IN
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and tried fixing it.
"There was nothing I could do
without more people to help me
and I rode from there to 212 and
they caught up to us."
Esposito got to the finish in
five hours, 12 minutes and 56
seconds, officially.
The Arredondo team knew it'd
be tight and when Penhall rolled
in at 5:12:38, their hearts sank.
"It's such a satisfying feeling
[to win]; this is such a dangerous
race," Australian Stokie declared.
"Just the whole pre-running lead-
ing up to [the race], I was just
happy to get through that, but to
take home a [winning] result as
well, I'm really stoked for that.
I came over and won the 1000
[with Ox Motorsports] last year
as well so to top it off with a San
Felipe win, unreal."
Third bike overall and third
in Pro Moto Unlimited went to
Derek Ausserbauer who chose
to tackle the entire race by
himself, though that was nothing
out of the ordinary for the former
Pro Moto Ironman racer and his
Poor Boyz Racing/Precision
Concepts/Dunlop CRF450X.
He finished in 6:03:12 followed
by Pro Moto 40 (riders over 40
years old) winners Ryan Gus-
tine/Kevin Johnson in 6:06:45
and the Pro Moto Unlimited
team of Schuyler Schoonmaker/
Grant Statley/Mark Winkelman
in 6:09:18.
Other class winners included
Morgan Crawford/Kevin Mur-
phy/Jim O'Neal in Pro Moto
Limited (449cc or less) with their
6:52:43; Dennis Belingheri/
Chris Brown/Sal Hernandez/
Chad Thornton in Pro Moto 30
(6:27:59); Troy Pearce/Earl Rob-
ert/Giovanni Spinali in Pro Moto
50 (7:01:00); Ron Dugan/Robert
Koch/Donald Lewis in Pro Moto
60 (8:35:45); Jose Armando
Carrasco in Pro Moto Ironman
(6:44:29); and Caleb Bertrand/
Kevin Gravett/Nick Lanning/
Sidney Marchand/Jim Morton in
Sportsman Motorcycle (7:22:07).
Mark Kariya
Jose Armando
Carrasco rode a
Suzuki RMX450Z
to victory in the Pro
Moto Ironman class.
