yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

Racing 800 Miles in the Desert—in a VW Bug | National Geographic


2m read
·Nov 11, 2024

The Baja 1000 is just one of the toughest off-road races that exists. Uh, it's in Baja California in Mexico down the peninsula. It's pretty much the race that you aspire to do in off-road racing. This year's event is 828 miles and has, I believe, a 33-hour time limit.

When most people think of the Baja 1000, they think about trophy trucks, which are these thousand horsepower million-dollar forces of nature when you see them on the course. We're kind of at the opposite end of the spectrum with, uh, basically stock Volkswagens from the 1970s, got about, uh, 50-60 horsepower in them and very little modification. Sometimes we're going down the road sideways, almost about to tip over, which is interesting and kind of scary at times.

Well, we really did feel good coming into the event. The car was strong; we had the biggest team we ever had. We had great communications and, unfortunately, we had a problem come out of left field, uh, with our fuel system that caused multiple failures of different parts of it, and it knocked us out of the race 30 minutes in with everything that we had this year. It really stinks, it just stinks, just stinks.

This is the sixth time we’ve failed, so that's kind of a tough thing to face. Um, it is hard. I mean, this is one of the hardest things you can do out there, but failing is part of learning and getting better at this stuff. Um, people are exhausted. I want them to sleep, I want them to get hydrated, I want them to get fed. Um, by this afternoon, we're going to be sitting down talking.

"All right, let's look at lessons learned. What can we do better next year? Where we were at with the team that we had this year, where we needed?"

More Articles

View All
How to get out of a rut? Mental healing series episode 1
It’s literally 4 AM, and I still haven’t studied yet. Why is this happening? Just why? I think I’m gonna sleep for years. I misunderstood the meaning of productivity. Being more productive didn’t mean I was doing the most important work. It only meant I w…
The Aufbau principle | Atomic structure and properties | AP Chemistry | Khan Academy
In other videos, we introduced ourselves to the idea of orbitals, and these are various orbitals in their various subshells that you could find in various shells of an atom. In this video, we’re going to get a little bit more practice with electron config…
Intro to articles | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy
Garans, I would like to tell you a Tale of Two Elephants in order to get at the idea of this thing called the article, and we’ll explain what that is after I tell you about the elephant and an elephant. Now, articles are words like a, or an, or the. Arti…
The Black Woman | Genius: MLK/X | National Geographic
Sister Betty, The Honorable Elisha Muhammad has provided an answer to the central question amongst us all: Who is the original man? The original man is the Asiatic black man, the maker, the owner, the creator of the planet Earth, god of the universe, the…
Climbing Islands in the Sky in Search of New Species | Nat Geo Live
Mark: My years in Yosemite were the best years of my life. That was where I was training and I was learning the skills of big wall climbing. And I wanted to find walls that people hadn’t done before and I wanted to pioneer my own routes. But, you know wha…
Hydrogen bonding | Intermolecular forces and properties | AP Chemistry | Khan Academy
Let’s talk about hydrogen bonds. Depicted here, I have three different types of molecules. On the left, I have ammonia; each ammonia molecule has one nitrogen bonded to three hydrogens. In the middle, I have something you’re probably very familiar with. I…