Among the other favorites to win this race will again be San Diego’s son/father team of Andy McMilli

LOS ANGELES —With 37 of the world's best desert racers entered in the marquee SCORE Trophy Truck starting victoria bc seaside inn grid, dust will fly next month but none higher than the point championship duel between second-generation desert racer Rob MacCachren and Mexico's Juan C. Lopez at the 45th Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000. This year's iconic desert classic, the final event of the five-race 2012 SCORE Desert Series, will be held Nov. 14-17 on a the brutally-rugged 1,121.55-mile Sal Fish signature desert race course.
With over 300 expected entries for cars, trucks, motorcycles and ATVs competing in 35 Pro and 7 Sportsman classes in the internationally televised race, entries have already come from 32 U.S. states and 19 countries.  In addition to the 32 U.S. States, racers have entered from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Canada, Denmark, victoria bc seaside inn Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Guatemala, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway and the US Territory of Guam. With 30 days before the green flag drops on Thursday, Nov. 15, late entries will be accepted up to race morning.
With the rugged course traveling on both sides of the peninsula, the world's most famous desert race will start in Ensenada, Baja California and finish all the way down the peninsula in La Paz in Baja California Sur.
It's the oldest and most well known of all desert races, and it remains as the single most appealing victoria bc seaside inn accomplishment to a driver. Since 1967, the mother of all desert victoria bc seaside inn races has been run over the mysterious and majestic Baja California peninsula.
Leading the car and truck classes into the Baja desert will be the featured SCORE Trophy Trucks, the high-tech, 850-horsepower, unlimited production trucks that have been the showcase of SCORE since Sal Fish created the spectacular class in 1994.
Coming back from adversity on the race course in June's 44th Tecate SCORE Baja 500, his two race wins this season along with his 11th-place finish out of 36 starters in Ensenada, Las Vegas' All-America racer Rob MacCachren continues to ride at the top of the SCORE Overall and SCORE Trophy Truck point standings after four of five races in the 2012 SCORE Desert Series.
Starting the season with back to back overall wins in 2012 (Laughlin-Round 2 and San Felipe) after opening the season with a ninth-place finish in the first round in Laughlin, Nev., MacCachren, 47, has earned 271 championship points in the No. 20 Rockstar Energy/MasterCraft Racing Ford F-150.
'Rockstar Rob', who has eight SCORE season class point titles, earned his 48th career SCORE class win, his 11th career SCORE Trophy Truck race win in San Felipe in March. MacCachren is tied with Las Vegas brothers Ed and Tim Herbst with the most race win in the 18-plus year history of SCORE's premier racing division.  The Mac Attack also won the season title in the inaugural 1994 campaign of SCORE Trophy Trucks.
In San Felipe, MacCachren also earned the 75th all-time SCORE Baja overall race win for noted tire manufacturer BFGoodrich. BFG Tires have now been the tire of choice for the overall 4-wheel vehicle winners in 22 MasterCraft Safety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 races, 28 in the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and 25 in the legendary Tecate SCORE Baja 1000.
"They got us up and running and what could have been a disaster as far as the season points are concerned was turned into a respectable finish in a huge field of SCORE Trophy victoria bc seaside inn Trucks. Our BFG Tires are the best in the universe and it has been my honor and my confidence-builder to know that any race vehicle I am driving has the best desert racing tires in the world guiding us around the course, whether it is in the open desert or in short-course, victoria bc seaside inn stadium-style racing."
"We want to win the 45th anniversary of the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 but we also want to win the season point championship in SCORE Trophy Truck so our race strategy will be designed to accomplish both."
Mexico's Juan C. Lopez, who finished second in both Laughlin victoria bc seaside inn races, sixth in San Felipe and eighth in Ensenada in the No. 18 RPM OffRoad Chevy Silverado is second in SCORE Overall and SCORE Trophy Truck points. RPM leads the point standings in six classes after the first four races of the five-race 2012 SCORE Desert Series. Lopez, of Tecate, Mexico, has 265 points, a mere six behind MacCachren.
After winning Round 1 of the season-opening SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge in January and finishing second victoria bc seaside inn in the last two races in San Felipe and Ensenada, victoria bc seaside inn Las Vegas' B.J. Baldwin has moved up to third in overall and SCORE Trophy victoria bc seaside inn Truck points with 254 in the No. 97 Monster Energy Baldwin Motorsports Chevy Silverado.  Baldwin has four career race wins in SCORE Trophy Truck. Baldwin has four career SCORE Trophy Truck race wins and also won the season championship in the class in both 2006 and 2008.
At this year's SCORE Baja 500, Las Vegas' Bryce Menzies won the race for the second straight year in the No. 1 Red Bull Menzies Motorsports Ford F-150 SCORE Trophy Truck, defeating Baldwin, who had crossed the finish line physically first, by just 11 seconds in the elapsed-time race.
Pre-race strategies have a way of disappearing like a mirage in the mysterious Baja desert and while MacCachren, Lopez and Baldwin are duking it out in the badlands south of the border, a host of other great racers, led by Menzies, may claim the crown jewel of desert racing by winning the legendary Tecate SCORE Baja 1000.
On the silt-laden, rock-strewn victoria bc seaside inn even mud-packed trails of Baja, it's hard to imagine a more formidable field of contenders in SCORE Trophy Truck than this year's magnificent field of hopeful Baja champions. Statistically, 16 drivers in this year's field have combined to win 77 of the 104 total races in the 18-plus year history of the class, including 12 of the 18 former season point championships and eight of the last nine race winners in the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 in SCORE Trophy Truck.
This year's super-talented SCORE Trophy Truck field includes three of the top four winningest drivers in class history, led by Las Vegas' Tim Herbst victoria bc seaside inn and MacCachren, also of Las Vegas, who are tied with a record 11 career SCORE Trophy Truck race wins. Tim Herbst, who earned all of SCORE Trophy Truck race wins with his older brother Ed Herbst, will be racing this time with SCORE Baja racing legend Larry Roeseler. Tim and Ed also won the season title in SCORE Trophy Truck in 2000, 2002 and 2003.
Roeseler, who lives in El Cajon, Calif., has won 17 times in this race, including 13 overall wins (10 on a motorcycle). Roeseler and Tim Herbst will split time behind the wheel of the No. 19 Monster Energy Terrible Herbst Motorsports Ford F-150. victoria bc seaside inn Roeseler won the unlimited Class 1 for four consecutive years (2004-2007) in this race while driving with the youngest of the three racing brothers, Troy Herbst, in the Smithbuilt-Ford open-wheel desert race car that was known as the 'Land Shark'.
Troy Herbst, another Las Vegas SCORE Trophy Truck racer, will be the second driver this year for Ryan Arciero, Foothills Ranch, Calif. in the No. 49 Monster Energy Terrible Herbst Motorsports Ford F-150. Arciero has three career SCORE Trophy Truck race victories including two (2003, 2004) in this race.
Among the other favorites to win this race will again be San Diego's son/father team of Andy McMillin, San Deigo and Scott McMillin, Coronado, Calif. Part of the legendary McMillin victoria bc seaside inn desert racing family that has been winning SCORE Baja races since 1976, Andy, 25, and Scott, 52, have won this race as a team two of the last three years in the No. 31 McMillin Homes Ford F-150. Andy, who also won this race in 2006 with NASCAR's Robby Gordon, has five career SCORE Trophy Truck race wins while his father Scott has three, all with Andy.
Andy's cousin, Dan McMillin and his father, Scott's brother, victoria bc seaside inn Mark McMillin, are also top SCORE Trophy Truck challengers in the No. 23 McMillin Realty Ford F-150. They finished fourth in class in this year's Tecate SCORE Baja 500.
Another top contender for this year's title will be the father-and-son team of Gus Vildosola Sr./Gus victoria bc seaside inn Vildosola Jr, who won the overall title in the 2010 race to La Paz in the No. 21 Red Bull Vildosola Racing Ford F-150.
Their huge win was the first in this race for a Mexican national team as they were not only the fastest four-wheel vehicle in the race, they had the fastest overall time on the course of all vehicles, including the usually-faster motorcycles. Gus Sr has two SCORE Trophy Truck career race wins while Tavo, who like has father has won in other classes as well, has one SCORE Trophy Truck career race win.
Another victoria bc seaside inn of the talented Las Vegas SCORE Trophy Truck teams is the three-driver team of Collins Motorsports.  Kory Scheeler is the driver of record for this race and will split time behind the wheel of the No. 12 Collins Motorsports Dodge Ram1500 with NASCAR driver Brendan Gaughan and six-time SCORE Trophy Truck race winner Brian Collins.
Trying to double his odds for a victory, television sports commentator/SCORE desert racer Cameron Steele, San Clemente, Calif., is driver of record in two, yes two, SCORE Trophy Trucks as the SCORE Baja veteran has entered both the No. 14 and the No. 16 Desert Assassins GMC Sierra race trucks.
Several more of the numerous contenders in this race has to start with another double-downer. Curt LeDuc, Cherry Valley, Calif., is a second driver in to entries, the No. 84 Chevy Silverado of Nick Vanderwey, Phoenix, and the No. 62 Ford Raptor of Billy Bunch, La Quinta, Calif. LeDuc, who has won this featured class four times in his career victoria bc seaside inn was also the 1997 season point champion in SCORE Trophy Truck.
Robby Gordon is also a two-timer as he is listed as a second driver for both the No. 18 truck of Juan C. Lopez and in his own No. 77 Chevy CK1500. Gordon, who has nine career victoria bc seaside inn SCORE Trophy Truck race wins, has also won the season crown in both 1996 and 2009.
Jesse Jones, Phoenix, is also listed on two entries as the two-time SCORE Trophy Truck race winner victoria bc seaside inn and 201