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Cherrie Patete
The lead-off driver was Christopher Polvoorde. At just 23 years of age, this was his first Baja 1000 in the TT division, although he had competed previously in several other off-road races. For fatigue reasons, he would be replaced by another driver after 535 race miles, and, near the end of the race, yet one more driver. The race lasts all night, and taxes even the most experienced of participants.
I know that almost everyone seems to run hondas in Baja, but 3 of my friends and I all have 07 and 08 wr450s. That would already save us a ton of dough in that we could cherry pick all of the best parts from each bike(steering stabilizers, exhaust, suspension, desert tanks etc), and we would have 4 or 5 sets of wheels ready to go. I see that lots of the baja bikes are set up pretty specifically, and was just wondering where my best place to spend a few bucks would be? I want to do yz cams and a yz piston in the motor, but I will be using oem yamaha parts to do it, and I have always been a little bit timid about heavily modified motors. A slow bike that keeps running is faster than a fast bike that breaks down. I'm concerned about how much power I will be able to get out of the stator with baja designs mod, and what lights I will be able to run with it. The other thing that I was curious about was cooling. Would an event like baja necessitate an oil cooler setup, or a radiator fan? I am only concerned with the oil cooler setup because it adds another 2 hoses to the mix that could be severed in a crash, and cause a dnf. Please share any baja bike setup tips.
Honda added to its rich off-road racing legacy on Friday night, when SLR Honda crossed the finish line of the Baja 1000 with the Pro Moto Unlimited win. The success marked a record 32 victories for Honda in the legendary event, including the last eight in a row, and 25 of the last 26. It also represented a record 16 wins for the CRF450X, and five consecutive victories for the SLR Honda squad, which this year comprised owner-rider Mark Samuels and co-riders Justin Morgan and Kendall Norman. This is six Baja 1000 wins for Morgan, seven for Samuels and eight for Norman.
On top of its motorcycle success, Honda tasted victory with the Ridgeline truck, as the Class 7 win went to the Honda Factory Off-Road team (comprising owner-driver Jeff Proctor and codrivers Gatlan Haddon, Sachin Joshi, Richard Glaszczak and Chip Prescott). Honda also won other classes, with a Fernando Beltran-led effort topping Pro Moto Limited, a Guy Laycraft-led team winning Pro Moto 60, a Hector Chavez-led effort victorious in Pro Quads, a Rabago Dario-led team winning Sportsman Quads, and Tanner Janesky claiming victory in Pro Moto Ironman. In addition, a pair of Honda Talon 1000R side-by-sides finished second and third in the Pro UTV Normally Aspirated class.
Beginning in 2010, the National Off Road Racing Association (NORRA) began promoting a rebirth of the NORRA Mexican 1000 rally. The unique off-road rally was co-created by promoter Mike Pearlman to consist of special stages (unlimited speed timed stages in the dirt) linked together by controlled speed liaison / transit sections (highway). The one-of-a-kind, once-a-year, five-day rally includes vintage off-road vehicles and motorcycles, as well as modern pre-runners, trucks, buggies, UTVs, bikes and desert Rally Raid cars.
Turmoil extended to the two-wheeled vehicles as well. Juan Carlos Salvatierra, who won all three of the prior SCORE World Desert Championship legs in 2022, suffered a fuel pump failure while team-mate Shane Logan was riding that knocked them out of the win. Samuels and his team of Morgan and Norman assumed the lead and never looked back, with Samuels scoring his seventh Baja 1000 Bike overall while Morgan notched his sixth in a row.
Every rider who finished save for Salvatierra, Allo Pucci (seventh in Pro Moto Unlimited), Jano Montoya (second in Pro Moto 30), Fernando Beltran (Pro Moto Limited winner), Paul Hart (eighth in Pro Moto Ironman), Hector Chavez (Pro Quad winner), David Navarro and Merril Campbell (first and tenth in Sportsman Moto), and Fidel Gonzalez (second in Sportsman Quad) received a penalty. Besides Boge and Christofferson, four others received disqualifications.
With Baja out of the way, various faces including Price and Jones will now turn their attention towards another premier off-road race as the Dakar Rally begins on 31 December. Pro Moto Limited rider Tomás de Gavardo, set to make his Dakar début in Rally2 and running the 1000 with brother Matteo de Gavardo and Pedro González, was among those disqualified. Ahead of racing Dakar in the SSV class, Gerard Farrés teamed up with fellow Rally competitors António Marmolejo and Ariel Jatón in Baja Challenge and made the finish, albeit after the time limit as their Grand Dragon Team endured extended stops for repairs. While not Dakar, RJ Anderson scored a podium in Pro UTV FI alongside brother Ronnie and father Randy a week before heading to Uruguay to race in Extreme E.
Perhaps the greatest element of this story is what followed the race. Contrary to traditional post-1000 regimen, while other racers were loading their vehicles onto trailers or into semi-trucks for the 1,000-mile return trip, we simply fired up The Beast, turned on the air conditioning, put in a CD, and drove back to California.
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