Here's his post about the Baja 500.......Our day started out pretty early in the morning having radio issues. We called PCI guys to come over to help us sort this out, but there was not enough time to fix the problem. We could communicate outward but no one was able to communicate with us once we were out a mile or so distance. We proceeded to the Start line despite our radio problems. We were thinking about how many cars we can pass in a UTV. This is my first experience racing a UTV and would have to admit it started off really fun. As we awaited the green flag we took off and we flew past all the Class 11 cars before the pavement even ended. The next car in our site was a 5-1600. We past him within in half mile in the dirt. As we proceeded we starting flying past the 1600's, Class 5's, 4400's, and other vehicles. We got approximately to mile marker 16 and there were a lot of cops slowing the traffic down. Apparently there was a big accident. In front of me were two cars and the car in front of them was a 7200 Brenthel race truck which I had my eyes set in passing him. We pasted the two cars in front of us and we were getting closer and closer as we got to the arches and the Pepsi stand. As we proceeded past the Pepsi stand the turns got tighter and tighter but I managed to get closer to the Brenthel truck. Before we got to the gate in Ojos ****** I made the past on the 7200 truck and also past a trophy truck that was getting fueled or having issues on the side of the road. As we proceeded thru the grated road going to K39 the Brenthel truck past us on the speed zone that was only 60 MPH which he had to go over 60 to get past us. As we got to K39 we were on the gas once again. We had approx. 5 mints on the 2nd place in our class. We started to battle again with some Class 7 and 8's in the tight turns around mile maker 45 or so. We came around one of the turns in the dust and almost hit the Ford Excursion that was severely damaged from previously hitting something at the beginning of the race which we later found out he got hit by Jason Voss's Trophy Truck. We kept pushing to get by the two other trucks that were in front of us. They were not very happy to get passed by a UTV, luckily we had a $20 air horn that we mounted and zip tighted to the cage so the co-driver could honk the horn. Every time we honked the horn we laughed because we were thinking the people inside were getting annoyed by being passed by a UTV which would be pretty embarrassing. After we passed more trucks we decided to slow it down a little bit at around mile marker 70. As we got closer to the highway the vehicle started to loose fuel pressure. Once we got to the road were the road the course parallels the highway approx.at mile marker 77 the vehicle had no fuel pressure and died. We were thinking we were out of gas but I knew in my head that we could not be out of gas but then I was second guessing myself and thought we might have a fuel leak. At this point we had approx. 15 mints in second place as they came by. Some people say we had more but I looked at my watch to look at the time we stopped and the time the first UTV came by. We started working on the UTV switching fuel pumps after we put gas in the vehicle. It started after we switched fuel pumps. We got going again getting ready for our first fuel stop at mile maker 98. A half a mile before the fuel pit we were calculating in our heads the fuel mileage when the vehicle stop at mile maker 77. We then realized that there was 5 gallons of fuel still in the tank so we thought we had fixed the problems by switching the fuel pump. We proceeded to keep driving to the Summit after the first pit stop. When we got to the summit the vehicle died again with no fuel pressure. At this time we thought maybe the fuel pick-up line was not placed properly in the tank so we decided to open up the tank and check it. As we put our hands into the gas tank we realized the fuel was boiling hot and we could not put our hands in the tank. The reason why the fuel was boiling was our muffler was underneath the gas tank. This was our fault, we never had time to test it with the muffler underneath the gas tank. It is sad that this happened because we let all of our sponsors down. Our STM clutch worked awesome, our Factory UTV skid plate worked awesome. Our General Tires were awesome and the Can-Am Maverick worked awesome all day. Fox Shocks were awesome! This will never happen again since we are still learning about UTV's. Once again we would like to thank everybody for helping us including our pit crew and a special thanks to my cousins Reid Johnson and RockStar Rick Johnson for building the suspension and all our sponsors that have put a lot of time in our vehicle. Our next race will be the HDRA race The El Dorado Reno 500. This is going to the race to shake down the car so we are ready for the BITD Vegas to Reno race.
