44th Annual 2011 SCORE BAJA 1000 ATV / UTV Race Report
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Racers started their long journey in the streets of Ensenada, Mexico. (Pictured Left) Wayne Matlock started for Matlock Racing aboard their Honda TRX700XX ATV. (Pictured Right) Jorie Williams started for 100a Quad75ATV Race Team

As the ATV left the starting line, Matlock Racing’s 1a team (Wayne Matlock, Wes Miller, Josh Caster) would run into a setup change issue that seemed to be a setback at the time. Matlock just pressed forward and eventually the terrain would come to the Honda 700XX instead of the opposite. Jorie Williams had started for the 100A team and with the rider change at Ojo’s Kenny Sanford kept the pace for the next section.

1a Wayne Matlock sits anxiously as the ATV racers meet before the start of the 600+ mile race through the desert	Andy Lagzdins of Christy Racing waits for the race to start. Christy Racing would take fourth in the Pro ATV Class 25

Andy Lagzdins took the start for 6A team of Craig Christy, but he would break an axle within the first 20 miles of the race, which lost the team nearly an hour right off the start, but it didn’t send them packing as they charged on as the BAJA 1000 isn’t for those that aren’t prepared to deal with catastrophic issues along the 600+ mile long race.

The Matlock Racing ATV Race team makes there way to the next check point & pit stop

After the first hundred miles of the SCORE BAJA 1000, ATV race teams begin to spread out with the top teams pulling away. The battle between the 1A and 100A would rage on through the day and eventually into the night even though these two Honda quads were not in the same class the race was more for the overall position with bragging rights. The Quad75 S+S Motorsports Honda 450r engine roared through the sand and rocks right on the heels of that Honda 700XX of Wayne Matlock’s 1A.

The Quad75 ATV Race team's Jamie Kirkpatrick experienced a wreck on the way to RM 339. After a quick pit stop & tweaking to the handlebars they were back on track with no injuries & no mechanical errors

Jamie Kirkpatrick would get tossed off the 100A machine and thankfully he was not injured. This set the Brandon Brown team back just a bit as they had to work on the light rack and bar controls at Race Mile 329. Wes Miller of Matlocks 1A team would have to stop to clean out silt from the air box, which gave the 100a a chance to gain valuable ground back. Off across Valley Trinidad and over to San Vincente both teams ran without any setbacks. Richie Brown climbed aboard the 100A quad at San Vincente and rode for the first time of the race all the way back up to Ojo’s Negros. Richie’s sections was easily over one hundred miles through some of the roughest terrain with a miles of huge exposed rocks and brutally rough terrain after the heavy rain the week before the race.