Celebrating five decades of Desert Racing excellence in the coming year, SCORE International has released its four-race 2023 SCORE World Desert Champion Golden Anniversary schedule.

With 2023 marking SCORE's 50th desert-racing season, the organization has continued to innovate and create an increasing variety of opportunities, with Mexico's Baja California peninsula again playing host to the official four-race schedule for the championship. In the storied history of the "World's Foremost Desert Racing Organization," 2023 will represent the eighth consecutive year featuring all four races on the peninsula, with coverage airing domestically and being syndicated internationally.

While the season-opener will once again be in San Felipe, two of other three events on the 2023 calendar will start and finish in Ensenada, the off-road capital of the world, while the golden grand finale of the season will start in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, and finish in Ensenada, Baja California. The official SCORE World Desert Championship race schedule can be found at: http://score-international.com/raceinfo.

A Proud History

SCORE was founded in August 1973 by the late, legendary Mickey Thompson with the SCORE World Championship short-course event at the old Riverside International Raceway. SCORE Baja desert racing officially began on July 26, 1974, with the SCORE Baja Internacional, which later became the SCORE Baja 500.

SCORE was then owned and run for more than 38 years by the iconic Sal Fish, considered by many as the godfather of desert racing around the world. Fish sold SCORE on December 12, 2012, to Roger and Elise Norman.

The Normans continue today developing SCORE marketing and sponsor programs with Abelardo Grijalva as SCORE president/race director, Juan Tintos Funcke as SCORE general manager, and Jim Ryan as the vice-president of marketing and sales.

"What an extremely phenomenal, precious treasure we all have in SCORE International, and to be able to be part of celebrating the Golden Anniversary of SCORE in 2023 is extremely humbling and inspiring for all of us at the same time," commented Grijalva.

As part of the lead-up to its Golden Anniversary season, SCORE International returns to the 2022 SEMA Show with an exciting collection of desert-racing and support vehicles, along with other activities. You'll find the SCORE International exhibit in the recently completed West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.