Inaugural Baja Endurance Challenge Finals Preview!

Wed, 10th September 2008

We're back from Spain at the first HPI 12-hour Baja Endurance Challenge Finals, and we've got a quick report from the race! After 12 solid hours of running with only 2 unscheduled pit stops, it was Team Hungary that took the overall win in the inaugural Baja Endurance Challenge Finals!

Hungary stayed near the top of the field throughout the race, never out of the top 3 and always battling for position. Team Wilcar from Spain led the first several hours with Team Finland hot on their trail, but problems for both teams let Hungary make up laps and gain the lead around the 5-hour mark. Finland fought back after slipping down the order, eventually battling with Team Wilcar for second place on the same lap for nearly an hour right at the end of the race! With Hungary many laps ahead, Team Wilcar and Hungary traded places until Team Wilcar had to make an unscheduled stop and slipped a couple of laps behind. After 12 solid hours of dusty, muddy, then dark racing, it was Team Hungary that took the win with 737 laps, 26 laps ahead o second place Finland! Final finishing positions: 1 Hungary 737 laps 2 Finland 711 laps 3 Team Wilcar (Spain) 709 laps 4 Team Estonia 665 laps 5 Team Czech Republic 663 laps 6 Team Slovenia 659 laps 7 Team Poland 649 laps 8 Team Malta 645 laps 9 Team Netherlands 628 laps 10 Team Greece 592 laps 11 Team Germany 556 laps 12 Team Iceland 542 13 Team United Kingdom 492 laps 14 Team Spain 430 laps 15 Team France 397 laps 16 Team Italy 363 laps

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! Just because it was a tough race doesn't mean that the drivers didn't have fun, though - from the Friday press conference during the day, the driver buffet that night, the race itself, the prize ceremony and raffle draw in the late hours of Saturday night, every racer had a great time and already can't wait to attend next year's Finals! We'll have a complete report along with hour-by-hour standings very soon, in the meantime check out the pictures we've got! Also, Motors TV will be showing an hour-long report of the race, hosted by Nick Daman of RC Racing TV! This will air for the first time at 17:45 (UK time - one or two hours later for Europe) on the 27th of September, so set your recorders! Check out the preview race video here! The HPI staff would like to thank: Ninco our Spanish distributor; Arturo, Jordi and David from Ninco; Xavi our race director and all of his crew; the mayor and town of Sant Fruitos de Bages; all of the drivers and pit crew; all of the HPI EU distributors and organizations that organized races and series during the year; Nick Daman from RC Racing TV; Motors TV; and HPI for making this first-ever Baja Endurance Challenge Finals event a huge success. Without all of these people it wouldn’t have been as fun and exciting to witness some of the closest racing action we’ve ever seen!


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