The 27th annual San Felipe 250 took place Saturday, March 9th with more entries from various countries in this year than the last few years. The combined team of Quad75Dezert and Los Chakas battled in 4th all day long, but finished the day in 5th after some confusion near the finish. After the stressful pre-race preparations, the team was less than happy with 5th but content with a finish without penalties and is now looking towards the Baja 500 in June.

Riders Juan Sanchez, Angel Sanchez, Jenaro Ibarra, Santos Perez and Brandon Brown were to compete in this year’s 250, however just before he was supposed to leave Brandon was in a training accident that left him with two broken ribs and other injuries. Then, while pre-running, Santos Perez encountered a chase truck coming backwards on the course. In his attempt to avoid the oncoming vehicle Santos crashed and broke his collarbone, just days before the race. It was a rocky start to 2013, but the team did not give up and replacement rider Julio Gomez was able to step in, however without enough time for pre-running. Read More

Brandon talks a little bit about the 2012 250 and Tire Block’s Quad75Dezert.

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Team Quad75Dezert conquers adversity and places 5th at the 44th Annual SCORE San Felipe 250. After a week of pre-running in Mexico and about 100 miles of testing and tuning on the race bike, the team woke early March 10th to race the San Felipe 250. After a solid week the team was feeling good about their sections and the course, however their race would be plagued with problems, the least severe being stray cactus injecting itself into riders, the most severe being a transmission failure that would leave the team struggling for top speed for most of the race. Read More

Quad75Dezert once again is in the desert of Mexico, preparing for the 44th Annual San Felipe 250. This year’s race is 248.64 miles and has an 11 hour time-limit to complete. Motorcycles begin leaving the line at 6:00am Saturday March 10th, in 30-second intervals. Trucks begin leaving the line 4 hours after the last motorcycle has left.

Jamie heading out to pre-run his section.

This year’s course has some never-before-used sections as the track will go through 3 new washes. This will add a little to the typical challenges of Baja, and participants riding those sections will need to take extra care during pre-running to make notes and learn the terrain. For Quad75Dezert, most of these sections will be taken on by rider Jorie Williams, who says, “The new sections are fun, but there’s not a lot of room for creativity.” Read More

We leave next week! The 250 is March 11th. We’ll have an official press release at a later date. In the meantime check out our testing video.

Joey Kirkpatrick was nice enough to send these photos to us of Jorie at the Finish and a few of the bikes and teams. Check them out!

Left to Right: Jorie Williams, Kenny Sanford, Brandon Brown, Robbie Mitchell; Team 1 Class 24 & ATV Overall Winners

Brandon Brown, Kenny Sanford, Jorie Williams, & Robbie Mitchell went to Mexico to race the San Felipe 250. Coming off of a win at the 1000, Team Quad75 Dezert was there to defend the team’s title in Class 24 (Pro ATV up to 450cc). Team 1 started last off the line, and passed nearly the entire field ahead of them like a car passing cones on the interstate! Out of 39 quad entries in 4 classes, only 31 finished. Team Quad75 Dezert took the Class 24 win as well as the overall ATV win!

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