The 57th Baja 1000 shall be run on a course that may appear acquainted to those that raced it a decade in the past. The structure was revealed by SCORE Worldwide on Tuesday, spanning 869.13 miles (1,359.39 kilometres) for the Professional classes and 736.61 mi (1,185.45 km) for Sportsman.
After doing a point-to-point format to commemorate SCORE’s golden anniversary in 2023, the race returns to a loop format for 2024. The race will begin and finish in Ensenada, the place the sanctioning physique’s major headquarters is positioned, with a loop that runs counter-clockwise. This additionally means the race stays completely within the state of Baja California, versus when it ran by Baja California Sur additional south. The 2015 version utilised an identical route with the identical beginning and ending areas in addition to route.
Upon departing Ensenada, opponents will head south alongside the Pacific coast previous Uruapan, Erendira, Cololonet, and Vicente Guerrero. The primary bodily checkpoint lies simply exterior San Quintin at Race Mile 209.69.
At RM 220, racers flip inland by El Canuto. Checkpoint 2 is positioned at RM 378.5 at Rancho San Martin. As soon as they hit the 400-mile mark, they flip northwards and go alongside the Gulf of California. The following seventy miles are on public roads, which means opponents should observe the pace restrict and can’t race till they exit the pace zone.
As soon as that’s out of the way in which, they head again inland previous Laguna del Diablo. Sportsman lessons will take a shortcut simply previous RM 580, main them to the third and last checkpoint at San Matias on RM 731.85. One other pace zone is adopted by a splash by Valle de la Trinidad and Mike’s Sky Rancho.

A last pace zone exterior Ojos Negros awaits earlier than everybody makes it again to Ensenada.
494 Digital Checkpoints shall be scattered alongside the course. Twenty pace zones totalling 125.42 miles are included with a max pace of both 37 miles per hour (59.54 km/h) or 60 mph (96.56 km/h).
The fourth and last spherical of the SCORE Worldwide World Desert Championship will start on Friday, 15 November. Bikes and Quads head out first at 1 AM, adopted by the 4-Wheelers at 10 AM. Everybody could have thirty-six hours to finish the race.
Bryce Menzies and Juan Carlos Salvatierra are the defending general winners.