1993 Volume 10 Number 7 Dusty Times Magazine : simplebooklet.com

Volume 10 - Number 7 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 SNAPSHOT July 1993 Subscription Rates: Mrfd&ries,f(r1Boar1Racing• $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 reproduced 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 ~1311-4408. 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 ••• " Are you sure this is where we were to set up a pit?" seems like a good question as these youngsters find a new use for the floor jack. The place is Soggy Dry Lake on the Lucerne Valley course, and the pictures were taken in 1987 during the running of the Lucerne 250. The kids are Cheyne O'Gorman, then three years old, and his brother Ian, then 4½ years old, both grandsons ofJerry and Judy McDonald. Yes it was a pit location for the MacPherson Chevrolet team at that race. The boys are probably doing more serious work in the McDonald pits this year, but this team usually has time to have a good time at a race also. Photo by Judy McDonald. 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 nma July 1993 In This Issue ••• FEATURES Page SCORE San Felipe 250 by Judy Smith ..................... . 12 ADRA La Pia ya Motorcycles by Tony Tellier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 MTEG Stadium Racing in Phoenix by Jean Calvin .. ......... . 20 Bad Dog's Off Road Showdown .... ...................... . 26 Whiplash Racing at Kingman by Tony Tellier . . .............. 28 bff Road Racing at El Paso . ........... . ............... ... 30 WRC Safari Rally by Martin Holmes ..... ...... ... ... . . .... 32 Ice Racing Finale by Keith Anderson ......... ....... . ...... 35 ADRA La Playa 250 by Tony Tellier .... . ........ .......... 36 SCCA Wild West Pro Rally by John Elkin . ................ . 38 MTEG Fun Day at Glen Helen by Jean Calvin . . . ............. 40 Coyote Wash Bath by Fud . . .... . ........................ . 43 La Rana Spangler 200 by Jean Calvin ....................... 44 SCORE Off Road Show by Jean Calvin ...... .............. . 49 Vulture Mine Revisited by Tony Tellier ..................... 49 FR T Bu:: Bomb 1 SO Bikes by Fud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SO FORDA's Bilstein Ice Busters by Wayne Simmons .......... . 52 London-Sydney Rally First Report by Martin Holmes ......... 55 Australian Stadium Race by Darryl Smith . ...... .......... .. 61 DEPARTMENTS Soap Box by Bob Steinberger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Trail Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 H;ippenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Competition Review Board Report by Reese King ............ . 9 Checkers Column by the Big Wah:oo . .... . . . . ............. 54 Desert Race Support Report by Craig Lane .................. 54 Ch;ipala Dusters Report by Helen Henesy ................... 55 Pit T earn Register .......... ............... . . . ............ 55 Good Stuff Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Classified Ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Index to Advertisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 ON THE COVER - Randy Wilson drove the entire distance himself at the La Rana Spangler 200 at Ridgecrest, CA, said the car never missed fl beat, had one flat he changed himself, and finished with fading brakes bn the Toyota powered Raceco. He not only won Class 10 by a decent margin he also won the race overall by nearly five minutes doing the four SO mile laps in 4:23:23. It w;is another fast race for Scott Douglas at the SCORE San Felipe 250, fulfilling the promise of Class 7 by winning the race overall in just 4:43:36 in the Her:og Ford Ranger. Scott's extensive pre-running paid off. He was soon first on the road, enjoying dust free racing on the one loop circuit. Congratulations to both fast drivers. Color Photography by Trackside Photo Inc. S~7044<f DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST-GROWING on ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 1 year - $15.00 D ·I years - $15.00 D 3 years - $35.Gq Takeadvantage of your subscription bonus ••• Free one time classified ad up to 45 words. 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SOAPBOX ••• By Boh Stein/,,._,rger l .ate Breaking News Flash. Eddie Castro, showing his disdain for Bob Steinberger, has banned PCI Race Radios from his con-tingency program and also from attending his la Rana races. He has accused Bob Steinberger of, "loosely attacking and maligning himself and his company". Nothing could be further from the truth. Bob Steinberger has never said an untruthful thing about Eddie Castro and has the highest regard for the volunteer workers that make up la Rana. His letter stated that PCI does nothing for la Rana! It should be noted that PCI missed only one la Rana race because it fell upon a H.D.R.A. event. Scott was racing and Bob was under contract to H.D.R.A. for their communica-tions network. PCI has paid contingency from la Rana's inception, posting $950.00 per event for nothing more than running stickers. Bob Steinberger did la Rana's checkpoint/ start finish commun-ications before receiving the first of his "Dear Bob" letters. The communications were perfect. Status reports were almost AffENTION DESERT RACERS DUSTY TIMES has c-ontingency money posted at all Score desert races. Check it out on contingency row - Two different classes each event. • CENTER LINE - -RACING WHEELS / THE STRONGEST OFF-ROAD WHEEL MONEY CAN BUY! FAT Performance has in stock the largest inventory of 5-lug WI CENTER LINE wheels in the country. Whether you need wheels with polished or satin finish, FAT has them in all popular styles. Need them in a hurry? FAT can ship the same day as ordered ... and with the best price in the industry. FAT can also supply your CENTER LINES with Champion bead locks. Buying a set of CENTER LINES can be exceedingly easy with FAT Performance. We do all the legwork. Call for current pricing. Quantity discounts are also available. FAT IS YOUR HEADQUARTERS FOR VW, PORSCHE AND TOYOTA OFF-ROAD ENGINES AND PARTS. FAT Racing Ports Bilstein Shocks Sway-A-Woy Permo-Cool S&S Headers WeberCorbs IPF Lights JoMor Products Page 4 . Wright Place Tri-Mil Exhaust Gem Gears Beard Seats • Simpson Safety Super-Tropp Yokohama Tires Petro-Tech 2000 PERFORMANCE fol your FAT PerfOITilQnce cotolog, send $5 to Dept. cw, 1558 No. Case St,, Orange, CA 92667. Of coll (714) 637,2889. FAX(714) 637-7352 instantaneous. Everyone felt safe. Why was Bob summarily fired from a volunteer position? When Bob Hynes couldn't make the '92 High Desert 300, Eddie asked Scott, "Could PCI do the communications?" Scott had other obligations but would ask his dad who was at the H.D.R.A. Awards Banquet in las Vegas. It was eleven thirty P.M. when Bob answered the emergency phone call placed to the Gold Coast Hotel. Bob should have gone straight to his paid for hotel room, but alas duty called him to drive to Lucerne Valley and do Eddie's communications all day and into the evening. No thanks, no place to stay, nothing! Used again! If Eddie has a problem why can't he pick up the phone? Or use a third party mediator: Why does he rob his racers of PCl's contingency support? And why would a safety conscious person take away his racer's communica-tions technical support? PC! had over sixty cars running the Spangler 200 and helped several non PCI racers who otherwise would have run without com-munications . Another thing to consider is that Scott Steinberger and Bobby Willey own PC!. Bob Steinberger is retired and is just plain Weath..rman. Had Eddie taken the tim he would have known this an probably acted dif-ferently. Where PCI and the Weather-man have always supported the racers, we find ourselves now in need of your support. Eddie should be encouraged to reali~e that PCI comes to. the races to support the racers and that his dislike for Bob Steinberger has to be dealt with in some other manner. We have contacted the Incle-pendant Desert Racers Associa-tion (I.D.R.A.) and several of the off road pit supprt club presidents for their help also. If nothing can be worked out before the June 20-22 Lucerne Valley Jam, PCI will operate out of the F.A.I.R. Van or park just outside of contingency. PCI will still pay contingency! Stay tuned. May u•as a/J/wrently the month tlwt u1 Rema reorgani-;::ed tht.'ir race day /JTocdures. Y ottr editor feds res/Jemst/JLL', hewing shot her mouth off at an official slamming the gate to the />ost race im/Jound in our face after the race at Ridgecrest. Y <'5 we did ewnt1wlly get into the area, got most of our interviews done, hut a/J/>arently will not he ahle to do this £m)'more at La Rana races. A letter fn;m La Rcow /Jresidt.'rH Eddie Castro informed tts, among other things, that the /JTess, aJJ/wrently any /Jress />erson not just Dusty Times staff, would no longer · he allowed inside the J>ost race im/JOund. So, if you hear Carol Clark calling to yott ewer the [enc<', do /rd/> her get her story /,y s/>ending a moment hy the fence with her /,<'fore you leaw tit<' e1ree1 and go hack to cam/J next race at Lucemt.' Valley. (Ed) Vol1mteers are invited to dim/, on their "Soa/> Box" and fill this s/wce «•ith their thoughts ahout what is good and what is not so good about the state of the s/JOrt. Yottr words, short of heing lihdotts, will he /Jrint-ed. So, send along your /Jraise or damnation on your Soa/J Box to/Jic to Dusty Times, 2075 1 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 -44o8. July 1993 Trail Notes ••• ROAD AMERICA opened the SODA Series in mid-May and it was the second year for off road racing at the track in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, more famous for its many years of successf1,1l sports car races. As we go to press reports are sketchy, but we do have results. Chad Schlueter in a fancy Livernois Ford Bronco won the slim Class 3 race, while Fay State.:ny took Class 6 in his Chevelle in the combined run. The 5-1600s had their usual tight battle with Michael Brue taking the win over Greg Smith. In the 27 car herd in Class I 1 Two Seat, Dan Baudoux won a close one over Rod Attig. A half do.:en of the 17 starters were battling in Class 2-1600 and it boiled down to a win for Jim Wiggins over Greg Smith and Todd Attig. Only half a do.:en showed in Class8 and Scott Taylor, Ford, started his year with a win over Jed Flannery in a Chevy. The combined Class 9 / 10, 1650cc cars, fielded 14 chargers for the Saturday finale, a shoot out between the top five; Dan Baudoux won the race over Jeff Probst and Todd Attig. It was Dan Baudoux again starting out Sunday morning with victory in Class 11 single seat over Glen Mathews in the 28 car field. This year most of the Class 13s have truck bodies, there were 11 on the list and the win went to Robert Flanagan over Ed Schult:. 21 were entered in Class 1-1600 and this round Greg Smith won over Dan Baudoux and Jim Wiggins. Class 4 had a slim hut competitive field and Geoff Dorr got his Ford home in the familiar spot, victory lane, and Greg Gerlach was second. Class l / 2 started 13 and the victor was Todd Attig over Jeff Probst and Lee Wuesthoff. A do:en came out in Class 7 to watch a four way battle won hy Jeff Kincaid over Jim Wiggins and Tom Hockers. Rhonda Smith won the Women's open buggy class that started seven, and Dawn Beyer won the Women's Class 11 race. There were no championship races at the Road America event. ATTENTION CLASS 11, owners and drivers. July 25, Glen Helen OHV Park is the place, and the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group offers us a great opportunity to use our race cars again. MTEG's first fun time race at Glen Helen was quite a success, and the July 25 date is the second of three such race meets. Let's all get toµether and have a good time, and let's rub fenders aµain. This note rnme from Jack Zandhergen, a long time Class 11 driver and devotee. TOYOTA TRUE GRIT - Sixteen drivers remain in the race for a $12,000 purse that will he paid as the reward to SCORE lnternational's Toyota True Grit champions at the end of the 1993 season. The True Grit payoff will he split among four of the six eligible class winners, as all 19 drivers in two of the classes have dropped from contention hy failinµ to fin ish either the Parker 400 or the Nevada 400. The Toyota True Grit awards are to he paid to drivers in "little guy" classes, or classes which have no factory entries, based on their comhined average speeds for the six point scoring races. The fastest average speed in the Toyota True Grit points after two races is held hy Mike Julson of Santee, CA, who had a combined average speed of 44.729 mph. The list of eligihll' drivers in Toyota's other prestigious competition, the battle for Toyota Milestone awards, had been p,1red to 45 drivers out of an eligible list of 218, and this contest also includes only the six SCORE point counting events in 1993. Leading the Toyota Milestone derby is Ivan Stewart of Alpine, CA, who has won overall twice, averaging 53.812 mph cumulatively. Going for the True Grit Gold and leading in their respective classes arc Julson, Class 1-2-1600. Neal Grahowski, Class 5, Wayne Cook, Class 5-1600, and Steve Sourapas, Class I 0. No competitor has completed both of the first two races in either Class I I or Class 9. FAIR NEWS:...... The Pit Team Newsletter from our faithful correspond.:nt in FAIR, Dave Massingham, arrived just a shade toci late to make the pit t<:am pages in the hack of the puhlication, so FAIR is up front this month. The big flash of news is that the FAIR van total cost was not $3,500.00 as originally reported. It turned out to be$2,700.00. Thanks again to all who donated time and money. We collected a total of$1,700.00. At the La Rana Spangler 250 on May I in Ridgecrest, CA, FAIR fielded four cars. Rob Richey was a DNF with motor problems. Chris Newman was a DNF with a broken head and valve. Frank Omboli was a DNF when he lost a rear drum. But, Hal Hibbard finished fifth in class. Sorry I don't have any other info from the race. I understand it was a rough one. The Omboli crew is still looking for Elmer. The Baja 500 work · party was on May 25. FAIR is combining efforts with the Chapa la Dusters and the teams will set up five pits. All equipment was issued and it looks like we will have eight FAIR cars competing. A big thanks to Dennis Height for letting us do our equipment hand out at his shop. It sure worked neat. We'll have results next issue. Wayne Morgan has been talking to Tim Reed and Jack Waldren of the B.L.M. in Barstow. It seems BLM was going to shut down letting us do any authori:ed testing of race cars, but changed their minds. Both Tim and Jack are asking for our ideas on how to make testing safe and to avoid having accidents with the family riders in the same area. Please call (619) 256-2729 and give them your ideas on how to keep testing open. A possibility is a closed area for test only or posted area warning hike riders of the test area. On FAIR 's injury list is Pete Dutton, our own Pre:. He is down with major hack problems. Even Ma Bell won 'tlet him work, and we all know how hard they work! And Wayne Morris is n:cuperating from double knee surgery. It seems Wayne was very active in his younger days and now is paying for it. "Hey Wayne, mayhe if you paid your dues, you might get more sympathy!" THE FINAL FLAG -We got some sad news recently from Bob Hummel of Race Ready Products. A veteran off roader, San Diegan Ellis Cohen suddenly died of a heart attack without any previous warnings of trouble. Bob sent us this note. "I can't really recall my first meeting with Ellis Cohen. After you had met him once, you felt you'd been his best friend forever. It's impossible to truly express the loss. Instead, I want to express gratitude for the opprotunity in having been his friend. He certainly will be missed, but more certainly he'll be remembered. His smile and laugh were his most unforgettable features as well as constant companions. A successful family man and businessman, he inspired people to be their best and lived his life as an example." Along with Bob and many others, our thoughts go out to Ellis' wife Sally, daughter Tracy and son Mike. Bien Vieje Ellis. TV TIMES - A reader who quotes an unfamiliar TV Guide type maga:ine called to supply some Eastern Time :one times for off road racing on the tube. He said the SODA races will air June 27, 12:30 a.m.,July 3, 3:30 p.m., August 3, 12:30 a.m., October 19. 9:30 a.m., November 6, 12:30 a.m. The SCORE race shows start with the Baja 500,July I 0, 3:30 p.m followed by the Fireworks 250,July 13, 12:30 a.m. (Pikes Peaks July 25, 12:30 a.m.) Sept. 19, Gold Coast 300, 12:30 a.m., December 18, Baja 1000, 6:00 p.m. He said these are on various cable networks, mostly TNN and Prime Time so you will have to search your local listings, and hope the dates haven't changed. (mor<' TRAIL NOTES ... on />agc 10) Dusty nrncs

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1993 Happenings ••• A.D.R.A. American Desert Racing Association P.O. Box 34087 Phoenix, AZ 85067 (602) 252-1900 June 26-27, 1993 Annual Forest Service Conservation Project July 31, 1993 Cinder Mountain 100 Flagstaff, AZ October 9, 1993 Young Classic Cherry Creek, AZ October 30, 1993 BLM Conservation Ptoject 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 Teenan St. Ferny Hills, Q. 4055, Australia 0l l-18-07-851-0444 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 Lambert 65 Rue de Valcourt Blainville, Quebec, Canada K7B I HI (514) 434-5792 June 12, 1993 Autodrome Rive Sud Laprairie, Quebec August 3, 1993 Autodrome, Rive Sud Laprairie, Quebec August 31, 1993 Autodrome, Rive Sud Laprairie, Quebec BAD DOG'S OFF ROAD SHOWDOWN Callaway Fun Inc. 3825 No. Main Cleburne, TX 76031 Barry Don Callaway ( 817) 645-0003 /(817) 641-9985 Gene Peugh ( 8 I 7) 790-8268 nights Ricing thl' 3nl Smula:, of <?ach month March thrn Ocwhcr BAJA PROMOTIONS, LTD.S.A. Lou Peralta P.O. Box 8938 Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 340-5750 Golden Crown of Baja Desert Series (cars) June 25-27, 1993 Gran Carrera de Mexicali Night Race Mexicali, BC, MX July 23-25, 1993 Gran Carrera de Ensenada Ensenada, BC, MX September 24-26, 1993 Gran Carrera de Carnpeones San Felipe, BC, MX December 10-12, 1993 Mint 400 Desert Challenge 400 Miles Las Vegas, NV BONNEVILLE OFFROAD RACING ENTHUSIASTS Jim Baker P.O. Box 1583 Ogden, Utah 84402 (801) 627-B.O.R.E. July 3, 1993 Jackpot 200 Jackpot, NV August 21, 1993 Bonneville Challenge Wendover, USA BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada KOK-I HO (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-3250 1993 BRUSH RUN POINTS SERIES P.O. Box 101 Crandon,Wl54520 (7 I 5) 4 78-2222 June 25-27, 1993 Spring Run 101 Crandon, WI September 3-5, 1993 Brush Run 101 Crandon, WI BUMP Bob Utgard Motorsports Promotions 42263 50th St. West #108 Quart: Hill, CA 93536 (805) 256-8520 CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Lynnette Allison, CRS Director 2001 Oakland Hills Drive Corona, CA 91720 (909) 736-1442 Mike Gibeault, SCCA Steward 149 No. Rawhide Ridgecrest, CA 93555 (619) 375-8704 July 30-August 1, 1993 Prescott Forest Rally Prescott, AZ September 18-19, 1993 Treeline (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 Bend, OR 97702 October 16, 1993 Whiskey Springs 300 Central Oregon CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O. Box 332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholt:, President (719) 531-3642 W /(719)687-9827 H P.O. Box 9735 Colorado Springs, CO 80932 June 29-July 4, 1993 Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb Colorado Springs, CO July 31-August 1, 1993 Tentative Race Date Location TBA September 4-5, 1993 L·mds End Auto Hill Climb Grand Junction, CO September 25-26, 1993 Buffalo Peaks Auto Hill Climb Buena Vista, CO COLORADO OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS Bertram Productions Inc. 15073 Hwy 119 Route #4 Golden, CO 80403 ( 303) 936-5960 June 13, 1993 1-76 Speedway Ft. Morgan, CO July 11, 1993 I-76 Speedway Ft. Morgan, CO August 8, 1993 1-76 Speedway Ft. Morgan, CO August 29, 1993 l-76 Speedway Ft. Morgan, CO September 12, 1993 l-76 Speedway Ft. Morgan, CO October 2, 1993 Island Grove Park Greeley, CO CORVA 1601 10th St. Sacramento, CA 95814 (800) 237-5436 DECATUR FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-3649/ (214) 641-2090 FORDA Florida Off Roaders Drivers' Association 2750 Co:umel Drive #1116 Melbourne, FL 32935 (407) 254-5167 July 11, 1993 Sharpes, FL August 8, 1993 Lakeland, FL September 5, 1993 Tallahassee, FL October 10, 1993 Sharpes. FL November 14, 1993 Lakeland, FL January 9, 1994 Lakeland, FL February 13, 1994 Naples, FL March 26, 1994 Florida 400 Talahassee, FL FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 SUPERSTITION CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES 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 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 T earn Race Plaster City West, CA September 5, 1993 Desert Sprint Plaster City East, CA October 10, 1993 4th Annual Mudhen II Plaster City West, CA November 21, 1993 Notorious Dawg 3 Hour T earn Race 1-8 & Dunaway Road, CA December 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 July 25, 1993 MTEG Off Road Races August 22, 1993 MTEG Off Road Races C'.ourscs for stadium and dcsl'rt cars C.all MTEG for comf,lctc information GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association Box 11093 Station -A Atlanta, GA 30310 (404) 253-1033 June 27, 1993 Vienna, GA July 25, 199.3 Vienna, GA August 22, 1993 Vienna, GA September 26, 1993 Vienna, GA October 24, 1993 Vienna, GA November 27, 1993 Thanksgiving 250 Vienna, GA ( All L't'l.'tlCS Cit Vi~'t\llll, GA) GREAT PLANES OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION July 1993 GPORRA Mike Johnson, President 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68144-1122 ( 402) 333-05 I 7 Eve. June 19, 1993 July 10, 1993 August 7, 1993 August 21, 1993 (11ll wc<?s at WL'slfair Fair Gro11nds. Counc·il Bluffs. lot1'<1 on a •Vi mile nmrsl' similar to t!tl' MTEG rradu. and nm 1111der dass rl'g11l11tion.< from SODA) GRR Golden Rule Racing P.O. Box 40211 Phoenix, AZ 85067 ( 602) 263-5329 HIGH PLAINS OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Harvey Wald (605) 224-6678 days ( 605) 224-5534 evenings IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box 36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 ( All L't'L'nts .<tagcd ar the d11/, .~rmmds in CIL't'L'S, 0/1io) INTER-SHOWS. MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O. Box 2910 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 ( 714) 364-0515 KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER 4WDCLUB P.O. Box 465 Kamloops. BC, Canada V2C-5L2 Bob(604)374-7175 days Randy (604) 579-9621 eves Keith ( 604) 828-1795 anytime July 11, 1993 Short Course Mudbog Motorsport Facility Kamloops, BC Canada September 19, 1993 Kamloops 400 km Kamloops, BC Canada October 3, 1993 Lncdubois ATV Area Kamloops, BC Canada October 16, 1993 2 .· 3 mile Short Course Lilooet Motorsport Park Kamloops, BC Canada ( All L't'c1HS .<tart 7 mill's NW of Kamloo/>s) LA RANA DESERT RACING 22769 Chambray Dr. Moreno Valley, CA 92387 (909) 924-2226 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, MI 48837 (517) 627-6200 June 19-20, 1993 Off Road Nationals & Swap Meet Mason, MI June 25, 1993 Yale Summer Festival Yale, Ml July 24, 1993 Fowlerville, MI July 25, 1993 Caro, Ml July 29, 1993 Holland, MI August 1, 1993 Mason, Ml August 5, 1993 Sandusky, Ml August 10, 1993 Mt. Pleasant, Ml August 24, 1993 Kalama:oo, MI MICKEY THOMPSON'S OFF ROAD ST ADI UM SERIES Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group P.O . Box 25168 Anaheim, CA 92825 (714) 938-4100 June 26, 1993 Rice Stadium Salt Lake City, Utah September 11, 1993 Mile High Stadium Denver. CO October 9, 1993 Sam Boyd Silver Bowl Las Vegas, NV November 6, 1993 Candlestick Park San Francisco, CA November 20, 1993 Awards Banquet TBA CAMEL SUPERCROSS SERIES June 12, 1993 Sam Boyd Silver Bowl Las Vegas, NV MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION David Cronin, President. MAORA 2590 Mullanphy Florissant, MO 63031 (618) 765-2 I 99 July 3-4, 1993 Heat Races I st day Obstacle & enduro race 2nd day August 7, 1993 One day race program September 11, 1993 One day race program October 9, 1993 One day race program All L't'l'nts ar 0/wtt' Vall<?~ Cam/>.~round Shdl,vt>illl'. IL ( Additimwl rrad,-date's ma~ /,L' addd) NATIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION 11842 Jason Court Madera, CA 93638 (209) 486-4590/(209) 266-5558 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 9552 I (707) 822-8508 June 18-20, 1993 Ghost Town Adventure '93 South Lake Tahoe, CA/Stateline, NV September 17-19, 1993 Kern River Jamboree Kernville / Lake Isabella, CA OFF ROAD PRODUCTION$ OF EL PASO Joey Vasque: 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 855-9767 /(915) 855-9767 ONTARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION Jeff Sargent 1480 Lakeridge 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) 561-3208/(518) 236-7897 SCCA PRO RALLY SERIES Sports Car Club of America P.O. Box 3278 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 779-<,622 July 30-August 1, 1993 Prescott Forest Rally Prescott, AZ August 27-29, 1993 Ojibwe Forests Pro Rally* Bimidji,MN ff Dustyflma

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Competition Review Board Report C R B unanimously agreed that had observed and photographed Holmes had made a mistake and one of their competitors off the that there was no attempt to gain marked race course. The team an advantage. Class 11 champion delivered this information to and now Class 10 competitor SCORE officials and the protest-Martin Garibay stated that he had ed entry was flagged to appear at pre-run this section twice, and the CRB. When the case was missed the turn both times. presented at the meeting it Regardless . of intent, the board appeared that it had been posted SCORE San Felipe 150 By Rccsc Kini:: The Compeititon Review Board for the SCORE San Felipe 250 met at 10:00 p.m. Saturday night in the Pool Hall in the Las Misiones Hotel. Steve Kassanyi was the Board Administrator, rt·presen ting Chee kers and RFGoodrich. On the Board were Curt Le Due, Class 3, Martin Garibay, Class 10, Earl Roberts, Class 30, Bill Robertson, Class 1, Danny Cau SCORE President, Paul Fish, SCORE Vice President and Reese King, CRB Marshal. With only 81 entries starting the race, it was no surprise that only two cases were posted for the hoard. The limited entry created a pleasant atmosphere in town. There were no long waits for meals, no wild crowds at the start/finish, and no parking problems. Usually the hoard is selected in advance, hut many were unsure if they would actually attend the race so the board members were selected on contingency row. I do apologi:e to my friend and IDRA supporter Tony Tellier. Tony had asked my permission to attend the meeting as an observer. I know him to he a man of integrity and good judgehient, and a good journalist. When the meeting began I requested that everyone Dusty nmcs MIii IN USA who was not a board member leave the room until called. It wasn't until after the m~eting that I realized Tony had honored my request and left the room! It is my wish that Tony will attend the SCORE Baja 500 CRB meeting. In a written protest filed °by SCORE officials #7X, Bryan Holmes, was accused of failure to follow the marked course. The incident took place at approxi-mately mile marker 3, just past the San Felipe Municipal Landfill & Recycling (i.e. the dump). Evidently it became apparent to the promoter that some vehicles had been using a short cut in this area during pre-running. As marked, the course takes a right turn and joins the powerline road, en route to the infamous Zoo road jump. However, a significant time savings will occur if you ignore the right turn and continue straight. On race day SCORE Officials Association president Bill Wick positioned himself SO yards from the turn. The turn was marked with one set of down arrows and two sets of turn arrows. Addi-tionally two old washing mach-ines with turn arrows painted on them were placed in the road in an-felt that Holmes committed a after the announced cut off time, rules infraction, and that a letter because I had checked the attempt to block the short cut. At of reprimand was the appropriate unofficial results at 7:45 p.m . and approximately0622 Bill observed penalty. By the way, as it turned again at 9:00 p.m. SCORE Vice Motorcycle #7X to leave the out, Bryan Holmes was fourth President Paul Fish stated that marked course and continue overall and second in Class 22. there was precedence for this in a straight at race speed. Unfortun-Under Rules is Rules, our prior case, in which the protester ately, because of his position, Bill standard procedure requires that had filed after the time limit, but was unable to tell if the bike a protest must be filed no later had gone to the trouble oflocating continued straight or reali:ed his than one hour before the meeting the protested entry and bringing error and rejoined the race of the Competition Review them to the meeting. In our case course. Board. The reason for this is the accused was not present. Rider of record Bryan Holmes two-fold. First, it allows ample At this time I asked the board and co-rider Mike Korenwinder time for a competitor in the field members to decide if the case were called before the board and to contact an official for the should be heard. After much advised of the charge against purpose offiling a complaint, and discussion, the board decided in a them. Holmes, the starting rider, second, it establishes a cut off majority vote that the case would atlmitted that he had missed the time for the filing period. The not he heard. If this protested turn, but eventually reali:ed his responsible racer may check the entry had checked the results at mistake and rejoined the course. results one hour before the board 7:45 p.m. he would have found Board Administrator Kassan yi .-meeting, and if they have not been no reason to believe that there was questioned Holmes about his 'flagged' they may leave for home a prohlem with his finish . To have pre-running of this section. He assured that there wi 11 be no heard this case and possibly taken stated that he had pre-run tht: area surprises in their absence. action against the entry would and was aware that the course At the drivers' meeting on haw been grossly unfair. turnedtotherightandjoinedthe Friday, where attendance was (Editor'snote-Thereisagood powerline road. Kassanyi then mandatory, SCORE President deal more in this issue of the asked how far he traveled before DannyCauannounced that there Competition Review Board rejoining the course. Holmes would be a 7:45 p.m . Saturday cut Report concerning procedures stated to the board that he off time for filing a motorcycle and policies that did not directly continued approximately one protest. This was done as a affect the San Felipe race. Space mile before "Boony-bashing" his convenience for the competitors does not permit all of it to he way back to the marked course. who wish to participate in Sunday printed here, hut you can obtain a Also, he felt that he lost time due events with other promoters. copy of the whole report hy to this mistake in his first SCORE Apparently on Saturday evening a contacting the IDRA c.-'o Waste race. motorcycle team was approached King Publishing, 1458 Bonita In the rather hrief discussion hy a well known professional_ Ave.,LaVerne,CA91750orcall that followed the members of the photographer who stated that he (909) 596--6736.) 111 ■Ill DI CHAMPIONS. 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September 17-19, 1993 Bangor Forest Rally Bangor, ME October 1-3, 1993 Gold Rush Divisional Westcliffe, CO October 22-24, 1993 Press On Regardless* Houghton, MI December 3-5, 1993 Maine Forest Rally* Rumford, ME *Parr of rite North American Rall:-, ClwmJ,ionsltiJ, SCORE Score International 31125 Via Colinas, Suite 908 Westlake Village, CA 91362 (818)889-9216 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 ( rc,1tariw) November 12-14, 1993 Baja 1000 Ensenada, BC, MX SCORE SHOW Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group Tom Lewis P.O. Box 251 48 Anaheim, CA 92825 (714) 938-4155 S.C.T.A. Southern California Timing Association Elice Simonis Tucker 22048 Vivienda Ave. Grand Terrace, CA 92324 (714) 783-8293 SNORE Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 4394 Las Vegas, NV 89106 (702) 452-4522 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 Las Vegas, NV SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD DRIVERS ASSOCIATION Terry Wolfe 7839 W . North Avenue W auwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA /(414) 257-0422 June 11-13, 1993 Kiwanis Off Road Race Antigo, WI June 25-27, 1993 Spring Run IOI Crandon, WI July9-11, 1993 Fox Riverfest Challenge Luxemburg, WI July 23-25, 1993 UP Off Road I 00 Bark River, MI August 20-22, 1993 Great Northern Challenge Lake Odessa, Ml -~~~-= ~-!. ---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! Page 10 September 3-5, 1993 True Value W orld Championships Brush Run IO I Crandon, WI September 17-19, I 993 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 June 12, 1993 Twilite 150 August 6-8, 1993 4th Annual Rock N' Roll 250 September 11, 1993 Nightmare 150 October 16, 1993 Swords 150 All r<IL'<!S hdd at Notrc'c'S, TX · 25 miles u·cst of Odessa. TX TORA Truck Racing Association Ray Carney, Director 7 Prutell Drive Apalchin, NY 13732 (607) 625-5676 UORRA United Off Road Racing Association Dave Urhanowic:, President 589 Amwell Road Neshanic, NJ 08853 (908) 369-6550 June 19-20, 1993 July 17-18, 1993 August 21-22, 1993 September 25-26, 1993 October 16-1 7, 1993 (all cwnts ar Ou·c.~o Motor S/,orts Parl<. Rte·. 434. Ou'<!f,o. NY) VENTURA RACEWAY Business Office 2810 W. Wooley Road Oxnard, CA 93030 (805) 656-1122 June 12, 1993 Motocross, Stadium Off Road cars July 3, 1993 Motocross, Stadium Off Road cars August 7, 1993 Motocross, Stadium Off Road cars August 22, 1993 Ventura County Fair Motors ports September 18, 1993 Motocross, Stadium Off Road cars October 16, 1993 Motocross/Stadium Off Road cars November 20, 1993 Motocross/ Stadium Off Road cars VORRA· Valley Off Road Racing Association 1833 Los Rohles Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702 June 18-20, 1993 Virginia City 200 Virginia City, NV July 30-31, August 1, 1993 Fallon 250 at Night Fallon, NV September 4-6, 1993 YeringtoniVORRA 250 Yerington, NV Call For Courses and Dates Great Basil COnsultilg 2738 Chavez Dr. Reno, NV 88502 (702) 825-8830 October 16-1 7, 1993 VORRA/ All Pro Auto Parts Off Road Championship Race Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Ron (Rocky) Weinstein, President Box 246 - 106 -1656 Martin Dr. White Rock, B.C. V4A 6E7 (604) 582-3338 WORRA, P.O. Box 3241 Sumas, WA 98295 June 12, 1993 Hannegan Short Course Bellingham, WA June 19, 1993 Hannegan Short Course Bellingham, WA July 11, 1993 Interior Short Course Kamloops, BC Canada July 31, 1993 Hannegan Short Course Bellingham, WA August 14, 1993 Hannegan Short Course Bellingham, WA August 28, 1993 Hannegan Short Course Bellingham, WA September 19, 1993 Interior Long Course Kamloops, BC Canada October 3, 1993 Interior Enduro Kamloops, BC Canada October 16, 1993 Lillooet Short Course Season Finale - Lights Mandatory Lillooct, BC Canada WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS 2939 E. Grovers Phoenix, AZ 85032 (602) 971-3730 ( All c,•cnr~ at Tltrnsltcrlmul. 117th Aw. & Gbulalc in P/wciiix. AZ) WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL Terry or Bev Friday 5913 So. U.S. Hwy 45 Oskosh, WI 54901 ( 414) 688-5509 September 18-19, 1993 Wisconsin Off Road Festival Winebago Co. Expo. Centre Oshkosh, WI FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONS.HIP June 18-23, 1993 Ivory Coast Rally Abidjan, Ivory Coast July 14-17, 1993 Rally Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina August 4-8, 1993 New Zealand Rally Auckland, New Zealand August 25-29, 1993 1000 Lakes Rally Jyvaskya, Finland September 18-20, 1993 Rally Australia Perth, Australia October 10-14, 1993 Rally de Italia Sanremo, Italy November 1-4, 1993 Rally of Spain Catalunya, Spain November 21-25, 1993 RAC Rally Nottingham, England ATTENTION RACE& RALLY ORGANIZERS List ;1011r comin.~ c,•citts in DUSTY TIMES frcc! Sc,1d -vm<r l<J<H sd1d11lc as soon as /iossil,/c for'listin.~ i,; this column. Mail w111r race or rallv scltcdulc to: DUSTY TIMES. 207~·, Marilla St.. Clwcsmmlt. CA 91311-44dl. Check Out the DUSTY TIMES Special Club Sub Offer (818) 882-0004 July 1993 more Trail Notes ••• THE FINAL FLAG also flew in May quite unexpectedly for some of our personal dear friends. The off road racing world lost two good people who came to the sport a few years ago. The untimely deaths of Dale and Maggie Poe, parents of recent Class IO racer Bill Poe was also shocking. They were killed in an auto accident May 17th on their way home from Lake Tahoe. Poe was a major developer in the Conejo Valley and Santa Clarita locally, with interests in Nevada as well. Dale and Bill came to off road racing by associating with us and Brad Goodrow. Dale raced the Mint 400 in both 1985 and 1986, and although he enjoyed the racing, often with his daughter Sherryl riding with him, he enjoyed more supporting his son Bill in the off road world. Dale and Maggie were liked by all who came in contact with them and loved by those who knew them. Our condolences and our love go out to Bill, Sherryl, Rene and Su.:anne who were blessed with having Dale and Maggie as their parents. Via con Dios. INDY DRIVER TURNS TO OFF ROAD -The desert around Parker, Ari.:ona had a surprise visitor Saturday May 8 when Dominic Dobson challenged part of the SCORE Parker 400 off road race course. Dominic, better known for his Camel Light and Indy car efforts, was seen testing the Class 4 Jeep Honcho pickup truck that he plans to drive together with Ricky Taubman of Telluride, CO and Carl Jackson, of Lake Havasu City, in the August running of the SCORE Gold Coast 300 off road race. Team owner Jim Russell, of Desert Steel Racing said that negotiations are complete for Dobson to drive their BFGoodrich/Vertex Radio/KC Hilites truck. This will launch the Lake Havasu City, AZ based team's unique, fully supported contract race program for off road racing. ROB MacCACHREN TO TRY N ASCAR-Jim Venable, Venahlc Racing owner, announced last week that his off road champion truck d·river Rob MacCachrcn will he heading to Georgia after the Baja 500 for Buck Baker's NASCAR Winston Cup School. He will be piloting a V-8 Ford Thunderbird stock car June 16-20 on the 1.5 mile oval of Atlanta Motor Speedway. If all goes well, Venable hinted there could he a test inn full race car later this ycnr for the 28 year old Las Vegan. "Until I went to my first stock car race, I never knew just how loose those cars arc and how difficult they can be to drive", MacCachren said. "Just learning about drafting will be a huge accomplishment. I have n whole lot of respect for stock car drivers. I'm sure that won't be anywhere near what I'll feel about them after I give it a try. I'll go in with my eyes, ears and mind wide open." Sounds like we may lose another grc:it off ro~der to the big time. SCCA RIM OF THE WORLD RALLY - W c didn't have space this issue to do this rally justice, but the full report comes next month. Meanwhile it was no big surprise to sec Paul Choiniere and Jeff Becker win overall in the Audi Quattro S-2 and take Open class. Second overall and first in Group A, 31/, minutes hack, was the Subaru Legacy of Chad DiMarco and Erick Hauge, followed in about four minutes by Jeff Zwart and Tony Sircombc, third overall and second open in a 4WD Porsche Carrera 4. Todd Bawden and Cal Coatsworth were fourth overall and first in GT class in a Mitsubishi Eclipse. At ninth overall Peter Cunningham and Joe Andrcini won Production class in the Acura lntegra while just half a minute heh ind them was the Datsun 510 in the ranks. Guy Light and Dave White were 13th overall in winning th<.: Rallytruck class in the trusty GMC Sonoma, just a minute ahead of Roger Hull and Roh Cherry in a Mitsubishi Pickup, second in trucks. MEMORIAL DAY 100 - A flagship race in the SODA Series, one of six picked for hour TV shows in 1993 this race in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin was the first SODA event your editor visited about 16 years ago. The wcath<.:r was cold, damp on Friday, nice on Saturday and pouring rain on Sunday, but that is what makes all those green grasslands and hig trees. On Saturday the Class I I two seaters led off the action and it was Mark Oherg who led at the flag over Rod Attig and Dan Baudoux. In Class6 favorite Fay Stnte:ny lost ground on the first hill, making a close race between Greg Bcbvac and Tim Kamm. At the finish, Tim Kamm had the lead just ahead of Greg Bekavac, and State:ny was a close third.Jerry Bundy in a.Jeep was the early Class3 lcadcr, but Gerald Foster won the race well ahead of Chad Schlueter and Bundy. The 5-1600s had the best race of the day for the lead with Chuck Johnson ahead of the line and at the finish-, but Mike Brue was on his rear humper, sometimes alongside, every one of the 20 minutes of the race. Jeff Probst led the Class 9.: 10 pack in his new, light car for half distance, then retired. Todd Attig also dropped back and Jeff St. Peter won the race followed in by Lee Wuesthoff and Randy Eller. At the Green it was a drag race in Class 8 between Scott Taylor, Ford and Walker Evans, but Evans soon hrokc a ball joint, and nohody threatened Taylor on his way to victory. Dave Hackers was a distant second. It was another drag race off the line in Class 4 won by Kevin Prohst, with Geoff Dorr half a length hack. T his pair swapped the lead often and Dorr eventually won over Probst with local favorite Jack Flannery back in an unusual third. The final Saturday race was for the herd of 2-1600 cars with Jim Wiggins out front by a bunck off the line over Greg Smith. Wiggins faded with mechanicals, and Smith won the race followed by Dan Raudoux and Walt Carlson. Sunday the track was mud, as were the pits, hut the racing went on, starting with the single seat Class 11 s, a hardy bunch. Rod Attig jumped into the lead, cars were getting stuck everywhere on course, even Attig who lost the lead for a while, hut Todd's dad Rod Attig got the lead hack and won the race, followed by Darrin Parsons and Mark Oberg. Class 1-1600 came out next hut in one lap it was hard to sec any numbers on the cars. Fortunately Jim Wiggins got the lead and held it for seven laps. Todd Attig was steady, close in second, until the last lap when Attig passed Wiggins, we think, to win the race and Wiggins was second. Clnss 13 saw Dan Vandcn Heuvel catch the early lead :tnd hold it all the way to the finish, followed all the way by Bruce Shilts in second and Tom Jensen, third. Track conditions worsened by afternoon and half of the Class I , 2 field declined to race. Only five were left after one lap, and Todd Attig held the lead he took at the start, followed hy Scott Schw;ilhe and Jeff St. Peter. The mud was incredible, many were stuck, Attig too, and Jeff St. Peter slid into the win, followed by Attig and Randy Eller. Slipping off the line in Class 7 Scott Taylor led hricfly with John Greaves taking over soon followed by Jeff Kincaid, who won the race followed by Greaves. The Limited Buggy Championship went to Todd Attig who led all the way while John Greaves and Jim Wiggins fought it out behind.Jon Huss got second and John Graves third. The finnl race of the event, the Heavy Mctnl Championship saw Kevin Prohst and Walker Evans hnttling for the lead. Evans hlcw a tire, Probst led to the flng,Jcd Flannery was second :ind W alker Evans came hack to finish third. When the notes dry out we will have a full report on this race next month. EARLY FLASH - I van Stewart is the unofficial overall winner of the Baja 500 as Dusty Times goes to press. Complete report next month with all the official results. Dusy nma

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TECATE/SCORE SAN. FELIPE 250 Scott Douglas the Overall Winner B:v }1ul:v Smidt Photos: Tmd<.sidc Photo, Inc. Mark Newhan was driving his first SCORE race, his fourth ever event, but he had a good lead with 100 miles to go and he won Class 1/2 and also placed a fine sixth overall in the GMC pickup . . -""-~ "",::,.: . .w;i-:,;;',m .<,. }f ,.# ~--...;; Scott Douglas fulfilled Parnelli Jones' prophesy that a Class 7 truck could win overall in a desert race. With the competition parked early Scott drove a comfortable race and took the overall victory in 4:43:46 in the Ford. Scott Douglas took advantage of the light entry and an enhanced start position, to charge to the front of the pack at SCORE 's non points San Felipe race in April, and da::led 'em all with the overall win in his Class 7 Ford Ranger. San Felipe is lovely in April, with some wildflowers still in bloom, and gentk hree:es to cool the days, which haven't yet got to the blistering level of late summer. But it \\'asn't enough to attract thL' racer-; as long as there were no points for racing. They stayed away in Jroves. There was a fair contingent of bikers, for whom it was a points event, but only 51 car and truck entries showed, and almost all .the big "team" cars were missing. After a very low key day in contingency row and tech on Friday, the driver's meeting was held on the grounds of the La Mision Hotel, under the palapa, which is now canvas, since the fiber roof went up in flame after contact with some racers' fireworks a few years ago. Sal Fish performed the obligatory intro-ductions and thank you's, and made a few general announce-ments before turning the meeting over to Danny Cau and Paul Fish. Among other things, Sal said that the winner of the race would probably average 53 miles per hour. It was also announced that the course was ribboned every half mile, and all markings were on the right side of the trail. The time limit was to be 11 hours, and Class 11 and the stock mini trucks would not be required to run the 59 mile loop that included the mini summit, thus shortening their race to about 197 miles. Cars would be started a minute apart, and for this event it had been decided to change the start position of Class 7. Thus the start order would be: Class 1 /2, 8, 7, 10, 5, 1-2-1600, 7S, 5-1600, 9, 11 and Stock Mini. In the unlmited class, which was the first to start, the favorite was Bob Richey in his Porsche powered Raceco with the auto-matic transmission. He was the first car off the line and, barring problems, should have been the first car back. Behind him there was a hodgepodge of vehicles, including Grant George in his Ford truck, Billy Bunch in another Ford truck, Juan and Rodolfo Gome: in a Chevy truck, Driver of r(}cord Nancy LeDuc and her husband Curt dusted off the pre-runner Ford and went out to have some fun in Class 8. Curt drove some distance and Nancy drove it home, first in class and fifth overall. Page 11 and Mark Newhan in a ·GMC truck. Bunch, George and Newhan had all had problems Mike and Morley Williams ran fourth for a time in Class 1/2 in the rotary getting their vehicles to finish in powered MEGO, and moved up to second, a fine finish, 7th 0 /A, for the previous events, and the Chevy _ _ u_n_us_u_a_l_c_a_r. _______________________ _ was an unknown element. There were some buggy type vehicles also, including Mike and Morley Williams in their Ma:da Rotary powered MECO, Bob Land in an Acura powered Chenowth, Mark and Carlton Post in a V6 Chevy powered Raceco, and Alex Garcia and Martin Duarte in a Chenowth. At about the time the first of the Class 11 cars took the gret:n flag, not quite an hour into the race, word came back on the radio that Richey was already out, and parked on the beach road. He'd lost his motor. At the side of the road, not far from him, George was working on his rear suspen-sion, and the Gome: team had their C hevy stuck in the sand. Bunch had problems with his b'alljoints, and was making repairs. Billy Bunch and Manny Esquera had a good run, with no big troubles for a change, and they nailed third in Class 1 /2 leaping toward the finish line. Newhan, who was drivng in his first SCORE event, and only his fourth race ever, moved along at a steady clip, and when he got to mile 156, he was in the lead for Class 1, 2. In second it was the team of Garcia and Duarte. George, who'.d W)t his truck going again, ran third at that point, although 40 minutes behind the leader, and it was a personal best for the truck, which hadn't ever made that many miles in a race before. Mike and Morley Wil-liams were fourth at that point, charging very hard, trying to make up for time lost with a faulty fuel '\. f#,I, ';·~u~ • .,, ,, b •uH ~ ·, ,._.;,.~ Beny Canela and Art Peterson had an early dashboard fire, lost time in the rewiring, but finished the race in the Ford, second in Class 8 at that. July 1993 pump. Newhan, who'd run out of gas at one point, and sent his co-driver jogging down the road to get enough to get them into their pit, stayed in front, but Garcia and Duarte lost their front end about 165 miles into the race. George fadd away also, and Bob Land was reported out of the race at 3 Poles. The word was that he had a major rack and pinion problem. Bunch was going again, and had made further repairs to a broken bump stop, before handing the truck over to co-driver Manny Esquerra. Newhan had managed only one prerun, and had needed two days to get it done, and predictably, he became confused by the multitud~s of roads as he neared the finish. He wandered around some, and was finally set straight by Danny Cau who happended to see him heading away from the finish line. Once pointed the right way he came in to get his first finish, and the class win. The Williams team finished second. about a half hour later, and Bunch Dusty Timcs

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Bill Hernquist suffered with a pesky engine miss most of the day, finally cured it, and went on to fourth in the Class 10 Jimco and ninth overall. Luis Leal and Jorge Lear Sr. got a late start, made the time back in Class 5, and placed second with the clutch going away as they finished the race. Larry Cossio rolled over in his Raceco, and had a tough time getting back on the wheels, but he did and he finished the race, a long third in Class 1-2-1600. l Dave Bufe and Jerry Higman lost a rear brake in the first 35 miles, but carried on, moved to the front in Class 10 at two/thirds distance and won the class in the Neth and also finished second overall. and Esquerra were third, pleased Peterson, and the other the Ford to finally get their truck to a finish pre-runn1:r of Curt LeDuc and his line. Land and his co-driver, Eric wife, Nancy. Perry McNeil had Snrgent, proved the radio reports planned to race his Ford also, hut wrong by showing up at the finish had lost his motor during testing line about four minutes and 15 the day before the race. seconds before their cut off time, Canela 's dash caught fire before to take fourth place. And they he'd gone 100 miles, and by the were the last of Class 1 / 2 to get time the fire was out a lot of hack home. important wiring was burnt up. Class 8 started next, and there He began cannihali:ing it from were hut two of them, one the other parts of the truck, and Ford of Beny Canela and Art finally got it going again, except Brian and Jon Tank/age hit a booby trap in the Jimco early, breaking things up front, but they got fixed up, and charged to second in Class 10, 4th 0/A. Javier Cevallos and Vicente Serrano lost the power steering, stuck the Jimco in the sand for a time, but recovered to take third in Class 10, 8th 0 /A. Dusty nmes that couldn't make the motor for the transmission cooler fan work. He limped to a pit and his crew worked on it for a while before it would run. Meanwhile, LeDuc had broken a wheel, and was concerned that his motor pinged in the soft sand. Also, his transmission tended to get hot, so he had to slow down a bit. But watching him charge through the turn at mile 156 you'd never have known he'd slowed down. He nearly wiped out a couple of imprudent spectators who'd decided to moon him, sending rocks, small shrubs and spectators flying in all directions. LeDuc's wife, Nancy, who was the driver of record for this event, got in for the tail end of the day, and brought the truck to the finish line uneventfully. They . got their win, and were fifth -'P',/l:fJ overall, and it was three hours class at the recent Nevada 400 before Canela 'struck arrived. ( where Jack Johnson ran fourth Peterson, who drove the second overall on lap one, and finished half, thought he might not make it 13th overall). Cau decided that a for a while there, when he ran out change was justified. So he of gas about three miles before the humped the Class 7 start position finish line. He managed to find to just behind Class 8. some fuel, and came on in for Douglas now had only 11 second place. starters in front of him ( instead of Last year ParnelliJones claimed 22 ), most of whom were far less that his Class 7 truck didn't experienced than he is, and none deserve to start so far back in the of whom had the pit support that pack. He said it had a real chance Douglas enjoyed. Only. one or for an overall victory, if only it twoofthoseinfrontofhimcould could start further up in the pack, present a problem, and one was not have to fight through so much Curt LeDuc, in his Ford pre-" slower traffic." runner. He started immediately in Apparently the Her~og T earn, front of Douglas. As they waited owner of Douglas's Ford, felt the in staging they discussed the day same way, so for this race they ahead, and the upshot was that took their argument to the LeDuctoldDouglashe'dgivehim president of SCORE, Danny Cau. no trouble when he was ready to After some dis.::ussion, and after pass. Douglas declared that he was studying the performance of the a "man with~ ROAD COMPONENTS E BE1"';f R IN THE U.S.A. * AXLES• SPRING PLATES• PREDRILLED CV BOLTS LINK PINS• LINK PIN BUSHINGS & SHIMS TIE RODS• WHEEL STUf?S • BUSHING INSTALLATION TOOLS • NEW PRODUCTS IN DEVELOPMENT• SCORE & LA RANA CONTINGENCY SPONSOR DJ TRANSAXLES 10623 Blackfoot Road A~le Valley, CA 92308 (619) 240-3930 D.G. RACING 708 W. Mill, Unit M San Bernardino, CA 92410 (909) 885-5226 July 1993 HOTLINE AUTOMOTIVE 6951 ldlewylde Circle Melbourne, FL 32904 (407) 724-1270 LOTHRINGER ENGINEERING 825 N. Glendora Avenue Covina, CA 91723 (818) 915-2212 OFFROAD BUGGY SUPPLY 2525 E. 16th Street Yuma, AZ 85365 (602) 783-6265 DENUNZIO RACING PRODUCTS P.O. Box 6057 Santa Barbara, CA 93111 (805) 683-1211 Page 13

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Conrad Diaz and Luis Bar,c.Jan had Class 5 in hand righc tram the start, had a flat, and on the final miles nursed a noisy CV to victory and 11th 0 /A. Jeff Lewis and Jerry McDonald teamed up to test new stuff for the Chevy S-10. They did some damage hitting the first booby trap, but the front end held together and they won Class 7S and finished third overall. ~ a mission -to get that Felipe for a full week prior to the overall win," and LeDuc had no race, pre-running steadily, wish to get in his way. planned to "set a comfortable Douglas, who'd _been in San pace, and then charge." But his COAST 1-800-634-6755 ·1-800-331-5334 Page 14 he took off his spare for better air· flow, hoping he wouldn't have any flats. Garibay ran well for a while, but then he lost second gear, and, finally, had no transmission. When they got around to mile 156, the Bufe and Higman car was in the lead, and the Tanklages, • who'd had to have the front end welded, ran second. Cevallos and Serrano were third, followed by Hernquist, and then Yesterdal, who'd had to park for a while to cool his motor, before doing the mini summit. Paul Huffman had his Chenowth ready for the Class 1-2-1600 battle in San Felipe, as his most feared competition retired after leading a good way. Paul's only woe was a cracked pulley and he won Class 1-2-1600 at 10th 0 /A. Higman and Bufe, who were the second car on the road, a half hour behind Douglas, were enjoying a dust free race, and, except for that missing rear brake, didn't have any serious troubles. They took the class win, and were second overall. The Tanklages were second in class, finishing anout 13 minutes later, and then Cevallos and Serrano were third. Hernquist, who'd discovered that his miss was an arcing plug wire, had also had many flats, hut comfortable pace was adequate to put him out in front early in the day, his biggest potential prc;;b-lem, Richey, was parked pre-maturely, and nearly everyone else was parked for at least a while, so he didn't even have much moving traffic to contend with on his way to the front of the pack. Once in front. Douglas found it was a different world from what he was used to. Not only did he have no dust, but the "bushes weren't all knocked down!" His truck, which he later said was "incredibly fast in the rough", had no problems, not even any flats, and just kept speeding through the day. He said that the improved start position" made all the difference in the world." Douglas crossed the finish line· in four hours and 43 minutes, with an average speed of 54.4 miles per hour ( very close to Fish's prediction of 53 mph), to take the overall win. He was all through by one o'clock. The Class 10 cars took the green flag next, and in this group the favorites were Jon and Brian Tanklage in their Jimco, Dave Bufe and Jerry Higman, in a Neth, Bill Hernquist in his new Jimco, and Martin Garibay, the ex-Class 11 champion, in his Chenowth. But Garibay rolled on the beach road, and while he had spectator help to get going again, he lost some valuable minutes. The Tanklage car ran into a booby trap very early on the course, and hit it so hard it broke a shock reservoir and a front beam brace. Then at mile 15 they lost a fan belt. Hernquist's car had a miss he couldn't figure out, and Bufe lost a rear brake about 35 miles into the day. Javier Cevallos and Vincente Serrano, in a Jimco, lost their power steering, and also got stuck in the sand for a while, while Steve Vesterdal's car ran hot, and stayed moving well enough to finish fourth, with Yesterdal in fifth, luckily never needing the spare he'd taken off its mount. Steve Miller, who was sixth and last to finish, had enjoyed his new motor too much, and had rolled over about 85 miles into the race. But, he gathered himself together and got his Funco to the checkered flag for his first finish. The Class 5 Baja Bugs were the next group to start, and only two of them got off the line on time. Luis and Jorge Leal were pulled out of staging because their rear facing yellow light wasn't working, and they had to start a few minutes late. In the mean-time, Conrad Dia: and Luis -. Las \eg·as, Nevada July 1993 Dusty nmcs

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Rogerio and Rodrigo Ampudia had a half hour lead at mile 156 in Class 1-2-1600, but like last year they later lost their oil and the engine in the Neth. Javier Sacio has some overheating problems with his Nissan in his second SCORE event, but he finished second in Class 7S and a fine 12th overall. Guillermo and Javier Quintero had some 'small' mechanical woes, and got lost a couple of times, but they recovered to finish a good second in Class 5-1600. Barragan passed Rudy Corte;; and George Rodrigue;;, who started in front of them, and never saw them again. Diaz and Barragan had a flat, but no other big problems, and kept moving along steadily. The Leals also had a flat, and then they : had an alternator problem, "with : lots of sparks!" they said, but they corrected it and carried on. For the last 15 miles or so the Diaz and Barragan car had a noisy c.v. joint, and they worried a bit, but it held up, and they got back 1 all right, taking the win. The Lea ls , lost their clutch just as they finished, but were second, a little over an hour later, and the Corte;; and Rodriguez team was never heard from at all. In the 1-2-1600 class the team to watch was that of Rogerio and : Rodrigo Ampudia, in a Neth, a · pair of quick Ensenada residents who are very familiar with the terrain down there. They went into the lead early in the day, and by mile 156 had 34 minutes on · Paul Huffman, in a Chenowth. . Huffman, who is usually a pit · person for the MacPherson T earn, was driving his second race, and had just been rear ended, and needed help with a cracked pulley. Larry Cossio, in a Raceco, had been running third, but rolled over and took a long time getting · back on his wheels again. The rest of the class had bombed out. The Ampudias led until they got out onto the dry lake, about 195 miles into the race, and they lost all their oil, and their motor. It was a repeat of what happened to them last year in this race. At that point Huffman knew he was in the lead, so he "just cruised" on to the finish. Cossio did get moving again, and finished about three and a half hours later, second, and last. Class 7S consisted of just three trucks for this event, one of which was the Chevy of Jeff Lewis. He had Jerry McDonald, who couldn't stand not driving in a. Baja race, as a co-driver this time, loop, including the mini summit, finishing just 14 minutes in front In Class 9 Dagoberto Salazar, as the MacPherson team had and then got out again. of the Quinteros. In third it was who drives a two seater originally decided to use this non points Lede;;ma put his father, Hector, Vildosola and Minga, and then built by the Lede;;mas who won race as a test run for some new into the car for the last 100 miles Rodriguez and Esparza, with no 5-1600, lost his rear suspension things on the little truck. They or so, and he had only one flat, second gear, were fourth, while about 36 miles into the race, and werenearlyoutofitveryquickly, _aboutl0milesbeforehegottothe Muller and Vildosola finished Alfonso LaCarra and Eduardo because they hit the booby trap, •finish. They took the win, fifth, and last. Mayoral, in -~ and shoved their radiator back s-r-------------------------------------------~ about three inches. Some other things were bent or loosened also, but Lewis just kept running steadily. They led all day, had no troubles, beyond wondering what had been loosened up in the front end, and took the win, finishing third overall in the process. Behind them, Javier Sacio, in a Nissan, was running his second SCORE race (his first was this event in '92) and had some overheating problems in the sand. But he had no other problems, and finished second, only an hour behind the winning team. Chris Taylor and Victor Davis, who drive a Ford that once belonged to Scott Douglas, were out of the race early, parked by the side of Highway 5. The 5-1600 cars took off next and Tim Lawrence, who'd started the race with his pre-run motor in the car, was out before he'd gone five miles, when it blew. That left just five cars running, and Danny· Ledezma had a flat tire before the first road crossing, while Eric Muller and Gus Vildosola were having carburetor problems. The team of Michael Vildosola and Rich Minga lost a c.v. at about mile 45, and Manuel Rodriguez and Victoria Esparza lost second gear up near the mini summit. No one was having a really good day. Muller and Vildosola finally had to replace their carburetor. Ledezma broke a throttle spring, and made a patch, but his repair broke, so he had to replace the spring. Still, he managed to get to the front of the pack. 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Michael Vildosola and Rich Minga changed a CV a: mile 45, bu1 after that they just drove on and finished a long third in Class 5-1600 competition. Ed McLean and Phillip Breedlove had a leaky transmission that needed to be filled occasionally, but they soldiered on to a fine second in the Class 9 Jimco. Ruben Garcia, from Mexicali, started out strong in Class 9, and drove alone, but got sick: still he carried on to finish third in Class 9 ranks. Eric Solorzano and Hector Rodriequez broke a shock tower on the route and also replaced several alternator belts, but they finished second in Class 11. Ernesto Martinez broke a CV just five miles into the race, got it I Dagoberto Salizar zips his two seat Class 9 racer along the fixed, then had a good day and finished just 10 seconds behind course prior to rear suspension failure at about the 36 mile mark second place, in Class 11. ending his day. ~ a new J imco, broke their trnnsmission about 98 miles into the race.' That left just three cars moving. Bruce Mangold, who had recently hought a house in the San Felipe area, decided it would make a nice week, to come down, prerun, and then race the event. He had never raced in San Felipe hefore, hut he got his R;::-a-ce_c_o-'--a-;--;ll--to-;--le~t--:M~a-n_g_o-;l-;d-g-e~t--:-in- t:-o-t:-;h:--e--;::;:;;::::;::;..._.,;;;;;;;;;; ready, and brought a big gang of driver's seat, the other two cars buddies, and let Tim Gavett drive both went hy. But then he caught the first half. He diced with Ed them, and got out in front, and McLean and Phillip Breedlove, in never saw them again. He went on a Jimco, and Ruben Garcia, a to the finish, having no problems, Mexicali resident, was also and took the win, to the intense running up close. pleasure of a huge group of When Gavett stopped midway, neighbors and friends. Breedlove SCORE SAN FELIPE 250-Results April 16-18, 1993 I Pos. Driver/Co-Driver Vehicle Class 1/2 - Unlimited Single & Two Seat - 9 start - 4 finish 108 1 Mark Newhaan/Frank Artzer G.C 106 2 Morley & Mike Williams Meco Mazda 104 3 Billy Bunch/Manny Esquerra Ford F-150 102 4 Bob Land/Eric Sargent Chenowth Acura Class 1•2-1600 -1600cc Restricted Engine - 6 start - 2 finish 1607 Paul Huffman/Ron Klarenbach Chenowth 1605 2 Larry Cossio Raceco Clan 3 - Short WB 4X4 - o start - o finish Class 4 - Long WB 4x4 - o start• o finish Clan 5 - Unlimited Baja Bug - 3 start - 2 finish 502 1 Conrad Diaz/l.uis Barragan Baja Bug 549 2 Luis A& Jorge Leal Sr. Baja Bug Clan 5-1600 - l600cc Baja Bug • 6 start• 5 finish 555 1 Danny & Hector Ledezma Baja Bug 553 2 Guillermo & Javief Quintero Baja Bug 552 3 Michael Vildosola/Rich Minga Baja Bug 554 4 Manual Rodriguez/Victorio Esparza Baja Bug 557 S Eric Miller/Antonio Lopez Baja Bug 700 Clan 6 • Production Sedan & Utility • o start • O finish Class 7 • Unlimited Mini-Midi Pickup• 1 start • 1 finish Scott Douglas/Daw Mason Ford Ranger Class 7Sl74x4 • Stock Mini-Midi Pickup - 3 start • 2 finish 721 1 Jeff Lewis/Bob King Chevy S-10 722 2 Javier Sacio/George Ayoub Nissan Class 8 • 2WD Standard Pickup • 2 start • 1 finish 849 1 Nancy LeDuc & Curt LeOuc Ford 801 2 Beny Canela/Art Petel'son Ford F-150 Class II • Restricted Buggy • 5 start • 3 finish 902 1 Bruoe Mangold/Tim Gawtt Raceco 9118 2 Edward Md..ean/PhlNip Breedlowt Jimoo 907 3 Ruben D. Garcia NIA Class 10 • Unlimited IS50cc • 11 start • 6 finish Time 5:47:13 6:14:44 7:19:34 10:55:45 6:18:53 9:54:46 6:32:24 7:46:39 6:29:17 6:43:35 7:48:31 8:03:57 8:18:59 4:43:36 5:32:19 6:30:22 5:43:50 8:53:39 7:03:48 7:24:03 8:24:02 100II 1 Daw Bute/Jerry Higman Nelh SS 5:21:01 1006 2 BrilW'I & Jon Tanldaoe .Amc:o 5:34:15 1012 3 Javier CevalollVan• Serrano .imco 6:14:55 1008 4 Bill Hemqui11/Bob Snai1h .imco 6:17:36 1098 S S__, Vesterdal NIA 5:38:45 1010 6 SIIWn Miler FlnD 8:18:05 THE FOLLOWING TWO.CLASSES RAN ONLY 1• 1ULES ON COURSE aa.. U • Slock VW Sedan • 4 start • 4 lnlsh 1101 1199 2 1103 3 Ruben & Le«iardo Fernandez VW Beetle Eric SolorzanolHec:IDr Rodriguez VW Beede EmNIO MartineZIErick Del Peral VW Beetle 1102 4 Felizwdo L. Mlnoz/Tom Preston VW Beede Clua Stock 111111 Trudl • 1 start • 0 finish 762 1 Larry Carpenter/Randy Bass Toyota S1arters Cars -51 Finiltiers Cars -31 Finish ralio - 60.8% Starters Bikes -31 Finishetl Bikes - 25 Finish ratio • 80% Raoe Distance -257 .3 mil• • Tme Allowance -11 hours No interim tin\n available for l00ring the non-finishers 6:33:04 8:15:24 8:15:34 10:06:49 . NIT Absolute Fut Time 0Yerall • Danny HameV Larry Roeseler-Kawasaki-4:23:13:22 Fut Time Overal - Cera -ScDa Douglu - Ford Ranger - 4:43:36 Pasc16 and McLean ( who thinks he's the oldest SCORE racer, at 67) were second, slowed a bit hy a leaky transmisson that needed to he O/A refilled occasionally. They'd also lost the pump for their helmets, and had to drive with the face plates open, which meant their eyes were hanging out there in the dust. They were only 21 minutes behind the winners. In third it was Garcia, who'd heen doing all right until he · got sick. He was still 6 7 18 31 10 29 Bruce Mangold and Tim Gavett, who started in the Class 9 Raceco, had no real problems, but had the biggest cheering section of all as they drove to victory in Class 9, which had high attrition. 13 20 11 16 21 22 26 3 12 s 28 17 19 27 2 4 8 9 15 25 clearly ill at the finish line, and not interested in describing his day. There were four Class 11 entries, and they all apparently had a wonderful time. Once SCORE decided to omit the loop containing the miserable mini summit, it was a nice course for these little VW s, but it was still a challenge. Leonardo Fernande: drove all but 20 miles, and had only a battery mount problem to slow him down in his first SCORE race. He then turned the whed over to Ruben Fernande:, who enjoyed the dicing with others in the class, as they made their way to the finish line, and the win. The team didn't even have any flats, and finished an hour and 45 minutes before the second place team. That was The four in Class 11 were all Mexican entries, but they had good acti'?n. H R d • _ d E • Ruben and Leonardo Fernandez had a battery mount problem, but nothing S c1 ct or O hr I g~ e ~k an h rtkc else. and they won the Class 11 honors by an hour 42 minutes. oor:ano, w o C1ro ea soc -------=-----------------------towerand also had to replace their "they were the last vehicle to start. the San Felipe 250 reported alternator hdt several times. In Unfortunately, they lost their rear having a great time. They liked the third it was Ernie Castro end and were unable to make course and enjoyed the nearly Martine::, who broke a c.v. about repairs, so they were non dust free driving. It w11s an easy five miles into the race, but then finishers. The Stock Full class event, relaxed and not very had a good day, and finished just didn't have any entries. demanding; a nice change of pace l O seconds behind Solor::ano and Only two drivers were tagged to after the Nevada 400. SCORE's Rodrigue:. And Fdi:ardo Muno:: rcportto the Competition Review next event, the Baja 500, on June andTomPreston,whogotofftoa Board because of alleged or 4th and 5th, will he tough by late start because their rear facing suspected violations, and both comparison. amber light wasn't working, cases were dropped, and no action ---------------finished fourth, and last, after 10 was taken, nor was any explana, A'ITENTION hours and six minutes. tion ever given. So there were no PIT TEAMS .. There was only one Class Stock disqualifications, no letters of Send m your tales of triumph Mini entry, the Toyota of Larry protest, and no penalties. and troubles to Carpenter and Randy Bass, and The racers who participated Jn DUSTY TIMES July 1993 Dusty 1'llna

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ADRA LA PLAYA 100 "DASH FOR CASH" MOTORCYCLE RACE Abbott Cashes In At Rocky Point Text & Photos: A.H. TL'llicr Destry had the course wired, turning in two identical lap speeds of 52.9 mph and finishing with 52 .5. By comparison, Bruning was, as noted, nine minutt.:s down after the eighty-four miles were completed. Wolfe completed his first race since breaking a leg at the '92 Parker 400 and was satisfied with this Third Place. Pal and fellow Salome (AZ) rider Bryan Dob-meier was the First Amateur ahead of Gwin Vaughn's CR250. (Salome is also the hometown of Team Green's Baja 1000 winnit}g Garth Sweetland. Must he Destry Abbott took off on his KTM 550 and.never looked back in the three laps something in the watt.:r out there of beach sand running. Abbott won the 'run what you brung' race by nine that grows fast riders.) Vaughn minutes after 84 miles. d W If J h J II J "I _________________________ • an o e raceu ar a uay. Des try Abbott won the dead-. engine land rush start at American Desert Racing Association's Lu Plava 100 "Dash For Cash" and ne~er looked hack as he dt.:feated a trailing Bryan Bruning by nine minutes for the payoff. In an unusual format , A D R A 's Phil Auernheimer used a simplt.: "run what ya brung" pay-off scale in conjunction·with the seldom-seen bomb run start. Quads and hikes mixed it up on the sandy and blindingly fast beach cqurse located jus t outside ·of the Mexican fishing village of Puerto Penasco (AKA "Rocky Point"). But, as this was not an ADRA Series points event, entry levels were down, particularly in the Dusty nmes less-spirited classes. __ could run up on him in the twisty Abbott brought his Dirt & stuff," a resigned Gwin said, "hµt Street/ Rei hi ran Corp .. Thor, that (CR) 500 of his would mow FMF /ARA/Race Tech, Sun-away on those straight (and flat) oco/Duraluhe 550 KTM geared roads .. " T he pair's fastest lap was for take-off and had a two minute the fin a 1 o n e as they were lead after the first of three 28 mile separated at the flag by only I 3 loops. Closest competitor Fl yin' elapsed-time seconds. " My head Bryan Bruning was hampered hy pipe popped out a big ol' chunk two factors: one, he was on a and the top-end powt.:r went to p-speed-limited YZ250 and away. They don't run vt.:ry good two, he tangled with Desi W olft.: that way." Rt.:ally. (CR500) right off the start and Desert Center's Matt Murphy went down , tweaking his left demonstrated why he has rapidly knee. "I tried to stuff him and it become the new Hot Shoe as the didn't work." Bruning got by thirteen-year-old Pro Circuit Wolfe before the five mile point, rider placed his CR125 firmly however , but couldn't make any into Tenth Overall, averaging inroad o n Abbo tt 's now un-over 41 mph on the sandy touchable lead . whooped-out course. (ADRA ran ~RE I\Dllfrll 111\111;11 July 1993 Desert Center's young hot shoe Matt Murphy demonstrated why he is moving up. He rode his CR 125 into tenth overall, and has been bumped up to the 200 Amateur Class. Charging the Rocky Point soft dunes, Wilf Harrison rode his Honda into the Beginner Class victory, and his style shown here does not look Beginner-like. a sev e n lap buggy race the has het.:n humped from Mini up previous day over the same through the ranks into the 200 course, except for the mass start Amateur class within a handful of transition area, and while the '93 events and will surely he ,in track was smooth for the cars, the Expt.:rt before tht.: year is out. turns became bottomless pits of "Dad wants to get me on a 250 so sand and silt for the hikes. ) Matt I can run for the Overall." 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. ~ ~ lN•M£ 83-407 HWY 111, IN0/0, CA 92201 (619) 347-1234 Page 19

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MICKEY THOMPSON STADIUM OFF ROAD RACING Roger Mears Jr. Wins His First Feature In Phoenix Roger Mears Jr. started out with a handling problem in Heat 1, came back to finish fourth in Heat 2, and held the stars at bay in the truck main event and Jr. won his first stadium main event in the Nissan. The Mick,ey Thompson crew in Seattle to the sunbaked Valley happened in Sun Devil Stadium in and the competitors went from of the Sun in Phoenix. Actually Tempe, and it was a small track, the greenery of the far northwest the Round 4 event of the series . probably the shortest and tightest The Sport Utility and Sedan heat saw the Jeep twins Tommy Croft, leading and winning and Larry Noel fight it out in the early laps, and they finished in this formation in the main event. of all on the nine race circuit. But the surface was more friendly than that of the two opening races at Anaheim-and San Diego which were pure mud from the winter rains. During the midday qualifying, defending Grand National .Sport Truck Champion Rod Millen padded his current points lead in the afternoon by taking the number one qualifying spot. The Toyota driver earned four bonus points for the pole position, upping his total to 167. Rick Johnson qualified third in the Chevy, and while he was awarded two points, he lost ground on the bonus and now trails Millen with 160 points. Qualifying second in trucks was Venable Racing's Rob MacCachren just 11100th of a second behind Millen in his Ford. There are no race notes from By qualifying second Rob MacCachren started the first trudk heat on the front row, and the Ford ran well, and Rob flew to victory in the heat and finished ·third in the main event. Rod Millen was the fastest truck qualifier and the Toyota was second in the first heat and second in the main, and Millen still leads the points chase. the first Sport Truck or Sport and that was that. Otherwise the Utility heat races, a computer truck was running awesome. The glitch apparently. We do know best quote of all was from Walker that they changed an engine in Evans. "I think I could get the Johnson's Chevrolet before the Dodge around this track better ifl opening heat, because a small had a full steering wheel, " said crack in the engine block was Evans whose steering wheel ring discovered after qualifying. The fell off during the first lap. He had front row starting spot for the to steer with the sp~kes of the first race·undoubtedly helped wheel. Both Walker and team-Rob MacCachren on his way to mate Brian Stewart had flat right the first heat victory, just keeping front tires as a result of crashing ahead of Rod Millen and Rick and bumping. Johnson, neither of whom Moving on to the American reported any troubles. Roger Racing Wheels Sport Utility heat Mears, who rolled on the last lap race Tommy Croft picked up just remarked, "I sure went from hero where he was after the last race, as to goat in a hurry. The steering he drove the Jeep Cherokee to a was going out and I pushed it too strong victory. Jim Smith, in his hard starting the last lap; I just Ford Explorer gave it a good try screwed up and hit a hole and I but fell just a bit short and didn't have enough steering to finished second. Larry Noel keepitonallfours"RogerJr.said seems stuck behind his Jeep he bicycled it on lap 4 in the same teammate early in the season, turn and went into the wall. He bringing his Cherokee in third. He had to wait for everybody to pass was followed by the two sedans left in the class created for sedans, Brian Collins in a Porsche 911 and T .J. Clark, in a VW Corrado. Clark lives in the area and is an instructor at the Bob Bonderant School of High Performance Driving. Then came Paul Nissley, Toyota, Tim Lewis, Jeep, Dan Chittenden, Chevrolet, Kent Castle, Toyota, Don Cornell, Jeep, and Joe Anchondo, Nissan. That was the entire Sport Utility field. Jimmy Smith had his Ford working fine in the Utility heat, but had troubles later on. He was second in the Heat but a long shcth in the main. Leading here, Scott Klaers kept his #51 Briggsbuilt ou1 front to the Heat 1 win, chased here by Stacy Fay, left, and Frank Chavez who later had troubles. There were 32 starters in the 4 Wheel A TV entry, 16 in each of the heat races. In the first round Doug Eichner pushed his Laeger to the front of the pack, followed by inches by Sean Stubbs on a Suzuki and Greg Stuart, Honda. Stubbs got by Eichner on the fourth lap. The two riders swapped the lead on the next lap, but were followed closely by Page 20 . July 1993 Dusty nmcs ·

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Stuart, wa1tmg for an opening. Eichner pulled ahead of the group with a half lap to go, and went for the win. Stuart was second with Stubbs settling for third, followed in by Charles Shepherd and Gary Denton. Stacy Fay raced a 5-1600 for several':ears, and now she is doing well in her stadium· Briggsbuilt'. She was fifth in her SuperLite heat, had traffic woes in Joe Price took the win in the second SuperLite heat beating back Greg George on the right, and to the left Keith Ehlers and Erik Cobb, on his way to victory. In the second 4 Wheel ATV heat the next 16 took to the track. Ron Collins was on the pole and quickly took the lead on his Honda. He was followed closely by the Honda of Mike Olmsted and JP rider Niclas Granlund. While Collins and Olmsted were battling for the lead, Granlund managed to sneak by and grab the first place spot. Granlund never looked back capturing the heat. Mark Ehrhardt was second followed by Ron Collins, Bryan Sandoval, JP and Keith DiBrino, JP. Olmsted got caught up in traffic he was lapping and fell to sixth. ~ the main and ended up finishing, but back in eighth place. · Mercedes Gonzales took a close sixth in her SuperLite heat, had traffic woes in the main and ended up finishing, but back in eighth place. Shannon Millen is a rookie on the Nature's Recipe team this season, but she hopped into second in Heat 2, and finished just behind teammate Greg George, left, in the main event. Defending points champion in SuperLites Greg George had mixed results with a third place in his heat, and he finished fourth, behind two mates in the main. Wes Banks nailed a second place in the second Super 1600 heat race, but then his luck ran out and he finished well down the field in the main. Dusty nmes I I Dust, silt, mud, there's always something coming at you. It's all you can do to finish in one piece. II No other motor sport abuses a vehicle like Baja racing. As a top driver and mechanic, Darren York knows that winning off-road takes more than driving skill, physical endurance, and a knotvf .. edge of every inch of his truck. It means using the best products, the best lubricants. So it's no surprise that Valvoline motor oil is the # I choice of Baja I 000 mechanics like Darren. What's more, they also choose Valvoline for their own cars. And with good reason. All our high-performance motor oils are designed to perform and pro-tect under extreme stress-resisting all the heat, cold, pressure and dirt your engine can throw at it Take it from Darren. You can't win off-road without the right oil paving the way. PEOPLE WHO KNOW USE VALVOLINE® VAI.\IOUNE INC. A SUSSIOIARY OF AsHL.AHD OIL, INC. 5:'i lEXINGT~, KY 40509 © 1992 July 1993 Page 11

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Gary Gall flew his Chenowth with grace in Super 1600 action, and he flew right into third place in his heat race, and finished sixth in the main. Bill Goshen catches a little air in his Chenowth and he went on trouble free and traffic free to take third in the second Super 1600 heat. Ed Herbst did the best of the trio of brothers at Tempe, p·1tting his Chenowth under the checkered flag fourth in the second Super 1600 heat. Kevin Smith does a little wheelie in his Super 1600 Mirage en route to a fine fourth in the feature, while the car behind looks to be in jeopardy. Walker Evans and his Dodge stadium team have not had a good year, and he looked good here, taking second in the second truck heat, but didn't place well in the feature. Roger Mears did well in the truck heat races in the repainted Nissan, and he drove to fourth in Heat 1 and third in Heat 2, but had no luck in the main. There were a lot of SuperLites on hand, at least 30 of the tiny race cars, some of them probably local entries. Their first heat race saw Scott Klaers starting in the pole position, and Klaers was the leader after lap one. He was followed by defending points champion Jimmie Johnson and lady driver Stacy Fay, all driving Briggsbuilt machines. After a lap or so Klaers and Johnson separated themselves from the field, making it a two vehicle race. Sean Finley moved into fourth in his Triple E followed by Rennie Awana. Scott Klaers withstood the constant pressure from Jimmie Johnson to win the race with Johnson right on his rear bumper. Sean Finley nailed down third, Awana was fourth in another Briggsbuilt followed by the girls, Stacy Fay, then Mercedes Gonzales. RURORAIE 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 from fatigue BAKER BATTERY caused by vibration, shock 1 n 1 ~hd"G" ••~ Cut to size-great protect-lion for driver & equipment. 1 ,,,_ NEO SYN.THETI. C LUBRICANTS Holds stronger charge much SubStan_tial in-. crease in per-longer and will rec~a~ge formance while to 100% even_afler s1tt1~g greatly reducing for 30 days in total dis-. . . charged state. Unmatched friction and high vibration resistance. temperatures. 1'BAKER PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS 2865 Gundry Ave. -="' ,.,-,.:,, Long Beach. CA. 90806 -'~-c'/ 310/427-2375 ~ ,,,,,_,..,, Fa, 310 426-5294 = ·\-:-,,..., DEALER INQUIRIES WELCOME Page n There were 14 vehicles on the grid for the second Super Lite heat race and lady driver Shannon Millen was on the pole in a Briggsbuilt. The Mirage of John Sarna spun on the first turn, holding up the entire field, giving Millen a big advantage. Millen's advantage quickly evaporated when the Sarna bunch-up brought out a full course yellow condition. It was to be a total restart, with Shannon Millen again in the pole position. After the restart Millen quickly opened up a ten second advantage, followed by Joe Price, Triple E, Keith Ehlers in a Briggsbuilt and points leader Greg George, Briggsbuilt. As the race wore on Joe Price closed up the gap on Shannon Millen and put the heat on the California native. On the next to last lap Price was able to get by, leaving the battle between teammates Millen and George for second. Price was the winner, with Millen claiming second and Ivan Stewart, tangled in traffic here, went on to win the second truck heat, had troubles in the main and came in back in sixth place. . July 1993 George third. Keith Ehlers was fourth, followed by John Gersjes, H&R, Clint Mears, Mirage and J.C. Dean in another Mirage. The crowd pleasing Super 1600 open wheel cars were up next with Gary Gall on the pole. Everyone in this first heat was driving a Chenowth except defending points champion Jerry Whelchel whose Nye Frank Special is listed simply as a 'Toyota' referring to the motive power. At the green . Gall quickly grabbed the lead, but Jerry Whelchel was following him very closely. Whelchel snuck by on lap two, leaving Gall to do battle with Wes Banks and Eric Arras for th.e second spot. Whelchel was able to put some distance between himself and the field by the halfway mark, which he often does, leaving the suspense about who would finish second. Eric Arras was able to get by Gary Gall for some time. Jerry Whelchel took the win followed . home by Wes Banks, Gary Gall, Jimmy Nichols, left, and Jerry Whelchel had quite a main event battle, but defending champion Whelchel won the day. Nichols, who was second in his heat, also took second place in the main event. Dusty nmes

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Eric Arras, Aaron Hawley, Troy Herbst and Tim Herbst. Then came Phoenix racers Ed Marten-sen, Dwight Lundell and Rob Martensen. Of the nine cars in Super 1600 Heat 2 all but two were Chen-·owths. The exceptions were Kevin Smith's Mirage and Bryan Kendall, who listed his racer simply as a VW. Marty Hart was on the pole and Marty led a bunched up field around on lap one. Bill Goshen, Jimmy Nichols and Cory Witherill made up the posse following Hart. Kevin Smith suffered a right rear flat and dropped back in the pack. By lap 5 Hart and Nichols had separated from the rest of the field by a decent margin. Meanwhile, Goshen and Witherill were locked up in a duel for the third position. Hart opened up a five second lead on the pack, and Marty Hart sailed on to victory. Jimmy Nichols was second, Bill Goshen was third and Ed Herbst worked his way up to fourth. Next came Cory Witherill, Dan Olson, Vicki Allison, Kevin Smith and Bryan Kendall. All ten trucks got patched up and lined up for the second Sport Truck heat race with the Ford Ranger of Danny Thompson on the pole. Current points leader Rod Millen and second place Rick Johnson are in the back of the pack and insured of earning crucial passing points. But Jvan Stewart pushed his Toyota past Thompson on the second lap and quickly pulled some space out on the field. Dodge's Walker Evans was running in second, followed by Roger Mears' Nissan. Roger Mears Jr. and Rob MacCachren were battling for the fourth position, putting Thompson back in sixth. Ivan Stewart drove a near flawless race in capturing the heat race win. Walker Evans was second followed by the Mears, Sr. then Jr., MacCachren, Johnson and Millen. Out of contention this round were Danny Thomp-son, Brian Stewart and Evan Evans. In the first UltraCross heat Robert Drew led the 14 starters through lap one on a Kawasaki, but it was a fall by Kyle Killebrew on a Honda that held up half the field . By lap three Kawasaki rider Ryan Carlisle had taken control of the race, putting some distance between himself and Drew. Carlisle took the win followed by Drew. Yamaha's Jim Holley passed Su~uki rider Rusty Holland on the final lap to claim third. Larry Linkogle was fifth on a Honda. There were 13 on the line for the second UltraCross heat, a fast field too. Kyle Lewis, Yamaha, and Su.uki rider Mike Bell were locked up in a tough battle until Bell stumbled giving the lead to current points leader Shaun Kalos, Yamaha, and he never faltered en route to his heat race win. Following Kalos w~s a fleet of Yamahas; Craig Conoy was second, followed by Kyle Lewis and Larry Brooks. In fifth it was Scott Myers riding a Kawasaki. As usual the American Racing Wheels Sport Utility Main event started the program of feature events for the evening. Heat winner Tommy Croft was on the pole in his Jeep Cherokee. Croft had the Cherokee in the early lead followed by teammate Larry Noel, Ford's Jim Smith, and hometowner T .J. Clark, of Dusty Tirnes Chandler, AZ, in a VW Corrado .. Smith was given a stop and go penalty for running into Noel in their fight for second place. Toyota driver Kent Castle flipped his 4-Runner on the third lap bringing out a full course yellow. Croft quickly regained his lead after the restart. Noel closed the gap with two laps to go and began pounding on Croft's back door in a similar Jeep, but he was unable to get by. The main event win was Tommy Croft's second consecu-tive victory of the season, adding to his 15 point lead coming into this race. Larry Noel stayed in second, followed by T.J. Clark, Brian Collins, Porsche, Tim Lewis, Jeep, and Jim Smith, Ford. ion Mark Ehrhardt pushed his JP machine to an early lead, followed closely by Niclas Granlund on another JP. By lap three Ehrhardt had extended his lead to a comfortable ten seconds. Gran-lund was, however, in a solid second, with an intense battle for third being waged between Laeger rider Doug Eichner and Mike Olmsted on a Honda. As Ehr-hardt took the checkered flag, Eichner pushed in front of Olmsted for third. The finishing order was: Ehrhardt, Granlund, Eichner, and Olmsted, followed by Darren Naccarato, Laeger, Keith DiBrino, JP, Sean Stubbs, Suzuki, Cris Berger, Honda, and Donavon Holland, Honda. Quite a mix of both men and machines. :!=7CHEVY T'-UCKS The4-Wheel ATV Main Event always supplies some wild action and the 18,000 spectators got plenty of it from this class. Defending Class Points Champ-Another delight for the spectators is the tight competi-tion, this night between 18 of the tiny n:i; Aaron Hawley had a good night in Super 1600 action as here he does a one wheel act to stay ahead of Marty Hart. It didn't work, as Hart won the heat, but Hawley finished fifth in the rather hectic main event. 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.. , . ~¥VOKC Rick Johnson. left, here being stormed by Roger Mears, took third in Heat 1 for trucks, but it was downhill the rest of the night Larry Noel won this class in a sedan, is close with the Jeep in Utilities and he scored a third in the heat race and a close T.J. Clark really moves in the VW, running in Utility class, and he was fifth in the heat race, and finished third behind the Jeeps in the main event, with two fewer cylinders! for the Chevy. Tim Lewis makes a sedate pass over one of the jumps at his Jeep en route to seventh in the heat and he moved up to fifth in the main event. The Utility & Sedan class does provide some tight dicing. Here Brian Collins. Porsche 911 leads. He was fourth in the heat and fourth in the main and here is about to get gobbled up by Jim Smith, Ford. Eric Arras had a good night going in 1600 action with a fourth in heat 1, and he kept up his pace to finish fifth in the rather hectic main event. Sean Finley flies his Triple E SuperLite in practice, and it kept right on flying. Sean was third in his heat and a good second in the main event. Rennie Awana kept his SuperLite in contention with a fourth in Keith Ehlers works to keep his Briggsbuilt ahead of. Chris the first heat race, and he came back to finish third in the main Borella, #56, J.C. Dean directly behind, and Keith did manage a with three other teammates in the top four. ' fourth in his heat race. -~ Superlite cars. Shannon Millen was on the pole, and she met her husband Rod Millen, truck points leader, while riding quads, so she has plenty of experience to handle the Super-Lite, and this year has joined the star studded Nature's Recipe team of Briggsbuilt cars. Shannon was on the pole. With Joe Price banging on her back wheel· throughout the first lap, Millen held the lead, followed by teammate Jimmie Johnson, Joe Price and Sean Finley. Millen and Johnson were hooked up in a wheel to wheel battle until Millen chose the inside lane and was slowed by lapped traffic. When the two drivers came together when the split lanes merged, it was indeed the lappers that had slowed Millen giving the lead to Johnson. From there Johnson was able to extend to a comfortable lead, on his way to his second consecutive main event win. Sean Finley was able to slip past a limping Millen for second, as did Rennie Awana to claim third. Millen had to settle for fourth, followed by Joe Price, John Gersjes, teammate Mercedes Gon:ales and Allen Yaros. The third lady driving in this class, Stacy Fay, was back a ways in the pack at the flag. The Super 1600s fielded 18 cars for their 12 lap main event, and one wondered if there was room for 18 full si:e open Page 14 ------------------------wheelers on this short track. David Pingree of Scottsdale, AZ, . behind him. As the vehicles came Jimmy Nichols pushed his racer on a Su:uki. All three are rookies. together following the split lane, from the pole position to the early Once in the lead David Pingree the three vehicles literally came lead, followed by Eric Arras.Jerry was able to hold off the late together, bunching up, but it was Whelchel and Kevin Smith. On charges of Billy Joe Mercier for his the inside line of Mears Jr. that theopeninglaptheracecarsofEd first series win. Mercier was madethedifference.Withonelap Martensen and Tim Herbst got -second, followed by Ray Crumb, left Roger Mears Jr. was able to entangled, bringing out a full Kawasaki, Shaun Kalas, Yamaha hold off the late charge of Millen course yellow. After a complete and A.]. Whiting. to earn his first series main event restart Nichols reclaimed his lead, All teh trucks make it back to victory. Rod Millen was second holding off the charges of Gary the grid for the Sport Truck followed by Ford's Rob Mac-Gall and Jerry Whelchel. Halfway feature, the finale of the evening. Cachren, Dodge's Walker Evans, through the main event, Tim Roger Mears Jr. was on the pole Ford driver Danny Thompson, Herbst was given a black flag for the 12 lap race. Mears. Ivan Stewart and his son Brian when the roof of his buggy came punched his Budweiser Nissan in Stewart, Dodge, who was behind off. The battle between Whelchel front, but he was being heavily and Nichols intensified with two pressured by the Toyota of Ivan laps to go, but it was the last lap Stewart. Roger Mears Sr. and pass by Whelchel that made the Rick Johnson, in a Chevrolet, difference. Jerry Whelchel went were battling for third. On the on to the victory, followed in by fourth lap Mears Sr. spun causing Jimmy Nichols, Aaron Hawley, a bunch-up at the back of the Kevin Smith, Eric Arras and Gary pack. Meanwhile Stewart was able Gall. Others were still running, to get by Mears Jr. as they crossed but had been lapped, some more the finish line. But, as they came than once. into the first turn, Stewart made a Twenty riders started in the ten crucial mistake, taking the turn lap main event for the 250cc wide, allowing Mears Jr. to sneak motorcycles. Rookie rider A.J. inside and recapture the lead. As Whiting on a Yamaha led the field the track started to slicken during of veteran UltraCross competi-the race, traction is the key. Jeep tors through the first two laps, but driver Evan Evans proved this to on the next lap another rookie be true as his truck was unable to rider, Billy Joe Mercier on a grab enough traction, rolling over Kawasaki, took hold of the lead. in turn four, causing a full course Yamaha rider Larry Brooks put yellow. . Roger Mears and Rick Johnson. So the race at Sun Devil Stadium was over, but the teams had just six days to get home, get fixed and get to the Rose Bowl race the following Saturday. After the Ari:ona event the points leaders were mostly the same. Millen led in trucks, Tommy Croft in Utilities, Jerry Whelchel in Super 1600s, Greg George in Superlites, and Doug Eichner led the 4-Wheel ATVs while Shaun Kalos remained the UltraCross leader. on a charge from the back of the The trucks restarted with three pack and came within striking laps remaining in the race. Mears distance. But, after Brooks spilled Jr. led the pack into the first turn, on the seventh lap the battle was but the Toyota's of Stewart and Defending champion Jimmie Johnson was second in his heat race, but got in left to Mercier, Whiting and now Rod Millen loomed large_ gear for the main event and won the race in his super Briggsbilt. July 1993 Dusty nmcs

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TEXAS OFF ROAD GRAND PRIX SERIES Bad Dog's Off Road Showdown. Benny Perry was the dominate force to deal with in the Sportsman class. He won both of the buggy heats and came back to win the Sportsman main event driving what looks like a Chenowth Magnum. The first in the eight race Texas Grand Prix Off Road Series took place on March 21 in Cleburne, Texas. They race once a month on the third Sunday from March through October and also have some special events during the season. Last March it was muddy at Bad Dog's Off Road Show-down, directly behind the Cleburne Auto Auction, but it was a successful race day. Track conditions were a handful for drivers in the early going, but improved greatly as the day went on. All the competitors wore ear to ear grins, or at least that was all you could see due to the mud covered faces. Starting off the day's activities were the Challenger and Super Challenger Dune Buggy Classes. Taking first in the Challenger Class was Cleburne 's Gabe Gabel. His son Wes Gabel was second. Ricky Williams was third and Charles Wright fourth. In the Super Challenger Class Brett Thomas claimed first place honors with Jim Hudson a close second. Jerry Daigel was third and John Myers fourth. The Amateur and Pro ATV action was hot all afternoon with Tammy Ledford, from Garland, showing the guys the fast way around the track. Rick Townsend was second. Adam Sims put on an outstanding ride to take third in his first ever racing event. Chad Smith was fourth and Troy White, fifth. In Pro ATV Paul Audet was first,JeffSmith second and Cliff Coppedge third. All three put on a top ride through the muddy course. _ Many riders with the Texas Vintage Racing Club showed up with their motocross bikes, impressing the crowd with high flying jumps aboard the vintage equipment. Joe Busby dominated the class on his Maico to place first. Bobby Lucas was a close second on his Penton. Randy Brown was third on. his Honda Elsinore, Dave Allard fourth on a Kawasaki, and Richard Martin fifth on his BSA. In the Odyssey and Pilot class, Jon Myers of Fort Worth placed first with Tim Silence right on his tail in second. Cody Don Callaway was the dominant force in the Pee Wee 50 Class, and placed first. Chane Berg put on a strong ride for second. Adam Sims was third and Eric Campbell fourth. As always the Sportsman class dune buggy drivers turned all heads with their aerial acrobatics. Benny Perry of Pearland was untouchable all day, dominating each heat and the main event for first place. Houston's Mark Rogers was second. Cleburne's Don Westman made his debut in the Sportsman class charging hard to take third place. Flower Mound's Greg Durman was fourth andJoshua'sJeffSheppard fifth. Alvarado's Gene Peugh had mechanical problems and was sixth. Dallas' Sam La Barbera was seventh and Cleburne 's Barry Don Callaway was eighth, and he is head of the association. Spectators rose to their feet at the thunder of the 4x4 mud trucks entering the track. These vehicles were maneuvering through a 12 inch deep by 160 foot long mud pit in less than five seconds. Chris Boulet put his Chevy powered Blazer in the No. 1 position in Class II of the mud drag event. Jim "Cigar" Samuels was second in his Chevy powered Jeep with John Pritchett third. In Class I A.J. Smith put his Bronco· in first place. Rod Taylor was second, Allen Sperry third,• Timothy White fourth and John Brackey fifth. In the Mud Bog event, a 100 foot course through three feet of mud, Jonna Hunt was first in Class II and Jim Samuels second. In Class I, Rod Taylor was first and Timothy White second. In the 12-and-under "Dash for Cash" ( sponsored by Mc Don-alds) through the mud pit, 18 par~icipants had to go the distance through the 100 foot mud pit. Cleburne's Michael Bayless was first and Rebecca Gabel second in the 9-12 group. Cody Don Callaway was first and Carl Tillery second in 8 and under. Each participant received a free hamburger pass from McDon-alds. Also, donated cash is given out to the top two in each class. "Bad Dog's Off-Road Show Down" is a private 1 y owned facility, north of Cleburne on Highway 174. This race track was built and is operated with the racers and spectators in mind. Barry Don Callaway, owner of " Bad Dog's" has been involved with racing for over two decades and owning a race track has been a lifelong dream of his. Barry owns and operates Cleburne Auto Auction and the race track very successfully but still finds time to relax racing dune buggies. It's an understatement to say that racing is in his blood, racing has been and always will be a vital part of his life. Barry had always raced motor-cycles and quads until he had the chance to drive Gene Peugh 's dune buggy, then Barry was sold on racing dune buggies. Barry and Gene have been friends for a long time and when they put their heads together to start planning a race track, there was no stopping them! Gene is Promotions Director for the track. He sees that we attend car shows, races, and other sporting events to pass out flyers promoting the track. Gene's wife, Darla, has also helped work on the track, set up -f The 12 years old and under kids have a great time in their mud bog going for _ cash prizes and other prizes. It sure looks like a nasty bed of mud. the pay back schedule for the with respect and care for each racers and handles registration for vehicle. the track. We've put together a The spectator area and seating fairly large mailing list and send is situated so spectators are able to out flyers monthly. We advertise see all events and races without in a variety of media, and there is obstructions. The area is well an article with a photograph and protected from veh_icle mishaps. results of events in the paper the The track is well maintained by following week after a race day. Lanny to keep dust to a mini-The track is an eye catcher mum. For spectator comfort and being right on the highway. The convenience, rest rooms and dune buggy course is challenging concessions are provided. Barry's with wide turns and jumps. The wife, Tami, provides drinks, hot rough areas are a challenge but dogs, and snow cones for the negotiable for several vehicles at a concessions. time. The jumps are wide enough So that everyone knows what is with varying lengths, suitable for going on, the public address vehicles to "pass in the air". The system is received in the paddock double jumps have good ap-area as well as the spectator area. proaches with very durable Our announcer is interesting to landings. The course is well listen to and is knowledgeable of defined to make it negotiable at racing. high speeds and laid out for thrills The paddock area is for the and excitement for the spectators racers and their vehicles and is but with safety and practicality separated from the spectator area . for the racers. to help promote safety. Spec-The A TVs, Odysseys, and the ta tors are allowed to visit the PW 50s all run on the same track paddock area on foot, but the as the dune buggies. The double paddock steward, Dave Graff, jumps can be ridden over as two monitors traffic into the area and single jumps without damaging will keep pedestrian traffic to a equipment or disabling riders. minimum for safety's sake. The Our mud drags provide level, other steward, Rick Johnson, equally watered lanes to make former World Champion Funny events as competitive as possible Car driver, keeps races running with a base for each lane as much smoothly and maintains order. alike as we can manage. Each lane Racing in the paddock area is not has sufficient width for as much tolerated by either steward. steering correction as will be We have flagmen for each event needed for a quick finish and the and two track officials for keeping slow down area is long enough for score. Greg Meredith is our chief sufficient shut downs at high flagman. Greg flagged for us last speeds. year and we're glad to have him The mud bog is a mixture of back this year. Catliy Graff and several different soils to make it Micky Troutman will keep'score an interesting challenge for even for us this year. These girls. do an the most competitive driver and excellent job of a difficult task. vehicle.Wefillthebogwithwater For scoring as accurate as several days before each race, then possible, the officials will be in an the excess water is pumped out elevated tower with a clear view of readying the bog for an onslaught the finish line. of monster vehicles. The bog is We are very proud of our track measured and marked in feet with and wish to invite· everyone to stakes so the distance is visible to come and participate in lots of each driver. After each run there fun! We are trying to bring back is a dependable tow vehicle ready this type of racing to the great to pull the baggers out of the mud .state of Texas. The Sportsman class lands in a group over the double jumps as Jeff Sheppard, Anthony Russell, Gene Peugh and Benny Perry battle hard for position. Tim Silence powers bis way around one of the wide turns on the ¾ mile off road track on his way to second in the combined Odyssey and Pilot class. Johnny Mack, of Red Oak, TX, powered his way through the Mud Bog, a popular event on a 100 foot long course that is about three feet deep in mud. Page 26 July 1993 Dusty Timcs

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WHIPLASH WARS - A STADIUM RACE Gaddis and Gall Grab Goodies In IOngman, AZ Text & Photos: Tony Tellier 'Why start with us?' and I told them that they were the best 'and I'm, not going to learn from someone who's slow.' They said that 'Well, OK' and he could take some practice laps but don't get in the way. When I qualified Third they helped me get my papers." J.C. Meyers put the Ford Cosworth power to the ground all night, but it may have been too much. He broke a CV while leading on the last lap, pushed it across the line to the crowd's delight. "They were nice to me so long as I was slow. But when I got faster, then it became cut throat; they'd hide their quick-changes when I came around so I couldn't check out their gearing." So he would send (wife) Mary Jo with her educated eye for a little pit-side espionage. " Atlantics" eventually became too expensive and the extensive travel was just too much. "l really like the wheel-to-wheel racing in the stadiums" Dirt Cheap's Geoff Kneale parlayed luck, taking the lead on the last lap when the leader broke, and consistent driving all the way into the victory in the Pro Buggy group. . and the awesome horsepower of Cosworth-Ford help spell out its . the Cos worth just has to be 225 bhp, ~hich was appropriately exhilarating. Powering through punctuated by a one-of-a-kind and over the moguls seems to be a bellowing exhaust note. Forced dial-able process -how high do into premature obsolescence you want the front end to go? when stadium racing finalized its But the race is not (always) to formula into the current 1600cc the swift, but to the sure. You format, Meyer's jewel had taken a know, "It's not over until the Fat A large crowd filled the Mohave County Fairground stands -not for a rodeo -and an even larger crowd filled the pits ar Whiplash's Jay McKinley confidt-' ed that "I can't believe that ! wished we had less racers." I don't - any promoter of a stadium race wishes for full . fields. And this time the fields were full at Kingman, AZ as experienced, respected, and recently-successful national-class stadium racers won their respective events: the Super 1600s by Gary Gall -and the Pro Motorcycles -"Jumpin' "Jimmy Gaddis. Super 1600s came from as far away· as Malibu and Tucson while local racers jumped at the chance to race in town -and in front of their buds. break from racing some years ago Lady rolls over. .. " In the Pro Jeff McIntosh (33) and the ever popular R.K. "Smitty" Smith, left, threw dirt all and he and his car never quite got Buggy race, on the last turn of the over Beer Belly Racing's Sportsman star Rodney Hayes. back into it. "l love racing - I last lap, J.C. popped a CV and had . . was able to churn his MT Tires, . including Dennie Lee driving one startedupatBarstowwithanold, towatchasanunsuspectingGeoff "they really bite", to fourth. ofmanyofDoclngram'soldcars, old Hi Jumper and was hooked." Kneale took the checkered. Bryan, who did four stadium outfitted with Lee's 1835 and He even brought a hose and nozzle Meyer's closest competitor, Dan battles last year, will do the Sun drive train. The car is owned and for cars muddied from post-track Olson had broken a shock and Devil Stadium MTEG. To some loaned by Dale Fowler, who was watering -and lent it out. went to the pit to get it ready for degree he inherited his position as recovering from knee surgery. His dream had been to race at T.J Clark, for the Stadium 1600 Cory Witherill had an engine go Dennie brought two steering Indy so he did his research to find race, so he missed out on the win. sour while a tranny was acting up. wheels and had to put one on what kind of car would be the fast Everyone agreed that he coulda And he lost his rightside nerf bar upside-down, T-bucket style, to track, and that was Formula babied it around and won! T.J. is early in the Main. "When it clear his "harness." Atlantic, which he raced from '84 currently (as of this writing) started going bad, I decided to cut Jeff McIntosh took advantage to '87. He bought a used car and Third in MTEG SportUtility our losses and get it to the pits. of Rodney Hayes' spinout after went to Willow Springs for his points and it was share the ride at Why destroy everything on a the grandstand jump and kept his first race. "I didn't have a license the old Fod Fab Farm. As Meyers losing effort." Don Kolt had a lead for the Amateur Buggy win. I or any credentials. They asked gamely pushed the now-too heavy rear tire go down and struggled to took a heat race ride with Rodney, A true Blast from the Past was the appearance ofJ .C. Meyers and his shiny-black Funco. The pair of 50mm W ebers on the 2-liter BIGGER IS BETT-EA Upgrade the C.V.s and torsion axles on your pre-runner, IRS Baja Bug or limited horsepower off road race car by letting us convert your stub axles and transmission output bells to accept the lar er C.V. joints. ~-Convert Type I stub axles and output bell to accept Type 11 or Type IV or 930 C. v. Convert Type II stub axles and output bell to accept 930 C.V. joints. ,All axles and bells for Type 11 or Type IV 'C.V.s can be threaded %-24 or stock 8mm. .1AII axles and Bells for 930 C.V.s can be I threaded "'s-24 _Qr stock 10mm threads. FIT YOUR OFF ROAD ER. WITH UPGRADED AXLES AND .BELLS Only $49.95-per fl~nJle on yo_ur supplied parts. __ _ ER Stop the up-travel on your suspension with this advanced bump stop system. e5E: Bump Stops come complete with a mounting system, poly-eurethane nd piece, and enough valving to get the job done. ECONOMICALLY PRICED AT $319.90 per pair. Including the mounting hardware and the GAS bolts SEE YOUR OFF R:>AD RACING PARTS SUPPLIER OR CALL US DIRECT. MAllVIN SHAW ENGINEERiNG 1o1 Broadway P.O. Box845 1-&2-427-3551 Yarnell. AZ85.362 Page n car toward the finish line, the keep Rob Martenson at bay -for a he of the Beer belly Racing Team, crowd's roar w~s deafening as time. and came to appreciate the ins and Geoffrey's Dirt Cheap buggy took Up front Fontana's Gary Gall outs of the swing-axle type of rear the purse. drove a precise race while Ed suspension design. Main! y the An unbelieving Kneale was all Martenson (in the ex-Mitch "outs." Rod put a dummy grins: "I paid only a grand for this Mustard car) and Clark's Fodrill steering wheel on the right side, - a guy in Texas unloaded it. I got car battled with each other. Clark guy! (Girl friend and passenger) the trailer with it too. The most lost ground through the hay bales Beth w i 11 appreciate it. "I expensive pieces are the shocks. and was forced to settle for a shimmed the barrels on the 2180 They're all 'air'. In fact the arm third. Gall was never threatened so as to save the swing axles. They retainers, in the beams, were from then on and kept his car on can get to bouncin' and diggin'. coming out so we had to borrow the track to the Pro victory. Gall Gotta watch it." Roger that. Andy ( Alan Levinson 's) arc welder for a won the recent MTEG Kingdome Kisner dug out his pink Kisco Track Fix." race in Seattle and is sitting only Challenger from his garage in Himey Means entered his six-three points behind leader Jerry Peach Springs for his first race foot (vs. five-foot Superlite) Whelchel. since'91,whenhedidtheNevada desert Briggsbuilt -with new The Whiplash Stadium Races 500. "This is my first short springs. "I've got no time on 'em. are approachable for a wide range course." Anybody got any suggestion!" of competitors and cars. While The Baja Bug race was an Himey flipped four times coming not everybody is MTEG-compet-exercise in serious kidney off the pitside jump's lip and itive, cars like Don Carley's damage. It took no speed at all to landing 80 feet down-range. home-built 2.8L Ford V6 (from a launch the front ends of these Guess those shocks weren't right, Mustang II) can get dirty and test cars. John Chafey had the field after all. their ex-Sandhawk and have a covered in the Cop Out car during Tucson's Bryan Kendall show-good time. Of course a heavy car the heats, but he was a DNF in the ed up with his newly-powder-( this is a "backyard-built car, Main with a broken tie rod. Bill painted Chenowth Magnum sometimes the backyard is in the Fielder, in the black and white replica (by Tim Edwards) and got front yard") is not real happy Cow Car, took advantage of that a rude welcome from T.J. in the through the short course style of fumble and trucked on to the win second Stadium heat, when Clark track. Carley, Kenny Kelly, and over Robert Taylor. Will other ran over the back of the exposed Mark Cox, who "only had a week racers start painting their cars like exhaust system. Plenty unhappy to get it prepped" found that their animals? What could be next? ("ls this what he teaches in his rear suspension did not like the Lions? Lizards? Llamas: (I took a ( racing) school!"), Bryan and moguls and they had to retire with right-seat turn in the car during Jennifer got a break from Zack souring shocks and a cracked the first heat and got as far as the McKinley, who lent them his pipe front end link. But pumped, for first turn, where a throttle cable when his engine expired and Don sure. broke. Later on, it looked like Kolt helped install it. The Beer Belly Racing Team that was a blessing in disguise - a Kendall, Whiplash's '92 GP ("Those guys - again!") -"Race'n good thing for my viscera.) Champ who builds his own Into the 21st Century" -brought Mike Matromarino had the .Rabbitmotorsandtransmissions, .two cars up from Parker, .transmission go "snap" through July 1993 Dusty nmes

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John Poulso·n ran afoul of the course obstacles, couldn't move one hay bale with his Baja Bug, eventually losing the air cleaner, and finished sixth. Don Carley and Kenny Kelly tried the stadium with their V6 Powered desert car, got over the whoops with lots of fun but with limited success. Beer Belly's Dennie Lee had the roof of his borrowed car removed so he would fit in. He also kept the sponsor's name clean and shiny. · Out front all the way, fresh from the win at the MTEG Stadium race at Seattle, Gary Gall kept the throttle down and the wheels up in his Chenowth on the way to the Pro 1600 victory. John Chafey had the field covered until he spun out, and Bill Fielder fielded the Baja Bug victory at the Mojave County Fairgrounds in Kingman. themogulsandtriedanestofhose come you're so clean?" "Get out clamps to hold the tranny nose in front!" on. Then the throttle stuck and Motorcycles: "Gassin'" Mike drove for two laps on the Jimmy Gaddis treated Kingman, "key." Reading the often-illegible Arizona, to a show of motorcycle handwriting on the wall, Mike expertise that m;i.ly reaches the parked it for a spectator's spot. small Arizona 1-40 re-fueling and Bad Decision Section railroad town via the modern The author was generously lent miracle of satellite TV. Gaddis an old A-armed Dunc Brown danced his Kawasaki in and out of 1600 car for a few practice laps by the Mohave County Fairground Danny Foddrill with which I stadium course in appropriate proceeded to use all of the just- Supercross winning style, com-watered track. "Man, you went plete with the required Goggle every which way but straight. Toss. In deference to the amateur And, uh, did I see you spin out? ranking of most of the riders, Huh? Huh? Huh?" Uh, unlikely, Whiplash's McKinley opted for but certainly possible. Letting only a double jump and no table Danny get the upper hand on top. No prohlema. The stands, anything is a bad deal. One thing, filled with action thirsty fans, however; is that the lack of Mach-. roared at each-and-every clear of speed blasts, running only in the doubles. second gear, provides a feeling of Gaddis made the 2 hour drive total safety and confidence and from hometown Las Vegas to one is even unconcerned when defeat some serious local-level being slammed and hammered by riders: Phoenix' Ted Campbell; competitors. Sure it's tough to get Flagstaff's Travis Mudd; Mesa's around when you're pushed out Des Piihl; and PV's "Hasten" of the hot line, though the Jason Cobb. As Gaddis lapped the judicious application of the field (except for Campbell and turnirig brake, in the proper Piihl). he gave everyone a seminar direction, of course, certainly in bike control. Jimmy safely helps. Wearing an open-face carved through the riders at will, helmetjustafter a deluge from the dazzling the Kingmanians during HZO truck? Not a good thing. every pass by the stands with Then the Renault engined ( ! ) car killer air. Gaddis recently broke dropped a cylinder and that was his long string of Second Place that. Thanks, Danny. I asked finishes at the Houston Super-Quad ace Greg Longie "How dome SuperCross, winning the Dusty Times Jimmy Gaddis wowed the crowd with his Supercross style. He danced his ·Kawasaki around out front to cheers at every double jump on the 125cc motorcycle and won handily. 125 class. Gaddis was recently featured on ESPN after his first 125 SuperCross win at Houston. The 22 year old Splitfire/Hot Wheels/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki rider made the trip pay and certainly earned a lot of new fans with his styling. Steve Czerniski had only been racing for six months, but presented himself properly to a high-flying Fourth. In the Amateur motorcycle event, race leading Tim Kennedy baled big time on the doubles, suffering a broken forearm, but went out wit_h cla~s, and present-. ing a big smile and a wave for the fans. Inheriting the victory over the large (19 rider) field was Yreka's Joe Weber (CR) over the hard charging antic's of Flagstaff's Heath Mitchell. Heath took a wild tumble after a world-class bale on the doubles in his heat race and had his clutch lever tangled in his armor, it looked like an impale-ment for a time, but then went ballistic in the Main. This time Heath just missed presenting the stands with yet another display of over Extreme Riding, it. after landing on the lip of the second jump. Greg Longie edged Ken Carter for third. The ''Lizard'' also ran in the Pro Quad race, pulling down a fast-closing third after a starting line spinout. Beginner Terry Kennedy, on a box-stock DR350, with the stock lights aglow, gave it a go with the MX bikes and took down Bobby Creek and Wayne Derrow through the whoops. Creek recovered to edge out Pete Sheehan for Fifth Amateur, while Kennedy blew off the incident and continued to ride a hard race, in the smooth stuff, at least, to slide into second behind Dylan Guthrie. In Quads: Gregg Longie was a shoe-in the Pro Quad race, except that the Mujer Gorda refused to roll over and play dead. Gregg got nerfed in the first turn and had to spin around a hale bay, ending up dead last. It was a display of riding ability, no doubt, as he surgically sliced his way through the field. But the race wasn't long enough and, while he had Tim Dunn firmly in his sights, for second, Robert Olander took the flag and the bucks. The next Whiplash Wars event will be in the Verde Valley hamlet of Cottonwood on June 26th. f:fCBWiJUJOtfl CfJtJJl5CEW • . ,, .... ,. Coors LqJht Arena Moto,ross and-OIi Road Rating June 12, July 3, Aug. 7, Aug. 22 {tent), Sept. 18, Oct 16 & Nov. 20 80cc-500cc Bikes, inners, Novice, In ros (100% pro pay back PIT GATE OPENS AT 2 P.M. RACING STARTS AT 6 P.M. For more information call Ventura Raceway (805) 656-1122 July 1993 Page i9

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OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OF EL PASO Robert Gayton Wins Overall At El Paso James Martin was one of several who came from Odessa to race and the Notrees champion drove hi$ Rabbit powered Class 10 Chenowth to second overall Pro. Robert Gayton has been taking overall victories from Arizona to Texas this year in the rotary powered Chapparal, and here he flies a Texas ranch road on his way to overall victory near El Paso. The Off Road Productions of El Paso organization began their desert race series last spring with the season's first race near El Paso. The first race weekend of 1993 was sunny, but windy, the start and much of the finish which was great for the racers, but coming out of the desert. The uncomfortable for spectators and course was an 18 mile loop going the people working in the pits. through hills, arroyos and The spectators had a great view of .. straight-a-ways. Course condi-. · tions were fast and dusty which could have led to dangerous situations, although happily none occurred. A variety of four wheel vehicles showed up to go racing, from sophisticated open wheelers with Mazda rotary motors to your d d T 1 Vw 1 Joe Leyva ran the Pacific Coast desert races years back, and his two seat st an a r Y Pe P a Y I Funco is still competitive at EI Paso: he was third finisher in the Pro class. Jose Alvarez had a big cheering section from Juarez, Mexico, and Jose took over the lead on the first lap, and stayed there in the Chevy all the way to · victory in the truck class. Woody Woodruff and Max Bennett had a Chevy in their Mazda truck, but also had poor luck, breakdowns, but got fixed to place second in the new truck class. buggies. The assortment of vehicles was great, and a sight to .. The first class off the line was . behold at the starting line. Cars_ the Pro Class. The defending . came from Albuquerque, New_ champion, Cecil Robertson from Mexico; Juarez, Mexico; Odessa, Odessa, was the first off the line. Texas; Chaparral, New Mexico; Second away was James Martin, and of course the folks from El also from Odessa, and third was . Paso, Texas. Off Road Produc-Robert Gayton from Albuquer-tions runs a simple class program, que followed by Joe Leyva and Joe with classes for Pro cars, Vasquez,bothofElPaso.Allwere Sportsman Open 1-2-1600 driving Unlimited or Class 10 ( when we have enough) and Begin: ___ cars. . Gayton was in the lead in his Mazda rotary powered Chaparral car. The second lap started to take its toll with Joe Vasquez dropping out with a blown motor. Vasquez is head of Off Road Productions of El Paso, so he no doubt parked his racer and went to work. The third lap saw Cecil Robertson and Scottie DeArmond broken down with drive train problems. ne!' rail buggies. After the first lap, Robert-Meanwhile Robert Gayton Kevin O'Hara sweeps around a turn in the soft stuff in his former 1-2-1600 on his way to winning the largest class, the Open Sportsman Class, and he reported a totally trouble free race as well. treated the 126 miles like a sprint car race and lapped almost everyone by the end of the day. James Martin finished second in his Class 10 Chenowth Rabbit car. In a respectable third place came Joe Leyva in his two seater Funco. Trucks were next off the line. This is the first time ORP has had enough trucks to form a class and the spectators loved them. The first truck was the 4-Wheel Drive Center's Chevy powered Mazda truck driven by, new daddy, Woody Woodruff and Max Bennett. Second off the line was Jose Alvarez from Juarez, Mexico in his Chevy •pickup and third away was Willie Quintero from El Paso in his Chevy powered Ford . two wheel drive truck. Home town racer from El Paso Wilfie Quintero broke a traction bar in the Chevy powered 2WO-Ford truck, but he limped in to place third in the truck class. Gabe Alarcon here is scrambling to get out of Robert Gayton's way on a narrow gravel trail, he did and also took second in Open Sportsman in the Class 5 Baja Bug. Veteran racer from Las Cruces, NM, Tunie Molina overcame fuel problems en route and brought his single seat Chenowth in third in Open Sportsman class. Page 30 July 1993 Dusty nmcs

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From Albuquerque Roy Reed brought his older style 1-2-1600 racer, and he brought the Reedco home second in the class, slowed once by a flat tire. Larry Salcido had trouble with a broken spindle then a broken a"lle, but he brought the Johnny O's car in a long third, but a 1-2-1600 class finisher. Andy Fuller of "Team Abuse" has open air motoring in his buggy. Here he crests a road crossing on his way to third place in the Beginner Class . . place went to Larry Salcido in the Johnny O's car, but not without problems. A broken axle and another broken spindle headed the list. This is the third race in a row he has broken spindles. So far Larry has been one of the most consistent finishers in our series. These guys will do, and have done, almost anything just to finish. The Beginner Class saw Rick Biernacki win again for the second time in a row with no problems and a good victory. Second place went to our only female entry and the first lady to ever finish in one of our races, Tracy Evans. Tracy looked like a veteran racer out Brothers Robert, Carlos and Alonzo Gutierrez broke a CV, had carb trouble, there, and after the race she said, but they got everything fixed to finish all seven laps and won their first race in "I was glad to just finish." Nice Class 1-2-1600- • going Tracy. Third place went to The first lap saw Woody-and. Nextoutonthecoursewerethe. Andy Fuller. Andy usually Max suffer with radiator and 1-2-1600 cars. The Gutierrez dominates this class, but lately steering problems, leaving Jose in Brothers racing Team, Carlos, Lady Luck has been riding with first place. Alvarez pretty much Robert and Alonzo came in first, somebody else. We're sure he and took over for the day and got the but not without problems. Cliff will get things together and lead. Willie Quintero broke a Overcoming a broken CV and reclaim their first place status. traction bar and was unable to carb problems, they still managed "TEAM ABUSE" -NEVER SAY finish, but vowed to be back. to finish all seven laps and win. DIE. After some time spent broken Second place went to Roy Reed Our awards presentation was down, Woody and Max somehow out of Albuquerque, New held immediately after the races. fixed all their problems and Mexico. After a flat tire slowed Our trophy queens, Cara and finished their race in second them down, they still finished in Gracie, were ''donated" by place. Nice work guys! This left -their new ReedCo chassis. Third. Johnny O's Club and were a big Jose Alvarez in first place. Jose's fans were there and they let everybody know their approval by cheering and waving banners. The trucks put on a good show, and we hope to have them back again. The Open Sportsman Class was next and maybe it needs a little explanation. It's a run-what-you-brung class and usually our biggest class. The Open Sports-man Class was won by previous 1-2-1600 class champion Kevin O'Hara driving his Alamo Auto Supply Sportsman car. Kevin had a trouble free race, unlike his last outing where he broke about one minute into the race. Congratula-tions Kevin and Greg. Second place went to Gabriel Alarcon in his 1835 Baja Bug. Gabriel's times· were almost as fast as the buggies and by being more consistent he outlasted them with a trouble free race. Although he did get pushed around in the arroyo a little, he still managed to finish and take second place. On a sad note, at the time of writing this story, Gabriel's co-driver, Hector Zaragosa, was killed in an automobile accident. Our con-. dolences go out to his family. At the race Hector went on to the next day and raced his quad and won his class. All his old friends and new friends will miss him. Third place in class went to T unnie Molina from Las Cruces, New Mexico. The veteran racer had some fuel problems but managed to repair them and finish. DustyTimes The only lady driver in the race Tracy Evans whips across the desert on her way to becoming the first lady finisher in an ORP event, and she took a fine second in Beginner class. July 1993 hit. All was done in fun and even and Chris and Ray Ballard; the wives and girl friends enjoyed Checkpoint 3, Darryl and Clay it. Roberts; Checkpoint 4, Rudy and We would also like to thank the Crystal and Donald. We thank crew of ORP for a job well done: our sponsors, MSD, Johnny O's, Our timing crew of Kathy, Stan, Bob Hoy VW, Southwest Print-Wendy and Billy; Our marking ing and 4-Wheel Drive Center. crew of Ed, Kellie, Ray, Mr. Every race we have new faces Gomez, Abel. If you have ever had and more spectators and hope to to ask people to stand out in the continue to grow. Thank you to desert for 5 to 6 hours for two everybody who came, and we days, you can see why you can't hope to see you in Albuquerque, thank these people enough . . NM for our next points race on Checkpoint 1, Brandon and his May 2, followed by .the next race girl friend, Ed and Kellie; atE1PasoonJuly3-4, 1993. Chec~pojnt 2, Tommy Chandler We miss you Vato. DG (JJ 00 CPD [[J 00 DESERT LOCK OUTER 3.000 WIDE OUTER FOR SUPER STRENGT 8-1.125 HOLES TO REDUCE DIRT BUILD-UP. Standard Lock Outer "' Red Anodize Constructed of all Aluminum 6061 T6 For light weight and optimum strength * At last,a quality bead lock designed for Off-Road racing * All parts are available separately *In stock-Ready for shipment For Todays' Sophisticated 15" 13" 8"-10" UNLIMITED MIDGET MODIFIED MIDGET SPORT TRUCK MINI STOCK QUAD RACER BAJA BUG MODIFIED MIDGET ATV WE HAVE DEVELOPED THE TOUGHEST, MOST DURABLE BEAD LOCK FOR YOU! 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TRUST BANK SAFARI RALLY Toyota Dominates Led By Juha Kankkunen Text & Photos: Martin Holmes Charades had one liter turbo-charged engines boasting 105 hp. The new Subarus were small, their supercharged Vivios were of 660cc and produced on! y 85 bhp, but they had four wheel drive transmissions. It was a surprise when Subaru announced a year ago they would enter these cars • instead of the Legacy model which had won Group N here for the past three years. Britain's reigning Champion Colin McRae, normally seen at full speed in Legacys with four times the power, was one of their drivers. Other important changes in the format of the rally this year were as follows: the reduced length Juha Kankkunen and Juha Piironen do a little rabbit hop Easter weekend on meant there was only one night their way to their third Safari victory as they led three other Toyotas to the halt in the north of the country; finishing ramp, followed by fellow Fins Markku Alen and 1/lkka Kivimaki. • this was the shortest Safari in its They came they saw, they Toyota had been preparing for 40 year history, 3799 km instead conquered! The four Toyota this event for months: guest of 4387 km last year; the calendar Castro! Team entered Celica drivers Markku Alen and Kenyan date was back to the traditional Turbo 4WDs completely domin-rally champion Ian Duncan began Easter fixture; there were three ated the Safari to take the first their preparation work at the end minute intervals between each four places led home by previous of last year. Much of the Celica's car; this was the smallest Safari double winner Juha Kankkunen. specification was unaltered, but Rally entry ever; and econom-He was closely shadowed by this year's rules requiring smaller ically the country was in a compatriot Markku Alen all the tires meant special tests, as a result perilous situation. In a few way, while local Kenyan champ-of which Michelin prepared a new months the shilling had devalued ion Ian Duncan was third ahead of type of tire called the FB91. to half its former strength. the team's Japanese guest driver While this preparation went on Every day the newspapers told Yasuhiro Iwase. Daihatsu Char-teammate.Kankkunen, who has of the dangers of the country._ ades ama.:ed everyone by taking won two previous Safaris, was There were regular reports of bus the next three places, while the away competing at Monte Carlo accidents, each time with many expected challenge from Kanjiro and Sweden. An important deaths; the rally passed the scene Shino.:uka's Mitsubishi and the privateer driver was also seen at of a horrific accident on the Subaru Vivia mini cars never the wheel of a Celica: Jonathan Thursday at Voi, with many ·really materiali.:ed. Toroitich, son of Kenyan bodieslyingontheground,which This promised to be one of the President A rap Moi. From the Nairobi papers did not report. toughest Safari Rallies on record. Austria came the two car father A classic was the fatal accident of Heavy and unprecedented rains and son Audi team of Rudi and_ an overloaded Cessna 310 %, The first of the small car brigade has won the class before: Kenyans Guy Jack and Des Page Morris also finished fifth overall behind the Toyotas with one liter engines in the Daihatsu Charades G TXX model. Kenyans Sammy Aslam and Farakh Yusuf were eleventh in Group A but won the Formula 2 category in the VW Golf G Tl. The class for two wheel drive cars is official this year in World Rallies. drug run which took off from the wreckage. Nairobi's W ii son business There was no main sponsor for airfield and plunged into the car the rally; eventually the country's park of the international airport. official bank gave their backing Happily it was a holiday and no and a host of companies in the bystanders were involved. motor industry lent support, but Curiouslytheplanedidnotburn, one sensed the event was and no sooner had the crash struggling. After the regulations occurred than tremendous were published Shell was given a amounts of cash were stolen from- place on the rally plates, which I • .. , 1:&+ did not please the Castro! sponsored Toyota team and led to Patrick Njiru's Vivia carrying advertising from three lubricant companies! The Vivios did give back an element of fun and adventure, and to increase the effect these little cars were the noisiest of all. earlier in the year meant that the Manfred Stohl, experts in the usual opportunities to repair the Ivory ~oast Rally but disadvant-gravel roads had been lost; it aged here having reduced support would be either the muddiest or compared with their rivals. Father the roughest event, depending on Rudi made his debut with a whether more rain arrived. turbocharged Audi Coupe S2 Although this year the event while son Manfred used a lasted five instead of the usual six normally aspirated 90 Quatro, a days, the Safari again covered car which had survived four large tracks of Kenya. Based as previous Safaris. Toyota's main usual at the capital Nairobi, the rival was the sole official route went to the coast near Mitsubishi of Japanese driver Mombasa and back, then up to Kenjiro Shino.:uka, whose Lancer the highlands reaching altitudes of Evolution was similar in specifica-3000 meters. Small wonder three tion to the cars the British Ra Ilia rt quarters of the entry, in cars both team runs on European events. big and small, had turbocharged The rival novelties, however, engines. And considering that the were the mini cars from Daihatsu tracks could turn from hard sandy and Subaru. Of the two the front surfaces to a quagmire within drive Charades are bigger and seconds, four wheel drive cars have been seen many times before were obvious favorites. in Kenya. This year all three The Subaru drivers made up a United Nations team, from the left, Patrick Njiru, Kenya, Colin McRae, Scotland, and Masashi Ishida, Japan. A long time Safari competitor, Njiru is the only one that finished. Toyota did not have everything their own way before the event. Markku Alen crashed heavily in testing. In the run-up to recent elections many unlit road blocks were placed outside villages, and his Celica hit one of these in the north, not far from Maraia!, at full speed, fortunately without injury to the crew. Ian Duncan over-turned and this injured co-driver David Williamson enough for doctors to advise him not to start; his place was taken by Njiru's former co-driver Ian Munro. Subaru had a late engine change after McRae had an engine failure three days before the start. Because of so few entries in Formula 2, no championship points were awarded. Toyota really got serious about winning this year with four factory Celica Turbo 4WDs, and a horde of support troops, more than those pictured here, and for drivers, two Finns, who did the winning, a Kenyan and a Japanese. Jonathan Totoitich, son of Kenya's president, and Ibrahim Choge, had trouble keeping the Toyota Celica G T-4 upright, but carried on raped together until transmission trouble put them out late in the rally. Toyota went into an immediate and expected lead on Etape 1 with their red, white and green Castro! sponsored and Marlboro sup-ported Celica Turbo 4WDs, but they had early troubles and within a couple of hours one of them was bearing battle scars. Their first problem came on the very first gravel section, which top drivers could achieve within the time allowance, when Duncan hit an animal, thought to be an Impala. Mechanics first had to remove Page 31 July 1993 Dustynmes

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pieces of the dead animal from the car before being able to repair the intercooler, and he lost nearly a quarter of an hour. Then the fourth Toyota, of Iwase, had to use the older FB90 tires instead of the stronger FB91 s designed for this event, and he had two flats in quick succession and only one spare wheel. He drove for eight kilometers on a flat to an emergency service point. Shino-zuka 's Mitsubishi was also having problems. On the first difficult section the Japanese driver had a broken power steering pipe. His service helicopter had to land to give him more fluid, and on"the next tight section the brake pipe started leaking. The hotly anticipated battle among the Subaru and Oaihatsu. mini cars lived up to expectations. Two of the Vivios hit early problems. Masashi Ishida stopped with a broken shock absorber reservoir pipe and then he broke a · wheel when he pulled over to let another car pass; it was a Daihatsu! McRae lost over an hour when his suspension collapsed. "We had been going fairly calmly though we had hit a couple of unexpected potholes. When we came into a water crossing, the suspension failed, and I suspect it had been cracked earlier." The British driver was able to reach the end of the section on three wheels, and mechanics made the car as good as new. Before his delay his progress had been astonishing. At control 4 after the first competitive section, he was lying fourth overall! Shock absorbers were to become an even worse problem for the Daihatsus. Marco Brigh-etti had to change all his units after landing heavily after a bad jump, while Guy Jack reported that his shockers were overheat-ing. There were many excited smiles to be seen. Njiru in his Vivio said "It's flat out all the way, and downhill it is quicker than the Legacy!" Iwase, driving an official Toyota for the first time, said "I've never driven so fast in my life before. I have not dared to look at the instruments!" The afternoon run on to Mombasa was held in mixed conditions. The drive over the Tai ta Hills was foggy and slippery, with some cars reporting falling rain. Kankkunen drove conserv-atively and kept ahead of Alen, who on the approach to Mombasa was slowed by his dust. Shinozuka lost his transmission fluid before Taita, this also meant they lost pressure in the foot brake, and he struggled on until the end of the etape stuck in rear wheel drive. By the midday halt at Mtito Andei, en route to Mombasa, the Finns Kankkunen and Alen were ten minutes ahead of their closest rival Kenjiro Shinozuka. Upon arrival at Mombasa they had gained from Shinozuka's trans trouble and held 1-2-3-4 placings not only on the road but in overall classification. Njiru reported he lost his brakes for 50 km, losing about nine minutes. Ishida drove for 15 km with a flat front tire. Brighetti flattened his exhaust pipe and had more shock absorber trouble. Azar Anwar in the strange Subaru Legacy Estate lost time in Rudi Stohl's dust and also had his fan belt break in the Taita region, but was now tenth. McRae was missing, eventually arriving at the White Sands Hotel pare ferme Dusty nrnes · too late to continue. His front suspension had again failed like before. "We tried several-times to patch it up and carry on, but we were time barred. Anyway, Mombasa can't be the worst place in the world to be forced to give up!" Best mini car therefore was Jack's Daihatsu in sixth overall. T oroi tich had gearbox selector trouble and his Toyota had to be manhandled into the pare ferme at Mombasa. But the greatest fun was when Njiru arrived lying sixth car on the road, and his Vivia was found to be too narrow to climb the scrutineers' inspection ramp! On Etape 2 Kankkunen said "We are just cruising along. We have been driving so carefully the car hasn't yet bottomed on a bump. The only problem today. was when we had a puncture on r the main road coming back into Nairobi when we did not have the helicopter to change the wheel for us!" Alen drove 120 km with a vibration, discovered to be a bent wheel. He also had a flat which co·st him three minutes even though the crew of his team's helicopter helped him. Ewase also punctured letting Shinozuka overtake him both on the road and in overall classification. Iwase was still bemused by the pace of his works Celica and his co-driver Sudhir Vinayak said "We did our training in a Group N car which only makes matters more ex-treme. We noticed how hard Shinozuka started driving today, so rather than take risks we have been ~ On of the hazards unique to the Safari Rally is the big trucks and buses on the rally route, all the time. Spectators are generally well behaved. July 1993 Page 33

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~,-,. ;:x, Kenjiro Shinozuka with Pentti Kuukkala posed the most serious threat to the Toyota qomination in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolu-tion, but went out with engine trouble about midway in the rally on Etape 3. The smallest mini cars were the Subaru Vivia 4WD" Super KK factory models. Patrick Mjiru and Rick Matthews brought theirs home 12th overall of 17 finishers. Rudi Stohl and Peter Diekmann finished ei,ghth overall, best privateer. in their new Audi Coupe S2 and they kept the car tidy at least this far. Results -1993 Trust Bank Safari Rally Juha Kankkunen/Juha Piironen SF Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD A• 3:54 I Marku Alen/llkka Kivimaki SF Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD A 4:03 Ian Duncan/Ian Munro EAK Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD A 5:24 Yasuhiro lwase/Sudhir Vinayak J/EAK Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD A 5:35 Guy Jack/Des Page-Morris EAK Daihatsu Charade GTXX A 7:44 Ashok Pattni/Zahid Mogul EAK Daihatsu Charade GTXX A 8:39 Marco Brighetti/Abdul Sidi EAK Daihatsu Charade GTXX A 8:57 Rudi Stohl/Peter Diekmann ND .Audi Coupe S2 A 9:14 Hasmat Shamji/Peter Stone EAK Subaru Legacy 4WD T N• 10:07 Manfred Stohl/Kay Gerlach ND Audi 90 Quattro A 10:43 Sammy Aslam/Farakh Yusuf EAK VW Golf GTI 16V A# 11:37 Patrick Njiru/Rick Matthews EAK Subaru Vivio Sedan 4WD A • Group winners - No Ladies Cup starters - # Formula 2 winner Winner's average speed over stages - 99.85 kph - 44 start - 17 finish WRC Makes Championship points - Toyota 60, Ford 37, Mitsubishi 33. 13:05 . . . . . WRC Drivers Championship points - Kankkunen 43, Delecour 35, Biasion 27. Azar Anway and Shallen Shaw entered this Subaru Legacy_ John Ngunllrl and Wt/flam K1maru have a different kind of Alen 25 Auriol & Jonsson 20 Eriksson 18 McRae 16 Estate wagon and the Kenyans ran in the top ten, then went off sponsor for their Mazda 323, but all that rubber didn't save them Group N Championship Poin;s . Spiliotis, Backlund, F~ssina & Shamji 13 each. the road. later retired with transmission trouble. from a DNF last Easter. Formula 2 Manufacturers points_ GME 30, Citroen 20, Skoda 19. l@r. consolidating our fifth the Taita Hills and had to be · only stn;ssful moment for rally puncture proof inserts, because He had no worry; his car was position." After Japanese driver pulled back by a matatu, but leader J uha Kankkunen came we were uncertain of the side bodily pushed to the mechanics Mario Nitta had his gearbox jam overheated the gearbox rushing before the rally had properly effects these would have on the without any request! in fourth the day before. Subaru up the main road to make up lost restarted; after driving 30 meters front suspen~i<:>n." Precautions Subaru still Jed Group N . Legacys were lying 1-2 in Group time. Driving between the control he had to return to the pre-dawn extended to gtvmg_ Iwase the best Hasmat Shamji was heading for N. Top Group N seed Hiroshi and pare ferme at Mtito Andei startline because the route out of castoffFB91s ofhts teammates as the fourth consecutive victory in Nishiyama retired after overturn-rest halt the gearbox jammed. He Nairohi 's Kenyatta Conference many of the tracks to come were this category for Legacy cars. ing his Nissan the night before. had no spare but staggered on. Centre had inadvertently been particularly rocky._ . Second place had now been taken The battle be\ween the remain-Glen Edmunds, sev·enth over-locked. Later he lost a minute For ~!most the ftrst time on the over by Toyota Celica driver ing mini cars was as intense as night in his Mitsubishi Galant changing a driveshaft as a rallyramstartedtofallasthecars Nitta who benefited from the ever. Jack had lowered his VR-4, had front suspension precaution, and twice had shock rea~hed Nyeri. In temperatures prob'tems Subaru driver Fred Daihatsu's rear suspension and trouble at Tai ta; mechanics absorbers go soft. "Actually the which reached 40 degrees today, Kayser had yesterday when his cured the shoe k absorber rushed spare parts to him, but he worst moments were when twice the event had not proved to be the Legacy stopped without warning problems, while Ashok Pattni's retired. Rudi Stohl drove 200 km we had difficulties avoiding other feared mud bath, rather one of the for ten minutes. The Formula 2 car continued to overheat. withoutaclutchandstruggledall trafficontheroads,thoughimust roughest in memory and this category was headed by the VW Brighetti 's Daihatsu had a cross event because the suspension was say our team's helicopter crew did shaped the deci~ion to ~band on Golf GTI 16v of Sammy Aslam, member bolt fail; "this year I am too soft for such a heavy car, great work warning me." Alen, the Cheploch Bndge section, one after many troubles including having to fightthis little car all the while his son continued with few enjoying a trouble free day, of the rocki~st but most scenic of gearbox, axle and brake prob-way!" In the Vivios Njiru was problems. The only problem for marginally closed on his all.NowactmgasDeputyClerkof lems. Toroitich's GT-Four failed pressing on well and neither he Hasmat Shamji's leadng Group N teammate. the Course five ~i"!~ ~inner to reach the Baringo rest halt nor Ishida had trouble, though Subaru, heading for the Legacy's Toyota had an unexpected Shekhar Mehta said This was within his time allowance because Vivia privateer driver Francisco fourth successive victory in this problem with Duncan's car when done because there were new of transmission troubles and Villasenor had detoured for 20 category, was a slightly cracked the water hose to the engine wash-aways _w?ich would have Kayser abandoned his Legacy km in the Taita Hills the day sump. disconnected and fluid pumped been very d1ff1cult for the back when the left rear suspension before. Jack fell back a place as Shinozuka, who had been out. Mechanics changed the head markers to traverse." When the failed. The fears of the drivers Totoitich made up time after a fourth overnight, retired his gasket in 35 minutes before matter was being discussed the were eased when the final day broken gearbox linkage problem. Mi tsu bish i with timing be It arriving at the Nairobi midday evening before, it was sugges~ed dawned dry for Etape 5. It was There was heartbreak for the trouble on the first competitive halt, but because the engine the route needed shortenmg dusty as the cars tackled the final Subaru Legacy Estate driver section ofEtape 3, which ensured temperature was still too high because the gaps between the competitive section and they Anwar. He went off the road in Toytoa's total domination. The they changed the cylinder head competitors running on open made their way back to Nairobi PIKE'S SERVICE CENTER BAKE.R, CALIFORNIA CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS .... THANKS! Mobil SERVICE ~e~:6} RESTAURAI"T OPEN 24 HOURS EVERYDAY-YEAR ROUND itself before Eldoret. Iwase had roads were too great for safety, for the finish. "I reckon we could three flats, making seven in all. and there was general discontent have finished in the top ten if the Toroitich rolled his Toyota over-that the last 15 kilometers of the mechanics had not spent so long three times when a spectator section were to be held on checking and double checking walked into the path of his car but dangerous asphalt track. Unfort-everything," said Patrick Njiru, he was able to carry on. He rolled unately the decision to cancel was happy at least to have proved the it again in the afternoon and was made too late for many competi-Vivio doubters wrong. And slowed by damaged oil pump, fan tors service crews and for Villasenor finished only two and suspension. The windows photographers to change their places behind. "Until yesterday were broken letting dust into the plans. we had only one puncture. In 15 car, slowing both him and those Juha Kankkunen continued to kilometers we had five, and our running behind. The second enjoy a comfortable ten minute chase car could not reach us. I official Vivia of Ishida retired buffer in front of teammate honestly thought our event was because of cylinder head failure, Markku Alen, while in third place over!", said the Mexican Subaru while their final entry ofNjiru had Ian Duncan was now going well driver. many troubles whe'n a strut without worries after his engine broke, plus driving with deranged troubles yesterday. "Our only suspension damaged the clutch. It concern now is what happens if it was late at night before some rains tonight. The section teams finally reached Eldoret tomorrow around the Aberdare after this, the longest stretch of Hills can be extremely muddy if it the event, and this contributed to is wet. If they suggested we took th e decision to cancel a n the mainroad backtoNairobi,we important section the next day. wouldn't object!", said )uha. In Toyota's tactics? Toyota Team the mini car category Daihatsus Europe President, Ove Anders- were well ahead, but of the Vivios son, said "I've told my drivers I Njiru and Villasenor were still want our four cars to finish in the going strong. Njiru broke a top four places, and I have told s teer i ng m ounting and la ter them I do not want them to fight damaged the clutch climbing a each other." Team tire liaison rocky ascent but was running in \e winners Juha Kankkunen Jha Piironen were relaxed. chief Maurice Guaslard said "We 12th plac~. When he turned into THE BEST IN THE DESERT decidedbeforetherallywewould the service area at Aberdare the ._ ____ _,,,.,.....,.,...""' _ _..,.....,,,... ..... _ ____________ ,. t n o t u se the Mich elin ATS electronics failed, even the radio. . ne Safari is never an easy event to win," said Kankkunen, "But 50metimes when everything goes well it feels easy. This time everything worked really well. " It was quite a day for the Finns with Markku Alen and Ilkka Kivimaki in second place, the first time since November 1988 their countrymen had scored a W orld Rally 1-2. It had been a strange and rather lonely event; in the two Manufacturers' championships the_ o nly points to be awarded were the 20 points to Toyota for their outright success . Page 34 July 1993 Dusty Times

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ICE RACING: The Season Finale T<!xt & Photos: K<!ith Anderson The 1993 International Ice Racir-1g ST Class and Overall points champions David, right. and Steve Beddor hold the checkered flag over their winning steed, the Volkswagen G Tl. While the final race of the International Ice Racing Associa-tion 1993 tour at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, may have belonged to the Chevy team of Dave Marquart and Duane Mahder who domin-ated the race virtually from start to finish to record their first victory, the 1993 season champ-ionship went to the Volkswagen team of the Beddor Brothers, David and Steve. But first let's finish looking at the outcome of the last race. Finishing behind the Mar-quartlMahder Chevy Spectrum was the Volkswagen GTI_ driven ( a bit too ha rd) by Steve Wall and Will Sawyer to their first ST class victory of the year but no sooner had they crossed the finish line when the race officials penali.:ed them one lap for "unnecessary roughness" during the race. That moved the Toyota team of Chris and Charlie Menard up into first place in ST class and second overall, their best finish of the season. But it was behind these teams that the real battle took place, the battle between the tour's two most dominant teams for the 1993 season's overall champion-ship. The underdog was the Volkswagen team of the Beddor Brothers who had a commanding points' lead in their ST class while. -The 1993 International Ice Racing SGT Champions, and second overall, John Kurshinsky and John Menard crunch snow on their way to the championship in their Mercury Capri convertible. II Throwing up great plumes of white clouds to the rear the Toyota FY-16 of Chris and Charlie Menard finished the Eau Claire finale race first in ST class and second overall. The overall race winner at Eau Claire was the Chevy Spectrum of Dave Marquart and Duane Mahder, which here is engulfed by clouds of shaved ice. They dominated the race from flag to flag. Dustynma the 1992 reigning champion team of John Kurshinsky and John Menard enjoyed a strong points' lead n the SGT class. But in the overall points standing, these two teams had been neck-and-neck all season, trading the overall points' lead back and forth between each of the preceding races. Going into this final race with a slight points' lead, the successful Beddor strategy was to shadow the Mercury Capri convertible of Kurshinsky and Menard, conced-ing a shot at another race victory but earning enough points to hold a slim points' lead for the overall championship. In the past, the SGT class champion had typically been a shoe-in for the overall champion-ship because the SGT class is for the showroom stock cars with the best horsepower-to-weight ratios, so the Beddors' championship was impressive considering their Volkswagen GTI is an ST class car. Although the Volkswagen lacked the raw horsepower of the Mercury Capri, the GTl's superior handling proved to be a The season's overall winning championship VW GT/ charged hard over the ice on the frozen lakes and the bright yellow and black car became a familiar sight in the ST winner's circle. more important factor for speed on ice. As the checkered flag finished waving, the 1993 season melted to a close. Race #5 in Thunder Bay was cancelled due to "lack of ice." So when things free.:e up next year, the International Ice Racing Association will be back with another season of hotly contested races. John Menard was tops in SGT class by 20 points over Scott Kronn, who was seven points up on Jon Kurshinsky, these three well ahead of the rest of the class who trailed third place by over 30 points. Along with the overall title for the season, David and Steve Beddor won ST class by 25 points over Charlie and Chris Menard. They were 16 points ahead of Dave Knaack and Jeff Miller, who had one point on Steve Wall and Larry Menard, and Will Sawyer and Bob Kunferman trailed by another five points in this, the largest class in the ice racing series. Totally dependent on the weather, the ice racing season generally starts in early January for these Showroom Stock style cars. So, the studded tires are packed away now, but next winter the same gang will doubtless be out running hard on the frozen lakes of the upper midwest. Jamar Super Shifte Make missed shifts a thing of the past! Fortin CV Cages Polished & Strong! Available in both: 930 and 934.5 Thing Drums Straight from Germany. The real thing! 103 Press Lane #4 * Chula Vista, CA 9191 0 Phone: (619)691-9171 * FAX: (619)691-0803 July 1993 Page 35

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Al>RA LA PLAYA 250 Gayton Goes With The Gold At Rocky Point Text & Photos: A.H. Tellier the cam cover). "It's box-stock, except for the 600 Holley and headers.'' Tom pulled the throttle body fuel injection and the ECU, adding the drag race carb and an adapted Delco ignition. "I didn't want to get involved with the extensive wiring and electronics in the dirt problems (associated with the street Fl)". It doesn't pay to make too This almost deserted highway, with its one truckload of Mexican fans is part much sport of anybody, as Tom _ of the race course. The Mexican trucks were running full tilt too. had his ducks totally squared noted over a Corona at J J's inOregon!Ihopethatatleastthey away, taking third overall and Cantina (a favorite post-race enjoyed the camarones y cerveza. second in Class! Hose-clamped-watering hole), "Why ruin it," he They parked it out in the ancient on body panels and all. Whatever asked rhetorically. beach strand and just hung out for works. Even beating local icon The ever-troubled Nolte/ ·far too long, waiting for a tow. Jim Pierce ("I woulda won if Bill Monroe mid-engined V6-Power-Wes Holmes had his F85 This was the view everyone saw of Robert Gayton and his rotary powered Herrick hada come down to run glideWoodsVulcanhitthetrailer Olds-powered buggy out for a Chaparral as he kept the pedatto the floor, to win Class 1 and Overall and the the show. You know, that Danny early. They had solved the romp in the sand and everyone bonus bucks for the second time in a row. Gayton has been winning in Texas (Foddrill) is so slow in the pits.") 11 flexi-flier'' transmission-to-eyed it thinking of "Wow ... that all spring long as well. in his Type IV pre-runner by Hali brand quick-change rear end Bus ·tranny won't live." On the Robert Gayton, the RX7 New sand race. The course was sixteen minutes. Tom just kept problem that side-lined them at thirdlapwesawitparkedwiththe Mexican Flash, gathered up his definitely less than technical and the hammer down and kept his the Vulture. And now they are two standing on the tires watching second ADRA Overall in a row as the only real rough spot was the equipment together. They did, chasing the problem to the rear the action. "Yep ... gearbox," we he Rota-Tilled the Old Mexican transition over the beach ridge however, lose the bolted-on cross tranny seal. "More development intercomed. But, no, it was simply sands at well over 53 miles an dunes off the pit/ finish area. That bar over the back of the engine work is needed." I may be out of a situation of running out of fuel. hour, top-speeding the victory got chewed up bad -but the cage. No problem; no one caught line to suggest that the two l_ike the The soft sands of time had away from contender Shannon remainder of the 28 mile, 7 lap him to hit him. A chewed up CV development process and would exceeded Wes' consumption Schulz by nine long minutes at the course was WFO sand. There boot was no big deal, either. be found with escessive time on estimates and he was stuck in the La Playa 250 at Rocky Point, were spots where, if your car Jim Pierce had asked: "What their hands if everything all middle of nowhere. By the time he Sonora, Mexico. ADRA's sup-would go 150youcouldgo r50, for do I have to do to get in the worked as planned. Ditto for Ed got fuel and was running again porter -Schuh' "FARMCO" is miles at a crack. Of course the magazine." "Well, sumpthin' Beard, the Buckeye mobile everyone was cracking their sponsoring Phil's stair-step bonus locals in their flat bed trucks on fairly stupid outa do it," I offered. furniture magnate who cut the second ( or third Corona) and purse - was behind in the Overall the way to market, cramped one's "OK." And of course he did. In a fast "10" lap before steering went thinking "shower time." Wayne standingsbutwasthefirst1650cc moves every once in a while. But place where the out-and-back out!aventanaontheA-armedcar. Green knew the story: "they're car -worth $14 71.25 American they would move over and wave sections of the course paralleled When he does get this rocket ship ( the Olds) good for that. I had one money. ( Gayton took home like mad. Note: Puerto Penasco each other-like the east-and-west sorted out, he'll be tough to beat. of those and it only got3 miles per "about Three Kay.") "It was race fans are surprisingly naive. lanesofafreeway-west-boundJP And he's pretty good, a "10" in gallon in the sand." super and I ran down JP (Jim They did not build any Jumps of jumped the berm and drove over the post-race pit BS sessions, too. The ever popular Walt Bar-Pierce), too." Nothing like a little Death like in Baja. Let's keep it into our east-bound lane, right Tucson's Jim Travis made a onick struggled with a blown CV Buckeye competition. that way. down our throats. And then rare and welcome appearance in and a busted power steering With loads of bonus bucks for At the recent Gila Bend Grand darted back into his lane. "What his Porsche-Chaparral and had to fitting, using up over an hour in grabs in both the Open and Prix, we had all looked askance at the hell...?" "Hmmm. Good eyes; be brought in on a string. Tranny the repair procedure. But Walt Limited car groups -and an extra Tom Higgins' 3 liter Nissan V6, must be a crop duster." problems was the second-hand did bring the Baron Equipment grand for the Class 10 winner which " ... had been liberated Albert McMullen brought his report, as Jim packed up and Special home for the full seven alone -everyone was geared for from a junk yard's '86 PU with peaky Rabbit engined Funco out headed for the Old Pueblo laps. Remember, he had shelled a the fast run at ADRA's should-60K miles (it still had that yellow of semi-retirement and almost post-haste. Yes, this high speed ring and pinion just the Saturday . be-easy-on-the-cars-but::_wasn 't • wrecking-yard crayon lette!il}_g on • caught Shannon, but a 1-o-n-g race was Jim's to lose. before at the SCORE San Felipe --------------------------liiiiiiiiii""I second lap pit stop, to assess a Reuben Wood was yet another 250. The word from his pit crew THE WRIGHT P-LACE~. LMger Diametar Linka ·---. Larger Dl-lar Spindles ------"EXTREME" TRAILING ARMS STRONGEST ARMS AVAILABLE DlrecUy replac:ea other manufactursa trailing wma 9420 FLINN SPRINGS LANE_, EL CAJON, CA 92021 TEL: (619) 561-4810 FAX: (619) 561-7960 Page 36 tossed power steering belt (but of possible winners who had was that he almost took out the NO blisters!), spelled Second transmission woes, putting him brick bano near which they had set Place. Note that Albert did make into the pits early with Stan Steele up their pit: "We figured that he up loads of time with a couple of who made the long tow from couldn't miss our pit if it was next laps faster than any of the yellow Farmington (NM, USA) to have to the outhouse. Trouble is, he FARMCO had put down. Good yet another gearbox failure. "By almost didn't miss the outhouse to see him back behind the wheel. the third lap fourth gear was gone. itself." This was Walt's first finish The list of fast laps records a It just 'blowed' up." It's a good since the '92 Labor Day Buggy Who's Who who did not finish thing Stan is an unflappable guy, Bash. the easy event. The race was at least on the outside. His "Race Tony Pierce (Mesa) and I saw pretty much considered to be a Mile per Tow Mile" ratio is some big bucks evaporate in the "Break or Win" deal by the big getting pretty slim lately. Of desert sun as our throttle cable dawgs, and nobody stayed on the course the Woods-chassised "l" fatigued, frayed, and failed. With porch. The always-dangerous of MikeGertsonand T.J. Gregory a $600 bonus on the line for the Steve Melton had an engine start didn't fare much better on that 1600 class -plus the $300 entry to go sour early in his Ed calculation: they came down all pay-backpurse-wehaditall.The Beard-framed "lO': car and ~he way from Winnemucca, front row start and everything -parked it. "I'm savirig it," he . Nevada. Be advised that's almost . our ducks; our pins - in a line.We The "1600" class was all two seaters. From the left the crews were class winners Alice and Wayne Green, The Tonys, Pierce and Tellier, and Cory Sappington and Pat Mershon. July 1993 put a minute on second place Wayne and Alice Green on the first lap and as we had started behind the much faster Ten cars ( who darted far ahead), were also enjoying a dust free run. Until the throttle cable broke right into the third lap. Do you know how far our 15 minutes repair time meant at 43 mph? 10.8 miles, that's how far. Or make that almost 8 % of the remaining 140 miles. We would have had to run 4 7, J>lus make up the two minutes head start we had received. But our fastest lap had barely been 45, so ... in retrospect it was an impossible situation. But we tried, we tried anyway. One way to get a good, fast, no frills ride is to get behind and play hell to DustyTimcs

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Shannon Shulz broke his winning streak a bit, although he did Tom Higgens has a three liter Nissan V6 for his Class 1 /2 motive Jim Pierce had a little trouble staying on the right side of a divided trail but he got it sorted out with no damage and finished fourth overall, third in Class 1. win Class 1 O, he was second overall in the sands of the La Play a power and he hustled down the trails to finish the Dirtrix second 250 around Rocky Point. in class. 3rd 0/A. ------------------------catch up. • elapsed time. Wayne Green was Wayne tore two CV boots on Everybody got past us while we driving in his first buggy race in his DR T two seater, "from struggled with the frayed cable. ages (He did the '92 Gold Coast running in the weeds" trying to It's quite a fun job, with plenty of with "Steve Dude" Perkins' get (out of the churned up sand opportunity to poke numerous Dodge): "Oh, Jesus, was it the and) onto firmer ground so "I painful little holes in your finger next-to-last Riverside? Or the could shift to .fourth." Their ten tips. We faked the repair. I'm Frontier 500; maybe Parker in minute lead did not allow them amazed that it held. And we • '88?" the luxury of any R & R, the pit charged back into the hunt. We caught Pat Mershon and Cory Sappington near the full throttle top speed 20 mile point on the last lap. Pat said that they thought that they were the last car on the course. What a rude awakening they were awarded as we squeezed by, nay, forced our way by high on the berm, knocking nerf bars to tires. They were running a set of low and wide heavily-treaded Mickey Thompson tires that must have degraded their top speed. Tony's Steve Hobbs motor motored us right around ·Pat's FAT. Challenger winner Ron Dalke swears on using almost bald, large diameter tires for limited cars: " Hey -you can break them loose. They ride high in the soft stuff, the edges are rounded; they're just high-flotation tires. The hard part is getting someone else to wear them down bad enough for us to use." Ron and third place Steve Long have forgone the usual tube framed buggy-based car for which the class was intended. No, they have Bug based cars with floor pan and body. Although Steve's is a convertible, the formula seems to work and work well. We had been lapped only by Gayton and Schulz, and Albert McMullen's Class 10 twice. We had gotten by him while he was pitting. Then we immediately caught Dalke in the sand hills. I honked and Tony tapped as Ron moved over and we squeezed by in the moguls. Ron jumped right back on the course as we passed him ... there Albert was, right there behind him, hidden deep in the dust, and gave him the business. "Man! I had no idea he was there. And it's not a dec~nt place to pass. His suspension was workin' good, the wheels were just a-waving in the air." Wayne Green finished Sixth overall, eight minutes ahead of Pat Mershon with the Two Tonys were another minute back on ADRA DASH FOR CASH Rocky Point April 24, 1993 TOP FIVE• CARS Robert Gayton • Class I Shannon Schulz • Class 1 O Tom Higgens• Class 1 Jim Pierce · Class 1 Albert McMullen · Class 10 PRO CLASS WINNERS Robert Gayton • Class I Shannon Schulz • Class 1 O Wayne & Alice Green• Class 1600 Ron Dalke • Challenger SPORTSMAN CLASS WINNERS Scott Stinson & Ryan May • Class I Rudy Leon • Class 1 o DEIST SEAT BEL TS The greatest name in driver safety equipment. 4-pointsandrailseatbelt .. $74.95 RACE BELTS 2'·5pointmount ..... . ... $79.95 3'·5pointmount . ........ $99.95 SIDE COVERS IRS ................ , . . . . $54.95 Swing axle ............... $54.95 KENNEDY PRESSURE PLATES 200mm-1700# ............ $79.95 200mm•up to 3000# . . ...... $99.95 GERMAN AUTO PRESSURE PLATES RACING 200mm 1700#-2400# .. from $54.95 PERFORMANCE CLUTCH DISC Cushlocks ............... $39.95 4pucferramic ... ........ . $44.95 4 puc ferramic with spring hub ..... . .............. . $54.9~ SACO MAGNUM RACK Billet housing, 1 ½ • allow gear, through bolt mounting complete with stops . . .•....... ....... $395.00 SACO CV CAGES, BOOTS, AND FLANGES 930or T-4 cages ........ ea $44.95 930orT-4orT-2flanges .ea $15.95 Trickboots(speclfy) .... ea $15.95 930 CV star ..... .............. call "WEEKEND-WARRIOR" LONG TRAVEL BEAMS 8' travel·stock width .... $199.95 8" travel·widened beam .$219.95 10" travel·stock width .... $224.95 10• travel·widened beam .$244.95 TRI MIL EXHAUST T-11½'chrome ......... $ 98.95 T-11 ½•raw ........... . $ 65.95 T-115/8" chrome ........ $105.95 T-11 518" raw ........... $ 72.95 T-4chrome ......•.•.... $189.95 T-4raw ................. $154.95 GERMAN AUTO HATS .... $4.95 GERMAN AUTO T-SHIRTS .............. $8.50 specify M.LG.XLG crew ("use all their names": probably spend all this money we won at Foddrill's anyway, we'll need new arms for (ADRA's Labor Day) Snowflake (Buggy Bash)." At the Driver's Meeting Green had said to us "Good Luck ... but I still hope I beat you." Harry Steiner; Bill and Kay Poore; father H.L. Green; Lawrence Humphrey' Denny Kendall; and baby-sitter Evelyn Huff) did the duct tape repair number and it lasted. "and my engine survived, thanks to Don Sandahl. We'll PORSCHE STYLE FAN SHROUD Fits T·4 engine, utilizes T-1 alternator, includes alternator stand . $299.95 MAGNUM SPINDLES MK I ................... $489.95 MK II .....•.....•...... $589.95 I PEDAL ASSEMBLIES CNC Clutch and brake assemblies for cable throttle With black pedal ........ $164.95 With chrome pedal ....... $184.95 With hydraulic throttle ... $259.95 Replacement slave ...... $ 44.95 SACO RACK AND PINION The toughest available anywhere, alloy gears, full contact housing, hard anodized. 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SUBARU PRO RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP John Buffum Wins The SCCA Wild West Pro Rally B:v John Elkin Photos: Lome Trezise & Jim Culp head i:o head since 1989. Rally organizer Bob Grass laid out a vny good course that allowed the cars to have some access to service time after every stage on Friday. This would be a blessing to those fielding new cars and new techno-goodies. One of those new goodies was a clutch-less steering wheel mounted shifter on the Ma:da 323GTX of B.J. Beal and Bob Davenport. Also, new transmission-wise was the seven speed clutchless transmission in Carl Merril's 400+ horsepower Ford Escort Cosworth. As six o'clock neared teams sent their service vehicles on ahead and drivers and navigators strapped themselves into the cars and prepared to start the 1993 Subbing for his step-son Paul Choiniere John Buffum proved that he had lost season at last. The weather none of his rally skills, and with Jeff Becker navigating he drove the new Audi sported intermittent showers s_-2_C_o_u_p_e_t_o_t_h_e_o_v_er_a_ll_w_i_n_, w_h1_·c_h_w_a_s_n_o_s_u_r_p_ri_se_. __________ throughout the day and provided The 1993 Subaru PRO Rally Championship got under way the weekend of April 23, in Olympia, Washington, as 28 rally teams gathaed to tackle the 15 stages that made up the Wild West PRO Rally. Teams would traverse five stages on Friday evening then after an overnight halt the final ten stages would be run. Friday's start was located in Shelton, about 15 miles west of Olympia and the competitive stages were located further west on roads owned by the Simpson Paper Company. Cars would only see 33.62 miles of special stages this night. Just the pre-rally news could fill a whole normal' race report what with new cars debuting for Carl Merrill (Ford Escort Cosworth) and Jeff Zwart (Porsche Carrera 4 Wheel Drive). Also the new Audi for defending National Champion Paul Choiniere (Audi S-2 with 20 wet conditions, which is to be valve engine) was a new car. To expected at any Washington boot there were four new event. With the no dust condi-Mitsubishi trucks vying for the tions cars were started at one highly touted contingency money minute intervals. available. Rod Millen marked his Stage one was a fast 4 .36 mile return to the Subaru Champion-affair with deep, water-filled pot ship in a specially modified holes throughout. The open class Hyundai Elantra, for one rally would be first into the wet and anyway. There were a myriad of muddy woods as John Buffum other technological goodies on and Jeff Becker put the Audi two much of the field also. seconds up on the Hyundai of With the cars gathering in Rod Millen and Phil Berg. Carl downtown Shelton for the 6:00 Merrill and Jon Wickens debuted p .m . rally start word started the Ford in third 20 seconds off filtering down about a driver the leaders pace. 13 seconds later change. Paul Choiniere would be down the leader board-was a tie unable to attend because his very for fourth as local hotshoe Greg pregnant wife was having con-Lund and Mike Huffman tied Jeff tractions. Luckily the car owner Zwart and Tony Sircombe in the would also fill in as a suitable Porsche. substitute driver, John Buffum. Showing no rust on his driving So the word spread, this would be ability Buffum/Becker put a rematch of the old Buffum/ Mil-another ten seconds on Mil-len rivalry. This would be the first ' !en / Berg in the 8 .60 mile second that the two would meet stage. The rest of the field started ,w,,;U,c-,;:;.;, A revival of the classic Buffum vs Millen battles was in the making as the Millen Hyundai was just 21 seconds back after the Friday stages. But Rod Millen and Phil Berg went out with mechanical ills before the finish. to fall away from the lead battle as Millen/ Berg. Merrill!Wickenslostanother47 As teams transit back to seconds, but still headed the rest Olympia for a night's sleep the of the pack. Ori stage two is where Open class stood with Buffum/ the teams of Dick Corley and Becker holding half a minute in Martin Headland (Mitsubishi hand over Millen/ Berg. Merrill/ Eclipse) and the Beal!Davenport Wickens stood third nearly four Mazda started ace! i mating minutes off the pace but with Car-themselves to the roads and ley /Headland just five seconds moving into the top five in open behind. 22 more seconds back class. stood Zwart/Sircombe with a half Stages three and four were a minute over Lund /Huffman. Lon repeat of one and two, only it was Peterson and Bill Gutzmann led dark now. At the end of the first Production GT class, sixth overall four Buffum/ Becker led by just and Peter Cunningham and Joe ten seconds as Millen/Berg Andreini were on top of the picked up the pace in the Production class, driving a Hyundai. Merrill!Wickens held Mitsubishi and Acura respect-sway in third place by just one ively. Guy Light and Dave White second over the New England were leading the Rallytrucks in based Mitsubishi of Corley/ their GMC Sonoma. Five cars Headland. Zwart and Sircombe, were out of the National Rally. while having no troubles in the Going into day two the field Porsche so far were "learning was looking forward to the more about the car" and held fifth over familiar roads in the Capital a pair of Mazda 323GTX, of Forest which is less twisty and Lund/Huffman and Beal/Dav-much harder packed than those enport. used the previous night. And The fifth stage of the evening while the roads were still wet the was a 7 .70 mile stretch of road mud would not be near as bad. parallelling Kennedy Creek. The Part way through the second road was very challenging with stage of the day the lead battle trees growing partly onto the endedasRodMillenandPhilBerg road, usually at the apex of the cheered others on from 5 .04 corner, and a very tight and twisty miles into a 13 mile stage. The section of road, unlike what teams Hyundai was felled by electronics had been getting used to. failure. This left John Buffum and Buffum/Becker used the new Jeff Becker with a comfortable power of the Audi to storm five minute margin and the duo through the stage 21 seconds brought the Michelin shod Audi . better than the field, headed by . S-2 home a winner in it's maiden voyage. Second place came tel Carl Merrill and John Wickens in the Ford, who set fast time in seven of the final eight stages of the rally. Dick Corley and Manin Headland were more than a minute behind in third in the Mitsubishi Eclipse.Jeff Zwart and Tony Sircombe came out fourth in class and fifth overall in the exotic Porsche saying they still had to work on high speed handling and smoother shifting. Just three seconds back from the Porsche team were Greg Lund and Mike Huffman bringing the Ma:da 323 home fifth and B.J. Lon Peterson and Bill Gutzmann made their debut as factory drivers a dandy one, not only winning GT Class in the Mitsubishi Eclipse, but finishing a great fourth overall as well. John Buffum checks the lug nuts on the Audi before the start, while Jeff Beale and Bob Dave·nport came Carl Merrill and Jon Wickens race through the rain in the new Ford Escort Cosworth, fresh off the boat (plane) and they finished second in Open Class and second overall. Page 38 Becker muses under the umbrella, a daily need in the Pacific Northwest. home sixth in Open Class. Oick Corley and Martin Headland led all the Mitsubishis, finish-ing third in Open Class in the Eclipse and third overall on both days of rallying. July 1993 The GT class was to be the most Jeff Zwart and Tony Sircombe had a rare Porsche Carrera 4WD in Washington and they ran fifth on Friday and finished fifth Open and overall on the longer Saturday contest. DustyTimes

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Anxiously waiting to try the new Escort Cosworth out, Carl Merrill, left, and Jon Wickens seem happy despite the rain that fell at the rally start. Chad Dykes and Pat Hanson, from southern California were also out hunting the Mitsubishi gold in a rally truck. They were second in class, six minutes back and 15th overall. From the East Coast Frank Cunningham ar,d Charles Bradley drove their Mitsubishi Ga/ant into second place in GT Class, only a minute, 20 seconds behind the winner. competitive class, comprised. mostly of various Mitsubishi models seeking the high dollar contingency program. The remaining GT entry would be the Mazda 323GTX of Rick Beson and Geoff Case, all the other six entries wore the Mitsubishi name tag. With all things seeming equal it would be a rally that depended heavily on driver ability. Lon Peterson and Bill Gutzmann debuted a new Eclipse fielded by Dave Wolin Racing; the Toyo Tire shod car set fast time in class over the first stage by 1 7 seconds. Peterson /Gutzmann increased their lead through the first five stages to an even 20 seconds at the overnight halt. Vinnie Frontinan and Francisco Arruda were pursuing in their Mitsubishi Galant, forsaking the Group A Toyota they campaigned las·t year. Frank Cunningham and Charles Bradley fell into third trailing the leader by one minute and a second. Antonio Menendez and Juan Goya stood fourth; this team came up from Mexico City with backing from Tecate Beer, T opochio and Iberria; all Mexican owned companies. Be son /Case had racked up 14 minutes in road penalties and were essentially out of the running for position but continued to run for the finish. Three stages into the second day found Peterson /Gutzmann out front with a solid minute plus lead on Frontinan/ Arruda, who were being hotly pursued by Cunningham / Bradley just three seconds back in the Galant. On the way to the finish of the rally Peterson /Gutzmann contin-ued to learn more about rallying four wheel drive, the team usually terrorizes the Southwestern rally circuit in a rear wheel drive Arrow. Two narrow escapes with near rollovers did not deter them from winning the GT class by one minute and 20 seconds, although a temporary lost route book was a bit of a panic at a service halt until Gutzmann found he had sat on it getting in the car. Cunning-ham/ Bradley brought home the Galant in second place just a handful of time ahead of Frontinan/ Arruda. Mendez/ Goya continued to learn more about the Washington roads and finished fourth in class. The GT winner was fourth overall, and heading into Peterso·n•s home National next month bodes well for the run at the overall title as well. Mitsubishi's took the top four spots in GT class. In the Production class there were a pair of entries. Peter Cunningham and Joe Andreini revived the Acura Integra to go against the husband and wife team of Tony and Liz Shumaker who debuted another Dave Wolin Greg Lund and Mike Huffman, Northwest regional champs, came through the Guy Light and Dave White teamed in the GMC Sonoma to take the truck class rain in the Mazda 323 to finish sixth overall in the National and win both victory over four Mitsubishis. The Sonoma finished six minutes ahead of the divisional rallies run concurrently with the National. closest one, and out ran or outlasted the others. charged. in John Elkin. Rob Cherry had There were no Group A entries were second in another 323GTX, At the press stage early Friday commitments to his upcoming as Chad DiMarco is said to be moving up when second place morning Cunningham was giving National in Prescott later this starting his season with the Rim finishers Rick Beson and Geoff rides to the local press when his year. Ken White, the grand old Of The World Rally in May in Case incurred 14 minutes in road engine expired. The team, who man of rallying and Adrian Crane Southern California. penalties. Mike Whitman and had another Integra as a chase car also took up the money hunt in a The rally finished and awards Kevin Linville were third in a contacted the local Honda dealer Mitsubishi as did new to the were handed out at the Evergreen Datsun 510, whilt: Erik Thomp-who helped the team to perform National series Chad Dykes and Gun Club, southwest of Olympia. son and Cam Jackson in a Volvo the engine swap. At near 4:00 Pat Hanson from California. The organizers wish to thank the rounded out the top four. p.m. the car was due into the The open and fast roads proved cities of Olympia, Shelton and This was no doubt the first time Shelton Pare Expose. The team that horsepower is the answer in Oakville, Washington, and inhistor·ythatapairofbrandnew trailered the car and completed Washington as Light/White Simpson Timber Company, the out of the box rally cars, the Audi hooking up the various electrical simply left the field behind and South Puget Sound Community S-2 and the Ford Excort Cos-connections as the start time cruised to a nine plus minute College and Red Hook Ale worth finished 1-2 in a Pro rally, neared.Withminutestosparethe margin of victory and 13th Brewery. plus the fact that both cars are Integra fired and took the start. overall. But the fight was behind In the five stage Friday prepared at John Buffum's Libra The Shumakers, who had zero the first night with second place divisional rally Greg Lund and Racing in Burlington, Vermont. experience in a front wheel drive Gary and Judi Gooch just one substitute co-driver Mike Huff-Congratulations to Libra Racing hadplannedtousethisrallytoget second ahead of Dykes/Hanson. man cruised to a 1:25 victory in for a super job on the new rally used to the car. Tony and Liz Hull/Elkin stood fourth as the Lund's Mazda 323GTX. Gene cars. :ippedtheToyoTireshodEclipse pair tried the wrong type 0f . . McCullough and J;c:Lf0illman through the stages but never GoodyearTireandpaidtheprice, _____ .;.;... __ ..,;,;;..;;,_;. ___________ .._ ____ , cl d h C h , 1 ·The· Off-Roader's Choice· conten e wit unning am, osing time. _ .... ,~ Slielt. Adreini for the lead. At the Day two saw Dykes/Hanson '" awards Peter summed it up best move ahead further as in stage stating, "This rallying is hard eight the Gooch Mitsubishi got stuff." The next rail y should off the road and stuck, losing provide more equal footing for 45 minutes and sending the • E-Z ur INSTANT SHELTERS these two teams on the twisty Gooch 's to the bottom of the I ~ roads in California. pecking order but still with an ~~ Imagine setting up a free-standing shelter in less than 60 seconds! The Truck class proved a nearly official finish. Hull/ Elkin tried to all Mitsubishi field save one entry, close the gap to Dykes/Hanson that of Guy Light and Dave White but still on a learning curve they ·in a GMC Sonoma V-6. The rest fell two minutes short and settled ot the field were all converts to the for third. White/Crane cruised Diamond star brand. Gary and home fourth. The truck battle Judy Gooch, defending class should take a turn as the series champions, forsook their Toyota turns back east in June. Dykes and . for one. Roger Hull not only left Light do not intend to run which the Jeep home for a Mitsubishi should leave the championship but also had a different navigator . another Hull versus Gooch affair. NO missing parts NO center poles NO. ropes NO hassle • 5 sizes • 24 colors • Custom Graphics l.nstant Pit ShPlter La Rana Contingency Sponsor SCORE Contingency Sponsor _ E-Z UP Authorized Dealer CASTEX RENTALS~ INC. 1044'N. Cole Ave. Los An_geles, CA 90038 Mitsubishi Eclipse, this one front Peter Cunnignham and Joe Andreini made good in the Washington woods, whee 1 drive an cl n On-tu r b O _ winning Production Class by a big margin in the fancy Acura lntegra P car. CALL: 213 • 462 • 1468 DustyTimcs July 1993 Page 39

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THE MICKEY THOMPSON SPORTSMAN OFF ROAD RACING SERIES The First Event Was A Success Last April Photos: Trnchsid<' Photo Inc. The horde of quads ran every heat they could. On the stadium course the winner in Intermediate Beginners was Tom Lipinski, running third here, won in a tight battle in the second heat, and was third for the day. some real world practice with a mediate Beginner class, and Bryan fully staffed course complete with Hinson came out of the traffic medical equipment. Winners did jams and occasional spills to win get nicely done plaques as a thefirstheatoverJasonGreenlow memento of the day's effort, and Jerry Gutierrez was third. In many saying they would be back the Beginner group there were for the next one, and bring more some scratches, but two started, cars in their class with them. and Travis Howard, who has won Racing began right after lunch championships in the desert at I :00 p.m. and the first round of. · driving a Class 11 Beetle, won the stadium heats opened the 'class over Michael Nixon. program. Inaugurating the race Continuing on the stadium course were the SuperLites course were the pair of Grand combined with the Pilots, who National Sport trucks and a Jeep had a delayed start, for this heat. Cherokee Sports Utility. Overall Don Archibald took off in the it was no contest as Don Cornell lead, later spun out and John whipped the Jeep around the Putting on one of the b_est shows of the day, Steve Kukla, foregr?und, _and Rory_ Chenowth put the crowd on its feet on Sarna took over the lead. But hydrobarriers in fine style and ran the long course with side by side racmg. Chenowth won on points with two wms over Kukla. _ Archibald caught up in an exciting away from Billy Moore in Joey The Mickey Thompson Enter-one a closed course, a fair distance tight turns, and bumpy stretches duel and won over Sarna while Moore's old truck, hut Billy won tainment Group came up with a around and similar to the late familiartostadiumracers,butthe Stacy Fay was hack in third. the truck trophy as Don Staley series at Glen Helen OHV Park, lamented Riverside track in severe jumps were eliminated, ~Meanwhile the Pilots were havng failed to finish. near San Bernardino, CA, for difficulty, but not in speed. The althoughtherewereacouplemild a good run. Todd Jespersen Now it was show time on the !lmateur racers, Sportsman if you winter rains had taken their toll ones where the boys caught some gained a strong lead, which he lost stadium course as Rory Chen-will, last spring. For 1993 a series 'on the high hills that used to be air. This course was run between a somewhere, and Mike Vande-owth unveiled the Maxi Mini Mag of three events was planned, part of the track when Glen Helen seemingly endless supply of burgh ended up winning the first that he wants to run the MTEG heginning on April 25 and ran their own race series a few hydrobarriers. heat ahead of Todd, who was serkswith, huttheysaythecaris christened the Mickey Thompson years ago, so this track was The one day race event had followed by Neil Affinito. There too light and the engim: too small, Sportsman Off Road Racing designed to be a bit easier on the early morning gate opening, in were so many Quads in three hut he ran here in Super 1600 Series, sanctioned by MTEG. equipment. The stadium course fact campers could come in the classes, Pro, and Beginner class with Steve Kukla his only Two race courses were set in front was parked right in front of the night before. There was a real tech Itermediate and plain Beginner, adversary. Martin Mc La ugh ten of the grandstand viewing area, grandstands with all the twists and inspection ala the stadiums, and all it seemed were running two foiled to finish in his Class 9 car. ~ Floyd Haas Jr., a VORRA regular, came south to try this new race series, and he won the first heat, took second in the second moto and won the Mini Mag . class over the desert regulars. . ~ ~:,.... . .-,'f;, ~~ ,..,,.. Rick Boyer won the first closed course 1-2-1600 heat, got second in the next one and he took the class honors wth just three points for the day. Page 40 the rest of the morning was spent radium heats and two long track '· Rory and Steve were at it hammer in practice as many entrants opted heats, that they too had delayed and tong with Steve the early to run both the closed course starts. They hegan with 14 quads leader, only to he hit hy Rory in heats and the stadium heats, on the stadium track in Pro class, the first turn. With Rory leading, especially the horde of quad withGaryDentonwayhackinthe Steve got anxious and hit a racers who were by far the biggest field. However it didn't take Gary hydroharrier, hut hl· recovered to hunch in the entry. Almost any long to slither past one after close up again. With Kukla right class in off road racing, excepting another, and he gained the lead a on his rear bumper Chenowth motorcycles, was welcome, from lap or two before the checkered won in the Maxi Mag. the Stadium types to desert flag and won the first moto. The 1-2-1600 cars started the classes like those participating in Racing hard in challenge, Greg closed course action, and the sanctioned SCORE, La Rana .. Stuart placed second and Todd three 5-1600s had two on the VORRA and Fudpucker events. Bunker was third, followed by grid, hut only one finisher, the In this Sportsman series MTEG Niclas Granlund, and Doug winner Chris Heryford who sees an opportunity to produce a Eichner was hack there some-mixed it up with the open wheels a quality off road racing event, that where too. These folks don't hit. Four of the five 1600s spent is not structured for pri:e money, generally race just for trophies·, their time on course trying to spo.isorship or exposure, hut hut they might have been testing catch Rick Royer, wearing # 1, instead one that is based on the for an equally tight course coming prohahly from V l"ntura raceway, turededicationofeachandevery upatPhoenix,orjusthavingfun, hut Larry Watson. Dennis participant in the competition. It and 13 finished the race. Sulliv~n, Glen Neese, Jim McGill is also a great way for pros to get in There were seven in the Inter-, and Kyle V eslermark gave chase . ,. Glen Neese won the second 1-2-1600 closed course heat, and with a thrid in the first round he placed second in class standings for a trophy. .July 1993 Roth Watson and Neese got close at times, hut a long time racer at Glen Helen, Rick Royer, won the heat. Watson was second, followed by Neese and Sullivan, while the others trailed by some distance. Next the horde of quads tried the long course, led by Greg Stuart and Gary Denton. They got so mixed up with a couple of close encounters that we lost track but we think Gn:g Stuart won and Gary Denton was second, follow-ed by Niclas Granlund. It looks like Tony Costantino won the Beginners section followed by Dan Powell, Tom Lipinski and Bryan Hinson. Seven Mini Mags came out to do battle on the closed course as this was a designated Mini Mag DustyTimes

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points race. VORRA regular FloyJ Haas Jr. got out in front early anJ he stayed there, dogged hy Kirk McDaniel. Chris Garrett and Mike Thorlow fought hard for third. They didn't string out much, hut finished in the above order. Thorlow was fourth, Frank Rristing fifth, Jim Harris sixth, and Dave Elliott, seventh. The spectators loved the Mini Mags, cheering them over the jumps. The stock mini trucks complet-ed the first round, only two Toyotas on the grid. Dan Groff started out with an easy lead, hut had some trouhle just out of sight and Jerry Beall Jr. went on to the victory. We went pit hopping during the lunch time intermission, and it was keen to talk to folks we hadn't seen in a long time, hut we never did get the quad folks sorted out, they all dress alike for starters. The weather was just beautiful and a lot of competitors who hadn't hurt their racers, stretched out on the grass for a quick nap. The program started all over again in similar rotation: On the Don Archibald ruled the SuperLite contests, run on tt,e long course, and he won both heat races, and naturally won the points and trophy for the day. stadium course the Super lites . Kory Ellis third with a fifth and a and Pilots had a fun run with Don third and Niclas Granlund was Archihald coming out in front fourth, and Greg Stuart was fifth. followed by John Sarna. And the Looks like the cream rose to the horde of Quads, now with 13 top in the quads. Pros, started the stadium antics. The Beginner quads also had ThisroundDougEichnerwonthe another crack at the Stadium tight ran· and Gary Denton was course, and Travis Howard won second, giving Gary the class win again and for the day. In the for the day. Eichner was second, Intermediate group Tom Lipinski '"' ,c;;mr "' won the race followed hy Jerry Gutiern::, Bryan Hinson, and Tony Costantino. We couldn't keep track of this race as the water trucks had heen busy. Anyhow Travis Howard won the trophy in his class, Bryan Hinson, with a first and a third, won the trophy .q for the Intermediates followed --closely by Jerry Gutierre:. \ Kirk McDaniel flies high over a jump on the closed course, and with a second and a third, McDaniel zipped into second in the Mini Mag tight race. Don Cornell brought out his well prepped Jeep Cherokee to easily win the stadium Utility class with a pair of firsts, and he finished laps ahead. Billy Moore was the winner of both stadium truck heats in the older but reliable truck, and, in fact he was the only two heat finisher in class. Dustynma July 1993 Rory Chenowth flew the super Mini Mag to victory on the long course, and aimed to show MTEG that this improved version could run in the stadiums with the Super 1600s. Class 1-2-1600 started the long course second round action, with six survivors on the grid. Jim McGill got the jump off the line with Glen Neese and Rick Bo)'er breathing down his tailpipe. Some of the cars were getting tired and slowing on the uphill section past the start finish line, hut Rick Boyer charged on after a slight side trip. Meanwhile Glen Neese had the lead and he hung onto it to the checken:d flag. Boyer salvaged second followed hy Larry Watson, Kyk Veslermnrk, Jim McGill and Dennis Sullivan. ·on the day's points Boyer won, followed hy Neese, Watson, Veslermark, Sullivan and McGill. There was another entertaining mano a mano Juel between Rory Chenowth and Steve Kukla on the stadium course, again won hy Rory with Steve just inches off his rear humper. In contrast the two Stock Minis crept around the long course and Jerr)'.. Beall Jr. heat Daniel Groff in the race and for the day in the hattlt: of the To11otas. The Mini Mags, still seven strong, came hack for their final hout with the long course and Rristing led McDaniel anJ Haas off the line: Haas moveJ up to second midway in this heat, McDaniel hL·l,I third, and the others shuffled around at least twice a lap, hut all running. At the flag Frank~ Page 41

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.. Among the Pro quad stadium racers Gary Denton won the first heat, was second in the next moto and won the class on points, not a surprise. Greg Stuart soared to victory in both long course quad heats in this spectacular fashion and he won that division going away. Jerry Beall Jr. catches a little air on the long course, on his way to a pair of first places in stock mini truck action and the winners' trophy. ·:t Larry Watson hops down the hill in his Class 1-2-1600 racer, and the Mirage finished third in long course 1-2-1600 competition, a growing class. Desert racer Daniel Groff brought his Toyota out to try closed course racing and he was second in both stock mini truck motos and for the day. Frank Bristing, who always has a colorful Mini Mag, tried the closed course in his desert car and won the second heat and ended up third on points. John Sarna started out with a strong second place in the first SuperLite heat, but trouble struck on the next one and he was third on the long course. Of the five Pilots running on the closed course, Mike Vande-burgh won top honors with a win and a second place in some very close racing action. While he dumped on the last closed course lap, Travis Howard did better in Beginner stadium quad action, in fact he won both heats and the trophy. ~ Rristing won the heat, followed hnml' hy Floyd Haas Jr., Kirk McDaniel, Mike Thorlow, Jim Harris, Chris Garrett and Dave Elliott. Since this was a Mini Mai,: points race every position counted, and the colorful little cars put on quite a good show. It was worth the long tow from northern California for Floyd Haas as hl· won the day, Kirk McDaniel was second and Frank Bristing was third. In fourth was . Mike Thorlow, followed in hy Chris Garrett, lim Harris and Dave Elliott. For.half these dl'sert racl'rs, this was thl'ir first try at a short coursl', and they did very wdl indeed. While thl'y did a little track grooming the Don Corm·ll, Jel'p, and Billy Moore. mini pickup, took another tour of the stadium course doing the requirl'd laps. Moore took home the Grand National trophy nnd Cornl'll earned the Sport Utility plaque. Their numhers shrunk some h\' REMEMBER THE GOOD OLD DAYS. When desert racing was on television! Relive the memories with rocing videos from · ARROW PRODUCTIONS Each 1992 SCORE and High Desert event on individual 60-minute VHS tapes. Only $19.95 each Plus $5.00 shipping & hondlinQ per order. Send check or money order, with your list of races, to Arrow Productions, 255 Count Fleet, St. George, UT 84770 Page 41 attrition, the Pro Quads nnd the Beginners ran at the same timt· on the long course. Eight Pros and five Beginners had survived to start the final hl'at over hill and dale. They took off fast, there was some humping in the tight turn at the top of the hill. hut overall they had no hig prohlems. Greg Stua.rt made no mistakes and he won tlw heat, and he also won on points for the day. Gary Dt·nton w;1s second in hoth the race an,I on points, and Nidas Granlund was third nil the way, in hoth motus and on points, followed hy Kor)' Ellis, fourth in this moto and on points. Todd Bunker took fifth o n points with a seventh and a sixth. The Beginners stayl'J out of trouhle until the last lar, had a pretty clean race with Sl'Ven starters. Tom Lipinski grahhed the lend earl\' on and he kept it to the checkered flag, which earnl'd him first on points for the day. Bryan Hinson challl'ngt·d serious-ly, hut finisht·d second, and hl' was third in the race and earned second place points, while Dan Powell was fourth on points. ,ll'rf\' Gutierrl': was fifth on points, hut Stadium points winner Travis Howard, with thl' leaders until thl' last lap, took a divl' into thl' dirt on the vcry last turn on tht· last lap, dropping him to sixth for thl' Llay. The Super lites and Pilots canw out for their last stah at tht· long coursl'. Mikl' Vandchurgh nailed down second in thl' moto, which gave him the Pilot points win for July 1993 the day. Neil Affinito won thL' moto hut his total points werl' onl' too many so he was second. Todd Jespersen was third in tht· racL' and also third on points. The trio of Supalitt·s WL'rl' ;ilmost lost hehind the hushl's on the upper rt•,ichcs of the t·losnl course. Stacy Fay got a gn·at start and she b .1 the first kw laps of thl'ir final moto. Suddl'nl\', up on the hillside Stacy was parked. Her whole electrical systl'm just shut down and cut the t·nginl' off. It was a shame sincl' lohn Sarna was also soon parke~I. ·o the race wasn't much after the l'a rl y half was over. Don Archibald t·arril'd on in lond\' splendor having won hoth hl'ats and now the points title. On points John Sarna was second and Stacy Fay was one point hehind in third. Wt· congratulate MTEG on taking the giant leap into what to them was an unknown quantit)', but there are racers out there with short course cars looking for a placl' to play. Gary Gall camt· out of Glen Hl'lcn racing to thl' big timl', as ,lid Eric Arras and many morL' including thL' hot dogs in thl' Supnlitl' MTEG Class. Tht· nl'Xt event in this series is on July 25 so gl't thl' old car out from undL'r thL' ,lust covl'r an,! coml' out and havl' somL· fun. Evl'n without pri:l' mnnl')', this thing could rl'all1· takL· off, lwc,1usL· it i~ tht· roots of off roa,I racing J'l'llpll', ofr,·n with their fomiliL·S, having fun while racing thc ,·,1r or qua,! in a Llcscrt ~l'tting, hut ,-n closl' to hom,· thnL' is no L'Xtr:1 ,l:iy involvl'd. Stacy Fay, right, was leading the SuperLite closed course final by a good margin, here followed by John Sarna, when her electrics quit on the top of the hill a couple of laps from victory. Dusty Times

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THE BRATION 'BMW' MOTORS COYOTE WASH BATH Dewey Belew, Bike, Greg Bringle, ATV And Steve Fenton Are The Big Winners B)' Fud Photos: C&C Race: Photos by the number one 125 plate holder, Jason Corfman. This left the racing to amateur Justin Hollman and experts Robert Prayther and Glen Bliss. This was a perfectly matched trio, all three have to stand up twice to make a Joey Lane is always quick in the 250cc competition, and this race he led by shadow and all ride fine tuned •i _u_s_t _se_c_o_n_d_s,_b_u_t_h_e_d_i_d_le_a_d_t_h_e_c_la_s_s_a_c_ro_s_s_t_he_fi_n_is_h_l1_·n_e_. _____ _ Dewey Belew had the lead on the road by Check 2 the first round, and "Thunder Traction's" Kawasaki never messed a beat, and he was never threatened on the way to his first victory in 1993. Hosted by Banzai Racing, the Coyote Wash Bath happened at Plaster Citv West on February 28, 1993. Expecting miles and miles of sit down, wide open Coyote Wash, the racers were instead greeted by whoops, whoops in whoops, more whoops, no rhythm rollers, and at last a mile and a half of sit down wide open Coyote Wash. Dewey Belew loved it. "Thunder Traction" let the fast kids take the lead off the start, then passed them while they were laying on the ground. By the time Dewey Belew reached Check 2 he was on his way to victory. Belew's Open Kawasaki never missed a beat, and was never threatened as he thundered to his first victory of 1993. Vet Expert John Keifer came around second overall after one lap. Earl Roberts was close behind and Dan Worley was observing from a distance. Each lap Roberts would close just a little on Keifer however. Earl Roberts KX500 had more top end than Keifer's YZ250 and on the last run down Coyote Wash with both throttles pinned, Roberts snatched victory from the jaws of defeat by a couple of bike lengths. Dan Worley finished fourth overall, third Vet. When Craig Smith's chief mechanic eliminated himself from the 250 competition, Joey Lane and James Henderson picked up the pace. Lane was in front with Henderson gaining precious seconds every lap. One more lap to go and Henderson gave it his all. He was so close he could smell victory. However, it was Joey Lane who danced when the .fat lady sang. The Jason Corfman 125 Invitational was once again won Greg Bringle hops over a whoop in his Open A TV, and the Expert rider was first overall A TV by a huge margin, his first victory in some time. bikes. Around and around they went, never giving a quarter or asking for one. Although Holl-man had been first through home check every lap, all three had changed positions at least once each lap. Once again it came down to the last little bit of course. Prayther and Hollman were side by side, both going for the same line. Prayther blinked, Hollman hauled to victory and Glen Bliss was so close behind he ran over Prayther's bike and went on to beat a bent up Prayther to the. finish line. Pat "Flatpan" Flanigan flat out whipped the Senior Class. Terry "Tigerslug" Strauwald was waltzing along in second until Mother Nature gave him a big ground hug. She held on so tight his race was over. Super Senior Bob "Old Man" Thompson not only won his class he finished second Senior. Larkin Wite on his Baja 1000 conquering Triumph 650 won the vintage class. His sponsor, Harry Brattin finished a distant second. Open ATV Expert Greg Bringle finally got all his ducks lined up and finished a race, and what a finish it was, first overall by a mile. Well maybe not a mile, but it seemed like one to him because it has been months since he saw a checkered flag, let alone a The Vets fought it out for second overall and after a very close race the win went to Earl Roberts, who had more top end with the KX500 on the final dash to the flag. victory. ATV 250 Expert Ben line. Marc Spaeth sped to the _ Schlimme ran a solid second all checkered flag as the "Cigar" day and Mike Cafro beat '.'Quik" became an ash. Scott Callen won Vic Bruckmann to the finish line the ATV Novice class for the when Vic's front wheel went third consecutive time. rolling all by itself. However, it Steve Fenton was back on track was two ATV 250 Amateurs that after his King of the Desert race stole the show. Jim "The Cigar" melt down, but it wasn't his usual Monsegur and Marc· Spaeth were coast to victory. Andy "Any" banging wheels all day. They came Wehe was putting worried through home check, on the white wrinkles in Fenton 's forehead all flag lap, wheel to wheel. Popping day. Andy ambushed Fenton on into view for the last time the the first lap, roosted him into "Cigar" appeared first with second place and then started to Spaeth quite a distance behind. pull away. On the final lap Just as Jim Monsegur raised his Wehe's insurmountable lead fist in victory the engine went down the tubes and Fenton exploded, 300 feet from the finish_ came in through the back door for his first win in 1993 -In the 360 class Bryan Saasta decided on the last lap that he would follow Russ Turn er, get Turn er over confident and then swoop down and around and roll to victory. There was only one small thing wrong with his plan. He forgot to tell Russ Turner about it. It was Turner's turn to win. Saasta sat in second. Art Gibbs once again returned to victory Lane in the Pilot class, while John Shultz slipped in third Desertlite and first Class 77. Steve Fenton was back on form in his "Green Apple" Open Class DesertLite, winning the division overall, but it was a fight to the checkered flag. Robbie Bell won the PeeWee class and Daniel Finken the 80cc class. Steve Peace, who has been taking driving lessons from Fenton instead of his dad, Stu, so he can learn how to go fast, won the Junior Desertlite Race. FRT now calls the 125cc class the 'Jason Corfman 125 Invita-tional'. Once again the number 1 plate holder covered Coyote Wash the quickest and won the class. John Keifer led the Vets and ran second overall for a goodly distance, got passed on the last lap and his YZ250 was second Vet and a close third overall. · Mike Ca fro ran hard all the way on his 250cc A TV and just nailed down third overall on the last lap, and near the finish line, making the pass then. DustyTimes July 1993 Page 43

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LA RANA DESERT RACING Randy Wilson Wins Overall At Ridgecrest By ]t!,m Calt•in ·• .,, -~ Larry Minor, the younger, was first off the line in his Class 1 Chevy truck, rolled the truck, but got fixed up in short order, survived flat tires and won Class 1, the only finisher, with Kyle Taylor doing the last two laps . . lap at the same time, and lost about an hour while Stobaugh rolled on to a 1: 12 lap and a solid lead midway in the four lap race. Then trouble struck Ron Sto-baugh and Dave Rittenhouse on the third lap, that totaled 5 hours and 20 minutes. Then a pilot error caused a roll over, and they waited an hour for the chase truck. They had bent arms, hut got fixed up after getting to Check 4, making new arms out of jack handles. They thank the Checkers for lending their equipment. By the time they got back on the track, they ran out of time on the Randy Wilson came to the front on lap 3 and stayed there, not only winning Class 10 in his Raceco despite a flat tire, eight hour time allowance to do _he_w_o_n_t_he_r d_c_e_o_v_e_ra_l_l ,_·n_a_l_a_st_l_ap_d_as_h_,_b_y_l_es_s_t_h_a_n_f,_·v_e_m_in_u_t_e_s. __________________ ---~ the last lap. Meanwhile Ky le Around the world May Day means many different things to different people. In Bavaria they dance around the maypole, in Russia it is a national holiday, often marked by demonstrations, but in the California desert this year May Day was the date of the first of two annual La Rana Desert Racing events over the tough trails a few miles from Ridgecrest. There was a strong pre-entry as the race teams arrived in town for the Friday afternoon registration, tech and contingency program, held in the civilized area of a huge parking lot, complete with overhead lights of the Kerr . McGee Community Center right in downtown Ridgecrest, close to fast food places and plenty of motels. It is by far the most pleasant place in desert racing for the Friday activity, often held in the middle of nowhere in the desert. A husky turn out of conting-ency donors emphasized the growing popularity of La Rana Races, all of them held close to the desert racing population base in southern California. This round several entries came from northern California to sample the high desert trails and test their .TaylorgotintheMinorChevyfor cars before the VORRA desert the last two laps, and did a 1: 19 season begins on Memorial Day and a 1: 1 7 to win Class 1, weekend in Yerington, Nevada. apparently not knowing that he The tractor trailer population is need not have hurried for the class growing in the contingency row win, and they finished 27th too, and this round the new entry overall. was a Dick Cepek rig supporting The five Class 2s were next off Ron Stobaugh and Dave Ritten-the line, but Steve Houston's house in the Class 1 Ford truck. Raceco didn't cover a lap. John Whentheentryclosedtherewere Marking in Craig Watkins' over 100 cars on the list, and the Raceco was fastest at 1 :03:55 and next morning 97 of them actually Bob Richey in the Raceco Porsche started the race. It was by far the was about ten minutes behind in most healthy entry in the desert third with Richard Sciuto 16 since the Nevada 400, and far seconds faster but his Berrien was beyond others in the 'minor not seen again. Marking whipped league'. off a 1:07 second lap and Richey Saturday morning, in the did a 1:05 to pull within eight familiar spot offTrona Road, the minutes of Marking who pitted drivers meeting took place at the and handed over to Watkins. start/ finish at 7:00 a.m., and the Richey vanished on the third lap, cars lined up at 8:00 a.m for the reported out with engine trouble. one every 15 seconds start After a slow start Jim Pierce, with promptly at 9:00 a.m. First away Brian Dague ridihg shotgun in the was Larry Minor, the son of the ORC, whipped off a couple of fast former off road racer and drag laps, and with a 1 :09 on lap 3 he racing champion from Hemet in a was a solid second. But Watkins wild Chevy truck. The first lap was fighting the Class 10 leader leader was Ron Stobaugh in his for the overall, so he did a 1 :04 on Ford with a 1:09:58, but Minor lap 3, then dropped to a 1:11 on was close enough with a 1: 18:32. the final lap with a stop after the Kim Mohr and Brian Mohr trailed pin that holds the clutch together by about 20 minutes in another fell off, then the brakes went soft. Ford, and did not complete But Watkins and Marking won another lap. Class 2 by 53 minutes with a Type Craig Watkins and John Marking Jed overall midway in the race, but the Young Minor rolled it on the 4 engine in the big Raceco, over Raceco developed clutch trouble late in the game and Watkins finished first in second lap, twice he was reported Jim Pierce, who had a flat and .;.C;;;;;/a;;;;s.;siii,2iiiia.;;n;;;;d;s;;;;e;;c;;o;;;;n;;d;;;;o:::v=er::;:a::;ll;b;y;s;c;;a;;nt;;m;_;;;in;;u;te;s::.;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;-;;;;;:,.::~.;;;;.;;;;;;,_.,_af .... ter having two flats on the first ignition troubles on the first lap, but they missed the overall honors by over four minutes, and they·were second overall. Ten started in Class 10 but two didn't cover a lap and Rob Bristol did one 4: 10:44 lap and retired. The other seven all finished. Dale and Mike Dondel got fast first lap at 1 :04:05 in their Raceco. Craig Dillon had his Raceco iust two seconds ahead of Devin Ohnstad/ Steve Bradford, followed by Randy Wilson at 1 :08:06 and Tom Koch was close even after a quick stop before the line to fix a front shock, on the Raceco. He had been second on the road behind Watkins. Tom Koch zipped off fast lap of the race, 1 :02: 19 on the second lap to draw nearly even midway, just 32 seconds behind leader Randy Wilson. Craig Dillon was close, just another 16 seconds back, and the Dondels were a couple more minutes behind. Ohnstad had big trouble on lap 2 and dropped an hour. Wilson got his second wind on lap3 and did a 1:03:47, while Koch stopped before the line for a shock fix, gas and to put Rex Keeling in the single seater for the last lap. So Wilson now led by over three minutes. Craig Dillon lost a pulley belt and also had to weld the front end and dropped time, still in third, hut Kevin McGillivray/ Don Angel were getting close, losing their time to a first lap rollover by Angel, and now were doing 1 :06 laps. Already tasting the champagne ( there wasn't any) Randy Wilson whipped off a 1 :05:20 last lap to win Class 10 by less than eight minutes over Tom Koch/Rex Keeling, who had more shock trouble hut were second, third 0 1 A. Wilson said he had but one flat, was the first finisher on the road first overall in the event at a total time of 4:23:23. Randy drove all the way, was out of the car on lap 1 to change a flat, was losing the brakes on lap 4 but had no real problems with the Toyota powered car. Anchor man Tom Koch zipped off fast lap of the race in the Class 1 0 Raceco on the second lap, but was bothered with shock woes, and with Rex Keeling doing the anchor man job, the Raceco was second in class, third overall. Usual front runners Steve Krieger and Tim Clark recovered from a broken ball joint, ran three fast laps and moved up to second in Class 8 at the flag. Rigoberto and Ruben Arzate had a good run in the Mirage, no big delays, and they finished second in Class 1-2-1600, 38 minutes behind the winner. Page 44 July 1993 Dusty Times

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McGillivray turned a final lap at 1:02:59, just 40 seconds shy of class fast lap, but while it wasn't enough to make up the lost time the team moved to third in the Chenowth, 24 minutes behind the winner but 15 minutes ahead of Craig Dillon who had to stop to weld the front end again on lap 4. Hal Hibbard was another 14 minutes back in fifth, followed by Ohnstad/Bradford, who had more trouble on the last lap. Dale and Mike Dondel had big trouble with a 3:31 last lap, but they finished all four laps in seventh place. Scott Weir's Class 5 didn't do a lap. The four starters in Class 8 all finished the race. The first lap leader was Kent and Lance West and Jeff Levesque in a Chevy, followed in three minutes by Rick Holmes/John Wikan/Rich Daniel, Chevy, and in another five minutes by Bruce Raymond/ Kevin Peterson, Ford. Steve Krieger was over an hour back with a broken ball joint and drive shaft on the Ford, but did class fast lap at 1:09:47 on lap 2. Now the Wests lost both right side tires and nearly an hour, Holmes lost 44 minutes, and Raymond had a time costly flat in soft ground, but held the lead midway by ten minutes over Holmes, six minutes ahead of West while Krieger still trailed in the Class 8 battle of All four finished in Class 8, but they all had problems. Coming back the quickest was the Ford of Bruce Raymond and Kevin Peterson who finished with a smashed windshield, but won the class in only their second race. breakage. ., '1:i.;,/c • :. ' The third I a p was fair 1 y Just two started in Class 3 and only one finished. It was no surprise to see uneventful, with Tim Clark in Mike Duncan come in for the victory in his Jeep CJ 8 with a new and faster K k d Wrangler front end. rieger's true oing a 1: 12 and. ---------------------------West doing a 1: 13 with the other. laps and were happy to finish so 6:03:24. two content at 1 :2,5. At the flag it well in 5:54:31. Kent West and The two Class 6 rigs started was Bruce Raymond and Kevin . company dropped ten minutes on next, Darren Skilton in the Jeep Peterson winning -Class 8 in the last lap, said they couldn't Cherokee and Kreg Donahoe. 5:49:45 arriving wth a smashed catch Clark -too fast. They were Skilton whipped off a 1: 11: 12 windshield from hitting a tree and only a minute behind Krieger on first lap, while Donahoe did a reporting some overheat, but total time, thanking their pit crew 1 :25, but his Toyota vanished were thrilled with the win in the who, while they were stuck with into the desert on lap 2. All alone ex Dan Beaver Ford. It was only two flats in a no access wne, in the class, Skilton pressed on their second ever race. Steve walked and rolled tires a mile ahd with co-drivers Eric Heiden and Krieger and Tim Clark with a 1: 10 a half to get to them. That's real Barrie Thompson, and did a 1: 10, final lap moved up to second dedication. Rick Holmes and his I: 13 and 1 :07 to not only win saying they ran hard the last three crew brought the Chevy home in . Class 6 but finish fourth overall. Lee Patten and Ron Wilson ran tight with the 5-1600 leaders, then did the class fast lap on the last round to win the class by seven minutes and also finish a sparkling ninth overall. With 21 cars Class 9 was the biggest, but Sandy Parker and Tom Moessner bided their time in the Chenowth, and Sandy took the lead on the last lap to win the class by just three minutes, in 12th place. DustyTimcs Skilton said they had the Dynomax system on the Jeep for the first time, and he stopped once to change a tire and later to try to strap the rolled Cepek truck back on its wheels, but had no flats and no other stops. Another twosome started in Class 3, but it was Mike Duncan's race all the way in the Jeep CJ 8 with a Wrangler front end on it, Duncan, with Jimmy Brandt and Mario Tavares. Carlos Kuttler and Doug Sunstedt fielded a vintage Bronco, too tidy to go out in the Ridgecrest rocl<s, so they took it easy with a 2:20, 2:29 and 1 :58 for lap times and not enough time to do ·another lap, but they were second in class anyhow. Only eight started in what used to be a strong class for La Rana, 1-2-1600. The fast first lap went to Tony Vaccarello in his Mirage at 1: 14 flat and the others were all at least 15 minutes slower as this class started mid pack and probably had a lot of first lap traffic. In fact three 1600s did not complete the first lap. The team of Charles Davis, Ryan Schank, Doug Obermayer were second on lap 1 in their Raceco followed in a minute by Rigoberto and Ruben Ar:ate, Mike Meehan in a Mirage. Bringing up the rear were the Sullivans Greg and Dennis,Jr. and Sr. in a Chenowth and Wes Wisdom and family. Vaccarello had a major disast-er, a three hour plus second lap to change a transmission. Davis did a July 1993 Darren Skilton did not slow down with slim competition and he ran the Jeep Cherokee hard all four laps to have no troubles, stopped once, and won Class 6 easily and finished a smart fourth overall. Charles Davis, who drove the whole race, took the lead in Class 1-2-1600 midway, coming back from a stop to fix the steering, and he sailed on with no other problems to win the class and place seventh overall. 1: 11 to hold the lead midway by over 20 minutes on the Arzate team whose Mirage was now second followe-d by the Wisdom team, who after a 4:36 time for the first two laps were seen no more at start/ finish. Davis, who drove the whole race, did another 1: 11 on lap 3 to increase his lead, Arzate went ten minutes faster to hold second. The Sullivans held third by 40 minutes over Vacarello, the last three in the mid 1 :20s lap time range. The last lap in 1600 class offered no surprises. The Davis, Schank and Obermayer combo cooled with a 1: 19 last lap. 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Brad Clausen and Matt Mi/fer ran a close third in 5-1600, cranked it up on the second half and came in second in class and a fast 11th overall. Steve Reyling and Michael Daws got Class 9 fast lap, led for three laps, then slowed with pumper helmet woes and finished a close second, 13th 0 /A. Bill Hibler and Ron Brady had a good run in the Jimco, ran consistent lap times all the way and took third in Class 9, five minutes back, 14th 0 /A. ----------:..-mi~"'ll-""'!-~-"1!'1-'$'-------:;;;:;;;;;;;;-;......;;;;;~;;:;;;;;;;;;;:;;;;;;;;::;:----:;-n-:-:-::--=---:--=-=-::---;--:--;-::--::--~---""' .Their second place time of David Winner was the only survivor of the two car Class 7 Toyota entry, but he and Randy Clary did all four laps with 18 minutes to spare. ~ suspension. Davis chuckled Petralia, 1 :42:43, Jim McGill at when he said he thanked his 1 :44: 10 and Frank Omboli/Jim family for putting up with him. Enders with a 3:25:57 first lap, His winning time of 5:12:07 was and they retired. good for seventh overall in the Midway the Klebers had race. The other finishing 1600 vanished, Landfield had a 2:35 lap drivers got away from us, as they and fell from contention as did didn't have an engine inspection Schank and Petralia with two laps so they split from the impound in the 1 :40s. Up front the lead and went back to their camp, so three were very tight with no war stories. The Ar:ate Mirage Logan/Westerfield leading at finished in 5:50:27 for second, 2:40:01 trailed by Patten/Wil-the Sulfivan Chenowth was third son, 2:42:39 and Clausen/ Miller at 6:27:38 and Tony Vaccarello 2:43:40 while McGill recovered was fourth at 7:23:24. from first lap woes to move into Ten started in Class 5-1600, fourth. The race was on on lap 3 two of whom didn't make a lap. It as McGill did a 1:19:29, Clausen a was tight on the first lap as the 1 :21 :51, Logan a 1 :22:01 and Brian Logan/Keith Westerfield Patten a 1:22:12. Landfield had Bug was fastest with 1: 18:34, Lee more trouble and a 3:06 lap and Patten/Ron Wilson next at parked somewhere, maybe at 1:19:55, Brad Clausen/Matt home. Miller, 1 :20:45, Bruce Land-The lastlapscrambled things as field/Brett Turley at I :20:48 and Patten/Wilson whipped off fast Jason and Robert Kleber at class lap at 1:16:38 and they not 1:21:27, plus Roger Schank/Joe only won 5-1600 honors they Simplythe &5t! Fuel Safe's Pro Cell Racing Bladders are designed to meet or exceed the highest performance and safety standards set by all of the major racing associations. Top Racers, like Robbie Gordon, demand the best and so should you. Fuel Safe Racing Cells • The Champions Choice! At your local dealer now! Aircraft Rubber Manufacturing, Inc. finished a sharp ninth overall. They reported no troubles on the first half, then lost a clutch cable on the second half but made the time back with the quick final lap. That was their only problem all race. Hauling home second Brad Clausen and Matt Miller were part of the three car NorCal team, finishing in 5:28:20 and 11th overall. Miller started and had no •. problems. Brad Clausen drove the Dan and Matt Cannon stayed with the leaders all day in Class 725, and though they used seven hours plus doing it, they finished all four laps to win in the Ford. · last two laps and rolled on the fourth lap in a big ditch, fortunately got moving quickly to hold second place. Despite a 1:45 . final round Jim McGill/Mark Miller placed third at 6:12:08 total time. Usual up front placers Brian Logan and Keith Wester-field lost an hour on the last lap and were fourth at 6:23:08, followed even later by Rodger Schank/Joe Petralia at 7:14:42, the fifth and final finisher. Next away were the 21 Class 9 cars and since the results are quite complete but do not list cumul-ative times, we are going to ball park the leaders by the lap. Michael Daws got fast class first lap on that round at 1 :21 :0 in the Watkins chassis that driver of record Steve Reyling built from the ground up, another NorCal entry. In the same minute at l :21 :57 came Tom Moessner in Sandy Parker's Chenowth in second place. Then came a do:en more cars in the mid 1 :20s and only one failed to complete lap 1, second generation racer Mike Bragg in a Funco. Daws whipped off a 1:21:27 second lap to establish a positive lead midway in the race before handing over to Steve Reyling. Moessner stayed close with a I :22:37 lap, and these two cars now were a few minutes ahead of the pack with at least a do:cn running in about a five minute blanket of dust. Reyling held the lead that Daws gained with two minutes in hand over Parker who was now driving his race car. Behind them the herd running in the mid 1 :20s had thinned to ahout eight, but others were still going. Among the "top retirees were Joel Mohr and Jack Bone-steel, each with one lap done, and Danny Richardson disappeared after three laps in good time, 4:22:39. Even the leaders lap times slowed somewhat on the final lap on this rough course, and Reyling had his pumper helmet fog up which slowed him on the last lap and that was the race. Sandy Parker arrived the winner with a I :22:04 final lap recording a total time ofS:30:15 and he was 12th overall. Sandy and Tom reported no serious troubles, although the throttle stuck on the last lap. Sandy dedicated his race win to the memory of Barbara Adock, Tom's sister-in-law who was badly injured recently in a vehicular accident. Reyling, who arrived first, and Daws had no other problems, stopped only for gas and the driver change, and were happy that their new NorCal team scored two seconds, theirs and Clausen and a first, Watkins. 5:33:26 put them in 13th overall. Third in Class 9 and 1·4th overall came Bill Hibler and Ron Brady in a Jimco. They ran hetween·l :25 and 1 :22 all day and consistency paid off for them. They found the stock shifter, newly installed in the car, a bit awkward, had no prohlems at all, stopped once for gas and the driver change. They thank BFG for the tire set up and Trans West for a strong transmission. It was the second third place for the Hihler team at Ridgecrest. They were 14th overall in 5:38:10. Brian and Eddie Sallee were fourth, 15th overall in the Chenowth at 5:40: 18 in this close hattle in Class 9. Mike Hampton nailed fifth in class, I 6th overall in a Funco at 5:43:38 with very consistent lap times. After a ten minute gap the Class 9s were again coming in a minute apart. In sixth came James Clements/Mike Brown, 5:54:30, and in seventh it was David Rogers at 5:55: 19 followed by Dennis Petersen/Jim Mobley at 5:58:21. Ninth at 6:03:34 came Rob Van Lingen/ Brian Maginnic, followed hy Mike Rix/Larry Adams at 6:09:12 and Joe Sparkman/Lance Patten /Roger Castellano at 6: 14:0 I and gang these 9 cars were all in the first 30 overall, the first third of the entry. This entry level class is really going fast today, especially when you think of riding swing axles on the rough Ridgecrest course. Rounding out tht: finishers in 12th it was Joseph and Jerold Bristline at 6:47:39, Dave Girdner/Tommy Craig at 6:48:08, TomJeremiah, B.J. Bates at 7:01:12, Dave and Dan Berry at 7:18:13. In 16th, was Andy Sheaffer at 7 :21 flat, who rolled on the first lap in his second ever race, had a couple of flars and an oil leak, hut he was ready to go again; and 17th and last class finisher was Chuck, Guy and Jeff Nelson, pushing the eight hour limit a hit at 7:35:02. First away in the myriad mini -' i1 "' -" w 18062 Redondo Circle, Huntington Beach. CA 92648 (714) 842-2211 (800) 433-6524 (Outside CA) SAFETY ... It's what we're all about. Shad Balch looks like a chip off the old Sherman block here in attitude, and young Shad kept the Nissan in one piece and brought home the victory in Class 750 a 4x4 mini truck class, winning by over an hour. Brian Owens and Mike Hoskins in the Jeep J-10 Honcho didn't have an easy cruise last May but took the lead with class fast lap and won the stock two lap Class 157 contest. Page 46 July 1993 DustyTimes

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It was tight going on the narrow trails in Class 9, as an unknown 9 car pulls in tight behind Brian Sallee who was fourth in his Chenowth, 15th 0 /A. John Barajas and Dale Jensen led lap 1 in Class 157 in the big Chevy, dropped a little time later and were second in class, just 2½ minutes out of first. Larry Gross and Roger Malcolm led lap 1 in the Class 1525 Toyota, had no real trouble on the second round but dropped to second place, by 40 seconds. truck classes was 700 (7) and both of the two starters had trouble on the first lap. David Winner/Randy Clary did a 2:58:07, but led because Kar-linda, Raul and Ed Flores took over five hours to do a lap. They did one more at 2:40 and retired the Toyota. Meanwhile the Winner Toyota recovered and ran good laps, 1 :38, 1 :26, 1 :37 to take the Class 7 win in respectable time, 7:41:23, just a minute slower than Flores' two lap time. Class 725 (7S) had six starters, three Fords, two Toyotas and a Dodge. Fast first lap went to A J Farris and Tom Hetzel at 1:31: 19, hut they only did that one of four required laps. Next it was Dave Eldridge, Toyota at 1 :40:49 followed by Dan and Matt Cannon at 1 :43:31. The other three all did just one lap. Warren Messick at 2 :40:48, Walt Shrader at 5:22:41 and Mike Becker at 5:39:20. On lap 2 Eldridge took 2:.3,8 to get around and retired, which left the Cannon Ford the sole survivor midway in the race. This team carried on with good laps, I :44, I :53 and I :53 to finish in 7:15:15, a good time. Class 750 (7 4x4) fielded five cars, four T oyotas and a Nissan, and had to cover four laps also. Just 20 years old, second generation off road racer Shad Balch, another northerner, ·had a Nissan on the line and Shad whipped off class fast lap on the first round at I :30:26 with Ralph Knecht in the right seat. Ralph Blundell and Eric Pettit were second at I :33:37 ,Jay and Donnie King posted a I :40:39 and Dean Galloway and James Dople posted a I :4 I :36. Richard Robbins and Alberto Tejera had trouble with an over two hour lap. Midway it was getting tight. Young Balch led with a 3:04 total time, but close was Blundell Jr. at 3:12:49 and Jay and Donnie King were just two seconds behind them in third. Galloway was about 24 minutes down, four minutes up on Robbins. The third lap turned out to be the last lap for Ralph Blundell Jr., doing a 1 :37, then vanishing in fourth place, dnf at 4:50:28. Richard Robbins also vanished after a 1 :49 third lap, doing his three rounds in 5:29:46 in fifth. Up front Shad Balch stopped for tranny fluid, gas, a look around, but still led easily going into the final lap, not aware that only two others would finish. The Nissan has a three speed automatic which acted up so Shad drove the last few miles of lap 4 without second or third gear, and ran the fast road home in first gear to victory. It turned out that the shifting cable had broken on the truck, but he won by over an hour at 6: 16:51. Sure and congenial personality, and he thanked his co-driver Ralph Knecht for all his help. Dean Galloway, James Dople and Eric Boka made four consistent laps for second in 7:27:25. The Jay and Donnie King Toyota was the last finisher, with a half hour to spare at 7:29:59. The two lap stone stock classes left last with three big trucks leading off the line. First lap honors went to John Barajas and Dale Jensen ina Chevy at 1:50:53, closely followed by Brian Owens, Mike Hoskins and Dan Henton in a Jeep J-10 at 1:51:16, while David Edelstein and Dennis Lightle took 2:36:39 to get around in the Ford. Edelstein had more trouble on the second lap, a 3:27:05 and finished third at 6:03:45. Up front it was tight as Owens did a 1 :41 :41 to win the class at 3:32:58. They had trouble changing belts, before the start and were late, but they won by about 2½ minutes. John Barajas and Dale Jensen posted a total time of 3:35:31 for second and said they had no troubles, just got beaten by damn good drivers. The trio of 4x4 stock mini trucks had a good battle with Larry Gross and Roger Malcolm, Toyota, leading lap 1 at 1:42:54. William Quitmeyer and Fred Espinoza were second in a Ford at 1:51:50, and Kaz Yamanaka and Shuzo ltakura third at 1 :53:57. On the second lap Yamanaka whipped off a 1:41:43 to win the class in his Toyota, said he got hit twice by big trucks, had two flats, one at the finish line, and won by 40 seconds posting total time of 3:35:41. Larry Gross nailed second at 3:36:21 in his Toyota, said he had no troubles, the truck ran great all day, but it was rough out there. Quitmeyer and Espinoza were close finishing third in 3:41 :03 with no problems with the Ford. This would be a great class with more entry. Finally the 2WD mini stockers, with seven starters saw two vanish on the first lap. Jay Parodi and Dave Kinman made just one lap at 2:53:28 in their Toyota. Glen Cohen and Tim Serviss led the first lap at 1 :40:31 with Joe and Dennis Bourassa second at 1 :58:37. Bob and John Beyer were in at 2 :09:58 and Ron Martin had a first lap of 4:24:26 but did the second round in the Toyota at 2:21 :36 to finish fourth. Bourassa turned up the wick with a I :52:34 second lap to win the class in a Toyota, total time 3:51:12. They had some minor troubles, said the truck ran great, but said it was very ,¼,,: Kaz Yamanaka and Shuzo ltakura paced their Toyota in Class 152 on lap 1, picked up the speed on the last lap and won the four truck class by just 40 seconds. ~-1TOYOTA 1581 takes after dad Sherman but he is Joe and Dennis Bourassa ran hard in the Toyota, second on the first lap but a larger version of the ready smile their Toyota was first when it counted in Class 15, at the checkered flag. DustyTimcs July 1993 rough on the course. Bob and John Garcia was third with one lap Beyer got the Ford in second with done, and fourth was Charles a 2:06:30 final lap and total time Lamson with no time recorded. of 4: 16:29. They had no flats on In post race tech they spent a lot the BFGs but plenty of exhaust of time weighing the Class 9s, and system troubles and down time. the second place car kept They thanked Cepek and Sta-Lube weighing up to 50 pounds light. for their help. Glen Cohen and They hauled the scales and the car Tim Serviss were third with a plus one other to the pavement longer 2:43 second lap and fin-where Reyling's car came close ished in 4:23:55. enough, around 10·pounds to the Denny Wolff and Randy weight required to keep his Garrett won the Quad class on a second place. Weighing cars on Honda, with two laps in 2:43:08. four scales on uneven surface is Cole Warren and Steve Dingman always a problem, but who knows were second at 3:21: 11. 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The 16th Annual Score Show "' This year the west coast ·o t roaders were treated to a pair of SCORE Shows. One in Visalia in Fehruary in conjunction with the . annual convention of the Cali-fornia Associationof4WDCluhs· In'c. The show theme this year was WLTURE MINE REVISITED Ghost own ence to the new northern exposure in California. W e missed that one in darkest and wet Fehruary but we did spend some time at the Score Show that returned to its roots at the Photos: Trad(sid.: Photo Inc. Anaheim Convention Center late last April. As always you were greeted by the expansive Dick Cepek exhibit as you came in the door. Beyond that there were trucks everywhere, from hrand new street vehicles· for dealer exhibits to the wild high standing custom vehicles. W e always marvel at the time and effort it must take to create a custom truck or car, and were surprised they didn't have the 'Lock in Fresno, Castex Rentals, contest this year, in which Dusty the guys with the E-Z Up tents, Times always participated, for the_ who had their shined up for the hest in various categories. It show fancy Class 1 desert race didn't seem to bother those with truck as part of the display. Not dandy trucks who set up a whole far away was pan-A-Vee Jeep hackground scene for their with the owner working hard to display. A more familiar truck we get his display organized, which spotted against one wall was a showed almost everything you RFGoodrich race supprt tractor thought possible to. attach to a trailer rig along with the canopy Jeep, plus one of their race trucks. extended, and grass mats down on SCORE had a nice booth full of the floor to give an aura of literature about the upcoming outdoors. The rig was shined to Raja 500 and the Shell O il guys the nines for sure, and the thatyouseeat theraceswerethere featured tire on display was the showing their wa res too plus new M9ah designed to give real National Spring had quite an traction on slick shale or rocks. exhihit. There was quite a variety W e saw many other familiar of things to look at and most of faces, like the Milan Garretts the exhibitors we had not met from Champion Wheel ~nd Bead before. W e did enjoy getting a Gayton Rotorizes Wickenburg For Purse And Bonus couldn't believe it. Last year I lost my lid - with its radio antenna. This time my spare came loose. If that wasn't bad enough , it was caught on the (tie-down) strap and would not go away. It was flailing all over the place. I had to stop and toss it away. I think it smacked the carb ( or the distrib-utor) cause it started running bad after that. Then I up-chucked. I let my nephew drive it." A couple o f slow laps put the yellow car back to fifth overall, but it still had an NFL finish: first in 10. B:v A nthon:v T dliL'f The 19th ADRA Vulture Mine 100 opened to a standing ovation: a lot of drivers were standing by their cars as drive train compon-ents went the way of the winter rains. But Albuquerque's Robert Gayton made good his return to the race where he had broken his back in Ninety-Two. "Wow! I had to chase those ghosts. Even though it .was rough, my back feels fine." Gayton started last in the Unlimited Bonus Pro race and proceeded to click off the competition, by opponent's attrition and just by plain ol' fast driving. "My brakes got real hot and I had a soft tire. Wow, I scared myself senseless. In the dust I didn't know where I was going, and I would think about my accident last year. It was tough to pass. Precision Motors ( of Albuquerque) built this rotary and they gave me a two year warranty. I've got one left. I'm driving the wheels off it. Next year I'm going to Mickey Thompson in a Superlite." DultyTlma The venerable "Five" car of Greg Diehl was entered in class "One" .and charged the course to a Second place, some 15 minutes behind Robert's RX7-powered Chaparral. Be advised! This Glen . Evans-built Baja Bug had won its class at the Nevada 400 (nee Mint 400)only six days prior. And was sixth overall. "These are the same ( BFG) Baj as that we ran in ·'Vegas." This time, Greg soloed without a hitch and didn't even look like he'd been in thede.:.Just ama:ing! Just how old is this car? "It was built in '85 or '86 ... but everything's been replaced at least once," smiled Ari.:ona Automo-tive's Tony Kujala, wrench and driver. The Third overall car was the 2-1600 of Mesa postal employee Tony Pierce, with son Preston working the radio and watching the mirrors. The Steve Hobbs engined Raceco was only four minutes behind Greg and was the recipient of the generous small bore bonus and purse: $'l50. As the hot sun of spring finally forced away m emories of the seemingly unrelenting winter rains, the Arizona desert became a lush carpet of green -and the Vulture Mine presented Rueben Wood with an extra heavy dose of cholla cactus. Rueben would not make a good seamstress as he missed threading the needle between a veritable forest of jumping cactus, exploding the nasty things into a Claymore of hypodermics. Wood's crew had to get out the needle-nose pliers and perform a field cactus-ectomy. But it wasn't the end of Rueben 's woes, as an orthodontic problem arose: the tranny started to shuck teeth and he limped in to third Unlimited Pro. Ed Beard ended up down yet another dead end iri the twisting passages of the new-car develop-ment maze: "Transmission," was his terse reply at the four mile point. Ed's problem was sure to spell Good Luck for Gila Bend winner Shannon Schul.: in the Farmco. Not! Shannon's Vulture luck is single sided: ·bad. "I. July 1993 Tucson's Donny W eiser replaced usual co -driver Kelly Suber with long-time racing pal Jeff Wester for a full six laps. "So what?", you may ask. Well, Jeff, who used to race with the Tucson "9" fabricator, is suffering from Muscular Dystrophy and has been wheelchair bound for several years. Donny and Kelly thought that a pre-Jerry Lewis fund raiser would be fun, and Jeff was up for it, was hot for the Challenger ride. Asking for only 1¢ per mile completed, but getting more, they raised over $5,000. Donny, always willing to give the full amount, even tagged some cholla for Jeff's "benefit." Then the TUF pit dog stepped on some and tried to bite it off. Never a dull moment with these guys. The ever popular crop duster Jim Pierce tOQk Larry Foddrill for a fast ride ... and an unplanned oil look at Mickey T hompson's Challenger car from the old days at Bonneville. It has heen lovingly restored and looks ready to race, . its four Pontiac engines gleaming in the soft lighting. It was an interesting show, all for paying customers this year as Friday was no longer reserved for trade, the husiness of doing husiness at a trade show. Rut the off road slot car track was there, still a major drawing card. Perhaps a consumer show is a better direction for MTEG who now steer the SCORE Show and· have plans to expand it, especially the popular Off Road Theater and , the seminars. O n this page we 'show you just a sample of the exhibits in Anaheim last April. change. Larry found that the oil pressure gauge was fluctuating and.had JP pull over. The T ype IV's sump was cracked where the skid plate had been stove up due ( according to Pierce ) to a " ... poorly set-up rear suspension. I've heen telling Danny (Fodrill -L1rry'sdad) that it was beating me up. Right, Larry? Right, Larry? Darn, I wish Bill Herrick was here to help. Danny never gets this · right." They loaded up with oil and, with a new slant on the old "splash-and-go", o iled the course, finishing a lap down after leading for the first three laps. "that'll keep the dust down," was JP's final analysis. Transmission problems took out Conrad Monroe's V6-Power-glide Halibrand car. "We'll have to get a billet case now," Monroe wistfully remark~ in the sand filled canyon. Pit Lane Engineers agreed that the rigid front engine mount, combined with the elastomer-suspended rear end made the case an ( over }stressed member. "Snap." Stan Steele over did the throttle and clutch while getting out of an over shot comer and lost that reverse gear. "It was making lots of noise, loose pieces flipping around. It didn ~t want to tear it totally to hell." Stan and son Zach's share of bad-luck is bound to change, or so they hope.

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FRT SUPERSTITION CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES The Buzz .Bomb 150 Bikes, Quads and DesertUtes Craig Smith and Earl Roberts proved the winning combination, winning the side by side battle for first overall with a late lap pass that kept them just ahead at the flag. Smith is shown here. Rourid 2 of the Budweiser Family of Beers FRT Superstition Championship series, the Bu:: Romh 150 took place at Plaster City East, CA on April 3. As always the motorcycles, quads and Desertlites left early in the morning, and the cars, reported last month, depart at noon when the hikes are off the course. It was Windum up and Headum out, first one hack after six times around a 26.5 mile lap wins. The '93 version of the Bu:: Bomb lived up to its name as the springtime sprint. It was flat, fast, and fun! On the first lap Paul Krause was around in 26 minutes and 15 seconds. Earl Roberts followed a heartbeat later. The dust had barely cleared when Greg Bringle's Banshee bounced into view, third overall, Whew! Desertlite pilot Stu Peace HI-TECH • SUSPENSION SPECIALISTS • FREE EXPERT CONSUL TING • INSTALLATIONS I VISA I --iii] OFF ROAD RACING HEADQUARTERS LARGEST INVENTORY IN LAS VEGAS nlTIJIIIIII • UCIII IPOITIWEU • 10 FEii llCII • AEBO Ml TDD • IIITCIIES • AIIIOIL •AITCAIIII •AIITOFAB .... •BEITOP •BODYLIFTI •l&W • IIIEITCB TECH •IIBTIIIITI • tii:NIIEII FLAIIEI •n.ow■ASTER • FUEL ca.1,1 • IBIIZLY Page 50 July 1993 Stu Peace loved this race as he slid his Yellow Banana into first overall in Desert Lite action. He had a stop to jury rig a broken tie rod, but went on to the well deserved victory. pounced on his competition and was on his way to pummeling them into submission. The motorcycles led off at precisely at 7:00 a.m. Fud time the green flag dropped and the Oklahoma Land Rush start was on. Earl Roberts rocketed off the line first, however Paul Krause had just a little better line to check 1 and was out in front. Jim "Preacher" Loh was a close third. Justin Hollman hopped in first 125 nestled in fourth. Three quartl·rs of the way around Earl Roherts swung left when Paul Krause went straight. When the course came back together they wne side by side. Instantly Krause kicked in the afterhurner an,l jetted hack into the lead. Krause would lead the way to home check. "Preacher" Loh 's excellent ride came to a screeching halt when his hike seized. On lap 2 it was Craig Smith's turn to dance with Paul Krause. Around and around they went, side hy side, never separated by. more than a hike length. Then, at the same place Roherts caught Krause his_ partner, Craig Smith delivered the winning pass. He gained just enough ground that his dust would prevent Krause from ever regaining the lead, not that he_ didn't try. These two teams hlistl·red the track. Their pace was so fast that third overall was 26.4 miles hehind. That spot helonged to the first 125 team of Justin Hollman and Bob Bell. After the race Boh Bell descrihed what it felt like to anchor the team. "Justin would hu:: around the track and I would kind of purr. Ifl had heen any better anchor, we would have gotten lapped." John Rilkey and Mike Harper won the Senior Division. The Sportsman Division was completely different. Open Expert Mike Barnhill burst off the line, found the quick line to check I and never looked back. Vet Expert Craig Corda climbed in hchind with Armando Lohato, "Destroyer" Royer, Tim Belew, ludd Neves and Nathan Goodsell ·making a heeline across the desert. At the end of the first bp it was Barnhill, Corda, Royer, Goodsell, Lohato, Belew and Neves. Slowly but surely the team of Corda, Bill and Martin McNeer worked up to the top. On the way they picked off enough wounded ducks to finish fifth overall, first Sportsman. Armando Lohato and Raul Gutierre: hounded Mike Justin Hollman ran so fast he was fourth overall on the first lap on his 125cc bike, and partner Bob Bell, shown here, make the big pass late in the race to finish the team third overall, first 125. DustyTimes

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Paul Krause, here flying past some competition, was the early overall leader but a late lap pass relegated him to second overall Dick Bird, aboard here, and Bob Thompson not only won the David Newland had a good run, found Check 1, and carried on Super Senior class in the Sportsman Division they put down the in good form and when the scores were sorted he was second in Pro bike at the flag. Rarnhill and Brian Scotree lap after lap. When the checkered flag fell Lobato/Gutierrez had nudged past Barnhill /Scotree to finish second and third Sportsman respectively. Goodsell and Kyle Bryant won the 250 class with Dick Bird and Bob Thompson not only winning the Super Senior class, they also kicked mud on the first Senior, Mike "Pig Farmer" Cuff. John Welnitz/ Bob Hallstad won Class 3 and Pat Stidman the Classic/ Vingage Class. winners in Senior class too. the Pro A TV competition. Greg Bringle had a huge lead, running third overall, in the Banshee but it broke on Doug Roll, lost nearly a lap and they still were third Pro A TV home. --------------------Catching a little air here the A TV of Sportsman racers Todd and Eric Dunlavey survived the close dice the best and won the class by inches. In the ATV start Ben Schlimme ( 250) and Greg Bringle (Banshee) blasted off the line together, like they were shot out of a cannon. Schlimme edged out in front a mile later and then BANG, the axle broke. Bringle was Gone! David Newland found Check 1 while Mike Cafro did his best Newland impersonation and didn't. Meanwhile Schlimme, who had been left as dead, radioed in to his partner Steve Mamer that he was . broke. A micro second later Mamer was on his way . . However, they were buried deep in the pack. Greg Bringle handed off his huge ATV lead and third overall position to Doug Roll. Roll broke before he reached check 1, and without-a radio to let Bringle know what had happened they would lose almost a lap. into victory circle with a smile as big as the Grand Canyon. The Green Apple driven by Steve Fenton turned out to be rotten, the new kid on the block, Harold Kleinhen: collapsed after one lap, Paul "Sky" King slowed toa crawl leaving only Andy "Any" Wehe to put a srnre into Stu Peace. On the final lap Peace had a huge lead when a tie rod end broke. While it was being fixed Wehe went hy. See ya! Then his tranny went away. Ooops! To finish first, first you must finish. Repairs com-pleted, Peace went looking for something he hadn't seen in MadisionwonthePilotclasswith months, a checkered flag. In spite Art Gibbs asleep at the wheel. of losing a lower A-arm bolt and John Shult: did the dope-on-a-replacing it with a tent stake with a rope dance as Mike "Brown vice grip to hold it in place, Stu Water" Maxwt:11 walt:ed to found his checkered flag and is at victory in Class 77. Bryan anc.:f Peace. Meanwhile, in the ·other James Saasta blew away the 360 divisions Brandon Lee and Roh Division competition. Let the fun time follies begin. Greg Row, Mike Cafro's partner now appeared to be in the lead, .. Newland second and Mamer· Schlimme looking for a light at the end of the tunnel. Slowly hut surely Mamer/Schlimme climbed out of their hole and joined the fray up front. At the end of the fourth lap they had knocked out Newland and were banging on the Cafro/Row door. The last lap showdown was between Mike Cafro and Ben Schlimme. The nod went to Schlimme. While it looked like Cafro/Row would finish a close second, Cafro's mistake,- missing check 1 on the first lap meant · that their race didn't start until they did, dropped them out of the picture. David Newland was second, and Greg Bringle, making the most out of nothing finished third. A Sportsman· trio of teams stuck together like bees on honey. Mike Douthitt/Troy Phelps ·led Vic Bruckmann/ Anthony Baker and the Bod's, Todd and Eric Dunlavey. Very seldom-were they even separated by another racer. On the third lap. Brockmann/ Baker nosed into a small lead. It all came down to another last lap shootout. They went out Bruck-mann /Baker, Douthitt/Phelps, Dunlavey/Dunlavey. They came back Dunlavey/ Dunlavey, Bruck-mann/ Baker, Douthitt/ Phelps. Among ·the Desertlites Stu Peace was sure he had died and went to· heaven. 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Second Annual Bilstein lcebusters Off Road Races Text & Photos: Wayne Simmons of the leader. Anderson's dream of victory was shattered when dirt got in the distributor ending his lead. With only a lap left Lawrence was unable to gain a position, settling for third, Whatley secon.d and Linder a come from behind win. Anderson quickly battled through the first turn mayhem to take the lead in the second heat. The Challenger action was busy all day. Leading here Bryan Peterson won the Quarnoccio had fixed the oil leak Feature, was second in the first heat too. Darryl Stedman won the first heat and bat t I e d int O sec On d as _ and was second in the feature for the second place honors. Steve Linder, on the left, won the first Limited Baja heat and here he gets by Kenny Kil/om, doing a bicycle act. Kil/om did well until rolling in the feature event. Lawrence sped into third. Whatley quickly moved up to pressure DeWitt, when Lawrence rol_led in the far turn. Whatley took advantage of Lawrence's misfortune to pass DeWitt and close in on Quarnoccio. Unable to keep UE_ with the pace of Once again the eyes of the off road racing world turned to Florida. The place was Lakeland, Florida and the Lakeland Inter-state Speedway. Yes it was time for the second annual ICEBUST-ERS off road race. This is the chance for r·acers up north to pay their southern neighbors a visit and do some racing southern style, in February. . Although the economy was still in a ·slump three drivers pulled down from the cold north for some sunshine, fresh air and hot racing action. It is times like this here sponsorship helps so much. Many thanks go out to FAT Performance, Southern Road Builders, Bilstein Shocks and R.W . Harris for the support they show in the field of off road racing. The track was laid out inside the asphalt oval that is used to run stock cars in the regular racing season. The front straight was used for a rolling start, into a set of tight "S" turns, then jump over the first turn e·mbankment, return over the next embankment, a set of turns and jumps, then dash down the back straight into a sweeping turn and start over, a very fast track. · LIMITED BAJ AS: It was action from the word go. Steve Linder set up a four car chain reaction in the first turn. Within seconds. everybody was untangled and on Anderson, Quarnoccio gave in to their way. The only real damage Whatley. Anderson and Whatley was to Linder's motor. A bumper slowly began to pull away from had gotten through the cage work, the rest of the pack. Tim Stone cracking one of the heads. Dean was co-driving for Under this race Anderson was leading the few and w·as making a rea·l wheel to who had missed the pile up, as the wheel race of it with Kellom. second set played catch up. Out of Lawrence was back on his wheels nowhen: Kenny Kellom took over and trying to make up lost time. the lead. This was Kellom 's first The fans were already on their feet time to race. Although he had as Lawrence sped into the first passed the leader he was unable to turn. He had cut the turn too hard handle the speed with which he for the speed and started to roll. It entered the first turn. The was a one and a half gainer; as the resulting roll thrilled the fans dust cleared the driver was o .k. watching in the turn. Anderson but the car was out of this race. hadtheleadback,butwasfeeling Whatley had caught up to pressure from several other Anderson with two laps left. drivers. Ross Quarnoccio had Anderson was using all the tricks been on Anderson's rear end to prevent Whatley from passing. from the beginning, but just could It payed off as Anderson rolled not get around. Bob DeWitt, under the checkered flag for the another new rookie, was taking win, inches ahead of Whatley in his time, still working the bugs second, and Quarnoccio was a out of his new car. Jack Lawrence close third. who had been plagued with motor FEATURE: This time Quar-trouble most of last year and the noccio grabbed the lead, but had start of this season, had gotten the the passenger's door come open trouble solved and was holding as they went into the first turn. onto third spot. Whatley and Anderson were right Steve Linder's motor was still behind him as they rounded the holding up and Bill Whatley had track. Linder was quickly put out fought up to actually be challeng-with a broken transmission. ing Lawrence. A bad break for Quarnoccio had his hands full, as Quarnoccio put him out of the both Whatley and Anderson race, when an oil line broke, closed in for the kill. Lawrence quickly forcing him to the called it a day when his steering wayside. Linder and Whatley out gave out. It was a real hattk as maneuvered Lawrence in pursuit _ Whatley and Anderson mowd ----------------------------.. into the lead. Quarnot·do now (3101 598_2731 :had to fend off DeWitt as he ·moved up to challenge the WEddlE ENGiNEERiNG Exclusive distributor of l.ock-Right'1"VW Locking Differentials The ultimate on-and off-road traction for VWs PERFORMANCE Billet Racing Diffs for Swingaxle, IRS, and 091 Bus TRANSAXLE Billet Aluminum Sidecovers and Axle Tube Flanges PRODUCTS Hard to Find New and Used Parts Wholesale/Retail. Dealer Inquiries Welcome Top Quality, Lowest Prices leaders. The lead changed several times between Whatley and Anderson as neither driver could get the upper hand. DeWitt had man-. euvered past Quarnoccio as the tw'o caught up with the leaders. Anderson had finally got a good line on the track and was lapping slower traffic. With time running out Anderson lapped Kellom, leaving the others to fend for themselves. As Whatley was setting up to pass Kellom, Kellom rolled. Whatley and DeWitt were too close to avoid Kellom and each other, as everybody came to a sudden stop. Quarnoccio was the only one to avoid the tangle of cars, putting him in second place. DeWitt was the first one to untangle himself with Whatley close behind. It was all over as Anderson tasted victory for the second time in the day. Quar-noccio captured second with DeWitt nosing in for third in front of Whatley. CHALLENGER CLASS: Things got off to a bad start for one of the classes top runners. Bryan Peterson went from front to rear in a single bound, after bumping another buggy rolled in the first turn after the start. Darryl Stedman quickly established himself as the leader as the field of drivers rounded through the first lap. Scott Campbell was out early with a flat after hooking wheel with another car. Alex McFadyen, one of the out of state drivers, was making his way through the pack as Peterson caught up to him. Ed Russell and Richard Partridge were bringing up the rear as the rest of the drivers spread out around the track fast, leaving just two hot spots of racing. It was a heated ha ttle for the lead as Zoomie Hinson and Stephen Poun,ls pressured the leader. Mcfadyen and Peterson had moved their battle into the spot for fourth as neither driver could gain on the leaders. The laps ran out fast as Pounds and Stedman went wheel to wheel several times, but in the end it was Stedman across the line first with Pounds a very close second and Hinson third. P.O. Box 15466 Long Beach, CA 90815 Ray Short dominated most of the 1600 action as he won the first heat, had a flat in the second, but he won the Feature and the points and cash on the day. Page 51 July 1993 SECOND HEAT: Stedman passed two cars off the line, but was not quick enough to get the lead before Peterson had it. Campbell moved in close to the leader as Mcfadyen blocked 'the way in front of Stedman. Campbell, while in pursuit of the lead, rolled cracking a joint in the frame of the cage putting an end to his race. In the confusion Hinson and Pounds had passed Stedman. Now Mcfadyen had the battle of the day going, as Hinson and Pounds showed no mercy. Pounds took advantage of a section of track to pass both Hinson and Mcfadyen. Peterson had stretched the lead out giving Pounds a lot of ground to make up. Mcfadyen just was not fast enough as he lost ground to Hinson. Time was running out as Mcfadyen tried desperately to hold his position; it was to no avail as Stedman maneuvered past in. the closing laps. It was a flag to flag win for Peterson, Pounds took second; with Hinson coming in third. FEATURE: After some quick welding work, Campbell was able to return to the action taking the lead in the start of the race. Stedman wasted no time in moving up through the pack, tangling wheels with Partridge in the process. Campbell's lead was short lived as Stedman sailed by in the second lap. Peterson and Mcfadyen soon put the pressure on Campbell as he tried to hold on. Partridge called it a day when his motor started to sputter. Campbell was unable to maintain the pace, to stay with the leader and was slowly falling back. Peterson closed the gap on Stedman in a turn. Stedman lost traction for just a second, losing two positions at the same time. Pounds had now moved into striking range of Campbell. Suddenly several drivers bunched up, giving Hinson a chance to also close on the battle for the lead . Peterson had started to out distance all the others. Once again Mcfadyen just could not keep up the speeds as Stedman and Hinson passed him by. As the flagman signaled two laps left the pressure was on to make any move they could. Pounds was about to gain a position when he rolled landing off a jump. He was o.k. but lost any chance for a top place. All that remained was to dash for the finish line. Peterson again took the checkered flag, · Stedman rolled over for second and Hinson took third. 1600s: It was a sign of things to come for Andy McMillen as he stalled his car on the start. 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Rookie Bob Dewitt, still working the bugs out of his Bug, drove a steady pace to keeping finishing and ended up fourth in the Limited Baja class. Marty Neri, right, ran with the leaders in both 1600 heats, lost his engine in the main and was fifth on the day. Mike Notary got his two seater in the liattle until the front end went away in the second heat. Track workers try to right Stephen Pounds, who had been second in the first Challenger heat, and he went on to take fourth place in class for the day. Executing a one wheel landing, Alex Mcfadyen led the second heat and the feature early on, but his Challenger was not strong enough to finish in the money. Andy McMillen had a tough day, in his 1600, stalled off the first start, then knocked hmself out landing a jump, maybe this one, and hit a fence. Jeff Golding, subbing for Andy McMillen gets a little out of shape here and eventually he rolled the car in the second heat. The team needs more practice? soon joined in on the battle as the three began to pull away from the rest of the pack. Tom Surace who towed down from New Jersey was still trying to work out the bugs from his first year of racing, was holding his own while taking it easy. Marty Neri and Mike Notary were battling it out while trying to close on the leaders. The laps were going by fast as Short overpowered Pounds, taking over the lead. Bicker was not giving up easy, as he and Pounds went wheel to wheel into the last lap. McMillen had been bringing up the rear all race and was pushing hard to gain a position when he landed hard off a jump knocking himself out on landing. He sped out of control across the track, crashing through the pit fence, fortunately nobody in the pits was hurt, and McMillen only had a headache and a few sore muscles. It was a battle to the finish,. which left Pounds to settle for third, Bicker a hard fought second, and Short came in first. In round two for the 1600s, Surace set the pace as he took the . lead early. Pounds and Notary quickly fell in behind tl:ie leader as the field of competitors spread out. Neri who is usually a top runner was having trouble with his motor and unable to keep up with the main group. Short quickly fell to the rear of the pack with a flat tire, as he tried to stay in the race. Bicker was now in a position to challenge Notary as the drivers passed the midway point. Jeff Golding was now driving McMillen's car hut was not close enough to the leaders to be a threat. Then as luck would have it he rolled, ending any chance of finishing up front. As the pressure of battle intensified Notary broke the front end send-ing him to the wayside for the remainder of the day. This time it was Surace taking an unchallenged victory. as Pounds came in second with Bicker in third. FEATURE: Short charged into the lead leaving everybody in his dust. Golding pulled off the track for an unknown reason, but was soon back in racing. Pounds, Neri and Bicker bunched up as they r' IIIATCHET WHEEL IT"-AP I' BILSTEIN ---,>)~-,+ =-=--==--·,-' ' ~ --.......==--RACING APPLICATIONS CLASS 1 TO CLASS 11 T COIIIO RATCHETIAXLE ST"""8 OUR SHOCK PRICES ~ ARE VERY COMPETITIVE \ --:-;--=--' CALL TOLL FREE FOR PRICES & APPLICATION Z" WRAP-AROUND AXLE STIIAPS ® A> battled for a shot at the leader. Neri 's motor started to fade, and soon hlew taking him out of competition. Surace was nut able to maintain the pace and dropped to the rear. As the drivers spread out around the track Short was developing a massive lead that no one was able to close on. With a wave of the flag victory once again was Short's, Pounds came in second with Bicker in third. CLASS I & 10: Only four racers brought their buggies out for this class. In the first of three races Mike Hester took the lead with David Lofland in pursuit. . . . . . . Bob Bohres and Larry Willis Whtie Mike Hester agam won Unl1m1ted class, David Lofland, shown here, followed the leaders until Bohres won _the first heat, lost his engine in the second and was third for the day, but l . . d· h. h . , he did get out of the snow m New Jersey. ost a c.v. iomt, sen mg 1m tot e-. pits early. It was a tough battle as lead for two laps, he lost a King in on the two leaders having to Hester tried to fend off the attack Pin, again forcing him to the pits. settle for the rear. Although the of Lofland. Lofland got the upper Hester and Lofland again battled racing was hot and fast, Bohres hand at midpoint and never for the lead, until Lofland lost the was unable to overtake Hester as looked back. The wave of the motor. Hester finished in first, thev headed down rhe front checkered flag told the story, with Willis in second. straight for the finish. Hestertook Lofland cruised across the line for FEATURE: Hester jumped the wave of the flag and the win, first, Hester second and Willis into the lead as Bohres trailed Rohres second and Willis third, third. close behind, hoping to keep his to end yet another fine day of off The second time arounq was no car together long enough to finish road racing. better for Bohres after holding the a race. 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The Straight Poop From the Big Wahzoo WARNING - If you insi'st on "Political Correctness" in what you read, then I strongly suggest that you skip this column. This is because the Big Wah.:oo will regularly and irreverently pick on any Checker that deserves it, using the verbal amo of any s/1<!.:ial characteristic which that member provides! I mean, the Checkers are a proud and winning organi:a-tion that traditionally eat their dead, regardless of race, creed or color. So, with the exception of flavor, we're not really too concerned about the small shit! BFG RETRACTION -Al-though there was no official complaint from anyone over at BFG, the Wah.:oo found out shortly after I sent in my May column, that I had unjustly chewed on the BFG pits regarding some problems the Checker pits experienced up at the recent Mint race. The explanation that follows in no way diminishes the sincerity of this Wah:oo's apology for blaming the wrong guys. Furth-ermore, I am extremely sorry for that crack I made about the BFG guys looking like a bunch of gas station attendants, especially considering how sensitive they all must be about having to wear those cute orange jump suits out at the races. Shortly after the Mint, and ,..right before my press deadline, three problems were reported to the Club, two of them turned out to be bogus. After further checking with some of my well placed sources, the Wah:oo found that the rumor mill had broken down this time. The BFG pits had not been anymore of a problem than usual at this race. One contributing reason for this communications breakdown was that good guy> Uncle Max marked out all the outlying Checker pits right next to all the BFG pits and gave the pitters directions accordingly; "All the Checker pits are right next to the BFG pits". Incident# 1 - Peralta angrily reported that he was rudely chased out of an adjoining BFG pit while taking some pictures for his On Dirt maga:ine. But since Lou usually gives as good as he gets when it comes to rude, plus the fact that he was not actually in a Checker pit at the time, this one has to go down as a non-incident. Incident #2 -After finally finding his pit location, Brooks discovered that all the Checker pit markings had been taken down and BFG ribbons were up in their place. Being one of the Club's better negotiators.John promptly hunted up the head BFG guy and frankly discussed the problem as only Brooks can. Naturally, common sense prevailed, BFG made some room, and everybody lived happily ever after. Incident #3 -For' some reason the Mike Les le T earn took the BFG spot next to one of our Checker pits, and then proceeded to act like they owned the whole God Damn desert. Well, apparently in the retelling of a story about Master Bates threatening to weld one loudmouth's butt shut, BFG kinda got blamed. Hey, the 'straight poop' is what I write here, even if it occasionally takes a couple of months to get it right, Sorry guys. SAN FELIPE 250 -The Club had only one member involved in this non-points dud. Seems Robertson included two bike Checkers on his motorcycle entry, in an effort that planned on switching riders every 40 miles. An apparent third place finish in one of the "old dude classes" was very respectable until the official results were read: "Billy Robert-son-Disqualified! Do not pass go! And do not bother to go whining to the CRB!" In this comedy of errors, one of Billy's co-drivers was caught off course and repeatedly strafed by the SCORE helicopter. Amazing-ly, after checking the times, this short cut turned out to be about 15 minutes longer than the marked course. Next, this bike Checker was observed ramming a check point! By ramming, I mean this guy actually knocked the whole stop sign and pole right out of the check point worker's hands as he blasted through! As a final indignity, after being invited to sit in on the CRB as the Class l / 2 rep, Robertson found himself face to face with a SCORE guy who wore a big brace on an injured wrist. When asked, the volunteer explained that some nut on a bike almost tore off his arm while he was working out at a check point. Of course, our hero quickly informed him that he was an open car driver, and then quietly found a seat down near the other end of the room. Hey Billy, we all know you were innocent here, but what'a ya expect when ya go racin' with Larkin and his buddy? SPANGLER 200 - A typically large number of Checkers turned out on a beautiful spring Ridgecrest weekend to support three Checker entries in this four lap La Rana event. In Class 10, Tom Koch, with a guest appear-ance from the car's ex-owner, and Greg Dillon soloing in the old man's car, had some great racin' for not only the class win and overall, but also against each other. The first half of the race saw Tom and Greg nose to tail for quite awhile, slammin', bangin' and swapping spots. This went on until Dillon's car needed some welding on the front end and slowed. Tom went on to run a third lap but had some shock problems. Rex Keeling took over for Koch on the fourth and finished it up for a fine second in class and third overall! The Dillons ended up with a fourth in Class 10, after an impressive showing in their new car. Minor Bates teamed up with Jeremiah in Tom's Challenger car, but had problems and finished out of the money. Good racin' guys! After the race, most of the Checkers in attendance adjourn-ed to Koch's house to burn some meat, share a 'fatty' and party down! And of course, as required, a good time was had by all at this Trackside Photo, Inc. Racing photography since 1970 We cover all La Rana, SCORE/HORA, and Calif. Rally Series events. When you need action photos, call us! Call us for: Calendars• Press Kits• Photo Business Cards• Autograph sheets Pagc54 P .0 . Box 91767 Los Angeles, Callfornla 90009 (310) 670-6896 July 1993 annual Checker gathering! THE WEATHERMAN has recently stepped on his johnson and gotten his ass banned from all the La Rana races. After reading a goofy unsigned third person letter that he sent to the Club, the Wah:oo got only one clear impression. Hey Bob, you're a whiner! An excellent radio guy, but on this one you're definitelty whining. SUMMER PARTY -On Saturday July 17th, over 200 of the Checker faithful are expected to gather in among the ceremonial rocks of "Cougar Buttes", just outside of Lucerne. This year's traditional Checker Summer Party will return to the site oflast year's blow out in an attempt to improve on a good thing. At last report the following highlights were scheduled: Toxic Tom's Waste Disposal Company wiH once again provide a suitable container for a load of Reverend Roy's baptismal water. Hey Koch, try to keep your dog out of the pool this year, huh? Maiocco and crew will conduct the afternoon poker run, which this year will reportedly allow motorhomes to compete. Danny Reider's Ridge-crest band, the same country/ rock group that played our Awards Banquet, will really be able to get it on in the natural amphitheater that the Cougar Butes provide. For any of you that missed last year, the Club put on a party that both MTV and ESPN would have been proud to cover. On one hand, it was a surrealistic scene of flashing blue strobes and a jammin' band up on a brightly lit stage, which was back in the rocks and under the stars on a beautiful California summer night. But on the other hand, it was also a series of both death defying and pride oriented contests that tested both the skill and sobriety of those that participated. These battles took place during the band breaks and were definitely one of the highlights of the evening. A repeat of the Motori:ed Balloon Joust and the Jack-off Race will surely be among the Checker games that Peralta will once again preside over. Speaking of Peralta, he is openly pressuring Burak to buy the meat for the party through his wife's connections down at Rancho Santa Veronica. "Great stuff and cheap too" says Lou. But Steve is still a little leery, especially since Peralta has a reputation of slippin' in a road kill on ya every once in awhile. To further complicate things, Randal, the Club's official cook, has vowed not to cook anything this year with the hide still on it. Atta boy Gary! Whether the animal we barbecue is killed humanely or by some Chevy on the Rumorosa Highway, the rest of the menu will reportedly be about the same as last year; Butow Beans, corn on the cob, salad, rolls & butter. All of which will be washed down with the usual unlimited river of ice cold tap beer, wine coolers and sodas. The Cougar Buttes are about 15 minutes outside of Lucerne and the route will be properly marked and easy to follow for everyone, with the possible exception of Holladay. TICKETS -Current · Checker members will get in free, and up until about a week before the party the food and drink armbands for your guests will cost $5 each. After that, all unexpect-ed guests will reportedly be charged 10 bucks apiece, and have to serve some time on 'Trash Patrol'. All members are asked to let the Club know as soon as possible how many guests they plan on bringing so the Club won't come up short on some-thing important like food or beer! Members and their guests are also encouraged to bring their off road toys, motorhomes, tents, or whatever, and stay for the whole weekend if you like. THE THUMPER FUND -Dunn is reportedly now collecting donations to pay for an ample amount of 100 proof painkiller and a tattoo lady so Thumper can make good on his boast about carrying on the proud Club tradition of JR, and have "Checkers" tattooed on his jolmson! Hey Thumper, if ya don't chicken out on this, the Wah:oo promises ya that a picture of your newly decorated pride and joy will have the honor of being the first photo to appear in this column! In closing, Peralta was kind enough to provide us with this months closing chuckle. Report-edly while Lou was in the process of marking a course for one of his motorcycle races outside of Rosarita Beach, he apparently committed a slight driving error. It seems that shortly after he climbed a grassy hill in the Official Baja Promotions mini truck, he exceeded the center of gravity limits on his Ford Ranger and rolled it. Now this was not your standard irritating, sheet metal bending and ego deflating slow roll over. Oh no, Peralta rode this puppy clear to the bottom of the hill! In his solo effort, Lou went over about 4 times with lotsa promoter-like stuff, such as a video cam, radios and cans ofTecate flying out the windows on every revolution! Naturally, being a Checker, he crawled out uninjured. But of course, being Lou, he immediate-ly started thinking about how to hush the whole thing up and hep it out of the Checker's Column. Hey Lou, give it up, you're an open book! AND FINALLY, the Wah:oo would like to thank all those members who spoke up and got Captain Butt-plug off my ass! Baja 500 results next month. DRS Desert Race Support Report By Craig um<! Although we weren't treated to the spectacular fields of color with blooming flowers as last year in the Ridgecrest area, Mother Nature provided the racers and crews with a great day for racing. La Rana had a good turnout of participants for the Spangler 200 with 101 entries in the classes, with some entries in the Classes 1, 2, and 8 which have been sparse so far this year. Class 9 had another good turnout with 20 plus entries, and this class turned in a great race, but nobody was going to catch the team of Sandy Parker and Tom Moessner as they flew to the class win. DRS had 3 cars giving chase, Danny Richardson was running a strong third by lap 2 but had his tranny give up ~ Dustynmes

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LOMBARD LONDON-SYDNEY MARATHON was rolled on the first stage. And, First Report From Europe the third place man Ian Vaughan, momentarily slid off the road on stage 2 with ·his Ford Falcon. Cowan was slowed with leaking brake fluid on the first day and the Hunter and Peter Bowden in a Porsche91 l with Lorimer/Smith 16 seconds hack, followed in 20 seconds hy Daly/Brill. one second ahead of Francis Tuthill and Anthony Showell in a Porsche 911 according to the times posted at Trier. Roger Clark and Tony May were another four seconds down in fifth, and it was close all the way through the first ten, all just over a minute apart 6n-cum u la ti ve time. The report didn't say if any cars retired at this point, and we wondered ahout the American entry of Sidney Dickson and Sue Loweree from New Jersey in the same AMC Rambler Sidney ran on this ralley in the sixties. The rally ends in mid-May, so we will have a complete report on this marathon trek in an upcoming issue. TL'xr & Photos: Marrin Holml's Our world rally correspondent tells us it isn't often that Dearborn sends promotional pictures of Fords, especially rally Fords. But they obviously liked this shot of their dashing rally press officer in England, Stuart Mccrudden, right, as he sets off on the London-Sydney historic marathon rally. Is his driving as stylish as his Ford Cortina BT? 106 crews left London's The favorite driver is Roger Chelsea Harbor on Saturday the Clark, driving an 1800cc twin 17th of April for an 11,500 mile cam Ford Escort, hut as on the drive across the world, at the original 1968 event in which he wheel of historic cars. Headed by had heen a convincing early Andrew Cowan, who had twice bider, there is speculation that won this marathon in the past in tht: special stages in Europe will its heyday, at the wheel of the count little compared with those actual Hillman Hunter in which in Australia. Between 18 April he was successful in 1968, this and when the cars reach Bomhay rally enjoyed the support of on May 5th, there will he 21 Lombard. Cowan and Johnstone stages totaling a mere 450km, all Syerhadplate#lfortheHillman. exct:pt twu of which are on The cars tackled a special stage in asphalt. KentbeforecrossingtoBelgium. In tht: eight d a ys across PIT 11AM .REGIS I ER CHAPALA DUSTERS Evan Harbottle, President (909) 676-8625 Matt Hanson, Race Director (714) 951-7755 CHECKERS Russ Butow, President 28447 Aldee Park Canyon Country, CA 91351 (805) 251-5970 . John Flies, Pit Coordinator 22311 Kentfleld Grand Terrace, CA 112324 (714) 945-4159 or 783-4459 C.O.R.E. Kevin McGllllvray, Race Director 33722 Agua Dulce Canyon Road Agua Dulce, CA 91350 (805) 268-8405 F.A.I.R. Dave Masslngham, Race Director 16269 Placid Drive Whittler, CA 90604 (310) 943-1916 DESERT RACE SUPPORT Craig Lane, Race Director P.O. Box 1822 Apple Valley, CA 92307 (619) 247-0120/(619) 247-6258 I.D.R.A. George Thompson, Director 343-D Montezuma St., •19 Prescott, A2. 86303 (602) 776-8528 LOS CAMPEONES Andy Fellx, President 1069 So. Santa Fe Vista, CA 92083 (619) 726-0130 MAG7 Bruce Cranmore, Race Director 11244 Horizon HIiis Drive El Cajon, CA 92020 . (619) 440-3737 TIGHT TEN John Lippitt, Race Director 153 Lindell Ave. El Cajon, CA 92020 (619) 448-5500 (619) 447.795 BAJA EXPRESS RACING TEAM Hayward Mendenhall 15518 Le Ross St Norwalk,CA (213) 864-0893 We welcome all Support Team news artides. Typed and double spaced copy is acceptable. Copy deadlines vary slightly, usually by the tenth of the month to make the next issue. To list your pit club here, send the information to DustyTimes. The service is free. Please send us a list of your current pit club contacts, especially those who are not listed here at all. DustyTima . _ Belgium stages emphasized his Australia, the cars will face 22 lack of power on day two. stnges totaling 1100km. Origin-Leading after the first day, in ally there was to have heen one air which there was one gravel stage, lift from Bomhay to Fremantle, were New Zealanders Graham hut sudden cancellation of route Lorimer and Gary Smith in a Ford permits in Iran meant that the cars Escort, followed in four minutes will also he flown from Istanhul to hy the Escort of Roger Clark. Delhi. Third was the Mustang of Although one of the most Daly, Brill, five more minutes expensive events in history with hack followed in two minutes hy the entry fee at 12,900 pounds, the Short/Starkey Escort, and the entry was fully subscrihed, Dalgarno/Taylor rounded out and every one of the finally the top five, another three accepted entries took the start. minutes down in a Ford Cortina. After two days all the cars were On the second day, in which still running, though one car, the there were two asphalt stages in Datsun 1600 of Michael Cotter, Belgium,thenewleaderwasTerry Sidney Dickson ran the London-Sydney Marathon in the 60s, and he entered the same AMC Rambler in the 1993 edition. Here Sidney and his co-driver Sue Loweree cruise through a village in Europe. Roger Clark, one of the originals on the event, is driving a Ford, but here he poses with Andy Cowan's Hillman Hunter, before the start of the rally. ~ on him ending his bid to try and overtake Tom and Sandy. The DRS car in Class 9, the R .E. Goodspeed car of Dennis Peterson and Jim Mobley, gave a great effort to try and overcome the class leaders but fell a little short. Jim drove the first 2 laps and then Dennis got in to finish the last two, but just couldn't make up any ground, having to settle for what appears to be 7th, but they still move up to 3rd in the class standings for the year. The other DRS team of Ron Brady and Bill Hibbler ran strong and steady all four laps and moved up from their rear starting position to garner 2nd place in the class. ln the 1600 class, which had 11 cars, 2 of which were DRS, one had a great day and the other was bad. The Hot Licks car of Ed Pauley and Jon Iandiorio was primed and ready but had a tranny let go almost immediately ending their day right off the bat, and this was a course they and the car liked. The other car of Morley Davis kept his string of top finishes going by taking the Class win with help from Carol Clark and her crew at DRS Echo. When he pulled in with a steering problem, they diagnosed-the problem, fixed it, and had him back in the race in quick time. In finishing up the DRS entries in the Spangler 200 was the first time out 1533 of David Parker in his Toyota. They had some problems on the first lap and weren't sounding like they would make it around for a second lap, but the DRS pits were able to help and with the effort of their team were able to finish their first time out, which brought a big smile to their entire team: congratulations guys. And DRS would like to congratulate all the class winners of the Spangler 200, looking forward to coming home to our July 1993 own back yard in the Lucerne Valley Jam, see ya. Chapala Dusters Race Review By H. H,!nL'SL'Y Even though the April running of the SCORE San Felipe was not designated as a points race for the 4 wheel vehicles, three of the Chapala Dusters considered it one of the funner races of the traditional SCORE series and made the trek down to Mexico. Dave Bufe and Jerry Higman were very surprised to find themselves in second overall position (in a four-wheel vehicle) when they crossed the finish line in their Class 10 car. Dave started the race, running smooth, except for a broken rear brake rotor at Mile 40, which left them shy on brakes for the rest of the race. He handed the car over to Jerry Higman with an 18 minute lead on the next guy, and threw in a mess of cactus for Jerry to contend with as well. The pit crew picked out the cactus and sent Jerry on his way to Firs in Class! Larry Smith and Jon Kennedy teamed up in car 1604, with Larry setting a fast pace, and showing up first at El Chinero. Problem was, he'd· broken a torsion bar three miles earlier. Well, they decided to call it a day, loaded the car on the trailer and headed back to San Felipe to enjoy some beer on the beach. In the Class 1 Meco Ma.:da, Morley and Mike Williams worked through problems with the fuel pump and a flat to finally take a checkered flag, finishing 2nd in class and 7th overall. Congratulations to Evan Harbottle on being re-elected to the Honored position of Presi-· dent of the Chapala Dusters for another year, and Matt "Dog" Haysom as Vice President. These gentlemen have put a lot of time and energy back into the organization, and their enthusi-asm is appreciated by all. Next race up on the schedule is the TecatelSCORE Baja 500. CACTUS RACING RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES • Built & Backed by Bell Helmets • Light Weight • Lexan Sheild • Snell 90 • Helmet Conversions • Complete Blower Systems for Single or Double Seat Cars • Complete Line of Worth & Pyrotect Safety Products • Cool Boxes • Blowers • 4' - any Length Hose • Free Service & Parts • WeShipl!PS $215.00 HELIIETONLY 5153 Bowden Ave.• San Diego• CA• 92117 • (619) 279-2509 Page 55

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STADIUM OFF ROAD GRAN PRIX Stadium Racing Shines Down Under Text & Photos: Darryl Smith Although there is no such series in Australia, the occasional Stadium Off Road Promotion usually turns out to be a successful night's racing. One such event was the recent 105.3 NEW FM Stadium Gran Prix at the Newcastle Motordrome on April 24, 1993. There are only a few purpose built Stadium cars in the racing, the rest are the desert cars; but as these are smaller than the US desert cars they are very much capable of some close anp spectacular racing. There were four categories of cars racing at Newcastle. Heading up the action were the 2WD Tin Tops, comprising pickups, sedans, Bajas and the Nissan Stadium.truck of Bob Stansfield who started from the rear of the grid in the heat racing. The Bajas seemed to dominate with the cars of Graeme Dowsett, Mick Newton, and Nev Taylor winning the three heats. Another Baja was not so lucky; that of Warren Irons who rolled after tangling with Jeff Bryant's Corvette. The Final saw plenty of action with firstly Irons stalled at the start. On the next lap Taylor got hit by Ian Hedley's Fl SO putting him out, then Newton was the next to feel the muscle from Hedley and soon exited. All the while Stansfield 's turbo truck had command at the front. Hedley's antics actually cost him places and before too long the laps ran out. Bob Stansfield took the final win with the Baj as of Graeme Dowsett and Chris Watman behind. Then came Robert Pagan's Mazda truck and then Ian Hedley. The 4x4 category only has about half the cars as in 2WD, but they make up for it with close racing. Ian Hedley was doing double duty as he was in this race also in a Bronco 4x{ and in fact won the first heat. Fred Parker's --·-----,..,....,.,__ __ ~....::= :: . .,. .___:;:, __ -;: :-: ~ . i ; Daren Wells won two of the three Unlimited Buggy heats and the final and he proved a desert car can work in tight quarters by winning the combined buggy final by a goodly margin. Bob Stansfield, turbo Nissan, built for stadium racing, lay back in the heat races, then took the win in the final for 2WD Tin Tops and also won the combined final for all Tin Tops. big VS Landrover won heats 2 and 3. Meanwhile Fabio Zarfati was having lots of bad luck in his Mitsubishi Pajero, firstly break-ing a CV, then a tie rod. The final came around and Parker led the start over the big red Bronco. Zarfati would be out again with another broken tie rod. Fred Parker drove a top race to win over Ian Hedley. Then came Parker's daughter Annie in a Forerunner, and his son Robert in a Mitsubishi truck, in quite a family finish. The Unlimited buggies then continued the action, and, only two weeks after winning the opening round of the desert championship, Daren Wells was back winning again in the same car.Wells won heats 1 and 3 in his Yokohama turbo buggy. David Mendham in a turbo rotary machine took the other heat. · Action in the heats included Rod Brand catching on fire, Neville Boyes rolling, and then Mendham also rolling, but there were no apparent injuries in the incidents. The Final looked like being a beauty with Wells and Mendham off.the front row. Wells won the start and led the pack. The single seaters of Mick Meyers and Rod Brand were battling for third behind Mendham. Boyes was to retire with gearbox failure. But it was an untroubled Wells that showed he was just as capable of winning a Stadium race as he was the desert race, and he took the checkers in the Final. Mendham came in second over Myers, Brand and Chad Conner. The fourh class was of course the Super 1600 cars. In here was a good looking car, looking much like a Magnum, but in fact it was a locally built car by the W atman family and driven by Bruce Watman. He had clutch problems in the first heat and watched Frank D'Ambros win. Watman then came back and won heats 2 and 3, and looked the favorite as he approached. But nobody told Andy Ziems and he took early command of the Final and drove quickly and defensively to hold his position. W atman tried to get under Ziems but lost out dropp-ing to third behind Stephen Jones. The laps were running out and 1 Nev Taylor won the third 2WD Tin Top heat, but this hit in the final from Ian Hedley's Ford pickup put him out, of the race and the night's action. Watman tried to get under Jones, Parker and got through. Parker but failed and had to settle for obviously upset at the move lined third. A jubilant Andy Ziems the Nissan up for an attack. But it took the win over Stephen Jones all went wrong and Stansfield shut and Bruce Watman. the gate. Parker ended up To finish the night off with a dumping heavily onto his roof. bang were the combined Finals; Behind Bob Stansfield at the firstly the 2WDs and 4x4s, then finish came Ian Hedley, Graeme both open and 1600 buggies. In Dowsett, Robert Pagan, and the Tin Top Final it was Fred Fabio Zafati, finally getting a Parker who won the start over Ian result, then Chris Watman in the Hedley in the Bronco. However Baja. Bob Stansfield soon moved his The combined buggy Final Nissan into second. Graeme looked to be a repeat of the earlier Dowsett's Baja was trying to gain race as Daren Wells took off into on Hedley, while Stansfield was the dis t a nce leading David all over Parker but unable to pass. Mendham and the rest. Chad The white flag came out and Connerspun,thenoutofthepack Stansfield knew it was now or came Bruce Watman's 1600 never, made a forceful push at . , closing on Mendham. It didn't .. _ , i--:t:-J -wmk as they dipped wheels and . ·-9<J9.-Y : -··.c. .. _,., .. -then somehow b~came lo~ked ·::, . • I-.-;;;-=-·- ·-==:.;;;-together. It was a pity, but neither ,'ftnt(. ·· ,,Jf-~.-· ) ~ ·--: _ .'.... -::::.~ ca~ continued. Happy though was « ?.1 • .1 ~-~--·.....:: Mick Myers who slotted into .t ... ~.-.~ ~~-r,~tll'T ~ second place to follow his _..,,.,..,~,,, • .,. ' '#I. ~---· Yokohama teammate Daren pre; ..,ot(~,r_; :~fl Wells across the finish line. Rod ,,., Brand took third over the 1600 of A Stephen Jones, then came Chad Conner and Andy Ziems. One of four classes, the Super 1600 class was exciting with different heat Mick Myers was the first Australian correspondent for Dusty Times, but winners, but it was Andy Ziems who won the Final, but ended up sixth in the passed the work on to Darryl Smith while Mick goes racing in Unlimited Congratulations must go to promoter Phil Harrison for organizing another terrific night's entertainment. The crowd was bigger than any speedway attendance at the same venue. The track design was good and fast, but I believe a heavy hand at rough driving is certainly needed. combined final, low on horsepo~er. -~~-Buggies. He finished second in the combined open wheel finale. Bob Stansfield swings the Nissan around the Baja of Warren Irons, who had stalled on the grid and was trying hard to make up some time, but didn't. DustyTimcs The single sealers of Rod Brand, foreground, and Mick Myers had a close dice for third in the Unlimited final: Myers was third, Brand, fourth. July 1993 David Mendham won the second Unlimited Buggy heat, and despite this roll over, he also took second in the final for the class. Page 61

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· Cl.assificd ••• FOR SALE: Raceco SS, Class 10. 1990 Class 10 points champion. FAT air-cooled 126hp, 091 bus, FTC gears, Summers floater rear end, secondary, coil over front end, new: spindles, arms, UMP, Bilstein, SAW, PCI radio equipment, extra parts, tandem trailer. $14,500.00. Call (310) 640-6119. FOR SALE: Class 9 1990 MECO single seat, race ready, hest of everything and very competitive. SCORE/HORA legal. Many extras go with car. $6,500.00. Trailer and radios extra, available if needed. Cal Vic (805) 8.32-2996 day, (805) 8.32-.3628 nite. FOR SALE: Mirage Unlimited Class 5, only 2 races. Profession-ally prepped & race ready! DRIVETRAIN: FEX 2070cc Type I ( l.30hp), JG hus IRS trans (w/FTC gears}. FRONT END: 12" wider (15" travel), new Fox Racing Shox (2 Shox per wheel), Wright rack, arms & combo. spindles, alum wheels w /BFG Mud/Terrain tires. REAR END: 12" wider, ( 18" travel), new Fox Racing Shox ( 4 Shox, I bump stop per wheel), Woods arms, Sway-A-Way bars & axles, 9.30 . c. v. 's Super Boots, alum wheels w /BFG Mud/Terrain tires. PLUS: Power steering (UMP pump}, Fuel Safe Cell (22 gal), dual hattcrics, Beard scats, Diest 5 FOR SALE: Full race issan Pathfinder, 18" front, 21" rear wheel travel, 9" full floater, quick change transfer case, turbo 400 trans., fuel injected V6, Kuster shocks. BEST OF EVERY-THING. Oyer 200k. invested, many spares, $79,000.00. Call (510) 429-9400 days, (510) 794-8456 nites/ weekends. ALE: Cass 10 Hi Jumper, i point harness, VDO gauges & only 250 miles on complete I white-grey paint. All chromoly rebuild, Wright, UMP, powder chassis & torsion housing. coat, spare engine & trans, 930's, $ 11,500.00 complete or 400M bars, Fox shocks, Master-$9,500.00 w l o motor & trans, craft, 118H wb, lots of soares, or trade towards highly compcti-turnkey, race ready. $5,900.00 tive 1-1600 or l / l 0'. Serious obo(510) 783-2342 days. WILL offers only! Call Fox Factory DELIVER! (Michael Daws) ( 408) 269-9200. WANTTOGETAWAYFROM "f''t FOR SALE: Fortin transmission, 5.64 final drive ratio, new 1st, 3rd, 4th & 5th gears, new dog rings, new reverse slider. $9,300.00 oho. Call Lance (909) 371-5000. 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 FOR SALE: HEWLAND DG300 Valley. Easy in and out on graded Henry's diff, Billit selector fork, road. Call Don at (805) 268-new ring & pinion 3.87, 5.54 1644. final drive ratio, Billet side covers -:-M-:,U~S::::T:;-;:S;-;E::-:L-:L,........,,N,...O=W:-:-:-: -C,,,,..,....la_s_s -1'"""0 (new) Ashcraft torque limiters pre-runner, 2 seater, 109H wb, for 934 c.v. joints. $6,000.00 fresh & very strong 1835, dual 40 oho. Call Lance (909) 371-5000. We hers, Bilstein, Yokohama, ALE: Sandrail M g 4 seat buggy. $700.00 w l o engine or trans. $1,995.00 with good dual port 1600 race motor & T ransaxle Engineering trans with Moly ·axle tubes. Call (805) 584-8134. FOR SALE: New DG-300 Centerline, ParkerPumper,CNC, Transmission Case. Center Flame-Out system. Porsche section only, no bell housing, no steering & spindles, bus trans by gear carrier. $1,800.00 oho. Call Folts. 22 gal cell, Mastercraft, Lance (909) 371-5000. Simpson, new aluminum body. FORSALE:SCORElegalClass8 Includes dual axle trailer. Ford F-100. Ready to race with $4,400.00 takes both (310) 514-FOR SALE: Jeep Scrambler, Filler belts, Fuel Safe cell, new 071.3. SODA Class 3 600 hp. AMC, 351 W, 40 spline Summers Bros FOR SALE: 1992 factory Class 1 Rancho, Lighting shocks, all the axles, 35"' BFGs, new paint, car, could be any make or model, best parts. 4 time world champ-National Spring, double axle pre-runner pick-up, profession- ion. Very quick, too many spare trailer & lots of spares. ally built. Larry Maddox Racing-parts to list, trailer included. $12,000.00. Ben Emerson (702) 24090 Palm, Hemet, CA (909) $29,000.00 oho. Call Bill Schirm 878-8010. 654-4938 or (909) 654-4544. (608) 781-1957. FOR SALE: 2300cc Pinto, rebuilt, solid lifters, 44 W ebers, Esslinger manifold, Esslinger adapter to VW trans with flywheel, unused, with radiator. Have you priced a 2180 VW recently? $600.00. Call (805) 584-8134. FOR SALE: Brand new 1993 2-1600 car. Built by Jim Moulton. 115" wb, light weight, all chromoly, TIG welded chassis. Only test miles to dial in suspension. Hatz motor, Fields trans. Only the best parts were used to build this potential winner. $25,000.00. Serious inquiries only. Call Jim (818) 366-4943 nite, (805) 940-5515 day. FOR SALE: Ford Ranger, Class 7 FRT 1990-1991 Class Champion. Ready to race! $15,000.00 oho. Will consider partial trade. (619) 344-4324 day, (619) 344-6703 nite. FOR SALE: Competitive 1990½ Friday's Thumper Chassis. 1 & 2-1600 Midwest Soda Series. SAW, Neal, Wright, Diest, Fox, K&N, Combos, Beards, BFGs on Saco aluminum wheels, spares. Must Sell! Taking a break from racing. $5,200.00. Gerry ( 414) 849-9813 after 7:00 p.m. FOR SALE: Transmission, 5 speed for 1987 Dodge Colt Vista wagon. Slightly noisy 4th gear but runs ok. Call John (818) 882-0004. WANTED: Baja-savvy and desert-wise award-winning journalist (and Mechanical Engineer) seeks right-side seat ride with aggressive, success-orriented program for SCORE events. Our ride will be basis for articles in SCORE News; On Dirt, etc. Have chase truck, DR250 and two radios. FAX details & plan to ( 602) 391-07 4 3. Tony Tellier. FOR SALE: 1989 race ready Honda Pilot. Front & rear Fox shocks, H .D . tie rods, ATV Specialists front & rear bumpers, Filler 5 point seat belt, side nets, Beard seat, Graydon Praline aluminum sides & roof, Champ-ion bead lock rfms, 38mm Mikuni carb, Power Pros pipe & silencer, Comet clutch, ATV Specialists no-rev limiter CDI. All work done by T ripple EEE Ent. New top & bottom end, full skid plates, many spare parts & extras. $5,500.00 oho. Call Andrew (619) 723-0917 or (619) 723-9098 after 5 p.m. FOR SALE: l/2-1600, very competitive, best of everything. Must sell! 1992 Honda 600R less than 1000 miles. must sell. Call (619) 956-8683. WANTED: Spares for Class 2-1600 car. Tires, wheels, 2 way radios, Fox shocks, dump cans, etc. Have cash, will buy now if price is right! Also, need good used single axle trailer. If you have any spares please call John at (714) 361-0744. .·_ :r----- -.......-------..--w-..,..---------__________ ...., _________ _.......,_._~ ... wwrm~ . · Sell .or swap your extra parts and pieces in · I; FOR SALE: RACECO 112-1600. 2 seater, Fox shocks, Parker Pumper, all the trick ace, fully prepped, new belly pan, many extras including 2 new helmets w/ radio, firesuits and ties. Over $20,000.00 invested. $6,500.00 sacrifice takes everything. Call Bob or Tom at (800) 576-0036 . •• I I I I I I I I I DUSTY TIMES. [ PONDER THIS: "To the art of working well, a civilized society would add the art of playing well." - Dr. Checker. Classified Advertising rate is only $15 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use of II black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. · I l NEW AND RENEW AL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DUSTY TIMES - A 45 word Classified Ad is FREE if you act now and subscribe. If It you wish to use a photo in your free ad; enclose $5.00. All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. Ir 1: • ; I! FOR SALE: 1990 RacecolToy-1! ota 2 seater. 120"wb, 12" Enclosed is $ _____ (Send check or money order, no cash). coil-over beam, Wright arms and I spindles, GM power steering, I Bilsteins, Beard seats, Simpson I · belts, 22 gal cell, V-Mar trans, Please run ad _______ times.. I Summers Bros full floater rear, Superboot 930 c.v.'s, secondary I torsion, SAW, Parker Pumper, I spares. $18,500.00 oho. Also, t· double axle trailer with racks. Name Address ______________________ Phone-----+---City __________________ State ___ _ ZiP-----c----Mail to: DUSTYTIMES 20751 Marilla Street Chatsworth, CA_ 91311-440b I $2,000.00 oho. Call (707) 544-3737. ... , Pagc61 July 1993 DustyTimcs

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FOR SALE: 1988 Raceco single seat Class 10 car. A-Arm front 23", rear 20", all coil-over Fox shocks, Bump shocks front & rear, Summers hubs, Wilwood brakes, Tommy Lee power steering pump & box w/rarn assist. 100 miles on FAT Rabbit 150hp and Raceco bus box. Spares. Raced 8 times. Fully prepped & race ready. Always a top runner and fast lap car. 2nd overall '91 FRT New Years eve. Changing class. $14,250.00. Call Ron at (619) 352-0299. Spare motor available. WANTED TO BUY: Fox shocks, 14" travel with reservoirs. Call weekdays. (714) 774-7635 Ask for Torn. FOR SALE: SCOREIHDRA legal 5-1600 race car, less trans, engine & front shocks. New car being built. You get "turn wrench" car w / complete rollcage systetn, 4 Fox rear shocks, SAW components, Lothriger, Bilstein, Yokohama, Fuel Safe, VDO, solid with no cracks. $2,750.00 includes trailer, perfect pre-runner or first race car. Call Mike at (714) 894-1658. A TTENTIN BUYERS & SELL-ERS: Our files are full of off road race cars, trucks, pre-runners trailers & transporters, part finished projects and pre-run trucks for sale. We also have listings for FIA Rally/Raid vehicles, short course & stadium trucks and off road cars. Plus Mini-Mags. We have vehicles for every budget and in all classes. Under $5,000.00 - 18 vehicles available. $5,000.00 to $10,000.00 -currently 26 vehicles listed, including many limited class desert cars and pre-runners. $10,000.00 to $20,000.00 -now 41 vehicles on data base. All Classes. $20,000.00 to $30,000.00 - 17 trucks & cars, including winners. Many cars with fresh prep, ready to win. $30,000.00 to $50,000.00 -we show 15, with many class champions and winners. $50,000.00 and over-12 awsome cars to chose from. CURRENTLY WANTED: Street legal pre-run trucks. We have clients waiting· for more of these. We have a list of buyers for fast Class 8 trucks, and overseas buyers wanting 4x4 trucks. FOR BUYERS: We have a full photo and video library available to select from to save you the time and expense of comparing cars from all over the country. NEW LISTING: RALLY / RAID VEHICLES: ref #123. Porsche 911 Raider. ref # 169Tl Class, Works Nissan Patrol. Champion-ship winner. ref #170T2 Mitsu-bishi Pajero, turbo/ fuel injected. Immaculate Rally-Art spec vehicle. ref #184 Works Nissan Pathfinder 4x4. ref #213 4x4 spacefrarne Chevy, very trick and fast. ALSO: We show 10 trailers, haulers & semi's ready for your race team. We also have clients looking for specific vehicles. List your vehicles for sale with us or inquire for a specific vehicle that you require. Baja Concepts is a full brokerage service for your off road needs. Contact us for any vehicles you may require. Call Rich Minga or Vince at Baja Concepts (619) 583-6529 or FAX (619) 583-1851. DustyTima FOR SALE: Class 9 SCORE legal, 2 seat Sandhawk. Wright, CNC, Bilsteins, Sway-A-Way, Beard, Diest, Parker Pumper, Kennedy, PCI radio & intercom. Yokoharnas, VDO, Tri-Mil, spares & many parts, including many new parts ready for your chase or pit crew. this is a tidy package, ready to race. $ 7 ,500 .00. Call Baja Concepts (619) 583-6529 reference #202. · FOR SALE: Super Clean Pre-Run Truck, '81 GMC Stepsicte. Fiberglass front panels, one owner for 7 years. 11 inches in front, 12 inches on rear. Braced frame, 60 inch springs, Turbo 350 & cooler. 12 bolt Chevy cliff, 355 Chevy 4 bolt with good equipment. Centerline wheels, BFG's, Taylor seats and much more. Ask for full details on this super nice truck. $12,000.00 Phone Baja Concepts (619) -583-6529 reference #148. ~ ~ .. FOR SALE: HalfBuilt Class 8 '92 Chevy. All the hard work is done, lO0's of hours invested, including cage, front & rear fabricating, ¼ elliptic springs, fuel tank, front arms. Includes Art Carr trans, Dodge spindles, Dana 60 rear, 22 plus 24 ·inches of travel. New Beard seats. At $11,000.00 this is a steal. Call for all the details to Baja Concepts (619) 583-6529 Reference #142. THIS IS A MOTIVATED SELLER! FOR SALE: Classic Class 8. Walker Evans built. You can have a champion truck that won in 1989, with 10 wins, 3 seconds and 2 thirds. Dana 60, knockoffs, American Racing, BFG's, Super Seats, B&M, 50 gal tank. Last owner for 7 years. $15,900.00. Call (619) 583-6529, Baja Concepts reference # 145. FOR SALE: VW Rabbit 1650cc Class 10 motor. Built and maintained by FAT Performance. Ready to race & very fast! S&S Headers, Weber carb, clutch & VW trans plate. Less than 400 race miles since rebuild with new block and aluminum head. $1,900.00 firm. Call (619) 352--0299. Also, 1988 1 or 10 Chaparell chassis, single seat with front & rear arms. $1,500.00. FOR SALE: '81 Subaru hatch-back 4x4. Four National Rallies, all finishes, best finish 13th at '92 Coachman. Won Appearance Award at '92 Coachman. Two spare engines, one spare trans plus misc. spare parts. '93 legal cage. $3,000.00 {less comp., CB, Intercom & lights).$1,900.00 with rally acessories removed. Call Gerry at (916) 442-2745. ~· FOR SALE: Superior Magnus wheels, 15x7, 5 on 5 ½ bolt pattern, in great condition. Sarne wheels used by Rod Hall and Don Adams in the "Good old days." I have only five wheels at a great price. These are collector items and not made any more. Call Stage West 4x4 Center (303) 945-5227. FOR SALE: Class 10, FAT Rabbit motor, Fox shocks, SACO dif, .091, FTC gears, Summers rear brakes, A-Arm rear suspension, aluminum rims all around, many extra parts. Race ready car & trailer $5,000.00. Went into stock cars. Call Art (908) 752-0299 days. FOR SALE: Air cooled 10 car, very light & basic. Chromoly frame, 4 disc Summers, Super Boot cage, 300m bars, Fox shocks, new cell, Hewland bus. 1470 lb. This car can win. Only $7,500.00. ALSO Bunderson A-Arm 23" trave l coil-over front/ rear, 4 wheel dixc brakes, Hewland bus by Jeff Fields, Shrlyn power steering, new powder coat red /white, new body. All bushingslheims c.v. cages, Padel master cylinder, 125" wb, Rabbit 150hp, UMP air cleaner, 4 race radios 34 Centerlines/Yokohama 15" & 16". Lots of spare parts. Over $30,000.00 invested. $15,000.00 obo or both cars, all parts $20,000.00. Call Bob Scott (619) 949-1049 or (818) 442-1090. FOR SALE: 1987 Chevrolet pre-runner. Fuel injected 350 motor. Ford 9" floater with disc brakes and 4: 11 Detroit locker. Full cage, remote reservoir shocks, like new. 54,000 original miles. One owner $9,500.00. Call (909) 926-8806. HISTORY& VINTAGEWANT-ED: Do you have vintage off road racing cars, trucks,. p,i_rts, accessories, magazines & merch-andising. etc.? If you have, we are currently locating for restoration, and a number of special projects. Call Rich Minga at Baja Concepts (619) 583-6529 or FAX (619) 583-1851 or Loco Lorenzo Pearson_at W.C.M. (800) 247-3202 or FAX (310) 325-9733. fOR SALE: Class 7 Ranger and Class 7 Nissan Pickups. Both previous class champions; drivers, Manny Esquerra, Roger Mears and Racin Gardner. Many spare parts; engine, wheels, tires, etc. Ranger $29,000.00, Nissan $19,500.00. Also, great pre-runner Class 8 Ford truck has won the Baja 1000, Baja 500 and the Mint. Driven by "Scoop" Vessels $8,000.00. Entire package $50,000.00. Call Gard-ner Racing (805) 688-4922 July 1993 · FOR SALE: '67 Ford stepsich( pre-runner. New motor as of 11-92. Rancho shocks front and rear, ·16" of travel front and rear. Lots of spare parts. (714) 771-1537 or (714) 776-6584. I aceco ass two seater, last one they built. Parker Pumper, Beard seatS', very fresh FAT engine. Priced to sell at $6,000.00 firm. (602) 776-7383. FOR SALE: 20' tandem axle trailer w/surge brakes. 2 tire racks and a 4'x8' box to carry all pit boxes, spares & dump cans. Trailer also holds 3 fuel drums. $2,500.00 obo. Call (818) 70,6-2314 anytime. WANTED: Street legal, Fiber-glass body type cl une buggy. Would prefer stock length and off road ready-. Please call Roger at (206) 847-5989 or (206) 845-1837. . FOR SALE: Class 10 Toyota 2 TC. Hemi, Carillo rods, Aluminum pistons, Toy Sport header, Mikuni carbs, Mallory ignition, adapter for bus trans, K&N air filter assy, radiator and electric fans. Ask for John (310) 425-5904. FOR SALE: Stainless carrier for 091 Bus -$300.00. Curnutt slipper clutches for 091 bus with 930 c.v.'s -$650.00. Fiberglass drop hood and fenders for 81'-86 Ford truck -$150.00. Call Ron at (602) 843-8223 or (602) 256-7943. ALE: 2 seat ass 1 , Toyota 4AG motor, Fields tranny, Woods arms, Summers hubs, Fox, SAW, UMP, Center-lines. Competitive race winner is professionally prepped and ready to race. First$13,000.00 takes it! Call (818) 706-2314 anytime or (818) 889-2822. FOR SALE: Clas~-10 Bunderson, ,. Curnutt, new motor & trans. This car has never been raced since ground-up rebuild! Disc brakes, Flame-Out, UMP, Mast-ercraft, spare parts. Too many things to list. $15,000.00 or trade. Lets talk! (505) 271-9015. Clean ·' . OVtYour . .•• .,. s,Jl;f•Bw ;,w..._ RIGlfTH~ Classified Ads are only $15.00 each month for 45 words or less. Add $5 .00 for each photo. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS American Racing Equipment . . . . . . . . 9 Arrow Productions . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • 42 Baker Precision Products • •.....•• ; 22 Barbary Coast -Gold Coast Hotels . . • . . . . . . . . • • 14 Bilstein Corp. of America . . • . . . . . • • 15 BO R E .........• . • .•.....•• 27 Brush Run 10 1 . • . . . . . • . . . . . . . . • BUMP . . •... . . •.•.•...•.•.• Bill Bunch Truck Sale ......• . . . •.• Cactus Racing Products .•.•.....•• Castex Inc .• E-Z-Up . . . •••...•...• Champion Bead Lock Co. . •.•.•.••. Don-A-Vee Jeep-Eagle • .•... . . ..•• □eNunzio Racing Products ••..••..• FAT Performance ... ...•.....••• Fiesta Ford ..... .•..........••• FRT Superstition 250 .... . • . ..•..• Fuel Safe ....• . ...•.••.•...•.• German Auto ..•...•.••••...••• Rod Hall Driving School .........•• Hi Tech Off Road •.. •.•.•...•..• la Rana 25 5 63 55 39.,. 31 23 55 4 19 2 46 37 10 50 Lucerne Valley Jam 250 • • . . . . . . 18 Nevada Off Road Buggy . . . . • . . . . • • 51 Parker Pumper • . . . . • . • • . . . . • . . . 41 Pike's Family Restaurant • • • • • • . • • • 34 Race Ready Products . • . • • . . . . . • • . 35 Reid Pro . •.........•.•..•••.• 13 SCORE International-Fireworks 250 . • . . . • • • . • . . • . • 17 Marvin Shaw Engineering • • • • . . . • • • 28 SNORE Midnight Special • • • . . . . . . . 11 MTEG -Short Course -Glen Helen • • • 6 MTEG • Salt lake City • • • • • • . . . . • • • 7 Toyota Motorsports • • • • • . • . Back Cover Trackside Photos Inc. • . . • • • • . • • • • • 54 ~ Tri-Mil Industries . • • • • • • • • . • • . • • • 47 Valley Performance • . . . • • • • . • • • • • 45 Valvoline Oil . • • • • . • • • . . . . • . • • • • 21 Ventura Arena Racing • • • • • • . . . • • • 29 Weddle Engineering • • . • • • • • . • • • • • 52 'Mich Sales • • • • • . • • • . • • . • . . • • • 33 \Might Place • • . • • • • • • • • • . . • • • • 36 Bunch 7S Ranger. HORA 7S Class Winner. 1992 current 7S and Mini Metal Champion. Class winner 1991 Fireworks 250, 1992 Lucerne Valley 250, 1992 Nevada 500. Price includes 1993 sheet metal & spare parts. $29,soo.oo. Call 619-360-1662 P~ge 63·

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