Sharman Racing at Baja

On June 4th the ARP sponsored class one race team of Ryan and Paul Sharman captured a seventh place finish in the Baja 500 starting in Ensenada Mexico. Sharman racing, a father and son team out of Arizona, survived record temperatures, an overheating engine and multiple flats in the Baja desert to hold off 11 out of 18 other cars. During pre-running the course the week before the temperatures increased every day until peaking on race day at 120° in the inner deserts of the peninsula. The Sharmans adapted their race strategy to deal with the intense heat which included slowing the pace across the lake beds and extra pitstops with lots of ice water in the cockpit. Early on they moved from 13th to 7th place and held on to finish back in Ensenada and just under 13 hours.IMG_7780

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