Yokohama's Heidi Steele has captured her first race of the
season, winning the Class 6 title at the 25th MasterCraft
Safety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 in Baja, Calif.
Driving her customary Ford Ranger, Steele, the former Class
6 (unlimited, production mini trucks) and Class 7 (open,
production mini trucks) champion, and her co-driver and
Desert Assassins teammate Rene Brugger, finished the course
on off-the-shelf Geolandar M/T+ tires with a time of
5:50:40.
“This was the roughest course I have seen in the six years I
have raced here,” says Steele. “My Yokohama tires performed
well; we had one flat tire due to driver error. It’s awesome
to add a San Felipe 250 win to our Baja racing history. It’s
truly an accomplishment.”
According to Steele, the race was nip and tuck the whole
way. “Rene started and I took it to the finish,” she
recounts. “I felt a lot of pressure making the driver change
because he was bringing it in first. And when Dave Caspino
got by us at the pit, I was like, ‘Now I have to chase him
down? Oh, man.’ We caught him at mile 190 or 200 and then
somehow he got by us again and we didn’t see him. Then we
got back by him at about mile 243 for the win.”
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