i don't know honestly i've uh
i've tried to figure out because i don't
like it i only do getting the ones in
the trash can once why do i put my body
through this and what is making my body
feel so nauseous
and so now it's become a joke like if i
don't puke i'm not winning the race
anybody if you raced any race in the
world that you really had on your bucket
list that would be the baja 1000.
you know it's just the biggest race that
everyone's ever talked about
we just want it
i'd say for the last month i wake up and
i start thinking about the race and it
makes me nauseous
why do i put myself through this
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hey
maybe give me a ring
when you're getting close
okay all right so
this is the race that we've talked about
forever you know this is the race that
my dad raced
i need one of these
in each chase track that one shelf is
like missing bolts out of it
i'm a phil blurton factory can-am racer
and uh we're gearing up to race the baja
1000.
my typical morning i come in here and
pull up the race map and check it out
before i get my day started typically at
night i've thought some new ideas and
come back in and look at the course and
double check them
being fortunate enough to win a lot of
races in the states down there it's like
a it's a whole new challenge for me this
is like a once in a lifetime opportunity
that'll be everything you know with phil
i would have to say it's pretty amazing
and him and bo i think there's a magical
thing going on there
i guess the back back of the car is done
i guess you could start putting front
arms on it we've had quite a bit of
success i mean i think our very first
race we were the first can-am to come
across the finish line and that was
can-am's first year with the new x3
platform yeah they've won some races i i
can't remember them all because there's
been enough to where i can't remember
them all and my memory is not what it
used to be my library is pretty full
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unbelievable you know for the first few
years i don't know why but everybody
just thought these guys are a fluke you
know and back when i raced i saw
different levels of people's commitments
and i was looking you know there's some
people that go there to have fun some
people go through the race and then some
of the guys go there to win
how many times is his truck going to see
the car
let's just take these ones that are over
here then put those four on each chase
truck kevin is
a huge part of our race program he helps
organize all the pits and put the
logistics together with me
both chase trucks are gonna have
a pre-runner so you're gonna have nine
tires really pretty much 27 pit crew
members and 27 tires and hopefully only
use uh four of them
then you're not gambling he's got a
pretty full plate he's he works pretty
much seven days a week
it's been a roller coaster of do we
build race cars do we go straight
production parts the hardest part is
that every part that we build we want it
to be race quality so it's like i i feel
like i have to have my hands on
everything involved in here
phil and maybe three other people that
are racing today and score and best in
the desert that can actually design
build and drive he's constantly on the
computer on cad design and stuff
everything i do in life is like a math
equation i run like my whole entire life
like mathematically i i think a lot of
it has to do with that like as soon as
i'm done with the race i'm critiquing
myself on how i built the car and i just
want to make the car faster for the next
one
yeah he's a pretty chill dude he's super
humble super humble guy i mean you know
he's he's embarrassed
now you know what the race's little kids
will come up can i have your autograph
he's always
goddamn why would anybody want my
autograph you know
like i said a bunch of times you know
phil's just like calm he's not like a
showboat guy i mean you wouldn't even
know he's got all this stuff unless you
like know him personally
we haven't built a customer car in a
month and a half because we've been i've
been so driven to win this race that
i'll i'll close everything down to make
this race happen
so capri what do you think about how
long i'm gonna be gone for
i think it means a lot to him this is
definitely on his bucket list of things
i think you think if we win the thousand
we should go back to disneyland again go
to florida legoland well we could go to
legoland because that's on the way back
from the thousand that's in san diego he
sometimes does beat himself up a little
bit of being away from the family all
right i better win now but ultimately he
knows it's creating a future for all of
us and that's why he continues to race
good morning phil good morning
very excited you know it's it's really
kind of cool that phil's first baja 1000
is going to be the full peninsula run
and not a big loop
well there it is i believe you guys used
to race these things in mexico i think
the last time i raced this 1000 was in
85
i was it must have been in the mid-80s
and i was racing the mickey thompson
world championship and my wife had phil
one week before that race
yeah this was a handful this thing had
been clocked at 100 miles an hour in
mexico she came out with that little boy
he's six seven days old and so that was
his first
race he ever went to was he was a week
old i think one of the cool things about
this car having the rotax motor in there
with certificate clutches which you know
a lot of us do this now and there wasn't
anything like this then
a lot of great memories and i'll tell
you what i'm so proud that now you're
944 and this is my number 4 and it makes
me very proud that my son
adopted that number
for surely i think this race is super
important to cantium and we're gonna do
our best to
to win this race for them
i think we we've won a lot of races so
from a lot of people it's like expected
for us to try to be on the top of the
podium
we've raced with the same hood between
all the cars this whole entire year it
ended up that way so we're just we're
gonna finish out the year with the same
hood
right now uh me and my buddy austin
whalen are battling for points he's got
a one point lead on me whoever beats
each other we're going to get rookie of
the year in score
no no pressure like a like a one point
gap on the championship race
honestly i don't even care i just want
to win the baja 1000. when i race best
in the desert i want to i'm going for a
championship everything this race i just
want to win the baja 1000 this is the
race that everybody you say you race
off-road they said you raced the baja
1000 we've never done it we finally have
the opportunity to so
no i haven't accomplished everything i
set out for yet
no we only have an 18-hour day today
what could go wrong things are
constantly evolving i say it's not even
a race it's more of an adventure for us
oh for sure it's stressful yeah i wanna
just when i say no
it's no you're if you're not nervous
you're uh you're not showing up to win