Mexico's Gus Vildsola Jr. Declared Overall Winner at 28th Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 SCORE International
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San Felipe 250 2014 - Racing action in San Matías, leaving la Laguna del Diablo. (Sergio Acevedo)

When the dust settled and the rain stopped in the elapsed-time race, Mexico’s Gus Vildsola Jr. was declared the overall and SCORE Trophy Truck winner for the second straight year at Saturday’s 28th Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 desert race. Round 1 of the five-race SCORE World Desert Championship was held on a challenging, weather-shortened 219-mile course that started and finished in San Felipe on the northern portion of Mexico’s majestic Baja California peninsula.

Starting next to last out of 21 vehicles in the marquee SCORE Trophy Truck racing division for hi-tech, 850-horsepower unlimited production trucks, Vildosola, of Mexicali, powered the No. 21 Red Bull Vildosola Racing Ford Raptor to a winning time of three hours, 31 minutes, 27 seconds while averaging a super strong average speed of 62.14 miles per hour.

In earning his third career SCORE Trophy Truck race win, Vildosola Jr, who normally splits driving time with his father Gus Vildosola and decided that this race was too short to stop for a driver change, praised a great-running truck and some aggressive driving for his home-country victory. Vildosola said at the finish line in the shadow of the famed San Felipe Arches, “We drew 25th (starting position) and I was extremely worried about being so far back in the field of great SCORE Trophy Truck racers. It really changed my game plan during the race. We started seeing nice compacted dirt near San Matias and it was really slippery around Mike's loop.”

Read the Official Finisher’s list at ScoreInternational.com

Photo: Race-Dezert.com

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