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00 0') Co-wiI... lMry Ra ..... heeds down the roed for Valle de Trlnldad.lInset) For the first 26 miles of road. Yamaha usad dirt track tires. SCORE Off-Road Series: Round three Roeseler/Ogilvie take lightningfast Baja Internacional By Dele Brown Photos by Mark Keriya end Brown ENSENADA, B.C., MEXICO,JUNE 7 Running a partial fairing all the way, and specialized tires when they needed to, Yamaha's Larry Roeseler and Bruce Ogilvie topped the 405-mile SCORE Baja Internacional, winning 14 in just six hours, 42 minutes and 34 59 seconds ยท . . d aft b tli R nnDlng secon er at ng for the lead through most of the race was the Team HUlky entry of . .. .. .. Terry Clark and Tom Kelly, finishing at 6:47:29.84. Teammates Scot Harden and Brent Wallingsford were third, about three minutes behind second. First in the 250cc C\a.ss 21 we.nt to the Premier Yamaha/Roy's Boys effon ,. of Kent and Scott Pfeiffer, taking first by almost half an hour, at 7:06:55.57. Class 20 (125cc bikes) was captured by a similar effort when Kurt Pfeiffer and Michael Goodwin's Premier Yamaha/East West Roy's Boys YZI25 took first by a similar margin. Their time was 7:27:54.50. The Yamaha win streak was broken when the Up-Tite Husqvarna team of George Ed and George Luther took the highly-competitive Class 50, for riders over 50 years of age. In Class 58 a dramatic, late race battle developed, eventually going to the team of Ron Bishop and John Watkins over the Lynn McGraw/Bob Maynard effon. Both rode Yamahas. The course was completed a lot faster than many expected. The SCORE finish line crew was originally set to set up the finish line at about 1 p.m. Radio repons of racers' progress caused that to be moved up by an hour. By 1 p.m., four teams had already finished. This year's course was different from those in the recent past, with the route going south out of Ensenada on the highway for 26 miles, before turning west for a run on the beach to Colonet. Roeseler and Ogilvie were prepared for the first 26 miles of pavement. Along with the fairing that tuner Ron Heben had devised, their 465 Yamaha also sponed Goodyear DTll dirt track tires - a set up a la "The Superbikers." Riding a Husqvarna, Jim Fishback was the fi rst rider to leave Ensendaa, staning at 5:45 a.m. One bike left every 50 seconds. At Santo Tomas, at the other end of. the twisting, traffic filled pavement TOute, Tom Kelly was the first i,;" fol- lowed by Fishback. Roeseler arrived a little later, and the Yamaha crew changed both wheels back to knobbies, gassed the bike and gave it to Ogilvie 50 seconds later. Mter Santo Tomas the course turned towards the beach and ran into low hanging fog that had many riders' goggles useless. At check one, along the beach TOute, Fishback had regained the lead with Kelly a minute back, but about even on elapsed time. Ogilvie was five minutes behind physically; one minute onET. At Colonet, the 97-mile marker, Chuck Stearns had the Class 21 lead on the Dan Ashcraft/Steams Husky. Scott Pfeiffer was up to second. In Class 20, Kurt Pfeiffer had already taken the lead. However, Class 20 rider Bob Maxwell crashed in the beach section and was later taken to a San Diego hospital with a broken leg, broken arm and possible broken ribs. Lon Peterson had the Class 50 lead at Colonet, taking his stint on the Peterson/Mac Douglas Quality Motorcycle Service Yamaha. In Class 58, Lynn McGraw led the wayan his Hallman Racing/Rustan's Yamaha, with Ron Bishop right with him on time. From Colonet, the course went down the highway for a few miles before turning eas~ toward San Telmo and then the back way into Mike's Sky Ranch, where the second check was located. Fishback was the first into Mike's, with Kelly arriving a little later, but ,til1 right with the leader on time. Ogilvie, having crashed on the way up trying to avoid a car, was third with , ..