Baja 1000 Results 2013: Analyzing the Winners of Wild Off-Road Race

Want to win the Baja 1000? Ride a Honda.

The JCR Honda team of David Kamo, Mark Samuels, Colton Udall and Tim Weigand won the 2013 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 on Saturday in Mexico, finishing the grueling 885-mile off-road race in 18 hours and 24 minutes. For the 17th straight year, a Honda crossed the finish line first at the Baja 1000.

Here's a look at the top 10 overall finishers in the 46th annual Baja 1000:

Place	Rider of Record	Time (Days:Hours:Minutes)
1	Timmy Weigand	0:18:24
2	Robby Bell	0:20:27
3	Francisco Arredondo	0:20:45
4	Mike Johnson	0:22:23
5	Dustin Paloposki	0:23:28
6	Cody Schafer	1:01:10
7	Ryan Gutile	1:01:11
8	Jeff Benrud	1:01:24
9	Brian Garrahan	1:01:32
10	Javier Robles	1:01:38

The JCR Honda team had a couple of major obstacles in its way—aside from the treacherous course full of rugged terrain, intense fog and booby traps. Weigand, the team's rider of record, went down with an injury during a crash on Monday, per Scott Rousseau of Off-Road.com. He was reportedly held out of the race until the final 10th of the mile, when he ceremoniously crossed the finish line for his team.

Udall also had a major crash into a cattle guardrail around mile 795 of the race. He told Rousseau he thought he had cost his team the victory: 

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I hit the concrete so hard that it taco’d my front wheel completely. I had to radio the pit for help, and it took them 20 minutes to get there. I just took my front wheel off and waited, and I thought to myself, "You just lost the race. You’re such a knucklehead."

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JCR Honda was engaged in an intense race for first against the FMF/KTM team, but rider Kurt Caselli also had a major crash around the same time as Udall. Caselli, 30, eventually died from his injuries, resulting in a tragic day for the JCR Honda team.

BJ Baldwin Repeats as Champ

Motorcycles may cross the finish line first, but there's still plenty of racing behind them.

For the second straight year, "Ballistic" BJ Baldwin went solo for the entire race and still finished first in the four-wheel division. SCORE International shared the top four finishers from the trophy truck division:

Unofficially, Baldwin finished the race in one day, four hours and 34 minutes, just six minutes ahead of the second-place team of Rob MacCachren and Andy McMillin.

This was a big win for Baldwin, who proved that last year's controversial victory via a competitor's disqualification was no fluke.  According to Josh Burns of Off-Road.com, it marks the first time for a back-to-back winner since Troy Herbst and Larry Roeseler did it in 2004 and 2005.