Round 5 of 2006 SCORE Desert Series
Rookie Cadiente draws first starting position in Ford F-150
SCORE Trophy-Truck for 11th SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300

SCORE's 33rd season continues Sept. 8-10 with over 200 entries expected In 17 Pro & 2 Sportsman classes for cars and trucks

LOS ANGELES—Adding another exciting benchmark to an already phenomenal rookie racing season, Garron Cadiente has drawn the coveted first starting position for next month's 11th Annual SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 desert race. Round 5 of the six-race 2006 SCORE Desert Series will be held Sept. 8-10 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 the No. 38 G&R Racing Ford F-150 SCORE Trophy-Truck was selected randomly in Wednesday's computerized drawing at the SCORE Int’l headquarters in Los Angeles.

Celebrating its 33rd season this year as the World's Foremost Desert Racing Series, the SCORE Desert Series will be returning to Southern Nevada for the last of its three annual races in the U.S.

The 11th Annual SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 will feature 17 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 list is expected to eclipse last year's race-record field of 198 starters.

For the fifth consecutive year, the race will be split into two groups with the open wheel and VW baja bug classes starting at 6 a.m. The 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, with an eight-hour time limit. The start/finish line area will be located 2.5 miles northeast of the rear of Buffalo Bill's Resort in Primm.

A total of 26 SCORE Trophy-Trucks, were entered in time for the start draw, and the 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 racer Darren Hardesty, 38, of Ramona, Calif., in a VW-powered AlumiCraft open-wheel desert race car.

Eleven of last year's 17 class winners have entered so far, including nine of last year's top 10 overall finishers.

I started 22nd last year in Primm in my first SCORE race, so this is a great opportunity for me”, said Cadiente, 30 of Mesa, Ariz. 'If I can stay out front for the first lap, we will be in a good position when we start catching the lapped race traffic. If I can hold my pace for the final three laps and not get into any trouble, we will have a great opportunity to pick up a lot of points, move up in the SCORE Trophy-Truck standings and maybe even pick up a race win. It's a very tough course, but I learned a lot racing on it last year.”

Cadiente grew up playing baseball in high school and college and last year's SCORE Primm 300 was his first desert race. His debut resulted with a sixth place finish in the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division. In just his third SCORE race, Cadiente was the Overall and SCORE Trophy-Truck winner at the 20th Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 in March. He is also currently in fifth place in the SCORE Trophy-Truck season point standings.

With the active partnership of his father-in-law, Ron Whitton, G&R racing was launched last year and Whitton in the No. 39 G&R Racing Ford F-150 will join Cadiente in the talented SCORE Trophy-Truck starting grid for the 11th SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300. Whitton drew the 24th starting position in the class.

Starting behind the 26 SCORE Trophy-Trucks will be the unlimited Class 1 for open-wheel desert race cars. In the first 10 years of the SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300, SCORE Trophy-Trucks have six Overall race wins while Class 1 has four.

Drawing the first starting spot in Class 1 was Mike Bilek, of Tustin, Calif.

George Seeley, Glendale, Calif., and Eric Solorzano, Tijuana, Mexico, have the most class wins in the SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300. Both have won their respective classes in six of the first nine years of this race. Seeley drives an unlimited VW Baja Bug in Class 5 while Solorzano drives a VW Sedan in Class 11.

Las Vegas-based Collins Motorsports team, with Las Vegas’ Brian Collins and Larry Ragland, Cave Creek, Ariz. as drivers, is back to defend his overall and SCORE Trophy-Truck titles in the No. 12 Chevy Silverado. Collins/Ragland won last year's classic battle of hometown racers by 3 minutes, 30 seconds over the No. 19 Terrible Herbst Motorsports Ford F-150 SCORE Trophy-Truck of Las Vegas brothers Tim and Ed Herbst.

Collins/Ragland will start fourth in SCORE Trophy-Truck this year after winning last year after also being the fourth off the starting line.

With one class win and three top five finishes, Las Vegas B.J. Baldwin has launched himself to the top of both the Overall and SCORE Trophy-Truck points after three rounds in the 2006 SCORE Desert Series.

Baldwin, who has been desert racing since he graduated from Durango High School in Las Vegas in 1997, is leading the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division for high-tech, 800 horsepower unlimited production trucks in the Baldwin Motorsports No. 97 Chevy Silverado and the SCORE Overall standings with 213 points. He will be the sixth SCORE Trophy-Truck off the line in Primm.

Second in Overall points, just one point behind Baldwin are the unlimited Class 1 point leaders—brothers Gary and Mark Weyhrich, Troutdale, Ore. In a Chevy-powered Jimco, while third Overall and second in Class 1 after his second straight class win this season at June’s Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and 20th Class 1 victory since 1997 is Las Vegas Troy Herbst and co-driver Larry Roeseler, Hesperia, Calif., in a Smithbuilt-Ford.

Behind Class 1 (41 entries), the classes with the most entries in time for the drawing were: SCORE Trophy-Truck (26), Class 1-2/1600 (20), Class 10 (19) and SCORE Lite (14).

Fourth in overall four-wheel vehicle points with 202 is defending SCORE overall and Class 1-2/1600 season point champion Caleb Gaddis, El Centro, Calif., who is leading his class again this year in a Curry-VW. Fifth overall and third in Class 1 is the team of Richard Boyle, Ridgecrest, Calif./Ron Brant, Oak Hills, Calif., with 198 points in a Jimco-Chevy.

The highly-competitive SCORE Desert Series has 15 racers separated by just 30 points in the Overall standings after the 12th SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge, 20th Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 and 38th Tecate SCORE Baja 500 desert races. All three races had race-record starting grids, with 233 leaving the line in Laughlin, 341 starting in San Felipe, and an amazing Mexican-record 438 taking the green flag in Ensenada.

Among the other racers drawing first starting positions for this race is the team of Joe Barboa, Basque Farms, N.M./Kelly Ross, Parker, Colo., who will lead Class 1-2/1600 in a 1600cc Jimco-VW and the team of Stan Potter, San Marcos, Calif./Dan Worley, Encinitas, Calif.., who will be at the front of SCORE Lite in a Jimco-VW.

Pre-race festivities on Friday, Sept. 8, for the SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300, including tech and contingency and the SCORE Manufacturer's Midway, will be held from Noon to 6 p.m. behind Buffalo Bill's Resort. The post-race awards celebration will be held at the Star of the Desert Arena on Sunday (Sept. 10) at 9 a.m.

The 2006 SCORE Desert Series includes chase for the $50,000 Kartek Off-Road contingency bonus to be awarded to several qualified 2006 SCORE Class point champions.

The 2006 SCORE Desert Series also involves the hunt for the annual Toyota Milestone and $12,000 Toyota True Grit Awards. The prestigious Toyota Milestone Awards are presented to every racer who completes every required mile of every race in the 2006 SCORE Desert Series. The $12,000 Toyota True Grit purse is split among the SCORE season point champions who are also Toyota Milestone award winners in several non-factory-backed classes.

Current SCORE official 2006 sponsors are: BFGoodrich Tires-official tire, Sunoco Race Fuels/C.L. Bryant-official fuel supplier, Bilstein-official shock, Instant Mexico Auto Insurance-official Mexican auto insurance, American Racing-official wheel, Airstar America-official space lighting provider. Associate sponsors are: Tecate Beer, Coca-Cola of Mexico, Las Vegas Events, Terrible Herbst Inc., Kartek Off-Road, Centrix Financial, NAPA Chassis, Fram, Autolite, Prestone, Suzuki, SignPros, P.C.I. Race Radios, McKenzie’s Performance Products and Advanced Color Graphics.

Co-title sponsors for the 10th SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 are Las Vegas Events and Primm Valley Resorts.

For more information, contact SCORE at its Los Angeles headquarters 818.225.8402 or visit the official website of the 2006 SCORE Desert Series at www.score-international.com.

11th Annual SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300
Official Entries-163 (as of 8/17/06)
(Starting Order, By Class)

SCORE TROPHY-TRUCK (26)

38 Garron Cadiente
51 Kory Scheeler
56 Todd Arthur
80 Larry Ragland
85 Todd Wyllie
97 B.J. Baldwin
2 Pete Sohren
5 Marty Coyne
13 Ed Stout
19 Ed Herbst
28 Alan Pflueger
55 Luis Wallace
96 Bobby Baldwin
4 Gus Vildosola
17 Carl Renezeder
40 Chet Huffman
3 Mark Post
26 Chris Robinson
7 Scott Steinberger
83 Andy McMillin
62 Mike Voyles
12 Brian Collins
16 Cameron Steele
39 Ron Whitton
20 Mike Julson
1 Bob Shepard
 
CLASS 1 (41)
101 Mike Bilek
102 Mark Peterson
103 Reno Donati
104 Josh Rigsby
105 Todd Cuffaro
106 Kash Vessels
107 Michael James
108 Lee Patten
109 Kevin James
110 Pat Dean
111 B.J. Richardson
112 Gary Weyhrich
113 Dale Ebberts
114 Chuck Hovey
115 Martin Christensen
116 Brian Parkhouse
117 Justin Lofton
118 Bill Robertson
119 Bob Lofton
120 Jim Birmingham
121 Bartt Yochheim
122 Troy Herbst
123 John Gould
124 Dino Marquez
125 Richard Boyle
126 Jamie Campbell
100 Mark McMillin
128 Kory Scheeler
129 Jon Roth
130 Joe Myers
131 Cesar Fuentes
132 Brian Kirby
133 Buddy Feldkamp
134 Randy Wilson
135 Gonzalo Pirron
136 Harley Letner
137 Steve Sourapas
138 Dale Lenk
139 Rick Wilson
148 John Egetter
149 Mark Hanchett
 
CLASS 1-2/1600 (20)
1601 Joe Barboa
1602 Mike Sandoval
1603 Hector Garcia
1604 Arturo Velazco
1605 Brian Burgess
1606 Rodrigo Ampudia Jr.
1607 Caleb Sanden
1608 Arden Dennington
1609 Jeremy James
1610 Adam Pfankuch
1611 Sammy Ehrenbert
1612 Aaron Hawley
1613 Eric Duran
1614 Brett Maurer
1615 Ray Files
1616 David Caspino
1646 Daniel McMillin
1600 Caleb Gaddis
1648 Brian Logan
1649 Adam Ashcraft
 
CLASS 3 (1)
300 Donald Moss
 
CLASS 5 (4)
501 George Seeley
502 David Bonner
518 Luivan Voelker
519 Kevin Carr
 
CLASS 5/1600 (7)
551 Brent Shermak
552 Albert Castro
553 James Tedford
554 Danny Ledezma
555 Chad Mayernick
550 Marcos Nunez
579 Ernesto Arambula
 
CLASS 7 (2)
701 Dan Chamlee
702 Joshua Lynn
 
CLASS 7S (2)
721 Tyler Fox
739 Nick Moncure
 
CLASS 7SX (5)
741 Heidi Steele
742 Dan Street Jr.
743 Jeff Lloyd
758 Noe Sierra
759 John Holmes
 
CLASS 8 (4)
801 Glenn Greer
802 Nick Vanderwey
803 Dave Rimonde
839 Mike Szlauko
 
CLASS 9 (2)
901 Sigal Greenberg
949 Joe Castrey
 
CLASS 10 (19)
1001 Darren Hardesty
1000 John Cooley
1003 Chris Harrold
1004 Billy Gasper
1005 Phillip Finch
1006 Will Higman
1007 Lobsam Yee
1008 Ron Dalke
1009 Robert McBeath
1010 Doug Fortin
1011 Justin LaCore
1012 Rick Ellison
1013 Adam Wik
1014 Shane Brown
1015 Mark Hutchins
1016 Tom Ridings
1017 Lonny Hard
1018 Mark Weger
1019 Trevor Scherrer
 
SCORE LITE (14)
1201 Stan Potter
1202 Ryan Chamberlain
1203 Chuck Sacks
1204 Vic Bruckmann
1205 Arturo Salas
1206 Greg Gustin
1207 Dwayne Reinert
1208 Cameron Steele
1209 Ruben Gutierrez Jr.
1210 Tom Ball
1211 Ken Stroud
1212 Jim Greenway
1213 Mike Williams
1200 Tim Noe
 
CLASS 11 (2)
1148 Gary Helming
1100 Eric Solorzano
 
STOCK FULL (3)
861 Loren Worthington
862 Terry Henn
860 John Griffin
 
STOCK MINI
779 Gavin Skilton
 
PROTRUCK (4)
235 Jason Voss
204 Gus Vildosola Jr.
245 Chris Lucas
299 Joe Bednar
 
SPT CAR (2)
1401 Peter Lang
1402 Heather Bonanni
 
SPT TRUCK (4)
1500 Mark Growe
1501 Steven Looney
1502 Eric Ludian
1599 Matt Torian

For information contact:
SCORE International at its Los Angeles headquarters
(818) 225-8402 or visit
the official SCORE Desert Racing Series website at:
www.score-international.com