The El Chupacabra, Blake Baggett, has been fairly quiet since retiring from professional racing back in 2020. Much of this being over-shadowed by a legal predicament with his prior racing team, the now-defunct Butler Brothers Racing. The door has been closed on that and do to typical legal matters, we'll never really know what happened with that storyline. Over the past year or so, we've seen Blake slowly posting more and more on social media as his son Braeker has been bitten by the two-wheel bug himself. However, no content of Blake himself riding...until this weekend when Baggett returned to the track. His Instagram post on the matter has caught a lot of attention, not just because fans and other racers alike were excited to see him back twisting the throttle, but the machine he was on and the setting turned some heads.

Blake Baggett turned up on a weekend at Fox Raceway, in a fresh Fox kit, to ride a Rockstar Energy branded Husqvarna FC 450. Complete with a Factory team mechanic (Jared Warrick) and a factory WP suspension technician (JR Boyd). Warrick is Christian Craig's wrench for the Rockstar factory team and JR Boyd is the suspension technician for the TLD team but was also Blake's crew chief during the Butler Brother days. This combination instantly fired up the rumormill with our forum and social media ablaze with comments that Baggett would return to racing and possibly fill-in for the injured Christian Craig come the Pro Motocross season opener. We dive into it here.