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06-08-2005, 07:30 AM
June 7, 2005
McCOY/CHILDRESS TAKE OVERALL BAJA 500 WIN
- press release -
At this year's Baja 500, the privateer team of Mike Childress and Mike "Mouse" McCoy beat three factory teams, riding a Honda XR650R to a time of 8:40:25, averaging 48.31mph to take the overall Baja 500 win this weekend.
The three vehicles that covered the 419-mile racecourse that started in downtown Ensenada - adjacent to the Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center - and finished inside the Deportivo Antonio Palacios baseball stadium in the heart of Ensenada the fastest Saturday were motorcycles.
Second among the motorcycles was the American Honda A team of Steve Hengeveld, Oak Hills, Calif./Johnny Campbell, San Clemente, Calif., with a
8:49:45 time on a Honda XR650R while third was the Honda B team of Robby Bell, Murrieta, Calif./Kendall Norman, Santa Barbara, Calif., completing the course in 9:08:16 on another Honda XR650R.
McCoy said, "Mike was the last bike off the line and he passed everyone before he gave me the bike. Our strategy was?there was a really tough stretch so if I were fresh through it, it would help. It was really a tough course ? it was a true Baja course. We had a flawless ride. Johnny (Campbell, 1x) congratulated us on the race. Johnny is such a class act, he is a real competitor. We talked about strategy. They usually get out in the lead and control the race. This time we got the lead and we had a helicopter leading the way for us, it was beautiful. The helicopter kept us informed so we controlled the race."
"It was amazing - I loved it", said the 21-year-old Childress. "It's my first time ever to win a SCORE race. I've been doing this since I was 14 and it was a dream to win a race and now I did it. We were in fourth early on.
Mike's Sky Loop was the hardest part. I passed Johnny [Campbell] at Santa Tomas and never looked back. Mouse McCoy ran the 1000 all by himself and I thought what better guy to get than him to ride with."
The Childress/McCoy victory snapped the five-year winning streak in this race by Hengeveld, who won with Campbell three of those years. Mouse McCoy's main sponsor is Troy Lee Designs.
McCoy's win continues his year of successes as he recently produced and had a significant role in the feature docu-film DUST TO GLORY, which will be released on DVD nationally on August 23rd.
McCOY/CHILDRESS TAKE OVERALL BAJA 500 WIN
- press release -
At this year's Baja 500, the privateer team of Mike Childress and Mike "Mouse" McCoy beat three factory teams, riding a Honda XR650R to a time of 8:40:25, averaging 48.31mph to take the overall Baja 500 win this weekend.
The three vehicles that covered the 419-mile racecourse that started in downtown Ensenada - adjacent to the Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center - and finished inside the Deportivo Antonio Palacios baseball stadium in the heart of Ensenada the fastest Saturday were motorcycles.
Second among the motorcycles was the American Honda A team of Steve Hengeveld, Oak Hills, Calif./Johnny Campbell, San Clemente, Calif., with a
8:49:45 time on a Honda XR650R while third was the Honda B team of Robby Bell, Murrieta, Calif./Kendall Norman, Santa Barbara, Calif., completing the course in 9:08:16 on another Honda XR650R.
McCoy said, "Mike was the last bike off the line and he passed everyone before he gave me the bike. Our strategy was?there was a really tough stretch so if I were fresh through it, it would help. It was really a tough course ? it was a true Baja course. We had a flawless ride. Johnny (Campbell, 1x) congratulated us on the race. Johnny is such a class act, he is a real competitor. We talked about strategy. They usually get out in the lead and control the race. This time we got the lead and we had a helicopter leading the way for us, it was beautiful. The helicopter kept us informed so we controlled the race."
"It was amazing - I loved it", said the 21-year-old Childress. "It's my first time ever to win a SCORE race. I've been doing this since I was 14 and it was a dream to win a race and now I did it. We were in fourth early on.
Mike's Sky Loop was the hardest part. I passed Johnny [Campbell] at Santa Tomas and never looked back. Mouse McCoy ran the 1000 all by himself and I thought what better guy to get than him to ride with."
The Childress/McCoy victory snapped the five-year winning streak in this race by Hengeveld, who won with Campbell three of those years. Mouse McCoy's main sponsor is Troy Lee Designs.
McCoy's win continues his year of successes as he recently produced and had a significant role in the feature docu-film DUST TO GLORY, which will be released on DVD nationally on August 23rd.