The Official 2014 Baja 500 route has been announced; it'll be a 446.9 mile loop starting and ending in Ensenada with a long run down the Mexican west coast, sprints back and fourth across the Diablo Dry Lake, and a charge back north through the hills in the middle of the peninsula.
Here's the official map download link if you want to see it as big as possible.
Looks like SCORE has set up a good variety of terrain for this year's race, which should lend itself to some good action and miserable hell for support vehicles.
Qualifying positions for the race have been locked in as well. SCORE sets starting positions for the Baja 500 by qualifying time, but the start-positing for the qualifying run is done by random draw.
Clyde Stacey will be the first Trophy Truck to qualify in his Chevy Silverado, with Shelby Reid heading up Class 1 on June 5th in Ensenada.
It's obviously in the best interest of competitive racers to throw down a qualifying run, but it's not required. Non-qualifying entrants will run in the order selected at random started behind the last qualified vehicle in class.
The qualifying runs are closed to the public because keeping spectators safe is too big a job for organizers, but we'll share highlights as they come out!
Here's the full list of racers registered as of May 14, 2014 in official qualifying order by class:
Pro Cars & Trucks
SCORE TROPHY TRUCK (32)
(Qualifying Order)
5 Clyde Stacy
57 Mike Palmer
98 Gary Weyhrich
3 Mark Post
35 Jason Voss
77 Robby Gordon
50 Zak Langley
85 Justin Davis
53 Jose de Jesus Flores
30 Robbie Pierce
15 Armin Schwarz
33 Todd Romano
45 Gary Magness
91 Troy Herbst
76 Jesse Jones
11 Rob MacCachren
16 Cameron Steele
7 Steven Eugenio
1 B.J. Baldwin
9 Mark Weyhrich
26 Jay Reichert
21 Gus Vildosola Jr
34 Ken Losch
19 Tim Herbst
23 Dan McMillin
72 Robert Acer
39 Ron Whitton
70 Bryce Menzies
18 Juan C. Lopez
83 Luke McMillin
14 Heidi Steele
37 Thomas Greer-1st RS
CLASS 1 (15)
(Qualifying Order)
168 Shelby Reid
100 Cody Parkhouse
101 Justin Matney
156 Richard Boyle
128 Chuck Sacks
153 Ronny Wilson
163 Paul Keller
111 John Langley
169 Nick Mills
187 Ryan Sharman
188 Jon Walker
144 Andrew Myers
138 Brian Wilson
114 Lyle Bask-2nd RS
121 Damen Jefferies-1st RS
CLASS 1/2-1600 (7)
1685 Edson Cruz
1615 Jesus Velez
1636 Christian Celaya
1605 Miguel Cortez
1606 Ruben Sanudo
1691 David Jones
1630 Kevin Smith-1st RS
CLASS 5 (2)
511 Wendy Belk
509 Jose Lopez
CLASS 7 (2)
717 Pat Sims
724 Matt Lovell
CLASS 7SX (3)
747 Justin Park
759 Oscar Solaiza-2nd RS
750 Javier Avila-1st RS
CLASS 8 (2)
807 Noah Ostanik
808 Rick Sanchez
CLASS 10 (25)
1066 Mike Shaffer
1031 Mike Johnson
1068 Cody Reid
1045 Patrick Dailey
1033 Miaguel Tornel
1006 Mike Lawrence
1081 Todd Winslow
1029 Thomas Bjorstrom
1062 J.J. Schnarr
1023 Lee Banning
1016 Cody Robinson
1009 Rafael Navarro IV
1015 Jeremiah Watson
1041 Todd Stemmerman
1089 Arnoldo Gutierrez Jr
1000 Brad Wilson
1074 Derek Ahern
1011 Morgan Langley
1098 Shane Scully
1032 Tim Pangborn
1088 Luis Salgado
1002 Mark Lawrence
1048 Carey Chrisman
1099 Adam Pfankuch-2nd RS
1097 Rick St. John-1st RS
SCORE LITES (2)
1249 Hector Garcia
1216 Luis Martinez
CLASS 11 (2)
1113 Mario Vazquez
1162 Greg Piraino
PROTRUCK (1)
1350 Chelsea Magness
TROPHY TRUCK SPEC (7)
842 Taylor Mills
846 Jose Gomez
872 Jonathan Brenthel
858 David Kleiman
844 Eduardo Laguna
871 Larry Connor
854 Brian Shaleen
CLASS 19 (11)
1904 Cory Sappington
1949 Alonso Lopez
1944 Scott Estes
1917 Derek Murray
1937 Marc Behnke
1920 John Angal
1905 Marc Burnett
1907 Eric Pucelik
1930 Sean Cook
1942 Scott McFarland
1932 Matt Parks-1st RS
Pro Motorcycles
OPEN M/C (4)
4x Ricky Brabec
1x Colton Udall
77x Ray Dal Soglio
19x Rodrigo Valenzuela
LIMITED M/C (1)
134x Dane Ward
CLASS 30 (3)
310x Mark Winkelman
306x Fred Sobke
349x Francisco Arredondo
CLASS 40 (3)
449x Ezure Tadao
410x Giovanni Spinali
403x Oscar Fazz
CLASS 50 (1)
510x Earl Roberts
SCORE IRONMAN (2)
706x Kevin Daniels
728x Daniel Stinson
Pro ATVs
Pro ATV (1)
1a Adolfo Arellano
Sportsman
SPT BUGGY (1)
1515 Derek Fletcher-1st RS
SPT UNLIMITED TRUCK (1)
1444 Jim Bunn-1st RS
SPT LIMITED TRUCK (1)
2002 Walter Prince
SPT M/C (8)
283x Nicola Dutto
290x Stuart Gordon
272x Hisazumi Fukumura
247x Raul Hernandez
271x Akihiro Saito
270x Eizaburo Karasawa
275x Masayuki Kudo
297x Carlos Sanchez-1st RS
SPT ATV (6)
121a Zachary Hayward
123a Waldemar Ortiz
140a Don Higbee
112a Oscar Ruiz
109a Juan Dominguez
107a Richard Epperson
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