SCORE JOURNAL
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38TH SCORE SAN FELIPE 250 TROPHY TRUCK CLASSES
Sampietro Back On Top
The last time Jorge Sampietro won in the SCORE Trophy Truck Spec Class, it was
at the 2024 SCORE Baja 400. Topping the class in this race, he drove solo in the No.
297 truck, and had no flats and no penalties to finish four seconds ahead of second-
place finisher Justin Davis in the No. 285 Green Army truck. "The course was really
fast," said Sampietro. "We thought it was going to be a bit tiring, but the day flew
by. As always, the San Felipe terrain is really difficult, full of whoops and rocks.
Fortunately, with BFGoodrich, we had no flats. It was a really spectacular day for
us."
Finishing in third place was Arnoldo Gutierrez Jr. in the No. 284 truck. " I ran the
whole race on my own," said Gutierrez. " At the beginning, it was a battle with a
lot of cars and a lot of dust but we intended to follow all of our lines and get no
flats. We found out that somewhere along the course, we didn't have a jack so we
wanted to be more cautious. When they told us that we were in the top four, and at
the last forty miles we just gave it our all. If we got a flat it was a risk we were willing
to take."
The top qualifiers in the class, Jason McNeil, Apdaly Lopez driving for Jordan
Brenthal, and EJ Herbst all had a variety of issues with their vehicles which slowed
them down and kept them off the podium. SJ
