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Volume 15 -Number 11 November 1998 DUlliYlilDIII Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor John Calvin Associate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance Scott Contributors C&C Race Photos Carrera Photography Jim Culp Daryl "No Brakes" Drake Homer Eubanks Martin Holmes Ralph Mason Daniel Mainzer Jimmy Messick Ron Miller Troy Robinson Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh Darryl Smith Trackside Photo Les Wolfe Art Director Larry Worsham ~ ---,n,&.I ..... lllC'DI __, Subscription Rates: $20.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Subscription rates on request Contributions: DUSTY TIIMES welcomes contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited mate-rial will be returned only by request and with a self ad-dressed 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 by Hill-side Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the pub-lisher. Periodical Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change to DUSTY TIMES, 20751Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new ad-dress, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Cha ts worth, CA 91311-4408. snapshot Df the Month ... Aaron Hawley wrestles his Classic Plumbing Special across the desert at the Silver Dust Racing Associations' Spring Fever 250, the year, 19895. It was oh so simple then! DUSTY TIMES will fea ture pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to 8xl0 will be considered. In This Issue ... FEATURES SCORE Primm 300 by Judy Smith ................................................................. 8 NESTE Rally Of Finland by Martin Holmes ....... ........................................ 18 29th Annual SNORE 250 by John Calvin ............ ....................... : ............... 20 Australian Off Road Championship by Darryl Smith ................................. 26 Gorman Ridge Rally by Paul Timmerman ................................................... 30 Dusty People - Dale White .................................................................. .' ....... 33 Australian Off Road Championship by Darryl Smith ............... : ................. 34 ARK Valley Rally by Robert Hamblin .......................................................... 37 2nd 555 China Rally by Martin Holmes ...................................................... 39 FRT Short Course at Imperial by Judy Smith ............................................... 40 B.O.R.E. Bonneville Challenge by Mike Jenkins ........................................ 42 VORRA Yerington Desert Race by Troy Robinson .................................... 45 Fond Farewell - Carl Merr·ill ........................................................................ 48 DEPARTMENTS Happenings .................................................................................................... 5 Trail Notes ....................................................................................................... 6 Off Road Scramble by PC ............................................................................. 32 MAG-7 Report by Stephen T. Stenberg ......................................................... 48 Checkers by the Big Wahzoo .......................................................................... 49 CORE Notes by Sandy Parker ....................................................................... 49 Challenger Corner by Joel Mohr ................................................................... 50 Baja Pits Report by Mr. Baja ........................................................................ 50 FAIR News by Joy Bancroft .......................................................................... 50 Good Stuff Directory ..................................................................................... 52 Classified A.ds ................................................................................................ 57 Index To Advertisers .................................................................................... 59 On The Cover Tim and Ed Herbst had a fine day in their Smith Built Trophy Truck, taking the Trophy Truck win and they were first overall as well. Andy Wehe was the big winner at the 29th Annual SNORE 250, leading all · the way and taking the overall honors in his good looking Protruck. Color Photography by Trackside Photo c5ubscrihe <Joda_y lo DUSTY ·Tl·MES THE FASTEST GROWING .OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 1 year -$20.00 □ 2 years -$30.00 □ 3 years -$40.00· (no credit cards please) Take advantage of your subscription bonus ... Free one time classified ad up to 45 words. (See form in Classified section) Name ---------------------Address --------------------City ---------------------St ate ___________ Zip ______ _ Primary Interest -CARS O MOTORCYCLES 0 Send check or money order to: DUSTY TIMES 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 Canadian - 1 year $25.00 US ■ Overseas subscription rates upon request Dusty Times November 1998 Page 3

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1998 Happenings ... 01152 (65) 66-6080 Fax December 4-6, 1998 Carrera de Campeones Mexicali - San Felipe BC, Mex (206) 339-9079 (All events at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thurston County ORV Park, Olympia, WA) Victoria Galindo Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico Ol 1-526-176-6225 October 16-18, 1998 ASOCIACION ESTATAL de AUTOMOVILISMO Sam Lasell, Tech Inspector . Apto 42 San Jose de! Caho Baja California de! Sur. Mexico AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP Darryl Smith 19 Somers St. Cashmere, Queensland, 4500, Australia 01 l-18-07-3298-5522 November 1, 1998 Goondiwindi, QLD AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFFROAD Class 10 cars only Renald Vaillancourt' · 3069 Dagenais West Laval Quebec, Canada H7P 1 T7 (514) 622-4440 BAJA INTERNATIONAL P.O. Box392 Calexico, CA 92232 Apartado Postal 31/163 Mexicali, BC, Mexico Mexicali (65) 5542-83 Off Road Races BEST IN THE DESERT . RACING ASSOCIATION Casey Folks, Director 3475 C Boulder Highway Las Vegas, NV 89121 (702) 457-5775/Fax (702) 641-2431 December 4-6, 1998 Terribles Town Pahrump, NV BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTERPRISES Les Wolfe, NEW President 1727 N. Main Sunset, ITT 84015 (801) 776-4654 BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-3250 CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Donna Mitchell, CRS Director 530 Moorpark Avenue, Suite 280 · Moorpark, CA 93021 (805) 523-1387 Michael Gibeault, SCCA Steward 149 No. Rawhide Ridgecrest, CA 935558 (619) 375-8704 August 22, 1998 Gorman Ridge Rally Gorman, CA Nove01,ber 14, 1998 Treeline Rally Monrovia, CA "December 4, 1998 Laughlin International Rally Laughlin, NV March 6-7, 1999 CRS Pro Rally School and Rallycross Location TBA CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box400 Maywood, CA 90270 (213) 560-SHOW CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box645 Pierre, SD 57501 Dave Adams (Pilots and Bajas) (605) 224-9481 Don Engleman (Bikes) (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O. Box 332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLAIRTON In-JACKERS l.C.O. Tom Delauder Sr 1091 Twp. Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Harrison County Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICA SAN QUINTIN Calle 6ta Fracc Cd. de San Quintin San Quintin, BC, Mexico Heraclio Patino (011 52 616-5-22-07) CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE Dusty Times DECATUR Baja 1.5 Short Course Race 011-526-176-6225 San Vicente Off Road Ensenada, BC, Mexico USA Jan Wright (0115261746834) Ramon Castro & Ruben Acevedo (61637/7 0034) CORR Championship Off Road Racing Carla Reid (317) 272-2827/FAX: (317) 272-2900 Short Course Racing December 5-6, 1998 EXXON Superflo Winter Series San Bernardino, CA FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 FABTECH Off Road Short Course Series at Glen Helen Raceway P.O. Box 6950 CMC Continental Motosport Club P.O. Box 3187 Mission Viejo, CA 92690-3178 Fax: (714) 367-1608 Bob Beyer (909) 384-9342 CORVA DESERT STEEL MOTORSPORTS 1865 Commander Drive San Bernardino, CA 92412 (909) 280-9096 Championship Series October 25, 1998 Round 7 November 22, 1998 Round8 COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholtz, President (719) 531-3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P.O Box8286 1500 West El Camino, Suite 352 Sacramento, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA Ext 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 (520) 855-6125 EASTERN OFF-ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Tom Delauder, Sr. 1091 Township Line RoadWellsville, Ohio43968 Contact: BBM Marketing Promotions P.O. Box 762 Norco, CA 91760-0762 October 30-November 1, 1998 Northern Calif. Jamboree Frank Raines OHV Park 1-800-42 CORVA ext 502 (330) 532-4589 (562) 988-6250/Fax: (909) 280-9097 Colorado Springs, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP Cachanillas Off Road Promotions P.OBox392 Calexico, CA 92232 01152 (65) 66-60 80 D&T PROMOTIONS Dave Van Deren 2405 Baker Ave. Everett, WA 98201 ELLIS DESERT RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS (760) 256-8059 DeceJll.ber 5, 1998 Stoddard Valley ESTERO BEACH SHORT COURSE RACING FORDA Florida Off Roaders Drivers' Associaton 2750 Cozumel Drive #1116 Melbourne, FL 32935 · (407) 254-5167 llllinner's Circle Damen Jefferies, 1st In Class, 2nd Overall; Takes SCORE Points I ead Darnen Jefferies of Big Bear City, CA won Class ~ 0 and finished second Overall at the SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 off-road race to take over the Overall points lead in the Laughlin SCORE Desert Series. Driving his JIMCO Toyota Class 10 single seater equipped with Bilstein shock absorbers, Jefferies won his class by 39 minutes and finished just 23 minutes from an Overall victory after 335 miles of racing near State Line, NV. Jefferies, the defending SCORE ·Overall Points Champion, has now posted three class wins in the first five SCORE events this season. He has added one second and a third-place finish to claim the Overall points lead heading into the season-ending Tecate Baja 1000 race. Other SCORE Primm 300 Class Winners on Bi/stein Shocks ... • Steve Barlow - Protruck Ford F-150 • Dave Sykes -Stock Full Ford • Bob Land - Class 7 Ford Ranger • Dennis Nuckles - Sportsman Class • Eric Solorzano - Class 11 Stock vw Go With Bi/stein! A Winning Tradition In Off-Road Racing! For aU the details contact the Off-Road Racing Department: Call Toll Free 800/537-1085 ~ KRUPP BILSTEIN OF AMERICA 8845 Rehco Road• San Diego, CA 92121 Phone: 619/453-7723 • www.bilstein.com c:Jt=' November 1998 Pages

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RJDPUCKER (760) 253-4453 RACING TEAM -250 Kennedy, #2 ~-'•• 'Noveo:iber 20-21, 1998 ,.. Chula Vista, CA 9201 I · Lucerne Yalley1 E:A (619) 427-5759 MSBA · October 31, 1998 Michigan Sport Buggy Association Superstitio~ 250 Dave Barret Lake Superstition, CA · 6363 Nightingale Dr. December 31, 1998 Flint, Ml 48506 Dunaway Dash (810) 730-9221 Plaster City West1 CA NATIONAL MUD RACING GORRA ASSOCIATION Georgia Off Road Rt. #1 - Box 380 Racing Association Dave or Marlene Ryan 420 Hosea Road Palatka, FL 32177 Lawrenceville, GA 30245 (904) 325-5422 (404) 963-0252 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK GPORRA ASSOCIATION Great Planes Off Road Racing Butch Chapin Motorsports Promotions Association 1404 East 3rd Street 13621 Pierce St. Hastings, MN 55033-1415 Omaha, NE 68144-1122 (612) 437-2459 (402) 333-0517 Eve. Keith Koesters OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS 6716 N. 106th St. OF EL PASO Omaha, NE 68122 Joey Vasquez (402) 4964846 Eve. 13180 Round Dance (All races are short course, stadium style. El Paso, TX 79936 Classes: Trophy, 11-1600, 5, 7S, land (915) 855-8899 Quads) All races are at Mountain Shadow Lake. Take I-10 Horizon Blvd. exit east 12 miles IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box36 OHIO OFF ROADERS INC. Cleves, Ohio 45002 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. ( All events staged at the club grounds New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 in Cleves, Ohio) JimKendel INTERNATIONAL (216) 339-4674 All races held at Hamson ICE RACING ASSOCIATION County Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio P.O. Box 8105 St. Paul, MN 55108 ONTARIO OFF ROAD Steve Beddor RACERS ASSOCIATION (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 Rick Tichbourne, Public Relations . INTER-SHOWS (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) MOTORSPORTS PACE MOTOR SPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. U.S. Off Road Championship P.O. Box 2910 630-963-4810 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 900-PRO RACE (714) 364-0515 PIKES PEAK KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER P.O. Box 6962 4WDCLUB Colorado Springs, CO 80934 P.O. Box 465 (719) 685-4400 Kamloops, BC, Canada YZG5L2 PROTRUCK RACING Bob (250) 374-7175 days Randy (250) 579-9621 eves. ORGANIZATION Wes (250) 351-2819 (619) 449-6252 LI.T.R.E. S.C.A.T. INC. Jeff Elrod Michael R. Icing (408) 926-0522 P.O. Box 277 JimAruta Morrisonville, NY 12962 (408) 247-4402 (518) 561-3208/(518) 236-7897 MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS SCORE 3749 Needmore Hwy SCORE International 23961 Craftsman Rd., Suite A Charlotte, Ml 48813 Calabasas, CA 91302 (517) 543-7214 (818) 225-8402/FAX: (818) 225-8102 MICHIGAN OFF ROAD November 11-14, 1998 CHAMPIONSHIPS 3 lst"Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. Baja Norte to La Paz, B.C., Mexico 15529 Jones Road January 21-23, 1999 Grand Ledge, Ml 4883 7 Laughlin Desert Challenge (5 I 7) 62 7-6200 Laughlin, NV Ueeps, Trucks, Pilots, Dune Buggies, Road March 19-21, 1999 Warriors and Quad A TV Trophy and Tecate/SCORE San Felipe 250 Mo~ Classes.) San Felipe, Baja California MICHELIN PRO RALLY June 4-6, 1999 CHAMPIONSHIP Tecate/SCORE Baja 500 Sports Car Club of America Ensanada, Baja California July 16-17, 1999 P.O. Box 3278 SCORE Fireworks 250 Englewood, CO 80112 Barstow, CA (303) 779-6622 September 10-11, 1999 October 23-24, 1998 Las Vegas Primm 300 D&N Bank Lake Superior Pro Rally Primm, NV Houghton, MI November 5-8, 1999 Kevin DeLoughery (906) 226-884 7 Tecate/SCORE Baja 1000 MID-AMERIC.A TBA, Baja California OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION SNORE MAORA Southern Nevada Off Press: Dirty Dave Cronin (314) 838-Road Enthusiasts 4215 P.O. Box 4394 VP: Walter Flack (217) 987-6568 LTOR-Lincoln Trail OffRoaders Las Vegas, NY 89106 Pres: Dean Conkling (217) 830-4 2 I 5 (702) 452-4522 November 6-7, 1998 V.P.: Brad Key (217) 446-4556 Reserve 250 Steve Sabo (618) 327-9312 Las Vegas, NY (M.AO.R.A sanctioned races. Series Produced £Y Lincoln Trail Off Roaders) SONS OF THUNDER MOJAVE DESERT RACING 4WHEELERS Race Division P.O. Box 1863 Keith Stewart Glendora, CA 91741 (714) 522-1899 (626) 914-7029 Phone (626) 914-9169 Fax Only S.C.T.A. October 30-31, 1998 Southern California Timing Barstow 200 Association Barstow.CA Office Manager: Mary Carson M.OR.E. 2285 Tracy Avenus Simi Valley, CA 93063 Mojave Off Road Racing (805) 526-a805/Fax: (805) 584-85 I 8 Enthusiasts 25277 W. Main St., Suite 283 Internet: htte://scta-bni.org Barstow CA 92311 Page 6 SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD CljALLENGE Steve Rute (800) 313-5621 .or (770) 963-0252 Mike Moore - (224) 272-5400 SOUTH EAST OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. President - Geoff Lee 1100 West Main Street D-J Franklin, TN 3 7064 Classis 1/2-1600, 5-1600., Class 9, SODA Class 11 & Sportsman (All Races at Rally Hill St?!_edway) SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. 4305 Wootlark Drive Tampa FL 33624 (813) 962-2857 (All Races at Eastbay Raceway, Tampa, FL) SUPER SERIES (PTY) LTD. P.O. Box 706 Parklands, 2121 South Africa (011)788-5138 Fax (011) 880-2170 SODA Short Course Off Road Drivers Association Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA SWORDS South West Off Road Racing Desert Series 4209 So. CR 1300 Odessa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915) 337-3437/(615) 595-8237 (All races held at Notrees, TX 25 miles west o[ Odessa. TX) TOYS FOR TOTS (619) 252-1197 /(619) 252-3093 T.O.R.R.O Texas Off Road Racing Organization Marty Jackson 8307 Bauman Road Houston, TX 77022 (713) 694-0207/Fax: (713) 694-8335 TSO c/o Frog Specialties 4050 Spencer Street # 1 Torrance, CA 90503 (310) 370-9856 January 1-17 1999 21st Annual Dakar Rally UORRA United Off Road Racing Association Dave Urbanowicz, President 589 Amwell Road Neshanic, NJ 08853 (908) 369-6550 (All events at Owego Motor Sports Park, Rte. 434, Owego, NY) VORRA Valley Off Road Racing Association 1833 Los Robles Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702 October 31-November 1, 1998 1998 Championship Prairie City SYRA, Sacramento, CA VICENTE GUERRERO OFF ROAD CLUB Profo. Cenovio Gamboa 011-52-616-6-21-91 (2-6 e,m,) WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Larry Henderson (604) 538-0692 WORRA P.O.Box 3241 Sumas WA 98295 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA WHEEL TO WHEEL OFF ROAD RACING Patrick McGuire P.O. Box 376 · Adamsburg, PA (412') 527-6556 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS I 6251 North Cave Creek Road #4 P~oenix, AZ 85023-2976 (602) 971-3730 November TBA Date and Location to be Announced December 5, 1998 Point to Point Rocky Point, MX January 9, 1999 Parker 400 Parker, AZ WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL November 1998 ' Terry or Bev Friday 5913 so. U.S. H'YY 45 ·Oshkosh, WI-5490 r - (414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY 4x4 FOREVER, LTD . . 1665 Delaware St. b'shkosh, WI 54901 (414)426-0470/(414) 982-7306 Attention ~nly_ w~y some fans know ,... "" about your event, if they don't happen to be on your club mailiing list. Don't call, but mail your 1998/1999 schedule as soon as possible for listing in this column; it could bring you some extra entr'ies! Mail y~ur race or rally schedule to: Race & Rally Organizers DUSTY TIMES List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free! It is the 207 51 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4404. Trail Note5 ... TlOLITICS -We here in California have a chance this November to elect a J.-Republican Senator who is really tuned in to the needs of the off road community and is against any more closing of public lands. Matt Fong is the state treasurer and he needs our help on election day to put someone who represents US in the senate. Be=ro~=~~=~~be=ro~b~ttFo~ ~N -The lx>ys and girls were back in Crandon for the Lalx>r Day festivities \..,and they had great weather for the event. In the Pro 2 Division on Saturday it was Brendan Gaughan all the way with Ricky Johnson in the second spot. On Sunday, Johnson took home the marbles, Scott Taylor was second and Brendan took the bronze medal. In Pro 4 it was Jamey Flannery taking the win on Saturday, followed by Curt LeDuc and Jack Flannery. On Sunday it was LeDuc taking the win, Jack Flannery in the second spot and Rob MacCachren in third. Also on Saturday, Nicole Schlueter won Womans Heavy Metal, Stan Ambroziak won Sportsman 66, and Michael Seefeldt took the win in Sportsman Double Buggy. Keith Steele won Sportsman Stock, Chad Hord took Sportsman Super Buggy, Sportsman 2 was won by Joe Zilisch, Pro Lite Division was won by Art Schmitt with Johnny Greaves and Jason Crowder following behind, Mike Hintz won Sportsman Double Light Buggy and Richard Kosar took Sportsman Featherlite. On Sunday it was Chuck Johnson winning Sportsman Bug, Paula St. Peter in Women's Unlimited Buggy, Molly Morter took Women's Limited Buggy and Joe Zilisch taking Sportsman two days in a row. Sportsman Light Buggy was won by Michael Hintz, Eric Dawson won Sportsman Stock, Jeff St. Peter won Sportsman Buggy and Michael Seefeldt took Sportsman Single Buggy. Pro Lite Division was won by Jeff Kincaid with Johnny Greaves and Jason Crowder taking the next two spots. The Borg Warner Shootout was won by Curt LeDuc, Rob MacCachren was second and Brendan Gaughan was third. CORR SPORTSMAN CHAMPIONSl:IlPS -The Crandon Labor Day races were the end of the CORR points series for the Sportsman cars and here are the winners, all in the Sportsman Category. Randy Zimonick; Stock, Jeff St. Peter; Super Buggy, Michael Seefeldt; Single Buggy, Dave Hackers; 2, Tim Christensen; Double Lite Buggy, John Mason; Bug, Michael Seefeldt, Double Buggy, Paula St. Peter; Women's Unlimited Buggy, Molly Morter; Women's Limited Buggy, Val Rehn; Women's Heavy Metal, Bill Grolx>ski; 66, Andy Morter; Llte Buggy, Jeff St. Peter; Buggy, Phil Doyle; Featherlite. Congrats to all the winners! "' ,(ORE CORR -The final points event of the year took place at Indianapolis, l V l.indiana and as usual, some didn't have any luck at all. Results are as follows: Saturday - Pro Division 2 it was Brendan Gaughan in his Chevrolet taking the gold back to Las Vegas, Ricky Johnson was second, Dan VanDen Heuvel was third, Scotty Taylor was fourth and RJ Flanagan was fifth. In Pro 4 it was Rob MacCachren, Ford, finally getting a win after a lousy season, Jack Flannery second, Jamey Flannery third, Curt LeDuc was fourth and Scott Douglas was.fifth. In Pro Llte Johnny Greaves was the big winner in his Toyota, Jeff Kincaid second, Art Schmitt third, Billy Bowles was fourth and Jason Crowder was fifth. Sunday was the final day and it came down like this: Pro 2 was won by Larry Noel in his Ford, Ricky Johnson second, Evan Evans was third, Brendan Gaughan was fourth and Joe Zilisch took the fifth spot. In Pro 4 Jamey Flannery and his Chevy took the top spot, Jack Flannery was second, Gerald Foster was third, Rob MacCachren was fourth and Curt LeDuc took the fifth spot. Pro Lite Division was won once again by Johnny Greaves in his Toyota, Billy Bowles was second, Jeff Kincaid was next, Jason Degrave was fourth and Al Walentowski held the fifth spot. The point leaders for the series: Pro 2, Ricky Johnson 261, Scott Taylor 214, BrendanGaughan 204, Dan VandenHeuvel 183, Larry Noel 181. In Pro 4, Jack Flannery 228, Jamey Flannery 218, Curt LeDuc 208, Rob MacCachren 193, Scott Douglas 191. In Pro Lite Johnny Greaves accumulated 276 points, Art Schmitt 216, Jeff Kincaid 190, Billy Bowles 187 and Jason Crowder 162. DECOGNITION -AT LAST -At the CORR banquet last month Michael Iwaughan was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award which will be bestowed on deserving individuals as the occasion arises. We certainly are glad to see Michael Gaughan get the recognition he deserves, he has given so much to the off road racing community for many, many years, and has supported the sport in many ways. His three hotels in Las Vegas, Barbary Coast, Gold Coast and the beautiful new Orleans are roosting spots for many off roaders and we all thank Michael Gaughan f'or his support over the decades. . "'[JELP - Your help is needed. At the finish line of the Best In The Desert Race in J. .lbeautiful downtown Patrick, a;ound 8:30pm, Yamaha #991 rode up onto the finishing stand with three riders all mounted thereon. Lots of people were taking pictures and if you have a pie of the three guys on the bike, will you please contact Darrell Hiatt at 213-772-5574 as he would really like a Copy of said.pose. 1banks for your help. · VOICES FROM TI-IE PAST -Hea(d from an old friend the oi;her day, Tracy Valenta who has been hanging around off road almost as long as I have. Tracy is selling and leasing cars and trucks a~ North County Ford in beautiful downtown Vista, CA If you're in the mood fora new Ford give Tracy a call at800-537-FORD. Glad you're back arou,nd Tracy. fVF ROAD DIRECTORY - Charlie Engelhart had a brain storm, actually he Vsaid Steinberger turned him onto it. Creating an off road directory, people in the sport and what they do for living listed by name and also a cross by type of work performed. If you would like to be in this directory, send your name.and profession to Charlie Engelhart at 13704 Bechard Avenue, Norwalk, CA 90650. Dusty Times

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SCORE ~RIMM .300 ·Herbsts overall In Nevada Desert Photos: Track.side Photo A veteran off road racer but in his first year in Class 1, Dale Ebberts took his first victory at the Primm 300. the bumper was just inches from the ground the tires touched, the truck gave a bounce and they went on, quickly on the radio to warn brother Tony in the twin "T ruggy", to beware the jump. Everyone else profited from their horrible example also. Ed and Tim Herbst blitzed the tough Nevada desert course to get their first overall win in the Mike Smith built Ford Trophy Truck. At the end of that first lap the lead belonged to Jeff Lewis in his Chevy, and he had Mike Tieman, who'd started first, right in front of him, holding him off with his Chevy. They were having a terrific battle. Herbst ran third, only three minutes behind Lewis, with Dave Ashley fourth in his Ford. In the meantime, Dick Sasser, new to the class with his Jeep, sat in his pit. He'd lost a bearing, and since no one in the whole long pit row had one the correct size, they'd finally sent someone into town, 60 miles away, . to track one down. His first lap lasted over six hours, and he did eventually get two ni~e laps in, but ran out of time for a finish. Nevad~ always welcoming to visi-tors, outdid itself for the SCORE Primm 300. While flash floods roared and wind howled in the downtown area, the weather was sunny and clear at Primm for the festivities surround-ing the race. Tim and Ed Herbst had a near perfect day in their Ford powered Smithbuilt Trophy Truck and took their first overall win, finishing 23 minutes ahead of the next vehicle. Their average speed over one of the roughest courses on the circuit was 56. 7 53 miles per hour. . This year's course was very like last year's, but a .loop was taken out at one end and another added at the south end for a net mileage of 83. 7. It all paralleled Interstate 15, and in-cluded some of the oldest trails used by off roaders, and all of it newly cross washed from a week of rainstorms just before the race. In fact, one end of the course was inundated on Friday, seen by one one but Mark Post ap-parently. The storm settled in over the north and where Post, who'd been part of the guided formal pre run, waited with his broken pre run-ner to be rescued. He said he saw his first flash flood, which roared down the course, completely swamping it, and according to Mark, would have washed away any cars that happened to be there. But aside from giving him Robby Guevara started his day conservatively, made no errors, and pushed hard to win the very competitive 1/2-1600 class in his Mirage. a new item for his book of memories, it affected no one else, and didn't re-peat on race day. The Trophy Trucks started just after sunrise, and for a few hairy sec-onds it looked as if the Herbst race was over before it began. Tim had taken a quick look at the grandstand jump, and thinking it must have been built like the one at the Laughlin event, to thrill the spectators, really stomped on the throttle. But this jump had a design fault and for what seemed like endless seconds he and Barry Beacham sailed nose down, looking at "nothing but dirt" while the truck decided if it would settle . on the bumper or front tires. When Lewis lost his transmission on the second lap, and Herbst really pushed hard, recording the fast lap for the class, at 1:24:56, to move himself into the lead. Now Ashley was second, six minutes behind him, and Cun LeDuc had moved his Jeep into third. In fourth was Ron Brant in Danny Lerner's Chevy. On the third lap, after their driver change, Ed Herbst continued to lead, with LeDuc now second and Lonny Darren Skilton outlasted his Kia's competition in the Class 3 event, to take another first place. :~ __ 77' '~ .. ,,,-~ .. .,,. '<• ,,. ~ -i , ,<~. Dan Smith had to make a hurried exit from his Ford Trophy Truck Helmbolt, in a Dodge, in third. Tie-man was fourth. Word came through the radio that Letner's truck had ap-parently rolled and hit a power pole on the southbound part of the course near the freeway. He was, th.e ob-server said, "tangled up in the wires." SCORE officials went out to see if he'd disrupted the power to Las Ve-gas. No one had been injured accord-ing to another report. The truck did finish the third lap, but couldn't make a fourth. The course was really wearing away, and was noticeably rougher each lap. Herbst had three flats on his last lap, but still finished 40 min-utes before anyone else. Ed. and pas-senger, Beacham, who rode the whole way, enjoyed their time in the spotlight, reporting that the course was rough and dusty and the "car ran great all day." LeDuc, who had an early flat and found that his jack was broken, and had to use an auxiliary jack, later had a hole in a water line, rubbed by the auxiliary jack. he'd had to stop many times to add water, and finished second about 39 minutes behind the Herbsts. Ashley and Smith finished third, another half hour later. They had a good couple oflaps, but as Smith was coming into the pits at the end of their third lap he had an electrical short. This caused the battery cable, which lay over the transmission lines, to get hot, and it heated the trans lines red hot. Then the whole transmission went up in flames. Smith, driving at the time, couldn't even get to his own pit. He coasted to a stop, and doesn't even remember getting out of the car, but he did. Many fire extinguishers were used up, and every time they'd think the fire was out the trans lines would still be red hot and it would start up again. Once the fire was out, he had to get to his own pit, and then his crew began the hot and nasty job of installing a new transmission and replacing the burnt wiring. It cost them about an hour all told, and still they managed to finish in third place. Lewis, who had the early tranny re-placement, ran in two wheel drive the last two laps, and finished fourth. Continued on page 10 Curt LeDuc had a leaky hose on his Jeep and added a lot of water as when the transmission went up in flames - he and Dave Ashley Gus Vildosola and Charlie Watters teamed in thefr Toyota powered he made his way to second place in the Trophy Truck class. eventually finished third. -~--Jimco to take second place in Class 1; · Pages November 1998 Dusty Times

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Nick Baldwin soloed his Aceco to third place in Class 1, the only Josh Baldwin used to think the Class 1 car went too fast, but now he's John Gaughan teamed with B.J. Richardson, and in spite of having to member of the Riviera team to finish this time. developed his driving skills, and took home a great fourth place. add oil at every pit, they finished fifth in Class 1. In Class 1, the early leader was his Jirnco, and Pat Dean was fourth hides to pass, but still maintained his ran fourth in his Aceco Hedge Hog, On the third lap Fortin held steady, Doug Fortin in his V4 powered in a Chenowth. Gus Vildosola ran lead. He was now five minutes upon and Vildosola held fifth. Troy Herbst, and he now had a lead of nine min-Chenowth. He had the fast lap for fifth in his Toyota powered Jirnco, Kory Scheeler and Larry Job in their who'd had a transmission replaced in utes on Ebberts who was still adding this class, at 1:25:01, and was32 sec- only four minutes and 54 seconds Jimco, who'd moved up to second. his Truggyon the first lap had zipped oil. Baldwin was up to third,in spite onds in front of John Herder, who behind the leader. In third was Ebberts, whose oil cooler off the fast lap of the day, almost iden-of some flats and a tossed alternator ran second in his Toyota ·powered Fortin found the going a little fan had fallen off. He was now add- tical to his brother's, at 1:24:28, but belt, and Charlie Watters, in Jirnco. In third was Dale Ebberts in tougher on lap two, with slower ve-ing oil every half lap. Nick Baldwin was back in sixth place. Vildosola's car, was now fourth, find-Some good work in the pits fixed a clutch problem for Mike Dondel, and he went on In 5-1600 Victor Herrera drove all the way to take. the victory. but he had to keep ing the course rough and the seat not padded enough. Scheeler and Job had dropped to fifth place. Herbst, run-ning with cracked headers, had come to a stop partway through lap three and slid out of his car and onto the ground. He was ill from carbon mon-oxide poisoning, and nearly uncon-scious, lying on the course. A.J. Mar-tin, his passenger, sat inside the cab in a stupor, unable to help. Brian Collins came along in his Class 8 truck, stopped to see what was wrong, and radioed for help, as did other passing racers. Collins left his passen-ger, Billy Goerke, with a hand held radio to wait for the help. The SCORE helicopter was there soon, and they requested the MedEvac copter, which took him in to town to the hospital, where he was declared to win the Class 5 race. _re_a_tt_ac_h_in~g_h_is~ig_n_iti_on_ ~_ir,_e. ________________ _ ____ , ___ ,_, _ _.._ ...................... , @ .. Page 10 ::~:\· . Flamingo Road & The Strip 888-227-2279 Tropicana Ave. & Arville 800-675-3267 November 1998 West Flamingo & Valley View 888-402-6278 Dusty Times

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..... ❖• Bekki Freeman led Class 1/2-1600 for a couple oflaps, but flats slowed her just enough to drop her to second place, less than two minutes Manlio Moreno was out for the first time in his new Jimco, and liked Lorenzo Rodriguez soloed his way to fourth place in his 1/2-1600 back. the results a lot. He finished third in the tig~t 112-1600 race. Lothinger, in the tightest class in the Primm 300 :;:in:--::n=--=o~d::i":a::n:-::g::-er-::,i:::b:-:-ut::--:w=as:-:t::ot:be::t:h-:e,::ld.:o=-v=e=-r--r=======,====-= ' night. In the meantime, Martin drove the T ruggy to the next pit, \¥here Troy's brother, Tim, now out of the Trophy Truck, got in to finish the race. Martin continued to ride. They were still in sixth place. As he finished his fourth lap, For-tin lost his motor, and a big hole de-veloped in the side of the block. He got to the pit area and was about to give up, but a buddy Charlie Towns-ley, thought that he he gave Fortin a big push, the car might roll far enough and then finish on the starter. The scheme didn't work; the car stopped within the "short course" area near the grandstands, ·and Townsley had to give him another push. It's debat-able whether the push was within le-gal parameters for this race anyway, since a special ruling stated there would be "no pushing or pulling". But in the heat of the moment a racer will try anything and argue later. There was no argument however, he just became a statistic, a DNF. Bob Land and Mike Jenkins teamed in Land's Ford, fought a soft suspension all day, but took the win in Class 7. Craig Turner led all day in his Ford Ranger, didn't even have any flats, ad took the win in Class 7S. Ebberts meanwhile, kept adding oil and moving at a steady pace, and he pulled into the finish line as the win-ner. Herbst was second, but a protest referred him to the CRB which found that he'd had illegal help from the family helicopter in the matter of the transmission. The T ruggy was dis-qualified. That put Vildosola and Watters into second place, followed in by Nick Baldwin in third. In fourth was Josh Baldwin (no relation). Fifth went to John Gangham and B.J. Richardson, in a Chenowth, who'd been stopping at every pit to add oil for the last three laps. The Class 8 trucks, only three of them, went off the iine next. Randy Salmont was at the wheel of the Dave W esthem Chevy, and he had the lead at the end of lap one, recording the class fast lap at 1:30:06, in spite of some minor carburetion trouble. In second was Brian Collins in his Chevy, and third was Chris Wilson and Ramsey El Wardani, in a Ford. Dave Westhem and Randy Salmont teamed in Westhem's Chevrolet to take the win in Class 8. Martin Christensen and John Mendiola paired in their Jimco to win Class 9, even with a cracked axle housing. · Dusty Times On the second lap Salmont con-tinued to lead, though Collins was within 11 seconds of him, in spite of a flat. Wilson and El Wardani had bad shocks and broken limiter straps and had dropped back nearly an hour and a half, but kept churning along. Salmont's iead grew to ten min-utes as Collins stopped to help Herbst on the third lap. Wilson and El Wardani hung in there, slow but steady, with their sick suspension. Salmont handed over to Westhem on the fourth lap, and he took the win, followed in by Collins, who'd had a flat, in second place. Wilson and El Wardani were third, over three hours later, and still smiling. Next to go were the Class 10 cars. There were 15 of them, and lots of talent and good machinery. As they came to the end of the first lap Da-rnen Jefferies had the lead with nis Toyota Jimco, by three and a half minutes. In second was Chris Harrold · in his fuel injected V-Tech Honda powered Jimco and he was followed two and a half minutes later by Jim Tucker and Mike McGee in a Loth-ringer. Fourth belonged to Rick Ellison and John Penner in a new Chenowth Millennium, while Bob Graham was fifth in a Toyota pow-- ered Lothringer. Jefferies thought the course was really rough, but his car handled it well, and he just kept motoring along, building his lead to 27 minutes at the end of the second lap. Harrold was no longer running, and now Rick Romans had moved his Raceco up to second place. In third was Ellison and Penner, while Tucker was fourth and J~hn Pl~illips, Sr. ran fifth in his Jimco. From that time on the run-ning order didn't change. At the end of the third lap Jeffer-ies had 34 minutes on second place, and at the end of the day, after four remarkably even laps, he won by a miugin of 39 minutes. Even more re-markable, he finished second in the overall standings, beaten only by the first Trophy Truck. He said the course "is brutal", and that he'd had no flats and had stopped twice for gas. He also said later that he hadn't real-ized just now tough the course was until he nearly passed out while do-ing his post race television interview. He didn't know himself just how well he'd done in the overall standings until much later. The Protrucks went off the line next, and here things changed lap to lap. At the end of the first go-round, the lead belonged to Rick Johnson and his Ford, but he had only 46 sec-onds on Jimmy Nuckles and his Ford. They switched positions on the sec-ond lap, and it was Nuckles in front, recording the fast lap for the class, at SODA MEMBERS 1:35:08. Now he had 47 seconds on Johnson. But Nuckles had trouble with an "S" link on the next lap, and lost about four hours, while Johnson disappeared all together. Steve Barlow moved into the lead in his Ford, and now Gary Magness ran second, about 58 minutes down, in another Ford. Meanwhile, Nuckles made his repairs and got going again, hoping against hope to be able to fin-ish within the 11 hour time limit. Barlow, reporting flats on laps 1, 2 and 3, as well as shock trouble and brake problems, took the win. Magness followed in second, and Nuckles was third, but missed an of-ficial finish by about two minutes. The SCORE Lites, or Class 12 cars, went off the line next, and this bunch took turns with the lead also. John Holmes put his Dunrite into the lead on the first lap, with about five minutes on Jerry Penhall in his Pen-hall. In third was the team of Dan Worley and Stan Potter, in a Jimco, only a bit over a minute further back. Then came Jim Greenway, paired with Tom Ridings in a Mirage, and followed by Ryan Herzog and Grayson Smith in a Suspensions Un-limited buggy. Holmes held the lead through lap 2, but Worley and Potter moved up to second, six minutes out, with Continued on page 12 We would like to inform all SODA members that inasmuch as our Dusty Times subscriptions are no longer being handled by he club. you will have to renew directly with Dusty Times. You may have already received a renewal notice in your last opy of Dusty Times and you may use that for your renewal or you ay use the Subscription Form on page 3 of the paper. Please remit aym.ent with your renewal request. Thanks for your support for the voice of off road racin . November 1998 Page 11

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George Seeley had major shock problems early in the day. but Dave Gasper soloed his good looking 5-1600 to second place, with recovered to come in a distant second place in Class 5. _on_,ly'-fi~la_t _tir,_es_ to_s_lo~w_h~im_do_w_n~. ~----~-~~--Dan Fresh finished third in the 5-1600 class in his 1965 VW Baja Bug. Greenway nine minutes behind him. to second, now 13 minutes down. to the front and the win, surprised to Cachren, in a Mirage, who'd lost an minutes, while Michael Nix and Penhall had fallen to fourth with front Greenway and Ridings were third and find themselves there after a long hour on the first lap, moved up to Brian Dague ran a class record end troubles. It had been loose, so he Penhall's co-driver, George Erl, ran trouble filled day. Callaway and finish fourth. Greenway and Ridings 1:40:29 to move into the lead. Mike pitted to have it tightened up - then fourth, having some problems with Holmes, whose car had quite a couple ran out of gas on the last lap - liter- Dondel ran second, almost three was too tight and seized up. the motor. He stopped for a new coil times in the last few miles, felt lucky ally. minutes back, and followed by Randy For lap 3 Holmes got out and put and plugs at one point. to salvage second place. Herzog and Class 5 was next off the line, but Ross, 45 minutes later, having seri-David Callaway into the car, and he But it all changed again on the last Smith were third, reporting only a two of them, Lee Finks and Ron Sat- ous suspension problems. had a problem with a broken steer-lap. Worley and Potter disappeared, broken exhaust, and happy with their ter never even got the first lap done. Nix and Dague had major prob-ing bolt. Worley and Potter moved and Callaway broke another steering best finish in their first year of racing. George Seeley broke a front coil over !ems on the next lap which cost them into the lead, while Callaway dropped bolt. That moved Erl and Penhall up Danny Anderson and Rob Mac- shock and lost about an hour and 15 Continued on page 14 The McKay family. Jim Sr. and Jim Jr., ran an evenly paced race to Eric Deen had the lead for a while, and a good duel with Herrera, but A. J. DeNunzio drove his 1979 Toyota to second place in Class 7, finish fourth in Class 5-1600. lost an hour on lap three to drop to fifth in 5-1600. using up all but 13 minutes of his allotted time. Page 12 CONGRATULATES JOHNNY GREAVES ON WINNING ALL THE MARBLES AT INDIANAPOLIS AND WINNING THE CORR PRO LITE DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP. BRENDAN GAUGHAN ON WINNING PRO 2 AT INDIANAPOLIS 1-800-45-TURBO MOVES YOU TO THE FRONT November 1998 Dusty Times

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Tim Braden and Mitch Griffin had all kinds of problems, including a Brian Collins soloed to second place in his Class B Chevrolet, losing Jimmy Messick and Andrew Lindquist had a hard time driving their bunch of flats, but kept moving forward to finish second in 7S. some time late in the race when he stopped to help a friend. car, which had a bent front end, but still finished second in Class 9. three hours. Dondel moved into the magic on his clutch, and saved the miles, so he limped in. But he was was a good course for them because Bekki Freeman had the lead in her lead, but he had a slipping clutch. day for him. He went on to lead still second, although over two-and- of its roughness. It meant that driv- Jimco, recording the class fast lap at Ross was second now, still in trouble through the end to take the win. It a-half hours down. Nix and Dague ing skill rather than a heavy throttle 1 :48:59. But Robby Guevara was with his suspension, over an hour was only trouble and misery for the didn't get a fourth lap down, nor did foot would make the difference. And right behind her, by 35 seconds, in down. Seeley was moving, but not up rest. Seeley's points closed up, he had Ross, who lost his transmission to top it turned out to be the closest race of his Mirage. One second behind hiin to speed. power steering trouble, and then his off a bad day. the day. Every one of the 17 that came Vic Bruckmann in a Chen-Dondel's pit crew worked some front end fell apart in the last five The lf2-1600s took off next. This started managed to finish the first lap. owth, followed by Miguel Tomei, in 1;, another Mirage, 54 seconds further ff ,,~ back. Jason Hatz was 26 seconds be-hind him in his Dunrite. Only two Darnen Jefferies drove a heckuva race in his Class 1 O Toyota Jimco, and to his surprise, as well as everyorre else's, he finished second overall while winning his class. Jerry Penhall and George Erl had a lot of,(rouble in their Penhall, but still ended up in first place in the SCORE Lite race. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to Gus Vildosola, his crew and those present at the SCORE Primm 300 awards banquet. After returning from the hospital our crew was informed of the CRB's decision concenring the Herbst entry. Unfortunately, we as crew members got caught up in the moment. Comments were exchanged between us and Vildosola's crew. These comments, in no way, represented the feelings or attitudes that the Herbst's would express in their dedication and love of the off-road sport. They have always conducted themselves in a professional manner. I as crew chief want to apologize on behalf of myself and the rest of the crew for the comments we made. We always want to be competitive, we got a little emotional. Please accept our apologies, and in the good spirit of off-road racing, we look forward to competing in the Baja 1000. Sincerely, !ll(i.k'e c5mil.h Crew Chief Page 14 November 1998 minutes and 16 seconds separated the first five cars. That's great racing! Freeman continued to lead through the second lap but now had only 20 seconds on Guevara. The course was degenerating and it was tougher for these 1600 cars. Guevara has Las Vegas ace crew chief, Eddie Webb on his team, and he'd listened to everything Webb had to say. For starters he taped his helmet's visor all around the edges, and had no dust. He'd also told him to play it "conser-vative" early in the day. So he'd run lap 1 "real slow", and then picked it up. He was two seconds faster on lap 2. Funny how the mind can fool you. Manlio Moreno had moved into third TERRIBLE ERBST Dusty Times

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Rick Romans soloed in his Raceco to take second place in Class 10, Rick Ellison and John Penner teamed in this gorgeous Class 10 car Jim Tucker and Mike McGee ran steadily, except for one bad lap, to he lost his roof, but it didn't slow him any. to take third place their first time out. place in his Jimco, and Lorenzo Rod-fourth followed in by the Steeles other ten miles and lost the other riguez ran fourth in a Lothringer, who'd had an early flat in.the silt and balljointon the same comer. By now while Rodney Wolfe had brought his lost a lot of time because the jack kept they were out of time and he finished ORBS up to fifth place. Miguel Tor- . sinking in the soft stuff as they tried lap 3, but had only 45 minutes of his nel had dropped out, along with Greg to lift the car. allotted time left. Hawks, but everyone else was still Class 7 definitely had a different Meanwhile, Land and Jenkins moving along. look this weekend. For starters, Gary· went on smoothly to take the win, As the course got tougher all the Mecham had his Ford in the lead on followed in by DeNunzio and Mike times slowed by three or four min- the first lap, with Steve Wisniewski Abott who'd driven one lap. Nobody utes a lap. Guevara moved into the and Jason Cobb second in their else made it to the checkered flag. lead on the third lap, while Freeman, Chevy. In third was Bob Land and In Class 7S, the attrition was who'd had a couple flats dropped to Mike Jenkins in another Ford, while heavy. And it started early. Don second, still only a little over two A.J. DeNunzio had his Toyota in Barrett, who started at about nine minutes out of the lead. In third was fourth. Where was Larry Roeseler? In minutes to eight, had his Toyota now Rodriguez, while Moreno was his pit, making repairs after a trans- trailer and parked near the infield by fourth and Brian and Scott Steele had fer case seal popped and all the fluid 20 after. He wasn't the only one to their Suspensions Unlimited car in leaked out. He lost over two hours. go out on the first lap - there were fifth place. By now a few more had Land and Jenkins put together two more. This course was tough for dropped out, including Arden Den- another good lap in spite of saggy sus-them, and some of the drivers nington, who'd had the distinction pension and moved into the lead, thought they should have been re-of rolling over in the tum before the while Wisniewski and Cobb held sec-quired to run only three laps instead grandstand jump and sitting on his ond. DeNunzio was third and Roe- of four. lid for over a minute, a target for seler, who'd run the class fast lap at Craig T umer ran the class fast lap oncoming traffic. 1 :49:40, was fourth and almost ex- at 2:04: 18 and moved to the front of Guevara's only problem had been actly two hours behind Land. Me- the pack right away. Sean Mecham because of the tape on his face shield. cham never made it around again. had second place, less than two min-He hadn't thought to tape his water On the third lap, Land and Jen- utes back in his Ford, followed by hose into place, and it had fallen out kins continued to lead, but now De- Doug Siewert and Cory Susag in their somewhere along the line, and be- Nunzio had moved into second place. Toyota. Mecham, unfortunately, cause of the taped up shield he His '79 Toyota, an old Cal Poly didn't make it through the second couldn't poke it back in his mouth project car designed by Brian Kudela lap, and Cody Swanty and his Jeep and get a drink, so he got mighty who also had a hand in Roeseler's disappeared on that lap also. That left thirsty. But he avoided flat tires and Chevy, was having no trouble, no only three tracks running. T umer was had no mechanical troubles and went flats. Wiesniewski and Cobb were still in the lead and Tim Braden and on to take the win. Freeman was sec- third now and Roeseler was back Mitch Griffin had their Ford Ranger ond, only a minute and 19 seconds underrepair.He'dlostaballjointand insecondplace,ahalfhourback,fol-later. She actually finished first, but a tie rod, which had .tossed the car lowed by Siewert and Susag, over an knew he was coming. She sat at the on its head. (It was a chicken and hour down, with intermittent coil finish line hoping he'd make a mis-egg situation.) Roeseler and his pas-problems, and an overheating truck. take, but certain he wouldn't. sengerwere o.k., but it needed about T umer had lost an alternator wire, Moreno, who drove all the way, was an hour and a half to get the parts but he was having no other trouble. pleased with his third place in his first out to him and get things fixed. Then His lead was up to an hour on the race in the new car. Rodriguez was he belted himself back in, went an- third lap, as Braden and Griffen lost take fourth place in Class 1 O in their Lothringer. ==;;a= Eric Solorzano and Terry Kiely did one lap each in their Class 11 VW sedan, to take the win. Two laps is all they were required to do. an alternator belt, had four flats and lost the bolts holding their springs together. Siewert and Susag were still struggling, and wondering if SCORE could issue an "extension" of time for this class, because it was becoming apparent that they couldn't make it to the finish iine within the ii hour time limit. T umer ~ent on smoothly to take the win, his second this year. Braden and Griffen got home about an hour and ten minutes later, and Siewert and Susag also did a fourth lap, but were overtime by about 15 minutes. They still earned third place, but no finisher points. The Stock Full class brought only three trucks to the tough course, and they had to run only three laps. On the first lap Marc Stein had his Ford in front with Mike McComas second in his Chevy, by 12 minutes. David Sykes was third, another 16 minutes back after breaking a balljoint. But McComas didn't come around a sec-ond time, and Sykes moved into the lead, recording· the class fast lap, a zippy 2:16:37. Stein, on the other hand started having problems, ~hi~h included losing the rear end and transmission. He lost almost an hour. Sykes went on to run a smooth third lap and take the win, finishing just about a half hour in front of Stein. Their average speeds were 33.04 7 for Sykes and 30.889 for Stein, and one thing you can say for traveling at that rate: neither had any flat tires. Sykes, when asked if he'd finished, said "There's no way on God's earth I'll do another lap," as he exited his truck. Continued on page 16 David Callaway and John Holmes had their Dunrite in the lead for a Ryan' Herzog and Grayson Smith, rookies this year. drove their Danny Anderson and Rob MacCachren had an uncharacteristically while, but a steering bolt gave trouble' and they dropped to second Suspensions Unlimited car to their best finish so far, a 3rd in SCORE long lap, then worked back up to fourth place in SCORE Lites in their place. Lite. Mirage. ;=:;::::;;;:;;;==:::;;:;;;;::,~::=:===========, Dennis Nuckles (no relation to Jimmy) had major suspension problems Gary Magne_ss is doing just fine for a new driver, took second place in Rob Reinertson finally got his Ford aJI fixed up again after a bad rollover on his Sportsman buggy, and didn't make it under the time limit for his his Ford Protruck at the Primm 300. in Baja, but couldn't quite manage to get a finish at the Primm. !_hree laps. Dusty Times November 1998 Page 15

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The Stock Mini trucks started right behind their big brothers, and there were four of them for this race. Rob Reinertson, with new body pan-els and paint, had his Ford looking spiffy for this race, and moved into the lead with a class fast lap of 2:29: 17. Mark Turner wasn't far be-hind, just 18 minutes, in his Mazda, and then come Frank Szubart and David Capell in another Ford Ranger. These folks were all running vehicles from the mid '80s, but in fourth place was Tim Casey and Brian Holder in a '95 Toyota 4Runner which was en-joying its first race and needed to have its torsion bar suspension reset a couple of times. · Everybody got through lap two all right, and Reinertson stayed in front, with Turner still second, only 14 min-utes back. Casey had a good clean lap and was third now, but two hours down after that long first lap. And Szubart and Capell had another long lap, putting them three hours behind the lead car, and in serious danger of not getting their third lap done in time. Ultimately, only Cas!;!y made it all the way. He had an even quicker third lap and was the only one to tnake it in, getting a rare win with a brand new car. In the Sportsman class only Den-nis Nuckles and John Ossen Kap ran, in a buggy. They were required to run only three laps, but they completed only two within the time limit, hav-ing had to deal with a broken torsion bar and a fla along the way. · The 5-1600 Baja Bugs started near the back of the pack, which guaran-teed them a torn up course and lots of dust. Eric Deen moved right up to the front, leading by 55 seconds over Dave Gasper in a '70 Bug. In third was Victor Herrera in a '74, another 1 7 seconds back. Deen' s time was the fast one for the group, at 2:09:27. Herrera kept up a good pace and moved into the lead, with Dean sec-ond and just five minutes back. In third was Gasper. Herrera was still in,., front after lap three, now with 12 minutes on Gasper, who had 17 min-utes on Dan Fresh, in a '65 Bug. Deen had lost over an hour and dropped way back. Herrera, who was losing his igni-tion wire again and again, had swapped back and forth with Deen for the lead. But then Deen had big-ger problems, and Herrera, who drove all the way and avoided flat tires, went on to take the win. He was followed in by Gasper who also drove all the way. He said all his problems were tire problems, and finished only six minutes behind Herrera. Fresh was third, a little over a half hour later. Class 3 had three entries for this event, but after the start it wasn't readily apparent. Kirk Kovel and his '67 Bronco disappeared on the first lap, and after an over five hour lap, the Jeep Cherokee of Keith Belhasen didn't get around again either. But Darren Skilton went round and round for the required three laps in his Kia, recording a quick 2:12:43 on lap three, and breaking nothing un-til he went over the grandstand jump the last time. Then his steering went away. But it mattered not - he had his win. The Class 9 troops went next. This was a very difficult course for these buggies with limited suspension, and some of them thought it should be a three lap event for them. They had an election, but there was not a unanimous decision {which was needed to make a change) and so they went four laps. Or, most of them did. Martin Christensen got the c~ass Page 16 Steve Barlow had an on-again off-again day, but finished the race at the front of the Protruck pack for the win in his Ford. fast lap at 2: 11 :05 and put his Jimco into the lead, with Bill Rodriguez and Lobsam Yee in second, three minutes later in another Jimco. Jimmy Mes-sick and Andrew Lindquist ran third in their M & T Racing chassis. Chris-tensen was keeping his fingers crossed, because he'd started his day with a patched axle housing, repairs having been made in the wee small hours of race morning. Christensen ran another good lap, but behind him everyone else was having a good lap also, only two minutes slower than his - all of them. Rodriguez and Yee were still second, and Messick and Lind-quist were third. These two were swapping driving chores every lap because they'd hit a rock early and bent the front end and the car was hard.to drive. They needed to stop and add transmission fluid anyway. Ed McLean and Kevin Walsh, who'd lost about an hour on the first lap in their Jimco, were now moving along at a good clip, in fourth. Only George Ladwig was out, and he'd never brought his T-Mag around for the first lap. Christensen put John Mendiola into the car for the last two laps, and then the crew got on the ra-dio to keep him slowed down. He had an 18 minute cushion going into the third lap and they didn't want him to get over eager and blow it. The team's last few races had been fraught with major me-chanical problems. By the end of lap 3 he had 25 minutes on Mes-sick and Lindquist, who were now nearly an hour up on McLean and Walsh. Rodriguez and Yee didn't finish lap 3. Mendiola kept his cool through the fourth lap and the team took the win, their fourth this year. It was, they said, "pretty uneventful." Messick and Lindquist were tired, and second, while McLean and Walsh finished in third place, just six minutes before the end of the time limit. No one else got back. The Class 11 VW sedans were required to run only two laps, and one of them, the Victor and An-gel Barajas team, didn't even get the first one down, for unknown reasons. But Eric Solorzano and Terry Kiely, in a '74 sedan, did one lap each to get the win. Their best time was 3:00:05 for the 83 miles, and their average speed was 25.134 miles per hour. They reported only one flat, and said that "everyone is very courteous today!", a change from Barstow where they got run David Sykes took over the lead in Stock Full on the second lap in his Ford and stayed there to win by a half-hour. Tim Casey brought his new Toyota 4Runner out for its inaugural race and after a shaky first lap, hung in there for the win. November 1998 into. All in all, it was a good event. The weather stayed fine, the competition close and there were no serious injuries. The fans and unoccupied pit crew across the parking lot and ride the world's tallest roller coaster. · folks seem to enjoy the chance to sit in the grandstands and watch the cars go by, and those that do not can always walk SCORE's final event for '98 will be the Baja 1000, this year traveling to La Paz. Next year's schedule is already in the books, starting with the Laugh-lin race on January 21-23, 1999. ■ SCORE PRIMM 300 PRIMM, NEVADA SEPT. 11-13, 1998 OffiCIAL RESULTS POSmON CAR# DRIVER/CO-DRIVER VEHICLE OACLASS Trophy Trucks - 8 staners, 5 finishers 1 1 19 Tim & Ed Herbot 6 2 1 Cun LeDuc 11 3 8 Dave Ashlev and Dan Smith 34 4 72 Jeffle"is · 44 5 13 Loony Helmbolt Class 1 - Unlimited cars -2S Simers, 7 finishers 4 1 120 Dale Ebbens 5 2 114 Gus VildoS<,la/Charlie Watters 7 3 112 Nick Baldwin 9 4 !OS Josh Baldwin 25 5 117 John Gaugh.m/B.l Richardson Cla,, 1-2/1600-1 & 2 '"•t cars, 1600cc -17 otarters. 10 finisher• 16 • 1 1617 Robby Gue•;ara 17 2 1606 Bekki Freeuan Smithbuilt Ford Jeep Ford Chevrolet Dodge Junco Toyota Jm,co Aceco Hedge Hog Jm,co ChenoMh Mirage Jm,co 20 3 1601 Manlio Moreno 21 4 1605 Lorenzo Rc>:lriguez 22 5 1609 Scott & Brinn Steele Jm,co Lothringer Suspensions Unlimited Class 3 - 4X4 utility vehicles, short v.iteelbase - 3 staners I finisher (this class required to do only three· laps) ' 62 1 300 Darre,ySkilton Kia Sponage Class S - lllllimitcd Baja BuRs - 6 s:an rs, 2 finishers 18 1 503 Mike Dondel Jm,co 42 2 500 George Seeley . Snoddy Class S/1600 - Baja Bugs limit~,, 1600c:-6 staners, 5 finishers 37 1 552 Victor Herro,ra '74 VW Bug 38 2 578 Dave Gasper '70 VW Baja 46 3 551 Dan Fresh '95 VW Bug 47 4 579 JunMcKay.Sr.&Jm,McKay,Jr. '67VWBug 48 5 553 Eric Deen VW Beetle '---Cla .. 7 -mini or mid-sized pickupt - 6 starterc, 2 finishers 39 \. 1 702 Robert La:scl & Mike Jenkins 52 2 705 Al DeNun:iio Class 7S - stock mini or mid-sized pickups - 8 starters, ·2 finishers 36 I 726 Craig T11mer 50 2 725 Tm, Braden & Mitch Griffin Cius 8 - 2\VD ntility vehicles - 3 ,taners, 3 finishers 3 1 801 Randy Salmon! & Dave Westhem 8 2 802 Brian Collins 4S 3 839 Chris Wtlso, & lumsey El Wordani Ford Ranger Toyota Ford Ranger Ford Ranger Chevrolet Chevrolet Ford Class 9 - 1 & 2 seat cars, 1600ccs, limited suspension - 5 staners, 3 finishers 40 1 903 Manin Chri,~ensen/Joho Mendiola Junco 43 2 948 Junmy Mos:~ck/Andrew Lindquist M & T Racing 53 3 9-19 Ed McLean/Kevin Walsh Junco Class 10 - 1 & 2 seat cars, v.·ater cooled, 16S0ccs - IS staners, S finishers S:53:57 6:32:07 7:02:20 8:44:50 9:52:47 6:22:46 6:30:35 6:37:35 6:43:2-1 7:42:55 7:25:22 7:26:41 7:29:21 7:31:34 7:34:31 7:05:57 7:29:01 9:47:30 9:15:06 9:21:02 9:58:26 10:10:56 10:13:51 9:25:46 10:47:IS 9:08:Sl 10:19:20 6:21:02 6:41:22 9:54:50 9:33:19 9:50:59 10:54:S-I 2 1 1008 Damm Jeff<,ries Toyota Junco 6:16:07 10 2 1014 Rick Romar.s Raceco 6:55:24 13 3 1012 RickEllison/JohoPeoner Cheuowth:Milleunium 7:16:01 14 4 1006 Jun Tucker/Mike McG<:o Lothringer 7:18:13 i2 S IOIS Jo.ho Phillip•, Sr. Junco 8:22:JS SCORE Lite - 1 & 2 seat cars, air cooled, 1776 & 1835ccs - 9 starters, 8 finishers 12 1 1206 Jeny Penhall & George Ed Penhall IS 2 1200 Dnid Callaway & John Holmes Duo.rite 23 3 1204 Ryan Herzog & Grayson Smith S.usp. Unlimited 24 4 1202 Danny Andorson & Rob MacCacbreu 11,!irage 28 5 1209 Steve Grein!ce & Zach :Mitosinlu Susp. Unlimited Class 11 - stock VW sedans - 2 staners, I finisher (this cla" required to do two lap• cmly) 89 1 1101 Eric Soloruno & Tony Kiely Protrucks - 2\VD tn,cks, tube frame: all alike - 5 otaners, 2 finishers 19 1 299 Stcv, Barlow 33 2 207 Gary Magn .... Class Stock Full - Stock full sized pickups - 3 staners, 2 finishers (this class required to do three laps only) 63 I 862 Dn:id Syke; 64 2 860 Marc Stein Class Stock Mini - stock mini and 111id-sized trucks - 4 otanerrs, 1 finisher (this class required to do three laps only) '74VW Ford Ford Ford Ford 76 1 763 Tim Casey Toyota 4Runner Sponsmao classes - 1 stoner, 0 finisher {this class required to do 3 laps only) Total starters: 126 total finishers: 59 (46%) course: 83. 7 miles, 4 laps for most classes wea~er: pc.rfcct, sunny & very wa;nn, breezy 7:12:29 7:20:53 7:39:18 7:42:24 7:49:44 6:39:37 7:29:20 8:25:14 7:3S:S3 8:07:44 10:30:S, Dusty Times

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48TH NESTE RALLY OF FINLAND Makinen Masters ·The Mob By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Tommi Makinen flies his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution on his way to a resounding victory in the Neste Rally Finland, winning by almost two minutes. Driving on his home territory, Tommi Makinen won his fifth suc-cessive 1000 Lakes Rally. Tommi said that he owed the marvelous success to his team, they worked on the han-dling all rally long and it allowed him to lead almost from the start. It was a momentous win in many ways; it was the 100th World Rally win for a Japanese manufacturer, the fourth win this year for the only top team running cars built to the ortho-dox Group A rules as well as the most impressive domination of one event in the world series since the champi-onship began. Mitsubishi not only won the rally outright, but also took the top six places in the Group N category, while VW won the Formula 2 category in the capable hands of Alister McRae. Makinen, the reigning world champion has now considerably en-hanced his chances of a "Hat Trick" of titles: he is second in the series, nine points behind Carlos Sainz. For the first time in ten weeks the WRC was back in Europe. The Fin-land Rally was the 10th round of the '98 series and it is the fastest rally in the series. Using broad and undulating pub-lic gravel roads in central Finland, the event makes unique demands on the driver. The challenge in Finland is the courage and self-confidence of the drivers. The teams seek to give the cars the best high speed perfor-mance available and also the best sus-pension set up to cater to the many famous jumps. Following his victory in New Zealand Sainz started the Rally with a three point lead over McRae in the Drivers Championship, wjth Toyota 11 points ahead of second place Su-baru in the Manufacturers Series. Of the nine rounds held so far in the '98 series. Toyota, Mitsubishi and Suba-ru. have each won three times and only Ford was yet to score a win. From this event onward, there are not four but five teams registered for the Manufacturers Championship. SEAT joined the ranks of champi-onship teams, with entries for two World Rally cars on the debut of their new four wheel drive turbo charged Page 18 model based on the Cordoba. In a world in which the FIA en-sures that no team has a technical advantage over another team, it is interesting to spot the special factors of the SEAT World Rally Car. It has the longest stroke of all the cars at the top level of the sport and it also has the shortest wheel base. There were some driver changes of note, albeit only for this event. Jarmo Kytolehto, who has finished third in this event for the last three years, replaced Liatti at Subaru. Also, Ford's reserve driver, Ari Vatanen was driving a third team entry along-side Kankkunen and Thiry. Kank-kunen was starting his 124th World Rally, only four short of the mark set by his fellow countryman Markku Alen. What were the odds of the top three drivers in Finland, Kankkun-en, Kytolehto and Makinen for the third year running? We shall see. 40 seeded drivers were a record for · a WRC event. One out of every three drivers entered had been recognized by the FIA as one of special interna-tional merit and entitled to the privi-leged ofa leading start number. Leg 1 - Nine stages, gravel, 89.83 kms. The rally started in the ear_ly afternoon in wet and treacherous conditions. Stage 1 was held in heavy rain and some of the closest rallying ever got underway. Sainz tied Kank-kunen on Stage 1 and between Stages 3 and 7 the lead was never greater than 2.8 seconds. By the Service Park in Laukaa, Kankkunen's home town, Pykalisto in a Mitsubishi and Lindholm in a Ford had already re-tired. Colin McRae had been off the road but was lucky enough to be able to power himself back onto the course. Makinen had an uncertain start, plowing wide on comers on the first few stages and Didier Auriol also slid off the road and was noting that the gearbox was very noisy. As the roads became better qual-ity and the rain began to ease off, Sainz fell back behind Makinen, then hit a rock on Stage 8, breaking a wheel rim and dropped him further behind the leader but he was still leading Kankkunen. Auriol's gearbox was damaged but managed to hold together 'til the end of the leg. McRae went off the road on Stage 4, Q-is sec-ond such excursion of the day. He hit a tree, tore off a wheel, but still managed to finish the stage and then the car was withdrawn. Michelin tires were dominant, most drivers using ZA. The rains had caused Stage 2 to be particularly soft and this helped Sainz, who was running first on the road. Granholm was running well back and described the surface as like the beach at the ocean. He was sev-enth on Stage 2 but climbed up to finish the day fourth overall. Rovan-pera said the SEAT seemed to be getting better and better though Go-mez was having brake problems as well as central differential woes. In the Team's Cup, Isik's Toyota was running on just three cylinders on Stages 8 and 9 but managed to finish the leg. Makinen said that with showers forecast for the next tlay he was happy to be running first on the road: In Formula 2, SEAT was unlucky. Toni Gardmeister led after Stage 1 but went off in his SEAT on Stage 2 while teammate Gwyndaf Evans re-tired with a broken radiator after leaving the course on Stage 4. Panizzi soldiered on in his Group N Peugeot 106, finding the ruts difficult to man-age. Laukkanen ended his rally in the same spot as McRae, when -leading. Erikkson inherited the category lead in his Hyundai on Stage 2 but lost it on 3, regained it on 4 and 5 before the engine cut out just before the end of Stage 6. In Group N there were more ac-cidents among the Finns, on Stage 4 Jouko Puhakka went off the road, letting Kangas into the lead, ahead of Gustavo Trelles, Hannu Jokinen and Luis Climent. Leg 2 -Nine stages, gravel, 194.58 "km. Makinen decided to attack on Stages 10 and 11. In two stages, his lead, which had been 8.2 seconds became 24.2 and by the end of the leg increased to 34.4. It was good to be the first car on the road, overnight a lot more rain had fallen and for most of the leg it drizzled. Only as the day continued did the surfaces become a November 1998 First W2L was Alister McRae in the VW Golf KC, picking up 10 points on the way to a nice 13th overall finish. bit drier. Sainz said the conditions were still very tricky but Makinen knew those first two stages very well. Kankkunen felt left out of the battle. "It's either the age of the car or of the driver, but I just can't keep up." Gronholm attacked hard as well, knowing these stages from National Rally compe~ition: he was up to third on Stage 10, slid off the final corner of Stage 11, fell back to fourth but was back up to third soon after. Auriol slid off the road on Stage 11, was able to regain the road but he had now lost contact with the leaders. Several drivers reported they had stalled their engines under heavy braking in the ·slippery conditions, and Rovanpera went off the road on Stage 11. Gomez was having more transmission trouble but the PRP Premier Racing Products From $149.95 each plus shipping & handling Proudly introduces the "Premo" full suspension seat, _ at an affordable price with quick delivery and many stylish colors. 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Carlos Sainz and Luis Maya ran hard in the Toyota but could only L.~""--_.z...._~=---= manage second place in Finland, just 1 O seconds ahead of their First Group N was Gustavo Trelles in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, Juha Kankkunen and Juha Repo fly their Ford Escort for the crowd as competition. shown here in low flight on the way to victory. they hurtle through the forest towards third overall. Jarmo Kytolehto gets airborne in his Subaru lmpreza before an Toni Gardmeister flies through the Finnish night on his way to 14th Third in F2 and 15th overall was the Nissan Almera KC piloted by enthusiastic crowd in the Finnish Forest, finishing eighth overall. overall, 2nd W2L in the SEAT Ibiza KC. ______ Mark Higgins and Philip Mills, charging through the rainy day. Pavel Sibera runs through the dark in Finland on the way to 25th Oriol Gomez is not a happy camper after losing the battle with a rock. Wayne Bell and lain Stewart have had better days, they had engine overall, 4th in F2 in the Skoda Octavia KC with lights ablaze. He had his share of troubles before the accident. expiration on their Hyundai midway through the Finnish Rally. unit couldn't be changed 'til the dropped to 12th position. Tommi with broken suspension after a big most of the ocher top drivers. Gron- repaired with only seconds to spare end of the leg. The rain came and seemed set to cruise to victory and jump where he and his co-driver holm made five fastest times on all before starting Stage 19. -Bell retired went, and Makinen said that al- Sainz was demoralized at not being also hurt their backs. Bell had an the other five stages. Gomez retired when the Hyundai's engine failed. though he started in pouring rain able to catch the Mitsubishi. oil leak in the Hyundai and then after he spun and hit a rock. Ro- McRae eventually won by 20 sec-by the end of the stage he was run- In F2, Higgins lost the lead when had clutch troubles to boot. Five vanpera in the other SEAT WRCar ands, Gardmeister was second and ning on dry roads and the Evolu- McRae fitted narrower Pirelli tires different makes held the top five broke a shock and then had a ma-Higgins took the third spot. tion V was behaving better and bet- and he and Gardmeister pulled into places. jar computer error, causing a large In Group N Trelles had piston ter all the time. the lead. Sibera's Skoda fell back Group N lost the leader, Kangas, array of dash lights to come to life. failure but struggled on. He only has Kankkunen found the Ford when the bracket on his fuel pump- with broken suspension and that let Stage 20 was· fast. Thomas to beat Manfred Stohl one more worked better on the harder stages broke, cutting lots of wires and he Trelles into the lead. In the Team's Radstrom's computer confirmed he time this season to become the sec-but both Rui Madera and Gron-was lucky to finish the stage with Cup, Isik's engine problems re- had hit 216 kph and Bums had hit ond FIA rally title winner this year. holm suffered from broken wheels. the engine still running although he curred on Stages 10 and 11, the 209. Kankkunen knew he had to Jokinen rolled and lost four min-Granholm falling from third place lost six minutes with the problem engine failed and he also withdrew, fight for second place against Sainz utes, then lost 11 more minutes on back to seventh. Vatanen was also and then he lost the power steer- leaving HF Grifone unchallenged but this was to be denied. Vatanen the next stage. having transmission problems, with ing on Stage 17. Gardmeister rolled as the '98 Team's Cup Champions. had engine failure and had to re-The rally ended with a repetition two stages to go they disconnected his SEAT and lost the lead then he Leg 3 - Six stages, gravel, 99.19 tire from the fray. K ytolehto was of the Argentine Rally finishing or-his front differential on his Ford, too lost power steering on Stage 17. km. Low clouds hung over Stage 19 unable to improve his position, der. For all of Sainz's assertations making it quite difficult to drive but JorganJonasson retired with broken but the weather progressively got leaving Subaru with no champion-that Finns have a great advantage this only cost him one position. An- suspension on Stage 1 7. Higgins' better. Richard Bums was quickest ship points in Finland. on this rally, only two Finns finished other brok.en wheel, this time hopes went out the window with in the fog once again and he wanted In F2 there was panic in the Pare in the top six places and all top six Rovanpera's right front which cost broken shock absorbers and numer- the world to know it. Makinen was Ferme when McRae found his Group N finishers were foreigners. him about five minutes as he ous other problems. Kruse retired finally able to go more easily as were power steering had failed but it was Sainz may have resigned himself to -----------------------------------------------------------------defeat before the event but a great 18th Neste Rally Finland Jyvaskyla 22/23.08.98 WC round 10 I (l) Tommi HAKINBN/Risto Hanniaenmaki 2 (5) Carlos SAINZ/Luis Hoya J (7) Juh~ KANKKUKBK/Juha Repo 4 (91 D'ldier AURIOL/Oenis Giraurdet 5 (2) Richard BURKS/Robert Reid 6 (15) Thomas Radstrom/Gunnar Barth 7 (12) Harcus Gronholm/T¥ffiO Rautiainen B ( 4) Jarmo KYTOLEHTO/,\r·to Kapanen 9 (18) Pasi Haqstrom/Ter9 ,Gardemeister 10 (8) Bruno THIRY/Stepha~e Prevot 12 (19) Harkko Hartin/Toomas Kitsinq 13 (25) Alister McRae/David senior 14 (JO) Ton:y Garde11eister/J>aavo Lukander 15 (28) Hark Higgins/Philip Hills 16 (23) Gustavo Trelles/Hartin Christie 17 (21) Abdullah Bakhaahab/Arne Hertz· 18 (33) Alexandre Potapov/Victor Timkovsky 19 (17) Rui Hadeira/Kuno Silva 25 (29) Pavel S1bera/Karel Jiratko 26 (41) Frederic Dor/Didier Breton 29 (92) Jorma Laakao/Jari Jyrkiainen JO (67) Seppo Huhonen/Janne Parala Other Important Pinishor 11 (9l Harri ROVAKPEKA/Risto Pietilain~n Dusty Times PIN Mitsubishi Lancer Bvolut1on E Toyota Corolla WRCar PIK Ford Bscort WRCar V Toyota Carol la WRCar GB Mitsubishi Carisma GT s Toyota Cotblla WRCar FIN Toyota Corolla WRCar PIN Subaru Impreza WRCar PIK Toyota Calica GT-Four B Ford Escort WRCar BB Toyota Calica GT-Four GB VW Golf Kit Car (1st F2) PIK SEAT Ibiza Kit Car ( 2nd ,2 r· GB Nissan Almera Kit Car (3rd F2) ROU/RA Mitsubishi Lancer lvolution KSA/S Toyota Calica GT-Four RUS Pord Escort RS Cosworth P Toyota Corolla WRCar CZ Skoda Octavia Kit Car (4th P2) P Subaru Impreza WRCar PIK VW Golf GTI (5th F2) PIN Opal Astra GSi (6th F2) FIN SEAT WRCar gA R66HRE (GB) A K-AH1060 (0) A RUHC tGB) A K-AH1070 (D) A R4HRI (GB) A IC-AH685 (0) A AJOOO (PIN) A USSOO (FIN) A U5600 (PIK) A R3PHC (GB) A K-AH926 (0) A K7SIIG (GB) A B94J7TX (El A R5NME (GB) 11 AX160AC: (I) A K-AH364J (0) A N705FAR (GB) A J<-AH422 (0) A HBSOl-31 (CZ) A P5WRC (GB) N H4597 (FIN) A X2J81 ( P'Ill) A 85J29UL (!) November 1998 World Champion~hlP points; WCR WCD W2L TC 3h. 1Sm.46.la. • 10 10 -3h. 17m .3l.7s. 6 6 Jh.17m.41.Js. 4 4 Jh.19m.25.3s. J · J 3h.19N,52.9s. 2 2 Jh.20m.07.0s.•• -Jh. 21,o .02.0a. Jh.23m.46.4s. Jh. 28m .11.4s. 10 6 3h.30m.05.5s. 3h.35m.15.2s.•• -Jh. 39m .45.6s. + -3h.40m.05.4s.+ -10 -6 3h. Um. 27. 5s. 3h. 41m .45.7s. • -3h.4Jm.06.7s.•• -Jh.4◄m.10.6s.•• -3h.44m.J5.ls.•• -Jh. 57m .11.9s. Jh. 57m .37.0~.•• -4h.07a.48.2s.+ ◄h.07m.51.8s. 3h.J2m.57.7s. 2 4 3 1 second place was still excellent for his championship hopes. T oyocas dominated the stage times, scoring 15 of the fastest times. Makinen didn't mind saying that he concentrated on the tough-est stages, put all qis effort into a rhythm and "that was how I won the rally at the wheel of the best Lancer I have ever driven." Toyota leads in Manufacturer's points, followed by Mitsubishi, Su-baru and Ford. In the Driver's Championship, Sainz leads with 4 7, McRae and Makinen are tied with 38. Kank-kunen has 31 points, Auriol 30 and Bums has 23. Stay tuned to Dusty Times for the WRC news as the season draws to a close. ■ Page 19

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29TH ANNUAL S"ORE 250 Wehe Wins In wegas By John Calvin Photos: Track.side Photo Andy Wehe had it all his way as he powered his Protruck to a great overall win at the 29th Annual SNORE 250. It's hard to believe but it's been 29 years since the first SNORE 250 and it' s still going strong, the longest running off road race in this nation and probably anywhere else in the world. We were there for the first 250 and I hope we'll be around for a whole bunch more. It is really marvelous to see some of the third generation racers out there in the dirt, some losing and some winning, but it is a family affair and these kids are out there doing their thing and I'm sure have little time for the bad stuff we read about in the papers every day. Keep on goin' ! Contingency was held Friday evening at the Gold Coast Ho-tel and Casino, once again thanks to Michael Gaughan for all his largess in the SNORE category. 63 cars went through tech and contingency and all of them started on Saturday morn-ing. 31 of them made it to the finish line, a finishing rate of 49%, lots of folks thinking it was an easy course, but Kenny Free-man made sure that it was well marked (nobody got lost, not even Day), but it was a lot tougher than folks thought it would be and the attrition rate was fairly high. In fact, at race and in the impound area the only complaint you heard was that it was a rough course, well marked and lots of fun to drive. Good work Kenny! The race started just north of Nellis AFB, north of Las Vegas and at the 10 a.m. starting time there wasn't a cloud in the sky and there was a nice breeze blowing and the temperature was in the low 70's and climb-ing, reaching the low 80's in the afternoon. All in all, it was a great day for the race. First off the line was Class 1 and Brian Collins left the line with a great shower of rocks and dirt. Brian was testing shocks and springs this day and only got two laps in but they were happy with their findings. -John Gaughan left 30 sec-onds later, ran two good laps and then disappeared from the radar screens, cause unknown. Pat Dean was next but Pat had major engine problems and did not complete the first lap. Todd Jim Price and Gary Wise ran hard all race long, had some brake problems but took the coveted Class 1 O gold medal. Vandawalker was next, he turned a nice lap of 1:28:42 but never completed the second lap. Last of the class to leave was . 22 year old Andy Wehe, run-ning his Pro Truck this day and Andy ran like the wind, one hour, ten minutes for lap 1. 1: 10 on lap 2, 1: 13 on lap 3 and 1: 11 on the fourth lap, leading over-all and leading by a loooooong ways, finishing 40 minutes ahead of the second overall car. Andy only had one flat and won the nice $2,700 first prize. The young Mr. Wehe also won the Russ Job Memorial Trophy and his name joins the likes of Rob MacCachren and Robby Gor-don as a SNORE 250 winner. Class 10 was the next class up and there ·were 11 hot cars ready to do battle but for many of them the skirmish was over rather soon. Of the 11 starters there were four who didn't make the first lap. J.C. Dean amongst them DNF'ing with a broken input shaft. Of the others we have no ideawhy they failed to come around. Jeff Shiroky turned a fast first lap but that was it for him and Ken Flippin Jr. only made one lap of the SNORE 250. The brothers Goerke were the fifth Class 10 to go off the line, they were tied for the class lead at the end of lap 1, were in second spot on lap 2 and then lost the tranny about five miles into lap 3 and that spelled fini for them. Tom Sturgis was tied with the Goerkes for the lead on lap 1, took the lead on lap 2 by 15 minutes, increased their lead to 20 minutes on the third iap and then disaster struck, they broke a front spindle and through some miscommunica-tion Tom and Ann cooled their heels out there for three hours, finally got the_ car to the finish for a fourth place in Class 10. They also won the Jean Calvin Memorial Trophy for being the last SNORE 250 Official Fin-isher, finishing 12 minutes ahead of the deadline. Dan Bentley and Bob Mathews were the seventh Class 10 car to start, had a great first lap, a flat on lap 2, then the car wouldn't restart, finally got it going, then the battery died on lap 3 and after getting that taken care of came on in for a long third place in class. Kent Lothringer and Gene Griepentrog were the last Class 10 car to start, didn't have that great of a day, had a few flats, had brake problems on lap 2, lost the power steering com-pletely but Gene held on to that wheel and brought the car in for a great second place. The big Class 10 winner was Jim Price, he was the ninth car to start, sharing the driving chores with Gary Wise. These guys had four flats, enough for anyone and they were having some brake problems but they persevered and kept plugging along, turning their fastest lap on the last lap and taking the Class 10 win by 22 minutes and taking home a nice check for $2,000. Congrats! Bryan Freeman can really stand tall now, he took the Class 1600 win at the SNORE Ryan Schank lifts the rear end as he heads for the Class 9 win at the SNORE, • 1/2-1600 was next to start and ail 14 of them .were deter-mined to win. Hahl Clay Carr was the ninth class starter, got 250 and he was second overall as well. enjoying a trouble free race. ·. Continued on page 22 John Phegley lost a few pieces of sheet metal out on the course and John Gaughan turned the first two laps in good time but he disappeared The Griepentrog/Lothringer combo were the second place finishers was forced to retire early with transmission troubles. · on the third lap, reason unknown. -in Class 10, having their share of problems during the race. Page 20 November 1998 Dusty Times

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Dan Bentley and Bob Mathews had some electrical problems, a flat Tom and Ann Sturgis don't want to talk about it: silly foul-up cost them Ed Pauley and Jon landiora were down a bit on power but they finished or two but came on in for the Bronze Medal in Class 10. three hours and they finished a very long. fourth in Class 10. second in 1600, just a few minutes out of the win. a nice l :2J: 13 on the first lap D"anny Anderson to dr7iv_e_w-,h-:,il'e-,-w-a-s~g-o-:-in- g--:-t-o_r_e~p-e-at:--=t-h-:-is-,,,P'ri1m_m_,====-=======================, but was never heard from again. she rode along and they finished win of earlier this month and it My old buddies Dan Bradley three laps, broke a torsion bar started out that way. BUT, af-and Aaron Hawley teamed up on the last lap and called it a ter leading the first lap things to beat the world but, alas, they day. (No pun intended.) Con-took a turn for the worse, break-turned a horribly long first lap, grats on your birthday, have ing a rocker arm, losing the had a good second lap and were many, many more of them! clutch, fighting with the brakes swallowed up by the desert. Jay Mike Lorenzi was the eighth and the day turned sour. Rob-Shain also got in two laps and starter, turned good times on hie took the fifth place finish, then he retired from the fray, laps land 2, slowed a lot on lap not too happy. Rick Duncan suffering from heat exhaustion 3 and then wa·s never heard was 11th to start, had no Mac-we heard. from again. Jeff Carr was first off Cachren to spell him so drove Andy Anderson was the l 0th the line, was third after lap l, solo for the entire race had one class starter, had all sorts of second on the second lap, but a flat and took the fourth spot fin-troubles on lap 2, picked up the broken exhaust needed mend-ish, just 14 minutes out of the pace on lap 3 but retired some-ing, a few flats and broken class win. where on lap 4. Day Gang, one power stei,ring kind of ruined Bryan Anderson was quite day shy of her 19th birthday was his day and he finished in sev-happy with his second race, the fourth 1600 starter and Day erith place. Steve Ogle and Sh-driving solo, having no problems wasn't going to have a good day, annon Switzer split the driving and very happy to take a third rolled the car on lap 1, got it chores, lost a front wheel to the place finish, not too far out of righted and almost rolled it desert and took a sixth place fin-the win. Ed Pauley and Jon again, decided not to do any ish. . Iandiorio. said their only prob-more damage to the car, got Robbie Guevara thought he lem wa_s they felt they never had WE CARRY AURORA, BFGOODRICH, PARKER PUMPER P.C.I., HELLA LIGHTS, VDO, SIMPSON J.T. INDUSTRIES, SWAY*A *WAY WRIGHT PLACE, RIPROD, EARLS YOKOHAMA, SUPER TRAPP, AUTO FAB SWEEPCO, BEL-RAY, OGAWA, S&S BUG PACK, CHENOWTH, UMP SB ENGINEERING, KEP, -FODDRIL UNI-RLTER, K&N, TRI-MIL, PIAA PERMA COOL, BEARDS SEATS, SCAT ·coMP-U-FIRE, WEBER CARBS, FOX SHOXS SAND TIRES & RIMS, BOGART WHEELS, CNC VP FUELS, CUSTOM & COMMERCIAL WHEELS MECHANIX WEAR, WCM, FUEL SAFE VISIT ROB MACCACHREN'S WEB PAGE WWW.MACCACHREN.COM VISIT OUR WEB PAGE AT 201.138.253.246 CALL TOLL FREE 1-888-755-5900 Page 22 WE CAN SHIP UPS TOYOUR DOOR .. . . . . ~ {,'~~ ~-.. 3054 S. VALLEY VIEW #3 * LAS VEGAS, NV * 81102 HOURS: MON-FRI 9AM-6PM * SAT 9AM-5PM (102)B71-li221 FAX November 1998 The good looking 5-1600 of Mike Powada had an uneventful day, cruising along to the class win with over half an hour in hand. full power but they were able to Bryan Freeman, keep on racing! take the silver medal in Class Class 9 had 17 starters and 1600, four minutes out of the they only had to run three laps win. • , for the win. Tony Leonard, Ta-lk about walking tall, Terri Larson and Ron Coppick, Bryan Freeman was_ really walk- all in their respective cars didn't ing tall. This young man, who, make a lap. Matt Cunningham like the rest of the Freeman clan ran fast lap on lap 1, then had a just loves to race had a great five hour debacle on lap 2 and race, replacing an alternator retired. Terry Vandawalker had belt on the first lap. Bryan was first lap problems, more prob" second on laps 1 and 2, took the lems on lap 2 and called it quits lead on lap 3, cemented his lead on lap 3. Kevin Steele wasn't on laps 4 and took the 1600 win .having a good day either and he and the $2,000 prize that went retired after the second lap. _ with it. Congratulations to Dale Looney and Eric °The brothers Gremm, Andre and Eric had a trouble free run, taking the Sportsman Buggy Class by less than two minutes. Mandy Dixon soloed her Class 9 to a great second in Class 9, running quick consistant laps and beating her competition by seven minutes. Dusty Times

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Bryan Anderson had a trouble free race, it's only his second race and Robby Guevara led lap 1 but it WAS all downhill from there, a plethora Chuck, Tom and Duane had some brake problems during their race he capped the day with a nice third place in 1600. of problems slowed him a lot and he finished fifth in 1600. and then ran out of gas but still managed a nice second in 5-1600. Shenberger had their share of The second place car in 5-took second and were very increased their lead drama ti- entry, John Phegley in his VERY problems, namely a broken 1600 was driven by Chuck Guy, happy to be there. cally on lap 2 and-ended up with TALL yellow vehicle but they spindle, a very long first lap, a Tom Heyser and Duane Eldred Mike Pow ad a and Bingo the gold medal and a 40 minute had transmissi_on problems dur-good second and then another and although they had severe Price were the last 5-1600 to lead on their competition after ing the first lap and decided to rather long third lap but they brake problems all day long and start the race and they had a a trouble free run. call it a day after one lap. did finish, albeit in 11th place. RAN OUT OF GAS, they still three minute lead after lap 1, Heavy Metal only had one Continued on page 24 Tim Hart also had a bad day, three hours for the first lap then a couple of two hour laps, but they did get in to the checkered flag. Todd Dukes suffered from a sticking throttle cable all race long, but finished ninth while Bill Cobb and Joel Davis played with a broken ignition switch and a faulty coil for the eighth finishing spot. Al Rux had a long day, rear suspension problems taking their toll but still a seventh place finish while Mark Bund-erson suffered from a broken shock and a broken distributor cap which cost him about an hour on the first lap but he still came in sixth. Tom Taliaferro was doing great 'til the second lap when a passing car clipped h{s front wheel and' the steerfog wheel kicked back and broke his thumb. He soldiered on to the pit and then his wife Seanea took the car around for the last lap and they finished in the fifth spot. Bill A very and Tom Brown split the driving and after being high centered for a while and losing a gear they came in to take the fourth spot in Class 9. Kevin Walsh had a flat, didn't have too much going for him in the brake department but took the bronze medal for the race. Mandy Dixon soloed the SNORE 250, had no flats or any other mechanical problems, just raced around with very consis-tent lap times and took home the second place prize in a very large class. The big winner in Class 9 was Ryan Schank who led t);ie sec-ond and third laps, had no me-chanical problems and says his win was due to the Jerry Leigh-ton shocks he has on his car. The 5-1600s were next to go off the starting line and al-though Dennis W esseldine and son Tyler were the second car to start, they had serious front end problems on lap 1 and called it a day soon after. The Michael Beans had a great first lap but were never seen again, cause unknown .. My old buddy Dee Towles only got two laps in, seems he had some problems on both laps but we don't know what the prob-lems were. Mike Dunn had a great day, he fought a cranky bat-.tery cable for a while, had some clutch problems but the killer was the steering wheel upper bearing came loose so he really had a hand full all race long but took the third spot with ease. 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Kevin Walsh had a good day; suffered one flat during the race and came in for a nice third pface in Class 9. Mike Dunn had a busy race, broken battery cable, clutch problems and a broken bearing in the steering column which made for a real fun day. Bill Avery and Tom Brown shared the drive, got themselves high centered for a while, lost a gear but still took fourth in Class 9. In the Sportsman Buggy class Tom Reck never completed the first of the two required laps,·nor did Scott Bennett, neither of which problems are known to us. Don Robert was the first starter but he got hit on lap 1 and ended up in the fourth finishing spot. The Gubler contingent had Jason flip-ping the car on lap 1 for a very long lap, then Tammie took over, ran a 1:27 for a quick lap (fast lap for the class) and they took third place. David Villafane and Bill Hope ran in second spot the whole race, had no problems and finished just a minute and a half our of the win. Andre Gremm took the Sportsman class win again, running their two laps in almost identical lap times and took home yet another win-ning trophy. The last class off the line was Sportsman Truck and Bill Kuhlmey never completed one of the required two laps. Robby Woolworth was only able to com-plete one of the two laps needed to finish but the big winner was Mark Pettit who soloed the ra_ce and took home the winners tro- $40,000 in bonus monies this year phy after a nice run of five to selected classes and the racing trouble free hours. just keeps getting better and bet-And so another SNORE 250 is ter. in the record books. As usual at A special thanks to Kenny Free-SN ORE races, everyone had a man Jr. for working like the devil good race, a good time and are ea- to make it all happen and also to ger to get the next SNORE event his wife, Kerri, who is always going. busy making things happen. See SNORE has given away over you all at the next one! ■ Tom Taliaferro broke his thumb on lap 2, wife Seanea drove the third The David Villafana/Bill Hope combo turned almost identical lap times The Gubler/Tarbett entry had Jason getting on his head on lap 1 but lap and they finished fifth in the large Class 9. · to take the silver in Sportsman Buggy. they carried on and took a nice third place in Sportsman Buggy. HONDA Power .. Equipment KAWAGUCHIHONDACOR~ POWER TO_~-D Racer· and Spectator D'iscounts •GENERATORS •WELDERS •GENERAL PURPOSE ENGINES • WATER PUMPS • LAWNMOWERS • RIDING MOWERS •OUTBOARD ENGINES •LAWN TRACTORS •TILLERS CALIFORNIA'S-LARGEST HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT PARTS AND INVENTORY IF We DoN'T HA ve IT, No ONE Does! DELIVERY TO 1HE RACES AVAILABLE • PLEAsE CAIL AHEAD EX1000 KAWAGUCHI HONDA 3532E.3RoScl..as~CA.9CXJ63•213.264.3936, 264.5858 FAX 264.2136 . ' Page 24 :v,sAJ SALES, SERVICE, PARTS Nothing' · ll:I ttoNDA PowER EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST seasier. •. For op11mum pcr!"or.n~C'C: and ~;i.'"C"ty. pk.l~ lc:id thC" O\\,lC'r·s m.inu:tl bc.·fore Opt"r:i:tng your Hond:t Po1.r.:er Equipmem. S~c-1lk:u 1ons subJe<'l to ch.1.n~e " i lhout .noth.·e. •£stlm.ne only. b:1:!<d on r.ited load. +B.mery not uH..·ludt"d \~i th E~t3500SXK I. E~15000S.XK I ,md C:9ti500SX. • •With bda('ry tr,1y kil. wht"el!'I & h.\..,~er. Connection to houM" po..,,,.t'r requ ires tr.m:skr dC'\ite to .wo1, ! po~sible lnJury to pi:,.,,,.er comp.\ny ~rsonnc-1. Cons Ult ;i qu.:iJIOed electrt.:l.an. November 1998 Dusty Times

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I. I ROUND 3 • AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP Simpon Back on TOp at Griffith SDD. Text & Photos: Darryl Smith Recording the fast lap of the day and out in front from the first lap, Dion Simpson got his second overall win of the year. The third round of the Aus-tralian Off Road Champion• ship was held recently at the New South Wales town of Griffith. Traditionally, this is a great race and this year was no exception. Dion Simpson showed he is the car to beat this year with another stun-ning display that left the oth-ers in dismay. S~mpson won the race, by some five minutes, however, the next three places were separated by only sec-onds. In what was a somewhat small field, it was one of the highest quality fields seen and the great racing proved that. Prologue A line up of 49 cars to con-test the qualifying in fine and hot conditions (the first time this year). In the end it was Mark Burrows setting fastest time over the lengthy course. In a repeat oflast year it would be Andy Brown joining Bur-rows on the front row in their Class l's. In third it was a blis-tering run by Fabio Zarfati's Mitsubishi Pajero, which is now disrupting the buggy dominance quite regularly. He headed Dion Simpson, Shane Cottee, and Matt Owen. The class winners of Prologue were Burrows (1), Owen (2), An-drew Johnson (3) (and the biggest jump at the dam), Greg Campbell (4), Barry Ross (5), Les Siviour (7), Zarfati (8), and Simpson (9). Class 1 Andy Brown won the start but it was soon Burrows lead-ing the pack. But at the con-clusion of the first lap Burrows appeared with a trail of turbo smoke. The next lap Brown would get a flat tire. This al-lowed Neville Boyes to pounce on the class lead and move up to third overall. Boyes had worked overnight to 6:30 in the morning to fix a gearbox. Closing in on Boyes was Jamie Robinson. Meanwhile Class 1 had lost Brad Zacka (gear• Page 26 box), Phil Fraser (turbo), Nev Taylor (drive pulley), and Craig Hoare (throttle). After the mid race pit stop, it was Robinson who took the class lead and moved into· third overall. Brown would get an-other flat tire. In the end Rob-inson took the class win and grabbed second overall with a great late charge. Boyes came in next only 36 seconds back in fourth overall. Brown took third with John Towers in fourth and Bob Mowbray in fifth after a few problems. In his new 1600 two-seater, a Cougar, Matt Owen dominated the class to take the win and a nice seventh overall. c; l~ANAl)A November 1998 Jamie and Russell Robinson won Class 1 in their Rivmasta with a great late charge that netted second overall also. The winner in Class B, Fabio Zarfti, in a Mitsubishi Pajero, was also third overall, seriously challenging the buggies. Class 2 A strong field of 12 cars and it saw a total dominance by Matt Owen. After driving the oldest car on the scene for years, Owen is now reveling in his new car this year. Early outs were Rod Simpson and Corey Haywara, and then Graeme Julius when he slammed a post after a big jump at the dam. Paul Johnson broke a gearbox mount, while Werner Zetti was running with clutch woes. All the while Owen moved up to around eighth overall. It was a close battle for second be-tween Andrew Ziems, Ken Collier, and Simon Barbary. Soon after though, Barbary was out with a broken drive flange. Owen wen on to take the win and secure seventh overall. The fight for second went in Ziems' favor, with -Collier in third. Zetti managed to limp home into fourth place. There were no other finishers. Class 3 Sadly only four cars en-tered, a legacy at the race missing State Championship status. It was Griffith local, Maurie Wood who won last time, leading the way. Johnson was having gear problems, while Geoff Dow moved into second ·over Darren Perrin. Wood opened up a six minute lead at half way and was try-ing hard to increase that. Dow dropped out and left Wood to win unchallenged. He grabbed 12th overall in the 1200cc buggy. His winning margin to Perrin was an astonishing 53 minutes. Ironically, Perrin was only in the race due to Wood loaning him a spare motor. Continued on page 28 99 Dusty Times

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Neville Boyes, .in a Hunter Rivmasta, worked on his transmission all Andy Brown and Mark Burrows, both early leaders, make close work In the 1200cc two-seat class, Maurie Wood put his Hornet into the night, but then took second in Class only seconds behind the winner. out of the first turn. Brown finished in third place. lead early and stayed there. ======================== \. Greg Campbell led all the way in his Baja Bug, and finished nearly 50 minutes in front of second place. In the two-wheel drive trucks Barry Ross was very quick on the Les Sivi9ur put his limited 4X4, a Nissan Patrol, into Victory Circle, straights in his Holden Tor8[1a, and took the win-by 14 minutes. and eighth overall on his home track. held that place all the way, •and moved into the top 20 overall. Randall had a couple of problems towards the end but it was all Campbell taking the win and 17th overall in a fitting finish for Greg's last race in the car as it now goes up for sale. Randall hung cin and completed his six grueling laps for second spot. Class 5 In yet another class domi-nated by one driver was the Tin Tops and the car in ques-tion was the big VS Holden Torana of Barry Ross. Theim-maculate Ford F150 of Steve overall to boot. The battle for top ten overall. Pickering was Dion Simpson lead the Hilton was out early with a second went to the Teagles in keeping in touch and was charge of the single seater bug-broken axle. The 1:;,attle for the U:te with Hart's sedan in quicker on one occasion. De-gies and after the opening lap sec,ond would be a see-saw third. spite stopping with front tor-was third overall. The next lap duel between the Falcon XR6 Class 7 sion problems, Bobbie-Lee was saw him move into the lead of Scott Hart and the Falcon On his home track Les Siv-stunning spectators with the overall and start peeling off Longreach of Geoff Teagle. iour seemed unbeatable, but top end speed of the Navara. some very quick laps. Shane The car of Ross though, was stranger things have hap-In the end Les Siviour took Cottee was staying with him-and without a doubt one of the pened. It was left to Geoff the class win and an eighth was second in class, fourth over-quickest down the straights Pickering to tame him in his place overall. Pickering had a all. Bob Strawbridge was out and by half way he picked up Pajero Evolution. Siviour's flat tire on the last lap but still with tie rod troubles and Greg 20 places in the outright or-daughters, Bobbie-Lee and grabbed second, while Bobbie-Fraser heid third until he too der. Teagle was only one and Katie were in their Nissan Lee Siviour took a third in dropped out. At the half way a half minutes ahead of Hart. Navara to keep the pair hon-class. Simpson held a four minute lead Ross continued to thunder est. Les Siviour went out to Class 8 overall and a five minute lead around the course and took lead in the Nissan Patrol, and A couple of new faces in the to Cottee in fifth. That pattern the class win and scored 11th within two laps he was in the line up of modified 4x4s, but it remained until the last lap, TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING, INC was still Zarfati taking a big lead which while Simpson was set-in class and in two laps was sec- ting fastest lap of the day, Cot-ond overall, despite no power tee broke an axle just short of steering. Ken Smith's Rodeo the finish. Simpson went on to was out with turbo problems. claim his second overall win of The little Suzuki of Gary Ross the year and looked remarkably eventually gave up with fuel fresh for someone who had problems. Brendan Powers was driven his heart out for four and holding second spot in the su- a quarter hours. 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CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Gorman Ridge Rally Report By Paul Timmerman Photos: Trackside Photo Ron Wood and Kelly Walsh put their Audi Quattro out in front and then stayed there, to win the 4 WO Open Class at the August Gorman Ridge Rally. The fourth event in the CRS season, Gorman· Ridge Rally, was run the weekend of August 21st under cloudless sunny skies and temperatures in the high eighties. The Flying J Inn in Frazier Park, California was headquarters, up on the Grape-vine, north of Los Angeles. The Hungry Valley Off Road Ve-hicle Park again served as the site of stages 1 through 6. They provided short, technical tests, with a wide range of hazards. They were rim in both direc-tions to add variety. The Leibre Gulch stage was run twice after the dinner break, for stages 7 and 8. It challenged the com-petitors with deep silty sand, twisty corners, and variable vis-ibility. Leibre Mountain stage included a climbing route with huge exposures, and was ,:un af-ter dark as stage 9. The Max-well stage was deleted this year due to rain damage, keeping us away frQm Lake Hughes. In its place was a new stage named Sawmill. It was run as stage 10 after a transit and turn around out as Sawmill campground. This new stage retraced most of the transit and part of stage 9, excluding the last section with the large exposures. This gave competitors a large chunk of fast road with sweeping comers and firm packed roads for the last ditch attempts. The entry list included 33 cars, with good representation in all four CRS Classes. Nine cars in 4 WO open, nine cars in 2WD open, seven cars in Per-formance Stock and eight cars in Stock Class started the event. Every class was packed with a mixture of new and old blood, make an interesting mixture. Favorites in the 4WD Open Class include last year's win-ners, Vartan Samuelian/Ara Manoukian in the EurAsia Mit-s ubfshi Eclipse, the SoPac Champs Ron Wood/Kelly Walsh in the VW Specialties/ Turbonetics Audi Quattro, and Page 30 the Super D Championship car of Rui Brasil and Carlos Tavares. I was fielding a dark horse entry, the former Greg Lund, Group-A Mazda 323, with my new wife Suzanne Mar-tin co-driving. We ran with King Dragon Racing/RoadRace Engineering Livery as car #323. Having bought the car only two weeks earlier, some problems remained unresolved. Unreli-able starting meant I might have to get push started at the start of stages, and stalling out on a stage could mean a DNF. In 2WD Open, the Coffee Fresh Volvo of Bill Malik and Christian Edstrom was a favor-ite, with seed 2 VW Rabbit en-try of Victor Brasil and Ben Bra-dley set to challenge. And as a seed three entry Robert Tallini, t'eamed with new co-driver Bertram Tillett in a RoadRace Eng. Toyota Corqlla, was ready as always to take charge. Performance stock had: Mark Brown and Shane Polhamus as a seed two entry in a Toyota Corolla, Doug and Sue Robinson in a Mazda RX-7, and Fred Ronn/John Dillon in the always quick Toyota Celica. The depth of entries in Perfor-mance Stock shows it to be healthy and competitive as · a class. Returning to Stock Class for this event after having rolled their 2WD Open Class car in Reno was Lon Peterson with John Elkin in another B&D Au-tomotive Plymouth Arrow. Lon had not run Stock Class since his days in the Kia Sephia a few years ago. Back in seed three positions to challenge were Eric and Alfredo Oyaque and Peter Morris and Nick Taylor in a Toyota Corolla, and Terry Stonecipher and Chrissy Beavis in a Toyota Celica. Later in the weekend Lon commented that the Stock Class cars were some of the-most difficult cars to drive due to the low power and trac-t.ion available. As we prepared to push of at MTC, Mike Gibeault called the early stages (1-6) at the Hun-gry Valley Off Road Vehicle Park "sparring". And said, "the real racing" would occur after the dinner break when we crossed the road and raced around Leibre Gulch and Leibre Peak. Hungry Valley stages started off with three fast runs before a service break. From the very first stage, the Audi Quattro of Ron Wood showed the ability to consistently put time on the field. Tony Chavez attempted to catch Ron, but began to suffer overheating in the second stage, and had to back off the 20 psi boost he started out running. Vartan Samuelian in the Eclipse was hanging back lightly, as was our new 323 GTX. Rui Brasil was attempting to drive his Quattro in 2WD mode, a she lost a half shaft in an early stage. In 2WD Open Class, Bill Malik was out early with another driv-eline failure, leaving the door open for Robert Tallini. Doug Robinson was proving to be one of the fastest 2WD cars, run-ning just behind the 4WD cars, as a Performance Stock entry. Lon Peterson was looking amaz-ingly fast, as usual, managing to nearly hang with the 4WD cars, but in his Stock Class 2WD Arrow. At service, the major story was the cliff diving adventures of Terry Stonecipher and Christy Beavis. Setting himself up for the annual Capt. Crunch Award, Terry drove straight off a ridge road, blinded by the dust of another car. Both walked away from the crash, Terry nurs-ing an injured hand. The delay in extracting the car created a long service period. During the free service time, Rui was able to beg a half shaft from the RoadRace Engineering Team's Jackie Wagner, who had her street Quattro parked at ser-vice. This put Rui back in the November 1998 Doug and Sue Robinson, in a Mazda RX-7, managed to get their two wheel drive car through all the silt traps to take the Performance Stock win. hunt, making it a four way race the RX-7 were just behind in again for overall, albeit at the fifth, leading in the Perfor-expense of a potential third mance Stock Class, and Lon place finish for a RoadRace En-and John were just behind gineering car; mine! them, leading Stock Class. Rui's Three more stages were run climb back toward the top had in the Hungry Valley ORV Park him in seventh. Then came before dinner. After this sec-Tqny Tavares in the Celica All-tion, Ron and Kelly had ex-Trac. The first 2WD Open car panded their lead over Ara and was Fred Ronn and John Dillon Vartan, while Suzi and I hung in a Toyota Celica at ninth onto third .. Tony Chavez had overall. It was during this slipped down to fourth due to stretch that Bob Pendergrass overheating. 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Vartan Samuelian and Ara Manouian, last year's winners, piloted their Robert Tallini and Bertram Tillett put their Toyota Corolla through it's EurAsia Mitsubishi Eclipse to second place in 4WD Open through a Fred Ronn and John Dillon, here motoring through the sunflowers, paces, and even with a loose coil wire ended up winning the 2WD hot and wearying day. pushed their Toyota Celica up to second in Performance Stock class. class. Despite hot, hot weather, extremely dusty conditions and a flat tire, Lon Peterson and John Elkin forged to the front of the pack for a win in the Stock Class in their AtTow. Steve Bender and Craig McHugh hustle their bright blue VW along as Thomas Bier and Ole Holter, in a Saab 99, stay ahead of their silty they head for second place in the Stock Class. rooster tail on their way to second place in the Two WO Class. flatted and moved from just over two minutes out to 15 min-utes out. His troubles were not over, however. As the afternoon wore on, we were all starting to wear out. Our times showed us slipping down, and Suzi pronounced my run to lack the rhythm and . speed needed to turn a good time. I was hot, but our times were not. I was wishing for a cool suit like Lon's. At the dinner break, it was clear that everyone was suffer-ing from the heat and effort. Tony was still getting his head torqued every chance possible, and soldiering onward. The sickening smell of cooked oil and burnt co~lant coming from his car reminded me of my own DNF last year. Tony decided the engine was already gone, and that he would struggle on. Next, we had to tackle two runs up Leibre Gulch, which was some of the deepest,. soft-est, _sandy stuff I have ever driven. Everyone complained of dust coming in through the roof vents around corners. The dust blocked out the sun, but at least the sun wasn't shining in your eyes.• By the end of the two runs through the Gulch, Ron and Kelly had cemented a strong lead of over two minutes on Ara and Vartan. No one seemed ca-pable to reeling them in. Rui had moved into third, having put almost 1.5 minutes on us in the two 9.5 mile stages through the deep stuff. It seems as if power was extra important to get through the deep stuff, and we were nowhere near the 460 lip Rui claims. The two wheel drive cars had no chance against the 4WD cars with deep silt on the stages.-Some could not even make it out of the starting area at Leib re Gulch it was so thick! Lon found a way, moving into fifth overall ahead of Doug and Sue. Down the line the order of things remained largely un-changed. One exception was Bob Pendergrass/]. W eigley in Page 32 the Chevy Blazer, who suffered get it out, restarted, and get our It was back to the hotel for Sue Robinson also had a terrific a second flat, and had to bor-time card stamped. The drive, two beers, two burgers and five run in their RX-7, at fifth over-row one from the sweep truck the crash, the extraction, and hours of sleep. The next morn-all, less than three minutes to drive off the stage. It appears the late hour frazzled my nerves. ing Suzi got me up before dawn, back. Robert Tallini overcame Bob will be changing tire brands We finished one hundredth be-as I had a date with the photog-an early loose coil wire to take shortly. hind Vartan and Ara for the rnpher~ You can look for Pro the-Toyota Corolla into first in After a final service, where stage, and ten hundredths be-Rally friendly article in Sport 2WD Open Class, finishing the RoadRace crew fixed a gas hind Rui (six sec.). Lon Peter-Compact Car near the end of eighth overall. Stock Class's first leak under my hood (Thanks!), son was also giving it the boot, this year. place and ninth overall went to we raced up the twisty Leibre trying to· make up for his flat. At the awards ceremony, Lon Peterson and John. Elkin, Mountain road. The steep ini- He was only 13 hundredths be-cash awards were made to the despite the late night flat. rial climb was studded with tight hind me, in a Stock Class car! winners in each class and over-The organizers, Harris Done, switchbacks. The course opened Meanwhile, Ron in the Quattro all. Money was available for the Donna Mitchell, and stand-in, up into a wider, firmer packed and Doug in the Mazda RX-7 event due to larger number of Ray Hocker, did a great job of road near the top. Continuing were easing off, secure }n their entries, and the generosity of putting on this event. All the along as a transit, we did a turn victories. But Tony Chavez was American Rally Sports Group. volunteers helped with timing, around out in the woods, near out on the road, hood up, add-Ron Wood and Kelly pocketed stage controls, radio links, and Sawmill campground. We all ing water for one final time, only $250 for the superb demonstra-EMT support helped make a enjoyed being high above the now, giving up places for a fin-tion of superiority. They were great event, which continues to distant city, with the Milky Way ish. simply untouchable. Doug and grow and improve. ■ clearly in view. The scene made all the suffering earlier in the day worth it. Ara was seen sleeping in his car, while we waited for the slowest cars to-straggle in. From inside the timing van, Mike Gibeault showed us the laptop of all the times and to-tals. We had given up third place, to the Super D champ car, probably the fastest car on the West Coast. But I was will-ing to fight back. Could I hold offRui, or even put 12 seconds on him? I certainly could if he had another costly mistake, but time would tell. Only small changes in place had occurred on the Leibre M9untain stage, except for the Plymouth Arrow of Peterson and Elkin, who gave up a chunk of time changing a flat. After a final push start, we got our run at the road. It was a beauty. It was firm packed, sweepers, medium fast, rolling, without big exposures. I pitched the car sideways, making the motor pull us through , tires scrambling against inertia, to keep us on the line. Suzi later said when sh e looked up she knew we were going fast. For once she even got a bit scared., We fought for every hundredth, pushing so hard over the finish control, that I put the car up the bank and· into the bushes. It took us almost ten minutes to OFF ROAD SCRAMBLE bypc Unscramble the five words below and the resulting scrambled letters in the boxes and you will have the answer to the question or statement. Why the SCUBA diver doesn't mind swimming with electric eels. -GANRIEB □ □ ------TALEEBST □--□ □ OBKLC □ □ □ ------------ ---VIDCROER □--_ □----_-_ WRESHPEORO □□ □ His wet suit is a ____ _ November 1998 -------Dusty Times

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DUSTY PEOPLE put more miles on his pre runner Dale White than he did on his racer, he decided that maybe he ought to switch to a truck. So he bought an old race truck and Dale rebuilt it for him to By Judy Smith a a an quiet, an a ways a gentieman, Daie White doesn\ project the image of rough and tough off road racer. He has instead a thoughtful, slightly quizzical ap-proach to life. As ifhe's always look-ing for a better way to do some-thing. And that's the truth. He's spent most of his life planning his life. And he is always looking for the better way. Generally, he seems to find it. In his teen years White lived in St. George, Utah, and when they were looking for excitement and fun he and his friends used to drive to Las Vegas. Somehow they stumbled on one of the Mint 400s, and Dale was mesmerized. He said he "loved the Fremont Street deal". Then they went out to the Nellis Dunes to watch the race. He was, he said, "Caught up in that." In no time at all he decided he was going to do that himself as soon as he could. In fact, he began right then to aim his life toward a career in off road racing. Dale said, "It was all I ever wanted to do,." He and his friends came every year to watch the race, but rather than just watch and hope, White was doing some-thing about it. He made friends at the races, and he worked as a chase person on various teams, soaking up the atmosphere and experience. He knew that if he was going to work on those marvelous cars he'd need to have some special knowl-edge. His goal was to go to college so he would get the training to get a good job so he could afford to go off road racing. Once he made his decision he never wavered. He put himself through college by working as an electrii.ian. He knew that even once he was out of school and working he'd need to do the work on his race car himself, because it was "so expensive." So he tailored his education in that direction. He Dusty Times ...._ ma e sure e earne ow to use all the toois he'd need in the future. And when he ~as graduated from college he was equipped to take on a job as Engineering Coordinator forEG&G. Now he entered a new phase of planning. He saved a little bit from every paycheck to buy the tools he was going to need. He didn't rush out and buy a car -he knew he'd need the tools first. And in the meantime he was dating his future wife, Carrie, who knew before they got far into the relationship exactly what Dale's plans were. She sup-ported him in his goals, and when Dale was 22, in 1981, they were married. He continued to work, to save his money, and to buy tools. He did finally graduate from be-ing a cfiase crew person to being a co-rider with Don Adams in his very fast Jeep. He picked up valu-able experience and invaluable driving lessons from Adams, who admired White's dedication to his life plan: · It took more than ten years. He had finally gathered together all the tools he needed, and then he started in on his race car. It was a Blazer, and it took a full year to build it. Dale says it was "pretty nice." By that he means that all the bits and pieces were fitted together right, everything was clean, pol-ished, plated or painted as ·neces-sary, and nothing was second rate. Except that by the time the truck was shining in his garage he'd run out of money for a motor. So he bought a junk yard '76 Camaro motor and plunked it in. His first race in his own race car was the '89 Parker. He said "we just tried to stay out of the way." He was running in what was then Class 3, and the truck finished in third place. After that first race he never missed a race. But in the early days he di_dn't have the time or money the rules in effect at the time. Col-lins liked his new found success: he to pre run. He was doing all the got his first finish at a Baja 500, and work on his truck by himself, in his a win at Laughlin. Dale also put garage. He ran both SCORE and together Brian's SODA deal, which HORA and never missed a race to included a Class 13 Chevy with date. This year (1998) for the very which Brian won the season points. first time there was one event in He also built a short course which he wasn't the driver of Protruck for the short lived stadium record. Protruck series. Collins won the His second race was a Mint 400, inaugural event at Las_ Vegas, but and he was still using the junk yard then the weather short circuited motor. He just "drove around", try- that series. The motor for that truck ing to learn the topes and stay out was the first one Dale had ever built of trouble. He finished in the top for someone else. By now he had three again. He said he was just try- an employee: Barry Singleton, hired irig to get "seat time" and he knew in '96. In the beginning his job was he couldn't afford repairs ifhe dam- to prep Dale's truck while Dale aged the truck. built Brian's. Now Singleton as-Then he rebuilt the motor and sembles the motors. went to San Felipe. His friend Don While he was involved in all this Adams was there, and he was in- activity, still working out of his ga-troducing White to people and tell- rage and backyard. Dale was always ing them to "watch this young fel-talking to sponsors. Some sponsors low - he's a comer." He won that told him that they really liked Trans race, beating Curt LeDuc by 12 sec-Am racing. They said it was easier onds. It's an event that still looms to get the money to go racing Trans large in his memory. He went on to Am. One sponsor told him he run that Blazer for years, but he should go get a pavement car -so kept modifying it and it "got more he did. He then sent Dale to two and more high-tech." or three different driving schools. In late 1994 he took a major step He took a session at the SCCA and decided to quit his job and go school, and went to the Russell racing full time. He was not work- school a few times. He began to go ing on other people's race cars·, but - club racing at SCCA events. Dur-his wife was working and they felt ing this time he was still doing all they could manage on her wages: the work on all the cars at his house. He said "luckily, my house pay- He found he was pretty good at this• ments weren't oppressive." By then pavement racing, and won the Na-he had a sponsor for the '95 sea- tionals at PIR, as well as winning at son. He worked full time on his race Laguna Seca and Sears Point. But car. He had no employees, and by then he was really struggling, and spent all his time alone in his ga- he wanted to take his pavement rage - all day, every day. He said racing to as high a level of profes-"everything we did was to try to sue- sionalism as he had his off road rac-ceed in off road racing." And sue- ing. ceed he did. In November of that So he decided to buy a new car year he won the Baja 1000, which and hire a driver. Sponsors are more finished in La Paz, overall. He's willing he says, to step up and pay made money in the sport from that if it's an owner with a hired driver time on. than if it's an owner driving his own He also spent a lot of time talk- car. (Incidentally, while at college ing to potential sponsors. He wrote Dale had the foresight to take somr. all his own proposals. Dale said it classes in sales and marketing, was often easier to get people to pay which now were highly useful to _ for needed items than to just ante him.) . up cash. Thus he had sponsors pay-He took another big step at the ing for radios, rooms, entry fees and beginning of 1998, when he told so forth. Chevrolet that he appreciated all By this time Chevrolet was pay- their support in the past, but now ing attention, and had given him a wanted to build his own engines. full blown race motor. He was de- They again demonstrated their ap-lighted and impressed that the then prec:Tation of his professionalism, head of _General Motors race shop and he now has Chevy factory en-. engine development was sent out dorsement for his Off Road and to his garage to help him install the T ransAm White Lightning motors. motor and set it up. They later told White is still looking for a ma-him that he had impressed them by jor sponsor for his Trans Am team, winning races as a privateer and but it can't be long in coming. His doing it professionally, so they de- driver, Stu Hayner, has demon-· cided to take a chance. Dale says strated that the car is a good one · this his plan was to always do ev- and the team is top notch, by win-erything he said he'd do, and to be ning a couple of races in the team's at every race. "You don't make ex- first season. cuses, you just do it!", is the way he When discussing the differences expressed his philosophy. An ex- in the several kinds of racing he's ample of his plan at work was the involved in now, Dale says that he's time he totally destroyed his truck learned a lot while driving off road at a San Felipe race, yet was back that has helped him in his pave-racing at the next event. ment racing. For one thing, the Two years ago, after seeing him events that are considered "endur-at the races for years, Brian Collins, ance" races in sporty car circles are who had a Chevrolet powered mere sprints for Dale, and he knows buggy at the time, asked Dale about how to relax and reduce fatigue. building him a pre runner. Dale Also, since an off road driver is al-decided to do it, and he also built ways on the edge, always "saving" one for a sponsor at the same time. the car, he's able to drive the pave-He and Brian then went to San Fe-ment with no panic. He stays calm lipe to pre run, and they did six laps and in control when the car starts with the truck Dale had built for to misbehave, and makes the nec-Collins. But in the race Collins essary corrections with minimal broke early. When he realized he'd expenditure of effort. November 1998 On the verge of being one of Off Road's immortals himself, Dale compiled a big collection of articles and magazines featuring off road racing when he first became enam-ored of the sport. ·He also made video tapes early on, and still has them all. He remembers the first time he went to the Baja 1000: he says, "I couldn't breathe! There were all the big guys .. :Walker, Rodney, Ragland ... and more - they were my heroes." Big things are in store for White Lightning these days. Dale has moved out of his backyard and into . headquarters at the Las Vegas Mo-tor Speedway Industrial Park. The new building consists of 20,000 square feet and will include the team race shop, a showroom and gift store, an engine and power train development and building facility, and project bays for clients. There is already a troop of trucks in resi-dence. There are two trucks for Collins, Dale's own truck, Ragland's Trophy Truck and Steve Miller's Protruck which. they now prep. He has now established a pit team, with all the necessary equip-ment, chase people and transport-ers. He says he'd like to take on a couple more racers and explains that it works out to be cheaper for a racer to become a part of his White Lightning team, which is al-ready so well equipped, than to try to field all the equipment and people on his own. Nowadays he takes 80 to 100 people to a race as complex as the Baja 1000, and as many as 60 to a lap race like the Primm 300. Most of them are well trained volunteers. He's a1so been building his off road staff, and now has five employees. They are hard at work putting to-gether a Trophy Truck for Dale and Brian to drive in the 1999 SCORE Laughiin Desert series. When asked if his pavement rac-ing was going to cause him to spend less time at the off road end of the spectrum, Dale said, "We're totally committed to off road. The Trans Am and Endurance Road Racing is more of a business now:" He plans to race the 24 hour event at Daytona in January.and may even go to Le Mans for that historic race. He did try some "roundy-round stuff', but found it boring - says he wants left and right turns and lots of shifting. There are even plans to go rally racing with Larry Ragland, perhaps driving the Atlas Rally, and maybe the Dakar event, and some European rallies. He's thinking an S10 truck would be the way to go. -But the White Lightning team will always be out there racing in the desert also. Dale says that things have be-come easier. He says he now gets home at ·six in the evening, and in-stead of thrashing all night in the garage he has time for his family; wife Carrie, daughter Nicole, aged 5 and son Corey, aged 11. His new regime allows him to take some weekends off, and he can even plan a vacation. · It took him a lot of years, but they were productive years, full of study and learning at the same time that he was building his sta1<e in his community, and raising his young family. There was no wasted effort or lost time. Dale White is a re-markable person who shows the world exactly what careful planning and attention to detail, combined . with a philosophy that allows noth-ing but the best performance, can do for a career. ■ Page 33

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ROUND 2 AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP Bayes Takes the Win, While Simpson Gets Excluded Text & Photos: Darryl Smith Nsville Boyes led most of the way to the overall win, taking his third victory at the very tough Kempsey 500 in July. The second round of the Aus-tralian Off Road Championship moved to the town of Kempsey, NSW, for what .is traditionally a very tough event with numerous surprises. This year was no excep-tion., The biggest talking point was the exclusion. of Dion Simpson while comfortably leading the race. Neville Boyes grabbed the oppor-tunity and went on to win over a hard charging Terry Rose, with relative newcomer, Dale Chadburn taking third. · Prologue 104 cars lined up in the heavy rain to· try and get a good starting position. When it was all done, it was the very small but potent buggy of John Towers handling the slip-pery conditions best. He also led Class 1. The New Zealand young-ster; Daynom Templeman was next and led Class 9 in another small but well suited car. Andrew Ziems led the 1600s in Class 2, while Darren Perrin led the 1200s in Class 3. Other class leaders were. Kev Hufschmid (Class 4) , Phil Cordell (5), Glenn Spizzo (6), Geoff Pick-ering (7), and Fabio Zarfati leading Class 8 and in eighth overall. One of the highlights was the actions of Ben Nemes who locked up in the mud and went over the big drop off backwards! Kings of Kempsey The traditional Saturday after-noon shootout for the top ten was held in appalling conditions. Templeman had the little 1480cc buggy flying across the mud and moved up to be the pole man. Dion Simpson improved and would· now start second ahead of Towe rs and Neville Boyes. The remaining top ten would read: Rose, Zarfati, Zi-ems, Andy Brown, Nev Taylor, and Matt Owen. Class 1 Boyes took off from the start with Towers in close pursuit, after the opening lap they came by with only three seconds between them. Brown was moving up too. Another New Zealander in the race, Paul Hackett was out with shocker prob-lems. Boyes continue~ to lead albeit Page 34 in third overall, he now had Rose and Brown close behind. Towers was under pressure from Brad Zacka:The pair dueling until Tow-ers went out with gearbox woes, and Zacka a turbo. Andy Brown soon dropped out also with a bug in the system stopping the motor every minute. Boyes continued to lead, Rose remained in second and Bob Mowbray had moved to third. Nev Taylor had overcome some electrical problems to be storming through the pack. Boyes had moved into the lead overall and held that position to the end, this was the third Kempsey victory for Neville Boyes. Rose came in second some one and a half minutes back and was second overall too. Mowbray took a fine third in class and fourth ··overall. Other place-getters were Rod Brand (who broke the steer-ing wheel); and Laurie Svenson. In what would have to be a first, ALL the top five Class I drivers were navigated by their wives. Class 2 After the opening lap it was An-drew Ziems that led over Bruce Chapman and Ken Collier. Matt Owen had dramas when the moto·r In the VW Baja class the attrition was horrendous, and Greg Campbell, driving with a broken shock mount, managed to get the win even though he was a lap short of a finish. Robert Price sails his good looking Challenger past a group of umbrellered spectators, as he moved up to take the victory, finishing all nine taps. November 1998 Werner Zettl lands his Bullet Chassis hard on one comer, but it stayed together and went on to win Class 2 and take sixth overall in the muddy race. In the 1200cc buggy class, Maurice Wood had to deal with a broken caliper, an still managed to move up through traffic for the win. died and took some time to fire up. third in class until slamming the pit · In the next lap Chapman was out entry bridge sup~rt post and bent with broken steering, also G!"aeme the front end. He was one of many Julius had a suspected blown head to retire that way. Zertl kept up his gasket. Collier moved up into the quick pace and went on to win the class lead. W emer Zettl was climb- class and place eighth overall. Some ing up too. Towards the end Ziems 30 minutes back came Collier who was out with a broken rear adjuster. had a 20 minute gap to Norm Jarvis Collier too headed for the pits to who clawed his way up after start-weld up a front end. Zettl was still ing way back 16th in class. Fourth on the pace and led the class, and in class was Ron Keihne who came after five laps was fourth overall. in ahead of Tony Parker who Stewart Latter was comfortable in s)ipped back after losing his power Scott Hart and his Falcon EB XR6 took the win in the 2WD Tin Top group as.his competitors succumbed to a succession of mechanical problems. In Class 7, limited 4X4s, Chris Browning, a local racer, put his Mitsubishi through its paces and came out the class winner, and a fine eighth overall. Dusty Times

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Hard charging Terry Rose flies his mud covered two-seater towards Bob Mowbray, with his wife riding shotgun and doing the navigating, The Kempsey event was a typir;al one, with only 29% of the field finishing. Here Gordon Scott skims the surface on the way to second in Class 9. second place overall, only a minute and a half back of the winner. moved up to finish third in his Simco Bug. steering. Then Hufschmid had his rear sus- (dropped valve). Wilson was lucky Class 3. pension collapse and he was out. It to start after a big dump off the drop One of the biggest fields ever of was all too much for the ailing off on the Saturday. Benefiting from 1200cc buggies with 14 on hand to Campbell who pulled up one lap the attrition was Robert Price who do battle. One of the fancied run- short of the finish but still took first went on to win, completing all nine ners was Scott McNeill who went in class. laps to be 18th overall. Trotter out on the opening lap after hitting Class 5 could only manage seven laps. the same tree that took out over a A healthy field of 12 in the 2wd Class 7 dozen cars. Glenn Hancey was the Tin Top group. It would be a close The big surprise in Class 7 for lim-e a rl y leader over Stephen battle that would last for many laps ited 4x4s came in 1997 when local Bromfield. However, both Hancey as Phill Cordell led in his Commo- Chris Browning became only the sec-and Shane Filip were to clout the dore Ute with Geoff Teagle on his ond driver to beat Les Siviour's Pa-bridge support. Maurice Wood was tail in the Falcon Longreach Ute. trol. 1998 would be a tougher assign-carving through the field until he Graham Lees had the Porsche in ment as Geoff Pickering had his radi-lost 20 minutes with a broken front third. By the fifth lap Cordell's mo- cal Pajero Evolution really flying. But caliper. Around the half way point tor went off song and Teagle took the Browning's Mitsubishi U te put the it was Darren Perrin leading over lead, but had Scott Hart in the Fa!-pressure on immediately and led af-Bromfield. With three laps to go con EB XR6 behind him. Teagle was ter the opening lap over Siviour, Pick-through, the big mover was Wood tosoonstopwithadamagedidlerarm ering, and Craig Mc William. Sadly who was up to second. With but set about fitting another bor-Pickering was out with broken Bromfield gone it was Wood rowed from a spectator's car! With shocks. Also the other Siviour Nis-through to take the class win. De- Hart in front and Stephen Blair in san driven by daughter, Bobbie-Lee, spite his problems he had come second in the Chrysler Centura. clipped a tree, but then broke a fuel back to be 15th overall. Perrin took Teagle rejoined the fray. With Hart· filler. Steve Williams was giving the second after link pin woes, Kaleb comfortably across the finish line Gut Muldoon Landcruiser a real work Schmidt was third over Ted Potter Teagle had moved into second but out to the point the gear box mounts and then Grant Walker. unfortunately was denied the chance broke. Siviour regained the lead but Class 4 to complete his last lap due to expired then stopped with a fuel blockage. Sadly only three entries in the time (and a flat tire). Browning literally went past and VW Baja Cla.ss. Nevertheiess it was Class 6 · drove his heart out to set something a close battle with Greg Campbell Only five cars in the Challenger of a record to beat Les Siviour two going away to lead with Hufschmid buggy group, and the opening years in a row. Browning's drive was in second before Michael Taylor leader was Glenn Spizzo, over Tim more sensational when realized he overtook him. Taylor would go out Trotter. It wasn't until the third lap placed eighth overall on the rough-eventually with fuel problems. that Spizzo went out (Steering), est track in Australia. Siviour came Hufschmid closed on Campbell along with Brian Duck (broke front home second some ten minutes in ar-who had broken a shock mount. arm), and Brendan Wilson rears.McWilliamcalleditquitsafter seven laps with the shocks and springs all broken and missing, relying purely on the tire sidewall for suspension!! Class 8 All eyes were on fue modified 4x4s to revel in the wet and slippery con-ditions. But while Fabio Zarfati took the lead and moved up to third over-all, Grahame Baxter wasn't so lucky slamming a tree and putting the Nis-san Ute out. Ken Smith had fixed the transmission breakage of Saturday and was on a mission up the field. Peter Hadlow, likewise had replaced a motor overnight but was suffering a misfire. Jeremy Robards retired the Pathfinder with a holed radiator. Zarfati was hindered by lack of drive in the front. And in fact, with two Fabi Zafarti pushed his Mitsubishi hard in Class 8 to take the win and a great 5th laps to go Smith was in front by ten overall in spite of losing his front drive and power steering. seconds. Zarfati was having none of that and drove like a demon even with losing power steering along the way. Smith too had problems with the front tailshaft. Zarfati took the win in class as well as fifth outright. Smith came in still getting respect for a fine drive to seventh overall in the turbo Rodeo. Class 9 It all shaped up to be the duel of the event. First round winner, Dion Simpson in the high tech Toyota quad cam buggy, up against the Kiwi, Templeman in the tiny and basic looking buggy. After two laps it was Simpson leading overall with Templeman only two seconds back! Sadly the Kiwi dropped back with no brakes and then gearbox problems Dark horse Dale Chadburn survived the tough course and miserable weather to put him out for gooJ, but not before take the Class 9 win and third overall opening quite a few eyes, especially Dusty Times November 1998 Simpson's. Doug McMillan was out with a transmission breakage, while Hayden Tatnell from Tasmania would break the rear suspension. Simpson would pit for fuel when di-saster struck as in the confusion the refueling began before the motor was turned off, which resulted in an im-mediate exclusion. Dale Chadburn who was a real dark horse took over the class lead ahead of another New Zealander, Alan Butler. Paul Allport got up to third in class before break-ing a c.v. Chadburn not only came in to take the class win but" surprised a few with a podium finish third over-all. Gordon Scott had passed Butler (flat tire) and took second in class, with Butler next and Mark Bush corning home fourth. . 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The Ark Valley Rallye Text & Photos: Robert Hamblin Paul Flores kicks up some dirt on his way to the all-wheel drive win in his Mitsubishi Eclipse. With interest in rally type events on the rise in 1998 it is no surprise that areas of the country that have not staged a rally event in years are returning to them. Such is the case with the Ark Valley Rallye presented by Rally Distributing and SKM Graphics & Signs. With no rallies in the Midwest, Rally Distributing with Dusty Times sanctioning by the SCCA held two free events to try and spark rally interest. Both were held Sep-tember 19 at Hallett Motor-Rac-ing Circuit in Hallett, Oklahoma. Minimal turnouts for both the RallySprint and RallyCross did not dampen participant's or promoter's enthusiasm and both agreed that more events like these are needed· in the future. The first trick in getting to Hallett Motor Racing Circuit is finding it. Located 33 miles west of Tulsa on Highway 51, the di-rections I was following, taken from the Internet the night be-fore, explained to exit at the toll gate where Highway 99 intersects. When your directions say exit at AVAILABLE SIZES & RATES: - 1.875" I.D. I 50 to 600 1b. - 2.000" I.D. / 250 to 2200 lb. - 2.250" I.D. / 150 to 4200 lb. - 2.500" I.D. / 85 to .1000 lb. - 3.000" I.D. I 200 to 600 lb. - NASCAR Conventionals. · - Special Applications. November 1998 Jeff Vogel's Neon looked racy while parked, and took the front wheel drive win once moving. the toll gate they do not mean just after the toll gate but rather di-rectly at the toll gate. Okay so I got to see more of Oklahoma than I had expected and once I turned back did not make the same mis-take twice. The RallyCross started at 3 p.m. while the SCCA competition licensing school was still in ses-sion on the_ Hallett road racing course. This made for some inter-esting sights as people took to the RallyCross track kicking up dust and right behind them exotic open and closed wheel road rac-ing machines ripped by on the paved road course. Since the event was free it ran a bit infor-mally and new competj.tors were · allowed to join even after the event started. The vehicles were split into three classes front wheel drive, rear wheel drive, and all wheel drive. This was a bit of a change for most of the competi-tors who, before today, had only run SCCA Solo events on the pavement. Like Solo events, a RallyCross is run one vehicle at a time against the clock through a pylon marked course on a dirt sur-face. Time is deducted for every pylon hit or deviations off course. At the Ark Valley Rallye com-petitors made four attempts at the course in their first heat. For the second heat the course layout was changed and all competitors took another four runs. It was the best run from each heat, totaled to-gether that determined the win-ners. Shinya Narita from Lubbock, TX was making everyone envious with his rear wheel drive Toyota Corolla GTS until Carroll Ander-son of Wichita, KS with his Mazda Miata showed up to chal-Continued on page 38 Page 37

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Adam Burney brings the Dodge rally truck to a stop right at the line, Danny Thomas brought his wife's Pontiac out for a day of fun, and David Small's Alfa Romeo succumbed to electrical woes, could finish for second place. took sixth place. only one attempt at the course . ..==;.:=,=;==.;;c==.:===================, Chris Fletcher put his Honda CRX into fourth place in the front-whee/-drive class. Bi!! Jones brought his daily-driver, a VW GT/, out to run in the front One of the victims, Jose Rossy has a tire change to do after competing wheel drive class, had lots of fun. in his VW GT/. lenge. Be beat out Shinya's stock Toyota with a 109.199 to 188.305. David Sm~ll from Missouri took a go at the track but his Alfa Romeo's electrical system let him down and he could not make it for the second heat. David admit-ted that this was only the third time since 1990 the car has been driven, unworried that he was the RallyCross' only casualty. The front wheel drive cars were represented with a wide va-riety of vehicles. Jeff Vogel from nearby Tulsa bested them with a time of 102.111, fastest overall time as well. Close on time behind Jeff's Plymouth Neon was the VW GTI of]ose Rossy. John Joyce was just barely beaten out of second driving his Plymouth Neon, fin-ishmg third with a time of rounded out the front wheel drive 103.970. Chris Fletcher had the class because he was having a only Honda CRX in the event and blast driving his VW GTI. He was put it in a very solid fourth place having so much fun at one point with a time of 107.254. Making the timers nearly decided to his way alf the way from Houston, charge him a second entry fee for TX was John Schellenber who the free event. ended up with a time of 110.895 The all wheel drives were re-and fifth place driving a Nissan ally setting out to do battle when Sentra SE-R. Sixth and seventh all eyes landed upon a new ar-had a battle going with Danny rival. A sleek, electric blue Su-Thomas coming out on top. baru lmpreza 2.5 RS rolled into Danny's 113.444 landed him in the staging area reminding every-sixth, beating Bill Jones 114.016. one of Subaru's impressive Pro Danny, a past Formula Vee com- Rally history. Even in stock form petitor, was driving his wife's Pon-the Subaru lmpreza appeared tiac Sunfire and might have had ready to take on the. Rim of the some explaining to do as to why World event. Then the secret it was so dusty when he returned weapon appeared. From behind home to Chanute, KS. It didn't the steering• wheel stepped matter much to Bill Jones that he Michelle Bonton in a skin tight, ----------------------------black mini-dress. Everyone's con-BUMP STOPS HERE Stop the up-travel on your suspension with this advanced bump stop system. These bump stops come complete with a mounting system. polyurethane end piece and enough valving to get the job done. ECONOMICALLY PRICED AT 319.90 PER PAIR. (Includes mounting hardware & grade 8 bolts) See your off road racing parts supplier or call us direct Yarnell Specialties, Inc. 1-520-427-3551 Page 38 102 Crestvie~ P.O. Box 845 Yarnell, AZ 85362-0845 centration was blown except for Paul Flores who decided ladies first didn't apply to racing and topped the class with a 103 .51 7 in his. Mitsubishi Eclipse. Michelle had a handle on the rest and placed second with a 112.136. Oscar Galindo ran his Mitsubishi Eclipse into third with a best total time of 116.48 7. Sergio Ve lee from Wichita, KS tried hard but could not get his Eagle Talon to put him any better than fourth with a time of 120.296. Michael Halley had been the person putting the entire event together and was very disap-pointed when he found himself as the only RallySprint competi-tor. He and friends worked for several days to put together the 2. 7 mile course running around the outer edge of the Hallett road course. Similar to a Pro Rally, a RallySprint is a timed run over a predetermined dirt course. This course whipped back and forth in the trees behind Hallett, along side the road course, and through gullies even Robby Gordon would have slowed down for in his mega travel Trophy Truck. Three weeks earlier Mike's '86 Dodge D-50 rally truck had been tearing up the streets in and around Tulsa in completely stock form and 85,000 miles showing on the odometer. By the start of November 1998 John Schellenber's Nissan Sentra nearly slides off course on the way to fifth place in the front wheel drive group. the RallySprint it sported all the necessary race safety equipment including full roll cage and four Cibie lights on the custom front bumper. The odometer still showed just over 85,000 miles and that was exactly how many miles the motor had on it. The suspension was utterly stock other than front springs and some rather innovative wheel stud work by Mike to fit Renault wheels and Michelin rally racing tires. Danny's Auto & Tire threw their name on the side as spon-sor and away they went. Only one vehicle entered but three different drivers took their turns behind the wheel. Mad Mike Halley came out on top with an overall time of 25:52:75. Not far behind in second was Adam Burney finishing with an overall time of 27:59: 13. Com-fortably filling out the third over-all spot was Fayetteville, Arkan-sas resident Michael Brown with an exacting time of 33:34:00. The trio were having fun well into the night and possibly would have made a few more passes but the truck decided it needed some sleep and slipped its timing belt on a solo run with just Michael Brown in the truck. The car count might not have been as big as expected bu.t judg-ing by the fun everyone had, it is safe to say rallying has returned to the Midwest. ■ coming Next Month ... □ Best in the Desert Vegas to Reno 0 CORP Carrera de La Raza □ &tero Beach Short Course ... and Much, Much More! Dusty Times

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The promoters did things with a flair for the second China Rally. Here Nobuhiro Tajima and Glenn MacNee/1 wait for their start time in their Toshia Fujimoto and Tony Sircombe had trouble setting the suspension Yoshihiro Kataoka and Satoshi Hayashi who finished fourth in their Suzuki. Fuel problems put them out. . of their Toyota Celica GT-4, but still took third. Mitsubishi Lancer, did it in spite of several flat tires. 2ND 555 CHINA RALLY 1998 McRae ·scores In China By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Colin McRae and Nicky Grist, in a Subaru lmpreza, struggled with power steering and overheating problems, but still got the overall win. -After a surprisingly troubled Yoshio Fujimoto on what he when one or the other of the three day event, Colin McRae hoped would be his final event in Imprezas had trouble. and Piero Liatti brought their a Celica before he moves on to the The first driver in trouble was Subarus home in first and second Corolla for New Zealand onwards. Kataoka; he drove 6 km of stage places. It was Colin's second sue-The other competitive driver was 1 on a flat tire, losing almost a c·essive win on this event, but APC leader Yoshihiro Kataoka minute. On stage 2 McRae lost his three times Liatti took the lead, with a Group A Evo III. Of the power steering and then stalled, only then to lose it. 34 cars which started, no fewer giving Liatti the lead. At the end The entries were similar to last than ten were Group N Peugeot of stage 3 Kataoka had passed year, led by Colin McRae and 104 Rallyes. Fujimoto and was up to "third. Piero Liatti with Impreza World The Subarus were old and un- Kataoka had another flat on stage Rally cars. Main ~hallengers were reliable, the lead being swapped 3, and on stage 4 Liatti had power steering trouble, letting McRae get back in front again. Nobuhiro Tajima began suffering fuel star-vation troubles, which plagued him continuously and finally put him out. It turned out to be dirt in the tank, but in any case, FIA rules forbid changing a fuel tank. McRae was unhappy with the handling of his car and dropped 12 seconds to Liatti on stage 6, putting him down to second again. Then McRae's troubles multiplied, when he lost his power steering again, finished stage 7 and all of stage 8 in that condi-tion. But Liatti had spun on stage 8, losing a half minute, so at the end of the day, McRae was 9.9 seconds in front of his teammate. Kataoka was three minutes be-hind, and Fujimoto another two minutes back. There were still 24 cars left in the event. The first day had been hot, dry and dusty, and the second started warm. McRae was in trouble, when his replacement steering Colin McRae and Piero Liatti, Subaru teammates, swapped the lead position several didn't solve his problems, and he times. Liatti finished second overall. left the first service ten minutes Dusty Times November 1998 Eighth overall and first Formula 2, Zhi Guo Ren and Jia Li, Peugeot 106 Ra/lye, discuss tactics with their teammates. late. When he got to· stage 10 he had a new problem; overheating. This sent the engine management sys.tern into safety mode and slowed him further. Fujimoto had been progressively softening the suspension on his car, but Kataoka was uncatchable in third place. As the afternoon ap-proached the storms came in. Kataoka developed fuel pump trouble, and Tajima was still . struggling with his fuel problems. At one point he had to stop and wait 15 minutes for the fuel to start flowing again. McRae's over-heating got worse in the after-noon, up to 130 degrees, but on stage 15 the weather broke, and ·the cooler conditions helped McRae. When Liatti lost his right rear driveshaft McRae caught up, and in the wet final stage he went into the front again. On day 3 the weather was cool and overcast all day. Kataoka slid off the road on the first stage and lost seven minutes, but held fourth place. Fujimoto never got his handling right, but finished third, behind Liatti in second and Mc&!~ i~i~;tpl~~e-. · · · -· ■ Valley Performance Custom Accessories Competitive Prices Now Available Barbary Coast .. Crass 2 Two Seater $45,000 _ 702-873-1962 3636 Mead Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89102 702-247-1266 702-873-1962 Page 39

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FUDPUCKER RACING AT IMPERIAL FAIRGROUNDS < Short course Fun Under. The Lights By Judy Smith Photos: C&C Race Photos Todd Stemmsman fought a good fight in his heavy Baja bug, and took home the Desert Class victory. The FRT decided to try some-thing different this year, and headed for the Imperial Valley and the Midwinter Fairgrounds in Im-perial. The Fairgrounds has hosted roundy-round events for Modifieds and the iike, but the FRT con-structed a moto-cross course, with an off road car course wandering across and through it. It was the first time we'd seen dual purpose bi-directional table top jumps. They told us that the car course measured about 3/8ths of a mile. It was wide enough for passing in some spots, and a bit tight in oth-ers. The course included a variety of jumps, some moguls, a sweeper turn and, of course, left and right turns. Big, really big, hay bales helped delineate the course and when a car center punched one of those babies it didn't move. The car came to a sudden stop. (We remember hay bales exploding into shreds at the old Riverside event, but these bales were about five feet by five feet by five feet, and the cars didn't have much effect on them.) The late afternoon was spent in practice, and then the racing started at 6 p.m. The motorcycles got their chance to play first, as usual, so by the time the .cars got out on the track it was dark. The normal track lighting, which was ample for the regular dirt track, faced the wrong way in some ar-eas, so generator powered light stands were set up to illuminate the corners. It did, however, get a little dim in between those lights, and some teams had the foresight to put off road lights on their ve-hicles. Even on~ of the Quads was lighted. While there was a big crowd of bikes competing, the cars mostly didn't attend. It was their loss. The ones that did show up had a lot of fun. Unfortunately, the timing wasn't great, sandwiched in be-tween the Primm 300 and the SNORE 250, with the Vegas to Reno race right after that. If any-one had plans for .any of those they'd probably forego the short course evening. The FRT is hop-ing to include a couple of these events on the 1999 schedule, but the Fairgrounds folk want them to happen while the Mid-Winter Fair is in progress. That means late Feb-ruary or early March probably, and the FRT will try to avoid any scheduling conflicts. · In their first heat the Superlites lost one member right at the green flag when Jeff Pearl lost a clutch bolt. The rest of them powered through the first turn in a big clump, but Bryan Hoogeveen nearly ended his race, and surely did his neck no good, when he ran into the big hay pale on the out-side of the tum. His little Trip le E car came to a very sudden stop, but he's apparently made of stem stuff, and got moving again fairly quickly. Matt Scaroni had led off the line in his Trip le E, but by the sec-ond lap Rick Hoogeveen, in a Briggsbuilt, had moved up to the front with Scaroni in second. Bryan H. sat in third place. By the third lap Scaroni was back in the lead and Hoogeveen was worrying at his rear cage, trying to find a way to get around him. It wasn't to be. Teenager, Jordan Saasta ran fourth, doing what he could with his under-horse powered Triple E to stay with the bigger motors, and David Scaroni ran last, close be-hind him. Bryan Hoogeveen's car is reported to have the biggest motor, a whopping 600ccs, while Saasta's was equipped with only 340ccs. The rest were said to be 400cc power plants. They held their positions, but .it was never dull, as Hoogeveen re-ally thought he should be able to get around M. Scaroni, and kept poking and prodding at his rear cage. B. 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Class Pro Lites John Greaves (Toyota Taroma) ., Class 1-1000 Mike Seefeldt (vW Type I) Class 2-1000 Mike Seefeldt (vW Type I) PBRJ'ORtVAIPP RA< IN<, EN<,INE\, TRAN\MI\\IONS ANI) OFFRO.\I> r.\RTS Send or call for our new catalog S5.00 , - - -- - - - --· Page 40 We use & recommend 1111 __ v,11 [TA~CK) 1558 No. Case •Orange, CA 92867 ~_,""'·· (714) 637-2889 • Fax (714) 637-7352 November 1998 Marty Coyne relished the chance to race his stadium 1600 again, and easily won the Super 1600 class. a bit, his rear suspension looking stiff and unmanageable, and then dropped out when he lost a bear-ing on his chain shaft on about the seventh lap. Matt Scaroni took the win, with Rick Hoogeveen in second place. Incidentally, the Hoogeveens are brothers, as are the Scaronis. In the second heat the two bro-ken cars did not come back, but the lead pair, M. Scaroni and R. Hoogeveen, worked just as hard and put on a great show. Behind them David Scaroni and Jordan Saasta had their own battle. Matt had to work hard to protect his line, and Rick never lost enthusi-asm for trying to get past him, and it paid off on the last lap, when he sneaked by just in time to take the win. Meanwhile, Saasta pushed his car hard, trying to catch the other Scaroni, and seemed to be testing his suspension, and prob-ably his backbone,' to the limit. It was good racing, and lots of fun to watch. When the points for the two heats were counted the winner for the evening was Rick Hoogeveen, and Matt Scaroni ended up in sec-ond place. · In the big cars there were actu-ally three classes, but a couple of them were very thin. Marty Coyne had his stadium Super 1600 car there, and he was competing with a very big two seat Class 10 car, an Aceco that looked like a four seater, driven by Jimmy Nuckles, in what was called the Super 16 class; while Rodd Fantelli's Datsun made up the Truck class all by it-self. The other four vehicles, two 1600s, a Class 5 car and a left over Mickey Thompson Stadium car (the kind with a "stock" body hung on the chassis), had committed themselves to the Desert class. They all ran at the same time, starting in one row, lined up across the track. That two seat Class 10 car looked a bit out of place. It had a VW beam type suspension and an 1835cc motor -more or less a SCORE Lite car. And Nuckles, who's usually in a Protruck these days probably felt a bit out of place also. In the first heat Marty .Coyne jumped to the front in his Super 1600 Chenowth, and zipped around the first sweeper turn in the lead. Hot on his bumper were Todd Stemmsman, in his Baja Bug, which boasted a 2180cc motor, and then Nuckles in the two seater. Nucl.des had just discovered that his car had no brakes, and he was also at a bit of a disadvantage, since he had missed both practice sessions. Behind Nuckles the two 1600 cars, Tom Watson and Travis Coyne, Marty's son, were having a good battle. And, after getting wide and running head on into one of those hay bales, Bob Stemke was last. His car, which he'd just bought, was the old Sta-dium car that once belonged to Tim Lewis. Stemke was racing "off road" for the first time here, and it was ql\ite a change for him because he's basically a drag racer. He had signed up to compete in the "Desert" class. Coyne really had no competi-tion, since he had a car built for that stuff, and he had some expe-rience. But that didn't mean that the others didn't try to catch him. On the third lap the crowd behind Stemmsman got into the sweeper tum all together, and Nuckles, ne-gotiating with no brakes, didn't get slowed in time, hit Watson and turned him over. Nuckles got dis-entangled and immediately left the track, horrified at what he'd done. He decided he'd better get off the track before he hurt someone. Watson was not hurt; and when the busy and slightly nervous, flag-men got him back on his wheels, he was a couple of laps down, but raring to go. He was having fun. Coyne continued to stay in front and Stemmsman charged on pretty much by himself now to win the Desert Class. Watson got into a good duel with Travis Coyne, and Travis caught up to Stemmsman and tried in vain to get around him. · While the buggies were doing their thing. Fantelli put on a good show with his lonely truck, not able to keep up with the lighter cars, but not looking like a slouch out there either. Too bad he had nobody to race with. Nuckles, meanwhile, had his car in the pits, trying to figure out why he had absolutely no brakes, when he thought he'd set them up correctly just before the race. A sharp eyed pit person finally fig-ured it out. It seems that Nuckles had ~._r the adjustment all the way for the front brakes, thinking he'd set it to give himself all rears. Then - knowing that you don't really need front brakes for a short course race, Jimmy had cut the fi:ont brake lines and plugged them off - effec-tively giving himself no stopping power at all. Probably would make sense for Nuckles to stick to driv-ing. and let someone else do the prep work. In the second heat all the cars came back, and now Nuckles did have brakes. Once again, Marty Coyne got right out in front, and Stemmsµian and his Bug chased him. Then came Nuckles, looking a lot better this time, and followed by Watson and Travis Coyne, du-eling in their 1600s. Fantelli ran next, chased by Stemke, who may Dusty Times.

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Bob Stemke bought an old Mickey Thompson Short Course UltraStock car for his first try at off road racing, and took second place in the Desert Class. With a win and a second place, Rick Hoogeveen put his Briggsbuilt Superlite into victory circle. Jim Nuckles had a bit of a problem with brakes, but made a good showing in the second heat in his unaccustomed ride. have been a drag racer, but was quickly learning about turns and traffic. He charged up on the truck, and after a couple of laps did get by it, but Fantelli, enjoy-ing the duel, got back past him again. Coyne ran around by himself, · and Travis and Watson dueled for a couple of laps, and then Watson disappeared, only to all the way around to get another show up on the next lap, now a victory, and Stemrnsman won the l_ap down. He was still working Desert class again, with Stemke hard on Travis' bumper, trying to in second place this time because get back around him, and then he'd stayed on the lead lap. When Travis disappeared, leaving the points were added up the Watson to chase down Nuckles, evening's winner in the Desert who'd been working on getting class was Stemrnsman, and sec-around the Bug. ond place went to Stemke. Coyne Ultimately, Marty Coyne got took the Super 1600 victory, and Fantelli gets good guy points for off roaders who like short course, completing all those laps and not and there are plenty of them. It'll running over the buggies. be a matter of getting a good sched-While there weren't very many ule figured out and then letting ev-cars at the faiq~rounds in Imperial, eryone know it's there._ what there were put on a great The FRT has the Superstition show, and the audience didn't 250 coming up on Halloween, leave, staying to the last race and and then the Dunaway Dash on hootin' and hollerin' all the time. New Year's Eve -both are Desert It could be a fine new venue for races. ■ Driving a desert 1600, Travis Coyne, seen here in practice, had some Basically a desert racer, Tom Watson really got into the short course There were no other trucks to race with Rodd Fantelli, but he still put hot wheel-to-wheel competition from Tom Watson. mode and had a good time at Imperial Fairgrounds. on a good show for the spectators, who were enthusiastic. , Red Eagle Racing and the Vieias Casino & Turf C·lub IE AS CASINO & IURF CLUB Proudly Presents the Buchweiser Superslition 250 XIV Salurclay Oclober 31, 1998 Location: Lake Superstition • 4 times around a 60 mite loop Round 5 of 6 of the 1998 FRT Budweiser Superstition Championship Series HAPPY HA.L.LOWEEM FA.IT FACT,-Start Position Drawing and Contingency Show. Race Ready Products· 103 Press Lane• Chula Vista Ca 91910 619-691-9171 • Saturday October 24, 1998 Doors Open: 10:00am •Fun• Food• Refreshments Practice Opens: October 24. 1998 Start Times: Bikes: 8 :00am Cars: 3:00pm Mandatory Riders/Drivers Meetings Bikes: 7:30am • Cars: 2:30pm Pit Support: Los Campeones will provide pit support for both the Bikes and the Cars approximately half way around the 60 mile loop LESAR Desert Rescue • BLM Approved Calipatria 4 H will be selling sofr drinks, Hot Dogs • Burritos Info Anytime: 619-427-5759 www.fudrace.com • E mail: fud@dirt.net Entry Fees at Start Position Drawing: Pro ATVs & Bikes: S105 · Payback:$85•Pro: Buggies Cars Trucks $230 • Payback: $100 • Sportsman ATVs· Bikes DSLs: $45 Sportsman ~uggies • Gars Trucks: $11 0 · Late fee atter October 24: $10 $$$ Bonus Purse $$$ • $2500 1st in each Pro Class wins$ Bonus Dollars$ $$$ Bonus Purse$$$ provide by Red Eagle Racing and the Viejas Casino G. Scott Aspha-lt Inc. • Wehe MotorSports Palomar Communications · Valley Vet Supply Dusty Times November 1998 Page 41

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'98 B.O.R.E. Bonneville Challenge Text & Photos: Mike Jenkins Les Seals went into the lead on lap three and finished with no clutch, taking the truck win in the BORE Bonneville Challenge. This year's edition of the trical problems, a quick fix and he fatal to the car of Mark and Dave Bonneville Challenge was held was off chasing the pack. At the Howe when a reoccurring prob-September 19th in Utah's west_ end of a tight first lap, Roger Bow- lem of broken fan belts finally desert for a grueling 200 mile ers (1636), found himself with a cooked the engine, ending their battle pitting man and car against lead of: 18 over Jim Price, in Mike race early. Scott Smith found desert. Baker's (1690), then Scott Smith himself in a familiar first place The land rush start broughtthe (1619), :24 down, Todd Bingham running real strong with Todd l/2-1600s to the line at 9:00 all (1659), :54 behind, Jake and moving up to second, the Man-seven drivers and their cars sat Sharon Maness (1677) in the two ess' third, after straightening a ready on the starting line waiting seater, 2:58 down, Mark Howe bent rim from contact with a large for the wave pf the green flag. As 3:43 back, after fixing a broken rock, Fred way up to fourth mak-. the flag dropped six cars bolted fan belt, and Fred Nutsch running ing up great time, Jim fighting ig-through the dirt. The 1631 of hard 5:09 behind, but closing the nition problems down to fifth, af-Fred Nutsch sat lifeless with elec- gap. The second lap would prove ter a short stop to fix a flat tire . ·Quench , , f :::-;. .... ,,., " ?\ ultimale solution for . ous off-road or weekend_ trail blazer: 111ply pinch the .... e between your teeth for instant refreshment. Mpunts ·easily to several locations in your car. Already in use by several top off-road champions. !JI :J.::11 · l!J!Jl:1 'i!J1h.1JJ Page 42 November 1998 ·and Bowers in sixth after repair-ing a broken front hub. Lap 3 ended with everyone in the same positions with a tad over 24 min-utes covering the class. The fourth lap found Smith leading Bingham, then the Maness', Price in fourth after passing Nu tsch now in fifth and Bowers still in sixth. On the fifth lap, Bingham got around Smith to take over the lead, and the rest of the field re-mained the s-ame but Bowers ended up parking his car with a broken c. v. joint. La·p 6 ended with a mere six seconds separat-ing Bingham from Smith, the Maness' in third, then Price run-. ning strong in fourth and Nutsch bringing up the rear. The seventh and final lap for the 1600s was exciting and controversial; Bing-ham and Smith were going to complete the race with no sched-uled stops. Going into one of the checkpoints Smith got around Bingham to regain the lead and set the fast lap for the day at 31 :45 crossing the checkers with a lead of 23 seconds. Price, who had been whittling away" at the *Custom Control Arms (Upper and Lower) *Custom Delrin Strut Frames *Dual Shock Kits Manesses, managed to overtake · them in the end and capture third. Nutsch found himself too far behind the leaders to start the last lap and finished running fifth. The race officials determined that the last lap -pass made by Smith to overtake Bingham for the lead was within the 200 yard no pass zone and penalized him one position giving the win to Bingham making it two in a row for Todd. The truck class was up next with five entries, four heavy metal and one mini truck. Mike Sims' (801) Chevy took the early lead followed closely by Les Seals (711) carrying the mini truck colors proudly in his Ford Ranger, then Bob Sims in his Jeep (348), who almost rolled, but kept the ·rub-ber side down. Andy Schifanelli followed in the (880) Ford, and Robin Doutre in his bedless Chevy (827) running fifth with brake problems. Lap 2 put the strong running Schifanelli up in the lead setting the class fast lap at 34:50 just :40 ahead of Mike Sims, then the Seals' Ranger fall-CUSTOM FABRICATION • MIG AND TIG WELDING • CtJC PLASMA CUTTING • TUBE BENDING SPHERICAL BEARINGS *ROD ENDS CRO-MO/STAINLES *MISALIGNMENT SPACERS ¾-1 ½ *UNIBAL CUPS 1"-1½" *THREDED SLEEVES ¾ -11/-i RACE SHOCKS • BILSTEIN • SWAY-A ... WAY • STANDARD • COILOVER Dusty Times

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Scott Smith ran well all day. thought he won the 1600 race, but lost Jim Price had ignition problems and a flat to slow his time, but still Jake and Sharon Maness brought their bright yellow two seater back the win on a technicality. finished third in the 1600 class. to the finish in fourth place, just seconds out of third. Fred Nutsch bounds along the desert on his way to fifth place in the 11 Roger Bowers got almost to the end of the race, but was sidelined Bob Sims had all kinds of trouble with his Jeep, including a broken 2-600 class race. with a broken c. v. steering wheel, but still finished second in the truck class. ing slightly to third, Bob Sims loose, then Dave Sims n-o.,..ld.,..,i_n_g_o_n_ ..... M.,..a_r.,..k...,R..-e_n_c.,..h_e_r-an-d"T"?'C..-a-m-,.,B.,..la-c.,..k.,..le-y--s~ti~ll-o-n- top, turning a 40:41 lap close all day and provide an ex-took almost one and a half hours to third. On lap 5 the Schifanelli in the (931) along with Scott and having to change over coils, citing finish. Hats off to these to complete the lap because of a Ford suffered a flat tire and ran Butcher (969) and Dave Morse but Rencher/Blackley and drivers. broken steering wheel and then a out of fuel causing him to miss (996) would line up and try to Butcher each turning a 40:04 The final race was the Sports-shackle but keeping the Jeep run- starting the sixth lap before the tame the desert next. The first lap (now that's close racing!). Posi-man class with four entries. Mike ning. Doutre had power steering first finisher. Seals was still in first had Morse coming out strong tak- tions during the last four laps did and Amber Baker in· Jim Price's problems that caused him to give now, with a comfortable lead and ing the lead and setting class fast not change giving the win to Baja. Ty Bowers in his buggy, Tom up the ghost earlier than he and Bob Sims in third. The race ended lap at 39:22 to show the others Morse, his second in a row, with and Herb McCully in their Baja his crew had planned. The third with the Seals' Ranger taking first, how it's done. Rancher/Blackley the Rencher/Blackley entry tak- and Kay Caldwell in his almost 1-lap put Seals in first, two minutes without a clutch and showing the were almost six· minutes behind ing second and Butcher nursing 1600. Since Mike was giving back was Schifanelli, then Dave big trucks how to win and Bob having some engine problems but home his wounded car to the fin- Amber her first ride, they stayed Sims running hard again, turning Sims ho,lding on to second for managing to stay ahead of ish line in a respectable third. The back after the green flag waved to a quick 38:50, Mike Sims parked another good race. Butcher, who was running hard Challenger class was designed to let the other dl'ivers get a good his truck after falling back from The Challenger class took to when he started to lose power and be a low cost class that showcased start, but even with that small second. The fourth lap finished the course next with only three found out he had lost a fan belt the driver's ability instead of his disadvantage the Bakers came with Seals hanging on to a two entries, down one because of that would cost him the race bank account, and this race was out of the first lap first and were minute lead over Schifanelli Mike Conners (987) trans axle early, but managed to keep it run- a prime example of how three cars beginning to lap some of the whose steering column· c~me giving out during pre running. ning. The second lap had Morse of different designs could run Continued on page 44 .. The most fun I ever had." -Ron Hornaday Jr. compe 110n ~ . ~ ·. OOE1SCH 1ECH Dusty Times No Entry Fee-$5,000 Purse-Easy· Maintenance-Low Operating cost- Close Competition ~ ~Der--li\ue·· ~ • 25 Race Schedule • The Fastest Growing Series Watch Vour Competition Rt: Cajon Speedway Havasu Speedway \ Las Vegas Motorspeedway • Highest Quality, Construction and Components Los Angeles Grand Prix Madera Speedway Mesa Marin Raceway Perris Auto Speedway Stockton 99 Speedway • Affordable· -I I I I I N.ovember 1998 Page 43

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Andy Schifanelli had the fasi lap for the class, but a loose steering Early motor problems had little effect on Mark Rencher and Cam Scott Butcher ran without a fan belt for a while, but still managed to shaft on his Ford slowed him to third place. Blackley who finished second after a close race. get a third place finish. ~;;;;;;;;;;;~===:::::;:;;:::========:::::;-Tom and Herb McCul/y (L), eventual winners, are seen here dicing Kay Caldwell had a c. v. come apart while leading on the last lap, but Seen here against a background of rugged desert, Ty Bowers and with Mike and Amber Baker, who finished third in the Sportsman class. managed to salvage second in the Sportsman class. Mike Chamberland were non-finishers with axle bearing trouble. slower cars in front of them. Ty Bakers were still in first at the McCullys up to second, passing the competitors anxious to finish. Bowers was second followed by end of two laps, setting the class Bowers, and then Caldwell mov-The fifth lap sidelined the Bakers the McCullys, and Caldwell was fast lap of 35: 13. Ty was out of in.g up to third. The third and when the Beam broke on their car last after some carburetor the race with axle bearing and fourth laps didn't find any and despite getting hit on the arm . troubles slowed him down. The ·brake woes moving the changes for position, but only left by a rock Amber said, "I enjoyed • state of the art high flow piston designed to stop valve washers from bending inwards. • wide teflon coated piston wear band for use in external bypass with bi!J tubes so that it does not drop into large ports. • sealed piston for low speed control an...._d maximum damping in external bypass. • high temperature stainless steel alloy vatving. • unique rod end design and material to'stop shafts and rod ands from breaking. • high temperature Viton seals and.,.o-rings( _ • large aluminum reservoir for increased hea( dissipation {2X) and weight savings. • 1" shafts are micro-polished t,~,a mjrror sGrtace finish cf a 3-5 RMS. • stainless steel teflon lined spherical briring; with 1/2" or 5/8" ID spacers. • shock are all owner rebu,JJ '°61e1"ith no special toois to purchase. • electric blue anodize(! co r. / / ~ ) _;Jt·tP#'ra. . . a~ • Lar, /4 ' tu es ttf jgh flow (weld on kits a,kilable separate). Tub 1ocations cal¥e placed to order or weided on by the customer. ~,~Valv"n ({;;tti) piston for smooth damplng'transitions. • Che fvv Ive machir(~'from 4140 and heat treated 17-4 stainless for long durability. ,, la~ O~hec~lve spring designed with low operating stress levels. •/'P,fggyti c:;__k' tyle reservoir mounting for the rear of buggies and trucks. ,.~ ) , r~@')m1~~h i ;tfu EM§ .,i§ li?-:i ,i·M M £'' · · · ' '"w ;-;; . Custom iiv;und springs for 3" shocks in stock. Eibach springs available. We do custom shock work and vehicle set up. Custom designed and mfg. shocks & parts available ( air shocks, water cooled, pistons etc.). Designed and manufactured by the same person that designed all Kuster Shocks. King Shock Technology A Shock Manufacturing Company . (714) 530-8701 Fax: (714) 530-8702 10402 Trask Ave., Unit C, Garden Grove, CA 92843 Page 44 November 1998 the race and will be back." With the Bakers out the McCullys in-herited the lead and Caldwell was running third enjoying the view. The fifth lap was where the ac-tion took place with Caldwell tak-ing the lead after the McCullys ran out of fuel just a few miles from the finish line but the race ain't over 'ti! it's over, because Caldwell had a c.v. come apart and the McCullys were able to retake the lead and win the class. ■ OFF ROAD SCRAMBLE ANSWERS: Bearing, Seat, Block, Codriver, ;Horsepower SHOCK ABSORBER In the 1600 class event, Todd Bingham sailed his single seater to victory after seven laps of close racing. Dave Morse led Class 9 from the start, taking his second win in a row in his tidy car. pusty Tim.es

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VORRA YERINGTON DESERT RACE Sam Berri Wins Desert series Final By Troy Robinson Photos: Chris Radbome Sam Berri moved into the lead on the second lap and then stayed there to take the win in Class 1 at VORRA s Yerington race. I he tale of a race between der mud, the hmsh lme m Fal-from 9 a:m., as two of the rac-two cities. Yerington to Fal-lon was under one foot of wa-ers, Dale Carr and Doug Sey-lon. A race scheduled to run ter, the "sani-hut" was in a mour were the ones marking asithasinthepastfromYer-lake of water and floating the new course. ington, 125 miles across the away,accessroadsweren'tac-At 11:45 Dale Carr and desert to Fallon and back on cessible let alone the race Doug Seymour arrived at the the same course, in the same course. At 11 p.m. the call was start/finish line and were just day. A race which would have made to change the course to in time for the call to the start a better story than that. a 45-60 mile loop race closer line and the national anthem. The race course was ap-to Yerington. At exactly 12 noon the first proved by the BLM over two The town of Fallon was car, Dale Carr took off on the months prior to the race. The woken up and told to start course he just marked fol-race course was marked and picking up course markers lowed by 57 others. pre running (or "course in-from the Fallon side and bring The first car back to the spection") was ready one week them to Yerington, as there prior. Then tropical storm were not enough markers to "Isis" came through the night mark a loop type course. Early before the race and brought race morning the drivers' substantial amounts of rain. meeting was held and racers Reports started. coming in were told of the change. A from around the track at limited supply of course maps· about 10 p.m. and they were on haµd. The race start weren't good. Weeks was un-would be moved back to noon • Custom Pro Cell Bladders with seamless super-tough, triP.le coated construction • 10 year Bladder warranty • Safety foam baffling \ Prepped at Donahoe Racing .. "' )~~,~ ~ ~ .t:; "·;\ ~v ':ti,: ~ ,-, : Don German, always a threat, piloted his big single seat Jeep to second place in Class 1. Mike and Floyd Haas put their good looking Class 10 car into the winner's circle with a cushion of just 3 minutes and 35 seconds. line in the 13 car Class 1 field a 1 7 minute lead over second was Kevin Ohnstad (109). place German. Baker/Redding Second fastest time went to were up to third, Dugan to Sam Berri (149) with Don and fourth, Richard Boyle (I 11) Chris German ( 104), Al Baker had moved up to fifth followed and Craig Redding (110), and by Gary Steele (144). Dale Dennis Dugan (168) close be-Carr blew a transmission and hind. Ohnstad wouldn't go changed it in the field at much farther though as the checkpoint 2. This. dropped crank broke in half ending his him to seventh place. Later he day. After two laps, Berri had Continued on page 46 " ® ,-J ' t l~ ~ I , http':/ i1l'l'1vw .donahoey,ac ~ Complete Race Truck Fabrication • Custom manufactured aluminum containers • FIA-FT3, SCORE and SODA approved • Custom manufactured fillers d . tl[Prise$' in anaheim \ ,-,,,.,., ~ Prerunners ~ Consulting ~ Shock Service & Fuel Sal• 's "Pro Cell" is our top-al-the-line racino cell that comes ready to install and it's backed by a /~If 10 year warran/y. Dusty Times • (800) 433-6524 technical hotline • Over 25 years experience for more info call or write to: Aircraft Rubber/Fuel Safe 63257 Nels Anderson Road Bend, Oregon 97701 (5-41) 388-0203 (541 )388-0307 fax http://Www.fuelsafe.com November 1998 Page 45

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would run out of gas just five miles from the finish line. Go-ing into the last lap, Berri had a 26 minute lead over Ger-man. Steele had moved up to third with Baker/Redding fourth, and Dugan fifth. At the finish line Berri was the winner with 34:15 victory over Don and Chris German. Dennis Dugan had a good last lap to place third, followed by Al Baker and Craig Redding and Gary Steele rounded out the finishers in class. Class 10 took off the line next with nine in class. Den-nis Kordonowy (1011) was the first around with a four minute lead over Floyd and Mike Haas (1023). Ron Foster (1037) was running strong in third place followed by Rob Parsons and Jim Cast,(1018), Boss Gibney (1044), Abreu Racing (1058) and Jeff Panelli (1066). After two laps, Haas' had taken the lead and Kordonowy dropped back to eighth with down time. He would later retire after three laps. This moved everybody up a notch in the running. Head-ing into the last lap, Haas had a narrow four minute lead over Foster who was running strong despite an exhaust header leaking. At the finish Class 8 had a tough day, and even winner Tom Scahill had to spend some time wrenching, to get his victory. line, Haas' were victorious with a 3:35 margin over Ron Foster. Third place went to Parsons/Cast who were just eight minutes back. Fourth place went to first timer Boss Gibney driving Dale Smith's car and fifth place went to Abreu Racing. Ace and Steve Bradford (1008) rounded out the finishers in sixth place. In Class 8 action, Tom Sca-hill (800) took the early lead over Chris and Roger Gray (806), Dudley-Tranum (875), and John and Bill Walton (806). Walton's first lap was their last though as they went end-over-end about midway through the lap in a cross rut-ted section. They managed to make repairs but did not con-tinue onto the second lap. Sca-hill had trouble on lap 2, drop-ping over -1 :20 to make repairs. 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The BOOU and 800S 12-volt models deliver 800 Cold Cranking Amps at o• Farenheit. ; I ~ SETRAB OIL COOLERS SET· 125-AN6 6 x 25 Row · 6 AN SET·619-AN6 11 x19Row-6AN C:J!H¥6faa 111 !! I lli:ri] B SET·619-AN8 11 x19Row-8AN =· =so • . lr.C) SET-625-ANB 11 x 25 Row · 8 AN SET-634-ANB 11 x 34 Row · 8 AN SET-644-ANB 11 x 44 Row · 8 AN ET·644·AN12 11 x 44 Row· 12 AN • OLL Y O E BEA RILL R L E L S E ;,; m z z m ~ Ill ;= en -l m z c... )> ;::: )> :Il 0 .,, -l ~ )> en I 0 () ;,; en f: :Il 0 :Il )> Page 46 November 1998 Nice to see Class 3 cars in action. Jim Cope took the win with his jeep, finishing 18 minutes to the good. ton and it was Gordon Scott (380) taking the lead after the first lap. Jim Cope (314) and Curt Wengeler (378) were separated by just a minute for second. Scott would have just 20 minutes of down time on lap 2 giving the lead to Cope and second to Wengeler. Scott's laps would be fast again but not fast enough to make up the deficit. At the finish line, Cope was the win-ner with an 18: 11 margin over second place W engeler. Scott would finish in third place, 27:05 out of the lead. After a four year absence from the class, Glenn McAdon (76) debuted a new car and came on strong in the early go-ing to lead the ten car veteran class. He was followed closely by Everett Paul (43), Ed Gra-ham (10), Pat D'Amato (79), Jon English (21), and Brice Crawford (22). After the first 60 miles, McAdon was still out front but Graham had moved around Paul for second and English was up to fourth and Crawford to fifth. McAdon would run out of gas just two miles from the end of the sec-ond lap and this would take him out of the running at this point. Paul had turned a faster lap and was out in front with English just seconds behind in second. Graham was back to third and Crawford to fourth. At the finish line Paul was the winner with a ten minute vic-tory over Graham as English had 20+ minutes of downtime on the last lap placing him fourth. Crawford finished a very respectable third for a first running in a new car. In Class 7 action, five trucks took charge and it was Doug Seymour (772) domi-nating all day long. He led from the start and won the class by 30: 18 over the only other finisher Fred Calosso (750) who had down time early, but came on strong near the end. Forest Creasy (996) once again dominated Class 9 . He ran times just two minutes slower than the Class ls to take the class win. Tom Hatch (917) drove John Creasy's car to place second. Raul Lozano (918) had elec-trical troubles and dropped Forest Creasy continued his strong showing in Class 9, taking the win with times close to those of Class 1. Doug Seymour helped re-mark the course after the rain, and then went out and won in Class 7. Whatta guy! Dusty Times

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California Rally series Donna Mitchell, CRS Director As Most of you know by now this past weekend at the 1998 Prescott Forest Rally we lost a dear friend and competitor, Carl Merrill. Carl has had an impact on each of us and we would always look forward to seeing him at Rim of the World and Prescott each year. He was a big part of the SCCA National Series and was always so interested and supportive of our Di-visional Series. He was a big fan of our California Rally Series as well and was always interested in hearing about the CRS rallies. It was very obvious that Carl loved Pro Rally. Our e-mail is constantly receiving copies of people expressing their feel-ings and personal stories about the impact Carl had on each of them. It is truly heart warming to read. Our sport has been blessed to have Carl as a part of it. Our deepest sympathy goes out to his wife, Barbara, and their family. We will miss you very much, Carl. You will always have a place in our hearts. As one of the competi-tors said, "Hail to the Norseman". Your memory will carry on in our sport forever. We love you, Carl, and God Speed. ■ MAG7 Race Team By Stephen T. Stenberg, President Hello everyone. Well Primm is over and now we head into the big one. The Baja 1000, Santo Tomas to La Paz. Mag 7 has sent out all of our race applications to our members and quite a few to new members as well. Our first cutoff is quickly approach-ing, October 13th, and we here at Mag 7 are busy planning every detail of the race for our pits. As mentioned in last month's pa-per, Mag 7 Race T earn has merged with Ron Bishop Baja Pits for this race. As a result of this merger Mag 7 will be able to offer two different kinds of pit service. Mag 7 will offer its tra-ditional 100 mile pit service for trucks and buggies starting around San Quintin and continuing every 100 miles to the finish. The second pit service that we will be able to offer in conjunction with Ron Bishop's Baja Pits is 50 mile pits for motorcycles and quads, again starting around San Quintin and continuing every 50 miles down the course. As you can imagine this is taking quite a bit of coordination and plan-Page 48 ning between Ron Bishop's Baja Pits motorcycle team and Mag 7 Race T earn. Both teams will be going down the course sometime in October to map out the exact pit locations, and to verify the race miles on the mile-age sheets provided by SCORE. By doing this, we can insure that our pits are where they are supposed to be, mileage wise. Every 50 miles for bikes and quads and every 100 miles for four wheelers. REMEMBER, our first cutoff is October 13th to get race ap-plications back in our hands. After that, a $50.00 late charge will be ap-plied until our final cutoff on Octo-ber 3 lst.-That's the day that our pit crews pick up their equipment, fuel and spares. I wish to continue my thanks to our current sponsors, for which with-out your continued backing racing _ would be that much harder for us. They are SRS Valvolina of San Di-ego, Ca. (Bill Enderly), Cycle Parts West of Chula Vista, Ca. (Todd), Jobsite Supply Co. of San Diego, Ca Ooey Krya), Nelson Equipment of San Diego, Ca. (Red, Jeff and Greg Nelson), and Pacific Rim MechaniJ cal of San Diego, Ca. (Andy Pina). To all these companies, again Mag 7 extends a big thank you for your sup-port . . In last month's issue of Dusty Times, the editorofBaja Pits tried to misalign Mag 7 while building them-selves up at the same time. Now I have met a lot of Baja Pits guys over the years and this has never been their style. So if this is what it takes to get people to race with you (edi-tor), then I wish you all the best. I'm not going to respond to these allega-tions except to say that if you want to know the truth on these two in-stances, call Ernie Negrete or the Baldwins and ask them yourself. EMERGENCY SERVICE is always given at Mag 7 pits, just not in front of our own racers in that same class. One last item to set straight. It has come to my attention from earl Augustyn of Baja Pits that some of his racers are confusing the name "Ron Bishop's Baja Pits" or (RBBP) with his tema "Baja Pits" or (BP). Now these are two completely differ-ent T earns, with different names as well. They are not related in any way, shape or form with each other. "Baja Pits", the race team, is NOT team-ing up with Mag 7 Race T earn for the Baja 1000. I hope this straight-ens out the confused parties. I wish Baja Pits luck in the Baja 1000, as I do all the race teams. For everyone else, be careful pre running. The 'Bad Guys' have finally . figured out after 31 years of racing in Baja, pre runners carry some cash with them. Its a shame that one of the last things that a person can do alone, pre running in Baja, has been reduced to having to go in groups of three or more vehicles together, just to feel safe. I for one, am glad that after racing and riding in Baja since the early 70's, I have loads of good memories about riding the Baja courses by myself, or just off explor-ing Baja for days at a time. The favorite stops along the way, the pine forest near Laguna Hanson ( the camping is great here), stopping in the mountains above Santa Catarina for years to have lunch with T earn Husky friends Bill Halbert and company. Mike's Sky Ranch, where Mike would greet you and Ramon would be ready to dole out beers to weary travelers. (Watching their kids grow at the same rate as your own). And if you wanted a hot shower, you learned to take it in the evening. Then you head down, across Laguna Factory FORD Team: All is For SALE!! Motors Parts, Gauges, Lathe, Dyno, Mill, SODA Truck, NASCAR, Pit Supplies, Tools, etc. ---------------AVAILABLE AT SALE: Race Ready 4WD Short Course Ford F-150, Built by LeDuc and-Prepped by Venable , SAW Coif over/Bypass, VDO, dry-sump, 2 Full Leon Patten 442cid Motors, Chrisman Full Floater $65,000 Baja Brokers Ref# 665 November 1998 ~redit ~ards or ALL C.hec..l's to: Valle'( Merchant l?anK $2-00.00 \imit Persona\ C.hec."s $500.00 \imit e,usiness C.hec."s ALL '5AL£'5 FINAL ,',.e,'5OLUT£LY NO Jl.£TUIZ-N'5 NO £')(l.£VTION'5 Dusty Times

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Diablo (where speed counts) to San Felipe to hang out at the Miramar and do some more bench racing. Then on to Puertecitos and the hot water lava tubes and then Gonzaga Bay which consisted of just a few beach huts after crossing the infa-mous (and now deceased) "Three Sisters". On to Catavina where there was always good food over by the air-strip, a small hut to bunk in or lots of open space to camp. Next stop would be LA Bay where the Turtle steaks were to die for. Then it was El Arco, where Stroppes Semi would always park, looking brand new (after wash-ing all the dust off) upon arriving in 'downtown' El Arco. After the race heading east to Bahia San Francisquito to relax. On to Guerrero Negro where there is always av-gas at the airport in town when the pemex station runs out of fuel on the highway. Next is San Ignacio which makes you feel like you weri one of the Jesuit Priests ,that settled there. The night portion of the 1000 always started around here for me on the motorcycles. This is what I lived for, racing a motorcycle at night in the middle of nowhere, watching the lights from my twin Oscars dance around the shadows. Miles of long, smooth sandy beaches, without a footprint to be seen for miles to the south. Standing in the middle of Baja and not seeing or hearing a thing for as far as the eye can see. Camping out and reflecting on the day's ride, seeing more stars than you thought ever existed. Wav-ing hello to ranchers and having them wave back, that special bond that exists between people that respect each others right to open spaces. Fix-ing a flat or a busted part in the middle of 'nowhere', and later thinking to yourself "WOW" I did that myself without the help of my machine shop, friends or whatever you would have used a~ home. Having to sometimes leave your motorcycle in the middle of nowhere and hitch a ride back to Ensenada, to your vehicle. And. hop-ing that you hid your bike well enough that it will be where you left it. And too, hoping you 'remember' where you left it as well! And all those stories that you have told your family, friends and co-work-ers after a trip to Baja, adventures in the "Wilds of Baja" as others call it. I just hope for all our sakes that the actions of a few (gunmen) don't ruin what we have learned to enjoy. A land filled with gracious people, sights to fill memories for life, and a good place to bring out friends, families and children, and later our children's kids. To ride, fish, camp, surf, hike, swim, off road, race, and just enjoy the land for what it is. A land called "BAJA". If you need to get a hold of Mag 7 Race Team you can call our hotli,ne at l-619-582-3728 or visit us at our website, <www.walsh.com;Mag7/> or you can e-mail me at <MAG7RACEE@AOL.COM>. Talk to you all next month. And to my old racing buddy, MARK DANIELS of Santa Barbra, good luck at the Vegas to Reno. Wish you were racing the 1000 this year too. Adios from Team Baja. ■ C.O.R.E. Pit. Report By SaruJy Parker Only two CORE teams headed to the track lately, both in Nevada, one with SNORE and the other to the SCORE race. It seems that everybody is either weary of the season, not in points contention, saving money for Dusty Times Christmas, or preping for next year 29th annual SNORE 250 Team Lorenzi was the team that raced SNORE and also is the newest CORE member, WELCOME ABOARD! This was the very first race for Mike Lorenzi and his brand sparkling new Mirage 2-1600. Mike is not a beginner to offroading, hav-ing quite a bit of seat time in pre-run-ners, but this was his first experience · in the intense racing arena. It is al-ways fun to talk to the guys after their first race, and Mike was no excep-tion. Typical comments like; "I had to push it so hard, I can't believe it held together", "I can't believe after all the money I spent on the car I actually got passed by another 1600". "It really hurts, I still hurt today", and lastly, talking to his co-driver during the race "This really isn't fun". The only typical comment Mike didn't say was "If I would have only finished, I would have won". Mike and I talked for a long time on the phone after the race and he already has many "racer stories" to tell. ON to the race, Mike solo'd the race, ar.d his co-driver will remain nameless until I find the paper I wrote it on. They had a near flawless day with the excep-tion of an easy roll and problems with . the fan shroud. Mike said the single most frustrating thing that occurred was when Darrin McGuffin made the comment just before the start that if he fmished behind _a challenger, "I will never let you forget it!" After they rolled it, hanging upside down, Mike saw a Challenger pass them. With the thought of Darrin's face laughing at them, they climbed out and with the help of a spectator got the car righted, and underway. To save face, they thrashed the car and passed the Chal-lenger just before the Main Pits, where Darrin was, to keep him quiet. Mike said the temp gage was running high for the last until they heard a howling noise. They found the Al-ternator and fan shroud floating with only the fan belt holding it down. No spare parts and exhaustion, they were done for the day. PRIMM:300 Jimmy Messick and Andrew Lind-quist teamed up to run the SCORE race in Jimmy's always quick Chal-lenger. They had only minor prob-lems on the way to a second place finish in class. The only problem re-ported was a transaxle leak which had to have a drink every lap. Great job guys: The CORE Pit Club members are planning a group event at the Peter-sen Museum in November. The Pe-tersen will have a Porsche exhibit on display. a date will be decided on at the October General meeting. The CORE elections are to be held in November and new board mem-bers announced at the CORE Christ-mas dinner in December. All mem-bers are encouraged to attend the November meeting to cast your vote. Don't forget about the two free din-ners for all paid members who attend. It is my intention to be as accu-rate as possible with my reporting so when I make a mistake, I must eat my words. I reported Guy Peterson finished first place in his 5-1600 at the last MDR race. Actually Guy fin-ished second place behnd Bob Wright, sorry for the error. Looking for a professional family oriented pit suipport club? CORE is always looking for new members. CORE has monthly meetings on the first Tresday of the month at Mulligan's Restaurant in Santa Clarita at 8pm. For more information, come to the nmeeting or call me at (818) 772-7728 or e-mail me at race 975@aol.com. "The Straight Poop" from the Big Wahzoo PRIMM 300 -The Club sent eight cars up to SCORE's second casino stop of their series. It was four times around an 84 mile loop with five Checker pits on duty in the area. Morgan, Speed Bump Anderson, Crowley, Pop McCoql, and the Rev handled the pit captain duties. This was a high speed sharp edged course that kept all the pits busy changin' flats and replacin' spares. This also kept the chase crews busy running around, which in tum, kept the vari-ous law enforcement agencies feed-ing in the area busy writing tickets on both the paved and dirt roads. A number of Checkers were ticketed, but luckily nobody was sprayed or arrested. George Seeley doggedly contin-ued on despite having a lot of down time on the first lap. But the last part of .the race was a real killer on the Class 5 cars in front of him, allowing George to salvage a fine second place finish out of what looked like a bad day in the beginning. Greenway al-most pulled out a victory with his new Jr. 10 car ride (1200 series). Jim re-portedly has part ownership in this car, and took it right back to where he left off with the buggies after his short excursion into truck racin'. But sadly, while runnin' first in class with only six miles to the finish line, our hero had tranny/shifter problems. The down time for repairs dropped him back to fourth. Despite problems on lap 2, Jimmy Tucker and Mike McGee also picked up a fourth place in their version of Class 10. Both Class lOs added up were the second biggest group at this race with 24 en-tries. Good run, guys. The Steel Brothers, Brian and Scott, ran hard and stayed close all day long in Class 1/2-1600. After the addin' and subtractin' was done at the finish line, our boys ended up nine minutes back in fifth place. Tom Koch had pow~r steering problems that persisted most of the day. After three laps, Tom put Stuart Chase in the car to finish up. The team came • in seventh out of the 25 starters in Class 1. Good show, guys. Three of .our eight Checker en-tries DNFed: The Duenas/McCool 1/2-1600 car seemed to pick up right where it left off last race, where they won going away. But, they suffered terminal rear shock problems on their third lap. Prospective member Mike Bartolotti had eight flats in his 10 car during his first lap and a half. This is notable since, after a pre-race tire snafu, he had to borrow a bunch of tires and wheels for spares from a friend before the race. I don't know what finally put him out ... probably just ran out oftires? Greg Hawks sadly· blew an engine in his 1/2-1600 car on the first lap and never got another shot at Howard. AIR SUPPORT - Fresh from a bizarre air support controversy stirred up back at the Baja 500, at this race the Herbst chopper blatantly landed at a well populated pit area and helped repair one of their cars. Natu-rally, another Class 1 entry was also stopped at that pit area for repair and witnessed the Herbst team openly ignoring the "no air support" rule. But, instead ofblabbing his intentions out over the radio, then never show-ing up to file, this non-helicopter owner quietly rounded up his wit-nesses, properly filed his protest, and then showed up at the competition board to state his complaint. The CRB then disqualified the Herbst's Class 1 car. There are a number of lessons here. Only time will tell how many of them were learned. TROUBLE IN BAJA - After five pre-runners were robbed and one shot near Mike's Sky Ranch at the last Baja 500, this Wahzoo suggested it was an isolated incident and that we racers should not over react. Maybe I spoke too soon? Consider·the following: In 1994 the Tijuana Mu-nicipal Police Chief was murdered. In '95 the warden of the state peni-tentiary was killed, along with a vet-eran narcotics prosecutor in Tijuana. In '96 a state judicial police agent is killed. The Baja director of the fed-eral judicial police is gunned down with three others. 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agents are strangled to death. In '97 the editor of an anti-drug Tijuana newspaper is seriously wounded· by gun fire and his body guard killed. And now in 1998, 18 people, includ-ing a baby and eight children, are killed execution style with AK-4 7s just outside ofEnsenada. All of these were drug related violence. This latest 'incident' will chill most regular Baja racers. The 38 year old head of the family that was killed, a known drug smuggler, grew up in the Indian village of Santa Catarina. Af-ter these murders, informants led police to a T ecate location where they found 100 bags of marijuana, re-portedly grown in Valle de Trinidad. They also found a cache of weapons, including an AK-4 7. This is definitely not good news for individual racers, nor our sport as a .whole. BUT ... does this mean you should cross Baja off your list of fun places to go? Abso-lutely not! I'd still feel safe goin' down to Baja, be it pre-runnin' or just cruisin' around enjoying Mexico. But, this obvious Baja increase in drug re-lated violence is definitely something to consider when you're down there among 'em. All racers, chasers, pre-runners, and plain old tourists should take extra caution these days not to stumble into something that some-body doesn't want you to see. I would think twice before going through any closed gates unless they're on the marked course. And, I'd steer clear of any group of men you come across out in the dirt who don't resemble the typical local farmers or cowboys. It's not the local mexican citizenry that poses a threat here. It's the crimi-nal element, primarily thos~ in all1ev-els of the drug trade, that need to be avoided. Be safer by being more cau-tious and aware of your surroundings! 25TH REUNION -Things are starting to gel with regards to the for-mat of our 25th Reunion Banquet. With a 600 seat ballroom and an in-terest to party with all our friends, the Checkers are extending an open in-vitation to all those non-Checkers we've raced and worked with over • the years. Wives and girlfriends are welcome, in fact, encouraged to at-tend. Dress for the evening will be 'Checker Formal'. With the addition of our non-Checker friends in our 25th year cel-ebration, the theme for the evening is starting to shape up as sort of a "History of Off Road Racing, thru the 1iOURS M-F 9:00 - 6:00 Sat. 10:00 - 3:00 eyes of the Checkers". Besides rec-ognizing significant Checker accom-plishments and personalities, a num-ber of off road racing's notables will _ be officially invited with the specific intention of giving them a tum up at the microphone to relate their favor-ite Checker stories. Although still in the planning stage, the following is a sampling of who will surely be invited to speak: Ed Pearlman, Ivan Stew-art, Walker Evans, the Mears Gang, Judy Smith, Sal Fish, Dan Newsome, Rod Hall, the Weatherman, and the like. Mike Bartolotti has bravely vol-unteered to serve as "The Checker Minister of Promotion" for this get together. So if you're a somebody in our sport, or have been at one time, you can probably expect to be con-tacted by this go-getter for somethin' or other. The Checkers are a·non-profit organization, so all products donated will be given away. And, any cash for placing banners or signs will go towards reducing the price of din-ner tickets for everyone. Many more details will appear in future columns as we get closer to our February 6th date at the Gold Coast Hotel & Ca-sino. Checkers should contact Uncle Max in the near future for a limited number of rooms available with our usual Checker discount. Don't miss this affair, it's really gonna be some-thing! ■ .Challenger corner By Joel Mohr RACE Rf'.Sut IS!!! I he SCORE Primm 3000 start/finish was in the backlot of Buffalo Bill's casino and four 83 mile laps were in store for the five Challengers that showed up. The Hovey/Christensen team was the eventual winner and the only team that didn't have any reported down-time. Second place went to Jimmy Messick and Andrew Lindquist with Andrew starting and covering the field less than half way into the first lap. He pulled into their pit complain-. ing that the motor felt down on power and they discovered the sidecover on the trans had loosened up and had lost almost all of the oil. Jimmy's dad tightened. it back up, added two quarts of 90wt, and sent Daily UPS Visa and Mastercard We are happy to announce our new 800 toll free number. (800) 656-3376 Use it to call and inquire about our "Quick Fix'' IRS repair boots or our 11 gallon· "Fast-Fill" dump ccns. Both new products can save you race time. Race Small-Be Sate I 03 Press Ln. #4 • Chula Vista, CA 9191 O • (619) 691-9171 • FAX (619) 691-0803 PageSO Andrew on his way. Unfortunately, the seal was broken and they had to stop every halflap to repeat the pro-cess. The team wanted me to men-tion a special Thank You to Jimmy's dad Warren, and also his uncle Rick Taylor, who made getting there pos-sible. Third place went to Ed McLean. I didn't get any info on their day, but I understand they had a very long first lap. Bill Rodriguez was re-portedly dicing with Christensen un-til the third lap when Rodriguez lost his trans. And last but not least, the Ladwigs, who ventilated a fresh mo-tor only 30 miles out. At post race tech, an old rule was exercist;d that states that if any competitor wins more than three races in a row, his motor gets tom down. Nothing ille-gal was found and Christensen and crew were sent on their way. It sounded like a good time was had by all, but if SCORE would consider a reduced entry fee for 9 and 11, there might be a few more of us out there. THE 29th ANNUAL SNORE 250: Presented by the GOLD COAST HOTEL & CASINO, this race always draws a crowd. 17 Chal-lengers made the start line that left from the Nellis Dunes area north of Vegas. The 62 mile course used some of the old Mint 400 trails, but was reportedly still quite fast. At the end oflap 1, Matt Cunningham was lead-ing by about four minutes on Roland Barry, with Thomas Taliaferro an-other three minutes back. In fourth was Mandy Dixon, with Bill Avery and Kevin Walsh close behind. Bill Cobb was another 12 minutes back, with Albert Rux four minutes behind him. Unfortunately, Ron Coppick, Terri Larson and Tony Leonard never made it all the way around. Having first laps in the two hour range were the Harts, Terry Vandewalker, Kevin Steele, Dale Looney, and surprisingly Mark Bund-erson. Mark broke a front shock off right where the top stud welds to the can, very uncharacteristic for a FOX. Another team lent him a spare and got him going again. On lap 2, Ryan Schank was now in Barry's car, and instantly set fast lap and pulled out to a commanding lead. Mandy Dixon moved up to second (you go girl!), and the troubled T aliaferros were in third. It seems an over zealous Class 1 car passed Tom on lap 1 and cut across the front wheel spinning the steer-ing wheel violently and broke Tom's right thumb. He finished the lap and had his wife take over while the para-medics looked at Tom's hand. Kevin Walsh moved up to 4th, and Bill A very slipping to 5th, Bill Cobb 6th, Bunderson 7th, Dukes 8th, and so on ... I didn't get it in my notes, but Matt Cunningham broke on the sec-ond lap and limped in some five hours later. On the third and final lap, Schank stretched out his lead, tak-ing the win and another $1,500 home (that makes the total over $5,500 in winnings this year with one race to go), and should put them real close to the points lead. Second place went to Mandy Dixon, who soloed, ran trouble free, and got a nice check for $390. Third went to Kevin Walsh and Rob Schoon, in which has to be one of the more vintage cars still com-peting. It's a 14 year old T-MAG two seater that has quite a list of notable wins to its credit. Maybe someday they'll want it for the off road mu-seum.· (Maybe not?) Fourth went to Bill A very and Tom Brown, with bro-ken thumb Tom and his wife taking fifth. As soon as Tom's wife crossed the finish line, the car hadn't even come to a complete stop when the roof flew open and out sh€ bounded to see if her hubby was OK. (That's love!) Sixth was Mark Bunderson who did quite well after getting fixed running very close to the leader's lap times. Seventh was Albert Rux, 8th was Bill Cobb, 9th was Todd Dukes, 10th was the Hart-elan and 11th was Dale Looney and Eric Shenberger. That's what I call a pretty good fin-isher ratio. Out of 1 7 starters, 11 finished. Good going!!! Also as an added attraction (with SNORE's permission), I started a CHAL-LENGER 'pooL Any team that wanted to put $50 into a "hat", and sign in on a sheet, out of all the teams that put in, the team that did the best, regardless· of position, would get the "hat". This way, even if you don't win, you.did better than the rest of the people that signed up, you get a little cash. Everyone liked the idea and five teams signed up. It sounded like I would have had more ifl had put the word out, but it was actually a last minute idea. So, next SNORE race, ifl can make it out there again, bring a few extra bucks, and we'll do it again. Comments or questions? Call 760-94 7-664 7. See you at the races!!!■ ✓ ULTRASONIC CLEANING ✓ CNC MILLING & Oil Coolers / Radiators TURNING Blocks / Lines / Fittings Assembled .Components ✓ PRODUCTION & ✓ TESTING SERVICES M~gnetic Particle (Magnaflux; Myglo) Liquid Penetrant (Dye Penetrnnt Zyglo) Ultrasonic· X-Ray CRITICAL OPERATIONS -November 1998 PROTOTYPE ✓ CAD/CAM PROGRAMMING ✓ REVERSE ENGINEERING ✓ EDM MACHINING 3043 Oak St, Santa Ana, CA 92707 Ph 714-957-1215 Fx 714-957-1567 e-mail: WBI.JNN@CRITICAL-OP.COM FAA Repair Station #WB7R288J Baja Pits News By Mr. Baja In the last issue ... MAG 7 reports that Baja Pits and MAG 7 are pitting together "NO WAY". Baja Pits will never associate with non profession-als. All they are concerned with is now much money they can make. How many cars did they have at the Baja 500? Three. JOIN SUMMIT ... !TIS GOOD FOR THE SPORT!!! PRIMM 300: Three Baja Pits vehicles took the long drive to the Primm. It's a great place and lots of fun. Miguel Tomei in his Class 1/2-1600. Bill Rodriguez in his Class 9. Carlos, Humberto, Gerardo and Carla lribe in the 5-1600 class. They ran strong all day but unfortunately ... Mother Nature didn't allow them to finish. Baja Pits at Pit B had a great time. They reported great camarade-rie with FAIR. Checkers also invited Baja Pits to their big year end party. Thanks Guys!!! BAJA PITS/fECATE 125: There were 25 entries and about 2,000 fans at the first ever Baja Pits race. Results and pictures in the next issue. BAJA 1000 DRAWING: October 16, 7:00 p.m. At Speedway Cafe, Newport Beach, CA. Baja Pits and Unocal 76 from Cafe On-Line, Tijuana will be posting the results. BE THERE. Eight trucks, six buggies, six quads, five motorcycles, and six Class 5-l 600s will be on display. Came Asada provided by Unocal 76 ... T ecate Beer will be on hand. WELCOME AMIGOS. JOIN SUMMIT IT IS GOOD FOR THE SPORT!!! BAJA 1000 - 1062.5 Miles Twelve pits have been assigned. REMEMBER, DO NOT PRE RUN ALONE. Good radio contact is nec-essary. Proper insurance. You are pre running, not racing. Drive safe and good luck. Unocal 76 will have fuel at Ense-nada, Punta Prieta, San Ignacio, lnsurgentes and La Paz for your pre running needs. 97-100 Octane. (Re-member, you must have special per-mits to import and haul fuel · in Mexico ... you must also have special permits for your 2-M radios as you are crossing two states ... Norte and Sur.) FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE BAJA 1000 CALL: "ElJefe" Don Carlos 1-619-449-7777. Leo Calderon 1-619-267-9928 Carl Augustyn 1-619-448-1912 Angel 1-619-231-0766 Unocal 76Alfredo011-52-66-86-. 21-76 SUPPORT SCORE!!! Baja Pits attended the Summit meeting and we are proud to say that we will joint the effects. There were a lot of good positive thoughts passed out and I, for one, am excited with the prospects of enriching our sport. I also urge all drivers and pit mem-bers to join the team that is going to do so much to promote the sport of off road racing. Thank you! ■ FAIR News • By Joy Bancroft ·· Attention All Racers! (Not just FAIR members) NEED PIT SUPPORT FOR THE Dusty Times

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BAJA 1000? FAIR HAS COORDI-NATED WITH OTHER PIT SUP-PORT GROUPS TO FORM "SUPERPITS." NINE COMPLETE PITS WILL BE SET UP THROUGH-OUT BAJA. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO IN-QUIREATOURNEXTMEETING, scheduled for October 7th and Octo-ber 21st but don't wait too long to pre-pare for your pit support! YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A FAIR MEM-BER TO RECEIVE THIS SUPPORT. For more information, you may con-tact Brady Wisdom at (714) 586-546, Bill Markel at (805) 943-1786 or me at (562) 697-2752. MIR meets ev-ery 1st and 3rd Wednesday at the Holiday Inn in Fullerton, where the 91 freeway and Harbor Blvd. meet. Now on to our race results and high-lights: MDR California 200 - The first night race in a long time was a lot of fun. I guess the Friday night storm of lightning and rain was quite a spec-tacle. Saturday was a nice day with the wind helping settle the heat and as the night drew dark it was a beautiful evening. Fair was pitting for about 14 cars and all started except the Scott and Venon Martin 1 car. He had bro-ken steering that could not be repaired. Dave Massingham and Wayne Morgan in the 1 unlimited car were working down to the wire Friday night to get the car finished. In fact, they fin-ished the car at 8 am Saturday morn-ing, got it loaded and off to Barstow they went. When they tested at Bar-stow, Wayne found that not all cylin-ders were firing, but after a while of panicking he fond a loose wire in the injection system. Dave and Mac were second off the line behind the Con-verter Shop car, and Dave thought he was Jeff Gordon and intimidated him so bad se stuffed the car at Hodge Rd. and broke and A-arm. Oh well, some guys just can't handle the roar of"The Beast." They went through the first lap with the fastest lap no trouble. Second lap they got a flat, lost about four min-utes, and the third they took on fuel. The balance of the day was trouble free at a fast pace trying to get the win and first overall. Well, they got their wish, they finished FIRST in class and FIRST overall on a flat and broken rear air shock Dave wants to thank Wayne for all the hours he spent on the mo-tor. Only his wife, Viki, knows how much time he dedicates to this car. Thanks to Wayne's son, Darren, he was a great help and nice to have him part of the team. Thanks to Mac McLaughlin for riding with Dave, he is a great support, and it's nice to know he enjoys the ride ... even when it seems Dave may put the car over. Thanks, Dave Folts, for a flawless Trans., Brian Parkhouse for the recaps on the rear. Nice to see Bill Varnes out in the middle of nowhere in the dark ... thanks, Bill, the chassis did it's job again. Thanks to Tom for spotting Dave and fixin' the flat. A BIG thanks to Pit C, Mike Shannon an crew, they all knew exactly what to do and are very professional. It looks like FAIR has struck it rich with this group. And fi-nally, Dave wants to thank FAIR, THE BEST PIT SUPPORT GROUP IN THE DEZ! Dave also turned 55 on August 12th and now feels extremely satisfied to have won the race in the same week and his first overall win is great! Oh, by the way Dave, you don't have to apologize to me for not being clear of the car on the first lap when you took off. It just means I owe Don Bowler again, he seems to be always pulling me and my family clear of cars. Ron Osburn in the 1 unlimited car with Steve Drake co-riding thought they had started out good, when on the second lap they got lost. They pulled into Main and the battery seemed to not want to hold on as it was getting dark. They guys in the pit worked on the car for about 15-20min-utes. They strangely got the liglits and electrical to work, but they had already lost a lot of time. As Ron finally left the pit, I asked what was wrong? They never could figure the problem out, but someone messed with a wire and the electrical seemed to work. He made it through the rest of the race, finished second in class, seventh overall. Scott Wisdom for the first time found a way long enough that they had Pizza in town and got over to Slash X to watch the fireworks 250 on Speedvision. Scott was able to get a little bit of ad-justment on the lights after the rain let up. After contingency, early on Satur-day morning, they ~pent the rest of the afternoon at the hotel at the pool. Must be nice! Scott started second off the line and got up to the first car by Hodge Road. As he completed lap 2 he was the first 1/2-1600 car on the road and appeared to be the leader on time, but on the third lap he got a flat. He got to Main, changed the flat, fueled, and was looking good as leader in the class. On the fourth lap in the dark he got off course several times and found him-selfback tracking and losing some time. Scott was trying to keep a fast pace be-cause he had no idea what place he was in or who was behind him because he lost the radio around lap 2 or 3. Then the worst luck he got a flat that ended up wrapping itself around the whole rim in the middle of nowhere in the dark. He stopped finagled with the tire and lost about 50 minutes on the last lap not too far fro the finish. What a shame this should have been a win! It took his crew a while to figure out what happened to him. They went to Main expecting to cheer him on to a win, and they waited, and waited. Pretty soon they were chasing out in the desert to find him. Anyway, Scott finished, loved the car and found it very fast! Well Gary Bancroft could have told you that! Ray Wright in his 1600 car was down on the second lap and never re-covered. There was a lot of radio ac-tivity between their crew trying to lo-cate and get the car pulled out. I un-derstand that a so called FAIR mem-ber arrived at the scene and proceeded to assist pulling him out with Ray's son's truck and ended up destroying the 4-wheel drive in the truck. Sorry Ray, I know the individual you are referring to, but however he is a friend of one of FAIR's race teams but not a FAIR member. We're sorry, I guess you never to race, since the Wisdom and Son's car is being prepped for the Baja 10--. He went out and bought the Clearwood 1/2-1600 car. Scott pur-chased the car and all the parts and went out testing to find a few minor adjustments, such as torsion bar tweak-ing and shock leaks and he was ready , to race a single seat for the first time. J'here was some talk about Gary Ban-croft and a throw out bearing. I don't know you will have to ask Scott and Gary about that story. All I know is they have a new nickname for Gary. Scott was so anxious to drive this car he left Friday afternoon to arrive in Barstow to the lightrµng show. It lasted PIKE'S SERV .. ICE CENTER BAKER, CALIFORNI~ CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ..... THANKS! RESTAURANT OPEN 24 HOURS • Mobil SERVICE EVERY DAY YEAR ROUND THE BEST IN THE DESERT Dusty Times November 1998 know who comes to your rescue in the desert. It's a good idea to keep people out of your vehicles. By the way Ray ... I apologize for a couple of issues back, I was "bagging" on some people who raced and came unprepared. I under-stand that you thought I was insinuat-ing all the issues towards you NOT TR\_JE! There were several teams I was voicing my opinion about, not just you. I apologize if you took it that way. The 9 cars were in a battle of their own. Several of the 9 class cars were getting lost and ended up missing checkpoint 2. The Johnsons ended up getting first but I understand there was some question as to whether they com-pleted all checks. In fact, I know that at one point I heard Todd knew he missed a checkpoint and lost some time back tracking to complete the check-point. Joel Mohr was hanging with the Johnsons until he blew a rear shock, got to Pit C and borrowed a shock off of Paul Moen's car. Was back on the road and got lost several times. Then on the fifth lap he broke a ball joint, waited for chase crew at B, but some-how got directed to go to C where he could get repaired. He lost a lot of time waiting around and only to be told he had to drive to C. What was that all about guys? Joel finished with a sec-ond place. Harry Dunne in his 9 car found himself lost several times as well. He spent the whole race fighting a charging problem. Lights were dim most of the way in the dark. On the last lap with Randy Wagen and Tom Mangione in the car they had to call it a night when the coil blew. Max Han-berg and Don Johnson had their share of problems, especially when they were DQ'd for missing a checkpoint. Dennis Beckwith in his stock truck was having one of those days. In fact he doesn't care to remember his first lap. At pit B the alternator died and had a flat. He spent a VERY long time changing out the alterna-tor. Lap 2 was much better consid-ering he got fast lap in class. Next lap another flat. .. then a broken shock late into the night. By 1 :30 in the morning he was home free ... drove on broken shock in the pitch-black dark, finished lap at 2:30 in the morning. I think Dennis should get the "lronman" award for this race! T &J's truck was looking really good; they started the race with a new front suspension. I know they had tested the truck the week before and had a steer-ing problem, but decided they were go-ing to go with it this race and try to make some further adjustments by the last race. Their problems began with a flat tire that ripped the brake line and few other problems, but in the end they finished second in the class, which was exciting considering the new adjust-ments they had made. Congratulations you guys! Boonie and Eric Heiden were hav-ing a great day in the 8 truck. They had no major problems, just lost some time off course as well. Their lap times were between 43 to 48 minutes. They finished first in class, fourth overall. Last but not least was the 5-1600 car of Bryan Hintz and John Strode. John started and found he had a run in with a rock, they lost about l O min-utes recovering and was on the road smooth from there. Made a driver's change with Bryan driving. Things were looking pretty good until at a checkpoint a 10 car slammed into the back of the car, causing some down time damage and resulting in third place fin~sh. The pits were busy most of the evening with cars and you could smell the Bar-B-Q's going as pit people were trying to eat in be-tween cars. Wayne Morgan shared the pit that stands out for this race. The Shannon pit (Pit C) was pitting with Wayne and he couldn't believe the organization that went into this pit. All pit personnel had specffic jobs, equipped with yellow vests and specialized FAIR equipment. 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Complete package, ready to install includes alu radiator (Nascar) oil radiator, elec-tric fan, Heavy duty starter and spare parts. I head and 2 elect. fan, intake TRD (value 750.) + 2 sets pistons etc. $6,000.00 (818) 885-6208. AUTOMOTIVE FOR SALE: New Centerlines already beadlocked 35 backspacing 7" wide 15" rim. I have 14 and am ready to deal! Danny (909) 687-5118. FOR SALE: Tires & Bead locks, 4 rear double bead lock 33xl5" with new Yokohamas. 2 front 7x15" single bead locks w /Y okohamas. Rear single bead lock, no tire. All straight and in perfect condition. $1500 obo Wheels and tires sold together. (714) 963-5200 (phone/fax). FOR SALE: Ford 4 cyl racing engine 2.5L tall block aim head & manifold. Dual Webbers electometic ignition jut rebuilt fast and strong $6,000.00 (619) 233-6162 or (760) 743-5062. Also 94 Ford Ranger Race Truck, fast, fun single, all the right parts, 96 WGAS series champ. $21,000.00. FOR SALE: Cherokee Class 7 ex FOR SALE: Stadium Super Lite, Don-A-Vee, fresh 4.0L motor, C6 Briggsbuilt Chassis, Klemm Honda mogi, Autometergelgauges, National FL 350 motor, Champion wheels, Springs, Floating 4 link rear end, BFG tires, Front and Rear disc brakes, Custom fuel cell, Pre Run or race less long travel Coilover Suspension, shock, $6,000.00 or best. Call (619) FOX. & works Shox, race or play 286-4955 after 4 pm. ready,CORR, PACE, or SODA le- FOR SALE: PARTS - 1988 Funco gal $6,500.00 phooe (906) 466-2680. SSI single seat, frame only with all FOR SALE: '97 Jirnco 2 seater, Class body panels $500obo, single Master- FOR SALE: 1995 Jimco 2-1600, Car l winner, SCORE Primm 300 Las craft seat (wd) $85, lx4 1/2 rear arms has fresh prep. Ready to race Baja Vegas, August 1998 as driven by Dale for Chenowth Hubs $100, 4" wider 1000, fresh powercoat, new wiring by FOR SALE: 2-1600 Chenowth, Mi- Ebberts, New FAT Performance type Chromoly beam $75, 4-12" Reservoir Prowire. Major Pref motor, 091 gear rage front and rear arms, Neth beams, IV, dual Carb Fortin 5 speed, dual Rough Country Shocks $150 all, 3" box, new intercom, many spares, new 930's, Super Cages, Saco, p.s., Super batteries, extra large Fuel Cell, PCI over Axles for 930's $75, 3x3 Woods whls and tires. Full Race pkg seats, Fox & more, very reliabel and radio and intercom, raced only nine arms w/stubs and Bus drums $300.00 $18,000.00 obo Call Frank Rusich competitive, aluminum a little rough races since new $50,000.00 (909) Rob (714) 998-3201. E-mail: ' (909) 350-2700Carisa winner. Very $9,000.00 (925) 458-5812. 279-2000. granallo@eni.net. fast & dependable. FOR SALE: 1994 Ranger extra cab, • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ■ • • • • • • • • 4x4 automatic SCORE stock Mini • • Class, runs strong, all the best parts, • Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in • pro built complete with all spare parts • D T T cry rrzr • ID c~ : andsparetruck.$30,000.00obotakes : Va ..I.. ..i .lJ'.i.La.,,.. • all, contact Bill Kenney at Board Ford • • (562) 947-3831. • Classified Advertising rate is only $20 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. Maximum size 5"x7". NEW AND RENEWAL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO : FORSALE: 1995Jirnco2-1600,Car has fresh prep. Ready to race Baja 1000, fresh powercoat, new wiring by Prowire. Major Pref motor, 091 gear box, new intercom, many spares, new whls and tires. 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(. . SNORE CORNER There is only one race left in the SNORE '98 sea-son and the points race is hot and heavy, all after the great 1600 car being offered to the overall points winner. The top 14 contenders are shown below, but with an availability of almost 700 points per race, the door is still wide open. Good Luck to all! 1. Ryan Schank 3002 2. Mike Powada 3. Rick Duncan 4. Mark Bunderson 5. Tom Sturgis 6. Jeff Carr 7. Todd Dukes 8. Thomas Tallaferro 9. Matt Cunningham 10. Robbie Guevara 11. Billy Goerke 12. Bryan Freeman 13. Day Gang 14. Amanda Dixon FOR SALE: 1979 JeepCJ-7, 1998 BORRE Heavy metal champion. 400hp AMC 401, TH 400 Auto, Canna 44 axles, 4:88: 1 gears, locked rear 33 inch BFG Baj as, 32 gal fuel cell, rebuildable Ranchos, Beard seats, Autometer gauges, $12,000.00 obo Call Bob (970) 945-1103. -FOR SALE: 1985 F-150chase truck/ pre-runner rough but extremely reli-able - goes anywhere! 4x4, 4 speed manual tranny, with 351 and AJC,, 9" rear w/Detroit Soft Lock - Beard, Fuel Safe, custom rear susp 2/track rods and 4 Bilsteins, Mallory, Flow Masters -Sony deck, charger, 2 amps, 10s etc. receiver hitch -dual rear bat-teries - 2 way FM radio - 35" BFG muds, 5 American Racing 15x7 type 23, tire rack holds 3 spares, no front bumper, NOT CAL emission legal, excellent chase vehicle. $5,000.00 no trades (805) 445-1122,ext4415 days Page 58 2974 2947 2906 2845 2600 2597 2585 2472 2471 2461 2447 2335 2305 FOR SALE: 1996 Jimco 1-1600. Only 4 races. Finished Baja 1000, parked it, now baby forces sale. You fix it, you prep it, you save thousands. FAT/FEX motor, Mendeola trans, custom FOX Shox. Motor/trans needs work. Every component is top of the line. Photographed for Hot VW's. $12,750.00 w/spares. Mat (650) 933-4881 wk. Short Course Truck - Factory Ford sponsored 4WD SODA, CORR, Glen Helen, Estero race truck, Available now! Truck wa originally built Curt LeDuc, prepped by Venable Racing,driven by Rob MacCachren. (1) Sway-A-Way bypass shock and ( 1) Coilover per wheel, BFGoodrich/Alcoa bead-locks, 2 full dry-sump race motors by Leon Patton, beautifully built and maintained race truck, VDO gauges, $Best Offer $, ref #665, Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. BAJA 1000-Nov. 12, 1998 WANTED: a few good men who want adventure, fun (a beer or two and excitement. Become a part of our "just for fun team" Class 1. No me-chanical experience necessary. Pre-run, chase and celebrate with us. Co-driver seat available Call Bill Ballester. 5 1 85-0958. WHITE LIGHTNING SPECIAL: For sale: Dale White's Class 8 Chevy truck, Super bitchin', Bypass shocks, 710 hp motor by Shaver, MSD, BFGs on beadlocks, "Factory" Chevy, Ul-tra clean ·and professionally built, Fresh rebuild! A solid finisher, Ref #634. Support packages available through Team White Lightning! $79,000.00. ALSO available less mo-tor/trans for less??? Call Baja Brokers for package breakdown at (760) 723-2117. Check out our NEW website at www.bajaconcepts.com. OWNER'S LOSS IS BUYER'S GAIN: Buy as a package or sepa-rate! (1) Raceco Single seater, FAT Rabbit motor, Fat built Bus box, 930, Summers Bros. Out-board hubs and brakes, 25 gallon Cell, + 12" Beam, (2) Bilstein Coilovers per wheel, New 3" Kuster bypass in the rear, SAW 300m $14,000.00 (1) Race car 5-1600, Get started for cheap, Wright rack, arms, spindles, SAW leafs, Bilstein in Front/Fox in Rear, FAT bus box, 18 gallon cell $7,000.00. (1) 37" Wells Cargo Trailer, Includes Race Radio Base Station setup, Under floor stor-age, shelving, work bench, inside length is 32" and width is 8', $9,000.00! Make us a package price, all offers considered! Baja Brokers (760) 723-2-117. FOR SALE: Unlimited, 2 seater, CNC, FOX, BEARD, Deist, SAW, McKenzies floaters, BFG, Fuel Safe, 4.5 Chevy Bowtie, Aluminum V-6 + hp, Auto trans, 934 c. v.s, All the best, spares, pkg deal, $40,000.00 or will sell car-motor-no trans. Sepaarate or trade? (714) 441-1212. FOR SALE: Baja Bug Pre Runner or Class 5, motor is 2100cc, Mike Thorton Bus Box W/930 c.v.s and Wilwood inboard Disc brakes, Mi-cro Stubs, 22 gallon Fuel Cell, 6" wider beam +4" trailing arms, Combo spindles, Fox shox with coilover front, SAW spring plates and 300m torison bars, VDO gauges aluminum dash, this car is complete · and very nice! Only asking $8,000 Ref #626 Baja Brokers (760) 723-211 7, check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FRESH 2 SEAT CHENOWTH. Just gone through, no motor and wir-ing but everything else is there! CNC Front Hubs and Brakes, Outboard rear hubs w/4 piston calipers, Hew-land DG300 transaxle, Coilover shocks front and rear, UMP p/s pump and control valve, Fuel Safe cell, drop spindles, nice arms, BFG tires, etc. Call us for more details. Baja Brokers $14,000.00. (760) 723-2117. November 1998 FOR SALE: 1997 FORD F-150 TROPHY TRUCK; Super Trick and Radical design went into this race vehicle. Call for all the de-tails. Freshly rebuilt, painted and ready to race. Air Suspension, 3 7" BFGs etc ... Serious inquiries only. $130,000.00 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. CHEVY PRERUNNER-Very clean, and simple, 15+" wheel travel all around, Kuster shocks, National springs, 35" BFG Bajas w/2 spares on wheels, New 3 75 HP motor, TH-400 race tranny, 9" rear end, '96 fiberglass front clip and bedsides, Autometer LFGs, Beards, harnesses. This truck is also race legal w/fuel cell, harnesses, etc... Call for details. Mike $18,000.00 (760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: 94 1-1600 Dugan Built setup for Class 1 short courses Type 1 2275 & 002 Hewland, both have 100. race miles since built. All the good parts one comer to the other. Enough new and used spares to replace every part on car, no junk. Complete rebuilt and ready to race. $7,500.00 or trade for Fortin 5 speed or Porsche 650. Dennis Dutn (209~586-1967. FOR SA E: 198 Ford Ranger extracab. V6, AC, 5 speed, front fi-berglass, lengthened Heimed radius arms, full incab cage, rear wishbone, 24" travel, Cornutt coilovers, 9" rear with discs. Needs bedside, cell to fin-ish, Clean project truck, $3,750.00 obo call Jim (310) 542-2977. FOR SALE: FAT, 4AG, Toyota Cl.10, 1648cc, 150w built and prep by FAT, only 100 miles. Complete package, ready to install includes alu radiator (Nascar) oil radiator, elec-tric fan, Heavy d_uty starter and spare parts. 1 head and 2 elect. fan, intake TRD (value 750.) + 2 sets pistons etc. $6,000.00 (818) 885-6208. FOR SALE: 5-1600 El Ray Chassis, Fox Shocks, UMP air cleaner, Jazz cell, Wright arms ana combos, new front leafs, 930 stub axles, Summers everything minus motor and trans-mission, $4,500.00 have motor also Maxwell Haus fresh prep new ex-haust $1,800.00. Call Sean (909) 343-3277 r 909 789-6447. FOR SALE: Mirage 1-1600, MDR Class & Overall champ. Folts trans, !?rep by Miragef Call for info. $18,500.00. Roger (818) 841-3906 wk#. FORSALE: l-2-1600TubularCon-cept by Dan Mathews, power steer- · ing, trans by Trans West, motor by Ken Seale, BFG Centerline, two motors, 2 trans, 2 set of tires & wheels, 2 much to list. Car only $8,000.00 everything $10,000.00 Marshall (310) 839-6581. FOR SALE: Ford Protruck, SVO high Prof. Crate motor, spares: transmissions, steering boxes, tires, third member, Driveline, Fresh prep by Fod Fab, ready to race and win. $85,000.00 possible partial trade for A-arm Class 1 car. Call Glen (520) 544-8933. FOR SALE: F-150 2WD Short course Class 13 or Sportsman 2, Fresh powertrain, 466 cid v8 by Holbrook, C-6 transmission and torque con-verter by ATD, dual Kusters at each wheel, complete and ready to race, some spares. Call Dennis (602) 759-9071 $22,500.00. FOR SALE: Chevy Pre-runner, Wernimont Design, 350 hp motor competition trans TH 400, Sum-mers rear end, 40 gal. Fuel Safe, front A-arms, 19" travel, rear trailing arms, 23" travel, Wernimont shocks & coilovers, (6) 35" Baja T As on Alcoas, 96 fiberglass, much more, serious turn-key Pre-runner, $22,500.00 (909) 350-2700. CLASS 8 -Newest truck built, Awe- · some 500 cid V8 by Walker Evans Racing hooked to a special Torqueflite 727 tranny w/custom torque converter. 55 gallQn Fuel Cell, A-Arm Front Suspension, King Coilover/Bypass, CNC Calipers, Quarter Elliptic Rear, Chrisman, Eagle OPS. This truck is beautiful! It is like new with only 6 races on it, ever! The best of everything was used and it is well maintained. Tons of spares Ref #651 $85,000.00 (760) . 723-2117 Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: 1998 Nissan Frontier C.O.R.R.-Pro Lite class, Championo3hip truck, best of every-thing, Serious inquiries only, Com-plete/will brealk up. Call (412) 687-5093. FOR SALE: Chevy Class 8 or Ex-tremely serious pre-runner truck. Have just completed a frame-up res-toration and truck is essentially new. 550+ hp motor, B&M THM400 trans., BFG's, Autometer, Master-craft, Simpson, Fuel Safe 40 gal Cell, Race Shock, KC's , spares and items . too numerous to mention, $48,500.00 oho. Call for Fax info sheet and photos (505) 326-0194 or (520) 639-0408 msg, . • Dusty Times

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FORSALE: 1996JimcoClass 1,Best of everything, Scat V -4 fuel injected, 335 hp fresh, automatic trans. Fresh by Jeff Fields, Mike Smith by pars shocks, Fox, Beard Seat, Autometer, Ron Davis radiator, Setrab coolers, Fortin rack, ECod Fab spindles, Aceco-A-Arms, Air jacks, CNC, Summers bros., BFG, Carbon fiber roof and visor and air scoops, UMP Fresh air cleaner, on boar over $100,000 invested asking $50,000 or $40,000 w/o trans (714) 472-2024. FOR SALE: 1997 JIM CO Class One A-arm Car, TRD/FAT/FOX/JIMCO Factory backed, Primm 300 winner/ 3000cc Aluminum V6 Fortin OON, best components available. All spare wheels, tires, parts - Complete pack-age $60,000.00 oho. Call Mike (619) 562-1743. FOR SALE: Raceco Class 10 or 12 rolling chassis, Fox shocks, Foddrill ft. end, light and fast $6,500.00. Rose 4 speed by Mendeola (new) $3,500.00. FAT Toyota 4AF Class 10 Motor fresh $3,500.00 (209) 486-0280 or (209) 645-5716. E-mail kohnstad@hotmail.c,m 2 SEAT PRERUNNER is a 2-1600 but widened 6" front and rear, 930 c.v., Fox shocks, Sway-A-Way ad-justable frt and rr, aluminum body, 4130 Raceco chassis, lights, Center-lines, Beard, 5 points, needs motor and trans. Call Rich (760) 723-2117 $5,400.00. FOR SALE: JIMCO 1-1600 New Fod Combos, new 300m torsion, Wright, UMP, Fox, CNC, fresh mo-tor and trans. Heim shifter, Flame Out, fast car, no expense spared, all the best. $12,500.00. Call Sean (909) 343-3277 or (909) 789-6447. FOR SALE: 5-1600 El Ray Chassis, Fox Shocks, UMP air cleaner, Jazz cell, Wright arms and combos, new front leafs, 930 stub axles, Summers everything minus motor and trans-mission, $4,500.00 have motor also Maxwell Haus fresh prep new ex-haust $1,800.00. Call Sean (909) 343-3277 pgr (909) 789-6447. Dusty Times FORSALE: 1996JimcoClass 1, Best of everything, Scat V-4 fuel injected, 335 hp fresh, automatic trans. Fresh by Jeff Fields, Mike Smith by pars shocks, Fox, Beard Seat, Autometer, Ron Davis radiator, Setrab coolers, Fortin rack, ECod Fab spindles, Aceco-A-Arms, Air jacks, CNC, Summers bros., BFG, Carbon fiber roof and visor and air scoops, UMP Fresh air cleaner, on boar over $100,000 invested asking $50,000 or $40,000 w/o trans (714) 472-2024. FOR SALE: 1997 FORD F-150 TROPHY TRUCK; Super Trick and Radical design went into this race vehicle. Call for all the de-tails. Freshly rebuilt, painted and ready to race. Air Suspension, 3 7" BFGs etc ... Serious inquiries only. $130,000.00 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: 97 Chenowth 2 seat Class 1, Toyota Ta coma, Fortin DON 5 speed, Kusters front & rear, FodFab front end, 934 c.v.s, Sum-mers rear hubs, CNC front hubs, prepped w/spares, over $70K in-vested, best of everything, $42,500.00 complete oho, or $25,500.00 less motor & trans oho. Jeff (602) 978-=3=07=3=. == FORSALE: Class 11: Sway-A-Way, BFGs, Beard seats, Bilstein $3,500.00. Call John for Details, Afternoon and ve · 0 8-569 . FORSALE: 2-1600Chenowth, new Jimco front suspensions, FOX, Ma-jor motor, Mendeola tranny, Ump Power steering, Pumpers, Flameout, Many wins, 94 FRT Champ, SCORE Ready, Best of everything, to much to list. $14,000.00oboCall (619) 462-6996. FOR SALE: Raceco single seat Class 10 or 12. Major performance 1776 with O miles, bus box with torque lim-iters. Bilstein coilover front, FOX with bump stops on rear. Comes with spare 1835 tum key motor, trailer, spare tires and wheels and spare en-gine parts. Must sell $17,000.00 oho (760) 355-2743. FOR SALE: 5-1600 Race car-2 seats-new engine, extra four mounted new tires, extra racing trans, new regis-tered trailer, many, many more ex-tras, driver passed away-cancer-will sell it all for $7,000.00, (909) 787-8549. FOR SALE: 18' BOX VAN SUP-PORT VEHICLE: Great support ve-hicle, this van is registered as an RV, Generator, AC, Belly boxes for lots of storage, Custom built lookout plat-form on the roof. This GMC would be perfect for a professional motor-cycle team. Has hi-torque Chevy power plant mated to a Spicer 5 speed, very custom vehicle through-out, from the paint to the interior. Asking $12,500.00 Baja Brokers Ref #488(760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: Very dependable and competitive 83 Toyota 4x4, Class 7, 7S or stock mini, 22R, National Springs, Fox shocks, Autometer, Mikuni carbs, Beard Seats, Optima battery, 93 VORRA desert cham-J?ion, many spare parts and tires, $9,000.00 oho. Doug (702) 358-5195. FORSALE: EVERYTHING MUST GO! (1) single seat Class 12, Penhall front and rear suspension with over 20" wheel travel in rear. Kuster coil over front shocks, FOX rear shocks. Dual batteries with battery switch, 100 amp alternator, 24 gal fuel cell, FAT motor, close ratio bus trans, only the best equip used, very light approx 160016s dry. $12,500. (1) Two seat Chenowth prerunner, FAT 1835 motor bus trans, four wheel disk brakes, roof rack, PS, FOX shocks, radio, 30 gal fuel cell, $4,000.00. (1) Single axle trailer for prerunner, tire rack and storage box, $1,000 Lots of spare parts for both cars, spare tires and Centerline runs. ALSO selling welders, tools and lots of misc items. Make an offer on the total package or buy them by the item. Call 800-410-6372 or 714-241-7001 ask for Dave. FOR SALE: Class 1 A-Arm Race ready, 200 housepower type 4, 5 speed trans, Fox Coilover with reservoirs, Kuster bypass. Car is complete with radio and fire system, many spare parts, tires wheels, etc. ALSO 2 axle custom trailer brand new all for $25,000.00. Call for (760) 337-6108 or (760) 344-2056. November 1998 CLASS 1 TRUGGY-As Tricky as Herbst, A-Arm front/rear engineN-drive/Full floater rear, All aluminum Chevy V6 w/500 hp, G-force 5 speed manual trans by Jeff Fields, Super trick suspension with King Coilover and bypass shocks, Air bumps, CNC brakes, 35" Baja's on headlocks, ready to race for overall!! $90,000.00 all trades considered Ref #667 Baja Bro-kers (760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: S-10 PreRunner 383 cid V8 with about 450 hp, th400 trans by the Toy shop, 9" w/Currie axles, 5.14 ring and pinon, 32 gallon fuel cell, Kuster dual rate coilovers and wir bumps, I-Beam front and Trail-ing arms rear w/20+ travel, Newly finished, painted and upholstered, $35,000.00 Ref #687 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. 40" Gooseneck trailer-trailer is 5 years new, triple axle design 40'x7' tall x 102" wide, 4000 kva Owan gen-erator, NC , side door and outside awning, 40 gallon water tank, 15 gal-lon fuel tank, 2 showers, 1 queen bed and 1 single, refer, race radio, underfloor storage, 110/l 2v lighting, toilet w/40 galloon storage tank. $12,500 Ref# 686 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. JOB OPPORTUNITIES Experienced Fabricator wanted in San Diego area. Call Mike (619) 562-1743. LOST &FOUND A helmet was left a FAIR pit B dur-ing the April MDR race in Ridgcrest. Call me with a complete description and I will return it to you. Dave Mass-ingham. Days (714) 634-2200x472 eve (714) 879-7697. PROPERTIES FOR SALE: Johnson Valley area properties, only miles from largest o.h. park in Calif. And only 2 1/4 hours from LA/SD. Parcels 2 1/2-5 acres with/without water meters 1 with 400 S.F. cabin. Ride off road to races, stores, restaurants, gas. Excellent off-road area! Prices from $1,500-$ 7,900. Call for list and maps, Tom Duncan. (805) 382-1161. WANTED DRIVER AVAILABLE FOR BAJA 1000 TO La Paz, 92, 95, 97 Class winner in Class 1000 & 1600, 97 Class 10 lOOOco-champion. Will pre run Section. Call Mike Halliday (909) 682-7377. EXPERIENCED mechanic prefer-ably with fabrication skills. Respon-sible for maintaining unlimited class 1 car, Off shore boat, prerunner. Must be able to travel 12-14 week-ends per year. Salary, 401, health benefits. Excellent working environ-ment, opportunity to work into the aerospace side of the business. Con-tact Chet or Greg, Days in LA area phone (818) 998-9811. !Gl1L ltull\a S«u t , 0.au-«11. CA t\J\t •C:...-.- • .:-. __ ....... _ ...... .. -=---Joha I C&!vl" :Ol1I l'IUUI• StU4't, Ctu o,-nll, CA ,tlll .. ·---..,_..,.,_ 10, -·---_-_··--~- --+--"'"'-'-----+--'"'---------, ... ,. ... , .. ., .. ,__,, __ ..... _ .... ...Jlll.L..:1L--.. --0"'""'-·-,,. '=--=----·---------··--·-·----___ -=...,,.;,,._.=-=--=:.=--==-=::::t:::...-:-:. --· J ________ .... _.., _____ .. _ .. __ .__, . S=EiE=--":""...::=:;:::::=:~--====:::=-: INDEX To Advertisers Baker Performance Products .......... 35 Barbary Coast, Gold Coast, Orleans Hotels ............................. 10 Best In The Desert ............................ 17 Bilstein Corp. Of America ........................ 5 Cactus Racing ...................................... 28 Camburg Engineering ........................ 42 Critical Operations ............................ 50 Donahoe Racing Enterprises ............ 45 Dusty Times ....................................... 36 Fabtech Motorsports ........................ 31 FAT Performance .............................. 40 Fox Racing Shox ................................... 4 Fuel Safe Racing Cells ...................... 45 Fudpucker Racing .............................. 41 Thomas Geer ...................................... 27 German Auto ...................................... 23 Granada • Dakar ................................. 26 Hypercoils ........................................... 37 Kawaguchi Honda .............................. 24 King Shock Tech ................................ 44 McKenzie Performance Products .... 46 Nevada Off Road Buggy .................... 22 Pace Motorsports .............................. 29 Papp Racing ........................................ 51 PCI Race Radios and Equipment.. ....... 7 Pike's Family Restaurant ................. 51 Premier Racing Products , ................ 18 Quartermaster Professional Racing Clutches ............ Back Cover Race Ready Products ........................ 50 Frank Rusich ......................................... 9 SCORE Baja 1000 .............................. 13 SNORE Reserve 250 .......................... 21 Second lap ......................................... 48 Smith/Herbst ...................................... 14 Spec Truck, Inc .................................. 43 Sway-A-Way Corp ................................. 2 Summit Off Road Racing Association ....................... 25 Temecula Off Road ............................ 49 Terrycable Racing Products ............ 42 Tra11saxle Engineering ...................... 28 Tri-Mil Industries .............................. 30 Turbo Blue Racing Gasolines ........... 12 Valley Performance ........................... 39 Web-Cam Racing Cams ..................... 47 Yarnell Specialties ............................ 38 Page 59

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