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By ROBBOTS MOTORSPORTS & MEDIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu8GWWmWQ_Y

NO guard rails and spectators at trackside!

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History: Big Oly meets Big Red
By Pancho Vanilla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzNgGgHC7Fk

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History: The Baja Sports Committee
By Pancho Vanilla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_gZ...aB1zFIQWFT_jVg

The Arab Nations committed a terrorist attack upon the innocent citizenry of the world when they jacked up the price of crude oil by 70% in October - overnight. This made members of the motorsport community very uneasy, and for off-road racing, the Grandaddy Mexican (Baja) 1000 was set to go in November.

The Mexican 1000 promotor was the National Off-Road Racing Association (N.O.R.R.A.) who bailed out and decided to hold a race in Arizona; rather the entire length of the Baja Peninsula (1,200 miles) and have the crews turn around afterward the take essentially the same route home. Roughly 2,000 miles for six or seven pit trucks; five days minium off from work for each "volunteer" official or checkpoint monitor; or even race team members. You had to take a minumum of five days off in order to help a team.

Who can blame Ed Pearlman and Don Francisco at N.O.R.R.A. for bailing out of a race where oil shortage was going to be real, that prices could continue to soar? It was easier drop such an important event like the Mexican 1000, just go to Parker, Arizona and run a desert race of 400 miles so folks could make home in time on Sunday to catch an NFL game. It's a "no brainer"!!!

Folks; the men and women in this feature are solid pioneers. In speaking with Walker Evans recently about about this particular 1973 motorsports event, he said there was incredible pressure to win the Baja event (Ford Motor Company, Olympia Brewing Company, Parnelli Jones Enterprises with a new Chevy Silverado) and nothing but three little days in November in Parker, Arizona and no challenges. He could not imagine missing a Baja race (500 or the 1000), "...so we somehow got the resources we needed. Besides, my starting position was first off the line for four-wheelers and I knew I could win it overall with my truck (Class 8/Ford F-150 Longbed)." Walker had forgotten about the sudden economic concerns when I reminded him there was a new promoter in '73 (Baja Sports Commitee / BSC / who had no experience in this event) and that there was no Baja 1000 in 1974; that meant no racing and no sponsors. "Walker..." I said, "The Craftsman Truck Series came thirty years later and without sponsor you could not race to the level it was (is...) so you'd be stuck with your old construction company and no racing."

Wearing one of his white hats, arms forward upon his desk and looking down quietly - he was deep in thought a few moments... Then he rose his head and pointed a waving index finger at me and said: "I remember! That was a terrible time to have no fuel! We had those long gas lines at the filling stations! Baja made me what I am today!" Then he put a finger up between his lips and front teeth with a grimace and looking off to the left side of the desk to the flooroom said: "I don't know how we did it... We wanted the overall win but the sterring column broke apart and we had brake problems late in the race, but I am amazed he went down at all, but I would never miss a Baja race over any other."

Walker asked me to pass along his gratitude to the Republic of the United Mexican States; especially the people along the entire length of the Baja California peninsula.

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History: Evolution and change...and challenges
By Pancho Vanilla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQjDbE_e-sY

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By Pancho Vanilla
History: Parnelli Jones, Mexican Locals, and a bottle of Tequila
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcNYLa23nl8

Leading the 1972 NORRA Mexican 1000 by a large margin, Parnelli Jones and co-driver Bill Stroppe found themselves within sight of the Finish Line in La Paz but out of fuel!

What were they to do? Back then, cell phones, radios or other communication devices were non-existent and we take them for granted these days....

Parnelli tells the story of how and why they ran short on fuel, but then more importantly, their remarkable solution - a solution that got the "Big Oly" Bronco "fired back up" and on to take a second consecutive Overall Win in this coveted off-road racing event!

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By Pancho Vanilla
History: Horse Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTWICK6lbOQ

This is a historical trailer in reference to the 44 year history of the coveted Baja 1000 off-road race. This material will be available in both English and Spanish and is not for profit, distribution or sale. It is a gift to generations of children who might wonder how men and women survived racing in the wild and rugged terrain across 1,000 of desert without the aid of GPS, cellular telephones, paved roads and scare supplies of fuel and food.

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Ivan Ironman Stewart
By RK Motors Charlotte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lowlizUxn8

For 17 years, PPI and Ivan "Ironman" Stewart ruled the intensely competitive world of off-road racing.

Of their 88 total victories, four Baja 500's and one Baja 1000 were accomplished using chassis number 015. Built in 1993 to replace PPI's aging 010 chassis, the 015 would become the Master's thesis and, ultimately, final product of a remarkably successful off-road team. This video was produced to commemorate the restoration of 015.

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RPM OFF ROAD By cactusvideos CactusFilms


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Xb58gmx2s

RPM OFF ROAD 2015 SCORE Unlimited Trophy Truck Points Champion of the Year!
a Cactus Films Production.