SAN FELIPE, Mexico Gustavo Tavo Vildosola, Bryce Menzies and Luke McMillin were the top qualifiers Thursday of more than 250 racers expected to start Saturdays King Shocks 38th SCORE San Felipe 250.

Held over a four-mile course North of downtown, Gustavo Vildosola Junior, 43, Mexicali, Mexico, powered his Vildosola Racing No. 21 Ford Raptor, built by Mason Motorsports to the fastest qualifying time of four minutes, 33.506 seconds. He was fastest of the 34 SCORE Trophy Trucks out of 40 entries in the class that attempted to qualify.

Menzies, 37, who finished four in San Felipe last year and won this race in 2021, finished with the second-fastest qualifying time this year, driving his No. 7 AWD Ford Raptor to a time of 4:33.795.

Multi-time SCORE Baja 1000 winner Luke McMillin, 32, powered his way in a time of 4:35.943 to finish third in qualifying in the No. 83 all-wheel drive Mason-built Chevy SCORE Trophy Truck.

Top qualifier out of a 16 entries in the new SCORE TT 2WD class was Ryan Daniel, 41, in a time of 4:51.311 in the No. 28T Jimco-built Chevy Silverado.

Fastest in the SCORE TT Legend class for SCORE Trophy Truck racers over 50 years old was Ricky Johnson, 60, (Driver of RecordGustavo Vildosola Sr, 71), in a time of 4:46.413 in the Vildosola Racing No. 1L Mason-built AWD Ford Raptor.

Top qualifier out of a 29 entries in the Trophy Truck Spec class was Jason McNeil, 47, in the No. 234 TSCO-Chevy in a time 4:53.501.

SCORE Trophy Truck, SCORE TT 2WD, SCORE TT Legend, and Trophy Truck Spec were the only four classes required to participate in the Method Race Wheels Qualifying sessions for starting positions as the other start positions in the various classes were determined by a drawing.

The colorfully challenging 250.06-mile race course will start and finish and pre-race contingency will be held on El Malecon in the SCORE start/finish line compound alongside of the picturesque Sea of Cortez.

Entering Fridays final days of late, on-site race week registration, 248 official entries to date represent 23 U.S. States, one U.S. Territory and seven countries. In addition to the USA, host country Mexico, racers so far have also come from Australia, Canada, Argentina, Costa Rica, France, New Zealand and India.

With double figure entries so far are SCORE Trophy Truck (40), Trophy Truck Spec (31), Pro UTV FI (Forced Induction) with 33, Pro UTV Open (26) and Pro UTV Stock (22).
In motorcycles, the class with the most entries is Pro Moto Ironman with 16 entries, followed by the Pro Moto Limited class and the Sportsman Quad, both with seven entries, as well as the Pro Moto Unlimited class with five entries.