Gus Vildósola

Gustavo Vildósola Ramos (born May 19, 1953, in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico) is a Mexican off-road racer and entrepreneur.

In 1996, Ivan Stewart built a ProTruck for him which he raced for two years and achieved a second place in the championship.

[1] In the Baja 1000 that year, Vildósola and MacCachren shared the wheel, again finishing third in the trophy truck class.

[2] During the 40th Baja 1000 in 2007, Vildósola and his son Tavo Vildósola finished second place making it, at the time, the best finish position ever achieved by a Mexico national team in the Baja 1000,[3] This achievement was only surpassed by Vildosola Racing itself on 2010 winning the overall on the 43rd edition of the premiere off-road desert race.

The father and son duo stopped the clocks at 19:45:00 (56.79 mph) and made history again, being the only Mexico national team to have two Baja 1000 titles as the overall winners of the race.

Gus drove from race mile 618 to 785 leaving the rest of the driving duties to his son Tavo but managing all of the logistics and pit crews.

SCORE penalized Vildósola by 90 minutes, demoting him to eighth place overall and stripping him from the race win.