24th MasterCraftSafety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250
SCORE MEDIA CONTACT: Dominic Clark, 702.735.7123
March 19, 2010
PRO CARS & TRUCKS
SCORE TROPHY-TRUCK
JESSE JONES, No 76 (First in class and second overall four-wheel vehicle. Jones drove the entire race.) It was boring – and that’s the God’s-honest truth. I didn’t even test it (Friday); I let Bryce (Menzies) test it and I sat in it for the first time when I drove it to staging. We had a heck of a run today. The new Geiser Brothers truck was unbelievable, it ran so good and we just had a pretty clean run. We had a couple bad flats but, other than that, it was fine. We lost about 15 minutes fixing those flats. The truck arrived yesterday – Bryce Menzies actually owns this truck. I sold it to him before it was done. I had never even sat in it before I drove it to staging today. This is a great win.
ROBBY GORDON, No. 1 (Second in class and fourth overall four-wheel vehicle. Gordon drove the entire race.) – It was good. We broke a shock at about mile-marker 40 and the guys changed it and to finish second (SCORE Trophy-Truck) on the road, I’m happy. It was very, very rough, very technical and very tough. The shock just blew up. We were just getting ready to turn left and get in the sand wash and we heard – BOOM – and you can see all the oil in here. We won’t know what happened until we get back to the shop and look at it but it had a big hole in the side of it. It didn’t give us any warning, it just happened.
CHET HUFFMAN, No. 40 (Third in class and sixth overall four-wheel vehicle. Huffman drove to race mile 95 and Jerry Whelchel drove to the finish) – Co-driver Jerry Whelchel said: It was a good run – for me. (Huffman) thought he had a blown shock and then he got one flat tire and they stripped a stud on one of the wheels so we had a little bit of downtime. Besides that, I had a flawless run – it was beautiful. It was a good race. The course was rough and rocky but these trucks handle it so well, it’s unreal. It’s fun to be here.
ROBBIE PIERCE, No. 30 (Fourth in class and seventh overall four-wheel vehicle. Pierce drove the entire race.) – It turned out better than I thought it was going to. We started fourth off the line and by race mile 2 or 3 we lost the power steering belt. It’s a handful with no power steering. We kept trying to get a chase truck in there but I drove it to race mile 22 or 24 and we just stopped and changed the belt ourselves. We were down 20 or 30 minutes at that point. We got it going again and we just started hooking it up. We had one flat tire. The course is absolutely brutal. We wanted to get up there (on the podium) first with our MasterCraft Safety sponsorship, but it didn’t work out.
B.J. BALDWIN, No. 97 (Fifth in class and ninth overall four-wheel vehicle. Baldwin drove the entire race.) – San Felipe is a lot of fun. It’s one of my favorite race courses but, unfortunately, I’ve never been able to do well here. My best finish here has been a second. But we did the best we could today. I think I had a good pace. I wasn’t revving the motor out too hard or being hard on the transmission. I got out on the dry lake bed early in the race and was doing a little over 130 and I lost all the fluid in the transmission. The filter actually backed off of the tranny and blew all the fluid out. That’s what took me so long.
ANDY McMILLIN, No. 31 (Sixth in class. Scott McMillin started and drove to race mile 148. Andy McMillin drove from 148 to the finish.) – It was a rough day today. My dad (Scott) started and went to mile 148 and about mile 50 he lost a driveshaft. It took us about 25 minutes to diagnose it and change it. Then we got moving again and we were having a problem with the truck pulling third gear in the sand washes so we weren’t really running third in the sand washes and this race is mostly sand washes, so that hurt us a lot. My dad then had a flat about mile 140. I got in the truck and just kind of cruised it in. We also lost a shock that we had to change in the main pit and my hood broke so that’s why we have no hood. All things considered, it could have been a lot worse. We’re just glad to get valuable points. It’s a rough, rough race out there.
ROB MacCACHREN, No. 20 (Eighth in class. MacCachren drove the entire race.) – We had a little problem with the shock; we broke a reservoir at about mile15. But other than that, this truck ran absolutely flawless. The guys at Jimco prepped this truck and did a great job. This is two races that I’ve raced it and we’ve had very minimal problems. We’ll get back here on top and do some testing and sort out some things and we’ll get right back in it. It would have been good to have had that shock on there the whole race because I know we would have done really well. We got off to a great start and we were picking people off the first 15 miles and then the reservoir broke and then we were basically in babysitting mode and just taking care of the truck until we could get to the finish line and make sure we maintains some sort of points.
CLASS 1
ARMIN SCHWARZ, No. 101 (First in class and first overall four-wheel vehicle. Schwarz started and drove the first 140 miles and Martin Christensen drove from mile 140 to the finish.) – I started the car and drove it until race mile 140 and then Martin took over. We just took it easy; no crazy speeds, just knowing how long the race will be and how rough it is and just taking our pace and it was the right one. We had a very fast driver change and everything was to the point and very good. We had no problems at all.
Co-driver Martin Christensen said: The team did an unbelievable driver change. They had fuel and tires on the car before we were belted in. We were literally there 25 seconds and then we were gone. Our team is the best – absolutely the best. This is the roughest, toughest race and you’re just driving the heck out of the car the entire time because this is a short distance and you’re just hoping that it’s going to last.
DANIEL McMILLIN, No. 106 (Second in class and third overall four-wheel vehicle. McMillin drove the entire race.) – I only had one flat, around mile 40 or 45. Just one flat and that was it. It happened right before our pit, so that was nice. It was a fun race. The course was rough but it was actually smoother than I was expecting. The 1600 car is way harder – you actually have to try.
RANDY WILSON, No. 100 (Th
