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2009 SCORE San Felipe 250 - San Felipe, Baja California. The Race Course is Open for Prerunning.
March 11, 2009
Rob MacCachren and Robby Gordon Lead
Top American Racers in Prerunning at SCORE San Felipe 250
San Felipe, Baja California (March 11, 2009) The seaside fishing village of San Felipe, Baja California has been reformed into race headquarters as the top American off road desert racers have converged to this small beach resort town for this year’s SCORE San Felipe 250.
Monster Energy’s Robby Gordon and Rockstar’s Rob MacCachren are two marquee racers in a select group of potential winners this year.
Gordon is fresh off his season-opening victory at the Laughlin Desert Challenge and MacCachren returns to the San Felipe desert in the Rockstar Riviera trophy truck. MacCachren spent the first half of the day weaving together his lines from the previous days prerunning before turning his attention to the remainder of the race course.
Gordon and MacCachren, long time racing rivals, each spent 12 hours in the dirt of the Mexican desert as they hope to outduel the other. However, in the mix will be last year’s SCORE Trophy Truck Champion, B.J. Baldwin, as well as Larry Roseler, Roger Norman, Brian Collins, Cameron Steele and others.
Larry Roseler has spent the last week here in San Felipe lunching for the past four days at Laguna Percebu, according to the owner of the Percebu Resort, Jorge. Roseler is one of the favorites in Saturday’s race.
Wednesday afternoon saw the majority of the top racers running the southern loop through the difficult Matomi Wash. The legendary wash has been changed dramatically in the past few months from the torrential rains that pummeled the area and pushed thousands of cubic feet of sand through the easy to follow wash trail. However, the trail has been changed dramatically. In fact, racers have related that this year’s course does not follow the same line as the course in the past. This year’s edition of the race course is the same as the 2008 version and teams have reported big changes through Matomi Wash.
Near the vertical stone walls the race course changes direction and goes up along side of the wash before dropping back into the wash several hundred meters down the wash. Massive boulders along the narrow wash will test the best of man and machine.
There is no doubt among the majority of the drivers that the survival of the first 60 miles may determine the ultimate winner in this sprint race. The tight rock sections through Matomi Wash will test racers after the initial 60-mile sprint and from there it will be full survival mode.
Also in the mix is one of off road racing’s most colorful personalities, Pistol Pete Sohren, who worked his own angles throughout the day. The man that carries the nickname, The Mullet, led his race team all day long through the first 90-miles of intense prerunning. Sohren has been prerunning for the last 4-days and said his Baja Racing Adventures sponsored Trophy Truck is ready for Saturday’s epic race. The King Mullet hosted his team to a late afternoon session of Casuela Bowls at the Laguna Percebu beach resort 15-miles south of San Felipe.
Mid-morning Wednesday DIRTnewz was contacted by the Desert Assassin’s looking for some assistance with one of their downed motorcycle riders in Matomi Wash. Initial calls were requesting helicopter assistance from a race team, but no teams had helicopters here in San Felipe. SCORE President Sal Fish and Attorney Oscar Ramos once again stepped up for the racing community and summons assistance from Tijuana, where the Tijuana Police Department dispatched a state-of-the-art helicopter to Matomi Wash from Tijuana for the injured moto rider. The rider was flown to Mexicali hospital where he was determined to have a possibly broken back, but was resting and under the care of doctors in Mexicali.
Terrible Herbst Motorsports will return to the Mexican desert in a brand new Trophy Truck as the 2009 SCORE San Felipe 250 race kicks off Saturday morning. The Monster Energy sponsored Trophy Truck was tested in Plaster City, CA with FOX RACING SHOX on Wednesday afternoon without any major issues. The Herbst Motorsports entourage arrived to the El Cortez Resort Hotel in south San Felipe at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday evening. source: http://www.dirtnewz.com/desert-main.shtml
March 11, 2009
Rob MacCachren and Robby Gordon Lead
Top American Racers in Prerunning at SCORE San Felipe 250
San Felipe, Baja California (March 11, 2009) The seaside fishing village of San Felipe, Baja California has been reformed into race headquarters as the top American off road desert racers have converged to this small beach resort town for this year’s SCORE San Felipe 250.
Monster Energy’s Robby Gordon and Rockstar’s Rob MacCachren are two marquee racers in a select group of potential winners this year.
Gordon is fresh off his season-opening victory at the Laughlin Desert Challenge and MacCachren returns to the San Felipe desert in the Rockstar Riviera trophy truck. MacCachren spent the first half of the day weaving together his lines from the previous days prerunning before turning his attention to the remainder of the race course.
Gordon and MacCachren, long time racing rivals, each spent 12 hours in the dirt of the Mexican desert as they hope to outduel the other. However, in the mix will be last year’s SCORE Trophy Truck Champion, B.J. Baldwin, as well as Larry Roseler, Roger Norman, Brian Collins, Cameron Steele and others.
Larry Roseler has spent the last week here in San Felipe lunching for the past four days at Laguna Percebu, according to the owner of the Percebu Resort, Jorge. Roseler is one of the favorites in Saturday’s race.
Wednesday afternoon saw the majority of the top racers running the southern loop through the difficult Matomi Wash. The legendary wash has been changed dramatically in the past few months from the torrential rains that pummeled the area and pushed thousands of cubic feet of sand through the easy to follow wash trail. However, the trail has been changed dramatically. In fact, racers have related that this year’s course does not follow the same line as the course in the past. This year’s edition of the race course is the same as the 2008 version and teams have reported big changes through Matomi Wash.
Near the vertical stone walls the race course changes direction and goes up along side of the wash before dropping back into the wash several hundred meters down the wash. Massive boulders along the narrow wash will test the best of man and machine.
There is no doubt among the majority of the drivers that the survival of the first 60 miles may determine the ultimate winner in this sprint race. The tight rock sections through Matomi Wash will test racers after the initial 60-mile sprint and from there it will be full survival mode.
Also in the mix is one of off road racing’s most colorful personalities, Pistol Pete Sohren, who worked his own angles throughout the day. The man that carries the nickname, The Mullet, led his race team all day long through the first 90-miles of intense prerunning. Sohren has been prerunning for the last 4-days and said his Baja Racing Adventures sponsored Trophy Truck is ready for Saturday’s epic race. The King Mullet hosted his team to a late afternoon session of Casuela Bowls at the Laguna Percebu beach resort 15-miles south of San Felipe.
Mid-morning Wednesday DIRTnewz was contacted by the Desert Assassin’s looking for some assistance with one of their downed motorcycle riders in Matomi Wash. Initial calls were requesting helicopter assistance from a race team, but no teams had helicopters here in San Felipe. SCORE President Sal Fish and Attorney Oscar Ramos once again stepped up for the racing community and summons assistance from Tijuana, where the Tijuana Police Department dispatched a state-of-the-art helicopter to Matomi Wash from Tijuana for the injured moto rider. The rider was flown to Mexicali hospital where he was determined to have a possibly broken back, but was resting and under the care of doctors in Mexicali.
Terrible Herbst Motorsports will return to the Mexican desert in a brand new Trophy Truck as the 2009 SCORE San Felipe 250 race kicks off Saturday morning. The Monster Energy sponsored Trophy Truck was tested in Plaster City, CA with FOX RACING SHOX on Wednesday afternoon without any major issues. The Herbst Motorsports entourage arrived to the El Cortez Resort Hotel in south San Felipe at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday evening. source: http://www.dirtnewz.com/desert-main.shtml