Arctic Cat Inc., Wired Energy Drinks, and Vision X Extreme lighting have Won the second toughest race in North American Off road Racing. This year's Tecate SCORE Baja 500. This was one of the toughest Baja courses in the history of the event and it showed. Dave Creagan said "We wanted to win this year more than ever. We have had our fair share of 2nd and 3rd place finishes in Mexico, we really needed this. Our Sponsors are unbelievable. Their dedication to our program is so hard to find. Arctic Cat is dedicating so much effort to the South West Markets and are bringing out the fastest, baddest, Quads and UTV's anywhere and the Wired Energy guys have helped us from Jackson Hole Wyoming to Baja Mexico. We could not ask for better people to work with. We are blessed. They deserve this win they really do" "And to Joe at Vision X Lighting it's going to be tough to call me a Mary now! From last to first baby!"

This year's 500 went over what they call the summit. We remembered this part of the course from 2005 because this part of Baja had a special place for us in her heart. A special place for us to change tires, change radiators, and change directions two or three times as Jim and I lost the GPS for a while. But this year was different. We had our problems early. Dave ended up stuck in a gully about 60 miles from the start of the Summits rock infested roads. He was stuck long enough for his second place start to not only dwindle to last in Pro Truck but two other entire classes passed him. By the time they got out Chris Creagan, Dave's co- driver said "We had no choice but to push the truck way harder than we should. Twice we hit over 114 mph going down some hills that normally we would do at about 80 mph. Our plan for taking it easy on the new General Tires went right out the window. We were spinning and sliding on the solid rock going over the summit. Trust me, there is no need to take it easy on the new Grabber tires. The only flats came because Dave had me so freaked with how fast he was going through the rocks I was not watching the GPS and we took out two side walls on a cattle guard. This left us with no spare and 45 miles to the next pit. Sure enough Dave railed a boulder and we were on the rim with 25 miles to the pit at mile 207. I bet no one will believe me but we were doing 87 mph across the dry lake bed on the back right rim and we passed like a 12 class or something. I hope those guys had an in car cam it would be sweet video. I think someone at the Baja Pits got us changing the rim on film. Alcoa should be proud of their stuff I would never have believed we could rally that far on a rim in those kind of conditions. I thought the race was over for us"

When we finally beat the rim off the truck with sledge hammers the race was back on. Dave had gone from last to 4th behind Voss, Reinertson, and Mango Racing. Brian Coats and Troy Tackett would take the truck the rest of the way. Brian past the Mango truck in the pits quickly and was trying to get past Reinertson. They battled back and forth a couple times before Reinertson rolled four times down the cliff at the silt hill at about race mile 360 breaking a ball joint and spending the rest of the race looking at the desert stars waiting for the rescue. Voss was still a ways out front so we were staring at a second place barring any disasters and we were elated with that. The diversity we overcame to get back into the race was accomplishment enough. As we rolled down the hills into Ensenada the radio came alive with the sound of Carlos our west coast chase manager. In perfect broken English he said. “Baja Dave, Baja Dave its Carlos chase 2. No Voss Pro Truck finish Dave. You hear me No Voss Finish. He broke motor tell Brian make truck go easy and we win!.” Words cannot describe the onslaught of mass confusion and communication that ensued at that point. All five chase trucks and the race truck were trying to talk all at once till Brian and Troy finally broke through and said ‘Please shut up were trying to finish a race here.” Everyone was so excited with the prospect of winning the 500. How awesome. Our hearts go out to the Voss team they are great competitors and were very close when the engine blew up. I guess that’s racing.

I want thank SCORE for the awesome race this year and the people of Ensenada Mexico. You are the best fans on the planet. We will be back for the Baja 1000 and can’t wait to see what type of humbling terrain the course will bring forth. Please check out the world’s fastest ATV’s (No Joke check out the Thunder Cat 1000) at www.arcticcat.com and the best tasting strongest energy drinks there are at www.wiredenergydrink.com And as always get the latest with the team at www.bipolarracing.com

Baja pit at Borrego mile 207