BFGoodrich^® welcomes two drivers to the Baja Challenge race team this year that will make their debut at the 2008 SCORE Baja 1000 and one driver who you might not expect. Samuel Hübinette, a two-time Formula Drift champion, who has gained a reputation as one of the best drifters in the world, will make his first appearance in a sanctioned off-road race at the Baja 1000. Casey Currie, Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR) phenom, is a veteran to off-road racing but will take his first shot at Baja, which takes place November 21-22. Hübinette and Currie are in good hands in Ensenada this year as the pair join forces with Baja veterans Tracy Jordan and Bill Weber while vying for their first victory at the 41st running of the Baja 1000, the granddaddy of all off-road races.

ItÕs acceptable to call Hübinette crazy, he earned his nickname, “The Crazy Swede,” due to his uncanny driving skills which he honed by sliding cars around on arctic frozen lakes. Although this will be HübinetteÕs first off-road race, he explained, “IÕm excited to tackle the desert in some of the toughest conditions known to man and machine, with only a map.” Hübinette added, “IÕve done some cool stuff and wild drifting maneuvers in competitions and movie stunts, but nothing that will compare to the Baja 1000.”

Currie, a third-generation, off-road racer from Anaheim, CA, began his racing career on motorcycles at the age of five and eventually transitioned into off-road trucks, earning a tenth-place finish in the CORR Pro Lite division in 2006 and second place in 2007. Weber, a retired Navy Seal turned off-road enthusiast now works as a consultant for several off-road motorsports-related companies supporting vehicle development and training, he is also a guide for Wide Open Baja Adventure Tours and has two Baja 1000 victories to his credit. Jordan, a rock-crawling pioneer who holds numerous rock-crawling championship titles, is also an off-road racing veteran, having run the Baja 1000 in 2004, 2006 and 2007.

The team of Hübinette, Currie, Jordan and Weber will be competing in Baja Challenge Class buggies outfitted with BFGoodrich^® Mud-Terrain™ T/A^{® KM2} tires and are among nearly 70% of the race teams in the SCORE Baja 1000 riding on BFGoodrich tires.

In 2007, at its Baja 1000 debut, the BFGoodrich Mud-Terrain T/A ^KM2 tire brought home the entire 18-car Baja Challenge Class field. This year, the BFGoodrich Baja Challenge Team is one of many teams that will be riding on the BFGoodrich Mud-Terrain T/A ^KM2.

More than 350 entries from over 35 states and 15 countries, competing in 28 Pro and 7 Sportsman classes for cars, trucks, motorcycles and ATVs will take part in this yearÕs SCORE Baja 1000. Since 1967, the mother of all desert races has been run over the Baja California peninsula every year except 1974 when the international fuel crisis forced a cancellation.

Whether a team is entering the SCORE Baja 1000 for the first time or fifteenth time, the two-day race will be yet another challenging test in the unforgiving desert of Baja. It is the oldest and most well known of all desert races, and it remains as the single most appealing accomplishment to a driver. BFGoodrich Tires wishes all its BC Challenge drivers good luck at the 41^st annual SCORE Baja 1000.

Additional information about the Baja 1000 can be found at www.score-international.com.

To find out more about BFGoodrich Baja Challenge team members Samuel Hübinette and Casey Currie, visit their websites at www.samuelhubinette.com and www.caseycurrie.com.

This yearÕs team of Currie, Hübinette, Jordan and Weber, who drove the BC-6 car, finished a respectable fifth in the Baja Challenge class and 50^th overall after transmission problems throughout the race that set them back more than three hours. “We had the race lead at 42 miles in, everything was going great,” said Jordan. “All of a sudden I heard something let go in the transmission and everything went into a free wheel. At that point we lost the lead, but we were able to gain back 30 minutes on the race leader at BFGoodrich pit one.” The team had to change the transmission twice throughout the race and also ran out of fuel twice. “ItÕs a bummer we had transmission problems, driving wise everything was going great,” said Jordan. BC-6 conquered the Baja 1000 in 20 hours and 36 minutes, approximately an hour and a half behind the first-place finisher. BFGoodrich Tires supported the entire Baja Challenge Class with Mud-Terrain T/A ^KM2 tires, which brought home the entire 13-car field.