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Volume 17 - Number s May 2000 DDlliJlil■IG ~ = o ~~~~ :11::: IJ?UBt / Associate Editor Judy Smith . . Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Par Caplan Circulation Yance Scott Contributors C&C Race Photos Carrera Photography Jim Culp Homer Eubanks Martin Holmes Mike Jenkins Rod Koch Ralph Mason Ron Miller Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh Darryl Smith Tony Tellier Paul Timmerman Trackside Photo Art Director Larry Worsham Subscription Rates: $25 .00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Subscription rates on request . Contributions: DUSTY TIMES welcomes contrib1;1tions, but is not responsible (or such material. Unsohctted mate-rial will be returned only by request and with a self ad-dressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 8750-1732) is published monthly by Hillside Racing Corp., 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408, (818) 882-0004. Copyright by Hill-side Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the pub-lisher. Periodical Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change to DUSTY TIMES, 2075 !Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 -4408. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new ad-dress, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. snapshot of the Month ... Where's my wheel and tire? this was the cry of Bill How~rd and. B.ob Burchett at the HDRA Fireworks 250 in 1984. Alas, they failed tofm1sh the race that had over 200 entries. DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies". or woes on this. page .each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or .some disaster for cons1derat10n. DUSTY TIMES will pay$ 10 for the picrure used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to 8x10 will be considered. Dusty Times May 2000 In This Issue ... FEATURES SCORE San Felipe 250 by Judy Smith ...................................................... 8 Safari Rally of Kenya by Martin Holmes ................................................ 18 CODE Cerro Prieto 200 by Tony Tellier ............................................. ,. 20 SCORE San Felipe Motorcycles by Tony Tellier .................................. 26 Whiplash Gila Bend 200 by Jim Ober ................................................... 32 Australian Ipswitch 300 by Darryl Smith ..................... : ........................ 36 ZR Mexicali Y2K .................................................................................... 38 Northwest Rally Report by Jim Culp ..................................................... 42 M.O.R.E. Balls Out 250 ........................................................................ 48 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ............................................................................... , ................ 5 Trail ,Notes ..................................... ............................................................ 6 Challenger Comer by Joel Mohr ................................... .' ........................ 44 C.O.R.E. Pit Report by Sandy Parker .................................................... 44 CRS Race Director's Report by Sue Robinson ...................................... 45 CRS News - New Rule Book Format .................................................... 47 Mag 7 by Steve Stenberg .......................................................................... 46 Good Stuff Directory .............................................................................. 48 Classified Ads ......................................................................................... 58 Index To Advertisers ............................................................................. 59 On The Cover Against a backdrop of most beautiful scenery, the Reuben Wood Class 1 car rushes to the overall win at the Whiplash Gila Monster 200, the winning margin being over 10 minutes. Photo by Trackside Photo Tim Herbst makes it look easy as he romps to yet another win, this time at the SCORE San Felipe gala, driving solo in the Smith prepared Trophy Truck. Photo by Trackside Photo Visit Our Website Dustytimes.com . c:Su£scr1£e :Joda_y lo DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 1 year □ 2 years □~years -$25.00 -$40.00 -$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 - I year $30.00 US ■ Overseas subscription rates upon re.quest Page 3

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Trail ·Notes: .. RIM OF THE WORLD RALLY -It's that time again, one of the most popular rallies in the count~y is happ_ening again, May 5-7, with headquarters at the Holiday Inn m Palmdale. Competitors will run 13 special stages, some on Friday evening and the rest on Saturday. All rally entrants and spectators are welcome. VP Racing Fuel will be on hand to dispense fuel on Fri.day afternoon, Saturday during the Pare Expose and also at the Saturday dinner break. For more information, call Mike/Paula Gibeault at 760-375-8704. See ya there!. RUN FOR THE WALL -Our very own Vance Scott is going to take a long motorcycle ride in May. He.will be one of more than 250,000 participants gathering at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, The Wall. Veterans from any war or police action are invited to participate in the ride. Here in southern California, the riders will leave Ontario on May 16, overnight in Williams, Arizona, thence to Gallup, New Mexico, Then Cimarron, New Mexico then Limon, Colorado, next to Salina, Kansas, then Wentzville, Missouri, then Carefree, Indiana, then to Huntington, West by God Virginia, then Rainell, West Virginia. The last night will be spent at Alexandria, Virginia and then this group will meet with other groups from all over the country and ride in the Rolling Thunder Parade to The Wall. Anyone can join the group anywhere along the route. Everyone and all brands of mot_orcycl_es_ are welcome. There is no charge to participate. Vance will be ndmg a Honda Valkyrie, loaned to him by Billy Robertson of Robertson Honda of North Hollywood. Thanks to Billy for the use of the Valkyrie. Hopefully, we'll have more on this in the near future. For info call Jim David at 314-831-03 23 or in California you may call Jim Pe rry at 805-934-3962. RED FACE DEPARTMENT -The pre-run for the Best In The Desert Las Vegas 200 will be on November 4-5, 2000, not as stated in last months column which referred to the Las Vegas 2000. Excuse us! WORTHY CAUSE - Received a note from Ron Brookshire explaining their "Offroad Challenge For A Cure" program. It is a new program designed and implemented by Brook_shir~1M?torsports for the year 2000 racing campaign. The purpose 1s to raise awareness and funds to accelerate the mission of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America. There are fo~r ways to become involved with the program: Donations per mile or per race, purchase offroad Challenge merchandise, buy a raffle ticket to win a trip to Cabo San Lucas or you may purchase a ticket to the year end success party. All proceeds go to the ~eukemia and Lymphoma Society of America. It certainly sounds -like a worthy cause and for more information you should call 619-659-8330 or cont~ct them on brookshiremotorsports.com. By the way, congrats on your Class 10 win at San Felipe. CORP LIVES -Got a letter the other day informing us that CORP is still alive and kicking, they have a four race schedule for 2000 (see Happenings) and they want you to get in touch with them so they can update their records and keep you informed of what is going on. Please contact them at P.O. Box 392, Calexico, CA 92232 or in Mexico at AV Cristobal Colon #548, FRACC. HIPICO, Mexicali, B.C. Mexico. Phone numbers are: Jose Gonzalez 0ll-52-65-66-6080 or Hector Garcia at Oll-52-65-65-8081. Check Happenings for their full 2000 schedule. AN OLD FRIEND CLOSES HIS DOORS - Just heard from Kevin Barrett and he advises us that Barrett Enterprises has closed its doors after who knows how many years of operation. The reason is father Ron's health which has not been too good lately. We remember sitting at the Walt Lott awards in Laughlin when the town boasted 200 people and always having lots of animated conversation with Ron. We're sorry you've closed the doors and we wish you the best of health for many years to come. Adios! WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE? -We've been deluged with phone calls from all sorts of racers and support people who spent hours waiting in line near three poles on the way home Sunday. Seems the Mexican Army (17 year Olds with AR15's) were looking for drugs and other ~ontraban?· It's kind of_a bummer when you are greeted with gusto m San Felipe and then It all goes away when it takes you seven or more hours to get back to the border on Sunday. It would seem that these inspections are made just to inconvenience people particularly tourists and racers. Some of the people we talked to' said they will not be going back to San Felipe because of thi; irritant. Amen. WINSTON WEST NEWS. -Just to keep·you posted, Brendan Gaughan is now a ,egular on the Winston West Series and it looks like it could be a great year. Brendan took a fourth place at Phoenix a short while ago and he won the race at Mesa Marin Speedway on March 2 4th in his Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Keep up the good work! · Page 6 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 Bark River, MI September 1-3, 2000 Crandon International Raceway Crandon, WI September JO-October 1, 2000 Indiana State Fair Grounds Indianapolis, IN October ~1-23, 2000 Heartland Park Topeka, KS . CORVA 1500 West El Camino, Suite 352 Sacramento, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA Ext 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS Dave Van Deren 2405 Baker Ave. Everett, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (AU ~vents at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thurston County ORV Park, OlJmpia, 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 INTF.:RNATIONAL 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 Marketing Promotion.s P.O. Box 762 Norco, CA 91760-0762 (562) 988-6250/Fax: (909) 280-9097 FRT Motorsports 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 *derwtes motorcycles & quads *June 24, 2000 Cerveza Tecate Conquista Gran Prix Rancho Villareal, Tecate, BC, MX June 24, 2000 Cerveza Tecate Conquista Gran Prix Rancho Villareal, Tecate, BC, MX *July 29, 2000 Affordable Rain Gutters C/M Nie-, Team Race Plaster City, East *August 27, 2000 Saasta Chevron Sweetheart's Kiss Lake Superstition *September 10, 2000 Cerveza Tecate Cacti Gran Prix KOA Kampground, Rancho Ojai, Tecate, BC,MX *October 1, 2000 Stuart Engineering Mudhen Sprint Plaster City, East October 21, 2000 Superstition 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 May 2000 Georgia dlfRoad Racing Association 420 Hosea Road Lawrenceville, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 GPORRA Great Planes Off Road Racing Association 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68144-1122 (402) 333-05 I 7 Eve. Keith Koesters 6716 N. 106th St. Omaha, NE 68122 (402) 4964846 Eve. (l-80 Race Track is located 20 minutes west of Omaha ■ AU races are short course, stadium style. Classes: Trophy, 11-1600, 5, 7S, 1 and Quads) IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 (AU events staged at the club grounds in Cleves. Ohio) INTERNATIONAL ICE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 . St. Paul, MN 55108 Steve Beddor (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O. Box 2910 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 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 L.I.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 (517) 62 7-6200 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" Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL August 19, 2000 Vermillion County Speedway Danville, IL September 16, 2000 "The Edge" Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL September 30, 2000 Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL .MAORA Enduro Series May 7, 2000 I OOk Lindon Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL July 16, 2000 IOOk Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL September 17, 2000 I OOk "The Edge" Trip le R Raceway Nashville, IL October 1, 2000 200k Lincoln Trail Motorsports 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 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 923 I 1-I 23 I Fax: (760) 253-4453 May 13, 2000 Badlands 275 Barstow, CA July 8, 2000 Freedom 250 Barstow, 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. #I - Box 380 Dave or Marlene Ryan Palatka, FL 32177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK ASSOCIATION Burch Chapin Motorsports Promotions 1404 East 3rd Street Hastings, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 NORTHERN OHIO OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. Gary Wulff (724) 283-2678 May 28, 2000 June 25, 2000 July 30, 2000 August 20, 2000 September 17, 2000 October 15, 2000 (All events are at Spring Valley Raceway, . Millport, Ohio) _ 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 AU races are at Mountain Shadow Lake. Take 1-10 Horizon Blvd. exit east 12 miles OHIO OFF ROADERS INC. 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 Jim Kendel (216) 339-4674 All races held at Harrison Counry Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONT ARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION Rick Tichbourne, Public Relations (5 I 9)-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 Osh'weken August 12-13, 2000 Tiverton Dusty Times

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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 www.usoff-road.com February 26, 2000 Sam Boyd Stadium 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 May 20, 2000 Closed Course Event (SCRAMP) w/Winston West Monterey, CA July 8-16, 2000 Nevada 2000 (BITD)0 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. king P.O. Box 277 Morrisonville, NY 12962 (518) 561-3208/(518) 236-7897 SCCA PRORALLY CHAMPIONSHIP Sports Car Club of America 9033 E. EastN 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 Of The World Rally Palmdale, CA . June 2-3, 2000 Susquehannock Trail Rally Wellsboro, PA June 23-25, 2000 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Colorac!o July 28-29, 2000 Maine Forest Rally Rumford, ME 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 Houohton, 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 Tecate SCORE Baja 500 Ensenada, BC, MX August 4-5, 2000 Sch SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 · Primm, NV November 10-17, 2000 Tecare SCORE Baja 2000 Baja California Norte to Baja Sur, Mexico SNORE Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 270516 Las Vegas, NV 89127 (702) 452-4522 June 9-10, 2000 Dusty Times Caliente 250 Caliente, NV July 21-23, 2000 KC HiLites Midnight Special • Eldorado Valley, NY September 22-24, ~000 Gold Coast/SNORE 250 Las Vegas, NY November 3-5, 2000 Reserve 250 Boulder City, NV SONS OF THUNDER 4WHEELERS Race Division Dusty Times Keith Stewart (714) 522-1899· SODA Short Course Off Road Drivers Association Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD CHALLENGE Steve Rule (800) 313-5621 or((770) 963-0252 Mike Moore - (224) 272-5400 SOUTH EAST OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. President - Geoff Lee 1243 Trice Road Lebanon, TN 37087 (615) 453-5830 Classis 1/2-1600, 5-1600,, Class 9, SODA Class 11 & Sportsman (All Races at Rally Hill Speedway) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TIMING ASSOCIATION AND BONNEVILLE NATIONALS, INC. 2517 Sycamore Drive #353 Simi Valley, CA 93065 (Mon-Fri 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) (805) 526-1805/Fax:(805) 584-8518 Internet: http://scra-bni.org SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. 4305 Woot!ark 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 Od~ssa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915) 337-3437/(6 I 5) 595-8237 (All races held at Notrees, TX 25 miles west of Odessa. TX) TOYS FOR TOTS (619) 252-1197 /(619) 252-3093 T.O.R.R.O Texas Off Road Racing Organization Marty Jackson 8307 Bauman Road Houston, TX 77022 (713) 694-0207/Fax: ·(713) 694-8335 TSO c/o Frog Specialties 4050 Spencer Street # I Torrance, CA 90503 (310) 370-9856 VORRA Off Road Racing 1833 Los Robles Blvd. Sacramento, CA-95838 (916) 925-1702/Fax (916) 925-8217 April 29-30, 2000 Spring Festival Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA May 27-29, 2000 Desert race Yerington, NV June 24-25, 2000 Desert Race Lovelock, NV July 29-30, 2000 Top Gun Desert Race Fallon, NV September 2-4, 2000 Off Road Desert Challenge Fernley, NV September JO-October 1, 2000 Championship Series • Round I Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA October 14-15, 2000 Championship Series : Round 2 Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, Ca October 28-29, 2000 2000 Championship Race - Round 3 . Prairie· City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA VICENTE GUERRERO OFF ROAD CLUB Profo. Cenovio Gamboa 0ll-52-616-6-11-91 (2-6.p.m.) WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Larry Henderson (604) 538-0692 WORRA P.O.Box 3241 Sumas WA 98295 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA WHEEL TO WHEEL OFF ROAD RACING Patrick McGuire P.O. Box 376 Adamsburg, PA (412) 527-6556 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS 16251 North Cave Creek Road #4 Phoenix, AZ 85023-2976 (602) 971-3730 Buggies & Trucks on Saturdays, Bikes & A TVs on Sundays April 29,2000 Rock To Rock Rocky Point, MX June 24-25, 2010 Holbrook Holbrook, AZ September 2-3, 2000 Snowflake Snowflake, AZ October 2·1, 2000 Grand Prix of Parker Parker, AZ December 9, 2000 Point To Point. Mexico WINSCONSIN MOTORSPORTS SHOW (414) 747-1711 WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL . Terry or Bev Friday 5913 so. U.S. Hwy 45 Oshkosh, WI 54901 (414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 1665 Delaware St. Oshkosh, WI 54901 zr. PROMOTIONS Rene Montano P.O. Box 2122 Calexico, CA 92231 Motorcycles & ATVs Only 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 mailin~ list. Don't call, but mail your 2000 schedule as soon as possible forlisting 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. May 2000 Trail Notes .•. WINSTON CUP SERIES - Robby Qordon is racing full time on the Winston Cup Series _and he hasn't been having too good a year as yet. Hopefully, things will get better and Robby will start finishing up in the standings against some very stiff competition. It's a far cry from an Indy car or a Trophy Truck! SCORE BAJA 2000 - Sal Fish and company are off to the wilds of Baja to lay out the 2000 course. Sal Fish says he has a lot of very competent people to help him with the design and layout for the 2000 mile trek. GPS experts from BFGoodrich will be on the layout team. The group is going to be working from March 28 through April 9 on the layout. The official race headquarters will be the San Nicholas Resort Hotel in Ensenada (start) and the Villa Del Palmar Beach Resort in Cabo San Lucas (finish) and if you want rooms you better start now. NEW ARRIVAL - Baja Concepts employee Mike Livingston and his wife Dawn are the proud parents of Taylor Blair Livingston who arrived just before 9am on the 12th of March. A healthy baby girl weighed in at 6 pounds, 6 ounces. Congrats to the new parents. DUSTY TIMES CALIENTE 250 -Dusty Times sponsored a SNORE race in Caliente a few years ago and we thought it was time to do it again. Racing through the trees and fording streams and rivers always makes for an interesting race and the town itself is a great place for scenery and lots of fun. Caliente is 150 miles northeast of Las Vegas and you are guaranteed a good time. Come race the Dusty Times SNORE Caliente 250 on June 9 & 10. Race starts and finishes on the main street in town and the awards are that evening in the High School Gym, and there is a barbecue as well! Come on up and join us for a fun weekend. . MOVING TIME -Sunset Sign Designs has moved to a new location, 1215 Pomona Road·, Suite E, Corona, CA 92882. Their phone number remains 909-340-4684. GOLF, ANYONE? -Pat Caplan, of Dusty Times fame recorded her second hole-in-one at the Indian Wells Country Club on April 1, 2000. No this isn't an April Fools joke. Most of us don't get even one in forty years of playing golf. GET WELL SOON -Just heard this morning (~/5/00) that Ted Rivers, an old friend and a very dear friend }:iad a heart attack. I talked with Ted today, he is still in the hospital but things are looki~g good. Just get better, and soon! We love you and need you with us in the desert. F RT Cleanup - ·Fud needs a little help .in cleaning-up the Lake _Superstition area. For those of you who want to help, the day is Sunday, April 30. Meet at Plaster City West at 9am, thence to Lake Superstition, the Rudolph Pits and Plaster City East. Everything is provided, trash bags, etc., all that is needed is your man or woman power. FRT will provide hot dogs and hamburgers. Call Fud at·619-427-5759 and let him know you're coming. SCORE Points Leaders -The top 15 in points in SCORE, including San Felipe are: Mark Fodor (SCORE Lites), Adam Pfankuch (1/2-1600), Gary Weyrich (Class 1), Bekki Freeman (1600), Sammy Ehrenberg (1600), Troy Herbst (Class 1), Mantis Moreno (1600), Andrew Wehe (Class 1), Ron Brookshire (Class 10), Tom Riding (SCORE Lites), Ron Brant (Class 1), Jerry Penhall (SCORE Lites), Steve Roberts (1600), Mark Hutchins (Class 10) and Randy Wilson (Class 1). V ORRA -VALLEY OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION (VORRA) is starting its 25th year of promoting off road races in northern California and Nevada. For the desert races, there is a guaranteed purse 6f $5000 plus the 50% payback of the entry fee. See Happenings for the complete VORRA schedule for 2000. For more info call 916-925-1702 or fax to 916-925-8217. B ITD TERRIBLE'S -TOWN a A beautiful race weekend for the Terrible's Town 250 in beautiful downtown Pahrump. There were 194 entered, 173 actually started and 122 finished. Ford swept all the truck classes so the $86,500 Ford posts per race was all spent. The Herbst brothers were the overall winners, 5:8:56, albeit only 44 seconds over Darnen Jefferies. The Terrible Herbst Casino put up $40,000 in prize money, $10,000 of which went to the first motorcycle team to finish. The ten grand went to David Ondas and Shane Esposito, Kawasaki and they beat out Johnny Campbell and Tim Staab by 52 seconds. Read all the details on the trucks, the cars and the motorcycles in next months issue. Page7

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SCORE'S SAN J:ELIP~ zsa The _Herbsts Wia,,-_,.:_A.9.ai,_ .. :~--By Judy Smith .. ' . ,• .. : : · .~ · ......... _. Pho~os: Track.side 0Photo ' ... . ' ' . . · ' .. ♦ -;-f/.4 ''" 1, ... , . ·:. ~~ . , Troy Herbst had a perfect day in his Smithbuilt Truggy, even avoiding flats, and took the Class 1 win by eight minut{15 · · • · • . a mariachi band in attendance, phas.is)." Before. pre-running, ·and in full voice! Great fun -all some thought the course too of it. short, at 208 miles, and wished The race started at dawn on for more laps. But on<;e 'tli:ey'd' Saturday for the bikes, and at actually ~un the course niost 7:45 a.m. for the Trophy agreed· that it was· plenty 'long Trucks, all taking off JO seconds enough. It was not, as it had , . · apart from the famil1ar arches been in the past, a quick, easy th.at mark the entry into San sprint through the wonders of Felipe. Swinging southward, the Baja: This ·w~~ ·a tough course: pa.th then went west, or up the rough, technical and hazardous . Hatambte Wash, then south There .was a ten·hour time limit. along Morelia Road, and turned Th.e Tro~hy Trucks were first Tim Herbst took the overall win at the ~an Felipe 250 in his Ford Trophy Truck, just edging out his brother, Troy, in the Truggy. east, and down. the Chanate off the line, but there were only Wash to the old Puertecitos : fchrr · df them in attendance. Road, where the racers turned·· Mark Post, who, teamed with south. Then it was up'. Azufre- Jerry Whelchel, had been the Wash, and -after turning south overall winner at this race· in. again, the cars traveled down '.98, was the first to go out. Matomi, dodging the boulders · Somehow, a stick got .into the along the way. They came out workings of his throttle, under on the current Puertecit-0s the h.ood, and ca-used the Road, headed north,; and.y'd;l~ft •:•thro,tt.le to be stuck full on. Un-· Tirri Herbst enjoyed his sec-ond overall victory in-a-row at SCORE's San Felipe 250 in March, driving solo this time, in his Smithbuilt Ford Trophy· Truck, and taking the win in a time of }:39: 16 .. Last year, · paired with his brother, Ed, the same car took the overall win on a longer course (229 ·miles vs. this year's 208), in 3~46:08. , . SCORE had to eliminate the, section of the cour.se that en-· compassed the highly traveled Zoo Road, ·because of its poten-tial for disaster, and also wished to slow things down a bit in gen-eral,' so the course was not di-rected-north of San Felipe at all. Rather, it headed generally southward, and included all four of the infamous washes, Huatamote, Chanate, Azufre and Matomi, a list to strike ter-ror into the hearts of limited class drivers. And indeed, some sections of th.is year's course . were .. so-.soft that horsepower wasn't '.the answer. It would -~eed savvy and patience to drive it; and luck and lots· of help for so'me to get moving once stopped. Once again, as last year, the contingency and tech festivities were located on the malecon, bordered on one side by the pic-turesque gulf beach and on the other by a gaggle of shops, res-taurants, and bars. It's as if. the city fathers ·designed a spedai site .for··c•ontingency row. If things :got dull orie ·c00.ld watch the small fishirtg . .boats lo'ad and unload, or,· turnin-g the other way, watch the party people -0n the ve.randahs of the restaurants ·and bars. Sure fire entertain-ment either way_. There was lo~ cal entert.a1n.ment also, from~the man who 111·~de-. the· generous and delicious fruit cups, to the lariat artist who did demos for dollars. And, perhaps the ulti-mate, the entry of Jeremy Spirkoff, a new Stock Full Ford, went through contingency-with ~-f~;)\i:fr ~-:(J .... \;1f· :.· i _ ~-. ~ -. .. ~ ..... }:'.\ .:· <-~-/ ;/~i,,t~-~JJj_~ .. to ·pick up the old rc:i'ad·-again: able·to mo.derate his speed, .Posr:-· . From just north of that "y" ; .. the turned .the inoi:or ·off, but real-,'·,-_ course snaked between'1he new ~-.i_z~ too, fate that the -ground· and old Puertecitos R,oads1 ·fi-where he,'stopped-wa-s soft, too·· nally crossing over the;,old Qne J ~-o(t. HeJvas stuck. ·Calls went. · and winding back into town .. out ovet,the radio, bµt he wasn't ' through the du':Ilps, where ·. 'tfre· only' big vehjcle stuc_k and .. SCORE warned, ii) .their. Race calling for 'help, and by the time Briefing, " ... in fact try. not to someone got to hi!J! and freed break in either dump area _, · him, the rate was all but ovec VERY NASTY (SCORPs em·- , ·for everyone e_lse; 110 he caUeq · ,''7'1.'.-t· ;i · it a day·. Meariwh'ile,'Juan,Ibarra ·:_-..:¥~·:,,_,, w_as h.aylllg a· goOd ·day 'in his· :f;,~·\ ·· Chevy, and was only three min-~ _, • "'· .. - • utes behind Herbst at the 96 .,.,- Mile marker. Doug Fortin, Jr., in another Chevrolet, had been first on the road early on, but ;t-after a flat at Mile 65 had lost -lJ~~~;~(, ~ -~ .... his power steering. His crew came out to replace the pump, but by then he was over an hour behind. And then his truck be-gan to overheat as he reached the top of Azufre. He got to Matomi, but never-got to the finish line. Neither did Ibarra. He was seen "stuck in a bush", but we don't know how he got there. Herbst, having no prob-Adam Pfankuch soloed in his Kernco to take the win in Class 1-2/1600 by just · DarrenSkilton'sKiaSportagehadfinishedtheDakarRallyabouttwomonthsbefore !ems at all, went on to take the under five minutes. San Felipe, took the Class 3 win here. win. His pre-run on Friday had been a disaster, with a poorly running pre-run truck, lots of being stuck and lots of shovel-ing, to go only halfway around. Tim's passenger, Barry Beacham, had told him he was not in the mood for shoveling on race day. So he drove a per-fect race. Class 1, which started next, had a big entry for San Felipe, with 30 starters. A couple of new vehicles were entered; no-tably the. new Herbst all-wheel drive Ford powered Truggy driven by Ed Herbst. He lined up 19tl\ and said before the race, that he was uneasy start-ing so far back, because for the George Seeley did some hard running to stay in front of the second place Class s· Danny Ledezma did all the driving, had to add a lot of oil, but still managed to finish last four years he'd been accus-car. He took the win by just a minute and 21 seconds. first, and take the Class 5/1600 win. _____ ____ Continued on page 1o Page a May 2000 Dusty Times

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Rod Muller had no problems in his Pontiac powered Porter, ran hard, John Marking's biggest problem was a car full of cactus spines, which John Gaughan's Chenowth needed some transfusions of oil, but still got his second annual second place at San Felipe were still with him as he finished 3rd il1 his Jimco. corned to always seeing the first was John Herder in his Toyota the vicinity of the Sulfur Mine, vehicle go of the line. Also new, Jimco, and he looked like a good roughly Mile 97 on the course, and attracting a lot of interest, bet to do well, except that he's and just before they headed up was Brady Helms' truggy, a been having some of the worst into Azufre Wash, the lead was Chevy powered beast, starting luck possible for the last year in the hands of Troy Herbst in up near the front of the pack. and more. his Smithbuilt Ford powered And starting right at the front When they all ~-----=--, truggy. He had less than two minutes on brother Ed, who was apparently having a jim-dandy day in that new race car. In third it was Andrew Wehe, 2 7 seconds later, in a Jimco pow-ered by a V4. Fourth place be-longed to Mark Weyhrich, in a Chenowth Millennium with a V6 Chevy in it. In fifth it was Rod Miller, only three minutes and 57 seconds behind Troy, in his Pontiac powered Porter. Three seconds behind him was Herder. And in the next five minute span another eight cars were charging hard also, includ-ing John Marking and Steve Sourapas, John Gaughan and B.J. Richardson, Mark McMil-lin, Nick Baldwin, Cesar Fuentes, Gary Weyhrich, Corky Eric Solorzano, Terry Kiely and Miguel Haro gave the car an extra prep for this race, then had a good day and won Class 11 by 40 seconds. ________ _ got back to the finish line in fourth place. McMiilin and Brian Ewalt, and Mike Julson was reported to Jeff Quinn, and any one of them have lost the motor in Ron was equipped and able to run ·at Satter's new Toyota Jimco. the front. As all this carnage went on, But electrical problems got Herbst motored along serenely, the best of Herder. And Ed having no problems at all, not Herbst lost first "something in even a flat, which is really un-the front drive line" which they usual for him. His crew kept took out and went on without, telling him to cool it, not want-and then "lost something in the ing him to know how close he transmission", and had no for- was to Tim's time in the Tro-ward gears. The Helm/Griffin phy Truck, because they were car ran afoul of the sand and afraid he might get "racey" and sent out a call for help, which break something and lose the they got, but then later dropped Class 1 win. He completed his out .when a front ball joint went perfect run in 3 :41 :04, saying it away. Darren Ebberts and Josh • was "a great course!" Muller Waddell had a non-functioning came home second, for the sec-fan in their V-Tech Honda pow-ond year in a row, his left foot, ered Chenowth, and ultimately broken at Laughlin, in a cast were done for the day when they and carefully braced to prevent · got a flat and the car got really re-injury. He had a loading-up hot and "boiled all the water problem that caused the car to out." Lobsam Yee was reported stall when he stopped hard, but to have rolled over early in the nothing else went wrong and day, and Gustavo Vildosola lost Rod thought Matomi was "fun." the transmission in his new In third place five minutes later, Jimco 2000 at Mile 91, while it was the team of John Mark-•• ., Flamingo & The Strip West Tropicana & Arville West Flamingo & Valley View 1-888-BARBARY 227-2279 www.barbarycoastcasino.com 1-800-0RLEANS 675-3267 www.orleanscasino.com 1-888-GOCOAST 402-6278 www.goldcoastcasino.com Alta & Rampart 1-877-636-7111 Page 10 May 2000 Dusty Times

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ing·and Steve Sourapas in their five liter Chevy powered Jimco. Marking, who finished, reported a problem with fuel pick-up, which caused them to stop four times for fuel. But additionally, and more to the point, he said, "we have a car full of cactus!", and waved his left hand which looked like a pin cushion. They'd got lost in the dust and had to wait for another car to come along, so they'd know where the course was. When it did, John hustled to get back onto the course -in front of it, and took out a cactus in doing so. It came inside the car. They'd had to stop and use gloves to get the cactus out of Mark Fodor, who won at Laughlin, did it again, in a Chenowth, but it was close his back and the back of the and he took the SCORE Lite win by only 53 seconds. passenger. At the finish line he Scott Steinberger, in.·another Vosburg, racing in San Felipe was in a hurry. to find someone Ford, had the lead, and was nine for the first time, found he liked with pliers (he'd radioed ahead minutes up on Rich Hoffman, in it. He knocked a tire off the rim, to have them waiting for him), a Chevrolet. Hoffman was driv-and that got him stuck for about and explained "the cactus in my ing only his second race, and he 20 minutes, so he got some hand is not where the -problem was doing a great job to stay so shoveling time in but still man-is." close to Steinberger. In third it aged to finish third, only a In fourth place it was John was Larry Plank, in another minute and 25 seconds behind Gaughan, in a Porsche Chen-Ford, still another nine minutes Hoffman, who'd been only owth, who'd started losing oil back. Gary Vosburg, Ford ran seven and a half minutes behind early, and had put in about 20 fourth and Mike Griffiths, in Plank. Griffiths finished fourth, quarts during the day. Fifth still another Ford, was fifth and about two hours down, and no place went to Mark McMillin, last, having apparently had one else made it all the way. in a V6 Ford powered Chen-some problem that cost him a Much to Billy Goerke's dis-owth, who liked the new course lot of time. may, the Class 8 trucks started really well, because "it's not too Plank thinks he's discovered behind the Protrucks. Goerke, fast. .. I didn't have to go 100 a new way to prepare for racing. driving in Brian Collins' Chevy, miles per hour too long." Nick It seems that he hadn't planned is faster than the Protrucks, and Baldwin, who soloed through a to run Barstow last July, then at would like to start in front of largely uneventful day in his the last minute he changed his them, but the average times for overheating four wheel drive mind, did a very brief prep, and his class are slower than the Hedghog, finished sixth, and in went to Barstow and won. average times for the Protrucks, seventh it was Cesar Fuentes, Then, come Laughlin in Janu-so he found himself working re-from mainland Mexico, who ary he did the same thing, and ally hard to get past them one drives a Chenowth Millennium took the win again. Once again, by one. He had a very good day powered by a three liter Nissan for the San Felipe race, he did going, and worked his way OTP motor. He'd taken out his what he called "only a marginal" through traffic, giving himself a front brakes about half way prep. He said he came only to nice lead by the time he got to through the day, and finished have fun, and didn't even put Mile 96. It was really a non-is-without them. All told, 18 of new tires on it, leaving on the sue, because the other trucks the 30 Class l cars got to the ones he'd used at Laughlin. Sure were having a difficult day. finish line, a good finish rate for enough, his day went well Mike Doherty, in another them. · -enough,· with only an electrical C.hevrolet found himself in a The Protrucks went off the _problem and briefly running out tight spot, being passed by a line next, six strong. Of this of fuel, that he took the win couple of buggies, when sud-group, they all got at least to the again. Hoffman, who pres um-denly there was a two foot rock half way point, except Ryan ably did a good prep job on his in front of him. He stopped Herzog and Grayson Smith in truck, had no problems, and rather than run into it, and sank their Ford F-150. When they took home a second place tro-into the sand. He and his pas-arrived at the Sulfur Mine, phy for his second try at racing. senger dug themselves out, but Arturo Honold, in a Jimco, got a scare from a booby trap, but kept the gas on and finished only 53 seconds behind the SCORE Lite winner. then almost immediately got Kreiss, who was two hours down stuck again, and this time a halfway through the day, didn't . spectator pulled them out. (He finish, nor did anyone else. says "Thanks!".) They'd lost an The Class 10 cars started be-hour and a half, but went on, hind the Class 8 trucks, and only to run up on the spot where most of them got through the Brady Helm's truggy was stuck, halfway point all right. When and they had to stop again, and they went by Mile 97, Ben were stuck again. This time Schlimme had the lead in his Helms' crew got them out. They Jimco, but a close-packed bunch decided to keep on going be-was hot on his heels. In second cause they'd seen Jim Patelli, in place, only two minutes and his Blazer, already broken, and eight seconds back, was Mark Ar.t Kreiss, in a Ford, also in Hutchins in his multicolored trouble, and they figured if they Jimco. Just unde.r three minutes could finish, no matter how far behind him came Mike Sando-back, they'd have a second val in his• Meco, and then Ron place. Brookshire was fourth in a Hon-Mean while, Brian Collins da VTech powered Jimco, an-took over for Goerke, made a other 10 seconds back. In fifth couple of "driver errors" and it was Jose Canchola, seven sec-flattened two tires, and watched onds later, in his Lothringer. the transmission begin to run Following close behind them hot. But he still got his finish (in were Rick Ellison and John front of all the Protrucks), and Penner, Jim Dizney and L.J. the win for the team, as well as Kennedy, and ·Whit Courtenay a nice 12th place overall. and Don Kenniston. Anything Doherty, who usually races in could happen. Arizona (he had to buy a map As usual, it happened to so he could find his way to San Schlimme, who's had much the Felipe), was finding his first San same luck as Herder for the last Felipe race diverting. His truck year. This time he lost his mo-suffered from overheating and tor. A.nd Canchola also disap-he flattened a tire, but he kept peared, for reasons we do not on moving, motivated by the know. When they arrived back thought of a second place. And at the finish line, it was Ron he made it, about four hours Brookshire's· brother, Travis, behind the winner, but second taking the checkered flag first. place nonetheless, and a good He reported being lost in his job for a first try at San Felipe. Continued on page 12 Mark McMillin soloed his Ford powered Chenowth to fifth place in Bekki Freeman did all the driving in her Jimco, to finish second in the Dan Martin was down on horsepower, and needed a quick fix to a c. v. Class 1, liking the new, slower San Feli e course ver .much. 1600 class, only 35 seconds up on third place. boot, but still managed a close 3rd place in his 1600 Chenowth. Manlio Moreno, who lives right up the road in Mexicali,.brought his Lorenzo Rodriguez, in a Lothringer, rolled over early in the day, but Clive Skilton (Darren 's dad) and John Kearney teamed in a Jeep rally Jimco back to the finish line as the fourth 1-211600 car. still managed a nice fifth place in the 1600 ranks. ___ car to take second place in Class 3. Dusty Times May 2000 Page 11 . .

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.... Ron and Travis Brookshire, in a Jimco, had an almost perfect day, to take the Class 1 O win by 17 minutes. first wash, but said everything the line right behind them, and went fine after that, and Ron there were 24 of them, most of had no trouble at all. Next to whom made it at least half way. come in was Kennedy reporting Unfortunately, the Jandt broth-a couple of flats and no other ers, with their new paint job., trouble with the brand new went out before halfway, and Jimco. He'd reportedly been a Tim Allen's new Jimco lost its little nervous about his first race transmission during the first in a Class l O car, especially half of the ride. Vic Bruckmann since he'd upended the new car also disappeared in the early in testing a couple days before miles of the race. Everyone else the race. He and Dizney were got at least to Mile 96. second,· 17 minutes behind the When they arrived there, it winning car. Just a minute and wasn't even 10:30 in the morn-14 seconds later Don Kenniston ing, the quick ones covering the finished in Whit Courtenay's 96 tough miles in just under or Jimco, motor sounding very right at two hours. Mark Fodor, . sick. He said they "lost the mo- fresh off his win at Laughlin, tor real early", changed a power had his Chenowth in first place steering belt and had two flats when he got to the Mile '96 on their way to third place. marker, but was only a minute Hutchins dropped to fourth, al-and 26 seconds ahead of Arturo most 50 minutes out of third, Honold, in his Jimco. In third apparently having recovered place it was the team of Dan from some disaster. In fifth it Worley and Stan Potter in a was Ellison and Penner. Ellison Jimco, another 25 seconds back. had had a good day, but when Tom Ridings was fourth in his Penner was driving he broke a Mirage, less than a minute later wheel and it locked up on a cali-and followed by Dave Syme and per and stalled the car. That's Dave Sundquist, in a Raceco, in when he discovered he had no fifth. Another two or three cars starter. Still, he was only thr_e_e were right up in there, but these minutes behind Hutchins at the folks ;ere· in gene~a 1, more finish. Another five cars also got · spread out than the Class 10 or to the finish, settling _the pre-• Class 1 vehicles. . race argument about wheth.er pr.-As luck woulq have it, not the course would-be to9 de- . Worley and ~otter disappeared· manding for the sometimes deli-on the second half of the trip, cate Class 10s. but Fodor stayed firmly in front The SCORE Lites went off of the pack. He and Honold Jeff Lewis had one of the closest races of his career in his Class 7 Chevy S10, taking the win by only 46 seconds. were having a serious duel, with Honold actually first on the road. When they got to that NASTY area SCORE talked about in the Race Briefing, there appeared a good sized man-made jump, a booby trap, if you will. Both drivers got a good scare as they found them-selves airborne, but both sur-vived in good shape. Honold crossed the finish line first, but Fodor was close enough behind him to take the win, making it two-in-a-row for -him. This was his first San Felipe race and he drove the whole thing, report-ing no problems at all, but "lots of sand." He also reported the booby trap to SCORE officials. Honold, who'd also soloed the race, had just one front flat to mar his day, and also told offi-cials about the jump. He'd fin-ished just 53 seconds behind Fodor. Ridings put co-driver, Brian Parkhouse, into the car for the second half of the trip, and he showed up just 12 minutes later, reporting no problems, as they finished third in class. Syme and Sundquist were another.I 1 min-utes back, reporting that they'd lost their power steering and · haci a couple of flats. They de-scribed the· booby trap as "way nasty!" Just under three minutes behind them came Bill Fodor, a cousin of Mark. He'd finished' fifth, only 27 minutes off Mark's pace, and rather apologetically stated that he was "new at this ... went. off course twice and got stuck once." Can't wait to see how he does after he gets some experience. Another dozen cars in this class got to the finish line, but some were dragging in very late. And in the meantime, Sal Fish was out on the course with a shovel, leveling that booby trap. Ah, the joys of be-ing a race promoter! The Class 5 cars went next, and this group also enjoyed some very close racing. There were 10 of them, a good sized bunch, and all but one got at least half way through. We were sorry to see Juan Trujillo turn up mfssing, since he was driv-ing the only Type I 8 l (Thing) we'd seen on the· race course since Drino Miller days. But he was down for the count early. And Dave Cua led.the pack into Mile 96, with 29 seconds on Hector Teran. Then came Mike Kalicki and Michael James, 29 seconds further back, followed by George Seeley, 42 seconds later. They must have been able to see one another as they wound through the rocks. Mik_e Jakobson was about nine min-utes further down the road, · then Josh Westwood, and Hec-tor Ledezma, who'd had dirt in · his clutch and lost a lot of time. Cua faded for some reason after the halfway point, but See-ley and James were having a heckuva race. Seeley snagged a cactus and had to stop to eject it from his cab, but was having no mechanical problems. Kal-icki had had no trouble, nor did James have any, but, due to the disparity in their sizes, their driver change had used up about three minutes. They said they ran "whe.el to wheel" from Matomi Wash to the finish: When they screa~ed into the checkered flag, James· was first on the road, and Seeley was right behind him, close enough to snag the win by a minute and 22 second-s. Apparently, it's quicker to get rid of cactus than it is to change drivers. Cua sal-vaged third place, about 4 7 min-utes later, followed in by Westwood, and then Ledezma, who'd soloed. Teran had dropped to sixth, another two hours down, and Jakobson was the last to finish, just 23 min-utes short of the cutoff time. Class 7, which has sometimes been a big yawn, was anything but this time. Craig Turner fi-nally brought out his new Curt LeDuc built Ford truck, and he was rarin' to go. Jeff Lewis, al-ways ready to race, knew Turner would be tough in that new truck, but hadn't guessed just how tough. While Barry Karakas was reporting a broken drive line at Mile 28 and Rick Taylor's Ford had some termi-nal problem also, it developed into a two truck race. Lewis was having a bad day with tires, and Turner led for the first 50 miles. And in fact, he was leading at Mile 96, by three minutes and 32 seconds. . Eventually, Turner had a couple of flats also, and Lewis narrowed the gap. They were virtually in a dead heat as they headed for the finish line, but for the last 45 mfles or so Lewis was without power steering. When they g-0t to the booby trap, Turner was unprepared and it took its toll, breaking Continued on page 14 • Mike Kalicki and Michael James teamed in their Class 5 car to run a Dave Cua, usually at the front of the pack, had some problems this Mario Salazar ran in the lead pack all day, as close as 13 seconds to close second, having no mechanical troubles at all. time and finished third in Class 5, 45 minutes down. the leader, and finally finished second, about 20 minutes down. ,w.,·,~--.~- . ~-· . ,. .,, ,~.. ~ ? ~· ,I Victor Orellana is always right in the battle in Class 5-1600, and this Daniel Lopez had a hard close fight, finished as the fourth 5-1600, Dave Collier, from San Marcos , California, ran with the lead pack all time he finished in third place. _ _ _____________ ~mly five minutes back of third, two minutes ahead of fifth. day, finished fifth in 5-1600. Page 12 May 2000 Dusty Times

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Miguel Mejia and Fernando Flores had a lot of flats, and even finished Tom Ridings and Brian Parkhouse paired up in their Mirage to finish Dave Sundquist and Dave Syme had power steering problems with on one, second in Class 11, in the closest race of the day. '--th.--i11'--d '--inc...:t...,.he=--Sc::...Cc::...O.;.,..,.RE=--L....,ite ..... c_,..1_as_s--.. ---c-----,---.,----c--- -.-their Raceco, but manhandled the car in for 4th place in SCORE Lite. something, possibly a ball joint, bushes. Just seconds later in Class 7 for this year. As Lewis very close to one another, and except for being Jost once, and in his front end. He didn't stop came Lewis, his radiator full of said, "We haven't had a barn-within reach of the lead. said that her car was the "best to check it out, but pressed on, the same bushes, and on cor-burner like that for a while!" Vessels dropped out late in it's been." And ... she said she trying to get that victory. rected time, 47 seconds to the Behind the Class 7 trucks was the day, and when Paquette. thought that Pfankuch might Turner actually crossed the fin- good. It was a great showing for a long line of 1/2-lt>OO cars ... 33 took over for Ebberts he had the have beaten her. And he had. ish line first, front end squatted a brand new truck, and prom-of 'em, and fully a dozen capable misfortune to get lost for a In addition to the disabled vi-down; and radiator full of ises lots of exciting racing in of winning and determined to while, which dropped him back sor, he'd been fighting a stuck do it. But six of them broke many positions in this close run-throttle since Matomi (a dis-early. It took the class leaders ning class. Pfankuch, whose tance of about 45 miles), but about two hours and five min-face shield had come loose on reported no other difficulties. utes to get to the Mile 96 one side, was eating dust and He'd been the third car to fin-marker, and at that point the not liking it much, but kept ish and had taken the win from lead belonged to Kash Vessels, passing cars as he headed home. his rear-star.t position by four · in a Chenowth. He was just un-At the finish line Dan Martin minutes and 51 seconds. Manlio der two minutes ahead of came in first in his Chenowth, Moreno was fourth, about 15 Manlio Moreno in his Jimco, his front end all full of brush minutes later, and Lorenzo Ro-and Adam Pfankuch, in a from running off to the side, out dri:guez, in a Lothringer, fin-Kernco, ran another two min-of the softest sand. He reported ished in fifth, topless, after an utes back, having started at the that he'd had a c. v. boot re-early rollover which cost him a back of the pack. In fourth it paired, and that he had no tire as well as his lid, and lost was Bekki Freeman in her Jimco horsepower. He also thought him a lot of time. Cameron about 36 seconds behind him, that Bekki had beaten him. And .. Steele, who'd started the day and Dale Ebberts, in Rick she had, finishing about a with a just-barely-healed bro-_Paquette's Ji.mco was fifth, 14 minute and a half behind him, ken hand (victim of a motor-seconds later. Behind them, she was 41 seconds in front of cycle incident), was sixth, hi; Sammy Ehrenberg, Dan Martin, him on corrected time. She too front bumper smashed com-Eduardo Gonzalezand his uncle, Jose Gonzalez, teamedin theirFord to take the MichaelBurgett, A.J. Rodriguez carried a load of brush on her pletely flat somehow. When Class 7S victory by five-and-a-half minutes. d E · B JI f d d bl h 'd JI · · h ~-"-"----=--c..:..:c~~-----------·-·· ···-··-···-·--·---an nc aumgartner were a ront en , reporte no pro ems · t ey a come m, t ere were IC~ "'® . ~KC HiliTES ~ ~ N~~ Am-e-rLca-n ~ s40(1"' 1st Place Contingency Award for All Classes Contingency Program Information: SCORE, CORR, SNORE, MOR, VORRA, BEST IN THE DESERT, ESTERO BEACH, and CODE. For Product, Technical Information, Contingency Requirements or Award Information for the following Products: RANCHO, MSD, KC HILITES, MECHANIX WEAR, DYNOMAX, K&N, OFF-ROAD INNOVATIONS, AMERICAN RACING 2169 Daytona • Lake Havasu City., .AZ 86403 • (520) 855-0912 • FAX (520) 453-9641 • E-mail: jcrace@ctaz.com -~ . .. . . , Page 14 May 2000 Dusty Times

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24 finishers in this class, as al-ways, a good showing. The 7S trucks took to the trail next, with what amounted to a good group, at seven en-tries. But three of them failed to get to the halfway point. Bill Markel, Cody Swanty and George Perret were all sidelined early. It was Doug Siewart in front at Mile 96, in his Toyota, and he had 10 minutes on Bruce Landfield, Ford, who ran in sec-ond place. Eduardo Gonzalez was third in his Ford, after re-placing a broken front axle in Chanate Wash, which cost him about 20 minutes. Miguel Alva-rado had his Jeep in fourth ~2f-~"· · .µ~· place, just another seven min-Billy Goerke and Brian Collins teamed in their Chevrolet to take the win in Larry Plank, who also won at Laughlin, utes back. Class 8, finishing 12th overall.·--------~----~--Felipe, with a time of 4:26.:26. took the Protruck win at San As they made their way sense. next pit on three tires, but got The Gaspers managed a seventh through the second half of the The Class 5-1600 cars started stuck on the way, and lost a lot place finish, brother Bill riding race, Siewart, who'd already next, and in this group, only of time. They were an hour all the way as Dave drove. And been stuck once, and his co-three went out early. The down to Ledezma at the halfway ninth place Daniel Gutierrez, a driver, Cory Susag, lost a drive Negrete family was reported point. big dent in his door from a col-shaft and had a couple of flats. done for the day by the time Ledezm-a began to have lision with a 7S truck, was leak-They were also leaking trans-they'd gone two and a half trouble in the third wash. Some-ing serious amounts of oil at the mission fluid. The going was re-miles, and Marc DeShane re-how his motor sucked in some finish. ally tough in the washes with-ported a blown 'motor at Mile dirt and that wiped out the The Class 9 cars went off the out their four wheel drive and· 18. Carlos Davila was also out rings, and oil began to seep out, line right behind the 5-1600s, they began to lose time. early, but everyone else, 15 of everywhere, He kept moving, 14 cars total, and the early outs Gonzales and his co-driver, Jose them, made it through the half but wasn't as quick as he'd been, included our Dusty Times Carlos Gonzalez (his uncle) way point. and lribe was still moving well. northern correspondent, Forest were picking up time, with no As they passed the Sulfur They got to the finish line Creasy, who'd done so well at further big troubl.es. Ultimately, Mine and headed up into Azufre within three minutes of one an-Laughlin. He broke at Mile 42. they got to the finish line first, Wash, the lead belonged to other. Ledezma in front on the Gene Levell was also out early, to take the win, finishing just Danny Ledezma, who was solo-road, but on corrected time, he but most of the rest motored on five minutes in front of Alvara-ing this class, while his dad, was second. But then the offi-to the finish. At the halfway do. Siewart and Susag saved Hector, drove the Class 5 car. cials discovered that lribe, like point the lead belonged to Eric themselves a third place, finish-Danny had a little over thr\!e Landfield, had missed Check-Fisher, in his Garibay Chal-ing only 16 minutes later, and minutes on Mario· Salazar, who point 3. He was bumped back to lenger, but he had only 16 sec-keeping the race close right to was five and a half mfnutes up 'last place, a big disappointment onds on Hector Sarabia, in a .the end. Fourth and last were on Victor Orellana. In fourth for the team. Ledezma then Chenowth. In third place, an-Bruce Landfield and Brett Tur-place i_t was Gerardo Iribe, an-moved into the win, 14 minutes other 20 seconds back, it was ley, in a Ford, who finished 44 other four minutes down, ·and in front of the second place car Leonardo Navarrete in a Jimco minutes later. Then it was dis-he was two minutes ahead of of Mario Salazar. Victor and Cisco Bio ran fourth in his covered that they'd somehow Daniel Lopez. That pack pretty Orellana was third, and Daniel Tubular De-signs car, another missed Checkpoint 3 (as had much controlled the class, but Lopez finished fourth, followed eight minutes behind. Daniel three other competitors) so a Fritz Ochs, Gregory Allen and in by Dave Collier, all within 14 More, Jr., was fifth in his Chen-penalty was applied. The pen-Alberto Castro ran close enough minutes of one another. We are owth, two seconds behind him, alty for the error was to be to be threatening. Last year's sorry to say that for unknown dealing with a slipping clutch. moved to last place in class, but .cham_r, Dave Gasper., ·had jOt reasons, we didn't get to talk to Most of this lead pack drove since Landfield and Turley ~ere off to a bad start. At Mile 53 any of ·them (maybe we took on to the finish still together, already there, it must not have he'd hit a r.ock with his left side .time for a potty break) and can't but Navarrete lost about an beentoopainful.Thepenalized nerfbar.Thathadliftedthecar reportontheiradventures.We hour and 15 minutes and folks did not lose their start and up and turned it around, so it know that in sixth place Milt dropped way back. Fisher, who finish points, because appar-_landed backwards, blowing both Moore and Rich Sanchez, who had a clean day, stopping once ently SCORE felt some complic-tires on the left side. They re-hailed from Colorado, had for ·gas and once to change pas-ity in the errors, and eased the placed one of the flats with their "fun'.'. They both stayed in the sengers, stayed in front and took punishment with a dose of good spare and limped on to their car all day, just switching seats. the victory, finishing eight min-i'-----~-------=----=-----~---------'-------=-------~ utes in front of the second place car. Bio, whose co-driver, Ser-gio Gutierrez, did the second half of the race, was second. In third it was the Mora family, with Daniel, Sr. at the wheel. He'd had no mechanical prob-lems, but had burned his left hand badly with hot water the night before the race, and was in a lot of pain at the finish line, looking for an ice, p;:ick. They were 12 minutes out of second. Eduardo Gonzalez moved up to finish fourth, with Sarabia in fifth, just two minutes later. Jesus Luna and Bill Rodriguez, who'd had his shifter come apart in his hand, were sixth in their Jimco. And we noted that Dave Vieria, who'd started his day with a supply of spare parts tie-wrapped to his spare tire mount, including tie-rods, spindles, backing plates and brakes and trailing arms ( top and bottom), finished with all the parts still there, thus_ proving the old off road adage that "if you have it with you, you won't need it." A total of 10 out of the 14 starters made it back to the finish line. The Stock Full trucks, some-times a. threat to the health and safety of the Class 9 cars, started right behind them. Only Manny Esquerra failed to get half. way, reportedly holing his Ford's rear-end on a rock very.early. Of Continued on page 16 Jim Dizney and L.J. Kennedy debuted their new Jimco Class 10 car, Whit Courtenay and Don Kenniston finished with a sick motor, but Mark Hutchins, from Henderson, Nevada, had a fine day in his multi• and had no new car blues, takin second place. had put their Jimco into third place in spite of it. colored Jimco, finished fourth in Class 1 o. mi;;:;;;.~;:,:=;;;;=;;;~===, Rick Ellison and John Penner, in their Chenowth Millennium, had a Cisco Bio and Sergio "Coyote" Gutierrez teamed up in their Tubular Daniel Mora, Jr and his dad, Dan, Sr., had a slippy clutch on their non-functional starter, but mostly kept it running, for a St~ in Cl. 10. Designs car to finish eight minutes back, second in Class 9. black and white Chenowth but still took third in Class 9. Dusty Times May 2000 Page 15

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Eduardo Gonzalez, picked up a couple of positions late in the race, to Craig Turner debuted his new Ford at this race, and ran hard all day to Second in the Protruck division went to Rich Hoffman in a Chevrolet come home in fourth place in Class 9. finish second, just 46 seconds behind Lewis in Class 7. C1500, who was driving only his second race. the rest, David Sykes, another crunched his front end on a the victim of'a blown motor. big white Hummer home in sec- way point of the race. Ford, had the lead at Mile 96, rock, and his dad, longtime su-Spirkoff hit another rock, but ond place. Class 3 was kinda fun this . with 16 minutes on Jeremy per pit person, Steve, had re-set then just drove his pigeon-toed The Stock Mini class con-time, with five entries, a couple Spirkoff and his new first time the ·toe-in for him. car back to the finish, to get a sisted only of one vehicle, the · of them pretty special. Darren out Ford. Joe Griffin, in a Hum-Sykes disappeared in the sec-win in its first outing. Griffin Isuzu Vehicross of Bob Land, Skilton was driving the same mer, was third. Spirkoff had ond half of tl;ie race, !eportedly was very late, but brough_t his and it didn't make even the half Kia Sportage with which he'd tJ.l BILSTEIN•FOX SHOX•SWAY-A-WAY•KYB•HOWE•CNC•JAMAR•ENGLE•BUGPACK•PROTHANE•SCAT• recently completed the grueling O:= _ _ · _ · 0:, Dakar Rally, and his father, Clive, had entered the Jeep ~ KARTEK ... "Where Qff_Road is On/!!" ~ ~~i;~;:~1A~t\~~ro7~1~t~a~~ ~ 'JJ . ~ came Matt Pike and his Class 3 ~..J ~ Blazer, which hadn't been raced ""' since the '96 Baja 1000. After [ l that, he said, they'd prepped it z ~ (J) and parked it until they loaded cei A - } j -J° • j it on the trailer to take it to San ~ ltSJ' ;;:----=- 1--.,.-. [:: · · ~ • _-·-•, ::o~••, Fe1tt~he half way point on the '-..-course Darren Skilton had the ~ ,__ ________ __, .__ ________ __. .__ ________ __, .__ ______ ..;.... _ __, lead, about 1 7 minutes ahead of ..J BILLET AIR CLEANER BILLET NC LINKAGE CLASS 1600 RACE NC RACE EXHAUST :g his dad. Pike ran third, four 0: Our billet air cleaners This linkage kit is a KARTEK KARTEK's billet air cleaner Jet coated or raw exhaust • minutes later and Alfonso IJ} provide a large surface area exclusive, uses our billet air for classes 112 & 5-1600 uses with gussets on #2 & 4 . ;:,:: Hernandez was fourth in his W and resistance to particle cleaner design with heavy a special velocity stack to Super thick flanges. Mega-~ Bronco II. Jim Winovitch, driv-e:: entry. 2 or 4 post designs. duty down rods and helm increase carburetor air flow. phone. supertrapp adaptable. z ing an Isuzu Amigo, was fifth, [ For IDF, IDA. & DRLA. ends. For IDF & DRLA Fits 30/31 stock carburetors. 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Sixteen z .------------. .------------. -----------, .--------------. ; minutes later, John Kearney, O C:: Clive's co-driver, brought the ci5 t'11 Jeep in. They'd had a broken Z ~ ball joint which had cost them !i: • • > a half hour or so, and also a flat. ~ • ~ Kearney was enchanted by the en • car, said it was "great!" A little ~ over an hour later Winovitch ~ -POWER STEER! G SIMPSON™ HELMETS PARKER PUMPER™ CENTERLINE™ t"" finished in third place. $ KARTEK offers a complete KARTEK offers SNELL 95 KARTEK offers a complete CENTERLINE™ wheels are . ~ The Sportsman Buggy class <. tine of power steering approved helmets in shark & line of PARKER PUMPER™ made from heat treated 00 consisted of a couple of Baja ' system components. from voyager sidewinder styles. fresh air systems. From aluminum. Offered In C::, Bugs, one of which apparently ~ power steering pumps to Helmets are also available pump assemblies to polished or satin finish. Call • came over from Culiacan, on := hydraulic ram units. for fresh air hook-ups. replacement filters. for available sizes. > the mainland of Mexico. Rob-r,/'J .------------, .--------------. .------------, .--------------. 0C:: erto Arauz drove that one, and ~ · .., Raul Lozano, from Ensenada ..J , (') drove the other. At the half way O:: 1 ,' , . ; ~ point, Lozano led by 24 minutes_, § ~', •, but his lead grew as Arauz ap-U.. ....... ,, parently ran into some kind of • u, trouble. Lozano took the win, ~ __________ ._ ________ __. ...._ ________ _, ._ ________ ___, ~ with a time of 7:57, and Arauz 8 m made it back to the finish also, MICRO STUBS RACE DRUMS FRONT END PARTS. 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J Gary Vosburg did some digging and pushing, but stilf managed to bring his Ford Protruck back to the finish in third place. 'Jeremy Spirkoff debuted his Ford F-150, and despite bending some tie rods, took the Stock Full win easily --------------------he Laughlin winner in this class. And that left one of the bet-ter duels of the day, between the three man team of Miguel Haro, Terry Kiely and Eric Solorzano and the two man team of Miguel Mejia and Fernando Flores. Flores and Mejia had the lead half way through the day, but were only three seconds in front of the Kiely/Solorzano/Haro team. How;s that f~r stress? The three man team had an extra driver change of course, but the other guys were having flats. Lpts of flats. Also, their deck lid fell off. Kiely/Solorzano/Haro had done an extra special prep for this race, and it apparently paid off. They had no mechanical prob~ !ems at all. And, they had no flats. They admitted they'd bent all four rims, but the tires held air all the way. In the meantime, Mejia and Flores had five flats. At the fin-ish, the Solorzano/Kiely/Haro team came in first, but Mejia and Flores were just a hiccup behind them, running on a rear flat, be-cause they were out of spares. When it was all figured out, Kiely/ Solorzano and Haro had taken the win by only 40 seconds. Con-gra tu la tions to both teams, for such fine driving in all that sand! As always at San Felipe, the racing was all over early enough to give everyone a chance for a relaxed dinner (except for those few solidly stuck in the sand and the crews who went out to fetch them). A handful of racers were surely sore and tender after hav-ing cactus spines removed, but for the most part injuries were minor and° o(a non--serious na-ture. There was no CRB meet-ing, because there were no pro-tests, and only a couple of quad racers came in hollering at car racers for scaring them. All to-gether, it was a clean race, the weather was beautiful, and San Felipe was its relaxed and gra-cious self, complete with home made tamales for sale at the fin-ish line, as well as fish tacos and other delicacies. SCORE moves from San Fe-lipe to Ensenada for the next two Baja races; the 500 in early . June and then the epic Baja 2000 in November. In between they will have the Primm 300, August 4th and 5th, .at Primm, right on the border of Califor-nia and Nevada. Dusty Times will be at all of them. ■ · Raul Lozano, in a Baja Bug, was the Sportsman Buggy winner, finishing the 208 miles in a time of 7:57:56. -------------------Dusty Times SCORE TECA TE SAN FELIPE 250 March 18, 2000 San Felipe, Baja California Official Results Position OA Class Car # Driver/Co-driver ClASS: Trophy Truck -unlimited Trucks - 4 starters, 1 finisher 1 1 Tim Herbst CI.ASS: 1 - Unlimited Vehicles - 30 starters, 18 finishers Vehicle Ford F-150 3 l 100 Troy Herbst Ford Smithbuilt 5 2 117 Rod Muller Pontiac Porter 6 3 129 John Marking/Steve Sourapas Chevy Jitnco 7 4 121 John Gaughan Porsche Chenowth 9 5 118 Mark McMillin Ford Chenowth ClASS: 1-2/1600 - limited 1 & 2 seat cars, 1600ccs - 33 starters, 23 finishers '+.t. 1 1648 Adam Pfankuch Kemco 45 2 1610 BekkiFreeman Jnnco 47 3 1605 Dan Martin Chenowth 52 4 1625 Manlio Moreno Jimco 56 5 "1620 Lorenzo Rodriguez Lothringer Class 3 - 4X4 Utility Vehicles, 108" or shorter - 5 starters. 3 finishers 104 1 300 Darren Skilton 119 2 349 Clive Skilton/John Kearney 142 3 301 Jim Winovitch Class 5 - Unlimited Baja Bugs - 10 starters, 7 fnishers 28 1 50G George Seeley, Jr. 32 2 504 Michael James/Mike KAJ.icki -59 3 505 Dave Cua 80 4 501 Josh Westwood 89 5 506 Hector Ledezma Class 5-1600 - Limited Baja Bugs, 1600ccs - 18 starters, 12 finishers 76 1 556 Danny Ledezma 88 2 562 Mario Salazar 94 3 558 Victor Orellana 98 4 567 Daniel Lopez 99 5 557 Dave Collier Class 11 - Stock VW sedans - 4 starters, 2 finishers 126 1 1100 Eric Solorzano/Terry Kiely/Miguel Haro 127 2 1103 Miguel Mejia/Fernando Flores · · Class: Protrucks - Limited Production Trucks - 6 starters, 4 finishers Kia Sportage Jeep Isuzu Amigo Baja Bug Baja Bug Baja Bug Baja Bug .Baja Bug-Baja Bug Baja Bug Baja Bug Baja Bug Baja Bug vw vw 23 1 211 Larry Plank Ford 29 2 244 Rieb Hoffinan Chevrolet 34 3 298 Gary Vosburg Ford 115 4 296 Mike Griffiths Ford Cla~s: SCORE Lite: Limited single--l 776ccs or two-seaters-l 835cc -23 starters, 17 finishers 21 l 1215 Mark Fodor · Chenowth 22 2 1210 Arturo Honold Jimco 31 3 1219 Tom Ridings/Brian Parkhouse Mirage 40 4 1218. David Syme/Dave Sundquist Raceco 43 5 1212 Bill Fodor Chenowth Class 10 - 1 or 2 seaters, to 1850cc, A-arms - 17 starters, 1 0 finishers 19 1 1003 · Ron & Travis Brookshire 33 2 1006 Jnn Dimey & L. J. Kennedy 35 3 1016 Whit courtenay & Don l<enniston 64 4 1013 Mark Hutchins 68 5 1001 Rick Ellison & John Penner Class: Stock Full - Stock Full Sized Trucks - 4 starters, 2 finishers R4 1 879 Jeremv Soirkoff 136 2 864 John Griffin Class: Stock Mini - stock mini-trucks 1 starter, 0 finishers Class: Sportsman Truck - 1 starter, 0 finishers Class: Sportsman Buggies - 2 starters, 2 finishers 134 1 1402 Raul Lozano 146 2 1401 Roberto Arauz Class 9 - 1 & 2 seaters, 100" wheelbase, l~00ccs - 14 starters, 10 finishers 90 1 900 Eric Fisher 97 2 905 Cisco Bio/Sergio Gutierrez 103 3 906 Daniel Mora Jr. & Daniel Mora Sr. 105 4 902 Eduardo Gonzalez 108 5 908 Hector Sarabia Class 7 - mini or mid-sized pickups - 4 starters, 2 finishers 36 1 · 700 Jeff Lewis 38 2 701 Craig Turner Class 7S - Stock mini or mid sized pickups - 7 starters, 4 finishers 122 1 739 Eduardo & Jose Carlos Gonzalez 125 2 723 Miguel Alvarado 130 3 721 Doug Siewart/Cory Susag 145 4 720 Bruce Landfield/Brett Turley Class 8 - two wheel drive Utility vehicles - 4 starters, 2 finishers 16 1 '800 Billy goerke/Brian Collins 140 2 805 Mike .Dohertv Jimco Junco Tunco T!Dlco Chenowth Ford F-1 'i0 Hummer Baja Bug Baja Bug Ganbay Challenger Tubular Designs Chenowth unk Chenowth Chtn,Tolet Ford Ford Ranger Jeep Comanche Toyota Ford Chevrolet Cl500 Chevrolet C1500 Total Starters: 187 Total finishers: 119 ( does not include motorcycles & quads) Note: overall positions above include motorcycles and quads Time 3:39:16 3:41:04 3:49:14 3:54:24 4:03:10 4:04:52 4:49:19 4:54:10 4:54:45 5:10:09 5:15:38 6:20:30 6:53:58 8:51:53 4:34:25 4:35:46 5:22:36 5:44:08 5:53:28 5:35:43 5:53:27 6:00:07 6:05:47 6:07:29 7:13:13 7:13:53 4:26:26 4:34:54 4:38:18 6:40:38 4:22:56 4:23:49 4:35:24 4:46:51 4:49:48 4:19:43 4:36:52 4:39:23 5:26:56 5:29:35 'i·47:20 8:11:48 7:57:56 9:28:33 5:55:04 6:03:29 6:15:15 6:22:16 6:24:44 4:41:13 4:41:59 7:04:09 7:09:39 7:25:27 9:18:46 4:17:49 8:33:26 May 2000 Page 17

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48TH .SAMEER SAFARI RALLY KENYA 2000 Burns_ Burns ·Em In Kenya By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Typical Safari terrain, Richard Burns and Robert Reid made it look easy. winning by over four minutes in their Subaru lmpreza WRC. Richard Burns won his sec-ond Safari in three years in an amazing demonstration of tire performance by Pirelli. Suba-ru cars finished first and sec-ond without punctures, Didi-. er Auriol's SEAT finished third after and behind came a · series of works ·cars from rival teams who suffered countless flat tires, supplied by a rival manufacturer. Ford and Mit-subishi, in particular suffered badly. Ford, also having shock absorber troubles and Mitsu-bishi having battery troubles. Last year'; winner, Colin McRae retired after his Ford Focus drowned in a deep ford (no pun intended), but Auriol led the event after the first stage, the first time SEAT had ever led overall in a world rally. Also of note was the per-formance of the young Argen-tine Group N drivers, Gabriel Pozzo and Claudio Menzi, be-tween. them they led the Group all the way, with fellow Argentine Roberto Sanchez second overall. After the cold conditions of the Monte Carlo and the Swedish rallies, the third round of the 2000 season was held in the warmth of Africa. In 11 days, they moved from the coldest event in the cham-OBA: Discount Foreign We Have In Stock: Ultra Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15 X 7 $84.05 $89.10 Centerline Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15 X 6 $117.45 $124.75 15 X 10 $131.99' Call for Prices 3636 Meade Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 Page 18 (702) 247-1266 We Now Do. MAGNA ·FLUX pionship. After the-fi~t two events, Mitsubishi led three of the four main championships, the Manufacturers Series, the Drivers with Tommi Makinen and the Group N Series with Manfred Stohl. The Safari is traditionally the longest, usually the fast-est and the hottest, and cer-tainly the highest of any rally in the world championship. Because of the special chal-lenge, vehicle and sporting regulations normally appli-cable are sometimes modified for this event. Traditionally, cars built for the Safari are modified in countless ways, . but, for reasons of logistics, the specifications are progres-sively being rationalized. The heat is a special challenge, even for the regular rally com-petitors. The higher speeds in Kenya however, help to cool the mechanical parts and the occupants of the cars, .but there are various stretches of route, which are so rough that cars must crawl in first gear for several hundred yards at a time. Anothei; difficulty of the event is faced by teams whose cars must be painted, for pro-motional reasons, in dark col-ors. Cars left standing .in the Kenyan sun can be very hot to touch and it's a hellofalot worse when you're inside. From this year on, teams were not allowed to use full scale rally. cars foi pre-running the course. Standard four wheel drive recreational ve-hicles were to be used, thus the time needed to cover the entire route was considerably longer. But, the time allowed for the reconnaissance was lengthened to five days. For most of the teams who used this pre-run for testing their cars under actual conditions they now had to do their test-ing elsewhere. Michelin ex-plained that this new routine made. their testing a lot more difficult, due to the loss of valuable experience gained using the WRC cars on the May 2000 First Teams Cup and sixth overall, Toshihiro Arai and Roger Freeman speed to the finish in the Subaru lmpreza WRC. recce. The drivers reported that the tracks were gener.ally in better condition than the year before, creating the promise of faster ra 11 ying speeds on the Safari itself. Also, the road sections be-tween stages and service points had been speeded up. There was now going to be little time between service parks for any relaxation. In a search for absolute re-liability, Ford, last year's win-ner were again running with locked central differentials. They had done about 1 0'O0kms of testing with Peter Solberg at the wheel and now that the testing was complete, Solberg was to drive a third works car on this and most of the remaining events in 2000 . . Subaru also planned technical security with this being the last event where the 1999 models would be run, SEAT plans began badly when Toni Gardemeister had a heavy landing on test and this threatened the chances of co-driver Paavo Lukander being able to start the rally. Even-tually he was able to take his right seat in the car. Interest-. ingly, no team used active rear differentials on this event and the only degree of sanity were the air conditioning units in-stalled in the Peugeots. In the Teams Cup, the Sa-fari saw the first appearance of the new Spike Subaru Team, the first team to corrie from Ja-pan in the three year history of this cup. Also, outside this Cup, two more new rival teams came from Argentina in Group N Mitsubishi's. Ah, the good old days! Two privately entered Mini Coo-pers were in the lists, both from England. The last time twin brothers Michael and Robert Plant entered, they survived only two sections be-fore being put out by a series of flat tires. There was a total of 55 en-tries, including an unusual car, a diesel powered VW Golf Tdi entered by Abe Smit from Zimbabwe. Over half the en-try came from outside Kenya. This year's Safari was the 20th anniversary of the four wheel drive car success in WRC ral-lying. On the 1980 Safari a little 4x4 Subaru hatchback won Group 1. Rally conditions were ex-pected to be HOT, DRY and DUSTY! No rain was ex-pected. Again, championship teams approached the Safari with a degree of respect which only the toughest event in the series could command. Most of the route of.this three day event was similar to recent years, held on open ground, which offers safe pas-sage for drivers even though the route is not closed to other traffic. There are now very few instances where the rally route passes through villages as they had in the past. The first and third days routes were identi-cal, run south of Nairobi, the capital. The second day is run further north, around the equator line. Leg 1 -Four stages, gravel, 350kms. This year the organi~-ers had decided to revert to the system used in recent years of timing only to the second, not the tenth and soon the gaps became so great between · the cars that it seemed sense-less to be more accurate. An-othe.r change was the speed on the road sections: on many sections the required average speeds were increased from last year, so much so that of-ten s·imply to change a flat tire would result in lateness. The main story of the day was the terrible series of punctures in-curred by one of the tire con-testants and the very few suf-fered by the others. Their pre-event worries had been an omen for Michelin! Immedi-ately on the first stage (112kms) the tales of flat tires came flooding in, though Tommi Makinen, running first car on the road survived the rocks but was slowed twice due to cows on the road. Kankkunen damaged the right front of his car on an animal and this caused the steering to be slightly deranged. Gron-holm had two flats, McRae had one, Climent broke a rim and Solber broke a shock. People spared the flat tires still had problems. Gardemeister explained that his intended engine had bee11 changed af-ter his practice accident and the replacement had not been tuned for altitude, but, more serious, his co-driver, Lu-kander was not feeling well after the crash. Panizzi had a bad first stage, a flat tire after only two kilometers and shortly after a ball joint broke and he had to drive the entire stage with rather indifferent handling. Kenyan champion Alistair Cavenagh had his en-gine expire. The fastest car on the stage was Auriol in a SEAT, the first time a Span-ish car had ever led a world championship rally, despite Dusty Times

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Have some Rocks! Armin Schwarz arid Manfried Hiemer navigate "Rocks and Dirt" are the order of the day said Claudia Menzi and Water, mud and dust challenge_ Didier Auriol and Denis Giraudet carefully on their way to seventh place in the SKODA Octavia WRC. Edgardo Galindo in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo. as they head for third overall in the SEAT Cordoba WRC. Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya churn up the dust in Kenya, taking a Marcus Granholm was forced to retire with clutch problems in the The Safari draws all sorts of spectators, this one probably after nice fourth overall in Kenya in their Ford Focus. good looking Peugeot 206, shown here at speed in Kenya. equipped to handle the Kenyan terrain than many of the cars. easing off on tfie ast 10 i o-porte spectators ad placed Manzi, the other Cordoba sion setup problems. was no time for repair before · meters with a bad vibration. stones across the road, not no-driver led the group at the end Mitsubishi lost Freddy·Loix the first 112km stage and was At l l 6kms, the second riced by Kankkunen and spot-of the day with a six minute so they were out of contention potentially catastrophic. Sainz stage was to be an even ted in advance by their gravel lead over _Sanchez and Stohl completely. Gronholm was left service four minutes late greater threat to the tires. crew and their early warning two minutes farther back. In having more steering vibration and this in turn, required Ford McRae p.unctured twice on helicopter. Burns led at the end the Teams Cup, Arai was going as he came to the final stage of to ask Solberg to wait a few the stage, each time stopping of the day, having had no punc-amazingly fost in his works Su-the day. First it was reported minutes to let Sainz have a • to change the wheel, then on tures at all. The pressure was baru. Dor stopped on Stage 2 that McRae had stopped at a clearer run. This was a high-the road section afterwards, very much on Ford, with Sainz with what he knew was im-water crossing where spectators light for Solberg, "obviously the suspension failed, which in fifth and McRae in sixth. pending turbo failure. Rudi had raised the water level. Re-Sainz could not drive too fast he had to repair by himself and Sainz lost a lot of time on the Stohl was disqualified for an ports varied widely. Burns said and I overtook him, then I then yet a third front tire de-road section and had to drive equipme.nt fnfraction. Konishi the water came over .the hood punctured and.he passed me!" flated. He then swapped the very cautiously through Stage was forced to retire due to dam-of his car, and Kankkunen said Off we went and I passed him flat front for a good rear and 4 while McRae finished with age suffered when he and an it didn't if you crossed in first again. "I had just passed a drove on to the Service Park. the car in a terrible mess: the animal collided. gear. Subaru's ran with half double world champion twice Kankkunen said he was held wing missing, a wheel virtually Leg 2 -Four stages, gravel, snorkels and Auriol had a full on the same stage!" Carlos fin-up by McRae's dust for 40kms. worn away and the strut no- 34.Skms. Mitsubishi's hopes for snorkel, both without problems ished the stage with blisters on Sainz also arrived at the Ser-where near its original design a better day wer_e dashed on the and the Frenchman confirmed his hands. His co-driver, Luis vice Park on ·a flat tire, an-location. Some d·rivers were road to the first stage. Loix the water was quite deep. Moya said, "He is incredible, a other three puncture victim quite happy, Solberg had two could not start his car, the bat-Meanwhile Gronholm's 206 superman! I thought he would on that stage. One driver who clear runs and had risen from tery was dead! After much ef-had a jammed clutch and he collapse from the effort!" Au-never appeare'd was Makinen; seventh to fourth, Loix started fort, the crew push started the retired. Peugeot was the second riol started uncertainly. "I went stuck at the end of a stage, using ATS mousses and had car but it cost them 48 min-team with no car left in the over a crest and I was in having had three flat tires and run two stages with no flats. utes! They found they had a event. Burns reached the· end Kankkunen's dust, I hit a rock, damage to the reiJ.r of his car. Auriol was still third but was supply of faulty batteries and with a lead of almost five min-bounced over to the other side His engine stalled and would unhappy with his rear shock this accounted for Makinen's utes, over 15 minutes. in front of the road and was very lucky not restart due to damage to' settings. Pirelli cars were one, retirement. At service, a bat-of the best non-Subaru, the not to hit the trees." Then he the electrical leads. Granholm two, three, Solberg was fourth, tery from a different batch was third placed SEAT of Auriol, started having power steering stopped to change one flat and over 13 minutes behind Burns. installed and there were no fur-and more than another five troubles. Solberg had his trans-did the same on the following Panizzi was becoming pro-ther problems. minutes ahead of Sainz. mission stuck in fifth gear and road section. Auriol had a bro-gressively mox:e unhappy. He Burns had a tremendous In the Teams Cup, Arai was had it changed. On Stage 10 ken shock, which caused a tire was held up in the dust of Rob-lead, but noted that the enemy given strict instructions-to slow. Sainz had two punctures, to deflate. Freddy Loix had erto Sanchez on Stage 3 and here were the roads. Ford or-down! He had rear suspension Armin Schwarz had rear sus-two flats due to treads strip-suffered a flat when he could dered Solberg to check out of problems and the semi-auto-pension troubles, causing his ping off but the greatest drama not see the road. At the end pre-stage service three minutes ma tic gear shift selector had Skoda to weave all over the was for Gardemeister who had of the stage he physically at-late to give McRae a clearer come away in his hand: On the road. · to drive l 00kms with no tacked Sanchez who was still run,· and he overtook Auriol final stage, Arai struggled. In Group N, Menzi held onto driver's door. "I actually don't sitting in his car. This was the into third place after the SEAT through losing eight minutes his lead in front of Sanchez and remember what I hit, but wrong thing to do·as two big had a flat and bent a wishbone. with two flats and a broken Stohl while in the Teams Cup, shortly afterwards the door Argentines were nearby and Gronholm repo_rted loose steer-shock. In Group N, Mazlan had Arai had an oil leak and a bro-just disappeared!" immediately went after Panizzi ing and Climent had a broken the gearbox stuck in fourth ken driveshaft. The Skodas were going as and literally scared him.half to suspension ball joint. On the gear and the gear shift kept At the end of the event, Ri-cautiously as they dared, but death. Adding insult to injury, second stage of the day Gron-jumping out of the selectors. chard Bums confirmed that hi~ Climent had more problems. the FIA officials saw the en-holm had serious brake prob-Menzi kept the lead all day and overall win would have looked The clutch was slipping and tire event and later fined !ems. At the end of the third was now ninth, 10 minutes easy, because the team had pre-there was a differential prob-Panizzi $50,000. Panizzi was stage there was a panic for ahead of Sanchez with Stohl pared so hard for the rally, with lem. The mechanics changed obviously unnerved, he hit a Burns when the engine stalled another eight minutes back. Kankkunen's second place e_n-the transmission but then no-rock 4km from the end of the and would not restart. He was Leg 3 -Four stages, gravel, dorsing the hard work behind riced the gearbox casing had next stage and then broke a coached via radio from service 3.50kms. The day started uncer-the scenes. been damaged and service wishbone. However, the car and started and was on his way. tainly for Ford. On the drive And so it ended, Kenya was time was lost repairing that. was then withdrawn from the On Stage 7, McRae had power back south to Nairobi, Sainz re-a thing of the past, 'ti! next Like Panazzi, he was having to event. steering failure for 20kms and ported there was an oil leak year with more trials and run far back down the field. In Group N, Gabriel Pozzo Auriol was still having suspen-from his steering rack. There tribulations. ■ Auriol was down to second led after Stage 1 by 69 seconds, .atn Satori Rally Kenya 2000 25/27.02.2000 WCRJ WC pninT.; and Burns was leading. but on Stage 4 he lost a wheel (J) Richard BURNS/Robert Reid GB Subaru lmpreza WRC 9A TUSRT (GB) Bh.JJm.ll•. • ~~ ~g :c UN Stages 3 and 4 were run to-when the suspension acted up. [~( ~~~~-~,.=~~~~~~~;~~: !~~~udet :1" :~!~r~o;:~~:•:R~Rc ~ !;~!:!/f:( :::~~::~~!: 6 : gether without service between Stohl started carefully but on ~ [~!, ;:~~~; :~t:!~~~~~.1.1t~•"111• :,Ga ~~~~ ::~i~~ ~~~~: =:g ~ :!~~~ :g:l :~:g!::~~:: _ l and the Subaru team cars ran Stage 2 had fuel pressure prob-~ :!i~ !~:~~n;~:w:~:}~=~~:!dF~::::~ ~/Ga :~!:~u0~:~!~:aw~~c : ~~::;_i~8fcz> :~:~~=:~:::•• ; ~ 10 -with two spare wheels for the lems. Reininger's Honda col-: :~:: ~~!~d~;1::~;f~~::.:~:a~!11ndo . :A =~~::b~~~1vt:n~~ Bvo : ==~~~;:2.irz) ~~h~~;~~~;~ -·~ first time. Burns, now running lapsed under the strain with 10 (22) Roberto Sancilez/Jorv• eel Buono RA Subaru lmpreza WRX N DDX650 (RA) lOh.57,a. os. .Other i1nportant finiaher• second car on the road re-badly broken suspension. 11 11•> Hanered stoh11••ter Huller A N W.STOHL:Z (A) llh.021111.!>la. 10 - 6 - . Dusty Times May 2000 Page 19

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CODE'S CERRO PRIETO 20C, ;;... Yee Erupts At El Volcan By Tony Tellier Photos: Mario Vasquex Outfitted with only a Class 10 motor, Eli Yee still managed to take the overall win in his Jimco, in the time of 5:31:26, at the _C_O_D_E_M_an~g~i_am_ o_s _P_~_z_a_2_0_0_. _____________ __________________ _ Eli Yee was dealt some bad ence. "The engine is so low on seater Curry. Pacho had his cards even before the start flag power -(for the three liter race well in hand until break-dropped and still came up a gearing) -that was a little dif-ing a CV at Check 2 on h_is fi-winner at Saturday's CODE ficult. Other than that, I had nal lap, within eight miles of '"Mangiamos Pizza' Cerro no problem at all." The "VR" the finish. His teammate Mar-Prieto 200", held south of engine leaked not one drop of tin Gonzalez, who was down Mexicali near the derelict Gun fluid over the event. The For-and out early with engine prob-Club. "I blew my engine test-tin spit some lube out of the lems in his "Auto Stevens" ing," Yee said. "So I got this nose cone, however. Yee aver-Curry, sped out to help with '1600' from Victor Romo.·" Yee aged just under 40 over the the repairs. Working, listening had lost his Jimco's three liter chop. for approaching engines, they Type IV a few days before the The four lap race used the got the Sonoyta racer back un-race but was not about to let same course as last spring and der way for the win. They lost that little difficulty hamper his was even rougher and rockier, 30 minutes and still won by 40. style. He jumped down into and dustier, as the day was virs The attrition rate was, at· Class 10 with a small single tually dead calm under rare best, "high." Just to finish carb, dual port power plant a-nd overcast skies. Crossing Mexi-meant placing well. There was won from the third starting po-can Highway 3 twice per lap - a sea of Challengers, all of sition. Yee now is understand-over and under -the course whom struggled, one way or an-ably even more impatient to started and finished near El other. Nine up, two down. Julie install that Scat V4 that is Volcan. At a recorded 1033 Kern went ass-over-teakettle waiting in the wings. Or wait-time a strong breeze came down "two times too many", only a ing in the shop, actually. "I will from the Sierra Juarez -only to few miles off the start. She then have it for (SCORE's) 'San Fe-die out some short time later. had to stop and replace a set of lipe"', he promised. Second Overall and a re-. ignition points before her first Yee soloed the four, tough lieved class winner was Hector lap was really under way. Be-laps and looked fresh at the fin-"Pacho" Garcia in his fore completing this first lap, ish, none worse for the experi--"Ventura's Chassis Prep" two Kern broke an upper ball joint ,.-----, M-F 9:00 - 6:00 SAT 10:00 - 3:00 \ ..-----i,' ' ,,'\ -r )~ r,~·'1/\ \ ,J ,~, ', ,., ,~~- \ \ y;=~~:~~6 Chula Vista, CA 91910 almost within sight of the ex-pansive K.I.T. pits. Cristian Benitez's ancient Chenowth tore off the left rear upper shock spud. Luckily the Mack-Ben'z Racing car had an older, unused mount still on the car and they used that too-short set up to get to Baja Pits where scrap metal and ingenu-ity were equally used, with a stick welder, to get them out of Hector Garcia and Adrian Rodriguez broke a Cave on their last lap, but even with a half-hour for repairs, took the Class 1-211600 win as well as second overall. the"re. (Tech Fact: they had a spare PICT mounted on the rear cage!) 1999 CORP "9" champion Francisco Fernandez was a DNF while the Navarettes kept their proverbial noses clean and were awarded First Place when the Allen/Pfankuch car ground to a halt. Bill Hanson put on a strong solo drive in "Uncle Larry" Kern's single seater before pounding his way to his pits with a broken left rear shock shaft. The car's troubles turned out to be more than that. Run-ning into Bill later, at a Foot-hills auto parts store, he said that the beam was coming off the chassis: "Ivan (Gomez) said that it looked 'OK but take it easy'." "'Take it easy?"', I said. "Thi.sis a race." But when the shock went sour he looked at the damage to the saddle and went for the trailer rather than the fourth lap. Note: The Kern contingent has a great strategy racin& two (nearly) identical cars: Bill told me how he was trying "to catch Erik Allen but heard that they had rolled it and then broke a ball joint. He was actually referring to Julie. Allen used "1600" racer Adam Pfankuch for the last two laps. Kern had built up a huge lead by the time they did the driver swap and Adam in-creased that to 30 minutes by two and a half laps. That cush-ion allowed Pfankuch to stop and have a serious case of toe-out toed-in. Now dedicated to racing solely in the SCORE r_e-strictor plate brigade, Adam ra-dioed that the swing axle car "handles like#!@&*$!" How soon they forget. However, Pfankuch's comments were a harbinger of doom; Check 1 on Lap 4 was the last official record of their run.#!@&*$"-y, indeed. There were 53 Pro entries and 36 Sportsmen for 89 start-ers. PRO 10 Ray Santos del Prado was unable to make good his New Year's Eve promise: "I will win every (CODE) race in 2000," the Mexicali doctor laughed at Fud's end of the year race. Ray had the draw at The Volcano but was sidelined with repairs on his first lap and had to deal with "9s".and "5-1600s" during his hard charge. That was good for a distant Second Place. At RM6, where the racers pass under the "Mexicali-a-San Felipe" highway, Segrio Nunez in his flame painted car missed the tunnel turn and was sum-marily abused by Yee's rapidly closing assault. The self made A-armed car of Nunez and Miguel Rodriguez had to have emergency repairs on the upper left arm uniball, eventually stopping at Baja Pits for some serious plate and stick work. Pro 10 Finishers - 3 Entrie~ .. l. Eli Yee; 2. Raymundo Santos de! Prado. PRO 1600 "I only got 25 miles," laughed the ever-pleasant Mar-tin Gonzalez. "I blew my motor -but it's guaranteed!" he joked. His other team member, Cesar Cons, said that they broke the transmission but shrugged "That's racing!" Martin continued, "I passed (Cons) at Mile 7": Cons had pulled over just after the hor-rible tunnel whoops, had a quick and dirty conversation with sonie lookie-loos, then continued. He stopped at that midway Baja Pits for a "cour-tesy" look-over, complaining about vague drive train prob-lems. (Cons was not a pre-paid Baja Pittee -so he might be billed.) Donnie Allen pointed ·out that their oil filler cap was adrift. They were sent on their way. Never to return. Course Note: The rockers out of the highway tunnel were so out of sync that passengers in narrow cars, e.g. "9s", smacked helmets. The large crowd of spectators whooped and hollered in appreciation. The "Duran Freight" rig was "handling like a '9' car", ac-cording to experienced viewers. No matter, as Eric just kept the pace moderate and was re-warded with Second. (619) 691-9171 • Fax: (619) 691-0803 E-Mail: rprod1@aol.com Armando Bravo and Alberto Tiznado ran into problems partway through their last lap, but still outran the rest of the class. They took the Class 8 win with their 'Terrible Javier Buelna had a roll-over and lost a shock on the right rear but was able to sal-vage a third place trophy: Scout". Continued on page 22 Page 20 -May 2QOO Dusty Times

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Class 5 had a terrible day on the rough course, but Gerardo Gonzalez kept his neat yellow car moving right along, to take the class win and eighth place overall. Steve Downing and Randy Anderson. Anderson had Bo's old motor PRO 8 in the black and white ex-The Class 8s were light at Tommy Watson single seater. this race -only two big cars They spent over three hours showed up. The Ramon Bravo on their last lap alone. 1-H Scout gang had apparently Pro 1600 Finishers - 7 En-done their homework over the tries. holiday layoff as the short and 1. Hector "Pacho" Garcia; tall car sported a rear suspen-2. Eric· Duran; 3 . Javier sion that worked as well as Buelna; 4. Randy "BoNoz" some of the "1600s" in the GOT SHOCKS? Your main source for the all - new RaceRunner shock series • from Sway-Away. 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Marco Nunez and Norberto Rivera tied for the fast lap at 1 :35, then kept moving steadily to take the 5/1600 victory. Fine Art Fact: In El Greco's • Spanish masterpiece "The Burial of Count Orgaz", which hangs in Toledo's Santo Tome church, there are pictured the two Covarrubias brothers. As this oil painting was completed in 1386 it is unlikely that those brothers are our J.A. and J.C. Pro 5-1600 Finishers -11 Entries. rock whoops. Bravo got in three and a half laps, way bet-ter than Jorge Ramirez' CT A Honcho. Pro 8 Finishers - 2 Entries. No Finishers. PRO 5 In a move guaranteed ·to worry all ophthalmologists the driver of"500" was wearing no glasses, no 'goggles, no shield -sand blasted corneas. Gerar-do Gonzalez must not have cared one iota; after all he won. Ruben Garcia's engine was shooting ducks and only flew to Check 1. Pro 5 Finishers - 5 Entries. 1. Gerardo Gonzalez. PRO 5-1600 The Marcos Nunez car was handling very well, as was that ·of Allan Gregory. They bat-tied One-Two, separated four minutes at the flag, third and fourth overall, too. The Covarrubias team was driving the wheels off the Covas champ car. Literally. DNF. The 1999 overall Sports-man champs moved their VW sedan up ro Pro for '00 as Arturo Cervantes, Jason Jones and Mike Jones brought the · new Tractorland bug over from Somerton, AZ. "We bought a new car of Southern California and it had a few bugs." Arturo laid it over on the first lap then Jason broke a spring plate out near RM15. "We had a chase car right near there, so we could fix it and finish." They proved that they could run with the Pro dogs, keeping the pace with the Gregorys, Nunez, and Carlos Davila; all four ran a 1 :35 -1:37 first lap. OA winner Yee did a 1: 19 by way of compari-son. Using the old Sportsman championship car for pre-run-ning, the team quickly discov-ered that the course was "a little tougher that in '99. And way much tougher on the last lap." Jones noted that while the competition is rougher in Pro they also have to do four laps rather than three: "but some of the Sportsman 5-16s l_ooked like Pros." The self-sponsored team is also sup-ported by Jason's "JMJ Equip-ment Transport", specializing in a low boy for handling. Tractorland's used farm and industrial equipment. "Com-bines R Us." Gerardo lribe limped the devilish-red "Diablo" 5-1600 of Javier Hernandez into the RM36 Baja Pits. The trip through the bajada 's cross May 2000 drainage was grueling: the broken right rear torsion bar forced the two passengers to endure each and every jolt and bump. And there were many, indeed. The savvy scion of the lribe tribe did not waste a moment, leaping out and di-recting Jorge's men: "Get me a jack! A 1 7 millimeter socket and wrench!" With the pit's air tank turned up to explosive levels, Gerardo had the spring plate off and the outer end of the fatigue-fractured "spring" on the ground in a blink of a dust filled eye. He immedi-ately rushed to the other side of the car and repeated the sequence after removing the skid plate and backing off the dog ear adjusters: ''I need a .long rod!" he commanded -to push out the remaining bro-ken end. After a moment of consternation, a piece of re bar was liberated from the pit boundary flags by a n alert stander-arounder. A new set of bars were quickly indexed and slipped into place -the work was. rerun in such fast reverse that the 5 hp. 20 gal Sears air compressor 1. Marco Nuinez; 2. Allan Gregory; 3. Carlos Davila; 4. Miguel Pablo£; 5. Javier Medina; 6. Arturo Cervantes. PRO 7 The big small trucks were not suited to the cou-rse with no finishers. Isidro Ochos had a California-legal-sounding ex-haust system. The Toyota runs long rear arms. Ignacio Pereda's "Taller Lara" car lost all of its bed. Jorge Vidarrauzaga was the only "7" to complete three laps. Class champion Alberto Gonzalez required 8:31 to do but one "vuelta." Pro 7 Finishers - 5 Entries. No finishers. PRO 7S 1999 Class champion Sergio Duron had to rush from his desert pits to the start -"just in time." He should have hur-ried, but not rushed, as Sergio's third lap ate up almost four hours of valuable daylight. The Fernando Real racing car was "se vende", using Union.76 and going "pop pop." Pro 7S Finishers - 4 Entries. I. Pedro Mercado. PR09 Alex and Leo Navarette ran an evenly paced race in their red single-seater, and finished the day with the win in Class 9. Jorge Vidaurrazaga was the only Class 7 driver to get three laps done, and !Je took the Class 7 win on the strength of that accomplishment. Dusty Times

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Alan Gregory and Steve Kobayashi had a little trouble on the second He had to work on his car on the first lap, but Ray Santos de/ Prado still Eric, /ram and Ever Duron put together four good laps with their two-lap, but rallied to get to the finish in time for a second place in Class 51 managed to take second place in Class 10, and seventh overall. seat 1600car, andfinishedtheirdayinsecondplace, and fifth overall. 1600. The Francisco Fernandez eled through the RM36 pits, take the win. Nazario O-ro_z_c_o __ ~I ~h-ey_s_e_c_u-re-a~-p-r_e_s~id~e-n_t_e _________ _ "Bolica" car actually pulled appearing, as if by magic, from Sportsman 1600 Finishers · it with a tie-down strap. "No Emilio said that Jorge "did · over to let Miguel Angle out of the unsullied (and oh-so-2 Entries. problems." OK, they did lose not drive crazy, well, at least Acevedo by just after the tun-much-firmer) terrain. His ten-1. Manual Ainslie. the front clip. Jorge Vargas and like his brother" but crazy nel. By mid-first lap, it was. tativeness was well founded: SPORTSMAN 5 Yuman Emilio Willis got in at enough. Did Vargas say "We Fernandez (who started as 4:29 for 55 miles. Chase fact: Only Hector Ramirez was the halfway point and easily had no trouble"? Welllll, he got "903", get it?) back in front, getting stuck out by the moun-able t•) make more than one beat all the other (many) his right thumb tangled up with followed by Erik Allen, Rivera rains was quite simply; just go lap: Check 1 on Lap 2. Only Sportsman entries. "We had no the steering wheel • which and'Hansen with the Leo and there and experience it. The four did one lap. trouble," said Vargas, the ought to hamper his bowling Alejandro Navarrette single Sands ofTime were bottomless Sportsman· 5 Finishers · 7 "Taller Jefe" owner. "We low-game for some time. "I do the seater right behind. With no and well reworked. Entries. ered the car a little bit and it same thing every race," Jorge other class cars "torta-ed" in Blast From The Past: Tom No finishers. works fine. We passed a lot of shrugged. . · between they settled into the Preston was out schmoozing SPORTSMAN 5-1600 cars, seven or eight in a lap and Sportsman 5-1600 Finishers necessary rhythm with Allen with the team that bought his If they could' get all of the a half." The Vargas-prepped · 14 Entries. pulling the train of Hansen, old "El Toro" VW: Chuck Pro 5-1600s and Sportsman VW had a "Pollo" engine and 1. Nazario Orozco/Jorge Fernandez, and the Los Bros. "Stacked" Deck and "Horrible" VW under one class what a is supported by Llantas y Mas Vargas; 2. Mateo Pablof; 3. Navarr~ttes. Hansen was pitch-Greg Horr. "They were second knock-down, drag-out battle of San Luis Rio Colorado, Adolfo Ayala; 4. Carlos ing the car sideways, or maybe at Laughlin ... and they are the that would be with 25 cars. The Rancherita Materiales · "Do It Agundez; 5. Jorge Ruvalcaba. the car was pitching him side-only swing-axle '11' car." Gulp. Sportsman 5-1600 had 14 Best"; the Circle-K of San Luis, SPORTSMAN 7 ways. . Pro 11 Finishers - 7 Entries. alone. and the political statement: Sportsman 7 Finishers - 1 After Julie Kern finished her I. Marcos Robles; l. A flopping skid plate early in "Vota per Fox." Sr. Fox is the Entry. two laps Tim Biffy took over, Fernando Flores; 3. Alberto the race troubled winner PAN party's candidate for Continued on page 24 to a no avail DNF. Ortega; 4. Greg Hoor; 5. Car-Pro 9 Finishers - 9 Entries. los Macklis. 1. Alejandro Navarrette; 2. SPORTSMAN Juan Mayoral. SPORTSMAN 10 PRO 11 Roberto Romo took his o~n An extremely Good Lap for sweet time to complete his re-the three lap Herbies was the quired three laps, and won in 2:06 of Fernando Flores but 7:55:43. that brutal-pace eventually cost Sportsman 10 Finishers • 2 them big as their last lap was Entries. an hour longer and Marcos I. Roberto Romo. Robles took the win by a half SPORTSMAN 1600 an hour. •Winner Manual Ainslie had Miguel Mexia seemed to serious problems in the rear but have taken the route less trav-kept the car in one piece to Class 11 was required to run only three laps, and Marcos Robles and his team had three ~teady laps to take the win by 31 minutes. Nazario Orozco and Jorge Vargas teamed in their 5/1600 Sportsman car to win their class and take first place in the Overall Sportsman standings also. ______ _ Dusty Times Advanced Manufacturer of High Performance Torque Converters & Transmission Parts • t:l_igh Performance Converters • Input Shafts • Clutch Hubs .·• Transmission Kits • Cu$to.m _Length Axles 'r • TCS Designed Hubs -ServinQ The T~cpnsmission Industry For Over 34 Years. Let our Expefjence Put You In The Winners Circle! 0 • - . . . Hubs &Axles . Floater Hubs are made of aircraft alloy mate-rials and uses t"t'O large timken bearings per ,, Hub. Witry>the TCS Hub you can acheive ''.:h~ full 25 Degree Axle Angle. ~Custom length 930 & 934 Axles are made from 300m materials. Also tO:jvialable 31, 35, 40 & 44 Spline Live Ax-·'Je's. TCS can make any size and/or length. ~ tcsperformance.com . ~ May 2000 Page 23

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The Ma•=' t had fo nrvv-1 - t t l and th . . . Fernando and Mario Flores had the fast lap for Class 11, at 2:06, but ,r~= earn ur lfVV'-', cons,s en aps put emse/ves into Pedro Mercado and M,g~el Alvar~do had a good day m the,r Class 7S a long third lap dropped them back to second place in their patriotic Secord place in Class 9 only seven minutes behind the v,,inning car. Jeep, were the only vehicle to fm1sh all four laps, thus taking the win. sedan. No finishers. at him and he was not found 1. Xavier Reyes. SPOR'T'1--:cM;rAx-Nrccc-Ax,::c'A:--ron1r----==::r::-:-=-=-.,,,-----.--~-~~ SPORTSMAN 3 .., .., ._ n sidecar racer, hanging oft the wanted. The little Suzuki com-SPORTSMAN 11 Masao Sh1·ba Okada's pretty d · , k. k b H C ·f· bl T h G 1 cl · nver s 1c er ar. onest men, ert1 ta e oug uy p ete its t'wo laps at 14 miles Sportsman 11 finishers - 3 little yellow VW had to three-they came right back onto the Xavier Reyes once again tested an hour. Entries. · wheel 1·t back out of RM 36 to f h " 1 cl h" 1 S course on our ... taking an ex-ts mett e an ts meta against portsman 3 Finishers - 1 1. Juan Carlos Ramirez; z. their main pit for steering re-tra five miles or more to do so. the worst that Baja could throw Entry. Joel Cervantes. pairs. The passenger had to play Ricardo Cons may have had IUII IIOATI/IG HUB ASSEMBLY ~ QUAD-SEALED™ ASSEMBLY protects vour drive train from sand, dirt, mud, & water. ~ SIMPLIFIED MAINTENANCE -NO SHIMS, LOCK RINGS, OR ~ASHERS NEEDED. ~ COMPUTER CAD designed, engineered, and manufactured lPateni PendingJ. ~ MORE WHEEL TRAVEL greater axle plunge, and infinite amounts of CV angle. ~ INCREASED BRAKING CAPACITY -Your choice of solid or vented 12" brake rotors. D11at11r tnquiri11s Encourau11d-934.5 v11rsion now avaitab/11 Ill RACE READY PRODUCTS 103 Press Lane #4 Chula Vista, CA 91910 619-691-9171 snmiedo@eartblink.net Page 24 .KREGER FABRICATION 8871 Canal Street Orange, CA 92865 714-921-8751 kregerfab@aol.com May 2000 a sour sounding engine but he persevered to the victory. #61 was the Yosemite Sam car of Lorenzo Dojaquez who said "Back Off!" to Armando Cota. Okada and Franc'isco Delgado battled long: 8:28 to 8:46, mak-ing for a long day in the dez. Sportsman Safari Finishers -6 Entries. I. Ricardo Cons; 2. Lorenzo Dojaquez; 3. Armando Cota; 4. Masao Shiba Okada; 5. Fran-cisco Delgado. The last Pro to finish four laps within the ten hour limit was Jason Jones (5-1600) in 8:2 I :33. The last Sportsman to complete the required three laps was Roberto Romo (7:55:43) and the final two lap Safari entry was Francisco Delgado at 8:45:30. Yee fin-ished two hours before the tenth place car of Javier Buelna. EL CHISMOSO CORP - 1 = CoDe (a.k.a. COrridas DEsierto) So what's up with the name change? In a nutshell, one of CORP's founding padres left the Mexicali fold under an ami-cable divorce agreement. "Superjefe:" Joaquin Rodriguez remains at the reins, along with Alfonso "Pancho" Lacarra, "El Maestro" Ernesto Montafio, Jose Luis "Chato" Martin and Hector Ornelas: "Same as it ever was." CoDe expanded their opera-tion with food stands, shirt booths, beer sales and an obvi-ous and welcome Policia pres-ence. One donut spinning pit squid was "co·unseled" by the badge-and-pistola-toting offic-ers, to the applause of all. Lacarra has developed an of-ficial Protest Form with three levels: Technical ($300) post-ing fee, non-Technical and Un-sportsmanlike Behavior. VIDEOS WANTED Al "Ouch" Magana is asking for old videos of off road rac-ing. The older the better, ouC:h@telner.net. · MECHANICS - RECOG-NIZED CoDe will award points for a season's championship to the top engine men, the best trans-mission builders, and for chas-sis prep. TECH CHECK · The first three Pro Finishers - xx Entries in 10, 1600, 9, 5-1600 and 11 -are impounded at the finish. The extend of the physical checks will be at the discretion of the Tech Crew.■ Dusty Times

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TECATE/SCORE SAN FELIPE 250 MOTORCYCLE REPORT Campbell, Staab Draft To sand Felipe Win By T any Tellier Photos: Trackside Photo Johnny Campbell and Tim Staab, on a Honda XR650R, fought a very close duel to the finish line, to take the overall bike win, in 3:40:29 for the 208 miles at San Felip. American Hpnda's Johnny Campbell used an·old stock car tactic to gain the lead -and thus the win - late in the race at the 14th mnning of the popular SCORE "San Felipe 250" desert race over factory mate Jonah Street. Street had held off Campbell's teammate "Too Tall" Tim Staab from the 0615 PST start all the way to their rider change at the halfway mark. You may recall that _Street, a sometimes Ellensburg (WA). hay pitcher, won, in a stunning upset, last year's "Baja 500" on his American Honda. In San Felipe, Street's riding partner Steve Hengeveld then took up the battle against Johnny; Steve, an ultra-fast SoCal Hare & Hounds special-ist, kept Campbell, the '99 "100" champion, at bay. The two kept up the torrid pace on their two "00 XR650R water cooled, four stroke singles all the way to the paved Puertocitos section, RM180 or so. Campbell called it " ... real ·close racing. I was down ten sec-onds· coming down Matomi Wash, then only four when we reached the pavement. Once we got on the road I tucked in be-hind (Steve) and before we got off the pavement I drafted past him and he could not catch me in the sand." A disappointed Jonah Street had this to say about their sec-·ond place race: "It sucks to get passed on the pavement at an off road race. Steve had to back off on the pavernent, the engine went a little lean." Now running in bad air, Hen-geve ld could not see well enough to keep up sufficient pressure to regain the physical lead and ended up runner-up by 01 :34. With Staab starting 30 seconds behind Street the physical delta at The Arches was about one minute, 60 sec-onds at 60 miles an hour equals about one Dust Cloud. Campbell and Staab com-pleted the 208 mile loop (a. k.a. "250") in 3:40:29 - a 56.820 mph average speed. Johnny, the '99 SCORE Class 22 champion (i.e., big bore bikes), notched his third consecutive San Flip win with this victory while it was Staab's fourth class win in the San Felipe event. Johnny shut down the bike before 10:00 a.m., giving them the full sunny Saturday for fun and relaxation. Like going on a trail ride? The F 150 Trophy Truck of Tim Herbst did the same route in 3:39: 16 for the overall Overall. His brother Troy was third at 3:41:04 in the shark mouthed Truggy. Two riders soloed the race to class wins. CHP officer Klaus Kroeger rode his new DRZ Su-zuki to the Class 40 crown and the ever popular "San Felipe Bob" Summon finished first in the 250cc Sportsman class. "I pre-ran by talking to my com-petitors," Bob joked, sort of. He certainly did not take his bizarre "La Bamba" beach buggy out for recon, although it was-resplen-dent at Tech, covered with 12 cans of gold Krylon, artfully ap-plied, of course. SFB also ·said that he closed the Bar Miramar -desde 1948 -after the race. The two Dempsey Brothers had a particularly hard race against the Ken Palfenier team in "22." Even though they could be racing in an "elevated" age class, ·Sam and Gene elected to race with the Open Pros on their Honda 650. Gene took the checkered flag for sixth place a mere nine seconds (00:00:09) behind the Palfenier entry. Ken's Aloha, Oregon effort was on a Yamaha YZ426, the only Class 22 entry not on a Honda XR650R. After Sam Dempsey let brother Gene take over on the The Ruvalcaba family, from Ensenada, went into the Class 21 lead early and then stayed there to take the victory by 13 minutes on their Yamaha. easy starting 650 he jumped on a beater 600 to chase northward but was sidelined with a tossed chain wadded up in the ·sprocket. "They" say that Gene was doing wheelies past the pits near RM95. There were 29 Pro bike quad entries and 11 Sportsman for 40 "non-cars." There were 183 au-tomobiles. It was a festive event with the Contingency and Tech line along the Malecon bar row. Plus the early Spring Breakers at the Beachcomber and the Rockodile. The Weatherman did ano.ther of his fine jobs sort-ing out the status stuff and put-ting up with stuck mies. Particu-ta·rly amusing was the 5-1600 crewman ... #550? ... who called Bob an "asshole" on the air. "151.625 - don't leave camp with-out it." · · THECOURSE Due, mainly, to suspected environmental concerns about mountain sheep in the Borrego area, SCORE ginned up a new race course located all south of town. Yep, no more PLR and no more Zoo Road antics. From the usual Los Arcos gate to San Fe-lipe, ·the course went out the . Dump Road then tui-p.ed quickly sou th to follow the face of Sier-ras Santa Rosa to Huatamote Wash. At RM4, adjacent to the . course, there was a tall tangle of metal that looked all the world like the shell of an en-doed "Bounder" RV. At Race Mile 33 (e.g. RM33) the bikes and cars joined the graded Morelia Road and headed south to the Silt Beds Of Doom. After the racers cleared Check 1, they were then di-rected up a whooped-out fence line to the head waters of Chanate Wash. The side can-yons of Chanate had huge cobbled stringers of debris flow, which built dark, yard high ledges bounding the granite .. -gravels, and took the racers down, down, down to the Old Puertocitos Road and Check 2. Note: Any chaser or racer or freak, who was anyone at all, got stuck at Check 2! The race. cars got a break af-ter Chanate and could clean out the cobs for 15 miles worth of straight road. SCORE then sent them up the sulfurish Azufre Pass to Morelia Road once more. The riders, in particular, . were not badgered by Spring Growth on the mesquites and Palos Verdes ... of course, there were really no trees along the course other than for the first ten miles. Canyons, arroyos, washes and roads, that was it. Matomi Wash greeted the riders for their last run to sea level: "Baja At Its Best" is how the BFG Course Notes de-scribed those 28 miles. To reach the finish at The Arches the course marking team linked up with a little used track originally blazed by Lou Peralta's "Baja Promotions": "El Contquistador Trail" is how Lou termed it. I call it whooped-out sand with hig rocks. Whatever. But San · Felipe Bob "remembered it all. · You could even get off course there and not die!" The debris-strewn mini dump section just south of the finish had a tank trap that could pitch the un-wary. The nylon fishing nets actually would be the worst. CLASS 22 (over 250cc) - 8 Entries. l. Johnny Campbell/Tim Staab; 2. Jonah Street/Steve Hengeveld; 3. Phil Zeigerff aber Murphy; 4. Keith Mayes; 5. Ken Palfenier; 6. Dempsey Brothers -Sam 'n' Gene; 7. Francisco Castro S; 8. James Nelson/Los Dos Traviesos. Note that all eight Class 22 entries finished the event. The SCORE race courses are a different animal than the D-3 7 bikes-only courses out in the Mojave, for one example. SCORE races feature 3-, 4-, even 500 horsepower pre-run-ner vehicles which tear up the course with huge berms, wide two tracker ruts, and exces-sively spaced DEEP whoops that are not user-friendly to bikes nor to quads. Or even pedestri-ans. A bike course has bike-sized whoops; not those three foot deep ones which are so ·widely spaced so as to make "getting on top" somewhat problematical. At best. Richard Jackson and Dave Ohlen, on a Honda XR650R, took the win in the over-50 year old class by a resounding 45 minutes. In Class 40, for bikers over 40 years of age. Klaus Kroeger, who soloed on a near When asked bout the aspects of sharing a course chewed up to such a degree by jovial pre-runners ... with respect to deal-stock Suzuki, said _hf!_ hit a lot of roc~s, but still got his class win. ---··-·· ___ _ Continued on page 28 Page 26 May 2000 Dusty Times

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Jonah Street and Steve Hengeveld, Honda XR650R, ran hard but couldn't quite hang on to the lead. They finished second in Class 22, fourth in the overall standings. In the over 30 year old class, Roy Buelna averaged 44. 08 miles per hour, and took second place, about 16 minutes behind the Shown here navigating one of the tough sib beds, Kent Kroeker finished third in the Class 30 (for riders over 30 years old) standings. ing with the huge, scoured out ~raking holes that 35 inch tires can generate, winner Johnny Campbell gave a pragmatical shrug, an eyebrow raise and said that "you just have to do your homework. It is, of course, re-ally physical and it is also very mental, particularly with all the rocks. You have to pre-run to know where the bad spots are and how to avoid them." For ex-ample Jonah and Tim had evi-dently done their homework as they nicked off a section of twisty rollers a few, five, miles off the start. No other riders caught onto that specific trick, as it had only been used by what winning bike. appears to have been but one hoses." I hat single cooler time, although most others used worked OK going downhill so another-but-well-burned-in they could reach to the pits for "advantage" featuring blue (Mc- a new one. Millin?) ribbons at RM3. It was interesting to hear the The James Nelson "BX" effort tale from this direction. During went in the can coming down the race, the Weatherman had Chanate Wash. "I was running been keeping all informed as to full speed and I was going to hit the components damaged, what this· big rock," said Javier could be required in the way of Travieso. "I used the front and parts, and the changing status rear hrakes and then just tipped of the bike. He also fed back the over onto this pointy rock. I fact that Honda had radiator mashed the radiator on that ready at the pits having been side. So I got some help from a quickly brought from "Honda 3" McMillin pit and we cut up the to "Honda 2." "That $100 that bad radiator to make a jumper we paid for the Honda pits was tube between the good radiator the best money we could have and the other side's water ever spent," Javier swore. "The Bilstein . Sway A Way Eibach · HM · IIA 1 · CNC Sparco . PRP . FUBI Bat, Ron Davis Radiator, Betrab OIi Cooler, Optima Batteries Mechanlx wear Page 28 May 2000 tee included fuel, the pits ... and Kroeker; 4. Scott Dunlavey. the replacement parts." Ricardo Malo said that their The successful emergency re- . Bob Bell race prep was "excel-pairs and the finish is the up-lent. The (YZ426) ran like a side. The downside is that they champ. It was a clean race, no had to ride the bike into Check flats. We just changed the air 2 among the" 1" buggies and the filters and gassed it." And "gas (remaining} Trophy Trucks. it" they did to a fifth Overall The bike had a Scotts bike finish. "We didn't get damper - belying those who said caught by any cars, either." that it didn't exist, the mount Ricardo and partner Arturo being a piece of modern art fab- Salas remarked that "the course ricated by rider Jose Travieso: was really rocky but really fun. "This mount, on this bike, is We had a great battle with the already sold; they'll get it after Ruvalcaba's Class 21. But we the race. And I've sold four of wish that they had the these skid plates today." Governor's Cup for the highest The workmanship was sec-finishing Mexicans. I just ond to none, firmly mounted turned '30' and changed classes. with an interference fit over the When I raced '22' I knew that top steering head bearing re-there was, honestly, little tainer. chance of winning so we loved Francisco Castro ("9X") ran the Governor's Cup. Now I as high as fourth, coming into would have liked to double tro-Check 2 behind Street, Staab phy. And these are quality tro-and Fresno racer Keith Mayes, phies!" who finished as Fourth bike. Matt Barney got off their Castro's team faded to seventh. "300X" XR650R at Check 2 and Phil Zeiger raced under the ban-put James Cloud on for the high ner of Wenatchee HonJa.:. speed run down to the Azufre teamed with Washington Taber access. Matt said that the Murphy? course ''was a little dusty but CLASS 21 (126cc to 250cc) we're ma kin' time. No prob-- 5 Entries. !ems, no fuck-ups. There were I. J. David Ruvalcaba; 2 bikes stuck in the silt beds past Jaime Sanoja; 3. Steve Mon· Check I. I got around that by tana. riding 100 feet off to the side. The Ensenada Ruvalcabas If I can't see, I won't go." Brothers (#103X) had moved Three miles later the Weath-into the .class lead by RM6 and erman radio squawked .that were the fifth bike through. "'Three-Hundred X-Ray' is out Check 2. Conversely Warren with a blown motor!" Clark's "San Felipe" was flawed. The damage to the Barney Earlier in the week Clark blew Matlock/Cloud Honda was lit-the bottom end out of his CC 1 erally catastrophic: the front of XR600 while pre-running. He the engine cases, from head to had to stash the scooter and sump, was blown out. Exploded. hitch a ride out of Huatamote Gone .. ln pieces. A lot. The con-and back to town. Good thing necting rod appeared to have let that Gary Porter's cooler carried go, severed right in the middle. enough beer for them all. On The larger shards of the case race day Warren's YZ250 had piston fragments embedded ( # l 02X) would not see Check into it. Honda honcho Bruce 2. Ogilvie said that they will send CLASS 30 (Over 30) - 6 the parts back to the factory in Entries. Japan for analysis: "Wake up the l. Ricardo Malo/Arturo metallurgists'" Salas; 2. Roy Buelna; 3. Kent CLASS 40 (over 40) - 1 En-... .... ... ,_JJ'<. .:ftt:t -~«:,:~~~~~ ''\: \;:[". ~1,. ~ i-; ~ ~':' Ricardo Malo is growing old, and he's just moved into Class 30, where, teamed with Arturo Salas, he rode a YZ426 to an untroubled win. Dusty Times

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-----7 The team of Mike Findley, Jason Dauria, Brian Penard, Tim Pfeffler In Class 21, Jaime Sanoja, shown here working his way through some and Gaffet Judge rode to a very close second place in MU, Sportsman Enrique Felix chums up the silt as he heads to a great Class 24 victory, literally leaving all his competition in the· dust. nasty silt, finished second, down about 13 minutes. Bikes, over 250ccs. try. John Gregory's winning Mike. Findley had a-great race would be the first motorcycle to you used." They didn't and Bob 1. Klaus Kroeger (solo). 400EX Honda quad had a good against San Felipe's '94 WR280. -be reeled in by the Herbst's laughed, later. "That's a good TT.) "When, eventually, I saw thing. I would have not been on the helicopter off to my side," the gas so much, worrying about Surmon continued, "I just seizing it." Whatever works. pulled over and let the tr"uck The Temecula team changed by." Ricardo Malo made the fin-riders five times with RoR ish with ten minutes to spare Findky only taking the start for himself that sort of fear and a mile and a quarter! They loathing. ended up with a bad counter-Kroeger was on his first big day, for a change. The super-Jason Dauria, Brian Penard, ride after breaking his back... sano red racer suffered no flats Tim Pfeiffer, Garret "Here make that three busted-up ver-and only one blister. "We did Comes Dah" Judge and shop tebrae. "The course was tough blow some fuses," John said, owner Mike Findley did their but the DRZ (Suzuki) was great, reminiscent of their recent first Baja race and deemed it it was super." The bike carried "Thousand" electrical troubles? successful, although SFB did an extra gallon of gasoline in an "We got caught by both of win by 2:45. Acerbis number plate tank, had the Herbsts and by Rod Muller's "We had a five minute lead an engine skid plate, a Scotts 'l' buggy in the last 20 miles. I over Bob at Check 3, then it shark fin (rear brake rotor was lucky; there were spectators weni: back and forth," said guard) and a Yoshimura pipe. there to warn me," said Danny Pfeiffer. "It was incredible." Otherwise it was box stock. Rudd. "The buggy showed me a Bob's Bellflower Motorsports This is the new water-cooled front wheel and I got over." Yammerhammer got caught by Suzuki "XR", so to speak. It Teamed with Danny and John Tim Herbst. "At Check 4 they looks "real." Another neat was Alberto Marquez. told me that they were coming. touch, this time on the Their Duncan Racing power I started looking for the helicop-XR650R, was the compression plant "has the '99 'Baja 1000' on ter and stepped up the pace. I release lever that was stack_ed it!", John laughed. "We just ad-caught # l 04X ( Steve over the clutch lever with a justed the valves and ran it!" Montana's 250) trying to stay common pivot centerline. Pretty ballsy, I'd say. Explaining ahead of the trucl<. (According Mucho easy, with two fingers, a few of the differences between to the time charts, Mr. Montana Gas was almost an issue for shaft seal that self-oiled the SFB: "I was running out at chain for them but did not de-Check 2, I had gone onto re- oil the motor. Bob's WR's shock serve." The night before the was said to be "wasted" and both race someone needed Bob's race he and Jason got gored by p~lo gas more than he, apparently. verde branches. Jason took a His frantic crew bummed gas limb across his neck while Bob and lube from Tom Wimberley drilled a hole in his hand. and Richard Smallwood: "I only Jason's XR was not fitted with a have this old bottle of Golden Se0tts steering stabilizer, much Spectro, ". Tom chuckled. "I to everyone's amazement. don't think they make that any-Jason said that that final sec-more. Don't tell Bob that's what Continued on page 30 for those downhill bump starts. the quad's 400cc engine and "But there isn't one rock in that in the XR400R motorcy_cle, Matomi Wash that I did not John figured that "other than a hit," Klaus laughed. "The hard-beefier clutch basket and differ-est section? Oh, that was going ent gear ratios in the transmis-north toward the finish. It was sion, it is pretty much the same sandy. It never quit. Of course, engine." The Cycle Parts West that was at about 180 miles and racer prototypical Ohlin damp-I was running out of energy." e rs and a special "Quad " Klaus did two full loops of pre-Edelbrock carburetor. running. Pere nni-al class winner CLASS 50 (over 50) - 2 En-Carmen Cafro (2A) was re -tries. ported stuck with the chain 1. Richard Jackson/Dave bound up in the countershaft Ohlen; 2. Jim O'Neal. spro.cket and was calling for as-Winner Dave Ohlen ( # 549) sistance. Quad 7 A was reported said that he got mired d·own in damaged and limped backwards some soft sand. "I needed more to access and a DNF. Sam Coe motor! I got around Sam (SA) was radioing for assistance Dempsey right away, then I had at RM 18 for their Honda 250R. my (Honda) XR650R really CLASS 24 (A TV under opened up and -ROAR -Sam 250cc) - 2 Entries. went by me _like I was standing 1. Enrique Felix. still." CLASS SMU (Sportsman The Jim O'Neal XR650R also over 250cc) - 7 Entries. had a Scott's damper with one 1. San Felipe Bob -Surmon of those clamp-on stanchions (solo); 2. Mike Findley; 3. Ed over the oil filler neck. They ran Deanes; 4. Oton Guzman de a pretty much stock pipe. Ohlen Dios; 5. Juan Lora; 6. Todd had passed the #501 bike by Dunlavey. RM6. Sah Felipe Bob did admit to CLASS 25 (A TV over a gravity check halfway up 251CC) - 5 Entries. -Azufre. "Gravity was OK, it 1. John Gregory; 2. Gilberto worked," he laughed. The Santana. 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It was a long race for Gilberto Santana, about half an hour too long as he took the second spot in Class 25. Luis Navarro was the Sportsman ATV winner, riding his aCow" quad to an unexpected victory at San Felipe. Mario Franco rode a good race in Sportsman Quad, thought he had the win but a SCORE imposed.penalty dropped him to second place. let's just say that they are "not Products." tion was tough on the 650: "It's heavy and you just can't get up on top. It's got too many turns. Anyway, I caught all the booby traps." Bob said that he saw the one a few miles off the start.: "They were all standing there right along side it so I rode right to the edge -in front of them -and whipped the bike sideways. I also rode through the 'Locos Mocos' camp in Matomi, hee-hawi!)g at them. They had signs all down the wash: 'Free Cof-fe·e', 'Nuts & Bolts', 'Free Help'." They are proudly sponsored by Tucker Rocky, Pro Taper Bars, MSR, Answer Products, Bridgestone Tires, Scotts, Union 76 racing fuel, Silkolene lubricants, Tsubaki chains and motorcycledaily.com. Hell, they even had a Hummer chase ve-hicle! The "258X" bike of Oton Guzman de Dios was a very old and beat-up XR600. With a used rear tire. They were fourth 2000." Jason Dauria asked him ou_t of six finishers. Todd "Do you think that you can Dunlavey rode a Kawasa·ki make it?" KX250 out of Escondido Cycle "I KNOW that I can make Center to sixth. One of the rid- it," Bob stressed. ers_ for Juan Lara could be kindly Baja 2000 called "big." Like, as in "real." And speaking of the "Baja Six teams out of the seven 2000", SCORE's Sal Fish had a . Sportsman that started finished few comments on that very sub-the race; the "Sports'1lan" seem ject at the Awards. "The race more like "Pros than "Pros." might be more like 1600, 1800 CLASS SDA (Sportsman miles and will probably be a mix A TV) of the '98 '1000' and this year's 1. Mario I. Franco; 2. Luis '500.' It will go from Ensenada to Navarro G. Caba with no down time. This will The las~ bike to finish under take place during the busy part of the ten hour time limit was the Caba fishing season so you had Sportsman ATV rider Luis Na-better get your rooms ready. We varro at 7:52:27. This is the hope to have it marked by Sep-Cow Quad, in black and white tember and we'll have a coarse Holstein livery. Fresno rider coursemapinamonthorso.Call Ernesto Medina carried extra the office and I can talk you gas in the "six pack" location. through the course." EL CHISMOSO . One totally unsubstantiated Baja 2000A but well circulated rumor is that amused." SOCAL T-SHIRTS SUSPENDED ANIMA-"Hiram's Guns &Spirits" in El TION Cajon. What a combination, now Can't say for sure, but all of the . if they only get a drive-up window bikes appeared to have been and sell gas ... "Uh, a box hollow-prepped by Bob Bell's "Precision points and a fifth of gin, please."■ San Felipe Bob plans on so-the "Baja 2000" entry fee will be laing the "Baja 500" in prepa-$3000 and some of the racers in John Gregory lets ital/ hangout on his Honda as he flies to a great victory in Class ration for soloing the "Baja the smaller classes are, well, 25, takinghisv.j'!_ _Withalmostahalfanhour_in_ha_n_d_._· __ _ HONDA Power Equipment KAWAGUCHIHONDACOR~ Po WER TO_~-D -Racer·and Spectator Discounts -•GENERATORS •WELDERS · ~ •GENERAL PURPOSE ENGINES· Ji.:_,,._. EMJSOOSXKI •~ATER PUMPS "?UTB0ARD ENGINES / . . • \ ··. LAWNMOWERS LAWN TRACTORS EB6500SX . • RIDING MOWERS •TILLERS CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT PARTS AND INVENTORY IF WE DoN'T HA VE IT, No ONE DoEs! .-=-"' ~ .. :::-::=-::-:::::-I '~CI::J , " 00 DELIVERY TO 1HE RACES AVAIi.ABLE • PLEAsE CAIL AHEAD ' -~ ,·' -~-.a:-.#-EX1000 KAWAGUCHI HONDA 3.':G2E.3RDSi:Las.A1'iGEI..FS,CA.9CXJ63•323.264.3936, 264.5858 FAX 264.2136 Page 30 I • 1wsAj SALES, SERVICE, PARTS HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST Nothings easier. iai For optimum pcr!om1anc-c-.:Lnd !hl!l."ty, plc-.\k tc-:id I.hi." O\\,t('r·s nt.lllu:ll b(-forc- Opc'r:ttlng your Honda Po...,·c-r Equipment. S~c-ific-at1on1i•SUbJ«-l to ct-....a.n~c-.... 1thout noth .. ·e. aE.,tlm.He only. b:11c-d on r.nc-d load. •Battc-ry not mdudC'd "1th EM35vOSXK1. E'.\15000SXKI and £80500$.X. H\\"it.h bc1ttc-ry tr.1y kit .. \lt'httls ~ hL.,!l,C'r .. Connec-Uon 10 hou~ p0"''c:r requtrr-s tr,u1sfer dl.."\ic!< to .woi,1 possible Injury to powC"r company ~rsonnc-1. Consult a qu3llnl"d rlecUiclan. May 2000 Dusty Times

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Pony Express ... As an av1d race fan I have some observations that I would like to share with re-gards to the SCORE races in Laughlin. As you might re-call, when SCORE started running in Laughlin, the course was run counterclock-wise, with the cars ·running down the sand wash, through the start/finish, and then UP pit road: A few years ago, for reasons maybe only Sal might understand, they reversed the course. The result of this is the cars are now 'running DOWNHILL, flat out through the pits. Now, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that SCORE has cre-ated a horrific accident just waiting to happen. It's not a matter of "jf', just when, one of the cars are going to break something and careen into the pit crowd. If you were at the last race and w.itnessed the "truggie" coming down the road with zero rear sus-pension and no right rear tire at well over 100 you would understand my concern. This is not just my opinion. TCS Racing, Ron Brandt, Gary Porter, the Martin Bros., and few others share the same opinion. . On another note, the way SCORE runs the start/finish area is a joke! If you want to buy a t-shirt, hot dog, beer, soda, etc., you have to buy a grandstand seat (for a _desert race, no less!!). It's my guess that the almighty buck is go-ing to ruin the SCORE series! Just some thoughts that you might share with your readers! Keep up the good work! Sincerely, Randy Egerer EMCO PRECISION, INC. 13004 Los Nietos Rd. Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 (562) 941-1293 MOM I am almost embarrassed to write this, for it should have been done three years ago while I was in coilege. But as I pick up my usual monthly issue of Dusty Times and reminisce about how much fun I had in.the desert, I keep coming back to the same memory, MOM. Mom is what I had affectionately called Jean from the time I was about 15 years old and lying about my age to enter the S.N.O.R.E. series with my partner, J.C. Dean. I can't re-ally remember when I met Mom. Although my earliest memory of her was being scared! I had to be about eight years old or so, during -the time that my dad was rac-ing. Somebody walked up to me as I was sitting in the driver's seat of my daddy's race car at the old Frontier 500, and asked me how I thought my dad was going to do and I replied that he never finishes, but always has fun . Right after that is the first · time I can remember meeting Mom, she came over to talk to my dad or Lenny Newman or somebody, and stopped to say hello to me. To that little eight year old, I remember thinking she looked like a witch! I don't remember if I even said anything to her that day. And that was the last time I think I didn't say any-thing to her, by the time I started racing she probably just wanted me to shut up!! Mom always found her way down to our pits where she always found a great big hug and anything else she wanted. I always looked forward to going through Tech, because I knew I could sneak away from pushing the buggy or truck and hide behind the big red truck with John and Mom. I remember she would always be at the start line when we took the green and give us thumbs up: I even re-member when, after 23 hours and 54 minutes in the Baja ... 500, when she made poor Judy Smith wait at the finish line until 3:00 a.m. when we finally finished. No matter how far we went or how bad we did, Mom would never write a bad thing about us (even.when I probably de-served it). We could have blown up five miles into the race, but she would make it sound like we were the fast-est thing on the track for those five miles. Reporters are . supposed to be unbiased, but she never sounded that way about us. When I went away to college, I really didn't know what I was going to do racing wise. We decided to race the S.O.D.A. series in Wisconsin. I'll never forget that first race, Lake Geneva and the Diplomat Hotel. No clue what I was getting into and extremely nervous. Com-ing back to the hotel after set-ting up the Semi, and who do you think is sitting in the parking lot ... Mom and John. Remember, this was 1994 and getting to Wisconsin for Jean was quite a trek. But still she and John made the trip, ac-cording to her, just to make sure I was all right. She con-tinued to try to make it to at least Crandon every year just to watch me run. I remember that day I was told she passed, and told my-self that I should sit down and write something about her. I dedicated that season to her and, in actuality, have dedi-cated my entire career to her. Mom saw me win my first S.N .O.R.E. race, watched me race my first truck in S.C.O.,R.E., Was there while I struggled through my brief MTEG career. Was there when I won my first race for Walker Evans in the S.O.D.A. series and win my first S.O.D.A. championship. John was there always by her side, and always encouraging me in the same breath as she was. Well, two days ago I won my first NASCAR race, and you know what, I know she was there, coaching me to the finish! I am sorry that it took me so long to write this, but I will ALWAYS remember Jean and am forever indebted to you, John, for how good you and Mom have been to me throughout my entire career. Good luck with the future John, I miss seeing you at the races nowadays, but don't for-get you are forever welcome in Las Vegas with me and my· entire family. Brendan Gaughan Brendan, thanks· for the wonderful thoughts. I know Jean is watching over you as you race. We both pray you will race well and safely. John DUSTY TIMES welcomes letters from our readers . should they have good or not so good things to say about our publication. Please submit your com-ments to Dusty Times, 20751 Marilla Street, Chatsworth, CA 91311-0004 for consideration. 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WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS Gila Bend 200 By Jim Ober Photos: Trackside Photo The Wood brothers had the fast lap of the day, at 58:28 for the 40 miles, and then went on to take the win in their Subaru powered Jimco. Since the mid '70's, the Gila Bend race has been a staple of Arizona off road rac-ing, and this year's stop there of the Whiplash tour brought a large group of racer·s, .includ-ing almost 200 motorcycles, to the town and the local economy. Fifty-five vehicles left the Page 32 ;·t;rting line, but not at the scheduled time of 9:00 a.m. · Since the starting line, pits, and the 'ga.untlet area' are ad-jacent to the local cemetery, and a funeral was scheduled for I 1:00, the drivers staged their cars and then observed a no noise rule until 12:00, when the funeral was over. The course travels through mostly sand washes, with sotne mountainous terrain thrown in for variety for a 40 mile loop southeast of town. This year the course ran the opposite di-rection than it did last year. It w·as a four lap race, with a grand prix finish, which means that when the lead car finishes May 2000 Tom Swanson was the only driver to get a truck thrpugh all four laps. He ran a steady pace in the Jeep and took the Class 3 victory. • Jeff Wells had fast lap for Class 10, at 1 ;00:29, and in general ran well all day, to take the Class win, and second overall. the required laps, everyone after him receives the check-ered flag after they cross the finish line, regardless of what lap they are on. Taking an early overall lead was the Woods Bros. Class 1 car. He was followed closely 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 sidewall 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 King9 race tires have carried Ebberts without any flats. M/T also dominated the Wildwash 250 Race with Craig Dillon, running 35" Baja Belted• tires, finishing first in class 10 and overall, whjle Jim Patelli took first in class 8 on 35" Baja Claws"! Isn't it time you made your mark? Bolt a set ·on today. Available at more performance outlets than any other brand. Call 800.700.0394 EXT. 6004 and be directly connected to your local M/T dealer. Dusty Times

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... w_:;,• .,,. ~ ::-,: >. Travis Rackley, Sr. was the only driver in the 1600 class to complete Glen Greer chased hard, couldn't quite catch the lead car, and took all four laps, so his longish fourth lap didn't matter. He'd been leading Jody Clute had the fastlap for the 1600s, at 1 :09:51, but managed to second place, just five minutes and 1 O seconds back. at the end of lap three anyway. complete only three laps, which earned h.im a second place. Scott Maloney had some major problems with the front axle of his James Adams ran two good laps, then one long one, then never came Blazer while leading early in the day. Though that was repaired, he . Steve Kuker charged hard in his two-seater but came up a little short, around again. He ended up third in the 1-211600 class standings. finished only two laps, for third in Class 3. --~-~ finishing in third place in Class 1 O. The class lost nine out of 13 cars . .==========================----,-<---for a while by Glen Greer, but the Kevin McMullen tea~ in L _____________ --------·--------Class 9 had a good race, and Keith Randel led all the way, to take the victory by just eight minutes after his required three laps. In the Sportsman ZSport Truck" division, the win went to Grant Wilson, in a Bronco, in spite of a seemingly endless (4hours plus) sec_o_nd_ l_a,_p. ____ _ Dusty Times AT RIGHT: /On the Unlimited Sportsman class, Dave Cookman got faster every lap, to take the win by 17 minutes over second place. the Woods car was two min-third on the same lap. T om utes a lap fas ter, and the gap Brown, in a converted Baja kept opening up. Greer was . Bug, running in Class 1 was second at the finish line, with Continued on page 34 CAI.I. TOI.I. FREE 1-888-755-5900 WE CAN SHIP UPS TO YOUR DOOR WE NOW OFFER THEIE /ERVICEI ** WE-SERVIC£ FOX, iltl.-SflEN,-KING, SWAY A WAY -5HGC-K-S ** MAGNAFLUX SERVICE ( WITH QUICK TURN A ROUND .. ) ** GEAR BOX REBUILD SERVICE (NO MORE WEIRD NOISES .. ) ** VINYL GRAPHICS AND LETIEIUNG ( NOW YOUR.CAR WILL LOOK GOOD .. ) CLASS 9 KENNEDY CLUTCH KIT STAGE I II & Ill PRESSURE PLATE 4-PUCKDISC RELEASE BEARING $150.00 OWEL BALL JOINTS UPPER & LOWER $13.50.EA. NORB ONE PIECE AXLE BOOT $10.00 EA. BRAND NEW SWING AXLE TRANS 4:37 8 BOLT 3:80 -2:06 -1:32 -:85 $550..00 May 2000 CLASS 1/2 1600 5/1600 - SPORTSMAN KENNEDY CLUTCH KIT STAGE I II & Ill PRESSURE PLATE 4-PUCKDISC RELEASE BEARING $150.00 NORB ""930-CV-OVER BOOT (SAME AS BATES) $10.00 EA. WOVEN BRAKE SHOES FRONT, TYPE Ill, THING "$50:UO A SET MAGNAFLUX SERVICE BEL RAY cv.·GREASE . $16.95EA. .. . . . . . -~ R"71J~~6ll •••• 3054 S. VAUEY VIEW #3 * LAS VEGAS, NV * 891.02 HOURS: MON-FRI 9AM-6PM * SAT 9AM-5PM . (702)871-5221 FAX CLASS 10 5 UNLIMITED KENNEDY CLUTCH KIT STAGE I ~I & 1H PRESSURE PLATE 4'PUCKDtsC -RELEASE BEARING $150-00 WEBER 4044 IDF CARB ONLY $ 295.00 CLAMP ON 2" SUPER TRAP $37.00 CALL ABOUT SMOKIN' BFGOODRICH PRICES Page 33

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The Class 8 trucks ran only three laps, and Mark Beeler brought•his In the Pro Class 5 ranks there was only one entry, Matt Engstler, who In the Pro Vintage class the lone entry was the single seater of Ron Bosley, complete with steel wheels and a bare minimum of shocks. He did three laps to record a win. Ford home in first place, finishing nearly a half-hour to the good. completed only two laps, but went home the winner. fourth and Rex Whitmoyer of the class cars survived the · Sulger was second, and Steve was fifth. first lap, but those four went Kuker was third. Thirteen cars started in on to complete the race. Jeff Three Class 8 trucks en-Class 10, but the long; soft Wells won the class, and was tered. Favorite Mark Beeler, sand washes were apparently the fastest on all his laps with his dual coiored Ford too inuch for them. Only four around the course. Mike (yellow on one side, and blue on the other), gives the im-ing stuck twice in the sand, pression that two cars are in· once on his last lap in a silt the race with the same num-hole, five miles from the fin-ber, but it just seemed that ish. Despite those problems way as he made good time and a leaking brake caliper, around the course, despite be-Beeler took first, completing DEIST SEAT BEL TS The greatest name In driver safety equipment. 4-point sand rail seat belt RACE BELTS 2• -5pointmount 3"-5polntmount SIDE COVERS IRS . , Swing axle KENNEDY PRESSURE PLATES 200mm-1700# 200mm-up to 3000#. 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He had a 'gteat' run, despite having a flat which happened close to the main pits. The Class 3 race had plenty of excitement. Scott Maloney was leading early on, but dis-covered his steering was get-tin g loose, and let Tom Swanson go by. A bit later, when making a turn out of a sand wash, a full right turn of the steering wheel produced · no results, and the Blazer went into the trees: They limped the-ir way down course, and at the Midway pits, the Woo'ds Bros. te,2m helped them. The pit crew helping them discov-ered that all their front axle u-bolts were loose, and the axle was moving side to siJe on their springs, instead of the wheels steering. That was re-paired in quick order, but the team fell ill to other problems, and finished third in class. Tom Swanson in his Jeep was first place, the only truck to finish the full four laps. Larry Phoenix was third, finishing three laps. Travis Rackley Sr. won Class 1/2-1600, besting the other five contestants in class. Jody Clute was second, and James Adams was third. Everyone's favorite driver, Bill Krug, holed a #3 piston in his VW engine very early and didn't complete a lap: The closest class race of the day was the Class 9 group. Six cars started and four com-pleted. three laps. Keith Randall came out on top, but was chased on the last lap by Ray Newton, who finished second. Dan Allen was third. Brian Shugart won the Sportsman Buggy class, finish-ing two laps with Ty Loyd sec-ond. In Sportsman Sport trucks, Grant Wilson was the only fin-isher of two entrants. He had an agonizing last (second) lap of almost five hours, but was declared the winner in his class. In the Sport Mini class, Dean Anderson was the only· entrant, and com'pleted one lap. Likewise in t he Pro Vin-tage class, Ro n Bosley was solo in class, bu t h e did three laps in respectable time of 4:13:48. ■ Dusty Times

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,,.. AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS • ROUND 1 Z~farti Beats The Buggies At Ipswich 300 Text & Photos: Darryl Smith Fabio Zarfati drove his four wheel drive Mitsubishi Pajero to the overall victory at the opening round of the Australia Off Road Championship At the opening round of the Aus-tralian Off Road Championship, Mitsubishi 4x4 driver, Fabio Zarfati, has upstaged his fancied buggy op-ponents and taken the overall win. It was a performance identical to when Zarfati won the opening race in 1997 and became the first person -to ever win overall in a 4x4. Reign-ing Champion, T eny Rose had to be content with second place while Brad Zacka ·took third place, both in Class 1 buggies. _Prolo~e The qualifying was very hard fought, aven more so considering the dusty conditions making passing a problem come race day. T eny Rose appeared to be mak-ing a statement as to carrying the No.1 by being fastest over the course. Dion Simpson was aggressive as ever and took second as lead Class 9 car. Fabio Zarfati was third and on the pace leading Class 8. Other to be quickest in their classes were: Les Marshall (Class 2), Glenn Hancey (Class 3), Clayton Taylor (Class 4)., Paul Grant (Class 5), and David Jameson in a brand new Class 7 Su-zuki Yitara V6. Class 1 Teny Rose was out to hold his spot at the front :n the dusty condi-tions. During his second lap he · stopped to inspect a bent brake disc. and dropped to second on the road. He still lead the class even after banging a tree and breaking a rear shock. Brad Zacka was without power steering and struggling. Rod Brant was out with ~earbox failure TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING. INC SNORE 1999 Transaxle Builder Of The Year Congratulations Brad Inch Jeff/Patrick Field 2nd Place 1600 MDR Wildwash Transaxle Engineering Jeff Field Page 36 lst Place 1300 MDR Wildwash 818-998-2739 9763 Variel Avenue Chatsworth, CA 91311 May 2000 Terry Rose, in a Raceco, had a few problems, including hitting a tree, but sti/1 took the win in Class 1 and finished second overall. · and so too Mick Willett. The big mover was John Swinglehurst who was up to second.in class and indeed third overall. Nev Taylor was fight-ing clutch problems but still on the pace. With one lap to go Swinglehurst stopped to change a c. v. ruining a great drive. At the end it was Rose winning and taking sec-ond overall. Zacka followed physi-cally drained in the arms. Michael Collins charged home and followed Zacka by mere seconds. Popular in fourth was Joe Bulmer, his best fin-ish. Taylor came in fifth ahead of a disappointed Swinglehurst. Class 2 . Although Marshall lead the group out, all eyes were on Steve Willett, who many predicted could win overall. Marshall was indeed out after one lap with a blown clutch, as too was David Spokes. Willett was the pace setter and moved lip into the lead group overall too. Battling for second was tight with Geoff But-ler, Mark Twine and Wener Zetti. Willett came out after the pit break and recorded what would be the fast-, est lap of the day, however, disaster on .the last lap just as he moved into third overall, a spring plate broke. This allowed Butler to take the class win (fifth overall). Willett limped in for second in class.Twine took third in a top drive. Zetti was happy with fourth considering the extreme dust. Graeme Hardaker took the fifth in class trophy. Class 3 It was obvious it would be some task to catch Hancey, he powered his way up to be eighth overall and leading the class at half way. Kaleb Schmidt was keeping in touch to be next. Third place Warren Walker was also on the pace but would go out soon after with battery problems. Brad Cooper moved into third place. Hancey experienced some electrical problems and then a.flat tyre put him out altogether. Schmidt grabbed the lead and went on to finally grab his first class win after so much bad luck. in the past. Cooper was the oniy · other to complete the distance and took a fine second. Class 4 Although this class is now open to Unlimited 2WD's it stayed basi-cally a VW Baja class with four out of the five cars. It would be Kev Hufschmid that took the class lead early on. Both the Bajas of Craig Headley and John Moore were out after one lap. Hufschmid lost one of his air cleaners and then was down on power. Taylor battled with a slip-ping dutch, in the end it was Hufschmid taking the win over Tay-lor, and then the Cortina of Andy Stewart. Class 5 Sadly only three cars here. The Datsun 1600 ofJim Kelly would exit competition and leave the fight be-tween Paul Grant's Nissan ute and the Holden ute of Peter Adams. The lead swapped between the two and indeed there was contact between the pair. In the end it was Holden of Adams that took the win with Grant second. Class 7 A great inspiration was the en·-try of eight very good cars in the 4x4 class. The very impressive Su-zuki ot]ameson-lost the class lead early fixing an air cleaner problem. Colin Hunter was out in the lead in his brand new Jeep Wrangler. Les Siviour was making a come-back after blowing a motor on Sat-urday and then making the start with 30 minutes to spare after an all nighter. He would, however, be slowed with two flat tyres. At the half way it was Hunter in front over Geoff Pickering who would be late out after changing a clutch. An-other new car grabbed second, in the x-Brock Jackaroo in Lindsay Collits' hands.Tony Brose was do-ing another giant effort in the little Suzuki Sierra. Jameson was com-ing b'ack too with good pace. Sadly on the very last lap Collits got a flat tyre. In the end it was a jubi-lant Hunter Racing team taking the class win and serving notice on In the Class 2 ranks, the win went to Geoff Butler after a hard battle. He was also fifth in the overa_l_l s_t_an_d_in~g~s_. ____ _ Dusty Times

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Brad Zacka had a bit of a struggle, with no power steering, but still managed to 6e quick enough to finish second in Class 1. The Baja Bugs prevailed in Class 4, and this one in particular, driven by Kev Hufschmid, won even though it lost an air cleaner and was down on power". ,# ' .:.. .. : ¥ .,;., .,-,A __., ~::-:• ,.;.? • ":. • • . ~ ---"'""'• _-A ... .:-.--t-:A· ~A=~· ....... -~:~-~: ... __ Colin Hunter drove his brand new and bright red Jeep Wrangler to the . • · · · • ~ · Class 7 victory in its first time out, finishing a nice sixth overall in the Peter Adams had a close race, more close _than comfortable for his process. Holden ute at times, but still ended the day taking the Class 5 win. Kaleb Schmidt had some good luck for a change, and as other succumbed to trouble he forged to the front to get his first win in Class 3. Doug McMillan had his Class 9 car up to fifth overall for a while, but lost time with a flat. He still managed to get his class win however. what is to come m their first run m the car. Such was ~heir great speed that they took sixth overall. Les Siviour grabbed second which was more than expected. Brose took third after giving so much power away to others. Pickering came storming home in fourth, with Jameson taking fifth but not before showing plenty of potential. In-deed, all eight cars finished and _ showed the appeal of Class 7 nowa-days. lap but-it was on the second lap when he became the first on the road that he appeared unbeatable in the dust. His only drama was on the third lap, he broke the gearstick off and drove in third gear, luckily to a pit break where he fixed it. Smith failed to fin-ish with a blown rear shock hose. Zarfati went on to create more his-tory winning the event overall. Class 9 Unbelievably only two cars in this class at this race. It was Simp-son leading from the start but be-fore the first lap was over, he was ou~ with cliff failure. That left Doug McMillan as the sole class runner. He was in the lead group and in fifth overall at half way. He then got a flat tyre losing time but still making it to the finish and taking the class win. In the end there were 33 cars of the 58 starters that made it to the finish. There is now a lengthy break to the next round of the Champion-ship at Griffith on June 25, although many competitors will compete in· the Finke Desert Race on June 10, Class 8 Only two cars in this class. The Pajero ofFabio Zarfati that was con-centrating on the overall win and the turbo Rodeo of Ken Smith, which although quick would be bac\< a bit. Zarfati took the lead on the opening ultimate Jong travel ford Jong travel system Get the benefits of our Long Travel system and 3" lilt spindles, creating 6" of lift for incredible ground clearance. r..,,_.,.,.,,,11 ■ 3' lift indles u---.-W ■ Upper~ontrol arms ~~©W)' ■ Lower Control arms ■ Coil springs ■ 3 way front shocks ■ Performance rear shocks ■ Rear kit 3-wau adjustable shock absorber ~wf/J touota Jono travel system Our Toyota 2 wheel drive, 6' 1van Dan' long travel system. Built to satisfy all the serious off readers out there. Dusty Times custom i beams O!froad bullet proof design provides maximum strength with 4 130 Chromoly steel 118th' thick plate and -tubular inner structure. 1990-94 lord ranger y--performance sustem Our extended radius arms are offset further inboard offering increased tire clearance and 4 • more wheel travel Dual Shock System 2 shocks per front whee~ adds high performance dampening. 8' Suspension System used in a racing ' application with coil over shocks. Using Fabtech custom I beams, this configuration cycles out at 19' of wheel travel extended radius arms Our extended radius arms are offset further inboard for increased tire clearance. Hanger models shown, which include new pivot mounts. 1998-on ford ranger z.s·· performance sustem 2.5' of lift with a 2' increase in wheel travel 1973-87 (10 y ·· lonp travel sustem Gives you the needed clearance for 33' tall tires. May 2000 _·anoled-11 and 12. ■. e f1 e Mber:!s! ! include front fenders, bedsides and hoods. The front fenders and bedsides are Oared with wheel travel in mind. spare tire mount ~ . Constructed using 1 1/ 4' steel tubing and MIG welded at the joints for long lasting strength and durability. flat spare tire mount Over 25 Styles ;1-J:1" stamped steel tabs Our vast assortment of stamped steel tabs simplify your fabrication needs. " Call for a distributor nearest you Phone 714-990-8850 -Fax 714-990-8854 www.FatJtechmotorsports.com DR E-MAIL US AT info@fabtechrnotorsports.com Page 37 .....

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,. Antonio Macias, from Mexicali, rode his 500cc Kawasaki to second place in the Open Pro class. Here he '.s seen flying off one of the many Edgar Espinoza clears the jump on his 250cc Honda CR, as he heads In the Open Expert Class, Oton Guzman de Dias, from Mexicali, took "whoops". tor his third place in the Open Pro Class. third place on his '95 Honda XR 600. ets, ov1ces, an cc. ce t e res-=--w- a-s--re-s-us---m'ojak"Carrillo#l95aforfirst Behind them was the Novice class. cue unit took the victim out of the track, the racers were ready to start again. Trying to start all over again, the first heat for bikes was six laps, and there were two heats for the A 1V s. Chris and A.]. Hoffman (Threat Racing) and Edgar Espinoza #7x took the hole shot, followed by Ricardo Malo #6K and Antonio Macias #25x and Carlos Molina, who did not have a good start. A.]. Hoffman crashed, leaving as leader #7x Espinoza, who had all the Pros behind him~ Espinoza led the race for three laps, but later on Rick Malo took the lead and kept his position for the rest of the race. Macias, pushing hard aboard his KX 500passed #7x Espinoza on the lastlap, taking home the second overall and it was Espinoza for third. Both in the Open class. Mexicali resident, Jesus Carrillo, on a 125cc Kawasaki KX, flies with style over the '?_u_mp. He took the win in the 125 Expert Class. __________ _ In the Expert race, from the start, the battle was between Oton Guzman # 299x, Beto Verber #22x and· Jaime friend's bike because his bike got a flat Sanoja #357x. They fought for the lead tire while pre-running. In the end, the the whole race. 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NORTHWEST RALLY REPORT Doo Wop 3 And 4 Text & Photos: Jim Culp quipped that "driving these things is much more fun than working on them." Another new PGT car was seventh with Jack Brodhead and Jim Jump in the Jump'n Jack Mit-subishi Eclipse. Group 5 cars feature lots of power, but o.nly use two wheels to put that power on the road. Power and top end speed were no advantage in this event. The first Group 5 car, the Mazda RX7 turbo of Dave Hintz and Rick Hintz finished eighth. Trevor Deni-son and Paula Gibeault fin-ished just three seconds be-hind the Mazda in Production class Plymouth Neon. With everyone slipping and sliding, Denison put on a nifty display of precision driving to sur-prise the field and nab a top ten finish for a Production car. Rounding out the top ten were Ga(y Cavett and Mika Lepisto who zipped through the puddles after turning out the campground lights when they clipped a power pole guy wire with their Subaru RX turbo. The competition was tight throughout the field, Car #39 Carl Jardeva/1 and Amity Trowbridge in the fast Nordic Motors Volvo 740 tuba were first overall at Dao Wop 4. and one spin was enough to Performance rallying mad·e Vehicle Park. Two tight, and calculating new angles to drop sure top ten finishers a long overdue return to the twisty loops through the attack the course. Their stage like Todd Hartman and Pacific Northwest when Eric campsites were linked with a times improved with each Shawn Callahan down to Eaton and Kenny Almquist high speed dash across the run, and they were the logged 19th at the finish. tiptoed through swampy stadium. the fastest time on Stages l . Two cars DNF'd. Todd and campgrounds and blasted Overnight rain left the through 4. Tina Lengacher's new Audi -down historic rally roads to stage soggy at the start and a Pre-event favorites Paul· 4000 lost a wheel bearing and capture the coveted Doo. sudden hailstorm midway Eklund and Scott Huhn in Dave LaTourette and Bill Wop series title. the 2000 through the first run turned the Primitive Racing Subaru Davis broke the suspension edition of the season opening portions of the course into a tmpreza were second, even on the 4WD Davesport VW Doo Wop series was limited swamp. A pond sized mud narrowing the gap to seven Beetle. Second place finishers to two events due to another puddle developed at the fast-seconds by the finish. Greg Eklund and Huhn hydro-round of road closures. The est spot on the stage and Lingelbach and Steven An-planed into a crash on the fi-lack of open roads has put turned the dash into a splash. drews were another six sec-nal stage,. knocking the fast-The Sports Car Club of ltwasaroutedesignedforan onds back in third overall, estSubaruoffthestartlistfor America's ClubRally pro-agile 4WD vehicle like the first in Production GT class, Doo Wop 4, but George Plsek ~ram on the endangered list Mazda 323GTX of Eaton and with a new Eagle Talon. had even worse luck when the in the northwest. But for this Almquist. 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For most of the rally, fast Volvos were running first and second, with John lane and Ray Damitio passing Jardevall and Trowbridge. Lane and R. Damitio even topped the charts with a 64.4 mph aver-age on the wet pavement stage that was run around Satsop's canceled nuke plant. Only a few miles from the fin-ish of the final stage, Lane's second place Volvo 262 turbo sheared a bolt iri the front suspension and joined the DNF list. At the finish Eaton and Almquist claimed second overall in the Open class Mazda, a ·spot that clinched the Doo Wop series trophy. A slightly older Mazda, the ro-tary powered RX3 of Bob and Tammy Reaves grabbed third overall. Fourth were Richard and Bradley in the Rocket Rally Racing Subaru, followed by the Dave and Rick Hintz in the Mazda RX7 turbo. Jake Dekovic and Kati Callahan were sixth in another new PGT class Mitsubishi Eclipse. Pennington and J. Damitio stormed to seventh overall in the Wagon Werks Audi, while-the Saab 99 of Nate Tennis and Nate Pettit was one spot back, and the first Group 2 finisher. Mark Nel-son and Lee Sorenson in .the screaming yellow Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV were ninth, while Bob Trinder and Andy White claimed tenth in the Richmond Toyota Celica. Jon Tabor and Kevin Poirier were the Production class winners, 15th overall in the Tabor Racing Nissan Sentra. Northwest Divisional class winners were Jardevall and Trowbridge in Class 1. Ten-nis and Pettit in Class 2, with Pennington and J. Damitio 011ce again claiming Class 3. The attrition rate, like the speed, was higher in Doo Wop 4, with only 28 of the 37 en-tries runniftg at the finish. In addition to Lane and Dami-tio, the DNF list included Lingelbach and Andrews out early with a blown-head gas-ket and La T ourette and Davis who lost a turbo on the final stage . 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Car #62 Pat Richard and Ben Bradley run past the nukes at Doo Wop Car #21 Trevor Donison and Paula Gibeault in the Production class 4 to win the Production GT class with the Rocket Racing Subaru Car #207 Dave Hintz and Rick Hintz, Mazda RX7 turbo, captured Plymouth Neon nabbed a top ten finish in Doo Wop 3. lmpreza 2.5 Rs: ========= Group 5 at the Doo Wop 3. Car #222 Jon Tabor and Kevin Poirier were the Doo Wop 4 production Car #223 Greg Lingelbach and Steven Andrew~, Eagle Talon, finished Car #251 Kevin Pennington and Janice Damitio grabbed both NWR class winners in the Tabor Racing Nissan Sentra. ~-~--first in the Production GT class at Doo Wop 3. Group 3 trophies with the Wagon Werks Audi 4000 Quattro. into a bank, spun back across The· oa s crisscrossed with thousands of est, a multiple use public rec" has concluded that 40 rally the road and just missed drop-That's enough good news, miles of gravel roads. These reation area managed by the cars somehow• damage roads ping into a rav.ine. Richter let's talk about roads. In the are-some of the best rally Washington State Depart-while hundreds of weekend suffered some back pain, last year, Northwest Rally en-roads this side of Finland's ment of Natural Resources. four wheelers do not. Ms. Wallace nicked his chin, but thusiasts have been slapped 1000 Lakes, but mile by mile This year, Jennifer Belcher, Belcher is an elected public the safety equipment did the with a variety of event delays they are being closed to orga-the Commissioner of Public official, running for re-elec-job and they walked away and event cancellations, all nized motor sports.. Lands ended the tradition tion this fall. If you have an from the totaled wreck talk-caused by the unavailability For almost 30 years, Perfor-and closed these roads to rally interest in Performance rally-ing about building their next · of roads. The timberlands of mance rally events have been competition. Without scien-ing, it's time to register and rally car. _s_o_u_thwest Washin~ton are held in the C~pital State For-tific evidence, Ms. Belcher v~te. ■ Car #258 The Saab 900 of Dave Schrenk and Chad Little splashed to Car #260 Eric Eaton and Kenny Almquist captured the Doo Wop series Car #283 Nate Tennis and Nate Pettit, Saab 99, won the Group 2 the Group 2 win in Doo Wop 3. ________ title in the 4WD Mazda 323GTX turbo. __ c____ _cl_as_s_a_t_D_o_o_W._o~p_4_. ______________ _ Do Nore Than Just N•ck Up ••rtt Wlln! Win Free 76 Racing Gas for the 2001 Season! One entry for each 25 gallons of 76 100 or 110 Octane Racing Gasollne 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 )QUr proof of purchase, along with Name, Address, and Phone to: CL Bryant, Inc. Attn:Mltcb 237 E. Whitmore Ave. Modesto, CA. 95358 Dusty Times ~RACING f.:,,;:JGASOLINE ................ •.•J'.•.y WHh 76 Racjna Gasoljne Falrplex - Pomona. October7 &8 May 2000 l!"ARACING ~GASOLINE ■-■ ■--·-■~--•• --·---·----· I-■■ ■J-. Cl!■ ■.a I::■ L i .Authorized Distributors -Southern California, call: KRS Distributing 71 4-816-8 98 3 Cosby Oil 1-800-54-COSBY www.cosbyoil.qom For a Distributor Nearest You - 800-399-4176 Page 43

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Challenger corner By Joel Mohr RACE RESULTS: SCORE SAN FELIPE 250: 14 Challengers started a single loop that went south of town, turned inland, then back north, across Highway 3, then back south again down Zoo Road, and back to town. Consisting of mostly deep sand washes, short tires and low gears seemed the best set up. An impressive 10 cars did make the finish though, and Cisco Bio e-mailed me a few stories he heard. Forrest Creasy was making a pass for the lead about Mile 45, hit a ditch and rolled, ca using too much damage to continue. Plunkett was the next to re-tire, only making it to Check 2. Levell and Watkins didn't make it a whole lot further. Caspino was the last of the finishers, getting a 10th place. Apparently, Navarette lead most of the way, until his motor started to sour. (That's gotta SUCK!) He e.nded up ninth. David Viera was eighth, Gomez seventh. Rodriguez fighting a shifter and a flat was sixth. Sarabia lead for a couple of checks, then faded to fifth. Gonzalez? Was hav-ing problems with flats, and came in fourth. Here's a story: Daniel Mora was boil-ing water the night before the race for some soup, and apparently scalded his hand so badly that he couldn't drive. he recruited his son ·Lujeen, and Dan jump~d in to drive the last 25 miles to stay in the points. The fa-ther-son team came hom·e third, and I think Dan ought to think about letting him drive more often! Cisco Bio drove the. first half, then handed his car over to "El Coyote", suffering only one flat and earned second place. The winner was Eric Fisher, driving solo and re-porting no. problems. CON-GRATS! The next SCORE race is the Baja 500 in June. The LeDuc OFF ROAD SWAP: I saw some guys on the Internet bitching that the swap was no good. Now, I don't know what they ex-pected from a bunch of rac-ers cleaning out their ga-rages, but I thought it was an absolute GOLDMINE! I could go on about all the stuff that my friends and I got, but let's just say I MADE money buying! I've never seen so many Center-lines (yes, I look at Center-lines) and shocks in my life. And the prices were incred-ibly cheap! All I can say is that I wish there were one of these every month! Yes, I go to Pomona, but if you needed pure off road stuff, this was the place to be. I can't wait 'till next year. .. TECH TIP: Now, I don't know if this is a tech tip or a common sense check, but I still hear a lot of racers say "I got a flat and I didn't even. hit anything!" First off, I check my. tire pressures the day before the race. If there is a significant drop in pres-sure since the last race, I have that tube checked. I don't use sealers. Also, check ALL of your spares every i:ace. Take nothing for · granted. I run 20 to 25 lbs. and radial tubes. Yes, I "tip-The Winningest Pit Club in Baja History! Is now accepting Racer sign ups for race support and emergency repair service for the · Baja 500 & The Prim Whether you're a seasoned veteran or first time racer get the advantage that has helped win and finish more Baja Races than any other Pit Crew in History. Mag 7 OFFERS • Full Service Pit Support • Refueling Service • Haul Fuel & Spares • 50 Mile Pits When Required • Tire Service • Welding Service • Friendly Pit Exchange • 30 years of Winning • Emergency only Repair Service at Reduced Rates Call 619-582-3728 e-mail mag7race@aol.com On the web at www.ma ?race.com ~ ~ SKS VALVDLINE ~ lS . De.signs RO.ID HGIREII SAN DIEGO www.race-demt.com,Jdfab 858-565-7792 Page 44· toe" through the rocky sec-tions, but I have had only one flat and one "low" tir-e in three years. You could probably go faster through the rocks, but the force of the tire hitting a sharp edge increases dramatically. Re-sult: flatness. Remember, tire pressure will also affect shock set up, and testing should be done with a 11 things relevant considered. Ori.ce again, if you have any questions or comments, my number is 760-947-6647, and my e-mail is MOHRPRF@JUNO.COM. SEE YOU AT THE RACES!!! C.O.R.E. Pit Report By Sandy Parker TEAM INCH (Class 1-1600) Brad once again soloed the race and did a fine job at it. Brad said he was plagued with an ill handling car that took great effort to keep"up with the leaders. For · about two laps, Brad fought his way physically close to the leader and was leading on time for a few laps. Near the last lap, Brad said he was directly behind the leader when they made a hair pin turn and he noticed the driver looked over·and saw that it was Brad's 1600 car hiding in his dust. Brad knew that if he was seen the other car would take off like a rabbit, and he was right. They kept up a blistering pace on the last lap and Brad had to settle for second place money. Still an im-pressive run ·for the Prez. TEAM MALLOY (Class 1-1600) Mike. Malloy unfortu-nately had a very short run as the engine developed a miss just off the start line. M.ike pulled into CORE Pit A so the pitters could locate and repair the problem. Af-ter checking the fuel and e lee trical sys terns they dis-covered that water conden-sation somehow got into a plug wire, shorting out one cylinder. A very bizarre problem that no one could predict or prepare for. Over an hour down, Mike was back on the course passing slower cars left and right. The team decided to park the car and save the equip-•· ment when Mike made it back to the main pit. TEAM FIELDS (Sportsman) This was the first race for veteran off road transmis-sion builder Jeff Fields and his son Patrick. Brad offered his old 1600 two seater to his boss Jeff, to take for a spin at a race. I have heard en-thusiasms from dr-ivers be-fore, but I could tell that these guys had a GREAT TIME! Jeff has driven off road cars for years but mainly sand buggies. Since this was his first time com-peting in an off road race, he concentrated on being smooth and consistent. Ac-cording to the times, they did manage to get quicker every lap as they got used to the car and course. Appar-ently the only down time was for a quick splash of gas and a run to the bathroom during their scheduled mid-race pit stop. When the dust settled, they finished second place in Sportsman and took home a nice trophy for their efforts. After the race Jeff walked around the· pits and shook everybody's hand and thanked them for their sup-port, what a class act. Jeff and Patrick asked that a big "THANK YOU" to Brad Inch be etched in the pa~es of Dusty Times for loaning the car. TEAM STEVENS (Class 9) Relatively new to off road racing and the first race for CORE pit support was the team of Keith Stevens, Alex Pacheco and Daniel Poole in their single seat Challenger. PIKES service center Baker, California Celebra~ing 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS •.• THANKS! . RESTAURANT Open 24 Hours Mobil® SERVICE Every Day Year Round THE BEST IN THE DESERT! May 2000· Keith started the race and drove the first two laps with no problems. He handed the car to Alex Pacheco who did his two and a half laps. Alex had no problems on his first lap. The extra half a lap was due to getting lost on his second lap and ending up back at the Start and Finish. After talking to the CORE Pits, we determined where he got off course and sent him back to that spot to re-enter the race; Once back on the course he made it back to the Main Pit. Dur-ing the driver change at Main Pit it was noticed that the rear torsion bars· were sagging badly and needed adjusting. Upon cl_oser in-·spection, the entire torsion housing was ripped, frame badly cracked, and the transmission and engine skid plate was missing. After sev-eral minutes of serious de-bate, Keith instructed Daniel Poole to hobble the car across the finish line to collect the lap points and pull the car on the trailer. This team is a fun bunch of people. CORE looks forward to pitting with you in the fu-ture. Keith wanted to thank his sponsor Tim Morse of Morse Muffler for all his sup-port. TEAM SCOTT (Class 9) Also new to CORE was the team of Mike scott in his two seat Chenowth. I wasn't able to speak to Mike after the race to get the race in-formation, but I was able to scrape up some of the hap-penings. I understand that they had shifter and stop-ping problems. They pulled into a CORE Pit and had a brake line repaired and the system bled. They eventually broke a spring plate a few miles before the Main Pits. They were not able to find a short spring plate in the pits so they ended up trailering the car off the course. CORE PIT SUPPORT CORE MAIN The CORE Main was Off Road Race Car Driving Experience Hands on Driving Experience. 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manned by Tom Malloy, Bruce Pursell, Rob Stapp, and myself. We kept active with the usual fuel stops and driver changes of all the cars. A tire was changed on the Stevens Challenger and later discovered their race ending chassis problems. -CORE PIT ABLE Paul Smith, Greg and Bryan Johnson, Don Inman, and Eugene Bartha com-posed the pit operations at CORE Able. The only ac-tion they saw was the troubleshooting of the Mal-loy ignition problems. CORE PIT BAKER Bob Depew along with Dave and Davy Girdner set up a pit at the inner Hodge Road location. The only work they did was on the Scott Challenger. They re-paired a brake line and bled the brakes and quickly got them back on the course. CORE PIT CHARLEY Lex and Shashum Web along with Dave Woulf ran the Charley Pit at Hodge Road. M.O.R.E. BALLS OUT 250 RACE REPORTS TEAM STAPP/CRAIG (Class 9) Rob and Todd both said that this -race was the most fun and exciting racing ex-perience they have ever had. Rob started the race the sec-ond Challenger off the line. He passed the leader within five miles and led the rest of the lap until he took a wrong turn. Rob quickly noticed the course was undisturbed· so he turned around and met two other Challengers who also took the wrong turn. He made it back to the course but thr!!e cars had passed him. Rob was upset at him-self for getting lost so he was determined to get back on top. He passed two of the cars back and then caught up to Robby Cockrell, the leader and had some serious dicing with him for almost two laps, some great racing. Todd Craig took over the helm for the second half of the race 30 seconds behind Cockrell. Todd was flying the car as usual, knocking off laps over a minute quicker than anybody else. Todd thought he could "The Wall" in a Challenger, he did but almost went over, yes Todd, I did see the photo, wow! Todd finished the race over seven minutes ahead of the second place car. Their second win in three races with my old car. They won $840 for seven cars in their class, which also included fast lap cash for five fast laps. TEAM LARSON/ LINDQUEST (Class 1-1600) _ Dave Larson teamed up with long time member An-drew Lindquest to do battle in Dave's single seater. The gears obviously meshed for his new team as they posted their first win, beating Chris Marcum by only 20 seconds. I understand that the team had quite a night before the race, working on the car re-pairing some last minute problems. They had prob-lems with the fuel system, I had heard that they had the fuel cPII and were also work-ing on the carburetor. An-drew started the race and was scheduled to run the first four laps but Dave was searching for some race fuel so Andrew got to drive for a few extra laps. Dave got in the car and drove the last few laps to the checkered flags. The only problem Dave had was the c.v. boot split and squirted out all the grease so they re-greased it and duct taped the boot and sent him on his way. They were not an official CORE car this race, but I under-stand that they are very in-terested in joining our fam-ily. I hope so, it is always nice to have another winner on our it sheets. TEAM MARCUM (Class 1-1600) This was only the second race for Chris Marcum in his new single seat 1600 and the first race running with CORE Pit support. Chris soloed the race and had an absolutely flawless day. Chris said the car handled great, and was making plenty of power. Chris said he closely followed the Lar-son/Lindquest, the leaders, and had a great day. Since the racing was so close, he made the call to stay in the car and not waste time with a driver change. Mike Brown was standing by, ifrhing to get behind the wheel. The only news to report was his first experience with "The Wall" also, as he elevated the car about five feet in the air, but it landed square and kept motoring. Chris made up some-time on the second half of the race and finished in second place only 20 sec-onds behind the leadPr. Sec-ond place is not as bad when you have a full day of very Millennium 14ad~ Mirage SUPER SANO 2 Seat Class I Porsche, 6 cyl 2.5 & Brand New 0G 300 Trans, Tons of Spares, Ready for long Races with a Mirage 20,000 Ground Up Prep! Windshield, Summers Bros., Fuel Inj., 24 Tires & Wheels, Big Fod Beam & Arms, 125" W.B., Mirage/Fox 2.5 Bypass rear, All Coil Over & Extra Trans. ONLY 55K FIRM! Buy an Out of the Box, Detailed, Clean Fin-isher, NO BULL. Ref# 747 Baja Brokers 760-723-2117 Dusty Times May 2000 close racing. Chris asked that I thank CORE for the pit support in the article. Great race Chris, welcome to the club! TEAM McMULLIN/ CRAIG (Class 10) Steve McMullin and Tommy Craig had high hopes to have a great race in their 10 car. Unfortu-nately, problems began shortly· after the start, ha v-ing carburetor problems. After working on the prob-lem they discovered the float had stuck. They repaired the problem and began to make up some lost time when the engine blew up. Searching for a profes-sional family oriented pit support club? CORE is al-ways happy to extend its family and support. We have monthly meetings on the first Tuesday of the month at Mulligans Restaurant in Santa Clarita at 8pm. For more information, join us at the me~ting or call me at This is the ~ystem run by most off road race winners (818) 772-77 58 or e-mail me at race975@aol.com. CRSNews From The Director Ah Spring! The season of renewal -the trees turn green again, the swallows return to Capistrano and the sound of wrenches emanates from every rally garage. I love the smell of race gas in the morning! This is the time of year when old cars are revived "for just one more season" and new ones are built with the hopes of that top five finish. Bruce Brown's Subaru should be up and running. Tony Chavez has had some serious engine work done on his VR4. Paul "I am a rocket scien-tist" Timmerman has ac-Contiriued on page 46 TRI-MIL BOBCAT CHROME 1984-91 CORVETTE 2 1/2" OR 3" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER 13220 HALLDALE AVENUE GARDENA, CA 90249 310-217-9233 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 45

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tually wash e d his c a r (this is a moment in h istory folks - h e normally does this in the parking lot just before tech inspection). Doug Robinson has taken the 1.6 engine out of his Mazda 3 23 and put in a 1.8 liter. Richard Byford has his smart looking yel-low BMW up and run-ning. Tom Grossman and Scott· Bottomley have a Volvo prepared by Topi in their possession now. I knew they couldn't stand by as organizers and watch us have all the fun. The CRS has begun its 25th year with a very suc-cessful Rally School on Feb 5th. Ray Hocker put together a program that brought out 65 attendees. That number is up from last year's 50 people. Our sport is growing and these new folks show a lot of en-thusiasm for rallying. A strong contingent came down from northern Cali-fornia this year. Hopefully w e will see som e events in their area so o n . Wayn e R aine y o f m o t o rcycle fame attended the school with his wife. H e is look-ing into building a rally car with hand controls so he could drive and she could navigate. One of the y oungest paid attendees, S andra Chavez, 13 years old, completed the National licensing program. She would like to Go-drive for her dad, Tony, this year in Mexico. Lookout Gib-eault clan, we have a new rally family on the hori-zon. Paula Gibeault and J ohh Dillon conducted the SCCA National li-censing school while Mike Gibeault, Ray Hocker and Doug Robinson taught some advanced courses in driving, team manage-ment and car prep. A practical driving and co-driving school was held in the late afternoon. Driv-Of Rodends & Spherical Bearings • BACKSAVER • FIREBOTTLES • BATTERIES • SETRAB COOLERS • SILICONE HOSE I\IEO !iYI\ITHETIC LUBRICAI\IT!i • MOTOR OILS • GEAR OILS • GREASES • COOLANTS WE HAVE DI/ER THE COUNTER §ERi/iCE WE §HIP UP§ DAILY TO ORDER OR FOR MORE INFOFRMATION CALL 800.959. 775 7 OR 562.427 .2375 Fax: 562.426.5294 CHECK OUT OUR PRICE§ ON THE WEB AND OUR HUNDRED§ OF NEW ITEM§ AT: www .bakerprecision.com 2865 Gundry Ave., Signal Hill, CA 90806 I v,SA I [•J -Iii Page 46 e rs w e n t out to t h e fair-grounds t o practice their turns and co-drivers navi-gated the street s of Ridgecres t wit h experi-enced co-drivers. A panel of drivers held a spirited question and answer session in the evening during the post school pizza party. Expe-rienced drivers like Lon Peterson, Carl J ardeval, Mike Whitman and Ray Hocker gave a lot of good information. Subjects ranged from the cost of a national rally effort to get-ting car sick -you can imagine how that discus-sion went! Sunday's Rally Cross out at the fairgrounds was well attended with about 60 entries. Ton.y Chavez was the eventual fast time holder with Lon Peterson hot on his tail. Our first stage rally for the year is the Rim of the World SCCA ProRally and ClubRally to be held l'viay 5th and 6th in Palm-dale, CA. This is a great event put on by the Gibeaults. Craig McHugh and Steve Bender are also stepping in as organizers this year as they have sold the trusty blue·bunny (VW Rabbit) to their crew and are on foot this year. Plan on attending this rally, it is definitely a don't miss rally weekend. You can even buy a rally car ride for charity on S at-urday morning. Yo u can contact the organizers at (760) 375-6704 for fur-ther information. See you at the start line! Magnificent 7 Race Team By Stephen Stenberg, President Hi Everyone! Another San Felipe 250 is com-pleted! And Mag 7 is well on its way to another win-ning year. As is usual, the weather was ·warm• during· the d a y and cool at race day. The course was either 200.6 miles or 208.5 miles depending on whom you were talking to. Either way, it was a new course for both SCORE and the racers, in terms of past San Felipe 250s. This year Mag 7 had three buggies entered. We also had our Class 40 Pro bike entered, but they withdrew at the last minute since the driver of record (Gary Tepner) still wasn't up to 100% since his surgery several months ago. The y will join us for the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 though in June to con-tinue defending their title. However, back to the race. We had two Class l/2-1600s and one Class 11 buggy. They were # 1622, Eric Williams, # 1623 Tim & Stacy Price and @ # 1102 Chris W oodward. Starting off the line was Eric Williams. In his own words he d escribes part· of RACER·s-· t h e course. " Past Check-point # 1 we passed several big name trucks in Chanate Wash. Our Jimco b uggy was running great! Afte r C heckpoint #2 went past our first Mag 7 pit. Noth-ing was needed so we con-tinued going t o our gas stop. We continued from there down Old Puertecitos until we made a right onto Arufre Wash." "It was here tha t the course markers were torn down or missing,. There were several of us going around trying to find the right course. Back on track we passed thru Checkpoint #3 and entered Matomi Wash. There were lines go-ing everywhere. The wash looked like it was two miles wide. We got going, though at one point we were down to first gear and just spin-ning along." "Pre-running, we had blown three tires in our re-cently built two wheel drive Toyota Pre-runner. So we didn't want to get stuck h ere during race day. We made it out of Matomi and passed our second M ag 7 pit on the new Puertecitos Road. From there it was on to· the finish." Tim & Stacy Price drove down from Mill Valley for this race. They reported being n erfed once and get-ting off course in one of the four sand washes. Some M exicans appeared out of n owhe re and pushed them back onto the course. They wish t o thank whoever these guys w e re. The y stopped for fuel a t Mag 7 Pit # 2 and continued on to rh e finish line. PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT WITH PHYSICAL DAMAGE INSURANCE FOR YOUR OFF-ROAD RACING VEIIlCLES Call the experts at Michael E. James Insurance Agency. We can satisfy 1he insurance· needs of all off-road racers. Physical Damae;e Insurance for Race Vehicles Trucks Trailers Tools/Equipment E.XA..i.'1IPLE Liability Insurance for Special Racing Events . Value ofRace Vehicle $30,000 x3% = $900 Annual Premium $1,000 deductible Coverage for fire, 1heft, V &M:M, limited physical damage protection· Call for free quote and details May 2000 Michael E. James Insurance Agency 619-445-5797 Dusty Times

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Last but not least was Chris Woodward in his Green Class 11 car, #1102. He was planning on taking fuel at both Mag 7 Pits # 1 and #2, but never cleared Checkpoint # 1. As Chris tells it, "We got just two miles into the race and our engine died. When we got started again, it was mak-ing a loud knocking sound. Rather than press on, we turned around and headed back to Pete's Camp and our trailer." After the race on Satur-day, Mag 7 had its annual Mag 7 happy hour for all members down at Pete's Camp, at the south end of the beach. All had happy times. I wish to thank our twq pit captains, Mark Cranmore and Shawn Wells. Both of them did a wonderful job and were both supported by their wives and friends. So the next one on Mag 7's list is the Tecate SCORE B aja 500 in June. Pit Applicationss are going out to SCORE m embers the last week of March, Mag 7 m embers for 2000 will be getting theirs in April. Mag 7 will be offering between 4-9 pits, depending on racers' needs. If you need an appli-cation for pit support you can call our Race Director, Fred Schubitzke a t (619) 426-3452 and request one. Our final cut-off to avoid the late fee is May 20th in our hands. Fred's e-mail is Fredschl@home.com. · You can also reach us at www.mag7race.com. We are making plans now for the grand event of the year, the Tecate SCORE Baja 2000. Mag 7 will be pitting the race with between 16 and 32 pits, depending on racer needs. Right now, Mag 7 is just assembling all our Pit Captains and looking over the proposed course. By A ugust 1st, we will know how man y pits are ne·eded and where they will be lo-cated approximately. I wish to thank our current 2000 year sponsors, without whom racing couldn' t be d o ne. They a re Juice De-signs Graphics at w-ww.race-dezert. com/ jdfab w h o m a kes all our b anne r s and logos. Off Road Warehouse or ORW as they are known in San Diego at ·(858) 565-7792. They a re a new sponsor for Mag 7 this year, but we have been doing business wit h them for over two de-cades now. Mag 7 buys all their 11 gallon dump cans from them, along with other assorted pit supplies. , Last but certainly not least is SKS Valvoline in Miramar, California. They provide Mag 7 with all their pit fluids that keeps our racers moving. Mag 7 has been associated with SKS Valvoline for over two decades now, and we rec-ommend the m and Valvo -line to e v eryone. They a re the best! S o there yo u h ave it. Mag 7 is lookin g for a Dusty Times few more sponsors if you are interested in sponsoring a team that pits a variety of vehicles and. bikes. Visit our web site to see what we offer and to check out our pictures too. I can always be contacted at: CRSNEWS Mag7race@aol.com if you need an answer now. And check out our ad in this month's Dusty Times. Un-til next month then, take care and be safe. Adios from Team Baja, www. mag7 race. com. New Rule Book Format Current and 1999 CRS mem-bers are ·receiving the new 2000 Rules and Guidelines book. The BOG voted to print 1000 of these this year · and redesign them as a re-cruiting tool for rallying! You will notice the whole first section is an introduction to-the sport. The idea is for CRS rallyists to each pick up 10 or so and begin bringing them to rallies, other sports events, practice runs, car shows, etc. If anyone expresses an inter-est in rallying -hand 'em a book! Tony Chavez, Membership Chairman, will have a box of them at registration at Rim of the World. Think about how many you would like to pick up and get them there. Let's get the word out about our sport! IMPORTANT BULLETIN FROM RIM SUPPS (below) - .PLEASE READ. NOTE: This applies to Gorman and Treeline competitors as well! -SPECIAL ALERT -New Engine Coolant Requirements Due to a lawsuit filed against the four Southern California National Fores t s by the EarthLaw lawyer group (www.earthlaw.org) on be-half of the Center for Biologi-cal Diversity (www.sw-center.org/swcbd), the U.S. Forest Service must "requir_e the use of ethylene glycol free (Raptor safe) antifreeze in all water cooled motorized vehicles participating in USFS permitted motorized events on the four National Forests at issu·e." This means that all competitors must sign a warrant that they are Q.Ot using an ethylene glycol antifreeze in their competi-tive vehicle. We are not re-quired to use. any particular substitute. One alternative is Sierra brand antifreeze-coolant, a propylene glycol antifreeze with c haracteristics similar to standard antifreeze (the USFS has had to switch all their vehicles to this). Sierra brand is fairly easy to obtam (Pep Boys, Kragen, Big A, etc. carry it) and is competi-tive in price, especially with a current $2 per gallon re-bate. See their website at www.splitfire.com/sierra for more information. It is phos-phate free and Water Wet-te r can be added to it. Another option 1s distilled wa t e r and Water Wetter (made by RedLine Oil) as long as you don't have to worry about freezing condi-tions (not on Rim). Water Wetter has rust and corro-sion preventive additives. Check it out at www.redlineoil.com. lt is currently used very success-fully by many rallyists and we have been told it actually cools better than antifreeze and water. We hear you can also add propylene glycol an-tifreeze, 10-15%, to this m1x-tu re if you are concerned about freezing. This is the same lawsuit that closed the Little ~ock Can-yon stage two years ago (Ar-royo Road territory) and has resulted in the roads not be-ing graded this year. We highly recommend you read the websites above to under-stand the nature of these groups and the threat they pose to rallying and other rec-reational activities in the For-ests, Their newest target is the BLM and they are propos-in g " h altin g all human use and developm e nt" in large areas of desert immediately un til endangered species' lo-cations are identified... ■ . ADA VIS GLOBAL MEXICAN· INSURANCE FORASWWAS $58A YEAR BY FAX-OR-PHONE 1-800-909-4457 FAX 1-800-909-1007 PLEASE VISIT US AT: http;/lmexicoinsurance,com or e-mail us at: INFO@MEXICOINSURANCE.COM May 2000 I I . I I I I I I I I I I I I ., I I I I I I I I I I I I I l Just A Reminder It is the advertisers that make Dusty Times available each Month, please support them, buy your products from Dusty Times advertisers. 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M .O.R.E HIGH DES.ERT CHAMPIONSHIP ,Balls Out 250 Dave Lawson flew his two seat 1600 car quick enough to take the win, but he couldn't afford to dawdle since second place was only 21 seconds behind him at the finish. M.O.R.E. took their times so the buffer remained traveling circus to Lucerne the same. Ken picked up for the Balls Out 250 ·and three minutes on Lap 6 and there was some real good for the last two laps he racing up there in the val-gained a smidge and when ley. The turnout wasn't too the checkers came out Burl large, but the racing was had less than four minutes good and all concerned had on Ken. They both had a a great time. heckofa race. Burl Beveridge was first In the Trophy Challenge, off the line in Class 1 and Bob Spencei; ldt, before when he came around on the Chuck Abela,-this class hav-first lap he had a six minute ing only six laps to race. lead on Ken Bunn. Burl There was really no.contest, picked up another eight Bob turned super consistent minutes on the second lap lap times and Chuck was a and six more on the third bit off the pace and when it lap. ·However, Burl lost 14 was all over there was aimost minutes to Ken on Lap 4 and a two hour time differential the lead was back to six min-when Spencer took the final utes and on the fifth lap they flag, · tux:ned almost identical ,In Ultra Truck it was Stacy Fay pitted against Lane Dilbeck and they had a good race. Stacy had 19 minutes in hand at the end of Lap 1, picked up almost another ·hour on Lap 2 but from· there on in Dilbeck started nipping on the lead and when their six laps were complete, it was Stacy Fay taking the win and Lane Dilbeck took second, 20 minutes away from the win. There was a healthy group it\ Class 9 a'nd they went at it for their required eight laps. Bob Cockrell was the Lap 1 leader, 27 seconds ahead of Sean Defrank. Then came B.J. Proctor, fol-lowed ~y Tyler Peterson, Robert Stapp ju_st one sec-Burl Beveridge had a really good day going, -and ref:orded fast time of the day at 32:56 for the 30 mile course, while winning the race overall. Jorge Zapata had a good race, starting off with fast lap for his class, at 34:56, and finishing as Class 10 winner and third overall in his black beauty of a single seater. ond behind Tyler with Mike Rix bringing up the rear. At· the end of Lap 2, (ockrell still held a lead of about two minµtes over Stapp, De-Frank and Proctor and they were all with a few seconds of each other. Then came Mike Rix and bringing up the rear was Peterson. Lap 3 had Cockrell still leading, but his lead was now about one minute and Proc-tor was ju-st about tied for second spot. Then came DeFtank-, four minutes off the pace, Rix was yet an-other minute back and Peters.on was three minutes behind Rix. Lap 4 saw Cock-rell still leading, still one minute ahead of Proctor. Stapp was two minutes be-hind, then came Peterson, Rix and finally Defrank. On the fifth lap Stapp took the lead, and three minutes later c~me Cockrell and Proctor who were virtu-ally tied for second. Rix was now fourth, Peterson a minute back and Defrank was a long sixth. At the ehd of six, Stapp had opened his lead over Cockrell to six minutes. Proctor was third, then came Rix and Peterson and Defrank was way back. Bob Spencer not only won the Trophy Class race, but also took home a free entry to another M.O.R.E. race for having the most consistent lap times. Stacy Fay, always a driver to watch, put her Ford to the test for its required six laps and came up winners in the Ultra Truck class. Stapp led Cockrell by seven minutes on Lap 7, Peterson was now in third, Proctor was fourth, Rix was fifth and Defrank was still bringing up the rear. As they came round for the check-ered flag Stapp had a five minute lead on Cockrell, Peterson remained in third, Rix was up into fourth, De-Frank was fifth and Proctor failed to finish the final lap. In Class 10, it was Jorge Continued on page 50 New to trucks, Lane Dilbeck did just fine, recording fast lap for the B. J. Proctor ran near the front of the pack in his Class 9 car, but a Ken Bunn was a close second all the way; finishing second overall, class, at 55: 18, and taking second place in his Ford. rollover late in the day dropped him to sixth place. _ _ ____ less than four minutes back after eight laps and 250 mile_s. __ _ Page 48 May 2000 Dusty Times

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Second generation racer, Tyler Peterson, driving only his second race, In the Trophy class, which runs for trophies only, Chuck Abela tip-toed Mike Rix generally ran well, but a couple of over-long laps set him did very well. In fact, he did well enough to finish third in the largest his twoseater to second place at the end of the required six laps. back to a fourth place finish in Class 9. class at the race. -====-=====~-====~~==-~-Robert Cockrell had the lead at the end of the fourth lap, but lost a iittle time in the next two laps, and had to settle for second place in Ray Wnght had his Mirage really flying but a couple of long laps early Sean DeFrank ran well intermittently, but a couple of troubled laps Class 9. Good racing! _____________ in the day held him to a third place finish in class 1-2/1600. cost him time and he dropped to fifth place in Class 9. ... _ . ., --~ .. \· =~ ,-.,--~~,: ~-~~-' _:,: ~~ ;:-' > ~ ,,' .... - -,., ., ~ ... }~•~: .¥~· ~. ~~~~::---,.;4, -~l!!J~, ""-:-~~,,~ -;·~•:~~ Robert Stapp pushed .his single seat Class 9 car to its limits, recorded fast lap at 42:34, and took home tl:,e win by a margin of five minutes. Zapata versus Steve McMul-on Lap 3 the margin was 16 lin. Jorge took the lead on minutes. Jorge continued to · Lap 1 by just under two min-open the gap on Lap 4. On utes, opened that lead up to Lap 5 Jorge and Steve had three minutes on Lap 2 and almost identical times but Fuel Sale's "Pro Cell" Is our top-of-the-line racing cell that comes ready to install and it~ backed by a /ull 10 year warran/y. Page so • Custom Pro Cell Bladders with seamless super-tough, triple coated construction • 10 year Bladder warranty • Safety foam battling • Custom manufactured aluminum containers • FIA-FT3, SCORE and SODA approved • Custom manufactured fillers • (800) 433-6524 technical hotline • Over 25 years experience for more info call or write to: e Aircraft Rubber/Fuel Safe 63257 Nels Anderson Road Ben<!, Oregon 97701 (541) 388-0203 (541 )388-0307 fax http://www.fuelsafe.com ------·---···--·---·------·---·-========:::::::...!....-u-::il::Y:--'\"rfr.r:;i~g~t=--'w;:-;i:'o:::=:w:-;-;:a::s:--::-a,::o::n:::-::g 11 minutes out of the lead. At .the end of Lap 2 Lawson's lead was three and a half minutes over Marcum and Wright was slipping even further back. Talk about close racing. Chris Marcum, who had class fast lap, at 37:57, finished second in the 1-2/1600 class, only 21 seconds out of first. On Laps 3, 4 and 5, Law-son continued to open the lead, if only by a wee bit each lap, but from the sixth lap on, Marcum started clos-ing the gap, moving up on the first place position,, However, it was to no avail for when the checkers. fell after the eighth lap Marcum was still 21 seconds in ar-rears and had to settle for the second spot while Law-son got the gold medal. that was Steve's last lap, he retired to await another day and the Class 10 honors went to Jorge Zapata. In 1600 Dave Lawson leaped into the lead on Lap 1, followed by Chris Marcum who was 18 sec-onds behind and then came Stay tuned for the Bad-lands 250 on May 13 at the Slash X. Cafe coming to these pages as soon as pos-sible after the race. ■ coming Next Month ... • SNORE Buffalo Bill's 400 • MDR at Ridgecrest • CODE Laguna Salada • WRC Rally of Portugal , • Club Report ... and Much, Much More_· May 2000 Dusty Times

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·•• Offrood McKenzie's • Rood Course On track Performance Center . . . Drag Rocing (818) 909-7487 (818) 909-7562 Fox 7834 N. Sepulveda Blvd. #A2 Voo Nuvs. CA 91405 • Oval Track • Fobncotion •Welding • Chassis ood Suspension _Specialist -Catch us on the Net! SPECIALISTS www.mckenzies.com PHONE (714) 441-1212 FAX: (714) 441-1622 2366 E. ORANGETHORPE AVENUE, ANAHEIM, CA 92806 www.mastercraftseats.com Seats • Nets • Limit Straps • Bags 10925-F Hartley Road • Santee, CA 92071 61'9/449-9455 • Fax: 449-9454 MIKE MENDEOLA 290 Trousdale Drive, Suije I & J Chula Vista, CA91910 ' (619) 691-1000 24 Hour Fax (619) 691-1324 661-940-5515 TAKE A LAP AROUND THIS! W\VW .MURFINK.COM Dune Buggy Parts · Race Car Parts Foreign Car Parts· New Truck Acc. Dept. Custom Machine Work & Fabrication 1 (800) 231-8156 2525 E. 16th St. • Yuma, AZ 85365 (520) 783-6265 • FAX (520) 783-1253 Off ROAD CHASSIS ~ 18124 Gl'IAND AVE. LAKE ELSINORE, CA 92530 Complete Off Road & Performance Preparation for Trucks & Vans CUSTOM SUSPENSION • PIUt-RUN Tl'IUCKS AXLE Sltl'IVICE • WELDING tit FASl'IICATION NO DISCO Tl'IUCKS Bill Montague Est. 1974 909-678-1029 PACIFICALLY LANDSCAPE "&~ g,, ~e" Patrick A Bessie DESIGN •CONSTRUCTION• IRRIGATION • MAINTENANCE , WATERSCAPES xrn.,CAPING. ROCKSCAPE Lic.390104 MPER HELMETS (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 l\f OTDR§PDRT !51! . !:~::;;::? cpp lj~ s MAXON, Mi>TOROIA, ROADMASTER, VERTEX RADIOS Specialty Fabrication &: Product Sales · Pre-Runners, Trucks & Sand Buggies BELL, SHOEI, SIMPSON HELMETS IN ST()CK 2280 Shasta Way unit #I 15 Simi Valley, Ca. 93065 Lance Fuller (805)522-4499 e-mail@t--fr'2.SP'2.rSPlUS@JPSJJer MSD' · ar.3 ,,, Jr.,'* •4s-;,1 , ..... ,,. -YOUR COMPLETE IGNITION SOURCE . • - = . --AUTOTRONIC CONTROLS CORPORATION 1 490 HENRY BRENNAN DR., EL PASO, TX 7 9936 (9151 B57-5200 • TECH LINE (915J 855-7123 • VISIT OllR WEB SITE: www.msd1gn,t1on.com WIRiNG FOR RADIO &/OR 11\'TERCOM STILL ONLY S 12;. -2888 QUNDRY AVE. -SIGNAL HILL, CA 90806 • 562-427-8177 I 800-869-5636 W a A R. ; Fax 94HS0-4721 1660 Babcock Bldg. #B Costa Mesa, CA 92627 -PORSGH·E 930 4-sp~ed • S years race-tested .~., • . with nocr~c_ked E. ". Ill.,-~ gears or pm1ons · -• Synchromesh or · · . dog-engagement '-•· • • 4.22 R&P (4.88 option '· · · . • Shotpeened 93 I 0 • Choice of clutches • Gearsets & componen~ • Complete race transmission $7,900 . Phone oR Fax (808) 8 _ 12 ,-:,~ .·, ( ~ ' .-Fraley s PC"rf oimanc~ ~:n~n~~•·inu ' .. ~ • A.11 Types of Steel CJ Aluminum Fabrication * Tube Bendinc • Aluminum CJ Steel W.Jdine • Custom Machine Work • All Types of Race Cars 4851 W. Hacienda #4 Las Vegas, NV 89118 Bruce Fraley 702-365-9055 ,..,.\}\) Stllh ~~ - ~ ~ ·Todd Francis ~ Pr1ci1ion Alloy, 1,./d, ffl. 25805 N;E 46"' AveDUe ~ ~ Ridgefield, WA 98642 ,:: "'~ s of{#~ . ;,, Phone ~.s'. . ~~ Fax 360-887-2000 lon & 360-887-7279 WO ROTRUCK RACING ORGANIZATION A High Performance Spec VB 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 FOR RACE CARS, TRUCKS, PRERUNNERS BUGGIES, STREET Roos, DRAG CARS QUALITY RACE CAA WIRING SERVING ALL OF L.A., ORANGE 8c SAN DIEGO COUNTIES JOE DAVITIAN PGR. 323/340-0277 PROFESSIONAL RACE CAR DESIGN & FABRICATION WINNING OFF ROAD RACES SINCE 1978 INCLUDING FACTORY WORKS SCORE CHAMPION TROPHY TRUCK RT 3, BOX 1970 903/~1599 Rusk, TX FAX 903/683-8329 OFF ROAD ENTHUSIASTS -GfVE US A CALL

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-,,, ._,. t9tt RACING -- "1~1°e11~!?ioitn1;r~8": -3 .. '.t.:I GASOLl"E _____,____, ; ·~yy~~~ Suspension Components For Racing And Recreational Applications Shock Service Available on all brands .... Fast Tum-Aroundll Upgrade Your Vehicle Suspension Affordably-Utilizing Our Trade-In Policy (602) 493-3700 Fax: (602) 493-0975 ' GA~;. ' ,' .· : ·' -t tu . . . OIIO 04 INT. DE1UW44,SA. · . I . c~mmer~ial Fuels & Lubes G.L. Bryant, nc. . High Performance Lubes 1-800-399-4176 209-537-1·565 fax • On-Site Fuel Distribution • Technical Assistance • Fuel & Lubes Handling Equip. fiii/ SANDERS SERVICE. INC. l!l!/ METAL PROCESSING 5921 Wilmington Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90001 (323) 583-2404 FAX (323) 583-3965 Ing. Alfredo Munoz . SANDBLAST-GLASS 13EAD-MAGNETIC PARTICLE Rep. En Mexico .. ::.%0~~i:i,~g:;,,:.,:~nto FLOURESCENT INSPECTION l221Secc. Loo Pines c.~ 22420Tel: 16618S-20-76y81-37-38 Mark Smith Larry Smith e-mail:78,acing@telnor.net R.C. TRANS WILL GET YOU IN GEAR SWING AXLE, BUS, HEWI.ANO, M04S 3455 S. POLARIS 15 LAS VEGAS, NV 89102 JOHN D.O. HOULTON (702) 221-.4383 (702) 667-9724 RACING TRANSAXLES 1700 EAST MAIN ST. EL CAJON, CA 92021 CHRIS ROSE 16191 443·2480 LAURA • I .. RICHARD S. B. ENGINEERING "SUPER BOOT,. HCR66, BOX 11030. PAHRUMP (CRYSTAL) NV.89048 (775) 372-5335 Qua\it~ Used -Parts I 040 South Main sfr~t. Fall brook. CA 92028 FA\ 760-n.l-2117 1:-M.-\I L hajaraee ·ft'tth.com PHONE 760-723-2 117 C.ALL U'5 Fl~'5T! SANTEK TRAILERS CUSTOM TRAILER MANUFACTURING 201 Gemini Avenue, Brea, CA 92821 (714) 449-1395 Fax: (714) 449-1425 IF YOU REALLY WANT TO INCREASE YOUR SALES --YOUR AD SHOULD BE HERE Call for prices. TIM CECIL 849 Lambert • Brea, CA 92821 (714) 447-3581 Fax (714) 672-9246 JOB SITE SIGNS• BANNERS• WINOOIV lffiERll,G • CAR LETTERING·• GRAPHICS SGUEAK & MARGIE COATS 5101 Galway Circle·• Hunt1ngto7 Beach. CA 92649 (714) 897-0075 • F2x (714) 894-9567 '8dt~ . ·1-60:347 ~'S0.52 45-410·# 10 -~ St, 1~. eA 92201 Paul Dumas 805-647-7700 Phone 805-647-7023 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 Custom Preparation & Fabrication Race True/cs • Buggies · Pre-Runners (619) 449-9728 FAX (619) 449-2678 9419 Abraham Way, Suite "A", Santee, CA 92071 • _ll!II _______ IIEnt. ALUMINUM WHEEL STRAIGHTENING 31510 223rd Street East Llano. CA 93544 661-261-3202 ~.SIR.ICTLY ~PERFORIIIANCE SUNDRY METAL SPINNING Phone (562) 928-9838 Fax (562) 928--0778 METAL SPINNING EXCELLENCE • ALUMINUM • STEEL • BRASS • COPPER • STAINLESS RACE FUELS · 6831 Swa Street Bell Gardens, CA 90201 JOHN AVALOS OWNER [209) 847-2281 . [BOO) 527-6D90 FAX [209) 847-9726 P.O. Box 248 • 524 N. Sierra Ave. WESTERN DIVISION Oakdale, California 95361

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(CsUNSET)> £~~ 'izi:&2P •• YOU• Qu""'-,.,..,. t!J,,,;,H CoM,AHY" De•lgn Fabrication {nstailatlon Darren Ebberts (909) 340-4684 FAX (909) 340-4689 121 S POMONA ROAD• SUlll E • CORONA, CA 92882 "-COMPUTERIZE0 VINYL GR,,.,PH/CS & LETTERING 1,11,1 I WSA I ,._, LO-COS T OLOG SIGNS (,,._IJ'. P/i!tJCESSES) . -".': 'f,'ifi2f.£cf1~~~SIGNS .,.._ R ACING Gl'MPHICS -· HWLJ,4.LfTY ~NNERS -::.:JX:§[.,~1;!1gLES "'WGO REPF!OOU::TONS .,.._ RE/\L ESTATE ~ LOGO & GR,,._PHIC OESIGN ,-.,. DECALS ~ ~ SUSPENSIONS UNLIMITED ~ ~ OFF ROAD RACING SPECIALISTS V,FLO!Ml • FABR!CA TON • CNC PLASMA QJrrtNG • FFVNTENDS • REAR TRAILING ARMS RACEO-,~SSJS • ffERUNNERS • FOXRAC!NGSHJX • SANOBUGGES 40 5 0 LEAVERTON CT. ANAHEIM, CA 9280 7 LARRY ROSEVEAR PHONE {714) 6304482 FAX /714)630-45 48 * Off-Road and Bolt-On to Street Fiberglass for: "Ford, Chevy and Toyota" Trucks * Carbon Fiber Parts and Custom Molds [ujiP] UNIQUE METAL PRODUCTS 1 0729 WHEA TLANDS AVENUE, SUITE #A SANTEE, CALIFORNIA 92071 TEL. • 619 / 449-9690 FAX • 619 / 449-8424 BRUCE HENDEL Regional Manager VP Racing Fuels, West Co~st P..O. Box 1319 34283 Monte Vista Wildomar, CA 92595 0 C Cll -I C ~ (fl o-"Tl m ffi )> 0 (fl X )> (fl wci5w ~o~ .8.8.8 -.J +>--.J a, w a, I\) 01 I\) w6N -.J +>-+>--.J ~ ~ I\) en w I\) ci~ ~ +>-iil 01 ::::, (fl () 0 51> C 0 g. ~z :::;; 0 0 ~ 3 3 - · Ill Ill ::::, (0 Cl. 5:: ct' 0 )> ~ < co Phone: (909) 67 4-9167 Fax: (909) 674-7367 Pager: (909) 694-7392 ~~G ugs Dune B llggies Automotive • ATV • Motorcycle 1815 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE RIVERSIDE, CA 92507, USA 909.369.5144 • . 909.369.7266FAX WWW.WEBC:AM I NC.COM l'l:lll l L_jfldn/n~ ==.P.~owertrain Complete Powertraln Development, Maintenance and !iupply Engine• • Transmissions • Drlvellnes • Differentials 6845 Speedway Blvd. K-101 Las Vegas, Nevada 89115 70i!-871-166 1 Fax: 7Di!-D71-6480 Adam Wik 1994 SCORE ENGINE BUILDER OF THE YEAR From Parts to Complete Engines Engine Dyno Service 535 Ea.st Centro.I Park Anaheim CA 92802 714-956-9457 ; Off Road Products Front and Rear Trailing Arms • Spindles Suspension Specialists • Custo_m Wheels 2733 W, Missouri Phoenix, AZ 85017 Jack Woods (602) 242-0077 i~e BUMP STOPS HERE Stop the up-travel on your suspension with this a umn ,:: tem. 1121 N. Buena Vista St. , Hemet Ca. 92543 Welding Ph: 909-654-7334 Fax: 909-654-2375 V.W. - Porsche - Nissan - Toyota See a list of our products at our web site: Lorenzo Rodriguez Ex:ONOMICALLY PRICED AT 319.90 PER PAIR. Yarnell Specialties, Inc. 102 Crestview P.O. Box 845 http://www.fiberglass1.com 515 s. Vermont, Glendora, Ca. 91741 (626)914-8147 1-520-427-3551 ------'----------------l--------------------1-----------_:Y.:_ar:.:n:.:e::11:.'..,:..:_A:,:Z 85362-0845 ..JF~IIJll1 HEO)t 1 IWINSflXLE ENGINEERING JEFF FIELD (818) 998-2739 9763 Varlel Ave. Chatsworth, CA 91311 ~PA/Kr""" C04TING1Sfl..GRAP/I/CS1t J,(J~ ' •R/Cl==Jl~V~~ MAJNUNANCl•&v~ll'IAC_..J,J!f~IN&,* . 760-949-1220 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 ... AUTOMOTIVE , FOR SALE: Raceco-Class 1,2 seater, Ford SVO V-8, Auto transaxle, Bypass shocks, Many extras, Just prepped and ready to race, call Jerry Whelchel for details. $25,000.00 oho (949) 4 72-2024. ===· ==== FOR SALE: 1997 Race car trailer, Built by EMI Technol-ogy 48'x9'xl0 1/2, lounge area 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 w/toilet, sink, range, refrigerator, leather, storage and A/C 35'x 8 1/2" working and storage area wood and tile floor, 2 winches , 2 gen-erator, 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 exotic car. Call Fox Motorsports (915) 833-7902. Baja 2000-Do you plan to be a part of the Baja 2000?-So do I! I have more than 20 years of driving experience in Baja. I have a 2 seat Class I car that I can run in Sportsman Class or may be convert to Class 12 or use as a prerun car .. I have a · great 4 w·heel drive van, chase rig that I preran in the 1998 1000. I live in Cabo San Lucas in the winter months. I have developed and organized many race efforts in Baja, I want to either join another ream as a driver and contributor or want to find other experienced re-sponsible drivers and support people who want to be a part of my teams efforts. Lets talk! Phone Oregon (541)485-0958 leave message, email coach@ballester.com. Let me help you or you help me be a part of this adventure . 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, Custo.m 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 oho. (909) 392-3321. 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 & J?Umps, needs motor & shocks. $6,000.00 Call Scott at (909) 987-2411. FOR SALE: 1980 Hi-Jumper Frame, Class IO Single Seat, Desert/Short course, 1650cc VW, Spare Tires and parts, Very fast, Ready to race, Cheap to run, good· car for the Beginner racer. $5,000.00 w/trailer. Call (661)259-4236 or (805)426-2567. FOR SALE: Ex Fat Class 12 1835 motor, upgraded by BonnerHawk perf. 80 miles since rebuild, will change com-J?ress ion to your needs. $4,500.00. . Call Dave-days(714)633-3635. ALSO 77 Chevy 4x4 Chase truck, new engine, rebuilt transfer case & trans. BFG, Rancho, Ultra wheels, very clean. $5,000.00 (714) 633-3635. t MUST SELL: Chevy Class 8 Race truck, built for SCORE, built by Nelson & Nelson, pre-viously owne·d by Steve McEachern, dry sump, new sus-pension, Art Carr 400 trans, the best of everything, new Good-year tires and wheels, 12 new spare tires, lots more wheels etc. 2 trans coolers, Taylor seats, 4 wheel disc brakes, KC Hilights, $14, 995.00 or will trade for NASCAR late model or super late or will trade for 34-FOR SALE: Steve Bishop's short course 1-1600. Best of ev-erything. Championship race car. Race ready. Many spare J?arts, wheels and tires for $9,500.00 oho Call Linda Bishop at (909) 789-4253. 3 7' motor home or enclosed car . trailer. Rodgers Racing (909)926-5714, (909) 487-FOR SALE: Super 1600 Raceco Short Course Car, 21" rear Wheel travel, Very light car, spare parts, Wheels, Tires, ev-erything but motor and trans, $5,000.00 (909) 682-8745. 9264. HOT New 2 seat A-Arm 10 car Regie Dunlap R.C.D. chassis, MIP Engine Honda with Men-deola gear box, 1 race only, King Shocks, CNC, PCI, UMP, Ab-solutely best of the best, All Heli Arc, lots of attention to detail, a definite winner at the races and the car show. Ref #750 Baja Brokers (760)723-2117. FOR SALE: 91 Bronco, 96 fi-berglass & clip, Fully caged, cus-tom suspension with Fat body shocks. AC, CD, leather inte-rior. 35 MT's, Alcoas. Dirt wor-thy. (760)723-9167. $15 500.00. FOR SALE: 2-1600 Motor, new and besr of everything. $1,800.00. 1600 front arms 7/8 links $350.00. Class 12 SS Race co chassis w/body $1,000.00. Cleaning house. Call for more. All prices negotiable. (714) 3 7 5-9949. FOR SALE; RIVIERA RAC-ING UNLIMITED CAR, Nye Frank Designed Suspension and shocks, 5.3 liter Shaver Chevy V-6 (450 HP), Jeff Fields 3 speed Auto Transaxle, Best of Everything, A very proven car, Overall winner of Laughlin Desert Cha.llenge, San Felipe 250 and many top five finishes. Call Jerry Whelchel for details, $75,000.00 (949)472-2024. EXTRA NICE 2-1600 Chen-owth, Major Motor, Mendeola Box, UMP, Bilstein Bypass, top of the line, Fuel Safe, Sway A Way, Extra tall cage, fresh prep low miles, like new. 1 year old $28,000.00 Firm Ref #744.Baja Broke.rs (760) 723-2117. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in DUSTY TIMES. • • • • • • • • • FOR SALE: Class 9 Funco, Single seat, Fox shocks front, Randy Fortune shocks rear, Wright rack & pinion, Beard seat, CNC pedals, Yokohama tires, Deist belts, KC lights, Allison electronic Ing. Sway A Way bars and spring plates, Flameout system, plus spares & pit boxes. $3,500.00 (909) 7 8 7-8306. FOR SALE: CORR Super Buggy, Probst Chassis, w/Toyota engine. 98' World Champion. 98' World Champion, 98' CORR Triple Crown Champion & '99' Unlimited Buggy Cham-pion. Fox, Centerline, Earls, Wright, Summers Bros., Best of everything, ALSO spare motor & tranny and many spares. Call (906) 246-3438. FOR SALE: Jimco I or 10. 18" front travel on Fox remote res coilovers, 24" travel rear on Fox remote res. shocks, :::,ummers Bros. Discs on all four, Out-board 930cv's, Ump Pumper, Custom paint and Fuel· Safe Cell, No Motor, $12,000.00 oho, Call (775)482-9298, leave message. FOR SALE: Chevy PreRunn.er-Fully caged, all fiberglass, Fuel Cell, Auto Meter gauges, 9" rear, strange Center Currie 35 spline, Axles, disc-brakes, front Custom Arms, New 358 motor, 400+ horse, New 400 built trans, daily driver street reg. Very clean, much more, Asking $10,500.00 or trade. (909)982-2687. Classified Advertising rate is only $25 for 45 words each month, not including name, :,i.ddress 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 lN AD-VANCE. REMEMBER - CLASSIFIED AD SPACE IS LIMITED - YOUR AD MAY BE PUT OFF ONE ISSUE IF NOT RECEIVED IN A TIMELY MANNER. • FOR SALE: V W Baja Bug-_ • Prerunner-Completely redone-: Excellent condition, New 1735 • Enclosed is $ ___ _ (Send check or money order, no cash) Name ________________________________ _ Address _________________ Phone ___________ _ City State Zip Please run ad ___ times Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 207 51 Marilla Street Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Page ss May 2000 • Engine, All Chrome, Webers, • New Tires, Roll Bar, 5 pt. Seat Belt, New Paint, Stereo, too much too list, $4,500.00 or oho, Call· for more information (909)598-9892. FOR SALE: Toyota 2OR en-gine, 10: 1 Wiesco piston, over-sized valves, dual Mikunis, com-pletely rebuilt with all factory. parts, with Fuel pump and pres-sure regulator approx 185hp. Call Steve at (714)288-8983. $1,300.00 oho . Dusty Times

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DON'T FORGET TO SUPPORT THE ADVERTISERS WHO KEEP . HOT TRUGGY Meco Rolling Chassis $28,000.00 or complete for $39,000.00, low miles, Sum-mers Bros, Rear End, 4" Sway-A-Ways, Coil Over, Bump Stops, CNC, set up for Turbo 400 & Chevy SB Motor, All 4130, Great Race or Play car Ref#749 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: Pro-Lite Toyota Tacoma Race Truck, Ex-Greaves, Jerico Tra11s, 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, Beadlocks, etc ,, +, ', ., ' ' "~, ,,. ' , ,. ' ,,., . $11,000.00. New 5 link short course buggy chassis $1 ,700.00. Call Steve for details,@ wk (402)443-4117, ho: (402)625-2802. REPORTING THE FOR SALE: Class 1, 10 or Pre-runner. Chenowth DR2 90% complete, Brand new 2/Fuel Cell, body, skid pans, shift link-age, front arms, 300m link pins, l King Kong combos, CNC hubs & brakes 3 front 16" wheels & tires, 2 rear wheels, 300 m Tor-sion, McKenzie microstubs, V6 motor w/adapter J?late, Bus trans 091 & more $11,000.00 obo Mark (619) 504-1867. OFF ROAD NEWS! FOR SALE: Short Course/Sta-dium Truck, Ford Ranger; King Coilovers, Esslinger motor, Summers Brothers 35 spline nodular 9", Will woods, Autometers, Eibach, Na ionals, Full fiberglass body, $15,000.00 obo also available 250 hp Es-36' GOOSENECK, LIKE NEW, Low Miles, 29' floor, Alum floor, tandem axles, AC, 110v & 12v light 5000 lb GVW, 8 ply tires, Honda generator, Very clean. $9,800.00 Ref#746. Baja Brokers (760)723-2117, FOR SALE: Extremely roomy Class 9 Challenger single seater. Can very comfortably_fit 6'3" 25016 plus size individual. Has had many wins-two wins already this year. All the right stuff. Very .clean, very trick, very simple. $6',750.00 Call Keith 623) 846-0888. . ' FOR SALE; RIVIERA RACING UNLIMITED CAR, Nye Frank Designed Suspension and shocks, 5.3 liter Shaver Chevy V-6 (450 HP), Jeff Fields 3 speed Auto Transaxle, Best of Everything, A very proven car, Overall winner of Laughlin Desert Challenge, San Felipe 250 and many top five fin-ishes. Call Jerry Whelchel for de-tails, $75,000.00 (949)472-2024. Dusty Times FOR SALE: Chevy PreRunner-Fully caged, all fiberglass, Fuel Cell, Auto Meter ga uges, 9" rear, strange Center Currie 35 spline, Axles, disc brakes, front Custom Arms, New 358 motor, 400+ horse, New 400 built trans, daily driver street reg. Very clean, much more, Asking $10,500.00 or trade. (909)982-2687. FOR SALE: Berrian 1-1600 (1650) Toyota 4AG Motor, Bus Box, Set up for short course, Fox Shox, Beard seat, UMP p/s, Wright Rack, Wilwood brakes, Flame out, 930 CV, Race Ready, spare parts. $6,500.00 Stephane at (450) 359-4506 email:stephene ler@hot mail.com. slinger motor, $4,500.00 obo Call (949) 293-3561. FOR SALE: 85 Suburban PreRunner, 3" Kuster coilover 570c.i. Bowtie, Turbo 400, Summers Bros. Rearend, Motech fuel injection, Tubular A Arm, 4 link rear, 70 gal fuel cell, boxed chassis, 3 7" tires, 17" sheels, very low miles, mostly everything new. Don Kuster (562)595-0661. CLASS 1 Package A-Arm Loth-ringer l seat, Type 4 FAT/Hew-land DG300, All coil over FOX & Sway A Way with Bypass tube 5, Outboard Hubs Summers Bros., Bump stop's, Hella lights, and ready to go package inc. trailer and lots of spares $29,000.00 complete. Ref #742 Baja Brokers (760)723-2117. 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 ofTroad exhaust-systems. Call today and find out how we can help put you in the winners circle. We use & recommend RACINf. [:'11<,INES~ TRA:\iSMI\\ION\ A:\iD OFFROAD PARTS · Send or call for our new attalog S5.00 d1~~!1·1 ···-·.·-·.-.-.-.·.·.·.·-·.•.-.•.•.·.-... ·.-.-....... ·.·-·.,.•.,,•.··········•,.·.· ... -........ .,..,..,,..,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,_._ . .,_._._ . .,_. __ .,.,_ . .,_._._ . .,_._.,._._._ . .,_._.,._._._ . .,_ . .,_. ___ . .,_., ......... : May 2000 FOR SALE: 1992 F 150 4x4 Flareside, 351 Lightning (passed '99 Calif smog), street legal, E40D, A/C, CD, PS, P/W, POL, Concealed Cab cage, (8) Dbl. Bypass Bilsteins, Bump Stops, 8.8, 4.10 Auburn, 35" BFG's Centerlines, 32 gal Fuel, PIAAS, Simpson, UMP, (2) Spare BFG's, Concealed Re-ceiver hitch, 48,000 mi. $19,000.00 (805) 484-2508 leave message. FOR SALE: 2000 Jimco Class . 1 single seat A-Arm. One of the best working cars out there! FAT Toyota V6, Fortin DON, Fuel injected, King Custom Shocks, all of the best parts! Fresh and ready to race. $80,000.00 oho. Call John (520) 690-9765. FOR SALE: JIMCO Class 9. Single seat. 1999 MDR Second in points. 4130 Chromoly frame, Fox 2 1/2" shocks with reser-voirs, new· trans-motor-New Yokohama tires, lots of spares. Ready to race. $6,000.00 with trailer. (760) 949-6350. FOR SALE: 1-1600 Bunderson, Charlyn, Jamar, Mastercraft, 300m bars, Bunderson Shocks, 17 gal cell, super cliff, 930'c, Suspension Unlimited rear arms, S & S exhaust. Car is fast and prepped. $9,500.00 with trailer, (760)240-4373 or (760)961-2490. SCORE Engine Builder of the Year for 1985, 1990, 1991, 1993. 1995, 1996 & 1997! [/ta PIRFOBIIIICE 1558 No. Case• Orange, CA 92867 (714) 637-2889 • Fax (714) 637-7352 36' GOOSENECK, LIKE NEW, Low Miles, 29' floor, Alum floor, tandem axles, AC, 110v & 12v light 5000 lb GVW, 8 ply tires, Honda generator, Very clean. $9,800.00 Ref#746. Baja Brokers (760)723-2117. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Highly experienced Full Time preparation, fabrication, design person needed for determined northern California race team. We have facilities. Serious in-quiries, Call Jason @ (707) 480-2733 or send application/ resume to: 7 510 Pythian Rd Santa Rosa, CA 95409. . EV AN EVANS RACING, INC.-WANTED; Exp. Fab and mechanic needed, willing to travel, main shop in Riverside, Ca., Secondary shop in Appleton, WI., Call for an in-terview. (909) 7 80-71 71. PARTS/ SUPPLIES FOR Sale: Two-way Race Ra-dio with scan, Superior perfor-mance 55 watts. Too many fea-.._. tures to list. Why spend twice as much. For more info call Chuck Strange (909) 657-8525. WANTED Class 10 or light Class l single seat buggy. Anything consid-ered up to $15,000.00 (ex mo-tor). Contact Daniel at danielvieway@hotmail.com or phone England on INDEX TO ADVERTISERS -ADA VIS Mexican Insurance ............ 47 Aggressive Suspensions .................. 29 Baja Mirage For Sale ........................ 45 Baker Performance Products .......... 46 Best In The Desert -Nevada 2000 ....... 27 Tonopah .................................. 13 Bilstein Shock Absorbers ........................ 5 Cactus ................................................. 42 Camburg Engineering ........................ 28 Coast Resorts .................................... 10 CODE Off Road ................................... 21 Jim Conner Racing ............................ 14 Converter Shop .................................. 23 Eibach Springs ................................... 31 Fabtech ............................................... 37 FAT Performance .............................. 59 Fox Racing Shox ................................... 4 Fuel Safe Racing Cells ...................... 50 German Auto ...................................... 34 Michael E. James Insurance Agency ......................... 46 Kartek Off Road ........ _. .................. 16, 22 Kawaguchi Honda .............................. 30 KC Hi lites .............................................. 9 King Shock Tech ................................ 39 Mag7 .................................................. 44 Mastercraft ........................................ 42 McKenzie Performance P;oducts .... 40 Mojave Desert Racing ....................... 25 M.0.R.E ............................................... 49 MT Tires ............................................. 32 Nevada Off Road Buggy .................... 33 Off Road Racing Driving Experience 44 PCI Race Radios and Eq__uipment.. ....... 2 Pike's Family Restaurant ................. 44 Pure Energy ........................................ 38 Race Ready Products .: ................ 20, 24 SNORE ........................................... 35,51 Sunderland Racing ............................ 41 Sway-A·Way Corp .............. Back Cover Transaxle Engineering ...................... 36 Tri-Mil Industries .............................. 45 Union 76 Racing Gasoline ................ 43 Valley Performance ........................... 18 VORRA ........................................... 39, 47 Page 59

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