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Volume 16 -Number 8 August 1999 DUGliJlilDIBI ~ Pub°iisher E~erituslll-lllllllllll .. lllll!IIIIIII.._IIIIIIIIIIIII,._ -E~,~~~::::.: 1-f.@BIA lt 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 Homer Eubanks · Martin Holmes Mike Jenkins Rod Koch Ralph Mason Ron Miller Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh Darryl Smith · Tony Tellier Paul Timmerman Trackside Photo Art Director Larry Worsham -~---arl!II ... Subscription Rates: $25.00 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 liabil,ity 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., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. · snapshot of the Month ... Roger Mears puts his Nissan Pickup almost over but he recovered and went on for the Class 7 win at Glen Helen. It was 1984 and the contest was an HDRA event. · DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES wjll 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 Baja 500 by Judy Smith ..................................................................... 7 19th Rally Argentina by Martin Holmes ..................................................... 16 MDR Kartek 400 by Ron Miller ................................................................... 18 SCORE Baja 500 Motorcycles by Tony Tellier ........................................... 22 Best In The Desert Silver State 300 by John Calvin ................... , .............. 30 SNORE Midnight Special by Judy Smith .................................................... 38 Wild West Pro Rally by Jim Culp ................................................................ 42 Sou'wester Club Rally by Jim Culp .............................................................. 43 FRT Conquista Gran Prix by Ron Miller .. : ......................... .-...................... 44 Best In The Desert Silver State 300 Motorcycles by Mark Kanya ........... 48 DEPARTMENTS Happenings .................................................................................................... 5 Trail Notes ................... : ............................................................ :· ....................... 6 California Rally Series ............................................... · ........................ : ........... 53 Challenger Corner by Joel Mohr ................................................................... 53 CORE Pit Report by Sandy Parker ............................................................... 54 Good Stuff Directory ..................................................................................... 5.6 Classified Ads ................................................................................................ 61 Index To Advertisers .................................................................................... 63 On The Cover Dave Ashley and Dan Smith were the big winners at the Best In The Desert Silver State 300, besting all their competition. First overall in the neat looking Ford. What is there to say? Ivan Stewart does it all again, taking his L7th Baja_ 500 win in the Toyota Tundra, shown here in all it's glory. Color photography by Trackside Photo cSubscribe <Joda_y lo DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 1 year -$25.00 □ 2 years -$40.00 □ 3 years -$55.00 (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 $30.00 US ■ Overseas subscription rates upon request Dusty Times August 1999 Page 3

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1999 Happenings ... USA Jan Wright (011 52 61746834) Ram'6n Castro & Ruben Acevedo (61637/7 0034) Carrera de Campeones Mexicali to San Felipe BC, Mex CORR Championship Off Road Racing Carla Reid (206) 339-9079 _ (All events at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thurston County ORV Park, Olympia, WA) ASOCIACION ESTATAL de AUTOMOVILISMO Sam Lasell, Tech Inspector Apto 42 San Jose de! Cabo Baja California del Sur. Mexico AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP Darryl Smith 19 Somers St. Cashmere, Queensland, 4500, Australia DUSTY TIMES @bigpond.com AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFF ROAD 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 E-Mail: bitdjp@worldnet.att.net September 30-October 3, 1999 Vegas To Reno December 3-5, 1999 Terrible's-Town 250 Pahrump, NV BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTERPRISES Les Wolfe, NEW President 1727 N. Main Sunset, UT 84015 (801) 776-4654 Septeµiber 18 1999 Boneville Challenge Wendover USA BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-3250 CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Sue Robinson 845 School House Road Ramona, CA 92065 (760) 788-3809 E-Mail: windfall@accessl.net Michael Gibeault, SCCA Steward 149 No. Rawhide Ridgecrest, CA 935558 (619) 375-8704 John Dillon, SoPac Rally Steward SOPacRallySteward @ Homernail ... com August 21, 1999 Gorman Ridge Rally Frazier Park, CA Harris Done (310) 458-0199 October 1-2, 1999 Prescott Forest Rally Prescott, AZ Jeff Hendricks (520) 778-7312 October 17, 1999 Nevada Rally Cross Jean, NV Scott Bottomley (702) 396-4782 November 13, 1999 Treeline Rally Monrovia, CA Pete Morris (323) 667-2039 December 9-11, 1999 Ramada Express International Rally Laughlin, NV Roger Allison (909) 736-1442 Rally Cross/Sprint/Hill Climb September 18, 1999 Windy Point Hill Climb Laughlin, NV Rogei-Allison (909) 736-1442 CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box400 Maywood, CA 90270 (323) '560-SHOW CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION -P.O. Box 645 Pierre, SD 57501 Dave Adams (Pilots and Bajas) (605) 224-9481 Don Engleman (Bikes) (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION Dusty Times C.J. Richards P.O. Box 332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLAIRTON ID-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 Ftacc Cd. de San Quintin San Quintin, BC, Mexico Heraclio Patino (011 52 616-5-22-07) CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE San Vicente Off Road Ensi;nada, ?C, Mexico CMC Continental Motosport Club _ P.O. Box3187 Mission Viejo, CA 92690-3178 Fax: (714) 367-1608 COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholtz, President (719) 531-3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P.O Box 8286 Colorado Springs, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP Cachanillas Off Road Promotions P.O Box392 Calexico, CA 92232 01152 (65) 66-60 80 01152 (65) 66-6080 Fax August 20-22, 1999 Santa Veronica, BC, MX October 8-10, 1999 Fiesta del Sol, Mexicali, BC, MX -December 3-5, 1999 (317) 272-2827/FAX: (317) 272-2900 Short Course Racing August 5-8, 1999 Bark River, MI September 3-5, 1999 Crandon, WI September 24-26, 1999 Indianapolis, IN October 6-8, 1999 Stafford, CT October 29-30, 1999 Las Vegas, NV CORVA 1500 West El Camino, Suite 352 Sacramento, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA Ext 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS Dave Van Deren 2405 Baker Ave. Everett, WA 98201 DECATUR FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 DESERT STEEL-MOTORSPORTS 1865 Commander Drive Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 (520) 855-6125 EASTERN OFF-ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Tom Delauder, Sr. 1091 Township Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 ELLIS DESERT RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS (760) 256-8059 October 1-2, 1999 Barstow, CA ESTERO B~CH SHORT (lJ=' llllinner's Circle Ivan Stewart Wins 11th Overall TIiie At Tecate SCORE Baja 500 Off-road racing legend Ivan "lronman" -Stewart won the overall 4-wheel vehicle and Trophy-Truck titles at the 30th running of the Tecate SCORE Baja 500. Driving his full size Tundra Racing VB Toyota truck equipped with Bilstein shocks, Stewart drove solo again for the win celebrating his 54th birthday. It was his 11th overall victory at the Baja 500 and seventh win at this race over the last nine years. It also was his 17th class title in the past 30 years at this event. "Once again our Bilstein shocks performed flawlessly," Stewart noted after his traditional solo drive covered nearly 448 miles of the rugged desert course in northern Baja California in just under nine hours. Other SCORE Baja 500 Class w·inners on Bilsteins . -.. • Class 3 - John Kearne , Isuzu Amigo • Class 7 - Jeff Lewis, Chevy S-10 • Class 1 o -Rick Ellison, Chenowth • Class 11 - Eric Solorzano vw Sedan . -• Stock Full;. Marc Stein, Ford F-150 • Protruck - Rick Johnson,-Ford F-150 _ For all the details contact the Off-Road Racing Department: Call Toll Free 800/537-1085 (i} KRUPP BILSTEIN OF AMERICA 8845 Rehco Road• San Diego, CA 92121 Phone: 858/453-7723 • www.bilstein.com August 1999 Pages

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COURSE RACING Victoria Galindo Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico 0l l-526-176-6225 October 15-17 1999 Baja 1.5 Mile Short Course Race FABTECH Off Road Short Course Series at Glen Helen Raceway . P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (909) 280-9096 Contact: BBM Marketing Promotions P.O. Box 762 Norco, CA 91760-0762 (562) 988-6250/Fax: (909) 280-9097 FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 July 31, 1999 The Nite Team Race August 23, 1999 - The Sweethearts Kiss September 13, 1999 The Cacti Gran Prix October 10, 1999 The Mudhen Sprint October 23, 1999 . The Superstition 250 October 31, 1999 Imperial County Fairgrounds November 21, 1999 Notorious DawgTeam Race December 5, 1999 Rudolph's Revenge Desert Gran Prix December 19, 1999 Imperial County Fairgrounds December 31, 1999 Dunaway Dash GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association 420 Hosea Road Lawrenceville, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 GPORRA Great Planes Off Road Racing Association 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68144, 1122 {402) 333-0517 Eve. Keith Koesters 6716 N. 106th St. Omaha; NE 68122 (402) 4964846 Eve. August 7, 1999 I-80 Race Track September 25, 1999 I-80 Race Track (l-80 Race Track is located 20 minutes · west of Omaha • All races are short course, stadium style. Classes: Trophy, 11-1600, 5, 7S, 1 and Quads) IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box.36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 (All event.5 staged at the club grounds in Cleves. Ohio) INTERNATIONAL ICE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 St. Paul, MN 55108 Steve Beddor (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O. Box 2910 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 (949) 582-23 71 August 15, 1999 13th Annual California Truck Jamboree Orange County Fairgrounds, Costa Mesa, CA KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER 4WDCLUB P.O. Box465 Kamloops, BC, Canada VZG5L2 Bob (250) 374-7175 days Randy (250) 579-9621 eves. Wes (250) 351-2819 L.I.T.R.E. Jeff Elrod (408) 926-0522 Jim Aruta (408) 247-4402 MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS 3749 Needmore Hwy Charlotte, Ml 48813 (517) 543-7214 MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSIDPS M.T.B. Ent~rprises Inc. 15529 Jones Road Grand Ledge, Ml 4883 7 (517) 62 7-6200 Au ust 1 1999 Page& mgham County Fairgrounds Mason, MI Oeeps, Trucks, Buggies, Pilot.5, Road Warriors _and Quad A TV-Money Classes.) MICHELIN SCCA PRO RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP SportsCar Club of America P.O. Box 3278 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 779-6622 July 30-31, 1999 Maine Forest Maine August 27-28, 1999 Ojibwe Forests Minnesota October 1-2, 1999 Prescott Forests Arizona October 22-23, 1999 Lake Superior Michigan MID-AMERICA . OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION MAORA Dean Conklin (217) 868-2154 Walt Flack (217) 987-6568 Brad Key (217) 446-4556 Steph Sabo (618) 327-9312 July 31, 1999 Lincoln•T rail Motorsports Park Casey, IL August 28, 1999 Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL September 28, 1999 Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL October 2-3, 1999 Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL -(M.A.O.R.A. sanctioned races. Series Produced by Lincoln Trail Off Roaders) MOJAVE DESERT RACING 1853 Parkway Drive S. El Monte, CA 91733 (626) 442-9320/(626) 579-6051 Fax E-Mail: mdrracing@aol.com · August 7, 1999 Barstow, CA October 2, 1999 · Lucerne, CA November iO, 1999 · Barstow, CA October 30-31, 1998 Barstow 200 Barstow,CA M.OR.E. Mojave Off Road Racing Enthusiasts P.O. Box 1231 Barstow, CA 92311-1231 (760) 253-4453 August 21, 1999 Stoddard Valley November 6, 1999 Johnson Valley MSBA Michigan Sport Buggy Association Dave Barret 6363 Nightingale Dr. Flint, Ml 48506 (810) 730-9221 NATIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION Rt. #1 -Box 380 Dave or Marlene Ryan Palatka, FL.32177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK ASSOCIATION Butch Chapin Motorsports Promotions . 1404 East 3rd Street Hastings, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OF EL PASO Joey Vasquez 13 180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 855-8899 All races are at Mountain Shadow Lake. Take I-10 Horizon Blvd. exit east 12 miles OHIO OFF ROADERS INC. 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 Jim Kendel (216) 339-4674 All races held at Harrison County Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONT ARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION Rick Tichbourne, Public Relations (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) August 28-29,1999 Cedar Springs September 11-12, 1999 Gopher Dunes {Tentative) PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. Off Road Championship 630-556-6100 Vancouer, BC, Can • PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 Colorado Springs,_ CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 S.C.A.T. INC. Michael R. king P.O. Box277 Morrisonville, NY 12962 (518) 561-3208/(518) 236-7897 SCORE SCORE International. 23961 Craftsman Rd., Suite A Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/FAX: (818) 225-8102 Sep~ember 10-11, 1999 Las Vegas Primm 300 Primm, NV November 5-8, 1999 Tecate/SCORE Baja 1000 TBA, Baja California SNORE Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 4394 Las Vegas, NV 89106 (702) 452-4522 August 13-14, 1999 NAPA Auto Parts 250 Ely,NV September 24-26, 1999 30th Gold Coast SNORE 250 Las Vegas, NV • November 12-14, 1999 The Reserve 250 Henderson, NV SONS OF THUNDER 4WHEELERS Race Division Keith Stewart (714) 522-1899 SODA Short Course Off Road Drivers Association Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD CHALLENGE Steve Rule (8"00) 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-3 Franklin, TN 3 7064 Classis 1/2-1600, 5-1600,, Class 9, SODA Class 11 & Sportsman (All Races at Rally Hill Speedway) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TIMING ASSOCIATION AND BONNEVILLE NATIONALS, INC. 2517 Sycamore Drive #353 Simi Valley, CA 93065 (Mon-Fri 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) (805) 526-1805/Fax:(805) 584-8518 Internet: http://scta-bni.org August 14-20, 1999 Bonneville National Speed Week Wendover, UT September 12, 1999 El Mirage October 10, 1999 El Mirage October 20-23, 1999 · World Finals Wendover, UT November 13-14, 1999 · E!Mirage SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. 4305 Woodark 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 SWORDS South West Off Road Racing Continued on page 62 August 1999 Trail Notes ... -ACIN' IN FLORIDA - If you're in the southeast and have a yen for off road racing you'd better get on down to the Orlando area and get in n the action and the fun. There is a .6 mile clay track for Unlimited cars, 1/2-1600, SODA Class 11 and 12, CORR Light Buggy and trucks as well as street rails. A Quad track has just been added and it looks like some good racing will be going on. The track (Davison Raceway) is located west of Orlando on SR50, 13 miles from 1-75. Contact Marty Neri at 941-745-5678 or Michael notary at 407-254-4716. My TURN• Every time there is some tragedy, it is always followed by the armchair quarterbacks who analyze every move someone made and then tell the rest of the world what that person did wrong. Suddenly Jason Baldwin is the bad guy. The comment I have heard most is that he was driving too fast! C'mon guys, it's a race! You're supposed to drive fast! That's what ~ race is all about! My first race was over 50 years ago, it was only 10 laps on a 1/2 mile track but to me it was a drag race all the way to the finish. And, over the years that's the way all racing is, no matter how long the race, the first 10 or 20 miles is a sprint race and you start to settle down after you get some miles under your belt. Remember, racing is dangerous, both for the racer and the spectator and especially so in off road racing where there is no crowd control to speak of. So, let's write this one off as just another tragedy, and, believe it or not, there will always be tragedies, no ma,tter how hard you try to prevent them. Our condolences go to the family of Luis Alberto Valdez Lopez, a young man of 33 years who was killed in the incident. All the others who were injured are well on the road to recovery as we write this. "Nuf said. TOURIST TARIFF -There has been lots of talk about the new $15 Tourist Fee required to be paid by all as you head down the Baja Peninsula. Supposedly the fee is to be in force from the first of July imposed on all non Mexican citizens. Judy Smith contacted the Mexican Consulate here in Los Angeles and was advised that "Since you are only traveling to Ensenada, you are exempt from the fee." We also tried to find out how you pay the fee, in cash, U.S. or Mexican currency, will"they take a credit card or a check, but that info was not available. And, further, we were not able to ascertain that if you were going to the Estero Beach Hotel, which is some six miles south of Ensenada, whether this $15 fee would be in effect. We'll keep trying to get more information for your use. Stay tuned. SCORE POINTS -The SCORE Fireworks 250 will be running as we print this issue so look for ·all the details in the next issue. Here, for your reading enjoyment are the point standings for the top guns compiled after the Baja 500. In the Trophy Truck group, Ed Herbst has 137 points and a 20 point lead over Kreg Donahoe with Larry Roeseler and Dan Smith just five points behind that. In Class 1, Trot Herbst has 159 points, Darnen Jefferies has 146 and· Ryan Arciero has 144 to his credit. In 1/2-1600 Vic Bruckmann leads with 205 points, Bekki Freeman is next with 177 and Jim Dizney has 157. In Class 3 Darren Skilton has 119 with_ John Kearney at 108, Class 5 has George Seeley at 141 with Mike James a loooong way behind. David Gasper leads 5-1600 with 164, Carlos Iribe is right there with 16·1 and Mario Ledezma rings in with 129. Jeff Lewis leads Class 7 with 156 points with Craig Turner at 127. Bruce Land field heads the 7S contingent with 118 points and Steve Cirillo is ten points behind. Brian Collins heads Class 8 wit Armando Arce in the second spot. Class 9 has Daniel Mora in the lead with 118 points, Jimmy Messick is only three points behind and Eric Fisher is only two points behind Jimmy. Rick Ellison heads Class 10 with 167 points, Danny Anderson rings in with 152 and Miguel Tomei has 143 points. Jerry Penhall has a slim lead in SCORE Lites with 158 points, Steve Greinke is right there· with 154 and Arturo Honold has 139. Eric Solorzano has a stranglehold on Class 11, Rob Rei~erton leads Stock Mini, Marc Stein has a 20 point lead over Manny Esquerra in Stock Full and in Pro Truck Mike Hardaway" has a slim 4 point lead on Rick Johnson and Scott Steinberger runs in third pace. In Sportsman cars, Walter Prince heads the field and Alfonso Hernandez leads the truck class. In the motorcycle classes, Johnny Campbell leads Class 22, Ricky Fernandez is the Class 21 leader, Mike Allsup is the Class 30 leader, Gary Teprier is on top of class 40 and Dave Olen leads Class 50. Pro ATV has Carmen Cafro leading Class 24 and Gilberto Santana leads Class 25. In Sportsman bikes and A TV's, Takashi Hatsuta and Joseph West lead the over and under 250cc classes and Jesse Jones leads the A TV class. We are only halfway through the season so stay tuned for later events as they occur. MICHELIN SCCA PRORALLY -With five of the nine rallies now under their belts, we thought we'd give you the overall points standings of the top ffve drivers and co-drivers as we go into the second half of the season. Overall Driver: Noel Lawler 51, Paul Choiniere 42, Garen Shrader 28.4, Peter Lahm 27.8 and Lauchlin O'Sullivan 26. Overall Co-Driver: Charles Bradley 51, Jeff Becker 42, Doc Shrader 28.4, Matt Chester 27.8 and Joe Noyes 23.8. Overall 2WD Driver: Ra_lph Kosmides 68.2, Karl Scheible 50, Henry Krolikowski 31, Gerry Valentini 29 and Kendall Russell 21.6. Overall 2WD Co-driver: Joe Noyes 68.2, Gail McGuire 50, Cindy Krolikowski 31, Lee Sorenson 29, John Dillon 21.6. Open Driver: Noel Lawlor 51, Paul Choiniere, Paul Choiniere 42, Garen Shrader 33.2, Peter Lalim 32, Jon Kemp 26. Open Co-Driver: Charles Bradley 51, Jeff Becker 43.2, Doc Shrader 33.2, Matt Chester 32, Mark Williams 29. Production GT Driver: Gail Truess 68, Lee Shadbolt 48, Kendall Russell 43.2, Carl Landau 29.2, Chris Czyzio 23. Production GT Co~Driver: Claire Chizma 48, Pattie Hughes 46, John Dillon 43.2, Eric Marcus 29.2, Eric Carlson 23. Production Driver: Karl Scheible 73, Trevor Danison 26, Mark Brown 22, Jay Kowalik 17, Ted Mendham 14. Production Co-driver: Gail McGuire 73, John Allen 22, Scott Embree 17, Catherine Roso 14, Lise Mendham 14. Group 5 Driver: Ralph Kosmides 68.2, Henry Krolikowski 34/ Gerry Valenti 34, Mark Utecht 21, Carl Jardeval 14. Group 5 Co-Driver: Jee Noyes 68.2, Cindy Krolikowski 34, Lee Sorenson 34, Diane Sargent 21, Martin Dapot 14. Group 2 Driver: Chad Dykes 26.2, Bryan Hourt 22, Todd Hartmann 22, Douglas Davenport 20, Gerald Sweet 17. Group 2 Co-Driver: Deborah Fuller 26.2, Pate\- Cardimen 22, Shawn Callahan 22, Stuart Spark 17, Christian Edstrom 15. The Maine Forest, Ojibwe "Forests, Prescott Forest and Lake Superior events are coming up and we wish all the competitors the best of luck. PIKES PEAK HILL CLIMB -The 77th Race To The clouds took place on July 4 as 164 competitors raced up the hill in 18 different classes including motorcycles, quads, sidecars and all sorts of four and 10 wheei vehicles. There were 20 entries in 250cc motorcycles and Russell Pearson took the bronze medal on his KTM, climbing the Continued on page 62 Dusty Times

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1999 TECATE SCORE BAJA 500 Stewart Does It again By Judy Smith Photos: Trackside Photo John Kearney, Class 3 winner, guides his Isuzu Amigo through one of the many wet spots on the course. Ivan Stewart extended his There was one fatality, a Mexi-well on the road to complete re-string of Baja 500 wins to 1 7, can citizen identified as Luis covery. The other injuries ran driving the full length of this Alberto Valdez Lopez, 33, of El the gamut from a ruptured year's Baja 500 at the front of Sauzal, near Ensenada. spleen, collapsed lung, and bro-the pack in his Toyota Tundra. While the accident cast a pall ken bones to serious and pain-It was a victory tinged with sor-over the day for those who were fol bruises. All the victims but row and worry: sorrow for the aware of it, many, if not most · two were Americans, and all in- · victims of an early accident in-of the racers carried on in bliss- ju red patients were reported to volving spectators, and worry· _ fol ignorance. Stewart was told be recovering well four days af-about the condition of his son, his son and daughter-in-law had ter the accident. Craig, and Craig's wife Sherrie, been injured, but believed that The race had started, as last who were two of the injured. the injuries were slight and was year, in the· small town of El Stewart was made aware of not overly concerned. As it Sauzal, just north of Ensenada, the accident, which occurred turned out, while Sherrie Stew-and then wound through the when Jason Baldwin's Trophy art had a cut on her scalp which hills, crossing and briefly run-Truck rolkd over into some needed stitches, Craig was dis-ning on the Tecate Highway, spectators about two miles into covered to have a blood clot on before climbing up through the the race, because his team's he- his brain in addition to a bro-Guadalupe Wash and thence to licopter left him to his own re-ken collar bone. He had surgery Ojos Negros. Then it went to El sources and went back to the late on Saturday, and by the fol- Reyo, down through the pine accident scene to help by car-lowing Tuesday was released to forest, down the Goat Trail (a rying the injured to hospitals. recover at home, apparently last remnant of the old, original Dave and Bill Gasper, 5-1600 victors, splash through the wake of another car in their class. road) to Valle Trinidad, and up to Mike's. From there they came down, past Simpson's Ranch, nearly to Valle Trinidad again, then westward to Highway 1 . and Llano Colorado, out to the beach and north•ward through Erendira and into Santo Tomas. From there they headed up the highway, into Uruapan, through Tres Hermanos and over .to Ojos Negros again, from where they used the same road for the trip back into town. The hills that had been difficult on the way out, were now uphill, muddy and nearly impossible for the limited classes, though the early arrivals, who came in be-fore sunset, seemed to have no problem. The Trophy Truck class took the green flag first, and Baldwin and his father, Jim, who was first off the line, were obviously out of the race very early. The others, who moto red past the scene of the accident with no · idea· of its severity, found them-selves lined up behind Stewart, who'd celebrated his 54th birth-day the day before. He had the lead before he got to El Reyo,. where he was four minutes in front of Dave Ashley in his cen-ter-seated Ford. Ed and Tim Herbst ran third in their Ford, while Jerry Whelchel in Mark Post's Ford (it used to belong to Robby Gordon) was fourth, promising to drive at "only 75%" so he'd be sure to get it to Mark. When they got to Jamau, 176 miles into the race, Stewart had only 14 seconds on Ashley, and he was only 13 seconds up on the Herbsts. Whelchel was fourth, eight minutes later and Larry Roeseler, .who'd lost his transmission before Ojos Ne-gros, was still under repa"ir. Juan Carlos Ibarra and his Ford dis-appeared before Jamau, but Kreg Donahoe, in Chris Wilson's Class 8 Ford, was still running, although already a couple of hours down. He still has no Trophy Truck, but while he works on that problem, he will be racing a variety of other vehicles in the class just to keep amassing points. Brian Collins and Dale White also put their .class 8 Chevy into the Trophy Truck class this time, because there were so few Class 8s. They lost a transmission early on and ran nearly three hours off the pace already. As they hit the highway down on the Pacific side, 287 miles along the way, Stewart had built his lead to eight min-utes. It was still Ashley second, but Dan Smith took over for the final half of the day. The Herbsts dropped back when they discovered they had no 'brakes while coming into a turn on the road up to Mike's. When the dust cleared they were a gi-ant teeter-totter on top of a boulder described as "half the size of a VW." It cost them an hour and they fell to fourth while Whelchel and Post moved into third place. But they were also having brake trouble. In fact, bad brakes seemed to be. the theme of the race in all classes. John Penner & Rick Ellison put their Chenowth Millennium into the winner's circle in Class 10. Course .was -very dusty as this photo shows. Seen here slogging through the mud, Doug Fortin, Class 1 winner, said he ran in dust most of the day. Iv.an later said, "I was just cru(sin' along .and we let him Continued on page 8 Typical of Baja, Carlos lribe, second 5-1600 got stuck and his His back tires making dust while the fronts throw mud, William Alverson· Craig Turner drops off a hill in his Ford, as he makes his way to second passenger had to get out and shove. deals with the realities of racing in Baja. He was third Class 10. place in Class 7. 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Early in the morning, while the car is still clean, Gorky McMillin & While a stuck racer works on his truck Bekki Freeman & Adam Wik Hector Sarabia, Luis Guevara and Federico Montez, motor their "Spirit Brian Ewalt motor past some of the throngs of spectators. muscle their Jimco through the deep sand with a rear flat. of Ensenada" Jimco through the mud. They were third in Class 9. sneak up on us." When they got winner, and as he breathed a Doug Fortin, )r., was third in his and very hard to pass. In third fourth, about two and a half back to Ojos Negros, roughly 60 sigh of relief, he said "I ran Jimco, an0ther five minutes now it was Muller, followed by minutes later. MacCachren and miles from the finish, Smith was harder that last 60 miles th-an back, and running fourth it was Thomas, ab1out two minutes Baldwin were still fifth. Arcier-only a little over two minutes all day!" Smith and Ashley were Rod Muller in his Pontiac pow-later. Rob MacCachren ran fifth o was moving again, but not yet back. Ivan's crew warned him to disappointed, but still grinning ered Porter 22 seconds behind in Nick Baldwin's car, the all to Jaman, and Troy Herbst, usu-put his foot in it. Smith was also a lot about th~ performance of him. Ryan Thomas was fifth in wheel drive Nye Frank chassis ally near the front in his Ford charging hard. Post wasrnnning their new truck. The Herbsts his aluminum V6 Chevy pow-car that Mark Post had_ been Truggy, had lost second gear third, about an hour down, with came in third, over an hour ered Chenowth, )ust ui;i.der a driving lately. Post was going to and also had to have his broth-the Herbs ts in fourth, 10 min-later, passini Post as he dealt minute later. There was a gaggle . play with his Trophy Truck this ers bring him a tie rod, once utes behind him. Roeseler was with a hemorrhaging transmis-of talent and power riding just time, so Baldwin goi: the big they got off their big rock. Pat having an uneventful day, work- sion. He added tranny fluid and behind this group also, though horsepower car to play with. Dean lost his motor in the next ing his way up through the limped in fourth, followed by some were already in trouble. Chuck Hovey, meanwhile; had stretch. Scott McMillin lost a slower classes, two hours back, Roeseler, a half hour later. Col- Ryan Arciero had major trans-run ini:o a tree and knocked out· rear caliper, Hovey lost a fan and another hour behind him it · lins and White were sixth, and mission problems in Bob his power steering, and Arciero belt and Larry Job and Kory was Donahoe and Wilson, with Donahoe and Wilson were sev-Gordon's Toyota Chenowth at was waiting for the crew to fin-Scheeler were having trouble Collins and White, after rep lac-enth. Mile 50 and was busy with re-ish with the epoxy and hose-With water crossings. Every time ing their replacement transmis-Next in line for the green flag pairs, while Josh Waddell, in a clamp repairs to his transmis-they went through one their sion, another half hour down. were the Class 1 cars, 28 strong. Honda Chenowth, lost two and sion case. At least in a mid en-Jimco quit. They weren't alone. At' the finish line Ivan was Even with all that advanced a half hours in the first section gine car it's easy to get to. Darnen Jefferies misjudged the literally looking over his shoul-technology, horsepower and ex- somehow. Down the beach side Fortin last turn on the beach and der for Smith. But it wasn't an perience, three of them couldn't When they reached Jamau had finally cleared most of the .rolled his Jimco over, landing issue. He'd had a flat, changed get to Ojos on the way out. But Herder had moved into the traffic and, now with less dust, on the wheels. it and then had another. Now of those that made it, Mark Mc-lead, with Fortin about eight moved into the lead, though Just about 6:00 p.m., they with no spare, Smith had to Millin, in a Ford powered Chen-minutes behind him in second Herder, in second, was still in started to arrive back at Ojos drive about three ·miles on the owth (talk about horsepower place. Herder had been the fifth front of him on the road. Corky Negros, where they picked up pavement to get to his crew for and experience) was in the lead, Class 1 car off the line, while McMillin, in a Ford powered the road they'd used on the out-a new tire. He lost 15 minutes with five minutes on second Fortin was the 20th. Fortin was Chenowth, was third now, fight-bound trip. Fortin, now the first in the process. Ivan was tb·e place John Herder in his Jimco. finding it very dusty out there, ing bad brakes, and Muller was of his class on the road, was \ Page a August 1999 Dusty Times

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dealing with the dust of only the occasional motorcycle, and, at the very end, the Ford Trophy Truck of Ashley and Smith. He had passed Herder after Erendira, on the beach, and was having a fine day with no me-chanical problems. Herder, who had three flats for the day, and also repaired a throttle return spring, ran second, about seven minutes back. In third it was Muller, while Brian Ewalt, in Corky McMillin's car, ran fourth, still struggling with poor brakes. Gus Vildosola had his Jimco up to fifth, back in after Charlie Watters drove the middle stretch of die course. In the last section Fortin ran in Smith's· dust, but it didn't slow him down any. Not only did he get the Class 1 win, but he was second in the car/truck standings, behind Stewart, and fourth overall when the motor-cycles are included. Herder ran the final 20 miles with no power steering. He was exhausted, but second, only 10 minutes back. Muller had a flat, but got that fixed, and then, still third, got to within three miles of the fin-ish line and when his motor burbled, momentarily lost power steering, didn't make a turn and went off the side and down into a ravine. It took three hours, a four wheel drive vehicle, his chase crew and about 20 Mexi-can spectators to get him out, and he'd dropped to 17th place by the time he'd finished. Corky McMillin and Brian Ewalt, still with bad brakes, moved up to third place. Jefferies, crumple1 but cheerful, was fourth, a little over.a minute later, and Vildo-sola and Watters finished fifth, a minute further on. A total of 19 finished in this class, includ-ing Arciero, with his transmis-sion epoxied and hose-clamped together, last to make it in, in a time of almost 15 hours. . Last year none of the Protrucks made it to the finish line; this year they did much better. Larry Plank, Ford, was in front at El Reyo, nine minutes up on Rick Johnson, in another Ford, who'd been stuck near Guadalupe Wash when his igni-tion got wet and ·quit. Gary Vosberg ran third in his Ford, with Andrew Wehe, in a Chevy, a minute and a half behind him. Ryan Herzog had a couple of · early flats on his Ford, and Kevin McGillivray, in a Chevy, lost an hour before getting to Ojos with some kind of problem. Plank had built his lead to 18 minutes by Jamau, and it was still Johnson in second place. Wehe ran third another 10 min-utes back with Vosburg fourth and Scott Steinberger in fifth place in his Ford. Steve Scaroni, Several massive traffic jams occurred, here the winning Sportsman, Candy Cane team Walter & Marq Prince & Doug Browne look for a way around. They found one. Vic Bruckmann and Jason Hatz paired up in their Chenowth to take the win in 1/2-1600 by 14 seconds. in the meantime, had hit a tree with his Ford and broken his power steering box. Coming down onto the Pa-cific side, Johnson moved into the lead, with Wehe now sec-ond only five minutes behind him and Scott Steinberger up to third place, another five min- · utes Qack. In fourth, nine min-utes behind Steinberger, was Vosburg. Riding with him was Casey Folks, promoter .of the Best In The Desert races, out to enjoy some of the best of Baja. Mike Hardaway and Joe Heger, who drive a Ford, had a long day, beset with unknown troubles, and then rolled over at about Mile 354, and became in-extricably stuck, needing much help to get out of the spot. They went no further. At Ojos on the return, which is Mile 388, Wehe had the lead, with Johnson one minute be-hind him. Steinberger ran third, his right front bump stop gone, so his suspension was a little un-stable. Vosburg, having a per-fect day, came steadily on at fourth; while Plank had lost a couple of hours and now ran a · distant fifth, followed only by Scaroni, who was driving all the way, his co-driver, Craig Stew-art, having been flown to a hospital in the U.S. All the rest were done for·the day. It was very close for those fi. nal few miles, and when Johnson got his ignition wet and stalled again, Steinberger moved to the front as Wehe's motor began to fail. Steinberg-er got to within a mile of the fin-ish and fell victim to a booby trap on a section of course lined with spectators. Because of the· missing l,)ump stop his truck didn't handle it well, the left front corner dug in, he endoed, and then did three barrel rolls. While he pasted things back to-gether, Johnson, who'd dried off and restarted his truck, motored in to the win, with Vosburg a half hour back in second place. Steinberger eventually showed · tip at the finish, all four wheels pointed in different directions, no Fiberglass to speak of, and a seriously unhappy look on his face, in third place. He was.only 16 seconds behind Vosburg. Andrew Wehe came in about five minutes later, but he was on a tow strap, with a big hole in his motor and not running, so he was a DNF. Scaroni was fourth, and last, about three and a half hours later. Plank did ac-tually cross the finish line, but was about 31 minutes over the Marc Stein and Mike Mccomas, Ford, Stock Full winners, make their way through one of the many mud holes in the early part of the course. Jeff Lewis and his Chevy had lots of problems with brakes and power steering, still won Class 7. cut off time. Class 3 had three entries for this race, and things went poorly for two thirds of them early in the day. Darren Skilton and his Kia got stuck in a traf-fic jam that developed near the beginning of the race, when lim-ited cars couldn't make some hills. John Kearney, in the Isuzu, found his way through and developed a huge lead, making it to Ojos Negros over two hours in front of Kirk Kovel in his Bronco, who was another two hours in front of Skilton. Kearney had a torn c.v. boot, . and had to keep stopping to tape it up, but otherwise his truck, which has only eight inches of travel, kept moving along at a solid pace. Behind him Kovel bombed out before Jamau some-where, but Skilton moved along at a good speed, picking up a little time on Kearney. By San Vicente he'd picked up about a half hour, but it was all in vain, because he doesn't show up on the records after that. Kearney moved on placidly, making it to the finish line some 33 minutes before he would have run out of time, to get the win. _ Class 5 had a tough day also, one of the first to go out being the new car of Danny and Hector Le-dezma, who've just switched from Class 5-1600. They ·lost their transmission near Guadalupe Wash, and became spectators very early on. Mike Jakobsen was also reported out before 10:00 a.m., also report-edly with terminal transmission trouble. Meanwhile, Bill Wesley moved to the front, where he had 11 minutes on George See-ley at El Reyo. Carlos Cesena ran third, another 1 7 minutes back, and Mike Kalicki was an hour and a half off the pace in fourth. When they arrived at Jamau, Seeley was in the lead, in spite of having been stuck in the pine forest for a while. Wesley was now second, 10 minutes back, and Cesena was third, about 50 minutes d'own. Kalicki, whose co-driver was Michael James, had run head on into a non race vehicle up in the woods, and done so much damage to his car that he couldn't continue. Down on the Pacific side Se~ley _continued to lead, and he had an hour on Cesena, who'd moved up to second. · Wesley and his co-driver, Jimbo Zinn, were only two minutes behind him in third. Seeley put Continued on page· 10 ..-------------------- ---~ George Erl and Jerry Penhall claw their way up along the fence in John Herder had three flats and finished with no power steering in his Eric Fisher drove his Jimco to second place in Class 9, even with a their Penhall . .They were third SCORE Lite. Jimco, second in Class 1. _b_ro_k_en_th_,-,_ot_tl_e_c_a_bl_e_. _______________ _ Dusty Times August 1999 Page9

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t ' Dave Ashley and Dan Smith were slowed by two late flats on their Bruce Landfield and Brett Turley run along the stream bed in their Tow strap in hand, Gary Vosburg and passenger Casey Folks ready their Ford Protruck to be pulled out of a bad spot. Ford, took second Trophy Truck. Bruce Anderson in to drive to the finish, and when he rounded the last turn at Ojos Negros, he stillJiad the lead, and in fact, was an hour and a half in front of Zinn. Cesena was another 12 minutes back, but then didn't make it to the finish line. Seeley and Anderson took the win, with Wesley and Zinn, who said they had only minor problems, second, two hours· down. Class 5-1600 also had a tough day. They started at about 8:35 a.m., and then hit Ojos on the return at 7:30 or later, assuring that they'd be in the mud hills after dark, and unable to see ways to avoid the sticky stuff. In fact, out of the 18 cars that started, seven were unable to make it through the first 60 miles. At El Reyo, "the lead be-longed to Javier Valenzuela and Mike Burgett, who had about 12 minutes on Eric and Shane Pavolka who'd been briefly stuck before Ojos. In third it was Eric Deen, and Mario Le-dezma was fourth after rolling over and having to wait for help to get uprighted again. In fifth place it was Dave Gasper, who'd been stuck in the muck for a while. Burgett held his lead through Ford Ranger. They were second in Class 7S. Jamau, but Pavolka hacfcfosed hustled to do a transplant before up on him a little and Deen was going on. -That left Gasper and still hanging in there in third Peen nearly side by side going place. Ledezma and Gasper fol-into the final stretch. Gasper lowed along in order. Then had a hard time getting up the things changed. At Mile 287 mud hills, and the last he saw Pavolka had taken over the lead of Deen, he was stiil working at and Burgett and his co-driver, it. The Gaspers took the win, Javier Valenzuela, were now Bill saying "I love this race!" second, just under three min-Then it was an hour and 15 utes back. Deen was a close minutes before another car third, and Elias Ledezma ran came, and it was Iribe. fourth while Gasper, who'd had Valenzuela was another hour his car on its side up -by Mike's, back to give himself and Burgett was still fift_h. Only 24 minutes third place, and two minutes separated first from fifth after later it was the Ledezmas, with 287 miles. their replaced transmission. When· they came back Another eight minutes back and through Ojos Negros again itwasVictorOrellanaandJuan Pavolka was gone, reportedly Delgadillo who'd had a busy stuck somewhere. Now the Le- day. At one point Delgadillo dezma team moved co· the front, had gently laid his car on its and they had just three minutes side, and when a bunch of spec-on the Gasper team, brother Bill ta tors came over to help him now driving. He'd had to right it, they accidentally sent change a c.v. boot. In third four it the rest of the way over -minutes later it was Eric Deen, twice. Then they'd,had a couple and then came Carlos .Iribe· of flats and had been stuck in who'd been rear ended ear.lier in the mud, but they go t back in the day, and suffered a bent time for fifth place. Deen never drum and stub axl"e and other did get to the finish line. damage as a result. Valenzuela, In the Class 7 race, the early who was driving only his second lead belonged to Jeff Lewis in race, was now fifth. He'd been his Chevrolet, and he had an stuck. hour by the time he'd got to El The Ledezmas had major Reyo. Second place was in the transmission problems, and hands of Chad McNeil, in Uncle Perry's Ford. He had just four minutes on his uncle, who was _ Valley Performance in Eli Yee's Ford, in third place. Roberto Anda ran fourth, a little over a half hour further back, in another Ford. Barry Karakas used up eight hours just getting to Ojos, and then wisely called it a day. Craig Turner, driving his old slightly improved 7S truck, was fifth, an hour af-ter Anda, and two and a half Custom Accessories ,Competitive Prices Now Available Barbary Coast Class 2 Two Seater· $45,000 hours behind Lewis. Lewis built his lead· to an hour and a half by the time he reached Jamau, and now Perry McNeil had moved up to sec-ond, with his nephew, Chad, in third and Anda fourth. Turner was another two hours· back, and fifth. But the McNeils ran out of fuck in the next section, .field, and Landfield's co-driver, and neither got to Mile 287, so Brett Turley. Bernardino was that bumped Anda up to sec-another hour back, and Cirillo ond, three and a half hours be-ran 45 minutes behind him in hind Lewis, with Turner about fourth. Cody Swaney was a very an hour and a half behind him distant fifth in his Jeep, but in third. Lewis wasn't having a then he never got back to Ojos. good day himself, what with bad Neither did Cirillo for that mat-brakes and no power steering. ter, and no one else was run-He had repairs of a sort made ning. on the brakes and if he stomped Vinje and Gilchrist had a on the pedal with both feet the run-in with another traffic jam car would slow down. He also (they counted 28 cars in one of had a fuel pressure problem that those jam-ups), and they had a limited his top speed to 80 mph. broken shock bolt, but no me-That sounds plenty fast for a car chanical troubles, and went on with no brakes. to take the win. Vinje declared Lewis kept moving along, but that his "bionic parts" were still Anda lost a couple of hours in working, and started planning the next stretch and Turner more racing. Landfield and Tur-moved into second place. He'd ley finished second, just six min-had a shock when he'd stalled utes before they'd ·have run out his truck and after he restarted of time, and Bernardino's race it, discovered it wouldn't steer. came to an end somewhere in - Seems the pitman arm had bro-the night, in the mud hills. ken right at that moment. The Stock Mini trucks had Lewis took the win. with a even worse luck. Bob Lund was cushion of over five hours on out before Ojos Negros, in his Turner who was second. Anda Isuzu VehiCross, for unknown managed to finish with just 17 reasons. That left Rob Reinert-minutes left on the clock, in son in his Ford and Tim Casey third place. . in his Toyota 4Runner to duke Class 7S found it tough go- · it out. Reinertson had the lead ing also. Malcolm Vinje P.Ut his by 11 minutes at El Reyo, but Ford into the lead by El Reyo, then had serious problems, and testing his new hip in the race Casey went to the front by truck for the first time. He was Jamau, nearly three hours up on scheduled to drive only 200 Reinertson. Things turned miles. Alfonso Bernardino was around again, and Reinertson second about 35 minutes back, was the only one to get down to followed by Bruce Landfield in the beach, and then he faded his Ford, and Steve Cirillo, away also, never making it back Toyota, about two hours down to the finish. So Class Stock to the leader already. This Mini had no official finishers, group had been caught in a traf-although Reinertson did get the fie jam for about an hour, and most mileage covered. Vinje had used some of his years Class 8 was nearly non exis-of experience to find a way out te·nc, with only Armando Arce and around the mess, followed in his old Ford truck. He never by a horde of vehicles. even got as far as Ojos Negros At Jamau it was still Vinje in on the way out. We have no re-front, with about 40 minutes on port of what brought him to Landfield. Bernardino now ran grief. third, with Cirillo in fourth. In the Stock Full class Marc When they got to the Pacific . Stein had the early lead in his side of the peninsula, Jim Gil- Ford with about 45 minutes on christ was in Vinje's truck, and his brother, David Sykes, in an-he had over an hour on Land-other Ford, at El Reyo. In third .,,-,,------------------~------~ it was John Griffin in his nearly Page .10 Ca Dave or 702-247-1266 or 702-873-1962 3636 Mead Avenue Laa Vegas, NV 89102 702-247-1266 702-873-1962 Back in action after a hip replacement, Malcolm Vinge and non-driver Jim Gilchrist took the win in Class 7S in their Ford. August 1999 silent Hummer, while Manny Esquerra ran almost an hour behind him in his Ford. Stein held the lead, building it to two hours and 20 minutes and now it was Griffin in sec-ond, as Esquerra moved to third, two minutes behind him, and Sykes lost a couple of hours. But the seesaw tilted the other way in the next section, and · Griffin didn't_ make it to the beach. Stein, and co-driver Mike McComg,s, who'd ridden the early part of the course, had a flat and got ·stuck a couple of. times, but still had two and a half hours on Sykes, and Esq-uerra was another half hour Continued on page 13 Dusty Times

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back. Stein and McComas stayed in front the rest of the way, taking their win in 13 hours and 44 minutes. Sykes got to the finish line a half hour late, and Esq-uerra showed ·up an hour late, so neither got an official finish. In Class 9 there were three cars that never got as far as Ojos Negros: Ron Plunkett, Tony Gomez and Dave Collier were all finished before they really got started. But Eric Fisher put his Jimco into the lead, with 15 minutes on George Ladwig. In third it was the veteran team of Hector Sarabia, Federico Montez and Luis Guevara in their Jimco. Cisco Bio ran fourth in his dad's Tubular De-signs car (which is nearly as old as he is), and Jaime Avalos was fifth in his Chenowth. Bio had been high centered for about 40 minutes. At Jamau it was still Fisher in front, with the Sarabia/ Montez/Guevara team in sec-ond, Bio third, Ladwig fourth and Jimmy Messick up to fifth in his M&T racing chassis. · · By the time they got to the Pacific side it was a really close battle between Fisher and the Sarabia team. Eric had just five minutes on them, and Bio's car still. ran third, with the Gutier-rez brothers, "Indio" and "Coy-ote" each driving a section. They had a small problem with the ignition quitting on them. Jesus Luna and Bill Rodriguez were now fourth. Luna, who started, had had a flat, and af-ter he fixed it he'd got back in his car, belted in and tried to start it. The car wouldn't start. So he pushed it, got it rolling, ran and jumped in, and then repeated the drill several times, until it finally moved fast enough to start. When he got to the next pit, where he was scheduled to get out and put Bill in, he groused around kick-ing the tires and complaining· about the bad starter that caused him all that trouble. Bill, with a sharper eye, spotted the problem. Jesus had accidentally disconnected the starter button wire when wrestling with the tire. Bill p-ut it back on and the car fired up with no trouble. Messick was running fifth at this point, two houts behind the lead car. · Back up at Ojos again, Fisher had five minutes on the Sarabia/ Montez/Guevara team who'd had a loose ball joint and had lost first gear. The Bio/Gutier-rez team was third another 10 minutes back, and Luna and Rodriguez ran fourth, with Mes-sick still in fifth. In sixth, and the last car running now, it was David Mora and Rafael Aguilera Steven Greinke and Dale Dondel teamed up in their Porter to take the win in SCORE Lites. Here they navigate up a mud hill. in their Chenowth. tensen, was already out with Fisher broke a throttle cable, new car problems, and Willie and after repairs ran without his Cummings had run his Raceco hood. His visor got muddy and off an embankment according to smeary, so he ran with it up, and reports. Chris Harrold, in a his eyes took a lot of punish-Honda driven Jimco, had bro-ment. The Bio and Gutierrez ken a heim-end, got a spare team, meanwhile, moved to the from Vildosola's crew, and was front and went on to take the busy making repairs. win, Pancho doing the driving Ellison and his co-driver, for the last section. Fisher fell John Penner, were still leading back to second, but only two down on the Pacific side, but minutes and 10 seconds back; In had only a minute on Anderson. third it was Sarabia/Montez and Price was now third, with Guevara, who reported two flat Alverson dropping to four"th ·af-tires during their long day. Luna ter losing about 20 minutes. and Rodriguez were fourth, with Mike Sandoval and Mike Will-Messick in fifth and Mora ar1,Q iams were up to fifth in their Aguilera sixth, the last of the Meco, having one of their bet-class to finish. ter races in some time. The Class 10 folks mostly Penner carried on smartly, made it to Ojos Negros, leaving having no problems, but at Ojos only Dave Sundquist, in his the second time around, his lead Jimco and Ben Schlimme, an-over Anderson was only 55 sec-other Jimco, behind. Schlimme onds. Price was still third, gets credit for the shortest dis-Alverson fourth and Tomei and tance traveled, breaking some- his co-driver Jaime Medina, had thing crucial in his shifter a bounced back up to fifth after a quarter of-a mile into the race. rollover which tore off the roof Miguel Tomei, who, a bit late of the car. getting to the start, just barely Penner and Ellison made no slid into his Jimco before they mistakes that mattered, and had waved the green flag at him, no·me.chanical trouble, and got must have been so pumped with their first win. They said it was adrenaline that he charged to a perfect day, and went off for the front. He had a little over what must have been a celebra-three minutes on Rick Ellison in tion of historic proportions. his Honda powered Chenowth. Price was second about 45 min-In third place it was Danny utes lat~r, followed in by Anderson, who was soloing his Alverson in third place. The Jimco this time as Rob Mac-surprise of the day was Harrold, Cachren, who usually co-drove who'd had John Marking's help with him, drove a big motor car. with driving on the middle se·c-I n fourth it was William tion of the course. They fin-Alverson, Jimco, followed by ished fourth, having what they Jim Price in his Bunderson, described as a "flawless" run af-who'd already broken a rear ter their early down time with caliper and had to run with no · the heim end. Tornel and brakes to his first pit for repairs. Medina, who'd got such an edgy Ellison moved into the lead start in the morning, were fifth, by Jamau, four minutes up on glad to be there at all after the Anderson, who was four min-rollover. Anderson, who'd run utes up on Alverson. In fourth second most of the day, dropped it was Price with Doug Naylor to ninth, and last in the class, fifth in his Raceco. Martin because his car quit every time Christensen, in an innovative he went through one of the nu-belt-driven, BMW powered car merous water crossings in the designed and built by Chris-final section. Sandoval and Wil-Cisco and Pancho Bio and the Gutierrez brothers brought their Tubular Designs car back to the finish line as the winner in Class 9. George Seeley and Bruce Anderson were stuck for a little while, still managed a win in Class 5. Hams, though they fell in a ditch at one point, got their first fin-ish (eighth place) in five years, making it a good day for them. Ciass 11 was a washout. Bill Colina and Juan Carlos Reyes were both out before getting to El Reyo. That left only Fernando Flores to race with the team of Terry Kiely, Eric Solorzano and Miguel Haro. It · was no contest. Kiely/Solorzano and Haro had a lead of over three hours by El Reyo. Then Flores made a good time to Jamau, trimming the deficit some, but Solorzano et al were still way out in front. Flores then didn't get down to the Pa-cific side, and the other team went on their merry way, cov-ering the ground steadily and looking good for a finish and win. Kiely waited impatiently at the finish line, his face getting longer and longer as it got later and later. No word was heard, and no one reported seeing the car. The cut off time came and went, but the car didn't. It was a rare DNF for the Kiely/Solor-zano/Haro team, and for Class 11 also. In the SCORE Lite class Martin Garibay had his car in the lead at El Reyo, with about a minute and a h•alf on Ty Godde and Cain Smead in their Moulton. In third it was Tom Jandt, Jr. and Tom, Sr. in their Jimco less than a minute further back. Fourth belonged to Marty Fiolka in a Mirage, and Ross Craft was fifth in a Raceco. · There was a crowd of capable folk hot on their tails, and things would change. Jerry Pen-hall was nursing a bruised shoul-der, due to a thrown rock slip-ping through the· gap between his window net and the roll cage. Dennis Nuckles and John Ossenkop, in a Funco, moved· in to the lead in the next sec-tion, as Garibay lost about two . hours. Godde and Smead held second place, while Craft moved up to third and Fiolka was fourth, followed by Arturo Honold, in a Jimco, in fifth. Penhall had burnt a plug and ran 90 miles on three cylinders, while other usual front runners, ·as Dave Callaway, got caught in a massive traffic jam. Honold and his co-driver, Manlio Moreno, moved into the lead by tht: time the course dropped down to the Pacific side, with the fast time for that section. They now had five min-utes on Godde and Smead, who Continued on page 14 Bill Wesley and Jimbo Zinn, second Class 5, head their Baja Bug into Ed and Tim Herbst spent some time high-centered on a big rock, but Terry Kiely, Eric Solorzano and Miguel Haro couldn't quite get to the an early mud hole with a splash that had to mess up their goggles. eventually were third Trophy Truck in their Ford. finish, but led·Class 11 as far a's they went. Dusty Times August 1999 Page 13

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Max Handberg cruises upriver in his Mirage, heading toward third Scott Steinberger and his navigator Duane Hammes dig out their Jim Price, Bunderson, makes a great photo op for our photographer place in 1/2-1600, only five minutes behind the winner. . Ford Protruck after getting stuck. They finished third after a big rollover. as he heads into the river. He finished second in Class 10. were 45 seconctstn front of fourth, as he handed the car· ing no luck at all. Now they'd hard to pass. Now there was an-a half minutes later .. Erl was Fiolka and his. co-driver, Jim over to Dale Dondel. Penhall had two flats at once at the other bottleneck, and Godde third, reporting that he'd had to Greenway. Steve Greinke, got things fixed, gave the car to Goat Trail. and Smead were it. 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Green-way came in next, his visor so scratched and muddy he couldn't see through it, so he'd had it up and his eyes were bright red. He and Fiolka were second, just four minutes and 41 seconds back. In thir.d it was Penhall and Erl, and in fourth, Callaway and Holmes. They re-ported another flat tire, thanked the Muller and Herbst _crews for helping change them, and said that fourth was "bet-ter than not finishing any day!'! Honold and Moreno had dropped to fifth, just a half hour behind the first place car. An· other seven managed to fi'nish · the difficult rate, a testament to the toughness of this class and the skill of the drivers. · The Sportsman Buggies didn't have much luck. Walter Prince used his savvy to find a way around the early traffic jam and put himself into the lead in the Candy Cane Raceco. Our Unof-ficial Timers had a moment or two of Brain fade here, and we don't have times for all who reached El Reyo. Suffice it to say that Ray Gibson got his '94 Rabbit that far, but seems to have gone no fur-ther. And Doug MacArthur, who'd won both previous events in his Raceco, didn't apparently get that far. But Prince and his co-driv-ers, son Marq and Doug Browne, sailed on magnifi-cently. They had nearly an hour on Richard Bliss and three and a half hours on Rosalia Alonso at Jamau. By the time they came down to the Pacific side their lead had increased to an hour and 15 minutes, and it was still Bliss in second, while Alonso, running well down here, stayed in third place. But then neither Bliss or Alonso got to the next upofficial checkpoint, and never arrived at the finish line. Prince, Prince and Browne kept moving along, although they were one of the many to lose . their brakes, and took the win. In the Sportsman Truck class, Alfonso Hernandez was 11~24 ~orwalk Blvd. Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 562-863-1123 FAX 562-929-1461 the only one to get any distance at all, and he got to El Reyo and Page 14 August 1999 Dusty Times

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Tito Tapia, once repaired, man-aged a 12th place. Last in the class were Matt and Colby Sherard, in a Suspension Unlimited car. Their alternator on its last legs, they'd had to use a flashlight to find their way the last 15 miles or so. They finished at 12:45 a.m., in a time of 16: 19:3 7, exhibiting true Baja racing spirit. A little trouble with a wet ignition didn't slow Rick Jqhnson much. He brought his Ford back as the winner in Protrucks. Ivan Stewart flies his Toyota Trophy Truck off a bump as some of his many fans look on. The terrible accident at the start of the day cast a dark shadow over the race and the post race celebrations, but the 1999 Baja 500 will go into the record books as one with a lot of really good racing, close fin -ishes and team efforts to be re-membered proudly. SCORE's next event will be the Barstow Fireworks 250 on July 17th, and· then they move to Primm, Nevada for the Primm 300 on September 11. ■ then Jamau in very respectable time, but then didn't get any further, so this class also reports no finishers for the 500. Class 1/2-1600, as always, was tight. Steve Taylor, in Tim Moore's Chenowth, newly painted yellow, put himself into the lead by El Reyo, with seven minutes on Ramiro and Carlos Escobedo in a Mirage. In third place it was Adam Pfankuch and Rick St. John, in their Kernco, a minute and a half further back, and then less than a minute be-hind them, Matias Arjonas, in a Neth. Rudy and Carlos Cortez were fifth in their Dunrite, nine minutes behind the lead car. They went through the pine forest at high noon, and arrived at Jamau with Taylor still in the lead, about four minures up 01;1 Ramon Castro, in a Chenowth. St. John was third, four minutes later, followed by Arjona, and the Escobedo team had dropped to fifth. In ·the next stretch a.spec-tator tossed. a rock, hit the front end of Castro's car and broke not only the hood, but his link pin. Castro had to wait for parts, which cost him about an hour. After the long climb up to Mike's and down again, they ar-rived on the ocean side at about 3:30 p.m., and now Bekki Free-man and Adam Wik had the lead in their Jimco. Max Handberg, . Mirage, was tied for third with Arjona and his co-driver, Bruce Conrad, just eight seconds later, so the battle had become tighter. But then someone (to remain un-named) shoved Conrad off a cliff before Erendira, and he lost 15 minutes 'being winched back up onto the road. Jim Dizney, mean-while, had moved his Jimco up to fourth, only another two minutes back. In fifth it was Pfankuch, just seven seconds behind Dizney. From the lead to fifth place the time difference was just two min-utes and 15 seconds after 28 7 miles. When they got to Ojos Ne-gros for the return run, the lead still belonged to Freeman and Wik, now five minutes up on Vic Bruckmann and Jason Hatz who'd been slowed by a booby trap induced flat tire on their Chenowth. Handberg was third, Dizney fourth, and Pfankuch fifth. The intervals between cars had grown a lot, and there was now a 23 minute difference from first to fifth. Bruckmann, who ran the be-ginning and the end of the race, while Hatz did from Cerro Colo-rado to Santo Tomas, found this race "hard mentally", but man-aged to get from Ojos to the fin-ish in the quickest time, a mere hour and 22 minutes, to take the win. Freeman and Wik, who broke their good transmission the week before, had the same too high geared tranny that had slowed them at San Felipe. They had trouble with a couple of the mud hills, and dropped tb second place, only 14 seconds behind Bruckmann and Hatz. What a battle! In third it was Handberg, about six minutes later, followed in by Dizney and then Taylor and Moore. Moore had been on his side at one point, and had been· ' jerked back to his wheels by St. John, whose way had momentarily been· blocked. Pfankuch, St. John's co-driver, disappeared in · the mud hills and never got to the TO ALL OF OUR FRENDS. IN THE OFF-ROAD COMMUNITY u! In our darkest hour you came to our rescue with your get well wishes, prayers, and helping hands. This has truly meant the world to us. Its times like this that remind you what is most important in life: Health, lamil~ a!)d Friends. Thank you for your friendship, we will treasure it always. Craig and Sherrie Stewart Dusty Times August 1999 finish line after being in the lead five all day. Conrad and Arjona dropped to ninth, and Castro and TECATE SCORE BAJA 500 JUNE 5, 1999 ENSENADA, BAJA CALIFORNIA RESULTS POS. OACLASS CAR# DRIVER/CO.DRIVER Trophy Ttucks • 10 S:arters, 7 finishers 2 I 11 Ivan Stewart . 6 2 I Dave Ashley/Dan Smith 23 3 19 Ed & Tim Herbst 56 4 3 Mark Post/Jerry Whelchel 13 5 72 Larry Roeseler Class I - Unlimited cars• 27 starters• 19 finishers 4 I 120 Doug Fortin, Jr. · 5 2 I 05 John Herder 9 3 108 Corky McMillin & Brian Ewah 11) 4 115 Darnen Jefferies • II 5 116 Gustavo Vtldosola & Charlie Watters :YEtnCLE Toyota Tundra Ford F-150 Ford F-150 Ford F-150 Chevrolet K-1500 ftmco Toyota Jimco Ford Cbenowth Toyota Jimco Jimco2000 Class 1-2/1600 • I & 2 seat cars, 1600cc motors-21 starters, 15 finishers · 43 I 1613 Vic Bruckmann & Jason Hatz 44 2 1600. BelddF~&AdamWtk 47 3 1617 Max Handberg 52 4 1605 Jim Dizney 57 5 1601 Tim Moore & Steve Taylor Class 3 • 4X4 Utility vehicles 108" or shorter• 3 starters, I finisher 114 I 30 I John Kearney Class 5 • Unlimited Baja Bugs • 6 starters, 2 finishers 54 I 503 George Seeley & Bruce Ander.son 91 2 518 BillWesley&JimboZinn Cl15:5 5-1600 Limited Baja Bugs• 18 starters, 8 finishets 76 I 550 Dave & Bill Gasper 92 2 · 551 Carlos ln"be 104 3 551 Javier Valenzuela & Michael Burgett 105 4 560 ~Mario&EliuLedeZJlll · 106 S 555 Victor ORllana & Juan Delgadillo · Class 7 • Mini or Mid Sized Pickups • 6 starters, 3. finishers 35 I 700 Jeff Lewis 116 2 105 Craig Turner 118 3 703 Roberto Anda • Cla.ss 7S • Stock l!)Uli or mid-sized pickup • 8 starters, 2 finishen 85 I 738 Malcolm Vmje & Jim Gilchrist 120 2 • 724 Bruce Laodfield & Brett Turley Class 8 - Two Wheel Drive Utility Vehicles"- I starter, O finisher Cb<'towth Jimco Mirage Jimco Chenowth. Isuzu Amigo Snoddy Seeley Spcl '69 VW Baja Bug Baja Bug· Baja Bug Baja Bug Baja Bug Baja Bug Chevrolet s-10 Ford Ranger Umo.wn Ford Ranger Ford Ranger Class 9 • I & 2 seat cars, I oo• wheelbase, limited suspension. 12 starters, 6 finishe;s · H7 I 909 Cisco & Pancho Bio/Indio &. Coyote Gutierrez Tubular J>esjgns 89 2 948 Eric fisher • solo Jimco 99 3 902 Hector Sarabia/Luis Guevara/Federico Montez Jimco 102 4 905 Jesus Luna/Bill Rodriguez Jimco II O S 945 Jimmy Messick M & T Class 10 • I & 2 seat, I 650ccs, water cooled o.k. • 16 starters, 9 finishers 16 I .JOI I Rick Ellison &John Penner Honda Chenowth 32 2 1016 James Price 55 3 I 009 William Alverson 65 4 I 007 Chris Harrold & John Marking 69 5 1015 Miguel Tomei & Jaime Medina Bunderson Jirnco Honda TUD<o Jimco Class SCORE Lite • I & 2 seat, l 835ccs, air-cooied VWs. 18 starters, 12 finishers 25 I I 207 Steve Greinke & Dale Dondel Porter 28 2 1204 Jim Greenway & Marty fiolka Mirage 34 3 1218 leny Penhall & George Erl Penhall 39 4 1200 Dave Callaway & John Holmes Dunrite 40 5 1213 ArturoHonold&ManlioMoreno Jimco Class 11 • Stock VW sedans• 4 starters, 0 Jinishers Class Protrucks • Chassis all alike• 9 starters, 4 finishers 30 I 243 Rick Johnson 48 2 298 Gary Vosburg 49 3 270 Scott Steinberger I 00 4 227 Ste\·e Scaroni Class Stock Full - Stock Full Sized trucks. 4 starters, I finisher 90 I 860 Marc Stein & Mike McComas · Class Stock Mini· Stock Mini Trucks. 3 st_arters,_ 0 finishers Sportsman Truck • I starter, 0 finisher Sportsman Buggies • various • 5 starters, I finisher Ford F-150 Ford F-150 Ford F-150 Ford F-150 Ford F-150 TIME 8:57:49 9:13:22 10:30:54 11:41 :58 12:20:50 9:03:31 9:13:20 9:32:08 9:33:-1-1 9:34:38 II: 11:47 11:12:01 11:16:47' li:22:04 11:43:49 16:27:2.1 11:36:29 · 13:4S:I I 12:29:20 ' 13:51:27 14:58:32 15:00:18 ,JS:08:04 10:55:28 16:33:32 . 16:43:11 -13:31:29 16:54:09 13:40:52 13:43:02 14:36:23 14:52:36 15:38:42 10:02:12 10:50:54 . 11:37:16 12:07:32 12:14:37 10:36:51 10:41:37 10:52:03 11:03:47 11:07:33 ,10:46:51 11:18:13 11:18:27 14:45:08 13:43:55 · 98 I 1400 Waher & Marq Prince & Doug Browne Candy Cane Raceco 14:34:05 Note: Overall figures include motorcycles Total Starters: (cars & trucks) 163 Total finishers: 90 Course: one loop, 447 miles -start & finish at El Sauzal Weather: Oear, warm• not much breeze Page 15

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19th-Rally Argentina By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Juha Kankkunen and Juha Repo scream through the Argentine countryside, much to the delight of record crowds, on their way to the win in the Subaru lmpreza. · Finally, things have no one is really sure how he did runs per stage and this did changed! lmpreza World Rally it but he won by two seconds cause unrest in the less experi-Cars finished in the first two at the finish. Burns, who had ented drivers. Formula 2 was positions in Argentina. Well, l.ed since the midway point had not well supported, the two we knew things would change hydraulic problems on the sec-leading crews retired and fi-when we got back into the dirt ond day and that caused him to nally SEAT cars took the top and gravel and they certainly incur a ten second penalty and three positions with Group N did. For the first time since the that obviously cost him the version cars and only one Acropolis Rally last.year Suba-rally. Toyota once again proved Renault finished, an. old ru and Pirelli Tires have won a reliable and pulled further 18GTX and he took the ten World Championship Rally! ahead in the Manufacturers points. And, on top of that, Juha championship and Didier Au-This "was the seventh and Kankkunen got back into the riol is now even with Tommi last round of the first half of the winner's circle for the first time Makinen in the Drivers Series. 1999 World Rally Champion-since Portugal in 1994 ! This Makinen and Sainz both had ship. There was great support win, his 22nd, makes Kankkun-problems, the Finn with a dis- · for the event, most cars entered en both the most experienced abled transmission and the since 1994. Peugeot and Skoda and the most successful driver Spaniard when the hood of his were missing so there were five in· the WRC Series. His win Corolla flew up in mid stage teams eligible for world cham-ov·er teammate Richard Burns and delayed him. The major pionship points with three happened on the last stage and discussion was that the drivers more teams registered for the were only allowed two pre-rally Teams Cup. For the second .. --------------------------. rally running there were no 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. 102 Crestview 1-520-427-3551 P.O. Box 845 Yarnell, AZ 85362-0845 Page 16 Volkswagens or Hyundais on the entry list so Renault ex-pected to· score maximum points in the World Two Liter category. The most competitive car was expected to be the Renault Maxi Megans entered by local driver Walter Suriani. There was remarkable strength in the Group N entry. All the World Championship contend-. ers were there, Trelles, Stohl, Al Wahaibi, Rosenberger and Mendez, along with the Argen-tine drivers Recalde and Sanchez. All of them were driv-ing Mitsubishis except Sanchez who had a Subaru. Thomas Radstrom was back with the Ford team, 13 weeks after breaking his leg in Kenya before the Safari Rally. There were only two Subaru entries, Burns and Kankkunen doing the honors and there were no plans for Bruno Thiry to com-pete for the team before New .Zealand. Luis Climent, FIA T earns Cup points leader had withdrawn in order to concen-trate on the Acropolis Rally. Conditions in Argentina are always unique! There are two main factors: first there is the sandy surface which create a special challenge for the ~ire companies, made more difficult because of the fast changing surface temperatures each August 1999 Through the water, Gustavo Trelles and Martin Cristie were seventh arid first in Group Nin the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. morning. Second, and far from plaints by many of the drivers least are the rocks that are em-that the allowable two pre-rally bedded just under the surface recce runs were not enough and often are kicked up onto and Sainz volunteered that the the road due to the tire churn-roughness of the opening stages ing of the rally cars and these might decide the outcome of rocks can do considerable dam-the rally long before it was age to tires and suspension and over. To be sure, the "luck of also there is the altitude to the rocks" would enter into the consider where engine perfor-equation. mance is affected by the alti-Leg 1 -Nine stages, gravel, tude. 135.5 kms. The opening stage There were some interesting was the three-at-a-time super-facets to the Rally Argentine. special which drew huge The last five times the rally has amounts of spectators. Official been run as a full world cham-estimates were 100,000 in at-pionship event; the winner tendance. The starting order went on to become the world was odd: the first 30 cars champion, and, Tommi Maki-started in reverse order, then, nen has a 100% victory record after McRae, Auriol and here, he has won the event ev-Makinen had their run, the fi-ery time he has been here. nal runners began, also in re-There was lots of talk about verse order. Sainz was the the weather. There had been a quickest, then Makinen, lot of rain in the previous Burns and Radstrom. Eight weeks and the river crossings, more stages to go and there normally dry, were swollen with would be four different lead-water. The famous water cross-ers. There was heavy mist be-ing at Nono, this time run just fore dawn and the organizers before rather than after the fly-had to move the first service ing finish line saw many cars area as the d~ep mud made it drowned in the flood. The lo-unworkable. The weather: was cal farmer got rich pulling cars cool for the entire day. It be-out of the maelstrom with his gan with a great dilemma for tractor. The teams suggested to the· drivers, go all out on the the organizers that·if the water attack and risk damage from level should remain at its the rocks or lay back and plant present height the stage should each foot carefully. In fact, the be shortened but if the water first stage was smoother than level dropped it would be ac-expected and at this point all ceptable as is. Road conditions reservations were discarded were still rough in some places and it was to be an all out at-but mostly because the hard tack. Kankkunen stated "If packed sand had turned soft in you go slowly you will never the wet. Low clouds hung over catch up, you have to take the most of these stages on trial risk." Auriol was unhappy runs, visibility was down to less with the setup of his Corolla. than 50 feet in many areas, The only drivers unable to compounding the problems of press an attack were those the first time teams who were with no previous experience trying to make pace notes as here. "I still haven't seen the they went along. It was virtu-stages, all I've seen is fog" de-ally impossible to make notes dared Radstrom, unhappily. on six or seven of the stages as Stage 3 was as rough as ever the visibility was so poor. There and it was Colin McRae who had not been a wet Argentine retired after a rock broke the Rally since 1983 and every-steering and he went off the thing looked quite different in road and the car went onto its green instead of the traditional side, and there it remained. brown. Auriol was ecstatic with the Always there is something handling of his car and he · new! This time it was the con-went into a 1.3 second lead on cept of "Flex Time Service." Burns with Makinen in the This would allow the teams to third spot. carry out their 45 minute ser-Then came the very fast vice on Sunday morning at a Stage 4, a "very dangerous" time that was convenient to stage, according to Burns who them. This· had been tried in made fast time here. "There are Australia last year. Everyone iots of flat out crests which had the same time allowance have to be taken completely for service but the time would blind!" Many of the drivers had start when the service vans had bad landings after some of the returned from the mountains jumps. Having made best time and were set up and had time on the rough Stage 3, Makinen to draw a breath or two. started to fall back with trans-· There were still lots of com-mission troubles. Toyota made Dusty Times

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The famed Martin Holmes and Maurice Selden got a beautiful greeting Thomas Radstrom and Fred Gallagher hit a bit of water on their way More Water! Didier Atlriol and Denis Giraudet douse the crowd as from the most beautiful Pirelli girls. No wonder they're all smiles/ to sixth p/;3ce overall in the Ford Focus. they head for a nice podium finish in the Toyota Corolla. LeE;Jving service is the Renault 1BGTX of Ricardo Bissio and Claudio Freddy Loix lost a wheel and the dramatic result is a highly bent and A pretty wide and deep river exclaim Piero LiaNi and Carlo Cassina Henin and they took top honors in W2L in Argentina. mangled Mitsubishi Carisma but no injury to anyone aboard. as their SEAT WRCar plays submarine in Argentina. changes to Auriol's car but problems, he was six minutes rutted and there he lost ten lead. Jorge Recalde h ad been sion set up and was off the pace nothing seemed to work, losing behind and was really down in seconds. chaslng Trelles all day, making on the faster stages. Onto the a spot to Burns on Stage 5 and the dumps. Wahaibi stopped On the final stage Burns time on the rough stages and last stage which was one of the then down to third on Stage 6, on Stage 8 and lost five min-made yet another fine run, win-then losing it on the fast ones fastest on the leg and Burns was behind Kankkunen. Sainz had utes changing a tire while ning with a 3.3 second margin but then he damaged his sus-leading his mate by 1.2 seconds. risen to third place on Stage 5 Claudio Menzi was fighting ig-and opened his lead to 14.8 sec-pension and let both Menzi and Kankkunen put it all on the but then had to stop and refas-nition problems. ands at day's end. Sanchez get ahead of him. line and won the stage by 3.6 ten the hood which had flown In Formula 2 Gwyndaf Evans As for Makinen, they Menzi's engine troubles were seconds and that put him 2.4 up and smashed the windshield led for the first three stages but weren't too sure what was mak-cured but were replaced with seconds ahead of Burns. on Stage 6. The Subarus were then badly damaged the chas~ ing his life such a misery. On gearbox woes. Sta-hi went off There had been other dra-becoming a focal point for the sis of his SEAT on a jump, al-the eighth stage he nit a rock t_he road and ran out of time mas on this leg: Loix was re-first time this season "We are lowing Walter Suriani to go and possibly damaged his sus-getting back up the embank-ported to have had a big acci-back on gravel" said one of ahead. Evans had a loose fitting pension, but because of the ment. Al Wahaibi, making best dent on the first stage, thought . their engineers. Kankkunen sump guard on Stage 5 and the gearbox problem this point was times on the first two stages hit to be caused by mechanical fail-was using wide track suspen-engine was misfiring and he was overlooked. Then, on Stage 10 a rock, lost a front wheel and ure. Also, on Stage 1, Suriani sion while Burns was using nar-now four minutes behind Suri-he drove over another rock and went out of the fray. In F2, crashed and this left the Group ro~ 'ira2!i an_a some' s-rages fa-ani. picked up two flat tires, on the Suriani drove blissfully on N SEAT of Esta.hen vored one and 'othe'r stages Leg 2 ~ S·even stages, gravel, same· side! Needles·s · to say, while Evans had nothing but Goldenhersch in the lead. complimented the other. 127 .5 kms. Things would get steering became erratic and trouble. He had one too many Then Liatti ran into all sorts of On Stage 5, Freddy Loix slid tighter than they were the day right hand turns were difficult heavy landings and the sump mechanfcal. troubles, repairs into some rocks, damaging the before. Auriol, who was lying and the differential started to guard mount broke, it cut an oil were made but was no use and suspensfon and making left third, 3 .5 seconds behind make some funny noises at the line.· Crossing a water hazard after a few more stages the car turns difficult but he was still Kankkunen shot into the lead same time. But, after changing the-front bumper was dislodged was withdrawn. in ninth place, and later he on the first stage of the morn-the cliff and replacing a part on and the front w·ing panels Sainz, in fourth place, would have to slow for a horse ing. Burns had his first hy-the suspension things went moved also. Near the end of the cracked the bell housing on the on the course who was not go-draulic problem on the way to back to normal. final stage oil started to spurt fourth stage, mechanics re-ing as fast as Freddy would like. the first service,. but then After Auriol's problems, the on the windshield -and, discre-paired the problem and he con-Makinen's tranny troubles things returned to normal. Subarus were back in the first tion being the better part of tinued on. Burns was reporting plagued him the rest of the day But, on his way to the first two positions, Auriol four sec-valor, they packed their bags a misfire and Kankkunen ar-and he finished the last stage stage the hydraulics acted up ands in arrears. SEAT were still and went home. rived at service with a kaput al-74 seconds behind the leader. again, he could not select a not happy. Liatti lost hydrau-Leg 3 -Six stages, gravel, ternator, but in the end the Kankkunen took over the lead gear and the clutch and lie pressure in the central dif- 13 2.4 kms. The day promised to Finn would take home the gold when Burns eased off on Stage throttle were affected as well ferential and had to engage the be one of little activity. The medal. 8, but then nearly lost it all and he got himself a ten sec-emergency"locking system. And race for the lead was easing off, Seventy-five cars started the when he stalled on the start of· and time penalty as well. He Rovenpera's engine was getting the main question was whe,ther rally but there were only 25 fin-Stage 9. Rovanpera was strug-was told by radio probable sicker and sicker all the time. Makinen would be able to ishers and a finisping rate of gling with erratic boost pres-cures for the malady and he The turbo was ,changed after catch Sainz. But reality was 33% relates .the toughness of sure, this affected the turbo re-was able to set fast time on the the 12th stage, but on Stage 14 otherwise. Kari.kkunen passed the course. sponse and made driving the second stage, 5.4 seconds there were vast plumes of Auriol into second place on the In the drivers points Maki-car smoothly quite difficult. faster than anyone else and smoke from the exha'..1.st and his second stage. Then, Auriol fit-nen and Auriol are tied with Radstrom was in sixth place was still in the second spot. At day was done. Loix and ted mud tires on a stage that 32 points each, McRae and and said his leg was not really the next service the entire Radstrom were having their had been wet earlier but was Sainz are also tied with 23 bothering him. transmission was replaced. share of problems, mostly bad becoming dry rapidly and he points each, Bugalski had 20 Behind the leaders, Galanti All this time the two pace pates. Galanti retired af-fell even further back. The points, Kankkunen 18 and 13 was chasing Isik very hard but Subarus were close behind Au-ter putting the _car on its side, team ordered Burns to proceed for Burns. · then lsik stopped after stage 7 rial. Burns car was now work-he also lost the alternator belt carefully and said they would In the Manufacturers race, after damaging his car on a ing well so when Auriol started and eventually the engine split. ask the same of Kankkunen if Toyota still leads with 67 jump. This left G alanti the top to have h andling problems, In Group N Preto retired on and wh en his lead over Auriol points, Mitsubishi has 41, Su-n on-works drivers and well Burns took the lead again. Au-the first stage with turbo fa il-became big enough. Burns h ad baru 36, Ford 35 and SEAT ahead of Frederic Dor who rial dropped back to third and ure and this put Trelles in the retained the narrower suspen-has 8. ■ had been d elayed with a bad while Sainz and Makinen were choice of tires. Dor was lead-working hard to make up time ing the Teams Cup group but they were no t having much was some ways behind the success. Rovanpera was having Group N leaders. In Group N, problems, and when h is engine Trelles damaged his suspen-expired on the 14th stage he sion on a jump. Al Wahaibi was out of it. Kankkunen ran traded the lead with Trelles first all day long. He was doing but Trelles came back and just fine with the wide track took the lead at the overnight. suspension until he got to the Stohl was having fuel pressure 15th stage, which was badly Dusty Times I (6) 2 ( 5 I 3 ( 4) 4 (I) 5 ( 3) • (8) 7 ( 15) 8 ( 19) 9 { 25) 10 ( 12) 15 (58) 17 (71) 18 ( 70) 19 ( 61) 21 { 72) 22 ( 49) Juha KANKKUNEN/ Juha Repo Richar d BURNS/Robert Reid Didier AURIOL/0enis Giraudet Tommi MAKINEN/ Risto Mannisenmaki Ca rlos SAINZ/Luis Moya Thomas RA.OSTROM/Fred Ga 11 agher Gustavo Trelles/Mart i n Christ ;e Jorge Recalde/Jose Garcia Claudio Menz i/Rodol to Ortiz Frederic Dor/Kev i n Gormley Esteban Goldenhersch/ Nestor Juarez Federico Hubmann / Fernando Invaldi Di ego Kopoussh ian/Lu is Lob be Ricardo Bissio/Claudio Henin Jorge Caste 11 i /Ricardo Percodan i w;guel auatrocclo/Roberto Bulacio August 1999 FIN Subaru Impreza WRCar GB Sub1tru tmprttZA WR<:nr F Toyot a Coro I I a WRCar FIN Mitsubish i "lancer Evolution E Toyota Coro 11 a WRCar S/GB Ford Focus WRCar ROU/RA Mitsubish i Lancer Evolution · RA Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution RA Subaru Impreza WAX F /GB Suba r u Jmpreza WRCar RA SEAT Ibiza 2.0 (1st F2) RA SEAT Ibiza 2.0 GTI (2nd F2) RA SEAT Ibiza 2.0 (3rd F2) RA Renault l8GTX (4th F2) RA SEAT Ibiza 2 . 0 (5th F2) RA SEAT Ibiza 2.0 (6t h F2) 'N,11 1,1 1,il1"ll1JIOll !1ll11• 111111\lr, gA S8SRT (GB) 4h.17m.15.4~.• A S9SRT (Gil) · 4h.17m.ll.n!!l. A K- AM8020 (0) 4h.17m.55.0s. A T2MMR (GB ) '11.tRm.40. (,s.. A K-AMSOIO ( D) 4h.19m.,J.5s. A S9FMC (GB) 4h.22m.07.3s. N B8044ZK (J) 4h .39m.46.2s.• N 104100 (PY} 4h.41m.09.0s. N C00539 (RA) 4h.<1m.33.0s. Wlf WIJ Wl. 11,,. 10 IO - -• • • • 4 .1 ·3 2 2 I 1 - -A PSWRC (GB) 4h.45m.18.2s. • • -10 N BKK861 ( RA) 5h.31m.39.9s. N BSA272 (RA) 5h.37m. 13.7s. - - - -N OAE0809 (RA) Sh.39m.01. 7s. - - - -A TVS700 {RA) 5h.41m.29.7s. 10 -N not registered 5h.49m.51.2s. - - - -N BJS l29 ( RA) Sh.Stm.38.6s. Page 17

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.., ' • MOJAVE DESERT RACING INC. Unocal 7& Kartek By Ron Miller Photos:Trackside Photo Kenny Freeman teamed up with Brad Inch in Inch's Lothringer, to take the win in Class 1600, finishing fourth overall . ..... .,..~: ,. . .<1.:t',f ~.. $,"<-·~ Richard Boyle and Tom Koch put their Aceco through its paces and came up with the overall win with a time of 8:26:55 for nine rough 45 mile laps. • On June 19, 1999, nearly 100 Class 100 entrant Jeff Alford In Class 1000 action, Andrew brave souls accepted MDR's got the marathon event under-Meyers came away with a hard longest and toughest challenge way, when he was the first racer fought victory. Halfway through of the season. For most, that off the starting line. There were the race, Meyers held about a task required completion of a total of nine entrants in that four minute lead over the Larry Gross put his nice looking Toyota into victory circle in Class 1200, and also nine, 45 mile laps, in 100+ de-class, with the eventual winner Marcourt Racing entry of Phil _re_c_o_rd_e_d_c_la_s_s_fa_s_t_la~p_a_t_t_:2_5_:_34_·~---------------gree heat. It was clearly no place (Boyle) starting last. Boyle's Markert and Whit Courtenay. and Brad Inch seemed deter-for the timid. The attrition rate blazing Lap 1 time of 48:41 By the finish, a. scant minute mined to stop him. Freeman was quite high (as expected), as nearly stood up as the day's fast- was all that separated the two started two minutes after Hatz, less than half of the field wit- est. Only.classmate Jeff Quinn vehicles. It was a huge effort by but made up that margin dur-nessed· the waving o( the was able to post a quicker lap Meyers, who beat everyone ex- ing Lap I. Freeman then put a "checkers." When the legendary (during Lap 5) , and his was just cept Boyle. Meanwhile, the near few more minutes between him-Lucerne dust had finally settled one second swifter. Boyle com-misses continue for the ultra self and Hatz during Laps 2 and (and believe me, there was pleted his nine laps in a super tough Marcourt team. That pair 3. Hatz rallied gamely during plenty of it), Richard Boyle 8:26:55, to average 47.3 mph. It again performed brilliantly, de-the next two laps, but Inch re-emerged victorious. Boyle, the was almost two hours back to spite placing second. It was the fused to relinquish his team's Class 100 and overall race win-Alford, the Class 100 runner-third consecutive race in which lead. Inch went on to score the ner, proved best of the bunch by up, who finished 16th overall. the duo placed runner-up in Class 1600 victory by ten min-a ten minute margin. Addition" No other finishers materialized Class 1000 and third in overall utes over Hatz. The winner, ally, there were several other· in the class, but Ron Brant scoring. who credited Transaxle and victories scored on the day turned in an effort that cer-There was another spirited Lothringer Engineering, Core-(both divisional and moral). So ta inly warrants mentioning. duel in Class 1600. Jason Hatz Jerry Lawless, the Tuesday Gang for Mohr on all the ·day's big Brant battled through eight was looking to score his third and the Freemans, placed fourth winners, let's Inch ahead and solid laps at better than 49 mph, straight victory on this circuit, in overall scoring while averag-Geer up for ra~e recap time. before being forced to exit. and the team of Kenny Freeman ing 45.4 mph. Hatz, who fin-t"""',,..,,,.,,..,.,.,..,,.,=--;;;-=c="'"""'""'"'"-=-"""",..,,..,""""==_,.,,.=,__=__,,,,.,...,,,.,.,, ished up fifth on the day, com-pleted his assignment in 8:58:54 (44.5 mph). There were a total of six other finishers in Class 1600. Mark Ruddis was fore-most among that group, placing third in class and taking 10th overall. Ruddis finished just over 30 minutes behind Hatz and about 23 minutes in front of Cindy Greinke. Greinke, who is quietly having herself a very solid season, placed fourth in class and 12th overall. Paul Marshall followed Greinke to a fifth place finish in Class 1600 scoring. His 38.6 mph average speed was also good enough for an overall 14th place finish. Jason Hatz and Vic Bruckmann pushed hard in their Dunrite, but Cindy Greinke had one long lap, and still put her good looking 1600 Mark Ruddis takes a big hop as he wends his way to a third place couldn't do better than a close second in Class 1600. · car into fourth in class and 12th overall, at the MOR Kartek 400. finish in the hard-fought 1600 race. Paul Marshall (right), who ultimately finished fifth, chases down another In Class 1200, which ran only five laps, Matt Vaughn finished second, Jared Hardin took third place in Class 1200, about a half-hour off the 1600 car. Only eight out of 16 managed to finish. only 3:20 out of first place. pace due to a long second lap. Page 18 August 1999 Dus-ty Times

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Greg Crew was the only driver to finish all five required laps in the 1300 race, to take the win. Mike O'Donnell had a long fourth lap, and dropped to third place in the hard-fought Class 1000 race. Veteran racer Jerry Lawless proved that experience counts, racked up the fast lap for Class 1000, at 51:38, finished seventh overall. sixth place in Class 1000 and third in Class 550 and 20th ninth overall. Classmates Chad overall. That division's final Cummings (seventh) and bob three finishers were Jim McKay, Hansen (eighth) rounded out John Strode, and Marc Des-the 1000 division scoring. hane, in that order. McKay av-Cummings' time of 9:42:38 was eraged 35 mph to place 29th 11th best overall, while position. Deshane polished off Hansen's clocking (10: 26:31) his nine lap assignment in just placed 15th. over 12 hours (33 mph), to se-,,..~.i" ~,.; Joel Mohr made it back-to-back wins in Class 900, also recording the fast lap for the class at 1:08:12. He won by nine minutes. Kenneth Bell and Rick Gamble· Sizelove, who completed his as-ended up finishing within five signment in just under 11 hours minutes of each other. The (36.4 mph). Sizelove also com-former's effort earned him sixth pleted the order of 1600 finish-place in 1600 and 18th overall, ers, grabbing _the eighth position while the latter's secured sev-(and 21st overall). enth and 19th. Next was Jim Speaking of overall scoring, tr··:~=:• -:::lll~:; Flamingo Road & The Strip 888-227-2279 Dusty Times :,;:;:::;:• •:::~::; ·.;?\:; .. /·:•· .)!fl._., the majority of those cracking the top ten hailed from Class 1000. In addition to Andrew Meyers and the Markert/Cour-tenay team, the sixth through ninth overall positions were also taken down by entrants from that division. Mike O'Donnell led that group by averaging 44.2 mph and polishing off nine laps in 9:03:19. O'Donnell placed third in 1000 and sixth overall. The aforementioned Jerry Law-less finished up right on O'Donnell's heels. Lawless, who placed fourth and seventh over-all, checked in some 56 seconds later. Both- drivers averaged just over 44 mph., with Lawless posting the class' fastest lap time (51 :38). Less than three minutes in arrears came Marty Melendrez, who finished fifth and eighth overall. Also making his way into the day's top ten was Mike Bingham. Bingham's solid final time of 9:24:32 and 42.5 mph average earned him West Tropicana & Arville 800-675-3267 August 1999 You probably won't find cure the day's overall 30th spot. Bryan Geer or Guy Peterson Even though Lin Neal only among those superstitious types completed two laps, they were who think the Number 13 is bad quality time spent with his son luck. That suddenly streaking Andrew. Young Andrew, who pair's combined driving talents claims he's 12 but acts consid-landed the 13th spot in overall erably older, has clearly been · scoring. Their second straight smitten by the racing bug. Frank Class 550 win was also in the Hines had a pair of competitors cards. I believe the credit goes in Class 500. By the finish how-to Peterson for registering the ever, Hines had raced his class-class' fast lap time (1:05:16). mates into submission. Of-the However, both pilots contrib-trio, only F .H. was able to com-uted significantly to the team's plete all nine laps (11 :04:09). In 25 minute victory over Jeff Cal-addition to winning easily and laghan. Callaghan's fine runner-placing 22nd overall, Hines also up effort also gave him the 17th registered his division's fast lap spot overall. Scott Boyd finished honors (2:00:53), about 20 minutes later, grabbing · Continued on page 20 West Flamingo & Valley'View 888-402-6278 Page 19

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l<, , ._ Dennis Peterson ran hard but just couldn't catch Mohr. Peterson took second in the Class 900 race. After more than 11 hours in the over-100-degree weather, Dave The most-traveled off-roaders, Whit Courtney and Phil Markert, who hail from the east-coast, were second 1000 Cars less than two minutes back. Lawson was third in Class 900. After nine steady laps, Andrew Myers had his Toyota powered Class 1000 car in Apparent y oe Mo r as re-ally taken a liking to this "win-ning" stuff. After it took him ten years to record his initial victory, Mohr wasn't about to wait another decade before re-turning to the winner's circle. J.M. made it back to back Class 900 triumphs on this circuit with another game perfor-mance. Mohr parlayed his fast lap (1 :08: 12) and 36.0 mph av-erage speed into a nine minute victory over class runner-up Dennis Peterson. The two top guns from the 900 class placed 23rd and 24th respectively, on the day. 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Saavedra rallied strongly on Laps 5 through 8, but was unable to complete his final loop. Saavedra did post the duo's fastest lap (56:38), but the Class 800 victory spoils (and 25th spot overall) went to Bragg. Things could not have been any easier for the day's Class 700 winner, Jeff Richard-son. Richardson faced no rivals in his division, and tallied an uncontested win and 28th place overall. Richardson's final time of 11 :37:36 did include a quick 1: I 1:05 clocking on Lap 9. There were a quartet of rac-ers competing in Class 725. It was great to see "Wild Bill" Markel back in action, after a lengthy layoff. Despite complet-ing only his initial loop, Markel still managed to post his class' fast lap time (1:17:34) before making (what appeared to be) an early exit. Unlike her trio of classmates, Stacy Fay had no trouble going the distance. "Racy Stacy" had her rivals dusted well before the halfway point, but still kept to her task nicely. Fay and her husband Doug Goodenough averaged a tidy 31.0 mph en route to vic-tory. . Classes 1100 through 1400 were handed five lap assign-ments. A half -dozen entrants saw action in Class 1100. Den-pis Sletten and Julio Curie1 du-eled to the race's halfway point. Despite Curiel posting the day's fast lap time (1:28:54) on Lap 3, Sletten still enjoyed a narrow advantage. Sletten seemed to really turn it up a notch on the final two laps, and eventually came away with a clear out win. D.S. completed his five lap as-signment in 7:47 :27, while av-eraging 32.1 mph. Although no match for the winner, Curiel finished steadily (30 mph) to snag runner-up honors. Kurt Youngs, the only other finisher Frank Hines recorded the fast lap for Class 500, and also took the win, outlasting all his competitors. In the good-sized Class 550, Bryan Geer and Guy Peterson took class fast lap at 1:05:16, and landed the win also. Dusty Times

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Jeff Callaghan ran hard, but could not manage to catch up with the Jeff Alford had some problems with his unlimited truck, but kept moving A steady drive through the hot and dusty miles brought Scott Boyd lead car. He finished second in Class 550. forward and took second place in Class 1. back to the finish line in third place in Class 550. Jim McKay piloted his handsome limited Baja Bug to fourth place in Class 550 after a long day at the wheel. Julio Curiel had the fast lap time for Class 1100, at 1 :28:54, and finished Jeff Richardson had no competition, still ran the required 9 laps, getting second, on a course that grew steadily rougher as the day passed. his best time the last time around, at 1:11:05, to win Class 700. in the 1100 class, checked in a distant third. Class 1200 racer Larry Gross posted his division's fastest lap time ( 1: 25 :34) on Lap 1, and then just kept on going. Gross, the 1200 winner, put distance between himself and main rival Matt Vaughan dur-ing each o( that pair's first four laps. Vaughan fought back gal-lantly on Lap 5, shaving nearly seven minutes off of Gross' lead. Unfortunately, Vaughan's late rally came up short and Gross hung on to score by slightly more-th~an ~lrr-ee--mi-nu tes. The winner averaged an even 33 mph and stopped the clock in 7:34:43. Following Vaughan past the checkered flag was Class 1200 third place finisher Jared Hardin. Hardin finished 45 minutes ahead of Dan Groff, who was checking in fourth. It· was another hour back to fifth place finisher Fred Espinosa. There's a bit of a story behind Dennis Beckwith's sixth place finish. Seems D.B. and Mrs. D.B. radioed for some assis-tance, after spending nearly eight hours in the scorching desert heat. Luckily, there was a replacement driver and co-driver available. Enter that man Markel again, and also his co-driver Donald Harper. Markel and Harper completed t he Beckwith's final three laps, and did so in impressive fashion. Markel, who had never driven the vehicle before, missed tak-ing the Class 1200 fast lap hoI).-ors by just five minutes. Now I haven't been around this game all that long, but I can't remem-ber anybody recording fast lap times in two separate classes of the same race. At any rate, Mar-kel and Harper's effort was im-pressive. There were three entrants rac-ing in Class 1300. Carolyn Hines registered the fastest lap (1: 17:02) of that trio. Greg Crew may have had to work overtime to complete his assignment (9:53:35), but he emerged with the 13 victory. Crew averaged 25.3 mph, despite facing a lack of competition in the Dusty Times race's late stages. Five racers saw action in Class 1400. Unfortunately, nary a one was able to finish. Perhaps Bobby Quarnstrom deserves credit for scoring a moral vic-tory. Quarnstrom averaged 26.3 mph for the three laps he com-pleted, and took fast lap honors (I: 17:45) as well. With racers facing not only temperatures in the 100s, but also such an ominous task, it's no won-der so many came up short. Ev-eryone who completed their as-signment on this day is a cham-pion in this reporter's opinion. And in keeping with tradition, I'd like to salute several racers who turned in noteworthy efforts de- accepted the challenge (and lived credit given to the deserving par-spite falling shy of the checkered to tell the tale). A few final notes, ties just as much as you do. The flag. A pair of entrants from Class John Criswell (Class 500) and scene shifts back to Barstow on 550 quickly come to mind. Both Donald Bundy (Class 850) re-August 7th, for Race 4 on the Robert Moore and Rick Long corded fast lap times in their re- 1999 MOR schedule. Make plans completed all but their final lap. spective divisions. Criswell's time now to catch all the upcoming off Long averaged 3 7 .3 mph and was 1 :03 :00 and Bundy's was road action, as we speed into the battled for well over ten hours, 1:14:50. second half of the season. Two while Moore's stats read 34.4 mph Me thinks that's ·a wrap folks. final items before I close. First, I'd and 11:37: 13. Another two en-Oh, incidentally, let me apologize like to offer one last salute to Ri-tries from Class 1600 also came in advance for failing to recognize chard Boyle for reigning as the oh so close. John Hicks piloted those drivers who saw action, but 1999 "KarTek 400" Champion one through ten hours of desert were not listed as the drivers of (Congrats R.B.). And finally, a sun at 39.2 mph. C. Goin and M. record. There's no way I can talk brief message to Art Savedra. I Stebles apparently shared driving to each and every team, so please think I can speak for your legions duties of the other vehicle. 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1999 TECATE/SCORE BAJA 500 Jonah Has .A Whale Of A Time In Mexico By Tony Tellier Photos: Track.side Photo Jose and Leon Ruvalcaba and Rogelio Pando, on a Yamaha, took the Pro 250 · class, with a 35 minute cushion. treme titles. They are at the very pinnacle of the U.S. road racing; though Ben has not yet actually won a Super bike race -his championship notwith-standing. Tory seemed totally blase about his unexpected win. Ho hum ... Jonah Street and Torsten Bostrom, Honda, took the overall win at the Baja 500 in June, their first SCORE win. Campbell had seven wins in a row before Ensenada but "We're not disappointed. After all the Team ran 1-2", said Bruce Ogilvie. Of course, Johnny was disappointed but the consummate professional held up well under the close post-race scrutiny ... and, of course, Honda did look good all round. When he took the check-ered flag for the overall vic.tory at the 1999 Tecate/SCORE Baja 500 they asked Honda rider Jonah Street "Who ARE you!?" "Aiert the media!", one might joke. "Johnny Campbell did NOT 'Overall' the Baja 5000." Big news, indeed. In fact, Campbell ... a seven straight winner in SCORE mo-torcycle events ... did not even win the motorcycle division, No sir. That glory all wept to Jonah Street and Torsten Bos-trom ... a pair of no longer "un-knowns" as it were. Jonah .was not an unknown, however, to Honda team manager Bruce Ogilvie who had seen the out-standing performan·ce of Street during last year's "500" race and quickly signed up Jonah, · the Washington State hay hauler, for Honda's off road racing team. That was one year ago, how things have changed; how much confidence has been gained ... Jonah came down to Ensenada with his brother Sky, from Ellensburg, WA (Ellensburg?}, to race in the Open Sportsman class. He had to buy a used beater XR to re-place the engine that he blew pre-running. Jonah was just an-other privateer, just scraping by. But no matter -Jonah was sixth overall that year. Solo. Lik~, by "riding by himself." This year-Street and Bos-trom, now on THE American Honda team, even beat the lronman Ivan Stewart in the well staffed and well-well-funded Toyota by eight minutes to garner that intangible crown of OVERALL Overall. They beat Campbell and Bringle by 00:09: 10 for Jonah and Tory's first SCORE victory. They say that luck is where opportunity meets preparation; In fact, Honda's chief rider, racer, and development spe-cialist Johnny Campbell: "To succeed in off road racing you really have to be prepared. That is ... the key to our suc-cess. The more you prepare ... the easier things go." The prep was certainly in place for Street and Bostrom when the oppor-tunity presented itself on Sat-urday. Johnny was having a good ride. The bike felt good, he was feeling good and was seven minutes ahead of the other bikes until. .. he came into a corner way too fast. He laid the bike down and put a hole in the left side cover, broke the clutch lever, bent the shifter. Camp-bell laid the bike down rather than drop it off a cliff. At the Honda pit two miles past Mike's they replaced all dam-aged parts. Jonah passed Note: Bruce won his first "Baja Johnny in the pits there. 500" in 1975 with LR ... on a Later, Jonah admitted that (gasp!} Harley. An Italian, one he "got pretty nervous", seeing anyway. His last "500" win was Campbell on the sidelines but last year teamed with JC. he kept it together mentally. The course started north of At the power station Jonah Ensenada at El Sauzal and the passed the bike off to Bostrom. fish meal factories. The course Johnny passed his similar XR to ran through the ·cheaper hous-Greg Bringfe about seven min-ing projects and was "highly utes later. Both bikes got new suspect". Pre-running, you rear wheels there. Bringle tried, could see new piles of soil along probably, too hard to catch the route ... which were then Bostrom, for he got a front flat used early race morn· u and tore up the rear tire, there-build spectator jumps. Yaho.o! fore needing both to be re-How charming. We needed one placed again at Ojos. Johnny of the Chenowth Fast Assault and Greg got Second bike, Vehicles with a Gatling Gun to Third OA ... behind Ivan. clear the way. The run from The quiet, fresh faced Jonah, Guadalupe Wash to Ojos had at 27 looking a decade younger, a few gnarly stair-step sections seems to be the sort of nice, po-and an uphill silt bed. lite kid that my mother always Ross Craft (1205): wanted me to be ... but never Was the course rough? "The was. easiest '500' course in years. Bostrom is an interesting Fun? Yes, except the case: he is even more quiet and ####ing trucks stuck in all reserved than Street. His ge-the water holes. The hazards netic credentials reach east-weren't the course, but all the ward across the deserts of the idiots stuck and crashed on the American West to Daytona course." and tarmac circuits. Torsten is Well marked?· "The course the elder brother of the road was the best marked -I have racing Bostroms. Bro Ben won seen in years, especially from El the 1998 AMA Super bike Alamo to the end of the Goat championship (the highest Trail which is usually not level of motorcycle road racing marked very well and has roads in the U .S.) on a Vance & going all over the place." Hines Ducati twin and Eric About the ##### section won two AMA Formula Ex-out of town? "I thought it was -~~~----~ OK. I read the pre-race brief-ing which stated to view the first miles with extreme cau-tion. Apparently someone for-got to read it." The new section in the Pine Forest was probably due to an agreement wherein SCORE would level the foliage and move the big rocks and the rac-ers would burn in the road from there on. The road up out of Mike's Sky Rancho had been manicured and was an improve-·ment. Other than that, the "500" course was same-o same-o, returning to the El Sauzal finish via Guadalupe, where the usual festive spectators were burning tire.s for smoke. THE ENTRIES: There were 48 'cycle en-tries ... nine of them quads. There were 32 finishers, fiv·e quads. Twenty were entered in the Sportsman ranks, four were quads. While the paperwork said that they had 17 hours, SCORE was listing bikes as "Finishers" over the 17:00:00 mark: Keiji Toida at 17:31:47. ::fHE CLASSES PRO OPEN (Class 22 - 8 Entries) · 1. Jonah Street/Torsten Bos-trom -XR600 Honda. 2. Johnny Campbell/Greg Bringle -XR600 Honda. 3. Chuck Dempsey/Too Tall Tim Staab/Randy Mosely -WR400 Yamaha. 4 . Ricardo Malo/Phillip Zeiger/Sergio Vega - XR6.28 Honda. 5. Shad Bodenstadt/Greg Luna • ZR628 Honda. 6. Mike Dellar/Lance Pollereno/Wayne M atlock -YZ400F Yamaha. 7. Carlos Gonzalez -no data. Campbell would ta ke the start to KM77 ... the Cerro Colorado crossing ... and Greg would go to Valley T as the cross highway layout favored multiple rider swaps. John would then catch ,up on the Continued on page 24 . Gustavo Pena and Carlos Kanter paired up to finish second in the Johnny Campbell and "Greg Bringle had to make repairs to their Honda, Carl Fisher, John Alexander and Tom Grisham on a Honda, fell off a very close Sportsman Over 250 class, only 14 seconds off the winning still managed to finish second In Class 22 (Open). couple times, but finished second Pro 250. · . ~pa_c_e_. ____________________ _ Pag.~ 22 August 1999 Dusty Times ~ ~_,--______ ...., ___________________________________________________________ _

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Riding all the way by himself, Takashi Hatsuta took the win in the small engine Sportsmar class. highway and would ride the Mike's loop from the Kiliwas Indian Reservation back to the Power Station. Greg then rode from VT to Ojos with Johnny · re-running the in-and-out urge. l9op to the fioish. This was a · typical scenario, with _varia-tions for larger teams. It was reported that the Honda guys tried an epoxy patch on the damaged cover but Johnny found that it was not going to work so he had to back track and get the case changed. The team finds no · purpose to reflect on whether the case should have been changed right away or not: "We have different kinds of epoxy in the pit boxes and we've had good results with it before", ex-plained Bob Bacon. Greg figured that his shoul-der injury ... suffered at San Fe-lipe ... "was 85%." This was his seventh race ·in a row ... and (he was) -ready to go. After the final bike-and-rider swap· at the entrance to Vall'ey-d-e Trinidad, the tire wore away ul).der his firrious charge. Greg said he tried to climb the steep hill at Santo Tomas and "got within ten feet of the crest and could not do it. I had to bulldog it around. I just wore out the rear tire push-ing for the lead. It was bald ... and I had to ride to (Bob Bacon's) Ojos pit for a new wheel. And then the front had gone· flat at Uruapan. A bald rear, a flat front AND I was gaining on Bostrom." Bacon sa"id that the rear knobs were just 'gon_e.' With both tires that bad he lost some time. It woulda been close if the tir"es are OK all along ... Riding from the start, Jonah fell near Ojos in the dust from front starter Sergio Vegas . . "I was nervou.s coming out of Mike's... going down to Simpson's ... after I saw Johnny getting his bike worked on." That is certainly a reasonable feeling. Getting the lead in the Big Race over the "Always Wins Campbell" has to add an-other. dimension to the ride. "Of course, I didn't have any idea how long he was going to be down. So I cruised to the fin-ish after getting back on at Ojos. I didn't run into any real booby traps. We pre-ran our sections three times then did the Pirie Forest 'many times'." Tory B. Admitted to "picking it up" ... meaning the pace, not a dropped motorcycle. Chu.ck Dempsey (9X) raced with Checker rider Randy Mosely and Tim Staab (who did the start-finish loop) to a fine third place in Class 22. "We had to change tires four times ... that killed us. Chuck was hav-ing too much fun on the beach section ... looking for a strip bar, I guess.'' Mosefy was then easy to goad into a politically incorrect series of statements about woman Checker Anna Merritt. "There's a lot of dead Checkers rolling over in their graves! And the older ones re-ally-fou:ght ·he'r. But sn'e fs like a fighter who won't go down {!). She wouldn't go away. She just kept coming back for more·. Even in spite of Larkin ... " · Phil Zeiger rode with Ricardo Malo.and Sergio Vegas to fourth.· "We lost fifth gear" but were still able to get a fourth. The Dellar team was (also) rumored to have lost fifth gear. A coincidence? Or ... PRO 250 (Class 21 - 4 En-tries) 1. Jose Ruvalcaba/Leon Ruvalcaba/Rogelio Pando -YZ250 Yamaha. 2. Tom Grimshaw/Carl Fisher/John Alexander -XR250 Honda. 3. Ricky Fernandez/Tim Morton/Bustin' Dustin Twarnley - YZ250 Yamaha. The sixth bike and Pro 250 class winner were· the Ruvalcaba brothers ... Jose and Leon ... and Rogelio Pando on · Joseph West, from Oregon, and his buddy Brent Bell (L) stuck close together at/ day. West won the Sportsman Over 250 class, with Bell third by 22 seconds. a '97 YZ250. They won with a geveld, a major ex-rival, is also 35 minute cushion. racing the 250 class, too. He is The second place Pro 250 going faster these days (Note: team of Carl Fisher, John Steve is in the Top Ten in the Alexander and RoR Tom AMA desert series) and I'm Grisham (l0lX) tried a pretty riding slower. So much for the stock XR250 and did quite cherry-pii::kin'." well, considering the fast April 19, 1999 course and the non fast bike. Tim Morton: "We had a half CIR over stock "OK. I'm going to start tell-.on the piston, ported the head, ing you all the happenings of and just ran the stock cam", our team for the Baja 500. detailed Carl. "The forks are Danny Hamel's passing was CRs with an Ohlin in the tough to handle, but when Juan back." John said that he "got Ortiz passed away during the dusted by Ivan and went in a '97 500 I reaily lost any drive/ ditch." Carl fell off the start. urge to ride fast again. Juan was . The pre-race plan for this one of my best friends. But, like story was to focus on the return I said in an earlier note ... I'm of Tim: Morton vs. his arch-ri-getting the itch to race again. I val Steve Hengeveld. Tim feel this might be a pretty good Morton has been riding for a time as my wife, Jennifer, and I long time ... riding fast for a are expecting our first child (a long time. Under the expert tu-boy) in September. telage of Tom Wimberly's Even though I ride more "TnT Racing." Morton was the hours/miles now than .I ever scourge of the 250cc class, both have, I don't feel like I could in SCORE events and Lou race very fast. However, I feel Peralta's "Baja Promotions" confident I can put in a smooth races. In a fine twist TnT had consistent ride. Besides, I just 'a quick, fast and reliable \;Vant t,o hav~ fu_n . . CR250, n~t the' most ·eommon · Ri·ck'y Fernande·z 'an·d' I a're of desert bikes, particularly in friends so I decided to giv·e him those days of Team Green and a call. I asked if he needed a the ubiquitous KXs. partner, he said "Yes." I asked Opponent Steve Hengeveld 'What're we riding', he said (103X) has been racing a lot that he didn't have a bike. lately: '"Best in the Desert' Ricky is the new service and the AMA H&Hs. Even a manager at Temecula Motor-'Six Days' Qualifier. .. if pos-sports {a Honda/Yamaha shop) sible. The most recent {Quali-and was in the process of try-fier) is this weekend in Idaho, ing to get a new YZ250. A few so that's out." Steve was days later he dropped the new teamed with Martin Bejarano bike off at my place with the and Baja-savvy Beto Verber on only problem being my not re-a KX250, who once raced with alizing how close the race was Matias Arjona, of marine sup-and that I had no free time to ply fame. This was supposed to do the prep. be The Race of the race. So I dropped the bike at Ap-Late March plied Racing {they make all Tim Morton! sorts of trick billet bike parts), "So I decide to come out of and John Duffy proceeded to my semi-retirement .from rac-start dismantling the bike {he ing, you know how it is. I fig- was also using it to jig up and ured a nice low stress 'Baja 500' design some new YZ parts). We in the nowadays-weak 250 class figured with this little time would be fun and mellow. But available to prep that we'd just then I heard that Steve Hen-do the minimum.: * Bob Bell's Precision Con-cepts got the suspension dialed in and returned it in only a few days. They rule. * IMS sen t us a large tank with a dry break. * We bought a couple new 18" rear wheels, complete (Ouch, that was expensive!). * TAG Metals sent us a set of bars. * FMF sent us a pipe and si-lencer, a clutch perch. and grips. * Acerbis sent us some hand guards. * John at "Applied" was de-signing and machining new parts for the bike. And the funny thing is, I never asked him to do any of this help. He is just so nice and "into it" that he just starts working on our stuff. I know that so far he's put on some Applied triple clamps, chain blocks, and ignition cover. * No way in hell are we gonna need lights. Our team will consist of Ricky, Dustin Twamley, and myself. All I know abci>Ut Dustin is that this will be his second Baja race, the SR250 was his first, and he's about 20 years old. We will be doing all of our own pits. I have plenty of dry-break-style quick fills . I have "business" rides this week (22 May) and next week. I already ride these roads a lot, but I'm planning to take these next two biz rides on my sec-tions so I can call it pre-run-ning. I'll also go down by my-self before the race to do my 180 miles a couple more times. I don't know, yet, what the other guys' plans are. That's it for now! See ya." "Ti~ M . . ,. April 26, 1999 Tim Morton: "Our bike should be-ridden this Friday by me. I'm taking it on this next weekend Baja Bound Adventure. I want to put some miles on it. Maybe I'll do Simpson's loop a few times on it. It looks extremely stock, cuz it is. We've just done the basics. I hope its fast." May 31, 1999 Tim Morton: "This past weekend I rode the '99 YZ250 we'll be racing. I hadn't ridden a two stroke in a couple years so maybe I'm wrong about this, but the top speed sure felt slow. I'm guess-ing it is maxed at about 85 mph. We have it geared 15-42 and since we're pretty late in the game there isn't time to mess with trying different gearing or different style FMF pipe. The bike handles nice, to the point Scott Dunlavey and Cris Sena on an XR628 Honda, were second in Doug Reynolds, Gary Tepner and Ross Gregory on an XR600, were In the Sportsman ATV class the winner was Hippolito Ramirez, seen the Class 30 (over age 30) bikes, ninth bike to finish. second°in the Over 40 class, finish_ing on a stripp~d sprocket. here making a rooster tail as he heads into the day. Page 24 August 1999 Dusty Times

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that I hit a big ditch so hard at speed and thought I was going down hard, but the Precision Concepts suspension just soaked it up per'fectly. There is a bitchin' new "vir-gin" section up in the pines, cut specifically for this race. I'm guessing it's about ten miles long. They took a small dozer through the pines and cut a new road. It's very tight and twisty with a lot of jumps. Ex-cept for a-11 the tree roots still in the ground, it should be fun and worn-in by race day. The big problem is that it will be extremely easy for people to cut about ten minutes off the course by simply staying One of Japan's finest riders, Eizadoro Karasawa soloed his XR600 to victory in on the easier roads and short theOver40class, winningbynearlyanhour. Dave Olen had a tangle with a quad and hurt his leg, so his partner, Richard Jackson, rode more than his share, to give them the Class 50 (over age 50) win. coursing. If SCORE doesn't put knows the roads very well, rode times, so I was expecting for two more checks or spotters mostly against Beto (25 miles Steve to gain more time. The out there, people will for sure against Steve), then Dustin... Ruvalcaba brothers I see d-own cut it. who rides well. .. was doing his there riding a lot so I knew they Until later, first "road" type race (as op-had some routes dialed and· Tim." posed to open desert terrain) wou\d be tough .. The Fernandez-Morton-and is still learning ... went I took off on my XR up to El Twamley YZ had an ultra tech against Martin who is their Rayo where I was getting on the "billet" stub can by Applied least experienced rider. bike, that's when the Herbst Racing on the bars. They did And the other YZ riders (i.e. chase truck almost took me out lace up a set of Excel rims. the Ruvalcabas) are all pretty and made me bail off into the Temecula Motorsports, where consistent and go good. They bushes (I told you that story) . Fernandez works in the Service are locals and they know the At El Rayo Steve was run-Department, is open under new terrain pretty well. ning strong and had an eight management: Mike Finely and We knew Ricky would have minute lead on the brothers. Rich Schumann. Top Tip: the a tough time against Steve and Ricky came in 12 minutes later rear axle n u t was noted as would probably lose time. Not (he still looked pretty dazed to "2 7mm" for the spanner chal-taking anything from Ricky, it's me) ... lenged. They were running just that Steve is very fast. "I just got the race bike (the some sort of smelly bean oil. Steve rode to Cerro Colo-new 1999 YZ250) three weeks They allowed that Steve rado (130 miles?) and Ricky before the race. I took it over (Hengeveld) would be "fast. rode to El Rayo (105 miles). in Tim's house and he took it We figure they will be up_ by Unfortunately our Yamaha felt over to Applied_ Racing to get five minutes at mid race." Of like it might have seized or · it race ready. We finished it course, Ricky had the correct something about 30 miles into one week before the race. I attitude" "I ain't worried about the race. Ricky got the bike re-started pre-running on nuthin'!? Partner Dustin. startedanditkeptrunningfine Wednesday: I did the first 106 Twamley has raced a couple of but for sure something strange - miles and then the finish. Fud events plus this year's 9-an had happened. · I wasn't used to the YZ so I Felipe 250. Ricky got to ride Ricky was running good un-rode it about 12 miles on Fri-the YZ 16 miles on Tech Day til a big get-off had him seeing day before the race. I was kind morning as Tim figured that stars. When he arrived at our of nervous because I knew I had "after my 160 miles, I'll be used · pit after Ojos he looked a little to keep up with the Steve Hen-to it!'.' . dazed to me. His visor was bro-geveld bike off the start of the The Race ken, his goggles were totally race. Tim Morton: dirty, but he didn't want new When I left the start· line I We thought it would be a ones and wanted to stay on the had caught lOlX (Carl Fisher's pretty close race because of the bike. We were eight minutes little XR) right away because very different skill levels of the behind the KX and four min-he fell over on a hillside. I riders on both teams: Steve utes behind the YZ. caught the Ruvalcaba bike would be the undisputed fast-From Ojos to .El Rayo, Ricky (104X) on Mile 2 near the first est and was riding mostly only had a chance to ride it one road crossing. We both went up against Ricky, then T im who time and Steve pre-rode ma,ny a line that cut off some time, side by side. He made a mistake and I got by him for second. I pitted on Mile 20 because we . didn't know if we would make it to Ojos Negros. I started down the pavement and about Mile 27 I seized the bike (the motor locked up). While still coasting I got the bike to start .. . somehow. I dropped into the wash thinking our race was over, but it made it to Check 1. . About two miles past Check 1 there's a concrete water crossing. I thought I could go through it pretty fast. I ended up getting out of shape (on the slime) and going down hard on my head, face first. It took me a while to gather myself. I asked a spectator to start my bike for me and he did. I made_ it to my second pit on RM62 where Tim and John Duffy were. Tim looked at me and asked if I. .. "wanted to keep riding?" I said "Yes." I think I was still a little out of it. I rode to Mile 106 (El Rayo) and Tim took ov:er. Tim says I was out of it at Pit' 2. I don't remember. · I watched him go through El Alamo and then I went back to Ojos Negros to wait for the bike. When Dustin brought it in to me the bike barely ran. He said it has no power but it was . still running. It was tough riding it through the hills and Guadalupe Wash but I made it. 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They're the ones who gave me the nick-n ame ·•Bus-tin' Dustin·•. they gave-me that nickname one day when we were doing some cliff jumps. Since I met up with thein I've done a couple of D-38 races. I think I finished sec-ond in class in both of them (250 Expert and 250 Pro). .Other than that I really don't have much 'racing experience to speak of. · I was really pumped to be racing again, the only other SCORE race I had done was the '99 San Felipe 250 with Ricky (which they won). I pre-ran my section for the 500 about three times and I felt real Continued on page 26 "Kick Ass" Glamis Force Engines 1776cc Rebuilt Long block $799.00ex. "We are the bfwst distributor for RancboPerformance Rebuilt Transmissions" 1914cc Rebuilt Long block Stroker up to 2180cc Long block "Killer Stroker" 2332cx: Long block Axle $ 899.00-ex. $1399.00-ex. $1699.00-ex. . ·=-......__ ··..,·~· \ ... > l • ) ' Pro Street-Pro Sand Swing & IRS $499.00 & up-ex. 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Gilberto Santana, Rueben Martin and Arturo Sala teamed on a 400EX Honda to win Pro Open ATV; and finish first overall of the Quads. good on it. Ricky arid Tim section from Ojos to the finish. planned on getting me the bike., I was definitely up to the chal-just south of San Vicente, in lenge. front of, or no more than a In actuality what ended up couple of minutes behind 103X happening is 103X came (the team we felt was the big-through, seven minutes later gest threat in our class). I was (winner) Ruvalcaba came then supposed to increase or through, 30 minutes or so after take over the lead in my sec-that the 103X rider Martin tion and give Ricky enough of Bejarano came riding down the . a head start so that Steve Hen-highway with his arm wrapped geveld (103X team) couldn't up in his jersey, full of blood, get back in front on his final they were obviously out of the This is the system run by most off road race winners . TRI-MIL BOBCAT CHROME 1984-91 CORVETTE 2 1/2" OR 3" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER 13220 HALLDALE AVENUE GARDENA, .CA 90249 Page 26 . 310-217-9233 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED race. About 10 minutes after that the XR250 came through. Finally about five or 10 min-utes after the 4-stroke-came through, Tim came riding in. Apparently the bike had seized a couple of times and mor.e than likely the power valve was out (unconfirmed). Tim told me that I should be able to catch (Carl Fisher) on the XR250 so I gave it a shot. When I first got on the bike it would still do about 70 mph which wasn't bad. By the time I got to the village of Erendira I saw Fisher about a half mile ahead of me. I thought I was actually going to catch him. Unfortunately, our bike got progressively slower and the XR250 (!) pulled away. By the time I got the bike to Ricky it would only do about 50 mph, if that. We ended up finishing third in our class which isn't bad considering what happened to the bike. I'm surprised we even fin-ished." Morton continues: "I hopped on and took off only to stop after a half mile to remove the FilterSkin so the bike would run a little cleaner. The bike was running awesome and I soon passed two Vet bikes and one Open bike (I had pre-run the short new section six times and had it dialed). At Cerro Colorado Hwy X-ing I was nine minutes behind the (older YZ) but still 20 minutes behind Steve. This is where he handed the bike to Beto. At El Alamo Hwy X-ing I was about six minutes behind the (Ruvalcaba) YZ and 17 behind the (Beto) RX. Then before Nuevo Junction the bike just died, like it ran out of gas. I checked to see if I had knocked the petcock to "Off" but it was OK. I then kicked it over a few times and it started and ran fine. It was strange, kinda like when it quit running for Ricky in the morn-ing. I raced down to VT then just before the Kiliwas turn-off off the highway the bike really felt like it seized so I pulled in the clutch and coasted to a stop. It wasn't locked up so I kicked it over about six times and it started but ran horrible. According to Steve (Henge-veld) I pulled onto the Kiliwas Road 10 minutes behind the KX and as I went down the dirt ·road I could see the YZ about a half mile ahead of me (they had done a wheel change so I made up a little more time). · The bike would barely rev and would start to blubber re-ally bad when the rpms went up. It was pretty tough to get up the sand wash before hitting the Mike's Road. I pulled into our pit at the Mike's Road about five minutes behind the YZ and we decided to do some work to the bike to see if we could figure out the problem. ·we spent about 35 _minutes working on it ... to no avail. We decided to just ride it as best w~ could to get some finishing points. We still don't know what happened to the bike. We think it could be any, or a combo, of t},.e things. Around the Mike's loop I started to have some fun on the ailing bike. I caught a guy on August 1999. an XR600 (first Sportsman, I think) and decided to go past him while standing on the seat of our Yamaha ... well, that was almost a mistake as I came re-ally close to crashing right in front of him. I bet he got a good laugh out of it! When I got the bike out to Santa Maria (Hwy 1), I gave it to Dustin and told him we can . still get back by the XR in our class for third. He said we can get second as he pointed over to the KX that was sitting in the pits with blood all over it! Seems as though Beto handed the Kawasaki to Martin (who) went and crashed hard and tore a big hole in his arm. Martin headed back to the Hwy 1 then got in a truck to go fetch Beto (who was waiting) up at Santo Tomas (and bring him back) so Beto could ride it. I don't know what happened to them after that. We never did catch that XR and the brothers were long gone, having a good ride. Dustin proceeded to ride our slow bike and said it kept get-ting progressively slower. He had to get off and push it up the rocky hills before Tres Hermanos. Ricky then rode Ojos to El Tigre and gave me the bike for the last 20 miles. I was totally pumped to give it my best shot. l feel like I rode as well as I could back in '94/ '95. It even felt like I was faster in some areas than back then. It felt so awesome and was way more fun than I was expecting. That's about it. Our sponsors are Temecula Motorsports; Applied Racing; Precision Concepts; Baja Bound Adventures; IMS; FMF Pipes; Acerbis; IMS Tanks; Cycle Parts West; Pro's Choice and JT Racing. I am really happy to see the Ruvalcaba brothers get the win. They are a couple of the nicest kids and this is the first event they have won. They rode a smart race. Sometimes good things happen to the nice guys." (Later) Tim Post-Mortem: Ricky did a tear-down on the poor YZ today: * The skirt of the intake side of piston is about 50% 'gone'. It should've just stopped the bike in its tracks as it got eaten up by the crank. * The skirt on the exhaust side has some small chunks missing. * The crank feels fine, as if new. * Both piston rings are stuck. * the lowest part of the cyl-inder (that drops into the cases) has cracks in it. * Power valve looks·fine. * Reeds are fine. This bike should not have finished, period. Amazing ... PRO 30+ (Class 30 - 7 En-tries) 1. Mike Allsup/Dave Holden -XR600 Honda. 2. Scott Dunlavey/Cris Sena -XR628 Honda. J. Eddie Zeller/Eric Hingeley/Mike Tiffany WR400 Yamaha. The usual over-30 winner, Mike Barnhill (301 X), got a miss ih the San Diego Juice and Beverage XR's motor and had to try an ignition system change but to no avail: DNF. Mike had saddled up with Baja Vets Brian Schmuckle and Freddie Willert. Mike Allsup, riding out of Honda of Redlands was seventh motorcycle with Dave Holden. Scott Dunlavey, aged 41, rode the "30" class due to Cris Sena being under age. They were the ninth bike, followed by Zeller and Hingeley's Yamama. The Weatherman reported that bike "306X (Akihiko Naqkajima) was over the bars near Erendira and uncon-scious" ... then added that they discovered "bones protruding. He (had) a swollen eye and they ... were struggling with the language barrier." PRO 40+ (Class 40,.: 3 En-tries) 1. Eizadoro Karasawa (Solo) -XR600 Honda. 2. Gary Tepner/Ross Gre-gory/Doug Reynolds -XR600 Honda. 3. Gilberto Velasco (Solo) -YZ400 Yamaha. The majority of the Japanese riders come over to race via the "FOREST SUPPORT Overseas Touring and Racing" run by one Shugo. Picture this ad: "Race the famous Baja 500! Ride a brand new race proven Honda 4-stroke motorcycle! Learn the meaning of a red helicopter!" But not all Rising Sons are such types. Eizadoro Karasawa has been riding the Baja since, my records suggest, 1988. He has won a number of Class 30 crowns in past "1000" and "500". Soloing many of them, Eizadoro has been the enduro cnampion of Japan for many years running. This "500" was not much different, other than he was now racing in Class 40 ... where he was the solo winner over the well stacked deck of Gary Tepner. Tepner and his crew have come up several good rides recently ... other than, of course, their quad-in-duced debacle at "24 Hours le Fud." Doug Reynolds (402X) was taken out by a Japanese rider ... but with no serious harm and only a technical foul. They fin-ished the race with a bald rear ... sprocket! Gary Tepner told of the confusion: "It was slipping during the last few miles. I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I couldn'·t be-lieve that I yvas spinning the tire THAT much. When I made that final turn down to the finish ... through the arch ... the bike wouldn't pull me at all. Then the chain got one last grip on one last tooth and gave me a lurch. I paddle-footed down the hill, revving the en-gine to get some power down." This was their first ride on that Renthal sprocket ... with a new chain and a new front gear. "We used the same set up at the '1000' and it finished like new. Maybe Renthal got a batch with a bad heat treat." 'Fhat pesky "Quality Control vs. Lower Bidder' Syndrome", again. Dr. Gilberto Velasco (401X) . had a long stop at the San Vicente highway turnoff but got the YZ-400 rolling again to finish· a fine solo ride to third. He also soloed to a fourth fin-Dusty Times

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Akihiko Nakajima, from Japan, took a bad fall down by the beach, language baffiers made things tough, but he got quick attention from the medics. Eddie Zeller, Eric Hingeley and Mike Tiffany, on a WE400 Yamaha, were third place in the Pro Over 30 class. Here one of them gets a cool shower. The Pro 250 ATV of Carmen and Mike Cafro, Fabian Gonzalez and Earl Thigpen, second place finishers, powers past a weary Sportsman the third. Outside of Ojos I saw OK, how the hell did some-the two riders stopped, compar-body beat Carmen Cafro? He ing maps." Richard rode up and owns the class. The Tepner gave them a piece of his mind: team's XR motorcycle and the "Iexplainedthatthegateshave Angel Garcia quad (101A) to be put back up if that's the were both right behind Carmen way you find them! And that I Cafro's "102A) at Santa Marta knew it was them that were but Garcia beat them both, al-leaving them open!" though only Carmen really ish at San Felipe. Sounds like his heart is in the right place. The cardiac surgeon is from way over on the Mexican main-land town of Colima, near the Gulf of Mexico. His drive to the race has to be phenomenal, but the trip back home was made mo bettah with his cut glass "Cardon" trophy by his side. (The trophies were pretty bueno, Sal.). PRO 50+ (Class 50 - 1 En-try) · 1. Dave Olen/Richard Jack-son -XR600 Honda. "Yeah, I'd like to see SCORE have a 'Solo' class", said Rich-ard. "They get a lot of them in Best in the Desert. The inter-est is there." "Richard" was Ri-chard Jackson, the Stainless · Steel Man. Jackson has soloed many a race. A "1000" to La Paz here: a "500" there. On a dirt bike, of course; _plus the odd AMA event with a DitD thrown in ... iffor nothing more than to taunt Larry Roeseler, another noted "Solomeister." One interesting fact about Jackson is his dual trophy "Baja 500" in both Classes "40" (MC) and "9", that drive with an-other icon of Baja biking. George Erl... he, who is too Up-Tite. Dave Olen (501X), on a XR600, found himself caught in the old squeeze play down at the Ej Kiliwas highway turnoff. Two quads sandwiched Dave at the drop-away right-hander and.one ran over one of his legs .. ·. a good guess would be that that would be the inside ... the right ... leg ... and pulled him off the bike. "There was blood everywhere", reported Jackson. "He needed serious repair to his left shoulder. So I rode from Kiliwas to the Finish." (Ho-hum) "I had already done the Start to Alamo so I was p_retty carbo'd out. I was asking for en-ergy drinks at the pits just to keep going." A funny story from Richard's pre-running. "I was riding out from the start and when we got into the mountains past Guadalupe I picked up two mo-torcycle tracks. That was it, no more; since it had drizzled dur-ing the evening ... they were the only tracks." Richard was pre-running on an XR650L, with an electric starter AND an added kick lever for starting insur-ance! When jackson got to the first ranch gate, the barbed wire was on the ground; the gate ly-ing wide open. Rule: In the desert, the gates are to be left as you found them. "Closed", we all understand but what about "Open"? Well, some va-queros running cattle might just wish a gate to be left open ... to allow access to a stream ... or feed. "So I was hot when I reached the second open gate and then The riders looked blankly at counted. each other then broke into the PRO OPEN ATV (Class 25 sing-song chatter of the Japa-- 2 Entries) nese language. They had not a 1. Gilberto Santana/Rueben clue as to what the#### Ri-Martin/Arturo Sala -400EX chard was ratcheting on about. Honda. "SCORE ought to post all the 2. John Oregory/Danny course markers multi-lin-Rudd/Mike Jol;rnson/Alberto gually!". Jackson laughed. Like Marquez -TRX 440GX Honda. maybe with "Lithuanian?" Un-Number "2A" was the known Fact: San Felipe Bob Santana Auto 4-stroke XR400 (Surmon) dated Richard quad with Rubes Martin, RoR Jackson's daughter. Gilberto Santana and Arturo · PRO 250 ATV (Class 24 -Sala. They pit with friends "for 3 Entries) a fiesta." These arch rivals of 1. Angel Garcia -no data. the Cafro team were the Over-2. Carmen Cafro/Mike all quad. Cafro/Fabian Gonzalez/Earl The John Gregory team (3A) Thigpen -250R Honda. Continued on page 28 HONDA . Power .. Equipment l(A WAG UC HI HONDA CORP. ro_~-D -Racer· and Spectator D"iscounts · •GENERATORS •WELDERS •GENERAL l'uRPOSE ENGINES • WATER PUMPS •OUTBOARD ENGINES • LAWNMOWERS • LAWN TRACTORS • RIDING MOWERS •TILLERS CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT PARTS AND INVENTORY IF We DoN'T HA VE IT, No· ONE Doest DELIVERY TO 1HE RACES AVAIi.ABLE • PlEAsE CAIL AHEAD EX1000 KAWAGUCHI HONDA 3532E.3RDSJ:Los~CA9CXJ63•323.264.3936, 264.SSSS FAX 264.2136 . ··H()NDA Power Equipment Dusty Times ! 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rode a shiny 400GX with a Roll Designs frame sporting 19-inch Works Performance shocks on front and 16 on rear, giving 12 inches of front wheel travel and 10 in the rear with three inches "over" on all corners. The power plant was bored to 440cc with stainless head pipes lead-ing into a double "Duncan" si-lencer. It had a different cam and valves fed from a convo-lu.ted IMS fuel tank. "Duncan Racing did the engine pretty much to HRC specs. It is pretty torquey." The steering stabi-lizer is a Roll VW "style" con-trolled by Pro Taper bars. The rear axle and hub are off a 250R Four-Trax ... "the rotor is · smaller i~ diameter to keep it out of the stones but the dual piston caliper stops it just fine." They are the 1999 World 24-Hour Champion and have been doing The Baja since 1989. The riders were Danny Rudd, Mike Johnson and Al-berto Marquez, in addition to Rider of Record John, which is the same "24-Hour" team. They had a good start and moved up three positions be-fore taking a header in the Guadalupe area. ".Somehow, the electrics ... the switches and wires on the handlebars ... got wet and shorted and fried and the bike would not start", John lamented. "it cost us 30 min-utes. We went from charging to last into Ojos." {Note: The Golden West Cycle Honda had an "electric leg" with no aux kick. start.) "I had to get help to bump start it! It was pretty hard, in that sand." From then on they recouped their losses ... until the road up to Mike's, past Kiliwas, where yet another half hour was used up getting the unit operational. i.e., relaying upon the kindness of strangers. Then the team, once _again, had to work through the dust picking off the cherry pickers who had gotten by until. .. for the third time ... the rider killed the motor out by the Erindera coast. "This time he got local spectators to push start him ... but not until they all posed for photos around the Honda!" Eets zee Baja! Gregory, who had been cool-ing his heels at the Hilltoppers Honda pit, finally ran off to-ward town. "I came around the corner that led into the {Guadalupe) Wash. A cowboy on a horse spooked me and I stalled the@#!@#$%* thing. In the same place; in a differ-· ent direction. But he pulled me out of a ditch ... with a rope around his saddle horn ... then pull-started me!" John was ll}Ucho happy to get the four-wheeler into the checkers be-fore it got dark: "If! had.had to use the lights? It would have been trouble." · John said that at a Honda pit they troubleshot/shooted the system and changed ... well, you name .it: "Battery, wiring har-ness, the switches. I know that · when we do find the problem it will be real_ly simple." But un-der race day conditions? "I h ave been talking to Bruce (Ogilvie) about adding the XR (motorcycle) kick start system to the bikes." (They have two racers ... for different-series.) That ch ange will re-Page 28 quire new cases and gears and, of course, the lever upon which: Honda cleverly casts in the words "Kick Starter." Just in case ... "We· lost a half hour evety time we killed it. We coulda easily been the Overall quad." They lost to Santana by 1 :42. I leave the math to the student. (Hint: 4 kills x 00:30/kill -2:00.) "We are not that far back in the points. All we gotta do now to be Champ is win the 'Thou-sand"', laughed John. "Yeah ... just win.the 'Thousand'." Before the race John had predicted "'In-town' will be the biggest problem." How right he was. , SPORTSMAN 250 (Class SMU - 1 Entry) 1. Takashi Hatsuta -no data, but most likely an XR250 Honda. The enigmatic Takashi reached the finish line as the sole entrant in the small engine Sportsman class in 14-1/2 hours. SPORTSMAN OPEN · (Class SMO -15 Entries) 1. Joseph West -no data. 2. Gustavo Pena/Carlos Kanter -no data. 3 . . Brett Bell -no data. _ 4. Ivan Moncada -no data. 5. Koji Kato -no data. 6. Shoji Yuge -no data. 7. Yuji Nunohiro/Kitekami Iwate - XR40D Honda. 8. Keiji Toida/Shinichira Yamamoto -XR600 Honda. A terrific race, indeed, was for the Sportsman big bike class win! Joseph West beat a 15 bike field of big bore Sportsmen, edging runner-up Gustavo Pena by 14 seconds while Pen a beat third place · Brett Bell by eight. West and his team came down from Or-egon. Oregon? What do they know about Baja racing in Or-egon? Apparently about as much as they know in Central Washington state ... where Jonah Street hails from. Keith Tomlinson's team rider (268X), a big ol boy, "a giant guy, like 300 pounds", was ahead of Fernando Zepeda (269X) who had the ever-dete-r_iprating YZ of Dustin Twamley right behind him on San Vicente bladed road. Neither Sportsman entry could com-plete the event, however, within the allocated time. Brad Jones (252X) ... "BRRT Racing" ... in his first "500" was teamed with brothers Eric and John Hodel, the Lodi brothers, who have once raced exploding Huskys at Lou's BP. GPs. The Sacramento-area racers ar·e ac-tive in AMA D36. John is ac-tually from Mission Viejo ... Eric is the one from up in Lodi. How were they going to do? "We'd better win!" They did not win and they did not fin-ish. John was assigned the start-finish section. Lucky him! As he was the sole rider to ride: Hodel broke the ferrule off the XR600's throttle pull cable. Reading about a trail fix in "Dirt Rider Magazine", John tried to use the return cable but it was no dice. So he cut and spliced and wove and zip-tied parts of the return cable into the pull cable. "It took him an hour and a half to make it work so he could ride out on 'Compadre"', said Brad. "This happened at about (RM80) where_ you can't easily get in. The Weatherman was all in-volved in accidents and was not doing status reports." But we knew that we were out just from that down time. Only John got to ride: "I had over 200 hours on the bike ... and I've NEVER broken a throttle cable before!" · Rene Limon (260X) had to make major repairs at the Mag 7 pit up in. the forest. The rider admitted to having had an over-the-bars-at-speed experi-ence and nursed the battered Honda. to the pit while being passed by most of the bikes. Rene, he's from TJ, rode in holding his battery(!) with his left hand. The XR650L had a badly bent rear sub frame that was bottoming out on the back · tire ... or vice versa. This was the first race he ever entered. The team did not finish. Eighth place class Keiji Toida and Shinichira Yamamoto ·were the last btke to finish: 17:31:47. for compari-son, Jonah finished in 8:49:09 at 50.7 mph. SPORTSMAN ATV (SDA - 4 Entries) 1. Hipolito Ramirez -no data. Ricky (a.k.a. "Richard, Simpkins") Stator's quad {5 lA) popped a piston in the pine forest. That makes two in a row, by the way. Stranded rider Dave Newland went to get a tow (are you ahead of me?) and when he got back to where he had left the bike ... well , you kn_ow the old ·story. MIA . Ripped off, run outa town. Ricky avowed that he was not riding " ... anymore two strokes. Four strokes from now on!" The word on the street is that Ricky Stator is offering a reward for his quad racer. Looks like they took it north through Laguna Hanson. No-body saw it come out through Ojos. EL CHISMOSO Morton tried to get in the last word: "Just like the last 1000! Everyone seems to think that the trucks won. What a bunch of###! Ivan did not 'win' ... Jonah Street and Tor-sten Bostrom won. Their XR600 beat Ivan by around eight minutes. We were pretty amazed that Sal said, a t the awards, that the XR was the OA winner, even though he said it in an 'as a matter of fact' way. At least he said it." Wisdom Corner "He who fails to drink from the spring of experience is apt to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance." -Jeff Hibbard-sa·n Hill toppers Bob Bacon has been servic-ing Honda off road riders for years ... make that de<:ades, or so it seems. Since 1980, any-way. "I've pitted the Nevada Rally, the Baja races and Parker, Casey's Bitd. But no AMA Hare-and-Hounds ... they don't need pits there like we do in Baja." • Bob and fellow Hilltoppers Lee H amby, Bob Johnson and Tim Gomez covered the "Gold Mine" pit then wen t out to do August 1999 Angel Garcia bounces along the road on his way to winning Class 24, Pro 250 ATVs. Mike Allsup and Dave Holden, XR600 Honda, took the win in the Over 30 class, and also finished as the seventh motorcycle. Honda's Pit 9 atOjos. Bob does this out of his own truck, at this event covering 12 bikes and two quads. Bob originally got involved with Hon·da when son Gary raced with Honda ... who then got banged up pretty bad and backed off. Bob stayed on: "Honda pa)(s my expenses but I am not on the payroll. I've been doing it so long that it's a habit that I just can't seem to break." Bob has been a "life-long" member of the 50 year old Hilltoppers Motorcycle Clubs of Long Beach and Signal Hill. "This was o ne of our best races: we got everybody through early. There is usually always one guy who hangs it up for us. Saturday, we were back in Ensenada before dark!" Bob admitted to being sorta-retired and during the phone call had been "polishing (his) Whizzers." Course Comments: "From the Colon" Bruce Conrad ( 1606) "I only had a microsecond to shit my pants before I saw through the dust that the cattle guard didn't have any steel in it. I figured if the front wheels nosed in our race may be over." Dr. T. Macrae Glass (720) "Marked? I am used to the BitD courses, well marked. You may as well no t even look at SCORE's markings. Anyone notice the cattle gu_ard that USED to be in place on the beach run? We flew across it and almost shit!" ■ PIKE'S SERVICE CENTER BAKER, CALIFORNIA CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ..... THANKS! Mobil RESTAURANT o·PEN 24 HOURS .. SERVICE EVERY DAY YEAR ROUND THE BEST IN THE DESERT Dusty Times

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LEffER OF APOLOGY AND EXPLANATION First let me start by saying I take the job hosting off-road races very serious and with this letter I am not trying to make excuses. I am a man who will step up and admit when I make a mistake. I try very hard when making decisions for Best In The Desert not to make mistakes. But like I said I am just a man and I do make was demanding that Casey Folks come to mile 93 and help them. My answer at the time was tell the racers calling, "to go back to where he saw the last course marker and look for where he missed the course!" Next message I received over the radio was about 6 to 10 cars and trucks were on Highway 93 coming to the paved road cross-mistakes. I also have in the case of the Silver State "300" some 243 volunteer course work-ers, with approximately 200 of them that I have never met or talked to in person. When one of these 243 course workers make a wrong deci-sion I feel responsible for that decision. How-ever, please keep in mind these 243 volunteer course workers number one job during the race is for the safety of you the racers. With this letter I am going to try to explain what happen on the racecourse in the Silver State "300". Please also keep in mind that this only happen to the cars and trucks. Also a very important rn~~ISIIl!l·uoo, [])~~~lMLF ing on Highway 93 at Oak Springs Summit. They were very mad and someone was yell-ing at the flagman, "that if he did not do something to fix the course the racer was going to get out of the race vehicle and beat him up". At that point I had already asked at least 15 pro motorcycles riders at the fin-ish line if they knew of any problems with the course markings around mile 93 or after the 1st paved road crossing. All of the mo-torcycle riders I asked said the same thing "No course marking problems that they knew ofor had heard of!" I went back to the radio RACING ASSOCIATION part of the equation is that 84 motorcycles and 14 quads "did not" have any problems following the marked course. I am very proud to have each and every one of you fine off-road racers join with me each time the Best In The Desert host's an off-road race. Sometimes in our life's everything does not go as planned, no matter how hard we work or plan once in a while one small problem can tum into a very large problem. So now I will try to give you the explanation of how and where the problem occurred! Problem #1: Between mile 78 and mile 85 is Pit #2. There was a sharp tum on a fast road right after mile 78, the course was marked straight off the fast road onto a slow two track road, around the sharp turn on the fast road was a banner across the road and two (2) wrong way signs. As best as I can tell all but one ( 1) of the 98 motorcycles and quads that where still in the race at Pit #2 went the right way, somewhere in the first group of trucks and cars someone took out the banner and two wrong way signs. At about the same time the check point person at Pit #2 left his position to take care of a motorcycle medical emergency thus no more checkpoint at Pit #2. Now you must keep in mind as I start receiving this information on the radio I hear everything from 10 trucks to 40 cars and trucks have missed the tum off the fast road. Now that's to bad until you find out that by staying on the fast road, (not going to Pit #2) that fast road joins back up to the course after Pit #2 at mile 85. Now comes the first of two (2) prob-lems, without a checkpoint person at Pit #2 how can I determined who missed Pit #2 in the cars and trucks and who did not! Now I must take some of the blame for cars and trucks missing the turn! Qn the pre-fun run the racecourse stayed on the fast road after the sharp right hand turn then went into the sand wash. When I was marking that section I had lost the 4-wheel drive, the float stuck open on the carburetor and the clutch quit working on my course-marking vehicle and to add more problems it was about 7:30 PM and I had been marking course since 6:00 AM. Okay here's the mistake when I marked the course straight off the fast road I failed to take down the pink ribbon from the pre-fun run, so when any race vehicles made the sharp right hand tum on the fast road (after some car or truck took out the 2 wrong way signs and the yellow banner) they saw the pink ribbon from the pre-fun run and thought the course went straight. My mistake I should have put 2 more wrong way signs up and 1 more banner across the road, My fault and I do apologize!!! Now you add the course marking problem and me not taking down the ribbon from the pre-fun run and the official leaving at Pit # 2, 1 have problem # l . The questions is who other than the 1st two 4 wheel race vehicles overall went through Pit #2, I know that at least 4 or 5 trucks and or cars did not go through Pit #2 that finished the race. I gathered as much information as I could from the Best In The Desert officials in the field and the scoring team at the oasis but no one could really tell who missed Pit #2 so at 3:00 am Sunday back at the Oasis Hotel in Mes-quite. I started calling drivers of race vehicles that I thought might have missed Pit #2 to come down to the scoring room. Only two (2) drivers said they followed the pre-fun run ribbon and missed Pit #2. They did not realized what had happen until they got to the paved road crossing at highway 93 and felt it was to dangerous to go backwards on the course to find where and how they had made the mistake. Good choice they were right, it was "dangerous"! Now comes my decision what kind of penalty to impose on the race vehicles, that both of the drivers were honest to me and said they made a mistake, but did not cheat. I felt with all things considered I would access each vehicle a 20-minute penalty. My penalty decision was based on all the facts I had at that time. Hindsight is always easy! I again apologize! But I made the decision and I will stand behind it! Now I will end problem #1 with this short statement. To the car or truck who knocked down the wrong way signs and banner shame on you! You started this problem! To all of you cars and trucks who went from mile marker 78 to mile 85 pay attention to what's going on you should have noticed a 7-mile difference in mile markers. To all you who missed Pit #2, I will tell you this fact, if my official at Pit #2 would not have left his position and I had his check point sheets everyone that missed Pit #2 would be probably be DQED! Don't anyone expect to get away again! To everyone involved, I am very sorry this problem occurred and I do apologize to each and every one of you! Problem #2: The confusion at mile marker 93 of the cars and trucks missing the course and getting lost! This is not the first time in the history of off-road desert racing that this kind of problem has happened! However, this is the first time in my 29 years of hosting professional off-road desert races that a problem of this size has happened at one of my events. "Yes", racers have missed the course, but found their way back to the course, never ever to the magnitude of what happened at the Silver State "300". Explanatio'n: While I was working the finish line for the pro motorcycles I started receiving calls on the radio that some race cars and trucks had lost the course after mile marker 93 and was asked what did I want to do about it. I asked race net control where did they hear the information and the radio operator said some racers were on tl{e Best In The Desert race channel ( 151.490) and and asked what was the number of the race vehicle that was talking about beating someone up. The answer was "did not know for sure!" By now I have called for two- (2) key Best In The Desert officials to go into mile 93 and find out what happened and why the cars and trucks were missing the course. I told one official to go in from Dry Lake Valley and the other official to go in from Highway 93 paved road crossing and find and fix the course-marking problem. The next message I received on the radio was that someone at the paved road crossing on the Highway 93 was telling the lost cars and trucks to go down the Highway 93 to Pit #3 in Caliente and rejoin the race course there. As soon as I heard that message I got on the radio to find out who the person was directing the lost racers down Highway 93. Before I could get the answer to my question, I received another message that someone at the paved road crossing was now stopping all the cars and truck~ before they even crossed Highway 93 and telling them the course was closed and to go down Highway 93 to Pit #3 in Caliente and rejoin the race course there. After hearing this news, I got on my radio and stopped one of my officials I had going into mile 93 and told him to go to Highway 93 road crossing and find out who was telling the racers to go down the Highway to Pit # 3. By the time my official got to Highway 93 paved road crossing the best I can tell somewhere between 3 to 6 cars and trucks had been stopped and sent down Highway 93 to Pit #3. Also, the best we could tell a total of 12 cars and trucks were on the highway going to Pit #3. But to add to the problems in all the confusion no one bothered to take down race vehicle numbers of who went down Highway 93 for sure. During the time all of this was taking place at Highway 93 paved road crossing my official arrived on seen. When he asked who was sending race vehicles down the Highway, he was told the !st aid team took responsibility for the decision! At this point I told my official to take charge and start sending all race vehicles on the course. After he got everything under control at the Highway 93 paved road crossing and into mile 93 to find out what happen to the course markings, he joined up with my other official that was now finding lost race vehicles and getting them back on the race course. At the same time I had another official go to Pit #3 and stop the race vehicles coming down Highway 93 into Caliente Pit #3. When my official called me on a cell phone from Caliente Pit #3, he told me that some of the drivers and their pit crews in Pit # 3 were threaten to beat him up. He told me he backed away and told everyone to get on the racecourse at Pit #3 and Casey would deal with the problem later. At this point I got on the radio to the scoring room back at the Oasis and told them to get me every race vehicle number that had gone through stop check C and keep the list going until we close stop check C. Now back to the course-marking problem at mile 93. Both of my officials show up at mile 93 about 15 minutes apart. They called me on the radio and when I asked them what happen to the course markings their reply was "you're not going to believe this but the course is marked perfect". My answer "No Way"! How can it be perfect? They told me it looks like all the motor-cycles and quads made the sharp right hand turn out of the wash onto the 2-track road. It also appears the cars and trucks went straight in the wash about 100 yards before the sharp right hand turn. They also stayed in the right hand side of the wash and could not see the course markings at the tum because they were down in the wash and the course markings at the sharp right hand turn was down in the wash on the left. The two officials agreed "It looks like one truck or car missed the left hand finger of the wash and everyone followed until they made a good grove in the wash going straight. Why some drivers came back and found the course and others did not, "I don't know". As in problem # 1 84 motorcycles and 14 quads followed the course markings out of the wash with no problems! Solution to problem at Mile 93: First let me say I apologize to every one who got lost. No one feels as bad as I do!!! I know the kind of money and time everyone spends to go to off-road desert racing and it's not fun.when things like this happen. Okay here is my solution; Starting with "Vegas to Reno" I am going to start using 4 ft tall lath to put course markers on (we now use 3 ft lath) 1 ft taller will help you see the marks better, more arrows in sand washes, more yellow arrows in ad-vance of turns and in your driver packets at pre race registration a mile by mile course map showing pit areas as well as the course. I do care and I am going to make it better! To everyone who lost the course at mile marker 93; my advise do not follow the race vehicle ahead of you, follow the marked course if you don't see the course markings carefully go back to the last place you saw the markings! Once again please except my apology!! Now on to the cars and trucks that went down Highway 93 to Pit #3, the 1st aid team that told you to go on the Highway 93 made a mistake! However, they are part of the Best In The Desert team of course workers, so I will take full responsibility for their action. (Once again the 1st aid team made a bad decision). Because of the fact the 1st aid team representing Best In The Desert told the race vehicles to go down Highway 93 to Pit #3 and my official at Pit #3 told the same group of race vehicles to join the race course at Pit #3, I made the decision to move all 6 of the race vehicles that took Highway 93 to the back of their respective classes. I would not have told any race vehicles to go down a highway. For this I again apologize. To the cars and trucks that were stopped before they even crossed Highway 9 3, I am very sorry for this and please accept my apology! One last item, I tell you this as a fact, race vehicle #8102 "Did not" go down the highway to Pit #3 in Caliente. To everyone I say, "I am sorry". We will do everything in our power to not let this type of problem happen again. Now it's time to move on and learn from our mistakes. I hope to see all of you at "Vegas to Reno". CJ /J,.<Sin~erely, Jolk;J, D1rector Best In The Desert Dusty Times August 1999 Page 29

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BITD SILVER STATE 300 Ashley /Smith Beat The Heat Photos: Track.side Photo It's a good thing the river isn't rising, says the Ashley/Smith duo as they take their Ford to first overall at the Silver State 300. The Best In The Desert Silver · State 300 was headquartered in beautiful downtown Mesquite, Nevada, at the Oas1s Resort Ho-tel and Casino. Mes.quite· is a great little town about an hour north of Las Vegas and with lots of water and lots of golf courses and the BITD racers flocked there iii droves and there were no complaints heard about the town cir the accommodations. Contingency was held in the vast parking area across the street from the casino and from ten in the morning 'til six in the evening it was a fairly busy day. As usual at the BITD races, there were a lot more·motorcycles and Quads than there were trucks and bug-gies, but that almost is slowly growing and, of course, the big Ford purse dollars are helping to bring more and more trucks out of the woodwork. Contingency was heavily populated with all sorts of car and bike people and there were individual technical inspection areas for the bikes and the Quads and yet another section for the trucks and buggies. It wa~ well marked and well regulated and there was a smooth flow of traf-fic throughout the day. There was no impound after technical inspection at this race. · There was a 65 mile jaunt to the start line so there was a bit of trailering to do ·before you got to the green flag. The· motorcycles and Quads started at 5:30 Satur-day morning and the buggies and trucks took off at 8:45. The finish line wa~ in Alamo, a small town iri the Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge at the Del Pueblo Truck Stop where there was a full service restaurant with great Mexican food and a · general store with all the good-ies you might require and in spite of a tremendous amount of people in attendance all day, they were all stocked and were able to handle the demands of the crowd with ease. . Kyle Taylor rises out of the dust on his way to the Class B victory in spite of major motor problems on a very hot and dusty day. Rick Johnson put in seven and a half hours in his Protruck, but he took the class win by almost half an hour. There were over 50 entries in the truck and buggy divisions and most of them were trucks and 33 o( the trucks were of the Ford variety, all after the fabulous moneys thai: the Ford Corpora-tion is paying for class wins with their logo. Ford is ponying up $86,500 going to the winners in some classes, all the way up to· $10,000 for a win in other truck classes. Second place pays a lot of money also so there is much to be gained racing with BITD . . Race morning dawned clear as a bell and the heat was already starting to.bounce the thermom-eter well up above the 100 de-gree mark. It was a shade under 300 miies on the· one ioop and all were.rarin' to go. Best In The Desert courses are known for being well marked and it is a_lmost impossible to get lost but this race was different as ·some markers disappeared in two locations and there was con-siderable confusion as many of the drivers were literally driving in circles and trying (some of them in vain) to find the course again and get on with the race. Most every driver we talked to had gotten lost, some for only 10 or 15 minutes, but the average time lost in the mile 93 area was 45 minutes to well over an hour. But, that's racin'! Josh and Chad Hall had·a great day, taking their Hummer to a great first in Class Sam Berri was the Class 1 winner, having a trouble free race in his Mirage and he The motorcycles and Quads were the first to leave the start and they are covered in another story in this issue. The trucks and buggies went off on the long loop and the team to beat was the Dave Ashley/Dan Smith duo, and it certainly was their day. Dave Ashley started the race and after a fast but unevent-ful run he turned the truck over to Dan· Smith and Dan brought the truck into the finish line, he too having a completely un-BS, shown ·here out on the prairie. was fourth overall as well at the Silver State 300. Continued on page 34 Second Pro Truck across the finish line was the neat looking Ford of A bit short on body panel$, the Ford of Darren Oliver and Chris Heryford Joe Custer traversed the desert terrain with few problems, bringing Jeff Hoskins, losing only the battle with a tree. plows through the water on the way to a nice second spot in Class BS. his Ford in for a nice second position in Class 7S. Page·3o August 1999 Dusty Times

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Rob Reinertson was first in Pure Mini Stock class, he soloed the race and overcame a broken spring to take a nice class win. eventful drive. They had no problems, mechanical or· other-wise, no flat tires to hamper them so they took home the big marbles and were not only first in class, they took the overall Malcolm Vinje and Jim Gilchrist had a good day, one flat and getting stuck for a bit, but it mattered not as they were the 7S winners. also, spending only six hou~s and tire slowly going down after he 42 minutes on che course and had crossed the finish line. Dan and I watched the left rear "What a great place for that to t.l.l BILSTEIN•FOX SHOX•SWAY-A-WAY•~B•HOWE•CNC•JAMAR•ENGLE•BUGPACK•PROTHANE•SCAT• $ . . ~ o m ~ KARTEK ... 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Second in Class 1400 was an-other Ford, this one driven by Steve Robledo and Ed Geoffroy and although they were almost four hours behind the class win-ning truck they still were able to pocket $2,500 of Ford's money, not too bad for a long day. The next truck, second over-all, across the finish line was the Class 8 Chevy of Kyle Taylor. Kyle said he was lost between Pits 2 and 3 for about 20 minutes and fared better than most on the "Where the heel is the course" de-partment. Kyle suffered major en-gine problems as they dropped a cylinder and then had brake prob-lems to compound their woes. Kyle only had one flat during the long loop and was very happy to take the Gold medal and the nice prize money home to San Jacinto. Second in Class 8000P was the ever good looking Chevy truck of Dave Westham. Dave wasn't eli-gible for the Ford money but he did have the satisfaction of be-ing the Silver medal winner in class and he beat his competition in by over an hour and a half. The Nyeste/Mower/Rutledge/ Nyeste Ford was the third fin-isher in Class 8000P, running the long loop in a bit under 12 hours and their good looking truck is always a welcome sight at the races. They tow down from Canada and always seem to have a good time no matter where they finish. Eric Heiden was the fourth place finisher. Eric was also a solo driver and he too complained of being lost for more than an hour out on t·he course. }le com-plained of one flat that cost them some time, but worst of all was hitting a good sized rock which twisted the drive shaft and that had to. be replaced at their pit. Eric was the second car in class to finish on our books but he was awarded a penalty which put him at the back of his class for a course deviation. Next to finish in Class 8000P was the Chevy truck of Ollie and Ivan Penchansky. Ivan drove the first part of the long loop and Ollie brought the truck in for the finish. They too were lost for about an hour, had a flat tire to brighten their day and then broke a ball joint which was fixed out on the course by their ace co-rider and mechanic Craig Johnso_n. The first ProTruck to cross the finish line was only out on the course for seven hours and 25 minutes. Rick Johnson, who hails from Barstow soloed the course in seven hours and 25 minutes. Rick said he was only lost for 15 minutes, a comparatively short time, based on some of the other reports from drivers who fin-ished. He had a couple of flats to help brighten his day but still took home the first place Ford money. Rick said he found the course extremely rocky and it was pretty rough driving. Second of the ProTrucks across the finish line was the Ford of]effHoskins who also was a solo driver. Jeff reports he had no mechanical problems, suf-fered no flat tires but on the down side he was lost for an hour or so and lost the battle when he hit a tree and found out "they don ' t move!" 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Dave Westham had an especially long day out on the course, but he Steve Robledo and Ed Geoffroy drove their Ford Trick Truck to a good Eric Heiden comes out of the car wash in his super clean Ford, but brought the beautiful Chevy home for a second place in Class 8. second spot in class, but it was a ten and a half hour day. Eric had a lousy.,day, fourth place in Class 8. race solo. Steve also got himself an hour or so. They suffered from 12 hours, nevertheless, a good half of the course, handed over ning times on course. Theyhacl lost in the mile 94-95 area and it a broken wheel but couldn't re- finish on a tough course. to younger brother Chad halfway no problems with the turbo-took him about 45 minutes to member hitting anything hard Class 8100P belonged to the and he came on in for the hon-charged diesel, their only prob-find the course again. He had one enough to do that sort of dam-brothers Hall. The AM General ors in seven hours and 37 min- lem was an oversteer situation flat tire during the day and he age and then fought a stuck Hummer came through with fly-utes. They were one of the few which made the vehicle hard to also lost a pushrod which was throttle cable for a while before ing colors on a long and hard cars that didn't mention being drive. fixed at the next pit. finishing the course in a bit over course. Josh Hall took the first lost and it showed on their win-Continued on page 36 Fourth overall, and the first buggy to hit the finish line was Sam Berri who hails from the quaint little town of Murphys, California, nestled in the gold country and a must for any tour-ist in the area. Sam was lost for a bit less than an hour in his Class 1 Mirage, found his way back to the course and proceeded to head for the checkered flag. He suffered no flat tires nor did he have any mechanical problems. He said the course had lots of trees, had maybe too many rocks but overall it was a fabulous ex-perience. The second Cl~ss 1 car to finish was the Aceco of Rick Scalzo. Rick drove the first 80 miles then handed the car over to Tim who promptly got lost for James Cochran and Frank Omboli head into the water in their Lothringer on the Roger Norman had Rod Hall along to help and it sure worked, the took the Pure way to a great fif!!!J!lac'!.._~'! Class 1 o. --'----Stock SUV Class without any problems. · Elli■c• Sprl■gs II praull II 1ll811CI It's Cl■Plete Ille DI 11tr1 blgb q111111 1n-r1111 springs. IVllllllle II 10,12,14 & 16 Inch free lengths with 3" ID. a well deslan~d & manuractLired sprlna will last thousands or cycles, even in the cruelest desen environments. That's why iop chassis builder Mike tulson chooses Elbach Springs. He knows what it takes to win ... Now so do you. Spring to Success ... llllleldlll'III, lie. • Plme 949 75Z.8700 • ~,.... ....... -880 1854 Dusty Times August 1999 Page 35

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Tim and Rick Scalzo suffered from a broken wheel but a rules infraction put them to the back of Class 1. Ivan and Ollie Penchansky drove their Ford well in Class 8 but a The water really flies as Dr. McRae Glass races through the river on penalty put them into fifth spot in their class. his wa to a reat second spot in the class. Second to finish in Class 81 00P was yet another Ford, this one driven by Darren Oliver and Chris Heryford and their nine hour, 16 minute fin-ishing time was okay with them. Second spot ain't all that bad in a very competitive field. Ar-riving at the finish, one more Ford, this one the property of Steve Olliges. Steve always gives the equipment a good run and this race was no different. He took the third place spot, less tri.an 13 minutes out of the to repair out on t e course, ost Silver medal but was glad to be a header which doesn't hurt at the finish. but sure makes a lot of noise, Seventh overall to finish and had no flat tires and all in all first in Class 7300P was the had a great day. The second Ford of Rob Reinertson who, finisher in 7300P was Dr. like most of the day's drivers McRae Glass, in his Ford and was a solo contestant. Rob was the good doctor had a long day lost also in the 93 mile area but out on the course, finishing af-said it was only for a few min-ter 12 hours and 40 minutes but utes before they found the right taking home the $5,000 Ford course. They had a rough time money for a not too bad day. with a broken front spring Malcolm Vinje and Jim Gil-which the_y were actually able christ and their Hydrote_x Ford were the big winners in Class 71 00P. Malcolm drove the first half of the race and Gilchrist took part two and was the hero bringing it into the finish. They only suffered one flat tire, but Tom Geringer and John Yule were the1/2-1600 winners, and after a long 10 hour they got stuck immediate 1 y _da~y_t_h_e_fi_m_·sh_ lin_e_~_e_al~ty_loo_ k_e_d~g_oo_d_. _____________ _ ............ lfRld■dsl Spllerlcal Bearings • BACKSAVER • FIREBOTTLES • BATTERIES • SPAL FANS • SETRAB COOLERS • FLUIDYNE COOLERS • AEROQUIP PLUMBING • SILICONE HOSE NEO SYNTHETIC LUBRICANTS • MOTOR OILS • GEAR OILS • GREASES • AUTOMOTIVI & RACING COOLANTS WE HAVE OVER THE COUNTER SERVICE CALL US FOR A FREE CATALOG! WE WILL SHIP AS FAST AS-YOU NEED IT Page 36 thereafter and finally got on the road again. Their finish was worth $3,000 of Ford's money and the eighth overali finish wasn't too bad either. Almost an hour behind Vinj~ came an-other Ford, this one driven by Joe and Chuck Custer. We missed them at the finish line but were glad to see them on the results with a 13th overall finish and a great second in Class 71 00P. In Class 1000P it was James Cochran and Frank Omboli tak-ing the first place honors in their Lothringer. We assume they were lost for a bit and had a few prob-lems along the way, but their fin-ish was a great one and first place is always first place. In the Class 4100, Pure Stock Full SUV, Roger Norman and the ever quick Rod Hall took the first place honors. The guys spent just over 10 hours out on the course and were mighty glad to see the check-ered flag after a long, hard but satisfying day.· Congrats Rodney! Second in 4100P was the team of Eric Clay and Jay Mike Falkosky and Jim-Shaw won the Pure Stock Mini SUV in their Ford, shown here traversing one of the million cross grain depressions. Craig Turner took the Class 7 Unlimited class win and even found a dry spot in the middle of the river. August 1999 Bartlett, they came down from St. George in utah and took home $5,000 in Ford money. Not too bad for 11 hou;s work! In 1/2-1600 big winners were Tom Geringer and John Yule who drove their self-built buggy to the class win and they finished 17th overall as well. In Class 3100P, Pure Stock Mini SUV the luck of the Irish came through again as Mike Falkosky and Jim Shaw thun-dered in for the class win in yet another Ford and a nice bit of the green waitin' for them at the finish. Craig Turner drove his Class 7200 hard all day, got himselflost for quite a while, had a flat and broke a brake line, ended up off the course somewhere and suf-fered a penalty for that but he still was the class winner. Ran into Mike Jakobson Sun-day morning and he had entered his Class 5 car into the Class 1 fray but it certainly wasn't his day. He got hopelessly lost and was away from it so long that when he finally arrived at the next check, it was closed and he was definitely out of time, so, onto the trailer and home tb lick the wounds. See 'ya at the next one Mike. A very long weekend was over, the racers have all packed up and returned to their respec-tive homes and garages and will immediately start the preparation for the next race, which is Vegas to Reno on September 30, Octo-ber 1, 2, 3 and should be a great event!· ·1 want to give special thanks to Kirk Lee, the Marketing Di-rector at the Oasis Resort Hotel and Casino for the special con-sideration he gave to Dusty Times. Check out the Oasis, it's a great place to stay away from the maddening crowd. Thanks Kirk! And so another one goes into the book, we'll see you all at the Vegas to Reno in the fall. ■ Dusty Times

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► ► ,.. ► :. SNORE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL By Judy Smith Goerke And Collins Take overall Photos: Carrera Photography Robby Woolworth had a fine evening in his Ford, ran his required three laps and took the Heavy Metal win. plenty of rhings to hit,· such a power poles, Joshua trees and rocks, and it was very tight, so· that the 1600 cars were only a couple of minutes slower than the unlimited cars. Brian Collins and Robby Goerke teamed in the Chevy powered "truck" to win overall, but it was close. With a start time of 7:00 p.m., everyone had a daylight lap to learn their way, in case they'd missed the pre-run, and in general it was the quickest lap for everyone. The Unlimited cars took off first, and B.J. Rich-ardson, in John Gaughan's Chenowth, recorded the quick time for the evening, at 44: 11 as he went into the lead. Brian Collins, driving his Chenowth chassis with a V6 Chevy motor and Chevy body panels applied over the old buggy panels, had to repair a radiator hose, and ran second, only 11 seconds back. He had the most horse-power of anyone in the race, but it wasn't a huge advantage on this course. Tommy Bradley ran third in his Raceco." Brian Collins ~nd Robby Goerke paired up in Collins' Chevy powered buggy disguised as a truck, to take the overall win at SNORE's Miclnight Spe-cial in late June. Friday's late contingency, registration and tech inspection were held in the town of Pah-rump, at the new Terrible's Town Lakeside Casino and RV park, opened just a few months ago by the Herbst family. It does actually sit near the edge of a lake, and when all the landscap-ing is done it'll be a nice RV park. It served well for the SNORE function, with plenty of space, a convenient restaurant with good food and great prices, reminiscent of long-ago Las Ve-gas deals. On Saturday morning SNORE had a "fun run"; a guided pre-run of their 34 mile course, which started and fin-ished about three miles off Highway 160, between Pahrump and Sandy Valley. Originally planned as a six lap event, the SNORE folks decided at almost the last moment that it wouldn't be possible to run six laps in the allotted time, so the plans were changed. Classes 1, 1/2-1600, 5 and 10 wou Id do five laps; 9, 5/ 16, Heavy Metal and Mini Metal would run four; Sports-man Buggy would go three, and Sportsman Truck would be re-quired to do only two laps. It seemed like a wise decision, ex-cept to the few drivers who missed both drivers' meetings Mandy Dixon was under the weather and had Mike Spinas help tor most of the way. winning Class 9 by a whisker. CUSTOM ACCESSORIES, FABRICATION & MANUFACTURING QUICK, CLEAN, QUALITY SERVICE AT A DISCOUNT PRICE· CALL US! We can do almost anything in steel, aluminum or stainless. All work is guaranteed on time at the original estimated price. 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It wasn't a particularly rough course, though there were Richardson hung on to the lead through the second lap, as Collins had a flat. He was now 12 minutes up, with Collins sec-ond and Bradley s_till third. On the third lap Robby Goerke In the Sportsman Truck class, which ran only two laps, Mark Pettit had a broken motor mount, still got the win. Daniel Pratt rolled his car on lap one, and then went on to take the win as attrition helped his cause. August 1999 climbed into Collins' car, and Richardson continued to lead, but Goerke closed the gap to eight minutes. Bradley was still third. On Lap 4 Goerke went into the lead, with four minutes on Gaughan and Richardson, who'd made a driver change, and also had a sticky throttle cable. When they stopped to add more return springs, Col-lins/Goerke went past them. Bradley was done for the evening, the right front a-arm gone from the car. Goerke and Collins picked up another couple of minutes on the last lap, and took the class win and overall victory, while Gaughan and Richardson fin-ished second. In Class 10 the first lap leader was Danny Anderson in his Jimco, with the quick time for the cla~s at 45:10. Behind him B.J. Baldwin and Steve McMul-lin were tied for third place, only 15 seconds behind the lead car. Ken Flippin had his two seater in fourth. As he ran into lapped traffic, . Anderson's time slowed by a couple of minutes, but he held the lead, now with two and a half minutes on Baldwin. Mc-Mullin was third and Flippin still ran fourth, but now he was 12 minutes off the lead pace. · Anderson still had the lead at the end of Lap 3, and he stopped to put Jeremy Gubler into the car. They had three minutes on Baldwin, who was having trouble with flat tires. McMul-lin was now nine minutes ba~k in third place, with Flippin just a minute behind him in fourth. When Gubler came around the next time he pulled into the pit again, this time to have a flat tire fixed. He also had a bent tie rod. Baldwin had moved up into the lead, with six minufes on Gubler and Anderson: Flippin had come up to third, as Mc-Mullin lost about ten minutes and dropped to fourth. Gubler made up for his poor third lap by zipping off the quickest last lap of the evening. He was even faster than Goerke in Collins' truck, with a time of 47:09, which put him solidly back in front. It helped that Baldwin had another flat, and lost about 15 minutes on that last lap. So Anderson and Gubler took the win with Bald-win second, and Flippin third. Dan Bentley and Aaron Hawley, who'd had power steering trouble and a flat, moved up to fourth as McMullin lost about an hour and 45 minutes oo the Continued on page 40 Dusty Times

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,. ,.. ,. ► ;. Rick Boyer, more usually seen racing short-course, had a good Dave Spencer and Todd Johnson shared driving chores to finish Pops and John McCormack had a great time in the Sportsman Buggy evening, finished third in the 1600 class. second in Class 9 -it was Spencer's first night race. class, took second place in their Chenowth. Ken Flippin got off to a slow start, but moved his two seater up to finish third in Class 10. · Jason Gubler finished his race with a broken tie rod, but was the winner in Sportsman Buggies in his Bunderson. Buster Harling's beautiful car made it around all five laps successfully to take fourth in the 1600 class. last lap. McMullin dropped to fifth, the last in his class to get all the laps done. Jim Price, who travels from Colorado, had run the Baja 500, got back and got his Bunderson prepped for this race in about two and a half weeks; and then got only one lap in before an a-arm broke. That's racing. fn the lh-1600 class, the first lap lead belonged to Arden Dennington, who ran a 46:06, the quick time for the class, and had 12 seconds on Jeff Carr who was second. In third it was Robby Guevara in his Mirage, 52 seconds up on Rick Boyer, and Day Gang had her two who hasn't done much desert seater in fifth place, only two racing for some years. Pat Dean minutes and 50 seconds behind ran fifth, another 43 seconds the lead. back. On the next lap it was On the second lap Guevara's turn to hit things. He Dennington's luck ran out, and flattened a front tire on a power he hit one of the plentiful trees pole. Then he lost a snap ring edging the course and got him- off a c.v., replaced the c.v. and self so stuck that he had to wait axle assembly with a spare, went for his crew to come 1n and get another 15 miles anci rhe spare him freed up. It cost him only axle broke. He was done for the six minutes or so, but the lead day. Carr moved into the lead, went to Guevara, who now had now with two minutes on Boyer, 26 seconds on Carr, who was who was remembering what still second. Boyer moved up to desert racing was all about. He third, with Dean now in fourth was also discovering that he'd TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING. INC CONGRATULATIONS BRIAN COLLINS & ROBBY GOERKE 18T OVERALL - SNORE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL WE EVEN WIN IN THE DARK! Transaxle Engineering Jeff Field . Page 40 818-998-2739 9763 Variel Avenue Chatsworth, CA 91311 August 1999 aged in the meantime, and that this was a painful pastime. Dean was third, about two minutes later, followed by Dennington, running well again, and Buster Harling had moved to fifth place. Gang had a bad third lap. She'd broken a throttle cable, and, since there was no flash-light in her car, had to use the iight from her headlights to see to make repairs. By the time tbe throttle cable was repaired the battery was dead, and she ended up stµck on an uphill. Bruce Fraley went in to rescue her, but she lost an. hour and 20 minutes all told. Carr continued his steady run, and he had a four minute lead on Dennington at the end of Lap 4. Boyer was now third, a minute and a half later, with J.C. Dean, who'd.taken over for Pat, in fourth, and Harling in fifth. Carr lost about five minutes on the last lap when he got lost, and he'd also lost his brakes, but he hung on for the win, and was also the second overall vehicle for the event, only two minutes and 3 7 seconds behind Collins and Goerke. Dennington re-. corded the fast last lap for this group and closed up to finisl;l only 24 seconds behind Carr, in second place. Boyer, who had a Danny Anderson and Jeremy Gubler teamed in their Jimco to take the Class 10 win, only minor problems slowing them. Jeff Carr ran steadily, got lost once, but took the 1/2-1600 win, and was also second overall. Dusty Times

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Arden Dennington had the early lead, but got stuck in a tree for a B. J. Baldwin soloed the race, might have won Class 1 0, but a flat on Day Gang had a looong night of it in her 1/2-1600 car, complicated by while, and dropped to second in the 1600s. , the last lap lost him time. He was second. a broken throttle cable and dead battery. flat and drove about six miles on by Dwaine and Rob Walters on Kevin Walsh, in an elderly T-two minutes behind the Brad Inch), and then going it, was third, followed in by Har-the first lap, and they had the·· Mag, was fourth as Sheble's McCormacks. straight to Sandy Valley to mark ling, and then, in fifth, Milo quick time for the class of front end felt funny, and his pit In the Sportsman Truck di-this course. Whew! A huge Torres and his 17 year old 54:18, which put them just 24 crew discovered a ball joint vision, Mark Pettit drove his group of volunteers, from road nephew, Cody, driving in the seconds up on Mike Spina in that neeqed tightening. Barry Chevy the required two laps, crossing folks to timing and · Pro class for the first time. It Mandy Dixon's car. Dixon was had put Ryan Schank, last had a flat and a broken motor scoring, also contribute their was Cody's first race and he said not feeling well and asked Spina year's class champion, in to fin-mount on Lap 2, but got his fin- time and energy, continuing the it was "fun." to sit in for her. Spina had never ish the rac·e, and they were now ish, and win. long tradition of great SNORE The 5-1600 class had a less driven a Class 9 car before, and fifth, clutch still slipping. Once again, SNORE has to racing in Southern Nevada. than stellar day. Greg Price, a was finding it a bit of a chal-Spina stayed in front, then thank Kenny Freeman, who put The next SNORE event will big fan of NASCAR's Jeff Goi- lenge, but was happy to be driv-put Dixon in the driver's seat in endless hours to make this be at Ely on the weekend of don, had his rainbow colored ing. Roland Barry had third long enough so she could cross race as much fun and as success-August 13 and 14, followed by bug on the trailer early, victim place less than a minute later, the finish line and claim her fo.l as it was. He had a busy the SNORE 250 on its tradi-of a broken spindle. He never and Todd Johnson, in his old class points, and they got the week, starting the weekend be-tional weekend of September even got his first lap done. Raceco, which has been bought win. Spencer, who had the fore when he went down into 24-26. They'll close out the year Daniel Pratt, on the other hand, by Dave Spencer, was fourth. quickest time on the last lap for California to run the MDR race with the Reserve 250 in !:_as was really lucky, and while he Jeremy Harmon ran fifth, only this group, closed up to within (winning the 1600 class with Vegas, November 12-14. <6lJg rolled over and crumpled his car a minute and 38 seconds behind a minute and 25 seconds, to get SNORE r.-nmHGHT SPECIAL heavily, he did get the lap fin-the lead car. second place for himself and ished. And he went on t~ do Johnson moved into the lead Johnson. This was Spencer's three more laps, though the on Lap 2 as Walters broke a first night race, and he was fourth one took two and a half balljoint and limped back to the pleased·with the result. In third hours, to get a win, one of the main pit for repairs. Spina was it was Harmon, but it hadn't very last cars to make it in to still second, and Joe Shelbe been easy, he'd got lost twice JUNE 25, 1999 SANDY VALLEY, NEV ADA RESULTS POS CAR# DRIVER/CO-DRIVER the checkered flag. moved up to third with Thomas (in all. that dust) and then hit Robby Woolworth, the lohe Taliaferro in fourth place, and a Joshua tree and got stuck. Class I -unlimited-3 starters, 2 finishers (5 laps) entry in the Heavy Metal class, Harmon in fifth. Barry's clutch Bryan Anderson, a 1600 driver finished his three required laps, was slipping. who was already way down on though his third one was very Now, as the wind died; the time, decided t~ heip him get long, to get a finish and a win dust started to hang all around unstuck. He had to hit in his Ford. the course, making it really Harmon's car four times before In the Mini Metal class, Ja-hard to see where the trail he knocked it loose, but knock 2 133 106 Brian Collin<!Robby Goerk~ John Gaugh,m/8.J. Richardson Class 10 - 1650ccs - 8 starters, 5 finishers (5 laps) son Johnson, in a F_ord, put in went. Spina, getting the .hang it loose he did, -and Har'mon -r•· two hours a'nd47 mimi:tes-on his of the car, moved into the lead. went on to finish third. Talia-3 1009 1oio" 1012 1011 Danny Andt,rsou/Jeremy Gubler ·s. J. Baldwin . ' . first lap, anci then never came Johnson put Spencer in to fin- ferro was fourth, followed in by around again. ish the race, and they were now Walsh and Guy, who'd thought The Class 9 troops were led second, with Harmon in third. they had another lap to go. • Jason Johnson had a long first lap in his Ford, but took the Mini-Metal class win anyway. B. J. Richardson and John Gaughan paired in a Chenowth, lost the Class 1 lead to a sticky throttle cable. Dusty Times The Sportsman class, which runs 1600cc motors, was re-quired to do only three laps. J a-son Gubler, Jeremy's brother, led all the way in his Bunder-son. He had a ten minute lead at the end of the first lap, and Pops McCormack ran second in a Chenowth, with Chuck Sut-ton and Jack Bassett in third in what was probably the oldest car running, a 1977 Hi]umper. No one else in the class got the first lap completed. At least it costs only $ 7 5 to enter in the Sportsman class, so it's no big financial loss if the car breaks early., Gubler's lead was reduced to five and a half minutes on the second lap, as John McCormack took over for his dad and ran the fast lap for the class, at 51:01. He was still second, with Sutton and Bassett in third. When Gubler came in to the finish line, still leading, at the end of Lap 3, he looked a bit squirrely, and as he took the checkered flag it was apparent that he had -a broken tie rod. But he'd driven that way only for a quarter mile, and it made no difference in the result. He took the win, with the McCor-mack family in second, report-ing a flat tire to slow them a bit on the way. Bassett and Sutton told us that the course had "got better -because the big guys kicked the big s-out of the way." They finished third, about August 1999 4 5 1098 Ken Flippin Dau Bentley/Aaron Hawley Steve McMi11lin Class 1-2/1600 • 1600cc cars· 9 starters, 7 finishers (5 lnps) 2 3 4 .5 6 7 16.50 1661 1621 1623 , 1689 1677 1627 Jeff Carr Arden Dennington Rick Boyer Buster Harling .l'vfilo & Cody Torres Pat & J.C. I>eau Day Gang Class 5-1600 • 1600cc Baja Bugs· 2 starters, 1 finisher (4 laps) 579 Daniel Pratt Heavy Metal - I starter, I finisher ( 3 laps) 22 Robby Woolworth Mini-Metal 1 starter - 0 finisher. (3 laps) 721 Jason Johnson ( one lap only) Class 9 - 1600cc cars, limited suspension• 15 i;tarters, 9 finishers ( 4 laps) I 2 3 4 5 907 901 990 931 977 Mike Spini;/Mandy Dixon Dave SpencwTodd Johnson Jeremy Hannon Thomas Taliaferro Kevin Walsh/Chnck Guy · Sportsman Buggies• 1600ccs - 6 starters, 3 finishers (3 laps) 2 3 62 82 59 Jason Gubler Pops & Joint McCormack Charles Sutton & Jack Bassett Sportsman Trucks• 1 starter, 1 finisher (2 laps) 4 Mark Pettit Total start.ers: 46 Finishers: 29 Course: 34 miles• tight, technical, dusty \Veather: hot to warm, breezy to c:ilm - dark, near full-moon TIME 4:01 : 12 4:07:59 4:05:04 ~ ~ ~ ~ ' 4: 18': 18 ' 4:25:07 5:19:25 6:46:06 4:03:49 4:04:13 4:21:32 4:33:54 4:57:18 5:02:48 5:36:59 6:21:12 .'i:42:-l.'i 2:47:16 3:46:06 3:47:31 3:58:08 4:02:27 4:05:09 2:39:44 2:51:26 2:53:42 3:15:27 Page 41

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I ► MICHELIN SCCA PRORALLY CHAMPIONSHIP Wild west Pro Rally Text & Photos: Jim Culp Irish rally pros Noel Lawler and Charlie Bradley became the fifth different winner in five Michelin series events. Irish rally veterans Noel Lawler and Charlie Bradley raced home with a wire-to-wire win in the Wild West Rally, the fifth round of the Michelin SCCA ProRally Championship. Lawler's win makes it five different winners in the five series events. The Wild West was run through the Simpson Timber Company's Olympic Tree Farm just west of Shelton, WA. in very dusty conditions. Lawler and Bradley parlayed their number one starting po-sition into a 50 second lead on the very first stage and never looked back. The Hyundai Ti-buron with the Pirelli stickers was fastest on each of the first eight stages, and cruised home a winner by more than four minutes. The Hyundai crew was born and raised in Ireland, Lawler in County Mayo and Bradley in County Donegal, but they've been racing together m the U.S. since 1990. They needed just a bit of Irish luck to pull out the \Vin. Late in the ev.ent, power steering prob-lems, a broken water pump · belt, and a wrong turn on the first exhibition ;;superstage;; trimmed a few seconds from the lead. Five week old Lucas Lawler's dad shrugged off the problems and grabbed the Father's Day eve victory for his youngest rally fan. John Buffum and Mark Wil-liams claimed the second spot while flying support for the winners in the Libra Racing Hyundai Elantra. Buffum lost time with an overheating en-gine despite some unseason-ably cool temperatures. The Libra crew supplemented the temperature gauge with an overflow bottle by the co-driver's feet. Whenever the bottle filled up, Buffum went to cruise mode to ensure a fin-ish. Another overheating vic-tim, the Royal Moore Subaru Impreza USX of Pablo Eklund and John Allen, was the sur-prise third place· finisher. Eklund and Allen blew a heater hose and limped through the first night's stages in 13th spot. On Saturday the crew adapted, refilling the ra-diator after each stage, enrich-ing the fuel mixture and back-ing off the boost when the car got hot. The flashy yellow Im-preza turbo finished strongly in only its second run in a Michelin ProRally event. Lauchlin O'Sullivan and Production GT winryers Gail Truess. and Cindy Krolikowski had a trouble free run in -the Mazda 323 GTX. Jon Oxford challenged Buffum for the second spQt, but lost eight minutes changing a flat on the 24 mile Travaglione stage. The Wagen Werks Audi 4000 posted the fastest stage time on five of the last six stages to crawl back through the pack into fourth overall. Ralph Kosmides and Joe Noyes overcame an early chal-lenge to capture the Group 5 title in Ruby's Toyota Supra, finishing fifth overall. Produc-tion GT winners, Patty Truess and Cindy Krolikowski, battled their way to within 23 seconds of the top five, finish-ing sixth in the Rally Dynam-ics Mazda 323GTX. George Plsek and Renn Phillips were a conservative seventh in the new Tato Rac-ing Audi Coupe. The second Subaru Impreza of Lee Shad-bolt and Ciaire Chizma fin-ished eighth overall, dropping to second in the PGT class with a flat tire late in the event. , The, Group 2 title, was claimed by Todd Hartmann and Shawn' Callahan in the lntrax Suspension Technology Volkswagen Golf GTi. North-west rally champ Hartmann, outran the competition early and then held on for his first class win in the national series. Tony Chavez and Ken Cas-sidy stopped to change flats on three successive stages. With all the prac-tice, they managed to improve their tire changing time into the three minute range, but the lost time dropped the Texaco of Mexico Mitsubishi Gallant down to tenth over-all. in the Lazer Volkswagen New Beetle. McGuire kept the Beetle flower powered, with fresh blooms in the standard equipment bud vase. C~ew chief Guy Light kept the ser-vice crews entertained with the Volkswagen's standard equipment key operated power windows. Fifteen of the 20 starters were still running at the finish. Among the DNFs were Garen and Doc Shrader, who dropped out of the. third place battle when the TAD Motorsports Mitsubishi dropped a drive shaft. The fastest Group 5 en-try on the first day, Doug Schrenk and Rob Walden, lost a top five finish when the Scanwest Autosport Saab turbo suffered a transmission failure that left them stuck in third gear. Another fast Group 5 car, the 600 hp Fast Lane Racing Volvo 262 of John Lane and Scott Huhn, posted the fastest speed trap time at 103 mph on the dirt before dropping out. Again,this year the Wild West featured two "superstage" special runs through the Thurston County Off Road Vehicle Park. Eklund and All.en posted the fastest time with a 1: 14 run, two tenths faster than O'Sul-livan and Oxford. With no advance publicity, the specta-tor specials drew few specta-•tors other than the crews and devoted die-hard rally fans who pursue this form of motorsport entertainment. Ralph Kosmides an<j Joe Noyes grabbed the Group 5 class win in Libra Racing boss John Buffum teamed with Mark Williams to take Production class winners, Karl Scheible and Gail McGuire were 11th The event lost some drama when Hyundai's lead team of Paul Choiniere and Jeff Becker scratched before the start. Somehow ProRally didn't seem all that meaningful after Jeff Becker lost his wife Tess to pri-mary pulmonary hypertension. Donations in honor of Tess Becker can be made to the Pa-tients Pulmonary Hypertension Association, P.O.· Box 463, Ambler, PA 19002. ■ Ruby's Toyota Supra turbo. second overall in the Hyundai Elantra. -~---~ ..... """"~,--.....,..,-' r Second in Production GT was the Subaru lmpreza of Lee Shadbolt The New Beetle of Karl Scheible and Gail McGuire was the production Northwest champion Todd Hartmann and Shawn Callahan claimed and Claire Chizma. class winner. the Group 2 title in the lntrax Volkswagen Gold. Page 42 August 1999 Dusty Times

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Northwest Club Rally Report Text & Photos: Jim Culp The Coffee Fresh Volvo of Bill Malik and Chris Edstrom claimed the Group 2 title in the Sou'Wester. Sou'W ester Club Rally San Francisco's Lauchlin O'Sullivan continued his win-ning roll through the North-west rally scene with a win at the Sou'Wester Club Rally, a Friday night run through the dusty roads of the Simpson Timber Company's Olympic Tree Farm just west of Shelton, WA. Th~ 1999 Doo Wop Series Champ O'Sullivan and co-driver Jon Oxford challenged the top national cars while pulling off the Club Rally vic-tory. Posting the fastest time on all five stages, the Wagen W erks Audi 4000 sailed to a 1:37 victory in the short five stage event. The two minute separation required by the ex-tremely dusty conditions played havoc with the rally's operating and Kenny Almquist in the ·schedule an'd resulted in the Fast Focus Mazda 323GTX. cancellation of the final stage. The Tacoma, WA crew put Washington rally veterans the finishing touches on their Doug Schrenk and Rob repaired race car just in time Walden were second overall for the start and th.e smell of and first in Group 5 in the re-new paint followed the fifth turn of the mi_ghty yellow· place finishers around the Scan west Autosport Saab 900 stages. turbo. Bill Malik and Chris-Another six seconds back tian Edstrom in the Coffee were Chris Kouba and Gary Fresh Valencia Volvo used Bockman in the Bockman and their national seeding position Sons Mazda RX7 in sixth over-to advantage, claiming the -all and second in Group 5. Group 2 trophy while running Tony Ch<1vez and Ken Cassidy third overall. were seventh after experienc-Another Group 2 car, the ing brake problems in the always surprising Can Am Texaco of Mexico Mitsubishi. Volkswagen Rabbit of Noah The Saab of Michael Leon-Third and Jason Lane were ard and Leon Owens finished fourth, just 12 seconds behind eighth, only one second behind the Volvo. Six seconds behind the Mitsubishi. George Plsek the Rabbit were Eric Eaton and Renn Phillips in the new Tato Racing Audi Coupe fin-ished ninth followed by Rick Hintz and Mark Swalley in the z-team Datsun. Nao Hirata and Don Swier in the sleek Figaro's Pizza Toyota Celica claimed the POT class in only their second out-ing. Production class winners, Karl Scheible and Gail McGuire were 16th in the Lazer Volkswagen New Beetle. There were 31 finishers from among the 35 starters. Produc-tion class challengers "chainsaw" Matt Tabor and Kevin Poirier missed a turn in the dust on Stage 1 and wrote off the Tabor Accounting Group Nissan Sentra when they harvested a tree. Chad Dykes and Deb Fuller ran with the Group 2 leaders till they got stuck off course on Stage 5, los-ing 20 minutes or so. Wild West Club Rally The Royal Moore Subaru lmpreza USX of Paul "Pablo" Eklund, from Tigard, OR, and John Allen from Bainbridge Is-land, WA, took advantage of O'Sullivan and Oxford's mis-fortune to capture Saturday's Wild West Club Rally. O'Sul-livan and Oxford were fastest on seven of the rally's ten stages, but lost the top spot with an eight minute tire change on the 24 mile fourth stage. The Eklund/Allen Subaru finished 13th in the shorter · Sou'Wester, but took the lead on Stage 4 in the Wild West event and fought an overheat-ing car to the finish, refilling the rad.iator after each stage, enriching the fuel mixture and backing off the boost when the car got hot. It was almost a one-two for Subaru. Rally newcomers, Patrick Richard and Ian McCurry, were in the chase for second overall. Two flat tires on the final stage dropped them out of the top ten, but the Ca-nadians driving a showroom fresh Impreza 2.5 RS held on to claim the POT class. O'Sullivan and Oxford came from well down the list to grab the sec-ond spot on the last stage. Pisek and Phillips stepped up the pace to finish third in their Audi, with the Can Am Rabbit of Third and Lane fourth over-all, and first in Group 2, even after an end-over-end rollover. That's the second roll this sea-son, and Third figures there must be some cat in the breed because this Rabbit always seems to land on its feet. Dave Hintz and Doug Chase claimed Group 5, fifth overall in the Extreme Rallying Mazda RX7. The second Group 5 fin-isher followed, the John L Scott Real Estate Dodge Colt of Carey Wright and Alan Wright. Jeff Call and Brent Dille fin-ished seventh in a Group 2 VW Golf, one spot ahead of the Richmond Toyota Celica of Scott Trinder and Robert Trinder. Scheible and McGuire were ninth, again winning the Production class, and Chavez and Cassidy rounded out the top ten. Attrition was much greater in the longer Saturday event, with only 20 of the 34 starters running at the finish. Among the DNFs was the fastest car on the first stage, the Fast Lane Racing Volvo 262 of John Lane and Scott Huhn. The 600 horse power Volvo also posted the fastest trap speed at 103 mph before dropping out on the last stage. The second stage (repeated later as Stage 4) was a 24 mile long monster \Yith flat out straights, rocky transitional bits, plenty of 90 degree cor-ners, and a variety of road sur-faces. It decimated the field. Schrenk and Walden dropped out after the ·scanwest Saab suffered a transmission failure on two. Kouba and Bockman rolled on two. Malik and Ed-strom, Hirata and Swier, and several others all dropped on two. In addition to the DNFs, the same stage contributed flat tires for O'Sullivan/Oxford, Chavez/Cassidy and others. ■ George Pisek and Renn Phillips grabbed third in the Wild West Club Wild West Club Rally winners Paul Eklund and John Allen were fastest Sou'Wester winners Lauchlin O'Sullivan and John Oxford also finished Rall with the No Fear Audi. in the ORV Park superstage. second in the W11d West Club Rally. <-. _, •• Canadian rookies Patrick Richard and Ian Mccurry Jost second overall The Scanwest Saab of Doug Schrenk and Rob Walden was second Dave Hintz and Doug Chase slid their RX7 to the Group 5 crown in with flats on the final stage, but still claimed the PGT class in the Wild in the Sou'Wester; and the Group 5 winner. the Wild West Club Rally. _Wi_e_s_t. ___________________ _ Dusty Times -August 1999 Page 43

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sically flat and fast 5.5 mile course. A TV, Desert SuperLites, and all other motorcycle classes raced one time each, with the· day's first event commencing promptly at 7:00 a.m. Following those divisions, the various car, buggy, truck and Baja competitors participated in two races each. Thanks to an absolute lacl< of wind on Saturday morning, the early contests were the epitome of dusty times. In fact, from the highway, the stagnant dust clouds enveloping the hills looked like smoke from a fire. That uncon-trollable situation didn't stop the contestants however, so we're not stopping either. It's on to race re-cap time. · The day's first contest was for entrants in the A TV and Desert SuperLites Classes. Local resident Juan Carlos Lopez ofTecate, B.C. emerged as the race's overall win-ner. Lopez' strong effort secured first place in the Pro Class, over Andy Anderson who finished as runner up. David Aquino was credited with the win in the A TV Amateur Division, while Allen White raced to victory in the ATV Novice class. White, who will now be racing in the Arna-The First Senior (over 40 years old) Pro award went to Dave Biddlecome on his 250cc Honda. teur class, scored his win over runner up Hipolito Ramirez. Ja-son Landman followed Ramirez, to finish up in third place. And it was Kenny Shaft checking in fourth, to complete the Novice class scoring. Reubon DeHoyas placed first in Senior A TV, and Bobby Buchanan did likewise in A TV Beginner. Rob Archibald was clearly the dominant racer in Desert SuperLites action. Archibald took first in Open DSL, Jim Wilmon wheezes toward the finish line on his Yamah~ YZ250. He took first place in the Vet Pro (over 30 years old) class. John Ross, who lives just over the border in Seeley, took first place Classic (for bikes over 1 O years old) on his YZ 490. Craig Smith had a good day, taking first in Open Pro on his Honda XR628 and also winning the 4 Stroke Pro class . . Dusty Times-with an impressive first overall performance. James Saasta was credited with the win in DSL 360, and Mike Maxwell was tops in DSL 77. The second race of the day fea-tured entrants from the Open, Se-nior, Super Senior, and Masters Motorcycle classes. Proving him-self best of the bunch was Craig Smith of Brawley, CA. Smith scored his Open Pro class victory . over second place finisher Aaron Tuck. In the Open Expert divi-sion, Greg Luna was the winner. Luna topped Cooper Jancie and Matt Spiewak, the respective sec-ond and third place finishers. Tilt Biddelcome was credited with first in Senior Pro, beating run-ner up Mark Brown. Thomas Pic-colo came away with a first in · Senior Novice. Jim Gavin was the winner in the Senior Amateur di-vision. Gavin, who is now headed for the Expert class, proved best over runner up Rags Kirby. John Reed followed next in third and Mike Cuff finished back of him in fourth. Completing the Senior Amateur class scoring was Judd Neves in fifth. Mike Govern took first in the Super Senior class, while Doc Middleton did the same in Super Senior Expert. The following race was also for Motorcycle entrants, with this group competing in the 125, Vets, and Classic divisions. Jim Wilmon of San Diego, CA emerged as the event's overall winner. Wilmon placed first in the Vet Pro class, with Bill McNeer finishing as the runner up. In the Vet Amateur class, Loren Dimond came away victorious. Dimond, whose next start will be in the Expert division, bested runner up Steve Reyno for the win. Following Reyno was Ron Neidhardt, the third place finisher in Vet Amateur. John Ross claimed the Classic victory, and Jonathan Reed placed first in the 125 Amateur class. In 125 Novice, Billy Middleton was the winner. Bobby Kirby raced to a second place finish, and Drew Williams followed next in third. Danny and Todd Buchanan fin-ished first and second in the 125 Beginner class. It w·as Danny grab-bing the gold and Todd scoring the silver. The day's fourth race featured the 250 Bikes, Four Strokes, and Class 3. For the second time on the day, Craig Smith emerged as the overall winner. This time the Brawley, CA star placed first in the Four Stroke Pro division. Smith's nearest pursuer was Shad Bodenstadt, who finished second in Four Stroke Pro and second overall. Aaron Tuck raced to vic-tory in the 250 Pro class, with that division's runner up honors going August 1999 Jim Gavin moved up to Expert class by taking first place in the Senior Amateur event on his 250cc Honda. to Cooper Jancic. Tim Pfeiffer took first place in the 250 Expert class, Pfeiffer scored his win over second place finisher Matt Spiewak. Meanwhile, Robert Prince was along for third, and Cory Hemphill finished next in fourth. Rodrigo Basave placed first in 250 Ama-teur, Chris V ullings scored gold in 250 Novice, and Brad Ruhls was the 250 Beginner class winner. Ruhls' victory over runner up Ivan Delgadillo, will now find him com-peting in the Novice class. Ed Ketchum placed first in Class 3 Ex-pert and Jesus Melero took first in Four Stroke Amateur. Next up on the card was a con-test for Mini Bike entrants. In the 50cc Novice class, Josh Fargo came away the winner. Preston Hutchinson was the runner up, with James Shafer placing third, Christian Martiens fourth, and Thomas Hebert fifth. The 50cc Expert winner was Kyle Corfman. Corfman defeated Austin Ballard, Continued on page 46 GOT SHOCKS? Your main source for the all I new RaceRunner shock series / _ _.-., from Sway-Away. 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Greg Luna, on a Honda XR600, takes flight while navigating a wash. He took first in the Open Expert class. Tim Pfeiffer, on a Yamaha YZX250, displays his skills as he rides toward victory in the 250cc Expert class. who claimed runner up honors. Third place went to Thomas Gray and fourth to Garett Larson. Cameron Corfman emerged victorious in the 56cc Expert class, with Matthew Bucher finishing runner up. Garett Larson was back for more, this time taking ·first in 60cc Novice. A.J. Hoff-man was the winner in the 80cc Ex-pert class. Drew Williams placed sec-ond, followed by Jason Hendrix (third), Billy Shields (fourth), and Cameron Corfman (fifth). Jose Rob-erto Villalobos Sanchez was credited with the win in 80cc Novice. Second place went to Derek Hatfield, and · third to Carson Cherland. The fourth and fifth positions went to Cody Cherland and Matthew Bucher re-spectively. . As the day sped towards noon, the steady breeze which "Fud" had or-dered finally arrived. The next race was an interesting mesh of nine ve-hicles from Classes 7, 9, and 5-1600. The field was comprised of three Class 7 trucks, four Class 9 cars, and a pair of 5-1600 Bajas. Class 7 racer Rex Dale was the first entrant to complete Lap 1. Charlie Bignell was close bes hind him. With Eric Allen following next (and leading in Class 9). Sal Craig Smith had a busy day, winning both the Open Pro and 4 Stroke classes. Here he's seen on the 4 stroke, a Honda XR600. Chris Vu/lings, from San Diego, took the win in the 250 Novice class on a Honda CR250. Moreno grabbed the early lead in Class 5-1600, and Jim McGinley tracked him from second. With the heat over three-fourths completed, Dale and Bigneil still raced 1-2 on the lead. Allen continued to show the way in Class 9, while Trey Summers had moved up into second. There was no change in Class 5-1600, as Moreno continued to maintain his advantage. Lap 6 brought a change in the overall lead. Bignell was now in charge, with Dale racing third overall. Three Class 9 entrants were battling between that duo. The first one, Allen, was still out winging on the lead. Kevin Graves and Julie Kem were the others, but each was racing down a lap. It was all over up front at that point, as Bignell continued on strongly to the check-ered flag. Following the Class 7 win-ner was Allen, who also proved victo-rious. Allen easily won Class 9, with Summers finishing as the runner-up. Moreno, like Allen, also scored a front-running victory. The Class 5-1600 winner never trailed, while rel-egating McGinley (his only rival) to second place. Classes 5, 100 and 1/2-1600 were up next. A short field of four took shape, led by a pair of Class 100 Pros Robert Edgmon won both Class B heats in his Ford, tried for an overall and didn't Richard Burnworth made a last lap pass in the second heat to take the Class 100 miss by much. win, giving himself the weekend victory in his Chenowth. ... ,,,,,_,= .. This is one shot in a series, showing what happened when Aaron ;~-At¼'~>-~ . and single entrants in Classes 5 and 1/2-1600. The Class 5 team of Jeff Searle and Hector Fonseca held the race's overall lead after a lap. The two Class 100 entrants followed just be-hind, with Mark Gilliland holding the second position and Richard Burn-worth running third. That left Joe Hamner, the only 1/2-1600 entrant, at the rear of the field early. Searle and Fonseca dropped from top to bot-tom during Lap 2, as Gilliland took over command. Burnworth was now holding second and Hamner had moved up into third. Gilliland con-tinued to race strongly, and ended up taking the compact field the remain-der of the way. Burnworth was closest to the winner during the first half of the race, before being passed by the eventual runner up Hamner. Hamner scored an uncontested win in Class 1/ 2-1600, while Burnworth landed sec-ond place in 100. It was now time for the Class 1 Buggies and Class 8 Trucks to make their first appearance of the day. A field of five was readied for takeoff, made up of three Class 1 entrants and two Class 8 starters. It didn't take long for Class 1 racer Chuck Hovey to as-sert his superiority. Hovey took com-mand at once and carved out all the pace. Classmates Brent Miller and Josh Waddell were out in hot pursuit of the ultra-swift pacesetter. Robert Edgmon got the jump on Jody Mason, to grab the lead in their Class 8 battle. Hovey continued to show the way throughout the event, and never did come back to the field. Miller was unable to threaten the winner, but he did finish well enough to place sec-ond. Waddell was along for third, to complete Class 1 results. In the Class 8 Ford vs. Ford duel, Edgmon scored a popular victory. The fans took a real liking as Edgmon's wailing siren, which signaled his impending ap-proach each lap. Mason tried to stick with Edgmon best he could, but even-. tually settled for the runner up spot. The day's final event for competi-tors in Classes 7, 9, and 5-1600 was run next. Eight vehicles were staged, with the nine cars leading the pack. Eric Allen picked up right where he left off earlier, when he dashed away into the early lead. Adam Pfankuch was also out quickly, and he seemed content to stalk the leader from sec-ond place. Kevin Graves was racing third, followed by Rex Dale ( the Class 7 leader) and Trey Summers. Dave Dietrich came next, with Sal Moreno and Jim McGinley at the rear of the field. Pfankuch forged into the over-all lead on Lap 3. Allen tried to battle back, but Pfankuch proved too tough. After turning back Allen, Pfankuch repelled another challenge by Graves and went on to score. Graves finished the race in second, with Allen check-ing in back of him for third. Despite-his third place finish, Allen still came away with the overall Class 9 win. Pfankuch's victory wasn't enough to displace Allen, but it did help him edge out Summers for runner up hon-Tuck hit a stick, which knocked his foot off the peg. Ultimately, he Brad Ruhls rode in the 250 Beginner class, took the win on his Yamaha Rodrigo Basave, winner in 250 Amateur class, looks for hard ground crashed. YZ250 and moved right up to Novice status. as he rides.toward the finish line. Page 46 August 1999 Dusty Times

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ors. Class 7 looked like a walkover for winner Rex Dale, when neither one of his earlier rivals was staged for the group's rematch. Dale simply went about his business, grabbing the over-all fourth position early. On Lap 3, a funny thing happened as Dale was tracking the Class 9 leaders. Charlie Bignell suddenly appeared. Despite entering the fray well behind his field, Bignell finished up best he could. Dale still won the race comfortably, and claimed the overall Class 7 victory as well. Bignell ended up second and sec-ond overall. Sal Moreno completed his Saturday sweep, with another big victory in Class 5-1600. Moreno's win was again at the expense of Jim McGinley who finished runner up for the race and the day. Championships in Classes 5, 100 and 1/2-1600 were the next to be de-cided. The same quartet which had faced off earlier was back in action. And for half of the event, it looked like a carbon copy of the group's ear-lier heat. Jeff Searle and Hector Fonseca again led after Lap 1 and trailed after Lap 2. And again the two Class 100 entrants took over at that point, with Mark Gilliland making another strong bid for the overall vic-tory. That's where the similarities ended though, as Richard Burnworth came away with the win this time .. Burnworth grabbed the pass on Gilli-land during their seventh and final lap, to snag the victory. That timely move also gave Burnworth the over-all Class 100 win as well. It was a tough loss for Gilliland, who had to settle for overall runner up honors. Joe Hamner followed the top pair past the finish, scoring another walkover win (and the overall victory) in Class 1/2-1600. Searle and Fonseca completed the rac/s scoring, giving that pair the overall victory in Class 5. The 11th and final race of the day was the grand finale for Classes 1 and 8. It was also encore time for Escondido, CA star Chuck Hovey. Just as he had done a few hours ear-lier, Hovey again proved unbeatable. With beaucoup power and the great-est of ease, Hovey led his rivals from . start to finish. Brent Miller was near-est the runaway winner during the early laps, and Robert Edgmon had that distinction during the late going. Josh Waddell was in a three way battle "' Eric Allen flies his Kernco straight and steady as he works his way into the win in Class 9. . Joe Hamner fQund himself with no competition, ran hard in both heats and came away a winner in the 112-1600 class. for second place most of the' race, but ended up finishing fourth. By virtue of his impressive two race sweep, Hovey came away with the Class 1 vic-tory. ·Miller's pair of game efforts landed him the runner up honors, while Waddell's work earned him third place. Edgmon had an easy time of it in Class 8, as his only· rival Jody Mason was TKO'd. Despite the lack of competition, Edgmon still put on a great show. He flew his fine looking Ford F-150 all over the course, catch-ing everyone but Hovey. So Edgmon's dual wins on the day gave him the overall victory in Class 8, and the sec-ond spot went to Mason. Special thanks are extended to all our amigos at Rancho Villarreal, and to Cerveza T ecate, Bar Diana, El Pollo Veloz Restaurant, Pepsi, Amari-Max Grocery, Napa Auto Parts, and Val-ley Vet Supply. Congratulations to the FRT gang and all the race partici-pants, for putting on such a great show. And last but certainly not least, one final thanks to the Brent Miller Racing team. That crew unselfishly came to the rescue of a fellow racer whose luck was "running on empty". I'll just leave it at that. Adios, y hasta la vista. ■ AT RIGHT: Jeff Searle and Hector Fonseca had a lot of fun in their Jimco Bug with a 2480cc motor, took home a Classs win. That concludes our recap of this year's exciting "Conquista Gran Prix." ;:;..:.:.:.:..:.:...::::.:__-=============-Sal Moreno took wins in both heats to finish the day in first place in his Sportsman 5-1600 car. With a second and a first place, Rex Dale put his. Toyota into victory circle in Class 7 Pro. Ed Ketchum was the winner in Class 3 (bikes 3 years old or more) Shad Bodenstadt, on a Honda XR600, took second overall as well as Julie Kern and Adam Pfankuch took turns in their Kernco, but lost a Expert, on his Yamaha YZ250. second in the 4 Stroke class. lap when Julie rolled, had to settle for second in Class 9. Out for a day of fun, running in Class 9 Sportsman, Kevin Graves put Charlie Bignell and Rodd Fantelli had a brief bout with brain-fade, got He fought hard, as always, and Brent Miller put his Raceco into second his Jimco through its paces nevertheless. to the second heat late, ended up second in Class 7 for the day place in Class 1 after two heats. Dusty Times August 1999 Page 47

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~EST IN THE DESl;RT SILVER STATE 300 Abbott And Brown Set The Pace By Mark Kayira Photos: Trackside Photo The three-man team of Donald Tussing, Paul Skeary and Mark Morris, all of Las Vegas, took first place in the Open 35 Expert class on a KTM. Destry Abbott and Brian Brown teamed on their Kawasaki to take the Overall as well as the Open Pro win, beating the winning truck by over a haH-hour. Cory Ayers, a Henderson, .Nevada resident, rode his Honda to the win in the lronman Expert class, finishing 16 minutes to the good When you're hot, you're hot, and there's no denying that the Team Matt Gosnell, Trent Sandoval and Matt Roylance, all from Las Vegas, rode a KTM to first place Open Expert. Green duo ofDestry Abbott and Brian Brown are currently on fire. Their lat- with a 16 point Cl.lshion. intervals. est win came courtesy of a runaway Third overall went to Honda's Diabolically, much of the first sec-ride at the Silver State 300, Round 3 Johnny Campbell on his XR600R. tion headed east into the· early morn-(for bikes) of Best in the Desert's Sil-After soloing to the race win last year, ing rising sun. Combined with the ever ver State Series. · he was unable to repeat the feat this present dust hanging from the bike in Abbott and Brown finished in a year, though he matched his pacing front and the rocky, technical terrain, blistering 5:54:59 on their Team from the previous series race_. Camp- it kept everyone on their toes. Only Green/Dunlop/Trick/Bel-Ray/NGK/ bell took just 6:05:30 to complete the one racer reported going down in the IMS/Renthal-sponsored, John 290 mile event. with KTM's Russell Pearson getting Braasch prepped KX500 to"beat Shane The race began an hour and-a,ha1£ . thrown from his 380 violently enough Esposito and David Ondas on a simi-away from the race's HQ in Mesquite, to nearly tear.his chest protector off. lar bike by over eight minutes. It with the start a few miles south of the Fortunately, he escaped serious injury. marked the second race in a row that hamlet of Alamo, just off Highway 93. Zitterkopf led to the first pit and Abbott/Brown have beaten Esposito, (The finish was a little further north maintained it to Pit 2 at Dry Lake though he soloed the last race because of the start.) Promoter Casey Folks Valley, some 82 miles into the race. Ondas was still recovering from inju- sent the first bike - Greg Zitterkopf on Number 2 starter Brown passed his ries. The winning duo went into the a Price Racing/Pro Circuit/JT-backed bike off to partner Abbott at Pit 2, and • race leading Esposito and Ondas by a KX500 -out at 5:30 a.m. with the rest the Arizonan took off, though he single point in the series but emerged of the field flagged away at one minute wasn't sure how well he'd fare. ~---------------------~ Mike Tyner and Brendan Lutes teamed on a Yamaha to take second Jonah Street and Torsten Bostrom, fresh from their triumph in Baja, Johnny Campbell ran a close race in the Open Pro class to finish place in the 4-stroke Under 450cc Expert class. === rode their Honda to sixth Open Pro at the Silver State 300. third on his Honda. Timothy Ramey, from Utah, shown here making his way carefully David Ondas and Shane Esposito piloted their Kawasaki to second Marc McManus, Las Vegas, soloed to third place on his KTM in the through a water-crossing, rode his Husaberg to victory in the lronman place in the Open Pro class. very tough lronman Expert class. _A_m_a_te_u_r_c_la_s_s. _ ________________ _ Page 48 August 1999 Dusty Times

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Dunn Voyer, Laguna Beach, CA, took second place in the lronman Yancey Watson, from Victorville, CA, rode a Yamaha to third place in Jerry Fisher, Honda, works has way through the holes while working Expert class riding a Yamaha. the lronman Amateur division. his way to second place in the lronman Amateur class. ou see, ott su ere a secon degree shoulder separation the week before while competing at the AMA National Reliability Enduro Series fi-nale in Tennessee. In addition, while doing pre-race testing two days before, he'd crashed and banged up his knee. "Not too many people knew about it, and I really didn't want anybody to know about it because they might think they'd have an advantage", Abbott admitted later. ' Despite his injuries, Abbott man-aged to make good time in his run to Pit 3 in Caliente. In fact, he inherited the lead when he passed Zitterkopf who sat by the side of the trail with his broken bike. "I was only going to ride one sec-tion, but I felt really good when I .. passed 'Zit' ... and I was riding really good. They asked if I wanted to get off at three, and I wanted to ride one more (section) so I rode one more and Glenn Taylor and Ron Purvines, on a KTM, took the win in the Over 30 Expert class, by just eight and-a-half minutes. Justin and Rick Lundin and Lester Lehigh, all from California, teamed up on a Yamaha to win the 4-Stroke Under 450cc Expert class. made up more time." "Then Brian rode another section, and I hopped back on and rode the last section. I was real happy with the way my shoulder and everything else fel_t. It just worked really good, I had one slide-out today - that was about it, everything else went really good." . The only real nail biting occurred in the last section when Abbott thought the rear tire had developed a leak. It turned out to be simply a shredded tire - not the only one in the field. Riding that last section to the fin-ish also brought to mind for Abbott last year's race when he crashed while leading in the last section. "Last year was the one I was leading with 40 miles left and knocked myself out so I . didn't remember any of the course (this time).lt was kind of weird; I rode it last year, and I didn't remember anything. I was actually nervous when I hopped on (for) .the last section -that's when I did it last year - but I have to pan, and I'm just real happy that we won the race (today)." "My main goal is to win this series." The Utah team of Michael Ison, Terry Wilde and Cary Blake joined up to win the 4-Stroke Over 450cc Expert class. The team of Jan Prichard, Michael ca;ro and Jay Gobel, crossing a stream in a cloud of steam, took the Quad Expert win on a Roll Design Quad. Dusty Times Esposito and Ondas, being the sixth bike to start fought dust most of the race, with Esposito admitting he'd gone down once and tweaked the through the pack in dust. "Two guys handlebar. Still, that didn't make as broke away, and they were gone."·Es-much difference as having to work up Continued on page 50 Two Ntu4rVUUU>rr To Our Lutoj Fuu-~u WE WELCOME: TRAILMASTER SUSPENSION AND BOATEC FIBERGLASS PRODUCTS FOR TRUCKS TAYLOR PLUG WIRES SPIRAL OR PRO-WIRE $24.95 TYPE Ill REAR 5-LUG GERMAN DRUMS $89.95 FOX 5/81(1' COIL OVER W/ RESEVOIRS $280.00 ASK ABOUT NEVADA OFFROAD T-SHIRTS N.O.R.B. 930CV OVER BOOT $10.95 H-4T ROUND HEADLIGHT BULBS NEW PIAA H-3 PLATNIUM BULBS BURNS85WATTS PRODUCES 130 WATTS OF LIGHT MUST MENTION AD TO RECIEVE AD PRICES ..... VISIT ROB MACCACHREN'S WEB PAGE www.maccachren.com CAI.I. TOI.I. FREE 1-888-755-5900 WE CAN SHIP UPS TO YOUR DOOR .... ■•• . -aw~~-~ 3054 S. VALLEY VIEW #3 . * LAS VEGAS, NV * 891.02 HOURS: MON-FRI 9AM-6PM * SAT 9AM-5PM (702)871.-5221. FAX August 1999 Page 49

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Quad Pro winners William Yokley and Kim Kuhnle were also the fastest Quad overall, on their Roll Design. Ron Lawson and Gary Jones, both from California," paired up on their Husqvarna to win the Over 40 Expert class. Todd Davis and Bryan Martin, Nevada residents, rode their Yamaha to a victory in the 250 Expert Class. Kyle, Ronnie and Koby Kischer. Henderson, Nevada, took the win in the 125 Expert class on a kTM. posito said, "I think they had, like, 10 · minutes (on everyone else); you can't make that up throughout the day ·chasing (in) dust. Whenever you get info it, you've got to sfow down. Luck ofthe draw, I guess." . '· ·Asked about the difference be-tween soloing at the previous race_ (T onopah) and riding-with a partner here, Esposito replied, "It was a lot different ( than soloing at T onopah). The first time I got on the bike today, I.wasn't into it. I didn't ride as well as I could. The second time I got on the bike was the only section I rode really well." ''I ~ish the race was a lot longer. Dave said he had the same thing, . though, so we'll work together, and at the next one we'll be ready." crashed (later). I might've been bet-Campbell actually held the Espo-ter off if I had new tires. About 10 or sito/Ondas team off for most of the 20 miles past the Caliente pit in a sand race. He started fourth off the line and wash, I came around a corner in the was up to second overall physically by trees and just clipped a bouider that Pit 3 but by a slim margin. Thus, he was rolling; there was a couple of them elected to just gas and go in Caliente, there. I stepped off and twisted the· and hope he could maintain his posi- front end up and bent the (left) foot tion on a badly worn rear tire. peg all up and bent the bars, fl.lied my "I was actually planning on chal).g- goggles full of rocks. It took me a ing the front and rear at Caliente be- · couple minutes to get going. The bike . cause the rocks in the first half of the ; was laying there a coupte J.11.inutes so course were pretty bad, and I knew . it took a while to start." the tire was going to go away", Camp- Despite that, Campbell managed bell said. "It would've been close ifl'd to stay in front ofEsposito and Ondas changed it and tried to get out· ahead for quite a long way after that ind-of the. next bike so I opted not to do dent, and it turned into a great battle. it." "Ondas and Shane, they put in a "It might've cost me, since I good ride. Ever since I got going from the crash, they were right behind me the whole way. They pushed me and pushed me and pushed me. I don't know if I would've gone that fast if they hadn't pushed me fike that.;; "I had to let 'emgo the last 15 miles here; I blew a couple comers, and it was like, there was no sense (in trying to hold them off), because they started two minutes behind me (and were ahe.ad on corrected time anyway). I would've had to make up two minutes in 15 miles, and I didn't make it (up) in over 1 SO ( to there) so I decided they· earned it." In fourth overall but winning the Over 30 Pro class in 6:17:15, Mike Healey and Larry Roeseler put in a · brilliant-effort in what was another ------~ Wow! Raymond Mertens soloed his Kawasaki to seventh in the great battle for class lead. · Mike Baxter and Ed McCoy started off first in the class and main-tained the physical lead on their Carlita Ray/Dunlop/BRP/DP Brakes Yamaha YZ400F. However, the Sportsman Cycle/Dunlop/KTM of Gresham KTM 300 M/XC of Rick Bozarth and Daryl Folks quickly moved into second with Healey and Roeseler right behind. "On corrected time we had them (beat), but we just couldn't get around them", LR said of the KTM racers. "At Pit 4 we did put some brake pads in. Then I caught back up to Daryl - I was right behind the, 10 seconds be-hind him - then Mike said he passed him in the pit. "So (Healey} had clean air until he caught up ~o the Yamaha. They were first off and we were fifth, so they started four minutes in front of us so on corrected time we had 'em. (Healey) went ahead and passed 'em (anyway}. It wasn't very rough; it was a fun fast race." Interestingly enough, Healey and Roeseler weren't on the KLX6S0R they normally use; instead, they were on a KXS00, marking the first time Roeseler had raced one in years. · "I'll have to say it brought back some memories. The bike worked re-ally good, but it is a lot different than a four stroke. Honestly I we did good, but I'd rather ride a four stroke." Pearson and partner Brian ·Garrahan finished just four .seconds behind Healey and Roeseler on ad0 justed time. That gave the KTM/Pro Circuit/Moose/Michelin/ Acerbis-backed pair fifth overall and fourth Open Pro. Another 11 seconds back came the second American Honda XR600R,· this one shared by t orsten Bostrom and Jonah Street. They chased the KTM much of the way to the finish in a tight race both teams enjoyed. "I was just out there having a great time, not really pushing it or taking any risks, trying to stay out of the dust," Bostrom reported. "I passed (Pearson) when he fell off or got · bogged out in some water. "I was just cruising the rocky sec-tion, not real fast in any way. He came . out, and we started racing a little bit there. He got by, and I was right be-hind him. We came to a road cross-lronman Amateur class in just under 11 hours. Mertens is 12 years Robin Brown ·and Lorin Noorda, Las Vegas, pushed their Yamaha hard David Wilson and Richard Hersh, Las Vegas, came close, took s"econd old. enough to take the win in the Over 30 Amateur class by 14 minutes. place in Over 30 Expert on a KTM: Rodger Flaming, Steven Heitchew and James Henderson were teamed The winning team in the Open Amateur class was Ross Williams and Rob Phillips· and Josh Goimarac traveled from St. George, Utah, to on a Kawasaki to finish second in the Over 30 Amateur class. Steven Scales, shown here making waves on their Husaberg. : take second place in the Open Expert class on their Husaberg. Page so August 1999 Dusty Times

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Teenagers, Mike Childress and Jesse Robert Thurbush, California, Competition was fierce in Quad Expert: Dwight Lowell and Charles Jimmy Stephensen and Jason Sparks were paired up on a Honda, took the 4 Stroke Over 450cc Amateur class on their Honda. Lamson were second on a Honda by just a minute and 30 seconds. and finished second in the Quad Pro class. · ing; he was able to go, and I had to get caught in the heat of the moment. wait for a car. But then I was able to "I was having fun; he was yelling catch him just about at Pit 4 -we were and having a great time. I didn't want able to pit quicker. to back off. "I had to stop at the alternate pit. "I ended up overshooting a corner I don't think he did; I think he had and landing in a bunch ofrocks so that enough gas to go straight. He was able wasn't a lot of fun," Bostrom said to make the time back up right there. standing beside his bike that bled oil "The last 30, 40 miles, we were just from cracked cases. Fortunately, he having a great time sliding around on did it just before the finish and didn't the road. lose sixth overall and fifth Open. They "This last section we started rac- were followed nearly four minutes ing together. I really should've backed later by Bozarth/Folks and Baxter/ off - kind of made a rookie mistake McCoy. · there - because I was pretty sure we Ninth overall and first 250cc Pro were ahead of him on time, but you went to KTM/Pro Circuit/Dunlop/ )":, ·-.. •, Dana Van Stee and Kurt G_asselli, California, were first 125 Pro on their Kawasaki and 10th bike overall. Scott Anderson and Larkin Wight, both from California, paired up on their Yamaha · to win Over 40 Pro by 1 O minutes. Taber Murphy from Washington, and Ken Patrick from Arizona paired on a Honda to win the 4-Stroke Over 450cc Pro class. Dusty Times Bryan Folks and David Pearson, KTM, were winners in the 250 Pro class, ,lnd ninth bike overall. F&L/Acerbis sponsored Bryan Folks and David Pearson. Rounding out the top 10 was 125cc Pro winner Kurt Caselli and Dana Van Stee on their Team Green/Pro Circuit/MS KX125. However, they didn't actually take the lead until the last section. Nate Pearson and Kellan Race/Pro Circuit/IMS Husqvarna un-til Pearson ran into a fairly major prob-Continued on page 52 www.camburg.com • BENT I-BEAMS • CUSTOM I-BEAMS . CUSTOM RADIUS ARMS . CAMBURG/EIBACH COILS • CUSTOM COIL BUCKETS • NATIONAL REAR SPRINGS TOYOTA • UPPER A-ARMS • SWAY-A-WAY TORSIONS BARS • DUAL SHOCK KITS • LONG TRAVEL KITS • BILLET RACE HUBS · NATIONAL REAR SPRINGS OCKS--~ SWAY-A-WAY - BY PASS - AIR BUMPS CAMBURG PRODUCTS AVAILABLE AT A F1NE DEALER NEAR YOU SOLO MOTORSPORT AZUZA CA, POC MOTORSPORT BREA CA, DUFFCO SANDIMAS CA, BAJA CONCEPTS FALLBROOK CA, AUTOFAB SANTEE CA, MCKENZIES ANAHEIM CA, August 1999 SSFEND angill', F•t$0. PU/T,oc,ma 10,C1500' .... Page 51

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lem.· "I guess Nate jumped off an eight foot cliff or something and bottomed out hard and busted out one of the bolts on the linkage," Welch ex-plained after finishing second in class and 14th overall. "He had to ride (into five, the next pit) with no shock at all; the back of the bike was on the tire. The shocks bent, like, big time. We changed it and finished. "We were in first by four minutes over the Kawie boys. We were just putting time on them. I guess it hap-pens. I was having a blast; this bike was just running awesome." They were the last team to finish in under seven hours with their 6:50:3 7. Tim Staab and Fred Willert aced the Under 450cc Four Stroke Pros on their Montclair Yamaha/Precision Concepts/FMF/IMS-backed YZ400F, finishing 11th overall in 6:35:58. "I started so far back, and it was really dusty this morning; l had a bad morning," Staab -admitted. "I wasn't riding like I should've been riding so I put (Willert) on and regained my thoughts and got back on at Pit 4. I passed a couple guys then I got a rear flat, and I had to ride that for 50 miles." Still, they beat all the big four stroke entries. Behind them at 6:40:19 came the first Expert team, with Matt Gosnell, Matt Roylance and Trent Sandoval sharing an FMF/Sportsman Cycle/ IMS sponsored KTM for the Open Expert class win as well. The first Ironman Expert entry came in at an amazing 6:58:38 with Cory Ayers showing that his T onopah showing was no fluke. He rode an Dick Yardley, Trask Johnson and Larry Lawrence, from Utah, took the win in the Over 25 Expert class on a Kawasaki. Mike Healy and Larry Roese/er, Kawasaki, took the win in the Over 30 Pro class, also finished fourth bike overall. Answer/Excel Rims/Pirelli/RK spon-sored Honda, beating the second Iron-man Expert, Dunn Voyer, by 16 min-utes. Ron Purvines and Glenn Taylor took the Over 30 Expert win and 16th overall on their Sportsman Cycle/ FMF/Countrywide Estate Planning KTM in 7:01:18. The first Amateur team to finish was Robin Brown and Lorin Noorda, who claimed the Over 30 Amateur victory and 36th overall on their Mo-torcycle Central/Sports West Yamaha in 7:40:36. Forty-one year old Timothy Ramey scored the Ironman Amateur win in 7:50:18 on his Modern Racing and Family/Dirt Works Racing up was a little closer than in the Expert divi-sion at nearly five minutes of cushion over jerry Fisher. In four wheeled A TV action, Kim Kuhrie and William Yokley came from east of the Mississippi (Ohio and Mis-sissippi, respectively) to show that you don't have to be desert rats to go fast in the dez. They overalled the Quad Pros in 7: 15: 11 on their Roll Design sponsored by Roll/IMS/ITP/Douglas Wheel. Second in the four wheeled ranks went to the winning Quad Expert team, comprised of Michael Ca fro, Jay Gobal and Jan Prichard. Cafro is the "'only Californian on the team. Gobal is from Ohio, and Prichard (who raced the old Nevada Rally on motorcycles) is from Mississippi. They finished in 7:27:34 on their Roll Design/PCI/Pro Sport/Axis Shocks bike and had less · than two minutes on the class runner-'-11!!!!""""',.,,,;:~s=--up, Charles Lamson and Dwight Tim Staab, from San Diego, CA, was the 4-Stroke under 450cc Pro winner on his Lowell. ■ Yamaha. ___ ~,;;;,;;;;;;;;~-1-ri_ J\l_ l_l _!J _fl _______ ;;;-:--:-:---""""""""'""""'~,......, Mark Hepper, Justin Ovard and Robert Greene finished first in the joiin Kearney and Jim Robinson doubled up on a Yamaha to take the Frank White and Tad Goimarac, both from Utah, brought out their Quad Amateur class on their Yamaha. win in the Over 40 Amateur class. Husaberg to take second in the Over 40 Expert class. Rich Jesse, Mike Roth and Matt Toms teamed up to take the 250 Robert Kemple, Floyd Bradley and Crockett Wirthin gave the bike a little Danny Cooper and Dave Hames did some fancy flying on their way to Amateur win on their Honda. ---=sa==.,-==~ help with a leg, took the win in the Over 35 Amateur class on a Yamaha. the second place in class 250 Pro. flJ Bret / ijax, Nick Thom, and Ed Tatum were the Over 25 Amateur winners Daryl Folks and Rick Bozarth took second place in Over 30 Pro on a Kirk Stephensen and David Fry. Yamaha, finished second in the 4-on their Kawasaki. ________ KTM, only four minutes out. _______ _S_tr;_ok_e_ U_n_de_r_4_5_0_cc_ P_ro_c_l_as_s_. ___________ _ Page 52 August 1999 Dusty Times

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I California Rally series Report The CRS has added a fall · rally cross to take the place of the canceled June 26th event that was slated to be held in Carlsbad, CA. The new event will be held on November 7th on the dry lake in Jean, NV. This should be a great time to run a rally cross there with sunny days and mild tempera-tures. Bring your car out and run with us in the dirt! The CRS will be holding a raffle to raise funds for new equipment. That's right Mike Gibeault you won't have to repair those tired old clocks anymore! Tickets for the raffle will be available start-ing at the Gorman rally and be sold through the end of the year. The drawing for "fabu-lous prizes" will be held at the year end awards banquet. Notes from Rim of the World Pro Rally: Steve Bender's wife, Lynn, was kind enough to have their second child, Faith, two days before the Rim of the World Pro Rally so Steve had her permission to compete. Con-gratulations on a bouncing baby girl. Did I hear you have already started reading route books to her? In the Don't Do It Cat-egory -Ron Woods could have told Scott Mclnney tak-ing his just sold trophy truck out for a quick spin was a bad idea. Several years ago Ron sold one of his rally cars but just had to run it at Indio one more time before deliyery to the new owner. Needless to say he rolled it up in a ball -so much for that sale. Well,· Scott Mclnney did the same thing not long ago. He and the new owner.went out for a little practice run and Scott endo'd and barrel rolled the truck. He is definitely a hurt-ing puppy with lots of bumps and bruises and was not able to run Rim in his new rally car. Heal up Scott, and see you at Gorman in August. George Plsek showed up with his brand new Audi Quattro. It looked fast just sitting in the Pare Expose. Peter W orkum had a sched-ule conflict and put Lon Peterson in as driver of his Plymouth Arrow -what's new about Lon driving an Arrow, right? Pete Morris and Nick Taylor swapped places and Pete was in the co-driver's seat at this rally in the Toyota Corolla. Jay Streets ancfBill Feyling brought their new Toyota Co-rolla for its first stage rally. They had it out in the dirt at the rally cross in Laughlin in March. Nicky Craig, another new CRS member, enlisted Kengo Takahashi to co-drive for him in his first stage rally as a driver. Patrick Rodi and Ron Cohen finished their RX7 this year and were ready to take on the competition. It was great to see so many new Dusty Times CRS faces at the first stage rally of the year. Friday night also saw an unusual amount of carsick co-d rivers. A lot of driving suits were soiled by the end of the evening. It wasn't just newbies either. Roger Allison, John Dillon and Claire Chizma to name a few lost their cookies. Chad Dykes got a little ex-cited and slid his Toyota pickup off the road and was a DNF for the evening. Luckily he did not do serious damage and was able to continue on Saturday. Rui Brasil, fresh off of his great run at Doo Wopps, was charging hard till he developed problems on Stage 3. He was also a DNF. However, in the Club Rally there is always tomorrow as it is run as two events -Friday and Saturday. Saturday morning saw re-pairs being done in the Holi-day Inn parking lot. All of the new CRS drivers were still running. The charity rally sprint was a big hit again and raised a considerable sum for the SA YES food bank and the Healthy Start Intervention program in Palmdale schools. The course was set up for two cars on at the same time so there was lots of action to see who could get t_o the finish first. John Presege was our MC again and provided great color to the rally sprint. Next year we are putti_ng you in a car John! To add to the atmo-sphere, a Stealth fighter plane circled our pare expose. Driv-ers wanted to know if he was going to give charity rides also. The water bars, which are famous at Rim, were new and improved this year. The dozer driver who graded the roads made them a little deeper and rounded them off. You could definitely get some air off of them. Ac-cording to Karl Scheible's co-driver, Gail McGuire, they never spilled a drop of water out of the bud vase of their new YW Beetle! Darned good driving I'd say or was it the great suspension Guy Light put in this car? Rui Brasil was still having trouble with his Audi on Sat-urday and couldn't make it to the finish. Alex Tissot was having engine computer trouble and it finally took him out as well. George Plsek de-veloped alternator trouble and that slowed him consid-erably on the night stages. Tough to run fast with no driving lights, right George?! Paul Timmerman and Doug Robinson were having their own little Mazda 323 duel. Doug eventually beat Paul by a half a minute. Next time you '11 get. him, Paul! Chad Dykes made up for his boo-boo the night before and turned on the gas to finish second overall in the Club Rally behind Laughlin and Farina O'Sullivan. Good to· have you back rallying, Chad. The crowning glory of the evening was the full moons displayed on the last stage of Saturday night. A contingent of spectators/racers from the Northwest and Southwest re-gions found a suitable spot and gave us all the full fanny salute as we raced by. T_hanks guys and gals, it was a fitting end to a fine rally. If all of this doesn't inspire you to build a rally car and come out and play I give up. Are you sure you have a pulse? You can check out the complete Rim of the World Rally results and our upcom-ing events on our website · < californiarallyseries .com>. Challenger corner By Joel Mohr RACE REPORTS!!! BAJA 500: There were 12 starters that left the line just north of Ensenada, part of the usual step-in in SCORE's entry list in Class 9 every time the 500 and the 1000 come along. Un-fortunately, I got stories from only two teams, so we'll take that ball and run with it. George Ladwig and Brian Hanson teamed up in George's T-MAG, and didn't fair too well. It seems there was a big bottle neck at about the 40 mile marker in Guadalupe wash early on in the race, and only a few got through cleanly. · George said he sat _in one spot for almost 20 minutes until the course cleared. Jimmy Messick and T.J., (in Dave Lawson's car), was one of the lucky ones and was close to the iead. George finally got through and wasn't far be-hind. Jimmy took the lead about 80 miles in and got cl little overwhelmed. At about 100 miles, he over shot a cor-ner and ended up on the out-side of the berm with the car in a very scary position. For some reason the car wouldn't start, so Jimmy and T.J, got the car off the berm and on to . flat ground. They fussed with it for a while, and finally Jimmy was convinced they were out of gas. He walked about three miles to a group of locals that were watching the race and bummed some gas from them and got back to the car. In the meantime, Lad-wig went by and he too mo-mentarily saw the lead. A little farther down the road, George found a rock that just had to have a bite of his front end, and George lost the ar-gument. He limped it to the next pit, and repairs were -·made. The beam was bent pretty bad, but Brian Hanson climbed in anyway, and con-tinued on. Meanwhile, Mes-sick was also back on the road after dumping in what the Mexicans had so graciously given him, and after two hours of down time,. gave the car to Jeff Interlicchia and Mark Pickard. They were on their way to Mike's Sky Ranch, and then on to the coast. At the coast, Dave Lawson was now at the wheel and trying to pos-sibly gain a few positions. Dave drove from the beach to · Ojos Negros, where Messick climbed back in to do the re-verse leg from Ojos to the fin-ish line. Brian Hanson got George's car to Ojos, but the August 1999 front end had suffered, and they were unable to continue on. Messick finished fifth, with no mechanical problems at all1 and almost exactly two hours out of the win. Damn, so close, yet so far. Oh well, that's racing. Dave asked me to mention a special THANK YOU to Ray Riffle for LOAN-ING him a short block he had saved when Dave's motor locked up on him only two days before they were sup-posed to leave for Mexico. WHAT A GUY!!! Truth be known, Ray has bailed out several 9 guys lately (includ-ing yours truly). One helluva a machinist, an even nicer guy. Thanks again Ray, from the whole Class 9 fraternity. MDR KARTEK 400: Nine Challengers took the green flag on one hellatiously rough and tumble through some of the oldest and nastiest Luc-erne Valley trails that the BLM insisted that MDR use. Nine 45 mile loops made up the mileage, and it was un-doubtedly going to be one of the most grueling races in re-cent history. Made of the stuff that gave races like the Mint, and Parker their reputations. I was entered with my trusty side kick Tim Nichols riding, and after soloing at last year's 400, knew there was no way we could solo this one. I was trying to decide who to have as a back-up, when fate inter~ vened. An old racing buddy called just to see how I was going. I didn't get two sen-tences 1nto the conversation, when it hit me. "Hey Cliff, what are you doing next week-end?" Long story short, Cliff dusted off his old suit, and asked me if he could borrow his old helmet back. A friend of ours, Robert Otwell (who normally rides in a Class 12 truck), was recruited to ride. Back to the race. We started last off the line, and at the end of Lap 1, was leading by less than a minute (on the clock). Stan Hignet was second, Law-son was third, and newcomer Durrell "The Animal" Wheeler was fourth (with his HOURS M-F 9:00 - 6:00 Sat. 10:00 - 3:00 13 year old son riding) in the Defrank entry. Robert Riffle came next, with Dennis Peter-son close behind. Harry Dunne was seventh, and after some minor down time, Darin McGuffin came around. Un-fortunately, Tim Hanna broke a spindle about 10 miles into his first lap, and called it quits. On Lap 2, I was still leading but by only about a minute on "The Animal". My steering wheel had come loose and I stopped at Fair "Alpha" to get it tightened up. (THANKS Mike, Greg, and crew!!!) Stan Hignet was having problems with some · experimental shocks they got from Bilstein, and dropped to sixth. Lawson was still third, and Riffle in an effort to go around a stuck truck in a "no chase zone" got himself high centered on a rock. Peterson was now fourth, and McGuffin was on his tail. Harry and his rider, Jim McDavid, were getting fa-tigued, having not fully recov-ered from the wreck at the last race, and was bringing up the rear. Lap 3 saw things start to get interesting. We had stretched the lead to l O min-utes, and Lawson was now in second. Peterson had some kind of downtime, but was still in third. Hignet got the shock problem fixed and was run-ning well again, only a minute behind Peterson. McGuffin had a major problem, and lost a lap. "The Animal" was a little too hard on his trusty Chenowth, and blew the shock mounts right off of the frame, also injuring the oil cooler. The Checkers at "B" got it fixed though, and "The Animal's" wife Patty got in to drive. Harry wasn't feeling well, and let his co-driver George Ladwig take the wheel. Lap 4 we stopped at FAIR main for gas and some apple slices, and continued on, still in the lead. Lawson was second, and Hignet got past Peterson for third. McGuffin was still running, but had some more down time, and Ladwig was having Pit Reports Continued on page 54 Daily UPS Visa and Mastercard We are happy to announce our new 800 toll free number. 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trouble keeping oil in Harry's motor. The Defrank entry found some more damage and it was too extensive to carry on. Lap 5 we were trying to keep up a steady pace without using up too much of the car, and everything seemed to be going OK. Lawson was push-ing just hard enough to rip at my heels, hoping something would break on my car. Dave's co-driver, Jeff Interlichia, and Mark Pickard got in at FAIR "B", and it cost them just a couple of minutes. Peterson handed off to B.J. Bates, and B.J. really turned up the heat. Hignet had more down time, and handed the car over to his long time partner Brian Sallee. Brian Jeffrey was in McGuffin's car now, and they were back up to speed. Ladwig was still having problems, but still running. Lap 6 the order stayed the same, and of the cars still running none seemed to have any problems. At the end of Lap 7, we handed my car over to Cliff Carter and Robert Otwell, with about a 15 minute lead. Jeff was hold-ing his own, and B.J. was puttin' the moves on. Jeffrey was next, and Sallee had some more problems. Carter turned in some very respectable times to finish up the last two laps, with Jeff apparently having some sort of problem and let-ting B.J. get by to take second. Jeffrey finished fourth, and Sallee finished fifth. You know, winning one race this year was completely over-whelming, winning two, much iess two in a row, completely floored me. I have to take a minute to thank all of the people that makes this possible for me, as any racer knows, no driver is an island. First, my wife and my family for all of their support. Cliff Carter and Robert Otwell, for doing an excellent job of keeping things rolling the last two laps. Tim Nichols, my rider, for keeping us on course and off of the bumpers of the faster cars. My chaser dudes, Harold and Chris, and my sponsors, RD V ALVESPRING, WEBCAM, PRP seats, SUSPENSIONS UNL., SANDRAILS UNL., FAIR PITS, and of course, MOHR PERFORMANCE. We're leading the points now, with only a slim margin, and its a tight battle all the way through the ranks. I'll keep you posted ... Harry Dunne's car has completely recovered from the horrendous wreck at the 300, and he asked me to thank all of the contributors that helped him put it back together. First is Mike Shan-non and group, and the CORE pit people for coming to the rescue at the accident. Don Bowler and Gary Bancroft for fixing the chassis NO CHARGE. Mike Shatynski and Tim, for donating more motor parts than he could ever use. Bill Markel and Dave Lawson, for donating all of the trans parts, Ray Riffle for do-na ting all of the machine work, and MOHR Perfor-mance for rebuilding the mo-tor. Also, MDR for handling the situation to everyone's satisfaction. Just a note, we are planning another Challenger day out at Hodge Road off of the 15, but have yet to set a date. The last one we had six cars show, and. about 25 people. If you have any suggestions, call (780) 947-6657 or e-mail me at MOHRPRF@JUN O.COM and we'll try and pick a date. Once again, if you have any questions or comments, feel free, and we'll see you at the races!!! C.O.R.E. Pit Report By Sandy Parker BEST IN THE DESERT TONOPAH300 McGillivray and Ridings in the SPEC Protruck headed to Nevada to run the single loop race. Tom Ridings and Dean Cognito drove the first half with absolutely no problems with the truck. They handed the truck over to Kevin McGillivray atid Greg Shapiro ·✓ ULTRASONIC .CLEANING ✓ CNC MILLING & OH Coolers / Radiators TURNING Blocks / Unes / Fittings Assembled Components ✓ PRODUCTION & ✓ TESTING SERVICES Magnetic Particle (Magnaflux / Myglo) Liquid Penetrant (Dye Penetrant / Zyglo) Ultrasonic X-Ray CRITICAL Page 54 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: WBLINN@CRITICAL-OP.COM FAA RepairStation #WB7R288J who drove the second half. They mentioned the only real excite-ment was hitting a roller at ap-proximately 120 to 130 mph and flying the truck forever. The truck absorbed the landing and kept on flying. The team finished fourth out of ten Protrucks, good job. SCORE BAJA 500 The only CORE team that headed down to Mexico was the Pro truck of McGillivray and Rid-ings. I understand that they made it to the half way point and blew a rear end thus ending the day. MDR MOJAVE 400 Hot, dirty, and a very rough course in Lucerne Valley set the stage for the next MDR race. Only four CORE cars entered this race. The drivers expressed much praise and few complaints about how MDR conducted this race. I understand that the checkpoint location and set up were greatly improved, and heard absolutely no complaints on the course marking. The use of the tall flags to emphasize locations of major turns and checkpoints are greatly appreciated by CORE drivers. RACE REPORTS TEAM INCH/FREEMAN (Class 1-1600) Brad told me a week before the race that he finally got the sus-pension tuned in his new Loth-ringer chassis and it was going to be fast, and it was. New to Brad's car was the Nevada veteran 1600 racer Kenny Freeman who started the race and drove the firs half. Kenny had a flawless run hand-ing the car to Brad in the lead and in great shape. Brad concentrate on keeping the car in the lead, be-ing smooth and watching out for the rocks. He missed one rock which blew the side wall out of a tires just before a CORE pit. Brad pulled into the pit and had a new tire on in less than a minute. Back on the course, they finished the remaining laps keeping the sec-ond place car behind them by over 10 minutes. Brad and Kenny finished first in 1600, congratula-tions guys. I guess Brad was right about how well his car worked! TEAM LAWLESS (Class 10) Jerry Lawless and Kenny Gibbs drove the first two laps almost problem free until the power steering belt flew off. Jerry at-tempted to pull into a CORE pit but stopped in the FAIR pit. Ap-parently there were hundreds of yellow and blue shirts that quickly fixed the problem and got him back on the course. Eddie Pendley and Kevin Goldstein drove the middle four laps and battled their way towards the front of the pack, leading all the Class 10s for a good part of the day. The team then experienced a bit of down time when a link pin sheared off. Scav-enging through the pits, they found a spare and quickly got them back on the course. Randy and Pauley Jones drove the last three laps and scorched the track setting the class fast lap. The guys and gal ended up fourth in class and seventh overall when the dust cleared. TEAM Mc GUFFIN/ JEFFRIES (Class 9) Darin McGuffin, Brian Jeffer-ies, and Tom Dittfield teamed up to battle the elements in Darin's Challenger. Races like this test the metal of a team and these guys toughed it out and managed to post a respectable finish for the day. Darin started the race and had a few problems along the way like blowing out a front shock, exploding a rear tire, and cracked the front beam. Darin said he was hobbling back to CORE Main when he saw car 901 broken down on the side of the course. Darin was quick to notice that this "now a parts car" had a cherry front shock and rear tire. Darin would like to thank the owner/driver of car 901 for lending him enough parts to get back into the race. Also a BIG THANKS to the FAIR pit for welding up the cracked front end, we appreciate. your help!!! Brian Jefferies drove the middle third of the race post-ing some very good times. The only problem slowing him down was a front end problem. Appar-ently the nut worked loose and hammered the threads off. Brian was able to get the car to CORE Main where they replaced the upper trailing arm and got him on his way. Tom Dittfield drove the last three laps and advanced a few • Custom Pro Cell Bladders with seamless Fuel Sale's "Pro Cell" is our top-of-the-line racing cell /hat comes ready lo ins/all and it's backed by a full 10 year warran/y. 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Kennedy and Mike Long took the next three laps. These guys had some prob-lems with the rocks and the three flat tires. Two flats were changed by CORE pits and the other by Mike in the field. L.J . and Mike weren't having much fun since they slammed the car into a hole which re-injured Kennedy's back problem suf-fered in the recent Baja 500. The guys retired a bit early and handed the car back to Ruddis and Weddle. Mark and Chris finished the last two laps finish-ing in third place in class. Not a bad finish with all the tire down time. CORE PIT SUPPORT CORE MAIN Tom and Mike Malloy shared the pit boss title for CORE Main Pit. Assisting them was Paul Smith, Perry King, Malcolm Bryce, the McGuffin gang, Dave Girdner, and Robby Stapp. All the guys wanted me to mention Hildy and her great all day job with the Main Pit radio. The guys changed a tire for the Brad Inch and Ruddis/Long cars, changed shocks, trailing arm and re-welded the front beam on Darin's Challenger. CORE PIT ABLE Blake Daly and the other half of the McGuffin crew ran the Able Pit. They kept busy chang-ing two tires and bolted on a new pair of shocks on Darin's car. The only real excitement was when the second place 1600 rolled in front of the pit, land-ing on the wheels, grabbing a gear and flying off into the dis-tance. CORE PIT BAKER Dennis Dean, Dave Woulf, Jim Wagner, and the Freeman clan manned the Baker Pit. They changed a pair of tires on the Lawless and McGuffin cars. They offered a great summer pitting tip, never leave the air impact and pit tools in the di-rect sunlight. As it was ex-plained, they had to throw the impact wrench on the ground between each lug nut removed. CORE CHARLEY The Charley pit was run by the Lawless crew. The only car they worked on was the Lawless car. They did mention the dry run McGuffin gave them, call-ing on the radio "I need water", and passed the pits without even waving. They all got up out of their chairs with water in h-and, and nothing, thanks Darin. NEW CORE RADIO FRE-QUENCY CORE has moved its radio frequency to 153.245 (main) and 153.155 (secondary) . The frequencies were assigned to CORE by the Weatherman and Dusty Times

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were tested last race. The fre-quencies were made official at the last CORE general meeting. Please jot them down if you ever need to re'ach a CORE pit. NEW AND PRO,SPECTIVE MEMBERS The CORE members voted in to our family, two new mem-bers. Dave Woulf and Bob DePew have already contrib-uted to the club pitting several races and attending the monthly meetings. They are both very helpful, knowledgeable about off roading, and extremely ea-ger to help. We are honored to have people of your caliber in our pit support family. Robby Stapp just purchased my old Chenowth Challenger and is eager to run under the CORE support banner. Robby has taken a 15 year vacation aw;,iy from off road racing to es-tablish a successful business and raise a beautiful family. Robby called me up one night and said he was experiencing mid life crisis and had to buy a race car. We totally prepped my idle· Challenger and he is very anx-ious to race the MDR series. NEW AND IMPROVED C.O.R.E. PITS CORE sold much of its old and out of date pit equipment at the LeDuc off road swap meet to buy new equipment. Each CORE Pit is now supplied with trick hydraulic jacks and nitro-gen bottles with i_mpact wrenches. CORE Main and an outlying pit will now be supplied with new generators and wire welders. ,The CORE trailer is stocked with grinders, saw's all, and new pit signs. We hope never to use this new equipment but when the need arises,it will make the pit stops very quick and efficient. A big thank you for Tom Malloy, who donated a Craftsman tool box for the CORE trailer. Thanks Tom. C.O.R.E. AUCTION CORE would like to thank all members who participated and to the contributors who donated products for our auction. It was a success, we raised over $800 to purchase new pit equipment. A big round of applause is in order for Tom Malloy who acted as our auctioneer. I always knew he was a fast talker, he makes a great auc-tioneer. IN MY DEFENSE It seems that every so often my articles appear to stir up contro-versy:. Io my last article where I pointed out the "club driver's" comments and complaints about the past MDR race, appeared to offend another pit support club. I had often wondered about the intimate connection between the pit clubs and the race promoter. It was viewed that my comments were my own_ opinions, and not of the pit club members I repre-sent. I was told that my com-ments were negative and only pointed out the problems that occurred. When I have heard about improvements in MDR in regards to the "club driver's" complaints, I have comple-mented them, please refer to my past articles if you don't believe me. Use the last two MDR races as an example, I stated many problems and areas that needed work in MDR which the "club drivers" brought to my attention. The last MDR race showed much improvement, so I stand on my box and say "good job" and "keep up the good work" to MOR! I don't see the problem pointing out things that need improve-ments. If I was in the business of promoting races and got sugges-tions from my clients, I believe I would at least listen to them. If I didn't return my phone calls and made no attempt to go to my client's pit club meetings, how would I ever learn what I'm do-ing wrong? Perhaps if I read an article in Dusty Times, the off road authority, it just might cause some improvements; and what do you know, they responded - mes-sage received. I believe the result is a more enjoyable and safer rac-ing, do you agree? The other fact I would like to bring out into the open occurred a few years ago when MORE at-tempted to promote races. As I recall, the other pit support clubs were RELENTLESS in their at-tack-and criticism of MORE. So I now ask, why are my comments regarding MDR _under attack by the same people who assisted greatly in the demise of MORE? It appears standards of conduct have changed. Yes, it is true, I am a very close personal friend of Jim Clements. We have been friends and fierce competitors for many, many years. I was very upset and frankly very embarrassed how MORE was treated of the off road community and other pit support clubs. His intentions were ALL for the racer, because he is a racer, can you say that about any· Fat Performance the leader in offroad engines offers to everyone from sand to pu.re race, a complete line of performance intake- systems. Along with the most complete inventory of performance ofTroad exhaust·systems. Call today and find out how we can help put you in the winners circle. We 11$8 & recommend RAC IN<, [NC,INE_\, TRANSMl\'ilON'i .\ND OFFRO.\D PARTS Scud or call for our new catalog S5.00 1{1~~~~-1 ........ -.-.•-·-··········•·························• ... ·.·--.·.•-·-·-·-·-·-•.-. -·-·-·-·-·····•···---·-·-·-···.-.-.·.-.-.................................. .,..,.,._., ....... , •.. .,. ..•... _..,._._.,,.•.-.··.:= other active racing promoter? I . am a professional, so when any promoter and/or organization makes a bone head move, I will be the first to point it out and insist on improvement, and yes, in a professional manner. I won't get in the gutter and throw shit like other contributing writers! So mellow out and don't kill the messenger! Looking for a professional family oriented off road racing pit support organization? CORE Pit Club is always interested in finding new members and offer-ing them quality pit support. CORE has regular monthly meetings on the first Tuesday of the month at Mulligans Restau-rant in Santa Clarita. For more information please call (818) 772-7758 or e-mail me at Race975@aol.com. SCORE Engine Builder of the Year for 1985, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996 & 1997! llta PIIU'ORIIIICE 1558 No. Case• Orange. CA 92867 (714) 637-2889 • Fax (714) 637-7352 HVPERCCILS INDY to DAYTONA to BAJA 'D~ A PART OF WINNING 1 II' Accurate rates! (+/-2%) II' Consistent installed heights! (+/-2%) II' Engineered and manufactured for optimum performance· and durability! (Maximum travel & Lightest weight) II' 100% Magna Flux Inspected! 2 1/2", 3" & 3 5/8" I.D. Complete range of rates and~le_ngths In stock and ready to ship ~ Dusty Times August 1999 Page 55

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~ ROCKY_ ROADS t4 lD.I68DffI:JQOOL, "F-i,rl!1 Forol ~,o ... co RLStori,tio" s pecii,li.sts• 1101 EAST REDONDO BLVD. INGLEWOOD, CA 90302 www.rockyroads.com 310-412-6942 RACING TRANSAXLES 1700 EAST MAIN ST. EL CAJON, CA 92021 .,,,,.,,.,, _,,,. ,-1,1, ... , .. ,..,.. ,.,,,.,,_ .,tu. IJe,etl Rool11tj Specializing in Race Prep CHRIS ROSE (619J 443-2480 Race to Race Maintenance Chase Support-Score Series Foddrill Trailing Arms.Spindles-racing parts Full Service Fabriation Magnaflux Service Shock Rebuilding TIM CECIL 849 Lambert • Brea, CA 92821 (714) 447-3581 Fax (714) 672-9246 JOB SITE SIGNS• BANNERS • IWIOOW LffiERlt,G • C,\R lETTERIIIG·• GRAPHICS SGUEAK & MARGIE COATS 5101 Galway Circle·• Hunt,ng,o'7 Beach CA 92649 (714) 897-0075 • F2\ (7141 694-9567 s~~ Lubricants LLC _______ _ • ~~~~ ... ~~~~~~~~ .. ~~~ .. s . t6 §~~~~-f~-!!!!~l!~:~i Competitive Pricing CoNy Sapph19to■ (I02) H!•27H -711-3554 Mobil 414 S. Robert 1825 W. Collins TeMpe, AZ 15211 9nmge, CA 92863 Next Day Delivery_ Zach Mltoslnlat . 714-516-7300 . S. B. ENGINEERING "SUPER BOOT" HCR66, BOX 11030 PAHRUMP (CRYSTAL) NV.89048 (775) 372-5335 10-10 South Main Street. Fallbrook. CA 92028 FA\ 760-n.l-!l 17 F-M.-\11. hajara..:c ·,illhcnm PHONF 760-723-:?l 17 l.ALL U'5 FIF'.-'5T! , ________________ ____,, APA RACING ~ GASOLINE "100. 110 114 118" rnet11a11ol & nitro C-.L. Bryarit, Inc. • Commercial Fuels & Lubes • High Performance Lubes · 1-800-399-4176 • On-Site Fuel Distribution • Technical Assistance . 209-537-1565 fax • Fuel & Lubes Handling Equip. fllOtll PREP DIREt1 FOX KING SAW BILSTEIN KUSTER "Off-Road Shor,k Absorber Sper,ialisls REBUILDS VALVING BY-PASS WELDING HEIMS UPS CALL 619-43S-8936 Get the word out about your business, big or -small. Put your business card in the "Good Stuff Directory" and reach new customers. Good Stuff Directory Ads are merely $25.00 per month ~ s~ eet4/MH, &~ ~u,,1(/u,, ~~ '&U,Pfato, 4S-4fO#I0~St. 760.-:347--.50.52 ?IM'to-, eA 9220I Paul Dumas (818) 700-9280 Phone (818) 625-0990 Mobile (818) 700-9480 Fax Long Beach, CA Van Nuys, CA Riverside, CA Oxnard, CA Las Vegas, NV Sports Racing Products -LA 6338 N. Marina Pacifica Dr.;#K15 Long Beach, CA 90803-7010 562-432-3946 818-786-8180 909-877-0226 805-485-6900 702-643-9200 ~~o (213)583-2404 SANDERS SERVICE, fNC. METAL PROCESSING 5921 WIimington Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90001 SANDBLAST GLASS BEAD MAGNETIC PARTICAL FLOUAESCENT INSPECTION Mark Smith Larry Smith Custom Preparation & Fabrication Race Trucks • Buggies • Pre-Runners (619) 449-9728 FA>. (619) 449-2678 9419 Abraham Way, Suite "A", Santee, CA 92071 nt. ALUMINUM WHEEL STRAIGHTENING 31510 223rd Street East Llano. CA 93544 661-261-3202 . SUNDRY METAL SPI-NNING Phone (562) 928-9838 Fax (562) 928-0778 METAL SPINNING EXCELLENCE • ALUMINUM • STEEL • BRASS • COPPER • STAINLESS RACE FUELS 6831 Suva Street Betl Gardens, CA 90201 JOHN AVALOS OWNER [209) 847-2281 [800) 527-6090 FAX [209) 847-9726 PO. Box 248 • 524 N. Sierra Ave. WESTERN DIVISION Oakdale, California 95361 -».5.jp flfZ.'-:.! " YDII• Qu,,iunv 9,.,,., Co.A~~• De~/gn Fabrl~atlon Installation Darren Ebberts (909) 340-4684 FAX (909) 340-4689 -190£ PRINCELANOCT SUITE-I CORONA CA 91719 CCMPUTERIZEO VINYL GRAPHICS & LErTEl?./NG 111·1 I WSAI I · LO-COST 1'LOGSIGNS(ALT. PROCESSES) · -· Tf/V\OE SI-OW DISPLAYS -.~ RACING G~;'l,P'HICS -OETAILEO& LNIQUE OES!GNS ,.... FLEET VEHICLES ,.., HI-QUA.LfrY BANNERS .,.... MAGNETICS ·• LOGO REPRCJOUCTONS .-. RE,A.L E/ST;'l,TE "'LOGO & GRAPHIC DESIGN ,-DECALS OFF ROAD RACING SPECIALISTS !'VE;WING •FABRICATION• FU.MECUTTING • FRONTEl✓0S • REARTRAIL/NGARMS RACEa-lASSIS • PRERUNNERS • FOXRAONGSHOX 13450YNAMICS. UN/TO ANAHEIM, Ctl 92806 LARRY ROSEVEAR PHONE (714} 996-6260 FAX (714} 996-6405

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(909) 654-7334 Hemet, CA ~\'i-'7'5-Df r~ AND fUtJ~y S,11 ... , ~---. 'Y'/ ..<),: ~ VAfttlY .r ·•-ar~·~~M,<qg/ON 447-4353 • 579-8666 1158 NORTH 2ND ST.• EL CAJON, CA 92021 rt]· Greg Boehm, Dr. of Carology . , Specializing in Transmissionology Certified Automotive Instructor BRUCE HENDEL Regional Manager VP Racing Fuels, West Coast P..O.Box1319 · '34283 Monte Vista Wildomar, CA 92595 Phone: (909) 674-9167 Fax: {909) 674-7367 Pager: (909) 694-7392 Automotive • ATV • Motorcycle 1815 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE RIVERSIDE, CA 92507, USA 909.369.5144 • 909.369.7266FAX WWW. WEBCAM I NC.COM I/VU/I Lfuldnm~ =:::;i"4..,owertrain Complete Powertrain Development, Maintenance and !iupply Engine• • Tran!!imi!!i!!ilon!!i • Drlvellne• • Differential!i 6975 Speedway Blvd: 0-1 Di! La■ Vega■, l\levada B9115-1 713 7Di!-B7 1-1661 Fax: 70i!-871 -6480 I RdNWixLE ENGINEERING Adam Wik 1994 SCORE ENGINE BUILDER OF THE YEAR From Parts to Complete Engines JEFF FIELD (818) 998-2739 9763 Varlel Ave. Chatsworth, CA 91311 ai > ~ <( 0 .!!! :g -0 Ol C: <1l <1l ·-E E ~ 0 ~~ .c 0 '5 -0 Q) (J) g I!) <1l ""t:: Kl ~ C\J (J) <( X (J) 0 <( w w Li. ~o (J) -:) (J) Welding V.W. - Porsche - Nissan - Toyota Lorenzo Rodriguez Engine Dyno Service 535 East Centro.I Park Anaheim CA 92802 714-956-9457 Off Road Products Front and Rear Trailing Arms • Spindles Suspension Specialists • Custqm Wheels CD~ 0 515 S. Vermont, Glendora, Ca. 91741 (626)914-8147 2733 W. Missouri Phoenix, AZ 85017 Jack Woods (602) 242-0077 MOTORCYCLES •KTM •HUSABERG •HUSQVARNA • SERVICE & PARTS • SUSPENSION UNIQUE METAL PRODUCTS 10729 WHEA TLANDS AVENUE, SUITE #A SANTEE, CALIFORNIA 92071 TEL. • 619 / 449-9690 FAX • 619 / 449-8424 7(' PA!Nr /WP C04TI NGS'li.GRAPIIK:5"" J,(Jll(Jf} ' •~""'==-m~hf('; MAJN!ENANCl•fY.{)lh...W-11-Jlff~/Nt;lr M-F 12-6 VARIOUS SAT 10-2 2350 ORANGETHORPE ANAHEIM, CA 92806 714-449-1271 FAX 449-1374 Classified ... AUTOMOTIVE FOR SALE: Bronco Pre-Runner, new 351 w, headers, built C-6 caged, disc brakes, 2wd I-Beam, 15" front, 20" rear travel, rear swing arms with coils, Heim jointed, Bilsteins w/resvrs, Art Carr, lqd filled Autometers, Hellas, Master-craft, stereo, NC, all glass front, $25,000.00 neg. Allen (619) 473-8706. Dusty Times FOR SALE: 1998 MDR Class 7S Cl;iampionship Toyota. '85 Xtra Cab. Only 6 races on this newly built 4x4. Best equipment. Not raced in '99. Race prep'd. Super reliable racetruck. Get ready for Baja/BID 2000. Win yourself a championship. Work assignment forces sale. $9,800.00 Call for more info. Burrows Motorsports (909) 422-1416. 760-949-1220 FOR SALE: Available now Bronco Prerunner: 4x4, very affordable and the best, just completed, Donahoe's Shop. If you want new from top to the bottom, I mean everything! Ready to go! NC, 3 7" tires, Bead-locks, King shocks, Hellas, Dever springs, custom interior, w/CD, Race radio, Auto.meter, Master-craft; 5 point belts, Crissman 9", excellent prerunner, chase very civilized and works great. Used very little since built. Must sell $35,000.00 OBO Riverside (909)689-9101. August 1999 FOR SALE: 1977 International FOR SALE: Funco SS 1600 dual Scout, Stock full size race car. port, bus trans, Fox Shocks, power Professional cage and shock steering, Wright.Place, Beard seat, mounts, 345 VB and auto trans, Simpson belts, CNC, Parker National Springs, Rancho Pumper, KC lights, etc. Good shocks, 33" tires. Need fuel cell startercarorprerunner. $2,000.00 and updated belts; excellent (530)692-2280. condition $6,000.00 (909)867- • ""'F""'O""R:'-S""'AL..,.........,.E-: ..,,8""9'"'Ra,......c-e-co-, .... 2,....s_e_at-e-r, 7685. Class 1,10, or 12, Disc brakes, Beard FOR SALE: VW Type I, 1832cc Seats, power steering, coiloverfront 77x87mm 11: 1 comp Fat case and and rear shocks, Centerline bead all Fat parts, 44 lDF Weber 1 ¾ locks, Bus Box, Rabbit engine, new jntake Fat exhaust 120 + HP _beam, new trailing arms, recent $3000.00 OBO (602)859-8063 or update $12,500.00 or trade (602)930-0594. (562)427-2779, or 430-2884. Page 61

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hill in 13:21.55 only four seconds.behind Greg Tracy on his Yamaha. In the Challenge of Champions contest where the competitors only ran half the hill, it was Roger Mears besting Parnelli Jones and Ivan Stewart, all driving Toyota Celicas. There was one electric vehicle entry who got up the hill in just over 15 minutes but I'd sure like to know how much energy it takes to recharge all those batteries after the run is over. In the Open Wheel category it was Stan Kossen in a Wells c:;oyote taking the honors. In the Pikes Peak Open Class,Jean Pierre Richelmi came from Monte Carlo to win in his Lancia/Delta Integrate with a time of 11:28.26. In Pro Truck it was Gary Vosburg in his Ford F150 taking the honors and right behind him was Brian Stewart in his Dodge. Lonnie Eubanks took the Quad win on a Yamaha. In the Big Rig Truck class, Mike Ryan came from North Hollywood, CA and ran his Freightliner to the top in 15:03.84. The Sidecar winner was Pete Whitney from Simi' Valley and he conquered the hill on his '94 Harley in 13:59.66. In the Sprint Car division Leonard Vahsholtz took the top honors, and in Super Stock Clint Vahsholtz showed everyone the way home. In Super Stock Truck old friend Larry Ragland rocketed his way to the top in his Chevy in 11:24.36, followed by Curt LeDuc in a Dodge. In Unlimited, Rod Millen took his '99 Toyota Tacoma to the top in 10: 11.15, still short of breaking that elusive ten minute barrier. And, last, but not least in the Vintage bike division, Craig Raygor took his '74 Yamaha to the top in 14:43.21. CRANDON BRUSH RUN 101 -It was showtime at Crandon, Wisconsin on June 26th ar\.d 27th and there was plenty of racing for all. In Pro-2 Brendan Gaughan took the honors in round 3, his third consecutive win at Crandon. Jamey Flannery took the second spot and Carl Renezeder was third. In round 4 Scott Taylor took the win, Brendan was second and Jamey Flannery took the bronze. In Pro-4, Curt LeDuc won round 3 after a tough battle with Scott Douglas and Jamey Flannery in the third spot. In round 4, good 'ol Walker Evans took a well deserved win, Jamey Flannery and Rob MacCachren followed Walker home. In Pro-Lite Art Schmitt took Round 3 with Jeff Kincaid and Jason Crowder in the place and show positions. In Round 4 Johnny Greaves took the honors, teammate Jeff Kincaid was second and Art Schmitt was third. In the Sportsman Stock Division, Eric Dawson took round 5, and Keith Steele was the Round 6 winner. In Super Buggy, Larry Goudie took Round 5 and Joe Wutke III won Round 6. Joe Zilisch won both rounds in Sportsman 2. Mike Seefeldt was the Round 5 winner in Single Buggy while Mark Krueger took Round 6. Single Light winners were Herman Barnum in Round 5 and Mike Hintz in Round 6. CRANDON GOVERNORS CUP - Some things never change. Jack Flannery drove his Chevy pickup to his third consecutive win of the Governors Cup. Jack collected $17,500 for his troubles and he had to contend with some pretty good trucks and drivers. Rob MacCachren led the first 6 laps of the 10 lap race. Rob then had a flat tire and was passed by Curt LeDuc and then both Jack and Jamey Flannery went by also. LeDuc led for the next two laps as he and Jack Flannery went at it in great fashion. Flannery took the lead on the 9th lap, LeDuc fried a c. v. joint and Jack Flannery took the win, his son Jamey 23 seconds behind. LeDuc took the third position, Dan Vanden Heuvel was fourth and our always favorite son Brendan Gaughan was fifth. TOUGH TRUCK FIELD MEET -The first annual Tough Truck Field Meet will be held on October 9 and IO at the Sunset Station in Henderson, Nevada. Leading manufacturers will be displaying the latest in SUV's and true.ks. Best In The Desert staff will be on hand to take you through a low speed course on how to handle your SUV. On hand will be Ivan Stewart, Robbie Gordon, Rod Hall, Larry Ragland, Dave Ashley and Dan Smith. For more info call BITD at 702-457-5775. 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 we5t of 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 # I Torrance, CA 90503 (310) 3 70-9856 January 1-17 1999 21st Annual Dakar Rally VORRA Valley Off Road Racing Association 1833 Los Robles Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702/Fax (916) 925-8217 September 4-6, 1999 Fernley Challenge Fernley, NV September 25-26, 1999 Short Course - Round I Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA October 9-10. 1999 Short Course - Round 2 Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA October 30-31, 1999 Short Course - Round 3 Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA VICENTE GUERRERO OFF ROAD CLUB Profo. Cenovio Gamboa FOR SALE: Motor and transaxle-Type 4 by Kent Wallace, 2800cc, case guessted to bellhousing, 44 IDF Weber carbs, 2.01 heads modi-fied with 5th stud, Keith Black pis-tons, CompuFire ignition, Tri-Mill exhaust estimated 200hp $4,800 ALSO RaceAuto Automatic transaxle by Mogi, 3 spd, 2. 71, 1.54 and 1:15.87 R&P, 934 CV flanges Art Carr shifter, 10 Yi diameter, R&P $9,500 Motor has 1 race on it, trans has 2 races on it. The Sec-ond Lap (760)723-2117. 01 !-52-616-6-21-91 (2-6 p.m.) October 9-10, 1999 Puente-Puente 150 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. Box376 Adamsburg, PA (412) 527-6556 WIDPLASH MOTORSPORTS 16251 North Cave Creek Road #4 Phoenix, AZ 85023-2976 (602) 971-3730 1999 Desert Tour Buggy & Truck Series September 4, 1999 Snowflake Snowflake, AZ October 16, 1999 Surprise or Bye Surprise or Bye, AZ November 20, 1999 Apache Gold Globe,AZ December 11, 1999 1999 Banquet TBA . 1999 Desert Challenge Bikes & ATV Series September 5, 1999 Snowflake Snowflake, AZ October 17, 1999 Sierra Vista/Surprise Sierra Vista/Surprise, AZ November 21, 1999 Apache Gold Globe, AZ December 11, 1999 I 999 Banquet TBA WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL Terry or Bev Friday 5913 so. U.S. Hwy 45 Oshkosh, WI 54901 (414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 1665 Delaware St. Oshkosh, WI 54901 (414)426-0470/(414) 982-7306 FOR SALE: Class 5 no mo-tor, no trans, Fodrill Big Beam, Saco Rack, Fox, Coilover, Summers, Floaters, 300m Torshin, 3" Kuster by pass rear, Flame out_, 30 gal cell, all the best, with spares, no expense spared, winner 98 Fireworks 250, car is dialed and very competlt1ve. $18,000:00 obo (714) 527-4495 hm or (714) 903-3900. Mike. FOR SALE: 1998 Jimco Class 1 or 10 A-Arm, single seat roll-ing chassis. Brand new, never finished, Class 1 frame, Class 10 ·rear arms, Summers Bros. Out-board hubs, CNC front brakes, Fortin rack, Jimco shifter, Beard Seat, Fuel Cell & more, car is tabbed, my loss is your gain, $16,500.00. Call Jake at (619) 401-8632 or 619 807-1636. FOR SALE: 5-1600-2 seat-Now set up for short course but can be changed for off road-Has a new engine, xtra bus trans six set tires and many extra's. Also comes with new trailer-price reduced to $6,500.00 or best offer-contact Joe Schnekenburger (909) 787-8549. FOR SALE: Protruck Prepped and race ready, BFGoodrich, Bilsteins, Chrisman rear end, new $15,000 Leon Patton motor, best of every-thing, Plus a 16' enclosed parts trailer with almost enough spare parts to build a second Protruck including a spare $15,000 Leon Patton motor. Also 20' enclosed race car trailer. Everything in ex-cellent condition.$110,000 for ev-erything. Chuck Harris (702) 451-6005. 7s RANGER-EX SCOTT DOU-GLAS ROUGH RIDERS FORD RANGER, THIS TRUCK IS VERY PROFESSIONAL AND IT SHOWS. VERY GOOD HISTORY AND WONDER-FUL RACE RECORD! SUM-MERS BROS. FRONT HUBS AND FLOATER REAR END, 4 WHEEL DISC BRAKES, CUS-TOM SHOCKS W/REMOTE RESERVOIRS, NATIONAL SPRINGS, C4 TRANS, WIN-TERS SHIFTER, TRIPLE COOLERS WITH ELECTRIC FANS, ALL STEEL BRAIDED PLUMBING, CLARK STEPPLER 2851 CC 4 CYLIN-DER, CROWER STROKER CRANK, ESSLINGER HEAD, DUAL 48MM WEBERS, DUAL MSD IGNITION, 32 GALLON CELL, FIBERGLASS FRONT CLIF, ARE WHEELS/BFG BA-JAS, ETC. $14;soo BAJA BRO-KERS #715 (760)723-2117. CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.BAJACONCEPTS.COM. FOR SALE: 1997 Race car trailer, Built by EMI . Techno°logy 48'x9'x10 1/2, lounge area 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 w/toilet, sink, r_ange, re-frigerator, leather, storage and A/ C 35'x 8 1/2" working and stor-age area wood and tile floor, 2 winches , 2 generator, 1 ·welder, 2 side doors outside lighting, rear gate, standing roof deck, 5 8' belly boxes, 8 new tires, excellent con-dition, $43,000 asking price or trade for exotic car. Call Fox Mo-torsports (915) 833-7902. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• KARMAN. GHIA CLASS 5-2700cc Type 4, FAT/Weber 48 intake set-up, Bus Box by ITS, 4.57 R&P, Super cliff, Elephant gears, 30 gallon fuel cell, Wright Arms, Woods spindles, .UMP p/s Suspen-: Sell or swap yaur extra .parts and pieces in : • DUSTY TIMES. Classified Advertising rate is only $25 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 RENEW AL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DUSTY TIMES - A 45 word Classified Ad is FREE if you act now and subscribe. If you wish to use a photo in your free ad, enclose $5.00. All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. REMEMBER - CLASSIFIED AD SPACE IS LIMITED -YOUR AD MAY BE PUT OFF ONE ISSUE IF NOT RECEIVED IN A TIMELY MANNER. • sions Unlimited + 10" beam : and 3 "x3 rear arms, Bilstein • shocks, SAW torsions, spring • plates, axles, CNC disc brakes, • Very clean! $11,500 Baja Bro-: kers Ref # .710 (760)723-2117, • Check out our website at • www.bajaconcepts.com . • • FOR SALE: 94 Ranger Unlimited • Truck or Awesome prerunner . • 450+ h.p. Boss 302 w/carillo rods/ : tnv/crane roller/roush racing C-6 • trans, all Chrom-moly, 8-35" BFG • Strope Spindles & front hubs W / • Willwodd brakes, King coils and Please run ad ___ times : Rancho Lightning rods, 24" + Mail to: • travel, all fiberglass, Summers 9" Enclosed is $ (Send check or money order, no cash) Name DUSTY TIMES • Floating axles, all parts new & too 20751 Marilla Street • much to list. $15,000.00 obo or City ________________ State __ Zip _________ Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 : trade for CL 10-12 or parts • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • (714)429-9535. -----------------------------------Address __________________ Phone ___________ _ Page 62 August 1999 Dusty Times

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FOR SALE: 85 Jeep Scrambler, Class 3 Racer, 500 hp AMC 401 C.I.D. Louis Unser built engine. Turbo 400 W /manual valve body. AMC Quadra-trac. Rancho race series shocks, Dual batteries. Fiber-glass body and tilt front end. FM band PCI Race Radio.Trailer avail-able, $8,000.00 (520) 421-9840. FOR SALE: Class 8 Ford 1979 step side, 400 M, 425 hp, manual shift C6 B&M shifter, Chrisman 9", 40 spline axles, spool, National leafs, BFG's, Simpson seats/belts, Wil-wood disks, Halibrand knock-offs, 3" Sway-A-Way shocks, VHF ra-dios, Flameout, spare 400m, spares. Great paint, former PPI truck, Race Ready, see at Snowflake race. $14,000.00 Call Jeff (505)821-2186. FOR SALE: 1998 Pro-2, Sports-man-2 or Class 8, built by Walker in '89, updated by Greaves, 700 hp 18 deg. 406, trick Mogi trans, Chrisman, King/Kusters, Chevy body, 1998 Class 8 champ, too many spares to list, $48,000.00 w/ spares, $30,000.00 less engine, $25,000.00 less engine and 3 trans-missions, (602)40423046. Todd Wittman. FOR SALE: 91 Ford Ranger Su-per Cab Prerunner 4.0,has headers, flowmaster, • K-N filter. In cab rollcage, full fiberglass, 97 Explorer front end, 8 Bilstein shocks, 12's in front, lO's in back. National Springs in front, big wheel studs, 33" BFG's, Awesome Prerunner, $9,500.00 (619)766-4689. Toyota 7s-Pauter Machine 2.81 stroker motor, Toyota Auto trans by Ken Mogi, custom torque con-verter, Full Floater 9" rear end, spool, discs, Sway-A-Way torsions, Henry's ball joints, alloy hubs, 2.5" shocks, National leafs, 33x10.50 Bajas, complete with spares pack-age $14,000 Baja Brokers Ref #720 (760)723-2117 Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. Dusty Times FOR SALE: RACECO/JIMCO Class 10 or 12, FAT 1650cc rabbit, 60 miles on engine, New Mendeola Bus Box. Summers Hubs, 930cv's UMP, WRIGHT spindles, FOX shocks, SAW, PCI and much more, Car is fast, handles excellent. With trailer and spares, $12,500.00 day (619)562-3071 ask for Todd, eve (619)659-8867 San Diego area. FOR SALE: 1996 Ford Ranger Pro-Lite 2310cc Big Values, Manley Wiseco, Esslinger Balanced, Alum Flywheel, 5-speed trans, Precision gear 33-spline axles and full spool, Rancho Big cans, National Springs, Autometer, Fuel Safe BFG tires. Very Strong and smooth. $16,000.00 obo. (937)596-6823. 199_2 Dodge 4wd PreRunner-Walker Evans' glass, Magnum 380 cid VS, est, 400hp, 727 trans by Valley Trans, 35 gallon cell, Na-tional Springs f7r, Fox 2.0s and cus-tom 2.5" shocks, gusseted and trussed 9", 35 spline, 4.56, locker, discs, custom interior w/Auto-meter, Mastercraft, Deist, Very low miles since completed, Ultra clean and great attention to detail! $25,000 Baja Brokers Ref #717 (760)723-2117 Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: 1995 Chevy Astrovan 36,000 miles, tow pkg, ALL wheel drive, roof rack, dual air, power everything, cruise control, digital dash, privacy glass, cd player, ex-cellent condition in and out! Blue book $19,965 asking $18,500 (818)363-8115. FOR SALE: 1986 Toyota 4x4 Chrome Molly cage & rear bumper, SCORE and street legal 22R with oversize Pistons Weber Carb. Centerforce dual friction clutch, 6 BFGoodrich 35" Muds. 4-Bilsten 1 O" travel 2 with reserviors, 22 gal fuel cell, race or Pre-Run ready, $3,995.00 firm. Call (602) 274-5321 or (888)990-8741. FOR SALE: 120" Class 10 or 12 Chassis, 12" front 21" rear travel. Welded in big tube beam. Set up for Bus Box and VW engine. New powder coat on Body panels, in-cluded skid plates wiring plumbing. New car on order. Rich at McKenzies performance $2,800.00 (714)441-1212. FOR SALE: 2 Seater Truggy, 350 cid Chevy VS w/Aluminum heads, Leon Patten carb, approx. 380 hp, built TH400, 20" travel f&r on Fox 2.5" coilover and bypass, 40 spline 9" Full Floater w/discs, full bodies, Mastercraft, ~impson, AutoMeter, Hella lights, CNC, Howe p/s, built qy Stewart Race Works, New/never raced. This is an awesome race ve-hicle $35,000 fully prepped Baja Brokers Ref#726 (760)723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: 1999 Lothringer-Com-petitive and professional Class 1 two seater, King coilovers and by-pass, custom A-Arms, awesome Toyota aluminum V 6 powerplant, top-of-the-line Fortin DGN transaxle, 934.5 CV joints, floater hubs, trick paint job, only the best parts, like new, rrice includes some spare parts $55,000 Baja Brokers Ref#725 (760)723-2117. Check -out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: Class 8 Ford, New Wiks 600hp motor (0 miles) 2 trans (C6) New Crisman 10.5 r/p, Custom shocks, just rebuilt, fresh Nat'! Springs, New wiring, dash, 10 spare BFG's. 80 g~l fuel cell. Lots of spares. Priced to sell, $39,000.00 (562)404-5607. FOR SALE: Class 10 or 12 Single Seater, New 1835cc, FAT Heads & intake, Bus Box, FTC gears with 4 spider cliff, New 2" Fox coilovers on the front.2.5 Fox coilovers on the rear, many spares, prepped and race ready. (702)873-4953 $11,000.00. FOR SALE: Class 9 Watkins Built Hot VW's featured car, June 92 is-sue, FAT/FES Motor '96-'97 Vorra · Championships. Fox, Sway-A-Way, Fire system, Fuel Safe, KC, Yokohama/BFG, K&N, Earls, Saco, Parker Pumper, MasterCraft, CNC, Tons of spares, trailer $8500.00 408 227-1880 or 408 227-6598. Class 10 or Class 1-Bunderson A-Arm car HAS: Coilover and bypass shocks, 30 gallon cell, front disc brakes and hubs, body, rack and pinon, lights, skid pan, interior nets, gauges, sterring, etc. NEEDS: Mo-tor/trans, rear hubs, tires and wheels, CV's and axles, battery and tach. What a deal for a Class 1 or 10 A-Arm car! $8,400.00 ALSO available complete with Type 4/ Auto transaxle or less just mtr/ trans, or just trans, or just motor, your choice! Owner is very flexible, call for more details, Baja Brokers Ref#693 (760)723-2117 Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. August 1999 FOR SALE: 1996 Jimco A-Arm, full Coilover suspension, King Shocks, Major Performance V-Tech Honda EFI 140hp to rear Wheels, new Fortin DGN 5 speed, this car has all high dollar trick stuff, asking $40,000.00. Call Days 760 344-0535 eve 760 344-1328. FOR SALE: Stadium Lite, Triple . E, Fox shocks, Fuel Cell, Goodyear tires, Power steering 500cc + 425cc motors, L years Pace Champion, 98 Core Winter series winner $8,500.00 520 667-2194. FOR SALE: 5-1600 suspensions unlimited street legal prerunner, power steering, SACO Rack, Cen-terlines, BFG, 22 gal cell, 930 stub axles, 300m torsions, Fox Shocks, nice interior w/carpet, Beard Seats, Wright arms, Very clean, less mo-tor & trans, $4,500.00 obo. 949 459-9561. FOR SALE: 1998 MDR points champ. Best of the best, 30b miles of comp. Prep, FOX 2.5 w/position sensitive susp, Chromoly 1" longer arms, , Type II c.v.s w/300m 930 axles, thing stub axles, SAW spring plates, SAW 29mm 300, bars, New SAW torsion adj., new top 4;86, JG Trans, 12.1 motor, new heads, pis-tons, cyls, and FAT carb, Boost bottle, new Compu-fire, DIS IGN, UMP, Fuel Safe, Beards, J-Mar, VDO, Autometer, Susp. Chromoly beam, new Wright rack, Wright arms, & combos, New Chromoly tie rods & ends, Fox Big Shafts, Fox steering stab. SAW leafs, new 5/8 adjs, some spares, tum key ready to defend points title. $10,500.00 obo, 714 255-9501,or 714 967-5098. FOR SALE: FAT Performance, type 4, 2700cc, 9 to 1-103.5 piston 3 bolt Porsche Heads, 5 bolt studs-single or dual Webers, elec. Igni-tion-Head Pipes-PS Pump-Billet pulleys, German Crank-Complete motor, 0 hours, w/receipts in crate $9,000.00 obo (602)252-5441 or (602)377-2239. FOR SALE: 1996 Jimco A-Arm Class One. Prepped race ready. V-6 Toyota, Fortin DGN, best of ev-erything. Las Vegas to Reno/Ter-rible Town winner, Contact Mike @ 619-562-1743 $45,000.00. FOR SALE: "New" Two way race radio with "Scan" 133 Channel memory-Superior Performance alu-minum chassis-55 watts -sensitive reception-no fade-2 color display-multi function mike-too many fea-tures to list-why spend over twice as much $309.00. For more info call (909)657-8525. FOR SALE: 96 Ford F-150 several 8-S Championships, 500 hp roller motor, Mogi C-6 trans, Currie! strange cliff, Auto Fab custom I-Beams, National Springs, Lee P.S., Hower quickener, BFG's with Beadlocks, Fox Custom carb, MSD, Thorley, Autometer, Beards, Fuel safe, Diest, Best offer, must sell (818)599-4645. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES WANTED: Experienced Fabrica-tor. Excellent tig and mig welder a must. Contact Mike at JIMCO (619)562-1743 or send resume to 10965 Hartley Rd Ste R Santee, CA 92071. FOR SALE: Jimco 1- 1600. PRICED TO SELL. See it in the April issue of Hot VW Magazine. Completely prepped, rebuilt and race ready. Zero miles on motor and transmission rebuild. None nicer. Only 4 races on· car. FAT /FEX motor, Mendeola Trans, Custom Fox Shox. Call or email for list of components. $15,000 takes it, with spares! Matt (650)933-4881 WK, mmiller@corp.sgi.com. ADINDEX Baker Performance Products ................... 36 Barbary Coast, Gold Coast, Orleans Hotels ...................................... 19 Best In The Desert .................................... 4, 31 Bilstein Corp. Df America ............................... 5 Cactus Racing ............................................... 21 Camburg Engineering ................................ 51 Critical Operations .................................... 54 Eibach Springs ........................................... 35 Fabtech Motorsports ................................... 2 FAT Performance ....................................... 55 Fleet Fuel .................................................... 11 Fox Racing Shox ........................................ 23 Fuel Safe Racing Cells .............................. 54 German Auto ............................................... 14 Hettinga Creations Racing ....................... 38 Hypercoils ................................................... 55 Kartek Off Road· .................................. 34, 45 Kawaguchi Honda ...................................... 27 King Shock·Tech ........................................ 37 McKenzie Performance Products ............ 20 Nevada Off Road Buggy ............................ 49 PCI Race Radios and Equipment... ..... 32-33 Pike's Family Restaurant ......................... 28 Quality German Auto Parts ...................... 25 Race Ready Products ................................ 53 SNORE .......................................................... 39 Stewart ....................................................... 15 Sway-A-Way Corp ...................................... 12 Toyota Motorsports .................. Back Cover Transaxle_ Engineering .............................. 40 Tri-Mil Industries ....................................... 26 Valley Performance ................................... 10 Web Cam ....................................................... 8 Yarnell Specialties .................................... 16 Page 63

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