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Volume 17 -Number 7 July 2000 DUBliY(illDIG RN/A I' Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor John Calvin Associate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat 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 0~ Subscription Rates: $25.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, · Foreign Subscription rates on request Contributions: DUSTY TIMES welcomes contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited mate-rial will be returned only by request and with a self ad-dressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 8750-1732) is published monthly by Hil~ide Racing Corp., 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311, (818) 882-0004. Copyright by Hillside Rac-ing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduc_ed without written permission from the publisher. Periodi-cal Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at ad-ditional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change to DUSTY TIMES, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. 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, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. snapshot of the Month ... Ah, the good old days! Jean Calvin and Malcolm Smith discuss race strategies on Fremont Street the day before the Mint 400 in May, 1985 . Photo by Richard Schwalm DUSTY TIMES will featun: pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $1 O for the pie ture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to 8x!O will be considered. Dusty Times July 2000 In This Issue ... FEATURES MDR Ridgecrest 300 by Ron Miller .......................................................... 8 WRC Rally Costa Brava by Martin Holmes .......................................... 16 FRT Fud 200 by Judy Smith ................................................................ .... 18 Rim of The World Rally by Paul Timmerman ....................................... 22 VORRA Round 2 by Forest Creasy ....................................................... 28 Dusty People Profue - Chris Harrold by Judy Smith ............................. 33 Oregon Trail Pro Rally by Jim Culp ...................................................... 34 Northwest Club Rally Report by Jim Culp ............................................ 36 Estero Beach Baja Internacional by Ron Miller ................................... 38 BORE Bonneville Express by Mike Jenkins ......................................... ;. 42 DEPARTMENTS Happenings .............................................................................................. 5 Trail Notes ................................................................................................. 6 Challenger-Corner .................................................................................. 45 CRS Director's News by Sue Robinson .............................................. .... 45 MAG 7 by Steve Stenberg ....................................................................... 4 7 Good Stuff Directory .............................................................................. 48 Classified ................................................................................................. 54 Index To Advertisers ............................................................................. 55 On The Cover Mike Nix and Jeff Quinn teamed their considerable talents to take the Class 1 win at the MDR Ridgecrest 300, taking the overall win as well by less than eight minutes. Photo by Trackside Photo Karl Scheible and Russ Hughes drove their Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution V to the Group N gold medal and while they were at it thev took the overall honors also at the Rim of the World Pro Rally. Ph~to by Trackside Photo Visit Our Website Dustytimes.com c:Suhscr.ihe :Joday lo DUSTY-TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 1 year -$25.00 □ 2 years -$40.00 □ 3 years -$55.00 (no credit cards please) □ NEW □ RENEWAL Name· ---------------------Address --------------------City ---------------------St ate Zip -------------------Primary Interest Cars O Trucks O Motorcycles 0 Send check or money order to; DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91 311 Canadian - 1 year $30.00 US ■ Overseas subscription ratl' upon request Page 3

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• Trail Notes ... TOYOTA TRUE GRIT -After finishing two of five events 33 drivers from 11 classes remain in competition for the Toyota Milestone Award, an honor given to racers who complete every mile of every race in the 2000 SCORE International Desert Series. Among the survivors, 22 drivers in the four non-factory endorsed classes remain eligible for the Toyota True Grit Award which is presented to the driver with the highest cumulative point total for all five races in 1/ 2-1600, 5, 10 and SCORE lite. A $12,000 prize point fund will be split between the four potential Toyota True Grit class winners. Eligible so far for the Milestone Award are: Tim Herbst, Ron Brant, Andrew Wehe, Gary Weyhrich, Randy Wilson, Dave Gasper, Victor Orellana, Jeff Lewis, Doug Stewart, Billy Goerke and Larry Plank. True Grit eligibles are: Dale Ebberts, Sammy Ehrenberg, Bekki Fi;eeman, Joe Jeffery, Manito Moreno, Steve Roberts, A.J. Rodriguez, Michael James, Hector Ledezma, George Seeley, Ron Brookshire, Whit Courtenay, Chris Harrold, Mark Hutchins, Sean Sessa, Jesse Ashcraft, Ron Dalke, Mark Fodor, Tye Godde, Steve Greinke, Jerry Penhall and Tom Riding. Stay tuned here and we'll let you know who is still in the running after the next race. BAJA 500 -You'll read the full story in the next issue of Dusty Times and the results of the SCORE Baja 500 further on in this column but we have to tell you that Mark Post drew the number one starting position in his Trophy Truck and in the buggy classification it was John Gaughan drawing the first start. The 500 will run a 440 mile course from Ensenada in a big loop and back to Ensenada for the finish. There is a 17 hour time limit for the race but the fast cars and trucks are expected to finish in less than 10 hours. BRUSH RUN -It's coming again! The Brush Run at Cr~n1on, Wisconsin is happening on June 24-25, 2000. This 1s the 31st season at Crandon and it should be a big one! Many classes of off road trucks and buggies will be competing on the ever challenging Crandon circuit. The feature race will be a special heavy metal challenge for the Go':ernor's Cup. Two and four wheel drive trucks compete a~a1~st each other for the cup, and a hefty prize of $15,000 for wmnmg the 10 lap event. S_ome of the notable entrants are: Curt LeDuc, Robby MacCachren, Johnny Greaves, Scott Douglas and Dan Vanden Heuvel. Further information is available at 888-611-6092. FINAL FLAG -We've just been informed of the death of Randy "Bo" Ander~on. Bo was participatin~ in the CODE . Tractorland 200 m and around San Felipe, Baja and e.vidently complained of not feeling too well, so he got out of the car and turned the driving chores over to his partner Steve Downing. Shortly thereafter B~ slipped away, not withstanding CPR efforts, which were applied immediately. We offer our sincere sympathy to Bo'.s family and mourn the passing of a good guy racer. S USQUEHANNOCK TRAIL RALLY-The fourth round of the 2000 season gets underway in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania on June 3rd. The entry is over 80 vehicles at this time and more are expected. Some of the more notable entrants are: Karl Scheible (Mitsubishi), Noel Lawlor (Hyundai), Paul Choiniere (Hyundai), Frank Sprong! (Audi), Peter Cunningham (Mitsubishi), Garen Shrader (Mitsubishi), Erik Comas (Mitsubishi} and Ralph Kosmides in a Toyota. Lots of rain in area the last few weeks will make some of the water crossings a sight to behold! The is a full points SCCA ProRally Championship event. Hopefully, you will find results later in this column and a full story in the next issue of Dusty Times. IV AN STEW ART -Rumor has it that Ivan "Ironman" Stewart will have a bit of help driving the SCORE Baja 2000 this November. Ivan supposedly has enlisted the aid of Larry Roeseler to share the driving chores on the super long run down the Baja peninsula. We wish them the best. INDY 500 -Spent a very long day watching the rain delayed Indy 500. We were hoping Robby Gordon would take the immediate lead and then go on for the win but it as not to be. Robby made a very early move on first place but backed out of it and in spite of all our screaming and shouting, he didn't win! He did finish sixth in the standings, a most creditable showing and he then flew immediately to Charlotte to compete in the NASCAR 600. PJ Jones had been driving_ Robby's car 'til 'The Boss" arrived and Robby almost immediately incurred a FIVE LAP PENALTY, according to the commentators for "Failing to obey direction from a NASCAR official." We'd sure like to know what that was all about. Maybe Robby will let us know. Hang in there Robby! BITD TONOPAH 300 -Sam Berri was the overall four wheel winner at the Best In The Desert Tonopah 300, held on May 20. Sam, driving a Mirage beat Darnen Jefferies to the finish line for the Class l title by 1 :44. Danny Andersor:i and Rob MacCachren teamed their driving talents Page& Avon, IN 46123 (317) 272-2827/Fax: (317) 272-2900 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 30-October 1, 2000 Indiana State Fair Grounds Indianapolis, IN October 21-23, 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 (All events at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thurston County ORV Park, Olympia, WA) DECATUR FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 DESERT STEEL MOTORSPORTS 1865 Commander Drive Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 (520) 855-6125 -EASTERN OFF-ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Tom Delauder, Sr. I 09 I Township Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 ESTERO BEACH INTERNATIONAL Short Course Racing Victoria Galindo Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico 011-526-176-6225 October 13-15, 2000 Estero Beach Baja California, MX F AB TECH Off Road Short Course Series at Glen Helen Raceway P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (909) 280-9096 Contact: BBM Marketing Promotions . P.O. Box 762 Norco, CA 91760-0762 (562) 988-6250/Fax: (909) 280-9097 FRT Motorsports 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 *denotes motorcycles & quads *June 24, 2000 Cerveza Tecate Conquista Gran Prix Rancho Villareal, Tecate, BC, MX June 24, 2000 Cerveza T ecate Conquista Gran Prix Rancho Villareal, Tecate, BC, MX *July 29, 2000 Affordable Rain Gutters C/M Nite Team Race Plaster City, East *August 27, 2000 Saasta Chevron Sweetheart's Kiss Lake Superstition *September 10, 2000 Cerveza T ecate Cacti Gran Prix KOA Kampground, Rancho Ojai, Tecate, BC,MX *October 1, 2000 Stuart Engineering Mudhen Sprint . Plaster City, East October 21, 2000 Superstition 250 XVI Plaster City, East July 2000 *November 19, 2000 Cycle Parts West Notorious Dawg Plaster City, West *December 3, 2000 Yoder's Yodel Rudolph's Revenge Dez Gran Prix Superstition Mountains December 31, 2000 Dunaway Dash Plaster City, West GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association 420 Hosea Road Lawrenceville, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 GPORRA Great Planes Off Road Racing Association 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68 I 44-1122 (402) 333-0517 Eve. Keith Koesters · 6716 N. 106th St. Omaha, NE 68122 (402) 4964846 Eve. (1-80 Race Track is located 20 minutes west of Omaha ■ All races are short course, stadium style. Classes: Trophy, l l-1600, 5, 7S, land 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) 582-23 71 August 13, 2000 14th Annual California Truck Jamboree Orange County Fairgrounds · Costa Mesa, CA KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER 4WDCLUB P.O. Box 465 Kamloops, BC, Canada VZG5L2 Bob (250) 374-7175 days Randy (250) 579-9621 eves. Wes (250) 351-2819 LI.T.R.E. Jeff Elrod (408) 926-0522 Jim Aruta (408) 247-4402 MICIIlGAN BUGGY BUIIDERS Dune Buggy Trade Show (517) 543-7214 www .buggybuilders.com MICIIlGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 Jones Road Grand Ledge, Ml 4883 7 (517) 627-6200 July 30, 2000 Ingham County Fair Mason, MI Oeeps, Trucks, Buggie~. Pilots, Road Warriors and Quad ATV-Money Classes.) MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION MAORA StephSabo (618) 327-9312 Short Course Events June 24, 2000 "The Edge" Triple 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 Vennillion County Speedway Danville, IL September 16, 2000 "The Edge" Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL September 30, 2000 Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL M'AORA Enduro Series July 16, 2000 100k Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL September 1 7, 2000 100k "The Edge" Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL October I, 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@aoLcom August 5, 2000 California 200 Barstow, CA September 30, 2000 Barstow 300 Barstow, CA November 18, 2000 Stoddard 300 Barstow, CA M.OR.E. High Desert Championship P.O. Box 1231 Barstow, CA 92311-1231 Fax: (760) 253-4453 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. #1 - Box 380 Dave or Marlene Ryan Palatka, FL 3 2177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK ASSOCIATION-Butch 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 June 25, 2000 July 30, 2000 Augwt 20, 2000 September 17,· 2000~ October 15, 2000 (AU events are at Spring Balley Raceway, Miliport, 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 All races are at Mountain Shadow Lake. Take 1-IO Horizon Blvd. exit east 12 miles OHIO OFF ROADERS INC. 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 JimKendel (216) 339-4674 All races held at Harrison County Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONTARIO OFF ROAD Dusty Times

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RACERS ASSOCIATION Rick Tichbourne, Public Relations _ (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) July 22-23, 2000 Janetville August 5-6, 2000 Eaglesnest Raceway Oshweken August 12-13, 2000 Tiverton September 9-10, 2000 Tiverton · September 23-24, 2000 Eaglesnest Raceway Oshweken PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. Off Road Championship 495 N. Commons Drive Aurora, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100 www.usoff-road.com February 26, 2000 Sam Boyd Stadium Las Vegas, NY 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 .July 8-16, 2000 Nevada 2000 (BITD)** Las Vegas, NY 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 PURE ENERGY PROMOTIONS P.O. Box 50 Ricketts, IA 5 I 460 (712) 679-2221 July 2, 2000 LCO Casino Hayward, WI S.C.A.T. INC. Michael R. Icing P.O. Box277 Morrisonville, NY 12962 (518) 561-3208/(518) 236-7897 SCCA PRORALLY CHAMPIONSHIP Sports Car Club of America 9033 E. Easter Place Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 779-6622/Fax: (303) 694-3654 June 23-25, 2000 · FIA Asia Pacific Rally Colorado 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 Houghton, MI SCORE SCORE International 23961 Craftsman Rd., Suite A Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/Fax: (818) 225-8102 Laughlin, NV August 4-5, 2000 5th SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 Primm, NV November 10-17, 2000 Tecate SCORE Baja 2000 Baja California Norte to Baja Sur, Mexico • SNORE -Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 270516 Las Vegas, NY 89127 (702) 452-4522 July 21-23, 2000 KC HiLites Midnight Special Dusty Times Eldorado Valley, NY September 22-24, 2000 Gold Coast/SNORE 250 Las Vegas, NY November 3-5, 2000 Reserve 250 Boulder City, NY SONS OF THUNDER 4WHEELERS Race Division Keith Stewart (714) 522-1899 SODA Short Course Off Road Drivers Association Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD CHALLENGE Steve Rule (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) SOYTHERN CALIFORNIA TIMING ASSOCIATION AND BONNEVILLE NATIONALS, INC. 25 I 7 Sycamore Drive # 353 Simi Valley, CA 93065 (Mon-Fri 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) (805) 526-1805/Fax:(805) 584-8518 Internet: http://scta-bni.org SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. 4305 Wootlark Drive Tampa FL 33624 (813) 9-62-2857 (All Races at Eastbay Raceway, Tampa, FL) SUPER SERIES (PTY) LTD. P.O. Box 706 Parklands, 2121 South Africa (011)788-5138 Fax (011) 880-2170 SWORDS South West Off Road Racing Desert Series 4209 So. CR 1300 Odessa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915) 337-3437/(615) 595-8237 (All races held at Notrees, TX 25 miles west of Odessa. TX) TOYS FOR TOTS (619) 252-1197 /(619) 252-3093 T.O.R.R.O Texas Off Road Racing Organization Marty Jackson 8307 Bauman Road Houston, TX 77022 (713) 694-0207/Fax: (713) 694-8335 TSO c/o Frog Specialties 4050 Spencer Street # I Torrance, CA 90503 (310) 3 70-9856 VORRA Off Road Racing 1833 _Los Robles Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702/Fax (916) 925-8217 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, NY September JO-October 1, 2000 Championship Series - Round I Prairie..City SYRA Park Sacramento, CA October 14-15, 2000 Championship Series - Round 2 Prairie City SYRA 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 011-52-616-6-21-91 (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. Box376 Adamsburg, PA (412) 527-6556 WlDPLASH MOTORSPORTS 16251 North Cave Creek Road #4 Phoenix, AZ 85023-2976 (602) 971-3730 Buggies & Trucks on Satu,:days, Bikes & A1Vs on Sundays June 24-25, 2000 Holbrook Holbrook, AZ September 2-3, 2000 Snowflake Snowflake, AZ October 21, 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 & A 1Vs Only July 30, 2000 Santa Veronica Tecate, BC, MX September 3, 2000 Tijuana GP Tijuana, BC, MX November 2, 2000 zr. Grand Prix Mexicali, BC, MX Attention Race & Rally Organizers List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free. It is the only way some fans know about your event, if they don't happen to be on your club mailing list. Don't call, but mail your 2000 schedule as soon as possible for listing in this column; it could bring you some extra entries! Mail your race or rally . schedule to: DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer Street Chatsworth, CA 91311 July 2000 Trail Notes ... to take the Class 10 win. Kyle Taylor took the Class 8 win and Gary Vosburg took the Trick Truck title. Greg Fouts won Class 8S, Malcolm Vinje won 7S, Craig Turner was the 7 Unlimited winner and Marc Stein took the 4100 class win. Deputy Steve Williams won 7300, Steve Lawrence took Class 7 and Marc Winocur took 3100. On bikes, Johnny Campbell took the overall and the Open Class, beating Destry Abbott by 42 seconds and Doug Eichner was the Pro Quad winner. Full race report coming soon. PIKES PEAK -The 78th Race To The Clouds is quickly coming and race officials have announced that prize money is up to $120,000 for the 2000 event. As of this date, there are 170 entrants, all ready to attack the 12.42 mile course to the 14,110 foot summit of Pikes Peak. For more information on the event call Tim Bergsten at 719-632-9404. TONY TELLIER PICKS -Ace reporter Tony Tellier often picks the winners of v·arious races, well in advance of . the race, we might add. Well, here are Tony's picks for the Baja 500. Trophy Trucks, Dan Smith, Larry Ragland or Brian Collins, Class 1 Troy Herbst, ProTruck Larry Plank or Scott Steinberger or Gary Vosburg, Class 3 Clive Skilton, Class 5 George Seeley or Mike James, Class 5-1600 Dave Gasper or Danny Ledezma or Mario Ledezma, Class 7 Jeff Lewis, Class 7S Doug Siewert or Miguel Alvarado or Eduardo Gonzalez, Stock Mini Bob Land, Class 8 Billy Goerke, Stock Full Dave Sykes, Class 9 Eric Fisher or Cisco Bio or Tony Gomez, Class 10 Chris Harrold or Rick Ellison or Jim Dizney, Class 11 Eric Solorzano, Class 12 Arturo Honold, Sportsman Walter Prince, Class 1600 Adam Pfankuch or Dan Martin or Bekki Freeman. Let's see how it all shakes out! S USQUEHANNOCK TRAIL RALLY -80 cars took to the rally course the first weekend in June. The start was delayed 45 minutes because of high water on Special Stage 1. The water was 5" over the maximum allowable so that stage was cancelled and the rally went on from a new starting point. Karl Scheible won Group N in his Mitsubishi as well as taking the overall victory. Doug Shepherd was first in Open Class and second Overall in yet another Mitsubishi. Celsius Donnelly took the PGT honors in an Eagle Talon, Ralph Kosmides won Group 5 in his Toyota Supra, Nicholas Robinson was first in Group 2 in a rionda Civic. Paul Choiniere was leading the Open Class but had gear selection problems on Special Stage 9 and retired the entry on SSl0 when no gears could be selected. SCORE BAJA 500 -Just a quickie, the class winners at the Baja 500 were: Trophy Truck -Larry Ragland (Overall) Class 1 -Troy Herbst, 1/2-1600 -Sammy Ehrenberg/Ronny Wilson, Class 3 -Darren Skilton, Class 5 -George Seeley/Bruce Anderson, 5/1600 -Marcos N ufiez/ Norberto Rivera, Class 7 -Craig Turner/Curt LeDuc, Class 7S -Eric & Jared Hardin, Class 8 - Billy Goerke, Class 9 -Hector Sarabia/Luis Guevara, SCORE Lite -Steve Greinke/Dale Dondel, Class 10 -Rick Ellison/John Penner, Class 11 -no finishers, Stock Mini -no finishers, Stock Full -Jeremy Spirkoff, ProT~u~k -Sam Shepard/Dan Ragland, Sportsman Truck/Buggy -no fm1shers. In the motorcycle classes, the winners were: Class 21 - Jose Ruvalcaba, -Class 22 -Jonah Street (Overall), Class 30 - Roy Bueina, Class 40 -Klaus Groeger, Class 50 -Richard Jackson. A TV's: Class 24 -Enrique Felix, Class 25 -Carmen Cafro. Overall Sportsman Motorcycle winner, Brian Sheakley. Full race report in next issue. NEW HEAD OF SCCA -Steven D. Johnson is the new Chief Executive Officer of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA). The new head of the 55,000 member nonprofit organization was head of sales at National Hot Rod Association. We wish him success in his new venture. ADDRESS CHANGE - we just want to give you another friendly reminder that Dusty Times has a new address. Please direct all correspondence t.o 20761 Plummer Street, Chatsworth, CA 91311. DUSTY TIMES CALIENTE 250 -The weather gods really smiled on SNORE and all their competitors on the 10th of June as they took to the woods and the four water crossings on a run for the gold. Clay and Ken Flippin were the Class 10-winners and it was their first first overall win and they really were excited. Jeff Carr was the Class 1600 winner in a close fought battle and Ex SNOJlE Cl~ss 9 cl).ampion Doug Ingram was the Class 9 gold medal recipient. Read the whole story in next month's Dusty Times. ·CORR AT ANTIGO -The CORR race at Antigo was a perfect weekend for Rob MacCachren. Rob led the 4wd trucks the entire race on Saturday and won on Sunday also, after expe_riencing trouble in the 4wd department. More on this in the next issue. Page 7

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MDR'S RIDGECREST 300 Ouinn and Nix overall It By ']udy Smith Photos: Track.side Photo Mike Nix and Jeff Quinn paired up in their Porsche Jimco to win overall at the MOR Ridgecrest race in late April. Jeff Quinn and Mike Nix teamed up in their two seatJimco to take the win at the April 29th MDR Ridgecrest 300. On a course that went away so badly that even the unlimited cars felt the strain, the team kept things together to win by a margin of eight minutes. The course was a 51 mile loop just south of Ridgecrest, sprinkled with creosote bushes and occasional huge boulders. The area is a familiar one to MDR racers, and folks who com-peted in the now defunct LaRana series. Originally a little different, the course was changed only a few days before the race when the MDR folks decided one section was too tight for the bigger cars. Class l racers with long, wide vehicles had found it impossible to make some of the turns with-out backing and taking a second or even third run at them. So the MDR made a correction, elimi-nating that really difficult section altogether. That's not to say that they straightened out the course, it was still twisty and narrow and very challenging. There was a 12 hour time limit. The day before the race was very windy and cold, but race day dawned relatively calm, which meant that the dust would prove to be a nuisance. O n the first lap Mike Nix re-corded the fastest lap for the day, at 57 :38, and put himself into the lead. Tommy Koch was just three seconds behind him in second place and another 20 seconds later came Dave Massingham in his big Mirage. But he headed into his pit for a two minute stbp to add oil. Vernon Martin was out for the day because of an early roll-over, and the team of Troy Pomeroy and Jerry Penhall were aiso out with a br.::,Ken transmission. Gary Gilbert ran fourth, about six minutes behind the leader, in Tony Licitra's Protruck. Gilbert, who'd never driven the truck in a race before this was doing a really fine job. Nix held onto his lead, but each la:p was successively a bit slower as the course got rougher and traffic became an issue. At , the end of Lap 3 he had about 14 minutes on Koch, who had a power steering fluid leak and was stopping to replenish his supply frequently. Gilbert was third in his Protruck, and Massingham was fourth, another minute back, and not happy with the way his car was running. Everybody else in the class was out. Nix gave the car to Quinn, who had a flat that cost a lot of time. It seems they were giving rides to pit people at _this race, and when it came time to change the flat the person in the passen-ger seat didn't know where the tools were, and things didn't go smoothly. They lost about 11 minutes. Even with that slow tire change they held the lead, with five minutes on Richard Boyle, who'd taken over for Koch, and was still adding fluid. Gilbert was third and Massingham,. with a couple of really long stops while they changed distributors twice and fiddled around trying to lo-cate the real source of their prob-lem, was fourth, now two hours and more off the pace. Quinn was appalled at how the course had "gone away." He was finding the ride very rough even in his high tech car, SQ he decided lie must not be going fast enough. But when he speeded up and his passenger began butting heads, and he quickly decided that was the wrong approach. So they just slogged along, like ev-eryone else. Ultimately, Quinn and Nix took the win with 19 minutes on Gilbert and his co-driver, Mark Manly. In third it was Koch and Boyle, who ran at a good pace, but all those stops for power steering fluid cost them six or seven minutes every lap. Massingham was fourth, about an hour and a half down after all the time spent in the pits. In the Class 5 ranks there were only two cars, and it was no contest after the first lap. Dale Hines had some major trouble, so he was a lap down right from the git-go, while John and Tim Brian and Scott Steele earned their first victory after a six-year dry-spell,. putting together six very steady laps in their Suspensions Unlimited chassis. Criswe;J made good time. They had fast lap for the class, at 1: 13: 19. By the end of the third lap the Criswells were about two hours ahead of Hines, and then Hines came to the end of his road. So the Criswells went on all alone, doing just fine until the last lap. They had a problem with c.v. belts, and did that lap in first and second gear only using up over three hours. Still, they got to the finish in time to get their victory. In the 5-1600 class, Robert Moore had the lead at the end of the first lap, with only 26 seconds on Tim Lindsay, in second. In third place it was Bryan Geer, about five minutes back. Geer picked up the pace on Lap 2, and recorded fast lap for the class, at 1: 14:36, to move into the lead. Now Lindsay was second, six minutes back, followed by Moore, another five minutes later, in third. · When they finished their fourth lap, Moore's co-driver, Bryan Hintz had moved the car back to the front with a couple of good times, and he now had 18 minutes on Jay McCoy, who ran second, while Lindsay was third, an hour and more down after a very long third lap. Geer never got his fourth lap done. This class was finding the course very dusty, and passing difficult. On the last lap a bee almost ·upset the Moore/Hintz apple cart by getting into the driver seat with Hintz and stinging him. He · stopped just long enough so his passenger could fish under his bottom to find the bee and toss it out. Even with all the excite-ment they still had the best last lap for the class, and took the win by 42 minutes. This was their sec-ond victory in a row. In second it was McCoy (driving only his second race) and S tephen Evenson (who was driving for the first time). They reported only one flat tire to trouble their day. · Lindsay finished in third place with a really sore left wrist, re-porting a broken stub axle on the third lap and being stuck a couple of times. Considering that it was his first race ever, he'd done a fine job just to get to the finish. Guy Evans ran fourth another hour and 20 minutes back, and perilously close to the 12 hour cut-off time. · Scott Hunter was in the pro-cess of moving to Denver, but he put his Toyota truck on a trailer and dragged it along, making a little side trip out to the Ridgecrest area to go racing. No one else came to play with them in their class, so he and co•driver, Curtis Hunter, went it alone, re-cording their best time on the first lap, at 1:22:49. They changed drivers every lap, and were just out having a good time. . But even so, Scott managed to roll the truck over, doing its body work no good at all. Still, they made it to the checkered flag to get a finish and a win. · In Class 800 Joe Patelli ran by himself also. His old Chevy, which used to run in the now nonexistent Class 6, had some problems along the way. Patelli and co-driver, Mike Ward had a couple of flats and then on the fifth lap broke an axle. They drove "on one leg" about five miles to a pit for repairs. They too, got their finish, and an offi-cial victory. Class 9 fielded eight entries, and Joe~ Mohr put himself into the lead on the first lap, with about two minutes on Dan Folts in his 3 Amigos chassis. In third it was Sean Defrank while Gary Stevens was fourth about two minutes later.· Mohr continued to lead through Lap 2, and now T om Steeno was tied with Defrank for third, about six minutes later. In fourth it was Folts with Stevens in fifth place. Mohr ran very steadily, and had a lead of almost a half hour at the end of the fourth lap. Folts was up to sec-ond again, doing well in what was only his second race. He let co-driver Harry Dunne drive the fi-nal three laps. In third it was Danny Owen and Doug Silcock in a T ubular Design Chassis, who'd had to have a broken spindle welded together on that lap. Steeno was fourth, about an hour further back. Kurt Puhl soloed his tidy Baja Bug to a big lead in the Sportsman Buggy class and Robert Moore and Bryan Hintz were nearly unseated by a bee, but managed to Mohr, still running at a steady pace, took the win, with 38 min-utes on second place Folts and Dunne, who'd had no troubles. In third it was Owen and Silcock, another 18 minutes back. tast took the win by over two hours. keep their act together to take the win in the limited Baja Bug class. Continued on pag~ 10 Pages July 2000. Dusty Times

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Mark Harber drove the longest vehicle in the race, his '71 Chevy Brian Logan soloed his Lothringer to a nice third place in the big 1600 Suburban, to a third place finish in the closely fought •street Legal Dan Folts, racing for only the second time, teamed with veteran Harry class, finishing just 32 seconds behind third place. _P_re~•R_un_n_e_r"_c~la_s_s_. _· ----~---~~--~~- Dunne, in their 3 Amigos Chassis, to take second in Class 900. lap for the class was recorded by back in the 1600 cars before he 2000. Fraley hadn't raced a big back, but he didn't respond. with his knees for the final few Defrank on th~ fifth lap, at got it finished. Cordon ran fifth. car before this (he is usually in a Then they spotted him, slowly (nearly straight) miles. Cour-1:22:21. Lacore moved into the lead 1600cc powered car), but was making his way at the top of the. tenay reported that beer, soda Class 10 had 12 starters, and on the third lap and was still doing very well, and put them long, final straight. Still no an-pop and water do not work well they did some mighty fine racing. there at the end of Lap 4, but back into the lead by the end of swer to their radio queries. He on that type offire, and he highly At the end of the first lap Mark he'd lost his right side c.v. boot, that fifth lap. Hatch and Lacore crept to the finish, lurched across recommends the use of a fire ex-Hutchins had the lead in his which didn't bode well for a good were three minutes back and tied the line, and into the finish/post tinguisher! The team finished in Jimco, with a little over two min- finish. In second it was Hutchins, for third, while the Myers broth-race tech area, with the transmis-second place. utes on Joseph Lacore. Lee Per-who'd had a rear flat and had ers ran fourth another two min-sion red hot and flames shooting The Myers brothers, dealing feet ran third, half a minute later, driven five miles on it to help. He utes down. The re;t of the field up as melted rubber dripped onto with no rear shocks and power with Andrew Myers in his Toyota was now three minutes back. ran in a close group, but about the hot casing. People started steering that came and went, fin-, powered Jimco in fourth, nine Courtenay ran three· minutes 40 minutes back. In that batch it throwing beer, soda pop .and wa-ished in third place about five seconds'later. In fifth it was Gary later, in third. Myers was a was obvious that Bob Hansen ter on the flames. Hatch was try-minutes later, and Lacore, who Cordon. Keith Williams and minute behind him in fourth, had way too much front brake, ing to stop the car, people scat-lost about 15 minutes on that lap, Dennis Boyle were already out. with Mike Norris in fifth place. and must have· been having a tered in front of him, folks ran finished fourth but did not stop Hutchins ticked off the fast The fifth lap proved hard for heckava time with the turns. around looking for a fire extin-to chat. We can only wonder lap for the class on Lap 2, with a some drivers, and Perfect and Going into the final lap there guisher (there was one in the about that c.v. that had lost its time of 1 :03: 19, to firm up his Cordon, as well as John Steven-was no telling who'd come back car), and the beleaguered starter boot earlier in the day. lead a little bit. Lacore was three son, who'd h:ad a very long sec-in front. But it turned out to be got hotter and hotter because it In Class 1100 Dennis Sletten, minutes back. In third it was now ond lap, all fell out. Courtenay's Friday, a little surprised that he'd was shorted out and stuck full on. last year's champ, was the favor-Myers, a minute later, followed co-driver, Don Hatch fell off an done so well, and giving himself Someone finally remembered the ite. And he had one of off road's by Whit Courtenay, out from embankment and flattened a and Hutchins a win and second fire extinguisher in the car, put veterans, Dick Dahn, who raced Kentucky, in his Jimco. He'd had front tire, so he came through the place in the overall standings. out the flames, and the starter in four wheel drive vehicles, and two flats on Lap 1, and another start/finish area with no tire on Everyone else had trouble on gave up and quit. When things also built many stadium and Riv-on this second lap, and had the battered wheel. that final lap. Hatch radioed his had calmed down Hatch ex-erside race tracks through the changed that one himself. That Hutch ins had put Bruce crew that his transmission had plained that he'd had to hold the years, in the passenger seat. But proved time consuming, as the Fraley irito the car, as a sort of "gone away" within three miles · transmission in gear with both .all that experience and know-car fell off the jack and he was practice for the November Baja of the finish. His crew radioed hands, and had been steering how meant nothing when they Aamingo & The Strip 1-888-BARBARY 227-2279 www.barbarycoastcasino.com Page 10 West Tropicana & Arville 1-800-0RLEANS 675-3267 www.orleanscasino.com July 2000 •• - - ' ' West Aamingo & Valley View. 1-888-GOCOAST 402-6278 www.goldcoastcasino.com Alta & Rampart 1-877-636-7111 Dusty Times

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Kyle Gomolka (#121 1 ) climbs the bank to get past Bryant Layton, Greg Crew and John Daly, in a Hi Jumper, had some clutch cable A pair of rookies; Jay McCoy and Stephen Evenson, driving their second and first races respectively, had only one flat and finished second in the limited Baja Bug class. · who was unable to finish. Gomolka finished second in Class 1200. trouble, but still took second place in the S rtsman Bu race. second place it was Gomolka, who flatten ed a tire on the fourth lap also. In third it was .. Eric Hardin in a GMC, who fin-ished with a crunched front end. Nixon was fourth, and Fresh dropped to sixth after his good beginning. In Class 1300, the Sports-man Buggy class, which runs for trophies only, the lead be-longed to Kurt puhl, who re-corded the class fast lap at Joel Mohr, last year's class champ, led all the way, steadily building his lead to take the Class 9 win by 37 minutes. Scott and Curtis Hµnter took time out from moving to race their Toyota, had a great time even though they rolled over, and got a win. · · 1:27:40. This was another four lap group. Greg Crew ran sec-ond, in a car his team thinks is a Hi-Jumper. Third place be-longed 1'> Jim Heine, and David Bowles did a five hour first lap and then went no further. Somewhere along the line Puhl hit a Class 9 car and his hood flew off, but that didn't slow him. His wife, Chris, got out after riding one lap, and Paul Framme took over the navigating chores. They· had a lead of an hour and 14 minutes a·t the end of Lap 2. Crew's car was still in second, and John Daly was driving now. Their clutch cable had loosened up, but everything else was o. k. Heine had a good second lap, but then never came around lost their ring and pinion on the first lap. Julio Curiel had the fast lap for the class on Lap 1, a 1 :38:48, and he was. about a half hour ahead of Scott Schroder, who had a major oil leak, and no oil pressure .as a result. Things went the same way on the second lap, with Curiel ticking off a good time, while Schroder flattened a couple of tires and lost a belt. Curiel was sharing the driv-ing with Gilberto Ojeda and Alfredo Palacios, and on the third lap the team flattened a front tire and broke a shock tower. They welded it, but it broke again, costing them a bunch of time, and their lap took two hours and 42 minutes. But they held their lead be-cause Schroder's co-driver, Bill Zimmerman, had an electrical failure, and his lap ran over three hours. This class was re-quired to finish only four laps, and it was apparently a good thing. On the fourth lap Curiel, Ojeda and Palacios were still dealing with the broken shock tower, and also got bumped by a 1600 car. This time it took them over three hours to get around, but they were still lead-ing, and got their win. Schroder and Zimmerman had a rela-tively easy last lap, with noth-ing but flat tires to report, and came home for second place. Congratulations to both teams for finishing. this very difficult race. In Class 1200, tire stock mini-trucks, all but one of _the eight trucks made it around the first lap. Nicholas Beall, in a Jeep, was the lone first lap ca-sualty. Jamie Campbell had.his Ford Ranger in front, with a 29 minute lead on Mike Nixon in a Mitsubishi. In third it was Kyle Gomolka in a Toyota and Kathy Fay was fourth in her Ford. But Fay disappeared on her second lap (a rare occur-Dusty Times rence for this team) for un-known reasons. Campbell's first lap proved to be the fast time of the day for this class, at 1: 20:49. He slowed a good deal on Lap 2, when the truck overheated and a radiator hose blew off. He stopped to let it cool and no-ticed that the fan was broken off. Campbell stopped other racers to beg water for the ra-diator, then got a spare fan and made repairs. He had to stop periodically to let it cool and took off the hood to help with that effort. Still, he led at the end of the second lap by 19 · minutes, and it was Daniel Fresh (h~ used to race a 5-1600) in a Jeep, who was in sec-ond place. In third it was Nixon, and Gomolka was fourth. Campbell put Andy Helquist in the truck to drive the final two laps (this class was re-quired to run only four laps), and he had a good third lap, but Fresh was quicker, and they were tied for the lead at the end of Lap 3. Nixon was third about Jamie Campbell and Andy Helquist had serious cooling problems with their Ford, but still managed to take the win in Class 1200. Despite sorrie problems with c. v.bolts, John and Tim Criswell got to the finish line ~nd_ took the. win in Class 500, urylim{ted Baja Bugs. July 2000 34 minutes later, followed by Gomolka who'd had a flat. His '84 Toyota had also lost a muf-· fler gasket, and therefore lost a little low end. · again. Helquist had a flat on the last lap, but otherw_ise ran well, to stay .in 'front as . Fresh lost four hours and dropped to last. Helquist's co-driver, less than charmed with his ride appar-ently, said the "truck sounds like a box of china going do"(n the stairs." But it was a win for Campbell and Helquist, with an hour and a half to spare. In Coritinu,d on page 13 OBA: Discount Foreign We Have In Stock: Ultra Wheels & ·15 X 7 $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 (702) 247-1266 We Now Do. MAGNA FLUX Page 11

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The team of Mitch Griffin and Frank Omboli had a bunch of flats and a broken throttle cable, but still managed to surprise themselves with a second place in the 1600 rac~. The Myers brothers, Dan and Andrew, had some powe; steering and Owen Potter and Brett Engstrom started with fouled plugs but things suspension troubles with their Jimco, but ran well enough to finish at better and the moved u to finish third in the bi 1600 class. _th_iri:-d_i_n_th-,e_ve_ry~ h_a-;;rd,.......,.fo_u~g_h_t ra_ c_e_. ---,----------,--,-----~~~~ Puhl ran a very good third lap, which put him nearly two hours in front of the Crew team, and then on the fourth lap they repeated the perfor-mance. Puhl got a solid win, over two hours in front of the second place Crew group, who'd lost a rear brake, and then lost all brakes for the fi-nal seven or eight miles. They soldiered on to finish second, last of the class to make it in. Class 1400 was another four lap class, this one for "street-legal pre-runners." It's another Sportsman class, running for trophies only, and having a ball in the process. Unfortunately, two of them, Rick Gallett in a Ford and Scott Spindola in an-other Ford, couldn't even com-plete that important first trip around. Bobb Quarnstrom Jr., in a Ford, recorded the class fast lap at 1 :44:22, to put himself into the lead by nine minutes over Steve Ruddick, Andy Stix and Bryan Truchin in an '84 Toyota. In third it was Mark Harber in a '71 Chevy Subur-ban, certainly the longest and tallest vehicle on the course that d·ay. It's a three door model, with two passenger seats, fully equipped with belts and harnesses for family pre-running. There's a full cage, clear to the back door, because Harber says he likes to keep his family safe. On the second lap Quarnstrom lost about a half hour, but held his lead, now 11 minutes up on Ruddick et al, who had 15 minutes on Harber. Carolyn Hines, in another Ford, ran fourth, almost an hour down. Bryant Layton, in still another Ford, had suffered through a nearly six hour first lap, and then was done with it. Quarnstrom had a great third lap, and solidified his lead, now almost 45 minutes up on Ruddick and his "Got Dirt?" team. They, in turn, had 16 minutes on the Suburban, whose biggest problem seemed to be that due to his overhang the back bumper would drag on three or four of the dips. He also had one flat. Hines was just under an hour further out. Quarnstrom had problems on his last lap, and lost over an hour, but his cushion was enough to save his victory. The· Ruddick, Stix, Truchin Toyota finished second, reporting no problems, only 54 seconds be-hind him. Harber was third, another 14 minutes later, ag-grieved that he'd blown his pas-senger side mirror. Almost two hours later, Hines finished in fourth place. The 1/2-1600 class made up the biggest group, with an en-Dusty Times try of 22 cars. Every one o er cousin, Bryan Freeman, in fourth. In sixth it was Brian transmission (the car hadn't them got through the first lap, a Bunderson. Brian Steele, in a Logan in a Lothringer, and he been prepped since the San and in the lead was Bekki Free-Suspensions Unlimited chassis, was just a minute and 51 sec-Felipe race), and Bryan Free-man in her Jimco, recording the ran third, 18 seconds later, onds behind the lead car. man was also out, with un-fast time for the class, at with Mike Duenas, and Kash Bekki was gone on the sec-known problems. Now it was a 1:06:16.lnsecondplaceitwas VesselsinaChenowth,tiedfor ond lap when she lost her Continuedonpage14 DEIST SEAT BEL TS The greatest name In driver safety equipment. 4-point sand rail seat belt RACE BELTS 2• - 5 point mount 3"-5pointmount SIDE COVERS IRS . 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Whit Courtenay and Don Hatch had all kinds of trouble, but some The car_Owner Tony Licitra, couldn't make it, so he told ~is pit guys, heroic driving at the end of the day earned them a great second place Gary Gilbert _and A-:ark Ma?IY to go ahead and race hts Protruck. in their Jimco. Whtch they dtd, taking 2nd m Class 100. Steve Ruddick, Andy Styx and Bryan Truchin, who finished second in Class 1400 in their '84 Toyota, are about to be passed by the Myers team Class 10 car. tie with Duenas and Steele, and By Lap 4 Duenas had moved Scott, had incredibly even times they were just a minute up on into the lead, and he had a fot such a difficult course, not Logan. Wes Moser ran fourth minute on the Steele brothers. varying more than four minutes now, and Owen Potter, who'd Vessels was third, five minutes through all six laps, and they fouled his plugs in staging and later, with Logan in fourth and stayed in front to the finish, to sounded really unwell on take-Griffin's co-driver, Frank Om-take the win, their first in six off, was running just fine now, boli in fifth. Only 10 minutes years. Griffin, who'd thought his and in fifth place. And tied for separated the fifth place car day was practically over when he sixth (or seventh) were Mitch from the lead, so it was still had those three flats early in the Griffin, who'd had a flat on Lap anyone's race. But it didn't be-day, was more surprised than any-1, and two flats this• lap, and long to Duenas, who lost his thing, when Omboli brought his Robert Riffle. motor on Lap 5. That put the car back to the finish in second On the third lap the Steele Steeles into the lead. They place. 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36TH RALLY CATALUNYA COSTA BRAVA McRae Returns to Winners Circle By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden :..~~~~ _, At~ Yv • ,1 ... ~ ---~ ;, Colin McRae and Nicky Grist took the big win in their Ford Focus WRC, shown here setting up for a sharp left hander. Colin McRae won his first rally in over a year with his Ford Focus, beating his British rival, Richard Burns by 5.9 seconds. The gap between them had hov-ered for a couple of stages at only a little over one second despite a last day clutch problem, which nearly cost McRae tli.e victory! World Champion Tommi Maki-nen lost the chance to challenge him a bit. The new Evolution II Peugeots were delayed by brake and transmission problems as well and Freddy Loix had yet again endless difficulties in his Mitsubishi. The weather was cooler than expected and led to fewer tire troubles but the anticipated chal-lenge of Jesus Puras Formula 2 Citroen fizzled out due to the wrong set up of the car which had been prepared by the official Cit-roen T eam, leaving Travaglia in a Peugeot 306 Maxi in front of Magaud's 1600 Ford Puma. Uwe Nittel won Group N, beating Trellas by over a minute. The Saudi driver Bakhashab beat Arai in the Teams Cup category, which put their respective teams in joint lead of the series. Burns continues to lead the drivers se-ries in front of Makinen with Subaru ahead of Ford in the Ml!'flufacturers points. conditions. There had only been nine clear days since Portugal, the fifth world rally within an 11 week period. This year, only one, not the customary two asphalt even ts came together. in the championship at this time, as Corsica has been moved to the second half of the season. The enormous popularity of rallying in Spain put an over-whelming pressure on the orga-nizers to regulate the spectator's arrangements. To deter specta-tors from running from one stage to another and thereby blocking the roads· in the areas between stages, nearly all the stages were repeated. There was only one ser-vice park location each day. The need to find a large enough loca-tion for the centralized service event. The main novelty was to run the 45km Gratallops ~tage twice (seven and nine). This is one of the most demanding stages in the championship because of its length, the frequently high am-·bient temperatures and the very abrasive surface. The teams know the effect of these stages on the outcome of the rally depends largely on the ambient tempera-tures. Road surface temperatures on a war~ day can reach 100 de-grees, almost. the hottest in th_e entire championship. A tire com-pany insider said "Two wheel drive cars could have an advan-tage on this stage. They are very much lighter (as much as 500 pounds) and the differentials have optimized control which means less wheel spin. Therefore, less heat build-up and less tire wear." Not only do the tires warm up, the road surface can become 5-10 degrees hotter ev-ery hour. There is a gap of over five hours between each run so there could be considerable dif-ference in the challenge of the stage from the first to the second runs and much depends on whether the day is cool or warm. This was also a rally with a far greater number of unknowns than ever. The first unknown fol-lowed the embarrassing defeat suffered by all the World Cham-pionship Teams last year. This was when the non-championship Citroen Team with a ligh t weight, wide track, two wheel drive Xsara Kit Car won the rally outright. It was the first F2 out-right victory in world rallying and was then repeated two weeks later in Corsica. The unknown quantity this year was whether Citroen, because of a new regu-latory 88 pound increase in mini-mum weight could match their pace of a year ago. T he second unknown was the weather. This year's event was held two weeks earlier in the year. Normally two weeks makes little difference, but due to the rapidly changing sea-sons it could mean the surface temperatures of the stages could be cooler than before, completely changing the way the tires would work, ergo, the stages could present a completely different challenge and even a week.before the rally nobody could predict the weather. Points leader, Subaru winners of four of the last six rallies were hopfng not to repeat their disas-ters of the last two years in Cata-· lunya. They had won with the new car on gravel in Portugal and had done more testing on asphalt than on gravel with this car. Mit-subishi had won the last two as-phalt rallies but they were very aware of the uncertainties. Last year there was snow on some of the stages when it was held the third week in April. Ford was ·curious about their many problems suffered in Por-This was the fifth event of the season and the first event this year to be held on clear asphalt park in the T arragona region led to the second day be-ing the longest single day of rally sport in Europe in 1 7 years! Long road sections had to take cars to and from far flung mountain regions at intervals during the day and then there was already the long journey from a~d back to Lloret de Mar as well. There were only eight different stage all First in Group N were Uwe Nittel and Detlaf Ruf, shown here at speed in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. tugal, especially why McRae's engine had failed and all this con-cern had caused them to drop a planned third car entry for Pe-ter Solberg. SEAT were on their home ground, the rally route passing only a few kms from their headquarters. They mentioned the confi-dence of their driver, Didier Auriol, who had been the fastest driver over the long Gratallope stage the past two years. Skoda had new lightweight cars and Spaniard Luis Climent was happy, this was the first time SKODA had a world championship driver on his home rally and this was also the only WRC Rally that their other driver, Armin Schwarz had won outright. A total of26 World Rally cars entered, including five each Peu-geot, Subaru's and Toyota's. Jesus Puras, who had led this rally last year was driving a two liter Formula 2 Citroen Xsara kit car. T his was the first WRC appear-ance of the 1600 FIAT Punto kit car, which faced competition from the Ford Puma and the Peu-geot 106 Maxi car. The stages north east of Barcelona, used Friday and Sun-day, have surfaces that can be amazingly slick and traction, un-der any circumstances is hard to find. It is even more difficult when the leading cars cut corners and throw gravel onto the surface of the road, making conditions for those following even more dif-ficult. Saturday's stages, south-west of Barcelona are where keeping the tires in one piece is a constant challenge. Everything was based on the condition that the rally would be run in clear weather, but it looked otherwise. But they were still clearing the roads of snow a few days before the rally; Then there was a heavy rain the night before the start of the rally. • ' Leg 1 - Six stages, asphalt, 91 kms. The overnight rain had cleaned the roads, Burns, start-ing first had clean surfaces, the rest would have to fight the mud thrown onto the road. ·Ma'kinen had rear differential problems, changed at the end of the first loop of three stages. Sainz had his windshield wipers tangle with each other and McRae was run-ning second. Auriol had his gear-shift fail soon after starting the first stage so he was back to the manual system and Freddy Loix said his engine was .lacking in power. Panizzi reported loss of power and strange behavior of the differentials. Kankkunen had alternator failure on the way to pre-stage service. It was changed but pQwer steering failure ensued and he drove the first three stages sans power and was more than four minutes in arrears af-ter the third stage. Schwarz found his car under steering terribly on the wet as-phalt and it was difficult to over-come. Luis Climent spun, he was one of the few on rain tires, in-termediates were better. Both Hyundais had boost pressure problems and Eriksson had ex-haust fumes in his car. In F2, Puras had under steer problems on the wet asphalt. Kris Richard Burns and Robert Reid drove their Subaru lmpreza to the Patrick Magaud and Guylene Brun navigate the wet slick roads in Armin Schwarz and Manfred Hiemer run through a rainy stage in their second spot in Spain, less than six seconds out of the win. their Ford Puma to first in F3 before an appreciative crowd. Skoda Octavia, running to an ~ 1th_place finish. , . . -Page 16 July 2000 . Dusty Times

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Marcus Granholm and Timo Rautiainen ran through the wet weather Didier Auria/ and Denis Giraudet pass the Union Jack as they wend Markka Martin and Michael Park had the support of the crowd as they drove their Toyota Corolla to a great 10th place finish in Spain. geots, this let Magaud to finish in the 5th position in the Peugeot 206. · their way to .13th overall in the SEAT Cordoba. seconds and then his blocked the rear brakes. power steering failed! Dallavilla changed the gear box In F2, Puras and now the car was locked in struggled with engine front wheel drive. Kankkunen problems, Guest -went drove 12kms on ?. flat tire and off the road and holed Kenneth Eriksson had a rear axle the radiator and changed and Alister McRae re-Princen retired with tired when the engine oil light clutch failure. In Group came on. N Stohl had to stop to On the last two stages of the change a flat and lost day, Burns reduced McRae's the lead to Nittel. lead to 4.3 seconds. Colin Ste~shorne, from Nor-thought he was being a bit too way was lying third. cautious. Sainz was gradually Leg 2 - Five stages, catching both of them. With 1.2 asphalt, 18lkms. Burns seconds separating the first four had a horrible time on cars on a 45kms stage, we are the first stage, witnessing a fantastic battle. Gratallops, the han-Makinen fell back when his dling was bad, the gear-brakes failed on the final stage shift was acting up and and Delecour was still having the brake was some-brake problems. times soft. He had lost At the final service of the day the lead and was almost Kankkunen's entry was with-11 seconds behind drawn. Gardeineister hit a rock First F2 was the mean l90king Peugeot 306 Maxi of Renato Travaglia and Flavia Zamella, showing the fine art of corner cutting. · McRae. The Peugeots on the final stage, breaking a were 5, 6 and 7, headed wheel and causing him to retire. by Delecour who was The cause of Makinen-'s and Princen had clutch problems and spun, Michael Guest had full wet tires mounted and spun on the first stage. Travaglia had han-dling problems as the car was set up for dry conditions. In F3 Ma-gau,£1 spun off the course, Jayo had a flat (changed on stage) and Macaluso retire-cl the FIAT Punta car with electrical prob-lems. In Group N, Stohl led Nit-tel and T relies and Paasonen was lying fourth. · In the afternoon, Burns lead began to erode. His choice of intermediate tires was in error and McRae was gradually catching up. Makinen changed differentials and was going bet-ter. Makinen was still having shifter problems, Freddy Loix had a disastrous afternoon with a poor choice of tires and dropped out of the top ten and Delecour was not happy with his engine. The stages were getting dry and fast. Magaud, in the Puma was more than half a minute faster than the next front wheel drive car. Puras and Schwarz gained Skoda's first ever scratch time, 2.3 seconds faster than Makinen. The two Hyundais were having turbo troubles, Eriksson went off the rbad for 20 unhappy with his engine. Loix Loix's brake problems was dis-drove about l 5kms with his covered to be the front spoiler, throttle sticking open, Garde-when it touched the ground it meister drove 5kms on a flat tire would flick backward and hit the and both Hyundais were still brake line attached to the cali-having ALS troubles. per. On the second stage Burns' Martin had a slow tire leak on car was running much better. Stage 10 and had brake problems McRae was now only 3.3 seconds on Stage 11 and Loix passed him in front. McRae was complaining in the standings. Navarra was ill about the spectators and the pre-and stopped for medication on carious way their cars were Stage 9, Bakhashab had alterna-parked. Makinen made fast time tor problems but was able to fin-for the stage, Delecour and ish. Panizzi's Peugeots were having In Group N Nittel got a 20 brake problems, Schwarz had second penalty when his car power steering failure· and wouldn't start at first service. Gardemeister's SEAT was coated Stenhorne's Subaru ran out of with engine oil from the breather brakes, Trelles fell back when a pipe. Kankkunen was having all shock broke halfway through sorts of troubles and was running Stage 10 and he had to drive well back but team orders kept Stage 11 in that condition. him going,. Mendez was still going but his It was cool for the third stage engine was cutting out periodi-and drivers didn't have to fit hard cally. Ferreyros retired after slid-compound tires. Burns fell fur- ing off the course and bending a ther behind, McRae was now wheel back into the well. 10.8 in front. Delecour only had Walfridsson slid on some gravel, first and third gears and was hit a rock, flipped the car end dropping back. Traditional stage over end and he too retired. champi09!. Auriol had mounted In F2 Puras had serious engine tires too hard and was 30 seconds problems and retired after the off the pace. Loix lost four min-first stage. Travaglia took the utes at the start of Stage 9 with a lead while Gunderson had a mis-loose brake hose. Climent's cen-fire, had to change a flat and he tral differential lost fluid and fell behind some Group N Peu-36th Rallya Catalunya-Co■te Brava Lloret de Har 31. 03-2. 04. oo WC round S WC Points WR WD TC GN 10 10 - -6 6 1 { 5) Colin McRAE/Nicky Gr 1st . 2 { 3) Richard BURNS/Robert Reid J ( 6) Carlos SA.lNZ/Luie Hoya 4 ( 1) Tomai KAJtJMEN/Risto Hannisenmaki 5 ( 16) Harcua Gronhol1n/Tiao Rautiainan 6 (10) Gilles Pl'IMIZZI/Herve Panizzi 7 (9) Francois DBLBCOUR/Dani•l Grataloup 8 ( 2) rreddT LOJX/Sven Smee ta 9 ( 20) Audrea Mav.1.rra/Simona Pedeli 10 (23) Markko Hartin/Michael Park ether important finishers 11 ( 11) Ar•in SCRWARZ:/Manf red Hi•••r 13 (7) Didier AUIIOL/Denis Giraudet 14 (27} Renato Travaglia/Plavio Zaaella 15 (24 I M>dullah Bakbaohab/Bobby Willi• 16 (25) To■hihiro Arai/Roger Pree11an 17 ( 32 I Uwe Nittel/Detlef Ruf 18 (lO) Gustavo Trellea/Joro• Del Buono 19 (Jl) Manfred Stohl/Peter Huller 20 (36) Miguel Ca•poa/Carlo• Ha9alhaes 21 (64) Claudio Menzi/ldqardo Galindo 22 (35) jani P11uonen/Jakke Honk•nen 23 (U) Kenneth llllltSS0II/Staffan Parunder Dusty Times GB GB B PIN PIN p p B I EB/GB Pord RacinO Pocus WRC oA V5PMC (GB} Subaru I111preza lfRC A W2OSRT (GB) Pord Racing Focus WRC A V6FHC (GB) Hitsubiahi Lancer Evo . A V2KMJt (GB) Peugeot 206 'NRC A 206KVB75 (Fl Peuqeot 206 WRC 11 20611"375 (Pl Peugeot 206 WRC A 206MWL75 (F) HitaUbi■hi Cariama GT A V22tofR (GB) Toyota Corolla WRC A lt-AH:608 ( D) Toyota Corolla WRC A I-A.14934 (D) ◄h.07•.13.0s.• 4b.07M.18.9&. 4h.O7m.2 ◄.7s. 4h. O7m. 53 . 2s. 4h. 09a. 04. 7s. 4h.09a. 23 .9a. 4h.1011. 49 .4s. ♦b.llm.25.Ss. 4h.1:Z..18.4s. 4h.12a.42.0a. D Skoda Octavia WRC 11 HBKH-30 (CZ) 4b.12a. 45 .ls. r SEl'l'l' Cordoba WRC 11 B9863UT (I) fh.1411.ll. O• . l Peu9eot 306 Haxi A AW930PG (I) 4b.211i.22.8s.••• SA/GB Toyot• Corolla WRC A K-AH928 (D) 4b.23■.52.2a.u. J/GB Subaru Impreza WRC 11 VlOALL (GB) 4h-.24a.08,fs . .a• D Hitauhiahi Lancer Bvo . J GG-11584 (D) 4h.26e.10.7s. • ROU/R/1 Mil•ub1shl Lancer Kvo. II l'IZ639CZ (I) 4b.2711.33. 79. /\ NiUubi9hi Lancer Bvo . II BD477ZD (I) 4b,30a.39.b. p Hitaub1ahi Lancer svo. N 99-O6-MQ (PJ 4h.31a.06.6a. Rl'I Mitsubiahi Lancer lvo. II l'IJ922CS (II 4h.3211.l0.6s. FIN NiUubiohi caril,u GT II Y735 (Pill) 4b .32•. 20.9s. 8 Hyundai /\ccent WRC ~ VIMSD (GB) 4h.3211.51.68. ' . 3 3 - 2 l - -10 - · - 6 _. 10 - 6 - . - - - 3 - - - 2 - 1 July 2000 into second spot whilst both Spanish Team Pu-mas retired. Leg 3 -Four stages, asphalt, 11 0kms. The weather forecast was for dry weather. The day started dramatically, running from the re-start to the 10 minute service McRae's clutch failed. A new thrust bearing, clutch and master cylinder were installed. The work took too long by a minute and a 10 second penalty was incurred. However, McRae beat Burns by seven seconds on that stage and was back in the lead once more, by 1.3 seconds. Then by 1.1 on the sec-ond stage, on the third TommiMakinenandRistoMannisenmakiliftawheel McRae pulled out to on their Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution on their way to 5.9, they tied on the fi- _fo_u_rt_h~p_la_c_e_,_·n_S~p_a_in_. _________ _ nal stage so 5.9 seconds was the his Peugeot 206, with a broken winning margin. gear box input shaft and Behind the leaders, Panizzi Dallavilla retired also. Martin was going well but Delecour was finished in the top ten, ahead of having gear selection problems. three factory entries. The Teams Hyundai changed the drive shaft Cup was won by Bakhashab, 16 on Eriksson's car as a precaution, seconds ahead of Arai. At the fi-Loix had more brake problems, nal service Panizzi incurred a one Climent retired when he hit a minute penalty which allowed rock and lost a wheel midway Granholm to finish as the high-through Stage 11. Morel retired est place Peugeot. ■ ~-----..___......-....~-----------LOOKING TO JOIN A TERRIFIC TEAM OF PEOPLE? 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FRT FUD 200 McCallums Do It Again By Judy Smith Photos: C&C Race Photo Larry and Shawn Mccallum had a great day at the FRT Fud 200 in April,_ winning overall in their Jimco for the second time in a row. Larry and Shawn McCallum helped more_ than hindered, made it two overall wins in a quickly clearing the dust. This row at the FRT series, taking course was about 20 miles long, the April 22nd Fud 200 Class 1 and all the Pro classes were re-and overall win easily in their quired to run 10 laps, while the A-armed Jimco. Sportsmen were to run only As the wind howled and the eight. sands shifted, Fud departed On the first lap McCallum from the norm and started the was sailing along comfortably, cars and trucks at the early hour. -having a ball, and he completed of 7 a.m. There were rio bikes the lap with about six seconds and.quads running at this event, on Larry Wyatt in his Ford pow-so the cars got the early time. If ered truck. Chuck Hovey ran it hadn't been for the wind it third in his Aceco, another six would have been a nice day, but seconds back, followed by Jeff for a while it was nasty enough Dickerson and Jason Conform that those who could hid inside in their Ford Protruck, 58 sec-their campers and motor homes. onds further back. Out on the course the wind McCallum was having a great ~·v>.,;. . ~ lr· :, In the Sportsman class the Bartolini family out lasted everyone else to take the win in their Porsche powered Jimco. time, and on Lap 2 he recorded the fast lap for the day, at 17:27 for the 20 miles. He now led by a minute and 20 seconds, and it was still Wyatt in second place. John Currier and Tim Lawrence had moved up to third place in their 350 c. i. Chevy powered Truggy. Hovey had tossed a· belt, and used up some time get-ting the replacement on. He lost nearly a lap. At the end of the third lap, while McCallum still led, with four minutes on Currier and Lawrence, Wyatt was in serious trouble, and fell way back with a two hour plus lap, and then withdrew. Now Bill Gill was in third place in his High Velocity Chassis with an 1835cc motor. Hovey ran a good lap this time around, but he'd tossed another belt, discovered that his pulley was broken, and now the motor was going away. So he did no more laps. McCallum had just under five minutes at the end of Lap 4, and it was still Currier and Lawrence in second place, fol-lowed by Gill. Now none of the others were running. And after the fifth lap Currier and Lawrence were gone also, with a broken limiter strap. McCal-lum did another couple of laps and when his crew told him he had a comfortable lead, and time for a driver change he de-Vance and Ernie Alien can make their Ford hustle along speedily, but this time they had terminal problems, and didn't get to the finish. cided to let his son, Shawn, get Bennett's old Jimco, moved into in for the final three loops. the lead right away, but he had Shawn ran three almost iden-only 26 seconds on Eric A:llen, tical laps, only a hair slower who'd bought John Brindell's than his dad's, and kept tb.e car old Jimco. This was his first time in front. They took the win, out in it. In thitd place it was both for Class 1 and the over-Steve Laputz in a Chenowth, all, while Gill, very pleased with only 19 seconds back. Brian.and the reliability of his car, which Jim Jeffrey were fourth, in Da-he built himself (including the men Jefferies' old car, another motor}, finished second. four seconds later, followed by The Class 8 race looked like Andy DeVercelly IV in his fun for a couple of laps, and middle-aged home built car, an-then fell apart. Vance and Ernie other minute back. The rest of Allen put their 460 c.i. Ford the class, except for one, came into the lead, in front of Jeff along in the next two minutes. Norton and Steve Stanley and That one was Paul Keller's their 350 c.i. Chevy by just un-Metaltech chassis which was der a minute. But on the next built back in the '80s some time, lap Norton was warmed up, and and he was having some major knocked a few minutes off his problem this day. time, while the Allens had some Graves held his position, and proble"1).. Now Norton led by 11 led by one second at the end of •minutes. And that's how it went Lap 2, and it was Allen in 5ec-the rest of the way. Norton was ond, w·ith Laputz just 46 sec-charging (at the last race he onds behind him. The Jeffreys thought he'd won, and had been were fourth and DeVercelly ran snookered by his own truck late fifth. At the end of the third lap in the day, so he was taking no Allen moved into the lead, but chances this time). On the he had only 21 seconds on fourth lap Norton recorded the Graves, who was a minute and -fast lap for the class, at 20:25, 16 seconds µp on Laputz. De-and he went on in that vein all Vercelly was now fourth as the the rest of the way. Meanwhile, Jeffrey brothers lost about 10 the Allens had problems and minutes with a flat. In Jim ultimately covered only four Dizney's old Jimco 16-year old laps in just under four hours. Brian Ickier was just now hitting Norton, who said he'd had his his stride, this being his first shocks finessed by Brent King, race, and getting settled in af-liked the way his truck handled ter a couple of plug wires fell off this race. He was second over-on the first lap. all. . As they finished Lap 4 The 1/2-1600 cars took off Graves had moved back into the next, and the racing was hot lead, with Laputz now in second and heavy in this class. One of place, Allen third, Ickier fourth the things that's really great and DeVercelly in fifth place. It about this class is that it hasn't was still very tight, and any of had a rule change in ages (the them could win, or lose, in the FRT uses essentially the same time it took to miss a turn or rules as SCORE and everyone flatten a tire. Keller, after a very else for this group}, so that a car long first lap, ran out of time that's several years old is still as and completed only three laps, competitive as a new one. That and Steve Reynolds, after run-was very clear at this race. ning three good laps in his Kevin ·Graves, who bought Jeff Bunderson, was also out. The rest went on. Graves had a little over a minute at the end of the fifth lap, and it was still Laputz, Allen, Ickier and DeVercelly. DeVercelly got out to let his dad, Andy III, drive the last half of the race, but everyone else stayed put. Graves had a minute and 1 7 seconds now on Laputz, with Allen, Ickier and De Ver-celly following in order. Rookie driver Kent Graves shared with his dad, Hal, in their very tidy Jimco to take the win after a close race in crass 9. The Jernigans, Harvey and Jason, get top honors for the best jump at the finish line, then ran a steady race to take the small truck win in their Ford. After seven laps it was Laputz, Graves, Allen, Ickier and DeVercelly. And Allen was making up for time lost on the fourth lap. He'd had an oil line fall down on the exhaust, which melted a hole in it, and his oil started blowing out. Allen Continued on page 20 Page 18 July 2000 Dusty Times

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Eric Allen came close to disaster in his new-to-him Jimco, but another Bill Gill took second place in Class 1 in his self-buiff High Velocity chassis team saved the day for him and he finished the race third in Class 1/ Brian and Joe Jeffrey, new to the FRT and 1600 racing, had a good day with an 1 835cc motor that he also built. 2-1600 and finished up in fifth place in their two-seat Jimco. didn't know anything about it, about to be in serious trouble. Graves decided he'd better Ickier and DeVercelly'. On the and didn't complete any more but the Laputz crew spotted the Nice of the Laputz crew to point pick up the pace some, and he ninth lap, when all the leaders laps. Too bad -Andy let his dad problem, told Allen's crew and out the emergency. Allen also did, but Laputz was hustling had gone by, the DeVercelly car drive, and Dad broke their toy. they flagged their car in for a had trouble back shifting to sec-right along also, and he held on was conspicuous by its absence. Laputz now had a lead of 12 sec-fix. They had to add four quarts ond or first, but found he didn't to his lead. Graves was still sec-It was reported parked and onds over Graves, and Allen of oil,_ suggesting that he'd been ~e~those gears much _anyhow. ond, followed by Allen, then "smoking" alongside the track, was about two minutes behind W Bll..STEIN•FOX SHOX•SWAY-A-WAY•KYb•HOWE•CNC•JAMAR•ENGLE•BUGPACK•PROTHANE•SCAT• them, with Ickier fourth and the ~ Jeffrey brothers back up to fifth, O ~ enjoying their first FRT event. ::C: KARTEK "Wh O~rJR d • o fffll > They'regraduatesfromClass9, ~ . . . ere -oa 1S n... ". and this was just their fourth ~ 0 1600 competition. f"" tTl No one watching the race ...J .-----------.------------, .-----------.-----------:S:: could be sure who was in front, ti: l so all the pits told their drivers Z • to hustle. Graves hustled the ce, ~·-.--- •iJ._. . & ~ fu~s~h~n~l~:;~~eii/i:s{ai:p~a~ ~ ~~--~ -~--hA. -• ~ < , ,, _ T - ~ nice 21:08, but it. wasn't ~ ' • ' -' ,,.. ~~ enough. Laputz got the win by ":' .__ ________ __. .._ ________ ___, ,.._ ________ __. .__ ________ __. 2 3 seconds. He reported no ~-. BILLET AIR CLEANER BILLET NC LINKAGE CLASS 1600 RACE NC RACE EXHAUST ""O• problems - finally. Graves, fin-- Our billet air cleaners. This linkage kit is a KARTEK KARTEK's billet air cleaner Jet coated or raw exhaust ishing second, also had no (J) provide a large surface area exclusive. uses our billet air for classes 112 & 5-1600 uses with gussets on #2 & 4. ,:: troubles, and Allen was third, Ul and resistance to particle cleaner design with heavy a special velocity stack to Super thick flanges. Mega-~ just three minutes behind him. C::: entry. 2 or 4 post designs. duty. down rods and helm increase carburetor air flow. phone. supertrapp adaptable. z In fourth it was Ickier, a good ~ For IDF, IDA. & DRLA. ends. For IDF & DRLA Fits 30/31 stock carburetors. Class: 112 or 5-1600, 10. & 12. tTl finish for his first race, and the :;:) .-----------,, ..-----------, _________ ----------. 0 Jeffrey brothers finished fifth. e,. 1' Tod Ferguson, who hadn't been 0~ -~ able to pre-run, drove Joe . Hamner, Jr. 'scar (Joe had. hurt c; i: his back) to sixth place. He'd ·ffi ~ tangled with a Class 1 car early. co 'Tl in the_ race, and ended up W ..__ ______ ___. ..__ ______ ___. ..__ ______ ___. ..__ ______ __, ? stalled in a bush with a dead ~ t"" battery. 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They also took the Z jump coming into the start/fin-~ • ~ ish plateau more dramatically (J) • "T1 than anyone else in the race, ~ t!' including McCallum. They scat-· ~ tered bystanders and photogra->-. = phers, but landed smartly, and $< POWER STEERING · SIMPSON™ HELMETS PARKER PUMPER™ CENTERLINE™ •~· motored on their way. Brent KARTEK offers a complete KARTEK offers SNELL 95 KARTEK offers a complete CENTERLINE™ wheels are R < line of power steering approved helmets in shark & line of PARKER PUMPER™ made from heat treated 8 eagan and Chad Drake in an->-system components. from voyager sidewinder styles. fresh air systems. ·From aluminum. Offered in other Ford, a V6, were exactly < power steering pumps to Helmets are also available pump assemblies to polished or satin finish. Call ';' four minutes behind them, in $ hydraulic ram units. for fresh air hook-ups. replacement filters. for available sizes. > second. But Reagan and Drake . (J)...J• .------------. .------------, ..... ----------. .-------------, O~ lost a whole lap the next time around, and then didn't go any ...J (') further. The Jernigans, who'd 002 , ,' ' 1 ; ~ apparently impressed them-. •,· • • 1 selves with that jump, slowed the pace a bit, but ran five more ';-...... ~ en laps of almost identical times, ~ ...._ ________ _, .._ ________ __, _________ __________ ~ looking very good. Then they O tTl had an electrical fire which put O MICRO STUBS RACE DRUMS FRONT END PARTS TRAILING ARMS tTl an end to their day. At least $ Theses KARTEK designed These KARTEK designed KARTEK offers racing link KARTEK offers a complete ~ they had their win before they • units utilize sealed bearings units consist of a stock drum pins & heim extension pins line of various length rear C') were done in. < and longer intermediate with a billet reinforcement for the all out serious racer. trailing arms utilizing a 4130 0 ~ axles for increased travel plate & chromoly center hub. Many other parts available. chromoly bearing housing. 0 Class 9 was fun this time, with ~ 0 some close racing also. At the end b.. VISIT US ON THE WEB @ WWW.KARTEK.CQM 2 ofthefirstlapTroySommersand 9 o Dave Perea, in a Jimco, had the < __ ,.111!!!!!!!!!1!!!! ••••••-----.... ~~'::a.= C') lead, but they had only 19 seconds ~ (909) 628-0833 ~-----,,, 14122 Central· ! on Bill Zabrowski and Gene Lev-< w ell in a Suspensions Unlimited 5 FAX HOT-LINE ..__.~-. ... ft# -=::~!!!ii..,. Ave. Chino, CA. f! car. In third pla·ce it was Kent ~ (909) 627 406-, 91710 '""' Graves, Kevin's brother, racing Q -~ Q . - -. ~ for the first time in Kevin's old, r • z but very nice Jimco. And in fourth •AUTOCRAFT•~l;:NTERLINE•BALDWIN•YARNELL•YOKOHAMA•WEB CAM•FLUJDYNE•AUfOMETER• it was Julie Kern in her Kernco. Page 20 July 2000 Dusty Times

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Kevin Graves led much of the way and had fast lap in his Jimco, but John Currier and Tim Lawrence ran second in Class 1, looking very The father and daughter team of Julie and Larry Kern recorded fast lap was squeezed out late in the race to take second 1600 just 23 seconds good in their Chevy powered Truggy, until they had suspension problems in Class 9, but had points problems that put them back to second place back. that put them out. =in=th=e=i=r =Ke=r,=n=co=·====----.------,---=-=-------.---an hour and 20 minutes long. Scott and Daniel Deen and Bran-don Wells, teamed in a 5-1600 car, ran two good, laps, then one long one, and they disappeared also. That left the Bartolini fam-ily out there in their buggy, to play by themselves. It was only the sec-ond race for this car, a Jimco sporting a Porsche motor. The .team of Sergio, Albert and Alexander Bartolini took turns, and ran consistent laps, their best being on Lap 4, a time of 24:23. They broke a left, rear shock mount on their fifth lap, but didn't lose too much time with repairs, and went on to finish all the required eight laps, and get their victory. Steve Laputz had to keep the throttle down to get into the lead, but once there he stayed in front, taking the 1600 class win in his Chenowth by 23 seconds. She'd lost about three minutes other three minutes back. On the when the points closed up on her. eighth lap Kern's steering box At the end of Lap 2 Sommers came loose, and he lost another and Perea had two minutes and seven or eight minutes, letting two seconds on Zabrowski and Zabrowski and Levell move into Levell, and Kem moved into third the lead, still just three minutes with the best time for that lap. By in front of Graves Senior, who was the end of the third lap, when she pushing hard. Kerri was two min-recorded the fast time for the class utes behind him now. for the day, ar 26:59, she was sec- . Disaster struck for Zabrowski ond to Sommers and Perea. Then -and Levell, and they didn't get the unimaginable happened! The their ninth lap finished, but old Jimco that Sommers and Graves, with his best lap time, Perea were driving had some moved up to the front and got the problems, and they never came lead. Time was running short, so around again, a very unusual oc- Fud was now giving everyone the currence. Kem moved into the checkered flag, and the Graves lead, with just under four minutes team got the win, while the Kerns on Zabrowski and Levell, while held on to second place, only Graves, obviously enjoying his three minutes and 4 7 seconds first race, ran third. later. It was such a successful day, They ran in that order through it appears that there will be two the fifth lap, and then Julie got Graves teams racing more often.· out to let her dad, Larry, finish the The 5-1600 contingent started race. He still led through Lap 6, out very competitively, but things with Zabrowski and Levell now fell apart after a while. On the about 10 minutes down, and first lap, Tony Steingraber put his Graves three minutes behind him. car into the lead, with about four And now Graves stopped to let his minutes on Frank Bongiovanni dad, Hal, get in to finish. and Curt Mauzy, who were about Kem had trouble with those two and a half minutes up on Jim pesky points, and lost about seven and Cam McGinley. But Bongio-minutes, which made it very close vanni and Mauzy lost about 38 for the final couple of laps. He still minutes on the next lap, leaving led, but now he had only two min-the game to t_he other two. utes and 55 seconds on Zabrowski Steingraber built his lead to over and levell, and Graves was just an- eight minutes, and then on Lap 3 Tony Steingraber and Telly Philo, always a top team in the 5-1600s, got the win in spite of a tossed fan belt. Dusty Times Jeff Norton reworked the suspension of his Chevrolet, was very pleased with the results, and took the win in Class 8. · With the racing all over in time for lunch, there was a whole afternoon for playing and enjoy-ing the spring weather in the desert. Fud had the awards, with the presentation of prize monies, about an hour after the last car was flagged in. recorded the fast lap for the class at 26:32, while the McGinley car had a problem that cost them about eight minutes. Now· Steingraber was 20 minutes in front. He completed his fourth lap still with a cushion of 20 minutes and then let his co-driver, Telly Philo, get in to drive the rest of the way. Philo and the McGinleys were a pretty even match, and al-though they'd lost a fan belt at one point and the engine had got really warm, Philo was not hav-ing any trouble. He drove all the way through the tenth lap in very even times, taking the win. The McGinley car ran steadily just • behind him, to get second place. There was an assortment' of vehicles in the Sportsman class, but most of them didn't have a good day. The 2800cc powered Chevy of Todd Richards did one lap only, and then retired, while Mike Callaway arid Jeff Richards, in a Class 5 Baja Bug, managed only two, one of which was almost Once again, the FRT had presented their racers with a good event; challenging and fun, and imbued with the sense of good sportsmanship and friendliness that i,s so apparent at the FRT races. ■ TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING. INC SNORE 1999 Transaxle Builder Of The Year Congratulations Buffalo Bill's 400 1st Class. I 1st Overall Damon Jefferies Transaxle Engineering Jeff Field 1st ½-1600 Rob Guevera 9763 Variel Avenue Chatsworth, CA 91311 818-998-2739 July 2000 Page 21

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SCCA PRO RALLY TOUR Rim Of The world 2 Sy Paul Timmerrr.an Photos: Track.side Photo 1999 Production Class champ Karl Scheible took home all the marbles at Rim, winning Group N by a mile and taking the overall as well. • Rim of the World is the of-Doc Shrader came back out ficial start of the rally season west with their Mitsubishi in the southwest, and the only Lancer Evo IV. Last year's visit of the SCCA Pro Rally runner-up, Pete Lahm and tour in California. The Matt Chester were also back weather often plays a critical in their Lancer Evo IV. Paul role in shaping the race. Two Eklund and Scott Huhn en-years ago, Hiro Gento pulled tered a Subaru Impreza after out a huge lead on the first fixing the transmission that stage's dense fog, only to be stopped them short in Oregon. passed by eventual series win-Local hot shoe, Tony Chavez, t'. .r Da·wl Summcrbell on the who took home fifth ovt>rali i·~st le g. Last yea r, we were last year, is teamed witi1 17 cte&ted 1:n a fine grading of the year old Eddie Cardenas in the' dry roads :~nd sunny weather, Mitsubishi Galant. Ton:y pre-making it a •,ister, bur dusty pared for the season by install-1 aily. Th factory sponsored ing a new engine and trans-Hy1w,lai's of C hoiniere and mission. George Pisek an·d Lawler appeared to be cruis-Renn Phillips also arrived with ing tc) a one-two finish, until high hopes for a good faith in penalties for illegal servicing the Open Class Audi Quattro. put them into third and Doll'g and Sue Robinson were fourth. Despite chasing hard, busy adjusting the new toys they never quite caught the under the hood of the bright Mitsubishi Lancers of Garen red 323 GTX and were an.x-Shrader and Pete Lahm. ious to notch up a higher na-T l_is year, SCCA is begin-tional seed. Eric Eaton and ning t h e adoption of FIA Kenny Almquist have been bas,' d classifications. Both wringing the maximum out of Gr t~p A and Group N have their 323 GTX and exceed-been added as championship ingly fast, if somewhat tippy. classes Along with existi g Eric 1s rumored to have a new classes· Production, Produc- car in the works for later chis · tion GT, Group 2. Group 5, year. and Open, the total number 0£ Last year's Production class ,~,~ sses is now up to seven. The champion Karl Scheible, has Gnup N class has proved to teamed with Russ Hughes in bi' more popular as Mitsubishi a Vermont Sports Car pre-Lancers are arnving on our pared Group N Mitsubishi sh0res. The more expansive Lancer Evo V. Karl nearly won Group A cars are not yet here Snowdrift in this car, wh1ch is in force yet. Despite the new one of the best prepared in the FIA spec cars coming to the country., being maintained by U.S., their smaller turbo Vermont Sports Car. Mark restrictors allow the old Open Nelson teamed with John Oil-class to be the most powerful ion in another Group N on the circuit. Lancer that recently found its The competition roster is way to America. The sole starting to look very impres-Group A entrant was Lee sive, as both numbers and Shadbolt and Bob Sherman in quality of the entrants con-a Subaru Impreza. tinue to increase. In Open 2000 Oregon Trail POT class. 1999 Champions Noel winner Patrick Richard paired Lawler and Charles· Bradley with Veteran co-driver Ben were back in the Open Class Bradley in the Rocket Racing 2000 Hyundai Tiberon. Snow Subaru lmpreza 2.5 RS, make Drift and Oregon Trail over-a formidable team. Their big-all winners Paul Choiniere gest competition is 1999 CRS and Jeff Becker were in the sis-Open class fhampion ter car. 1999 Rim of the World Lauchlin O'Sullivan, teamed overall winners Garen and with Mark Tabor in a brand Page 22 new M1tsub1sh! Eclipse. Mark was a last minute ~and in, as intended co-driveT John.Elkin was not able to run due to a licensing snafu. Others run-ning in the class include Sean McKenna and Neal Kiley in an Eagle's Talon and Paul and Yvon Dubinsky also in an Eagle.Talon. . 1998 Group 5 Driver Champion Ralpli !Zosmid.es teamed up with Ken Cassidy in the No. l 1996 Toyota Su-pra turbo. His former co-dr;ver, Joe Noyes, ha:; taken over the controls of Supra ·No.2 Tuby's, Supra Twin Turbo. Plenty of competition is found in Group 5 . Carl Jardevall teamed up with Am-ity Trowbridge in the power-ful Volvo 740 turbo. Doug Schrenk and Rob W alden en-tered the X-trac equipped Saab 900 turbo. Leon Styles and Larry Scott entered a Mazda RX-7. The final Group 5 entrant is Andrew Havas, who crashed heavily in Oregon, after tow-ing all the way from 1orth Carolina, searching for a good result and the road to sponsor-ship. After Oregon, he towed the wreck to southern Califor-nia and spent the next weeks rebuilding the back to pristine condition. For this event only he was 11tilizing local driver Tom Bier as navigator in the Ha vs peed RX-7. The car was completed in time for Havas to make the start of his third rally, with the help of locals, including Bill Malik. In Group 2, Btll Malik and Eric Tremblay were back in the wicked Volvo 240, while Jay Streets and Bill Feyling are really flying in their new Toyota Corolla, after taking the Stock class championship in CRS last year. Mark Brown and Ole Holter, 1999 CRS Performance Stock class champion, brought back the Toyota FX-16. Matt Sweeney · and L'ucinda Strub brought out Barney, the purple Toyota pickup as a Group 2 entry as July 2000 Patrick Richard had it all his own way, 1st in GT and a wonderful fourth overall at the Rim in his neat looking lmpreza. well. The Production class team of Jon Tabor/Kevin Poirier in the Nissan Sentra has only one other team to battle, but it is Dennis and Claire Chizma in a Porsche 911, and they can boogey. If the new FIA classes and the overlapping ProRally and Club Rally event aren'·t con-fusing enough, the club events count toward both SCCA Club Championships and Cali-· fornia Rally Series Champion-ships. Between these two groups, there are different classifications of cars. For ex-ample, a ProRally Production class car can also run in, the Club Rally Production class,. but may be classified an Open 2WD or Performance Stock class car for CRS. If you u·n-derstood that, you know far too much already. For simplic-ity, I wiff use SCCA classes for ProRally and CRS classifica-tions for the Club Rally. In !'he Club Open 4 class, a dense fie ld of fast cars signed up. Double Pro/Club entrants driven by Tony Chavez, Paul Eklund, George Pisek, Doug Robinson, Patrick Richard, Lauchlin O'Sullivan, and Eric Eaton got the first crack at the roads. Back in the dub only pack, Ron Wood and Kelly W alsh· in the VW Specialties Audi Quattro looked very fast as they gave numerous rides in the Charity Rallycross. They lined up against Open class ri-vals Bob Pendergrass and Jon · Welgley in the 400 HP Chevy Blazer. Paul Timmerman and · Suzanne Martin in another Shiny Mazda 323 also came out ready to race. Bruce and Pat Brown in a fourth Mazda 323 were having a good time, as always. In Open 2WD class, Bill Malik and Eric Tremblay in the ultra-trick Coffee Fresh Volvo are alw~ys favorites. They faced still competition teammate Thomas Liljequist and Roine Anderson in the Black Coffee Fresh Volvo 240, Dennis and Claire Chizma in the Porsche 911, Jon Tabor and Kevin Poirier in the tefn-pora ril y straight Nissan Sentra, Jay Streets and' Bill Feyling is the proven Toyota Corolla, Matt Tabor and Kristen Tabor in old reliable, their Toyota Corolla, Richard Byford and Fran Olson in a pretty little BMW 2002, Matt Sweeney and Lucinda Strub in the Toyota pickup. Joe Noyes and Ken Ruiz in Ruby's Toyota Supra #2, Jim Gillaspy and Mick Kilpatrick in the Dodge Colt, William and Julie Yates in a supercharged Toyota MR-2, Mark Conte and John Forespring in a Toyota Celica, Mark and Scott Peterson in a Dodge Colt, Leon Styles and Larry Scott in a Mazda RX-7 . Rookie teams included George Scott and Jay Meredith in a Ford Escort, Rookies John Shults and Don Shreyer in the Mazda RX-3, Robert Sudhop Jr. and Louis Panelli in a sec-ond generation Eclipse, and Sean Otto and Jason Lane in a Mazda GLC. . In Performance Stock class (Pstock), the proven team of Mark Brown and Ole Holter were ready to rally, and are ex-perienced at surviving Rim's roads. An enthusiastic Steve Westwood and Alex Gelsomino were prepared to do 6a ttie in the fr VW Golf Gti. The Honda Accord of Brad Boli and Gary Garman has arisen like the Phoenix, and was once again ready for action. Gary English and K_engo Takahashi were also sporting a straight roof on their Alfa Romeo GTV. Tony DeleCuesta and Chris Burns brought out the tru•sty Toyota Corolla, but were to face an uphill battle. Patrick Rodi and Ron Cohen rounded out the field with their second genera-tion Mazda RX-7. In Stock class, where smart teams learn to rally, four en~ trants made the start ramp. Rey Laureano and Joshua Breesen brought out a Toyota Celica. They were hampered when Rey had his wallet, en-try fees, and helmet stolen on the way to the race. Through a major effort by numerous CRS members, they were still able to enter the rally. Keith Wheeler and Ken Lazarus de-cided to bring an MOB GT, which was a crowd favorite. Nick Taylor and Josh Armbruster are back this year in the Toyota Corolla, and rookies Sean Otto and Jason Lane are driving the ex-Rob-ert Shibao Mazda GLC. This year, the grading of roads was reduced to filling in the largest holes after a late season storm dumped up to six · inches in the local mountains. These facts anticipated rough roads. Viewed from the Holi-day Inn in Palisades on Friday morning, the dense clouds along the mountain tops seemed to presage fog as well. The 13 stages were broken Continued on page 24 Dusty Times

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up into two separate events for the Club and CRS rally en-trants. The first night's six stages were a co-efficient two Club Rally, and Saturday made up a separate co-effi-cient three Club Rally. The double entry system used in ProRally, where many teams enter both the Club and Pro events, effectively allows the running three different rallies the same weekend. This way if a double entrant breaks on Friday night, they can still compete as a Club rallyist on Saturday, even though their ProRally event is officially listed a DNF. Organizers tweak the layout of the course from year to year in an effort to constantly im-prove the rally. The 2000 course provides a challenging mix of tarmac and gravel on Friday night leg, and straight gravel stages ·on Saturday. One thing that never varies is the presence of water bars. Water bars are graded into the surface to keep erosion-from eating away at the steepest portions of the road. There are so many on some stages that they cannot all be listed, and teams have to constantly be alert to avoid flying off course or breaking the car. Taking the corners at maximum speed, but surviving the bumps requires a compromise in suspension set-up. Stage 1 was the Sport Com-pact Car Spectator Stage, which provided 0.8 miles of grandstanding on a challeng-in_g course next to the host ho-tel, the Palmdale Holiday Inn. The -course started on gravel, went onto a short pavement section, and then back onto a twisty dirt trac-k. Teams could not hold back, as the clock was running. Lawler just nipped Choiniere for the fast-est time. But already cars were drop-ping out. Leon Styles never got to leave the complex. The cars headed up into the mountains, but the next casualty came quickly. Paul Timmerman's 323 seized a wheel bearing en route and dropped out. ·NOS ·BAGS ·SEATS • LIMIT STRAPS Thomas Liljequist corners hard in his Volvo as he heads to a decisive victory in Group 5 and sixth overall at the Rim. · Stage 2 is traditional Magic the line, but was able to con-Mountain stage, which climbs tinue after getting some gas 1600 feet up a ridgeline of bro-into the car. Getting the gas ken asphalt, combining tricky into the car required begging blind corners and punishing parts off other rally cars and drop-offs. Despite the earlier siphoning gas from an unsus-cloud sightings, there was no pecting worker's truck. While fog on course. John Tabor this creative expedient kept wasted no time and promptly him in the race, it would turn rolled the Senva off the stage. out costly later on, as it led to Lon Peterson's trusty back up a 10 minute penalty and a spot car, the Fire Arrow, lost its on the podium. flame and stopped on stage as The high attrition contin-well. Open clasS' competitors ued, as five DNFs occurred on were spared the rumored de-this stage alone. They included but of the fire breathing Su-Bill Malik, Paul Eklund, Nick baru that Lonny has been test-Taylor, Sean McKenna, and ing on the CRS rallycross cir-Matt Sweeney. Ralph Kosmides cuit. Sean Otto also DNF'd on took a 99% time on the stage, Stage 2, the little GLC after taking a 5% on Stage 2. stopped on stage. Noel Lawler He would lose 14 minutes to lost 3.5 minutes on the stage, class leader on Friday night as as his alternator started to go he suffered with boost prob-bad. Mark Nelson also had lems. Choiniere and Lawler -problems on· stage, driving off were back setting pace on Stage a corner after hitting some 3, keeping others behind by at loose stones and damaging his least 4%. But Team Hyundais front suspension, and slowing troubles were just beginning. A his progress throughout the three way battle between night. Choiniere set the pace, Havas, Liljequist, and Yardeval with Shrader and Kosmides was shaping up in 2WD. In and Yardeval behind. POT, Lauchlin O'.Sullivan was Stage 3 is the usual Messen-just ahead of a charging Patrick ger Flats stage, with a combi-Richard, but the new Eclipse nation of broken asphalt and was having some teething rough, twisty gravel. This stage pains. features a set of downhill hair-The cars then transit down pins before an 1100 foot climb. to the start of Stage 4, the Aliso A drama was occurring at Canyon. This test provides the beginning of the stage. hard packed gravel near a Tony Chavez was having some gravel pit and features wide fuel pick-up problems, and had roads, and gorgeous flat to to have his car pushed back off downhill sweepers, along a 1-800-565-4042 route that drops 1200 ft. This classic stage returns to being a downhill run after being run uphill last year. Noel Lawler race ended on Aliso Canyon when he lost both his alterna-tor and his battery before he could limp into service. This stage was the last for Mark Brown and Ole Holter, after getting two flats and damaging their rear suspension, they fi-nally gave up. With Noel out, and Choiniere conserving bat-tery power due to a similar problem, Garen Shrader topped the charts, with Scheible, O'Sullivan, Yardeval and Lahm just behind. This first service is performed nearby at a park-and-ride lot, which Choiniere made it to before his battery completely died. 10925-F Hartley Road Santee, CA 92071 www.mastercraftseats.com At the park-and-ride ser-vice, Tony Dela Cuesta was seen repairing a stripped Bil-stein Strut top,· and ended up welding the strut into place, where it stayed the rest of the race. This after having lost ·the ODO at the beginning and re-lying upon OPS and a new navi-gator to steer them to the fin-Page 24 July 2000 • Tony Chavez had fuel problems, had to beg, borrow and steal to get back in the running but it cost him dearly, finishing fifth in Open. ish. The Chizma's Porsche was having fuel delivery and throttle sticking issues coming into service, and raced out of service trying to avoid lateness penalties. Their troubles were just beginning, however. Stage 5 is an uphill attack on Mt. Gleason. This road is a lo-cal favorite, because of its smooth tarmac, tricky combi-nation turns, and the final climb, which goes up 1000 feet in only two miles. This road was run for the first time last year, but was taken as a downhill plunge. Choiniere was back on song, with a fresh alternator and full electrical power. The power of the turbocharged Hyundai (not Mitsubishi) mo-tor allowed him to motor to a 7% advantage over the rest of the field on this uphill power stage. For the cars still running, they take one more run down Aliso Canyon's sweepers for Stage 6. This is the kind of road that builds confidence, with the wide sweepers and firm, smooth surface. Perhaps it was too much confidence that led to Garen and Doc Shrader high centered on Stage 6, ending their very promising rally. At the end of the night, 13 out of 51 cars DNF'd. But the service crews were put to work, trying to get some of the cars back together for Saturday's event. One trip down the hill fetched a new odometer for the Dela Cuesta Corolla. Bill Malik's car was also repaired. For the Club Rally teams, there were provisional results for the Friday club event. The results showed Lauchlin O'Sul-livan and Mark Tabor as the Overall winners. Eric Eaton and Kenny Almquist were sec-ond overall. George Plsek and Renn Phillips were third over-all. Patrick Richard and Ben Bradley were fourth. Thomas Liljequist and Roine Anderson, who get rally experience in Sweden as well, were fifth over-all, and the first 2WD car. Jay Streets and Bill Feyling were next, taking the Group 2 win. Doug Robinson and Sue Rob-inson were next in, taking a fifth in CRS 4WD, and a third in SCCA 4WD. Ron Wood.and Kelly Walsh were eighth over-all, after fighting a suspension shimmy throughout the event. Joe Noyes and Ken Ruiz were ninth overall and took home a second in two Group 5. Steve Westwood and Alex Gelsomino were 10th overall and second in Group 2, and a fine first in CRS Pstock. Jim Gillaspy and Mick Kilpatrick managed a third in Group 5 and 11th over-all. Dennis and Claire Chizma · drove thro_ugh the fuel and throttle issues with the Porsche 911 to take a first in Produc-tion and a fifth in CRS Open 2WD. Brad Boli and Gary Garman drove the Honda Ac-cord to 13th overall and third in. Group 2 and a second in Pstock. Bob Pendergrass and Jon Welgley in the Chevy Blazer were back 14i:h, and took a fifth in SCCA Open and a seventh in Open 4WD. Will-iam and Julie Yates in the Toyota MR-2, were 15th to re-turn and garnered a fourth in Group 5 and a sixth in CRS 2WD Open. Gary English and Kengo Takahashi in the Alfa Romeo were 16th car in, taking fourth in Group 2, and third in Pstock. Tony Dela Cuesta Chris Burns herded the injured Toyota Co-rolla home 1 7 cars back, and managed a second Production and a fourth Pstock. George Scott and Jay Meredith, rook-ies to rally, finished the rally as the 18th car, making the jump to Seed 5. They were also re-warded with third in Produc-tion and seventh in CRS 2WD Open. Bruce and Pat Brown drove a consistent race to come in 19 cars back in their Mazda 323. This brought sixth in SCCA Open and eighth CRS Open 4WD class points to the Gaviotta Geezer Racing Squad. Patrick Rodi and Ron Cohen drove the Mazda RX-7 back to a 20th overall, a fifth in Group 5, and a fifth in Pstock. Tony Chavez and new navigator Ed-die Cardenas were set back by 10 minutes of road penalties to become the 21st car overall. This gave them seventh place points in SCCA Open class and ninth place in CRS Open 4WD. Matt and Kristen Tabor (MOTTY) were 22nd in their historic Toyota Corolla, net-ting a fifth in Group· 2 and an eighth in CRS Open 2WD. John Shults and Don Shreyer also graduated from Seed 6 to Seed 5 by virtue of finishing the event in the Mazda RX-3. Rey Laureano and Joshua Bressen drove their own race to bring the Toyota Celica in 24th car overall, but first in 1 Stock class. Richard Byford and Fran Olson, piloting the crowd pleasing BMW 2002 were next in. Keith Wheeler and Ken Lazarus also graduated from the ranks of Seed 6 rookies, com-ing in way back in 26th over-all, but a nice second in Stock class. Robert Sudhop Jr. and Dusty Times

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Pete Lahm was the bridesmaid yet again for overall honors, but he won the Open Class with time to spare. • Louis Panelli finishes Seed 5 Eaton, Liljequist, Jay Streets, rallyists in their first event in and Doug Robinson. the squeaky clean 2WD 2nd Saturday started with a pare Generation Eclipse. They re-ferme next to the hotel and a ceived a fourth place in Pro-charity rally cross on second · duction class for the trouble, cour~e near the hotel. The day and trouble is what they over-dawned bright, sunny and came, discovering what breaks warm. A perfect day for rally-underneath the car early on. ing. Competitors took multiple Mark Nelson and John Dillon trips around the rally cross ar.e back together after their course, giving donors a thrill Oregon debut in the Lancer ride, pleasing fans, raising Evo IV. Suspension damage af-money, and having fun while ter failing to keep it between they were at it. the banks set them way back in Stages 7 and, 8 are the well 29th place. Mark Conte and known Del Sur Ridge stages, in-John Forespring were the final bound and outbound. Tp.is car in. stage climbs and falls almost In the national event, with 1400 feet in both directions, Eklund, Lawler and Shrader with narrow steep climbs, out, it looks like a possible up-opening up across the top and set was in the making. Still run-turning rough and twisty dur-ning without notable problems ing the inbound descent. Del were Lahm, Choiniere, Sur Ridge was the late Carl Scheible, Plsek, Richard, and Merrill's favorite rally stage. It Jay Streets literally flew to a first overall in Group 2 and he was seventh overall as well, not to bad for a comedian. haps the tightest stage of the rally, climbing over first one ridge, then past the Spunky Canyon spectating area, and then over another and down a narrow and tr'icky route to the finish. Many teams get a chance to grandstand on the soft twisty corners, lined with spectators. Choiniere was not the first car through the spec-ta tor area. he was suffering from a broken suspension on this stage, but limped on and was fixed in short order. The time lost meant no hope of a podium finish for Hyundai, for a second year in a row. The Hyundai train was fully de-railed and the door was thrown wide open. Richard Byford and Fran Olson found they had a steering problem on this stage and parked the little 2000. Bet-ter to find the problem here, than on the way to Cape Horn. Carl Yardeval also made this his last stage. After turning some impressive stage times, the rear suspension.on the big Volvo gave up and he had to call it quits. Up front the pa-tient rallyist were starting to can reward a steer with the throttle driving style, as the road is relatively wide for most of the• way. The Replica Pro-ductions helicopter often sur-prises drivers as they crest a hill near the middle of the stage. On the inbound leg, Stage 7, the expected leader Choiniere was only able to take second behind Carl Yardeval. The leaders were in a near dead heat, Scheible, Eaton, Koc · smides, with all five were within 0.08 minutes. On the way back out, the leaders were .Eric Eaton, An-drew Havas, Mark Nelson, and Patrick Richard. Notably, these are all drivers who were just learning Del Sur's twists and turns, and putting the new knowledge to work right away. Eric was on a charge that would take his little 3 23 up as high as second. Mark Nelson's car, re-paired overnight by TAD, seemed no worse for the previ-ous night's misadventure, and he set a personal best with a 2% time on the stage. Patrick Ri-chard was chasing Lauchlin O'Sullivan for POT leadership, but Lauchlin's car was begin-ning to give trouble. And the troubles were much larger than the stuck horn that the 200+ spectators heard as they drove past Spunky Canyon. It in-cluded transmissi:on woes and a fading clutch. Andrew Havas was charging ahead to fight for a top Group 5 spot against the blazing Liljequist. On this stage, Paul and Yvon Dubinsky DNFed, as 'did Steve Westwood and Alex Gelsomino after hav-ing engine management prob-· !ems. · Stage 9, Leona Valley is per-· make their final charges. Karl Scheible, Tony Chavez, George Plsek artd Doug Robinson set the fastest times on the stage on the twisty stage. The MOB of Keith Wheeler turned 1 's best time on this stage, at 25% as the cooling issues were now manageable and they were en-joying the turns and spectators, serving notice to Stock class competitor Rey Laureano that they might have a race for the Elbach Springs is proud 10 announce H's complete Hne of ultra high qualltv on-road springs. available in 10,12,14 & 16 Inch free lengths with 3" ID. I well designed & manufactured spring wlll last thousands of cvcles, even in the cruelest desert environments. That's why top chassis builder Mike Julson chooses Elbach Springs. v He knows what ii takes to win ... Now so do JOU. &Pring to Success ... lllacbSprlngl, A:. • PlaM 1149 752 8700 • DIStrllulor: hrbr PUnlper 809 868 1854 Dusty Times July 2000

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Stock class win. After the first service, the rally then headed west to tran-sit to the start of the Liebre Mountain Ro.ad for Stage 10. It begins with a switchback climb, that takes the teams up 1000 feet in less than two miles, a wide open mountain top route with more third gear sweepers, and a descent along a rough track that narrows and be-comes twisty again. On this stage Rey laureano and Joshua Bressen pulled out after several punctures, ending a saga for the rally newcomers and robbery victims. The Motel 6 put them up for free since they were sans credit card and cash. Dennis and Claire Chizma were limp-ing through Stage 9 and dropped out shortly afterward. Paul Choiniere and his Hyun-dai Tiberon were back up on the top of the time sheets, dust-ing the field by 5%, but they could not hope to catch up the amount of time lost. Eric Eaton, Pete Lahm, Paul Eklund, Ralph Kosmides, and Jay Streets were going for it. The Maxwell stage is run for the first time through as Stage 11. It features a deceptive road that opens and tightens several times as it descends back to Lake Hughes. The innumerable water bars along the way, pun-ishing the car's suspension. This stage always seems to pro-duce some drama. Remember Dave White's Flying GTI? Well, this year is no different. Lauchlin O'Sullivan, well known for extracting all a car can give, could no longer con-tinue, suffering from a dead clutch. Coming up behind him was his PGT rival, Patrick Ri-chard in the 2.5 RS ltnpreza. In an almost unthinkably general move, he stopped when he saw the tow rope and allowed them to hook up. Patrick stated,-"he thought it was just a little way until they were over the rise." The plan was a short pull, then unhook and continue. Lauchlin's co-driver Mark Ta-bor ran back to pick up their triangles, just as Patrick sped off with the Eclipse tethered behind. They ended up towing for about three miles total, with Mark running behind, dodging rally cars, trying to get back into his navi seat. Finally the 2.5 RS's clutch had enough and they unhooked. The Rocket Racing duo continued on, to cruise to a class victory. Mark eventually did catch up to his car, but it was not going any-where quickly as Lauchlin's great drive was over. Just after this drama, An-drew Havas, who was running as high as third on the road, came flying down Maxwell. At this point, Yardeval had al-ready pulled out with suspen-sion problems and they were the leading 2WD team. New to the sport, Andrew did not slow down and cruise to a victory. Instead, they sailed into a sec-tion marked as nine water bars in a row, but No.8 sent them flying off the course, and landed them atop a large creo-sote bush, there they parked it. The cars still running spilled down off the hillsides into sleepy Lake Hughes, where the crews were furiously on the cars, while teams wolf down hamburgers and psych them-selves up for two more night stages over Rim's roughest roads. Stage 12 was a re-running of Liebre Mountain after the din-ner break at Lake Hughes. Choiniere was again the class of the field, but not by a large margin this time. On Stage 12, Eric Eaton flatted, and lost time, setting him back from a possible second place to fifth _ov_erall. Stage 13 again saw Choin-iere dust the field, this time by four. With second fastest time Eric Eaton was trying to make up for that late flat, and man-aged to smoke the last stage and keep it upright despite driving faster than ever. Just behind were Scheible, Chavez, Pisek, Richard, and Eklund. On this stage, Bill Malik DNF'd for the second time in the same weekend. The second Club Rally event was won by Tony Chavez and Eddie Cardenas, taking some of the sting out of a 10 minute ser-vice penalty incurred after Fri-day night's siphoning adven-ture. George Plsek and Renn Phillips also had a great second day, taking second day, taking second in Open 4WD class as well as second overall. Patrick Richard and Ben Bradiey took their Subaru lmpreza tow truck to third overall in the club event and third in Open 4WD. Jay Streets and Bill Feyling turned amazing times with their RWD Toyota Corolla, taking fourth overall and first in 2WD Open and first in Group 2. Mark Nelson and John Dillon seemed to be getting on better the sec-ond day in the Lancer Evo IV taking a fifth overall and a fourth in Open 4WD class. Thomas Liljequist and Roine Anderson took the gleaming black Coffee Fresh Volvo 240 to a first in Group 5, and a s~cond in 2WD Open, after setting the sixth fastest time. Paul Eklund and Scott Huhn brought their Subaru lmpreza in seventh fast-est, with a fifth in Open class. Eric Eaton and Kenny Almquist managed to score eighth fastest in the Mazda 323 after stopping t<;> change their flat. This gave them sixth in Open 4WD. Doug Robinson and Sue Robinson brought their Mazda 323 ninth fastest, with a seventh fastest in Open 4WD. Joe Noyes and Ken Ruiz in the Toyota Supra were 10th fastest, taking a fine sec-ond in Group 5 to the 11th fast-est time, taking a prized second in Group 2, and a fine fourth in Open 4WD class. 12th fastest were Ron Wood and Kelly Walsh in the white Audi Quat-tro, taking seventh in SCCA Open and eighth in CRS Open 4WD. 13th overall was Jim Gillaspy and Mick Kilpatrick in th-e thrifty little Dodge Colt turbo. This gave them third in Group 5 and fifth in Open 2WD. Brad Boli and Gary Garman were 14th fastest in the Honda Accord, netting a third Group 2, and a fine first Perfor-mance Stock. 15th fastest were Leon Styles and Larry Scott in the Mazda RX-7, notching a re-spectable fourth in Group 5 and sixth in CRS Open 2WD. Bob Pendergrass and funny man jon Do Nore Than Just Klick Up Dllr11 Lee Shadbolt had his share of problems on Rim but he hung in there and took a well deserved first in Group A and was 12th overall as well. Welgley were 16th overall in 23rd overall were John Shultz the big ReMax Chevy Blazer, and Don Shreyer in the hot garnering an eighth in SCCA" little Mazda RX-3. This was Open and a ninth in CRS Open good enough for sixth in Group 4WD. 17th fastest were Tony · 5 and 10th in CRS 2WD Open. Dela Cuesta and Chris Burns in Patrick Rodi and Ron Cohen the TRS powered Toyota Co-brought the gen two Mazda RX-rolla, taking a sterling first in 7 in for a seventh in Group 5 SCCA Production and fine sec-and a nice fourth in Perf. Stock ond in CRS Perf. Stock. This after being 24th for the day. was reward for persistence, as Keith Wheeler and Ken Lazarus they battled a cracked radiator, drove one of the most interest-with high temperature RTV and ing vehicles of the rally, an good old duct tape. Long time MGB GT. With 25th fastest -CRS competitors Gary English overall time, they got a seventh and Kengo Takahashi were 18th place in Group 2 and a highly fastest at the end of the day in credible first place in Stock the Alfa Romeo GTV, garner-class. They learned a lot about ing a fourth Group 2 and a tidy their ride, including the need third in Perf. Stock. 19th, and for a good skid plate, and far from last, as Bruce will tell seemed game to continue their you, given a moment's chance, rally adventure after this fine re-Bruce and Pat Brown took the suit. 26th car in was Robert clean little Mazda 323 to a Sudhop jr. and Louis Panelli in ninth in Open class and a 10th the gen two Eclipse. This was in CRS Open 4WD. 20th in the the maiden voyage for the local end. were William and Julie team,andtheyalsolearnedalot Yates, who are growing used to about making their car Rim-new suspension on their super-proof. They took home a second charged Toyota MR-2. In only in SCCA Production class for their second rally they scored a their trouble and an 11th in fifth in Group 5, and a seventh CRS Open 2WD class. in 2WD Open. This after cook-After nearly • taking the ing the rear brakes in the little Snowdrift Rally earlier this year, mid-engined roadster. 21st on an outright win confirms that the day were Mark and Scott Karl Scheible and Russ Hughes Peterson in a Dodge Colt. They have what it takes. Bringing managed a fifth in Group 2 and their Lancer Evo V home first, an eighth in CRS 2WD Open. despite the Group N car being 22nd were Matt and sister down on power to Open class Kristen Tabor in the Toyota Co-cars, shows they made the most rolla, taking sixth in Group 2, of the opportunity. Pete Lahm and ninth in CRS 2WD Open. and Matt Chester have now Wllnt Wi1h 76 Racina Gasoline Page 2& Win Free 76 Racing Gas for the 2001 Season! One entry for each 25 gallons of 76 100 or 110 Oct.Bne Racing Gar.oUne purchased from Cl Bryant or an authorized distributor from Jan. 1, 2000 through October 31, 2000! Win Free 76 Racing Gasoline (up to 250 gallons.) To Enter: Send your proof or purchase, along with Name, Address, and Phone to: CL Bryant, Inc. Attn:Mltch 237 E. Whitmore Aw. 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Laughlin O'Sullivan was giving it all it could take, as usual, but the Eric Eaton attacked the Rim with all he had, taking a nice fifth overall Setting up for yet another comer, George Pisek drove to a great third clutch gave up the ghost and Laughlin went to the showers. _an_d_a_th_ird~in_O..;..'{Je_n_c_la_ss_ . .,,..... ____ --r-----:-=-.------.-------.... overall at Rim, finishing second in Open Class. scored a second at Rim two They took the Corolla to a well lmpreza. They managed a 12th honors. The car is immaculately saw the Speedvision helicopter, year's running. Their Open class deserved victory in Group 2 and overall after suffering unspeci-prepared, and Karl Scheible has and really launched the Im-Lancer Evo IV gave them reli- a nice seventh place overall. fied ills throughout the rally. shown he can drive it as well as preza on a jump -that landing able performance throughout. Fantastic jobr Doug Robinson 13th car home was Mark Nel-anyone in the U.S. thqugh was our second punc-Local team George Plsek and and Sue Robinson paced them-son and John Dillon in a Lancer Karl stated, "There was al-ture, which cost us the podium. Renn Phillips achieved a per-selves in their Mazda 3 23 GTX E vo IV, giving them a credible ways someone there to keep us I hope the video is good!" sonal best at this event, taking to a fourth in Open class and second in Group N. The team honest. Eaton, Lahn, and Plsek Pete Lahm's second place the Audi Quattro to a third eighth place overall. We will see had trouble the first night, but really pushed us the entire shows his conversion from overall and a second in Open more of them throughout the turned a few very good times on night ... Our Mitsubishi was RWD to AWD is all but com-class. Nice job~ Patrick Richard year as they gain confidence Saturday. 14th home was Gerry solid the entire weekend." plete. He had a great weekend, and Ben Bradley capped a stun: with the new mill. Doug Valentini and Lee Sorenson in The growing number ofMit-stating, "What a run back and ning drive with a fine fourth Schrenk and Rob Walden in the an RX-7 which gave then a subishi Lancers found at U.S. forth between us! We had some place overall, and a first in Pro- Saab 900 were tenth after two third in Group 5. Uncharacter-events is causing a deepening of road points to deal with, so we duction GT. Imagine what he days of rallying, and second in istically, in 15th place was the rally pool of fast rides. But really ran hard at the end to be would have done if he didn't Group 5. Tony Chavez and Ed-Ralph Kosmides and veteran co-the real strength is coming from sure. To finish Rim twice in a take time to stop for competi-die Cardenas brought their Mit-driver Ken Cassidy in the Ruby's the talented teams. A number row, both times on the podium, tors along the way. Eric Eaton subishi Gallant home 11th over-Twin Turbo Supra, which was of teams took relatively under is twice the honor." and Kenny Almquist kept their all, and fifth in Open class. worth fourth place points in powered c·ars to top stage times The organizers, the Gibeault Open Class 3 23 rubber side Without the 10 minutes of road Group 5. with skill and determination. family, with help this year from down and took down a fine fifth penalties, this would have been The seventeenth running of One of these is Patrick Ri-Steve Bender and Craig overall, and third in Open class. a podium finish. Paul Choiniere the Rim of the World produced chard, who was quoted to say, McHugh did a fantastic job. Thomas Liljequist and Roine and Jeff Becker had an up and a typically tough event, with a "Today was a good day. I'm The rally community owes them . Anderson drove impressively to down ride in the Hyundai Tibu-surprise winner as the factory finding that I'm better on Day a great debt of gratitude for all a Group 5 victory and a spec-ron. They were uncharacteris-Hyundais faded. However, if car 2 of these events, and even of the hard work and sacrifice tacular sixth place overall. Jay tically 11th overall, and fifth preparation is a key to winning though we had two punctures that this fine event requires to Streets and Bill Feyling, the fun-Open. First and last in the new Rim, then it should be no sur-and a bent a-arm today, we run properly. Their own reward niest team in Pro Rally, proved Group A class is Lee Shadbolt prise that the Vermont Sports were able to keep pace. 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VORRA Spring Special BForest Creasy Photos: Chris Radboume Forest Creasy took wins in both Class 9 motos, taking the weekend-win, his second of the 2000 season. ~ --·-'\ < ~--" ... "-"~-~--.. Jim Cast put together a third and a first in his races and that was good enough to give him the Class 10 win. Hey there racers. Round 2 the fastest of the fast guys took dropped and the old man Den-of VORRA's 9 race series took center stage as seven Class 10 nis Kordonowy, compared to place on a great April after-cars left the line in Round 1. his son David anyway, took noon in Sacramento, Califor-However, Sam Berri and the the early lead on Jim Cast and nia. The sun was shining, the lone Class 1 car had no one to Rob Parsons. Kordonowy cut smell of racing gas was in the race against so the 10 cars al-off every corner and did his air, and the purr of the engines lowed him to race, but made best UPS box impression box-could be felt through your Berri start with a handicap of ing out the competition and body. It was time to get it on. 15 seconds. Who is the under-took the checkered flag with In the Class B Veteran Class it was Lance Rhinehart all the way, he took both motes and was the big winner. Nine classes with over 50 dog now? a couple car lengths in hand. car, but not by much as he could only manage a second in Round 1 and only because Jim Cast tried a late pass on Kor-donowy, got turned around and Berri passed him in the fi-nal turn. With that Cast got a belated third, Parsons once up cars made up today's field and Well, the gree.n_ . flag. Berri obviously had the faster ultimate long travel Get the benefits of our Long Travel system and 3" rift spindles, a-eating 6" of Ii~ for inuedible ground clearance. lr<i> v<J! ■ 3' lift spindles ■ Upper Control arms ~~~W)' ■ Lower Control arms ■ Coil springs ■ 3 way front shocks ■ Performance rear shocks ■ Rear kit touota lono travel system Our Toyota 2 wheel drive, 6' 1van Dan' long travel system. Built to satisfy all the serious off roaders out there. Page 28 ford long travel system custom i beams Ollroad bullet proof design provides maximum strength with 4130 Oiromoly steel 1 /Bth' 1hick plate and tubular inner structure. "'91=~' I 990-94 ford ranger y ·· performance system Our extended radius arms are offset further inboard offering increased tire clearance and 4 • more wheel travel Dual Shock System 2 shocks per front wheel, 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 2.s·· performance system 2.5' of lift with a 2' increase in wheel travel. 1973-87 C10 y--long travel system Gives you the needed clearance for 33' tall tires. July 2000 angled fiberglass e !! !!Jlliber(!! ! include front fenders, bedsides and hoods. The front lenders and bedsides are Oared with wheel travel in mind. spare tire mount ~ Constructed using 1 I/ 4' steel tubing and MIG welded at the joints for long lasting strength and durability. flat spare tire mount Over 25 Styles stamped steel tabs Dur vast assortment of stamped steel tabs simpllly your fabrication needs. Call for a distributor nearest you Phone 714-990-8850 -Fax 714-990-8854 wwwfabtechmotorsports.com DR E·MAIL US AT info@fabtechrnotorsports.com Dusty Times

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Sam Berri was given a 15 second handicap so he could run with the Ricky Gonzalez won the first moto, was second in the second moto Bobby Martin didn't have a good day, he took a sixth in moto #1, didn't Class 1 Os took two third places he finished in second for the weekend. and that gave him a nice second overall in his good looking Nissan. complete a lap in the second and was seventh overall in Class 10. to second could only manage the hrst tight kept the fans in his early victory. Also Martin pass had no trouble beating cure a great second for the a close fourth, fo llowed by their seats for the second go- and Foster stayed on the side-everyone around the track for race and third overall for the points leader Patrick Tim-around, but it was a little anti-lines as well. So that left four a second round win and his day. Berri maintained his con-mons, Bobby Martin, Ron Fos-climactic. Round 1 winner 10s and Berri's Class 1 ma-first Class 10 win of the year. sistency as a third and a sec-ter, and Bill Smith. Kordonowy made the start chine. Timmons fell back early, but ond combined for a nice silver Ding, ding, here comes line, but left for some reason Cast started out quick and maintained a cushion over the medal for his day of work. Round 2 as the build up fwm and did not compete to defend fast and without any cars to third place car in Berri to se-Fourth belonged to Parsons again, followed by Kordonowy, Smith, Martin, and Foster. A couple of older 10 cars turned 12 specimens took the green flag in the 10 race as well. It was· a heated battle with Dave Tarrant of Class 9 fame and Ace Bradford who triples most in racing experi-ence. Well, it was a deja vu weekend as Tarrant sprung out early in both races and was able to stave off a late charge by Bradford in both heats to take home the gold and the coin for the weekend. Fred Calosso flew his Ford to a nice Class 7 overall win, combining a second and a first place for the honor. Next up and the fastest cars out there were Class 9 with six strong. Okay, so we're not the Billy Manfroy gives it a thumbs up-as he took the win in both motos in Class 7 Open fastest cars Out the re ; bu t and was the class overall winner. Continued on page 30 HONDA :·Power Equipment KAWAGUCHIHONDACOR~ POWER TO_~-D Racer. and Spectator D"iscounts •GENERATORS •WELDERS •GENERAL PuRPOSE ENGINES :,;· · ,._ •~ATER-PUMPS •~UTBOARD ENGINES I_ , . ;~.. . LAWNMOWERS LAWN TRACTORS EB6500SX ' . •RIDING MOWERS •TILLERS CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT PARTS AND-INVENTORY IF We DoN'T HA ve Ir, No ONE Does! Check our website www.Kawaguchihonda.com KAWAGUCHI HONDA -~ ... ;:;-,;:::::--;::- _ I • ~t::J:'§J · 00 '\ ,I " - ~.:;-;_ ,;:_.. ~' ~ -)§_. EX1000 3532E.3RoSi:LasAN:iElls,CA9CX>63•3,2 /3 .264.3936, 2 6 4.585 8 FAX 264.2136 ·HC)NDA Power Equipment ' i VISA I s A L E s ' s E R V I C E ' p A R T s . ' . -HONDA P O WER EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST .N)thingSeasief. ~ :IJr opt1mt1m pcr!ormanc~ :md safC'ty. plC'.l:t< tr:id thie o,\, l~r·s nlallu".'\I ~forr opt>r:titing your Hond:t Po\l."t'r Equipment. Spttitk:ulon:l subJeC't to c-t-..in~e -.11.llout noth:e. ~ Es~lm.ue ?nty. b3:Md on r.u~ load. •Battr,y not uu:lud..-d .,.1th E~135"0S.XK t. E!t-15000SXK I .uld EBo500S-X. • •With b.mrry tr.1y· kit. " 'httls tc h.u\~tt. Conn«uon to house-~r rcqulr~ transfer ck\16: to ;wo1,t pMS1ble lnju ry to pm-.·r r company ~rsonnrl. Consu1t .i qu.illft..-d rlt"Ctncbn. I Dusty Times July 2000 Page 29

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Rob Parsons drove his bright red car to a pair of fourth place finishes Patrick Timmons was third overall after taking a fifth and a second Ron Foster was glad the weekend was over. he finished seventh, and thus was fourth overall in Class 10. place, shown here in flight. coupled with a dnf for a tie for last place in Class 16. what are you going to do? I Tom Hatch and Steve Souza dered the driving victory of the sea-write the articles so you will in his nice looking new single duties to his buddy son. Gonzalez read every word that•! have to seater. The order stayed the Gary for his first couldn't quite keep say. Just kidding, but we still same through the checkered race ever and Gary Calosso in his sights put on a good race. Two 9 cars flag as I ~aintained my lead was strong to start, and had to settle for couldn't make the start due to for the win. but faded. I was able "'1d a second for the transmission problems, so only I called shotgun for the sec-to hold off Hatch round and the day, four cars took the green flag. ond race and got the pole po-and John as those still a great finish for I started in the second row sition. The green flag dropped two were throwing a proven desert and quickly got around the and I was able to get the early punches, flipping racer. Skipton was a front two cars and took an lead. This time it wasn't as each other over, model for consis-early lead on brother John easy as Hatch stayed on my and thinking this tency as three 3 's Creasy who broke a spindle tail most of the race, as well was a bumper car IIIIIIIJI■• .... ~.:,..,,,0.11,ml earned him a bronze, and still managed to finish, as brother John. Steve surren-race. Hatch boxed -·· '" and Davidson r--------------------------1 out brother John for . ·". battled hard, but I the tie-breaker in '------------------------' couldn't earn any I Round 2. I got my GarySkiptonputtogetherapairofthirdplacesandthatgavehimthe hardware for his I second win of the bronze medal for Class 7 at the VORRA race. fourth place finish. I year and would like The Open 7 2000 RACE SCHEDULE NORTHERN NEVADA DESERT SERIES MAY 27, 28 & 29 YERINGTON 400 RACE HEADQUARTERS: CASINO WES'i YERINGTON, NEVADA JUNE 24 &25 LOVELOCK 250 RACEHEADQUARTERS: STURGEONS LOVELOCK, NEVADA JULY29&30 TOPGUN300 TOP GUN DRAGSTRIP FALLON, NEVADA ·sEPT. 2, 3 & 4 OFF-ROAD DESERT CHALLENGE RENO MOTORSPORTS COMPLEX FERNLEY, NEVADA ENTRY FEES: PRO CLASSES: $450.00 PAYBACK: 50% LIMITED PRO: $325.00 PAYBACK: 40% SPORT VET: $250.00 PAYBACK: 25% SPORT NOVICE: $200.00 TROPHIES ONLY PILOTS: $150.00 PAYBACK: 50% VALLEY OFF-ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION ·· 1 1833 LOS ROBLES BLVD. I SACRAMENTO, CA 95838 I (916) 925-1702 FAX (916) 925-8217 f WWW. VORRA.COM -------------------------~ Page 30 to thank Folsom trucks were on the Lumber, Creasy In-track as well having vestments, and their own battle. Creasy Motorsports. Like the 12s earlier Tom Hatch got the in the day, Billy silver for the day Manfroy swept Patty and brother John Hayos for back to got the final podium back victories and spot. again the gold medal Class 7 was next and the big payday. with five strong in The Sportsman the Stock class and classes were up next two in the Open .• and seven Sports-class. Fred. Calosso L _ _:_~~2-~:....;.ag1w~g~-~----"-"":,_J man Veteran Cars was looking for his took after a victory second straight vie-Se~ond'?vera!I ~n Class 70pen ~~ntto Patty Hayes who racked upa Bee a use there are tory_, but Rick pa,rofsilverfm1shesforthepos1t1on. nine different races Gonzalez had something to say the event and hit the sidelines through the-day so some of the about that as he cleaned house for the day for a fifth and look-. other class cars can compete in Round 1 for the victory. ing for revenge in the desert in the Veteran class as well. Calosso finished in the unfa-series. With that, Cast, Parsons and miliar second hole. Gary Skip-Calosso didn't take second Foster joined four others to ton finished strong as well as lightly as he kicked his co-compete for the glory. Well, he received a third. Kevin driver out to help push and Cast followed up his Class 10 Davidson, a newcomer to the gained the victory in the sec-performance with a victory in scene, got fourth, and Mike ond moto and with the tie-both rounds and the first Koeni broke halfwa throu h breaker rule ot his second double victory of his career. PIKES service center Baker, Callfornla Celebrating 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS .•• THANKS! RESTAURANT Open 24 Hours Mobil9 SERVICE Every Day Year Round THE BEST IN THE DESERT! July 2000 Parsons wouldn't let his former co-driver off the hook that easy battling him to the end for a couple of 2s and the silver medal. Foster was not quite as quick, had some is-sues, and finished back in the pack. Next in following the ring-leaders or sandbaggers or whatever, was Lenney McLean battling hard, but a broken arm late in the second round halted his run, and he finished third. Fourth be-longed to Steve Millward:· a good finish after a last place finish in the first round. Roscoe Cook couldn't keep up the momentum from the March race, but looks forward to the desert with a fifth in hand and a top three spot in · points. Foster again got sixth and Erik Jenkins in a fast two seater, broke late in the day and after all was said still only managed the seventh spot. Question, what do a Chevy, a Scout, and a Ford have in common? Nothing, but they sure put on a good battle for Continued on page 32 Dusty Times

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Paul Franklin chased the first place spot all day but he could only Tom Lowe won the Novice Class, taking a great first place in race #1 Erik Jenkins and Lenny McLean battle for position in the hotly garner the second spot in the Pilot Class. and following that up with a second gave him the gold. contested Veteran Class, finishing seventh and third respective/ . the Sportsman Truck win. bumper to gain a thir . A ot o newcomers ma e it Lance Rhinehart in his short The largest class of the day out this time around and. course Chevy, James Marsh in was the Sportsman Novice race found the track technical and his International Scout, and with 10 cars taking the line. very busy with roll-overs and Jon Eberhart in his F-150. First out of the gates was the cars going side ways, that Marsh took the early lead, but BMW powered machine of ways, this ways and everyway. couldn't hold off Rhinehart's Torn Lowe looking to repeat. Not so much a newcomer, but ride and Rhinehart went on to After the halfway point it was coming out of retirement was finish in the first slot. Eberhart obvious that the day belonged Mike Timmons in fourth. got by Marsh as well and went to Lowe as he cleaned house David Lucas in a nine car took on to a nice second spot. and destroyed for a first and fifth and will be racing in The second moto was much second and a first overall for Class 9 next race. Next in was of the same as the most excit-the day and his second straight Jason Crandall, then Robert ing part was to see how far victory and a welcoming to the Payton in a nice 5-1600, fol-Rhinehart's ride could fly off desert series. Second spot be-lowed closely in by Matt Tay-the main jump as he brought longed to Nick Jordan after a lor. The l.ast two Tony Bond his broom and swept the field nice third in the first round, but and Chuck Trimble had some for his first win of the season. clocked everyone in Round 2 problems on the course and Eberhart played possum and for a great silver medal. Last to retired early. maintained his second spot. finish out the podium spots was VORRA squeezed the Pilots Class 12 saw Dave Tarrant winning both heats and he was happy to take the gold Marsh drove hard and managed Ron Myers in a nice yellow in there to shake things up. medal for the competition at the VORRA race. to finish just off Eberhart's single seat ride. Five strong to the line and bat-tling back from a bad first out-place trophy or just a good ing was Clint Wolsey cleaning time, the point is money talks shop and swept the field earn-and the only thing that counts ing a first place trophy. In fact, is scoreboard. 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Fernley is located one the desert Sam Berri, Jim Cast, hour east of Reno, seven to Forest Creasy, Tom Lowe, and eight hours north of Las Ve-Fred Calosso all have a two gas, and about six hours north · game hitting streak and look of Barstow. for the three-peat to continue The Creasy Investments' the winning ways. · Class 9 Challenge will be a Well time for what I think. first place take.all $2,500 prize What I think is that this sport which does not include is great entertainment and a VORRA's prize money or any vacation from reality while contingency program. What it cruising in the desert for hours is is a challenge to all those at a time. The only issue is the who have legal Class 9 cars catch 22. Racers put money and want to win a big payday. into the cars, but then So suit up, tune up, come up, don'thave enough money to and bring it on. race. Break out because the only What to do, what to do. thing that matters is the Whether you look for the first scoreboard!!! ■ .. .... Clint Wolsey wasn't taking any prisoners as he swept both motes in the Pilot Class and took home all the marbles. Dusty Times

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DUSTY TIMES PROFILE Chris Harrold By Judy Smith Nowadays Chris Harrold drives the G. Scott Asphalt Class 10 Jimco, but back in '76, when he was 15 years old, he was a moto-cross racer. As it happene.d, his timing was bad. . He turned pro at about the same time as the phenomenal Rick Johnson. Thanks to a background that included campin_g and dune buggies with his grandparents, and a motorcycle racing father, Chris had picked up some useful skills. He learned to· drive while very young, and a special treat was when he got to practice his driving skills on the old road t·o Puertocitos, when the family was on its way to a camping-dune buggying Easter week. He learned to weld while in the fifth grade, and early on had helped his grandfather build a VW pan-based dune buggy. And, in the natural course of things, when he was about 12, he decided he wanted to go racing. When he approached his dad on the subject he was told, "Sure ... if you can afford it." So he set himself up as a lawn-mowing service, a business he still has to this day, and he still uses it to help pay for his racing. At the end of 1982 he moved from moto-cross into Grand Prix bikes, and then his friends, Dale an:d Bob Snaith enticed him into racing three wheelers. He rode those wicked and tricky toys until the end of '86, competing at Barona, Carlsbad and Anaheim Stadium among other venues. Then Dale Snaith decided to go off road racing. He had a Baja Bug for playing around in the desert, and liked it so we II he decided to go racing in Class 5-1600. He gave Chris a ride in the Bug, and Chris was "impressed" even though it was, as he describes it "a little, junky pre-runner, Dale teamed up with Brian Goodrich to race, and Chris went to pit. Typically, he was permanently smitten. At one point, in what was supposed to have been a Dusty Times one-time deal, the pit crew borrowed the pre-runner to race in one of the FRT series events, and they beat the race team. Goodrich and Snaith developed different interests and went their separate ways, but Bob, Dale'.s brother, was now infected with the off road bug. So he and Dale upgraded their pre-runner into a real ·racer, and teamed up, with Chris riding along with both of .them. Bob had the miserable bad luck to break his back in a race, and while he healed, Chris took over his share of the driving. He and Dale had a good year and won the championship.' In about 1981, Chris had gone to work for the Sweetwater Authority Water Co., where Charlie Watters (co-driver with Gus Vildosola these days) was also employed. They became friends,-and started going to the dunes together. During all this time Chris had been studying to become a firefighter. His grandfather, father and two uncles were firemen, and that was "all I ever wanted to be" he. said. He took all the courses, and then took tests, got on the waiting lists, and kept his fingers crossed. And while he waited, he needed a source of income, so he'd gone to Sweetwater, which he described as a "good place to work." Becoming a fireman is difficult these days, and Chris was starting to be discouraged, but he finally got a card from the Fire Department asking if he was still interested. He was. And was quickly hired by the Chula Vista Fire Department. In the meantime, he'd married his high school girlfriend, Debbie, who was now expecting a baby. He was finally a fireman, but wasn't too sure if he was a racer. At this point in his life he was racing only once in a while,. and actually "kind of thought" he was through racing. While he was doing what racing he could afford, and helping-pit his buddies, he got to know Gerry Scott, then owner of G. Scott Asphalt, who'd been helping Brian Goodrich and Charlie Watters with their very successful 5-1600 car. He also helped Snaith and Bill Hernquist in a Class 10 car, and then Scott bought the Whitted's Class 10 car for Bob Snaith to race with Kevin Basore. Dur'ing this period, liarrold and Scott became friends. The Class 10 team ran one FRT race, and Basore had a change of plans and dropped out, so Snaith invited Chris to race with him. He thought he could probably drive it all right, so he accepted. And they did "really good", winning at le as t one overall victory. They raced through '94 and into the '95 season, and then Snaith broke his back again. He was suddenly retired from racing. As it happened, that was the same weekend lihat the G . Scott Asphalt team picked up their ne':V A-armed Jimco chassis, but Gerry decided that since they had no team at the moment, and since Jimco needed a chassis for another customer in a hurry, he'd just as well sell it back. Which he did. They went on racing the beam car, and Gerry liked the results well enough that he decided to go ahead and build the A-arm car after all. They got it ready for the December of '96 New Year's Eve FRT race, but, running an Acura lntegra motor they had "new car blues." When they got it straightened out, they decided to run the SCORE series, and took the win in the '97 Baja 500. They looked pretty firm in the points series, but didn't make it to the Laughlin race, or the 1000, and dropped down in the standings. That was soon after the class was split, and the entries were small, so they ·weren't terribly enthusiastic. Therefore, in '98 they raced the FRT series, which they did with July 2000 great enthusiasm and success. But in '99 they had their new Honda NSX motor, and went back to the SCORE series. The year started well in Laughlin when Chris did a terrific come-from-the-re ar on Sunday to secure the Class 10 win for the weekend. But then the year went downhill. A mix of bad luck and mechanical failures gave them a less than stellar season. T,hings changed somewhat mid-year in '99, when Gerry retired from G. Scott Asphalt, and sold the company. The new owners did, however, take on the sponsorship of the car for an unspecified period. From the beginning, Chris has done all the prep and fabrication on the various cars. He says he's learned a lot. In particular, he mentioned that he developed a lot of skiff at replacing tops on Baja Bugs. When it comes to transmissions, Mendeota does those (and Chris mows his lawns), while Kenny major does the motors for the car. The work is done in a shared ga~age that belongs to Gerry Scott and Bob Hummel (of Race Ready in Chula Vista). The success of the team is very dependent on the cooperation and help of a large circle of friends and sponsors. While he's been doing all this race· prep, repairs and driving, Chris has also led a busy family life. He now has two children, his son Brian, age 12, and daughter, Danielle, age 10. Recently Brian has been pre-running with his dad, making it look as though a fourth generation off roader is growing up in the Harrold family. Chris loves his job as a fireman as much as he expected to, and has been promoted to Captain, a source of obvious and deserved pride. The long association with Ger_ry Scott has given Chris a wonderful opportunity to race that he otherwise might not have enjoyed. Their team is a vivid example of what friendship, cooperation, and a willingness to work hard can do. We wish them continued success in their racing. ■ GOT SHOCKS? . Your main source for the all new RaceRunner shock series from Sway-Away. Now avail-~ 10 able in 2", 2 1/2", and massive nBCl!.,~J!lll!l!.r 3" body_ coil-over design. A. "' THE SOURCE for off-road racing equipment and services We now offer complete shock services including custom revolving .and rebuilding. 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U.S. PRORALLY CHAMPIONSHIP Oregon Trail Pro Rally~ Text & Photos: Jim Culp Paul Choiniere and Jeff Becker were first overall in the Libra Racing Hyundai Tiburon. P 1 Ch · · d J ff Ch · h· . J h U.S. rally .champions au oiniere an e ampions ip. o n Ch . . d B k B k 1 d H d · B ff • L·b R · oiniere an ec er ec er e a yun ai u um s i ra acing h d f 999 h • h O T ·1 · T'b · 1 · d h f· a ·ea o l c ampions sweep at t e regon ra1 " i urons c aime t e ust N 1,:L 1 d · Ch 1. Rally, the ~econd rouncfpf · two . .spot~ _in the Or~gori B ~dle ~w er an -ar ie the 2000 U.S. ProRally event, with seven times r Y OFF-ROAD RACING SHOCKS . e to sto va ve as er,, / , . • wide teflon coated piston wear band for use i ypass with big tubes so that it does not drop into large ports. J1 ·· , , · • sealed piston for :ow speed contr ing in e?(ternal b pass;, • high temperature stainless steel . \ • unique rod end design and mat od ands from breaking. • high temperature Viton seals . • ! 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July 200() Carl Jardevall and Amity Trowbridge slid into the Group 5 class win, third overall. Lawler jumped into the . of the All-Japan GT title lead on Stage 1, but inafactorybackedNissan Choiniere closed the gap Skyline. The rally new-and trailed by only one comer started slowly but second after four stages. moved steadily through The rally was decidea on the field, concluding the Stage 5, when Lawler event by posting the fast-melted the wiring harness est times on the final three to the driving lights, stages. clipped a rock and dam-Ralph Kosmide·s and aged the left front spindle. Ken Cassidy were fifth Lawler pushed on through overall in Ruby's twin the first night, but finished turbo Toyota Supra, less the evening with a severe than a minute ahead of alignment problem, 52 Production GT class win-seconds back. ners, Pat "Rocket" Rich-Choiniere and Becker ard and Ian McCurdy, sported new 2000 Tiburon sixth in the Specialty Su-bodywork over a re-baru lmpreza 2.5RS. Rich-worked 1998 car, while ard claimed the Oregon Lawler .and Bradley started Trail event reminded him with a brand new 2000 Ti-of skateboarding when he buron. With 350-horse-pulled a "50-50 grind" power from turbocharged dropping the back wheels two liter engines, the off a bridge on Stage 8. Hyundai delivers .the Dave White and Jimmy power to the road through Brandt finished seventh a five speed gearbox and and claimed the small en-four wheel drive. Early on gine Group 2 class with a the second day, Lawler's fresh Volkswagen Golf new car suffered turbo GTI from Light Perfor-teething problems on mance Works. The 1997 Stage 8 and lost more class .champion, White ground. Choiniere was briefly "retired'.' last year. fastest on five stages and He returned to find a fast Lawler fastest on three be-deep field that included fore both cars slowed in a Jay Streets and Bill Feyling successful strategy to pre-eighth overall in the serve maximum points for Willans Toyota Corolla. the Hyundai effort. Another fast, young Carl Jardevall and Am-Group 2 team, Nate Ten-ity Trowbridge were third nis and Nate Petit in the overall, and first among 1979 Tree Tamers Saab the two wheel drive en-99, finished just 18 sec-tries, in the 1983 Nordic onds behind Streets and Motors Volvo 740 turbo. Feyling after more than J ardevall's power sliding two hours at speed. style is always potent on The first Production the high speed stages and class car wrapped up the . it showed in Oregon when tenth spot, with De.nnis he posted the fastest stage Chizma and Claire Chizma time on Stage 9, averaging in a beautifully restored 64 miles an hour over 1973 Porsche 911. The seven miles of gravel. Porsche brought back French sports car racer many fond memories to Erik Comas admitted, the baby boomers in the "I've really got the rally crowd with a glorious yel-bug", after winning the low paint job and Tour de Group N class title in his France stripes. inaugural gravel event. · Oregon Trail has been Comas and co-driver absent from the ProRally Julian Masters finished Championship schedule· fourth overall in an under for 15 years. Everyone in-powered 1997 Mitsubishi volved in the event, from Lancer Evo IV. While Co-competitors to fans, were mas is new to gravel, he's glad to see it back. Based no stranger to speed as a in the home of the west former Formula 3000 coast's best cheddar champion with four years cheese, the small coastal of Formula One exp~ri-town of Tillamook, the ence and four trips to the rally contained a challeng-24 hours of Le Mans. ing combination of tight, Comas plans to partici-twisty, technical stages pate in the U .S. rally se-and smooth gravel "free-ries whenever it doesn't ways for logging trucks." interfere with his defense The usual April showers Dusty Times

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Noel Lawler and Charlie Bradley battled for the lead until suspension Speedvision cameras captured Dr. Dave White and Jimmy Brandt on Production GT class winners Pat Richard and Jan Mccurdy demonstrate a bank shot for the fans. damage relegated them to the second spot. their way to the Group 2 class win. broke just before the start were turned into· a " super on Stage 6 after a photo and 29 cars took the flag special" stage and end the flash blinded the driver ap-in the shadow of the rally. . proaching an already blind Tillamook Air Museum, -One third of the start-left hand turn. an enormous World War ing field were gone long Eric Eaton and Kenny II vintage wooden blimp before the finish, including Almquist dropped out of the hanger. The taxiways, early top five runners Karl fourth spot.when the Fast connecting roads, and Scheible and Russ Hughes Focus Racing Mazda 323 mud puddles of the former out when their Group N GTX ran out of gears on Naval Aviation facility Evo V rolled off the road Stage 9. Oregon favorite Paul Eklund and co-driver most everyone in the tire Scott Huhn also lost a spot wars. Choiniere won on in the top five with a trans-Michelins, Lawler second on mission failure in the Primi-Pirellis. Yokohama claimed ' tive Racing Subaru lmpreza Production GT with Richard, turbo on the same stage. Chizma used Falkens to cap-While Hyundai claimed ture Production, and the top spots in the battle for Silverstope swept the top the manufacturer's title, three places in Group 2 with there was something for al-White, Streets and Tennis.■. Dennis and Claire Chizma brought back memories with their Moving up from Club Rally, Nate Tennis and Nate Pettit claimed third Formula 1 veteran Eric Comas found passing to be a challenge when Production class winning Porsche 911. ______ in Group 2. _________ he caught Ralph Kosmides on Stage 11. Dusty Tim,s July 2000 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 King• 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, while 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. Pag~ 35 LS ,. I

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.. Northwest Club Rally Report Text & Photos: Jim Culp -. ,; ~! -\ =-.. -Todd Hartmann and Sean Callahan rolled on Saturday but came back to finish second on Sunday Californians Jay Streets and Bill Feyling took to the water like Oregon ducks on their way to a Group 2 win. with Scott Huhn co-driving, finished sixth, while the posted the fastest stage times Active.com Audi S2 Quattro on three and five, but of George Pisek and Renn dropped to the second spot in Phillips was seventh. the Royal Moore Subaru Nate Tennis and Nate lmpreza USX. Just 26 seconds Petit finished eighth, and behind the Subaru were second in Group 2, with the Kevin Pennington and Janice Group N Performance Saab Damitio in the Wagen Werks 99, one spot ahead of the Audi 4000 Quattro. Production class winners Following the three fast Dennis and Claire Chizma in all-wheel-·drive Open class the Motor Sports Unlimited cars, the Reaves family was Porsche 911. The second' fourth in the Summershot Produc ion GT car, the Eagle Auto Glass Mazda RX3 to Talon of Jack Broadhead and claim the Group 5 title. Jim Jump, was tenth. Production GT winners Pat The Oregon Trail Club Washington teams the Oregon Trail Club Rally, Club Rally in the Fast Focus Richard and Ian McCurdy Rally saw 39 cars take the traveled south to collect the while Bob and Tammy Reaves Racing Mazda 323 GTX. The picked up a road penalty to start at the Tillamook Air top spots in the Oregon Rally claimed the first place trophy Tacoma based team trailed drop_ a spot·, finishing fifth in Museum, an enormous Group's spring rallies held in the Trail's End Club Rally. until the penultimate stage, the Dragon Eyewear Subaru wooden blimp hanger with a near the coastal community Oregon Trail Club Rally but edged ahead with fastest lmpreza 2.SRS. nifty collection of World War of Tillamook. Doo Wop Eaton and Almquist came times on ~he last two stages The Group 2 winners, Jay II vintage airpower. Only 23 champs Eric Eaton and Kenny from almost a minute behind to post a 38 second victory. Streets and Bill Feyling in the were running at the finish. ,..,..tilili .. ·iill,,li,111t.o.o.k.t.,h.e_to ... .,s.o,_,t .. in ... ..,.to .... c.a .. t.u_,r.,e.t.h,.e11111110_reiiiiiiioiiin.,_T_ra.i.,l __ ,.T,.iiiiia.,r1111d.,1110111111R111'111s.P .. a .. u .. l_E_k_lu.n_d,., _w_i111l.l a.,..m.s-•T•o•y•o-t a __ c.o ... r1110111ll111a_~Long te c hn ica l St ages 2 PRECISION 2B65 Gundry Ave. Signal HIii. CA 90B06 B00.959. 7·757 562.427.2375 FAX: 526.426.5294 everything yau need ta build. maintain and operate a racecar Bolts. Nuts and Hardware Sparco Seats. Steering Wheels. Suits and Safety Equipment Crow Belts and Harnesses Bell Helmets Spal Fans Fire Systems Silicone Turbo Hose Neo Synthetic Lubricants Aurora. NHBB and FK Rod Ends Weldon Fuel and Oil Pumps Fresh Air Driver Ventilation Systems lntercomp Scales and Al/gnment Equipment Earl's. Aeroqulp Ii. SpeedF/ow Stainless Braided Hose Ii. Fittings Fuel Safe and Triangle Fuel Cells Setrab. Long and Flu/dyne Oil Coolers !iiee aur cam lete anline cata/a at 111111111111.baker recisian.cam Page 36 July 2000 Dusty Times

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Paul Eklund and Scott Huhn raced through the dusk to finish second Todd and Tina Lengacher used the entire road on their way to fourth The flying Nissan Sentra of Jon Tabor and Kevin Poirier was second in the Oregon Trail Club Rally. lace in the Trail's End Club Rally. in the Production class. KevinPenningtonandJaniceDamitiosplashedbetweenthe 109miles Eric Eaton and Kenny Almquist.claimed first overall in Saturday's on stage one at the Oregon Trail. Oregon Trail event. and 3 were particularly tough trophies, finishing third with eight cars dropping off overall in the 1998 Specialty the charts before the start of Subaru Impreia. Todd and Stage 4. The losses included Tina Lengacher won the Todd Hartmann and Sean Open class, fourth overall Callahan, who posted the with the first Oregon entry, fastest time on the second the TNT Motorsports Audi stage but rolled the Intrax 4000 Quattro. Suspension Technology VW The Evergreen Auto Plaza Golf GTI out of contention Quattro of Pennington and on Stage 3. Damitio spun on Stage 1 but Tough luck honors have to fought back to finish fifth, go to John Lane and Ray just two seconds behind the Damitio. Lane's C&S Auto Lengachers. Another two Rebuild Volvo 262 turbo seconds back was the second posted the fastest stage time Group 5 car, the 1977 Dodge on Stage 4, but their day Colt of Carey and Alan ended after the Volvo parted Wright. company with a rear wheel Three seconds behind the when the lug bolts sheared Wright brother's Colt were within sight of the raHy finish. Greg Lingelbach and Steven The Northwest Regional Andrews in a PGT class Dick class winners were Eaton/ · Hanna Mitsubishi sponsored Almquist in Class 1, Streets/ Eagle Talon. In case you Freyling in Class 2, and weren't counting, those last Pennington/Damitio in CJass four cars finished within 3. seven seconds of each other Trait's End Club Rally after 43 minutes at speed. Four smooth, fast stages Bob Trinder and Andy opened the door for the White were eighth in the Reaves in their 1972 Mazda Richmond Toyota Celica, RX to surprise the all wheel chased home by the "Nates", drive entries at the Trail's Tennis and Pettit, in the Tree End Club Rally. The North Tamer's Saab. Bend, WA couple jumped The Chizma family again into the lead on Stage 1 and claimed the Production class extended it with a fast, 63 win for Porsche, but they had · mph, run on Stage 2. Even to battle the whole route after spinning into the brush with the changing Pacific and reversing out, Reaves and Foto Supply Nissan Sentra Reaves posted the fastest time SE-R ofJon Tabor and Kevin on Stage 4. It was quite a Poirier. The Porsche held on driving performance from Mr. to claim the class win and Reaves who started with the tenth overall by just ten oldest chassis in the 29-car seconds. field. Reliability was much better Resourceful teamwork and in the sunshine, with 26 of a support,i've Tillamook the 29 starters racing at the community of welders, finish. Unfortunately, both mechanics and parts stores the Eaton/Almquist Mazda managed to rehabilitate six of and the Eklund/Huhn Subaru the cars knocked out of the were among the DNFs _when Oregon Trail event, including both broke transmissions on Hartmann and Callahan who the second stage. brought the Intrax VW home · Northwest Regional class second overall and first in winners were Reaves/Reaves Group 2. in Class 1, Lengacher/ "Rocket" Richard and co-Lengacher in Class 2, and driver McCurdy completed Pennington/Damitio in th~ir sweep of the PGT Class 3. ■ Dusty Times • B11arco • Ron aari. Bet1'atf a, Optima Ba M11cha11ix July 2000 Bob and Tammy Reaves spun on stage four but still won Sunday's Trail's End event. Page 37

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,. Baja International From Estera Beach By Ron Miller Photos: Victor Vidal In Class 4 the big winner was Rob MacCachren, taking on all comers and scoring a resounding victory at the Estero Internacional. Short-course racing made a triumphant return to the Ger-. ardo Novelo Raceway April 29-30, when the Baja Internacional was contested. Some of off road's brightest stars were in action, much to the delight of racing aficionados who spent the weeke1,d basking in sun and sport. Two time defending Baja Internacional Class 4 champion Cun LeD.uc faced a rugged challenge from the always for-midable Rob MacCachren. In the absence of last year's Class 8 champ, Evan Evans, runner-ups Dwight Greene (1998) and Carl Renezeder ( 1999) both fig-ured to have excellent shots at winning that division. However, their task was made consider-ably more difficult when Depere, WI superstar Johnny Greaves dropped his name into the Class 8 entry box. And speaking of stiff competition, Rick Huseman also looked to have his hands full _in attempt-ing to claim a third straight Baja Internacional Class 7S champi-onship. Huseman's chances im-proved dramatically when class-mate Chris Brandt was TKO'd by a broken cam shaft during Friday's practice session. De-spite Brandt's defection, five ri-vals, including Gerardo Novelo, Bob Beyer and Javier Sacio, still r------------------------7 I TESTING FOR THE 2000? I I I I I I I I ! I l ! I I Cattle Ranch:-.Adventures Baja, Mexico:,·. ··. ·· Just 1 ½ hours from San Diego, Baja Rancho La Mentada offers you the opportunity of testing your race car on a 6 mile off road race course (not stadium), on private land, without oncoming traffic, livestock or spectators to worry about. We can accommodate groups Bring your crew and family, have fun and get ready Cor your next race. We provide accommodations, food including a recreation room and a saloon. For more information call 0ll-52-61-72-77-73 (Ensenada) or 818-786-5016 (Los Angeles) I 11 I I I I I I I I I I I '-------------------------+ Page 38 stpod between "Rocket Rick" and a 7S three-peat. Now that the stage has been set, let's raise the curtain and see who played starring roles at this year's show: There were 11 Safari class competitors, but the weekend clearly belonged to Tijuana's Guillermo Soltero. By powering his way to victory in a1i three heats, Solte•ro left absolutely no doubt who was number uno. The 2000 Safari class champion's sweep also made it five straight Baja Internacional heat wins, dating back to last year's event. Chris Moreno fin-ished second in Heats 1 and 3, to claim the division's runner-up honors. Devin McClave placed second in Sunday's opener, and finished third in Heat 3 and weekend scoring. Racing to an overall fourth place finish was the team of Julio Felix, Paisal Diaz and David Garson. Next came Elvira Felix and Guy Savedra, who fin-ished the weekend with identi-cal point totals. Felix was placed fifth overall and Savedra sixth, because those were their finish-ing positions in the third and decisive heat. The overall sev-enth through 11th place finish-ers were Isaac Sarabia, Jesus Torres, Todd Sanderson, Kurt Mills and "Bear" Scharbarth. A total of nine A TV riders saw action during the weekend. Four dueled for ATV Pro su-premacy, while the remaining five set their sights on the Sportsman class title. Defending Pro champion Michael Schlumpberger picked up right where he left off last year, rac-ing to victory in Saturday's Heat l. Runner-up Tito Alvarez put up a good fight, before the win-ner finally pulled clear on the fin al lap. Things turned out comiderably different in the first of Sunday's two rematches. Schlumpberger, who had swept to victory in 1999, saw his four heat win streak come to an end while laboring to a trouble-plagued third place finish. July 2000 Guillermo Soltero was the victor in all three heats, beating his 10 competitors in the Safari Class and showing himself as a -real champion. Alvarez took full advantage of the situation by scampering to victory over runner0up Robert Padilla. Schlumpberger needed a big effort in Heat 3 to retain his title, and the Oceanside, CA r . sid'-nt was up to the chal-lenge After chasing Alvarez early, Schlumpberger took over on Lap 3 and went on to record the win and "back-to-back" Baja Internacional A TV Pro champ10nships. Aivarez fin-ished directly behind ,the win-ner in heat and weekend scor-ing. Padilla was third in those sc.1tne categories, and placing fourth overall was Romulo Go-mez. Gomez' fine effort left Aquino in second place and Gerardo Sepulveda third. Rafael Pinedo and Chad W eichert fin-ished fourth and fifth respec-tivdy. Gomez proved his victory W8S no fluke, when he came nght back to score again in Heat i . "rh1s time Sepu'!veda beat Aquino for second, while Pmec\o was again out-finishing Weichert for fourth. Going into Sunday's third and final heat, about the only thing that could rob Gomez of the overall victory was a DNF. And, unfortunately, it did. Tijuana's Gerardo Sepulveda was the beneficiary of Gomez' untimely misfo1 tune·, parlaying a Heat 3 victory into the overall Sportsman lass championship. Gomez, who de-served a better fate, was forced to settle for weekend runner-up honors. Aquino, the Heat 3 run-ner-up, placed third overall. p;_neJo fi nished just behind Aquino in both categories. with fifth overall going to Weichert A total of 14 motorcycle rid-ers participated in this year's event. Ensenada's Salvadore Hernandez proved a complete standout. Hernandez swept all three heat races to easily win the overall title. Jano Montoya finished second in Heat l, and Darren Scott earned runner -up honors in Heats 2, 3 and o, _r-ail. Emmanuel Verdugo beat out Tato Buelna for third place in Heat 3 and overall scoring. Eduardo Hernandez :md Sergio Morales finish~d the weekend wi•h exactly the same -number of points. However, Hernandez was awarded fifth overall and Morales sixth, due to the pair's Heat 3 finishing positions. Split-ting the field was Carlos Gonza-Salvador Hernandez rode his Yamaha to victory at Estero, the Ensenada native quite happy with his win. Jorge Souto romped over the competition in Rally 'ERA Class as he has done in_ each Estero International competition. Dusty Times

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' . ' Curt LeDuc flies towards victory in the first heat but he was only able MacCachren, LeDuc and Greaves, a trio of ever great competitors Daniel Souto, son of Jorge followed his father in all three heats and to grab the second overall spot in Class 4. raced at Estero Internacional to the delight of the capacity crowd. took second overall in the Rally "An Division. ' lez, who ended up seventh. The chased away all would-be 1/2-time in as many years, the over-champion, suffered an unchar-Fans in the well packed grand-overall eighth through 14th 1600 Desert class competitors. all winner's son, Daniel, placed acteristic DNF in Heat 1, but stands moved to the edge of place riders, in their respective Assured of "back-to-back" second. The younger half of the· came roaring back on Sunday. their seats, as hometown hero order of finish, were Joe championships, Lawrence basi-Souto team earned runner-up Waumann m'ade a valiant at-Gerardo Novelo and six other Kennamer Abraham· Legaspi, cally won for fun. For all intents honors by finishing second in tempt to defend his title, racing mini-truckers took to the track. Travis Hawkins, Jano Montoya, and purposes-, that same see-each heat. The Reas, Louis, to victories in1Heats 2 and 3.·lt As soon as starter Luis ferez set David Golden, Gary Hitzler and nario was played out in Classes Quermo Sr. and Jr. were third was not enough, however, as the the field in motion, two-time Jeremy Mergroz. 1, 10, Super 21600 and· 1/2-.overall, and Louis Vasquez Gutierrez.' plac·ed second in both defending champ Rick Huse-A half dozen entrants were 1600 Short-Course. Due to a placed fourth. Justin Benham heats to win the overall Rally B man blasted off into t\le lead. initially slated for action in the similar paucity of competition, and James Golden finished the Class championship. Waumann Novelo was away second, fol-5-1600 class, including two-Steve Errea walked away with . weekend in a fifth place tie, to settled for ruhner-up honors, lowed by Bob Beyer in third and time defending champion Mario championships in each of those complete the Rally A Class followed by Acevedo, who Javier Sacio in fourth. Mait · Bustamante. The opening con-divisions. As expected, Errea scoring. placed third in all three heats. Cannon was fifth, Kevin Huse-test lost some of its lustre when had little trouble separating In the Rally B Class, Heat-1 Mills finished fourth in Heat 2 man sixth and Rodolfo 1999 runner-up "Bear" himself from the remainder of was captured by Porfirio and and weekend scoring. Sanchez Crostwaite was the early trailer. Scharbarth was a late scratch. Saturday's Race 4 field Sergio Gutierrez. The Ensena-posted a fourth in the finale and It became apparent early that It's_ doubtful that Bustamante (Lawrence and the 5-1600 da duo proved best over second claimed fifth place overall. the front-running Huseman was shed any tears over that <level- class). The Woodland Hills, CA place finisher Kurt Mills. Miguel Gaytan and Octavio Velardo going to be ultra tough. Cannon opment. The La Puente, CA resident suffered suspension and Angel Acevedo checked in Renteria finished sixth and sev- suffered some malo suerte in the veteran thrice thumped his ri-· axle woes in Sunday's Heat 2, third, followed by Gonzalo enth respectively, to complete early going when third gear vals, recording a 5-1600 "three-but by then his weekend "4-bag-Sanchez (fourth) and Miguel the Rally B scoring. went adios. The chase contin-peat" in the process. Dennis ger" was signed, sealed and de-Gaytan (fifth). Gerardo Wau-Next up was the much antici-ued on the front end, with McKenzie was clearly best of the livered. mann, the 1999 Rally A Class pated Classes 7 and 7S contest. Continued on page 40 year. McKenzie checked-in sec-Thirteen Rally class entrants ond in all three heats, to claim participated in Saturday's fifth ~. ., Q!l .. .:91t=lt=•■ f.:9 ~ aP.fl QJ!i} runner-up honors. Sal Moreno race. A half dozen vied for Class • s;;;;;;::I,;::I, • ., s;;;;; ~ ~ finished third in Heats 1 and 3, A superiority, and the remain-· A N D A C C E S S O R I ES . 71_!:!70-9422 . . to land that same position in ingsevenwereClassBrepresen-usgens~ons VISA • . •1•1 overall scoring. Guy Savedra tatives. In what has pretty much -pos.ted a solid third in .Heat 2, become an annual rite of spring, ,_________ -----------------;:~~~~ C: !~~! and finished fourth overall in. Ensenada'.s Jorge Souto proved . FORMER~YFABTECHMOTORSPORTS MON-FRI 8:00-6:00 • his Class 5-1600 debut. Ernie the dominant Rally class racer. . 1999-2000 CHEVY SATURDAY 9:00-4:00 Negrete and co-driver Manuel Souto spanked his outclassed ri-2WD C1500 FINANCING AVAILABLE Gonzalez completed the scoring vals in all three heats, to easily 6 .. ULTIMATE LIFT while placing fifth. capture his third straight Baja •'CAST"""""""' ....... c.tmtOL_, I For the second straight year, Internacional Rally A Class c°!":~~==:=,.. ES ~ San Vicente's Bill Lawrence championship. For the second 1749 95 s s ...... ,,_.:.....,,A '=:::' . ru:_.--./ Michael Shlumpberger came down from Oceanside, CA to win the ATV Pro Class, taking two of the three heats in his effort. 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-,. • 4;1•.i{ .. ~ _J Gerado Wauman dnf'd on Saturday, won both Rally "B." heats on Sunday and that was enough to give him the second spot in class. Miguel Acevedo took the bronze medal in all three heats in Rally "B.n at Estero and was thus third overall for the weekend. Darren Scott took the second place finish in both of Sunday's heats and that earned him the silver medal in the MC Open class. Porfirio Gutierrez was the Rally "B." overall winner, taking the gold on Saturday and the silver twice on Sunday. Huseman leading the way and th~ balance of the field in hot pursuit. A bit too hot, as it turned out, for the crowd's ob-vious favorite. Novelo's deter-mined bid to reel in the race's rabbit resulted in a spectacular roll. Lady Luck must have been Novelo's co-driver, because he not only avoided serious injury, he also managed to somehow land on his wheels and resume without losing a position. No-velo eventually surrendered sec-ond place to Beyer, but that oc-curred while he was making a brief stop in the hot pit. The contest then evolved into a classic duel between Huseman and Beyer. At one point, Beyer did manage to r~ach the front, but his lead was short lived. Huseman quickly regained com-mand and held on doggedly to the checkered flag. Beyer was a close second, and Novelo fin-ished gamely to claim third. Sa-cio checked in fourth, Kevin Huseman took fifth and Can-non ended up sixth. Heat 2 was CAI.I. T0l.ll FREE 1-888-755-5900 WE CAN SHIP UPS TO YOUR DOOR WE NOW OFFER THEIE /ERVICE/ .,,.,, WE-&RVICE-NX,illtSflEN,-KING,-$WAY-A WAY-5HGCK-S ** MAGNAFLUX SERVICE ( WITH QUICK TURN A ROUND •• ) ** GEAR BOX REBUILD SERVICE (NO MORE WEIRD NOISES .• ) ** VINYL GRAPHICS AND LEnERING ( NOW YOUR CAR WILL LOOK GOOD •. ) CLASS 9 KENNEDY CLUTCH KIT STAGE I II & Ill -PRESSURE PLATE 4-PUCK DISC RELEASE BEARING $150.00 OWEL BALL JOINTS UPPER & LOWER $13.50.EA. 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Novelo improved posted a big Heat 3 victory to on his Saturday finish by turn-win the championship. ing in a solid second place ef-Crostwaite and co-driver Alan fort. Sacio edged Beyer for Rockefeller beat Carlos Ibarra, third, and K. Huseman again the overall runner-up. finished fifth. Carlos Ibarra also "Dynamite Dan" Cannon was took part in Heat 2, racing to a in a class of his own, BS, which fine Class 7 victory. Rodolfo assured him of winning his first Crostwaite, who was TKO'd Baja Internacional champion-from Saturday's heat, was run-ship. The veteran Southern ner-up. In Heat 3, Huseman California trucker suffered a. again romped to victory like he blown tranny during Saturday's owned the place. The ultra fleet heat, but enjoyed a trouble free Riverside, CA star raced his ri-Sunday drive to victory. · vals dizzy to reign as champion The aforementioned trio of once more. The Heat 3 •and Johnny Greaves, Dwight Greene overall Class 7S runne·r-up, who and Carl Renezeder squared off does own the place, could do in Class 8. Greaves proved a little to stop the runaway win-convincing winner on Saturday, ner. In his defense, Novelo was with Greene finishing a distant still (understandably} feeling second. Renezeder suffered the effects of Saturday's high transmission woes and was speed "bell ringing." Hats off to forced to bow out of weekend the incredible performance competition . S unday's first turned in by Baja Internacional rematch began with Green e three-time Class 7S champion grabbing the holeshot and the Rick Huseman and this year's early lead. Greaves, who has runner-up Ger.ardo Novelo. Bob proven just as adept at winning Beyer, who placed third in Heat races from off the pace as on, 3 and overall scoring, completed bided his time-while stalking his the orde_r of 7S finishers in the front running rival. His win was fin.ale. Javier Sacio, Kevin assured on the final lap when Huseman and ·Mait Cannon Greene suffered some sort of , . -~~-~~-.,;:' ' · i/~,~~~,...~,~~~r:~::*);~;:~: .~--~.-·,,.,»:~·: . .:;s;.,::~.--.. Dan Cannon is back to his old Glen Helen ways, taking two Class BS wins on . Sunday after a disappointing day before. • Dwight Greene wasn't too sure where his weekend was going but the Gods intervened and he took the Class 8 overall title for the weekend. Dusty Times

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Johnny Greaves Toyota almost clinched the Class B title, but Johnny Tito Alvarez follows Shlumpberger over the grandstand jump in the A third and two second place finishes gave Gerado Novelo the second rolled the Tundra in the third heat and that dropped him to second. heavy action of the ATV Pro class. overall position in the Class 7S contest. Carlos Ibarra and his good looking truck were the runners-up in the Class 7 contest, won one of the heats and ended up with the silver A second, a fourth and a third place finish all added up to a third Race Promoter Gerado Novelo (left) poses with Rick Huseman and medal. _ overall in Class 7S for Bob Beyer in his lucky number 7. an almost scowling Bob Beyer before the capacity crowd at Estero trouble which prompted him to (devilishly-nasty fragrance), guage has already been used to when MacCachren pulled into to want it more than his leg-pull off the course. Greaves's the Class 8 championship went describe their driving talents the hot pits early in the con-endary Cherry valley, CA second heat win of the week-to the Poway, CA entrant. and accomplishments. As the test, but looks can be deceiv-counterpart. And so my end placed him (where else?) in Greaves, the overall runner-up, crowd watched in awe, Mac-ing. MacCachren raced with friends, the 2000 Baja the driver's seat going into had to settle for second best-. Cachren roared off the line and mad abandon after re-entering Internacional Class 4 first place. Heat 3. Unfortunately for the this time. into the lead. LeDuc was scary the fray, and eventually caught trophy rode back to Las Vegas, perennial Midwestern cham-As was the case in so many fast, as usual, as he clung to his and passed LeDuc for the win.· NV with new champion Rob pion, a not so funny thing hap-classes at this year's Baja upstart challenger. Despite los-The epic duel boiled down to a MacCachren . . pened on his way to recording Internacional, the emphasis in ing his rear hub seal, LeDuc one race sprint for all the Congratulations to·everyone the overall win. Greaves' title Class 4 was on quality, not managed to beat MacCachren marbles. Heat 3 began with who participated in this year's hopes went down the drain, quantity. Only two· entrants to the checkered flag and gain MacCachren assuming the event, and especially the class when he rolled on Turn 1 and participated, but what a pair. a slight lead in overall scoring. early advantage. LeDuc's champions. Whether you were ended up in the infield drain-Two-time defending class MacCachren was looking to chances for victory were not able to attend or not, make age ditch. While Greaves was champion Curt LeDuc versus even things up in Sunday's sided by a paint swapping inci-plans now to be at Estero Beach being extracted from the muck, Rob MacCachren was a dream Heat 2, but it was LeDuc who dent he was involved in on for the "Baja 1.5 Miles" short-Greene waltzed to the check-match-up. Neither superstar won the holeshot. The defend-Turn 1 with Dwi~ht Greene. In course event on October 14-15. ered flag. With Greene scoring needed an introduction, and ing champ looked home free the end, MacCachren seemed Hope to see you there. ■ the Heat 3 win and Greaves it's entirely possible that every emerging with only a DNF superlative in the English Ian-In the Class 7 contest, Rodolfo Crostwaite won all three heats in the two day event and was the overall class champion. The Class 7S contest was hot and heavy but there was no denying Rick Huseman as he swept all three heats for the big overall win. Dusty Times Mi\\ennium ll-ead1 Mirage SUPER SANO 2 Seat Class I Porsche, 6 cyl 2.5 & Brand New DG 300 Trans, Tons of Spares, Ready for long Races with ·a Mirage 20,000 Ground Up Prep! Windshield, Summers Bros., Fuel lnj., 24 Tires & Wheels, Big Fod Beam & Arms, 125" W.B., Mirage/Fox 2.5 Bypass rear, All Coil Over & Extra Trans. ONLY 55K FJRM! Buy an Out of the Box, Detailed, Clean Fin-isher, NO BULL. Reffl 747 Baja Brokers 760-723-2117

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BONNEVILLE EXPRESS •ao B.O.R.E. Opens season At Wendover, U.S.A. Text & Photos: Mike Jenkins Scott Smith borrowed Gary Brennan s Class 1600 Chenowth for the season-opener and put it into victory circle, even without power steering. The weather is warming and the days are growing longer, the rains are. diminishing and the flowers are blooming, so that must mean one thing ... ITS RACE SEASON! Every May the racers of B.O.R.E. uncover their cars from their winter's nap to put them to the chal-ienge of man and machine against the desert. Sometimes man wins and sometimes the desert does, but it always proves co be exciting and it's never the same twice. The '99 season was great, Robin Doutre was crowned overall points cham-pion, the first truck driver to win the crown for B.O.R.E., Dave Morse in the Challenger class swept the season for the second year in a row and Scott Smith ~on the 1600 class. The three race schedule went off without a hitch and again the towns of Wendover and Jackpot were gracious · hosts to racers, crews and spectators alike. RACERS Thirty-two teams made the trek to Wendover, some from as far as Washington to the west, Colorado to the east, Utah, Idaho apd Montana were represented as well. Rain on Friday dampened the course but not the spirits of the teams. Saturday morning's driver meeting put the drivers in start-ing order with the 1600 class starting off first at 9:30, fol-lowed by the Truck class then the Challengers and last but not PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT WTIH Page 42 PHYSICAL DAMAGE INSURANCE FOR YOUR OFF-ROAD RACING VEHICLES Call the experts at Michael E. James Insurance Agency: We can satisfy the insurance needs of all off-road racers. 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Bow-Mike Baker (1690) would lead the ers was hanging on to fourth first lap, running hard, with a time with a 52: 17 and Cain was push-of 47:22. Todd Bingham (1659) ing his sick car to a 56:25 and wasn't far behind turning a 4 7:44, fifth place Blakely was in sixth Scott Smith's (1600) 48:48 was with an improving time of good enough for third in Gary 1 :02: 13 getting into the rhythm Brennan's borrowed car followed of the course. Bingham was still by Mark Rencher (1675), in holdingontotheleadattheend fourth with a 50:03, Sharon Man-of the fourth lap slowing slightly ess and Thor Hansen (1617) had to a 50: 18, Smith turned in a the two seater in fifth running a 50: 19 to remain in second and 51:55, Ty Bowers (1636) 56:23 Rencher was still in third with was good enough for sixth fol- a quick 49:3 7, Bowers was in lowed by Glen Cain (1610) with fourth turning in a 52:24. Cain an ailing motor but hanging in had cranked it up another notch there turning a 57:44 in sev- to end the lap with a 53:03 and enth, Don Blakely (1698) had was still in fifth. Dave Blakely first driver chores over his took the wheel for the fourth brother Dave and after rolling, lap and not to be outdone by his wished that maybe he should brother, took his turn rolling have gone second crossed the the car but was able to finish the line in 1:24:20, not to be out-lap with a 1:01:40. The fifth lap done by Don, Fred Nutsch had Bingham in first with a (1631) hit a rock and rolled his 49:22, Smith in second with a car during the first lap and was 51:09, Bowers in third with a unable to finish, the de.sert 52:28, Cain up to fourth with a claimed its first victim. Baker slow 1:07:38 and his engine act-was able to hold onto first for ing up again and Blakely in fifth the second lap with· a slightly with a 1:04:04. Rencher's car slower 47:43, Bingham's 47:35 suffered a broken rear torsion kept him in second and Smith arm and had to stop during the was still in third with a 49: 10. lap. The sixth lap ended with Rencher was still in fourth with the three places remaining the a 49:55 and Bowers moved up same, Blakely moving up to to fifth with a 51 :48. Cain's en-fourth and Cain's motor finally gine was still giving him prob-quitting on him. The race ended lems and a flat tire slowed to a after seven laps and Smith and 1: l 7: 20 and was now in sixth. Bowers were able to move ahead Blakely had picked up the pace of Bingham because Todd had to a 1:14:30 up one place to sev-run out of fuel giving the nod enth. Maness and Hansen lost to Scott and Ty finished second. the pinion gear and had to re-The fat lap belonged to Mike tire dashing Sharon's hopes for Baker on the first lap and was her first win. Baker wouldn't good enough for the fastest lap lead the third lap because the of the day. Smith's borrowed motor gave up. Mike didn't 1600 ran strong and Scott had seem to think that there was too a workout with no power steer-much damage and would be ing on the '70 Chenowth. · ready for Jackpot in July. The trucks were out in force Bingham's consistent 47:31 _ again making the biggest class would give him the lead, of the race and from talking to Dusty Times

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Ty Bowers ran close all the way, and ended his day in second place in Todd Bingham had the lead for a while, but ran out of fuel and dropped Andy Schifanel/i and Juan Harris brought their Ford F-150 up from an his good looking, patriotically painted 1600 car. back to finish third in the close 1-2/1600 division. early fourth place, to finish in second place. inute lead over sec-take class honors. Schifanelli nd. Schifanelli, on the closed the gap to withiri four ther hand saw that it minutes to capture second, as time to put the Newton was in third and the .. , ammer down and last one to complete the re-,,-%,J turned in a 56:20 to quired six laps. The teams in the take over second place. Truck class have been coming he Sims had some on strong for the last couple of uspension problems years and the racing has been " and slowed to 2:02:02 close and exciting . .... and third, hopefully. The Challengers were up · the field welding in the next with seven in the class and ~-~ its would hold long ready to try to dethrone the nough for them to fin- · King of the Challengers, Dave Mike and Carrie Sims had some suspension troubles on their short-bed Chevy, but got quick repairs and managed to salvage a nice third place. ~=-......----'"~__.,ish the race. Newton Morse. Dave is on a winning Mick and Michael Newton, of"Snortin'Norton"T-shirtfame, decideahad some spring streak that is hard to imagine, to have some fun this race, and drove their VB powered Chevy Novatrouble and took two years and six races. Dave is tofourthintheHeavyMetalclass. 1:30:18 to stay in always smooth and consistent the drivers, one of the biggest truck classes running anywhere in the desert. The thunder was rolling in the desert again. The always entertaining Cam Pea-cock and Randy Potter (713), would take the lead on the first lap, his time of 51:37 was quick-est for the class. The ultra clean CJ-7 of Gordon Scott and com-pany (380) would cross the line next with a time of 52:04, third was the short bed Chevy of Mike and Carrey Sims with a time of 52: 19, Andy Schifanelli and Jaun Harris put their Ford F-150 into fourth with a time of 53:30, in fifth, was Mick and Michael Newton (650), of Snortin' Nortin's T-shirt Fame in their V-8 -powered Nova. Mick took over driving duty and -left the shirt printing in the ca-pable hands of Sandy, his. wife, and their daughter. Mick's time for one lap was 1:01:49, Joe Kellogg and his crew were in sixth in their nice Ford Ranger and a time of 1:06:59. William and Holly Snitchler (761), were seventh in their new Jeep Grand Cherokee fresh from California, this was their first time racing with B.O.R.E., and they were ready to have a good time. It took them 12:07:27 to complete their lap in the West Utah desert. Les Seal and Tony Durbin (711), in their Ford Ranger were in eighth with a time of 1:22:18, power steering problems were the cause of the long lap. Robin Doutre (827) wasn't getting fuel to his Chevy's engine and took a long 2: 16:44 to figure out the prob-lem. Jeff and Denise Lange (348) weren't able to complete the first lap due to an axle fail-ure. The good looking Jeep was trying to get past the 7 61 car when the desert swallowed them up. Mike Hickey and Bo Brunyer (877), in the bright yel-low '65 Ford F-100, likewise were unable to complete the first lap with mechanical ail-ments. We hope to see them all at Jackpot, good luck! By the second lap Scott had moved to the front of the pack with a Dusty Times 51 :58, the Sims were up to sec- problems. Schifanelli moved up fourth. Kellogg was in fifth with and will try to keep his winning ond turning in a time of 53:47, to fourth with a 54:42, Newton a 1:03:27. After six laps, Scott ways. The first lap had none Newton was up to third with a dropped· back a little to fifth crossed the finish line in first to Continued on page 44 time of 57:15. Kellogg was now with a time of 1:22:20. Peacock in fourth with a time of 57:44 wasinsixthwithatimeof53:51 and Schifanelli had dropped one and Seal had some minor prob-position to fifth with a time · of lems that put him in at 1. 14: 44, 1:25:41, shock and tie rod prob- good for seventh. After four laps lems were the culprit. Seal Gordon was looking tougher moved up to sixth with a lap of and tougher with a time of 1:01:56. Peacock had helm joint 58:47. The Sims were still run-woes that put him back to sev-ning strong in second with a enth crossing the line at time of 55:04, Schifanelli was 1:47:23. With the fuel delivery on the move again and took problems taken care of Doutre over third, his time was 5 7: 18 was running strong again turn-for the 28 miles. Newton was ing the clock a_t 52:50. The also moving up with a 54:36 and Snitchlers didn't finish the lap in fourth. Peacock was in fifth due to a broken wheel and front with a time of 57:05, Kellogg suspension parts after they was suffering from brake prob-launched their Jeep off of the lems and he dropped back to gravel pit jump with some big sixth with a long lap time of air.ThethirdlaphadScottstill 2:22:25. Seal's equally long in first with a consistent time of 2:26:13 lap would be his last of 52: 18, the Sims were in second the day and put him in seventh. and running strong with a time On Lap 5 Scott slowed the pace of 59:52. Kellogg was in third a bit to a 1:14:10.feeling pretty with a time of 1:00:05 and no comfortable with about an 18 •=-= Iii (BOO} 656-3376 1 03 Press Lane, #4 Chula Vista, CA 91910 M-F 9:00 - 6:00 SAT 10:00 - 3:00 (619) 691-9171 • Fax: (619) 691-0803 E-Mail: rprod1@aol.com July 2000 JUST A REMINDER We've moved! 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Mike Conners managed a fine second place finish in the Challenger Scott Butcher had serious suspension woes all day long, but managed to work his way up to third place in the Challenger class nonetheless. Troy Tippetts enjoyed the rough course, and put his 5-1600 oval window Bug up into second place in the Sportsman class. class, even without rear brakes. other than Dave Morse (996) in the lead with a 56: 21, next was Brett North (913) with a 56:41 in second. Mike Conner (987) with a time of 56:59 in third. Fourth was Stacy Temple (920) with a 57:52 and in fifth was Cam Blackley (931) with a 58:04. Scott Butcher (969) was · in sixth with a time of 59:31 with the suspension not q·uite up to the challenge. Pat Ellis and Simon McPeak (911) worked most of the winter This is the ~ystem run by most off road race winners GO FOR. building their new car and were Conner was in second with a having some minor problems close 55: 17 and about 40 sec-and rolled, but getting the bugs onds separated the two. Temple worked out taking just a little was in third turning a 58:43, longer to finish the lap at Blackley in fourth with a 58:44. 1:06:09. Three minutes and 10 Ellis moved up to fifth with a seconds covered the first six 58:45, Butcher dropped to sixth cars and it almost looked like a with a time of 1: 10:44, the sus-train on the course. The Chal-pension still wasn't working ""' lengers always have close com- properly and North fell all the petition and that makes good way to seventh with a 12:24:18. racing. The second lap had The third lap resuJts had Morse Morse still in the lead and set-in first with a 55:4 7, Conner in ting the class fast lap at 5 5: 13, second with a 1: 04: 04, Blackley in third with a 1:00:14 and El-lis up to fourth with a 1:00:25. Temple slowed to a 2:37:42, in fifth and Butcher was in sixth with a 1:29:12. Brett North re-tired and would have to settle TRI-MIL BOBCAT QIROME 1984-9-1 CORVETTE ? 1/2" OR 3" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER for seventh. Morse was control-ling the pace and the race cross-ing the line after four laps, still in the lead with a time of 1:01:26, a hard jump that rang Dave's bell put things back into perspective. Blackley moved up to second with a 1:05:33 lap. Conner fell to third with a lap time of 1:24:57, brake problems slowed him a bit, but he wasn't ready to give up. Temple was in fourth with a 1:01:32 and Butcher was nursing his car in fifth with a time of 1:05:33. El-lis broke a spindle and did not finish the lap, sixth was it for the new car. Lap 5 was (yawn) Morse in firsr"{again) with a lap of 59: 18, Conner in second, fig-uring out how to drive with no rear brakes with a lap of 1:00:09. Butcher was now in third with a 1 :02:00 and was the In the run-what-you-brung Sportsman Class, Bruce Lierman drove his two-seat Class 1 0 car to victory, and got the class fast lap time also. last car to finish the lap. Black- desert, but was doing good on the ley broke a ball joint and rough course. Troy Tippets (553) Temple stopped on the course and his team had a nice oval win-with terminal problems. The dow Class 5-1600 Bug they were race ended with Morse taking going to put through the paces first for the seventh time in a and came in second with a lap of row (sorry Dave, but I've got to 54:49. Third was the Air Force write it) . Conner made a very guys from Hill AFB, Mike and impressive showing in second Chris Chamberlain (S-77) _and and Butcher, despite all the sus- their "just rolled at pre-running'; pension troubles managed to buggy with a 56:27. Kim Presley hang on to third. (927c) was driving the Pike's Peak Last race of the day folks, the racer for the first time and was Sportsman class, a "run what-u- enjoying himself with a lap of bring" mix of open wheel cars, 1:03:36. Dave Short and Kenny bugs, Class 10s or even Pike's peak McKnight (58) couldn't finish race cars, just have fun and be their first lap and dnfed. Lierman careful. The race was on and in took first on the second lap with first was the 10 car of Bruce a 54:03, followed by the Cham-Lierman (1221) and a big crew berlains in second with a 55:45. from the Northern Washington Tippets was in third with a area with a lap time of 54:05, the 1:00:37 and Kim in fourth with a car wasn't jetted right for the high 1:01 :34. Lierman was the mark of consistency with his third :54 lap, • Custom Pro Cell Bradders with seamless super-tough, triple coated construction • 10 year Bladder warranty • Safety loam battling 13220 HALLDALE AVENUE GARDENA, CA 90249 310-217-9233 Fu•I Sale's "Pro c,11• is our lop-ot-lh~lint racing cell that comes ,.,r1y to install and It's backed by a /ull 10 year warranty. • Custom manufactured aluminum containers • FIA-FT3, SCORE and SOOA approved • Custom manufactured tillers • • (800) 433-6524 technical hotline • Over 25 years experience this one was 54:28, Wow! Tippets moved back into second with a 55:34 and the Chamberlains were dealing with a stuck throttle put-ting them back in third with a 1:19:49. Presley was cruising in fourth with a 1:03:45, pretty con-sistent herself. The fourth lap was Lierman in first, with a 1 :03: 10, Tippets in second with a 1:02:52 and the Chamberlains in third with a 1 :02:58. Kim had to stop on the course with a broken throttle cable and settled for fourth in her first desert race. Lap 5 ended with Lierman still in first with a time of 1:01:42, Tippets in second with a 1 :03 :06 and the Chamberlains retiring because of the sticking throttle problem. Lierman finished the race in first, set class fast lap and had fun do-ing it. Tippets finished in second and enjoyed the rough course. Well, that's it for the Challenge this year. Jackpot is up next, July 8. At the awards ceremony Les Wolfe informed everyone the Jackpot race would be a double points race! So anybody out there can make up points if you missed the Challenge this time. Come on out to the best racing in the _desert brought to you by B.O.R.E. ■ Page 44 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED July 2000 e for more Info call or write to: Airaaft Rubber/Fuel Safe 63257 Nels AndefSOO Road Bend, Oregon 97701 (54 1) 388--0203 (541 )388--0307 fax http://www.fuelsafe.com Dusty Times

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Challenger earner By Joel Mohr RAC E RESULTS: M . O . R . E . BADLANDS 250: Ro b ert Stapp was kind eno ug h to e -m ail m e this report. Five 9 cars started, and they were: Mike Rix, Tyler Peterson, Stapp, Jeff King, and B.J . Proctor. The Lap 1 leader was Rix, with Peterson close behind, Proctor, then us, with King dow n by 10 minutes with a flat. Everyone w as running consistently in the 37 to 39 minute range, and by Lap 5 the order was Rix, Proctor, Peterson, Stapp and King. At that point it seems the Gremlins came out, and all hell broke loose for a couple of the teams. Peterson's car (with Scott Johnson driving), cased it on a boulder and actually split the engine and the tranny cases! Rix lost his tranny, and tha t left Proctor. leading . King in second, and us third. We broke three tie rod ends, one each on Laps 7, 9 and 10. We chased in the p arts and managed to get going again. King h a d a flat on Lap 6 , but was running fast .and on the last la p got crossed up o n some fast roUers and rolled it three time s . By this t im e , Proctor, a lt h o u gh losing first gea r and his clutch slipping h ad ta ke n the win . W e were the only other survivor, a n d actually opted to "plow" in with the t hird of our broken tie rod e nds. The course was 10 laps of a 22.6 mile loop, ·and most of the drivers described it as "Very rough and rocky, with some flat. out long straights thrown in for fun." The next M.O.R.E. race is The Freedom 250 Night Race on July 8th. Thanks Rob!!! RUMOR MILL: The Robert Riffle single seat J imco was sold to Robert Otwell, and he is planning to start out in Sportsman unless he can get some kind of sponsorship. Robert is a very enthusiastic individual, and I know he will do well. T h e Walters brothers a r e just about ready to debut their new car, but want everything to be "just right." I have heard o f a couple of other teams forming, and I th in k we can look forward to our class to have continued growth. If you have a ny questions or comments, my p hone numbe r is (760) 947-8647. S E E YOU A T THE RACES!!! /?f C zy News ,=,on,The Direetor The CRS Rally season has officially started with the successful running of the Rim of the World Rally May 5th and 6th in Palmdale, CA. The organizers, Mike and Paula Gibeault, Steve Bender and Craig McHugh, with the able help of Ray Hocker, Michele Gilleault and Chrissy Beavis, put on a fabulous event. The Rim "Chain Gang" prepared the roads with gravel and sweat over m any w eekends t o provide a usable course for the competitors. This yea r the Forest S ervice could notgradethe roadsasthe y have in the past so the "Chain Gang" stepped in and with a dump truck and a lot of m anual labor did the work themselves. Thanks, withou t your hard work there would not be Rim of the World Rally. A total of 5 1 entries started the event with 40 of · those participating in the Club Rally. This year saw a lot of new rally cars in the entry and many new faces. The level of competition has just stepped up a notch with lots of fast cars and drivers. Rally is now the fastest growing segment in the SCCA. Move over all you P roSolo folks, we are a force to be reckoned with. CACTUS RACING RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES BELL SHOE!. SIMPSON Helmets SNELL 95, SA 95 FOR SODA Complete Blower Systems for single or double seat cars. . Helmet conversions, cool boxes, Complete line of PYROTECl, FILLER Safety Products & BEL Motorsport'i. We ship UPS daily. From $299.00 Helmet & Skirt 5153 Bowden Avenue - San Diego -CA-92117 - 858-279-2509 Dusty Times T h e spectator stages were well attended . Friday n ight's S tage 1 spectator stage was a b last with the crowd cheering us o n . Saturday's Charit y R ally Cross r a ised funds fo r P alm d ale c h arities and the pare expose was pack e d . Unfortunately , Stev e Westwood got a little too e n thusiastic on the charity r u n and rolle d his car. Unable to replace his windshield in time to start S aturday's stages h e h ad to withdraw. Bummer, Steve! However, it was all for a good c a use. These are the sort of events we all need to support as it generates lo t s of goodwill i n the community for our sport and we need all the good community relations we can get to keep our rally venues. Friday night saw Tony Chavez run out of gas. Been there, done that. He was seen wandering the A TC with a · hose and gallon jug he had scrounged. He did manage to steal, I mean borrow enough gas to get going and get to service. How big is that fuel call? Nick Taylor and Josh Armbruster are the first Capt. Crunchers for the year. They rolled Nick's Toyota Friday night and couldn't make-repairs to restart on Saturday. This car is Nick's daily driver so I guess he'll be riding his m otorcycle for a while. Sean Otto and J ason Lane had tough luc k with the M azda GLC and did not finish . Mark Brown and Ole H olte r who a re usu ally a threat in the Performance Stock class, had problems on Friday as well and retired. Matt "Wanna to huy a used Oscar?" Sweeney and LuLu Straub, who have been fast on the rally crosses this year had trouble with their Toyota pickup. Leon Styles, who teamed up with "Mr. RX7" Larry Scott had teething problems with the newest RX7 in the CRS on Friday night. They made it to the Saturday event and finished a respectable 15th. Mark Peterson and Scott Peterson had problems Friday night as well but had them corrected and finished on Saturday rally as well. Gary English and Kengo Takahash i showed all of us t hat a n Alfa R o meo can indeed compe t e successfully in a rally. T hey finish e d both days. Another new entry was th e MGB GT p repared a n d race d by Keith Wheeler and Ken Lazaru s . They finish ed both d ays and took first in .Stock on Frid ay and second in CRS Stock class on S aturda y . Robert Sudhop and Louis Panelli, who are absolute rally rookies with one rally cross under their belt, did a great job of finishing Rim in their Eclipse . Richard Byford and his wife., Fran, piloted the screaming yellow BMW around the Rim course easily. This was their first rally together. Once Fran figured out that the calibration factor in her Terra trip on those 13" wheels was half of what the rest of us are-using she did a great job. John Shults and Don Shreyer cruised through the rally in John's Mazda RX3. William and Julie Yates finished the ii second rally in the MR2. It is great to see all of these new folks out on the rally course after seeing them at rally school and working as volunteers. Tony Chavez, once he figured out you have to fill the gas tank, torched the course on Saturday and won the Club Rally with Eddie C ardenas in the co-driver's se a t . Eddie is the most poised 1 7 year old I have met lately. How he remains calm in the car with the Peruvia n Flash is beyon d me. George Plsek a n d Renn Phillips. finally got the Audi Quattro to behave as it sh ould. Last year as you will re member, they had the new car woes. This time it ran great and they took third overall in the Pro Rally. Jay Streets and Bill Feyling are getting just too darn fast! They finished seventh overall in the ProRally and first in Group 2. Congratulations, boys. Thomas Liljeqvist and Roine Anderson took home the Group 5 trophy in the ProRally in the Coffee Fresh Volvo. Bradney Boli and Gary German finally got their Honda repaired from last ADA VIS GLOBAL MEXICAN INSURANCE FOR AS LOW AS $58A YEAR BY FAX - OR - PHONE 1-800-909-4457 FAX 1-800-909-1007 PLEASE VISIT US AT: http://mexicoinsurance.com or e-mail us at: INFO@MEXICOINSURANCE.COM July 2000 year's Gorman rollo ver and led t h e way in the P e rforma nce S tock class. The Jack from Jack in the Box who survived the crash by clingin g to the antenna last year w as seen attached to the front air d am of the car with a blin d fold on and cigarette in his m outh. No need to worry Jack, the boys slowed down for the corner tha t got them last year. I wonder where J ack will ride on the next rally. Patrick Rodi and Ron Cohen had a nice run in their RX7 and finished both grueling days. Bruce "The Geezer formerly known as Studmuffin" Brown and Pat "Miss Mazda" Brown had a clean run in their Mazda 323. Are we ever going to see the Subaru or is it a figment of our imagination, Bruce? Lauchlin O'Sullivan was rippin' it up in his new Mitsubishi Eclipse till it all came apart literally on Saturday. His co-driver Mark Tabor got left behind after he hiked up the road a ways to display his triangle and OK sign and Lauchlin got a tow for a short distance. Next time, Mark, display the sign a little closer to the car. Tom Bler got a ride into the manzanita when the RX7 of Andrew Havas left the course on Saturday after about the second of nine water bars. The beautifully prepared Porsche 911 of Claire and Dennis Chizma was on the way to a Production class w in when the car broke in h alf and they had to retire or drag the engine down the road . Paul T immerma n got the Bomb Out aw a rd for never m aking it o u t of Palmdale after Stage 2. Oh well, last year Capt. Crunch, this year it's a Bomb Out, Paul, we are running out of awards for you. All in all, this rally had a lot of highs and lows for the C RS competitors. You can never take Rim of the World for granted. The second SCCA rally school is scheduled for September 9 and 10. Ray Hocker is the organizer. Contact him at (760) 375-3289. This is a great way to improve your rally skills whether you are a new driver or an old hand at rallying. Details will follow in the next CRS mailing. Our next rally is on the calendar for August 19th in Gorman, CA. Harris Done, Larry Scott and Ray Hocker put together this Coefficient 3 rally. The headquarters is the Flying J Truck Stop and Motel in Frasier Park. To contact Harris for further details call (310) 458-0199. Also if any of you have time, mark your calendar for August 4, 5, and 6 for the Annual SCCA Sopac meeting in Phoenix, AZ. I know Phoenix in August (Yuck!) but Doug and I attended last year and the Continued on page 47 Page 45

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rally round table was the best attended. I would like to see more rally faces to show our strength to the SCCA powers that be. Be careful out there and see you at the start line. l?f Magnificent .Race Team By Stephen Stenberg, President Hello again. By the time you read this, the year 2000, Tecate Score Baja 500 will be over with. Our next big race of the Score season will be the Primm 300 in August. For the first time in years, Mag 7 will be there to race and support our members. Member applications will be mailed out in mid June for the Primm race. Mag 7 can be located at Buffalo Bill's. We will conduct our pit pick up out in the parking lot from 5-7 p.m. the night before the race. Just look for our banner attached to a large, white enclosed trailer. Call or e-mail us if you need pit support for the race. Mag 7 currently maintains an active icon on the front of the Score Web page. Click· on it and you will go directly to our web site. We now take Visa, MasterCard and Diner's Card for race fees. Meanwhile, back to the Baja 500. Mag 7 will be putting out five pits. Four are regular full service pits for all our entries. Pit # 1 (Shawn & Terri Wells) is a special motorcycle/quad only gas pit at Race Mile 51. Pit #2 (Bill "Krash" Kruckmeyer) is at the Compadre Road crossing at Race Mile 87 .6. Pit #3 (Tim Barlow) is on the Mile's Sky Ranch Road at Race Mile 200. Pit #4 (John Venters) is located on the coast at Race Mile 300. Pit #5 (Stephen Stenberg) is located north of Ojos Negros, just two miles north of the schoolhouse at Race Mile 391.5. For '" ,s race we are pitting eight bikes, five Dusty Times buggies and one Class 7 truck. These cover classes 21, 40, 25, SPT>MC, Class 5 -1600, Class 7, Class 9, Class 11 and Class 12 (Mark Fodor, class leader). Mag 7 wishes to thank their sponsors for helping us to race the Tecate Score Baja 500. These sponsors are ORW (858-565-7792), Juice Designs (www.race.dezert.com/ jdfab), SKS Valvoline (www.valvoline.com) and new for this year, Williams T ,e 1 D a t a (eric@wreteam.com). Thanks go out to all four of your companies for helping us race. this year. If you want to visit them on the net, go to our web page at www.mag7race.com and travel down to the sponsorship section. All of our sponsors have active icons with us that will take you directly to their web sites. New as of May 2000, is the sponsorship from IMS Products. Mag 7 just tied down a sponsorship deal from IMS Products for the Tecate Score Baja 2000 in November. The sponsorship has to do with their four gallon motorcycle dump cans with stands. These are the four gallon, clear plastic, dry brake dump cans that you see Kawasaki and Honda use at all of their off ro;.ld pits. Mag 7 will be taking orders for these dump cans from June 10th thru October 21st. This sponsorship is only available to year 2000, Mag 7 members. Currently, Mag 7 has 16 pit captains, lined up at one for every 100 miles of the race course for the upcoming Tecate Score Baja 2000. We are looking for a total of 22 captains, in order to run pits every 80 miles. Our current 16 pit captains include four pit crews from the Baja Union 76 Pit Service, run by Alfredo Munoz in Baja California. Mag 7 is proud to announce that the Baja Union 76 Pit Service is coming Next Month ... "joining up with Mag 7 name is Fred. Or you can Race Team to provide full e-mail him at pit service for this race. Fredschl@home.com. Phone This includes, but is not hours are from 8:00 a.m. to limited to, hauling and 9:30 p.m., PST, seven days dumping your fuel, a week. Or you can e-mail changing tires and shocks me at using your supplied spares, President@Mag7race.com. welding, wrenching, being -Either way, we will get back there in the middle of the to you shortly. We have night with our generators been taking calls from both and lights blazing, FM here in the U.S. and radio support, first aid at all overseas on pit support-pits, water and food and a questions for the Tecate highly motivated pit crew Score Baja 2000. It looks that wants to see each like it will be a great-rac·e! entrant finish the race and Meanwhile, I'll provide a win! We have our own complete report on how we dump cans, tools and jacks. did at the Baja 500 in the Pit applications for next issue. And ag.ain, we members will be mailed out will be sending out pit the first week in August. support applications for the Again, congratulations and· Primm 300 right after the welcome aboard goes out to running of the Baja 500. Baja Union 76 Pit Service •, Call or e-mail us if you from the Magnificent 7 need one. Until next Race Team for the month, be safe. Adios from upcoming Tecate Score Team Baja · at Baja 2000 in November. www.Mag7race.com. That does it. 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Assembly • Machine Work • Parts K~n Major 10722 Kenney Street, Suite C • Santee, CA 92071 (619) 596-0886 YOUR, OFF-ROAD Catch us o,n the Net/ SPECIALISTS/ www.mckenzies.com . PHONE:(714) 441-1212 FAX:(714) 441-1622 2366 E. ORANGETHORPE AVENUE, ANAHEIM, CA 92806 • Offrood McKenzie's • Rood COU'Se Ontrack Performance Center • Drog Racing • Oval Track • Fabncotion (818) 909-7487 • Welding (818) 909-7562 fox • Chassis ond 7834 N. Sepulveda Blvd. #A2 Suspension Von Nuys, CA 91405 Specialist ~ ~.RC.HAFT. ,Ra:.ce p~ www.mastercraftseats.com Seats • Nets • Limit Straps • Bags 10925-F Hartley Road • Santee, CA 92071 619/449-9455 • Fax: 449-9454 MIKE MENDEOLA 290 Trousdale Drive, Suite I & J Chula Vista, CA 91910 (619) 691-1000 24 Hour Fax (619) 691-1324 661-940-5515 Specialty Fabrication & Product Sales Pre-Runners, Trucks & Sand Buggies 2280 Shasta Way unit #115 Simi Valley, Ca. 93065 Lance Fuller (805)522-4499-c-mail@t-lr'2.5P'2r5PLU5@JP5.IJEr MSD" ■t.34l/LJt.14l■ ■1,-;1 t••1,•, • YOUR COMPLETE IGNITION SOURCE AUTOTRONIC CONTROLS CORPORATION 1 4!30 HENRY BRENNAN DR., EL PASO, TX 7!3!336 19151 857-5200 • TECH LINE 19151 855-7123 • VISIT OUR WEB SITE: www.msdignition.com TAKE A LAP AROUND THIS! WWW.MURFINK.COM Dune Buggy Parts Race Car Parts Foreign Car Parts @~<dl New Truck Acc. Dept. : Custom Machine Work&: Fabrication l\Jl~ID' 1 (800) 231-8156 l\Jlf}Plly 2525 E. 16th St. • Yuma, AZ 85365 (520) 783-6265 • FAX (520) 783-1253 OFF ROAO CHASSIS ~ 18124 GRAND A.VE. I.AKE ELSINORE, CA 92530 Complete Off Road & Performance Preparation for Trucks & Vans CUSTOM SUS,.IENSION • PRE•RUN TRUCKS AXLIE SERVICE • WIELDING 81 FA■RICATION NO DISCO TRUCKS BWMontague Eat. 1974 909-678-1029 PACIFICALLY L A · N D S C A P E "&~g,~~,, Patrick A Bessie DESIGN • CONSTRUCTION• IRRIGATION , MAINTENANCE , WATERSCAPES XERisCAPING • ROCKSCAPE Lic.390104 (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 ,~~~©7t1 SAFETY EQUIPMENl MAXON, MOTOROLA, ROAOMASTER, VERTEX RADIOS ., BELL, 'sHOEI, SIMPSON HELMETS IN STOCK . WIRiNG FOR RADIO &/OR INTERCOM STILi. ONLY S 12,;. 2888 GUNDRY AVE. lb SIGNAL HILL, CA 90806 562-427-8177 1 l 800-869-5636 W, • A • Jerry Penhall '949-650-3035 •, Fax 949-650-4721 1660 Babcock Bldg. tB Costa Mesa. CA 92e27 PORSCHE., 93iJ-4-speed • S yean race-tested with no cracked gears or pinions • • Synchromesh or ~-~. dog-engagement • 4.22 R&P (4.88 option ,. Shotpeened 9310 • Choice of clutches • Gearsets & components • Cqmplete race transmission $7,900 Phone oR Fax (808) 87 -6812 * All T,.._• of Steel Cl Aluminum Fabricati-• Tube Beadinc * Ahaaiaum U St..t W.ldinc • Custom Machine Work • All Types ol Race Cars 4851 W. Hacienda 14 Lu Vegas, NV 89118 Bruce Jl'raley · 702-36S~90SS ~\l{) Stllh ~ ~ ~ Todd Francis ~ P11ci1io11 Alloy, /,Id, ~ 25805 1'B 46 ... Avemie ~ t,Ridgefteld, WA 98642 ,$ ;of' ~ · Phone ~$. ~'IJ: Fax ·a60-887-2000 7on & · 360-887-7279 PROTRUCK RACING ORGANIZATION A High Performance Spec VB Race Truck Series "The True .Driver's Class" Protruck Sales and Promotion Website: www.protruck.com Emall: protruck@prodlgy.net Tel: 619.449.6252 Fax: 619.449.6470 9409 Abraham Way Santee, CA 92071-2584 CUSTOM ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS FOR RACE CARS, TRUCKS, PRERU,,.,NERS BUGGIES, STREET RODS, DRAG CARS QUALITY RACE CAR wm.ING SERVING ALL OF L.A., ORANGE & 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 19'70 903/683-1599 Rusk, TX FAX ~29 OFF ROAD ENTHUSIASTS -GIVE US A CALL .,

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Hi-Performance Equipment Suspension • Safety • Driveline • Accessories Mike Cohen (619) 691·9171 (619) 691-9174 (619) 691-0803 (FAX) 103 Press Lane, Suite #4 Chula Vista, CA 91910 e-mail: rprod1@aol.com 1-800-929-4360 www.RACESHOCK.coM S. B. ENGINEERING "SUPER BOOT11 HCR66,· BOX 11030 PAHRUMP (CRYSTAL) NV,89048 (775) 372-5335 Qua\it~ Used -Parts 1040 South M ain Strt>d, Fallbrool-.., CA 9::!028 l"r\'-: 76tl-71.1-2117 F-!\1.-\11. hajarac~ 11llh c,,m PIIO'.'JI ?oll-723-2117 C.ALL U'b Fl~'bT! '9"ARACING t!l1/,/ GASOLINE ··100 110 i14 118" 111et!1anoI /1. n1lro ~w ... --™!Z..~ 118. Pbouix,Arizona l!JC ~ ----Suspension Components For Racing And Recreational Applications Shock Service Available on all brands ...• Fast Tum-Around!! · G.-L. Bryant, Inc. • Commercial Fuels & Lubes • High Performance Lubes Upgrade Your Vehicle Suspension Affordably-Utilizing Our Trade-In Policy (602) 493-3700 Fax.: (602) 493-0975 Ing. Alfredo Mulfoz llop. EnM6Jdco Gaoolina de Alto Randi,.._ fn Vehicutoo Deportlvoo. 1221Socc. loo~ C.P. 22420 Toi: (66) 811-~71 y 81-37-31 e-m1il:18racing@tefnor.net C TRANS will get you ii gear SWilg axle, ••s, bewlatd, MD4S 3455 S. POlARIS #5 lAS VIGAS, IEVADA 89102 .IIBI D.O. lllllfflN (702) 221-43&3 (702) 117-9724 RACING TRANSAXLES 1700 EAST MAIN ST. EL CAJON, CA 92021 CHRIS ROSE /6191 443·2480 1-800-399-:-4176 209-537-1·565 fax • On-Site Fuel Distribution • Technical Assistance • Fuel & Lubes Handling Equip. flJJJ SANDERS SERVICE. INC. METAL PROCESSING 5921 Wilmington Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90001 ()23) 583-2404 FAX (323) 583-3965 SANDBLAST-GLASS qEAD-MAGNETIC PARTICLE FLOURESCENT INSPECTION Mark Smith SANTEK TRAILERS CUSTOM TRAILER MANUFACTURING Larry Smith 201 Gemini Avenue, Brea, CA 92821 (714) 449-1395 Fax. (714) 449-1425 TIM CECIL 849 Lambert • Brea, CA 92821 (714) 447-3581 Fax (714) 672-9246 JGB SITE SIGNS • B~NNERS • IW.OCW LffiEP.1',G • CAR LETTERl'lG • GR,\P~ICS SGUEAK & MARGIE C OATS 5101 Ga, ::ay C1rc!e · • H,, ,, · .1' Beach CA 9264~ (714) 897-0075 • Fe, :,14J 694 gc;57 ~ s~ e"4tMH, &~ &~to-1(/i# e«aom ~ -Cctt Ptato-45-410 # 10 &-eue St. y,o~:347~.50.52 1"40. eA 92201 Paul Dumas 805-64 7-7700 Phone 805-647-7023 Fax 805-340-6704 Mobile Sports Racing Products . LA 6338 N . Marina Pacifica Dr., #K15 Long Beach, 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 . J Jtl/waf't I . ~ Custom Preparation & Fabrication Race Trucks • Buggies • Pre-Runners (619) 449-9728 fAX (619) 449-2678 9419 Abraham Way, Suite "A", Santee, CA 92071 nt. ALUMINUM WHEEL STRAIGHTENING 31510 223rd Street East Llano. CA 93544 · 661-261-3202 SUNDRY METAL SPINNING Phone {562) 928-9838 Fax {562) 928-0778 METAL SPINNING EXCELLENCE • ALUMINUM • STEEL • BRASS • COPPER • STAINLESS 6831 Swa Street Bell Gardens, CA 90201 JOHN AVALOS OWNER

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RACE FUELS (209) 847-2281 (800) 527-6090 FAX (209) 847-9726 P.O. Box 248 • 524 N. Sierra Ave. WESTERN DIVISION Oakdale, California 95361 Design Fabrication lnstailatlon Darren Ebberts (909) 340-4684 FAX (909) 340-4689 1 '21 S POMONA ROAD • SUITE l • CORONA CA 9'288'2 ,.., m.tPUTERIZEO VINYL ~PH/CS & LETTERING 1•11,1 I WM I ,., LO-COST 61-DGSIGNS{Al.1'. Pf/!OCESSE5) ,-. TIU\OE SI-OW OISPLl'l'J'S ,_ fl/!ACING G~,,.HICS ,.., OETA/LEO & LNIQUE OESIGNS ,_ FLEET VEHICLES ,.., HJ-QLJl'\LrrY ~NNERS ,,.._MAGNETICS ,.., LOGO REPROOUCTONS ,,.._ 11!!.EAL. ESTATE ,.., LOGO & GRAPHIC OESIGN ,,.._ DECALS -~ ~ SUSPENSIONS • UNLIMITED . .... .... OFF ROAD RACING SPECIALISTS WELDING• FABRICATUV • CNCPI.ASMAWmNG • FRCIVTENOS • REARTRAIUNGARMS RACE 0/ASSIS • ffERUN/1/ERS • fDX RAO/VG SHJX • SANDBUGGES 4050 LEAVERTON CT. ANAHEIM, CA 92807 LARRY ROSEVEAR PHONE (714)630-4482 FAX (714)6304548 audio video security -~Wlabile' · · ,,,.....,_--~ --autos ..... - g .----. s · · ~~~-,-.~-rAe\ec\tot\\C marine ~ ,_nt\t\~ RV . ottn.a= s 'tl\g · race vehicles Allen ~ohnston buggies 619.596.1925 11420 N. Vbodside Ate. Santee, CA 92071 fax 619.596.2638 * OH-Road and Bolt-On to Street Fiberglass for: "Ford, Chevy and Toyota" Trucks * Carbon Fiber Parts and Custom Molds 1121 N. Buena Vista St. , Hemet Ca. 92543 Ph: 909-654-7334 Fax: 909-654-2375 See a list of our products at our web site: http:/ /www.fiberglass1 .oom 1Ulix'te ENCilNEElaNCi JEFF FIELD (818) 998-2739 9763 Varlel Ave. Chatsworth, CA 91311 (ujP) UNIQUE METAL PRODUCTS 10729 WHEATLANDS AVENUE, SUITE #A SANTEE. CALIFORNIA 92071 TEL. • 619 / 449-9690 FAX • 619 / 449-8424 BfaUCE HENDEL Regional Manager VP Racing Fuels, West Co<!,Sf P..O. Box 1,319 · • '34283 'Monte Vista Wildomar, CA 92595 0 C CD -i C ~ (/) o--n m ~ ► () (/) X ► C/l I\) ~~ ~ .I>, iil c.n 5 (/) m - O - C () '3' !!1_z ::::;.; 0 0 ~ 3 3 -· Ill Ill ~ CD a. ~ m· o ► ~ < ~ Phone: (909) 674-9167 Fax: (909) 674-7367 Pager: (909) 694-7392 Welding V.W. - Porsche - Nissan - Toyota Lorenzo Rodriguez 515 S. Vermont, Glendora, Ca. 91741 (626)91 4-8147 · Automotive . • ATV • Motorcycle 1815 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE RIVERSIDE::, CA 92507, USA 909.369.5144 • 909.369.7266FAX WWW.WEBCAMINC.COM Adam Wik 1994 SCORE ENGINE BUILDER OF THE YEAR From Parts to Complete Engines Engine Dyno Service 535 East Central Park Anaheim CA 92802 714-956-9457 ; Off Road Products Front and Rear Trailing Arms • Spindles Suspension Specialists • Custom Wheels 2733 W. Missouri Phoenix, AZ 8-?01 7 Jack Woods (602) 242-0077 i"e BUMP ·sTOPS HERE Stop the up-travel on your suspension ECONOMICALLY PRICED AT 319.90 PER PAIR. Yarnell Specialties, Inc. 102 Crestview P.O. Box 845 -1-520 -42 7 -3551 MARK ZOLLER Owner Yarnell, AZ 85362-0845 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: Class 8 Chevrolet, SCORE legal, 540hp V8 400 trans, Custom Kuster shocks, 22+ travel, coil springs FOR SALE: Class 8 Chevrolet, SCORE legal, 540hp V8 400 trans, Custom Kuster shocks, 22 + travel, coil springs front/ quarter elliptic rear, custom built top to bottom, 50 gal fuel cell, disc brakes, radio, inter-com, spare motor, tires, much more $58,700.00 oho. (626) 296-9387. FOR SALE: Class 7 Ranger, New 4.2 L. V6, Valley Trans, C4, Currie 9inc. 40 spline, Stroppe alum. Frt hubs, race frt beams & radius arms. Wilwood brakes frt & rear. Quarter ellip-tic rear susp. LeDuc buckets, National Springs, Sway-A-Way torsion bar. Alcoas, Baj a Ta's. Need completed. Call for more info $18,000.00 oho.Jim (602) 432-8192. FOR SALE: 1995 Prism Class 10 or 12 2 seat. Ready to Go. 120" wheelbase, coilovers, Fox shocks, air bumps, Toyota pow-ered, Dual Webers, 002 trans, power steering, Wright Rack & Pinion, Parker Pumper, 930 Cv's and axles. 22 gallon Fuel Cell, Great PreRunner. Large Cockpit. Runs great. Short course/desert. Ready To Go. _$15,500.00 (949) 795-1024. FOR SALE: J imco 4 seat Prerunner One Kuster Coilover per wheel with dual rate coils, 4" longer front arms, Howe Power steering, Saco rack, 4 new Mastercraft seats and pad-ded seat belts, PCI intercom, Summer Bros .. Front hubs, new tie rods and Heim ends, Custom roof rack and Removable Lexan windshield, polished Center-lines, Wired by Pro-Wire, Type 4 Motor with Bus Box, The ul-timate 4 seat prerunner!!! $28,000.00. Call Jeff @ (760) 344-6109 or (760) 996-6109. 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. FOR SALE: Porsche 911 seat Play-PreRunner Car. 2.8L RSR, Twin Plug Fuel injection, built 091 trans, 930CV, 3x3 arms, 4 wheel drive, Long travel wide beam, right spindles, Center-lines, must see to appreciate. $16,900.00 Call Martin W(760) 738-4626, H(760) 738-1619. FOR SALE: Lothringer Class 10 single seat A-Arm. Maxwell 1835cc motor w/super flow heads and custom intake, Men-deola MD4S trans., Fox internal by-pass coil-over shocks, · Sum-mers rear hubs, CNC front hubs, Fortin rack, Unique Metals power steering, axles by TCS, Car has many overall wins. For more details call (909) 608-0583. $26,500.00 complete, $17,500.00 less motor & trans. FOR SALE: Fortin 5 speed trans geared for 1 or 10 or 12, can also be mid or rear .engine fresh. DG 300 5 speed geared for 1 or 10 or 12 fresh. 2-3" x 14" three tube king Bypass shocks 2-4" S.W.A. external bypass shocks, Call Kevin McMullen racing. (602) 402-6215 or email at KMRTRANSl@aol.com. FOR SALE: 7s Ranger 2.9 L V-6, Kusters, 9" rearend, Beard Seats, 52 Fuel Cell, 12" front travel, 18" rear, Bump stops, Fluidyne coolers, much, much more!! Raced only 3 short course races since built, like new, must see to appreciate. Only $10,000.00, invested $35,000.00 (408) 778-1980. Jeff. 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 Challenge, San Felipe 250 and many top five finishes. Call Jerry Whelchel for details, $75,000.00 (949) 4 72-2024. FOR SALE: 1-1600 Finishline, Fat motor, Bus Box, 930CV's, Fox shocks w /reservoirs, Sus-pensions Unlimited, Rear Arms, 20 gal fuel cell, UMP power steering, Wright rack & pinon/ front end, Centerline wheels, BFG tires, Roadmaster radio, complete package with tons of spares. $16,500.00 or $21,500.00 with new enclosed · trailer. 949 369-7732. =-=;;:;==,;=;:; Chenowth 2-1600-Chenowth 2 seater 1600cc Class race car, Bilstein bypass shocks, BFG, Major performance motor, UMP air cleaner and power steering, 1998 chassis w/+3" headroom, Momo, Beard, CNC, Optima, Super Trapp, top of the line Bus Box, awesome Pro-Built race car! $25,900.00 Baja Brokers Ref #744 (760) 723-2117. 1978 2wd Blazer-Fresh 400 small block, TH350, 12 bolt rear end with locker! Profes-sionally done engine with new crank, pistons, cam, rocers, and pushrods. Rebuilt heads, Edelbrock, Hedman headers, rockers, Flowmaster, built B&M transmission, Custom 3" wider control arms, engine cage, 4 custom valved rancho take a parts. 15" travel front. Autofab 'glass, 33 gallon tank, new brakes, bearings, seals, ro-tors. Ready to prerun! Will !?ass smog. Too much to list!!! $8,500.00 Baja Brokers Ref #764 (760) 723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: "Lexus V8" DOHC 32 Valve Race Engines (3). Alum block & heads. Spares. Electronic fuel injection, Bosch injectors. Titanium valves. ATI damper. Carrillo rods. Weaver oil pump. 180* Scat Crank. JE Pistons. Dry sump. Motec har-ness. 550 hp. Stainless headers. $55,000.00 each (new) fresh re-build. $18,000.00 ea or $42,000.00 for everything. (714) 637-1155. Rod. FOR SALE: 2 seat Unlimited Mirage. This is a new car, all new parts. Not a refurbished race car. Built in 1999, 300 miles, Fat Type VI, Mendeola Bus box, Fox coilover front, Fox rear, Big arms and combos, Power steering, 4 wheel disc, Scharlin, Fat power steering. 25 gal fuel cell, Pumper, PCI. Pro-fessionally wired and plumbed, not raced, built for fun. Can race 2, 10, 12, this is a beautiful car. $40,000.00 invested, $28,500.00. Jim (626) 966-7509. or (909) 946-1893. FOR SALE: Chevy S-10 King Cab Ex-John Johnson truck. Protruck motor 350 4 link. Sommers Bros rear end. Fuel cell. $40,000.00 recently in-vested for total prep extra cab. Totally reliable, comfortable, streetable, Mexican plates, lots of storage compartments, etc. This truck knows its way around Baja! $28,000.00 (949) 795-1024. ············~···························································· FORSALE: Class 12orSportsman-Funco Chassis all Chromoly 119" wheel base, 1650Type 1, Bus tranny, 22 gal fuel cell, (4) Fox in front, (8) 2.0 Fox in rear, new Foddrill front arms, Woods rear arms, front and rear discs with CNC calipers, 300m tor-sion. bars, Durablue stub axles, Ump steering, Parker Pumper, Yokohamas front and rear on Ultras, very reliable, finishing car, some e~. $12,000.00 oho Call (915) 833-7902. Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in DUSTY TIMES. • Classified Advertising rate is only $25 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use of black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. Maximum size 5"x7".All Classified Ads must be PAID IN AD-VANCE. REMEMBER - CLASSIFIED AD SPACE IS LIMITED - YOUR AD MAY BE PUT OFF ONE ISSUE IF NOT RECEIVED IN A TIMELY MANNER. Enclosed is $ ----(Send check or money order, no cash) Name ----------------------------------Address __________________ Phone ___________ _ City State _ _ Zip ________ _ Please run ad times ---Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer Street Chatsworth, CA 91311 • • • • • • • • • • Class 10 single Seat A-Arm-No motor, Fresh Fortin Transaxle, Fodrill Arms, Front King Coilovers and By-pass per wheel, 19" Front Travel, SAW 300M Torsions, CNC Brakes/ Pedals, Chenowth axles, 930 CV's, King By-pass, 18" Rear Travel, PCI Radio, Beard Seat, Auto Meter Gauges. As seen in ,. April issue of Dirt Pilot Maga-: zine, Lots more!!! $29,000.00 or • best Baja Brokers Ref· #767 • (760) 723-2117. Check out our • online used parts auction at I!■■■■■••■■■■■■■■■•■■■■■■•■•■■■•■■■■■■■••■■■■■•■■■■■■■•■■■■■■■■■■■■■•■■■•: www.bajaconcepts.com. Page 54 Ju1v·2000 Dusty Times

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Fordge BroncoCharger-1989 Ford Bronco 4x4, New Dodge RAM Front Clip, 302ci Ford Engine, AOD Trans, Trussed Rear axle with 4.11 gears and Auburn Locker, 32 gallon tank, Autofab front kit, (4) Rancho front shocks per wheel, King 2.5" with reservoirs in rear, Na-tional Springs, Custom bumper, \ Full cage, Fully Custom vehicle!!! $15,000.00. Baja Brokers Ref #768 (760) 723-2117. Check out our new online parts auction at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: Class 5 Baja Bug-Race or Play $10,500.00. 2275cc motor, Bus trans, CNC disc brakes, UMP power steer-ing, Saco Rack/Pinon steering, Fox/Bilstein shocks, Pumper 1 7" rear 14" front travel, $6,500.00 without motor-Call Kevin@909-94 7-3310. FOR SALE: New 4 seat A-Arm Chassis, front and rear arms. All susp and steering done. P/ S, CNC pedals, Beard Seats, $9,000.00. Richard (909) 437-7476, Tim (562) 619-1482. FOR SALE: Class 7s Chevy S-10, V6, 700R4, Summers 9", 4130 Chromolly, Pro built truck, Super fresh & detailed. Don't wait, $12,000.00 oho (619) 248-7172 or (619) 443-1920. Bronco 2wd PreRunner-Master-craf t, Deist, Full Cage, AutoMeter, 96 Glass Frt Clip, Custom Bumper, 4.11 gears, Engine 351, Headers w/3" Flowmaster Exhaust. C6 $3,800.00 cost. Front Custom by Spirit Racing. 1 Ton Kingpin I beams, 3 Bilstein. Rear-Custom 3 link Trailing arm suspension, rear coil springs, (2) Bilsteins, 20" travel. $18,000.00 Baja Bro-kers Ref #7 53 (760) 723-2117. Check out our website at -www.bajaconcepts.com. DON'T FORGET TO SUPPORT THE ADVERTISERS WHO KEEP REPORTING THE OFF ROAD NEWS! Dusty Times FOR SALE: RaceCo 1-1600, New 1600 Fat Race motor, Fresh trans, 091 gear box 486 r/p FTC gears, new Kings 3.0 w bypass, 300m torsion bars. New Bunderson. Beam & torsion housing, Charlynn Power Steer-ing. Parker Pumper. Car freshly prep, race ready, $13,500.00 OBO . (702) 363-7992. FOR SALE:: Roger Mears Dodge Ram Pre-Runner; Built by Mike Shoftstall. Huge mo-tor, great breaks and handling, dual air, 3 seat, full floater, 65 gallon cell. Going through ma-jor prep, ready 7 /15. $60,000.00 (949) 795-1024. FORSALE: "Fueling Tower" ATL system. 50 gallon bladder. Saddle and aluminum scizzor style frame. Quick dis-connect hose and cou-pling. Dry brake (Red Head) nozzle. Up to 2 gallons per second. $180.00. "Hewland" DGB and DGN gear ratios. New and used. Call forlist. (714)637-1155. Rod. FOR SALE: DG 300 Tranny; Just gone through, have receipt. $6,000.00 (949) 795-1024. 'The Finest Prerunner built so far-Built by Stewart's Raceworks Inc. Best of the Best a Beautiful Truck with all the extras! Ford F-150, 2WD, 3 door, Wheelbase 130", FRT A-Arm travel-24", Rear Four Link travel-31", 65 · gallon fuel cell, Rear end Chrismanl0" 45 Spline, King Coilover and Bypass all four cor-ners, Ford C6 Trans, BFG 37" Project tires, 44 7 CI SB Ford Windsor Engine W565 HP, CNC Brakes, Fortin Rack, Beard seats, Stack Digital Gauge Read-out, and to many more to list!!! $200,000.00 complete Baja Bro-kers Ref #755 (760) 723-2117 Check out our online used parts at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: Jeep Comanche Pickup, Raced MDR CL1200, 2nd in Class 97/99. Could be Street legal with little effort. 4.0 w/auto, 2.5 /12" travel Bilslteins, new. Deaver Race Springs, 4.56, Rear w/spool, front Fiberglass, Clean truck, race ready. Some spares. Race ready. (909) 735-6452. After 6:00pm. Paris-Dakar Press conference If you have an interest in the Paris-Dakar Rally, you can get all sorts of info at their press conference, which will he held on Friday, June .JO. Hubert Auriol will make a l'resentation on the 2001 Rally and will answer your questions. The conference will he held at the LeMeridien Hotel in Beverly Hills. 11 :JO is the time and lunch will he served You must RSVP to attend Call Darren Skilton at Baja Automotive Adventures (562) 754-1617. July 2000 Moulton Class 12 Single Seat-1989 Raceco single seat, proven winner class 12, Fox Shocks, Outboard Summer's rear hubs and brakes, 16" Front wheels, Beadlock, all FAT parts on mo-tor, CNC Pedals, UMP steering, Fodrill front arms and spindles, best of the best, lots more ! ! ! $20,000.00 firm Baja Brokers Ref #765 (760) 723-2117 Check out our on line used parts auction at .. www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: F-150, 351, 4 70hp, C-6 trans, Summers hubs, Big brakes, New Sway-A-Way 3" bypass on rear; Fox & Bilstein up front, Custom paint, new Parker Pumper, 4 Hella Lights, turn key ready to go. Race or PreRun. (949) 361-4005. Curt. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS ADA VIS Mexican Insurance ............ 45 Aggressive Suspensions .................. 39 Baja Millennium Ready Mirage ....... 41 Baja Rancho ....................................... 38 Baker Performance Products .......... 36 Bilstein Shock Absorbers ................... 5 B.O.R.E. Jackpot 200 ........................ 31 Cactus ................................................. 45 Camburg Engineering ........................ 37 Coast Resorts .................................... 10 Jim Conner Racing ............................ 27 Converter Shop .................................. 32 Eibach Springs ................................... 25 Fabtech ............................................... 28 FAT Performance ........ : ...................... 47 Fox Racing Shox ................................•. 2 Fuel Safe Racing Cells ...................... 44 German Auto ...................................... 13 Michael E. James Insurance Agency .............................. 42 Kartek Off Road .......................... 20, 33 Kawaguchi Honda .............................. 29 KC Hilites ........................................... 23 King Shock Tech ................................ 34 Mastercraft ........................................ 24 McKenzie Performance Products .... 14 MOR California 200 ............................ 9 M.0.R.E. Freedom 250 ...................... 19 Mickey Thompson Tires ................... 35 Nevada Off Road Buggy .................... 40 Off Road Racing Driving Experience47 PCI Race Radios and Equipment ........ 4 Pike's Family Restaurant ................. 30 Race Ready Products ........................ 43 SNORE· Midnight Special .................. 15 Spec ..................................................... 17 Sway-A-Way Corp .............................. 12 Toyota Motors ports ........... Back Cover Transaxle Engineering ..•................... 21 Tri-Mil Industries .............................. 44 Union 76 Racing Gasoline ................ 26 Valley Performance ........................... 11 VORRA ................................................. 30 Page ss ..

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