One day after uprooting his family from Seattle to Denver, Chris hopped in a stranger’s truck and chased all the way to La Paz Story by Chris Joyce This whole experience started for me about a year and a half ago standing in my kitchen […]
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 […]
When the Only Reason is “Just Because”
Gina explains the impossible-to-answer question of why anyone would want to do such a thing as race the Baja 1000 in Class 11 Story by Gina Wilson Well, we did it. All the odds were against us- in fact one website had us at 9 […]
There’s just no experience, like Experience
Larry Hall was one of our “old-timers” on chase. He has extensive experience in racing VWs in class 1600, both in the States and in Mexico. He’s lived in Mexico for nearly 20 years, exploring roads beyond the race course, all without a GPS. Since […]
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 […]
TR Motor 1: Bast?r Baja Bug!
Atlas’? veya Touareg’i unutun, bu y?l 50’incisi düzenlenen Baja 1000 yar???nda, Volkswagen bu yak???kl? 1970 VW Beetle ile köklerine geri dönüyor. Alman otomobil ?irketi, Class 11’de ikonik Bug ile yar??acak ProjectBaja.com tak?m?na sponsorluk yapacak. “Tope” lakapl? Beetle, Volkswagen’in orijinal 1.6 litrelik hava so?utmal? motoruyla ve […]
Digital Trends: This classic Volkswagen Beetle will take on…
This classic Volkswagen Beetle will take on one of the world’s toughest races Run every fall in Mexico’s Baja California Desert, the Baja 1000 is one of the toughest races in the world. Competitors drive hundreds of miles on a mix of roads and primitive […]