McMillin Does It Again!

The son-father team of Andy and Scott McMillin won the overall four-wheel title in the 42nd Tecate SCORE Baja 500 off-road race.

The McMillin’s Ford F-150 TrophyTruck finished the 438.8-mile course, which started and finished in Ensenada, in 9 hours, 15 minutes and 13 seconds for an average speed of 47.20 mph.

Andy and Scott McMillin also teamed to win last November’s Baja 1000. It was the third win in the past four SCORE races for the 23-year-old Andy, who won the season-opening SCORE Luaghlin Challenge driving solo.

It was the second Baja 500 class win for Scott and Andy as a team.

Scott McMillin, 50, claimed his third Baja 500 overall win and sixth Baja 500 class win. He previously won the overall title in 1983 and 1986 while co-driving with his late father, Corky McMillin.

Andy drove the first half of the race and Scott drove the return leg to Ensenada. Scott pulled away from his closest pursuers over the final 150 miles and won by seven minutes and one second over Gus Vildosola Jr. of Mexicali.

The speeds were lower this year on the boulder-strewn course. But 192 of the 289 starters finished — the 66.4 percent finish rate being the fourth-highest in history.

“We’re starting to click as a team and I think we’re the team to beat if we’re having a good day — and we’ve been having a lot of good days lately,” Andy McMillin said.