In honor of BFGoodrich's 35th anniversary with SCORE
International in Baja, Chad Gilsinger is piloting a
Goodrich-equipped Wide Open Excursions Baja Challenge (BC5)
race car along with TeamBFG members Bud Brutsman, Jason
Scherer, Casey Currie, Lars Wolfe and Kyle Tucker.
The group had engaged in a contest that rewarded them with
coveted seats in the SCORE Baja 1000 Baja Challenge
Class.
The BC5 team is among numerous racers in Baja riding on
BFGoodrich Mud-Terrain T/A KM2 tires, the exclusive tire of
the entire seven-car Challenge Class field.
This year’s 1,061.69-mile race began Nov. 16 and runs
through Nov. 20 in Mexico. It started for the 36th time in
Ensenada and will finish for the 18th time in La Paz after
extending over a rugged course on both sides of the Baja
peninsula.
The all-star motorsports BC5 cast was previously in Mexico
for a pre-race preparation program covering more than 1,000
miles in the Wide Open Excursions cars.
“We had a great pre-run down here in Baja with the team,”
reports Currie, the 2010 TORC Pro Lite champion.
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“It’s great to get all six guys together and really focus on
everything from running some of the exact routes we’ll be
driving on in the 1000 to figuring out the best driver
pairings,” he adds. “These buggies are so much fun to
drive.”
“It’s unbelievable that we’re driving a little Wide Open
buggy with two-wheel drive and going up things that I would
never even dream a four wheel drive vehicle could go up,”
says Gilsinger, a T3-class Sports Car Club of America (SCCA)
National Runoffs champion.
“We ran on the same set of tires the whole week of pre-
running and went through hundreds of miles of terrain on the
sharpest rocks you could ever imagine,” he recounts.
“The best analogy I have is it’s like driving a sprint car
and playing football at the same time,” observes Tucker, an
autocross champion driver. “It’s really violent, but the
cars were just awesome during the pre-run. It’s amazing what
they can do. I think we have a great team, and I think we
have a team capable of winning as long as we can get the car
down to the end.”
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