LAS VEGAS — With a near- capacity crowd of 8,371 on their feet much of the night, Southern California’s Mark Post and hometown hero Rob MacCachren dazzled a star-studded field to capture the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck main event Saturday at the Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
After Hawaii’s Alan Pflueger dominated Friday’s semi-main event, MacCachren drove the No. 3 Riviera Racing Ford F-150 to its second victory of the season in the six-race 2007 desert series.
With both the semi-main on Friday and the main event on Saturday counting for season championship points, the Post/MacCachren won an extremely tight battle with defending season series point champion and current 2007 point-leader B.J. Baldwin.
With Baldwin grabbing the lead in a field of 19, MacCachren was never more than a two truck lengths behind. The six-lap feature was run over a man-made 1.5-mile “Chunk of Baja” course, and MacCachren needed a little extra help to earn both his and Post’s sixth-career series victory and the team’s second of the year.
With six classes out of 27 that SCORE normally has in its open desert races, both Adam Wik and Steven Eugenio were undefeated over the two-day event, including winning the main events in Class 10 and Class 1-2/1600. Wik, a noted engine builder, drove a Honda-powered Jimco open-wheel desert race car to two heat-race victories on Friday and another on Saturday before capturing the checkered flag again in the main event.
Eugenio duplicated Wik’s performance in Class 10 in his Lothringer-VW.
Cameron Steele won for the second-straight year in SCORE Lite in his Desert Assassin-VW, helping him to earn a larger cushion in the championship point race for his class.
Robert Ross won three of four races in Class 1 over the weekend, including both the semi and main events in his Potter-Chevy. Barry Karakas earned a surprise victory in Class 7 in his Toyota Tacoma over a field of 12 open mini-trucks.