SCORE MEDIA CONTACT: Dominic Clark, Dominic@SCORE-International.com

 

August 5, 2023

 

‘Celebrating 50 Years of SCORE Desert Racing Excellence’

4th SCORE Baja 400, presented by VP Racing Fuels

VildosolaX2, Steele, LawrenceX2, MyersX2, ConcreteX2,

Wells, Janesky, Polvoorde, Cobb, Wright, Amado all in

 

spectacular event is Round 3 of four-race 2023 SCORE World Desert Championship;

September 13-17 in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico; more info at…

 https://score-international.com/raceinfo/2023-baja-400-sept-12-17-2023/

 

#SCORE Baja 400

NOTE: Current Media unofficial entry list located at bottom of text

 

     ENSENADA, Baja California, Mexico—‘Celebrating 50 Years of SCORE Desert Racing Excellence’ this year, just one week into the very busy online racer registration, early entries for the upcoming 4th SCORE Baja 400, presented by VP Racing Fuels, include father and son Gustavo Vildosola Sr and Gustavo ‘Tavo’ Vildosola Jr, Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee Cameron Steele, Mikey Lawrence and his uncle Clay Lawrence, brothers Dan Myers and Andrew Myers in the same class, Concrete Motorsports teammates Kevin Thompson and Harley Letner in the same class, Kaden Wells, Lawrence Janesky, Christopher Polvoorde, Joshua Cobb, Brandon Wright, and Alirio Amado.

WHEN

     The youngest race in the long and storied 50-year history of the World’s Foremost Desert Racing Organization will be held Sept. 13-17 in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.

EARLY BIRDS

     Among the latest group of early entries, part of 102 of the over 225 official entries expected in this newest of the legendary SCORE Baja races, are Mexico’s Gustavo Vildosola Sr (SCORE TT Legend), his son Gustavo ‘Tavo’ Vildosola Jr (SCORE Trophy Truck), Cameron Steele, San Clemente, Calif. (SCORE Trophy Truck), Mikey Lawrence, Banning, Calif. (SCORE Trophy Truck), his Uncle Clay Lawrence, Banning, Calif. (SCORE TT Legend), SoCal brothers Dan Myers, Newport Beach, Calif. and Andrew Myers, San Marcos, Calif., in separate SCORE Trophy Trucks, Concrete Motorsports’ Kevin Thompson, New Braunfels, Texas and Harley Letner, Corona, Calif., (separate SCORE Trophy Trucks), Kaden Wells, Hurricane, Utah (Pro UTV Open), Lawrence Janesky, Middlebury, Conn. (Pro UTV NA), Christopher Polvoorde, Hemet, Calif. (SCORE Trophy Truck), Joshua Cobb, Wittmann, Ariz. (Trophy Truck Spec), Brandon Wright, Oak Hills, Calif. (Pro Moto Ironman) and Alirio Amado, The Woodlands, Texas (Pro Moto 40).

WHAT

     Online racer registration along with a detailed schedule of events both are available on the SCORE website for Round 3 of the four-race 2023 SCORE World Desert Championship. Entries from all across the United States and around the world are anticipated for the upcoming desert race in Mexico’s Baja California.

     Inaugurated in 2019, the SCORE Baja 400 was not held in 2020 because of the international pandemic and in 2021 started and finished without spectators Northeast of the central city and returned to the heart of the city in 2022.

     The three defending overall and SCORE Trophy Truck champions in this new race are Ryan Arciero, Foothill Ranch, Calif. (2019) and Las Vegas’ Bryce Menzies (2021 and 2022).

ONLINE RACER REGISTRATION

     Online registration, by class, for Pro and Sportsman cars, trucks, UTVs, motorcycles and quads, is ongoing through the SCORE website. Information on all SCORE races can be found on the home page under the Race Info tab.

     Online racer registration will close at 5 p.m. PDT on Friday, Sept. 1. In person registration will be held in the SCORE Ensenada office until 5 p.m. PDT on Thursday, Sept. 7.

     For more info, visit

https://score-international.com/raceinfo/2023-baja-400-sept-12-17-2023/

WHERE

     The race and pre-race festivities will be in the heart of Ensenada, the seaside port on the Pacific Ocean, 80 miles south of San Diego. All race festivities including racer registration, media registration pre-race contingency and the start/finish line compound will all be held in or adjacent to the iconic Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center. Contingency and the start/finish line area will once again be the fantastic, fan-friendly Boulevard Costero.

THE FIELD

     Nearly 225 vehicles are expected at the start line for this third-time SCORE race with racers from as many as 25 U.S. States and 10 countries anticipated. Pro and Sportsman Classes are offered for cars, trucks, UTVs, motorcycles and quads. In just seven days since online registration opened, there are racers from 20 U.S. States, host country Mexico, Australia, Canada, France, and New Zealand.

     Leading the list of entries to date are SCORE Trophy Truck with 32 entries (including five in SCORE TT Legend for drivers over 50 years old), Trophy Truck Spec with 28 entries, and Pro UTV Open with 12 entries.

MEXICO’S GANADORS MUY FAMOSO

     Considered the first family of Mexican desert racers, Gustavo Vildosola Sr and his son Gustavo ‘Tavo’ Vildosola Jr are both entered in the SCORE Baja 400.

     From Mexicali, Gustavo, 69, and Tavo, 41, are both veteran SCORE champion racers with numerous race wins and season point titles on their impressive resumes.

     For this year’s SCORE Baja 400, they will be in different trucks, one in SCORE TT Legend (SCORE Trophy Truck drivers over 50 years old) and the other in SCORE Trophy Truck.

     Vildosola Sr will drive the No. 1L all-wheel drive Mexicana Logistics Ford Raptor built by Mason Motorsports in SCORE TT Legend.

     Vildosola Sr won the 2022 SCORE TT Legend (drivers over 50 years old) season point title following undefeated season with four straight victories. Vildosola Sr, also won the SCORE TT Legend season point championship in 2018 with Scott Bailey as a second driver.

     He won in all four races in 2022 with help from legendary Hall of Fame racer Ricky Johnson, 58, El Cajon, Calif. who drove the first half of each race.

     The dynamic duo started the 2023 SCORE World Desert Championship with Vildosola Sr winning the SCORE TT Legend class once again and Vildosola Jr finishing fifth in SCORE Trophy Turck. In the SCORE Baja 500 this year, Vildosola Sr continued his SCORE TT Legend winning streak while Vildosola Jr finished in 12th place in SCORE Trophy Truck.

     Vildosola Sr also has three career SCORE Trophy Truck race wins in his illustrious career in SCORE desert racing. Vildosola Sr, who has raced in many classes in his illustrious career.

     Gustavo ‘Tavo’ Vildosola Jr drives the No. 21 all-wheel drive Mexicana Logistics Ford Raptor built by Vildosola racing in SCORE Trophy Truck.

     Vildosola Sr won SCORE TT Legend in the 2022 SCORE Baja 400.

STEELE-Y CAM

     He may not play a musical instrument or carry a note singing, yet he is another of the many second-generation champion SCORE desert racers. Cameron ‘Steele-y Cam’ Steele is not only a two-time SCORE Trophy Truck race winner he is also the affable leader of the Desert Assassins race team.

     He also finds time to help operate his SoCal Baja HQ aftermarket company, lead both an annual motorcycle and his annual ‘Trail of Missions’ truck tour down the Baja peninsula, emcee numerous events, host live stream internet shows, and is an action sport TV commentator who has announced a variety of competitions from IndyCar to the SCORE race coverage TV shows. And a huge supporter of orphanages in Baja California.

     As far as racing is concerned, Steele, 55, of San Clemente, Calif., loves to stay busy and in years past has competed and had podium finishes in multiple classes in the same race, but now focuses on his No. 16 Desert Assassins Ford Raptor, built by Geiser Bros, in SCORE Trophy Truck.

     Steele won the last two SCORE Trophy Truck races of the 2018 season after finishing second in the iconic 50th anniversary of the legendary SCORE Baja 1000 in 2017.

     Steele’s second driver will once again be third-generation champion racer Ryan Arciero, 49, Foothill Ranch, Calif., who has four career SCORE Trophy Truck race wins, including the inaugural SCORE Baja 400 in 2019.

     While Steele is hunting for his first class win in this race, Ryan won the overall and SCORE Trophy Truck division in the inaugural 2019 SCORE Baja 400.

     The Steele/Arciero pair opened the 2023 season with a 17th place finish in SCORE Trophy Truck in the SCORE San Felipe 250 and followed that up with a rare DNF in the SCORE Baja 500.

LAWRENCE X2

     Another of the many family entries in the SCORE Baja 500 is the Lawrence family of Banning, Calif. that features two generations of racers, a nephew and his uncle racing in two separate classes in Lawrence Equipment race trucks.

     In Ensenada the Lawrence family has one entry in SCORE Trophy Truck and one in SCORE TT Legend.

     Both with top finishes and championships, Mikey Lawrence, 35, is the driver of record in the No. 85 GMC truck built by Herbst-Smith Fab in SCORE Trophy Truck while his uncle Clay Lawrence, 61, is the driver of record in the No. 85L GMC truck also built by Herbst-Smith Fab in SCORE TT Legend.

     A former SCORE class point champion (Class 10 in 2008, 2009, 2012), Mikey Lawrence opened the 2023 campaign with a 19th place finish in SCORE Trophy Truck while his uncle Clay Lawrence finished on the podium in second place in SCORE TT Legend. In this year’s SCORE Baja 500, Mikey finished 15th and Clay finished on the podium in third place in their respective classes.

     Mikey Lawrence finished the 2022 SCORE World Desert Championship in third place in SCORE Trophy Truck points while Clay Lawrence ended up second in SCORE TT Legend points.

     In the SCORE Baja 400, Mikey Lawrence has finishes of 22nd, 13th, and 15th. In this new race, Clay Lawrence has results of DNF, sixth and second. The first two years he raced in Trophy Truck spec and in SCORE TT Legend last year.

MYERSX2

   Another second and third generation SCORE race team, Myers racing returned to SCORE in 2021 after an absence for several years. The famous SoCal racing family is back in a major way with two family members in SCORE Trophy Truck. Both are part of the powerful Toyota Escondido TE Motorsports Team.

     Dan Myers, 44, Newport Beach, Calif., will be driver of record in SCORE Trophy Truck while his younger brother Andrew Myers, 43 of San Marcos will be in another SCORE Trophy Truck.

     Dan and Andrew’s older brother Steve Myers, 57 of Newport Beach, is waiting for a third SCORE Trophy Truck to be finished but will be available again as an additional driver for Dan Myers.

     Dan Myers will be racing in SCORE Trophy Truck in the No. 6 TE Motorsports Toyota Tundra built by SCORE racer Robby Gordon while Andrew Myers will drive in SCORE Trophy Truck in his No. 69 Toyota Tundra built by Herbst-Smith Fab.

     A second-generation SCORE race team, Dan Myers and Andrew Myers have both had their share of race wins in SCORE racing over the years as they continue this current Myers family adventure.

     Dan Myers was sixth in points out of 44 racers in SCORE Trophy Truck last year, finishing all four races with a season-high 10th place finish in the SCORE Baja 1000. Andrew Myers only raced in last year’s SCORE Baja 400 where he was a DNF.

     The biggest Myers family SCORE class win was in 2000 when Steve Myers was the driver of record and split the driving with his brothers Dan and Andrew to win Class 10 in the epic new millennium race of nearly 1,700 miles that started in Ensenada and finished in Cabo San Lucas.

     Andrew was away from desert racing for the most part for nearly a decade as he pursued a NASCAR stock car racing career. During his NASCAR years he competed in the Truck Series, the ARCA Series as well as both the NASCAR Pro Series West and the NASCAR Pro Series East.

     In this year’s season-opening SCORE San Felipe 250, Andrew Myers finished fourth in SCORE Trophy Truck out of 39 starters while Dan Myers suffered a DNF. In the 2023 SCORE Baja 500, Andrew finished eighth in class and Dan was 13th.

CONCRETE MOTORSPORTS X2

     After struggling to reach the finish line for a few years, back in SCORE Baja races after a short sabbatical and two trucks, Kevin Thompson and Harley Letner will each be driving in the SCORE Trophy Truck class in their No. 70 and their No. 71 Concrete Motorsports Chevy Silverado trucks. One is built by Herbst/Smith Fab and the other by Mason Motorsports.

     Working hard to build their resume as a team in SCORE Baja racing, Thompson, 48, New Braunfels, Texas and third-generation SCORE racer Letner, 39, have won several races and titles in domestic races in the U.S.

     So far in this year’s SCORE races, the team finished 11th in San Felipe and 14th in the SCORE Baja 500 in their new AWD No. 70 Chevy Silverado built by Mason Motorsports.

     For this year’s SCORE Baja 400, Letner will drive the Concrete Motorsports No. 71 Chevy Silverado built by SoCal’s Herbst/Smith Fab.

     Letner and his late cousin Kory Halopoff teamed for years in SCORE racing, winning several titles and races, including the overall victory in the 2009 SCORE Baja 500.

DEEP WELLS

     The Wells go deep in Utah and Risq Racing of Hurricane, Utah, is all about the Wells family racing team.

     A two-generation desert racing team, family patriarch Travis Wells, and his wife Libby, both of Apple Valley, Utah, own the Risq Racing race team than includes their son Kaden Wells, 24, Hurricane, Utah.

     Emma Cornwell, daughter of SCORE Tech Director Dan Cornwell, is the navigator for Kaden Wells.

     After four season class point titles in five years (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022) Kaden Wells in the Pro UTV NA (Naturally Aspirated) class, has moved up to the Pro UTV Open class in 2023 and drives the team’s new No. 1895 Risq Racing Polaris RZR Pro R.

     In the 2022 SCORE season, Wells had a pair of third-place podium finishes followed by a pair of class wins to secure his fourth season point championship.

     Wells made it to the finish line at the 2023 SCORE San Felipe 250 as 13th out of 17 starters in the Pro UTV Open class. It was his debut in the elite Pro UTV Open class. In this year’s SCORE Baja 500, Wells finished 12th out of 20 starters in his class.

JANESKY

     Lawrence Janesky is a successful businessman from Middlebury, Connecticut, who started riding dirt bikes late at age 32 with his brother. When his son Tanner turned five, Lawrence got him on a dirt bike and the two have been riding together ever since. Years later, after touring in Utah, South Africa, and Columbia, the two decided to tour with Chris Haines Baja Motorcycle Adventure Tours where they first learned about the SCORE Baja 1000. The two later teamed up with the Hall of Famer Haines as their team manager and raced their first SCORE Baja 1000 in 2015, winning the Sportsman Motorcycle Class.

     From that humble start, Lawrence and his son Tanner quickly morphed into racing several times in the Pro Moto Ironman class for solo riders, especially attempting to finish the iconic SCORE Baja 1000.

     What evolved from their inspirational efforts were four separate memorable You Tube documentaries: Into the Dust, Into the Dust2, Into the Dust3 and Into the Dust4 which have had nearly five million views.

     Lawrence Janesky, 58, has entered the Pro UTV NA (Naturally Aspirated) class. in the No. 1914 Honda Talon.

     In this year’s SCORE San Felipe 250, Lawrence Janesky opened the season with a fourth-place finish in Pro UTV NA and he also led a team in the Sportsman Motorcycle class where they finished fifth out of nine starters in the class. Racing in just the Pro UTV NA class, Janesky finished second in this year’s SCORE Baja 500.

     As of today, Tanner Janesky, 28, has not entered this race. He finished second in this year’s SCORE San Felipe 250 in Pro Moto Ironman in his only SCORE race this season.

     In the SCORE Baja 400, Lawrence Janesky finished second in 2021 in Pro Moto 50 as a second rider and he did not race this event in either 2019 or 2022.

CPR—MOVIN’ ON UP

     Building experience and adding some years under his belt along the trail upwards, SoCal’s youthful dynamo Christopher Polvoorde, Hemet, Calif., led the SCORE Overall point standings for three races in 2022 and the massive Trophy Truck Spec class as well until an untimely DNF in the SCORE Baja 1000 stopped his championship run.

     But the young buck is back! And he has moved up to the marquee SCORE Trophy Truck division starting with this year’s SCORE Baja 400.

     He started the 2022 with a season-opening Trophy Truck Spec class victory at the King Shocks 35th SCORE San Felipe 250 that saw a race-high 36 starters in his class. this year in San Felipe, Polvoorde finished 10th out of a SCORE record 43 starters in his class. He also finished 17th in the Spec class this year in the SCORE Baja 500.

     Polvoorde may be just 23 years old, but he has already been racing for 10 years and has evolved quickly into a SCORE Baja racing championship contender.

     He followed up his San Felipe victory last year with a fourth place finish out of 32 starters in Trophy Truck Spec at the SCORE Baja 500 the drove back to the top of the podium over 24 starters for another class win at the SCORE Baja 400.

     Polvoorde has raced in many different disciplines including Short Course, Desert Racing, Rally Racing, Midget Racing, Robby Gordon’s Stadium Trucks, Kart Racing and the King of the Hammers where he won his class in 2022.

     When he isn’t driving four-wheel race vehicles, he also is an avid mountain bike enthusiast in his limited spare time.

     While his own new SCORE Trophy Truck is still being built, Polvoorde will be driving this race in the Walser Motorsports No. 94 Optima Batteries Ford Raptor built by Mason Motorsports. He has teamed with Mike Walser (No. 89) for the final two races of the year and they plan to race together in the No. 89 SCORE Truck Truck for the season-ending SCORE Baja 1000.

     Polvoorde currently works for his family’s construction business in Hemet.

GREAT HISTORY

     Josh Cobb, 24, Wittmann, Ariz., is launching something very interesting and exciting in this year’s SCORE Baja 400. A veteran of domestic desert racing in the U.S., and a second-generation desert racer, Josh Cobb is still cutting his teeth in the SCORE World Desert Championship.

    After winning the TrophyLite Class in last year’s SCORE Baja 1000, he is moving up to the ultra-competitive Trophy Truck Spec class in a custom-made Ford that definitely has some tremendous racing history in its background.

     Cobb, driving the TrophyLite No. 206 Custom-Ford in this year’s SCORE Baja 400 and SCORE Baja 1000, the legacy of the race truck is truly very special.

     His father, former SCORE racing champion Jason Cobb, enthusiastically comments, “Exciting times for sure for the Cobb family. My son Josh will be making his Trophy Truck Spec debut at the SCORE Baja 400 in preparation for the SCORE Baja 1000. Josh has some tremendous accomplishments including a win at last year’s SCORE Baja 1000 in the TrophyLite Class. This is obviously a huge jump but we feel he is more than ready to take on the best that this class has to offer.”

     The history of his new custom truck is extremely impressive. It started as a Factory Ford race truck that was originally built for Rob MacCachren in 1996. This truck was built for Baja to knock Toyota off the top of the mountain. While it did not finish the SCORE Baja 1000 in 1996, it won the SCORE Baja 500 and finished 2nd in the SCORE Trophy Truck season point championship.

     Another interesting part of the truck’s lineage is that SCORE's own Roger Norman owned and raced the truck in the SCORE Baja 500 and SCORE Baja 1000 before moving on to his current tuck. This unique truck was way before its time and has true potential to continue to compete in the Trophy Truck Spec class.

     The Cobb family is looking to add to the remarkable legacy of this truck during the 50th Anniversary of SCORE this year.

WRIGHT WAY

     Following several seasons as a co-rider on winning Pro motorcycle age group classes, Brandon Wright, 46, Oak Hills, Calif. races in Pro Moto Ironman (for solo riders) class where he won the season championship in his class and earned the 2022 SCORE Overall Motorcycle title as well with a victory in the SCORE San Felipe 250, second-place finishes in the SCORE Baja 500 and SCORE Baja 400 and a third-place finish in the SCORE Baja 1000 out of 20 starters this year.

     As the season class point champion, Wright rides the No. 700x Husqvarna FE501 motorcycle.

     After a pre-running accident for the SCORE Baja 1000 caused him to withdraw from the race, he later decided (with approval from his doctor) to re-enter the race and he courageously battled to a podium finish to earn his two crowns.

     In this year’s season opener in San Felipe, the Pro Moto Ironman had a race-record 17 starters and Wright earned a podium finish in third place to start his 2023 campaign. Wright followed that up with a first-place finish in his class in the SCORE Baja 500 to take the lead again in this very special motorcycle class.

AMADO

     Starting the 2023 SCORE World Desert Championship with his first race win, Alirio Amado, 45, The Woodlands, Texas, is the rider of record in Pro Moto 40 (riders over 40 years old), on his No. 441x Yamaha WR450F motorcycle.

     For this race, Amada is going to use his normal four-rider team including Pedro Gonzalez, 58, Raleigh, North Carolina, Jim Jaros, 48, Pennsylvania and Curtis Lisenby, 58, Houston.

     In his third season racing with SCORE, Amado finished second in the Pro Moto 40 class point standings with second place finishes in the 2022 SCORE Baja 400 and another second in the SCORE Baja 1000. His other two finishes in 2022 were third place in the SCORE San Felipe 250 for three podium finishes and a fourth place in the 2022 SCORE Baja 500.

     Amado and his talented team won again in their class in this year’s SCORE Baja 500, pushing them into a big lead in their class point standings midway through the 2023 SCORE World Desert Championship.

GREEN FLAG

     It is an elapsed-time race with staggered starts with the green flag dropping on Saturday (Sept. 16). Motorcycles and Quads will start at 5:30 a.m. PT, Cars, Trucks, and UTVs will start at 8:15. When finalized, the race course will be 386.42 miles. While the fastest vehicles will finish in about eight hours, the elapsed-time race will have a 16-hour time limit to become an official finisher.

THE FIELD

     Nearly 225 vehicles are expected at the start line for this fourth-time SCORE race with racers from as many as 20 U.S. States and 10 countries anticipated. Pro and Sportsman Classes are offered for cars, trucks, UTVs, motorcycles and quads.

START GRID-SCORE BAJA 1000

     The results of the SCORE Baja 400 also will determine the start order within each class for November’s iconic season-ending BFGoodrich Tires 56th SCORE Baja 1000.

DRAW DEADLINE

     The starting order within each class for this race (except for the classes that are qualifying), will be determined by a random drawing for those entries received online and paid in full by 5 p.m. (PDT) on Friday, Sept. 1.

     No additional online entries will be accepted after 5 p.m. PDT on Friday, Sept. 1.

     Late, on-site racer registration will be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (Sept. 13-15).

     In person registration will be held in the SCORE Ensenada office until 5 p.m. PDT on Thursday, Sept. 7.

PRE-RUNNING

     Official practice, or pre-running, on the official 386.42-mile race course for this year’s 4th SCORE Baja 400 will open at 8 a.m. PDT on Saturday, Sept. 2. Pre-running will begin at race mile 38.92, ending at race-mile 345.49. The first section to up race mile 38.92, which will be used in both directions during the race, will be available for pre-running only on Thursday (Sept. 14) and Friday (Sept. 15) and only in the outbound direction.

QUALIFYING

     Qualifying for starting positions within their respective classes will be held on Wednesday (Sept. 13), starting at 7 a.m. PDT. Classes that will be qualifying for the 4th SCORE Baja 400, presented by VP Racing Fuels, are SCORE Trophy Truck, SCORE TT Legend, and the Trophy Truck Spec class. Starting order for qualifying will be determined by the order in which each vehicle enters the race.

MAIN COURSE

    The race will feature a course, when fully plotted and then marked over the next several weeks by SCORE President/Race Director Jose A. Grijalva, of 386.42 miles of rugged Baja California terrain.

     The challenging race course will be another memorable example of all that Mexico’s Baja California has to offer, including high-speed dirt trails, sandy, rocky and silty natural terrain, majestic Baja washes and canyons, stretches along the seashore with elevations from sea level to over 3,000 feet. The course will be another jewel reflecting the stark beauty of Baja California.

A HAPPENING…

     Colorful race week festivities will start on Wednesday, Sept. 13 to help celebrate this newest SCORE Baja race. They will be held in or adjacent to the landmark Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center in the heart of Ensenada.

     Chassis inspections and pre-tech/Stella device check and installation will be held on Wednesday (Sept. 13) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT by appointment (619.572.8245) and on Thursday (Sept. 14) chassis inspection/pre-tech/Stella bracket check and installation will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT on Blvd. Costero just past the start/finish ramp.

     Friday (Sept. 15) will see the colorful day-long, pre-race Manufacturer’s Midway and contingency festival in the start finish line area in Ensenada. From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT contingency row will be held for all classes. Tech inspection/Transponder checks/Stella/SPICA device pickup will be from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. PDT on Friday as well at the end of the manufacturer’s row.

     During the race on Saturday, Sept. 16 until the course closes on Sunday morning, Sept. 17, the start/finish line compound will include the massive double-sided SCOREvision LED screen broadcasting race festivities, the start, live race action from around the course and finish line interviews.

     Popular Rat Sult will once again serve as host of the SCORE Live streaming. Assisting Sult will be veteran voice Dave Arnold.

     Contingency and the race itself will be streamed live, airing via the internet on the SCORE website. Included in the exclusive race coverage, along with vehicle tracking, will be live drone and in-car camera footage from various locations around the race course. There will also be hosts in the SCORE Studio bringing live updates during the race.

AT THE RIVIERA…

     The historic Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center, in the heart of Ensenada, will again be the site of many of the activities surrounding the 4th SCORE Baja 400, presented by VP Racing Fuels. Racer registration and media registration will both be held in Salon Rojo on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (Sept. 13-15).

     On Wednesday (Sept. 13 for qualifying teams only) racer registration will be held from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. PDT. On Thursday (Sept. 14) it will run from 9a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT, and on Friday (Sept. 16) from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

      On Wednesday, no new entries will be accepted after 7 p.m. PDT, on Thursday and Friday after 4 p.m. PDT.

     SCORE Media Registration will be held in Salon Rojo at the Riviera on Wednesday (Sept. 13) from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. PDT and on Thursday and Friday (Sept. 14-15) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT.

     The start/finish line for the race will once again be adjacent to the iconic Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center on Blvd. Costero.

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2023 GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY SCHEDULE

     Here are the dates for the remaining two races in the four-race 2023 SCORE World Desert Championship Golden Anniversary season, ‘Celebrating 50 Years of SCORE Desert Racing Excellence’, which are being held totally in Baja California, Mexico for the eighth consecutive year:

·       4th SCORE Baja 400, presented by VP Racing Fuels—

September 13-17, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

·       BFGoodrich Tires 56th SCORE Baja 1000—

November 13-18, La Paz, Baja California Sur to Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

SCORE SPONSORS…

     Official SCORE Sponsors: BFGoodrich Tires-Official Tire and Race Title Sponsor, Ford-Official Truck and SUV, King Shocks-Official Shock Absorber and Race Title Sponsor, Polaris RZR-Official UTV, VP Racing Fuels-Official Fuel and race presenting sponsor, Baja Vida-Official Snacks and race presenting sponsor, Optima Batteries-Official Batteries, Rugged Radios-Official Radio Communications, Wide Open Excursions-Official Arrive and Drive Company, Crystal Bay Casino-Official Casino.

     SCORE Official Partners: The Satellite Phone Store, Instant Mexico Auto Insurance.

     Additional SCORE Associate Partners: Baja California Secretary of Tourism, MEXICO Secretary of Tourism, San Felipe Foundational Municipal Council, Ensenada Municipal Government, San Felipe Marketing Tourism Committee, Ensenada Marketing Tourism Committee, Ensenada Hotel and Motel Association, Proturismo Ensenada and Cruz Roja Mexicana.

     For more information regarding SCORE, visit the official website of the SCORE World Desert Championship at www.SCORE-International.com.

‘Celebrating 50 Years of SCORE Desert Racing Excellence’

4th SCORE Baja 400, presented by VP Racing Fuels

Round 3 of four-race 2023 SCORE World Desert Championship

Sept. 13-17 - Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico – 386.42 miles

Total Entries: 98 (as of 8/03/23)

(from 20 U.S. States, host Mexico, Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand)