Pre-running opens Saturday on rugged 326.7 mile Race course for 34th annual SCORE San Felipe 250

SCORE MEDIA CONTACT: Dominic Clark, dominic@score-international.com March 12, 2020 Season Opener March 24-29

Pre-running opens Saturday on rugged 326.7 mile Race course for 34th annual SCORE San Felipe 250

  ENSENADA, Baja California, Mexico – Launching its 47th season as the World’s Foremost Desert Racing Organization, pre-running opens Saturday on the rugged, near race-record long 326.7-mile course for this month’s 34th annual SCORE San Felipe 250 in Baja California, Mexico. The season-opening event of the four-race internationally-televised 2020 SCORE World Desert Championship will be held March 24-29 in San Felipe, the peaceful fishing village on the Sea of Cortez, 125 miles south of the U.S. Border at Calexico, Calif. All four 2020 SCORE races will be held on Mexico’s magnificent Baja California peninsula for the fifth consecutive year. Domestically, the race will be televised on a delayed basis on the World of X Games show on the ABC Television Network as co-produced by SCORE International and award-winning BCII TV of Los Angeles. The 326.7-mile course has been plotted and marked, GPS files created with several sections not used before or not in several years as 189 total entries to date have come from 22 U.S. States along with host country Mexico, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru and Spain. ANOTHER AWESOME COURSE SCORE President/Race Director Jose A. Grijalva has worked diligently with the government officials and ejidos of the Mexicali and San Felipe areas to develop a memorable SCORE San Felipe 250 race course of 326.7 miles, the second longest in the history of this popular desert race. Sportsman Classes and a few of the slower Pro classes will bypass one section of the course and run a reduced course of 279.7 total miles. This year’s grueling race course will be another beauty to behold but a tough challenge to race on. It runs in a counterclockwise direction running over high-speed dry lake beds, through low-speed winding, rock-strewn, twisting canyons and trails, along quick-paced dirt roads and through five of Baja’s most gloriously infamous washes in this order: Las Cuevitas, Chanate, Huatamote, Azufre and the last half of Matomi. There will be three full stop checkpoints in addition to the start/finish line which will be located for the just the fourth time in the history of this race on the Malecon along the Sea of Cortez in the heart of San Felipe. There will also be 141 virtual checkpoints and six speed zones for 16.3 miles total. Checkpoint 1 will be located at El Chinero (race mile 76.3), the second at Morelia Road crossing (rm 160.3) and the third will be on the old Puertecitos Road South of the Sulphur Mines (rm 293.7). This year’s course will run north out of San Felipe through Las Cuevitas Wash and back around up to Checkpoint 1 at El Chinero. From there it heads North by Northwest, back north and turns south at race mile 100 where it goes through Laguna Amarga and then south through Laguna del Diablo to checkpoint 2 at Morelia Junction.  From Morelia it head due south and then east through Chante Wash and back around to go southeast through Huatamote Wash, back around west  through Azufre Wash. From Azufre, the course loops south down to head through the last half of Matomi Wash, north on Old Puertecitos Road up through Checkpoint 3 and then parallels Old Puertecitos on the west side for over 30 miles to the finish. While the race has a 16 hour time limit this year, the fastest car/truck is expected to finish in just under six hours and the fastest motorcycle is expected to finish in about six hours, 30 minutes. COURSE MAP/GPS The 34th Annual SCORE San Felipe 250 course map is posted already and GPS files along with the Racer’s Brief will be available by 8 p.m. PDT tonight (Thursday, March 12) on the SCORE website on the race page under the Race Info tab. DRAW DEADLINE The deadline to enter online on the SCORE website under Race Info at www.SCOREInternational.com for Pro and Sportsman classes for cars, trucks, UTVs, motorcycles and quads. Deadline to enter in order to be in the drawing for start positions within each class is 8 p.m. PT on Friday, March 13. DOUBLE DIGITS The race includes 32 entries in the marquee SCORE Trophy Truck division (Including eight SCORE TT Legend vehicles for SCORE Trophy-Truck drivers over 50 years old), the marquee racing division for high-tech, unlimited custom trucks with up to 1000-horsepower. Besides SCORE Trophy Truck, the other classes with double figure entries to date and their totals are Pro UTV FI (22), Trophy Truck Spec (20), Class 10 (20) and the unlimited Class 1 (13). QUALIFYING For just the second time in the history of this popular ‘Spring Break’ race, SCORE will hold a qualifying session starting at 8 a.m. PT on Wednesday, March 25 to determine the starting positions within each class for the SCORE Trophy Truck, SCORE TT Legend, Class 1 and Trophy Truck Spec classes. Entries in these classes must also be completed by Friday, March 13 to be eligible to qualifying. Starting positions for the other classes will be determined by a random drawing after the close of online racer registration which is at 8 p.m. on Friday, March. 13. Late, on-site entries will receive the next starting position within the class entered. The first time qualifying was held for this race was in 2017 when Rob MacCachren, Cameron Steele and Carlos ‘Apdaly’ Lopez were the top three qualifiers in the marquee SCORE Trophy Truck division for high-tech, 950-horsepower, unlimited custom trucks. Qualifying will again be held on a four-mile section of the race course northeast of the San Felipe airport, which is located on the south end of San Felipe. RACER REGISTRATION A special on-site racer registration will be held on Tuesday (March 24) from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. PT only for the racers who will be part of qualifying. Regular on-site racer registration and late-registration for new entries will start at 2 p.m. PT on Wednesday in San Felipe.  It will be held Wednesday (March 25) from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. PT as well as Thursday (March 26) from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday (March 27) from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. PT with no new entries accepted after 3 p.m. PT on Friday. All racer and media registration will be held at the Stella del Mar Hotel (old Cortez Hotel) on Av. Mar de Cortez Sur. SCORE FIESTA TIME Colorful pre-race festivities will be held in San Felipe during race week on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with race days on Saturday and Sunday concluding with the post-race awards celebration at Noon PT on Sunday. The colorful pre-race contingency and Manufacturer’s Midway, the starting line and the finish line will be on the Malecon in the heart of San Felipe for the fourth straight year. Contingency will be held on two days for the second time in the history of this race with classes split with some, including all UTVs, motorcycles and quads going through the line on Thursday and the balance, including the marquee SCORE Trophy Truck division, SCORE TT Legend, Class 1 and Trophy Truck Spec, going through  on Friday. Contingency will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PT each day with pre-race tech lasting until 6 p.m. PT on both Thursday and Friday (March 27-28). The post-race awards celebration will be held on the start/finish line ramp on the Malecon on Sunday (March 29) at Noon PT. GREEN FLAG SATURDAY The motorcycle and quad classes will start at 6:20 a.m. PT Saturday (March 28) while the car, truck and UTV classes will begin their journey starting at 9:30 a.m. PT (March 28). SCORE Trophy Truck and the Pro Moto Unlimited classes will start one vehicle every 60 seconds race while all other classes will start one every 30 seconds. While the fastest vehicles in the elapsed-time race are expected to finish in approximately six hours, all vehicles will have 16 hours from the time each starts to become an official finisher in the historic race. BFGOODRICH TIRES UNMATCHED As part of their massive SCORE Contingency program for 2020, long-time SCORE sponsor partner BFGoodrich Tires is offering a large contingency bonus for each overall winner in the 2020 SCORE World Desert Championship. For the 34th annual SCORE San Felipe 250, the contingency bonus is US$10,000. BFGoodrich Tires is entering its 44th year as the Official Tire of SCORE and in 2020 the company will also be the title sponsor of both the 52nd SCORE Baja 500 and the 53rd SCORE Baja 1000. Presenting sponsor of both of those iconic races will be 4 Wheel Parts. BFGoodrich Tires is celebrating over four decades as a major player in SCORE Baja racing. In addition to being the official tire of SCORE International for over four decades, BFGoodrich Tires has now produced the tire of choice for 30 of the overall 4-wheel vehicle winners in the SCORE Baja 1000, including 30 of the last 34 years along with a record-run of 20 straight from 1986 through 2005. In total, BFGoodrich Tires has now be the tire of choice for the overall 4-wheel vehicle winner in 92 SCORE Baja races including 32 in the SCORE Baja 500. EL BANCO For over three decades, the annual motorsports festival that has brought the largest economic impact of any single event held annually in this lightly-populated portion of the rugged, rough and bountifully beautiful Baja peninsula has been the SCORE San Felipe 250. SCOREscope 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 24-29, San Felipe, Mexico
• BFGoodrich Tires 52nd SCORE Baja 500, presented by 4 Wheel Parts, June 3-7, Ensenada, Mexico
• 2nd SCORE Baja 400, Sept. 16-20, Ensenada, Mexico
• BFGoodrich Tires 53rd SCORE Baja 1000, Nov.16-21, presented by 4 Wheel Parts, Ensenada, Baja California to La Paz, Baja California Sur

ABC TV AGAIN IN 2020 For the second straight year, the 2020 SCORE World Desert Championship aired on the ABC family of networks. The four-races air as one-hour specials on ABC TV’s World of X Games program with replays on ESPN2. ABC first covered the 1967 and 1968 Baja 1000 races on the old ABC Wide World of Sports show with Jim McKay and again in the late 1980s with veteran motorsports journalist Sam Posey. All of the SCORE race coverage shows also continue to air internationally in nearly 25 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and South America via syndication and ESPN International. SCORE SPONSORS… Official SCORE Sponsors: BFGoodrich Tires-Official Tire and Race Title Sponsor, Monster Energy-Official Energy Drink, 4 Wheel Parts-Official Off-Road Retailer and Race Presenting Partner, Ford-Official Truck and SUV, King Shocks-Official Shock Absorber, Polaris RZR-Official UTV, RACELINE Wheels-Official Wheel, VP Racing Fuels-Official Fuel, Wide Open Excursions-Official Arrive and Drive Company, Crystal Bay Casino-Official Casino. SCORE Official Partners: PCI Race Radios, The Satellite Phone Store, Instant Mexico Auto Insurance, Lucerna Hotel. Additional SCORE Associate Partners: Baja California Secretary of Sustainable Economy and Tourism, XXIII Ensenada Municipal Government, XXIII Mexicali Municipal Government, Mexicali and San Felipe COTUCO, Cruz Roja Mexicana. For more information regarding SCORE, visit the official website of the SCORE World Desert Championship at www.SCOREInternational.com.

34th SCORE San Felipe 250

SCORE TROPHY TRUCK (32*) 1 Andy McMillin 2 Carlos ‘Apdaly’ Lopez 7 Bryce Menzies 10 Alan Ampudia 11 Rob MacCachren 14 Bobby Pecoy 16 Cameron Steele 17 Dan McMillin 19 Tim Herbst 21 Gustavo ‘Tavo’ Vildsola 24 Adam Householder 26 Dave Taylor 27 Kyle Jergensen 32 Ryan Arciero 38 Eric Hustead 40 Chris Miller 41 Justin Lofton 45 Gary Magness 50 Zak Langley 71 Josh De Jong 77 Robby Gordon 83 Luke McMillin 85 Mike Lawrence 97 Robert ‘BJ’ Baldwin *TOTAL INCLUDES LEGEND SCORE TT LEGEND (8) 25L Mark Winkelman 37L Rolf Helland 47L Jim Bult 50L John Langley 55L Jose de Jesus Flores 72L Rob Reinertson 79L Russell Buehler 81L David Westhem CLASS 1 (13) 100 Mason Cullen 114 Al Torres 121 Rodimiro Amaya 123 Broc Dickerson 135 Ronny Wilson 138 Brian Wilson 143 Javier Robles Jr 150 Morgan Langley 153 Brad Wilson 162 Brendan Gaughan 163 Ruben Torres 168 Shelby Reid 179 Mario Fuentes TROPHY TRUCK SPEC (20) 208 Andrew Entwistle 209 Rafael Navarro IV 211 Pat Sims 213 Karl Ebdrup 219 Tony Murray 220 Craig Christie 223 Neal Drickey 234 Jason McNeil 244 Brad Lovell 260 Santiago Creel 261 Jeff Bader 264 Pierce Herbst 272 Victor Calderon 273 Jordan Brenthel 274 Elias Hanna 277 John Currier 294 Vincent Munoz 295 William Hedrick Jr 298 Jorge Sampietro 299 Charles Dorrance CLASS 10 (20) 1000 Hiram Duran 1002 Clay Lawrence 1004 Ben Hagle 1005 Arnoldo Gutierrez Jr 1006 Freddie Willert 1009 J. David Ruvalcaba 1011 Cesar Cuevas 1012 Luis Barragan 1013 Harley Meservey 1026 Hugo Becerra 1027 Arturo Malo 1045 Matt Rusich 1048 Kevin Price 1051 Adam Gonzalez 1062 J.J. Schnarr 1075 Eliseo Garcia 1078 Augie Cortez 1081 Matt Winslow 1087 Ivan Tagle 1088 Chase Warren PRO UTV FI (22) 2904 Cory Sappington 2910 Scott Trafton 2912 Tony Riggs 2914 Martin Christensen 2918 Justin Lambert 2919 Brandon Schueler 2920 Roberto Ruiz 2926 Christine Giampaoli Zonca 2930 Sean Cook 2931 Craig Scanlon 2936 Jacob Carver 2940 Erick Kozin 2949 Alonso Lopez 2975 Mike Cafro 2978 Jose Juarez 2983 Nicholas Gurries 2987 Edgar Garcia Leon 2988 Brian Cyrus 2989 Wes Miller 2998 Cameron Ornales 2971 Wayne Matlock- RS SCORE LITES (8) 1202 Matias Arjona IV 1205 Miguel Cortez 1211 Oscar Alvarez 1216 Matt Ferrato 1229 Doug Satterfield 1234 Phillip Jones 1237 Jesus de la Torre 1255 Darren Walsh PRO UTV NA (6) 1910 Jose Angulo 1912 Rickey Arslanian 1965 Fernando Ramirez 1978 T. Bradley Millner 1995 Kaden Wells 1954 Kristen Matlock- RS CLASS 1/2-1600 (2) 1616 Eli Yee 1696 Chris Racan PRO UTV STOCK (6) 3911 Victor Esparza 3922 Pete Cate 3930 Douglas Cornwell 3933 Randy Emberton 3954 Bailey Cole 3955 Mike Cafro CLASS 8 (2) 802 Scott Ulrich 852 Spencer Morgan HEAVY METAL (0) CLASS 7 (4) 700 Daniel Chamlee 703 Scott Brady 710 Mike Shaffer 727 Rhys Millen CLASS 4700 (0) HAMMER TRUCK UNLTD (1) 4421 Mike Hales PRO UTV UNL (0) CLASS 5 (5) 500 Gerardo Ibarra 501 William Hernquist 502 Mark McNeil 507 Greg Sullivan 528 Victor Cesena CLASS 3 (1) 313 David Orzolek CLASS 5-1600 (2) 553 Cesar Iniguez 571 David Heredia BAJA CHALLENGE (1) BC 4 Edward Muncey CLASS 7F (3) 704F Aaron Celiceo 714F Justin Park 720F Doug Siewert CLASS 7SX (1) 741 Gerardo Novelo STOCK FULL (0) CLASS 2 (0) CLASS 11 (3) 1108 Luis Garcia 1156 Art Penner 1196 Alex Gonzales SPT UNLTD TRUCK (1) 1414 Jessalyn Sells SPT OPEN-WHEEL (0) SPT UTV UNLIMITED (2) 1830 Byrnes Lambert 1840 Jason Willett SPT UTV STOCK (1) 3978 Chris Clifton PRO MOTO UNLIMITED (3) 4x Ray Dal Saglio 14x Ian Luenberger 66x Santiago Creel PRO MOTO 30 (5) 3XXx Jacob Nieder 308x Greg Bardonnex 325x Jano Montoya 365x Nick Lanning 370x Francisco Septien- RS PRO MOTO LIMITED (0) PRO MOTO 50 (3) 500x Giovanni Spinali 501x Robert Creemers 505x Steve Hatch PRO MOTO 40 (1) 496x TJ Joun PRO MOTO IRONMAN (4) 716x Roger Bowie 727x Louie Montano 735x Dustin Ashe-Everest 771x Risto Niemi PRO MOTO 60 (1) 611x Mark Winkelman Pro Quad (2) 1a Adolfo Arellano 37a Ricardo Villafana SPT M/C (6) 201x Scott Borden 203x Giovanni Aviles 213x Bradley Loveday 215x Carlos Guereca 218x Sean Willitts 275x Albert Devora SPT QUAD (8) 101a Ery Sandoval 102a Andres Pak 105a Francisco Valle 112a Daniel Gaytan 123a Hector Camacho 124a Ruben Ramos 127a Marco Sanchez 148a Alejandro Amador