9/2/2023 0 Comments Wide open off road![]() ![]() The car you’ll be driving is a full-out, tube-chassis, six-figure Baja Challenge car. They’re more comfortable than they look.< p One bounced off the beadlock wheel and the other grabbed a nail. We had seven cars in the group, four tires per car, and only lost two over the three-day trip. ![]() There were 11 other guys on my trip, and one wife, and it seemed like all came away impressed after rolling over 300 miles of tire-killing rocks that would flatten a normal tire in seconds. Our guide was Jeff Cummings, a BFGoodrich employee whose job it is to take tire distributors, wholesalers and dealers out to the sand to show off what these, giant, knobby, seemingly indestructible KM3 tires can do off-road. ![]() “After looking at 100-foot drop-offs all day, 30 feet starts looking pretty tame. Professional guides bookend the three- to four-car groups, but they are far enough away for the drivers to get in plenty of trouble. Wide Open is an adventure-based vacation/test of your mettle, where customers, or corporate groups like the one I was with, go out to the desert (either in Baja or Cabo San Lucas) to drive these purpose-built buggies as fast as they want. It really rang true when barreling across the washboard sand surface in a Baja Challenge race buggy near Ensenada as the wind shifted, sending a thick beige cloud into my car, taking visibility to near zero. There were plenty more nuggets of info, but that was the one that stuck. That was the first thing our Wide Open Baja guide told us when we met him at the airport in San Diego, minutes before we crossed the border into the Mexican Baja peninsula for our three-day desert racing tour. “In the center of every dust cloud is a crunchy metallic center.” ![]()
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