FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Moss brothers and their Cinnamon Ranch
Racing Class 3 Ford bronco brought home yet another class victory
in the SCORE Off Road Racing Series. On February 26 th, the team
was in the tiny fishing village of San Felipe , Baja California ,
Mexico to participate in the 2005 Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 race,
second of the five race SCORE series. Competing with a field of
over 260 entries, the brothers battled a 240 mile course through
the mexican desert to win this event for an amazing 4 th year and
extending their winning streak to NINE in a row. The team had a planned early pit stop within the
first 50 miles of the course as a quick spot check of everything,
and a BF Goodrich supported pit stop at Mile 130
for fuel and a driver/rider change. However, an unplanned stop had
to be made near the end of the course to replace a mangled rim and
cut tire. This is the first flat the team has had in 16 races and 4
years of SCORE Off Road racing. Don Moss reports that tires will
NOT take a sideways hit at speed into a rock pile. For that matter,
neither will the rim. “I was having too much fun having just
got out of a rocky section and wanting to make up time,”
explained Ken Moss. The team also discovered a downside to not
having flat tires……having a frozen jack from lack of
use ! When Ken pulled over to change the tire and discovered the
jack issue, some locals parked nearby came on over and helped us
change that tire out in less than 5 minutes ! Despite all this, the
#300 bronco finished the race in 6 hours and 52 minutes, over an
hour ahead of their next competitor. On a lighter note, Ken added this quip from his
navigator, Dave Grundman, “ On the one really offensive rough
section before checkpoint three, Dave took it upon himself to
inform me that there were two hundred and something whoops in that
one mile of fence line. He had counted every one.” Don reports that the worst surprise of the
weekend, aside from discovering the team’s lodging
reservations had been lost, was finding out the team’s fuel
was not delivered to the BFG pit. A big thanks goes out to team 702
(Craig Turner) and 708 (Doug Siewert), who we borrowed fuel
from. The team had only minor maintenance issues to
address after the last race in Laughlin in January. “The
biggest issue we had was an oil leak that was traced to the front
axle hitting the oil pan and distorting the area around the
dipstick tube,” reported Don. The Deaver
supplied rear springs were also swapped as part of the team’s
maintenance schedule. In their quest for a fourth Class 3
champion’s title, the Cinnamon Ranch racing team sets their
sights next on the SCORE Baja 500 the first weekend of June. The team is also eagerly awaiting the release of
a new movie – DUST TO GLORY. From the creators of STEP INTO
LIQUID, DUST TO GLORY is an all out action adventure movie
documenting the most notorious and dangerous race in the world, the
Tecate SCORE Baja 1000. See it in theatres April 1, 2005 . # # # | 
