"We started the morning off a
little rough," Naran said. "Had a
couple of tipovers, unfortunately,
but you know, put my head back
down and kept charging hard. I
handed the bike over to Lyndon
Snodgrass at race-mile 160. He
got on, put in a heck of a charge,
and then handed it over to our
new teammate, Cody Simpson.
Cody took it up and over the
summit, rode incredible, actually
made up some time, it looked
like. So, super proud of him and
proud of Lyndon. Proud of both of
them. They both rode their butts
off and charged hard today. And
then, yeah, Lyndon hopped back
on, did another little stint there
into Ojos, and then I took it and
brought it into the finish. But all
in all, good day. Not where we
want to be. You know, we want to
be on the top step of the podium,
but you never know down here,
with VCPs [Virtual Checkpoints]
and everything, how things might
shake up. But those SLR boys
have their stuff together and
they're riding good, so congratula-
tions to them. And yeah, we'll just
put our heads down and come
out swinging the next one."
After taking a 10-minute pen-
alty, Daemon Woolslayer's team
finished third overall among the
motorcycles. Team members
Kaden Lynn and Shane Logan
brought their Husqvarna in with
a corrected finishing time of 11
hours and 55 seconds, more than
an hour behind the winners.
Other class winners included
Jorge Rivas Jr of Mexico, who
captured his first win in the Pro
Moto Limited class with a time
of 12 hours, 12 minutes and 33
seconds. Three other Mexican
riders—Ricardo Meza, Andre
Enriquez and Luis Flores—as-
sisted with the victory aboard the
number 119x Honda CRF450X.
"Well, clearly the goal was to
reach the finish line, and we man-
aged to come in first," Rivas said.
"After a small accident, we all
came together and got the bike
moving forward as a team."
Jason Miller of Shiner, Texas,
who earned his second consecu-
tive win in the Pro Moto 40 class.
His team raced a Honda CRF450X
to a corrected time of 12 hours,
16 minutes and 11 seconds.
Another Texan, Kyle Phenix,
took top honors in the Pro Moto
Ironman class, finishing ahead
of nine other riders. Phenix
conquered the 468-mile course
in 12 hours, 57 minutes and 39
seconds.
"It was such a long race,"
Phenix said. "And yeah, everybody
in the class works their butts off,
and they're all such good riders.
I'm just honored to be at the top
of this class. We started off the
day not having a good one and
kind of fell behind. And then we
just, something clicked, and we
turned a switch on, and I just said,
'I'm not going to have a bad day
today.' "
The series sees a summer
break before resuming with the
Baja 400 on September 9-13
in Ensenada, Baja California,
Mexico.
CN
OVERALL MOTORCYCLE (Top 5)
1. Tyler Lynn (Hon) 9:48:09
2. Ciaran Naran (Duc) 9:56:48
3. Daemon Woolslayer (Hus) 11:00:55
4. Jorge Rivas Jr (Hon) 12:12:33
5. Jason Miller (Hon) 12:16:11
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Kyle Phenix took top
honors in the Pro Moto
Ironman class, finishing
the 468-mile course in
just under 13 hours.
