ALL GERMAN MOTORSPORTS TAKES OVERALL WIN AT 2010 SAN FELIPE 250
The All German Motorsports team, led by Martin Christensen and Armin Schwarz, started out the week pre-running the rough 248 mile San Felipe course. Navigators Bryan Lyttle and Tyler Irwin were saddled with the daunting task of creating the race notes from the information gathered during the pre-run. Imagine racing across the desert floor at speeds of 75 to 120 mph through very rough terrain all while reading what looks to some as a lost civilization’s ancient language on a regular-sized note pad (50 Jump ! imed R2 > 30 L3 < ovr crst 100 g-out!) all the while never looking up. Once pre-running was complete, final preparation of the car is addressed.
Prepping the car to last even 250 miles can be a challenge, but the All German Motorsports team is up for a challenge. Team members like Greg Grassmann, Sam Osman, Peter Oostra, Jake Holdridge and a host of others enable the team to operate at the this level of racing. The team spent Friday getting the fleet of BFG equipped vehicles ready for the brutal 248 mile race by prepping CV’s, checking shocks, applying sponsor stickers and stocking the chase trucks. With 14 chase and support vehicles involved, it is an enormous task. This is where almost 50 team members chip in to do their part.
All German Motorsports was the first Class One car to leave the line on Saturday. With only 248 miles of racing, the organizers chose some of the roughest terrain Baja has to offer. Heavy dust from more than 30 Trophy Trucks in front would lead them on the course. Armin Schwarz and Bryan Lyttle were first to pilot the BMW powered Jimco. With no scheduled stops until the driver change at RM 150, Armin was able to settle into a smooth pace. By RM 78 they had only been passed by Randy Wilson and Harley Letner. Armin, being a seasoned racer, knew to sit back and race his race. He delivered a sound car to Martin Christensen and Tyler Irwin at RM 150, and within 40 seconds, the car was fueled, drivers changed and back on the course. Martin and Tyler would take the car all the way to the finish. A few hours and two rocky washes later, Jesse Jones would cross the finish line 1st in his #76 Trophy Truck with Robby Gordon 2nd in his # 1 Trophy Truck and a mere 20 seconds behind in 3rd, Martin Christensen in his #101 AGM Class One. With the time correction, AGM had a 4:02 lead over 2nd place Jesse Jones. This is only the third time since the creation of the Trophy Truck 17 years ago that a Class One car has captured the overall win in San Felipe.
When asked about the race at the finish, Martin had this to say “ We know Randy Wilson and Harley Letner are always fast, so we just had to run a smart race and depend on our product partners. The Dinan BMW M5 provided the power needed to win, and the Xtrac transmission delivered the power to the ground through Pro-Am components without fail. Without a single flat, the BFG Baja T/A’s were great. Our Bilstein shock absorbers and Eibach springs worked excellent and had zero fade, allowing us to push the car to its limits with confidence. I just can’t say enough about our partners – B&M Tricon, Stammcut, Remus Sport Exhaust, Jimco, Meziere Enterprises, K&N, Off Road Warehouse, Recaro, Sol Tek, F&L Fuels, and Collisions plus- without their commitment we would not even be here. This was a huge win for the AGM team and we would like to thank everyone that made this possible”
I must add that due to a software failure in SCORE’s computing the results to the race are still unofficial
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