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the reason why i think i put so much on
myself
if i just purely think about the race
i'm gonna get too nervous
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i think the hardest part about racing
the wahoo 1000 i would say that just the
planning
uh the logistics are just insane we've
spent already a good 10 days down there
pre-running
we've never raced a race that's this
long you know we've never been in the
car for 26 hours
i just feel like this is our one chance
to go down there and be like we won our
first baja 1000
no we only have an 18-hour day today
what could go wrong we appreciate it
already but we just want to look for it
we really like an airline yeah
this baja 1000 is particularly important
to me i feel like this is like a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity i want to
look at the map real quick yeah i've
been doing all this and this is pretty
slow right here okay
it's our first year race and score we've
never done it before so we have
something to prove down there still
uh
day two of our pre-run we already ran
this whole entire section we're running
at like a little bit more of a pace
today to make sure our notes are correct
then a long drive back to ensenada
tonight yeah it really just became an
addiction to racing in mexico you know
i'm not sure if i'm gonna race there
next year but i hope i race there next
year that's that's where we gotta be in
fact they'll probably be waiting on us
at this point 400 miles that's uh race
mile 300. it's pretty rough in that area
it's it's wild down there
i think what it is i love the culture
racing down there the thing that was
really appealing to me baja you go from
the ocean straight into the desert
there's just nothing like it we just
pulled in good timing
you having fun driving yeah
have you heard from bo or any of those
guys nobody
you have service here no i don't
for the second time other than the 500
i'll be driving you know half the race
phil's gonna drive 427 and i actually
will drive the longest all at once
you'll hear us we'll be on a mountain
coming down yeah and then we jump back
on the highway in the speed zone yeah we
need to make sure that that's going to
be a good spot to switch phil's
obviously going to start the race i
think it's going to be nice for phil to
get some rest and be fresh when he gets
back in the car and be able to smash the
thing all the way to the finish line and
hopefully get the win race day we'll be
into this at night i'm glad we came down
and pre-ran with him so we're not doing
this on the whim right
i've only ever raced with bo in the car
i was instantly comfortable with chris
he doesn't necessarily know the pace
that we should be running in the car so
i'm kind of teaching him the pace as we
go things are constantly evolving yeah
from the pace we did in the four seater
to now yeah roads that were just
completely flat are just dug out
all right we gotta go we really just
have that one little rock trail and then
20 miles of fast stuff and we're done oh
yeah
all right bill so uh how excited are you
to race this race oh i'm super stoked to
race this race i've always wanted to my
dad's raced it a bunch of times and i
think he's had a couple moments of uh
being a little overwhelmed and how's
your pre-running been going i say it's
not even a race it's more of an
adventure for us oh man describe phil's
personality
um
yeah i think sometimes he could be
misconstrued are you ready i think so
when's the last time you did this upper
section a day before yesterday and
yesterday
good luck out there yep because he is
kind of he is quiet and humble and maybe
some people could take that like he's
maybe egotistical thank you when you
have accomplished what phil and bo have
accomplished sometimes people tend to
put people like that on a pedestal and
they aren't comfortable with that
pedestal
it looks good huh yep i'm going to go up
and run like 20 miles
oh yeah yeah you start yeah
for this race we have a 27 crew members
and we have nine chase trucks going down
we're not changing anything in the whole
strategy besides these guys possibly
doing that the only other option is to
take the parts out of the truck the
a-arms and the trailing arms and give
and give them to will and then will
gives them back to them down there
it's confusing
we have the chase trucks that are doing
certain sections as soon as phil passes
that section then they go back into the
states
where's all those antennas at i put them
in the trucks everybody's got one
phil's going to uh test his lights and
set the lights for the night and shake
down the car probably going to run about
100 miles south phone check
phone check
when we first go and you win that first
race you you don't you kind of think
about like oh when when's the second one
you know when when are we going to win
again you know and then once you just
start clicking them off and then now now
it's almost like there's so much
pressure when you start winning like
that that you're expected to win you're
expected to win by can-am you're
expected to win by your family that's
there it's like everyone's at home
waiting to see what's going to happen
and it adds so much pressure i'm not
going to be in the fog i know but i'm
saying people send him a picture of the
fog he's getting all stressed about it
now i'm not stressed because if i'm in
the fog i'm three hours behind race pace
i can see that sometimes he'll uh
express to me and show me some of his
frustration a little bit more than he
would with the general public
they want to adjust the headlights so
they're perfect
and phil decided he'd better do that now
so he gets a good night's sleep tonight
right
but i think overall phil handles stress
extremely well and i think that's part
of what makes him as successful as he is
as a driver
move the right one to the right a little
bit we have another wrench
for how long this race is we typically
would have prepped the car like four
times right there
you know i'm gonna go ten hours in the
race car if everything goes smooth i'm
gonna get out i'm gonna go nine hours in
the chase truck and try to get a little
bit of sleep maybe eat a peanut butter
and jelly sandwich you know take a bath
with a couple baby wipes or something
and then get back in that car and race
again
yeah what do you think
yeah definitely nervous you know if
you're not nervous you're not showing up
to win
i slept terrible four science steeple
heads since we're down here i wanted to
get the toilet ones and the trashcan
ones
here we are our first baja 1000. it's
brutal but that's what we signed up for
you know it's desert racing so
it was a fun crazy experience for sure
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