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October 23, 2007
Baja 1000 Pre-Run Suicide
Here's a podcast from some knuckleheads talking about the 2007 Baja 1000 course. Here's a quote from the audio:
Knucklehead 1: "Be careful when you get to this part of the course. It's a really hot part of the course, and you come up over this little rise, and it looks like the course goes straight, but it drops sharply down to the right. I came over this going 120, right on my friends bumper, and I went flying through the air and landed about three hundred yards down the hill and rolled 8 times."
Knucklehead 2: "Those things happen. After that though, it's pretty flat for a good ways...."
The trophy trucks go 140 mph in the race. Listening to this makes me glad I decided to stay home. It sounds like suicide.
Posted by Rob Kiser on October 23, 2007 at 9:05 AM
Comments
Yer an idiot, you know nothing about Baja racing and no idea who these guys are. The guys on this podcast are some of the best offroad racers in the world. Why waste your time listening to this stuff if you think people like us are knuckleheads?
Posted by: AlaskaBaja on October 30, 2007 at 12:42 PM
Uh...dude...I think you got me wrong there genius. I have no doubt that these guys are among the best, if not THE best Baja riders on the planet. By knucklehead, I mean sort of "crazy gear-head". In that, you have to be not only a great rider, but also a little crazy to be a great Baja rider. The guy that wins is the guy that doesn't hold back. So, you have to be a little wild/crazy/insane to compete in the Baja. That's what I meant by knucklehead. Not dumb or incompetent, just a little crazy.
Posted by: Rob Kiser on October 30, 2007 at 5:58 PM