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2001 Volume 18 Number 2 Dusty Times Magazine

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Volume 18 • Number 2 • February 2001 $2.50 ISSN8750-1732 covering the world of competition in the dirt .••

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Volume 18 -Number 2 February 2001 DllliJlilllBI 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 Rene Montana Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh Darryl Smith Tony Tellier Paul Timmerman T rackside Photo Art Director Larry Worsham Subscription Rates: $25.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Subscription rates on request Contributions: DUSTY TIMES welcomes contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited mate-rial will be returned only by request and with a self ad-dressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: witl be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: f!SSN 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 St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. snapshot of the Month ... 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 BITD Las Vegas 200 by Judy Smith ...................................................... 8 WRC Network Q Rally of Great Britain by Martin Holmes ............. 16 VORRA Fernley Challenge by Forest Creasy .................................... 18 BITD Silver State Series Finale - Las Vegas 200 by Mark Kariya ... 22 MDR Stoddard 300 by Sheryl Cannon ............................................... 28 FRT Dunaway Dash by Judy Smith ..................................................... 32 Baja In Havasu by Sheryl Cannon .......... : ........................................... 36 The Stories Behind The Stories by Judy Smith .................................. 43 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ............................................................................................ 5 Trail Notes ............................................................................................. 6 Checkers by the New Wahzoo ............................................................. 39 C.O.R.E. Pit Report by Sandy Parker ................................................. 39 CRS News From The Director ........................................................... 40 F.A.I.R. News by Wes Wisdom ............................................................ 41 Mag 7 Report by Stephen Stenberg .................................. .' ................... 42 Good Stuff Directory ........................................................................... 4 7 Classified Ads ...................................................................................... 53 Index To Advertisers .......................................................................... 55 On The Cover Nick Baldwin ;md Robby Gordon overcarpe a few flat tires on their four wheel drive buggy, overcame a rime penalty and ended up in the winner's circle in Class 1 at the Las Vegas 200. Photo by T rackside Photo Kevin McGillivray rook the lead in the Protruck class at the Las Vegas 200 before the halfway mark and there he remained, raking the win by eleven minutes. Photo by Trackside Photo Visit Our Website Dustytimes.com cSuhscrihe <Joday lo DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 1 year -$25.00 □ 2 years -$40.00 □ 3 years -$55.00 (no credit cards please) □ NEW □ RENEWAL Name ---------------------Address --------------------City State Zip --------------------Primary Interest Cars D Trucks D Motorcycles D Send check or money order to: DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 Canadian - 1 year $30.00 US ■ Overseas subscription rates upon request Dusty Times February 2001 Page 3

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1 Happenings ... August 11, 2001 Gomum Ridge Rally Frazier Park, CA October 5-Z, 2001 Treeline Rally November 30-December 2, 2001 Ramada Express Rally Laughlin, NV Rallycross Series February 10, 2001 Holtville RX P.O. Box 645 Pierre, SD 57501 Dave Adams (Pilots and Bajas) (605) 224-9481 Don Engleman (Bikes) (605) 224-4967 CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE San Vicente Off Road Ensenada,-BC, Mexico USA Jan Wright (011 52 61746834) Ram6n Castro & Ruben Acevedo (61637/7 0034) AMERICAN TRIALS ASSOCIATION AMA Observed Trials Southern California Championship Series Bill Markum - President (909) 860-1857 24 hr Hotline - (714) 562-7742 E Mail: bmark909@aol.com www.atatrails.com February 4, 2001 Lake Morena/Corral Cyn, CA February 25, 2001 Aguanga/Reed Valley, CA March 11, 2001 Lucerne Valley, CA April, 2001 (TBA) Aguanga/Reed Valley, CA May 13, 2001 Rowher Flat/Canyon Country, CA June 9-1-0, 2001 Washington WORLD Round June 23-24, 2001 Big Bear, CA ASOCIACION ESTATAL de AUTOMOVILISMO Sam Lasell, Tech Inspector Apto 42 San Jose del Caho Baja California del Sur. Mexico AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSlilP Darryl Smith 19 Somers St. Cashmere, Queensland, 4500, Australia DUSTY TIMES (q)bigpond.com AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFF ROAD Class 10 c:m only Renald Vaillancourt 3069 Dagenais West Laval Quebec, Canada H7P 1T7 (514) 622'-4440 BARONA SAND DRAG ASSN. . P.O. Box 1521 Lakeside, CA 92040 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: bitd@worldnet.att.net April 6-8, 2001 Terrible's Town June 22-24, 2001 Tonopah 300 September 27-30, 2001 Vegas To Reno (TBA) December 2001 Las Vegas 200 BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTERPRISES Les Wolfe, NEW Preside·nt 341 W. 2575 North Sunset, UT 84015 (801) 773-1651 (801) 773-9319 Fax May 4-5, 2001 Wendover Express Wendover, NV July 6-7, 2001 Jackpot 250 Jackpot, NV September 14-15, 2001 Bonneville Challenge Wendover, NV BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-,250 CAJOR Club Automovilista Juarense de Championship Off-Road Racing 7210 Gateway East El Paso, TX 79915 (915) 593-4848 Ralph Garcia 01 l-52-16-17-45-42 Cesar Fuentes CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Sue Robinson - Director 845 Schoohouse Road Ramona, CA 92065 Dusty Times (760) 788-3809 E-Mail: crsdirect@hotmail.com Website <californiarallyseries.com> John Dillon, SoPac Rally Steward sopacrallysteward@hotmail.com Rally Series February 3, 2001 2000 Awards Banquet February 10, 2001 RallySprint Holtville, CA March 24-25, 2001 . CRS/SCCA Licensing School & Rally Cross Ridgecrest, CA May 4-5, 2001 Rim Of The World Palmdale, CA June 2, 2001 Pahrump Rally Sprint Pahrump, NV ■ ■ October 6, 2001 Prescott, AZ RX October 13, 2001 Las Vegas RX Jean, NV November 10, 2001 Las Vegas RX Jean, NV CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box400 Maywood, CA 90270 (323) 560-SHOW CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIA TioN CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O. Box332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLAIRTON HI-JACKERS I.C.O. Tom Delauder Sr 1091 Twp. Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Harrison County Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICA SAN QUINTIN Calle 6ta Fracc Cd. de San Quintin San Quintin, BC, Mexico Heraclio Patino (011 52 616-5-22-07) CMC Continental Motosport Club P.O. Box 3187 Mission Viejo, CA 92690-3178 Fax: (714) 367-1608 CODE Bravo 120-B Zona Centro, Mexicali, BC, MX P.O. Box 2328 Calexico, CA 92232-2328 011-52-6-553-4087 www .codeoffroad.com mail@codeoffroad.com February 9-11, 2001 Laguna Salada, Mexicali BC, MX April 20-22, 2001 San Felipe, Baja California, MX June 29-July 1, 2001 Rick D. Johnson (right), three-time champion of the Protruck Series, got his third Bilstejn Protruck Drivers Award from Bilstein's Doug Robertson and series founder Ivan Stewart. Rick D. Johnson Three-Peats As Protruck Series Champion Rick D. Johnson of Barstow, CA won his third consecutive· Protruck Championship for the 2000 season and with it his third straight Bilstein Protruck Drivers Award. Terrible's Town 250 and. was second at the Baja 2000 and the season-ending Las Vegas 200 to claim another series title in the same Ford entry. Johnson has now won the PRO Championship Points title three years in a row, driving the first Protruck chassis ever built. Johnson won the "We're basically running the same Bilsteins on the Ford Protruck that we started with," noted Johnson. These shock absorbers will never die, they're totally reliable." Other Top Protruck Series Finishers Included: 2nd. Place Steve Barlow · Ford Protruck 3rd. Place . Mike Griffiths Ford Protruck 4th. Place 'Steve Scaroni Ford Protruck 5th. Place · Kevin McGillivray Chevrolet Protruck For details on Bilstein 9100 Series and the full range of Off-Road shocks 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 February 2001 Pages

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Trail Nate3 ... FRT DISTRICT 38 CHAMPIONS . FRT has just announced their year 2000 District 38 champions. ATV Racer of The Year -Allen "Stretch" Whiter Desert Superlite Racer of The Year -James "Hollywood" Saasta, Motorcycle Racer of The Year -Dewey Belew, A TV Rookie of The Year - Jay Verheyen, Desert Superlite Rookie of The Year -Billy Skinner, Motorcycle Rookie of The Year -Scott Higgins. Motorcycle Class Champions are: Open -Elon Britt, 4 Stroke -John Gibson, 125 - Bryon Powell, 250 -Matt Spiewak, Vet -Dewey Belew, Senior - Bill McNeer, Super Senior - Bob Heraty, Master -Dick Bird, Class 3 - Lee Henery, Classic -Ron Farkas. A TV Class Champions are, Overall -Allen White, Senior -Reuben Dehoyos. And, last but not least James Saasta is the Desert Superlite Champion. SCCA PRORALLY NEW EVENT· SCCA has announced that the second event of the 2001 season will be a brand new venue, Cherokee Trails. The rally will take place on March 15-17, 2001, the location is Chatanooga, TN, approximately 95 miles northwest of Atlanta, GA. Cherokee Trails is a full points SCCA ProRally Championship event. The three day format contains almost 180 stage miles in the Cherokee National Forest. This performance rally will be run under FIA rules and will include reconnaissance and pace noting. Vehicle class structure will follow FIA conventions, in tandem with the nationally recognized SCCA classifications. For more info contact Kurt Spitzer at 303-779-6622 or Kendall Russell at 865-671-1133. MDR 2000 CLASS CHAMPIONS . MDR has announced their six race schedule for 2001 (See Happenings) and the Class Champions for 2000. Brian Logan was the MDR point champion, running in 1600 class. In Class 100 Troy Pomeroy was first, David Massingham second. Class 500 John Criswell, Dale Hines second. Class 550 Robert Moore, Guy Evans second. Class 700 Craig Turner, Jeff Richardson second. Class 725 Steve Martz, Bruce Landfield second. Class 800 Joe Patelli, Donald Bundy second. Class 850 Chuck Foreman was the winner. Class 900 Joel Mohr won, Gary Stevens second. Class 1000 Whit Courtenay won, Guy Cordon second. Class 1100 Julio Curiel won, Dennis Sletten second. Class 1200 Jamie Campbell, Daniel Fresh second. Class 1300 Kurt Puhl, Greg Crew second. Class 1400 Bobby Quarnstrom Jr first, Mark Harber second. And, last but not least Class 1600 Brian Logan, first and overall point winner, second was Cindy Greinke. The 2001 season should be as exciting as was this year. SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT · Judy Smith's eleven page article on the Baja 2000 in the January 2001 issue of Dusty Times was a pleasure to read. Tons of data and lots of pictures. But, and there is always a but, we have been informed that the Class 9 winning car, driven by Andy Kisner, Joe Sheble and Ray McClan was not a Jimco, but was in fact a T&B fabricated car. T&B is owned by Tom Sturgis, builder of many fine race cars, winning cars, we might add. Located in Bullhead City, AZ. Tom built this car, it has been running the SNORE Series and just a scant few weeks before the 2000 they decided to run the car so Tom prepped it quickly and off they went to race and win in the very long Baja 2000. Our apologies to Mr. Sturgis and all concerned for the mis-info that was collected and put into the story. Forgive us? SCORE FINAL POINTS -It's official now, the points leaders and the runners-up have been posted by SCORE and here are some of the top people in the various classes who ran so hard and so well during the year 2000. In Trophy Truck it was Tim Herbst ruling the class, Dan Smith was second, Larry Ragland was third and Mark Post took the fourth spot. In Class 1, Troy Herbst took the honors, Gary Weyhrich was only nine points behind, Randy Wilson was third, Tim Rockenbach was fourth and Gus Vildasola took the fifth place finish. In 1/2-1600 our own Bekki Freeman took the class win yet again, Sammy Ehrenberg was second by only 17 points, Lorenzo Rodriguez was third, Kash Vessels was fourth and Steve Roberts was fifth. In Class 3, Darren Skilton took the honors and his father, Clive Skilton was only 28 points behind him in second spot. In Class 5, George Seeley took the win, Michael James was close behind in second and Michael Jacobson took third place honors. In 5-1600, Victor Orellana took the win, David Gasper was second, Sammy Martinez was third and Daniel Gutierrez took the fourth spot. Jeff Lewis was the Class 7 winner and Craig Turner was second. Doug Siewert took the Class 7S win. Eduardo Gonzalez was second and Eric Hardin was third. Class 8 went to Billy Goerke, Curt LeDuc was second and Francisco Monroy was third. Hector Sarabia took the Class 9 'Yin, Eric Fisher was second, Bill Rodriguez took third and Cisco Bio took the fourth spot. Class 10 had Mark Hutchins taking the win, Don Hatch was second, Ron Brookshire was third, Rick Ellison fourth and Steve Myers took fifth place honors. Jerry Penhall took the SCORE Lites title, Ty Godde was second, Steven Greinke was third and Ron Dalke took the fourth spot. Eric Solorzano took Class 11, Dr. Macrae Glass was the Stock Mini winner and Bob Land was second. Jeremy Spirkoff was the Stock Full winner and John Griffin was second. Ryan Herzog was the Pro Truck winner, Scott Steinberger was second and Bob Shephard was third. In the Pro Motorcycles, Jose Ruvalcaba took Class 21, Johnny Campbell was the Class 22 winner, Class 30 went to Roy Buelna, Klaus Groeger took Class 40 and Richard Jackson was the Class 50 winner. In Pro-Atv's Enrique Felix was the Class 24 winner and John Gregory took Class 25. In the Sportsman categories, Roberto Arauz was the car winner and the truck win went to Xavier Reyes. The Sportsman motorcycle wins were: Hiroyuki Watanabe too the Under 250 class, Bob Surmon was the over 250 winner and Luis Navaro was the Sportsman A TV winner. And now it's all history and shortly we start all over again at Laughlin. WHIPLASH CLASS CHAMPIONS FOR 2000 • After a long hard season the Whiplash clan announced the class winners for the year 2000 and we ate happy to note them here. Pro l -Glenn Greer took first place, the Woods Brothers were second. Pro 8 -Jones & Williams first, Beeler & McCormack second and Keith Moore third. In Pro 10 - Jeffro Wells took the class win and the overall points as well, Ron Dalke was second in 10, Steve Kuker was third and good ol' Ed Beard was fourth. In Pro 3 Tom Swanson was the winner, Engstler & Engstler took Pro 5. In Pro 1600 Adams 'n Eve took the win, Krug & Knupp were second and Travis Rackley was third. In Pro 9 Ray Newton was the winner, Todd Ford second and Paul Matthews third and Ron Bosley won the Vintage Pro Class. In Unlimited Sportsman it was Charlie Williams taking the win, Dave Cookman second and Brechin & Gilbert were third. Tim Hayosh took Limited Sportsman, Grant Wilson w~m S)?ortsman Truck, Dean Anderson was the winner in Page 6 Laguna Salada, Mexicali, BC, MX August 10-12, 2001 Tecate, Baja California, MX October 5-7, 2001 Laguna Salada, Mexicali, BC, MX November 30-December 2, 2001 Mexicali. to San Felipe, BC, MX COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholtz, President (719) 531-3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P.O Box8286 Colorado Springs, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP P.O. Box392 Calexico, CA 92232 Hector Cerecer 011-52-65-66-4458 CORR EXXON SERIES Cb:i.mpionship Off Road Racing 192 N. State Road 267, Suite 267 Avon, IN 46123 (317) 272-2827/Fax: (317) 272-2900 May 19-20, 2001 Fort Dodge, IA June 9-10, 2001 Antigo, WI June 23-24, 2001 Crandon, WI July 14-15, 2001 Bark River, MI July 28-29, 2001 Fort Dodge, IA August 11-12, 2001 Bark River, MI September 1-2, 2001 Crandon, WI September 22-23, 2001 Topeka, KS CORVA 1500 West El Camino, Suite 352 Sacramento, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORY A Ext 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS Dave Van Deren 2405 Baker Ave. , Everett, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 ( AU 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 April 27-29, 2001 FABTECH Off Road Short Course Series.at Glen Helen Raceway P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (909) 280-9096 Contact: BBM Marketing Promotions P.O. Box 762 Norco, CA 91760-0762 (562) 988-6250/Fax: (909) 280-9097 FRT Motorsports 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 Mowrcycles, ATVs & Det Superlites February 11, 2001 Kamiki.ze Dez Gran Prix Lake Superstition, CA February 24, 2001 King of the Desert Lake Superstition, CA March 25, 2001 March Madness T earn Race Plaster City East, CA May 20, 2001 Tazmanik Hare & Hound Plaster City West, Ca July 7, 2001 Conquista Gran Prix Tecate, BC, MX July 28, 2001 C/M Nite Team Race Plaster City Ease, CA August 26, 2001 Sweethearts Kiss Lake Superstition, CA September 8, 2001 MudHen Sprint Plaster City East, CA October 8, 2001 Cheeseburger 100 Plaster City West, CA November 1 7, 2001 D38 Reunion Event Plaster City West, CA November 18, 2001 Notorious Dawg3 Hour Team Race Plaster City West, CA December 9, 2001 Revenge Dez Gran Prix Lake Superstition,·CA MX And Off Road Short Course All at Imperial Valley Expo, Imperial, CA March 10, 2001 Tentative) Round 1 April 7, 2000 Round 2 May 12, 2001 Round 3 June 9, 2001 Round 4 September 22, 2001 Round 5 November 3, 2001 Round 6 December 3, 2001 Round 7 Championship Series For Cars, Trucks, Buggies, A TVs, Dez. Superlites & Motorcycles February 11, 2001 Kamaki.zi Dez Gran Prix Lake Superstition, CA April 4, 2001 Fud 200 No ATV, Bike or SuperLite May 20, 2001 T azmanik Hare & Hound Plaster City West, CA No Buggies, Cars, Trucks July 7, 2001 Conquista Gran Prix Tecate, BC, MX August 11, 2001 Gran Prix Tecate, BC, MX No A TV, Bike, SuperLite September 8, 2001 MudHen Sprint Plaster City East, CA No Buggies, Cars, Trucks October 27, 2001 Superstition 250 XVIII Plaster City East, CA December 31, 2001 Dunaway Dash Plaster City West, CA GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association 420 Hosea Road Lawrenceville, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 GPORRA Great Planes Off Road Racing Association 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68144-1122 (402) 333-0517 Eve. Keith Koesters 6716 N. 106th St. Omaha, NE 68122 (402) 4964846 Eve. (1-80 Race Track is located 20 minutes west of Omaha n All races are short course, stadium style. Classes: Trophy, 11-1600, 5, 7S, l and Quads) IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box 36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 ( All events staged at the club grounds in Cleves. Ohio) INTERNATIONAL ICE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 St. Paul, MN 55108 Steve Beddor (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O. Box 2910 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER 4WDCLUB P.O. Box 465 Kamloops, BC, Canada VZG5L2 · Bob (250) 374-7175 days Randy (250) 579-9621 eves. Wes (250) 351-2819 LAS VEGAS SANDSPORTS & OFFROAD EXPO (661) 943-1786 June 16-17, 2001 Cashman Center Las Vegas, NV L.I.T.R.E. Jeff Elrod (408) 926-0522 Jim Aruta (408) 247-4402 MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS Dune Buggy Trade Show (517) 543-7214 www .buagybuilders.com MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 Jones Road Grand Ledge, Ml 4883 7 (517) 627-6200 Ueeps, Trucks, Buggies, Pilots, Road Warriors and Quad ATV-Money Classes.) · July 29, 2001 Mason, Ml MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION MAORA Mike Turner (217) 235-2473 P.O. Box 184 Mattoon, IL 61938 Maora racing.com Lincoln Trail MotorsportS Park Casey, IL (217) 932-2041 Off Road Playground.com (800) 555-3167 Short Course Series May 5, 2001 Casey, IL June 2, 2001 Jlora, IL June 16, 2001 Woodbury, TN July 7, 2001 lora, IL August 4, 2001 Casey, IL September 29, 2001 Casey IL · Enduro Series May 6, 2001 Casey, IL June 17, 2001 Woodbury, TN August 5, 2001 Casey, IL September 30, 2001 Casey, IL MOJAVE DESERT RACING 1853 Parkway Drive S. El Monte, CA 91733 (626) 442-9320/(626) 579-6051 Fax E-Mail: mdrracing@aol.com February 24, 2001 Wild Wash 250 Barstow, Ca April 21, 2001 Ridgecrest 300 Ridgecrest, CA June 23, 2001 Lucerne 400 Lucerne,.CA August 25, 2001 California 200 Lucerne, CA November 3, 2001 Stoddard 250 Barstow, CA M.OR.E. High Desert Championship P.O. Box 1231 Barstow, CA 92311-1231 Fax: (760) 253-4453 March 17, 2001 Balls Out 250 Lucerne, CA May 12, 2001 Badlands 275Barstow, CA July 7, 2001 Dusty Times

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Freedom 250Barstow, CA September 15, 2001 Mighty Mojave 300Barstow, CA November 10, 2001 Wild Turkey 200Lucerne, CA MSBA Michigan Sport Buggy Association Dave Barret 6363 Nightingale Dr. Flint, Ml 48506 (810) 730-9221 MOTOWEST WINTER TRIALS SERIES All events at Perris Raceway Bill Markham (909) 860-185 7 www.ITStrials.com (At Reed Valley with a school) February 10, 2001 March 17, 2001 NATIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION Rt. #1 -Box 380 Dave or Marlene Ryan Palatka, FL 32177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK ASSOCIATION Butch Chapin Motorsports Promotions 1404 East 3rd Street Hastings, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 NORTHERN OHIO OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. . Gary Wulff (724) 283-2678 (AU events are at Spring Balley Raceway, Miliport, Ohio) OFF ROAD EXPO 2001 (626) 599-8622 October 6-7, 2001 Fairplex, Pomona, CA OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OFEL PASO Joey Vasquez 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 867-7788 All races are at Mountain Shadow Lake. Take l-10 Horizon Blvd. exit east 12 miles OHIO OFF ROADERS INC. 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 Jim Kendel (216) 339-4674 AU races held at Harrison County Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONT ARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION Rick Tichbourne, Public Relations (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. Off Road Championship 495 N. Commons Drive Aurora, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100 . www .usoff-road.com PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 Colorado Springs, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 PROTRUCK RACING SERIES 9409 Abraham Way Santee, CA 92071-2856 (619) 449-6252/Fax: (619) 449-6470 April 6-8, 2001 Terrible's Town Pahrump, NV June 22-24, 2001 Tonopah 300 Tonopah,NV September 27-30, 2001 . · Vegas To Reno December TBA, 2001 Las Vegas 200 Las Vegas, NV PURE ENERGY PROMOTIONS P.O. Box 50 Ricketts, IA 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 SAN DIEGO OFF ROAD EXPOSITION (888) 836 7918 Dusty Times SCCA ProRally series Sports Car Club of America 9033 E. Easter Place Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 779-6622/Fax: (303) 694-3654 March 15-17, 2001 Cherokee Trails Chattanooga, TN April 7-8, 2001 Oregon Trail Tillamook, OR May 4-5, 2001 Rim Of The World Palmdale, CA June 1-2, 2001 Susquehannock Trail Wellsboro, PA July 27-28, 2001 Maine Forest Rumford, ME August 17-18, 2001 Ojibwe Forests Bemidji,MN September 7-8, 2001 Wild West . Olympia, WA October 5-7,.2001 Prescott Forest Prescott, AZ October 519-20, 2001 Lake Superior Houghton, MI SFX MOTORSPORTS GROUP 495N. Commons Drive, Suite 200 Aurora, IL 60504 · (630) 566-6100/(630) 556-6180 Fax Febi:uary 3, 2001 QualComm Stadium San Dieao, CA SCORE SCORE International 23961 Craftsman Rd., Suite A Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/Fax: (818) 225-8102 March 17, 2001 San Felipe, BC, MX June 1-3 Baja 500 July 13-15, 2001 (Tentative) Barstow, CA September 14-15, 2001 Primm NV November 8-10, 2001 Baja 1000 SNORE Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 270516 Las Vegas, NV 89127 (702) 452-4522 February 2-3, 2001 Avi250 Laughlin, NV April 6-7, 2001. Bufallo Bill's 400 Primm,NV March 30-31, 2001 Dusty Times 250 Caliente, NV June 9, 2001 Baja 250 Las Vegas, NV August 3-4, 2901 KC Midnight Special Boulder City, NV September 28-29, 2001 Gold Coast 32nd SNORE 250 Las Vegas, NV November 16-17, 2001 Reserve 250 Las Vegas, NV SONS OF THUNDER 4WHEELERS Race Division Keith Stewart (714) 522-1899 SODA Short Course Off Road Drivers Association Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD CHALLENGE Steve Rule (800) 313-5621 or((770) 963-0252 Mike Moore -(224) 272-5400 SOUTH EAST OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. President - Geoff Lee 1243 Trice Road Lebanon, TN 37087 (615) 453-5830 Classis 1/2-1600, 5-1600., Class 9,. SODA Class 11 & Sportsman (AU Races at Rally Hill Speedway) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TIMING ASSOCIATION AND BONNEVILLE NATIONALS, INC. 2517 Sycamore Drive #353 Simi Valley, CA 93065 (Mon-Fri 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) (805) 526-1805/Fax:(805) 584-8518 Internet: http://scta-bni.org $0UTHERN SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. 4305 Wootlark Drive Tampa FL 33624 · (813) 962-2857 (All Races at Eastbay Raceway, Tampa, FL) SUPER SERIES (P'IY) LTD. . P.O. Box 706 Parklands, 2121 · South Africa (011)788-5138 Fax (011) 880-2170. SWORDS ~ South West Off Road Racing Desert Series 4209 So. CR 1300 Odessa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915) 337-3437/(615) 595-8237 (All races held at Notrees, TX 25 miles west of Odessa. TX) TOYS FOR TOTS (619) 252-1197 /(619) 252-3093 T.O.R.R.O Texas Off Road Racing Organization Marty Jackson 8307 Bauman Road Houston, TX 77022 (713) 694-0207/Fax: (713) 694-8335 TSO c/o Frog Specialties 4050 Spencer Street # 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 March 18, 2001 Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA April 22, 2001 Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA May 27, 2001 Yerington, NV July 21, 2001 Lovelock, NV September 1-2, 2001 Fernley, NV Short Course Series SVRA Park, Sacramento, CA October 7, 2001 October 21, 2001 November 4, 2001 VICENTE GUERRERO OFF ROAD CLUB Profo. Cenovio Gamboa 0l 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. Box376 Adamsburg, PA (412) 527-6556 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS 16251 North Cave Creek Road #4 Phoenix, AZ 85023-2976 (602) 971-3730 February 3, 2001 Parker 400 Parker, AZ March 10, 2001 Gila Monster 200 Gila Bend, AZ April 21, 2001 Rock To Rock Sonora, MX June 30, 2001 February 2001 Sportsman Mini Truck and Ty Loyd was the Sportsman 10 winner. Let's hope they all have a successful 2001 with lots of good racing. FINAL FLAG - we are very sad to ackn9wledge the passing of Ralph Paxton, a long time off roader and a friend, confidant and mentor to the McMillin family. Ralph succumbed to a stroke while camping at Plaster City West on December 29th, doing what he loved best, offroading. Ralph introduced the McMillin family to off roading in the 60's and was with the family all the way, including driving with Mark on the long Baja l000's. Ralph will be sorely missed by all who knew him. DESERT CLEANUP NEEDS YOUR HELP -Be a part of the first inaugural Jack Waldron Desert Cleanup. March 24th, 2001 is the date and your body is needed to help clean up all the trash all those despicable people leave out in our desert. Staging is at die Outlet Center Drive OHV Area on Interstate 15 at 9 in the morning. The cleanup will go on 'ti! ? There will be raffle prizes and dinner at one Slash X after the festivities are over. Be there! MDR MOJAVE 200 "Mojave Desert Racing opened their 2001 season with a nice race at Barstow, the Mojave 200 and there was some really great racing. Richard Boyle was the Class l winner, Ron Osburn taking second, six minutes behind. John Criswell was the Class 5 winner with Jason Gilreath a long way back in the second spot. Tim Lindsay won 5-1600 by half an hour with Kurt Puhl in the second spot. Ron Smith took the class 7 win and Steve Martz took Class 7S. Joel Mohr got back to his winning ways in Class 9 and Dan F.olts. was only three minutes behind in the second spot. Whit Courtenay, the gentleman from Kentucky took the Class 10 win, TomJandtJr. taking second. Class 1300 went to Mike Dill and Greg Crew took tlie 1300 Class. Class 1400 went to Mark Growe, followed by Caroline Hines, 15 minutes later. Brad Inch didn't have a $2.00 part break and he took the 1600 Class with Brian Steele 14 minutes behind him. See the full story and pictures in next month's issue of Dusty Times. BFGOODRICH BAJA 2000 SUPPORT TEAM -The BFG Race Support Team went to new lengths to support the teams running on their tires and, as usual helping anyone else that was in need of aid. According to Frank D'Angelo, Manager of off road racing for BFG they supported no less than 112 teams on the 1700 mile trek. They had 13 full service pits, each with 20 or more people, at least one person with medical training at each pit. They performed routine fuel and tire service and did some extensive welding and other repairs, enabling many to actuatly finish the race. There were an additional 35 people operating the teams communications network of 15 ground sites, and there were two aircraft for radio relay service. They operated 90 radios, 21 satellite phones and operated a center in Caho San Lucas to manage the entire network and track the competitors. In addition to this there was the logistics of getting the equipment, fuel and people to their pit locations and maintaining it all through the race. They also arranged over 8,000 meals! DeAngelo said "It · was a challenge", we would call that an understatement. We doff our hats to · the BFG Race Support Team for all the help they have given over the years · and particularly for managing the 2000 effort. SNORE AW ARDS • SNORE held their annual banquet on January 13at Michael Gaughan's Gold Coast Hotel and Casino and a goodly crowd was on hand and there were many awards doled out, many dollars . given away and a raffle of many, many prizes. We'll' list here many, if not all TRAIL NOTES Continued on page 42 Badlands 200 Sonora, MX July 14, 2001 Haulapal 200 Peach Springs, AZ September 1, 2001 Snowflake 200 Aripine, AZ October 6-7, 2001 Grand Prix of Parker Parker, AZ December 8, 2001 Laughlin, NV Bike & ATV Series February 4, 2001 Parker 200 Parker, AZ March 11, 2001 Gila Monster 100 Gila Bend, AZ April 21, 2001 Rock To Rock 100 Sonora, MX May 26-27, 2001 Sunrise Gran Prix Greer, AZ June 17, 2001 Young 100 Young, AZ July 15, 2001 Haulapal 100 Peach Springs, AZ September 2, 2001 Snowflake I 00 Airpine, AZ October 6-7, 2001 Gran Prix of Parker Parker, AZ November 4, 2001 Vulture Mine 100 Wickenburg, AZ December 9, 2001 Laughlin, AZ WINSCONSIN MOTORSPORTS SHOW (414) 747-1711 WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL Terry or Bev Friday 5913 so. U.S. Hwy 45 Oshkosh, WI 54901. (414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 1665 Delaware St. Oshkosh, WI 54901 zr. PROMOTIONS Rene Montano P.O. Box 2122 Calexico, CA 92231 Motorcycles & A TVs Only 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 2001 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 Page 7

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BITD LAS VEGAS 200 l"dians Attack But Taylor Takes The Win By Judy Smith Photos: Trackside Photo Kyle Taylor fought off a serious challenge with his Class 8000 Chevrolet, to take the class win as well as the overall Victory at the BITD 200 in December. a flat and had also been third belonged to Keith stuck in the silt. There was Fontana and Erick Will-so much traffic that only iams in still another one of them could dig at a Chevy. time while the other At the end of the lap flagged traffic around Harris was firmly in the them. They said it was · lead, doing some inspired "very scary." driving, and a full five min-By the end of the second utes up on Fontana, while lap Helmbolt was leading Taylor was third, another overall and he had 50 min-six seconds back after utes on Jones and Will-breaking a rim. Mark and iams. He stayed firmly in Tim Beeler ran fourth in front through the third lap, their Ford. Lonny Helmbolt led overall for most of the day in his Dodge, but last lap problems set him back to fourth, though he still won but on Lap 4 things Through the second Lap changed. He had some Harris continued to lead, trouble "~etting up the and Taylor now ran sec-the Trick Truck division. · The Best In The Desert about 10:45, as th e bikes suffered a sneak attack by were completing their final th e Indians o f N orth Las loop. Vegas in early December, Since the BIA (Bureau when they decided, on the of Indian Affairs) hadn't eve of the race, that the off notified the BITD of their roaders wouldn't be per-change of heart until about mitted to use the 106 mile 10 o'clock Friday morning planned course. (by fax at that), Folks and Casey Folks, determined his crew had been forced to not to call off his event, redesign their layout, get it tried phoning everyone marked, create a new start/ from the Nevada Governor finish area and notify ev-on down, including his eryone of the change in state Congressman, but less than 24 hours. The · could get no help. Ulti-race entrants, the BLM, mately, he had to create a the course workers, road new course. crossing people and stand-Casey's original course by ambulance team all had had included an extra loop, to be told of the change. some 42 miles long, on Luckily, the new start was BLM land near the Valley three miles straight up the of Fire that would be used road from where the origi-only by tq.e motorcycles. nal start line had been What he finally did was to planned, so the unwary make the bike race into a could just follow the traf-four lap event, using only fie and find the right place. that loop. Then he added · Folks and his crew got it an extra eight mile section, all done, and the bikes to bring its total length to went off the line with little 50 miles, and gave the cars hassle. The BITD, known and trucks a 50 mile curse, for long, scenic race which they ran four times. courses over seldom-used The bikes started early in terrain, lost a few entries the a.m., and the cars and when it was discovered trucks went off the line, 15 that they'd be going 'round seconds apart, starting at and 'round the same trails .. ' . :~ ~i-:\_~'...~~~,;t ,;,'~~ '~:. •"'".~ Terry Brown and Bill O'Brien, racing this season after a lengthy hiatus, hadn't forgotten a thing and led all the way to win the 7100 class in their Ford. Pages . mountain', according to and, with Fontana and fou r times, but most of reports. And t hen he was then Beele r following. At those who'd mad e the trip suddenly o u t of gas. It least three of the truc k s in st ayed to race. · turned out t h e silt had this class were already pe r-And Kyle Taylor did the done him in. His air clean-manently out, a n d t h e deed in his Chevy Class ers had clogged up with the Bundy team, in a Ford, was 8000 truck, taking the ubiquitous stuff and his a couple of hours down, overall victory by eight truck gobbled up too much though still moving. minutes and 15 seconds. fuel as a result. While he Midway through the This course was familiar waited for a supply of fuel third lap Harris' iead was a to racers who'd had the to be ferried out by a BITD scant minute and Taylor pleasure of racing some of official (the rules don't al-was in second. The specta-the old north Las Vegas low pit crews to go out on · tors were enthralled. Fon-Mint 400s, and it behaved the course), he lost his tana was third, about 15 in the old familiar manner, overall lead. But once i:e-minutes back, and the by turning to wide, soft silt fueled he hustled on into Beelers were now a half beds in several sections. the finish line to get his hour down to him. Dust was the issue of the first win of the year. He As they charg~d through day, and for the limited said there'd been' more silt their last lap Harris flat-classes, getting stuck was than I ever thought about tened a tire. Taylor, who'd the big fear. being' in." Jones and Will-had no rear brakes, had de-There were thre of the iams took second place, re-cided to add some fluid and Trick Trucks running at porting that they'd had a then cruise in to the finish. this race, and right off the second flat. Vosburg was a But then he saw Harris start Lonny Helmbolt was DNF. parked with the flat and the fastest vehicle on the Class 8000 (roughly decided there would be "no track in his Dodge. He had equivalent to SCORE's more cruisin'." He charged built a four minute lead by Class 8) was the biggest hard, while behind him that time he was halfway class at this event, with 10 Harris tried to catch up. through the first lap, and entries. And the racing was There were, by now, many was still nearly that far in close. Through the halfway rocks on the curse, and front at the end of the lap. point of Lap 1, Kyle Tay-Harris was a little gun-shy. Gary Vosburg had his Ford lor and his Chevrolet were Taylor stayed in front to in second place, followed wheel-to-wheel with the ·get the Class 8000 win and by {esse Jones and Travis Chevy of Dave Westhem the overall victory_also, Wi Iiams, in a Chevy. But and Chuck Harris. Harris while he was at it. Harris, the Jones Chevy was 40 was drivin g t h e full dis-who said he "lost by a tire", minutes down. They'd had tance at this race. A close was second. They were the r----,-.,.._.,=--c...,,.....--,----,--.:--...,,....-,-----=----,.-.,,--=-,--only Class 8000 true ks to · ' "'.: -.,,#. ,,,.,, ... ,-: . , ~ ~-.\11 -,~f;~_..f:·-~.\ ,,,_;.,.... Y.t . Nick Baldwin and Robby Gordon teamed up in Baldwin's unlimited Nye Frank car to take the victory in Class 1500. February 2001 get all four laps done. Fon-tana took third place, and the Beeler team was fourth. The BITD uses a Gr.an Prix finish, which meant that after the first vehicle has come across the finish line no one else gets to start a new lap. So, even though a team may not have completed the "required" four laps, they are still counted as official finish e rs if t h e y t ake the checke red flag. It's a little co mplicated som e times, but does away with the need to se t a " t im e limit", and gets everyone in off the course quite neatly. It Dusty Times

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also gives the driver in a wounded vehicle a neat way to stop racing without having to pull out and lose face. ' In the Protruck class the competition was close. They were neck and ne~k through the midway foint of the first lap and stil very close as they completed the first 50 mile loop. The team of Steve, Matt and David Scaroni and Robert Hayley, in a Ford, had-the lead, but they. were less than a minute in fron-t of Mike Griffiths and Pete Estler in another Ford. In third place it was Chet Huffman, another Ford, followed by Richard Hoff-man in a Chevy. As they rounded the halfway point on the sec-ond · lap Scaroni and Griffiths were on the same minute again, but at the end of the lap Scaroni's truck was in front by itself. Not by much however, as Kevin McGillivray had his Chevrolet in second place by 59 seconds. Rick Johnson and Rob Reinert-son, in a Ford, now ran third. Reinertson is the new owner of the truck, but Rick was doing most of the driving, trying to se-cure his third champion-ship here. Griffiths had flattened a tire and dropped to fourth, but only seven minutes behind the leader. Flamingo & The Strip Steve Williams drove his Ford truck all the way, finding it rough and chewed up, but he led throughout to take the stock mini-truck (Class 7300) win. Scaroni's truck broke a the "dustiest race" of his belt and they lost a long · career. Johnson and Rein-time getting replacements ertson were second, installed. McGillivray clinching Johnson's third moved into the lead, fol-Protruck championship in lowed by Johnson and a row.· Their truck is the Reinertson, then Scott first one built for this spec Steinberger, in a Ford, and class, proving the point Steve Barlow, another that a racer doesn't need a Ford, who'd had a flat, was brand new vehicle to be fourth, still only ·seven competitive and do well in minutes behind the lead. this group.· Barlow was When they went third, noting that the final through the halfway point lap, into the sunset, had on their last lap it was still been particularly grueling McGillivray in the lead, in the areas where the dust followed by Johnson and was hanging. What little Reinertson, Barlow and wind there had been died then Griffiths. McGillivray down in-the later after-had widened his lead to noon. Huffman moved up eight minutes on Johnson to finish in fourth place, by now. And they got to reporting that he lost an ig-the finish in almost that nition, but believed the order. McGillivray taking motor was gone, and after the win and declaring this sitting a while, thought to Frank Omboli and James Cochran·survived a collision with their Lothringer, made lengthy repairs and went on to win Class 1000. switch to the spare igni-tion. In Class 1 things got ex-citing also, but.in some un-expected ways. Right off the start it was a close battle between Nick Bald-win in his four wheel drive behemoth powered by a small block V8 Chevy and John Gaughan and B.J. Richardson in their Chen-owth. Behind them came Sam Berri in his Mirage. By the time they got to the end of the first lap Gaugh-an had the lead and Berri was second while Baldwin lost a bunch of time with a couple of flat tires. Ed Stewart, driving a new Jimco with a stock small block Chevy motor that runs on pump gas, was also having flat tire problems. This was the first time out for both Ed ad his car. He's an ex-Formula 1 Boat racer. (Later he told us that the ride was "just like" the ride in one of the boats.) Gaughan stayed in front, with Darnen Jefferies in second in a borrowed car (his own still not recovered from the recent Baj a 2000). Carlos and Rudy Cortez and George Rod-riguez ran third in their Bunderson at h~lfway through Lap 2. But at the end of the lap it was Gaughan and Richardson still in front, the Cortez and Rodriguez team in sec-ond and Berri in third. Jef-feries had dropped way back and was reported to Continued on page 10 S■ ST West Tropicana & Arville West Flamingo & Valley View 1-888-BARBARY 1-800-0RLEANS 1-888-GOCOAST Alta & Rampart 227-2279 www.barbarycoastcasino.com 675-3267 www.orleanscasino.com 402-6278 www.goldcoastcasino.com 1-877-636-7111 Dusty Times February 2001 Page 9

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Malcolm Vinje, his hip recovered from November's dislocation, and Jim Gilchrist teamed in their Ford to take second place in their Class 7100 truck. Nicole Saxton and Jeremy Gubler teamed in their green Jimco to take second place in Class 1000. It was Saxton's first time at the wheel of the race car. Tony Napoleon and Brandon Hughes had to make major repairs to their Ford, but moved it along fast enough to take second place in Class 3100. have lost a motor. Baldwin still pumped full of and Stewart, all their tires adrenalin after a DNF at repaired, were separated by the Baja 2000, and Stew-only 16 seconds, fighting art had Tim Scalzo, a man for fourth place. who likes big, fast cars. Halfway through the Both were pushing hard, third lap Gaughan had a trying to make up for time good lead, nearly an hour, lost on that first lap, but as both Jefferies and now Gordon was pushing just a the Cortez/Rodriguez team bit harder. Or maybe his had dropped out. Berri was car is just that much more second, about 40 minutes capable._ He certainly had down after doing a motor lots of good things to say transplant. That proved to about it later. The two put be his undoing, because, on a great duel, climaxing contrary to the rules in the in a pass just before they VORRA races, where he's reached the pit area, that been competing for years, had them sliding wheel-to-at BITD events it's not le-wheel between the scoring gal to replace a motor. team and a gaggle of as-Berri and his crew had tounded spectators. There never even given it a was nothing out of control thought, deciding it would about it, but it was surely be quicker to pull the sick the fastest entry into the motor and replace it with pit area that had been seen their spare, rather than re-all day. They didn't know move and replace the indi-it, but because of the DNFs vidual offending parts. in front of them and Berri's They did a heroic job, but error, they were dueling for it brought a disqualifica-second and third place. tion down on th.eh heads. Gaughan and Richard-Meanwhile, Baldwin and son continued to sail on, Stewart had put their sec-way out in front and look-ond drivers into their cars. ing great. But when it came Baldwin's partner at this time for them to appear at event was Robby Gordon, the finish line, they were ~-:--~~~llfWWlW~~=::: Jeremy Spirkoff had a little trouble with the pit-row turn, but otherwise ran smoothly in his stock big Ford to take the victory in Class 8100. 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 PYROTECT, FILLER Safety _ Products & BE Motorsports. We ship UPS daily. _51_53 Bowden Avenue -San Diego -CA-92117 - 858-279-2509 .. ~..1 ---_, . - -- -·--------~ ---~ -- . --::-------- ,_ --Page 10 nowhere to be seen. From the finish area it was pos-sible to see across a wide shallow valley to where the course dropped down the side of a small mountain · and then skirted the free-way. There was no dust trail. Finally, the radios re-ported that Gaughan and Richardson had broken a hub. They never made it to the finish. Baldwin and Gordon took the win, in spite of a 15 minute penalty added to their time because Gordon had inadvertently run through a check where he should have stopped. He'd been unable to see due to the dust. Scalzo and Stew-art were second, and Gaughan and Richardson took third. Gordon said that Baldwin's car, built by Nye Frank, was a lot of fun to drive. He hadn't been in a "buggy" in eight years he said, and then added that this car, because it's 4WD, and because of its size, would probably be quicker than his Trophy Truck on a tight and technical course. The only vehicle run-ning in Class 3000 at this race was the Ford of John Swift and Andy Waters. Swift started, and ran so well he was in the top ten overall at the end of the second lap. But during Waters' section the truck broke a link and once re-pairs were made he discov-ered his batteries had gone dead. Steve Scaroni gave him a .battery, so he got to the finish, but by then they'd dropped to 24th overall. Still, they got their Class 3000 victory. In the small SUV class, Class 3100, the lead be-longed to Mark Winocur, Dave Turner and Mike Compton, in their Ford at the end of the first lap, and they had about three and a half minutes on Mike Falkosky in his Ford. Tony Napoleon and Brandon Hughs were third in an-other Ford, about 35 min-utes back. Falkosky had been "bogged down;; in the silt right off the start. Winocur and team moved a little further out by the end of Lap 2, and led by 26 minutes on Fal-kosky, while Napoleon and In Class 3000, for four-wheel drive vehicles, John Swift and Andy Waters ran in the top ten for a while, but repairs slowed them. They got the class win. John R. Sunderland and his son John A., got off to a late start, but recovered well and took the Class 4100 (big SUVs) victory in their Ford. February 2001 Hughs wer~ now over an hour down. Falkosky was having what he called "all sorts of little, tiny prob-lems", including three flat tires, but he kept moving steadily toward the finish. Midway through the third lap Winocur's lead had slipped to 10 minutes, but Napoleon and Hughs were an hour and a half late. Then disaster struck the Winocur truck. They lost a drive shaft and "lost hours", and never got to start their fourth lap. Fal-kosky, one of the last ve-hicles out on the track, was nevertheless the only one in his class to get all four laps done, and took the win. Napoleon and Hughs slipped into second place, five minutes up on Win-ocur and Turner, reporting that they'd repaired a rear driveline and front four wheel drive hub during their long day. In the -big SUV class, 4100, there were five trucks and John "Boogie" Sunderland, having trouble with an ignition box, started dead last, ·about three minutes be-hind his assigned position. But it didn't seem to hurt him much. At the end of the first lap the lead be-longed to Mark Stein and Mike McComas in their Ford Expedition, but they had only 19 minutes on Sunderland, in another Expedition. In third place it was Charles Elms and Phil Adams, from Fort Worth, Texas. But they were a DNF statistic early in the second lap. Sunderland took over the lead midway through Lap 2, and had six minutes on Stein and McComas. Now David and Paul Elms, -from Amarillo, Texas ran third, and they were the last surviving members of the class. But by midway through the third lap there were only two trucks mov-ing. Sunderland had let his dad, John, take over, and he led McComas and Stein by over a half hour. At some point during their day they split a "leading link arm" and had to do some welding, but other-wise had a fairly smooth day. The Sunderlands went on to take the vic-tory, with Stein and Mc-Comas the last finisher, secoRd, and 34th overall, in seven hours a,nd 38 min-Continued on page 13 Dusty Times

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AN OPEN LETTER TO PRO PITS OF BAJA formerly the Union 76 Racing Team Of Baja FROM THE MAGNIFICENT 7 RACE TEAM San Diego, California To Mr. Alfredo Munoz, Owner of Pro Pits of Baja and Mr. Enrique Ortiz, President of Pro Pits of Baja. It has been more than 60 days since you have talked to Mag 7. Racers and race teams alike are eager to see their equipment and spares returned. Here is a list of what you still have in your possession in Tijuana, BCN, left over from the B2K. 1) One Mag 7 DeWalt Electric Impact Wrench, 2) 35 ,.11 gallon, Mag 7 dump cans, 3).11 -11 gallon, Blue VP dump cans belonging to Scott Steinberger, 4) 6 -11 gallon dump cans belonging to Glenn Harris, 5) 2 -11 gallon dump cans belonging to Ron Brookshire, 6) 30 - Mag 7, 5.5 gallon Jazz dump cans, 7) 5 - 4 gallon, Mag 7 Dry brake dump can with metal stands each, 8) 1-4 gallon John Gregory, Dry Brake Dump can with metal stand, 9) 6- 30 gallon VP barrels belonging to Ron Brookshire (empty), 10) 10-Bead Lock, quad tires belonging to John Gregory, 11) 6- Bead Lock, quad tires belonging to Mike Penland, 12) 9-Wide Open Baja Adventures, P285 tires belonging to Todd Clements, 13) 6-Pro Truck wheels, 35" belonging to Glenn Harris, 14) 6-V W Tire Pool tires belonging to 4 entries, 15) 4-V W tires, 3 fronts and 1 rear belonging to Ron Brookshire and Vic Bruckman, 16) 6-full size Mag 7 pit banners, 17) 12- Mag 7 mileage signs (1/4 & 1 mile signs) and 18) 2-welder/generators belonging to FAIR (returned 11/26/00) Alfredo and Enrique, please contact myself or Todd Clements of Wide Open Baja o~ our rac~rs and return these items above as soon as possible? We all need these items back to contmue racmg. Sincerely, Stephen Stenberg President Mag 7 Race Team Mag7race@aol.com NOTl(~E to all Racers and Pit crews Pro Pit Is NOT a patt 0£ and is NOT connected in any way with propits of Mexico hw /W is a reputable company located in Carson City Nevada and has been serving the off-road community for over I 5 yrs. · Please direct any questions regarding this confusing matter to Jack Sypolt at pro@pyramid.net or . www .prop1t.com 16 Kit Kat Dr. Cai:son City, NV 89706 775~885-1000 fax 775-883 3688

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Roberto Arauz, Pablo Tapia Cuahutemoc Moctezuma Sports Buggy -Class Winner r~would like to congratulate the Baja 2000 winners . • Bruce Conrad, Matias Arjona Jim Dizney Scores Lites - Class Winner Victor Orellana, Albert Castro Julian Parton. Class 5/1600 -Winner

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Jesse Jones and Travis Williams ran hard in their Chevrolet, but had In Class 7000, Steve Lawrence outlasted what little competition he This was a tough course for 5-1600 cars, and Johnny Alexander and Bill Fox managed only three laps, but that was good enough for the to settle for second place in the Trick Truck class. . had, to take the victory in his Ford. utes. Danny -Rowe didn't man-Baja 2000 (three weeks The BITD races don't age to get even the essen-previous to this event). In attract many VW powered tial first lap completed. third place it was Kevin vehicles for a variety of That left Steve Lawrence Davis, Steve Land, Kevin reasons, but two 5-1600 and Kurt Grandell in soli-Robburts and Skyler cars showed up for this tary splendor, covering Gambrell, just 35 seconds one. It probably wasn't a ground, but taking a long in front of John.Baker (no, great course, silty as it was, time for some o f their laps, not the John Baker from for a 5-16. In any event, and taking the win in a years ago who moved to Anthony Guzman, who ran time of 6:45. They were Wisconsin). as a Sportsman, managed 31st overall at the end of Brown, who had no to complete only one lap, the day. problems on his shift, in-and then disapeeared. , In Class 7100 there was creased his lead to aboµt That left Johnny an entry of seven trucks, eight minutes. Vinje was Alexander and Bill Fox all Fords. This clas is the still in second/.lace, and playing by themselves. same as SCORE's 7S. Tim Baker ran thir , but abut They did three laps, aver-Braden and Mitch Griffin 50 minutes down. He'd aging over two hours each, were out before the day re-broken a drive shaft. Davis and took home the win. ally got going, but every-was running another 40 Along the way they had one else did at least two minutes or so down. come up on a stuck car and laps. When they got to the Bill O'Brien took over g_ot themselves stuck. end of the first lap, the lead for Brown, and aside from Then they made a pact and belonged to Terry Brown. a "mysterious vibration" helped each other, but lost But he had only five sec-continued to have a an hour in the process. onds on Malcolm Vinje, trouble-free ride. Vinje's In Class 7000 only two who was back racing after co-driver, Jim Gilchrist, trucks entered, and the dislocating.his hip jus.t two was close to his rear Ford of Jeff Whj e and days before the start of the bumper at halfway through ltr.viJ ~aclnq 2001.. SCHEDULE"' MDlt MOJAVE 200 JAN. 5-6 WILD WISH 250 FEB. 23-24 RIDGECREST 300 APRIL 20-21 KllTEK 400 JUNE 22 · 23 CALIFORNIA 200 AUG. 25 • 26 win. · Lap 3, but then they had to replace a rear wheel seal, and lost about a half hour. Baker was still running, but he lost an air cleaner late in the day, not a good thing. At the finish it was O'Brien and Brown in vic-tory circle. They reported that driving into the sun through the dust had been really awful on the last lap. Vinje and Gilchrist were second, about 34 minutes later. Baker, another 54 minutes back, was third, the last in the class to get all four laps done. In Class 7 200, which is like SCORE's Class 7, there were five entries, two of whom got no laps done. Another two, the teams of Michael Kelly and Robert Halbman, in a Ford , and GarJ Dircks and Greg Suy _am in another Ford, lost upwards of four hours somehow in their first couple of laps, and were thus unable to finish all four laps. But Craig Turner had his Ford in good shape, and did all the required laps in good time. At the end he said of the course, "I liked it. I sorta like loop races. " But he reported that the last lap got pretty bad, heading westward into the sun. Along the way he'd had one flat when he hit "something really big" and broke the rim. Other that\ that he had no prob-lems and finished first to win the championship, fin-ishing in 10th place in the overall standings. Four Class 1000 buggies started this race, but only two made it all the way around. The Moore family, which includes Kevin, Continued on page 14 Terrie Tavis/Driver Deanna Schmaus/Co-Driver John Tavis/Crew Chief, Relief Driver Kevin Kleinsmtth/Co-Driver Jim Suty/Co-Driver Garson Moser/Co-Driver Ida Personenni/Co-Driver · Julie Kleinsmtth/Logistics Jake Tavis/PH & Chase Kurt Wadenius/Pit & Chase Logan Sanders/Pit & Chase STODDDD 250 NOV. 2-3 ,,,,.. • . ......,1 Levi Brown/Pit & Chase ~ "~~ Greg Schmaus/Ptt & Chase • 4'1L~ ___ /:::::-~fit.b BFGaadric!J ExtremeBuggies.com Dafle Fo/#1 T11111ml11lon1 1fl1/1< WIKS RACE ENGINES Jack @ Pro-Pit Elliot & Deloris @11~~-~ .. ~I Dusty Times February 2001 Page 13

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The ve,r;y--experienced team of Steve O1/iges and Rob MacCachren t....::..o=. ....... ....__ hl)d'some time consuming trouble, but still took second place in Class Marc Stein and Mike McComas paired up in their Expedition to take /f300 in their Ford. second place in the big SUV class (4100) and 34th overall. Ed Stewart and Tim Scalzo partnered in Stewart's VB Chevy powered Jimco to take second place in the unlimited buggy class (Class 1 500). David and Gary, in a Loth-front end. He'd been un-over. ringer, didn't manage to able to see the other car in Cochran was driving g_et their first lap finished. the dust. Omboli later with a less-than-stellar Then Brad Falin and Bill apologized to the other front end, but still moved Smith, in a Bunderson, dis-team; obviously unhappy back up to the front. appeared on the second about the damage he'd Saxton grew weary and'let lap, while running in sec-done to their car. His own Gubler drive along the fast ond place. That left James had a broken shock, a bro-half lap. And at the finish Cochran and Frank Om-ken tie rod end and two it was Cochran and Om-boli in their Lothringer, badly bent tie rods. He boli in first, with Saxton battling Nicole Saxton in limped back to the pits for and Gubler in second a Jimco. Saxton had been. repair-s. Saxton, mean-place, a very god finish for a passenger several times while, was making a pretty a team with one rookie in the past, but this was her good job of it. She had an driver. first attempt at driving. excellent tutor, Jeremy Class 7300 relates to the (Previous reports of her Gubler, riding with her, Stock Mini class in driving were apparently in and givin_g her advice on SCORE events, and at-erro_r.) the fly. They were only tracted seven entries here: Omboli was the starting eight minutes behind Om-six Fords and one Mazda. driver, and he had a good boli at the end of Lap 2. 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Steve Olliges ran second, only a tad, under two min-utes behind at the end of Lap 1, and he'd replaced a flat tire. Aaron and Ian Dixon were in third, about 10 minutes back. Fourth place belonged to Rob Reinertson, but since he drov ·the first lap in his new Protruck, we're not sure who was driving the Stock Mini. Maybe Ar-mando Guzman, his cheery navigator, got to drive. Williams had about three minutes at the end of Lap 2, and it was still 01-liges in second place, fol-lowed by Dixon and then Reinertson's car. Ed Curran and David Porter, driving in their first race, were having a "great time", and they ran fifth. Williams said the first lap had been fun, but after that the course was "chewed up" and th~y had to slow down some. He went on to take the win, finishing 25 min-utes in front of Olliges and his co-driver, Rob Mac-Cachren. MacCachren had a front spring bolt snap, and he'd limped in five miles at five miles per hour, to get help from his pit. Still, they were second. MacCachren reported that the curse was "really, really rough -like an old Mint 400." The Dixons finished in third place, only 20 minutes further back, and in fourth it was Reinert-son and his mystery co-driver. They were the last team to get all four laps in. Curran and Porter managed only three, as did Curt Duffield and Jayson Cook, who came all the way from Iowa to race here. In Class 8100, which is equivalent to SCORE's Stock Full class, the early lead belonged to Steve Spirkoff, in a Ford, who'd just come off a victory at the Baja 2000. He must have been busy. There were seven cars in this class, five of which were Fords and two were Hummers. Spirkoff had only about a minute and a half at the end of the first lap, and hot on his heels was Manny Esq-In the Protrucks (Class 1200) Kevin McGillivray put his Chevrolet into the lead on the third lap and then stayed there to take the win. It was a close call, but Mike Falkosky surged to the front at the last minute to take the win in Class 3100 (small SUVs) in his Fi_o,-,_d_. ---------~ Dusty Times

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Manny Esquerra drove his big, stock Ford to second place in Class 8100 in spite of some shocks that gave up on the rough course. His weren't the only ones. Chuck Harris did some fine driving to lead the Class 8000 race for a while in Dave Westhem's Chevrolet, but a flat tire cost him the win. He finished second and second overall. One of the dangers of driving a limited car on a dusty course became apparent to these folks in David Vieria's Class 900 car, who were out after being rear-ended. uerra in another Ford. In third place it was Al Hogan, Ford, who'd also just driven th e Baja 2000. He started the day with no third gear, and ran about 11 minutes behind second. In fourth place it was Chad Hall in one of the Hummers, who was about 15 minutes back. Spirkoff was having a fine day, though he was thinking that this course was "very, very rough." He had a nine minute lead at the end of Lap 2, and Esq-uerra was still in second i place. In third place it was I' Hall, who said there'd "never been such a rough Best In The Desert" event. H~an was fourth. These guys were all iron-manning it, so there were no driver changes. Spirkoff still led at the end of Lap 3, and by now he had abut 10 or 12 minutes. Esq-uerra, who'd had a broken rear shock shaft for a while, ran second. In third it was now Greg Foutz who'd lost his first gear on -Lap 2. He drives a Ford. Hogan was now fourth, and Hall had dropped to fifth as all his shocks burned up. He said he "bounced to the finish." Spirkoff went on to take the win, reporting two driver-inflicted flats along the way. Esquerra, with the broken shock shaft felt the race was "a tough one " , and F outz said his truck w as either running with a broke n axle or the c;liffer-ential was coming apart. He was also having fuel pressure problems, but still g~t a third place finish . Hogan said this 200 miles was rougher on his truck than the whole Baja 2000, but h e finish ed fourth. Hall was fifth the last o f the class to finish all four la ps. Fo utz reported phe n o m -e non t h at's only o n a very dusty course tha t has no wind. Late in the d ay a nar-row band of dust w as bang-ing about three feet off the ground, not obscurin g t h e . long view, but making it hard to see the holes and· ditches. The team of Randy· Wil-son, Michael Boyer, Mark Wilson and Tim Mitchem, all from Oregon, raced as Sportsmen in this class, but had a pretty miserable day. They got stuck in the silt on the first lap and were there for "six or eight hours." The lone Class 9 car, or Class 9000, belonged to Dusty Times David Vieria. The Lothring-them out of the race. er didn't get very far, it be-On the whole, while the ing the victim clobbered by race was a major departure Omboli. The resultant dam-for the BITD, the racers .age to the rear cage, motor were happy that there was and suspension parts put any race at all. 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WRC RALLY OF GREAT BRITAIN Burns Wins At Home, Marcus Gets The crown By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Richard Burns and Robert Reid were the overall winners in Wales, overcoming some real problems on the first day "If anyone were to suggest that Marcus Gronholm did not deserve to be champion, they would be talking shit!" These words came from the mouth of Richard Burns, the man who gained his hat trick victory on the Network Q Rally, and the man Marcus bet to the title that Richard had worked so hard to gain. It was a nice human end to a season charged from start to finish. Three of the FIA's top four rallying titles were settled. In addition to Gronholm, Man-fred Stohl won the Group N title and the Spike Subaru Group took the Teams Cup prize. And, as if there wasn't excitement enough, this was a rally with six different changes of lead in 1 7 stages and where all the top drivers admitted they had been off the road, often more than once! There were thrills aplenty in Wales for the final round of 1:he champion-ship. . Richard Burns started the rally, the final round of the 2000 FIA World Rally Champion-ship, as the center of attention. His only remaining chance of. winning the Driver's Points was to win the event outright and for the leader, Marcus Gron-holm to finish sixth or worse. Gronholm's Peugeot Team had already clinched the Manufac-turers title, but he knew there had been many unexpected twists of fate on the British Rally and that nothing could be taken for granted. The British round of the se-ries was for the first time cen-tered entirely in south and mid Wales. The stages in that region are long and close together, the road sections between are short, most of the competition takes place in the Autumn daylight and there had never been so small a number of stages, 1 7, on this event before. It has always been a popular event with the competitors and this year was· no exception. Many more com-petitors will enter this event than any other in the year's championship. Even without the tenseness of the title fight, this event is traditionally the most popular for spectators in the series. In earlier days, when the route toured the British Isles, the spectator count was in the millions. The end of the season situa-tion with the four major cham-pionships was as follows: these-ries for overall driver, the Manufacturers title, the Group N Series and the Teams Cup. All the top teams were on Do Nore Than Jus1 H•ck Up ••r11 Meet Marcus Granholm, the new world champion, shown here on his way to second overall in the Network Q rally hand to do battle but there were few technical changes for this event. This is expected to be the final regular world champion-ship drive for Juha Kankkunen, the world's most experienced and successful driver. A limited program, yet to be confirmed is being planned for him for the 2001 series. This was also the final world championship event in which SEAT would enter an official team, concentrating next year on National Champi-onship Rallying. To celebrate they entered no less than four cars! It would also be the final rally for Phil Short, Team Man-ager for Mitsubishi and the fi-nal Privateer rally for Markko Martin, who becomes a profes-sional driver in 2001. When Luis Moya, Carlo Sainz's co-driver starts the event, he will have entered more events than any other co-driver, his 134th WRC appearance. At the pre-event press con-ference, Burns was self-assured but admitted his chances for the Drivers title were slim. "There is nothing I can do about Gron-holm anymore!" The weather had long been a source of worry, particularly as Britain had been heavily flooded, but the hills in Wales offered protection and the only threatened stage was the special built Superstage near Cardiff. This worry continued right up to the day of the start and the organizers were afraid the Superstage would become Wlint impassable with every passing car but in the end all went well. The surface dried out with each passing car. Fastest overall was Kankkunen who was eighth on the road and he was tied on time with a young Finnish privateer Janne Tuohino who was cer-tainly pleased with his perfor-mance. Leg 1 -Eight stages, gravel, 130 kms. The serious business started. The first· three stages were very slippery and the num-ber of cars off the road was amazing. All three Subarus went off the road, all on differ-ent stages and Burns fell a minute back when he cut a cor-ner and damaged the left rear suspension on a rock. Then the hub bearing failed and it was iffy whether he would make the next service park for repairs and it looked like any chance of win-ning the Drivers title was fast going away. After the first of the day's stages however, Peter Solberg was in fron.t, the first Norwegian to lead a world rally but he then went off the road. This let Colin McRae into the lead, the fourth driver to lead the event in three stages! Kank-kunen had been falling back and then he slid into a ditch, lost some time and the damaged suspension cost him even more time. The weather was dry but stage conditions were treacher-ous. Freddy Loix went off the preferred line and rolled his Mitsubishi into an early dnf. w111h· 76 Racllna Gasolllne Page 16 Win Free 76 Racing Gas for the 2801 Season! One entry for each 25 gallons of 76 100 or 110 Octane Racing Gar.ollne purchased from Cl Bryant or an authorized distributor from Jan. 1, 2000 through October 31, 20001 Win Free 76 Racing Gasoline (up to 250 gallons.) To Enter: S!tnd your proof of purchase, along with Name, Address, and Phone to: CL Bryant, Inc. Attn: Mitch 237 E. 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By Stage 4 Granholm was up to second, going fairly slowly but he was staying on the road. The driver, who ear-lier this year Peugeot did not even want to give a full sea-son to looked more and more like the champibn. Makinen said he had been off the road, down a bank and ended up on another road altogether. Then the weather changed. After 20 cars had started Stage 3, there was an enormous downpour and that changed things even more. Normal troubles were affect-ing other drivers. Schwarz lost hydraulic pressure, Auriol had two flats, Gardemeister had a broken wastegate pipe, Lauk-kanen lost second gear, Climent changed a wheel after the first stage and found the new wheel was the wrong size. Kenneth Eriksson retired with engine troubles and Evans lost his ALS system and then spun and Markka Martin had a scare as Eriksson rejoined the stage_ di-rectly in front of him on a very fast stretch. Conditions became dryer and Colin McRae fell back. On Stages 5 and 6 he had spun and stalled the engine and Gran-holm went into the lead. On Stage 5 he had had a luck mo-ment when he slid wide into a fence on the outside of a fast turn and on Stage 6 he hit a sheep. Sainz went off again, this time flying into the trees and was lucky to sustain only body damage. Burns' car was running straight again but he spun on Stage 5 and Makinen hit a rock and bent the steering. Among the other drivers, Andrea Na-varra after a season driving Fiat Punta Kit Cars was finding four wheel drive in British forests quite a change. Frederic Dor was getting used to his 2000 version Impreza, getting used to much quicker gear changes and very precise throttle control. Mark Fisher broke a suspension bolt for a costly seven minutes. Penny Mallory spun her Focus five times in three stages! The final two stages of the day were held in central Wales. The first few cars drove the first stage in a grim, damp dusk, the rest being at night. Colin McRae was going well and took over the lead while Granholm was being cautious and was fighting a slight differential problem. Makinen had a flat to contend with and Auriol fell back two places with a loose turbo pipe. Solberg spun four times and Evans was slowed with clutch problems and Ac him Warmbold was off the road for six minutes. Colin McRae fin-ished the day 19. 7 seconds ahead of Granholm, Sainz was 1.3 in front of Makinen, Burns had climbed back up to fifth, now just less than a minute behind the leader and Auriol was lying sixth. Delecour had alternator problems and Gwyndaf Evans had a slipping clutch. In Group N, Manfred Stohl, started off being quickest but Trelles was not far behind, though he was not happy with his car. Pernilla Walfridsson slid off the road for 15 min-utes, it took 30 spectators to get her going again. Blomqvist's engine would not pull well at higher revs. The day ended with Stohl 82 sec-onds ahead of Trelles. In Formula 2 the Vauxhalls dominated though Mark Higgins was having a very low oil pressure. Neil Wearden spun and stalled and McShea retired his Citroen with a smashed oil cooler. Leg 2 -Six stages, gravel, 166 kms. There was foggy weather and dirty stages wait-ing for the cars on the stages west of Cardiff and there were lots of spectators on hand for the event. McRae was going well, pulling away from Gran-holm and Burns was making up places but he was not gain-ing on McRae. Makinen went off the road again, this time on Stage 10, he hit a tree, dam-aged the intercooler and caused a loss of power and damages the driver's side of dropping him from fourth to the car. On Stage 11, Trelles fifth. Auriol got his handling came to a stop in the middle problems back and his team-of the stage with two flat front mate, Evans, retired after the tires. He put new tires on but clutch started slipping and lost 13 minutes, dropping him forwardmotionceased.Lauk-to 13th in the category. kanen went off the road and Blomqvist was still carrying on it took many hands to get him with an engine well down on going again. Gardemeister had performance. his hood fly up as the rain In Formula 2, Higgins was started to fall heavily and Luis still continuing, still with high Climent had a tire pull off the oil pressure. Walfridsson rim. rolled her car but continued On the long Stage 11, Auriol on and Blomqvist retired with ran for the first third of the stage a second suspension failure. on two and three cylinders and Trelles continued but was far Gardemeister had a handling behind in ninth place, four problem which made the car minutes behind Reece Jones. very nervous. Henning Solberg Both Higgins and Weardon had rear tranny failure and held went off the road and lost up brother Petter for a while many minutes in the process. and Alister McRae holed the Sebastian Loeb had changed a sump on his Accent and once tire, lost four minutes but still again a Hyundai team driver stayed second in the category had to fill the engine with all the and first in class. fluid they were carrying. Colin Leg 3 -Three stages, gravel, left the midday regroup control 84 kms. After a night of gales outside Swansea with a nice and storm there was a particu-· lead of 4 5. 2 seconds. He said he larly vicious layer of mud on the was enjoying the event, still had surfaces and it was more slippery something in reserve, had a lot than ever. Drivers faced all sorts of confidence in the car but of weather, from low autumn knew he couldn't afford to re-sun to torrential rain. Auriol lax or make any kind of mistake. had a scare when the engine A mile into the stage the car stalled approaching a corner bounced out of some ruts and and he had a long slide. Lauk-damaged the radiator. Three kanen slid-off the road on Stage kilometers later the engine 15 and then went off for good failed and he was out of the on 16. It looked like Granholm event. Schwarz lost differential was cruising to the champion-pressure, Navarra hit a large ship, running in second place rock which smashed the engine. but it w.as not yet settled. He Arai also left the event with a was just a bit over one minute cracked exhaust which burned ahead of the sixth place car out the wire loom. For one stage which meant even a slight de-Granholm retook the lead but lay could cost him the title. • then on the final forest stage of Makinen was making up for the day Burns once again took lost time, having Sainz's third command. place in his sights. With one In Group N, Ferreyros badly stage still to run he got one 56., Networl< Q Rally Great Britain 23126.11.2000 Cardiff (GB) WC14 second in front of the Ford driver and drove flat out on the final stage to cement his advantage. Petter Solberg also went off the road, hitting a tree and causing a small fire in the car. No one was more determined than Markka Mar-tin on his final appearance in a Corolla. He drove flat out and scored second fastest time, passing Panizzi in the process. Climent's final stage with Skoda went badly when his transmission failed and he finished the stage with only two wheel drive. · Teams Cup leader Al Waiahibi reached the finish despite a terrible engine mis-fire. In Group N the pace had eased, in fact, Walfridsson made best tie twice and was thrilled while Travaglia lost power throughout the day. In F2 Higgins had major damage to the front suspension and his engine was overheating and his teammate Weardon retired on the last stage. When all was said and done, was Burns happy with his hat trick or sad over losing the title? Co-driver Robert Reid summed it up, "The win was great but the championship would have been nice." So Marcus Granholm took the title with 65 points, Burns was second with 60 points, Sainz 46, Colin McRae 43 and Makinen was fifth with 36 points. In the Manufacturers Points, -Peugeot took the win with 111 points, Ford had 91, Subaru 88, Mitsubishi 43 and SEAT had 11 points. We can't wait for the 2001 season to start, how about you? ■ WC poinll I (3) RicMd BURNS/Robert Reid GB Subaru lmprcza WRC gA W25SRT (GB) 3h.43m.Ol.9s. • WR WO GN 10 10 • 2 (10) MMcus GRONHOLM/Timo luutiaincn FIN Peugeot 206 WRC A 206NDP75 (F) 3h.44m.07.S1. 6 6 3 (I) Tommi MAKINEN/Risto Manniscnmaki FIN Mil. Lancer Ewlution A V22MMR (GB) 3h.44m.16.9s. 4 4 4 (6) Cmos SAINZ/Luis Moya E Ford Racing Focus WRC A V8FMC(GB) 3h.44m.3S.4-. 3 3 s (4) Juha KANKKUNEN/Juha Rcpo FIN Subaru Impreza WRC A W24SRT(GB) 3h.44m.4U1. 2 2 6 {9) Francois DFJ.ECOUR/Danicl Grataloup F Peugeot 206 WRC A 206NAJ7S (F) 3h.44m.50.41. I l 7 {21) 1-urllo Martin/Michael Pad: EE/GB Toyota Corolla \\'RC A K-AM934(0) 3h.46m.26.3a. 8 (19) Gilles + Herve Panizzi F Peugeot 206 WRC A 206NDN7S (F) 3h.46m.37.5a. {7) Didier AURIOI./Ixnis Giraudct F SEAT Cordob3 WRC A B2111WP(E) 3h.47m.29.48. (I 7) Harri Ro to Pietilaincn SEAT Cordoba WRC A B5065WJ (E) 3h.48m.12.0s. Racing past a part of history, Markka Martin and Michael Park drove Racing through the night, Mark Higgins and Bryan Thomas were Tommi Makinen and Risto Mannisenmaki corner in the muck on their Toyota Corolla to a fine seventh overall in Wales. the Formula 2 winners in their Vauxhall Astra Kit Car. their way to a great third overall in their Mitsu_b_is_h_i. _____ _ Martin Holmes inverted umbrella gives you some idea of the weather At least the nose is clean on the Carlos Sainz/Luis Moya Ford Focus, A cold and wet audience watches Armin Schwarz and Manfred Hiemer conditions during the Network Q rally, everything but snow! running to a great fourth overall in Wales. corner hard in their Skoda as they head to a 13th overall finish. Dusty Times February 2001 Page 17

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VORRA FERNLEY CHALLENGE Robinson Romps At Fernley By Forest Creasy Photos: Chris Radboume Eric Robinson was the Class 1 winner at Fernley, beating out the small but very competitive group, a great weekend indeed! Forest Creasy and his $2,500 bounty was on the line this week-end with the largest showing in Class 9 of the year and after it was al done he took home his own bounty with a first place tro-phy and the $2,500 check in hand. The Fernley Off Road Chal-lenge was on display during the Labor Day weekend along with the Creasy In vestment Class 9 Challenge. The racing format was really cool as Saturday and Sunday was laced with with three motos both day§, six races in all. The day began on Saturday with the seven Class 9 cars rac-ing along with six Sportsman Novice, and a couple of Pilots. Well, I got the pole position and flew out the gate to get the early lead on the first lap. Unfortu-nately, I tried a little too hard and put my car on its side half-way through the 18 mile loop. It took me about five minutes to turn it back over with the help from fellow Class 9 driver Keith Ison. After the first lap Lance Rhinehart took the lead with a Bruce Lierman took the Class 12 honors shown here at speed on one of the faster sections of the course at Fernley. 26.05. Next in was Tom Hatch in just over a minute later fol-lowed closely by Bill and Lynn Dickton up from Las Vegas. Steve Souza and his posse were next in about two minutes be-hind the leader. Dave Tarrant was next in, but would end his day and weekend with a broken nose cone on this rough, tight little course. Keith Ison was next and then I was last having to make up some five minutes with one lap to go. The race on Saturday, only consisted of two laps and the winner on Saturday was Lance Rhinehart in his older single seater with a second lap of 17:10 and a total time of 53: 15. Hatch made up some serious ground and finished with a 53: 18. Dickton muscled his way through the silt and finished with a 53:38. I was doing some catch-ing up and spun off a 23:43 on the last lap and closed within a minute of the overall lead. Souza was next in and Ison limped in with a broken front end and got the checke.red with a sixth. On Sunday the starting order was inverted and I had to make up some 90 seconds in order to win the weekend. The race be-gan and I had to pass everyone and then finish a minute in front Chris Gray was the Class B winner at Fernley but it was close, only one minute 45 seconds between the first two places. of Rhinehart and Hatch. After the first lap I was able to pass ev-eryone except Rhinehart and fin-ished Lap I with a 26: 13. Rhine-hart was next on time with a 27:03. Hatch was next, but a broken ring and pinion ended his day prematurely. Bill Dickton was next in, but his front adjuster went away and then broke a ball joint and it was trailer time for him as well. Souza kept his car going, but was well off the pace. After passing Rhinehart on the second lap, I had clear road and ran off the fastest lap on Day 2 of24:52 and would continue on to take the win on Sunday. The formula for the win during the weekend was to combine the times on Saturday and Sunday and the winner was the person with the least time. After both days I won with a total time of 2: 13:43, just beating Rhinehart by two minutes. Souza had enough mustard on the hot dog and finished a great third for his new car. Hatch was fourth, fol-lowed by Dickton, Ison, and Tar-rant. Along with the nines the Sportsman Novice had the same number of laps to run. Scott Pitts got off to a quick start and lead after the first hp ovi>r Tony Roncl by about a minute. Jason Sacks followed in IO minutes later and the last to complete the ·first lap was Glen Murfin who rolled over on the first lap as well. Nick Jor-dan and Ronny Roper both could not complete a lap on Day I and both took DNFs. The last lap brought some change, as Bond was ·able to get by Pitts and finish 30 seconds in front. Sacks was a little ways be-hind and finished 45 minutes back. Murfin had some trouble on Lap 2 and could not get back around. After Day 2 Pitts was able to take advantage of Bond's misfor-tune and ended Sunday and the 1i weekend in first place and the win. Bond with some unusual slowness on the last couple of laps finished a couple minutes out of first for a great second. Sacks completed the weekend with two thirds and a great third for the weekend. Jordan finished fourth after a recovery on Sun-day, as did Roper who finished fifth, and Murtin lost a stub axle and would have to retire early and finished sixth. Two pilots took the green flag and after the highly contested Saturday, Clint W osley had a five seconds lead over Mark Christenson. On Sunday the race was as close as ever as Christenson had a 12 minute lead heading into the last lap, but bad luck had its way with Christenson as he could not com-plete the last lap and Wosley found his way to victory circle once again. The next race out of the gate was the "Heavy Metal" or the Class 8 trucks, Sportsman Trucks, and the Class 7 Trucks, which were, are required to run three laps on Saturday and four on Sunday. Class 8 was first out of the gate and Chris Gray and class leader Bruce Field went out to hetter one another. Field be-gan quickly turning a 28:33, fol-lowed closely in by Gray over a minute later. The last Class 8 starter was Doug Seymor who followed in eight minutes later. Field continued his dust free travels and spun off another quick lap, but Gray was closing the gap and now trailed Field by 45 seconds. Seymor tried like heck to finish, but could only get one lap in and had to await the Sunday green flag. The battle to the checkered flag was on and at the end the two trucks finished nearly bumper to bumper, with Field's lead only eight seconds heading into the final race. Patrick Timmons had some formidable competition at Fernley but he took it all in stride and won Class 10 by four and a half minutes. Scott Pitts had a ball, he took the Novice Class win by nineteen minutes for a nice win in the wilds of Fernley. Sunday came quickly and Seymor was able to get his truck back in working order, but still had some misfortune and could only get three of the four laps in and had to settle for a third in class. This left the battle of two men and two beasts. Soon after the green flag dropped Gary got the drop on Field and used the clear sailing to his advantage and opened up a 90 second lead af-ter Lap I. Field narrowed the lead after the second lap, but could not quite keep up with Gray and finished two minutes back of Gray, settling for second. Gray finished in his yellow Chevy completing a heck·of a desert se-ries and ending on a great note. After the Class 8s the Sports-Continued on page 20 Page 18 February 2001 Dusty Times

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Ricky and Tito Gonzalez churn up the dust as they head to a great Michael Lehners took the Veteran Class win with over ten minutes in The Heavy Metal Veteran Class had no official finishers but Dan Morose went farther and faster than anyone else, he da winner! desert ending on Saturday with road for Sunday, leaving only an impressive time of 1: 25 :03 three to battle for the win. bettering Gonzalez by seven min-Day 2 started to look like a utes and Koenig by 21 minutes mirror image of the first day as after Day 1. Skipton fell further Lucena was smoking the field back, finishing in over two hours increasing his lead after each and couldn't get back on the lap. The white flag dropped and victory in their good looking truck. hand, shown here at speed in the underbrush. man Trucks and Dan Morose as well as Wilson. On Sunday with the big trucks were the four wouldn't let the Class 8s have all Morose only got three of four Class 7 trucks. Out first was the the fun. Dan Morose and Jarod laps under his belt, but that was open truck of Steve Lucena Wilson were the only two to good enough as Wilson wouldn't maintaining a lead over class complete this weekend as Mo- come out and play on Sunday leaders Ricky and Tito Gonzalez, rose ran so well he ended the giving the victory to Morose. Mike Koenig and Gary Skipton. Saturday by beating the Class 8s The last to battle the desert Lucena muscled through the Qua -7/8" , ::) Distributors Baja Concepts Kartek 760-723-2117 909·628-0833 McKenzie's 714-441-1212 Page 20 by SWAY-A-WAY® February 2001 to Lucena that did not mean the final lap, but the surrender flag, as he could not make it around for the checkered. And just like all year long luck was with the Gonzalez's this race and he earned yet another victory. Koenig was running a little slower than his normal pace and finished some 20 minutes back for the weekend. Lucena would still manage a third for the weekend with Skipton fourth. The final moto raced in-volved a cluster of class includ-ing 1, 10, 12, and the biggest class of the day Sportsman Vet-eran. Sportsman Veteran may not be the fastest or newest cars, but the cars that compete and the drivers who drive them are pretty much on even ground ,a,~ the weekend would show. Twelve cars took the green flag and among the .ones that could make it around for the checkered were Tristan Butcher in his first ever desert race driv-ing a car. Also Charlie Bryan had overheating problems with his rabbit powered machine and Glen McAdon had trouble as a broken CV-joint would end his day quickly and add some work for his evening. Steve Millward had some added trouble to con-tinue an already horrible year and Jim Cast had a rocker arm give way. With such a collection already broke seven racers battled for the Saturday victory. Racing was nip and tuck on Saturday and after Day 1 Michael Lehners in the same car that won the event last year led with a respectable 1: 18:56, bet-tering second place driver Tim Fitzpatrick by over two minutes. Following Fitzpatrick in was a quartet of cars all within two minutes of Fitzpatrick. Brent Mittelstadt was next in, then Troy Tippetts, Hooter Meyers and Larry Naso, Allen Gibney, and finally Tom Schultz about 15 minutes behind the leader. After the first day debacle of some one the racers on Satur-day it was going to be a dogfight because they had nothing to lose and proved it on Sunday. First to start the ball rolling was Jim Cast in a short course car improved to handle the desert. He started the day by turning a 25: 15 on the first lap and fol-lowed that up with the best lap of the day with a 23:32 setting the bar up awfully high. Second in command after his homework the day before was Glen McAdon with a 25:46 and a Dusty Times

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Ron Foster ran hard across the northern desert but he could only Bruce Field had a good run in Class 8 he took the second spot, just Allen Gibney drove his neat looking Baja Bug to a nice second place muster second place in Class 10, not too bad a day. a minute and change away from the class win. · in the Veteran Class at the Fernley gathering . • ••• ~~ ~-i . Mike Koenig didn't have the best of weekends at Fernley but he did As seen here, Lance Rhinehart was flying across the desert but he Jerry and Linda Wald ran their Ford pickup in Class 1, but it was not a good weekend and they finished third in the class. manage a second place finish in the Class 7 fracas. was only able to garner the second spot in Class 9, 23:57. Unfortunately both sue-little behind on the first lap, the last podium spot. cumbed to failure as Cast lost a Dennis Boyle turned two very John Tavis driving his wife's tranny and McAdon lost the quick laps including a 24:07 and car had some down time half-other CV on the flip side. - a final lap of 22:32, fastest of the way through on Sunday, but With the speed burners out of weekend, to finish out Saturday managed to bring it home with the way, Lehners once again with a 23 second lead over a fourth in hand and the Desert cr,uised to another victory and points leader Ron Foster. Series-Class 10 championship. se.t his ship for the short course Patrick Timmons wasn't far be-Great job you two. The Lesher roads of Sacramento, CA. Using hind in points and in time run-boys grabbed fifth, with Parsons a borrowed Class 5-1600 Gibney ning a very quick last lap of and his problem~ at sixth with motored around for a great sec-23 :34 and finish a minute out Falin/Smith in seventh. ond° pt°ace just over 16 minutes of the ieaci. Terrie Tavis iook-The iast but not ieast the back on total time. Tippets, in ing to make it a keep sweep in fastest of the crop the unlimited another Baja Bug, was next in the desert for finishes, finished boys were next. I stress unlim-taking a great bronze for his fourth. Rob Parsons was next in, ited because the race consisted troubles another six minutes but a broken motor mount on a Class 5 of Eric Robinson, back. Meyer & Naso with their ended his weekend early on an A-arm Type 4 Mirage of Sam first desert finish in their new car Sunday. The father-son duo of Berri, an older Ford F-150 of received a fourth. Fitzpatrick Richard and Ryan Lesher mo- Jerry Wald, and a good looking dropped off after a faulty clutch tored their way to sixth, look- two seat beam car of Dan Nutt. on Sunday, and settled for fifth. ing for back-to-back victories. If you asked 100 racers who Schulz was sixth, then Lastly Brad Falin and Bill Smith would win 95 would have told Mittelstadt, Cast, McAdon, Mill-couldn't make the flag on Sat- you Sam Berri, but as they say ward, Bryan, and Butcher. urday, but would be back on that is why you play the game. Only a couple of Class 12 ve-Sunday. Berri had some unusual luck hicles made the journey and Sunday brought about fair and broke the left spindle on class leader Steve and Ace play as the local Vorra racers Lap 1 and the race was up for Bradford had a great day, but were out fast and furious as grabs. Robinson took advantage needing two great days had to Timmons led a parade of four of Berri's bad luck and spun off settle for the second spot as cars within 30 seconds of each a great first lap of 23: 19 to take Bruce Lierman in a nice look-other. Timmons kept up the a lead over Nutt by 90 seconds. ing two seat 12 car took advan- pace and with most of the dust Wald followed in shortly 20 sec-tage of the Bradford's DNF on behind him spun off laps good onds later. Robinson continued Saturday, and cruised home enough to lead the entire pack to dominate in a dust free envi-with the win on Sunday to take to the finish and complete the ronment and completed Day 1 the victory. victory on Sunday and for the with the victory. Wald finished Class 10 was another tightly weekend just winning by a total second, as Berri got going again, contested class with· seven time of three minutes over Fos- finishing a lap and a half on highly fast cars taking the green ter. Boyle had it won except for three wheels to get third. Nutt flag. Though he was running a a long second lap and grabbed broke after the first lap and Forest Creasy had a good fight on his hands at Fernley but he came out on top and !E_ok the Class 9 honors with two minutes to_s~pa_r_e_. _________ _ Dusty Times settled for fourth. Sam Berri was able to get his spindle fixed with a little help from a native Reno machinist and got back to his winning ways taking Day 2 from Eric Robinson by about 40 minutes. The only blemish tci Robinson's weekend was a 55 minute lap, and took the Class 1 victory for the weekend. Because of Berri's never die attitude has grabbed a second place, not bad· for a DNF on Saturday. Wald grabbed third due to a failing rear-end and Nutt had a good day going on Sunday, but was pnable to complete the last lap and settled for fourth. Well folks, that concludes the desert series. It was a roller February 2001 coaste.r of a year in the dust, but written and will be in the fol-l learned a lot and will be back lowing monthly issues. It has to see if the victories can come been a little slower than usual. again. I will be reporting on the No excuses though and next three race short course series year looks even better for rac-that took place in October soon ers and readers. to come. The articles are all Later. ■ I'm not_ sure if Clint Wolsey has ever lost a race but he won the Pilot Class once more at Fernley, shown here doing his winning thing. Chair. "A.~T6~CHAFT. Ra:ceP~ . ' ProSeat Mandated by 800 565 4042 www.mastercraftseats.com Page 21

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BITD SILVER STATE SERIES FINALE • LAS VEGAS 200 The-Race Run And won At The Last Minute By Mark Kariya Photos: Trackside Photo Ty Davis and Kurt Caselli teamed on their Yamaha to take the Open Pro class as well as the overall bike victory in the BITD Las Vegas 200. Preparation is crucial in all aspects of racing, but you've got to be somewhat flexible as well to allow for unexpected, last-minute situations that are-bound to pop up. Competition is, after all, a very fluid, dy-namic environment. Promoter Casey Folks dis-covered that less than 24 hours before the start of the Vegas 200, the last of five rounds in Best in the Desert's Silver State Series. After more than a year of preparation for his first race held on the Moapa Indian Reserv::ition some 45 minutes north of Las Vegas, he received a jolt. An official in the Bureau of Indian Affairs sent word at 10:00 Fri-day morning that permission to use Indian land for the race was revoked and there would be no discµssion. So muc h for the race, scheduled to start at 6:30 Sat-urday morning. Frantically, Folks quickly came up with a backup plan. Originally, he'd plotted a two loop course, with a long 110-mile drcuit on the reservation that bike and quads would ne-gotiate once before doing two laps on a 42-mile loop. Trucks and buggies would simply do two laps on the big loop. Faced with the last minute loss of his big loop, Folks de-cided to run all competitors on the smaller loop -which wasn't on the reservation -and make it a four lap race. In addition, the bikes and quads would start first, a,s usual, but they'd utilize grand prix starts: everyone in a class starting at once instead of one bike ev-ery 30 seconds. The trucks and buggies would run after the bikes finished. It wasn't the race Folks or anyone else envisioned, but given the circumstances, it was the only feasible alterna-tive. "For what Casey had to Danny Cooper and Matt Gosnell rode their Yamaha to first place in the 250cc Pro class finishing 11th in the overall bike standings. work with, I guess that was the start, Davis' Montclair best he could come up with," Yamaha/Race Tech/Moose/ Ty Davis said. "I felt sorry for Oakley-sponsored YZ426F lit him. I'm sure he had a good immediately after the light course laid out." turned green, and he found The last-minute theme was himself _with the holeshot. underscored when Davis arrived Team Green's Brian Brown late to the start. "I thought the followed him into the silty first start was at 6:45," he admitted. turn but dropped the Pro Cir-"[Regular partner] Russ [Pear-cuit/Trick/Dunlop-backed son] came up and said, "Nah, KX500 he was sharing with it's going to start at 6:30.' The Destry Abbott. That allowed last time I checked my watch, Andy Grider on the Price Rae-it was 6: 15. ing/Pro Circuit/IMS KX500 to "I guess [the time] snuck by slip into second place, though because I went up pit row to he wouldn't stay there long. kind of see where the course "I couldn't pull [him]; was going. They'd just freshly Andy was right on my shoul-graded that [area], and there der," Davis said. "I couldn't . were big boulders that were hold him off; we just ended up turned up. I kind of wanted to following him. Once we got see where I was going because out of that deep sand, the pace you were going to· be pinned picked up, we kind of pulled [ through there]. I went all the back up on him a little bit, and way down to the end of pit row we stayed right there." to see how long pit row was, Grider came in after the stuff like that. (It stretched an first lap in the lead and estimated two miles. -Editor)" handed the ·bike to partner When he finally made his Shane Esposito (whose regu-way to the start line, Folks lar partner Dave Ondas was gave the one minute warning, still recovering from knee sur-"I'm like, 'Oh my gosh - I just gery complications). Esposito barely made it!'" Davis ex-retained the point position claimed. through the second lap, when Despite having less than a he Gegan coming up on the minute to prepare and psych first lappers. himself up for the dead-engine Unfortunately for the Ka-,----------------------------~ wasaki racers, their bike quit Greg Zitterkopf rode his Honda to victory in the lronman Expert class, finishing eighth in the overall standings on _th_e_1_68_ m_,~·1e_c_o_u_rs_e_. ________ _ Mike Kaplan rode his Kawasaki to first place in the lronman Amateur class, and 29th overall, in a time of 3:33:29. on the third lap, reportedly due to a vent hose that no longer vented. That put them out of the running and left Davis and teenager Kurt Caselli in the driver's seat, Caselli subbing for Russ Pear-son, who decided not to ride in order to prepare for eye sur-gery. It marked Caselli's first race on a four stroke and his first race on a Yamaha and also was a last-minute ar-rangement. "He just called to see if I wanted to ride [ with him]; he knew I was in between con-tracts," Caselli explained. "I was really happy when he called. It Continued on page 24 Jason Goimanac, Jason Weeks and Josh Downard, all of St. George, Daryl Folks and Rick Bozarth, seen here right after the dawn start, In the Over ,;o Pro division, Steve Pitts and Charlie Barney rode an Utah, teamed up on a KTM to take the victory in 250 Amateurs in piloted their KTM to first place in the Over 30 Pro division. ATr<, here churning through some of the miles of silt, to victory. _4._·2_9_:5_7_. ------------~-------Page 22 February 2001 Dusty Times

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Rich Jesse and Mike Roth, on a Honda, took first place in the 250 Expert class, finishing 18th overall al1?0-Jacob and Wade Phillips and Lance Stein, all of Needles, California, rode their KTM to first place in the Open Expert ·class and a nice fourth overall. Brian Cunningham and Earl Desiderio paired up to win the Over 30 Expert division, finishing 14th overall also. was a good opportunity, my first race [ to ride with him]. He called on Thursday when I was at school... so we left the next morning. I don't think it could've worked out any better for us and for Yamaha. "My first lap, I was looking something [ on the leaders). I back a lot. I went down once; · came in, and nobody had I just kind offell over in a sand passed me. I'm like, 'Okay, wash. Luckily it started on the didn't do too bad."' first. kick. Davis praised his young, "I ended up doing pretty one-race partner: "To just go good - I pulled 40 seconds or_ out cold and floor it like that, it's pretty amazing. And not to it came down to lapped traf-lose any time, that's e~tremely fie, lapping the quads and stuff good too. He did really good." like tha~. It was very danger-And after t-hey inherited ous as far as lapped traffic." the lead, as the former series Unlike other times when champ put it, "Our lead just he's led this year, Davis kept grew and grew. I think a lot of it to the finish, untouched by the mechanical gremlins that have plagued him throughout 2000. When Caselli took the checkered flag in 3 :30:50, they had nearly 10 minutes on the runner-up team, which turned out to be Team Honda's Steve Hengeveld. Lance Fisher, 15, and Kevin Fisher, 13, teamed on a Honda to take first place in the 125 Amateur division. Here they create a giant plume of dust in a burgeoning silt bed. Jim Rigsby and Larry Ogden, from Carson City and Yerington, rode their KTM to the Open Amateur win, in 3:31 :00. With partner Jonah Street recovering from a broken arm, Hengeveld soloed his Honda Pro Oil/Acerbis/MSR-backed XR650R. He established him-self in fourth place early, and that turned into third after Es-posito/Grider DNFed. Not content with that, Hengeveld stalked the Team Green/Dun-lop/IMS KX500 of Destry Ab-bott and Brian Brown. "I caught Brian Brown on the 2B65 Gundry Ave. Signal Hill. CA 90B06 B00.959.7757 56i!.4i!7 .i!375 FAX: 526.426.5294 !!iee f:!Ur complete product line at www.neasyntheticail.com Page 24 Use What The Pros Use! February 2001 Dusty Times

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Steve Pankas and Richard Purvines, from Las Vegas and Henderson, Don Hutchinson and Malcolm Wood, both of California, rode their Vincent Reger and Cortney Whipple, both of Las Vegas, rode their rode their Yamaha to the win in the Over 30 Amateur class. Kawasaki to a 3:36:07 victory in the Over 35 Amateur class. Honda to the win in the Over 35 Expert class in 4:31: 18. third loop," Hengeveld said. "I ing dust from Destry so I had to self for next year." M/XC in 3:52:21. They took the mount come loose, and the was reeling him in, then with back off. Finally I made my pass That settled the top three, Open Expert and overall Expert other Experts caught up to us." the lappers and dust I'd kind of stick on a power line road out with Hengeveld the runner-up lead early and simply ran away Wade Phillips related. After a fall back. I was kind of doing the there. It was just whoever would in 3:40:20 while Abbott/Brown from class runners-up Chad pit stop at the end of the sec-back and forth deal: go fastest in the dust. It was fun, took third in 3:40:59. Houck and Tex Mitchell, who ond lap to tighten it up, they "Finally on the fourth loop, I though." Fourth overall went to the rode their Baja Designs/White watched Houck/Mitchell ap-wanted to get past [Abbott]. I Abbott decided not to retali-fi~st Experts to the finish ; Brothers/KB Motorsports proach the pit as they left, but made up more time into the ate, due to the dust, admitting: Brothers Jacob and Wade Phil-XR650R to a 4:00:23 finish, that was as close as it got the third loop, then going out on "I couldn't see so I didn't want lips on their Phillips Construe-good for 10th overall. rest of the day. "I felt it [come] the fourth loop I was just catch-to let it hang out and injure my-tion/Active Towing KTM 380 "We had a [handlebar] Continued on page 26 Rhett Higgins, Steve Argubright and Steve Smotherman took the win Marty Smith and Bill Gillan, of Garden Grove and Los Angeles, CA, Howard Larson, 55 and Jerry Allen, 53, both from Washington, rode in the Over 40 Expert class riding a Kawasaki. rode their Honda to the Over 40 Amateur win. their Yamaha to the win in the Over 48 Expert class. t r " To Our 1'&,un ,·~ANJ(S" ~ for y-0ur.U,:ard W(H'k and Dcdicatlm1!! \'"qu't;e .the ,»est!! •Denise Pometi'.>y •Sharon Pom'eroy •Brad Turpin • Devh1 Newton •Jim Waters ~ •Sha .,1--~rm1 ~•Bob Dusty Times Wants to y&Tom , ., rivers/Ow T P MOTOR PORTS Class 1 2000 Cfhampions 1JRfor a Great Year of Off-road Racing February 2001 Our Sponsars for your Support!! United Rentals, Continental Resources Bayside Concrete, Fitch Plastering, Quality Towing~ O'DonncJI .. Atkins, base II Tir mbat, Past Racin McKenz . · F3b:r" · .. · . . , King Page 25 ·

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In the 4 Stroke Under 450cc class the team of Curtis Moon and Jamie Bruce Steigelman and Randy Reames, both from California, rode Todd Hur1ter and Russ Ramsey, of Las Vegas, rode their Honda to Graham, both Nevada boys, took the win in a time of 3:38:09. their Yamaha to the 4 Stroke Under 450cc Expert class. second place in Quad Expert, fifth overall amongst the Quads. Eric Hays and Joshua Frederick, both from Nevada, rode a Honda to the overall Quad win, in a time of 4:15:32, riding in the Quad Pro class. William Yokley and Kim Kuhnle, from Kentucky and Ohio, rode their Roll Design Quad to second place in the Quad Pro division, in 4: 17: 18, finishing second overall. Mike Johnson and Jason Rayburn, both from California, teamed on a Honda to take the win in the Quad Expert class in a time of 3;28:09. They were the fourth overall Quad. loose on the first lap, and I didn't know what it was~ I for-got about it [as I came at the end of the lap], and [Jacob] got on the bike. He felt it." But after jetting out of the pit, the Phillips duo once again pulled away from the competi-tion. "Everything went good from there, really. It didn't seem like we passed that many peo_ple, but we must h ave ." Only the Rick Bozarth/Daryl Folks Over 30 Pro team passed the brothers, but Jacob Phillips repassed the vet team on the last lap. Their win also cemented the class championship with Wade Phillips relating, "We won .. . by one point. We were lucky. Tex Mitchell and Chad Houck, they finished right behind us by one point." Expect the Phillips brothers to ride one of the Pro classes in '01. Johnny Campbell and Tim Staab rode conservatively to finish fifth overall, fourth Open Pro, in 3:52:30 after Staab got a midpack start and spent the first loop picking his way through the dust. "As it turned out, Tim got a little behind in the dust on the start, and we just kind of trailed [the leaders] the whole time," Campbell reported. 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With their competitors expe-riencing troubles of one sort or another, Rick Bozarth and Daryl Folks had no problem in taking the Over 30 Pro win on . their Sportsman Cycle/Pro Cir-cuit/KTM of Gresham 300 Ml XC. Their 3:54:06 put them seventh overall and also helped defend their number one plate in the class. Greg Zitterkopf took the lronman Expert class in 3:54:34, good enough for not only second Expert but eighth overall on his self-sponsored CR500R. Making his class win over runner-up Scott Glimp (4:08: 15 and 13th overall) even more remarkable was the spate of bike problems that Zitterkopf overcame. First, his rear brake hose melted after contacting the exhaust, leaving him with no rear brake. Then, the retain-ing nut for the clutch h ub backed out, which eventually left him stuck in third gear. Despite the mechanical woes, he persevered to earn points for the class win, though missing a couple races meant Team T Racer/Answer Husky 610-mounted Cory Ayers success-fully defended his class champi-onship with a fifth-in-class plac-ing. The.250cc Pro class champi-onship would go to either Bryan February 2001 Folks/Matt Murphy or Danny 22nd overall in 4:31:40. Cooper/Matt Gosnell, depend-Larry Ogden and Jim Rigsby ing solely on who came out on took the Open Amateur win on race day. After Folks crashed his their KTM, ·doing three laps in KTM, Cooper/Gosnell took the 3:31:00 (27th overall). Other win for the day (4:04: 11 and class winners who completed 11th overall) and the series on three laps included, in descend-their DH Racing/Dunlop/MS-ing order of overall finish: Steve backed YZ250. Argubright/Rhett Higgins/Steve Brian Cunningham and Earl Smotherman (Over 40 Expert), Desiderio took the Over 30 Ex-Don Hutchison/Malcolm Wood pert win after finishing in (Over 35 Amateur), .Steve Pan-4: 11: 14 (14th overall) on their kas/Richard Purvines (Over 30 City Service/Fine line/Three Amateur), Jamie Graham/Cur-Brothers Yamaha. They com-tis Moon (Under 450cc Four-fortably beat class runners-up stroke Amateur), Charlie Richard Hersh/David Wilson Barney/Steve Pitts (Over 40 who rode a Dick's Racing/Wild Pro), Randy Reames/Bruce Bunch M.C.-backed KTM to Stiegelman (Under 450cc Four-16th overall in 4:19:18. stroke Expert), Kevin and Rich Jesse and Mike Roth Lance Fbher (125cc Amateur, proved to be the fastest Arna-neither old enough to hold a teurs in the Nevada 2000 on driver's license), Jerry Allen/ their old CR250R, so they rode Howard Larson (Over 48 Ex-250cc Expert at Vegas. The re-pert) and Bill Gillan/Marty sult? A class win, this one com-Smith (Over 40 Amateur). Of ing in 4:28:54 (18th overall) on the 83 starters, 63 finished. their Pro Sport/EBC/Bridge-On the four-wheeled side, stone-sponsored CR Bret Ajax Joshua Frederick and Eric and Nick Thom took second in Hayes took the overall victqry 4:35:34 (26th overall) on their on their O'Neal/Maier/lMS Cycle Fear/EVS KX. Honda, handing Kim Kuhnie Actually, Jesse/Roth just beat and William Yokley a defeat, the first 250cc Amateur team, 4:15:32 to 4:17:18. However, composed of Josh Downard, Ja-the consistency of the Kuhnie/ son Goimanac and Jason Yokley team (three runner-up Weeks. The winning 250cc yel- finishes and a third on the four-low platers were also the top fin-race quad series) meant they ishing Amateur team with their kept the number one plate on 4:29:57 (19th overall) on their their ITP Tires/IMS/Bell Hel-Pro Cycle Sports/Cycles and mets-backed Roll Design four-S leds/Gridiron Sports Grill wheeler. KTM. Michael Cafro was the only As in the Expert ranks, an other four-wheeler to complete lronman was second Amateur four laps, taking third Quad Pro overall, with Washington's John in 4:25:06. Strong doing the deed in Mike Johnson and Jason 4:31:24 (21st overall). Rayburn were the first of the Sandwiched between the two three lap finishers, taking the top Amateur finishers was Over Quad Expert win in 3: 28:09 on 35 Expert winner Vincent th eir Duncan/Golden West Reger/Cortney Whipple. They Cycle/Roll Design Honda. Less rode a Whipple Concrete/TBE than two minutes behind, Group, lnc./Sportsman Cycle 3:30:07 to be exact, was Todd Honda to 20th overall in Hunter and Russ Ramsey on 4:31: 18. That put them just their T&M Lawn Maintenance/ ahead of class runners-up Skipp Bingo Graphics Honda. Hunter Cohenour, Willy Hopkins and and Ramsey ended up with the Craig Huffer, who took their class championship, however. Golden N ugget Laughlin/ Fourteen of 17 four-wheelers Skipp's Cycle Sports Honda to made it to the finish. ■ Dusty Times

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MOJAVE DESERT RACING, INC. Stoddard 300 By Sheryl Cannon Photos: Trackside Photo Troy Pomeroy set fast lap on lap 1, was third on lap 3 but came back for a great win in Class 1 and a great finale for the year 2000. The final race of MDR's wildly successful 2000 season was held November 18, in Bar-stow. For those still in the hunt for class championships, the Stoddard 300 represented an "all-or-nothing" proposition. The mood was extra serious at the Start/Finish line, as each participant waited impatiently for his or her signal from the starter. "Last Call" had arrived. Later, each waving of the checkered flag brought MDR's Y2K puzzle another piece closer to completion. By day's end, all division titles had been claimed, and a new points champion was crowned. It was an outstanding race and season for Mojave Desert Racing faithful. Now it's time to recap that wild ride, so climb aboard and hang on. Seventy-three vehicles were entered for the year's grand fi-nale. Officially, 67 started and 31 finished. Arguably, the day's biggest winners were Kory Halo-poff and Harley letner. That richly talented pair capped off another great season by beating everyone to the checkered flag. _The dynamic young duo took first in Class 1000 and the over-aii Stoddard. 300 championship. Letner, who drove the final four laps, finished seven minutes and 11 seconds ahead of classmate Whit Courtenay. Halopoff made the winners' 5:56:10 t 4 7. 2 mph) clocking possible, by contributing four sub-44 minute laps. His second loop, com-pleted in 43 minutes flat, was the fastest lap in Class 1000. Courtenay, whose usual strong performance landed class and overall runner-up honors, could not have been too disappointed however. That's because, for the second straight year, Courtenay captured MDR's overall Class 1000 championship. Bob Hansen was unable to keep pace with the top two finishers in his division, but his solid perfor-mance secured third piace in. Class 1000. Hansen's time of 7:00:59 (39.9 mph) was the fifth fastest clocking of the day. The overall third and fourth place finishers both hailed from Class 1600. Despite posting the day's third best final time (6:23:40), Brian Logan was on top of the world. Logan was a clear-cut Kory Halopoff and Harley Letner won Class 10 but it was a seesaw battle for eight laps and they won by only seven minutes in the six hour race. winner in Class 1600, and re-corded that division's fast lap time ( 4 5: 51). Placing first in 1600 on the day, also made Lo-gan the 2000 class champ. But wait, there's more. B_y amassing a total of 3 77 points this year, Logan also earned the distinc-tion of being MD R's overall sea-son points champion. Wes Moser finished slightly more than 3 7 minu~es ·behind Logan to secure 1600 runner-up hon-ors. Moser's time of 7:00:59 (39.9 mph) placed him fourth overall. Completing the Class 1600 scoring was third place fin-isher Robert Mauritzen, who posted the day's seventh best time (7:11:45 38.9 mph). Troy Pomeroy won a battle of attrition in Class 100, to end the season on a -high note. -Pomeroy posted the fastest lap of the en-tire day ( 41 :51) on his first loop. At various times during Laps 1 through 7, Pomeroy's classmates fell by the wayside. With his di-visional rivals nowhere in sight, Pomeroy ( 6th overall) sped to the easiest of victories. MDR's new Class 100 champion com-pleted his eight lap assignment in 7:02:07 (39.8 mph). John Criswell defeated a pair of rivals to claim the Class 500 victory, and eighth place overall. Guy Petersen held the early lead, thanks in part to his posting the 500 fast lap time (44: 17). Un-fortunately, Petersen's ultra-swift third lap was also his final one of the day. With his depar-ture, Criswell and Steve Griffith were left to decide the issue. Both men were able to go the distance, but Griffith lost virtu-ally all chance for victory dur-ing a 2:23:52 Lap 4. Criswell finished strongly (7:21:47, 38.0 Bob MacDonald made it look easy, running all eight laps in good time and taking the Class 9 win by 35 minutes. The Criswell's have a great looking Class 5 car and they went and took all the marbles at the Stoddard 300. · mph) to prove much the best for both the day and the season. MDR's 2000 Class 500 Champ Whit Courtenay took the second spot in Class 1 O but he also cinched Dennis Sletten didn't have the best start at the Stoddard 300 but he Kurt Puhl ran a good race in his Baja Bug, running second all day and the class championship for 2000 and was second overall in points persevered and ended up with the Class 11 win. taking the silver medal with ease. _a_ls_o. _____________________ _ Page 28 February 2001 Dusty Times

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John Kelty had a nice fourth place finish in Class 9, he was only eight minutes out of the bronze medal. Bob Hansen ran steady consistent laps but was a bit off the winning pace and he settled for third in Class 10. Julio Curiel set fast lap for Class 11 but he had problems and ran a lot slower for the final three laps and took second place. amassed 3 21 points during the year, placing him third in over-all scoring. Griffith secured 500 runner-up honors for both the day (16th o/a) and the season. A half dozen competitors saw action in Class 550. As they had done all year long, Guy Evans and Bryan Geer again made strong bids for victory. Despite their efforts, it was Robert Moore who came away with the crown. Moore had himself quite a day/season, taking fast lap honors (51: 26), first place in his division and the MDR 2000 Class 550 championship. Moore, whose five classmates were unable to complete their eight lap assignments, ended up with the day's ninth fastest overall time (7:23:48, 37.9 mph). His superb effort in the season finale gave Moore 329 points for the year, and earned him runner-up honors in over-all scoring. Despite coming up short on his occasion, Guy Evans and Bryan Geer deserve some measure of recognition. Evans completed all but Lap 8, and finished the season second in Class 5 50 and 14th in total points. Geer also had another fine year, placing third in class and 18th in overall points. · A competitive field of eight saw action in Class 900. To illus-trate the group's tenacity, all eight were still in the running as late as Lap 7. Tom Steeno came away with fast lap honors (54:44), but the victory spoils went to Robert MacDonald. MacDonald (10th overall) pulled clear in the race's late stages, winning by 34 minutes in 7:51:27 (35.6 mph). Dan Folts (11th o/ a) took the 900 runner-up hon-ors by putting 15 minutes be-tween himself and third place fin-isher Joel Mohr. Mohr, who re-quired 8:40:41 to complete his assignment, may have lost this battle, but he definitely won the war. JM (13th o/a) dominated his division during the 2000 season, to win his second consecutive MOR Class 900 cha pionship. Gary Stevens finished the year second to Mohr, whose 286 points were the seventh highest total accumulated. Completing the Class 900 scoring on the day were John Kelty and Wayne Col-lins. Kelty took fourth in class and 14th overall, while Collins claimed fifth and 15th. In Class 725, Kathy Fay thoroughly spanked the boys. Her four rivals disappeared long before Fay took the checkered flag in 8:32:43 (32.8 mph). Fay, who recorded the day's 12th fastest final clock-ing, wound up finishing the year in second place. Steve Martz, the 2000 Class 725 champ, had a very good year and a very bad day. Martz scored a decisive 17 7 -Dusty Times 103 victory over Fay in year end-posted the 725 fast lap time ing point totals, but "girl power" (56:43). The Class 700 season clearly reigned in the season fi-championship boiled down to a nale (8-2 in laps completed). In "winner-take-all" match race be-all fairness to the masculine gen-tween Craig Turner and Jeff der, it should be noted that Martz Richardson. Turner took com-mand early, and posted fast lap who could not complete his as-time (52:24) on his second loop. signment under the 10 hour Richardson dropped well off the limit.Turner emerged victorious, pace, before closing some ground while posting the day's 17th best on Laps 7 and 8. It was a case of final time (9:02:52, 30.9 mph). too little too late for Richardson, Continued on page 30 MICRO STUBS KARTEK 's micro stubs are used by some of the biggest names in off-road racing today. 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Bryant Leyton took the second spot in Class 1400, running consistent Aaron Osborn had a couple of slow laps and that put him into the laps but well out of the first place spot. third place position in Class 1400. Nick Beall brought his black Jeep home in the second spot, having had his share of problems during his required five laps. Dan Vance literally decimated the 1400 Class, 5 laps in less than 5 hours, one and a half hours ahead of second place. His clutch victory in the season finale also. landed Turner the 2000 MDR Class 700 champion-ship. Turner finished the year 24th in total points, with 184. Richardson ended up with 12-2 and Class 700 runner-up honors . The Class 800 contest was a match race between Heath Mitchell and Joe Patelli. Mitchell gained the early lead, and secured fast lap honors dur-ing an opening loop timed ·in 49:59. When Patelli encoun-Jamie Campbell took no prisoners in Class 1200, leading from the second lap and winning by almost three hours. tered trouble on Lap 2, Mitchell's lead swelled to 1-1/2 hours. That lead proved ~hort lived however, as Mitchell needed nearly four hours to complete his third. (and final) lap. Patelli, who had the 2000 Class 800 title under lock and key, decided to forego the re-maining laps and begin celebrat-ing his season champiomhip. And after 6:5 1 :05 of driving, who could blame him. Participants in Classes 1100, 1200, 1300 an 1400 were eac handed five lap assignments. A field of three slugged it out in Class 1100. Julio Curiel emerged with the early lead and fast last time honors after com-pleting his opening loop in 1:02:27. Kurt Youngs began Lap 2 in second place, with Dennis Sletten racing a distant third. By the time the trio had com-pleted Lap 2, Sletten had gone from worst to first. For all in-tents and purposes, the race was over at that point. The "11 Brothers" were never seriously threatened the rest of the way, and won geared down in 6:42:48 (26. 1 mph). Sletten took runner-up honors for the day and year, while completing his five lap assignment in 9:05:24. It was another 24 min-utes back to Youngs, who fin-ished Lhird. A field of five saw action in Class 1200. Daniel Fresh attracted most of the at-tention during Laps 1 and 2. . ,HONDA -·Power Equipment KAWAGUCHIHONDACOR~ POWER -Racer· and Spectator Discounts •GENERATORS •WELDERS •GENERAL PuRPOSE ENGINES •WATER PUMPS •OUTBOARD ENGINES •LAWNMOWERS •LAWN TRACTORS • RIDING MOWERS •TILLERS CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT PARTS AND INVENTORY IF WE DoN'T HA VE IT, No ONE Doest _... . ..-_;;-_-:::-::: I • l!!ll!il\o::J Check our website www.Kawaguchihonda.com · 00 . ·' ::--~---~' ~. ~---KAWAGUCHI HONDA EX1000 3532 E. 3RD Sc La;.A1SGH.Es, CA 9CXJ63 •3 2 13 .264.3936, 264.585B FAX 264.2136 HQNDA Power Equipment Page 30 ! VISA ) . s A L E s ' s E R V I C E ' p A R T s ~-HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST Nlthings easier. ' • 1 # [iCi for optimum performance and sa[('ty. pl('.\!'< l'~:id lh(' O\•me-r's manual tx.-fore o~r:t.tlng your Honda Power Equ ipment. S~cUkallon:, subject to d•....uig.e ~1thoul notke. •Esthn.ite only. b3ffd on r.lted toad. +Battery not mcludcd \\i th E~t3500~XK.1. E'.\15000SXK 1 and £B0500S,.X:. +♦With b.lttery tr.1y kit. wh~ls & h..mier. ConnttUon to house power ~ulrt-S tr.uisrcr d<"'1tc to ;wo1,J possible Injury to Pffl"'~r company pcrsonn~l. Consult a qu.:lllfll'd ~1«U1cUn. February 2001 Dusty Times

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Joel Mohr was not up to his winning ways, he had problems on lap 2 and he finished his race in third place. Craig Turner was the Class 700 winner, setting fast lap on the second Dan Folts had a few bad laps and it cost him but he was able to take the silver medal in Class 9 at Barstow. loop and finishea with over an hour in hand. In Class 725 it was Kathy' Fay all the way, none of her competition was able to finish the required eight laps. Fresh posted the division's fast lap time (54: 12) on his initial loop. Unfortunately, his second tour of the rugged Barstow course took 4:40:20. With Fresh virtually eliminated on Lap 2, and Nicholas Beall and Mike Dill also encountering trouble, Jamie Campbell had an easy time of it. Campbell strung to-gether a quartet of sub-1 hour laps to prove a romping winner. MDR's 2000 Class 1200 cham-pion -averaged 36.8 mph on the day, and stopped the clock vi a quick 4:45:33. It was nearly three hours back to Beall, who finished a distant second. Fresh checked in third, more than four hours behind the runaway winner. Campbell placed 13th in the overall points category. Curiel, who finished the year as Class 1200 runner-up, ranked 21 7th. A field of five did battle in Class 1300. Only a trio re-mained at the race's halfway point. Joshua Johnson led the field through Laps 1 and 2. Johnson briefly surrendered the lead on Lap 3, before reclaim-ing it for good during Lap 4. Bob Moore was the 5-1600 winner, his five competitors were unable to finish the required laps. Brian Logan set fast lap for 1600 on lap 1 and there was no stopping him, he won the class by 37 minutes. Dusty Times Johnson made his MOR season debut a winning one, taking the Class 1300 win by 39 minutes and change. Johnson, who com-pleted his five laps in 5:07:48 (34 .1 mph), also took fast lap honors with a 50:02 final loop. Kurt Puhl proved second best on the day, but numero uno for the season. Puhl finished 4 7 minutes (and 3 7 points) ahead of third place finisher Greg Crew. Both men cracked the top 10 in season point totals. Puhl placed fourth with 304 points. Crew, the 2000 runner-up in Class 1300, finished ninth with 267. In Class 1400, nine com-petitors took to the track. Dan Vance made quite an impres- five laps within the time allot-sion in his only appearance of ted. What he was able to do was the year. Vance went far beyond dominate his classmates posting his division's fast lap throughout the 2000 season. As tii:,ne (51:19). Vance posted the a result, "QJr." reigns as MDR's four fastest Class 1400laptimes. new Class 1300 champion,. Not surprisingly, he also Quarnstrom, Harber and emerged victorious. Vance sped Ruddick finished 1-2-3 respec-to a fine winning time of tively for the season. The reign-4:43: l 7 (37.l mph). 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FRT DUNAWAY DASH ·Hovey Rings In The New Year By Judy Smith Photos: C&C Race Photography Chuck Hovey led all the way in his Raceco, but he couldn't let up in his battle for the overall victory at the FRT New Years Eve Dunaway Dash. Chuck Hovey capped off for the midnight bonfire. the old millennium with a The bikes, quads and solid win at the FRT desert lites raced in the Dunaway Dash New Year's morning, while the cars and Eve event at Plaster City trucks didn't take off until west, leading all the way, but noon on Sunday. Many of not by much. the entrants had been there It was the usual FRT New for a couple of days, fine-tun-Year's eve, with warm sunny ing their cars, pre-running weather d·own south in Impe-and generally enjoying the rial County, and a two mile holiday break. For some San long pit row sparked by fully Diego and Imperial County decorated Christmas trees, families spending their New long strings of colorful lights Year's holiday in the desert and piles of firewoe>d and is a tradition that goes back tired Christmas trees waiting over 20 years, and having a ,...,,,,,...,.._,=,,,:::;i. ;.,.,....,,...,..~--,,--,;,.,, Larry Wyatt brought his odd-ball Baja Bug, with a 1650cc Rabbit motor in it, to have some fun. He had more than the rest of them, taking the Class 5 win after a hard race. desert race to drive in, or pit for or simply to watch, just makes it more fun. The race course was about 25 miles long, featuring a lot of silt and plenty of whoop-de-doos. All the Pro classes were required to run six laps, while the Sportsman would run only five. Hovey got a major bonus by getting the first-off-the-line position and he took full advantage of it. His Raceco has only a Type IV motor pushing it across the desert, and there were some much bigger power plants starting behind him. The dust was heavy, and there wasn't much breeze, so at the end of that first lap Hovey had al-ready built a lead of 19 sec-onds. In second place it was Scott McMillin, driving the car he bought from Darnen Jefferies, a Porter powered by a V8 Chevy. Third place be-longed to Larry McCallum, with six cylinder Toyota power, and Rob Archibald was fourth with V8 power in his two seater. Two minutes and two seconds separated fourth from first. But the re-mainder of the class wasn't far behind. Dan Worley and Stan Potter teamed in their Jlmco to come from the rear late in the day to take the victory in Class 1200. On the second lap Hovey was still mostly dust free, but he knew he couldn't relax. He now had 59 seconds on McMillin, who had his 13 year old son, Andy, riding with him. Scott was driving this car for the first time, and really enjoying the VS power. In third it was McCallum, and now Bill Pate, in a Type IV powered car, was racing for the first time in three years (he's been busy with law school), and had moved into fourth as Archibald · dropped out after rolling is car. From·this point on the lead four ran in the same or-der, Hovey always in front. Behind him there were some tight battles as the unlimited cars moved up through slower lapped traffic, but by the end of Lap 4, Hovey still had only a little over three minutes on McMillin, who was a little surprised that the Type IV powered car could go so fast. He decided there's still some "fine tunin"' to do on his new car's springs. Mc-Callum, who needed to stop for a quick fuel dump, later said, "I drove my heart out. These guys drove hard. I take my hat off to 'em." His car was running with the oil temp "buried", but it kept running. Behind the lead pack Rue-ben Wood, who started ninth in his Subaru powered Jimco, got "caught in the dust", and had trouble passing a couple of slower cars. And Mark McMillin, who had his 13 year old son, Daniel, riding along, was having the same problem. He made one fuel stop, but that was it. Hovey also dumped fuel, his well practiced crew get-ting the job done in abut 1 7 seconds. Hovey said he was "scared of that VS" behind him, so he ran really hard in the rough. He couldn't quite get top end and that had him worried. But for the first time in all his year's racing the New Year's Eve race he had a clean run and no one could catch him. He took the win with just under three min-utes on Scott McMillin. Mc-Callum was third, and Pete, who didn't stop for fuel, and said it really helped because the car, which had been parked for three years, "wasn't very good" was fourth. He'd made some pre-race adjustments to upgrade the suspension, but lost sec-ond gear and had no rear brakes. Wood,· who said, "Maybe I'm gettin' too old for this" finished in fifth place, with a c. v. boot torn apart. The 1200 cars (SCORE Lites) started next, and this was another good race. Kevin Basore finished the first lap in front in Bob Hummel and Mike Cohen's new Jimco, and he had just under a minute on Dan Worley in his Jimco. Ken Stroud had his. Jimco in third only a minute and 50 seconds later. Rich-ard Beck ran fourth in an-other Jimco~ about two min-utes later. Jeff Norton drove his good-handling Chevrolet to the Class B victory by a long margin, having no mechanical problems to mar his day. Brian Ickier completed his rookie driving year with a victory in Class 1\2-1600 Urging his Jimco home in front after a flawless run. Basore continued to lead with Worley chasing him and Stroud in third, through the third lap. At that point Ba-s·ore had two and a half min-utes on Worley, and he was 58 seconds up on Stroud. Beck had lost about five min-utes, but still ran fourth. Ba-sore stopped for a driver change, as did Worley. But Worley's was smoother than Basore's. (This was only the second race for the car.) When Mike Cohen, who is shorter and broader, got into the car, some time consum-ing seat belt adjustments had to be made, including re-threading the crotch strap, not a quick job in the best of times. Cohen, who was fight-ing off the flu, was finally settled in and took off, but he got no distance at all when he hit a bump, joggled passenger Tom Bryant's knee, and it hit the battery switch. The car went dead, and they were stuck. they lost only a few minutes, but it was enough to drop them back to third. Worley's part-ner, Stan Porter, moved to the front, and Stroud moved Page 32 February 2001 Dusty Times

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/ Steve Laputz, always a tough competitor in this class, drove his Scott McMillin tried out his new-to-him Porter with VB Chevy power Al Larry Mccallum did all the driving in his six cylinder Toyota powered Chenowth to second place in the 1600 class, only a minute and a half liked it a lot, as did his 13 year old son, Andy, who rode with him. car, but it was running hot and he felt lucky to do as well as he did. _ba_c_k_. ____________________ _ up to second. He was driving celebrating the New Year lap in the same order, and of them came to a bad end. In the meantime, Norton, all the way. Beck was still with 7-Up). Beck also fin-staying very close. Jeff Norton's Chevy took the whose truck works better ev-running, but almost 15 min-ished, about 10 minutes fur-Through Lap 4 it was still early lead, w.ith Craig Corda, ery race, was m arching utes down now. ther back, in fourth place. Wyatt, and now he had ex-in a Ford, less than a m1.nute steadily around the track. Porter pushed hard but at In the Class 5 race the actly a minute on Burnworth, behind him. Josh Waddell Corda lost about 15 minutes the end of Lap 5 he had only early lead belonged to Rich-while Stemmerman was was driving Pat Barbee's Ford on the second lap, parked in a minute and a half on ard Burnworth, his car now about four minutes down. On (trying to find out if he wants sight of the finish line, and Stroud, who was two minutes sporting a 2180cc motor in-the fifth lap Burnworth lost to move up to a bigger, faster then slowly made his way to and 15 seconds in front of stead of the 1835cc he'd had a fan belt, and "everyone vehicle than his Honda pow-the pits, never to return to Cohen, who was now sick to when he ran the Tecate race. drove by." He'd also lot his ered Class 1 car apparently) the race. It probably simpli-his stomach, and throwing Larry Wyatt, who had a front limiter straps, which and was third, about five fied things, since Corda's up. 1650cc Rabbit motor in his both broke. He now ran minutes back. Robert truck is only marginally legal Worley and Potter went car, with a big radiator in the third, behind Stemmerman, Edgmon and his Ford were for this class, and if he'd won, on to take the win, reporting rear window opening, ran who said he had trouble with never seen again, except for he'd probably have faced a no trouble at all. They said second, followed by Todd dust all the way. some time it spent in the pits. technical disqualification. they'd run the race without Stemmerman. Only a minute Wyatt, who said the way And Ernie Allen ran into Waddell was moving, but the weight of a spare tire to and 32 seconds separated the to make is car do well was to something that did some he'd also lost some time, slow them down, instead three. Sean Krepsz was an-"drive it like you're mad at damage in the front of his though he was second. H e ul-spotting lots of tires around other six seconds back, but it", went on to take the win, truck, which left him without timately did only three laps the course. At the finish they then disappeared for about with Stemmerman finishing a fan belt. Totally without·a and then was out. were seven minutes up on five hours. in second place and Burn-fan belt, since he'd left the Norton kept comin g Stroud, who said he'd had a Wyatt lost second gear on worth in third, only eight-spares at home in the garage. around, moving steadily great day with no flats and no the second 'lap, but still and-a-half minutes separat-It was two-and-a-half hours through his laps, as Allen's mechanical problems, just moved into the lead. He had ing first and third place. before they spotted someone crew hustled fan belts. Once "driver error." 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Kevin Graves and Joe Hamner, Jr. teamed in Hamner's Mirage and Eric Baumgartner had a small problem with his suspension, but held even though Graves couldn't reach the pedals, did well enough to Rodd Fantelli and Charlie Bignell shared the driving in their Ford, and things together well enough to finish third in the 1600 class. _fin_i_sh_fo_u_rt_h_in_t_h_e_1_60_ cl_a_ss_. __ ~-------~-~ took the small truck victory, even with a bit of mechanical trouble. ing for victory lane. He'd had this one, and with 14 entries, IV, in his Homebuilt car, 53 and Wilson continued to standing the car on its nose no trouble, and stopped only there was plenty of excite-seconds later. Brian Wilson, run fifth. On the third lap "about 50 times." Laputz was once, to add gas. Allen, ment, and some confusion. a Whiplash racer, who's as Ickler continued to lead, second, Baumgartner moved knowing he had until the 6 Brian Ickler, the 16 year old never competed in a FRT with Laputz and Graves fol-up to third, Graves and p.m. cutoff time to get some novice (not really a rookie race before, ran fifth, doing lowing along, the Hamner were fourth and laps in, went back out on the any more), put his Jimco into really_ well to keep up with Devercelly car lost its trans-Reynolds finished fifth. All course at about 2:35, and the lead right away, but he this group that's so familiar mission, and Wilson moved were in agreement that the then ran four good laps, had only 55 seconds on with the terrain. Garit up to fourth, putting Eric dust had been their biggest which gave him a second Kevin Graves who ran sec-Wallace, who came down Baumgartner into fifth problem, and none had any place finish since he com-ond in Joe Hamner's Mirage. from the High Desert, was place, about 12 seconds be-serious mechanical trouble. pleted more laps than every-Kevin was at something of a the only entry that didn't hind him. Only two cars had Baumgartner had cracked his one but Norton. Allen's lap disadvantage, because he's make it through the first lap. bombed out so far, and the transmission housing by bot-times were close enough to about eight inches shorter At the end of Lap 2 Ickler pack was generally running taming the car, so he was Norton's to make it obvious than Hamner, and he had 54 seconds, and Laputz close. John Manning had surely pleased it wasn't a that it would have been a couldn't really reach the had moved into second, some problem that cost him longer race. Wilson dropped darned good race if he hadn't pedal. In third it was Steve with Graves a minute and nearly an hour on his fin:t back at the end when his left his fan belt at home. Laputz in a Chenowth, an-six seconds behind him in lap, but he was back running front shocks went away, and A big bunch of 1600 rac-other nine seconds back, and third place. Devercelly was now. And a pair of rookies the two rookie women radi-ers decided to come out for followed by Andy Devercelly fourth, five seconds ·later were having some fun in an oed in that they were half Bilstein • Sway A Way Eibach · HM • IIA 1 · CNC Bparca • PRP • Fuel Bate Ran Da11is Radiators Betrab Oil Coolers Optima Batteries Mechanix Wear Page 34 February 2001 old two seater. This was the way through their last lap team of Karie Covell (Bob and inextricably stuck in the Rodine's daughter) and silt. The sun had set, the Marci Sellers (Dennis Sell-temperature was falling, and ers' daughter) racing for the their New Year's Eve party first time in the car that was waiting. They needed Tom and Bob DeNault had help. such luck with, back in the The Class 100 racers dark ages. The women had mostly stayed away this time, decided that since their so Mark Gilliland was racing dads had so much fun rac-without class comped.don. ing some years ago, they'd He did six good laps, how-like to try it. They weren't ever, obviously having a good breaking any records, but time, and finished his 2000 they kept coming around, season with a win. lap after lap. In the Small Truck class Nothing much changed as two of the starters never got they made their way through the first lap completed, but the next lap, and Ickler con-Alberto Qanaile got around tinued to lead, with Laputz in good time, leading the less than a minute behind class by a little over two min-him. Graves had let Hamner utes. Rodd Fantelli had his get into the car, and he held Ford in second place, after onto third place, followed by dealing with a stuck throttle Steve Reynolds, who's got his cable, and Jason Jernigan was Bunderson working well occupied with some big prob-these days. Baumgartner ran lem, and didn't get his Ford fifth. His suspens.ion wasn't around for over three hours. quite right, but his. car was B_y the end of the second occasionally bottoming. lap Fantelli had the lead but Through the fifth lap it he came through the start/ was still Ickler, who hadn't finish area with one wheel needed to stop for fuel, and wobbling and a tie rod bro-was having no mechanical ken. But now Ganaile was an problems at all. Then came hour behind him, and Lapu.tz, Hamner, Jernigan was over two hours Baumgartner and Reynolds. down, both apparently hav-And at the finish it was ing even worse froblems. Ickler, who admitted to Fantelli ran wel through Julie Kern and Adam Pfankuch teamed up in a Kernco and finished the day in the Class 9 victory circle. Dusty Times

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' ! A team of rookie drivers, Megan Allen and Cera Lindsey shared the driving in their Class 9 car to win the Sportsman division's five lap contest. Veteran driver Steve Reynolds has been gradually getting his Todd Stemmerman thought this was a mighty dusty race (so did Bunderson to work the way he wants it, and this time he got fifth place everyone else) but he hung in there just the same, to take second in the very tight 1600 race. ,_Pl_a_ce___,in=C~la_s_s~5~-~------,-~-~~--~~---,~-Lap 3, and then he turned the truck over to his co-driver, Charlie Bignell. Bignell had a good run ex-cept for a flat on the fifth lap, and a rear flat that pan-caked as he sat in the finish area. They took the win with two laps and over an hour on Jernigan, who managed only four complete laps, for a sec-ond place. In Class. 9 the early lead belonged to Kent Graves in his Jimco, but he was only 22 seconds in front of Julie Kern in her Kernco. In third it was Troy Somers in his Jimco, another two minutes down. Graves, who is in his first season of racing, al-though his dad, Hal and brother, Kevin have been at it quite a while, continued to ~ead through the second lap, now 21 seconds in front of Kern. On the third lap Graves hit a rut really hard and hurt hh chest (not much suspen-si'on travel to eat up the bumps in this class) and slowed down for a while un-til he felt better. By then Kern had taken over the lead. So then he gave chase, pushing hard to catch up. But it must have been a little too hard, because he rolled the car and landed on his lid. A couple o f spectators helped him get it back on its wheels fairly quickly, but he lost about five minutes. Somers was still run ning along steadily in third. A t the end of th e fourth lap both of the lead ca rs changed divers. Adam Pfankuch took over for Kern, and he h eld the lead , while Kent's d ad, H.al, got in to drive for him. Pfankuch stayed in front, and Hal held on to second place. So Kern and Pfankuch got the win, finishing abut 15 minutes in front of th e Gra ves team, and Somers discouraged Steingraber de-girls were in a Class 9 buggy. ish. So Allen and Lindsey,. , was third, another 16 min-cided he might as well park. Bartolini continued tq who shared the driving · utes later. In fourth place, ' In the meantime Salazar, lead, but Rodriguez faded chores, did anothe·r lap and but completing only five ·· who hadn't raced here for away on the second lap, ,,s got a victory their first time laps, was Dave Dietrich. about 15 years, went on with did Jorge Boubion who had out. It's to be hoped they'll The 5-1600 contingent no problems, to take the win. problems on the start line. be back. numbered four, but only Mauzy was second, finishing He got moving very late, As the sunset over the dust three finished the first lap in about 10 minutes behind managed only one lap and hazed mountains, the Christ-a timely manner. Jim him. then was out. So now the mas lights started to glow on McGinley had some disaster In the Sportsman ranks girls were second. pit row. some folks headed that gave him a lap over two the lead belonged to Sergio Bartolini's third lap was back to "town" and more for-hours long, then he did only Bartolini in his Porsche longish and the car didn't mal celebrations, but the ma-one more and called it a day. Jimco, right from the start. sound healthy as he headed jority of the teams settled in But Telly Philo was driv-He was followed by the 5-out on his fourth trip. The for an evening of family-style ing Tony Steingraber's car, 1600 car of Gustavo Rod-girls were only 12 minutes partying. There were camp-and looking good, his fancy riguez, and in third place it behind him in their 9 car. fires surrounded by cozy red and blue light covers was the new team of Megan Then are the end of the groups all up and down pit making the car easy to iden-Allen and Cera Lindsey, fourth lap Bartolini's car row. And at the stroke of mid-tify through the dusty haze driving their first race. sounded even more unwell, night the fireworks went off that hung over the pit.area. Megan is Eric Allen's sister. and the girls were only four and the huge bonfires, big He led Curt Mauzy by about Eric used to drive in Class 9 minutes in back of him. He towers of Christmas trees and two minutes and 50 seconds, himself, but has become a continued on, but neve·r firewood, were lit to welcome and Mario Salazar ran third 1600 driver this season. The came back through the ffn-the_ new year. ■ 39 Phfl~n~~~~~~r~ed to lead ~. 14 c,g-~-=-=•• I~ <JJ!i} <J65> <JJ!i} throuih the second lap, and • s;;;;;,:::J/I=:.. 11f -a;;;; then Jim Grill took over the AND A cc E s so RI Es 71_!:f70-9422 driving. ·He hit something usgens~ons VISA ---wrong and rolled that poor -little bug, really trashing the ,----- - --• ■---------------■--:i:t,/!~~!T :'z~~! roof and one of the nice, big FORMERLYFABTECHMOTORSPORTS . MON-FRI 8:00-6:00 lights. He didn't lose much · 1999-2000 CHEVY SATURDAY 9:00-4:00 time but lost the lead to 2WD C1500 FINANCING AVAILABLE Salazar and Mauzy had crept 6" ULTIMATE LIFT ) up to within just seconds of • ·CASTuFTSPINDL<S UPPUCDtmlOLAIIMS ~ his back bumper. co:-=n=:=::~ao;-n BEDSIDES -~ Salazar stayed in front s1749.95 ,Nsw.uo HOODS __, through the fourth lap, now ==="'"' ........ ,, ... WffH ... TA.oovu" FIBERGLASS D tD almost four minutes ahead of -~ -9~ n'BCBn'l/OOer Mauzy who was nearly two 2WD C1500 minutes in front of Grill. ~~UJ 6 " ULTIMATE LIFT T h e n Grill got o u t and ;~~';;.:!~"'"".::"'~~= Steingraber got in for the fi- • ,......,..,.,.,.MAHC■SHDCKS nal two laps, as planned. s 1549.95 1NS11W.ED Salazar hung onto h is ....... ,, ... """°"".00°'= lead , and Mauzy stayed firm in second, but Steingraber was having a miserable time. Something had gon e wrong inside the gas tank appar-en tly. His best guess was that th e fuel pickup had been jarred in the roll-over and now didn't work properly. Whenever he turned to the right the car bogged down and died. His fifth lap took two hours, and then a very 2WD F150 6" ULTIMATE LIFT 3 ~ 1Wf s:tfJIIDl.U UPPal CONnlOL NtMS COM. SP11JHCiS aEAa BLOCKS 6 U act.TS 4 f'ASTECH 1"£RFOftMANCS SHOCKS s 1699 ■ 95 INSWUJ> FORD SUPERDUTY 4WD F250/350 S.S .. PERFORMANCE LIFT SOFT RID• AN>HT UN Sl"IUNGS FRONT BOX KIT R&IUI aLOCKS 4 P'AIITI!CH l"ERFORMANCE SHOCKS s 1349 ■ 95 INnw.ED 8" LIFT ALSO IN STOCK FORD SUPERDUTY 2WD F250/350 4" PERFORMANCE LIFT 1988-98 CHEVROLET KZS00/3500 4 -u" S1599.95 JNS'IIU.I.ED 1988-98 CHEVROLET K1sooru" S1599.95 INS'IIUJ.ED JEEP WRANGLER TJ CAllFOR 1994-99 Mario Salazar hadn't raced in the Plaster City area for 15 years, but stayed on the road all the way to take the Class 5-1600 win by 10 minutes. Dusty Times February 2001 Page 35

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Baja In Havasu Photos: Track.side Photo Tommy Bradley, Jr. drove his Chevrolet to victory in the Sportsman 2 Truck race, at the Baja in Havasu Inaugural event in December. Lake Havasu City, Arizona's population swelled December 9-10, when that locale hosted the inaugural running of the "Baja in Havasu" short course event. Thousands of sun-and sport-seeking off road enthusi-asts descended upon the home of the London Bridge. Their invasion came as no surprise. In fact, it was eagerly anticipated. Thanksgiving had passed, Christmas was fast approach-ing, and everyone seemed to be in "party mode". The weather could not have been better. In the Stock Truck class, Dan Cannon, from San Dimas, California, was the winner in his Ford when the racing was over. PIKES service center Baker, California Celebra~lng SD YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELINC l=RIENDS ... THANKS! RESTAURANT Open 24 Hours Mobil® SERVICE Every Day Year Round Clear skies and mild tempera-tures made for ideal racing con-ditions. And with an abun-dance of talented stadium and desert racers taking part, "star gazing" was fashionable both night and day. As expected, most entrants hailed from the "Tri-states", California, Ne-vada and Arizona. The lone exceptions were Nick Gautsche and Gerardo Novelo. Gautsche calls Imlay City, Ml home, and Novelo is the pride of Ensena-da, BC Mexico. The 55 en-trants who started were divided into 14 SCORE-and CORE-type classes. Each division raced twice during the week-end, with opening heats Satur-day and "main events" Sunday. Superb performances were turned in by several individu-als, but one in particular comes to mind. As he has done so many times throughout his il-lustrious career, Curt LeDuc stole the show. LeDuc continu-ously brought those in atten-dance to their feet, with is awe-some arsenal of warp-speed driving skills. It hardly mat-tered that this Cherry Valley, CA resident was unopposed in winning.the_ Pro 6 class. There was little difference between LeDuc's brilliance and that of the shooting s_tars which streaked across the same Havasu skies hours later. Carl Renezeder, the Pro 2 class win-Sean McKenzie, from Las Vegas, drove his flamed Baja Bug to the win in the Baja Bug2class. J. C. Dean made the drive from Las Vegas to race at Havasu, and went home with the trophy for first place in Desert Buggy 1600. ner, was also very impressive. to the team of Bill and Debra Renezeder, of Laguna Beach, Barnes. Javier Sacio made it an CA, powered his way to a pair "all California" sweep of the of victories over the second mini truck divisions, when he place team of Adam Daffner sped to victory in Class 7. Sa-and Mike Shaffner. Another cio, who resides in San Diego, . big winner was San Dimas, scored wins in'both.heat races. California's Dan Canon, who Bill Masche finished second on scored an uncontested victory Saturday, and Jim Morris did in the Stock Truck class. likewise on Sunday. Tommy Bradley scored one for A half dozen Class 1 com-the Silver State, when he came petitors saw action on Satur-home a winner in the Sports-day, led by Pat Dean, who man 2 division. Bradley, a Las scored the Heat 1 victory. Jim Vegas, NV resident, twice de-McKenzie and Jason Markham feated runner-up finisher Jason finished second, followed by Markham. Rick Huseman was the third place team of Clay all' the rage in the Pro-Lite Flippen and Tom Franczak. class. The Riverside, CA star Tracy and Michael Kline took proved best over runner-up fourth, and Larry Foddrill out-Pete Sohren on Saturday. finished Dwight Greene for Stacey Pike and Joe Price fin- fifth. Dean returned for an en-ished third and fourth respec-core performance on Sunday. tively in Heat 1. "Rocket Rick" The wily Las Vegas, NV vet-completed his Pro-Lite sweep eran again emerged victorious, with another stellar perfor-to claim the overall Class 1 mance on Sunday. Gerardo win. The Flippen-Franczak Novelo finished second, fol-team placed second, earning lowed by Sohren (second over-overall runner-up honors in the all), Price and Pike. In Class process. B.J. Baldwin and C. 7S, Bill Markel was a handy Rainey were searched from winner. The popular Lancaster, Round #1, but placed third on CA resident swept both heat Sunday. McKenzie and races. Runner-up honors went Markham finished fourth in the THE BEST IN THE. DESERT! Carl Renezeder brought his CORR truck out west to race at Havasu and took the victory in the Pro 2 event in his Ford. main and third overall. Foddrill finished directly behind that pair in both categories. The Klines, followed by Greene, completed the Class 1 scoring. Several Class 1 entrants also participated in other divisions. T wo of them, Pat Dean and Larry Foddrill, figured -promi-nently in the Super Buggy class. Dean initially got the better of Foddrill, as that pair raced to a 1-2 finish in the Saturday heat. Steve Errea placed third, fol-lowed by Aaron Hawley in fourth. The respective fifth through seventh place finishers were Brent Foes, Tom Bradley, Sr., and Jim Carlo. Persistence paid off big time for Foddrill in the Super Buggy main. The Page 36 February 2001 Dusty Times

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Adam Daffner, from Las Vegas, holds off a charge by Tommy Bradley, Jr. in this shot. Daffner ended the weekend in second place in the Pro 2 Truck event. Aaron Hawley tiptoes past a bump in his Super Buggy, as he works toward his third place in the class which was roughly the equivalent of SCORE's Class 10. Sometimes the action was hot and heavy, and here we see an official and some corner workers putting J. C. Dean back onto his wheels. ued his stnng of 1mpress1ve per-Alhona for second place in the formances, posting a strorig main, but it was the fo"(lrth runner-up effort on Saturday. place finisher (Wolsey) who Hawley matched his overall took second overall. Complet-third in the Super Buggy class ing the Super Lights scoring by earning that same spot in the were Beau Briggs (fifth), Bob 1600 main. Bob Dziurawiec Briggs (sixth), and Doug Good-took fourth overall, with fifth enough. A compact field of and fourth place finishes. Ken three faced the starter in the Seale placed fourth on Satur-Single Lights class. John Kelty day, and Johnny .Grossini took scored the Round 1 win, over fifth place on Sunday. Jim Fay the runner-up team of Joe Forte. finished in sixth place, followed and Steve Lindberg. Kenny by Nick Gautsche and Chris Thatcher completed the Satur-Ringlstetter. day scoring in third. On Sun-Pat Dean, from Las Vegas, drove his Orleans Hotel sponsored buggy to the Class 1 victory. game Glendale, AZ competitor simply would not be denied. Foddrill beat everyone to the checkered flag, to score the overall Super Buggy class vic-tory. Hawley and Dean battled for division runner-up honors. Hawley finished second and Dean third in the main, but the reverse was true in overall scor-ing. Errea wound up taking fourth place. Jay Gilbertson did not start in Heat 1, but finished fifth in the main . Carlo, Foes and Bradley Sr., followed in the sixth through 8th positions. In Class 10, Pete Saldana out-finished two class rivals to win Saturday's opening heat. B.J. Baldwin and Charley Rainey placed second, and Clay Flippin and Tom Franczak checked in third. Baldwin and Rainey turned the tables on Saldana in the main event to steal the overall Class 10 vic-tory. Saldana had to settle for runner-up honors, and the Flippen/Franczak team wound up third. Eight entrants vied for Class 1600 supremacy, but one proved a cut above. J.C. Dean overpowered his rivals, while fashioning a pair of stylish vic-tories. It was another memo-rable weekend for the Las Ve-gas, NV Dean family, as broth-ers Pat and J.C. both hit the jackpot. Spencer Low finished runner-up in the main, to earn that same position in overall scoring. Aaron Hawley contin-PRECISION everything you need ta build., maintain and operate a racecar Seven competitors squared day, Thatcher went from dog-off in the Super Lights class. house to penth,ouse. His Clint Wolsey proved best in the meteroric worst-to-first move Saturday opener. Pete Ku-propelled the Las Vegas, NV jundzich took second, followed resident to the overall Single by Pete Albona and Mike San-Lights victory. Forte and doval. It was an entirely differ-Lindberg once again placed ent story on Sunday, as Ku-second, but Kelty was declared jundzich of Upland, CA got the overall runner-up. Another candy. By virtue of his timely trio of contestants met in the Round 2 win, Kujundzich also Baja Class. Art Savedra, the claimed the overall Super consensus choice for world's Lights victory. Sandoval beat Continued on page 38 ii!BEi5 Gundry Ave. Signal Hill. CA 90B0Ei BDD.959. 7757 562.427.2375 FAX: 526.426.5294 Baits. Nuts and Hardware Sparco Seats. Steering Wheels. Suits and SaFety Equipment Craw Belts and Harnesses Bell Helmets Spal Fans Fire Systems Silicone Turbo Hose Neu Synthetic Lubricants Aurora. NHBB and FK Rod Ends Weldon Fuel and Oil Pumps Fresh Air Driver Ventilation Systems lntercamp Scales and Alignment Equipment Earl's. Aeroquip & SpeedFlow Stainless Braided Hase & Fittings Fuel SaFe and Triangle Fuel Cells Setrab. Long and Fluidyne OIi Coolers see our cam lete a nline catala at www. baker reci!!!iian. cam r;>usty Times February 2001 Page 37

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Clint Wolsey, from Tulare, California piloted his CORR Light/Super Pete Kujundzich, Upland, California, flies high in his CORR Light/Super Pete Sohren's Ford demonstrates its front suspension's limits as he Light to second place. Light as he holds off another contender. Kujundzich took the win. works his way toward his second place in the Pro-Lite Truck division. Rick Huseman, Riverside, California, beats the rush around the Wheel to wheel racing was part of the action all weekend, and here Javier Sacio, from San Diego, California, puts his tidy white truck corner as he works his way up through the pack and into the Pro- Spencer Low, Jr., in the white car, duels with an unknown competitor. through its paces. He finished the race as the Desert Truck 7 winner. =-u_·te_Tr_u,_c.,-k_v_ic_toc-r~y_ . .,.,---=,---,,..-- --=-----:--:---:-------= .,,.;L=o=w= e=nd=ed= u=p=,=·n=s=ec=on=d=p=l=a=ce=.============ greatest guy, owned one of the three ve-on to post the Round 1 win. Dennis Mc-little Baja Bug. But it was Sean who had hides entered. Savedra gave consideration Kenzie finished runner-up, while his be-the last laugh, after he raced to victory on to bypas.sing the race, until Sean McKen-loved brother was bringing up the rear. It Sunday.McKenzie claimed the overall vic-zie agreed to handle the driving. Jeffrey was quite comical watching the third place tory, when his brother Dennis beat Hantz Hantz faced no such dilemma, and went finisher cram his over 6' frame into that to the checkered flag. Las Vegas, NV wai: . I • • wide teflon coated piston wear band for use in t r at,,b s with' big tubes so that it does not drop into large ports. :..(."' • sealed piston for low speed control and maxi t- in external b pass. • high temperature stainless steel alloy va ii g. \ • unique rod end design and material to stop,.sh;:tft~ and rod ends from breaking. • high temperature Viton seals a s: ~ : / • large aluminum reservoir for i 'hea dissipation (2X) and weight savings. "-/ A-" - I • 1" shafts are micro-polishecl to a mI ror surface finish cf a 3-5 RMS . ., stainless steel teflon lined splierical be: rings with 1/2" or 5/8" ID spacers. y • shock are all owner rebuilda61e with.no s,.,'ecial toois to purchase. / . d. d 1/ ~ • electric blue ano Ize co or. / , A ) -... ~~ ~..w~i. / ~ • Large 3/41' tubes for high flow (welci on kits available separate). • Tube locationsJcan'c'e placed to order or welded on by the.customer. •jlalving'9n t~y piston for ~mooth d~mp'ing ~ransltions. • Check valves machinea'from 4140 and heat treated 17-4 sta· less for long durability. • large OD f h'eck'~lve spring desioned with low operating stress levels. -..... "I" ,, • / 'P,iggyback'' s~yle reservoir mounting "for the rear ,of buggies and trucks. /,; ' ,y .;~--/ ~MJ§l;®'6i%§1,t§li!.· ........ :;,,',I • a, Custom wound springs for 3" sh~cks in s ock. Eibacp.ls We do custom shock work and vehicle set•Q Custom designed and mfg. shocks & parts avallabJe (airs , pistons etc.). Desi ned ·and manufactured b the same erson that d hocks. Page 38 February 2001 . , ~ .. ··. ~<,__ :: -'1'>-,.. _ . .,, ..... :···--:w:.,.,.,..,....._..,, .. ~-. #',, ' ~, Looking a little worse for the wear, Bill Markel muscles his Toyota around a turn during the Desert Truck 7S event. He came home first. listed as the winning entrant's home town, tero Beach races, was in the developmen-but r.rore than a little credit should go to talstages. "SouthwestRacingAsocx:iation," the volunteer contortionist from Califor-the name tentatively chosen, expects the nia. final race of the 2001 series to take place 1bat concludes our coverage of"Baja near the end of the year in l.aughlin, NV. in Havasu". At press time, a 4-race series, As soon as thatinfurrnation becomes avail-including the Baja in Havasu and two Es- able you'll see it in Dusty Times! ■ Call for spedaf .Baja 2 on HI D's, Clear lexan, other quality Hella produ<:6.

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: : : ■ ■~ location other than where she W£~ii~s .. --. ~!adctl;~h~~~ ;h~~~;!r:l~h: _;_::_':_ race course again, but it was at a location definitely to her From The New Wahzoo advantage. Now then, while this was all very unfortunate, What a way to start the it was one of the unusual new year ... a heavy snivel· challenges of racing iri the season is upon us. Well, we Baja. In my opinion, and I will just have to deal with it a think that of the rule book little later, because there is also, she should have rejoined more important ·business at the race course at the same hand. First we'd like to talk point where she left it! Ms. about the epic of the Baj a Freeman did finish the race, 2000 late last year ... This race and the "appropriate" points was probably the coldest, were awarded. Segua to the wettest, and miserable one in Baja 2000, and you'll find her. some time, but in true having won her class there, Checkers fashion we which cinched her the Class performed well. We fielded 1/2-1600 championship and a nine entries and finished an True Grit award as well. This awesome seven of them! My is my snivel, had SCORE sincere congratulations to all enforced its own rules and our teams: Mike .Bartalotti made her re-enter the Baja with Scott Steinburger took 500 race course where she their No.270 to a first in class. should have, it is probable George Seeley, Jr. brough! his that she would not have No.500 in for a second in finished that race, and class. Walter Prince and subsequently, not have been friends drove their No.1400 awarded that championship. across the finish line in second In my opinion, SCORE place. The team of Myerly, stepped on its own Johnson Hook, and Hunter brought (no pun intended for the their No.1008 in for a fourth family of that name who in class, while the gang of operate SCORE). The four, Martin, Crowley, Hawks, situation should have been and Frenchie took No.1648 in handled differently, that's all. for sixth. Ty Godde and Jim Why have a rule book Greenway managed an eighth governing the racers when you place in their No.1212, and can twist that any way_you Billy Robertson and Doug wish to suit the situation? This Brown worked real hard to sucks!!! bring their No.121 in for a On to the next snivel. .. 14th in class finish. Well What is all this bullshit done, all my condolences go to regarding Stuart Chase and Richard Youn&... and Richard the great "non-refundable pit Bliss, who uNF'd with fees deposit" debate? While mechanics, and to Tom Koch not having been privy to the and Ron Brant, who also exchange of faxes and letters DNF'd with reasons unknown . . of this situation, I still find it One hell of a race, and one strange. Here's a guy who used hell of an effort by all. to be a member in good The Checkers had our standing, who for reason annual banquet at the NHRA unknown did not renew his museum at the Pomona membership until the time Fairplex on December 9th, came to start thinking about where new officers for this pit support for the Baja 2000. year were revealed. However, Stuart apparently petitioned due to the oddities of the club for. membership in deadlines, I cannot reveal time to get on the those names at this time, so if "prospective member" list, you missed the banquet, you'll which qualified him for pit have to wait until next issue support. Plans were made, pit to find ut who became who. locations were set, then either Now then, about all this changed or reduced in original sniveling I mentioned. I'm coverage, all leading to first on the list with an item Stuart's decision not to pit that has festered for a long with the club and asking for a time, going_back to last.year's $200.00 refund of his deposit, Baja 500. You may reca 1 the which of course, was declined incident involving one Miss by the club. Now this Bekki Freeman, and how situation has become an open SCORE chose to handle the sore, festering with discontent matter. It seems that Ms. on the part of all involved. Freeman, who by the way, is Regardless of the quite the capable race car circumstances, policy is driver and would make a fine policy. The pit support fee Checker if it were not for her deposits were labeled "non-sex, was stopped by Mexican refundable"; is there some authorities for speeding along part of the English language a pavement section on that Stuart is not able to Highway 3. Because she·, and understand here?? It's a done another ~ntry as well, were deal, dude! not able to produce their There seem to be a few driver's licenses to the members with too much free authorities, said authorities time on their hands, _impounded their race cars!! apparently, judging from the So I don't bore you with heated web-site debates chump-change details, I'll between B.P. Lou, Gearhead, give it to you in a nutshell. and Crackle. While Some eight hours later, her recognizing that debate or car was bailed out and she was difference of opinion can be allowed to rejoin the race. healthy, aren't you guys going However, it seems that a little too far with this SCORE allowed her to re-sniveling? Let me express my enter the race course at a opinion on this matter by Dusty Times quoting words of wisdom from some · near-forgotten similarity ... "Baliff, whack their pee-pees!!" That's enough of the snivel factor for a while, let's move on to more positive thoughts. Last L·abor Day weekend brother Dick McCool participated in a VW show in Sacramento, where he was attired in a Checkers T-shirt. One of the spectators came up to him and asked if he was a real life Checker, and went on to say that he had seen our stickers and articles in various off road magazines, and wondered if we were, in fact, a real club. Duhh ... The show contained a great variety of VWs from early early years to late model ones, participating in the car show, swap meet, and dra_g __ races. There were three VW Things entered in the show, and you can imagine brother Dick's surprise when it was announced that he had been selected for first lace as the Best Engineered Car at the show. Way to go Dick!!, and I'll take you up on that offer of a free beer. Keep stuffing that mar,o jar at the clubhouse, guys. I 11 see ya next month. ■ C.O.R.E. Pit Report By Sandy Parker MDR-STODDARD VALLEY 300 RACE REPORTS, TEAM STEVENS (Class 9) ·This was an important race for this team as they had a slim chance to capture the MOR Challenger points championship if the events of the race went their way. Keith Stevens started the race and drove the first half with no problems, keeping the car in the lead. Alex Pacheco was given the controls-at the half way point and was doing a great job until he rolled the car jumping into the Slash X sand wash. It took a few minutes for trucks to come from: CORE Main and Baker pits to upright the car, losing many positions in the process. After they got the car on all four-feet, they noticed a broken ball joint as a result from the accident. They hobbled the car to CORE Baker Pit, borrowed and installed a trailing arm from Perry King, strapped on the mangled roof, and strap2ed in Daniel Poole. the Crazy Flying Brit to bring it home for the finish. They finished the race and had to settle for second in class points. GREAT YEAR GUYS! TEAM KING & KING (Class 9) Perry and son Jeff teamed up to run their totally rebuilt Challenger. Perry said they made some suspe_nsion changes that didn't work at all as the car was always out of control. He jokingly said "We were so out of control, I scared him so bad that I heard my son scream." Perry drove and Jeff February 2001 was to ride the entire race and were doing great all day running in second p_lace. Leading the race on the last lap the transmission just couldn't handle the beating and the guys think they snapped an axle or ring and pinion. Dave Girdner found them on top of -the camel humpsandtowedthemtothe nearest CORE Pit. TEAM INCH (Class 1600) Brad again intended to solo the race and started out in fine style passing a few cars on the first lap, maintaining second position. Midway on the second lap he called ahead to a CORE Pit to check the power steering when he comes in. Hoping it was something simple they could repair they unfortunately discovered it was the longest hose that had a leak right in the middle. Rather than taking a few laps to repair it, Brad decided to park the car for the day. TEAM HOOK/MESSICK (Class 1600) Apparently the Checkers didn't have enough cars to make an official Checker supported race so the Jimmy's (Hook and Messick) asked CORE if we could assist them with pit support for this race. The answer was yes, we were happy to help them out. They started the race and were doing well until the engine studs broke ending their run. CORE PIT SUPPORT CORE MAIN (Sidewinder/Outlet Center Road) Main was staffed with the Smiths. ·or. Don, wife Hilly ad son Dwayne, accompanied by the expert radio work from Derrin and Victoria Griffin, and help from Ted Ferro and Keith Hurst. CORE PIT ABLE (Hwy 247) A last minute added pit for extra course coverage was run by Wayne and Bob Nosala, Randy and Babe Jones. The only action they saw was to diagnose Brad's power steering problems. CORE PIT BAKER (Stoddard Wells Road) The Baker Pit was run by Rob .Stapp, newest CORE member Davy Girdner, The Pat man, Andrew Frency, myself and my nephew Nicholas Parker. The afternoon was very busy with tightening a shock bolt on the King car, sending vehicles to tow in both' the King and Stevens Challengers, and rebuild the entire front end to get the Stevens car back on course. CORE PIT CHARLEY (Inner Hodge Road) Bob Depew, Gary and Kim Hall, and Mr. Dennis Dean opened a CORE pit somewhere in the Hodge Road vicinity. They were-not asked to work on CORE cars but were able to assist non-CORE cars by changing a throw out bearing on an unlimited car, replaced a rear trailing arm on a 5-1600, welded mounts for a rack and pinion on a 10 car. Who said these guys don't earn their pay?? MORE-LEAPIN' LIZARD 250 TEAM McGUFFIN (Class 9) This was Darin's first race back since he broke his leg in a motorcycle accident a year or so ago. He broke his leg in about 83 places and his doctor screwed and glued all the breaks, added pins, plates, rods, hose clam__12s and some duct tape. His doctor guaranteed his work so as soon as Darin soaked off the cast he decided to race it and see how it would hold up. He pamf)ered in ·his plush riding Challenger, yea right! Darin was scheduled to solo the race but had Kyle Gomolka standing on the side lines just in case he had to get out. Darin was definitely on a mission, keeping the car at the fro_nt of the field for the first seven laps without any mechanical problems. On Lap 7 while passing a Sportsman ·car, Darin drove over their wh~els which sent him flying, rolling the car three times in a sand wash. Luckily the car landed n all fours so really didn't loose any time and maintained second place. He did honk his head on the cage * pretty hard and his sore leg got banged around a bit, so he asked for Kyle to take the last two laps. After a driver change, Kyle was strapped in and drove the last two and 1/ 8 laps with no problems. The 1/8 of a lap was extra as Kyle missed the checkered flag and continued on an extra lap until Darin radioed him to bring it back. Darin and Kyle managed to bring the car to a second phce finis·h 'keeping ahead of the third place car by only 11 seconds. TEAM ST APP /CRAIG (Class 9) After taking some time off for a few races to do some car upgrades, Rob Stapp and Todd Craig were back at it. Rob started the race and quickly noticed that some of the suspension modifications did not work as planned and needed more testing time. Rob finished his four laps without losing too many positions. Todd drove the second half and was making up time on the McGuffin car after they rolled. Todd knew if he pushed it very hard they may be able to steal second place from McGuffin. They almost pulled it off but came u_p 11 seconds short. Rob and Todd ended up third in the Challenger class. TEAM BURNS (Class 9) This was the first race for the totally upgraded Challenger car. Johnny Burns did all the work himself including motor, tranny and major chassis work. He talked Sway-A-Way into letting him do the R&D on the newly developed Challenger shock line. Johnny also intended to solo the race but did have his friend JB in the pits if he needed a back relief driver. At the end of Lap 4 Johnny pulled in to CORE Main for a drink of water · but after an inspection of the car, a ball joint nut and washer had Continued on page 40 Page 39

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hammered off. Main pit was able to retrieve a new nut and washer and got him back on the road. On Lap 6 he stopped for a fuel change and to put a few pounds of torque into the rear axle/drum nuts. On Lap 7, Johnny was beat and needed out of the car so he pulled in Main and was extricated and JB slithered into the car. After a lap JB called in that there was a tranny like noise and that he wanted it looked at the next CORE pit. The tranny was smoked and to avoid further damage they send a trailer to get him. CORE PIT SUPPORT CORE MAIN (Sidewinder/Outlet Center Road) The Main pits were manned by myself, Nicholas Parker, Andrew Freney, and the Stapps. We were kept busy, with· scheduled fuel stops and driver changes. Ball joint nut and waslier was installed on the Burns Challenger and the brake drums were tightened. CORE PIT ABLE (Barstow College) Jim Wagrier and Davy Girdner had a slow day of pitting except for checking Darin's Challenger after the roll and checking the Burt's tranny later in the day. CORE PIT CHARLEY (Stoddard Wells Road) Brad Inch, T.J. Craig and Dave Girdner diagnosed and oiled up a ~ei~ed ~teering 'knuckle on Bum's Challenger. .t\t:ST-1N-THE-DESERT-LAS-VEGAS 200 TEAM McGILLIVRA Y (Protrucks) Kevin McGillivray driving with rookie driver Lewis Navaro battled an 8 Protruck field in the Nevada desert hoping to wrap up the year's close points championship. Kevin wanted to thank his pit crew for the blistering quick fuel stop which only took 40 seconds. Kevin also said he discovered another key to his recent success, he did all the preparation to the truck by himself and had absolutely no !'_art failures or down time. The only major mishap that occurred was his rider puking in his enclosed helmet a few times during the race. At one point, Kevin looked at his Lewis to see how he was doing, but couldn't see his face, only a chunky orange colore'd slime on the inside of his helmet shield. They had a perfect blowout ratio, havin_g four flats for four laps but still managed to be the first truck over the finish line at the end of the day. They won their class by 11 minutes, finished third overall, and won the Best-in-Desert Pro truck points championship, CONGRATULATIONS!!! YEAR 2001 C.O.R.E. ELECTION RESULTS President: Brad Inch; Vice President: Sandy Parker; Race Directors: Darrin Griffin, Jim Wagner; Driver's Reps: Davy Girdner, Tim Lindsay, Perry King; Sargent of Arms: Bob Depew; Secretary: Melody Myers; Treasurer: Joan Wagner; Entertainment Director: Cheesehead. SNORE PIT PEOPLE Brad Inch is lookin·g for interested CORE people to pit for him in Nevada for the SNORE series, contact Brad if you are interested in going to Laughlin on Feb 3 for the A VI 250. Searching for a professional family oriented pit support club? CORE is always happy to extend its family and support. We have monthly meetings on the first Tuesday of the month at Mulligans Restaurant in Santa Clarita at 8pm. For more information, join us at the meetings or call me at (818) 341-1810 ore-mail me at race975@aol.com. C News Fro,nThe Direetor This year's Laughlin Inter-national Rally was a study in contrasts. We had slippery, slimy mud and snow on Fri-day, dry and dusty roads on Saturday and groomed sur-faces on Sunday. If nothing else, you had to be very adapt-able to survive this rally. The organizers picked up sponsorship from Mitsubishi this year. They had an event tent for registration and scor-ing each day. Mike Gibeault did a great job scoring. When you drove in each day you re-ceived the day's scores. They had a vendor area with Sube Sports, Falkon Tires, Revolu-tion Wheels, Mitsubishi Mo-tors, Cibie Lights and Wasatch Motorsports. Rhys Millen and Ken Cas-sidy were the overall winners of the event in a Mitsubishi Evo VI. Mike Whitman and Paula Gibeault were second in Mike's Sierra Cosworth. Mike drove like a madman all week-end but in the end was 10 minutes behind the first place car. A total of 26 teams finished all three days. There was plenty of carnage on the course. Friday's mud made it difficult to slither through trees. Ask Tony Chavez who found one early on and was out for the day replacing in-tercoolers and radiator. Mark Cox, who is the head of the Bridgestone Winter Driving School in Steamboat Springs, also found a tree with liis Mazda 323's name on it. Dave Turner took out one side of his Jeep Cherokee with a tree and eventually was out when the engine threw a rod out the side of the block. Leon Styles never got to the start line - his Mazda RX7 threw a bearing on the odo check. George Plsek and Mark Nelson both rolled early in the day on Friday. George man-aged· to get his Audi running again after service and fin-ished the day. Mark had more work to do and didn't ge~ back in the rally until Saturday morning. I have to give credit to ev-eryone who finished on Fri-day. Even the pit crews had trouble just getting to service. The four wheel drives defi-nitely had the advantage in the muck, but plenty of two wheel drive teams persevered and got to the finish. Tlie owner of the car wash in Bullhead City made mucho bucks Friday night. All of the rally teams had to wash the mud off of the cars before they could even begin to do re-pairs. He even came out and shoveled mud out of the wash bays and provided a hose so the folks waiting could "pre-treat" their cars. Saturday the roads were dry and fast. The first stage runs up from the Colorado River and Grand Canyon. We had some unexpected spectators when a group of kayakers came up from the river after 13 days in the canyon. We had already closed the road so they got to spectate. I bet they couldn't believe their eyes to see 2 7 rally cars lined up on their road and a helicopter landing with the film crew. Speaking of film crew, our FAT Celebrate~~ Page 40 ear Winners! ;:,?;~g~~i:~:~nIi~~M::i!:'~!~~n1~:~ ~~:;~~~~-,. and the SCORE Baja 2000. ' . ·••.• .. •,• ,•• •,•• . ,,•,, . :ei~ss ~ > beof~1·;~~i~f #~,-Type IV Congratulations to Baja 2000 Class Champions: Class 5 Mike James FAT Type IV Class 1 o Myers Bros. FAT Toyota 4AG Class finishers Baja 2000: Class 1 Gus Vildosala FAT Toyota VG 5th, Alberto Coppola 7th, Roger Rolfe 14th Brad Maurer 4th Class 10 Class 12 MOR: Class 1 Class 10 CORR: Mark Hutchins FAT Toyota 4AG Jerry Penhall/George ERT FAT Type i Troy Pomeroy FAT Type IV Whit Courteney FAT Toyota 4AG Class 1 /21600 Class 5 George Seeley 2nd Single Buggy 1600 Steve Federico FAT Type I Class 10 Class 12 We use & recommend Mark Hutchins 3rd . 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own Harris Done was in charge of the filming this year. The rally rill be seen on Speedvision in February and is an hour long this year. Since Harris is a rally driver and a Hollywood cinematographers, director and screenwriter, this should be a great video. I can hardly wait to see the finished · product. The rally crews got the shocking experience of Lon Peterson and Bill Gutzman mooning them on Saturday's fist stage. The Subaru's tranny let go and they were stranded on the side of the road. So we all got mooned! Hopefully it is on our in car camera. Nick Taylor and Josh Armbruster got excited and jumped their Toyota off the course and broke the front end. They were able to do re-eairs and return to the rally on Sunday. Mark Nelson just wasn't having any luck; he flatted twice on the first sta_ge and only had one spare. Do the words "Slow Down in the Rocks" have any meaning Mark? You missed the best part of Saturday. The next three stages were really fun. There were some 100 mph+ sections that were as smooth as freeways. Ken Cassidy said he say 140 mph in the Eva. There were also some twisty sections that you had to slow down for. Richard Byford didn't slow down quite enough and broke his cute little yellow BMW. Paul and Susie Timmerman were having a fabulous rally until they wadded up their Mazda 323 on the first stage after the airport service. They overcooked a corner and did a stylish pirouette off the road. I think this is the end for the Mazda as this is not its first roll and there wasn't much left to save after this one. We will have to create a new crash award for Paul as he has at least a half dozen boxes of Capt. Crunch already. The final day saw everyone at the Superstage. Jay Deacon again created a really nice course for two cars to run side by side. The match ups were fun. Rhys Millen and Mike Whitman drove the last round in only first and second gear to even things up a bit. Doug Robinson and Lauchlin O'Sullivan were paired again and the cars were very evenly matched as were the cars of Jim Gillespy and Dave Coleman. Mark Nelson finally finished a day in his Eva. Maybe rally cross is your thing Mark. Twenty-six teams took the finish ramp on Sunday after-noon. Ray Hocker and Roger Allison put together another outstanding rally -bigger and better than last year. Our thanks go out to the organiz-ers and all of the many volun-teers who made this rally pos-sible. The 2001 CRS event schedule is filling up fast. We have a full series of rally crosses again this year with a total of 10 points events. The rally schedule includes two rally sprints this year. One at Holtville, CA on Feb. l 0th and one in Pahrump, NV on June 2nd. Check out the schedule in this magazine or on our website at < californiarallyseries.com>. For further information you can also contact me at crsdirector@homemall.com. See you at the start line! FIRST ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT RACERS By Wes Wisdom Well, you haven't seen this column for quite a while. VERRRY busy schedules al-ways seemed to get in the way. But with the new year, cen-tury, millennium (I t_hink it was actually last year but that's for another discussion), for sure on us we have a lot of restored energy and resolu-tions to keep. This column is just one of them. F.A.I.R. has a lot of New Year News to pass along. The most important is probably the results of the elections of our Board of Directors for 2001. They are: President: Brady Wisdom; Vice President: Brent Parkhouse; S,ecretary: Wes Wisdom; Treasurer: Scott Wisdom; Race Director: Bryan Hintz; Sgt.-at-Arms: Harry Dunne. All F.A.I.R. members want to give a hearty thanks for a job well done to the outg_oing Board members: Gary Ban-croft, President; Don Bowler, Vice President; Joy Bancroft, Secretary and Bill Markel, Race Director. Joy and Bill were Board members for a very long time and left big shoes to fill. Gary and Don spent their year on the Board getting the F.A.I.R. van and all the equipment in order or updated, a big job and they did a very good job at it. F.A.I.R. racers had a lot of success in 2000. Too many in-dividual race wins and podium finishes so only have room for the biggest triumphs to be listed. In July the Wisdoms won the 1/2-1600 class at the BITD Nevada 2000. The 2000 MDR season was also very successful for F.A.I.R. racers: Brian Logan, 1st Place Class 1600; Robert Moore, 1st Place Class 550; Joel Mohr, 1st Place Class 900, Dave Massingham, 2nd Place Class 100, Kathy Fay, 2nd Place Class 725, 0.wen Potter, 3rd Place Class 1600, Brian Geer, 3rd Place Class 550. On top of that, Brian Logan was MDR's Overall Champion and Robert Moore came :_n second! And we can't forget to add our own Bob Steinberger, SCORE's Man of the Year. Anybody that knows Bob knows how much work he puts in as the Weatherman and how good a job he does at it. This is a most deserved award. Congrats and Good Job to all. Besides all the F.A.I.R. rac-ers from this year, there's some new cars primed and ready to run a full 2001 sea-son. The Moores have their new 1/2-1600 running, al-ready ran the Baja 2000, Jerry Lon_go has his racer ready and so does Greg Blakeman, also 1/2-1600s. All very good equipment, once they get di-aled in they will be very com-petitive. In December we had our annual Big Dinner Meeting with pretty good food (Hotel banquet dinner but still sorta OK) and a ton of goodies to give away. Unfortunately, I don't have a list of who do-nated what but, from my memory, F.A.I.R. wants to give a big thanks to SCORE, MDR, Parkhouse Tires, PCI, McKenzies, and all the other people who donated items for the raffle. There were about 100 members, friends, and guests and everybody had a great time. This is always a big event for F.A.I.R. and this one was no exception. By the time you read this the 2001 season will be under way and F.A.I.R. is looking forward to even more sue-Continued on page 42 Eibach Springs is proud 10 announce H's complete line of ultra high quality off-road springs. Available in 10, 12, 14 & 16 inch free lengths Wilh 3" ID. A well designed & manufactured spring will last thousands of cycles, even in the cruelest desen environments. That's whv top chassis builder Mille Julson chooses Eibach Springs. He knows what ii takes 10 win ... Now so do VDU. Spring to Success ... ElbacbSprings, Inc. • PIIOAe 949 752 &700 • DlstrlllutDr: Pner Pumper 809 360 1854 Dusty Times February 2001 Page 41

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cesses. If you want to be a part of the best pitting organiza-tion around, we meet on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month. The meeting starts at 8:00 p.m. and is at the Radisson Hotel, 222 Houston Ave., Fullerton. That's at the intersection of the 91 Freeway and Harbor Blvd._ Everybody is welcome. Stop on by. F.A.I.R. will also be at the MOR and SCORE races. If you didn't see us at the Mo-jave 200 or the Laughlin Desert Challenge, look for us at all future races and check us out. Magnificent 7 Race Team By Stephen Stenberg, President Hello Everyone! Well, Mag 7 survived the Baja 2000. We had 7 5 racers signed up with us and 53 fin-ished in Caho when the dust and night had disap1eared. Stories abound as wel as dis-appointments and tribula-tions. The Mag 7 went there their own troubles just days before the event with our shipping company dropping us for fuel delivery. Hustling, we found 76 Fuels with Bill Rodriguez helping us move 195 barrels of fuel to 22 pit · locations. Let's just say with five days to go before the start of the longest continu-ous race starting, everything was moving really quickly. Before I get started though, I wish to thank our generous sponsor's support which helped us do as well as we did. In no certain order they are William Tel-Data at www.wretcam.com, Off Road Warehouse in Kearny Mesa a t www. offroad warehouse. com, Juice Designs at www.race-desert.com/jdfab, IMS Prod-ucts at www.imsproducts.com, SKS Valvoline in San Diego, De Walt Tools at www .dewalt.com, Red-D-Arc Welding, Harbor Freight Tools in Chula Vista and Ko-ala Arts in San Diego at (619) 692-9400. To all you ~onsors my hat is off to you. Thank you for your generous support for this past racing year in 2000. For this race, Mag 7 tried using the Dry Brake fuel sys-tems for our bike and quad entries. We had 18 bikes and quads that used this system and out pit captains loved it. Fast, spill free and easy to use, it got our bikes and quads in and out of the pit in usually less than 15 sec-onds. Jose and Steve at IMS Products hooked us up with these units this year and they have worked great! We would like to start using them with vehicles for 2001, as they dump 11 gallons of fuel in under seven seconds with no chance of fuel spill or accidents that can arise with conventional dump cans. As many of you are too, Mag 7 is spent on this race. Everything we made we poured out in pit support costs. From better pit boxes and dumpers to mileage money to help our pit cap-tains reach their locations safely and on time. For this race Mag 7 pitted with three other teams. They were: FAIR, Pro Pits of Baja and Wide Open Baja Tours. It was decided early on that one banner needed to be used for pit recognition. So Mag 7, with their 20 + ban-ners was chosen to run as the banner for racers to look out for. The pits were divided this way: Pits# 1-5 were Mag • Custom Pro Cell Bladders with seamless Fuel Sates "Pro Cell" is our top-of-the-line racing cell that comes ready to install and ifs backed by a full 10 year warran/y. Page 42 super-tough, triple coated construction • 10 year Bladder warranty • Safety loam baffling • Custom manufactured aluminum containers • FIA-FT3, SCORE and SOOA approved • Custom manufactured fillers • (800) 433·6524 technical hotline • Over 25 years experience for more Info call or write to: Aircraft Rubber/Fuel Safe 63257 Nels Anderson Road Bend, Oregon 97701 (5-41) 388-0203 (54 t )388-0307 fax http://wwwfuelsafe.com 7. Pit #6 was Wide Open Baja. Pit #7 was FAIR. Pit #8 was again Wide Open Baja. Pits #9-11 were Mag 7. Pit #12 was Pro Pits of Baja. Pits # 13 and 14 were Mag 7 again. Pits # 15 and 16 were Pro Pits of Bai a. Pit # 1 7 was again Wide Open Baja. Pit #18 was FAIR. Pit #19 was Pro Pits. Pit #20 was Wide Open Baja. Pit #21 was Pro Pits and Pit #22 was Mag 7, with special team from San Jose del Caho under the di-rection of Mickey Quaid. So you can see how complicated it all was. Bringing all these teams under. one banner and in order. Here is a breakdown of how our racers finished in class. ln Class 1 we had Gus Vildosola in 5th. In Class 1/2-1600 we had Lorenzo Rodriguez 3rd, Sammy Ehrenberg in 5th and Chuck Guy in 11th. In Class 5-1600 we had Arturo Cervantes in 3rd. In Class 7S Pro we had Marco Novelo in 2nd. In Class 8 Pro we had Tom Bradley Sr. in 4th and Eric Heiden/Kevin Adler in 7th. In Class 9 we had Jose Sheble take 1st place. In Class 10 we had Dennis Hunter take 4th and Ron Brookshire take 5th respec-tively. In Class Pro Trucks we had Scott Steinberger take 1st place followed by Rick Johnson in 2nd. Steve Scaroni in 3rd. Ryan Ilerzog in 4th, Glenn Harris in 6th and Tony Licitra in 7th. In Class 22 Pro we had Alejandro Vizcaino S. in 4th, Yoship Ikemachi"in 5th and Eddie Deanes in 8th. In Class 25 Pro we had Greg Row take 1st, followed by John Gregory in 3rd and Wes Miller in 6th. In Class 30 we had Keith Allen in 10th and Gilberto Velasco in 13th. In Class 40 we had Gary Tep-ner in 3rd. In Class MU we had Hiroyuki Kanazawa take 2nd, Jerome Law who Iron Manned take 3rd, Tadao Ikeda take 6th, Mitch Sanchez take 8th, Tomoki Hayashi take 10th, Al Perrett take 13th, Dennis Law who also Iron Manned take 16th, Mike Childress take 17th, Phillip_ Yeager take 19th, Hirota Umekawa take 20th, Takayo Kawamoto take 23rd, Paul Key Jr. take 24th, Harunobu Koga take 27th, Akihiko Sunami take 28th on a Har-ley Sport 1200, Yasushi Hattori take 29th, Kenichira Seki take 30th and Katsuhisa Mikami take 31st. In Sports-man A TV Mike Penland took 2nd, and in Baja Chal-lenge class Jay Culbertson took 1st, Kevin Doyle took 2nd, Bruce Cheroff took 3rd, and Matt Autterson took 4th. In International Class 3 Hiroshi Masuoka took 1st place. Congratulations to all those that finished this race, the longest continuous mile-age race ever run in off road. Mag 7 also would like to th_ank a very special Baja Pits crew who came to the aid of our Pit # 5 Captain John Venters. John's trailer broke while ferrying in fuel in his pit and Baja Pits Captain Ray February 2001 Lunak offered John to pit at the highway with his Baja Pit crew. So John radioed his guys up in the hills (14 miles up in the hills) and told them to spash fuel in all bikes and vehicles and he would top them off at the Baja Pits pit on the highway. Ray's crew of Carlos Steinhauer, Mitch Steinhauer, Damien Steinhauer and Poncho were very invaluable to our pit's success. My hat is off to them and Baja Pits in general for helping Mag 7 in this time of need. Mag 7 Race Team plans on racing a full season with the Score Desert Season in 2001, starting with the San Felipe 250 in March. We won't be at Laughlin as it is such a short race to begin with. Everyone, try to enjoy the holidays and remember, we are all human. Try to en-joy what you have and re-member to watch those matches around the home. Until next month, Adios from Team Baja. Attention ~ Pit Tean1s Send us your pit tales, whether they be of success or woe and they will be featured on these pages (space permitting). 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 Trail Notes ... frompage 7 of the awards given away and please bear with us if we miss someone. Check Point worker of the year was Dave Brown, Mini Metal Champion was Cody Swaney, Sportsman Truck was Mark Petit, Sportsman Buggy, Milo Torres, Unlimited Class Champion was Lonny Helmbolt, Heavy Metal went to John Phegley, Casino Sponsor was Terrible's Town Casino in Pahrump, Rookie of the Year was Eddie Saxton, Casino Sponsor was Michael Gaughan's Orleans Hotel and Casino, Driver of the year, by popular vote was the vivacious Day Gang, the True Grit Award went to Michael Gaughan, Jr. and the very prestigious Jimmy Schaeffer award went to Kevin Bunderson. Race Steward Tom Sturgis gave some awards to people who had helped him and SNORE and we were proud to have our own Pat Caplan receive one of the honors. Overall Points awards given were: 10th o/a, Brian Freeman, 9th o/a, Andy Kisner, 8th o/a, Dan Bentley, 7th o/a, Day Gang, 6th o/a Jeff Carr, 5th o/a Chuck Martin, 4th o/a Doug Ingram, 3rd o/a Robby Guevera, 2nd o/a Clay Flippin and last but certainly not least, the Overall Points Champion for 2000, Joe Sheble who also collected a bit of the green for his win. 2001 CORR SCHEDULE -The new CORR schedule for 2001 consists of eight races for Pro and Sportsman and they are: May 19-20 Fort Dodge, Iowa, June 9-10 Antigo, June 23-24 Crandon, WI, July 14-15 Bark River, Ml, July 28-29 Fort Dodge, Iowa, August 11-12 Bark River, Ml, September 1-2 Crandon, WI and September 22-23 Topeka, Kansas. BEST IN THE DESERT NEVADA 1000 - Casey Folks announced his Nevada 1000 to take place on June 19-23, 2002. The race will take place on three days of running, Vegas to Ely, Ely to Tonopah and Tonopah to Vegas. Michael Gaughan's Suncoast Hotel and Casino will be headquarters and Technical Inspection and Contingency will take place on June 19. BEST IN THE DESERT CLASS CHAMPIONS FOR 2000 - Class 1000 Eddie Saxton, Class 1200 Kevin McGillivray, Class 1400 Lonny Helmbolt, Class 1500 Darnen Jefferies, Class 1500* Danny Nelson, Class 2000 Duane Parker, Class 3000 John Swift, Class 3100 Mike Falkosky, Class 4100 Marc Stein, Class 5000 Michael James, Class 5000* Vince Wavra, Class 5100 Johnny Alexander, Class 5100* Anthony Guzman, Class 7000 Steve Lawrence, Class 7100 Malcolm Vinje, Class 7200 Craig Turner, Class 7300 Steve Williams, Class 7300* Rob MacCachren, Class 8000 Kyle Taylor, Class 8000*Larry Vanderway, Class 8100 Chad Hall, Class 8100'1' Randy Wilson, Class 9000 David Vierra. In the motorcycle divisions: OpenP Johnny Campbell, OpenE Jacob Phillips, OpenA Ron Darling, 040P Steve Pitts, 040E Bill Pallotto, 040A Steve Heitchew, 030P Daryl Folks, 250P Danny Cooper, 035E Tony Aguilera, 035A William Kelly, 4SUP Paul Krause, 030E Glenn Taylor, 030A Steve Pankas, 025E Scott Davis, 025A Todd Ritchie, 048E Remey Peticolas-Stroud, 4SUA Curtis Moon, 4SUE Bruce Steigelman, 250E Eric Caudillo, 250A Steve Montana, 125P Kurt Caselli, 125E Jacob Cornet, 125A Lance Fisher, lronman Cory Ayers, lronmanA Jerry Fisher. Quad Pro William Yokley, Quad Expert Todd Hunter, Quad Amateur Glenn Walraven. (* = Sportsman) FINAL FLAG -We were saddened to hear of the passing of Al Collins, an old friend and certainly a friend of off road racing. Al succumbed to cancer and his funeral was held on January 16th. Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn delivered the eulogy. Al was the first person to win 3 consecutive Mint 400's in Class 11 and he was one of the founders of SNORE. Al, along with his brother Martin were also victorious in the Baja 500 and 1000. Al will be sorely missed by all of the off road community. Dusty Times

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The Stories Behind The Stories I By Judy Smith Judy Smith gathered as much information as she could after the Baja 2000 and these few pages relate some of the other tales of glory and woe that she was able to get hold of long after the race was over. Enjoy! The SCORE Baja 2000 was much more than an off road race. It was an adventure, an odyssey, a personal challenge. The racers rose to the chal-lenge, and they overcame dif-ficulties, or they didn't. Most finished, some didn't, and all had stories to tell when they got to Cabo san Lucas. Some of the stories don't belong to the racers. All the stories help delineate the immensity of the challenge, and the way in which the smallest oversight could spell disaster. Look at Bob Hummell. He was driving in a terrific new SCORE Lite car. He hadn't driven for about three years and at that time he hadn't been wearing glasses. But this time he was. And they kept slipping down his nose. So he had to lift his visor and shove them up over and over again. Finally, he was tired of mess-ing with the glasses, so he took them off. Says Bob, "It turns out I needed them to see the down arrows." In order to prepare for this event, each team had to find a way to get fuel down-course, along with spare tires and other miscellaneous parts. In Photos: Trackside Photo Steam from the headers didn't slow Scott Steinberger, he took the Protruck win bya bunch. addition, each race vehicle re-quired at minimum a pair of chase vehicles with at least two people in each. BFGood-rich, with approximately 100 cars to tend to, set up 13 pits anywhere from 70 to 140 miles apart. If a vehicle couldn't make the longer stretches, the racer would have to arrange his own intermediate pits. In the case of a small, low-bud-get team, the intermediate pit would be one of those chase vehicles, which had to manage to get to the right spot ahead of the race car. Not always an easy chore. And they weren't always successful. Some of the chase crews worked above and beyond the call of duty to try to get the racer on the way, but it was RACERS still not always successful. Glenn Goss, 71, and his son George were racing in Class 1. Glenn hadn't raced for about eight years, but like so many others, wanted to be a part of this special event. George started the car, and coming into Uruapan, Race Mile 186, he lost a tire and wheel. He pulled into the BFG pit there, and they gave him one of Corky McMillin's tires, since Corky had already passed through. They went on but the going was wet and muddy, and at San Quintin George got out and Glenn got in and a pas-senger switch was made as well. Just before they got to Santa Ines, the left rear wheel passed them by. By then it was PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT WITH . PHYSICAL DAMAGE INSURANCE FOR YOUR OFF-ROAD RACING VEIDCLES Call the experts at Michael E. Jain es Insurance Agency. We can satisfy the insurance needs of all off-road racers. Physical Damae;e Insurance for Race Vehicles Trucks Trailers Tools/Equipment Liability Insurance for Special Racing Events EXAl\tIPLE Value ofRace Vehicle $30,000 x3% = $900 Annual Premium $1,000 deductible Coverage for fire, theft. V &M:t\ii, limited physical damage protection Dusty Times Call for free quote and details • Michael E. James Insurance Agency 619-445-5797 February 2001 And you thought racing was all fun, well Youre wrong, there are always scenes like this! dark, and in order to see what they were doing, they set small bushes afire. They had to keep feeding brush to the flames as they Mexicaneered a repair, but eventually got moving again. When they hit the highway just above Catavina, their chase crew was there and made a permanent repair. They had to do some canni-balizing in order to end up with two good c.v. setups, but they got it done. However, the chase crew, in the dark (in more ways than one, appar-ently), unknowingly rein-stalled the tires and wheels onto the hubs backwards. When they started to move again the calipers sheared the valve stems and they instan-taneously had two flats! The chase crew had made a good move earlier however, and had rustled up some additional rear spares, which they had on the trailer, so they were able to replace the flats quickly. (Don't ever let anyone tell you this isn't a team sport.) That repaired, they were on their way again. By now Glenn had got out of the car and John Madok and John Piskator got in and headed through Santa Ines and down toward Punta Blanca and the silt beds. All of a sudden the Globalstar sat-ellite phone rang in the chase truck. More problems with the race car -now the clutch was blitzed, used up trying to get through the silt about 25 miles in from the highway. The team tried to locate the race car using their GPS system, but apparently the canyon walls near where it was stuck were too narrow. One of the team hiked up to the top in order to get a position. Then the GPS pinpointed their site within 100 yards. Ralph Schoonmaker, who lives in Santa Ines behind the Rancho, used his Baja truck to pull the race car out of the silt. Ralph had apparently sta -tioned himself where he could be of help. Nice man. The dispirited team pulled the race car back to Santa Ynes, declared their race over, and loaded everything up and went on to Cabo on the high-way to share in the fun down south. Occasionally the trouble doesn't wait. Glenn Harris and Cam Thieriot had a chase truck, belonging to a gentle-man named Wes, that had to be parked outside the walls of their hotel's parking lot be-cause of the crowded condi-tions. It was an Xtra-cab Ford with a camper-shell. In spite of the roving guard on duty, on race morning it was gone. Along with the spare transmis-sion, torque converter, wheels, tires, tools, Mike Schwellinger's race suit and helmet, and nitrogen and Co-2 bottles. Wes and Mike had to go to four police stations to get the police report filed. Mike's buddy was very de-pressed (although he did have both Mexican and American insurance that should cover his loss) and wanted to go home. Mike said that the worst thing about the whole thing was that he didn't get to go down to Cabo to be at the finish line. (Of course, it wasn't his truck.) As the race cars lined up along the street on race morn-ing, a diversion in the form of a broken water main enter-tained the gathering crowd. Water suddenly spouted into the air from a pipe in the di-vider-strip, showering the race car parked next to it. A quick Continued on page 44 Elliot Forbes Robinson took the Baja Challenge class win, a long hard trip but certainly worth the effort. Page 43

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George Seeley plows through the water on his way to the second spot in the Class 5 contest. This Mitsubishi Montero, a veteran of the Dakar Rally, shook off the water and made it to Cabo San Lucas. Clive Skilton fords the river en route to Cabo San Lucas but he-· settled for second spot in Class 3, beaten by his son Darren. thinking local grabbed a trash can and corralled the fountain, while some other folks pushed the car out of reach of the wa-ter. Nevertheless, Ronny Wil-son, the starting driver in Sammy Ehrenberg's 1600 car, started the day with a wet seat. The Class 10 car of Travis and Ron Brookshire and Vic Bruckmann had what they called a pretty eventful time. Their race started with a dead battery because a wire had bro-ken, and the alternator was This is the ~ystem run by most off road race winners broken. When they reached many) and he got out at Guadalupe the battery died, Catavina and put a backup they found the problem and driver in. That poor soul, who fixed it, losing about 20 min-probably hadn't pre-run, buried utes. At San Quintin, Ron got the car in the silt down on the out because his face shield had coast. It took eight hours just got so muddy he couldn't see, to get to him in the chase ve-and Bruckmann got it. He had hides. So then Vic got back in two flat tires, using up his and drove to Vizcaino. Then spare, and then he came to the Ron got in again and drove to big hill out of San Quintin and San Ignacio, and after him had to run up it with three good Todd Barnhill drove to tires and a flat. That ripped up Constitucion, and Travis got the caliper and hub. By now the final section. At some point Bruckmann was carsick (one of they put two spares onto the TRI-MIL BOBCAT QIROME 1984-9-1 CORVETTE 2 1/2" OR 3" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER car, and as they tied them down they tied the wiring in some-how. The wires caught fire and shorted out, so they had to re-wire the car. Altogether, dur-ing their trip they used up six batteries and five alternators. Then they discovered that the radio was shorting the alterna-tors, fixed that and it ran fine for the balance of the race. They finished fifth, and last, in Class 10. At about 12:50 p.m. on Sun-day a local policeman stopped the chase vehicle or the Candy Cane car, and asked them to ra-dio to Sal Fish to call the High-way Patrol immediately. By the time we saw Sal again and asked him what it had been about, he'd had no sleep for 36 hours and couldn't remember. However, there were several incidents involving the police in the San Quintin area. They stopped Larry Ragland for one, and then stopped the Class 3 car of Matt and Noah Pike and wanted to impound it. Seems the car in front of them tossed a rock with its tires and broke the cop's windshield. A crowd gathered, in support of the rac-ers, but the cop was stubborn. Then a crew member from Rod Hall's team, a bilingual gentle-man, was able to cool the cop down and persuade him to let the Pikes go on. There is also a story about a police car in that area forcing a Class 1 car off the road and into the crowded pit/spectator area. No one was hurt, nothing damaged, but the driver was is-sued a ticket according to our informant, and then allowed to go on. We're not entirely sure about this story. 13220 HALLDALE AVENUE GARDENA, CA 90249 310-217-9233 Craig Smith, one of the Honda team riders, along with Johnny Campbell, Tim Staab and Steve Hengeveld, who won the race overall, said that as he rode along he saw a bobcat and a boar. And then, as he rounded a corner, very late in the race, he was suddenly face t face with a big bull with glit-tery eyes. It scared the heck out of him for a minute, until he re-Page 44 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED alized it was a dead bull some-one had propped up on sticks. February 2001 As if things weren't confus-identical cars from the Wide ing enough at the finish line, Open Baja Tour Company, about five minutes before the there was a class-wide disaster first Trophy Truck was ex-. that slowed them all down. A pected, the big inflatable batch of bolts used in the con-Tecate arch went limp and col-trol arms of all the cars turned lapsed. There was a scurry of out to be inco rre c ti y heat Tecate people looking for the treated and they broke. All of generator, which was appar-them. By some means, the ently out of gas. Once they chase and back-up people gath-found it order was restored, ered up enough bolts to service briefly, and the Dura last truck all the cars, and one by one, in-came through in high style, tercepted the cars or found only to have it collapse again, them disabled on the course just brushing the back of the and replaced the problem parts. truck as it pulled up for inter-Ultimately, the winning car views. The Tecate guys finally was driven by the team of An-got things fixed, and it stood drew Hassard, Elliott Forbes upright for most of the rest of Robinson, Jay Culbertson and the time. Chuck Springs. Once they'd re-Bud Feldkamp, who used to covered from the six hours team up with Malcolm Smith, down time caused by the bolt, was one of the drivers on the they had no more difficulty, be-Chris Wilson Chevrolet that yond a couple of flat tires. finished third, and drove the fi-When we talked to Robinson nal section. (The license plate later he was still very enthusi-on the truck, which they call a astic. pre-runner, says "4Baja2K".) He said he'd never been in They divided their race into an off road race, and had not four sections and each drove even sat in the car. But, "It was his part straight through. So it so nice to drive, it was a piece was Wilson, Ramsey El of cake." When asked how it Wardani, Steve Krieger, and· compared to the sporty cars then Feldkamp. He was grin-he's used to driving, he said it ning at the finish, but allowed was "a completely different as how "the old skills need a deal for me, but I loved it." He little refreshing." He's got a did think the race bore some new truck coming, and plans to similarity to some rallies he's go racing with one of his sons. raced, but he said in Baja, "the The Steve Greinke, Mike jumps were giant! A rally car and Dale Dondel team finished would have backed off." fifth in the SCORE Lite clas~. Robinson's section was They did two clutch changes Catavina to San Ignacio, so he along the way because they had got one of the best runs. It was a leaky main shaft seal. Steve's night, but he said the lights dad, whose name we failed to were awesome, and he didn't get, was part of the chase team. care. Asked if he'd try it again, He'd race in the '98 1000 and he said, "in a heartbeat!" didn't quite get to the finish Altogether, half of the cars line. This time he rode the fi-finished, a good statistic for nal section with Steve, so he'd what was essentially a group of get to have that pleasure. Any-off road novices. one who's done it knows what The Class 3 ' 78 KS Chevy an emotional high it is to go Blazer of Chris Raffo, Andy and through that particular finish Molly Morter (brother and sis-line. ter) and Dennis Chencharick, John Holmes, who finished came out from Wisconsin for in Dave Callaway's car, and was the race. It's a mid-western snug up against the Greinke's short-course truck, but Chris, rear cage-, in his anxiety to be who owns it, had tried in '98, ahead of him on corrected and figured he knew enough to time, had no rear cage on his make it live the length of the own car. Holmes and Callaway road. Molly, who'd been the had the position by less than a season champion in the Ladies minute. Callaway hit one of Buggy class last year, was the those diabolical dips in the nice starting driver. Chris· was in a road from Bay of L.A. to El friend's car, not an off road ve-Arco, and nearly endoed. hide and had promised not to Maybe he did something to the take it in the dirt. So after all cage at that point. the vehicles had gone by, at That car also broke a steer-least as far as he could tell, he ing column while Scott Mapes hitched a ride with someone was driving, and he nearly went else who was going backwards off a cliff. But, get this, they looking for a car. It was scary, had a spare steering column but it turned out no one was with them, and were fixed moving because the Vortec again pretty quickly. chase team had hustled out In the Baja Challenge class, onto the course to rescue Mark which was made up of eight Miller, and they completely Dusty Times

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Three hardy souls from La Paz head towards home and were second in Class B. Larry Ragland and Brian Stewart rolled their neat looking Trophy The Class 8 win went to the highly talented team of Curt LeDuc, his Truck short of Cabo but they did finish in the second spot. son Kyle, Austin Robison and John Swift. blocked the course. It took an hour or so to attach the tow straps and drag him up the hill and meanwhile a dozen or so late-running cars sat and waited. They couldn't go around or they'd have joined Mark down in the bottom of the ditch. As far in as Chris went there was no sign of his car, so he hitched another ride back out, and headed for the start, figur-ing he'd have to go out onto the course in that direction. Some-where in here he saw a big, white Class 8 truck having trouble with a flat, and he went to help them. The truck he said, "stunk." It seems it had been stuck for a while in a heap of dead fish, and now carried the remnants with it. Chris took his friend's '99 GMC Denali, with street tires, up the course to the first road crossing. He predictably blew both right side tires about 100 yards short of the pavement. A local man, with wife and kids along, stopped to help. He took one tire to town to get it patched, while Chris put the spare on. While he waited for the local to come back with his tire, Chris helped Lynn Venier's team chance a clutch, which, he said, they had smoked. Meanwhile, the local gentleman came back and put the patched tire on Chris' car. Chris gave him a $20 bill, and the guy asked him, "Are you hungry?" Chris admitted he was, and the fellow pulled a hot foil-wrapped plate out of his car and hands it to Chris, along with a Tecate beer. Another example of the friendly people in Baja. Refreshed and fed, Chris headed for the tech inspection area, thinking he might find some information there. As he pulled in he saw Molly stand-ing then~ with a beer in her hand. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. She had a dirty face and a strange expression. As he got to her she said, "The car is burned." It seems she hit a puddle too hard and stalled the truck. Al-though she got it going again, they discovered a broken spark plug. So they decided to go on down the road to where they knew Chris was waiting to fix it. But as they crested a hill, it erupted in flames. Molly climbed out and ran back to a Mexican policeman, and he called the fire department. But by the time they got there ev-erything in the engine compart-ment was toasted. That in-cluded the new HID lights, the OPS, radio and intercom. All the new stuff Chds had added Dusty Times to make his short course truck knowing there would be late ar-helped Gary Magnes with brake Peter McNeil got his wind-into a Baja racer. rivals so close to race day. trouble on his Protruck, gave shield cleaned and fresh drink-Chris, who had driven the The Locos Mocos guys also Dennis Law, one of the solo ing water, and Anthony Carl-truck at the Crandon Labor took a trailered generator to bikers, a fresh air filter. They son, who'd deflated his tires to Day event, and won the class, their pit, but for this they went also put a sticker on his bike get out of the silt, had them re-said it was a major fight to get by way of the road that starts and later on he couldn't ex-inflated. Solorzano got some gas ready and get out here, what near·Mulege. It wasn't easy, or plain how it got there. for his winning Class 11, and with a new job and all. He said fast, but they made it. They also They saved the day for sec-Gerardo lribe had a stuck he still hasn't got the credit carried 300 gallons of fuel in, ond place Protruck Rick throttle fixed. Chuck Guy had card bill for all those lights, ra-but that they brought up Johnson by installing a replace-his lights adjusted. Cars #811, dios and OPS stuff. through lnsurgentes, through ment steering box. For Class 10 1201, BC6, BC2, 1401, 761 and Back at the finish line, about San Juanico (where they driver Dennis Hunter they 1649 were pulled out of the silt. nine o'clock on Tuesday morn-stopped to buy fresh lobster) on charged his batteries, and These guys spent a couple of ing, an individual came up and the longer, but much better somehow fitted the internals days getting to Cuarenta and a asked permission to distribute road. from a Toyota alternator to his couple of days working hard. someone's ashes at the finish As they waited on Sunday Honda alternator case. Solo Then they camped for another line. Permission granted, he night for the racers to start to biker Bob Surmon got a fresh couple of days, and when they'd quietly dumped the ashes just arrive, a bunch of the local girls tire, and Marc Stein's Stock had enough fun they went home across the line, while another came down to see what they Full had his brakes bled. to start planning for where individual took a quick photo were doing. The local boys Arturo Cervantes, in #554 they'll be the next time. Many or two. It seems the deceased made it clear that they didn't had dropped his flashlight on of the drivers they helped was someone lone associated like that very much, but when the floor of his Bug and couldn't wouldn't have made it without with the sport who'd requested they saw that the Locos Mocos. reach it. They fished it out for them. They'd have run out of this. But no one thought to get guys were there just to pit, not him, and he went on to finish tires, batteries, energy and his name. to party, the settled in to help. third. Jeff Lewis had a locked up spirit. Scott Steinberger started the Late at night, as some pit mem-front brake caliper they helped And all up and down the race with a special "urn" on the hers got some rest, the local to fix on hi& winning Class_ 7 course there were pit crews per-rear bumper of his Protruck, boys were busy dumping gas. truck. Tim Moore had a broken forming the same functions for containing Larry Plank's ashes. This year, in their pit, the light bar welded, and Walker other people. It's astonishing So now Larry is a permanent L.M. guys helped or cheered up Evan's Trophy Truck was made ·how many-volunteers it takes to part of the countryside and a lot of racers. They did quick . well enough to drive out of the get to the end of a professional sport he loved so much. tire checks for some, like Scott ·.silt beds, and then they con-off road race. One of the group of "old" McMillin and Damen Jefferies, soled Walker with burritos and Without the pit crews and guys who decided they had to and a tire change for the Jim beer, because the truck wasn't chase folks there could not be be involved in this race, was Baldwin Trophy Truck. They · healthy enough to go on racing. a race. Never forget that. ■ the "Pedos Vieios" team of Jon Kennedy, Sr. (We're told that phrase translates to "Old Farts". Very fitting.) Kennedy was the youngest, at-54. They included Jerry Higman, Mitch Mitchell, Ernie Castro, Larry Smith, Steve Ebbert, and Den-nis Hight, all of whom raced back when. When I was racing. A brake rotor came loose and cost them three hours near Catavina, and then Higman got stuck in the silt. Kennedy bragged that he got through the silt below San Ignacio o.k. They did finish, darned well, in sixth place, after 48.5 hours. For two-and-a-half days, while officials and fans and friends waited at the finish line, a flock of vultures hovered overhead, ominous and siient. The Locos Mocos group settled themselves in at Mile 978 on the race course, near Cuarenta, north of lnsurgentes. Their philosophy is to help any-one who needs help. (Inciden-tally, they tell us that Locos Mocos is translated loosely to mean "Crazy Booger".) This year as they headed south from San Ignacio, on their way to the pit, their heavily loaded full sized Bronco broke an axle (it's good, smooth road there). Ricardo, from the Rice and Beans Restaurant in San Ignacio made many phone calls for them and found an -axle housing so they could make re-pairs. Though it was late, he'd been keeping the kitchen open, TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING. 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Readers are advised to consult appropriate lo-cal or state authorities for informa-tion before purchase of any specific item. · AUTOMOTIVE FOR SALE: Pro-Lite Ford FORSALE:Trick2000, "New"Not Ranger Esslinger 2 700cc tall Thrashed "Real" single or two seat block, dry sump, King, Beard, 12 car, Not lOyearold fatigued worn FODORRACINGPACKAGEOR Cone axles, Willwood, CNC outClasslOcar.Chromolyll8",091 PIECES-(A) 44' Gooseneck Com- power cylinders, Fiberglass, all trans-slipper clutches, 18" front, 20" petitive Trailer, Roof platform, triple new $35,000.00. Call Joe (520) rear travel, 1776 Fat-Wiks Combo, axle, front parts room, extra tall ceil- 667-2194. 26 gal, 90% complete, Centerlines, FOR SALE: MDR Stock Mini truck. 2nd in Class 97 /99. Great finishing truck! 4.0L motor, auto trans, Bilstein shocks, Dana 44 w/spool, 456 gears, some spares. Make reasonable offer and you could be racing in 2001. Must sell. Have bought another truck. Could be street legal. Dennis (909) 735-6452 after 6:30 pm. ing, fits 2 cars, Ref# 806, $14,900.00, Disc Brakes, 10" wider, King Shocks, FOR SALE: Probst Semi Tractor/ (B) Laughlin 2000 winning Class 12 A-ARM CHENOWTH 2 SEAT, front and Coilover, Dual Pivot Rear. Trailer Unit, 1985 Freightliner/1980 Single Seater Chenowth, Major mo-Porsche 3.6 cylinder, Fields auto Bargain at $18,500.00. Call (613) Great Dane 45 ft trailer has benches tor, King Bypass, prepped and ready transaxle, 934 CV's Sway-A-Way, 846-0888. FOR SALE: Class 5-1600 Complete inside for 20 feet, 20x40 canopy. to keep winning Ref # 807, Fod Fab, Bilstein coilover/bypass, rebuilt Leighton Motor, JG Trans, 18000 watt Martin Diesel generator $24,900.00 (C) PreRunner Raceco Howe power steering, Fortin, Jamar, FOR SALE: Fortin Transmission- Fox 7 /8 shocks, Wright combo, Rack (fresh) 5hp T-30 Ingersol Rand Air 2-1600 with new front end and a Halon anti-fire system, Simpson, Ratios are 3.08-1"., 1.90 -2nd, 1.72-& Pinon, new 22 gal cell, gauges M/ compressor, full Belly Boxes, double 1915cc motor, very dependable, all VDO, Mastercraft, BFG, Centerline 3rd, 1.50-4"', l.30-5th, 4:37 Ring & C seats & belts, new electrical and doorRearentrywithramps.Fullelec- fresh shocks, and a radio, all for +spares,withfreshprep.$45,000.00 Pinon, lOOmiles onrebuild,contact paint. Best of everything. Fluidyne trical. Will separate. $29,000.00 Call $8,900.00 Ref# 808. Call Baja Bro-obo Ref #794. BajaBrokers (760) Brad Zacka and or Jeff@ (714) 441- cooler, inc all spares (760) 349-3340 for details (815) 485-7223. kers at (760) 723-2117. 723-2117. 1212. $8,000.00. $7,000.00 OBO . .......................................................................... -.......... -.-.~.-.-.-.-.-.~.-.----.-.-.-.-. Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in Classified Ad : DUSTY TIMES. Deadlines for : Classified Advertising rate is only $25 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use of black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. Maximum size 5"x7" .All Classified Ads must be PAID IN AD-V AN CE. REMEMBER. CLASSIFIED AD SPACE IS LIMITED. YOUR AD MAY BE PUT OFF ONE ISSUE IF NOT RECEIVED IN A TIMELY MANNER. 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--• - ' .... •. • • • 0 ~ • • • • T • • S. •' • .... - • • 0 • ' 0 0 FORSALE: 2CORRPro-LiteToyo-tas trucks, Both Greaves built, one with new Probst motor-Radiator, Steering, Race prepped by Greaves, $50,000.00. One with Ron Hendricks dry sumped motor, dyno time only, wheels, body, clutches, new parts, too many to list $75,000.00. Both Race Ready. Steve Foster (at Bug E Whse in San Anto-nio, TX) (210) 533-8056 wk, (210) 649-1598 hm. FOR SALE: Moulton/Mirage Score Lites. Geoff Hart 135 HP Motor, For-tin Trans, Fox Shocks, Fodrill Arms, Summer Bros. Hubs, CNC Brakes, Deist Belts, PCI Radio, Plus Many spares. Multiple SCORE Class Win-ner, Prepped and Ready to Race. ALSO 22ft Enclosed trailer w/cabi-nets & work bench. Everything goes, $30,000.00. Call Jim or Mike Zupanovich at (562) 591-5665. FOR SALE: 2 seat Unlimited Mi-rage, Completed 1999 new car, all new parts. This is not a refurbished race car. Built as an awe50me Pre Run car. FAT Type IV, Mendeola Bus Box, Fox Coilover front, Fox rear, Sharlin Power Steering, 4 wheel dis, 25 gal cell, PCI, Pumper, 300 miles, Beautiful car. 40,000.00 invested, $22,000.00 obo Jim (62b) 966-7509 or (909) 946-1893. FOR SALE: Race Ready Chevy C-1500 Class 8 race truck. This truck has a 430 C.I. 682hp small block Chevy by Shaver, Chevy 4L80 4 speed auto trans, Chrisman rear hous-ing & hubs, Kuster/SAW shocks, CNC brakes, Simpson, Terra Trip rally computer, 2000 Chevy body, and many more spare parts too many to list. This truck is a two time SCORE Class 8 points winner and has won every race that it raced in the 2000 season 5 out of 5. This truck is race ready prepped for the Baja 2k. This is a good starter truck. So if your look-ing for a fast dependable race winning truck this is the one for YOU. All for only $80,000.00. Call Robbie at (702) 889-07 50 or Email at ofrdracer@aol.com. FORSALE: 2-SEATRACECOA-Arm front 90" wide, 300 tranny, Type 4 Fat motor w/dual carbs. Nice car. $23,000.00 complete $14,500.00 less motor and trans. Call (949) 489-8984. Page 54 FOR SALE: Class 7, 2000 Ranger Glass, 3" Internal-Bypass front with Custom Radius Ann/I-beam set-up, Coilover/bypass rr with four-link. 22" front w/ 25" rr.T ubular cab with alu-minum tub, big brakes/Bias adjuster, Howe Steering with Quickner, 22K. See at Advanceoffroad.com or Jim at (310) 542-2977. FOR SALE: Class 10 Chenowth Magnum. Set up for Short Course. Fresh motor and trans. 1650 Rabbit motor. Excellent race car. Rear Beadlocks. Well maintained, reliable and fast. Championship car. Great buy $10,000.00. Call Chris (712) 325-0100. If no answer please leave message. Sell Your Car, Pre-Runner, Parts or Bits & Pieces Right Here .... Dusty Times Has TheOffRoad Readership You'1"e Looking For. Only$25 for up to 45 words plus $5 with photo. SeeFonn on Page 53. FOR SALE: Own the Best! Custom ProBuilt Blazer PreRunner: 20" front/ rear travel, Bilsteins coilover w/by-pass, Summers, Dana 60 Rear Locker 44 spline floater. Custom wide King Pin I beam front, top of the line 4 seater, 37"xl 7" BFG w/beadlocks, radio, full int. complete spares box, new Pro ZZ4 350. All fresh & prepped, ready to go! Needs noth-ing. The best prerunner available for $46,500.00 obo. Bruce Anderson/ Seeley Racing. Riverside (909) 689-9101. 1996 Ford f-150, Pro Stock Full 860/ 8100 class. This.,has won 3 class championships. Ready to race, in-cluding first prep. Over $50,000.00 in spares alone. Best of everything, nothing skimped on. This winning race truck has finished every mile of every race. $55,000.00 OBO. Ref# 795, Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: Pre Runner, nearly race ready. Full roll cage, new Bil-steins; fresh dual port 1760 motor; Bus trans; Sway-A-Way torsion; Beard Seats; 5pt harness; dual batt; fresh paint; lots of tricked out stuff. $5,000.00 obo (661) 250-4537. FOR SALE: Score Lite, 1999-2000 points champion, great finishing record. 14" front travel, Foddrill arms and spindles, CNC brakes, FOX, 19" rear travel, Micro Stub, FOX 3" by-pass. DG 300 trans. No motor, 930-30 spline axles, some spares. $25,000.00. CallJerry"@ (949) 650-3035. FORD RANGER 7s Race Truck: Multiple 1st place finishes, Kuster shocks, 9" with 35 spline, Mogi C4 auto trans, National Spring Co. Fox air bumps at all 4 comers, MSD, Mastercraft, Flame Out system, some spare parts included, 250hp Ref # 805. $35k. Call Baja Brokers at (760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: Class 1, Single Seat, Mike Smith Chassis and Shocks, 5 races on car, Complete prep for 2000 season. $60,000.00 Mike Grabowski (909) 376-0243. FOR SALE: Cla?s 5 Baja Bug. Never finished, 105" wheel base 3" x 3" 4130 heat treated rear trailing arms, 4130 5" wider than stock front beam, Wright 1.5" long front arms with combo's, Wright rack and pinion, Fox Shocks 2 front & 6 rear, Fuel Cell, Beard Seats, Aluminum work complete, Jamar pedals, turning brake, super shifter, 930 CV"S boots and flanges, Summers axles, Type 2 trans with Hewland gears, Engine type 1 2074cc single Weber. Brand new never ran!! Misc other parts, with trailer $7,800.00. For info Call Doug @ (909) 699-8898. FOR SALE: Score Class 12 single seat, fresh motor, fresh trans, prepped ready to race. For more information call (714) 771-7324 or (714) 744-1934. Ask for L.J. or Jon. $16,000.00 complete, $12,000.00 less motor. February 2001 FOR SALE: CORR Short Course Pro 2 1998 Chevy Truck. Taylor Sus-pension shocks, 1 7" Rims, Bead Locks, Goodyear tires, 775 hp dry sump, Bowtie Block, 18 heads, ATD 400 trans, AutoMeter gauges, Chrisman Rear end, MSD, Fresh Air System with spare parts. Will sepa-rate. $30,000.00 (262) 966-9998 fax. FOR SALE: Bradley Racing CORR 1996 World Championship Super Buggy, Super 1600 Magnum Body, FAT Rabbit 1650cc, 091 Bus Trans-mission, FTC gears, Beam Front, Wright Arms and Spindals, Summer Brakes, 930 CV's, Fox Shocks and Bumps, New Goodyear's, Lots of Spares. $15,000.00. Call Tommy at (702) 498-7245 or visit website-www.bradleyracing.com. FOR SALE: 7S Toyota Tacoma, 1997 & 2000ToyotaMilestone Win-ner, 1997, 1998 & 2000 SCORE 7S Champions. 1999 2nd place SCORE 7S, Cone hubs, Wilwood brakes, CNC, 300m SAW torsion's, 3" King bypass, new 35 gal cell, Autometer, Howe Steering with ram, 33" BFG Baja's 250 hp fuel injected motor, Ford 9", lots of spares!! $24,500.00 . . Call Doug (949) 697-691 7 cell or 949 364-1441 da s. '· - .;.,•.~:•~ "'#._"· FOR SALE: Chevy K-5 Blazer 2wd withcustomA-Armfrontend. Fresh 355/400 hp motor, built Auto trans, 456 locker rear. 4 shocks each side front, 3 each side rear. Race Ready with some X-tras! $6,000.00 or trade forJeep! (916) 381-4621. Bob Gordon's Class 1-Chenowth Millenium Car Package, Fat 3.0L V-6, Fresh top of the line fortin Box, Sway-A-Way, BFG Projects, rear headlocks, etc ... Fully prepped, ready to race. This vehicle was the first buggy to finish the '99 Baja 1000. Built and driven by Baja Legend! $69,000.00 Call Baja Brokers at (760) 723-2117 or go to bajaconcepts.com and check out Ref # 778 (OT apologizes for last month's price error) FOR SALE: Class 5 Unlimited. Pautter Type 1 fuel injected 200hp, Fortin, Foddrill front end, Summer's front and rear hubs with air cooled adapters, Coil over in front, rear 300m torsion with 8 water cool Fox Shocks all around, UMP power steering, 50 gal fuel cell, Parker Pumper, CNC calipers on all corners, SACO magnum Steer-ing box w/ram, PCI hook up, Centerline headlocks on BFG tires, Beard seat w/ neck brace · on 5 point harness. PIAA and KC lights, one of the best built and winning 5 car so far, ex-tras inc/tires w/wheels, open trailer w/tire rack and some miscellaneous parts. $25,000.00. Call Foddrill Fab-rication (623) 582-2499, ask for Danny. FOR SALE: 97 Fl50 4x4 Supercab Prerunner47,000 mib Luill by Dun-ahoe Racing. Full cage, 2 1/2" Race Runner shocks, coil over front, Cus-tom A-Arms axles, Porsche 935, CV's 16" travel in front, 22" travel rear,Vortech Supercharged 5.41 V8. (254) 675-8621 ext 838. email bianss(a)gwhf.ore for fotos $42,000.00. FOR SALE: 1998 Toyota Tacoma CORR Pro Lite Standardized chas-sis, Formerly Johny Greaves' cham-pionship truck. Only race two years. Some spare parts. Excellent condi-tion. $40,000.00. Call Chris (712) 325-0100. If no answer please leav~ message. FOR SALE: 78 Chevy Pre-Runner-Cage-Beard-Simpson-Summers Ax-les-Spool-35BFG Mud-Big Wheel Studs-35" gallon fuel-383 Alum Heads Forged Pistons-4" exhaust-B&M shifter & trans-Nice paint-spare parts, $50k invested sell $15,000.00 too much to list. (909) 678-1029. FOR SALE: Chevy Pre-runner/BS Race Truck, street legal, Caged front to back by Dirt Trix, built 350, TH400, Trussed Rearend w/locker, Rancho re-buildable shocks w/reser-voirs, Fuel Cell, Autofab glass front & rear end, Great spares package 3K miles on Frame-up restoration, $13,900.00 OBO or trade for muscle car. (602) 316-6304. Dusty Times

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FOR SALE: Go with a winner. 79 Ford FlS0 Stock Full 460 engine, 65 gallon fuel cell, King Shocks, Ready to Race. Lots of spare parts. Reno Racing (818) 764-3038. FOR SALE: 2000 Jimco, Single Seat, A-Arm, Class 1. No expense spared, works awesome, very reliable and ready to win! SCAT V-4 rear engine, Fortin DON Trans, King Shocks, Billet Spindles. No bugs to work out, just drive it to the winners circle! $80,000.00. Contact John at (520) 690-9765. FOR SALE: FULL BLOWN THING! Great car. 4 wheel disk brakes, Wright rack and pinion w/p.s., strong Type 1 Fat motor. Dual front Fox shocks w/Coilovers. Triple Fox rear shocks w/reservoirs, complete roll cage from Penhall Fab. Bus Trans, oil cooler w/fan, dual J-Mar brake masters/pedal assembly, original gas heater, rear fuel tank, Bimini or con-vertible full top, rear seat or rack, Centerline wheels. $12,500.00 (949) 4.89-8984. FOR SALE: CLASS 1 LOTH-RINGER SINGLE SEA TERA-Arm front, Bilstein coil covers, by-pass front and rear, Wilwood front and Summers Bros. Rear brakes, Howe P.S. box w/ump pump, Summers Bros F & R hubs, type 4 FAT 2600 motor with dry sump, set-up Fortin trans. Car sold less tranny, Centerline wheels, lots of extras, includes trailer. $14,500.00 less trans, $10,000.00 less trans&motor. Call (949) 489-8984. FORSALE: CindyGreinkesZ/1600, Best of Everything, former SCORE championship winning car, recent winner. More spare parts than you could believe, 20 spare wheels, and tires, race quality spare motor and trans, complete log book on car, $24,000.00 for CAR ONLY or com-plete package with spare parts and motor and trans for$$??. Contact Baja Brokers Ref# 790 (760) 723-2117. Dusty Times FOR SALE: 2 Seat Pre-Runner (Former Class 2-1600) & Tandem Axle Big Tex Trailer. 2 Lit Type 1, Dual Delortos, Bus Box, 930 CV's, 4:86 R & P, Parker Pumper, Master-craft, PCI, FOX, Supertrap, Center-lines, Yokohamas, Simpson, Durablue, Wright, Sway-A-Way, $7,500.00Wayne@ (562) 867-9377, wbrewer@zamboni.com. FOR SALE: Class 10/ 2 seat Raceco. Wiks 1915 VW, TransWest, Bus Box, 930cv's, Summers Bros. Hubs, Fod Arms, Drop Spindles, New Sway-A-Way Shocks, Coilover and Triple Bypass on each wheel. New 32 gallon cell. Car is turn key, $17,500.00 OBO. Call Bill at (310) 544-2095. FOR SALE: Raceco Class One S.S. -3.3 Porsche-Fortin Trans, Foddrill spindles & arms, 934 Summers, King 3" bypass in rear, 2.5 bypass in front, Race Ready $32,000.00. Less motor and trans. $14,000.00. Ron Brant (310) 328-3595. FOR SALE: Class 7S 1993 Ford Ranger Longbed, 1999 Laughlin winner, Currnuit shocks, 40 spline Ford 9 inch full floater, Cone spindles & Hub, National Springs, T-5 trans, Race Ready with com-plete spare package. $24,500.00 obo. Joel (760) 256-2941 or (760) 252-2206. FOR SALE: Porsche Type 4 Motor 2800cc, 21 0hp, 2L heads, 5th stud, Big Exhaust, 2-44 IDF carbs with Sucker System, Clutch, ignition. Fresh com-plete ready to run guaranteed or money back! Will sell for $6,200.00 OBO email@KMRtransl@aol.com or call Kevin McMullen racing @ (602) 402-6215. FOR SALE: Ford Class 1/8, 485ci, Kriptonyte crank, Cobra Jet Heads, JE Pistons Dyno 6K RPM @ 611 hp w/53516 tq, 4 new KingCoilovers, 4 new King by pass, new Fiberglass, new rearend, new axles, lots of spares, tires, tranny, steering box. Job forces sale. $47,500. obo 562-404-5607. MIKE LESLIE LIQUIDATION-We have Class 1 truggy or Trophy Truck vehicle package with or without motor, Pro 2 CORR Ford Lucas Truck $69,000.00, Pro 4 Dodge Corr Borg-Warner Cham-pion $59,000.00, 2 Ultra stocks, $15,000.00 each. Will make great desert toys or race them. ALSO a 48' tractor-trailer. Set up for racing with belly boxes, generator, com-pressor, etc. Loaded! $38,000.00 ref# 779, 780, 781, 782, 783, 784. Check it on the web @ bajaconcepts.com or cail Baja Bro-kers at (760) 723-2117. Don't bother Mike and no parts sold sepa-rately just yet. FORSALE:RACECO4SEATER 2180Type 1 motor, Bus Trans, Bil-stein coil covers up front. Coil cov-ers and by-pass on rear. Good Pre-Runner. $16,500.00. Call (949) 489-8984. FOR SALE: Bradley Racing CORR Sportsman 2 Champion-ship Truck, Taylor Built, Boatec Body, 412ci Kroyer Racing En-gine, ATD Turbo 400 Transmis-sion, Chrisman 40 Spline, CNC Brakes, Howe Performance Steer-ing, Taylor By-Pass Coilover. $50,000.00. Call Tommy at (702) 498-7245 or visit website www.bradleyracing.com. YRO TRUCK DODGE; Great Spec Class race truck. 360cid VB/Turbo 400/ Bilstein coilover and bypass/Chrisman/etc .... Stop racing checkbooks and start racing trucks! Truck has all the legal updates. Ready for 2001 Season of Score or BITD Racing. Complete with spares and full prep. Everything goes! $68,500.00 Baja Brokers. Go to bajaconcepts.com-Ref# 787. FOR SALE: 1979 Ford F-700 Race Hauler/RV /Pit Support Ve-hicle, self-contained, 429 Indus-trial w/ 3,300 miles, 5/ 2 speed Eaton rearend, generator/welder, toilet, sink, refrigerator, micro-wave, Snap-on cabinets, 32' an-tenna, sleeping 1/ 4's, winch, belly boxes, 2-85 gal. Gas tanks, asking $15,000.00 (520) 364-7620. FOR SALE: Fortin trans, set up for Honda w /big CV" s and built for rear engine $8,500.00. (949) 289-0251. Tim Scalzo. FORSALE: SPY-2-1600-)IMCO-Fuel Safe-Sway-A-Way-930 CV's, BFG-Beards Seats-JG Trans-Parker Pumper- Billet Stub Axles-Centerlines-FOX-Fodd Arms-PCI-CNC-TriMil-Mastercraft-KC-Hym Shifter-Fast Car. Must sell (714) 893-7487. Wes Eve-nings. Your main source for the all I new RaceRunner shock series / ..,..-. from Sway-Away. Now avail-=--'~ able in 2", 2 1/2", and massive RBC~!!J!ll!!l!.r 3" body coil-over design. KA TEK.~~ THE SOURCE for off-road racing equipment and services We now offer complete shock services including custom revolving and rebuilding. We sell and ser-vice FOX, BILSTEIN, and all SWAY-A-WAY shocks, including the new RACE RUNNER series. Play cars or race cars, Class 9 or trucks, 1/2 1600, even super-long travel A-arm cars, KARTEK gets you handled! ~ filifi1::ii (909) 6;,s-2s2s ~---U1' (909) 628-0833 ~c,,-,-~o,,d,.~ fax (909) 627-4067 14122 Central ave. Chino, CA. 91710 open 7 days a week! February -2001 HELP WANTED CHENOWTH RACING PROD-UCTS is looking for an accomplished fabricator to join a team of profession-als dedicated to producing quality off-road chassis and components for rec-reation, rac;ing and military use for the last 20 years. Applicant should be skilled in MIG and TIO welding tech-niques, and have a general under-standing metallurgy. Medical benefits and a profit sharing program are of-fered. Please send resumes to: Chen-owth Racing Products 94 3 Vernon Way El Cajon, CA 92020. MISCELLANEOUS SALE-SALE-SALE-Two Way radio-with scan, Superior performance 55 watts, too many features to list. New lower price $299.00. For more info Call Chuck Strange (909) 657-8525. FOR SALE: 20 Almost New-PCI Race radios, complete $450 each. Call (949) 489-8984. TAKE THE JEEPSPEED CHAL-LENGE in a street legal Cherokee at 3 events commencing at MDR Ridgecrest April 21st. $6,000.00. Prize fund. Yisitwww.jeepspeed.com for details. Numerous cars are now under construction. CALLMIKEATT&J4X4. (714) 633-0991.We can build your Jeepspeed Challenge Cherokee to suit your budget. Buy the parts to build yourself or bring us a 4.0 Cherokee to convert. REAL ESTATE FOR LEASE: 2400 sq. ft. Industrial building. Two office, two baths one with shower. Plus two outdoor vards with enclosed gates. Set up for iuto-motive, welding or machine shop, many workbenches, air lines and elec-trical outlets already installed. 240 3 phase power, water and power in-cluded. VanNuys, CA$1,600.00per month. (818) 994-7475. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Aggressive Suspensions ........................... 35 Baker ............................................................ 37 Best In The Desert ....................................... 2 Bilstein Shock Absorbers ........................... 5 Cactus .......................................................... 10 Cam burg Engineering ................................ 34 Coast Resorts ............................................... 9 Eibach Springs ........................................... 41 Fabtech ........................................................ 33 FAT Performance ....................................... 40 Fox Racing Shox ........................................ 12 Fuel Safe Racing Cells .............................. 42 German Auto ............................................... 15 Michael E. James Insurance Agency ...... 43 Kartek Off Road .................................. 29, 55 Kawaguchi Honda ...................................... 30 King Shock Tech ........................................ 38 Mag 7 ........................................................... 11 Mastercraft ................................................. 21 McKenzie Performance Products ..... 23, 31 Nevada Off Road Buggy ............................ 14 Neo Oil ......................................................... 24 PCI Race Radios and Equipment ............... 4 Pike'_s Family Restaurant ......................... 36 Pro Pit .......................................................... 11 Race Ready ................................................. 38 SNORE .......................................................... 19 Sway-A-Way Corp ...................................... 20 Tavis Racing ............................................... 13 TOP Motorsports ....................................... 25 · Toyot, Motorsports .................. Back Cover Transaxle Engineering .............................. 45 Tri-Mil Industries ....................................... 44 Union 76 Racing Gasoline ........................ 16 Valley Performance ................................... 26 Page ss

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