Good morning fellow racers, for a final time (for 2013 Baja updates anyway)!
I received a call from Paul Nauleau last night around 9:30pm. CBCFS racing, 1116, and crew were all back home, safe and sound. Congratulations guys! 760 miles of the worst Baja 1000 in history and second place certainly has earned you bragging rights.
Time for explanations for everyone who has been watching! Going back to our photos posts down there from Saturday night, remember when they were stopped for a bit? It was a terrible section, so Ryan and Nate decided to do some camping and get the rest they certainly needed and deserved. Paul received the call in the morning to meet them out on the track. On Sunday, they did indeed go over the edge like it looked in the photos we printscreened of the track. It was rough. They brought the truck out and pulled them to safety. Then they made it to the next check point at RM 760 and went home from there.
Of course, this is just was just a brief recap on what we had been following yesterday. There is SO much more to the story, like the skid pans are really not flat any longer, and both stock headlights are gone. Paul was very pleased to tell me the engine ran strong the whole time, though it did have a weird power loss below 2000rpm. Most important, they had a BLAST.
However, this is not my story to tell. I will let Paul, Ryan, and crew update you on their experiences when they have had a chance to rest up and eat a ton. Of course we’ll copy and paste that here when they do release their statements. 😉
Thank you again to everyone for their support and for watching our updates! I am glad that we could help provide decent communication between people.
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