12 May Mexican 1000 Racing Summary of Bugazon
DAY 1
Lorenzo Drives 387 Miles all day and after starting in 51st
Position finishes in 9th position at the Bay of Los Angeles finish line, a clean run with No Problems!
DAY 2
Jeff Quinn Drives 397 Miles all day and after starting in 9th position finishes in 19th position at the Loretto finish line. We had made one wrong turn off the course and had gone 12 miles extra before finding the race course again which had added 45 Mins. 
Then soon after that, a bolt came off the lower right front shocks and we had to stop, remove the hood, remove the spare rear tire and the upper shocks bolt and put them in car and slammed it back together which had taken 21 mins. Total and now we still had 110 miles to the finish for the day in a rock and shale super rough area, which was in the Baja Giant Cactus Forrest! (Beautiful Area) We Finished with NO right front shocks and without breaking the front end. Yea! During the morning we got nerfed in the rear by the World Famous Malcom Smith Hero driving the Bud Feldcamp two time Baja 1000 winning single seat Funco SS2, ISS Sponsored and over all race winner in 1977 & 1978.. He wave to us as he took off! Too Cool…
DAY 3
Lorenzo Drives all day. In the late A.M. almost crashes at a 90 degree left turn which was seen to late and was taken too fast. Jeff yells ” This is gonn’a HURT!”, luckily we bounced off of sand hill between the two Giant Boulders about 15 feet apart and missed them both. It was too close to death! After that, we had 3+ close calls passing race cars that would turn at will in front of us as we passed them. We next came to an area, which had many roads all going the same direction and lost the course for 10+ mins.
After that we had a long high speed road and we were going 65+ mph when Jeff yells “Oh Shit, Big wash out!!!!” I had no time to slow down and hit it at almost full speed. WHAM/BAM!!!!, We were looking strait down at the road and dancing on the two front wheels, with the rear of the car strait up in the air.. Jeff yells, “We are going to endo!” However the rear spoiler stopped it from endowing and the car rotated towards the left rear tire and started down as Jeff yells “We are going to roll!” as God wanted it when the left rear tire came down on a 4 foot high sand hill with cactus and bushes on it then violently threw the car to the right and up on the right front and rear wheel and we bicycled down the course as I slowly turned to the right and the car came back on all four wheels, WOW! That was Oh too close!!!!! We stopped to check the car and had to change the left rear tire because a branch was sticking out of the sidewall……with some problems like the car falling off the jack and burying the brake rotor in the dirt.
Some locals, a kid and his girlfriend came buy and happened to have another small jack, enough to get the rear rotor 6 inches off the dirt. Luckily the kid also had a small GI shovel and we dug out a hole big enough to get the rear tire back on the hub and took off racing again. About 10 miles down the road, the fuel stopped feeding the Weber crab. And the engine Quit. We then switched to the secondary fuel pump, however while making a pumping sound it would not deliver fuel either!!! We proceeded to dismantle all the fuel lines and test, fuel filter, check valves without success; we put the system back together… Turned key back on, cranked it and the motor came alive again! We drove another 10-20 miles when it ran out of fuel again! We repeated the former process again and this time it would not run….A competitor in a jeep came along and offered to tow us to the next check point and our pit crew about 8 miles down the road.
Upon arrival, we went to work tearing apart the fuel system yet again and checking everything, filling the fuel tank, putting more drinking water on board, taping and sealing up a spilt C.V.Boot, Tighten up two loose exhaust port header pipes. We were able to fire it up yet again and hauled ass down the course but once again at about 15+ miles… NO JUICE! It turned out to be an internal electrical connection problem in the #1 Pump and a defective #2 Pump caused by the violent Slam at the rear of the car when we almost endowed/rolled earlier… By this time it was getting late and we realized that we would not be able to finish and we were quite disappointed because the rest of the car was perfect! We were so close to winning, and after we had covered 934 miles of the race we were only about 62 miles from the finish line and at that time we were 3rd overall out of 91 cars and 1st in our Baja Bug class….Oh well, that’s Racing! The official results posted the next day as finishing, 2nd in class and 28th over all, at the NORRA’s first off road vintage antique race car racing event “The Mexican 1000” of 2010. T’was a blast! Regards, and Semper Fi Loco Lorenzo Pearson.
