The SLR Honda team of Tyler Lynn, David Kamo and Carter Klein won the 2025 SCORE Baja 1000. The number 7x Honda CRF450X mounted team completed the 854-mile course in a time of 17:55:30 to secure the overall motorcycle win with over an hour-and-a-half margin.
The Honda mounted defending SCORE champion 1x team of Arturo Salas, Shane Logan, Corey Hammond and Ciaran Naran finished second overall motorcycle with a time of 19:29:10.
The third overall motorcycle was the Sportsman class team lead by Arnaldo Casteneda riding a Honda.
For Lynn and the SLR Honda team, the 2025 Baja 1000 win capped a perfect four-win season of SCORE Baja events and earned the team the 1X plate for 2026. “It was an awesome day,” Lynn said at the finish. “Obviously to win every round is really cool and to finish off with winning the SCORE Baja 1000 is awesome. We’re stoked to be here. We’re stoked on the year. We just can’t thank everyone enough. It was good. I know Carter got into a little bit of rain, but we missed most of it. The weather was good for me too, no fog. And for David, it was hot, so we lucked out. I thought it was cool. I didn’t like the speed zones in and out of it. I wish we could start racing and just continue racing, but the wash is iconic. I thought that was super cool. Yeah, obviously, the race was pretty tight there for the first half. So we definitely still got some work to do to be better, but we’re going to come back next year, a better version of ourselves.
Salas noted that he and his team had to overcome a lot of obstacles to finish second. “Yes, the race started with Shane, I started it here in Falso, where he took it to race mile 170, approximately. That’s where Corey Hammond went up, he’s an Australian, he’s the winner of Finke [Desert Race]. He took it to the end of the Speed Zone, where the Matomi wash starts. There he went up, by that time we had already had a problem in the morning, where we ran out of lights. The lights were failing. We lost time, about 15 minutes, and when Corey got off, we were eighteen minutes behind, starting in Matomi’s, where Ciaran got on. After Ciaran got on, he did the first lap of San Felipe, and he advanced. He made up 10 minutes. He did really well in his section. Jake got on, and unfortunately ran out of gas. I was waiting for him to get out and give me the bike. From there, we managed to give it gas, but we lost like an hour or so, so it put us out of the competition with the first bike, but the plan was to move forward to finish. From there, I got on the bike, and I went to the finish line. I had a fall, but everything was fine, thank God. I was going really hard, and I hit a rock and I didn’t see it, and it threw me forward. The seat fell like three times. Thank God, some pits helped me and some fans. I did train a lot. I did all my homework.”
Larry Serena won the Pro Moto Ironman class (solo riders) in a time of 25:41:42 riding a Honda. He finished less than an hour ahead of fellow Honda Rider Erick Estrada, who finished in 26:20:58. Serna had this to say at the finish “We started well, because I was the first one to start, but then I broke a terminal of the battery. We managed to fix it after 15 minutes. We ended up putting a screw directly to the battery, with my mechanics. And from there on I just started to recover time. I positioned myself first and from there the fight was all day. Right now, at night, I hit a giant rock and broke the engine cover. We managed to change it in a record time of about 10 minutes. That served as a break for me. From there to here, to the finish line, I fought with everything I got.”
In the interest of safety, the motorcycles started at midnight on Friday, November 14th and the first of the cars, trucks and UTVs started at nine a.m. The midnight start meant that the first of the motorcycles raced in the dark for the first seven hours before the sun started to come up. Heavy rain hit the Baja peninsula later in the day to add to the difficulty for the competitors that finished later in the day.
2025 SCORE Baja 1000 Motorcycle Results (Overall)
- 7x Tyler Lynn, David Kamo and Carter Klein. Honda CRF450X, 17:55:30 (Pro Moto Unlimited)
- 1x Arturo Salas, Shane Logan, Corey Hammond and Ciaran Naran. Honda CRF450X, 19:29:10 (Pro Moto Unlimited)
- 269x. Arnaldo Casteneda, Miguel Monroy, Gerardo Limon, Grayan Limon, Grian Wipperman, Antony Tamayo,Eduardo Gonzalez. Honda CRF450X, 20:49:27 (Sportsman Moto)
Link to complete results: https://results.score-international.com/results/?p=view_race_result&id=6295388&show_combined=1
