This video is 6 minutes of off-road bliss. If this video doesn’t make you want to get behind the wheel of an off-road race truck and tear off across the desert for Baja 500 Qualifying, then you are crazy. Galindo Motorsports’, Steven Eugenio driven, Trophy Truck qualified number 9 behind the likes of Gordon, Baldwin, MacCachren, Menzies, and Steel to name a few. The field is set for today’s race, and we can’t wait to see how the dust settles, and who ends up on top. You will be amazed at just how fast these trucks are in this video, and also how brutal the track is in spots. Keep in mind, this truck has FEET of suspension travel and a jillion horsepower. It’s unbelievable how controlled Steven is on the throttle, the constant motion of the steering wheel, and just how rough the ride is sometimes. With all that said, we’ve give a testicle to get a chance to drive one.

Check out the video below, and then see full Baja 500 Qualifying results below that.

Gordon, Menzies, Voss, MacCachren, Stacy top qualifiers

In SCORE Trophy Truck for 46th Tecate SCORE Baja 500

C. Parkhouse, Ronny Wilson, Jon Walker top three qualifiers in unlimited Class 1

Round 3 of 2014 SCORE World Desert Championship being held in Ensenada, Mexico,

Nearly 225 entries from 20 U.S. states, 15 countries celebrating SCORE’s 41st anniversary;

LIVE SCORE Dirt LiveHD coverage at score-international.com

     ENSENADA, Mexico—Defending race champion Robby Gordon, Charlotte, N.C., returned to his desert-racing roots posting the fastest qualifying time Thursday to earn the first starting position in Saturday’s 46th annual Tecate SCORE Baja 500 desert race. Entries from around the world are officially entered in Round 3 of the 2014 SCORE World Desert Championship, being held this week in Mexico’s Baja California Norte, starting and finishing in Ensenada, the seaside port on the Pacific Ocean, 86 miles south of San Diego.

Driving his durable and dependable No. 77 Speed Energy Chevy CK1500, Gordon, who will race in the XGames in Austin, Texas on Sunday in his Formula Off-Road truck series, covered the 4.3-mile desert test course near Ojos Negros 40 miles east of Ensenada in five minutes, 8.74 seconds, averaging 50.14 miles per hour.

SCORE is celebrating its 41st year as the world’s foremost desert racing organization in 2014 and this is an elapsed-time race with staggered starts as the green flag on Saturday will drop first for the motorcycles and ATVs at 5:45 a.m. and approximately 10 a.m. for the cars, trucks and UTVs. All vehicles will have 18-hour time limits to be an official finisher.

With nearly 225 entries competing in 26 Pro and 5 Sportsman classes for cars, trucks, UTVs, motorcycles and ATVs expected at the start line on Saturday, entries to date have come from 20 U.S. States along with Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Great Britain, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands and Spain. Late entries will be accepted at late, on-site registration through 5 p.m. Friday.

ON CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR

The race will be televised on a delayed basis in the USA, Canada and U.S. Territories as a one-hour special on the CBS Sports Network. The show, being produced by SoCal’s acclaimed BCII TV, will air for one week on the CBS Sports Spectacular show with the initial airing at 9 p.m. ET on Sunday, July 20, 2014. Following a week of airing the CBS Sports Network telecasts, the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 show will air worldwide in over 100 countries through international distribution.

SCORE DIRT LIVEHD GLOBAL

With viewers in over 100 countries, SCORE Dirt LiveHD will present live internet streaming from the event from pre-green to post-checker. Coverage will include live start and finish line interviews as well as live coverage from the many ancillary events tied to the race.  On race day, live satellite tracking of all vehicles in the race will also be broadcast through the SCORE International website.

A BAJA FIESTA…

Colorful race week festivities include several first-time events for SCORE, starting with the qualifying session for SCORE Trophy Truck and Class 1 followed by the Monster Energy SCORE Kick Off Party last night at the start/finish line area in the heart of Ensenada. With donations for La Cruz Roja Mexicana (Mexico’s Red Cross), the event included a racer’s autograph party and vehicle display

Friday will see the day-long, pre-race Manufacturer’s Midway and contingency festival in the start finish line area in Ensenada.

On Friday evening, the Monster Energy Papas Y Beer SCORE Street Party will be held from 7 p.m. to Midnight on Avenida Ruiz in downtown Ensenada.

During the race on Saturday the Monster Energy SCORE VIP hospitality area, will be part of the start/finish line compound. The area will also include the massive SCOREvision LED screen broadcasting race festivities along with start and finish line interviews.

All of the week’s festivities will be aired both live and same-day including the race, on the SCORE Dirt LiveHD race week shows, airing via the internet on the SCORE website.

QUALIFYING REPORT

With qualifying for the marquee SCORE Trophy Truck division for high-tech, 850-horsepower unlimited production trucks and the unlimited Class 1 for open-wheel desert race cars, 28 of 34 entries in SCORE Trophy Truck and eight of 17 entries in Class 1 ran in the qualifying session. The vehicles that didn’t qualify will start at the back of their respective classes.

Second-fastest qualifier was Las Vegas’ Bryce Menzies in the No. 70 Ford F-150 in 5:13.42, just under five seconds behind leader Gordon. Third was Jason Voss, Cupertino, Calif., who was second in qualifying last year behind Gordon, with a time of 5:17:11 in another Ford F-150 while fourth was Las Vegas’ Rob MacCachren in 5:21.74 in yet another Ford F-150. Completing the top five fastest qualifiers for Saturday’s race was Clyde Stacy, Bristol, Va. in the No. 5 Chevy Rally Truck with a time of 5:22.56.

The top three qualifiers in Class 1 were No. 100 Cody Parkhouse, Long Beach, Calif. in 5:31.95 in a Chevy-powered Jimco desert race car, No. 153 Ronny Wilson, Long Beach, Calif., in 5:36.28 in another Jimco-Chevy and third was No. 188 Jon Walker of Guam, in 5:41.48 in a Kreger-Chevy.

AT THE RIVIERA…

The Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center, in the heart of Ensenada, will again be the site of many of the activities surrounding the Tecate SCORE Baja 500. Racer registration and Media registration is being held in the Red room at the Riviera on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and the SCORE Media Center is located in the Red room during the race with internet access and live race updates including unofficial elapsed times.

In the Cathedral Room at the Riviera will be pre-race media conference as well as the mandatory pre-race racer’s meeting on Friday at 7 p.m. The post-race awards celebration will be in the outdoor Riviera amphitheater at noon on Sunday.

The start/finish line for the race will once again be adjacent to the Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center as well.

46th Tecate SCORE Baja 500

June 5-8, 2014—Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

Celebrating 41 years of SCORE International desert racing

OFFICIAL ENTRIES – 218 (as of 6/5/14)

(from 19 U.S. States and Guam; Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador,

France, Germany, Great Britain, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain)

Thursday’s Qualifying Results

(Qualifying determined class starting order)

Position, Vehicle Number, Driver of Record, Hometown, Vehicle, time, average speed for one lap of special 4.3-mile course

  SCORE TROPHY TRUCK (Unlimited Production Trucks) (Numerical, before Qualifying)–

TOP QUALIFER: 77 Robby Gordon, Charlotte, N.C., Chevy CK1500, 5 minutes, 8.74 seconds (50.14mph)

2. 70 Bryce Menzies, Las Vegas, Ford F-150, 5:13.42 (49.39mph)

3. 35 Jason Voss/Rich Voss, Cupertino, Calif., Ford F-150, 5:17.11 (48.82mph)

4. 11 Rob MacCachren, Las Vegas, Ford F-150, 5:21.74 (48.11mph)

5. 5 Clyde Stacy, Bristol, Va./Carlos Lopez, Tecate, Mexico, Chevy Rally Truck, 5:22.56 (47.99mph)

6. 83 Luke McMillin, El Cajon, Calif./Chuck Hovey, Escondido, Calif., Ford F-150, 5:23.06 (47.92mph)

7. 1 B.J. Baldwin, Las Vegas, Chevy Silverado, 5:23.29 (47.88mph)

8. 16 Cameron Steele, San Clemente, Calif., Chevy Silverado, 5:25.43 (47.57mph)

9. 7 Steven Eugenio, Carlsbad, Calif., Chevy Silverado, 5:26.58 (47.40mph)

10. 15 Armin Schwarz, Austria (Germany)/Martin Christensen, Escondido, Calif. (Denmark), BMW XJ-6, 5:28.34 (47.15mph)

11. 44 Kyle Jorgensen/Todd Jergensen, Oak Hills, Calif., Chevy Silverado, 5:29.73 (46.95mph)

12. 21 Gus Vildosola Jr/Gus Vildosola, Mexicali, Mexico, Ford Raptor, 5:29.75 (46.94mph)

13. 18 Juan C. Lopez, Tecate, Mexico, Ford Raptor, 5:30.32 (46.86mph)

14. 85 Justin Davis, Chino Hills, Calif., Ford F-150, 5:32.49 (46.55mph)

15. 72 Robert Acer/Andrew Becerra, Wilmington, Del., Chevy Silverado, 5:34.68 (46.25mph)

16. 76 Jesse Jones, Phoenix, Ford F-150, 5:37.12 (45.92mph)

17. 23 Dan McMillin, La Mesa, Calif./Chuck Hovey, Escondido, Calif., Ford F-150, 5:38.33 (45.75mph)

18. 91 Troy Herbst, Las Vegas/Ryan Arciero, Foothill Ranch, Calif., Ford F-150, 5:39.21 (45.64mph)

19. 98 Gary Weyhrich, Troutdale, Ore., Ford F-150, 5:41.55 (45.32mph)

20. 50 Zak Langley, Santa Monica, Calif./Rick D. Johnson, Barstow, Calif., Ford F-150, 5:42.57 (45.19mph)

21. 26 Jay Reichert, Johnson City, Texas/Charles Dorrance, Austin, Texas, Ford Raptor, 5:44.74 (44.90mph)

22. 9 Mark Weyhrich, Troutdale, Ore., Ford F-150, 5:44.78 (44.89mph)

23. 30 Robbie Pierce, Lakeside, Calif./Mike Julson, Santee, Calif., Ford F-150, 5:47.22 (44.58mph)

24. 3 Mark Post, Las Vegas, Ford F-150, 5:58.32 (43.20mph)

25. 33 Todd Romano, Park City, Utah, Chevy Silverado, 5:58.37 (43.20mph)

26. 19 Tim Herbst, Las Vegas/Larry Roeseler, Boulevard, Calif., Ford F-150, 6:04.18 (42.50mph)

27. 53 Jose de Jesus Flores/Jaime Huerta, Culiacan, Mexico, Chevy Silverado, 6:14.60 (41.32mph)

28. 93 Chris Kemp, San Clemente, Calif./Shannon Powell, Ford Raptor, DNF

(Remaining start order for non-qualifiers)

29. 57 Mike Palmer/Spencer Steele, Denver, Chevy Silverado

30. 45 Gary Magness/Devin Housh, Desert Hot Springs, Calif., Ford F-150

31. 34 Ken Losch, Phoenix, Chevy Silverado, zhro, Rigid Industries

32. 39 Ron Whitton/Chas Dana, Mesa, Ariz., Ford F-150

33. 14 Heidi Steele, San Clemente, Calif./Jessica McMillin, Chevy Silverado

34. 37 Thomas Greer/Bruce Greer Jr, Tucson, Ariz./Glen Greer, Green Valley, Ariz., Dodge Ram1500

  CLASS 1 (Unlimited single or two-seaters) (Numerical, before Qualifying)–

1. 100 Cody Parkhouse/Brian Parkhouse, Long Beach, Calif., Jimco-Chevy, 5:31.98 (46.63mph)

2. 153 Ronny Wilson, Long Beach, Calif./John Herder, Tucson, Ariz., Jimco-Chevy, 5:36.28 (46.03mph)

3. 188 Jon Walker, Tamuning, Guam, Kreger-Chevy, 5:41.48 (45.33mph)

4. 101 Justin Matney, Bristol, Tenn., Geiser-Chevy, 5:42.06 (45.26mph)

5. 144 Andrew Myers, San Marcos, Calif./Dan Myers, Newport Beach, Calif., Jimco-Chevy, 5:49.86 (44.25mph)

6. 138 Brian Wilson/Rick Wilson, Long Beach, Calif./Randy Wilson, Lakeside, Calif., Jimco-Chevy, 5:52.75 (43.88mph)

7. 128 Chuck Sacks, Canyon Lake, Calif./Matt Cullen/Mike Lombardi, Long Beach, Calif., Jimco-Chevy, 6:02.62 (42.69mph)

8. 169 Nick Mills, Corpus Christi, Texas/Tony MacNeil, Escondido, Calif., Geiser-Viper, 6:14.35 (41.35mph)

(Remaining start order for non-qualifiers)

9. 168 Shelby Reid, Apple Valley, Calif./Darren Ebberts, Corona, Calif., Custom-Chevy

10. 156 Richard Boyle, Ridgecrest, Calif./Tom Kirkmeyer, Apple Valley, Calif./Eric Duran, Tecate, Calif., Custom-Chevy

11. 111 John Langley, Santa Monica, Calif./Harley Letner, Orange, Calif., Racer-Chevy

12. 187 Ryan Sharman/Paul Sharman, Phoenix, Tatum-Chevy

13. 112 Oscar Rodriguez, Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico/Jim Ruehlen, TLR-Chevy

14. 131 George Peters, Newbury Park, Calif./Joe Bednar, Agua Dulce, Calif./Luke Babb, Monrovia, Calif., Racer-Chevy

15. 142 Steven Sells, Phoenix/Doug Udall, Gilbert, Ariz., MCM-Chevy

16. 114 Lyle Bask/Michael Ferguson, Canada, ESM-Ford

17. 121 Damen Jefferies, Apple Valley, Calif./Louis Chamberland, Oak Hills, Calif., Jefferies-Chevy