Baja 1000 2025

Dan Chamlee drove the entire 850 miles of this weekend’s Baja 1000, earning our 11th class 7 win and winning our 20 th season championship finishing in 22.5 hours, sadly missing a vcp added 30 minutes to his time. His co-drivers were: @kurt Kimball (Granny), @Amy Tate, Todd Craven Laurie Chamlee Dan reports that the truck ran amazing and King Shocks absorbed the terrain beautifully in spite of the torn up course. BFGoodrich Tires are incredibly strong and have great traction in both dry and wet conditions, especially late in the race in the slippery mud. The pits took care of our team and the truck. All Terrain Concepts worked well even while having an alternator issue and needed to be conservative on amperage even half the lights were adequate. Full Throttle Battery as usual zero problem they gave us plenty of reserve even when the alternator wasn’t keeping up. Rod End Supply we probably hit over a million hard bumps and the rod ends held up perfectly. sPOD electrical and switching system did its job perfectly. SLIME fortunately not needed this race. Garmin the gps kept us on course.

San Felipe 250

Laurie likes to write a press lease after each race and some are longer than others but this will be a simple one. Dan started 3rd in class soon passed everyone raced hard until the BFGoodrich Tires pit at race mile 114, the amazing crew their fueled him, Shawn Chamlee got out and Todd Cravens got in. They raced hard to race mile160 where Greg Anderson and Danielle Shumway splashed a few gallons of fuel and on to the finish. Dan was able to finish the 38th annual San Felipe 250 held April 2-6 first in class 7 in 5:31, winiing his 4th San Felipe 250. When Dan tested the truck on Thursday evening he found a miss in the engine. Fortunately, Chris at Danzio Performance Engineering was able to find a problem with the pedal and even had the part to fix it. The BFGoodrich Tires had the exact tire pressure when we got to the finish line as when we left the start line, great tires. King Shocks absorbed the miles of huge pounding San Felipe whoops. The incredible strength of the Rod End Supply pivots held up to the punishment with no problem. Thank goodness we didn’t have to use the All Terrain Concepts lights since we finished in the daylight. Full Throttle Battery gave us all the power to run the electrical system including our Garmin treads.

El Jefe 300

Dan Chamlee won class 7 at #ElJefe300 #recordracing. It was a dusty and rough 4 laps of a 52 mile course. Co-driver’s were Kurt Kimball and Todd Craven It was really fun to race in Dan and Laurie Chamlee‘s backyard. The teams success comes from great sponsors: The BFGoodrich Tires and King Shocks were soaking up those rocks and bumps. Rod End Supply Full Throttle Battery All Terrain Concepts Garmin sPOD

Chamlee wins 9th Baja 1000

The Factory Racing, Inc in their class 7 desert race truck, driven by Dan Chamlee won the 57th Baja 1000 November 15-16th. They completed the 864.13 grueling miles in 23 hours and 12 minutes. This is the 9th Baja 1000 win for the team.

The team spent the last few months preparing the race truck and chase trucks. Dave Tougnet @Newline products built new A-arms that had been damaged a few races back and welded out on the course.  Peter at All Terrain Concepts set them up with a new 50% more powerful 50” light bar with more long range vision and a shield to eliminate reflection off of the hood. When Dan was asked about the lights he grinned and said, “the best they’ve ever been.”  Communication between race truck and the chase teams has always been a challenge in the deserted mountain roads of Baja but modern technology has made a world of difference with the new Garmin Thread GPS with iridium technology allowing the team to track the team and satellite text each other and Starlink allows them to communicate with anyone on their contact list.

The team is given a couple weeks to drive the course and get familiar with it, the team was able to pre-run several sections and felt the course would be fast but probably torn up by race day. These sections hadn’t had many people drive on them yet but by the time the faster trucks had been on the course it was really torn up and really rough. Dan was grateful for his @King Shocks that absorbs those whoops. The 40” KR3 BF Goodrich tires absorbed the brutal sharp rocks. BF Goodrich not only makes amazing tires they provide GPS files and pit books of the entre course, they also set up pits every 120-150 miles to fuel us, with mechanics and staff available to help us. This year they helped weld our sway bar that had broken.

The team has an incredible group of friends that are vital to the team’s success. The race is a point to point race, which means there are no breaks during the race. The chase trucks travel along the highways and wait at access roads, monitoring the truck, prepared if the truck requires repairs on the course and then drive in with parts and/or tools needed to get the truck moving again. This years team consisted of Laurie Chamlee, Johnny Williams, Jennifer Craven, Nick Tonelli, Kelley Tonelli, Brennan Tonelli, Stella Tonelli

Dan counts on his co-driver to monitor the gauges, watch the Garmin GPS to tell him which turns to take, and keep him alert. If the truck breaks down they hop out to fix the problem. Dan’s co-drivers were Kurt Kimball and Todd Cravens.

Factory Racing wins 56th Baja 500 in Class 7

Dan Chamlee and The Factory Racing team are the official class 7 winner at the 56th Baja 500 in 13 hours 36 minutes. This is their 8th Baja 500 class win. This year’s course was a very rough and technical course. The truck ran great with the new engine and transmission. The tune on the King Shocks was awesome. Dan said “the truck never felt better”. BFGoodrich Tires pits took great care of us and our tires still looked new at the finish line. We’ve seen a lot of changes in the last 21 years and communication is a leading area of improvement. The Garmin thread with constant updates of speed and location of the entire team is so valuable. Then the icing on the cake to have starlink on the race truck and a chase truck was amazing. With Dan’s new intercom system Laurie was able to call and check in while he was driving. We’d like to thank our team Laurie Chamlee Kurt Kimball, Greg AndersonTodd Craven Shawn Chamlee. Great team.

We can’t do it without our sponsors: BFGoodrich Tires @King Shocks Full Throttle BatterysPODRod End SupplyAll Terrain ConceptsGarminSunoco Terri Memo Rodriguez