Our boy JimO is racing again this year. He is on a buddies team riding a Honda crf250 in class 20. 150x Chad Broughton is their team. He did pre run on a husky so it's all cool about racing a honda. haha
That sucks there is no weatherman feed this year. I love listening to race chatter while I'm sitting here designing new products. Boooo SCORE no weatherman feed!
A little bit of good news. Nothing will take the sting off of Caselli's passing but it is good to know one of our own made it home safely. And even better than that he was able to defend his class 20 win from last year. Jim Owens and his team were the only bike in class 20 to finish. Good Job JimO!! CLASS 20 (400cc or less)—1. Chad Broughton/Eric Pucelik/Jim Owens/Jack Hulse, Scotts Valley, Calif., Honda CRF250X, 26:32:30, (33.6 mph); (Total Starters: 3, Total Finishers: 1)
Thanks Colo moto for posting our effort for this year's Baja 1000, and our results. I would like to say that our race went well with just a few problems to the bike but we were able to bring it home to Ensenada with a win. But all of this is just a insignificant race.. The sport lost a hero and a good man in Kurt Caselli, nothing else matters when this happens and my thought are with his family. I was able to pre-run with Kurts teammate who rode on KTM's B Team this year Robert Underwood. So being close to the KTM team for this race was really eye opening at seeing how serious KTM are about winning in Baja and what goes into it. I'd call it pressure! To hold it wide open going over Baja terrain at these speeds the leaders are going? There is a very small margin for error. And, when someone does go down it can have dire consequenses. We (our team) was close to the incident, there was a frenzy of rumours flying, KTM heli just landed before the crash because of darkness, Honda heli saw the crash, didnt land??? All rumours don't know any facts so I cant say. I don't care how Kurt crashed wheather it was a booby trap, (which I saw none in my 400 miles I rode) kids making jumps, (which I went off about 5 of them) or hitting an animal, SCORE needs to provide a medical helicopter on stand-by for the event that can fly day or night an injured rider or driver to a truama center in San Diego. And when 1 is busy have another ready to lift-off. And not to rely on any other means of transport and Mexican hospitals for treatment. There is supposed to be a plan in place where an injured rider/driver, spectator, chase truck crash victim, etc, can be air lifted out but in all my years racing in Baja there is at least 1 death every year because of no medical attention. And no medical helicopter. SCORE will say "well it's a cost thing" okay guess what? All of the top teams and hero's of the sport are going to boycott your little race. You'd see SCORE scramble and they'd have medical helicopters overnight. What really gets me is that where Kurt Caselli crashed, (RM792?) was not more than a few miles from the main highway... All bikes are equipped with a gps tracker, I don't understand why nobody could get to him or find him for more than an hour? Maybe that is rumour too I dont know but medical helicopters would be a good addition to any race, especially a very popular American race in Mexico. JimO
JimO, After reading all the posts/threads about Kurt, I thought the same thing, "why isn't there any Life Flight on stand by?" "It's a cost thing." The promoters and the manufacturers should be combining their efforts to make it available.
