McMillin Scores His First Victory in Las Vegas Race

Mark McMillin, a four-time winner of the Baja 1000 from Bonita, Calif., won the 21st annual Mint 400 off-road race Saturday over a wind-blown desert course.

It was the first time McMillin, who drove a Porsche-powered Chenowth single-seater, has won the Nevada race.

McMillin, the 1987 HDRA-SCORE Off-Road Series unlimited single-seat champion, covered four laps around the 100-mile desert course in 7 hours 46 minutes 16 seconds.

Jimmie Crowder of Tallahassee, Fla., finished second overall and first in the 2-seat division in 7:52:48.

Rob Gordon, the 19-year-old off-road rookie of the year in 1987, was third overall and first in the full-size truck class with his Ford pickup.

Other class winners included Jack Johnson, Las Vegas, in a Nissan in the four-wheel drive pickup class; Emil Downey, Hartford, Conn., with a Jeep in the modified four-wheel drive division; and Larry Ragland, Phoenix, with a Chevrolet in open mini trucks.

Paul Simon of Fallbrook, Calif., won the stock mini class in a Ford Ranger, and Mike Lesle of Lake Elsinore, Calif., took the 4x4 mini truck victory in a Jeep.