Former JCR Honda rider Colton Udall will be second off the line at the 2014 Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250.
Following Tuesday’s live drawing for starting positions heralding the sophomore season of the Roger Norman era, SoCal rookie Rodrigo Valenzuela drawing the the pole position for the 2014 Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 desert race.
The season opener of the five-race 2014 SCORE World Desert Championship series will be held February 27-March 2 in Mexico’s picturesque fishing village of San Felipe, located 125 miles south of the U.S. border on the East side of the Baja California peninsula along the azure waters of the tranquil Sea of Cortez. The 2014 Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 race will start another new chapter in SCORE history, continuing the tenure of Norman as the owner of the world’s foremost desert racing organization. The race will be televised as a one-hour special one month following the event on the CBS Sports Network, in the most expansive television package in SCORE history.
With entries accepted up to 5 p.m. the evening before the race, over 200 entries from over 20 US States and 10 countries expected to enter the race that will feature competition in 35 Pro and 6 Sportsman classes for cars, trucks, motorcycles and ATVs in the popular “spring break” race.
Valenzuela, just 17 years old from Calexico, California, will ride a KTM 450EXC motorcycle in Pro Open motorcycle class. Defending Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 Champion Colton Udall will start second when the motorcycles leave the line. The former Johnny Campbell Racing Honda rider will debut his new privateer effort with teammate Mark Samuels at the event.
Pre-Running Info
Pre-running will be allowed on the actual race course starting Friday through Friday, February 28. The course for cars, trucks and Pro motorcycle classes will be one loop of approximately 274 miles and the Sportsman motorcycle and ATV classes will race one loop of approximately 250 miles. The course will include approximately 150 miles never used before in this SCORE Baja race. The course map is available online on the SCORE website and the course GPS files will be available starting Thursday evening.
Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 History
The Tecate SCORE San Felipe began in 1982 but was not held between 1985 and 1989, the first five years of the seven-year combined High Desert Racing Association-HDRA/SCORE Desert Series of US and Baja races. It has been held consecutively each year since 1990.
In its first 27 years, the race has been held in San Felipe all but 2007 when political issues forced a last minute move by SCORE, starting it in Ensenada and finishing it in Santo Tomas. Ironically, 2007 saw a race-record 394 starters and a race-record 288 finishers even though the race was moved and the course changed just 10 days before the event. The records when the race actually started and finished in San Felipe are 341 for starters in 2006 and 220 for finishers, also in 2006.
2014 Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 Starting Draw
Pro Motorcycles
Open M/C
19x Rodrigo Valenzuela
1x Colton Udall
4x Ricky Brabec
Class 30
321x Mark Winkelman
309x Todd York
306x Fred Sobke
329x Brad Baker
Class 40
410x Giovanni Spinali
407x Jack McCormick
401x Rob Huggins-1st RS
Class 50
515x Earl Roberts
Class 60
611x Jim Dizney
609x Donald Lewis-1st RS
SCORE Ironman
702x Tony Gera
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