This week in Southern Nevada
Unlimited, 750hp, high-tech, SCORE Trophy-Trucks prepared
For 60th race in 10 years at SCORE HENDERSON'S TERRIBLE 250
SCORE's 30th anniversary continues with World's Richest Desert Race
to be run on both sides of McCullough Mountains

HENDERSON, NV (July 7, 2003) -- Known as the 'monsters' of the desert as 750 horsepower, high-tech, unlimited production trucks, the marquee SCORE Trophy-Truck division will compete for the 60th time in it's 10-year history on Saturday, leading the field into the 2nd Annual SCORE Henderson's Terrible 250, the world's richest desert race.

With six of nine previous SCORE Trophy-Truck season point champions and seven total drivers with 34 race wins in this division between them, action should be as hot as the Southern Nevada desert Saturday. In Henderson, SCORE International continues its 30th anniversary celebration of producing championship desert racing in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.

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 Wednesday through Saturday in Southern Nevada. 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, Nev., on Saturday morning.

The 79.4-mile loop course (to be run as three laps), will start and finish on the northwest edge of the Eldorado Dry Lake bed, just off of the west side of U.S. Highway 95, six miles south of the junction with U.S. 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 will start one every 30 seconds with an 8-hour time limit to become an official finisher in the elapsed-time race.

Las Vegas brothers Ed and Tim Herbst will lead the parade of SCORE Trophy-Trucks in their No. 1 Terrible Herbst Motorsports Ford F-150 with a record three SCORE Trophy-Truck season point championships (1999, 2000, and 2002). The only other multiple season point champions are two-time winners Dan Smith and David Ashley, both of Riverside, Calif., (1998 and 2001) in their No. 8 Enduro Racing Ford F-150.

Las Vegas' Rob MacCachren, who won the first SCORE Trophy-Truck title when the class debuted in 1994, will co-drive Saturday will Mexico's Gus Vildosola in the No. 4 Vildsola Racing Ford F-150.

In individual SCORE Trophy-Truck race wins, Ed Herbst, 42, and Tim Herbst, 40, are currently in a three-way tie with nine wins along with Smith, 39, and Ashley, 46, and retired legend Ivan Stewart.

MacCachren, 38, who has four SCORE Trophy-Truck wins including one this year with Vildosola, has won four SCORE Trophy-Truck races. He also has seven score class point titles in his career and in 2001 was named to the first team of the national motorsports media AARWBA All-America team. MacCachren, along with Stewart and Roger Mears are the only desert racers who have received first-team honors.

Vildsola, who is driver of record, and MacCachren lead this year's SCORE Trophy-Truck point standings with an 18-point lead over the Herbst brothers.

Mark Post, San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and Jerry Whelchel, Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., have three career wins, including last year's inaugural SCORE Henderson's Terrible 250, in Post's No. 3 Riviera Racing Ford F-150.

Phoenix's Larry Ragland, 60, who has seven SCORE Trophy-Truck wins, will co-drive with Las Vegas' Brian Collins in the No. 12 Collins Motorsports Chevy Silverado. Collins, 40, has one win in the premier SCORE racing division.

Following last July's dynamic explosion onto the crowded Southern Nevada special events calendar, this year's world's richest desert race will include a variety of pre-race charity events, fireworks show, concert, and the $7,000 IGT Pit Crew Challenge all before the green flag drops for Round 4 of the six-race 2003 SCORE Desert Series The live drawing for starting positions, by class, will be held from 6-10 p.m. on Thursday, 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.

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 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 Wednesday, 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.

Back to defend his overall title and Class 1 victory in the SCORE Henderson's Terrible 250 is Chuck Hovey, Escondido, Calif., in a Jimco-Chevy. Not only did he pick up the $10,000 bonus last year, it was also Hovey's first SCORE race win.

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.

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.

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.

Associate sponsors for the SCORE Henderson's Terrible 250 are Miller Beer and Red Bull energy drink.

For information contact:
SCORE International at its Los Angeles headquarters
(818) 225-8402 or visit
the official Optima SCORE Desert Series website at:
www.score-international.com