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Lula Racing Dominates Baja Again!!!
Luivan Voelker and Carlos Albañez won aboard his BFGoodrich/Fox Shox New Beetle VW Racer
Mexicali Baja Mexico June 11th
Last weekend’s Score Tecate Baja 500 look again some familiar faces at the podium of one of the most competitive classes in desert racing, Baja racers Luivan Voelker from Mexicali and Carlos Albañez of Calexico Ca. Dominates again the entire field of class 5 open racers aboard his New Beetle bodied racer over the 425 miles length racecourse of Baja rugged terrain.
Winning in Baja can be hard at the first time, but did it twice, it’s a proof of dedication, preparation and hard work, those elements are part of the key to be succesfull in racing, since last race the Baja 250 Voelker has been working on some upgrades on the car, his racer a Lalo Mayoral Built chassis has been runner-up many times, and now his consistency paid off with consecutive back to back wins, starting in the 7th spot of the class 5 open Luivan started the race with codriver Diego Gamboa, both taked the green flag on the boulevard Costero on the beautiful seatown of Ensenada at 11:17 am, Voelker starting dead last of the class worked his way thru a very competitive field of racers including last year points champ Chris Bowman, perennial class champion George Seleey and wonder woman Michelle Bruckmann just to name a few of the names of the class, at Ojos Negros race mile#39 Luivan quickly moved a few spots ahead of the competition, at the famous Goat Trail Rm110 Voelker moved to the lead on corrected time and was a few inches behind #518 Kevin Carr who started in front of him early in the morning.
The duo stopped at VT to make a codriver change and a couple of gallons of fuel, Luivan headed to the Mikes Sky ranch loop leading the class, on one many water crossings of the Mikes section the #519 car shouted down but thxs to the very friendly people you always can find at the races, Luivan fixed the problems very quick, he continued his trip to one of the most technical sections of this event, after the Coyote ranch area, Luivan find a bottleneck caused by a few stuck cars in a steeply uphill, they lost like 15 minutes and his competition now was a few cars back, everybody waited for his turn to make the hill and Luivan got out of the car walked a few meters and he calculated how need to be in to make it, and when his turn comes he passed flawless. After that he worried because he looked the second place car on his back, now he gained 5 more minutes before he passed the driving wheel to Carlos Albañez who waited at Valle de la Trinidad Rm 255 for the car, at the pit the team did a great job, in less than 3 minutes they changed drivers complete checkout of his New Beetle racer and a complete fuel load, the BFGoodrich tires looked so good and Luivan never thinked about change it, Albañez left the pit area looking for a great run on his section.
Carlos and his brother Eddie navigated all his section from VT to Llano Colorado without problems, at Santo Tomas they have a 8 minute lead of the second place car, heading for the new race section from Uruapan to Km 25 their 5 Sol-Tek lights did a great job lighting his way to the finish line of the race, at 3 Hermanos where the last pit crew was relaying time splits, they send the message than #519 had a more of 30 minutes of lead and counting, when the team heard that, they went to cruise mode and finished the race before 11:00 pm Saturday night.
Lula Racing would like to thxs to his sponsors who supports them on every race on his 2007 championship like: Who’s your Daddy Energy Drink, Lula VW shop, Calexico Fitness, Llantas y Remolques de Mexicali, Casa Blanca Real Estate, and NTR, also to BFGoodrich tires, Baja Designs, ORW and Fox Racing Shoxs.
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