Ronn Bailey, finished 3rd both overall and in Class One in the El Golfo 200 on Saturday, October 13th.  The El Golfo 200 course runs over some fifty miles of desert dunes and sand-swept beaches bordering the Sea of Cortez for 4 laps.   Sponsored by Pro Desert Racing, the El Golfo 200 began and finished in El Golfo, Sonora, about 90 miles south of Yuma, Arizona.

Bailey's race team is sponsored by Vanguard Integrity Professionals, the long-time leader in information security protecting the global data assets of the world’s Top 1000 organizations and their customers. For this weekend Bailey had brought with him a five-man team consisting of the director of R&D Brian Marshall, facilities manager Clark Ferrill,  Team Manager and Conference Director Michael Johnson and two mechanics Jason Papa and Jeremy Witt from the Motorsports team. With only three pit crew hands --and a single chase vehicle to cover over 200 miles of open desert-- the odds were against success. Ronn Bailey Motorsport’s mechanic, Jeremy Witt sat in as navigator for the race.

of course, there were other obstacles that had to be overcome -- such as having done a complete engine swap only days before the race will less than 20 miles of testing and a recurring shock failure problem. However, with a few more late nights with the crew working on fine tuning the class one buggy, The RBM team was ready for the race. 

At the start line, the race started in a side by side, drag race style and Ronn Bailey lined up next to the only Trophy Truck in the race. When the green flag dropped the race was on, at 25 yards it was dead even, at 50 yards Ronn started to pull ahead and by 100 yards Ronn had two car lengths on the truck and was still pulling away. By the time the road narrowed to one lane Ronn was more than 8 car lengths ahead of the truck proving the all new LS7 640 horsepower engine upgrade was a change for the better. The race continued on through the sandy desert and beaches of the upper Sea of Cortez for 4 laps of 50 miles.

Ronn and his co-pilot/navigator Jeremy, executed precisely to plan, with "no problems and no flats." Ronn Bailey stated, "We launched high in the air, on two wheels" concluded Bailey, "but we were able to keep the car from rolling and just inside the zone of 'controlled chaos'".