29th annual SCORElTecate Baja 1000
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By Mark Kariya
Photos by Kinney Jones
ENSENADA, BAJA CALIFORNIA,
MEXICO, NOV. 8
hose who are favored to win
long distance events race them.
The majority of competitors,
however, see surviving as the
primary goal, and it gives them
the opportunity to eJ:ljoy the adventure
of it aU. The longer the race, it seems, the
more adventure one is guaranteed. Too,
the longer it takes one to finish, the
more bench-racing stories one will have
to tell for years to come.
So it was for the various class winners of the 29th running of the
SCORE/Tecate Baja 1000, which
returned to Ensenada for the first time
since 1992. Most reported fairly trouble~ free rides. which is. obviously, crucial to
0\ , success (it's hard to go faster than the
r l competition if you're stuck in the pits;
1:'-.' though, in a long-distance event, you
~ often do have more time to make up
Ii:l ground). Others had plenty of fodder
,.0 for bench-racing stories.
You just know that each of the 10
(1) Japanese teams entered would have
plenty of stories to take back home.
o Most, of course, have little experience in
the wide-open spaces of desert terraln.
Most have never been to Mexico;
they've only read about it in magazines
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(Above) Kawasaki
Team Green
celebrated another
victory at the 29th
annual Baja 1000.
Team riders Ty
Davis, Paul Krause
and Greg Zitterkopf
went the distance
in a virtually
trouble-free 14
hours, 11 minutes
and 2 seconds.
(L~ft) Team
Honda's Johnny
Campbell tucks In
during one of
. Baja's many highspeed sections.
Campbell and
teammate Jeff Capt
finished second
overall In the event.
