24 Hours of Baja

For the factory Honda team accustomed to winning the Baja 1000, they may as well rename the event the 24 Hours of Baja. That’s how long it took Rob Bell, Johnny Campbell, Kendall Norman and Red Bull’s Steve Hengeveld to traverse the 1,296.4 mile trek from Ensenada to Cabo San Lucas down Mexico’s Baja peninsula during the 40th running of the famous off-road race. The overall race winners are accustomed to racing against the clock. The win was Campbell’s tenth Baja 1000 victory and Hengeveld’s sixth straight.

"It was like a blackout through the fog all the way to Santa Rita and it was really difficult," said Hengeveld of the rain-soaked course. "You don't know where the livestock is and the lights don't pick them up. It was one of the most hectic times of the ride and then it cleared up again. I got going on the pace, and I just tried to ride as smooth as possible to bring it in safely without any mistakes.”

While it was business as usual in the motorcycle class, the fan favorite Trophy Truck class crowned brand new champions in Mark Post, Rob MacCachren, and Carl Renezeder, who split driving duties in their Ford 150 over the course of 25 hours and 21 minutes. In doing so, they beat a four-wheel field that included NASCAR driver Robby Gordon and former Indy 500 winner Danny Sullivan.

Crossing the finish line third behind the two-wheel and four-wheel winners was the unlimited open-wheel desert buggy driven by Troy Herbst and Larry Roeseler, who earned his record 16th class win dating back to 1967. The top three beat a near-record field of 424 starters competing in 28 Pro and 6 Sportsman classes for cars, trucks, motorcycles and ATVs.

The No. 41 Castrol Trophy Truck, which CORR driver Steve Barlow started in, was in third place around 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time, when they experienced a broken rear end gear around 1,080 miles. The team has finished 6th in Trophy Trucks and 19th overall.

Unofficial reports have Andy McMillin crossing the finish line 16th in the Trophy Truck class.

Ironman Travis Pastrana ran into some trouble 120 miles away from the finish line. The two-time Rally America champion traded four-wheels for two in an attempt to repeat last year's feat of completing the entire race by himself.