Gordon Wins Off-Road Race
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Bob Gordon of Orange, driving a Porsche, won the SCORE Baja International off-road race Sunday, his third victory in five races this year.
Gordon averaged 55.34 m.p.h. as he completed the 461.7-mile circuit through the northern Baja California peninsula in 8 hours 20 minutes 33.3 seconds.
Only two motorcycle teams finished the race faster than Gordon’s car. Dan Ashcraft of Huntington Beach and Randy Morales of Burbank won the motorcycle division on a Honda in 8:08:15.1, averaging 56.74 m.p.h. They finished 50 seconds faster than Larry Roeseler of Bloomington, Calif., and Ted Hunnicutt Jr. of Thousand Oaks. Roeseler and Hunnicutt, on a Kawasaki, finished in 8:09:05 with an average speed of 56.64 m.p.h.
Frank Vessels of Bonsall won the truck class, driving a highly-modified Chevrolet pickup in 8:33:16.4 at an average speed of 53.97 m.p.h.
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