rain was hard to
contend with but we made it to the 530Mile mark where we got on the highway
and headed into the worst part of my section. We had heard the silt was bad
but we were not expecting it to be as bad as it was. We got through it
fairly well apart from one excursion down the side of a mountain.
8 hours
after I got in Dad, Travis, Danny and Jordy fueled me up 40miles from the
finish and it was all clean sailing from there.
Not
sure of the actual time it took for us to complete but I think we would of
done it in roughly 18hours.
It was a
huge effort from everyone who helped us including all the guys from Jimco,
Mastercraft, the Lofton family, Gay Smith and our 2 sets of crews in the
Chase trucks.
A huge
thank you to BFGoodrich Tyres, you guys build the best tyre in the business.
Who would have that we could go the whole race without having a single flat?
Coming
into the Finish line it was amazing to see the response from all the major
American teams who at the start completely disregarded us as a threat. We
just kept it clean and made sure we made no mistakes and look where it got
us. There are a lot of guys that are now seriously considering contesting an
event in the AORC because it’s clear to them now that the “Aussies” are a
very competitive bunch……
Thanks
to everyone for your supportive emails and texts it’s greatly appreciated
and I hope we made you all proud…
If
anyone wants high res photos just let me know which ones.....
Cheers,
The Robinsons
Car #113
4th in Class 1
2008 Score Baja 1000
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