SCORE Primm 300 Draw Results

Round 4 of 2008 SCORE Desert Series

Bill Varnes draws first start in SCORE Trophy-Truck

For next month’s 13th SCORE Terrible’s Primm 300



SCORE’s 35th season continues Sept. 5-7 with nearly 150 entries

Expected in 18 Pro & 2 Sportsman classes for cars and trucks



LOS ANGELES—Noted chassis builder Bill Varnes of Santee, Calif., has drawn the first starting position in the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division in the computerized drawing for start positions for next month’s 13th Annual SCORE Terrible’s Primm 300 desert race. Round 4 of the five-race 2008 SCORE Desert Series will be held Sept. 5-7 in Primm, Nev.

In a sport where there is no qualifying or open pre-running (in the U.S.), the drawing for start positions has added significance and Varnes’ No. 74 MasterCraft Racing Ford F-150 SCORE Trophy-Truck was selected randomly in Friday’s computerized drawing at the SCORE Int’l headquarters in Los Angeles.

The 13th Annual SCORE Terrible’s Primm 300 will feature 18 Pro and 2 Sportsman classes for cars and trucks in Primm, located 45 miles south of Las Vegas at the California border. This year’s starting grid is expected to reach nearly vehicles. Late entries will be accepted up until race morning.

For the seventh consecutive year, the race will be split into two groups with the open wheel, slower truck and VW baja bug classes starting at 6 a.m. The faster truck classes, including the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division along with the unlimited Class 1 open-wheel desert race cars, will start at 1 p.m. One vehicle will start every 30 seconds in the elapsed-time race.

The main pits and start/finish area for the 72.0-mile loop course will be located behind Buffalo Bills Resort on the North side of the property. The faster classes will run four laps around the course while the slower ones will be required to run either three or two laps within the seven-hour time limit to become official finishers.

A total of 19 SCORE Trophy-Trucks, were entered in time for the start draw, and the high-tech, 800-horsepower unlimited production trucks will lead the afternoon group into the Southern Nevada desert.

The first vehicle to leave the start line in the morning portion of the event will be Class 10 vehicle driven by the Las Vegas team of Michael Wichmann/Rick Lance, in a Volkswagen-powered Chenowth open-wheel desert race car.

Seven of last year’s 16 class winners have entered so far, including four of last year’s top five overall finishers.

“This should be fun, but I’m glad I know how to move over in the desert,” said Varnes, 61, who owns the Mirage chassis manufacturing company. “These SCORE Trophy-Trucks are incredible racing machines and I am looking forward to being behind the wheel of one in a SCORE race. There are some really fast trucks and Class 1 cars behind me and I will have no problem pulling over for them. But they have to catch me first.”

Varnes’ co-driver for the race will be Dan Fogle, 50, of Palmdale, Calif.

Starting behind the 19 SCORE Trophy-Trucks will be the unlimited Class 1 for open-wheel desert race cars, which also had 19 entries in the start draw. In the first 12 years of the SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300, SCORE Trophy-Trucks have eight Overall race wins while Class 1 has four. SCORE Trophy-Trucks have won five straight overall titles.

Drawing the first starting spot in Class 1 was the All-German Auto team of World Rally Championship veteran Armin Schwarz of Germany and Martin Christensen of Escondido, Calif. in the No. 101 BMW-powered Jimco open-wheel desert race car. Class 1 winners in this year’s Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 in March, the Schwarz/Christensen team is currently fifth in Class 1 season points.

Eric Solorzano, Tijuana, Mexico, has the most class wins in the SCORE Terrible’s Primm 300. Solorzano has won Class 11 in eight of the first 12 years of this race in a VW Sedan. Donald Moss, Sacramento, Calif., is third on the all-time list with five Class 3 wins in a Ford Bronco, including the last four straight years.

Garron Cadiente, Mesa, Ariz., returns as the defending overall and SCORE Trophy-Truck winner in the No. 38 G&R Racing Ford F-150 and he drew the 17th starting position in the class.

Behind SCORE Trophy-Truck and Class 1 (19 entries each), the classes with the most entries in time for the drawing were: SCORE Lite (13) and Class 1-2/1600 (12).

The highly-competitive 2008 SCORE Desert Series has 20 racers separated by just 48 points in the Overall standings after the 14th SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge, 22nd Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 and 40th Tecate SCORE Baja 500 desert races.

Among the other racers drawing first starting positions for this race is Adam Pfankuch, Carlsbad, Calif, who will lead Class 1-2/1600 in the No. 1601 1600cc Mirage-VW. Pfankuch, who has won his class twice this season, leads not only his class, but is the 2008 SCORE Overall point leader after the first three races of the season.

Pre-race festivities on Friday, Sept. 5, for the SCORE Terrible’s Primm 300, including tech and contingency and the SCORE Manufacturer’s Midway, will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. behind Buffalo Bill’s Resort. The post-race awards celebration will be held at 10 a.m. on Sunday (Sept. 7) in the conference center at Terrible’s Primm Valley Resort.

The 2008 SCORE Desert Series also includes the chase for the $20,000 Volkswagen Point Leader Bonus and the run for the Toyota Milestone Awards for car and truck racers who complete every required mile of the season.

Current SCORE official annual sponsors are: BFGoodrich Tires-official tire, Sunoco Race Fuels -official fuel supplier, Bilstein-official shock, Volkswagen of America-official vehicle, Instant Mexico Auto Insurance-official Mexican auto insurance, Slime-official tire sealant, Red Bull--official energy drink and Bosch Power Tools-official power tool. Associate sponsors are: Tecate Beer, Coca-Cola of Mexico, Las Vegas Events, Terrible Herbst Inc., Blue C Enthusiast Advertising, Kartek Off-Road, American Suzuki, SignPros, P.C.I. Race Radios, McKenzie’s Performance Products and Advanced Color Graphics.

Co-title sponsors for the 13th SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 are Las Vegas Events and Terrible Herbst Inc.

For more information, contact SCORE at its Los Angeles headquarters 818.225.8402 or visit the official website of the 2007 SCORE Desert Series at www.score-international.com.



13th Annual SCORE Terribles Primm 300

Sept. 5-7 -- Primm, Nevada

Official Entries-105 (as of 8/9/08)

(From 11 States, Canada, Mexico and Germany)

(Starting Order, By Class)

SCORE TROPHY-TRUCK (19)

74 Bill Varnes

2 Pete Sohren

16 Cameron Steele

50 Jason McNeil

1 Mark Post

91 Bill McBeath

8 Roger Norman

84 Nick Vanderwey

7 Scott Steinberger

96 Bobby Baldwin

22 Damen Jefferies

97 B.J. Baldwin

85 Todd Wyllie

60 Mike Voudouris

93 Robby Fallers

12 Brian Collins

38 Garron Cadiente

44 Adam Householder

35 Robbie Pierce



CLASS 1 (19)

101 Armin Schwarz

102 Dale Lenk

103 B.J. Richardson

104 Chuck Dempsey

105 Ronny Wilson

106 Steve Sourapas

107 Kory Halopoff

108 Brian Parkhouse

109 Richard Boyle

100 Billy Gasper

111 Terry Householder

112 Harley Letner

113 Guy Peterson

114 Randy Wilson

115 Dale Ebberts

116 Pat Dean

117 Luis Ramirez Jr.

118 Eric Chase

119 Armin Kremer



CLASS 1-2/1600 (12)

1601 Adam Pfankuch

1602 Brian Wilson

1603 Brad Wilson

1604 Cory Boyer

1600 David Caspino

1606 Hiram Duran

1607 Matthew Niles

1608 Hector Garcia

1609 Aaron Hawley

1610 Steven Eugenio

1611 Arturo Velazco

1612 Kevin Smith



CLASS 3 (2)

301 Donald Moss

302 Daniel Wright



CLASS 5 (1)

501 Kevin Carr



CLASS 5/1600 (9)

551 Enrique Zazueta Jr.

552 Alonso Angulo

553 Raul Solano

554 Tommy Craft

555 Trevor Anderson

556 Ernie Negrete

577 Saul Garcia

578 Jose Montoya

579 Marcos Nunez



CLASS 7 (3)

700 Dan Chamlee

701 Brandon Walsh

719 A.J. Rodriguez



CLASS 7SX (3)

741 Heidi Steele

742 Rodd Fantelli

743 Aaron Gomez



CLASS 8 (1)

801 Noah Ostanik



CLASS 10 (9)

1001 Michael Wichmann

1002 Bekki Wik

1003 Tito Robles

1004 Adam Ashcraft

1005 Robert McBeath

1006 Jeremy James

1007 Mark Hutchins

1008 Ken Tapert

1009 Mike Lawrence



SCORE LITES (13)

1201 Daniel Folts

1202 David Callaway

1200 Tom Watson

1204 Perry McNeil

1205 Mike Sandoval

1206 Steve Mamer

1207 Brian Burgess

1208 Mike Williams

1209 Lee Banning

1210 Rick St. John

1211 John Padgett

1212 Bill Hernquist

1213 Gary Johnson



CLASS 11 (1)

1149 Eric Solorzano



STOCK FULL (3)

861 Justin Matney

862 Chad Hall

879 Clyde Stacy



STOCK MINI (2)

760 Rod Hall

779 Steve Kovach



PROTRUCK (1)

233 Max Post



SPT CAR (1)

1400 Peter Lang



SPT TRUCK (6)

1501 Jeff Stowers

1500 Keith Growe

1503 Nick Tonelli

1504 Joe Aguayo

1505 Kyle Caso

1506 Bob Land