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Volume 17 -Numbers August 2000 DUSliYljllDIG Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor John Calvin Associate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance Scott Contributors C&C Race Photos Carrera Photography Jim Culp Homer Eubanks Martin Holmes Mike Jenkins Rod Koch Ralph Mason Ron Miller Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh Darryl Smith Tony Tellier Paul Timmerman T rackside Photo Art Director Larry Worsham o._ Subscription Rates: $l5.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Subscription rates on· request Contributions: DUSTY TIMES welcomes contributions, but is nor responsible for such material. Unsolicited mate-rial will be returned only by request and with a self ad-dressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 8750-1732) is published monthly by Hillside Racing Corp., 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311, (818) 882-0004. Copyright by Hillside Rac-ing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced 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 Sr., Chatsworth, CA 91311. snapshot of the Month ... Ir was 1983 it was the SCORE Parker 400 and we see Mike Mosley's Nissan getting a light adj~stment,before setting out on another lap. Photo by Centerline Photo DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to 8xl0 will be considered. In This Issue ... FEATURES SCORE Baja S00 by Judy Smith ........................................ . .............. ........... 8 WRC 20th Rally Argentina by Martin Holmes ........................................... 18 Dusty Times/SNORE Caliente 250 by John Calvin ...................................... 20 Best In TI1e Desert T onopah 300 by Judy Smith .......................................... 25 Run For The Wall by Vance Scott by John Calvin ....................................... 32 German Thunder Drome Stadium by Tony Tellier ...................................... 34 Best In The Desert T onopah Bikes by Mark Kariya ..................................... 38 SCORE Baja 500 Bikes by Tony Tellier ............................ : .... , ..................... 43 Tattersall's 2000 Finke Desert Race by Darryl Smith ................................... 47 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ...................................................................... •··· • •· •· • •···· •· •·········· 5 Trail Notes ............................................................... •· •··········· •···· •· •······ ...... • 6 Challenger Comer by Joel Mohr ............................................................. • ... • 50 CORE Report by Sandy Park£r ................................................ •· •· • •· • • .......... • 51 CRS Directors News by Sue Robinson ................................................. : ....... 51 Good Stuff Directory .................................................................................. 52 Classified Ads ...................................................... •. • • • •· • • • •· • • • • • • •· • • • • • • • •· • •······ • 58 Index To Advertisers ................................................................................. 59 On The Cover ·clay Flippin and Ken Flippin were the boys to bear at the Dusty Times/SNORE Caliente 250, but nobody could do so, they were the Class 10 winners and also took their first overall victory. Photo by Carrera Photography Larry Ragland drove the great looking Chevy Trailblazer to the overall win in Mexico in June, taking the class win and the overall victory as well. Photo by Trackside Photo Visit Our Website Dustytimes.com cSubscribe :Joda_y lo DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 1 year -$25.00 □ 2 years -$40.00 □ 3 years -$55.00 (no credit cards please) ~ □ NEW □ RENEWAL Name ___________________ _ Address --------------------City _______________ _ State ___________ Zip _____ _ Primary Interest Cars O Trucks O Motorcycles 0 Send check or money order to: DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 Canadian - 1 year $30.00 U~ ■ Overseas subscription rates upon request Dusty Times August 2000 Page 3

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Happenings ... Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CMC Continental Motosport Club P.O. Box 3187 011-52-65 -66-4458 September 29-October 1, 2000 Carrera Fiesta de! Sol 2000 Laguna Salada November 24-26, 2000 Carrera de Campeonata Mexicale Area ASOCIACION ESTATAL de AUTOMOVILISMO Sam Lasell, Tech Inspector Apto 42 San Jose de! Caho Baja California de! Sur. Mexico September 15-16, 2000 Loreto 400 AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP Darryl Smith 19 Somers St. Cashmere, Queensland, 4500, Australia DUSTY TIMES @bigpond.com. AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFF ROAD Class IO cars only Renald Vaillancourt 3069 Dagenais West Laval Quebec, Canada H7P IT? (5 14) 622-4440 BARONA SAND DRAG ASSN. P.O. Box 1521 Lakeside, CA 92040 August 19, 2000 Sept 16, 2000 October 21, 2000 All Races Are Night Races All Races At Barona Raceway, Lakeside, CA BEST IN THE DESERT RACING ASSOCIATION Casey Folks, Director 3475 Boulder Highway Las Vegas, NV 89121 (702) 457-5775/Fax (702) 641-2431 E-Mail: bitdjp@worldnet.att.net October 21, 2000 Tough Truck Field Meet December 1-3, 2000 Las Vegas 200 BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTERPRISES Les Wolfe, NEW President 341 W. 2575 North ·Sunset, UT 840 I 5 (801) 773-1651 September 15-16, 2000 Bonneville Challenge Wendover, UT BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada KOK- I HO (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-3250 CAJOR Club Automovilista J uarense de Championship Off-Road Racing 7210 Gateway East El Paso, TX 799 I 5 (915) 593-4848 Ralph Garcia 01 l-52-16-17-45-42 Cesar Fuentes September 16, 2000 Juarez 250 Start: 10 am - 8 Hour Time Limit November 25, 2000 Carrera de La Revolution Start 12 Noon - 5 Hour Time Limit CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Sue Robinso - Director 845 Schoohouse Road Ramona, CA 92065 (760) 788-3809 · E-Mail: crsdirect@hormail.com Website <califomiarallyseries.com> John Dillon, SoPac Rally Steward sopacrallysreward@hotmnil.com August 18-19, 2000 Gonnan Club Rally Frasier Park, CA September 9-10, 2000 Rally School & Rally Cross Location TBA September 29-30, 2000 Prescott Forest Pro Rally/Club Rally Prescott, AZ October 14, 2000 L V SCCA Region Rally Cross Jean, NV November 12, 2000 Treeline Club Rally Monrovia, CA November 18, 2000 L V SCCA Region Rally Cross Dusty Times Jean, NV December 8-10, 2000 Ramada Express International Rally Laughlin, NV CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box 400 Maywood, CA 90270 (323) 560-SHOW CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box645 Pierre, SD 57501 Dave Adams (Pilots and Bajas) (605) 224-9481 Don Engleman (Bikes) (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards ■ ■ P.O. Box 332 CLAIRTON HI-JACKERS i.C.O. Tom Delauder Sr 1091 Twp. Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 Shon Course off Road Racing At Harrison County Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICA SAN QUINTIN Calle 6ta Fracc Cd. de San Quintin San Quintin, BC, Mexico Heraclio Patino (011 52 616-5-22-07) CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE San Vicente Off Road Ensenada, BC, Mexico USA Jan Wright (011 52 61746834) Ramon Castro & Ruben Acevedo (61637/7 0034) . Mission Viejo, CA 92690-3178 Fax: (714) 367-1608 CODE 011-52-65-52-5928 October 6-8, 2000 Laguna Salada Fiestas de! Sol December 1-3, 2000 Mexicali - San Felipe COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholtz, President (719) 531:3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P.O Box8286 Colorado Springs, CO 8093 3 (719) 653-8449 CORP P.O. Box392 Calexico, CA 9-2232 Hecror Cerecer CORR Championship Off Road Racing 192 N. State Road 267, Suite 267 Avon, IN 46123 (3 I 7) 272-2827 /Fax: (317) 272-2900 July 29-30, 2000 Fort dodge, IA August 12-13, 2000 ·Bark River Off Road Raceway Bark River, MI September 1-3, 2000 Crandon International Raceway Crandon, WI September JO-October 1, 2000 Indiana Stare Fair Grounds Indianapolis, IN (ij= Hardin Brothers Capture Cla'ss 7S Win At Tecclte SCORE Baja 500 The brother team of Jared and Eric Hardin · co-drove to their first Class 7S victory of the season at the 32nd running of the Tecate SCORE Baja 500. after just 25 miles of racing, took the lead which the team never relinquished. Eric took over during the third stop and went on to build up a two hour lead before taking the win. Driving their Team Hardin GMC Sonoma pickup, outfitted with Bilstein 9100 Series shocks, Jared started fourth _in the class and, It was the second class triumph for the Hardins on Bilstein shocks in their less than two years of SCORE competition. Other Baja 500 Class Winners Included: • Class 5/1600 Marcos Nunez, Baja Bug • Class 10 Rick Ellison, Chenowth • Class 11 Eric Solorzano, Stock vw Sedan • Protruck Bob Shepard, Chevy C-1500 Protruck For Information on the 9100 Series contact the Off-Road Racing Department: Call Toll Free 800/537-1085 KRUPP BILSTEIN OF AMERICA 8845 Rehco Road• San Diego, CA 92121 Phone: 858/453-7723 www.bilstein.com August 2000 Pages

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Trail Notes ... FINAL FLAG - we were sa ddened to learn that Eddy "El Wad" Kraus, long known as.an expert of rhe remote trails and roads of Baj a and head of the chase ream the Los A_ngeles County Race Team passed away at the Estero beach Ho te l on Sunday Morning, June 4, 2000. Eddy was also part of the Spirkoff/Shearer "Race For The Children" team. Eddy had flown in from H awaii and had chased his teams as usual. An overflow crowd attended a memorial·service fo r Eddy on June 11 in La Jolla. Eddy will be sorely missed by all. WINSTON WEST -Bre~dan Gaughan is leading the Winston West Series after winning at Mesa Marin in Bakersfield and Clint Mears, son of Rick makes his Winston West debut at Irwindale. Stay tuned. PROTRUCKS AT LAGUNA SECA -on May 21, the Protrucks took on the 2.2 mile p~ved course at Laguna_ Seca with~ half mile of dirt course thrown 111. In order to be a b1t competitive on the pavement the trucks were lowered a bit from their normal off road height and the drivers, most of whom had ·never competed on pavement put their trucks through the paces. Lance Huffman was the fastest qualifier, a full second faster than Jeff Hoskins but when it came to the actual race Hoskins showed all the competition the way to the checkered flag. The first five finishers were: Jeff Hoskins, Lance Huffman, Steve Barlow, Dennis Dugan and. Kevin McGillivray. This was a points earning race for Pro Drivers and the points standings for the top ten are: Rick Johnson 299, Jeff Hoskins 287, Steve Barlow 285, Steve Scaroni 264, Mike Griffiths 261, Ry.an Herzog 253, Kevin McGillivray 211, Scott Steinberger 198, Larry Plank 188 and Greg Hansen 15 l. ONE MORE TIME -Well, it's official, we finally have completed our move into our new headquarters. We are adjusting to the new surroundings and it seems as if all is going well. This is really just a friendly reminder that all correspondence should be addressed to us at: 20761 Plummer Stree.t, Chatsworth, CA 91311. Also, we would like to thank Brian Skipper (Sway-A-Way) for all of his help over the years that \\'.e leased space from him, especially during and after the earthquake. 'Nuf said. VORRA'S LOVELOCK 250 -VORRA's Lovelock 250 was a huge success. Last year the race was run in mostly silt but a new location for 2000 made all the difference and all the racers had a great time. Ron Foster was the overall winner in his Class 10 car. Other class winners were Dan Nutt (1), Kenny Brager (8), Rickyffito Gonzalez (7), Tom Hatch "9", Steve Millward (Sportsman Veteran), Dan Morose (Heavy Metal Sportsman) and Scott Pitts (Sportsman Novice). The local Casino (Sturgeons) put up an extra $ 1000 for the first four overall winners and another $ 1000 to be won by the luck of the draw at the awards. Everett Paul had his brand new Class 1 car on it's maiden voyage but he rolled it, a fire ensued and the car was a total loss. Our deepest regrets. Complete coverage in next months issue of Dusty Times. FINAL FLAG -Kathleen Leonard, long time off road racer passed away on June 17th, a victim of breast cancer. Kathy was an off ro'ad racer for many years, running the circuits in the mid west and having a ball competing against all comers. Kathy was the Secretary of the 4x4 Unlimited Club for many years and it was her smiling face that greeted many of the participants that entered the Memorial Day 100 races at the Lake Geneva Raceway in Wisconsin. Kathy will be missed by many. BEST IN THE DESERT NEVADA 2000 - we spent Saturday, July 8th in the parking lot of Michael Gaughan's Orleans _Hotel and Casino, doing our contingency thing as the cars and trucks and motorcycles and quads went through tech and contingency inspection for the 2000 mile trek through Nevada. All the drivers and riders were really looking forward to the test of man and machine and were more than anxious to get on the track. Some of the better known names that will be in the competition are the Herbst brothers, Ed, Troy and Tim, Ivan Stewart and Larry Roesseler in the Toyota, Larry Ragland in one GM Vortec Chevy and Brian Stewart in a like vehicle, Brian Collins and Billy Goerke in their brand new Chevy, Rod Hall in the Hummer, and, not forgetting the motorcycles, Ty Davis on a Yamaha and Johnny Campbell riding for Honda. Steve Scaroni and Kevin McGillivray are entered in their Protrucks, Corky and Scott McMillin in their Unlimited buggies, even Jim Temple came out of the woodwork to make the 2000 mile run. The list goes on and on and we wish all the entrants a safe race. We'll see if we can get some tentative results into this column further down the page and be sure to look for the full story in next months Dusty Times. FINAL FLAG - we were saddened to hear of the passing of Joe McMurray. Joe was involved with C.O.R.E. for some years in their pitting activities, then he built himself a Chevy Class 8 truck which he raced in the SNORE Series in the late 80's. In the early 90's he ran the truck in some of the Rim Of The World Rallies and had himself a good time in these endeavors. Joe Succumbed to pancreatic cancer at the. tender age of 52. Our heartfelt sympathy goes to the McM.urray family. Say hi to Jean. PETERSEN/SCORE TRIBUTE NIGHT -Set aside the evening of September 6th, for that night the Pete~sen Automotive M~.seum and the Rennsport Group will host a chancy fund-raiser. The 1000 Miles T o Glory - A Tribute to the SCORE Baja 1000" will take place at the Petersen Museum. It's a tribute to the past SCORE Baja lO00's, and it will include more than a dozen historically important vehicles, many of which have not been seen in years. The original Meyers Manx, Big Oly Bronco and the Baja Boot will all be on display. (No, you can't take them for a spin) Jack Arute (ABC) will host the event and there will be vid_eo presentations of Parnelli Jones, Ivan Stewart, Drino Miller, Page 6 October 21-23, 2000 Heartland Park Topeka, KS CORVA 1500 West El Camino, Suire 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 (Al[ 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. 1091 Township Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 ESTERO BEACH INTERNATIONAL Short Course Racing Victoria Galindo Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico 011-526-176-6225 October 13-15, 2000 Esrero Beach Baja California, MX F ABTECH 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 *July 29, 2000 Affordable Rain Gutters C/M Nite Team Race Plaster City, East *August 27, 2000 Saasra Chevron Sweetheart's Kiss Lake Superstition *September IO, 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 *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 August 2000 (402) 4964846 Eve. (/-80 Race Track is located 20 minutes west of Omaha ■ All races are short course, stadium style. Classes: T rophy, l 1-1600, 5, 7S, I and Quads) IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box 36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 (Al! events staged at the club grounds in Cleves. Ohio) INTERNATIONAL ICE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 Sr. Pl\ul, 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 7 I August 13, 2000 l4rh Annual California Truck Jamboree Orange County Fairgrounds Costa Mesa, CA KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER 4WDCLUB . P.O. Box 465 Kamloops, BC, Canada VZG5LZ Bob (250) 374-7175 days Randy (250) 579-9621 eves .. Wes (250) 351-2819 L.l.T.R.E. Jeff Elrod (408) 926-0522 JimAruta (408) 247-4402 MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS Dune Buggy Trade Show (517) 543-7214 www.buggybuilders.com MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529)ones Road Lirand Ledge, Ml 48837 (517) 627-6200 July 30, 2000 Ingham Coup.ry Fair Mason, MI Ueeps, Trucks, Buggies, Pilots, Road Warriors and Quad ATV-Money Classes:) MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION MAORA Steph Sabo (618) 327-93 I 2 Short Course Events July 29, 2000 "The Edge" Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL August 19, 2000 Vermillion County Speedway Danville, IL September 16, 2000 · "The Edge" Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL September 30, 2000 Lincoln Trail Motorsporrs Park Casey, IL AIAORA Enduro Series September 1 7, 2000 I OOk "The Edge" Trip le R Raceway Nashville, IL · October 1, 2000 200k Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL MOJAVE DESERT RACING 1853 Parkway Drive S. El Monte, CA 91733 (626) 442-9320/(626) 579-6051 Fax E-Mail: mdrracing@aol.com 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 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 N~TIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION Rr. #! -Box 380 Dave or Marlene Ryan Palatka, FL 32177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK ASSOCIATION Butch Chapin Motorsports Promotions 1404 East 3rd Street Hastings, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 NORTHERN OHIO OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. Gary Wulff (724) 283-2678 July 30, 2000 August 20, 2000 September 1 7, 2000 October 15, 2000 {All 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 I-IO Horizon Blvd. exit east 12 miles OHIO OFF ROADERS INC. 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 Jim Kendel (216) 339-4674 All races held at Harrison County Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONTARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION Rick Tichbourne, Public Relations (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) 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 Cham.pionship 495 N. Commons Drive Aurora, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100 www.usoff-road.com Febri.iry 26, 2000 Sam Boyd Stadium Las Vegas, NV PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 Colorado Springs, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 PROTRUCK RACING SERIES 9409 Abraham Way Santee, CA 92071-2856 (619) 449-6252/Fax: (619) 449-6470 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 Dusty Times

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P.O. Box 50 Ricketts, tA 51460 (712) 679-2221 S.C.A.T. INC. Michael R. Icing P.O. Box 277 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 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, NV 89127 (702) 452-4522 September 22-24, 2000 Gold Coast/SNORE 250 Las Vegas, NY November 3-5, 2000 Reserve 250 Boulder City, NY SONS OF THUNDER 4 WHEELERS 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) 313-56il or((770) 963-0252 Mike Moore - (224) 272-5400 SOUTH EAST OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. President - Geoff Lee 1243 Trice Road Lebanon, TN 3 7087 (615) 453-5830 Classis 1/2-1600, 5-1600,, Class 9, SODA Class 11 & Sportsman (All Races at Rally Hill Speedway) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TIMING ASSOCIATION AND BONNEVILLE NATIONALS, INC. 2517 Sycamore Drive #353 Simi Valley, CA 93065 (Mon-Fri 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) (805) 5 26-1805/Fax: (805) 584-8518 Internet: http://scta-bni.org SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. 4305 Wootlark Drive Tampa FL 33624 (813) 962-2857 (All Races at Eastbay Raceway, Tampa, FL) SUPER SERIES (PTY) LTD. P.O. Box 706 Parklands, 2121 Dusty Times 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 # 1 Torrance,'CA 90503 (310) 370-9856 VORRA Off Road Racing 1833 Los Robles Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702/Fax (916) 925-8217 July 29-30, 2000 Top Gun Desert Race Fallon, NV September 2-4, 2000 Off Road Desert Challenge Fernley, NV September 30-October 1, 2000 Championship Series - Round I Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA October 14-15, 2000 Championship Series - Round 2 Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, Ca October 28-29, 2000 lOOO Championship Race - Round 3 Prairie City SYRA Park Sacramento, CA VICENTE GUERRERO OFF ROAD CLUB Profo. Cenovio Gamboa 01 l-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. Box 376 Adamsburg, PA (412) 527-6556 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS 16251 North Cave Creek Road #4 Phoenix, AZ 85023-2976 (602) 971-3730 Buggies & Trucks on Saturdays, Bikes & AT-Vs on Sundays 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 Sr. Oshkosh, WI 5490 I zr. PROMOTIONS Rene Montano P.O. Box 2122 Calexico, CA 92231 Motorcycles & ATVs 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 Trail Notes ... Frank "Scoop" vessels, Bob Gordon, Malcolm Smith, Walker Evans, Rod Hall, Ed Pearlman, Sal Fish and Bruce Meyers. The evening was created by The Rennsport Group (Marty Fiolka) and there will be a Mexican buffet dinner and wine and beer will be served . Tickets are $50.00. For Info call 562-856-4922, for tickets 323-964-6348. See ya all there! RACING-FISHING-RELAXING IN BAJA -The Baja California Sur Racing Association is running a race in the middle of August and the route is supposedly the route of the Baja 200 from Loreto through San Javier on the Pacific side to La Paz. Good practice run for those of you who will be running that long 200 miles in November. Then, there is the Loreto 400, September 15-16, about 200 miles in length. Also, there is great fishing in Loreto and lots of nice places to relax with the family. For more info call Ron at 001-52-113-50586 ore-mail www.loreto.com .. FOOD FOR THOUGHT -Wouldn't it be nice if all the off road race promoters here in the west could all sit down together once a year and come up with race schedules that don't walk a 11 over somebody else's schedule? Wouldn't it be nice, if we all had to conform to the same rule book, be able to run our cars and trucks in the same class, under the same rules no matter which race series we a re running? Personally I think some of us should be looking into this. What do you think? FINAL FLAG - It came as quite a shock when we heard the rumor, then we_ called the BLM in Barstow and confirmed the passing of Jack Waldron. Jack was a friend to off road racing over the years, normally seen on his quad, riding here and there to settle a dispute or just to stop and say hello to the many friends he had. We spnke to Jack a few weeks ago in Lucerne at the MDR race and he was in good spirits and looking forward to retiring in "20 or 30 years." Jack was awarded the Checkers Vic Yan Ella Award at their 25th anniversary party for "One who has given much to the off road community." We are sorry to have lost Jack but he joins a great bunch of off road people somewhere out there. 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RAGLAND TAKES OVERALL Dust, Fire, Traffic Jams And Traffic Tickets At SCORE'S Baja 500 By Judy Smith Photos: T rackside Photo Larry Ragland piloted his new 6 cylinder Chevrolet Trailblazer to the Trophy Truck victory in its first time out. · ----------------they reached the end of Ruis Avenue (home of Hussong's an_d Papas & Beer), and scooted up into the hills, finally on the dirt. While waiting in staging for the green flag, most of the rac-e rs were in agreement that there wa-s no use racing until they got past the pine forest, which would have put the m about a t Ejido Jamau, or roughly 170 miles into the race. They would, they said, just concentrate on getting through the tough stuff, missing the boulders, trees and washouts, Billy Goerke drove his Chevrol.et to the Class 8 win at SCORE's Baja 500 in spite of len[lthy transmission_re~p_a_i~_. ____ and then would race as needed Larry Ragland piloted his were almost impassable for lim-The weather was benign; from that point on. Maybe straight 6 Vorcec engine pow-ited cars. For the most part, if 1-ieautifully sunny and clear, that's how they did it. At ,rny ered Chevy Trailblazer to the they finished, they loved the with no fog along the Pacific rate, when they got to El Rayo, overall win a t SCORE's Baja course. side. A bit hot, but with a stiff some 106 miles into the race, 500 in early June. Ir was a busy The race course measured breeze to move the dust off Jerry Whelchel, in Mark Post's day, with lots of excitement, approximately 440 miles, start-track up in the inland areas. Ford truck, was still first on the starting early in the morning ing and ending in Ensenada. It's There had been no disastrous road, where he'd started, and in with l68· cars and trucks tak-southernmost point was at storms to wash out roads or first piace by a minute and 14 ing off from the start in front Mike's Sky Ranch, and then it flood the low spots, but that seconds. Ragland was second of Ensenada's lovely conven-traveled westward to run along meant that the silt was deep and Ed Herbst ran third, an-tion center.. the beach, up to Santo Tomas, and the dust was heavy, mak-other I Z seconds back in the The course was a tough one, through Uruapan and back to ing passing difficult. all-wheel-drive Ford FZ50. encompassing the best and the Ojos Ne_gros. From Ojos Negros The Trophy Trucks started Dave Ashley was having fuel worst of Baja racing, with tight to the finish was once again a first, navigating a few blocks of injection problems with his and technical sections inter-duplicate of the outbound trip, downtown Ensenada, then Ford,,iind Brian Stewart, in the spersed with dense forest roads, including some difficult, tight dropping into "The Wash", twin to Ragland's truck, had a muddy booby traps, scary pave-roads through the hills, all from which they exited a few broken V-drive. When it broke, ment, treacherous beach run-churned up from the morning's moments later, to travel a few the oil had gushed out and ning and several spots that heavy traffic. more blocks of Ensenada 'til caused a flash fire at passenger =;;-,;-,,------~~---.-;-_.,_..--;;::;"""1'1'1f,i;f''&l;~==~ Troy Herbst led all day in his Ford powered Smithbuilt Truggy Here "1e's showing off his terrific sha~ graphics. Rick Ellison and John Penner were unfazed by an early rollover in their Class 1 O Jimco, and went on to take the win. • Barry Beacham's feet. It was quickly extinguished, with little damage, but the V-drive repair cost well over an hour. Up at Jamau it was still Whelchel now with two min-· utes on Ragland. The Herbst truck was another three min-utes back, and then came Brian Collins,· in his new Chevrolet truck, which features three seats in the cab. The center one is slightly above and behind the other two. Then it was Ashley, about a minute later, followed by StewaTt, an hour and I 0 minutes later. John Clark Gable, in a 500 horsepowe r · Ford, had bit a big rock anJ torn a chunk out of his steer-ing box. He waited a very long time for his chase crew to get to him with parts. As they got down on the Pa-cific side Mark Post, who'J ta.ken over -for -Whel~hel, was still first on the road. He made a stop for fuel and new rear tires, and by some hQrrible mix up, his crew changed the tires, but forgot to top off the fuel tank. He charged on down the road, through Uruapan and into the vast empty spaces east of there and ran out of gas. Then he waited for two and a half hours for his crew to get there with more fuel. In the meantime, everyone else went on. Ragland was now first, but as he headed back through Ojos Negros he en-joyed only a I Z .ind a half minute lead over the Herbsts. Both of these teams had dealt with nothing more seriou_s than a couple of flats thus far. In third now it was Dan Smith, who'd taken over for Ashley, limping in to Ojos with the truck barely running, and head-ing for his pit. Ricky Johnson ~as in the other Vortec Chevy now, another 10 minutes back, followed by Post and then Col-lins who'd broken the rear end, which took out the transmis-sion and cost a 40t of time. A Mexican highway patrolman gives Bekki Fr.eeman a ticket while Dave and Bill Gasper churn through the silt in their 5-1600. An early Gorky McMillin and Brian Ewalt paired up in the 20 year old Porsche Adam Pfankuch (far right) waits his turn. (Photo: Jeff Elmam) ___ endo set them back, but they worked the!!_ ~~ to fourth place. eowered Chenowth to take second place in Class I· Page 8 August 2000 Dusty Times

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Grayson Smith, Paul Perrizo and Ryan Herzog teamed in their Ford Jose Lopez had a good day. in his 5-1600 car, and then crossed the Arturo Honold and Vic Bruckmann, in a Jimco, came close to the came perilously close to a non-finish, but took second Protruck only a finish line on a· demolished rear tire, in second place. lead, but a pair of badly timed rear flats held them to second. half-hour before the finish closed. Ragland, thinking he might race in his truck, finished sixth, 1600 very successfu1ly for some Herder in ,-Rre:-:u7bre:-:n::-,:Wvr:o:--:o:--:d"'-,-s'S~u---,D-,-e_a_n_,_w-,-h_o_ w_a_s_f,....i_n_d..,i_n_g ___ t~h-e have been slow enough that the reporting that he'd rolled the time) in Glen Greer?s brand baru powered Jimco. course very dusty. Corky Mc-Herbst's Class 1 Truggy could truck about 30 miles before the new V4 Scat powered Millen-W.hen they had been up to Millin, and co-driver, Brian take the overall win away from finish, flattening a tire in the nium. Up at that point the lead Mike's and back down, and al-Ewalt, in a Porsche powered him, hustled through the last process. Mike Spina, who rode belonged to Troy Herbst in his most to the beach, things were Chen~wth, were now up to section, covering the tricky 58 in that third seat, reported that Ford powered Truggy, and he very different. Herbst still led, third, five minutes back, and miles in an hour and three min-he'd had a good trip, glossing had a three and a half minute but now he had 18 minutes on Continued on page 10 utes. He got both his class win over the fact that coming down lead on Pat Dean in his Chen-and the overall victory. Tim out of Mike's he'd thrown up owth. In third it was Randy and and Ed were 22 minutes behind seven times. (One wonders... Rick Wilson in their V4 pow-him, saying they now feel rela-where? He surely couldn't get ered Jimco, with Mark McMil-tively certain that his new his head out the window.) !in fourth in his Ford powered truck will be able to do well in Gable and his passenger, Dodd Chenowth, followed by Mike the upcoming Baja 2000. Darin (son of ~inger Bobby Grabowski in a Sinithbuilt pow-Smith, after someone worked Darin) were the only team to ered by an air-cooled Pauter some magic at Ojos, had a good not finish. But they certainly motor, with water-cooled run into the finish, and took a gave it the old college try, miss-heads. Only 10 minutes sepa-third for the Duralast team, ing the checkpoint closing time tated first from fifth. while Jol;>.nson and Stewart at Check 7, past Ojos Negros, They ran in the same order gave the Vortec team a finish by only a few minutes. clear through the pine forest to in their truck's maiden journey, In Class 1, with 28 starters, Jamau,. but they'd spread out earning fourth place. Consider-there was a horde of talent, and just a bit. Another four cars ing tha.t the truck was barely fully two thirds of them could were missing, including Josh finished when it came off the seriously contemplate getting Waddell, who tore off a rear trailer in Ensenada, the team the win. But five of them never corner on a boulder. Jeff Quinn did a great job. Whelchel and made it to El Rayo, including and Mike Nix who hit the same Post took 'fifth. place, while Eric Pavolka, in his first race in rock and did similar damage, Collins, also driving the first Class 1 (he's been driving a 5-Richard Boyle,. and John Darren Skilton enjoyed a trouble-free day in his Kia Sportage, and took the win while most of his competitors faded away. Flamingo & The ~trip 1-888-BARBARY 227-2279 www.barbarycoastcasino.com Dusty Times West Tropicana & Arville 1-800-0RLEANS 675-3267 www.orleanscasino.com West Flamingo & Valley View 1-888-GOCOAST 402-6278 www.goldcoastcasino.com August 2000 ■■■-'ST JI' Alta & Rampart • 1-877-636-7111 Page 9

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Mark Hutchins and Danny Anderson were second in Class 1 0 in their Jimco in spite of ditches and traffic jams. Lorenzo Rodriguez drove all the way in his Lothringer to finish second in Class 112-1600, only two minutes and 35 seconds behind the winning team. A broken V-drive slowed Brian Stewart and Ricky Johnson early in the day. but ultimately. the new Chevy Trailblazer (twin to Ragland's) finished as the fourth Trophy Truck_·~~~~--~--~--the Wilsons had dropped t fourth, while Gus Vildosola and his co-driver, Charlie Watters, in a Jimco 2000, had moved into fifth, also finding the course very dusty, and very trafficky. On the way down from Mike's, Gary Weyhrich, in a V 4 Scat powered Chenowth, driving with no power steering, no first gear and no reverse, lost control and got sideways on the narrow road, causing a brief road block that trapped 12 to 15 cars, including Ricky Johnson in th e late running Trophy Truck, some Class ls, • the lead Class 12 and some Class 10 cars. Once he was straightened away the going was slow thanks to the now heavy traffic in that area. Meanwhile, the leaders wenl on. When he got back to Ojos the second time, Herbst, who said later that he was "trying to catch Ragland", had 21 min-utes on seconci' place. He'd had some flats and some "driveline problems", but nothing major. McMillin and Ewalt, in their 20 year old and "much rebuilt" car, were secpnd. Darnen Jef-feries was third in his Porter,-only 35 seconds later. In fourth it was Watters, who reported a flat, and Dean was now down to fifth. Mark McMillin had been slowed by brake trouble on the beach, Grabowski had power steering trouble, as well as oil and coolant problems, and the Wilsons had lost an hour and a half being stuck in a ditch outside of Uruapan. Meanwhile, as everyone else ran on relatively uneventfully, Dale Ebberts drove Andrew Wehe's Jimco, with V4 p·ower to the scheduled driver change just before the turn-off to go up to Mike's Sky Ranch. Ebberts got out, Wehe got in and buck-led up while his crew checked things over and dumped fuel. They gave him the go-ahead,• and as he roared' off down the pavement, almost immediately Dean, on a very at ront ttre, called him o.n the radio to stop, which he said had "just hap-because flames had appeared at pened ... I didn't even know it the rear of the car. A nearby pit was flat." While he sat at the person ran over and helped him finish line area doing inter-get out, and then other crews views, his car hemorrhaged a expended their fire extinguish-huge puddle of engine oil -ers, trying to save the car. But clearly it would not have gone it was to no avail. The flames much further, thanks to a would go out, but as the extin-blown .fitting. All told, 14 of guishers were spent, one by the Class I entries finished, a one, the flames reared their resounding 50%. ugly heads again. Eventually, Class 8 went off the line although a fire truck came from next, four trucks strong. Billy a nearby town, the car was de-Goerke put Brian Collins' strayed. W ehe had second de-C hevy into the lead early on, gree burns on his left arm, a and he had over two hours by third degree burn on his ankle, the time he'd reached El Rayo. and first degree burns on his Jeff Geiser, who started the face. He applied first aid, took morning in a Chevrolet CI 500, some p-ain pills, and was driven was out for unknown reasons, to a burn center in San Diego while Ari Kreiss had lost a by a member of his crew. He couple of hours, and ran sec-was recovering nicely a few ond. Craig Corda, in another days after the race, at home. (A Ford, had lost more like five week or so later he had a skin hours, but was still moving. graft on his left elbow, which By the time they got to speeded recovery.) Wehe was Jamau, Goerke had increased v-ery grateful to· those people his lead to two hours and .25 who helped him and tried to minutes. Kreiss was second, save his car. He also felt that and Corda was third, both mov-his three layer driver's suit and ing at a good pace now. Goerke Nomex shoes prevented much continued to lead through more serious burns. No one is Vicente, where he had almost quite certain how the fire three hours on Kreiss. Corda started, but the assumption was didn't get that far. Then that the fuel running out of the Goerke broke a ring gear at overflow somehow puddled on Mile 295, and he lost hours his skid pan/floor pan, and that with the repairs. But Lady Luck the hot brake caliper or ex-was on his side, because Kreiss haust ignited a trickle of it, rolled his truck before Check 6 which then spread to the (Santo Tomas), and that was puddle on the floor. Something the end of his day. Goerke went for everyone to be aware of. on smoothly to take the win. But as Wehe's crew dealt The Class 10 cars were next with their disaster, the rest of to go·, and just as in Class I, the field made their way back there was lots of talent in the to the finish. Herbst took the group. Rick Ellison put his win, finishing fifth overall, just Chenowth Millennium into the in front of his brothers. McMil-early lead, but there was a very !in, the oldest driver in the tight and fast group right be-class at 71 years and his co-•hind him, including Dan and driver, Ewalt, were second. In Andrew Myers in their Toyot"a thirditwasJefferies,complain-Jimco, Mike Julson in Don ing that his motor was "going Hatch's new Jimco, Mark away." Vildosola and Watters, Hutchins in still another Jimco who said they "had fun today", and Martin Christensen in his were fourth, followed in by BMW powered Jimco. n t e next section 1son -nurt. Chris Harrold got off to a made it almost to Jamau before bad stan also. He rolled over he hit a berm incorrectly and at about Mike 75, landed on his flipped his car over, It landed lid, and lost about three hours on its lid, but some local citi-before he got going again. zenry hopped right to it and set Penner held the lead as he him back on his wheels in no went through Ojos Negros time. Ellison estimated he lost headed back home, and he was no more than a minute. And 45 minutes up on Hutchins when he got to Jamau he was whose motor was overheating. still in the lead. In fact, he had Hatch, whose power steering over five minutes on the Myers had gone away just past Santo family. Christensen came along Tomas, ran third, working very three minutes farer, followed by hard. The Myers team was still Hutchins who'd been stuck in in fourth and Christensen was a ditch at Ojos and had flat-fift h. tened a tire -getting out. Julson And they stayed in that or-had lost an alternator by Ojos, der to the finish, Ellison and but things were percolating Penner jubilant at their win, now. and 36 minutes up on the Ellison was having no more Hutchins/Anderson team. problems, and by the time he'd Hatch and Julson were third, come down out of the hills his the tired Hatch saying, "I can't lead was 44 minutes (at Mile feel my hands." Dan, Andrew 282) and he'd handed the car and Steve Myers were fourth, over to his partner, John followed in by Christensen, Penner. It was Danny Ander-happy to get his car to the fin-son in Hutchins' car now, and ish line. Only three other teams he ran second, trying to catch finished: Jin~ Dizney and Dar-up after Hutchins had been ren Ebberts had coped with a caught in Weyhrich's traffic dead starter on their Jimco and jam. The Myers family ran ended up sixth. Harrold, who third, wi-th Hatch (taking over had Mike Cohen spell him for for Julson) now in fourth. a while, was seventh. Whit Christensen, who'd heen in the Courtenay and Donald Kennis-traffic jam and then, in the en-ton had major trouble, starting suing dusty traffic, had run off with a broken axle at Mile 6 the notorious off-camber turn, while Courtenay was driving. and down the hill, losing an-When Kenniston got there other 35 minutes, stayed in with the spare the local police fifth. made them wait until all the Four Class 10 cars hadn't race cars had passed, and then made it to El Rayo, and Mike it took about 45 minutes to get Sandoval had the saddest story. going again., On Highway 3, He'd blown a turn very early in where the course ran on pave-the race and the car had ment for a while, he avoided stopped right on the edge of a trouble by driving the speed big embankment. Sandoval limit, then ran into lots ofhaz-climbed out to assess .the prob-ardous local traffic, who appar-lem, and as he stood to one side ently thought all the race cars along came Tony Licitra in his had already passed. Once past Protruck. He overshot the that hurdle he caught up with turn, hit the Class-10 car and the first of the major traffic both went over the edge. The jams, at Mile 33, where he had Protruck dropped further than to wait his turn in line (the the 10 car, but both were done road being too narrow to pass for the day. Luckily, Sandoval, on) before getting clear of the srnnding to one side, was un-steep hill. Once past that he • ..,.,.,.,,,,,....,,..,,..--went a few more miles and got stuck in the silt, dug out, tied on a tow str~ and waited for the next car. But when it got there it got stuck also, so they both had to be pulled out by a 4x4. Bob Shepard and Dan Ragland ford the creek in their Chevy as they head out in their new Protruck to take the victory. Ragland is a brother to Larry Rag_la_n~d_. __ Craig Turner and Curt LeDuc made up an unbeatable team in the Class 7 race. as they piloted their newly repaired Ford Ranger to f!!._e win. As Courtenay progress_ed he continued to find disabled cars in his way, and lots of chase traffic on the course, so he felt constrained to hold his speed down in the intere st of safety. He handed the car over to Ken-n is to n at Mile 171 , and Kennmiston did fin e until he got _to Mile 355, ju t past Uruapan, where he got stuck in the third traffic jam for about a half hour. Kenniston was finally Continued on page 12 Page 10 August 2000 Dusty Times

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Pat Dean had a good drive in his Chenowth, in spite of the heavy Mark Fodor creates a dust cloud as he churns through a silty corner Gus Vildosola and Charlie Watters had fun in their Jimco 2000, and ended their day with fourth place in Class 1. dust, and finished fifth in the very competitive class. in his Chenowth. He took third in the SCORE Lite class. on his way again, got back to Up at the front of the pack it w_as Fodor, who solved his Ojos, and-gave the car to Ben Ragland turned the truck over steering problem by sawing that Schlimme who was lucky to Bob Shepard, and at Vicente shim in half after about 100 enough to have a smooth ride he took over the lead, in front miles of hard steering. for the final 58 miles. They were of Smith and partner, Ryan Greinke p·ut Dale Dondel eighth and last. Herzog, who now got in to do into his carfor the second half, The Protrucks went off the the final section. Magness and he went into the lead, and line next, and we already know didn't make it that far. had 15 minutes as he reached what happened to Licitra. Scott Shepard, with Ragland Ojos on the return trip. Bruck-Steinberger lost the cam or tim-riding, stayed in front the rest mann ran second, but down on ing chain in his Ford, and didn't of the way, to take the win, a time because he'd had three even get to El Rayo, but Larry nice way to break in a brand flats down along the beach, two Wyatt and Jim Nuckles had new truck. Smith, Perrizo and of them rears, and at the same their Ford in the lead, 48 min-Herzog got stuck for an hour time. He'd driven to his pit on utes up on second place. That after Ojos, but someone in a 7S two tireless wheels. Fodor was was Dan Ragland, one of Larry's truck (Susag and Siewart?) fi-third again, with de Flores in brothers, who was driving Bob nally pulled them out, and they fourth and now Dan Worley and Shepard's new Chevrolet and were able to finish in time to get Stan Potter, who'd been havi~g was in front of Gary Magness second place, only 3 2 minutes all kinds of trouble, including and his Ford by nine minutes. short of the cut off time. None oil on the clutch, flats and a bad Grayson Smith, Ford, had lost of the others finished. alternator, were up to fifth in over an hour with a broken pit-The SCORE Lite class went their Jimco. man arm, and was fourth. next, and all but two of them Dondel ran a steady pace to the. finish line, to give himself tough day of it, first getting and Greinke the victory. They stuck in a traffic jam, then reported only one flat for the breaking a c.v. up in the neigh-whole day. In second it was borhood of Mike's. Then the Honold and Bruckrriann, who water got their electrical sys -had a sad transmission for the · tern, and with that, their radio, last few miles. Fodor, who so-and ultimately, they ran out of loed the race, finished third, time. They're still planning to followed in by Jose de Flores and come back to tackle the 2000. Castro, and then Jerry Penhall The Class 5 cars were next. and George Erl moved their It started out as a four car race, Penhall.up to fifth. They'd had but soon dropped to three when a push rod stud through the-side Josh Westwood lost his.motor at of the engine, and had also lost Mile 12. That left George See-a fuel filter. George said it had ley in the lead at El Rayo, about been "a long damned day". An-eight minutes in front of Mike other five cars got to the finish Kalicki, who was 19 seconds up line, but Jesse Ashcraft, after on Hector Ledezma. Hector was running so well more than half sharing the driving with his the day, didn't make it. One in-brother, Oscar, since his usual teresting new team in this class, co-driver, son Danny, was help-Lynn and Annie Venier, a ing out in a 5-1600 car. mother/daughter team, had a Continued on page 14 Wyatt and Nuckles contin-made it through El Rayo. Steve r----------------------------------------~ ued to lead through Jamau, and Greinke had the lead in his Por-now had about 45 minutes on ter at that point, just a bit over Ragland. Magness held third, three minutes up on Arturo with Smith still in fourth, and Honold in his Jimco. In third it he put Paul Perrizo in to drive was Ramon c·astro in jose De the middle section. Flores' Chenowth, while Ron Nuckles was driving, and he Dalke was in fourth and Jesse made it up to Mike's and back Ashcraft, in a Porter/Penhall down again, but as he headed was fifth. They were separated toward the power station on the by orily nine minutes. outskirts of Valle Trinidad, he When they arrived at Jamau, lost an axle seal. The fluid ran Greinke still led, but Honold out, and upon reaching the hot had closed up to less than two brake caliper, caught fire. minutes. Fodor was third, now Nuckles and his passenger were · 14 minutes back and struggling unaware of this development, with a frozen shim on his steer-until the brakes went away. ing column which made it hard When they realized what was to steer. Dennis Nuckles moved going on they stopped, got out up to fourth, about a minute of the truck and attempted to back, and Ashcraft held onto put out the fire. They tore off fifth, only seven seconds later. the fender, thinking that if it Honold and co-driver Vic had no fuel it might go away on Bruckmann, moved into the its own, but that didn't work. lead in the next section, while .They used up their fire extin-Greinke, who got caught in the guisher and then resorted to traffic jam out of Mike's, fell throwing sand on the flames, back. Ashcraft was second, but by then the tire had caught, about two minutes back, ·and. and that was the beginning of Greinke was third, about a the end. Ultimately the truck, minute and a half later. Castro's which Nuckles had borrowed partner, Jose de Flores, from for this race, was a total loss. mainland Mexico, ran fourth, a Neither he nor his passenger little bit down after Castro had were hurt. steering problems. And in fifth .;#,','',w,. ~ Eric and Jared Hardin, shown here at the start line in Ensenada, had a trouble-tree day and took the Class 7S win with their G!:!1C. ________ _ Dusty Times II/NA ROW KIOSKO RACING 1st Place Baja 500 Class 5/ 1600 LEDEZMA RACING ·Qtil 1st Place · San Felipe 250 Class 5/1600 TYPE II REAR TRAILING ARM COMPONENTS (858) 565-6095 ORW Racing and Sand Sport 7915 Balboa Ave San Diego, CA 92111 August 2000 • • • • • More wheel travel Stronger stubs 18" long axles Bigger brakes Proven performance NOW ON THE WEB 0~ offroadwarehouse.com Page 13

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Brian and Joe Jeffrey shared the driving in their Jimco to put Robby and Mark Fleisher did the start and finish, while Ryan Thomas Brothers Tim and Ed Herbst co-drove their Ford F-250 all-wheel-drive themselves into third place in the 1-2/1600 race. drove the middle, in a Chenowth, to finish fourth in 112-1600. Trophy Truck to second place behind Ragland. At the Jamau check, Seeley other two went on to t e en . an somew ere in is section e p ace. Heaven only knows what all. Hunnicut, who took over for had about six and a half min-Seeley led through half way, hit some water too fast, got wet happened to Daniel Fres-h in his Lewis, rolled the Chevy and did utes, Kalicki ran second and the then gave the seat to Bruce and "shorted everything out". Jeep, but he lost more time than some cosmetic damage, but at Ledezmas were still third. But Anderson. They were having no He lost an hour at that point. that, and ran third another 50 Ojos they were only a little fur-then the Ledezmas also disap-flat tires, but did get stuck a Anderson had no problems, said minutes back, and Isidro ther back than they'd been all pea red, and we never heard couple of times. Kalicki got out he loved the course (don't win-Ochoa, in a Toyota, lost about day. Fresh closed up some, but what happened to them. The and Michael James took over, ners always?) and took the vie- four and a half hours, and ran then he ran out of time. Turner tory for himself and Seeley. last at El Rayo. and LeDuc took the win, finish-.., .. ..:,~, ~-l._ _ _,.__,__,_...._,c....;,~.-:-Against a background of the Pacific Ocean, Jeremy Spirkoff'forges ahead in his Stock Full Ford to take the __ v_ic_to_ry,___e_as_i~ly. _________ _ Page 14 James and Kalicki were second, They all got through Jamau, ing almost four hours in front of almost a full hour later. with Turner almost exactly Lewis and Hunnicut, who were Class 7 was a four car race three hours up on Lewis, Fresh second and last. also - for a while -Craig Turner in third another hour and six The 1/2-1600 c·ars went next, had his new Ford back, all re-minutes back and Ochoa almost with a field of 21. Their day did paired after a bad crash in Ne-two hours behind him. It may not get off to a good start. Af-vada, and he had Curt LeDuc, have become apparent to Ochoa ter climbing up out of Ensena-. who built it, sharing the driving. that he was probably not going da, this race course went north Jeff Lewis was driving the old to make it, check points would for a little bit then hopped onto "Little Mac" Chevy, with Ted start closing up on him, and he Highway 3 (the road to Tecate) Hunnicutt co-driving, to give does not show up on our unof-which it ran on for about 10 Ted some practice for his drive ficial timing sheet at any further miles. The following events in the Baja 2000. Turner had points. were told to me by Curt LeDuc, the lead at El Reyo - by hours! LeDuc drove the middle sec-who was riding in Turner's It seems that Lewis lost a·trans-tion for Turner, and he reported truck when they occurred. He fer case at Mile 5 and lost three that they got sideways in the said they were leading the Class hours because his new parts mud puddle at Trinidad, where 7 troops, and on the highway, were ahead of him, up at El the locals add to the excitement they encountered a lot of non-Rayo and had to be broughr by flooding the road. They were race Mexican traffic 11).0ving back, which left him in sec.one! h:wing no mechanical trouble at fairly slowly. It was clear so they August 2000 M/T off-road race tires and Dale Ebberts teamed up for a win at the S.C.0.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 bra_nd. Call 800.700.0394 EXT. 6004 and be directly connected to your local M/T dealer. Dusty Times

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Mike James and Mike Kalicki had a good race going in their Class 5 Baja Bug until they hit some water and shorted everything out. They finished second. Martin Christensen soloed his BMW powered Class 1 O Jimco to fifth place in spite of being caught in a traffic jam. Steve, Dan and Andrew Myers put their Toyota powered Jimco into fourth place in Class 1 O which featured some of the tightest competition of the race. pulled out and started to go by this non-race traffic, and came to a police car leading the pa-rade, which swerved out into the middle of the road, block-ing them from passing. So Turner pull~d back in,to the right hand lane, behind the po-lice car. After a while they saw another clear spot and Turner tried to pass again, and the same thing happened again. But the road was twisty there, and he and Curt thought that maybe the policeman just didn't want them passing in what he saw as an unsafe area. So, when it was clear again, he tried again, and again the cop blocked him. At about this time a bunch of 1 /2-1600 cars (who started right behind the 7s) caught up. They followed along for one or two minutes, and then o_ne of them tried to pass the cop. And he moved over to block the pass. Curt and Craig had by now de-cided that there was an accident down the road, and they de-cided he says, "to be cool," (Curt's been racing in Baja a • long time.) Then three or four more 1600s come up and one of them got "real aggressive" and· tried to pass the police cruiser. At this point the road was clear, they were traveling about 60 miles per hour, there was good visibility for at least a half mile, and there were no spectators or oncoming traffic. But the cop moved over and blocked the 1600 c_ar again. Now Curt started to think "there's some-thing really wrong up ahead." He said the "message was clear." At this point two of the 1600s made their moves at the same time, one on each side of ·the Mexican cop, and they tried to pass him again. Curt. could see the policeman talking on the radio and waving his arms around. He was obviously very agitated, and Curt thought that maybe the race was about to be stopped. And about then, off iri the distance, he could see an-ot er cruiser par e across the straighten things out. Once he road, with a long line of oncom-had the situation clearly under-ing traffic waiting behind him. stood (no small matter), he Now everybody stopped, the headed for the Commandante's policeman pointed to direct the office to see what he could do -front 1600s to pull off to the which turned out to be almost side, he parked his car, opened nothing. The police were all the door and popped out with prepared to hold. the race cars his gun in hand. Everyone in impound until Monday morn-stayed parked. ing, which is the normal proce-Th e policeman did some dure in such a case (Monday hollering, which Curt didn't un-being the court's next work derstand, but the gist of it was day). After a lot of talk and that he was irritated, obviously. compromise on both sides, Fish Then, after a few minutes he let finally paid the fines and got the some of the 1600 cars (those cars released, many hours later. who hadn't tried to pass) go on He got Vessel's license back down the road, and finally, he also. let Craig and Curt go also. And It was a no-win situation. when they got up the road a bit The racers, who'd all been at and around a turn, they saw the the driver's meeting, "knew" remnants of a wreck, a non-race that there was no speed limit to vehicle that had been upside observe on this stretch of road down, being winched up opto a in this area. They'd been told to flat bed truck. Three 1600 cars, "exercise extreme caution", all guilty of trying to pass the which is what they felt they police car according to him, were doing. The policeman was were held. apparently trying to do his job The policeman apparently as he saw it, and he felt the wanted them thrown out of the overturned vehicle and the flat race. But-afteralotofradiotalk bed truck around the turn he asked the~ all for their called for reduced speeds at that driver's licenses, and was pre-time. He had the authority to pared to gi_ve them tickets (ap-make that decision. parently for unsafe speed on the (I wouldn't have Sal Fish's highway). Of course, none of" job for any amount of money1) them had their' licenses with Meantime, the rest of the them, but Kash Vessels, one of 1600 cars went on knowing that the three, radioed his crew and three of the top drivers were got them to come to the area having a bad day. Ramiro Es-with his kit bag, wherein sat his cobedo, in a Mirage, had the driver's license. Once he pre-lead at El Rayo, with three min-sented that to the policeman, utes on Lorenzo Rodriguez, in a about an hour after the ruckus Lothringer. lI). third it was started, he was given a ticket, Michael Burgett in a Suspen-his driver's license was confis-.sions Unlimited car, with Ronny cated and he was allowed to Wilson, in Sammy Ehrenberg's continue in the race. Bekki Jimco, in fourth place, followed Freeman and Adam Pfankuch, five minutes later by the OBFM with no licenses, were held an-team from Kentucky, in fifth in other hour or so until two tow another Jimco. They had four trucks showed up to. tow their drivers: Clay Cralle, Tracy race cars back into Ensenada Axton, Milton Coop.er and and the police impound yard. Duane Parker. Vessels, an hour Meanwnile, back at the po-lice impound. Pfankuch and Freeman and Fish were trying to see if they could do anything to ease the problem. All sorts of ideas were suggested, some to-tally unacceptable to the racers, some unacceptable to Fish. There was to be a lot of talk before an agreement could be reached that would feel like a solution, but of course, there was no real solution; no way to give them back their race. At Jamau Escobedo still led, with Rodriguez second, only two minutes back and now Wilson had moved up to third, another three minutes back. Max Handberg was now fourth, and Dan Martin ran fifth in his Chenowth. Attrition was setting in, and five cars were out for miscellaneous reasons, narrow-ing the field. · Coming into San Vicente, Ehrenberg had got into his car, .and he now led, while Rodriguez was less than two minutes be-hind him in second. Lorenzo was driving solo, as usual. -Es-cobedo had dropped to third, another seven minutes-back, and in fourth it was Robby Fleisher in a Chenowth, and four minutes later the Jeffrey brothers, Brian and Joe in their Jimco. They'd already been rolled over. Vessels, his day not improving, got stuck in the gi-ant mud puddle at Trinidad for 10 minutes, until his dad could pull him out. Meanwhile, Sal had come to an agreement of sorts with Free-man and Pfankuch. They were to be allowed to continue their .race, but, since it had been so rudely interrupted , they would rejoin at a point tl}at SCQRE officials felt was approximately where they'd have been, all things being equal, if they hadn't been stopped. For this reason they trailered their race cars up to Check 3, where the course crosses the highway be-tween Cerro Colorado and Independencia. It was roughly 150 miles into the race. When they returned to Ojos Negros, Ehrenberg still led, now about 20 minutes in front of Handberg. Rodriguez, who'd had a flat, and then had to stop to pick up a new spare was. third. He'd also had to make two tries to get up a hill, and had stalled once and had to bang on his starter to convince it to restart. · The Jeffrey team ran fourth Continued on page 16 The radio waves were sizzling or more behind the main pack, as people started looking for Sal got caught in the first traffic jam Steven Greinke and Dale Dondel gottheir Portercaughtin a traffic jam for a while, Fish (he'd just barely finished and lost another hour or so. but still ended the day with the SCORE Lite win. up at the start line) to Fat Performance the_leader in offroad engines offers to everyone from sand to pure race, a complete line of performance intake systems. Along with the most complete inventory of performance ofTroad exhaust·systems. Call today and find out how we can help put you in the winners circle. We. use & recommend RACING ENGINES,. TRANSMISSIONS .\NI) OFFRO.\I) PARTS SCORE Engine Builder of the Year for 1985. 1990. 1991. 1993. 1995, 1996 & 1997! . 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Eduardo and Jose Carlos Gonzalez had a long siege of alternator Cory Susag and Doug Siewart had a coil problem with their Toyota, Ramiro Escobedo led the class for a Jong way in his Mirage, but then problems on their 7S Ford, but got it fixed to come back to Ensenada but still managed a nice second place in 7S. had trouble and worked back up to finish fifth in the 1/2-1600 class. in third place. there, while the Fleisher car, in still shadowed by his follow-up. • finished eighth, reporting -no at Mile 6, but got things fixed which Ryan Thomas had driven He reported that just before the problems, and Pfankuch, who quickly. Bill Markel, another the middle section, was fifth, finish his "engine cut out for a did have some trouble, finished, Toyota, was racing for the first and Escobedo sixth. Vessels was second", giving him a scare. But but was 31 minutes over the time in Baja and hadn't pre-run, running ninth, Freeman was an Ehrenberg and Wilson got the shut-off time and went into the nervous as he was he was in hour and a half behind him in win, a skinny two minutes and records as a DNF. He was un-third place, another 14 minutes 11th and Pfankuch was about 35 seconds in front of a weary derstanda.bly, not a happy back. His plan had been just to 12th. Rodriguez. The Jeffrey brothers camper. follow Miguel Alvarado, who Ehrenberg now had an es-\Vere third another 12 minutes The 7S trucks came next started in front of him in his cort, in ·that the Wilson broth-back, followed in by Mark and with 10 entries. Three of them Jeep. He must have changed ers' Class 1 car, delayed after Robby Fleisher and Ryan Tho-went out in the early stretch in-plans, because Alvarado was being stuck in a ditch, was now mas, another 11 minutes back. eluding Javier Sacio in his Nis-behind· him at El Rayo, by 13 behind him and decided just to Escobedo was fifth, almost an san. Bruce Landfield in a Ford minutes. stay there and guarantee that hour later and the OBFM boys and Alfonso Guzman in another At Jamau the Hard ins had their other brother's ride got to finished sixth, reporting no Ford. But of those left, the lead five minutes on Susag, who was the finish line (remember, trouble, just "mud and booby belonged to Eric and Jared Har-35 minutes in front of Alvara-Ronny Wilson had been the traps." Vessels and his co-din in their GMC. They had do. Markel was now fourth, startingdriver).Andthusitwas driver,GaryWilliams,weresev-· seven minutes on Cory Susag, about 19 minutes back. 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Manual, Push Activater ULT-5752 15 x 7 WJ ~ ~~---------------------------------------·~ • CRO S P B D SEATS E C ILIT S OD RE LI E L U P S SHE D RS Page 16 August 2000 The Hardins kept m0oving in front, but Siewart and Susag dropped back about an hour when they lost their alternator, though they were still second as they came through Ojos on the return trip. The Gonzalez truck did much of that section with no lights, because they also had a bad alternator. They pulled into their pit for help before heading back towards the finish. Only those three trucks got that far. The Hard ins moved on with no problems to take the win, fol-lowed by Susag and Siewart in second, and the Gonzalez team in third. The Class 5-i600 cars were next in the line-up, another good sized group, with 21 start-ers. The early leader was Edmundo Fernandez, who had three minutes at El Rayo, on Victor Orellana. In third place it was Dave Gasper, and Marcos Nunez ran fourth. He had an early run-in with a pine tree that cost him his front bumper and all but one light. Dave Col-lier ran fifth about a minute later. Fernandez still led through Jamau, but now it was Nunez in second, about seven minutes later. Jose Lopez ran third, an-other two and a half minutes back, with Sammy Martinez moving up to fourth as Gasper fell to fifth. He endoed his car, tearing off the oil cooler and losing an hour and a half while he regrouped and made repairs. Nunez and his co-driver, Norberto Rivera weren't having any major problems, and kept moving steadily, while Fernandez had a broken front spnng. Lopez suffered at least one flat tire, but Martinez was making good time, while Gasper's brother, Bill, also ran well, but was playing catchup. · It got dark on these folks as they headed for home, some driving into that setting sun for a while after leaving Ojos. Nunez and Rivera, always a good teain, didn't let their dam-aged front end slow them down, and they came on smartly to get the win by 18 minutes. Lopez, who had only one flat, but then finished on a demolished rear tire, was second, followed in by Fernandez, who'd had an oil leak late in the day. He was 19 minutes in front of the Gaspers who worked back up to fourth. And in fifth, Sammy Martinez crossed the line with a throng of spectators pushing, his motor running, but apparently out of gears. Only eight of the 5- l 600s made it to the finish, an indica-tion of just how tough the course became. Eighth place went to Robert and Ruben Guti-errez who created one of the traffic jams. They got to the tricky little rocky uphill to the east of Uruapan, and there wa a 1600 car or some such stuck, unable to go up. The trail is nar-row there, bordered by boulders and big oak trees, and generally someone gets caught every race. But Robert figured he could get around the buggy, and he almost did, but then the ground fell away sharply and his car just tumbled over onto its lid, effec-tively blocking the road. It was several hours, and dark, before he was going again, and much of the credit goes to the Hardin pit crew, Dave Plotink and GarY, Stivers in the Hardin Suburban, who'd come into the area some time after Roberto rolled over. They had mistakenly thought their race truck needed their help, but discovered that it had already gone on and finished, so they were surplus. Which turned into a good thing for the folks trapped by Robert's error. According to Leonard Fallorina, who rode with .lobe rt, the Sub-urban crew helped at least 10 race cars through the bottle-neck over a period of about two hours. They also did radio duty for those who had non-working radios, and let everyone know who was where and that they were o.k. Fallorina was deeply grateful for their help. The Class 9 cars took the green flag next, and some of the favorites were out very early. Eric Fisher lost his transmission, Cisco Bio and the Gutierrez brothers were also out, Ed McLean turned up missing be-fore El Rayo, and Daniel Mora never got to the start. Dave Dusty Times

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David Caspino and Brett Anderson rolled their ORD early in the day, The Becker Brothers team, one of the Sportsman Buggy entries, is Edmundo Fernandez led for a while in Class 5-1600 but front-end had other troubles also, but still finished second in Class 9 in only seen here at the start line. Like all the Sportsmen, they failed to get to problems dropped him back to finish in third place. their second Baja race. the finish line. Vie ria' s co-driver, Ned Jones, In the Stock F u~ll.---c--.lc-a_s_s_, -w-'-,--h-e~n-t,..,h_e_y_g_o_t,--,-to-,-E'TI-.R.,...a_y_o--.-:i t_w_a_s ·-,-.D'o_u_gTla-s-,.,Po_w_e--.lTI _w_e_r_e_a--.lrrl-o-u...,t-b'e---~i-n_s_e_c_o_n_d'p~la_c_e __ ~W~h_e_n~th_e_y-go-t who opted for a dead last start Xavier Benson's Ford didn't Darren Skilton in front in his fore El Rayo, reducing the five car to Jamau their lead had grown to (even behind the Class 11 cars), make it to El Rayo, but every-sturdy Kia, followed by his dad, cll:!SS to two cars. Randy Tabler about 45 minutes, but then com-got caught in the first big traf-one else got there, and Jeremy Clive, in a Jeep Grand Chero-had the lead, but he'd used up ing down out of Mike's Kiely slid fie jam. He spent about an hour Spirkoff had his Ford in the kee, about 20 minutes back. over five hours, and we can only off the off-camber hill. That ex-and a half there before making lead, only four and a half min-Then it was Jim Winovitch, in assume he'd been caught in that cursion cost him about a half it up· the hill, and no sooner got utes ahead of David Sykes in an Isuzu, about an hour behind traffic jam. Behind him by 40 min- hour, and somewhere along the going than a small truck ran another Ford. Joe Griffin, in the them. Kirk Kovel had his big utes, David Foss ran second. At line he replaced a shock also. into them while passing and big white Hummer, ran third. Bronco tied with Alfonso Jamau Tabler led by about an Uribe was still about 45 minutes took off their side mirror, lights Spirkoffhad to change an alter-Hernandez in a Bronco II. hour ·and 45 minutes, but then back. But then he came a crop-and right front wheel. After nator, but kept moving Hernandez had gone through Foss didn't make it over to the per by running into a cow. and piecing things together, the smoothly, while Sykes blew his contingency with a tow bar at-Pacific side. Tabler went on caved in the front end of his car. team got to Check 1 over an motor about six miles past El tached to the front of his ve-through San Vicente, but didn't It's unknown if he tried to go on hour after it closed, thus end-Rayo, and was done for the day. hide, which looked like it might show up at our next unofficial after that, but he never came back ing their race on a very sour That put Griffin in second, and be a good idea, but he'd taken observation post. So the Sports-through Ojos Negros the second note. there was no one else. it off by race morning. Maybe he man Buggy class didn't get a fin- time. Kiely, Solorzano and Haro The cars who hadn't already Spirkoff ran a basically un-shouldn't have. isher either. did get through Ojos, and also gone out were led by Jim Rich-eventful race, his biggest prob-Darren Skilton stayed in Nor did Class 11. There were through Check 7, which was just ardson (son of the late, great !em being a lost half hour when front, while his dad ran behi@l five of them also, but Chris beyond Ojos, but Kiely and Solor-Rich Richardson), in a Jimco. he got stuck near Guadalupe on him a half hour or so. Neither Woodward came straggling back zano waited in vain for the car to He had six minutes on Ed the.way back in. He got to the was having any problems. through the outskirts of Ense- get to the finish line. We left some Gonzalez, who was eight ·min-finish line in plenty of time to · Winovitch didn't get to Jamau, nada by about ·10: 15 a.m., re- time after their 18 hours ran out, utes up on Jesus Luna in an-get the win. Poor Griffin didn't and Kovel ran third there, but porting major transmission leaving a dispirited welcome com-other Jimco. In fourth it was make it back to Ojos, though he then he lost about a half hour trouble. And Bill Colina was mittee waiting for Haro to show Hector Sarabia in a Chenowth. did get through San Vicente. and Hernandez was third at San reported out before El Rayo, up too late for a finish. Richardson was having a great Can you imagine trying to push Vicente. Then they all disap- and on a-tow rope. Fernando Once again the Baja 500 race, and at Jamau he had two a Hummer if you got it stuck? peared. Flo res just disappeared. So this proved a good test of driver and minutes on Luna, who was also The Stock Mini trucks had But the two Skiltons kept mov- was a. two car race also. machine, and once again, it having a good time, but he was an even worse day. Not surpris- ing along. Kearney took over for Unfortunately, the 11 cars got threw a couple of curves. It just under two minutes in front ingly, Rob Reinertson had his Clive, who'd lost another 45 min-caught in that first traffic jam seems the unexpected is the of Sarabia. But then things Ford in front early on, and Bill utes in a second traffic jam, and (they didn't cause it, they rarely norm at the 500. started to go to pot. Snitchler, in a Jeep ran second·, he happened upon the third jam, do, because they start almost dead SCORE gets a breather now, Sarabia's car had electrical only two minutes back: Bob Roberto's upended 5-1600. He last) and both lost at leas t two with no July race, then heads for problems-after getting wet, and Land had his lzusu Vehicross put the Jeep into low range and hours. At El Rayo the team of Eric Nevada for the Primm 300 in it also got stuck in the mud. But ran third, a bout 50 minutes rock crawled up the hill past the Solorzano, Terry Kiely and Miguel early August. After that all their he put Luis Guevara in for the later. Reinertson h ad some stuck cars and on his way, leav- Haro had the lead by about a half energies will be focused on the middle section, and by the time problems, and ove r a t San ing an astounded audience behind hour and it was Fernando Uribe Baja 2000 in November. ■ he got to Vicente, Guevara had Vicente the lead belonged to him. Darren got his motor wet the lead, with four minutes on Land, with Reinertson only 31 and stalled the Kia once, but oth-Richardson. Gonzalez didn't minutes behind him. But then erwise nothing bothered him and make it, nor did Bill Rodriguez, both Land and Reinertson dis-he took another win. Clive and Luna's partner. He broke an appeared and only Snitchler wa~ John Kearney finished about two axle on the way down out of · reported through Ojos on the hours behind him, in second, and Mike's, made repairs and then way back in. He faced an impos-none of the others made it. lost his clutch. Simple math-sible situation, with only an In the Sportsman Truck class ematics showed that even if he hour and nine minutes to get to Xavier Reyes got his Suzuki found the parts and made re-the finish and nearly 60 miles to Samurai caught in the first traf-pairs again, he'd be so late he go, in the dark. He didn't make fie jam and used up over eight couldn't make it in time, so they it, so there was no finisher in hours getting to El Rayo. From were out. At San Vicente third the class. there on his times weren't bad, place belonged to David There were five Class 3 cars, and he got clear through San Caspino and Brett Anderson in always ; treat, but they had a Vicente apparently running an ORD, who'd already rolled hard day also. First of all -they well, but quite obviously too (they said they did a two and a got stuck in the first traffic jam late to be able to get to the fin-half gainer) and had their trans-(no one ever fessed up to caus-ish in time. Too bad, he made a mission come unbolted. ing that jam, but a lot of cars good effort. Guevara stayed in front, and se·emed to have been caught) . In the Sportsman Buggy class handed the car back to Sarabia and lost 45 minutes or so. But Roberto Arauz, Sergio Soto and still leading at Ojos the second time, but now Richardson was gone, reportedly after hitting some kind of booby trap. That put the C aspino/Anderson car in second place, a couple of hours behind t h e lead car. Sarabia and Guevara had to stop to add oil a couple of times, and finally just took the time to change the valve cover gasket. They lost 45 minutes in another traffic jam, but soldiered on, and with their clutch going away, made it to the finish to take the win. Caspino and A nderson finished second, a good job considering this was only their second Baja race, and they were the last car in their class to make it in. Dusty Times Sammy Ehrenberg and Ronny Wilson ran together in Ehrenberg's Jimco, and came away with the c;tass 1/2~.16(}!! vict9.r1:: _________ . ____ ·-····-···-··--August 2000 Hector Sarabia and Luis Guevara had a litany of mechanical troubles in their Chenowth and also got caught in traffic, but still managed to win Class 9. George Seeley and Bruce Anderson had a very good day with no mechanical problems, ~o take the win in Class 5 .. Page 17

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20TH RALLY ARC:ENTINA Richard Runs Rampant By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Richard Burns and Robert Reid show their winning style on the way to the Argentine victory in their Subaru lmpreza. Richard Burns pulled further into the WRC points lead in Ar-gentina, avenging the memory of his last stage defeat 12 months ago. It was an eventful rally for the new generation Impreza. It was plagued by prob-lems on the first day, some of which continued throughout the rally and o.n a few occasions the winning driver went off the road. Burns speed was amazing and he took full advantage of the bad luck that was affecting his rivals. McRae .who had his engine blow up, Sainz who crashed and Makinen who was slightly off the pace. Granholm tried very hard to keep McRae honest but it was to no avail. Subaru, Peugeot and Mitsubishi were represented on the po-dium. Interestingly, both SEA TS retired with clutch fail-ure on the same stage, both reg-istered Fords retired, but both Hyundais reached the finish af-ter a myriad of problems and Alister McRae got them their first championship points on their fourth outing in the 2000 series. The Argentine rally was the sixth competition event of the FIA 2000 World Rally Champi-onship series. The driver's points were led by Richard Burns; he was nine points ahead of reigning champion Tommi Makinen. Subaru led Ford by 10 points in the Manufacturers points and for this event, six of the seven world championship teams had entered, only Skoda being absent. The Argentine event is deceptively tricky, fast tracks seem east to the drivers, but it is quite a simple feat to hit a rock beside the road. The firm sandy. surfaces look smooth, but the leading cars al-ways unearth stones, which can cause much damage to the cars running behind. Apart from that problem, there are man'y water crossings and after one of the wettest periods on record in that region, this was a consid-erable cause for concern. And, there is always altitude, this event goes up well over 6000 feet, higher than any of the other WRC closed road special stage events. Mitsubishi's pre-Argentina test work was carried out in Greece. Peugeot was nostalgic, they were the only team com-peting that had run the original WRC Argentine event in 1980. SEAT split their testing into two categories, Auriol for en-durance and rough road testing in France and Gardemeister for smooth gravel and altitude work in Andorra. This was the fourth event for Hyundai in their Ac-cent program and the fourth dif-ferent type of environment. More entries were received for this event than for the past half decade. Andrea Aghini re-turned to Group N after 12 years. Andrea was the 1998 and 1999 National Champion in a Toyota and whose 1992 San Remo Rally victory in a Lancia was the last world rally win in an Italian car and_ here b,e. was in a Mitsubishi! Entries in Group N are forever growing stronger. In addition to FIA Cup challengers Stohl, Trelles, Ferreyros and the National Ar-gentine team drivers Menzi, Pozzo and San~hezwe now have Gabriel Raies, nine time Argen-tine champion and Este.ban Goldenhersch, last year's W2L winner on this event. Uwe Nit-tel was unable to compete as the container in which his car and service equipment was shipped seems to have been stolen. Time seems to stand still in Argentina. Four drivers entered in this -event drove Renault 18GTX cars, which were first seen in this event in 1983 ! This was the 20th time a WRC rally had been run in Argentina and the 16th in the rolling hills west of Cordoba. This region is the hub of the nation's motoring industries and the heartland of the sport. Jorge Ricalde, who began competing on this eyent 20 years ago, the only South American driver to win a WRC event has entered every year and has won the event twice! This year the new Pro-Rac-ing complex, with its figure eight course, eight kilometers out of town would be used as spectator superspecials, running at night. The rest of the stages were somewhat familiar, having been used on most of the_previ-Iii-. ""-~ L .. ~ ~~4, V ~•H'-' -.,,,¢.: 1,,-:.\..i,::~. Plowing through the wet, the Renault Maxi Megane of Jorge Bescham finished 16th overall, first in formula 2. ous Argentine Rally. events. The rally began on the Thurs-day night with the double run around the superspecial stage. The rally started in the later af-ternoon, but it was dark before the action began at the super-special course. The top 30 cars ran in· reverse order. As faster and faster cars tackled the course it became evident that there was a major problem. Stones thrown up by cars on the inside track were shooting into cars on the outside track, Kankkunen's radiator was dam-aged and his windshield broken by stones thrown by McRae's Ford. There were a few other mi -nor incidents and the winner for the evening was Richard Burns. Leg 1 · Day 2 -Eight stages, gravel, 117 kms. On the open-ing stage of the day, north of Cordoba. Burns fell back to fourth place. T earn mate Kank-'kunen, sporting new radiators and windshield was having some electronic problems. McRae also had troubles, of the braking va-riety, caused by overhe~ting on the downhill sections. Auriol let Gardemeister pass him, giving the Finn a dust free Stage 4 and Delecour was suffering from hy-draulic leakage and a resultant fire. Solberg lost the throttle cable and finished the stage us-ing the ignition switch as a gas pedal. Stage 5 was canceled due to spectator traffic and Burns had more trouble· on Stage 6 when the car sputtered almost to a halt after a water crossing. Makinen lost sixth gear, Kankkunen had power steering problems, the belts getting wet on the water .crossings, Eriksson lost his power steering on the road section to Stage 6 and lost time at the Ser-vice Park whilst repairs were made. Delecour had yet another fire and once again a lot of equipment had to be changed at the Service Park. His crew was within one minute -of terminal lateness when they got the car back on the road. SEAT cars were in worse shape. Three kilometers away from each other, they both stopped with clutch failure, presumed to be from the water crossings. As the day continued, the race for the lead continued to oscillate and never all day was the lead greater than 8.9 sec-onds. Burns dropped from sec-ond to fourth because of the water crossing incident then on the last group of tliree stages he had central differential prob-lems which stopped him from attacking and all the time he was clearing· the stages for his rivals! Gronholm's engine kept cutting out, allowing Sainz to get QY• Granholm had the look of being the fastest driver on the rally but Sainz was leading, through a show of vehicle reli-ability? Burns finished the day 39 ~cconds behin.d Sainz. McRae managed to hold onto third place and Delecour fin-ished the day in 31st, not an enviable position. In the Gentleman's <;:ategory, Holowczyc knocked the right front ~uspension off the car and co-driver Fortin had to sit in the trunk for two stages and the road sections to balance the car 'ti! they .could get to service. Papadimitriou and Frederick Dor both had ignition problems due to the water crossings. Yazici lost fifth and sixth gear and Jorge Ricalde retired on Stage 7 with gearbox failure. On the final stage and also on the road section to the final section there were various re-ports of stone throwing. Solberg, Loix and Eriksson all had stones dropped on them at a certain point on a stage and Group N driver Mendez had a stone thrown at him as he went through the town of La Cumbre. Before the rally headed back to Cordoba ~Rae had the en-• The Peugeot 206 of Marcus Granholm scrambled wildly in Argentina Third overall was where Tommi Makinen finished, shown here plowing Alister McRae and David Senior drove their Hyundai to seventh overall but second overall was the way it ended. through the water in his Mitsubish_i Lancer Eva. and gained the first. ""!_arid Rally Championship point for Hyundai. Page 18 August 2000 Dusty Times

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gine sensor changed. Evidently the sensor perceived the car was at a much higher altitude than actual and the power was down by 10%. At Hyundai they were stewing over Alister McRae's engine. On Stage 6, a fan had broken in a water crossing and caused overheating and an oil surge was also causing overheat-ing. At Subaru all was calm, de-spite Burns' evident dismay. They knew the next day was going t:o be okay, and so it turned out to be! Burns ex-plained, "nearly every stage we had an apparent overheating problem and the engine com-puter reverted to 'safe' mode. On Stage 6, the central differ•-ential failed, continued through stage 7. We then found the problem and 8 was good but then the problem came back again running Stage 9." In Group N, there was a va-riety of leaders. For the two su-perspecial stages Pozzo led, then on the first real stage Stohl went into the lead. After the first four stages Trelles took the lead. Menzi retired when he went into a water crossing too hard, broke the fans and caused ter-minal overheating: Raies retired with a broken gearbox, Mendez broke a rear shock and Pozzo, close to the end of Stage 6 broke all four shocks! Sanchez lost a minute with drive shaft failure and Aghini had a big crash into the rocks, putting his co-driver into the hospital with two crushed vertebrae. In F2, Jorge Bescham and his Renault was in a class of his own. Leg 2 - Seven stages, gravel, 131 krns. Sainz started the day 4.2 seconds in front ofGronholm but the Finn pulled ahead on the first stage. As the cars were com-ing into the Service Park after the second stage, there was news over the radio that Sainz had crashed. He evidently misjudged his landing zone after a big jump and impaled the front of the car on a guardrail, shaken up, but unhurt. Meanwhile, Burns was on a mission. Many drivers had not expected the s.i:age to be so damp and had tires too hard for the conditions, but Burns was Gustavo Trelles dusts the spectators as he takes his Mitsubishi Lancer Evo to a nice ninth place finish, first in Group N. · very happy. On one stage he had risen from sixth to fourth, on the next he was up to third, three more stages and he was second and one stage after that he was in the lead! On the third stage of the day he had a near moment, he got up on two wheels but came safely down! Colin McRae was going well but brother Alister was having dif-ferential pressure problems. Freddy Loix slid off the road a few tim_es and Solberg was happy 'cause he finally had a set of struts that he liked! Eriksson broke two fans in a water cross-ing, Loix had a loose gearshift lever and Eriksson had central differential failure. Delecour's engine mysteriously cut out on Stage 14. Conditions were get-ting cooler and more damp. Kankkunen had a flat and on the ensuing road section the tire exploded, leaving pieces all over the road. Mc Rae hit a water crossing hard and nearly went end over end, damaged the ra-diator and nearly pulled the sump guard off. Burns slid into a bank but got going again with little time loss. A superspecial finished the day with Burns 9.3 seconds in front of Gronholm. Burns had been fastest on six of the seven stages of the day! · Group N saw a fascinating battle between the reig'ning champion, Trelles and his younger challenger, Pozzo. Tr_elles started the day in the lead but Pozzo took over on Stage 1 and there he remained but for Stage 14 when he had a · turbo problem. Stohl retired with damaged suspension after hitting a good sized boulder. Leg 3 - Six stages, gravel, 120 kms. The w_et weather the day before had been unprecedented. Miguel Torras, who has driven in 18 Argentine rallies said he did not remember a day of rain on the event since 1983 ! This was to be the day of the fog on the higher sections of the route. Holowczyz retired on the road section to the first stage with throttle pro_blems. 11 kms into the first stage, McRae an-nounced over the radio that his engine had expired without warning and please get him plane reservations home on the first available flight out. Mean-while, Richard was storming' ahead, 22 seconds faster than the nearest car (Granholm). He was now half a minute ah ead of Gronholm, whose hopes were fading fast. Kankkunen mis-judged a slippery corner and went into the trees, Freddy Loix had a couple of spins, and Solberg spun twice. Delecour's • Peugeot was running better but Hyundai was still having prob-lems. Alister had rear brake fail-ure which caused the fronts to lock up and Eriksson was hav-ing ignition troubles, running most of Stage 18 on two cylin-ders. Serkan Yazici finds the loose gravel in Argentina but he went on for a great 11th place finish, 15th in Teams Cup. On Stage 19 Burns found the official route blocked by a wooden obstacle, and being fully committed he launched his car through the barrier, thus clearing the road for all those following him. There was thick fog on Stage 20 and he went off the road again but was able to get going in a very short time. Makinen hit some rocks on that stage, Loix suffered a very heavy landing after a jump and Eriks-son was having ignition trouble. McRae was in deeper trouble, he was ready to score the first WRC points for Hyundai when the motor mounts broke and twisted the gearbox housing. The repair was performed in a timely manner and then the al-ternator failed, McRae just reached the service park before 20th Rally Argentina 11/14.05.2000 Cordoba ·WCR6 l ( J) R1chu·d BURNS/Robert Reid 2 ( 10 l H•rcua GRONHOLH/T1•0 Raut 1a lnen ) {l) TOl\11\l KAKJMEN/R1ato Hilnn1.aen11ak1 4 { 4) Juha KANKJCUREN/Juha R•po 5 (2) Freddy LOU/Sven Sraaets 6 (16) Petter Solber9/Ph1l1p Hills 7 (15) Alucar HcRAI/Oav1d Senior a ( 14) Kenneth ERllSSOPi/Staf fan Par111ander 9 ( 22) Gustavo Tr• 11•&/ Joroe Del Buono 10 ( 34 l Gabrul Pozzo/ROdolfo AMello Ortiz Other important f1ni&h•r• 11 (20) serkan Yazici/Erkan Bodur 12 l 24) Robert.o Sanchez/Rub.an Carcia 13 ( 9) Francois DELECOUR/Oanul Grataloup 14 t 17) Frederic Dor/Kevin Gor11ley 1 S 129) Ra11ton Ferreyroa/Gonzalo sa■nt l!!i (41 I Jorge Bascha.1t/AJdo Arou■llo 17 (42) Oscar Chiarainello/Ruben Quiroz 19 ( !>1) Sebastian Beltran/Gabriel Carranza Dusty Times GB Subaru J inpreza WRC FIN Peugeot 206 WRC FIN H1t.r.ub11Jhl Lancer Evo. 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August 2000 Jean-Marc Fortin rode for two stages in the trunk, balancing the Subaru after Hol9wczyc tore the right front suspension off. the battery gave up the ghost. the past three years but had to Delecour had an overheating settle for third this time. Burns clutch, forcing him to stop for had been quite worried, espe-a bit to cool it down before fin- cially after the first trying day, ishing. then on Day 2 Marcus and In Group N, Pozzo, once Colinweretoocloseforcomfort more lost the lead to Trelles due and on the third day he was still to a flat tire on a long fast worried, even tho ugh the stretch and Mendez failed to weather was on his side but he finish when his gearbox broke. drove well and was able to take Makinen had won here for the win. ■ This is the 1Jystem run by most off road race winners TRI-MIL BOBCAT CHROME 1984-91 CORVETTE 11/1" OR l" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER 13220 HALLDALE AVENUE GARDENA, CA 90249 310-217-9233 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 19 "

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• SNORE/DUSTY TIMES CALIENTE 250 Flippins Flawless In Lincoln county By John Calvin Photos: Carrera Photography Jeff Carr went back to his winning ways at Caliente, taking the 1600 class win in the high country. ____ _ Rac_ing conditions were the secondary main street in ond in class on Laps I and 2, perfect for_.the late spring town. You stop at the start/ only by a few seconds and race. Blue skies, nicely cool· finish, make a right tum over then dropped off the face of temperatures and a bit of a the railroad tracks and you're the earth, fate unknown. breeze to help blow the dust off to do it all over again. Michael Gaughan_Jr. was the away. Starting time was ten in Caliente is the main line be-Class 1 leader and the lap the morning and there was a tween Salt L~ke City and Las times got better and better seven hour time limit, cutting Vegas and there is a lot of with each lap but, and isn't it kinda close for some of the train traffic. If you get caught there always a but, he too competitors. There were 52 at the crossing in town and dropped from the charts on competitors in seven classes have to wait for the train to the last lap, his fate also un-and they were all ready to at-pass, your waiting time is de-known to this writer. tack the Caliente terrain. ducted from your overall Second group to start were Racing in Caliente is, well, time at race end. Usually• the Class 10 lions and none different: the race starts on there are a bunch of cars that of these guys would let any Union Pacific Railroad prop-are delayed by the trains but grass grow under their feet. erty, heads off in a north this trip only Dan Bentley Clay Flippin was set to drive easterly direction, up into caught the delay, a minute the first three laps and Ken the mountains, through the and 45 seconds and I'm sure would take the last two. They trees and the water and then it was like hours sitting there r.an second to Dan Bentley as you near the finish of the waiting for the train to pass. on Lap 1 by less than a lap you drop down a steep Class 1 was first in the minute, but from there on in and I do mean steep moun-blocks, Jason Yeoman first they just cruised around, tain face and it drops you away but Jason would not constantly opening their lead right onto the pavement of have a good day. He ran sec-and ran a trouble free race to take the Class 10 win and they also got their first first overall. A great run by two grea t drivers and a well de-served win. Eddie Saxton was second off the line, ran third on Lap 1, moved into second on Lap 2 and they too cruised on for their five laps, taking second in Class I 0, 20 min-utes away from the gold. We d id n't get t h eir war story as t hey breezed on by us and we were in no mood for chasing them to their pit. t - -:,.r ~ 0 ·NETS ·BAGS ·SEATS • LIMIT STRAPS 1-800-565-4042 10925-F Hartley Road Santee, CA 92071 www.mastercraftseats.com Page 20 B.J. Baldwin was the third car to leave. B.J. stumbled a bit on Lap 1, losing about 45 minutes t o t h e crowd but then he recovered a n d turned a couple of fast laps, then Lap 4 was more prob-lems and he never did com-plete his fifth lap. Next up was Dave and Derek Deatley. These guys took off an d ran their five prescribed laps with no problems whatsoever. D ave drove the fi rst t hree laps, Derek finished their five laps an d they came in for a nice third in class against some real stiff competition. August 2000 Doug Ingram rr:,ade it look easy as he took the Class 9 win, a problem free rfJ_ce for the ex-champ, winning by ten minutes. Chuck Martin took the 5 honors, having a trouble free run and complaining only of the excessive dust. Dan Bentley was fifth to leave in Class 10, led the first lap, dropped some time on Lap 2, had troubles on Lap 3, recovered somewhat on Lap 4, then dropped out of the picture, never reaching the end of the required five laps. The 1600s· were next to leave and this was a battle royal all the way. First up was Brian Anderson and he led the first lap by 23 seconds. He still led on Lap 2, but only by a hair, then on Lap 3 he got a flat and had to go some distance on it to a pit and that put him out of conten-tion. He ended up in seventh place after a long solo drive. Bryan Freeman was next off the line and this determined youngster was either leading the race or at worst, in sec-ond or third place each lap, only by a few secc-'l.ds. Bryan drove solo, had no mechani-cal troubles, said h e could have lived without som e o f the dust and water and ended up in the second spot, a mere 19 seconds away fro m t h e gold meda l. Day Gang, race car driver a nd ·television pro-ducer, was off next and Day had a good race. Day's car took a bit of water into the ignition on some of the wa-ter crossings and that ham-pered her progress a bit, then she laid the car on its side on the last lap but she still fin-ished a very respectable sixth, just about 10 minutes out of the win. Robby Gue-vara was the fourth J.600 to start but his race didn't start too well. He drowned his en-gine on the first lap and lost about nine minutes to the crowd. His other lap times were right on the money, running with the leaders on · lap times but not on elapsed time and even though he lost his power steering on the last la p he still finished a very respectable fifth, about nine min_utes away from the big money. S~eve Laputz came up from San Diego to compete in 1600 and he was the fifth starter in class. Steve ran about three minutes off the pace on the first lap, then , h e turn e d it on an d ran for the Continued on page 22 Clay and Ken Flippin had a great day in Caliente, taking the Class 10 Win and their first overall as well! Dusty Times

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John Phegley has the bad luck market cornered, he was forced to Bryan Freeman could taste the 1600 victory, but it was not to be, he Robby Guevera had trouble with the water Crossings, his ignition didn't retire after a great first lap, power steerin was the culprit. finished a great second in class at Caliente. like getting wet but he finished fifth in 1600. Ron Woolworth had some overheating problems but he went on and Second in Class 10 went to Eddie Saxton, he was about twenty minutes Bill Dicton was short a gear at Caliente but he did a great Job and finished third in Sportsman Truck, a good run. .:..ou::c:t--=o~f.:..th:..:.e--=h.:...:·rs:..:.t,;.p--=la..:...ce'-p'-o_s..:...it--=io_n_. ---.--------=----=~~-brought the car in for a great third place in Class 9. finish . A las, he was never was next to go anct his shiny hours out on the course h e Pat Dean diced for the lead minutes out of the class win. able to recover the lost time new blue paint job wasn't a retired on the third leg. most of the race. Jeff really C lass 8 only had on e en-on Lap 1 and Steve finished good luck charm. Clay ran Jeff C arr, now that's an-turned it on during Lap 4, a try, Jol::m Phegley in his ever in fourth place, no troubles with the pack on the first lap other story. He was the sev- 1 : 10: 3 2, followed . by a tall good looking orange and with the car, just too much but his second la p was a di-enth car to start in 1600 and 1.: 11 :00 and those times, black (Dusty Times colors) water and dust. Clay C arr· sast e r and afte r som e five h e and Bryan Freeman and coupled with a trouble free creation, but in spite of cut-run gave him the 1600 win ting a very good first lap, he CAI.I. TOI.I. FREE 1-BBB-'755-5900 WE CAN SHIP UPS TO YOUR DOOR WE NOW OFFER THE/E .IERVICEI ** WE ..$£RVICE FOX, fllLSflEN, KING, SWAY A WAY -5HGC-K-S * * MAGNAFLUX SERVICE ( WITH QUICK TURN A ROUND .. ) **GEARBOX REBUILD SERVICE (NO MORE WEIRD NOISES .. ) ** VINYL GRAPlflCS AND LETIERING ( NOW YOUR CAR WILL LOOK GOOD .. ) CLASS 9 KENNEDY CLUTCH KIT STAGE I II & Ill PRESSURE PLATE 4-PUCKDISC RELEASE BEARING $150.00 OWEL BALL JOINTS UPPER & LOWER $13.50EA. NORB ONE PIECE AXLE BOOT $10.00EA. BRAND NEW SWING AXLE TRANS 4:37 8 BOLT 3:80 -2:06 -1:32 -:85 $550-00 Page 22 CLASS 1/2 1600 5/~600 -SPORTSMAN KENNEDY CLUTCH KIT STAGE I II & Ill PRESSURE PLATE 4-PUCK DISC RELEASE BEARING $1.50.00 NORB "930-CV1>VER BOOT (SAME AS BATES) $10.00 EA. WOVEN BRAKE SHOES FRONT, TYPE Ill, THING "$50:00 A SET MAGNAFLUX SERVICE BEL RAY CV GREASE $16.95EA. . . . . . "' R~~~-?ill •••• 3054 S. VALLEY VJEW #3 * LAS VEGAS, NV * 891.02 HOURS: MON-FRI 9.AM-6PM * SAT 9AM-5PM (702)871.-5221. FAX CLASS 10 5 UNLIMITED KENNEDY CLUTCH KIT STAGE I II & Ill PRESSURE PLATE 4-PUCKDISC RELEASE BEARING $150.00 WEBER 40-44 IDF CARBONLY $ 295.00 CLAMP ON 2" SUPER TRAP $37.00 CALL ABOUT SMOKIN' BFGOODRICH PRICES · August 2000 which was worth $3,000. Not lost the power steering and ba d for a day's work! SNORE was unable to continue. President K enny Freeman There were n o less than 15 was looking for some fun and C lass 9 machines ready for a possible win. N o such luck ! t h e battle. Unfortunate.ly, Kenny's engine died after ev- only five of th em m ade it to ery water crossing and that the finish line. Ken Thatcher cost him mucho time. His was first to start but Ken's lap second lap time was quite times were well off th e pace competitive but the other and he decided to call it quits laps were long and Kenny after completing three of the ended up in eighth place. required four laps. Tim Scott Smith started ninth, Dixon was next up and he turned three very competi-too had problems, only com-tive laps and then disap-pleting two laps before retir-peared from the charts, cause ing to the pits. Tom Talia-unknown. Kevin Graves ferro was next to start but the started next and we have no expectant father only went a idea what happened to few miles before the tranny Kevin, he never completed gav-e up the ghost. End of his first lap. The last starter story. Bill Avery suffered the in 1600 was Pat Dean. Pat same fate, not getting in even was either first, second or one lap. Bill Dixon took wife t hird· throughout_ the race, Lynn's car for a run and it only seconds separating th e turned out very nicely. Bill top runners. Pat was also turned two nice laps, decided having engine sputter prob-to see how the car looked lems caused by the water upside down on the third lap crossings but the worst was (first flip of his career), lost on the last lap when his lap about 12 minutes to the ac -time gained about three min-tivity and brought the car utes and this put him into the home for a nice third place. third place finish, about two Joel Davis didn't have a good Dennis McCarthy was the Sportsman Truck winner, in spite of losing his power steering early in the race. Dusty Times

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Steve Laputz had a fairly good day on Caliente, his only problems Michael Gaughan Jr. had the Class .1 and the overall in sight but Mike Powada and Greg Price lost a coil wire on lap 1 and then ironically were too much water and too much dust. problems on the last lap put him out of the action. got stuck on the last lap and finished second in 5-1600. Mark Petit and Bob Ryan had lots of Sun, stuck in the water got high Chaz Sutton and Reuben Rodriguez had a trouble free run in Caliente, Pat Dean, third on 1600 had lots of troubles with the water crossings, centered and it was a long day for second in Sportsman truck. they were Second in Sportsman Buggy, 12 minutes away from the win. his wet engine took forever to get back up to speed. day, problems on the first lap, two lap finishers. We don't solo, he reported no problems 3. more and greater problems know what put Joe out after with the Sturgis owned Bug In the Sportsman Buggy on Lap 2 and called it a day. two laps but he had a lot of and he walked away with the class it was really no contest Shawn Sheble was off on his company. · gold medal, just about 10 as Uncle Milo and nephew first race and he did quite Andy Kisner was going for minutes ahead of his compe-Cory Torres took the class well. He had lots of troubles the gold, setting fast lap for tition. Last to start in 5-1600 lead on Lap 1 and there they with the water crossings and the class on Lap 1, then he was Mike Powada and Greg stayed, setting class fast lap his engine drowning out but did a stupid and endoed the Price, splitting the driving on the last lap and taking he soldiered on and took a car on Lap 2, took yet an-chores. They had a bit of coil home first place with a 12 great fourth place in Class 9. other lap to get back up to wire troubles and they did minute cushion. Chaz Sutton Not too bad for his first out-s_peed, flew around the fourth manage to get stuck in the and Reuben Rodriguez ing. lap and ended up in the fi(rh out back but they came on teamed up in Sportsman Eighth starter in Class 9 position at the checkered strong and took second place Buggy, gave it their best shot was Doug Ingram, aka the flag. Matt Cunningham in class. Troy Tippetta was and took the silver medal af-"Ex Champion" and he made teamed up with Mark Bund-the last starter in 5-1600, had tet: a nice run. Joe Ruffo was it look easy. Doug took the erson and as far as we can some serious problems on Lap next up and he fought engine lead on the second lap and it ascertain, they finished in 2 and called it a day after Lap mis-firings. after the water crossings ut was a e to ang on and take third in Sports-man Buggy. The other two Sportsman Buggy entries, Thomas Reck and Tammi Gubler never made their three required laps. Sportsman Truck had six entries more or less ready to run their required two laps. The team of Mark Petit and Bob Ryan were first off t·he line, they ran fourth on Lap 1 after being stuck in the water but then pulled it up a bit on Lap 2 and after a high-center-Continued on page 24 was no contest from there on. the second spot in Class 9 He motored around with no but they were later dq'd on problems and took the gold some technicality so were medal, a nice win for a nice virtually a dnf. Timothy Hart guy. Chad Woodruff had a was able to get three laps pretty good first lap, had all under his belt but he never sorts of troubles on Lap 2 and completed the fourth re-RACERS retired for the day. Jeremy quired lap. Harmon, last year's Class 9 5-1600 was the next class champ is not having a good to start. Shane Woodruff was year. We don't know what first off the line but Shane put him out at Caliente but never completed his first lap, he never got a lap in, a very • reason unknown. Richard unhappy young man. Joe Christian was next _off, get-Sheble missed his winning ting in two good laps and then ways at Caliente. Joe rolled disappearing from the charts. the car on the first lap, then Jeffrey Moore also got in two he settled down to business, decent laps and then he too made progressively faster lap disappeared. Frank Puglia times and came in for a nice came over from Kingman, AZ second in class, only 10 min-but after one lap in the trees utes off the winning pace. Joe he too left the fray. Chuck Forte was yet another of the Martin drove his four laps Milo and Cory Torres wiped out the competition in Sportsman Buggy, a trouble free run giving them the undisputed class win. Dusty Times PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT WITH PHYSICAL DAMAGE INSURANCE FOR YOUR OFF-ROAD RACING VEHICLES Call the experts at Michael E. 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Joe Ruffo and rider Fernando Padilla kept losing power after the water crossings but they came on and took the bronze medal in Derek and Dave Deatley ran trouble free at Caliente and were happy Joe Sheble and rider Matt Frederick rolled the car on the first lap but Sportsman Buggy. ----c with their third in Class 10. ====== ~oldiered on and took the second spo=t =in=C=la=s=s=9==. ==== Day Gang had drowned ignition on lap 2 and then performed a slow Andy Kisner did three or four endoes Own the second lap at Caliente Shawn Sheble made his racing debut at Caliente, drowned the engine roll on the last lap and was glad for a sixth place finish in 1600. but still managed a fifth place finish in Class 9. a few times yet had a great fourth place finish in Class 9. ing inci ent t ey mis e in er an ony apoleon fin-steering problem but contin-school gym an a capacity an speec ess at t e awar the second spot. Robby Wool-ished their required two laps ued on a slightly slower pace crowd was in attendance. given us and as much as worth started second, ran in in good time, but then they and came in for the gold Kenny Freeman emceed the SNORE appreciates the work second spot on the first lap evidently went out on the medal. Rudy Suriano was the event and all the awards were we do with them, we are truly but fell off the charts and course for yet another lap and only other entrant in Sports-handed out with many of the happy go do whatever we can never finished Lap 2. Ron · this caused them to be dis-man Truck but Rudy was un-recipients taking the mike for to support a non-p"rofit club Woolworth was up· next, had qualified. Dennis McCarthy able to take the green flag. a few minutes to thank all such as SNORE in their rac-some overheating problems. in his eight ball pickup took And so it ended, the rac-those who helped get them ing endeavors. Thank;; a mil-but continued on and fin-the lead on Lap 1, setting fast ing, that is. The awards were into the winner's circle. We lion, see ya at the Midnight ished in third place. Jeth Sny-lap for the class, had a power held at 7:30 in the Caliente at Dusty Times were surpdsed Special. ■ BIGGER BOULDERS • BETTER BUMPS • PRO CLASS "I" PRO CLASS .. II" SPORTSMAN Best payment yet, plus the 1/2 Unlimited Challenger For the Almost-and a-race-car, it's lowest entry fees. 10 5/1600 run what you 1/2-1600 brung. Mini Metal Help make B.O.R.E. bigger $25.00 point fund $25.00 point fund $25.00 point fund 45.00 and better, bring all racing 245.00 entry 165.00 entry 100.00 entry 100.00 100.00 Insurance Insurance 20.00 Insurance 20.00 use fee friends and new racers. use fee 20.00 use fee $190.00 $390.00 $310.00 EXTRA: Current/Valid membership in any off road association will be honored by B.O.R.E. at your first race. EXTRA: $20.00 off entry fee for early entry with $100.00 binder receive at least two weeks before any race. .Pag~ 24 BONNEVILLE OFF-ROAD RACING ENTERPRISES Attn: GEORGE CAIN 341 WEST 2575 NORTH SUNSET. UTAH 84015 (801) 773-1651 August 20~0 (3..-t,ckde~ q,-~, SEPTEMBER 16th Wendover, USA Dusty Times

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• • B'=ST IN THE DESERT TONOPAH 300 Berri Takes overall Win· By Judy Smith Photos: Trackside Photo Sam Berri had his Mirage in front almost all the way at the BITD Tonopah 300, to take the Class 1500 win and the overall victory to boot. Sam Berri drove his Open most to Highway 95 again, just class Mirage to the overall vie-north of Goldfield. Then they tory at the Best In The Desert snaked their way southwest, Tonopah 300 late in April. Berri turning north at the Silver Peak had to work hard to stay in front Road. They hit Silver Peak at of some very tough competition, about Mile 142, then continued and he got the win by the slim mostly northward to once again margin of ju~t 57 seconds. -cross the highway, at Mcleans, The course was one long Mile 178. From that point it was loop, meandering through the a winding loop all north of 95, hills of northern Nevada for a until it crossed Highway 6 and distance of252 miles. The rac-sneaked into Tonopah the back ers took off from the High way. It was a new and different School of Tonopah, ran a little version of the Tonopah race, loop of 48 miles just south of run in the opposite direction town and back up nearly to the from the previous two years, in-McDonalds. Then they crossed eluding some new and some old Highway 95, and roughly para!-stuff. In general, the racers liked leled it to the northwest for an-the course, though some re-other 18 miles or so. At that ported trouble finding their point it headed straight. south, way. running through Alkali, and al-While the motorcycles started at crack of dawn, the cars didn't take. off until the civilized hour of 8:30, giving the bikes a long head start, and less chance of being run over by a big truck. The weather was per-fect for racing, clear, sunny in the high 60s t.o mid 70s, with a light breeze to move the dust. That was the one failing -they could have used a hurricane force wind, because the dust was very thick in many areas and made for difficult passing. The Trick Trucks were first off the line, three of them, led off by Gary Vosburg in his Ford Pro truck. Vosburg; still awaiting delivery of his new, bigger (and thus, no longer legal for the Protruck class) frmotor, has moved up ~ couple of classes, Gary Vosburg ran his Protruck in the Trick Truck class and came away with the win and fifth place in the overall standings. chafing at the limifations and a little over seven minutes, restrictions in the Protrucks, Helmbolt having had to deal which is a Spec class, and has with a couple of flats. His co-stiff requirements. He'd driver, Tony Leonard, was changed the fuel filter on his happy with the ride, said, Ford and the brakes, so his only "We're gettin' better, this is the option was to run in the Trick fourth in a row we've finished!" Truck dass even though he still Vosburg was fifth overall and had the less powerful PT motor. Helmbolt was sixth. At the first checkpoint, about The Unlimited Buggies 35 miles into the race, Vosburg started right behind the big was tied with Lonny Helmbolt trucks, and had to deal with in his"Dodge Trick Truck. Very their dust. They were also tied late behind them was Jason Yeo- at that first checkpoint, on the man, racing for the first time, in same minute and in the same a Ford. He'd already lost about time as the two Trick Trucks. a half hour, and then got to the Berri, who'd been the first to second check about an hour start, was still first, and Darnen down, and didn't make the third Jefferies, still racing the two seat check.. Jimco pre-runner, in which he'd At the second check, about finished second at the Terrible's Mile 72, Vosburg had just one race a few weeks before this, was minute on Helmbolt, and they second on the road. Gary Wise, continued their tight. duel all the way down from Idaho in through the next 30 miles or so, his Chenowth, was one of the going through the third check first to go out, losing his motor on the same minute. Two hours at Mile 27. later, as they reached the north-When Berri and Jefferies got ernmost section of the course, to the second check they were about Mile 207, they were just still on the same minute, but at a minute apart again, with Vos-Check 3, about 103 miles along, burg in front. Helmbolt was run-Berri had built up a one minute ning with a broken header lead. Both were having flawless which cost him some horse-days, but the dust made it a power, and must have evened little edgy for Jefferies. Berri things out a little. At the finish passed Vosburg when he fueled, line, it was Vosburg in fr~~ by and also got by Helmbolt some-how, so he had a nearly dust free run for the greater part of the course (except for the occa-sional late biker or Quad rider). Jefferies. found his misery com-pounded because in the dust he couldn't see the arrows and he went off course a couple o f times, and got lost. Still, up at the top of the course they were tied to the minutes. Kyle Taylor had his Chevrolet-in good form again, and took the Class 8000 win, placing fourth in the-overall standings. Steve Lawrence ran his Ford Ranger unopposed to take the modified mini-truck victory (Class 7000) with a time of 7:22:05 for the 252 miles. · Enjoying his trouble-free day and having nothing but fun, no flats to-trouble him, Berri ran on steadily to the end_, to get his class win and the fun of the overall victory. Jefferies finished only a minute and 44 seconds behind him. There was no one else running in the class. ----Continuft on page 26 Aaron and Ian Dixon were second in Class 7300, stock mini trucks, Darnen Jefferies fought the dust all day long in his Jimco, to finish Mike Coleman and Nick Crouch shared the driving in their Ford to only ten minutes behind the class winner. second in Class 1500 by a minute and 44 seconds. ____ ____ ~~~!:.'?'.!'!~~~ in Class 7100, in spite of day-long motor probl~f1l.S: Dusty Times August 2000 Page 25

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Mike Mccomas and Marc Stein had a flawless day in their Ford Expedition to take the win in the big SUV class. The Class 8000 trucks, were next to go off the line, one of the bigger groups, with seven entries. Kyle Taylor, last year's overall winner, had the best time of the day to that first check, at 33 minutes. But Chuck Harris, in Dave • Dave Wes them and Chuck Harris co-drove in Westhem's Chevrolet to take second place in Class 8000 and seventh overall. Westhem's Chevy, was just two minutes behind him. Harris, who's at the very beginning stages of building his own Trick (Trophy) Truck, since he sold his Protruck, is co-driving with Westhem for the balance of the 2000 season. Steve Bruner, in a . ·--,--·-~-...... -·~- . GERMAN AUTO DEIST SEAT BEL TS The greatest name in driver safety equipment. 4-point sand rail seat belt RACE BELTS 2• -5 point mount 3' -5 point mount SIDE COVERS IRS . Swing axle KENNEDY PRESSURE PLATES 200mm-1700# 200mm-up to 3000! 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At Check B they ran in the same order, but now Taylor had three minutes, Harris was five minutes up on Bruner, and Fon-tana was another seven minutes back. Jesse Jones was a long time getting his Chevy to that point, and then didn't make the third check. Taylor was finding it very dusty, and was running a conservative race, thinking ahead to season points. He hadn't pre-run the course, which he described as "windy and tight." Down at Check C Taylor still led, but Harris was right there, only two minutes behind him. Bruner was now 16 minutes fur-ther back,. but then he didn't get to the next checkpoint. Fon-tana was still fourth, having no problems at all in his Tom Sca-hill built truck. T;ylor had some brake prob-lems and also a couple of flats, but nonetheless, at the top of the course he led by 13 minutes. Now it was Westhem in the truck, taking over for Harris, who missed a turn, rode it out very intelligently, but hit a hid-den rock in the berm on the way back onto the trail, and wiped out the driveline. he said it was his "first driveline. 11 Wes them decided that as long as they were already stopped for repairs he might as well get in. He hadn't olanned to drive. Fon-tana moved up to third, about a half hour further back, followed by Mark Beeler in the lone Ford, who'd "hit a rock the size of Texas" at Mile 3, and flattened a tire. He said his day went "downhill from there." But he was still moving. Taylor stayed in front to take the class win, finishing fourth overall while he was at it. Har-ris and Westhem were second, about 13 minutes back, and fol-lowed in by Fontana and then Beeler and in fifth place, Nick Vanderwey, from Arizona, who had no power steering in his brand new Chevy for the last 200 miles. The Class 10 buggies went off the line next, six of them, and when they got to Check 1, the lead belonged to Frank Omboli in his Lothringer.· One minute behind him Danny Anderson, Jimco, and Nicole Saxton, an-other Jimco, and Kory Halopoff, in a Chenowth, were tied for s_econd. Brad Falin and Bill Smith, in a Bunderson , were five minutes b;i.ck in fifth. Kevin, Dave and Gary Moore, in another Lothringer, had struggled with some problem, and ran 30 minutes back al-ready. Unfortunately the Falin/ Smith car got no further, nor. did Halopoff, whose co-driver would have been Harley Letner (Danny Lerner's grandson). Their car had sounded unwell ~ off the start. At the second check Ander-son had moved into the lead, with just three minutes on Saxton, who is new to racing. 'Omboli ran third, and the ' Moores were fourth, and last, still down, now almost 40 min-utes. At the third check, where he got out of the car, Anderson Dusty Times

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Steve Robledo had problems all day. and ran at half-throttle most of Frank Omboli and Jim Cochran had problems with a fan, but kept the time, but still managed to take second place in his Ford in Class their Lothringer moving fast enough to finish second in Class 1000, 7200 - modified mini trucks. ' and eighth overall. Lonny Helmbolt had a couple of flats with his Chevrolet, but in general it was a good day for him and he got another finish, second in the Trick Truck class and sixth overall. --"'-c----------=----=-=------=-c----=----s till led, still three minutes in band, Eddie, finished third, fol-Lucena, Greg Hosmann, Chris Turner and Cecil taking the get a finish in his second race. win, and finishing a nice 15th The Lucena team was fourth, in the overall standings. They and also excited to get their first reported no problems at all. In finish ever. front of Saxton. Omboli ran lowed in by the Moore team. Overzet and Chris Conley in another seven minutes back, Class 7200, modified mini another Ford. enjoying the course, saying it trucks (7 Unlimited); started Through the second and was "nice, nothin' but fast." The next, and <1s they charged third check Turner continued Moores, who had three flats and through the first checkpoint the to lead, having no troubles at a sticky throttle, were still in lead belonged to Craig Turner all. He had 11 minutes on fourth, about an hour later. who debuted his new Ford just Lucena and team at that third second place, 20 minutes later, The next group off the line it was Robledo, followed in by was the Stock full sized trucks, Clement, who was excited to Continued on page 28 Rob MacCachren, who took t'wo races previously. He was check, and Robledo, who had over for Anderson, had an un-not driving the new truck this some engine problem and was complicated ride, and stayed in time, because in his second time running at half throttle, was front the rest of the way. While out, at the Terrible's Town 250, third, five minutes later. In Omboli and his co-driver, Jim. he'd done a dramatic triple fourth it was Ron Clement, from Cochran, dealt with heating and gainer, damaging the truck ex-Oregon, in still another Ford. fan troubles as well as a couple tensively and it hadn't been re-Turner got over into the pas-of flats, MacCachren just ran paired in time for this race. In-s nger seat and put Tim Cecil steadily to the finish for the win. stead he had his old Class 7S in to ·drive, and he continued to He and Anderson were also sec-(stock mini truck), which had lead, having no problems eithe-r. ond in the overall standings, been somewhat modified to run Up at about Mile 207 he had 22 just 53 seconds behind Berri. in Class 7 at SCORE events minut~s on Robledo, who'd Omboli and Cochran were sec-while he waited for the new moved up to second, as 1:ucena ond, about a half hour down, truck to be finished. In second and friends, who'd had motor and followed in by the Saxton place, two minutes behind him, trouble, also broke a steering car, which had lost some time it was Kelly and John McNeil rod and had to weld a wrench when it got stuck in a ditch. and Merlin Rowley, of Mesa, to it to hold it together. They Beeler, in th e C lass 8 Ford, A rizona, in a Ford. A minute dropped to fourth. Clement was stopped and pulled the car out later Steve Robledo, in a Ford now third. of i.ts trap. Nicole and her hus- was tied with the team of Steve And that's how they finished, Danny Anderson and Rob MacCachren paired up in Anderson's Class 1000 Jimco to take the _ win, _missing the overall by just 57 seconds. HONDA Power Equipment KAWAGUCHIHONriACORR POWER. ··T0_~-0 • EM3500SXK1 -Racer ancl _Spettator D'iscounts •.GENERATORS . • WELDERS . . : •GENERAL PuRPOSE ENGINES 31-· ,. __ •~ATER PuMPS " •?UTBOARD ENGINES /_ ,· .. ;,:. ····. LAWNMOWERS LAWN TRACTORS EB6500SX ' • •RIDING MOWERS •TILLERS CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST HONDA. POWER EQUIPMENT PARTS AND INVENTOR~. WE DoN'T HA VE IT, No ONE Doest Check our website www.Kawaguchihonda.con1 ~ ... _ -= -:-=-· -i::::i::::J · 00 ~·. -~----,.-., . EX1000 KAWAGUCHI HONDA 3532E.3RDScl..cs~CA90J63•323.264.3936, 264.5858 FAX 264.2136 :HONDA Power ' . ~~111111111 .... 1111·11111 i VISA j S A L E S t S E R V I C E , p A R T S No .. h;~n-~ • fllJ HoNDA POWER EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST 1u~.15S~f. Equipment ~ f'or opttmum pcr."or.nance :ind ~l"ty. pll".\$~ l'e-ad Lht" 0,\,11."r's m;munl ~:fore" o~r:1.:lng your Hond:i. PO"'l"r Equipment. S~t'Ukatlons subJ«-l to ch.tr.tlC' \\1lhout no1k·e. ~ •Esthn.itt only. b:tscd on l';lte-d load. +Battery not im:ludl"d 1,1,i1h E).13500SXKI. E~t5000SXK1 and EB0500SX. ••With b.Htl"ry tr.1y kit. wh~ls ~ h.1.!'l~er-. Connl"c-Uon 10 houw-power rNlulre-s tr;.utsf-=rdct1tC' h> ,·wo\,! posslbll" lnJury to pov.·er company personnel. Consult 3 qu.iliRC'd tltttrt.:-ian. • Dusty Times August 2000 Page 27

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Deputy Steve Williams started the day with a broken Cove but persevered in his Ford to take the win in Class 7300. · another big class, with seven entries. There were six Fords and a Hummer. This bunch was pretty evenly matched and the lead changed hands severa l times. But at the first check-point it was a tie, with Greg Foutz and his 6.8 liter Vl0 Ford tied with Manny Esquerra, who's now driving Robert Hayley's old Ford in this series, since Herb Reno's still older Ford was declared "too old" for the class. Behind them it was a tie between Al, Chuck and Lance Hogan and Chris Hahn, all from Montana, in a Ford, and Randy Merritt of Parker, Arizona, in still another Ford. They were only one minute back. And everyone else was just another minute back, also tied up. They thinned out some by the second check, but not much, and Foutz and Esquerra were still tied for the lead, with Hogan and Jeremy Spirkoff, in his new Ford, tied for second place, only one minute behind them. All the rest were within two minutes also. By the third check Spirkoff, who'd had an early flat, had the lead all to himself, but he was only two minutes in front of Esquerra and Chad Hall, in the lone Hummer, a turbo charged die-sel, who were now tied for third. The Hogan team ran fourth, another minute back, · and the rest were still all within IO minutes. What close racing! Somewhere along the line Spirkoff broke an axle, and he also laid his truck on its side. Now Hall moved into the lead, with seven minutes on Foutz, who'd had a couple of broken wheels, which let the air out of his tires, and he was now catch-ing back up. In third it was Tracy Rubio, with a 351 c.i. Ford, quietly having a trouble free day, and two minutes up on Merritt's co-driver, Dan Bea-ver, also from Parker, AZ, and a long time racer. · Hall was first on the road, and first to finish, but Foutz, who'd just managed to get by Rubio (who was driving on a front flat), edged him out to take the win by a mtnu te and 56 seconds. Foutz was also 10th overall. Hall reported one flat, and said he "drove the crap outta this thing!" He thought Malcolm Vinje and Jim Gilchrist had a clean day in their good looking Class 7100 Ford, (stock mini trucks) to take home first place honors, and 14th overall. Winners in Class 3100, Marc Winocur and Dave Turner pu_shed their Explorer hard ~ter early .!!!_el pump trouble, to take the 'small SUV" win. ___ _ _ _ Page 28 It was close all day, but Greg Foutz put his V-1 0 Ford F250 into victory circle in class 8100, by a margin· of just a minute and 3(, seconds. the course was fast. He also said he liked it better when Spirkoff was "just building cars, not drivin' 'em." A backhanded Hall compliment -he's a chip off the old block. Rubfo was third after driving five miles on that flat, and followed in by Hogan who said he'd rolled the truck IO miles out and also bro-ken an axle, all of which he said was "pretty entertaining." Esq-uerra lost time to alternator. problems, and Beaver had a broken alternator wire. He stood by the side of the road with jumper cable in hand, and Esquerra stopped to help him get going again, so he could fin-ish sixth. Esquerra, also from Parker, is a long time neighbor of Beaver's. Spirkoff was not happy with his eventful day, but he did get to the finish line, seventh. In Class 3000, William Snitchler from Utah, got off to a slow start in his Jeep, and then apparently had problems, and was not ab-le to get as far as ·Check 3. His was the only entry in the class. In Class 7000, another mini truck class (7), Steve Lawrence drove his Ford to a win report-ing no trouble. He said the course was perfect, with ·a "lot of rough." He was the only en-try in this class. In Class 7100, for stock mini ·.trucks (7S), Malcolm Vinje had his Ford in the lead early, but only a minute up on the other two cars (both Fords) in the class at the first check. Mike Coleman drove one, and Tim Braden was in the other. By Check 2 Vinje had five minutes and it was Braden in second and Coleman about nine min-utes behind him. His motor was "going away" from early on. Vinje was having no ttouble. at all, and sailed serenely through Check 3, now six min-~ utes in front of Braden. But then Braden didn't get to the top of the course, coming to a halt for some unknown reason. Coleman, and his co-driver, Nick Crouch, moved into sec-ond, but they were about 40. minutes back by the time they got through the fourth check. Vinje let Jim Gilchrist drive the last 100 miles or so, and they reported that their only problem had been trying to get around a slower vehicle. They said they followed it for about 30 miles before finding a spot to pass. They went on to take the win, finishing nearly an hour in front of Coleman and Crouch who said they'd had a "long ... tough day." Next to take off were the Stock Mini cars (Class Pure Mini) -more stock than the previous group anyway. There were three of them, all Fords. Deputy Steve Williams got about a mile into the race and broke a c.v., so he stopped to make repairs. Meanwhile, the others went on, and Aaron Dixon had the lead at the first check, with 19 minutes on Wit-.Iiams, who would now have to run in two-wheel-drive for the rest of the day. In third, four minutes laterj was· Rob Reinert-son. Reinertson had to go to San Francisco, so he got out of the truck at the first pit, and let his constant navigator, Ar-mando Guzman do the honors the rest of the way. Dixon led through the sec-ond check, with 19 minutes on Williams·, an~ Guzman about eight minutes further back. And they ran in that order through the third check, though Williams was closing up on Dixon now, and was only 10 minutes back. By the time they got to the fourth check, Williams had moved into the lead, and Craig Turner and Tim Cecil shared the driving in Turner's old Class 7200 (modified mini-truck) to take the win by al~ost 20 minutes. August 2000 Aaron's brother, Ian, had taken over the ddving for a while. Guzman was running s_teady in third place. Williams went on to take the win, surprising him-self after that sorry beginning. The Dixon brothers, who had no trouble, finished second, only ten minutes later, fol-lowed in by Guzman, grinning from ear to ear, in third place. In the full-sized SUV class (4100), the first one out of the race was John Sunderland, re-cently returned to racing after a hiatus of many years. As he walked up to the pre-race im-pound to get into his car he re-marked seriously that he was going to "just bring the car around to my son (John A. Sunderland) so he can get in and race" to the finish. But ap-parently a bad case of racer red-eye got him, and John got a little heavy-footed right off the start, astounding the spectators by nearly upending his Explorer on the first jump. He never even got it to the first check. At that point the lead belonged to Marc Stein in his Expedition and he had two minutes on David and Paul Elms in their Expedition. Also running in this group, but destined for trouble, were Rod Hall and Roger Norman, in their Hum-mer. Stein had a 19 minute lead over 1:he Elms' car at the sec-ond check, and Hall and Norman were right in there also, but times for them are unavailable. The Elms team was out-of it before the third check, leaving ·only Hall and Norman to chase after Stein and his co-driver, Mike McCo-· · mas. McComas got in for the sec-ond half, and continued their flawless run. And running close to them, Hall got into trouble just before Pit 2. He broke a pulley. So he got out of the Hummer and started jogging towards-the pit, because BITD rules don't allow chase vehicles to come onto the course with spare parts for the racers. Part-way into his jog, Hall was given a lift by an anonymous benefac-tor, who dropped him off at the outskirts of the pit area. He ran on into his own pit, where co-driver Roger Norman had ~s-sembled the needed replace-ment parts. This was where the two had planned to switch driv-ers, so Norman was suited up and ready to go. Seeing that Hall had come running into the pit, Norman assumed he'd jogged all the way, so he set off back to the Hummer, spare parts in hand, to get things fixed and get underway. He jogged all the way, all the time assuming that Hall (no spring chicken) had been able to do it, so he had to keep up the pace back to the car. (Norman reports, incidentally, that driv-ing shoes are no good for jog-ging through the desert.) Once back to the Hummer he and his nav.igator got the repairs made and went on. Meanwhile, McComas and Stein had continued, having no problems, and reached the fin-ish in first place. Hall and Norman also finished, second, and only 24 minutes behind the winning car. But a long discus-sion with the BITD folks en-Dusty Times

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Chad Hall drove his turbocharged diesel Hummer hard to take second ~""-"---C........-----------------~ place in Class 8100 (stock full sized trucks), which had close racing Mike Falkosky drove his Class 3100 Ford (small SU Vs) ta second Al, Chuck and Lance Hogan and Chris Hahn, all from Montana, teamed all the way. place, losing his lead when the fuel pump gave him trouble. in their Ford to take fourth place in Class 8100 despite a rollover. sued, and the upshot of it all the course was like. The follow- silt; fast; hard to pass in the last The BITD had barely race in July. After that there's was that Hall and Norman were ing descriptions-were all quotes section; challenging; real cha!-cleared away the ribbons, flags a lull in their schedule (to rest disqualified for an on-course straight from the racers. They lenging; perfect course, a lot of and arrows from this race when and recover) and then they will rules infraction. It seems that said he course was real dusty, rough. ls it any wonder the pro-they were thrown into the in-have the Las Vegas 200, on De-if Hall himself had jogged back windy and tight, nice, nothing mote rs find it hard to please tense preparation necessary for cember 1, 2 and 3 to close out to the Hummer, it would have but fast; tough, tough; a lot of everyone? their once-only Nevada 2000 their millennium year. ■ been all right. The error was in having Norman (not the driver in the car when it broke) do the return run. Norman was torn between laughing at the absur-dity of the mix-up, and pain. His legs were so cramped up he could hardly drive the car, not to mention walk. By now he had learned that Hall had rid-den most of the way from the Hummer to the pit area, and he had the good humor to admit that the joke had been on him. In the small SUV class (3100), Robert Sibbio put his Ford into the early lead, with two minutes on Marc Winocur, another Ford, who was two minutes in front of Mike Fal-kosky, in still another Ford. In fourth it was Buddy Crisp, still another Ford, five minutes back. Falkosky had the lead as they went past the second check, and Sibbio was second, three minutes later, followed by Winocur, about 19 minutes later. Crisp was another half hour down. Falkosky had a 23 minute lead by the time they reached the third check, and it was Winocur in second. Crisp was now third, but almost an hour behind the lead. Winocur and Dave Turner, who'd had foe! pump trouble early in the day, moved into the lead by the time they got up to the top of the course, with Turner now driving. Falkosky, . now running second, was also having fuel pump problems, and was having to stop periodi-cally and work on it. He'd also lost a hood hinge. Crisp was third, over an hour back, driv-ing with no.power steering, no clutch and brake problems. Sibbio was a few minutes later, and then didn't get to the fin-ish,. Winocur and Turner went on to take the win, with Falko-sky in second, 24 minutes later. Crisp was third, and last in the class to get to the finish line. The last vehicle to start, the Class 9000 car of David Vieria, got through the first check all right, but didn't make it to the second. Somewhere along the way a ball joint broke and the wheel and tire went rolling out into the desert. By the time Vieria and his co-driver, Anto-nio Jiminez, got things patched up and were back on the road, the check point had closed, and they were done for the day. As they finished the race, we asked many of the racers what Dusty Times 0 u 0.. 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This flange allows for the use of lightened and standard 930 CV joints, which are also now avail-able through KARTEK. Our Lightened CV's are pre-cision machined to stand up to the rigors of off-road racing. August 2000 RACE EXHAUST Jet Coated or raw exhaust with gussets on #2 & 4. Super thick flanges. Megaphone, flange for use with 5-inch Supertrapp discs. BILLET. NC LINKAGE This linkage kit is a KARTEK exclu-sive, and is designed around our bil-let air cleaners. The kit utilizes heavy duty down rods and spherical heim ends, for smooth and respon-sive throttle action. Fits IDF & DRLA. KC HILITES KC offers some of the most durable and powerful com-petition lighting in off road racing today, KARTEK offers a large selectiort of KC Hilites and accessories to meet any of your lighting needs. "' 0 V) (") :t .,, r C ~ "' V) ~ r 3:: 0 3:: 0 "' "' > ;,, C V) "' ~ V) (") "' z -l "' ;,, r z "' 6 :,,: 0 :t > ~ > V) fi 0 Page 29

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ROLLING THUNDER Run for the Wall 2 By Va.nee Scott & Joh~ Calvin Photos: Vance Scott -Vance-Scott is pensive as he embarks on the cross country run to memorialize Prisoners of War and Missing in Action servicemen. Some months ago · we mentioned in Trail Notes that our circulation manager, Vance Scott, was going on the Run For The Wa 11 2000 motorcycle trip, covering many thousands of miles and ending at the Vietnamese Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. Vance had been looking forward for a long time to making this 3000 mile junket, lacking only a motorcycle for the trip. Enter Billy ·Robertson, owner of Honda o( North Hollywood. Billy offered Vance a Honda Valkyrie to ride on the Run and Vance 'i' eagerly accepted the beautiful maroon two wheeler and set about getting ready for the "Run." The run is hoping to force the U.S. Government to further in ves tiga te the POWs and M I A s (Prisoners of War and Missing in Action) from that government to release whatever information they have on those American military members who are unaccounted for after all these years. Groups of bikers departed from many cities, all over this great land of ours and converged on Washington for a monster memorial service. According to official figures, there were over 250,000 in attendance at the wall that Sunday. Day 1 -The contingent that Vance was riding with left Ontario, California on May 17th with the first day's ru_n ending in Williams, Arizona. There were over 200 motorcycles and many support vehicles going along to offer mechanical aid as needed. Unfortunately for our hero, he laid his "bike down in some gravel on the freeway on~ ramp, was run over by the bike behind him (not too serious) and gamely went on, nursing a very sore leg for the entire rid~. Lunch was _provided by the city of Needles, California and then on to Williams, Arizona for the overnight stop, 407 miles under their belts. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Wentzville, Missouri is o u r P re v i o u s one of the oldest Vietnam memorials in the country. conflicts and for Day 2 -More motorcycles joined .the grou:.p as they headed east, and the scheduled lunch stop was at CACTUS RACING RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES BELL. SHOEI. SIMPSON . _........ From $299:oo Helmets Helmet & Skirt SNELL 95, SA 95 FOR SODA . Complete Blower Systems for single or double seat cars. Helmet conversions. cool boxes. Complete line of PYROTEC1. FILLER Safety Products & BE Motorsports. We ship UPS daily. Painted· Desert. A rain storm was running behind the group and they finally got wet as they left Window Rock and everyone arrived safely in Gallup, New Mexico. f Day 3 -Left Gallup on the 5153 Bowden Avenue -San D~ego -CA-92117-:-85~=27_9-2?09 , ; · way to Albuquerque, met there by a police escort to guide them through the city and to Chicks Harley Davidson where lunch was served. Escorted the rest of the way through Albuquerque and on to Santa Fe. There was fresh snow on the mountains and a · storm was brewing so most donned rain suits for the balance of the ride to Eagles Nest (with very little rain) and then on to day's end a t • --.J. Page 32 August 2000 .. ,, ... _ ""' ~ ~ - ' ~._, .... ·"!k~'7~,.►~---The Korean War Monument was heavily visited by the Run For The Wall group in Washington, DC. Cimarron where the town treated all of them to dinner. Day 4 -North on I-25, perfect weather, cool and cloudless skies. First stop was Trinidad, Colorado where Colorado State Troopers directed the group to a Texaco gas station where all received free gasoline, compliments of local veterans groups. Some rain and hail fell on the riders as they headed towards Pueblo. They reached Pueblo in partly cloudy skies, warmer weather and yet another free gas stop, compliments of Sinclair Oil Company and lunch provided by supporters of the ride. The ride to Limon was full of rain and hail and reminded all concerned that this run is not a fun run, it is a pilgrimage in honor of our brothers an'd comrades lost in combat. Dinner was at Hugo, Colorado, donated by VFW Post #6612 and then on to Limon for the overnight rest. Our numbers have now grown to 350 bikes. · Day 5 -We left Limon early, riding in beautiful weather on our way into Kansas. Stopped at Oakley for · gas and a great lunch provided by the local VFW posts in the shade of a hangar at the airport. Salina was the overnight stop with another wonderful dinner provided by the locals. A large ceremony was held in honor of all those POW-MIAs of the Vietnam war. Soon it was dark and all retired, roughly halfway across this great land of ours. Day 6 -The day started with breakfast served by the U.S. Army Field Kitchen, Fort Riley, Kansas. It is good to know that the military of today has lots of love and respect for those who have come before them. Salina to Topeka where we were a ll treated again to free gas by ABATE (American ,Bikers Aimed Toward Education) and on into Missouri. Afternoon fueling in Columbia and on to the overnight stop in Wentzville, Missouri. The local VFW catered a· great dinner, indoors, as the heavens had op_eni::d up and it was really pouring. The group visits the Veterans Hospital in Frankfort, Kentucky. reliving special moments with some of the patients. 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Many of the "California Crew" posed for this group picture before the Riders offer a wreath at the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier at Arlington lwo Jima monument in Washington, DC. National Cemetery. Thousands of motorcyclists wait to ride the final stage to the . Wall under brooding skies in Washington. The throng, estimated at 250,000, lines up in the Pentagon parking lot for the final few miles they will ride to the Wall." Day 7 -After breakfast the local VFW and American dry eyes here. On to the Appalachian Mountains provided by the Wentzville Legion and we are one day Huntington West Virginia and were extra careful, as the VFW we were on the road closer to our destination. where police provided an roads were wet from the again, heading for Saint Louis Day 8 -The weather was escort to our evening's nigh_t's rain. We arrived in and a visit to Jefferson Barracks good as we rode to the destination. Benjy's Harley Rainelle just after noon and it where we visited with many of Veterans Administration Davidson prnvided dinner and seemed as if the entire town the patients at this well known H9spital in Louisville, remained open all night to was oot to greet us. There was hospital. Further east we Kentucky. After visiting·with service the Hogs and provid_ed a wet-eyed ceremony in honor lunched at Mount Vernon, patients we rode to Frankfort, space and tools for the of the MIAs and then dinner Illinois, compliments of the Kentucky to visit the Kentucky unannointed to service their provided by the Moose Lodge. 1 Americ<an Legion and the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial. bikes. . In the morning we ride to D.C. VFW. We rode another 150 It is very touching as the Day 9 -Left Huntington en.-Day 10 -We rode through a miles east to our day's shadow of the sun dial at the route to Rainelle, West light drizzle to the huge parking destination, Carefree, Indiana. memorial touches the name of Virginia with overcast skies lot at the Pentagon in Virginia A wonderful dinner was each Kentucky KIA at the time arid warm temperatures. We and there bikes from all over enjoyed by all, compliments of of his death. There were few took the scenic route through the country assembled for the In Memorium final few miles ride over the river to "The Wall." Official estimates put the assembled group at 250,000 and I'm sure there was at least that much. We all arrived at the wall in a slight drizzle and the weather fit the somber mood of the gathering of all those who had ridden from all over the USA for this moment. There ·was much ceremony and some speeches made and the moral was: many of our sons, brothers and friends are still missing and we need to know where they are so it can all be put to rest, once and for all. All the names on the Vietnam Veterans Wall are fallen heroes and they cry out for their missing comrades and we all hope that this ride and sho·w of support will force some action. Ed notes: At most of the lunch and dinner stops along the way there were many ceremonies by civic groups and VFW Posts as well as Moose and Elk chapters and all the riders were very .moved to be received. as heroes on a mission. Our thanks go out to all these wonderful people across the country and we hope that ·the purpose of the ride will force ·the politicians to find an end· to this story. · ■ ,· John "Jack" Waldron, Park Ranger with the Bureau Of Land Management, Barstow Office, passed away on July 11, 2000 at his home in Barstow, California after a short bout with pneumonia. Jack was a mainstay with the va--1ous Off-Highway Vehicle groups who used the Off-Highway Vehicle Open Areas managed by the Barstow field office. Jack was born on November 18, ·1928 and was a veteran of the Korean War. He started working for the BLM in 1991,.shortly after his 64th birthday. wlien most people of that age are thinking of retiring, Jack started on a brand new career. Jack's' duties included working with the promoters of authorized competitive even(Ps within the BLM's Open Areas to ensure that the courses were properly marked and that the vehicles entering the events were in compliance by "helping" with technical inspections. Jack had a passion for the desert, OHV recreation and the people who enjoy this activity. He made many contacts with the people in the OHV areas and most of those people became his friends. During his 65th year Jack became certified as an EMT-la, providing care and stabilizing injuries sustained by "his" people while in pursuit of their sport. Jack was a unique blend of wisdom and wisecracks, passion and compassion. All who crossed his path will miss him. Rest In Peace, you're in God's desert now! Dusty Times August 2000 Page 33 r.

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THUNDER-DOME STADIUM RACING Anderson· iiber Alles In Germany Text & Photos : Tony Tellier Rafael Navarro runs just in front of Dan Matthews in this shot. Both had mechanical gremlins, but got things sorted out and put on a good show for the German Spectators. Andy Anderson was the Man of the Meeting at the "Thunderdome" Stadium races held at the famous Motordome Hochenheim GP circuit in Deutschland. Anderson put his flame painted "1600" two seater out in front of all his three races over the likes of Ken Seale and Rick Boyer plus a gaggle of other buggies, Bugs and pickups. Boyer (doing double duty) and Stacey Pike -RaceShock and Macrae Glass Chiropractic -had the course dialed for the stadium trucks -trading wins - while Paul and Joey Borio's sometimes desert "5-1600" brought cqeers from the "People's Car" fans in the stands. , THE COURSE The short -1/4 mile? - diri: course was laid out by noted German Supercross designer/ builder Gunter Eckenbach with suggestions from the visiting American racers. Located in the infield near the "Sachs Curve" section of the vast Hochenheimring, the track had a short tabletop leading to two sets of double doubles separated by right-left-right sweepers of increasing speed. Heavy rains on the Thursday prior to the event resulted in heavy hand wringing by Gunter and promoter Rico Anthes but clearing skies, light breezes and 80 (F) temperatures on Saturday worked to get the track reasonably dry by the first moto. Note: This was considered a Hot Day by the locals. Due to the rafn, the powers that be felt that any practice ·would. be imprudent;-the car~ got to check. • Custom Pn> Cell Bladders with seamllSI super-tough, triple coaled construction • 10 year Bladder warranty • Safety foam baffling • Custom manufactured aluminum containers • FIA-R3, SCORE and SODA approved • Custom manufactured fillers Fust Sale's "Pro Cell" is • (800) 433-6524 technical hotline our tap-al·lh•·llne racing O 25 • ••II that cam•• ready 10 • ver years experience install and I/'s backed by a e for morw info call or write to: lu/110 Y••r warranty. Airaaft Ribber/Fuel Safe EL 63257 Nels Anderson Road Bend, Oregon 97701 IIJJdltgCdls (541) 388-0203 · . , . . (541 )388-0307fax hllp1~.fuelsafe.com Page 34 out their set-ups "real time" and some were found wanting. The races used the Formula 1 garage for pits, right across from a Warsteiner stand. Beer in the pits? Not a problem. Security was reminiscent of the ill-fated "Gimmee Shelter" concert at Altamont: nee-skinheads with dracomian methods. THE DEAL Rico had put together a collage of gasoline fun for the "Volk": monster trucks, tractor pulls (a wildly popular TV deal, particularly from Scandinavia), stunt bikes three-rider "stoppies" and the obligatory burn-out-until-the-tire-blows -and trials bike demos. The "pullers" ran the gamut from five Keith Black hemis to double Rolls Royce Merlins from the Battle of Britain to triple Russian helicopter engines. And a John Deere lawn tractor and a jet Quad. ihere was a good turn out of Ameri~an cars from lead sleds to highboy Deuces. No disco pre-runners, tho. Anthes had John Calvin put a small blurb in an issue of DT, a "Call for Cars", as it were and Seale contacted Rico and the rest, as one might say, is history. Rico, who is arguably the hottest Top Fuel shoe on the continent, arranged for 12 SoCal cars to be contained in San Pedro and shipped to the track. The teams were given American Airline tickets for family and crew, plus lodging in the painfully charming race track town. (Fact: The "Ring is right IN the town of Hochenheim.) Included were Carl Asterino, Max Seale, Dave Locke, Steve Galler of "Phoenix Metalcraft" and Rafael Navarro, Sr. All of this on Rico. Plus the purse was previously arranged to be split evenly; $ 1000 per car for Bier and Bratwursts. One of the containers leaked sea water and the bare metal cars of Ken Seale and Dan Matthews were rust buckets by the time the Maersk hoxes were opened. Ken August 2000 The Americans had a hard time staying out of the tire barriers until they'd had some laps under their belts. Here it's John Barnard caught like a landed fish. Scotchbrited his; Dan went for the natural flocked look: "Let's call it 'Rusty Times', OK?" Rafael Navarro -"petescamp.com" -had his driving gear in his car; serious mold. Bare aluminum, like on Bosch alternators, grew white fur. THE RACERS 5-1600, Jeffrey Hantz; 5-1600, Los Dos Hermanos Borio - Paul and Joey; Stadium Truck, Stacey Pike; Stadium Truck, Rick Boyer (Bruce Davis, owner); 1600, Andy Anderson; 1600, Rafael Navarro; 1600, Rick Boyer; 1600, Ken Seale (Marshall Ziegret, owner); 1600 John. Barnard; 1600, Dan Mathews; 1600 Bill Shaner. RACE 1 Rich Boyer started off the proceeding on a sloppy track by driving away from 28 and Rafael Navarro. Navarro hit the tire barriers numerous times as he found that the cutting brakes were inop. Ra fae l was struggling so mu~h that 0he pa;ked the Adam Wik-ed car for a brake check. "The brakes were so rusted from the trip over. We had to back 'em off then run them right in," said Rob Wicker. (Rob also acted as Starter and Finisher.) "And we have to try All-Terrains on this stuff." Andy Anderson used "Desert Dogs" to great success while Boyer discovered that his " ... borrowed tires only had 11 pounds in 'em!" Boyer's buggy has a tidy little K&N-ed air box out of a Nissan 300X. "RACE2 Ken Seale, in Marshall Ziegret's car, got a good jump on Andy Anderson as John Barnard immediately went into the tires. Rushing, rather than simply hurrying, put John back on the tires once more. Bill Shaner found the green tire walls to his liking, also; visiting them early, and often. "My car is way too rich," Bill explained. "I couldn't get a run at the-double." He was casing it. Ouch. Anderson, with his wife Leslie holding down the right hand Beard, was able to get around Scale after two laps and was doing the do~bles V:.lrh ease and grace, although an ominous smoke cloud was soon following him: "A friend had my pipes painted for me. Actually, powder coated and it burned off Stacey Pike gets the hang of the double jumps, while the crowd pleasing Baja Bug of Joey Borio comes along behind him. Dan Matthews leads Bill Shaner through the double jumps Course was approximately a qu<!!!er-mil~ long. 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Jeff Hantz lands hard on the rear of his 5/1600 car. The Germans, Bill Shaner and John Barnard work their way through the bumps with John Barnard and Ken Seale work through one of the sweeper turns who endure a shortage of VWs (see story) were wildly enthusiastic the broad expanse of the Hochenheimring in the background. as they chase each other on one of the faster sections of the track. _a_bo....,uc-t_th...,.e-=b,_u.,.,g~s_. ---.,.,,,-,--~---~--------immediately. I had questioned axled 9-inch. We try to keep as that they all slowed down to such only runs standard Bilsteins: "No Seale and putting his cunning this but he had assured me that much shelf stock other than an extent that Pike fired the cans. We never.race long enough plan awry. Matthew's kept his it the 'hot set-up'." Too hot, I things like the two-to-one Fords back up and continued in for· them to get really hot and lead while Seale and Barnard guess. Dan Mathews' Tubular steering 'quic~ener'." the lead! Boyer, who had to fade. Not like in the desert." battled around a still-too-soft Concepts car, supported by The Maintenance thus far has been organize his two seat chores, was RACE 4 . shaner. Bill was getting a rough Converter Shop i_n LHC, also had minimal; maybe three hours after putting on the big push when a They mixed up the cars and ride, coming up a bit short on the turning brake problems: the a race. And it's never been on its tie rod broke in the Bruce Davis Anderson got to challenge Boyer second set of doubles, sending his aluminum housing got sea lid." Fateful words, indeed. truck and he had to pull off. But and even with a few missed gear nose skyward. It looked good for watered and the resulting "The car lays down nice in the not before the flashy yellow and changes he did so, also lapping a the fans, but... · corrosion ate up a Jamar cup. turns," he continued. "It'll come blue "Kafer" of Paul Borio passed still-struggling and disappointed RACE 6 The ever-resourceful Dan Simply up to the balance point and feels him in the first doubles. The Navarro. Ralphy got sat-is-fac-The sixth race started with a chose the right hand to be the real comfortable. The only break Germans went wild. A huge roar tion, of a sort, when he roosted big hole in the first U-turn, operating side, as that reflected down we had was in Seattle of approval came from the cheap the German TV crew with a big making for a slow shot at the first the prevalent: RH nature of the where the (lighter) Mustang II seafs. Bugs are very rare in clutch action in a turn. The set of doubles: everyone track. transmission broke on me. I do Germany due to the harsh crowd liked that, too. str.uggled, at first. Joey Borio, RACE 3 want to put in a four link with vehicle safety laws (bumpers, RACE 5 swapping seats with Bro Paul, was The trucks and the Bugs went coil-overs, rather than these etc .. ) and the stringent CA-style Ken Seale was a master of bobbling the first corners and had out next. Stacey Pike went right stock type leafs." Pike runs two emissions regulations. And deceit, OK, call it "strategy": "I trouble getting up on top of to the front in his homemade brake pedals; one operates at four "Yeah, it's been 'over' a few got the second row (on the start) things. Pike's domination came 2800 pound aluminum '99 Pace corners and the other only the times," offered Joey. and the guys in front are in a slick to a sudden close when he lost car with 2300cc "4". "We are rears, for corner set-ups. Jeffrey Hantz couldn't get his muddy patch. I'll bet that I can the #2 spark plug wire. An on-down a hundred (horsepower) at After only part way around his bug quite on top of the doubles pass them even before the table the-fly fix by Jim my Berry 180 so I have 'drive' through the first lap Pike did the first of the so he had a long race. His helped top." Ken didn't exactly jump the brought the Pinto meter back to turns, carry some momentum. back stretch doubles too close to is helped Mark Rosever/ gun but they were three wide life as everyone else also started It's a Mustang TS transmission the tires and hung a front wheel McKenzie's ... and he has to over the table top along side to sputter although Borio was the and I pretty much run it in and went over. "And it's never change the fuel cells between Barnard and Matthews. Barnard least affected and got the flag. second (gear) up to eight-kay been on its lid," indeed. The desert and closed course events. T-boned the tires at the DNFer Jeff Hantz broke a spring w the 6.50s in the Stran e-trailin cars were so sur rised Anderson ointed out that he subse uent "180" ho""l""'d..;.;in_.._....aua..ia.. _____ c_o_nt_in_u_ed_o_n__,p'-a""g_e_36 ___ _ Spring to Success ... l'lllclllll'QS, Ille. • PlaN 949 75Z 8700 • DlstrlllUIIII': l'lrtler Pumper 809 380 1854 Dusty Times August 2000 Eibach Springs is proud to announce it's complete line of ultra high qualilv off-road springs. Available in 10, 12, 14 & 16 inch free lengths with 3" ID . . A wen designed & manufactured spring ~ill last thousands of cvcles, even in the cruelest desen environments. That's whv top chassis builder Mike Julson chooses Eibach Springs. He knows what it takes to win· ... Now so do vou. . Page 35

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Once he'd had some time to correct his suspension, Dan Matthews· Joey Borio's yellow bug with blue flames was a bit hit with the audience. Stacey Pike and Rick Boyer (in the trucks) lead Paul Borio's Baja Bug was able to fly the double jumps with great style. Here he noses off a bump. between the tire barriers. Andy Anderson, who was the big winner of the event, here tries to Stacey Pike puts the power down, resulting in a very satisfactory Mike Bartolotfi was part of the entourage; found himself a correctly shake off Rick Boyer, who's always tough on a short course. rooster tail to entertain the spectators. . painted bike to ride through the pits. plate right at the bolts; it had it. Seale gave it a good try but the There were marathon tourist home: "He was a good friend to Deutschmark short: "Some been working there -for some two front runners edged away. trips without cease: the Porsche all of us," said Marshall Ziegret. Americans came over and had time, as evidenced by the rust Ken then fell afoul of a vastly factory, the Mercedes museum, KINK! PA.LACE bought all of his stock and and fatigue smears. He was able improved NavarrQ who finally and the VW plant in Wolfsburg. Some of the racers tried to shipped it home. There isn't a to scrounge up a replacement, could make all the turns and do Switzerland, Munich, Austria, visit the Kinki Palace -":The single vintage VW part to be although wfthout the exact hole all the doubles. Bill Shaner had and even tiny Liechtenstein if Place To Be", said Stacey -but found in the whole country. It's orientation. I woulda' thought handed over the controls of his you didn't blink. were denied entrance, not being all here; at the Pomona swap that his stock front arms would too-soft Lompoc .car to crewman As Rafael Navarro wrote: kinky enough, I guess. meet!" have gone first. Mark Gafko. Mark's lighter "Race Comment: Excellent time, PRACTICAL EXAM AUTOBAHN ACTION . RACE 7 weight -but not by much, huh - took awhile to get used to the "su-On Sunday Andy Anderson A new Hertz Fiat "Punta" In this finale they ran all the helped ·the car a skosh. Enough percross" track without practice. We gave course constructor Gunter could be coaxed to 160 kph if buggies together. With their set- for Mark to turn it over. Stacey went not knowing what to expect Eckenbach a tour of his dirty wrung flat out for ten minutes in ups finally "on" or "close", the Pike drove John Barnard's car: "It and sent the car in ''Estero Beach;, handiwork: "Yeah. He .liked the the middle.lane. And an eye was action was wheel-to-wheel, not used to be white. Now it's green", trim, which does not work in Ger- ride," Andy grinned. · kept on the mirrors. Turbo M-Bs the previous wheel-to-tire (wall) . referring to many kisses with the many. We needed our short, short SOLD OUT would whistle by on the left 25 Andy Anderson, now with painted tire barrier. course tranny, which had been left The Navarros visited a miles an hour faster. No carbon daughter Jennifer along for the Everybody had a great time, at home. But, all in all, it was the rumored VW bone yard near -in those motors. fun, pushed and badgered Boyer they kept the cars running and trip of a lifetime and got to spend Mannheim and found that they OUT OF SITE until Andy got the lead. And kept the lookie-lous came in droves. time in wonderful country with great were a day late and a www.thunder-drome.de · ■ people .. If there is a next time, we DBA: Discount Foreign We Have In Stock: Ultra Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15 x ·7 $84.05 $89.10 Centerline Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15 X 6 $117.45 $124.75 15 X 10 $13.1.99 Call for Prices 3636 Meade Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 Page 36 (702) 247-1i66 We Now Do. MAGNA FLUX • know what to expect and we'll be ready." ELCHISMOSO STUFF IT The prospect of putting all 11 cars back into two containers hung heavy on the Americans .. Like pounding ten pounds of crap into a five pound bag. But the promoter was so stoked about the show that he kept the cars of Seale, Barnard, plus the buggy and truck driven by Boyer, for another race in Octooer. Re-loading was mucho easier. Get your passports up to date, gang. And contact Rico at rico.anthes@t-online.de. Maybe he wants more cars. MIXOLOGIST John Barnard could have used one of Bruce Davis' (his sponsor) gas engine "Mato-Blaster" X-Treme Blenders when he took over bartending duties at the hotel bistro. (You could hear the race action at the 'Ring from the car, or so Laurie reported.) The racers' extreme demands for "Mehr Bier! " taxed Heidi, the girl tending bar, while she simultaneously answered the phone and handled the desk. She was a good sport. Had to be! John pours a mean beer. He got a good tip, too: "Stay out of the tires." "SB21" Rick Boyer lands hard on the front end. Racers got no practice due to rain, had to fine-tune their cars between heats. All cars sported Steve Bishop memorial stickers, remembering their short course friend who was Max Seale, driving John Barnard's car, has no better luck than John had. The electrocuted working on his course workers were kept busy_ August 2000 Dusty Times

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Pony Express ... ters from our readers should they have good or not so good things to say about our publication. Please submit your comments to Dusty Times, 20761 Plummer Street, Chatsworth, CA 913 I l for consideration. The Pony Ex-press column will be printed on a space available basis. HARDIN RACING TEAM We wish to express our congratulations and thanks to the Hardin Racing Team for a job well done. Espe-cially to their chase crew, Gary Stivers, Dave Plotnick and radio support Jared Hardin. These indi-viduals helped at least 10 race cars through a tough bottleneck backed up at least two hours, at night. Ours was the one on its roof, AT NIGHT! The chase crew relayed impor-tant status of our health and the fact that there was no injury, to our pit. They then proceeded to untangle and cheer on the weariest of the competitors to finish. Without this camaraderie, we wou-ld still be in the dark, literally. It was very comforting for them to stay until every last driver was taken to safety. Thanks for a job well done and taking the time to help. You 're welcome at our campfire for carne asada any time. Sincerely, Leonard Fallorina/Flat Top Racer 5 77 /South Bay Stucco/ Gutierrez Brothers [;J[;J[;J . I want to thank MDR and Kartek for the Kartek 400 race. We were the overall winners as well as having fast lap, car # 149. We want to let everyone know that Roy, of Kartek sent the check for $ 2000 to Wayne Morgan, owner and builder of our winning car. There was some confu-sion at the finish line about not having a Kartek sticker on the car. Kartek felt all cars should display their sticker, since they were the primary sponsor. We agreed, but nobody was told it was mandatory, nor was it advertised as a re-quirement to win the $2000 cash prize. After a few phone calls, it was agreed by Roy to send the check. We, as Off Road Racers need groups like MOR and sponsors like Kartek to help build our sport. We all need to say "Thank you MOR and Kartek" for the"ir time and efforts to keep our sport alive and well. Dave Massingham (Driver of Record # 149; , for the Morgan Gang: Wayne Morgan, Ron Os-burn, Darrin Morgan, Emerson MacLaughlin and Dave Hartman. DUSTY TIMES welcomes let-SUPER SANO 2 Seat Class 1 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 Jnj., 24 Tires & Wheels, Big Fod Beam & Arms, 125" W.B., Mirage/Fox 2.5 Bypass rear, All Coil Over & Extra Trans. ONLY 55K FIRM! Buy an Out of the Box, Detailed, Clean Fin-isher, NO BULL. Reffl: 747 Baja Brokers 760-723-21. l 7 NORTHERN NEVADA DESERT RACING TOP GUN 300 FALLON, NEVADA 4--75 MILE LAPS RENO/FERNLEY ..... . n OFF-ROAD ~ DESERT .:JlOAD RACINO CHALLENGE SEPT.Z,~&4 2 DAYS OF OFF-ROAD RACING 3 RACES PER DAY $1,000 To the Top 4 Overall Winners, Pro Classes 50% Payback of Total Entry Fee $1,000 To the Top 4 Overall Winners, Pro Classes 50% Payback-of Total Entry Fee ~~s,;~-;;:11111□11,;~1,;;-,.c;i~~ll;:~CJ July 28 July 29 3 pm-7 pm Early Race Registration & Tech. Inspection 9 pm Drawing for Starting Positions 7 am-9 am Race Registration & Tech. Inspections 9 am Drivers Meeting 10 am Start of Race 10 Hour Time Limit 9:30 pm Awards Presentation Sept. 1 3 pm-7 pm Early Race Registration & Tech Inspection Sept. 2 8 am-1 0 am Race Registration & Tech Inspection 10:30 am Drivers Meeting 11 am First Race of 3. Races Sept. 3 · 8 am -8:30 am Last Registration & Tech Inspection 9:30 am First Race of3 Races CHALL£NG£ $2,500 WINN£R TAI<£SALL SPONSORED BY: CREASY JNVESTM£NTS Top Gun Raceway is located 12 miles South on Hwy. 95 Reno/Fernley Motorsports Complex is located 25 miles East of Reno to Fernley then 3 miles South on A95 Total Entry Fees: Pro Classes $450.00 Limited Pro $325.00 Sportsman Veteran $250.00 Sportsman Novice $200.00 Dusty Times Valley Off-Road Racing Association 1833 Los Robles Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702 Fax: (916) 925-8217 www.vorra.com August 2000 Page 37

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BEST IN THE DESERT SILVER STATE SERIES/TONOPAH 300 Honda Gets First Win At Round 3 By Mark Kariya Photos: Trackside Photo Johnny Campbell and Tim Staab shared the riding chores to take overall honors on their Honda XR650R at the BITD__ To!'_O{!_ah 300. seeing improved results with every Best in the Desert race this season. Campbell/Staab started out with a sixth over-all at the extremely tight Laughlin U.S. Hare Scrambles · Championship, a race favoring bikes much smaller than their big thumper. The-y got closer Bryan Folks and Matt Murphy rode their KTM to first place in the 250 Pro class, finishing fourteenth in the overall standings. Scott Morris and Mike Healy, on a Kawasaki, rode to first place in the Over 30 Pro class, a fine eighth overall. It took a few tries, but Hon-da finally got a Best in the Desert Silver State Series win with its new liquid-cooled, aluminum framed XR650R at Round 3 of the series, the Tonopah 300. Partners Johnny Campbell and Tim Staab did the deed,-starting first bike off the line and seeing nothing but clear air all day to take the overall in 4:40:26. Defending race and series champion Destry Abbott and Brian Brown pushed the pace on a Team Green KXS00 all day, coming in second in 4:41 :08. They have yet to win a race in the series. Their Team Green teammates, Shane Esposito and Dave On-das, teamed up for third in 4:45:57, Esposito riding most of the event on his own after Ondas crashed during his first stint in the saddle and sepa-rated his shoulder. The Honda squad has been at Terrible's Town, but ·be-sides losing to Esposito/Ondas " there, this marked the third time Campbell has finished second and missed the TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING. INC SNORE 1999 Transaxle Builder Of The Year Congratulations Buffalo Bill's 400 1st Class 1 1st Overall Damon Jefferies Transaxle Engineering Jeff Field 1st ½-1600 Rob Guevera 9763 Variel Avenue Chatsworth, CA 91311 818-998-2739 Page 38 August 2000 Seen here against a backdrop of typical scenery for the area, Ron Lawson and Gary Jones ro(}e to victory in the Over 40 Pro class on their KTM. Putter Ashford, Scott Saunders and Kurt Mann rode their Yamaha to the win in the 250 Expert class. Dan Natal and Jonathan Butterman, both from New Mexico, rode their Yamaha to first place in the Over 35 Expe'.t ·class. Dusty Times

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Destry Abbott and Brian Brown, on a Kawasaki, ran a close second overall, just 42 seconds behind the winning team, and second in the Open Pro class. Danny Cooper (Texas) and Matt Gosnell (Las Vegas) were second in the 250 Pro class on their Yamaha. In the really old guys division, Over 48 Expert, Howard Larson, 54, and Jerry Allen, 53, paired up on their Yamaha to take the win, finishing $10,000 winner's bonus at that race. Asked if the Terrible's Town runner-up fired him up for Tonopah, Campbell suc-cinctly replied "Absolutely." Starting and finishing in the former high desert mining town, racers faced a new 300 mile one loop course with five pit stops. Campbell took the first stint on the big Honda and gave the bike to Staab at Pit 3 with an unofficial lead of two and a half minutes. in 7:04:22. --Both Kawasaki teams· endured several prob-lems during the event. Esposito reported, "At Pit 1, on time [ our crew l said we were leading, then Dave got on the bike at 1 and coming into 2 _ halfway into the Ron Darling and Steve Scales, both Nevada residents, rode their KTM to first pit_ he crashed real bad ~pl_a_ce_ in_t_h_e_O~p_e_n_A_m_a_te_u_r_c_la_s_s_. ______________ _ and bent up the bike. We giving up the position to Es-worked on it a little bit -but I posito who faced riding the know we lost four minutes rest of the race alone as On-there -and got going." das was too injured to ride. Of He went on to say, "I know a win was just around the cor-ner because we've been so close for the last two Terrible's Towns. We went and did a lot of testing between Tonopah and Terrible's Town, and ad-dressed a few concerns that we had some handling character-istics and also potential brake problems, handlebar position -just a lot of little details that we knew were just going to be [helpful in] making up 52 sec-onds, which is what we lost Terrible's Town by. I think that was going to be the key, was just don't make a mistake and have everything as perfect and as comfortable as you can, and that's exactly what hap-pened. That was the key." That put the Abbott/Brown course, last year when Ondas team in second place, but they couldn't ride at all due to his would experience a flat tire, recuperation from a wrist in-jury, Esposito soloed Tonopah and came out second overall be-hind Abbott/Brown. However, a brake problem after chang-Continued on page 40 Donald Bird, from Sparks, Nevada rode his Honda to second place in the Iron Man Amateur class, in the time of 6:37:42. Wearing the ancient and honorable· shamrocks on his ·vest, Mike Ramey.Peticolas-Stroud, from Oregon, soloed to second place in the Kaplan does them proud by soloing to seventh place in the Iron Man Larry Wright, from Yerington, Nevada rode his Honda 650R to second Over 48 Expert class, on a Honda. Amateur class on his Kawasaki. in the Iron Man Expert Division in 5:33:08. One entry fur each 25 gallons of 76 100 or 110 Octane Rac;lng Ga&Ollne purchased from CL Bryant or an authorized distributor from Jan. l, 2000 through October 31, 20001 Win Free 76 RaclngGasollne (up to 250 gallons.) To Enter: Send your proof of purchase, along with Name, Addreu, and Phone to: CL Bryant, Inc. Attn:Mltch 237 E. Whitmore Ave. Modesto, CA. 95358 Dusty Times A'ARACING 'til/GASOLll!IE "-YoYN~a"n.W Wllnt Wll1h 76 Racllna Gasolllne Falrplex - Pomona October 7 &8 August 2000 t!'ARACING ~ GASOLINE ~--. ■-M • ■-. .-..-.-.-. • :....■ .• -~~JI •-•• ._._.Li Authorized Distributors -Southern California, call: KRS Distributing 714-816-8983 Cosby Oil 1-800-54-COSBY www.cosbyoil.com For a Distributor Nearest You - 800-399-4176 Page 39

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The three-man team of Eric and Michael Caudillo and Donnie Cambell, Ross Williams and Mike Davidge teamed on their KTM to ride to Kirk Stephenson and David Fry, both from Las Vegas, rode to second all from Lancaster. CA, rode their Kawasaki to second place in the second in the Over 40 Pro class in 5:43:51. place in the Four-Stroke Under 450cc Pro class on a Yamaha. 250 Expert division. this year. Morris too.-:k-:t::.:h:-:e:--:i-::-rrR;--a:-:c:-:e~;:;::::======-=========== One of the supermen of the race, Jerry Fisher rode all 252 miles on his Honda to take the win in the Iron Man Amateur class. Campbell said, "At differ-Racing KX500 to the ent times during the race, the Over 30 Pro win (their Kawasaki teams were pressur-first of the year), leav-ing us. We'd jump back and ing defending class forth between extending the champs Rick Bozarth/ lead and getting caught by Daryl Folks on their them but never getting passed, Sportsman Cycle "Everything worked well. KTM 300 to contem-We didn't have any crashes or plate defeat by a nar-near-crashes. It was pretty un-row margin, 4:59:21-eventful." The same could not 5: 00: 18. They were be said for the competition, of eighth and ninth over-course. all bike teams, respec-Steve Hengeveld and Jonah tively. Street on the other Honda Jacob Phillips and XR650R backed up their Wade Phillips took teammates with a fourth over-first Expert team hon-all in 4:47:36 followed by Ty o rs and were 10th Davis/Russell Pearson on a overall (plus Open Ex-Montclair Yamaha YZ426F in pert victors) in ing the rear wheel at another and he couldn't answer 4:50:35. 5:02:32 on their Phil-pit slowed him in one section Brown's pass, settling for third Mike Healey and Scott lips Construction ~gg,:~r,c:~,1<,41 ~-::'!!£ KTM. Chad Houck ;i».i:"' and Tex Mitchell were ... ~....._ ______________ _____J USJ.l.l:!DSIDDS-=:N.PALMST#103 FORMERLY FABTECH MOTORSPORTS FULLERTON, CA 92835 Page 40 2WDC1500 6" ULTIMATE LIFT :r CAST Ul'T Sl"tNDLES Ul"NJt CONTitOL AllMS COfL SPRINGS ltEAII BLOCKS & U M>US 4 PAa"QCH NIU'OIIMANCa SHOCKS $ 1749.95 INSllUllD 6" ULTIMATE LIFT :r &.WT Sl"tNDUIS ""'8 COHTitOl AIIMS COIL IPIIINGS HAIi N.000 6 U eolTS 4 ,MnCH~SHOOU s1549.95-2WD F150 6" ULTIMATE LIFT :r L.-TsrtNOUS LN'fR CONl1IOLMtMS CON.Sf"RIINGS aA11 alOOCS& U 90l.n 4 P'MTSCH Nlll"OblANCE SHOCKS s1699.95 ,........., 1tUN n -T111U wrntOUT A aoor L.-r FORD SUPERDUTY 4WD F250/350 5.5" PERFORMANCE LIFT SOFT ltfDI'. f'RONT LEN SNtlHGS '"°'" BOX krr a.Alt au,oa 4 FMTl:CH l"IUf'OltMANCI: SHOCKS s1349.95 ,..........., 8 " LIFT ALSO IN STOCK 1<2500/3500 4-UFT S1599.95 INS'IIU.llD 1988-98 CHEVROLET Kl500 6 -UFT S1599.95 INnW.ED JEEP WRANGLER TJ MON-FRI 8:00-6:00 SATURDAY 9:00-4:00 FINANCING AVAILABLE /I..,,.-.. =---'~ RaceRunner 5.5" LIFT NEW FABTECH PERFORMANCE SYSTEM ~~~&tl FORD SUPERDUTY ........ 1~-~~::-:; PD~ffl.d~~-4':ZP":'R~!~le59FT BFGaaclricf!~ 'CENTER L.!!!I ~J!.;.E.."E-? trailmaster GOODj,"iEAR IIRIDSEBTDRE ==6·=~:=~=7=~=i=~9===s:=~=•SHOCXS=so=o=N==-PIAA Bl LSTEI N L1JJ:!J./l/ · TOYOTA TACOMA .. PRERUNNER" & 4WD 1"·3" PERFORMANCE LIFT TOWING ACCESSORIES AIRBAGS & COMPRESSORS Sff.95,..,.. HIDDEN HrTCHES & CLASS Ill ss9,95,..,.. SMITTYBILT SURESTEPS FROM S189.95 A\IULA8ti IN ■.LACK. CHltOMI, S.S. August 2000 next across the finish Michael Kroko, Randy Reames and Larry in 5 :04:06 for second Waterhouse rode a Yamaha to second place in the Open Expert on Over 35 Amateuc cji_visiof!_ in 7:16:36. t he i r Baj a -·----------·· Desert XR650R. Pa ul Krause and Scott Myers teamed up for tops in the four-stroke Under 450cc Pro class on their Mont-clair Yamaha YZ-F, edging MS Concrete-backed Yamaha riders David Fry/Kirk Steph-ensen by a nail bitingly close 10 seconds, 5:06: 11. They were 12th and 13th overall, re-spectively. Bryan Folks AT RIGHT: Bruce Steigleman and Rob Keith teamed on their Husqvarna to take the Victory in the Over 40 Expert Class. The Nevada based team of Curtis Moon, Jamie Graham and Matt Roylance rode their Yamaha to the win in Four Stoke Under 450cc Amateur. Dusty Times

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Tony Aguilera, Kelly Hall and J. L. Wray, all from Las Vegas, rode their Andrew Willis and Brent Manfred, took second place in the Open KTM to second place in the Over 35 Expert cate ory Amateur class on their Husqvama, in a time of 6:44:00. ) w . '• ·-.•.. ·-.·. . . . ': .. ,,_ ·_ . . :,.:._, reg itterkopf ran pen at 110 mph though," Jones his string of Ironman quipped. KTM-mounted Mark Expert wins to three Davidge/Ross Williams were here, placing 16th class runners-up in 5:43:51 overall in 5:16:47 on (31st overall). his self-sponsored The next class winners Honda CRS00R. Larry turned out to be Putter Wright took second in Ashford, Kurt Mann and class quite a ways back Scott Saunders, tops in the 26th overall in 250cc Expert class in 5:42:48 5:33:08. (30th overall) on their Mont-Former AMA 500cc clair Yamaha YZ. They beat National motocross Donnie Campbell/Eric champion Chuck Sun Caudillo/Michael Caudillo and teammates Glenn Continued on page 42 · Taylor and Richard AT RIGHT: Mike Baskin, Mike Ruane Wik won Over 30 Ex- andMarkFields,allfromCalifornia,rode p e r t i n 5 : 2 8 : 5 8 o n their Honda to the win in the Over 25 the i r Hus ab erg Expert class. _______ _ thumper. At 22nd overall, they were the sixth Experts to finish, handily besting Mike Mark Mitchell, Kevin Bise and Calvin Yamamoto came down from Washington with their self sponsored KTM to win the Over 35 Amateur Garvin/Lester Lehigh/ Jon Parks who rode an IMS-sponsored KX500 to a 5 :29:45 25th division. • and Matt Murphy took a de-cisive win in 250cc Pro? fin-ishing in 5:07:44 on their Sportsman Cycle KTM. That put them· 14th overall while class runners-up Danny Coo-per/Matt Gosnell were 18th in 5: 18:55 on their Yamaha with the Xl plate. overall. Gary Jones, a three time AMA 250cc National MX champ, and motojournalist Ron Lawson took the -Over 40 Pro win in 5:27:50 (23rd overall) on a Husky 610 magazine test bike despite some fuel starvation problems. "It would only hap-Glenn Taylor, Richard Wilk and Chuck Sun divided the riding three ways and came away winners in the Over 30 Expert Class, on their Husaberg. Steve Pankas and Richard Purvines, shown here enjoying a long view of the Nevada desert rode their Yamaha to viEI_o~y in the Over 30 Amateur class. Dusty Times . ·n • Bway ·EilJa,:b • HM • QA 1 Bpar,:o • Roni-· Seti Optima Mechanix August 2000 Jeramie Sorhouet and Josh Kauffman, from the Tonopah area, rode their Yamaha to second place in the 4 Stroke Under 450cc Amateur class. Page 41 < . t.

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,, ,, Mike Garvin, Jon Parks and Lester Lehigh, all California based, rode Fred Marple and Jason Parker, both from Arizona, finished second in Second place in the Quad Expert division went to Yamaha mounted Rob Niemela and Jeff Whyid. to second place in the Over 30 Expert class on their Kawasaki. the Over 30 Amateur class on their Kawasaki. handily, the Windgear Kawa-in 6:02:27 (44th overall) on 29 -unusual for a class meant saki riders finishing in 5:51:27. their Countrywide Est ates for those 30 and over. (35th overall) . Planning Yamaha. Kawasaki The Open Amateur win New Mexico's Jonathon riders Fred Marple/Jason went to Miller Beer KTM rac-Butterman and Dan Natal Parker took a distant second ers Ron Darling and Steven won Over 35 Expert in in 6:48:23 (60th overall). Cu-Scales in 6:07:41 (45th over-5:57:02 (37th overall) on riously, Parker listed his age as all) . They also were well clear of second place, who hap-their 6:10:04 (47th overall). pened to be Brent Manfred/ The KTM racers sped away Andrew Willis on a Husky in from runners-up Michael 6:44:00 (58th overall). Kroko/Randy Reamen/Larry their Butterman Tool-backed Yamaha. No guessing who pays the bill on that team. Team A ggie KTM-mounted Tony Aguillera/Kelly Hall/J .L. Wray took second in class with their 6:00:58 (41st over-all) . Jamie Graham, Curtis Moon and Matt Roylance combined for the top Amateur finishers as well as taking the four stroke Under 450cc Ama-teur victory. Their 6:01: 18 put them 42nd overall on their IMS Yamaha, well ahead of Josh Kaufmann/Jeromie Sorhouet's 6:48:43 (61 st over-Kevin Bise, Mark Mitchell Waterhouse who turned a and Calvin Yamamoto got the 7: 16:36 (68th overall) effort Over 35 Amateur win with Continuedonpage59 all). Steve Pankas and Ron Pur-vines won Over 30 Amateur Dwight Lowell and Charles Lamson, both from California, rode their Honda to the Doug Eichner and John Gregory put their Honda Quad through its paces to take the win in the Pro Quad class. win in the Expert division in 6:01:03. ultimate lono travel Get the benefits of our Long Travel system and 3° lilt spindles, creating 6" of lih for incredible ground clearance. ~@V@I ■ 3' lilt spindles . ■ Upper Control arms , ~ile~w~., ■ Lower Control arms .IT ■ Coil springs ■ 3 way front shocks ■ Performance rear shocks ■ Rear kit touota Jono travel sustem Dur Toyota 2 wheel drive, 6' 1van Dan' long travel system. Built to satisfy all the serious oil roaders out there. Page 42 ford lono travel system custom i heams Oilroad bullet proof design provides maximum strength with 4130 Oiromoly steel · 118th' thick plate and tubular inner structure. B' 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. , .. - C --HFIIIB :;, extended radius arms Dur extended radius arms are offset further inboard for increased tire clearance. Ranger models shown, which include new pivot mounts. 1990-94 lord ranger .,. perf'ormance sustem Dur exteoded 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. I 998-on lord ranger z .s · perf'ormance sustem 2.5' of lilt with a 2' increase in wheel travel -~ ,;l' · .. ~~.-• ~ "'-~-• 1973-87 C10 ., .. lono travel sustem Gives you the needed clearance for 33' tall tires. August 2000 angled e e e «berf!! ! include front fenders, bedsides and hoods. The front fenders and bedsides are flared with wheel travel in mind. spare tire mount ~ Constructed using 1 1 / 4' steel tubing and MIG welded at the joints for long lasting streogth and durability. flat spare tire mount Over 25 Styles stamped steel tabs Our vast assortment of stamped steel tabs simplify your fabrication needs. Call for a distributor nearest you Phone 714-990-8850 -Fax 714-990-8854 wwwJabtechmotorsports_ com DR E-MAIL US AT inlo@fabtechmotorsports.com Dusty Times

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TECATE SCORE BAJA 500 street sweeper: Jonah Repeats at Baja SOD By Tony Tellier Photos: Trackside Photo Steve Hengeveld and Jonah Street paired up to ride their Honda XR 650 to the overall win at SCORE's Baja 500. _ _ _ It never ceases to imaze lines down to Simpson's OUTBOUND one just how close and how Ranch and the Rio San Rafael Jonah Street passes both Tim fast, and close, Baja racing can crossing then down, down, Staab and Keith Mayes while on be -and after some 440 miles down to the Power Station Highway 3 -to Tecate. Ron of rugged and varied Mexican road, where the friendly Wilson (Morton's brother-in-terrain. When the hog finally farmers flooded the road with law) has a decent lead. Staab ate the cabbage at the Tecate muck and mire, and out to claimed that Jonah was riding SCORE Baja 500, Honda's Llano Colorado. and the stupid and crazy. Jonah doesn't Jonah Street, last year's Pacific. The bikes then passed do that. Jonah said he didn't take surprise "500" ~inner, cl.rafted the Deere combine and the chances. "Too Tall" Tim Staab to the innumerable fish camp/surfer OJOS OUTBOUND checkered for a 15 second roads north to Erindera, Only Tex Mitchell gives bike victory over Johnny followed by the twisty-turny to partner - Scott Meyers. They Campbell's "A" team. It was ·rock hard road to Santo are falling behind with Tex no mean feat, as the first three Tomas and the deadly trying to get through the dust. bikes -Street, Campbell, and transpeninsular highway. Others stay on. (Note: Meyers the outstanding Philip Zeiger/ Uruapan, oddly, was a is a National Class 4 Stroke Craig Smith/Ron Wilson effort welcome sight as they got to MXer -Ed.) -all beat Larry Ragland's leave the "remolques doble" -THE PINE FOREST Herzog straight-six double semis - for the rock-Wilson gives bike to Craig "Trailblazer", the overall and-roll to Tres Hermanos Smith at Compadre road automobile winner (8:56:43). with hanging dust in the crossing. They have a good lead. Jonah and desert ace Steve cottonwoods. They crossed Did Wilson totally kick ass in Hengeveld finished in 8:30:30 the highway at Ojos, joining a that section? = 51.784 miles per hour. mass of humanity, retracing Jonah Street is in second, The Carmen Cafro Quad their "steps" through the Staab - third, Tex -fourth place, edged out the Angel Garcia mountain to Guadalupe Wash and Keith Mayes a distant fifth. and Gilberto Santana teams and the road to the finish. Somewhere up hi;re I think the by just a few minutes. Cafro THE RACE Mayes team DNFed with was a strong 28th Overall. I could paraphrase this busted-off foot peg and maybe THE COURSE eyewitness report of the more. The course was the same as Overall by Tim Morton but his K77 (First Highway 3 East last year's "500" but without actual words have an crossing a/k/a Cerro the run through the Housing immediacy that begs to be Colorado) Project Hill north of town and read and appreciated. Tim and Philip Zeiger takes over for less asphalt. The start was in his wife, Jen, ferried Jonah Craig Smith; Steve Hengeveld front of the "White Elephant, Street from pit to pit. takes over 'fnr Jonah just 15 the Riviera Convention . THE STARTING ORDER seconds back. "Erkie" (i.e., Phil Center", and went up the Rio Ron Wilson (2X), Keith Zeiger), for some reason decides Ensenada, which is now much Mayes (3X), Tim Staab (IX), to put some gas in the XR, which cleaner than in years past, and Jonah Street (5XC), "'-out the canyon to the Tecate Tex Mitchell (6C) highway. The first check was and Ron Mitchell outside of Ojos Negros with a (7X) (Tex's run into the sun up to the Pine brother). Forest. The route came down STILL IN through the scrub, crossing ENSENADA the San Felipe highway at Ron Mitchell eats kilometer 77, heading toward some crap going the Alamo Dam before the under one of the second road crossing at canal bridges, the Alamo. They raced back of front wheel tacos and Independencia, down the explodes the hub, no Goat Trail back onto the spare wheel nearby -pavement to the Kiliwas DNF. Indian turn-off to Mike's via B E F O R E -,-; "-.~'~:·i,: .. ✓.," • ... -.... < ..... ~ ... ~ .. ►:.-.,;. _; ~~· ~-- '":'"~ ···<·.e:i. .,..$,' ':" . ··.-t , ¥ Jose Ruvalcaba, on a Yamaha YZ250, seen here along the Pacific ocean, rode to first place in Class 21. . allows Hengeveld to get past unflooded. (The shorter him. Staab stays on, still in third Hengeveld was standing on the about a minute back. Scott wrong side of the pit's farm Meyers still a ways behind; don't ditch and was missing the know why so far back. necessary leverage.) The two KlLIW AS PITS (Valle de minute lead Steve needs to hold off Trinidad -Highway 3 East) Campbell is 'good' but not as Hengeveld comes in 2 .5 planned. We were planning for minutes ahead of Phil Zeiger, this point in the race to have five who is just ahead of Staab. minutes over second place and it Jonah is getting on but not before would have been about that if we we have a problem with a wheel hadn't had the wheel change change, about 2.5 minutes long. problem. Zeiger gives bike to Craig Smith Smith gives bike to Zeiger and after a gas pit only and exits we hoped to get (Erkle) out first. Jonah finally gets on the ahead of Campbell to keep that bike to leave in Smith's dust but dust cushion but Phil had a gets by within a mile to regain scheduled wheel change so the the lead but loses the time race was basically over for them; cushion. Tim Staab is done with they just had to ride in for third. his long stint on the bike and Johnny gets out quick with just gives it to Johnny Campbell, gas and the race was on! (Fud they, too, do a wheel and leave reported that the crew doused the pit about a minute back. the rear brakes with water to It's a tight race leaving cool it and the stopping Kiliwas! authority was "iffy" for some According to Craig Smith's time after that!) chaser, Chris Hopp;, "Craig SANTO TOMAS had had the Honda pinned Campbell had made up time and was trying to stir up Continuedonpage44 maximum dust for Jonah." Smith wrung the bike's neck and looked over and Street went by five miles an hour faster, i.e.,. 100 + ! "Jonah had 'Mike's dialed." Jonah apparently, knew what lay beyond each and every blind hill and drop-away turn. Smith, known as one of the fastest riders around, decided to just use Jonah's lines. "TEX'S ROCK PILE" (past the Valle T Power Station) Street comes in a couple minutes ahead of Craig with Johnny another 15 seconds back. Jonah gives the bike to Hengeveld with gas only. Somehow the bike fell over in the pit and cost more time getting it Johnny Campbell and Tim Staab, on a Honda XR650, ran a very close second, only 15 seconds back, in the overall standin¢. the sand wash. G U A DA L UP E Martin Bejarano, Beto Verber, Lino Morales and Chuck Dempsey, "San Felipe" Bob Surman soloed the 500 on his Honda XR 600, to The rest was the usual ridge W A S H #106, teamed to take second place in Class 21, on a KawasakL__ ~n__~h a~ th~ tl1ird Sportsman. . __ ____ _ _____ -·· __ _ Dusty Times August 2000 Page 43

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You could tell that he didn't want to stop! As Johnny was getting on, the bike almost fell over!" It was an INTENSE race! I loved being part of the Street-Hengeveld 'Precision Concepts' team and seeing them do so well! I was totally twitching with emotion ftom the time they got to Pit 1 and we found our Jonah was kicking ass and the race was nuts! I was so totally into the race action that I felt like I was racing too, it was cool - like old days! Richard Jackson, Dave Ohlen and Bob Wad/aw, on a Honda XR650R, had a clean trip and won Class 50. Brian Sheakley didn't have a perfect day, but he got back on and took Overall Sportsman Bike honors on his Yamaha WR400. This was the most awesome race since the days that Kawi was racing Baja. We need more good races like this ... 'no helicopters' would help. Also, San Felipe Bob (Surman) was a total IRONMAN ("Move o·ver, Ivan!") . While other riders were gasping for breath and totally wasted riding short sections, SFB rode it all and did great! on Hengeveld and was right on him on the highway section. Steve was nervous .. Little did he know, but Johnny had to get a new rear ( the tire was virtually bald) at Uruapan so Steve suddenly had another 1.5 minute gap. They both rode like hell to Ojos as the heat was taking its toll. Ron Wilson got on the bike there for Zeiger. Hoppe: "Steve tried to pass a Mexican semi. .. on the outside ... on the pavement up to Uruapan but was pinched off and had to fall back go between oncoming traffic. They had scheduled a rear tire change off the highway but they passed on that." OJOS INBOUND Street took the bike from a whipped Hengeveld with the understanding that he just had to maintain a cool pace and Jonah and Steve would win! Their tire was wasted, but the decision was made to go for it. Hengeveld put in a fantastic ride! He is really improving on the big XR, which is new to him. He's up to speed on it just in time for the 'Nevada 2000.' Exiting the pavement onto the dirt at Ojos the crowd was so large and without any order that Jonah totally overshot ·the turn onto the dirt and had to double back through the traffic. Campbell was supposed to ride to the finish but was tov whipped from the hard ride in the heat so· he handed over to Staab. (Johnny "too whipped"?! Musta been a pretty rigorous pace they all set -Ed.) Around ten minutes later in came Ron Wilson, just maintaining a smooth ride for third. Somewhere after about another 20 minutes in rode Tex Mitchell who handed the motorcycle over to Scott Meyers. Tex was totally dehydrated after getting sideways and landing in a gully big enough to swallow the XR. 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Then, at the 180 degree turn off the highway Jonah sees the SCORE "official" up at the actual turn so he opts to NOT take the little cut-off the highway bank instead riding up to the official before turning. Tim decided to take the little cut-off anyway, arid made a pass on Jonah. But instantly Jonah got back by. {It was reported that Jonah was not amused by this.) It would be nice to see SCORE actually take a stand and eliminate all rider/helicopter/rider communications - enforce the rule book -it would make the racing much more /air. (According to reliable sources, Honda flies their rotorcraft over the Johnny "A Team", not whoever might be leading, e.g., Jonah Street.) Just after Jonah retakes the lead there is a short either/or part and he brain farts and take the WRONG direction! This allows Staab to use the quicker line and re-re-take the lead. Jonah said it was a big sigh of disbelief in himself that he would make such a critical mistake right at the end. He thought he just threw away the race. His only hope was to hang in the dust closer than 30 seconds behind (the start interval). THE FINISH Right before the finish Tim had to give the 1 X bike to Johnny for (Campbell's) points so the 15 seconds that Jonah and Steve won by could have only been a few seconds. If Tim had just hauled across the line. . Hoppe: "They had to wave down Staab for the change. The Mortons' were so confident that: "Jen and I had bought a big hotel suite for Jonah's victory party. Sorta almost blew it at Kiliwas with a long tire change." "Too many hands" spoil the broth. THE WINNER In '98 Jonah and his brother came down from Ellensburg, Washington, in a clagped out Ford van and with an equally beat-up '80s-vintage XR600, in which they blew the motor pre-running. Street found a used-and-abused Ensenadan XR and used that motor to win the Sportsman class - solo. Tim and Jen Wilson Morton took Jonah under tbeir proverbial wing ... and matured and massaged him until. .. two Baja 500 wins. Class 21 The Ruvalcaba brothers edged Martin Berajamo on the black "I 06X" KX250. Martin was teamed with Baja veteran Beto Verber, Lino Morales, and second generation racer Chuck Dempsey using the obligatory Bob Bell engine and suspension. "This bike can go 65 miles on an Acerbis tank and that's pushing it!", said Beto. Bejaramo's crew went on and on and on, all afternoon, calling for the Weatherman: "Weatherman. Weatherman. This -is chase 106 X-Ray -any info after Checkpoint 6?" A million times he ~alled; a million times no one answered. Third place Art Kawaguchi Racing -on a 400XR - is a Honda Power Equipment advertiser in these very Dusty Times: shop early and often. Tony Motta's "Muy Rapido Off Road Racing" was, apparently, unfortunately, not. 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Luis Castellanos wheelies ·through the water to stay dry, as he rides Joe Williams and Duane Foster paired up on a Husqvarna to take Kent Kroeker and Tim Withers rode a 610 Husky to second place in class 30 Pro having a good trip all the way. to his second place finish in the Sportsman bike group. third place in the over-30-year-old ranks. ass 22 ter Ron i son's blast), stuck out at Ojos with the bike Runner-up Tim Staab had a Craig Smith rode to Cerro in town with bars bent way-low few terse comments: "There Colorado (K77, down from the and a taco-ed front wheel. were no incidents, I stayed on Pine Forest) and when I got to DNF; almost DNS! the bike. Not much to say. Steve Hengeveld was there Class 24 They did the (RoR) change a right out of the blue, right on Scott Prather, Mike Zarzan quarter-mile before the finish." me! Then the stabilizer came (RoR), Mike Lennon, and Did that make a difference? off ("-10!" -Ed.). Danny Prather (103A) finished "Would that make a difference? "At Alamo we were up 15 an hour back of winner Felix El Hard to say? Any traps? "Not seconds. On the pavement, Gato, but the real "Class 24" any different than usual. There down the Goat Trail to VT and story is in the Mike Cafro DNF. was a big pile in the Wash but the Kiliwas turn, I hit the Troy Herbst's truggy took out SCORE came out and took it brakes, and Staab was behind Mike at. a fast section past down. It was dusty going to me! I gave it to Craig while Erindera. "It bent the bike a Guadalupe." Both Campbdl Jonah Street changed a tire and bit," Mike said. "Did I go under and Staab were understandably Johnny Campbell too. Jonah the car? I don't know! I was unhappy with the results -got by Craig (!). Johnny doing,maybe, 70milesanhour Honda wants Johnny to win, so Campbell did a gas and go and and 'Boom'! They had to be they say, but a somewhat tighten the chain. Craig Smith doing a 100!," Mike looked taciturn Johnny Campbell was doing OK." (Just "OK"? away. "That's racing, of offered, in passing that: "We'll You may remember that Smith course ... but something needs (Honda Racing) benefit from suffered a horrendous accident to be done ... but what?" this. We've got a race coming pre-running for the "Terrible's Reese King/CRB: "Troy hit a up where we'll need everyone!" Town" race last fall. He hit a quad from behind on a wide Jonah Street: Any secrets? steel boundary marker at speed graded road on the Pacific side of "Yeah -no problems! The bike and had a double-compound the course. Surprisingly, the rider ran good on the pavement. It fracture of the right leg. He had only suffered abrasions and was fast enough, faster'n I want screws and pins and flying contusions. to go! It was so intense all day buttresses supporting the ill-The rider of record, Michael long!" He thanked Bob Bell's fateJ member. The pins would Cafro, dicl not file the protest. It ''.Precision Concepts" (who adhere to his skin an.cl he would was filed by his teammate, Gregg took an embarrassed but forced have to have them scalpeled Row. bow), Honda, the Mortons... free periodically. I don't think Speaking to the Board, Cafro then got emotional and was that he did this at home, but I told his tale and stated that he did subsequently cooled in the have been wrong before.) not desire to file a protest. pool. Phil was limping; he had It is my intent to place Troy on Randy Ross saw IX and SX twisted his right knee when his notice that his history of accidents do the Coyote Cal's route -peg hit a piece of Baja. "We has -become excessive and which is a normal beeline added a new Scotts at Mike's." intolerable, and that the next time course adjustment, sort of like Craig Smith's dad, Bruce, dug something like this happens the the "Cut Off Hill" section up another Scotts. IDRA will petition SCORE to north of Santo Tomas on the The Scott Dunlavey, Ron suspend him from participation in way to Uruapan. Some race Mitchell, and Chad Petrilli thesport." cars try that, and don't make it. team were on a "650" which Eric Brown: "I was standing Wanna back down that hill? feels lighter than the 600 and right there when it happened. Steve-Tex Mitchell was the the frame is way more rigid," so I couldn't believe my eyes! fifth off the line and "it was said Chad. Technically their Troy Herbst was doing apx easy until I caught (second motorcycle followed the 100mph down a long WIDE, starter Keith) Mayes" (2X -standard formula: the exhaust str.aight-away on the coast, Clawson Motorsports). "He's is an HRC with a baffle, ·coming up on a quad going road block! I followed him all ProTaper bars, Scotts steering apx 70mph. It appears Troy the way from Guadalupe Wash damper, I_MS fuel tank, and the assumed the quad was going to the Honda pit just before ubiquitous Bob Bell suspension. faster than it was ... Troy Check 1 in Ojos. I was Their day was real short, slammed on his brakes and hit screaming at him ... he's so however. Ron flipped it down the quad directly from behind f***ing slow! We got down at the Ensenada River, just a (the truggie now doing apx seven minutes. I never saw any short distance off the start. The 85mps). (Cafro) never knew bikes on the Highway 3." crew was incommunicado, what hit him -he sailed over Tex continued: "I rode from VT to the finish. Scott Meyers had an 'off' day. And lost time from Ojos to VT. He rode faster pre-running! Scott went off the course coming down from Mike's, into some (gulp) barbed wire." "I made it up to third by Uruapan -seven minutes but I had a shitty tire and those rain ruts," Tex continued. "I was overheated and hit the physical wall. I went to 'survival mode'; I was dehydrated, dry heaving. Scott took over at Ojos for me -which was not planned. My knee is not 100%." His "1000" neck deal is OK, a good deal. Phil Zeiger said that it was "a killer race right off the start. Dusty Times Klaus Groeger has a bit of a struggle getting through the soft stuff, but he took thE win in Class 40 on his Honda. August 2000 the bars as the quad flew off a rare DNF. Roy's team did not to the left, rolling many times get stopped for speeding on the as the truggie stopped inches highway! Roy Buelna changed from running over him. goggles at Ojos on the way to a Troy stopped for apx l O fine 12th overall. minutes to make sure that (Mike) Kent Kroeker and Tim was OK: the Herbst helicopter Withers rode a booming 610 landed with a paramedic and Husky to second. Kent, a loadedMikeintothe'copterona Marine Cl30 pilot out of stretcher with neck brace. Oceanside, thanked Motion (Troy was ready to call it a Pro, Dunlop, Noleen and day but Cafro insisted that the George Erl. "The bike was truggy carry on!) strong, it was almost Thirty minutes after the crash, uncontrollable power. The bike super tough Cafro decided he is so fast that I warped the didn't want to leave his quad brake pads and had to change behind and got out of the 'copter them. I shredded the rear tire, androdethissmashed-upquadto no flats, just tore off some Santo Tomas. You won't believe knobs." your eyes if you see this video!" Joe Williams and Duane Class 25 Foster rode a 410 Husqvarna to Pro ATVs between 251 & Third, edging out the Kevin 600cc Ward crew by a few minutes. The Carmen Cafro 3A Quad Williams, a Yuman Being, stopped for gas at the Ojos agreed with buddy Kroeker that packing yard and the crew went "it was a fun race." Joe flies ballistic, screaming abut the AV8 "Harriers" -"Yeah, I've "crappy pit".-the top was not had to punch out, once." off the quick-dump can. Class SO Mach ts nichts, so it seems. The Perennial winner Richard Overall-ing Quad and 28th Jack on raced with Dave Ohlen vehicle from Temecula and Bob Wadlaw, a 037 #1 Motorsports, also mounted plate holder. At his Ojos Jesse Wozniak, Scott Callan, change he did mention "two and Earl "The Pearl" Thigpen, guys coming backwards on the who said that, ''The race was wash. They were race bike~! I the greatest." Carmen's said "What the f***?"' acceptance speech reflected his Jackson: "We never had any brother's accident: "Be cool trouble at all ('Yawn') with the out there, we don't want to XR650R. We have two bikes, die!" this is Dave's bike with my Class 30 suspension. Darrell Prior ('RG3 Mexican policeman Roy· Suspension') put my forks on Buelna had a fine ride on the Dave's bike. Jim O'Neal (who XR at the expense of San Felipe rode with the ever popular winner Ricardo Malo, who was Continued on page 46 M-F 9:00 - 6:00 SAT 10:00 - 3:00 ,------, \ ..------i,' " ftf \ -r )" r,~·'f/\ \ ,) ~~, 1t ,., ,r~-,_ ' (BOO) 656-3376 ~ 103 Press Lane, #4 · Chula Vista, CA 91910 (619) 691-9171 • Fax: (619) 691-0803 E-Mail: rprod1@aol.com Page 45

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In the Sportsman ATV class, Brett Frederickson had a long day, but took the win in 15 hours and 59 minutes. Angel Garcia churns uphill on his Class 25 Quad, which got him to Mike Zarzan, Scott Prather, Mike Lennon and Danny Prather teamed the finish in second place. to take second place in Class 24 on their Honda. empsey ro t ers, am an Gene) was talking about us at one pit: 'That Richard Jackson -he won't be here for over an hour!' Oh Yeah? !! W e didn't have a missed shaft, no air filter changes, no changing nothing." Sal Fish commented that this race had one of the least numbers of incidents with the motorcycles: "You know, Richard Jackson always pokes a stick in his eye or gets cut. Not this time. At the finish I told him that I wanted to see some bruises!" Class MU Sportsman Motorcycles under 250cc Tim Schrader (like the tire valve) and Mike Hardesty of SLC had a '98 KTM "Watty" 125 with no lights: "We want to be done before dark." A good goal, for sure -with no lights . . Some support was from ·Eurocycles of Orangevale, CA -near Folsom: "I shot a man in Reno ... " Mark Naugle of Loco"s Moc:os writes: · .. '"Neither Mike (FarmBoy) Hardesty· nor Tim (Lamont) Schrader have ever been accused of keeping all the IQ points for themselves. Tim, who has been ridirig.f or about four months, came up with the idea to race the '500' and he only had one bike. A 125 two stroke. They woulda had better luck on a badly used XP400. If they had one. No pit support other than each other and the two Locos Mocos pits. Oh, they're both great guys. FarmBoy is all heart. Lamont fell badly before Check 1 and FarmBoy would have gone all the way if the bike hadn't crapped out." "I laid it down and lost a hose clamp, the crimp type. The cars? They've been pretty good. I can hear 'em coming," Schrader said. And going, too. "He's the kinda guy you want in your corner. Lamont finished second in VORRA 7S points last year. Both are Locos Mocos vets. I talked to Lamont on Tuesday and he wasn't sure what killed the bike. I think it was probably 200 lbs. of FarrriBoy at the redline for 200 miles. FarmBoy is in the USAF as a diesel tech in Salt Lake. I didn't even know they had diesel airplanes." Cl;ass MO Bria n Sheakley (YZ four stroke) beat 1 7 oth e r Sportsman teams, including the three successful solo efforts of "San Fe lipe Bob" S u r mo n (252X) Julian Guerra (25LX) and Yasushi Kato, (260X). Sombreros off, indeed. G uerra . and SFB came through the "Sanborn" packing area, east of Page 46 Enrique Felix took the win in Class 24 - Pro ATVs under 250cc, by a full hour over second place. Carmen Cafro, Jesse Wozniak, Scott Callan and Earl Thigpen won Class 25, and were the overall winn1ng Quad on a Honda. Ojos, right together, with Bob took 98% to keep up so I let Santo Tomas. "I hit some rock screaming and styling for the him go. An XR650 -254X? right in the middle of that large crowd. (i.e., P.J. Marquez -Ed.) -blew bladed road! I had to scramble Billy Robertson's 'Honda of by me before the Goat Trail but and pull the bike out of the way North Hollywood' provided the then he was on the bike stand of a Class 10 buggy!" I zip-tied XR600 for San Felipe Bob at Kiliwas. Richard Jackson the clutch perch and went on." Surmon (at cost - a shameless (Class 50 champ} filled my He had a separated shoulder. · Checker plug! "He wanted a water bottle there, then dusted Mike rode a YZ400 with simple air cooled '2000' six me on the way up t_o Mike's! I Dave Rogers of Long Beach and hun:dred," said Robertson) and · saw Ragla·nd's heiicopter near two other firemen: John Honda pits provided the Erindera and got out of the Feddele (San Clemente) and support, along with Brian and way. Both of the Herbs"ts m2de Paul Kain (Oceanside). "Our Lisa Salley. clean· passes, too. Once was chase crews were great!" Mike Bob's "goal was to lead the while I was taking a leak: I was · reportedly went "off' the beach Sportsman class within 10 lucky! I pulled over past a jump route -missing the rocks, but. minutes," but _that was not to and HE sky-ed it! So I got to not the one in the road! be. Just to demonstrate that watch the race! Then the Before: 259X was· the "War SFB is multidimensional, he Truggy went by as I pulled into Wagon" from the "L/K" spread brutalized his girl Nicky on a my pits." out South "By God" Dakota way. 'cycle pre-run: "I took her up "I rode 80% then petered That's the '"Ell-Slash-Kay' to Mike's from VT on her out past Uruapan and went Racing Team", paudner!, from KDX200 but I had never been back to 60% just to survive. I Timberlane. The team was Rino that way, either (!) and the knew that it was smooth(er) Navera, Mikey Martin and Mike wash was a killer -for her. We past Ojos. I slammed some Bergman (Garden Grove, CA) got out of that and rode PowerGel and that turned me onaYZ400withawrappedpipe. conservatively to M,ike's. They · around. I had Ivan ~ign my They had an enduro-type route told me that it wasn't too rocky. helmet as one Ironman to chart on the bars. (If you can oµt of Mike's down to VT, but another." look at that you're going too they didn't mention the RUTS! San Felipe's next race is the slow, just follow the Class 1 in She had to ride 'a little' in the -"·Baja 2000" - solo. front of you!) dark. Her attitude is much !<We're having the time of After: 259X was the "War better - now." Bob's race story includes any number of adventures and misadventures. "I 'cleared' the Alamo Dam! I slammed the face, sky-ed it, did a full 'Seth' imitation. I had time to think: 'This might hurt.' Then there was a long silence in the air: 'I think that this will really hurt.' My feet and hands came off the bike and I did a big slide-out. All totaled, I did 10 soil samples and gravity c hecks. Gravity worked OK, you'd like to know." "The H onda pits worked OK, too - I h a d no t o n e problem with the bike. I did get a blister on my heel from water in my righ t boo~. There were near-misses everywhere. It was·. scary as h e ll. It was a rough course, it was brutal. It was relentless, pound, pound." "A Yamaha, Brian Sheakley, came up on me, early, and it our lives," so said P.J. Marquez Wagon"; "It was great, we and Jeremy Pryer (7th Place -learned what not to do. Have a 254X), riding a stock 300 KLX fresher motor, don't mount the four stroke out of Rocky Ford· stub can on the front fender -an~ Las Aminas, CO. "We pre-we lost it -and lost a Dunlop ran on KDX200s" (but not with mousse (foam inner tube) on SFB!) Local (Colorado) help the rear! But it didn't de-bead. came up ·with $ 1600 for the· Are they good for 500 miles? race!" Hell, buy another round, That's about it." They thanked OK? "It went fine -everyone Active Snowboard Gear, else is just too fast," they Detroit Diesel, and The agreed. Wheelworks in Garden Grove. The three Temecula EL CHISMOSO Motorsports Three riders: The Last Dog Jason Dauria, Brian Penard, Bruce Brown (255X) was the Tim Pfeiffer, Garret "Here final finishe r -107th -in -Comes Dah" Judge had fitted a 17:59:59, a 24.47% average. GPR s t abilize r o n their. Always Thinkin'. XR650R this time. RoR Mike . Perry McNeil was recalling Findlay starte d and rode a . problems passing " eastern" ·quarter mjle - "He had two bad··· visitors: "Man, those ***guys r\b_s from . pr_e~i;unnirj.g. ". The;:y_ -.:.:.will no_t ge t out of the way. I could not match teamma te.· .. wascin--:a. '1' car one time and Carmen Cafro's win, raking a.n" ::the,hofo didn't work. Th-is guy e·ighth. .-Woul_d:-not move over. So I ran Mike Reitmayer (from . up on him and locked the front Oceanside) fell on the road to :."brakes·_.That th rew gravel all August 2000 over his back. He moved over right away!" Larry Ragland recalled, one time, following a bike guy who laid it down in the silt. "I went right over the motorcycle; I missed him. I have ridden a lot of bikes, so I know how it is. But Quads seem to want to race you!;, Bis straight-six 300-cid Trailblazer power plant is based on IRL oval track engines -with the cylinder arrangement in a line rather than a "V". Loose Lips A number of lurkers on the Honda radio frequency reported that the Honda pits at Valley T were instructed to make the. Zeiger stop a little long. Teller Ts * "Racing isn't half as scary as saying'Ido'!" . * "When it's upside down and burning ... you've gone too.fast!"■ Off Road Race Car Driving Experience Hands on Driving Experience. You drive the car on a 20 mile Long desert course. 6965 Speedway Blvd. #X-113 Las Vegas, NV 89115 702-632-0002 Dusty Times

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TATTERSALL'S 2000 FINKE DESERT RACE Burrows Makes It Three In A Row But The Bike was Quicker Text & Photos: Darryl Smith Mark Burrows took the Class 1 win as well as the overall at Alice Springs in central Australia, shown here throwing lots of red dirt. The June long weekend means only one thing to Australian off road fans. Can the cars beat the bikes at Alice Springs in central Australia? This year the Tattersall's 2000 Finke Desert Race was as MID •ra '' ., •• .,., ....... , .. popular as ever with about 100 cars, about 300 bikes and, of course, 99% of the population of Alice Springs on hand to watch the epic battles along the sandy course from Alice Springs to Finke and back. (Kg) KC HiLiTES After being the first ever to beat the bikes last year, Victorian, Mark Burrows was as keen as ever to repeat the performance. In the end he won the car category, making it three in a row, but compared to Stephen Greenfield beat all the bikes and he also beat the cars on time as well, shown here negotiating a long right hand turn. the bikes he was pipped by his sparring partner in Stephen Greenfield. In a much faster· return run, Greenfield beat Burrows by some four minutes. The course took its toll with only 46 cars, making it back to Alice Springs. Prologue The Prologue/Qualifying circuit was attacked with much gusto as starting up front in the dusty conditions was very important. Burrows put his turbo Honda Class I buggy on pole with a great run four seconds quicker than his opposition. Next came Hayden Tatnell, all the way from Tasmania, and lead Class 9 car. Local hero David Fellows was next in a Class I. Don Simpson and Glenn Rossow both in Class 9s completed the top five. Leading Class 2 was Lindsay Foster over Locky Weir. Leading Class 4a was the amazing 120Y coupe of David Kerr, while Trevor Growden lead 46 and Richard Bennett led 4c. Bennett's performance was amazing putting his ex-USA Stadium, turbo truck into ninth overall. Alan Dobbs lead Class 5 in his Fl50, while Bruce Garland lead the 4x4s in his Holden J ackaroo (Big Horn). The only down side to Prologue was when Brett Taylor's buggy rolled onto a spectator, both were OK. CLASS I (Unlimited 2 seater) It seemed as tough a task as ever to peg back Burrows. One of those that could, David Fellows, was out before the first checkpoint with a blown manifold gasket. Also our early Continued on page 48 ICI.N "'® ~~ N~~ AnwLc.a-n ~ ~KCHiliTES SPECIAL. HID LIGHTS $99f199 • $1.00"0 $sggoo Per Pair Rebate After Rebate s40(1'0 1st Place Contingency Award for Al(Classes Contingency Program Information: SCORE, CORR, SNORE, MOR, VORRA, BEST IN THE DESERT, ESTERO BEACH, and CODE. For Product, Technical Information, Contingency Requirements or Award Information for the following Products: RANCHO, MSD, KC HILITES, MECHANIX WEAR, DYNOMAX, K&N, OFF-ROAD INNOVATIONS, AMERICAN RACING Dusty Times August 2000 Page 47

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f ·-Richard Bennett drove his Holden Rodeo to a first in Class 4C (Modified 2wd to . 6000cc) and he was third overall as well in the red dirt. were Tony Byrnes (engine), Phil was Burrows only one minute Fraser (brakes/gearbox), and slower than last year: Behind Vern Crawford's unique four him came Robinson, Warren wheel drive buggy with a bent Rossow. and Mowbray. That shock. Burrows, meanwhile was start was delayed the next day pushing further ahead. On his due to the water rising in the tail wer<;_ Peter Kittle, Brian Finke River crossing. At last Robinson and Bob Mowbray. they were away, Burrows again Eric Schmid survived a roll over setting a quick pace. With with no damage. At the Finke Kittle gone with electrical woes, Checkpoint (end of Day 1), it Robinson did the chasing. The .GOT SHOCKS? Your main source for the all J new RaceRunner shock series / __.-. from Sway-Away. Now avail-m=-"""~ able in 2", 2 1/2", and massive RaceRunner· 3" body coil-over design. ,Koc• • • ,. 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CLASS 2/3 ( 2 Seater up to 165 0cc) The car of Foster lead the group away but he would be out later that day. Also out early were Geoff Butler (cliff) and Terry Granshaw (drive hub). A very scary moment for Colin Johnson as he had the Chris Wallace Falcon ute land on him after a jump. It would be Locky Weir setting the pace into Finke only to fall victim to the water in the river crossing. He watched his opposition go by and Gary Nicolle take the class honors on the first day, over, Werner Zetti and then Glenn Hancey doing a great job in the smaller 1300 buggy. The return run saw Zetti up the pace and coming back was Weir from a low start position. Nicolle was then out with only three wheels left on his car. Zetti held the lead and took the fine class win and 10th overall. Hancey w·as very happy next in class, over Weir, Greg Hicks, Darren Wright and then Don MacArthur. CLASS 4a (2WD Modified up to 2000cc) The little cars do it tough on the long sections and the leading car of Kerr was out with radiator problems. Also out was Stephen Caulfield's Celica, and Graeme Horn's Isuzu ute. Into Finke it was the Toyota ute of Paul Crennan leading the way over the VW Baja of Trevor Willis. The only other to make it was the Scorpion of Chris Ryan. Despite the course deteriorating, these three made ,it back the next day with positions the same: Crennan winning, over Willis and then Ryan. . CLASS 4B (2WD Modified up to 4000cc) Trevor Growden was by far the pace setter and had the turbo Nissan ute flying. Some of his opposition was out early in Paul Simpson drove his Jimco/Toyota V6 to the Class 9 (Unlimited single seat) win and he was second overall as well. Hard right rudder is the command as Weiner Zeitt runs for the win in Class 2 f 1650c~ 2_ sea!) at the Tattersall's Finke race. August 2000 Paul Wallace's Nissan ute. Peter Treis Mitsubishi ute, and then Wayne Sanderson's Dual Cab with a rare fuel problem. Trying to keep Growden in check were Andrew Mowles turbo VW, and Dennis ImhofV6 Toyota ute. In the end only five cars made it to Finke, the. order being Growden (also in ninth overall)., Mowles Imhof, David Hewitt, and Martyn March. Bad luck spread through the class the next day, Growden had a coil pack go bad. Mowles lost a · turbo, and Imhof was out too. Hewitt's Mitsubishi ute looked set to take the win until B km from home he lost a wheeL March's Datsun 240k took the win as the sole survivor in class. CLASS 4C (2WD Modified up to 6000cc) It seemed that a Bennett car would win. Richard Bennett was quickest in the Holden Rodeo, and his wife, Debbie Bennett was second in the VB Chev. Chris Wallace was out as mentioned, rolling after landing his buggy. Warren Allen was out with a blown coil pack in his tube frame truck, and Mark Probst broke the wheel studs on his Corvette.· Debbie Bennett was trying to haul in her husband with the telemetry reading a top speed of 213 km. But Richard was on the pace too and lead the class into Finke as well as moving up to third overall. Debbie was next despite stalling in the river, then came Glenn Wallace over Damien Aspinall. Next day and Debbie Bennett was catching buggies then got balked by one, sending ·her into a 11o·krr:h·lose and two rolls. They got going again losing a lot of time. Richard Bennett was hanging on to his top spot, and at the finish took the class win as well as a podium third overall. Debbie Bennett · came in a battered second. Aspinall got his turbo Mitsubishi ute past the VB Falcon ute of Wallace before the finish. CLASS 5 (2WD Limited modifications) Even more 2WD tin tops on the track with this class as well. .,. Sadly the tough truck of Dobbs was put very early breaking both axles. Then the turbo Datsun 1600 of Neil Buhlman broke the front end. Setting the · pace up front was the Geoff Teagle Falcon ute. Bill Montgomery's VB Holden ute was keeping in touch, while the Holden ute of John Mason broke its u-bolts. Into Finke and the utes were dominating, Teagle was leading over Montgomery,'Peter Pittaway, ;rnd Larry Zaglas. Next day Teagle extended his lead, Zaglas was flying in the XA Falcon ute moving up places. In the end it was Teagle over Montgomery, Zaglas, David Kent's 240k, and Yvonne Johnson in her V8 Chevy truck. CLASS 7/8 (All 4x4s) All eyes were on Garland's trick Jackaroo as it set quickest times through every stage. Colin Hunter's simply stunning Jeep Wrangler got a flat tire and dropped back. Bruce Muir was holding on to second in the V8 Nissan ute, while Ken Dusty Times

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Paul Grennan was the Class 4A winner (2wd modified to 2000cc), his Brian Robinson powers to a nice second place in Class 1, fourth overall, Martyn March was the Class 42 (2wd modified-to 4000cc) winner, Toyota Hilux taking the coveted win in style. shown here in a power slide. outlasting all his competition in his Datsun. Ca Ilana n's Suzuki u te was quite knew the pack be h i-=n-=dr::w-::--::e-=-re=--:-tch-:::e-:-:w-:-:i-=n:--::a:-:n::-:drs::-:e::-:c::-:o=--n~d-=o-=-v=-=e:-:r-:::a'T[1l.-,===='---'============,================ quick too. The Subaru Brumby quick. In fact, Dion Simpson Although Tatnell came home ute of Craig Sutton broke a would slowly edge his way out quicker, it was Hood taking throttle cable and was out. Into in front in the Jimco. His father second place in the Raceco/ Finke and Garland lead, Muir Paul Simpson was right with Subaru and then came Tatnell. was second over Callanan, and him too. Glen Rossow was out Sollitt came in next, ahead of then Phil Clapin's Landcruiser just after Deep well with a Ziems with a fuel problem ute. Next day and Garland broken trailing arm. Jaako plaguing him all the way. Peter continued untroubled until Kylma blew a head gasket and Sowter missed the finish by about 40 km from the end he was out too. Tatnell was only the last stage. lost the front cliff, making for a looking good until he hit the MOTORCYCLES real handful. Gary Brosnan was river crossing and that's where It was Jason Hill from on a charge and punted Hunter he stayed for the next 20 Darwin on a Honda CR 500 out of the way. Callanan had a minutes. Tragedy struck Dion that took out Prologue some 18 "severe fuel problem." In fact, Simpson 30 km before Finke seconds quicker than Burrows' the fuel tank fell out! Stuart when his motor blew. Paul car time. Favorite Stephen Zlotkowski pulled up in the Simpson lead into Finke and Greenfield fell off his CR 500 Subaru turbo sedan with a was second overall. Kevin and would start seventh. broken rear strut. Muir got a HoodwasnextandTatnellgot However, with Hill out, it flat tire, but it was all Garland in third. Chris Sollitt followed would be Greenfield first at taking the win. Muir got with Andrew Ziems behind Finke in a time only 18 seconds second, with Hunter getting him. Craig Downes did a gear quicker than Burrow's car time. third. Brosnan took fourth and box 5 km before Finke. Next Last year's winner Rick Hall Callanan got in for fifth. day and Simpson set after the followed. On the return leg CLASS 9 overall win. Ta tnell was Greenfield picked up the pace (Unlimited Single Seater) making up for lost time with his and came home winner of the Although Tatnell was twin turbo V6, while Ray bikes and winner overall taking leading this group away he Farrow went out. Simpson took the crown back off the car Dusty Times August 2000 OhOIU ••• Geoff Teagle won class 5 (modified 2wd) in his good looking "Angry Emu", shown here powering into a right hander. brigade. Rick Hall was second and Andy Haydon on a KTM 520 was third. Incidentally, it was only Greenfield that bettered Burrows' time proving how close the battle is. Once again a great Finke Desert race and thoroughly enjoyed by all, so much that everyone is now thinking towards Finke 2001 on the June long weekend and to the bikes beware, Burrows is getting a bigger and quicker car. · ■ Page 49

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Challenger earner By Joel Mohr SCORE BAJA 500: Cisco Bio was kind enough to e-mail me this report: (Thanks Cisco!) "Only nine cars started the race and within 10 miles we hit the first part of the course where cars were stuck. A 1600 and a Class 7 were either broke or stuck. We then got on the highway for about 15 miles. Richardson was first, then me, followed by Gonzalez and Rodriguez. After running the wash you had to climb a rock hill. By the time we got there, there were about 20 cars in front of us and we climbed the hill after waiting for about 30 minutes. Luckily Richardson and I got past a Class 7 who got stuck for about 20 minutes. All of the other 9s had to wait until the truck went through. Richardson stopped in Ojos and I went on. About five miles before Check 2 my transmission broke. Eric Fisher also broke his tranny in the first 30 miles and tried replacing it only to have Check l close. At the road crossing (RM 135), Richardson was leading with Rodriguez about two minutes behind. Sarabia and Gonzalez followed. Word was that Richardson was in the lead. Locals always make a large mud pit on the course and when Rodriguez went through it, it ruined his clutch. It began to slip and with no radio reception he couldn't reach his pit that was only 10 miles further, so his race was over. Gonzalez rolled his car severely coming down from Mike's, bending the frame. Word was that Richardson had a 20 minute lead in Santo Tomas when his transmission broke. Sarabia went on to win with a slipping clutch with Dave Caspino coming in second. Caspino stated that his only problem was rolling it 2-1 /2 times and finished with no second gear. The points are going to look very different going into Primm." Thanks again Cisco, and better luck next time. SNORE DUSTY TIMES CALIENTE: Doug Ingram was the only report I got other than the results, and it sounded like it was an interesting day. Fifteen Challengers made the tow about three hours north of Vegas, and Andy Kisner led Lap 1 with Ingram second, Tim Dixon third, Chad Woodruff fourth, Ken Thatcher fifth, Lyn Dickton sixth, Tim Hart seventh, Joel Davis eighth, Jojo Sheble ninth and an "off track" excursion, Shawn Sheble 10th, and Joe Forte coming around 11th. The unfortunates that didn't get a lap in were Bill Avery, Jeremy Harmon, who reportedly broke an axle, and Tom and Seana Taliaferro. Lap 2, Kisner saw some major downtime, putting Ingram in the lead. Dixon moved up to second, Joe Sheble into third, Hart fourth, Dickton fifth, Thatcher sixth, Shawn Sheble seventh, Joe Forte eighth, Kisner ninth, Davis, and then Woodruff a couple hours back. On Lap 3, Ingram was still leading, and Joe Sheble moved up to second, Dickton third, Shawn Sheble fourth, Kisner fifth, Thatcher, then Hart. Disappearing were: Dixon, Forte, Davis and Woodruff. On Lap 4 the order stayed the same, with Ingram taking the win, Joe Sheble coming on strong to take second, Dickton third, Shawn Sheble fourth and Kisner fifth. it should be noted that the team of Cunningham and Bunderson ran with the leaders all day only to be DQed for illegal .sheer metal. Guys, check the book to see if your cars are right! I know trimming tin is no speed secret, but rules are rules. Once again CONGRATS TO DOUG INGRAM! Sheble is having a helluva season and is leading the points OVERALL! MDR KARTEK 400: Seven Challengers started a "mostly freeway" 65 mile loop in Lucerne Valley that turned out to be almost too fast. As with most longer races, everyone was talking "just cruise", but when the flag dropped, it was all bumpers and bragging rights. We started fifth, and by Mile 15 we had a four car dice going. George Ladwig was leading PRECISION everything you need ta build., maintain and operate a racecar with Scan Defrank close behind, then us, and Doug Silcock in Dan Owens' car, right on my tail. That lasted about 15 more miles, and we all got caught behind a 5-1600. George got around easily, and Sean and I got stuck behind him until he blew a corner. I decided that I had eaten enough dust and got by Sean, and then Ladwig. We were leading at the end of the first lap, with Silcock in tow, Billy Bunch in the Steeno entry, Defrank, Ladwig, then the unstoppable Harry Dunne. Not completing the first lap was the Gary Stevens' entry with Alex Pacheco at the wheel, losing a fan belt about Mile 22 and doing the "meltdown". Also doing the "meltdown" was the Dan Owen entry on Lap 2. We continued to lead at the end of Lap 2, with Defrank second, Bunch in third, Dunne fourth, and Ladwig fifth. Halfway through Lap 3 at the Bessemer Mine Road crossing, I made a slight judgment error at about 70 MPH. The car pitched sideways, sending us into a violent barrel roll. Witnesses said we went over six times, and in the process I managed to get my right hand smashed. Two other cars had already tossed it in the same spot so the paramedics were on the scene. My rider, Dingo was ok, and the car didn't "look" too bad. With us momentarily out of the running, Defrank (after fixing his fron·t end), put his co-driver Dave Lawson in, and took over the lead. Ladwig moved into second after Harry was run over by a IO car in the silt bed. Tom Steeno was now in his car, and right before the end of the lap rolled out of contention. On Lap 4, Lawson was still leading, and Ladwig was now second, Dunne was third, and we got my car fixed so we could get in as many lap points as we could. My "back-up" driver, Cliff Carter, was motoring around, and we just took it mile by mile. On Lap 5, Lawson was leading handily, and could have stopped for dinner. Dunne had Don Bohler driving, and they had a few more problems but were still in second. Ladwig had given his car to his co-driver and apparently the car was just getting too beat up to go on. That put us in third, and on Lap 6 Lawson brought the Defrank entry home for the win. The Dunne/ Bohler team finished second, about two hours later. We were still trying to finish and when C liff came in at the end of the fifth lap, he was physically exhausted. With only one lap to go and about two hours to complete it, I got some aspirin and stuffed what was left of my hand into a glove and took off. We finished with only 32 seconds so spare, but we finished, third place no less. Congrats to Sean and Dave on the win, I knew it would only be a matter i!Bfi5 Gu ndry Ave . Signal Hill. CA 9DBDEi BDD.959. 7757 562.427.2375 FAX: 52Ei.42Ei.5294 Balt!!i. Nut!!i and Hardware Sparca Seat!!i, Steering Whe el!!i. 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of time µntil they topped the ranks. The win jumped Sean into second in the points, and with two double points races still to go, anything could happen. I would like to thank MDR and the Medics, they were both very professional. Unfortunately, after further inspection of the car, the chassis is toast. We already have a new chassis built, and · with any luck, we should have a new car for the September race. I'll be renting the "Ex-Riffle", now "Otwell" single seat Jimco for the night race in August. Also, I was asked to print a retraction concerning the Peterson entry at the last MORE race. Apparently, Dennis' son caused the damage to the car, and Scott Johnson was a victim of circumstances. Once again if you have any questions or comments, my phone number is (760) 947-864 7. My e-mail is MOH RPRF@JUNO.COM. SEE YOU AT THE RACES!!! ·c.O.R.E. Pit Report By Sandy Parker TEAM INCH (Class 1-1600) Brad In~h solo'ed this race and had a very impressive day. Brad spent the first half of the day stalking and inching up on a new CORE member, Chris Markum. These two were very closely matched as it took Brad several laps to pass Chris. Chris later said that he was playing it conservative in the rock garden when Brad came out of nowhere, obviously looking for a "rock fight." Brad made the pass, put the car in the lead and never looked back, well that's not quite true. He did ask every CORE pit where his competitors were behind him. Brad did explode two tires off the rims, a rear on Lap 2 and a front on Lap 4, which did slow him down a bit. The last few laps, Brad had a sizable lead so he backed off a mph or two, and brought his Lothringer single seater to a nice first in class and third overall finish. Congratulations · Brad! TEAM PROCTOR (Class 9) The Proctor family purchased the multi points championship winning Challenger from Jim Clements in hopes of making their own mark on the class. The first fe w a·ttempts didn't go as planned as they fought gravity problems and are the only r a c ers I kno w who accidentally found a pho n e booth adjacent to the Lucerne race course and inadvertently ran it over. Sorry Bobby . I just had to again get tha t into prin.t. Bria n ·Lopez and Jonathon Himmelrick started the race and managed to pass every Challenger in sight and pull a two minute lead on the next Class 9. They did ha ve a flat on Lap 2 but got it quickly changed and back in the hunt. Second gene ration B.J. Dusty Times Procto r jumped in and took over in the driver's seat for the second half of t h e r ace. Enjoying the two minute lead, he was instructed to conserve the car and bring it home for the win. During Lap 7, they experienced tranny/shifter problems as they couldn't find first or second gea r . They puled into CORE main to make some adjustments and managed to get at least second gear. They finished the race in first place, the first win for the family. As impressive of a race as it was for the Proctors, I was glad the race was over. I grew weary of Bobby pacing the pits back and forth, which dug a trench about three feet deep. Congratulations guys, you worked hard and raced well for this one, enj0y the nice trophy. TEAM STAFF/CRAIG (Class 9) Everybody was wondering what it would ta ke to slow the pace of Rob Stapp and Todd Craig in the Challenger class with three wins in four races. It is nice when you can have a few flawless runs, then pack all the problems into one race. This race was "one of those da ys". Rob started the race and just couldn't do anything with it, la t e r discovering carburetor jetting problems wouldn't let the engine perform. Rob drove until mid race, then handed the car over to Todd in fourth place. Hot dog Todd did manage to make the car run a bit quicker but also complained about the car's performance. It wasn't until the second half of the race when the problems set in. Todd radioed that he broke a front spindle and he would hobble the car into CORE Pit A. The next call was that the problem actually was a broken tie rod end. Rob loc1ded up parts and tools and headed to the pits to repair the car. They lost· almost an hout but managed to get Todd back running. Two laps later they broke another tie rod end, so back· out for repairs. With a very high class mortality race, they were battling with the Kings for second place starting the last lap .. With about ten miles to go, Todd reported they broke another tie rod end. He called in that he will attempt to baby the car into the finish and try to get ahead of the Kings. With wheels flopping, Todd did manage to limp the ca r to the finish line and was able to capture a second place finish for the day. TEAM WRIGHT (Class 1-1600) Ray Wright teamed up with Bubba Wheeler again to run his single se a t 2600. Ray piloted the car for the first half and had a flawless four laps. On the fifth lap he blew a rear tire just past CORE Pit Able. He conside red going back to t h e Able Pit but instead decided to forge ahead to the Baker Pit, losin g some precious time , with the flat. Ray finished the fifth lap and pi reed in M ain whe re he handed the car over to Mr. Bubba. Bubba then clicked off five very consistent laps, capturing a fast lap on his last lap. H e did mention that he drove o ve r something tha t weakened the car pretty good, but it didn' t appear to do damage. The guys had a relative ly u neven tful which usually means they had a clean run to the checkered flags. That was the case here as Ray and Bubba finished second place in the very competitive 1600 class, great job guys. TEAM KING (Class 9) This race was to be the first' race for King Jr. to drive, only after a five lap beating by his father. Perry King drove the first half of the race with his son Jeff riding. They were having a good run, until they had a rear flat and were stuck at the bottom of a mountain. A pit vehicle eventually brought them a tire with adequate air, and they were off. At the half way point, they pulled into CORE Main, Perry jumped out, Jeff slid into the driver's position and Bob Depew jumped into the co-driver's seat. The Junior King and Bob were having a nice run until they broke a rear brace drum on the last lap They eventually got a pit vehicle t o d elive r a . replacement drum and axle nut an·d were hoping to get on the course and battle the last lap with the Stapp/Craig car for second place money. That ·desire was short lived as only a few miles away the car did some funky moves in a whoop section, which resulte d in rolling the car three times. Bob bonked his head and was goofy for about 23 days but appears to be fine now. The car was pretty thrashed, beut roll cage and a broken transmission case. Their day was done, but they did manage by attrition to stay in third place. Searching for a professional family oriented pit support club? CORE is always happy to extend it's family and support. We have monthly meetings on the last Tuesday of the month at Mulligans Restaurant in Santa Clarita at 8pm. For more information, join us at the meeting or call me at (818) 772-7758 or e-mail me at race97@aol.com. C News 1=,o,n The Direc~or· The C RS crowd traded in their fire suits and helmets for shorts and tank tops June 25th and took to t h e beach . Huntington State Beach was the site ofthe C RS picnic and the day was perfect. Everyone worked o n a good c rispy sunburn. Ron Wood was seen boogey boarding. Steve Be nder brough t his wh o le fa m ily a n d taught his d a ughte r , H o pe, the finer points of a water fight. Mike and Paula Gibeault even August 2000 exposed their lily-white bodies to the sun. John Kidwell came with his wife, as did Craig McHugh. Norma Chavez was seen wielding a SuperSoaker as was T ony and Sandra. Pete Morris and Nick Taylor were hapless victims as they came to the gathering unarmed. John Dillon brought his fiance, Linda, so she would know us without our race gear on. We all had a grand time at the beach and not one rally car was spotted. With the cancellation of the June 10th Rally Sprint due to a forest fire, Leon Styles was kind enough to open his paintball park after hours to anyo"ne who wanted to race somewhere that weekend. You know how it is when ·you are all psyched to go racing and suddenly you can't. Leon brought his RX7, John Kidwell came with his VW Rabbit and Doug Robinson brought his RX7 out for a go at the Park. It was very informal, just a couple of sto p watches and "run what you brung!" All kinds of street cars participated, a Jetta, Toyota Corolla, Subaru RS, Subaru station wagon, Toyota Celica among others. Everyone got a couple of la p s on the impromptu course before adjourning to the club ho use for cold drinks and some rally ta lk. Simon Sinn turned the fastest time for a non-rally car and Steve Bender in John Kidwell's car ran the fastest lap of. all. Leon is planning more after hours sessions in the future. Thanks for letting us play at your place, 1..eon·! The CRS is seeking donations of usable fire suits · and helmets to keep on hand for newcomers who need a · loan of equipment for their first event. So go out in your garage and dig in the basement and send us your unused, outgrown and no longer needed items to help a first time competitor get going. Contact Sue Robinson if you have any items to donate -(760) 788-3809 or crsdirector@homemail.com. The date fo r t he Las Vegas S CCA Regio n's N o v embe r Rally Cross has c hanged from November 18th to November 4th. Same location as before. The new date coincides with t h e SEMA sh o w and Scott hopes to entice some of those folks out to run a rally cross with us. The CRs· will be holding another raffle to raise funds for equipment. Tickets will be on sale starting at the Gorman Rally August 19th. The price will be $1 a piece or six for $5. More "fabulous" prizes will be up for grabs. Our second full stage rally will be held August 19th,, the Gorman Ridge Rally. This is a great event if you want to spectate as the first five or six stages are. in the Off Hiway Park and you can see the cars go by several times. So plan to · come and watch if you aren't going to r ace. Better yet, volunteer to work and time control and get an inside look a t rallying . Bring your sunscreen and coole r, as it can be q u it e warm. The .headquarters for the rally is at the Flying J Truck Stop and Motel in Frasier Park, CA . To contact orga nize r H arris Done call (818) 728-6838 for more information. See you at the start line! Attention Pit Tea01s Send us your pit tales, whNher they be of success or woe and they will be featured on these pages (space permittin,g). Although publication dates vary monthly, material received by the first of the month will generally be considered for the next issue. Submit all material to: DUSTY TIMES, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311, 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:/.ftnexicoinsurance.com or e-mail us at: INFO@MEXICOINSURANCE.COM coming Next Month ... • BITD Nevada 2000 • SNORE Midnight Special • CODE Tractorlan:d San Felipe 200 • MORE High Desert Championship • Susquehannock Trail Pro Rally ..• Plus All The Regular Features Page 51

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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 ~0-c:f:n~ lli2i.2r •• You• GluAL,.,...,,. Su,H COM,,.AHY11 Design Fabrication lnstailatlon Darren Ebberts {909) 340-4684 FAX (909) 340-4689 1215 POMONA ROAD• SUITE E • CORONA, CA 92882 ,,.._ aJMPUTER.IZEO VINYL GRAPHICS & LETTER.ING ltl 111 I I ,-. ~CXJST BLOG SIGNS (AII. P/?OCESSE5) . .=. ;:: b~~i:~~';'~~S/GNS ,,.., /li!:.ACING G/li!:.APHICS .,._ HI-Ql.¥,L/TY EY\NNER.S -:::.::t.J~lf/i:~LES ,.._ LOGO R.EP/i!OOUCTON5 ,,.._ REAL ESTATE ·"'l..OGO & GRAPHIC OESIGN ,,._ DECALS r ~ SUSPENSIONS UNLIMITED ~ ~ OFF ROAD RACING SPECIALISTS WELDING • FABRJCATOV • CNCPIASMAWTTING 'FTUVTENOS 'FIEARTRAIUNGARMS RACFOIASSIS • PRERUNNERS • FDXRACINGSI.QX • SANO BUGGIES LARRY ROSEVEAR 4050 LEAVERTON CT. ANAHEIM, CA 92807 PHONE {714] 630-4482 FAX {714)6304548 audio. video . ·,'· .• \, -~~re ~--"~•·· -<-. security ;.:mobile;:~~;,.'" -~ ... i=.,."'_,,~~-autos ' , .,}en!I"!.____,, uJ!l -'~"'--"---:-\,..,--_,,~·~~,·::.-w,:{i.ii~ . . . .,..,-.J,_ e\ec\tot\\c'i> marine ·it'Qet\ot:-oce 'l'l\t\"-~ ~ RVs race vehicles Allen .Johnston buggies 619.596.1925 11420 N. W:lodside Ale. Santee, CA 92071 fax 619.596.2638 TLR Peefarmance. Fabricatton Tim Lawrence 1243 Greenfield Dr. Suite D El Cajon, CA 92021 (619) 447-1289 7~~7-£~ fi?.BEA'G4ASS .SPECbU/S TS * Off-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://W'fl¥'N,fiberglass1 ,COOi . 1RANSAXLE ENGINEERING JEFF FIELD (818) 998-27.39 9763 Varlel Ave. Chatsworth, CA 91311 ()5'-i!<oad&~ Jayson Miles Paul Hendrickson 909-279-1777 ~ 'C~. ea,u. & S"4f'M4~ 12391 Sampson Avenue, Suite #G, Riverside, Calif~mia 92503 (ujP) UNIQUE METAL PRODUCTS 10729 WHEATLANDS AVENUE, SUITE #A SANTEE, CALIFORNIA 82071 TEL. • 619 / 449-9690 FAX • 619 / 449-8424 WHY AREN'T YOU ADVERTISING IN THE MOST WIDELY READ OFF ROAD --NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD? BF.tUCE HENDEL Regional Manager VP Racing Fuels, West Coast P..O.Box1319 • ·34283 Monte Vista Wildomar, CA 92595 0 "' C OJ o' ~ -i C ~ (/) ~ .,:,. o-ii) 01 .,, rn ffi ::, (/) 0 0 )> () (/) !I) C X )> C/J () 5-woow ~z ::;; 0 ~a~ 0 ~ .s.s.s 3 3 -· Ill -.J.,:,. -.J Ill ::, (X) (.,J (X) CD a. "' 01 "' ~ iii' i->6N :::j :!! ~ 0 )> ~ < J\l Ol c.,, !II Phone: (909) 674-9167 Fax: (909) 674-7367 Pager: (909) 694-7392 ~t\G ugs Dune 8 llggies Welding V.W . - Porsche - Nissan - Toyota Lorenzo Rodriguez 515 S. Vermont, Glendora, Ca. 91741 (626)914-8147 ==~~PJI/Nr 11NPaJ471NGS«G?R~n;11( J(J/lOS' •RICI rtJhld MAJN!ENANCl'•f!alPIAC.,,.J,J!flRIHG-• .160-949:1220 : Automotive • ATV • Motorcycle 1 81 5 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE RIVERSIDE, CA 92507, USA 909,369.5144 • 909.369.7266FAX WWW.WEBCAM I NC.COM Adam Wik 1994 SCORE ENGINE BUILDER OF THE YEAR From Parts to Complete Engines Engine Dyno Service 5-35 East Central Park Anaheim CA 92802 714-956-9457 1 Off Road Products Front and Rear Trailing Arms • Spindles Suspension Specialists • Custom Wheels 2733 W. Missouri Phoenix, AZ 85017 Jack Woods. (602) 242-0077 ~"e BUMP STOPS HERE ~top the up-travel on our suspension Yarnell Specialties, Inc. 102 Crestview P.O. Box 845 1-520-427-3551 Yarnell, AZ 85362-0845 MOTORCYCLES •KTM •HUSABERG •HUSOVARNA • SERVICE & PARTS , • SUSPENSION M-F 12-6 VARIOUS SAT 10-2 2350 ORANGETHORPE ANAHEIM, CA 92806 Owner 714-449-1271 FAX 449-137 4 . 1 I .....

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Classified ... NOTICE Some of the items advertised in these pages may not be legal for sale or use in all 50 states. Readers are advised to consult appropriate lo-cal or state authorities for informa-tion before purchase of any specific item. 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, dist· brakes, radio, inter-com, spare motor, tires, much more $58,700.00 obo. (626) 296-9387. 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: Ford Class 8/Corr Pro 2 Boatec body, Fox coilovers, AirBumps, Howe Steering & ram asst., BFG's, Alcoa wheels with Champion Beadlocks, brand new Fab by Johnson Fab, needs motor and race prep, spares and trailer included $14,500.00 obo. Must Sell (805)495-9706 . 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: Class 12 or Sportsman-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 rearon Ultras, very reliable, finishing car~some extras. $12,000.00 obo Call (9i5) 833-7902. . ¥ --FOR SALE: Late 80s X Dave ~ ..... . 6 • FOR SALE: Class 7 Ranger, Westham. Chevy Class 8, com-New 4.2 L. V6, Valley Trans, pletely gone thru, 4 wheel disc, C4, Currie 9inc. 40 spline, Summers, Strange, 383,400 trans, Stroppe ·alum. Frt hubs, race frt Prerun, Sportsman, Tuf truck? beams & radius arms. Wilwood Boxes of new & good spares. brakes frt & rear. Quarter ellip- $15,000.00. FAT 4 AG, 10 motor, tic rear susp. LeDuc buckets, Carillo, JE, Electramotive, etc. National Springs, Sway-A-Way L-___;..;;_ _____ __.== $6,000.00. Class 1 single Beam car, torsion bar. Alcoas, Baja Ta's. FOR SALE: Score Class 12 single 3.8 Porsche, Motec injection, igni-Need completed. Call for more seat, fresh motor, fresh trans, prepped tion, on board lap top program-info $13,000.00 oho.Jim (602) -ready to race. For more information mable, Data logging, realtime telem-432-8192. call (BOO) 521-l 777. Ask for L.J. or etry expandable. Mendeola MD4S, FOR SALE: "Lexus V8" DO.HC Jon. $20,000.00 complete, Summers Floater, F/R, bypass $ $16,000.00!essmotor,$13,000.00less J F d D · di B d 32 Valve Race Engines (3). Alum coi over, o rop spm es, ran motor and trans. f I R & p FOR SALE: 85 Jeep Scrambler, Class 3 Racer, 500 hp AMC 401 C.I.D. Louis Unser built engine. Turbo 400 W /manual valve body. AMC Quadra-trac. Rancho race series shocks, Dual batteries. Fi-berglass body and tilt front end. FM band PC! Race Radio. Trailer available, $6,000.00 (520) 421-9840. FOR SALE: 1-1600 Finishline, Fat motor, Bus Box, 930CV's, Fox shocks w/reservoirs, Suspensions Unlimited, Rear Arms, 20 gal fuel cell, UMP power steering, Wright rack & pinon/front end, Center-line 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. FOR SALE: Chevy 2wd, 400 h/p small block, A/T, 456 locker, Cus-tom front-end, Race or Pre-Run, $7,500.00 or will take Jeep or Rac-ing Pilot in trade. (916) 381-4621. block & heads. Spares. Electronic --'------------new root arms, coi overs, . fuel injection, Bosch injectors. Ti-FOR SALE: Class 5 Baja Bug- Lots of trick mods. (425hp. on FOR SALE: Enclosed trailer and tanium valves. AT! damper. Race or Play $10,500.00. dyno),lotsnewsparesforengine& HondaPilotwithnewframeand Carrillo rods. Weaver oil pump. 2275cc motor, Bus trans, CNC susp. $55,000.00. JAG XJ6 100% custom cage. New axis adjustable 180* Scat Crank. JE Pistons. Dry disc brakes, UMP power steer-restored, new paint, tranny, AC racing shocks, 13" of wheel travel. sump. Motec harness. 550 hp. ing, Saco Rack/Pinon steering, J?Ump, radiator, Brakes, interior Stiletto rack andpinon. Steering, Stainless headers. $55,000.00 each Fox/Bilstein shocks, Pumper $8,000.00 Looking for NASCAR CW Racing, built motor, way to (new) fresh rebuild. $18,000.00ea 17" rear 14" front travel, late model or GT 1 car. Call • many spares, including old frame or $42,000.00 for everything. $6,500.00 without motor-Call Dennnis at Dugan Built (209) 586- to list $11,750.00obo. James (702) FOR SALE: Dunebuggy Chen-owth 4 seat, fu II cage 2180cc, 091 Bus/Hewland, Wright, Sway-A-Way, Beard, Neal, VDO, FOX, Flameout, Stock + 6 wide, Bx 14 HD trailer/ramps & boxes, spare parts available. $10,500.00. (209) 527-0749. FOR SALE: 1995 Ranger Prerunner, Extra-cab, Gray interior,. 3.0L V.6, Stock 5 speped trans, Cus-tom I beams, 6" wider w/Heim piv-ots, Custom Extended Radius Arms w/Heim pivots and trans mount, Custom Engine cage/shock hoop (Chromoly), Sway-A-Way Race Runner 12" 2.5 dual rate coilover, Deaver rear springs (Race prepped, Glassworks Custom front fiberglass, Custom flaired steel bed sides, Cus-tom front and rear bumpers, BF Goodrich Baja T A's (33x 10.50-15) on American Racing wheels, Built by Donahoe racing 3-2000. Every-thing new, Immaculate condition. $19,500.00 obo. Please call if in-terested. (775) 265-1729. FOR SALE: Super 1600 Raceco short course car. 5 link air suspen-sion 21" Rear travel. Out board cvs',-chromoly frame, very light, 2 Full race trans. One bus, parts of 1835 spare part-tire-whees rim locks. Glen Helen champion car. $7,000.00 or best. (909) 682-8745. (714) 637-1155. Rod. Kevin@909-947-3310. 1967 after 7pm. 274-8330 or (702) 647-1582. • • • • • • •· • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • FOR SALE: 1999 4 seaterChenowth • • Buggy, built by Trick Racing. !.8 L • Sell OT swap your extra parts and pieces in • Toyota 3 TC motor, 3x3 trailing • s s • arms, Saco rack and pinon, Curnutt : DU TY TIME • : shocks, IRS Trans, Front Beard Seats, • • spindles, Centerlines, X paddles, all • • braced up for Off-Road, Dual cylin-• Classified Advertising rate is only $25 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use • der, Jamar brake assembly w/ turning of black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. Maximum size 5"x7".All Classified Ads must be PAID IN AD-: brake. $17,000.00 or best offer. VANCE. REMEMBER -CLASSIFIED AD SPACE IS LIMITED -YOUR AD MAY BE PUT OFF ONE ISSUE IF NOT • (760) 369-2503. RECEIVED IN A TIMELY MANNER. • r=============;;~F":i 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 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Page ss August 2000 • • • • • FOR SALE: 1996 Ford Ranger Class 7 overall points & Class points leader BITD. Spares: Tires, wheels, converter, shocks, 3.8 sc. Best of everything. $28,000.00. Get in and win. Too much to list. 760-788-7139 . Dusty Times

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,, FOR SALE: 1978 2WD Chevy Blazer, 1987 Autofab Glass front end, Custom Control arms and engine cage, Rancho take a parts, new 35" Goodyears, New 400 small block and auto transmission, new 4:56 gears and locker, all new front to rear, Too!! Much to List!! Very fast!!! $7,500.00. (775) 852-1606. FOR SALE: 16 ft trailer, Set up for on location selling. 6500 Onan gen-erator, new tires, cap & shirt press. Was set up for selling at Buttercup Sand Dunes. Incl. lOO's of transfers, outside display boards and inventory. $9,000.00 Days (909) 877-1751. Eve and weekends (909) 788-0454. FOR SALE: 2000 Pro-Lite, Brand new, Toyota, two totally complete (from carbs to pan) dry-sump engines, ($20,000.00 each), custom G-force tr;ms, frame by Greaves, Fox, Cus-tom air box, super fast, $70,000.00 for package, selling due to injury, (480) 488-7991, Todd Wittman. 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. SCORE Tecate Baja 500 Motorcycles ... from page 42 on the Border Buddys (sic) Yamaha. Hutchins Motorcycles Hon-da-mounted Jerry Fisher so-loed to the lronman Ama-teur victory in 6:20:58 (50th overall). His closest competitor turned out to be Donald Bird on a B&G Beauty and Barber Supply Honda who stopped the clock at 6:37:42 (56th over-all). The next class winners to come in turned out to be Over 25 Experts Mike Baskin, Mark Fields and Mike Ruane. Their 6:28:24 put them in 54th overall, and they were the only class finishers. Bicoastal teammates Rob Keith from New Jersey and Bruce Steigleman of Cali-fornia don't get together often to practice, but that didn't prevent the two from acing four-stroke Under 450cc Expert on their BRP Husky 410 in 6:41:59 (57th overall). Keith, who works for Husqvarna USA in Pennsylvania as Director of Marketing and Advertising said, "I liked it a lot. It was real foreign to me. Believe it or not [the bike], had a flat tire the whole time. It was a learning experience, and I'd like to try it again_." After finishing, Keith im-mediately changed into his street clothes and drove six hours to the airport to catch his red-eye flight back home. Jerry Allen and long time BITD. competitor Howard Larson came down from Dusty Times Washington and put it to the oldest Expert class (Over 48), taking their Se-attle Cycle Center Yamaha to a 7:04:22 (66th overall) win. Second in class went to Honda-mounted Ramey Peticolas-Stroud of Oregon in 7:29:50. Johnny Campbell's trainer, Petico-las-Stroud makes sure Campbell warms up properly before the race then likes to hop on his XR and ride the event himself. In the Quad classes, Doug Eichner and John Gregory blew the field away on their Duncan Racing Honda. They were the only four wheeler to break six hours for the 300 miles, stopping the clocks at 5:51 :33 for the Quad Pro victory. IMS Roll Design riders Kim Kuhnle and William Yokley (GNCC . regulars from Ohio and Ken-tucky, respectively} were second in class and fourth Quad overall in 6:04:45. Charles Lamson and Dwight Lowell may· have been "only" the second four wheeler to finish, but the Leighton Racing Honda rid-ers took the Quad Expert win in 6:01:03. That bested the 6:04:25 (third Q1,1ad overall) of Sam Coe Perfor-mance Yamaha-mounted Rob Niemela/Jeff Whyld. Next event on the calendar, of course, is the brand new Nevada 2000 with its multi-day format instead of an all-a t-once blast around the state. It promises to be the most interesting event in a while. ■ I For Sale: 1-1600 Aceco, TIG welded. New engine, trans, front shocks, powderco~t, torsion bars, bushings, stubs, brakes, battery and power steer-ing res. Zero miles since total prep. Fox, Saco Magnum, McK's alum hubs; Charlyn, Fuel Safe, Jamar, Heim shifter & rod ends. How about you Vegas guys, I know you can win in a single seater. $17,000. Call Joe at 714-632-1240 Racers Wanted: We are building a stock class 4100 Bronco to race BITD. This is a Pro effort. Need two serious people to drive, co-drive, share in winnings, etc. Hurry, we need test time. Reli-able only, please. Call Eldon at 541-381-2222. FOR SALE: Quarter elliptic rear springs with spring pack with spring pack clamps for boxes and stops. Made from 4130 and heat treated to 32RC. From Class 8 truck. $450.00 Call 619-44 7-6361 For Sale: Bunderson 1-1600, new fuel cell, new wheels and tires, Fortin trans, Parker Pumper, Bil-stein shocks, new power steering, 300m torsion bars, 930cv's with new axles. Call for more info. Car is very reliable and fast. Must sell. $10,000 obo Call Wayne at 520-757-7276 FOR SALE: l-1600Mirage; Mas-tercraft Seat w/Lumbar control, FOX SHOX w/res, Sway-A-Way, Saco Rack and pinon, Fuel Safe, new front arms, spring plates, belts, and nets, Powder coated chassis, zero miles on engine, many spares!!!! $14,500.00 (661) 268-0803. PLEAS.Et DON'T FORGET TO SUPPORT THE ADVERTISERS WHO KEEP DDSliJlillllS REPORTING THE OFF ROAD NEWS! PIKES service center Baker, California Celebra~ing 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ... THANKS! RESTAURANT Open 24 Hours Mobil@ SERVICE Every Day Year Round THE BEST IN THE DESERT! August 2000 • FOR SALE: Killer Type 4. 2700. Engine built by Ray Riffle, Machin-ery/Raceco-Case, Scat Crank 2.0 heads. Best of everything-Single carb. Only 200 miles on this brand new engine. Has receipts. $9,000.00. Call Scott 805 525-3767. FOR SALE: 1967 Ford Prerunnec-Big V8, all new C-6 built trans, Locker spool 5.13, heavy suspension. 4.37 tires &spare, Centerline wheels, full cage, 35 gallon Jaz cell, rotor brakes, new Simpson belts, headers, new Mastercrafts, Aluminum dash, tool box, King shocks, I beams, fiberglass panels & hood, dual electric system, gauges, Holley carburetor, MSD ig-nition, Art Carr shifter, Shroeder wheel. $9,000 firm Call 760-751-9364. PARTS/ SUPPLIES FOR Sale: Two-way Race Ra-dio with scan, Superior perfor-mance 55 watts. Too many fea-tures to list. Why spend twice as much. $319.00. For more info call Chuck Strange (909) 657-8525. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS ADA VIS Mexican Insurance ............ 51 Aggressive Suspensions .................. 40 Baja Millennium Ready Mirage ....... 37 Baker Performance Products .......... 50 Bilstein Shock Absorbers ................... 5 B.O.R.E ................................................ 24 Cactus ................................................. 32 Camburg Engineering ........................ 41 Coast Resorts ...................................... 9 Jim Conner Racing ............................ 47 Converter Shop .................................. 44 Eibach Springs ................................... 35 Fabtech ............................................... 42 FAT Performance .............................. 15 Fox Racing Shox .................................. 2 Fuel Safe Racing Cells ...................... 34 German Auto ...................................... 26 JE-SRP PISTONS .............................. 49 Michael E. James Insurance Agency .............................. 23 Kartek Off Road .......................... 29, 48 Kawaguchi Honda .............................. 27 KC Hilites ........................................... 11 King Shock Tech .................................. 7 Mastercraft ........................................ 20 McKenzie Performance Products .... 16 MT Tires ........ ,. .................................. 14 Nevada Off Road Buggy .................... 22 ORW ................. , ................................... 13 Off Road Expo ............................. 30, 31 Off Road Racing Driving Experience46 PCI Race Radios and Equipment.. ...... 4 Pike's Family Restaurant ................. 59 Race Ready Products ........................ 45 SNORE 250 ......................................... 21 Sway-A-Way Corp .............................. 12 Toyota Motorsports ........... Back Cover Transaxle Engineering ...................... 38 Tri-Mil Industries .............................. 19 Union 76 Racing Gasoline ................ 39 Valley Performance ........................... 36 VORRA ................................................. 37 Page 59

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