Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's

Briefly... while Ron \Mlson and Scott l'4yers chose the CRF450. ln the end, it was I''lurphy crosling the linish in third ovel?ll, but he had to wait for five minutes of adiusted time to be sure of the Class 30 win. As the last ofthe seconds were counting down, Myers slid into the fin- ish and SCORE officials went off to com- pute the times. ''l can't believe it," SCORE official Sal Fish said. "l looked at the times, and lcan't believe it. This has never happened in 38 years." Both teams covered the course in 9:45:10, and averaged 43.504 mph. "You both won. that's it,'' Fish said. "We had problems, they had problems - it was 8ood racin8," Pinard said. 'Jonah Street must ve hi! a branch and holed the mdiator near pit live. Otherwise he had a really clean ride. Ronnie caught me and passed me and I let him go, iust kept in his dust. I passed him back when he had sprocket problems or something. I hit one rock and went down hard and 8ot a bruise like I was hit by a 200-mile-an-hour football." Fifth-qverall motorcycle and third in the Class 22 Open Pro were Quinn Cody and l7-)€ar-old Logan Holladay aboard an XR650. Though the pair ended up with a solid overall result, they spent most of the day trying to make up time after Cody crashed hard eight miles from the start. "l hit a G-out that someone had dug out and cracked some ribs and banged the bike up pretty good. The bars werc tweaked and the throttle carne off and bent a brake lever We went down in abotrt ,10 phces," Cody raid. "lYy partner rode hard and passed maybe 12 riderc between El Rayo and Valle de Trinidad. lt was kind of scary coming into the linish, there were a lot of people out there." Class 40 saw the Jim O'Neal emry win for the sixth straight time, but this win rnay have been the toughest, as mainstay riders Jeff Kaplan, Randy Morales and 'l'im \Mhers were not able to make the race. O'Neal was able to mix and nEtch riderc, adding Baia yeteran Craig Adams, recendy tumed 40 Eric Brown, Andy Kircker and Tom Wlllis. "lt was dt6ty \€ry du5t)i" said AdanE, who r* over 150 miles moody on the top end of tle course. "The like ran good, it heU togefi- The team was again ridirE dre Berkde./ Hordaprepped XR650 ard fini$€d in a tirne of l0:24: l9 for an average speed of,10.78 mph. Ttte Hm of Da/id MclGy, hll ostbo ard David Morton linished 14 minutes after O'Neal on tleir CRFISO for secord in the Class 40, while tle team of Brett Hdm, Chrb Stewart, Miguel Colhrd and Bernard JohrEon rode dleir XR650 to Ctird. Ser,er$ o€dl a.d tirst in dre CbrE 2l went to the forr-+eed RMZ450 SrE*i lidd€n I Jason Tru@ Lance Dockon and Zch Mon, linishing s€ri,en minutes aM of the CRFISO fidd€n ry Slaun Hanson, Jim McKa, J6on Undstrorn ard Tory Pic'chiirttino. "h didnt sbrt off dat well," Tn@ saii. "W'e hit a boory trap and spert I 0 minutes try- ir€ to fiM Eas. After thd it went well, aftttough we \,!ert through three tires." Rounding out the top three in Class 2l was the Kevin Johnson CRF450 which fin- ished two minutes and seven seconds after the Hanson entry The faf€r and son team of George and Chad Earl Ert Husqrarrn on de &p nup a8ain, afte,. winnirE Class 20 aboard a TC250. All four Cbss 50 entrants finished, with Jim O Neal tearned widr Hike Sixberry, Rkk Gill, Dot€ Ho-|, and Robert Hansen, picklrg up the win in a tirne of I 0:55:43 aboard an XR650. lt was O'ltleal's second chss win, as he had rid- The 438 starters weae the most in Baia 500 history One of those was.lon Ortner who soloed the race. "That was a bad idea," Ortner said of doing it alone. Ortner was okay with the rouSh course, but the heat, he said, really took its toll on him. Mike Schelin, however, didn't ride solo, as he packed hir paftner with him - Opie the dog - complete wirh helmet, SCORE wnrt- bend around his neck and a pair of "dog- gles" for the dusr, Opie had no comment on how he and his partner expected ro do. Rob€rt Laughlin soloed in Class 30 with a seven-plus gallon tank. He planned two Eas stops, purchasiflg pump gas at the Tiinidad and Santo Tomas Pemex stations, but end€d up making four stops due to a leak in the tank, but he soldiered on to finish the race. This year's course also included some 30 new miles in the well-known Pine Forest area, whi.h is roughly east of Ojos Negroes. A SCORE race hasn't used the Pine Forest arca fince 1999. ir6 sins or both the ClN,{0 and 50 bikes. "Everybody ran good," Sixberry said. "There w6 dLE all the wa/ to the lmmile rnark. I i(rst pkked off one guy al a time. Eaerydring werit great dEnk to O'Neal, IMS and Rocktatl" Ttre Do€ Smi$, Gene Dempcey Cttadie MaEhall, ard Bob JohrEon entry fini# sec- ond in Cbss 50, l0 minute after the O'Neal team. Durirg pre-race discussions, SCORE CEO Sal Fish was already alkir6 to Baia oflicials abort Lrsirg tlp Diablo Dry Lake for the No,wrnber BaF 1000, and wor* has alreadT sErted on a t?il linkirg trte to,,rn of Loreto to the looocourse. Gll TEGAE scORE B^J 5OO ENSENADA, B.C. MExtco sur Rrsuusr Ju ! 24, 2006 CI.ASS 22 l. BDhLy BdliK.ndill Norlltr (Hon): 2. Steve HenSe€ld/l'1ike Ch des (Hd)r 3- tosa tldlada),/Quim cody (l-to.); r- ln onE (Hd)i 5. J6e SharpdDennis Boulter (Hon)r 6. Rob€n Bmum 4&k M.Cormick (Hon); 7. Jimry L*ilDaE Ddatni (Bi,fw)i 8. Gar/ Cruff/l'larc tEncte (Hq)r 9. Chris Gun.ett/R.b Gibwvos w5sh (Hon): 10. Came.o( Steeldca.. stEldr.lsse. Gumm (s@)i I l. S@n Th6p$.VNl.t ThnEpqtStR€n TlBnpsn (Hon): 12. 8!x StE€marr'M*t Shool (Hon); 13. hhnn), Jasv.Iayld xrbr/Eft M.kolm (Ho)r 14. R.k WllimtnDn ArarF!.b€n SiVr (Hd): 15. Na.e S.o(vBudcarrsvl^hd w.tnS* {KIl'l). Cr-ASS 20: l. Ctiad Ed/G€-te Erl (Hc) cl-Ass 2l: l.166 Trube/Luke D.dq (su)r 2. X6Mn lohlEd (Ho): 3. shaun Haw'4im M

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