Bryce Menzies has usually been the first truck on course for the Baja 1000. That streak will continue in 2025, though his name isn’t the one on the leaderboard.

Menzies is working with Christopher Polvoorde again like he did in 2024. Unlike last year, they are sharing Polvoorde’s #94 Trophy Truck this time instead of Menzies’ #7.

With Menzies’ Red Bull sponsorship now adorning the #94, Polvoorde set the fastest time in Tuesday’s qualifying session, beating points leader Alan Ampudia by two seconds. He was also tops at the Baja 500 in June.

While Polvoorde will start the race in the truck, his qualifying run meant Menzies has now been on pole for the 1000 every year since 2021: he was the fastest qualifier in 2024, while the 2021 through 2023 starting lineups were set by Baja 400 results, which Menzies won each year. Menzies will take over for the second half of the race.

As the second fastest truck, Ampudia will follow the #94 out. He is looking to complete an unprecedented sweep of the SCORE season after winning in San Felipe, the Baja 500, and Baja 400.

Toby Price was third ahead of defending 1000 victor Luke McMillin’s #83 truck, the latter piloted by Rob MacCachren in qualifying. MacCachren will be pulling double duty by starting Friday’s race in the #83 before letting McMillin take over, after which MacCachren will drive his usual #11. Josh Daniels qualified the #11.

Like he did at the Baja 500, Ethan Ebert topped TT 2WD qualifying with his Honda Baja Passport. He was the only driver in the class to set a time below five minutes. Similarly Justin Davis was the lone TT Spec driver to go sub-five.

Trophy Truck

Position	Overall	Number	Driver of Record	Time
1	1	94	Christopher Polvoorde	4:27.5
2	2	1	Alan Ampudia	4:29.3
3	3	46	Toby Price	4:30.2
4	4	83	Luke McMillin	4:31.0
5	5	70	Kevin Thompson	4:35.8
6	6	21	Tavo Vildósola	4:36.8
7	7	5	Robby Gordon	4:37.2
8	8	23	Dan McMillin	4:38.3
9	10	11	Rob MacCachren	4:46.6
10	12	38	Eric Hustead	4:55.4
11	31	27	Jonathan Brenthel	5:17.7
DNF	DNF	22	Stephen Beal	DNF

Trophy Truck Legends

Position	Overall	Number	Driver of Record	Time
1	9	1L	Gus Vildósola	4:42.2
2	32	99L	Shawn Runyon	5:19.1
3	38	53L	Wade Porter	5:27.8
4	40	74L	Shane Lewis	5:34.0
5	41	61L	David Payne	5:45.4
6	43	85L	Clay Lawrence	5:48.6

Trophy Truck 2WD

Position	Overall	Number	Driver of Record	Time
1	11	9T	Ethan Ebert	4:55.2
2	15	16T	Cameron Steele	5:02.3
3	17	62T	Ryan Poelman	5:04.9
4	18	82T	Sam Baldi	5:05.5
5	19	42T	Mavrick Gaunt	5:05.8
6	23	26T	Dave Taylor	5:10.2
7	25	19T	Tim Herbst	5:10.8
8	27	85T	Mikey Lawrence	5:12.9
9	28	78T	Tracey Poole	5:13.3
10	30	90T	JP Lopez	5:17.5
11	33	35T	Kevin Adler	5:19.3
12	37	76T	Dallas Luttrell	5:23.2
13	44	15T	David Ziegler	24:03.2

Trophy Truck Spec

Position	Overall	Number	Driver of Record	Time
1	13	285	Justin Davis	4:56.3
2	14	227	Jack Olliges	5:01.2
3	16	282	Brent Fox	5:03.7
4	21	263	EJ Herbst	5:06.5
5	24	200	Thor Herbst	5:10.5
6	267	236	Michael Marsal	5:11.8
7	29	280	Justin Montesalvo	5:14.0
8	34	209	José David Ruvalcaba	5:19.8
9	36	230	Neal Drickey	5:22.6
10	39	272	Jordan Brenthel	5:29.2
11	42	228	Ryan Hancock	5:46.2
DNF	DNF	239	Travis Pecoy	DNF
DNS	DNS	299	Charles Dorrance	DNS

Class 1

Position	Overall	Number	Driver of Record	Time
1	20	162	Brendan Gaughan	5:06.3
2	22	168	Cody Reid	5:06.8
3	35	138	Brad Wilson	5:21.0

Featured image credit: Christopher Polvoorde