Trophy Trucks are the fastest class of off-road racing vehicles which are designed and built to resemble modern pickup trucks. Although any truck that meets the safety standards can race the trophy truck class, they, for the most part, feature long travel suspensions and high power engines. They are intended for desert racing, and most are not street legal like their practice counterparts, the pre-runners. Trophy Trucks can reach speeds in excess of 135 miles per hour even over rough terrain. This puts them among the fastest off-road vehicles in the world. The trucks are most frequently associated with the Baja 1000 race, series that have featured trophy trucks including SCORE International, and Best In The Desert or BITD, in which they are referred to as "Trick Trucks".

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Team AGM many positive impressions but unfortunately a DNF

Many positive impressions but unfortunately a DNF result: That’s the report from Armin Schwarz and All German Motorsports at the San Felipe 250, the second round of the 2012 US SCORE Championship. On the ca. 250 mile route around San Felipe, contestants tackled several canyons between the Gulf of Mexico coast and the back-country. Typical for this race is that the 100 miles over washboard bumps pose a real test for man and machine.
All German Motorsports had prepared the AGM-Jimco X6 SCORE Trophy Truck for this challenge. After the team found that they needed even longer springs at the season-opening Laughlin Desert Challenge in January, their partner Eibach produced them. With partner FOX, the shocks absorbers had to be adjusted to fit the new springs, and partner Danzio retuned the engine. These preparations were successful: “I was really satisfied because the truck was very fast. As far as performance was concerned it’s very good. Especially on the very, very bumpy and hard passages, the truck did everything we wanted,” concludes Schwarz.

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Jesse Jones #76 Trophy Truck

Looks like Jesse Jones is ready to put the pedal to the metal at the Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 with his Fox Shocks branded Trophy Truck

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