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IN THE WIND P28 SCORE'S STATEMENT REGARDING RACE FATALITIES R egarding the three fatalities during the race, SCORE officials released the following information: The closing time on the race course was delayed by one hour, 10 minutes as SCORE and local officials worked on the aftermath of an accident early during the start of the cars, trucks and UTVs involving a race truck within a half-mile of the start. Racer Todd Pedersen, Orem, Utah, while negotiating a turn entering the Ensenada wash and attempting to avoid some fans, eventually hit three spectators. An eight-year-old boy was fatally injured in the ac- cident, according to police on the scene. He was transported to an Ensenada hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The boy's mother was hos- pitalized and is reported in stable condition at a hospital in Ensenada with head and leg in- juries. The identities of the two victims were not released. In the first racer fatality, Pro Moto Unlimited rider Travis Livingston, 34, of Palmdale, California, crashed at race mile 288.9. When SCORE medi- cal personnel arrived, while attempting to stabilize him, Liv- ingston went into cardiac arrest and could not be revived. In the second racer fatality, Sportsman Moto rider Noah Evermann, 34, of Alaska, was found dead near his motorcycle at race mile 180.9 by another race team. No further information was released regarding all three accidents as all three are still being investigated by Ensenada Municipal Police. CN Graffunder/Kevin Murphy aboard their Kenda/509 Goggles/ O'Neal Racing FE 501. Seventh off the line—one minute ahead of Samuels/Udall—they were physically 30 minutes behind at San Matias, about 335 miles in. When Villalobos crashed, the 45X (Arredondo) team lost enough time for the SRT squad on 37X (Murphy) to slip past and into second place physically, but after a review of tracking data, they received enough time penal- ties to drop them back to third with 45X finishing in 10:13:20 and 37X in 11:04:36. The second Ox Motorsports Honda entry of Ray Dal Soglio/ Nic Garvin/Ian Young claimed fourth overall, fourth Pro Moto Unlimited in 11:08:42 after Dal Soglio hit the deck. After a less-than-satisfactory San Felipe 250, Mark Winkel- man decided to switch things up and ended up the Pro Moto Lim- ited (449cc or less) winner. The Max Eddy, Jr./Austin Miller/Scott Myers/Jim O'Neal/Grant Stat- ley/Winkelman team debuted a PCT/Monkey Business Racing/ O'Neal MotorSports Husqvarna FC 350. (O'Neal and Winkelman also rode a similar bike on the winning Pro Moto 50 team.) Other class winners were Stefano Caputo/Jano Mon- toya/Gerardo Rojas/Kirk Rus- sell/Francisco Septien in Pro Moto 40 (riders 40 and over; 11:20:29), Brian Campbell/Louie Franco/Jeff Kaplan/Jim O'Neal/ Mark Winkelman in Pro Moto 50 (riders 50 and over; 12:02:49), Dennis Greene/Mark Hawley/ Andy Kirker/Dennis McLaughlin/ John Marshall in Pro Moto 60 (riders 60 and over; 18:27:41), Carlin Dunne in Pro Moto Iron- man (12:28:10) and Fernando Barbosa/Fernando Serreya in Sportsman Moto (13:47:12). Neither of the two Pro Moto 30 starters made it to the finish, and of the 236 total starters, just 137 (58 percent) finished within the 21-hour time limit. Mark Kariya