Adding yet another jewel to his illustrious desert racing crown, Las Vegas’ Rob MacCachren overpowered a talent-laden field of 220 starters to capture the overall and SCORE Trophy-Truck victory Saturday in the 25th MasterCraft Safety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250. SCORE released the official results today after completion of vehicle data tracking device review.

Setting a blistering pace right from the start in San Felipe in the No. 20 MasterCraft Racing Ford F-150 SCORE Trophy-Truck, "Rockstar Rob" covered the sandy, silty, rocky and dusty 252.09-mile course in just four hours, 17 minutes, 45 seconds, averaging an impressive 58.68 miles per hour.

Surging past a strong field of 24 SCORE Trophy-Trucks, the marquee SCORE racing division for high-tech, 850-horsepower unlimited production trucks, MacCachren earned his 45th career SCORE class win, his eighth career SCORE Trophy-Truck race win along with his seventh class win including his third SCORE Trophy-Truck and overall race victory in San Felipe.

The Las Vegas native who has also been selected to the AARWBA All-America motorsports team six times and has eight SCORE season class point championships on his racing resume, MacCachren, 45, beat not only the cars and trucks, but also the motorcycles and ATVs that competed in the popular ‘spring break’ event.

His hard-earned victory margin was just 44 seconds as defending San Felipe SCORE Trophy-Truck and reigning SCORE Trophy-Truck season point champion Jesse Jones, Litchfield Park, Ariz., who diced back and forth with MacCachren the entire race, averaging 58.52mph in the No. 1 Jones Motorsports Ford F-250. Jones also finished second overall as SCORE Trophy-Trucks lived up to their star billing by claiming the top 10 overall finishing positions in the race.

Finishing third overall and in SCORE Trophy-Truck was the 2005 championship son/father team of Andy and Scott McMillin of National City, Calif., with a time of 4:18:53, averaging 58.43mph in the No. 31 McMillin Realty Ford F-150. The McMillins were also in the hunt all day, finishing just 24 seconds behind Jones and one minute, eight seconds behind MacCachren in an extremely close finish among the podium placements.

Fourth overall and in SCORE Trophy-Truck was the pole-sitting brother team of Nick, Larry and Mike Vanderwey of Phoenix who completed the course in 4:26:53 (56.67mph) in the No. 84 Flying Dutchmen Racing Chevy Silverado.

Gary Weyhrich, Troutdale, Ore., finished fifth overall and in SCORE Trophy-Truck with a time of 4:27:07 (56.63mph) in the No. 98 TSCO Motorsports Ford F-150.

Youthful Justin Davis, the 17-year old phenom from Chino Hills, Calif., won his second straight class win in the unlimited Class 1 in an ESM-Chevy. Davis, who won last year’s SCORE Lite season point championship, is in his first year in the unlimited open-wheel racing class and finished 11th overall in San Felipe.

The 220 starters from 22 States, nine countries competed in 28 Pro and 6 Sportsman classes for cars, truck, motorcycles and ATVs. The dramatic 252.09-mile course covered three of the legendary, picturesque and treacherous Baja washes and canyons: Matomi, Huatomote and Chanate before heading back to the finish line in the shadow of the landmark San Felipe Arches. A total of 148 adventurers officially completed the rugged course within the 11-hour time limit for an amazing 67.3 finishing percentage.

Earning the overall motorcycle victory for the second straight year was the Johnny Campbell Racing team of Colton Udall/Jeff Kargola of San Clemente, Calif. They divided up the riding on the JCR/Honda CRF450X to a winning time of 4:36:51, averaging 54.63 mph over the brutally-tough course.

Brandon Brown, Umatilla, Ore., led hist team to the Overall ATV and his third SCORE Class 24 victory in the last four SCORE Baja races on a Honda TRX450R. Brown, the reigning SCORE Overall ATV and Class 24 season point champion, split the riding time fairly equally with co-riders Jorie Williams, Longview, Wash./Kenny Sanford, Tacoma, Wash./Robbie Mitchell, Price, Utah. They covered the course in 6:17:13, averaging 40.10mph to defeat a field of 27 Pro ATVs that started the race.

Riding a Kawasaki KX450F, Shane Esposito, Lake Elsinore, Calif./Bobby Garrison, Hesperia, Calif. and Steve Hengeveld, Oak Hills, Calif., finished second overall among motorcycles and in Class 22, a total of 21 minutes, 19 seconds behind the winning Udall/Kargola JCR/Honda team.

SCORE Trophy-Trucks have now won 15 overalls in San Felipe in the 18-year history of SCORE’s premier racing division.

In the first 25 years of this race, Honda has earned 16 overall motorcycle victories (including the last six years straight and 14 of the last 15 years), Kawasaki has six, KTM has two and Husqvarna has one.

“We struggled with the power steering since San Matias,” commented MacCachren, who won in SCORE Trophy-Truck for the first time since 2007. “Every bump you hit…you can’t go hard; you just cruise. We took off with just a real conservative pace and they started dropping one by one. When we dropped into Matomi Wash, Jesse (Jones) was first on the road, (Gary) Weyhrich was second and I was third. Jesse Jones had a flat tire right at the beginning of Matomi and we got by him.”

“He was getting stuck so we went by and right at the end of Matomi, we got by Weyhrich and then we had the physical lead all the way in. The power steering, we were really struggling with that and Jesse was pretty much on my bumper the whole way in. I knew he had to get by me and put 30 seconds on me to win and we were going to do everything we could to keep that from happening. There were absolutely no problems at all with the truck (other than the power steering) and we didn’t have any flats. I really needed this (win); it’s great.”

Content credits: SCORE Intl.

We did a pre-run of the first 20 miles of the racecourse and then came back to town. We noticed during our pre-run that the truck was smoking a bit out of the exhaust. We checked the oil level and found that we were burning oil at a pretty high rate, around 5 quarts for every 50 miles. We did the math and figured we may need up to 105 quarts of oil throughout the race if it didn't get any worse. Normally we run synthetic oil, but if we were going to burn over 25 gallons of oil, we didn't want to use expensive oil. We bought 25 gallons of a thicker oil and distributed the oil among the different chase trucks that would be helping us along the way.

Race day: we got to the starting area around 10 am. We weren't scheduled to start until 11:30, so we were able to get out of the truck, sign some autographs, pose for some pictures and basically just enjoy being able to walk around... we planned on sitting in the truck for the next 20 -24 hours.

The start was good, the truck smoked a lot, but it ran very well. We made our way through Ensenada without any trouble. In the first 30 miles, we had passed one truck and felt like we were running a pretty good pace. In Ojos Negros, we stopped at our pit to have them check the oil. They added 1 gallon and sent us on our way. The next 35 miles were pretty good, a lot of twisty terrain with some rocky areas. (During the Baja 500, this was the section where we got our first flat tire). We made it to our next pit on the highway at km77 and they added another gallon of oil and topped off the gas tank.

The rest of the race is really kind of a blur in my memory. There was a really rough section of the race course south of San Felipe. After going through the rough stuff, our rear shocks were pretty much worn out. We had to take it easy through any big bumps after that.

Somewhere near Coco's Corner, I don't remember if it was before or after (my memory sucks as far as locations on the course), we were in a wash with a lot of water. After hitting a few of the puddles, our radio quit working, we had to turn it off because it was screaming in our ears.

At each pit location, the guys checked the oil and usually added a gallon or two to bring it up to the proper level. At mile 555, the guys told us we were also starting to lose gear oil out of the pinion seal. The next section was going to be about 170 miles without a pit, so they gave me a gallon of oil and a gallon of gear oil to hold on to in case we needed it.

Around mile 670 or 680, we started to lose oil pressure on the engine. This was a sign that our oil level was getting low. We stopped and I added the gallon of oil that I was holding. It wasn't enough, so I pulled out a gallon of oil that we had tied up behind one of the spare tires. That brought our oil level back to normal.

We got to our next pit, they added more oil, gave me another gallon to hold on to and did a scheduled tire change in the rear. Within 50 miles or so, we got our first and only flat tire of the race. We were very surprised we had made it that far without a flat tire. Back in March, at the San Felipe Baja 250, we got 5 flats during the 242 mile race. We got out to change the tire and had trouble getting one lug nut off with our electric impact wrench. We carry a manual wrench just for this reason, but when I went to get it out of its mount, it was gone. It must have shaken loose somewhere over the last 700 miles or so. I tried an old trick where I took the socket and put it on the lug nut and hit it with a hammer. I'm not sure exactly what this does, but I have seen it work and it worked in this case too. I was able to take the lug nut off with the impact wrench. I finished changing the tire and we got going again.

Around 5am, I was having trouble keeping my eyes open. You would think that in an off-road race, it would be so bumpy that there's no way you could fall asleep, but I was. I told Rob [Rob Bruce, the driver] that he had better find a place to pull over so I could walk around a bit and wake up. He was in pretty much the same situation with trying to stay awake, so we pulled off the course and took a few minutes to walk around, have a snack bar and try to wake up. A few minutes of walking did the trick, we were back in the truck and feeling pretty good.

At 6:30 or 7am we hit fog, a really dense, wet fog. It was very tough to keep the shields on our helmets clear enough to see the course. I think we were in the fog for close to 2 hours.

As we got closer to the finish, I started to get tired again. I started to get distracted, thinking about how good it was going to feel to go to sleep in a nice bed, to eat some good food...

I was distracted to the point I wasn't telling Rob about sharp corners coming up. Luckily, none of them were too dangerous. We didn't fly over any cliffs or hit any big rocks. I could tell that Rob was getting tired again too, because when I wasn't distracted, I called out a few sharp corners and he didn't slow down for them.

We got to the finish around 10:30am, roughly 23 hours after starting the race. Getting out of the truck, both of us had wobbly legs. It felt great to finish such a challenging race, but now we just wanted to find a hotel and grab a shower and go to sleep.

1061 miles, 23 hours, one flat tire, 12 to 15 gallons of engine oil, one broken light, one lost lug wrench, one great accomplishment.

15th place Trophy Truck
26th place overall 4 wheeled vehicle

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The Monster Energy/BF Goodrich/Terrible Herbst Motorsports Trophy Truck team rebounded from the early exit of one of its two entries to post a solid sixth-place finish in class and seventh overall in the 43rd Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 off-road race in Baja California, Mexico, November 16-20. Team members Brian Collins and Troy Herbst came from the middle of the field and drove spectacularly in challenging conditions, and their determination paid off as they completed the 1061.69-mile race distance down the Baja peninsula in 20 hours, 49 minutes and 39 seconds, averaging 50.94 mph over the most treacherous terrain in all of motor racing.With a rich legacy in off-road racing that includes back-to-back Baja 1000 wins in 2004 and 2005, Herbst Motorsports was fully prepared to add another win in the legendary race. The team was under the gun right from the start, however, as unfavorable starting positions meant that the drivers of both entries would have their work cut out for them. The number 49 Monster Energy/BF Goodrich/Terrible Herbst Motorsports Trophy Truck driven by Collins and Troy Herbst started 23rd in the field of 292 entries, while the number 19 driven by Tim Herbst and Larry Roeseler started 25th, one minute behind the 49 truck.
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#1 - Reserved for class point champion (Score 2008: BJ Baldwin/BITD 2008: Chet Huffman and Jerry Whelchel/SNORE 2008: Cameron Steele/MORE 2008: Joe Willardson
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#2 - Pete Sohren - A Geiser built Ford F-150 3-seat truck with center seat driver. It is sponsored by KC Hi-Lights and Speedway Indoor Karting Center. It has 1 class win (the 2005 BITD/SNORE Henderson 400). Seats are for sales for every race. The truck is for sale.
#3 – Rodimiro Amaya Jr. – A Amaya racing built Chevrolet Silverado truck. It is sponsored by Toyo Tires. It is called "the sobrino". It has 4-class wins total, (the 2008 Loreto 400 and 3 other unknown races in 2008) racing in the Baja Sur racing series.
#3 - Mark Post/Rob MacCachren/ - A Robby Gordon, Don Fair, Dave Forbes, and Ed Buffington built Ford F-150 truck. It is sponsored by Riviera Time Share Resorts and Rockstar Energy Drink. It was the old Robby Gordon Valvoline and Red, White, and Blue truck. The truck has 15 class wins total, 6 with Robby Gordon