Tavo Vildósola’s red-and-black Mason kicked off the 2025 SCORE season on a strong note as he narrowly edged out Bryce Menzies for the San Felipe 250 pole.

Vildósola set the fastest time for Trophy Truck around the four-mile course of 4:33.506. Menzies was right behind, narrowly missing the pole by .289 of a second. Luke McMillin, coming off winning the Baja 1000, was third ahead of reigning SCORE TT champion Alan Ampudia.

Robby Gordon was sixth in the #5 of Clyde Stacy. For his first San Felipe 250 and SCORE start since 2021, Gordon will run the first 60 miles before trading off with his son Max.

Toby Price is typically one of the fastest qualifiers, but was a disappointing 11th after losing a serpentine belt. It is his and Paul Weel’s worst SCORE qualifying effort ever, perhaps a testament to their speed as their previous lowest was fourth at the 2024 Baja 1000.

Right behind Price, Ryan Daniel was the fastest two-wheel-drive truck in the new Trophy Truck 2WD class ahead of Mint 400 winner Adam Householder.

Apdaly Lopez, racing the #273 for Jordan Brenthel, topped Trophy Truck Spec but received a one-place penalty. Jason McNeil inherited the class pole as a result.

“Where they penalized me, the track went to the left while they cut to the right.,” explained Lopez. “I saw it differently and went left, but they had proof otherwise and I didn’t go looking for anything else. That’s part of racing. We already know it’s like that, and we already know that Saturday is going to be an intense race with Jason and all the guys who are coming up behind us.”

Vincent Muñoz rolled the #294 but continued on, finishing 23rd for Spec trucks.

The San Felipe 250 will take place on Saturday.

TT Spec qualifying results

Position	Number	Driver of Record	Time	Margin
1	234	Jason McNeil	4:53.501	Leader
2	273	Jordan Brenthel	4:48.472	Penalty
3	263	EJ Herbst	4:55.981	+ 2.480
4	297	Jorge Sampietro	4:56.055	+ 2.554
5	210	Kolton Hustead	4:57.110	+ 3.609
6	242	Bryce Swaim	4:47.456	+ 3.955
7	285	Jusin Davis	4:57.683	+ 4.182
8	265	Abel Magdiel Soto Leyva	4:58.382	+ 4.881
9	227	Jack Olliges	4:59.967	+ 6.466
10	214	Sean Geiser	5:01.930	+ 8.429
11	211	Pat Sims	5:02.054	+ 8.553
12	282	Brent Fox	5:06.958	+ 13.457
13	200	Thor Herbst	5:07.549	+ 14.048
14	264	Arnoldo Gutierrez Jr.	5:07.825	+ 14.324
15	245	Ethan Hagle	5:08.044	+ 14.543
16	241	Stephen Beal	5:08.440	+ 14.939
17	246	Ben Hagle	5:09.246	+ 15.745
18	203	Scott McNeil	5:11.950	+ 18.449
19	236	Michael Marsal	5:14.847	+ 21.346
20	205	Joe Delucie	5:15.002	+ 21.501
21	230	Neal Drickey	5:15.158	+ 21.657
22	228	Ryan Hancock	5:15.662	+ 22.161
23	294	Vincent Muñoz	5:18.948	+ 25.447
24	299	Charles Dorrance	5:20.369	+ 26.868
25	209	José David Ruvalcaba	5:22.583	+ 29.082
26	275	Luis Angel Huerta Duran	5:22.862	+ 29.361
27	280	Justin Montesalvo	5:27.948	+ 34.447
28	260	Santiago Creel	5:30.359	+ 36.857
29	284	Jose Contreras	5:33.459	+ 39.958

TT, 2WD, Legends

Trophy Truck

Position	Overall	Number	Driver of Record	Time	Margin
1	1	21	Tavo Vildósola	4:33.506	Leader
2	2	7	Bryce Menzies	4:33.795	+ .289
3	3	83	Luke McMillin	4:35.943	+ 2.437
4	4	1	Alan Ampudia	4:37.148	+ 3.642
5	5	41	Justin Lofton	4:38.874	+ 5.368
6	6	5	Robby Gordon	4:41.267	+ 7.761
7	7	70	Kevin Thompson	4:45.323	+ 11.817
8	8	11	Rob MacCachren	4:45.711	+ 12.205
9	10	58	Tracy Graf	4:50.400	+ 16.893
10	17	27	Jonathan Brenthel	5:00.341	+ 26.835
11	26	46	Toby Price	5:16.057	+ 42.551
12	29	38	Eric Hustead	5:18.108	+ 44.601
DNF	DNF	87	Dallas Luttrell	DNF	N/A

2WD

Position	Overall	Number	Driver of Record	Time	Margin
1	12	28T	Ryan Daniel	4:51.311	Leader
2	13	24T	Adam Householder	4:53.122	+ 1.811
3	14	18T	Nic Whetstone	4:56.035	+ 4.724
4	15	33T	Roberto Romo Jr.	4:56.376	+ 5.065
5	18	16T	Cameron Steele	5:00.972	+ 9.661
6	19	19T	Tim Herbst	5:01.103	+ 9.792
7	20	94T	Steve Strobel	5:03.107	+ 11.796
8	21	82T	Sam Baldi	5:05.594	+ 14.283
9	22	42T	Mavrick Gaunt	5:06.777	+ 15.466
10	23	2T	Chad Broughton	5:11.738	+ 20.427
11	24	51T	Steve Olliges	5:12.964	+ 21.653
12	25	40T	Chris Miller	5:13.851	+ 22.540
13	27	26T	Dave Taylor	5:17.017	+ 25.706
14	28	15T	Dave Ziegler	5:17.546	+ 26.235
15	30	81T	Tommy Phelen	5:22.975	+ 31.664
16	34	95T	Mike Perez	5:39.400	+ 48.089

Legends

Position	Overall	Number	Driver of Record	Time	Margin
1	9	1L	Gus Vildósola	4:46.413	Leader
2	11	37L	Rolf Helland	4:50.861	+ 4.448
3	16	61L	David Payne	4:58.333	+ 11.920
4	31	53L	Wade Porter	5:26.309	+ 39.896
5	32	74L	Shane Lewis	5:31.345	+ 444.932
6	33	99L	Shawn Runyon	5:34.222	+ 47.809

Featured image credit: Vildósola Racing