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The most extensive and impressive team performance in 2012 was easily the RPM Racing team out of Bristol, Tenn. with eight entries in eight classes each race, the team earned a SCORE-record 20 class wins in 2012. With Justin Matney, one of the team’s primary drivers just returning from rehabbing a bad back, team principal andregular driver Clyde Stacy along with several other drivers.
In the end, RPM Racing won four season point championships, finishing second in two classes, third in one and sixth in another. Stacy was unable to drive in the season-finale because of injuries sustained in a non-racing accident prior to the race which kept the team from winning at least one additional season title.
While Lopez was third in SCORE Trophy Truck, the RPM Racing point champions in four SCORE classes were Stacy, Bristol, Va. (Class 2 (PSD-Chevy), Eduardo Laguna, Mexicali, Mexico (Class 6, Chevy Colorado), Rodolfo Iribe, Tijuana, Mexico (Class 8, Chevy Silverado) and Jim Bunn, Bristol, Va. (Sportsman Buggy, Geiser-Chevy).
Iribe finished the season undefeated with five Class 8 wins and Laguna won four of five races in Class 6. Derek Fletcher, Abingdon, Va. (Class 4, PSD-Chevy) finished second in season points as did Stacy in Class 5-1600. Stacy had three race wins in Class 2 and two in Class 5-1600 while Bunn also had three class wins this season in capturing the Sportsman Buggy title.
With Stacy was the driver of record as well in the unlimited Class 1 where the team slipped from third to a final sixth in points even though the vehicle finished third in the season-finale. Points are only awarded if the driver of record either starts of finishes a race and Stacy was unable to participate in the event as he recovers from his injuries.
With two straight race wins after a second in the season-opening round in Class 1/2-1600, Cody Robinson, El Centro, Calif., ended up 14th in SCORE overall and earned his first SCORE point title by winning his class with 343 points in a Romo-VW.
Besides RPM Racing’s Iribe the only other racer who won his respective class in all five races in 2012 to lead his class point standings was veteran Donald Moss, Sacramento Calif. (Class 3, Ford Bronco). Moss now has earned 10 SCORE season point championships, all in Class 3 and all since 2002.
FIVE THREE-TIMERS
While RPM Racing’s Laguna (Class 6) was the only racer to win four of the five SCORE Desert Series races this year, besides RPM’s Stacy (Class 2), five other racers won their class three times out of five races in 2012 to win their respective class point titles: Kevin Carr, San Diego (Class 5, unlimited VW Baja Bug), Andy Bell, Long Beach California (Stock Mini, Toyota Tacoma), Elias Hanna, Ensenada, Mexico (Class 7SX, Ford Ranger), Billy Wilson/Wes Bevly IV, Corpus Christi, Texas (Class 7-2, BajaLite-Chevy and West Bevly III, Corpus Christi, Texas (Stock Full, Ford F-150).
Besides Robinson (Class 1-2/1600), the other four-wheel vehicle class point champs with two class wins this season were Canada’s Erich Reisen (Class 5-1600, VW Baja Bug), Otoniel Huerta, San Luis, Ariz. (SCORE Lites, Curry-VW) and Dan Chamlee, Carpenteria, Calif. (Class 7, Ford Ranger).
RPM Racing’s Matney (co-driver in Class and Stacy each have now earned five SCORE season class point championships with Chamlee picking up his eighth while Mexico’s Eric Solorzano earned his 11th SCORE season title in Class 11 for VW Sedans. Carr and Mike Shaffer, Oakland, Calif. (Class 4, Custom-Chevy) both now have four SCORE season class crowns.