SCORE Toyota Milestone Awards update

In 11 Pro Classes
15 SCORE racers in hunt for Toyota Milestone Awards
Heading into 41st Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000

Season finale of five-race 2008 SCORE Desert Series to be held in Ensenada, Mexico, Nov. 19-23

LOS ANGELES—Following the first four of five races in the 2008 SCORE Desert Series, 15 of SCORE’s toughest drivers are in the hunt to earn 2008 SCORE Toyota Milestone Awards.
A Nevada father and son team leads the way as Reno’s Rod Hall drives a Hummer H3 in the Stock Mini class and his youngest son Chad drives a Hummer H3Alpha in Stock Full.
Giving Nevada four of the 15 racers still in the hunt for 2008 Toyota Milestone Awards are Las Vegas’ B.J. Baldwin and B.J. Richardson. Baldwin leads the points in the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division in the No. 97 Baldwin Motorsports Chevy Silverado while Richards leads the unlimited Class 1 in a Chevy-powered Bunderson open-wheel desert race cars.
The finale of the 2008 SCORE Desert Series will be the 41st Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000, to be held Nov. 19-23 in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, 65 miles south of San Diego.
Over 300 total entries are expected to compete in 28 Pro and 6 Sportsman classes for cars, trucks, motorcycles and ATVs. The live drawing for starting positions, by class, will be held on Saturday, Oct. 11 at the new Off Road Warehouse facility in Temecula, Calif. With refreshments, vehicle displays and racer appearances from Noon until 5 p.m., the drawing will start at 2 p.m.
Toyota is presenting these prestigious awards to the world’s toughest desert racers for the 23rd consecutive year. The Toyota Milestone awards will go to those drivers who finish every required mile in the five-race 2008 SCORE Desert Series, the World’s Foremost Desert Racing Series.
“Toyota is proud to honor the world’s best desert racing drivers,” said Les Unger, national motorsports manager at Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. “For over two decades, we have had the privilege of presenting the SCORE Toyota Milestone Awards to the toughest racers on the planet.”
Entering the season finale the 2008 SCORE Desert Series, SCORE Trophy-Truck with three and the unlimited Class 1 and Class 1-2/1600 with two each lead the way with eligible drivers for 2008 SCORE Toyota Milestone awards.
This year’s Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 race course will cover nearly 650 miles of Baja California, from Ensenada to Ojos Negros, to Mexicali to San Felipe to the Mike’s Sky Ranch area to the Pacific Coast up through Santo Tomas, back inland to Ojos Negros and back to Ensenada.
Racers from at least 30 U.S. States and a dozen countries are expected to compete in this year’s Granddaddy of all desert races.

2008 SCORE Toyota Milestone Awards
(Through Round 4, 15 Racers have completed every required mile
In the five-race 2008 SCORE Desert Series)

SCORE Trophy-Truck
B.J. Baldwin
Damen Jefferies
Robbie Pierce
Class 1
Chuck Dempsey
B.J. Richardson
Class 1-2/1600
Cory Boyer
Adam Pfankuch
Class 3
Donald Moss
Class 5
Kevin Carr
Class 5/1600
Marcos Nunez
Class 7SX
Heidi Steele
SCORE Lite
Steve Mamer
Class 11
Ramon Fernandez
Stock Full
Chad Hall
Stock Mini
Rod Hall