SCORE Journal - The Official Publication of SCORE Off-Road Racing
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LEGENDARY GRAND MARSHALS LEGENDARY GRAND MARSHALS Walker Evans, Mark McMillin Are Co-Grand Marshals For The K&N 4th SCORE BaJa 400 Presented by VP racing Fuels By Dominic Clark, SCORE Media Operations Director SCORE champion racing legends Walker Evans and Mark McMillin will be the on-site co-Grand Marshals for the upcoming K&N 4th SCORE Baja 400, Presented by VP Racing Fuels. Both legendary members of the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame, Evans, 84, Riverside, Calif., and McMillin, 67, San Diego, had amazing careers in SCORE desert racing over several decades. WALKER EVANS Walker Evans is one of the true pioneers of the sports of off-road racing and has won 21 season championships in the desert, short-course, stadium, NASCAR Trucks, and rock-crawling. He started in desert racing in 1969 in the original NORRA Mexican 1000. In SCORE racing, Evans has class wins in the SCORE Baja 1000, SCORE Baja 500, SCORE Parker 400, SCORE Fireworks 250 and the original Mint 400. Among his many victories was the 1979 overall victory in the SCORE Baja 1000 that marked the first time that a full-sized pickup won the iconic race. He earned over 150 victories in his career. Overall, Evans had nine class wins in the storied SCORE Baja 1000 and six in the SCORE Baja 500. He also has six career season class point championships (1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1986), and was inducted into the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2004, and later was recognized by induction into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in the class of 2015. As founder and owner of a very successful Walker Evans racing products company, he was also one of the original founders of and drivers in the NASCAR Truck Series. After many years working as an ambassador for the organization, Evans was named a 2022 inductee into the SEMA Hall of Fame. Evans commented several years ago, “Everybody who has ever driven in a SCORE Baja race knows it is the greatest experience of his or her life. And it took over mine over 50 years ago.” MARK MCMILLIN Mark McMillin is one of the pillars of SCORE Baja racing, and a major part of the Big Blue M McMillin Racing machine. He was inducted into the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2018 when he joined his late father Corky McMillin (ORMHOF class of 2006) as the first father and son team to earn the prestigious honor. McMillin Racing launched in 1976 with Mark’s brother Scott, who is also a multi-time champion, and continues today with third-generation McMillin SCORE Trophy Truck racers Andy McMillin, Dan McMillin and Luke McMillin. In his SCORE racing career, Mark McMillin earned six season class point championships (1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 2005). In the SCORE Baja 1000, Mark McMillin had five overall victories (1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, and 1988, and eight total class victories. In the SCORE Baja 500, he had three overall wins and five total class wins. Mark McMillin has also been the Chairman of the Board of the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame since 2015. GRANDEST MARSHAL FOR THE GOLDEN YEAR Former SCORE Owner and President Sal Fish, is admired as the iconic ‘godfather’ of SCORE Desert Racing, and is a foundational pillar of the organization. For the 50th Anniversary Season of SCORE International, he is the Grand Marshal for the Year during the entire four-race 2023 SCORE World Desert Championship. Fish will unfortunately not be present for the K&N Engineering 4th SCORE Baja 400, as he and his wife Barbara will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary during race week. He has recorded a very special video tribute that will air during race week in Ensenada. He will be in person for the season-ending SCORE Baja 1000 in November.