Tecate SCORE BAJA 500 Report

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* for some reason i couldnt post in the race coverage so the report is here*

The Tecate SCORE BAJA 500 kicked off last friday with contingency and pre race festivities

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The Trophy Truck Class is simply amazing were millions of dollars are spent into these teams, Pflueger is one of the favored

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Even Shrek was there

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The Class 1 Cars are the step down from the Trophy Truck, But are unbelievable, Here Andy McMillin pushes there car through, Andy would go on to win Class 1

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the race would start and end in Ensenada the course went over a grueling rocky trails.

First Quad through Ojos Negros (30mile) and through almost the rest of the course was 5A Wes Miller and Dana Creech. they lead pretty much the whole race and some were after mile 270 we got report that Wes had spun a hub wich would end up costing him the win.

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In second place for the begining was 2A Earl Thigpen Ceaser Chanate and Carmen Cafro, unfortunatly Carmen somewhere on the beach ran out of gas, Carmen Said "I was following a bike got in his dust and i must have missed the Honda pit " they would get the bike going again but would not finish

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Taking over second would be the San Felipe Champs Josh Fredrick Cyle Chislock and Levi Marana they would have pretty much no problems and coast in to the finish

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Fransisco Ruano from Cycle Parts West would come through Valle De Trinidad in third and he would hold it and finish in third:D

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Javier Robles Jr would take over fourth

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Eric Hernandez from El Paso Impressed a lot of people finishing fifth on the orange Polaris Predator

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In sixth place would be Nick Nelson on the Honda, at around race mile 267 they would lose a rear right tire and rim and would ride on the hub, this was painful to watch espacially when they hit asphalt.

[Chango]

Hey what happen to Schooley and co.

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Seventh would go to Bombardier/ Epic Racing Products Greg Row would start to Urapan then Ryan Wheeler would take it down the beach to San Vicinte, Greg again to Valle T, Allen White would do the tough Mikes loop this is about a 95 mile loop and they were pretty sure the 5 gallon tank could do it but about 5 miles from the next rider change Allen ran out of gas walked a mile back to someone else's pit and bummed some gas and got back going, then fom 270 Greg would take it to mile 405 were Ryan would finish

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Ray Schooley would be runnin strong in 7th, but i have reports both saying he DNF and he was DQ but he is not in the results witch is a shame he had a good race

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In eighth place would be Joselito Muro out of Chula Vista CA he had a nice Honda built buy Epic Racing Products and Allen White at Precision Concepts

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And in ninth place would be Kevin Tompson out of Pheonix AZ on the YFZ 450

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its been a while but he truly deserved it the 2005 Baja 500 Trophy Truck Winner is Robby Gordon

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out of 14 starters 9 finished this years 500

just to recap the Podium

1st place for the second race this year Josh Fredreck, Cyle Chislock, and Levi Marana

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2nd goes to Wes Miller and Dana Creech

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And 3rd place Fransisco Ruano and team Golden West Cycle

[baja_racer]

Socallan85,
Do you work for Off-Road.com??

[Dan_Guetter]

I was at Mikes sky ranch, it gets crazy there.....

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Just to clear up a couple of things. Mike Cafro and Danny Prather were in third when they hit the highway for the last 16 miles. To bad for them the swingarm broke before the finish. When I saw Danny on the highway he was only 30 seconds behind Miller. I'm not sure what happend with Schooley as far as DNF or DQ but I do know he was in front of team Bombardier for most of the day. In fact the story I here is that Greg caught him before he got off and Wheeler got on. Schooley said he hit the dirt heading to the finish and never again saw Wheeler who was behind him. Congradulations to all the finishers. I hear it was a rough course.

Course was very rough in the mikes loop. My buddy todd stemermann was in a 5 open car and was stuck out on the mikes loop for a couple hours trying to get up the hill. reports say over 20 cars spent the night out there at simpsons hill. congrats again to all of the finishers.

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Originally posted by baja_racer
Socallan85,
Do you work for Off-Road.com??

no, all i had was a disposable camera and the pics were horrible quality, i just wanted to borrow some to give a small report, ive never done a report but i think i could get an ok one together when i get a camera

[Vtr_Racing]

Shot of the Cafro team....

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oh ya marc well how bout this pic of 1st and 2nd bar to bar hitting the jump at just past Ojos. (right 2A Ceaser Chanate and 5A Wes Miller)

[Vtr_Racing]

That picture rocks... Cool shot from Trackside

[Admin]

Thanks for posting the report, socallen85, and I feel it was a great start. Ofcourse, I wish you didn't have to use Offroad.com photos because I wouldn't want them to get upset, but atleast you kept the logo on to give credit where it was due.

Thanks Again for posting the report