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Round 5 of 2007 SCORE Desert Series
Sportscaster Cameron Steele draws pole positions in two Classes for next month’s 12th SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300

SCORE’s 34th season continues Sept. 7-9 with over 175 entries expected In 18 Pro & 2 Sportsman classes for cars and trucks

LOS ANGELES—Good fortune smiled down on veteran racer and TV sportscaster Cameron Steele, who drew the first starting position in both the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck and the SCORE Lite divisions in the computerized drawing for starting positions for next month’s 12th Annual SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 desert race. Round 5 of the six-race 2007 SCORE Desert Series will be held Sept. 7-9 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. 16 Desert Assassins Chevy Silverado SCORE Trophy-Truck and No. 1201 VW-powered Desert Assassins open-wheel desert race car were selected randomly in Wednesday’s computerized drawing at the SCORE Int’l headquarters in Los Angeles. Celebrating its 34th 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 12th Annual SCORE Las Vegas 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 over 175 vehicles. A total of 145 vehicles entered in time for the start draw and late entries will be accepted up until race morning.

For the sixth 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. Final negotiations are underway to identify the start/finish line area as SCORE with the help of Terrible Herbst Inc., the new owners of the Primm Valley Resorts, is attempting to bring the main pits and start/finish area back to directly behind Buffalo Bills Resort. A total of 26 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 husband and wife racers Adam and Bekki Wik of Las Vegas, in a Honda-powered Jimco open-wheel desert race car. Seven of last year’s 17 class winners have entered so far, including three of last year’s top five overall finishers.

“Wow, this is so cool that I am almost speechless which is something I seldom am”, said Steele, 38 of San Clemente, Calif., a second generation desert racer who is a pit reporter for telecasts of the Champ Car World Series and just finished announcing the motorcycle events in the X Games for ESPN. “This is a great opportunity for me in both classes. I am very comfortable in SCORE Lite and being able to run that class in the morning group will definitely give me a bit of an edge to then go out in the afternoon and lead the SCORE Trophy-Trucks into the desert. We have a new SCORE Trophy-Truck and it is very capable of running with the big dogs as long as I don’t have any pilot errors.” With one race win this season, Steele is leading the SCORE Lite point standings, but he has struggled in SCORE Trophy-Truck where he is currently 22nd in points.

Starting behind the 26 SCORE Trophy-Trucks will be the unlimited Class 1 for open-wheel desert race cars. In the first 11 years of the SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300, SCORE Trophy-Trucks have seven Overall race wins while Class 1 has four.

Drawing the first starting spot in Class 1 was Todd Cuffaro. Coronado, Calif., in a Chevy-powered Porter open-wheel desert race car. Eric Solorzano, Tijuana, Mexico, and George Seeley, Glendale, Calif., have the most class wins in the SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300. Solorzano has won Class 11 in seven of the first 11 years of this race in a VW Sedan while Seeley has six victories in Class 5 in his unlimited VW Baja Bug. Bob Shepard, Phoenix, returns as the defending overall and SCORE Trophy-Truck winner in the No. 82 Arciero-Miller Racing Chevy CK1500 but he has a new racing partner this year in Ryan Arciero, Foothill Ranch, Calif., who is actually the team’s driver of record this year.

Larry Roeseler, Hesperia, Calif., and Las Vegas’ Troy Herbst, who finished second overall last year (4 minutes, 15 seconds behind Shepard) and won Class 1 last year return in the No. 100 Terrible Herbst Motorsports Smithbuilt-Ford. Behind Class 1 (32 entries), the classes with the most entries in time for the drawing were: SCORE Trophy-Truck (26), Class 1-2/1600 (23), SCORE Lite (15) and Class 10 (11).

The highly-competitive SCORE Desert Series has 21 racers separated by just 54 points in the Overall standings after the 13th SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge, 21st Tecate SCORE Baja 250. 39th Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the SCORE Las Vegas Terrible’s Cup III desert races. Three of the four races had race-record starting grids, topped by amazing SCORE-record 492 cars, trucks, motorcycles and ATVs taking the green flag in June’s Tecate SCORE Baja 500 in Ensenada. Among the other racers drawing first starting positions for this race is Las Vegas’ Bryan Freeman, who will lead Class 1-2/1600 in a 1600cc Fraley-VW. Pre-race festivities on Friday, Sept. 7, 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. 9).

Current SCORE official annual sponsors are: BFGoodrich Tires-official tire, Sunoco Race Fuels/Bryant Petroleum-official fuel supplier, Bilstein-official shock, Volkswagen-official vehicle, Instant Mexico Auto Insurance-official Mexican auto insurance, American Racing ATX Series-official wheel, Slime-official tire sealant, Airstar America-official space lighting provider, 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 Communications, Kartek Off-Road, Fram, Autolite, Prestone, Bendix, American Suzuki, NAPA Chassis, SignPros, P.C.I. Race Radios, McKenzie’s Performance Products and Advanced Color Graphics.

Co-title sponsors for the 12th SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 are Las Vegas Events and Terrible Herbst Inc.

12th Annual SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300

Official Entries-145 (as of 8/9/07) 

(Starting Order, By Class) 

SCORE TROPHY-TRUCK (26) 
16 Cameron Steele 
85 Todd Wyllie 
99 Nick Baldwin 
60 Mike Voudouris 
86 Josh Baldwin 
13 Ed Stout 
12 Larry Ragland 
91 Bill McBeath 
19 Ed Herbst 
45 Rich Ronco 
31 Andy McMillin 
77 Travis Coyne 
2 Pete Sohren 
54 Jesse James 
55 Luis Wallace 
82 Ryan Arciero 
38 Garron Cadiente 
8 Roger Norman 
96 Bobby Baldwin 
28 Alan Pflueger 
48 Jeff Spiers 
93 Robby Fallers 
51 Kory Scheeler 
40 Chet Huffman 
3 Mark Post 
1 B.J. Baldwin 

CLASS 1 (32) 
101 Todd Cuffaro 
102 Eric Chase 
103 Ronny Wilson 
104 Justin Lofton 
105 Robert Ross 
106 Mike Bilek 
107 Max Thieriot 
108 Armin Schwarz 
109 Danny Ebberts 
110 Brian Kirby 
111 Rob Archibald 
112 Mark McMillin 
113 Dale Lenk 
114 John Herder 
115 Eddy Gonzalez 
116 Brian Parkhouse 
117 Dan Myers 
118 Randy Wilson 
119 Vince DeJong 
120 Richard Boyle 
121 Pat Dean 
122 Steve Sourapas 
123 Chuck Hovey 
124 B.J. Richardson 
125 Billy Gasper 
126 Paul Keller 
127 Jeff Farris 
128 Michael James 
129 Luis Ramirez Jr. 
100 Larry Roeseler 
130 Enrique Bujanda 
149 Adam Pfankuch 

CLASS 1-2/1600 (23) 
1601 Bryan Freeman 
1602 Ross Mattox 
1603 Leonardo Navarrete 
1604 Pacho Garcia 
1605 Layton Bowles 
1606 Cody Robinson 
1607 Scott Kinman 
1608 Adam Ashcraft 
1609 Brent Parkhouse 
1610 Edgar Alvarez Jr. 
1611 Aaron Hawley 
1612 L.J. Kennedy 
1613 Hiram Duran 
1614 David Caspino 
1615 Steven Eugenio 
1616 Brett Maurer 
1617 Arnoldo Ramirez 
1618 Cory Boyer 
1619 Arturo Velazco 
1620 Curt Geer 
1647 Blaise Jackson 
1648 Eliseo Garcia 
1649 Daniel McMillin 

CLASS 3 (5) 
301 Dylan Evans 
302 Ken Leavitt 
300 Donald Moss 
304 Chris Raffo 
349 Scott Wooden 

CLASS 5 (5) 
501 Michelle Bruckmann 
502 Chris Bowman 
500 George Seeley 
518 Kevin Carr 
519 Luivan Voelker 

CLASS 5/1600 (7) 
551 Chad Mayernick 
552 Adolfo Aguilar Jr. 
553 Rulo Solano 
554 Gregorio Villarino 
555 Scott Pellerin 
556 Mario Reynoso 
557 Albert Castro 

CLASS 7 (2) 
701 Barry Karakas 
700 Dan Chamlee 

CLASS 7S (0) 

CLASS 7SX (7) 
741 Rodd Fantelli 
742 Norm Turley 
743 Heidi Steele 
744 Noe Sierra 
745 Jim Hinesley 
758 Rich Severson 
740 John Holmes 

CLASS 8 (1) 
800 Nick Vanderwey 

CLASS 9 (0) 

CLASS 10 (11) 
1001 Adam Wik 
1002 Kyle Conlon 
1003 Lonny Hart 
1004 Robert McBeath 
1005 John VanHattem 
1006 Chris Harrold 
1007 Will Higman 
1008 Michael Deardorff 
1009 Lobsam Yee 
1010 Scott Beale 
1011 Matt Loiodice 

SCORE LITES (15) 
1201 Cameron Steele 
1202 Arturo Salas 
1203 Stan Potter 
1204 Scott Wisdom 
1205 David Callaway 
1206 Allen Russell 
1207 Hector Garcia Jr. 
1208 Josh Meister 
1209 Jason Batulis 
1210 Bill Hernquist 
1211 Matthew Kupiec 
1212 Malcolm Bryce 
1213 Mike Sandoval 
1214 Dustin Farmer 
1200 Tim Noe 

CLASS 11 (1) 
1100 Eric Solorzano 

STOCK FULL (3) 
861 John Griffin 
860 Terry Henn 
863 Josh Hall 

STOCK MINI (1) 
779 Gavin Skilton 

PROTRUCK (1) 
235 Jason Voss 

SPT CAR (3) 
1400 Peter Lang 
1448 Glenn Smith 
1449 Rory Ward 

SPT TRUCK (2) 
1501 Andrew Leavitt 
1502 Mark Growe