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Volume 1 i - Number i Editor-Publisher Jean Calvin Associate Editor Richard K. Schwalm Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Circulation 0 . Osborne Contributors Jim Baker C&C Race Photos Barry Don Calloway Carrera Photography Carol Clark Don Dayton John Elkin Homer Eubanks Don Holbrook Martin Holmes Daniel Maimer Matt Marcher Bob Rule Barb & Marilyn Schultz Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh • Darryl Smitp Judy Smith . Tony Tellier Trackside Photo Inc. Wizer Photos Art Director Larry E. Worsham February 1995 -.VIl,U 0fflOAD IIACIIICI Ul'OH Subscription Rates: llrilSeriestfQlfBoad~<t $15.00 per year, 12 issues, USA. Foreign S~bs:ription 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 91311-4408. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new address, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. Item Of The Month ••• Not only is the race over but the entire SODA season was done last October at Blackhawk Farms. We thought this picture of Jimmie Crowder, looking a bit forlorn leaning on his broken Class 7 racer and waiting for a tow is typical of the tough luck that can happen at the end of a series.Jimmie still had his Class8 success to reflect on before heading home to north Florida. Photography by Daniel Maimer. DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar interest on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for_ the P!cture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Black & white pnnts, 5x7 or 8x10 preferred but clear color prints will be considered. ' Dusty Times February 1995 In This Issue ••• FEATURES Page Bad Dog's Awards by Barry Don Callaway ................... 4 Salute to the Desert Champions by Jean Calvin ............... 12 VORRA Season Finale by Ken Ruff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 La Rana High Desert 300 by Carol 'Scoop' Clark ............. 20 RAC World Championship Rally by Martin Holmes .......... 28 Australian Stadium Racing by Darryl Smith ................. 30 Mountain Shadows•150 by Joey Vasquez .................... 32 SODA Blackhawk Farms Finale by Barb & Marilyn Schultz .... 34 East of Indio CRS Rally by John Elkin ...................... 38 Ford Explorer Road Report by John Calvin .................. 39 VORRA Awards Pictorial ................................ 42 SNORE El Dorado 250 by Jean Calvin ..................... 44 Moonlight 45 Rally by Rick Barfield ....................... 47 DEPARTMENTS Trail Notes ............................................. • 4 Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Spirit Race Support in Baja by Sam Wilshire ................ 33 Checkers Column ....................................... 40 Fair News by Dave Massingham ........................... 41 California Rally Series by John Elkin ....................... 43 VORRA Final Points .................................... 47 Good Stuff Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 1994 B.O.R.E. Season Report by Jim Baker ................. 53 Classified Ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Index to Advertisers ..................................... 55 ON THE COVER - As is our habit, we feature three de~ert champions on the cover of the February issue. Since we put SCOR E's overall point champion Rob Nolin on the January cover, we substi-tuted the Rookies of the Year in SCORE racing, Tom and Frank Rusich. They bought the 1-2-1600 Chenowth just weeks before the Parker 400, got it prepped and have been finishing very well, in their first full season of desert racing. They fill the bottom half of the cover. VORRA's overall champion Roger Caddell drives in Class 1-2-1600 too in a Chenowth. To earn the VORRA title Roger won at Virginia City, Yerington twice, and Sacramento and he also raced and often won with SCORE, CODRA, WORRA, CORR NW and La Rana, plus ran the MTEG race in his neighborhood, Seattle. He used the same Olson Brothers car in most of these events. La Rana does not crown an official overall champion, but fishing through the final points tally it appears that long time restricted engine racer and 1994 Class 9 champion Jim Clements has more points than anyone else in any class, so we make Jim the overall La Rana points cham·pion. Our hearty congratulations to all three men. Color Photography by Trackside Photos Inc. to S~7odatf DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! D 1 year - $15.00 □ ·t years - $15.00 D 3 years - $35.00 Take advantage of your subscription bonus •• Free one time classified ad up to 45 word$. 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Bad Dogs Crown Their 1994 Champions By Barry Don Callaway The Bad Dog Series held its awards party early in December in Cleburne, Texas at the Auction Barn in front of the race track. It was a great year of racing at the Bad Dog's Off Road Showdown in 1994. As a maatter of fact I've enjoyed the past three years of racing dune buggies more than any other sport I've ever entered. The competitors are friendlier and the fans louder than any. I'm very sad to say that there will not be a 1995 racing season at Bad Dog's. Time and money just ran out! The economy and interest in Texas just would not let the track work as a business.To all the staff and crew who built ~ad Dog's Off Road Showdown a Special Thanks. The fun and excitement would not have happened with-out your support throughout the years. We would also like to thank all of our sponsors for their support! We are hoping to reopen in the future. As stated earlier in the year, in order to receive an award at the ~anquet you had to enter at least five races throughout the year in the same class. Awards will be given to the top five in each divi-sion meeting this requirement and sixth through tenth place finishers will be recognized over the P.A. system at the banquet. Beer and soft drinks will be provided along with snacks. We do ask everyone to bring their favorite dish. If you didn't finish in the top ten at least you can go home with bragging rights that your tuna casserole or pasta surprise was the best at the party. We will have a live D.J. playing all your favorite tunes along with fun and games for everyone and we hope to see a big turnout at this big blowout. In Sportsman buggies awards went to Jerry Daigle, followed by Don Westman, B.D. Callaway, Benny Perry and Greg Durman. The top drivers in Challenger class were led by Steve Dutton, then came Gabe Gabel, Jerry Daigle, Sam La Barbera and Calvin Perry. In AMA ATV class Rick Townsend topped Kevin Kuklies, Tom Dalton, Richard Latham and Chris Stalder. Only Chad Smith qualified for an award in Pro ATV. Two qualified in Odyssey/Pilot, Tim Silence and John Myers, and Eric Berg was the only one in Open MX. The Non Current MX had a full five for awards led by Kenny Long, then Robert Sindle, Terry Schmueller, Jay King and Shawn Ward. In the Pee Wee 50 class it was Scotty W ennerstrom ahead of Cody Callaway, Chance Berg and Ryan Miller. In the Class 1, 4 cylinder Mud Drags Robert Stevens topped Mark Allen and Ken Sparks. In the Class 1, 8 cylinder Mud Drags Tim White was the leader over John Larison and Jodi Hoffman. John Larison was the only quali-fier in Class 1, 8 cylinder Mud Bogs, and Joe Peterson took the honors in Mud Bogs Class 2. We hope they had a good party, and our readers will miss the colorful coverage of short course racing, Texas style. Hopefully the Bad Dog's will be back in 1996. Keep water and shovel liand}t ES.Don't local fire offi~ for rheck~ apenmt Bl Page 4 A Public Service of This Magazine &. The Adverti1ing Council GUALITY PRE-OWNED RACE CARS &·PARTS • Race Xchange is the premier Race Car and Parts Consignment Showroom • Get your wife off your back and put cash in your pocket • Now is the time to clear out your shop and turn those used race cars and parts into cash • We accept race cars, parts and rolling chassis • Buyers and sellers welcome • Visit our 6,000 square foot showroom. We are selling out our inventory as quickly as we are receiving it. • Corner of Prospect and Magnolia in Santee CA Race XChange 10806 Prospect Ave #6 Santee CA 92071 (619) 258-8544 Fax (619) 258-4266 February 1995 Trail Notes ••• SODA sent us a beautiful set of points standings after the close of the 1994 series with class on its own sheet and a driver's position in each of the ten races. Art Schmitt won the Class l / 2 I title by 45 points over Jeff Probst. Art won five events and Jeff won five events so they put on quite a show all year. Todd Attig dominated Class 1-1600 winning eight of ten events, and finishing all ten, and he also won Class 2-1600 but he had more competition for the title in that class. Gerald Foster dominated Class 32 in his Blazer, winning eight of the ten events in convincing style. Geoff Dorr had to work hard for his title in Class 4 but he posted four wins on his way to a repeat championship. Class 5-1600 honors went to Mike Brue with a near perfect score of eight victories. There was less domination in Class 6 but the championship went to Bill Groboski/Joe Kentopp with three wins and three seconds to lead the title chase. There was scant doubt about Class 7S after the first few events. John Greaves won eight races against some tough competiti~n in the only Toyota in · the field . Scott Taylor had to work hard for his repeat championship in Class 8, scoring points in all ten races and winning seven of them. Quite a record in this class with some heavy duty professional drivers. It was Todd Attig again winning Class 9 /10 with Keith Poole. Attig had a terrific season winning five events and taking second three times. His mantle must stretch around the room to hold all the trophies. Jeff Probst again was a close second on points. Mark Oberg beat back the challenge of many Class 11 S drivers. Winning one race by two seconds helped his points count, just 30 ahead of Cory Friday. Mark Oberg also beat out Cory Friday for the Class 11 D title. In Class 13 Dan Vanden Heubel and Robert Flanagan fought all year, but Dan won the championship by 19 points over Flanagan even though RJ won more races, Dan had the points. It was extremely close in Women's Limited Buggy class but the team of Tracy Silloway/ Michelle Friday won five races, had two seconds and two thirds to win the class by just 4 points over Sarah Sawall lwho won five events and had two seconds and finished them all. In Women's Unlimited Buggy a new winner was crowned, Ruth Schwartzburg. Ruth only won two races but she was right up front in all of them and won by 180 points over Barb Schaden. The Women's Heavy Metal was a hard fought battle all season. It was Sherri Parsons with Jenny Parsons riding who won two races in the Chevy, took home six second places in this big class sand Sherri won the championship by 84 points. Valerie James worked hard, won three races but finished second in Women's Heavy Metal points. TRAGEDY once more struck Rampage Racing late last year. With sincere regret we report the death of Chad Schlueter, 22, team owner and W orld Champion off road truck racer. His death occurred on Christmas Eve at approximately 1 a.m. He was struck as a pedestrian by a pas~cnger car which left the scene. The driver of the vehicle then reported the· accident later the same morning. The incident occurred in Chad's hometown of Ho~ ell, Michigan. Chad had been racing professionally for three years. In that short time he achieved "rookie of the year" honors in 1992, a Class 2 4x4 World Championship in 1993 and a Class 4 4x4 World Championship in 1994. Chad was recogni:ed as a young, bright and upcoming star in racing circles. He is survived by his parents Dennis and Paulette Schlueter, and a sister Nicole. Funeral sevices for Chad were held December 27 in Howell, Michigan. More than 400 people attended the ceremony. The Schlueter family has requested that sympathy gifts can be directed to either of the following beneficiaries in the name of Chad Schlueter. Mother's Against Drunk Driving, Livingston County Chapter, 5910Whitmore Lake Road, Brighton, MI 48816. Sterling& Ashton Rose Memorial Fund, Valencia National Bank, 23620 West Lyons Ave., Newhall, CA 91321. Our deepest sympathy goes out to Chad's family and friends, and the sport of off road racing has truly lost a bright young star. Rest in Peace Chad. THE MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS presents its 14th Annual Swap Meet and Dune Buggy Show on Sunday March 19, 1995. It will be held at the Lansing Center, Lansing, Michigan. It is the largest indoors event of its kind in the USA with over 72,000 square feet of parts and accessories from dealers to manufacturers display to VW Toys and private sellers. There are four show classes with over $1,000.00 in cash awards. The classes are Off Road Buggies, Sand Buggies, Street Buggies, and VW Class. For more details phone or fax (517) 543-7214. General Admission is only $5.00 for adults, kids 14 and under attend free! Don't miss it with its 225 swap meet booths. TOYOTA TRUE GRIT AW ARDS-Robert Nolin of San Diego, CA and Ryan Thomas of El Cajon, CA have won the Toyota True Grit championships of SCORE lnternational's desert off road racing series and will split $12,000 in pri:e money. They ran a gauntlet of 245 drivers in six small engine racing classes to win their class True Grit titles, as the race drivers in four other eligible classes failed to make the cut. Toyota True Grit awards are given on the basis of highest cumulative average speed for all seven races. Those classes cover "little guy" competitors without big factory support budgets. True Grit award winners must start and finish all seven SCORE desert races while also compiling the highest average speed in their class for the whole season. Eight drivers, including Nolin, Thomas and three other True Grit competitors survived to win Toyota's other coveted honors, the Toyota Milestone awards. They outdrove a total of395 individual professional drivers who competed this year. Milestone awards are presented to those few drivers who manage to fnish every mile of all seven races. Nolin, the overall points winner for the year, and Thomas received their $6,000 checks at the annual SCORE banquet on December 3 at the Town and Country Hotel in San Diego, CA. No drivers remained eligible in Classes 5, 5-1600, 9 and 11. Behind Nolin who averaged 39.196 mph in Class 1-2-1600, came Tom Rusich at 38.590 mph and Kevin Davis at 37 .794 mph. In Class 10 Thomas averaged 42.342 mph, Darren Skilton, 38.248 mph and Scott Sells, 30.570 mph. This is a fun series with great rewards and it is not contingent on using product. Toyota boost these classes in participation with the program and teaches the value of pressing on to the finish. · Dusty Times

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1995 Happenings A.D.R.A. American Desert Racing Association P.O . Box 34087 Phoenix, AZ 85067 (602) 997-1633 AMSA Jim Webb P.O . Box 26084 Fresno, CA 93726 (209) 439-2114 AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPONSHIP Darryl Smith 19 Somers ST. Cashmere, Queensland, 4500, Australia 011 -18-07-298-5522 April 16, 1995 Kempsey New South Wales May 28, 1995 Goodiwindi Queensland July 16, 1995 Griffith New South Wales September 10, 1995 Mt. Gambier South Australia November 12, 1995 Puckapunyal Victoria AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFFROAD Class 10 cars only Serge Lambert 65 Rue de Valcourt Blainville, Quebec, Canada K7B 1 HI (514) 434-5792 BADDOG'S OFF ROAD SHOWDOWN Callaway Fun Inc. 3825 No. Main Cleburne, TX 76031 Barry Don Callaway (817) 645-00031(817) 641-9985 Gene Peugh (817) 790-8268 nights 1995 Season Canceled BAJA INTERNATIONAL P.O. Box 392 Calexico, CA 92232 Apartado Postal 311163 Mexicali, BC, Mexico '(Mexicali (65) 68-34-72 BAJA PROMOTIONS, LTD.S.A. Lou Peralta P.O . Box 8938 Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 340-5750 Golden Crown of Baja Series February 3-5, 1995. Gran Carrera de Mexicali 200 miles, multi-lap Mexicali, BC, Mexico May 26-27, 1995 Gran Carrera de Tecate 250 miles, multi-lap . Tecate, BC, Mexico October 6-8, 1995 Gran Carrera de Sonora 150 miles, multi-lap December 15-1 7, 1995 Gran Carrera de Campeones 250 miles, multi-lap The first Annual Off Road Open for Cars, MCs, ATVs, Truckser.c. willbeon]une 30-Jul:, 1-2, 1995 California Cit:,, CA BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTHUSIASTS Jim Baker P.O. Box 1533 Ogden, Utah 84402 (801) 627-B.O.R.E. May 20, 1995 Wendover Express Wendover USA July 1, 1995 Jackpot 200 Jackpot, NV Tom & Frank Rusich September 9, 1995 Bonneville Challenge Wendover, USA BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada K0K-lH0 (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-3250 1995 BRUSH RUN POINTS SERIES P.O . Box 101 Crandon, WI 54520 (715) 478-2222 June 24-25, 1995 Spring Run 101 Crandon, WI September 1-3, 1995 Brush Run 101 Crandon, WI 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 February 4, 1995 *High Desert Stages Sunrise Valley M. Park . Adelanto, CA May 5-6, 1994 *Rim of the World National & Divisional Rally Palmdale, CA July 8-9, 1995 *Prescott Forest Rally National & Divisional Prescott, AZ September 30, 1995 ( tent) Gorman Ridge Rally Gorman, CA October tba, 1995 Treeline Rally December 2-3, 1995 East of Indio Indio, CA *Final 1995 So. Pacific Divisional championship events Kevin Davis C.O.D.R.A. CENTRAL OREGON DESERT RACING Terry Silbaugh 20515 Whitehaven Circle Bend, OR 97702 (503) 389-2044 March 11, 1995 Millican 250 Millican, OR April 29, 1995 Bear Butte 300 Millican, OR May 6-7, 1995 Olympia Enduro Thurston County, WA October 14, 1995 Whiskey Springs 400 Millican, OR CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box645 Pierre, SD 57501 Kevin Miller (Baja) (605) 224-6923 Don Engleman (Motocross) (605) 224-4967 GUMBO BUTTES BAJA & MOTOCROSS CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O . Box 332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE San Vicente Off Road Ensenada, BC, Mexico USAJan Wright(0ll 52 617-46834) Ramon Castro & Ruben Acevedo (6163717 0034) CMC Continental Motosport Club Sand Drags P.O. Box830 Adelanto, CA 92301 (619) 246-7262 COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholtz, President (719)531-3642 W 1(719)687-9827 H P.O . Box 9735 Colorado Springs, CO 80932 COLORADO OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS Bertram Productions Inc. 15073 Hwy 119 Route #4 Golden, CO 80403 ( 303) 936-5960 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 Cozumel Drive #1116 Melbourne, FL 32935 ( 407) 254-5167 FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 GLEN HELEN OHV PARK P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (714) 880-1733 SERIES RACES February 5, 1995 March 19, 1995 April 30, 1995 June 25, 1995 August 20, 1995 October 22, 1995 December 3, 1995 ENDURO RACES April 2, 1993 Glen Helen Spring Classic October 8, 1995 Glen Helen World Championships (Contact BBM Marketing Promotions, P.O. Box 582, Lakewood, CA 90714 (310) 988-6250) 3rd Place Score, 1600 Points 1994 SCORE Rookies of the Year Milestone Award Winners 2nd Place Score, 1600 Points Winner of Fireworks 250 Milestone Award Winner Mike Julson Jimco Racing Products Also: Baldwin Racing (Score Class 1 Points Champions}, Damen Jeffries [Score Class 9 Points Champions}, Danny Porter, Jim Tucker, Danny Drake, Rich Fersch, Lee Patten, Jim Clements, Brian Logan, John Cooley, The Harman Brothers, Danny Reider, Kent Lothringer, Andrew Wehe, Rod Muller, Alan Smith, Steve McMullin, Bates Racing, Brian Sallee, Jason Kleber, John Holmes, Mike Molina, Vince Alcouloumre, Jerry Penhall, and the list is growing! D.J. TRANSAXLES OFF ROAD BUGGY SUPPLY HOT LINE AUTOMOTIVE SCHROEDER RACING PRODUCTS FEX PERFORMANCE J. PENHALL FABRICATIONS McKENZIE's PERFORMANCE 10623 Blackfoot Road 2525 E. 16th Street 6951 ldlewylde Circle 800 S. Flower Street 1098 Stockton Avenue 1660 Babcock, Bldg. B 2366 E Orangethorpe Ave. Apple Valley, CA 92308 Yuma, AZ 95365 Melbourne, FL 32904 Burbank, CA 91502 San Jose, CA 95110 Costa Mesa, CA 92627 Anaheim, CA 92806 (6"9) 240-3930 (602) 783-6265 (407) 724-1270 (818) 845•8283 (408) 295-0707 (714) 650-3035 (714) 441-1212 LOTHRINGER ENGINEERING DENUNZI0°S RACING PRODUCTS SUSPENSIONS UNLIMITED D.G.RACING JIMCO RACING PRODUCTS T.U.F. OFFROAD BRANDWOOD CARS 825 N. Glendora Ave. P.O. Box 6075 1345 Dynamics, Unit D 17485 Catalpa, Unit BS 10965 Hartley Road, Ste. R 3255 E. Columbia 4319 E University Covina,. CA 91723 Santa Barbara, CA 93111 Anaheim, CA 92806 Hesperia, CA 92345 Santee, CA 92071 Tucson, AZ 85714 Phoenix, AZ 85040 (818) 915-2212 (805) 683-1211 (714) 996·6260 (619) 947-6365 (619) 562-1743 (602) 294•3511 (602) 437-3107 Torsion Bars, Spring Plates, Axles, Link Pins, Bushings, Shims, Shock Spacers, Rod End Adapt.ors, Tie Rods & More Dealer Inquiries Encouraged 619-240-2266 Page 6 February 1995 Dusty Times

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GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association 420 Hosea Road Lawrenceville, GA 30245 ( 404) 963-0252 GREAT PLAINS OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION GPORRA 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68144-1122 ( 402) 333-0517 Eve. Keith Koesters 6716 N. 106th St. Omaha, NE68122 (402)496-0846 Eve. May 6, 1995 May 20, 1995 June 17, 1995 July 8, 1995 July 29, 1995 August 19, 1995 (all races at Westfair Fair Grounds, Council Bluffs, Iowa on a ¾ mile course similar to the MT~,G tracks, and Classes 1, I-I6oo, 7S and Quad under SODA rules) ROD HALL INVITATIONAL 5445 Equity Ave. Reno, NV 89502 (702) 856-3100 IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 ( All events staged at the club grounds inClet.oes, Ohio) iNTERNATIONAL ICE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box8105 St. Paul, MN 55108 Steve Beddor (612) 937-3816/ Fax 474-2769 January 14-15, 1995 Lake Wissota (Season Opener) Chippewa Falls, WI January 21-22, 1995 Lake Neshonoc (fast track) LaCrosse, WI January 28-29, 1995 Lake Phalen ('Indy' of ice racing) St. Paul, MN Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada February 18-19, 1995 Lake Altoona ( season finale) Eau Claire, WI INTER-SHOWS . MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O. Box 2910 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 (714) 364-0515 KAMLOOPS BRONCO BU-STER 4WD'CLUB P.O. Box465 Kamloops, BC, Canada V2C-5L2 Bob (604) 374-7175 days Randy (604) 579-9621 eves Keith (604) 828-1795 anytime ( All etients start 7 miles NW of Kamloops) LA RANA DESERT RACING P.O. Box 1365 Apple Valley, CA 92307 (619) 240-1335/(619) 240-1312 Ridgecrest, CA May 19-21, 1995 Lucerne Valley Jam 250 Lucerne Valley, CA July 21-23, 1995 Johnson Valley 200 Lucerne Valley, CA September 22-24, 1995 California 200 Ridgecrest', CA November 17-19, 1995 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 17-18, 1995 Nationals Fowlerville, MI February 17-19, 1995 July 22, 1995 Presidential 250 7:00 p.m. Barstow, CA Fowlerville, MI February 11-12, 1995 April 7-9, 1995 July 30, 1995 Thunder Bay Harbor (double points) Spangler 200 4:00 p.m. ■■■■■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■7111■■■ TEAM DON-A-VEE Page 8 Jeep DON-A-VEE Jeep., Eagle Eagle America's #"I Volume Dealer For The Last 5 Years DON-A-VEE Baja 1000 · rs and 1994 Baja 1000 winners Tool #1 JEEP SALES • #1 JEEP ACCESSORIES • #1 JEEP SERVICE Only Minutes From You in L.A. or Orange County 800.366.JEEP 80.0.909.JEEP ■■■■■ Ir■~■ February 1995 Mason, MI August 3, 1995 7:30 p.m. Sandusky, MI August 12, 1995 4:00 p.m. Corunna, Ml August 1 7, 1995 Pending August 24, 1995 7:00 p.m. Hudsonville, MI November 4, 1995 Banquet Diamondale, MI MICKEY THOMPSON'S OFFROAD STADIUM SERIES Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group P.O. Box 25168 Anaheim, CA 92825 (714) 254-3001 January 21, 1995 Anaheim Stadium Anaheim, CA February 25, 1995 Jack Murphy Stadium San Diego, CA March 18, 1995 Kingdome Seattle, WA April 1, 1995 University of New Mexico Stadium Albuquerque, NM April 8, 1995 Sam Boyd Stadium Las Vegas, NV April 29 or May 6, 1995 Pontiac Silverdome Detroit, Ml May 20, 1995 Mile High Stadium Denver, CO June 17, 199:; Rice St3,lium Salt Lakl' Cit)'. Utah MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION David Cronin, President. MAORA 2590 Mullanphy Florissant, MO 63031 (618) 765-2199 (M.A.O.R.A. sanctioned races. Series produced lry Lincoln Trail Off Roaders) NATIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION Rt. #1 - Box 380 Dave or Marlene Ryan Palatka, FL 32177 (904) 325-5422 OFF ROAD ADVENTURES Four Wheel Drive Excursions P.O. Box 1154 Arcata, CA 95521 (707) 822-8508 OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OF EL PASO Joey Vasquez 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (913) 855-8899 OHIO OFF ROADERS ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 15 Stonecreek, Ohio 43840 (216)339-4674 or (216) 897-5100 Hill Climb & Stadium Style Off Road Racing at Bear Creek Amphitheater Bolioor, Ohio ONT ARIO 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) 561-32081(518) 236-7897 SCCA PRO RALLY SERIES Sports Car Club of America P.O. Box 3278 Englewood, CO 801 12 (303) 779-6622 *Indicates Divisional Rally with 6o percent National Points SCORE Score International Dusty Times

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12997 L:Js Vegas Blvd. So. July 21-23, 1995 ( All races held at Notrees, TX Las Vegas, NV 89124 Midnight Special 2~ miles west o[ Odessa, TX (702) 361-5404 Las Vegas, NV TORA (Tentative Dates) September 29-October 1, 1995 Truck Racing Association January 27-29, 1995 SNORE 250 Ray Carney, Director Parker 400 Las Vegas, NV 7 Prutell Drive Parker, AZ October 27-29, 1995 Apalchin, NY 13732 (607) 625-5676 March 10-12, 1995 Double Trouble T ecate San Felipe 250 Las Vegas, NV UORRA San Felipe, BC, Mexico December 1-3, 1995 United Off Road Racing Association April 28-30, 1995. Eldorado 250 Dave Urbanowicz, President Nevada 400 Las Vegas, NV 589 Amwell Road Las Vegas, NV Neshanic, NJ 08853 June 2-4, 1995 SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD (908) 369-6550 T ecate Baja 500 DRIVERS ASSOCIATION (All e11ents at Owego Motor Sports Park, Ensenada, BC, Mexico Terry Wolfe Rte. 4J.4, Owes:o, NY) 7839 W. North Avenue July 14-16, 1995 Wauwatosa, WI 53213 VORRA Fireworks-250 (414) 453-SODA/(414) 257-0422 Valley Off Road Racing Association Barstow, CA 1833 Los Robles Blvd. May 28, 1995 Sacramento, CA 95838 Septentber 15-17, 1995 Memorial Day 100 (916)925-1702 Nevada 300 Lake Geneva, WI Laughlin, NV June 10-11, 1995 March 18-19, 1995 Season Opener November8-11, 1995 Antigo Kiwanis Prairie City SVRA Park T ecate Baja 1000 Antigo, WI Sacramento, CA The Peninsula Run June 24-25, 1995 Baja California April 22-23, 1995 December 2, 1995 Spring Run 101 Spring Special Crandon, WI Prairie City SVRA Park Awards Banquet July 8-9, 1995 Sacramento, CA S.C.T.A. Fox Riverfest May 27-29, 1995 Southern California Luxemberg, WI Yerington 300 Desert Race Timing Association Elice Simonis Tucker July 22-23, 1995 Yerington, NV 22048 Vivienda Ave. Great Northern Challenge June 23-25 or Grand Terrace, CA 92324 Lake Odessa, MI June 17-18, 1995 (714) 783-8293 August 19-20, 1995 (alternate date) SNORE Road America Virginia City 200 Southern Nevada Off Elkhart Lake, WI Virginia City, NV Road Enthusiasts September 1-3, 1995 July 29-30, 1995 P.O. Box 4394 Brush Run 101 Fallon 250 at Night Las Vegas, NV 89106 Crandon, WI Fallon, NV (702) 452-4522 September 16-18, 1995 September 2-4, 1995 February 3-5, 1995 Wisconsin Off Road Festival Fallon to Yerington and Back Bottom Dollar Oshkosh, WI Fallon, NV Las Vegas, NV SWORDS September 30-0ctober 1, 1995 March 17-19, 1995 South West Off Road Racing Fall Short Course Race Twilight 250 Desert Series Prairie City SVRA Park Las Vegas, NV 4209 So. CR 1300 Sacramento, CA May 19-21, 1995 Odessa, TX 79765 October 28-29, 1995 Caliente 250 Mike Parker Championship Off Road Race Caliente, NV (915) 337-3437 Prairie City SVRA Park FLAMINGO RD. & THE STRIP LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Page 10 1-800-634-6755 WEST FLAMINGO & VALLEY VIEW 1-800-331 -5334 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA February 1995 Sacramento, CA Monaco November 18, 1995 February 9-12, 1995 Awards Banquet Swedish Rally -WC/FZ WESTERN OFF ROAD Sweden RACING ASSOCIATION March 6-11, 1995 Larry Henderson Portugal Rally -WCIFZ ( 604) 538-0692 Portugal WORRA, P.O. Box 3241 Sumas, WA 98295 April 13-17, 1995 Safari Rally -F2 WESTERN PENSYLV ANIA Kenya WHEEL TO WHEEL May 1-6, 1995 OFF ROAD RACING Tour de Corse -WC/FZ Patrick McGuire Corsica 1255 Waverly Drive Latrobe, PA 15650 May 27-31, 1995 (412) 532-0802 Acropolis Rally -F2 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS Greece 2939 E. Grovers July 5-8, 1995 Phoenix, AZ 85023 Argentine Rally -F2 (602) 971-3730- Argentina February 11, 1995 July 27-30, 1995 Vulture Mine 125 New Zealand Rally -WCIFZI AP Wickenburg, AZ New Zealand March 25, 1995 August 25-1 7, 1995 Gila Monster 200 Rally of 1000 Lakes -F2 Gila Bend, AZ Finland April 29, 1995 September 15-18, 1995 Sonoyta 150 Rally Australia -WCI AP Sonyta, Sonora, MX Australia June?, 1995 October8-12, 1995 TBA new course Sanremo Rally -F2 September 2, 1995 Italy Snowflake 200 October 22-25, 1995 Snowflake, AZ Spain/ Catulunya -WC October 7, 1995 November 19-22, 1995 Buckeye Bash 125 RAC Rally-WC Buckeye, AZ England December 2, 1995 AffENTION Point to Point 150 Rocky Point, Sonora, MX RACE & RALLY ORGANIZERS WISCONSIN List your coming e11ents in DUSTY OFF ROAD FESTIVAL TIMES free! It is the only way some fans Terry or Bev Friday know about your event, if they don't happen 5913 So. U.S. Hwy 45 to be on your club mailing list. Don't call, Oshkosh, WI 54901 but mail your 1995 schedule as soon as ( 414) 688-5509 (;'.ssible for listing in this column; it could FIA WORLD RALLY ing you some extra entries! Mail your race CHAMPIONSHIP or rally schedule to: DUSTY TIMES, January 21-27, 1995 20751 Marilla St. , Chatsworth, CA Monte Carlo • WC/FZ 9lJ_l l•44o8. SECOND TO NONE Dusty Times

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Salute to Desert Champions By Jean Calvin Photos: Track.side Photo Inc. Robert Nolin and Todd Teuscher ran two cars to win the overall title in Pro class in SCORE racing. This is the Chenowth, used to cement the championship at the Baja 1000, and the other is a rugged desert runner O.R.C. One is always ready to race. ~ :"!~ .;.: Rob MacCachren was up front all season in Trophy-Truck action, shown here en route to winning in his home town Gold Coast 300. Racing bikes, karts, off road open wheelers or trucks Rob keeps winning. He won the inaugural Trophy- Truck points in 1994 and the big check that went with the championship. The annual Salute to Desert Champions has a different format this year. We have included two other California based Off Road Racing Associations beside SCORE, as their numbers are showing healthy growth and they race on different venues. We hope you like the new look! We will start with SCORE International, the best known of all desert racing groups and the premier promoter in off road racing both in fame and longevity. As the Parker 400 race started the season with the parade down contingency row, the main street in town blocked off for the occasion. And as usual a lot of. folks gawking at the new vehicles, Trophy-Trucks this year, were attending the weeks long rock-hound festival a ways south on 1-10 from Parker. In Class 1/2 it was the Terrible Herbs ts, Ed and Tim who started first in a Porsche powered Chenowth whipped through the 3 laps that were very dusty and stayed not only first on the road but first overall. Frosting on the cake was when younger Page 1! brother Troy Herbst with an assist from Brian Collins came in second and second overall in a single seat Chenowth powered by Porsche. Bob Gordon got his VW powered Chenowth home third in class and overall ahead of two other Porsche powered machines. 'The Class 8 trucks were second off the line and the dust in the early washes was truly as thick as tule fog. The early leader was Jerry McDonald, but his Chevy had axle trouble and Brian Stewart with Jeff Geiser took over the lead in' the Dodge. Others had troubles, but Stewart sailed on to win the class and be fifth 0 / A despite the dust, with no troubles at all. 45 minutes back McDonald was second. · Class 10 was the biggest class at 38 and Gary Johnson and Steve Poole led the first lap but were then passed by Jim Pierce/Jim Kirk, but the yongsters were coming on strong. After three laps it was Doug Fortin Jr. in the winner's circle in his Chenowth at ninth overall, and second in class Tim McDonnell wa~ 10th overall, in fact the rest of the top five were 11th, 12th, and 13th 0 1 A. Two showed up to race in Class 6, but Scott and Mike McKinney were the only finisher and the winner in their Jeep Cherokee. There were also just two starters in Class 3, but neither finished. Dick Sasser got the farthest, one lap, and the trophy in the IH Scout that is really a nostalgia piece. Only one started in Class 7, and did not finish the first lap. Class 5 was healthy however, and several Bugs ran in .i!.~ight lead group. Neal and Mike Grabowski led the first lap, had a little traffic trouble midway, but got the lead back on the last lap to win Class 5 at 15th 0 / A. They were nearly an hour ahead· of second place Michael James/John Cooley, and so it went, but five of the seven finished. Class 1-2-1600 had 18 on the line, half of them finished. Out front off the start was Danny Porter/Mark Ruddis showing off a fantastic paint scheme on their car, but others were close but they still led after lap 2. But with others in sight they February 1995 lost the trans and Robert Nolin/Todd Teuscher swept by to win in the ORC. Kevin Davis and Adam Wik were a few minutes back in second followed closely by Tom and Frank Rusich in a car they had bought just three weeks earlier. Class 7S was a bit of a cakewalk for Jeff Lewis in the ·s-10 until midway in the last lap when the motor went south. Jason Cobb had his Ford in second most of the day, took over the lead with co-driver Gatrell won the class in their first SCORE race in class and won by 19 minutes over Joel Stankavich, also in a Ford, and defending champions Darren and Doug York were third in still another Ford. It was fierce competition in Class 5-1600 with scant minutes between the top three. Brian Goodrich and Charlie Watters had a 9 second lead after one lap over Carlos and Gerardo lribe, and about two minutes separated the first five. At the midway driver change Watters took over the Goodrich car, got on the wrong line and fell to second, but made it back on the final leg and Goodrich and Watters won the close race by six minutes over Lee Patten/Greg Burgin, and the father and son team of lribes. Class 9 had only 7 entries but a good race. The early leader was the ORBS chassis of Rick Poole and Michael Faulkn«!r and they had no problems and kept on leading to victory. A .J. and Herman DeNunzio moved into second place on the middle lap, and despite a roll over they held second to the finish. Darnen and Casey Jefferies were third in a Jimco with only ten minutes between the top 3. Class 11 had seven start and three finish the two laps required. Bill Hanson and Tony Gomez won the Beetle Derby despite getting stuck and getting hit twice. Peter and Josh Rosenstein were second and Eric and Albero Solorzano were third. The stock trucks also ran just two laps. In the minis Scott Sells continued on his winning ways with co-driver Barry Buckelew in the Toyota. Matt Vaughan and Dan Moore were second in a Nissan, followed in by Bill Quitmeyer/John Barajas in a Toyota. In the full size area there were eight starters and Chad Hall led the first lap in the Hummer, but others had him in sight. Chad did manage to hang on with co-driver Kevin Horan to bring the Hummer in a winner. He was followed in four minutes by dad Rod Hall and Jim Fricker in the second Hummer, and David Sykes and Marc Stein were third in a Ford F-150. SCORE 's Sportsman class was last away and the two lap victory went ot a 1600 Mirage driven by Rigoberto & Rigoberto Arzate. Rodney Hayes and Dick Newell 24 minutes back in second, but the Jimco of Kim Peterson and Joe Key was only another minute back. So the first of seven events was in the record books for 1994 before the month of January was over. SCORE introduced their new Trophy-Truck Series at Parker, completely separate from the· other classes or series, with big bucks to get in and a big buck · payoff if you win the series. There were 13 on the line vying for a trophy and series points. The pot of gold comes at the end of the season. There was a date conflict with MTEG's Anaheim race so the Trophy-Trucks ran on Thursday on a shorter track, just 70 miles which they did three . times with a mandatory pit stop in the middle of the race. These trucks are extremely modified with huge engines, and they go fast. First after one lap was Paul Simon who started first and he stayed in front all the.way to the checkered flag in his Ford. In the meantime many were having mechanical woes, including Robby Gordon with carburetion trouble. Simon led after two laps, but Rob MacCachren }VaS only four minutes back, and despite a rash of flats MacCachren was second. John Swift was fourth in the V-6 Explorer. Steve Kelley, Jeep was third, saying he would rather race the whole field -more fun. Most spectators felt it was better with packs of cars and trucks on the c'ourse at the same time, but hopes were high that more Trophy-Trucks would be built to make a real N ASCAR style factory class. SAN FELIPE is a favorite race for most SCORE regulars, just 250 miles long, and it had a bigger entry number than Parker! And the city welcomes racers; it is over before dark in February and the weather is resort style sunny and warm. The course is one long loop and pit crews can get to most any part of it via access roads, And the shrimp is great! Class 1 had 14 starters, mostly heavy hitters. The start under the arches are fun to watch but it is quickly into the desert here. Starting fourth Pat Dean was out front in the first 20 miles, stayed first on the road and had a flawless day. Pat won the race overall in the tidy Barbary Coast Chenowth Porsche. His lead was only"a minute or so at check 1, but he kept building it every" check. His time was the day's fastest, beating the fastest bike by four minutes and he was back by noon. Jason Baldwin ran second for a time in his Chenowth Porsche as did Bob Gordon and Frank Arciero. Ron Brant was in the hunt too, as were several others. At the finish it was Pat Dean, abslolute first overall, 11 minutes ahead of Brant who also ran solo. Jason Baldwin was third, dad Jim fourth in Chenowth Porsches, and Tom Bradley Jr. & Sr. took fifth in a Raceco VW Type 4. Brian Stewart took the early lead in his Class 8 Dodge with Curt LeDuc three minutes back in his pre-runner. A flat on the mini summit saw Stewart's lead shrink but he still had a few minutes in hand. Perry McNeil ran third, and _ Dale White was having various woes with his truck. At the finish Brian Stewart won and was fifth overall, about 15 minutes faster than Curt LeDuc who was second in Class 8 and 7th 0 / A. Darren Skilton got his Jeep Cherokee home third in Class 8. The 28 Class 10 cars were led away by Jim Pierce in his Toyota powered Raceco followed at Check 1 by Mike Harman, Ryan Thomas and Ray Croll. Thomas took the lead by Check 2 followed by Harman, Hernquist, Croll and Pierce, all very close. After the Borrego loop Thomas made only a quick stop for gas, Bob Snaith (Co-driving with Hernquist) was second ahead of Willie Melancon, who'd c·aken over for Brian Parkhouse, and Mike Zupano-vich's ~a-drive Steve Kelley (the Dusty Times

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In Class 1 dad -Jim aldwin beat out his son Jason an relative Carl Renezeder for the points championship, and Jim did it by placing high in the class at the Baja 1000, had a bunch of fourths, a fifth and a second to take the point title. same guy who drives the Trophy-Truck). Ryan Thomas won by 20 minutes in the Chenowth and he was fourth overall. Parkhouse and Melancon were second and 8th 0 1 A, Steve Melton at third was 9th 0 / A. The Class 10s are getting faster. Class 5 was next away and Mike Jakobson ran hard to lead the early legs, just barely holding off the herd. But he had no problems to Check 2, still dogged by Grobowskis and others, but he came on in to finish first on the road and on time. He was penalized one position to an official second. Over an hour behind him George Seeley inherited the win. The others were well back as well. Class 1-2-1600 came with 25 entries half of them potential winners. At the first checkpoint there was a six way tie for the lead. At Check 2 Roger Caddell was leading and a tie for second between Mike Abatti and Larry Smith/Jon Kennedy. At Check 3 only five were missing, but some were wounded. Scott Webster got the lead at Check 3 and kept leading. Kevin Davis was driving with a cholla bush in his lap and that can be painful. But the herd went on back to San Felipe where Scott Webster won the race in the ORBS by a minute 29 seconds over Mike and Jim Abatti who were merely three minutes ahead of a hurting Kevin Davis and after that several racers were just seconds apart. Class 7 fielded just one truck, the Ford of Gary Mecham and Bob Land. It lost a valve early and never made it to Checkpoint 2. Class 7S had a ten truck field, but the surprising winner at Parker, Jason Cobb, started out third at San Felipe and ended up winning the class in the Ford Ranger. Of course Jeff Lewis led from the green flag in his Chevy, led until the engine blew after Check 3. Cobb put his co-driver Pete Sohren in the truck and Pete hadn't driven in years, but he hadn't forgotten how to do it. Pete and Jason took the win by nearly 1 ½ hours over Brady Helm and Pete Swift, Toyota. Local man Javier Sacio had to repair his Nissan, on the road, but he salvaged third in Class 7S, followed in by Mike and· John Becker, Ford. In Class 6 the only entry, a Jeep Cherokee, was driven by Victor Acevedo and Jason Griffin through Check 3 but no farther. Class 3 also had a single entry, the Bronco of Jim Pierce but he was out before Check 1. Danny Ledezma started out Dusty Times leading Class 5-1600 by a few minutes over Ernesto Arambula and Brian Goodrich who were tied on time. Several more Bugs were close enough to pounce. When they got to Borrego Ledezma led Goodrich by ten minutes, both running trouble free. Fourth was Vince Alcou-loumre in the Surf Bug; nearly all made pit stops, Ledezma handing over to his father Hector and Hector stayed ahead of Good-rich's co-driver Charlie Watters until Charlie got· the lead around mile 206, but only by two minutes. Toward the end of the day Ledezma had really bad brakes and Watters had loose suspension. The Ledezmas took the win by under eight minutes, Watters and Goodrich were second, and third came John Brindell and Howard Hughes, the airfoil crunched. Class 9 had 11 starters and Rich Richardson had the early lead in hisJimco, a minute ahead of Larry Kern. Richardson led thru Check 2 but then lost his clutch and broke a push rod tube before mile 89. Larry Kern moved into the lead and put co-driver Mike Pfankuch in the Rayco, lost time somewhere and Howard Gold-smith I Dave Beverly took the lead, but not for long as they tore off the left rear corner of the car. Lalo Mayoral now had the lead and he and Alfonso LaCarra arrived first on time, but were bumped to second by a penalty against the Jimco. Luis Guevara and Federico Montes were the official winners, Pfankuch and Kern were third followed in by Darnen and Casey Jefferies. All classes ran the 250 miles here, and Class 11 had five start and five finish. Terry Kiely and Chris Woodward won by 14 minutes over Bill Hanson and Tony Gomez. Michael Martin and Rick Hughes won Stock Mini Truck honors in their Ford Ranger; Scott Sells was second. In full size pickups ten started and nine finished. Steve Olliges and Tim Casey led them home winning in the Ford Lightening just 21 seconds ahead of Rod Hall's Hummer. In the Sportsman Class the win went to Raymond Santos Del Prado and Alfredo Munoz in a TUF. Bryan Moyna-han and Brian Jeffrey were second in a Raceco. The second round of the SCORE-TECATE Trophy-Truck series ran on a 250 mile track, but there were no mandatory pit 'stops. The race was on conting-ency day and from the conting-ency row you could see the finishers coming in. Because of ~ Dick Sasser ran consistently in Class 3, won a few, sometimes the only finisher in class in the IH Scout and earned enough points to be the Class 3 champion in what may be the last season SCORE runs the class. the heavy dust at Parker, they started one car every four minutes, which made a very dull race for spectators at 7:00 a.m. The reason the race ran on Friday was a conflict with MTEG activity at San Diego Stadium. Steve Kelley in the Jeep was first away, and all eyes were watching for John Swift to beat the clock back from replacing a motor. He made it by four minutes. At mile 43, the first check Ivan Stewart, Toyota, and Walker Evans, Dodge, were tied on E.T. Then it was Jimmie Smith, Scott Douglas and Larry Ragland. At mile 74 Stewart was the clear leader and now some of these exotics were suffering breakage. At the main Borrego pit Ivan got fresh tires, fuel etc., MacCachren was driving with a broken finger (a tree branch) Swift lost a differential, Ragland broke a balljoint, Kelley lost four wheel drive and so it went. At Check 5 Stewart stopped to replace a shock but held the lead. MacCachren, ahead on the road pushed hard and finished first, but it was Ivan Stewart who won the race on elapsed time, finishing second on the road when the times came out, by just about two minutes over Rob MacCachren. Steve Kelley nursed his Jeep into third, ahead of Larry Ragland and Jim Smith. So it was forget the warm weather and head to Las Vegas for the April running of the Nevada 400. Now that you have the leaders locked in your mind, the following race descriptions will be much shorter due to space restrictions. In a switch from brute horsepower winning, it was the VW Type 4 powered Chen-owth of Bob Gordon and Frank Arciero Jr. that led all the way from flag to flag on the tough and long former Mint 400 course north of Las Vegas. Arciero's first lap was fast lap of the race in all classes including Trophy-Trucks, and the team won overall after four 98 mile laps by a whopping 29 minutes. Jim and Jason Baldwin were second in class and overall followed in Class l / 2 / by Mark McMillin, Pat Dean and Ron Brant/Tom Koch, at 10th 0 1 A, all with Porsche power. In Class ·8 Brian Stewart, Dodge, fought Dave Ashley/Dan Smith, Ford, all day and into the night. There was a 13 truck entry, but most of them were quickly outdistanced by the two leaders. But they still had a good tussle for third place, despite lots of flats reported in this class. Dave Ashley and Dan Smith won the class honors for Ford by half an hour and were third overall. 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Mike James and co-driver John Cooley put together a string of top finishes in Class 5 including a win at the Nevada 400 and the Fireworks 250, and they won the class championship by just 16 points in a fine season. Victor Acevedo and Victor J. Acevedo ran a Jeep Cherokee in Class 6, ran most of the series races, won at the rough and rugged Nevada 400, and they stuck with the program and won the Class 6 championship. r,r Stewart was second in the· in Michael James Bug with a six Dodge, seventh overall and minute lead on the Grabowskis. former winner here David Bryan, Midway Cooley handed over to Ford, was another hour back but Mike James with an hour, 20 closely followed by Jerry minuteslead.MikeJakobsonwas . McDonald, Chevy and Dave nowsecondaheadoftheGrabow-Westhem GMC. skis. The second half saw little The 32 Class 10 cars left next in passing and Michael James and clouds of dust, with a different John Cooley won by almost an leader each lap. Ray Croll led hour. Mike Jakobson and Dave first, then Ryan Thomas, then Snoddy were second nearly an Croll's co-driver Tom Rhodes, hour ahead ·of Neal and Michael and on the final lap the winner Grabowski who had numerous was Tim McDonnell and John disasters along the way. Three Krugar in a Raceco who won the hours more and Garth Arkeny class at sixth overall, even with a and Steve Copening finished broken throttle cable on that last fourth having a very long day of lap. Ryan Thomas held on in racing. second place in a solo drive in the The 25 1-2-1600 cars were next Chenowth and was eighth overall away, a long way back for the fast followed in two minutes by Steve class. Mike and Jim Abatti led the Croll/Darren Ebberts, ninth first lap, Billy McCool led overall in aJimco. Steve Woolcott midway up from third and Danny and Todd Clements were next, Porter and Mark Ruddis were 11th overall and Kyle and Joel second followed by Scott Steele. Whitted were fifth, 13th overall Brian Steele took overthe Stedco both inJimcos. Croll and Rhodes and had the lead by the end of the salvaged sixth place after Ray hurt lap and led all the way to the his neck. checkers, finishing 12th 0 / A . 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There were two Class 7 trucks but neither of them finished the first lap. Class 6 had one starter, the Victor Acevedos, Sr. and Jr., who finished two laps in their Jeep Cherokee. A bakers dozen of Class 7S trucks took the green flag, but only three finished. Darren York was the first leader in his Ford Ranger over Jeff Lewis and a close bunch. But midway Lewis' Chevy was leading Javier Sacio, Nissan, and several were still running strong. They disappeared on the second half of the race and Jeff Lewis won again in the Chevy S-10 over an hour ahead of Darren York, who had two hours down for repairs. Just about e~ght more minutes back Javier Sa~io and Howard Lewis finished in the Nissan in this high attrition class. Only six 5-1600s showed up for this rugged race and three finished: Danny and Hector Ledezma had the first lap kad, followed by Vince Alcouloumre's Surf Bug, Ryan Harbottle, and Chris Klick from Idaho. Ledezma had a 16 minute lead midway when he handed over to dad Hector, Harbottle was still third and Guillermo Quintero was fourth, the others were out. Ledezma increased his lead on lap 3, and went on in to the finish, the 5-1600 winner. Vince Alcou-loumre and Patrick Friel took second about 50 minutes later and last was Ryan Habottle yet another hour behind, but the third place finisher. Class 9 was another class that thought the course too tough, and only five started, but three finished, a good percentage. On the first lap Tom Malloy led Darnen Jefferies by about 40 minutes and Ralph Chadwick and Mike Dixon were an equal distance back followed by Herman and A.J. DeNunzio. On lap 2 Malloy vanished and Jefferies led the other two. Damen's brother Willi(! got in midway and held a good lead for Darnen who did the final lap, their Jimco winning the class by 37 minutes. The DeNunzios, father and son were second in a home made chassis, and they were just 6 ½ minutes ahead of Chadwick and Dixon in a tight race for second place in Class 9 . Kirk February 1995 Koval got in 3 laps for the Class 3 victory as none of the three starters finished. In the two lap category Stock Full size trucks saw the first lap lead go to Steve Olliges and Tim Casey, but only by a few seconds over Chuck Johnson in a Jeep Cherokee. Casey held the lead on lap 2 all the way to the finish and they won the dass by 42 minutes over Gordon DiCarlo/Mark Anderson, also in a Ford. Eric Heiden/Mark Martin took third in a Jeep Grand Cherokee and all seven starters finished. The mini stock trucks had three out of five finish. Michael Martin and Don-Lampus won by well over an hour in their Ford Ranger, and Scott Sells was second. Matt Vaughan and Jeremy Bonds led the first lap then had an eight hour disaster but did finish the race, third in class. Class 11 had five start and four finish and the first lap leader was first time driver Tim Zand~ bergen, 15 minutes ahead of Terry Kiely. On the second lap Terry switched seats with Chris Woodward, and they won the class by 56 minutes. Jack Zandbergen did lap 2 and had some troubles but came in second over two hours ahead of Eric Solorzano and Hector Rodriquez, who were three hours up on Bill Hanson and Tony Gomez. There were seven Sportsman and four finished le~ by the Class 5 of Lee Finke and Rudy Leon. Bob Arzate ran second in a 1600 Mirage 40 minutes back. Jeff Bogart/ Barry Blanchard drove a Class 9 T-Mag into third place followed by James Marsh in a Class 3 Scout. The Trophy-Trucks were actually the first class on the course, starting at 6 a.m. and here they started at 30 second intervals, more fun for the early· bird spectators. This class ran two laps of the same course everyone else would use later in the day. While Jim Smith was first away in his Ford it was Dave Simon in another Ford who let the first lap over Larry Ragland, Chevy, Rob MacCachren, Ford, and John Swift, Ford. Each truck had a mandatory pit after one lap for two tires and gas. Simon and Simon had the quickest pit stop by five seconds. Roger Mears had major steering problems, Robby Gordon, front end woes, Evans and Swift had each had a flat and Ivan Stewart had electrical and trans trouble. Several hit the pits on Ute road midway in the second lap, but the Simon truck, running a small motor they used to win Parker, were first on the road and won by just under ten minutes. Swift finished third until Ragland was penalized to third from second: Walker Evans who ran second for a time, had his truck quit, then restart, dropping him to fourth. The Simons lead the points after three races over Rob MacCachren and John Swift. Larry Ragland and Steve Kelley are tied for fifth just a few points back. The series was nearly half over. It was back to Baja in June for the BAJA 500 which this time stayed mainly on the west side of the peninsula, making pit logistics a bit easier for many. While the sky was sunny there had been storms and the course held plenty of water traps and some pavement running. The early leaders were Ed and Tim Herbst, Porsche Chenowth who started first, but then Mark McMillin took over only to have Pat Dean take the lead by mile 308. Here Carl Renezeder ran second, Corky McMillin was third followed by Tom Koch, and Mark McMillin who had broken a spindle. Dean continued to run trouble free to finish first on the road and on time. But Dean was disqualified for tapping a biker on the beach route, even though he stopped and summoned help. Renezeder, who finished second, was also disqualified for going backwards on the course to his pit. This put third finishing Corky McMillin, 65 years old, and Brian Ewalt in the winners circle at 4th 0 / A. Tom Koch was now second in the Raceco Porsche, 7th 01 A, Mark McMillin was third:Jim and Josh Baldwin took fourth and the Herbst brothers were fifth. In Class 8 Curt LeDuc led the herd at the 170 mile mark, testing the new V -10 engined Walker Evans Dodge for Brian Stewart to drive later in the year. Close behind came Dan Smith, Ford, and Brian Stewart, V-8 Dodge, followed by Marty Coyne/Jimmy Johnson and Jerry McDonald, Chevies. Smith handed over to Dave Ashley, having no troubles at all, and Dave continued his smooth pace to victory. Brian Stewart arrived just eight minutes later in second, followed in by Curt LeDuc who really enjoyed the new truck. Pete Alesi and Perry McNeil were fourth in a Ford, followed by Darren Skilton in a Jeep. Class 10 continued to draw big numbers, 26 starters in the Baja 500. There was a traffic jam that tied up traffic early on, with Rod Muller in the lead with four minutes on Jerry Penhall/George Erl. At mile 308 Brian Parkhouse and Willie Melancon led Penhall and Tom Schilling/John Marking, Rick and Randy Wilson were fourth and Dave Richardson/ Steve Sourapas were fifth. George Erl took over for Penhall for the second half, and despite smelling c.v. grease George motored right into victory, the first for Penhall in all the years.he has been racing in Baja. Schilling/Marking were less than three minutes behind in second, followed in by Park-house/Melancon, Sourapas/ Richardson, and Ray Croll/Tom Rhodes, fifth, only 29 minutes out of first place. Class 5 had six starters, three finishers but a dandy race led by Michael Jakobson, but at 170 miles Conrad Diaz was just five minutes back and John Cooley was a mere minute behind him. Diaz broke a trailing arm and D~sty Times

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rolled but held second, and George Seeley was now third, f' after pulling Cooley out of a stuck situation. Jakobson had nearly an hour lead at mile 308, and carried on in the mush to win the class at 13th overall. Michael James and John Cooley were a long second and Conrad Diaz/ Luis Baragan made repairs and finished over an hour back, the last finisher in Class 5 and happy to be there. Class 1-2-1600 was 20 strong at the start, and 13 finished, a good average. John Holmes in a Raceco was the early leader, four minutes ahead of the pack at mile 170. Holmes still led at Ojos Negros, only five minutes ahead of Rodrigo Ampudia who had already rolied, and Ampudia led at mile 308. Holmes and co-driver Mike Kalicki were only six minutes back, Dennis Hight rolled to third, and after hitting a tree Todd Teuscher was up to fourth. The roughest part of the course was ahead but Rogerio Ampudia held the lead, Rob Nolin/Todd Teuscher were up to second Tom Rusich relieving Frank was third, and all were having flats. Some including Kalicki were hanging off the cliff at Mike's Sky ranch. But the Ampudia brothers hurried into the finish in their Chenowth/ Neth to take the victory about 22 minutes ahead of the Chenowth of Teuscher and Nolin in second. Tom and Frank Rusich were third with no brakes and Alex Avilia and Matias Ajona and Josh Baldwin and Justin Benham were third and fourth, just a couple minutes apart. There were no entries in Classes 4 and 6, and no finishers in Class 3 , 7 and Sportsman which had a total of 12 brave starters. Sergio Nolasco comes north from La Paz in _Baja Sur to race his Dodge Dakota, and although there is often scant competition in Class 7, Nolasco drives hard, turns good times and his reward is the Class 7 championship. Jeff Lewis did a lot of winning in the Class 7S Team MacPherson Chevrolet this year, in fact he won most all of the events in class, despite some problems on a few races, his team got him through. Jeff won the title by a huge margin, 61 points. Class 7S fielded 13 and Jeff Lewis had his Chevy S-10 in an early lead over Willie Valdez and Lou Peralta, and after 223 miles John and Mike Becker were third and Scott Steinberger fourth, both in Fords. Jeff Lewis had a "dream race" with no problems and he won the class by over an hour. Willie Valdez/Lou Peralta were second some 40 minutes ahead of Darren and Doug York Ford, and Javier Sacio/John Ray in a Nissan, well back butonly2½ minutes apart. Class 5-1600 started 17 Bugs but only six finished. It was all Ledezmas off the start with Mario and Elias leading and Danny and Hector a minute back. The pack ran two or three minutes apart for many miles. Mario and Elias lost their steering and Danny led the herd at mile 308. Guillermo Quintero's co-driv.er Francisco Ortiz second, Arambula was third after a rollover and Gus Vildosola was just two minutes behind him in fourth. On the last legs Danny broke a stub axle, Ortiz led, then Quintero got into the car for the finish and had fuel pickup problems. Ernesto Arambula and family took over the lead and won the class. Quintero and Ortiz held second, followed by Vildosola/Muller, and Miguel Leon/Ramon Castro, all strung out on elapsed time. There were but 9 starters in Class 9 with a variety ofleaders in the early going. By mile 308 Damon Jefferies had taken the lead from Rick Paquette, the LaCarra/Mayoral team was second, Paquette and Jim Green-way were next tied on time with Terry Walsh and family. Both Dusty Times Greenway and Jefferies, who was leading at the time, were bumped into deep trouble in different places, and by the time they got upright the LaCarra/Mayoral and Garibay team had finished first. Then came Walsh, and Darnen and Willie Jefferies. LaCarra was DQ'd for using race gas, so the Walsh family won Class 9 with the Jefferies brothers secoPd. The two lap classes started so far back we had scant reports on them. Two finished in Class 11 , Eric Solorzano/Hector Rodriquez and Rogelio Rivera/ Paco Tapia, Eric winning by about 45 minutes. The full size Stockers were faster with the win going to Rod Hall and son Chad was second in the Hummers. Steve Olliges/Tim Casey were next in their Ford and fourth and last was David Sykes/ Gregg Woodington · in a Ford. Scott Sells was the only finisher in his Toyota in Stock Mini Trucks. A dozen T roph y-T rucks started early race day morning, had to stop after 83 miles for the mandatory pit stop and tire change, but before that Dave and Paul Simon lost their engine about eight miles down the pavement. Roger Mears had the lead in his Chevy at 1 70 miles and Mears held the lead over John Swift for some distance. After replacing an alternator and things Ivan Stewart was third 223 miles into the race. At mile 308 Mears had about 11 minutes on Stewart's Toyota, now second ahead of Swift's Ford. After they went up and down the muddy mountain trails and back to Valle de Trinidad it was Ivan Stewart in. the lead. And Ivan got to celebrate his birthday in victory circle giving himself a great present, the victory. John Swift finished second 15 minutes later in the Explorer. Roger Mears was six minutes back in third, followed in some time by Rob MacCachren and Larry Ragland. The annual 4th of July FIRE-WORKS 250 was the fifth of seven in the series with a healthy entry for the all daylight, three lap, very hot weather event. It was an early start and this time the Trophy-Trucks would follow the other classes onto the course. On the first lap it was Porsche/Chen-owths up front in Class 1 led by Jason Baldwin, then Ed and Tim Herbst, split by Steve and Tom Martin in their Pontiac powered Raceco followed by more Porsche Chenowths, Brian Collins, and Carl Renezeder. After two laps it was Baldwin, Collins, Bob Gordon in his Type 4 powered Chenowth and Renezeder. Manv fell out and only 7 of the 18 starters finished. Jason Baldwin led to the flag, first overall, Brian It i premiu can ha Bilstein utility vehicle a Bilstein's·si gas pressure Qbl!performs , conventional shocks Collins was two minutes back, 20 minutes ahead of Carl Renezeder who was just ahead of Ron Brant; -to-ooe. Our patent self adjusting, deflective isc valving system delivers continuous suspension rough yet maintains a comfortable ride on the street Truck and sport utility vehicle drivers demand more shock performance and Bilstein provides ... Jim and Joshua Baldwin were fifth. 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Brian Stewart had great success this year going from V-8 to V-10 power mid-season in the Dodge. He won at Parker, San Felipe, and the Gold Coast and finished high in the other events. The second generation racer was second at the Thousand but won enough points for the Class 8 championship. ,,,-and Brian biggest one, and Rob MacCachren StewartledinhisnewDodgeover led the first lap in a Toyota the Fords of Dave Ashley and powered Mirage. But he was out Curt LeDuc. Ashley led after two with a broken trans on lap 2 laps and put Dan Smith in to handing the lead to Ray Croll; finish the final round, easily Brian Parkhouse was next holding the lead over LeDucs followed by Steve Sourapas and pre-runner. Jerry McDonald and Tim McDonnell. Croll ran a Rick Johnson were third, Darren steady third lap and took the win, Skilton, Jeep, fourth and Brian followed by Sourapas. They were Stewart salvaged fifth after big 4th and 6th overall. Rod Muller woes. At 27 Class 10 was the was third, Bill Hernquist, fourth This is the system nmby most oft road race winners TRI-MIL BOBCAT CHROME 198~91 CORVETTE 2 1/2" OR 3" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER 2740 COMPTON AVENUE LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 90011 (213) 234-9014 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED "" Daman and Casey Jefferies had the Jimco up f~ont in Class 9 all season, and they won the class at the Nevada 400, the Gold Coast and were in the top five all the way and these young men have fun racing in Class 9 and won the class by a huge margin of 68 points. and Parkhouse fifth.-10th 0 / A and all five were within a 15 minute time span in a real race. Class 5 was next and John Cooley turned class fast lap on the first one, 8 seconds faster than Neal Grabowski who were a few minutes ahead of George Seeley. Cooley built a 44 minute lead on the second lap. Mike James got in to finish, tore the floor off the car, dropped the passenger off and went on to the win. Lyn Mocaby was about an hour later in second and Seeley was third followed by Javier Espinoza. There were no finishers in Class 6 although there was one entry. The horde of 1-2-1600 cars had Cameron Steele and David Hendrickson out front on the first lap with class fast lap. Danny Porter/ Mark Ruddis were two minutes back followed closely by Kevin Davis, then Mike Kal-icki/Ross Craft and Tom Rusich, fifth in his Chenowth just six minutes back. Hendrickson/ Steele still led by a couple minutes after two laps over Porter/Ruddis and Rusich was now third. Doug West and Gary Cogbill were fourth and Davis dropped to fifth. Frank Rusich got in to finish up, first on the road, and though he ~orried about those still coming in at the finish line he held second place behind Davis whose total time was just 54 seconds faster. Kalicki/Craft were third, ten minutes back, followed by Rob Nolin/Todd Teuscher, West/ Cogbill. Class 7S was the usual story. Jeff Lewis took the lead off the line in his Chevy SlO and never looked back. On lap 1 Mike Becker ran second in his Ford with Scott Steinberger/Larry Plank third. Lewis had a little trouble but still won the race. Mike Becker ran second all the way and Darren York moved into third on the last lap followed in by Steinberger/Plank and Joel Stankavich in yet another Ford Ranger. Class 7 fielded five starters, but only two finishers. Chris Taylor led lap 1 in his Ford in front of Sergio Nolasco in a Dodge. The other three ran out of time to finish and Nolasco won handily in the Dakota. The 5-1600 Bugs had a real dogfight as first lap and fast lap leader Danny Ledezma was mere! y 19 seconds ahead of Brian Logan with Frank Omboli/ Mitch Griffin just another 57 seconds back. Omboli and Griffin took over the lead on the middle lap, followed by Logan, Ledezma, Jason Kleber and Guillermo Quintero. Hector Ledezma took Keith Westerfield took over for Logan and came in almost tied. The Ledezmas won by over a minute over Logan and Wester-field. Kleber -and Leonard were next and Quintero/Ortiz moved up to finish fourth. By now it was noon and unbearably hot, about 110. Class 9 had just nine start and Barstow's Rick Johnson was the first lap leader with fast class lap, just 13 seconds ahead of Vince Leone and Dave Ramocinski with the Jeffries and Tom Malloy close. Rick Johnson had a flat, broke a shock, and held the lead while Jeffries moved into second on lap 2. Johnson drove solo to the victory about 20 minutes ahead of Darnen and Casey Jeffries; that was all that came in. In the two lap classes Peter Rosenstein and Duane Morimoto were the single Class 11 finisher. Scott Sells, Toyota, won over · Matt Vaughan and Chris Roberts in Stock Minis, and Chad Hall, Hummer, won over Gordon DiCarlo in Stock Full Size. Lee Finke/Rudy Leon were the only Sportsman finisher out of seven starters. The Trophy-Trucks didn't start until 2:30 in the afternoon on the same course and they did three laps also. They still had the manadatory pit stop to make in pits set up near the start/ finish line. I van Stewart took the lead on the first lap and 44 seconds behind him was Roger Mears in the Chevy, followed in 23 seconds by Paul and Dave Simon who had Robby Gordon about a minute behind them. John Swift unfortunately flipped his brand new Ford Ranger right off the start line and really wrecked it. Into the second lap it was a battle between Stewart and Mears and then Simon and Simon. Mears had trans trouble on this lap, Gordon lost a ball joint and both retired. Stewart had a flat but held the lead, but now Rob MacCach-ren was just 18 seconds behind him, recording his second of fast laps for class of the day, having that record in Class 10 too. Larry Ragland was fourth behind the Simons. Ivan Stewart worried about overheating, a non-working radio and a broken shock on the last lap but he took the win with 11 minutes to spare. Paul and Dave Simon struggled in second a couple minutes up on MacCach-ren who was well ahead of Larry Ragland. • over for Danny for the last lap, Although September is often the hottest month in southern Nevada, the Gold Coast 300 went on as planned, despite some troubles between the Gold Coast Hotel owner, and SCORE hark-Page 16 February 1995 ing back to June. At any rate all was the same, registration in a banquet room, tech and conting-ency in the back parking lot, and a complimentary cocktail party be-fore the Friday night driver's meeting, plus the great buffet awards breakfast on Sunday. The race started at 6:30 a.m. to get some cool running, with three laps of a 70 mile course facing the racers. Class 1 was away with Jason Baldwin the first starter, and he still led on the road after a lap. Brian Collins was next, then Frank Arciero in Bob Gordon's car, Corky McMillin, Ed and Tim Herbst, all in Chenowths except Gordon's had VW power, not Porsche. Some leaders were out after two laps, Brian Collins had the lead over Jason, Mark McMil-lin was driving his dad's car and Jim Baldwin,Jason's dad was fifth. Brian Collins had a perfect day, no troubles at all and won Class l /2 and overall in a solo drive. It was many minutes before Mark McMillin arrived second, follow-ed closely by Troy Herbst in the single seat Chenowth. Jim Bald-win soloed into fourth. Class8 was next and Rick John-son in Jerry McDonald's Chevy had the first lap lead, 47 seconds up on Brian Stewart, Dodge, and Dave Ashley and Dan Smith were next in the Ford. With class fast lap on the second, Stewart got the lead over McDonald, Dave Bryan was third in a Ford, Evan Evans fourth, and Jimmie Johnson, Chevy. Despite pit work Stewart kept the lead on lap 2, McDonald was second, Dave Bryan handed over to Curt LeDuc for the last lap because of the heat. Nothing changed on lap 3, Brian Stewart won for Dodge,Jerry McDonald/ Rich Johnson were second, in a Chevy, Bryan/LeDuc were third, in a Ford, Marty Coyne/Jimmie Johnson worked up to fourth and Evans was fifth. Competition was intense in Class 10 and the first lap lead belonged to Rob MacCachren, warming up for the Trophy-Truck. Mark Weyhrich was sec-ond, also Toyota powered, followed by Rick Romans and a horde running tight. MacCachren handed over to Larry Job and Job hung on to the lead fighting off the Weyhrich team. Mike Julson was next followed by Romans, then Andy Wehe. It all changed on the last lap except for the lead. Job and MacCachren won Class 10, sixth overall, and second place Tom Schilling and Bill Hernquist were 13 minutes back followed in less than a minute by Wehe', a rookie at cars but an expert desert racer. Fighting for points Steve Sourapas/ Dave Richardson were fourth and Ryan Thomas was fifth. It was still close. Class 5 had a familiar cast as Mike Jakobson took the early lead, followed by John Cooley/ Mike James and George Seeley. Jakobson built a substantial lead of 24 minutes on lap 2, Neal Grabowski was second and Seeley third. Despite heavy silt beds Jakobson won Class 5 at 15th 0 I A and Neal and Mike Grabow-ski were 22 minutes back in sec-ond, followed by George Seeley and Javier Espinosa and Salvador Avila. Off the line the 1-2-1600s were 16 strong led by Gary Anderson/ Mike Halliday, three minutes ahead of Danny Porter/Mark Ruddis. Then came Rob Nolin, Paul Huffman and Tom Rusich, Dusty Times

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all just seconds apart. On the second lap Porter had the lead by over a' minute over Gary Cogbill, Tom Rusich was third, and catch-ing up after a clutch change Kevin Davis set dass fast lap. Porter handed over to Ruddis for the last lap and he got the job done and they won the class by five minutes. Going solo Lorenzo Rodriquez was second just 21 seconds ahead ofB.). Almberg who had just one second on Rob Nolin. The Rusich brothers were fifth. Jeff Lewis took a stout lead off the line in Class 7S in the Chevy as Brady Helm and Pete Swift ran second and Mark Hansen third. Lewis ran out of gas on lap 2, lost time, but not the lead. So Jeff went on in to win the race, Helm and Swift held second in a Toyota, Darren and Doug York were third in a Ford and Charles David, fourth in a Toyota. In Class 7 Serigo Nolasco went the fastest for two laps in the Dodge Dakota, and was awarded the win. In Class 3 Chuck John-son beat back four others to win in the Jeep Grand Cherokee. There were no Sportsman entered this round, the penultimate SCORE points race. Only three showed up in Class 5-1600 and Jeff Holmes had the early lead, quick time. Guillermo Quintero and Francisco Ortiz were second, 26 minutes up on Vince Alcouloumre, who had troubles. Holmes did another half lap then put Ramsey El Wardani in the car and he carried on to the win. Quintero stayed close but was second 11 minutes back while Alcouloumre was over an hour behind but a finisher. Class 9 had three start also and three finished. Darnen Jefferies led all the way in his Jimco, with second placing Brian Moynahan and Brian Jeffrey within 20 sec-onds at one point. But they stayed in second. A .J. and Herman DeNunzio were a couple minutes back in third. Class 10 was a close fight all year long with a different winner every race. Ryan Thomas won at San Felipe, kept finishing well and stocking up points and he won the competitive Class 10 title by a mere nine points. A pair of Class 11 Beetles were fast lap of the race, Walker Evans, on the line for two laps and Chris Dodge followed by Ivan Stewart, Woodward and Terry Kiely led Toyota came by and Rob Mac-all the way, winning by about an Cachren had dropped to fifth. But hour over Peter Rosenstein and after two laps Jimmie Smith led Duane Morimoto. Other two lap on the road, MacCachren led on classes included the stock Mini time with Stewart on his rear Trucks, a quartet. Matt Vaughan bumper. They all pitted at the led the first lap in his Nissan, but same time, MacCachren, then Scott Sells got his Toyota ahead Stewart were out first, and Smith and won the class by five minutes. had a fuel problem. Many had The full size stockers had a good trouble midway but MacCach-showing of seven. After one lap ren's Ford still led Stewart who David Sykes and Greg Wooding- was hanging as close behind as he ton had their Ford out front by could. On lap 5 Rob had a flat and four minutes over Marc Stein and Chris Tartar, also in a Ford. On the last l_ap Sykes dropped to fifth and Marc Stein won the class by just three minutes over Rod Hall and Jim Fric~r in the Hummer. Gordon DiCarlo was third in his Ford, Chad Hall fourth in the second Hummer. At this race the Trophy-Trucks ran six hours on a short 36 mile course. With the two mile stretch of pavement at Jean, NV before the dry lake after the start, it was a drag race for these trucks. They were flagged off in pairs and it was really good for spectators. When they came around Simon and Simon, Ford, were out front with In his first full season on the SCORE series, Terry Kiely with Chris Woodward won three races in Class 11, placed high in others, no mean feat on often unfamiliar courses, and they won the Class 11 championship by 37 points. figured that -was it, but Ivan had end of the year. The winners were · two flats. Rob MacCachren went Class 1 Carl Renezeder, Class on to wi~ for Ford in front of his 1-2-1600 Robert Nolin, Class 3 home town, Las Vegas crowd. Kelly Beal, Class 5 Hector Teran, Stewart finished three minutes Class 5-1600 Mario Ledezma, behind him, Larry Ragland, Class6 Darren and Gavin Skilton, Chevy, was third, happy to be on Class 7 Gerado Novelo, Class 7S the podium for the first time in Jeff Lewis, Class 8 Dave Ashley, the series. Walker Evans was Class9RichRichardson,Class 10 fourth and Doug Fortin fifth. Andy Wehe, Class 11 Victor Nexi: and last stop is the Baja Barajas, Mini Stock Eric Heiden, 1000, amply covered in the Full Stock Steve Olliges, Sports-January issue. The race did decide man John Saxton, Trophy-Truck some of the championships, and Jimmie Smith. this always seems the case at the . ~, :-:' By winning the Stock Full Size truck class at the Baja 1000, Steve Olliges and Tim Casey pulled out the season championship in class in the Ford Lightning. It came down to the wire and they won the title by five points. Jamar Super Shifte Make missed shifts a thing of the past/ Fortin CV Cages Polished & Strong/ Available in both: 930 and 934.5 Scott Sells, with various co-drivers, ruled supreme in the Stock Mini Truck class driving a Toyota. Sells won four events and finished second in all the others, quite an accomplishment. Sells won the class championship by 58 points in a very competitive class. Dusty Times 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 l --,,,J February 1995 Page 17

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back up to fourth. VORRA's Prairie City Short _Course Championship Next it was the Sportsman Vet with 14 cars after Gary Steele #44 had to withdraw. Brian Holloway #14 along with Terry Shelton/ Richard Harjo #89 got the first two spots. It looked like Hollo-way would run away with the moto but he didn't make it past the fourth lap. Steve Bradford #108 and Glen McAdoo #76 were steaming their way from the fifth row with Rob Chavez #33 and Randy Miller #96 in hot pursuit. McAdoo went out on lap three as Bradford was quickly making his presence known to the rest of the field. Chavez and Miller were putting on a show as they chased Bradford. Tom Schultz #133 was right behind working his way up from the very last row. At the flag it was Steve Bradford in first, Rob Chavez in second, Randy Miller in third and Tom Schultz fourth. This set the stage for a real showdown in the second holding off John Flud #24 and gaining on Brag. Ben Wald never gave up the lead once he got out in front, Brag couldn't hold Wolsey who finished second leaving Brag in third place and Flud in fourth. Class 9 moved to the start line w.ith five cars. Mae Long #915 and Steve Souza #921 were first off the line with Danika McLean #921 and Forest Creasy #917 right behind. Eric Steiger #956 had trouble on lap four and couldn't finish. Likewise Mae Long fell to problems on lap six that left a fight for the top three spots. Danika decided it was time for the girls to finish on top and beat Forest Creasy to the check-ered flag. Steve Souza finished not far behind to take third. Creasy would have to come back strong in moto two in order to save face. By Ken Ruff Photos: Air & Auto Sports Photography Cementing his claim to the overall championship at the season's last race, Roger Caddell won both 1-2-1600 heats for Olson Bros. Racing to not only the win for the day, but Caddell won the overall VORRA points title. The final VORRA race of 1994 took place at Prairie City OHV Park in Sacramento on October 30th. The race was preceded by a parade honoring the fallen heroes that raced with VORRA. All the race cars in VORRA lined up and followed the cars of Humbug Rae-. ing and Elrod Racing around the track. Bill Rigsby of Humbug and Curt Elrod passed away in sep-arate incidents this year. They will both be greatly missed by the en-tire racing community. There were 60 cars that came to race the Championship Race. The dual moto style race was limited to eight laps per moto because of The always fast and aggressive Sam Berri was flying high on his way to the Class 2 victory. Sam won both heats and enough points to win the 1994 Class 2 title by a whole bunch of points. The new rig of Eric Lillund looked good on course and he parlayed a second and a third into the Class 4 victory for the day. Not bad especially for a new race car. Forest Creasy suffered in the first heat when Danika McLean beat him, but he evened the score in the second hpat with the win and Danika a close second, and they finished that way in the year in points. Page 18 the time change and the n~mber of races. Today the a II girls Powder Puff race and the infa-mous Mechanics race were on the slate. The racing agenda began with the Sportsman Novice class with fourteen cars. David Kordonowy #299 and Eric Jenkins #77 were lucky enough to draw first off the line. Right behind the leaders in row two was Patrick Timmons #21 who didn't waste any time pulling around them and into the lead. Last off the line was Garry Pinheiro #29 who was making a move up through the pack along with Rich Fletcher #2 7. Kordon-owy went out on lap three and Jarad Wilson #20 on lap five. Pinheiro got around Fletcher and continued up through the rest of the field but could not catch Timmons. Timmons held the lead to the checkered flag with Pin-heiro in second. Matt Oliplant #69 worked his way from the middle of the pack to secure third place and Fletcher came from the moto. The eight Pilots were now lined up and ready with Steve Brag #6 and Dion Reif #28 in the front. Ben Waid #99 was in the second row with Clint Wolsey #7 right behind. Wald wasted no time getting out into the lead and trying to put some space between him-self and the rest of the field. Wolsey continued to move up The five heavy metal vehicles of Class 4 were now ready to rumble. Bob O'Connor #409 and Mike Povey #402 would start this heat in front followed by Curt Wengeler #478, Eric Lillund #445 and finally Don and Chris German #401. This race was very important to the German racing team who are chasing Olsen Racing for the overall champion-ship. O'Connor went out on lap three then on lap five German went out. Povey and W engeler had the race for the number one spot. W engeler got around Povey finally to edge him out for first. Lillund took third with German and O'Connor hoping to make the repairs for the next moto. Wes Elrod was doing it in style and for his late father Curt in his Class 10. Wes won both heats on the day in Class· 10 and also won the class championship by 11 points in a close points battle. The always exciting and com-petitive Class 1-2-1600 was lining up ready to do battle. In the fi.rst row it was Larry Folsom #1691 and Sean Farrel #1601 followed by Roger Caddell #1602 and Walt Lewis #1677. In the back of the pack sat Sid Smith #1652 wanting desperately to do well for his grandpa the late Bill Rigsby. As the green flag dropped Caddell was making his move around Farrell. Folsom held on to the front position for a time before -Caddell moved around him. Under the cover of mud it is Barry Pinheiro finding his way to second in Novice Sportsman heat 1 and a win in heat 2 and victory for the day. He was third on the year's class points tally. Meanwhile Arden Dennington #1661 was having a time in the middle of the pack. Sid Smith was moving up slowly through the ranks. Tyler Mort #1616 never took the flag because his motor let go in the warmup laps. Keith Robb # 1628 was moving through trying to protect his third place season points. In the end all eight cars finished following Caddell in the Olsen Racing two seater in first, Fotsom in second, Smith up to third and Robb in a close fourth. Points were tightening up so the stage was set for the second moto. Class 10 was next with five cars led by Steve Cocking #66 from Washington and Wes Elrod #1036. Dana Van Noort #1047 ·-~ had trouble on lap four and wouldn't finish. Mike Gust #1023 stayed close out the race was between Elrod and Cocking. Elrod was also racing for his late father and would not be beaten. He got around Cocking and took the checkered flag with Cocking a close second and Gust in third. Turek Zdenek #1007 was fourth. Corina Mack drove a well paced race in the Powder Puff, stayed in control and won over five other hard running lady race contestants. The mighty unlimited cars were next led by Jeff Elrod # 111, then Sam Berri# 149 and Floyd Haas in his "mini-mag" #123. The battle for first was between Elrod and Berri with their big motors but motor doesn't always make the car: Elrod went out on lap five leaving Haas to challenge Berri for February 1995 . Dusty Times

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Tom Schultz found some mud puddles on his way to winning the large Sportsman Vet class, taking a fourth and a second for first place in class for the day. Our correspondent Ken Ruff took the wheel of the Arden and Perry Dennington car for the second Mechanics heat and our man went on to the victory in the heat. Ben Wafd survived the mud on the course handily and worked his way up to first place in the highly competitive Pilot Class at the Prairie City finale. the lead and would finish in first with Haas in second. Round two was ready to start with the Sportsman Novice and Garry Pinheiro in the front row. Randy Noriega and Eric Jenkins didn't make it for the second moto. Anderson' was out on lap three, Lesher on lap four, Gurney on lap six as the field thinned out. Pinheiro never looked back and finished first. Lee Hopkins/Mike Bearden #15 moved up well and into second while Patrick Tim-mons #21 came from the back all the way up to third. Rick Fletcher #3 7 held on to fourth. For the day total it was Pinheiro in first, Timmons in second, Fletcher in third and Matt Oliphant #69 in fourth. . The Sportsman Vet class was ready now with the year end title on the line between Jerry Wald #46 and Rob Chavez 333 tied for the lead coming in and Glen McAdon #76 very close only eight points back. Steve Bradford had finished first in the previous moto but was not in the points race. Chavez finished higher than Wald in the first moto and was starting ahead of him in the second moto so Wald had his work cut our for him. Tom Schultz was first off the line with Randy Miller and what a race they put on. Bradford made contact on lap six and rolled while moving up strong. Glen McAdon was on a mission after making repairs and was moving up from the middle of the pack. Travis Caddell #88 was also moving up. McAdon got around Miller and Schultz to take first putting Schultz in second and Miller third with Caddell fourth. For the day Schultz nailed first, Miller second, Chavez third and Caddell fourth. The high winding Pilots were next led by John Flud #24 and Keith Haas #4. Ben Wald was in the back but was not content in staying there long as he started moving up on the leaders right away. Steve Brag had a long way to go from the very back but was moving up. Clint Wolsey moved up from the middle to challenge Flud early. Wolsey got around Flud but so did Wald and he was pushing hard. Wald did get around Wolsey to steal first leaving Wolsey second, Flud in third and Brag in fourth. For the day it was Wald in first, Wolsey in second, Flud in third and Brag in fourth. · Class 9 was now· staged and ready with Eric Steiger #956 and Forest Creasy #917 first off the line. Danika McLean #910 got around Steiger when he broke on lap one, to challenge Creasy. This year long battle continued throughout this moto with Creasy winning it and Danika a close second. Steve Souza #921 and Mae Long diced it out for the third place spot. Long won out in the end taking third and Souza fourth. That was also the finishing order for the day. Class 4 was back itching to get back on the tract. Don German had front row spot next to Eric Lillund. Curt W engeler fell out on lap five with problems and Mike Povey only completed_six laps. German never looked back all the way to take the first and secure his class championship. Lillund held onto the second and O'Connor moved up to third. For the day it was Eric Lillund in first Don German in second and Mike Povey in third. The 1600s were next with plenty on the line for the year end points. Keith Robb had a front row spot next to Kip Whitnack in the Humbug car of Bill Rigsby. Kip was a long time friend and partner of Bill's and normally didn't drive the short courses but was persuaded by Sid to give it one last shot. Kip was a little intimidated by the close quarters and fell off the pace. Arden Den-nignton was the first to challenge Robb for the lead but Caddell and Folsom weren't wasting any time coming up through the field to· make things close and give the spectators a thrill. Dennington moved into first with Caddell in hot pursuit. Folsom and Robb leaving Dennington with second. Folsom won the battle for third and Robb taking fourth. . Class 10 was now ready to be heard and the front row it was Turek Zdenek and Dana Van Noort. Dana didn't stick around long not able to complete a lap. Wes Elrod let his presence be known right away wasting no time moving up from the back into the lead. Steve Cocking followed Elrod right up but couldn't get around Elrod who was determin-ed to win. Elrod did win one more for Dad and first for the day. Cocking was second for the day and Zdenek third and Gust fourth after trouble in the second moto. The Unlimiteds were back up with the Mini-Mag of Floyd Haas . sharing the front row with Sam Berri. Actually this was the race since Jeff Elrod wasn't able to make repairs in time to start. Sam Berri got out into the lead and that was just too many horses for Haas to overtake so they finished in that.order. Rumor is going around that Floyd's brother is trying to convince the team to get into a big truck after his ride with Larry Deaton at Ridgecrest. Now that the pro racing was over for the year it was time for the infamous Mechanics race. There were so many it had to be run in two heats. The winner in heat one was Mike Haas driving the Mini-Mag# 123. Second place was Ted Monday in #88, third was Eric Sisson in #1691, fourth was Tony Comstock in #366 and Lowell King in #1628 fifth. The second heat was won by Ken Ruff in #1661 followed bv Anne Meyer in #38, Third was Robert Martin in #149, fourth was John Geary in #1677 and fifth Dennis Dugan in #1688. The Ladies race was the next with Corina Mack winning it in car #26. Lisa Smith was second in car # 14, Becky Hall third in #1652, fourth Tina Robinson in # 16, fifth Alexandra Miller in #96 and sixth Dona Cocking in #66. That wraps up the 1994 VORRA Series after a good year of racing. Maybe next year.we can get some of the racers from So. Calif. to give usa try. We're faster than they think. I hope everyone has a good holiday season and please don't forget Bill Rigsby and Curt Elrod. They are together watching all of us from the desert: in the sky. Be well everyone and keep the greasy side down. c E ZIE'S AIR FIL ERS K& U l·FILTERS ~-Yi-0_1/J_rJI_O._~-~--R-Q-~-D-.. ~ SPECIALISTS/ ; PHONE: (714) 441-1212 FAX: (714) 441-1622 ill .PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS 2366 E. ORANGETHORPE AVE., ANAHEIM, CA 92806 er: w 0 w lf &l ::! z 0 w w 8 (.) Cll DEALER INQUIRIES WELCOME > T2 930 930 934 BOOT HOLDER .......................................... MRB-86-9305 BOOT HOLDER-CHROMOLY .................... MCK,0108 DUAL BOOT HOLDER ................................ 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HDR-113-501-3310 875 STD BALL ........................................ HYP-19005 934 STD BALL ........................................ HYP-19006 DUAL SNAP-RING DIFF ........... MCK-0113S Cll 5 m en 0 m -I m :0 C z were battling to the delight of the spectators. On the last lap Den- / cr:b nington got a flat and Caddell got around him to take first away en w '!) THREADED DIFF ...................... MCK-0113T ECONO DIFF T-2 ...................... MCK-0101 RACE DIFF T-2 .......................... MCK-0101-1 T1 SPIDER GEAR ..................... MCK-0103-1 T1 SIDE GEAR .......................... MCK-0103-2 :i: m m r" en 0 :i: > w ::, en en >-w J: w ::, ...J cr: ::, 0 w (.) s a. I-:,: (!l a: CV GREASE ............................................... SWE-101 CV GREASE ................................... ............ SWE-103 CV GREASE ............................................... SUP-400 CV GREASE CARTRIDGE ........................ WES-4401 CV GREASE CHALKING ........................... WES-4601 CV GREASE ............................................... RED-CV2-MOLY STD BOOT ................................................. SUP-101 SM BOOT ................................................... SUP-102 BATES BOOT ............................................. BAT-BOOT 930 ROTAT LEATHER ................................ STC-6000 934 ROTAT LEATHEf;! ................................ STC-6001 E FLOATER NO BAG - LEATHER ............. STC-6010 L FLOATER NO BAG - LEATHER ............. STC-6020 SIDE COVERS/A ..................... MCK-0111 IRS SIDE COVER ..................... CLA-4560 "D 6 z Cll Mike Haas was out in front in the family Mini Mag in the first heat of the Mechanics race and he went on to win that hotly contested battle. SIMPSO B A D SEATS IPF C Cl E UG TS BUGPAC o·usty Times February 1995 Page 19

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LA RANA HIGH DESERT 300 Ron Stobaugh Takes The Overall Win By Carol Clark ~ • Z%;«,';«,¾.: Photos: Trackside Photo Inc. Second overall went to Jerry Penhall and George Erl in the Penhall built Class 10; they won the class of course and missed the overall victory by just two minutes in the Penhall chassis. There was joy in Cepekville last November when Ron Stobaugh and Dave Rittenhouse finished first, on the road, in Class 1, and overall. They also won the class championship. Despite the cold they were a very happy group. small oil leak, but that was the extent of the failures, mechanical or otherwise, so this was definite-ly their day. They had many thanks to give beginning of course with the Dick Cepek crew who prepped the truck, Prism Design who built the truck, the greatest co-rider a racer could ask for, pit crews that never fail, a wife who handles the radio communica-tions, an adorable little boy who Scott Fusco and Jeff Quinn in a Raceco who were not real happy because they were going for the overall and they say they would have gotten it if they had not 'blown both right rear shocks at mile marker 10 and had to turn around and scramble back to the pits for replacements. They said they had a 10 minute lead over the Cepek truck and it took 11 minutes to make the necessary repairs and get them on their way. In comparing lap times, I see that Scott and Jeff's first two laps were over 60 mph and Ron and Dave's were 58 and 54 on their first two laps, they may have taken the overall, but as usual fate inter-vened and changed things. Cold was the operative word for this race; I don't know what the temperature got to in the high desert, but I know that staying in the truck facing the sun and occa-sionally turning on the heater, was about the only way to keep from shaking. I got to listen to what was happening during the race, so that was not a problem. I know the racers adrenalin was pumping fast and furious, so they did not suffer from the elements, but I'll bet the pit crews were doing some danc-ing around the pit area to keep warm. I think it would be just great if Eddie could have his races from March through October and. forget these winter races; it's hard_ to write when your fingers are froten and you can't hold a pen with gloves on. My biggest prob-lem with this story will be trying to understand my handwriting, but we'll certainly give it our best. In looking at the number of entries· per class,. it looks as though the unlimited classes are increasing and the limiteds an; de-creasing. Some of the classes are still combined for money, so the pot will be bigger, but the points will remain in the individual classes. In the Super Truck Class 150, there were five entries and in Class 200 there were seven, this Pagc_,o seems to be a tad higher than back in the early days. Could it be that some of these folks are coming to this series from SCORE!!! Maybe they have finally decided to go where the fun is still in racing. The overall statistics for the race are as follows: 89 Total Entries; 86 Starters; 55 Finishers; 16 Classes. The total finishing rate was almost 64%, so that is a good reason for the average race.speed to be 56.07 mph. Almost all the racers that I talked to said that there was a lot of fast stuff on this course and some of them wished they had taller gears so they could go even faster. I thought this area was pretty well worn out, but that must not be the case. Evidently the most difficult part of the course was the dry lake where ' Start/Finish always is, that is was at the finish line waiting to because of the silt, but that is just give Dad a high 5. His name was part of the race course and I guess AJ and he must be all of 1 ½ or 2 they are used to it. years old. Ron and Dave contin-The top four finishers all fin- ued their thanks to BFG Tires, ished within five minutes of each Rancho Shocks and all the friends other -and Ron Stobaugh in the and family that have stuck by Dick Cepek Super Truck was the them and helped them get this leader of the pack. He and co-victory. It is a team effort and rider Dave Rittenhouse were their team is the best. The whole jumping for joy and they had gang is looking forward to going good reason. This was their very . to Laughlin for the awards first overall win after many tries banquet. and they absolutely had to beat Second overall was an old John De Vito in the Pro-Comp friend and good competitor, Jerry truck to get the championship for Penhall along with George Erl, the year. They accomplished both who had to be coaxed by Jerry's this time. I don't think you could wife Carrie, to even come to this have found two happier racers in race. The only delay they had all the entire high desert. They said day was George taking too long to they had one flat and that was due pui: on his gloves at the driver to driver error and they had a change at the end of lap 2. They said that it was almost too fast. They came in first in Class 10 and finished just two minutes and three seconds behind the Cepek truck. They wished for a little rougher course, but said that the course was really well marked and everyone was very courteous out there. After they passed Bob Miller they said they could smell victory and just kept the hammer down. This Class 10 car has a lot of races on it and I guess this race was the swan song for the car; if I'm not mistaken, Carrie said this was the last race for this car, hopefully Jerry will build another one as good or better than this Penhall built chassis. Third overall and second in Class 150 /200 combined was Another Class 10 showed up and that was Larry Bolin who took fourth overall and second in Class 10. He said he had no troubles at all, he just overshot check 1 and got yelled at, but said he couldn't see because of the dust. Larry was one that said he wished he had some taller gears because of the large amount of fast stuff. He kept chasing dust all day and was hoping it was Penhall, but he never could find him. He says that he couldn't have asked for a better performance out of his car. Just needed more speed. A very interesting duo showed up next, Rich Fersch and car builder Bill Varnes. Naturally they were driving a Mirage and they took fifth overall and third in Class 10. Bill said that this was his first time out in a race car in a long time, but figured he'd give it a try since he was invited by Rich to do so. He was just a little sore, but said it was a pretty good ride alto-gether. Rich took the first two laps and gave it to Bill and just said to drive it, no big deal. They did lose second gear, but with a fast course luckily you don't need a lot of second gear. Rich said that he did roll the car on the second lap, he was going -too fast and T~e beat goes o_n for John Pr~sser and Craig Forest, having quite a string of I Larry Bolin drove his-tidy Raceco hard to second in Class 10 and fourth wins m three different assoc,at,ons m recent months. They did it again at overall in a virtually trouble free run, but said he. needed taller gears for this Barstow, first in 1-2-1600 and sixth overall in the trusty Mirage. course, but enjoyed the race. · February 1995 Dusty Times

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T.he Rich Fersch and Bill Varnes Mirage looks about to be overtaken, or maybe they just made the pass; they were third in Class 10 and fifth overall in Varnes' first drive for several years. Bob Scott put in a dandy solo drive in the cold to take third in 1-2-1600 action in the single seater. His car is called a JFK and we don't know what it means. Bob Delozier and Frank Rushich crest one of a thousand bumps in the Class 8 on their way to finishing second in class in the Chevrolet, 30 minutes back. clipped a broken Class 9 car that was on the side of the trail and flipped right on over. He landed on all fours and the driver of the Class 9 gave him the thumbs up and said get going; I guess' nothing important fell off the ·car so he fired her up, took out some pucker bushes and went back to the business of racing. John Prosser was the first 1600 car to finish and was sixth overall. Craig Forrest took the first two laps and he said about 15 to 20 miles off the start, the exhaust broke, so they had about6½ min-utes down time, but that was it for problems. The car which is also a Mirage, ran like a jewel all day long. Roger Cadell brought his 1600 in for second in class and seventh overall. He drove all four laps and said that he had a flat on the first lap and one· on the last lap. Co-rider Jeff Lang rode all four laps and their only other stops were for fuel at the FAIR pits; these boys checked them over real quick and sent them on their way. The 1600's were coming in one right after the other and the very next car in was Bob Scott who said that everything worked great, the kids just out-ran him. Every time he tried to pick it up, he almost lost it, so just kept it down and drove where he was comfortable. He wanted to thank Don Hatz for a strong motor and JFK for the great prep job. . *(Roger Cadell) A few days after the race, Roger called me to give me additional information on why he had to make such a hasty exit from the Finish line. He and his crew had to get to Ontario air-port to catch a plane to Northern California to get to the VORRA awards and they made it with not a second to spare. They left the Lucerne Valley desert in a rental car and headed for the airport, where they had to jump and run to get to the plane, which they had to hold a couple of minutes, who knows, the rental car is probably still sitting at the curbside won-dering where everybody went. This was a very important day for this team at the VORRA awards because they got the overall points for the year as well as the class championship, they won five out of eight races, but finished all eight. Roger wanted to be sure to thank the car owner, Mike Olson for letting him race it all year and wanted to thank his sponsors, Goodyear, Quick Lube of Wash-ington and WEB CAM. Next year Roger plans on going MTEG sta-dium racing. Sounds like they had a pretty good year. In the unlimited 150/200 combined class John De Vito got third for money and second for individual class. His day was not Roger Caddell had a busy Saturday, after commuting from Seattle to Barstow. He was second in 1600 class, seventh overall in the race, dashed to the airport to go to Reno to collect his overall points trophy at the VORRA party. Rick Holmes and Bill Jackson had a good run in their elevated Chevy.and they won Class 8 by 22 minutes. He said it was really cold out on the course, but he • stuck it out and won the season championship. Dusty Times real good, he had five fiats and a want you back. broken tie rod; during one of his In Class 8, we had five starters stops, he got stuck in the silt and and four finishers, the first of had to yell for his chase crew to them was Rick Holmes, who come and pull him out. He hurt brought his Chevy truck in to the his right knee in a strange motor-finish line "in 6:08, which got him cycle "mishap" and did not go to the class championship for the the doctor to find out if there was year. He started with a four point anything seriously wrong with it, lead over his nearest competitor but after driving on a very throb-and knew he had to keep it there or bing and painful knee, he thinks better to get the championship. that there is a real good possibility He did mention that it was really it might be broken. He was de- cold out there, almost too cold to termined to finish out the season, race, but stuck it out. His truck so he did not want ot go to the got a broken rod end, which holds doctor and end up in a cast before the A-~rm in place and the make-the race; now that the season is shift repairs that were made as the over, he'll go and find out if there race progressed, kept things to-is a problem like he thinks there gether, barely. During the course is. Hopefully if the knee is brok-of the day the A-arm got bent and en, he will be well mended by the kept popping out of place, but start of the next season in January. perserverance prevailed and he Take care of ourself John, we .. kept on going. Other than this slight problem, the truck ran great. Someone that I feel I have watched grow up in Off Road Racing is Rick Johnson of Bar-stow. When he was first getting started in the sport, in his little Challenger, he bought a set of tires from me at a SNORE race eight years ago. Since then he has gotten married, had a child, ran and won many .races and has now taken on a new class, ( Class 7 ), a new partner also named Rick Johnson, who is from the Apple Valley area, bought his truck from Chuck Johnson, which was driven by Johnny Johnson, hows that for being Johnsonized?? This was the first time out for this duo in the Class 7 Ford truck and they did great. They fipished first out . of five • ~Pit Service Available with BFG r (Call for details) -t,I Race Site Fuel Service t,I Contingency Program • ~ Recommended by these I"" top ENGINE BUILDERS: • Don Vesco Engineering • Shaver Racing Engines • Parobock's Performance Engineering • Fat Performance • Major. Performance (909) 874-9167 February 1995 Page i1

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Josh Baldwin got a taste of Porsche power in Baja, and he ran one of the family Chenowth Porsches in Class 2 and the teenager finished second. Ken Deck didn't list a co-driver, although one is visible in this picture but anyhow the pair had some troubles but kept going to finish second in Class 5. Michael Rix and co-driver Larry Adams had their Fortune going well in Class 9, and they survived the hazards on the course to take second in the class. Pete Swift whipped around the course in his tidy, Penhall built Class 5 Bug in, quick time after curing early problems, but he fought his way through the field to win Class 5 by over an hour. .,r starters and two finishers and are looking forward to next season. They wanted to thank their new sponsors, Hella and Bilstein for helping them get started this year and are hoping for a couple more sponsors for next year, but they know that they have to prove themselves and dedicate themselves to get the recognition that sponsors want. They had a fine day with no problems at all and think this is going to be a fun adventure. They were driving a 7S truck in a 7 unlimited class and came in just nine minutes behind the first place Class 8 truck, not too shabby I'd say. Good luck_ next year-. The second place Class 8 truck was driv6m by Bob Delozier and Frank Rushich. They had a fairly decent day, They did break a Power Steering line and huffed & puffed to the nearest check point where they made some temporary repairs and then managed to get to the main pit for the replacement parts. The rest of the day was good. They wanted to thank Goodyear, Fireside Financial Chris and Greg Garrett and Jim Harris were the only Mini Mag team of the three starters to cover the four laps and they won the class they wish would grow. Services, Weld Wheels and a great: pit crew, ·always there when needed. A special thanks goes to Randy Shoaff of Metal Works of Rialto, who is another one that is always there and never lets them down. Curt LeDuc was the third place finisher ·in Class 8 who was not complaining one bit. He got the lead in the class before check 3 but broke the right front spindle on the truck and had to wait for the chase crew to get there with the replac_ement before he could continue. Curt has kind of made this series a fun thing for he and his kids. He took each one of them for a lap and his daughter Valerie was in for the last lap and it was his quickest lap of the day. Perhaps we have another LeDuc ready to race, but we'll have to wait awhile, Valerie is only 11 years old, but she is being groom-ed for the sport her Dad loves so much. His two boys Todd, 15, and Kyle, 13, each got a chance riding shotgun with Dad and looks like a good time was had by all. broke off. If this doesn't sound feasable, sorry. When he contact-ed his pits to find out how he was doing, they said he was about to lap another 5 car or he was two minutes behind him, this kind of made Pete nervous, because he didn't know ifhe could lighten up a little or really push it. He said that he spent most of the day play-ing with a 5-1600 car, he said that this car was always there and just wouldn't go away. Jeff Williams has ridden with him for two years and Pete says he does a great job. The throttle cable got stuck a little, but that happens and was no big deal. Pete says it just feels great to win again. He did six SCORE races and got two seconds and fin-ished second but no wins. Next year he is teaming up with Brady Helm to race in Class 7, he's been racing this same car for 6½ years and maybe it is time to move on However he has had no com-plain ts about this Penhall car. Everytime it breaks; they just keep upgrading it to keep up with the new technology. He and Brady should have a good time next year, they are both neat guys. kes the desert by stornil The ever friendly face of Pete Swift was behind the steering wheel of the first Class 5 car to hit the finish line. Even though there were only, four starters and three finishers, it is a good class and a fast class to compete in. It was at this point in the day when the sun was going down and my fingers were frozen, so if things don't make sense from here on, please accept my frozen apologies. Pete says he lost a crank bolt on the pulley and Sierra Auto Salvage's own Tom Koch came to his rescue with a replacement bolt, got it on and sent him on his way. This happened about five miles off the start so Pete had time to catch up to the pack and start picking his way to the front, he got there and then had power steering problems which he had to keep stopping for and his exhaust collector· In the Mini Mag class there were three starters and only one finisher. Since this is a single seat class, all three drivers got a shot at driving. Chris Garrett, the driver of record, brother Greg and Jim Harris. Chris took the first two laps and said that there was just enough breeze to keep the dust off the course. He turned the car over to Greg for the third lap and the exhaust pipe broke on him, so hearing was a factor after that. Greg turned the car over to Jim for the last lap and the other exhaust pipe took a dump. Even though it will be awhile before Jim regains his hearing, he said it was lots of fun. Chris did say that he did get lost on the first lap and some of the other racers followed him and it kind of looked like they were all on some sort of scavenger hunt for awhile. After about four or five -minutes, he found his way back to the course as did the others and they got back Pagett February 1995 Scott and Todd Johnson plus Jerome Johnson and Kim Martin had plenty of crew to fight the cold weather in the new Meridith. 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Mike Molina is a veteran of these trails near Barstow and he and Dennis Sletten catch a little air and were second in 5-1600 for the Indio Dune Buggy club. Daniel and Steve Drake have been racking up points in Class 5-1600 class and despite a short delay they finish,ed third in the competitive class. · Scott Steinberger and Larry Plank have wild swings in luck, and this race the Ford had its woes along the trail well over an hour down time, but they kept moving to finish second in Class 7. to the business of racing. They would like it better if there were more entries in this class. Class 9 only had nine entries this time, but out of those nine, seven managed to finish. I think the lack of rough stuff on this course at_tributed to the high fin-ishing rate in each class, especially the limited classes like this one. Scott Johnson got to the check-ered flag first. By the looks of my notes, it looks like Meridith Automotive had gas that went out the overflow and leaked on the skid pan. This car is a family endeavor, Jerry (the Dad) and Todd, Scott's brother rode to-gether and diced it out with car #956 for a good part of the day and did have fun doing it. The car itself is called "The Old Goat", after their Grandfather who got them all started in this sport; they thought it would be kind of a nice tribute to him. this is their first year of racing and this is their first win, so they were happy. They didn't have any other problems, besides the gas problem mention-ed earlier, speaking of which they had to put in two gallons to make it to the finish line. Scott took the first two laps with a young lady named Kim Martin who has ridden every race this year and loves it. The 5-1600s or 550s as they are now called, were nine strong at the starting gate, seven finished in the time alotted, I got to talk to the first place finisher and that was the team of Lee and Lance Patten and co-rider "Red" Burg-in. Lance stayed in the car for 7:02 hours without a "relief" break if you know what I mean, so when I was approaching the car for story time, I just about got run over by Lance heading for the "green room". They rolled the car on the second lap and the throttle cable got stuck on the last lap, but neither was of any serious con-sequence. This win brings them to the Class Championship and the Overall Championship for the La rana series and they were on cloud 9 . Congratulations for a job well done!! Now we'll go back to the two lappers who finished before it got so cold, most of these stories should make sense. First we have Class 1575, in which there were four starters and four ffnishers. In looking at the overall results of these stone stock trucks, Ra.y Currie sort of kicked butt out there. He finished his two laps in 3:3 7, the rest of the finishers were over four hours, Ray's average speed was 40 .4 7 mph, for a stone stock truck, that is moving along pretty good. Ray and co-rider George Maher said that this was the fastest course all year and they made some changes to the suspen-sion on the truck that made it handle great. They wanted to thank BFG and Auto Fab for their Dusty Times help this year. They had a trouble · free race. The boys were keeping their fingers crossed that no one else in their class came in within the next two minutes because that means that besides winning the race they would also take the class championship for the year. As it turned out, they had absolutely nothing to worry about. I have to smack myself for the . falsehood about everyone else taking over four hours to do the course. Dave Edelstein and Dennis Lightle finished in 3:51 and this is the second year that they have been a bridesmaid and not a bride, but it wasn't for the lack of trying. They got a little crazy on some whoops out on the course and saw sky and then dirt and just knew that they were going to roll, but fate and good driving skills prevailed and they landed on all three's, one tire blew on impact. A broken steering wheel and a thrashed cooler were also the ,,,-IF Yd/I (JJIIIY A ·Nt55AIY P/Clf-1/P Ill """ fJR PATIIF/IYPER Ill YfJ/1 IIIAY /IE IIYTERE5TEP /IY fJIIR HEW Pl/Al FRfJIYT51/fJCI( QT, FfJRSo/ -94/ NISSA~ 2MJ AIYP 4MJ /;fl/Cl:£ IHlHlUIIIUUll!lldllWIHHIIIIIRHdHBmJlll@IHHIPHIWlll)■wUUIH!HIDIIIIIIUIUIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIDHIIHUIIIIIDIHIIIIIIUIIIOIIIIIHlliHIHOllffllll!IIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIU!IUlllllllW!llilllUIBllllHIIHffillOOttllhHHllPIHUdl CPI' Pl/Al 51/tJCI( l(IT5 ARE EIY/l/lYEEREP TtJ l/5E A IARllE 10-/IYCf/ TRAJIEI 51/tJC,( TtJ lll//E YtJ/1 JIAUJIIIJI PERf"tJRJIAIYCt; tJIY AIYP tJf'f'-RtJA/J. IOIIIOIIHOHIHiltlllliUIIIIHllfiHllrtlfl!H!IIHHIIIHlll®llll!!IIIDIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIWIHHlWHODn)INWillllUlllHDIIIHUl!HHIIIIIIHIIIOIIIHUIUIIIUIUmHIH@PIOUIIHIIIUHIIIHHIHlllllll!OlillHlUHPHWIUMOllHUIUIVIIIHHIIIIIHUH FtJR JftJRE IIYFtJ CAif ,," tllff()Jf /JE5//JIY • • FAIIRICATdR5 • FOR MORE INFO CALL: ,r/P/# 6(/1//S' ~M.RMrRJ"MJ) IKSTAIIAH/JN AWAI/AIU "8 RJ,f MIGES I 619-247-1400 February 1995 Page !l3

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Lee Patten rears up out of a typical Barstow course ditch, but no harm was done and Lee and his co-drivers, Lance Patten and Greg Burgin won Class 5-1600 with a 13 minute cushion. Shad Balch flies in fine form in the Nissan and he charged hard enough to make his dad proud and win the class, by a scant six minutes. The paint scheme sure brings back a lot of memories. p-end result of this wild ride in the Ford. My notes say that T&J did a great job of passing the bottle, but I think it really means T&J put up a great battle and they passed Edelstein and Lightle who finished second in class in .3 :51 .18 while using a bottle jack to change the flat. You can choose the ver-sion you like best. All four start-ers finished. Class 1525 had a 100% finish-ing rate, three Toyotas out and three in. Larry Gross came in first and was pretty happy, he said that the fii:st part of the course was pretty rough but the last part was real fast and he's not real used to the fast stuff, so this was kind of a treat. Things were clanging and banging on the truck, but nothing of any real significance fell off so they kept on going. Larry and Roger Malcolm, his co-rider, wanted to thank BFG for the great Baja T A's, Kuster for the bullet proof shocks and Full Tilt Off Road Equipment for the great West Coast Distributor· fOR HEWLAND OFF ROAD GEARS ALL OUR PRICE $695·.oo GEARS . AVAILABLE SEPARATELY Per Set 2 Ratio's Available NEW RATIOS AVAILABLE Valley Performance 3700 Mead-Ave. Las Vegas, NV 8910'2 702/873-1002 .McKenzie Performance Products 2366 East Orangethorpe Anaheim, CA 92800 714/441-1212 DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 24 Barstow's Rick Johnson has moved from buggies to trucks, and his tidy Ford Ranger was once built by Chuck Johnson and John Johnson. This Rick Johnson had no trouble adapting and won Class 7 handily. prep job. Thanks also went to enport rode the first lap and Stanley Exhaust, Royal Purple Oil Kevin Askier who rode the sec-and EOT, Engineered Otho Tech, ond lap was kept quite busy put-Inc. ting things back on the truck that Mike Yarman took second were falling off. Of course special place in 1525, but really had a thanks goes to Dennis Willis for hard time doing it. First the his "Studman chase crew", great tranny got stuck in third gear, job. which made for interesting man-Kathy Fay who came in second uevers in the rough stuff, two in Class 1500, just about had to miles after that a motor mount give her interview in shorthand broke, then the throttle cable because she too had to beat it to broke, this they were able to other awards in other parts of makeshift repairs with a wire. The California. She and her sister motor mount thing I don't know if they put in another one or just kept going without one. They had no flats all day and were very greatful to Goodyear for tires that worked great. Stacy had to get to Costa Mesa for the MTEG awards, but she did ma,nage to give me some pretty good info before she took off. About five miles into the race, a fuel pump line broke and it took an hour for the crew to find them and make the repairs. Kathy said -that she hit car #928 totally by accident and wanted to apologize to the occupants, I think she was able to do so in person, because as we were talking, 928 took the checkered flag. She said that she started with 138 points and thinks that she got the class championship for this year. She wanted to give her thanks to BFG tires, Proctor Glove Co, Rancho Suspension and Ford for the great truck. The number one thank yous went to her Dad, Jim Fay for not having any boys. The last bit of information I have that is legible is from Ted Randall and Jeff Straw who came in third place in Class 1500. They kind of put the whole race in a nutshell; they had to change an alternator on the first lap because the chase crew was not around. That's all folks. Additional Pictures on page 26 Class 1550 on~e again saw the team of Nelson, Nelson, Nelson, Johnson & Bays, take the win; They said the first part of the course was rough indeed and they developed a tranny fluid leak around Pit C and had to stop at every pit and put in trans fluid after that. Fred Jr. & Sherry Nelson took the first lap, which wasn't too bad and Fred Sr., & Bill Bays took the last lap and it was then that the exhaust header broke and in house communica-tion ceased except for sign lang- · uage and body language. They think they have the class points for the year, hopefully they will once again be able to hear by the time the awards banquet rolls around. Ray Curie and George Maher run a really big Ford in Class 1575, pristine enough to run on the street. They kept it tidy and won the four truck Class 1575 by 14 minutes. · Ken Parr took.second in 1550 and said they just went too slow. They did make a stop because they thought they had a blown bearing in the right front wheel, but the pit crew could find noth-ing wrong. One of the co-riders, Rich Piper, came out just for this race, all the way from Fort Col-lins, Colorado, which is where my little boy Eric is now living. Maybe Rich and Eric can get in touch and get some off roading going in that gorgeous country and then this publication can send the "Scoop", aka me, back to cover the races, sounds good to me. I think that Piper's Grease Monkey Quickly Lube 250 sounds like the name of a good race. Class 1500 also had a 100% finishing rate. Les Willis came in in 5:22 and was pretty glad to do that good. He rolled the truck at MM40 on the first lap and landed on his wheels, but got a flat as a result and damaged the front end, · but his pit crew, the infamous · "Bud Boyz" came thru again, as did Art Becker of Becker Racing with Dunlop tires that have gone through two years of racing, Downey Off Road, Fab Tech; special thanks to FAIR Pit E for some super welding. Steve Dav-February 1995 Les Willis and Dennis Willis and company look to have encountered a tree or a rollover experience. But they kept on rolling in the Toyota to take first place in Class 1500. Larry Gross and three different co-drivers led by Roger Malcolm ran the . slickly painted Toyota in fine style, right into the win in Class 1525, which is four wheel drive mini trucks. Dusty Times

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Colin McRae Wins The 50th Network Q RAC Rally Didier Auriol Wins The 1994 Champ•ionship Text & P1wtos: Martin Halmes Colin McRae and Derek Ringer fly over the damp British trails in the Subaru lmpreza 555 on their way to victory in the RAC Rally. It was the first win by a British team in 18 years. It has taken 18 years for Roger Clark's feat as a British driver win-ning the British round of the World Rally championship to be repeated. Colin McRae, curiously born 29 years to the day after Roger, made it all seem so easy, in the way we have seen visitors to our country make it look so easy before. Colin mastered not only the driving but aslo an extroard-inary series of political situations tied up with the World Drivers' Championship, which at one time looked to threaten his right to win the event! In the end Colin's teammate Carlos Sainz threw away his chance to win the title, . the pressure was off, and it was a toss-up to know who was the most relieved, Colin or the man who gained the title as a result, Didier Auria!. Didier Auria! came to the 50th RAC rally defending his 11 point championship lead over Carlos Sainz, his only remaining chal-lenger. A classic battle was ex-pected, because fourth at the fin-ish would give Auria! the title even if Sainz won outright. Carlos had to finish in the top three even if Didier failed to score a point. And J uha Kankkunen, now out of the title race, drove the new model Celica ST 205, while Auriol and Japanese trainee Y oshio Fujimoto drove the older ST185 Toyotas. With Mitsubishi competing in-stead at the Thailand Rally, there were two other top teams to chal-lenge Toyota. Subaru had never won the RAC and Colin McRae was a strong contender while every effort was being given to Sainz. The RAC looked to be a spectacular grand finale for Ford, the team due to be wound up at the end of the year. Ford had six works entries run by five different teams with cars in three different color schemes. Endless rumors circulated about Ford's future plans and RAC results would be a critical turning point for Ford in Rally competition. Although Toyota had already won the manufacturers' title the thorny question of negative fuel analysis iQAustralia hounded the 2-liter Cup teams. Had Skoda already won the Cup in Spain without knowing it? GME had not given up hope, and had former British champion David Llewellin as well as Gregoire de Mevius to defend their honor, while both Tommi Makinen and Alister McRae drove for Nissan, Emil Triner and Pavel Sibera for Skoda; Renault could not score as no F2 Renaults entered. This event saw the W arid Champion-ship debut for a fully prepared Ford Escort RS2000, in the hands of former British Group N champion Gwyndaf Evans, while the 1994 Group N British Champion Martin Rowe swapped his Escort for a Peugeot 306S16. The 1994 Group N FIA champ-ionship had yet to be decided. Spaniard Jesus Puras, Ford, started the rally six points ahead of the German Isolde Holderied, Mitsubishi, who had already won the FIA Ladies Cup earlier in 1974. This event promised to be full of interest. There were some 188 cars, a post recession record entry. The first day would be shorter than last year, which meant cars would run the second day in starting number order. There was nostalgia everywhere. Two nights before the start there was a gala dinner at which nearly all the previous winners were present. A former British Champ-ion Russell Brooks drove a Mini, an updated version of the car which won the 1965 event. The long stages on the RAC Rally demand special attention. T earns worried about fuel con-s ump ti on, especially on the second day, between stages 8 and 10 over a total of 35 miles with no servicing allowed. Toyota added an extra 20 liter fuel tank to all their cars. There were various novelties on the event among the competitors: this was the first World Championship appear-ance for the new shape Opel/ Vauxhall Astra, the Peugeot 306Sl6, a Ford RS 2000 on state of the art form and for the first time Proton competed in Europe. This was the last time Phil Short was to act as team manager for TIE before retirement, the last rally for the Skoda Favorit before the team changes to the Felicia Kit Car, and the last time TIE used the ST185 car on an orthodox stage event. Subaru dominated the overall competition and Nissan the For-mula 2 category on the traditional opening day of 'p\iblicity stages', both teams using Pirelli tires. The early leader Carlos Sainz was delayed on stage 3 when the impact of water at a ford damaged the radiator and caused the alter-nator belt to come adrift. He lost a half minute and there were re-ports he had been illegally helped to reach his service point. T earn-mate Colin McRae inherited the lead, the two pulling ahead of the opposition led by Kankkunen's Toyota and a bunch of Fords. Auriol hit a rock on stage 3 and broke the lower suspension arm on the right front wheel, losing over four minutes. The car was repaired for a full-out attack, but that night was 32nd overall. Ford struggled on the opening stages, the semi-works drivers Bruno Thiry and Malcolm Wil-son ahead of official drivers (iQ 70RK Q If.t1 #1 ;cl4< -~ ...... tl~'<l~••· •:-----• Didier Auriol right, and Bernard Ocelli were the happiest ever team to come in sixth, and winning the World Drivers title. It truly was a banner year in the WRC for Toyota. Francois Delecour and Miki Bai-sion. On the final stage of the day Delecour went off the road, spun in the darkness became disorien-tated, cut out part of the course and reached the end 30 seconds faster than the others. The day started badly for Richard Burns whose Subaru slid off the road, spun and hit a post, damaging the steering and his thumb. This was a day of remarkable family success. Alister McRae had been leading F2, then Colin took the overall lead, while father Jimmy was a challenger for the lead in the simultaneous Rally Britannia, an historic event using many of the RAC Rally stages. A surprise F2 challenger to the favored Nissan was Evans' Escort. GME driver de Mevius rose to second place when Alister McRae spun on the final stage of the day, but Llewellin spun on the first stage and lost a half minute. Both Peugeots had engine troubles. Brookes' Mini was bravely tack-ling the stages, but was delayed by fuel problems. In Group N the title contenders took the first day easily. Puras had turbocharger trouble all day. At day's end Holderied was 9th and Puras 10th in Group N. Karamjit Singh lost . over ten minutes on stage 2 after hitting a tree stump and damaging a wheel on the Proton. The publi-city Toyota of Will Hoy was out when it hit a tree on stage 4. That evening Toyota were anxiously looking for evidence about the incident at Chatsworth. Many spectators confirmed that Sainz's car was helped by out-siders to reach the service point some miles after the end of the stage. First of all his car was phys-ically pushed by Delecour's Ford, then by teammate Colin McRae, so it could reach the service point without unnecessary engine damage. No official complaint could be lodged for lack of spec-ific evidence, however. On Etape 2 the Championship seemed to be slipping Sainz's way as Auriol continued to have problems. On stage 8 the Toyota was off the road and overturned in mud, losing ten minutes before spectators were able to push him away. Then on stage 13 the turbo-charger broke costing _another four minutes. "Not my day" he joked. While Colin McRae in-creased his lead Sainz, despite making no fastest times all day, rose to second place when Kank-kunen spun on stage 14, Sainz's objective was clear; "If I stay in front of Kankkunen, the champ-ionship should be secure." Juha Kankkunen and Nicky Grist drove the new Toyota Celica GT-Four to second place overall sliding through the soggy stuff as only a Finn can do, bouncing into second to protect points for their teammate and new champion. It was a long and tough season in Group N but in the end Jesus Puras and Alex Romani, who finihsed 16th in England, won the Group N Championship by a few points in the Ford Escort RS Cosworth. The toughest part of the day was when stages 9 and 10 totaling 36 miles, had to be tackled with-out service in between and many drivers had problems. Burns and Wilson appeared to have hit the same rock in the first, each with disastrous results. Burns strug-gled through the next stage until the suspension finally collapsed. The driver who has been under consideration for a permanent third works seat next year said: "I made a mistake and let myself and the team down." For Wilson things were not quite so bad. He fell from fourth to eighth because of a bent rear suspension and a broken driveshaft, and effectively went into service with only front wheel drive working. Then at the end of stage 11 a wheel "just fell ·off", and he lost more time, but a good drive through his local Grizedale forest brought him up Pagcl8 February 1995 Dusty Times

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Sliding down the starting ramp Bruno Thiry and Stephane Prevot, had a good run in the Ford Escort RS Cosworth that took them to third overall in the mixed conditions of this event. All of Ford's efforts brought them the first ever Formula 2 title with the Escort driven by Gwyndaf Evans and Howard Davies. It was the WC debut of the Ford Escort RX 2000. Up front almost all the way Tommi Makinen and Seppa Harjanne took ninth overall and second in Formula 2 in the quick Nissan Sunny GT I rally car. Working hard for the title for GME, Gregoire de Mevius and Willy A new entry into the Formula 2 ranks was the Peugeot 306S16. It Lux were tenth overall, third Formula 2. The B{Jlgians drive an ·was driven by Martin Howe and Chris Wood to 14th overall and Opel Astra GSi. fifth in Formula 2. The Skodas led Formula 2 most of the year, but the Favorit 136L did not have the power of its new rivals, and Pavel Sibera/Petr Gross were 19th 0 /A and sixth in Formula 2 competition. ------------------------to fifth. Kankkunen spun on stage they lost their performance and winning the tire wars, faster on 14 wiping off his auxiliary lights we could not keep up." said the stages in the south that were and drove slowly through stage Kankkunen. Auriol started the hard surfaces covered with mud. 15, helping Sainz's position. day in 17th place and by stage 21 Pirelli tires were fitted to the The hopes of the official Ford was up to 9th. He was now ex-leaders of the three major team came to an end. The organiz-pected to finish eighth, all things categories. ers ignored protestations and re- being _equal. Thiry was having a The World Championship fused to let Delecour restart, and remarkable event: "I have been came to a sensational finale when Biasion, after losing four minutes going only 95% and I am sur-Sainz crashed on stage 24. It was due to damage sustained hitting a prised at h~w well we have been an astonishing end to the champ; bird, retired with engine failure doing." Wilson fell back from ionship trail. He lost 34 minutes on stage 15. Six Fords were in the fifth to sixth when he went off the retrieving the car and there was no top ten and the brand was also road two stages before the end of point in continuing. Kankkunen, leading Group N and F2. Wales the day. Habig hit a spectator next car along, could hardly be-promised to be exciting. Auriol ( "That man was intent on taking a lieve his eyes: "A lot of people was still in contention for the title picture of an accident, his own") were trying to get him back on; for despite being 22 minutes behind who broke his leg and caused a moment we joked about pushing· McRae. The rally was less than stage 18 to be interrupted. Later him further off the road, but felt half run. In F2 Makinen swapped Habig lost his service crew and we should let ·the spectators do the lead with Evans when he had a had to tackle a stage at night with their best." On stage 23 Sainz had flat tire, Alister made best time on only one headlamp. had to swerve to avoid logs on the stage 8, but then had electrical In Group N Milner led all day, problems. Group N champion-Kamioka remained second in· ship contenders Puras was third front of Puras and Holderied. In and Holderied fourth. F2 Evans lost most of his gears on On Etape 3 with the traditional stage 18 and had to drive stage 19 stumbling blocks of Kielder and in this condition and lost the lead the Lake District behind him, to Makinen, who by the end of the Colin was. now firmly established day was more than a minute ahead. in the lead. The race was on for The press office was aliv.e with second place. Toyota driver speculation that Subaru would Kankkunen hoped to deny Sainz · have to tell Colin McRae to lose the position so he would not score the rally to let Sainz win the too many points. However, the championship. On TV teammate race was still going in Sainz's dir-Burns said Subaru had worked for ection after Toyota found their five years for the opportunity of a tire choice for the two long South title, and he would expect the Wales stages was not good team to think in the long term on enough. "Up to half way on each this issue. These things have hap-stage the tires were very good, but pened before, but never with such in the second half of these stages emotional significance. Pirelli was 50th Network Q RAC Rally Rally Colin McRae/Derek Ringer G3 Subaru lmpreza 555 Juha Kankkunen/Nicky Grist SF/GB Toyota Calica GT-4 Bruno Thiry/Stephane (revot B Ford Escort RS Cosworth Stig BiomqvisVBenny Melander S Ford Escort RS Cosworth Ari Vatanen/Fabrtzia Pons SF/I Ford Escort RS Cosworth Didier Auriol/Bernard Occelll F Toyota Calica Turbo 4WD Gwyndaf Evans/Howard Davies G3 Ford Escort RS 2000(F2) Jan Habig/Douglas Judd ZA Ford Escort RS Cosworth Tommi Makinen/Seppa Harjane g; Nissan Sunny GTI Gregoire de Mevius/Willy, Lux - B Opel Astra GSi Jonny MIiner/Steve Turvey (12th) GB Ford Escort RS Cosworth Isolde Holderled/Tina Thorner (16th) D/S Mitsubishi Lancer EV. II David Llewellln/lan Grind rod (11th) G3 Vauxhall Astra GSI Martin Howe/Chris Wood (14th) G3 Peugeot 306S16 Jesus Puras/Alex Romani (15th) E Ford Escort RS Cosworth Pavel Slbera/Petr Gross (19th) CZ Skoda Favorit 136L Emil Triner/Jiri Klima (22nd) CZ Skoda Favorit I36L A• 5:17:25 A 5:20:58 A A A 5:27:37 5:30 :13 5:34:25 A 5:47:57 A•• 5:52:24 A 5:53:16 A 5:53:25 A•• 5:53:54 N • 5:57:37 N# 6:05:23 A•• 5 :54:31 A•• 6:04:51 N 6:05:08 A•• 6:10:28 A .. 6:13:29 • THE road, but the problem this time was of his own making. Auriol meanwhile had also gone off the road, for 50 seconds or so, but the Championship was his, despite everything that had gone wrong he had risen to seventh place, then went one pl~ce further up the order when Malcolm Wilson crashed ending up ten meters off the road. Just at that moment the teams' relay plane had to force land with engine trouble; a disas-trous event for Ford came to an end. Didier Auriol won his title and then came the moment when the F2 prize on the event went to Evans when Makinen lost time having overturned the car. The Welshman had engine and gear-ml -178 starters (49 F2) - 97 finishers (30 F2) - ·Group Winners - •• F2 qualifier -#ladies Winner - Winner's average speed over stages 61.13 mph Final points (best 8 scores) World Championship - Toyota 182(151), Subaru 166(140), Ford 116, No longer eligible Mitsubishi 41, Renault & Skoda 4. WAC Drivers - Aurtol 116 points, Sainz 99, Kankkunen 93, C. McRae 49, Thiry 44, Blaslon 42, Schwarz 31, Delecour 30, Vatanen 28, Makinen, 22. Aurlol now Champion. Group N Drivers - Puras 50, Holderied 43, Recalde 27, Njiru, Menem ,Ordynskl etc. 13 Puras now Champion - FIA Ladies Cup Holderled 59 points, now CI\Bmpion. 'WRIGHT Provisional Final positions in FIA Manufacturers Cup (Formula 2) for 2-llter cars -GME 42, Skoda 46(41), Nissan 40, Renault 33, Peugeot 18, etc. Dusty Times 9420 FHnn Sprlngt Ln. PLACE El Cajon, CA 92021 INC. February 1995 box troubles of his own. Rowe, in the fourth place F2 car was also struggling: he lost a wheel ("Incredible, we had to drive round an ess-bend and my wheel overtook me!") and then on the final stage had a strut break. He stayed ahead of the Skodas who finished sixth and seventh, failing to add to the championship total points score and who had to wait for the FIA hearing the following week to know whether they,. would win the FIA 2-liter Cup or not. Puras had nothing adverse to report and finished ahead of Holderied to win the FIA Cup for Production Car Drivers, compen-sation for Spain after the troubles of their country's rallying master. What an end to the 1994 season. Page 19

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IWSStadium Off Road Gran Prix In Australia Text & Photos: Darryl Smith In the 2WD truck category it was David Mindham most of the night. He was second in heat 1 and 2, won heat 3 in his Ford, then won the class final, and came back to win the 2WD Tin Top feature. The Parramatta Raceway recently was transformed into a maze of jumps, humps and tight corners as the off roaders came to town for the third annual 2WS Stadium Off Road Gran Prix. It was by far the biggest role up of cars yet and the track was going to be a fast one, so action was guaranteed. Starting the show off were the 1600 buggies. In all 14 cars charged into the first corner of heat 1. It was Chris Owen hop-ping back in the Funco that got a break on the rest and was never . snuck through to take the win over Ziems, Graham, and Mat-thew Strahan. Heat 3 saw Chris Watman get a great start while Frank D' Ambros got jammed against a tire marker. Watman led Owen and Ziems until he stopped on the edge of the track. Owen assumed the lead while Ziems got a sizeable shove to be put back. In the end Owen took the win over Graham, Strahan, and Patard; who like Strahan was one of six cars that came over from South Australia. Then there was the eight lap Final where Strahan won the start. D' Ambros bad luck continued and was without drive on the first corner. Patard's full-on style though soon saw him at the front with Owen trying to catch him. Graham exited in spectacular fashion after flying over the main jump sid~ways. In the end no one could catch Patard as he took the win over Owen, Bruce Watman finally getting into the places, Strahan, Medrano, Chris Watman and Beckett. There were more cars in the Open buggies. In fact they were Chris Owen got a break in the first corner of the 14 car first 1600 heat race. He got a good lead and never looked back taking the win in the Funco. split into two groups and it was in heat 1 A that Daren Wells got the early lead only to be passed by Glen Owen who was running a new Nissan turbo motor. Then the Daryn Maggs car landed on its nose and went on a scary end for end run down the straight. Maggs was OK but the car wasn't so lucky. On the restart it was Wells back at the front and he held that through to the end where he beat home Owen, Richard Bennett in his last buggy drive and Chris Owen running his 1600 against the open boys. Heat 1 B saw Mick Myers get the start to lead the S.A. pair of Si Heaslip and Trevor Copeland. Heaslip got by Myers and took the win while Connor was coming through the herd; he landed on Myers as he crossed the finish line. Copeland came in fourth. Wells held his lead to the end and it was Chris Owen lead-ing home brother Glen. Bennett took fourth. Heat 2B got off to a wild start with Styles being pushed off the jump sideways and Connor rolled but continued while Styles did Simmonds taking the win over Copeland, Guy and HeasliP,. Heat 3A turned into a follow the leader right from the start with Wells, Glen Owen, Bennett, Chris Owen and Mick Cowie in a brand new single seater holding their posi-tions through to the finish. While in heat 3B it was Heaslip who grabbed the lead over Connor and Ford. Then Connor pulled out allowing Heaslip to lead Ford tc the end with a long gap back to Guy and Simmonds. The Final saw all the open cars line up together. It was Wells, Bennett and Heaslip that led the pack. Glen Owen meanwhile was carving through to be on Wells' tail in no time. As the pair began lapping traffic they took different lines and Owen got the better and the lead. Bennett too got past Wells but it was not over as Wells came back near the end. But no one could catch Owen as he powered on to win. Wells was second over Bennett, Ford, Sim-monds and Connor. · headed. A long way back was a great battle for second. In the end , it was a different bunch at the first / corner. Andrew Ziems led over Chris Watman in a brand new Stadium buggy, and Jason Graham. Patard and Martin had a coming together further back, while Ziems held his lead almost to the end where Chris Watman They split the Open buggies into two groups there were so many of them. In not. Myers then lost a front wheel the first heat Daren Wells was running a new Nissan turbo engine, and took from the earlier impact. Mean-the lead, lost it, then got it back to win the heat, and also won the finale. while Robert Simmonds had the -wJl.lll!lll!lllll!!··•···• .. iiiii1111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII■--lead with Howard Ford close in Finally there was also a com-bined buggy Final which saw Wells again lead off the line. Patard went off and was done, while Owen was again pressuring Wells until he got a flat. Wells then had Bennett on his tail. Connor landed heavily and broke his gearbox in two and left his engine cage on the track for others to throw around. In the end it was ll!! -, , second. Then Ford slipped HI-TECH • SUSPENSION SPECIALISTS • FREE EXPERT CONSUL TING • INSTALLATIONS I VISA I -iii] OFF ROAD RACING HEADQUARTERS LARGEST INVENTORY IN LAS VEGAS FDTIJIIII • UCIII INBTIWEAII • 10 FF.11111111 • AERO Ill TINKI • BITCHES •AIIIOO. •AITCIIUI •llffllFAB •Bl■ •BEITOP •BODYLIF'n •MW • DOEITCII ni:11 •IIBTll&ltl • FMDEII FLAB£S • FLOWIIIITEB • FUEL ca.1,1 •GRIZZLY Page 30 • BOWE IIIIATOIII , ~ -• , • KIN · ·", • KC IIILftEI · ; ~, .. ,.. ~ · :::C..'"ft°.::&.10~~1: .. ~0-...... ~MAI : SAFETY EQUIPIIENT •~-e.e!.-.. ,.._~3-;:f;.t-~ :.· · --.: •. -. ·t~~., • SlllffYBIJILT OPEN MON.-FRI 9-6 • SAT. 9-3 • STAINLESS . . .:=:::-:,-702-362-2089 • SUPEIILln' 3867 S. VALLEY VIEW : ==-JUST NORTH OF THE GOLD COAST • DRIVING sum DD ■OREi February 1995 through into the lead but Sim-monds slammed into him and put Ford over. The race wasn't re-. started so in the mayhem it was The 4x4 division had two favorites where Fabio Zarfati won the first heat, had troubles with the Mitsubishi Pajero twin turbo V-6 in later heats, but took the lead in the finale restart and won that feature race. Dusty Times

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Jon Petard was flying in the 1600 heats, and really came on in the 1600 final with a full on style that saw him emerge the winner in the hard fought 8 lap race. Bruce Garland was another 4x4 favorite in the Mitsubishi Triton, ran second in heat 1 but came back to win the close battles in both heat 2 and heat 3. Howard Ford started out having a good evening, but in heat 28 in the Open class, running second behind Robert Simmonds, then passed him, but was then hit hard enough by Simmonds to flip out of the action. W ells taking the win over Bennett then Heaslip who was somehow penalized and third was given to Ford, over Chris Owen, Sim-monds and Graham. All eyes were on the 4x4 racing to see which Mitsubishi was quickest; the Fabio Zarfati Pajero or the Bruce Garland Triton. In heat 1 it was Zarfati that got the upper hand and led the pack through to the end where he was followed by Garland, and Roly Dixon in a wild VW Golf with a motor at each end hence the 4x4 category. Heat 2 saw Garland get the jump and he covered every line that Zarfati tried. In a very close finish Garland held on and won over Zarfati and Grant White's nimble turbo Lada Niva. Heat 3 saw Garland again lead into the first corner and again Zarfati was aU over the back of him but unable to slip through. The Pajero then clipped a tire marker and broke the steering. Garland was untroubled to win over White and Michael Mansell 's multi coloured VS 'Cruiser. The 4x4 Final was another repeat with Garland leading but Zarfati got alongside only to hook onto the sliding Garland and the two locked together. W hite took the lead and actually lapped the pair. But then a restart was effect-ed and for the full distance too. Zarfati took the lead on the restart as Garland had broken a rear axle in the tangle. White withdrew as his turbo came loose. Mansell had a couple of spins while Zarfati took a long win in the Falken tires car. Then came Dixon and a struggling Garland. The 2WD category had a strong 10 car line up ·and it was the Baja of Graeme Dowsett that won the first heat over the stadium truck of David Mandham and the Irons Baja. The second heat saw a lot more pushing in the first corner and it was Newton's Baja that came out leader over Bryant's Corvette. The VS Po rsche of Hasman went out as a rear wheel snapped. A restart took place and it was Newton who now had the V6 Renault of James Corbett on his tail. Taylor's Baja went out wit h fro n t tors io n damage. Corbett got through in the tight battle for the lead and he held it to the finfsh while Mandham snuck through for second. Newton held on to third over Dowsett. Corbett proved it was no fluke as he led the pack in heat :3. Behind him Dowsett was against a tire and Bryant copped a good hit. Mandham set after Corbett and the Nissan truck was better on the jumps and soon grabbed the lead. Corbett hung on and followed M endham across the line.· Newton took third while in a close battle Irons just kept out the Pagan Mazda truck. In the Final it was Mendham that led the start and looked like it was all over then. Corbett bioke Dusty Times away from the pack to be next Fl 00. closest to the truck. It was a good There was a combined 4x4 and threewayBajafightforthirdwith 2WD Tin Top Final where Newton, Dowsett and Irons. Mendham won the start while Mendham extended his lead and Zarfati and Corbett fought for took the win. Corbett meanwhile second. The two became locked had Dowsett on his tail but the together and as it was the first lap Renault took second over Dow-still a restart was expected but it sett, Newton, Irons and Vesty's never came and the two sat across the track for the whole Final. Garland meanwhile was trying to reel in Mendham who had bolted. The Mitsubishi driver who had a new axle in was right up on his nose off the jumps but it was to no avail as Mendham took the win, Garland was second with Dowsett third. Half a lap back was a close battle with Ne~ton beating Irons. It was a packed house that certainly enjoyed the racing. There were so many irregularities · in the official direction it put a few competitors off but in the end the 2WS Stadium Off Road Gran Prix had all the ingredients of an action packed night. 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~ Tim McCain ran third, then second in his Class 10 Funco, broke his steering box on lap 5, got high centered, but was helped off the mound by James Martin's crew and made it to the pits in third place. Joe Vasquez was feeling pretty good after passing several cars and moving into third place and gaining. This would soon end and he went down with low oil pressure problems. Vincente Prieto, from Juarez, Mexico crosses the finish line to begin another lap, his first time racing here. He was third in the Sportsman 1600, but he literally destroyed his car, but said he would be back. Mountain Shadow 150 Desert Race · one of the turns. The water sur-prised a lot of racers, but being mostly desert rats the water was somewhat welcomed and differ-ent. First place still belonged to James second to Tim and third to Ceasar. Fourth lap saw no changes. but we had no choice. To make the rest of the story easy we'll set it up this way. #1601 -Rudy Rosales, Juarez, Mexico -James Martin, from Odessa, Texas, fairly flew across the desert in his beautiful Class 10 Chenowth. He led from the first lap except for a short distance and he carried on to victory by a goodly margn. El Paso, Texas was the scene of the last race of the season. The weather was beautiful, 75-80 degrees, slight breeze, just right. Course conditioits on the other hand were pretty gruesome, lack of rain made the berms in the turns and ruts really deep and sandy; rocks came out of nowhere for it. All the racers commented in the mountains and the whoops about all the people around the were deep and plentiful. This course. This seemed to make course saw the lack of a lot of them feel good. straights more turns and was The first cars off the line were about five miles longer. the pro cars. 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Including the mounting hardware and the GAS bolts SEE YOUR OFF ROAD RACING PARTS SUPPLIER OR CALL US DIRECT. / Yarnell Specialties, Inc. 102 Crestview P-. 0. Box 845 1-I02-427-3551 Yarnell, AZ. 85382-0845 Martin from Odessa, Texas in his Class 10 Funco. Third, Ceasar Fuentes from Juarez, Mexico in his Class 8 Ford. The first lap saw James Martin coming into the pits first followed by Tim McCain second and Joe Vasquez moving two places to come in third. Ceasar Fuentes had caught and passed Tim McCain and James Martin five minutes into the race when he blew a spark plug. Ceasar sized up the situation and decided to keep going. He caught Vasquez on the straight away only to get passed in the wash by Vasquez again. After a brief pit stop Crew Chief Tony Diaz decided to let Ceasar race. The second lap saw James Martin coming into the start/ fin-ish line first Tim McCain second and Ceasar Fuentes third and reel-ing in second place. Cecil Robert-son fell out with a flat tire and transmission problems. All thought Cecil and Allen had a bad day, they have done better. Off Road Productions would like to thank them for all their support this year and hopefully next year as well. Thank you guys. Mike Padilla, driving the Four Wheel Drive entry fell out with steering problems. The third lap saw Joe Vasquez call it quits with oil pressure prob-lems. Vasquez wants to know where all the water came from. Seems that some one blew a hole . in a huge water tank and it flooded Page 32 February 1995 The fifth lap saw Tim McCain dropping out, something new for Tim since he has won the past four races in this area. Seems like Tim broke his steering box and got high centered on a mound of dirt. James Martin's pit crew saw him in trouble and lent a hand "What a bunch of guys". Up front Ceasar was driving with a vengeance. He set the fast lap of the day and was reeling in first place. The sixth and final lap saw James Martin holding on to the · lead and win. James' only prob-lem all day was whether to put on the light bar or not. James finished · the 150 miles in a time of 3 hours, 29 minutes and 56 seconds. ORP would like to thank James and his trusty crew Mike Parker, Loyd Webb, and Jaime Martin for all their support this year, this win was a long time coming and they deserved every mile of it. The second wave of cars were the Sportsman. This was our biggest class and seems to be growing every year. First car off was Vicente Prieto from Juarez, Mexico. Second car Larry (3 wheel) Salcido from El Paso, Texas and third car was Arturo Lujan and Chuy Rosales. The first lap saw Victor and Chuy coming in first with Vicente Prieto falling to second place and Rudy Rosales moving into third. First lap also saw the Ramierez brothers go out with a broken axle and spider gears. Larry Salcido lost another front wheel. The second lap saw the ever present Gutierez brothers fall out with battery problems. No other major position changes for lap three or four but that was soon to end as Lap 5 brought all that off road racing is all about. It was 10:30 at night, it was cold and all the racers were wet. All the Pro cars had finished as well as the beginners. People started to come up fo the finish line. As we had announced that the promoter had decided to call the race on the fifth lap feeling that the conditions were getting worse and besides the last three cars were so far apart from each other it wouldn't make much difference in the finish anyway. Right? WRONG!!! As we looked out into the night desert we expected to see a set of lights coming. To our surprise we saw three sets and they were all bumper to bumper! Like I said things were about to change. We .. couldn't call the race as it was just too close and we had to give two and three places a chance to win. This meant another hour to wait #1607 -Arturo Lujan and Jesus Rosales #1600 -Vicento Prieto As 1601 came over the hill in first place just about 100 feet from the finish line he got a flat, he pulled in to get it fixed just as 1607 passed him in the pits as well as 1600. So now in the matter of seconds and feet 1601 went to third from first, 1607 went to first from second and 1600 went to second from third; it gets better. Start of the last lap 1607 takes off in first , 1600 in second and 1601 after the fastest tire change anybody has ever seen in third. The check points were notified on what was happening and to call in what was happening. 1601 who left in third place had caught 1600 by check point 1. The check point called in seeing a set of lights and. it was 1601, he had made· up the difference and was going for the win. As he cleared check 2, it seems there was no room in Rudy's car for Lady Luck; his shifter pulled out and he was left stranded. This left 1607 in the lead and it went on for the win-. Arturo and Chuy had their problems also as they rolled their car on the second lap and fell behind; they managed to make up some time and· never gave up. This is their first win with us and they have raced wth us all year, thank you Wild Thing racing team and hope to see you next year in a new car. Vicente Prieto has never raced with us before and literally destroyed his car, but he said he'll be back. As for poor Rudy, #1601, we saw him limping back to the pits with a somewhat smile on his face. Beginner class had two entries and first place went to Abel Gomez and Carlos Hernandes and second to Steve Warren and Chris Howell. ORP would like to thank all the racers and their families for their support this year as well as all the sponsors and course workers. Thank you; Check point 1 -Darrell Glaskell; Check point 2 -Ricardo; Check point 3 & 4 -Tony Vasquez and Mena; Check point 5 -Candy, Tracy, and Woody; Dick Knapp; MSD; Kool Tie, John and Lisa Woodruff; Desk Top Plus. ORP and all the racers would like to congratulate Ed Monte on graduating from UTEP. Nice going Ed. Thank you again and hope to see everyone next year. P.S. Made a little mistake in our story last race. Seems like I thanked Ed Baxter and his girl-friend for coming to our races, it wasn't, his girlfriend it was his . cousin's. Sorry Mrs. Baxter. Dusty Times

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SPIRIT and the Wet and Wild Baja 1000 By Sam Wilshire and yours truly. Steve Spirkoff, Spirit's owner, played chase all day to the Olig-ies/ Lightning Stock Class Ford and Ken Nothomb and Larry Ray continued doing their thing with the Ford and ad agency folks Mexicali, BC -OK, so I com-throughout Friday and Saturday plained several times to Dan New-so we saw Steve briefly and Ken some, BFG race honcho that the and Larry not at all during our pit Spirit team was ready for some efforts. In order to reserve an area real work after sleeping through for the Spirit tractor/ trailer rig at both the Baja 500 and the Gold our second pit"area at checkpoint Coast 300. During the 500, the nine, Mr's. Boehm, West and Spirit crew was pitting less than Holem had set up a camp there 50 miles from the finish line and and didn't see duty at Spirit's first during the Gold Coast, we were pit at Cohabuzo. seven to eight miles off the start Hey ... a beautiful sunrise across line... these two locations were . Laguna Salada saw the Spirit crew obviously " little or no work" up for breakfast and finalization areas and this is not usually what a of the pit set-up. Even tho' our professional pit organization Cohabuzo pit was but 108 miles looks forward to. off the start line it would be close Mr. Newsome, you're NOW to two hours 'ti! we would see the forgiven as the Spirit crew got first bike, that contingent of the back into the swing of things and field off the start at 6:00 am. To really got to do some real work entertain ourselves we watched as during the 1000. But I'm ahead of the Toyota motorsports folks ex-m yself. Anyway, thanks Dan. · tricated themselves from the soft Spirit put a small group, and the sand of Cohabuzo time and time tractor/ trailer rig, into Mexicali again. Their custom designed on Tuesday for late pit exchanges, hauler was beautiful and purpose-fuel needs and some pre-running. ful in design but struck a pitiful • The rest of the Spirit crew arrived pose buried up to the axles in either Wednesday night or Thurs-sand. It took the Toyota folks the day morning. better part of two hours to move Well in advance of the event, the hauler about 200 feet with rumors had spread at Spirit that some early assistance from two wewouldbesettingupshopatthe Ford 4x4's. Once the Toyota Borrego road crossing but BFG hauler was in place then came finally cast our pit locations in their ritual of installing the trailer-concrete and positioned us first at mounted._fueling boom ... but checkpoint two, 108 miles into that's another story. thecourseandthenbacktocheck The first competitor, the nine, about 70 miles from the fin-number Ix bike came screaming ish line. Hey, that's not a bad throughat7:41:41 so,andassum-setup even tho' we'd have to ing that this was the first bike to breakdown the check two pit and take the flag, t'was going to be trek back north about 40 miles about an. hour and 45 minutes and then set back up to pit the dash to Cohabuzo by the four "finish line-bound" racers. wheeled competitors who were Thursday, while several of the scheduled to depart the start line Spirit managers played host to at 9:00 am. Our prognostications Dan Stutz and other Ford execu- were long by 10 or so minutes as tives and ad agency people, yours the first Tecate Trophy Truck truly and several other workers en try, the Ultra Ford of Jim set up the Ford contingency tent Smith, flew by at 10:33.55, took and got it ready to support the 4 7 gallons of fuel and was gone, Ford race teams and the expected followed less than a minute later onslaught of locals who, over the by the Chevy Thunder racer of years, have become accustomed Larry Ragland. It wasn't long after to receiving Ford posters and this that the slow, delicate rain decals once the day is underway. began to fall. Early morRing re-The people of Mexicali didn't dis-ports indicated that San Diego, appoint us but we did them. Our 150 or so miles west "as the crow supply of posters were well down flies" was inundated and that the and we probably spent an hour at storm was headed east towards most handing out what posters we Mexicali. Well, that part of the had ... then the show was over. report was correct. The rest of the day was spent Our first pit duties of the day bench-racing and talking with ca.me as the RCR racer of Bob several of the Ford teams. Richey flew into the pits with the Thursday, during the day and right rear corner dragging the on into the night, members of ground. The team had lost their Spirit traveled out of Mexicali to r / r control shock and once re-our two pit locations and by mid-moved, the Spirit crew and the night everyone was established race team waited better than 30 and attempting to get one night of minutes for spare parts to arrive. sleep 'cause Friday night was f,.fter what seemed an eternity, known by all to be one of"little or the RCR team was off, after a no" sleep. And for this event, just lengthy 39 minute pit stop ... but as at all the other events, Spirit this was a 633 mile trek and any-put together a cracker-jack bunch thing could happen in the next of people. Jeremy Spirkoff was 500 or so miles. the pit boss with lots of able assis-The rest of the morning and tance ·coming from Mike Flohr. into the early afternoon was BFG had asked the McMillin team spent mostly in fueling race cars. to contribute at least four pit The steady rain, reportedly over members so those were really the entire course, and the result-appreciated and added to the rest ant mud appeared to have slowed of the Spirit crew comprised of the various teams down a bit and Warren Marley, Jeff Flohr, Earl, flats were in a distinct minority as Steve and Rob Irey, John Blough, a pit stop reason. BFG had told us Mike Shanks, Joe Geldert, Norma early on to be ready to break camp Thoemmes, Bryan and Rhonda at Cohabuzo around three in the Warlick, Mark Bailey (flew in afternoon and it was about that from Reno), Danny Sheets, Bryan time that Dan Newsome gave the Boehm, Steve West.Jason Holem orders for us to pack up and head. Dusty Times north to checkpoint nine and BFG's pit number eight and our second pit of the day. The rain had continued un-abated from late morning and now the sand around the Coha-buzo pit area had become satur-ated, deeper and real trouble-some. It took us the better part of 45 minutes to push, pull, tug and scramble to get our motorhome, our tractor I trailer rig and our Ford crew-cab/ tire trailer rig out of the muck and onto the hardpan road. By the time we were all on the road, thanks in part to the Chevy 4x4 of one of the Lighning team members, it was well after 4:00 pm. While most of the team sped on ahead of us to get pit two set up, Mike Flohr and I just motored along in the crewcab and in the company of three other support rigs. All of a sudden Mike looked over at me and .h.olfered, "What the hell's going on back there?" I looked out the back windshield to see the tire trailer, with about 60 stored tires, weaving and swerving from one side of the roadway to the other. I screamed at Mike that the trailer had come off the hitch and for him to start slowing down very slowly, which he did. We got that problem solved quickly and were once again underway only for Mike to once again holler "what the hell" about 20 miles on up the road. This time the left, rear dual wheel had come off the hub and took a trip out into the desert on its own. For-tunately one of the rigs following us had seen the incident and re-covered the tire and wheel. So, once again we set about making repairs. An hour later and with the able help of Rick Constantine of the Sourapas team, Tom Kelly and Warren Marley, the trailer owner, we were underway. About 30 minutes later we pulled into the second Spirit pit. The main part of the pit was already pre-pared so all the pit crew then needed to do was unload and stage the 60 or so tires we'd brought in from pit# 1. Then we all settled in for what would be a long night. Front runners started clearing us a few minutes after 6:00 p.m. as first, the Tecate Trophy Truck/ Ultra Wheels Ford of Jim Smith flew in, took a dash of fuel and was back on course towards the finish line in one minute and 14 seconds. Next it was a close duel between Corky McMillin and the Renezeder/Baldwin team car. Both were in for fuel right at eight, about three minutes apart with Corky in the lead. A later report said that Corky had mechanicals in those last miles and the Renez-eder team won. We had regular callers throughout the evening and night and into the morning but most team stops were for fuel only. The #883 British Land Rover entry had a plug wire . problem (never really solved) that kept them in our pit for 12 minutes and the #704 mini-truck stayed with us for eleven minutes while the rear spring shackle bolts were welded. And ... would you Brits please find and mount a three inch fuel filler neck so a quick fill is just that. Race vehicles continued to speed by the Spirit pit for the rest of the night with few, if any, stopping. Most of the race vehicles looked like mud clods with wheels indicating the muddiness of the north end of the Laguna Salada, an area that the course crossed on this up leg to the finish line. We watched, recorded and re-ported race vehicle numbers well into Saturday morning and then began our well organized shut-down as the 26 hour time limit for the event neared. By a tad after noon we were 99.0% packed and ready to head back to San Diego. As said earlier, Spirit has always put an "A team" effort into each and every pit assignment and this 1994 Baja 1000 was no exception. But we did miss two regular team members in Ken and Kurt Schuettenhelm, who Spirits sympathies go out to with the recent loss of a wonderful wife and delightful mother. May she rest in peace. The only aspect of this pit effort that saw criticism was the numbers of various fuels for the cars. While we certainly appreci-ate the teams needs, having to fill dump cans with this fuel and that and then select, through written records, which team got what gas was troublesome even tho' Spirit didn't screw up once ... each team got their correct fuel and gallon-ages. And so, the 1994 season draws to a close and the '95 season is just around the corner and to all those race teams who have come to depend ofBFG, and the "Spirit" support ... we'll be there in 1995. 5-1600 BAJA BUG COMPLETE BUMPER TO BUMPER $1,200.00 All Skid Plate Tabs Dual Coil Mount Headlight Mount Spare Tire Mount Oil Filter Tabs Tail Light Tabs MUST SUPPLY OWN BODY AND FLOOR PAN February 1995 DEZ FAB 10734 Kenney, Suite D Santee, CA 92071 619-562-6039 Page 33

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Blackhawk Farms Off Road Challenge By Barb and Marilyn Schultz Phot.os: Jeanne Brown/Rick Loveless/Dan Mainzer Bill 'the Survivor' Graboski also dominated his class, sedans in 6, needed only to take the green flag to win the title, so he Jet long time co-driver Joe Kentopp drive and he went along for the ride. Gerald Foster dominated the field in Class 3 all year in the Chevy Blazer, and he charged through the season's final race in typical fashion, leading after the early laps right to the checkered flag. Bill "The Survivor" Graboski dominated this year's Class 6 field and needed only to green flag to take title to the Class Champion-ship. Graboski turned the wheel of his Chevy over to long time co-driver Joe Kentopp and he went along for the ride! Hey, nice to see ya' back Greg Bekavac! Leonard Gehl came out of the green flag with the first lap lead then ran into serious to fatal engine trouble put-ting him out of the race. Bekavac moved into the lead followed closely by Don Esserman. Beka-vac's left front wheel decided to part company with most of the car. It just sorta' hung there making steering impossible and putting Bekavac out of the run-ning. Esserman slid right in to first place and stayed there to the checkered flag. Darrin Parsons then moved in to second place and held it to the end. Kentopp finished in third. The Short Course Off Road Driver's Association(SODA) headed for Blackhawk Farms ·Raceway, Rockton, Illinois, the weekend of October 1 and 2 for the last Race Event of the season. This was it! All of the marbles were on the line for finishing points and Class Championships! Wouldn-'t ya' just know it? Racers pulled in Friday preceding the racing with absolutely perfect Autumn weather - warm, a nice breeze, sunny with a few puffy clouds to compliment Fall's dazz-ling colors. Race day dawned to . winds at way more than a breeze speed, the sky was ominous with dark clouds and it was down right cold! Go figure! None the less, racers and fans were ready for the all important racing battles that were slated for the day. Gerald Foster and his Chevy went one last time for the win and the Class Championship in the Class 3 contest! While Foster may have dominated this field, five other entries provided plenty of racing excitement. For example, Al Drews held the early lead and was definitely holding his own in second place when disaster struck him. Drews went down with a ·broken axle and no left rear wheel! Whil~ Drews was busy with his troubles Duane Zaugg, Greg Swiston, Jim Barringer and Grant Maholland were in serious battle for position. Swiston left this field first with tons of smoke and fire. During the upheaval, Zaugg held on to second place and Maholland climbed into third. Barringer wanted a piece of the pie too and in his effort went in to a grandstand front and center roll! Barringer waited to have his machine put on-all fours, cranked it up and limped across the line for fourth. Mike Brue and Greg.Smith, in the Class 5-1600 Class points battle, had raced within split hairs of each other all season. It was def-initely statistically possible for either driver to come out the big winner. The green flag came out, all eight entries took off and with ' '·-:::::~·) Af•Drews started out leading in Class 3, fell to second and stayed there until Greg Smith ran a close second in Class 5-1600 this race and mostly all year, he broke an axle and lost the rear wheel and everything, for a DNF this ;ace. \ as Mike Brue was just too tough. Smith also ran second in the championship. Don Esserman ran second for a time in the new to him Class 6, but he can handle it just fine as he ended up winning the Class 6 race, Darrin Parsons was second and Kentopp was third in a good race. Page 34 The championship was still open for Class 11 Double seat, so this was a tight battle. Here contender Cory Friday flies by Dan Baudoux. In the big 22 car entry class Baudoux came out of the mid-pack to win the race. February 1995 one official lap in, it was Tim Christensen with the lead! Lap two, it's Brue in the lead with Smith a mere three seconds behind. Lap three, same scene. Lap four, the gap between Brue and Smith widens to nine seconds -trouble on board with Smith?? Lap four, Smith is showing puffs of smoke and Brue is now headed into a comfortable big win! Brue takes the Championship! It just wasn't going to be Christensen's weekend; he had the lead and then quickly found himself passed by Brue, Smith and Terry Wolfe. The dude's gaining ground then suffers a flat tire and a near roll over. He gets the tire changed, roars back on the track but is now a lap down. Not the best racing luck! Wolfe, Tom Brockman and John Mason had a nice dice going when Wolfe's machine developed all kinds of internal woes and put him down two laps! There just ain't no Justice, huh Pres! Then Brockman has his turn at racing blues exiting in a cloud of smoke. Mason sees this as a definite option, moves into third and stays there to the finish. Gary Plummer held his machine together for a solid fourth place finish, Chris-tensen winding up with fifth. Shayne Pagel's machine was just plagued with problems, but by damn, he finished the race! Dan Baudoux, Mark Oberg and Cory Friday had spent the entire race season going tooth and nail and once again, b y stats, the Championship was still up for grabs in Class 11 Double Seat. Wow, last race of the season and the Class had twenty-two entries! The official starter gives the guys the "let's go" sign and who comes around in the first lap with the lead? John Huven - with a substan-tial lead, followed by Mike Obeg, Herman Barnum, Larry Bayer and then Cory Friday. At this point Mike Oberg and Baudoux were in mid to back of the pack positions. Huven just kept puttin' the coal to 'er leaving the rest of the gang to play catch up! Curt Gerald did a fine job of moving through as did both Friday and Mark Oberg. With a field this big it's impossi-ble to mention every name and every dog fight, but sports fans, it was all there - great racing action! The sum is; Baudoux put on an astonishing show moving from mid field to overtake Huven and head on in for the win. Class 11 wizard Cory Friday also came through finishing in second. The win then went to Baudoux. Low , and behold, Mike Oberg also gets around the hard charging Huven for third place. Huven took fourth with Larry Bayer sliding into fifth. We'd been watching Dusty Times

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Mike Seefeldt sails along in his 1-2-1600, so close in second in the 2-1600 race and he was destined to be second again in the 1-1600 competition. Jimmie Crowder, the man from Florida really enjoys driving his big Ford on this series, fought wth Dan Vanden Heuvel hard and finally won second place. The Class 11 Single seat Race opened the Sunday activity with a tough battle for the lead and the title. Dan Baudoux won the race over Mark Oberg, but Mark won the class season championship. Curt Gerald haul the freight around the track in a solid fifth, looked up and saw Gerald and machine parked on the edge of the track! Tough break Curt. So, where did that leave the Champ-ionship? Mark Oberg pulled in the deciding points and came out on top! Mark had a back of the pack starting position and skill-fully drove to a sixth place finish. Jim Wymer also finished on the lead lap. Another red hot points battle came to a head in the Class 2-1600 contest between Todd Attig and Mike Seefeldt. Taking nothing away from the incredible talentsofTod9 Attig, we did relay early in the season that young See-feldt was gonna' be the guy to watch! Gee, it sure is nice to be right at feast once!! What a race it was, perhaps best termed "The Todd Attig and Mike Seefeldt Show"! Now, for the record, it was, by statistics, possible for Greg Smith to take home all of the marbles! T\}e green flag waves, the field of eleven take off and the race is on. Lap one, it's Attig, See-feldt, Smith and Jason Crowder looking like they were attached to each other by one foot sections of chain. Attig had the lead, the oth-ers following in order listed. See-feldt, Smith and Crowder all tried the inside dive, the outside go wide pass, the door to door move over tactic - all to no avail. The . talented Attig kept. the door closed the entire race! Rack up Championship Number One for Todd Attig! Seefeldt placed a very close and very respectable second. Smith was in a determined third with four laps to the finish and had to pull off the track. Crowder took third place right behind See-feldt. Todd Crump, Cary Bowles, Eric Branstrom and Mark "Steiny" Steinhardt also had a good duke out for points and position going. Crump came out on top of this one followed by Bowles and Steiny - all finishing on the lead lap. Branstrom was unable to fend off the hard charge of Bob Blaney, Blaney placing seventh. Cliff Holiday also took his machine in for the finish. One of the top contenders, Dan Bau-doux was out of the race with mechanical failure in the midst of lap two. With an entry load of nine cars, the Class 9 /10 Championship was still up for grabs! Given Mur-phy's Law (if it can go wrong, it will), either Jeff Probst or Todd Attig could have taken home the title -understanding that a win for , Probst would not alone seal the deal. The race is on but not· a long race for Fred Babinchak as he rolled at the first corner after the first lap was put in. The fast paced racing order, top four, for half the race was: Jeff Probst, Dan Bau-doux, Todd Attig and Jeff St. DustyTima John Huvan was another contender for the Class 11 season title, and he got the lead early, stayed away from close contact, and dropped to fourth and won the championship. Peter. Probst and Baudoux ran door to door with both Attig and St. Peter right on_their tail pipes. Probst held off every effort Bau-doux made to get around and came across the finish· line with a well driven first place! Baudoux · looked to have second place nailed down when, with three laps to go, his machine went down by one of the two ponds. He got it on the go again but lost position to Attig. Baudoux wound up with a hard fought third place. St. Peter had to pull off the track with mechanical internal troubles, Attig moved into second and held it to the end. Hence, the point spread determined that Todd Attig in his Terminator chassis wrapped up Class Championship Number Two! Nice job, Todd! Trent Hanson was doing a dandy fine job of holding off Jim Stru-ble, Don Ponder and Tom Schwartzburg and Whoa Nellie, he barrel rolled! Despite the roll, Hanson kept on going and had not lost position. Unfortunately the roll removed the top of his machine creating a black flag situation for safety purposes. Schwartzburg pulled his machine off the track leaving Struble to The Class 10 race was a shootout for the championship between Jeff Probst and Todd Attig, and Dan Boudoux was in the mix too. Probst was leading and he won the race. Attig was 2nd and Baudoux was 3rd, Attig won the points. In a different car with the 1650 motor, Todd Attig is hard to beat in any class and won his second championship in this car; Given some breaks Todd could get onto a full professional circuit. February 1995 Todd Attig had a .stellar day at BlackhawJs Farms going for the title over Mike Seefeldt Jr., and this 2-1600 battle was a real show. Attig kept t-he door closed all the way on Seefeldt, Greg Smith and Jason Crowder, and took his 2nd title. finish in fourth and Ponder in lead throughout the entire track. fifth. Vanden Heuvel started puffing And it's one more time for the smoke, lost the spare tire Class 8 Championship for Scott anchored on the back of the truck Taylor and his mighty Ford! Tay-and finally, with three laps to go, !or, this year's newest Rough had to pull off. Crowder, with full Rider, took the green with five arm waving and chicken walking other entries and went the entire from pit side T.D., came across race in first place. The track was with second place. Dave Hackers set up with a couple of interesting ran a very consistent race placing front jumps and did Taylor, Dan third. Hey, Happy Birthday Vanden Heuvel and "Alligator Farmer John Konitzer!! This race Man" Jimmie Crowder put on an Troy Konitzer piloted the now air show! These guys got some famous Dairy Delight Paint major air yardage putting specta-Schemed Konitzer Truck to tors on their feet for a better view. fourth place. Brian Donlevy couldn't have been The Class 8 race concluded the over-thrilled at that second front racing for the day and by that jump -he lost his left front wheel time, the weather was letting eve-on the landing and did a super job ryone know that it was indeed of keeping his truck under con-Autumn. Saturday evening's trol. Crowder and Vanden Heu-campfires were more than just a vel also gave the fans a thrill with pleasant way to spend an evening, some real dog fight to soar like an they kept the body warm! 'Tis our eagle racing! The two traded the understanding r,r PIKE'S SERVICE CENTER BAKER, CA.LIFORNIA CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIEN-05 ..... THANKS! Denny's. 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Wes Frehse ran with the leaders in both Class 11 races, but his best finish was in the single seat Sunday race where he took third, but was disqualified. Dan Boudou,x flew high in his Class 1 /2 where he placed second with a Class 9 engine. Baudoux was also first in Class 1-1600 in the Sunday racing activity. Kevin Probst flies flat and level in his Class 4 Chevy, looked like he might score the elusive win this time, but was puffing lots of smoke at the line where he did hold on to second place . Scott Taylor's big Ford behaved itself this round and he drove the entire race first in Class 8 and also nailed down the Class 8 Championship for himself and the Ford Rough Riders, -r,r that Va!James, P-at, Brown and Farmer John all cele-brated birthdays. And well, being the end ,of the seasoh and all, the festivities were "lively"! That · included the dance provided by Blackhawk Farms Raceway. Some of us stayed in the old motor home, all nice and warm, and read a good book -somehow we felt better the next day! For the last time this racing sea-son, Cory Friday and Mark Oberg were to go head to head for the Class 11 Single Seat Champion-ship. Sunday's weather had improved, conditions were right for good racing and the day's opening race was a dandy! Mark Oberg came around lap one in the lead with Wes Frehse, Cory Fri-day, Herman Barnum and the rest of the pack in hot pursuit. Now, the spotlight for this race was Dan Page 36 Baudoux working "his way through the large field. Baudoux worked his way around Duane Velie, past Tom Hoppock, by Barnum, goes side by side with Friday and makes the pass, takes on second place Frehse and with two laps to go to the checkered flag challenges front runner Mark Oberg and goes in for the win! Okey-dokey, Baudoux had the win but where does that leave the Championship! Oberg slides to second place with Frehse in third. Friday is plagued with a broken ball joint letting John Huven by for fourth, Friday takes fifth. Mark Oberg has the Class 11 Sin-gle Seat Championship! Uh-oh, Frehse is disqualified. That gives Friday fourth position -is it enough extra points? No, Oberg remains Champion in a season thriller. Thanks all Class 11 driv-Art Schmitt suffered unusual breakage this event with his Class 1 buggy, but he had accumulated enough points to win the championship over Jeff Probst. ers for an every race, action entries. Smith developed early packed racing season! troubles and was out by lap three. Brace yourself Bertram, (hose Whoosh, with a Hi Ho Silver And fast time Class l/2 open wheel Away, Dan Baudoux worked his buggies are up next! That means way through, was around eve-it's time for the Art Schmitt-Jeff ryone but Attig and was making Probst-Todd Attig and The Cast every attempt to get around him! Of Thousands Air Show and, The troups are half way through bless their hearts, they didn't let the race; Baudoux finally makes the crowd down! Throw in Paul his move around Attig but the Corning in what looke1 to be a two are running super tight. NeKt Class 7S mini-truck but wasn't lap Attig rolls over on the back and it got right interesting. Don section of the track and loses four Ponder, Dave Hanson and Dan positions. Attig, being the cam-Baudoux completed the starters. paigner that he is, got back on the Probst and Schmitt, in addition to throttle, made up some mega time their now standard aerial perfor-and still came in fourth. Baudoux mance, swapped the lead too , won the race with a comfortable many times to count, were headed margin followed by hard driving into the checkered flag lap and Seefeldt in second. Jason Crowder Schmitt's machine went dead in drove a mighty fine race for third, the water. Curse the luck, more Steinhardt finishing fifth. Finish-electrical problems! Probst sailed ing on the lead lap were Todd on in for the win. Attig stayed Crump and Cary Bowles. within striking distance of the top Geoff Dorr of Class 4 has been two until his buggy developed on the SODA circuit for many problems and he pulled off. Bau- years -no, we're not calling Geoff doux had a nice race and, with old, we're calling him a seasoned both Schmitt and Attig off the veteran! Dorr puts on a crowd track, finished on the lead lap in pleasing show and, did so again second. Ponder took home third, this race in addition to putting the despite the electrical failure final touches on the Class 4 Schmitt took fourth and Corning championship! Dorr and Kevin in his mini-truck finished with Probst went the entire distance fifth! Dave Hanson?? Well, he with some top notch fender to must have felt a commitment to fender, door to door racing keep~ family tradition and rolled over ing spectators on their feet and like son Trent did the day before! -doing some non-stop rooting for Dave rolled on the first lap though , and kept it all together as long as ' the machine would let him. The Class Champion? In spite of the mechanical let down, Art Schmitt had enough points accumulated to place fourth and take home the Points Championship! .. their favorite driver. Dorr, how-ever, kept the door closed on Probst the entire distance taking the win with Probst less than a truck length away for second. Probst ran the last quarter of the race with some major smoke pouring out. Gerald Foster in his Class 3 machine was in the scram-ble for third place along with con-tenders Mark Seidler, Jeff Holt-ger, Jeff St. Peter and Duane Zaugg. Foster had a tire start it's way down early in the race and eventually lost position to first Seidler and then St. Peter. Whoops, St. Peter developed troubles and went off the track! H.oltger was down early, his engine sounding like it had a serious case of truck flu. At the checkered flag, Seidler had third and Foster took fourth. Zaugg's Class 3 hung in there and out lasted the field for fifth! Given statistics, probability factors and the actual point spread, the Class 13 Super Truck Points Championship was to be a battle betwee·n Dan Vanden Heuvell-and R.J. Flanagan. Get a grip Gert, the two certainly didn't let anyone down -for that matter, the whole class put on a super show! With fifteen trucks taking the green flag, the action was hap-pening on all sections of the track. Vanden Heuvel came around lap one with the lead followed in order by Dave Marks, Lowe! De-Greef and then rival R.J. Flana-gan. At check point three and a half laps, Flanagan gets around Marks and is one slim second be-hind Vanden Heuvel. Now it gets nuts! Flanagan goes to make the big move, he's going; he's going, whoa -the two trucks literally get hooked together! During the let's shift gears and get out of this mess time it took to get un-hooked, Marks makes his way around both contenaers. Flanagan got out of the hook-up in front, but now it's secpnd place for him, third place for Vanden Heuvel. Despite a mighty effort by Flanagan, first place went to hard driving Marks. Flanagan kept second and Vanden ~--Helmets off to Todd Attig! In the Class 1-1600 Points Champ-ionship, all Attig had •to do was take the green flag and this incred-ible young man wound up his third SODA Class Champion-ship! Saints and little sinners, what a great race! Attig came around with the lead position fol-lowed closely by Mike Seefeldt, Greg Smith, Jason Crowder, Dan Baudoux, Mark Steinhardt and the rest of the field of thirteen Geoff Dorr is a veteran in SODA four wheel drive competition. Dorr went most of the distance side by side with Kevin Probst in the Chevy. But Dorr kept the door closed all the way and won the race and the Class 4 Championship. February 1995 Dusty Times

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R.J. Flanagan drives a conventional truck bodied Class 13 now and he came in second in the Blackhawk. Farms race and. second in the points championship. Art Schmitt had a grand rookie year in truck racing, taking his Nissan 7S to many second place finishes and this race he had to fight Jimmie Crowder for position, but did place second. At the fall Crandon race they had a tire changing contest among pit crews, and it turned out this buggy crew of, left to right, Jarrod Zilisch, Tommy Drews and Dan Kufahl were SODA's quickest crew at changing truck tires. Heuvel took third.· With all factors, weird possibilities and point spreads now final Vanden Heuvel had the Class Champion-ship! The fight for fourth and fifth place between Bruce Shilts and Jarrod Zilisch was outstanding! Shilts laid down a lot of smoke, Zilisch did some fantastic driving and the bottom line was Zilisch in fourth, Shilts in fifth. Also finish-ing the last race of the season were ( in order) Dave Reetz, Don Greg-oire, Jim Moskalik, John Schultz, Thornton "Big Ed" Schultz and Brian Hanson. What a great year for racing in Class 7S! John Greaves took abso-lute retaliation on last year's sea-son, Jeff Kincaid couldn't have paid big money for more bad luck, Art Schmitt Ill pulled out a superb rookie in a truck year, and The Class 13 trucks are the crowd's favorite as here Dan Vanden Heuvel puts a pass on Lowell deGreef, and Dan carved his way through the field to once a_gain lead, but R.J. Flannagan and Dan got hooked up, Flanagan got loose "" · m first to take second place behind race winner Dave Marks, Vanden Huevel was I Dave Marks ran up front in Class 13 for the distance, led for a while, then th1rd but class champion. dropped back only to inherit the lead again and win the Class 13 race. ·for the 1994 racing season's total entries, the class had twenty-three trucks! This all adds up for year long best of the best in racing for fans! Greaves made his 1994 final statement in a big way taking the win and the Class Championship! However, the hard racing put in by Kincaid, Schmitt, Jimmie Crowder, Tom Hackers, AI Wal-entowski and so on and so on didn't make that an easy job for Greaves. This race -Greaves and Kincaid initially came around fol-lowing Scott Taylor! Taylor had it down to a science - while it lasted. Trouble has plagued T lo cl There was no doubt this year that John Greaves and his Toyota ruled the h. II cl ahy r an roost in Class 7S often taking advantage of Jeff Kincaid's bad luck to win this mac me a season an t ey were race and the championship by many points. off the track early. Kincaid ... ---------------------------swoops out into the lead with .· limited Class went on a flag to flag Class Championship went to Sil-Crowder, Schmitt and Greaves in romp for the win! So -just who is loway by four points! Nice racin', a hot contest for position. the joke on??? Tina Crowder and ladies!! Shari Huven had a good Crowder is keeping the door Janet Bowles had a good scrappy year and finished third in this closed, fending them all off and battle going until Crowder spun race. Pam Wallace and Annette rolls on the first inside corner -on the back stretch pushing her Van Wychen rounded out the rats! Greaves gets by Schmitt and back to a fifth place finish. finishers. starts putting the hammer down Bowles, with Kristen Seefeldt And without further delay it to gain ground on Kincaid. With right on her bumper, took was time for the last race of the each lap put in, Greaves closes the second. Nice third place, Kristen day, the last Class Championship gap a little more until, with one Seefeldt! Ruth Schwartzburg's to be finalized at the last Race quarter of the race to go, he bicyc- Class 9 buggy had obvious engine Event of the 1994 season - yup, !es it and drops back to an eleven trouble but Schwartzburg still Women's Heavy Metal! Sherri second gap. Kincaid can feel, taste pulled a fourth place. Schwartz-Parsons took the lead from the and smell the victory -but it's not burg had the points accumulated green flag with Katie Smet, Val meant to be! One more lousy time to be the proud winner of the 1 The Ladies Races ended'the meet at Blackhawk Farms and Rhonda Smith once again ran away from the other ladies in Greg's 2-1600 and won the race. JamesandRobinSchultzrighton driven third. Marilyn Schultz her bumper, each willing, ready drove to a tidy fourth spot. and able to take that lead. Soendsthe1994SODAracing Whoops, Robin goes down with season! It has been nothing short electrical problems leaving Smet of all out fun to be a small part of and James to put the pressure on this W arid Series of Off Road Parsons. The white flag flew and Racing. We congratulate each and James put on -the extra power on every driver who participated, for an inside corner and at the final it takes each of you to make each flag it was James in first, Parsons race, at each Race Event the top in second! Parsons had fought all quality that it is. Next on the summer for the Class Champion-SODA Calendar is the 1994 ship and had enough points ac-SODA Awards Banquet. We'll cumulated to take home the top see ya' there ... and, in 1995, we'll honors. Smet placed a very well see ya' trackside! electrical/ coil wire failure puts Women's Unlimited Buggy Class Kincaid off the track with four Championship! _Also finishing laps to go. Greaves and the Toy-were Barb Schaden, Wendi Brue ota go in for the win. Schmitt and Tracey Crump. Amy Haese cruised on for second with Tom took the green and had to exit the Hackers picking up a nice third track with some super locked up CUSTOM BUILT TRAILERS place. Bill Bowles took home brakes. fourthandJimMoskalikrounded One of the closest Class out the top five. Championship battles was on the Not only do SODA's women track in the Women's limited drivers put on a super driving Buggy race. Sarah Sawall and performance - all classes -but they Tracey Silloway have kept within also have a good sense of humor! a close spit of one another all Seems the Crowder Crew wanted season and this race was import-to give Rhonda Smith a "good ant! Sawall, Silloway and Vivian luck" charm. Funny how Rhonda Holtger ran most of the race didn't view ... "alligator do-do" closer than three ducks in a pond on her buggy's dashboard in the until Holtger rolled over with same light! It did, however three laps to go. Despite every produce the desired, or undesired effort on Silloway's part, this race as the view point might be, effect belonged to Sa wall. However, as Rhonda, in the Women's Un-with Silloway in second place the Dusty Times 24' $3995.00 7000# CAPACITY 40' ONLY $8500.00 18,000# CAPACITY Trailers have rear & side doors, plywood lined Top Quality * Low Prices * Nationwide Delivery Cow6oy Coaclies Rowlett, Texas 75088 CALL 214-475-0056 February 1995 Page 37

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East Of Indio XI carious position over a dry wash. While doing very well in the VW Scirocco, Ron Wood/Kelly By John Elkin Walsh were going at a high rate of -----------------------------speed when the car rolled multiple For many years now rally teams and rockier than the final two times. The occupants survived the have come to the city of Indio, before the service break which roll in good condition, the car did California, to partake of the weeds out the weak and the not. challenge that Roger Allison and unprepared. Last year there was a Back in the land of the running Randy Hensley put forth to both 100% finishing rate for Indio, this it was a real battle for stock class rally car and occupants. Known as year would be quite the opposite honors with four cars entered, East of Indio, this is the 11th as seven teams would not see the and all would see the finish. The running of the CRS classic. The finish of stage two, and two more boys from the north did it again event is also pivotal as it is the would DNF before the end. making it three wins in a row; Jeff final points event in the 1994 On Saturday, November 20, BruettlTerrdogStonecipherhave California Rally Series Champ-thirty teams gathered for the 2:00 been on a tear lately in the Dodge ionship. It also counts as event p.m. start. Points battles were Charger. They had the lead from three in the SCCA Divisional tight and few were clinched at this the word go and won six of ei_ght Series. time. The points story is C(?Vered stages. Dan and Larry Hook were Indio has seen many changes in the CRS article elsewhere in locked in a battle with Steve and over the years with different this issue. Stage one is Cactus Bob Scott for the second place. It stages being tried, different areas City, a 12 mile exercise in con-was a Toyota battle as the Hook of the desert and Palomar moun-stantly changing terrain. Tony Celica and the Scott Corolla tainsbeingrunanddifferenttimes Chavez/John Elkin were the first traded times through the first of day. This year an attempt was toseeanearlyend to their Indio as couple stages. The Scotts built a made to revive the Bradshaw Trail the bracket that holds the rear 32 second lead in the first two Stage, a 42 mile blast down a differential in the Datsun 510 stages, then in stage three the quick and tricky road that is broke just .90 mile into the stage. Hooks gathered back 18 seconds, legend to those who ran it back Matt Sweeney/Lucinda Strub in stage four the Scotts got a around the early and mid 1980s. were next out in the Toyota second back. In stage five the Despite all efforts and good pickup as they had a valve break Hooks got back the second place intentions the application was in the motor creating extensive and held the position back into denied to Roger and Randy. Not internal damage in number four the final control in Indio for their to be discouraged they put cylinder at mile 2.90. Rod best finish this season while together the familiar and fun Koch/Todd Bane hit a rock and shaking down the new car. The Metropolitan Water District damaged the suspension on the Scotts finished strong, gaining roads that parallel Interstate 10. VW Fastback. Cable Rhoades/ some time back on the Hooks, but The rally starts at the head- Mike Taylor broke an apex sealin fell nine seconds short. Tony Dela quarters we have enjoyed all these the Mazda RX-7 rotary engine. Cuesta ( navigators name missing) years, the Best Western Date Tree Ray Hocker/ Lynette Allison lost had a throttle cable snap in stage Inn. The teams head east of Indio the turbocharger on the Subaru. one losing two minutes right off {hence the name) and run four Tony Tavares/Pat Teixeira had a the start which in Indio can be a stages before. the service break in head gasket"go bad in the Mazda lot of time to make up. The Dela Desert Center, 50 miles away, 323. All this on stage one. Harris Cuesta Toyota tried valiantly, • also a long time friend of the rally, Done / Larry Scott broke a rear posted several second fastest stage before tackling the same four suspension piece that eventually times in class but never could stages to return to the headquart-led to their driveshaft failing on make up the two minute deficit. ers. Two stages are repeated in the stage two. Later in the rally two Performance Stock Class had a same direction and two are more would be victims of the good turnout of seven cars, six reversed which challenges drivers desert, Garnet and Pam Baril were would finish. Chad Dykes/ Paul and navigators alike, those who on the final stage, three miles Varhol put on a driving exhibi-dare attempt pace noting under from the finish when a c.v. joint tion in their Mitsubishi truck, stage conditions. Traditionally broke on the VW Rabbit after a winning every stage, posting two the first two stages are rougher spin that put ~he car in a pre-. fifth overall qest times and would $4800.00 EXCH. ROSE TRACTION;~, CONTROL ~~~' $4800.00 EXCH. ---------JNJ~RNIIIION/11 -------CONVERT YOUR BUS BOX INTO A FULL RACE BOX! AVAILABLE IN~ 2, 3, 4 SPEEDS ~ LARGE HD -----· BEARINGS ~ THROUGHOUT - . ~ DESIGNED FOR /' OFFROAD RACING AlL NEW PARTS AlL COMPONENTS BUILT FROM 1HE ......,___ BEST STEEL -..__AV.All.ABLE! 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In a eight starters, six would see the Mitsubishi sweep of the first two Date Tree in running condition. It positions Roger Hull/Sean Gal- •was not all easy for Rui Brasil/ leger battled hard to garner the Carlos Tavares in their run for the second spot with a typical win both in class and overall. Out consistent, fast drive by the of the blue Jason Priestley/ Kevin Arizona driver and his California Caffery have gotten that Toyota navigator. What a battle for third Celica dialed as they put in the spot between the Jeep of Jeff fastest time on stage one and were • Hendricks/Noble Jones and the contending for first in class and VW Rabbit of Dennis Chizma/ overall through the first five John Moore. Hendricks/Jones stages. It took until stage three for led the battle early as they and Brasil/Tavares to gather back the Chizma and Hull all looked good time behind Priestley/Caffery for the second spot, it was in the and take the lead in class and final three stages that Hull bagged overall, but it would be a perman-the second spot. Hendricks stayed ent move as the Audi mounted out in front of Chizma for the first team endured a bad alternator five stages, both running clean, t_hrough the night stages and kept but Chizma, trying minor fixes switching batteries after every between stages to fine tune his stage with their service crew. handling, which he complained Preistley/Caffery had been was off in the early stages. going well, after stage four they In stage six Chizma/Moore put were looking to gain back some together a fast stage that put them time on Brasil who was 35 ahead of Hendricks/Jones by just seconds ahead. At the service area 13 seconds. The Rabbit added the electric windows on the another four seconds in stage Toyota were stuck down and it seven. In stage eight, the final took much time to fix the stage, in the final couple of miles problem somewhere in the maze Chizma/Moore felt a flat rear tire, of wires and relays under the they pushed hard despite the dash. This cost the team four deflating rubber and still eked out minutes in road points, once back the win by just two seconds. on the road. Going into the first It was a long day for the Dave night stage another woe struck the Turner/Ben Bradley Plymouth team, the driving lights were Arrow. The team started well, failing at high speeds, and while running in and out of third, but thrilling it is not conducive to were besieged with a total of six turning fast stage times. Still, ·flat tires throughout the day despite it all, the team stuck it out ( eigl{t if you count the two that for a fourth place. went flat after the rally) and a Kurosh Jahromi/Scott Webb couple of minor off road excur-are giving Audi an ominous sions. They still salvaged a fifth presence in the class as the pair place from the fiasco of a day. But pushed the Brasil Audi hard most if the Turner / Bradley Arrow had of the day and night and even a long day then the Bill Nation/ winning the final stage overall. Ricardo Porta Mazda RX-7 had a But their efforts would fall a longer one. Never really running minute and 20 seconds short at among the top positions Nation the finish, but good enough for a and Porta pressed on to gather second in class, third overall. experience and did finish all the Very impressive for this being stages. It was on the final transit Jahromi's rookie outing at Indio. when the big thrill of the day Chris Weleff/Brain Paul had _happened. Their gas tank fell out their-Toyota Celica working well of the Mazda RX-7. Last seen all day and looking spectacular in cruising on Interstate 10 in the stage on their way to a third place emergency lane was the Mazda, in class and fourth overall. Paula fuel tank mounted on the hood, Gibeault/Chris Bradshaw came gravity feeding fuel into the rotary to Indio with visions of the points engine. It was slow going but they championship in the it eyes, did finish officially and should get needing to beat Rui Brasil. The a creativity award. pair, while never serious contend-Two wheel drive open class had ers kept moving, hoping maybe an impressive 11 starters, and five the alternator woes in the Audi finishers. What can you say, it would spell their championship, was a Lon and Bill day again as the but alas it would not be. Still the Peterson/Gutzmann Plymouth finish is high enough to lock •the Arrow won all the stages and runner up spot in a hard fought captured the win, and second year . overall. Tony Shumaker/Ty In their first rally, off road Tipton, who have been excep- racers Tom and Whitney Carter tionally fast in the Mitsubishi {father/daughter team) brought Eclipse, kept pace for second out an International Scout to see place survi"ving early challenges what this rally thing was all about. from the Wood VW and Done The Scout, a bit outmoded for Mazda. Their effort would put rallying, may not have been fast them two and a half minutes butitwasawe1comesightasthere behind first. were numerous reports of the Bill Malik/Raine Andersson Carters stopping on stage to battled through the day with the render assistance to stuck and VW GTI of David White/ David disabled rally cars, even after the Hacket. The two teams swapped Scout had a problem when they places several times, Malik lost the transfer case and were leading the first four stages, relegated to rear wheel drive. Tom White then took the position for and Whitney may not have won a five and six. Malik then turned a trophy but they won over many great time on stage seven to gather . new friends with their acts of back a five second lead. The two kindness. teams would tie the final stage The CRS was officially over at giving third place to Bill the final control back in Indio. Malik/,R.ione Andersson's Volvo. Roger and Randy gave the CRS a Having some woes and still high note to end a very good year learning their new Saab, George . on. Next season looks even better. Dusty Times

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The rear cargo door hinges upward for easy in and out of cargo. the rear glass hatch operates separately or with the cargo door. The Explorer has a nice low point of entry. Notice the running boards, good looking as well as functional. The doors are nice and wide for easy entry .. The 4.0 liter V6 develops 160 horsepower and has 220 pounds of torque available. There is lots of power for passing or grinding through the dirt. There is lots of cargo room. The split back rear seat folds flat to give you 70 cubic feet of cargo area. Note the tie down near either wheel well. From the front, the Ford Explorer is a handsome vehicle. Note Door and window controls are easy to reach and easy to read. the air dam below the bumper. The outdoor mirrors and the roof The power front buckets assure you a comfortable driving cargo rack are aerodynamic to reduce drag and noise. _p_os_i_ti_o_n_. ___________________ _ DRIVERS IMPRESSIONS - 1994 W:ORD EXPLORER It's Cranberry And It Ain't No Turkey Text & Phot.os: John B. Calvin The Ford Explorer is certainly a good looking vehicle. This four door 4x4 model is comfy to sit in, with all the luxury of home inside. · For some reason we are always last in line· with Ford Motor Company on the list for cars for road test but we did get hold of a 1994 Explorer four wheel drive with all the goodies thereon and it was a lot of fun driving and it sure was a comfortable week behind the wheel of a very popular vehicle. · We were making one of our annual thousand trips to the desert outside of Las Vegas to enjoy the Gold Coast 300 last September and were pleased to be able to do a bit of off roading with the Ford Explorer under ideal weather conditions. This particular Explorer arrived in a Cranberry color which was quite pretty and with the creamy Mocha leather interior it was really a good looking rig. Firestone Radial ATL tires, P235 l70R 15 were the connection to the ground and were enhanced by the multi-spoke1 aluminum Dusty Times wheels. Power front discs and rear drums supply the stopping power with four wheel anti-lock in-cluded, of course. The full size spare tire .is located underneath the Explorer, thus freeing up a lot of room in the cargo area. The powerplant is the ever faithful four liter V6 with multi-port electronic fuel injection, all of this supplying 160 horsepower and 220 foot pounds of torque. The transmission is the four speed automatic with overdrive and the entire power package is both smooth and quiet, even with over twenty thousand miles on the odometer. Heavy duty gas pressurized shock absorbers, twin traction beam axle and computer selected coil springs comprise the front suspension, while the rear is a semi floating-type rear axle with optional posi-traction, two stage variable rate leaf springs and heavy duty gas_ pressurized shocks. Front and rear stabilizer bars are standard on all Explorers. Power steering is included, of course and with the tric~ suspen-sion front and rear, there is almost no feedback from the road to the wheel, always a pleasant surprise. We found the Ford Explorer 4x4 to be a most comfortable and yet powerful vehicle on the road as well as in the dirt. There was always plenty of power for any situation and the automatic transmission was very positive in shifting as well as being quiet, and with the touch of a finger you were in or out of four wheel drive, thanks to that switch just off center on the dashboard. The instrument package is functional, easy to see and easy to read. Fuel, oil pressure, temper-ature and battery condition gauges are placed in the left side of the instrument cluster with the speedometer mounted center and February 1995 the zero to 6000rpm tachometer this particular t:.xplorer averaged on the right side of the cluster. a bit over twenty miles per gallon Warning lights are there to warn for the time we had it. you of ·seat belts not hooked, We enjoyed driving the 1994 doors ajar, etc., but that·is com-Ford Explorer 4x4 as it was good mon in most vehicles. looking, fun to drive, fairly Mounted center dashboard is powerful and handled well both the Ford JBL audio system, on and off the road. There are AM /FM stereo with cassette plenty of options available and we player, including the usual hunt enjoyed all of them and would and seek features and as usual, certainly recommend them to any enough decibels to blow out the potential buyers. windows. On the highway there was very Heat and air conditioning con-little body roll in cornering and trols are mounted just beneath tb.e there was more than adequate AM /FM stereo system and temp-engine power and plenty of brakes erature control is easily achieved. when you needed them. Off the Electric door locks and electric road the suspension was great, window controls are located on and we were able to get most the drivers door, flush with the places with ease and had Ilet more panel and mounted high enough air out of the tires, it would all up to be well out of the way yet have been easier. easy to see and operate whilst · If you ask me how I liked the keeping one's eyes on the road. Explorer, you'll get all good Power outside mirrors heated of marks from me. I enjoyed driving course, ~!ways a handy fea~re, the vehicle, I certainly enjoyed the are easily moved and all the con-comfort and the ease of entry was trols for the speed control are certainly a pleasure. If this type of located on the leather steering vehicle is in your future, you wheel, always a nice touch for better get down to your Ford your's truly. dealer and see for yourself. The interior is just beautiful, electric leather bucket seats in front and a one third/two thirds split rear seat that are as comfort-able as they are good looking and functional. The rear seat folds forward and down for lots of cargo room over eighty cubic feet, and the upward swinging rear cargo door and hatch make load-ing and unloading as easy as pie. Heavy cloth carpeting covers all the cargo area and a cargo liner is an available option. There is a center console and center arm rest · with the ever present cup holders for your added convenience. There is an overhead console which shows your compass direc-tion of travel and also shows you the temperature, in Celsius or Fahrenheit, which ever you desire. If you like fresh air, there is a tilt-up open air roof as well as a lug-gage/ cargo rack on the roof. r'fhis particular model, the four door Limited model came with running boards, a very handy feature for those of us who are suffering from weak knees it is a must and is included in the four door option package. Fuel tank capacity is nineteen gallons and Simplythe Be5t! 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. 18062 Redondo Circle. Huntington Beach, CA 92648 (714) 842-2211 (800) 433-6524 (Outside CA) SAFETY ... It's what we're all about. Page 39 • +

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"The Checker Straight Poop" from El Chismoso of El Chinero El Chismoso is back again with more Checker gossip and perhaps a fact or two ... and I promise not to misspell W ahzoo like tho_se previous "fifteen times," as I was so snidely informed by the Great One himself. Even though it was corrected by those in the know (Thanks, Jean). Well, let me say · that I have a good excuse or two. First of all, The W ahzoo is a pretty secretive guy, right? My Webster's Collegiate Dictionary didn't even have a "Wahzoo" listed. He's that much ot an enigma. And besides, it could have been misspelled as "yahoo" or a "wahoo." The former is "an uncouth or rowdy person" ( that certainly works for me), while the latter is a colloquialism for a tree known as the "burning bush," which is far too Biblical for us Checkers. Although Rev. Roy may come down from the mount someday to surprise us with the Checker Ten Commandments: #5. Thou shalt not expose the identity of The Big W ahzoo, fl6. Thou shalt not commit adultery ... aw, forget it. I can see that this won't work at all. Page40 And a second fact: Peru Lou and Uncle Max misspelled "Wahzoo" in the Checkers 20th year book! That is a legal precedence if there ever was one. Nolo contendere, pro Bono and all that. Checkers In The News The Checkers got great press in the newly-published 1995 "Off Road Racing" calendar. The month of November features the ever-popular Krepz Brothers on the edge of eating it big time at the La Rana night race. Standing 'er on 'er nose ... to the delight of the goons grinning on the sidelines behind them·. And not one, but two, Checker stickers are visible. Are the Krepz's true Checker material or what? They are so, so ... so, well, Krepz-like. Plus these big ol' boys can install their spring plates without even using a come-along. Another Checker noted in the race date book was the business card of Peralta's "Baja Promos" with an odd · juxtaposition right next to Jean and the "Dusty Times." A cojncidence, perhaps? Not! Anyway, the guys who put this together did all right. But just all right: Koch's picture, up a tree, should'a been in there. Chase and Robertson were given a formal "local boys make good" spread in the sports section of the Burbank Bugle and not. once were the Checkers men-tioned. The minimun-allowable quote should have been some-thing along the lines of "We couldn't have done it without the help of the world-famous Checkers Off Road Racing Team." Just how large of a fine should be levied on · these two ingrates for this oversight? Nope, that's not heavy enough. Double it! Shake it up! The world-famous Checkers had only one active member on the podium at the SCORE awards· banquet that was held in San Diego: Kevin Davis. San Diego is not quite the same as Tinsel Town. Davis' entourage really missed the lack of slots and crap tables. Ex-Prez and inactive member Steve Kelly did get $10,000 for his third place in Trophy-Truck. Good goin', guys. Checker Mike Gaughan appar-ently felt that the SCORE management had not been suf-ficiently user-friendly toward his Gold Coast Casino, and 'Vegas racers in general, so he pulled the use of his Casino and Sal trundled the glory hounds off down south to the famous and clammy 1-8 Hotel Circle. Fog city. Mike has not been amused with Danny Cau either, for that matter. In a rare reverse "gotcha," the SCORE electorate voted Mike's Barbary Coast Hotel and Casino as the "Entry Sponsor of the Year." Kevin Davis took second in "1600"; Pete and Josh Rosenstein February 1995 were third in "11" and George Seeley had to be satisfied with the tres spot in "5 ". Koch's some-times ( and non-Checker) partner was a second in " 1 " so Tom should get some credit, right? The Checkers were up for the Pit Support Team Offroadsman Award while Tellier was nom-inated for (Yellow) Journalist. A tire company beat out our most excellent organization and Tony was not asked to appear. Apparently El Presidente, John Hastings, did not urge the rank and file to "vote early and often" as the political machine does in Chicago. SCORE changed the deal so that third place (so-called) honorees only got to stand up at their table and wave to the crowd. No speeches. Sportsmen racers were given an equal short shrift as Walter Prince - a no-show - was short-changed on his fifteen minutes of "Class ISP" fame. These "winners" had to sneak up after it was all over to get their plaques. So what do you Checkers think about Walter running as a Sportsman? Look at the heat Moynahan took about it. Five bucks, I say. Kevin was a Toyota Milestone award winner by virtue of completing all 2,554.93 miles at an average speed of 37 .794 mph. Way to go, Kev! The Lawnmower Man was tied for fourth in overall season points with some factory guy and a light beer drinker. So, does Hibbard get a slice of the take? OK; so the club had no SCORE champions in 1994 but it wasn't for the lack of trying. Scott and Brian Steele won "1600" at the · "Mint" then totaled the car at the Fireworks. The Weenie Brothers, Peter and Josh, were unable to repeat in the "Once" class, while Seeley even borrowed a chassis as he continues to promise a new car. Peepee Pete bought one of Davis' old "1600s" a.nd only needs a motor and a gearbox. "I'm sick of pushing and digging." Get hold of George Jirka, Petey; he's cornering the cast-off parts market. The Harmans deserve the Shattered Dreams Award for their unceasing string of DNFs they have produced. When "Bullhorn" and "The Grin" began pointing fingers at poor old father Steve then you'll know things are getting tense down in Gardena, the card room mecca of LA. Checkers on the Move George Thompson said that he isn't close to being old enough to live in Prescott, Arizona, so he moved back to Ventura. Or were you just too close to Butch Dunn, George? GRT, with Notre Dame getting tied by Southern Cal like that, Hibbard says that you should move to South Bend and be a Hoosier again. And, hey, get a dedicated fax line, ya cheap so-and-so. Steve Holladay has been so busy stunting around the western hemisphere that he was in dire danger of not accruing any points for the year. Look for him beating up Suburbans in "Clear and Present Danger." So he hung around a pit at the "1000" and had to put up with lurkin' Larkin. Lighten up, Steve. The kids can learn a lot from our black-balled BMW rider. Ta-Ta is in Phoenix hanging drywall, taking advantage of the booming building trades. Tony ... any truth to the rumor that you immediately changed your phone number and moved out over-night? Ex-Sportsman racer Bryan Moynahan has been working in Tucson and has formally made his move. Steve Luport, the Check-ers' resident explosive expert ( only "Black Powder Dave" Pick is more dangerous) moved out of his earthquake-damaged palatial estate and, as 1 understand it, he had so many bolt-and-nut jars in the garage that it alone took a ·week to clean out. "1000" Re-Dux Sorry, Sal, but the trophies for the Baja Mil were b.a.d., bad. Again. Sad, as it were. And definite'ly chintzy. Isn't the "1000" the biggest, baddest off road event of the year? So what's with these dollar three-ninety-eight beer bottles trophies? Can't T ecate scrape up a few extra pesos for real trophies? The extravagant Governor's Cup - for the highest placing Mexican - was bigger than Peralta and Hastings together. .. a scary thought. Some noted Checkers even refuse to display these low-grade trinkets in their Trophy Rooms! As another Checker year passes into the history books, let's all look forward to a great 1995 in the desert of your choice with best wishes to your families, friends and loved ones -just in case they are not one and the same. And OK, 'bye. Coming Next Month ••• MTEG at Anaheim Stadium SCORE banquet SCCA Maine Forest Pro Rally la Rana New Year's 200 FRT Dunaway Dash Australian Championsip -Round 5 ••• Plus all t'he usual features Dusty Times t ,

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FAIR News By Dave Massingham By the time you read this, 1994 will be history. Hope everyone got through 1994 OK -1995 will be better. The Baja 1000 saw six FAIR entries and one Duster. We all teamed to cover ten pits, three were double pits. Brian Park-house and Willie Melancon got fourth place in Class 10. Brian started with spark plug problems within 50 miles of the start. His motor wasn't 100 percent but he got the car to Willie below San Felipe. Willie soon found out the dry lakes were not dry anymore and the silt was more than the sick 1650cc motor could take. He got stuck. After digging out, Willie got to pit 8 where Charlie Nieto was pitting. Seems Willie was yell-ing and screaming for Brian. Char-lie informed Willie that Brian was not there. At that, Willie took off throwing rocks at all the pit people. Hey Willie! Next time the volunteers might not be there when you need them. Tom and Frank Rusich with Rick Pew finished fourth in Class 1-2-1600. Tom started with no troubles, gave it to Frank at Bor-rego. Frank, now in second or third place ran trouble free to El Chinero. Rick Pew got in just in time for the rains, and had rain most of his section to the finish. Rick got stuck once and drove most of the way with his visor up to see. Rick is a survivor and pressed on just to finish at 2 a.m., eyes full of mud and no radio communications for the last six hours. Way to go Rick. I hope Tom and Frank appreciate your efforts. Bob Delosier was fourth in Class 8 in only his second race in his new truck. Not too much detail received other than he ran out of gas and ran several miles to the pits for gas. Darnen and Casey Jefferies were a dnf in Class 9. This was the only race Darnen has failed to fin-ish this year. He was 17 minutes over the time limit. Darnen had his share of problems and broke down below San Felipe in Matomi Wash. His Chase crew had a hard time finding the Duster pit near Matomi. After all was repaired, Darnen pressed on just to finish. Darnen wanted to thank the crew at Check 9 for waiting until noon on Saturday until Darnen came thru. That's the FAIR way , no-body leaves until the last car had cleared. Frank Omboli and H a rry Dunne did not finish in Class 5-1600. Harry started with no trou-ble to Borrego. Frank took over and lost the alternator, running ten miles without lights. Back at Borrego they replaced an alterna-tor and got going again, having a few other problems. Finally they lost the trans 100 miles before the finish, tough luck. Jeff and Jim Kawell also were a dnf, losing the motor at mile 100. No other de-tails were received. Jim Norgard and Jim Swisher were out of action early in their Class 11 . They got stuck so badly that it took two 4x4 trucks to get them out of the mud the next day. It was a short race for our new member Jim Norgard. Dick and Mark Weyhrich dnf in Class 10. All I saw was a series of pictures with their car going end over end. Hope everyone is OK. It was a typical Mexico race. If it will Dusty Times happen, it will and it did. Thanks to Joe Jensen and crew for taking the first and last pit. Without guys like you FAIR wouldn't be around. Thanks to Frank Orasco and Mike Repoll-edo for taking another double at Oasis then moving out to the highway. Thanks to Gary Porter of the Chapalo Dusters for taking Borrego, another double. We do appreciate you waiting until Frank Omboli was finished with repairs. Sorry Evan Harbottle couldn't make it this year. We sure needed you at the pit below San Felipe. Thanks to Mel Jeffer-ies for the pit at Campo Don Able. Thanks to Rick Pew and Jeff Randal for the pit at El Chinero. I understand it was a muddy mess. Thanks to Charlie Nieto, the old standby tor helping at Checkpoint 8 pit. Charlie helped our new Class 11 pit crew. Thanks to Brian Hintz and Chris for helping at the first and last pit. FAIR will evaluate sharing pits with the Chapala Dusters for 1995, the 1000 pits didn't work the FAIR way. The La Rana 300 race on Nov-ember 19th saw eight entries from the club. Chris and Scott Duncan, dnf in Class 2, after rolling on the second loop. No injuries, just hurt feelings. Morgan and Mas-singham also dnf in Class 2, after losing a motor and the overall lead at the halfway mark. Tom Man-gione was a Class IO dnf, losing the motor early in the race. Danny Drake was third in Class 5-1600. On the third loop Danny was first by four minutes, then he lost his rear shocks and the rear cage broke. After much work by Darnen Jefferies and Harry Dunne, Danny was able to limp to the finish. David Edelstein finish-ed first in Class 1575. He ran trouble free and now plans to retire his old Bronco. What's next Dave? Dave has committed to pit-ting for FAIR next year, until he decides what to do. Scott Steinberger and Larry Plank finished late in Class 7S. Larry had front wheel problems and a broken I beam. Jury rigging it to bring it in for repairs, Scott took over. Taking it easy he lost rear leaf springs and limped in just to finish. Kathy and Stacy Fay fin-ished second in Class 1500 and first for the year. They had fuel RACINC SERIES pump problems but still got sec-ond. Way to go ladies. FAIR is very proud of you two and father Jim. Roger Caddell from Washing was leading Class 1600 all day and finished second. Roger is the cur-rent VORRA champion. Rich Fersch and Bill Varnes were third in Class 10. Rich took the first two loops driving his normal aggressive race, then he tangled with a Class 9, rolled the car and ended on the wheels. No prob-lems and he was able to continue. Bill Varnes of Mirage took the last half for a fine third place. Thanks to all the pit people who took care of business, every-thing went very well. See you all at the La Rana race the first weekend of January. Tired of beating on the same old ground? ~ . . 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California Rally Serles By John Elkin • one she will fill well. Debbie is the wife of National Production Champion Dave Turner, who also runs a CRS Performance Stock. Debbie has some great plans and ideas that we will get to in later issues. PIT TEAMS , disappearing into a black hole. costs are really as far down as We all forget about them when we most can make them when you work, find them in our cars later, consider the expense of SCCA if you find any please return them sanction fees, insurance and pre-to any CRS organizer or Dan event paperwork that gets filed. Hook. Rally equipment is getting Add on top of that the cost of low for the CRS in general, we laying out the roads, printing of need vests, arrows, wood stakes, entries, route books, supp regs Our 1995 CRS season should and our CRS clocks repaired. and postage, you can see the be about ready to get under way as While the vest and stakes have to reason many events have multiple this issue hits your mailboxes.We be purchased the arrows can be organizers. It was decided that will start the year on February 4, made and the clocks can be re- events could compress schedules with a couple of rallysprints in paired. To this end, the Sunday to the point where you ha·ve less , Adelanto. Then we get a break after the High Desert Stages a motel night requirements. Other until Rim which is May 5-6 this work party has been organized at ideas on this subject are welcomed year. The gap between events is a Lon and Nancy Peterson's house. by calling any organizer. wonderful opportunity for you to If you are so inclined to score Welcome to our new incoming sample the hospitality and unique major brownie points with your Director! Debbie Turner has roads that Washington· has to CRS brethren plan on attending. taken up the post replacing offer, twin rally weekends known Instructions to the Peterson Lynette Allison, who has done a as the Doo Wops are on February spread can be had by calling ( 619) wonderful job for us the past two 17-18, April 18-19, and then the 241-4707. years. Lynette feels her resources national rally is April 21-22. The BoG discussed how organ- can be better utilized co-ordinat-Annual Frame Inspections are coming, and this year we have instituted a different format for your convenience, dual site in-spections. Both Ron Wood and Bill Gutzmann will be donating their repair facilities for the inspections on January 21. Dan Hook will be the official inspector at Gutzmann's shop in Upland. If you are closer to Upland or Hunt-ington Beach you now have a choice. If your vehicle is not ready for frame inspection by this date individual appointments can be made through Ron or Dan. In Arizona your inspector is Roger Hull and in Northern California Send us your tales of triumph and troubles and they will be featured on these pages. Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 20751 Marilla Street ·Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 Rui Brasil will soon be licensed too. For instructions to the frame inspections near you call Ron at (714) 848-4 336 or Bill Gutzman at (909) 982-3173. Times will be from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at both locations. -After Rim we go back to Prescott, izers can lower your event costs. ing worker lists tor event organjz-which is again, at this time, a 60% o, Each organizer explained how ers, a position long needed and National on July 8. Then things -----------------------------------------------------get sketchy. The future of Tree-line, not to mention its location are in question. Gorman Ridge is moving to late September and Indio will take November 18 as it's date. There are some new events that could happen, more on them as information becomes available.We do know people are looking in the Big Bear area, Northern California has a renewed interest in rallying that would pay CRS points. So the possibilities are there. Lots of happenings with new cars and teams. Ron Wood, who wadded his VW at Indio is now hustling to finish his four wheel drive Audi for the start of the year. T any Chavez has purchased the Tony Shumaker Eclipse for two wheel drive open class. Shumaker does not know what his plans for 1995 are yet. Rui Brasil is cooking up some new Audi creation for later in the year. Dennis Chizma has something happening for later in the year also to replace his VW, he expects to stay in Performance Stock. Dave Turner is thinking about running the Arrow he used in Performance Stock in Stock where it is legal. Tom Carter, who rallied his Scout with us at Indio decided he likes our sport and is shopping for a proper rally car. Dan Hook is still building his newest creation for two wheel · drive open and it may see stages this year. Roger Hull has some-thing brewing in Prescott, rumor is it is four wheel drive and has an Eagle Talon logo on it. Have you noticed the new fire extinguisher rules? Better take note before High Desert Stages. If you have a normally aspirated car or truck you are now required to have a minimum of20B:C protec-tion IN TWO CONTAINERS! If your car already had an on board system you must still carry a minimum of l0B:C protection in a removable extinguisher. Please make sure your car complies before the start of the year. A Board of Governors meeting was held on December 10, the main topics of the meeting centered on next years scheduling as described above. Also discussed were new systems of determining the number of trophies distribut-ed at the end of the year. If a class has fewer than 15 entrants the CRS will trophy down four places; for 15 or over we will trophy down five places. Do you have any SCCA orange vests? The CRS has experienced strange phenomenon with vests . Dusty Times ---.. ,..--. nc:'-:i -V••••ff -Ur: Ei~-, ~··m •• ROI•• NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, NEVADA *TENTATIVE* 1995 RACE SCHEDULE MARCH 18 & 19 APRIL 22 & 23 MAY 27, 28,29 JUNE 23, 24, 25 June 17 & 18 Alternate Date JULY 29 & 30 SEPTEMBER 2,3,4 I 1995 SEASON OPENER Prairie City SVRA Park, Sacramento. CA SPRING SPECIAL Prairie City SVRA Park, Sacramento, CA YERINGTON 300 DESERT RACE Yerington. NV VIRGINIA CITY 200 OFF ROAD DESERT RACE Virginia City, NV FALLON 250 AT NIGHT DESERT RACE Fallon, NV FALLON TO YERINGTON DESERT RACE AND BACK TO FALLON Fallon,NV SEPT 30-OCT 1 FALL SHORT COURSE RACE Prairie City SVRA Park, Sacramento, CA OCTOBER 28, 29 CHAMPIONSHIP OFF ROAD RACE Prairie City SVRA Park, Sacramento, CA NOVEMBER 18 AWARDS BANQUET VALLEY. OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION AND PRE-REGISTRATION, CONTACT VORRA 1833 LOS ROBLES BLVD. SACRAMENTO, CA 96838 916-925-1702 FAX 916-925-8217 February 1995 Page 43

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SNORE EL DORADO 250 Teenager Jeremy Gubler Wins Overall in a Solo Drive By Jean C.alt1in Phows: Carrera Phowgraphy Doing some real world testing Robby Gordon started out with a Jong pit stop, got the lead midway only to have engine trouble on lap 6 and lose the overall but he won Unlimited class in the Ford Trophy-Truck. retiring. The mighty Class 10s were next away led by Ken Flippen Jr., then B.O.R.E. overall champion Mike Flinn and Clay Flippen in the Class 5 followed by J.C. Dean, Robbie Goerke, Steve Thomp-son, Bill Holbrook and Jim Price/Mike Baker, from Colo-rado and Utah. The biggest class It was a surprise ending of a fast race. Gordon was not leading on time, plus Jeremy Gubler not only had the lead on time, he also passed )nto the lead on the road and finished first, the overall winner in his 1600 single seater. Quite a 17th birthday present. ' was 1-2-600 as Kenny Freeman· led them away, then it was B.J. Almberg from Mesquite, Dan Bradley, Jeremy Gubler, and Back in the lead with a 41 :23 third lap Robby Gordon was• having fun now, never hitting another car anywhere, and going fast. After four laps the Tom Bradleys gave up the struggle, Tommy having to act Presidential at the finish line, and Gary Magness and his crew also got in four of the six required laps. Robby Gordon was the first to finish, his truck smoking a little and he seemed a.few minutes late. He apparently thoug_ht so too, but waited for the next couple to come in while his crew computed. Who were they worried about? Young Jeremy Gubler who just turned 17 who scored first overall and in 1-2-1600 and this youngster is so slender that a breeze would blow him away. His total time was 4:53:32 as opposed to Gordon's 4:55:34. The 20 minute down time hurt the truck, but Robby and company loaded up and said they might try another smaller race before Parker. The SNORE El Dorado 250 ends the series each year on or about December 2-3, as it was this past year. In recent years one big star from the SCORE Series shows up to do some real world testing, and this year it was Robby Gordon with his Trophy-Truck Ford. However, Robby had none he trappings of a 'big star'. He was alone at Friday night tech, pulling up a chair and helping us catch up with the gossip while he waited for the truck to arrive. Around off roaders he is the same Robby we knew as a talented teenager. Now the talent has been honed to a fine edge. . The tech ran from six to 9 p.m. when the drawing for starting numbers began at the Lonesome Dove Steak House just up the road from the Railroad Pass Casino, where you turn off onto Hwy 95 to get to the old moto-cross, now SNORE course, with-in sight of Boulder Highway. The place is out of town, so there are no complaints about noise and SNORE was surprised at the hefty entry on the brisk December evening. As they closed down for the drawing 53 had registered, a good 15% increase over last year. The majority of the Colorado racers had made the trek to Vegas, Kevin Streety had two other 5-1600 entries going for five laps and had a close race but he pulled out the win and won the class by about 15 minutes on the road in a real duel. and a few from Utah were on hand too, as well as the usual brace of Californians and Arizona folks. SNORE is becoming a haven for western racers who live in the snow belt, and they have another race coming in February, usually in fine weather. The clan gathered at the aband-oned motocross course bright and early. After a drivers' meeting conducted by Race Steward Bill Shapley, with a few stern words, they had four BLM trucks show up for unknown reasons, the. officers saying they were expect-ing a need for crowd control. If there was a crowd they must have been at the outlying pits on this 35 milecourse. Welookedinenvyat · the BLM well equipped Subur-bans, and later they said they encountered no real trouble. The racers lined· themselves up, and would take off down pit row and up a fairly good hill then out of sight into the first of many _ canyons. Class 1 led off with Gary Magness and company, then Robby Gordon. But Robby wasn't even out of sight when he was back on the access road, the power steering gone. They changed the whole unit in about 20 minutes and Gordon was off with time to make up. Next off the line had been Mark Davidge, Tommy Bradley, and Ed Herbst, who didn't get far at all before lrli•l@IPfflHS.IJll.~DU!•~!l•ll1ill•4t+◄d We would like to thank and congratulate all FAT has dominated SCORE c1a·ss 10. . • racing, with 4 different winners. these FAT powered 1994 Class pomts champ10ns: Nevada4tlli McDonnell&Kroger MTEG Super 1600 Champion SODA Class 2-1600 Champion SODA Class 1-1600 Champion SODA Class 5-1600 Champion SODA Class 9-10 Champion SODA Class 7S Champion . BORE Class 10 & Overall Champion Jerry Whelchel Todd Attig Todd Attig Mike Brue Todd Attig John Greaves Mike Flinn RAONG ENQNES, TRANSMISSIONS AND OFFROAD PARTS Send or call for our new catalog SS.00 Baja 500 Penhall & Erl Hreworks 250 Ray Croll Gold Coast 300 .Job & MacCachren :11 JNMQl&Gll 1558 No. Case• Orange, CA 92667 (714) 637-2889 •fax (714) 637-7352 ............................... •,•········· ····················· · ········· ·························································· ·········· ··· · ······❖ Pagc44 February 1995 Danny Anderson. The others were Bekki Freeman, Don Roberts, Rob Guevara, with all new suspension, Dan Jewett and Ruben Rodriquez. Danny Hempelman led the trio of 5-1600 Bugs followed by Duane Elred then Kevin Streety. On the first lap Clay Flippen was first around in the Baja Bug, but Kenny Freeman was just astern followed by the 1600 of Jeremy Gubler who had Brian Collins behind him. B.J. Almberg was next, then Danny Anderson and Mike Flinn. They were really getting mixed up now between the 1600s, 1 Os and the few who were without down time. Mark Davidge had a long pit stop, then never came around again. Jeremy's mother was crying tears of joy and dad Regan Gubler had such a grin on his face we thought his skin would crack in the cold. Jeremy said he had one flat tire and no other trouble except that he tapped Gordon on Robbie Goerke won Class 10 at the final series race by 25 seconds in a real dogfight in the eight car class. The win made the difference in the season's final Class 10 points standings and Robbie was fourth in Class 10 standings. Mike Flinn came south from Salt Lake City once more and again he collected some SNORE money in his fancy painted Class 10 single seater. Flinn is not only Class 10 title holder but the overall champion of the Bonneville Off Road Racing Association. Dusty Times

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SNORE President Tommy Bradley swings around the final turn· in his Unlimited Chenowth heading for the finish line and second in class as the ruts get deeper here after six laps of racing. The 1600s were cleaning house at this race and Rob Guevara _ was enjoying driving his car, with all new suspension and running a lot faster on the rough course, in fact he finished second in Class 1-2-1600. Duane Eldred kicks up some dust with his 5-1600 in the dry El Dorado valley south of Las Vegas, slowed some on the last two laps but came in a solid second in class. Steve Thompson was just a few seconds behind after six laps in Gene Griepentrog seems to often be the bridesmaid in Class 9, Todd and Terry Vandawalker were close in second spot in the Class 10, but the second place finish made a big difference in and he was again at the Eldorado 250. He and Kent Lothringer Sportsman Buggy ciass and the finish bumped Todd up to points boosting Steve up to third in Class 10 overall points for were.also second in Class 9 season points, and sixth in overall second in class series points. Even in dust you always know the the year. points good for $800.00. car by its American flag flying. the last lap in the rock pile and Pe tr ii lo took a l i t-;:t-;--1 e::--t=--:i:'::m=-::e-J1:i-=m:=--;:P;::r~ic:::::e:--;/~M-;;iik~e::-CB-=a-;--:k-:::-e:=-r -:-:w:-::e:::::r:::e-:a:--;-::la-=p:--;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;;:::;;;.......;,;::;;--';;:-:;:;--.-:;;;:-----.;;:::;;~'-;;-~ -::;::;:=:::-:-:-::----:~:::-;;:;-:::;:~:; Robby immediately moved over. recovering. His effort took about shy of finishing. That really impressed the young 20minutes.HewonClass9byl2 In Class 1-2-1600 it seemed driver. Rob and Bob Guevara seconds, luckily he had a good these troops ran into a course too finished second in Class 1-2-1600 cushion. Until then Dave had tough to tame. As mentioned the with their "Miraged" racer, and stopped only for gas and to fix a Guevara'sweresecondbehindthe third overall; so happy with the broken tie rod. overall winne,r, and these were the improvements they could hardly With all this excitement we lost on! y two of ten starter s that talk. They thanked Webb Weld track of who was finishing. Gene finished. Bekki and Ken Freeman for their help and had no troubles Griepentrog and Kent Lothringer were third with five laps, and also at all on course. were the second place Class 9 who completing five laps were Dan Several more buggies arrived could see victory slipping away as Bradley/Sam Dunnam, and Don beforetheexcitementbegan.The they finished. They had brake Roberts/ Jeff Shiroky. Bekki finish line is preceded by a long troublealldayas Genestarted and Freeman probably would have straight into a 180 degree turn Kent finished, both with a little had a finish, but her co-driver got back to the finish line. Going for pit time with the brakes. Dale quite ill and she was forced to pit the overall points as well as the Looney, Matt Cunningham, Bill while they spent some time Class 9 championship Dave Avery and Tom Brown got the getting the co-driver out of the Another fancy paint jobiJ)rought even greater rewards. Dave Petrillo had to Petrillo had a good lead when he third place trophy, shy one lap of car. Bekki then put her dad in the push his tiger striped Class 9 single seater to the finish line, but he won the rounded that corner, then the car finishing. The VORRA racers car to carry on. race in Class 9, won the Class 9 and overall SNORE points championship, quit. SNORE follows the rule that Forest Creasy and Glen Mc Adon In Class 5-1600 it was a bit of a , .c.go_o_d_fo_r_$_4_.o_o_o_. o_o_c_a_s_h_a_n_d_a_f_re_e_e_n_t_ry_in_a_l_l S_N_O_R_E_e_v_e_n_ts_,_·n_1_9_9_5· __ _ only the driver(s) can push the also ran out of time to get an parade. Danny Hampelman and racers. We'll probably see more February 4 in the Nelson Hills car, and this is a single seater. official finish, but they got a Dick Kidder led on time all five Snowbirds at the first 1995 event, with rocks and mountain trails in Dave tried hopping on the starter trophy. Former champion in laps, but the car was disqualified . the SNORE Bottom Dollar on the same El Dorado Valley area. motor, then finally got out to Class 9 Mike Dixon got in a quick in post race tech. Kevin Streety push while bystanders were lapbutstoppedshortofthefinish and John Gangloff had been admonished not to help him line and left the car by the side of running steady all day and they which would disqualify him. It the road all day. inherited the win with good time was a long, probably 30 yards Back up front the Class 10s of 6:06. This put Duane Eldred push, uphill in deep sand. Dave were really moving. The early and Daniel Syverson in the pushed it right into a phone pole, leader was J.C . Dean, but he second place in 5-1600. and had to dig it out but he kept broke a spindle, got running then In the Sportsman Buggy Group on the task, his crew were had drive train trouble on the Todd and Terry Vandawalker led watching the incoming traffic. third lap and put it on the trailer. for a time, but as the race wore on Finally as the front wheels sank Robbie Goerke took over and laid young Jay Shain with class fast lap int~ sand ruts again he got the down six near identical lap times, · 53:55 led. In his first solo drive checkered flag, totally wiped out. so did Steve Thompson. This will young Jay won the Sportsman The valiant effort rewarded him be debated for many bench racing Buggy honors. He probably won't with SNORE's overall points sessions, but officially Goerke stay in Sportsman class very long. Championship plus several won by 25 seconds, Thompson Todd and Terry w&re second, thousand dollars and a free entry earned second, Mike Flinn took followed in by Scott and Barbara into every SNORE race in 1995. third place, a finish and little cash Noall and Ed Dunn all from Well worth the push, but Dave _ home to Boise. Clay Flippen and Colorado. Also from Colorado dad John Dunn got four laps in. Jay Shain went for his first solo ride at this race and he must have liked driving alone because he won the seven car Sportsman Buggy class by a very few -minutes. Dusty Times In th~ Sportsman trucks it was a mixed bag. Again from Colorado Tom Dunn was the only one to cover the five laps, a winner. Barry Slatter and company were second, a couple laps shy as was Stacy Pike who we think was the last one flagged in. A pair of Class 1 l ls started on the rugged course. Ed McCormick did one lap, John Holton did none. The bench racing started in bright sunlight, and continued next morning at the awards breakfast hosted by the Lone-some Dove and it was tasty stuff. The breakfast is a neat tradition with SNORE and' out of town folks delay leaving for this chance to eat and enjoy with fellow February 1995 ·The Off-Roader's Choice· • E-Z ur INSTANT SHELTERS Imagine setting up a free-standing shelter in less than 60 secondsl NO missing parts NO center poles NO ropes NO hassle • 5 sizes • 24 colors • Custom Graphics I nst11nt Pit Shelter La Rana Contingency Sponsor SCORE Contingency Sponsor E-Z UP Authorized Dealer CASTEX RENTALS~ INC. 104~. C-ole Ave. Los· An.9eles, CA 90038 CALL: 213 • 462 • 1468 Page 45

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· The single Heavy Metal entry was Bill Dickton's 4x4 Dodge, but Bill was the listed co-driver and Scott Bassett the driver of record, a point{; ploy. With no competition they ran a couple of laps and retired, a winner. Clay Flippen bounced along happily in his super new Class 5, this round he ran in Class 10 and finished fourth among the buggies in this competitive class. VORRA racers Forest Creasy and Glen faced the infamous rocks on this course and almost survived. They were fourth in Class 9 three of five laps completed before they vanished into the desert. John Dunn wears the flag high, all over his Sportsman Baja Bug. The man from Colorado got in three good laps before retiring and he was fifth in the Sportsman Buggy class. Stacy Pike has been trying for a long time to get in the trophy line in the Sportsman Truck class, and they did just that last December finishing third in the class. Page46 Bekki Freeman started out strong but about midway the co-driver became ill, it took a while to get him out of the car, but he was OK later. Dad Ken got in to finish the race for his disap-pointed daughter, third in 1-2-1600 class. Jim Pierce came from Colorado and Mike Baker, his co-driver, from Ogdon, and between them they had a good trip through the rocks in Class 10 and came home a good fifth in class. Looking stateo f the art for Sportsman Buggy, Scott and Barbara Noa/I, came from Colorado Springs to get warm, and they drove right into a solid third place in the Sportsman Buggy ranks. Yet another Dunn raced the El Dorado event, Tom Dunn. With Mark Snow riding along Tom covered all five laps in Sportsman Trucks in the tidy Ford Ranger and won the class by a lap. A pair of Class 11 entries tested their cars 11rid skills agp.inst the rather awesome El Dorado trails. Ed McCormick and Frank Tomezak got in three good laps, the first a 1:30 quick lap to win the Class 11 honors. February 1995 Dan Bradley and Sam Dunnam had a slow first lap with troubles in Class 1-2-1600, but then they picked up the pace to arrive fourth by some 20 minutes. Dale Looney and Matt Cunningham finally had good luck with the Class 9 car this round and they covered three quick laps, lost an hour on the fourth lap and were third in Class 9. Ed Dunn and three co-drivers had a good day in Sportsman buggy class, covering four good laps before luck ran out, but the team did finish fourth. Barry Slatter really enjoys racing his Ford in Sportsman Truck _ action, since there are no trucks in the pro ranks. Barry and co-drivers often help unstick competitors during a race. They were second at the El Dorado race. Last but far from least the concour looking pink and white Beetle of John Houlton and Patrick Burnett made one round of the course before retiring somewhere on course. Dusty Times

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By Rick Barfield Moonlight 45 Rally . This year at the Squeaky stock odometers, but not Mike meter, but we tell you what, we 'Springs GN Off Road Race, Fud Hart of B2TW Racing. He and have never has so much fun 4-added something new to the Matt Garrett in their '59 Baja wheeling." Their fun was good agenda. A rally for street legal started in the back of the pack and enough for a third place finish in trucks and Baja Bugs, called the just cruised right on through the the full size trucks. . Moonlight 45 Rally course to take first, just seconds First place in mini trucks went Pacific Off Road started the from the goal time. to Marico Soto and Lee Holley. event about four years ago with Dennis Sletten and Rick Bar-Not bad for running their '84 some success. "We wanted to field of Indio Dune Buggy/Rat Toyota a few more miles than the start an event for our customers Racing T earn ran their '65 Class mapped out 41.8 by getting lost. and others who love racing but 11 VW Setco Special to a second During the race they broke the don't have the money to build and place without the use of an odo-metal boot off their shock. "We maintain a race car." After several meter at all. "We gotlost justlong had a lot of fun stopping and unsuccessful attempts at getting enough to get second." talking with people, and we're land use permits and insurance Chris and Cindy Patterson of ready for the next one." they decided to call the man of Patterson Racing ran their '69 Dawn Jones, Curt Baker and district 38, Fudpucker himself. Class 11 . Even though Chris Greg Gibbs of Bonehead Racing "They came to me with this idea raced a 3-wheeler out here in took turns in the '91 Toyota. and it sounded like it had the 1983 they still managed to get lost There was said to be more back-potential to be a very successful seat driving than actual driving. along with everyone else. But with and fun event. I threw in some Cindy reminding him to slow Like so many others they spent ideas of my own and together down they were able to pull a plenty of time "sight-seeing" but came up with a 42 mile unmarked . third place in the Bajas. made it in time for a second place course that was kept secret until David Henry and Darren finish in the mini trucks. Kyle an hour before the start. So there Kurtpatrick ran their Ford F-150 Whitted and Denise Basse ran could be no cheating, we did not to a first place finish in the full size their '92 Toyota to a fun but un-come up with a goal time until the trucks. "We had a lot of fun, can't eventfull third in the mini trucks. end of the race. Then we took all wait until the next one." Everyone I talked with had a lot the finishing times divided them Eric and Jim Philpott of P.B. of fun and really enjoyed the by the number of entrants to Racing ran their '89 Ford F-150 comarade_rie, many stopping and come up with an average time." to a very nice second place in the talking with competitors on the The event started about 5 pm full size trucks. Like most they got course. The saying of the night with a driver's meeting and the lost around tank hill but found seemed to be "Man I got lost". I handing out of the race maps. their way back in time. heard one man say. "It looked like Then at 6 pm the first vehicle left Brandon Duryee and Dustin a bunch of keystone cops running the line with the others following Black had a fun and exciting ride around out there, cars coming and in one minute intervals. in their Chevy Blazer. They were going from all driections". But for More than one person found running about 70 mph when their 37 entries in an inaugural event themselves lost before the first this is something to keep your eye grill flew off and another fast turn. One thing that threw many running truck ran over it. "We · on. Fud said he would do the rally off ~as big tires, another being Dusty Times were running without an odo-again, maybe _after the April race. TRI-MIL EXHAUST SYSTEMS 1 /38 TYPE 1 RAW ...................... $69.95 rtEVflDA OFFROAD 8(1(iGY 13/8 TYPE 1 CHROME ............... $100.00 11/2 TYPE 1 RAW ...................... $65.95 11/2 TYPE 1 CHROME .............. $100.00 15/8 TYPE 1 RAW ...................... $73.95 15/8 TYPE 1 CHROME ............... 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Bonneville Off Road Racing 1994 Final Report the Best Wes tern Sunset Inn in Mississauga. The evening started out 1,Vith a terrific dinner buffet. Then followed the awards cere-mony. Along with trophies for e!1ch class there were some special awards given. Bill LeFeuvre won for the highest points overall, Cameron Lane for Rookie of the Year and Ray Jennings for Sportsmanship. Also ap.precia-tion Awards went to Frank Nier-eisel of BFGoodrich and Kim DeSouza for the Newsletter. The year end trophies were sponsored by the following: T .J .'s Auto Ser-vice, Class 1-2-1600, Cannington Construction, Class 3, P.S. Auto Parts, Class 4, Gerry & Sons Auto Service, Class 7S, Team Air (Ray Jennings), Class 10 and lOR. out quickly. It was a good week-end of competitive racing. The final 1994 season race wa~ at Cedar Springs on August 27-28. The season ended with a bang with the best racing we have seen all year. Not only was it fast, com-petitive and thrilling, there was a good-turnout in the majority of classes. A few trucks even came out that we haven't seen in years. Again Ken and Kent Harper put together a successful promotion. Thanks to their advertising eff-By Jim Baker November 19 was a night to remember at the Silversmith in Wendover USA. We rewarded many for winning, but really we were all winners last year. We got to race, to watch, to help and just get out of the house and forget all the pressures. Your B.O.R.E. Association is proud to be able to present these weekend excursions into the desert, to test your skills behind the wheel or in many cases behind the wrench. When it is over for another season we gather to recount all the fun we had in the past months and plan for the next year. Of course not everyone was able to be at the Silversmith Cas-ino Resort for the banquet, so for those who couldn't be there, here is what happened. There were about a hundred of you enjoying the attitude adjustment period, during which I can't remember what happened!!! They tell me that after dinner several people became coherent again, and I spoke quite plainly again ... not! Frankly, our group is made up of a cross section of America, from executives to peons, from Pros to Beginners, from Bishops to sin-ners ... heavy on one of those. Once again you were compli-mented on being a "Great group to serve" by the hotel staff. Fol-lowing a great season of racing like we had this year, it was a pleasure -to sit down to dinner with all of you. After dinner of course, it was time to get into the serious part of the evening ... boy that's a laugh. I had no more started to recall some of the highlights of the sea-son when some smart ass jumped up and told the whole group a wild story about an official who is supposed to have hit a gate post during the Jackpot race. Of course I denied it -then some of his co-horts came in carting what was left of the post, arrows and all. I was so embarrassed! After regaining what was left of my composure and trying to see my notes through the tears, I was able to relate some of the import-ant stuff, stuff like, Scott and Barbara Noall had to cancel at the last minute due to unfavorable flying conditions between Denver and here. We are sending him his trophy for winning the Sports-man Class title. While we missed them, we are happy to congratu-late them on taking third place in Sportsman Class at the SNORE El dorado Valley race on the third in Vegas. While on that subject, Mike Flinn entered, as did Jim Price from Denver in his "new" 10 car. Both suffered more flat tires than they have for all of the last two seasons, and flats raise the dickens with a close race. Even with the flats Mike finished third and Jim fourth in class. Good go-ing guys and gals. An aside to that Vegas week-end. While Flinn slept, some friendly semi rig tried mating with Mike's race rig. The damage to Mike's truck was major and the semi driver took the coward's way out and fled the scene. Being dis-couraged, Mike almost didn't start, but everyone jumped in and Dusty Times got the important stuff to the pits and "forced" him to start. But back to the banquet ... When we started giving trophies and prizes the pace picked up appreciably. With thanks to so many of our great backers we had an abundance of valued and use-ful gifts to be drawn for. Some things like the Yokohama tires, Jackets, tools and equipment were awarded to drivers only, and only to those who were present. So, some of you missed out on some great gifts, like the Y okohamas, for which we had to draw a num-ber of names before coming up with winners. A host of other things were given out to those lucky enough to have the right number. The two-way radio, donated by Don Wood of Preci-sion Electronics, was won by Roy Searle. We owe Don a big thanks for the donation, and to all of you who bought tickets for this draw-ing -Thanks. You all have helped B.O.R.E. buy some tires for our scoring bus. This will please Vernon. He changed so many tires this year I was afraid he would go AWOL at race time. At best,· driving the bus is not that much fun, and when trouble devel-ops it completely loses its glam-our. I'm very grateful to Vernon, .and Phillip for their help. The big awards for season points championship and runner-up had to be settled at the last race, could have gone either way. Both racers were worthy, both were winning their class when a broken trans made. the decision for them. Mike Flinn became the 1994 B.O.R.E. season Points · Champion. Glenn Cain is the 1994 Points runner-up. We applaud both of these gentlemen for the fine season of exciting racing and congratulate all the winners, listed below. In 1989 B.O.R.E. lost a fine man_, a true devotee of our sport and one of those respo,isible for the association we race in today. Dell Heninger finally lost a race, the last one. If he could be here today he would be embarrassed by the honor. But he would ap-plaud the idea that a Sportsman of the Year should be named by his peers. This year's slate of six nom-inees, plus three write in nomi-nees, were each worthy of this award. Voting by the drivers and your officials produced a three way tie for second. The 1994 winner of the Dell Heninger Sportsman of the Year went to a man who constantly promotes the sport, never has a bad word for anyone, and truly deserves the honor -Mike Flinn. Mike, you join a rather elite group of men who have received this award and we congratulate you on a very good season. We feel that B.O.R.E. offers one of the premier racing pro-grams available; it is professional, friendly, competitive, inexpen-sive and always run with you the racer the number one priority. While not always perfect, we hope that overall the spqrt is best served at any B.O.R.E. race. Your officials appreciate your loyal support. A race is never started without the encouragement to each of you to race like gentle-men, be courteous and always think safety. We will likely never be another "SCORE" but I sin-cerely hope it will always be "fun" to race with B.O.R.E. We would like to recognize the host of folks that make it happen. We appreciate their dedication. They are: Race Director Bob Christensen, Technical Director Jay Stuart, Executive Secretary Linda Baker, Course plans and management, Jed Worley, Equip-ment Manager, Chris Baker. There are many others who add their skills and we. thank these racing enthusiasts: Les and Janette Wolfe, Darrell and Wendy Lamb, Mike and Cheryl Baker, Cathy Christensen, Jim and Romola Smith, Mark Bradshaw, Rod Sor-· enson, Jim Magill, Bob R_eynolds, Lloyd Haynes, Randy Ward, Dean Allred, Cloyd Oleson, and the many who pit, chase, monitor road crossings and sensitive spots on the courses. We are also grateful for the tremendous support we receive each year from these friends of Bonneville Off Road Racing: Steve Hoellein at Felt Auto with Federal Mogule; Sonny Longson at the Silversmith and Bary Jones at the Stateline; Cactus Petes Casino and Bartons 93 Club in Jackpot; The Nevada Travel Council; and a host of helpers in the Twin Falls and Jackpot area. They make the bonus bucks pos-sible. We wish one and all a Happy and Successful New Year. Ontario Off Road Association News The Ontario Off-Road Associ-ation's 1994 Awards Banquet was held on Saturday October 15 at Included in the banquet promo was some race news. Last August was the 1994 BFGoodrich Off Roac;I Challenge at the Janetville 4x4 Off-Road Jamboree. The Janetville event always has an excellent turnout and did again last summer. With the vast num-ber of activities going on all week-end there was something of inter-est for everyone. Even occasional rain could not keep this dedicated bunch away. There were some problems with pit access and schedules but they were ironed . orts, there was an excellent turn-out of spectators both Saturday and Sunday. In open wheelers Bill LeFeuvre won the overall points in Class 10 and Rob Hodgson did the same in l0R. John Matson won the year's points title in Class 1-2-1600 as· did Roger Macinnis in Class 3 by a slim margin. Ric Tichbourne won the Class 4 title, and in th,e final class, 7S, top honors went to Peter DeSouza. We hope to see a schedule soon from this association so that people who are traveling through Ontario or anywhere in eastern Canada could drop in on an event if they knew when and where it was happening. Maybe we can get some race reports a little quicker in 1995 also. Dusty Times - Feb. 1994 - Points Ontario ORR Final points standings for 1994 BF Goodrich Off-Road Challenge Class 10 Bill LeFeuvre Class 10 Paul Robertson Class l0R John Makson Class lOR Rob Hodgson Class 1600 John Makson Class 1600 Dean Sleep Class 3 Roger Macinnis Class 3 Steve Mcrossan Class 4 Ric Tichbourne Class 4 Cameron Lane Class 7S Peter Desouza Class 7S Craig Rodriques 324 169 228' 202 280 179 293 284 283 173 289 215 Trackside Photo, Inc. Racing phQtography since 1970 We cover all La Rana, SCORE and MTEG events. For professional quality photos, call us! Call us for: Calendars• Press Kits• Photo Business Cards• Autograph sheets February 1995 · P.O. Box 91767 Los Angeles, California 90009 (310) 670-6896 Page 53

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Classi-fied ••• FOR SALE: 2-1600 older car with new updated front & rear suspension by Mirage -older driver but could not be updated -trailer, spare tires & some parts. $11,500.00 (818) 912-7727. FOR SALE: '89 Toyota Class 7S, total rebuild, Eields trans and Ford 9n rear w/355 Spline-Axels-Spool, Fox Shox, Bump stops, Cone Ball jts. New motor. Com-petitive SCORE-SNORE-LA RANA. Prepped and ready for Parker. $17,500.00 oho (702) 437-0117. FOR SALE: Transaxels 112 1600. (1) 4:86-2.91, 2.21, 1.65, 1.35. (1) 4:86-3.10, 2.35, 1.65, 1.32. (1) 5:42-2.85, 2.25, 1.48, 1.22. All have Duc-Diffs and Hewland or FTC gears, Hd cases. $1 f800.00 each. (619) 579-8861 Chris. FOR SALE: Class 5 Unlimited, race ready, best of everything. Fox coil-overs, shocks and bump stops, Summers Brothers, Calif-ornia Motorsports auto trans, Lee Leighton 2340cc Type I, UMP, 'JAMAR, Wright, new BFG Baja TI A, Ultra, Parker Pump_, Fuel Safe.Simpson, Beard.$14,500.00 or trade for ski boat. Call (909) 653-0697. FOR SALE: 118n single seat Raceco. Only raced 3 times since built. Would like to trade for a 2 seat or 4 seater of equal value. Has all the major name brand parts: Fox 930s, Wright, Beard, Hew-land and 2110 motor. Call (512) 368-2906 TX. Sell outright $18,000.00. TRICK 1991 MTEG Magnum. As Fresh as you can get with not a penny spared! FAT Rabbit Race Motor with a complete spare included. Two "top-of-the-line" Bus Box trannies, both fresh! Coil over Fox Shocks, UMP Power Steering, 5 Link Rear, with Disc Brakes. Centerlines w/ Beadlocks .and BFG's. Super Deal! Complete Package for $28,000. Baja Con-cepts Ref #384. (619) 583-6529. FOR SALE: 1988 Raceco Class 2 · 1 2850 Fat engine, Bus trans, w/Hewland gears, Centerline, Simpson, Summers Bros., UMP, PCI, Fox Shox. Not raced since ; 92. 20' enclosed trailer. Every-~~-~L~~--..... ."'1 thing in picture for $25,000.00 or FOR SALE: Class 9 Challenger. car alone for $15,000.00. (916) Fresh motor and DJ trans, Fox, 622-4610. Wright, Fuel Safe, Ump, K&N, l'Hr ~ YO k Oh am a , d Ump Can S an cl ~ spares. Only 10 races on new car. FOR SALE: 1994 Mirage Stad-ium Superlite, Race Ready Fox Shox, FI 350 motor, BFG's Fuel Safe, Aluminum wheels, w/ Bead-locks, lots of spare parts, Arms, Wheels, tires, Motor, Honda Ready to race. $4,000.00. Call • Timdays(805)499-3686oreves. (805) 373-6548. · parts, tie rods, clutches, belts, FOR SALE: Show quality Baja. gears, CV's. $10,000.00. Call 9,000 miles on professional John, days (310) 327-8323, , ground up build. Everything is nights (714) 842·-7238. FOR SALE: Utility bed for chase truck. Custom tool box, CO2 bot-. ties with hose reel, oil and fluid shelf. Also full-width, locking tire riew or rebuilt. Bumper to bumper cage, reliable 2016cc motor, fresh close ratio trans, Bil-steins wl reservoirs, fully street legal, quiet comfortable interior. Way too much to list. Works great on or off road $6,500,00 oho. (619) 242-7164. -----------FOR SALE: '93 Class 11 Cham-pionship car. No expense spared. Co~plete race operation. All spares included. $5,000.00 oho. (310) 915-0359. FOR SALE: Two time Mint 400 winner-Single seat Class 9 Raceco, Chromoly, Bilsteins D.J. transaxels, FAT motor, Type 3 drums, Neals Dual Master cyl. brakes, Yokohama tires, Wright rack and tie rod, 300m Sway-Away, tons of spares and parts. $6,500.00. Bitchen car. Priced to sell. (818) 339-9385. FOR SALE: Farout PreRunner, Class 5 Street legal, Best of the Best. Brand New Baja Bug, No Quality spared, Excellent Fabrica-tion. Sacco, Fox, Woods, Dura Blue Mirage, Fat Performance Motor, Power Steering, Simpson, Momo, YOO, S&S. Call for details. Baia Concepts Ref. #397 (619) 583-6529. $9,900.00 oho. FOR SALE: 96n Class 112-1600 Berrien Laser Chromoly Rolling Chassis. Call for details, $1,200.00 oho. Todd (313)427-9215. rack. Will fit full size shortbed truck. Delivery av.ailable. $1 .000.00 (805) 832-9612. FOR SALE: ORE 1-1600, 115n, prepped, ready to win. Best of everything, Gatz motor, Wright combos and arms, Durablue, bus tranny w/ Hewlands, 091 cliff., Ump Fox, SAW., Fuel Safe cell, Very competitive, Class champ HORA/SCORE and SNORE. Must see, $12,500.00, serious inquiries only. (805) 297-3943. PARTS FOR SALE: 14n air shocks (new), 11 gallon dump cans, American Racing aluminum wheels, Ford fiberglass hoods, Ford grills, Ford cabs, Cone front hubs wlJFZ disc brakes, fuel cell. Let us sell your used parts, we have a buyer waiting. Race Xchange. ( 61 9) 258-8544 FAX: (619) 258-4266. -,..---iall, --~---- ------- - - ----... --- ----------------~ ------------__. ---,. I Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in I I J I I I I I I I J DUSTY TIMES. Classified Advertising rate is only $15 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use of black and white photo,. or a very sharp color print.. . NEW AND RENEW AL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DU,STY TIMES - A 45 word Classified Ad is FREE if you act now and subscribe. If you wish to use a photo in your free ad, enclose $5.00. All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. Enclosed is $ ____ _ (Send check or money order, no cash). Please run ad _______ times. Name---------------------------------Address ______________________ Phone _______ _ City -------,-------------- State ___ _ Zip ___ _ Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 207 51 Marilla Street Chatsworth, CA1-91311-44ba Pagc54 February 1995 WANTED: Off Road race parts: · By pass shocks, coil over shocks 14n & travel, Airbumps30 gallon and up fuel cells, Dana 60 or 9n Ford full floater rear ends, Wil-wood brakes, Mastercraft seats & misc. items - shifters, gauges, etc. (310) 425-2573. FOR SALE: Killer Deal -(1994 Nevada 400 winner) 1-1600 chassis. Comes w / beam Fuel Safe cell, new Suspensions Unlimited shifting & rt rear trailing arm, nets, floorpan and skidplates. Needs new upper roll cage. We are ready to deal!! $1,100.00 oho. Call Steele Bros. Brian (619) 2 44-771 7 or Scott ( 805) 250-8071. FOR SALE: Class 8 -428 motor. Ready to race wl trailer, spare motor and tires. 20n travel. $14,000.00. Tom (805) 251-. 5565. FOR SALE: (5) New BFG Baja TA's 35x12.Sx15 (7) Mounted wheels & tires 7.00xl5 Yoko-hamas, Centerline & Weld Wheels. Used buggy fronts, good cond. (2) New 7.00xlS BFG fronts. ( 1) New Ultra buggy front wheel 15n. Make offer on what you need. (310) 521-9393 Leave message. FOR SALE: Mustang GT Pro Rall (85) Prepped for Safari Rally FIA Group A. 5 Liter enginic>, 4 bhl. carb. Some spares. Stored for 2 years, needs TLC. $2,500.00 oho ( 415) 391-4094 (San Francisco). FOR SALE: Enclosed car trailer, good condition, 36' competitive, 28' box, 3 axle with elec. brakes. Work bench and shelves, new tires and alum. wheels. $8,500.00 obo. (805) 947-1803 8-5 Mon.-Fri. (805) 274-4639 even-ings & weekends. FOR SALE: 1986 Toyota SRS, Stone Stock race truck, turn key ready. 22R engine with dual 44mm Mikuni carburetors and more, 2 shocks per wheel. Reinforced and gussetted Downey suspension kit, 4:88 rear end. Ex-cellent workmanship. $6,800.00 oho (909) 822-5243. FOR SALE: Esat Lucerne Valley 2½ acres - fenced, older but clean single wide Mobile Home. 10x50 with popout, 20x30 metal barn, 14x20 garage, enclosed well building with laundry hookups. Just off paved road. Very good neighbors. Close to Lucerne and Ba rs tow race courses. $39,000.00 Call Bob (619) 248-2268. FOR SALE: 5-1600 body and frame. Bumper to bumper with wiring. One piece front and rear fenders $950.00. DJ bus-trans with close play gears. Great pre-run trans $500 .00. Brand new 1835 long block with intake, Neineth and chrome Tri-Mil $675.00 Call Bob (619~ 248-2268. Dusty Times

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FOR SALE: VW Baja Bug pre-runner - Full roll cage, fuel cell, IRS. Rack and pinion, Beard race seats, Sway-A-Way, fiberglass front end. 1600cc. Includes spare and trailer. No reasonable offer turned down. Must sell. Will trade for truck. Call James (714) 497-2659. FOR SALE: ( 4) BFG Baja's 33xl0.Sx15 brand new; never seen rim. (916) 485-2566 $165.00 each. ALSO Baja pre-runner $700.00. FOR SALE: Class 6 Blazer project 22' front wheel TRV. Cone Dana 60, Henry's, Lee steering and more. ALSO '75 2wd Blazer pre-, runner 383ci Turbo, 400 posi, 3 shocks per wheel, BFG Baja TA 's. Call Blacky for details (619) 324-1861 . FOR SALE: New pre-runner fiberglass fenders, hoods and bedsides for Fords, T oyotas and Nissans. Also new performance headers, shocks and more (909) 822-5243. FOR SALE: 2 Speedway midgets! All the spare parts to race for years! Great opportunity for father-son team. This racing is very safe and loads of fun. These cars are state of the art with all the goodies and proven main event winners. $5,800.00 for every-thing. Call Jon (909) 927-6391. FOR SALE: Class 100, 2 seat HiJumper, Bilstein shocks, fuel cell, Sway-A-Way, Centerlines, Wright Products. $3,000.00 oho. Trailer with rack $700.00 oho. Great pre-runner or race Class 100. Nights (619) 924-2052. FOR SALE: 1989 7S Ford FOR SALE: Stadium Superlight! All the good parts! Nelson & Nelson racing modified Briggs-built chassis. This car is loaded with goodies, spare parts, and it is ready to race! $5,900.00 oho. Call Jon (909) 927-6391. if FOR SALE: '91 Meco 1-1600. Best parts money can buy. Complete. Ready to race Parker. $8,500.00. Will deliver to west coast. Consider some trade. (206) 284-2025. " Ranger, 7S legal anywhere. 1994 FRT Points Champion. Excellent condition, very reliable, all name brand components, one season on FOR SALE: Class 10, 118n w l b Bunderson frame, Race Ready, never raced since ground up rebuild, new motor and trans, new tires and rims. Lots of extras. This car is light and fast. $10,000.00 Trade?? (214) 424-9720. riit FOR SALE: 2 seat Class 10, DirtTrix, 120n, Chromoly, Summers front & rear, 300m, Fox, Charlynn, Saco, CNC, bump stops , Willwood, Pumper, Wright, Fodrill, Woods, 28 gal. Fuel Safe, Dura Blu, Beards, Hew land trans, Toyota 2 tg and spare , plus more, $12,500.00. Complete or $10,000.00 wlbus box. (602 )892-3707 Pager(602) 227-1695. FOR SALE: SODA Class 2-1600, 96" wb, Probst Laser, Chromoly · chassis, new paint, 1600cc by Dan's Off Road, FTC gears, Bil-stein shocks, Wright rack, UMP power steering, Marsh carbon fiber wheels, Centerline aluminum wheels with headlocks, HD combos, Swa y-A-Way bars, Beard seats, Summers HD stubs & 930 c.v.s. (517) 546-4108 Spares available, $7,000.00. FOR SALE: 1991 Chromoly Taylor 1-2-1600. Finished in the top FIVE in 1993, top SEVEN in 1994. FOX, Sway~A-W ay, Beard seats, power steering, BFG's, FTC gears, W eh cam, etc. 2 motors, 2 trans. All spare parts go with car. $6,800.00. Must sell. Bowles Racing (414) 285-3075. . Dusty Times engine, trans, suspension com- k h ponents. Many extras. Fair asking FOR SALE: Rotary Roe et. T is d is the Class 1 Mazda you have read price. Call (619) 352-l 72 l ays about. Progressive front end, Fox, Monday thru Friday. Weekends UMP, Summers, Centerline, & nights (6l9) 353-2870 , Fod-Fab suspension. Quick car, FOR SALE: 1990 Ford Ranger 250hp. FTC bus box. (505) 2wd X-tra cab, V6, AC, PS, PB, 252-0640, $9,500.00. Sony CD,, A~erican Racing, ••wiiw, ""W Rancho 4' lift, Flowmaster, > ····· ··· pre-run bumper, flared bed, glass fenders, 71 K miles, bed liner, ~reat chase truck or daily driver, $8,650.00 oho. Call Jason (714) 651-9197 or (714) 804-7991 pager. FOR SALE: W ant to go Stone-Stock racing? I have a '88 Jeep P-up. 80% complete for Class 15 La Rana. Looking for someone to run 95 La Rana races, possibly SCORE too. Lets talk. Corona area, Dennis (909) 735-6452. WANTED: Looking for late model Class l / 2 off road car with the latest suspension. Car need not have engine or trans but is a plus. I have a Sanger Pickel fork ( very trick) with an LSF 454 worth approx. $16,000.000. Looking to trade straight across or add money or pay cash. Only fair deals considered. ( 602) 636-0801 Chad. FOR SALE: Dan Baudoux two seat Mirage Class 11 car. Class champion in 1993 SODA series. $6,500.00 with spare parts. Will sell wi no motor $5,000.00. Call (517) 642-2333 or (517) 78 1-0281. WANTED: Ford Pick-Up full sized 4x4 or 4x2, streetable, pre-runner, chase or race truck, V8, Pl A, PIB, A IC not necessary. Price range up to $10,000.00. Send pictures and description to: Kevin Stees, 903 W . Harvard Dr., Tempe, AZ85283 (602)491-4143. FOR SALE: Chaparral Class 2, Ump pi s, coil over, disc brakes, outboard rears, Hewland DG 300 w lc.v. clutches, FAT motor, FOO front/rear arms and spindles, 20" trvl, FOX 300m Webbers, Flame Out & more. Super clean! $21,000.00 oho. Baja Concepts Ref #415 (619) 583-6529 . ATTEN SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS: House w/shop For Sale; Spacious 3 BDR 1&¾ bath wl newly remodeled kitchen. Top garage has roll up door, can be used as office or garage. Two car garage & (shop) attached below house. Plus 4 car HUGE metal shop w /200 amp electrical included with house at no addi-tional charge! Everything is new; roof, stucco, paint(inside& out), wallpaper, etc. Fenced in profes-sionally landscaped front yard all on timers. Large back patio and big sun deck with brand new railing. Basement with crawl space under house. Centrally located in San Diego County. Must see! $199,000.00 (619) 583-6529. JOB AVAILABLE: International Off Road Exp. a must, w/Mrkting & Promo and SLS & Clsing skills, Computer savvy. Must have a knowledge of Mexico, have light mechanical and fab skills, be ambitious and self motivating and willing to relocate to So. Cal. Long term position wlgrowth potential. Fax resume to: Racing (619) 278-6220. February 1995 ANYONE WHO'S ANYONE READS DUSTY TIMES ~---,;...,·-SALE: New 30n Extra high custom Dico trailer w / 110 & 12 v lights, work area, cabinets, out-side lights, 440 kv gen., base radio, 18 gal water tank, 100 gal fuel tank, new tires w/ 2 spares, and much more! $9,900.00 for everything! Or $8,000.00 oho trlr only. Baja Concepts Ref #334 (619) 583-6529. FOR SALE: Super Bitchen Blazer, unfinished. Needs: wiring, plumbing, paint _& some hard-ware. Custom built for Steve Kelly but never finished. Almost done! Very trick! Take advantage of this awesome vehicle w /ex-ceptional parts that can be finished by you.$25,000.000 oho Baja Concepts Ref #314 (619) 583-6529. FOR SALE: Chromoly Chenowth Class tor 10. Fresh. FAT 1650 Rabbit tube PortHead, fresh bus trans, Hewland gears, super cliff. Fox Shox, Summers Bros. rear disc. New 3x3 rear arms, 30 gal fuel cell. Power steering, Jamar, PCI radio. Race ready! Short course or desert. (916) 2 72-2068. FOR SALE: 1993 Fortin trans/ Hewland box, new cliff, ring & pinion 4:86. Ratios: 1st 3:00, 2nd 2:07, 3rd 1 :67, 4th 1 :29, 5th 1:12. Must sell $7,500.00 oho. Call (714) 441-1212 or (310) 865-6246. BAJA CONCEPTS INTERNA-TI ON Al BROKERAGE has represented buyers and sellers locally and around the world for 10 years. We have successfully bought and sold cars for clients on a commission basis with much savings passed on to the client. We are proud to be entering the 1995 year with the need for more vehicles! We are starting to run low ... call us to list your vehicle and save yourself the hassle of all the phone calls and be profession-ally represented and consulted. Currently we have (9) Unlmited cars, (10) Class 5 & 10s, (_13 ) Trailers ancl Transporters, ( 14) Limited class cars, ( 4) Rally / Raid vehicles, (8) Fullsize Race Trucks, (13) Midsize& Mini Trucks, (15) pre-run True ks, ( 6) pre-run Buggies/Baja Bugs and ( 16) of all types of Short Course vehicles. Direct all inquiries to Baja Concepts USA (619) 583-6529, (619)583-1851 Fax. MOTIVATED SELLER: Roger Mears/ Roger Mears Jr., GNST ( MTEG Nissans, no motor, $15,000.00 each. '89 Mears GNST IMTEG truck, no motor $6,000.00. '83/'84 stripped GNST IMTEG truck wl suspen-sion, some parts and body $2,000.00. Client has trick race motors $15,000.00 ea., 2 super clean Pikes Peak /Bonneville speed record holders 300ZX rally cars: $15,000.00 each. Depend-ing on price all vehicles can include spares. Please direct all inquiries to Rich @ Baja Concepts (619) 583-6529. FOR SALE: Raceco 1-1600 new Major motor, fresh Mendeola bus trans, new 930 c.v.s, new Dura-blue stub axles, updated suspen-sion, FOX, Mastercraft, fuel eel , Flame-Out, power steering '94 FRT Class champion, light and fast ... Spare motor, tires, dump cans, etc. $12,000.00 (619) 442-9757. WANTED: Editorial assistant to work part time with international off road publication. Good command of the English language a must. Chattsworth (818) 882-0004. 10-3 weekdays only. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Barbary Coast -Gold Coast Hotels . . . . . . . . . . • . • 1 0 Baja Promotions ...•.• : . • . . • • . • • 27 Bilstein Corp. of America • • . • • • • • . . 15 · Roger Caddell/Mike Olson . . . . . . . • • 42 Cactus Racing Products . • . • • . . • • • . 14 Castex Inc., E-Z-Up . . • . • • . • . • • • . . 45 Cowboy Coaches • . . • . . • . • • . • • • • • 37 Dez Fab ••••.••..... ••.•.....• 33 Don-A-Vee Jeep Eagle . . . . . . . • • • . • 8 FAT Performance . . • . . . • . • • • . . . . 44 Fuel Safe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 German Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Glen Helen OHV Park . . . . . . . . . • • • 2 Rod Hall Driving School • . • • . • • . • . • 20 Hi Tech Off Road . • • • . • • • . . . . . . • '!30 La Rana Desert Racing • . . . . . . • • • . • 11 McKenzie's Performance Products • • . . 19 Nevada Off Road Buggy • • • . • . • • • • • 4 7 Nissan Trucks . • • . . . • • . • • . • • • • . • 23 Parker Pumper . . . . • . • . . . . . . • • • • 40 Pike's Family Restaurant • • . • . • . • . . 35 Race Exchange • . . . • • • . • • • . . . . • • 4 Race Ready Products . • . • . . . . . • • • • 17 Reid Pro •.... ·• . . . . • • • • • . • . . . • 6 Rose Traction Control . • . . . . . • . • • • . 38 . SCORE Parker 400 . . . . • . • • . • . . . • 5 SNORE Bottom Dollar . • . . . . . . . . . . 7 Ron Stobaugh Racing • . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Sway-A-Way . . • . . • . . • . • . . . . . . . 13 Trackside Photo Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group . • . • . • . . . . . 9 Toyota Motorsports . • . . ·. . . . Back Cover Tri-Mil Industries . . . . . . . • . . . • • . . . 6 Ultra Wheel . . . . . • • . • • . • . . . . . . . 22 Valley Performance . . . . . . . • • . • . • . 24 VORRA Racing Schedule . • . . . . . . . . '\,1 VP Fuel . .... • ...•.••.• • • . . .•• 21 Whiplash Motorsports . • . • . • . . . . . • 41 Wilch Sales . • • . . . • . . . . • • . • . • . • 36 Wright Place . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . • . 29 Yarnell Specialties Inc. . . . • . • • . • • . • 32 Page55

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