2007 SCORE Baja 1000 - The Finish Line

LIVE from the Finish line in Cabo San Lucas

Nov. 14, 2007 By ORC STAFF

Baja 1000 Finish Line brought to you by Bilstein Shocks

**Official Results 40th Tecate SCORE Baja 1000**

#3 Riviera Racing takes TrophyTruck win and also SCORE points Championship!
(Photo by highREV)

OFFICIAL TOP FINISHERS

Overall Baja 1000 win - Team Honda 1x: Robby Bell, Steve Hengeveld, Kendall Norman and Johnny Campbell (Honda CRF450X)

Trophy Truck win and SCORE points Champions - #3 Riviera Racing: Mark Post, Rob MacCacheren and Carl Renezeder (Ford F-150)

Class 1 win - #100 Terrible Herbs/Rock Star Energy: Troy Herbst and Larry Roeseler (Smithbuilt-Ford)

PRO ATV win - #1a Honda/Temecula Motorsports: Danny Prather, Mike Cafro, Levi Marana, Marc Spaeth and Dana Creech (Honda TRX450R)

*see unofficial class wins below.

Audio Interviews with Top Finishers

# 1x Pro Bike Steve Hengeveld
#3 Trophy Truck Riviera Racing's Rob MacCacheren
# 1a Pro Quad Danny Prather

 

TOP CLASS FINISHERS (Unofficial)

PRO CARS/TRUCKS

Class 1/2 1600 win - #1647 Arnoldo Ramirez

Class 3 win - #300 Donald Moss, / Kenneth MOss/ David Grundman/ Gary Dunn (Ford Bronco)

Class 5 win - #504 Drew Belk

Class 5/1600 win - #569 Ernesto Arambula/Roberto Green/ Adolfo Arambula/Hector Ramos

Class 7 win - #700 Dan Chamlee/Tom Chamlee (Ford Ranger, BFG Tires)

Class 7s win - #720 Mike Horner

Class 7sx win - #741 Sierra Noe

Class 8 win - #862 John Griffin/Jeremy Spirkoff (Ford F-350, BFG Tires)

Class 9 win -

Class 10 win - #1003 Matt Cullen

SCORE Lite win - #1200 Tim Noe and Tom Watson

Class 11 win - #1102 Ramon Fernandez

Stock Full win - #810 Glen Greer (Dodge Ram)

Stock Mini win - #760 Rod Hall/Mike Winkel/Chad Hall/Josh Hall (Hummer H3)

Pro Truck win - #236 Rick Johnson

Class 17 win - #1705 Mike Shaffer

Baja Challenge win - #1915 (BC15) John McInnis/Sam Jones/Rick Skelton/Jim Hancock

Sportsman Car win - #1409 Paul Bailey/Jillian Rotring/Amber BAiley/Tom Rootring (Bunderson-VW)

Sportsman Truck win - #1503 Mark Growe/Keith Growe/Tim Brown/Bryan O'Lear/Mike Sabbarese (Hummer H1)

MOTORCYCLE

Class 21 (126cc to 250cc) - #107x Francisco Arredondo

Class 20 (125cc) - #151x Ryan Penhall

Class 30 (Riders over 30 years old) - #302 Jim O'Neal/ Mouse McCoy - Honda 450x

Class 40 (Riders over 40 years old) - #405x Brett Helm

Class 50 (Riders over 50 years old) - #549x Chris Haines

Class 60 (Riders over 60 years old) -

Class 24 (ATV Under 250cc) - #103a Francisco Servin

SPT ATV - #63a David Corbani

SPT M/C<250cc - #207x Jesus Rios

SPT M/C>250cc -

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Time Vehicle Note
     
Check out BFG unofficial scoring for the list of cars, trucks and UTVs that have finished the 40th Tecate SCORE Baja 1000, and those that didn't quite make it. Click HERE
     
Full official results from SCORE as soon as we have them.
     
12:56 pm 1734 Cliff Cook Jeepspeed
12:11 pm   16 out of the 18 Baja Challenge cars have finished. Nice!
11:07 am 1705 Mike Shaffer's Jeepspeed across the line!
10:54 am 779 Stock Mini Gavin Skilton
10:00 am 807 Noah Ostanik Class 8
9:33 am 213 ProTruck Dave Westem
9:13 am 52a Sportsman Quad Reid Rutherford
7:00 am   As of 6AM PST Thursday, over 80 vehicles have finished the 40 th Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 and another 90+ are still in the race.
6:30 am 8 Trophy Truck Roger Norman
  1409 Sportsman Buggy Paul Bailey
  60a Sportsman Quad Juan Leyva
  746 Rick Severson
  BC8 Baja Challenge Darby Keen
  BC13 Baja Challenge Bud Brutsman
  264x Sportsman Bike John Kelley
  203x Sportsman Bike Garrett Tollman
  763  
  700 Dan Chamlee
  347 Dylan Evans
  803 Stan Burns
  292x Sportsman Bike Justin Wiberg
6:00 am 554 Mario Reynoso
  300 Donald Moss
  281x Ironman Bike Todd Harrison
  8 Trophy Truck Roger Norman
5:00 am   Checkpoint 7 at RM867.59 has now closed.
  1642

Samuel Araiza

  762 Stock Mini Ryan Millen
  BC10 Baja Challenge Michael Cassling
3:56 am 104a Daniel Marin Jr
1:15 am 31 Trophy Truck of Andy McMillin is in
12:00 am 269x Lyman Scherer reported across the line
It has been confirmed that this will be the last Baja 1000 race for the Terrible Herbst Class 1 Smithbuilt Ford Truggy.  This amazing machine had an epic run at the 40th SCORE Baja 1000, with the Class 1 win and also holds the record for most wins in its class.  Congratulation to Troy Herbst and Larry Roeseler on their win today. (Photo by Matt Emery)

11:00 pm 504
It's dark now in Cabo but that's not stopping these guys and gals from making it to the Finish. Drew Belk in the #504 was the first Class 5 to come across the line in this awesome FAT powered VW.  Their elapsed time was 30:35:27

 

Drew Belk in the #504 was the first Class 5 to come across the line in this awesome FAT powered VW. (Photo by Matt Emery)

10:15 pm   Trucks/Buggies OUT, per BFG scoring:
    109, 27, 111, 1202, 260, 1206, 115, 506, 702, 500, 117, 303, 1403, 876, 1400, 1806, 1547, 1006, 705, 1502, 110, 28, 29, 39, 49, 96, 101, 104, 106, 108, 123, 131, 301, 304, 349, 514, 516, 574, 701, 744, 745, 747, 758, 777, 808, 866, 901, 1201, 1406, 1449, 1606, 1749, 1804
9:34 pm 609x Richard Jackson
8:38 pm 16 Right on Coyne's bumper is Cameron's Steele Pretty in Pink TT
  77 Trophy Truck of Travis Coyne comes across
8:36 pm 63a First Sportsman Quad
8:30 pm 85 Trophy Truck of Todd Wyllie is in
    Trucks/Buggies FINISHED, per BFG scoring, in order of Overall Finish:
    3, 4, 100, 118, 71, 114, 113, 236, 1200, 105, 1215, 2, 12, 41, 38, 1, 1216,1003, 200, 128, 504, 127, 1647, 1603, 1608, 1604, 82, 1212
7:53 pm   SCORE OFFICIAL OVERALL RESULTS
  1x Robby Bell with an elapsed time of 24:15:50 and average speed of 53.428
  3 Mark Post with an elapsed time of 25:21:25 and average speed of 51.125
  14x Tim Morton with an elapsed time of 25:24:45 and average speed of 51.013
  4 Gus Vildosola with an elapsed time of 25:32:20 and average speed of 50.761
  9x Quinn Cody with an elapsed time of 25:56:00 and average speed of 49.989
     
     
NOTE from Team 9x KTM’s Baja Team of David Pearson, Cyril Despres, Shane Esposito, and Quinn Cody finished third in Pro Motorcycle . This was the team’s first major effort on the new KTM 690 Baja bike.  Despite two tire issues and one hard crash, the team was able to walk away with a solid third place performance.
     
NOTE from Team 1A Levi Marana won the 2005 San Felipe 250, Baja 500, did not win the 1000 but did win the 2005 SCORE Championship with Cyle Chislock and Josh Fredrick. He then joined the 2006 Mike Cafro team, winning the 500 and 1000, resulting in the 2006 SCORE Championship. 2007 brought a rider of record change (Danny Prather) with same riders as the 2006 Cafro team. Once again with a 250, 500, and 1000 sweep, resulting in another SCORE Championship.
     
4:45 pm   Official Winner for Pro ATV Class -
Danny Prather, Levi Marana, Dana Creech, and Marc Spaeth
  1A 29:48.58 on course; Ave mph 43.479
  5A 29:57.47 on course; Ave mph 43.262
4:40 pm 105 Billy & Dave Gasper finished in 5th place today, and that was unofficially good enough to grab the 2007 Class 1 Championship. Thanks for the update, Jack!
4:03 pm 236 Pro Truck of Rick Johnson
3:50 pm 2 Pistol Pete Sohren's Trophy Truck across the line
3:50 pm 1200 First SCORE Lite #1200 of Tim Noe thru Finish! Husband and wife Vic and Michelle Bruckman piloted the SCORE Lite the last section from Loreto to Cabo.
Husband and wife Vic and Michelle Bruckman piloted the #1200 SCORE Lite the last section from Loreto to Cabo -- making it a season back-to-back win for this team. (Photo by Matt Emery)

 

2:53 pm 7A Carmen Cafro celebrates on his quad as he crosses the finish line, with his 40+ year old teammates to share in the accomplishment. And a podium?
2:51 pm 114

Second Class 1 to cross finish is Ronny Wilson.

1:30 pm 100 The Terrible Herbst #100 Truggy of Troy Herbst and Larry Rageland is the first Class 1 across the FINISH line.

baja riviera
#3 Riviera Racing was the first Trophy Truck (TT) across the finish line at 12:08 PM PST.  Mark Post raced the last leg and ran a great race against #4 Mexican Logistics Vildosola.  At the finish line the entire team celebrated by jumping on the #3 Riviera Racing TT and popped open a bottle of champagne.  The team not only celebrated their Baja 1000 win, but also the 2007 season Championship. (Photo by JH)

sal fish
A late entry to the race was this all-wheel drive 1-horsepower “Caballo Blanco” ridden by Sal Fish himself. (Photo by Matt Emery)
 
race truck

#4 Mexican Logistics raced across the finish 12 minutes after #3 Riviera Racing.  Behind the #4 TT was Gus Vildosola Jr.  He had an unfortunate mechanical set back about 90 miles outside of Cabo.  They had to limp the truck in, but still managed to finish second. (Photo by JH)

 
mouse mccoy
Mouse McCoy rode his #302 Honda and was first in Class 30. (Photo by Matt Emery)

 

Time Vehicle Note
1:59 pm 71 Robby Gordon is across after a long haul.
1:32 pm 100 First Class 1 to cross the finishline - Troy Herbst & Larry Roeseler
1:05 pm 5A Second quad to Cabo is Wayne Matlock.
12:52 pm 1A Danny Prather is the first Quad to the finish!
12:21 pm 4 The second Trophy Truck is in, driven by Gustavo Vildosola, Jr.
12:07 pm 3 Mark Post and the FIRST Trophy Truck is over the line! Official Average Speed 51.125
     
11:35 am 549x Chris Haines, the first Class 50 dirt bike is across the finish - alive and well!
10:50 am 405x Brett Helm, the first Class 40 dirt bike racer has come across.
9:50 am 370x Geraldo Rosas is across.
9:30 am 350x Mouse McCoy, the fourth dirt biker and the FIRST Class 30 racer.
8:30 am 9x KTM of Quinn Cody made it down to Cabo as well. There's your top three Pro Motorcycle Teams!
8:00 am   SCORE tentatively announcing Honda as the Pro Motorcycle Champions. Congratulations to all the hard-riding guys on the Honda team.
7:45 am 14x The second team, Tim Morton and all, is across the line!
6:47 am 1x HONDA DOES IT AGAIN! Steve Hengeveld from Honda 1x, first Pro Motorcycle across the FINISH line at 6:47 PST. Team has over a 30-minute lead on the next bike, riding in typical fast form. Team is Robby Bell, Steve Hengeveld, Kendall Norman, and Johnny Campbell riding a Honda CRF450X.
     
    “It was like a blackout through the fog all the way to Santa Rita and it was really difficult,” said Hengeveld. “You don’t know where the livestock is and the lights don’t pick them up. It was one of the most hectic times of the ride and then it cleared up again. I got going on the pace, and I just tried to ride as smooth as possible to bring it in safely without any mistakes. The bike ran flawless. The Honda CRF450x is an awesome machine. Without the engineers at Japan, American Honda and Precision concepts, we wouldn’t be here today. This my 10th SCORE Baja 1000 win and it feels so good.”
hengeveld team honda

Victory is sweet.

baja 1000

Everybody wants to hear from Hengeveld and Team Honda!

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3:00 AM Update - LIVE from the Finish line in Cabo San Lucas
The Finish line is now officially open but no signs of the leader 1x coming in. We are anticipating at least 3 more hours before we see any action here. Well, I take that back, there is some action if you consider the Tecate girls shaking their booty. (Photo by Matt Emery)


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