#1A Honda / Matlock
Racing ATV Team Wins
2009 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 & SCORE Season
Championship!
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Wayne Matlock,
Harold Goodman, Wes Miller & Josh
Caster Win the SCORE BAJA 1000 & Championship
on the Honda TRX 700XX
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El Centro, CA (12/4/2009) -The
#1A American Honda / Matlock Racing Pro ATV Team
of Wayne Matlock, Harold Goodman, Wes Miller &
Josh Caster won the 2009 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000
on Nov 20th with a time of 16:54:52 (39.78 mph)
and secured the season championship.
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.
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