Hearing TT's makes my willy tickle.

Love it!

Couple notes on some of the other classes...only one of the Jeepspeed vehicles finished--first ever I believe--and it was the Pirate4x4.com vehicle...and in the stock mini truck class it was the Mitsubishi Raider winning the class by only 30 seconds over an FJ Cruiser followed by one of Hall's Hummers (H2 or H3)...

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I have been thinking of building a Class 11 or a Class 5 for a few years....

But My X would be a Class 3 if I put in a cage!

I had a ride with a buddy of mine that works for Michellin, but I couldn't get off work

Maybe next time.

Official results are in...no UTV's finished out of 6 starters...and for those of you with girlfriends/wives...you can tell them that "Dr. McDreamy" (Patrick Dempsey from Grey's Anatomy) finished 4th in his class...

Quick question...where can you see what the requirements are for the different classes? Is horsepower the determining factor (why would and xterra be any different than a tacoma or new gen x, for example)

I would go to the SCORE website and download their rulebook...different classes are deterimined by many things...too many to list here but wheel travel, type of components, style of vehicle are a couple basic ones...

You can not download SCORE's rule book, they get 25 green and thats the only way.

Go to www.bitd.com and there you can download the rule book.

The rules are close to the same. The class names are different. For example; Score has "Trophy Trucks", BitD has "Trick Trucks".

Score has stock mini and stock full for their stock classes.

Best in the Desert has the class broke down a little more, 3100=stock mid size SUV, 4100= stock full size SUV, 3000=unlimit SUV.

It breaks down the same way for P/U trucks.

Best in the Desert
CAR and TRUCK
CLASS and NUMBER SYSTEM

CLASS # Description - PRO Only
CLASS 1000 Class 10
CLASS 1100 Class 10 Light
CLASS 1200 ProTruck
CLASS 1400 Trick Truck - Unlimited Truck
CLASS 1500 Class 1 - Unlimited Car
CLASS 1700 JeepSpeed 1
CLASS 2000 Class 1/2 - 1600
CLASS 3000 Class 3
CLASS 3100 Pure Stock - Mini SUV
CLASS 3700 JeepSpeed 3
CLASS 4100 Pure Stock - Full SUV
CLASS 5000 Class 5
CLASS 5100 Class 5-1600
CLASS 7100 Class 7 S - Stock Mini
CLASS 7200 Unlimited Mini or Mid-Size Truck
CLASS 7300 Pure Stock - Mini Truck
CLASS 8000 Class 8
CLASS 8100 Stock Full
Sportsman Class Only
CLASS 1800 Safari Pre-Runner

Complete comprehensive listing of classes, names, approximate class distinctions with approximate costs:

http://www.desertrides.com/reference/racing_classes.php

Couple pics of some of the more interesting vehicles...Proof that a NEAR stock vehicle can run in the Baja...this Avalanche had very little in the way of mods beyond the cage and window netting...only made it to check point 1--no reports of it making it any farther than that....

The Dodge Raider who the Stock Mini class over Rod Millen's FJ, Rod Hall's H3, and Gavin Milton's Honda Ridgeline...

and of the Titan that raced...

does stock mini class use the stock suspension and engine? if so, that is pretty hardcore.

Yes, stock as delievered from the factory.

You can only double shock and increase spring rate.

The motor you can do some mods but, most dont. Headers and a air duct is all the average stock racer gets. Rule state you have to use stock ignition and computor.

Lucky for us in Nissans we have more HP stock than most will with mods.

so basically, use trd coils if you have stock ones basically, and you have to use shocks that toyota uses on the tacoma, for example.

That is so awesome for some reason. it seems like alot of people would want to enter in this class. is it just the wear and tear that it puts on your vehicle that people want to avoid? it seems like this would be really fun to do if you dont have the money for the really expensive upgrades.

Isn't that the Mitsubishi Raider?

Damn...yup...you're right...When I say "Raider" my brain still goes back to the old Dodge Raider SUV (which was a Montero knockoff) so I suppose its only fair that the new MITSUBISHI Raider is a Dodge Dakota knockoff...but still impressive that it beat out the Hummer and Ridgeline which have both raced extensively in other races...

pic of the Scoobie, which was racing in the Sportsman Car class...

Here is the post by the driver of the Scoobie on what happened...sounds like he is defending himself as he's probly been getting a lot of flak on having a "car" out there...but really...if VW bugs and Rhino's can be entered, there is no reason a Scoobie can't be as well...

"this is ryan, the driver for the first, and only 78 miles.

the stats:

we averaged 42.3 mph (gps) before we broke!

we never got stuck! we passed so many people in the silt!!!!

I broke a clutch slave cylinder at rm32, and started pushing the car too hard, and broke a lower control arm.

We past 25? cars, and truck that broke earlier than us, and thats the luck of baja, no parts on the wrong side of the coast. bummer.

we have all come from offroad (walkers, robby gordon's, rick l. johnson-congrats to both of them on their wins!!!), and we know what it takes to run baja, even just to finish.

running the 1000 is just for fun, and it was, and we will be back next race for more "fun runs" with some wrc safari level suspension that we couldn't get on the car in time, because i made the choice to go to baja 2 months ago.

big thanks to all involved:

SCOTT G. OF PLACAR IN TEMECULA, CA
CHRIS TUSOW OF PLACAR
GREG OF MILLENIUM MOTORSPORTS (RACE ENGINES)
JIM, AND CHRIS AT RANCH MUFFLER
THE WHOLE GRAVEL CREW-NICK, BRIAN, MARVIN, MARTTI, JESS, ETC, ETC

BFGOODRICH FOR THE TIRE SUPPORT!!!
KC FOR THE HIDS
OZ RACING FOR THE WHEELS
PLACAR FOR THE SHOP/FABWORK/ETC
PCI RADIOS FOR THE TECH SUPPORT
APPLE COMPUTERS FOR THE SUPPORT"