Saturday morning Tara Dakides and Glen Plake rolled across the finish line around 11:00am in Ensenada Mexico, pulling in second, a little over an hour behind the first place team BC99. While Tara’s team (Plake, Boris Said, Kellie Stavast) held first place for 2/3 of the race, there was a critical point that caused an hour delay and then jam of trucks that further pushed BC5 back into second.
Few people know how involved in racing Tara is. She raced Baja 1000 in 2005 and 2007 and can be seen in the world class movie Dust to Glory, a documentary about the Baja 1000 that was filmed in 2005. Dakides has been involved in road racing, attended the Skip Barber Race School and Jim Russell Race school. She recently took 3rd out of 250 cars at the charity event Powder Puff race for Breast Cancer in Barstow California.
With this sweet 2nd place finish at the baja 1000 2009, a feat few driver reach, she’s poised and ready to move forward in her race career.
We’ll have video from the event loaded this week so stay tuned!
