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"Baja 1000" 2003 Race Report

The Pedos Viejos Race Team of Will and Jerry Higman had a great result finishing second place at the 2003 "Baja 1000". Some say it was the roughest course in the history of the race. Thank you to everyone who helped out in making this happen especially Matt Niles and Derek Kreger from Kreger Fabrication for preparing an awesome vehicle for the race.

The Reliable Lumber Class 10 car would once again beat the Baja stepping up one spot after its third place finish at the 2003 "Baja 500". There is only one notch left in the team's gun belt and with the addition of a Honda power plant for 2004 the team is very confident of their future success.

The aforementioned rough race would be a loop that would start and finish in Ensenada with the furthest point south being Laguna Chapala for a total of 808 miles. The overall winner of the race would only average 49 miles per hour compared to last year's 62 miles per hour average.

Will Higman would start the race with Chris Patton navigating. Their car #1002 would be the first car off of the line starting right behind the Class 1 contingent. The race started out uneventful for the first 20 miles until Will caught up to the tail end of the Class 1 field. Will was getting ready to pass car #129 on the first highway section when the local authorities decided to flex their muscle and stop the vehicle for speeding. After pleading for forgiveness, Will was allowed to continue after losing only five minutes, but by then he had been passed by all of the cars in his class except one. The only other problem of the first segment was a tire change for a dinged rim while descending the Goat Trail into Valle De Trinidad. From there Will piloted the car over the mountains cleanly into second place by race mile 204 where he then turned the car over to his dad, Jerry.

Jerry Higman took over the wheel at this point and would be responsible for racing the car through the most technical and critical segment of the race. Jerry did an awesome job bringing the car through the twisty and narrow 100-mile section that ended at the highway crossing at Arenoso. From there Jerry would head west to the Pacific Coast where the hazards would be the lack of moonlight, remote access, and every off road racer's biggest fear "silt". Coming through this section with only one flat tire but maintaining position, Jerry would hand the car off to Will once again at race mile 440 for the run to the finish.

At race mile 440 just North of Cativina, Derek Kreger joined Will in the car and the two of them would buckle in after a routine driver change for the remainder of the night with a 368-mile leg to the finish. The first part of this run was a 41 mile highway section to a left hand turn at Laguna Chapala. During this pavement section, the car seemed to be down on power but the moist cold night air and wind was getting most of the blame for the lack of top-end speed. When Will made the northern turn at Gonzaga Bay the headwind picked up to approximately 30-40 miles per hour and the car would barely run in 5th gear. The first bump of this segment came at race mile 578 just south of San Felipe where the car immediately flooded over and quit running. After reducing the fuel pressure with no results, the pair decided that the air cleaner might be clogged. Derek jumped back out to take apart the air cleaner and a pound of silt came pouring out. After about ten minutes of cleaning, Will was back running full song and headed for the barn.

After a brief off-course excursion just north of Borrego, Will cruised the car into the Ensenada area. With only 10 miles to go things got very tense due to the lack of course markers and many 180-degree turns. Thanks to the GPS in the car they were able to navigate their way to the finish line just before sunrise to a 2nd place finish in Class 10 and 16th place overall with a finishing time of 19 hours 51 minutes.

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