Price competes in race as only ‘IronWoman’

Canyon Lake resident and 2019 Milestone Award contender Sara Price is competing in the world-renown SCORE World Desert Championship Baja 1000 this week, Nov. 19 through Nov. 24, as an IronWoman,’’ which means she will drive the entire 800.5-mile race as a solo driver team. The top competitor and only IronWoman’’ for the TT Spec Class is expected to spend a minimum of 18 hours in the truck with a maximum of 34 hours to finish the race. The race starts and finishes in Ensenada.

Sara will be joined by long-time friend and navigator Erica Sacks, also a Canyon Lake resident, for their 21st together as a duo.

Erica will take the green flag and navigate approximately 300 miles before switching her seat with SP Motorsports’s head mechanic Preston Murray. Murray has a long history of racing and is no stranger to the grueling desert that Baja, Mexico, has to offer. Erica will then jump back into the right seat until the checkered flag.

Team number 204 is currently leading the Trophy Truck Spec. Class and is sitting second overall in the entire SCORE championship series, points just behind Trophy Truck Champion Andy McMillin. After three consecutive second place finishes this year, Sara is looking to get her first win and first-ever SCORE International Championship.

“We have had an incredible season thus far and have done all we can to prepare to take on this task to battle what I feel is one of the world’s most grueling and legendary off-road races,” said Sara. “My goal is to run a competitive and smart pace being ready for whatever this course throws at us, because in desert racing, anything can happen.”

Sara said taking on the task of driving the entire race is going to be the toughest task she has ever challenged herself. “With the incredible team we have behind us, I couldn’t be in a better position to make it a reality and get the championship we all desire,” she said.

Erica said she is ready to take on another Baja 1000. She didn’t finish her first two tries and is looking for a finish this time.

“Heading into this one with the points lead and Sara driving the entire race, we have our work cut out for us,” said Erica. “But we do a lot of homework, so we’ll have to take it as it comes.

The iconic season-finale of four-race 2019 Score World Desert Championship has now more than five decades in the making, November’s BFGoodrich Tires 52nd annual SCORE Baja 1000, presented by 4 Wheel Parts, has a perspective like no other on the history of desert racing.
The TT Spec. Class is a regulated class that showcases driver talent above all else. Class vehicles are equally matched, with rules specifying engine, suspension and wheel and tire size.

Sara’s “IronWoman” Campaign will be unfolding on her social media channels on Instagram and Facebook at SaraPriceMX. Her official website is SaraPriceMX.com.

Named the 2016 Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame Rising Star, Sara’s racing career started on dirt and she went on to join Kawasaki as the first factory-supported female racer. She began racing dirtbikes at the age of eight and collected 19 amateur titles and medaled in Women’s Super X at the 2010 X Games. She holds the record as the most winning female amateur to date.

In 2012, Sara switched to 4 Wheels and started racing UTVs where she campaigned the WORCS series, Lucas Oil Regional Series, and became the first American UTV Team to compete in the toughest all-female sporting event on the planet, the Rally Aicha Des Gazelles in Morocco, Africa, in 2015. She went on to finish the Terracross Championship undefeated to take the Women’s Championship that same year.

In 2016, Sara took on six races in the Stadium SUPER Truck Series and became the first woman ever to lead laps in that championship.

You can find Sara today competing with RPM Racing in a Trophy Truck Spec. down in Baja in the SCORE International Desert Series where, in 2018 and her rookie year, she achieved an impressive fifth place ironwomaning” the Baja 500.

When she isn’t racing, Sara works as a stunt professional, performing on motorcycles and in vehicles, and as a precision driver for television and film.




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