After a long and dusty season in the desert, Christy Racing wrapped up the SCORE International Class 24 and Overall Pro ATV titles with a determined ride at the final event of 2009, the Baja 1000. With wins at the San Felipe 250 and the Baja 500 earlier in the year, the team needed only to complete the 1000 to clinch the 450 class championship. But the overall title was still up for grabs, depending on the outcome of the race. The Baja 1000 win was out of reach for the Christy’s team this time (they won in 2008), but a strong third place finish was enough to take series overall honors by a narrow four point margin.
Do a little snorkeling in Mexico, and you’ll soon be wracked with envy whenever you have to share a boat with a pack of scuba divers. I came down with this affliction several years ago on Baja’s East Cape and got so far as to complete the course work, but I was grounded by a hurricane that brushed the coast before I ever hoisted a tank. Since then, my travels have taken me most often to the Yucatán Peninsula, where the warm Caribbean’s aqua, teal and indigo striations and hallucinatory clarity have piqued memory of that lost opportunity into a gentle obsession.
After an overnight ferry, we arrived in Sardinia to find a promising northwest swell on the horizon headed our way. Glenn “Micro” Hall, Richard “Dog” Marsh and the first Italian surfer and Italian legend Alessandro Dini brought me alongside for some fun Mediterranean living.
The week was full of fun, overhead surf. None of us expected so much swell in …Â Details
OOOOOOH SHIT! LUAN IS KILLING IT! IF YOU DIDN’T ALREADY SEE THE RIP ROARING RUN IN THE FINALS OF THE 2009 SPOT TAMPA AM CONTEST THEN HERE IT IS…THROUGH THE EYES OF FLIP………
