Resorts selected as part of SCORE Baja 2000

Friday, Jan. 21, 2000 | 9:48 a.m.

Ensenada and Cabo San Lucas, both major resort destinations on opposite ends of the Baja California, Mexico, peninsula, will be the official start and finish line areas for the SCORE Baja 2000 desert race.

Having reached agreements with the governors, tourism departments and hotel associations of Baja California Norte and Baja California Sur along with the mayors of both Ensenada and Cabo San Lucas, Sal Fish, CEO of SCORE, has also announced that the SCORE Baja 2000 will have a projected cash purse of at least $200,000 plus nearly $1 million in contingency posting. The event week festivities will run from Nov. 9-16, with the official race start on Nov. 12.

"We are honored to announce Ensenada and Cabo San Lucas as the official start and finish line areas for the SCORE Baja 2000," said Fish, who explained that this event is being held instead of the traditional SCORE Baja 1000 to mark the celebration of the start of the new millennium.

The fifth and final race in the 2000 SCORE Desert Series, the SCORE Baja 2000 will start in Ensenada, 65 miles south of San Diego, in the early hours of Sunday, Nov. 12. After criss-crossing the Baja California peninsula, the SCORE Baja 2000 will finish in Cabo San Lucas in Baja California Sur, the southernmost tip of the Baja.