BFGoodrich Tires Captures its 12th Consecutive SCORE Baja Win on

One of the Toughest Courses in SCORE History


ENSENADA, Mexico – June 4, 2007– BFGoodrich Tires, the official tire sponsor for the SCORE Desert Racing Series, dominated Mexico’s Baja Peninsula last weekend earning eight of the overall top-ten finishing positions and 12 class wins at the 39th Annual SCORE Baja 500 in Ensenada, Mexico.  


Facing a record of 492 starting entrants, BFGoodrich Tires drivers, Larry Ragland and Brian Collins, defended their SCORE Baja 500 overall four-wheel and trophy-truck crown at round three of the six-race SCORE Desert Racing Series.  The pair battled through hundreds of miles of dust-filled desert to cross the line in nine hours, ten minutes, and 58 seconds at an average speed of 46.20 miles per hour.  The team finished well ahead of competing trophy-truck driver Robby Gordon, who took second-place overall and SCORE trophy-truck finish three minutes, 57 seconds behind Ragland and Collins.  Third-place overall went to SCORE trophy-truck points leader B.J. Baldwin.


Collins drove the first part of the race in their BFGoodrich Tires equipped Chevy Silverado before turning the wheel over to Ragland who battled through the final miles of the dust-filled, boulder-strewn course to the finish.  


Arriving at the finish line on BFGoodrich Baja T/A®KR tires, “It was great race,” said Collins at the finish line as Ragland brought the truck across.  “Anytime you get an overall win it’s a terrific day.”


The fourth overall team and fourth in the SCORE trophy-truck class was the BFGoodrich Tires duo of Mark Post and Rob MacCachren.  The pair, who were tied for the points lead with B.J. Baldwin heading into the SCORE Baja 500 took full advantage of their BFGoodrich Baja T/A®KRT tires to push their Ford F-150 past several competitors for a top-five finish.  BFGoodrich Tires driver, Garron Cadiente crossed the finish in seventh-place overall and SCORE trophy-truck class finish making the journey in his BFGoodrich Tires-shod Ford F-150 in nine hours, 48 minutes and 40 seconds.  BFGoodrich Tires driver, Alan Pflueger rounded out the top-ten in the SCORE trophy-truck class and finished in tenth-place overall for four-wheeled vehicles.


The 39th Annual SCORE Baja 500 also marked the North American debut of the Volkswagen Race Touareg 2 vehicles from its famous Dakar Rally Factory Team.  The two turbo-diesel Volkswagen Race Touareg 2’s running BFGoodrich Tires competed in a special SCORE International Truck Class and started between the SCORE trophy-truck and Class 1 vehicles.  The Race Touareg 2 driven by American Mark Miller finished 11th overall and the second, driven by South African Giniel de Villers, finished 18th overall.


Using motorsports as a proving ground for more than 30 years, BFGoodrich® Tires is involved in every type of racing, including oval, sports car, drifting, drag, desert, dirt, rally (Dakar and WRC) and extreme rock-crawling.  BFGoodrich Tires combines technological expertise with vast motorsports experience, delivering a high-performance tire for every type of vehicle.  Visit BFGoodrich Tires online at www.bfgoodrichtires.com .