Ep. 055: Erich Reisen - Baja Racing - Part 1
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2015
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Erich Reisen is a Canadian firefighter who wanted to do something good for hummanity while fulfilling a lifelong dream of driving in the Baja 1000. So he got some of his firefighting friends together and they built themselves a Volkswagen Beetle to run in the 5/1600 class. Check it out and be sure to stop by the links to help them complete their fire truck donation to La Mision.
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| 0:00.0 | We're drifting in a corner. |
| 0:01.5 | My navigator yelled, slow down, slow down. |
| 0:04.8 | He panicked because he didn't see it early enough. |
| 0:08.0 | And I tapped the brakes to slow down, but we were going in the corner so quick, |
| 0:11.7 | we hit a rut, and it basically picked the car up and basically pulled the rug out from underneath us, |
| 0:17.4 | and we rolled in the air a few times, crash landed on the roof, |
| 0:24.7 | rolled over and rolled down a bank, basically hanging from our front wheels. |
| 0:26.8 | We lost our lights on the top of the car. |
| 0:32.9 | Both doors were crushed, closed, so we had to exit and enter through the front windshield area. |
| 0:50.4 | Music Episode 55, Eric Risen, Baja Racing. |
| 0:55.8 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:58.7 | Brought to you by 180 TAC. |
| 1:00.3 | Get out there and have some fun. Hi, welcome to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:17.0 | This is your host, Travis Parsons. |
| 1:19.3 | Today's guest is Eric Risen. |
| 1:21.7 | Eric and his fellow firefighters have formed a team up in Canada to build a car and race in the Baja 1000. |
| 1:29.1 | They've been doing it for a few years now, but I wanted to have Eric on to tell us all about |
| 1:34.0 | what it is they do and why they do it. Eric, welcome to the show. Thank you very much, Travis. |
| 1:39.7 | So go into some more detail, if you would, about who you are, who the guys are that you've gotten together to do this and why you're doing it. |
| 1:49.2 | Well, my name's Eric Risen. |
| 1:51.3 | I'm a Vancouver firefighter, and I formed YOLO racing with a couple of friends and firefighters. |
| 2:01.2 | Basically, it had been a notion in our head to go race to Baja 1000, |
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