July 9-12 in Southern Nevada
Charity Events, Fireworks, Concerts, IGT Pit Crew Challenge,
All part of 2nd Annual SCORE HENDERSON'S TERRIBLE 250
SCORE's 30th anniversary year celebration
continues with World's Richest Desert Race

LOS ANGELES (June 16, 2003) - In an entertainment and sports capital that demands success to earn repeat performances, next month's 2nd Annual SCORE Henderson's Terrible 250 desert race in Southern Nevada is being welcomed back with open arms.

Following last July's dynamic explosion onto the crowded Southern Nevada special events calendar, this year's World's Richest Desert Race will be held July 9-12. The popular event will include a variety of pre-race charity events, fireworks show, concert, and the IGT Pit Crew Challenge all before the green flag drops for Round 4 of the six-race 2003 SCORE Desert Series Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year as the World's Foremost Desert Racing Series, the SCORE Desert Series returns to the U.S. for the second of three races in Southern Nevada.

The 2nd Annual SCORE Henderson's Terrible 250, the world's richest desert race with nearly $500,000 in cash purse and contingency postings, will be held July 9-12, in Southern Nevada. The live drawing for starting positions, by class, will be held from 6-10 p.m. on Thursday, July 10 during the SCORE Henderson's Terrible 250 bar-b-que, featuring live music and a fireworks show, at Terrible's Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas.

Featuring the world's best desert racers, nearly 150 entries, competing in 17 Pro and 2 Sportsman classes for cars and trucks, are expected to take the green flag in Boulder City, NV, on Saturday, July 12. The 80.1-mile loop course (to be run as three laps), will start and finish on the northeast edge of the Eldorado Dry Lake bed, just off of Nevada State Highway 95, six miles south of the junction with Nevada State Highway 93 at Railroad Pass. The classes will be split into two groups, the first starting at 6 a.m. followed by the truck classes along with the unlimited Class 1 at 8 a.m. Vehicles are scheduled to start one every 30 seconds with an 8-hour time limit to become an official finisher in the elapsed-time race.

With free admission for all activities and the race, the start/finish line area along with Pit B on the Jean Dry Lake bed off of the old Los Angeles highway at Knight's Ranch Road near Jean are the two designated spectator areas for the race.

Through a special marketing and sponsorship agreement, SCORE International of Los Angeles is producing the event and Las Vegas-based Herbst Gaming along with the Southern Nevada cities of Henderson and Boulder City are once again sponsoring the SCORE Henderson's Terrible 250 Pre-race festivities on Friday, July 11, for the SCORE Henderson's Terrible 250, including tech and contingency, the SCORE Manufacturer's Midway, the $7,000 IGT Pit Crew Challenge, the SCORE concert starring Tommy Rocker, and driver registration, will all be held on Water Street in downtown Henderson adjacent to the Henderson Convention Center. Driver registration will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., tech and contingency 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., the Pit Crew Challenge 6 to 7 p.m. and the Tommy Rocker concert 7 to 9 p.m.

SCORE race week festivities will begin on Wednesday, July 9 with the SCORE Charity Showdown. The SCORE Charity Bowling Tournament will be held from 4-5:30 p.m. at Terrible's Casino and Bowl on Boulder Highway in Henderson, followed from 5:30 to 9 p.m. by the SCORE Charity Video-Poker Tournament and SCORE Charity Silent Auction at Casino Montelago at the new Ritz-Carlton Resort at Lake Las Vegas. All proceeds will benefit multiple charity organizations in both Henderson and Boulder City.

Starting with a $10,000 bonus to the first overall finisher, the World's Richest Desert Race will include nearly $35,000 in added purse, a 50 percent payback of entry fees and significant contingency postings. SCORE officials report that the final cash and contingency prizes could even pass the $500,000 mark.

For all Pro classes with a minimum 'Lucky Seven' starters, the winner will receive an added $1,000 and the runner-up will receive an added $500 from the bonus purse.

First a novelty, San Diego County youngsters Eric Allen and Adam Pfankuch have used three season-opening class wins to quickly become the force to be reckoned with in the 2003 SCORE Desert Series. With victories in Class 1-2/1600 at the SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge in Nevada and a pair of wins in Mexico at the Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 in San Felipe, and most recently at the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 in Ensenada, the Allen/Pfankuch duo lead not only their very competitive class, but the overall SCORE International point standings in their K.I.T. Racing VW-powered Jimco 1600cc open-wheel desert race car. Allen, a 20-year old SCORE rookie from San Marcos and Pfankuch, a 21 year old proven competitor from Carlsbad, are amazingly undefeated, unblemished and unfazed after winning the first three SCORE races to conclude the first half of the SCORE season. In just their first season as teammates, the pair has easily lived up to the definition of their team's name-Keep It Together (K.I.T.) Racing.

SCORE points are determined both on final finishing position and number of vehicles which started the race within the individual class. After finishing second in the season-opening SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge in January, winning in San Felipe and finishing third in Ensenada in the marquee SCORE Trophy-Truck division, the team of Gus Vildosola, of Mexicali, Mexico and Rob MacCachren, of Las Vegas, have moved to the front of the division for 750 horsepower, high-tech, unlimited production trucks.

Splitting the driving time in their Vildosola Racing Ford F-150, the San Felipe victory was the first for Vildosola and the fourth for MacCachren in SCORE Trophy-Truck. A six-time SCORE class point champion, MacCachren, the 2001 SCORE overall point champion, won the SCORE Trophy-Truck point title in 1994, the year the special class was introduced by SCORE.

Midway through the 2003 SCORE Desert Series, Allen/Pfankuch have 249 points to lead Class 1-2/1600 and the SCORE Overall point standings. Second overall with 233 points is Class 1 point leader Dale Ebberts, Canyon Lake, Calif., who masterfully won the first two races of the SCORE season and finished third in Ensenada in his unlimited Toyota-powered Jimco. He drove solo in Laughlin and starting with San Felipe, is splitting wheel time with Ernie Castro Jr., Newport Beach, Calif. Castro finished second to Allen/Pfankuch in Class 1-2/1600 in Laughlin before the team merger with Ebberts' Inland Truss Racing. Behind Vildosola/MacCachren (who are 10th in overall points with 200) in SCORE Trophy-Truck points are Las Vegas brothers and defending season champs Tim and Ed Herbst (Ford F-150) with 182 and Laughlin winners Mark Post, San Juan Capistrano, Calif./Jerry Whelchel, Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. (Ford F-150) with 149 points.

Third in SCORE overall points, just one point behind Ebberts and 17 behind Allen/Pfankuch, is Class 10 point leader Mexico's Eli Yee, who leads Class 10 after two season-opening wins and a second in his Jimco Honda.

Fourth overall is undefeated SCORE Lite leader Brian Ickler, Poway, Calif. (Jimco-VW) at 221 points. Just 17 years old, Ickler, who moved up to a faster class this year after finishing seventh last year in Class 1 2/1600 drove solo while winning his class in the first two races and split the driving time last race with veteran Brian Ewalt.

Second in Class 1 and tied fifth in overall points are brothers Mark and Gary Weyhrich, Troutdale, Ore. (Jimco-Chevy) with 218 points. The Weyhrichs, with two seconds and one fourth, are tied with David Hendrickson, Murrieta, Calif./Cameron Steele, San Clemente, Calif., who are second in Class 1-2/1600 in a DaveCo-VW.

A total of just 10 points separate seventh through 10th in the current SCORE overall point standings.

Tied for seventh overall with 210 points are Las Vegas' Troy Herbst, who teamed with Larry Roeseler, Hesperia, Calif., to win the overall at the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and is third in Class 1 in a Smithbuilt-Ford and James Golden, Costa Mesa, Calif., who is third in Class 1-2/1600 in a Chenowth-VW.

Ninth overall with 201 points is Steve Myers, Newport Beach, Calif./George Erl, Huntington Beach, Calif., second in Class 10 in a Jimco Toyota and 10th, just one point behind Myers, is SCORE Trophy-Truck leaders Vildosola/MacCachren.

With two wins this season so far are class point leaders Alan Pfleuger, Honolulu (Protruck, Chevy Silverado), Joe Heger, Imperial Calif. (Class 5, VW Baja Bug), John Griffin, Mission Viejo, Calif. (Stock Full, AM General Hummer) and Donald Moss, Sacramento, Calif. (Class 3, Ford Bronco).

Among the other current 2003 SCORE class point leaders are: Dave Sykes, Del Mar, Calif. (Class 8, Chevy Silverado); Craig Turner, Yorba Linda, Calif. (Class 7, Ford Ranger); Bob Land, Lake Forest, Calif. (Class 7S, Chevy S-10), Arturo Velazco, Beaumont, Calif. (Class 9, Chenowth-VW) and Mario Reynoso, Tijuana, Mexico (Class 5/1600, VW Baja Bug).

SCORE official sponsors for 2003 are: BFGoodrich Tires-official tire, Southern California Ford Dealers-official vehicle, 76 Racing Fuel-official fuel and Rental Service Corporation-official equipment supplier. Associate sponsors are: Tecate Beer, Coca Cola of Mexico, Instant Mexico Auto Insurance, Bilstein, Signpros, P.C.I. Race Radios, McKenzie's, Off Road Innovations and Advanced Color Graphics.

For more information, contact SCORE at its Los Angeles headquarters 818.225.8402 or visit the official website of the 2003 SCORE Desert Series at www.score-international.com.