2025 SCORE BAJA CHAMPIONS | #TOYOTIRES

Nolan this year has just had this run that is hard to beat. I mean he's won every single score race. Right now he is the best driver in off-road, period. How do I want to be remembered? For me, it started as a kid watching my dad race. He was dreaming to race. He was dreaming hard. He said like, dad, dad, let me race, I can be in the shop all day, you know, I do wrenching, I do this and that. In 2017, I finally got behind the wheel of a traffic truck and it didn't go as planned. What we learned, we kept improving until the hard work paid off, earning us our first Baja 1000 overall win in 2019. But we didn't stop there. We went all in and bought a brand new all-wheel drive traffic truck. We came into that season with high hopes and it paid off. That year, we were the first Mexican team to win the championship in the traffic truck class. Coming into the 1000, everybody has Alan Amputi at the top of their list. He's won the last three races. No one's ever won all four, which is extremely challenging just to win one at this point. There is absolutely no doubt about it that, you know, the one guy to beat if it was one guy is out. Yeah, I think the wash coming back this year is awesome. It's one of the iconic moments of off-road racing. You start down in Ensenada, you jump into the wash and there's 10,000 people offline waiting for you. You know, Team Toyo right now is stacked. It's kind of cool to be alongside all these guys because they're all legends. They're all the guys to beat right now. So I think Toyo has really done well with, you know, aligning kind of the super team of Toyo drivers. And right now, those are the guys to watch out for. Seems like everybody's partnering up, all the best drivers. We got myself, Christopher Pavorti, you got Talgo Dosla, Jason McNeil, and then you got Alan Amputi, who's won every race so far this year. Gonna try to solo it and do a four-peat. I think mentally, trying to do it yourself is extremely fatiguing. I think the ultimate's putting two A-list guys together. And I think what makes Bryce and I really good is we both can put our egos aside and go, how do we win this race? Yeah, Christopher hasn't won a Ball 1000, and he's kind of new to racing in Baja. Took me over 13 years to win my first Ball 1000, so it's awesome to have him down there, kind of teach him, show him the ropes about Baja, and then just knowing what it takes to win a Ball 1000 now. Speaking of Chris, he did an amazing job qualifying. He won, and he always does. He's just had bad luck. Technology of our four-wheel drive off-road trucks have gotten to the level where if you're not running at almost a qualifying pace, it's going to be hard to win one of these races. One of the questions that I always get is, do we shut it down, right, at night? Do we stop racing? And a majority of the race is done at night, right? I mean, we're expecting 19 hours, seven during the day. That means 12 during the night. Simple math. Allen is now doing the whole course at night, and they say, like, oh, you're going to be tired to do it, because he's going to go solo. We're at race mile 600. Bryce and Allen are battling for first place. We still have 300 miles left to the finish from here. Allen's win streak is kind of unheard of. I mean, there's a lot that goes into this, and I think a big part of it is luck. And for Allen to have three back-to-back lucky days is kind of unheard of in Baja. There's always an element of luck. Baja always throws us a curveball. I think there may be kind of multiple problems going on with Allen right now. Here we are at mile 720 again. It looks like Allen had some issues in the power steering. We decided to just back down off the pace and try to make it to the pit here, have a full check, and make sure that we can get to the finish. In his mind right now, he's got to be thinking, OK, you know, I've been battling for the win this whole time. At what point does he kind of make the decision here of, hey, let's not throw away the championship here, and let's focus on getting this thing to the finish and keep this truck in one piece? Because the one thing that he cannot do is ENF. Baja 1000 is the one to win. I think this is what, you know, the world knows about. Me and Bryce both have a up and down year. We're here to win. We're not here for second place. So ultimately at the end, if it comes down to it, he's going to send it. It's just something about the Baja 1000 that you will throw away all three races before that just to win this race. I think the feeling of that has brought me back hungrier than ever to win another Baja 1000. Here they come. Headlights out across the stripe. Congratulations to that entire team. Baja 1000, it seems like it always is my kryptonite. And last year we only made it 12 miles. So we knew we had to bring it back. Redemption year. I can't give up. You got to push all the way to the finish. You never know what's going to happen. And Baja was on our side today. And we made it to the finish line. Score world desert champion right here. Let's hear it for Alan Laporte and Locos. It was good until it wasn't. But that's racing, you know. Can't win them all apparently. We had a good day battling with Bryce and Volvorti all day. Unfortunately, we're not able to get the win today. But feels good definitely to get another championship under our belt. Crushing it in a legend class. Numero uno. 16 in a row. Gustavo, congratulations. Toyota Tires has won every single race this year. My hat's off to them. Everybody that's a part of it. Let's go. Here's a Baja 1000 win for you.