RENO, Nev. — Legendary motorcycle racer-turned 4-wheel champion Jack Johnson and prominent engine builder Kevin Kroyer, both of Las Vegas, are featured in the SCORE spotlight during this week’s SCORE DirtLive HD Internet show at 7 p.m. (PT) as SCORE seriously accelerates preparations for next month’s rapidly approaching 47th Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000.

The granddaddy of all desert races is the season finale of the five-race SCORE World Desert Championship, this year’s iconic adventure, Nov. 11-15, will be a race of approximately 1,280 miles down Mexico’s majestic Baja California peninsula, starting in Ensenada, Baja California Norte and finishing in La Paz, Baja California Sur.

After its debut airing in its normal time slot Tuesday night at www.score-international.com, it is being re-broadcast continuously on the SCORE website throughout the week ahead.

Coordinated by SCORE DirtLive HD creator and producer George Antill, tonight’s show will also include the airing of the CBS Sports Network trailer for the upcoming broadcast of the 19th Rigid Industries SCORE Desert Challenge which saw hometown hero Steven Eugenio of El Centro, Calif., capture the featured SCORE Trophy Truck division in the No. 7 Galindo Motorsports Chevy Silverado.

Next Tuesday, DirtLive HD will be on-site covering the SEMA SCORE Baja 1000 Experience from Las Vegas along with the special SCORE Baja 1000 qualifying for SCORE Trophy Truck and Class 1 from Las Vegas Motor Speedway

SCORE produces the five-race SCORE World Desert Championship in the U.S. and Mexico that features competition in 25 Pro and 5 Sportsman classes for cars, trucks, UTVs, motorcycles and ATVs.

Enjoying its 41st season in 2014 as the World’s Foremost Desert Racing Organization, SCORE International and its racers are featured on the weekly SCORE DirtLive HD broadcasts. This will be the 42nd episode of the 2014 SCORE DirtLive HD season. SCORE has its corporate offices in Reno, Nev.

The 2014 season of SCORE DirtLive HD includes numerous on-site interviews in addition to the shows that are broadcast from the SCORE broadcast studios in the SCORE Tech shop in El Cajon, Calif., just east of San Diego.

Tonight’s special video will highlight the building of a new Class 10 open-wheel racer for COPs Racing owner John Langley by Mike Julson’s award-winning Jimco Racing vehicle building shop near San Diego.

Johnson, a world-class motorcycle racer with numerous SCORE race victories, including several while riding solo, evolved into a champion car and truck winner. Now retired from racing, Johnson won both the SCORE Baja 1000 and the SCORE Baja 500 overall while riding solo and topped his career as a winning racer for the old Nissan factory team that was so successful in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Kroyer, with headquarter in the industrial complex at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, builds many of the engines used by top racers in both the SCORE Trophy Truck and unlimited Class 1 as well as other classes. Kroyer Racing Engines, which also builds NASCAR racing engines as well as motors for other forms of motorsports, has won the SCORE Engine Builder of the Year season point championship in each of the last four years (2010 through 2013) as is leading the points again as well in the 2014 SCORE World Desert Championship heading into next month’s season-finale.

SCORE DirtLive HD
Desert racing public address announcer and former racer George Antill is the executive producer and host of the show. One of the regular elements of the show on a SCORE social media interchange, allowing fans and racers to comment and ask questions through the SCORE Facebook and SCORE Twitter platforms.  Another special segment most weeks is SCORE Tech Tips with SCORE Tech director Art Savedra.

With several million viewers in nearly 100 countries, the SCORE DirtLive HD one-hour show is broadcast live weekly and the show is anchored in 2014 around the five-race SCORE World Desert Championship.

The program is hosted on ustream.com, the world’s largest streaming internet site.

The high definition shows also include numerous award-winning video highlight packages, most produced by Mexico’s Cactus Films or San Diego’s Tempt Media.

SCORE DirtLive HD also goes on-site live with expanded event coverage during SCORE events. Live event coverage in 2014 includes the entire five-race 2014 SCORE World Desert Championship of two races in the United States and three in Baja California, Mexico.  Next up its on-site schedule, SCORE DirtLive HD will be on-site providing live coverage from the massive SEMA SCORE Baja 1000 Experience at the SEMA trade show in Las Vegas (Nov. 4-7) as well as qualifying for race starting positions for SCORE Trophy Truck and the unlimited Class 1 over a 3.6-mile course on Tuesday, Nov. 4 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

CBS SPORTS NETWORK COVERAGE
All races in the 2014 SCORE World Desert Championship series, along with the special SEMA SCORE Baja 1000 Experience and qualifying for the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 from Las Vegas Motor Speedway, are televised on a delayed basis in the USA and Canada as a one-hour special on the CBS Sports Network. The shows, produced by SoCal’s acclaimed BCII TV, air a minimum of two times on the CBS Sports Spectacular show.

All shows are scheduled to premier in the next month following the event. The success of the productions has enabled CBS Sports Network to air multiple airings of the first three 2014 races.  The SCORE San Felipe 250 had 17 extra airings, the SCORE Imperial Valley 250 had five extra airings, and the SCORE Baja 500 garnered seven hours of extra airings in CBS Sports Network.
Following the CBS Sports Network telecasts in the US, the SCORE races air worldwide in over 100 countries through international distribution.
Following are the air dates for the debut of the remaining 2014 SCORE shows on the CBS Sports Network…
·                     Rigid Industries SCORE Desert Challenge, presented by the city of Imperial (Sunday, Nov. 9, 9 p.m. ET)
·                     Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 qualifying from Las Vegas Motor Speedway/SEMA SCORE Baja 1000 Experience (Sunday, Dec. 21, 9 p.m. ET)
·                     Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 (Sunday, Dec. 28, 9 p.m. ET)
CBS Sports Network is available across the country through local cable, video and telco providers and via satellite on DirecTV Channel 221 and Dish Network Channel 158. For more information, including a full programming schedule and how to get CBS Sports Network, go to www.cbssportsnetwork.com.

For more information, visit the official website of the SCORE World Desert Championship at www.score-international.com.