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Volume 10 - Number 3. . '.'~.:;·-:~~··,::!/• ~ ' . ' ~. ':, ~ . ., - . . , , Editor-Publisher Jean Calvin Associate Editor Richard K. Schwalm Editorial Assistant Janay Smith Controller John Calvin Circulation 0. Osborne Contributors Jim Baker Darla Crown C&C Race Photos Carrera Photography Don Dayton Daryl D. Drake Homer Eubanks Martin Holmes Elaine Jones Matt Marcher Bob Rule Barb & Marilyn Schultz Wayne Simmons Darryl Smith Judy Smith 3-D Photography Trackside Photo Inc. Art Director Larry E. Worsham Typography & Production Michelle's Typesetting Services SNAPSHOT March 1993 ___.,II.LS OrnoAD ltAClllll &DOH Subscription Rates: llirilSeriescfcyJ'BoadRacing* $15.00 per year, 12 issues, USA. Foreign Subscription rates on request. Contributions: DUSTY TIMES welcomes unsolicited contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited material will be returned only by request and with a self-addressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES, (ISSN 8750-1732) is published monthly by Hillside Racing Corp., 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408, (818) 882-0004. Copyright 1983 by Hillside Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reprodm;ed without written permission from the publisher. Second Class Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at additional mailing office. POSTMASTER: Send address change to Dusty Times, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new address, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. OF THE MONTH ••• Our ace reporter Judy Smith has many talents, and here she has developed a new tool for cleaning the mud and muck out of a water bottle while pre-running in less than ideal conditions. We are not sure how this grand experiment came out, but if you fill a water jug in the desert, you do manage to clean things out if water is a'!ailable before continuing down the trail. DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies"or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, 5x7 or 8x10 will be considered. Dusty Times March 1993 In This Issue ••• FEATURES Page FRT qunaway Dash by Judy Smith ......................... 12 Race of Champions by Martin Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Memorial Bettaga Race by Martin Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 7 FRT Attack Kamakize by Fud ............................. 18 La Rana New Years 200 by Jean Calvin ..................... 20 WRC Rally of Spain by Martin Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 VORRA at Bend, Oregon by Matt Marcher ................. 26 Maine Forest Rally ............................... · ....... 30 California Rally Series Banquet by John Elkin ................ 31 SNORE Awards Banquet by Jean Calvin .................... 32 The GORRA Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Baja Promotions Awards Banquet .......................... 35 Australian National Champions ............................ 36 Mr. Patterson's Wild Ride by Fud ......................... 37 Aussies Win in New Zealand by Vince Beckett ............... 38 Whiplash Top Secret GP by Tony Tellier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Whiplash Series Champions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 I WRC Lombard RAC Rally by Martin Holmes ............... 42 Toyota Land Cruiser Road Test by John Calvin . . . . . . . ...... 46 DEPARTMENTS Soap Box by Bud Feldkamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Trail Notes .............................................. 4 Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Fair News by Dave Massingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Desert Race Support Report by Craig Lane .................. 35 Checkers Column by the Big Wahzoo ...................... 45 IDRA Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 7 Good Stuff Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Camel Trophy Update ................................... 53 Index to Advertisers ..................................... 53 Classified Ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 ON THE COVER -Winners in two different desert races, a few hundred miles apart on the New Years weekend are our cover boys this month. First came the FRT New Years Eve race, and the Class 10 Dunaway Dash winner was local Imperial Valley driver Joel Whitted who went so fast he was second overall in the race. Color Photography by C & C Photos. On January 2 another Class 10 went fast at the La Rana New Years 200 on the Barstow desert, so fast that the Chenowth, driven by Kevin McGillivray and Don Angel, was first overall in the race. This was a remarkable achievement on a fast but muddy race course. Color Photography by Trackside Photos Inc., and the clean car photo came from an earlier La Rana event. to-S~7odeuf DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! D 1 year - $15.00 D ·!years -$15.00 D 3 years -$35.00 Takeadvantage of your subscription bonus ••• Free one time classified ad up to 45 words. 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SOAP BOX~ •• FORMAL-COMPLAINT REF: Special Agent Levine By Dr. I.M. (Bud) Fddkam/) To: Special Agent Robert Rogers Bureau of Land Management Phoenix, AZ This letter serves as a written, formal complaint with respect to BLM employee Special Agent Levine. I have no other informa-tion on him, because he refused to give me his full name or the office to which he is assigned. I assume it is the Yuma district office. I was an entrant in the 1993 Parker race held the weekend of January 23, 24th. During the race, I had two flat tires and a disabled clutch. I left the race route and drove my race car onto a paved road that is considered useable under the guidelines of the race promoter. While driving on this road with my 18 year old daughter as a passenger, I was stopped by a "police state show of force" ---11ve BLM vehicles with red lights flashing. I was advised by Ranger Keith Dorsey that I was speeding. I asked Ranger Dorsey to tell me how fast I was going and how did he determine my speed. He could not answer my question. The conversation was rudely interrupted hy Special Agent Levine who said, and I am quoting his exact words, "We'll forgetthe speeding ticket and just disqualify you". As you might guess, I objected firmly to this "threat from a gestapo-type official". I did not take this threat lightly nor did I feel it appropriate to have myself or a member of my family subjected to such "police state threats". This is the United States. This is the land of freedom of speech; civil rights; innocent until proven guilty and the BLM is not above the law. The BLM ticket description is a vague "catch all" designed to show the "power of the BLM agent". Special Agent Levine also used his "power of the BLM pen" by demanding that the race promoter disqualify me from the race. I asked the promoter under what "rule" he was disqualifying me. His comment was "they have threatened me with the loss of my permit for next year's race". In my 21 years of race experience in this race as well as others across this country, I nor any of my racing associates have ever been subjected to such tactics as those exhibited by the BLM this year. The BLM is out of control. I demand an investigation into Agent Levine's actions. I want to see in writing his authority to disqualify any racer in any event and under what reasons or conditions. I want to see in writing that he has the authority or "power of the pen" to threaten a business person with future loss of income. Blackmail is illegal. I want to see in writing the rules the BLM has for off-road vehicle racing. I want the traffic violation codes BLM uses for issuing tickets. I want to know how BLM agents rate speed with respect to violations. I want to know the training BLM agents get with respect to: 1 ) constitutional law 2) search and seizure West Coast Distributor fOR HEWLAND OFF ROAD GEARS ALL OUR PRICE $6-95.00 GEARS AVAILABLE SEPARATELY Per Set 2.Ratio's Available NEW RATIOS AVAILABLE Valley Performance 3700 Mead Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 . 7(rl/873-1002 McKenzie Performance Products 2366 East Orangethorpe Anaheim, CA 92800 714/441-1212 DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED ·Page 4 3) code enforcement 4) professional conduct 5) public information rights I want my answers and I want them by 2111/93. Thank you for your attention to this request. Sincerely Bud Feldkamp cc: Congressman Jerry Lewis To: Congressman Jerry Lewis Representative, 35th District Redlands, CA 92372 "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore"! This is not the way I had ever planned to write a letter to an elected official, but the time has come for me to make it clear to the powers that be that the BLM is out of control. Yes, I said "out of control". I am and will continue to be an off-road vehicle racer. I was raised in the desert; I respect the desert. In the last five years I, as well as my fellow racers, have been subjected to unacceptable police-state tactics from some BLM personnel. Specifically this past weekend (January 23, 24th) agents assigned to the Parker ract turned this event into nothin!!-mo re than a convention ot "budget deficit federal employees desperately needing to justify how and why they overspend tax payer dollars." My complaints are many. They range from excesses involving manpower assigned to the weekend event (an event that has a 20 year history without incidents), excesses in uniform and firepower; excesses in federal vehicles along the race route; excesses in manipulation by higher ranking officers within the local BLM; abuses of the power allowed sworn personnel with respect to enforcement of written federal laws; abuses by some BLM agents to race officials and entrants that range from manip-ulation of ticketing as well as the age old threat of "rock my boat; cause me headaches and I will make sure you don't get a permit for next year". This is the United States of America. I am a racer, I am a taxpayer, I am a voter and I am fed up. I want a meeting with you or your representative to disciss the BLM and their future involvement in any race in which I might choose to be an entrant. I look forward to hearing from you soon, as I would like this meeting to take place by 2 /15193. Thank you for your attention to my request. Sincerely Bud Feldkamp Dusty Times welcomes and ~ll publish comments from the BLM in Arizona -Ed. Volunteers are invited to climb on their "Soap Box" and fill this space with their thoughts about what is good and what is not so good about the state of the sport. Your words, short of being libelous, will be print-ed. So, send along your praise or damnation on your Soap Box topic to Dusty Times, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-44o8. March 1993 Trail Notes ••• THE SCORE SEASON started at Parker late in January, as usual, but this race seemed plagued with problems that should have been ironed out before race weekend. It is hard to figure why there were no lights in the post race inspection area, after 20 years of racing here, and also hard to imagine why the invasion force from the BLM was so hard on the drivers trying to pre-run on Thursday and bypass a water hole in order to stay dry. During the weekend the BLM, at least two dozen of them, handed out tickets ranging from $40 for the aforementioned water hole diversion to $240 to a driver during the race (check the Soapbox for details on that one). . But 170 cars and 29 bikes and A TVs took the green flag, down some in entry from last year, but not much except for the bikes. Parker always attracts a lot of spectators, and this count was down in 1993 also, which is a mixed blessing. But it was Parker, the weather was warm and sunny in the daytime, folks were out to have a good time and Contingency Row had a good turnout, sans a few of the heavy hitters from Detroit. It was quite a battle in the early going, but after nearly seven hours Ivan Stewart won overall and Class l / 2 in the Toyota, finishing first on the road with a bloody nose from an errant rock. Mike Julson and Bob Lofton won Class 1-2-1600 by less than two minutes in a J imco, of course. FORD's Rough Riders won again with Dan Smith taking Class 3 in the Bronco and Dave Ashley taking Class 4 in the F-150. Brothers Neal and Mike Graboski won Class 5 and Wayne, Alan and Darryl Cook started the defense of their 5-1600 title by winning at Parker by half an hour. More Fords arrived as John Swift won Class 6 going away, Scott Douglas won Class 7, Darren and Doug York took Class 7S honors and Rob MacCachren not only won Class 8 he was second overall. Rich Richardson and Doug Perault were back on track winning Class 9 in their Jimco, and Rick Romans and Greg Hibbs won Class 10 in a close battle. Peter Rosenstein made one lap, the only Class 11 that started. Scott Sells took the Stock Mini honors in a Toyota, and Gordon Di Carlo got the big Ford in for the win in full size stockers. Danny Hamel and Larry Roeseler rode a Kawasaki to the overall win. We'll have a full report on Parker in the April issue. THE BAJA 1000 RADIO RELAY TEAM, organized by the Weatherman Bob Steinberger held a raffle to pay the expense of hiring an airplane and feeding it gas for a couple of days. Well the raffle ticket sales fell short of meeting the expenses of the airplane, but PCI Race Radios held the drawing in January and awarded the three prizes. Robert Knight of Escondido, CA was the big winner of the first place prize, a Roadmaster radio complete with antenna, just the thing for a desert racer. Taking the second place prize was Tim Herbst of Las Vegas, NV, and he has a new Intercom, and gets two helmets wired on the house. The third place prize of a Ringo Ranger Base Antenna went to George Erl of Huntington Beach, CA. The Steinbergers, Bob and his son Scott, thank all who purchased tickets to keep the relay going on the 1000, one event where it is really needed. NEWS FROM GLEN HELEN RACING - If you noticed the ads in the February issue of Dusty Times for a good money paying race at Glen Helen OHV Park in San Bernardino on April 4, DON'T make plans to attend. The race has been put on hold until next autumn because the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group has scheduled three races at the facility starting on April 25. The other two will be in mid-summer. The MTEG events will be amateur or sportsman, with all classes invited to race for trophies only. Apparently the entry fee will be fairly minimal, and it should bring some of the short curse buggies out of the woodwork. Trucks can run also as Glen Helen has three different courses, one of them quite long. The moving force behind this sportsman series is Jerry Stansbury at MTEG, so check it out with MTEG. Plan on the big money race sometime in September or October organized by the Glen Helen Racing, Inc. staff. ADRA INTERNATIONAL, the former American Desert Racing Association in Phoenix, AZ, has sprung back into life, starting with a race at Gila Bend on February 20. The Desert Racing Association has a bonus program for 1993 sponsored by Farmco. With a season purse of 17,500 for Unlimited classes, and a season purse of $5,250 for Limited Classes, the purpose is to get drivers to enter every race, because to win bonus bucks you must enter and start. For example at Gila Bend a winner in Class l / 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 10 could win a $1,000 bonus in addition to class purse. A winner in Classes 1-2-1600, 5-1600, 7S, 9 and 11 could add $300 to the Class purse. Each race you enter the bonus rises; for the second race it is $1,500 for Unlimiteds and $450 for Limiteds. If you race all seven 1993 events, your Unlimited bonus on race 7 is $4,000, and Limiteds get a $1,200 bonus. Call ADRA for the details on how this bonus plan works. TEMECULA MOTORSPORTS PARK -We received a press release recently from Shoemaker Productions, announcing that the Temecula Motorsports Park came one step closer to reality on Jan. 28 with the first official planning session between race organizers and Shoemaker Productions. The Temecula City Council unanimously approved the concept on January 13 and authorized the city manager to draw upa lease contract for the 40 acre Temecula Showgrounds property. The Temecula Motorsports Park, with its first event slated for April 25, will host both motocross and off road racers that will compete on new closed course race tracks currently being designed. While the agreement stipulates a two year trial period, the project is hoped to be a long term addition to the site that i~ also home to the annual tractor race and rodeo. The inaugural event on April 25 will feature the CMC Spring Motocross Classic. CMC has also selected the site for its September 12 Trans-Cal race. Construction of the race course and improvements to the site will begin within the next few weeks, along with the release of the 1993 schedule. For up to the minute news call Shoemaker Productions in Sana Ana at (714) 966-1138. YOKOHAMA SAYS SA YON ARA TO THE DESERT. Yokohama Tire Corporation will concentrate its 1993 off road motorsports program on the Mickery Thompson Entertainment Group series. The three time Grand National tire manufacturer champion will serve as the Official tire and co-sponsor of Roger Mears Racing's MTEG stadium program. Yokohama will no longer participate in SCORE and SODA and has discontinued its team sponsorships and contingency awards for those series. Mears will field two Budweiser-Yokohama-Conoco-Bosch sponsored vehicles in MTEG's truck racing class. Mears will pilot one truck and son Roger Jr. will drive the other. The ream will also field two Superlites driven by Casey and Clint Mears. The Mears schedule also includes participation in the Baja 500 and Baja 1000 desert races and the annual Pike's Peak Hillclimb. Dusty Times

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1993 Happenings ••• A.D.R.A. American DeSt:rt Racing Association P.O. Box 34087 Phoenix, AZ 85067 (602) 252-1900 February , 1993 Gila Bend 200, all classes Gila Bend, AZ March 20, 1993 15th Annual Penasco La Playa 200 Rocky Point, Sonora, Mexico April 24, 1993 Desert race, a II classes Location TflA May 29, 1993 16th Annual Snowflake Buggy flash Cool Country Snowflake, AZ June 26-27, 1993 Annual Forest Service Conservation Project July 31, 1993 Cinder Mountain 100 Flags ta ff. AZ October 9, 1993 Young Classic Cherry Creek, AZ October 30, 1993 BLM Conservation Project December 4, 1993 17th Annual Sonoyta to Rocky Point Sonora, Mexico AMSA Jim Webb P.O. Box 26084 Fresno, CA 93726 (209) 439-2114 AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPONSHIP Darryl Smith 47 T eenan St. Ferny Hills, Q. 4055, Australia 0l l-18-07-851-0444 April 11, 1993 Toowoomba Queensland May 30, 1993 Griffith New South Wales July 25, 1993 Kempsey New South Wales September 12, 1993 Mount Gambier South Australia November 7, 1993 Puckapunyal Victoria AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFFROAD Class 10 cars only Serge L,mbert 65 Rue de Valcourt Blainville, Quebec, Canada K7B IHI (514) 434-5792 BAD DOG'S OFF ROAD SHOWDOWN Barry Callaway (817) 645-0003 days ( 8I7)641-9985 nights Gene Peugh (817) 783-8268 nights 33825 No. Main Cleburne, TX R,1c·ing rite r/1inl Srm.lav of c11d1 nwnrlt /,.:ginning in Mardi BADGERLAND VW CLUB, INC. Terry Friday 59 13 Fond Du Lac Road Oshkosh, WI 54901 (414)688-5509 ( All cwnr, /,,.,·,a.:d in C'ltilron, WI cH rltc Win'nd,ago Gnmrv Ex/m C'-c~tter) BAJA PROMOTIONS, LTD.S.A. Lou Peralta P.O. Box 8938 Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 340-5750 Golden Crown of Baja Desert Series (cars) March 26-28, 1993 Gran Carrera de San Luis Rio Colorado Puerto Penasco Sonora, MX April 29-May 2, 1993 Mint 400 Short Course Stadium Championships May 14-16, 1993 Gran Carrera de T ecate 250 Tecate, BC, MX Page 6 June 25-27, 1993 Gran Carrera de Mexicali Night Race Mexicali, BC, MX July 23-25, 1993 Gran Carrera de EnSt:nada Ensenada, BC, MX September 24-26, 1993 Gran Carrera de Campeones San Felipe, RC, MX December 10-12, 1993 Mint 400 Desert Challenge 400 Miles Las Vegas, NV BONNEVILLE OFFROAD RACING ENTHUSIASTS Jim flaker P.O. Box 1583 Ogden, Utah 84402 (801) 627-B.O.R.E. BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 flrighton, Ontario, Canada KOK-I HO (613) 475-l 1021Fax (613) 475-3250 1993 BRUSH RUN POINTS SERIES P.O. Box IOI Crandon, WI 54520 ( 715) 478-2222 June 25-27, 1993 Spring Run IO I Crandon, WI September 3-5, 1993 Brush Run 101 Crandon, WI BUMP Rob Utgard Motorsports Promotions 42263 50th St. West # 108 Qwm: Hill. CA 93536 (805) 256-8520 CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Lynnette Allison, CRS Director 200 I Oakland Hills Drive Corona, CA 91720 (909) 736-1442 Mike Giheault, SCCA Steward 149 No. Rawhide Ridgecrest, CA 93555 (619) 375-8704 February 6, 1993 Fcn,eline I, 2 Rally Sprints ( 1, I ) Glen Hden OHV Park San Bernardino, CA April 2-4, 1993 Prescott Forest ( 2 ,3) Prescott, AZ May 14-16, 1993 Rim of the World (2,3) Palmdale, CA September 18-19, 1993 T recline ( 3) Palmdale, CA October 23-24, 1993 Gorman Ridge (3) Gorman, CA December 4-5, 1993 East of Indio (3) Indio, CA CENTRAL OREGON DESERT RACING Terry Silbaugh 20515 Whitehaven Circle Rend, OR 97702 March 6, 1993 Millican 300 Bend, OR April 3, 1993 Bear Butte 200 Central Oregon October 16, 1993 Whiskey Springs 300 Central Oregon CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O. Box 332 Fair Hawn, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 9735 Colorado Springs, CO 80932 CORVA 1601 10th St. Sacramento, CA 95814 (800) 237-5436 DECATUR FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-36491(214) 641-2090 FORDA Florida Off Roaders Drivers' Association 9385 Fl,,rence Ave. Apopka, FL 32703 ( 407 l 291-1215 1( 305) 823-4487 March 27, 1993 Tallahassee, FL FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 SUPERSTITION CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES April 3, 1993 flu:: Bomb 150 Plaster City East, CA August 7, 1993 Superstition 250 Lake Superstition, CA September 25, 1993 Plaster City Blast Plaster City East, CA October 30, 1993 Squeaky Springs Gran National Lake Superstition, CA December 31, 1993 Dunaway Dash Plaster City West, CA ATV, BIKE & DESERT SUPERLITE SCHEDULE February 20, 1993 1992 Awards Banquet San Diego, CA February 28, 1993 Coyote Wash Bath Plastt-r City West, CA March 21, 1993 March Madness Plaster City West, Ca April ZS-, 1993 Attack Kamika:e Desert Gran Prix & Team Race Lake Superstition, CA May 9, 1993 Sweethearts Kiss L,ke Superstition, CA May 15-16, 1993 24 Hours of Le Fud Plaster City West, CA June 13, 1993 Carlsbad Gran Prix & T earn Race June 19, 1993 Mr. Patterson's Wild Ride Plaster City West, CA August 21, 1993 Otter Z Night Team Race Plaster City West, CA September 5, 1993 DeSt:rt Sprint Plaster City East, CA October 10, 1993 4th Annual M udhen II Plaster City West, CA November 21, 1993 Notorious Dawg 3 Hour Team Race 1-8 & Dunaway Road, CA Dec 5, 1993 Rudolph's Revenge plus Team Race Lake Superstition, CA GLEN HELEN OHV PARK P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (714)880-1733 GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association Box 11093 Station -A Atlanta, GA 30310 (404) 253-1033 March 27, 1993 Florida 400 Tallahassee, FL April 25, 1993 Vienna, GA May 23, 1993 Vienna, GA June 27, 1993 Vienna, GA July 25, 1993 Vienna, GA August 22, 1993 Vienna, GA September 26, 1993 Vienna, GA October 24, 1993 Vienna, GA March 1993 ~ore ••• TRAIL NOTES 1993 MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY OFF ROAD POKER RUN will happen on April 3-4, so plan ahead to spend that weekend in the desert near Barstow, CA. Remember all proceeds go to help Jerry's Kids, the work force is all volunteer. The Poker Runs are co-sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management, the Muscular Dystrophy Association and La Rana Desert Racing. There are separate events on Saturday and Sunday, so you can enter one or both. The nerve center of the event is the Slash X Cafe on Highway 24 7, (Barstow Road) 12 miles south of Barstow, and the Slash Xis also having an all you can eat BBQ dinner Saturday night with Chicken, Ribs and the trimmings for $7 .00 a plate. There is plenty of open desert for camping, Portable Johns and trash dumpster, but bring your own water and firewood. Along with the Poker run, about a 30 mile loop where the best hands from each day win pri.:es, there is also a raffle each day, starting at 2:00 p.m. Food and drink is available at the Slash X. Any type of Off Road Vehicle can enter, but all non-street legal California vehicles must have a Green Sticker, while out of state vehicles are exempt. All off road vehicles must have an approved spark arrestor or muffler. Helmets are required for ATV and motorcycle riders. The entry fee is$15 each run, with free hats to the first250 entries each day. T-shirts, hats and sweatshirts are available for purchase at the start/ finish area by the Slash X. ROD MILLEN won a battle on the prestigious AARWBA All America Team in the at large category for his fantastic record in the MTEG Series driving a Toyota in 1992. The American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association annually votes on top drivers from each phase of motorsport to be a member of the All America Team. It is rare that an off road racer is selected, although Robby Gordon was an at Large winner in 1990, 1989 and 1988, and Roger Mears made the team in 1985, while brother Rick has been on the team five times for his Indy car exploits. Congratulations to Rod Millen on the wonderful honor. MTEG AT ANAHEIM wa·s a wjld one. Perhaps the most incredible aspect was that the 55,000 people came umbrella equipped and sat through the passing cloudbursts and constant drizzle to cheer their favorite off roaders to victory, and they sat in the cold and wet stadium until midnight to see the truck main event. Track conditions were so sloppy that race officials trimmed two laps off the main events, and meanwhile the thunder roared and lightning flashed. Rick Johnson had a rough time gettin to the finish line in the Nelson & Nelson Chevy truck, especially late in the race with Ivan Stewart, Toyota, on his bumper, fiberglass was flying, and it looked like Stewart hit Johnson just short of the checkered flag, spinning him sideways, but Rick still won the checkered flag sideways while Ivan nosed on top of the hydro barriers. Kevin Smith won the Super 1600 Main in his Mirage, and all these race cars were little more than moving blobs of mud. Chris Neil got his Nissan out front in the Sports Utility main event from the green and stayed there to the checkered flag. The SuperLites were also hard to recognize, but Greg George led the way in his Nature's Recipe Briggsbuilt Donavon Holland won the four wheel ATV class and Robert Drew of Simi Valley won the 250cc motorcycle race. A full report and muddy pictures will be in the April issue. PARIS-DAKAR FIRST REPORT -This year the route was shorter and· there were fewer competitors on this famous rally-raid, and only two top teams contested the event, Citroen and Mitsubishi. However, the buggies had gotten far more sophisticated, with ten entered. Despite considerable use of Global Positioning Systems in the competing vehicles, many got lost, stuck in the sand, and there were a number of back injures. At the finish Bruno Saby and Dominique Serieys won outright by over an hour driving a Mitsubishi Pajero. Pierre Lartigue and Michel Perin were second in a Citroen ZX followed in just under three hours by Citroen teammates Hubert Auriol and Gilles Picard. Erwin Weber and Manfred Hiemer were fourth followed-by Kenjiro Shinozuka and Henri Magne, both driving Mitsubishi Pajeros. Apparently Jean-Louis Schlesser, who drove alone in his buggy, won the two wheel class, or at least the buggy class, finishing 14th 0 / A. Saby led from day 2 to the finish, the Mitsubishi definitely the strongest team. The first privateer at sixth overall was the Lada Samara of Salvador Servia and Jaime Puig, who were eight hours behind the overall winners but no doubt happy to be there. Only 54 of the 154 starters in the Prologue in cars and trucks reached the finish line. W e'll have a full report next month. JIM RICHARDSON ASSISTANCE FUND-Everyone in desert racing knows Rich Richardson, three time Class 9 points Champion, Class 9 Driver Representative and dedicated off road race. His son Jimmy has been an important member of Rich's race effort since the beginning as well as helping Rich in the family's sign business. In mid-January Jimmy sustained major burns to both his hands when he fell into a raging campfire while on holiday in the An.:a-&rego area. Although he was quickly pulled free of the flames, virtually all the flesh was burned off his hands, and it has become apparent that he will require daily medical care for months, followed by numerous skin graft operations. Although it is not clear just how much this treatment will cost, estimates begin at well over $50,000 before Jim can even pick up a wrench. The good news is that he was completely UN-INSURED. In an effort to help the Richardson family obtain the necessary health care for Jim, the !ORA has established the Jim Richardson Assistance Fund and we are urging everyone in the sport to contribute whatever you can to this worthwhile cause. Your check for this fully tax deductible contribution should be made out to the Jim Richardson Assistance Fund and mailed to IDRA, 343-D South Montezuma St., #19, Prescott, AZ 86303. Thanks. "Late Flash!!" BONNEVILLE OFFROAD RACING ENTERPRISES of Ogden, Utah has announced dates for three events for the 1993 racing season. The Wendover Express will be held this spring on May 1, 1993 at Wendover, USA and the Jackpot 200 will highlight the Independence Day weekend, being held on July 3rd in Jackpot, NV. B.O.R.E racers can plan on returning to Wendover in late summer for the Bonneville Challenge to be held on August 21st. For more information on these events please contact Jim Baker at Bonneville Offroad Racing Enterprises, Box 1583, Ogden, Utah or call (801) 627- BORE. Dusty Times

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November 2 7, 1993 Thanksgiving 250 Vienna, GA (All L't•L'nts <I[ ViL'nna. GA) GREAT LAKES FOUR WHEEL DRIVE ASSOCIATION Bob Moon 915 So. Zeeb Road Ann Arbor, MI 48103 (313) 665-03581(313) 996-9193 GREAT PLAINS OFF-ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Keith Kocstcrs 4605 N. 130th Circle Omaha, NE 68164 ( 402) 496-0846 (All sltorr coursr racl's and ltdd at WL'slFair in Co1m,:il Rluff,. /,,.,.,1) GREAT WESTERN POINTS SERIES, INC. Bertram Productions, Inc. 15073 Hwy 119, Rt. 4 Golden, CO 80403 Colorado Off Road Championships (303) 936-5960 GRR Golden Ruic Racing P.O. Box4021 I Phoenix, AZ 85067 (602) 263-5329 HIGH PLAINS OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Harvey Wald (605) 224-6678 da)'S (605) 224-5534 evenings IOK FOl.JR WHEELERS P.O. Box 36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 ( All L'<'L'IHS st,t.~L'd <1t r/1L' du/, .~mun.I, in CIL't·L's. 0/tio) INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O. Box 2910 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 (714) 364-0515 KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER 4WDCLUB Randy Chamberlin 835 Wawn Road Kamloops, B.C. V2B-oN3 Don(604)372-9501 days Randy (604) 579-9621 eves ( All et'L'lltS swrt 7 miles NW of Kaml,x>/>s) LA RANA DESERT RACING 22769 Chambray Dr. Moreno Valley, CA 92387 (909) 924-2226 February 26-28, 1993 Presidential 250 Barstow, CA April 30-May 2, 1993 Spangler 200 Ridgecrest, CA June 18-20, 1993 Lucerne Valley 250 Lucerne Valley, CA July 24, 1993 Womans Only Race Barstow, CA August 27-29, 1993 Johnson Valley 200 Lucerne Valley CA October 22,24, 1993 California 200 Ridgecrest, CA November 18-20, 1993 High Desert 300 Lucerne Valley, CA MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 Jones Road Grand Ledge, Ml 48837 (517) 627-6200 June 19-20, 1993 Off Road Nationals & Swap Meet Mason, Ml J uiy 24, 1993 Fowlerville, MI July 25, 1993 Caro, MI August 1, 1993 Mason, MI August 5, 1993 Sandusky, MI August 10, 1993 Pt. Pleasant, MI August 13, 1993 (/>L'lldin.~) August 25, 1993 Kalama:oo, MI COAST 1-800-634-6755 1-800-331-5334 Page 8 MICHIGAN SPORT BUGGY ASSOCIATION Keneth Coleman 742 E. Roosevelt Road Ashley, MI 48806 (517) 838-4483 MICKEY THOMPSON'S OFF ROAD STADIUM SERIES Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group P.O. Box 25168 Anaheim, CA 92825 (7I4)938-4100 February 20, 1993 Jack Murphy Stadium San Diego, CA March 20, 1993 Kingdome Seattle, WA May 1, 1993 Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, AZ May 22, 1993 L.A. Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA July 3, 1993 flmL·om. 0/1io (TLiHariw) September 1993 TBA Mile High Stadium Denver, CO October 1993 TBA Sam Boyd Silver Bowl Las Vegas, NV October 1993 TBA Candlestick Park San Francisco, CA November 20, 1993 Awards Banquet TBA CAMEL SUPERCROSS SERIES May 15, 1993 LA Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA June 12, 1993 Sam Boyd Silver Bowl Las Vegas, NV NATIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION 11842 Jason Court Madera, CA 93638 (209 J 486-45901(209) 266-5558 January 16-17, 1993 Casper, WY April 25, 1993 Johnson, VT May 15-16, 1993 Johnson, VT June 27, 1993 Johnson, VT August 22, 1993 Johnson, VT September 12, 1993 Johnson, VT October 3, 1993 Johnson, VT OFF ROAD ADVENTURES Four Wheel Drive Excursions P.O . Box 1154 Arcata, CA 95521 (707) 822-8508 April 23-25, 1993 Big Bear Adventure Big Bear Lake, CA May 14-16, 1993 Redwood Coast Jambort·c Fort Bragg to Eureka/ Arcata, CA June 18-20, 1993 Ghost Town Adventure '93 South Lake Tahoe, CAIStatdine, NV September 17-19, 1993 Kern River Jamboree Kernville / Lake Isahella, CA OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OF EL PASO Joey Vasque: 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 855-97671(915) 855-9767 ONT ARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION Jeff Sargent 1480 Lah·ridgc Rd. N Ajax, Ontario, Canada (416) 427-4782 PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 Colorado Springs, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 S.C.A.T. INC. Michael R. King P.O. Box 277 Morrisonville, NY 12962 (518) 561-32081(518) 236-7897 SCCA PRO RALLY SERIES Sports Car Club of America P.O . Box 3278 Englewood, CO 80 I l 2 (303) 779-6622 SCORE Score International 31125 Via Colinas, Suite 908 Westlake Village, CA 91362 (818) 889-9216 March 11-14, 1993 Nevada 400 Las V cgas, NV April 16-18, 1993 San Felipe 250 San Felipe, BC, MX June 4-6, 1993 Baja 500 Enscnada, BC, MX July 2-4, 1993 Fireworks 250 Barstow, CA August 6-8, 1993 Gold Coast .300 Las Vegas, NV October 1-3, 1993 Lake Havasu 300 Lake Havasu City; AZ (tL'lltllliW) November 12-14, 1993 Haja 1000 Ensenada, BC, MX SCORE SHOW Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group Tom Lewis P.O. Box 25148 Anaheim, CA 92825 (714) 938-4155 April 23-25, 1993 Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim, CA S.C.T.A. Southern California Timing Association El ice Simonis Tucker 22048 Vivicnda Ave. Grand T crracc, CA 92324 · (714) 783-8293 SNORE Southern Nevada Oft Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 4394 mY Las Vegas, Nevada March 1993 Dusty Times

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Las Vegas, NV 89106 (702) 452-4522 March 27-28, 1993 Twilight 200 L,s Vegas, NV May 14-16, 1993 Caliente 250 Caliente, NV July 24-25, 1993 Midnight Special Las Vegas, NV September 17-19, 1993 SNORE 250 Las Vegas, NV December 3-5, 1993 Eldorado Valley 250 L,s Vegas, NV SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD DRIVERS ASSOCIATION Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 ( 414) 453-SODA 1(414) 257-0422 May 14-16, 1993 Road America Off Road Race Elkhart Lake, WI May 28-30, 1993 Memorial Day 100 Lake Geneva, WI June 11-13, 1993 Kiwanis Off Road Race Antigo, WI June 25-27, 1993 Spring Run IO 1 Crandon, WI July 9-11, 1993 Fox Riverfest Challenge Luxemburg, WI July 23-25, 1993 UP Off Road 100 Rark River, MI August 20-22, 1993 Great Northern Challenge Lake Odessa, MI September 3-5, 1993 True Value World Championships Rrush Run 101 Crandon, WI September l 7-19, 1993 Wisconsin Off Road Festival Oshkosh, WI October 1-3, 1993 Blackhawk Farms South Beloit, IL SWORDS South West Off Road Racing Desert Series 4209 So. CR 1300 Odessa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915) 337-3437 March 20, 1993 Rattlesnake 1 50 May 1, 1993 Jackrabbit 150 June 12, 1993 Twilite 150 August 6-8, 1993 4th Annual Rock N' Roll 250 September 11, 1993 Nightmare I SO October 16, 1993 Swords 1 SO All T<lc"c' < ltdd <if Norrc·c•<. TX 2_'i mile•, ''""'r o( Odc"«ll. TX TEXAS OFF ROAD GRAND PRIX Short Course Racing - Texas Style Class 10, Sportsman, Challenger Mike Rernardo 1606 Lancelot Circle Grand Prairie, TX 75050 (214) 855-2232 ( All ,·,·c-nr, ,u Sr<"/>itc"n<"ilk. TX S1,,·<"dmn-1 TORA Truck Racing Association Ray Carney. Director 7 Prutell Drive Apalchin, NY 1 3732 (607) 625-5676 UORRA United Off Roacl Racing Association Dave Urhanowic:, Presklent 589 Amwell Road Neshanic. NI 0885 3 ( 908) 369-6550 ( Rt1c,•< ,u Coloni<1/ Vt1IIL":, H,·,ort, in PA 1 VENTURA RACEWAY Rusiness Office 2810 W. Wooley Road Oxnard, CA 93030 (805) 656-1122 AMERICA'S 4x4 LEADER OFFERS THE LEADING 4x4 AT THE LOWEST PRICE! '93 JEEP CHEROKEE 4x4 ,, .. ·•!i;;t;;::::1;F :.· : : ····· :. {( H t; - -- ···=···.·""· ..• .,.,.,,. •• ,si.,;-,~.,.,~ .• , ••• !!!!! ..•. \111:! •.• -~f?.: FOUR DOOR 4x4 WITH 4.0 6 CYL 190 H.P. ENGINE, AIR COND., OVERDRIVE TRANS., DUAL REMOTE MIRRORS, PWR. STEERING & BRAKES, ETC. S 14,699 After Rebate and Discount. GREAT DEALS ON QUALITY USED 4x4s TOO! 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Growrs Phornix. AZ 85032 (602) 971-17>0 , All ,·1·,·nr, ,H Tltn11/1c-rl,111,I. I 17r/1 At•,·. & CIL"nd,d,· i11 Pltoc·11i'I AZi FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP March 2-7.1993 Portugal Rall\' Estoril. Portugal April 8-13, 1993 Safari Rally Nairohi, K,·n ya May 1-5, 1993 Tour dl" Corse Ajan-io. Corsirn May 29-June 3, 1993 Ac ropolis Rall\' Lag<.lntssi, Gn.·c..·cc June 18 -23, 1993 Ivor)' ( 'oa,t Rall\' Ahi,ljan, Ivor)" ( ·oast July 14-17, 1993 Rall)' Arg,·ntina l\u,·nos Aires, Argen tina August 4-8, 1993 Nn'" Z'"alan,l Rally Aucklan,I. New Zealand August 25-29, 1993 1000 Lakc-s Rally J\"vask yla, Finland Sepkmber 18-20, 1993 Rally Australia l\·rth, Australia October 10-14, 1993 Rally de Italia Sanremo, Italy November 1-4, 1993 Rall\' of Spain Catnlunya, Spain Novt·mher 21-25, 1993 RAC Rally Nottingham, England ATTENTION RACE&RALLY ORGANIZERS List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free! Send your 1993 schedule as soon as possible for listing in this column. 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FRT DUNAWAY DASH Steve Sourapas Solos To Win Photos: C&C Race Photos Steve Sourapas gave his new and fancy pre-runner some exercise, a real ~orld test for the 2240cc Chenowth, and he kicked up the pace on the last lap to not only win the Unlimited class but set fast lap of the day and take first overall. Steve Sourapas decided to take his new Chenowth two seat pre-runner to the FRT New Year's Eve Dunaway D~sh and have a little fun, and he came up with the overall victory, giving himself another reason to party that evening. The race, the last of toe FR T's '92 series, consisted of six 28 mile laps in the low desert just off Highway 8, between El Centro and Borrego Springs, at the Plaster City West OHV area. Heavy rains had dampened the area the week before New Year's Eve, and the ground was just about perfect for racing, with moisture deep down, so there was almost no dust. But the course was rough, with a lot e>_f cross washes, and while it was a sprint compared to some off road events, it was challenging and difficult for the drivers. Fud, the C.E.O. of the FRT, had a motorcycle and A TV event in the morning, and as the last of those stragglers came in he rounded up the car people for their driver's meeting. Fud announced no surprises, just reminding the rac;ers that his race would have no stop checks, and in fact, the drivers shouldn't even slow down for the checks, or they'd risk being rear ended. He also reminded them that a great deal of the course has boundaries on both sides, and being outside the boundaries calls for disquali-fication, and, if the BLM spots an Ben Abatti Jr. with Mike Dracker head for the finish line in the big Ford, after taking the Class 8 lead on the second lap, and he had a flawless day, taking first in the class by over 17 minutes. errant car, a ticket also. One final announcement, that there was a Ford Escort stuck in the middle of the big wash by Check 3, and the drivers meeting was closed. They headed straight for staging, and the noon green flag. Later reports indicated that the Escort managed to get itself out of the wash before the first racers got to it. The Class 10 cars were first off the line, and when they'd completed that first lap the leader was Ron Ryerson in his Raceco. Although it's a tandem, he runs it as a single seater now, preferring not to deal with the additional weight off his back seat passenger apparently. He had only 30 seconds on Joel Whitted, in his one seatJimco. Whitted had been a victim of his own adrenaline just off the start, and had rolled his car, in front of the pits, but apparently caused it no damage. Just 25 seconds later it was Tim Allen in another Jimco, and then came Dave Richardson, 12 seconds behind him, struggling because he'd blown a power steering hose. He was driving Sourapas' single seat Chenowth, in which he and Steve had driven to the SCORE Overall Points Championship for '92. And in fifth it was Vic Wild, in another one seat Jimco, only 13 seconds later. Ryerson's car ended the next lap on a tow strap, and Whitted took over the lead, with 1 7 Joel Whitted drove alone in his new Class 10 Jimco to the class win in a trouble free race and he was second overall, a mere minute and 42 seconds out of the overall victory with his 1650cc machine. seconds on Wild. Allen ran third, race car parts, performing just as 29 seconds later, followed by well as he'd hoped under impetus Richardson, who was 17 minutes from its 2240ccs. In second it was back after his crew fabricated a Reuben Wood, who has a Pinto new power steering hose. Steve motor in his MECO, and in third, Wolcott, in a Pontiac powered three seconds later, it was Don two seatJimco, was another seven Kenniston in Mark McMillin's minutes down, having new car two seat mid-engined Chenowth. problems with a too stiff Vance Allen ran fourth in his two suspension. seat Baja Bug, with Juan Garcia, in Whitted continued to lead, and a Raceco, in fifth. had 59 seconds on Allen at the Sourapas had nearly four end of lap three, as Wild broke. minutes at the end of the second Richardson was now third, still lap as Wood disappeared and way back, and in fourth it was Larry McCallum moved his single Frank and Lonnie Orosco in their seat 1600cc MECO into second two seater, almost two laps back place. In third it was Allen, while after a long second lap. Wolcott Garcia was fourth and Kenniston dropped out when he lost a was now fifth. Bob Gordon had spindle nut, and no other cars brought his new two seat were still moving. Chenowth out for the day, On the fourth lap Allen tore up straight from its debut at the Baja a boot and ruined a c.v., so he 1000, but he had a problem with elected to park, while Whitted the transmission, which he hadn't went on smoothly, about 20 prepped after the 1000, popping minutes in front of Richardson, out of gear due to a worn pinion who ran second. No one else was gear. left. Whitted was racing for the At the end of the third lap overall at this point, and he Sourapas had exactly six minutes actually had it, being 23 seconds and Allen was second, with in front of Sourapas in the Mc Callum, who'd rolled over, unlimited car. On the fifth lap, as now in third place. Garcia was still he continued his evenly paced fourth and Ken Thompson had run, wringing all he could out of moved his two seat Raceco up to his 1650ccs, his overall lead had fifth place. Kenniston was out fallen to two seconds, while his with a blown transmission. When Class 10 lead was intact, at 23 Sourapas passed in front of the minutes. Sourapas was still pitsGordontookoffrightbehind hanging in there at second. On the him, pushing hard, following him last lap Whitted, who later said for about 10 miles, to a point that his only problem had been where the course came back very running into the trestle a couple close to the main pits again. He of times, could pick up no speed, was doing a little friendly teasing. while Richardson recorded the At the end of lap four Sourapas class fast lap at 30:12. But it was had a seven minute lead on his still Whitted taking the Class 10 class, and Gordon was there to win, and second overall, -while push him for a few miles again. Richardson was second in Class Allen was still second, and 10, never able to make up for that Thompson had moved up to third blown hose. as Garcia dropped out and The unlimited cars started right McCallum lost about five minutes behind the Class 10s, and with a driver switch, as Larry Sourapas had the lead right from Wyatt took over. None of the the start, his pre-runner, into other cars in the class were which he'd incorp?rated a lot of moving by now. Vance Allen runs his Class 5 Baja Bug in Unlimited Class and does well, moving in to second in class midway and he finished second in Unlimited action. The Larry Mccallum/Larry Wyatt MEGO flies over the nearly dust free desert on New Years Eve, and they finished a strong third in Unlimited Class. Jim Stuhler started in Scott McMillin's Ford, promptly rolled, Scott got in some laps and let brother Mark bring the truck to the finish, second in Class 8. Page 11 March 1993 Dusty Times

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Brady Stiles had collision damage on his Ford early in the race, but got it fixed after some time, came back with fast lap and came in third in Class 8. Todd Teuscher got a slow start in the 1-1600 action in his Chenowth, but he got class fast lap on the fourth, moved into second and finished second just two minutes out of the win. Kevin Basore was part of the leading trio in his Jimco, all under a three minute blanket at the checkers in Class 1-1600, and Basore was in third, fifth overall. The separation of the 1600 class brought out nine single sealers and Mike Julson led the herd from flag to flag in Bob Lofton's Jimco, and he came in a smart third overall, in the car painted to resemble a cow. Sourapas' crew was now egging him on, telling him to go for the overall, and he picked up the pace a bit, closing to within two seconds of Whitted by the end of lap five, and now 12 minutes in front of his own class. And he was still getting "help" from Gordon, but his crew was telling him to ignore it. Tliey didn't want him getting excited. Allen was still second, and had lost fourth gear, while Wyatt, who was driving without rear shocks on one side of his car, held third place, and Thompson dropped way back, losing an hour and a half with a mechanical problem. On the last lap Sourpas was being told to go for it, so he did, and recorded the class fast lap at 30:09, and moved into the overall lead. He finished with everything looking good on the car at first glance, but closer inspection revealed that the link pin nuts on the right side of the car were both missing. He wouldn't have gone much further. Allen, down to just first and second gear, finished second, and Wyatt and McCallum were third. Thompson finished · fourth almost two hours later. In Class 8 the first lap lead belonged to Brady Stiles, driving Tony Alvarado's Ford, and Ben Abatti, in another Ford ran second., Third place was in the hands of Carlos Ibarra, and he was in still another Ford, while Jim Stuhler was a late fourth place, after an exciting rollover in Scott McMillin's Ford. The lone Chevy, with Karl Counce at the wheel, brought up the rear after some kind of lengthy ~roblem. transmission damage. He was now fourth, only a minute behind Stuhler, and looking for his pit crew. Counce had another long lap, but he was still moving. Abatti was running smoothly, and Ibarra stayed in second, about 11 minutes in back of him, while Stuhler was third, 20 minutes later. By now, after repairs, Stiles was over an hour behind the lead truck, in fourth, and Counce ran another half hour after him. Abatti kept moving right along, but Ibarra faded away, and Scott McMillin took over the driving in his truck for a while, now in second, while Stiles, too far down to catch up in a six lap race, nevertheless put on his best effort, and recorded the fast lap of the day, for all classes, at 30:06. But, unless one of the others broke down he was fated to finish third. Counce was still fourth. Abatti enjoyed a flawless day, and ran steadily to the checkered flag to take another win, while behind him the other McMillin, Mark, deprived of a chance-to drive his Unlimited Buggy, was allowed to take the final lap in the truck. He came in second, _ enjoying the truck immense! y, but not ready to go home and start building one for himself. Stiles finished third, the last truck to get six laps in. Counce, with another long lap, ran out of time, and managed only five laps. In an effort to bring more 1600 class drivers to the races, the FR T has decided to separate the one seaters and two seaters for the '93 season, and perhaps get more of the two seaters out to play. The theory is that if they don't have to complete with the late model, ultra lightweight one seaters, more of them will be willing to plunk down their entry fees. For whatever reason, the class decided to finish off '92 by d,ividing into two groups, and give themselves a taste of what's to come. In the one seat group the first lap leader was Mike Julson, in Bob Lofton's Jimco, but it was very close, and he had only 37 seconds on Rob Nolin who was second in his ORC. In third, six seconds later it was Kevin Basore, in a Jimco, followed by James Woodruff, in a Mirage, just 15 seconds behind him, and then it was Andy Estrada, another J imco, three seconds later. And sixth belonged to Todd Teuscher, in a Chenowth, only four seconds later. Nolin broke on the second lap, but Julson pulled out a long lead of a minute and four seconds, with Estrada now in second place. Teuscher was just 34 seconds behind him in third, and Basore was fourth, 12 seconds later, followed by Woodruff, 29 seconds after him. Julson was trying to build a big "cushion" between himself and Teuscher and Basore, because he.' would have to stop for fuel, and they wouldn't. And, when he finished that third lap he was a minute and 15 seconds in front of Estrada. Then came Basore, Teuscher and Woodruff, all in a tight pack, enjoying some close racing on the nearly dust free ~ Abatti took over the lead on the . second lap, and Ibarra moved to second, with Stuhler in third, nearly a full lap off the pace. Stiles had plowed into Stuhler while he was still trying to get upright and off the course, and Stiles had come off second best, with broken motor mounts and Tim Allen started out running right with the Class 10 leaders in his Jimco, but a torn boot and a wrecked CV on the fourth lap put him on the trailer. Dusty Timcs March 1993 course. Julson's strategy worked apparently, because at the end of the fourth lap, after taking on fuel, he was two minutes in front ofT euscher who had recorded the class fast lap, at 32:41. Estrada lost 18 minutes with a flat tire. (Like most of the drivers in this class at FR T events, he carries no spare, and no jack. It's a gamble they sometimes lose.) Basore was third now, Woodruff was fourth and Scott Webster, in an ORBS, had moved into fifth place. Julson was driving an excep-tionally evenly paced race, his lap times all within 40 seconds of each other, and he had two minutes and 11 seconds at the end of lap five, with Teuscher stiff second after stopping for a moment to refasten his unhooked seat belt. Basore was third, Webster ran fourth, and Estrada's co-driver, Scott Reams, was back up to fifth place. Woodruff_ had broken a bell housing and was out. Julson did one more steady lap, and took the win by two minutes and two seconds, with Teuscher, who claimed he'd been driving "over my head" in second place. Basore was third, looking for water because he'd been so busy he'd never had time to take a drink. Webster finished fourth, and Estrada and Reams were fifth. In the two seat 1600s, the first lap leader was Dave Hendrickson in a Raceco, but he was only 19 seconds in front ofJim Abatti, in another Raceco, who was follow-ed by John Neibert in hisJimco, in third. Ernie Silva and Scott Plunkett ran fourth, and William Pate was fifth. Hendrickson's lead was up to 59 seconds at the end of lap two, and it was still Abatti in second, with Neibert holding third, and Pate up to fourth as Silva and Plunkett lost a lap with I@" Dave Richardson had power steering woes in the car he and Steve Sourapas took to the SCORE overall 1992 championship, and he got it together anyhow and was second in Class 10. CUSTOM AUTOMOTIVE & i=G 1991 HDRASCORE CHAMPION AWARD WINNING QUAU1Y PRODUCTS - -.(602)778-2433 ASI# 359251 625 N. 3rd. Street #2 • Prescott, Arizona 86301 Page 13

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...... "IR" -C ti a• C II Dave Hendrickson and Cameron Steele led 2-1600 class two-thirds of the way, but a broken shifter cost them time then and they dropped back to second. Paul Huffman moved to 2-1600 from Class 9, and with Ron Klarenbach had a good run in the Chenowth, had fun too, and finished third in the class. Frank & Steve Bristing and Ryan Thomas led the Mini Mags for a time, but broke a belt and a pipe and still climed back up the charts to finish a good second. Despite getting lost on one lap, Greg and Chris Garrett and Randy Long stayed in the Mini Mag hunt all the way and they finished third in class. Mark Pinot ran a strong third, then second in Class 100 in a Chenowth, but he did not finish the sixth and final lap, but still gained second in class. Richard Green and Giti Gow/and ran the Frazco in second in Class 100, but they dropped out somewhere on lap 4, and ended up third in Class 100. mechanical probleins. At the end of lap three, Hendrickson held the lead, but Abatti, who had some flooding problems, closed on him by a smidge, still in second place. Neibert continued to follow in third, with Pate in fourth. Paul Huffman, in a Chenowth, was fifth now, enjoying his first race since switching from Class 9. Hendrickson's co-driver, Cameron Steele, took over and near the end of the fourth lap the shift coupler came apart, and he fifth. could find only third gear. Abatti Abatti recorded the class fast passed him, and took over the lap time on lap five, at 34:24, and lead, with about two and a half now he had 13 minutes on minutes on Steele, as he pulled in Neibert, who'd had to replace a to his pit. Neibert was third, but blown c.v. Steele ran third, and had lost his power steering, and Huffman was fourth, while Pate wasn'thavingmuchfunanymore, dropped to fifth. so he let his son, A.J., take over. Abatti, who'd stopped only for The power steering problem fuel, made another good lap, and wasn't fixable, so A.J. had his took the win, followed in by work cut out for him. Pate hung Hendrickson and Steele, 16 on to fourth place, and Huffman minutes later, Huffman was third, was just 36 seconds behind him in and in fourth it was Pat Mershon, = who'd got off to a late start. Seems his crew was putting some goop into his tire, when, just minutes before the race was due to start, they watched in horror as the liner stem suddenly sank and disap-peared. Some adept fiddling with a piece of wire got it back in place, but Mershon was about six minutes late for his start time. He was delighted to get fourth. Pate was fifth, and the Neiberts, who'd broken a tie rod end on the last lap, and then tore their front skid plate loose on the last bump, were sixth. The 2-1600 class brought out seven starters, and Jim Abatti, with Daniel Poloni riding, took over second place early in the Raceco, and took the lead on lap 5 and won the revival class by 16 minutes. The Mini-Mags had chosen not to race all of any one series, but had, instead, picked a couple of events from each of them, and this was their final series event for '92 as well as their second FR T race. Kirk McDaniel had the first lap lead with a minute and three seconds on Scott Steinberger, who was a minute and 15 seconds in front of Rory Chenowth. ( Chenowth, incidentally, was a proud new papa, his son, born November 14th, has the appro-priate name of "Brodie".) In fourth it was the team of Mike Thurlow and Rick Ellison. On the second lap McDaniel ticked off the class fast lap, at 35:03, and built his lead to a little over five minutes. Now Stein-berger, who'd broken a rear shock, and Chenowth were tied for third, and the Bristing brothers, Steve and Frank, were fourth. The Bristings moved into the lead on lap three with Chenowth just 48 seconds behind them, and Thurlow and Ellison in third, and now the team of Greg Garrett (who'd been lost on lap one), Chris Garrett and Randy Long, who was at the wheel this lap, were in fourth place. Steinberger was in front of the pack at the end of the fourth lap, while the Bristings, and their co-d river, Ryan Thomas, who'd tossed a belt, ran second, Scott Steinberger, coming off a Baja 1000 victory in the same car, ran his Mini Mag with the leaders, broke a shock, but came back to lead from lap 4 to the checkered flag. · Kevin Thompson led by just 10 seconds after one lap in Class 100, but his challengers faded back lap by lap, and his Chenowth was the only finisher and the winner in the five car class. Page 14 March 1993 followed by Long, who blew a pipe and stopped for repairs. Ghenowth, after a long stop to repair his broken pipe, was fourth. Steinberger, finding the course harder on his car than the entire Baja 1000, continued to lead, and now Chenowth ran second, but 16 minutes down. The Garretts and Long were third, and McDaniel, after some very lengthy repairs, was back to fourth. And at the checkered flag it was Steinberger, followed in by Chenowth and then the Garretts and Long. None of the others managed to get six laps done. Class 100 was next to take the green flag, and Kevin Thompson had his Chenowth out in front at the end of lap one, but was fighting off a serious challenge by Dan Lewis in his Sandhawk, who was only 10 seconds back. Richard Green and Giti Gowland, in a Frazco, ran third, three minutes later, and Mark Pinto, in a Chenowth was fourth. Thompson had eight minutes at the end of lap two, as Lewis dropped out, and Gowland and Green were second, followed by Pinto, who'd lost 10 minutes. On lap three Thompson recorded the - class fast lap, at 33:4 7, and gave himself a 15 minute lead. Green and Gowland were still second, and Pinto third, another 13 minutes back. But on the fourth lap, as Thompson continued to run strong, Gowland and Green dropped out, and Pinto was left in second place, 46 minutes back. Thompson went on from there to take the win, but Pinto dropped out after five laps, for a second place. The next group to go were the 5-1600s, and Danny Ledezma had his car out in front, but was being pushed hard by Bob Snaith, who was only eight seconds back. In third it was Pete Brown in Ed Orozco's car, only seven seconds later. And Brian Coneen was fourt~, with Charlie Watters in Dusty Times

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Ed Orozco and Pete Brown moved from third to first in two laps in their 5-1600, slowed a bit on the final laps to insure the points with a finish, and they took second in Class 5-1600. Charlie Watters bounces towards home check in his spiffy 5-1600, and he drove solo at this race, and had no problems en route to third in class. Jack Hetinger and Steve Reynolds have great fun with the older Funco, now in Class 9, ran third through midway, then moved up to finish in second place. fifth place, his car not prepped for this after running the Baja 1000. On the second lap Brown moved into the lead, with just two seconds on Ledezma. Snaith ran third only seven seconds later, and Coneen was fourth, with Watters fifth. Then Brown recorded the class fast lap, at 36:04, to put himself a full 39 seconds up on Ledezma, whose clutch had started to slip. Snaith, who'd done a lot of prep on his car for this race, was third. Coneen and Watters were fourth and fifth. Snaith put his co-driver, Chris Harrold, in for the second half of theday,andhetookoverthelead The 5-1600s had a close battle and Bob Snaith and Chris Harrold ran in as Brown let Orozco take over the second, then third, by seconds, and took over the lead about midway in the driving and he decided to slow a race, and ran trouble free to the class victory. bit and guarantee a finish, since Hector decided to park. That put Coneen disappea-red on the they were going for the points. Coneen into third, Watters in fifth lap, and the order was now Ledezma put his father, Hector, fourth and Bill Osborn and John Harrold, Orozco and Watters. into the driver's seat, but the Gaddis, who'd lost two hours on Snaith and Harrold took the win clutch was slipping so badly that lapthree,werenowfifth,andlast. with a trouble free day, and Dusty Times ~RE I\Dllfrll 111\11 ,1, March 1993 Mike Pfankuch and Larry Kern brought the Rayco out in Class 9, started out running fourth but as others had troubles they moved forward, and Kern took the lead on lap 5 and the pair won Class 9 by just over three minutes. Orozco and Brown were second, · blister, but had no serious also trouble free. Watters, who'd problems on his way to third soloed because his regular co- place. No one else made six laps. driver, Brian Goodrich, had Danny Ledezma has moved to decided to party, had collected a Class ~ Be it our race team, sales team, or service team . . . at Fiesta Ford we're all driven by excellence. We race what we sell and sell what we race, so we know what it takes to keep your vehicle in top form. . Not only will you get the best parts and service available anywhere, but Fiesta Ford will give racers special discounts on parts and major fleet pricing incentives on cars and trucks. Fiesta Ford . . . your off-road racing connection. If}(, ~ N•M£ 83-407 HWY 111, IN0/0, CA 92201 (619) 347-1234 Page 15

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Hal and Kevin Graves had the Class 9 lead ofter four laps, then Roy Garcia and Rickie Valencia were doing fine in their Toyota, had a flat on the Jimco, but recovered quickly to finish a close but ran out of gas, got a radiator leak, but got all the laps done third, the top three in class only five minutes apart. for second in Little Truck class. Mike Henry and Victor Lopez got a late start in their Ford, but they ran third in Little Trucks most of the distance and finished all the laps in third place. -------------------====-~ 5-1600, but his old Class 9 another single seat Funco. now Kevin Graves moved up to car is still around, repainted and Salazar continued to lead fourth, with Dietrich in fifth. He in the hands of Dagoberto Salazar, through the second lap, and now didn't know it, but his air cleaner, who put himself into the Class 9 had three minutes and 39 seconds which had been dislodged in that lead on the first lap, and recorded on Pfankuch, who was second. roll over, was just sitting close to the class fast lap at the same time, Hettinger ran third, followed by his carburetor, but wasn't where with a 40:40. Mike Stroh ran Dietrich, who had rolled over on it should have been to protect his second in his Funco single seater, the first lap, and then Stroh. motor's innards from sand. and Dave Dietrich, in a one seat Salazar had a lead of over five Salazar had a problem on the Jimco and Mike Pfankuch in a two minutes at the end of the third lap, fourth lap, and lost nine minutes, seat Rayco were tied for fourth. In and it was still Pfankuch in putting Graves into the lead, with fifth it was Jack Hettinger, in second. Hettinger was third, and Pfankuch's co-driver, Larry Kern, in second place. In third it was Hettinger's co-driver, Steve Reynolds, and Salazar had dropped to fourth. Dietrich's co-driver, Robert Gillingham, also in the dark about the air cleaner, was fifth. Kern moved into the lead on lap five, and Graves, who had a flat, was now second, while The Little Trucks are the last starting group and the lead moves around in the mostly Ford class. When it all sorted out Chris Taylor and Shawn Musgrave won in their Ford with a half hour cushion on time. Race Ready Products Is a full service warehouse supplying the Off Road Industry with racing equipment from over one hundred manufacturers. Our goal Is simple: helping you bulld winning race cars by offering quallty parts, quick service and competitive prices. 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Gillingham and Dietrich win for the team, happy with the were fourth, and then discovered performance of their new two the unattached air cleaner, and ~seater.Reynolds, slowing drastic-Stroh finished fifth. FAT DUNAWAY DASH RESULTS -December 31, 1992 Car# Pos. Driver/Co-Driver Vehicle CLASS 112 -Volirnited Single or Two seat -JO start -1 floisb 199 1 Steve Sourapas Chenowth•• 105 2 Vance Allen Baja Bug 162 3 Larry McCallum/Larry Wyatt Mc<X) 188 4 Ken Thompson/Mike Shipley Raceco Cl Ass 10 -Sjnqle & Two Seat 1650 ccs - e start-2 finish 1002 1 Joel Whitted 1003 2 Dave Richardson CLASS 8 -full Sjze 2 & 4WQ Trucks -§ start -3 finish 800 1 Ben Abatti (solo) 803 2 Jim Stuhler/Scott & Mark McMillin . 808 3 Brady Stiles CLASS l-1600 -Sjngle Seat 1600 cc - 9 start -6 finjsh 1648 1 Mike Julson 1600 2 Todd Teuscher 1603 3 Kevin Basore 1607 4 Scott Webster 1604 5 Andy Estrada/Scott Reams CLASS 2-1600 -Two seat 1 s00cc -z start -e Uoisb 1655 1 Jim Abatti 1652 2 David Hendrickson/Cameron Steele 1656 3 Paul Huffman/Ron Klarenbach 1621 4 Pat Mershon 1651 5 William Pate CLASS loo -Single & Two Seat Short WB - s start - l Uoisb Jimco Chenowth Ford Ford Ford Jimco Chenowth Jimco ORBS Jimco Raceco Raceco Chenowth Raceco 7 1 Kevin Thompson Chenowth 98 2 Mark Pinto Chenowth 99 3 Richard Green/Giti Gowland Frazco CLASS Mioi Mag -Chenowth Soecjal -6 start -3 finjsh 1200 1 Scott Steinberger Mini Mag 1234 2 Frank & Steve Bristing/Ryan Thomas Mini Mag 1299 3 Greg & Chris Garrett Mini Mag CLASS s -Single & Two seat Restricted -11 start -Z lioisb 900 1 Mike Pfankuch/Larry Kern Rayco 914 2 Jack Hettinger/Steve Reynolds Funco 903 3 Kevin & Hal Graves Jimco 901 4 Dave Dietrich/Robert Gillingham Jimco 908 5 Mike Stroh Funco CLASS §-1600 -1600 cc Baja Byg - Z start -3 fjnjsh 553 1 Bob Snaith/Chris Harrold Baja Bug 554 2 Ed Orosco/Pete Brown Baja Bug 599 3 Charlie Watters Baja Bug CLASS Z - L iule Trucks -2wp & 4WD -6 start - 3 finish 703 1 Chris Taylor/Shawn Musgrave Ford 704 2 Ray Garcia/Richie Valencia Toyota 701 3 Mike HenryNictor Lopez Ford • Denotes overall winner 75 starters - 38 finishers - 50% finish rate - Cool & sunny, slight breeze 28 mile course - 6 laps for an official finish, many cross washes, rough, fast March 1993 Time 3:06:35 3:24:57 3:42:00 5:15:42 3:08:17 3:29:13 3:37:18 3:54:39 4:37:54 3:19:50 3:21:52 3:23:25 3:33:52 3:40:41 3:31:08 3:47:27 4:04:05 4:07:55 4:09:12 4:17:58 3:59:42 4:13:25 4:15:45 4:16:29 4:18:58 4:21:08 4:24:29 4:30:19 3:47:27 3:53:20 4:02:35 4:18:56 4:49:12 5:10:23 The Little Trucks were the last group to start, and Scott Young and Mike Smith put their Ford into the first lap lead, with the class fast lap at 38:37. Roy Garcia and Richie Valencia were second in their Toyota, while Chris Taylor and Shawn Musgrave, in another Ford, were third. Mike Henry and Victor Lopez, in a Ford, had lost about 15 minutes when their car stalled on the start line, and it was discovered that the alternator had gone bad . And Dave Brigman, in a Toyota, lost about two and a half hours on that first lap. On the second lap Garcia and Valencia moved into the lead as Smith and Young disappeared. Now Taylor and Musgrave were second, and Henry and Lopez ran third. And on the third lap Taylor and Musgrave moved to the front, when Garcia and Valencia ran out of gas, and also developed a radiator leak, and had to stop to add water. They were now · second, and Henry and Lopez were third, and except for Brigman, who was still working on his first lap, no one else was racing anymore. Taylor and Musgrave continued to stay in front, and even though Valencia and Garcia ran better times, they'd lost more time than they could make up, and stayed put in second place. Lopez and Henry also ran well in third, too far back to catch up. At the finish line it was Taylor and Musgrave, followed in by Garcia and Valencia, and then Henry and Lopez. The race was all over by six p.m., with no sad stragglers left out in the cold and dark. After a happy New Year's Eve, the FRT started '93 with one of their congenial fresh fruit, doughnut and Bloody Mary brunches. Their '93 series includes seven events, and it starts in February, with the King of the Desert, on the 13th, at Lake Superstition. Dusty Times

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RACE OF CHAMPIONS AND RALLY MASTERS COMPETITIONS Andrea Aghini Beats The Champions Text & Photos: Martin Holmes The 1992 World Champion Carlos Sainz made his appearance in a Group A Lancia his drive this year instead of Toyota. However he was eliminated in the semi final runs by Andrea Aghini, who took the final run honors and the Race of Champions victory. Sanremo Rally winner Andrea Aghini won his fourth major event of the season at the Race of Champions, when he defeated Colin McRae in the final run off of the event, which runs in an elimination schedule similar to U .S. drag racing. With one more event, the Memorial Bettega in mid-December in Bologna, still to run before the 1992 season is over, the Italian Jolly Club driver, who has never won a champion-ship and until this year even won a major event, beat the acknowl-edged masters of the sport. Run this year in Gran Canaria in a natural auditorium south of Las Palmas the event attracted remarkable crowds for a small island, though the main objective was again as a television spectac-ular. Run over three days, the proceedings began with a knock-competition for Canaries drivers, followed by the Spanish Masters tournament. On each occasion the top drivers were invited to race in the ensuing competition. On the Saturday the Rally Masters competition was held. Invited to this event were internationally respected drivers, top-seeded drivers selected by voting through the year by the rally media according to perform-ances in world championship rallies this year. The Race of THE MEMORIAL BmEGA RACE Champions was run on the Sunday. The cars used in the competition were front drive Toyota Starlets, Group N Mitsubishi Galant VR--4s, group A Subarus and Group A Lancias. The local drivers' event was won by Richy Avera, a Tenerife driver who contests the Spanish championship in a Mitsubishi; he beat Ponce by less than a second. In the Spanish competition the Ford Group N driver Fernando Capdevila took the title, beating Luis Monzon on both rounds of the final. The big revelation, however I was Flavio Alonso who made fastest time on his way to the semi-final, and who conse-quently gained an honorary place in the next series, the International Rally Masters. Alonso was astonishing, and won the Rally Masters after beating Mats Jonsson, Colin McRae and finally fellow Spaniard Mia Bardolet. His victory. gave him a prize of 500,000 pesetas, and an attention he had never enjoyed before. His run of success ended on the Sunday after he was defeated in battles with Kank-kunen and Waldegard in Lancias. McRae felt disappointed by his Saturday performance, but his position in the finals was assured when he knocked Auriol out of the run offs in T oyotas. The quarter finals saw Juha Kankkunen beat Hannu Mikkola Colin McRae is a Repeat Winner Text & Photos: Martin Holmes ~ British driver Colin McRae won the finals and the championship for the second year in a row. His Subaru Legacy 4WD Turbo won the quarter finals, semi finals, and bested Juha Kankkunen in the final round. British driver Colin McRae with which they are contracted to repeated his 1991 win at the compete on world championship Memorial Bettega stadium ra<:es events. In final round run in the in Bologna, one week after gatheringgloomofafoggyltalian coming second at the Race of evening, McRae's Subaru beat Champions in the Canaries. On Juha Kankkunen's Lancia in front this occasion drivers used the car. of an estimated 60,000 visitors to. the Bologna Motor Show. Of the eight invited drivers only seven arrived in Bologna. Ingvar Carlsson's Mazda, being transported from the Frankfurt Airport after the Dubai Rally, was involved in a road accident in Austria. The teams present were Kankkunen and Didier Auriol on their (and Martini's) final appearance in Lancias, Alex Fiorio in an Astra Team Lancia, McRae and Ari Vatanen in Prodrive Subarus, Cunico in a Ford and Italian champion Deila with a rented Toyota Celica GT~Four. There were two Memorial Bettega races for the Group A cars: on the Saturday evening the night races were run. Rules allowed the winner of three runs to proceed to the next round, and for cars to be changed during the same knock-out match. Cunico broke a driveshaft in his Ford, and mechanics changed this in just over four mintues, enabling him to run his same car again with virtually no delay to the show .. in both rounds, McRae and Blomqvist split with McR ae advancing by having the faster time in his winning round. Aghini beat Bardolet both rounds, and Carlos Sainz beat Bjorn Walde-gard in both rounds. Down to the semi finals McRae ( who last year had won the stadium• racing at Bologna) defeated Kankkunen after a deciding run victory. The pair were tied after the two rounds. There were problems when Sainz met Aghini. The 1992 world champion noticed that there was transmission trouble with his Subaru and had the car changed. He had lost the first run against Aghini, then o n the second h e fell back with a puncture. The final was therefore between the Italian and the Scot. McRae had a first round of 1:46:83 to Aghini's 1:47:26, but Aghini won the next two, the ···-I second emphatically and the third by fractions. The concept of the annual Race of Champions, of which this was the fifth in the series, is rapidly changing. Pre-event apologies from Walter Rohr! (due to have made a token appearance), from Markku Alen ( testing in Kenya), Miki Biasion (illness) and Timo Salonen ( testing in the Sahara) emphasized the changing object-ives of the event, which originally were for the great drivers in the sport to honor the loss of Henri Toivonen. It is possible that next year the event will concentrate far more on the current various rally champions from round the world. This was the fifth different venue for the Race of Champions and it finished with an announcement that there are hopes the event will return to the Canary Islands next year in early December. ~ i'\\1 ?# The invited participants for the Race of Champions and Rally Masters competi-tion included, on the front row, center in the Toyota suit Carlos Sainz, and to his right Juha Kankkunen and Didier Auriol, and to his left eventual winner Andrea Aghini, and on the end.Stig Blomqvist and Bjorn Wafdegard. It was quite a group, and the bench racing had to be better than that on the race track. Colin McRae had a tire come off the rim. "It was where it went from asphalt on to gravel, and it was very rutted there." Prodrive tried to ·avoid the problem by increasing the air pressure, but this affected the handling. Auriol had the formality in the semi-final of having a run on his own; without having to prove himself against the clock he thrilled the crowds by making spin turns on every straight stretch of the track! The final was between Vatanen and Auriol. The Finn was dismayed when Auriol crashed his car heavily into a concrete barrier and was allowed to go and fetch a replacement, in which the Frenchman won! The Sunday started with cool sunshine, and once again there were many supported races, for seemingly all types of cars. Fiorio changed his car during the quarter final run offs, simply because he supposed the set up on his other car might be better for the conditions. Drivers generally realized that tire patterns could be critical. In one heat Kankkunen ran with one cut slick and three gravel racing tires. McRae had another tire pull off the rim, while Auriol again damaged a Lancia, quipping that he was under instructions from his new team boss (Toyota's Ove Andersson) to thwart the chances of Sainz by reducing the stock of available Lancias. The day before Aghini had rolled a Martini Lancia when giving a demonstration run to a prize winning leader of the newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport. The reader was quoted the next day as saying "it was the most fantastic experience he had ever had." The paper did not say what actually happened. The semi finals were exciting. Colin McRae survived a big roll, a huge acc-ident when he got out of control on the bumpy gravel surface, though remarkably the car was driven away little damaged. The performance of the Subarus, particularly when going sideways at the limit of their drivers' bravery, was amazing. Whereas the Lancias would have to ease off, the Subarus, particul-arly that of McRae, would hold the most lurid slides. Kankkunen used gravel racing tires for his final round, which was run the best of five, but McRae won in three straight run offs, the quarter final, the semi final and the final dash against Kankkunen. Didier Auriol won his quarter final round, but in the semi final he kissed the wall hard in his Lancia, stopping the race while they hauled it away. Italian Champion Piergiorio Deila rented a Toyota Celica 4WD' Turbo for the event, but he was eliminated in the quarter finals by Didier Auriol. Gianfranco Cunico got his Ford Sierra Cosworth 4x4 through to the semi finals before Juha Kankkunen took him out on tha round by two minutes. · DustyTilna Mardi 1993 Page 17

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The second round was a battle of the Vets for overall honors. Vet expert Dan Worley bested the entire field to win overall at the last moment. Jason Corfman won the 125 class in the second round handily, and with Wez Enz cruised to victory in class in the 90 minute Team race. Pat Flanagan had a tough dice in the Senior competition round, but at the flag he won the class with Mike Harper right behind him. The third round was for Open, 250 and Vintage bikes, with Troy Phelps taking the open class, and he is the current class champion. __________________ _ The 250s stole the show in the third round with Jim "Preacher" Loh taking a close overall victory, and teamed with Troy Phelps, took second in the finale. Rick Wessels won the Vintage class on his Yuha Chapel Hussy in another good class battle with David Leonard on a Triumph. Attack Kamakize Desert Gran Prix By Fud Rounds 13 and 14 of the 1 7 event ·FRT District 38 race series was a Desert Gran Prix which consisted of three one hour races followed by a ninety minute team race. It happened on October 25 last year and of course it was at Lake Superstition, CA just north of Plaster City. The first race was for A TVs and Desert Lites. Steve Mamer of Brawley, CA had the holeshot, leaving the ~est of the A TV field ROD ENDS BAKER BACKSAVER • &BEARINGS [!i] TIMKEN IIURORAma We have the best prices on the largest rod end and bearing selection/ Safety & comfort -NASA inventory in the U.S. developed to protect HIGH-PERFORMANCE astronauts_lrol!' fatigue BAKER BATTERY caused by v1brat1on, shock loads and " G " forces. Cut to size-great protect-lion for driver & equipment. NEO SYNTHETIC LUBRICANTS Substantial in-Holds stronger_charge much crease in per-longer and will recharge fonnance while to 100% even.after sitti~g greatly reducing for 30 days m total dis-friction and high charged state. Unmatched vibration resistance. temperatures. [,Q,EARl!Sj Perm~~~~~~ !J!f1!!J!IIM. · --~ · (not a coating) Page 18 Photos: C&C Race Photos The first race was for A TVs and Desert Lites and Steve Mamer won that round overall, with a holeshot and he led the entire distance. playing catch up. Ben Schlimme Fenton landed first, got traction took the first shot, missed and and beat Wehe by about six drifted into third. Greg Bringle's inches to the finish line. Banshee took the next two shots The next race was for the Vet, and although he got close, the win 125 and Senior motorcycles. It went to Steve Mamer, Greg turnedintoathreehorserace;Vet Bringle was second and Ben Experts Phil Means and Dan Schlimme third. Worley and the young lion, Jason In the Desert Lite Division Corfman on a 125. Means led the Steve Fenton and his Triple EEE first lap followed by Worley and Green Apple were comfortably Corfman. Each lap Worley out in front of Stu Peace and waltzed a little closer to Means. Andy "Any" Wehe at the end of Coming into the last turn Phil the first lap. The next lap it was Means made the mistake of Peace's turn to lead as Fenton was looking back. At the time he was slowed by a flat with Andy Wehe wide open and the movement of only a few feet behind. The pit his head allowed the back end to stop for the tire change gave Stu come around; he highsided into a Peace the margin he needed to horrible crash nearly taking out win. However, Fenton never Dan Worley at the same time. backs off, and when Andy Wehe Dan Worleywon,JasonCorfman lost it and spun out 200 yards finished second, first 125, while from home check, Fenton moved Phil Means went to the hospital. in for the kill. Jumping off a three He was quickly released, battered foot bank just yards from the and bruised, but with no broken finish line, they were side by side. bones. The Senior class was a dice March 1993 between Super Senior Mike Harper and Senior Pat "Flatpan" Flanagan. The kid, Flanagan, finally ran down the old man, Harper. They finished 1 and 2 in the Seniors. In the third race of the day we got to see the Open, 250, Vintage and Class 3 motorcycles. While the crowd was expecting to see the open bikes out in front, it was the 250s that stole the show. Jim "Preacher" Loh over Craig Smith. The Open class settled in with the current champion Troy Phelps out running the current Open points leader Dewey Belew. The next time you hear the old men talk about the good ole days and how fast they were going, take a look at the vintage class. They get beat up, abused, amused and have more fun than anyone else. Rick Wessels on his Yuha Chapel Hussy decisioned David "Devil" Leonard on a butt I breaking Triumph. John Wellnitz was an easy winner in Class 3. The last race of the day for the big kids was the 90 Minute Team Race for everyone. It pitted Jim Loh and Troy Phelps (first and third in the Open 250 race) against Craig Smith and Dewey Belew ( second and fourth in the Open 250 race). This time Craig Smith was smooth as silk and Belew was on the gas. They beat Phelps and Loh. The Vet and 125 classes were runaways. Earl Roberts and Dan Worley led the Vets and were never challenged. The same was true in the 125 class where Jason Corfman and W ez Enz cruised to victory. The first upset of the day went to the A TV M&M team of Mike "Madman" Doughitt and Mike "Wildman" Patterson. They annihilated the A TV Division for their first overall of the season. Douthitt is currently second in the ATV points race behind Steve Mamer. And then there was the miracle of the century! Ed "dnf" Morris had never ever even seen a white flag before, and this day he went out and spanked them all winning the Desert Lite Division. Congrat~ ulations. The Pee Wee mini bike race was won by Robbie Bell, with James Schuetz second. John Schultz won the Class 77 honors in the first race of the triple header, in his Triple EEE Desert Lite tiny race car. Dusty Times

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LA RANA NEW YEARS 200 Kevin McGillivray and Don Angel Win Overall By Jean Cal(.lin Photos: Trackside Photos Inc. Kevin McGillivray and Don Angel smoked the field in the muck and mire in the well prepped Class 10 Chenowth, not only winning the class in a close battle, but they won the race overall. In most parts of the country all types of racing take a little breather over the year end holidays, many because of foul weather conditions. But in the southwest there is no break in activity at all. The final race of 1992 was the FR T Dunaway Dash on December 31 near El Centro, CA, a daylight race with campfire evening parties to usher in the new year. Then the 1993 season opened on January 1,3 with the La Rana New Years 200 near Barstow, CA. A big one day break for local off road racers, but each had a good entry, 7 6 cars for FR T and 87 for La Rana, despite La Rana having tech on New Years Day, having changed the date twice during December, moving it down a week which made more sense, and then back to New Years weekend because of the BLM permit. It had rained, often heavy rain, in this stretch of desert during the holiday week, and race morning saw intermittent sprinkles for a while, then it stopped but never got very warm. Each pit had hand and feet warming fires going, and the race course was full of mud bogs and water puddles in many ditches. Some drivers had rain suits on, others garbage bag ponchos, to keep them dry off the start, and it was aQ eager group that took the green flag off the start/ finish line on a surface that is more sand than dirt. Since there was no dust off the start the cars left one every 15 seconds, and for once you couldn't trace the route from the sidelines b the dust puffs hanging over the course. Trouble was the cars soon got into the mud, which made it tough for our photographers to get pictures of nice clean cars flying. First away was the lone Class 1 Brian Collins had his SS Chenowth Porsche in the early lead, but steering woes cost him pit time midway, but he came back fast to win Class 2 and place third overall. entry of Billy Bunch and Manny Esquerra, but their Chevy pickup only made two fast laps before retiring. The pack of Class 2s were off next, seven strong, and Brian Collins, of Las Vegas, took the lead overall in his Chenowth/ Porsche. The Raceco of Mike Stickle and the Ford of Kim Mohr failed to cover the lap, and Ron Stobaugh in another Ford got around in over five hours and retired.Jim Pierce/Mike Duenas/ Jim McKenzie, ORC, were just six minutes back and the Berrien of Richard Sciuto and Jack Hale lost nearly an hour, while the Steve Houston Raceco was about half an hour further back. Collins made a long pit stop on lap 2 to fix several items including steering woes, broken shock bolts, and he had lost the exhaust system and needed a remedy to keep the Porsche engine in good shape. Midway Brian Collins held his lead, then turned a 1 :09 third lap and fastlap of the day, 1:06:01 on lap 4 to win the class easily and take third overall. The Jim Pierce crew were about an hour back, second in Class 2, ninth 0 / A with a litney of troubles, first a front arm came out, trouble with the torsion adjuster, this on their long second lap with Jim McKenzie up. They had bad rings, so it took three quarts of oil a lap to keep the Type 4 going, butthey had no flats and got their finish. Richard Sciuto and Jack Hale were third another half hour back in the Berrien with steady laps, the first two almost identical l:20s. Steve Houston claimed fourth with three laps done, his Raceco was running a good pace when it vanished from the charts. Starting next Class 10 came up with nine cars and a real horse race among the top two. 1992 class champion Tom Koch got class fast first lap in the Raceco, 1:15:07, even after quickly handing it over to Ron Brant. About two minutes back Kevin Ohnstad, Raceco, and Hal Hibbard, who wasn't seen again, were virtually tied on first lap time, with Don Angel, who started last in the Chenowth, another minute back. Don Bowler had a 3½. hour lap and parked, and Morgan Maiocco, in John Brooks' Raceco, hit a muddy ditch wrong, hurt his back, and the team decided to pack it in too. Having a long second lap Rob Bristol opted for the trailer after two laps with unfixable trouble. Midway Brant had the lead by about three minutes over Angel, who pitted to hand over to Kevin McGillivray, who owns the Chenowth. Kevin Ohnstad had an over five hour second lap, and despite a 1: 17 on the third, ran out of time to finish in the eight hour time allowance. Dale and Mike Dondel were in third about 13 minutes back midway, and Christy and Jim Sizelove were coming back from a long first lap, when the third lap was even longer and they were out of time also. Jim Pierce with Jim McKenzie and Mike Duenas had troubles most of the way, Tom Koch started but Ron Brant drove all but ten miles in the Raceco, having The pace quickened on the second half in Class 10. On lap 3 Kevin did a 1:14:36, Brant a 1: 18:33 with a pit stop, and Dondelgotdown to 1:17:17. The but they kept fixing and finished the ORC a-fine second in Unlimited Class. a major dice for the Class 10 win, but finished second 1.5 minutes out. Dale and Mike Dondel came from Hemet to race their well shocked Class 10 car, and their steady lap times brought them home third 111 the class fifth 0/A. · Page 20 Former Oddy driver, Michael Daws has a new Class 5, and he had some new car woes and down time, but still finished well, second in Class 5. March 1993 The 1600 favorites faded on the last lap, and Charles Davis and Devin Goode drove a steady pace all the way to second place in Class 1-2-1600. Dusty Times

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Mitch Griffin and crew were second in Class 5-1600 after troubles on the middle laps, finishing on a sagging rear suspension, but they got second. Russell and Ryan Stewart and Garry Squires got their Bug in third in Class 5-1600, and said they had a few problems, just slow going in the muddy spots. Brad Clauson, Matt Miller and John Garcia were only a half minute back of third in Class 5-1600, suffering suspension trouble, but fourth in class. last lap was even tighter, rare in such miserable conditions. McGillivray turned class fast lap of 1:12:13 on lap 4 to not only take the Class 10 win, but the overall victory. He lost a rear left shock on the last lap which took out a line, and decided not to take the time to stop. He thanked Scott McKenzie for teaching him to race off road, and how to pace and keep the car together and still win. Meanwhile Ron Brant turned a 1: 13 :09 last lap to finish a minute and a half back, second in class and overall. He reported no trouble, said Koch only drove about ten miles, because he had to get to the airport to catch a flight to Japan. So Brant drove the rest of the distance in the single seat Raceco he had just bought. Dale and Mike Dondel were the third and final Class 10 finisher, about 16 minutes further down, fifth overall racing on three cylinders most of the day, but they still had a 1:14:27 final lap time. Class 5 on! y held two Bugs and Jack Burry led lap 1 by 12 minutes over Michael Daws and Lon Maisonnieuve in a new Bug. Burry did class fast lap on the second, 1 :24:02, a minute faster than Daws, and still led midway. Daws had over three hours of trouble on lap 3, and didn't try for a fourth. Burry did a l :24 flat on lap 3, then cruised into victory in Class 5 and sixth overall with a 1 :28 flat final lap. They had no troubles, and had a different driver every lap, Burry, Bob Gustafson, Art Peterson, Dave Parsons, and this awesome group decided to do the race just three days earlier, with four riders too. That is how you have fun racing, and they probably won back the entry fee. Only six starters in Class 1-2-1600 has to be an all time low, but the racing was tight for a while. Jim Joyce/Drew Keys, Raceco, led lap 1 by less than two minutes over defending points champ Kevin Davis, Lothringer. Gary Sewell was next another seven minutes back, and that was his only lap. Billy McCool/Ed Pendley were down another five minutes in the muck and mire, but parts of the route were beginning to dry out. Midway Joyce had a slender lead, about a minute over Kevin Davis, the McCool car was up to third about 12 more minutes down and four got halfway, but Wes and Brady Wilson retired after two rounds, having a five hour first lap. Kevin Davis took over the lead with class fast lap, 1: 15:06 on the third in his Lothringer, but he did not finish lap 4, still taking third in class over fellow three lappers Billy McCool/Ed Pendley who did a 1:16:14 on lap 3. So, coming down to the checkered flae. onlv , Dusty Timcs two 1600s were running, and Jim and Devin Goode in a Lothringer, Joyce and Drew Keys had their who had a slow first lap, but ran Raceco a good hour ahead on the other three at a good pace, so time. They won the 1600 honors they finished over an hour behind and were fourth overall even Joyce. though Drew rolled on the second A pair of Class 8s started, but lap, and they lost the power Steve Krieger got in just one fast, steering. They saw Davis broken 1: 14:51 lap and vanished. Scott down on the last lap, and knew and Earl McKinney had a five they had won, but said they had a hour first lap in their Ford, nearly good fight with him most of the two hours on the second lap and distance. The second and final were out of time to go any further, finisher in tenth overall, was the but won the Class 8 honors. team of Charles (Morley) Davis The 5-1600 Ba·a Bu s showed Deciding to race just days earlier the quartet of Jack Burry. Dave Parsons, Bob Gustafson and Art Peterson each did one lap, and despite the drivers changes, they won Class 5. Jim Joyce and Drew Keys had their Raceco flying high over the soggy track, led the first two laps, dropped back with the driver change, then led when it counted, at the checkered, and they won Class 1-2-1600 by over an hour. Rick Johnson and Dave Shively ran an incredibly consistent pace in their 5-1600, that flew over the nasty stuff, had no trouble except a cold carb, and they won the 14 car class by over 28 minutes. MaKh 1993 up 14 strong on the starting line and they had a terrific and tight race day, coming past the start/finish line each lap in packs of five or more, nose to tail. The La Rana scoring program does not include cumulative time, so after the first lap we can only go on the Timex and guesswork. Victor-ville's Rick Johnson led the first lap by 35 seconds over Las Vegan Bruce Fraley who had never raced here before. Roughly' a minute back came Jim McGill, e followed in seconds by Mitch Griffin and the battle was joined between these four Bugs. Bruce Landfield didn't finish a lap, and Brian Logan only got in one two hour round, while Scott Boyd vanished after a pair of two hour plus laps. · Midway Johnson held his lead with class fast lap at 1:30:35, and McGill was a strong second, followed by Griffin, while Fraley rolled on the second lap and lost over20 ~ • IS . ' n . ' ~ITT ... CENTER· LINE RAC/NB WHEELS THE STRONGEST OFF-ROAD WHEEL MONEY CAN BUY! FAT Performance has in stock the largest inventory of 5-lug vw CENTER LINE wheels in the country. Whether you need wheels with polished or satin finish, FAT has them in all popular styles. 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Just two minutes out of fourth, Chris Newman, Charles Lamar and Jim Brown were fifth in Class 5-1600, despite La Mar getting a dose of mud in this eyes. Tom Mattingly and Bobby Wafface took second in Class 9, with part of the engine falling out at the finish line, but had a good run for three laps. Dave Girdner and Tommy Craig had three good laps, but then rolled the car on the final round, but they still finished the older car third in Class 9. Mike and Tom Barnett were the lone entrant in Class 4 in the Jeep Honcho, but they had decent lap times, covered all four laps with time to spare, and got full points for winning Class 4. ~ minutes, got patched and handed over to co-driver and coach Rob MacCachren. But Rob had engine trouble, lost a wheel, and finally got to a pit on three wheels. A lot of teams with air cooled engines forgot it was damp and cold, and forgot to install a carburetor heater to avoid icing, and this caused many to have engine problems, or at the very least lose valuable time. Except for the two leaders, most cars were down to laps in the 1 :40s, but many still ran in a pack on lap 3 and 4. At the flag the Rick Johnson car, also driven by Dave Shively for two laps and even with the driver change, the slowest lap was 1:35:40. This is a tough pair who said they had some cold carb woes, and wanted to be sure and thank the chase crew and Rick's mom for their help. It was the same car that won the Gold Coast A.J. Farris and Darryl Gibson drove the only finisher in Class 7S, out of five starters, and their Ford finished four laps with two minutes left on the eight hour time allowance, but a winner. Glenn Cohen and Tim Serviss won over two others in Class 1500, their Jeep Comanche covering the two required laps, having some but not serious woes. Page II Sallee, a 1:38 lap. Sandy Parker and Tom Moessner led the first lap with class fast time of 1:29:05 in Sandy's Chenowth. A few others were in the l:30s, many in the l:40s. Midway the Tom Jeremiah/ Lanny Borthick car retired, leaving 15 running. Parker continued to lead and actually nobody else was close, but several cars were tight on time fighting for position. In the tough course conditions with their limited suspension, the 9 cars tended to string out, hard to keep track of when totally covered with mud. But it was no surprise when Sandy Parker finished first in Class 9, seventh overall. Moessner did the first two laps, and the Class 9 had two dozen starters, but this slick Chenowth of Sandy Parker and Tom Moessner, who did the first two laps, had a trouble free day and Parker won his third New Years 200 in a row, with a 26 minute cushion. . slowest time of all was lap 2 with did a fast 1:37:32 on the last lap the driver change, a 1:33: 12. and thanked all for the help. Sandy said they had a flawless Frank Omboli, Jim Enders, Tim day,notroubleatallanditwashis Tolhurst rolled on the first lap, third New Years 200 Class 9 using an extra half hour, then got victory in a row. He thanked his with the program to finish sixth, brother Eddie Parker who does just 45 seconds out of fifth place. most of the work on the car. With The final 5-1600 finishers were the last three laps all in the l:30s Leroy and Stephanie Lozano and Tom Mattingly and Bobby Beny Canela, who went well for Wallace were second, but the two laps, but went downhill on surprise was that the Brut finished the last two but they finished at all with half the right side of the sixth. Listed in order are the three engine hanging out in space. lap finishers, the Jim McGill While the valve cover was still Team, the Jason Kleber team and on, a blown piston had apparently the Rodger Schank team. beat the head backwards. It was a 300 last October; this time they won at eighth overall in a 5-1600. About 27 minutes later Mitch Griffin, Mark Steele, Stacy Shaffer and Paul Lane were .second having a couple of slower middle laps than the first and last round. On one stop they changed a rear wheel and on another they tried to fix a sagged out rear suspension. Muddy but unbowed they claimed they had a good time. Running in the low 1 :40s all day Russell and Ryan Stewart and Garry Squires were third another 1 7 minutes back. They had no troubles, no flats, except on the last lap the radio fell out and they figured it might be history. They wanted to thank the Converter Shop for sponsorship. Less than half a minute back Brad Clausen, Matt Miller and John Garcia were fourth in a very muddy Bug. They said the suspension wasn't too good, but they really had no troubles. Another two minutes bac' Chris Newman, Charles Lamar and Jim Brown took fifth, losing time on lap 1 when Lamar got mud in his eyes and flat couldn't see. Newman then drove the other three laps, ran out of gas but bummed some in the main pits The lone Class 4 of Tom shame no one had a camera handy; Barnett, Pat Massey, Kevin youhadtoseeittobelieveitwith De Vault covered all four laps in the head about 30 degrees back decent times, despite a flip that from where it belonged. It ran 30 rumpled the roof on the Jeep. So odd miles like this and Bobby said they got full points for the Class 4 it didn't run all that bad on his victory. way to the checkers. His lap time Class 9 was a quarter of the was 1 :39:51, and they were 11th entry with 24 on the line and this overall. would take a week to figure out Dave Girdner and Tommy lap by lap. Four didn't make the Craig had three good laps between first lap including defending them, hut a 15 minute delay on the points champion Joel Stankavich, last lap when the car rolled. Their Perry King, Charlie Scaggs and only other problem was a sticking Dan Mustoe. Taking 5½ hours on throttle. Jim Clements and Mike lap 1 Nathan Ellis was not seen Brown zipped into fourth. A long again nor was David Rogers, who time Barstow solo driver, Jim got had a 2:17 lap, or Darnen dirt in his eyes, under the face Jefferies, a 1 :50 lap, or Brian shield, so Mike drove the last two Larry Gross and Rodger Malcolm won Class 1525, their Toyota besting two others in the stocker class, winning by a solid 20 minute margin in the tough going. laps, finishing just under a minute behind Girdner after four laps. Michael and Ed Rix had three out of four good laps in finishing fifth, but they got away from us, so we don't know what their problems were. The 9s kept right on finishing four laps. Mike Hamp-ton was sixth in a Funco, Dennis Peterson and James Mobley were seventh, Dan Richardson and Randy Westbrook were eighth, Rod Brady and Rob Challman were ninth and John Kelly and Eli Stevens were tenth, pushing the time allowance at 7 :51 :05. Those covering three laps in Class 9 were led oy B.J. and Gary Bates in 11th spot, losing the trans on the last lap, William S. Gust and Paige Warren, Jack Bonester and Gerald Croft, Joel Mohr and March 1993 Dusty Times

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Former La Rana Class 9 Champ Jim Clements, with Mike Brown driving relief, kept the Clemco running to fourth in Class 9, just another minute behind. Michael and Ed Rix had big time costing trouble on lap 2, but they came back to run hard again and finished fifth in the Class 9 action. Doing a little wheelie in the damp sand, Mike Hampton had his troubles on the third lap, but he kept going to finish the Funco sixth in Class 9. William Quitmeyer and Fred Espinosa had some down time on La Rana introduced a new class for quads at this race, but the The lone Odyssey entered was this Selsted driven by Donald their second of two laps, but they finished the route for second team of James Wafker, Jeff Stafford and Terry Jeffers were the Kleinhenz who tackled the tough course and got his one lap in Class 1525 in the Toyota. Jone entry, and the muddy crew covered the required two laps. done in a quick 1:44:35 time. ----------------------Dennis Whitaker, and Steve lost all the bolts from the front Jeffers of Barstow, who did two who covered his one lap in 3 and 4 this year, instead they PooleandRonCookston. end, doing two laps in 4:29:11. laps in four hours. The only 1:44:35. WehadhopedLaRana addedtwomoreunrelatedclasses. Neither of the two Class 3 rigs The truck was built at Brians Jeep Odyssey on hand was the Selstad would combine some of the mini We will try to cover them all, if we finished. Mike Duncan and in Beverly Hills. Not far back at of Donald Kleinhenz in Class 44 . truck and small entry classes like can catch them all after a race. Jimmy Brandt won with three laps 4:43:53 for two laps Bob and done in the Jeep CJ8, while Carlos John Beyer were second in a Ford, Kuttler and Doug Sunstedt didn't while Joe Bovrassa and Robert make a lap. There were no Class 6 Cates didn't cover a lap. Class entries. The lone Class 7 of Dave 1525 honors went to Larry Gross Winner and Jim Cecil had a slow · and Rodger Malcolm in a Toyota, first lap, a fine second lap, but the happy to be the first 4WD in Toyota went no farther. Class 725 Desert Stock. They worked hard had five starters and one finisher, getting the truck ready, especially A.J. Farris and Darryl Gibson after rolling it testing the weekend who got the Ford around in before, had some electrical 7:58:07, just missing the cutoff trouble on the first lap, but that time. We don't know what was all. About 20 minutes back happened to the other four, William Quitmeyer and Fred Frankie Muscia, Ford and Dan Espinosa were second in a Toyota Cannon, Ford, both doing two doing the two laps. Finishing just laps or Walter Shrader, Dodge, o ne lap was Chuck and Oreg· one lap and Rick Sanders, no time Foreman in a Chevy. Both the in the Ford. Neither of the two in Class 1575 trucks covered their Class 750 finished either, both two laps. Brian Owens won in a covering three laps. Fastest by just JeepJ-10, and you don't see many over two minutes was the Toyota of those racing anymore. Mike of Ralph Blundell Sr. and Eric Hoskins and Mike Owens Pettit; right on their tail was reportednotroublesatall.About Richard Robbins and Alberto 20 m inutes back came Dale Tejera, Toyota. Brady Helm and Jensen and John Barajas in a Kreg Donahoe were the sole Chevy who hit a big hole and had starter in the new Class 14 but parts fly everywhere, but they got their Toyota only covered one of it together for second in class, and the two required laps in 2:59: 18. they said it was a good race and ln the Desert Stock Class 15 they enjoyed it all. Glen Cohen and Tim Serviss won There was one quad to intro-in a Jeep Comanche, having one duce that class, ridden by James flat, getting stuck once, and they Walker, Jeff Stafford and Terry Brian Owens, Mike Owens and Mike Hoskins had no trouble at all with the Jeep J-10, a rare bird in off road racing today, and they won Class 1575 in a close run, by about 20 minutes. Dusty Times When Peter Piper Picked A Parker Pumper Helmet, How Many Drivers Wanted The Helmet That Peter Piper Picked? Helmet includes Nomex Skirt • More Nose Room • Lighter • Seals Better Against Dust • 30% More Vision • Also Available -Full Line of Simpson . Products • Bell Helmets • Glass Shields • Drinkers • Kool Pac's • Pumper Motors • 4'-8' Hoses • 1985 Snell Approved Helmets We Also Convert Helmets! We Ship UPS Parker Pumper Helmets 2318 S. Vineyard, Ste B Ontario, Calif. 91761• Phone (714) 923-7016 Fax (714) 923-3118 ~~--1_ VISA Jl March 1993 PagcU

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1992 RALLY DE ESPANA Carlos Sainz Wins On Home Ground For Toyota T cxr & Photos: Martin Holmcs After a rally long battle with Kankkunen, Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya pulled off the victory at home in Spain. They had some troubles along the way, but they won and also took the lead by two points in the Driver's points. · After a season of endless · frustration, Carlos Sain: led the 28th Catalunya-Costa Brava Rally from start to finish with the new model Celica, and finally gained the model's first important victory in Europe. He gained a two minute lead on the asphalt stages of the first day, but then fell -persistently back as Juha Kank-kunen caught up on the gravel stages of the second day. The Finn, however, was unable to overcome the remaining deficit on the short final day and was content to come second. Champ-ionship leader Didier Auriol had steering problems which put the car off the road on the second day and only finished tenth overall. The championship situation is that Sainz, Kankkunen and Auriol are separated by only three points, with just the Lombard RAC Rally to come. Before the start everyone was asking if this would be the big showdown, but Auriol for one didn't want the worry of the championship hanging over his 4111'· team at the RAC, known for its unexpected problems, and he had never run a rally in Spain before. The three contenders, Didier Auriol, Juha Kankkunen and Carlos Sain: seemed friendly enough chatting together as they posed for the Race of Champions publicity pictures the day before the start, but were they? Toyota had made changes in the new Celica and of the three top teams present, Toyota was the only team to have done any pre-event testing on Spanish soil. There was little novelty, except the Ford of Francois Delecour which arrived without any gauges at all. Couldn't the Frenchman read numbers? Engineer Philip Dunabin explained, "It saved weight and anyway drivers don't read gauges. We have a rev limiter, oil pressure warning light and there is no way the turbo boost can get out of control. We have spent more time working on the weight saving on Delecour's than on any car before." Curiosities abounded. Citroen '~ --~--Carlos Sainz was born in Madrid exactly 30 years ago, and his win at the Catalunya Costa Brava Rally of Spain was his 12th WC victory and put him a leg up for another driver's championship. Doing the best of the Fords, Mohammed Bin Sulayem and Ronan Morgan also won Group N, were ninth overall in the Sierra Cosworth 4x4, and they kept the car together to move into the win on the last day. Page 14 were here with a single AX Sport for Christine Driano, the first time they had entered an f orthodox rally outside France in " four years. Ladies Champion elect Eija Jurvanen arrived this time with her own car, and a deter-mination to have a go and not get involved in any more stupid FISA start-ramp escapades. "We have even got another car in reserve for the RAC in case anything serious goes wrong here!" After threaten-ing to defect to Lancia, Spanish championship contender Jose-Maria Ponce was back in his usual rear drive BMW M3, while a welcome privateer was 'Tchine', on his 58th World Championship event, always as a privateer. Juha Kankkunen and Juha Piironen caught up to the leaders on the gravel stages, but their Lancia missed winning by 36 seconds, a big margin in this series. With such a short World Championship Rally ( everything was going to be over in two and a half days), it was pretty clear that speed over the opening stages of Etape 1 would be critical, but nobody was quite ready for the announcements at the end of the first stage. First Sainz, 10m28s, second Armin Schwar:, last year's winner for Toyota, 10m40s. After the second stage the order was the same, and on every stage except one before the midday rest halt in Cardona, Sainz was fastest. Why? Sain: was clearly highly motivated, but was this just local knowledge? The handling of the Toyota seemed good and the car was a bit lighter weight than in Corsica. Or was it possible that, on this occasion, the opposition was slower! Delecour was unhappy on the first two stages. Ford codriver Daniel Grataloup said it was a usual problem with the Michelins. "When the air is quite warm and the surface is slippery, these tires cannot cope. I've often seen it before. Auriol was not amused either with his Lancia. "The shock absorbers were too hard on the first two stages. After that it was better." Alex Fiorio was the fastest of the private team Lancias holding sixth place in the Astra team car, despite having his seat mounts break on stage 5. Jurvanen was pulling away from Driano despite 3 minutes road penalty and tackling two stages without brakes. The Formula 2 division was headed by last year's challenge winner 'Capi' Sai:, Peugeor'309 GTI, who had a three minute lead. Sain: continued the afternoon in the same vein and finished the asphalt sections 101 seconds in front of Andrea Aghini, Lancia. There was a great battle between Aghini, Delecour, Auriol and Schwar: for second place: after stage 9 four seconds separated them. On stage 10 things went wrong for Delecour. His Sierra catapulted off the road on landing a jump. A wheel and suspension was pulled off in the impact hut he managed to reach the end of the stage on three wheels. The car was substantially repaired by an emergency service crew, hut the Frenchman was too late at the next control and out of the event. Faces were long in the Ford camp that evening but in the Italian camp, the news that Toyota was ahead of Lancia was concealed by surprising stories being printed that morning hack home that Sainz was about to take his Repsol money away_ from Toyota and go, 1992 Rally of Spain Results Carlos Sainz/Luis Moya E Juha Kankkunen/Juha Piironen SF Andrea Aghini/Sauro Farnocchia . I Alex Fiorio/Vittorio Brambilla I Armin SchwarztArne Hertz D/S Jesus Puras/Alex Romani E Gustavo Trelles/Jorge Del Buono U/RA Pedro Diego/lciar Muguerza E Mohammed Bin Sulayem/R.Morgan UAE Didier AurioVBernard Occelli F Eija Jurvanen/Marjo Berglund (15th) SF Fernando Capdevila/A. Rodriguez(17} E • Group winners - •• Ladies Cup - + tie breaker Winner's average stage speed - 78.66kph Toyota Celica Turbo A* Lancia HF lntegrale A Lancia HF lntegrale A Lancia HF lntegrale A Toyota Celica Turbo A+ Lancia HF lntegrale A+ Lancia HF lntegrale A Lancia HF lntegrale A Ford Sierra Cosworth N* Lancia HF lntegrale A Ford Sierra Cosworth A** Ford Sierra Cosworth N 74 start-31 finish Drivers points - Sainz 124, Kankkunen 122, Auriol 121, Biasion 52, Delecour 45 Group N - Nishiyama 30, De Mevius 27, Menem 26, Kytolehto & Ordynbski 23 FIA Ladies Cup - Eija Jurvanen 27 - 1992 Ladies Cup Points winner. ,1s:w·: ..... ·''' ,,.. .. 6:21:13 6:21:49 6:22:45 6:27:39 6:29:43 6:29:43 6:31:30 6:43:30 7:02:13 7:12:12 7:28:51 7:35:29 Carrying the idea of weight saving to the extreme, Ford Cosworth engineers removed the instruments from Francois Delecour's Sierra, but he was a DNF. March 1993 money included, to the cash starved Jolly Club Lancia team. In Group N Carlos Menem threw away a great chance to pull ahead in the series at the expense of Gregoire de Mevius, when he went off the road and straight into a kilometer stone, breaking the radiator and putting him out of the event. Fernando Capdevila began the long and exhausting job of staying on the road and in front of the opposition: if h< succeeded he would end up joint leader of the series. Asphalt was now over and now cami: the gravel. Sain:'s lead over Auriol was I 09 seconds and 144 over Kankkunen. Unless the Toyota was going to find a corresponding speed increase on gravel, this event had the makings of a splendid fight to the finish. On the daylight stages the Finn started to haul in the Spaniard at the rate of about 0.7 seconds per kilometer, with 212 stage kms today and another 101 km tomorrow, it looked as if Kankkunen was heading for a victory of something over a minute. But it didn't work out quite that simply. There were fights all the way down the field, and both the ladies had some problems. Capdevila was going just quickly enough to stay in front of Group N, and no more. Of the 52 cars entitled to restart only 45 came out to face the gravel stages, but as the drivers reassembled at the seafront, there was only one battle that really mattered. The day began with drama on the first stage when Auriol was reported stuck on a pile of sand and nobody around to help him. The power steering pipe had split and as soon as the car hit a dip the steering wheel spun round and Auriol could not control it. It took him 34 minutes before he got going again, and another 15 minutes at service having the steering changed. It was terrible luck for the would-be champion, the third time this season the normally unbreakable Lancias had let him down, in a season in which the championship points encourage the surefooted rather than the fleet. The second drama was the reali:ation that the Toyota, despite the new found speed on asphalt, was no better on gravel than previously, and Kankkunen ( despite a spin on the first stage) was planning a major comeback. Sain: was helpless. "I am really going absolutely as fast as I can, but there is nothing I can do." Even Aghini reali:ed who was the master. "These stages are different to Sanremo. I suppose I could take a few more risks, but I am happy to leave the fastest driving to Juha." Fiorio was catching up after losing a half Dusty Times

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Watched by a lone spectator Luis Climent and Jose Munoz won Formula 2 and were 11th overall, here cornering hard in the Opel Crosa GSi. Vladimir Berger and Miroslav Fanta attract some attention in the Skoda Favorit 136L. They won their class and finished 13th overall as well. They ventured outside of France in the Citroen AX Sport, but Christine Driano and Catherine Francois finished 16th overall, just two seconds away from the Ladies Cup in Spain. minute the day before with power steering trouble. On the second stage of the day he was up to fifth, regaining his position as best non-works team driver. While leading 'F2' Peugeot driver Sai~ retired with a split fuel tank, but Mohammed bin Sulayem had kept his Ford in one piece and was now lying second in Group N. Ponce retired with broken sump on the BMW and Auria!, who had been down at 33rd, was fighting back, and with three stages to go on the second etape he was up to 19th. Still it hardly seemed likely he could move up to finish in the points. As day turned to night interest-ing things started to happen up front, as Sain: was no longer being · wound in. On the twilight stage 21 he was 7 seconds foster than the Finn, on the dark stage 22 he was 4 seconds slower over 2 I km, on 2 3, 13 seconds slower over 2 7 km; and on 24 4 seconds in 12 km; nothing like the rate at which he was being consumed earlier in the day. The Toyota was getting more tire grip! Etape 3 promised to be thrilling.Would Kankkunen heat Sain:! And would Auria! get into the top ten! The drivers came out for the third successive 8 o'clock start, all with a tale to tell. Sain: explained his erratic progress the day before. "Sure the humidity last night changed a lot, hut so did the surfaces of the stages. On some, for example, one stage that was very fast and just like Finland, I was foster than Juha. Then on twistier stages I could not keep up. We changed shock absorbers which helped later in the evening. His teammate Schwar: was dejected; try as he may he could hardly stave off Fiorio. Auria! reappeared, feeling sure he should get some points at the end of the day. Both of the Ladies teams were in the top ~wenty. There were tjve stages today and three were long and vital at 30, 21, and 27 km. Kankkunen did not look like the winner he wanted to be; he had chosen the wrong tires, and whereas last night he had beaten Sainz on the first stage (Subira) by 17 seconds, this time he did it only by 8. The difference for the lead was down to 53 seconds. Whereas Sain. looked happy if tired, Schwarz felt he wa:, having a bad time for his final experience at Toyota. He dropped behind Fiorio and was told Carlos had the choice of tires, and also the choice of transmis-sion. An,l now the German felt the car wa::, lacking powe~ as well. On the second stage there was fog on the higher stretches and here Sain. took four seconds off· Kankkunen. The pattern was now· clear; barring problems the Spaniard would win. Auria! made fastest time on every stage of the Dusty Tirnes day, eventually getting the tenth place he needed for one single point, and the series was at a wonderful state. Armin Schwarz finished a miserable fifth but ahead of Puras, who had identical penalties, on the basis of a tie decider, and two seconds separat-ed the two all girl crews with the , Finns in front. The final excite-ment turned out to be in Group N. Cardevila stopped on the first stagl' . , electronic trouble, and sat an,! waited, not knowing what March 1993 to do. After some 40 minutes he bin Sulayem, on the final event of tried the engine again and it his season. Was Sain: a happy started like normal, hut now his winner! Time and the RAC will Group N lead had gone, and he tell. But at least he had become the eventually finished third. The first Spanish winner of this event surprise winner after a year of since 1984, so life couldn't all he terrible fortunes, was Mohammed had! Page 25

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Todd Francis came back from a first lap tire change to take over third on the second lap, got into second, and stayed in second in Unlimited Class to the checkered flag. Rodger La Plante made it two-three for northwest racers in Class 2, had no trouble worth reporting, and drove alone to third in the good sized class. Mike Turner ran third in Class 10 for two laps, then took over second place with good times and he kept going to finish all five laps in second in class. THE GREAT NORTHWEST OFF ROAD CHALLENGE Larry Deaton Takes the Overall Victory By: Matt Marcher Photos: Rich Carlson/ Matt Marcher Larry Deaton won the race overall, and this is how he finished, in reverse gear, having lost the rest of his gears one by one several miles from the checkered flag. This is what you call a hard won victory. The Great Northwest Off Road Challenge, AKA the Bend 300, was a points race for VORRA this year as well as for the organizing Central Oregon Desert Racing Association. VORRA has partic-ipated in the races at Bend in previous years, but took a more active role this round. It was a new course for all, even the local racers. Among the 67 cars and trucks that turned out to race and battle the areas' freezing tempera-Many of the VORRA regulars tu res in mid-October were a cadre failed to show, however, and that of VORRA members, a bunch was their tough luck because this from the Kamloops Bronco race seemed to be the turning Bl,lsters in British Columbia, and point for the points race the local central Oregon competi-underdogs. Several teams went tors. The entry was almost evenly from far back in the standings to split between VORRA members within striking distance of the top and the others. Most of the entry slots, with only one race left after had towed long miles to race, and this one in VORRA, the All Pro found it a good course, all virgin season Championship. trails for racing. The Canadians and the locals CACTUS RACING fared the best on the course and in coping with the weather condi-tions. With temperatures dropping well into the twenties, many of the ill prepared flat landers RVs sprung leaks. Fortunately the local folk had a remedy and told them to wrap newspapers around the pipes. RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES 5153 BOWDEN AVE. $AN DIEGO, CA. 92117. TEL (619) 27g...2509 HELMET COMPLETE SYSTEM $195 $320 A FRESH AIR HELMET AND BLOWER ASSEMBLY DESIGNED FOR OFF ROAD USE AT A REASONABLE PRICE BUU, T AND BACKED BY BELL HELMETS LIGHT WEIGHT-REDUCES NECK STRAIN Page 26 COOL. COMFORTABLE TERRY CLOTH LINER BLOWER MOTOR AND ASSEMBLY ARE GUARANTEED FOR ONE FULL YEAR SNEU, ~ APmOVU) Pre-running the course, it was like a freeway with a twenty-five foot corridor and smooth ground provided by the Oregon BLM. Most drivers expected to have an easy race, but any 4 wheel drive enthusiast knows that southern Oregon and northern Galifornia are within the range of several recently active volcanoes, including Mts. Lassen, Hood, Shasta, 3 Sisters and Washington. These active and inactive moun-tains have thrown large quantities· March 1993 of lava rock over the area for hundreds of miles. At first look the Bend course was going to be fast, but first looks can be deceiving. By the second lap of the 56 mile route the fine sand, soft dirt and ash tlrnt covered the desert floor had been worked away, and the rocky hell that was just beneath the surface appeared; it reminded one of Virginia City. The race started with cars leaving one every thirty seconds from the start/ finish line, which was located at Brothers, Oregon. Class -1 started first with eight entries, only four were VORRA regulars, and only two were in points contention, Larry Deaton and Sam Berri, both two seat cars. Berri drew the first start position and tried to take full advantage of that, turning the second fastest lap of the day, running a quick 1 :09:28 and led the first lap outright. But as any racer knows, the first lap is just the beginning. The Taylors, using Porsche power, pushed up from a fifth place start to second place, while Todd Francis held third spot. Mike Jones moved from eighth to fourth on the first lap. Ail eight starters covered two laps. Larry Deaton stood on it and turned a 1 :08:58 lap, the fastest of the day, on the second lap, but Berri held the lead. The Taylor Racing car was still strong in third, while Rodger LaPlante moved to fourth after Todd Francis stopped for a tire change. In the third lap Deaton was able to move into first place, while Berri ran into trouble and dropped to fourth. Rodger LaPlante was now second, just four minutes ahead of Todd Francis. Fifth was occupied by the Taylor Team, who made a strong effort to finish in the top three to make up for the rough races they've had earlier in the year. By the end of lap 4 and the start of the fifth, the finishing positions in Class 2 were set. Larry Deaton won the race first overall and first in class. Although Larry didn't have an easy go of it; on the last lap his tranny started to give out at the beginning of the lap, and gave out a mile and a half from the finish line. Deaton and his co-driver did manage to get the car in reverse after pushing it nearly a half mile. They finished the race Larry Deaton in his Unlimited two seat racer, did go forward fast to win first in class, first overall and set fast lap of the race at 1 :08:58, moving into first on lap 3 of five and taking the victory. Gary Weyhrich rumpled the nose of his slick Class 10 car in traffic, but he ., survived the pitfalls that saw only two of nine Class 10 cars survive and Gary won the class and was second overall. Dusty Times

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Chris Cash came from Boise, Idaho to race his 1-1600 car, and Joe Mabberly ran with the leaders early in 1600 action, had Dennis Dugan was just a minute off the winning pace until lap 3, from his seventh starting spot, he worked up to second in class · troubles on the later laps, especially the last one, but hung on to and his problems did not go away, but he did finish well, fourth at the checkered flag. finish third in class. in Class 1-2-1600. --------------,,------------in reverse, which was a first for a being a self destructive class, and SSI car into third withJeffEachus they both succumbed on the final Folsom actually won a race. Yes VORRArace. ToddFrancistook itseemedsoatthisrace.Theclass seven minutes behind in fourth. 'lap and only two Class 10s that'sright!Therookiedriverthat back second place finishing the started with nine entries, seven of After two laps W eyhrich had a finished the race. First place in can shake your hand before you five laps in 6:49:13, some 33 them VORRA regulars, but four minute lead on second class and second overall went to can blink your eye, finished first minutes behind Deaton. Rodger only two finished five laps. At the running Happich/Windle. Mike Gary W eyhrich, at 6:32:44. His in class, fourth overall and walked LaPlante finished third in end of the first lap Gary Turner was still third, and Dale rewardwas$855.00Secondplace away with his first win and 7:12:04. Sam Berri was the only Weyhrich moved from fourth Smith moved up one spot to in Class lOMikeTurnerfinished $855.00,andthatissomethingto other class finisher in fourth at starttotheclassleadpostingclass fourth,buttherewerethreemore in 6:59:32, only 27 minutes behappyabout.Therewereeight 7:19:14. The Taylors parked on fast lap at 1:12:34. The Happich laps to cover. At the end oflap 3 behind and in the top ten overall. other teams in Class 1-2-1600 at lap 5, still good for fifth in class and Windle team was close Mike Turner traded places with Jeff Eachus ended up third with a the start and the Mort/ Havlick pomts. behind, only 53 seconds down. Happich/Windle taking over dnf on lap 5, now just sixteen · car started first and managed to Class 10 has the reputation of . Mike Turner drove his Gold Rush second and Jeff Eachus was now points behind points leader Ace hold that position ahead of Ron fourth after Smith dropped out of Bradford, who ended the day in Hart on the road. Folsom, with a the race. Ace Bradford who had fourth place with a dnf, both cars quicker first lap time ran third in suffered a 3:41 :03 first lap due to quitting on the fifth lap. the train. Chris Cash was right an unfortunate fender bender Class 1-2-1600 is always good with Folsom and Joe Mabberly with the class leader, now found for some great action and some was close too, just another second Larry Folsom had time to wave to the photographers from his single seat Mirage, and Larry had quick times all day and the rookie driver won the nine car 1-2-1600 class, and took fourth overall too. Raymond Fisher ran three 1:15 laps in a row in his Class 4 to neariy lead the dozen 4x4s, and was second by the third lap, moved out front from there and his Jeep Honcho not only won Class 4, it finished third overall. The Sportsman Vet class started out as a good dice, but ended up as a real cruise to victory for the Haas Brothers in their Mini Mag, and they won the nine car class by 55 minutes in the fou_r_la...:.p_ra_c_e. _________ _ Dusty Tima himself fifth by attrition. close finishes. They are also back. Midway through the fourth lap known for outstanding sports-At the end of the second lap thethirdplacecarofHappichand manship and playful antics. This there were major position Windle was out, moving Eachus racebroughtoutsomecrazystuff. changes. Folsom moved up to and Bradford each up a notch. But Can you believe it? Smiling Larry first place, ~ .. .. U) a: LU 0 < C. u, LU ..J >< < .. .. CJ) a: LU 1-U) :::::, .., C ct .. .. U) C, z ii: D.. U) LL < LU ..J .. .. u, C :::::, t; ..J LU LU J: 3: .. .. ** TORSION BARS** AXLES ** SPRING PLATES ** COIL SPRINGS** SWAY·A·WAY-MANUFACTURERS OF QUALITY OFF ROAD SUSPENSION COMPONENTS FOR OVER 20 YEARS PRESENTS .. SWING AXLE AXLES - ALL 3 STOCK LENGTHS FRONT LEAF SPRI.NGS 6 & 7 LEAF FOR SOFTER SPRING RATES COMING SOON - 2 PIECE STUB AXLES SEE YOUR LOCAL DEALER TODAY! CALL OR WRITE FOR YOUR FREE CATALOG ,. ,. C z " !! z u, ,. ,. 2S z C) !! z U) ,. ,. U) :::c 3: U) ,. ,. r-e C) z C ui ,. ,. 20755 MARILLA ST. I CHATSWORTH, CALIFORNIA 91311 I 818·700-9712 March 1993 Page 17

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Bob Nyste ran fast all the way in his propane fueled Ford pickup and the Canadian ran a strong pace all the way to second place in the tough class. Gordon Scott got in two fast laps, slowed a tad for the next three in the Jeep CJ that has covered many a racing mile; he was third in Class 4. Class 4 had a high attrition rate, but Tom Scahill slowed after the first two laps, had trouble on the last round but finished, fourth in Class 4. Long time Washington racer Joe Kellog only had two good laps in his 4x4 Mitsubishi, but he finished all five rounds to take fifth in Class 4. Glen McAdon, here moving over to let Larry Deaton pass, was winning the Sportsman Vet class until a disaster on lap 3 dropped him to a second place finish. Everett Paul got his V-8 Buick powered Hi Jumper home in third place in the Sportsman Vet class, quite a feat for such an elderly chassis. ~ Hart dropped out of the race, and Mort/ Havlick lost 22 minutes off their first lap time, putting them down to sixth. Chris Cash, of Boise, Idaho, drove the Bow~ Wow car from seventh all the way up to second place. Rigsby/Smith were now third, and Dennis Dugan claimed the last lap, where he drove non~ fourth. This class ran close stop to the start/finish line. together with only two dropping Luckily the Folsom car managed out; the other seven finished five to make it fifteen feet past the laps. finish line before running out of Larry also moved into the class was Sean Cook who had suffered points lead, and was fourth, vision problems since early in the overall. Chris Cash crossed the race. Later in the race Chris Cash gas. Larry, who lives in Sparks, moved into first knocking Folsom Nevada, was amazed that "he had into second, where he stayed until to go out of town to finally win." line in second place, fifth overall Class 4 was the last Pro Class, about four minutes back, sincenotenoughClass9carswere followed by Joe Mabberley, there. 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PH# (702) 871-4911 3054 S. VALLEY VIEW OPEN 6 DAYS. MON -FRI FAX# (702) 871-5604 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89102 8am -6pm. SAT 9am -5pm lHIS AD SUPERSEDES ALL OlHERS • MENTION lHIS AD TO RECIEVE THESE SALE PRICES Pagcn March 1993 ers. As the race began Don German moved his Chevy pickup from its fourth place start to the lead, until the fourth lap. Mike Povey was second at the end of the lap with Raymond Fisher in the Jeep Honcho only six more seconds back. Bob Nyeste in the propane powered BFG Ford was fourth, and gaining fast on the leaders. Midway through lap 2 Mike Povey lost his rear differ, ential and had to replace it with one from their tow vehicle. Unfortunately it was the wrong ratio, causing the front cliff to fail, and there were more problems for Povey. This allowed Raymond Fisher to move into second, N yeste into third and Tom Scahill into fourth, and the first three stayed that way through the third lap but Gordon Scott took over fourth, pushing Scahill into fifth. By the start of lap 5 there were only six trucks remaining, and class leader Don German had an over four hour lap 4 and didn't finish lap 5. Raymond Fisher inherited the lead with a very consistent drive to the Class . 4 victory, third overall at 6:42:11 and a $1026 purse. The win also put him into the class points lead with a 25 point lead on Povey. Bob Nyeste drove his ·Ford to second, seventh overall in 6:49:26. Gordon Scott was third nine minutes later, followed by Tom Scahill. Joe Kellogg was the final finisher in his Mitsubishi pickup. There were nine starters in the Sportsman Veteran class with Glen McAdon taking an early lead. Close enough behind were Perry Warren, Mini Mag, then in three seconds the Haas brothers in a tight battle. Paul Scott was in fourth. As the race went on McAdon in the Creasy car still Dusty Times

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The team of O'Callaghan and Robinson defied the odds and ran a Baja Bug in Sports Vet action, and they not only finished the race, they were fourth in class. Audi Brook, another Washington racer, ran close all the way in Sportsman Novice action, the tidy Bug placing second just four and a half mimutes behind. Eric Sisson had his ups and downs in the Sportsman Novice class, but he covered all four laps for a good fifth in the biggest class in the race. led, but the Haas car was in second, just 33 seconds back. The team of Robinson and O'Cal-laghan were next, about three minutes up on Everett Paul. After three laps Warren and Scott were out, and Haas had the lead ahead of McAdon, but nothing much else changed. The class ran four laps, and at the flag Floyd Haas Jr. drove the Mini Mag in for the checkered flag, a whole 54 minutes ahead of the Creasy team's Glen McAdon. Floyd later stated that "he was surprised at how well Glen could drive that beast", referring to the rather ancient Hi Jumper the Creasy team drives. Haas finished in 5:33:21, giving the team a 20 point lead over McAdon in the class points battle. Everett Paul in the V -8 Buick powered Hi Jumper crossed the line third in class, and he is also third in class points. O'Callaghan and Robinson were fourth, and Brian Holloway was the final class finisher, as he lost nearly three hours on lap 1, waiting for a fresh coil to get to him from his pit. He ran clean the rest of the race, and finished fifth, just one minute under the ten hour time limit. The Sportsman Novice Class was the biggest at 21 starters, almost an even split between · VORRA members and local entries. There was a $1000 purse to be split between the top four cars. As the cars came in after the first lap, Jerry Wald in a Mini Mag had the lead at 1 :21 :40 with Keith Trainor less than a minute behind in second. Robert Stuart was running third, just nine seconds behind Trainor, and Rick Pierce was holding in fourth. At the end of the second lap, midway in the four lap event, Jerry Wald was still leading but other positions had changed hands. Tim and Doug Mack now ran second, while Hooter Meyer was third with Sam Cook just a minute, 23 seconds behind. Four cars were The among the missing, and more would soon fail. After three laps Jerry Wald had dropped out, as had Pierce which cleared the way for Mack/Mack to take first place. Hooter Meyer also vanished and Guy Garrison was now second, Sam Smith third, and Paul Taylor fourth. Four more cars failed on the fourth and final lap including that of Terry Silbaugh, the moving force behind this event. The leading Mack /Mack car used a lot of extra time getting to the finish, and was fourth at the flag, with Sa:m Smith finishing two hours later, the last four lap finisher. The Novice Sportsman first place trophy went to Robert There was a real fight with times very tight in the Sportsman Novice class but Stuart who finished in 7:02:55 Robert Stua~t kept his Raceco together the best in the 21 car class and won d 11 d $450 00 - the class by Just over four minutes. an co ecte . purse., ___ ....:....:. ___________________ _ Second was VORRA'a Audie minutes back, followed in 25 even with the cold weather and Brook who drove his 5-1600 Bug minutes by Mack/ Mack, and Eric extra travel time. It is a good place in good time, about four minutes Sisson was a long fifth followed with friendly and enthusiastic out of the win, but he did get $230 · by the father/ daughter team of people and plenty of land upon for the effort. Third place went to Corina Mack and Vern Nickell. which to race. What more do you Keith Trainor, another six All in all it was a good race, need? Florida Off Road Drivers Association Presents The FLORIDA 400 6 Hour Off Road Race SATURDAY, MARCH 27TH, 1993 Crowder Pits, Tallahassee, Florida Schedule Saturday, March 27 8 AM-9 AM Registration and Tech at Track 9:30 AM -Drivers Meeting 10 AM ·4 PM Racing Trophies, Money & Contingencies/Ill 80% PAYBACK ON-ENTRY FEES 100% PAYBACK ON OVERALL POT Sunday, March 2 8:·30 AM Awards at Race Headquarters Entry Fees: Challenger Class • $110 1800 Class • $135 Unlimited Class• $110 Dusty Times OVerall Pot; All Class•• -$25 RACE HE'AOQUAATERS SHERATON INN • DOWNTOWN 101 SOUTH ADAMS STREET (904)224-6000 FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL THE F.O.R.D.A. HOTUNE (407)254-5167 OR (113)667-1568 OR WRITE: F.O.R.D.A. 2750 COZUMEL DR. APT. 1116 MELBOURNE, FL 32935 March 1993 Page 19

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-SUBARU PRO RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP The Canadian Brothers Sprongl Win Overall 4/1· Paul Choiniere and Jeff Becker had the overall championships, driver and co-driver in hand long before the season ended. They also won titles in the Open Class by a hefty margin, driving the Audi Quattro. The Maine Forest Rally on December 4-5, 1992 was the final round in the Subaru Pro SCCA National Rally Series, happening in Rumford, Maine with a famous ra 11 ymaster, none other than many time series champion John Buffum. The weather predictions were for little to no snow in contrast to last years 18 inches of snow that fell during the event, and the temperatures were warmer also. There was a little swapping about of codrivers in Rumford as Paul Choiniere, already overall points champion going in, had his third for the year, Wayne Brooks in the right seat of the Audi. Jeff Becker, who co-drove for Paul most of the season, and like Paul had already clinched the Overall codriver championship was codriving as in years past for Bruno Kreibich; this pair won the Open Class championship in 1991. Tim O'Neil and Henry Joy are embroiled in the closest championship battle in the rally, in Production GT class, the two drivers separated by a mere 1.8 points. In Rallytruck class Gary Gooch has a slim lead in driver points over Roger Hull, but Judi Gooch has a nearly insurmount-able lead over Hull's usual co-driver, Rob Cherry. Both western truck teams had made the trek to Maine. W.G. Giles and Bob Pierce had clinched the Produc-tion class championships and were not competing here. But Giles was on hand traveling with Henry Joy's service crew as a coach and personal consultant to assist Joy in his own championship search. Mid-afternoon on Friday the weather was sunny and 26 degrees F. In general the stage roads were frozen solid in the woods where no sunlight hits the road, and slushy mud or dirt where the sun gets through, plus some trails had a good bit of snow on top. There were 45 entries, 36 running for points in the National Pro Rally, which was 10 stages, five on Friday night and five during the day on Saturday. The Seven Islands Divisional Rally was scored from the five night stages with 17 entries on the line, then 18 teams were signed on for the Boise Cascade Divisional Rally consisting of the five Saturday stages. Promptly at 6:00 p.m. the rally cars left the Madison Hotel at one minute intervals as they embarked on a 2 7 .1 mile transit zone to the start of stage # 1, a 5 .8 mile run through the woods near the New Hampshire border. from there the competitors headed north to the first of three service stops planned for the evening. The weather forecast changed to a storm coming, with the area now expected to get up to 10 inches of snow overnight and on Saturday. 1.6 miles into the first special stage the Prescott, Arizona team of Roger Hull and Rob Cherry went off the course and into the trees, and despite the efforts of marshals was unable to continue. The Jeep Comanche had mini-mum damage, however, and after minor repairs will enter the Seven Islands Divisional on Saturday. According to Cherry, the incident occurred on a part of the course where the road turned first sharply to the left, then equally sharply right. Carrying too much speed into the left hander the truck began to lose traction and Hull's efforts to regain control were futile. Cherry said that despite their disappointment, they were both glad that they made the trip to Maine. Hull and Cherry are the points leaders in the competition for the W oodner Cup, an annual award given to the two wheel drive vehicle that collects the most overall points in a season. With W.G. Giles not entered in the rally, Hull and Cherry are guaranteed the trophy. Survivors of the first stage reported the course was more slippery than expected. Quotes such as 'frozen, slick, tricky, crazy slippery' were common. Times were slow for all, but no snow was evident on the stage and the teams are continuing on the hand grooved tires they usually depend on for gravel surfaces. Tim O'Neil of nearby Franconia, NH and cod river Tom Burgess had some excitement. Passing under some low hanging tree branches, the CB whip antenna caught on the foliage and bent back. When it whipped back again it blew out the rear window of the Mitsubishi Galant VR4. For the rest of the evening the team had to endure the elements and the fumes. The team of Bruno Kreibich and Jeff Becker also had troubles in the woods, having a close encounter with a couple of trees. On the slippery surface Kreibich's Audi Quattro slid into a tree, hitting on the left rear quarter. The car didn't stop there, recovering to then slide right hitting on the right rear quarter. Luckily it didn't stop tht:m, and they performed the minor repairs needed and continued. Unofficial times from the first four stages show Paul Choin-iere/Wayne Brooks leading, although bested on at least two of the legs by their competition, through consistently competitive times; their Audi Quattro leads the Mitsubishi Eclipse of Carl Merrill/Jon Wickens by more than one minute. The rally got a half hour behind schedule because of an incident on stage 3 involving Dick Corley and Lance Smith. Their Mitsubishi Eclipse went off the course into the trees and was seriously damaged, leaving tneir ability to continue in question. Updating the points chases, Jeff Becker will be in the catbird seat if Smith is unable to continue, guaranteeing him the Open Class cod river championship. The Gooches have now clinched the Rallytruck driver and codriver championships with the with-Tim O'Neil and Tom Burgess won the Production GT class honors by a good points cushion driving the Mitsubishi Ga/ant, and gaining the title by the points scored in Maine. drawal of Hull/Cherry. As an added bonus for the Gooches, Toyota Motor Corp. USA will pay a $5,000.00 contingency to Gary and Judi for their class win in a Toyota pickup. In Group A the class change out of Group A of Frontinan/ Arruda worked to the advantage of the Chad DiMarco/ Erick Hauge team who clinched both driver and co-driver honors for the third consecutive year. By the end of the night stages, most of the close points battles were decided, but not Production GT! O'Neil lacked a rear window, hindering performance, and Frontinan/ Arruda could have an effect on his race with Henry Joy and Jimmv Brandt in the Mazda 323 GTX. Will O'Neil find a replacement window, and if not will SCCA officials let him continue? That night he had a 10 minute advantage on the Mazda. The team of Steve Gingras and Bill Westrick went out of the rally on stage 1. "I screwed up; as the surface got a little more loose and sandy I opened it up some, then came around a corner and GLASS! The car was not badly damaged, but even with the help of the marshals, he could not get it back on the course". The top ten positions after Friday night's stages are: First, Paul Choiniere/Wayne Brooks, Open Audi Quattro, 1 :05:80; Carl Merrill/Jon Wickens, Open Mitsubishi Eclipse, 1:07:77; Frank and Dan Sprongl, Open Audi Quattro, 1 :08:42; Tim O'Neil/Tom Burgess, GT Mitsu-bishi Galant, l :09:40; Bruno Kreibich IJ eff Becker, Open Audi Quattro, 1:09:89; Russ Hughes/ John MacArthur, GT Mazda 323, 1: 11: 17; Tom McGeer/Trish Sparrow, GT Subaru Legacy, 1: 11 :67; Chad DiMarco/Erick Hauge, GpA Subaru Legacy, 1:13:03; Bob Elliott/Thierry Menegoz, Prod. VW GTI who also won the divisional rally 0 / A, 1:13:81; Frank Cunningham/ Charles Bradley, GpA VW GTI, 1: 14:65. A total of 34 cars finished the five night stages. 36 cars left Rumford Saturday morning facing the last 110 miles of the Maine Forest Rally of which 60 were stage miles. John Buffum, national series manager and Maine Forest Rally organizer, commented that he had been optimistic on the timing schedule, and the rally could run late because of the frozen conditions. Temperatures were in the high teens with just snow flurries in Rumford and on the route. The Dodge Omni of Ken Beard and Jim Miner suffered a brake fire on stage 6 requiring attention from the course marshals. No damage was done to the car, nor did it lose any time as the fire was noticed after the flying finish. They continued on. Stages 7 and 8 were one third ice making for difficult going for most teams. Henry Joy, in particular, disliked those stages and is looking forward to finishing the final two stages. After eight stages Choin-iere led Sprongl by a full minute, and Frank Sprongl is doubtful whether he can make up that much time with only two stages left. " I made up a minute and a half in the last two stages though, so maybe. Sprongl finished stage 7 on the bumper of Carl Merrill to take the fastest time on that stage. O'Neil was less than three minutes further back, followed in 19 seconds by Kreibich, and Merrill was another four minutes down. The Subaru Legacy of Tom McGeer and Trish Sparrow is reportedly having trans trouble, losing first gear and reverse. Out of the rally by the second service stop were JanJolles/ Steve Finney, Volvo; Rick Davis/ Ben Griesler, BMW 2002; and Sylvain and Martin Duval, Toyota Corolla. On stage 9 the leading Audi of Paul Choiniere ran over a rock which pierced the oil cooler. Alerted by the sudden loss of oil pressure, he pulled off the course and shut it down, possibly saving the engine that has survived 44 rallies without a problem. Paul Judi and Gary Gooch squeaked out the 1992 Rallytruck titles in Maine with the win there, and the California based team were glad they made the tow cross country to win in the Toyota. W.(,. Giles and Bob Pierce fought hard most of the season for their victory on points in Production class, driving the VW Golf GTi. They didn't need to run in Maine and didn't. Chad DiMarco and Erick Hauge won top honors again in Group A, a class that has not caught on well, but they had to work hard for the titles this past season in the Subaru Legacy to get the win. Page 30 March 1993 Dusty Times

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lost this battle but survived to win the points war overall, and in class. So the Maine Forest Rally went to Frank and Dan Sprong!, overall and Open class winners from Woodbridge, Ontario in their Audi Quattro. Although they have great success in Canada, this was their first U.S. victory in Pro Rally competition. Frank set a new record for the famous Mt. Washington Climb to the Clouds Hill · Climb while winning that event this past June. Second overall and in Open class were Carl Merrill, Ogunquit, ME and Jon Wickens, the Mitsubishi Eclipse just over three minutes behind. Winning the GT Class and GT driver and co-driver championships were Tim O'Neil and Tom Burgess, and in third overall too; the Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 co-driver Tom Burgess comes from far away Vancouver, British Columbia. They also grabbed second overall in the final point standings. New Yorkers Bruno Kreibich and Jeff Becker were fourth overall, third Open class in the Audi, 1.5 minutes further back, followed in 28 seconds by the Subaru Legacy of Tom McGeer and Trish Sparrow of Toronto, Ontario, fifth overall and second GT. They are also the Canadian ProduGtion GT Champ-ions. Over three minutes back New Yorkers Russ Hughes and John McArthur were sixth overall, third in Production GT in the Mazda 323 GTX. Other class winners included Chat DiMarco and Erick Hauge, seventh overall, first in Group A and first in Group A year end points. Bob Elliott and Thierry Menegoz, VW GT!, won the Production class, ninth overall and were-second in the Saturday divisional rally. But W.G. Giles and Bob Pierce had already won the Production championship for the year. Gary and Judi Gooch won the rally truck dass at 13th overall in the Toyota, and the season championship. As _men-tioned, Paul Choiniere and Jeff Becker had already won. the overall season points title before this rally began, 28 cars finished the National Rally. As mentioned the Friday divisional rally went to Bob Elliott and Thierry Menegoz, followed by Frank Cunning-ham/ Charles Bradley, VW GTI· and Ivan and Olga Orisek, Mitsubishi Eclipse, all three in.the s-ame minute. The · Sunday Divisional went to Cunningham and Bradley, followed by Elliott and Menegoz and Steve Ging-ras / Bill Westrick, Mazda 323 GTX, the latter two just 53 seconds apart. The rally awards and the season champi·onship awards were presented later in Rumford, and the National teams get some time off before the nine event SCCA Subaru Pro Rally Championship gets underway April 2-4, ip Prescott, Arizona. · California Rally Series Annual Awards Banquet to attend to, the distribution of the remaining Michelin Tire Contingency money. Come the end of the competition year the CRS found a $900 surplus. With that all the names of people who ran Michelin Tires were put in a year the Michelin Contingency will be continued thanks to the efforts of Sam Moore. This time with BF Goodrich being bought by Michelin it will be admin-istered through BFG and Moore will once again administer the program at individual events. By John Elkin On a rainy Sunday morning in January the who's who and rally elite gathered for the California Rally Series Annual .Awards. Usually this is a fancy dinner affair but as per the request of many out of the area rallyists this year it was decided to try a breakfast after a rallysprint so those from Northern California and Arizona could par-take of the rally experience, still attend-the awards and be back home not too long after sundown. Well, the best laid plans often fall victim to Murphy's Law, but in this case it was El Nina's Law. Biblical proportions of rain inundated the Southern Californi area for days prior to the rally weekend. The rally was postponed but the awards still would carry through. Even with the sad turn of events those from the north and out of state still made the trip, sans rallycar, to collect their hardware and vie for the many special awards given at the end of the year. Rallyists gathered at eight in the morning at the Ontario Airport Marriott for a first class breakfast buffet beautifully laid out and planned by Terrie Summers and her Catering staff of the hotel. After ample bench racing and the self-serving of breakfast the 55 attendees settled back for the presentations. To help put everyone in the mood and display some true rally history Lynette Allison and Mike Gibeault brought out T Shirts from rallies past. Shirts from the London to Sydney Rally of the 1970's, the 1000 Lakes, One Lap of America and many CRS events past flowed before the crowd stirring recollections from one and all who have rallied for a while, and bewildering those who are new to our sport. After some thirty shirts passed before the crowd everyone was in a suitable rally mood to carry on. Next came the most dreaded and feared award, the awards that makes rally driver and navigator blood flow like ice water, the CAP'N CRUNCH AW ARD. For those of you new, the ·Cap'n Crunch is basically for the best rollover or accident story from any of the year's past rallies. Names were called, people rose to come to the front and tell the story of how they messed up. Several good stories were told, Matt Sweeney and Lucinda Strub were particularly amusing, Roger Hull was humble about his misfortune on an icy road in Dusty Times Maine, John Elkin had several stories to tell this year, but it was the presence of visual aides that won Robert Tallini and Mike Marcy this year's two boxes of cereal. Robert and Mike made their error at Rim when they did not slow for a nasty jump and sailed their Plymouth Sapporo right out of event, but into immortality with this award. The immortal part came when he brought photos of the jump that T rackside Photo just happened to capture on film. Next it was announced that the CRS will institute a Rookie of the Year Award henceforth. This award is based on your finish within class by percentage of competitors in your class. This year after a close battle it was Pikes Peak victor Rhys Millen who took the inaugural award. Rhys could not attend so the aw_ard was forwarded through friends. In the next couple of months the Board of Governors will see if we can find a more catchy name for this award for next year. The Gala! Souki Cup is the highest award given to a stock class competitor. The award is not based on performance, but on sportsmanship, professionalism and attitude. All the things that the late Gala! Souki stood for before he and his brother were needlessly killed by a drunk driver during a rally in Washing-ton years ago. In his final act as stock class chairman Sam Moore talked of how hard a decision it was this year, however, when the name, Tony Chavez was announc-ed no one was more surprised than Tony himself. This was Tony's first year rallying and in each event he always asks if he can help organizers, other competitors and workers. As a matter of fact Tony helped Lon Peterson and Bill Gutzman go back to South Carolina for the National Run-Offs with a substantial contribu-tion and even stopped in stage to help roll a competitor back onto his wheels. Good choice Sam, and don't ever change Tony. Mike and Paula Gibeault took to the podium next as our Divisional Stewards to present the Southern Pacific Division Champions their plaque. This year Lon Peterson took the drivers championsh~p for the fourth time. Chris Griffin garnered the navigators champion-ship for the first time. Since there is only one plaque Lon gave it to Chris to hold for the first six hat if that person ran all seven months, then they will exchange events then his name was entered it, maybe. The race for the seven times, if only two rallies on Divisional championship is Michelin then two entries in the already underway for 1993 with hat, and so on. Winners needed to these same two fighting to retain be present so many names were their titles. drawn but eventually the money With that the awards were over, people bench raced and told about plans for the upcoming season. Next year the awards function will be in the hands of Lynette Allison, and that should make it one of the best awards we've had in years. After a small break to stretch found homes with good people out, Lynette Allison and Ray like Ron Wood, Dan Hook, Lon Hocker continued with their tag- Peter~<Jn and Bill Malik. For next team MC duties and started ·1 ,,. handing out the annual awards. · This year the plaques were handed out five deep to both driver and navigator in Open and Stock classes, and three deep in our now defunct GT Class. As these people came forth to accept their hard earned trophies the usual thank yous floated about; sponsors, friends, family and service crews but one thing kept getting said, over and over. People kept thanking all the other teams and the CRS in general. Time and time again from fifth place to first these people were talking about the CRS and the comraderie that , we all feel at every rally. That says something about the feeling that rallying in California generates. With the annual awards handed out the attention turned toward our most prestigious . honor bestowed annually, the Zimmerman Award. Sponsored by Chad and Karen DiMarco of Sube Sports, Doctor Ken Zim-merman was one of a kind where helping rallyists was concerned. Back in the late seventies and early eighties rallying. had very little backing, prize money was nearly unheard of and organizers would lose money on events. But when Ken was around anonymous contributions would appear to organizers, or a rallyist would find his entry paid. Ken did all these things without anyone's know-ledge. When he was lost in a plane crash this award was established in his name to honor a person who unselfishly gives of him or herself to the CRS and does not get the recognition deserved for their efforts. This year there was little trouble in making a decision. For all he has done for the sport, stock class chairman, Michelin Con-tingency chairman, taking special projects on for the Board of Governors and just unselfishly giving to anyone who needs, we honored Sam Moore of Rancho Cucamunga, California, with th~ 1992 Zimmerman Award. Sam was suitably shocked to hear his name called and had little to say, so typical. 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The 1991 SNORE Awards Banquet Photos: Don Dayton Mike Halverson presented Michael Gaughan, who picked up his little date on his way to the stage, with the Sponsor of the Year honor and he becomes a Life Time member of SNORE. He was greeted with a heavy ovation. Dick ton, Treasurer, Gary Waller, VP, Jim Bunty, Sgt. at Arms, and Pam Slatter, Secretary, who received service awards. And Mike thanked his wife Sandra, i also seated on the podium for began the trophy presentation, with trophies supplied by the Gerke family. His helper with the trophies Dea Moon posed graciously for pictures with each winner, and helped keep the awards sorted out as well. It was ironic that the perfect attendance award, with the most races raced and the least points went to Charles F. David and his crew who were not present in the room. I • . putting up with it all, and the Race . .,,j .. -""' .1m;...,;,,;....,. Steward Bill Shapley, whimsically Mike Dixon, left accepts the trophy for overall points champion as well as Class 9 champ from Dea Moon and SNORE dressed in an old west greatcoat, President Mike Halverson. The jacket goes with the first overall, and tucked inside the hat is a check for $4,000.00, and and said Bill had a life time job as Mike pays no entry fee at any SNORE race in 1993. Race Steward, an often thankless The Las Vegas racers, with a was booked solid on banquet Gaughanhostedthecocktailhour task.Billrepliedthathelikedthe few Californians on hand too, rooms until the second weekend that started at six p.m. and seemed job most of the time, and that gathered early in January for the in January. So the Christmas·· to go on until midnight. Mean- -SNORE had a safe and sane year annual SNORE awards banquet, decor was put away this year, and while a really fancy buffet dinner of racing. and it usually is combined with a as one who attended the party, we was served, with a choice of red Mike Halverson then acknowl-Christmas party. But, this winter can say it certainly was worth meat, chicken and fish for any edged Past Presidents, Roger there were just too many such waiting for, and people seemed taste, all kinds of rice and potato Gaskill, who was missing, Denny affairs happening in late Nov-more relaxed than they usually are offerings, several vegetables and a Selleck, one of out tablemates, ember into December, and the before the holidays. great green salad plus other and others, the club started in host Gold Coast Hotel & Casino Gold Coast owner Michael goodies were lined up until the 1970, and of course our host tables groaned. Everything was Michael Gaughan. He thanked delicious, as it always is at these Sue Sterbonic and Nina Haynes at Gold Coast buffets. the Gold Coast Hotel for making Named Driver of the Year, Gene Griepentrog has a firm grip on his new trophy, and he was thrilled with the honor. He also was second in Class 9 and overall points for the 1992 season. PIKE'S SERVICE CENTER BAKER, CALIFORNIA CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS .... THANKS! Mobil. . I 4'. SERVICE RESTAURANT OPEN 24 HOURS EVERY DAY -YEAR ROUND THE BEST IN THE DESERT Page 31 Outgoing President Mike the banque arrangements, saying Halverson, who held the job for they were class people. two years, opened the awards SNORE had a successful year presentations by thanking with six scheduled races, a steady everyone for coming, the room number of entries, safe and fun was nearly full, and said they events with no serious injuries gathered to acknowledge those and great member participation. who have excelled in the sport of It is important to remember that off road racing and also those who SNORE has remained a nonprofit, work so hard to put those races club member run organization, on. He thanked the officers he the racers club for you to have fun worked with aJl year, Lynn and compete. Halverson then_ Tommy Bradley Jr., right, won the Unlimited Class points for the umteenth time, as Tommy is nearly unbeatable even by his fellow Las Vegas drivers in the big cars. He only ran the last three races so didn't figure in 0 /A points. Gary Waller was a-.varded Sportsman of the year ho_nors, maybe ~ecause he not only worked so hard in 1992 but is the 1993 President also, taking his new jacket from outgoing President Mike Halverson, right. March 1993 The Rookie of the Year honor weht to Billy Holbrook, who incidentally is a great help to the club bringing the lighting and grading equipment for most of the races free of charge. He really came on to the sport in his first year with SNORE and also was third in Challenger class points. Next were the recognition awards to the people without whom it would be impossible to put on a race. These are the behind the scenes workers who usually toil unnoticed and unapplauded. Membership, Billie Looney, Race Sign Up and Timing and Scoring, Julie Streuber, Eric Dayton and Cindy Tucker. Start/Finish flag man Robin Moseberg. Tech Inspector Gary Waller, Race Ruts News-paper and Photos Don Dayton, 'Radios, Mike Gomez and Roger Gaskill, Checkpoint Captain Mike Lorenz, trophies Pat Dean, Contingency, Kenny Freeman Jr. The Sponsor of the Year needed no introduction. Halver-son said "he is a pillar in the off road community. Few individuals will reach his success in business, yet he is a down to earth racer and car owner. He has generously sponsored four of SNORE's awards breakfasts along with our successful Gold Coast Snore 250. Please stand up and help me welcome our Sponsor of the Year and new Life Time member, Mr. Michael Gaughan." And folks it was a standing ovation. Next Mike Halverson thanked his Board of Directors, most of them drivers; Tom Burns, Dennis Looney, Mike Dixon, Tommy Bradley Jr., Joe Jackson, Bill Maden, Brian Pennington, Kenny Freeman Jr., Eric Dayton, Tim Crain, Ed.die Webb, Billy Holbrook, Don Dayton. · The plaques and checks for the points champions started at the back with tenth overall on points driving a 1600 and a Challenger Brian Pennington getting $ 100 and a free race entry. Ninth was Class lO's Rocky Magee, with a $200 check and a free race entry. Class 5-1600 driver Patrick Carter was eighth overall, earning $400 and a free race entry. In . seventh was December heroine Dusty Times

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J Bekki Freeman, seventh in overall points, presents Mike Spina with the first in Class 1-2-1600 trophy, with Dea Moon looking on. Mike was fourth overall in the points race and won some good money. Mike Halverson, right, had some special President's awards and one went to the man every racer looks for when in trouble, Butch Dean of Valley Performance, and this was a well deserved honor. Pat Carter, center with trophy, and Steven WafJer, right, were the 5-1600 points champions and eighth overall on points too in the car that started as a wreck they hauled out of the desert. and 1600 driver Bekki Freeman earning $600 and a free race entry, and sixth came the Class 10 team of Brendan Gaughan and J.C. Dean, $800 richer with a free race entry. There were seven nominated for Driver of the year, a driver who showed exceptional skill and consistency. It was a close vote between Patrick Carter, Mike Spina, Brendan Gaughan, Mike Dixon, Steve O gle, Billy Holbrook and the winner -Gene Gripentrog, from California, who drives a Challenger and seldom misses a SNORE race. He was q uite ove rwhelmed , and thanked everyone in SNORE heartily. He has been racing with SNORE for years. The checkpoint workers were ·asked to stand and be applauded as their names were read off, and then Halverson read a list of support sponsors who had plaques coming. Along with the Gold Coast, Dusty Times was one of the few mentioned on hand, and we were escorted to the podium to receive our plaque by teenage Brendan Gaughan, Michael's youngest son. Others with plaques were for the Circus Circus Hotel, Carrera Photos, Snortin Nortin, Town of Caliente, NV, Mahoney's Silver Nugget, PA Trick Signs, Bunty Texaco, Yokohama Tires, BAT Rentals, Sun State Equipment, Steel Engineers, Knotty Pine, Lone-some Dove Steak House, Nevada Off Road Buggy, Desert Racing. At the same time the service awards for the outgoing officers were presented, and an on going raffle, for which you bought, tickets, was giving away a ton of' very nice items. Dusty Times won two of them. Thanks went to Bill Shapley and Darren Wilson for the hours spent collecting the gifts from various types of businesses. Now it got down to 1992 Class· Champions. Bill Dickton won Heavy Metal in a Dodge, thanking his wife and family for all the support. Steve Ogle won Mini For the first time the Jimmy Schafer Off Roader of the Year was a tie vote, and The Class 10 points winners, sixth overall too, pose with their trophies and the twin trophies went to two most deserving fellows, Eric Dayton, left, and Dea Moon; it was a teenage pair of champions, both just 17 years old, and Bill Shapley, center, while former winner and Presenter Denny Selleck smiles they are repeat winners, having taking the Class 10 points in 1991 too. his approval. . Brendan Gaughan, left, and J.C. Dean also are doing stadium racing. Metal in a Toyota~ thanking his $1300 and a free race entry for $1600 check and a free entry, Champion was Mike Dixon who family, Jack Bassett and Hi Tech fourth, first 1600, and Challenger while Gene Gripentrog took was top points man, earning Off Road, and Dan Newsome of drivers filled out the top three. In home $2000 for second on points $4000 on points and a champion-BFG. Mike Dixon took the third was Billy Holbrook, with a and a free race entry. The Grand ship jacket,~ Challenger honors, also thanking his wife, family and many others vowing not to be LMD, Late Mike Dixon in 1993 and Patrick Carter won 5-1600 class thanking Steve Waller and all the people that . helped him finish every race. Mike Spina was the 1-2-1600 champion getting his trophy from Bekki Freeman. Brendan Gaughan and J.C. Dean won Class 10, thanking all who helped while ' they went to school, especially Mike Gaughan and Butch Dean for helping as they were repeat winners in class. Class 1 / 2 top spot for the second year running went to To,;nmy Bradley Jr., his fourth such championship and he thanked his dad, Valley Perform-ance and the Barbary Coast. Seven were nominated for the mechanic of the year title. Kirk Hadley, Butch Dean, Bruce Fraley, Bill Shapley, Victor Torres, Miles Henson, and the winner who was Eddie Webb. Finishing off the -list of cash paying positions on points, in fifth was Mini Metal man Steve Ogle with $ 1000 and a free race entry. Mike Spina took home Show Your Colors Chaser dudes! $15! "'An asset to anyone's wardrobe, the Chaser Dude Tee takes 111/ghthearted view of rac/ng's unsung heroes, the Chase Crew. "'Unique multi-color graphic design on the front wfth creative ''Top 10 Chaser Dude Excuses" on the back. "'M, L, XL, XXL .WE SHIP UPS! .... -= ,. .. __ l!gr/ ,.,.,. __ It __ _,,,,..,._., _, __ _ ·----., Parker Pumper Helmet Company 2318 South Vineyard, Ste. B Ontario, CA 91761 Phone: (714)923-7016 FAX: (714)923-3118 CA residents add 7.75% sales tax NAME --------------------ADDRESS Qty/Size I -----------------CITY/ST/ZIP ----------------PAYMENT: (do not send cash!) Check VISA M/C A/Express Discover + Card# _________________ _ X $15 + $3 s&hl Eddie Webb., who is on the Board of Directors, was voted Mechanic of the Year and Eddie is another pit type that folks look for at the races when they really need help. It was late but Dea and Mike were still smiling. Exp _____ _ Signature _ _ ______________ _ Dusty Times March 1993 Page 33 I f

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. ) J-J~ Steve Ogle, left, and Jack Bassett, far right, won the Mini Metal honors with top points, and they also finished fifth overall, in the money on overall points and won their fair share of Yokohama's . bonus checks too. One of the most deserved President's awards was presented by Mike Halverson, center, to Lynn Dickton, who was Treasurer of the Club for some time, and that is a real job with a non-profit organization. Bill Dickton, Lynn's husband, races a 4x4 in Heavy Metal action and Bill won the points and gets his trophy from Dea Moon, although he seems to be looking elsewhere at this moment. Bill is another hard worker for SNORE. ~ plus a free entry in every 1993 SNORE race. He said he would not be Last Minute Dixon anymore; in 1992 he often had to beg the race morning registration crew to take his money and add him to the entry list, he was that late. Mike Halverson had some special President's awards of his own for a few individuals who had gone the extra mile in assisting him, and it was very hard to choose just a few. Those he chose were Gary Waller, Lynn Dickton and Bill Shapley. And Mike also had a special award to a person who is not a SNORE official, but someone who helped him more than they know with insight, Bill Holbrook, who does a lot of work for SNORE at the track, started racing advice, and help. "Without him I last year, and he wa~ named Rookie '!f !he Year, having finished third overall would not have gotten involved in . on points, and third m Class 9, and Bill ,son the left here. SNORE." He called Butch Dean Presidents, so they decided to over to incoming President Gary the Valley Performance man to present the trophy to two men Waller. Mike thanked the crowd come forward and pick up his this year, Bill Shapley and Eric for letting him serve the club. He plaque. Dayton. said he was the winner because of The Sportsman of the Year Each year SNORE builds a Baja all the great friends he had made. award was for someone who went Bug as a fund raiser, selling tickets He announced the Bar was open, the extra mile and been a good all year, and this year Barry Slatter stay and have fun, and a curtain sport too. Tim Crain, Mike did most of the building. The was drawn revealing a live band Lorenz and Joe Jackson were raffle basket went to the stage, and for dancing. Still most who stuck nominated along with the winner for the first time in memory, the around engaged in more bench Gary Waller, who received a winner was present, Ken Free, racing than dancing. trophy and a jacket. The last man's granddaughter to present This was probably one of the trophy of the evening was the her ticket, and pick up the keys to most enjoyable awards banquets Jimmy Schafer award, in memory the Nevada street legal Bug. All of the winter season, a little laid of a former SNORE President, this for only a $1.00 ticket. back, but with plenty of awards to presented by Denny Selleck, At this point more door prizes present and some husky cash to himself a former President of from the raffle tickets were the points winners. The setting in SNORE. There was a tie in the presented, and it was time for the hospitable Gold Coast Hotel vote among all available former Mike Halverson to turn the gavel in Las Vegas is hard to beat for MADE BETTER IN THE U.S.A. 111 such an affair too. The amazing part of the SNORE Club is that everyone is a volunteer in this non,profit club, nobody gets paid ~' '' ' Is there another lady driver coming from the Freeman family, Day Gang won the Baja Bug, left, but she is only 13, but she might follow in her Aunt Bekki's race ruts 'cause you can drive off road, just not on the street at a tender age. The final presentation of the night, with Dea Moon still smiling, was when Mike Halverson, center, became former President by passing the job on to new President Gary Wafler who presented the traditional gavel plaque to Mike in appreciation of his two years of faithful service. nor nothing, and they all work . racing, the desert, and the hard, many harder than they do camaraderie of a very special for a salary, because they enjoy group of people. MANUFACTURER OF · THE GORRA THANKSGMNG 150 OFF ROAD COMPONENTS -VW REPLACEMENT PARTS--• Link Pins • Axles (Porsche & VW) • Link Pin Bushings • Racing Spring Plates • Heat Treated Link Pin Shims • Predrllled CV Bolts Call Today for Your FREE Catalog! 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Jeff Lucas and James Mitchell ended up only seven laps behind Marty, their 170 rounds good for the Class 10 win and second overall. Second in the 1600 class and third overall was Mike Notary with 158 laps done. Third in 1600s was -Bobby Bramblett at 148 laps. The Challenger team of Rick Breitenbach and Larry Porter won their class easily, also with 148 laps completed, but they had transmission problems late in the event that kept them out of the overall running. Calvin and Jenny Bailey were second Challenger at 96 laps. McFadyen and Wheeler only managed 26 laps for third, and Banks Beling only went 16 laps before terminal trouble put him in the pits. In Class 10 Fred Babenchek covered 132 laps before retiring, and Mickey Smallwood managed a fast 88 laps, but that was all. Ray Gibson and Friends went 119 laps in Class 1600 with some pit time, and further back Steve Rule covered 55 laps, Ray Short got in 41, but Derick Bell was out after 21 laps and James Hester was parked after just 13 laps. GORRA extends special thanks to Tate, Bobby Sheppard, Larry Porter, Rabbit, Tyson Harrel, Billy Porter and Jack for helping flag all day. GORRA has never had a Sportsman of the Year voting because we feel all of our members are good sports. This year was no exception, but one racer went WAY beyond the call of duty. Many racers, including myself, would like to give a special Thank You to Banks Be ling for all you did this year, and for keeping our cars running. The 1992 final Points Standings are as follows. The top 5 in 1600 class were Bobby Bramblett, 235, James Hester, 231, Steve Rule, 136, The Gibsons, 100, Rabbit, 90 points. The top three in Challenger class were Rick Breitenbach, 112, Banks Beling 62, and Dusty Chitwood at 39 points. Don't forget the March 27 running of the FORDA 400 at Tallahassee is a full GORRA _points race. DustyTima

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Baja Promotions Banquet Desert Race Support Scott McKinney who decided not to punish their truck or them-selves any further. In spite of torrential rains pelting the Southern California area and most parts of Baja California, Mexico, over 150 racers and their families made it to Rosarito Beach, Saturday, January 16, to celebrate the culmination of Baja Promotions 1992 racing season. Since most roads leading to Rosarito Beach were closed on-and -off for most of the week preceding the awards banquet, due to the heavy deluge, it was doubtful that the year end awards were even going to take place. But the event went on as scheduled. The fabulous Dragon del Mar restaurant, with its ancient hand carved designs throughout its luxurious dining area, served as a beautiful backdrop for the five hour event, which started with the "Trick Racing Fuel/Tecate Beer" reception at 6 p.m.; a fabulous dinner of Chinese delicacies at 7:30 p.m.; and the award ceremonies which followed and lasted until 11 p.m. When it was all said and done, over 200 trophies and plaques were awarded to class champions, runner-up and third place points finishers in every class in the "GoldenCrownofBaja"OffRoad and Desert Series, and in the ''Gran Prixs de Baja" Motorcyck and A TV Series. In addition, there were "special" awards given: The Overall Points champion in the Golden Crown of Baja Series went to Perry McNeil. The Overall Points Champion in the FAIR NEWS By Dave Massingham The January 6, 1993 F.A.l.R. meeting was held at Shakey 's Pizza on Orangethorpe and Harbor Blvd. in Fullerton, CA, just north ofthe91 Freeway. This was a first for our meetings after holding them at the Holiday Inn for many years. FAIR had four cars running in the mud at the La Rana race at Barstow, January 2. Hal Hibbard in Class 10 completed one lap then retired with a broken motor. Frank Omboli in Class 5-1600 had a great day, if you call rolling your car twice within five minutes a great day. Even with all his problems he was able to pull a fifth in class. Chris Newman and Charlie Lamar finished sixth in Class 5-1600. It seems Charlie started the race, not prepared for Gran Prix series was Curran Saxey. And the Overall Co-Pilot Points Champion trophy went to Juan Gallo. Baja Promotions is the only organization that pays race points to every participating member of a racing team, and also awards trophies to co-pilots and co-drivers. The Overall Motor-. cycle Champion in the "Carreras" went to Victor Lujan; Overall A TV went ot Alberto Caballero; and top A TV in the Gran Prix Series went to Greg Row. Trick Racing Products was the "1992 Manufacturer's Cup" recipient; "Pit Support Club of the Year" went to Baja Pits; and "Sponsor of the Year" went to Tecate Beer. The Morton Family received a special award as· "Racing Family of the Year." Other special awards went to Bob Surmon, as the "Sportsman of the Year." Surmon competed in both series throughout the year, earning year end trophies in hoth, but was also voted as the Sportsman of the Year because of his enthusiasm for the sport and his fellow competitors. "You always count on something funny from Bob. And he always seems to act as though this was his first. He's always excited about racing." said one of his fellow competitors: Greg Row received the "Racer of the Year" honors, not only for winning his class in the Gran Prixs Series but for unselfishly stopping, while leading the final race of the season, to help a fallen rider who was seriously injured. the mud, and had problems with his face shield. He tried to drive with it up and ended u_p with so much mud in his eyes, he had to let his co-driver finish the first lap. I didn't get his name, sorry about that. Chris finished the race with no problems, at least none he would share with us. Our fourth car was the Class 9 driven by Darnen Jefferies and co-driven by his two brothers, Willie and Casey. The first lap Darnen also had problems with the mud, and his brother Willie broke his hand. Willie doesn't know how it happened and got out to let the younger brother Casey ride while he went for medical attention. Half a lap later they dropped out with a broken trans on the car. · The next race is the Parker 400 and it looks like eight to ten FAIR cars will challenge the Arizona desert and cold. The rest of the Coming Next Month ••• SCORE Parker 400 MTEG Stadium Racing at Anaheim FRT King of the Desert SNORE Bottom Dollar DustyTirncs WRC Monte Carlo Rally Paris-Dakar Rally Raid ••• Plus MUCH, MUCH more Greg lost the race and could have possibly lost the championship, in order to help a fellow racer. "It was truly an unselfish act, and one that showed the character of the man, and the type of people that participate in our sport," said race promoter Lou Peralta. Anthony Tellier was named "Journalist of the Year," because, "he is by far one of the most creative writers in our sport," according to Peralta. "Tony has a way of covering an event or a story that is enjoyable, unique in style, and accurate, without the boring, details that other journalists seem to rely heavily upon. He is quite good!" And Baja Promotions' coveted "Person of the Year" award went to Carlos Orozco, the leading figure behind the Baja Pits support club. It is because of Carlos that there are many Mexican and American racers who continue to race. He organized Baja Pits when we first starte~ Baja Promotions events. We helped each other and now; he's cultivated a strong group of racers, which his organization supports not only in these events in Baja, hut also in other series. A drawing was held during the awards, and Baja Promotions contributed twenty, $50 tickets to the MTEG Supercross and Off Road races at Anaheim. All proceeds went to the Jose Mejia Family.Jose was seriously injured in last year's San Felipe G.P. meeting was used.to review FAIR pit books. The next meethng was January 20th, at the same location, and it might be a slim one as most of us are leaving for Parker that night. By Craig Lane The weather for La Rana's New Years 200 has proved to be very consistent for the past three years. It is cold, rainy, and downright nasty right up until the race itself, and this one on January 2 was no different. 87 racers started out from the start/finish line at Sidewinder Road near the Barstow Outlet Mall, to not only do battle with each other, but with the unknown that lay ahead of them on the course in mud, water puddles and washouts. Many a driver pulled into the pits for a quick wash off of their face shield, numbers, and eyes on the first lap. DRS had nine cars leave the start line under the Desert Race Support banner, but we started the year off just as we had ended 1992 at the High Desert 300 with most of our guys having to pull out early with problems. The 4x4 Doctor Mike Duncan in the Orange Jeep CJ 8 just cruised as the Don-A-Vee boys weren.'t racing, but he still was forced to call it quits early in the fourth and final lap. The Fox Shox car of Michael Daws was hauling until he ran out of gas somewhere out in no mans land, and by the time a crew could get gas to him, it was too late, so he called it a day. The 5-1600 class proved very popular at this race with a ~reat turnout of entries. New to the class was the Rebel Rooter car of Rodger and Ryan Schank who gave it their best, even though the car had not been finished until just before . the race. But even without any testing they were right in the hunt until mechanicals ended their day. Frank Muscia in his Ford Ranger managed to make only three laps before he was forced to withdraw, as did the lone Class 8 truck of Earl and Class 9 dominated this race with a huge entry, and DRS had three guys give it a go. Danny Richardson was in the hunt until a couple of flats and some other problems slowed him down, but he still managed an eighth in class. Perry King in his new 9 car started out but had problems from the drop of the flag, so he called it a day. The LP Racing entry of Dennis Peterson and Jim Mobley in the R E Goodspeed and Sons sponsored car moved up steadily in class from their rear start until their spindle broke, putting them in the pits for repairs, but they still came home for seventh place. The one bright spot and probably the only DRS car that didn't have any problems was the 1600 car of Morley Davis who ran very fast and consistently all day for second in Class 1-2-1600, and eighth overall. To those people who froze their#& *#'s off in the pits to support the racers, I extend my thanks. You did a great job. Hopefully, the weather for the Presidential 250 will be better. I look forward to the start/finish being behind the Slash X. I think this will work our great, closer to Barstow too. I do have one bitch, not with anyone in particular because I don't know who they are, but if they read this they will know. Some chase people, who in spite of repeated warnings, are still hauling down the access roads and at this race were approaching the race course crossing and did not slow down until they were stopped. If this crossing had not been manned, someone running chase probably would have been T-boned, or worse T-boned a race car, and we all know what will happen to desert racing if this happens. So racers, tell your chase people to SLOW DOWN. HOWE ALUMINUM RACING RADtATOR 16.5 POUNDS SIZES AVAILABLE 16 X27 18X24 19 X28 CURRENTLY USED IN CLASS 2, 8, & NASCAR .111ID£$®1il1&:~&1&tw1@1&•:,t\i1tt~'%.t .... 1~rw•·~,im~m~r~) .NEW OWNERS NEW PRODUCTS _ ~ Hl-'l,~£H ttFI: l~ttAlt FROM RACE TO PLAY QUALITY ACCESSORIES ~-Dl.l......~~-.~ YOU DEMAND I STOP IN AND SEE US I AMSOIL. AUTOFAB, CIBIE, FILLER, FUEL SAFE, HELLA, KC, K&N, service ! MASTERCRAFT, DOUG THORLEY AND MOREi , ·• W VEGAS 702 ~:: 'r~· .. -FUEL CELLS SAFET-Y EQUIP 3867 S. YALLEY VIEW 362-2089 FIBF.RGLASS FENDER~ OFF SPRING MTN. RD. · . 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The 1991 ustralian Off Road ational Champions Photos: Darryl Smith Michelle Martin, with Sharyn Daniel riding in the Rivmasta won two races, was second in the other two she entered, and won the Class 6 championship. Class 6 is a Challenger type buggy class. The overall champion was not too big a surprise. Les Siviour with Peter Iseppi riding along in the Nissan Patrol, amassed an even 100 points, having entered all five events, and he won Class 7 for Production 4x4s in all five events. a perfect score for Les Siviour, who counts Bridgestone and Nissan among his sponsors. Les Siviour with Peter /seppi won the overall points title driving his Class 7 Nissan Patrol Production 4x4. Siviour had a perfect season, winning his class in all five points counting events. The five race Australian National Off Road Championship Series ended before the heat of summer set in a few months back. Remember the seasons but not the calendar are reversed from North America for those who live 'Down Under'. These competitors tow cross country from one end of the huge continent to the other in order to earn points toward a year end championship. In fact it takes days for some just to get to and from the event, and few make all five of the races. They have to work sometime to support the race car, just like we do in the USA. Mark Manns competed in four races and won Class 5 in all four for 80 points. A neat record for him, with Allen Cartledge riding shotgun in the Holden Rodeo. Class 5 is for 2WD sedans and pickups in this series and usually has a good sized field of starters, mostly trucks. .............. ~ -~ ··@ Ken Smith won Class 8, the Modified 4x4s and he started and finished all five events, winning three of them with 76 points. Mark and Daryl Warren drove the highest placed buggy in the points chase, winning the Class 3 championship with 72 points, and they won three of the fou! races in which they competed in the Southern Cross. Class 3, ironically, is for two seat 1200cc cars, the smallest displacement class in the series, and most of the engines used are water pumpers. Mark Burrows won the Class 1 Unlimited two seat championship winning the first and the last race in class, and only ran three events in his Trekka. Charlie A/bins was only two points behind in Class 1, also competing in just three of the points events, taking second in class in two of them. Michelle Martin, with Sharyn Daniel navigating, not only won the most ladies cups, she won the Class 6 championship with 70 points, winning two races and Terry and Maureen Rose won the Class 2-1600 title by a single point, as they won one event, placed high in all five driving their Hunter Rivmasta buggy. Mark Manns won Class 5 in all four races he entered and was second overall on points driving his Holden Rodeo with Allen Cartledge navigating. Pa,c36 Mark and Daryl Warren won three of four races in the Southern Cross, won Class 3 1200cc points, the highest placed of all buggies, in a Southern Cross. Ken Smith started and finished all five races, winning three of them in the Modified 4x4 Class 8, driving the locally popular Holden Rodeo pickup. March 1993 Ron Schmidt ran just two races, the final two, and he won them both in Class 4, and also won the points championship in the two wheel drive class. Class 9 for Unlimited Single Seat cars is fairly new, and Trevor Growden drove his Southern Cross to the title, with two wins and two seconds in four races entered. Dusty Times

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placing second in the other two she entered driving her Rivmasta. Class 6 is similar to the US Challenger class. Finishing with a similar re<;:ord, four races, two wins and two seconds, was Trevor Growden driving a Southern Cross. He won the Class 9 championship and this new class is for Unlimited Single Seat cars. Starting in all five points events Terry and Maureen Rose won the Class 2 championship with just one victory at the first race of the season, but they finished all five and won the Class 2 title by a single point, 66 to Peter Prender-gast's 65, who also won a race, ran four and won one with three seconds. Both Rose, in a Hunter· Rivmas t a and Prendergast, Southern Cross, compete in Class 2, for two seat 1600cc cars, and this was the closest points battle in the series. Class 1 features Unlimited two seat cars and Mark Burrows won the title by·just two points over Charlie Albins, 44 to 42 points. Burrows won the first and the last races and only ran three all season in his Trekka. Albins also ran just three events with two seconds and a third to his credit. Ron Schmidt ran .two races, the last two, and won them both in Class 4 which is for Baja Bug type vehicles. The 1993 season starts in spring, so it won't be long before we have more coverage of the Australian Off Road scene from Darryl Smith, who lives in Queensland and also drives many miles to the races. Steve Mamer rode the-fastest quad of all, his 250, winning that division and riding to third overall in the dusty race. Jasan Corfman dominated the 125 class, and it seemed as if no one else was running (they were) he was so far out in front all the way. The favorite 250 bike broke, and the others fought it out with James Henderson emerging from the gloom to win the class. FRT MR. PATTERSON'S WILD RIDE NIGHT RACE Dewey Belew Wins Absolute Owerall ByFud Mid October saw round 12 of the FR T District 38 Champion-ship race series. Mr. Patterson's Wild Ride was held at Lake Superstition, CA and it was an 80 mile evening into night race starting at 6 :00 p .m . It was looking pretty at 5:00 p.m when a nice breeze picked up. It sent a tingle through the racers as a night of fun lie ahead. Then, when the green flag dropped so did the breeze. The dust soon became so thick that Rick Wessels soon was passed by someone with a white cane! Out of this fog appeared Dewey Belew on his KX 500. Dan Worley was second and Craig Smith was third. The A TVs were led by Greg Bringle with Steve Mamer a roost behind and Mike "W ildman" Patterson third. The Desert Lites were self destructing. Dewey Belew continued to lead while Craig Smith worked his way into second. Craig Smith sneaked into the lead only to break a chain. This handed the lead back to Dewey Belew. Greg Bringle has busted his Banshee A TV to third overall. With Smith out that meant Bringle was now running second overall. Would this be the event all the ATVs have been waiting for, when one of their guys won the overall overall! Not! Bringle's tranny busted, so the dream ended. Finally we saw a Desert Lite. It was Andy "Any' " Wehe but his car was so battered and bruised that one lap was all he could do. Meanwhile back in the pack the rest of the 250s were rejoicing. With Craig Smith broke it meant someone else finally had a chance to win. The problem was seeing. The dust was so thick that even the seeing eye dogs were getting lost. However, emerging from the darkness to capture the 250 victory was James Henderson. Groping for second was Mark Girsch and stumbling in third was 2" RATCHET WHEEL BTU, BILSTEIN ---~=-""= "'""-= -·r""" .-,--! ~ -----==--RACING APPLICATIONS CLASS 1 TO CLASS 11 2'' COMBO RATCHET/AXLE S'TMl'S Photos: C&C Race Photos John "who me?" Ramsch. It is amazing how some people can see and others can't. The old men beat the kids. The Vets, Seniors and Super Seniors beat all the 250 bikes. After a heated battle between Vets Phil Means and Dan Worley, Means emerged on top, second overall. Worley broke his lights leaving Mark McNulty and "Wild" Bill NcNeer to play Braille chess for second. Mark McNulty checkmated McNeer . Super Senior Mark Harper beat Senior Pat "Flatpan" Flanagan by one position. The 125 class was dominated by Jason Corfman. He was so far out in front we began to wonder if there was anyone else in his class still running. There was, "Rippin" Robbie Pippin. Corfman finished fourth overall while Pippin was not close for second. While Rick W essel"s in the Vintage was following the racer with the white cane, David "D~vil" Leonard hung his leash 10 FT. $29.95 RED-BLACK-BLUE 10 FT. In the deep dust and darkness Dewey Belew captured his first individual first overall honors and he was first Open class and the first Kawasaki too. around the neck of a scared captured his first individual "First Coyote and that critter skittered Overall" . The caption read, First in first. Alan Leonard was second overall, first Open Motorcycle, and Tracey Raybon rounded out first Kawasaki. Troy Phelps the top three in the vintage class. finished second with Bill Davis The A TVs were now set for a run third. to the top. Steve Mamer tried but In case you are·wondering what came up short finishing third was happening to the Desert Lites. overall,first ATV. Finishing fifth, They were bringing up the rear. sixth, seventh and ninth overall W ith all the high power machines were the next ATVs. They were in a demolition derby, steady Art Mike Patterson, Mike Douthitt, Gibbs just kept going round and David Newland a n d Ben round in his Pilot. W hen all was Schlimme. 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AUSSIES WIN LONGEST OFF ROAD RACE IN MEW ZEALAND Rich Minga Takes Third In Class B~ Vince &ckett -~. 1#,J,.,, 4:; ~ ... :,, ;,{ . ,,. • ~ :, : ~-,4.,,, , , · L 2 . "'~ >" .· "~" -,;,: ~ · ~ _,.,fi:od, . ..1 .. ·, 5 Australian Champion Les Siviour won overall at the Bridgestone 1000 in his modified 4x4 Nissan Patrol, surviving fuel pump failure to come back to win at Taupo, New Zealand. The Australian Off road racing team of Les Siviour sponsored by Bridgestone Tires and backed by Nissan Australia have won New Zealand's longest ever off road race, The 1992 Off Road Chal-lenge of New Zealand. San Diego driver Rich Minga took out a third · in Class after changing a transmission in his Bridgestone Tires sponsored Unlimited Class 1 car. It is the first time that Austral-ian and American drivers have competed in the sport of off road racing in New Zealand. The marathon two day event was held in the world's largest man made forest on the outskirts of the picturesque skiing and trout fishing resort ofTaupo. The sport of off road racing is now New Zealand's fastest growing form of motorsport with fields of over 100 race cars and four wheel drive trucks now common at some events. For this demanding event 85 teams including motor-cycles, quad racing bikes, purpose built off road race cars and fourwheel drive vehicles took part. Although in some cases the teams literally came apart l!nder the pressure of 14 hours of arduous competition in the demanding climate of New Zealand's North Island central plateau. Vehicle scrutineering and Drivers briefing were held in Taupo on the Friday evening along with public judging of the Best Presented Team Award sponsored by auto paint manufact-urer !Cl Dulux Autocolor. This gave the local residents an opportunity to see the race vehicles close up and for competitors to meet the overseas entrants prior to the race days. Whilst T aupo had been the host town to the formation of the Sports Governing Body, ORANZ, no off road racing had ever been staged in Taupo and no local club existed to host such an event. Accordingly conditions at the race venue were an unknown to all of the crews and pre-running or pace noting of the course was not permitted. Traditionally off road racing in New Zealand on Long Course events such as the Bridgestone 1000 are run 'sight unseen' by competitors adding to the challenge faced by crews in selecting the right tires and prepadng the vehicles for the event. The absence of pre-running is to help keep costs down to the competitor and Event Organizers who through the entry fees pay for the use of the private forestry roads and tracks. 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P.o: BOX 845 • 101 BROADWAY YARNELL, AZ 853132 (602) 427-3551 _$HIPPED BY UPS DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 38 were as low as 2 degrees celcius with a wind chill factor of minus 8 degrees celcius when facing toward the spectacular snow capped peaks of nearby volcanoes Ruehepahu and Ngarahoe. Whilst skiers reveled in over-night snow falls not 50 kilometers from the start line, event organizers were faced with light snow falls in the forest at 4 in the morning. The temperature can also quickly rise to 25 degrees celcius in the forest with sudden wind changes rapidly drying the forest roads and tracks out, to add dust as a further challenge to drivers. Conditions throughout the weekend were cold but fortunately no rain fell during the two day race, although the 160 kilometer long course was lashed by a torrential rain storm on the Friday night prior to the race start leaving some deep and very cold water splashes across many parts of the course. Refueling and servicing was undertaken in the entrants own time and teams had a choice of 4 pit areas at various distances around the course to use for servicing. The main Honda/ Bridgestone Pit was alongside the track at the start/finish line, the first pit area out. The Dulux Pits were 65 km distance, the second Pit - Bilstein was a further 45 km distant and was situated alongside a hydro pow~r scheme of man made canals within the forest, and the fourth Pit, Speedsport Pits were 12 kilometers on from the hydro scheme, but still 33 'km from the start/ finish area. Service vehicles and chase crews could access all of the pit areas during the race and the Event Organizers had a helicopter available on a user pays basis for additional back up by service crews and as an air ambulance should it be required. The course comprised various conditi'ons including volcanic pumice fire breaks, clay roads, gravel straights, sweeping earth roads and tight and twisty forestry tracks. Riders and drivers followed a course blazed by yellow arrows and did not have to resbrt to following a course map or route book. Each competitor was required to stop at a manned marshall post at the entrance to each pit area. Their vehicle number and time was then radioed to control, both as a safety measure and for lap scoring purposes. Racing was held over two days with the motorcycle and quad contingent commencing at 6 am each morning and contesting two laps of the qmrse per day for a total distance of 600 kilometers. Motorcycles started at 25 second intervals and were judged over an elapsed time for the two laps. The smooth sweeping pumice tracks were obviously well received by .the quad riders, although the 10 kilometer long "Boundary" track which disappeared out of sight over the horizon had some bike riders tapping their machines out to full throttle and the riders hanging on for the ride. The motorcycle division was split into classes for two and four March 1993 stroke with many prerace bets going to the big Paris Dakar BMW machine of Auckland's Craig Hill. Craig had competed in such events as the 7 day Wynns Safari of Australia, through that country's desolate outback. However, the lighter and more maneuverable two stroke motor-cycles were to show their worth during the 600 km enduro. Reports from the various marshall posts around the course soon showed that some high speeds were to be in order with one motorcycle clocked at over 180 kilometers per hour by the TV film crews' helicopter. At the end of lap 1 Mark Fuller riding a Kawasaki KX 250 was leading having opened up a lead of several minutes which he was to hold all day. Second position was held by Kevin Archer on his Suzuki RMX 250. Although Archer tried to catch the flying Kawasaki of Fuller he could not manage to pull the RMX250 in. The first quad was not far behind with Mark Fisk on his Suzuki LT 250RN scorching up through the field with some spectacular riding. After some intense dueling for the lead Mark Fuller maintain-ed his advantage and took the chequered flag for Saturday's event with the leading quad of Mark Fisk extending his lead in the quad classe.s. On day two the weather was colder with an increased wind chill factor and a concern by motorcycle safety officials that riders would suffer from hypo-thermia or exposure if the full two laps were attempted on the Sunday. The weather was provid-ing more of a challenge than expected and the riders voted to shorten the second day's racing to one lap as a safety measure. Reports from the track marshalls of light flurries of snow around the course did much to persuade the teams that they had wisely chosen safety over bravado. Teams were again started two at a time from 6 am at timed intervals, meantime the off road race cars and four wheel drive teams were still making their way to the start area or having their cooked breakfasts at the catering marquee ready for their 11 am start time. With an average speed of close to 100 kilometers an hour Mark Fuller on a two stroke Kawasaki KX 250 was soon at the finish line first, totalling 6 hours 25 minutes and 30 seconds for the event. Second place on corrected time went to Kevin Archer on his Suzuki RMX 250 with a time of 6 hours 32 minutes. Third spot went to Grant Schlichting with a time of 6 hours 38 minutes 15 seconds. Grant rode a Honda XR 600. The quad division was cleaned up by Mark Fisk on his Suzuki LT 250RN with a time of7 hours 32 minutes and 30 seconds. The balance of the field for the 1992 Bridgestone 1000 com-prised two Divisions, the first for purpose built off road race cars and the second for Production and Modified four wheel drives and off road sedans. Each Division still ran classes which required a minimum of 5 starters to keep the class open. Smaller classes were combined, with the Production Class 4 wheel drive ( Class 4) running with the off road sedans (Class 9). The off road race car classes consisted of; Unlimited Class 1 off roaders, Class 3 for Super-1600cc off roaders, Challenger Class (Class C) for a strictly governed class running swing axle VW gearboxes and a single VW carburetor, and Class 5 for 12-Mod, modified 1200cc VW and water pumper off road race cars. (Vehicles with traditional engines up to 1600cc.) With reports from the return-ing motorcycles on day one that the track was dotted with large water splashes from the previous night's storm many of the reat engined off road car crews made some last moment water proofing modifications to their ignition systems. The air temperature still had not risen and some V olks-w ago n engined teams were concerned that their race motors would not warm up to efficient working temperature during the race, especfally with the extra concerns of the amount of cold water across the track. The grid was formed up 5 across for a 'Land Rush' start with the faster Unlimited Class 1 cars off of the front of the grid. Next up were the Super 1600's followed by the combined heavy metal classes of Modified and Prototype 4 wheel drives (Classes 6 and 8). Next were the Challenger and 12-Mods followed by Production 4 Wheel drives at the grid's rear. The various grids were started at 25 second intervals and crews had a 3 kilometer run over the smooth ground of a forest fire break, to a tight left hand corner into the forest proper through a large steel gateway. From here the ~ourse comprised an easy section of 30 kilometers of sweeping dirt roads following the Rangitaiki river into the forest to eventually end at the top most Pit area alongside the hydro scheme. This early open section included many fast corners which started gently then tightened onto themselves causing some anxious moments for many competitors who were trying to stay with the pace of the early race leader Dave Templeman in his Class 1 off roader and American driver Rich Minga who was in hot pursuit. Within 80 kilometers of the start on the 155km lap, Siviour in the Nissan Patrol had driven past 20 other competitors, many of whom were in purpose built Unlimited Class off road race cars . The Bridgestone/Patrol Team were running in a wmfortable 4_th on the road when race leader Dave Templeman of Auckland pulled up with rear suspension problems. US driver Rich Minga in one of the two Bridgestone Tires Class 1 · off road race cars had a brief taste of clean air through the sweeping pumice access tracks of Kaiang-aroa Forest before experiencing transmission shifting problems. Teammate Syd Lankshear who had been running in 3rd spot, fared no better on the 1st lap, running out of braking distance on one of the tricky tightening corners and ending upside down in a drainage culvert alongside the track. The Unlimited car was undamaged and Lankshear unhurt, although he lost almost two hours as Recovery crews righted the race car which was firmly wedged in the ground partway between two pit areas. 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race cars of Tony McCall, Kerry Thomasen and Hans Gurau respectively or the consistent Class 8 four wheel drives of Lyndsay Dowler or Dave Lay-bourne. Both Class 8s had the top speed required to hold the Patrol on the faster sections of the course with only reliability and crew comfort being the decider. Reports to the Race Control confirmed that late entry McCall was already out with a suspected blown SCAT motor and Course Checkpoints reported that the Top Hat Bacon Class 3 racer of Hans Gurau had briefly overtaken the Patrol after jumping Siviour on a rough portion of track. Siviour quickly regained his position and pressed on to pass Minga who by now had picked up a stone in a rear cv joint after the failure of the cv boot. The team put the failure down to the lead vehicle having to 'sweep' the track clear of debris from the previous night's storm. The Lap l pit stops saw some furious action with crews refueling and doing their lst driver changes. The US Bridge-stone T earn of Minga lost valuable time repairing their -CV joint allowing Gurau's Top Hat team, Laybourne's Class 8 and Dowlers V8 Toyota plus several other teams through to the lead. Minga 's gear shifting problems worsened as he continued onto Lap 2 when the gear shifter mechanism failed completely 40 km into the course. The Baja lO00 veteran was fortunately able to flag down the TV Helicopter and fly back to the main pits. The Bridgestone Team quickly arranged to fly a mechanic and tool chest back to the car to start stripping the transmission while Minga arranged the loan of another competitor's spare gear box. This was then shuttled out to the stranded race car along with Minga on the next helicopter flight. The two then proceeded to swap gearboxes at the side of the course allowing Minga to comp-lete only one lap of 155km on day one. Minga's New Zealand mechanic was picked up hours later by a recovery crew sent to sweep the course at night fall by the event organizers. Local competitors later quized Minga as to why he didn't wait until the day's racing was over to change the trannie in the comfort of the Team's workshop back at Taupo overnight. Minga replied that he would rather change the components straight away and sleep during the night to come back fresh for day 2, thereby gaining an advantage over teams who were faced with overnight repairs of their own. The decision was a sound one as Minga went on to record the fastest lap time on day two. Meanwhile Siviour's Patrol was running consistently and getting faster, with the TV Crew and Event Director reporting that they could barely keep up with the Nissan on the longer straights from their helicopters. The Patrol team was now scorching around the course as the race traffic thinned out. Siviour later thanked slower drivers for pulling over in plenty of time to allow him to maintain his lead. Several local drivers commented that Siviour's speed advantage was obvious as one minute their rear view mirror was empty and the next it was full of a gleaming white bull bar Dusty Times Challenger class cars look the same the world over. Attila Neyemetz competed in his 'never been raced before' Cougar single seater, but did not finish in the top three in class. requiring their immediate atten-tion. The Top Hat team experienced a front shock absorber failure and lost valuable time in the main pit fitting a replacement unit. This allowed Dave Green also in a Class 3 1600cc car to take the lead in the off roader division hotly pursued only minutes behind by the new Cougar car team of rookie Gary Le Mesurier and veteran speedway driver Roger Bertram. Several off road race car teams were also on the pace including Attila Nyemetz in his brand new Challenger Class car. Attila's vehicle had only completed 20 kilometers in testing prior to the event giving testimony to the crew's thorough preparation. In the heavy metal classes Laybourne's pit stops were off of the pace compared to Siviour's two minute stops and it was these additional minutes lost in the pits that were to disadvantage the Nissan team's opposition as the cut off point approached. Although on the pace, the Laybourne team had insufficient time to complete the next 65km section before the 6:00 pm race end. Siviour managed to squeeze in to the next65 km mark with 30 seconds to spare. He was one of 11 competitors who attempted the dash to the next checkpoint at the end of day one's racing, but was the only team to complete the additional distance within time. This gave Siviour a comfortable 65 km buffer at the commence-ment of day two's racing. As the cutoff time was reached 11 teams had accumulated 420 km of distance, Siviour 530 km and Laybourne 465 km. Le Mesurier and Dave Green had the furthest distance for off road race cars with 432 km each. The main pack sat on 310km including the Production 4 wheel drives of Stuart Roberts in his Lada and Kim Beazley in his Toyota LandCruiser 2F despite having rolled onto his side 1lnd blocking the track earlier in the race. Beazley was righted by two off road race car crews who he had just passed. The Manufacturers Production Class was being held by the Suzuki 410 of Colin Meredith who had a trouble free day clocking up 375km distance. Day two's racing saw an almost full field with only 5 teams having withdrawn. This gives credit to many teams who worked through-out the night to rebuild their vehicles. The change to daylight saving and the loss of l hour of real time overnight, caught some crews short of time with only 3 vehicles ready on the dummy grid at the 10:30am close of the grid gate. Much to the dismay of many they arrived. This thoroughly mixed the faster cars amongst the slower classes for the 5 at a time start. Some drivers were still looking for their helmets and strapping themselves in as the first grids were flagged away. Spectators remarked that it was the most exciting start to any motor race that they had ever seen. Minga admitted that he too had been caught out by daylight saving, arriving at the start area with barely enough time to don his helmet and commence racing. Minga managed to pass 5 cars within the lst 5 km and went on to work his way through the field to be first car on the road by lap two. His renewed driving reward-ed him with the fastest lap time of the race. The Nissan lead evaporated on lap two when a new fuel pump failed and the crew had to change to the spare 'old' pump that they had taken with them on the course. In their efforts to assist the driver the Nissan mechanics clocked up over an hour of flying time in the chase helicopter, leap frogging from pit to pit as the Nissan stopped and started with the faulty pump before finally refitting the old pump and resuming racing. The Chopper had only just dropped the mechanics back to the main pit when the Patrol arrived in a cloud of dust for a refuel. Siviour's delay was worsened by two lO minute time penalties that had been imposed for failing to stop at two course checkpoints. Their comfortable lead had now gone and the race was on between the Patrol team and the leading four wheel drive of Dave Laybourne who was closing fast and who had managed to pass the stricken Patrol along with the flying Rich Minga. Pit activity was now at a frantic pace as the crews realized that the second day's racing was even faster than day 1 's. Lyndsay Dowler's Class 8 truck and Graham Crow .in his Subaru powered VW Baja were pouring on the pressure as was Le Mesurier and the renewed efforts of the Top Hat team of Hans Gurau. Consistent driving by the Southern Raiders T earn of Brett Grainger in his 1600cc Class 3 off road race car put the mainlander into the top 10. Wellington's Steve Si rota ran a smooth 2nd day in Class 3 also. The delay with the Nissan team was soon made up on a very fast next lap. Drama was still with the two car Bridgestone team, Lankshear had decided to drive his own race rather than driving a one/two position on the road to secure a place in Unlimited Class l. drivers the rest of the field were On lap 2 controversy was rife lined up at the back of the grid as over claims by Minga that he W:\S March 1993 Dave Templeman in his single seat Unlimited Class 1 racer led the race in the early going, but he went out on the first day with rear suspension problems. deliberate! y blocked from passing road race cars that were led by the by one of the leading four wheel La Mesurier/Bertram 1600cc car drives, and the ensuing tussle which was only 6 minutes back. resulted in a bent tie rod on the The second Southern Raiders Unlimited Class l Single seater of team member, Graham Crow of the American. Local drivers Christchurch, was also on the claimed that Minga was attempt-pace in his racing Baja as was the ing to drive through a gap that heavy metal class driver Lyndsay wasn't there. When Minga Dowler and a gaggle of other returned to the start/ finish pits drivers who all amassed 950km on lap 3 his front bumper was by the cutoff time. showing the signs of trying to pass The 1992 Bridgestone l 000 off the same slower vehicle. The road Challenge of New Zealand hum per tubing was almost set some new records in off road completely flattened as a result of racing in New Zealand. It was the the slower car being bumped. first off road race to have an Siviour's Patrol also sported a -American driver, the first with an bent hull bar complete with Australiandriver,thefirstwithan telltale paint color dents, evidence overseas vehicle competing. The of similar passing experiences on longest ever off road race held in the last lap and the intensity of the the country. The first event open competition. to motorcycles, quads, sedans, The rush to the finish line was four wheel drives and off road captured by the film crew in the race cars. event's helicopter. Minga became The Bridgestone lO00 was the first car on the road after passing event with the longest lap ever in Dave Laybourne and pulled in for the sport in this country. Most J his final pit stop 5 minutes ahead importantly it was the first time in of Les Siviour but 400 km behind the sport's 25 year history in on distance. Siviour took the either New Zealand or Australia, chequered flag at the start/finish that a Production based four area having been the first to wheel drive won overall against complete I 000km in a time of 11 purpose built off road race cars. hours 59 minutes. Laybourne was The event was best summed up minutes behind the Patrol but had by one competitor who exclaimed a 65km disadvantage. Laybourne that he had done a whole year's now had to reach the next control off road racing in one weekend point before the cut off time of and his race car was still going 6:00pm without breaking down strong. He couldn't wait for the or being IJassed by the pack of off 1993 Bridgestone lO00. THE ·WRIGHT DROP SPINDLE 3" MORE GROUND CLEARANCE ~ ~~ PLACE~. CV JOINTS RACK & PINION STEERING UNITS 1. REGULAR 2. SAND BUGGY 3. MINI 9420 FLINN SPRINGS LANE, EL CAJON, CA 92021 TEL: (619) 561-4810 FAX: (619) 561-7960 Page 39

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Top Secret Gran Prix By Tony Tel lier Rueben Woods, #104 in foreground, dices here with Steve Vesterdal, leading in the background, but Woods won the race and the Pro purse at the Top Secret GP. · Winter rains provided New Steve Vesterdal's bad luck as he one went out, but it was getting Years weekend racers with a took full advantage of Steve's dark; it was late; and it was cold; perfect Gila Bend course at failure of, not just one, but two and I just ... didn't." The Tucson Whiplash Motorsports' Top life-limited parts. In both 10 lap area Mining Engineer, luckily, Secret Gran Prix. Actually it 50 mile heats, Vesterdal broke a had been able to have a replace-was more like "Confidential", as trailing arm pivot bolt and was mentpivotboltfabbedatthelocal just enough entries got the word side-lined; all while holding Nevarez Machine Shop (specializ-to make for some good racing. commanding leads. ing in you-name-it farm fixes) and The post-New Years Eve blahs - Steve Vesterdal did put it to could have easily gotten two made from being over-served -could Rueben Woods' Mikuni-carbed at the same time. In a show of make exhaust noise too much to Ford and the Whitmoyer/ Perez sibling power, Steve's brother, handle. Some local racers just RX7 noise maker right from the Alan, was Second Open Novice. dropped in to try out the Lookie flag, all three drivers were driving "I've been playing with cars and Lou scene and toast 1993. The veryaggressively.ButStevebroke bikessinceforever,anddoallmy two day buggy program was t hat rear arm' s pivot b olt, own prep and mechanicing." backed up with a well-entered stopping the car dead. The Major chassis stuff is handled by motorcycle team event on damage was expen$ive - tearing DonnyWeiseratTUFOff-Road. Sunday. out CV$ and bending the long Steve really had the old John Kelly In Pro Cars Buckeye's Rueben coil-over Fox $hox. "I was going 2.7 litre Type IV FAT engine on Woods was the beneficiary of to replace both bolts after the first the stops -hard. And he came close to putting the TUF two-Pagc40 ·The Off-Roader's Cl')oice· • E-Z UP"' INSTANT SHELTERS Imagine setting up a free-standing shelter In less than 60 secondsl NO missing parts NO center poles NO ropes NO hassle • 5 sizes • 24 colors • Custom Graphics Instant Pit Shelter La Rana Contingency Sponsor HORR Contingency Sponsor E-Z UP Authorized Dealer CASTEX RENTALS, iNC. 1Ci44-N. Cole Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038 CAU.: 213 • 462 • 1468 seater on its lid right in front of the spectators. In the #2 heat the same malfunction occurred on the untouched side -blowing out both CVs. Rueben Woods didn't look back and kept charging to grab the Pro Purse from Tony Pierce's 2-1600 and the screaming Mazda of Ross Whitmoyer and Mike Perez. The mixed bag of money cars were handicapped by agreement: the number of laps required was the Unlimited and 10s ran ten; and 1600s nine. The plan worked reasonably well, as Rueben just lapped the Pierce/ Reedy car before the finish, while the 1600 held off Perez. SuperSeated Ed Beard had his new light-weight A-armed "10" car out for a pre-Parker shake-down. An output flange shaft sheared, necessitating a tranny swap. Not that big a deal -Ed can pull it without aisturbing the motor. Pretty clever. In the second heat he demonstrated the terrific handling of "The Car To Beat" -then got a flat. He called it . good for the day. The ever-popular Struttman's (actually that's only true when they aren't winning ... ) were out to race with a sorta-Challenger: a reclaimed swing-axle, ball-jointed Sand winder that was lengthened to 90-inches and fitted with a dual port 1650. ("I think it was the first one they ever made -it's got March 1993 Jiil Pete Gannon drove his Baja Bug, complete with rumpled roof, to the victory in Challengers. In the foreground is Steve Vesterdal's broken Class 1 car. to be 15-20 years old", Mike bumper-to-bumper; no, make la ugh ed.) Minute detail wizard that humper-to-carh. During the Mike admitted that it wasn't the first heat, Ron Dalke's center-seat best one they had done: "Oh, no; "900" Bug loosened some rear it's got quite a bit of bump steer, drum studs which encroached even through the Saginaw steering into the rear brakes, cleaning out gear box ... " and the shifter IS the shoes and adjusters. A quick between Tom's legs! "We got the pit stop crimped off the line and Bilsteins at a swap meet - thirty- he was back out to do battle with five a pair. We found some Donny, Steve Long, and Pete matching paint so they look Gannon. "I can fix anything right new." Hmm. "We tossed it here. In fact, it's almost quicker to together from stuff out back and a swap out a front corner ( arms, sand rail engine." The light car ball joints, spindle, brakes, and was a handful over the whoops wheel) than it is to just change a but pulled remarkably well on the wheel and tire." fast straights. Pierce's Raceco In the second race, Donny was could walk away in the rough stuff dismayed to see that this time they but Tom would reel him back in started ALL the Sportsman and on the back straight -but never Challengers at once (as opposed quite enough. I mean, this is a to a delayed start for the "9s"). TINY car that has no, EN OH, "Troy(Churchman)andltangled directional stability. Wonder - I tore out a ball joint. They what he'd do in a 120-inch shouldn't a changed." He dashed Porsche car. into the pits for a quick fix, but it Miketriedaleanermixtureand proved to be not quite that more advance for the second heat simple. Kelly and Donny were with excellent results - the top end forced to do the last lap with a and out-of-the-corner drive flopping wheel. Fact: you CAN improved significantly. Luck fly continue with a broken upper ball for Pierce a bit of foreign material joint -but you surely wouldn't found its way into the distributor want to. Ron fatigued the end off requiring a position-losing field-his throttle return spring and repair after it sputtered and stoppedattheliterarycornerfora popped to a halt. Handing his quick McGyver fix. (I woulda position over to Pierce and Kelly thunk that uncontrolled throttle Reedy. action is exactly what makes a After a post-Heat One test with Challenger so much fun.) some smaller, less-aggressive Steve Long made an inner body tires, Ross Whitmoyer, Todd panel out of cardboard and duct Wick, and Mike Perez elected to tape -just like Larry Ragland used go back to the smaller more to do on his old Chaparral Class aggressively-treaded Armstrongs. 1 . Disposable and certainly Ross admitted that "Mike'll be cheaper (and easier to work on) able to really use the gnarly tires." than sheet metal. Pete Gannon's How true - while Perez seemed a consistency gave him the Chai-little rusty on his first laps, he got lenger win. Steve Long's Bug into the "jam it" groove and was looked as if it was going to shed its able to keep the 2-stroke-like front body shell, but it stayed on rotary way up on the power band. Long enough for him to get Particularly in the hairpins. second. Perez has an old Chaparral SPORTSMAN CARS hidden away that he will Mazda-Al Vesterdal, having a real good ize {with the same 650 Holly? I day, always has time to wave. "It thought I was at the drags for a wasjustmyday."Hewalkedaway moment). " I have the engine withtheOverallandClasswin.Al reliability, now I'll play with a jumped right into Donny's carb chassis.'' A GM ''W' '-body problem -who had 5 HORA races composite transverse leafed on needle and seat and was spring - like an old Ford - will experiencing flooding. V esterdal high-light the front end. This invoked an extra needle gasket, produces a progressive situation -which lowered the float level rising rate, if you like - as the easily. spring's contact point - the lever Scott Stinson's "1" broke an arm - moves inward, making it outer CV, repaired it ( those axles stiffer as travel increase. Arid it splines are sure tough to clean up weighs only 3.5 pounds. It is with a file) and then broke again. notch-sensitive, however, so it'll This highly-reworked car had have to be protective wrapped. seven upper shock mounts per Like an a~le shaft. side -one for all occasions. Shawn The best racing in a long time Darr's Chenowth 100 had a always comes up when Uonny trouble-free run in Sportsman 10 Weiser and Ron Dalke get the and was able to put Troy Green Gang out and their Churchman's extended tandem Challengers go wheel-to-wheel; car on the trailer. The back seat of Dusty Times

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Tony Pierce and Kelly Reedy stand the 2-1600 Raceco on its nose on their way to place second in the Pro Division at the first 1993 Whiplash race. Leading here Ed Beard tried out his new Class 10 car complete with A-Arm front end, with Ross Whitmoyer/Mike Perez giving serious chase. Perez finished third Pro. Tom Struttman's "Shortest Car in the World", an old Sandwinder, tries to hold off overall Pro winner Rueben Woods, just behind and likely lapping Struttman here, made the pass. Troy's car looks like a torture device from the Spanish Inquisi-tion. If you're over five-five, forget it. Tom Surdez and Rob Tanner were out with a week-end warrior Bug. "It took us a weekend to build it." Donny Weiser smiled and Tom laughed: "It's the only TUF car without green paint." Reliable sources indicate that Donny, Rob, and Dalke hi-jacked a railroad tank car full of that Exorcist-colored paint off a siding near San Manuel. Donny (6th in '93 HORA "9" Points) was real, unhappy with SCORE -"They dropped the cheaper entry fee for Challengers. To hell with that. We'll do Jay's (Whiplash) races." Tom had not raced for years -"Fifteen -now here I'm at it again." After the # 1 heat, they had to cinch down a rear spring plate and re-torque the shifter plate: "I couldn't shift it worth a @##$#." AndwhenDonny'scarb acted up after the first heat, they cannibalized Tom's car and he got Weiser's "burble-and-snort" set-up. Surdez and Tanner th.en· and put'er on its top. Smitty's toured the course stuttering and track record is good at Gila Bend: popping but still doing the full that's two tip-overs in just this distance. And getting the Playcar year. Race Director Jay McKinley trophy. The Tucson TUF Team tookSmitty'soldFunco1600for really supported this event: seven a tour -and the small car was a cars and two bikes made the tow tight squeeze indeed. He kept up from the Old Pueblo. tagging the cage with his elbows R.K. Smith came down from and had to ice 'em down. Parker to try out his new 1600 Internally and externally. 1991 Season Champs Crowned at Whiplash Blast to Trav Sellers) fabbed up a stadium chassis and raffled it off. Dan took #2 slot in the Unlimited Pros and First in Pro 10. (TechnoFreaks might want to check out Dan's new Automatic Husqvarna "golf" cart. "FORE!" ) Whiplash is running a 50% pay-back scheme for them and the pickins aren't easy. John Wilson back-doored the Class 6 cup in his GM-bodied sedan -no one is really certain just what it used to be but it looks as if a Monte Carlo had an affair with a Buick LaSabre and this was the result. With a cage and Rough Countrys, it's more like a SODA car. It also looks like fun. You could put two more seats in the back and sell rides. By Tony Tellier Whiplash Motorsports crown-ed its 1992 Champions at a Jan. 9 Saturday Night Bash with trophies and jackets awarded for their two dirt car racing series: Gran Prix (Desert); and Off-Road Wars ( stadium). ( Motorcycles and Quads were also recognized. Read Cycle News if you are interested.) of the pack. When Mickey comes here on the First of May, let's get out and make a lot of noise for our Phoenix local lady star. Travis Sellers not only won the Open Off Road crown but was awarded a heartfelt "Promoter's Choice". According to Jay and Jackie McKinley ( the Whip and the Lash, respectively) "Travis always brings other racers -and The husband and wife racing their crews -and friends - with family of Steve Cheuvront and him to Thrasherland. But now he Vickie Allison took Third Places printed all those 'SNAFU Racing' in both Stadium 1650 (Steve) and T-shirts, and he can't even afford Open Off Road (Vickie). 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-LOMBARD RAC RALLY Carlos Sainz Wins The Rally And The Championship Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya really beat the system as they led most of the way in their final appearance for Toyota, winning not only the rally by over two minutes, but they won the World Championship for Drivers by ten points ending a tough season on the high point. CarlosSainzandLuisMoyaout season, the Spaniards took distanced the Lancias of their advantage of uncustomary tire championship rivals to win the trouble of rivals Didier Auria! Lombard RAC Rally in the and Juha Kankkunen. Auria! on Toyota, the final round of the his final event for the Italian 1992 W arid Championship, and Martini Racing team, was well they took their second W arid placed to overhaul Sainz, but then title. After suffering endless he suffered plug and lead development difficulties this problems and stopped on a stage. Markku Alen and 1/kka Kivimaki zip their Toyota through the Lake Dstrict Forest on their way to a fourth overall, over three minutes behind Sainz. HE BUMP STOPS HER Introducing the MARVIN SHAW ENGINEERING BUMP STOP! Stop the up-travel on your suspension with this advanced bump stop system. These Bump Slops come complete with a mounting system, poly-eurethane end piece, and enough valving to get the job done. ECONOMICALLY PRICED AT $319.90 per pair. lncludinQ the mounting hardware and the GAS bolts FOR MORE INFORMATkJN ON THIS FINE PRODUCT. SEE YOUR CLOSEST OFF OOAD RACING PARTS SUPPLIER OR CALL US DIRECT. Pagc4~ MARVIN SHAW ENGINEERING 101 Broadway P. O. Box845 Yarnell, Al 85362 H02..t27-3551 Kankkunen was driving steadily in the other Lancia, hoping for Sainz to falter, but Juha was delayed when he went off the road. Gregoire de Mevius and Willy Lux were rewarded for their agonizing misfortunes earlier this year, when they won the World Group N title in the Nissan. They finished second in the RAC in Group N behind the Ford of Alister McRae, the younger brother of Colin. The event sponsors Lombard offered a one thousand pound prize if a British driver won. After 19 years of sponsorship this was the final time for Lombard, going out with a big reward for a winning British driver. The reigning British Champion Colin McRae, Subaru, led for a while before a puncture, then brake and transmission troubles slowed him, but he gained more fastest stage times than anyone else. Ford's test driver Malcolm Wilson was almost as fast. British drivers scored a total of 15 best times against 11 for Finnish drivers, six for the Spaniard Sainz, four for the Frenchman Auriol and three for the Italian Miki Biasion. It must have been the most anticipated championship rally in years, with six top teams, three drivers who could clinch the outright title and four drivers who could become Group N champ-ion. The event itself took the usual form of four days, with the first day dedicated to the superspecial stages held in the grounds of 'stately homes', the other three days run on forest roads. Yorkshire was absent from the route with the cars instead going to southwest Scotland. There were three fewer stages, but they were longer to make the same stage miles. This was also a year of farewells. Nobody knew whether the once proud Lancia Martini Racing team would ever see each other again. "We will only continue if we have a top driver to support" said a Martini spokes-man.JollyClub will continue, but : ')body knew at what level. March 1993 Juha Kankkunen and Juha Piironen saw their hopes for a World Championship evaporate with a spate of mechanical ills and a bit of off roading, in the Lancia, but they were a close third overall. Ford's Sierra Cosworth and of Stig Blomqvist and Tommi Mitsubishi's Galant were making Makinen challenged hard, but their last official appearance, both drivers suffered excursions being replaced by the Escort and which set them back. It was quite the Lancer. For 1993 the teams a day, starting with a World approved voluntary plans to limit Championship decided. The servicing and the length of time Finnish girls Eija Jurvanen and for training. Also only one turbo Marja Berglund, by crossing the per car per day can be used, and start line, clinched the FIA Ladies' the fuel will all be supplied by Title, and Ford's first World FISA. Rally title for 11 years, and ThisyearChesterwastheRAC Dunlap's first in 13. The leaders host city. Neatly situated between were tight on their return to the Welsh stages and those in the Chester, ready to attack on the North, a historic city which has forest stages starting on Monday. successfully resisted the efforts to Sainz led all the day, but Colin accommodate the arrival of the McRae, Biasion, and a much motoring generation. It is a city improved Wilson all held second with endless traffic congestion at some time. Sainz's teammate which encouraged the teams to Markku Alen had been up to base themselves far away in third, but on the second run hotels. through the Donington Park stage What a start to the Lombard his gearbox jammed in fourth. He RAC Rally. On the first etape in had to drive 50 miles slipping the incredibly greasy and wet clutch furiously before reaching a conditions, Carlos Sainz pulled service point where this could be away leaving behind him a battle changed. Colin went off the road for second place between the at the first Clumber Park stage, Fords of Malcolm Wilson and Makinen had been up to sixth, but Miki Biasion and the Subaru of then he went into a wall, needed Colin McRae. Ari Vatanen had spectator assistance to get going been challenging earlier, but fell again, and had to drive the next back after two spins during the stage still with a damaged car and day, leaving the Lancias of Juha fell out of the top ten. Blomqvist Kankkunen and Didier Auriol had been in fourth, but dropped tactically placed. On their final to eighth with a spin on the planned appearance the Nissans muddy Chatsworth stage. Mikki Biasion and Tiziano Siviero fly past a damp crowd of spectators in the Ford finishing fifth overall, only 12 seconds behind A/en's Toyota. Dustynmcs

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Behind the front runners the battles were continuing as strongly as ever. In Group N Alister McRae was ahead of championship challengers Jarmo K ytolehto and Gregoire de Mevius. "It suits me fine if Alister stays where he is", said reigning Group N champ de Mevius, "it will give me a points advantage. In the soon to be official 'Formula 2' (2 liter normally aspirated front wheel drive) category, Dave Metcalfe, Vauxhall Astra GSi, was leading Richard Burns' Peugeot 309GTi. For some the rally never started at all. Bob Green had his car stolen after it had passed scrutineering (asimilar Sierra had been stolen at the same point of time last year) which caused the owner to exclaim that there was something strange about the vehicle. It had been stolen before. It was found a day later, having been used in a robbery to break a shop window. The funny little stages used on this day were unappreciated by the top drivers. Juha Piironen, Kankkunen's co-driver, said "What's the point of going through traffic queues and waiting for 200 sets of lights, when you have so many ~ood stages available?" And this year's novelty, starting two sets of stages at 30 second intervals, was greatly disliked, with many reports of balking. The first water splash at Chatsworth did a lot of damage, , the marshals collecting pieces of cars which fell off. Kankkunen made best time but at some cost; a grill detached, a bonnet bent upwards through the pressure of water inside the bonnet and a broken oil cooler. Blomqvist was delayed at Chatsworth with trans trouble. Carlos had achieved what he set out to do, attack from the very start. Colin had survived one unexpected problem; the car just stopped on a road section without warning. Wilson caused many to wonder where, for a driver who was badly lacking recent exper-ience, his turn of speed had come from. "Delecour", he admitted. "Doing testing with him with the new Escort had told me a lot about asphalt driving." Team manager Colin Dobinson con-firmed this and added "We are really pleased at the way that Francois in turn is learning a lot about setting up cars from Malcolm." The championship contenders were in every way relaxed, but were they happy? Auriol said "I will tell you that tomorrow night!" The proper event on Etape 2 began with a short delay. Despite axle deep mud in the car parks, there were so many spectators the marshals held up the start of the Colin McRae and Derek Ringer led the rally for a time in the Subaru, and might have won Lambard's hefty prize, but late breaking trouble saw the team down in sixth overall. Tommi Makinen and Sepo Harjanne were eighth, the best placed Nissan Pulsar Sunny FTI-R on its final appearance in the Wo;Jd Rally competition. first stage. It was a bad time for we lost New Zealand td Toyota Wilson as the front propshaft because we had not the right tires broke and the broken piece for cold weather with slippery flattened the exhaust. So he had mud on hard surfaces. Exactly the only rear drive and suffered loss same today." Alen was happier of power he attributed to turbo with a new clutch, but the failure, so he shut the system Mitsubishi was not going well. down, then got stuck on a sharp T earn manager Andrew Cowan corner and fell back to 14th. Tires said "We've got more power played a major part this day, since last year, but it still isn't Pirelli seemed to be well equipped, good enough." The Nissans also Carlos said, Nothing wrong all had trouble. The tireson both the day, except once the right tires Blomqvist and Makinen cars were not available and once where began to suffer flats, even though they experimented back-to-back the roads were hardly rough. In on the last stage against Toyota the end they fitted harder tires teammate Alen. Ford soon fell which were safer but slower. back, not happy in the slimy The big news of the day was muddy surface on the hard based McRae who gradually pulled in tracks though Wilson climbed the leader Sainz and on stage 15 back up to eighth and said he had went into the lead, seemingly no trouble with tires. unfazed by the pressure of the big The Lancias began their serious money. But on the penultimate attack. It took Auriol only four stage he hit a rock and bent the stages to rise four places to third. steering; then on the final stage in "But I must say we were taking a the dark he hit a dip hard and lotofrisks."Healsogotinfront decided to ease off a bit. ofKankkunen, a major move with Eventually he finished the day the championship in mind, but two seconds in front of Sainz and still Sainz was ahead. The Lancia Vatanen, despit<! losing his team were getting exasperated confidence when he spun in with their tires, the team manager Dovey swerving to avoid spectat-saying they needed narrower tires. ors, and only regained this when Kankkunen was more explicit. he started usingcuttiresand made "Michelin don't have the right the best time in the evening. In tires for these conditions, they Group N the championship began neverhave.Nearlyl8monthsago.-to go towards de Mevius. Kytolehto retired with suspension trouble. De Mevius hit a wall and slowed up fearing there could be serious damage to the car, which there wasn't. This let Capdevila go ahead, but de Mevius was not worried. His hopes were still secure, and he was now five minutes in front of the next Group N driver. All the time Alister McRae was leading, and less than four minutes separated the three. Andrea Aghini is a rising star, and with Sauro Farnocchia navigating, he placed the Lancia HF lntegrale tenth after several different problems. In 'Formula 2' Metcalfe had pulled back the time lost when he went onto his side during the morning, and was in front of Burns' Peugeot. An early retire-ment in the day was when the Finnish girls non-started because Dusty Times March 1993 Kenneth Eriksson and Staffan Parmander charge through the slush in the Mitsubishi Ga/ant VR-4, watched by hardy British spectators, and they went on to finish seventh. Malcolm Wilson and Bryan Thomas do a nose dive in the Ford, streaming vapor from the cold, damp weather. They finished ninth overall and in Group A. their Ford had a lot of problems and they could not face struggling on. No ladies crews were left running. Out of the 145 that left Chester for the Welsh loop, only 126 were continuing. Etape 3 was the day of the long road sections. After leaving Chester at 0700, the first special stage some 120 miles further north was not held until 10 a.m., but the excitement started before that. Colin McRae had a minor road accident, lost no time, but the rally leader went into the first stage unsettled. The two Grizedale stages were run close together and again there was a 'no-service' rule between them. On the first stage he had a flat and seemed to damage the brakes. Anyway Sainz took 13 seconds off the Scot and regained the lead. But worse was to come for McRae. On the next stage he lost the front brakes on the same corner where he crashea ,,,. in '91, and reset the transmission to caterto the problem. This •then failed leaving him with front wheel drive only and more than four minutes were lost. Repaired before the next stage he was now down in seventh p-lace out of the running, and with no hope of gaining the big Lombard cash. The Lancias were attacking hard. 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~ cope!" Vatanen was going well, passing Alen's Toyota, which had a broken shock, but the Subaru driver did two stages with tires having too many cuts. Biasion was doing his best with problems, and the Nissans were going a Ii ttle better, but Blomqvist had brake trouble. A 20 mile stage due to run in the afternoon had problems. First a delay when a spectator had a suspected heart attack two stages earlier and a half hour gap between cars ensued. The top cars were held back at the stage 24 start, then another spectator fell ill. But the zero car had already headed off down the stage. In the end, to the anger of thousands of spectators who had walked considerable distances to -see the cars, the section was canceled. So by four p.m. the crews had only run four stages and were anxious to go to Kielder. In Group N leader Alister McRae had a flat, while on the second stage Capdevila stopped with a broken differential. This left de Mevius in second place behind McRae and Nissan suddenly found themselves assured of both first and second place in the World title. If the Belgian finished the RAC in the top five spots in Group N, he would be Champion; if not then Nishiyama would be. In Formula 2 Metcalfe was going well, but Burns pulled a wheel off his car. Alister McRae and David Senior, led most of the way in Group Nin the Ford Sierra Cosworth, and they won Group N by nearly ten minutes and finished a fine 14th overall. The light disappeared and almost all the longest stage. "We Kielder beckoned. It was wet on lost so much power it felt like a the ground, dry but with the Group N car." eternal humidity above it. Carlos Biasion had a broken shock, had the privilege of running first causing a flat on the longest stage, car on the road and · survived Wilson went off the road and tore without problems. Auriol was a wheel off losing seven minutes second off the line on the stages, crawling out of i:he section. lost nine seconds on the first and Kenneth Eriksson was coming flat stopped on the second with spark out down the hill when he saw the plug trouble. The championship suspension lying in the road and began to take shape. Now only drove straight over it. He then lost two drivers, Sainz and Kankkunen time in service but was able to were able to take the title, but still continue. Blomqvist went off the Kankkunen could not take time road and later retired. off the Spaniard. And on the last Metcalfe lost a wheel causing stage the Finn had a flat tire come Eklund to get stuck trying to drive off the rim. Vatanen had two past, and holding up several other intercooler pump failures, once cars, this on the final stage of the with four miles to go and then for_ . day where later there was an angry i:'fffll:l! • demonstration by spectators who had been frustrated by the cancellation of stage 24 earlier, and who blocked the route. It was a big mess for the organizers and they decided to give the time of the slowest driver, Alister McRae, who completed the stage in a normal way to everyone who was stopped, and to give full time taken to Metcalfe who eventually got to Carlisle in 75th place, but had lost so much time he withdrew. Meanwhile Burns had also gone out, having also lost a wheel, and now the 'Formula 2' division was headed by the two works Skodas. Didier Auriol, with correspondent Martin Holmes, right, had a chance at the driver's championship at the RAC, but electrical troubles on the Lancia would no stay fixed, and he retired after stage 25. On Etape 4 103 cars restarted for the final six stages, held in the Trackside Photo, Inc. Racing photography since 1970 We cover all La Rana, SCORE/HORA, and Calif. Rally Series events. They were 15th overall and second in Group Nin the Nissan Pulsar/Sunny G TI-R; after a season long struggle Gregoire de Mevius and Willy Lux did win the World Championship in Group N, their second such title. The Skoda Favorit 136L of Pavel Sibera and Petr Gross finished in 20th overall, and they won the 'Formula 2' title at the RC, just about the only class survivor. southwest corner of Scotland. On the first stage another aspect of the Championship scene was settled. Kankkunen went into a mud hole, lost his vision through the windscreen, went off the road and hit a rock. The front right suspension was damaged, he lost almost three minutes on the stage, and with this any practical chance of a fourth title. The Finn was down in fourth place. The conditions were mainly clear, but just before the stage, there had been a downpour, and shortly afterwards Colin McRae went off the road into a ditch and lost four minutes, holding up Kenneth Eriksson, but keeping his sixth place. Makinen had the first of three flats on the day on stage 30, and as Sainz began to ease off Wilson started to put in a series of best times. Colin McRae dropped down the running order incurring road penalties and Wilson broke a shock and had a flat. Vatanen Was happy in ·second place, his best performance on a World event for two years and his best ever with the Subaru Team. Heavy rain suddenly fell on stage 33 which led to many wrong tire choices, and Wilson now had turbo boost problems. So the Championship was playing itself won the Group N title, and Carlos Sainz had beaten the system, scoring a victory and a title that nobody had thought possible. The Italians had the remorse of watching events they dismissed as 'highly impr:obable' in t,heir Sanremo meeting where they allowed Aghini to win and felt it was not worthwhile sending Kankkunen to Ivory Coast come true. At the end of the day it seemed the only person for whom things weren't entirely fair was Auriol. "Well, he said with surprisingly good grace "I am leaving Lancia with good mem-ories. Even if everything went wrong after I decided to leave them, for sure I had their support to the very end." And of course, nobody else had ever had such a dominating, even if frustrating, season as he did. The RAC was the final rally in which fuels can be brewed privately as all must use FISA fuel in '93, and for the 1100 kg minimum weight limit and for the current tire sizes. It was full of surprises and suspense for Championship contenders, but in the'end, Sainz won his title with,a late season charge, de Mevius won his by perseverance and Lancia won theirs early in the fall of . out. De Mevius kept going and .1992. When you need action photos, call us! Call us for: Calendars• Press Kits• Photo Business Cards• Autograph sheets Pagc44 P.O. Box 91767 Los Angeles, Callfornla 90009 (310) 670-6896 March 1993 ... . The Belgians celebrate their 1992 Group N championship at the RAC finish line, and Gregoire de Mevius and Wilfy Lux worked through many troubles all year long to gain the title. Dusty Times

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'The Straight Poop' From the Big Wahzoo WARNING!! NON-CHECK-ERS READ THIS COLUMN AT THEIR OWN RISK. Like all support teams, the Checkers are offered some space in the Dusty Times to keep our fellow Club members informed. Currently all the comments printed in this Checkers Column are simply the opinion of one Checker ... The Big Wahzoo. They are not necessarily those of Checkers Off-Road Inc. I have to re-state this disclaimer occasionally because the Wahzoo writes the 'Straight Poop' just like I'd talk about the issues with my Checker Buds over a beer. Not surprisingly, every so often some eavesdropping non-Checker jerk gets offended by the Wahzoo's opinion and starts talking about lawyers. This is really scary, until ya try to picture some process server trying to sneak into a Checker meeting to serve somebody named the Big Wah-zoo??? If you fall into this category, the Wahzoo sincerely wishes you the appropriate sexual penetration that you deserve! NEW YEARS 200 -This 4 lap La Rana Race in Barstow was Castro's first race since his pocket calculator apparently DNFed and most of his year end points fund checks bounced. Reportedly they were all made good and the turnout at Eddie's first '93 race showed no ill effects. The promotion went smooth and racing conditions were rainy, dust free, cold and windy, with lots of puddles! This is generally Checker weather, and in the later stages of the race three of our members were involved in some great racing for the overall spot! Koch's car (Tom was off on a diving trip to Japan after something his crew ref erred to as "muffs") was driven by his new non-Checker co-driver and co-owner. Pit reports after the race indicated that this guy reportedly operates at such a high RPM that he makes Koch look like the calm one on this new team. Koch's Class 10 car chased another 10 car to the finish line for a fine second in class and second overall! Kevin Davis was leading class 1-2-1600 on the last lap, and pushing for the overall as usual, ·when a torsion bar broke ending a good run. Somewhere in this battle, Brooks had his Class 10 car DQed and was forced to withdraw. More on that in a bit, but good racin' guys! The Bates', presiding Class 5 Champs of La Rana, have switched to BJ's Challenger car this year to run the series. Hey, £air's fair right? Well Gary may be having some second thoughts about that after this race. Seems BJ started the race and after his · two laps turned a crippled car over to his co-driver. 01' Dad reportedly then iron manned the kids car for one entire lap before seeking relief from the abuse. Duenas then took over to do the last lap but blew the tranny before the finish. Hey Gary, those beginner cars are a little hard on ya when ya got the flu, huh? Jeremiah had some early down time in his Class 9 car, finally going out with a broken spring plate. Besides the problems our racers had out on the course, the members at the main pit were unexpectedly whipped up into a vigilante-like frenzy by our outgoing Prez. Seems Hibbard stopped by to talk to a non-Checker team who has for a number of races been prominently flying a Checker flag over their pit location. According to Jeff, as the Club Prez he stopped by their pit to politely try to resolve the confusion their Checkered flag was causing our members trying to locate Checker Main. After the Prez was told in no uncertain terms that they would continue to fly any flag that they wanted to, he, as tactfully as possible, warned them that they should not be too surprised if some irate Checker stops by sometime and pulls it down. In response to this valuable piece of advice, our Prez }Vas told by some fool with more mouth then good sense that he would personally deck any Checker that tried! I'm sure Hibbard must have been grinning when he left, promising to promptly pass that message on. When our shit-stirring Prez showed up at the main pit and loudly announced this threat to his Checker buds, all hell broke loose. After most of the yelling subsided, the main question was exactly where does the line form to go down there and oblige this foolish Checker wanna-be. Shortly after it was agreed on, that Checker Main would go down and straighten out this counterfeit Checker right after all our cars finished, this infidel wisely lowered his bogus flag. Somewhere during the third lap, with John Brooks blastin' across the desert and movin' up towards the lead, he was reported-ly observed passing through a check point flat out in 4th gear. This info was promptly radioed ahead to the next check point, where he did stop, and where he was told he was DQed and ordered off the course. Later, back at Checker Main, Brooks . - - -.!!I~:::::;, . . ----,'-! . ~ .. --· A. I====-=--------Whether you're on a chase crew. a racer or a 4WD enthusiast, the Rod Hall off-road driving school can help you be your best! But be ready. .. the road isn't smooth! Dusty.Times Call For Courses and Dates Great Basin COnsultinll 2738 Chavez Dr. Reoo, NV 89502 (702) 825-8830 started taking some heat from his Checker Buds regarding his eyesight and/or judgement, but he steadfastly insisted "no Way man, I didn't run it! 11 Finally in frustration John grabbed a camera and headed out to get some pictures of this 4th gear check. Not surprisingly, this accomplished little except scaring the checkpoint guy enough that he radioed for help in dealing with some "crazy Checker with a Polaroid 11• . At the post-race meeting John had still not calmed down, but now he was claiming that if he did run the check point, it was because it was poorly marked. After he laid out some photos to back up his claim, he probably wished he hadn't. If it was sympathy that Brooks was seeking, he was sadly disappointed. To everyone else at the meeting, all the photos clearly showed big red and white check point signs plus 4 big red flags on both sides of the course. The general consensus was that the promoter should have the right to shoot out the tires of such a violator, if for no other reason than to prevent an obviously visually impaired racer from possibly gettin' on the freeway by mistake. Come on John, Checker pits only wish that they were marked that good and you always seem to find them, even in the dust! Y C"I would think that this old timer would know better than to violate Checker Basic Rule #6, which clearly states: "Ya can try to bullshit the promoter if ya want, but don't try to bullshit us!" Speaking of being foolish, let's talk about Kassanyi and his Parker pre-run adventure. Seems that while following the course arrows around the Arizona loop Steve came upon a large water hole. Driving a Jeep, Dr. Checker surely must have thought "hey, no problem" and charged right into the puddle. But apparently this puddle was a little deeper and softer than our hero anticipated. So, despite his windshield being covered with a deluge of muddy water, he turned for the safety of the sidelines, only to smack into a washed out embankment. Report-edly this not only severely bruised his Jeep and shook up his two female passengers, but also apparently completely soaked his ego. Now on to the foolish part. Instead of just writing it off as a bad day, Steve fires off a two page letter to SCORE complaining about poor course markings and something about the need for detailed 'bottom charts' posted next to water holes, along with some accurate depth markers??? Not surprisingly, since SCORE knows full well that the Checkers are traditionally not whiners, Jim Conner quite properly faxed our Club Secretary a copy of the letter for membership verification. After review by the regular Wednesday night crowd, it was agreed that this was indeed an un-Checker-like snivel, and our own Mister "roads? we don't need no stinkin' roads" was officially fined five bucks! THE CHECKERED FLAG -The black and white Checkered flag that flies over every Checker pit is much more than just a symbol to mark our location, it is a statement of who we are. Over the years, Checker members have traditionally "Checkered" their March 1993 helmets, driving suits, gas tanks, sides of their race cars, girl friends and various parts of their bodies as a symbol of the Checkers tradition of Racing Excellence. For over thirty years, from the old BSAs and Triumphs, right up through the unlimited Porsche buggies and those latest motor-cycles where your feet don't touch, the Checkers have compiled a winning record that sets all Checkers far ahead of everyone else. Consider the following facts: *Checkers have won four times more races than any other similar organization. *Checkers have carried our Club colors into the winners circle in every class of desert racing, repeatedly! *Checkers consistently have more fun, more arguments and have more pride than any other 10 clubs combined. A FEW GOOD MEN -Check-ers Off-Road (the car Checkers) is always looking for a few good men to carry on our proud racing tradition. Are you a winner? Do you want to be a winner? Can you take it as well as dish it out? Do you have a good lookin' old lady? If you answered yes to three of the four, you may tentatively qualify for possible Checker membership. Without any pressur!! to reveal your answers, you can call Uncle Max at (213) 254-1531 for further information. Sorry, but women are not admitted as Club members or even into our weekly meetings. This is not some kind of a sexist thing, it's just something we had to do to be able to get anything done. All the straight poop about the elections, Parker and the Banquet next month. AffENTION PIT TEAMS Send us your tales of triumph and troubles and they will be featured on these pages. Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 207 51 Marilla Street, Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 This is the :;ystem run by most off road race winners TRI-MIL BOBCAT CHROME JEEP STRAIGHT 6 "NEW SUMMER SPECIAL CHROME" 2740 COMPTON AVENUE LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 90011 (213) 234-9014 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 45

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.,. . The pilot's view is unobstructed. Instruments are easily seen and read. All controls are easily within reach. As you can see, visibility is ample. A nice wide track and full time four wheel drive make your off road excursions a pleasure. From any angle, the Land Cruiser is certainly handsome. Flip-up rear window and drop down tail gate make cargo loading easy. Fender flares are both functional and pleasant to look at. The solid looking Land Cruiser is just that; solid. Go Cruising • In A 1993 Toyota Land Cruiser The 1993 Toyota Land Cruiser is handsome and then some.· Beautiful lines and rugged durability are included. Note the front and rear mud flaps that help keep the side panels clean. What is white, comes with an Bridgestone Dueler HT 682 front of him, easy to see, easy to all leather interior, has too many P275170R16 steel belted radials read and, believe it or not, all features to name, is able to go mounted on beautiful 5 spoke within reach! The instrument most anywhere off the road as alloy wheels, front and rear disc panel has a tachometer, speedo-well as cruise like a car on the brakes, power assisted of course, meter with resetable odometer highway? Why, it's the 1993 and with 4 wheel anti-lock (ABS) with the gear shift indicator Toyota Land Cruiser, of course! brake system, traction and mounted verticall Y between The new Toyota Land Cruiser stopping is easy. Power is them. Oil pressure and water is, first of all, a great looking supplied by the 4 .5 liter four temperature gauges are left of the vehicle. We spent a few days at a valves per cylinder, 6 cylinder, tach, battery condition and fuel regional soccer match and literally 212 horsepower engine with lots gauges are right of the speedo-everyone there came over to ogle of torque and there is plenty meter. The electric mirror switch, the vehicle. Equipped with there, no matter what your needs. dash light rheostat and differential Simplythe Best! 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This in turn is side, running light and headlights coupled to a true full time, four on the lower left, wipers on the wheel drive system that has lock-upper right and cruise control on up differentials waiting to hook the lower right. up at the touch of your finger. Mounted center of the dash Actually, the locking differentials panel is a digital clock with are quite an innovation. These stopwatch function, a rear locking differentials allowed the window defrost switch, ECT Land Cruiser to go up and down (Electronic Control transmission some very steep slopes with a switch) and, of all things, a rocker tremendous feeling of confidence, s~itch to raise and lower the radio making your off road adventures antenna. Beneath these is the a lot more fun. •. heater/air-conditioning console In spite of the fact that the Land with push button operation and Cruiser is a true off road, go indicator lights to clue you in on anywhere type of vehicle, luxury what is operating. To the is also the name of the game. immediate right of that panel is Front bucket seats, adjustable in the radio, or·, in its proper lingo every way possible, a three the electronically tuned AM/FM passenger rear seat with adjust-radio with cassette player and CD men ts and plenty of leg room and, player and all this comes with; are behind all that, a third seat for you ready, nine speakers. three people which splits in the Needless to say, if sound is your center and folds up on both sides bag, this type of system is for you. of the vehicle. All this in leather About a zillion decibels are no lessi-W e tried all the seats and available but we only used normal they were comfortable, every one sound levels for our old tired ears. of them. Front and rear heaters are The driver has all the goodies in standard on the Land Cruiser and March 1993 -,,..... .. With the third seat folded up there is ample room for cargo, and note the plush carpeting which runs throughout the vehicle. beneath the AM/FM console is a traveling. switch to activate the rear heater, This Land Cruiser was equipp-and immediately to the right is an ed with a tilt/ slide moon roof, a ashtray and lighter. Located on welcome addition in any vehicle the floor mounted center console although the $1,000 price tag is the gear selector level and next would probably stop me from to it the high, neutral and low ordering it. Driving impressions; I transmission selector. The wasreallyimpressed!Weputalot overdrive switch is located on the of miles on the Land Cruiser, left side of the gear selector lever. both on and off the road and Power windows and power comfort was the word. Long trips doorlocks are handily located on were made with little or no fatigue the driver's door, just forward of and this full time four wheel the arm rest with the usual driver handles like a dream. The window lockout to keep the 25 gallon fuel tank coupled with ,munchkins from playing games the 15 mpg and change we got on while you're on the road. Half of the road give you close to a 400 the rear access is a flip up window mile cruising range, enough for and a good sized tail gate comes anyone. The all new engine gives down for easy cargo access. The you plenty of power, body lean fold up rear/ rear seat overhangs and roll on tight turns is minimal, somewhat but there is still a lot of and we were really happy with the room for cargo in the rear, over overall performance of the Land 90 cubic feet of it. Cruiser. · This Land Cruiser was also Aside from being very hand-equipped with a 5000 pound some the Land Cruiser is towing package. The frame functional, with Toyota reliability mounted hitch receiver is built in, and with this you get mounted within the body utility use and, here's that word confines, therefore one does not again, comfort. The Toyota Land hit ones shins on the damn thing. Cruiser is not cheap, however. Also, another plus for the Land This fully loaded model with Cruiser, there is a full size spare leather interior is 40 grand, a lot tire mounted under the rear and of money, but, a lot of car. If you you know how I feel about full want to experience all this value, size ~pares, a necessit·y when test drive a Land Cruiser today! Leather seats, adjustable to most every angle, enhance your comfort factor. Mesh receptacles hold maps, papers, most anything. Dusty Times

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The IDRA Corner By George Thompson In an effort to keep everyone uJJ to speed on what's been happening with the IDRA, I have arranged with Dusty Times to contribute a regular, or at least semi-regular, column, which will focus on issues of concern to the IDRA and our various members and supporters. If you want to know what the IDRA has been doing, keep your eye on this column in the future and you will he informed. SCORE Competition Re-view Board. Effective at the end of the '92 SCORE Baja 1000 I stepped down as CRB Marshal, after 6 years of functioning in that capacity. During that time I was successful in documenting all the cases heard by the CRB and co-authored a little guide called the Format & Guidelines for the Operation of the Competition Review Board. Working with numerous members of the IDRA as well as SCORE & HORA officials, this document represents a sort of operators manual for the CRB. Replacing me as CRB Marshal will be Reese King, long time friend and former Vice President of the SCORE Officials Association. In order to avoid any conflict of interest (now there's an interesting term) Reese agreed to resign from his duties with S.O.A. to assume the role ofCRB Marshal for the IDRA. I have every confidence in Reese's ability to do a fine job in this capacity and this adjustment will free up my time to see to the many pressing details of other IDRA business, as well as my own. Welcome aboard, Reese!! Controversy in Class 1-2-1600. Concerned with the sagging entry in Class 1-2-1600, about mid-season last year, Sal asked IDRA to gather some informal input from the members of that class to see if there was any support for splitting the class into single and two seat divisions. IDRA contacted our 1-2-1600 class representative, Rich Persch and gave him the assignment and Rich was quick to respond for the class in this particular matter. His poll, while informal, included not only SCORE and HORA drivers, but also numerous drivers presently competing in other series. The response was over-whelmingly against this separa-tion, however, there was almost unanimous agreement that the weight restrictions be raised on the single single seat cars and that two seat vehicles be allowed the use of larger restrictor plates, or some variation on that theme. IDRA advised SCORE of the mood of the class and if there was any question in their minds, it became all too clear when Sal, Danny and Bill Savage attended a Checker meeting, in early December. The Checkers field a number of 1-2-1600 vehicles in virtually every series and were unanimous in their opposition to the proposed split. They made virtually the same recommenda-tions as Persch and SCORE listened, to some extent, by ultimately deciding not to separate the class. On the other hand no adjustments appear to Dusty Times have been made regarding weight restrictions or restrictor plates to make the two seaters more competitive with the single seaters. As to future adjustments planned for this class, IDRA will be talking to Bill Savage at Parker and will report proposed changes, if any, as soon as we hear. Class 1/2 Unlimited. Here's an ongoing controversy which started clear back in '90 when SCORE & HORA decided to combine Classes 1 and 2. You may recall that at Parker '90 there was only one truck entry; Ivan Stewart. At the time of this consolidation IDRA polled the members of both classes and found just under 60% opposed. Predictably, most of the opposi-tion came from members of Class 2 who were enjoying a good turnout and had little interest in accepting a factory sponsored vehicle into their midst. However, when we added the ballots taking into consideration the votes in favor of the consolidation "If there was a weight restriction placed on Class 1 ", the results showed only 51 % opposition. As we all know the class was consolidated and no weight restriction was levied on Class 1. SCORE/HORA Tech was going to watch the progress of this consolidation and make adjust-men ts if the single seaters demonstrated an unfair advantage over the two seaters. The only obvious advantage turned out to be that the factory Toyota driven by Ivan Stewart blew the doors off everyone en route to winning the overall and class championship. And no adjustments were made! In early '92, with almost 10 trucks competing in the class and with as many as 6 more scheduled to come on line in '93, IDRA was asked to poll the class, once again. The poll took on a different look this time with the question being whether or not to separate the class into two divisions: Unlimit-ed Open Wheel & Unlimited Production. In fact we polled the class twice in '92 and both times the results demonstrated that 85% of th; members were in favor of separating the classes. No action has been taken in this matter. Perhaps the separation of these two classes, at the present time, would be too much coming on the heels of the SCORE buy-out of HORA. In discussing this matter with SCORE President Danny Cau, he has assured me that they are going to gather more input from the effected drivers this year. Eventually, some adjustment will need to be made in this class to keep it healthy. Over the course of the past three years, during which IDRA has followed this controversy, we have spoken with those who feel that Unlimited means Unlimited! While there may be an argument here, albeit somewhat self-serving, many continue to wonder if the real issue here isn't Unlimited Vehicles, but rather, Unlimited Budgets!!! Certainly seems like food for thought. (The Rule Book does say Open Wheel Vehicles-Ed.) Land Use Fees? An irate Checker recently contacted IDRA with some serious ques-tions about Land Use Fees at the SCORE races. It seems he had heard, from BLM sources, that the actual fees assessed on the promoter was 3% of the total entry fee. If this is true, then it doesn't take an expert in quantum mechanics to figure out that, at a race where there are 200 entries the actual fee is approximately $2 700 or $13 .50 each. The obvious question our Checker friend posed is "what happens to the other $56.50 or $11,700?" IDRA was asked to find the answer to this burning question and I contacted SCORE's Danny Cau, who has always been very straight forward with IDRA. Danny said that the BLM charges the promoter costs for the time and services which they provide in assisting them. The formulas used vary considerably between the 3 different BLM offices which SCORE deals with throughout . the year, however, at Parker ,-BLM charged SCORE $14,000 for their services in 1992 and the Indisns charge another $3,000. This does not include the cost of hiring race day police assistance and other misc. costs. At the Nevada 400, he estimates the combined BLM and Indian costs to exceet $16,000. On the face of it, this seems to be a case where the promoter is not making money, but rather, losing it. IDRA was able to verify most of these figures with reluctant BLM officials from Arizona and Nevada. More on this later, but it appears that these are fair charges. It seems to me that if the promoter was going to overcharge the racers, he would not do it in an area where everything is docu-mented and a matter of public record. Well, I guess I'll leave the mountain and go on down to Parker to see what's happening ... See you. next month ... ENJOY DUSTY TIMES AFTER THE RACE READ ALL THE NITIY,_ (lRITTY Dl;TAl~~ l;AGH MONTH 0 -NL Y $15.00 A YEAR OR TWO YEARS FOR $25.00 Off Road's Winningest Radios OVER 1,944 ON THE RACE COURSE! Comlink V • The Ultimate Racing Intercom ROADMASTER Helmets wired $125. (CF) • NEW! RF Pre Amp $95 30% to 50% more range! 2888 Gundry Avenue Signal Hill, CA 90806 We're next door via U.P.S.! March 1993 "A LEGEND" Only$539 Page 47

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ADAM WIK 535 E. Central Park Anaheim, CA 92802 (714) 956-WIKS • Computerized Dyno • Flow Bench Facility • Tum Key Racing Engines PUBLIC RELATIONS ANO MARKETING CONSULTANTS EDWIN C . JACOBS Off Road Products Front and Rear Trailing Jvms • Spindles Suspension Specialists • Custom Wheels Engines PRESIDENT 900 STATE MILL ROAD AKRON. OHIO 44319 . (216) 644-7774 FOUR FINALISTS CHOSEN FOR U.S. CAMEL TROPHY TEAM professor ·of accounting at Northern Florida University. Tanner is a tractor mechanic and an auto enthusiast who owns 14 Land Rovers. Four men have been selected to represent the U.S. in the international selection trials for the 14th annual Camel Trophy Adventure, the world's toughest off-pavement driving challenge. Chosen after 30 hours of back breaking physical, mental and driving tests were Michael Hussey, 29 of Middlebury, Ver., Tim Hensley, 33 Portland, Ore., Michael Marsilio, 27 Jacksonville, Fla. and Matt Tanner, 35, Durango, Colo. The quartet will travel to England in January where they will be trained in rigorous off-pavement driving techniques including bridge building ,and winching. In February they will go_ to Rome where they will be pitted against teams representing 15 other nations. Out of the HDRA CLASS9 CHAMPION LA RANA CLASS9 CHAMPION international trials will come the final two-man teams that will drive turbo diesel-powered Land Rover Discoverys in a 1000 mile adventure around the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo next May. The four U.S. finalists were winners of a two-day trial among nine men who were selected from more than 600 applicants for the adventure. Worldwide, more than a million applications are submitted in hopes of landing a spot in the 32-man field. The backgrounds of the U.S. contingent are as widely separated as their home states. Hussey is a geologist and a former U.S. Cross Country Ski Team member. Hensley is a private pilot and motorcyclist who has his own construction firm. Marsilio is a Camel Trophy is not a race or rally, but a test of human ingenuity, physical stamina, driving and navigating ability. All those virtues were put to the test in bone-chilling temperatures on the snow covered hills just north of Grand Junction, CO. After a 6 a.m. breakfast, the finalists took a written exam on map reading, navigation and time, speed and distance calculations. Then it was into the field where they had their first look at Camel Trophy Discoverys that were used in Tanzania in 1991. From there they set off on a six mile run up and down steep, slippery hills and ravines. Coming into the finish line, the exhausted runners were handed an axe and were timed on how long it took to cut LA RANA OVERALL POINTS CHAMPION SPECIAL THANKS TO MY FAMILY, FRIENDS AND SPONSORS, FOR ALL THEIR HARD WORK AND DEDICATION FOR AN OUT-STANDING RACING SEASON. WARREN MESSICK MIKE CURRIER JIMMY CHILDS CHRIS SCHMITT KEITH PRATT RICK TAYLOR ROB NIELSON ROY & WADE PRINCE FRED MILLS JIM MILLER JERRY CORDOVA TIGER BFGOODRICH LARRY BOLIN & CORE DustyTimcs TONY CRAIG, SR. STEVE McMULLIN DENNIS STAN KA VICH JEFF WATSON HEATH MITCHELL SAM & SUE GOLDSMITH LAURA STANKAVICH KXXZ 95.9FM FERBID'N T'S D.J. 'S TRANSAXLES WILLIE'S ON & OFF ROAD ICE LINE WATER EXPLORER LIGHTS RACECO VIKING TIRE CENTER Man:h 1993 2733 W . Missouri Phoenix, AZ 85017 Jack Woods (602) 242-0077 through a six inch log. When it was all over, the eight After a brief rest, they went judges, led by U.S. Camel Trophy coordinator Tom Collins of through a series of leadership Basalt, Colo., tallied the test tests, including a simulated crossing of a piranah infested scores and the opinions of the river, exchanging all candidates judges to settle on the four finalists. on one end of a log to the other "This was the best field we've without setting foot on the ever had," said Collins, who tied ground and passing the e;l.tire for first place in the 1987 Camel group one by one through a Trophy in Madagascar. "They vertical spider web net. will need all the training and · At_ 3 a.m., some bone wea~y driving skills they can muster to candida~es w_ere ankle_ deep m do well in the Camel trophy, mud usi!1g winches while ?th~rs which has yet to b'r W0"1 by an '"".'ere bemg gnlled ?n their first American Team." The Camel aid knowledge or _nmed on h<:>w Trophy is co-sponsored by fa~t they could dismount a tire England's Land Rover and World usmg only hand tools. Wide Brands of Belgium. Racing in 1980. Street legal, great Cla Ss.1fiad pre-runner or street truck. Best of • everythmg. Runs on regular gas. · $10,000.00 obo. Call (602) 253-. . 5289. FOR SALE: '77 Dodge Colt -Pro Rally Open Class. Twice top ten finisher. Fresh C3 engine, 4:6 rear end, Safari suspension, very clean, well maintained, ready to race. No DNF's, reliable, perfect for CRS events with Log Book. Call Rick y (213) 254-6643 $3,500.00 obo. FOR SALE: 1980 Jeep Honcho race truck. Built by Walker Evans FOR SALE: 1-1600 NethlChen-owth. Fresh McKenzies motor. Zero miles on tranny. Neth front end, combos, arms (front & rear). Reservoir Fox shocks. UMP power steering. PCI radio. Removeable windshield. Best parts throughout. Very compet-itive in the right hands. $7,000.00 obo. Call (310) 473-6600 9-6. RACING VIDEOS! 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Classified ••• FOR SALE: Class 1 short course race car. Built by Unique Metal Products 4130 chrome moly tubing, 2.7 liter 914 Porsche engine. Dual Weber 481DF carburetors. 5 speed 00300 Hewland Transaxle. $7,500.00 (4(7) 722-1226. FOR SALE: 1990 2 seat Class 10, 1650 Rabbit, Wright coil front end, Summers discs, axles, Woods arms, Fox Shocks. 930 c.v.'s. Also 2000 Pinto engine, 4 Mikuni's & more. Everything in great shape. $6,500.00 firm. Call Jamie in PA (717) 544-3731. FOR SALE: Chenowth Mini Mag, fresh top end, fresh shocks. Aluminum radiator, UMP, 14 tires & wheels, dump cans, 3 radios, many spares. $12,000.00. Dico 20' Boe enclosed trailer w/ air, sink, toilet, fridge, shower, water heater, 40 gals water, 40 gal fuel tank, electric brakes. $5,000.00 Call Dave at (310) 540-0996. FOR SALE: Rally Car, 1986 Dodge Omni GLH (Turbo). Ready to race. Fresh engine & trans. $5,900.00. Fully equipped wl st,are tires, wheels or make offer. Call (313) 479-4100 or (313) 782-0990 or (313) 525-0879. FOR SALE: Full race Nissan Pathfinder, 18H front, 21 n rear wheel travel, 9n full floater, quick change transfer case, turbo 400 trans., fuel injected V6, Kuster shocks. BEST OF EVERY-THING. Over 200k.invested, many spares, $79,000.00. Call (510) 429-9400 days, (510) 794-8456 nitesl weekends. FOR SALE: '92 Ford 4x4 Class 4. 430ci, SVO small block, Kinsler injected. C6 trans, 9n converter, Kuster shocks, Dana 60 front & rear. 9n Ford parts. '90 Ford fiberglass fenders. Some big block Chevy motor parts. (7 15) 623-4151 days, (715) 275-4044 nights. FOR SALE: 1988 NISSAN 4x4 RACE TRUCK. Auto trans, full floater, 4 wheel discs, Fox shocks, many spare parts. $10,000.00. Call (510)429-9400 8 to 5, (510) 794-8456 nitel weekends. FOR SALE: 2 new short course 091 bus transmissions. FTC gears, 4:86 ring and pinions. Call for more info, Smith Racing (818) 579-2135. FOR SALE: RACECO Class 1 or 10. 11 r wb. Wright coil-overs-combos, Fox, 091 Hewlan<;i . Super Boot 930 c.v.'s, Woods arms, radio, Parker, Beard, Diest, Centerlines, rear disc. Mazda rotary, Earls, Fuel Cell. $9,000.00? Trade for 1-1600 will deliver west coast (206) 284-2025. FOR SALE: 1987 Dodge Vista Colt 4-wd 5 speed tranny. Noisy fourth gear but runs okay. Make offer - you haul. Call John at Dusty Times (818) 882-0004. FOR SALE: Class 10 short course stadium Rabbit engine. Built by Dyno Shop. Assembeled with all the best parts available. Call for more info. Smith Racing (818) 579-2135. FOR SALE: Chenowth l / 1600, Neth rear arms & beam, UMP power steering, Wright combos, arms & rack, reservoired Bil-steins, Summers axles & stub · axles, much more. $7,500.00. Wells Cargo 32' trailer work bench & other extras. $7,000.00. Both for $14,000.00. Call (801) 566-0741 or (801) 562-9298. WANTTOGET AWAY FROM IT ALL? 871,200 square feet of pine trees, approximately 6000 feet up; enjoy a four season climate located in the Tehachapi mountains, behind locked gates. 20 acres of pure isolation. 2 pads ready for your mountain hide-a-way. Overlooks entire Antelope Valley. Easy in and out on graded road. Call Don at (805) 268-1644. WANTED: 5-1600 Baja. Must be 1992 SCORE legal, top quality fabrication only. "Tall Mans Version", race ready. Mon-Fri 8-5. Lorenzo at (800) 247-3202. FOR SALE: 1990 Class 1 Moulton 2 seater, best of everything. 2nd place Class 1 1992 Baja 1000. Newest unlimit-ed buggy in the desert. Make off er. Call Steve Holladay (818) 704-4311. FOR SALE: Class 9, 2 seat. Competitive, dialed in and race ready. Best of everything. Dump cans, full spares incl. tires. $7,000.00. Enclosed trailer 21', ·Fridge/ microwave/ stove/ water/ toilet. Hauls 100" wb vehicle. $3,000.00 Roadmaster radios $350.00, Base antenna $150.00. Call Mike (310) 696-6577. FOR SALE: Class 5-1600. Race or pre-run. Just built & ready to race. New engine & trans. Full spares, incl tires. $4,500.00. Call Mike (310) 696-6577. FOR SALE: Complete set of 2-1600 Chenowth panels, brand new. For more info call Dennis at (714) 780-0112. FOR SALE: 2-1600 ORC, 114"wb, windshield unit, Fox shocks, new Beard seats, UMP power steering, new front leaf springs, Parker Pumper, 300M torsion bars, (2 races old), FM radio and intercom, Wright arms & combos, Centerlines, 2 spare tire racks. MUST SELL! $9,500.00, $7,500.00 less engine oho. Call Walt (707) 664-8457 nights. FOR SALE: 1-1600 (New, never ra~ed, only 3 hours of testing). 11 rwb, Wright box, arms & combo's, JAMAR, Beard, Parker Pumper, Fuel Safe, Fox wl reser-voirs, bus box w I close 3rd & 4th. All the best parts. $9,500.00 obo. (602) 882-6390 day, (602) 296-1723 nites. FOR SALE: 1979 Chevy, Class 8 legal pre-runner, 377 cubic inch, Turbo 400, Sandy Cone 9" full floater, Chrisman 4: 11 center section spool, Nelson & Nelson shocks ( 10), Fiberglas front end, full roll cage plus many extras. Call (909) 824-1000 or (909) 653-9519, ask for Dale. FOR SALE: 1991 Ford Class 8, built by Pence Off road. 35 I SVO dry sump, Summer Bros full floater rear end, Kuster shocks, dual radiators in rear.· Driven by Dave Hackers Off Road Racing. · FOR SALE: Pre-run two seat Hi- Second in '92 points. Call ( 414) Jumper, 2180cc VW, bus trans, W Chrome-Maly front end, Porsche 339-03 l 5 De Pere' I. ~ ,3R~r. FOR SALE: 1989 U.D. Truck, axles&c.v.joints.20galfuelcell, FOR SALE: Motorhome, 1989 FOR SALE: Class 2 or 10 115n 1800 G.V.W . Turbo 6 cyl, (6.9) Fox gas sh~cks. One axle car Travel Master, like new. Lots of wb. Custom chassis, Mirage front Diesel engine, exhaust brake, low FOR SALE: Class 10 Hi Jumper, trailer. Call ( 805) 644-7 570 or extras, low mileage. $40,000.00 beam, coil front, 4 wheel discs, miles, 14' custom bed, excellent only 250 miles on complete (805) 524-0431. invested, asking$23,S00.00 firm. Pro Link rear, 300M torsions, condition. $18,500.00. 1985 3 rebuild, Wright, UMP, powder Call (602) 742-5103. Leave Wright combos, Woods, Fox, axle 44' Competitive trailer. coat,spareengine& trans,930's, WANTED: Co-driver, very message, we will tall you back. Girling, Beard, Flame-Out, Dura Work bench, 5KW generator, 400M bars, Fox shocks, Master-competitive, top of the line. FOR SALE: Dual 45 DRLA Blue 930's, power steering, fresh air' lights, excellent condition. craft, 118n wb, lots of spares, Single seat Class 9. You need to be Dellorto carb kit with 6" K&N trans - less motor. $5,800.00 $11,800.00. Call (510) 420-turnkey, race ready. $6,500.00 approx. 6' & not afraid to spend fl E I I C II f d · 1 ( 619) filters, Uni-pre i ters, ar s ine Type IV available. Keith (510) 9400 days or (510) 794-8456 oho. (510) 783-2342 days WILL money. a or etai s & fittings. Brand new, never seen 458-5812. nitesl weekends. DELIVER! 329-7668. l b d & ==:-:::-::;-;;;;;:==-:::::;;;;.:;;;;;;;iii,iii:;.; gas. $400.00 Convertib e o y ,.-·-------------.....-~~~~~~~---w~~-~~~-~--~---~-www, Rd Md . parts. ace , i west winner, · Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in I Baja convertibler 5-1600 and· I trailer. Loaded, best of everything. DUSTY TIMES. I Call (906) 863-7559. I FOR SALE: Class 5 Major Classified Advertising rate is only $15 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use of black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. NEW AND RENEW AL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DUSTY TIMES - A 45 w~rd Classified Ad is FREE if you act now and subscrib0e. If you wish to use a photo in your free ad, enclose $5.00. All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. I Performance VW 2176 engine. Mendeola trans w /Hewland I gears, Fox shocks, Beard seats, I· Wright components, Sway-A-Way, UMP power steering, Fuel I Safe cell. Car is all new with "O" • miles. Race prepped. $12,500.00 I oho. Call Tom (619) 448-5392 11 or (619) 441-8936. BORROWED from car #55 l at I Gold Coast. 1 spare tire on offset I Centerhne. I need it back! Please, I you used it, now please return it. I Jim (909) 676-4043 or (909) Enclosed is$ -----(Send check or money order, no cash). 676-2611. Pleas.e run ad-------times. I WANTED: Class 9 two seater. I Must be SCORE/HORA legal. I Must be competitive & reliable. I No antiques or junk please. Call I Rudy at (208) 377-8856 days or Name---------------------------,-------Address ______________________ Phone-------City------------------State _____ Zip ______ _ Pagc54 March 1993 Mail to: DUSTYTIMES 20751 Marilla Street . Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 ·I (208) 375-0920 nites and • · weekends. DustyTimcs

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FOR SALE: Toyota Class 10. motor, 16 valve 1607cc engine. Corilla roads, VW trans adapter, clutch & pressure plate, complete S & S exhaust system. Motor is complete & fresh. Excellent condition $5,000.00 oho. (619) 448-5392 or (619) 441--8936. FOR SALE: 7S Ma.:da race truck. Professionally built, 80% finish-ed. Lots of top quality parts. Comes with spare parts. Cheapest way to start racing in Mini Truck class. $4,950.00 oho. Call Nick after 4pm. (619) 443--8012. FOR SALE: 1978 Ford Bronco 4 WO, street pre-runner, 351 M, C6, MSD, Autometer, Engle, Holley fuel injection, full cage, 12 race shocks, 35" Baja TA's, American Racing, Currie rear 9", Detroit locker, posi front, 4.56's, Beards, Diest, everything new, much more. Must sell $14,000.00 oho. Call (310) 399-5741. FOR SALE: 1-1600, raced 1 season, Fox, Fuel Cell, Wright combos, steering & arms, Beard, Centerlines, Parker, Simpson. Car is straight & clean. Tandem trailer a va i la hie. $3,500.00 Florida ( 407) 291-1215 or ( 407) 292-2808 Ed. FOR SALE: Class 1 or 10 2 seat DRP, fresh Type IV, bus, Hewland, Wright, Fox, FAT, Summers, Parker, Beard, fuel cell, UMP. $15,000.00 w/engine, $11,500.00 without. Will consider trades; trucks, Harleys, etc. Also, '83 Chevy 1 ton crew cab duallie. Call (602) 763-7880. FOR SALE: 1990 Mirage class 10 Toyota 4AF motor, Fox shocks, Wright front end, Summer disc brakes, power steering, bus trans, • Centerlines, rear trailing arm damaged. Must sell! $8,200.00 wl trailer. $5,200.00 w l o motor oho or trade. (415) 365-7789 or (415) 594-0766, ask for Mark. R SALE: 1984 E-350 Ford boxvan.460,AIC,PIS,P/B, 14' box, Bilstein shocks, rear ramp door. $5,000.00. Call Marvin Shaw (602) 427-3551. FOR SALE: FUNCO SSl single, 100" 2nd overall 1992 VORRA Sportsman Championship Series, hot 1835cc, bus trans, Woods 1 ¼ frt, stock dimension rear, power steering, Fox, Wright, Beards and more. Everything goes, car, tr-ailer & spare parts. $4,500.00 or $3,500.00 w l o motor. DON'T WAIT! (916) 272--6510. FOR SALE: Class I Curnutt, Raceco, Toyota single seater. Complete turnkey car. All the best equipment. Proven winner. Must sell $12,000.00. Call (805) 269-1494 for info. FOR SALE: 35' Chapparel goose neck trailer, plumbed and wired. 35 gallon water tank, awnings, roof mount tire racks. Ex Goodyear support trailer. $5,495.00 So. Calif (909) 381-4088 days, ask for Jim Brown. FOR SALE: Mirage 2 seat RX7 Ma.:da. Built for MTEG Ultra-stock class. Complete with 13B Rotary, Mendeola trans, 5 point rear suspension. All top of the line stuff. Too much to list. Sell as is or will piece out. Call for info (619) 324-1259 Bill. FOR SALE: Chenowth short course Magnum. J&G trans, Wright, Sway-A-Way, Summers, Fox Beard, BFG's on headlocks, CNC. 1648 Rabbit power. $16,000.00 (310) 559--4526 after 5pm. FOR SALE: 32' enclosed 5th wheel trailer. 14000# gross, work benches, tool box, lights, winch, wired for 110. Will carry 3 short course cars or 2 desert cars. $5,000.00 firm. Call (310) 559-4526 after 5 pm. Dusty Times 1978 Dodge Kari-Van, motor home style, air conditioning, birch cabinets, stove, twin bed folds up, seats 6, captain chairs, bottom tool box enclosed, fridge, excellent tow rig for any race team. Bright red Porsche paint, big smoked windows not installed yet. $9,500.00 offer or trade. Clayton (702) 355-7440 or (702) 747-6431. FOR SALE: Bunch 7S Ranger. HORA 7S Class winner. 1991 Fireworks 250, 1992 Lucerne Valley 250, 1992 Nevada 500. 1992 current 7S and Mini-Metal CHAMPION. Price includes 1993 sheet metal & spare parts. $49,500.00 Call (619) 772-4959. FOR SALE: Whole rig, '88 Chevy Crew Cab, custom built 5th wheel race trailer. Truck like new. Trailer has A IC, Onan genera r, air compressor, ice box, sleeping quarters. Hauls 2 buggies. $18,900.00. Call (219) 892-5867 or (219) 892--6289. FOR SALE: Cougar Magnum, Wright, Sway-A-Way, UMP, 930 c.v.'s, Wildwood, Master-craft, Neal, Centerline, Parker, Fuel Safe, Fox, Don Hat;: roller crank 2180, dual 48 Webers, Summers Bros. Hewland bus, also Class 10 side port exhaust, Don Hat;: motor. $8,500.00 will separate. Florida ( 407) 291-1215, (407) 292-2808 Ed. FOR SALE: FUNCO 102" rolling chassis. Good FR T class 100 ar. Overwide beam, 2¼ longer arm.s, combos, power steering, AMS rear disc, bus stubs, Centerline wheels, Turbo c.v.'s with axles. 002 trans with Super Diff & close gears. $2,500.00 (909) 980-7776. FOR SALE: Chenowth class 10 2 seater desert car. Fox shocks, Fire Out system, Parker Pumper, Fuel Cell and more. Older car in excellent condition. Great pre-runner. $7,000.00 oho. Call (805) 528-2791. ,,,,,....,..,,..== FOR SALE: Off Road's winning-ist race car! 1991 SCORE/ HORA, Fudpucker Mini-Mag Class Champion. 1992 SCORE, Fudpucker, La Rana Mini-Mag Class Champion. Complete racing package, spares and all. For details call Scott or Bob at PCI (310)427--8177. =-----,=------==----=~ FOR SALE: '91 Chenowth 101", powder coat neon green, alumi-num front beam, IRS, Neal pedals, Leighton trans, 486 Super Diff, Turboc.v. 's, fresh 1915, full flow heads, roller rockers, 48 Webers, Tri-Mil, Bilsteins, dirt& paddle tires, with 16' flat bed trailer w lstorage bed. Over $15,000.00 invested, Glamis ready. $6,200.00 oho. Call Mike (909) 596-1020. FOR SALE: Class 9 2 seat rolling chassis. Includes front end, transaxle, all skid pans, body panels, dash. $1,100.00 Call (714) 585-7931 or (818) 334-2396. Also, Regency FM race radio with PCI harness $250.00. WANTED: 2-1600 chassis or roller. Prefer O .R .E. Am convert-ing a 5-1600 for prerunning. Also, need Fox shocks, combo's, Centerlines, etc. Call Don at ( 405) 223--61 72 nites. March 1993 FOR SALE: Trucks & Prerunn-ers. From mild to wild, from half started rolling chassis to turnkey complete packages & far out prerunners. ( 1) '89 Super Cab Ranger XLT 2 link, long radius arms, 8 Bilsteins, 13" travel, NICE! $10,500.00 firm. (2) '89 Class 8 Ford, Bilstein, Summers, 35 l CID Evans, 42 gal cell & all spares$ l 9,900.00 (3) ½ built Big Travel Chevy rolling chassis, $11,000.00 (4) 7S Nissan, old Spencer truck. $18,000.00 (5) Chevy Class 7, big travel, ¼ elip rear, Fox, fuel injected $22,000.00 (6) '81 Ford Stepside, needs paint, Chevy 400 engine & Turbo 400 trans, Bilsteins, seats & 9" 31 spline posi $4,500.00 ( 7) 7S Ford Ranger, Frisk built, lots of spares $15,000.00 (8) '81 GMC prerunner $10,500.00 (9) '81 Chevy Class 8 prerunner $17,000.00 (10) Class l Jeep complete package $98,000.00 ( 11) Class 4 Chevy, 454 engine, street legal, very nice. $16,000.00 (12) Trailers & specialty haulers available and much much more! Call Rich Minga, OFF ROAD BROKER (619) 583-6529 or FAX (619) 583-1851. FOR SALE: On the instructions of the Joint Administrative Receivers of David Sutton Motorsport Ltd; the ex Saeed Al Hajri 1990 Challenge Champion-ship winning Ford Bronco T3 Desert Raid Car, with extra wheels, tires, and comprehensive spares package. This highly modified vehicle is now in the United Kingdom, with a price guide of 30,000 Pounds Sterling (approx. $43,000US), but all offers will be considered. Contact Henry Butcher & Co (Agents) in England. Call 0 11-44-21-236-5736 ref TD or FAX 011--44-21-236-3538 ref TD. HELPING BUYERS & SELLERS to do it right! Over SO cars, trucks & prerunners for sale. 12 years experience. We find you just what you're looking for & with our contacts & prices, we guarantee your happiness. Currently brokering 8 countries. ( 1) Class 2 RACECO, Hewland, 3.2 FAT Toyota, trailer, complete package, radios & all $25,000.00 (2) Class 2 Sandhawk, coil-over ITS bus, Bilsteins, West 2300cc, steal at $10,000.00 (3) RACECO Class 2, coil-over, Summers rear, Hew land $19,000.00 ( 4) 2 each Class 2 two seaters, nice old cars, $6,000.00 each. (5) 4 seater, Mazda, RACECO, bus, power steering $13,000.00 (6) 4 seater, coil-over, Hewland bus, super, super nice $15,000.00 (7) Class street legal prerun car, no motor $5,000.00 (8) Class S's, 3 available $10,000 .00-$1 7,000.00 (9) Class 10, many choices from $7,500.00 -$21,000.00 (10) Pre run 1 &2 seaters from $3,500.00 -$9,500.00, Baja's to street legals. ( 11) Big Special, tonos of 5-1600's $3,500.00 -$13,000.00 ( 12) ½ built 1-1600, new & competitive $5,500.00 ( 13) Loads of special buys on 1&2-1600 from $6,000.00 -$13 ,000 .00 ( 14) Challengers and 11 also call if you're selling used parts and/ or want to buy them. We're making things happen. Call your off road Broker & Consult-ant Rich Minga at Baja Concepts. (619) 583-6529 or FAX (619) 583-1851. FOR SALE: Be Fast or Be Last! Professionally prepared race engine. Ford 4 cylinder, built by Rev-Power. Side draft dual Webers, Eslinger head. With air box. Low hours. $6,500.00 oho. Call Doug (619) 439-9314 or Chad (714) 632-1337. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS ADRA International . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Arrow PrQductions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Baker Precision Products . . . . . . . . . 18 Barbary Coast -Gold Coast Hotels . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Bilstein Corp. of America . . . . . . . . . 5 Cactus Racing Products . . . . . . . . . . 26 Castex Inc., E-Z-Up ............. 4D Champion Bead Lock Co. . . . . . . . . . 31 DeNunzio Racing Products . . . . . . . . 37 Don-A-Vee Jeep/Eagle .......... 10 FOR SALE: Jeep Scrambler, SODA class 3 multi engines, transmissions, transfer cases, axles, body panels, sets of Rancho shocks, Beard seats, radios, wheels. All spare parts & trailer. A real turnkey. 4 time world champion. Serious inquiries only. (608) 781-1957. FOR SALE: FUNCO short course class 10. Fast 1641 engine, bus trans, 930m c.v.'s, Fox, etc. Just gone through. $4,000.00 with trailer. Ask for Steve Jr. (800) 995-2191 Car is in Lake Havasu City. FAT Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Fi est a Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 FORDA Tallahassee Race . . . . . . . . . 29 FAT Buu Bomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Fuel Safe . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Global Positioning Systems . . . . . . . 41 Rod Hall Driving School . . . . . . . . . . 45 Hi Tech Off Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 La Rana Spangler 200 . . . . . . . . . . . 11 LC. Engineering .... _ . _ . . . . . . . . . 41 Nevada Off Road Buggy . . . . . . . . . . 28 Parker Pumper Helmets . . . . . . . . . . 23 Parker Pumper Chaser Dudes . . . . . . 33 ·•~. . ....... .. , ~~ FOR SALE: Class 2 Hi-Jumper, 113" wb, 3.5 aluminum VS, Hewlands, 3x4 Woods rear arms, 2½" Woods front arms, Wright rack & combos, Fox coil-overs, UMP power steering, Beard Ultra seat, JAMAR hydraulics, Parker Pumper, Ron Davis aluminum radiator, 22 gal fuel cell. $5,500.00 (916) 273-9113 day, (916) 273-0890 nite ask for Everett. PCI Race Radios ..... _ ......... 47 Petro Tech USA, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Pike's Family Restaurant . . . . . . . . . 32 Race Ready Products . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Reid Pro ......... __ . . . . . . . . . . 34 Marvin Shaw Engineering ......... · 38 Marvin Shaw Shocks . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 SNORE Twilite 200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Joel Stankavich _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Sway-A-Way . _ ......... _ . ..... 27 Toyota Motorsports . . . . . . . Back Cover Toyota Motorsports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Trackside Photos Inc. _ . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Tri-Mil Industries ....... _ . . . . . . . 45 Valley Performance -Hewland . . . . . 4 Wilch Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Whiskey Row Screen Printing . . . . . . 13 . Wright Place ........... _ . . . . . . 39 Page 55

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