2008 Baja 1000 Preparation

Looks like things are shaping up pretty well for the Big Dog and Carli Suspension team! This is going to be an interesting adventure with the first part of the course being a hazard for miles on end. Last night I came out of Baja via Tecate and spoke with team 299 who was pre running the course on motos and they reported a 3 hour traffic jam from a buggy that broke an axle on the course... and the section being so steep and narrow, there was just no going around. Somebody had to produce a welder and repair the axle on course in order to free up movement. This is surely to be a careful execution for the larger vehicles.

So far this year, the Carli crew has been on all of the sections of the course, minus the La Rumorosa section. We have a day planned to pre run that the week of the race from our camp in La Bufadora. This weekend the Canadian team will come down and we're set to do some Kong tuning in Barstow before we depart for Mexico. Everything is staged to be down in Baja early next week.