Watch the footage on HPI.tv of the epic 2008 12-hour Baja Endurance race. Spread over 4 video clips, you can watch all the highlights from this great race on www.hpi.tv
During the summer of 2008, HPI Europe encouraged all the countries in Europe to organize racing events centred around the Baja 5B desert racing buggy. At the end of the summer HPI would host an international race, with the best team from each country taking part in an epic 12-hour endurance race designed to test the Baja car and every team member to the limit! The response to the series announcement was very enthusiastic, and we started getting race dates and reports from nearly every country in Europe. Meanwhile, our Spanish distributor Ninco was organizing the Final race in the small town of Sant Fruitos del Bages, 60km from Barcelona. As the races across Europe finished up we started getting driver details from the teams that were going, and ended up with 16 teams in total, with teams from France, Finland, Germany, Slovenia, Estonia, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Malta, the Czech Republic, Poland, Greece, the Netherlands, and two teams from Spain (one extra because they were the host country). We knew it would be a special weekend with this many teams from all these countries in attendance! This was an extremely tough race, and every team had to overcome several problems during the race. These included constantly changing track conditions, lapped traffic, driver changes, changing light, driver exhaustion, refueling, tyre changes, engine changes, suspension swaps and much more - this 12-hour Baja Endurance Challenge Finals was definitely the toughest race weekend these teams had ever seen!