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November 9, 2002
Nov. 20-23 adventure covers Mexico’s Baja California peninsula With record 20 SCORE Trophy-Trucks entered, pre-running continues As entries rise for 35th Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 desert race
Seven of eight SCORE Trophy-Truck season champs
among 231 entries to date from 30 states, 10 countries
LOS ANGELES--While thousands of racers and crew members diligently
continue to pre-run the course and finalize pit, fueling and race strategy, a
record 20 V8-powered, 750 horsepower SCORE Trophy-Trucks are prepared to lead
the field into next week’s 35th Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000, the legendary
granddaddy of all desert races. The final event of the six-race 2002 Optima
SCORE Desert Series will be held Nov. 20-23 in Baja California, Mexico.
The excruciatingly arduous 1,017.31-mile point-to-point race will start
in Ensenada on the Pacific Ocean side of the mysterious peninsula and finish
in La Paz on the Sea of Cortez.
With 231 entries to date, nearly 240 official starters are expected to
begin the odyssey. The adventurers represent 30 U.S. States and 10 countries
competing in 24 Pro and 5 Sportsman classes for cars, trucks, motorcycles and
ATVs. U.S. entries have come from Hawaii to Florida while international
entries include Mexico, Canada, England, Guatemala, Hungary, Israel, Japan,
Uruguay and Sweden.
Pre-race festivities will be held in Ensenada and will include the
colorful manufacturer's midway and technical inspection of all the race
vehicles on Wednesday, Nov. 20. The race will start in Ensenada in front of
the Riviera Convention Center on Thursday, Nov. 21 and the fastest vehicles
in the elapsed-time race are expected to cover the rugged course to the
finish line in La Paz in a remarkable 17 hours or less. The motorcycles and
ATVs will start at 6:30 a.m., followed by the cars and trucks at 8 a.m.
(PST). Vehicles will start in 30-second intervals. The time limit is 40 hours.
“We are elated with the large field we are lining up for this incredible
event,” said Sal Fish, SCORE President and CEO who this year designed and
marked his 30th Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 race course. “With all the great
desert racers entered along with some high-profile cross-over entries, a
growing international field and world-wide media interest, we’re confident we
are going to add another dynamic chapter to the colorful book on this unique
motorsports event.”
Debuting in 1994, seven of the first eight SCORE Trophy-Truck season
champions are entered, promising another classic duel down the majestic and
mysterious Baja California peninsula. Former season champs in the marquee
SCORE racing division who will be on the starting grid are: Las Vegas’ Rob
MacCachren (1994), Robby Gordon, Orange, Calif. (1996), Curt LeDuc, Cherry
Valley, Calif. (1997), Riverside’s Dan Smith/Dave Ashley (1998 and 2001) and
Las Vegas’ Ed and Tim Herbst (1999 and 2000).
Among these seven former champions are a combined 28 race victories in
the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division. The Herbst brothers lead with nine,
followed by Smith/Ashley with eight, Gordon and LeDuc with four each and
MacCachren with three. Counting Larry Ragland (7), Juan Ibarra, Larry
Roeseler, Brian Collins, and Mark Miller (1 win each), 39 of the 58 all-time
SCORE Trophy-Truck race winners are competing this year. All but MacCachren
and Roeseler, who are racing in the unlimited Class 1 for open-wheel desert
race cars, are entered in SCORE Trophy-Truck.
Ragland and Miller, who combined to win this class at June’s Tecate
SCORE Baja 500, will again race together.
Involved in the closest championship battle in the nine-year history of
the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division, Scott Steinberger, of Cypress,
Calif., will drive the first four-wheel vehicle to leave the start line in
the world’s longest, richest and toughest point-to-point open desert race.
Currently second in the season point standings in his first season in SCORE
Trophy-Truck, Steinberger will drive the No. 7 PCI Racing Ford F-150 in the
class for unlimited production trucks. While Steinberger, last year’s SCORE
point champion in the Protruck class, will start and finish the race,
Phoenix’ Jesse Jones, last year’s SCORE Class 8 point champ, will drive
around 375 miles and Dane Cardone, Huntington Beach, Calif., will drive a
section of approximately 190 miles.
Just six points separate the top three in this year’s race to the throne
of the SCORE Trophy-Truck division. With 237 points, the team of Mark Post,
San Juan Capistrano, Calif./Jerry Welchel, Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.
leads in the No. 3 Riviera Racing Ford F-150 with Steinberger in second just
two points back in another Ford F-150. The Herbst brothers are in third in
their No. 19 Terrible Herbst Motorsports’ Ford F-150, just four more points
back (231).
Behind Steinberger, Las Vegas brothers Ed and Tim Herbst are third in
season points and will start second in their No. 19 Terrible Herbst
Motorsports’ Ford F-150 while point leader Mark Post and co-driver Curt
LeDuc, Cherry Valley, Calif., will start third in their No. 3 Riviera Racing
Ford F-150.
So involved with racing that after he drew the first start in July’s
SCORE Henderson’s Terrible 250 he named his new son Race, Steinberger is
driving a truck he purchased from the Herbst brothers. The oldest of the
current SCORE Trophy-Trucks, the 1992 Ford F-150 has been a model of
consistency for Steinberger as he has had no mechanical problems and has
earned one second place, two thirds and two fourths this season in SCORE
Trophy-Truck.
There have been four different winners in five races in SCORE
Trophy-Truck. Despite winning the first two races of the season in Laughlin,
Nev., and San Felipe, Mexico, defending series point champions Dan Smith and
David Ashley, Riverside, Calif., are in fifth place right now in another Ford
F-150. Winning the three other SCORE races this season have been the teams of
Mark Miller, Carefree, Ariz./Larry Ragland, Phoenix in a Chevy Silverado
(Tecate SCORE Baja 500), Post/Welchel (SCORE Henderson's Terrible 250) and
the Herbst brothers (SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300).
Gordon, the NASCAR Winston Cup regular whose roots are in the desert and
has residences in both Mooresville, N.C., and Orange, Calif., will race his
Team Gordon’s No. 31 Ford F-150 in the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division.
Las Vegas’ Gaughan, who is the top rookie in this year’s NASCAR Craftsman
Truck Series, will co-drive with Roger Gray, Cupertino, Calif., in the No. 21
Phoenix Racing Chevy Silverado in SCORE Trophy-Truck.
In a motorsport where there is no qualifying to determine the starting
grid, the start draw is significantly important.
With season point titles on the line, Steinberger received a surprise
35th birthday present while Japan’s Yoshinobu Shiga got a surprise he never
hoped for as both received the coveted first start positions from the
computerized drawing for starting positions held at Los Angeles headquarters
of SCORE International on October 18.
Shiga, 40, of Kawagoe, Japan, is rider of record on the No. 2X Honda
XR650 in Class 22 for open Pro motorcycles and will lead over 75 motorcycles
and ATVs down the mysterious Baja California peninsula.
In addition to all of the SCORE regular racers, early entries for this
annual classic will include international rally racers, SCORE veteran racers
who make this an annual pilgrimage, and cross-over stars like Robby Gordon
and Gaughan along with CART's Jimmy Vasser and Michel Jordain Jr.
Vasser, who also lives in Las Vegas, will drive with former open-wheel
pavement racers Mike and Robbie Groff in the Groff Racing Toyota-powered
Jimco open-wheel desert race car in the unlimited Class 1.
Among the other early entries in this year’s saga are Rod Hall and Ron
Bishop, the only two racers who have competed in every Tecate SCORE Baja
1000.
Hall, of Reno, Nev., will turn 65 during the race (Friday, Nov. 22) and
who is the all-time winningest racer in this event (16 class wins), will race
with his sons Chad and Josh in Stock Full in an AM General Hummer. Bishop,
59, of Escondido, Calif., will ride a KTM in Class 40 for motorcycle riders
over 40 years old. Hall is the only racer who has competed in a car or truck
in the first 34 years of the event and Bishop holds the same distinction on a
motorcycle.
Despite a season-low 10th place finish in the SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300
on Sept. 14, Las Vegas' Troy Herbst still has the Overall and unlimited Class
1 point leads heading into the season finale.
The youngest of the three brothers on the Terrible Herbst Motorsports
team, Troy Herbst, 36, has forged an unparalleled SCORE desert racing record
the last five-plus seasons. Since 1997, Herbst has won the unlimited Class 1
title
five consecutive years including the coveted SCORE Overall point championship
in 1997, 1998 and 2000 while finishing second the other two years in his
Ford-powered Smithbuilt open-wheel desert race car. During that run, Troy
Herbst has won his class in 12 races and his class has the most entries at
the majority of the SCORE races.
SCORE points are determined both on final finishing position and number
of vehicles which started the race within the individual class.
After five events, Herbst has earned 232 points. In what has developed
into one of tightest overall point battles in SCORE history, just 17 points
separate the top five heading into the season finale in Mexico. Splitting
driving duties with Herbst will again be Roeseler, Hesperia, Calif. Herbst
and Roeseler, a 12-time class and 10-time overall (all on a motorcycle)
winner of the Tecate SCORE Baja 500, teamed up to capture the overall win at
June’s Tecate SCORE Baja 500 in Ensenada.
In second and third in overall points in America's Foremost Desert
Racing Series are class point leaders Kash Vessels, Tucson, Ariz. (Class
1-2/1600, Chenowth-VW--263), and Steve Barlow, Temecula, Calif. (Protruck,
Ford F-150--258 points). Tied for fourth in overall points with 249 points
are Chuck Hovey, Escondido, Calif. (Jimco-Chevy, second in
Class 1) and Stock Full Class leader John Griffin, Mission Viejo, Calif. (AM
General Hummer).
Another testament to the competitiveness in SCORE desert racing, a total
of just five points separate sixth through 11th place after five races in the
2002 Optima SCORE Desert Series overall point standings.
Leading the featured motorcycle class and the overall motorcycle point
leader is the undefeated (three wins) team of Steve Hengeveld, Oak Hills,
Calif./Johnny Campbell, San Clemente, Calif. (Class 22, Honda XR650R).
Las Vegas' Jimmy Stephensen and his co-rider Mike Cafro, Carlsbad,
Calif., lead Class 25 and are the overall ATV point leaders on their Honda
250R.
Tecate Beer is the title sponsor of the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000. Major
associate sponsors of this legendary motorsports extravaganza are: Coca Cola
of Mexico, the Baja California and Baja California Sur Departments of
Tourism, Cotuco and Fondo Mixto Turistica de Ensenada.
To help commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000,
Tecate has produced 12.5 million and Coca-Cola of Mexico has produced 7.5
million classic Coke cans honoring this legendary race.
SCORE official sponsors for 2002 are: Optima Batteries-title sponsor of
the series and official battery, BFGoodrich Tires-official tire, Southern
California Ford Dealers-official vehicle, 76 Racing Fuel-official fuel and
Rental Service Corporation-official equipment supplier. Associate sponsors
this year are: Bilstein Shocks, Instant Mexico Auto Insurance, Signpros,
P.C.I. Race Radios, McKenzie's, Rancho Suspensions, Advanced Color Graphics
and Off-Road Innovations.
For more information, contact SCORE at its Los Angeles headquarters
(818) 225-8402 or visit the official website of the Optima SCORE Desert
Series at www.score-international.com.
SCORE TROPHY-TRUCK (Unlimited Production Trucks)--Starting Order: 7 Scott Steinberger, 35, Cypress, Calif./Jesse Jones, 36, Phoenix/Dane
Cardone, 37, Huntington Beach, Calif., Ford F-150
19 Ed Herbst, 41/Tim Herbst, 39, Las Vegas, Ford F-150
3 Mark Post, 44, San Juan Capistrano, Calif./Curt LeDuc, 47, Cherry Valley,
Calif., Ford F-150
1 Dan Smith, 37/David Ashley, 45, Riverside, Calif., Ford F-150 99 Nick Baldwin, 49, Laguna Hills, Calif./Ronnie Gillespie, Gardnerville,
Nev., Ford F-150
31 Robby Gordon, 33, Orange, Calif., Ford F-150
80 Larry Ragland, 59, Cave Creek, Calif./Chad Ragland, 32, Phoenix, Chevy
Silverado
10 Damen Jefferies, 30/Casey Jefferies, 24, Oak Hills, Calif., Ford F-150 66 Josh Baldwin, 26/Jim Baldwin, 64, Irvine, Calif., Ford F-150 12 Brian Collins, 40, Las Vegas/Brian Stewart, 38, Long Beach, Calif., Chevy
Silverado
6 Steve Sourapas, 44, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif./Rod Muller, 40, Riverside,
Calif., Ford F-150
62 Jeff Geiser, 26, Phoenix/Rick Geiser, 37, Desert Hills, Ariz., Ford F-150 21 Roger Gray, 26, Cupertino, Calif./Brendan Gaughan, 27, Las Vegas, Chevy
Silverado
9 Darren Skilton, 35, Long Beach, Calif., Kia Sorento
81 Mark Miller, 39, Carefree, Ariz./Ryan Arciero, 29, Foothill Ranch, Calif.,
Chevy Silverado
4 Gus Vildosola, 49, Mexicali, Mexico/John Marking, 40, El Cajon, Calif.,
Ford F-150
82 Bob Shepard, 45, Phoenix, Chevy Silverado
52 Juan Ibarra, 26, Ensenada, Mexico, Ford F-150
67 Mark Newhan, 35, Lakeside, Calif./Kevin Kelsey, 35, Alpine, Calif., Chevy
C-10
35 Brian Grouws, 39, Norwalk, Calif./Patrick Rozier, 34, Glendora, Calif.,
Ford F-150
Nov. 20-23 adventure covers Mexico’s Baja California peninsula With record 20 SCORE Trophy-Trucks entered, pre-running continues As entries rise for 35th Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 desert race
Seven of eight SCORE Trophy-Truck season champs
among 231 entries to date from 30 states, 10 countries
LOS ANGELES--While thousands of racers and crew members diligently
continue to pre-run the course and finalize pit, fueling and race strategy, a
record 20 V8-powered, 750 horsepower SCORE Trophy-Trucks are prepared to lead
the field into next week’s 35th Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000, the legendary
granddaddy of all desert races. The final event of the six-race 2002 Optima
SCORE Desert Series will be held Nov. 20-23 in Baja California, Mexico.
The excruciatingly arduous 1,017.31-mile point-to-point race will start
in Ensenada on the Pacific Ocean side of the mysterious peninsula and finish
in La Paz on the Sea of Cortez.
With 231 entries to date, nearly 240 official starters are expected to
begin the odyssey. The adventurers represent 30 U.S. States and 10 countries
competing in 24 Pro and 5 Sportsman classes for cars, trucks, motorcycles and
ATVs. U.S. entries have come from Hawaii to Florida while international
entries include Mexico, Canada, England, Guatemala, Hungary, Israel, Japan,
Uruguay and Sweden.
Pre-race festivities will be held in Ensenada and will include the
colorful manufacturer's midway and technical inspection of all the race
vehicles on Wednesday, Nov. 20. The race will start in Ensenada in front of
the Riviera Convention Center on Thursday, Nov. 21 and the fastest vehicles
in the elapsed-time race are expected to cover the rugged course to the
finish line in La Paz in a remarkable 17 hours or less. The motorcycles and
ATVs will start at 6:30 a.m., followed by the cars and trucks at 8 a.m.
(PST). Vehicles will start in 30-second intervals. The time limit is 40 hours.
“We are elated with the large field we are lining up for this incredible
event,” said Sal Fish, SCORE President and CEO who this year designed and
marked his 30th Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 race course. “With all the great
desert racers entered along with some high-profile cross-over entries, a
growing international field and world-wide media interest, we’re confident we
are going to add another dynamic chapter to the colorful book on this unique
motorsports event.”
Debuting in 1994, seven of the first eight SCORE Trophy-Truck season
champions are entered, promising another classic duel down the majestic and
mysterious Baja California peninsula. Former season champs in the marquee
SCORE racing division who will be on the starting grid are: Las Vegas’ Rob
MacCachren (1994), Robby Gordon, Orange, Calif. (1996), Curt LeDuc, Cherry
Valley, Calif. (1997), Riverside’s Dan Smith/Dave Ashley (1998 and 2001) and
Las Vegas’ Ed and Tim Herbst (1999 and 2000).
Among these seven former champions are a combined 28 race victories in
the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division. The Herbst brothers lead with nine,
followed by Smith/Ashley with eight, Gordon and LeDuc with four each and
MacCachren with three. Counting Larry Ragland (7), Juan Ibarra, Larry
Roeseler, Brian Collins, and Mark Miller (1 win each), 39 of the 58 all-time
SCORE Trophy-Truck race winners are competing this year. All but MacCachren
and Roeseler, who are racing in the unlimited Class 1 for open-wheel desert
race cars, are entered in SCORE Trophy-Truck.
Ragland and Miller, who combined to win this class at June’s Tecate
SCORE Baja 500, will again race together.
Involved in the closest championship battle in the nine-year history of
the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division, Scott Steinberger, of Cypress,
Calif., will drive the first four-wheel vehicle to leave the start line in
the world’s longest, richest and toughest point-to-point open desert race.
Currently second in the season point standings in his first season in SCORE
Trophy-Truck, Steinberger will drive the No. 7 PCI Racing Ford F-150 in the
class for unlimited production trucks. While Steinberger, last year’s SCORE
point champion in the Protruck class, will start and finish the race,
Phoenix’ Jesse Jones, last year’s SCORE Class 8 point champ, will drive
around 375 miles and Dane Cardone, Huntington Beach, Calif., will drive a
section of approximately 190 miles.
Just six points separate the top three in this year’s race to the throne
of the SCORE Trophy-Truck division. With 237 points, the team of Mark Post,
San Juan Capistrano, Calif./Jerry Welchel, Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.
leads in the No. 3 Riviera Racing Ford F-150 with Steinberger in second just
two points back in another Ford F-150. The Herbst brothers are in third in
their No. 19 Terrible Herbst Motorsports’ Ford F-150, just four more points
back (231).
Behind Steinberger, Las Vegas brothers Ed and Tim Herbst are third in
season points and will start second in their No. 19 Terrible Herbst
Motorsports’ Ford F-150 while point leader Mark Post and co-driver Curt
LeDuc, Cherry Valley, Calif., will start third in their No. 3 Riviera Racing
Ford F-150.
So involved with racing that after he drew the first start in July’s
SCORE Henderson’s Terrible 250 he named his new son Race, Steinberger is
driving a truck he purchased from the Herbst brothers. The oldest of the
current SCORE Trophy-Trucks, the 1992 Ford F-150 has been a model of
consistency for Steinberger as he has had no mechanical problems and has
earned one second place, two thirds and two fourths this season in SCORE
Trophy-Truck.
There have been four different winners in five races in SCORE
Trophy-Truck. Despite winning the first two races of the season in Laughlin,
Nev., and San Felipe, Mexico, defending series point champions Dan Smith and
David Ashley, Riverside, Calif., are in fifth place right now in another Ford
F-150. Winning the three other SCORE races this season have been the teams of
Mark Miller, Carefree, Ariz./Larry Ragland, Phoenix in a Chevy Silverado
(Tecate SCORE Baja 500), Post/Welchel (SCORE Henderson's Terrible 250) and
the Herbst brothers (SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300).
Gordon, the NASCAR Winston Cup regular whose roots are in the desert and
has residences in both Mooresville, N.C., and Orange, Calif., will race his
Team Gordon’s No. 31 Ford F-150 in the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division.
Las Vegas’ Gaughan, who is the top rookie in this year’s NASCAR Craftsman
Truck Series, will co-drive with Roger Gray, Cupertino, Calif., in the No. 21
Phoenix Racing Chevy Silverado in SCORE Trophy-Truck.
In a motorsport where there is no qualifying to determine the starting
grid, the start draw is significantly important.
With season point titles on the line, Steinberger received a surprise
35th birthday present while Japan’s Yoshinobu Shiga got a surprise he never
hoped for as both received the coveted first start positions from the
computerized drawing for starting positions held at Los Angeles headquarters
of SCORE International on October 18.
Shiga, 40, of Kawagoe, Japan, is rider of record on the No. 2X Honda
XR650 in Class 22 for open Pro motorcycles and will lead over 75 motorcycles
and ATVs down the mysterious Baja California peninsula.
In addition to all of the SCORE regular racers, early entries for this
annual classic will include international rally racers, SCORE veteran racers
who make this an annual pilgrimage, and cross-over stars like Robby Gordon
and Gaughan along with CART's Jimmy Vasser and Michel Jordain Jr.
Vasser, who also lives in Las Vegas, will drive with former open-wheel
pavement racers Mike and Robbie Groff in the Groff Racing Toyota-powered
Jimco open-wheel desert race car in the unlimited Class 1.
Among the other early entries in this year’s saga are Rod Hall and Ron
Bishop, the only two racers who have competed in every Tecate SCORE Baja
1000.
Hall, of Reno, Nev., will turn 65 during the race (Friday, Nov. 22) and
who is the all-time winningest racer in this event (16 class wins), will race
with his sons Chad and Josh in Stock Full in an AM General Hummer. Bishop,
59, of Escondido, Calif., will ride a KTM in Class 40 for motorcycle riders
over 40 years old. Hall is the only racer who has competed in a car or truck
in the first 34 years of the event and Bishop holds the same distinction on a
motorcycle.
Despite a season-low 10th place finish in the SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300
on Sept. 14, Las Vegas' Troy Herbst still has the Overall and unlimited Class
1 point leads heading into the season finale.
The youngest of the three brothers on the Terrible Herbst Motorsports
team, Troy Herbst, 36, has forged an unparalleled SCORE desert racing record
the last five-plus seasons. Since 1997, Herbst has won the unlimited Class 1
title
five consecutive years including the coveted SCORE Overall point championship
in 1997, 1998 and 2000 while finishing second the other two years in his
Ford-powered Smithbuilt open-wheel desert race car. During that run, Troy
Herbst has won his class in 12 races and his class has the most entries at
the majority of the SCORE races.
SCORE points are determined both on final finishing position and number
of vehicles which started the race within the individual class.
After five events, Herbst has earned 232 points. In what has developed
into one of tightest overall point battles in SCORE history, just 17 points
separate the top five heading into the season finale in Mexico. Splitting
driving duties with Herbst will again be Roeseler, Hesperia, Calif. Herbst
and Roeseler, a 12-time class and 10-time overall (all on a motorcycle)
winner of the Tecate SCORE Baja 500, teamed up to capture the overall win at
June’s Tecate SCORE Baja 500 in Ensenada.
In second and third in overall points in America's Foremost Desert
Racing Series are class point leaders Kash Vessels, Tucson, Ariz. (Class
1-2/1600, Chenowth-VW--263), and Steve Barlow, Temecula, Calif. (Protruck,
Ford F-150--258 points). Tied for fourth in overall points with 249 points
are Chuck Hovey, Escondido, Calif. (Jimco-Chevy, second in
Class 1) and Stock Full Class leader John Griffin, Mission Viejo, Calif. (AM
General Hummer).
Another testament to the competitiveness in SCORE desert racing, a total
of just five points separate sixth through 11th place after five races in the
2002 Optima SCORE Desert Series overall point standings.
Leading the featured motorcycle class and the overall motorcycle point
leader is the undefeated (three wins) team of Steve Hengeveld, Oak Hills,
Calif./Johnny Campbell, San Clemente, Calif. (Class 22, Honda XR650R).
Las Vegas' Jimmy Stephensen and his co-rider Mike Cafro, Carlsbad,
Calif., lead Class 25 and are the overall ATV point leaders on their Honda
250R.
Tecate Beer is the title sponsor of the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000. Major
associate sponsors of this legendary motorsports extravaganza are: Coca Cola
of Mexico, the Baja California and Baja California Sur Departments of
Tourism, Cotuco and Fondo Mixto Turistica de Ensenada.
To help commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000,
Tecate has produced 12.5 million and Coca-Cola of Mexico has produced 7.5
million classic Coke cans honoring this legendary race.
SCORE official sponsors for 2002 are: Optima Batteries-title sponsor of
the series and official battery, BFGoodrich Tires-official tire, Southern
California Ford Dealers-official vehicle, 76 Racing Fuel-official fuel and
Rental Service Corporation-official equipment supplier. Associate sponsors
this year are: Bilstein Shocks, Instant Mexico Auto Insurance, Signpros,
P.C.I. Race Radios, McKenzie's, Rancho Suspensions, Advanced Color Graphics
and Off-Road Innovations.
For more information, contact SCORE at its Los Angeles headquarters
(818) 225-8402 or visit the official website of the Optima SCORE Desert
Series at www.score-international.com.
SCORE TROPHY-TRUCK (Unlimited Production Trucks)--Starting Order: 7 Scott Steinberger, 35, Cypress, Calif./Jesse Jones, 36, Phoenix/Dane
Cardone, 37, Huntington Beach, Calif., Ford F-150
19 Ed Herbst, 41/Tim Herbst, 39, Las Vegas, Ford F-150
3 Mark Post, 44, San Juan Capistrano, Calif./Curt LeDuc, 47, Cherry Valley,
Calif., Ford F-150
1 Dan Smith, 37/David Ashley, 45, Riverside, Calif., Ford F-150 99 Nick Baldwin, 49, Laguna Hills, Calif./Ronnie Gillespie, Gardnerville,
Nev., Ford F-150
31 Robby Gordon, 33, Orange, Calif., Ford F-150
80 Larry Ragland, 59, Cave Creek, Calif./Chad Ragland, 32, Phoenix, Chevy
Silverado
10 Damen Jefferies, 30/Casey Jefferies, 24, Oak Hills, Calif., Ford F-150 66 Josh Baldwin, 26/Jim Baldwin, 64, Irvine, Calif., Ford F-150 12 Brian Collins, 40, Las Vegas/Brian Stewart, 38, Long Beach, Calif., Chevy
Silverado
6 Steve Sourapas, 44, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif./Rod Muller, 40, Riverside,
Calif., Ford F-150
62 Jeff Geiser, 26, Phoenix/Rick Geiser, 37, Desert Hills, Ariz., Ford F-150 21 Roger Gray, 26, Cupertino, Calif./Brendan Gaughan, 27, Las Vegas, Chevy
Silverado
9 Darren Skilton, 35, Long Beach, Calif., Kia Sorento
81 Mark Miller, 39, Carefree, Ariz./Ryan Arciero, 29, Foothill Ranch, Calif.,
Chevy Silverado
4 Gus Vildosola, 49, Mexicali, Mexico/John Marking, 40, El Cajon, Calif.,
Ford F-150
82 Bob Shepard, 45, Phoenix, Chevy Silverado
52 Juan Ibarra, 26, Ensenada, Mexico, Ford F-150
67 Mark Newhan, 35, Lakeside, Calif./Kevin Kelsey, 35, Alpine, Calif., Chevy
C-10
35 Brian Grouws, 39, Norwalk, Calif./Patrick Rozier, 34, Glendora, Calif.,
Ford F-150