Cycle News Staff | September 22, 2021
Following final review by the SCORE Competition Review Board (CRB) it was determined that the team led by Shane Redline was the overall motorcycle and Pro Moto Unlimited class winner at the 2nd SCORE Baja 400, presented by VP Racing Fuels, September 17-19.
“After reviewing all the tracking data and other input from race officials, the Competition Review Board of independent racers assessed a 10-minute penalty to the number 5x motorcycle of Derek Ausserbauer for impeding another racer,” said Jose A. Grijalva, SCORE President/Race Director. “The penalty moved the number 22x motorcycle of Shane Redline into first place in Pro Moto Unlimited with the number-5x motorcycle of Ausserbauer and Colton Udall officially finishing in second place.”
The Honda CRF450X-mounted Redline team was made up of six riders and were declared the winners, completing the race in nine hours, 28 minutes and three seconds, with a speed average of 42.25 mph. Redline, who was also the driver of record in a trophy truck, started for the team but only traveled a few hundred yards before handing the bike over to teammate Chris Phillips, who then shared duties with Phillip Herrera, Larry Serna, Carlos Pardini and Brandon Prieto to get the overall motorcycle win, despite the Colton Udall and Derek Ausserbauer team crossing the finish line physically in first place.
“Technical, super fun, dusty, but that’s Baja,” said Chris Phillips. “It’s very silty coming back up. But we are here; that is all that matters. We will be out here for the SCORE Baja 1000 and chase the 5x for sure and give it all we got. We had a couple mistakes this race, but we will clean it up.”
“It was a good day out there,” Ausserbauer said. “Colton did some magician moves. He handed me the bike two minutes up. We are racing on super high-speed roads. That was legendary. That fired me up to keep up the pace.”
The Fernando Beltran/Arturo Salas team topped the Pro Moto Limited class (motorcycles under 400cc); Scott McIntosh won Pro Moto 60 (riders over the age of 60); Giovanni Spinali and John Griffin won Pro Moto 50; Ryan Liebelt, Steve Tichner and Greg Bardonnex won Pro Moto 40; James Justin topped Pro Moto 30, and Juan Carlos Salvatierra topped the Pro Moto Ironman class. CN