By Vibing together an easy charm, ice cool nature, North America’s newest real road race, the Baja International Tourist Cup (course distance – 9.95 miles) continues to enhance in stature, presence, importance in roads scene circles.
Previously captured by TT stalwarts, Eric Wilson (still the outright lap-record holder), and Wade Boyd, the fifth BJTC was tumultuous for Canadian rider Fabian Hryniewicz.
EMRA (Edmonton Motorcycle Roadracing Association) front-runner Hryniewicz astride BMW tackle, clocked a best lap time of 5 minutes 32.499 seconds, on route to Heavyweight category glory.
Middleweight category ‘King Pin’ Kyle Malone chalked up the top lap time overall, lapping in 5 minutes 31.511 seconds, whilst Lightweight, Ultra Lightweight victories went to Matt Young and Andrew Gawer (sole Ultra-Lightweight competitor).
Morgan Govignon, who has lapped the TT Mountain Course at an average speed of over 122 mph, first competition stint in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico, ended with a third-place finish in the Ultra Lightweight class behind afore-mentioned class victor Young and Burnzi Inness.
2025 Baja International Tourist Cup – Top Three/Top Six Finishers per category, read as follows:
(Special thanks to Pedro A. Vargas Valdez for providing the race results)
Middleweight:
1st – Kyle Malone
2nd – Bridgette Leber
3rd – Luigi Bedartes
Lightweight:
1st – Matt Young
2nd – Burnzi Inness
3rd – Morgan Govignon
4th – Quentin Burgeois
5th – Scott Warwick
6th – Adrian Pantoja
Heavyweight:
1st – Fabian Hryniewicz
2nd – Liz Sands
3rd – Josh Nelson
Photo courtesy of Pedro A. Vargas Valdez
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
