San Felipe, Baja California - Andy McMillin took the overall win, 30 minutes ahead of the first bike!! Chris Blais took the win for the bikes breaking the Honda Red Riders Baja streak of wins.

Blais, riding the KTM factory sponsored motorcycle bested the American Honda 1X team of Campbell and Hengeveld in the brutal San Felipe conditions. The course was so rough that the fastest off-road desert bike teams in the world succumbed the overall win to a 4-wheel race vehicle. Andy McMillin teamed with his dad, Scott McMillin to punish the competition here in the SCORE San Felipe 250. Armed with the best in advanced racing technology and extreme dedication to extensive prerunning and testing, Andy and Scott McMillin proved that this San Felipe race course was able to be beaten.

Jason Baldwin pushed his Trophy Truck to the extreme limits throughout the entire race taking the win in the Trophy Trucks!! Baldwin commented at the finish line, "We had to overcome truck issues throughout the race to get to the finish line, let alone win!"

Curt LeDuc pushed the # 3 Riviera Trophy Truck so hard that the shocks melted beneath the intense heat of the punishing Baja terrain. The air temperatures were not the problem. It was the incredibly tough Baja terrain that played havoc on one of the most successful drivers in off-road desert racing. LeDuc and Post completed the race in 5:34:52 finishing 7th position in class. LeDuc told ORC staffers, "This one was heck of a race. Conditions on the race course were intense as we raced against the best teams in off-road desert racing," said LeDuc.

"That run down the race course near Zoo Road was really wild. We had the right pace to win this race but in the end Baldwin just plain beat us."

LeDuc said, "We're going into the 500 with a good feeling."

Scott Steinberger grenaded a transmission at Race Mile 18 after working the huge five foot bumps in the PCI Racing Trophy Truck. Steinberger blew by Race Mile 57 but only a few miles later he suffered motor problems that sidelined him for the day. Alan "Fearless" Pflueger pulled into Pit 1 and was done for the day after problems with his race truck.

Young Gun - Bryan Freeman and Veteran Champion - Rob MacCachren took the checkered flag beneath the Tecate Arch in San Felipe this afternoon to capture another 1/2 1600 class win. MacCachren said at the finish line, "The credit goes to Danny Anderson and Bryan Freeman who raced most of the race. They are an awesome team." Freeman, one of the latest off-road racing young guns commented, "I had a few motor problems but it was great, It was rough but so fun and hope to race more this year with these guys.”

Class 21 Baja 1000 Champion - Joe Desrosiers was unseated as the San Felipe Champion by Baja Motorcycle Veteran - Tim Morton. Morton entered the race with only one goal in mind and that was to take the Class 21 win hands down.

And that he did! Morton raged terror in Baja off-road racing once again.

ORC staffers at race mile 196 commented, "Morto came by us at speed with the rear wheel three feet up in the air and he was riding like he was at Supercross.

Tim Morton, owner of Baja, a world-class Baja motorcycle tour company, ran the entire course in 5:12:20 averaging 46.17 mph.

Also in Class 21 was Kevin Johnson of Vista, California who finished second in front of the defending Class 21 Champions - DP Racing. Kevin Johnson completed the course in 5:28:31 approximately four minutes ahead of the Baja 1000 Champions to take a podium finish.

The word is that the course is tough. Steinberger, Playtech Racing, Pfluger & Vildolsola are broken...and that's not it. Many race teams are doing all they can just to finish the race this afternoon. The first 60 miles of this 2005 San Felipe SCORE race course has taken its toll on the best desert racers in the world. Desert racing carnage is strewn from Race Mile 3 through the Borrego Pits.

Many teams on the strap this afternoon, limping there way back to San Felipe and then move on home.