BFGoodrich Tires is offering the overall winning team in this year’s SCORE Baja 1000 a $50,000 contingency prize if the team exclusively uses the company’s tires. BFGoodrich, who is a title sponsor of the 50th annual race, is offering the prize in honor of the race’s anniversary. The desert race runs from Nov. 14 through Nov. 18.
BFGoodrich has been associated with desert racing for more than 40 years and sees the title sponsorship as an opportunity to further its theme this year: Decades of Desert Dominance.
“Desert racing is in our DNA, and this race is of particular significance. In 1986 we had our first overall Baja 1000 win. In total, our tires have seen 28 overall wins in this race,” said Chris Baker, motorsports director, BFGoodrich and Michelin North America. “We increased the amount of the contingency prize from last year to show our teams how important the Baja 1000 is to us.”
Teams competing on BFGoodrich tires this year will rely on several products in multiple race classes, including the BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO2, the BFGoodrich Mud-Terrain T/A KM2, BFGoodrich Baja T/A KR, and Baja T/A KR2 and KR3, among other tires vying for overall and class titles.
The BFGoodrich pit and radio relay network set up at every SCORE desert race provides teams free support including fueling, vehicle welding, tire changes, mechanical repair, bottled water and much more. The only requirement teams need to have access to this all-encompassing pit support network is to run BFGoodrich tires at all SCORE races. For this year’s race, more than 100 teams have registered to receive pit support from BFGoodrich.
