Results of the 2007 Baja 1000 - On and Off the Course

The team Rivera, Trophy truck with Mark Post, Rob MacCachren and Carl Renezeder followed with a finish of 25 hours, 21minutes and 25 seconds, with an average speed of 51.13mph. You must realize that while these vehicles easily run over 100 mph for much of the race, they have to slow down over the very rough, tight and silted areas of the course which of course drops there average speeds. For the rest of the race results in all categories please visit the official SCORE site at http://www.score-international.com

Even as the weekend celebrations began there was still a lot of confusion as to some of the events that happened during the beginning of the race. Especially concerning a helicopter crash that had originally been reported as carrying media for the race turned out to be people associated with the drug cartel of Northern Baja. This was confirmed when the morgue that had two of the bodies from the crash was invaded by an army of drug cartel commandos in many SUV’s to retrieve the bodies and escape having killed two more police officers and detained two forensic doctors. It was truly unfortunate as the helicopter hit power lines that affected the race and it’s participants as well as interrupted the electrical service for the town of San Felipe and now has created a black cloud over the 40th year anniversary. There is even talk on the net and in some newspapers that there are Mexican officials that want to charge the famous SCORE, CEO,race director and promoter Sal Fish, with murder or in some way hold him responsible; which is pretty ridiculous when he has no control over the airspace of Baja and is just trying to give the world one of the greatest sporting events ever.

Another much smaller black cloud was the lack of planning for traffic at the finish area in Cabo. For two days people were held up entering and leaving Cabo San Lucas whether they were interested in the race or not. Hopefully they will bring the race once again to Cabo as it makes for a great finish, but let’s hope the local police can help by planning the traffic flow a bit better so as to not affect tourist and locals transportation so greatly.

We here at the BajaInsider would like to thank all of those involved in trying to create an unforgettable event for all of Baja and the 350,000 spectators. We are sorry to hear that this black cloud has somewhat over shadowed the dust cloud created by all these great sportsmen and of course the legendary Sal Fish that has made this race his life.

If you are interested in learning more about this incredible race be sure to visit the SCORE website and also if you would like to experience the race you can see the DVD “Dust to Glory” a documentary created about 4 years ago about this world famous race. There will also be television coverage on ESPN on the 30th of December and several other networks that you may see their schedule of air times on the SCORE website http://www.score-international.com .