SCORE has a bunch of classes for just about every kind of off-road vehicle that you can imagine. The format of the Desert Challenge is to group similar performance vehicles together and have each Group run either 7 or 8 laps on Saturday and then again on Sunday. Winners are determined by whomever has the lowest combined time for their class. Group 1 which are all of the lower powered/limited suspension cars are 1st off at 6:00 AM – way too early for this old man to haul is butt out of bed to sit in a cold grandstand and watch the 1/2 1600 cars go putting around the track. Around 8:00 they start Group 2, the stock and modified trucks but by the time we had breakfast and chit-chatted a bit it was more like 9-9:30 before we got out to the track – so not a lot of photos of them either.
Class 6 and Trucks
In the second photo from the end of this short slide show you will see a photo of two guys being interviewed. The guy on the left with the sun glasses is Bob Gordon, Robby Gordon’s Dad. Robby and BJ Baldwin were both down in Argentina running the Dakar race and would not make it back to Laughlin until late Saturday. Robby had his dad qualify and race his Trophy Truck on Saturday. BJ had Chad Ragland do the same for his truck. As luck would have it the drive shaft broke in the Gordon ride during qualification and the truck was not sorted out for the race on Saturday which put Robby at the back of the pack on Sunday. Robby put on a real show on Sunday but could not overcome being down 2 1/2 laps in a 8 lap race. Chad did a great job in putting BJ’s Trophy Truck in 3rd after the Saturday race, however BJ blew it up on the 1st lap on Sunday.
All in all the Gordons and Baldwins went to a lot of effort for little return.
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