UPLAND, California — Cole Cabrera in the #53 Ag Source Magazine Dodge Dakota at the ripe old age of 14, captures his first Speed Truck win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway “Bullring” on April 18th, 2009, moving to the top position in the ASA Speed Truck Challenge Championship points and remains atop the board for the 2009 Rookie of the Year honors.
"The Speed Truck series is second to none and gives drivers at age 14 the chance to race in full body, heavy vehicles before turning 16."— Cole Cabrera
Cole hailing from Exeter, California, a freshman Honor Roll Student at Exeter Union High School is your every day high school freshman with the love of dirt bikes, video games, golf, school and working on his Speed Truck. Cole started racing dirt bikes at age 4 and continued through age 10 when he found himself behind the wheel of a Micro Dirt Sprint Car where he still competes. The last couple of years he has also raced Legend Cars on the pavement. At age 14 Cole’s dad found Speed Trucks and provided Cole with a 1race rental program at the end of the 2008 racing season. During the off season the team purchased a Speed Truck and hired Mike Munoz for the Crew Chief position and launched their 2009 campaign finishing 4th at the Lucas Oil I-10 Speedway on March 7th.
At Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s “Bullring” during the Friday night practice sessions Mike Munoz stated “the Speed Truck was good right out of the hauler and minor adjustments got the truck right where Cole wanted it.” “Saturday morning we continued dialing him in and our qualifying times showed us in second position but only missing our first pole by less than .021 of a second. Joey Licata getting his first pole rolled a one on the dice and placed us outside front row for the start of the 100 lap feature event.” Concluded Munoz.
Bobby Cabrera, Cole’s dad said “We knew our truck was as good as any other truck on the track and the time splits between first and last qualifiers was only .321 of a second so it was anyone’s race to win or lose. Cole got the lead on lap two and never looked back even though he had great pressure from Jeremiah Wagner in the #77 Speed Truck.
On lap 96 Jeremiah was on our bumper and we told Cole “it’s time to go” and he pulled away by about a 3 truck margin and got his first Speed Truck win. We could not be happier to accomplish this in only our second race this season and we are ready for the Verve! Havasu 95 Speedway race on April 25th.” Bobby concluded.
“I want to thank Ag Source Magazine, all my crew and my parents for giving me the opportunity to race in the ASA Speed Truck Challenge.” Stated Cole. “The Speed Truck series is second to none and gives drivers at age 14 the chance to race in full body, heavy vehicles before turning 16. This will help my racing career by preparing me for the next step. Thanks to ASA for having awesome insurance that allows us the chance to race and special thanks to Verve! for helping the series and the drivers earn extra money.” Cole concluded.
With Cole’s win at the Bullring, the Championship Points shows him atop the board at 118 over 2nd place Randel King at 112, 3rd place Joey Licata at 111, 4th place Jamie Bennett at 100 and 5th place Jeff Catlin at 98. But, Cole’s charge on the Rookie of the Year battle shows him leading at 10 points with Jeremiah Wagner at 6, Josh Goshen at 4, Jack Madrid at 2 and Taylor Cuzick and Chris Birdsong both at 1point. Guess you could say Las Vegas was very, very good for Cole Cabrera!
The Speed Trucks are 2450 pounds, full tube chassis, 108 inch wheelbase, 375 horsepower Van Gordon Racing V-8’s, fired by Mr. Gasket’s - Mallory / ACCEL ignition systems and VP Race Fuel, with 2-speed direct drive transmissions and Speedway Engineering aluminum quick change rear ends on 8-inch Hoosier Racing Tires and Allied Racing Wheels and can reach speeds of 105 MPH at the ½ mile TOYOTA Speedway at Irwindale oval and 150 MPH on the 2.1-mile road course at Firebird International Raceway. The Speed Trucks sport exact replica Norris Racing fiberglass bodies in Chevy S-10, Chevy Colorado, Ford Ranger, Dodge Dakota and Toyota Tacoma.
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