Dust to Glory
Weatherman to all checkpoints.
I'm looking for status on 99 Alpha, please,
between Valle de Trinidad and Milling.
They race the clock
in a land that defies time,
Sharing an adventure in a place
where reality is on holiday.
It's the most beautiful place in the world.
It's the most scary place in the world.
And it's the most
desolate, quiet place.
You love it, you hate it, you love it,
you hate it, you love it, you hate it.
You don't wanna be there,
you wanna be there.
It's like a girl that breaks your heart.
"I hate you, I never
wanna see you again.
I'm sorry.
Can I come over?"
You look up at the stars
and there's no smog.
you hear the birds.
You hear the whales,
you hear the seals.
that opportunity to feel that,
to get closer to something
that's more instinctual.
It's difficult to put into words
because it's an emotion.
That's what Baja is,
something you feel.
What do you call a race where
anybody with any vehicle can enter,
a race where 200,000 spectators
come but no one pays admission,
A race that takes 32 hours
for 1,200 people
to battle 1,000 merciless miles
for a million different reasons?
Call it the Tecate Score Baja 1000.
and he said it's like being
in a 24-hour plane crash.
'Cause the 1000,
so much can go on.
Think about what happens,
you know, in the Daytona 500.
And they're going
around a smooth track,
and the pit's
in the same spot every time.
You know, we got
buses and cows and horses and...
Mountains and beaches and deserts.
You're in dust, you're in rocks.
It's gullies, it's washouts,
it's 100 miles an hour, 20 miles an hour.
So many roads out there,
and little ranches here and there.
Every one of these jumps,
every one of these turns
is different than the last one.
Tell you what,
you don't fall asleep here.
I lived it, I ate it, I slept it,
and I can totally understand
when other people
get caught up in the mystique of it,
trying to beat time itself
and get to the finish line.
It's an unreal feeling.
It's only about 100 miles
south of San Diego,
but Ensenada is a whole nother world.
and the closer you get to it,
The more confusing it becomes.
Mouse had the inspiration
and Fish gave his approval,
But it was my good buddy Scott Waugh
who convinced me to make this movie
about the longest nonstop
point-to-point race in the world.
My name is Dana Brown.
And when I thought I knew,
I hadn't a clue.
We got Dana Brown.
Dana just came out of Step Into Liquid.
They are doing a feature
called Dust to Glory
on the Tecate Score Baja 1000.
That's Sal Fish. He's in charge.
An honest promoter.
Why not? This whole thing started
with a stuntman nicknamed after a rodent.
- There's the odds.
- Hey, we're three-to-one.
Look at this.
I'm two-to-one favorite.
This is Mouse. A real force of nature.
Somehow you always end up doing
whatever he's doing.
Take his posse... one legend
and two childhood friends.
Also getting sucked into Mouse's orbit
were the Griders, Andy and Neil.
Andy won the 1000 last year.
- Can you bet this?
- Yeah, at Caliente.
Hey, Billy, you can bet this
at Caliente.
Let's put some odds on ourselves.
Let's go bet on ourselves.
I think in Mexico you can do that.
It's not like...
Who's that guy... Pete Rose?
Seems like everybody
enters the 1000.
They've raced everything here
from Rolls-Royces to Winnebagos.
The Bago didn't make it very far.
These racers are
from all walks of life.
Including the prodigal son,
The Hawaiian surfer,
The father, son, and grandson,
King of the Beetles,
Team Estrogen,
The perennial champs,
The greatest ever,
and those Indy dudes.
They don't close
the race course off for anybody.
You're out there with Joe Public,
or in this case, Jose Public.
For the people of Baja. This is
one of the biggest days of the year.
We can really relate to racing,
off-road racing.
And you meet people,
you just start talking.
Start talking about
the last race, the next race.
"You remember this
and you remember that."
You end up with four
or five guys around you,
and that's called picking up dust
here in this town.
As the party atmosphere fades,
all the contradictions and metaphors
begin to make sense to me.
This isn't about a race.
It's about the race. The human race.
Which I figure is exactly
how Sal Fish intended it.
The roads aren't closed.
Locals driving backwards on the course.
You've got locals racing
right next to you.
You've got chase vehicles, and they're
on the course where they shouldn't be.
You know, I mean, this is
not for wusses. Let's face it.
Without question.
Sal Fish is the Baja 1000.
He marks a different course each year.
He deals with the concerns
of the ranchers, of the police.
as well as demands
of contestants and spectators.
I haven't met anyone that has
the stupidity, I guess, that I have
that would do it the way I do.
And I never stop thinking about this.
It's a 24-hour deal and I love it.
Get families together
and guys with the $10,000 vehicle
and guys with the $2 million vehicle.
having Sal Fish's job.
Having 300 people
like Robby Gordon showing up there
wanting to go racing,
and everybody has their own agenda.
Everybody plays by the same rules.
They all pay the same entry fee.
I wanna make sure
are always at Score
and there's a place for them to race.
Sal's values are reflected
in a race that's open to everyone,
from the little guy to the big guy.
The famous and anonymous...
all equal, all simply racers.
Pre-dawn.
Air temperature, 45 degrees.
Motorcycles and quads
will start three hours ahead of the field.
A flurry of flashbulbs
announces Johnny Campbell's arrival.
a record-breaking seven in a row.
Trying to keep loose
was 62-year-old J.N. Roberts,
a true legend in off-road racing.
Always gotta keep moving.
Harder target to hit.
Mouse arrived.
He's very quiet. Unusually subdued.
Mouse doesn't know this but when
I was a little kid, he was my hero.
He'd go out smokin' everybody.
"Wow, who's this Mouse McCoy?"
Then all of a sudden, disappeared.
I started racing
when I was four years old.
And by 17 I was just flat burned out.
Nothing you could do about it.
You don't have any context
of what you're doing as a kid.
All you know is you hate it,
you're done, you're sick of it.
Actually that's the best thing
that's ever happened to me
'cause now I love
riding motorcycles more than ever.
And maybe I wouldn't have loved it
so much had I kept going.
For every bike there's usually
three, four, or five riders.
Johnny Campbell would be riding
the first 205 miles
before handing it over
to Steve Hengeveld.
We'll see ya at the finish line.
J.N. Would ride 110
before giving it to his son Jimmy.
Mouse McCoy wouldn't
run 100, 200, or even 500 miles.
Mouse had a different plan.
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