VOLUME 57 ISSUE 41 OCTOBER 13, 2020 P45
Baja Rally Championship Launched
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aja Rally Powered by Rally
Comp has launched two new
3-day rally raid competitions and
lengthened the flagship rally to a
longer, six-day format to create
the Baja Rally Championship
Series for 2021.
Hotels Mision Cataviña and
Mision Santa Maria San Quintin
will each host "single-bivouac"
three-day rally raid events in
January and May, respectively. A
points table published in the new
rulebook gives an incentive for
racers and teams to compete for
the championship and for spon-
sors to contribute to the series.
Rally founder and stage devel-
oper Scotty "Breauxman" Bloom
explained that the Baja Rally staff
and volunteers have spent eight
summers developing what he de-
scribes as "championship-level"
rally raid stages and innovative
protocols for communications
and safety, including moto-med-
ics, Rally Comp Tracking and sat-
ellite WiFi and communications.
"We've ramped up for the post-
Covid era because we have the
assets and resources to provide
a safer racing platform that is
sustainable," Bloom explained.
"There is a pent-up demand
after this anomaly of a year and
for rally-raid as a racing alterna-
tive. We're seeing more interest
stemming from Ricky Brabec and
Casey Currie's Dakar Rally wins.
We're getting generous support
from our three main sponsors.
The bottom line is we've had a
lot of practice and learned a lot
these first eight years so we have
the capacity to scale it out to a
three-race series with the longest
rally in North America."
Click here for more information
on the Baja Rally Championship.
Baja Rally Championship Schedule
Jan 29-Feb 1 (Rnd 1) Catavina Rally
May 21-23 (Rnd 2) San Quintin Rally
Sep 26-Oct 2 (Rnd 3) Baja Rally
Baja Rally has
launched a three-
race series in
2021, capped off
by a six-day rally-
raid next fall.
