SCORE WORLD DESERT CHAMPIONSHIP
VOL. 51 ISSUE 23 JUNE 10, 2014 P123
bike in front of you often makes
it far more difficult to keep your
previous pace.)
"We were in it all day," Young
said. "We made a couple little
mistakes, but for the most part
we put our best foot forward and
tried our best."
While the WFOx riders at-
tempted to erase their deficit, the
Hoosier Precision Machining/
Dunlop/FMF KX450F-mounted
trio proved too strong and con-
sistent to catch despite a few
spills in the final half of the race.
"Ricky was on it — Ricky was
really pinning it," Samuels said.
Indeed he was, especially in
the final run to the finish, and
THR thus repeated its first Baja
victory from the 2012 edition of
the 500.
For the Class 30 winners who
finished third overall motorcycle,
only Myers had more than one
stint aboard their Bremen/Chris-
Haines.com/Acerbis-sponsored
CRF450X. "We didn't want to do
too much running around, driv-
ing around or any of that kind of
stuff," Myers said. "We decid-
ed to come up with a plan that
would be just real solid. Get it
in, get your miles in, get it done,
go on to the next guy. It worked
out good. I was the only person
that got on twice and that's just
because I know the start section
frontwards and backwards so
well, it's kind of foolish not to put
me on for that."
Class 30 runners-up Morgan
Crawford/Kevin Murphy/Ge-
rardo Rojas/Jim O'Neal/Mark
Winkelman and third-place Open
Pros Mike Carter/Ray dal So-
glio/Zack Vogle rounded out the
top five bikes overall.
THR now has two wins while
WFOx has one, though the
championship is still far from over
with two races remaining. CN
Unfortunately, knobbies and
somewhat slick Mexican asphalt
don't mix well as Eric Saltzer
discovered when he set the front
wheel down a he attempted to make
the first turn.
