Like at the Baja 500 in June, Christopher Polvoorde will lead the field off the starting line for Saturday’s Baja 400.

He was the fastest truck in Thursday’s qualifying session as the only one to clock in a time below three minutes and 50 seconds—convincingly, too. His time of 3:46.920 was over three seconds quicker than defending race winner Alan Ampudia.

Qualifying seventh is Andy McMillin in the #21. This ensures the number can qualify at the Baja 1000 in November, regardless of whether it’s McMillin driving or Tavo Vildósola should he recover from his injury.

Rob MacCachren was ninth ahead of his debut race for GR27 Racing. With Paul Weel Motorsport shutting down in late June and the truck sold to Bryce Menzies, MacCachren became a free agent until Gérard López’s team came calling with the Brenthel Gen-3.5 AWD truck. López himself, who’s in the #L27 Legends truck, didn’t qualify on Thursday.

Conditions in qualifying were fairly benign, which is nice considering the severe rain that followed. Several drivers also rolled in pre-running, so expectations for Saturday’s race are that things should get quite weird.

Trophy Truck

Finish	Overall	Number	Driver of Record	Total Time
1	1	94	Christopher Polvoorde	3:46.920
2	2	1	Alan Ampudia	3:50.049
3	3	83	Luke McMillin	3:51.869
4	4	7	Bryce Menzies	3:52.826
5	5	70	Kevin Thompson	3:53.936
6	6	41	Justin Lofton	3:56.990
7	7	21	Andy McMillin	3:58.137
8	8	5	Max Gordon	3:58.519
9	9	62	Rob MacCachren	3:59.939
10	13	24	Adam Householder	4:04.904
11	23	32	Ryan Arciero	4:13.061
12	24	69	Andrew Myers

Trophy Truck 2WD

Finish	Overall	Number	Driver of Record	Total Time
1	15	40T	Chris Miller	4:05.714
2	16	33T	Roberto Romo Jr.	4:06.299
3	21	42T	Mavrick Gaunt	4:12.106
4	31	19T	Tim Herbst	4:19.681
5	33	74T	Shane Lewis	4:23.125
6	37	1T	Sam Baldi	4:28.570
7	44	15T	David Ziegler	4:42.597
8	45	95T	Mike Perez	4:50.317
9	48	39T	Andrew Herdman	5:00.601
10	49	16T	Cameron Steele
11	50	96T	Felix E. Murillo

Trophy Truck Legends

Finish	Overall	Number	Driver of Record	Total Time
1	11	1L	Gus Vildósola	4:02.935
2	22	61L	David Payne	4:12.648
3	29	85L	Clay Lawrence	4:16.125
4	34	99L	Shawn Runyon	4:23.351

Trophy Truck Spec

Finish	Overall	Number	Driver of Record	Total Time
1	10	285	Justin Davis	4:01.880
2	12	273	Apdaly Lopez	4:03.538
3	14	212	Travis Pecoy	4:05.003
4	17	236	Mike Marsal	4:09.080
5	18	215	Trey Gibbs	4:09.504
6	19	228	Ryan Hancock	4:10.507
7	25	223	Dan Bonnor	4:13.097
8	26	282	Brent Fox	4:14.914
9	27	242	Bryce Swaim	4:15.691
10	32	263	EJ Herbst	4:20.517
11	35	209	José David Ruvalcaba	4:25.857
12	36	253	Jimmy Dominuvez	4:28.362
13	38	270	Jimmy Diaz	4:28.738
14	39	219	Pierce Herbst	4:28.856
15	40	230	Neal Drickey	4:30.347
16	41	237	Patrick Wieland	4:31.747
17	42	275	Luis Angel Huerta	4:34.742
18	43	299	Charles Dorrance	4:41.920
19	46	221	Sergio Rangel	4:59.732
20	47	241	Stephen Beal

Class 1

Finish	Overall	Number	Driver of Record	Total Time
1	20	162	Brendan Gaughan	4:11.336
2	28	127	Cody Parkhouse	4:15.697
3	30	138	Brad Wilson	4:18.876

Featured image credit: Christopher Polvoorde