However, after we belt in and hook up the breathing tubes that supply us with filtered air, it’s obvious in the first thousand feet that the Project Baja Bug is a Lexus compared with the single-seater. It rolls over the trail crumble with far more […]
Roadshow Baja 1000 Documentary!
We are absolutely in awe of this film! A 36-minute documentary on our team?! Thank you so much to Volkswagen and Roadshow for making this a reality.
Jalopnik: What It’s Like To Drive A Badass Off-Road Racing Beetle
We had a great time talking Volkswagen with Jason. Man that guy knows his stuff and really appreciated all the little odds and ends that we had to deal with to build up this car to the solid state that it is in now! I […]
VIVA TOPE! The shirt.
Yes, we do love to make t-shirts and we particularly love our tough little car. Celebrate the achievement that Tope went through with this VIVA TOPE shirt! It is only for sale for 10 days so get one now before they are gone:
VW- 2017 Baja 1000 highlight reel
Volkswagen put together a Highlight reel with COTU media of our adventure in Baja. I can’t believe how quickly they put all of this together! Watch 58 hours of racing in just a couple minutes!
When Everything Goes According to Plan
How a race effort can be successful when you make a plan, then throw it out the window, then get back to the plan Story by Josh McGuckin Again!? Yeah, again. We competed in the Baja 1000 in 2014 and when we got home it […]
What we didn’t tell you…
Well, sometimes we have to keep secrets. Why? Honestly it is probably more for superstition than anything else. But today we’ll come clean. Our driving team is made up of 3 driving teams. Josh and Emme lead off the race, Matt Fisher and Evan took […]
WE DID IT!!
It’s too soon to be able to tell the stories and try to contain all of the excitement… but we did it, we successfully completed the Baja 1000 in our Class 11. We didn’t finish in time, but instead we took 58 hours to complete […]
Torque News: ‘Tope’ is part of the ‘run what ya’ brung’
For the first time, Volkswagen has decided to support a factory team in this year’s Baja 1000 desert run. The Baja is the toughest test of man and machine around and the automaker is supporting a Denver-based racing team, ProjectBaja. When they say that you […]
Offroad: Volkswagen USA is Sponsoring a Baja 1000-Bound Beetle
Since its inception, the Baja 1000 has attracted VW Beetles by the dozen, and to celebrate 50 years of competition, Volkswagen of America is sponsoring the ProjectBaja Class 11 Beetle.In case you aren’t hip to Baja classifications, Class 11 is one of, if not the least modified groups that compete in the Baja […]