The Ford F-150 EcoBoost Baja 1000 Kinda Sorta Liveblog

[SVTOffroad News Bot]

Professional desert racers Mike McCarthy and Randy Merritt are each racing a Ford F-150 EcoBoost V-6 truck in the Baja 1000, which starts today. We'll be following their progress.

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[MagicMtnDan]

Excellent! I look forward to the updates and to both teams being successful.

I have a couple of buddies down there for the week watching the race.

 

[The Tank]

I think the trucks will make it to the end but the lack of power is not going to make it competive

 

[GR8PMKN]

I think the trucks will make it to the end but the lack of power is not going to make it competive

I guess the consolation prize is that at least a EcoBoost Ford will win the class if and when they finish!!!:clap:

 

[ruffstuff]

Something happened to 898 Merritt, he is at mile marker 70 while 899 McCarthy is approaching 130. At around 2:30pm PDT, they were together. Appears Merritt is still moving. Ivan Stewart, driving the Class 7 Toyota 4Runner, splits the two and is approaching mile marker 110.

Trophy Truck - 21 Vildosola Jr doing 114mph at mile marker 295, 97 BJ Baldwin chasing at mm 280.

Day 1 1830 - Looks like 898 is okay. IRC tracking is hosed. Switched to IriTrack. Running slightly ahead of 899 approaching RM 220.

Day 2 0700 - TT 21 Vildosola wins. 899 at RM 615 and 898 behind at RM 580. 778 (Ivan Stewart) is at RM 660.