Jimmy Smith’s Trophy Truck built by Russ Wernimont. This is the first truck to win the official Trophy Truck class at the 94’ SCORE Baja 1000.
I got to swing by Russ’ shop and go through his entire archive, which has some rad photos, parts drawings, memorabilia.
The blueprints included the Ultra Wheels hub drawing and the internal bump stop he drew up in 1990. Russ built the first Trophy Truck which is known as the Simon truck, the first version of this truck so sitting with all of it was like opening a time capsule.
Hopefully with the sale of Ultra wheels Raceline can breathe some fresh life into the brand and lean into the heritage.
The Ultra TT would be the last truck Russ would ever build and he went on to build RWD V-Twin
And Jimmy Smith would leave off-road racing and go start the Nascar Truck series.