7 Years from Start to Finish

Ride with the author Rod Koch and share his adventures as he struggles to win the epic Baja 1000. <I>Seven Years from Start to Finish</I> covers the early years of the Baja races from 1968-1975 up to the moment when the author becomes Numero Uno a winner in the incredible endurance race down and around the Baja California peninsula.</P><P>It's a personal look into the vast wilderness of Baja at a time when it was the last true frontier in North America (that's not covered by ice and snow 6 months of the year). Here an average guy takes on the Baja the corporate-backed teams and the stiff competition including famous personalities like Steve McQueen James Garner Pat Wayne Parnelli Jones Roger Ward and a host of others to finally realize what it means to be a winner of that legendary Baja 1000.</P><P>At each race the drivers including the author find the Baja races to be a great social equalizer. Then there is Baja. A land of immense contrast and beauty which like the racers and winds that pass over it cannot keep it from the creeping pressures of civilization.</P><P>It tells of a time and a place not so very long ago where a person could feel free to compete and travel just as fast and as far down a primitive road as their individuality could take them.</P>