Round 5 of 2005 SCORE Desert Series
Vildsola/MacCachren duo draws first start in Ford F-150
SCORE Trophy-Truck for 10th SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300
SCORE's 32nd season continues Sept. 9-11 with over 200 entries
Expected in 17 Pro & 2 Sportsman classes for cars and trucks

LOS ANGELES, CA (August 13, 2005) -- Hoping to improve on their second-place finish last year, teammates Gus Vildosola of Mexico and Rob MacCachren of Las Vegas have drawn the coveted first starting position for next month's 10th Annual SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 desert race. Round 5 of the six-race 2005 SCORE Desert Series will be held Sept. 10-12, 2005 in Primm, NV.

In a sport where there is no qualifying or open pre-running (in the U.S.), the drawing for start positions has added significance and the No. 4 Vildosola Racing Ford F-150 SCORE Trophy-Truck was selected randomly in today's computerized drawing at the SCORE Int'l headquarters in Los Angeles.

Celebrating its 32nd season this year as the World's Foremost Desert Racing Series, the SCORE Desert Series will be returning to Southern Nevada for the last of its three annual races in the U.S.

The 10th Annual SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 will feature 17 Pro and 2 Sportsman classes for cars and trucks in Primm, located 35 miles south of Las Vegas at the California border. With a race-record 200 entries expected, there were a record 170 vehicles entered in time for the start draw.

As it has been for the past three years, the race will be split into two groups with the open wheel and VW baja bug classes starting at 6 a.m. The truck classes, including the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division along with the unlimited Class 1 open-wheel class, will start at 1 p.m. One vehicle will start every 30 seconds in the elapsed-time race, with an eight-hour time limit. The start/finish line area will be located northeast of the rear of Buffalo Bill's Resort in Primm.

With the chase for the $50,000 Kartek Off-Road bonus also awaiting the top three 2005 SCORE Overall point leaders, a total of just 63 points separate the top 11 overall point leaders after the first three rounds of 2005. SCORE points are determined both on final finishing position and number of vehicles that started the race within each class.

A total of 28 SCORE Trophy-Trucks, a record for a U.S. race, were entered in time for the start draw, and the 800-horsepower unlimited production trucks will lead the afternoon group into the Southern Nevada desert.

The first vehicle to leave the start line in the morning portion of the event will be Class 10 racer Tom Ridings, 51, of Long Beach, CA, in a Honda-powered Jimco race car.

Eleven of last year's 17 class winners have entered,
including seven of last year's top 10 overall finishers.

'This is a wonderful opportunity for Gus and I to lead the pack of tremendous SCORE Trophy-Trucks and hopefully get our second class win together,' said MacCachren, 40, who is also the SCORE Overall and Class 1-2/1600 point leader. 'We haven't decided how we will split up the five laps, but I know that having a clear track ahead of us during the first lap can certainly help us build a solid lead. The SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 is a rugged race, but very deceptive. It looks fast, and some places it is, but if you push too hard, the desert takes a big bite out of your race vehicle.'

A veteran desert-racing champion Rob MacCachren and his third-generation protge Bryan Freeman, both of Las Vegas, are on top of the Overall and Class 1-2/1600 point standings after three rounds of the 2005 SCORE Desert Series. MacCachren, who has won seven SCORE class point championships in four different classes, was the 2001 SCORE Overall point champion. Freeman, 25, is in his first full SCORE season.

Vildsola, 51, of Mexicali, Mexico, and MacCachren won SCORE Trophy-Truck in the 2003 Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 for their only win in the featured SCORE racing division together. MacCachren, the 1994 SCORE Trophy-Truck class point champion, has four career SCORE Trophy-Truck wins.

Starting behind the 28 SCORE Trophy-Trucks will be the unlimited Class 1 for open-wheel desert race cars. In the first nine years of the race, SCORE Trophy-Trucks have five Overall race wins to four for Class 1.

Drawing the first starting spot in Class 1 is John Gould, Anaheim, CA, in a Playtech-Chevy.

George Seeley, Glendale, CA, and Eric Solorzano, Tijuana, Mexico, have the most class wins in the SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300. Both have won their respective classes in six of the first nine years of this race. Seeley drives the No. 500 unlimited VW Baja Bug in Class 5 while Solorzano drives the No. 1100 VW Sedan in Class 11.

Honolulu's Alan Pflueger is back to defend his overall and SCORE Trophy-Truck titles in his No. 28 Pflueger Racing Chevy Silverado. Pflueger won last year's rain-soaked race by 24 minutes, 50 seconds over the Class 10 Jimco-BMW of Martin Christensen, Escondido, Calif. Christensen has switched to Class 1 this year.

Pflueger will start 16th in SCORE Trophy-Truck this year after winning from the pole position last year.

Following up his first-ever SCORE class win in San Felipe with a second in Ensenada, defending SCORE Trophy-Truck season champ Jason Baldwin, Laguna Beach, CA, maintains a 12-point lead over his brother Josh Baldwin, Newport Beach, CA, in the featured SCORE racing division for high-tech, 800-horsepower, unlimited production trucks. The Baldwins, with 179 and 167 points respectively, both drive Ford F-150 SCORE Trophy-Trucks. Jason Baldwin is sixth on the SCORE Overall point leaderboard.

Behind Class 1 (37 entries), the classes with the most entries in time for the drawing were: SCORE Trophy-Truck (28), Class 1-2/1600 (23), SCORE Lite (20) and Class 10 (19).

Among the other racers drawing first starting positions for this race are Daniel McMillin, 17, a third-generation desert racer, who will lead Class 1-2/1600 in a Jimco-VW for the second-straight year and Jake Batulis, San Clemente, CA, who will be at the front of SCORE Lite in a Prep-by-Jake-VW.

Pre-race festivities on Friday, Sept. 9, for the SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300, including tech and contingency and the SCORE Manufacturer's Midway, will be held from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. behind Buffalo Bill's Resort. The post-race awards celebration will be held at the Star of the Desert Arena on Sunday (Sept. 11) at 9 a.m.

SCORE official sponsors for 2005 are: BFGoodrich Tires-official tire, C.L. Bryant-VP Racing Fuels-official fuel supplier. Associate sponsors are: Tecate Beer, Coca-Cola of Mexico, Instant Mexico Auto Insurance, Las Vegas Events, Herbst Gaming, Kartek Off-Road, Centrix Financial, Fram, Autolite, Prestone, Bilstein, Signpros, Cotuco, Fideicomiso Publico para la Promocion Turistica de Ensenada, P.C.I. Race Radios, McKenzie's Performance Products, and Advanced Color Graphics.

Co-title sponsors for the 10th SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 are Las Vegas Events and Primm Valley Resorts.

For information contact:
SCORE International at its Los Angeles headquarters
(818) 225-8402 or visit
the official 2005 SCORE Desert Series website at:
www.score-international.com

For information contact:
SCORE International at its Los Angeles headquarters
(818) 225-8402 or visit
the official 2005 SCORE Desert Series website at:
www.score-international.com