2022 Baja do Oeste: Escuderia kicks off its Rally-Raid season with Baja do Oeste

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The event has again an international dimension
Baja Oeste is valif for the FIM Baja World Cup and European Championship
Cars teams will fight for the best places in the Portuguese Rally-Raid Championship

Escuderia Castelo Branco is getting ready to organize the second edition of Baja Oeste, the most recent competition - it was created in 2021 - that can be awarded points for the main TT competitions in Portugal and internationally. Between May 6th and 8th, the national elite of the modality will join pilots who aim for great achievements in the World Cup and in the European Championship of FIM Bajas, to discuss the best places in this event that animates the tracks of the West region.

After the first edition, which was a great success with particular emphasis on the strong adhesion of the public, Escuderia Castelo Branco bets on consolidating Baja Oeste as a unique event in the TT calendar in Portugal. For such, the organization has prepared a different course, essentially fast, with several technical areas. The competitors will find many roads with hard floor and areas with softer floor, especially in the slower sectors. Ahead, motorcycles, quads, and SSVs will compete over almost 380 kilometers, divided between the prologue and three selective sectors, while cars will race against the clock over 310 kilometers, distributed between the prologue and two selective sectors.

Similarly to what happened in 2021, this year's edition will once again have a list of entries with the main names of the sport in Portugal and numerous drivers from abroad.

"Baja Oeste was remarkable right from the first edition. We managed to create a race that immediately attracted many pilots and the public. We believe that most of them were quite satisfied with the race they had ahead of them. With the experience gained, we worked together with the region's municipalities to improve the event and make it a reference of the sport in Portugal and beyond", said the race director for cars, Nuno Almeida Santos.

"We feel that the characteristics of the terrain are differentiating and that we can make this race a great day of TT. The challenge we embraced in 2021 was big, but the whole team has done an exceptional job and the positive comments and the strong adhesion of the public in the first edition served as a stimulus for us to continue to improve Baja do Oeste", said the race director of the motorcycles, Sérgio Sequeira.

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Translated from the official press release