Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Race Weekend with Joe Bacal and his Lexus LX 570

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This weekend in Laughlin, Nevada, Joe Bacal and his all-new JT Grey Lexus LX 570 kicked off the 2012 SCORE Championship season with a pair of podium finishes in the Stock Full class, coming in second on Saturday and first in Sunday’s race.

In an incredible turn of events, I was invited to be part of the team as a co-driver, and was strapped into the passenger seat of the LX as Joe battled through for his first place finish earlier today — even hours later, I’m still riding the aftershocks of my hour-long off-road experience.

It was the debut weekend for Joe’s new LX race truck, and some last minute issues filled the weekend with deep adversity and good fortune — here’s what Joe had to say right after the race:

[The LX] is pretty fast. This thing is pretty fast. We are getting closer and I tweaked the shocks a little bit. I bent my rear trailing link and it looked like a U-shape yesterday and I know I bent this one. I had to go as fast as I could go. It was a very clean race and that’s what you ask for and hope for…It’s this stock class; you never know what is going to happen. [JT Grey] did not have a very good year last year and we’re hoping to redeem ourselves this year.

 

Courtesy of Lexus Enthusiast

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