Best in the Desert Terribles 250 at Primm 2008

The Terrible's 250 is special to us at Prerunner Maniac as this was the first race we covered for you. Last year the race was in Pahrump Nevada, and since then the Herbst family purchased Primm and because of their support of desert racing the race is now the Terrible's 250 at Primm.

The Terrible's 250 is titled the "Richest Off-road Race in Nevada" for a good reason. The Herbst Family puts up $10,000 to the overall winner of the race. This surely explains the high number of entries.

Best in the Desert Director Casey Folks, did a great job of laying out the track. We were told by some of the drivers that is was a very challenging (Read rough) race. I am assuming they were talking about the area that went into the mountains as most of the spectators' areas looked completely flat. This may have come from pressure from the BLM to “keep the dust down”. Even with these limitations the action was non-stop, and proved to be too tough for some racers with the high number of DNFs we saw.

I guess if desert racing wasn't tough it would not be called, “Best in the Desert”.

The Terrible's 250 is broken down into two groups with the slower vehicles starting at a very early 5:30am. The second group consisting of the faster cars and trucks had plenty of time to sleep in as they started staging around 12:30pm.

From a photographers point of view I was a little disappointed with the way the start line was arranged in relation to the infamous “Dike Jump”. It started a few hundred yards away and off to the left a bit so the racers had to make a soft right turn before hitting this great jump. Even though this was a loop race this was the only time racers would see this jump. The only saving grace was the huge puddle at the very place where everyone was landing. This made for some great shots.

Crossing the finish line first and taking home the cash was the 1585 car of Steve Croll with a time of only 4:26:57 giving him the overall win and 1st in his class.

Taking second overall and second in class 1500 was Shawn Croll in the 1586 car a mere 25 seconds after the first place finisher with a time of 4:27:22.

First place in Trick Truck and 3rd overall went to Will Staats in the 42 truck with a total time of 4:31:42.