PRIMM, Nev. — Driving with power, consistency and finesse, Arizona’s Garron Cadiente deftly manuevered his No. 38 G&R Racing Ford F-150 race truck to the overall and SCORE trophy-truck victory Saturday at the 12th-annual SCORE Terrible’s Primm 300 desert race.
In earning his second-career trophy-truck race victory, Cadiente, the 2006 Rookie of the Year, covered the rugged 288-mile race in four hours, 56 minutes and 34 seconds, averaging a ground-pounding 58.27 miles per hour while covering the four laps over the rugged 72-mile desert race course.
Starting midway in the star-studded field of 27 starters in trophy-truck, Cadiente was second physically on the course after one lap, but already had the overall lead in the race for good.
His consistency netted laps of 1:13:48, 1:13:46, 1:15:16 and he capped off his sterling performance with a 1:13:44, the fastest lap run by any vehicle in the race.
Trophy-trucks, the marquee racing division swept the podium, as the team of Mark Post, San Juan Capistrano, Calif./Rob MacCachren, Las Vegas was second in a time of 5:00:42 in the No. 3 Riviera Racing Ford F-150 while third overall was Las Vegas’ B.J. Baldwin with a time of 5:01:58 in his No. 1 Baldwin Motorsports Chevy Silverado.
“Man, what a race…it was crazy out there,” said Cadiente, whose first win in the class for 800-horsepower, high-tech, unlimited production trucks was last year’s Tecate San Felipe 250. “Everybody was going fast today and I think we just did it a little bit better than everybody else.  We’re real excited about this and this was a race we really wanted to win.”
The overall win by a trophy-truck marked the eighth time and fifth straight year that the class has beaten the unlimited class 1 open wheelers in the 12-year history of the popular Southern Nevada desert race.
In the tightly contested season point battle in trophy-truck, the Post/MacCachren team took over the lead by a slim one point over B.J. Baldwin, the reigning trophy-truck season point-champion.
Finishing fourth overall and beating a race-high field of 37 starters, the unlimited Class 1 was the team of Larry Roeseler, Hesperia, Calif./Troy Herbst, Las Vegas in a time of 5:08:41 in the No. 100 Terrible Herbst Motorsports Smithbuilt-Ford.
It was the 23rd Class 1 race win for the magnificent machine since it debuted in 1997.
Todd Wyllie, of New River, Ariz., had a solid fifth overall finish and was fourth in trophy-truck with a time of 5:09:14 in the No. 85 Wyllie Racing Chevy Silverado. Fifth in SCORE trophy-truck and sixth overall was Las Vegas brothers Tim and Ed Herbst in a time of 5:17:27 in the No. 19 Terrible Herbst Motorsports Ford F-150.