SCORE Journal - The Official Publication of SCORE Off-Road Racing
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Andy McMillin is part of the third generation McMillin family of off-road racers, and got his start riding with his dad Scott McMillin, pre-running at age two. He demonstrated he had what it took to win after McMillin became the youngest overall winner of the 2006 SCORE Baja 1000 with Robby Gordon. He then followed with overall wins in 2009 and 2011 racing with his dad, and won again with a back- to-back victory alongside Rob MacCachren in 2014 and 2015. In between these SCORE wins, McMillin also won six out of seven major races overall in 2009, and continued winning into 2012. In 2013 he took a step back from his own race program, content to race other driver's trucks and keep a low profile. In 2016 McMillin has thrust himself back into the thick of it, racing a new Trophy Truck as the Driver of Record. We sat down with McMillin to talk about his career and his expectations for another SCORE Baja 1000 victory in the future. SCORE Journal: How does your fifth SCORE Baja 1000 Overall win compare to your previous four? Andy McMillin: Winning on a technicality, is not how I want to win races. We will take it, but it's not that gratifying. They are all special. Winning my first one with Robby Gordon in 2006, winning my second with my dad in 2009. Winning it again with my dad in 2011 and then winning it with a guy like Rob MacCachren on a peninsula run to La Paz, and then winning this one was really special as it was my fifth and I tied my uncle Mark and Larry Ragland for the most SCORE Baja 1000 four-wheeled overall wins. That is a huge one for me and it's still settling in. I don't know if I am making history. I feel like I am just racing and doing my thing and if we win some races and put our names in the record books that is really cool too. Looking back when I am older I will probably realize how cool and special these moments are. But right 026 SCORE JOURNAL