When you think of Baja, the last thing to come to mind is being, “Green”. Well that is not the case for one competitor of the 2008 Baja 1000. You might have heard that you can run your diesel off of straight vegetable oil. I am not talking about bio-diesel, I mean veggie oil like you fry French fries in.

If you keep up with the Best in the Desert Racing series I am sure you have seen the #1 Trick Truck of Team Ford. A bright red Trick Truck is hard to miss even at 100 mph. I met up with the Team during the time trials for the Vegas to Reno race, to give you a behind the scenes look at what goes on before the race actually starts.

Let’s face it the Championship Off Road Racing series has to be one of the most action packed forms of off-road racing out there and one of the strongest teams in this series is Menzies Motorsports.

Most Off-road Race fans think the drivers live the lives of Rock stars, traveling from race to race with a slew of semi trucks, a full pit crew and it is all a big vacation. Well let me tell you this could not be further from the truth.