Team Locos Mocos
were again part of a chain of 20 pits run by BAJA Pits
We were set up @ RM275 near Gonzaga and
RM619 at El Datil fish camps a BCG mystery Pit.
It was another
great event, and there are photos and stories to tell
for years to come, stay tuned for them, and post your stories
in our GuestBook or send us email!
2006 Baja 1000 Locos
Mocos Race t-shirts
(shirt back sample)
Thanks to
all who donated! Thankfully
Team Locos Mocos received a huge response to our request for
help in getting our LMC Pit trailer replaced, and we received
a great amount of cash donations and several orders for the Locos
Mocos Pit DVD produced by Curtis Guise of JD
Films.
Our new ultra trick Race/Pit trailer is just about finished,
it has been custom designed and fabbed by our own Stu Klien AKA
BajaJones. This baby is race! CLICK HERE to see production photos.
!!!
TEAM LOCOS MOCOS HAS BEEN ROBBED !!!
The Locos Mocos pit trailer and welder were recently stolen in
Lakeside, CA. Locos Mocos is a non-profit pit team made up of
many volunteers. Now is your chance to help out the crew that
have been helping SCORE racers in Baja for 7+ years. CLICK
HERE to see how you can help and get a DVD
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YET ANOTHER
"SAN FLIPPY 250"
EL CHINERO TIRE DROP, CLAM BAKE, AND TACO FEST
Pete's Campo / K177
"El Chinero" #181
N31°07.998' W114°53.475'
Friday, March
10, 2006
Dusk to 10:00-ish
(There IS a race the next day!)
Meet the great, the near-great, and the not-so-very-great-at-all.
Rules
" No bikes/quads in the Compound
" No fireworks, no joke
" Flatbillers welcome!
" Larkin? Well, maybe …
" No class too small
" No pets (I already have one … safely [for you], she
will be secured in our Gitmo "Dog Jail")
" Pick up after your buddy, that way he'll cover YOU
" Spliffs outside west gate
" Please pee on a plant
" "Box" the returnable Mexican beer bottles
" Also:
" Eat
" Drink
" Make Mary
" Bench race
" Lie
" Tell the truth (God forbid!)
" Suggested topics:
" Are ALL "8s" illegal?
" Was Jason Baldwin's A/C out of fuel?
" Is "5" dead?
" Who cares?
" Who really cares about Robby?
" Is "1600" the toughest class in the dez or what?
" Who IS this Spencer Low, Jr. fellow, anyway?
" Who killed Mickey Thompson?
" Hug a Flatbiller
" Repeat as required
BILL
O' FARE
" Augie's tamales, beans, rice, tortillas, and salsa
" Almejas de vapor
" "Tacos de Locos Mocos" -- Muy sabroso
" Beers (XX y Tecate) 'n' tables 'n' chairs
AMBIANCE
" Tunes (over 3,500 random iTunes ... including George Michael,
Robert Earl Keen, and NWA!)
" More space, i.e., a new garage carport/deck
" More concrete, i.e., a new garage slab = less sand/silt/dust/polvo
" More basuraderos: scoped out a number of 55-gallon drums
" Beer openers on posts over "catchers"
" Warmer weather!
" Rented port-a-john with door angled toward full moon (!)
= natural illumination.
Tony Tellier
El Chinero www.elchineroconcepts.comtellier@mindspring.com
Mail: P. O. Box 9011 #358 Calexico, CA 92232-9011
Site: Pete's Camp #181 K177 San Felipe, Baja CA, MX
(Internet) (011) (52) (686) 577-3034 (Cell) (044) (686) 164-7114
Locos Mocos &
The 2005 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000
By
Baja Jones
The 38th running of the Baja 1000 with a start and finish in
the city of Ensenada BCN Mexico was an unusual event to say the
least. One of the largest starting fields in recent history (342
bikes, quads, trucks & buggies) and a comparatively short
course (706 miles) yielded only 162 finishers. The entire racecourse
never dipped more than 150 miles south of the U.S., Mexico border
yet the brutality of the terrain coupled with freezing nighttime
temperatures, extracted a heavy toll on both the racers and the
equipment. Less than 50% of the eager starters would see the
finish line within the 30-hour time limit.
The 2005 Baja 1000 found the Locos Mocos (crazy boogers) crew,
setting up shop at race mile 127, Cohabuzo Junction. The pit
was early in the race for us. The location was selected for a
few reasons. We were running pit #2 in a chain of 11 pits for
the world famous Baja Pits Racing Team. Baja Pits provides full
service professional grade race support for the independent racer
and pro teams alike. Cohabuzo Jct. is a dusty cross road of 2
trails, almost never traveled. You won't find it on any map,
it's 60 miles from the nearest paved road and the name sounds
cool when you say it on the radio. The Total Chaos / BCG pre
run crew had scoped out the location the week before. Torturing
12 Total Chaos equipped pre-runners over a geological feature
that racers humbly refer to as "The Summit". The Summit
(10 miles up course from us) is the remnant of a ranch road abandoned
over 30 years ago by ranchers and avoided by race promoters for
the last 20. The "road" (for lack of better word) climes
to 4500 feet above the desert floor and crashes almost straight
down the eastern escarpment of the Sierra Juarez. In just a few
miles you plunge 2000 feet over a waist land of bare rock and
multi foot high drop offs. Tire slashing; wheel eating jagged
boulders jut from both sides of the 2 track. Needless to say
this is a one-way street to all but the experienced rock crawler.
The Locos Mocos crew lives to wrench on broken racers and we
figured this would be the place to do it!
The advance crew arrived 36 hours ahead of time to start setting
up the pit. Fuel drums are unloaded and set atop race style scissor
stands. Generators, welders, compressed gas, dump cans, spare
tires, cases of oil, transmission fluid and gear lube are all
strategically positioned. Sunshades and a 50-foot radio antenna
pop up. Radios, power supply and a timing table are connected
and tested.
The pit is really 2 separate facilities consisting of a "hot
pit" and a "garage". The hot pit is for scheduled
refueling and quick tire changes. The garage is a fully equipped
repair and fabrication shop complete with Stick, MIG & TIG
welders. A 10,000 KW Miller Trail Blazer powers an array of electric
tools and lights. Air tools and impact guns run off CO2 tanks.
Next the Kitchen Pit goes together. Locos Mocos is a hard charging
bunch and they work up an appetite in the process. During our
3-day stay the kitchen crew will prepare 300 meals to feed the
46 crewmembers and a dozen or so stuck racers and chase crews.
Were not talking burgers and dogs. The menu at the Locos Mocos
pit rivals that of many 5 star restaurants with entrées
like Mane Lobster, Carne Asada & RopaVieja.
Setup
finally complete we need to test it out. Pauly hops in BSB (Big
Strokey Bronco) and "burns in the pit". He does a couple
of high-speed ingresses with full throttle egress. This is done
as much to see how the pit looks to race traffic as it is to
entertain the crew. With new sets of 37" tire tracks through
our little service oasis, the pit now looks like a pit.
The crew is at full strength a tent city stands scattered around
a roaring iron wood campfire, dinner is served and stories ricochet
around the circle dancing of light.
BCG 7 enlists the help of an elite group of pyrotechnical experts
and a fire is lit at the edge of the clearing. A magnesium case
is added and once fully involved, propane cylinders are introduced
beneath it. The explosions produce a 60 foot high cascading shower
of brilliant streaming particles. All the while a constant aerial
display of quarter pound rockets light up the sky and the reports
echo off the nearby hillsides as if to announce the mayhem of
the coming day. The evenings entertainment was co-sponsored by
Cortez of JD films, Nik of Total Chaos Fabrication and BCG 7
of Konig Racing.
RACE
DAY:
Baja Tym has left his race radio on, tuned to Weather Man's channel
with an amplified speaker on the roof of his Tundra. 6:16 AM
Just as the mourning sun begins to chase the frost off the tents,
the radio cracks the cold dry air: "Weatherman to SCORE
Opps", the hair on the back of a thousand necks stands on
end. The Baja 1000 is underway. For the next 36 hours, The Weatherman
will paint an auditory picture of the toughest test of man and
machine on the continent.
(Weatherman is Bob Steinberger of PCI Race Radios. Weatherman
runs radio relay from his perch atop Pico Diablo 9700 feet above
sea level. For 36 hours straight he will relay thousands of complicated
transmissions from racers to chasers, handle medical emergencies,
dispatch fire crews, quell riots and coordinate rescues. He will
communicate decisions from SCORE operations to check points,
racers, chasers, pit crews and spectators. He is constantly heckled
by drunken idiots with modified ham radios and regularly asked
to perform the miracle of omniscience by stuck racers with no
idea what frequency their team monitors. Through the unyielding
din of white noise he performs with machine like accuracy and
endurance. However he is compensated, it is not enough, our hats
are off to him for the service he performs and the stamina and
professionalism he displays.
9:07
the distant rhythmic thump of a helicopter, 2 minutes later the
first bike is through . 2 minutes behind, the second passes,
biding his time staying just out of the choking dust of his eventually
to be consumed competitor. 17 minutes till the third and fourth
bikes are through. In 125 miles the leaders have opened up almost
a 15-mile lead on the nearest competitors. Then the valley is
filled with the constant roar of choppers and 4 stroke bikes
followed by trophy trucks, unlimited buggies and the rest of
the field.
10:04 our first scheduled bike, 407 X is in and out with fuel
and chain lube.
During the next 14 hours the crew would record 309 racers through
the location.
We fueled, repaired, extracted, welded, fed, relayed, rescued,
encouraged and assisted over 40 racers.
Before
the race we had calculated the last vehicle still competing would
be through our location no later than 7:00 PM. The Summit was
taking its toll though, so much so that SCORE extended the checkpoint
closing times by 2 hours.
We recorded the last racer through at 11:50 PM. Vehicles continued
to limp or be towed out well into the next day. By Midnight the
temperature was down to the freezing mark with a stiff breeze
blowing. The few still standing huddled around the campfire and
toasted the racers plying their way through the fridged Baja
night. We passed the Tequila, recapped the day and began to plan
the next race.
Drive fast and take chances
See you all In Baja. Jones
For
more info on pit support check with Carlos at Baja
Pits
(619) 596-8033 or E-mail us with the link on
our web site.
2007
Baja 1000
Team
Locos Mocos
were out in force again
in Baja for the SCORE Baja 1000
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