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First overall motorcycle and Class 22 winners was the team of Kendall Norman, Quinn Cody and Logan Holladay
leave the start line at 12:23 p.m.
This incident forced the balance of the classes to be pushed back one and a half hours to begin starting at 1:03 p.m.
Jesse James, Austin, Texas, sixth Trophy Truck
or the second time in three years, the Southern California son and father race team of Andy and Scott McMillin have etched their names on the granite history of the world’s most legendary desert race and along with the team of Kendall Norman/ Quinn Cody/Logan Holladay advanced their part in motorsports history by capturing the overall 4 wheel
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and 2 wheel victories in the 44th Annual SCORE Baja 1000 desert race.
Norman, Santa Barbara, Calif., Cody, Los Olivos, Calif. and Holladay, Buellton, Calif., teamed on the No. 1x JCR Honda Racing Honda CRF450X and withstood the challenge to cover the 705-mile course in the fastest time of all 278 starters in the race. In the unlimited Class 1 that had 25 starters,
18-year old Justin Davis, Chino Hills, Calif., powered his Chevy-powered ESM open-wheel desert race car to his third class win of the year in his first year in the ultra-competitive class. As the finish line in the heart of Ensenada closed Saturday night at 10:18 p.m. PST for 155 official finishers it was obvious that another memorable and colorful chapter had been added to the legacy of this popular desert race in the northern part of the magnificent Baja California peninsula. With 278 starters leaving the Ensenada starting line on Friday morning, competitors from 34 U.S. States and 16 countries battled the rugged terrain in 36 Pro and seven Sportsman classes for cars, trucks, motorcycles and ATVs. Except for SCORE Trophy Truck, vehicles left the start line in front of the iconic Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center in 30- second intervals and all vehicles had 32 hours to become official finishers in the race.
First overall ATV and Class 25 winner Wayne Matlock, Josh Caster and Wes Miller
The finishing percentage this year was a strong 55.76 percent considering the intense degree of difficulty of the bone-crushingly rocky and the unique ruggedness of the course. The motorcycle and ATV classes began their odyssey at 6:30 a.m. Friday with the car and truck classes scheduled to start four hours after the last Sportsman ATV left the starting line. For the first time in race history, SCORE Trophy Trucks were required to re-start at race mile five after a local construction big rig truck jack-knived, rolled and blocked the course. With the course mileage adjusted to 700 miles for the marquee SCORE racing division for high-tech, 850 horsepower unlimited production trucks, 13 SCORE Trophy Trucks started at 11:17 a.m. but were forced to stop as the construction truck blocked the race course. SCORE officials decided to move the other 16 vehicles in the class in caravan- style to race mile five where they officially began to
This year’s race started for the 37th time and finished for the 21st time in Ensenada. The race started and finished on Boulevard Costero adjacent to the picturesque Bahia de Todos Santos in front of the historic Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center in the heart of Ensenada. In this year’s race, Andy McMillin started and finished the grueling route while Scott McMillin drove the extremely rugged San Felipe loop. They covered the 700 required miles in their No. 31 Ford F-150 in 14 hours, 51 minutes and 36 seconds, averaging 47.12 miles per hour. Because they ran five miles less than the other car and truck classes, the McMillins won the overall 4wheel title based on having the highest average speed among all of the car and truck finishers.
Running the fastest time of all vehicles on the course, JCR Honda’s Norman/Cody/Holladay covered the course in 14:14.25 at an average speed of 49.51mph on a Honda CRF450X. Norman/Cody/ Holladay gave Honda its 22nd overall motorcycle victory including its 15th consecutive triumph, after Norman drove the first and final sections and Cody and Holladay the middle sections.
It was the sixth overall career win for Norman and fifth straight in this race while Cody picked up his fourth career SCORE Baja 1000 overall motorcycle victory and third straight win. For Holladay, a Hollywood stunt rider, it was his first SCORE Baja race win.
The youthful Davis, who drove the entire race solo, won Class 1, finishing sixth overall among 4 wheel vehicles, in a time of 16:17:55 with an average speed over the brutally-tough course of 43.26mph.
Finishing as the first overall ATV and Class 25 winner with his second win of the season and fourth class win in this event was the team led by veteran Wayne Matlock, El Cajon, Calif., on a Honda TRX700XX with a time of 18:43:21 (37.66mph).
Seventh Class 22 10x Felipe Prohens and Class 21 winner 105x Trevor Insley
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Marc Burnett, fourth Class 6
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