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2014 NORRA Mexican 1000 Fuel/Chase Maps Now Available Attention all Mexican 1000 motorcycle and four-wheel racers!
In NORRA tradition, with 30 days to go before we meet in Ensenada for this year's General Tire NORRA Mexican 1000 we have just posted the fuel/chase maps for this year's event.
For maps, please click the appropriate link below: Rod Hall Named Grand Marshal of 2014 General Tire NORRA Mexican 1000 -- Hall of Fame Racer To Be Part of "The Happiest Race On Earth" -- (Agua Dulce, Calif.): In celebration of his lifelong love affair with off-road motorsports, the Baja peninsula and an entire industry he helped to foster, racing legend Rod Hall was today named by the National Off Road Racing Association (NORRA) as “Grand Marshal” for the 2014 General Tire NORRA Mexican 1000. Scheduled for May 10 – 14, this unique, vintage-flavored off-road event will cover 1,300+ miles over four days starting in Ensenada, Mexicali, Baja, Mexico and finishing in the world-class resort destination of San Jose Del Cabo. 
Now preparing for the fifth annual running of an event known as “The Happiest Race on Earth,” NORRA has enjoyed a rich history of honoring a special off-road icon at each of its General Tire Mexican 1000 rallies. Racing legend Parnelli Jones, overall victor in the NORRA Mexican 1000s of 1971 and 1972, served as Grand Marshal at the inaugural 2010 event. Baja record setter and fiberglass dune buggy inventor Bruce Meyers was next, followed in 2012 by motorsports television personality and Baja enthusiast Dave Despain. Last year’s honoree was five-time overall Baja 1000 champion and Mexican 1000 rally veteran Mark McMillin. As part of his Grand Marshal duties, the always-amiable Hall will make a special appearance at the “Welcome Fiesta and Driver’s Meeting” in Ensenada’s historic Riviera Cultural Center the night before competition begins. He will also be attending daily post-rally celebrations in several of the event’s overnights stops. This will include the highly-anticipated South Point Hotel Casino “Rally Awards and Celebration” in the seaside town of San Jose Del Cabo. “Well, first of all it's really an honor to be named as the Grand Marshal for the fifth annual rebirth of the NORRA Mexican 1000 rally,” explained Hall from his Reno, Nevada home. “Going back to Baja without the pressures of racing but with the excitement of seeing all these guys and their unique machines will be great. You get to an age where pulling on the old driving suit isn’t as important as it once was. I am just tickled to go down there with NORRA and hang out for a week just being Rod Hall.”.
Rod Hall began his racing career in 1964 by winning the Afton Canyon Jeep Junket in the desert outside of Riverside, California. He then went on to race the inaugural NORRA Mexican 1000 in 1967 before winning the event overall with Larry Minor in 1969. By 1975, along with co-rider and friend Jim Fricker, Hall was assigned to a Bill-Stoppe prepared factory 4WD Dodge. In 1977, the duo began a winning streak that lasted into the next decade with an unbroken string of 37 consecutive SCORE and HDRA victories—an off-road racing record.
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