SCORE Journal - The Official Publication of SCORE Off-Road Racing
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I n Baja, a call from a daughter to her father cries out over the radio. "Hey Dad, can you come help me get my truck out? We're at mile marker 122 and my truck is nose down and broken in a ditch," said Paige Sohren to her dad, "Pistol" Pete Sohren at the 2015 SCORE Baja 1000. "No worries kid, I'll be right there, and get you on your way," replied Pete. That's the type of conversations Paige and Pete Sohren have when competing in Baja; willing to do whatever it takes to help each other out. Born the oldest child of four siblings, Paige Sohren was set upon doing whatever she saw her dad doing. Even before she was walking upright, Sohren was around desert racing, visiting dad in the race shop and learning everything because it seemed like a heck of lot of fun. While most little girls played with ponies and dolls, Sohren learned how to properly hold and operate a wrench. And for every time Sohren asked "why this or why that," father Pete would give her a logical answer which Sohren simply soaked-in. "As soon as I learned to walk, I was riding little electric quads around the house," said Paige Sohren. "As I got bigger, my toys got bigger; quads, dirt-bikes, go-karts, rhinos, razors, and race trucks. I was always infatuated with what my dad did, drooling over race trucks, the sound, the speeds, and I loved watching my dad race." When Sohren turned 16, she got her first taste of racing. "My dad put me in the driver's seat," said Sohren. "Up until that point, I had never even been in the navigator seat of one of his BajaLites. In my first race, I entered the MORE Powder Puffs in 2011. I made it 21 miles wide open before I rolled it. I was scared, but I knew I had a heart for it. I didn't want to suck." Growing up in a racing family, a youngster learns to pitch in where they can, obey some common sense rules, and dream of the day they have their own race suit, helmet, number, and her name SOHREN WITH HER MOM CAMI, AT THE 2015 SCORE AWARDS BANQUET CELEBRATING HER FIRST YEAR OF RACING. 075 SCORE JOURNAL GETSOMEPHOTO.COM