Goodrich racing team in the running at Baja on T/A KM2 tires

Jan. 1, 2020
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 W
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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