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SCORE MEDIA CONTACT: Dominic Clark, Dominic@SCORE-International.com October 17, 2022 Race week Nov. 15-20 BFGoodrich Tires 54th SCORE Baja 1000, presented by 4 Wheel Parts Parkhouse, Walser/Redline, Reid, Salvatierra, E. Yee, Benrud, Fuentes, Dickerson/Lopez, Creel, Ruvalcaba, Scanlon, Sourapas/Mini-Mac among latest new entries Pre-running opens Oct. 29 on rugged 828.25-mile course around Baja California for iconic season-finale of four-race 2022 SCORE World Desert Championship; starting and finishing adjacent to Ensenada’s Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center SCORE Moto champ, Hall of Famer Scot Harden selected Grand Marshal; More information under race info tab on www.score-international.com NOTE: Current Unofficial numerical entry list, by class at bottom of text ENSENADA, Baja California, Mexico—With entries continuing to come in from across the USA and around the world, Brian Parkhouse/Cody Parkhouse, Mike Walser/Jax Redline, Cody Reid, Juan Carlos Salvatierra, Eli Yee, Jeff Benrud, Fabricio Fuentes, Broc Dickerson/Apdaly Lopez, Santiago Creel, J. David Ruvalcaba, Craig Scanlon, and Christian Sourapas/Cayden MacCachren are all among the latest early entries for November’s iconic internationally-televised season-ending BFGoodrich Tires 55th SCORE Baja 1000, presented by 4 Wheel Parts, the season finale of the four-race 2022 SCORE World Desert Championship. Starting and finishing in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, race-week festivities and the race itself will be held Nov. 15-20. The SCORE Baja 1000 is at the pinnacle of motorsports as the most iconic, oldest, prestigious, toughest and longest continuously held desert race in the world. This year’s race will be a loop race of 828.25 miles around Baja California, starting and finishing in Ensenada. ONLINE RACER ENTRY APPLICATIONS Racer entry applications are now available at www.SCORE-International.com under Race Info on the SCORE Baja 1000 page. Questions should be directed to SCORE Registration and Membership Director Eduardo Kawanishi at 775. 852.8907. Online racer entry applications will be accepted through 5 p.m. PT on Wednesday, November 2. The SCORE Ensenada office will accept walk-in entries up to Friday, Nov. 4. EARLY ENTRIES With nearly 275 entries anticipated at the start line, as of today 89 total early entries have been received for the Granddaddy of All Desert Races, with racers representing 25 U.S. States, and six countries. The countries with at least one racer so far are United States, host country Mexico, Australia, Bolivia, Canada and New Zealand. EARLY BIRDS Among the continuing list of early entries for this year’s race are father and son Unlimited Class 1 stars Brian Parkhouse/Cody Parkhouse, Texas team of Mike Walser/Jax Redline in SCORE Trophy Truck, veteran champ Cody Reid in Class 1, Bolivia’s superstar Juan Carlos Salvatierra in Pro Moto Unlimited and Mexico’s frontrunner Eli Yee in Class 1/2-1600. Also among the early entries are retired Army Sergeant Major Jeff Benrud in Pro Moto Ironman, Bolivia’s Fabricio Fuentes in Pro Moto Ironman, USA young star duo of Broc Dickerson/Carlos ‘Apdaly’ Lopez in SCORE Trophy Truck, Mexico’s SCORE champ Santiago Creel in Pro UTV FI, Mexico’s SCORE vet J. David Ruvalcaba in Class 10, industry exec Craig Scanlon in Pro UTV FI, and the new budding stars team of Christian Sourapas/Cayden MacCachren in Trophy Truck Spec. 55th SCORE BAJA 1000 Most of the world’s best desert racers will be in action at this year’s massive BFGoodrich Tires 55th SCORE Baja 1000, presented by 4 Wheel Parts. The 2022 season-finale will be televised on a delayed basis as a one-hour special on ESPN2’s World of X Games programming. Race week activities will be held Nov. 15-20. Nearly 275 vehicles are expected at the start line with racers from nearly 35 U.S. States and as many as 15 countries anticipated. Pro and Sportsman classes for cars, trucks, UTVs, motorcycles and quads will be competing in the Granddaddy of All Desert Races. This year’s SCORE Baja 1000 will be a loop race of a demanding 828.25 miles starting and finishing in Ensenada in the northern state of Mexico’s majestic Baja California peninsula. Ensenada, “The Off-Road Capital of the World” is a coastal city on the Bahia de Todos Santos area of the Pacific Ocean, 80 miles south of the U.S. border at San Diego. It will start for the 48th time in Ensenada and finish there for the 28th time. This race is annually the finale of the SCORE World Desert Championship, which has been held exclusively for the past seven years in Baja California. PARKHOUSE PAIR A two-generation race team, veteran defending 2022 SCORE World Desert Championship Class 1 season point champs Brian Parkhouse and his son Brian Parkhouse are trying to earn another SCORE Baja 1000 class victory Fresh out of high school at the time, Cody Parkhouse started his official desert racing career in 2006 racing in Class 1/2-1600. Both from Long Beach, Calif., Brian Parkhouse, 63, and his son Cody Parkhouse, 35, teamed up to win both of the 2020 SCORE Baja races and won one race last year in their No. 100 Parkhouse Motorsports Chevy-powered Jimco open-wheel desert race car for their second straight Class 1 season title. With driving help from his father, Cody Parkhouse has won four SCORE unlimited Class 1 season point championships. The duo won the SCORE season crowns in 2012, 2013, 2020 and 2021. In San Felipe this year, the Parkhouse team endured a rare DNF. They followed that up with a second place in the SCORE Baja 500 and they won Class 1 in September’s SCORE Baja 400. In the SCORE Baja 1000, the father/son tandem has earned two straight Class 1 race wins (2020, 2021). Injured seriously in a race accident in the 2016 SCORE Baja 1000, Parkhouse has clearly returned to his championship form and will be one of the racers to beat in Class 1 in Ensenada. EYES OF TEXAS It’s a tale of the older and the much younger as Mike Walser, 55, Comfort, Texas and Jax Redline, 17, Amarillo, Texas team up in SCORE Trophy Truck to successfully drive the AWD No. 89 Walser Racing Chevy Silverado built by Mason Motorsports. While Walser is relatively new to desert racing, Redline has been racing everything from motocross to sprint cars since he started driving competitively when he was just five years old. Together they have formed a very formidable team with Redline starting and Walser finishing the races this season. The dynamic duo started the season with a stunning podium third place finish in the SCORE San Felipe 250. In the class for ‘Monsters of the Desert’, the pair finished 15th in the SCORE Baja 500 and most recently were sixth in class at the SCORE Baja 400. For their combined efforts, they enter this year’s SCORE Baja 1000 in fourth place in SCORE Trophy Truck, just six points out of third place in the 2022 rankings. REID READY Cody Reid is officially racing without his mother Shelby Reid as a teammate again for the SCORE Baja 1000. After racing in separate classes for a several years, Cody Reid, 29, Yucca Valley, Calif., was reunited last year with his mom to form a very formidable unlimited Class 1 team. The Reids debuted their No. 168 Chevy-powered Alumi Craft AWD open-wheel desert race car by winning their class in the 2021 SCORE San Felipe 250 Shelby Reid, 54, is also a former SCORE class point champion and has decided to retire from behind the wheel. After a DNF in this year’s SCORE San Felipe 250, the Reids were scheduled to split the driving in the SCORE Baja 500, but Shelby dropped out because of a family issue that came up during race week and Colby Reid roared to the Class 1 victory driving solo. In the 2019 SCORE Baja 400, Cody Reid finished second in Class 10. In last year’s SCORE Baja 400, Cody Reid drove solo and finished on the podium in third place in Class 1. In this year’s SCORE Baja 400, Reid endured a rare dnf. Last year’s peninsula race saw Reid finish in fourth place in Class 1 with his mom as the driver of record. For this year’s SCORE Baja 1000, veteran SCORE champion racers Adam Pfankuch and Rick St. John will again split the wheel time with Cody Reid. BOLIVIAN AMBASSADOR After winning the season point championship for two consecutive years in the brutally tough Pro Moto Ironman class for solo riders, Bolivia’s acclaimed Juan Carlos Salvatierra moved to the Pro Moto Unlimited class this year and has won the fastest class on two wheels in all three of his first attempts in this legendary class. In San Felipe, his co-riders were Mexico’s Arturo Salas Jr, 19, and Shane Logan, 20, Lake Havasu City, Ariz. For the SCORE Baja 500 in Ensenada, Salvatierra added Argentinian rally racer Diego Llanos to his team for his second straight class win. For the year, Salvatierra now has 322 season points as the SCORE Overall motorcycle point leader in his No. 10x KTM 450SX-F motorcycle. At the SCORE Baja 500, Salvatierra and his team gave KTM its first overall moto win in the 54-year history of the iconic race. Salvatierra’s team for the SCORE Baja 400 were Salas Jr, Logan and newcomer Clayton Roberts, 20, Apple Valley, Calif. Salvatierra, 41, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, has raced nine years in the Dakar Rally, also mountain biking and triathlons. Considered the most important athlete in the history of Bolivia, in 2011, Salvatierra became the first athlete from Bolivia to race in the Dakar Rally. He is also a nine-time Bolivian National Motocross champion. Riding on their No. 10x KTM 450SX-F, Salvatierra has entered his entire four-person team from the last race to be competing in the SCORE Baja 1000. HE’S BACK After capping five straight SCORE Baja 1000 races by winning the remarkable Pro Moto Ironman class in the 50th SCORE Baja 1000 in 2017, retired Army Special Ops Sergeant Major Jeff Benrud has return to attempt another solo motorcycle effort in this iconic race. Benrud, 52, originally from Altoona, Penn. who now lives in Raeford, N.C., will be riding his No. 715x Honda CRF450X in the class for unique motorcycle racers. Benrud finished in second place in the Pro Moto Ironman class in both 2015 and 2016 in the SCORE Baja 1000 prior to his superlative class victory in the 50th anniversary of the race in 2017. Gritty would be an understatement regarding Benrud, who served his country for 25 years as part of over 700 missions in Iraq and Afghanistan before he retired with honors. BOLIVIA’S FAB FUENTES Still a relative newcomer to SCORE racing, Fabricio Fuentes, 45, is a highly accomplished and well-known motorcycle racer from Villamontes, Bolivia. The affable Fuentes, known for his trademark special Bolivian Sombrero he wears at the races, is a six-time Dakar Rally veteran. In his last Dakar, he was the 39th overall motorcycle in the legendary Rally. Fuentes is also a multi-time national motorcycle champion in Bolivia and has remained in the Pro Moto Ironman class for solo riders even though his compatriot Salvatierra switched this year to the Pro Moto Unlimited class after two years competing in the same class. Fuentes finished second in the 2021 SCORE Pro Moto Ironman class point standings and was also second to Bolivian teammate Salvatierra in last year’s SCORE Baja 400. In the 2022 SCORE World Desert Championship, Fuentes rides the No. 785x KTM 450 SX-F Factory motorcycle. After three races this year, Fuentes is fifth in the Pro Moto Ironman season point standings following a third-place podium finish in San Felipe, a rare did-not-finish (DNF) in the SCORE Baja 500 and another third-place finish in the SCORE Baja 400. YOUNG GUNS With vast SCORE Baja racing experience, a pair of young guns have teamed up to race in SCORE Trophy Truck at this year’s SCORE Baja 1000. Broc Dickerson, 21, Brawley, Calif. and Carlos ‘Apdaly’ Lopez, 28, Tecate, Mexico, will split the driving in their No. 34 Ford Raptor built by TSCO. From Brawley, Calif. and both former SCORE class season point champions, Broc Dickerson, 21, and his SCORE champion father Jeff Dickerson, 48, can share the driving duties in their team’s No. 34 but dad will say he is just a back-up in case his son needs some driving assistance. Like most SCORE desert racers, the Dickersons started SCORE racing at a young age and have raced in a number of classes in their careers. Broc Dickerson won the 2017 SCORE Class 10 season point title and Jeff Dickerson won the Class 20 Motorcycle class championship in 1991. Together, the Dickersons opened the 2022 season with a 19th place finish out of 34 starters in the marquee SCORE Trophy Truck class. In June’s SCORE Baja 500, Broc Dickerson drove solo in an impressive second-place overall finish behind the winning Rob MacCachren. Young Dickerson suffered a rare DNF in the SCORE Baja 400. Definitely the second driver in this year’s race will be SCORE champion racer Lopez. Apdaly as he is called in Mexico, hasn’t even reached 30 years old yet, but he has earned three consecutive SCORE Trophy Truck season point titles (2015, 2016, 2017) when he was driving for the powerful RPM Racing team. With multiple podium finishes, Apdaly has two career SCORE Trophy Truck race victories including the 50th SCORE Baja 1000 that he won while sharing driving duties with his talented father Juan C. Lopez. CREEL COMPLIMENTS Mexico’s international motorcycle rally racer and prominent businessman, Santiago Creel, 36, of Mexico City, won two 2019 motorcycle class point titles and became the first racer to earn three Rod Hall SCORE Milestone Awards, presented by Toyota Escondido, in the same season. In just six seasons competing in the SCORE World Desert Championship, Creel has won five motorcycle season class point championships (2017, 20018, 2019(2), 2020). Overall Creel has also now won eight total SCORE Milestone Awards presented to drivers/riders of record who complete every required mile for the season. While he has entered in three or four classes in many races over his tenure in SCORE Baja racing, Creel is racing this year in the Pro UTV FI (Forced Induction) class. He is the DOR in the Pro UTV FI class in his No. 2966 Monkey Business Racing Can-Am Turbo XRC RR. Creel has two SCORE Baja 1000 class wins, 2017 and 2019 in Pro Moto Limited. In last year’s SCORE Baja 1000 peninsula run, Creel finished third in Trophy Truck Spec with Sampietro and 10th overall. In this year’s SCORE San Felipe 250 in Pro UTV FI Creel finished 22nd out of 29 starters and seventh out of a race-high 36 starters in Trophy Truck Spec. In this year’s SCORE Baja 400 he finished sixth out of 23 starters in the Pro UTV FI class. RUVALCABA First in the Class 10 season point standings is the veteran SCORE champion team of J. David Ruvalcaba, 49, Ensenada, Mexico, Esteban Cruz, 52, Ensenada, Mexico. No. 1009 Alumi Craft-Honda. Both have been racing with SCORE off-and-on for over 25 years and together have won several championships and race in three different classes. Starting on motorcycles, Ruvalcaba won the Pro Moto Limited season point championship in both 2000 and 2001 and after a sabbatical from racing, returned to win the Class 1/2-1600 season point titles in 2019. Now racing in Class 10, Ruvalcaba has had a very consistent season. He was sixth out of 19 starters in San Felipe, 11th out of 26 in the SCORE Baja 500 and won Class 10 out of 18 starters in the SCORE Baja 400. He has a one-point advantage over Ivan Tagle in his class entering the season finale. In the SCORE Baja 1000, Ruvalcaba has six career class wins. He won for four consecutive seasons in Pro Moto Limited (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002) and twice in Class 1/2-1600 (2014, 2019). ELI YEE Another of the prominent and veteran Mexican racers in the SCORE World Desert Championship, Eli Yee, 48, of Tijuana has won numerous races and the 2020 class point title in Class 1/2-1600. Yee has raced with SCORE for nearly 30 years and among his recent class wins are in the SCORE Baja 500 and the SCORE Baja 1000 in both 2020 and 2021. After an unsettling DNF in the San Felipe, Yee has march back with consecutive class wins at the SCORE Baja 500 and the SCORE Baja 400 in his class and is currently second in points in his class for the 2022 SCORE World Desert Championship. Yee and his team drive the No. 1616 PRC-VW. Angel Barajas, 45, Ensenada, Mexico, is his primary additional driver. He has three career Class wins in this race. He first won in Class 10 in 2005 with his brother Lobsam Yee before his twin wins most recently in Class 1/2-1600. SCANLON WANTS MORE Automotive industry key executive Craig Scanlon, 48, Helena, Mont./Orange, Calif., currently with 4 Wheel Parts, has moved to the Pro UTV Open class this season in his No. 1831 4 Wheel Parts Polaris RZR Turbo. His teammate who will drive once again is Keith Redstrom, 54, Glendale, Ariz. The pair won the Pro UTV FI (Forced Induction) class in the 2019 SCORE Baja 500 for the only SCORE race win to date. In the 2021 SCORE Baja 1000, racing in the Pro UTV FI class, Scanlon finished 12th out of 29 starters in his class. So far in the 2022 SCORE World Desert Championship, the consistent Scanlon has a pair of third-place podium finishes and a second-place and is currently in second place in the Pro UTV Open class point standings. Also driving with Scanlon and Redstrom in this year’s SCORE Baja 1000 will be veteran motorcycle champion Max Eddy Jr, 39, Barstow, Calif. SOURAPAS/MINI-MAC After sitting out the SCORE Baja 400 for business reasons, young stallion Christian Sourapas will split the driving in this year’s SCORE Baja 1000 with Cayden ‘Mini-Mac’ MacCachren who drove Sourapas’ No. 219 Coors Light Herbst/Smith-Ford in the ultra-competitive Trophy Truck Spec class in September’s SCORE Baja 400. In that last race an abnormal mechanical issue caused significant down time, but Las Vegas’ young MacCachren, 20, did bring the truck to the finish line as the 18th finisher out of 24 starters. Christian Sourapas, 26 of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., who often drives with his twin brother Brett, started the 2022 season with a 20th place out of 36 starters and followed that up with a podium third-place finish out of 32 starters in the SCORE Baja 500 in June. Growing up in the prolific shadow of his Hall of Fame father Rob MacCachren, the G.O.A.T. of desert racing, Mini-Mac, just 20, has officially raced in SCORE for just over a year (in Pro UTV FI) and he quickly spotted the eye of former SCORE Baja 1000 overall champion Steve Sourapas, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. and his Coors Light truck racing team where his son Christian Sourapas is driver of record. Christian Sourapas is seventh in the Trophy Truck Spec season point standings, just 28 points behind third place in his class. While his experience in SCORE Baja 1000 is somewhat limited, he has had significant success in domestic racing, having won his class twice in the Mint 400 and one season championship in his class in a domestic series. There is considerable family history as Mini-Mac’s famous father Rob MacCachren teamed with Steve Sourapas for several years in domestic U.S. races, winning several races and two season point championships and a season second-place along the way. PRE-RUNNING Pre-running on the official race course of 828.25 miles will open on Saturday, Oct. 29. The first section of the race course to the Ojos Negro area will not be available for pre-running from the start until Wednesday of race week when it will be open only for vehicles traveling outbound. SCORE LIVE During contingency on Wednesday and Thursday and the race on Friday until the course closes on Sunday early morning, live streaming will be broadcasting race activities and start and finish line interviews as well as live action from around the race course. Popular Rat Sult, who has been the voice of SCORE over the last seven seasons, will once again serve as host and lead announcer of the expansive SCORE Live streaming. Assisting Sult will be veteran voice Dave Arnold. SCORE live may be launched from the home page of the SCORE website. STARTING POSITIONS For this year’s SCORE Baja 1000, starting positions for all entries that raced in September’s SCORE Baja 400, finishing positions determined their respective starting positions if they have fully entered by the close of online racer registration on Nov. 2. All entries that arrive by Nov. 2 online or by Nov. 4 in person (SCORE Ensenada Office), will be placed in a drawing for start positions with the results being posted on the SCORE website on Thursday, Nov. 10. After that date, late, on-site racer registration will be held in the Red Room at the Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center in Ensenada for three days on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (Nov. 15-17). All late, on-site entries will receive the next available starting position within their respective classes. THE RACE COURSE The 828.25-mile race course for the BFGoodrich Tires SCORE Baja 1000, presented by 4 Wheel Parts, runs in a clockwise after the first part to and then back and back from Ojos Negros. It goes up and over the Cordillera de Molina to drop into the desert around Rm 115. After reaching the La Ventana area it will run south to the El Chinero road crossing highway 3 at Km 192 and will keep going south to Matomi wash. Halfway into Matomi Wash it exits and goes north to Azufre Wash, then to Huatamote wash, Chanate Wash and up to Morelia Junction. From there the course will exit the desert and go to San Matias Pass road and Mike’s Sky Rancho, down to Rancho La Jolla and will run on the San Pedro Martir road to Meling Ranch. After Meling it will run to the Pacific Coast to Ejido Jaramillo and north to just below San Vicente where it will cross back to Valley de Trinidad then back to Ojos Negros and onto to the finish line in Ensenada. For safety reasons, all of the Sportsman 4 Wheel Vehicle classes along with Class 11 and Class 7SX will run a reduced course of 695.79 miles and the Sportsman Motorcycle and Quad classes will race on a reduced course of 760.91 miles. This year’s course map is available on the SCORE website under race info on the SCORE Baja 1000 page at www.SCORE-International.com. GREEN FLAG The SCORE Baja 1000 will be an elapsed-time race with staggered starts as the green flag on Friday, November 18 will drop first for the motorcycles and quads at 3:30 a.m. (PT) and 9:15 a.m. (PT) for the cars, trucks and UTVs. While the fastest vehicles are expected to finish in around 17 hours, all vehicles will have a 36-hour time limit to become official finishers in the elapsed-time race. BFGOODRICH TIRES UNMATCHED BFGoodrich Tires, the official tire of SCORE for 46 years, received two awards for the 2021 SCORE World Desert Championship. BFGoodrich Tires was honored after the 2021 season as the SCORE Contingency Company of the year for the 31st time as well as being voted the SCORE Pit Support Team of the Year for the 33rd time. BFGoodrich Tires has been the choice of 34 of the 55 overall winners of the popular SCORE Baja 500 and 32 of the 54 overall winners of the legendary SCORE Baja 1000. BFGoodrich Tires is also the title sponsor of both of the iconic races again in 2022. BFGoodrich Tires also has been the choice of 29 of the 35 overall winners of the SCORE San Felipe 250, all three SCORE Desert Challenge races, the lone SCORE Challenge of Champions in San Felipe, the one SCORE Baja Sur 500 and the first SCORE Baja 400. BFG BIG BONUS SCORE major sponsor BFGoodrich Tires has posted a US$25,000 contingency bonus for the overall 4-wheel race winner to help commemorate this newest race on the SCORE schedule. GRAND MARSHAL—SCOT HARDEN SCORE has announced that the Grand Marshal for the BFGoodrich Tires 55th SCORE Baja 1000, presented by 4 Wheel Parts, will be Hall of Fame SCORE motorcycle champion Scot Harden. Harden, 66, born and raised in Las Vegas and currently living in Menifee, Calif., is a legendary professional desert motorcycle racer with a 50-year career as a world champion racer and motorcycle industry executive. In his racing career Harden captured two SCORE Baja 1000 overall victories, three SCORE Baja 500 wins, two wins in the SCORE Parker 400, one Mexicali 300 win and he also won the 1979 SCORE Pro Moto Unlimited (Class 22) season point championship. In addition, he has numerous overalls at other major desert events, In international competition Harden is a three-time International Six-Day Enduro (ISDE) medalist, earning a gold, silver and bronze in the early 1980s. In 1987 he became the first America to win a North African Raid Rallye winning the Djerba Rally in Tunisia. He later led the KTM/Redbull US Dakar effort in 2004/05 as Team Mgr. and rider. Harden’s impact on motorcycling is not limited to racing as he has also held sales and marketing executive positions at Husqvarna, KTM, BMW, and Zero Motorcycles. As a result of his illustrious career, he has been inducted into three halls of fame, the American Motorcyclist Association Hall of Fame in 2008, the Trailblazers HOF in 2020 and the Hot Shoe HOF in 2020. SCOREscope 2022 FINALE
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