Live Start Draw Tuesday at BajaHQ for Inaugural SCORE Baja 400

SCORE MEDIA CONTACT: Dominic Clark, dominic@score-international.com Sept. 9, 2019 174 entered to date

Live starting draw ‘Fiesta’ Tuesday at BajaHQ for historic Inaugural Lucerna SCORE Baja 400

       ENSENADA, Baja California, Mexico—Helping to celebrate the launching of a new SCORE Baja race, Hall of Fame desert racer Cameron Steele is hosting a live starting draw fiesta on Tuesday at his BajaHQ company for next week’s Inaugural Lucerna SCORE Baja 400. Celebrating its 46th year as the World’s Foremost Desert Racing Organization, the newest SCORE Baja race will be held next Wednesday through Sunday (Sept. 18-22) in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. ‘LIVE’ DRAWING AT BajaHQ Open to the racers, teams and the general public, SCORE will hold a ‘live’ drawing for starting positions, by class, on Tuesday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. (PT) at Cameron Steele’s BajaHQ Company which is located at 32981 Calle Perfecto in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. An Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Famer with two career SCORE Trophy Truck race wins for his popular Desert Assassins race team, Steele, who is also a prominent action sports TV announcer, is hosting the ‘Taco Fiesta’ at his specialty aftermarket race shop. Festivities will include a BFGoodrich Tires Pit Crew Challenge, contests, prizes and a variety of giveaways. BajaHQ may be reached at 949.481.7742. THE SHOW Round 3 of the four-race 2019 SCORE World Desert Championship has entries from all across the United States and around the world for next week’s internationally-televised desert race. The race and pre-race festivities will be held next Wednesday through Sunday in and around the heart of Ensenada, the seaside port on the Pacific Ocean, 80 miles south of San Diego. Nearly 200 vehicles, racing in classes for cars, trucks, UTVs, motorcycles and quads, are expected at the start line for this history-making, first-time SCORE race with racers from nearly 25 U.S. States and 10 countries anticipated. Long-time SCORE major sponsor BFGoodrich Tires has posted a US$5,000 contingency bonus for the race winner to help commemorate the start of this newest race on the SCORE schedule. LATEST ENTRY TOTAL With 174 entries to date that includes racers from 24 U.S. States, host country Mexico, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Peru and Spain, SCORE Trophy Truck leads the way with 36 entries (including six in the SCORE TT Legend class for drivers over 50 years old). Besides the marquee SCORE Trophy Truck, other classes with double-figure entries so far are Trophy Truck Spec with 25, Pro UTV FI (Forced Induction) with 17, Class 10 with 12 and the unlimited Class 1 with 10. Entries from the USA include racers from Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia. PRE-RUNNING Official practice, or pre-running, on the official race course for this year’s Inaugural Lucerna SCORE Baja 400 began this past Saturday. Pre-running is running from race-mile 39 to race-mile 360.75. The first 19.6 miles, which will be used in both directions during the race, will be available for pre-running only next week on Thursday (Sept. 19) and Friday (Sept. 20) and only in the outbound direction. The official course map, GPS files and course notes are located under Race Info on the SCORE Website at the following link: http://score-international.com/raceinfo/lucerna-score-baja-400-sept-18-22-2019/. GREEN FLAG The Inaugural Lucerna SCORE Baja 400 is an elapsed-time race with staggered starts as the green flag on Saturday (Sept. 21) will drop first for the motorcycles and quads at 6:20 a.m. (PDT) and approximately 10 a.m. (PDT) for the cars, trucks and UTVs. While the fastest vehicles are expected to finish in around eight hours, all vehicles will have a 16-hour time limit to become official finishers in the race. AIRING ON ESPN The race will air domestically on a delayed basis as a one-hour special on the World of X Games program on ESPN and will be syndicated internationally to nearly 25 countries in Europe, Latin America, South America and Asia. Co-producing the shows with SCORE is the award-winning BCII TV of Los Angeles led by producer Bud Brutsman. Announcers are SCORE racers Cameron Steele and Aaron Ampudia. START GRID-SCORE BAJA 1000 The results of this race will also determine the start order within each class for November’s iconic season-ending 52nd SCORE Baja 1000. SCOREscope 2019 REMAINING SCHEDULE

• Inaugural Lucerna SCORE Baja 400, Sept. 18-22, Ensenada, Mexico
• 52nd SCORE Baja 1000, Nov.19-24, Ensenada, Mexico

2020 SCHEDULE Here is the four-race 2020 SCORE World Desert Championship and for the fifth consecutive year all races will be held in Baja California, Mexico:

• 34th SCORE San Felipe 250, March 25-29, San Felipe, Mexico
• 52nd SCORE Baja 500, June 3-7, Ensenada, Mexico
• 2nd SCORE Baja 400, Sept. 16-20, Ensenada, Mexico
• 53rd SCORE Baja 1000, Nov.16-21, Ensenada, Baja California to La Paz, Baja California Sur

ABC TV IN 2019 The 2019 SCORE World Desert Championship is being televised on the ABC TV family of networks, marking the first time back on the ABC network since the 1967 and 1968 coverage of the Baja 1000 on ABC’s old Wide World of Sports show. The one-hour shows on the 33rd SCORE San Felipe 250, 51st SCORE Baja 500 and the 52nd SCORE Baja 1000 will be televised as part of ABC’s World of X Games year-long programming. Presented by SCORE sponsors Monster Energy and BFGoodrich Tires, the ABC World of X Games series profiles iconic action sports figures and also highlights athletes, artists, event previews and recaps. The inaugural Lucerna SCORE Baja 400 in September will air as a one-hour special on ESPN TV, also on the World of X Games programming. All of the SCORE race coverage shows continue to air internationally in nearly 25 countries in Europe, Asia and South America via syndication and ESPN International. SCORE SPONSORS… Official SCORE Sponsors: BFGoodrich Tires-Official Tire, Monster Energy-Official Energy Drink, King Shocks-Official Shock Absorber, Polaris RZR-Official UTV, RACELINE Wheels-Official Wheel, VP Racing Fuels-Official Fuel, Lucerna Hotels & Resorts-Official Hotel and official race title sponsor, Wide Open Excursions-Official Arrive and Drive Company, Crystal Bay Casino-Official Casino. SCORE Official Partners: PCI Race Radios, The Satellite Phone Store. Additional SCORE Associate Partners: Proturismo Ensenada, Baja California Secretary of Tourism, Mexicali Ayuntamiento, COTUCO Mexicali/San Felipe, Cruz Roja Mexicana, Corporate Helicopters. For more information regarding SCORE, visit the official website of the SCORE World Desert Championship at www.SCOREInternational.com. SCORE TROPHY TRUCK (36) *1L Scott Bailey *5L Clyde Stacy 6 Ricky Johnson 7 Bryce Menzies 9 Carlos ‘Apdaly’ Lopez 10 Alan Ampudia 11 Rob MacCachren 14 Bobby Pecoy 16 Cameron Steele 19 Tim Herbst 21 Gustavo ‘Tavo’ Vildosola 23 Dan McMillin *25L Mark Winkelman 26 Dave Taylor 27 Jonathan Brenthel 28 Corey Keysar 30 Robbie Pierce 31 Andy McMillin 32 Ryan Arciero 33 Todd Tuls *37L Rolf Helland 40 Chris Miller 41 Justin Lofton *47L Jim Bult 50 Zak Langley 54 Troy Herbst 70 Kevin Thompson *72L Rob Reinertson 77 Robby Gordon 80 David Kleiman 83 Luke McMillin 85 Mike Lawrence 88 Brett Sourapas 89 Mike Walser 97 Robert ‘BJ’ Baldwin 99 Dale Dondel *SCORE TT LEGEND CLASS 1 (10) 100 Brad Wilson 105 Mason Cullen 114 Al Torres 127 Cody Parkhouse 129 Brandon Bailey 138 Brian Wilson 150 Morgan Langley 162 Brendan Gaughan 168 Shelby Reid 185 Justin Davis TROPHY TRUCK SPEC (25) 2XX Jorge Sampietro 202 Chad Broughton 204 Sara Price 205 Joe Delucie 208 Andrew Entwistle 209 Rafael Navarro IV 211 Pat Sims 218 Chad Dohrman 220 Craig Christy-RS 237 Robert Malone 234 Jason McNeil 240 Bobby Patton 246 James Scully 250 John Langley 253 Mike Perez 260 Luis Pelayo 269 Guillermo Zamacona 270 Kelly McArthur 274 Elias Hanna 275 Jaun Sanchotena 279 Austin ‘A.J.’ Jones 293 Ryan Peacock 294 Vincent Munoz 295 William Hedrick Jr 299 Charles Dorrance HAMMER TRUCK UNLTD (1) 4421 Mike Hales-RS CLASS 10 (12) 1002 Clay Lawrence 1007 Cody Robinson 1008 Chase Warren 1011 Cesar Cuevas 1016 Hiram Duran 1022 Rafael Aguirre 1027 Arturo V. Malo 1030 James Anderson-RS 1048 Kevin Price 1062 J.J. Schnarr 1068 Cody Reid 1087 Ivan Tagle CLASS 7 (2) 700 Daniel Chamlee 703 Scott Brady CLASS 5 (1) 510 Gerardo Ibarra-RS PRO UTV FI (17) 2903 Juan Martinez 2904 Cory Sappington 2905 Marc Burnett 2907 Erik Davis 2910 Scott Trafton 2912 Tony Riggs 2914 Malcolm Mitchell 2919 Brandon Schueler 2926 Christine Giampaoli Zonca 2930 Sean Cook 2931 Craig Scanlon 2940 Erick Kozin 2960 Mitchell Alsup 2971 Wayne Matlock –RS 2983 Nicholas Gurries 2987 Edgar Garcia Leon 2989 Wes Miller SCORE LITES (8) 1201 Mario Alcala 1202 Matias Arjona IV 1206 Freddie Willert 1212 Martin Lizarraga 1224 Javier Rochin 1229 Douglas Satterfield -RS 1234 Steve Jones 1274 Mike Aguilar PRO UTV NA (7) 1905 Adrian Escandon 1908 John Andrew Entwistle 1954 Kristen Matlock -RS 1958 George Felix 1977 Darin Harvey 1978 T. Bradley Millner 1995 Kaden Wells CLASS 1/2-1600 (3) 1609 J. David Ruvalcaba -RS 1616 Angel Barajas-RS 1689 Marco Venegas PRO UTV UNLIMITED (3) 1850 Jesus Mendez Jr 1851 Herman Johnson 1877 Josh Herzing PRO UTV STOCK (1) 3936 Rodrigo Ampudia CLASS 8 (2) 810 Jose Contreras 818 Jesus Beltrones Hurtado CLASS 3 (1) 313 David Orzolek BAJA CHALLENGE (2) BC2 David Payne BC4 Edward Muncey CLASS 5-1600 (4) 550 Luis Herrera 554 Rigoberto Cabrera 571 David Heredia 582 Rodolfo Martinez-RS CLASS 7F (2) 714F Justin Park 725F Kelly McNeil CLASS 7SX (2) 751 Mike Lesle 740 Gerardo Novelo RS CLASS 11 (4) 1111 Eric Solorzano 1113 Mario Vazquez (DOR-Kent Thygerson) 1121 Dennis Hollenbeck 1152 Elmer Cayetano SPT UNLTD TRUCK (1) 1414 Jessalyn Sells SPT OPEN-WHEEL (1) 1500 Diane Gianelli PRO MOTO UNLIMITED (4) 1x Justin Morgan 4x Ray Dal Soglio 5x Colton Udall 66x Santiago Creel PRO MOTO LIMITED (2) 100x Santiago Creel 180x Fernando Beltran PRO MOTO 40 (1) 444x Jason Trubey PRO MOTO 30 (7) 300x Luis M. Gomez 308x Ryan Liebelt 310x Enrique Fuhrken 325x Jano Montoya 360x Santiago Creel 365x Nick Lanning 370x Francisco Septien PRO MOTO IRONMAN (3) 709x Lukas Spies 729x Michael Skurkis 734x Bob Kimber PRO MOTO 50 (1) 500x Giovanni Spinali Pro Quad (2) 1a Said Sanchez 21a Adolfo Arellano Sportsman SPT QUAD (6) 100a Danny Magdalena 111a Alejandro Bourge 112a Daniel Gaytan 119a Gustavo Torres 123a Ismael Hernandez 125a Brisa Fernanda Ochoa SPT M/C (3) 201x Scott Borden 212x Carlos Silva 284x Nick Robertson (ROR-Shane Schorno)