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Bridgestone/SCORE Off-Road
World Championship
Wax wicks it at
Riverside
By Mark Kariya
Photos by Charles Morey and Kariya
RlVERSIDE, CA, AUG. 9
Mark "Wax" Weixeldorfer, winner of the
SCORE Baja Intemacional ATC class with
American Honda teammate Dean Sundahl,
F made it two major wins in a row as he grabbed
the Class 3-Wheeler II (250cc)
and overall laurels at Riverside
International Raceway's Bridgestone/SCORE Off-Road World
Championship. Sundahl made him
work for the lead in the first half of the
race as they swapped the point position
back and forth, but settled for second
overall, first Class g-Wheeler III (Open)
on a prototype ATCg50R, basically a
250 with a bigger top end ..... built
specially for this race ...
Nicholson Racing Honda-mounted
Curtis Sparks topped Class g- Wheeler
I (200cc) on his ATC185S after early
class leader Tracey Dickson DNF in
the late going with a reported broken
front end on his Dickson Design & Development Yamaha YT125 Tri-Moto
fitted with a screaming YZ125H watercooled motocross engine.
The race marked yet another milestone in both three-wheeler and SCORE
competition as it was the first time
three-wheelers have competed at
SCORE's Riverside event and the first
time that there has been more than a
single three-wheeler class in a SCORE
race. In previous SCORE races, the
ATC class was an anything-goes affair,
and the entrants chose Honda
ATC250Rs. In order to ensure competitiveness of riders choosing other
brands and/or models of trikes, the
three-class format was chosen for this
race.
The purse promised to be the largest
to date for three-wheelers. American
Honda posted a $2250 cash bonus to
Honda riders in all three classes,
Yamaha put up $1400, and there was
a 50% cash payback on entries which
totaled 57. In addition, the race was
run 'just before the Pepsi Challenge of
Champions race for Class I (unlimited
single-seat) cars and the Heavy Metal
Challenge for Class 8 trucks, ensuring
good exposure to a sizeable crowd.
Run on the same 1.5-mile course as
the four-wheelers and bikes, Classs II
and III started in the first wave, Class I
taking off in a second wave moments
later. As they headed toward the first
turn which was preceeded by a ditch,
one of the lead riders apparently neglected to shut off and tumbled heavily
which put him out of the race, starting
