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2000 Volume 17 Number 4 Dusty Times Magazine

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... VOIUffle 17 • Number 4 • Aprll 2000 1,l l .,.. covering the world of competiti.on in the dirt ••• ... • A c'

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Volume 17 -Number 4 April 2000 DllliJlil■IB ~ raI o .~;~ :::::: llkiitil I Associate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance Scott Contrib~tors 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 Subscription Rates: $25.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Subscription rates on request Contributions: DUSTY TIMES welcomes contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited mate-rial will be returned only by request and with a self ad-dressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 8750-1732) is publish~d 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 publicatfon 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, 207 51 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. snapshot of the Month ... See, he's always looked like that. Here is Curt LeDuc jubilantly waving the checkers after his big Class 4 win at a George Dodd/SCORE Canada race 10 1983. And, by God, he's still winning! DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this. page .each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo retu~ned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to 8xl0 will be considered. In ·This Issue ... FEATURES SNORE A VI 250 by John Calvin .............................................................. 8 WRC Swedish Rally by Martin Holmes ................................................ 16 MOR Wildwash 250 by Ron Miller ....................................................... 18 BITD Laughlin Hare Scrambles by Mark Kariya .................................. 26 FRT King of The Desert by Judy Smith ................................................. 34 California Rally Series Awards· .............................................................. 36 MORE Millenium 250 by Jim Clements ................................................ 38 Ramada E~press Rally by Lynette Allison .............................................. 40 U.S. Off Road Championship at Anaheim by Ron Miller .................... 42 Sno*Drift Rally by John Calvin .................................................... , ......... 44 Tribute To Jean Calvin .......................................................................... 47 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ................................................................................................ 5 Trail Notes ................................................................................................. 6 Challenger Corner oy Joel Mohr .......................................... : ................. 48 C.O.R.E. Pit Report by Sandy Parker .................................................... 49 Locos Mocos by Mark Naugle ................................................................ 50 MAORA Report by Larry Tipsword ...................................................... 50 Good Stuff Directory .............................................................................. 56 Classified Ads ......................................................................................... 62 Index To Advertisers ............................................................................. 63 On The Cover Dan Bentley and Bob Mathews were destined to win the SNORE A VI 250 overall if this photo shows how they raced the course. They took the lead on lap four and literally flew to the finish, winning with a three and a half minute margin. · Photo by Carrera Photography Craig Dillon took the overall win at the MOR Wild Wash 250, turning in a sparkling performance with consistently quick lap times and beat all his competition by 13 minutes. Photo by Trackside Photo Visit Our Website Dustytimes.com c5ubscribe 7oda_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) Name ---------------------Address --------------------City -~----------------State Zip --------------------Primary Interest Cars O Trucks O Motorcycles 0 Send check or money order to: DUSTY TIMES 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 Canadian - l year $30.00 US ■ Overseas subscription rates upon request Dusty Times April 2000 Page 3

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(323) 560-SHOW 2000 Happenings ... CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 645 Heraclio Patino (011 52 616-5-22-07) CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE Mexicali -San Felipe COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholtz, President (719) 531-3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P.O Box8286 ASOCIACION ESTATAL de AUTOMOVILISMO Sam Lasell, Tech Inspector Apto 42 San Jose de! Cabo Baja California de! 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 BARONA SAND DRAG ASSN. P.O. Box 1521 Lakeside, CA 92040 May 6, 2000 June 24, 2000 July 22, 2000 August 19, 2000 Septl6,2000 October 21, 2000 All Races Are Night Races All Races Ai Barona Raceway, Lakeside, CA BEST IN THE DESERT RACING ASSOCIATION Casey Folks, Director 3475 Boulder Highway Las Vegas, NV 89121 (702) 457-5775/Fax (702) 641-2431 E-Mail: bitdjp@worldnet.att.net April 7-9, 2000 Terrible's Town 250 April 21-23, 2000 Nevada 200 Trail Ride Mo,orcycles Only May 19-21, 2000 Tonopah 300 July 8-15, 2000 Nevada 2000 October 21, 2000 Tough Truck Field Meet December 1-3, 2000 'Las Vegas 200 BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTERPRISES Les Wolfe, NEW President 341 W. 2575 North Sunset, UT 84015 (801) 773-1651 May 5-6, 2000 Wendover Express Wendover, UT July 7-8, 2000 Jackpot 200 Jackpot, NV September 15-16, 2000 Bonneville Challenge Wendover, UT BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada KOK- !HO (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-3250 CAJOR Club Automovilista J uarense de Championship Off-Road Racing 7210 Gateway East El Paso, TX 79915 (915) 593-4848 Ralph Garcia 0l 1-52-16-17-45-42 Cesar Fuentes May 20, 2000 Start: 10 am - 6 Hour Time Limit July 15, 2000 Carrera de Las Estrellas 150 Night Race - Start: 8 pm - 5 Hour Time Limit September 16, 2000 Juarez 250 Start: 10 am - 8 Hour Time Limit November 25, 2000 Carrera de La Revolution Start 12 Noon - 5 Hour Time Limit 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 @ Homemail...com Rally School/SCCA Rally Cross Location TBA May 5-6, 2000 Dusty Times Rim Of The World Pro Rally/Club Rally Palmdale, CA Pierre, SD 57501 San Vicente Off Road Ensenada, BC, Mexico August 18-19, 2000 Gorman Club Rally Frasier Park, CA September 29-30, 2000 Prescott Forest Pro Rally/Club Rally Prescott, AZ Dave Adams (Pilots and Bajas) (605) 224-9481 Don Engleman (Bikes) (605) 224-4967 USA Jan Wright (011 52 61746834) Ramon Castro & Ruben Acevedo (6163717 0034) Colorado Springs, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORR Championship Off Road Racing 192 N. State Road 267, Suite 267 Avon, IN 46123 October 14, 2000 L V SCCA Region Rally Cross Jean, NV November 12, 2000 Treeline Club Rally Monrovia, CA November 18, 2000 L V SCCA Region Rally Cross Jean, NV December 8-10, 2000 • Ramada Express International Rally Laughlin, NV CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box 400 Maywood, CA 90270 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O. Box 332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLAIRTON HI-JACKERS I.C.O. Tom Delauder Sr 1091 Twp. Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Harrison County Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICA SAN QUINTIN Calle 6ta Fracc Cd. de San Quintin • San Quintin, BC, Mexico New from ... • ■ CMC Continental Motosport Club P.O. Box 3187 Mission Viejo, CA 92690-3178 Fax: (714) 367-1608 CODE 011-52-65-52-5928 April 14-16, 2000 Laguna Salada May 19-21, 2000 San Felipe June 30-J uly 1, 2000 Night Race - Laguna Salada October 6-8, 2000 Laguna Salada Fiestas del Sol December 1-3, 2000 (317) 272-2827/Fa~: (3 I 7) 272-2900 June 10-11, 2000 Antigo County Fairgrounds Antigo, WI June 24-25, 2000 Crandon International Raceway Crandon, WI July 15-16, 2000 Kewaunee County Fairgrounds Luxemburg, WI July 29-30, 2000 Fort dodge, IA August 12-13, 2000 Bark River Off Road Raceway 06-~Racing &op New Design an echnolgy NOW you can improve yGur suspension with more up-travel impact control and durability with the new Bilstein BILSTEIN's Legendary Long-Life Performance! BILSTEIN Off-Road Bµmp Stops at each corner deliver race-proven performance for smooth deceleration of suspension components. BILSTEIN'S stronger mount design and a longer lasting contact pad result in unequalled efficiency. The larger fill valve thread design eliminates valve failure. Nitrogen Gas Adjustment Schrader Valve For More Information Contact The Dealers Listed Below or Bi/stein Off-Road Motorsports: 800/537-1085 Available from ... Off-Road Bump Stop for . off-road racing vehicles and pre-runners. Aluminum Contact Pad and Chrome Steel Shaft Bi/stein Off-Road Bump Stops feature ... • Thick-walled Monotube Design • Fusion-Welded, Seamless Steel Body • Universal Frame Bracket Fitment (2" OD) • 1 1/4" Hardened Chrome Steel Shaft • Self-Adjusting Deflective Disk Valving System • Stronger 7075 T6 Aluminum Contact Pad • Nitrogen Adjustable Spring Rate Capability McKenzie's Performance Anaheim, CA 714/441-1212 Baja Concepts Fallbro~k, CA 760/723-2117 Camburg Engineering Huntington Beach, CA 714/848-8880 Off-Road Warehouse San Diego, CA 619/565-7792 Kar Tek Chino, CA 909/627-4067 . KRUPP BILSTEIN OF AMERICA• 8845 Rehco Road• San Diego, CA 92121 • Phone 858--453-7123 .. www.bilstein.com April 2000 Pages

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Trail Notes ... MASTERCRAFT - Big news, Mastercraft, purveyor of fine seats for many years has been purchased by Arc Manufacturing, Inc. With A rc's expertise in production and Mastercraft's 30 odd years of experience customers are assured of more quality products and shorter Lead times. They are now Located at 10925 "F." Hartley Road, Santee, CA 92071. 619-449-9455 or www. mas ten;rafts ea ts. com FOR TIN TRANSAXLES -Fortin announces that they are finally moved into their new headquarters. The new Location is 1941 Friendship Drive, Suite E, EL Cajon, CA 92020. Call them at 619-449-3633 EIBACH SPRINGS -Eibach Springs was very happy to announce that the overall winner of the Dakar Rally was equipped-with Eibach Springs. Jean-Louis Schlesser took the overall win in a buggy, covering 11,000 kilometers, 1 7 individual stages and passing through God knows how many countries. Congrats to all concerned. NEW ARRIVAL -Charlie and Kim Pritchard announce the arrival of a new pit crew member, Chaz Pritchard, born on February 6 and weighing in at 7 lbs, 6 oz. Chaz is the grandson of Bob Rule and is the newest member of Team Bolink. Congrats to the proud parents and to the even prouder grandparents. BEST IN THE DESERT -Please note some changes to the BITD schedule: The Terribles Town 250 Pre-Run will be on March 11-12, 2000 and the Pre-Run for the Las Vegas 2000 will be on November 4-5, 2000. Adjust your schedule accordingly. · • MORE BEST IN THE.DESERT -The Nevada 2000 begins on July 9 and the route is: Day 1, Las Vegas To Mesquite, Day 2, Mesquite to Ely, Day 3, Ely to Elko, Day 4, Elko to Reno, Reno to Tonopah and Day 6, Tonopah to Las Vegas. TOYOTA TRUE GRIT -The first of the five SCORE Desert Series Races is now in the books and 71 drivers from 15 classes remain in competition for the T oyota Milestone Award for completing every mile of every race. Of these, 40 are eligible fo r the Toyota True Grit Award. This award is offered to the drivers of the four non-factory <'ndorsed classes on the basis of the highest cumulative point total for all five races. A $12,000 prize fund will be split between the four potential True Grit winners. This is the 1 5th year for the awards and we are proud to recognize these competitors" said Les Unger, Toyota Motorsports National Manager. Lets hope it_goes on for another 15 years. C RANDON'S Sweet 16 -Crando n Raceway announced the "Sweet 16" top money winners, those drivers who have won the most money at the famous track since 1993. They are: Jack Flannery $112,128 , Curt LeDuc $62,400, Art Schmitt $53,763 , Rob MacCachren $50,699, Scott Taylor $50,620, Walker Evans $47,433, John Greaves $44,480, Scott Douglas $33,429, Jamey Flannery $32,825 and Dan VandenHeuvel $24,273. The remaining six drivers, whose money amount weren't Listed were: Brendan Gaughan, Greg Smith, Jeff St. Peter, Dan Badoux, Kevin Probst, and Jeff Kincaid. BEST IN THE DESERT -Ford has signed a huge contingency deal with BITD for their 2000 Silver State Series. Total contingency money is $396,000 'for the series. It boils down to $86,500 per race for the first and second place winners in Ford trucks, divided between 10 classes. An extra year-end bonus will be awarded to the 1st place winner in a Ford truck in classes 3100, 4100, 7300 and class 8100. The first race is the Terribles Town 250, Pahrump, Nevada, April 7 -9. P ROTRUCK RACING SERIES -The Protruck contingent has it's own series within a series, they race with SCORE and Best In The Desert on a regular basis but they also have their own awards and point system, independent of the event promoter. At Laughlin, Protruck entries numbered 12 vehicles, 10 Fords, a Dodge and a Chevy. The two day sprint races were well contested and the racing was tight. Scott Steinberger, the second place finisher was only 5 seconds ahead of Steve Scaroni after two days of racing. The big winner was Larry Plank, who won with quite a large margin and he leads the Protruck points with 115. Steinberger is second with 109 points, Scaroni in third with 105, Rick Johnson has 86, Steve Barlow comes in at 82, Ryan Herzog 78, Larry Wyatt 74, Greg Hansen 70, Mike Griffiths 66, Jeff Hoskins 62, Tony Licitra 58 and Gary Vosburg trails the pack. There will be lots more competitive racing in the Protruck Series as the season moves along. Stay tuned to Dusty Times for the results. Page 6 Bark River, MI September 1-3, 2000 Crandon International Raceway Crandon, WI September JO-October 1, 2000 Indiana State Fair Grounds Indianapolis, rN October 21-23, 2000 Heartland Park Topeka, KS CORVA 1500 West El Camino, Suite 352 Sacramento, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORY A Ext 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS Dave Van Deren 2405 Baker Ave. Everett, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (All e11ents at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thurswn County ORV Park, Olympia, WA) 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 ESTERO BEACH INTERNATIONAL Short Course Racing Victoria Galindo Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico · 011-526-176-6225 April 28-30, 2000 Estero Beach Baja California, MX October 13-15, 2000 Estero Beach Baja California, MX FABTECH Off Road Short Course Series at Glen Helen Raceway P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (909) 280-9096 Contact: BBM Mark.etmg Promotions PO. 81Jx 762 Norco, CA 91760-0762 (562) 988-6250/Fax: (909) 280-9097 FRT Motorsports 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 *denotes motorcycles & quads * April 9, 2000 Tazmanik Hare 'n Hound Plaster City, West April 22, 2000 FUD 200 Plaster City, West *June 24, 2000 Cerveza Tecate Conquista Gran Prix Rancho Villareal, T ecate, BC, MX June 24, 2000 Cerveza Tecate Conquista Gran Prix Rancho Villareal, Tecate, BC, MX *July 29, 2000 Affordable Rain Gutters C/M Nice Team Race Plaster City, East *August 27, 2000 Saasta Chevron Sweetheart's Kiss Lake Superstition *September 10, 2000 Cerveza T ecate Cacti Gran Prix KOA Kampground, Rancho Ojai, Tecate, BC,MX *October 1, 2000 Stuart Engineering Mudhen Sprint Plaster City, East October 21, ,2000 Supemition 250 XVI Plaster City, East *November 19, 2000 Cycle Parts West Notorious Dawg Plaster City, West *December 3, 2000 Yoder's Yodel Rudolph's Revenge Dez Gran Prix Superstition Mountains December 31, 2000 Dunaway Dash Plaster City, West · GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association 420 Hosea Road Lawrenceville, GA 30245 April 2000 (404) 963-0252 GPORRA . Great Planes Off Road RaciQg Association 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68 144-1122 (402) 333-05 I 7 Eve. Keith Koesters 6716 N. 106th St. Omaha, NE 68122 (402) 4964846 Eve. (1-80 Race Track is located 20 minutes west of Om.aha ■ All races are short course, stadium style. Classes: Trophy, I I• 1600, 5, 7S, 1 and Quads) IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box 36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 (AU e11ents staged at the club grounds in Cleves. Ohio) INTERNATIONAL ICE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 St. Paul, MN 55108 Steve Beddor (612) 937-38I6/Fax 474-2769 INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O. Box 2910 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 May 21, 2000 8th Annual Spring Truck Jamboree Hidden Valley Park Irvine, CA August 13, 2000 14th 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 LI.T.R.E. Jeff Elrod (408) 926-0522 Jim Aruta (408) 247-4402 MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS Dune Buggy Trade Show (517) 543-7214 www .buggybuilders.com MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 Jones Road Grand Ledge, Ml 4883 7 (51 7) 627c6200 July 30, 2000 Ingham County Fair Mason, MI Ueeps, Trucks, Buggies, Pilots, Road Warriors and Quad ATV-Money . Classes.) MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION MAORA Steph Sabo (618) 327-9312 Short Course Events May 6, 2000 Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL May 20, 2000 Vermillion County Speedway Danville, IL June 24, 2000 "The Edge" Trip le R Raceway Nashville, IL July 15, 2000 Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL July 29, 2000 "The Edge" Trip le R Raceway Nashville, IL August 19, 2000 ~ermillion County Speedway Danville, IL September 16, 2000 "The Edge" Trip le R Raceway Nashville, IL September 30, 2000. Lincoln Trail Motorsporrs Park Casey, IL .MAORA Enduro Series May 7, 2000 JOOk Lindon Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL July 16, 2000 100k Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL September 1 7, 2000 100k "The Edge" Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL October 1, 2000 200k Lincoln Trail Motorsporrs Park Casey, IL MOJAVE DESERT RACING 1853 Parkway Drive S. El Monte, CA 91733 (626) 442-9320/(626) 579-6051 Fax E-Mail: mdrracing@aol.com February 26, 2000 Wild Wash 250 Barstow, CA April 29, 2000 Ridgecrest 300 Ridgecrest, CA June 17, 2000 Lucerne 400 Lucerne, CA August 5, 2000 California 200 Barstow, CA September 30, 2000 Barstow 300 Barstow, CA November 18, 2000 Stoddard 300 Barstow, CA M.OR.E. High Desert Championship P.O. Box 1231 Barstow, CA 92311-1231 Fax: (760) 253-4453 May 13, 2000 Badlands 275 Barstow, CA July 8, 2000 Freedom 250 flarstow, CA October 7, 2000 Tumbleweed 300 December 2, 2000 Leapin' Lizard 250 Barstow, CA 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 EXPO 2000 (626) 599--8622 October 7-8, 2000 Fairplex Pomona, CA OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OF EL PASO Joey Vasquez 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 855-8899 All races are at Mountain Shadow Lake. Take I• JO Horizon Bl11d. exit east 12 miles omo OFF ROADERS INC. 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 JimKendel (216) 339-4674 AU races hela at Harrison County Fairgrounds. Codiz, Ohio ONTARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION Rick Tichbourne, Public Relations (519}-681-4192(H)/{519) 457-2913(W) May 20-21, 2000 Tiverton Raceway June 3-4, 2000 Eaglesnest Raceway Oshweken July 22-23, 2000 Janetville August 5-6, 2000 Eaglesnest Raceway Oshweken August 12-13, 2000 Tiverton September 9-10, 2000 Tiverton September 23-24, 2000 Eaglesnest Raceway Oshweken PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. Off Road Championship 495 N. Commons Drive · Aurora, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100 ww .usoff-road.com February 26, 2000 Sam Bo d Stadium Dusty Times

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Las Veoas, NV PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 Colorado Springs, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 PROTRUCK RACING SERIES 9409 Abraham Way Santee, CA 92071-2856 (619) 449-6252/Fax: (619) 449-6470 April 7-9, 2000 Terrible's Town 250 (BITD) Pahrump, NY May 20, 2000 Closed Course Event (SCRAMP) w/Winston West Monterey, CA July 8-16, 2000 Nevada 2000 (BITD)** Las Vegas, NV November 10-17, 2000 Baja 2000 (SCORE) Ensenada to La Paz, Mexico December 1-3, 2000 Las Vegas 200 (BITD) Las Vegas, NV ••Non Points Event S.C.A.T. INC. Michael R. Icing P.O. Box 277 Morrisonville, NY 12962" (518) 561-3208/(518) 236-7897 SCCA PRORALLY CHAMPIONSlllP . Sports Car Club of America 9033 E. Easter Place Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 779-6622/Fax: (303) 694-3654 April 14-15, 2000 Oregon Trail Rally Tillamook, OR May 5-6, 2000 Rim OfThe World Rally Palmdale, CA June 2-3 2000 Susquehannock Trail Rally Wellsboro, PA June 23-25, 2000 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Colorado July 28-29, 2000 Maine Forest Rally R11mfnrr) MF August 25-26, 2000 Ojibwe Forests Rally Bemidji,MN September 29-30, 2000 Prescott Forest Rally Prescott, AZ October 20-21, 2000 D&N Bank Lake Superior Rally Houghton, MI SCORE SCORE International 23961 Craftsman Rd., Suite A Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/Fax: (818) 225-8102 Laughlin, NV June 2-4, 2000 31st T ecate SCORE Baja 500 Ensenada, BC, MX August 4-5, 2000 5th SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 Prinun, NV November 10-17, 2000 Tecate SCORE Baja 2000 Baja California Norte to Baja Sur, Mexico SNORE . Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 4394 Las Vegas, NV 89106 (702) 452-4522 April 14-16, 2000 Buffalo Bills 400 Primm, NY June 9-10, 2000 Dusty Times Caliente 250 Caliente, NV · July 21-23, 2000 KC HiLites Midnight Special Eldorado Valley, NY July 28-29, 2000 BUD In The Trees Lacation TBA September 22-24, 2000 Gold Coast/SNORE 250 Las Vegas, NY November 3-5, 2000 Reserve 250 Boulder City, NV SONS OF THUNDER 4WHEELERS Race Division Keith Stewart (714) 522-1899 SODA Short Course Off Road Dusty Times Drivers Association Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD . CHALLENGE Steve Rule (800) 313-5621 or (770) 963-0252 Mike Moore - (224) 272-5400 SOUTH EAST OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. President - Geoff Lee 1100 West Main Street D-3 Franklin, TN 3 7064 Classis 1/2-1600, 5-1600., Class 9, SODA Class 11 & Sportsman (AU Races at Rally Hill Speedway) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TIMING ASSOCIATION AND BONNEVILLE NATIONALS, INC. 251 t 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 · SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. 4305 Wootlark Drive Tampa FL 33624 (813) 962-2857 (All Races at Eastbay Raceway, Tampa, FL) SUPER SERIES (PTY) LTD. P.O: Box 706 Parklands, 2121 South Africa (011)788-5138 Fax (011 ) 880-2170 SWORDS South West Off Road Racing Desert Series 4209 So. CR 1300 Odessa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915) 337-3437/(615) 595-8237 (All races held at Notrees, TX 25 miles west of Odessa. 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Box 2122 Calexico, CA 92231 Motorcycles & A TVs Only April 2. 2000 - Cerro Prieto Mexicali, BC, MX June 18, 2000 El Tractor Tijuana, BC, MX July 30, 2000 Santa Veronica T ecate, BC, MX September 3, 2000 Tijuana GP Tijuana, BC, MX November 2, 2000 zr. Grand Prix Mexicali, BC, MX Attention Race& Rally Organizers List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free. It is the only way some fans know about your event; if they don't happen to be on your club mailing list. Don't call, but mail your 2000 schedule as soon as possible for listing in this column; it could bring you some extra entries! Mail your race or rally· schedule to: DUSTY TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4404. April 2000 Trail Notes ... PIKES PEAK -The-time for the race to the clouds is fast approaching. This year there is a new class being added to the competitive list, High Tech Truck's and SUV's will race to the top of the-14, 110 foot high Pikes Peak. The new division is open to both two and four wheel drive pickups and SUV's. Entries must have produced in the last six years or are scheduled for production by a recognized automobile manufacture'r in the following model year. Other classes are Open Wheel, Super Stock Car, High Performance Showroom Stock, Sprint, Pikes Peak Open, Unlimited, Big Rig Truck, Electric and the cycle division which includes motorcycles, quads, ATV's and sidecars. The Pikes Peak Hillclimb was first run in 1916 and is the se.cond oldest motorsports event in America. If you've never been there on July 4th! you have missed a terrific event. WALKER EV ANS -we were pleased to see tha_t Walker Evans was elected to the 1999 American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Association All American Racing Team. Five of the drivers named All America for the first time made the first team. Four of them are making the first major mark in•their careers, but the fifth, Walker Evans is ending his career. Walker won the CORR Pro-4 championship in his farewell season and was named an At Large member of the team. Walker was preceded as an All America by his son, Evan, who was a First Team selection in 1996. Congrats to Walker on his selection and to h is long and fruitful career in the automotive world. SCORE SAN FELIPE -March 18 is the day, San Felipe is the place and there will be about 250 entrants attacking the different from most years race course. Mark Post drew starting number· #1 in his Trophy Truck and with co-driver Jerry Whelchel are looking forward to a win. Contingency and Tech will be on Friday, March 17 along the boardwalk in San Felipe. Full coverage of the race will be in the next issue of Dusty Times. ESTERO BEACH -The Es.tern Beach Hotel is putting on it's short course race on April 28-30, 2000. It should be a great weekend as the entry list is swelling. Competitors already in the lists are Curt LeDuc, Evan Evans, Johnny Greaves, Rob MacCachren, Carl Renezeder and many, many more. Get yourself down there and join the .action. ADD A RACE TO THE SCHEDULE -Desert Steel motorsports has announced a new closed course race, to be held in SARA Park i.n Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Race dates are December 9 & 10, 2000 and we're sure any and all are invited to enter or attend. For more information call Tom at 520-855-2208. COLLINS JOINS TROPHY TRUCK RANKS -Just in over the transom was the report that Brian Collins is building a Chevy Trophy Truck to wage war in the Baja 500 and the Baja .2000. Collins has signed Tommy. Bradley to help with the driving chores and Tommy is raring to get The new truck is almost complete and testing will begin shortly after the San Felipe race and look for the new child on the starting line at the 500. The Class 8 Chevy Brian is racing now will continue to run, probably with Billy Goerke at the helm. FINAL FLAG -It is always sad to announce a death, particularly when it is someone very young, but we must report the demise of Cooper Jancic, a 21 year old motorcycle racer for the past few years with the FRT Series. Cooper was driving home from the March Madness on Sunday, March 5 when his truck veered off the road and down a steep grade and crashed into a huge tree. Cooper suffered severe head injuries and passed away March 8th. Our condolences and heartfelt sympathy go out to Cooper's family and friends. Race with God! MEMORIAL -It was on March 31, 1997 that Jean Calvin, founder and publisher of Dusty Times slipped away from the earthbound off road contingent and joined that other group of racers who now reside in a better place. Many of us remember Jean for her devotion to the sport, and her affection for the younger drivers that she aided whenever possible and did what she could to enhance their enjoyment of our sport. We miss her, we will always miss her and we know she watches over us every day. See the tribute to Jean on page 47. Page7

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SNORE AVI 250 Bentley/Mathews TakeTheAVI Lonny Helmbolt flew high and handsome in his Dodge, running in the Unlimited Class, and took a close second overall, as well as his class win. t was a great turnout, the weather was beautiful and the track was really fast! 82 cars were entered in the SNORE A VI 250 and to a man or woman they all had a good time, win, lose or draw. Technical and Contingency Inspection were adjacent to the hotel, on the banks of the mighty Colorado River and it was a busy Friday night, every-body doing their thing from 6 to 10 pm, in fact, it went a bit af-ter 10 but ran smoothly in calm weather that was chilly, not re-ally cold. Of course, your re-porter had his propane heater on for most of the-night and that drew a crowd, so perhaps it was a bit colder than I thought Tom and Ann Sturgis have taken over the Race Director chores, handled admirably by Kenny Freeman, Jr., for a few years and the Sturgis clan did good, I heard. no complaints other than the usual sour grapes and we certainly wish them well for the duration of the ·season. Kickoff time was nine on Sat-urday morning and it looked like Rommel's Desert Legion as the cars waiting to start formed a line that disappeared over the horizon. Class 1 was first off the line for a five lap run and the bright yellow truck of Lonny Helmbolt aggressively attacked the 42 mile course and Lonny, who is long overdue for a win had nothing to deter him except a couple of flats and he finished his required laps in 4:06:27. At that moment it iooked iike the overall was going to be his, but, alas it was not to be. Class 5 only had one entry and Richard Boyett was ready to go but he had some problems, particularly on the third lap and that's all he did, three laps out of the required five and he re-tired from the race. Class 10 was next off the lirie Dan Bentley and Bob Mathews teamed up and put together four beautiful laps to take the overall win an.d Class 1 0 victory. Danny.Anderson and Jeremy Gubler came close, had fast lap for the day at 47:01, and finished second in Class 10, 3rd overall, in their Jimco. and 14 of the·m were ready for battle. First to go was the Danny Anderson/Jeremy Gubler entry and they led Class 10 and over-all for three laps but they had to change the ignh1on system at a pit stop on Lap 4 and it cost them dearly. They were the sec-ond car to finish and looked like an overall winner but Danny said "Bentley's got it!" and that's how it turned out. Danny and Jeremy finished a great sec-ond in a most competitive Class 10. Second to go was the Moore family entry but it took them six hours to make a lap and we re-ally don't know what happened but it was disastrous. Eddie Saxton was off next and Eddie reported no problems. He cru.ised around for five ·laps and finished 17 minutes out of the Class 10 win. Kory Holopoff was the fourth car to leave in Class 10 and Kory had troubles on Lap 2, picked up the pace on Laps 3 and 4 but then disappeared from sight for reasons unknown. B.J. Baldwin and Peter Henderson shared the driving chores, turned super consistent lap times on a trouble free race and took third place honors, just a few minutes out of the Class 10 win. Next up was Clay Flippin and he had a fairly long lap (f,pr him) and was never seen again. Driving his brand new car, so new it wasn't painted yet, Bryan Freeman had a trouble-free day and took the 1-2/1600 win. Always quick, Jeff Carr had the fast lap for the 1600 class, at 51: 10, and took a close second place, only a minute and 16 seconds out of the lead. Jim Price was off next in 10 and he turned a great first lap but then he too was out of the fray. Next off was the Griepen-trog/Lothringer car although they stated they had no prob-lems, it seems Gene got a wee bit lost on Lap 1 but from there on in they made great time and took fifth place in their class. Jeff Shiroky was next to go and his big complaint was that he had the wrong gears for the nu-merous sand washes, lost the Continued on page 10 Gene Griepentrog and Kent Lothringer, in a Lothringer, dropped a few The team of Eddie Saxton, Mike Gardner and Todd Imboden had a minutes by getting lost,. still took a fine fifth place in the competitive B. J. Baldwin and Peter Henderson shared the driving in their two- good steady run, and took sixth place in Class 1 o in their imaginatively Class 1 o race. seater, and ticked off very consistent times, to finish third in Class 10. painted car. Pages April 2000 Dusty Times

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Bryan Anderson had five very evenly paced laps in his Mirage, and Scott Smith soloed the race in his 1600 car, and finished third, only Dayne Bracken had a sticky float and lost a plug wire, but still brought took home the fourth place money for Class 1-2/1600. _15~sec--o_n~ds_ou_t~o_f_se_c~o_n_d...,p_la~c_e._~-~-----~~- his single seater back to the finish in seventh place. clutch clevis pin but he still Dan Bentley and "1;3ob than thrilled to take the over-was Billy Goerke, we never saw second lap quite drastic. Brad managed to grab sixth place in Mathews were 12th off the line, all win as well as accepting the him but he didn't get in one lap Rowland got in three almost the hotly contested class. Shane ran second for three laps and $2,000 Class 10 bonus. Cong,;ats due to problems unknown to identical laps before disappear-Robinson was next up and after then took the Class 10 lead. on a job well done! Next to.last your reporter. ing, Pat Dean had bit motor three laps at reasonable speed Dan drove the first two laps, off the line were the brothers Class 1/2-1600 had 19 start- problems and retired after two he vanished from the charts. Bob took the last three and their Gaughan, Mike and John and ers and it was a close race for laps; Kurt Brewer also retired Gordon Beam and Shannon strategy paid off as they contin-they started out with problems, many of the competitors. Rick after two good laps. Dave Switzer had not too bad a time ued on for the class win. Their got going well on Lap 2 but Boyer only got in four laps and Blakely only got in one lap but but they only got in one lap be- winning time was 4:03:06, they never got Lap 3 completed. Nice two of them were quite long. what a lap it was. He left Utah fore calling it a day. had no problems and were more try, guys! Last Class 10 to start Leo Nenortas had four also, his in a snow storm, weighed light Chuck Martin and Bud and Ann Sturgis had the lead for a while, but a Day Gang and Bruce Fraley ran in the lead pack all day, and finished Eric Fisher and Scott Brown had a clean day in their flamed Jimco, very long second lap put them way down, and they finished third in fifth, only seven minutes in back of the winner. and overcame their rear start, to finish sixth in the 1600 class. the 5/1600 ranks . ••••••• , Flamingo & The Strip 1-888-BARBARY 227-2279 www.barbarycoastcasino.com · West Tropicana & Arville 1-800-0RLEANS 675-3267 www.orleanscasino.com West Flamingo & Valley View 1-888-GOCOAST 402-6278 www.goldcoastcasino.com ii:!!!~~· ~ Alta & Rampart 1-877-636-7111 Page 10 April 2000 Dusty Times

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Richard Boyett captained a big team, but all the manpower couldn't 2 Class 9 was required to run only four laps, and they had a close Frank Puglia had a good race in his checkered beauty, finishing second help him get all five laps finished in his Class 5 car. He did only three, race, with Tim Dixon, Dan Lutz and Mike Dixon finishing third in their in Class 5-1600 by only eight minutes after his required four laps. still won some money for their efforts. green single seater. ri ay nig t at tee , a e 12 pounds to the car and went racin' on Saturday. Rolled the car into a berm at Mile 15, got out to try to turn the car over, no such luck! Suddenly came a gaggle of cars and they finished the job, a Baja Bug on top of the car, a Challenger into the floor pan and it was ages before they all got free. He we).1.t on for a while 'til he heard a loud noise and that was the # 1 spark plug leaving the head. All she wrote: Better luck next time. The eighth car to start in 1600 was the very tall and very young (20) Bryan Freeman and his brand new Bruce Fraley ma-chine, too new to even be painted, ran second for the first two laps, took the class lead on Lap 3 and that's where he stayed to the checkered flag, taking a great class win and fifth overall as well. Bryan picked up the SNORE $2,000 bonus for the win and was certainly a happy young man. Way to go Bryan! Jeff Carr, last year's SNORE Overall P-oints winner, ran third° on Lap 1, moved to second on Lap 3 and cruised in for the sil-ver medal in class, less than a minute and a half out of the win and out of brakes after Lap 1. Scott Smith was third to go, drove solo, ran in the top five most of the race and moved into third in class at the checkered flag, just 35 seconds away from the silver. Bryan Anderson also made a solo drive, ran a good fast trouble free race and took fourth. less than five minutes out of ·the class win. Day Gang, the tall good looking one, took her Bruce Fraley car to a very nice fifth place in class and we're always glad to see Day do so well. The Eric Fisher/Scott Brown entry also ran a trouble free race and worked their way up from a rear start to a sixth place finish. Dayne Bracken • started sixth, played with a sticking carb float all day, lost a plug wire but finished seventh for a not too bad day. Kenny Freeman was fighting the flu bug so he only drove two laps, then Clay Fllppin' got in, rolled the car on Lap 4 but they still finished in eigl1th place. Robby Guevara is long ov.er-due for a win and this was to be his day. However, after leading the class for the first two laps, his torsion adjuster went south, he had ignition problems but he still was ninth in class. The Dan Bradley entry ran well all day, just a tick off the pace and 10th in class was all that could be attained. Steve Roberts ran solo, lost his power steering early in the race and fought the blisters all race long, taking an Dusty Times Kevin Streety was without brakes for part of the race, but stayed in front once he got the;e, to take the 511600 win. 11th place finish for his troubles. · Rick Elliott and wife Georgie split the driving chores, ran a trouble free race and were happy to take the 12th finish-ing spot in the 1600 class. The Albert Rux crew were running along in fine shape 'ti! disaster struck on tli.e fourth fop and downhill they went, taking a 13th place finish. Last finisher in 1600 was Derek Ahern who had a long day behind the wheel, took 14th in class and we're sure was glad to see the race come to an end. Class 5-1600 had five en-trants and for a while it was a horse race. At the end of the first of their four laps, Chuck Martin had an eight minute lead, but a two hour second lap for repairs dropped him way down the ladder. On Lap 2, Kevin Streety took command of the class and there he remained for the rest of the race, taking the 5-1600 win and Kevin said he lost his brakes on the third lap and that made things real interesting. He still won with eight minutes in hand over the second place car, Frank Puglia, who ran a good race and was just a tick off the pace. Chuck Martin and some of the Sturgis clan had a fairly good day, run-ning fast laps except for the sec-ond and they settled for third place in class. Jeff Moore was all set for a fun day but he had major troubles on Lap 2 and never got in his required fourth lap. Ditto for Stuart Baxter who had major troubles on Lap 3 and didn't get in the required· fourth lap. Class 9 had to cover four laps and there were 22 cars ready for the fray. Attrition is usually high in Class 9 but this race 72% of the class finished and it was a close race from the start. The unfortunates were: Joel Davis, who never finished the first lap; Jeremy Harmon, who never made it to the first check; Mike Bunderson only got in one lap as did Dwaine Walters; Matt Cunningham made two laps, as did Mike Larson. Kevin Steele got in three good laps and then disappeared from the charts. There were 15 official finishers and Joe Scheble ran solo for the win. Joe ran second on the first lap by almost a minute but he took command on Lap 2 and continued on for a great win, sans brakes and picked up the $1,500 class bonus. Second across the finish line wa~ Doug Ingram who ran fast and clean Cody Swanty had a little help from attrition, but did get three good laps after a slow first lap, and took the Mini Metal win in his Jeep. April 2000 Joe Scheble and Matthew Frederick had four even laps in their two seater, and took home the first place money for Class 9 at the end of the day. but not fast enough, taking the second spot. The brothers Dixon, Mike and Tim shared the driving chores, had a bro-ken motor mount to contend with but still came in for third place, less than two minutes out of second. Andy Kisner was next, he said he had no brakes after the first lap but he stiH took fourth place for a fairly good day. Chad and Shane Woodruff were the fifth finish-ers in Class 9. Sixth place in Class 9 went to Keith Randal, and the sev-en th finishing spot went to Mandy Dixon and Lori Rollins ·NETS ·BAGS ·SEATS • LIMIT STRAPS who reported no problems dur-ing the race. Bill Avery was eighth, running one slow lap but reporting no major troubles. Ninth place went to Dan Folts, and Rodger and Ryan Schank were 10th, neither car reporting any particular trouble. We didn't get to talk to Dale Looney or Eric Schenberger but they had a slow first lap and it cost them, they were 11th across the finish line. Tim Hart had a good race going 'til the third lap which was way long and the fourth lap wasn't too swift either and he Continued on page 13 10925-F Hartley Road Santee, CA 92071 www.mastercraftseats.com Page 11

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Andy Kisner has his tidy Jimco racing all over the desert, and usually Mandy Dixon and Lori Rollins piloted their beautiful red single seater has good results. At the AV/ he put together four nice laps to take Bill Avery and crew lost about 10 minutes on their second lap, but to seventh in the close Class 9 race: third in Class 9. managed to salvage a nice eighth place in the big Class 9 field. Douglas Ingram set a really consistent pace in his single seater, to Chad and Shane Woodruff piloted their yellow one-seater to fifth place Dan Folts and Harry Dunne, in a tidy-looking red two-seater, took take second place in Class 9, only six minutes behind the winning in Class 9, and took home some purse money for their efforts. ninth in Class 9, which had 15 finishers out of 22 starters. car. settled for 12th. Kenny almost four hour lap, followed lap and held the lead all the way 3 and the 'b_o_y_s---,-t_o_o..-k_a_ n~ic_e_ s_e_c ___ o_n_e_a_n_d...--a-.--lt"'h_o_u_g_,h_,.J-o_e_g_o_t_s_t_u_c~k Thatcher ran well the first two by an almost two hour lap and for a nice win, having no prob-ond spot in Sportsman, having for a bit they finished in third laps but a slow third and a very two was all he did for a second !ems along the way. Chaz Sut-no problems and "needing a big-place. long fourth dropped him to un-place finish. ton drove the first two laps, ger engine!" Joe Ruffo drove A great fourth place in lucky 13th. Lynn and Bill Mini Metal had two entries To!Il~Y Bradley, Jr. drove Lap two laps, Steve Bertrand drove Continuedonpage14 Dickton had three good laps but and it really wasn't much of a the third was a dilly and 14th contest. Rick Harrah led the was their official finish. And, first lap by over an hour but he last but not least, John Kelty disappeared on Lap 2. This al-had a terribly long second lap lowed Cody Swanty, who had a and not so _great third lap and terrible first lap to continue on 15th place was his lot. with 1: 13 lap times for the next Heavy Metal was next to three laps and take the win. start and John Phegley turned a Sportsman Buggy had 10 en-super fast first lap, followed by tries and almost all had a great an almost five hour second lap time. Cory and Milo Torres, and a so-so third lap and that nephew and uncle had a great was it for a first place. Bobby run for their required three laps. Woolworth started out with an They took the lead on the first In the Sportsman Truck class, which had to run only three laps, or 126 miles, Jeff -VeKer and Nie Lyon went into the lead on Class 2 and stayed there to win by four minutes. Milo and Cory Torres (uncle and nephew) teamed up again to take the win in the Sportsman Buggy class, a full 13 minutes to the good. Dusty Times • o e a 19 w o stoa-va ve wasH~s:s rom, ending inwards. 'd t fl d · u "1 ' .._,;' • w1 e e on coate piston wear band for · ,bypas with big tubes so that it does not drop into large ports. ,-. .. u,.rr ff "--~ -~ • sealed piston for low speed control a g in exter~f bl p~s. • high temperature stainless steel all~ \ • unique rod end design and material rod ends from breaking. \ • high temperature Viton seals arf"d):>;: · \ • large aluminum reservoir for incY'~ ion (2X) and weight savirigs i • 1" ~hafts are micro-p~lishe ~or 1 a,ce mish cf a 3-5 RMS. 1 • stainless steel teflon en al be~rin@rtvith 1/2" or 5/8" ID spac / h k · "' /4<'1 • s oc . are all owne · le 1a toois to purchase. flow (weld on kits 9) 'ab te). e p aced to order or wel~~nl>, t . tomer . . t f h d -4~ ' 1 pis on or smoot a,mpm$tra ions. • C 41~0 and ~eat tre~) d 17-4 staip,,ess for long durability. spring designed 11th low ope ating stress levels. ervoir mountin~ r the rear 0fbu ies and trucks. l;t¥i6t4§1, Custo springs for 3" shocks in We do custom shock work and vehicle s Cus!om designed and mfg. shocks & parts ---..u shocks, water cooled, pistons etc.). Designed and manufactured by the same person that designed all Kuster Shocks. April 2000 King Shock Technology A Shock Manufacturing Company (714) 530-8701 Fax: (714) 530-8702 10402 Tra~k Ave., Unit C, Garden Grove, CA 92843 Page 13

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The Heavy Metal class had a hard day of it, but John Phegley Keith Randal brought his wide Class 9 single seater home in sixth persevered after an over-four hour second lap, and took the win in his Dennis McCarthy had the lead on lap one, but then lost about 15 place, making himself the first out of the money. _O~ld_sm~ob_il_e._~-~--------~-~-~ minutes a lap, finished up second in the Sportsman Truck division. Sportsman went to Teresa Carr Triggs ran his required three lap and were an unaccustomed of time. Jeff Vetter and Nie Lyon laps, the second being kinda who drove the required three laps in reasonable time and took DNF. Thomas Reck also got in took the lead on Lap 2 and also long, but officially fourth in laps with son Josh riding shot-the sixth place finish. The Ve- two good laps and failed to make took the checkered flag with a Sportsman Truck and Shawn gun. Teresa had a stuck throttle nier clan were running great for his third and James Green never margin of four minutes. McCar-and David Wanzek only got in cable a few times during the. the first two laps but a calamity completed his first lap. thy came in for the second spot one long lap before retiring. race but had a great time. Alex struck on Lap 3 and they ended In Sportsman Truck, Dennis and third place went to the Mark And so it ended, a great race Koons drove solo, rolled the car up in seventh place. McCarthy with co-rider Brad Petit, Mike Pinkston, Bob Ryan run in ideal conditions. Get set on the first lap, lost a lot of time The Gubler clan only got in Kelly took the lead on Lap 1 by trio who each drove a lap and had for the Buffalo Bill's 400 at but carried on with two good two laps and they were quick ones four minutes but then started los- a trouble free race. Primm, Nevada on April 14-16. laps and finished in sixth. Bob but they failed to finish the third ing plug wires and it cost him lots Tracy Rubio only got in two See you there! ■ i -~. ef Teresa Carr had her son, Josh, riding shotgun, and also had a sticky Chaz Sutton and Tommy Bradley, Jr. teamed for the ride in their '1 .,,,_. throttle cable, but managed a nice fourth place in the Sportsman Sportsman Buggy, took second place and reported they needed more Joe Ruffo and Steve Bertrand were stuck for a while, but still brought Buggy class. horsepower. _ ______________ their single-seater to the finish line in third place in the Sportsman MSD~ •ra ,,, .Jr .. ,,, • . , .. , .... , .. , . ~KCHiliTES ~ ~ &NJ~~ KC HILITES SPECIAL HID LIGHTS $999.99 -$100.00 $899.00 Per Pair Rebate After Rebate $400.00 1•t Place Contingency Award for All Classes Contingency Program Information: SCORE, CORR, SNORE, MOR, VORRA, BEST IN THE DESERT, AND ESTERO BEACH. For Product, Technical Information, Contingency Requirements or Award Information for the following Products: RANCHO, MSD, KC HILITES, MECHANIX WEAR, DYNOMAX, K&N, RACERS EDGE, OFF-ROAD INNOVATIONS - -:, 2169 Daytona • Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 • (520) 855-0912 • FAX (5_20) 453-9641. • E-mail: jcrace@ctaz.com "· Page 14 April 2000 Dusty Times

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49TH INTERNATIONAL SWEDISH RALLY Granholm Grins In Sweden By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Clear for Takeoff' Marcus Granholm and Timo Rautiainen took the good looking Peugeot to a great win at the Swedish Rally. Peugeot's overall victory at the Swedish Rally, in the hands of Marcus Granholm was their first world rally win since 1986. Granholm was the first new driver to win a world rally since Burns in Kenya '98 and the 11th different Finn-ish driver to win a world raliy. Tommi Makinen consolidated his early lead in the Drivers Championship while Colin McRae finally managed to shake off his non-finishing gremlin which has plagued him since Corsica last year. Colin finished in third place. Best non-registered driver was Thomas Radstrom in his Toyota Corolla who led the event initially. Those with Michelin tires scored fastest times on 1 7 of the 19 stages, due largely to superior stud re-tention. The rally was held on icy gravel stages without the customary snow banks. The times were very fast because the roads were wider than usual. Scandinavians won the event yet again, keeping their domination intact. It was difficult to know what would be the more novel feature of the Swedish Rally: the ground was· almost devoid • of snow, or was it the arrival of the latest cars to enter the FIA WRC, the Hyundai Ac-cent WRC. These new turbo-charged two liter four wheel drive cars, the first ever from Korea to enter the official world championship series were to be driven by Kenneth Eriksson and Alister McRae. In other respects, ·it was busi-ness as usual. Despite the icy surfaces, the stages are regu-larly the third fastest in the world series each year behind the Neste Rally Finland and the Safari. Both Makinen and McRae said there was now no protection between the tracks and the rocks that were nor-mally hidden behind the snow. The only registered team missing from the conflict was Skoda, busy preparing for the Safari, but all the other six had much to do before the start. Mitsubishi suddenly re-alized how muc~ had changed on their cars in the past year and had much testing to do. Ford's main interest was trac-ing why McRae's engine failed. Subaru reckoned that Burns' failure to restart at Gap was due to a combination of circumstances, none of which were likely to recur with such consequences again. SEAT had a third entry, the first event in a limited number of appearances for Harri Rovan-pera. Auriol's engine failure at Monte Carlo was due to for-eign material found in the oil pump. Peugeot had spent their re-cent weeks analyzing their catastrophic Monte Carlo mass retirement at Gap. They believed all three cars had electrical connections which were too weak to accept full voltages on the cold restarts .. Granholm also suffered a transmission failure, caused, probably by a lubrication fail-ure. For Hyundai's world cham-pionship debut, their cars were conservatively prepared using active controls only for the central differential. The driv-ers said they were comfortable with the setup of the cars. Some of the strongest hopes for overall victory lay not within the six registered teams, but within the Toyota cars from the various Scandinavian im-porters. The ex-works Toyota Corollas were expected to be very competitive. Thomas Radstrom, last year a Ford works driver and this year already the winner of the Arctic Rally in Finland, was considered to be a majot threat in a privateiy entered Corolla. This time Thomas had Tina Thorner who has been FIA Ladies Cup Cham-pion co-driver and has been active in cross country rallies and was third in the Paris-Dakar in 1999. In Group N, Mitsubishis were predominant. The Swed-ish Mitsubishi importers have an amazing record of success in national rallying, winning the category for each of the ten years they have been ac-tive. Champion Gustavo Trelles did not enter, so the leading entry was that of Man-fred Stohl. Whether there was to be snow or not, the Swedish Rally is unique. Temperatures can change very quickly and by greqter degrees than on any other event. Conditions are a little less severe than in former years. Rally cars no longer have to be driven all through the night, when tem-peratures dip very low and each night the cars are ga-raged underground. Hard and constant cold in previous weeks should ens~re a strong frozen base for the stages and this was born out on the event when crews fou .. nd the surfaces virtually constant for everyone. Leg 1 -Eight stages, gravel, 12 7kms. ·Right on cue, Tho-mas Radstrom made his point. The man who had been dropped by Ford at seasons .end ·in '99 took the overall lead on the first stage in his Corolla and stayed in front of the two newer works versions for the rest of the day. Sainz was initially second but fell back to seventh with excessive understeer. Richard Burns started slowly but picked up the pace as the day went on until he was in fourth. Maki-nen started the day badly with differential difficulties which were cured after the first ser-vice. Granholm reached the end of the second stage with hydraulic pressure loss (mak-ing best ttme ln spite of it), aqd once this problem was remedied he made a string of best times. SEAT started the rally badly. Gardmeister lost time when the engine cut out on Stage 2 and then a general loss of power. Didier Auriol's en-gine quit completely on a road section, the crew eventually being told to use a "secret magic switch" which bypasses every· other electrical system Saving wear on their tires, Tommi Makinen and Risto Mannisenmaki took their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo to second overall, 7 seconds away Colin McRae and Nicky Grist took third in Sweden, their first finish in Studded tires gripping the road, Richard Burns and Robert Reid head from the win. r-----,,---..,,,--------nine events, they were only 13 seconds out of the overall win. for a fine 5th overall in their Subaru lmpreza WRC. The Eriksson/Parmander Hyundai Accent WRC made its debut in Airborne and slightly out of shape, the Thomas Radstrom/Nna Thorner Throwing a snowy roostertail, the AurioVGiraudet SEAT Cordoba WRC Sweden and the good looking machine took 13th _overall, not a bad Toyota Corolla took a very impressive fourth overall in Sweden. races its way to a nice 10th overall. ____ beginning. 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and enabled them to progress into service, although they were a minute late. On the fi-nal long stage of the day, Gardmeister had the oil light coming on and feared the worst. The Hyundais both sur-vived the first day. Eriksson had a loose turbo connection on the first stage and low boost pressure on the second. McRae had a loose driveshaft and later on developed an oil leak. Eriksson said "I had sus-pected the car would not be stable on fast roads, but it is! It is quite different driving the WRCar to the F2 car but I guess it could also be easy to go too fast." In Group N, . for once the Swedish drivers were not en-joying themselves. The Finns Jani Paasonen and then Juuso Fykalisto held the lead and only then came the national Swedish drivers Walfridsson and Backlund. Championship leader Manfred Stohl was per-plexed that he was unable to match the pace and ended the day in fifth place. In F2, Per Svan took the early lead but gradually his Opel Astra Kit Car was over-hauled by the Peugeot 106 Maxi of Tomas Jansson, with the similar car of Gert Blomqvist in third place. Among the independent drivers, Markka Martin was cautiously learning to use En-glish style pace notes for the first time on a major event. Pasi Hagstrom had a severe power loss (turbo?), Henning Solberg had smoke in the car, caused- by the catalytic con-verters beneath the floor and Daniel Carlsson had a flat and damaged the suspension when he found a jump that was not in his notes. It was.interesting that none of the drivers compl~ined about the performance of their studded tires on stages which were subsequently frozen gravel. The next day the rally headed north, to regions where there was more snow. Leg 2 -Six stages, gravel, 153kms. When the new day dawned the conditions be-came unpleasant. Drizzling rain and thawing conditions meaht the ice was beginning to soften, hopes for a fine sunny day disappeared and fi-nally the surfaces were begin-ning to break up and the studs became more vulnerable. Gronholm made fastest time on the first two stages but Colin McRae was quickest on the next two, including the 4 7 km long 13th stage, the longest stage on the rally. Radstrom was gradually falling The Holowczyc/Fortin Subaru lmpreza WRC claws around a corner on the way to the Teams Cup win on the Swedish Rally. back and Makinen was strug-steering pump failed on gling to keep up. Michelin Eriksson's car. This meant tires were almost unbeatable, changing the gearbox and a in the first half of the event delay in this work cost him they had won every stage but seven minutes leaving service. one. Things were not helped Then the fifth gear failed and by a shortage of hard Pirelli he ran the rest of the day with compounds, leaving Kankkun-four gears. Alister McRae was en with tires that were too happy to reach the end of the soft. And then on the longest long stage, for the past two stage the Subaru Team cars years he has retired within a fell further back when the kilometer of reaching the end front tire shed the majority of of the stage. their studs. Auriol's SEAT was consum-Gronho lm was showing ing lots of oil and after Stage great confidence. On the last 10 his mechanics fitted the stage of the day he was cau-wrong type tire to the left side tious while McRae was going of the car. Rovanpera was furiously. McRae took eight continuing on with loss of seconds off the Peugeot but power and on the long stage had three flats in the effort Auriol chose tires that were and apart from moments on too soft. wide roads where the tires got Teams Cup driver too hot, he went flat out' all Holowczwc was going much the time. Gronholm was cau-better after a turbo change the tious, "I knew I was brakinE night before and Bakhashab too early but I wanted to be was having no problems what-safe. I knew I had to keep soever. In Group N , Pykalisto ahead of McRae on the re- fell back with electrical prob-maining stages." Makinen was lems and Walfridsson had lots getting desperate, twice he of understeer. Paasonen re-slid off the road and was lucky took the lead. On the long to still be going. stage, Stig-Olof and Backlund There were two early had very serious stud loss shocks. Carlos Sainz retired on troubles and that allowed a road section after Stage 10 Stohl to rise to third and when his oil pump shaft Ekstrom to fourth. In F2, sheared. The second shock Jansson had gear selection was the retirement of troubles after Stage 13 and Gardmeister with oil loss, was stuck in one gear for the which had been getting worse rest of the day and Per Svan after the crankshaft sensor retired with driveshaft failure. failed the day before. Subaru Among the independence, was unhappy when Kankkun-Hagstrom still had no power, en had both front shocks lose Martin had a leaky turbo pipe their fluid. but after repairs he was going • As Gronholm was going well. Daniel Carlsso n and well in the lead, teammate Janne Tuchino both had front Francois Delecour found his differential failures and lack of experience difficult Henning had camshaft failure and they had a central differ-as he came into the control af-en tial problem which upset ter Stage 12. On the long the handling. Freddy Loix had stage, Carlsson had stud handling troubles and al-troubles, lost six minutes off though the rear differential the road and dropped a long was changed it did not cure way back. the problem. Hyundai had Leg 3 -Five stages, gravel, troubles when the power 96kms. The second leg had ~tn tntarnall.Olli&J. :iWdUUiiU th.I.UY J.V/!J tct,ulo.1.J a.UUU .. , ,h., t (10) Harcus GRONHOLH/Ti ■o R&Utian•n FIN Peuoeot 206 WRC (l) Tom~l HAKINBN/Riato Man111aermaki YIN Mit■Ubl■hi l.llncer svo. (5) Colin HcRAI/Nicty Gri■t GB Ford Pocus WIIC (17) Thomas Radstro■/Tina Thorner a Toyota Corolla WRC (3) Richard BURNS/Robert Reid GB Subaru I11Preza WIC ( 4) Juba AA!fltl:UNIN/Juha Repo . 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A K-AH1056 (D) Jh.25■.47.Ja. A B2121VH (E) 3h.25m,4i.2a. A VSHSD (GI) 3h. 29Sl.17.2a. A V7KSD (GB) 3h.2t•.Z7.5a. A YlOOALL (GB) II C80◄5 (PIii) ff B2560 (FIii) N KBT593 (S) ff BD477ZD ( I) I! Jl!N791 (S) N 00B603 (SI A HBT593 (S) A X-AK307 (D} 3h.34m.46.0a.•• - - 10 -Jh.36m.02.ls. • - - - l 3h.36m.33.5■. 6 Jh.37■.22.ls. - 4 Jh.38111,58.0a. 3 Jh.39a.02.7a. 2 Jh.39m.10.ts. 1 Jh.41■.03.ls.••• Jh.42■.05.0s. - - 6 April 2000 Screaming across the wet road, the Jansson/Jacobsen Peugeot 106 Maxi was the Formula 2 winner, finishing 25th overall. ended with Gronholm 26.5 in ential problem had gone away front of Makinen, with but it returned. Eriksson even-McRae, Radstrom and Burns tually had his gearbox all within 15 seconds behind. changed and felt really happy There were five stages to run with·-his new car, his only in-and for the first time it was cident being a spin· on the threatening to snow. Snow fell 19th stage. Tuohino stalled overnight and during the day twice at the start of Stage 18, but it was wet and did not in-Holowczyc broke a strut and fluence the event. On the Rovanpera struggled to the opening stage Gronholm hit a finish, his engine well down on rock and damaged a shock ab-power. Auriol continued with sorber, immediately losing six his oil pressure dangerously. seconds of his lead. The pace low. behind him was mounting, es-In Group N, the Finns were pecially with McRae wanting unbeatable. In desperation to catch Radstrom, which he Stig-Olaf tried some Lappis, finally did, by virtue of the but he could not catch any-Swede hitting a bank on the one. Jansson had the gear se-final stage, but at least McRae lection repaired but then the reached the end of a rally for starter motor failed, though he the first time since Corsica still won F2 ahead of Kruse's last year. Radstrom hit a rock, Renault. got a flat and fortunately the 78 Cars started the Swedish mousse worked well. "At Rally and there were 54 official l 90kph you don't take the finishers. The Manufacturers mousse for granted so r went Points are: Mitsubishi 18, Peu-a bit cautiously after that." geot 11, Ford 10, Subaru 9, Loix was engaged in a big fight SEAT 3 and Skoda l. Drivers with Martin then Martin Points are: Makinen 16, Gron-clipped a snowbank which cost holm 10, Sainz 6, Kankkunen him 15 seconds and he 5, C. McRae 4, Gardmeister dropped from eighth to tenth. and Radstrom 3, Thiry and Delecour thought his differ-Burns 2 and Loix l . ■ DBA: Discount Foreign We Have In Stock: Ultra Wheels 1 5 X 3.5 & 15 X 7 $84.05 $89.10 Centerline Wheels 15 X 3 .5 & 15x6 $117.45 $111.75 15 X 10 $131.99 Call for Prices 3636 Meade Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 (702) 247-1266 We Now Do. MAGNA FLUX Page 17

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MOJAVE DESERT RACING, INC. Wild wash 250 ByRon Miller Photos: Track.side Photo ':••.~ ·-. .... ~ .... .t ~ . ... .. -.. .... it's been a long dry spell, but Craig Dillon finally had some luck to combine with his talent, and he took the_ overall win with his Class 1000 car at the MOR Wildwash 250 in February. When MD R's traditional sight on race day. That meant season opener, the "Wild near ideal conditions for com-Wash 250", was held on Feb-petitors, most of whom were ruary 26, 2000, the club handed six lap assignments. seemed hard-pressed to top With no clear cut favorite, it last year's total of 94 starters. was anybody's guess who But top it they did. With a would end up taking the top boost from 22 Class 1600 com-prize. petitors, MOR kicked off its Quite appropriately, it was fourth season of racing with a an ultra tough hombre named sensational field of 103 start-"Dillon" who proved fastest· ers. Race fans flocked to the gun in the west. Class 1000 desert to enjoy postcard racer Craig Dillon, who admit-weather and an excellent day ted seriously debating whether of off road action. Thankfully, or not to even take part in the the heavy rains that pelted the event, turned in a superb per-area the week before and after formance to capture the top the event were nowhere in prize. Dillon had to overcome Brady Wisdom poured on the steam on the last lap to edge into the win, taking the 1600 victory by just two minutes and 15 seconds. a bit of trouble to claim the overall victory, but the wily veteran was up to the task. "I flipped it over by Hodge Road on Lap 4," he said. The new "Wild Wash 250 Champion" also had his throttle cable come loose on the opening lap, and was forced to drive the fi-nal 16 miles -of the race in sec-ond gear. Dillon, who said it has been "about two years" since his last victory, com-pleted his half dozen laps in 4:54:41 (48.9 mph) and also posted the Class 1000 fast lap time (4 7: 14). Dale Dondel, who raced to the Class 100 win, finished about 13 minutes behind Dillon to place second overall. Dondel, who stopped the clock in 5:07:31 (46.8 mph), led deep into the race, before being forced to surren-der the lead on Lap 6. He re-portedly suffered problems with his power steering rack, which ultimately proved deci-sive. Despite the trouble, Dondel won Class 100 by more than 11 minutes. Following the top two fin-ishers, there was quite a cav-alry charge to the checkered flag. The defending Class 1000 champ, Whit Courtenay, was part of that blanket finish. Courtenay placed runner-up in class and third overall, by fin-miGDmdil!lJ11ill!ilJllltH Fat Performance the leader in offroad engines offers to everyone from sand to pure race, a complete line of performance intake·systems. Along with the most complete inventory of performance offroad exhaust·systems. Call today and find out how we can help put you in the winners circle. We use & recommend R.\flNC, ENGINES,. TRANSMISSIONS .\NI~ OFFRO.\D PARTS Send or call for our new catalog S5.00 l (T~~Ck'i'] •·••·w-www·,.w,···ww··,•·•· .. •••w .. -,n••·••w•••w ••··•············•·····•·..l •-...-Page 18 SCORE Engine Builder of the Year for 1985, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996 & 1997! I/ta PBIU'ORIIIICE 1558 No. Case• Orange, CA 92867 (714) 637-2889 • Fax (714) 637-7352 April 2000 - ---------------,·-Dale Dondel had fast lap of the day, at 45: 19, and the overall lead, until his last lap, when he lost 16 minutes. He still took the Class 100 victory, was 2nd overall. The 1600 class, with 23 starters, was the big one, and Brad Inch; in a Lothringer, finished in second place, just two-and-a-half minutes behind the winning car. ishing some 18 minutes and in Class 100 and recorded the change back of Dillon day's fifth fastest overall time (5:13:09). Courtenay, who av-(5:18:44). It was less than two eraged an even 46 mph on the minutes back to Brady Wis-day, just did edge classmate Jo-dom, who scored a thrilling seph Lacore. Lacore checked win in Class 1600. Wisdom, in 2: 13 minutes behind the who claimed sixth overall, par-Marcourt Racing entry, to grab layed his fast lap time (51 :54) third in Class 1000 and fourth and 45 mph average speed into overall. Carl Renezeder fin-a two minute victory over Brad ished slightly more than three Inch. Despite settling for run-minutes further back. Renez-ner-up in 1600, Inch's team eder secured runner-up honors Continued on page 20 '<:, • ,.._ • ~ ./." ·:·:-1-..~ .., • "t . . -.,.." , . :¥ .<•i.¥'< _ ._ Jim Pate/Ii had a pretty good day, losing about 10 minutes only on his last lap, and getting the Class 800 victory in 6:19:32 in his Blazer. One of Class 700's hardest chargers, Craig Turner was the only one to complete all six laps this time, to get the win in 6:44:21. Dusty Times

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Whit Courtenay ran well most of the day in his Jimco, but lost eight Joseph Lacore ran a good, steady pace, to bring his Jimco back to minutes on his last lap, which put him a total of 18 minutes down to Kevin Ohnstad dropped a half-hour on the fifth lap, but still managed the finish line in third place in Class 1000, and fourth overall. Dillon, though still second in Class 1000. to finish in third placE! in Class 100 in his Jimco . . · .. -~ - : ✓•,. ;,:~:?~~----~,:_, Brian Logan paced himself to a fine third place in the 1600 ranks. There were 23 1600s at the Wildwash, and on the same day, another Paul Sullivan had a couple of longish lapsj but on the whole, a good Cindy Greinke got off to a slow start, losing '20 minutes on her first lap, but then ran well to move into fifth place in the 1600 class at the finish line. 21 of them raced the SNORE AV/ event in Laughlin. day, and finished fourth in the big 1-2/1600 class. performed admirably· I he <lit-At R~ht: Daniel Fresh tied fore/ass fastlap at 1 :03:31, and then stayed at the front ference between their fastest of the pack to take the Win in Class 1200 in his Jeep. (53:03) and slowest (54:23) laps was a mere 80 seconds. Those ultra-consistent lap times placed Inch seventh in overall scoring. Shane Brown cracked the Top 10, by com-pleting his six lap assignment in 5:25:34 (44.2 mph). Brown's final time was eighth fastest on the day, and was good for a fourth place finish in Class 1000. Classmate Lee Perfect fin-ished ahead of Brown on the road, but was nearly a minute in arrear~ on the clock (5:26:28). Thus Perfect placed fifth in Class 1000 and ninth overall. Kevin Ohnstad also made the Top 10, thanks in part to his fast lap time (45:15). Ohnstad's 5:27:39 fi-nal clocking was good for a third in Class 100 and the 10th spot overall. It was a long way back to Dan Nutt, the fourth and final finisher in Class 100. Nutt obviously had problems, as evidenced by a 3--1 /2 hour IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE opening lap. Class 1600 racers capture-cl the 11th through 15th positions in overall scor-ing. Brian Logan was foremost of that quintet. Logan placed third in 1600 (11th o/a) with a solid final time of 5:29:01. Paul Sullivan finished 10+ minutes back of him, to claim fourth and 12th. It was nearly 10 minutes further back to Cindy Greinke. Greinke (5:49:06) beat Wes Moser by Continued on page 22 OUR NEW DISTRIBUTOR IN MEXICO MAQUINARIA Y LUBRICANTES DEL NOROESTE CONTACT: SONNY NAJAR Main Office Blvd. lnsurgentes #16310 Tijuana, Baja Cfa Tel: 66-21-24-74 al 76 PHONE -21-24-74 AL 76 Branch Office Ferrocarrileros No. 102 Mexicali, Baja Cfa Tel: 65-58-51-94 y 95 Branch Office Blvd. Garcia Morales #118 Hermosillo, Son. Tel: 62-60-66-20/21 For Pre..c,rders or information on how to obtain SPORTS Racing Gasoline in Mexico Please contact Paul Dumas at SPORTS Racing Gasoline. Page 20 Phone: 805-647-7700 Fax: 805-647-7023 April 2000 Jared Hardin drove his GMC truck to a decisive win when his closest competitor in Class 725 had nechanica/ woes. Joel Mohr started his year with a win in Class 900, recording the fast lap, at 1:01 :59 for the 1 0-car field. Dusty Times

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Owen Potter was right in the thick of things until lap five, when he lost Carl Renezeder ran in Class 100 in his Ford. He started out with a Veteran racer Wes Moser had all his problems on the fifth lap, when about 18 minutes to some problem, and ultimately finished seventh in bang on lap one, slowed some with traffic on ensuing laps, and finished he lost 15 minutes, and dropped to sixth place in Class 1600. the 1600 class. in second place, fifth overall. 4ess than three minutes, to lap assignments in less:-:,th' a-n----=s~1x- -.,.I..,.h-e:-:rcce-w-,-as- a----:tcce-c:n-::s-=-e-yb:-:a----:tc:-tlr:e,---w,,,.,..,,a..,,g"'e7d,--yl-,,e..,,a...,,dr-dru-ri-,-n-g--,L- a~p-s-.-4- a-n-dr-i5...---, - t,...im_ e __ -,B,..y- v~u----:t-u_e_o__,f...,h.-1~s-,5~7~:-,4~4.-La~ p-take fifth in class and 13th hours, and each averaged over by Robert Moore and Bryan Moore still trailed by more 6 clocking, Moore claimed the overall. Moser held a nearly 40 mph for the day. Their 4:46 Geer in Class 550. Geer proved than a minute entering the fi-Class 550 win. His final time five minute advantage over minute difference placed fastest the first three laps, and nal loop. Moore picked the of 6: 10:24 was also good for Owen Potter at the finish., Mos~r sixth (14th o/a) and Moore the final three. Despite best possible time to post his, 16th place in overall scoring. Both men completed their six Potter seventh (15th o/a). slicing 12 minutes off Geer's and his division's fastest lap It was a tough loss for Geer, Page 22 April 2000 who raced well enough to win. The vastly-improved young pilot had to settle for runner-up honors (and 18th overall), when he finished 4.41 minutes back of the winner. Splitting Moore and Geer in overall scoring was Aaron Bennett. Bennett claimed 17th overall and eighth in Class 1600, with a final time of 6: 12:22 (38. 7 mpl_l) . Dan Myers and Jim Patelli completed Top 20 scor-ing on the day. Myers placed sixth in Class 1000 and Patelli was a runaway winner in Class 800. Myers edged Patelli for 19th place overall, by 3-1/2 minutes. Joel Mohr made quite a statement, while opening the defense of his 1999 Class 900 championship. Mohr posted fast lap time (1:01:59) on h is opening loop, and n ever looked back. He led from start to finish, and scored a con-vincing victory in 6:43:55 (3 5. 7 mph). Mohr finished more than 38 minutes ahead of Class 900 runner-up Dan Owen. Owen was well clear of Tom Steeno, the third and fi-nal Class 900 finisher. Craig T umer proved much the best in Class 700 action. Defend-ing Class Champ Jeff Richard-son got off to a good start, posting fast lap time {1:00:32) on Lap 1. Richardson contin-ued to hold the advantage into Lap 3, at which point Turner assumed command. Of the four Class 700 entrants that started, only Turner was able to complete Lap 5. With the greatest of ease, Turner con-tinued on to victory. His final time of 6:44:21 (35.6 mph) was 22nd best on the day. Guy Cordon followed Turner in overall scoring. Cordon raced to a seventh place finish in Class 1000. John Stevenson, the only other finisher in that division placed eighth. Jared Hardin scored an authoritative win in Class 725. Hardin eas-ily smoked his overmatched rivals, and posted fast lap time (1 :06:46) in the process. Hardin's final time of 6:55:40 (34.5 mph) propelled him to a nearly 1-1/2 hour margin of victory. Defending champ Bill Markel had problems early and late, which relegated him to the runner-up role. 1 think I'll take this oppor-tunity to finish my recap of Class 1600 finishers. As men-tioned earlier, there were 2 2 Continued on page 24 Dusty Times

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Thanks For the past sixteen years I've been designing and manufacturing driver ventilation systems under the name Fresh Air Systems by Raffo Racing. My original goal was to generate a little money on the side to fund n1y own racing. Well, that never happened. I stopped driving about twelve years ago to devote more time and money to making the company succeed. I even went as far to .leave the stock brokerage business for a couple of years to pursue the helmet business full-time. I enjoyed some technical successes in developing new systems for the Winston Cup ranks and the funny car drivers. In ~ddition to getting Richard Petty into a full-face helmet, I recall one . Da~ona ?00 _that I~~~ pr~_P~~~~}8 of~e ~2 s;~rt~p;' h~,Im~~s. !~~ forc,e 1u~e_d my F~~ircuJ.~tjng, bottled air system on every run for three years. Simpson copied my gear, then had me banned from the NHRA. Now this ~:quipmen.t is mandatory for all funny car drivers. The point of this note is to thank all those that helped me along the way. Most notable in this category has been the Probst Team. They were my original guinea pigs. Jeff and Kevin Probst did not, nor will not,. accept second place or second best. l'm sure that in the early days they would havejust as soon have stayed with their trusty Parker Pumper, but they gave me a chance to try some new ideas. For this l'm eternally gratefu:l. · ~ As to the rest of you, I'd Ii.kt: to thank you for putting your trust in my work. Six weeks before the 1998 Baja 1000 I was struck with the hair-brained idea of putting a car together to enter the race. I purchased a stripped 1:hassis that was formerly Gerald Foster's Class 3 Blazer. Simple I thought, buy a car that has tllready been. competitively raced before, plug in the missing parts, and go. Yeah, right! Ignorance is bliss. So I procetded to impose on everybody T could find. Starting with Probst Team mechanic, Zep. Without' his help, I would have never made the race. Zep then brought the truck to Probst' s ,shop where Kevin Probst was then drafted. The long and short of the matter is that we: made the race and had an unadulterated blast. Enough so that my original interest, driving, was reawakened. I've decided that now that I have something to race, I'd rather drive than build gear·. So, the business has been sold to Jim Eggert and will now be know as Fresh Air Systems Technology. Dan Dubrule will continue to apply hfa careful touch. He has been the workhorse of the shop for the past few years. l wish these guys continued success. For those of you who don't :race in the Midwest, Class 3 hasn't competed actively for three or four years. Now that I own o:ne, I thought I'd see if I couldn't generate some interest in reviving . the class. Crandon has agreed to run the class at both of their races this year. I've called many of you, but if anybody has an interest, please contact me. I will be posting information on Class 3 racing in my column at offroetders.com. Sincerely, Chris Raffo Special Thanks: My wife Carol Dennis Chencharick Gerald Foster Larry MacNei I Kevin Bunderson B.F. Goodrich Tim. (Zep) Szepelak Mike Reusche of Phil's lnc. Kevin Probst Les Phillips Sandy Cone Checkers Contact: Fastraffo 1@ao1.com phone: 847-259-4450

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/n the 1200 class, Kathy Fay lost a whole lap on herthird trip around Last year's Class 725 Champ/ Bill Markel, had problems with his Toyota, Dan Owen had some difficulty on the second lap, then carried on to the course, setting her back to fourth place in her Ford. and ended his day in second place at the Wildwash event. finish the race in second place in Class 900. In Class 1400, which ran only four laps, Bryant Layton haq, a couple of Scott Boyd ran into trouble on his fifth lap, but otherwise had good Bryan Geer charged hard, ran close to the front, and finished his day troubled laps in his Ford but rode it out and finished in second place. times, and finished in third lace in Class 550. in second place in Class 550 by just five minutes. starters in this ultra-competi-both men averaged 33.4 mph. quicker than Messick's cluck-late stages, but he easily nately, he was unable to com-tive division. Fourteen stayed Corey Goin was credited with ing, and both averaged more proved best of the rest. His fi-plete Laps 5 and 6. Guy Evans the distance, and I've already an 11th place finish. Goin than 30 mph. Closing out.the nal six lap time was 6:48:23 and Stephanie Lozano were touched on the first eight. The would have finished much Class 1600 scoring was Victor (35.3 mph). Speaking of Class able to go the entire distance. difference between the ninth higher, if he hadn't suffered a Bussey, who finished 14th. 550, Bob Wright was right in That pair claimed fourth and and 10th place finishers was two hour final lap. Tony Mur-Moving over to Class 550. the thick of things through fifth place respectively, to 11 seconds. For the record, ray came on late to edge Scott Boyd recorded a solid. mid race. Wright looked sen-complete the order of finish-Robert Riffle w~n that duel Jimmy Messick for the 12th third place finish. Boyd was sational early, completing ers in Class 550. I believe that over Geoff Sanborn. Riffle 's spot in class. Murray's time of unable to keep pace with his each of his first four laps in 59 does it for the six lap set. final time was 7: 11 :30, and 7: 5 2: 07 was 1.1 7 minutes division's 1-2 finishers in the minutes and change. Unfortu-Turning your attention to I HONDA Power Equipment KAWAGUiHIHONDACOR~ POWER • I . -Racer· and Spectator D'iscounts •GENERATORS •WELDERS •GENERAL PuRPOSE ENGINES =--/'. "':ATER PuMPS "?UTBOARD ENGINES I ... ;.: .. LAWNMOWERS LAWN TRACTORS EB6500SX:} • RIDING MOWERS •TILLERS CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT PARTS AND INVENTORY . ' ~~~/p. WE DoN 'r HA VE Ir, No ONE Does! DEUVERY TO IlIE RACE'S AVAILABLE • PLEAsE CALL AHEAD . ~ ,, =----= ::--' • "11'5cr:::l · · 00 '\ ,i -:: .... -....-~ :v ~ -.&--EX1000 KAWAGUCHI HONDA 3532E.3RDSi:Las~.CA9CXJ63•32/3.264.3936, 264.SSSS FAX 264.2136 i VISA I s A L E s ' s E R V I C E ' p A R T s No+-h;r\n-' . • H O N D A p O w E R E Q u I p M E N T s p E C I A L I s T 'U ~ 15S OOSief. • • ; # ~ f"or optimum pcr!ormanC'c :md s:ift"ty. pli:-,1S< 1·e-;1d I.he!' 0\\,1~r·s manual b...·forc o~r:iUng your Honda Po\\·cr Equipment. Speclflc-.:ulon~ subject to c-h.ui~e ~ithout notll"'e. ~ ·E:i~hn.ue only. b:t.ud on rated load. +Ba1tery not u11.:ludltd '-'1th EM3500SXKI. £'.\.15000SXXl and E90500$X. ♦♦\\"Ith b<lttl:ry tr.1y·k1t. wh«ls & h..m~er. ConnccUon to houM power rcqulr6 tr.Ulsfcr dt"\16: to .wo1<1 possible lnjury to po,,,er company personnel. Consult 3 qu,1.lifted el«tnclan. A,pdl.20OP.

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Bobby Quarnstrom, Jr. had three good laps and one long one, but still took the Class 1400 win in his Ford, by over two twurs. Robert Mgore had six good laps in his flamed 1600 Baja Bug, to take the win in Class 550 by about five minutes. His last lap was the fast time for the class at 57:44. the four lap foes, let's see what transpired in those divisions. There were just three entrants in Class 1100. Not unexpect-ed.iy, the f~rmidabie team of Dennis Sletten and Robert Henderson grabbed the early lead. Unexpectedly, the de-fending Class 1100 champs dropped to third on Lap 2, and could not complete Lap 4. The opportunistic Julio Curiel took full advantage of the "11 Brothers" uncharacteristic DNF. Curiel posted fast lap time on Lap 2 (1:20:19) and went on to win decisively in 5:58:29. Scott Schroder took runner-up honors, despite fin-ishing a long way back. was a respectable fourth place finish. Defending Class Champ Larry Gross followed next in fifth place. Like Fay, Gross was also hurt by a 2-1/2 hour lap. As a matter of fact, Gross, sixth place finisher Michael Dill and seventh place finisher Eric Hardin, were all hampered by final laps which required nearly 2-1/2 hours to complete. Seven entrants Five entrants saw action in Class completed three of 1300. Jeff Field their four assigned jumped out to the laps, including the early lead, with Jim aforementioned" 11 Heine and Kurt Brothers." Joining Puhl close behind. that duo were Field continued to David Bowles, Brad show the way Meltzer and Jeff through Lap 2. Field of Class 1300. During that second And last, but not lap, Brad Meltzer least, Jim Davis of posted fast lap time Class 1200. (56:46) and Heine A few other inci-d roppe d out of dentals. Although contention. Field '--'-'--..:.=..,__-w::,,,___-'-'=--""-~ ~ --"""'==== none of the Class showed no signs of In the Sportsman ranks, GregCrewtookanicesecondplaceinhis 500 entrants per-slowing, and never. buggy.Doeshiscallhispitcrewthe"CrewCrew"? formed up to par, did come back to his field. He but their final laps. Class 1600 Randy Ross did post that was far in front at the finish, had a pair of entrants who held division's fast lap time winning easily in a final time that distinction, Max Hanberg (52: 16). Ivan Penchansky did of 4:38:03 (34.5 mph). Puhl and Michael Burgett. Hanberg likewise in Class 800 (48:44). completed his four lap assign-averaged 44.1 mph before exit-That's gonna do it folks. One ment in 5: 16: 18 (30.4 mph) to ing, and Burgett 38.2 mph. Bob final salute to "Wild Wash 250" finish in second place. It was Wiederhold, of Class 550, was winner Craig Dillon and his co-well over an hour back to the another. Wiederhold spent driver Kurt Barron. And a rous-third and final finisher in nearly 6-1/2 hours battling the ing "~ell done" to the fine folks Class 1300, Greg Crew. Barstow desert (31 mph) before at Mojave Desert Racing, Inc. A half dozen entrants he was forced to call it a day. The scene shifts to Ridgecrest on slugged it out in Class 1400. Class 1000 racer Mike Norris also April 29, for this year's next ex-After posting fast lap time deserves a thumbs-up for com- citing MDR event. I'll be there. (1: 10:00) on Lap 1, Geoff pleting five laps. How about you? · ■ Falzone had the lead on both the road and the clock. Bobby Quarnstrom Jr. took over on Lap 2, and never did relin-quish the lead. Quarnstrom had to endure a 2:43:22 third lap, but by that point only one rival remained. And that com-petitor, Bryant Lane, trailed Quarnstrom by nearly three hours after the first two laps. Needless to say, Quarnstrom went on to post an easy win in 6:36:3 7 (24.2 mph). Lane fin-ished 2 + hours in arrears, to take runner-up honors and complete the Class 1400 scor-·--------------------· I I I I I I I I I I ii I ing. I That completed our recap of the 52 "Wild Wash 250" finish- I ers, and a few others. As usual, I I'd like to make mention of those .1 participants who completed all 2000 RACE SCHEDULE SHORT COlJRSE SERIES PRAIRIE CITY SVRA PARK, SACRAMENTO, CA MARCH 25 & 26 2000 SEASON OPENER 1 MILE TRACK APRIL 29 & 30 SPRING FLING SPECIAL 2MILE TRACK SEPT. 30 & OCT. 1 CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES ROUND 1 1 MILE TRACK OCT. 14 & 15 CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES ROUND 2 1 MILE TRACK OCT. 28 & 29 There were nine entrants doing battle in Class 1200. Daniel Fresh and Jamie Camp-bell vied for the early lead. Campbell held the lead at the completion of Lap 1, but only until Fresh reached the start/ finish line. At that point, it was discovered that both com-petitors had registered identi-cal Lap 1 clockings (1:03:31). And since none of the Class 1200 entrants posted a quicker lap, the pair ended up sharing fast lap honors. Fresh began to shake loose from his rivals on Lap 2, and by the fin-ish he was a clear cut winner. Fresh parlayed his final time of 4:31:10 (35.4 mph) into a 20+ minute victory over run-ner-up Dr. Macrae Glass. At the finish, Glass also held a 20+ minute advantage. His was over Campbell, the Class 1200 third place finisher. Glass averaged an even 33 mph for his fou_r laps, and Campbell 30:8 mph. On this occasion, Kathy Fay was cho-sen to represent the Fay family's talent~laden stable of driving stars. Despite a 2:30:34 third lap, the result Class 1100 ran only four laps in this forbidding terrain, and Julio Curiel took home the first place trophy, winning by over an hour in his nearly stock VW sedan. 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BEST IN THE DESERT SILVER STATE SERIES • ROUND 1 smaller is Better at Laughlin Hare scrambles By Mark Kariya Cousins Nick and David Pearson teamed on their YZ426F to make a standout run m the Open Pro class, and win the Laughlin Hare Scrambles by a solid 13 minutes. Most desert races tend to be fairly fast affairs, especially those that include cars and trucks in the field. T hat means those who ride dirt bikes face greater risks be-cause speed amplifies mistakes, and the penalty paid is more se-vere when the only thing protect-ing you is your ability to bend and absorb brutal hits. Stout, welded rhrome-moly roll cages aren't an option on bikes. Thus,•lots of motorcycle desert racers actually prefer courses that put a greater premium on skill and riding ability rather than a bike's top speed. That describes the Ka-wasaki Team Green Laughlin U.S. Hare Scrambles rather well. Round 1 of Best in the Desert's 2000 Silver State Series, Laugh-lin is open to motorcycles only. No trucks, no buggies, not even any ATVs are allowed. It's twisty, off-cambered and full of techni-cal sections that challenged even Experts and Pros. Therefore, big bore bikes that make three digit top end speed with a yawn are really too much of a good thing for Laughlin. It's the kind of race that favors smaller, lighter machines. It is, after all, the only Best in the Desert race that has ever been overalled Photos: Grumpy on a 125. That's why Team Green heroes like defending series champs Destry Abbott and Brian Brown left their usual KX500 at home and hauled a KX250 to the race 20 minutes west of town and the Colorado River. Same goes for Shane Esposito and Dave Ondas, First 250 Pro went to Joey Lanza and Dennis Beligheri, on their Husqvarna. they rode a 250. · Here, one of them applies some body-English to get up a sand-hill. Of course, that wasn't a guar- off and were but a fleeting dust · said, "I never missed the course; antee of doing well. cloud in the distance for the en- I'd back off for a second just to This year's course was a two tire race, as far as the competition look ahead. We put a little bit of loop affair. Riders tackled the 24 was concerned. Asked if being in time on them the first loop then mile first loop, pitted, did the 21 front of the entire field made him David got on and put even more mile second loop, pitted again in nervous, David replied, "When I time on them so after the first two the same spot, then repeated the came into the pits and we saw that loops, we had a pretty decent lead. first loop. So it went until each we had a two or three minute I think we had a minute, minut.e-loop was clone three times - un- lead, that helped me out a lot. and-a-half lead, and from there less you rode solo as an Ironman, That just kind of relaxed every- we kept it on two wheels and then you did four complete loops. thing; we could just ride smooth cruised and came out first. It went Nick and David Pearson, who the rest of the day, and not worry good." are cousins, not brothers, hat about everybody coming." Aside from a few tip-overs and drawn the first starting position Indeed, no one was able to David having to ride the last 10 for their DHP/Pro Circuit/Dunlop make a run at them, either, as or 15 miles with a bent front ro-sponsored YZ426F. It marked the they enjoyed a nearly perfect day tor and cactus in his crotch, they first time 16 year old David had to win in a runaway 4:46:24. Nick Continued on page 28 raced a four r----------------- - -----~ stroke, let alone entered the Open class, and it was only Nick's second major race after sitting out most oflast year with a wrist injury. Last year's Laughli~, in fact, ended up being the single bright spot on Nick's race cal-endar, as. he won it with younger brother Russell (who has since teamed up with Ty Davis but sat out this race with a cracked wrist after a get-off at the Adelanto grand prix the week before). The Nevada residents took Reflecting the· character of the racecourse, Kurt Caselli and Cole Calkins, both 16 years old, won · Paul Krause and Garth Sweetland, teamed on a Class 125 Pro, and finished fourth overall, on their Yamaha YZ426F, took the win in the 4-Stroke I Under Team Green KX 125. 250cc Pro class, finishing ninth overall. Bryan Folks and Scott Myers put their KTM_ into Clint Braun and Robert Marshall, both from Nevada, Ed Dean of Bullhead City and Andy Nelson, from Ron and Greg Burns paired up on a KTM to take second place in the 250 Pro class, with skillful ding paired up on a Yamaha to take second Place in 4- Lake Havasu City, paired on their Honda to take second place in the Over 40 Expert division on their as seen in this shot. Stroke Under 250cc Pro. second in the 250 Expert class. _KT_ M_. ______________ _ Page 26 April 2000 Dusty Times

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Ty Davis and back-east partner, Doug Blackwell, ran theirYZ-F steadily to earn second in Open Pro. Blackwell substituted for regular partner, In second place in the Over 25 Expert division, Todd Yonker, Will Mundy Brian Cunningham and Earl Desiderio, Yamaha, were second in Over and Scotty Arnold, on a Yamaha, finished just a little over three minutes Russ Pearson, injured a week before. couldn't have asked for a better beginning to the series. "I haven't raced that much [lately)", Nick related. "I broke my wrist last year, and I raced Terrible's Town [in December] then this race. DEIST SEAT BEL TS The greatest name in driver safety equipment. 4-polnt sand rail seat belt RACE BELTS 2" -5 point mount 3 • • 5 point mount SIDE COVERS IRS . 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"[After breaking down and waiting a while] I thought I was going to die out there!" Luckily for Team Green, the Price Racing/Pro Circuit/IMS-backed KX250 of Doug Chiapu-zio and Oakley Lehman were still going strong. They ran in third just ahead ofMoose/FMF/Dunlop YZ-F partners Doug Blackwell and Ty Davis. As Lehman related, "I started [and] I just rode that first loop both times. We had a really good ride. We came around the first lap in third overall. I was able to get around quite a few people. We had a pretty good battle with Ty and Doug Blackwell there. Ty had caught up to me and. passed [my partner Chiapuzio], then I passed Blackwell back -we had a pretty good rivalry going. They kind of pulled us a little bit toward the end, but it was a good race, we definitely kept each other honest so it was fun." They ended up third overall, the highest placing Kawasaki team in 5:02:58, about two and a half minutes behind Blackwell and Davis. Blackwell was actually a last minute replacement partner for Davis. The West Virginian had been staying with Davis during his preparation for the first two rounds of the AMA National Hare Scrambles Series and hadn't planned on racing Laughlin. In fact, after helping the duo to sec-ond Open, second overall in 4:59:38, Blackwell had to catch a flight to San Francisco to race Round 2 of the AMA series the following day. Of his decision to make it a double-header weekend, Blackwell said, "Ty got in a bind when Russ [Pearson] got hurt last week. You know it's bad when they've got to get a boy from back East to ride out here!" Actually, he didn't really have a lot of options as far as other teammates who could fill in for him. I was staying at his house so it kind of made it convenient. 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The local team of Wes Green and Mario Gutierrez, both from Bullhead City. finished as second "50 Amateur, just~ minutes and one second Geoffrey Brownell, from Fountain Hills, Arizona, was the first lronman Donald Tussing and Paul Skeary, both from Las Vegas, brought their Amateur, using just 4_: 16:29 to get to the finish, placing 7th overall KTM home in second place in Over 35 Expert. amongst the lronmen. behind the winning team. an t at s a 1g part o racmg. e had some luck go our way and got second. I guess Ty and Russ have a good start for the rest of the se-. " nes. While East Coast woods rac-ers are nearly unanimous in their decision for desert events, Blackwell admitted to having some prior desert experience say-ing, "I've ridden the Wickenburg, Arizona, National enduro, that's the closest thing I would call desert comparable to this area here. I've ridden there twice. I felt more comfortable my second time out [today], the more I do it, the better I get. I'm not saying I can ride it next year and be a lot bet-ter, but. .. (laughing)! If I rode this like these guys do all the time, I'm sure that my speed would pick up. It's the same thing when these guys go east, the trees close in on [them], and they go slow. What comes around goes around. But I had a good time." Besides that last minute part-ner, Davis also had to juggle their sections as the race 'progressed: "I did the first two loops, then Doug did one loop, then I did the next two loops, then Doug did the last one. We didn't plan it that way, it's just the way it worked out. The Oakley Lehman [/Doug Chia-puzio] team got a round Doug, Winning the Over 30 Pro class proved to be hard work for Luca Trussardi, who rode the 250 TM IOSt of the way when partner Gordon Ward was downed by the flu. that's why I stayed on the next ter than last year." (Last year, time, so that I could pull away Davis tried soloing when then from them. I was having some partners Donnie Book injured problems getting by Doug, I'd·reel himself a few weeks before, but him in, and he'd look back and Davis ended up "hitting the wall" try to roast me. I don't put up with in the marathon effort.) that. One of the day's best rides be-"After [passing Chiapuzio/Leh- longed to the winning 125cc Pro man], I got a lead on them and team of Cole Calkin-s and Kurt gave it to Blackwell. He did well Caselli, both barely old enough to on that last lap. He didn't really have driver's licenses. Not only have any time to really practice did they win the class on Caselli's much. The first lap he lost a little Team Green/FMF/Scott-spon-time, but the second lap he did sored KX 125, they also finished great. "Second overall; it's a lot bet-The three-man team of Chuck Sun, Glenn Taylor and Richard Wilk won the Over 30 Expert Division in 5:43:36, on a Husaberg. fourth overall in 5:04:59. maybe get one of them at least, Caselli said, "I started in fifth. and he came in [at the end of his We were the last to start [in loop] first by at least 30 seconds class]. I passed, I don't know, one so he's way fast, I guess; I'm lucky. 250, maybe one Open bike, then He lives on Ohio." I passed two I 25s on the first lap Yes, another East Coast racer so we were in third. We came in doing good at Laughlin. Caselli the first three 125s and I was third continued "I've heard of him in [physically]. The first two guys Team Green News and stuff, but that started were right in front of I never really read an article about me so on time we were ahead. him or knew what he really rode. "So I came in third, and [gave "[Team Green Off Road Coor-the bike to] Cole [Calkins who] dinator] Reid [Nordin] said he's took off. I was hoping he would Continued on page 30 RACERS PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT WITH PHYSICAL DAMAGE INSURANCE FOR YOUR OFF-ROAD RACING VEIDCLES Call the experts at Michael E. James Insurance Agency. We can satisfy the insurance needs of all off-road racers. Physical Damage Insurance for Race Vehicles Tru~ks Trailers Tools/Equipment Liability Insurance for Special Racing Events A pair of Arizona racers, Scott and Todd Davis, took the victory in Over 25 Expert class in 5:52:41, on a Hondai In the 4 Stroke Under 250cc Expert class, the win went to the Arizona team of David Groniund and Joshua Schnurpel on a Yamaha. Dusty Times EXAl\lIPLE Value of Race Vehicle $30,000 x 3% = $900 Annual Premium $1,000 deductible Coverage for fire, theft, V &MM, limited physical damage protection Call for free quote and details April 2000 Michael E. James Insurance Agency 619-445-5797 Page 29 --.

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a pretty good rider. Reid sa id, 'This Cole kid wants to do it, and he's flying out.' So I was Uke, 'Cool'. "We went trailriding on the Friday before the race. He said, 'Yeah, this is nothing like my house. I'm not used to riding in dust and rocks and--stuff.' "I kind of had my doubts [about him], but he proved me wrong. He's way fast. I think he's one of the guys that can ride in whatever. Me just gets on and goes. "I was hoping we could get top five -which we did, which wa.s good -but the Pearsons were pretty much gone so unless they broke on the last lap or something drastic happened to them, I didn't think we'd overall it. They had a huge lead, but I rode as hard as I could." Fifth overall and first 250 went to Reno Motorsports/GPR Stabi-lizers/Torco Oils Husqvarna rac-ers Dennis Beligheri and Joey Lanza in 5:05:05 who were fairly ecstatic at the finish. "I think Dennis passed a guy on the first lap, then we blew by the pits and got passed [back]", Lanza said of his partner. "I followed the guy all th e way around, then Dennis passed him again and we had the lead. From there on out, we slowly ,,: •,. n ~ ~-~-• In the over 40 Expert ranks, the win went to Rex Staten and Rick Crosland, teamed · The top Amateur team was the threesome of Ben Moody, Todd Ritchie and John on an Italian VOR. Ruot, all of Arizona, who rode a Yamaha to the over 30 Amateurwin in 6:32: 1 O. pulled away. About halfway startingninth],"Campbellsaid. "I "The XR650R through we had the lead. The unfortunately had a crash about worked real well. I was only problem was [when] we had two miles after I got on and kind pleasantly surprised. a loose bash plate so we tightened of hurt my toe a little bit - it was The suspension, han-that up. The bike ran great all tough to upshift! So my first lap dling on a tighter-type day." was pretty bad. I was a little bit course was really good. Honda's Johnny Campbell and slow, off the pace. I was pretty happy with Tim Staab were the fastest of the "I got it back to Tim and, for-that." really big bore Open-classers. Fin- tunately, he had another good Their similarly ishing a well deserved sixth over-loop then I put in another good mounted teammates all and fourth Open in 5:09: 15 on lap. We didn't have· too many Steve Hengeveld and their incredibly stock Dunlop/ problems after that. We just had Jonah Street were fifth Honda Pro O ils/IMS-equipped to catch up from the little crash; Open and 11th over~ll XR650R. it cost us a couple minutes. We in 5: 13:40. The pair of "Tim Staab brought i.t into me weren't quite on the lead pace 650s were definitely the after his first loop in sixth [after today; it just wasn't our day. biggest bikes entered, yet they acquitted them-selves well on a course definitely tailor-made for smaller machines. Bilslein • Sway A Way Eibach · HM· IIA1 · CNC Sparco • PRP • Fuel Sate Ron Davis Radiators Setrab Oil Coolers Bryan 'Folks and motocrosser Scott Myers (making his first BitD st3rt) took seventh overall, second 250cc Pro on their Sportsman Cycle/Pro Circuit/Dun-lop KTM in 5:09: 16 re-porting no major prob-lems. O ver 30 winners , Luca Trussardi and Gor-Jacob and Wade Phillips, ·both from· Needles, don Ward placed eighth~a!ifo_rnia, took the win in t~e Open Expert class, overall on their WMP ;tm,shmg 14th overall on thetr KTM. Optima Batteries Mechanix·wear Page 30 April 2000 The three-man team of William Kelly, John Peterson and Ron Malm, all of California, finished as first over 35 Amateur, in 7:16:58. Joaquin Candia and Jacob Cornett won 125cc Expert on their KX125, in 5:47:29, finishing 36th overall. -----·--.. -------Dusty Times

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Don & John Hutchison (Twins?) rode their Kawasaki hard to take first in over 30 Amateur, winning the class by 10 minutes. Steve Montana and Gerald Milam, a pair of California racers, brought their Yamaha back to the finish in first place in the 250 Amateur class. Brian Bruning and Ken Kozlik, both from Phoenix, must have felt right at home midst the cactus, as they wended their way to their 250 Expert win on a Yamaha YZ250. Cemoto/Vertex TM 250 in 5:09:51. Unfortunately for Ward, a Vet motocrosser,.the flu zapped him, and he rode only an early loop, leaving his transplanted Ital-ian partner to ride even more than the Ironman entrants. To make matters worse, when Trussardi needed to change a wheel on the last loop, he discovered that the braking system was incompatible so he ditched the brake pads and rode the final 21 miles with no front brakes. topped Over 30 were Over 35 Expert winners Expert in Skipp Cohenour, Craig Huffer 5:43:36 for 31st and Willy Hopkins, who placed overall. A 44th overall in 5:57:52 on their couple minutes Golden Nugget/Skipp's Cycle behind them at Sports/f om Morgan Racing-spon-32 nd overall sored machine. were Four-Rick Crosland from Oregon stroke Expert and former factory motocrosser winners David Rex Staten teamed up for the Gronlund and Over 40 Expert win on their Ital-Jo sh u a Schnurpel. Joaquin Candia and Jacob Cornett won • 125cc Expert aboard their GPR Stabilizer/ Acerbis/IMS KX125 in 5:47:29at35th overall. Scott Davis and Todd Davis were the fastest Over 25 Experts, taking 5:52:41 to fin-ish 39th overall Jay Zicker, from Las Vegas and Steve Pitts from on th~ir FM~/ Layton, Utah, put their talents and experiencePro Act10n/fwm together to take the victory in the Over 40 Pro ClassAir Honda. Also on an ATK. Honda-mounted This is the ~ystem run by most off road race winners Paul Krause and Garth Sweet-land teamed up on a Montclair. Yamaha/MSR/IMS-backed YZ426F to win Four stroke Pro in 5:10:21, good for ninth overall. Defending Over 30 Pro champs Craig Huffer, Skipp Cohenour and Willy Hopkins teamed to ride their Honda to first Rick Bozarth and Daryl Folks fin-,_Pl_a_ce_in_th_e_OVi_e_r_35_E_x_,_-pe_rt_c_la_s_s. ______________ _ ished second in class and rounded out the top 10 on their Dunlop/ THOR/Sportsman Cycle KTM 300, stopping the clock at 5:13:36. ian VOR thumper. They were 50th overall in 6:01 :58. The final Expert class win went to the Over 48 pair of Boyd Abbott (Destry's father) and Rob Baggs on their REI Bran Corp./Bushwacker/ Dunlop-backed KX in 7:02:26, good for 84th overall. In the Amateur classes, Ben Moody, Todd Ritchie and John Ruof earned the top yellow plate honors and won the Over 25 di-vision on their Terminal Veloc-ity Racing Team Yamaha in 6:32:10, good for 70th overall. Ross Hensley and Craig Simpson came in three places behind in 6:41:18 but won Four stroke Amateur on their Yamaha YZ-F. Gerald Milam and Steve Montana won 250cc Amateur in 6:55:01 (80th overall) on their LBZ/White Brothers/Sign Pros YZ250 with Don Hutchinson and John Hutchinson following them in two places and a couple minutes later to win Over 30 Amateur on their Temple City Power Sport/Walker Brothers Kawasaki. John Karell and Bill Pallotto Continued on page 32 TRI-MIL BOBCAT QIROME 1~9-1 CORVETTE 2 V2" OR 3" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER . " Jacob Phillips and Wade Phil-lips were the first Experts to fin-ish, winning the Open Expert class in the process on their Phil-lips Construction/Sportsman Cycle KTM. Their 5: 18:55 put them 14th overall. The next Ex-perts were 250cc victors Brian Bruning and Ken Kozlik on an FMF/MSR/forco Oils YZ250 in 5:20:53, placing them 18th over-all. ~.::[ . . ~~ -·.·;;~.:~., ~:·~;~~ 13220 HALLDALE AVENUE GARDENA, CA 90249 310-217-9233 ... "I', .. "."~-_,,:~.·~:;:.,.-~ t,._=:,_ -~~ ♦ ~~-' The JMS Electric/Dick's Rac-ing/Sportsman Cycle Husaberg 400-mounted team of Chuck Sun. Bill Pallotto and John Carel/, both from California, put their Husqvarna into victory Glenn Taylor and Richard Wilk circle in the Over40 Amateur class, in 7:10:42. Dusty Times April 2000 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 31

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complete "only" four loops or 90 miles -still a long day in the saddle for most, especially considering the terrain. In fact, when you con-sider the terrain, it's a wonder-39 individuals decided to take it on solo. Honda-mounted Greg Zitterkopf came out on top, needing just 3:28:09 to win overall Ironman and Ironman unbeatable last year, claimed third on his Answer/Excel-backed Honda. Geoffrey Brownell was the first lronman Amateur on his Yamaha, finishing seventh over-all among lronmen in 4: 16:29. Jerry Fisher took runner-up honors on his Hutchins Motor-cycles/MS Honda almost six minutes later at eighth overall. Mark Landers took third Ama-teur in 4:36:54 and was 13th overall lronman. ■ Expert hon----------------~ '·~-· .... Ross Hensley and Craig Simpson, Yamaha, got back to the finish line as first in the 4-Stroke under 250cc Amateur class, in 6A t .· t B. rode a Husky to win Over 40 Malm and John Peterson who Amateur in 7: 10:42, placing 88th rode a Malm Aviation Yamaha to overall. Ironically, they beat Over finish 90th overall in 7: 16:58. 35 victors William Kelly, Ron The lronman entrants had to Greg Zitterkopf, from Grand Junction, Colorado, Iron Manned his Honda to first ors. Adam Evarrs fin-ished 53 sec-onds behind on his ·West-ern Power Sports/ Smith-spon-sored KX while de-Cory Ayers, of Henderson, Nevada, was third in the fending class lronman Expert division, hnishing his 90 miles in champ Corp 3:41:49. Ayers, nearly overa/1 lronman class and first lronman Expert in 3:28:09. The lronmen rode only 4 Second lronman Amateur went to Jerry Fisher, from Morongo Valley, loops, or 90 miles. CA, who rode his Honda home in 4:22:27. Boyd Abbott and Rob Beggs, bo'th in their sos, took the win in the Over 48 Expert division, in the time of 7:02:26, on a Kawasaki. 2ND ANNUAL OFF ROAD SWAP MEET BUY AND SELL PARTS FOR ALL YOUR OFF ROAD ~~~ TOYS AND RACE VEHICLES ~-~~ ~~l--*****10 ACRES OF DEALS***** ~G~ ~ Saturday, April 1, 2000 R & B AUTO CENTER • FONTANA, CALIF. Exit Citrus offiarnp on 10 Freeway, 4 Miles North to Foothill, Turn Left Swap M,aet is Arrnnged to include the following Sections: ~i:,.rtlnn .Gfi!llll ~ filK 1 USED PAJlTS & ACCESSORIES $35.00 10x15' 2 RACE TRUCKS $35.00 10x15' 3 RACE BUGGY'S $35.00 10x15' $5.00 ADULTS-KIDS UNDER 16 ARE FREE 4 l'vIOTORCYCLES $1!.00 S SAND TOYS $35.00 6 QUADS & 3-WHEELERS $20.00 7 TR~ERS & TOW VEWCLES $35.00 8 PR1E-RUNNERS $35.00 9 MFG. & RETAIL DISPLAYS $35.00 lQ 4x4s & JEEPS $35.00 Page 32 Presenled by Curt LeDuc's California Pre-J-<'Un For more Information co.11 Curt Leduc (909) 845-5292 or R & B Auto Center {909} 829-1140 3x8' • l0 lS' Bring your great Off l«>ad Collections to thls first super Off Road Swap Meet in Soc!a X History. Tell your friends and clean out your Garage! 5x8' 10x20' To reserve a space, fill out this entry form and mail with a check to: lOxlS' California Pre-Fun, 39067 Orchard Street, Cherry Valley, CA 92223 10x20' BEFORE March 25, 2000 10x15' Name. _____________ Street. ___________ _ City ________ State _____ ZIP _____ Section __ _ April 2000 Dusty Times

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;_ FRT KING OF THE DESERT Mccallum Wins overall By Judy Smith Photos: C&C Race Photo Todd Stemmerman had a mixed day, with a lost wheel and broken spring plate, but still managed to record a Class 5 finish. percent of its distance, was just 2 7 miles long, and five laps would be required for a finish. the race, he went on, only to get into his fourth lap and break a spring-plate. Once again, he made re-pairs and went on, finish-ing that lap, and getting credit for a victory to start his season right. Larry Mccallum soloed to the overall victory at the FRT King of the Desert event in his Toyota powered Jimco in February. While they sat in staging, it began to look ominous for Chuck Hovey, whose 2800cc Type IV was not running well. A couple of friends tried clearing out his jets, but the improvement was slight, if any. It was pretty obvious that he was hoping it would all clear up once he got moving. But it didn't. While McCallum charged around in 34 minutes and five seconds in his six cylinder Toyota pow-ered car, Hovey killed an l:i.our and 27 minutes. So McCallum had the lead, In the big truck class, they lost a player very early. Pat Barbee and Ted Godfrey got their Ford off the line, but never made it to the end of the lap. But Jeff Norton, in a 350 c.i. Chevy was having a good battle with Ernie Allen in his 460 Ford. Norton had the lead at the end of Lap 1 by just 10 seconds. Allen then had a rear flat that cost him about 14 minutes and Norton had a good lead at the end of Lap 2. T he ir third lap was a close on e again, and Norton hung onto the lead, but then on Lap 4 he had a rear flat, and before he realized it, he'd slid off the edge of a ridge, and .needed a friend with a winch to get himself back on a firm footing. This time, Allen marched on with the quick lap of the day in that class, at 32:49, and took over the lead. Now Norton was about 14 minutes in arrears. Their last lap was again relatively close,· but Norton couldn't make up for the big loss of time, and Allen took the win with Norton sec-ond, just nine minutes back. Larry McCall um piloted his As Alaskan storms crept down Jimco single seater to the over- from the north, the weather in the all victory at the FRT season Lake Superstition area stayed opener, the King of the Desert, balmy and calm, with no rain to at the Superstition Dry Lake in muddy up the dry lake. It was t-Februarv. shirt sunny, and great racing CACTUS RACING RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES BELL, SHOEI, SIMPSON From $299 .. 00 Helmets Helmet & Skirt SNELL 95, SA 95 FOR SODA Complete Blower Systems for single or double seat cars. Helmet conversions, cool boxes, Complete line of PYROTECI', FILLER Safety ,Products & BE Moaoisports. We ship UPS daily. 5153 Bowden Avenue-San Diego-CA-92117-858-279-2509 - . ...------, . 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'I he motorcycles, quads some problems, and never got another and mini-bikes had all had their lap in, so McCallum was left to play with turn at the course earlier in the the trucks and the 1600 cars who were day, and the cars and trucks, running really well on this track. which started at noon, would all McCallum, who later said the car was be finished by 6 p.m. The course, "perfect ... it just flies", went on with no reportedly very rough for about 50 other problems, and recorded his fast lap ...-the last time around, at 29:03, to take the over-all win in 2:34:22 · for the 135 miles. Hovey got a sec-ond lap finished, also a long one at 1 : 21, and then called it a day. T o d cl Stemmerman was the only Class 5 car in the field, and his day was less than Trey Sommers navigates some of the sand in his Class 9 Jimco. He perfect. He had a ran unopposed, and recorded a .win for the first race of the season. couple of pretty good laps, and then things went awry. On the third lap a front wheel left the car, taking all the trimmings with it. He lost the brakes and bearings because someone had for-gotten to tighten the pinch bolt. Once he'd bor-rowed a few parts from the DeVer-Jason Jernigan took the win in the small truck class in his 3.8 liter celly team, Ford, by outrunning and outasting his competition. which was out of April 2000 The 1/2-1600 cars had the best race, and, with eight entries, were the big class of the day . Starting off with a bang, Kevin Graves put his new-to-him Jimco (used to belong to Andy Estrada and Jeff Ben-nett) into the lead, and in fact, thanks to McCallum's flat, Graves had the overall lead at the end of the first lap. Joe Hammer ran second in his Mirage, and Steve Reynolds had third place in his Bunderson, which he decided needed more shocks in the back. He said it "really pounds" in the rough stuff. John Aguilar and Lupe Garcia ran fourth in a Dez Fab chassis. Dusty Times

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,. -.. --• . _,.,,. , a(l;"ft . Ernie Alien fought off a serious challenger in the big truck class, to Joe Hamner, Jr. ran a close second in the 1-211600 race, in his Mirage, Kurt Ickier was driving in a race for only the second time in his 1-21 take the win in his 460 Ford, in spite of a flat tire. but a couple of late flats put him down about four minutes. 1600 Jimco, had a great race, and took home third place. On the second lap Graves gling with ignition and timing early failure. Sergio Bartolini debuted his to allow time for family fun in the new two liter Porsche powered evening and then again on Sun-Jimco (which took him only nine day. Everyone was either finis_hed years to build) and had a great or permanently broken by 4_ p.m. day, running as a Sportsman. He so no one had :my night driving and his son, Alexander, and his to do, and the finish line closed ticked off the fast lap for the class, problems. Class 9 stayed away in droves, at 32:36, and he was still leading On the fifth lap, though he felt and Troy Sommers ran all by him-overall. He now had about two-that his motor was going away, self in his Jimco, did a couple of and-a-half minutes on Hamner, Graves held his pace, stayed well good laps, and then called it a day, and Reynolds held third, while in front, and took the win, finish- prudently deciding not to tear up Kurt Ickier, driving the Jimco that ing second overall to McCallum. the car, apparently, as long as he'd he'd bought recently from Jim He said that Hamner's car is ac- recorded a victory. -Dizney, was in fourth place. tually faster than his, but he was In the 5-1600 class Tony Aguilar and Garcia had lost about able to "get him in the rough Steingraber had his desert colored seven minutes, -and then were stuff." Hamner took second, but car out in front at the end of the unable to complete any more laps. lost about four minutes on the last first lap, with a lead of about five ·brother, Albert, took turns driv- up shop before sunset. Su_nd~y ing. They completed their four • morning's traditional "brunch" laps, reported that they were would get the eyes opened before happy with the car, and started the awards ceremony, and then their season with a win. there was time to play for a while, Entry was down for this event, or enjoy a relaxed drive back due in part to another event home. Also·out for the day was Andy lap when a rear tire went flat. minutes on Frank Bongiovanni DeVercelly IV, who'd lost his While he and his passenger were and Curt Mauzy. But then Stein-motor on the first lap, and Mark changing it, a front tire blew out berger never came around again, Fleisher, in a Chenowth, who did also. Ickler finished . and Bongiovanni, after running only one lap. But Graves was still third, less than two minutes later, three more laps, declared himself running well, and his lead was up and Reynolds was fourth, also less finished. He, too, recorded a win to three minutes and 15 seconds than two minutes later. Keeler to start his Y2K series off well, scheduled for the same day, and The FRT has their next race, a SCORE event only three weeks the FUD 200, scheduled for April in the future. Too bad about the 22nd, and then the next, the calendar conflict. This is a nice Conquista Gran Prix, will be on race, a non-taxing one day event, June 24th, near Tecate, in the with everything over early enough northern edge of Baja. ■ after the third lap, and it was still was fifth, about a half hour off the Hamner in second. Ickler, driv- pace, but finally running well af-ing a race for only the second ter someone who knew how set time, was in third, and _Reynolds his timing. held fourth, only three seconds The little trucks were next off behind him. the line and it looked as if there Graves led through Lap 4, but would be a good race, but it wasn't he was a little worried now, as he to be. Jason Jernigan had his 3.8 felt his motor softening a bit, es- liter Ford in front by about three pecially on the uphill sandy areas. minutes, with Brent Reagan run-He was nearly four minu tes in ning second with his V6 Ford fro nt of Hamner, who had an- Ranger. But then Reagan never other four minutes on Ickier, who came around again, and Jernigan was now four minutes in front of had a second lap that ran two Reynolds. Behind this group, Paul hours and 14 minutes. 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CRSAWARDS Gathering of the Faithful The CRS faithful gath-ered in Newport Beach, CA on January 15th to celebrate another year of rallying and rally cross. The Sheraton Hotel was the site of good food, good fun and year end awards. Just over 100 folks showed up to celebrate with and publicly humiliate vari-ous members of the club. The CRS raffle was culmi-nated with a total of $775 raised for th~ equipment fund. Larry Scott, a Gorman organizer, won not one but two Gorman T-shirts! Ole Holter took home the Cobra racing seat donated by Sube Sports. Dan Edmunds, a new members and new rallyist, won one of the sets of ure-thane mud flaps donated by Ken Beard at Susqueh~na Motorsports. The other set went to George Plsek. Harry Done was lucky enough to win the Mateo impact wrench donated by Mark Brown. Lon Peterson and Tony Chavez received the . two Ramada Express lnter-na tiona l Rally jackets, which everybody was covet-ing. Scott Hartman from lntrax donated a set of springs that were won by Bill. Rongevear of Prescott Val-ley,. AZ. Congra tu la tions to all the raffle winners and a big thanks to all of the people and companies who made donations. · This year the Rally T-Shirt of the Year modeling was done by the guys. Justin Benham, Steve Bender, Bill Feyling and Jay Streets strut-ted their stuff for the crowd to "stripper" music. John Dillon gave the runway com-mentary while the boys posed. The eventual winner was. the Treeline Rally T-Shirt designed by organizer George Plsek. I'm not sure how we will ever top this year's contest for originality. Lon Peterson hosted the "Celebrity Roast". Bill Gutzman was honored and there were quire a few folks who stood up and told a good Gutzman story. Dave Turner, Chad Dykes, Roger Allison and Bill's wife, Kay, were just a few. Kay had the best rally wife stories recall-ing the many "Honey Do's" that don't get done because of rally cars. Dave told of their first rally together. Chad Dykes remembered Bill racing in T-shirt, shorts and sandals after the rally car was repaired and he wasn't prepared to get back in. When the start line worker asked if the outfit was Nomex, Bill replied "It has a rally car on it doesn't it?" How can you argue with that? Bill, we all love you! The Outstanding, Most Persevering and Tenacious Worker award went to Scott and Toni Dicks this year. This couple has faithfully manned various check points and controls for the CRS and exemplifies our great volunteers. Congratu-lations! The Galai Souki award went to Paula Gibeault. This award is voted on by the stock and performance Stock class competitors for someone within their ranks who they feel exemplifies the sportsmanship and com-pe ti ti ve spirit of these classes. The best rendition of a wreck otherwise known as the Capt. Crunch awards was particularly fine this year. We had four drivers who qualified and had to stand before their peers and tell their version of their rally crash from this season. Paul "The Rocket Scientist" Timmerman, Jay "Where'd you find those shoes?" Streets, Chad Dykes, and Peter "The Flying Brit" Morns told their tale of woe to the crowd. Chad's version of his co-driver Deb "Mur-phy" Fuller taking a 30 ft. log and shoving it through the passenger window to right their truck was a close second to Peter's Low Flying Toyota. I don't believe we have found the black box yet from that particular flight! Ray Hocker presented the Bill Moore award to Sue Robinson this year. This award is given to a ~a-driver who also helps the club by volunteering their time to organizing, helping at events or in general assists the CRS beyond their co-driving du-ties. I guarantee you it was a big surprise ! Rookie of the Year went to Nick Taylor, winner of the Stock class this year, and to his rookie co-driver, Josh Armbruster. Nick has been a great competitor this year. Josh joined his team late this year and is now hooked on rallying. Congratulations boys! The Zimmerman Award went to Ray Hocker. Ray has contributed so much to our club over the years. He co-organizes the Gorman and Laughlin rallies as well as organizing our rally school each year and host-ing a rally cross the day af-ter the rally school. He has been tireless in his efforts to support our club and sport. Besides the new Cobra rac-ing seat donated by Sube Sports will look good in his car! The skit for the evening was the "CRS Virtual Co-driver Simulator" crearnd by the Gibeaults and Ray Hocker. Craig McHugh was the helpless volunteer to demonstrate this new virtual reality wonder m~chine -otherwise known as a racing seat attached to an office chair base so it had wheels and rocked. Craig donned the official virtual race suit (a.k.a. painters coveralls) with all the appropriate SCCA logos. He topped this off with a helmet complete with flashlight taped to the top. They carefully strapped him into the "seat" and the mayhem began. They pro-vided ice storms (ice cubes), rain, mist (a mister in the face), dust (talcum powder) and all the while Craig read his route book. He was a great sport and the virtual co-driver was a big hit. Just think Craig, you get to work with all these people at the Rim of the World Rally in May. Now that we have cel-ebrated the 1999 season it is time to look forward to the year 2000 competition. This will be the 25th year for the CRS. There are lots of old familiar faces and quite a few new faces at the rally events. Let's all go out and have a safe and successful 2000 season. See you at the start line! ■ Eibach Springs is proud to announce it's complete line of ultra high quality off-road springs."'" 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• I l ' I I l I I I ► i Millennium 250 Photos: Supplied by M.O.R.E. Tom Koch (L) and Richard Boyle celebrate their overall win at the M. 0. R. E. Millennium 250, in January. The first ever off road race of the four cars competing in Class 1. Car Jim Tucker and then Frank Omboli. new Millennium in theMojave Desert, #103 driven by Burl Beveridge was Burl's time was started then (he still a perfect day for racing. Twenty-One scheduled to be first off the line, but had not shown up). of off road's finest racers showed up to was a little late to line up. So first off Next off the line, was seven Class test the 21 mile course. There were the line was Tom Koch, followed by l.2-l 600s. First to start was Brad Inch, '94-98 Dodge +127hp +311 lb-ft BANKS POWERPACK WITH TWINRAM™ INTAKE MANIFOLD EQUIPS DODGE/CUMMINS S.9Ls WITH GAINS TO+ 127 HP AND +311 LB-FT TORQUE 7 • Banks presents a menu of bolt-on power for gas and diesel trucks. Pulling a big load? PowerPack® is a torque-lover's feast that extends mileage and engine life. Stinger® and StingerlB).Plus systems serve plenty of oats for slicker passing and hill-climbs. At appetizer-sized prices, Git-Kits stir up Dodge/Cummins and Power Stroke power with safe EGTs. A Sidewinder® turbo is the steak and sizzle your classic non-turbo diesel pickup craves. Tom Moessner. a veteran 1600 driver, took the win in Class 1-211600, driving Sandy Parker's car. Parker had to work so Moessner got to have all the fun. Robert Cockrell led for most of the day, then finished out of the money, but still took home the most Fast Lap cash. next was Steve Haver followed by Tom Moessner, then it was John Kennedy, Curt Gear, Ray Wright and Jimmy Messick. By then our buddy Burl had shown up and started his Class I be-hind the 1 /2-1600s. Six Class 9s showed up to do battle with Tyler Peterson (Dennis and Lisa's son) in his first race, followed by Mike Rix, then long time racer, my toughest competi-tor in the old days, Dave Girdner, fol-lowed by Robert Stapp in his new car, and a fine Gentleman with a lot of driv-ers and co-drivers Harry Dunne, fol-lowed by Robert Cockrell of circle track fame. Next up in our Trophy class was Chuck Abela off first; followed by Bob Spencer. Then up were the first class team ofFay' s in their Class 7 truck racing for consistent lap times against Paul Smith in his Class 11. I person-ally thank the Fays and Paul Smith for combining the class to make the classes complete. The first car back to the finish line was Car # 111 Tom Koch, turning a 21 mile lap in 22 minutes, 16 second, for an average speed of 59 miles per hour, as he flew by he sent a four inch rock ripping through the Anderson Hay T earn Trailer bouncing off the other side wall. Following Koch three minutes later Jim Tucker with Frank Omboli riding his bumper. This was really close racing for second place with Frank third on the road, but second on time. Next thru start/finish was Tom Moessner, looking and sounding great, followed by Brad Inch, also look-ing good. Right behind Brad was the good looking car ofJohn Kennedy, and the Young Racing Wonder, Jimmy Messick was right on John's tail, to take the first "fast lap" for the class. Next came Ray Wright and Steve Haver. Curt Gear, Haver and Gear were iron-ing out some minor problems on the course. The next group over the line were the Class 9s lead by Mike Rix, with Robert Cockrell right on his tail with the first fast lap. Then came Robert Stapp running in third place and Dave Girdner running fourth. Following Dave was Tyler Peterson completing his first lap. Next was Harry Dunne, who had major problems on his first lap, but soon worked them out to get back in the race and turned some good lap times. Next in was the good looking truck of Fay Racing T earn driven by Stacy Fay with Paul Smith right behind. Rac-ing against each other for the most consistent lap times would later tell who.would win. The two cars running for Trophies were led by Bob Spencer with Chuck Robert Stapp put his new Class 9 car to good use, by taking home the winnings for his first place. Dusty Times

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Bob Spencer had a good day in the Trophy Clq.ss (Sportsman) finishing Ray Wright moved up into a new class, 1-2/1600, and did just fine, Tom Koch and partner, Richard Boyle enjoyed a trouble-free day. and fn second place in his two-seat car. Abela coming in second on the first lap. So on we go to Lap 6, Koch was kicking butt and averaging 59 to 60 miles per hour every lap and was add-ing up the fast lap money quick. Jim Tucker and Frank Omboli seemed to forget about everyone else and were having their own personal race. They were nose to tail every lap and were really putting on a great show. Burl was making up for lost time and was the fifth car on the road and working his way up. Moessner was leading class 1/ 2-1600 with the new car still sounding strong. Second was led by John Ken-nedy who was a few minutes off the pace. Third was Ray Wright running very consistent laps. Steve Haver was running fourth as he was having a few minor problems, but still managed to get in some good fast laps. Jimmy Mes-sick and Curt Gear were both out with unknown problems. Robert Cockrell was leading Class 9 with five laps in the 31 minute range and Lap 6 in 32 minutes which earned him a bundle of fast lap cash. Second came Robert Stapp with Tyler Peterson running third. ·Fourth spot was held by Dave Girdner, fifth by Harry Dunne and the Rix Team lost their transmission which put them out of the race. Paul Smith lost his transmission, putting him out of the race. Thus the Fays added another First Place to their many wins. The Spencer T earn had major problems on the third and fourth laps but were back in the run-ning and making up for lost time. Chuck Abela who had no problems and ran consistent laps, took First Place in his first race. Congratulations Chuck!! Lap 9 had the Koch T earn still kick-ing butt and holding first place posi-tion and adding up more fast lap money. Jim Tucker was out on Lap 7 and Frank Omboli was out on Lap 9. Burl Beveridge was now in second place and third on the road and turn-ing very consistent lap times. Tom Moessner was still in the lead in 1/2-1600 everi though he had to stop ev-ery lap to nurse a leaky c. v. boot. Sec-ond was Ray Wright, turning good times. Third was Brad Inch who was having two good laps and a bad lap then two more good laps and another bad lap. John Kennedy rolled on his seventh lap and was on the trailer, af-ter turning the fastest lap for the class on his sixth lap. Steve Haver, whose times were getting better with each lap, had the motor let go on the eighth lap and he was out of the race. Robert Stapp was now leading Class 9 with Robert Cockrell nmning sec-ond, three minutes back after leading most of the day. Cockrell was having suspension problems and now Stapp was running up the fast lap money. Tyler Peterson was running third and holding his own. Fourth went to Dave Girdner. Dunne was running good consistent laps but could not make up the time he lost on Lap I placing him in fifth place. oustV ,,mes taking home second place honors at the Millennium 250. took home the overall win, as well as a lot of Fast Lap money. Final lap, Tom Koch takes it all, and a check for $940.00 for seven cars him a check for $760.00 and a trophy. money they were getting. The fastlap four cars in class, ten fast laps and an in class. Ray Wright took second place Tyler Peterson takes second place, re- money added up every lap and they all overall win, earns him two trophies and receiving a trc,;,hy and a check for ceiving a trophy and a check for were pleasantly surprised. a check for $900.00! Burl Beveridge $215.00. Third place went to Brad $140.00. Third place goes to Robert To the racers who supported us takes second place in Class 1. Inch who received a trophy and a Cockrell who got a trophy and a fast again we say Thank You!!! Our Tom Moessner takes first place in check for two fast laps. lap check for $180.00. Goal is our name, to give you Class 1/2-1600 taking home a trophy Robert Stapp wins. Class 9 earning The winners could not believe the M.O.R.E. ■ IUII IIOATIIIG HUB ASSIMBIY # QUAD-SEAlED™ ASSEMBlY protects vour driVe train from sand, din, mud, & water. ~ SIMPllFIED MAINTENANCE -NO SHIMS, lOCK RINGS, OR WASHERS NEEDED. ~ COMPUTER CAD designed, engineered, and manufactured (Patent Pending). ~ MORE WHEEL TRAVEL greater axle plunge, and infinite amounts of CV angle. ~ INCREASED BRAKING CAPACln -Your choice of solid or vented 12" brake rotors. D11a111r Jnquiri11s Encourag11d-934.5 v11rsion now availab/11 Ill RACE READY PRODUCTS 103 Press Lane #4 Chula Vista, CA 91910 619-691-9171 snmiedo@earthlink.net KREGER FABRICATION 8871 Canal Street Orange, CA 92865 ·714-921-8751 kregerfab@aol.com

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RAMADA EXPRESS HOTEL/CASINO INTERNATIONAL RALLY yon West. Forty-five cars, end to end, rimmed along the roadway emerging from the bottom. of the Grand Canyon. Car 9, the Whitman/Gibeault team, daringly drove into the stream, anointing their tr,.isty Datsun 510 with waters of the we Promise You An Adventure By Lynette Allison legendary Colorado River. Stage 1, Diamond Creek, opened the event with 16.85 stage miles climbing from 400 to 4,000 feet in elevation. Weather was clear and cold as the rally began. Friday's high speed smooth, fast, open roads kept competition keen and times close. Stage 2, Hualapai National North, had two unremarkable in-structions in eight miies: "cattle guard" and "straight". Genta/Takata prepare to start their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI on the Grand Ganyon Stage and they went on for the overall win of the rally. . West Coast rallyists, used to rougher, winding, slower-paced dirt roads, demon-strated early difficulty adjust-ing to high speeds and open terrain. Lacking the usual canyon winds along the pla-teau roads, dust hovered along the stage course, creat-ing pockets of poor visibility for many teams. Mid-day MTC and service centered at Grand Canyon West's Flight Service Center with stunning views of the north Rim, Hualapai tribal members pre-pared barbecued beef, Incredible. Absolutely awesome. Unbelievable. I can't believe I raced my car out of the Grand Canyon! American Rally Sport Group RallyUSA TM's 1999 Ramada Express Hotei-Ca-sino International Rally once again made the U.S. endur-ance rally record book during their December 9-12 event. Forty-five championship teams from Canada, the United States, and Japan fought their way through two full days of endurance stage competition on Arizona's Grand Canyon West moun-tain and forest roads, and the special finale, Sunday's Super Stage R. American Rally Sport Group, Inc., the most experienced endurance rally organizational team in the United. States, once again proved how knowledge and expertise leads to rally suc-cess. Friday's early morning sun rose against the backdrop of majestic Arizona peaks east of Laughlin, Nevada. Excited rallyists and their experienced service crews took care of the last minute details in the pare expose. Twenty national flags resentin the home coun-tries of competitors fluttered markably close times, but the· chicken, pork and corn on the atop the pristine lnterna-VW Rabbit of Steve Bender/ cob. tional Rally start ramp as rays Craig McHugh nabbed first by "I was here with last year's of sunlight moved across the 30 seconds. Stock class win-rally, too," commented one sponsors' names painted on ners Jay Streets/Birt Feyling crew member. "It's worth the the uprights. Co-drivers re-and GT winners Roger Hull/ drive just to get to eat the checked their clocks and cali-Michael Taylor edged out lunch! Great food, great scen-brated odometers. Scattered their competition as well. ery, great road, great rally!" clouds and anxious looks re-Showing that perseverance The 4-WD teams O'Sulli-flected the concern of last pays off, Bruce Tabor/Ben van/O'Sullivan (Audi Quat-year's teams: "What surprises Bradley wrapped up a first in tro) grabbed fastest times on would the weather bring to Production. First overall in two stages, Genta/Takata the mountain stages? Would Vintage was the VW Fastback (Evo VI) grabbed three, with their service crews be able to of Rod Koch/Gary English . Brasil/Tavares (Audi Quat-get through the high passes?" "The 1999 event last year tro) and Frontinen/Pessoa 1999 Ramada Express Ho-was the most incredible rally (VW Corrado) claiming orie tel-Casino International experience I've ever had," each. Mike Whitman, Group Rally II. says experienced rallyist, 2, skillfully piloted his car, This unique three day en-Vicente Frontinan of making the most of limited durance rally was to claim Sommerville, Massachusetts. engine power in his venerable more than 15 rally teams be-"I promised myself not to miss Datsun 510, consistently fore it ended. Only 30 teams the 1999 event. Grand Can-grabbing top stage times for made it to the finish, eligible yon West stages are the best second overall at Friday's for more than $13,500 in competition roads in the end. prize money. Hiroyuki Genta United States. AR5G makes Pete Morris/Chris Burns, and Kaz Takata of Japan in everyone feel welcome. It Group 2, finished Stage 1 only their right hand drive Mitsu-takes us four days to tow out, to veer into roadside rocks bishi Lancer Evo VI earned four days for the event, and and into a 15 ft. drop for a first overall and first in four four days back home, but as roll-over onto the roof of wheel drive. Rhys Millen/ long as AR5G puts a rally on, their Corolla_, out of the Brian Stoeckel took second we'll be in it." The Frontinan/ event. Brasil/Tavares sheared overall and first in the SUV Passeo team finished 1999 motor mounts (discovered class in their Lexus RX300. Second in Group 5. later) in the Stage 1 water Frank Paredes/William Staley Friday -Leg I, 7 Stages. crossing, eventually forcing took First -Group 2 honors, Teams transited 86 miles them to withdraw when re-and Coffee-Fresh sponsored over historic · Route 66, pairs could not be made. GT's Thomas Liljequist/Roine through Kingman, Arizona, all female team, Burrows/ Andersson of Sweden and into the Hualapai Indian Damitio found themselves wrapped up Group 5. Perfor-Nation Lands, driving deeper and their Mitsubishi VR4 on mance Stock teams ran re-and deeper into Grand Can-the roof at the finish of Stage 4, to the delight of spectators and photographers and the chagrin of the driver. Teams returned to Laugh-lin to cheering crew and spec-tators. Hot hor d'oeuvres wel-comes competitors, service crews and workers at Friday night's "Welcome Back" party. Leading overall at the end of Friday's stages were Genta/Takata (Open), 7268; Whitman/Gibeault (Group 2), 7557; Millen/Stoeckel (SUV), 7903; Robinson/Rob-inson (Open), 8331, and O'Sullivan/O'Sullivan (Open), 8865. Several Cali-fornia Rally Series teams suf-fered fender, transmission, driveshaft and electrical problems severe enough to have to withdraw. Saturday - Leg 2, 6 Stages Another early morning start and transit into new roads within forest areas of Grand ~anyon West, farther east of Friday's stages. Thirty-one teams started Saturday's stages. Higher elevations, tall pine trees, brisk winds and colder temperatures kept patchy snow and ice from melting. Tighter, twisting roads demanded excellence in driving skill and a well bal-anced vehicle suspension sys-tem. These challenging stages put the emphasis on experi-ence and team work and less-ened the emphasis on engine power and speed. Trees, rocks, snow, ice and Mother Nature affected a team's fi0..-ishing positions on almost ev-ery stage. "Stage I and 2, Prospect Valley, are reverse runs of 6. 7 5 miles of 'the most beau-tiful rally road in the world'," remarked Roger Allison, event organizer. "Waitin g teams watched the others drive over the course, taking mental pace-notes, I'm sure." Course workers huddled be-side a warming bonfire, wait-ing for the cars to arrive. "I thought I was getting away from the cold weather," com-mented one young lady. "Next year I'll pack my long under-wear and ski parks. Thursday I was swimming in the local pool and today I'm ready for some snow boarding." Large herds of elk and range cattle along the roads was deemed unsafe running, and organizers canceled Stage 12's competition. Timing crews and workers were obvi-ously disappointed, having waited for hours in the cold. It seems their stages in l 998's rally event were canceled as well. "I work lots of rallies and I ~-------_:..-;..-------------~ lt-1-Sunday's Superstage was closely a fought contest but there were The Paredes/Stanley Toyota Corolla shows the speed and handling it lots of fans there to cheer on their favorites with the Laughlin hotels in To the victors - the Genta/Takata Japanese Team were the big winners takes to . win the Group 2 classification by almost seven minutes. the background. at the International Rally held early in December at Laughlin, Nevada.

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was really looking forward to this. Last year my Laughlin rally stage ran over in Nevada. We were waiting for the Sher-iff to show up to close the road. There was an off road event running nearby, too. Suddenly•there was this huge truck coming at us. I guess it just ran through th e· course banners. Boy, we were lucky. The rally cars sh o we d up about 10 seconds later." Lady Luck must have fol-lowed the stages as well, switching the competitors' fin-ishing times so many times there was no consistent win-. ner over Saturday's mountain roads. Entering some top five scores were Group 2's Todd Hartmann/Shawn Callahan (VW Golf GTi), GT's Barry Hathaway/Vanessa Hill (Talon Tsi) and Open's Eric Eaton/Kenny Almquist (Mazda 3 23), keeping within 30 seconds or less of the win-ning times. The 4-WD class, usually some of the fastest teams, O'Sullivan/O'Sullivan, Genta/ Takata, Robinson/Robinson and Eaton/Almquist found themselves challenged by tal-ented Group 2s Hartmann/ Callahan's VW Golf GTi, and Paredes/Staley Toyota Co-rolla. Group 5's hot VW Corrado team of Frontinen/ Pessos and GT's Hathaway/ Hill also put on the pressure. Genta/Takata finished Stage 10 with noticeable front end damage, losing more than a minute. Millen/Stoeckel in. their Lexus RX300 barely zippe d past Ha0rtmann/ C allahan's VW Golf GTi as they finished the stage within 2/l00ths of each other. Vin-tage Volvo 142 team of Mephem/Casey favored the tighter roads, winning two of the stages over the Koch/En-glish VW Fastback. Stock class teams Jay Streets/Bill Feyling and Nick Taylor/Josh Armbruster put their Toyota Corollas to the test, sliding through corners and slipping around the turns as they traded fastest stage times throughout the day. Saturday's top five finish-ers: Millen/Stoeckel (SUV) 5063; Hartmann/Callahan (Open), 5194; O'Sullivan/ O'Sullivan (Open), 5195; Eaton/Almquist (Open), 5311, and Genta/Takata (Open), 5312. Combining Friday's fast fin-ishing times and Saturday's difficulties was beneficial for many teams. Saturday's over-all top five were Genta/Takata (Open), 12580; Millen/ Stoeckel (SUV), 12677; O'Sullivan/O'Sullivan (Open), 13094; Robinson/ Robinson (Open), 13 5 51 and Eaton/ Almquist (Open), • 14204. Sunday -Special Events SuperStageR: The La.ughlin _Special Events Arena is part of hun-dreds of acres of natural foot-hills and sandwashes diago-nalltbehind the Ramada Ex--press Hotel Casino. Road con-struction forced American Rally Sport Group to create and set up a new, 1.4 mile course for 1999 further into the hillside. High winds gust-ing up to 90 mph on Saturday, seriously hampered the crews. Prime Equipment, Flash Haul-ers and Yeager Constrl)ction Company loaned the use of machinery, equipment and workers, allowing SuperStageR crew chiefs Jay Deacon and Frank Tinoco to finish an excellen t road course by sundown. Changing the usual proce-dures, course preview drives were allowed for SuperStageR ... if a driver took along a special "co-driver." Local businesses and spon-sors, workers, and spectators strapped themselves into a co-driver seat, put on the hel-met and enjoyed a thrill of a lifetime ride in the rally cars. Ride-a-longs at $25 each raised more than $1,300 for the local Boys and Girls Club in Bullhead City, Arizona. Competition opened at ten o'clock with teams paired in reverse finish order or class for the first of four alternat-ing runs. Starting side-by-side, teams race at full speed over a course with jumps, bumps, off-camber acute turns and sandy curves, fin-ishing at the arena grand-stands. Sponsors, vendors and crowds cheered the teams. Rally announcer John Periege, played the music and kept the energy flowing with his quick wit and fast talk throughout the five hours of competition. Oregon's Tabor family, with three rally teams running, enjoyed the crowds and cheering competitors, waving flags· f~om their wi°n-dows as th ey drove by the grandstands. Times for Sunday's short course were c o n sistently close, often within 15 seconds of each other. Japan's Genta/ Takata claimed first place in three of four runs, bested on the final stage by O'Sullivan/ O'Sullivan. GT teams Hathaway/Hill and Hull/Tay-lor in their Talons battled for top class Frontinen/Pessos traded lead times as well. The crowd was on its feet for the final California Rally Series' Championship 4-WD run-off. Ending t h e year within a few seconds of each other, the championship was, literally, on the line. The silty tight left and the nudge of a hay ·bale awarded the top scores to O'Sullivan/O'Sulli-van by 12 seconds. Sunday's top five finishers were Genta/Takata (Open), 594; O'Sullivan/O'Sullivan (Open), 601; Hathaway/Hill (GT), 607; Chavez/Cassidy (Open), 608 and Robinson/ Robinson (Open), 613. Pre-Runner Rally Interna-tional: American Rally Sport Group Rally USAtm extended a special welcome to off . roaders with a new mini event, the Pre-Runner Rally. Though often running in the same ar-eas at the same times, these two diverse motorsports sel-dom mix. The concept for a Pre-Runner Rally developed over the past two years, and Rod Koch, ARSG advisor to the Vintage class jnd former off road competitor, helped refine the concept for 1999. Ford Fl00 team Chris Wil-son/Dyane Wilson, VW Baja Bug teams Bob Wager/Randy Sleep and Dave Cookman/ Bruce Johnston climbed over into the world of rallyin g. These three off road competi-tors made their vehicles "rally legal. " A d ding fenders and turn signals was easy. Win-dow-nets instead of windows could be used. Heaters were optiona l (but were really missed on Saturday's snowy stages). Required insurance and licensing for the street took some doing, especially for the VW Baja Bugs. But they all showed up with a very positive attitude ... and some strange looking vehicles. A__ggressive driving over Fricf"ay's fast Grand Canyon stages led to substantial sus• pension damage for the Wil-son/Wilson team and their eventual DNF when a re0 placement part was not avail-able. The two Baja Bugs turned the event's road point scoring system topsy-turvy when the 150% penalty rule moved the top finishing award to Cookman/Johnston and second to Wager/Sleep. With suspension damage, Cookman/Johnston spent much of Saturday repairing their Bug, taking the 150% scoring penalty. The Wager/ Sleep team demonstrated true "Press Ori Regardless" spirit, running the entire event, in-cluding Saturday's mountain roads and Sunday's SuperStageR, receiving a free entry for the event 2050 from the organize rs. H owever, even compared against the pe-n alty, the Wager/Sleep scores placed them at a dis-appointing second place. Sunday Night Awards: There are two important and unique awards presented by the Ramada Express Ho-tel-Casi no International Rally committee. First is a 55 limited edition casino which is designed by the Ramada Express and minted for the event. Available only during the days of the rally, it fea-tures the first overall rally fin-isher from the previous year. Proudly featured for the 1999 event were Canadian champi-ons Frank and Dan Sprong! and their Audi Quattro S2 in full ra~e trim. The Sprong! brothers could not defend their Championship standing at the 1999 event because of sponsorship restrictions. Dan Sprong! was on hand, how-ever, in full support of the event. He worked service and repair for fellow Four Star Racing· team members Doug Mephem of Ontario, Canada and Dick Casey of Virginia in Doug's Vintage Class Volvo 6" ULTIMATE LIFT COIL SNIIHGS REAi: at.0<XS ii, U BOLTS 142. A few wistful glances at the course were noted. Another important award is the event's prize fund. The Ramada Express Hotel-Casino ho Ids $10,000 in escrow fo r the event. Additional funds from sponsors builds the award. But t h e team First Overall receives $5,000, o n stage, in real cash ... guaran-teed. C lass awards are paid proportionately, based on the number of entries. The awards began. There were jokes and jibes, cheers and tears, toasts and "roasts" throughout the evening. The California Rally Series teams waited in anticipation. For them, the rally weekend rep-resented three full champion-ship events within the series, one each day. Class champi--onsliips were so close winners were not decided until the Sµnday SuperStageR, only a few hours before. One by one, winning teams walked up the stairs, onto the stage, accepting the applause of the crowd and acknowledging each of their various sponsors. The room exploded with cheers as they waved $13,500 cash prize money to the audience. The 1999 Ramada Express Hotel-Casino International Rally. It's in the record books. Incredible. Absolutely awe-some. Unbelievable. ■ 4 FMTICH H:RfOflMANCa SHOCKS $ 1749.95 INSIIW.ED BEDSIDES HOODS /I .,d'' =---'~ FIBERGLASS -s89.95 1988-1998 CHEVY "' 2WD C1500 6" ULTIMATE LIFT r UFT SPtHDtaS a.... COHT110l.AIIM$ CON. Sl"IUNGS nM lt.OOCS 6 U aot.TS . 4 PMff<M NltPOIIIMANCaSHOCXS $ 1549 o 95 INSWUD 2WD F150 6" ULTIMATE LIFT 3 H UfT Sl"tHOUS Uf'1'Ell CONnrO&. 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-U.S. OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES Final Round Fought At Edison Field, Anaheim, CA By Ron Miller Photos: Sheryl Cannon ..• ,.. . Super modified champ, Larry FoddriififJ:es c/eai of the four-buggy tangle during the Main Event at Pace's Anaheim races. The third and final round df" · Thunder Bike, Stadium Lites, holding back. Two riders punc-this year's U.S. Off Road Cham;> Super ModHied and Stadium tuated their championship sea-pionship Series was contested·· Sport Truck. Additionally, fans sons, by sweeping all three on January 28, 2000 at beauti-were also treated to a monster rounds of this year's series. One ful Edison Field. An excelleqt truck exhibition and a Thunder of those champions was one of crowd of more than 28,000 wit- Bike versus Pro Quad match the two racers who recorded nessed an exhilarating evening race. "back-to-back" series titles. In of off road racing. Many 9f the With this year's series re- a rather strange twist however, country's finest stadium racers duced to a three event sprint, one defended his '99 crown on took part in the 2000 finale. the Anaheim showdown was the race course and the other During the awesome 26 race last call for aspiring champions. won his during a post-race tech extravaganza, series champion-For the all star cast of drivers inspection. I'm ready to fill in ships were deci~ed_ In Pro Quad, and riders there was simply no · the blanks, so it's on to race re-TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING. INC SNORE 1999 Transaxle Builder Of The Year . . Congratulations Brad Inch Jeff/Patrick Field 2nd Place 1600 t· MDR Wildwash Transaxle Engineering Jeff Field Page 42 1st Place 1300 MDR Wildwash 818-998-2739 9763 Variel Avenue Chatsworth, CA 91311 April 2000 Pro Quad class riders vie for the early advantage. Tim Farr, who also won his qualifying heat, was the eventual winner. · · · · cap time. lead at once, as Byron Seed and Race 1 was the first of six Johnny Hale gave chase. Hale heat events for Pro Quad class made a nice move to claim the riders. Each was a four lap event runner-up spot, but Spader around and over the Edison proved much the best. John An-Field course, which featured gel closed from sixth to finish whoop-de-doos, table-top jumps third, securing a berth in the and several challenging turns. Pro Quad main. The top three finishers in each Race 7 was the first of four Pm Quad heat automatically Super Modified Buggy class advanced to the evening's main heats. These contests were also event. A field of eight faced the four lap sprints, but only the top starter in the opener, including two finishers advanced to the defending Pro Quad class cham-evening's main event. The Su-pion Tim Farr. Farr was quick-per Modified opener had a field est off the line and grabbed the of four. Larry Foddrill, who won holeshot. Jimmy Stephensen led this event last year, grabbed the ·the pursuit, with Matt Topham holeshot. Unfortunately, one of following next in third. Farr was Foddrill's rivals was involved in · his usual awesome self, as he a nasty roll shortly after the sped to victory in flag-to-flag start and the race was red fashion. Stephensen turned in a flagged. On the restart, Foddrill good effort, holding the remain- again seized command, and this der of the field at bay and fin- time there would be no stopping ishing a clear runner-up. him. Foddrill romped to an easy Topham also secured a spot for win, while his remaining rivals himself in the main by placing battled for the other transfer third. spot. Despite hitting one of the Another field of eight barriers, Cecil Bennett emerged slugged it out in Heat 2. as the runner-up. Jeremiah Jones blasted his way A field of five faced the to the lead in that event. Mark starter for Heat 8. Jimmy Ehrhardt, the 1998 Pro Quad Nichols wasted no tim!,; power-champ, was also away quickly ing his way into the early lead. and took up chase from second. Gary Nierop was away second, The front-end was definitely the but Nichols opened up quickly. place to be, as Jones parlayed his Nichols could not have been holeshot into the Heat 2 win. more impressive, as he won by Ehrhardt raced second all the a distance. Nierop raced second way, followed by Nathan Dallas all the way, to also earn a spot who placed third. in the main . . The always-tough Kory Ellis Heat 9 featured four contes-employed similar tactics to de-. tants, including back-to-back feat his Heat 3 rivals. Ellis Super Modified class champion jumped out to the early lead, Cory Withe-rill. Witherill had and won geared-down at the fin-no trouble racing to victory, but ish. Keith Little. raced second his rivals were somewhat less from start to finish, and Tyson fortunate. Steve Sallenbach lost Leaver also advanced by placing all chances of advancing when third. his vehicle stalled on Lap 2. Ul-Shane Hitt proved much the timately, Sallenbach did get re-. best in Heat 4. It was "flag-tall started, but by then it was too to that's all", as Hitt led late to matter. Shayne Frasor throughout the four lap contest. suffered a TKO during the final Doug Eichner couldn't catch lap, handing the transfer spot to "The Hitt Man", but he did cap- T.J. Clark. ture the MISSING TEXT Heat 10 had a field.of four, MISSING TEXT MISSING led by veteran performer Gary TEXT. - Gall. Gall assumed the lead at Jeremy Schell put on quite- a once and quickly pulled clear. show in Heat 5. Schell exploded Dwight Lundell was away sec-off the line to grab the holeshot, ond and Henry Brown raced then got some serious air on the third early on. Before the heat table-tops. Schell was never reached the halfway point, menaced, and finished well Brown and Lundell were in big clear of the field. Josh Freder-trouble.-Brown's vehicle ended ick was unable to kee_p pace up nearly exited the course and with the runaway winner, but Lundell's was spotted spinning did prove the best of the rest. through the Anaheim air. Jim Josh Starrett insured hims.elf of Cast was the beneficiary of that a spot in the main event start-pair's misfortune. He finished a ing line-up by checking in third. distant second behind Gall, ad-Heat 6 had a field of nine vancing in the process. starters. ravis Spader looked Race 14 was the on)y heat superb wiring his overmatched event for the Stadium Lite classmates. Spader assumed the class. All l O entrants received Dusty Times ...

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Chris Brandt and Randy Eller lead the pack in pursuit of Jason Crowder, Ford, in the Stadium Sport Truck main event. Brandt was ultimately the winner. Stadium Lite traffic takes to the track for their Main Event, which was won by Beau Briggs. Larry Foddrill grabs the holeshot in Super Modified class action. Foddrill went on to win the Main Event. a free pass to the main, so the heat was used to determine that event's starting positions. Denise Wittman grabbed the holeshot, and set sail on the lead. Early on, it was Steve Scott racing second and Mike Boyd in third. Before long, Bob Briggs, who won this event last year, came calling for the lead. Once in front, Briggs open-ed up on the field and came away to win clear. Todd Wittman turned in a strong performance to snag runne,r-up honors. Boyd hel-_d for third, Ray Schile placed fourth and Denise Witt-man took fifth. . ', Race 17 on the card--was·.the main event for the Stadium Lites. Bob Briggs won the holeshot and assumed the early lead. Todd Wittman was stalk-ing from second place, and Ray Schile was following that pair in third. Midway through Lap 1, Briggs stalled and Wittman took over control. Wittman seemed to have matters well in hand, as he continued to race strongly on the lead. However, the pride of Scottsdale, AZ suf-fered an unfortunate break at the completion of Lap 3. Witt-man landed extremely hard off the straightaway table-top jump, and was done for the evening. While Wittman slowly exited the course, Beau Briggs sailed past into the lead. It was all Briggs from there, as the Alta Loma, CA star went on to capture the win and the 2000 series championship. Ron Buccieri finished second on the night and Denise Wittman placed third. Mike Boyd came in fourth, and Steve Scott was along for fifth. The nt!xt two races were qualifying heats for Stadium Sport Truck entrants. Jason Crowder proved much the best in .fleat 1,8. Crowder shot right to the front, and held the ad-vantage through all six laps. Randy Eller put up a stiff chal-lenge, as he and Crowder swapp_ed paint on a number of occasions. Eller was closest to the winner early and late, post-ing a good runner~up effort. Pete Sohren raced third nearly the entire heat, but Jeff Geiser slipped by him in the late stages. Sohren ended up fourth, with Don Ponder, Mait Cannon and Bob Beyer completing the order of finish. The following heat also fea-tured the Stadium Sport Trucks. A field of eight faced the starter in that event. I couldn't tell who the early leader was, but I can tell you he led until the beginning of Lap 2. That's when he skied over the table top jump and landed in the bed of Jim Dusty Times Kandel's truck. Defending Sta-proved a total disaster. On the dium Sport Truck champ Chris final turn of the final lap, Gall Brandt took over at that point. became hung up on the wall. Stacey .Pike l<;>0med boldly, as Y~u cer.tainly can't take any-Brandt dug deep to repel the thing from the winner, but Gall challenge. Last year's two top truly deserved better than the guns dueled to the finish, with ninth place finish he was cred-Brandt again coming out on ited with, Foddrill, meanwhile, top. Pike placed second and earned his victory spoils with a Steve Sallenbach was th-ird. great performance. The Glen-Larry Foddrill, subbing for the dale, AZ resident not only re-injured Lee O'Donnell, took peated his 1999 Anaheim win, fourth. he also captured the 2000 Su-The next event was the last per Modified class champion-chance qualifier for Super ship. Jerry Whelchel finished Modified Buggies. The heat was runner-up for the night and comprised of six starters, going Gary Nierop placed third. The six laps, with the top four trans-remainder of the top 10 driv-ferring to the main. Henry ers {in their order of finish) Brown powered his way to the were Cory Witherill, Dwight early advantage, while Dwight Lundell, Jim Cast, Scott Peter-Lundell and Steve Sallenbach son, Cecil Bennett, Gary Gall chased from second and third. and Steve Sallenbach. Brown continued to race A dozen Stadium Sport strongly on the lead, and never Trucks emerged for the grand did come back to this field. finale of this year's U.S. Off When Lundell stalled, Chad Road Championship Series. Ja-Gall and Scott Peterson also son Crowder proved quickest of moved up into contention. the quick, as he gunned his way Brown cruised to victory, with to the holeshot: Chris Brandt Sallenbach finishing second. raced just behind, with Randy Gall and Peterson placed third Eller following in third. Stacey and fourth respectively. Pike, Jeff Geiser, Pete Sohren There was a good battle in. and Jeff Elrod were also in the the Stadium Sport Truck LCQ. thick of contention. As the A field of six participated, with race wore on, Crowder and Jim Kandel winning the Brandt gradually separated holeshot. Jeff Elrod was out af-themselves from the field. The ter him, as were Don Ponder, two fought tooth and nail, with Mait Cannon and Jarrod ·the series championship hang-Wedell. In the late going, the ing in the balance. There were battle came down to Elrod ver-several lead changes, as the sus Ponder. When the check-Crowder versus Brandt duel in-ered flag flew, it was Ponder tensified. In the race's late who held the advantage. Elrod stages, Brandt, who hails from was forced to settle for runner-Council Bluffs, IA, forged to up honors, followed by Kandel the front and the crowd let out in third and Wedell who fin- a roar. When Crowder surged ished fourth. back into the lead a short time The Super Modified Buggy later, the stadium erupted. Main w~s next. A talented field Crowder proved first to the of 13 faced the starter. Larry checkered flag, but both driv-Foddrill immediately burst out ers performed brilliantly. Quite of the pack and into the lead. some· time after the Edison There was a four vehicle tangle Field crowd had .dispersed, the on Turn #1, which ultimately on-track order offinish was re-cost Cory Witherill his chance vised. According to Pace Mo-at a third straight class cham-tor Sports officials "Jason pionship. Jimmy Nichols was Crowder was running light be-also involved in that tangle, cause .his weights fell out early and his night was brought to an in the race." As a result, he re-immediate conclusion. In what ceived no points for the main easily proved the most event-event. Thus, Brandt was de-fol race of the evening, Steve dared the official winner and Sallenbach lost his right rear successfully defended his 1999 tire and Henry Brown ended up Stadium Sport Truck title. on top of the barriers. Up front, Randy Eller was moved up to a far removed from all the car-second place on the evening. nage, Foddrill was cruising on Stacey Pike was credited with the lead. Gary Gall was the only a third place finish. Jeff Elrod one with any chance of over-was placed fourth and Jeff Gei-taking the leader. Gall pulled ser was placed fifth. The re-. out all the stops in a gutsy at-mainder of the evening's top 10 tempt to overtake Foddrill. The drivers (in their official order two put on a terrific show, as of finish) were Larry Foddrill, they deftly made their way Steve Sallenbach, Don Ponder, through slower traffic. With Jarrod Wedell and Pete Sohren. time running out, Gall made And that completes our re-om. last run at the leader. It cap of the final stop of lhis April 2000 -.. year's series. Congratulations to in a tie for third place. In all those who participated, and Thunder Bikes, Brian Walters especially those who proved was the runner-up and Dave "best of the best" in Anaheim. Shade finished third. In Sta-Since I've already paid tribute dium Lites, Todd Wittman was to the five U.S. Off Road Cham-the runner-up and Mike Boyd pionship Series Points Champi-finished third. In Super Modi-ons for 2000, I'll just conclude fied,. Cory Witherill was the with a look at this year's second runner-up and Jimmy Nichols and third place finishers in each finished third. In Stadium division. Sport Trucks, Randy Eller was In Pro Quad, Jeremiah Jones the runner-up and Stacey Pike was the runner-up, and Shane and Steve Sallenbach finished Hitt and Keith Little finished in a tie for third place. ■ I I I I I I I I I r-------------------------, I ~~-~ I I ....... -:... I I I I - I I YEA I I m;m· I . - . . I . . . . . 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~ ► . ► Doug Davenport/Lea Hoffa drove their VW Golf to a reat first in G2, shown here at hard right rudder before an admiring crowd. The first round of the SCCA NOT paved. The basic rally for-ProRally Series was run in beau-mat is similar to that used tiful downtown Atlanta, Michi-around the globe, but here in gan, that is in very cold tern-the USA on-course practice is peratures as were to be expected not allowed. Competitors usu-100 odd miles north of Flint. ally see the course for the first For the uninitiated, the time as they are racing on it! SCCA Rallies consist of flat out Racing takes place on "Special racing, in any weather, on chal-Stages", utilizing demanding lenging mountain forest or back roads which are closed to desert roads, most of which are any other traffic by the local au-:f IEARL'S l'EI/FOIIMAIICE J>ROOIK:TS ,~ _yv • Largest Selection •. Of Rodends & Spherical Bearings • BACKSAVER • FIREBOTTLES • BATTERIES • SPAL FANS • SETRAB COOLERS • SILICONE HOSE I\IEO !iYI\ITHETIC LUBRICAI\IT§ • MOTOR OILS • GEAR OILS • GREASES • COOLANTS WE HAI/E 01/ER THE COUNTER §ERi/iCE WE §HIP UP§ DAILY TO ORDER OR FOR MORE /NFOFRMATION CALL 800.959. 7757 OR 562.427.2375. Fax: 562.426.5294 CHECK OUT OUR PRICE!!i ON THE WEB ANO OUR HUNDRED§ OF NEW ITEM!!i AT: www.bakerprecision.com 2865 Gundry Ave., Signal Hill, CA 90806 I v,SA I _ [ii] II Ill Page 44 SNO*DRIFT RALLY Choiniere/Hyundai conquer The snow By John Calvin Photo: Tom Buchkoe Paul Choiniere/Jeff Becker took the overall win at Sno•Drift in their Hyundai Tiburon and took the points lead as well in the first of the seasons rallys. thorities. "Transits" connect these special stages and are regularly maintained paved roaos and while on these "Tran-sits" the racers are required to follow local traffic regulations. Rally cars are performance based cars and trucks from manufacturers around the world. They compete for the overall win as well as within a class based on similarity of per-formance. Each vehicle carries a driver and a co-driver/navigator and they use a detailed route book and a sophisticated rally com-puter. The co-driver keeps the team on course with verbal in-structions to the driver as they careen over terrain they have never seen before at very high rates of speed. There were 52 entries includ-ing a very strong Open (Unlim-ited) class consisting of two fac-tory Hyundais, four Mitsubishi Lancer Evolutions plus the de-but of a privately entered FIA Group N Subaru Impreza WRX. The weather forecast is good, cold temps, below freezing, crys-tal clear skies and no wind was expected. Of the 15 manufacturers en-tered in the Sno* Drift Rally, Hyundai proved for the fifth consecutive year to be the top dog. Fighting an increasingly tight battle with an FIA Group N entry, the Paul Choiniere/Jeff Becker Hyundai Tiburon once again took on all comers and emerged with a satisfying vic-tory. Retirements started early on Sno*Drift and didn't discrimi-nate between Novice or Expe-rienced drivers. Early morning tempera tu res hovered around zero and this was very hard on the competitors and their equip-in their Open Class Hyndai Elantra took on a tree on the second stage and, guess what, the tree won! Exit Lawler. Jon Kept and Lance Hendric_ksen had a ruri in with a tree on Stage 4 and they too lost to the tree. Seven time champion Paul Choiniere were having their problems as well. A presumed solved engine problem had re-surfaced, this had given them lots of problems last year and the gremlin was back. Team owner John Buffum used some real savvy and dialed the turbo boost back, figuring he could lose· some power and make up for it with smooth driving and the reliability of the dialed down horsepower. Garen and Doc Shrader were having a brilliant run in their Lancer Evo. They posted fastest time on Stage 4 and took the overall lead but while .transiting back to the noon service their rear differential disintegrated, leaving them with only one drive. They re-Continued on page 46 At speed, at night in their Mitsubishi GSX, Chris Czyzio/Eric Carlson fly across the snow and ice to take the Production GT Class. ment. The temperature neV-er-1----=<c: rose above freezing throughout the day and when darkness fell it plummeted to zero once again. Noel Lawler/Charles Bradley April 2000 t1~ ... ~. ,. ',.,,c-Mark Utecht/Brenda Corneliusen were the GS winners, their Dodge Omni conquering the Michigan weather with ease. Dusty Times

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Bria,·, Vinson/Luke Stuart corner in the snow in their VW Golf Gti, at Looks like Mike Hurst/Rob Bohn lost it just a bit in their Pontiac, that Steve Gingras/Bill Westrick were second in PGT, their Eagle Talon home in the Michigan snow. snow is slick, but they recovered and took second in GS. making light work of the snow and the ice. tired shortly thereafter. Group N Mitsubishi Lancer behind. Brenda Corneliusen with Mike this first of the season events, a Also on the retirement list Evolution V had a great day, So, it was Choiniere/Becker Hurst/Rob Bohn in the second shade over 50%, which wasn't was the FIA Group N Subaru of nary a problem and held a 30 taking the overall, Scheible/ spot. Brian Vinson/Luke Stuart too bad, considering the tern-Seamus Burke, making its USA second lead over Choiniere for Hughes second on time with were the Production winners, perature. In the Manufacturers debut, victim of a rear half-shaft most of the day. Alas, on the Pete Lahm/Matt Chester finish-besting Evan Moen/Kurt Championship, after. this first failure. This was a shakedown next to last stage he slid into a ing third overall and third in Winkelmann. Doug Davenport/ event, Hyundai has 20 points rally for this brand new car and snow bank and although the Open. Chris Czyzio/Eric Carlson Lea Hoffa were the 02 winners, and .. Subaru has 15. they were expecting some teeth-damage was mostly cosmetic, his took POT with Steve Gingras/ besting Charles and Hughie Stay tuned for the·rest of the ing problems. 30 seconds evaporated immedi- Bill Westrick taking second in Langan. rally results as they occur over Karl Scheible, driving a ately, putting him a few seconds class. 05 went to Mark Utecht/ There were 28 finishers of the year. ■ ~----,-----,,,.--,---,,----,,~--=-r-----~~-~,---,,,,-=-...,-_.,j ,: ! fli '!" i,!, t r. tv. 'l·-' ,, ' •-::;•~ -• Karl Scheible/Russ Hughes had the lead in their Mitsubishi Lancer Charles and Hughie Langan churn up the snow in their Ford Escort Damn! What are we doing here/ Scott Car/born/Dale Dewald make Evo but a run in with a snow bank dropped them to second in Open. as they head to second spot in G2. like a snowplow as they churned their way to sixth place in Open. Page 46 April 2000 Dusty Times

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In Memorium When Jean Calvin left this world on March 31, 1997, I was at a complete loss. The first problem that had to be handled was the printing of Dusty Times. I had little knowledge of the journalism field, much less the putting together of the paper and the printing thereof. With help from some very wonderful friends and more help from business associates, Dusty Tin1es never missed an issue. We received many tributes to Jean, from people all over the world and some of them were printed in various issues over the years. This third anniversary of her death we print a few of the tributes that honored Jean after her sudden demise. We hope you will all keep a good thought for Jean and remember her as a person who did so much for our sport for so many years and she is still sorely missed. ~~ A Little Dissertation About Jean Calvin, Off Road Icon, Idol and Hero Jean was skating in Europe when a dashing young Air Force man swept her off her feet. Returning from Europe she and John were married on September 22, 1956 and made Jean Calvin's last checkered flag came on March 3 1, 199 7. A slip and fall ended the ca-reer of an outstanding lady whose presence had an influ-ence on everyone associated with off road racing. Jean was the distinguished editor/pub-lisher/gofer/writer/ad seller of the bible of off road racing, Dusty Times. While she fo-cused on the buggies, cars and trucks, she had the utmost re-spect for the A TV and bike racers. When I first started to at-tend the SCORE races, it was to party and to find out to what awful inaccessible spot Morgan Malocco was sending me to pit for him. At that time Jean was the editor of SCORE News. Morgan made sure I knew who she was. Of course, I was so knowledgeable that I ! didn't even know what SCORE News was, however, if Morgan said I should know who Jean was, I paid atten-tion. Over the years our friendship grew and grew and while we would only see each other at the races, I always looked forward to seeing her and her husband John. While Jean had the latest in racing news, John had some of the weirdest, funniest jokes I had ever heard. year·, Jean having fun and their home in the San John asking why are we here? Fernando Valley. I am led to And we laughed and laughed believe they spent their hon-and laughed. eymoon racing but that is un-A few years ago, Jean was substantiated. Soon Jean was really excited, she was going kicking butt in SCCA races to go racing again. She had and loving every minute of it. accepted a co-driver ride at Everything she touched the SCORE Baja 500 and was turned to gold (except John). delighted beyond belief. From Peterson Publishing hired her the top of the ladder to the as an associate editor on bottom in one bad bump. She Sports Car Graphic, she free-hit her head (she was wearing lanced for Hot VW's and some an approved helmet), and it 15 years ago the off road in-was downhill from there. dustry was blessed with an as-Brain surgery was necessary to set we may never see again, save her, she lost a leg due to Jean Calvin, and after some poor circulation. The off road thrilling races with Les community was shocked, Choate and family, Jean was funds were raised to get her a hooked and the rest is history. state of the art prosthesis and Not only did Jean drive and you know what? She never win, she.wrote herself into our missed a race! Never! I re-lives. If you weren't in Dusty member Laughlin last year, Times, you must have not Jean was not in the best of competed. All the current, health, but damn the torpe-about to be and wanta be leg-does, there was a race and she ends beat a patch to her door-had to be there! step. The goal was the same Suddenly she has joined for all; Jean, will you mention Walt Lott, Claude Maynard, me? And, you know what, Floyd Hudson, Danny Hamel anyone who talked to her got and many others for the great their name in Dusty Times. off road races in the sky. It was Jean, many will follow in only then that I realized that ,·your footsteps, however, none I had never really gotten to will ever fill them! · know her. How did she be-Thank you forever, . come so devoted to a sport? Fud When did it happen? How did she convince her husband i Mental Images _ John to go along with her ob-' Wh h d · · h ff d • enever we ear wor s or ses1sion wit O roa racmg? phrases, our mind sorts through its' for irs' historical significance. co talk to, and char was the first When the race was over, all of the of a lot of conversations. For one fin!sher_s were_gathered around the thing, we were both racers at a ~msh l_me for post ~ace tech and time when there weren't many mspecuon. Along with the racers women driving off road, so we there were the race officials, the had a common basis for our talk. media, and hundreds of spectators. We could trade horror stories It was quite im~ressive. Then, from about bathrooms and one-piece out ~f the parkmg area, J s~w Jean driving suits and getting lost. walkmg cowards the mulmude of For a time, in the late seven-people that had converged upon ties, she had her office in the the finish line. The parking area same building in which I worked. was on the opposite of t~e race We often rook lunch together. By course, so Jean had to negonate the then I was writing also, and of-burms and ruts that had been ten for Jean. She taught me a lot ~ar:ved our by the race cars. That, about the craft and the industry. m itself, was no easy task for her, And I also co-drove with her in because she had lost half of her her race car. We ran in Class 9, suspension _sys~em and needed a and then moved up to the 1-2-cane to mamtam balance. As she 1600 class. The racing was great, approached the first burm, she the friendship was terrific took it at an_ angle, pausing at the When she started the ·Dusty top. Proceedmg at an angle, she re-Times she moved from our office peated_the process. Down the face building, but I was writing for ot the burm, pause, up the face of her regularly, and we talked to the middle of the burm, pause, each other often. Then in '94 she down the b_urm, pause, up. the last moved back to an office adjacent burm and she was across. You to mine. she was by then dealing might say to yourself, why didn't with the loss of the lower part of you help her? Well !'ll tell y~u why. her left leg, as well as the near con-she would have hit me with her stant pain from the plates and cane! Jean was very independent. screws that held both legs together. As she approache1 the throngs of Still, her indomitable will took her people, her face lit up and pale? to work seven days a week, and to the afternoon sun. She looked as 1f as many h Id fi · h h d · h' d •r. races ass e cou 1t m. s e a JUSt ac 1eve a 11 e long She brok h h' I f d I 'd If h , h e er 1p a coup e o ream. sa1 to myse , w at s s e d · d I smiling at? Then it dawned on me. years ago an misse on Y a "'.eek she didn't look at the crowd as a at }Vork, and when she had a slight bunch of dirty tired racers . She stroke about a year ago she had to perceived them as conquering war-be persuaded to leave _the office to riors returning from some distant se: he: doctor. Her gn_t and deter-campaign. To her they were all he- mmat10n were asromshing. The roes. She wasn't there because she paper had to be got out. She set an had to interview them, she was example for all who saw her pace there because she got to interview slow and her body grow ever more them. frail as she continued to work, con-Off-Road racing has lost one of tinued to get it all done. its' champioi:s, and I hope that Jean was a rough old bird, your I?ental image of Jean para!- stubborn, critical, loyal and hon-leis mme. est. She never failed her friends Herman De Nunzio or the sport she loved. I miss her, but at least I know she's not in I've lost a friend. pain any longer. When I called Jean one day back in 1989 and told her I was having a 24 hour race, she promptly informed me that she and Judy Smith had won the first one Walt Lott of HORA had organized. An-other scoop down the tubes. Jean had seen it all but wished me well. Later, when we started running a 24 hour for the cars, she made sure she was in attendance, and John t turns <_>ut that Jean was infinite data base and displays the an ac~omphs_hed athlete from image that represents what we the git go. Sit down, because heard. As if by magic we have in-this will blow your mind. Jean ·scant recall of the events that have was _a pro_fession~l ice s_kater, made im.pressions on our mind. skatmg with SonJa Heme and One of the bits of information chat Holiday on Ice. She went from has made an inde!ible impression Much more than chat: Jean ice cold to triple digit heat, on my mind, is that of Jean Calvin. was a mentor, a sponsor, a critic, from thousands in the arenas For those of you char did not have a co-worker, and an employer. to a few hearty pit crews in the the opportunity co know her as I . She was all those things to me, middle of nowhere. From did,rhisistheimagerhatmymind butafriendmostofall. world wide travel to events at brings up for me to remember. I mer Jean in I 97 I at a BRA El Centro and Stateline and It was the running of the 25th race when I introduced myself she loved every minute of it. SNORE 25? in Jean, Nevada. A. and mid her I'd admired an ar-JudySmith complained the whole time. A 1 great time was had by all! They came back ye~r after . ]. and I decided to enter that race tide she'd written. She was easy .. ---- ---------

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Challenger corner By Joel Mohr RACE RES UL TS: SNORE A VI 250: The course had to be shortened by 10 miles due to a problem with the Cali-fornia BLM, but 22 9s started and it proved to be an inter-es ting day. Last year's 9 champion, Jeremy Harmon, only made it a few feet off of the start line, suffering from a broken axle. Joel Davis didn't make it all of the way around, and Mike Bunderson only finished one lap. Rob and Dwaine Walters couldn't get their new car skinned in time so they teamed up with Brian Sallee. Brian started, and after setting fast lap for the class, lost a motor close to the end of his second. Matt Cunningham and Mike Larson got to go around twice, while Kevin Steele got in three. 15 cars did get in the required four laps, and it was Joe Sheble showing the way. CONGRATS JOE!!! Doug Ingram was back, and looking like he never took any time off. Doug was the most consistent of the top finishers, doing all four laps within about a minute of each other. GOOD JOB DOUG!!! Tim Dixon fin-ished third, and Andy Kisner came in fourth . Chad and Shane Woodruff were fifth, .and Keith Randall was sixth. Mandy Dixon was seventh , Bill Avery eighth, and Dan Folts, Harry Dunne, Dave Folts, and Gary Seagroves teamed UP. in Dan's new car to take ninth. Harry appar-ently won $50 for coming the closest to endoing on a cer-tain set of rollers. Ryan and Rodger Schank were back together again, but appar-ently an off track excursion through the cactus patch cost the pair dearly and they were 10th. Dale Looney and Eric Schenberger were back, but could only muster 11th place. The Hart clan was 12th, Kenny Thatcher was 13th, and Lynn and Bill Dickton were 14th. John Kelty was the last of the fin-ishers, and it sounded like everyone had a great time. The next SNORE race is the BUFFALO BILLS 400 at Stateline (PRIMM?), on April 14th-15th. Maybe I'll see you there ... MOR WILD WASH 250: Six 42 mile loops awaited the 10 Challengers that were signed up, but only eight took the green flag. Jim Rich-ardson lost his motor d ue to an oil pump failure while pre-running the day before, and Chad Shupp failed to make the call. Robert McCall un-fortunately didn't complete a lap, while Sean Defrank suf-fered from a broken rear shock mount on Lap 2. Billy Bunch and Tom Steeno blew the cobwebs off of Billy's mid-engined Sand winder, and recruited Russell Jones to prep and help with the driving chores. On the sec-ond lap, Billy couldn't figure out why his back was so wet, when he turned around to look, he saw the fuel line spraying all over the car. Luckily nothing caught fire, so Billy made repairs and continued on. In Dan Owen's car, Doug Silcock was motoring along when all of the driver's seat mounts broke. FAIR got him fixed, and sent him on his way. Wayne Collins broke a springplate on Lap 3, and Scott Caspino also disap-peared. Gary Stevens broke on Lap 4, and that left three of us still running. By Lap 4, we had about a 20 minute lead, and Russell Jones was in Billy's car trying to keep up the pace. On a nasty downhill, Russ whipped the wheel right, but it snapped back, catching his hand in the spoke of the wheel. It looked like it was broken, but ex-rays the next day showed no damage. Tom Steeno took over, and on the last lap with abo ut 20 miles to go, ran out of gas. He borrowed some from a Class 13 driver that had rolled, and went on to finish. While Tom was get-ting gas, Dan owefi motored ·by to inherit second place. We ended up winning with about a 40 minute margin, having no downtime, and the only problem being a low tire on the third lap. Luck was with us, and I hope the rest of the season goes just as well. Thanks to SUSPEN-SIONS UNL., SANDRAILS UNL., PRP, FOX, WEBCAM, R/D V ALVESPRING, and my newest sponsor, SMALL CAR CONNECTION in Hesperia. My riders , Jonathan Pew and Robert Otwell; Chaser dudes Harold Curry and Rick Pew. My wife and my family, and everyone that makes this class so much fun, win or lose. We'll see you at Ridgecrest on the 29th of April. M .O.R.E. BALLS OUT 250: Six 9s made up one third of the entire field, and it was a battle all day. Eight 30 mile loops was the flavor of the day in Lucerne Valley. Their computer had a prob-lem at the end of the day, so they couldn't give out results sheets. I'm reporting from memory, so I'll ask forgive-ness in advance for any mis-takes. Sean Defrank and I teamed up in his new car to try and get it dialed in bet-ter. Sean started third, and was leading at the end of the first lap with Robert Stapp and Robbie Cockrell close behind. On Laps 2 and 3, Cockrell was leading with Stapp in second, and De-frank in thir.d. Rix was fourth, with "The Guy that bought Clement's car" (sorry), and Peterson bring-ing up the rear. Dennis was letting his son get some more seat time, and it looks like he's doing pretty good. On Lap 4, the order stayed the same (I think), except De-f rank, who lost a steering joint pin. He got it fixed, and brought me the car. On Lap 5, Stapp was leading with Cockrell second, and Rix in third. I got two miles and broke a ball joint, and limped back to main to get it fixed. On the sixth and seventh lap, the order was the same, and we broke another ball joint. It seems Sean got a front end from a friend, and it wasn't set up right. Oh well. I limped it to Check 3, and the infamous Dave Girdner wired it together so we could limp the six miles back to main. At the finish, it was Stapp with the win, Cockrell second, and Peter-son third. Rix was fourth, and we finished fifth with about 15 minutes to spare. Stapp took home $800 be-tween purse and fast lap money, pretty good for a six car field. The people were very nice, very accommodat-ing, and the course was a lot of fun. If your schedule al-lows, you just might want to check them out. Once again, if yo u have any questions or comments, my number is (760) 947-6647. Or e-mail me at MOHRPRF@JUNO.COM . P.S. I need to make a correc-tion to last month's article. At the Laughlin race, Joe ultimate lonq travel ford lono travel system Get the benefits ol our Long Travel system and 3" lllt spindles, creating 6" of lilt far incredible ground clearance. ri"9@f'@! ■ 3' lift spindles n.. ■ Upper Control arms '-WllU@Wy ■ Lower Control arms ■ Coil springs ■ 3 way front shocks ■ Performance rear ·shocks ■ Rear kit 3-wau adjustable shocff ab$orber (c'GI toyota long travel system Our Toyota 2 wheel drive, 6' 1van Dan' long travel system. Built to satisfy all the serious off roaders out there. 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Sheble was third on Satur-day, Dqed, and didn't return on·Sunday. C.O.R.E. Pit Report. By Sandy Parker M.O.R.E. Millennium 250 Race Reports Team Inch (Class 1-1600) Brad Inch was going to at-tempt to solo the race but af-ter the events of the first few laps he handed the car over to Perry King. Brad blew a rear tire on the first lap and managed to hobble it to a CORE pit to get it replaced. While in the pit they discov-ered that the other rim was bent so they replaced both rear tires. After the second lap Brad gave the car to Perry King who drove the last 10 laps. On the fourth lap, Perry radioed in that the power steering failed. In CORE Main they found the ram bracket had broken off of the rack and pinion, so after a quick weld job, Perry was back in the hunt. Brad and Perry managed to pick up a few quick lap dollars and fin-ished third in class. Team Moessner/Parker (Class 1-1600) This was the first race stepping out of a Challenger and-into our new/used· 1600. I purchased the car from Tom and Mike Malloy who just had a new Lothringer built. I was unfortunately or-dered not to drive by my doc-tor, so I had my long time friend and co-driver Tom Moessner solo the race. Af-ter driving the car for the first time the day before the race, Tom indicated that the car is able to go much faster than he wanted to Jo. This fear was conquere within ten minutes on race day as seven of Tom's 12 la s were class fast laps. Tom soloed the race and had just a per-fect day driving like an old 1600 veteran. During our half way gas stop, we noticed the c.v. boot had worked its way off the inboard c. v. joint, so we greased it up, rein-stalled the boot, fueled the car up and sent him on his way. Tom had absolutely no problems until he pulled into a CORE Pit to tell them that Paul Smith's Class 11 was stuck on a hill. Tom noticed that the CORE Pit people were changing a front tire so Tom screamed at them, "No, I'm just here to tell you about Paul, put the tire back on!!" The guys reluctantly put the tire back on and let him con-tinue. Tom embarrassingly discovered a few feet from the pit that the tire was ac-tually flat as he heard the noise of the rim as it hit rocks in the first turn. To make matters worse, he drove past the next pit, stating later that he wasn't losing any time running on the flat. During all the radio traffic on the subject I was thinking that I really could use a nice, new, 120 dollar mangled cer:tterline clock to hang on the wall since my old clock is a white spoke steel Chal-lenger wheel. As it turned out, the rim was not dam-aged. Tom finished the race, first in class and second over-all. We collected a check for $ 1000 for first place and fast lap cash, not bad for a seven car field. I would like to thank the Maiioys for seiiing me their old car that was fast out of the box, to Paul Smith for teaching me 1600 car prep techniques, and to Brad Inch who helped me dial in the shocks. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP!!! Team Stapp/Craig (Class 9) Rob Stapp and Todd Craig grabbed their first (of many) Class 9 victories and accom-plished it in fine style. Rob started the race and drove ver consistent six la s kee -PIKES service ·center Baker, California Celebr~ing 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ••• THANKS! Mobil® SERVICE RESTAURANT Every Day . Open 24 Hours Year Round THE BEST IN THE DESERT! Dusty Times ing the car within striking distance of the leaders. Todd Craig drove the last six laps and again proved that he is the more aggressive hot dagger of the team. Todd had a panic attack when he wopped a rock and got a flat tire which he drove on until the rim came off the bead and. spun inside the tire. Todd was stuck on a hill, in first place, and yes without a spare tire. I would like to add that when I sold the car to Rob, it had a very functional spare tire mount on the roof which was removed for es-thetics. The pit crew made it to the car relatively quickly and got new rubber on the car. Luckily the guys had enough of a lead that Todd was able to get the car to the finish line in first place. As a side note, Todd said he has nightmares about the race so he gave Rob the ultimatum, put a spare tire on the car or he won't drive. Guess what, a spare tire is now standard equipment on the car. Con-gratulations guys on the first place finish!!! T earn Girdner (Class 9) Veteran Class 9 racer Dave Girdner teamed up with his grandsons Davy Girdner and T.J. Craig to get their old Funco car out of moth balls and back on the course. Several weeks of work and the bo)(S were ready to do battle in Barstow. The race was started by Davy Girdner who drove the first six laps. Driving in only his second race, Davy was able to keep the car in fourth place and managed to swap positions with Rob Stapp a few times. They had some great racing and Davy did an excellent job of driving. Dave Girdner wanted his fun also, so he took over and drove two laps. Dave was slowed down by a problem with the front beam mounts which was worked on by a CORE pit and later welded by CORE Main. T .J. Craig, grandson to Dave and son of veteran Class 10 driver, Tom Craig, Jr., was given the seat to finish the race. T.J. in his first race drove the last four laps only being slowed by car-buretor problems. Dave, it was nice to see you back in the driver seat and especially cool to see the next genera-tion of off road racing Girdners in action.' Team Smith/Depew (Sportsman) Paul Smith purchased Judy Smith's old Baja 1000 proven Class 11 racer and brought it out to compete in the Sports-man clas·s. Paul had Bob Depew as a co-driver and also put him in charge of watching the mirrors. On the second lap the spring hold-ing a trailing arm shock mount skid plate broke and needed to be fixed during a few pit stops. Exciting mo-ments occurred while run-ning in the dust when they hit a hole and launched the car about 25 feet in the air and hit a rock the size of a Chevy block, okay I'm stretching the truth but they both agree the hole was deep and the rock was big. Paul and Bob had a relatively flawless run until the c.v. joint exploded while at-tempting to climb a rough, rocky, and nasty mountain. Finishing four and a half of the six laps, they managed to finish second in class and collect a very nice trophy. CORE Pit Support CORE Main The Parkers, Bruce Pursell, and Mike DuBois ran the Main Pit. Fuel stops and driver changes were per-formed on most CORE cars. 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were welded in the Main Pit. CORE Pit Able The CORE Able Pit was manned by Jim Wagner, Dave Woulf and Mike Ridlin. Able Pit changed two tires on Brad's car on Lap 1 and fueled the car mid race. The guys almost changed a front flat for Tom Moessner. CORE Pit Baker Mike Long, Steve McMul-lin and Tom Craig, Jr., teamed up to run CORE Baker Pit. The only activity was while working on the front end of Girdner's Chal-lenger. SCORE Laughlin Chal-lenge Team Malloy (Class 1-1600) The Malloys entered their new Lothringer 1-1600 car in the short course Laughlin race. Mike drove both days and ended up with a fifth place in the very large class. Mike was slowed down by desert racing transmission gearing which was a bit off for the short course style race. The dust was a big fac-tor, if you didn't start in the front of the pack you didn't see anything. Also keep your eyes open for the new Mal-loy 1600 to grace the pages of Hot VW's in an upcom-ing issue. T earn Dubin/Weyer (Class 1) Gary Dubin and Cory Weyer drove their Class 1 hard on the first day until they stuffed it into a hole and broke off a front corner of the car. They scrambled for parts and got the car back on the course missing only a few brake parts. Ac-tually the few missing criti-cal parts slowed them down considerably on the second day, but they were able to finish the race. • Custom Pro Cell Bladders with seamless Fuel Sale's "Pro Cell" is our top-of.the-line racing c,/1 that comes ready to install and it's backed by a lull 10 year warranty. super-tough, triple coated construction • 10 year Bladder warranty • Safety foam baffling • Custom manufactured aluminum containers • FIA·FT3, SCORE and SODA approved • Custom manufactured fillers • (800) 433-6524 technical hoUine . • Over 25 years experience tor more info call or write to: e Aircraft Rubber/Fuel Sale 63257 Nels Anden:on Road Bend, Oregon 97701 (5<41) 388-0203 (541 )388-0307 lax httpJlwww.luelsale.com Best In The Desert Ter-rible Town 250 The SPEC team headed to Pahrump to run the Best in the Desert Series race. The old team of Kevin McGillivray and Donny An-gel were back together to drive/ride the entire race. Looks like they got the old chemistry back as they had a flawless day on the way to a second place finish in class and ninth overall. The only real problems were too tall gears, intermittent brakes, no wind thus bad dust, and the constant whining of the co-driver. Kevin said about every half hour Donny would ask Kevin "are you tired yet, want me to drive the rest of the way in?" 2000 C.O.R.E. Board Members The votes are in and here are the Board Members for the CORE 2000 racing year: PRESIDENT: The honor-able Brad Inch; VICE PRESIDENT: Sandy Parker; TREASURER: Joan Wagner; SECRETARY: Hilly Smith; RACE DIREC-TORS: Jim Wagner and Mike DuBois; DRIVERS REPS: Tom Malloy and Gary Dubin; SARGENT OF ARMS: The big guy, Lex Webb; PR. DIRECTOR: Shasbum Webb. New Members Ken and Melody Myers were recently voted in as new CORE members. The cluh was introduced to Ken and M elody at a CORE Outing when their group of friends didn't show up so they spent the weekend w_ith our group. They have been desert rats involved in desert racing and motorcycles since 1976. Thank you for join.ing the CORE family. Searching for professional family oriented pit support. We have monthly meetings on the first Tuesday of the month at Mulligans Restau-rant in Santa Clarita at 8 Do Nore Than Just H•ck Up ••rtt ,.., pm. For more information, join us at the meeting or call me at (818) 772-7758 ore-mail me at race97 5@aol.com. LOco5MOCOS.com News "We .ix stuH FREE" By Mark Naugle All the gossip on the cyber-desert concerns the San Felipe 250 course. SCORE has announced that the entire course will run south of the Arches and will have no highway crossings. The word is that one leg will run down Matorni Wash. LocosMocos.com will be set up deep in that wash with our standard "We fix stuff FREE" pit crew, fine cuisine, and also a couple of 4 WD's to help out those who de: velop a loss of traction. We will also be trying to provide radio relay out of Matomi. We hope to be able to set up an antenna up on the rim above our pit so we can relay out. Get 153 035 Mhz programmed into your race radios and you can con-tact us for help. Since as of this writing the course map has not been published, we can ·not give our exact pit location. We will have the OPS coordi-nates for-our pit up on our website by the end of Febru-ary. We do know that the pit will be east of the "Squeeze Rock." We traveled down Matomi back in•November and this should make for some exciting racing in that section. Dinner will be serv·ed in the pit on Friday night be-fore the race as well as breakfast on race day. Al-though the menu has not yet been set, carnarones will form a major portion of the dinner menu. If you are in-terested in dining with us at Casa Matorni, drop an e-Wllnt mail to BajaJones@locosmocos.com for reservations. As always, we welcome anyone with a desire to do some pit work to help us out. This area is littered with half buried boulders so we antici-pate doing a bunch of tire changing. If you are inter-ested in joining us and wielding an air wrench or pumping a jack, contact BCGI@locosmocos.com for details. LocosMocos.corn will be at Pete's Camp starting on Monday of race week so drop by and say Hola! Any other questions to to www.locosmocos.com. We will be constantly _updating our page as we get new in-formation. While you are there, don't forget to order · a "Dirt First! Save the Off Road Planet" t-shirt. All proceeds from the shirt sales go to buy pit supplies. MAORA News20DO · By Larry "Tippy" Tipsword, Race Director I'm excited! This season is going to be a BLAST! MAORA turns 25 this year and plans on ending the cen-tury in a big way. For the first time iµ several years MAORA is offering a four race Enduro series on four different track layouts. Three i OOK r aces and a 200K finale. We have con-tingency sponsors corning on board just for this series. At this time the Endure series is limited to Class 7 e trucks and MAORA cars. We plan to offer as a non-profit race a SOK event for Quads dur-ing the "Fall Classic" week-end. Class 7 e is going to ex-plode this year, Ford Rang-ers seem to be falling from the sky. Last year's Class 7e champion Richard Albin and I made a little road trip Wl11h 76 Racllna Gasolllne Page so ~ Free. 761t~clng GU~fo~ th·e'.28f)t S~a~on ! One ent,y fur each 2s· ga11ons of76 100 or 110 Octene Racing Ga&Olfne purchased from Cl Bryant or an authorized distributor from Jan. 1, 2000 through October 31, 20001 Win Free 76 Racing Gasoline (up to 250 gallons.) To Enter: Send your proof of purchase, along with Name, Address, and Phone to: CL Bryant, Inc. Attn: Mitch 237 E. WhltmoreAw. Modesto, CA. 95358 ~RACING '.f/VGASOLINE www., ............... 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recently to "Carl's 4 Wheel Drive and Performance Cen-ter" in Bartelso, IL and picked up one of Richard's late Christmas presehts, new Rancho shocks for his truck. As usual "Dirty" was more than helpful, he even took time off from his busy day to show us his new race shop! There were so many goodies in that shop that we found it hard not to touch. Dave's new Ranger was coming along fine and it's about race ready, but his spare stock ranger wasn't in sight. It seems that truck had moved farther south to Steph Saba's well heated race ga-rage. Steph tells me he is switching to trucks this sea-son and I have to believe him because I took most of modified, restricted; Pro 11, 1600cc stock, restricted; Pro 5-1600, 1600cc modified se-dan, restricted; Sportsman 12, run what you bring; Women's, open to cars and trucks; MAORA Quads, both pro and sportsman; Children's Go-Carts, mem-bers and family only, against the clock. Mid America Off Road Association is a non-profit family oriented racing sanc-tioning body established to organize and hold races at which MAORA points may be earned and MAORA rules followed. The club is governed by a board of direc-tors and class representa-tives. Races are adminis-tered by a race director. The workers that you see at the track wearing club T-shirts are volunteers. For more in-formation you can join MAORA for $50 and re-ceive club newsletters or visit our home page. See you in May at the "Harris Met-als 100." For general information contact Walt "Wolfman" Flack at (217) 987-6568 -www.illininet.net/-wolfman. For tech information con-tact Steph Sabo at (618) 327-9312. coming Next Month ... SCORE San Felipe 250 48th Safari Rally in Kenya M.O.R.E. Lucerne 250 ... Plus All The Regular Features the front end of his 1600 car·---------------------------------------------------home with me to finish the car I will race this year. Steph has always been a hard charger and should be a wel-come photo opportunity for this class. While speaking of Ranger trucks and southern Illinois, a little bird landed on my shoulder and told me a tale of three veteran mud racers from the Wabash River area. One of these gentlemen explained to me that they will race Rangers built at the same shop to the same specs. Rumor also has it that an Sl0 Chevy is be-ing built in the Greenup area, right in these guys' back yard. "Interesting!" Back to Ranger news, from Springfield, one of our vol-unteer track workers, Grant Maholland, told me at the Awards Banquet that he is confiscating his father's daily driver, a Ranger, and installing a cage. Grant has racing experience from be-hind the wheel of a V-8 pow-ered truck in both SODA and CORR series and will be an asset to this class. After the hog roast at last year's "Fall .Classic" Don Ponder confided that he's ready to return to ou.r home-spun style of racing. Don is a long time MAORA member and last season raced a stadium truck in the Pace US Off Road Championship Series. Add that to last year's regu-lars and we have all the mak-ings for an exciting series. Sonny, where are you? For those of you who might want to race in a truck division this could be your answer. Class 7e trucks are four cylinder mini trucks with limited modifications allowed. This is a budget-minded class, it is possible for the second place finisher to claim a winner's motor at the end of a race for as little as $500. This helps keep the cost of racing reasonable and the competition close. I think one of the reasons Steph went to this class was that they have fenders. For the competitor who prefers to race WITHOUT big fenders MAORA offers the following classes of wheel to wheel action. Class / Engine / Carb Pro 9, 1650cc water-cooled/1915 air-cooled, open; Pro 1/2-1600, 1600cc Dusty Times WILD ROSE AUCIION "OFF-ROAD TRUCK RACING" FLANNERY RACING LIQUIDATION AUCTION Jack Flannery, Owner 3551 5th Ave. - Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin Saturday April 22, 2000 9:30 A.M. (CDT) DIRECTIONS: From Wisconsin Dells go 5 miles east on Hwy. 23 to CTH G, north on G to Fur Lane, then west on Fur to auction site. The Flannery family has been a leader in the off-road-truck racing circuit for many years, but, due to the loss of the national sponsor (Chevrolet Trucks), the family has withdrawn from racing to pursue other interests in the logging industry. Jack & Jamey are recognized as top drivers/truck owners and will now sell at auction most all their teams equipment, off-road race TRUCKS, pit equipment, car trailers, fabrication equipment, tools, etc.! AUCTIONEER'S NOTE: We are privileged to conduct this outstanding auction of state-of-the-art off-road truck racing equipment. An outstanding assortment of top quality, like new, tools, equipment, and shop items. We will auction EVERYTHING - - including spare engines, frames, parts, pit equipment, complete racing trucks, etc.. A MAJOR AUCTION OFFERING requiring (2) -or possibly (3), at times, - auction sales rings selling simultaneously in order to liquidate this collection of goods. BRING A BIDDING PARlNER!! Many motels available to Wisconsin Dells, just 10 miles away (1-800-223-3557 / www.wisdells.com). Nearest commercial airport is Madison, WI,just 55 miles distance. Racing Trucks And Semi-Trailers Equipped For Racing!! These trucks and semi-trailers are subject to prior sale. Trucks include (3) Pro 4's, (I) Pro 2, and (I) Ultimate Pre-Run (possible street legal hot rod). (3) Semi-Trailers equipped for racing. Check our web site to confirm updated auction listing. THIS AUCTION FEATURES: Complete Race Truck Fabrication Shop, Machine Shop, & Repair Shop; Engines Include: (6) New & Used Pontiac Rocket Block w/Brodix Heads & Intakes And (3) Used SB2 Chevy 410 Cu. In. (All V8's w/Approx. 750 HP); (250+) New & Used BF Goodrich Off-Road 15" & 17" Tires (Many With Ultra Aluminum Wheels w/Champion Bead Locks); New Goodrich 15" & 17" Tire Inner-Liners; 1,000's OfNew GM/Chevrolet Parts; (3) Honda Cub & (3) Honda Elite Mopeds; Chevrolet Full-Size Truck Fiberglass Body Panels, Doors, Hoods. Etc.; New & Used AAM Drive Shafts & Eiback Coil Springs; New Heim Spherical End Bearings; Custom Built Ron Davis Radiators & Coolers; Stainless Braided Oil & Water Lines w/Fittings; Wilwood & CNC & GM/Corvette Disc Brake Calipers (New); Bowman Nuts & Bolts Bins; 1993 Bridgeport Series I CNC Milling Machine w/Accessories; Welders; Power Washers; Steam Cleaners; (3) Ivan-Smith & Several Snap-On Roll-About Tool Boxes; (3+) 55 Gal. Drums VP Racing Fuel; #CJ4 Jet & Standard Modem Lathes w/Anilam Controls; (2) 9000# Manitowoc Lifts; Manitowoc 2000# Hydraulic Roll-About Engine Lift; Welders; Tons Of Shop Equipment; Snap-On Hand Tools; Office Equipment, And Much More!! Note - this is only an early and brief generic listing!! Call or visit our web-sites (www.wrauction.com OR www.lastauctions.com) after April 3. 2000 for a full and detailed listing with photos. TERMS: Cash, Major Credit Cards, Or Bank Guaranteed Funds w/Bank Letter Of Credit ONLY! Payment in full for all purchases at time of auction - NO Exceptions! Positive photo ID required to register to bid and buy. 10% Buyers' Fee applies & 5.5% WI sales tax. Viewing - Inspection - Pre-Registration: Friday, April 21st, between 10:30 A.M. - 2:00 P.M. (CDT), ONLY! In Conjunction With LUST AUCTION SERVICES - Madison, WI 53744 Wild Rose Auction·& Real Estate Co., Inc. (Registered Wisconsin Auction Co. #7) 545 Main St. (P.O. Box 224) ♦ Wild Rose, Wisconsin 54984-0224 Phone: (920) 622-4000 ♦ Fax: (920) 622-4322 ♦ Web Site: www.wrauction.com Bruce A. Bieri, CAI Registered Wisconsin Auctioneer #40 April 20CO Page 51

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Page 52 tary of my experiences as a partici-pant in the 30th Annual SCORE Baja 500 in Ensenada, Baja Califor-nia, Mexico on June 5, 1999 The Baja 500 I have only pursued the great sport of off road desert racing for six months, but already find it to be very exciting, demanding and challeng-ing. My unique situation stems from the fact that I live in Southeastern Indiana. The Midwest offers several different types of off road racing, however, none compare to the thrills of flat our desert rac-ing. Having been interested in the sport for several year, I somehow never managed to travel Westward to attend an event. However, my curiosity finally got the best of me last year when I attended the Baja 1000. After many attempts at trying to find a team to help chase and pit for me during the race, I fi-nally hooked up with the team of Wes, Scott, and Brady Wisdom, who raced a Class 1/2-1600 buggy. Sur-prisingly, my first conversation with the Wisdom T earn was initiated via the Internet. Because of my enthu-siasm and interest they welcomed me onto their team to provide support during the grueling 1000 mile race down the Baja Peninsula from Ense-nada to LaPaz. And "Wow!" that race turned out to be one of the most memorable events in my life. It took 33 hours to complete and was very intense, filled with excitement, worry, determination and satisfac-tion. At that point, I officially caught the "Bug" for desert racing. Since that race, I have shown my devotion to the sport by attending each of the SCORE races, despite living half way across the country. It was also at the Baja 1000 last year that I met Ge_orge Seeley, Jr., who has been a long time participant in Class 5 (Unlimited Baja Bug). Technically, I met George and the other members of his race team, Bruce Anderson and .Paul Buster, when I hitched a ride with them from the awards ceremony in LaPaz down to Cabo San Lucas. I needed· to get to Cabo San Lucas for a departing flight back to the Midwest. After sev-eral hours of race stories, laughs, and insight into the sport, we made it to the airport. I thanked George and the other team member for the ride and promised to talk with them dur-ing the upcoming races the follow-ing year. April 2000 The New Season ( 1999) The Laughlin Desert Challenge and the San Felipe 250 were the first two races of the new year. I was for-tunate enough to attend these races and hook up with George Seeley, Jr. once again. I helped him out during both of these races as he finished first and second, respectively. And let me tell you, George impressed me as be-ing a consistent, skilled, fiercely competitive driver. After these races George and I talked about the possi-bility of me riding along with him as a co-pilot in the upcoming Baja 500! These discussions finally lead to a definitive "yes" as George offered me the passenger seat for the first half of the race. The second half of the race would be manned by driver Bruce Anderson and co-pilot Paul Buster. I knew that actually riding along in a car was the next step to a better understanding of off road desert racing, but I had no idea that I would have the opportunity this soon. I was very excited, anxious, and thankful from the day I was given the opportunity. In fact, these feelings lasted throughout the next six week period leading up to the race. I went crazy during that time frame, but kept busy trying to obtain adequate race gear and by making travel arrangements to the Wild West once again. The Logistics On the morning of Tuesday, June 1st, George Seeley, Jr. picked me up at the San Diego Airport accompa-nied by his bright yellow Class 5 rocket ship. At that point the whole "Baja Experience" began to take form. I finally realized that in a few days I would be strapped into the pristine race car to endure a high speed race across the untamed desert. As we ·began our quest for "Baja", we stopped just short of the Mexican border for groceries for the long week anead. The objective was to "pre-run" the course on Wednes-day and Thursday, go through Con-tingency and Tech Inspection on Friday, and of course, race on Satur-day. Pre-running, which is actually driving the course prior to the race, is an event that many of the com-petitors do in order to understand the terrain, seek out the best possible race lines, and familiarize themselves with the difficult sections. Contin-gency, which is the most exciting part of the weekend for many spec-tators and locals, is where vendors and sponsors set up to display and sell their products. The Joker Hotel Tuesday afternoon we arrived in Ensenada at the Joker Hotel. The Joker Hotel has been the hotel of choice for the Seeley Race T earn for the past nine years. It was clearly evident from the time we arrived that this was a "Baja ritual" for George. He was no stranger to the manage-ment and employees as they gathered around the race car with smiles and nods of appreciation. Once checked in, we unloaded the car and began to converse with several other race teams that had already arrived. Later that evening, the rest of our team showed up at the hotel. Bruce Anderson and Paul Buster arrived in a white crew cab chase truck trailering a tricked out Ford Bronco pre-runner. The situation was get-ting better by the minute! I was defi-nitely looking forward to pre-running the course over the next few days. Pre-Running · Wednesday morning came early as we got up at 6:30 a.rn. to prepare for the long day ahead. Powered by enthusiasm, we made sure the proper food, tools, and maps were packed. Bruce, George and myself set out in the pre-runner for the start of the race course in El Sauzal, 4.5 miles north of Ensenada on Highway 1. Paul took the chase truck to Ojos Negros, a small town 25 miles due east of the starting line on Highway 3, to await our arrival. As we pulled off the highway at the El Sausalito Motel we saw the official start line outlined by SCORE banners. There were several other racers there that extended "good lucks" as we started our voyage up through the moun-tains. I began to realize just a few short miles into the course why this race was so trying for the drivers and their vehicles. We were jarred back and forth in the Bronco, which was very well equipped, as we navigated the roughest terrain imaginable. Miles crept by slowly as we crawled up and down tight trails through rocks, woods, and washouts. Certain portions of the course were so rough that we had to stop and negotiate which route would be best for the race car. I was surprised that my past experiences as a spectator didn't do a scrap of justice for the different types of obstacles and driving con-ditions that the participants were faced with throughout the course of the race. In the past I would go to heavily populated points on the race course, such as road crossings, and watch as the trucks and cars zoomed by. However, those "mainstream" spots were usually high speed sec-tions that didn't truly show how technical the race course could get at times. The intense part of pre-run-ning was when we would get to a high speed section or a highly tech-nical section and I would ask "How fast will we be corning through here in the actual race?" The answer would usually range from two to four times faster than we were going at that point in the pre-runner! Wow! That was when my adrenalin would start to accelerate in anticipation of race day. Mike's Sky Ranch Late in the evening we found our-se Ives just north of Valle De Trinidad where the race course met Highway 3. By this point we were all pretty tired, having trekked nearly 200 course miles. The decision was made to push on to Mike's Sky Ranch, a motel/restaurant/bar in one of the most desolate areas in all Baja. Bruce, who is a frequent visitor of the famed local, knew that dinner was served at 7:30 p.m. each evening. Looking at our watches, we realized that we would need to hightail it if we expected to get a hearty meal. After racing down a twisty fire road for about 15 miles in the pre-runner and chase truck, I finally saw signs of life and civilization. I had heard many stories about Mike' Sky Ranch from people who had been there and others who had only hoped to some-day get the opportunity. I was ex-cited to be visiting for the first time and looked forward to my short stay. Upon arrival, Bruce and George im-mediately began showing me around. The place was a haven for off road desert racing. Everywhere I looked there were pictures, autographs, or race paraphernalia from an assort-ment of racers from several different eras. I was studying the decor when I heard Bruce bark, "time for dinner, boys!" As I entered the dining room I was pleasantly surprised to find a wholesome, steak dinner and several Mexican side dishes awaiting me. After the awesome meal, I decided to turn in for the evening. My room was scarcely furnished, but had all of the essentials, just the way I liked it. I took a warm shower before the Dusty Times

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I 1 generator supplying the heat and electric shit down at te n o'clock. Mike's Sky Ranch was the perfect blend of everything I love about off road. I will definitely g0 back. Final Preparation The next morning we pulled out of Mike's Sky Ranch at 5:30 a.m. The objective was to leave early so that the chase truck wouldn't encounter any head-on pre-runner traffic on the way out. The only road leading · in and out of Mike's was also part of the race course. I found this to be extremely cool. I stayed in the Bronco and continued to run the course for the next 50-60 miles as George took the chase truck out to the main highway. Once again, some of the terrain was unbelievable, in-cluding the switchbacks on the steep mountainsides. I was not going to get to see this part of the course in the race car so I was glad I could ride along and encounter the landscape. Later, we met George in the chase· truck where the race course inter-sected Highway 1, just south of Santo Tomas. From that point we were done pre-running because Bruce and Paul had already run the remaining portions of the course the prior week on motorcycles. As we headed back towards Ensenada we stopped in the small, quaint village of Santo Tomas for a well-deserved breakfast. During this rowdy, but fun meal, I once again realized that I was with good company. We arrived back at the Joker Hotel around noon on Thursday and immediately began to make final preparations to the race car. The fin-ishing touches included putting in · the window nets, securing the spare tires, applying the appropriate de-cals, and attaching the light racks. At this time I began to prepare for my co-pilot duties as well. I adjusted the passenger seat belts to fit snug, yet comfortably. I practiced getting in and out of the car in a timely fash-ion. And, I became acquainted with the location of the car jack, tools, and first aid kit in case of an emer-gency. George coached me through the radio controls and the air filtra-tion system inside the cockpit. Once we attached the course map and notes to the dashboard, the check-list of "things to do" was complete. It was time to place the cover over the car for the evening. George or-dered all of us to lend a hand and help polish the raw chromoly chas-sis to its natural luster and buff the authentic beetle shell to a brilliant shine. It is truly impressive how de-tail oriented the off road racers are about their vehicle's appearance and finish before the races. They feel that the race car's presentation is a reflec-tion of how well prepped the car is and how strong it will perform dur-ing the harsh race conditions. BFG Tire Meeting Late Thursday evening we ven-tured to the Estero Beach Hotel & Resort for the BFGoodrich Tire Meeting. This was an event that al-lowed all BFG sponsored race teams to drop off spare tires and fuel to the well coordinated BFG pit crews. Since George has been sponsored by BFG for several years they provide him with pit support during all SCORE races. Throughout this race we woulci be stopping at all four BFG pits situated at various locations around the course to receive fuel and any maintenance required. It was a pleasure to be part of the BFG effort since they sponsor some of the most successful and popular race teams in the sport. Glancing around the room, I noticed many serious racers that were always at the top of their class standings. This definitely ma~ me feel confident in our team's support throughout the long race. During the presentation, a detailed course map was provided and race officials ex-plained important race information, course changes, and caution areas. Contingency & Tech I arose Friday morning to a sun filled day with excitement in the air. It was time to take the race car through Contingency Row and Technical Inspection. I had been to Contingency and Tech at past races as a spectator and knew the kind of chaos that was in store. I grabbed my camera as George, Bruce; Paul and myself headed out the door. We de-cided to participate in the "parade of cars" that would take place through the streets ofEnsenada prior to the opening of Contingency Row. This was an event that Sal Fish, President of SCORE, had organized in appreciation of the local commu-nity and visiting fanatics. I chose to ride along in the race car so I could get my first "real driving experience" as a passenger. I climbed into the comfortable cabin and buckled up as the massive 3000cc Fat Performance Type 4 VW engine grumbled through its warm up phases. Upon arriving at the San Nicholas Hotel we saw that many other racers had already started to line up for the parade. Among the crowd was Ivan "Iron Man" Stewart, who is a virtual liv-ing legend to the sport of off road desert racing. His prize winning T ro-phy Truck, sponsored by Toyota, was perched in the pole position for the parade lap. Behind Ivan was an as-sortment of race cars from practically all of the 17 four wheel vehicle classes. It seemed that all of the par-ticipants wanted to arrive early in order to get a good spot for Contin-gency and Tech. There was an ad-vantage in getting registered and ap-proved early so you could relax and rest for the remainder of the day. We pulled into formation behind a Class 1/2-1600 buggy and in front of a Class 12 (Score-Lite) buggy. Once 10:00 a.m. approached the buzzing of VW engines and the thundering of small blocks echoed through the . streets of 50 or more buggies and trucks rolled in a single file line. People lined the streets in amaze-ment as the entourage slowly snaked its way through downtown Ensena-da. After returning to the San Nicho-las Hotel, Ivan lead the line up through Contingency. All engines were shut off as the race teams be-gan to push their machines delicately through the crowded, narrow alley-way made up of vendor and sponsor booths, known as Contingency Row. Thousands of people were hustling around trying to get glimpses and touches of the finely crafted vehicles. The setting was carnival like with loud music blaring, people dancing, and street vendors .selling food and gifts. As we pushed o·ur beautiful Class 5 car along, people continu-ously stopped us in order to take pic-tures and get autographs. At times, I even found myself signing auto-graphs for the local children en-thralled by this exhilarating event that was invading their town. We fi-nally wheele4 the car out of the lime-BIGGER BOULDERS • BETTER BUMPS • BOUNTIFUL BRUISES SPORTSMAN PRO CLASS "I" PRO CLASS "II" Best payment yet, plus the For the Almost-1 /2 Unlimited Challenger a-race-car, it's 10 and lowest entry fees. 1/2-1600 5/1600 run what you Mini Metal brung. 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The Night Before The night before the race was filled with nervous anticipation.· I went to dinner at the popular CasaMar Restaurant with George and several friends that came to watch the spectacle and cheer us on. During the race they would help chase and provide pit support at,our driver change in Valle De Trinidad. After many race stories from the past and a wonderful meal I decided to turn in for a good night of rest. How-ever, upon lying down I realized that I was so keyed up for the next morn-ing to arrive that it was going to be a while before I fell asleep. I _kept vi-sualizing in my mind the events· that may take place during the race. I was fueled by the thoughts of our race car powering through the course that I had already encountered during pre-running. l was thankful to be so clo·se to fulfilling "the dream of participat-ing in the famed Baja 500. Finally, my nerves settled and tiredness set in as I dozed off. Race Day · I woke up at 5:30 a.m. on Satur-day full of energy and enthusiasm. The butterflies immediately began to flutter in my stomach. I wasn't ner-·vous about the task at hand, but anx-ious to get started and have the car run flawlessly for the duration of the Continued on page 54 8--t.bttte~ 4P""-e!I SEPTEMBER 16th· Wendover, USA Page 53 ...

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race. I knew it was a long race that usually took its toll on most of the vehicles. It is not uncommon for only 30-40% of the vehicles to finish these types of races. However, I did know that we stood a good chance to fin-ish on top due to Seeley Racing's past track record, careful preparation, driver skill, and passion for the sport. Intensity grew in George's eyes as our starting slot got closer and closer. The race began at 6:00 a.m. for mo-torcycles and 7 :30 a.m. for four wheel vehicles. Each of the different classes started the race in a precise order from fastest to slowest. Within ev-ery class there was a 30 second stag-ger between each vehicle off the line. A drawing that took place several weeks prior to the race predeter-mined starting positions within the classes. We started third in Class 5, making us car #503. There were six cars in our class so we knew we had two Class 5s to catch and three to hold off for the class win. The race was calculated by time, but it was fairly evident how you were doing throughout the race since the race was so long and all of the cars started so close together. We would also be informed of our position at each pit stop and through communication with our chase trucks. By the time 7:30 a.m. struck, the Trophy Trucks began to scream off the line. At this point, I was running on pure adrenalin. It was the mo-ment that I had been waiting for, the . moment of truth! How tough is this race? How would we finish? Would it be everything I anticipated? It was time to answer these questions. As we crept closer to the start line, the excitement was building as several thousand people began tofocus their Page 54 attention our way. I could see the first Class 5 car (#501) approach the line. As. the flag dropped he shot off like a bullet. At that point the race was initiated: Next car #502 inched to the line and just a moment later was signaled to start. At last, it was our time to shine. George calmly po-sitioned the car to the line. As the official raised his arm to motion our start, George revved the motor as a throaty roar bellowed out. It seemed as if the beautiful, mild mannered car turned into a monster as we took off. Around the first turn we sprayed gravel and dust as we hit the dirt. At this point, I was already looking forward to the miles ahead. We ripped up the mountainside with ex-treme power, force and agility. We feathered through the turns and dug-in down the straight-aways. Approxi-mately one mile into the race we faced our first challenge, a hefty ramp made by the surrounding locals. From the cockpit it looked like a shear wall. Having not bee in this situation before, I didn't know what George would do. But obviously he did as he punched the gas and lofted the race car over the huge mound of rocks. It was the first of many intense feelings that I would encounter as the front end lifted and the rear end kicked off the lip of the ramp. It felt like the car was going to nose dive and flip so I gritted my teeth and scrunched up my face. However, to my surprise, the car landed very smoothly on the King shock absorb-ers and bit-in for more traction. In-stantly George was back on the gas and we were off to the next obstacle. The next 10-15 miles were just as intense as we found ourselves run-ning very fast in clean, crisp air. I was just starting to calm down a bit when we came to the first road sec-tion of the course. We would travel on the main highway with local traf-fic for about six miles before return-ing to the dirt. We were going at a good pace up the highway when George signaled to the back and told me he was let-ting a faster car pass. As it turned out, it was car #519, who started three slots, or one and a half min-utes behind us. Just as I was think-ing we had been running pretty hard and should be catching slower traf-fic ahead, we were overtaken. I was a bit startled until George told me not to worry that it was a very long race and that we would see car# 519 again in the near future. As we hit the dirt, we were running in dusty air, which made it difficult to see and react to the twisting fire road. Sev-eral times I didn't know how George could see because I sure couldn't. However, we carried on at a high rate of speed for many more miles chas-ing the elusive dust cloud. Further down the course we passed car #501, which looked to have taken a wrong turn. Over the next 15 miles we passed several Class 12 cars and vari-ous other broken down vehicles. We were now in pursuit of car # 519 and car #502, who were somewhere just ahead. Continuing to cruise at opti-mal speeds, I reminded George that there was a deep water hole ap-proaching. Sure enough, we launched over a small hill and nearly landed in the massive puddle. Lock-ing up the four wheel disc brake sys-tem brought the car to an even idle before crossing the water. As we ex-ited the water hole, car # 502 was sitting just off center of the course. AprU 2000 However, as we began to build speed, car #502 took off. The drag race was on, or so we thought. At first he looked to be challenging us for the hole-shot into the next turn, but soon he shut his rig down realizing we had momentum in our favor. Once out ahead of car #502 by a comfortable margin, the course turned into a hard packed fire road that welcomed fast driving. The shoulders were so built up with gravel and dust that the sweeper turns had natural berms. Traveling at a high rate of speed, George feathered the wheel around every turn, as if we were in a sprint car. However, one of the turns was a little tighter and a little flatter than the rest, sending us flying parallel with the ground into a barbed wire fence at approximately 75 mph. All I could see was a fence post coming straight for the door panel, in which seemed to be slow motion. As we made contact with the post, the whole fence crashed to the ground taking our several othe~ posts that were attached to the wire. George carefully backed up to release the car from the broken post and the entangled barbed wire before shut-tling back on track. It was a neat ex-perience, but I told George that once would be enough. We soon ap-proached the first check point and by this time the car was starting to run. stronger and stronger by the mile. This was obvious by the way George was gliding through the gears of the Fortin five speed transaxle en route to powering across the unfor-giving terrain. When we passed our chase crew at Ojos Negros, I singled them out in the large group of the airwaves. When I responded back, he told.me that we had lost the antenna on top of the car and that the recep-tion was poor. I stated that we were running strong and looked forward to seeing them at the next road cross-ing. From that point, we entered the notorious pine forest. After catching slower traffic we found ourselves once again in a cloud of dust. Anxious to catch car #519, we pounded forward. After several miles, the dust had settled and a Class 10 buggy emerged. The buggy had stopped for a slowed Trophy Truck that was lending a helping hand to a Pro-Truck stuck in a silt bed. Once we cleared the obstruc-tion and began to build speed I real-ized that the buggy in front of us had a flat front tire that was creating massive amounts of thick dust as he pushed into the corners. As we chased him through the forest try-ing to get close enough to nerf, or tap, his rear bumper signifying that we wanted around, we missed a turn as dust engulfed our car. We ran over several fallen trees and stopped as the bumper hit a stump. I was shocked, knowing that this was not supposed to happen. George threw the transaxle into reverse as both rear tires just sank into the loose ground. He inched forward a bit then tried reverse once more. The same result occurred as we sank deeper. At that point I became nervous and in-stantly sprang from the car to exam-ine the situation. There was a fallen tree that was approximately 18 inches in diameter directly behind our rear tires and another tree ap-proximately six inches in diameter and six inches off the ground directly behind our front tires. Going forward was out of the question due to a large stump anchored directly in front of M/T off-road race tires and Dale Ebberts teamed up for a win at the S.C.O.R.E. Laughlin Desert Challenge, beating 34 other competitors in the toughest, closest race on the circuit. The exclusive cut-resistant compounds, unique sfdewall designs for extra protection and a strong, lightweight, race tire construction helped Ebberts finish almost two minutes ahead of the competition. And over three races, M/T's Desert King• race tires have carried Ebberts without any flats. 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the bumper. After figuring out a game plan, I went to work placing logs and sticks in.the trench that the rear tires had dug from George's failed efforts to back out. I also built ramps that the front tires could scale in order to clear the nagging hurdle. Once I ordered George that it was safe to back out, I helped push the car from the front. With a few ghastly attempts the car was finally freed from the hindrance. When I finally settled back into the car, attached my seat belts, and regained my breath I realized that I was terribly hot and worn out. The whole even took less than 15 minutes but seemed to be an eter-nity in my panic stricken state. The good thing was we were once again on course and running fast. The bad thing was that many cars had passed, including car #518. This meant that once again there were two Class 5 cars out ahead of us. Our car appeared to have no dam-age and George was relaxed since he didn't have to get out to help. It was definitely a good stretch of the race to start making up some of the time we had lost from our earlier misfortune. Luckily enough, as we rounded a rough turn we saw car # 504 broken down on the side of the course. From the stance of • the car, it looked like he had rear suspension trouble. As we hurried al.ong we saw many more cars pulled off to the side of the race course with major mechanical problems. But finally, several miles from our first scheduled pit stop, we passed the ailing car # 519, which was sitting completely off the race course with several people gathered around the rear cage of the chassis. This was a great relief. We were finally out in front of Class 5. I calmed myself just before the first BFG pit stop, at mile marker 105, where we would re-fuel. Upon seeing the well marked BFG signs, George caulked the wheels and eased into the pit area. the setting was relaxed, much un-like I had expected. The support personnel asked us if we needed anything, told us our class position, and refueled the car in a near time-less sequence. Before I realized it, we were back onto· the course and remarkably only one Pro Truck had passed while we were in the pit. George immediately. regained fo-cus. He knew we had many miles of clear air-in front of us. George and the race car were fully dialed-in by this point. We flew through the remainder of the pine forest with grace. The course then began to smooth out again as perfectly grooved tracks held the car in place around each and every turn. As we approached the next road crossing at mile marker 135, George sug-gested I snap a photo of the on-lookers with my trusty, disposable camera. As soon as I took the cam-era from my race suit pocket, I saw · a wall of people as the course opened up to Highway 3. I firmly held the camera out the front windshield snapping the shot just before we skipped over the high-way back onto the sandy surface. I managed to take a few more pic-tures from the cockpit. but really couldn't steady the camera as I was tossed around with each bump and turn. We hit a wicked pace as George found his groove in the rough sec-tions called Cerro Colorado and El Alama. This was a 25 mile loop that pieced together the two ma-jor road crossings off Highway 3. Dusty Times After Checkpoint 2 we were back on well groomed fire roads where speeds reached LIO mph as the ta-chometer needled at 5,500 rpms in top gear. The rest of our porti9n of the race was very quick until we reached the "goat trail" that con-nected the course to Highway 3 once again. From that point we cruised the highway for eight miles at blazing speeds to complete the first 200 race miles. I could sense the ride coming to an end and was already feeling de-jected. I had the time of my life and realized that it would be hard to surpass the experiences that I had just encountered. Soon, we saw several members of our chase crew just off the side of the highway waving us into the Checkers pit. The Checkers are an historic pit organization in which George is a long time member. This was where we performed the driver and co-pilot change. With many helping hands, I managed to slide out of the race car so Paul could make a smooth transition into the passen-ger seat. Bruce entered the driver's seat immediately upon George's departure. Once the final buckle was fastened and the car was cleared for take off, Bruce floored the gas and launched back onto the course. I felt some relief, but knew we still had to voyage nearly 250 miles before victory was complete. George and I jumped into the chase truck and were off to the next van-tage point. The Chase Upon arriving at the Power Sta-tion at mile marker 235, several Trophy Trucks and Class 1 buggies appeared. This was a good sign since these were faster cars that started much earlier than we did. We figured we had at least an hour before Bruce and Paul was ex-pected to pass. As I repeatedly shared my experiences from the first half of the race with friends, I constantly prayed that the race car would operate perfectly through-out the duration of the race. At 2:45 p.m. Bruce and Paul topped the horizon and entered into our vision. We hurried to the side of the road and cheered them on as they rounded the sharp turn di-rectly in front of us. We noticed that they had a good pace estab-lished and that the engine sounded very fresh. Next, we waited for the second place Cla~s 5 car to come by the power Station so we would know our precise lead time. The last report showed that we had a 30 minute lead at the driver change. At 3:25 p.m. car #518 fi-nally passed, but did not appear to be pushing the car to the extremes. We now had 40 minute lead in Class 5. I instantly sighed in relief, realizing that we could secure a class win if we didn't encounter any major mechanical errors or down-time. George and I ventured back to Ojos Negros, where the ·race course would loop around and re-trace its earlier footprints back to the start/finish line. Upon waiting at the BFG pit at mile marker 396, the crew served George and I food and refreshments. At 6: 15 p.m., car #503 pulled into the pit as Bruce and Paul grinned from ear to ear. Bruce commented that the car was performing remarkably well and that they were having a good time holding onto first place. After the fuel tank was topped off and clear-ance was given, the. race car was back in business. Wasting no time, we hurried back to the chas.e truck to complete the trip to the finish line. As soon as we arrived, I looked up just in time to see Bruce wheel around the last turn and through the checkered flag. The crowd was so thick that George and I had to muscle to the front of the police barricade before joining Bruce and Paul in a victory celebra-tion. We had completed the race in just over 11-1/2 hours, which was an average of nearly 40 mph. Bruce and Paul remained in their seats as George and I pushed the race car down a quarter mile run-way exiting the finish line. We passed thousands of people who ex-tended congratulations and ad-mired the totally thrashed buggy for its courage and bravery during the race.' We were all glad to fin-ish before dark and without any major mishaps. After several group photos in front of the race car with our hands proudly raised in the air signifying the "we're number l" sign, we all went into Ensenada for a little post race celebration. The Awards Ceremony Sunday morning we loaded the buggy and pre-runner onto their trailers and gathered our belong-ings. It had been a long week, but the end result was very positive. The whole team wore big smiles on their faces as race stories were ex-changed. Later that morning final goodbyes were extended to Bruce and Paul who were heading back to the States. George and I were going to stay in town a while longer and attend the awards ceremony, which was being held poolside at the San Nicholas Hotel. As we ar-rived, many vendors were set up outside selling race pictures and t-shirts. I walked to each vendor table to view the pictures of the race car #503. It was very flatter-ing to see .pictures of myself tucked inside the cockpit of the high per-formance buy at various locations on the course. I bought several of the pictures before making my way into the pool area. At 11 :00 a.m. Sal Fish took the stage and thanked all of the par-ticipants for an event filled race and the local community for host-ing the event. Awards were handed out to the first three finishers in each class. As Class 5 was pre-sented, George and I made our way to the stage. We were both handed etched glass trophies that displayed first place and a sketch of George's #503 Class 5 Unlimited Bug. George took the podium and im-mediately thanked his sponsors for all of their support. He also ex-pressed his thoughts about the race and his appreciation for off road desert racing. As George finished his speech, he turned and intro-duced me to·the crowd. I was fairly shocked, but gained my composure and approached the microphone. I first thanked George for the oppor-tunity he afforded me and con-gratulated him on his preparation and driving· ability. I briefly re-flected on the race and outlined my introduction into desert racing. I eventually returned to my seat, but not until a picture was taken of George and I as we embraced our trophies surrounded by the lovely T ecate Beer girls. The Beginning of the End As we were leaving Ensenada, George and I stopped at a small taco stand for a satisfying meal. No trip would be complete to Baja, Mexico if you didn't consume some of the local flavor. We savored our final meal and waning moments in Ense-nada as we watched a line of race vehicles and fans scurry out of town. On the long ride back to Los Ange-les, where I was to fly out late Sun-day night, I reflected on the race and realized how lucky I was to get the opportunity and to actually win as a participant in my first race. I talked with George and made sure that he knew I was available whenever he had another open seat in his race car. We also talked about the preparation and cost of getting started in desert racing. My experiences were so bold that I was already planning to pur-chase and drive my own race car in the SCORE/Laughlin Desert Series someday in the near future. If those plans are realized, I just hope I'm as successful as I was driving this race with George Seeley, Jr., Bruce Anderson, and Paul Buster. 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• Offrood McKenzie's • Rood Course Ontrack Performance Center • Drag Rocing (818) 909-7487 (818) 909-7562 fax 7834 N. Sepulveda Blvd. #A2 Von Nuys, CA 91405 • Oval Track • Fabrication • Welding • Chassis and Suspension Specialist YOUR OFF-ROAD' Catch us on the Net! SPECIALISTS/ www.mckenzies.com PHONE:(714) 441-1212 FAX: (714) 441-1622 2366 E. ORAN(3ETHORPE AVENUE, ANAHEIM, CA 92806 ~wR'C..RA..-=:-..r. /<=e ,/="~ www.mastercraftseats.com Seats • Nets • Limit Straps • Bags 10925-F Hartley Road • Santee, CA 92071 619/449-9455 • Fax: 449-9454 _MIKE MENDEOLA 290 Trousdale Drive, Suite I & J Chula Vista, CA91910 (619) 691-1000 24 Hour Fax (619) 691-1324 661-940-5515 TAKE A LAP AROUND THIS! WWW .MURFINK.COM Dune Buggy Parts Race Car Parts Foreign Car Parts New Truck Acc. Dept. Custom Machine Work & Fabrication , 1 (800) 231-8156 252.'i E. 16th St. • Yuma, AZ 85365 (520) 783-6265 • FAX (520) 783-1253 ·oFF ROAO CHASSIS ~ 18124 GftAND AVE. LAKE ELSINORE, CA 92530 Complete Off Road & Performance Preparation for Trucks & Vans CUSTOM susrt:NSION • PRE-RUN TRUCKS AXLIE SEftVICE • WltLDING 8: FABRICATION NO DISCO TftUCKS Bill Monta~e Est. 1974 909-678-1029 PACIFICALLY LANDS CA E Patrick A Bessie DESIGN • CONSTRUCTIOf< • IRRIGATION • MAINTENANCE • WATERSCAPES XERISCAPING • ROCKSCAPE Lie. 390104 J'FR (619) 582-7999 (909) 360-5906 FAX (909) 360-0436 PARKER PUMPER HELMET COMPANY 10427 San Sevaine Way., Ste. L Mira Loma, California 91752 HAROLD NICKS f\tOlDR§PDRt ·!:I!: !:~~:::? cp f ll ~ s MAXON, MOTOROLA, ROAOMASTER, VERTEX RADIOS Specialty Fabrication & Product Sales Pre-Runners, Trucks & Sand Buggies 2280 Shasta Way unit #115 Simi Valley, Ca. 93065 Lance Fuller (805)522-4499 c-mail@I-ITl2.SPl2.TSPLUS@JPS."1€T MSD .,., ,,, Jr.,'* •4-=t• t••411rJ4 • YOUR COMPLETE IGNITION SOURCE • -AUTOTRONIC CONTROLS CORPORATION 1490 HENRY BRENNAN DR., EL PASO, TX 79936 [9151 857-5200 • TECH LINE (9151 855-7123 • VISIT Dl'FI WEB SITE: www.msdignition.com BELL, SHOEI, SIMPSON· HElMETS IN STOCK WIRiNG FOR RADIO &/OR l~'TERCOM STIU. ONLY S 12,. -. 2888 GUNDRY AVE. -SIGNAL HILL, CA 90806 • 562-427-8177 ' 800-869-5636 v,, • .A • Jerry Penhall 949-650-3035 1 Fax 949-650-4721 1660 Babcock Bldg. #B · Costa Mesa. CA 92627 Pr,cision Alloy, 1,/d, r,11. 2580S tm 46"' Avemie "' t Ridgefield, WA 98642 $ ~ » Phone ~~8• ~~ Fax 360-887-2000 '0n &~ 360-887-7279 PORSCHE 930 4-speed • 5 years race-tested .-<:;.., 1 · ;:~rsn;r;~ci~:~ • E'. • Synchromesh or · dog-engagement , • 4.22 R&P (4.88 option . • Shotpecned 93 JO • Choice of clutches • Gearsets & components • C~mplete race transmission $7,900 Phone OR Fax (808) 87 12 _,. ~----. . ·, ( . : Fraley s Perforniancc En~nee1•ina · .. ~ • All Types ol Steel CJ Aluminum Fabrication • Tube Beadinc *~-CJ Steel W.ldine * Custom Machine Work * All Types o£ Race Cars 4851 W. Hacienda #4 ~a• Vegas, NV 89118 Bruce Fraley 702-365-9055 PROTRUCK RACING ORGANIZATION A High Performance Spec VS Race Truck Series "The True Driver's Class" Protruck Sales and Promotion Website: www.protruck.com Email: protruck@prodigy.net Tel: 619.449.6252 Fax: 619,449.6470 9409 Abraham Way Santee, CA 92071-2584 CUSTOM ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS FoA RACE CARS, TRUCKS, PRERUNNE_RS BUGGIES, STREET Roos, DRAG CARS QUALITY RACE CAR WIRING SERVING ALL OF L.A., ORANGE & SAN DIEGO COUNTIES JOE DAVITIAN PGR. 323/340-0277 R.C. TRANS WILL GET YOU IN GEAR SWING AXLE, BUS, HEWLANO, M04S · 3455 S. POUAIS 15 LAS VEGAS, tN 89102 JOHN D.O. HOULTON (702) 221-4363 (702) 667-9724 PROFESSIONAL RACE CAR DESIGN & FABRICATION WINNING OFF ROAD RACES SINCE 1978 INCLUDING FACTORY WORKS $CORE CHAMPION TROPHY TRUCK RT 3, BO)( 1970 903/683-1599 Rusk, TX FAX 903/68U829 OFF ROAD l:NTHUSIASTS -GIVE US A CALL

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1-800-929-4360 www.RACESHOCK.coM ~ p;;;~;;~ lnX IIM::) -~-Suspension Components For Racing And Recreational Applications Shock Service Available on all brands .... Fast Turn-Around!! . Upgrade Your Vehicle Suspension Affordably-Utilizing Our Tra_de-ln Policy (602) 493-3700 Fax: (602) 493-0975 DEMW44,S.A. Ing. Alfredo Mulioz Rep. En Mhic:o Gasolin11 de Alto Rendim~nto Para Vehicuk>s Oeportivos. 1221Secc. Los Pinos C.P. 22420 Tel: {66) 116-20-78 V 81-37-38 e-mail:76racing@tefnor.net ... - -RACING TRANSAXLES 1700 EAST MAIN ST. EL CAJON, CA 92021 CHRIS ROSE (619) 443-2480 S. B. ENGINEERING "SUPER BOOT11 HCA66,' BOX 11030 PAHRUMP (CRYSTAL) NV.89048 (775) 372-5335 Qua\it~ Used 'Parts I 0-W South Main St0rt't>t. Fallbrook. CA 9~028 I ,\\ 7t,ll-72.l-~117 [:.!1,!.-\11 hajara,c ttllhcomPflONI 760-723-2117 \, CALL U'E> flll-~T! ~RACING ~ GASOLINE "100 110 114 118" met11anol & nitro G L. Bryant, Inc. • Commercial Fuels & Lubes • High Performance Lubes 1-B00-399-:-4176 209-537-1-565 fax • On-Site Fuel Distribution • Technical Assistance • Fuel & Lubes Handling Equip. SANTEK TRAILERS CUSTOM TRAILER MANUFACTURING 201 Gemini Avenue, Brea, CA 92821 (714) 449-1395 Fax: (714) 449-1425 TIM CECIL 849 Lambert • Brea, CA 92821 (714) 447-3581 Fax (714) 672-9246 JOB SITE SIGNS• BANNERS• WINOOW LETTEP.11,G • C,\R LETTERING-• GRAPHICS SQUEAK & MARGIE COATS 5101 Galway ·c ircle· • Hunt1ngw1 Beach. CA 92649 (714) 897-0075 • Fe\ (7141 894-9567 ~ s~e~z~ &~to-'UI~ e~~ 1Jitt,Pt4to-45-410#/0~St. l-60~347~.50.52 1dio-. e.A 92201 fiii/ SANDERS SERVICE, INC. l!lJ/ METAL PROCESSING 5921 Wilmington Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90001 (323) S83-2404 FAX (323) 583-3965 SANDBLAST-GLASS 'IJEAD-MAGNETIC PARTICLE FLOURESCENT INSPECTION Mark Smith Larry Smith I Jt~waJ"t f · ~~ Custom Preparation & Fabrication Race Trucks • Buggies • Pre-Runners (619) 449-9728 FA>. (619) 449-2678 9419 Abraham Way, Suite "A", Santee, CA ~2071 nt. ALUMINUM WHEEL STRAIGHTENING 31510 223rd Street East Llano. CA 93544 661-261-3202 SUNDRY METAL SPINNING Phone (562) 928-9838 Fax (562) 928-0778 METAL SPINNING EXCELLENCE • ALUMINUM • STEEL • BRASS • COPPER • STAINLESS 6831 Swa Street Bell Gardens, CA 90201 JOHN AVALOS OWNER RACE FUELS (209) 847-2281 (800) 527-6090 FAX (209) 847-9726 P.O. Box 248 • 524 N. Sierra Ave. WESTERN DIVISION Oakdale, California 95361 ~ ~~ "YO/JK QUALITY ~ACE vKAFHICS ca" Design • Fabrication • Installation Darren Ebbert• lbn.lf Cerone {90SIJ340-46B4 FliX (909)340-4689 490 Princeland Ct. #4, Corona, C~ 92879 www.sunsetsigndesigns.;.com ,,...._ RACE GRAPHICS ,,...._ RACE & CHASE #'S ,,...._PIT SIGNS ,,...._DECALS ,-. ENCLOSED TR,4ILERS .. ,,... BUSINESS SIGNS ,,.._ LOGO DES/ON .... SUSPENSIONS UNLIMITED ... OFF ROAD RACING SPECIALISTS INELDING "FABRICATCJN • CNCPI.ASMAQJTT/NG • FfUl.'TENDS • REARTRAIUNGARMS RACEOiASSIS • PRERUNI\ERS • FDXRAONGSH:JX • SAND BUGGIES 4050 LEAVERTON CT. ANAHEIM, CA 92807 LARRY ROSEVEAR PHONE {714/ 630-4482 FAX {714/630-4548

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Paul Dumas 805-64 7-7700 Phone · 805-64 7-7023 Fax 805-340-6704 Mobile Sports Racing Products -LA 6338 N. Marina Pacifica Dr., #K15 Long _!3each, CA 90803-7010 LOCAL DISTRIBUTORS Cudahy,CA Riverside, CA Oxnard,CA Las Vegas, NV 323-562-3230 909-877-0226 805-485-6900 702-643-9200 audio video .. ,.,. !;, ,, ~ :'.b., - _,.. security ~~--~~ •. L:t-•~-=·•""•~ ~ r'·fflO~~l!~-=..:..":;:;= autos \.~_ .,,P:i.WJ-;-i~ __ ... ~ -~ e\ec\tol!r.\CS marine ~-~!fl:-'.} ~ \t\l!r.'i\ a~ ~~. 10-at\Ce~ RVs • tt\-'Qet\ot \\\g race vehicles Allen Johnston buggies 619.596.1925 11420 N. v.oodside tw. Santee. CA 92071 · fax 619.596.2638 * Ott-Road and Bolt-On to Street Fiberglass tor: "Ford, Chevy and Toyota" Trucks * Carbon Fiber Parts and Custom Molds 1121 N. Buena Vista St. , Hemet Ca. 92543 Ph: 909~54-7334 Fax: 909~54-2375 See a list of our products at our web site: http://www.flberglass1.com 1BSAXLE ENGINEERING JEFF FIELD (818) 998-2739 9763 Varlel Ave. Chatsworth, CA 91311 BF3UCE HENDEL Regional Manager VP Racing Fuels, West Co~f f;.O. Box 1.319 "34283'-Monte Vista Wildomar. CA 92595 Phone: (909) 67 4-9167 Fax: (909) 674-7367 Pager: (909) 694-7392 Get the word.out about y~ur 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 0 C CD -i C ~ (/) o-"Tl m ffi )> () (/) X )> C/l I\) ~~ ~ t;; ::, (/) 0 0 SD C () 9' ~z ~o 0 ~ 3 3 - · Dl Dl ::, <D a. l:fi 15· 0 )> ~ < !I> Transm· ions - Parts - Service Welding Automotive • ATV • Motorcycle 1815 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE RIVERSIDE, CA 92507, USA 909.369.5144 • 909.369.7266FAX WWW.WEBCAM INC.COM L'21mi L.fgldn/n~ Powertrain Complete Powertrnln Development, Maintenance and §upply Engines • Tramimisslons • Drivelines • Differentials 6845 Speedway Blvd. K-101 las Vegas, Nevada 8911 s 70i!-B71-166 t Fax: 70i!-B71-64BO Adam Wik 1994 SCORE ENGINE BUILDER OF THE YEAR From Parts to Complete Engines Engi.ne Dyno Service 535 East Central Park Anaheim CA 92B02 714-956-9457 ; Off Road Products Front and Rear Trailing Arms • Spindles Suspension Specialists • Custom Wheels 2733 W. Missouri Phoenix, AZ 85017 Jack Woods (602) 242-0077 ·i"e ;BUMP STOPSHERE Stop the up-travel on your suspension V.W. - Porsche - Nissan - Toyota · ECONO:MICALLYPRICEDAT319.90PERPAIR. Lorenzo Rodriguez Yarnell Specialties, Inc. 102 Crestview 515 S. Vermont, Glendora, Ca. 9_1741 (626)914-8147 1_520_427_3551 P.O. Box 845 -------------------+------------------+---=-==-=:..:..=:=:..::_ __ ~Y~a~r~ne~ll~,.!_A~Z 85362-0845 UNIQUE METAL PRODUCTS 10729 WHEATLANDS AVENUE, SUITE #A SANTEE, CALIFORNIA 92071 TEL. • 619 / 449-9690 FAX • 619 / 449-8424 MARK ZOLLER Owner MOTORCYCLES •KTM •HUSABERG •HUSQVARNA • SERVICE & PARTS . • SUSPENSION M-F 12-6 VARIOUS SAT 10-2· 2350 ORANGETHORPE ANAHEIM, CA 92806 714-449-1271 FAX 449-1374 You will tremendously increase your Exposure to the off road competitors And all of their support groups

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Classified ... FOR SALE: Jimco Class 1 Single Seat A-Arm. Competitive & Reli-able, 2nd in '99, Score points. FAT 3.31 Toyota V6, Fortin DGN, For-tin 2.5 ram, P /S on trans, Bilstein shocks, (your choice), many spares included. Prepped and ready to race. $52,000.00 Jefferies (909)506-5635. . FOR SALE: Mirage Stadium Lite-Fox Shox, Billet gear box, Wright Rack, CNC brakes, Flame-Out sys-tem, Beard Seat, Bead Lock Wheels, Best of everything, Race ready $7,000.00 obo Call Steve 818 248-5056. FOR SALE: Ex Factory Jeep Grand Cherokee mini stock. 2 time Baja 1000 winner. Best of everything. Built by Curt LeDuc. Completely fresh for year 2000. Ready for San Felipe. Ideal for Beginner or ex-pert. Cost new $100,000.00 For Sale foronly $19,500.00 firm. Parts package available included, spare motor, trans, t/case rear end and pit boxes with enough parts to last 2 seasons. A super strong reliable car that can win any race with the right driver. Has CA title. Don-A-Vee Motorsports. Tel (714) 633-6735 Fax (714) 633-1724 email DonA VeeRace@aol.com. FOR SALE: Toyota 1650-4AFE built by FAT originally, rebuilt no miles, complete headers, Weber carb. Air cleaner. $995.00 (559) 486-0280 Joel. Class 1 car, Class 1 A-Arm Loth-ringer, Fox dual coilovers and air bumps at each wheel, Sway-A-Way external bypass shocks in rear, FAT 2600cc Type 4 motor, Hewland DG300 5 speed trans, Summers bros. Rear floater hubs/brakes, Hella, 16" front wheels/tires, CNC, BFG. Awesome unlimited race car for SCORE, MDR, SNORE, etc ... Have fun and haul butt for $29,000.00 complete with dual-axle trailer and spares. Baja Brokers Ref# 742 (760) 723-2117. Check out our online used parts at www.bajaconcepts.com. Baja Bug PreRunn,er-Unique tube chassis w/6 cylinder Porsche motor, MSD, SuperTrapp, Bus Box with deep 5.42 ring and pinion, T-4 CV's, Bilstiem coilover front sus-pension, +6" beam, Combo spindles, Wilwood disc brakes, 3x3 rr arms, Henry's stubs, Sway-A-Way torsions, axles, spring plates, 4 Bilsteins per wheel, Beard, RCI, AutoMeter, This car is a powerful, reliable, well built prerunner and has prerun Baja 1000 multiple times! Call for more details! 13,500.00. Baja Brokers Red #741 (760)723-2117. Check out our online used parts auction at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: 1998 Single Seat. Mike Smith shocks, Mike Smith chassis, Fortin, DGN, Pauter 3.0L Watercooled. Four races on car. 1st overall. 2nd overall. Complete prep ready for 2000 season. Con-tact $60,000.00 Mike Grabowski @ (909)822-6045. =======; 7S Ranger-ex Scott Douglas Rough Riders Ford Ranger, This Truck Is Very Professional And It Shows. Very Good History And Wonderful Race Record! Summers Bros. Front Hubs And Floater Rear End, 4 Wheel Disc Brakes, Custom Shocks W /Remote Reservoirs, National Springs, C4 Trans, Winters Shifter, Triple Coolers With Electric Fans, All Steel Braided Plumbing, Clark Steppler 2851cc 4 Cylinder, Crower Stroker Crank, Esslinger Head, Dual 48mm W ebers, Dual Msd Ignition, 3 2 Gallon Cell, Fiberglass Front Clip, Are Wheels/Bfg Bajas, Etc. $13,500 Baja Brokers #715 (760) 723-2117. Check Out Our Website At Www.bajaconcepts.com. ~ ' .. ..,."'!!""!'ii FOR SALE: '97 Car Trailer, nearly new condition-driven only 500 miles! 18'x8'x7'. Tandem, axels with brakes on both. Ramp back door, 3' side door, 2 skylights, bat-tery, interior lights, New-$6, 100.00, asking $4,995.00 obo. (209) 736-1683, central CA foothill location. FOR SALE: Short Course/Stadium Truck, Ford Ranger; King Coilovers, Esslinger motor, Sum-FOR SALE: Raceco-Class 1, 2 mers Brothers 35 spline nodular 9", seater, Ford SVO V-8, Auto Willwoods, Autcmeters, Eibach, transaxle, Bypass shocks, Many ex- Nationals, Full fiberglass body, tras, Just prepped and ready to race, $5,000.00 obo also available 250 hp call Jerry Whelchel for details. Esslingermotor,$4,500.00oboCall · $25,000.00 obo (949) 472-2024. _ (949) 293-3561. FOR SALE: McDonald's stadium car, Chenowth Magnum Super 1600 FAT Toyota, all the best 4-speed automatic, $14,000.00 (909) 784-3681. 1989 BRONC0-351W built for supercharger w/Paxton Super-charger, Dart heads, cam, ex-haust, injectors, etc. Art Carr C6 race trans, 45 gallon fuel tank, Rancho suspension, Gabriel ad-justable shocks, Currie 9" rear end w/disc brakes, Detroit, Hella, BFG, great Chase vehicle, $18,500.00 or best, Baja Brokers Ref #738 (760) 723-2117. Check out our on line used parts auction at www.bajaconcepts.com. CLASS 9 Single Seater, Fox po-sition sensitive shocks w/reser-voirs, Sway-A-Way spring plates, Type 3 brakes, custom axle tubes, lots of spares, 17 gal-lon cell, very good well built, well maintained car. Go racing for cheap. $6,000.00 Baja Bro-kers Ref# 740. (760)723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com . FOR SALE: Class 8 Chevrolet, SCORE legal, 540hp V8 400 trans, Custom Kuster shocks, 22 + travel, coil springs FOR SALE: Class 8 Chevrolet, SCORE legal, 540hp V8 400 trans, Custom Kuster shocks, 22 + travel, coil springs front/ quarter elliptic rear, custom built top to bottom, 50 gal fuel cell, disc brakes, radio, inter-com, spare motor, tires, much more $58,700.00 obo. (909) 392-3321. FOR SALE: CORR Super Buggy, Probst Chassis, w/T oyota engine. 98' World Champion. 98' World Cham-pion, 98' CORR Triple Crown Champion & '99' Unlimited Buggy Champion. Fox, Centerline, Earls, Wright, Summers Bros., Best of ev-erything, ALSO spare motor & tranny and many spares. Call (906) 246-3438. Suspensions Unltd. 2 seater-Very nice Class 10 or Class 12 car, fresh FAT 1835 and Fortin 5 speed, fresh Bilstein 60mm Bypass shocks, Outboard Hubs, Howe p/ s radio/intercom, CNC brakes and pedals, new rack, new front arms, fresh seats, Flame Out system, complete Baja 1000 prep with 30 miles!. $28,000.00. Baja Brokers ref #7 3 7 (760) 723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. ;;===:::; FOR SALE: 1997 Race car trailer, Built by EMI Technology 48'x9'x 10 1/2, lounge area 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 w/toi-let, sink, range, refrigerator, leather, st?rage and A/C 35'x 8 1/2" working and storage 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 condition, $43,000 asking price or trade for ex-otic car. Call Fox Motorsports (915) 833-7902. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■• ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • ■ ■ • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • • • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ FOR SALE: MDR Class7s Cham-Sell or swap your 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".All Classified Ads must be PAID IN AD-VANCE. REMEMBER - CLASSIFIED AD SPACE IS LIMITED -YOUR AD .MAY BE PUT OFF ONE ISSUE IF NOT RECEIVED IN A TIMELY MANNER. : pionship Toyota: '85Xtra Cab. Only ■ 6 races on this newly built 4x4. Best ■ equipment, Super reliable racetruck. • Race prep'd and ready for Baja 2000 : or Best in the Desert 2000. Win your-■ self a championship. Work assign-■ ment forces sale. $9,800.00. Call for ■ more info. Burrows Motorsports : (909)422-1416. • • • • • • • • • • Please run ad times • ■ FOR SALE: Steve Bishop's short Enclosed is $ -----(Send check or money order, no cash) Mail to: ■ course 1-1600. Best of everything. DUSTY TIMES • Championship race car. Race 20751 Marilla Street : ready. Many spare parts, wheels City . State __ Zip ________ Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 ■ and tires for $9,500.00 obo Call Name _________________________________ _ Address Phone -------,---------------------------■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • • ■ ■ ■ ■ • • ■ ■ ■ ■ • ■ ■ ■ Linda Bishop at (909) 789-4253. Page 62 April 2000 Dusty Times

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Bunderson A-Arm Chassis-Motor and trans not included, the chassis is cur-rently set up for a Auto Trans and a Type 4motor. The carneeds mtr/trans/ battery/tach/tires/wheels. Perfect for Class 1 or Class 10. Good parts! Sum-mers hubs and brakes, Bunderson coilovers and bypass. Fuel Safe, big travel front and rear, $9,000.00. Baja Brokers Ref #693 (760) 723-2117. Check out our online parts auction at www.ba·aconce ts.com. ~~~wl FOR SALE: Class 12 or Sportsman-Funco Chassis all Chromoly 119" wheel base, 1650 Type 1, Bus tranny, 22 gal fuel cell, (4) Fox in front, (8) 2.0 Fox in rear, new Foddrill front arms,Woodsreararms,frontandrear discs with CNC calipers, 300m tor-sion bars, Durablue stub axles, Ump steering, Parker Pumper, Yokohamas front and rear on Ultras, very reliable, finishing car, some extras. $12,000.00 obo Call (915)858-8787-ask for Ray 7am to 5pm Mon-Fri. FOR SALE: Stadium Lite-440cc Mx2x Rotax, R&M Tranny, FOX Shox, ]AZ, Saco, Kreize, BFG's, 10" front travel, 12" rear travel, never crashed, 8 races on chassis, 3 on motor, $16,000.00 (262) 628-0772. FOR SALE: Super 1600 Raceco Short Course Car, 21" rear Wheel travel, Very light car, spare parts, Wheels, Tires, everything but motor and trans, $5,000.00 (909) 682-8745. FORMER Robby Gordon Trophy Truck or Class 8. Fresh motor with big horsepower hooked to a C6 trans, custom hand-built coilover and by-pass shocks, ultra trick! 3 feet of wheel travel all the way around. 37" tires on 17" beadlocks, lots of spares! This is a great truck for race or play Glamis or Baja!. Why build one when you can buy one for $65,000.00? Will consider trades/whole or partial. (760) 723-2117. PLEASE! DON'T FORGET TO SUPPORT THE ADVERTISERS WHO KEEP REPORTING THE OFF ROAD NEWS! Dusty Times FOR SALE: 1978 Jeep Grand Wagoneer. Built in 1983 by Brian Chucmua "Mr. Jeep" for England to Australia Rally, never raced, only 2,000 street miles then stored. Full roll cage. Race V8 built for pump gas, 100 gallon tanks, Halda navigation system. All H.D. sus-pension and drive train. Carries 4 spares, air cond. Trick paint job. A classic collectible, chase vehicle or vintage racer for Baja 2000 with a few mods. CA title $11,500.00 Don-A-Vee Motorsports, Tel (714) 633-6735 or Fax (714) 633-1724 email DonAVeeRace@aol.com. FOR SALE: Short Course Sta-dium-BK Fabworks tube chassis, custom a-arm w/Cone, Ball joints, 4-link, fabricated trailing arms, Cone 9" full floater, Nodular case, Billet yoke, Spool, 6.20: 1, Fiberglass Ranger body, Champion Bead locks, Spare tires, wired and plumbed, Howe Steering, Fuel Cell & pumps, needs motor & shocks. $6,000.00 Call Scott at (909) 987-24lL FOR SALE: Ford Bronco Pre-Run-ner, 351, Culhane, Detroit locker, 62" Semi-eliptical National w/wish-bone. Six Foxes, 17" rear, 15" front w/six Bilsteins, disc brakes, caged, 3 Beards, Art Carr, Autometer, dash, Bajas, 45 gallons fuel, recent paint. This truck is very reliable and fun to drive, it is as at home on l?avement as it is in the big woops. $27,000.00. Call Stuart at (619) 390-7007, e-mail streamln@pacbell.net, Baja Demos available. FOR SALE: Class 1, lOor Pre-run-ner. Chenowth DR2 90% com-plete, Brand new 2/Fuel Cell, body, skid pans, shift linkage, front arms, 300m link pins, 1 King Kong com-bos, CNC hubs & brakes 3 front 16" wheels & tires, 2 rear wheels, 300 m Torsion, McKenzie microstubs, V6 motor w/adapter plate, Bus trans 091 & more $11,000.00 obo Mark £619p04-1867. FORAL : Chenowth class 9 chassis and body panels, 2 front bea~s with arms, spindles backing J?lates, tie rods. Never raced $800.00. New stock beam Com-plete spindle to spindles with stock steering box. $400.00 PCI Roadmaster radio, never put in a racecar. $400.00. Call Mike at (619) 390-8404. FOR SALE: 1989 Ford F-150, '96 front fiberglass, 351, C-6, 4.56 gears, 33" BFG's on American Racing Wheels, National Coils, Deaver Leafs, 8 Bilsteins w/res, Beard Seats, AC, CD, Headers, White. Call Rob. $9,000.00 (714) 374-9293. April 2000 FOR SALE: 90' Yellow Ranger PreRunner, featured on the cover of Off-Road Mag April 2000. Too much to list. Nicest, Cleanest PreRunner for the money. Serious inq only. $26,500.00 Call (949) 496-0681. FOR SALE: 1-1600 Porter, TIG Welded, Kuster bypass, new FAT motor & J'eddle Box, 2.8 gal cell, Dual bats, Charlyn, Seco, New 300m torsion & link pins, McKen-zie hubs, UMP, Beard, BFG's & Yokohamas, Custom paint, major race winner, spares included $14,000.00 (602) 494-1608. FOR SALE: Pro-Lite Toyota Tacoma Race Truck, Ex-Greaves, Jerico Trans, no motor $35,000.00 firm. Ford 7S truck parts for sale: engines, rear end, shocks, etc. Chenowth Magnum short course, Rabbit race motor, Fox., Mendeola, headlocks, etc. $11,000.00. New 5 link short course buggy chassis $1,700.00. Call for Steve details @ work: (402) 443-4117, home: (402) 625-2802. FOR SALE OR TRADE FOR ? 1-1600, 6 races old. New engine and trans Torsion Bars Brakes and pow-der coat. 0 miles on 100% prep. All the best parts. Fox bypass, 300m axles, Torsion and link pins. Mc-Kenzie alum hub, Bead locks, The whole schmear. Sell complete or with or w/out engine and or trans. (714) 632-1240. FOR SALE: Toyota Class 7 or 7s, 2nd overall '98 season, 3rd @ Laughlin "00. Best of everything; 22R, 10 Fox wires., 4 hyd. Bump stops, Howe steering, 2 new We-bers, Crane ignition, Beard Ultras, National Springs, Sway-A-Way 300m t/bars & axles, new radiator, 10 BFG's, 10 Ultras, New fuel cell, extra driveshaft, transmission, heads, spindles, ball joints, etc. etc. etc. A pickup full of spare parts. Includes a tandem trailer w/electric brakes. Ready to race or pre-run. $10,000.00 (805) 683-1211, or (800) 622-3939. MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE: Three Pl 00 Motorola Race Radios with one helmet speaker and mike and two David Clark 16069G 13 head sets. Top quality, excellent condition and priced right at only $1,500.00 com-plete. ALSO, five hand held por-table 40 channel 5 watt CB's. Great for hunting and much, much more. Excellent condition only $250.00 for all five units. Call (715) 627-4888 and ask for Jenny. FOR SALE: Zenith 32ndix carbu-retor w/dual port intake manifold ($90), UMP super filter w /brackets ($25), UMP carburetor air box ($15), Gene Berg shifter ($10), 1 1/2 " exhaust system ($30), Char-Lynn P /S servo ($40), P /S reservoir ($10), Simpson helmet w/air & wired ($50.00) Wbrewer@zamboni.com Wayne (.562) 867-9377. PARTS FOR SALE: Type 4 Demillo crank 82mm $450.00. Pauter rods $450.00. 2 liter heads $500.00, good condition. All for $1,250.00 (949) 642-5158, ask for Dave. REAL ESTATE I Trade; 2 1/2 acres w/slab and wa-ter meter in Johnson Valley, CA. Located 2 1/2 hours from L.A./S.D. Ride offroad to Johnson Valley OHV recreation area, gas station, stores and restaurants. Trade for your offroad bike, A TC or Buggy-What do you have?? (760) 505-7223. I WANTED WANTED: Shop hand who likes to go to races, mechanically in-clined, good driving record, hardworking, dependable & hon-est. Call Scott-PCI Race Radios (562) 427-8177. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Aggressive Suspensions .................. 41 Baker Performance Products .......... 44 Gale Banks Engineering .................... 38 Best In The Desert -Nevada 2000 ....... 27 Terrible's Town ....................... 15 Tonopah .................................. 45 Bilstein Corp. Of America ....................... 5 BORE .: ..... : ........................................... 53 Cai:fus Racing ...................................... 34 Cam6urg Engineering ........................ 30 Coast Resorts .................................... 1 O CODE Off Road ................................... 33 Jim Conner Racing ............................ 14 Converter Shop .................................. 49 Eibach Springs ................................... 36 Estero Beach ...................................... 21 fabtech ............................................... 48 FAT Performance ............................... 18 fox Racing Shox .................................. 4 fuel Safe Racing Cells ...................... 50 German Auto ...................................... 28 Michael E. James Insurance Agency ......................... 29 Kartek Off Road ........................... 22, 52 Kawaguchi Honda .............................. 24 King Shock Tech ................................ 13 [ebuc Off Road Swap Meet ............. 32 Mastercraft ..................... : .................. 11 McKenzie Performance Products .... 35 Mojave Desert Racing ....................... 19 M.0.R.E. Badlands ............................. 37 MT Tires ............................................. 54 Nevada Off Road Buggy .................... 55 PCI Race Radios -and Eq-u1pmenf... ..... <! Pike's Family Restaurant ................. 49 Race Ready Products .................. 34, 39 Raffo .................................................... 23 SNORE ................................................... 9 Sports Racing ..................................... 20 Sway-A-Way Corp .............................. 12 Transaxle Engineering ...................... 42 Tri-Mil Industries .............................. 31 Union 76 Racing Gasoline ................ 50 Valley Performance ........................... 17 VORRA ........................................... 25, 43 Web Cam ............................................. 46 ~i_l_c!_ ~-~s_e_ A.~~tion ............................. ~1 Page 63

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TO EVERYONE WHO RA£ED AGAINST JOHNNY GREAV~S THE PAST 3 YEARS, YOUR LUCK IS ABOUT TO CHANGE. TOYOTA IIACIN6 DEVELOPMENT GREAVES MOVES UP TO CORR'S PRO-Z CLASS After three straight Pro·Lite championships behind the wheel of a Tacoma, Johnny Greaves has switched to a 2WD Tundra and moved up to the Pro·2 class this year. This switch means Toyota now has drivers competing in all Pro classes. And while Johnny may never win another Pro-Lite race, his teammate Jeff Kincaid is favored to assume the throne. But take heart. At some point, he'li probably move up, too. www.toyota.com/trd ® TOYOTA ON THE EDGE. EVERY DAY. r --· r I i ;