SLR Honda Takes Baja 500 Victory
T
he 58th running of the SCORE
Baja 500 served as round two
of the 2026 SCORE World Desert
Championship in Ensenada, Baja
California, Mexico, on June 5-6.
The SLR Honda trio of Tyler Lynn,
Carter Klein and Sam Pretscherer
earned the overall win with a
finishing time of nine hours, 49
minutes and 12 seconds on the
468.7-mile course.
The number-1x team raced
aboard a Honda CRF450X to
clinch back-to-back wins in the
SCORE series after winning the
San Felipe 250 earlier this year.
They won by just seven minutes
and 36 seconds over the 3x Duca-
ti team of Ciaran Narran, Lyndon
Snodgrass and Cody Simpson.
The SLR team maintained a pace
of nearly 48 miles per hour for
the full duration of the race. Lynn
now has two overall victories in
the Baja 500, Klein has three and
Pretscherer earned his first this
weekend. This is also the 25th
overall victory for the Honda
brand in the Baja 500, keeping
them at the top spot as the most
successful motorcycle manufac-
turer in the history of the event.
"It was super good," Lynn said
on the podium. "This makes eight
[wins] in a row for us. The last
time we lost a race was here two
years ago. So, super happy to get
another SCORE Baja 500 win. It
was a super good day. We obvi-
ously got to start out in the lead,
so that made things easier, not
having to deal with any dust. But
we still had to deal with a little bit
of fog. We all rolled super well.
We got a little bit of a time gap in
the morning, put some time on
the other guys, and then we pretty
much just managed it all day. The
bike, I don't think, ever touched
the ground. And these guys
obviously rode amazing. They
brought it home for us. We're
super stoked."
Naran's team took home sec-
ond overall with a finishing time
of 9 hours and 56 minutes, only
7:36 back from the 1x team.
WIND
IN THE
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The SLR Honda trio of
Tyler Lynn, Carter Klein
and Sam Pretscherer
earned another Baja
500 victory, with a
finishing time of 9
hours and 49 minutes.
