Vanderwey in Trophy-Truck, Thornton in Motorcycles
Vanderwey in SCORE Trophy-Truck, Thornton in motorcycles draw first start spots for 25th MasterCraft Safety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250. Greenhill receives first Class 1 start at round 2 of the 2011 SCORE Desert Series. Desert racers Nick Vanderwey of Arizona and Chad Thornton of New Mexico received the pole positions for four-wheel and two-wheel vehicles in the computerized drawing for starting positions held Saturday for the upcoming 25th Anniversary of the MasterCraft SafetyTecate SCORE San Felipe 250. Vanderwey races in the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division while Thornton competes in Class 22 for open motorcycles.
Round 2 of the 2011 SCORE Desert Series will be held March 10-13 in Mexico’s picturesque fishing village of San Felipe, located 120 miles south of the U.S. border on the East side of the Baja California peninsula along the azure waters of the tranquil Sea of Cortez.
As part of the festivities of the 25th anniversary of the popular SCORE ‘spring-break’ race, SCORE has made it a memorial race to honor long-time SCORE Mexican liaison Jose ‘Pepe’ Limon, who passed away last November at age 73.
With entries accepted up to race morning, over 275 entries from over 20 US States and 10 countries expected to enter the race and competition will be held in 28 Pro and 6 Sportsman classes in the popular race. The green flag will drop at 6 a.m. on Saturday, March 12, for the motorcycle and ATV classes, followed three hours after the last Sportsman ATV later by the car and truck classes at approximately 10 a.m. The start line and finish line for the race is scheduled to once again be the landmark San Felipe Arches on Highway 5 on the outskirts of San Felipe. One vehicle will start every 30 seconds in the elapsed-time race, with an 11-hour time limit to become an official finisher.
Following January’s season-opening SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge, the US Desert Racing Series will be visiting Mexico for the first of its three annual SCORE Baja races. The start draw for Round 2 of the 2011 SCORE Desert Series determined the starting order within each of the various classes in the elapsed-time race.
Drawing the first starting slot for the unlimited Class 1 open-wheel desert race cars was David Greenhill of Crowley, Texas. Riding the first ATV off the line will be Class 25 team led by Rafael Torres, who is actually from San Felipe.
With 28 entries so far in the marquee SCORE racing division for high-tech, 750+ horsepower, unlimited production trucks, Vanderwey, 44, part of a successful family business in Phoenix, will lead a strong field in SCORE Trophy-Truck that features many of the world’s top desert racers in the No. 84 Flying Dutchmen Racing Chevy Silverado. Vanderwey, who finished third in the 2010 season point standings in SCORE Trophy-Truck, races with his brothers Larry, 42, and Michael, 36.
A unique part of Saturday’s drawing was the special drawing (Drawing results here) for the top 12 finishers from the nearest previous SCORE Baja race entered in the current race in both SCORE Trophy-Truck and the unlimited Class 1. Eleven of the top 12 SCORE Trophy-Trucks from last November’s 43rd Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 entered the race in time for the drawing along with six racers from Class 1.
Thornton, 39, of Farmington, N.M., will ride a KTM 530KCW motorcycle in Class 22 and his co-riders will be Kyle Abney, 39, Albuquerque, N.M., and Mike Whitman, 53, also of Farmington.
Last year’s overall 4-wheel, 2-wheel and ATV champions are all expected to again be part of the field. Last year’s overall 4-wheel champion was the unlimited Class 1 All German Motorsports team of Armin Schwarz, Germany/Martin Christensen, Escondido, Calif. (Denmark), 2-wheel champion was the JCR Honda team of Colton Udall/Jeff Kargola, San Clemente, Calif. on a Honda CRF450X and the Overall ATV winner was the team of Wayne Matlock, El Cajon, Calif./Josh Caster, El Cajon, Calif./Wes Miller, Los Angeles, on a Honda TRX700X. Also entered is Jesse Jones, Litchfield Park, Ariz., the reigning SCORE Desert Series overall season point champion who also won the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck in this race last year in his No. 1 Jones Motorsports Ford F-150.
In Saturday’s computerized drawing, SCORE Trophy-Truck had the most entries with 28, followed by the unlimited Class 1 with 18 and SCORE Lite with 10. While 135 entries were received in time for the start draw, late registration will be accepted up until race morning and as many as 150 additional entries are expected.
This post was compiled from the SCORE Intl. press release and therefore credits for this content go to SCORE. See the complete press release at the San Felipe Baja 250 updates blog here…
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