America’s favorite auto expert is adding a new challenge to her ‘to-do’ list – Barbara Terry is running the Baja 500.
This
is the Baja 500’s 40th anniversary -- the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 is a
500-mile off-road race starting and ending in Ensenada, Mexico.
Barbara will be in Ensenada a week before the race to do a pre-run of
the course and take part in media interviews, she is also partnered
with SPEEDtv.com to showcase and feature her Baja 500 race on their web
site.
Barbara is presently in negotiations for her own reality show, BT Garage.
What made you want to do the Baja 500?
I
chose to get totally enthralled in the Baja 500 and Baja 1000 mainly
for the simple reason of my love for racing and everything to do with
cars!
I am also excited that my racing is aligned and an obvious extension of my other car related projects.
Is this your first time?
I
have raced the Baja 1000 before and quickly realized that I had an all
new appreciation for a good ole shower, crisp/clean sheets and
something called sleep!
What are you hoping to accomplish?
Number
one…I want to make my sponsors happy and proud to be on board with
Barbara Terry Racing. If I were to win my buggie class that would make
it even sweeter.
Considering that approximately 50% of the
entered vehicles do not even finish, I will be ecstatic if my buggy
rolls across the finish line.
On a conference call with my race
team the other day I have given all of them the heads up that even if
we have to push the buggie the last 20 miles we will finish!
For people who dont know what the Baja 500 is, tell us about it?
The
Baja races are considered to be the most difficult in the world. They
are endurance races so you do not stop until you finish other than of
course for fuel, any necessary repairs and a quick pit stop behind a
desert bush after drinking all of that water in order to stay hydrated.
Are you still looking for sponsors, can people get involved?
I
am excited to announce that NAPA Filters hopped on board as my title
sponsor and of course my buggie will be riding on awesome Goodyear
Tires provided by Goodyear. I am however always seeking additional
sponsors.
Companies can contact me directly for this. Barbara@barbaraterry.com
How big of a challenge is this for you?
Every
race has an extreme level of challenge, difficulty and competition to
it. Being as this is my first official race under my new wing of
Barbara Terry Racing I want so badly to do so well.
Any other info you'd like to tell people about?
I
am more than thrilled to have partnered with SPEEDtv.com to showcase my
Baja race on their site. They will be featuring my race via daily
video blogs, live feed the day of the race and showcasing an hour worth
of webisodes on their site of my pre-race, actual race and post race
starting a week after the race.
Check out barbaraterry.com
by Linda Przygodski
Contributing Editor
AskPatty.com
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