Official UTVUnderground 2014 Baja 1000 Photos / Story / Official Results
- Thread starter JoeyD23
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Joey, Mad Media, Polaris... I want to send a huge thanks for putting out the effort and $$$ to cover the races as well as you do! You not only entertain aspiring arm chair racers like myself, you inspire us to build cars and enter races and events most of us used to only dream about... to hear the stories and see the photos and now in car video shot and played while the race continues on, you truly have driven the sport! It's awesome to know that you can pour your heart out into a build, show up at a race, and a top notch media outlet will cover your story and allow everyone to see the fruits of your labor and passion for racing in the dezert...Thanks again for all you guys do
sand shark
Well-Known Member
What an amazing story for an amazing race! Thanks Joey and team for providing great coverage and pictures of the race.
Can't wait for the video.
Can't wait for the video.
crazywatson
#13 - UTVUnderground Approved
That was a awesome write up and coverage! I really appreciate the hard work and sleepless hours. 
facteryfmf
Looking For a Few Good Men - UTVUnderground Approv
One last taco and quesidilla before leaving Ensenada!
SimsMotorsports
Factory Polaris #1913
Well 32 hours after leaving La Paz we have finally ate our first meal and have turned the trucks off for the first time here in Yuma! I didn't think the drive home was going to be this miserable lol
SimsMotorsports
Factory Polaris #1913
Hahaha that's too funny we were just commenting about how we can feel Team South's pain now! You guys are the real deal and your dedication is unbelievable! Your sweet taste of victory is right around the corner I'm sure of it!
Markflexes
Tear It Up 2011 RZR XP
You said it. That was one long ass mother of a trip back from La Paz. The Southern group of the JX crew left Saturday mid morning and didn't get back until midnight last night. The trip down is broken up so it did not seem as bad. All in all a cool adventure, though.
Your not the first or only ones! Now that you have experienced it, you will start to notice how many trailers have a complete extra axle mounted under the deck of the trailer for this very reason. I personally have not bent up an axle, but several of the teams I have raced or helped over the years have. One of the first I saw carrying a spare axle was Corky McMillin. He caught one of those 1 foot tall concrete storm drain walls which is inches from the shoulder and ripped an axle out of an enclosed trailer going south on Hwy 1. After that all McMillin trailers had spare axles mounted underneath them.
On my trailer I welded an eyelet right above each axle on the frame. This way if I blew a tire and did not have another spare, or bent or broke the springs, I could jack up the axle and chain it up to the frame. Its not ideal, but it could be limped home that way.
If you pay attention on the way back from a La Paz finish Baja 1000, you will notice F350's with missing drivers side mirrors, and trailers with right side tire, axle and just general damage. You see & hear all the time that some simi truck took off some guys mirror as then were passing. My buddy lost his and in the impact the mirror glass fragments were imbedded in the driver side window. It was crazy scary!
Years ago I saw a race car being driven on the hwy 1 behind a truck with an empty trailer. I guess they broke an axle and the best option they had was to unload the trailer and limp it back to the nearest town or all the way home. If I'm remembering right they were just south of San Quentin heading North.
You think the race is the only event, until you have to haul it all home. Its like part 2 of the Baja 1000.
facteryfmf
Looking For a Few Good Men - UTVUnderground Approv
Uh here is ours ably half way back to Ensenada. It only got worse after this pic. ..
What caused the aluminum skin to come off? Did they add the plywood or is that the inner panel we see?
BrianReno
Member
That sucks Jim...
BiggJim
I Hate Rules - UTVUnderground Approved
The curb incident sucked but the repair was made fairly quicky, 2 new tires and rims, weld the axle into place on the spring and carry on. Launching the "family truckster" 100 yards into the desrt almost broke me....i was actually claiming im not returning to baja. IT took 6.5 hours to recover the truck and trailer from the desert.
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