#1A Honda / Matlock Racing ATV Team Wins
2009 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 & SCORE Season Championship!

Wayne Matlock, Harold Goodman, Wes Miller & Josh Caster Win the SCORE BAJA 1000 & Championship on the Honda TRX 700XX

The Matlock Racing team started out the SCORE season with an Overall win aboard the Honda TRX700XX at the SCORE San Felipe 250. The team was once again the fastest over the course at the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 but after the shake up with new penalties and the move to 2nd place, the #1A American Honda/Matlock Racing team was going to be really hunting the win at the final race of the season, the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000.

Matlock Racing once again entered aboard the Honda TRX700XX and drew the second starting position. With Wayne Matlock starting, the #1A quad quickly moved into the lead even before leaving Ensenada on a course that many racers said was the roughest course they had ever seen. During Matlock’s first section he didn’t have to deal with the Ensenada morning fog that is normally present during the start of the race but he had to dodge his way around the slower motorcycles that started ahead of the quads while fighting to see in the thick dust and silt before handing the quad off to Josh Caster at race mile 39.

Caster was able to take the quad from Matlock now in the lead position and work his way past more motorcycles in the early morning dust. Once on the fast roads near Ojos Negros Caster was able to gain some time to the lead that Matlock had made at the start of the race. Midway through his section, motorcycle traffic began to become a factor and time was lost as the #5A team of Felipe Velez gained time and moved into the lead on adjusted time. Caster finished off his ride at race mile 101 in Nuevo Jct where he handed the quad off to Harold Goodman about 30 seconds off pace of the 5A team now holding the lead on adjusted time.

Goodman’s first section started off with the famous rocky and dangerous summit, the dry lake bed of Laguna Salada where silt beds show up out of nowhere and then into the deep rocky whoops of Borrego. Goodman was able to hold off the 5A team until reaching the silt beds at the bottom of the summit where the 5A team was able to make the pass in the thick clouds of silt. Goodman continued to pace the lead quad all the way into Borrego where he would hand off the quad to Matlock once again at race mile 202.

Matlock’s second section would continue from Borrego all the way to Morelia Jct at race mile 237. Matlock took the quad and was off charging hard to regain the lead before he was to hand the quad off again. The 5A team was also charging hard to keep the lead but suffered a mechanical issue after passing Borrego. Matlock was unaware of the 5A teams issue and kept up the hard charge until he passed the quad off to Caster at Morelia Jct.