August 15, 2007 PCI Racing Trophy Truck #7 begins early planning for an OVERALL WIN in the 40th anniversary running of the Baja 1000.

San Diego, CA driver, Dave Sykes and Cypress, CA driver, Scott Steinberger announced today that they will be teaming up to race the 40th running of the 2007 SCORE Baja 1000.  Running under the PCI Racing banner, and competing in the #7 Fabtech/Toyo Tire Trophy truck, “We plan on splitting the course into sections and aggressively attacking the race” announced Sykes.

Dave Sykes has been racing for the past 14 years in the Syko Racing and Andataco Motorsports trucks.  Sykes has already won three (3) previous Baja 1000’s and numerous podium finishes.  This will be Sykes’s 14th entry in the Baja 1000 and he will be racing for his third different class win.

“Teaming up with Scott and his professional team for this world renowned race is exactly what I have been looking for.  I am excited to be able to team up with someone of Scott’s caliber and race the 2007 Baja 1000 with him.  Scott has proven himself for 18 years as the off-road driver to beat.  We will be a formidable and proven pair to tackle the BAJA peninsula.  We both have competed at the highest levels in desert racing, backed up by results proving that we can win on any weekend.  This is the race to win and the combination of our two teams gives us a solid opportunity to win the overall” Sykes said.

Scott Steinberger has been driving the PCI Racing Team #7 Fabtech/Toyo Tire Trophy truck for the past 6 years and has been off road racing since 1988. Scott has won championships in three different classes. He also has five Baja 1000 race wins and over 20 different individual races victories.  “I am excited to enter my 18th Baja 1000 and look forward to teaming up with Dave Sykes who has proven that he can compete at any speed and in any class in the off road racing business. This looks to be an extremely tough race course that will be a perfect match for our well proven Trophy Truck’s capabilities. ” says Steinberger .

The #7 Fabtech/Toyo Tire Trophy truck is outfitted by Fabtech, Toyo Tires, PCI Race Radios, Hella, Mastercraft, Borla, Neo, True Flow, Signpros and Sign Methods.

Look for this winning truck at all the pre race events and festivities.

www.pciracing.com

Contact Person:
David Sykes
619 987-9191
dave@syko.com

July 2, 2007 SCORE CEO Sal Fish announced the proposed course for the 40th Tecate SCORE Baja 1000.

The race will ceremoniously begin in Tijuana, Mexico on Sunday, November 11, 2007 with racers parading from Tijuana to Ensenada. Monday November 12th will be technical inspection and contingency with the race starting on Tuesday morning.

This special peninsula run will follow the same route as the 2007 SCORE Tecate Baja 500 until turning right after the water crossing at Mike's Sky Rancho and then going up the steps, descending to El Coyote, jumping back on the 2007 500 course in reverse to San Telmo, behind Meling Ranch and down to Santa Domingo.

From Santa Domingo the course stays East of Highway 1 to El Rosario then heads South-East to the mines of El Marmol  before merging on to Highway 1 North of Catavina. Rally Loggers enforce the 60 mph speed limit before hitting the dry lake at Chapala on the way to Coco's corner. Into the Calamajue Wash, heading for Bahia de Los Angeles.

From Bay of LA to San Ignacio it's a familiar journey duplicating of the 2006 SCORE Baja 1000 course. From San Ignacio South West to Scorpion Bay via El Datil, climbing into the mountains before emerging in Loreto. With an almost a straight shot to Constitucion before venturing on to Las Pocitas. A beach run brings us to El Tepetate before continuing South towards Todos Santos following the Baja 2000 course to Cabo San Lucas approximate mileage: 1300

May 23, 2007  Just got back from pre running the Baja 500 with Robby Gordon Motorsports. We tested out a new GPS file that has this years 500 course, chase roads, old courses, highways and a whole bunch of tricks put together as one file

Robby's comment was that it has too much information on the screen for him as a driver!

A special "drivers" version is being created to address that issue.

President Fox Commends SCORE Officials
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In racing, timing is everything. On June 1, President Vicente Fox made an official visit to the port of Ensenada to preside over Dia de la Marina (Navy Day) activities on the same day that SCORE officials were putting the finishing touches on the upcoming 38th Tecate SCORE Baja 500 Desert Race scheduled for June 2-4. Following the inauguration of Expomar marine exposition, SCORE President/CEO Sal Fish and SCORE Mexican Liaison/Attorney Oscar Ramos took advantage of the opportunity to greet President Fox and present him with a SCORE racing jacket and a handsome plaque featuring a three-dimensional scale model of Scott Steinberger's #7 SCORE Trophy-Truck. It was the first time that either SCORE official had met the Mexican President.

It was an incredible coincidence that President Fox was in town on the eve of the oldest desert race in the world and it was very gracious of him to meet with us, declared Sal Fish. We spent about five to seven minutes talking he is very charismatic and has a presence about him. He thanked us for our thirty-plus years of bringing tourism to the Baja peninsula. Meeting President Fox is definitely one of the highlights of my involvement with SCORE International Off-Road Racing.

President Fox was very interested and aware of our race, stated Oscar Ramos. It was a unique opportunity to meet him and invite him to our November Baja 1000, which will be the last SCORE race under his presidential administration.

With the right timing, perhaps President Fox will be among the hundreds of thousands of race aficionados who turn out for the 39th Tecate SCORE Baja 1000, an epic desert race down the Baja California peninsula from Ensenada to La Paz on November 15-18, 2006.

March 12, 2006 - San Felipe, Mexico
Race morning started off with a beautiful sunrise over the Sea of Cortez in downtown San Felipe, but the weather quickly changed and on depending where you were on the race course it ranged from sunny skies and a slight breeze to windy and rain and up on the Northern edge, snow. Starting 22nd out of 24 Trophy Trucks taking the green flag at 30-second intervals Scott Steinberger and Justin Harchar, in his first race as co-rider, went huge off the jumps at Zoo Road causing the standing room only crowd to roar with approval.

While charging up through the field, a nerf to a slower TT caused some damage to the hood latches forcing an unscheduled stop at race mile 55. PCI Racing Pit Captain, Matt Hendrich, and crew quickly removed the damaged front end allowing Scott and Justin to rejoin the hunt without losing a position. After passing checkpoint 1, in 13th place on corrected time, Scott put the hammer down and picked up 7 more spots arriving at race mile 93 for a planned fuel stop 6th on the road. The PCI crew performed a flawless stop dumping 45 gallons of VP Race Fuel in under 25 seconds - without losing a position. Trophy Truck #7 continued on a fast, steady pace coming out of Matomi Wash at race mile 196 as the 4th truck on the road. PCI Racing Pit Captain, Rob Bowman, and crew performed a timed fuel stop, again with no loss of race position.

At race mile, 200 things started to heat up literally. The EFI digital display showed the engine water temperature was quickly approaching damaging levels and they needed to stop. PCI chase trucks arrived quickly and started changing out the water pump, as the bid for a podium finish evaporated. In spite of the fast response and repair work by the team, the stop was costly: losing over an hour of time and 4 positions on course. At race mile 222 PCI Pit Captain, Brian Lawrence, and crew replaced a spare tire lost somewhere on Old Puertecitios Road while charging hard to make up for lost time. Crossing the finish line 5 hours 31 minutes after it all started, the PCI Team was relegated to a hard fought 8th place finish.

If you have an email address for any of the following people please reply with it.

Justin Harchar  Rob Bowman  Andy Thomas  Jared Dick  Jason Brightman  Brian Lawrence  Mike Bursick  Brad Brown  Dave Wachter.

September 3, 2005 - Good morning everyone. PCI Racing is adding something new just in time for the SCORE Primm 300 September 9-10, 2005 an email newsletter and a website link to keep everybody up to speed.

You’re reading the first newsletter in an ongoing effort to keep the team up to date with news, race schedules and pit support planning. The website link is temporary until we get everything online at PCIRacing.com

We have a team meeting planned for 6:00pm at the PCI transporter