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Volume 18 -Number 3 March 2001 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 Trackside Photo Art Director Larry Worsham Subscription Rates: $25.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Subscription rates on request Contributions: DUSTI TIMES welcomes contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited mate-rial will be returned only by request and with a self ad-dressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTI TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 8750-1732) is published monthly by Hillside Racing Corp., 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311, (818) 882-0004. Copyright by Hillside Rac-ing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher. Periodi-cal Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at ad-ditional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change to DUSTI TIMES, 20761 Plummer S~ .• Chatsworth, CA 91311. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: !;our weeks notice is required for change of address. Plea~e furnish both old and new ad-dress, and send to DUSTI TIMES, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. snapshot ~f t'\e Month ... ' Okay, here it is; identify this racer of yore and you get yourself a brand new $10.00 check from Dusty Times. We'll notify the winner and announce the name in the next issue of Dusty Times. DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes oh 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 8x10 will be considered. In This Issue ... FEATURES Laughlin Desert Challenge by Judy Smith ............................................. 8 69th Rally Monte Carlo by Martin Holmes ......................................... 20 CODE Race of Champions by Tony Tellier ........................................ 24 Ramada Express lntema tional Rally by Rod Koch ............................. 30 Whiplash Oasis To Oasis by Tony Tellier ........................................... 36 Zr Promotions Santa Veronica by R. Monteno & M. Franco ............ 40 Whiplash Oasis To Oasis Motorcycles by Tony Tellier ..................... 48 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ...................................................................................... ." ....... 5 Trail Notes .............................................................................................. 6 Challenger Comer by Joel Mohr ........................................................... 44 Checkers Column by the New Wahzoo ................................................. 44 CORE Pit Report by Sandy Parker ....................................................... 45 F.A.l.R News by Wes Wisdom .............................................................. 46 Classified Ads ........................................................................................ 57 Index To Advertisers ............................................................................ 59 On The Cover Rob MacCachren came back to the desert, big time, running his Bruce Fraley creation to a nice win in the 1600 class at the SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge. Photo by T rackside Photo How sweet it is, Dr. McRae Glass drove his Ford Pickup to the Stock Mini Class win at Laughlin, just icing on the cake after his Baja 2000 win and the SCORE Season Champ as well. Photo by Trackside Photo Visit Our Website · Dustytimes.com c5u£scr1"be <Joda_y lo DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 1 year -$25.00 □ 2 years -$40.00 □ 3 years -$55.00 (no credit cards please) □ NEW □ RENEWAL Name ---------------------Address --------------------City ---------------------St ate Zip --------------------Primary Interest Cars O Trucks O Motorcycles 0 Send check or money order to: DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 Canadian - 1 year $30.00 US ■ Overseas subscription rates upon request Dusty Times March 2001 Page 3

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BLESSED EVENT -Tom and Seanea Taliaferro were at the Laughlin race with their brand new son, Tommy Jr. Tommy weighed in at 8 pounds, 15 ounces and he arrived at 5.40 p.m. on January 7, 2001. Our congratulations to a pair of great Class 9 racers on the birth of their first chiul. BEST IN TifE DESERT NEWS - Jim Conner has been appointed the new Car and Truck Contingency Director for the BITD Series. Jim brings with him many years of experience as a racing competitor and as a contingency coordinator. BITD also announced a new class for 2001, Class 10 Light which will run under the same rules as the SCORE Lite class. Ford Motor Company continues their contingency program for 2001. $86,500 is available for each BITD race, a total of $386,000 for the racing year! Casey also announced a new race for the year 2002. The Nevada 1000, a three day event covering a true 1000 miles! The race will start and finish in Las Vegas, touching the towns of Alamo, Ely and T onopah. Headquarters will be Michael Gaughan's Suncoast Hotel and Casino and the race will be in mid June, 2002. YOU - Dusty Times official contingency vehicle had some electrical troubles at Laughlin, caused 'by a broken battery and the fusion of the positive battery cable to the part of the battery that was unbroken. The good folks at Duralast Batteries/Autozone/johnson Controls helped us out and along with a guy called Thatcher Wikel who spent some hours doing the actual repair work we were back in business before dark, Thanks a bunch to Neal McCaleb, Dick Goetz and Buddy Underwood for their help. aSERT CLEANUP REMINDER-We are asking all of you to volunteer our time on Saturday, March 24 helping in the Jack Waldron Memorial Desett Cleanup. The desert cleanup will be followed by a Jack Waldron Plaque dedication. The gathering spot is Outlet Center Drive OHV Area, 9 a.m., Barstow. There's a free dinner courtesy of the Slash X Cafe as well as raffle prizes and lots of music in the evening, _all at the Slash X. Please bring gloves, shovels and rakes. Your help will be greatly appreciated. For more info call Bill Markel at 661-943-1786. · HAL FLAG -Virgil "Gene" Dillon succumbed to a long bout with cancer January 20, 200 l. Gene was a fixture at the races and a Checker member mce 1983. Gene was Checker ofThe Year in 1997 and Checker Pit Person of The Year in 1991 and 1993. Gene is survived by his wife, Rhea, daughter Judith and sons Craig and Robert. He also leaves five grand cJ::illdren. Gene will be sorely missed by all. CPHERSON MOTORSPORTS -The MacPherson Motorsports hevy truck took Class 7 honors at the Baja 2000 and, after many, ny years of competition the MacPherson Team is hanging it up. Judy's newsletter says it all, after 30 years it's time to give it a rest. The 2000 win was the 8th championship in a row for them and Jeff Lewis took home his 5th driver of record championship. Good luck to them all, hopefully we'll see :you at the races. IS/DAKAR - Results are still sort of sketchy but the more than 10,000 ometer race/rally held January 1 through the 21st was a great success d our old buddy, Curt LeDuc finished 13th in his Kia Sportage. Congratulations to Curt and all of his crew. SNORE 2000 SEASON RESULTS -We kinda grouped the SNORE points wirmers into the blurb on the banquet last month so we thought we'd better get the 2000 point finals out to the rest of the world. Joe Sheble, Class 9 was the overall point winner with 3532 points in the bank. Clay Flippiu, Class 10 was next with 3441 points. Robbie Guevara, 1-2/1600 was third, 3356, Doug Ingram, Class 9 was fourth at 3300. Fifth place went to Chuck Martin, 5/ 1600, 3296, Jeff Carr, 1-2/1600 was sixth with 3274 points and Day Gang, 1-2/1600 was seventh with 3234. Dan Bentley, Class 10 was eighth with 3225 points, ninth place went to Andy Kisner, Class 9 with 3167 and the coveted tenth spot went to Bryan Free~n, 1-2/1600 with 3153 points. 11th through 20th spots were: Eddie Saxton, Class 10, Frank Puglia, 5/1600, Bryan Anderson, 1-2/1600, Lynn Dicton, Class 9, Thomas Taliaferro, Class 9, Ken Thatcher, Class 9, BJ Baldwin, Class 10, Pat Dean, 1-2/1600, Jeremy Harmon, Class 9 and in 20th place, John Phegley, Heavy Metal. SNORE had a total of 153 car and truck entries in their six races and it was a fun and interesting -season. Congrats to all the entrants. NOTIIBR DESERT CLEANUP - Nellis Dunes, adjacent to Nellis Air, orce Base on the outskirts ofl.as Vegas needs a little trash removal so .O.R.D.R. (Coalition off Off-Road Desert Racers) has scheduled April 28 for a cleanup day. Meet at Nellis Dunes at 9 a.m. There will be a BBQ, a raffle and there will be T shirts for everyone who participates in the event. Your help is needed so please give some of your time to this effort. Sign up and information can be obtained at www.DesertClean.com or if you want to speak to a human being, call Blake Monk at 702-395-5799. Your participation is appreciated. HARRAH'S LAUGHLIN -Another SCORE Laughlin is in the books, ead all about it in this issue. Dusty Times would like to thank Bill Keena, eneral Manager of Harrah's for the consideration he always shows to Dusty Times when we are there coveting the event. It is certainly appreciated, it is a great place to stay. ORE JIM CONNER - Last month we covered the Baja In Havasu race, a new reporting job by one of our ace reporters, Sheryl Cannon. nfortunately we omitted the name of Jim Conner who had worked very long and hatd for a couple of years to help bring this race to fruition. Jim . set up the entire contingency program for the race and there was contingency aplenty. Thanks for your help and we certainly hope your labors are rewarded. . a ROAD POKER RUN - It's that time of year again - the High Desert harities Poker Run is scheduled for April 28-29. Two loops of pproxirnately 25 miles each, cars, trucks, motorcycles and A TV's are all welcome. Best poker hands for each day win prizes. There is a BBQ on Saturday night and there are camping facilities available. Entry fee is $20 and all proceeds go to the High Desert Charities. For more information call the Slash X Cafe at 760-252-1197 or Mal/Connie Wessel at 760-252-3093. Get out there and support . this event! Page 6 August 10-12, 2001 Tecate, Baja California, MX October 5-7, 2001 Laguna Salada, Mexicali, BC, MX November JO-December 2, 2001 Mexicali to San Felipe, BC, MX COLORADO IDLL 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. Box 392 Calexico, CA 92232 Hector Cerecer 011-52-65-66-4458 CORR EXXON SERIES Championship 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 CORVA Ext 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS Dave Van Deren 2405 Baker Ave. Everett, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (Alt events at Hannigan race track, Bellingham,. WA or Thurston County ORV Park, Olim/,?_ia, 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 AEril 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 Motorcycles, A1Vs & DezSuperlites 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 Nice Team Race Plaster Cit East, CA March 2001 f August 26, 2001 Randy (250) 579-9621 eves. Sweethearts Kiss Wes (250) 351-2819 Lake Superstition, CA LAS VEGAS SANDSPORTS & September 8, 2001 MudHen Sprint OFFROAD EXPO Plaster City East, CA (661) 943-1786 October 8, 2001 June 16-17, 2001 Cheeseburger 100 Cashman Center Plaster City West, CA Las Ve~as, NV November 17, 2001 L.I.T.R.E. D38 Reunion Event Jeff Elrod Plaster City West, CA November 18, 2001 (408) 926-0522 Notorious Dawg3 Hour Team Race Jim Aruta (408) 247-4402 Plaster City West, CA December 9, 2001 MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS Revenge Dez Gran Prix Dune Buggy Trade Show Lake Superstition, CA (517) 543-7214 MX And Off Road Short Course www.bumbuilders.com All at Imperial Valley Expo, Imperial, CA MICHIGAN OFF ROAD March 10, 2001 Tentative) Round 1 CHAMPIONSIDPS April 7, 2001 M.T.B; Enterprises Inc. Round 2 15529 Jones Road May 12, 2001 Grand Ledge, Ml 4883 7 Round 3 (517) 627-6200 June 9, 2001 Oeeps, Trucks, Buggies, Pilots, Road Round 4 Warriors and Quad A TV-Money September 22, 2001 Classes.) Round 5 July 29, 2001 November 3, 2001 Mason, MI Round 6 MID-AMERICA December 3, 2001 OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION Round 7 MAORA Championship Series For Cars, Trucks, Mike Turner (217) 235-2473 Buggies, A1Vs, Dez SuperLites & P.O. Box 184 Motorcycles Mattoon, IL 61938 April 4, 2001 Maora racing.com Fud 200 Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park No A TV, Bike or SuperLite Casey, IL May 20, 2001 (217) 932-2041 Tazmanik Hare & Hound -Off Road Playground.com Plaster City West, CA No Buggies, Cars, Trucks (800) 555-3167 Short Course Series • July 7, 2001 May 5, 2001 Conquista Gran Prix Casey, IL Tecate, BC, MX June 2, 2001 August 11, 2001 Jlora, IL Gran Prix June 16, 2001 T ecate, BC, MX Woodbury, TN No ATV, Bike, SuperLite July 7, 2001 September_ 8, 2001 lora, IL MudHen Sprint August 4, 2001 Piaster City East, CA Casey, IL No Buggies, Cars, Trucks September 29, 2001 October 27, 2001 Casey IL Superstition 250 XVIII Enduro Series Plaster City East, CA May 6, 2001 December 31, 2001 Casey, IL Dunaway Dash June 17, 2001 Plaster City West, CA Woodbury, TN GORRA August 5, 2001 Georgia Off Road Casey, IL Racing Association September 30, 2001 420 Hosea Road Casey, IL Lawrenceville, GA 30245 MOJAVE DESERT RACING (404) 963-0252 1853 Parkway Drive GPORRA S. El Monte, CA 91733 Great Planes Off Road Racing (626) 442-9320/(626) 579-6051 Fax Association E-Mail: mdrracing@aol.com Jesse Urwin April 21, 2001 1842 Boyd Street Ridgecrest 300 Ashland, NE 68003 Ridgecrest, CA (402) 944-2193 June 23, 2001 Terry Fitzgerald Lucerne 400 5710 S. 56th Street Lucerne, CA Omaha, NE 68117 August 25, 2001 (All races are short course, Stadium style. California 200 Classes: Sportsman, 1/2-1600, 5, 7S and Lucerne, CA Quads. All races will be held at *-80 November 3, 2001 Speedway, Greenwood, NE Stoddard 250 www.~rra.com) Barstow, ·cA IOK FOUR WHEELERS M.OR.E. P.O. Box36 High Desert Championship Cleves, Ohio 45002 P.O. Box 1231 ( All events staged at the club grounds Barstow, CA 92311-1231 in Cleves. Ohio) Fax: (760) 253-4453 March 31, 2001 . INTERNATIONAL Balls Out 250 ICE RACING ASSOCIATION Lucerne, CA P.O. Box 8105 May 12, 2001 St. Paul, MN 55108 Badlands 275Barstow, CA Steve Bedder July 7, 2001 (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 Freedom 250 INTER-SHOWS Barstow, CA MOTORSPORTS September 15, 2001 PROMOTIONS, INC. Mighty Mojave 300Barstow, CA P.O. Box 2910 November 10, 2001 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 Wild Turkey 200Lucerne, CA (949) 582-2371 MSBA KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER Michigan Sport Buggy Association Dave Barret 4WDCLUB 6363 Nightingale Dr. P.O. Box465 Flint, Ml 48506 Kamloops, BC, Canada VZG5L2 (810) 730-9221 Bob (250) 374-7175 days Dusty Times

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MOTOWEST WINTER TRIALS SERIES All events at Perris Raceway Bill Markham (909) 860-1857 www.ITStrials.com (At Reed-Valley with a school) 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 omo OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. Gary Wulff (724) 283-2678 (All 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 OF EL PASO, Joey Vasquez 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 867-7788 All races are at Mountain Shadow Lake. Take I-10 Horizon Blvd. exit east I 2 miles omo OFF RO.AVERS INC. 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 Jim Kendel (216) 339-4674 All races held at Harrison County Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONT ARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION Rick Tichbourne, Public Relations (519)-68 1-4192(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 tl09J4 (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 Tonopah300 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 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, 20™ Cherokee Trails Chattanooga, TN April 7-8, 2001 Oregon Trail Tillamook, OR May 4-5, 2001 . Dusty Times Rim Of The World Palmdale, CA June 1-2, 2001 Susquehannock T rail 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, A7. 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 SCORE SCORE International 23961 Craftsman Rd., Suite A Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/Fax: (818) 225-8 102 March l7, 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 April 6-7, 2001 Bufallo Bill's 400 Primm, NV March 30-31, 2001 Dusty Times 250 Caliente, NV June 9, 2001 Baia 250 Las Vegas, NV August 3-4, 2001 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 3 7087 (615) 453-5830 Classis 1/2-1600, 5-1600,, Class 9, SODA Class 11 & Sportsman (All Races at Raliy 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 SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. 4305 Wootlark Drive Tampa FL 33624 (813) 962-2857 (All Races at Eastbay Raceway, Tampa, FL) SUPER SERIES (PTY) LTD. P.O . Box 706 Parklands, 2121 South Africa (011)788-5138 Fax (011 ) 880-2170 SWORDS South West Off Road Racing Desert Series 4209 So. CR 1300 Odessa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915) 337-3437/(615) 595-8237 (All races held at Notrees, TX 25 miks .west of Odessa. TX) · TOYS FOR TOTS (619) 252-1197 /(619) 252-3093 T.O.R.R.Q Texas Off Road Racing Organization Marty Jackson 8307 Bauman Road Houston, TX 77022 (713) 694-0207/FaxJ (713) 694-8335 TSO c/o Frog Specialties 4050 Spencer Street # 1 . TorrancerCA 90503 (310) 370-9856 VORRA Off Road Racing P.O. Box 3362 Carson City, NV (775) 246-5545/(775) 246-9089 Fax www.VORRA.com March 17-18, 2001 Season Opener Mile Short Course Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA April 21-22, 2001 2 Mile Short Course Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA May 26-27, 2001 Yerington 300 Yerington, NV July 21-22, 2001 Lovelock 250 Desert Race Lovelock, NV September 1-2, 2001 Yerington 250 Desert Race Fernley, NV Short Course Championship Series September 22-23, 2001 Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA October 6-7, 2001 · Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA October 27-28, 2001 Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA * + Mechanics Race & ladies Race VICENTE GUERRERO OFF ROAD CLUB Profo. Cenovio Gamboa 011-52-616-6-21-91 (2-6 p.m.) WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Larry Henderson (604) 538-0692 WORRA P.O.Box 3241 Sumas WA 98295 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA WHEEL TO WHEEL OFF ROAD RACING Patrick McGuire P.O. Box376 Adamsburg, PA (412) 527-6556 WlilPLASH MOTORSPORTS 16251 North Cave Creek Road #4 Phoenix, AZ 85023-2976 (602) 971-3730 March 10, 2001 Gila Monster 200 Gila Bend, A7. April 21,-2001 Rock To Rock Sonora, MX June 30, 2001 Badlands 200 Sonora, MX July 14, 2001 Haulapal 200 Peach Springs, AZ September 1, 2001 March 2001 Trail Notes ... ODIRT -ProDirt members put $5000 each into the pool, they have !ready voted on what races they will run in 2001 and they enter the events they chose to run as they normally would, paying the race promoter the required entry fee. There are now 1 7 members and their first race was the Whiplash Parker 400. Lee Patton was the official Class 1 winner and he took the ProDirt money also, taking $9180 from the pool, Steve Sourapas was second and he won$4590 and the third and last paid place was Jeff Quinn who took home $1530. You gain points for finishing positions and there are more dollars at seasons end·for the champion. The balance of the 2001 season for ProDirt is: SCORE San Felipe, BITD Terrible's Town, SCORE Baja 500 and SCORE Primm 300, We'll keep you informed as the season wears on. IlITONA 24 HOUR RACE -Dale White, founder of the White lightning am, and winner of the Baja 1000 in his class 8 Chevy a few years ago had n exceptional weekend at the Daytona 24 hour race, His team of two Porsche's in the GT Class took the class win and a sixth place to back it up. They finished second and 10th overall. Congrats to Dale and his crew on a great performance. VORRA • There has been a change in the operating structure at VORRA. The Robinsons are taking a sabbatical somewhere in the Pacific Islands for a year or so and Dennis Kordonoway is the new honcho. Check Happenings for the latest list of race dates and locations and new information lines. Stay tuned to Dusty Times for VORRA race stories as they occur. YOUR HELP IS NEEDED -Many of us oldsters remember the Martin Brothers, Steve and Tom, they raced for years and just started again in 2001. Problem, Steve's youngest son,' Danny, was involved in an accident on his way to work on February 9th and suffered a severe head injury. Danny has a wife and three small children and they could use some financial assistance. Please send what you can to: Danny Martin Accident Fund, c/o Lauren Butler, Acct # 2012787834, Wells Fargo Bank, Brea Office, 230S. State College, Brea, CA92821. · Your generosity will be greatly appreciated. NW SHORT COURSE SERIES - Xtrem~ International is the name and hey will be putting on a four race short course series for 2001, going to six races in 2002. Jim Russell of Desert Steel Motorsports and Gerado Novelo ofEstero International will be co-directors. There will be four races in 2001; Estero Beach Hotel, Baja, California on April 28-29 and again on October 13-14, Second event will be Baja In Havasu (Lake Havasu, AZ) November 17-18 and the series finale at Laughlin, Nevada on December 8-9. Competition classes are being created to accommodate stadium off road vehicles as well as desert vehicles with a Safari Class for non professional first timers. For more info call 520-855-2208 in the US or 011-526-176-6225 in Baja, SUMMIT OFF ROAD -The Summit Off Road Organization is planning a golf tournament sometime in July of this year Tentative location is the San Diego area. For all of you duffers out there, make plans to play and stay tuned to Dusty Times for the time and place, HAL FLAG -Dusty Times and the off road racing community lost a dear end. Bert Vaughan, long time off roader, past president of SNORE and under and director of Silver Dust Racing Association passed away on February 12th in Caliente, Nevada. Bert's illness was long ·and he finally succumbed to it. Bert brought off road racing to Caliente, and started the High Desert Points Series which included WRA, ADRA and SNORE. Our heart goes out to Faith, Bert's wife and to the rest of the family. Say hi to Jean, Bert! •EAL FLAG -Yet another rider has gone from us, Scott Couts, a team I lusquv.arna rider passed a way February 14 from complications suffered in an accident back in May '99. Scott had won the Baja 500 and 1000 and many other off road and Gran Prix races. Our hearts go out to his family. Snowflake 200 Aripine, A7. October 6-7, 2001 · Grand Prix of Parker Parker, AZ December 8, 2001 Laughlin, NV Bike & A 1V Series 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 100 Airpine, A7. October 6-7, 2001 Gran Prix of Parker Parker, AZ November 4, 2001 Vulture Mine 100 Wickenburg, A7. December 9, 2001 Lauahlin, AZ WINSCONSIN MOTORSPORTS SHOW (414) 747-1711 WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTlV AL Terry or Bev Friday 5913 so. U.S. Hwy 45 Oshkosh, WI 54901 (414) 688-55·09 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 4x4 FOREVER, LTD . t'665 Delaware St. Oshkosh, Wl 54901 zr. PROMOTIONS Rene Montano P.O. Box 2122 Calexico, CA 92231 Motorcycles & A TVs Only Attention . Race & Rally Organizers List your ~oming 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. 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SCORE'S LAUGHLIN CHALLENGE New season, New Challenges By Judy Smith Photos: Track.side Photo Scott Steinberger, silhouetted agalnst a Laughlin backdrop of casinos, mountains and the spectator hill, flies an infield jump in his Ford Protruck. SCORE's rip-roarin' Laughlin Desert Challenge opened the 2001 season with some breathtaking racing, and some new challenges. Class 1 displayed a heart-stopping affinity for wheel-to-w heel racing that really got the blood pumping, and at the end of the weekend this class had the quickest total time for the 96 miles of total rac-ing. Steve Sourapas, driving his V6 Chevy powered Jimco finished the weekend with a time of 1:45:06 for his 96.8 official miles completed. H;.s average speed was 55.262 miles per lwur. His time beat the winning Trophy-Truck time by chree minutes and 59 seconds. As always, the weekend started on Thursday night with the Pit Crew Showdown and the Laughlin Leap, the entertaining long-jump con-test. Competition was fierce as previous winners tried to maintain their holds on the titles. But ultimately, there were new winners in both cat-egories. Jerry Penhall's crew took the top honors in the Open Wheel Division of the Pit Crew contest, performing the required chores in a time of 48:03, and taking home a purse of $3000. Tim Herbst's crew took the win in the truck division, with a time of 1 :04:52 for the same amount of prize money. · The Leap has three divi-sions, each vying for a purse of $3000 for first place. The unlimited open wheel and big truck division first place money went to Dale Dondel, whose Nye Frank buggy flew an astounding 120 feet. Sec-ond place was a tie between Brian Collins in his Chevy Trophy Truck and Tim· Herbst in his Ford Trophy Truck. They both flew 119 feet four inches. An unofficial tie-breaking jump performed. at the urging of the Master of Ceremonies, Charlie Engelhart, and the crowd, re-sulted in a long jump of 120 feet eight inches for Collins. But that did not get him the official win, as he'd already had his one allowed practice j .:mp and one attempt. The crowd loved it anyway. In the small truck division Rick Taylor flew his red Ford Ranger to a beautiful 100 feet and dve inches, landing cleanly and solidly. Chris Harrold took the open wheel jutnp win by flying his Honda powered Jimco out to 97 feet and five inches. A total of, $25,000 in cash was handed out at the lively awards func-tion immediately after the contest, getting the weekend off to a sterling start for the winning teams. The racing was scheduled much as it had been last year, except that this year, because of the large numbers of cars entered, there were seven events each day. Last year some clas'ses were required to run five laps, and that was the original plan for this year abu, but as they fought to get ev-erything into the few hours between sunrise and sunset,• SCORE officials had to settle for four laps for the faster classes. A couple of the lim-ited truck groups ran only three, and the Class 11 folks did only two. Everyone had a time limit, ranging from 7 5 to 85 ·minutes, and cars had to get off the line on time to keep the racing from dragging on into the darkness. All classes were started two-at-a-time, 30 seconds apart. Scor-ing was again simple (though it made hard work for the scoring team), as Saturday's Steve Sourapas, Jfmco, pushes his Chevy powered Class 1 car hard in one of the open desert sections. He was the Class 1 winner. · times were added to Sunday's times, and the driver with all laps completed and the fast~ est time was the winner. A couple o things were · humming in the background, but didn't seem to lead to anything concrete at Laugh-lin: A bit more than a week before the race SCORE had sent a letter to its racers, stat-ing that effective immediately there would be an "Official Fuel" at all SCORE events. Well, actually, two official fuels. One brand, Union 76, wou!d be the official fuel of the buggies, and the other, VP Fuel, would be the official fuel for the trucks. Nothing was said about Classes 9 and 11 which are required to run pur.•p gas. To quote the let-ter "The top three finshers of each class will share in a $5000 funGI to be paid out at the Awards Ceremony follow-ing each race.·,; This new policy became a hot topic on the internet. Some racers, particularly those who use non-official fuels, considered not racing at Laughlin. But then SCORE rescinded the policy for the Laughlin race, while stating that it would be in effect for the balance of the series. At this writing, it is not clear exactly how the policy will be enforced, or even if enforce-ment will be necessary. Another bit added to the background stew was the re-cent formation of "ProDirt", a group of Class 1 racers who have banded together to cre-ate their own multi-promoter series. Each member put a fistful of money into the pot and a few sponsors have also anted up some funds. The rules of the group state that drivers who wish to partici-pate must ·drive a vehicle weighing less than 3,500 pounds. At the end of the sea-son there will be a points fund paying back several places, and at each event in which they race as a body, there will be a purse for the top three places amongst the member-ship. At Laughlin, which was not one of the ProDirt series races, there was some specu-lation about whether or not they would boy_cott in re-sponse to the ne•v fuel·policy. But the ProDirt drivers say they have organized just to give themselves a way to win a little more money, a "side-bet" if you will, and not to play politics. Another challenge for the racers was the list of "special BLM stipulations" for the handling of fuel and fluids. It started with the phrase: "A method of controlling and capturing fuel spilled during · fueling must 'be p'laced under all dump cans and. under each vehicle during fueling opera-tions." Happily, this course is so short that no-one fuels mid-race. All fueling can be done·in the relative calm of pre-race activity, and thus the danger of a spill is slight. There was little chance for error, and most teams mini-mized the problem further by keeping all their fuel contain-ers in their trucks. The ques-tion did arise, however, about what to do wit,h the suggested "scrap. carpet" in the event that it did become fuel soaked. How were the race teams to dispose of it? That is apparently something still to be determined. After Thursday night's fun and games, Friday was a day for escorted reconnaissance of the course, some brief and carefully timed periods of testing and the contingency and tech-inspection activi-ties. Cisco Bio nose-dives his Tubular Designs Class 9 single-seater as he makes hit' way toward victory. Steve Greinke did some of the hardest racing of the weekend, and his 2nd and 1st added up to the weekend win in SCORE Lites. On Saturday the racing be-gan at 6:30 am. There was just enough daylight to let the drivers find their way off the line, but by the time they were out of the infield they had good visibility. And Mother Nature had planned ahead and watered the entire course thoroughly about five days before. A heavy rain-storm had soaked the desert, so there was none of the dust tha t plagued the racers last year. In addition , if any litde spurts of dust popped up, a steady, cold win d ble w a ll weekend, t o c lear the air quickly. In fact, the weather Page 8 March 2001 Dusty Times

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Allan Gregory hustles hi~ 5-1600 car through the early morning sun. Troy Herbst fought hard, was second on Saturday and fourth on Rob Reinertson, Ford Protruck, racf;d his hew toy in close quarters He was second Saturday, first Sunday for a weekend win. Sunday, for a weekend finish of third in Class 1 in the Truggy. for the first time, found it "intensen, finished 2nd. wascoldforLaughlin,andthe faster than me!" Solorzano and Woodward came to the limitedcar,andCreasywas44, fortable lead of a couple of most comfortable people had the right to be surprised, finish line first. Solorzano was seconds ahead of.Cisco Bio in minutes. Bio was now second there were surely the drivers, because his car is often the a bit over a minute behind his Tubular Designs chassis·. and Ivan Gomez was· now snug in their cars behind full fastest of the lot. Woodward, him. Deck, in spite of the flat, On the second lap Sheble ha.cl · third in his Jimco, followed by face helmet and windshields. clearly disappointed to·get to was third and Sletten, who'd five seconds on Creasy who Arturo Velazco in a Chen-The first group to take to race only two laps, finished lost about ten minutes, was was four seconds in front of owth. the track was a combined · only 41 seconds in front. last. Woodward, with two Kisner, now dropped to third But Creasy disappeared on bunch including Classes 5, 5-Chuck Deck finished third, wins, was the weekend victor. and Bio stayed firm in front. the third lap, and that left Bio 1600, 9 and 11. All were to but he was about seven min-He reported that the course By the end of the fourth lap in the lead. He stayed there run four laps except Class 11, • utes down. was considerably rougher, and Creasy had moved into the to the finish line, reporting no which got to go around only· On Sunday they all came lots of rocks had been kicked lead, taking the win by 23 sec-problems. When they totaled two times. The competition back and since SCORE was up since Saturday. All told, onds. Kisner was second, up the two-day numbers, Bio was close in Class 11 as .the inverting the Saturday finish Woodward beat Solorzano by Sheble finished third and Bio had the weekend win, with two who had dueled last year order, Sletten and Deck just a minu.te and 58 seconds. was fourth. Creasy would Gomez second and V_elazco in renewed their rivalry. Eric So-started in front, with Solar-His average speed was 31.582 have to have a perfect run on thi~d. Bio had' a two-day time lorzano took the lead at the zano and Woodward starting miles per hour. Fast lap for Sunday if he wanted to hang of 2:36:14, and an average end of the first lap, but Chris side-by-side, behind them. the class was recorded by on to that lead. · speed of 3 7 .175 miles per Woodward wasn't far behind. Sletten stayed in front, driv-Woodward at 22.17, on Sat-On Sunday, with the in-hour. Fast lap for the class Unfortunately, Dennis ing hard and entertaining the urday. verted order, Creasy started was recorded by Creasy on Sletten, another fierce com-crowd no end. Deck finished Running at the same time at the back, but he was first. Saturday, at 17:29. petitor, was out of the race on the first lap on a left rear flat, as'the Class 11 cars, the Class on the road when he had fin-In the 5-1600 class, which the first lap. When the cars a death knell at a short course 9 drivers had four laps to do. ished the lap. He held the · ran at the same time, Eric came around for the end of race, and Woodward and So-And JoeSheble wanted to get lead, with Kisner second and Deen got things off to a good the second, and last, lap, lorzano were 55 seconds them done first. But he'd put Sheble third. But they both start with the fast lap, at Woodward was in front, and apart. . only one second on Andy disappea,red on the next lap, 17:24. But he had Danny Le-Solorzano was right there, in They all made it through Kisner in his Jimco, who was leaving Creasy, who recorded dezma, Chuck Martin and second. He said in .a surprised the second lap this time, but just 12 seconds up on Forest _Sunday's fast lap for this Robert Wright hot on his rear tone of voice, "That guy was the order changed drastically, Creasy in a Suspensions Un-bunch, at 18:36, with a com-Continued on page 10 r •• -•• , Flamingo & The Strip West Tropicana & Arville West Flamingo & Valley View 1-888-BARBARY 227-2279 www.barbarycoastcasino.com 1-800-0RLEANS 675-3267 www.orleanscasino.com 1-888-GOCOAST 402-6278 www.goldcoastcasino.com Alta & Rampart 1-877-636-7111 Dusty Times March 2001 Page 9 . 1 "

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Eric Deen flies into the rising sun as he starts his weekend racing. He Robert Harman was back after an extended absence, and he looked Things got a little close for Vic Bruckmann in his Jimco, on Sunday's won on Saturday, but DNF'd Sunday for 8th 5-1600. good in his SCORE Lite Lothringer, but had a problem Sunday. start, but he salvaged a 3rd in the SCORE Lite class. bumper. There were 13 en-five seconds on Geer, and man had cut a great gash in with his dad's lettering, and place finish on Saturday, tries in this class, and every-then came Wright. But things her right hand (shifter hand) he was running some ancient broke an axle on Sunday's one made it around the first changed again on the last lap, way back in early December, Sandblaster tires on the rear first lap. · lap. Deen had another good and Geer rounded the turn to just before the SCORE of the car. The course was rougher, lap and continued to lead, the finish line first, followed Awards. She had to have sur-Pfankuch ticked off the but it was still damp, and and when Ledezma had a rare in by Gregory and then gery to repair cut tendons, fast lap for Saturday on his though thee was some dust, DNF Wright moved up to Wright. When the two-day and had bee~ doing therapy third lap, at 15:09, and held the steady wind from the second, Jeffrey Sack was third totals were added up Allan from early on, but her doctor his lead, with MacCachren, northeast kept it cleared and now Allan Gregory held Gregory with second place told her she risked permanent Freeman, Ebberts and Logan away. No one had any trouble fourth place. A hiccup could both days, had the best time damage if she tried to drive at hanging in there behind him. running right up onto the cause a change in positions, and took home the first place Laughlin, so she sat this one By now only four cars had bumper of the guy in front of they were so close. Hector honors. Geer was second and out. dropped out of the race, so him, the trick was to get Garcia, running a bit late, Ellis, of the crumpled roof, Everybody made it through the traffic was still heavy, around. At the end of the sec-took a big jump at an exces-was third. the first lap, but it wasn't en-though there was no dust, and ond lap MacCachren still led, sive speed (for this class), Class 5 also ran with these tirely successful for some. So everyone was enjoying the but he still had only 27 sec-took a bad bounce when he folks, and there was a serious many rolled over in one of the close racing. ands on Pfankuch. Jones was landed and nearly center-shortage of players. Only left-hand hair-pins that the. Pfankuch went on to take still third, Freeman fourth punched the tow truck parked Michael James, George Seeley flagmen finally gave up and the win, and he told Mac-and Kevin Graves was fifth in to the side of the course. He and Enrique Bujanda showed just stood there waving their Cachren that one reason his his Jimco. He'd finished made a great save, but ap-up for the sunrise fun. Seeley flags to slow them down car was a bit faster was be-Saturday's race with a giant proached the jump with more led all the way on Saturday, whether or not there was an cause his motor was "looser". tire mark on his side. Both respect after that. and recorded the quick time upside down car on the track. He said this was the third race Garth Hutchison and the Bill Deendrovefourveryeven on his third lap, at 14:41. They must have got tired of onit,andhe'dbereplacingit Stoner/Paul Myers cars laps and took the win by 48 Bujanda ran a good second rolling them back over. .It was after this event. MacCachren turned over in the infield af-seconds. Gregory was second, behind him, while James "got risky business for them also. agreed that that was part of ter the second lap. Stoner and and Curt Geer moved up to off to a slow start" to quote At the end of the first lap it, saying this was his first Myers, who were racing in finish third. Wright, Sack and him. Seeley took the win by it was Rob MacCachren in time in the car, and his mo-their first professional event Martin joined Ledezma on the almost four minutes. the lead in his Fraley, but he tor was a brand new one. He (and had raced only twice in DNF list. But he didn't have it so had Adam Pfankuch, in a said he "drove really, really Sportsman competition) got On Sunday, starting in the easy on Sunday. Bujanda had Kernco, only seven seconds hard. It's really rough, but you the worst of it. They caught reverse of Saturday's finish either learned a lot.on Satur-behind him. Arden Denning-put the throttie to the ground another car, but were pushing order, they seemed to have a day, or he fine tuned his car ton, in a Suspension Unlim-and steer." Freeman was so hard they apparently forgot harder time than they did on overnight. At any rate, he ited car, was third, and Randy third, Ebberts fourth and Lo-that a new bump had been Saturday. Sack didn't make it pushed hard, staying right on Jones was fourth in his Bund-gan fifth. Pfankuch's average built overnight, before the through the lap, and Rick El-Seeley's heels for four laps. erson. Bryan Freeman, in an-speed was 4 7 .515 miles per first right-hand turn. Appar-lis came back with a badly Seeley had a rear tire going other Fraley, ran fourth. hour. ently the course marshals crumpled roof line, while down at the end of his third Jones fell out on the second All but one of them came wanted to slow the cars a bit J:iviP.r Valenzuela's car lap, but had alerted his pit lap.ButPfankuchmovedinto backonSunday,anJbecause before they got to the turn. sounded very sick, and Mike and they did very good work the lead. He was now 20 sec-of the inverted start, which Well, when Stoner/Myers hit Kellogg had a right rear flat. getting a fresh one on and onds in front of MacCachren, put the four non-finishers the bump the car took a bad Valenzuela didn't get any him back out onto the course. who, not having raced in this from Saturday behind the bounce, got sideways, rolled more laps done. Ledezma had Seeley got the win, but class for a while, was a little winners, Pfankuch and Mac-over, and ended up high-cen-the fast lap for Sunday, but as Bujanda had the fast lap on surprised at the level of com-Cachren found themselves in tered on the berm with a rear was expected, it was slower Sunday, at 15:34, and fin-petition he found. He was about the same place relative wheel and tire slowly rolling than Saturday's, at 18:25 on ished only a bit over a minute having to work a bit harder to traffic, that they'd been on away. They got out and the churned up track. Wright back. With two first place fin-than he'd expected. Freeman Saturday. And side by side. walked away, apparently un-was second, Gregory third ishes, Seeley was the weekend was now third, ·and Brian Lo-At the end of the first lap hurt, but surely shaken. and Geer ran fourth, all winner, and Bujanda took gan, in a Lothringer, ran it was MacCachren in front, (Myers, incidentally, is the within a shade under a second place. For eight laps fourth, with Dale Ebberts and he had 19 seconds on son-in-law of Buckeye, Ari-minute. At the end of the sec-Seeley used up 2:03:53 and fifth in the old family Chen-Pfankuch. It was clear that it zona off road antique, Jack ond lap we were missing not averaged 46.883 miles per owth, which had been in stor-·would ea repeat of Saturday's Woods.) Arden Dennington only Ledezma, but also Deen, hour. age for ten years. Another duel. Randy Jones ran third, was now driving with a big and Roberto Jiminez. Now The second group to race relic from the old days showed Freeman fourth and Ebberts dent in his top, an indication Wright was in the lead, Gre-was all one class: the 1/2-up in the hands of David fifth. Two cars didn't get the that he might have been up-gory was second and Geer ran 1600s, who lined up 30 West, son of Clark West, a first lap done. Michael side down also. third. strong. And the defending fine racer and engine builder Duenas was out with un-MacCachren continued to On the third lap Gregory champion from the 2000 sea-from 20 years ago or so. West known prc.blems, an Eric lead, but he wasn't running moved to the lead, with about son was missing. Bekki Free-still had the same side panels Allen, who'd had a nice ninth away with it, although he'd "" ~, moved up to fourth on the road. He needed to make no mistakes because the whole pack was back there, looking for a chance to go by. Pfank-uch was now 36 seconds back, Jones held third, Freeman fourth and Graves was still fifth, but only a second up on Ebberts. MacCachren didn't make any mistakes, and he went on to take the win, thus earning the victory for the weekend. He said that he and his crew worked on the car after Saturday's race until dark, trying to get a bit more speed out of it. He also said he did Steve Barlow, always a hard-charger, showed his Ford Protruck no mercy as he Pat Bell, Ford, won the Class 8 event in spite of driving part of the way with a broken a "lot of thinking" about fought for his weekend win. axle. Continued on page 12 Page 10 March 2001 Dusty Times

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41 He had to push hard both days, but Adam Pfankuch kept his Kernco Third generation racer, Kory Halopoff, Chenowth, ran hard despite a Ed and Tim Herbst (#1 ), Ford, seen here battling Jerry Whelchel, won the Trophy Truck Division on Saturday, DNF'd Sunday. moving right along and finished 2nd in Class 1-2/1600. broken shock, finished the weekend 2nd SCORE Lite. where he could go faster. quick lap for the day, at fourth. Pfankuch finished only 48 15:25. Jones disappeared on MacCachren took the seconds behind him in second the fourth lap, and that weekend win, with Pfankuch place, and second for the moved Freeman up to third, second, Freeman third and weekend. MacCachren's followed in by Ebberts, who Ebberts fourth. The level of fourth lap on Sunday was the edged by Graves to finish driving skill in this class is Byp very high, and the cars are so course all to themselves. close in quality that it makes There were only 16 of these great racing. Should be a good guys, but they needed all the season. room they could get. There The next event was for were eight V6 motors, of vari-Class 1, and they also had the ous brands, four eight cylin-hac der power plants, at least one V4., one Porsche, one Type IV and two unidentified .. (There was a time when a 2180cc motor was a big one in Class 1.) by SWAY..A-WAY® The big question was how would John Herder's new Gei-ser-built, eigh t cyli nder Chevy powered car fare against the Troy Herbst Truggy. HerdeT said he'd done a lot of testing, and he declared, "I can't break it, and I've tried." He said his biggest problem was finding people who were willing to ride with him. f I .. ; f . \ . • NTERNALAND ~~~NA DJUSTABlllTY Tp OBTAIN·OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE ·REMOTE RESERVOIR To'iie's1sT FADING CAUSED BY HEAT AND CAVITATION •2 AND 3 TUBE DESIGN( FOR FINE TUNING SUSPENSION ·RACE PROVEN QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE )<l- . ~ ... ·2.5" AND 3" DIAMETER.JWAILABLE . ,, / ,·; ¥ -. j Distributors Baja Concepts Kartek 760-723-2117 909-628-0833 Camburg Engineering 714-848-8880 . Page 12 Gata ayaway.cam March 2001 This was truly an assem-blage of fine cars. And the mile long trip through the in-field and over the big jump gave the spectators a chance to see the way the suspensions worked (or didn't work) on each car. John Gaughan was absent from the line up, his car, still in the pit, wouldn't run. A faulty distributor was eventually discovered. As the rest sat in staging revving up their motors and pumping adrenalin, Kory Scheeler revved one time too many and blew a head gasket, end-ing his weekend right there. The balance of them all got through the first lap, though Mike Tieman had some prob-lem that cost him the equiva-lent of a full lap, so he was pretty much out of things. Herbst and his Truggy had the lead at the end of Lap 1, but he had only one second on Dale Dondel in his Nye Frank car, which had done so well at the long jump. And Herder was two seconds be-hind him in third place, fol-lowed by Pat Dean in a Chen-owth, another 10 seconds back. At the end of the next lap Dondel had the lead. with 11 seconds on Herder, who was second, and Herbst found himself in third place, an-other six seconds back. Dondel lost his rear brakes on this lap. Brian Parkhouse, who hadn't raced since his major roll-over while practic-ing here la'st year, fell out of the race on the second lap. Dondel hung onto his lead through the third lap, but now Herder was only two sec-onds behind him. Herbst ran third, another five seconds later. Racing through the in-fiela was incredibly close at times, and the spectators were Dusty Times

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Pat Dean looked great in his Class 1 Chenowth, but a mixed bag of Bryan Freeman had his 1600 two-seat Fraley running strong and problems bumped him back to a DNF. finished the weekend in third place. Ron Brookshire put together two good days in his Class 1 O Jimco, and finished the weekend in second place. loving it. Not everyone was day, and for the weekend, at for that. having a great time, however. 12:05. But it wasn't enough. ·With the smallest engine Reuben Wood, who'd hurt his Herbst was right there, and in the fray, Chuck Hovey, back and had stopped in at that gave him the win by running like a rabbit in front the chiropractor's trailer in three seconds. Dondel had of Greyhounds, was. the· first contingency in hopes of a dropped to third place, whil!! one to come around, but the quick fix, was still hurting in· Steve Sourapas, in a V6 pack was pushing and shov-his Subaru Jimco, and Chuck Chevy powered Jimco, was ing and snarling right behind Hovey, the lone Type IV pow-fourth. Herder's average him. Herder was first on cor-ered car there, had lost his speed was 58.944 mph. rected tim~, with Herbst eight rear brakes. On Sunday it was almost seconds behind him. Herder's Herde"r's new car seemed to the same field. Scheeler time was the fast lap time for have no handling problems, didn't make it, nor did Sunday, at 12:30. Fastest of and Herder was rapidly learn-Parkhouse, but John Gaugh-all classes: Mike Dondel, ing how to get through the an had his car running now. Dale's brother, had enter-tight infield turns. They came Reuben Wood's brother, Rob-tained the crowd when he got through the infield at the ert, was driving today, be-. the holeshot on Herbst off the same time, showing off their cause Reuben's back was still line, and then stayed in front huge suspension travel as hurting, and Ronny Wilson of him, just barely, all the way they soared off the big jump. was in for Randy. With the through the mile long infield. Both cars, massive in appear-inverted start it would mean It could be seen that Herbst ance, would land smoothly, that Herder and Herbst would was overtaking him on the with no bounce, no rebound, have a lot of traffic in front long, slightly uphill pit road, and never an appearance of of them, and _it certainly but he wasn't having an easy being out of control. Fun to meant that all those smaller time of it. Dondel finished the watch. cars would be watching their lap in third place, while On the final lap Herbst re-rear-view mirrors carefully. Sourapas was fourth. Pat corded the fast lap for the Not that there was much time Dean, who'd tangled with HONDA E_quipment John Currier's Truggy as they exodus of photographers and dueled through the infield, course marshals. Sourapas had some front shock liries had moved up to third and torn. Shock oil was blowing Dondel was fourth, but his car everywhere, and most impor-had obviously been rolled, tantly, all over his face shield. and was seriously damaged. He stopped in the pits where Herbst had fallen back several they tied a rag around the minutes, his transmission torn ends to staunch the flow, lacking a gear or two. Hovey, and sent him on his way. Cm:-who'd been at the front of the rier didn't make it through pack still, holding off all that the lap. Dean did, but then horsepower, had retired with broke a driveshaft on the sec-a broken shifter at the top of and lap and his disappointing the infield. day was over. Tieman, who'd Scalzo didn't come around been smoking off the line again. Nor did Dondel. At the made one rather long lap, end of the third lap only then retired. seven cars were moving, and At the end of the second some of them weren't moving lap, Tim Scalzo had mov·ed very well. Sourapas had the his VS Chevy powered Truggy lead, Ronny Wilson, who'd into the lead. Herder was only had a tire going flat that lap, 10 seconds behind him, but was in second place and Jeff he was in deep trouble. His Quinn, in his Porsche pow-truck would not track. In fact, ered Jimco, was third. Wilson the steering was so unpredict-and Quinn had erroneously able he decided to go around been given the checkered the big jump, causing a major Continued on page 14 I KAWAGUCHIHONOACOR~ POWER T0_~-0 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'r HA VE Ir, No ONE Doest Check our website. www.Kawaguchihonda.com KAWAGUCHI HONDA EX1000 3532 E. 3Ro Si: Las~ CA 9CXJ63 •3 2 .3 ~264.3936, 264.SSSS FAX 264.2136 Power ' : VISA ) s A L E s ' s E R V I C E ' p A R T s . 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Ivan Gomez, seen here out on the desert part of the course, went John Herder brought his new Chevy powered Geiser Class 1 Truggy Forest Creasy runs into the sunrise in his Suspensions Un/i1J1ited. home with second place in Class 9 with his Jimco. to Laughlin, won Saturday, but DNF'd on Sunday. Class 9 car. He won Saturday, but couldn't finish on Sunday. Enrique Bujanda drove hard both days to go home with a well deserved second place in Class 5. Craig Turner won Class 7 easily with -his Ford on Saturday, and came close on Sunday, but didn't get it done. Charles Lathren was very fast in his Class 1 0 Jimco on Saturday, but made only one lap on Sunday. flag, and both had lost a few seconds. Quinn the most, be-cause he thought that maybe SCORE had elected to shorten the race due to the sudden lack of moving ve-hicles, and he stopped to ask what was going on. Later on SCORE adjusted his time to correct the error. It must be said that it was a n under-standable error. The flagman was being notified by means of a small radio earphone, and he had to hear the speaker over the noise of the cars go-ing by. Someone had said "flag these guys next lap", and all he heard was "flag these guys." Sourapas went on to take the win, saying that: "Realis-tically, our chances to win weren't good. The Herbst team is tough." Quinn was second and the Wilsons took third place, having lost a few moments changing that flat tire. Herbst, down to only one gear, was fourth . The Woods survived the mayhem to fin-ish fifth, while Josh W addell was sixth and the last survi-vor in his Honda powered Chenowth. Sourapas' total time was 1:45:06, and his av-erage speed worked out to 55.262 miles per hour. Rob MacCachren unveiled his new-to-him 1600 Fraley, and capped ,;,ff the weekend with a win. Nice to have him back in the class. Chris Woodward has more fun than anybody. Here he flies his Class 11 as he heads for his first place trophy. Page 14 Group 4, next to race, was another Mixture. This time it was Trohy Truck, Protruck and_ Class 8 . The Trophy Trucks took off first, only six of them. Ed Herbst was driv-ing the family Ford, and at the end of the first lap he held the lead, but the sweetly singing Ford of Dan Smith was only 20 seconds back in second. Lonny H eimboit ran third in his Dodge, with Brian Collins and his three-seated Chevy in fourth. He thought something was wrong with his motor, be-ca use he seemed down on power, so he was babying it a little bit. The differences in speed win, but Helrnbolt slid up to for these three classes were second when Smith flattened enough that it meant that the a tire and decided to drive in lead Trophy Truck wa s on it rather than take the threading through the back time to change it. He came in markers in Class 8 on the sec-with two gears gone and on a ond lap. So there was a bit of shredded remnant, and BFG a traffic issue. The course was tire engineers waiting to take still damp however, so dust tire temps looked a bit dis-r never became a problem. At mayed. Jim Baldwin, in a the end of the second la p Ford, finished third. Herbst sti"ti l ed , Smith wa-s T°he f°irst words o u t of second and Helmbolt third. H erbst's mouth as he climbed They were still in those posi-out of his truck were, "Did we tions at the end of the third beat Herder?" The new lap, and Herbst had ticked off Truggy had definitely got the fast lap for the group, at their attention. But he hadn't 12:19. Smith had lost a gear. beaten him, falling just 33 Herbst went on to take the seconds short of Herder's four ~--------------------------~ lap time. George Seeley got the win both days to go home with the weekend Class 5 first place, but he had to hustle to do it. Kirk Kovel kept his middle-aged Bronco moving at a steady pace, to take the Class 3 honors. March 2001 He got to try again on Sun-day. All of the trucks came back, but this time Josh Bald-win was driving the Ford. Overnight the Collins crew had checked out the Chevy's motor and declared that there . was nothing wrong with it, "It 1 just wasn't making much horsepower." So Collins de-cided to go for it. With the inverted start Dave Ashley, now driving while Smith watched, was .on the front row paired up with Jerry Whelchel. What should have been a great duel wasn't because Whelchel was driving the Riviera team's pre-run-ner. They had not planned to race here, then decided they would, but the race truck was all prepped for the San Felipe race, so they brought the pre-runner. Sounds logical. Whelchel, who can drive any-thing and make it look good, h ad finished only six minutes behind Herbst on Saturday. Today he would stop on the last lap to let Mark Post, the d river-of-record, get in a n chauffeur it to the finish line. One small detail: the drive-shaft was n danger of falling off due to a carrier bearing problem. It would have to be nursed a bit. Ashley must have liked the arrangement, because he had no problem with being first on Dusty Times

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Eric Solorzano fought a good battle with the eventual winnf!r. but had Looking as if he'd taken a wrong turn off the freeway, Greg Ekman Ron Dallke piloted his yellow and green two-seater to fourth place in to settle for second place in Class 11. · fought a hard battle to get second in Stock Mini. the big, 27-car SCORE Lite class. ;;;;;;;;~;;;;;;..~;;;:;;;;;~~;;;;:;::;;:;;;:;==:;;;;=;;;;:;;;;;:;;:;;:;=:;::;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;_;iiiiii,iiiiiii,j" Bill Hernquist took over for Rick Ellison, who doesn't like short-course Curt Geer put together two good days in his 5-1600 car and went Daniel Fresh drove two well-paced, steady races to finish the weekend in second place in the 7S class in his Jeep Comanche. racing, did great, but broke on the last lap. home with the second place trophy. the road. Except, as he flew approved for pitting. Ford at one point and had the jump on his way through When the two-day times · dad, Steve, worried. When the infield the first time, he were added up, Collins be-they all came back again, landed hard and hurt his came the winner, with a time Scott Steinberger, in a Ford, back: That definitely put a bit of 1 :49:05, and an average had the lead, with four· sec-of a dampener on his enthu-speed of 43.244. Ashley and onds on Chet Huffman in an-siasm. Josh Baldwin had · Smith were second and other Ford. In third it was trouble in the infield also, Whelchel and Post, in the Steve Barl9w, still another taking a bad bounce and find-pre-runner, were third, and Ford, and then Rob Reinert-ing himself high-centered on pleased that they hadn't let son, also Ford, at Laughlin in a big berm. It took the infield any of the Protrucks catch a Protruck for the first time, crew a while to get him off, their pre-runner. was fourth. The spread from because there was a steady In the Protrucks the racing first to last was only a minute stream of race traffic to was hot 'n' heavy because and 36 seconds. Uncharacter-dodge. He was last by the time their rules keep them all very istically, Steve Olliges was he was loose. At the end of close in capability. They all last in a "vented" Ford. He the lap Herbst had the lead, got through the infield all had a bump-stop problem, or with Sunday's fast time, right, though 17 year old an attitude problem. He later 12:54. The track was enough Matt• Scaroni bicycled his said he'd decided to be con-rougher that even these cars, with all their suspension, felt it. Ashley said the bumps at Laughlin become "square-edged". Collins, not worried about his motor, was second and Ashley, worried abou·t his back, was third. When he went over the bump a second time he astounded the audi-ence by just driving over it, and yet it was obvious that nothing was wrong with the truck's suspensior... It was Dave's suspension. At the end of the second ·lap it was still Herbst, Collins and Ashley. And after three laps it was the same story. Helmbolt lost his motor and didn't make the third lap, but Whel~hel was looking pretty good in the pre-runner. On the final lap Herbst lost· about 13 minutes, when he ran out of gas. At some point out on the course he got a quick dump of fuel, but it turned out to be a poor deci-sion. Ashley stopped worrying about his back, and came on strong to take the win. Col-lins, with all his rear sheet metal and/or fiberglass gone and the support tubes broken and dragging, was second, and Post and Whelchel fin-ished third in the pre-runner. Herbst finished fourth, but SCORE deducted one lap as a penalty for getting assis-tance in an area that was not Dusty Times ____.L-. ----,;. . ·. · .. Traffic was thick during some events. Here Marc Stein charges past a bunch in his Ford. He won the Stock Full event. Bruce Landfield and Joel Stankavich shared the driving in their Ford to take the win in Class 7S. March 2001 servative and maybe he'd chard Hoffman had his Chev-been "too conservative." rolet up to fourth place. Huff-On the second lap Stein-man~ who'd lost a bit over a berger recorded the fast time minute, finished the lap and for this group, at 14:05, and then pulled out through the he was now 35 seconds in· infield with some terminal front o Huffman, who still problem. held second place. Jason Steinberger went on to Cobb, in a Ford was third, 14 take the win, followed in by seconds later, Barlow was Barlow on a left rear flat, but fourth, another l 7 seconds still ·second. Hoffman was back. It was still anyone's third and Reinertson finished race. But it wasn't Cobb's. On fourth. From first to fourth the next lap he broke a front there was a difference of two ball joint and retired from the minutes and eight seconds. fray. On Sunday Huffman didn't Steinberger continued to ·come back, so Greg Lewin lead, and now Barlow was sec-didn't get to drive. 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• Michael Coleman and Nick Crouch had two good days, shared the Dale Ebberts got his 10-year-old 1600 car out of storage and then Jeff Quinn felt underpo~red in his Class 1 Jimco with 'only' a Porsche, but finished the weekend in second place. driving in their Ford and finished the weekend 3rd in C1ass 7S. proceeded to take fourth place in the big class. rest were there. Once again end of the first lap the lead the way. Clayton was also Steinberger went into the was in the hands of Pat Bell, gone, never even finishing lead, recording the fast lap for in a Chevrolet C-1500, and the first lap. · Sunday's race at 14:37. Bar-he'd already put two and a On the second lap Patelli's low ran second, Cobb was half minutes on Jim Patelli in time was the fast one for this third and Ryan Herzog was his Chevy Blazer, who was group on this day, at 18:34, fourth in his Ford. Hoffman second. Ed Lazzari, who ran and he was in the lead. Bell was dealing with a flat tire third in another Chevy, was was still running, now second. that cost him a few minutes. third and Chris Wilson was They both managed to finish On the second lap Stein-fourth but had lost about 10 only three laps, Patelli in berger lost about six minutes. minutes with some problem. front by just under a minute. Barlow moved into the lead Also having trouble was Bry-When SCORE totaled the with Cobb in second place, ant Clayton, in a Ford, who two-day scores; Bell got the seven seconds back, and Her-ran a 35 minute lap and then win because his time had zog third. Steve Scaroni, who couldn't get around again. been considerably better on was driving today, was fourth. Bell held his lead through Sunday. His average speed for On the third lap Cobb moved the second lap, followed by the two days was at 41.983 into the lead, with 19 seconds Patelli, Lazzari and Wilson. miles per hour. on Barlow. Reinertson was On the third lap Bell recorded The next group to go rac-now third and Olliges, look-the quick time for this class, ing was Class l 0, 25 of them, ing more like himself, ran at 15:07. and by now he had and lots of talent. Chris fourth. a lead of about nine minutes. Harrold put is Honda pow-Cobb had no problems this Patelli's Blazer was holding ered Jimco ~nto the lead, with time and hung in there to steady .in second place, and Bill Hernquist, in Rick take the win. Barlow was sec--Wilson had worked his way Ellison's Chenowth Millen-ond, only 23 seconds later. up to third as Lazzari slowed nium, following in second. In Reinertson, who said it was a bit. third it was Andrew Myers, in "very intense" was third. He Bell went on to take the another Jimco, and then came also said he ran "wide .open win, followed in by Patelli. Danny Anderson, fourth, in the whole time." Steinberger None of the others finished still another J imco. Sean couldn't manage better than that crucial fourth lap. Sessa, one of the many Ari-eighth after his second lap On Sunday when they zona racers who came to com-problem, and Hoffman had a came back they were one pete, was fifth in a Jimco. second flat tire, which shot, as Wilson didn't make (They said that the entire dropped him to seventh. it. Bell went into the lead town of Buckeye was .a t When the two-day total again, with Patelli in second Laughlin.) was figured Barlow turned out place and Lazzari third. Bell, Harrold got a little quicker to be the winner, with a time although leading, was in for a of l :58:25 and an average hard fight, because he had speed of 49.047 mph. Reinert-only one drive axle working. son, in his first wheel-to-And then Lazzari, acutely wheel race in the Protruck, aware of the fierce racing go-was second. ing on in both Trophy Truck The Class 8 trucks ran with and Protrucks, pulled out, this group also, and were re-saying his truck was too slow, quired to run four laps. At the and he didn't want to get in PIKES on Lap 2 and continued to finish line, thanks to a lost lead with Hernquist hard on oil-cap early in the run, but his heels. Anderson moved everything was in good work-into third place with Myers ing order. Hernquist finished fourth and Ron Brookshire, in second a minute and a half a Jimco, in fifth. Sessa had later, with Lathi-em, who had upped his speed but still fell the fastest last lap of this back a position. group, up to third, 40 seconds Feeling all those hot shoes b~hind him. Anderson had a breathing down his neck, battery problem on the last Harrold poured it on and re-lap, fiddled with things a bit corded the class fast time at and it started running again, 13 :43 on the third lap. He so he salvaged fourth place. had a minute and 13 seconds And Brookshire, who said he on Anderson who ran second. had a suspension problem, In third it was Hernquist was fifth. Of the 25 starters, (driving for Ellison because only 20 made it to the finish. Ellison reportedly doesn't like On Sunday, only 22 made closed-course competition) it to the start. Sessa, Dennis only six seconds further back. Kordonowy and Jim Cochran Brookshire was fourth and in were all unable to get to the fifth now it was Charles Lath-start line. It seemed as if it rem, another Arizona driver, should be a good battle up at in another Jimco. His first lap the front, but when Harrold he'd lost some time, but after snapped an axle 6n the first that he ran sub-14 minutes all lap, part of the fun was gone. the way, looking very fast and Lathren took the le.ad, no sur-smooth. Nobody else was able prise after watching him on to put together three laps be-Saturday, with I;Iernquist low 14 minutes. He would '(who was to drive all but the have been battling for the very last part of the race, al-lead if it hadn't been for that lowing Ellison to hop in an first lap. finish, for points) in seconq, Harrold had another good and Jason Hunter, in a Dun-lap and stayed in front to take rite, in third. Fourth was held the win. His engine compart-by Brookshire, and Anderson ment was an oily mess at the ran fifth. Lathren's time was the quick time for Class l O on Sunday, at 14:21. Not only was Harrold gone, but Darren Ebberts, in Mar-tin Christensen's BMW pow-ered Jimco had lost a CV and Willie Cummings also failed to get a lap in. Doug Powell, with only one gear, had tried to start, intending to pull off almost immediately, but couldn't even make the car move when the green flag flew. We were down to 18 cars. service center Baker, California Celebra~ing Most of the time he had all his wheels on the ground. Danny Anderson drove a beautiful race in his 'Jimco to win Class 10. Lathren never came around again. Now Anderson moved into the lead, followed by Hernquist, then Hunter, and Gary Wise, in a Chen-owth, and all the way down from Idaho for this race. In fifth it was Steve Myers. 50 YEARS OF $ERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS •.. THANKS! RESTAURANT Open 24 Hours Mobil® SERVICE Every Day Year Round THE BEST IN THE DESERT! Page 16 Driving conservatively to "stay out of trouble» Scott Sells brought his Toyota back to the finish with a first place. March 2001 Anderson was running a steady pace, having no trouble, and hung onto the lead, with Hernquist just 25 seconds back in second. Ellison was suiting up and getting ready to get in. Hunter lost about a minute and a half on Lap 3 with a flat rear tire, and dropped back, while Wise moved up to third, followed by Brookshire, and then Myers. Anderson went on to take the· win, but Hernquist spun the center out of Ellison's clutch, and they didn't get to the finish. Brookshire moved up to come in second, about Dusty Times

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Dan Smith and Dave Ashley shared the driving in the Ford, had Chris Harrold took the Class 1 O win on Saturday with his Jimco, but Gary Wise traveled south.from Idaho to race his Chenowth in Class 10 and he ended the weekend in third. problems Saturday, looked good Sunday, ended up 2nd Trophy Truck. was sidelined with a broken axle on Sunday. a minute and a half back. one more longish lap, and scorekeeper has to do some Wise was third, Myers fourth then didn't come around mighty swift math, and he's and Mark Hutchins, in a again. got to check all the likely Jimco, was fifth. Hunter's tire On the second lap, as contenders, including those had rolled off the rim while he Halopoff continued to lead, he's never seen before, and ran through the infield and he Greinke moved up into sec-not omitting someone who had to limp to his pit on the ond with a good lap, Holmes started at the back of the rim. This cost him another disappeared, and Bruckmann pack. Also, while they started three minutes or so and he was now third, while Robert in numerical order on Satur-fell way back. Harman, in a Lothringer, ran day, they were side by side, so When they totaled up the fourth. Harman hadn't raced the timer had to know who two-day efforts, Anderson in three or four years, but had started next to whom. But on took the win, with an average remembered it all. Derek Sunday, when they didn't speed of 49.861 and an DeatleyhadhisChenowthin startinnumericalorderitgot elapsed time of 1 :56:29 for fifth place. even trickier. The racers put the eight laps. Brookshire was They stayed in the same or-it out of their heads and just second and Wise took third der through the third lap, and went for it. When they got to place. Halopoff was having to keep the finish they generally The next race, for the the car moving steadily, be-weren't sure who'd beaten SCORE Lite cars, was about cause Greinke was only 27 whom. And most times they 20 minutes late getting seconds back. The racers had to wait for the official started, because some of the have a hard time knowing scorers to come up with the spectators in the area dubbed where they are at these official times.· the "Happy Hills" had be-Laughlin races, because, since They retained their same come a bit too happy, flat-so many start so close to-order on the fourth lap, but tened the fence and straggled gether, only the most experi-Halopoff put on a little extra out onto the race course. Of-enced and swift team time-steam and recorded the class ficials made quick work of keeper can track them. As an fast lap, at 14:54, the only clearing them out, but the example, in this class, all 24 sub-15 minute lap of the heat. fence hid to be rep~ired. of the cars that were still run-He took the win by 34 sec-There were 2 7 SCORE ning I-fad passed through the onds, and it was Greinke in Lites lined up and ready to go. infield at the end of their first second. Then came Bruck-The weather was still cold lap within five minutes. Any-mann, Harman and Deatley. and windy, and the course one keeping track of times is But the first ten cars all fin-was still damp and un-dusty. going nuts trying to write all ished within ten minutes, in-As with Class 10, there were this down. Then, to tell the dicating that there'd be an-so many good caF/driver com-racer what position he's in the other good race on Sunday. binations it was hard to know ' who to watch. Kory Halopoff, in a two seat Chenowth, took the lead right away, with Vic Bruckmann, in a Jimco hot on his tail. John Holmes ran third· in his Dunrite, Steve Greinke, in a Porter Hawk was fourth, and Derek Deatley, in a Chenowth, was fifth. Harley Letner, Halopoff s cousin, rolled his Comfort Chassis and didn't get even the first lap finished. (Harley's dad, Marty, one of the all-time greats, was at Laughlin this year helping in the pits and acting as advi-sor.) Rick St. John, in a Kernco, also disappeared on Lap 1. Dennis Nuckles flew his Funco off the jump, landed hard and immediately pulled over into the infield. He tossed out his helmet and opened the top of the car, but didn't climb out. Course mar-shals hustled over to see what was happening, and it devel-oped he'd hurt his back. They loaded him on a back-board, and took him off in the am-bulance. The car later showed up on-course, racing again, about a lap down, so appar-ently his co-driver had de-cided to keep the race going. We understand that while he was hurting, Nuckles wasn't seri ously injured. Tqm Rid-ings finished this lap with a sick-sounding Mirage, did Dusty Times Brian Collins tried to 'save' the Chevy on Saturday, but let it all hang out on Sunday, and ended up theTrophy Truck winner. Macrae Glass put new suspension pieces under his Ford and took the win in the Stock Mini class both days. March 2001 Twenty-four cars cam~ Rick St. John broke the front back on Sunday. Harley Let-end of his car before getting ner, Tom Ridings and Bart out of the infield, and was Van Voorhis failed to get done for the day. And Bruck-their cars back into racing mann got tangled up with shape. Halopoff took the first Greinke as they dueled lap lead, with 1 7 seconds on through the infield section, Greinke, and he had about 2 7 took a bad bump and was seconds on John Holmes. high-centered on a berm for Then it was Arturo Honold, a few moments. who'd surprised himself by On the second lap Halo-rolling over on Saturday, in poff held his lead, though a his Jimco, followed by Dan left front shock had blown Worley, in another J imco. Continued on page 18 FACTORY DIRECT FIBERGLASS PARTS RETAIL & WHOLESALE FENDERS FROM $139.00 Pr. Air Scoop $29.95 Turbo Tail $199 Wide Fender from $149 p. Doors , "Racing Only" $395, pr. Custom Running Boards•• $109 pr. Sun Visor as low as $44.95 Spoilers $79 STREET FENDERS BEEnE AND SUPER BEETEU 1. 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and oil was smearing up his bent tie-rod and a face shield. Greinke was still major toe-in prob-second, Holmes held third, lem. Michael and now Honold and Worley Becker, in a were tied for fourth/fifth. Toyota, broke an Tom Jandt, Jr., pulled his idler arm bolt and Jimco out into the infield, dnf'd after three broken and finished. laps. Greinke went into the lead Turner did one on the third lap, but only 1 7 more steady lap to seconds up on Halopoff. Now take the win, fin-Honold ran third, Bruckmann ishing a little over was fourth and Worley was nine minutes in fifth. The lead pack was stay-front of second ing very close. Deatley, who'd place. And that was done so well on Saturday, got Scott Sells, in a only one lap done today, and Toyota Tacoma, In the Stock Full Class Mike Padilla took two second places in his Dale and Mike Oondel did some fine driving in their Nye Frank car, leading for a while in Class 1, but a rollover ended it. Harman had one long lap and who moved up Ford, which put him into second place for the weekend. one good one, then didn't when Dircks failed to finish only one in the class to finish come around again. L.J. Ken-the last lap and Carroll was all eight laps. His ·average nedy, in Jerry Penhall's car, slowed by that tie-rod. Carroll speed was 40·.366. inexplicably got no laps done. did get third, and he was the Class 3 was a one car race, On the fourth lap Greinke last in the class to finish all with only Kirk Kovel and his recorded the fast time for the four laps. By the time they winged Bronco showing up. class, and he was one of only were done their fourth lap the He ran his required three laps a pair of drivers to do a bet-sun was over the yardarm, on Saturday, but got in only ter time on Sunday than had and· many of the trucks were two on Sunday. It looked like been done on Saturday. He running with lights, though it hard work. beat Halopoff's quick lap by wasn't exactly dark. It wasn't In the Stock Mini class, one second, at 14:53. And he exactly daylight either. Macrae Glass put his Ford took the win. Halopoff was On Sunday, when they into the lead and then had no second, 38 seconds behind came back they were missing trouble staying there. His him, with a cracked front end Shawn Wanzek, Ernesto competition was a Kia, driven on the side where the shock Cervante and Dircks. -So by George Ekman and Bob was broken. Bruckmann there were only six of them Land in his Isuzu Vehicross. worked back up to third, this time. Turner started out Land and Ekman were very Honold was fourth and the same way, recording the evenly matched and had a Worley fifth. fast lap, at 15:41 and going good race, but Glass outpaced When the two very close into the lead. Tim Carroll, his them by at least three minutes scores were totaled, Greinke tie-rod not complete-ly every lap. His quick time, on got the win for the weekend straightened out, was second, Lap 2, was 25:09, and he eas-by four seconds. His time for and Becker had a nice third ily took the win, finishing all the eight laps was 2:01:07, at place. But things would three laps in 1:16:06. Neither an average speed of 4 7 .954. change. Rick Taylor didn't of the others got three laps in. Halopoff was second and get the lap done. Ekman, in a very stock-look-Bruckmann took third. On the second lap Tlfrner ing Kia, was' second, but only The final event of the day hung on to his lead, and had 38 seconds up on Land. was a group of truck classes, over two minutes on Carroll, Sunday's race was a repeat including-7, 7S, Stock Full, who had a reaf handicap, but of Saturday's, with Giass iead-Stock Mini and one Class 3 was still moving smartly. ing easily and completing all vehicle. Class 7 was to do four Becker had already broken a his laps. He ran his third lap laps, everyone else ran only lower control arm, so he was at 24:46, a bit quicker than three. All together, there done for the weekend. Now Saturday's time, and took the were 3 2 vehicles on the Sells moved into third place. win again, to become the course. Turner did another good weekend winner. This time Class 7 went off the line lap, and built his lead to Land beat Ekman by just 15 first, and Craig Turner imme-about six minutes, and now seconds, so they must have diately recorded the quick Sells had moved up to second enjoyed their race. time for the class, at 16:16, to and Carroll ran third. Turner In Class 7S thee was a move his Ford into the lead. headed out pit road, and at pretty good crowd, with 14 Gary Dircks ran second in his the end of the very fast sec-trucks taking the green flag. Ford Ranger, and Tim Carroll tion, something "internal" in This was a three lap group. was third in still another the motor let go, and he was Billy Bunch got off to a good Ranger. finished. Carroll also fell away start, taking the lead in his On the second lap Turner on the last lap, but Sells made Ford, with Jared Hardin sec-built his lead to a minute and it around, putting together ond in his GMC, and Bruce 20 seconds, with Carroll now four very steady laps, to take Landfield, in a Ford, third. second and Dircks third. the win. He said, "We paced Daniel Fresh had his Jeep Turner was running ourselves. We're down on Comanche in fourth place. Ja-smoothly, with no troubles at horsepower, so we concen-son Hutter's Toyota didn't all, and built up more lead on trated on staying out of make a lap, nor did Mark the third lap, so he was now trouble." He did that. And Turner and his Mazda. almost three minutes in front. when they added up the two-On the second lap Hardin Dircks was again second, as day totals, Sells was the week-went into the lead, and he Carroll developed a badly encl winner. He was also the had 19 seconds on Bunch. C-:4· - c· 11·u.s R' ~GiNa· Landfield ran third, with Fresh in fourth. But Bunch couldn't get the third lap done. RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES · BELL, SHOEI, SIMPSON From $299.00 Helmets Helmet & Skirt SNELL 95, SA 95 FOR SODA Complete Blower Systems for single or double seat cars. Helmet conversions, cool boxes, Complete line of PYROTECT, FILLER Safety .Products & BE Motorsports. We ship UPS daily. Vi~-Mastercard . 5_1_53 Bowden Avenue -San Diego - CA - 92117 - 858-279-2509 Page 18 The Hardin truck recorded the fast time for this class on the third lap, at 18:25, and came in first to take the win. Landfield was second, fol-lowed in by Fresh. On Sunday everybody came back except_Billy Bunch and Mark Turner. This time Michael Coleman started out in front, his Ford Ranger lead-ing by about 21 seconds. Joel Stankavich, in Landfield's truck, was second, and Har-din ran third, followed by Rick Long in a Ford. Jason Hutter had come to grief al-ready. March 2001 Coleman, who shared the made a lap. driving on the weekend with As first Foutz and then Nick Crouch, had another Stein came around at the end good lap, and held the lead, of their second lap, ready to while Stankavich, run:':ling go on their final loop, Sal Fish very close, held second. Har-. was there to greet them an din was third, and Long was have a little chat about the fourth. advisability of staying on the Coleman recorded the fast course, which had also been lap on his last lap, at 19:09, bedecked with more ribbons and took the win. Stankav-and stakes. As a result, Pa-ich, who reported no trouble, dilla recorded the fast lap for finished second. In third it the class, at 19:56. When was Long, as Hardin failed to they finished the lap Foutz make it around the last time. had the win, with Padilla in When they added up the second place. totals, the weekend winner The two-day total gave was the Stankavich and Stein the victory, with Padilla Landfield team, with an aver-in second place and Griffin in age speed of 37.439 miles per third. Stein's average speed hour. Fresh was second, and was 36.325. Coleman and. Crouch were In the Sportsman Buggy third. class, William Akrawi ran at · The Stock Full class also the same time as the SCORE r~n in this group, and also did Lite cars, because his car was only three laps. Greg Foutz a SCORE Lite buggy. And lost no time recording the fast though he had no competi-time, at 19:06, and going into tion, he put in a good effort. the lead with his Ford. Marc He was required to do four Stein, in another Ford, was laps, and had respectable right behind h1m 1n second, times on Saturday, but couid and Manny Esquerra ran third get only two laps done on in still another Ford. Foutz Sunday, to become an official and Esquerra had started to-dnf. Too bad. gether, and had done some The racing was just barely pushing and shoving in the over by dark both days. It was first turn, and both seemed to a very full schedule. There are have damage. . murmurings about doing On the second lap Stein things differently next year. was leading, and Mike Pa-One possibility would be to dilla, in a Ford, was in second run the races the same way on place. Neither Foutz nor Esq-Saturday, calling them "quali-uerra came around again. fying" events for Sunday, and Stein went on to take the win, then making Sunday's races all followed in by Padilla, and in within the infield area some-third, always smiling John how. Ivan Stewart, there with Griffin in his Hummer. his Protrucks, would like for On Sunday they were all some classes to race only in the back to try again. This time infield, believing the specta-Foutz and Stein went off the tors would enjoy it. But there line together, and Stein, were no definitive ideas about caught napping, didn't get which classes would be rel-moving right away. Appar-egated to the infield. ently irritated at himself, and On the whole it was a good not thinking clearly, he chose beginning for the 2001 sea-not to follow Foutz through son. There was some grousing the new section of moguls about the closely controlled before the first turn, and in-"course reconnaissance" and stead, headed off course, to practice sessions. To add to the left, bypassing the rough that, the contingency area stuff and easily passing Foutz. developed a major stoppage This brought him dangerously midway through the day and near the post-race tech area. frustrated drivers hated miss-In spite of Stein's illicit ing practice for that. Unfor-move, Foutz had the lead at tunately, the local BLM has the end of the lap, and Stein strong controls in place and was second. Foutz now, hav-was there to enforce them. ing been passed in a manner The truncated practice and that was guaranteed to get slow guided pre-run were his attention, decided that functions of their rulings. It's what was okay for Stein was probably the way it's going to okay for him too, and he be from now on. went around the bumps this Next stop: San Felipe on time. Stein, following him, the Gulf of California. did it again also. By now the SCORE's laid-back event. officials up and down the Scheduled for the middle of track were paying close at-March, it should be a re-tention. Padilla was still laxed, easy race compared to third. Esquerra hadn't even Laughlin. ■ Dusty Times

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WRC 69rH RALLYE MONTE CARLO Makinen/Mitsubishi Take It All By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Tommi Makinen and Risto Mannisenmaki fly over the ice on the way to a great win in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo at Monte Carlo. It has been a year since Mitsubishi won a World Championship Rally but they were back in the driver's seat once again at the Monte Carlo Rally. Makinen, judged perfectly the risks he could take on the patchy ice of the staunchest competitors. Colin McRae gave Maki-nen a run for his money. He was leading the rally on the final morning before he retired his Ford Focus with throttle problems. McRae's teammates, Sainz and De-lecour finished second and third and the Skoda of Armin Schwarz was fourth. In the early stages on Day 1 Peugeot had retired. For Mitsubishi it was a special day, the Monte win, the Group N win with Olivier Gillet behind the wheel and a win on the Paris-Dakar with Jutta Kleinschmidt. The 2001 season fea-tures 14 events, five of which are outside of Eu-rope. The rules and regu-lations remained largely unchanged for 2001. Four teams will contest the en-tire season, Peugeot, Ford, Subaru and Mitsubishi. World Champion Peu-geot started the new season with ~n unchanged design but a lighter weight ca is due to appear in mid sea-son. The Ford Focus WRC started the season at Monte, featuring many • Custom Pro Cell Bladders with seamless Fuel Sale's "Pro Cell" is our top-of-the-line racing cell that comes ready ta super-tough, triple coated consfruclion • 1 O year Bladder warranty • Safety loam baffling • Custom manufactured aluminum containers • FtA·FT3, SCORE and SOOA approved • Custom manufactured fillers • (800) 433-6524 technical hotline • Over 25_ years experience install and it's backed by a e for monrlnfo call or write to: full 10 year warranty. Aircraft Rubber/Fuel Safe EL 63257 Nels Anderson Road Bend, Oregon 97701 RadngCells (541) 388-0203 · (541 )388-0307fax http://www.fuelsafe.com Page 20 technical changes. Subaru has a new lmpreza, a four door model. Mitsubishi made improvements_ to the engine and revised·, theit rear suspension "design, the rear body work has been re-vised to allow more wheel travel. This makes the Lancer the only WRC car without McPherson rear suspension, but makes it less nervous and allows more progressive handling. They also use a lighter fly-wheel for better engine re-sponse and more efficient gear shifting. The current version Hyundai Accent will be used early in the season but there will be changes made to the en-gine specs later in the year. The Toyota WRC's will continue on the 2001 series but will be run by a new company called Step 2. There are new Group N specifications, mainly a new, stronger gearbox and although they are more ex-pensive, driving should be a lot more fun. They don't, yet know how this will af-fect the clutches and the driveshafts. This year's Monte Carlo Rally was the shortest ever, but it still retained its unique character. It was an asphalt event, held on mountain roads in wintry conditions and good ad-vance information on the weather was essential for success. Entries were lim-ited to 60 cars but there was still a wide spread of levels of competitors from full time professionals to once-a-year amateurs. Ev-ery evening the rally re-.turned to Monte Carlo, no more nig~t stops in other towns. You know it's Monte Carlo, new drivers, new cars, unpredictable Mar~h-2001 Olivier Gillet and Freddy Delorme charge through a narrow pass in their Mitsubishi, taking the Group N win. weather conditions and ex-citement that grows every year. Heavy weather in the mountains last fall delayed the precise route planning and even in the days just before the start there were route changes. Talking numbers, Marko Martin started the rally at age 25, Gardemeister was 24 at the start of the 2000 season. Skod-a first con-tested the Monte Carlo Rally 65 years ago and this was Hyundai's first year at the Monte. Richard Burns' neck was injured in an accident dur-ing the pre-run but he did start the rally although not feeling too well. The first two full days of pre-run were virtually clear of all bad weather, only a few corners had ice or snow on them. But the snow fell and the crews struggled to pass through the last two stages. The morning before the rally the roads were almost impas~able and th_e whole prospect of the rally . changed. The forecast was for more snow followeq by a general lowering of the temperature. Suddenly the event changed from being one of the clearest ever to a real wintry e\-ent. Liatti went off the road in his Hyundai saying, "The road was covered with wet snow and there was solid ice un-derneath", he slid and stove in the right front of the car and had to start the rally in an untested car. Leg 1 -Six stages, as-phalt, 142 kms. The event started with snow lying on the stages and the tempera-ture hovered at freezing. It was definitely going to be a snow rally. There was only a ten ·minute service before the first two stages and the teams had to decide whether to run 16" snow tires or the regular 18". For Hyundai, the work was too much and the time was too short. Liatti left service two minutes late (20 second penalty) and Alister McRae accrued a 50 sec-ond penalty. The road sur-faces were a lot warmer than predicted but as the cars had to carry the same tires on Stage 2, the situa-tion was tricky for every-one, with the passage of the cars progressively clearing the roads. The route out to the service point before the first stage saw three retii;-e-ments, Marko Martin's Su-baru with electronics fail-ure and two private drivers crashed on the main road. Gardemeister made fast-est time in his private Peu-geot, running 15th car on the road, running in front of Auriol (9th car) and Olivier Burri (25th car). Of the top runners, none of the top five c.ars: Gran-holm, Bµrn~, Sainz, McRae and· Makinen finished in the top five. Liatti, running 13th arrived with oil all over the engine's compart-ment, a broken fan blade had cut an oil line .and he -retired the car. The second stage was di-· saster for Granholm, water temp was in the red, the team told him to continue but the pump had failed and he was out of it. Maki-nen had a flat on each of the first two stages but the ATS worked each time·. Auriol was leading the rally, second stage, second Peugeot to lead, despite having gearshift problems, Eddie Mercer and Jean Veret enjoy a· bit of iceless road as they head to 1st 2 liter in Group N. l>usty Times

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Armin Schwarz and Manfred Hiemer guide their Skoda Octavia It was the first Monte Rally for Hyundai and Alister McRae Toni Gardemeister and Paavo Lukander glide over the ice on through a wooded snowy section of the Monte Oar/a. and David Senior were seventh overall in the Accent. the way to a fine 5th overall in the Peugeot 206. forcing him to use the special fog lamp on the with a puncture on the sec-right. The final stage of the to go flat out. He saw Colin's emergency manual gear le-front but it didn't work as ond stage. Galli checked day was a re-run of the sec-car stopped on a hairpin ver and Gardemeister well as he -expected. The out of service· six minutes ond stage, Sisteron, up the about 4 kms into the stage stoppedfortwominutesto finaldramaofthedaycame late due to electronic valleyondryroads,theninto and he just kept on driving, change a tire. Auriol had a when Burn's engine started trouble. The best ·Fr~nch the wooded snowy section maybe a bit slower. Freddy bent rear suspension,' to misbehave and there was car was running in tenth where earlier the two wheel Loix fitted maximum tire Bruno Thiry had electrical smoke from the exhaust and there was only one drivers had struggled to climb studs on the first stage and set failure halfway through when the car went into French driver in the top the hills. Colin McRae had a fastest time. Conditions were Stage 2 which reduced his overnight pare ferme. The ten. Not a good day for the better run here and took 8.5 treacherous. There was a fine speed to 50 kph. It. turr"!-ed team decided to withdraw French. seconds off Makinen and took bat.de for third. Schwarz rev-out to be a broken turbo the car. There were two in-, Leg 2 -Four stages, as-the lead. eled in· conditions in which and he was delayed two quiries that night: reports phalt, 109 kms. Makinen's Leading Gentleman driver absolute power was a liability. minutes in service (20 sec-that Alister McRae (Hyun-attack continued. After ly-was still Burri, but with too Delecour felt the differentials ondpenalty). dai) and Armin.Schwarz ing 30.6 seconds behind widetireshewentofftheroad were not working properly. Peugeot's fortunes were (Skoda) were running un-Colin McRae overnight, for a while on a patch of un-Alister McRae fell from sixth going badly. In conditions derweight cars but it was the Monte winner for the expected ice. Gardemeister to seventh when he stopped which were clearing up eventually discovered that past two years set off after was up to seventh although to change a broken wheel. more quickly than ex-a small piece of grit in one his rival. After the first he spun once and stalled the Gardemeister spun, Thiry pected, many driyers chose of the weighing pads was stage of the day he was 22.6 engine twice, and Bugalski broke two rims and had to tires for the anticipated the culprit. Then Maselli seconds behind, after the had a loose exhaust. start Stage 14 with one bro-winter conditions. On (Fiat Punto Kit Car) took second stage it was 2.5 sec-In Group N Stohl had ken wheel. Second time Stage 3, Panizzi went off on fuel en route and was onds and on the third stage turbo failure which let Gillet through the stages Delecour the road and the crew was excluded from the event. he was in the lead! Colin into the lead. Gassner went pulled clear of Schwarz and taken by air-evac to the Among the Gentlemen watched the drama un(old, off the road on Stage 11, Gardemeister got ahead of hospital. On the same drivers Burri had his brakes "I must have been driving rolled, but was put back on Loix. stage, Auriol damaged his go soft and was using his too carefully." With the the road again, losing 10 min-In the Gentleman cat-car and had to retire. hand bral~e for turns, the snow an the ice he was up ·utes and he withdrew at the egory, Burriwentofftheroad McRae, who had been 16th two Opel Astra's both re-against the Finnish master end of the stage. The day fin-and blocked Thiry, so now the after _Stage I was· in the· tired and suddenly the rally who always drives hard in ished with Gillet one minute highest non-works driver was lead, and once again all the became · a lot .smaller. Of slippery conditions. in front of Galli and Stohl an-the Group N leader, Olivier works Pt!ugeots .;,ere out in the 56 ·starters only 35 were Michelin were congratu-other 86 seconds back. Gillet. His lead was strength-the first 24 hours. In the still runp.ing. Puras, in the lating themselves, they had Leg 3 -Four stages, as-ened when Galli retired with cleaner conditions the Citroen Saxo lost five min-a tire tread pattern (their phalt, 98 kms. Four stages to differential failure. Stohl was Fords were now going het-utes changing a tire in a D Type) which suited the go, two laps_ of the Turini up to second, despite being ter, though Delecom had a very bad spOI: and on Stage conditions perfectly. Dele-Loop and a great struggle be-depressed by the speed_ of his flat, which he had to drive· 4 the gearbox broke, but cour was holding fourth tween Colin McRae and rivals who were using Miehe-on for 15 kms. , · his teammate, Bugalski was p lace behind his two Ford· Tommi Makinen, then be-· Hn tires. Skodas were no_t going' the highest placeci two teammates. and he was tween Delecour and Schwarz Suddenly it was over. For well, Schwarz-didn't re-· wheel drive car·. ahead of Schwarz's Skoda was promised, but it didn't Makinen the victory, indee.d ceive his. pa:c~ notes before In Group N, the change-in fifth pace. Alister. work out that way. McRae the significance of his three starting on 3 and 4. he able condit·ions in the McRae was in sixth place,· stopped with throttle prob-successive wins was dis-picked a tire he thot;ight morning gave curious times learning· all the time. It's lems. He lost 13 minutes on missed. "Honestly, it was woold be safe ·for the. con-. and left the top runners incredible to· realize just· the first stage of the day, more important for me to get ditions and he lost a, lot of. catching up later in· the how slowly you have to dropping to 10th, then was the ten points for winning." time. On Stage 3 Thiry had day. , Marcqs Ligato drive on this rally, when · unable to make a repair on Just like any other rally, shock failure and on Stage changed two flat tires but you have wide tires on ic_e. the road section before the unphased by ceremony and 4 a fuel pump failed and he lost only a bit over a The perils of weekend second stage in time to con-heritage that holds the rest of had to stop to·try and make minute and scored best rallying struck on Stage 9. tinue. Makinen's policy was the sport in awe. ■ jury rig repairs. Makinen Group N time on Stage 3, Colin McRae, first car on made the right tire choice on his first rally in Europe! the road was slowed by and leapt from seventh to Gassner held the lead 'til spectators. "They were just third. Solberg had flats on Stage 5 when Stohl passed walking along the road, a couple of sta_ges and on him and the day finished they were even standing on Stage 5 he went off the with Pozzo lying third in the outside of sixth gear road for good. front of Gillet, who had corners." McRae figured he Makinen was not happy been seeded at Number 44. lost quite a bit of time slow-on the final stage, which Trellis was next in front of ing down to avoid the spec-was run at night. He had a Galli who had lost time tators. Then on Stage 10 the pressure of the specta-tors was too great and the stage was canceled. Mechanically, Delecour was in more trouble. His Ford not only had gearshift troubles, but now there was a problem with the fly-by-wire throttle control system. Thiry's transmission had been improved but was still not 14th overall and best two-wheel drive was the Citroen Saxo Kit Car of Phillippe Bugalski and Jean-Paul Chiaroni. Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya hustle their Ford Focus to the second spot at Monte Carlo, only .8 of a second out of the win. Dusty Times 69"' Rallye Automob~e•Monte-Carlo 2001 (MC) 18121 January 2001 WCR round 1 1 (7) Tommi MAKINEN/Risto Mannisenmaki FIN Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution WRC 2 (3) Carlos SAINZ/Luis Moya E Ford Focus RS WRC 3 (17) Francois Oelecour/Oaniel Grataloup F Ford Focus RS WRC 4 (11) Armin SCHWARZ/Manfred Hiemer D Skoda Octavia WRC 5 (19) Toni Gardemeister/Paavo Lukander FIN Peugeot 206 WRC 6 (8) Freddy LOIX/SVen Smeets B Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution WRC 7 (10) Alister McRAE/David Senior GB Hyundai Accent WRC 8 (12) Bruno THIRY/Stephane Prevot B Skoda Octavia WRC 9 (44 ) Olivier GilleUFreddy Delorme CH/F Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution N 1J (23) Manf,cd S'.ohl/llka Pe:ras~o A Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution M March 2001 X6MMR (GB) V10FMC(GB) V5FMC (G-B) MBN97-90 (CZ) 206MWL75 (F) X3MMR (GB) W7MSD(GB) MBN98-16 (CZ) VD700055 (CH) BK633LY (I) WC points WR WO G' 4h.38m.04.3s. • 10 10 4h.39m.05.1s. 6 6 4h.40m.09.6s. 4 4h 40m.30.3s. 4 3 4h 43m.56.4s. 2 4h.44m.30.2s. 3 1 4h.47m.08.3s. 2 4h.51m.59.3s. 1 4h.5•m.28.2s. • , C 4h.55m 54 ~ S Page 21

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CODE RACE OF CHAMPIONS Smith overalls, Yes, Too By Tony Tellier Photos: Tony Montano & ZR Designs Lobsam Yee drov~ his V4 powered Jimco to the overall win at the CODE Mexicali to San Felipe event, in 3:33:45. Honda rider Craig Smith took $810 back to Brawley -_"This pays better than a SCORE purse!" - for his 56.64 mph overall win after riding 190 miles from Mexicali to -the dual white arches of San Feli-pe. The winner of the recent "Baja 2000" rode his pre-run Honda XR650 with "bold new graphics" for three hours, 21 minutes and 16 seconds (3:21: 16). Adam Youren from New Zealand was second by a narrow 42 seconds, 'right be-hind in 3:21:58, while Jason Corfman and Martin Bejarano were the third bike, the first small two stroke, and sixth overall at 3:51:35. Automobile group winners Lobs am Yee started two hours later, at 0900 hours. The win-ning drive of the 2x year old TJ resident took 3:33:45, av-eraging 53.33 mph. Yee drove the long-legged Seat V4-pow-ered.single-seat Jimco, finish-ing on a rear rim. Ai:nado 'Lo-pez was Class 10 winner and the second car at 3:37:08. Ten minutes back from Yee was the Ford "8" of Gustavo Coronado 3:43:36. The Mc-Neil/Yee consortium three-seat "7" -fresh off the "B2K" -leaked its way to fourth over-all car. The Pro Quad win was by the Rauls Guardado, Sr. y. Jr., at 4: 12:38. Allan Gregory and the Agro-vaters won the "5-1600" class, Cesar Cons Molina cleaned up on the "1600s"; and los dos Hermanos Navarretes, Leo y Ali, were the winners in "9". "It's about worn out", Smith said about his winning bike due t6 a protracted pe-. riod of pre-running down -south for the "Two-Kay". Smith rode 75 miles, this Sat-urday, on a flat front from near RM39 to the Saldana dry lake checkpoint. "I don't know what I hit, if anything; it had 18 psi in it when I prepped the bike. Out by the . 'second' lake section, the bike started to sh::ike its head -the tire started to come off the rim -and I had to sit way back on the seat to unload the front end." "When I came into Saldana for the front wheel change, '3X' was right there behind me. He really surprised me! I figured that I would just dust him and move away." Craig was in to his Saldana stop at 0843, off a 0700 start, and was idle a long five min-utes while being fitted with a new front wheel. As they cinched dowri the axle half-clamp, one of the four 6 mm studs snapped off in the T -handle. The unnamed me-chanic blurted: "Shit! I l:iroke off one of the clamp studs. Shit!" Youren was through the . pits three minutes behind Smith, but got out of Check 3 ahead by a football field length as they battled the wheel change. Smith said later that he knew ."that it was gone but it· was a bottom (stud that was broken off) so the axle couldn't force its way out. I still iooked down ai: it, once in a while." Craig had to reel in Youren heading up into the infamous Crack of Doom -the narrow rocky pass to the El Chinero drainage past the Well Field. "At Borrego we had no dry break (quick-fill gas can) and (the 'normal', slower fill spout) let him catch right up. We raced side by side toward Tres Palos until I finally dusted him." "My rear shock went away coming into 3 Poles. I wanted to sit back again but I couldn't handle much more. I leaned back for 20 miles, and then my back couldn't take it any more. I looked for easier lines, even if they weren't as fast. So. I could sit down. I had to have at least a minute on him (due to the start time difference). He crashed at (KM159, the ca whoop section). He baled ... but he was tough to beat. My Amado Lopez ran a close second at the-Mexicali to San Felipe race, finishing first in Class 1 O and second in the overall standings. ankles feel locked up this Fud snickered. "He must have morning." finally fixed that KTM he "(Youren) came over from . broke last February." New Zealand to race the PIT SUPPORT '2000' and decided to try this BFGoodrich made a part of our desert. New surprise appearance with a pit Zealand has a little desert sec-trailer and full crew at tion that they used to ride on Saldana. Eloy Hernandez but their Army uses it now." funded a full BFG "Groupo Craig runs the "ZR" motor-Tersa" pit -just like at SCORE cycle series when his busy -and Bob Oliver set up a schedule allows, "After all, it:'s quality mobile shop· and close to home (i.e., the Impe-coordinated all 19 sign-rial Valley)." When Smith uppers. In 2001 BFG will isn't doing the Baja he is fin-sponsor the April 21 Code ishing his university studies at race. Pro Pits was also out in Cal-Poly/Pomona. force, covering seven cars Smith is now back on top of including the Covas and his game after a leg -shatter-Safari winner Ricardo Cons. ing, potentially career-ending The Saldana area must accident while pre-running have been the Bermuda Terrible's Town at the end of Triangle of Baja: more cars 1998. Tagged for that year's missed their pits than could be Honda "A" Team for the imagined. Davila's Pinuleas "1000" Smith had to watch Racing Engi!l-es "560" missed Tim Staab take over "his"-slot the Pro Pits pits where they on the championship team then changed the crew and · while his trashed leg tended to the right front steel wheel. itsknitting.Alittlemorethan The "553" of Jose Luis a year later Craig was back on Herrejon looked like it had AHC's winning "A team" and been on its lid but had stopped running as strong, or stronger, to replace the ·antenna, then ever. departed, then came back thru Thirteen minutes behind the pits and was a DNF. The Craig and Adam was the Covas "550" missed the Pro # 102X "250" two stroke bike Pits; McNeil/Yee missed their of Jason Corfman and Martin pits; Jose Gonzalez #905 B~jarano. No-Fiber fud re-overshot BFG while Miguel ported from Chula Juana: "I Mexia (#1149) blithely sailed talked with Jason's dad, who on by and had to lock 'em up. said that Jason's (chaser) was And all the pits had big signs. late for all the gas pits. Jason Whatever. twice had to stop and buy THE COURSE Pemex and get a quart of oil The race went from the to continue on. Twice he was western margins of Mexicali able to bum gas from someone around the well used else's pit. Finally, at the Zoo aqueducto loop north of Road crossing, there he was Laguna Salada and the Tecate waving, wanting Jason to stop.· Highway then headed south-to Jason just went on to the fin-Cohobuzo Jct. and Saldana. ish." Luckily, happily, this year "Jason can be very fast; we there were not gale force expect him to run at or near winds on the dry lake. The the top when he has a bike -Well Field sand wash took the he's too slow racing on foot", racers south to the El Chinero-Borrego route·, crossing the Ensenada Highway at Laguna Armada. The usual whoop·ed Three Poles/Powerline Road brought the successful pilots to the San Felipe Arches via the Dump Road. (Note how Code, and Ramon Castro, can use the Borrego area but SCORE cannot?) THE RACERS 25 Bikes, 21 Finishers 57 Pro Cars, 40 Finishers 24 Soortsman Cars, 13 Finishers 11 Safari Sportsman Cars, 4 Finishers Cesar Cons Molina lost his power steering late in the race, but managed to hang on long enough to take the win in the 1600 class. · In Class 5 Gerardo Gonzalez got the uncontested win, finishing fifth in the overall standings at the same time. 11 7 Starters, 80 Finishei:s THE BIKES Open Pro Motorcycle ----------Page 24 March 2001 Dusty Times • l

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r Brothers Sergio and Hector Duron had some trouble, but still got the win in Class 7S Pro in their Nissan, winning by a margin of just over six minutes. Carlos Mack/is was the Class 11 winner, taking first place by only four minutes after 5 hours and 52 minutes of racing. · In the Safari class Ricardo Cons M. won by over an hour. He's had a perfect season in his VW, driving every mile of all six CODE races, and winning them all also. 4 Entries, 4 Finishers 1. Craig Smith, 3:21:16; 2. Adam Youren, 3:21:58; 3. Oscar Garcia, 4:21:01; 4 . Keko Jimenez, 5:32:58. 250 PRO MOTORCYCLE 5 Entries, 5 Finishers Edgar Espinoza's two stroke was lost? Or was he? He somehow missed the course out of the lake bed checkpoint and went west to Tres Poios instead of due south into the mountains. He still only missed third place by a half minute. 1. Jason Corfman and Martin Bejarano, 3:51:35; 2. Antonio Macias, 3:56:53; 3. Pedro Penatelo, 4:10:15; 4. Edgar Espinoza, 4:11:54; 5. Gabriel Gonzalez, 5:0·7 :2 7. OPEN PRO QUAD 8 Entries, 7 Finishers Cesar Lopez (Honda 400EX), from just down the road in SF, had oddly done no pre-running -"I've never seen this section", he spoke of the dr.v lake to Borrego. 1. Los Rauls Guardado, Sr. y Jr., 4:-12:38; 2. Ricardo Barba, 4:12:57; 3. Cesar Lopez, Fabian Gonzalez, Rene Arostegui; 4. Enrique Felix, 4:57: 10; 5. Miguel Bastidas, 5:10:29; 6. Saul Bojorquez, 5:12:50; 7. Ismael Gonzalez, 5:43:05. OPEN SPORTSMAN Motorcycle 4 Entries) 3 Finishers 1. Alfonso Castro, 4:28:52; 2. Oton Guzman, 4:31 :05; 3. Jose A. Malo, 5:46:26. OPEN SPORTSMAN Quad 4 Entries, 2 Finishers 1. Tito Buendia, 5:22:37; 2. Adolfo Arellano, 6:41:08. THE CARS Class 1 Pro 2 Entries, 1 Finisher Lobsam Yee almost, literally, drove the wheels of the Jimco. He had a front flat ten miles before Borrego -never a fun ride under any circumstances -then lost a rear. He went 40 miles, lost the tire -off the rim -but had out-run his pits. So he did the Power Line Road on "aluminum" to The Arches. The Yee organization has been prepping the car with good results and serious planning: "We also have a spare Scat", said Jaime Medina. "It's never been used! We have a car shop in Rosarito." Danny Ledezma tried his able "5-1600"-sized hand at the Big Cars but didn't get far enough. 1. Lobsam Yee, 3:33:45 CLASS 10 PRO 2 Entries, 1 Finisher Dusty Times Second Overall Amado the later rough stuff and feel Lopez's "Ten" came through back to finish Third Overall. the wasteland Check 3 with Ray Santos del Prado was not Coronado's long-legged "8" a finisher, or even a player. "I right behind, but the big rig h ad a new engine", said was at a disadvantage through Raymundo, the Mexicali doctor. "I never tested it!" When he had spark plug trouble -"las bujias" -he was only at (RM) 76 and was uncertain just what to do. Rather than soldier on and possibly ruin the engine he called the crew, to race another day. "We are buying the (Mark) Fodor motor for Laughlin", Ray said, Continued on page 26 GERMAN AUTO DEIST SEAT BEL TS The greatest name in driver safety equipment. 4-point sand rail seat belt RACE BELTS 2"-5pointmount 3" -5 point mount SIDE COVERS IRS . Swing axle KENNEDY PRESSURE PLATES' 200mm-1700# 200mm-up to 3000! GERMAN AUTO PRESSURE PLATES 200mm 1700# -2400# RACING. PERFORMANCE CLUTCH DISC . Cushlocks . ............ . . 4 puc ferramic .......... . . 4 puc ferramic with spring hub SACO MAGNUM RACK . Billet housing, 1 ½ • allow gear, through bolt mounting complete with stops SACO CV CAGES, BOOTS, AND FLANGES · 930 or T-4 cages 930 or T-4 or T-2 flanges Trick boots (specify) 930CVstar "WEEKEND-WARRIOR" LONG TRAVEL BEAMS 8" travel-stock width 8" travel-widened beam 10" travel-stock width 10" travel-widened beam TRI MIL EXHAUST T-11½"chrome T-11½"raw T· 1 1 5/8 • chrom T-115/8" raw T-4 chrome T-4 raw GERMAN AUTO-HATS GERMAN AUTO lT-SHIRTS. specify M.LG.XLG PORSCHE STYLE FAN SHROUD Fits T-4 engine, ut/fizes T· 1 alternator, includes alternator stand . MAGNUM SPINDLES MK/ MK/I PEDAL ASSEMBLIES CNC Clutch and brake assemblies for cable throttle With black pedal With chrome pedal. With hydraulic throttle Replacement slave SACO RACK AND PINION The toughest available anywhere, alloy gears, full contact housing, hard anodized. Standard rack and pinion Mount plate Coupler. Rack steering stops VALVE·COVERS T-4 "no leak" style fits 1.7, 1.8, and2.0 SACO ALUMINUM WHEELS Polished finish, bolt together rears lite spindle mounts too FRONT TRAILING ARMS Link pin ............ 413/l Chromolv Stock length ......... pr. 1 ¼ • longer .......... pr. 21/, "longer ......... . pr. 4 • longer-coil over style pr. CHROMOL Y TIE RODS 1 • chromoly tie rods wlends. fsoeclfv Ford or International) set ... SACO REAR TRAILING ARMS 3" X 3" ...... . 1·2 1600, 5-1600 . CATALOG ... . . 11324 Norwall< Blvd. Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670. 562-863-1123 FAX 562-929-1461 March 2001 Page 25

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l The team of Alfonso Castro, Ernesto Ramirez, J. Ramon Aguirre and Craig Smith, fresh off the win at the Baja 2000, readies himself for the David Fifer put together a good day to take the win in the Open green flag and another victory on his Honda. _S~po_r_ts_m..,..a_n_b_ik_e_c_la=s--=s,....,. =-=c-==--==-:-:-=----::---------Tito Alvarez, on a Lobo, dices with Ricardo Barba early in the race. Alvarez and his teammates, Raul Guardado and Raul Guardado, Jr., and Marco Antonio Moreno won Open Pro ATVs. r ea ff i rm in g his Vic Cesar was out before just the CODE/FRT "Tecate" compression on the #3 Bruckmann association. brothers and he was never SCORE "Baja 1000" cylinder (duh) and l. Amado Lopez, 3:37:08. challenged. The little motored CODE "Mexicali-San subsequently lost three hours. CLASS 1600 PRO cars sandwiched the big VW Felipe" "We thought that we had 9 Entries, 6 Finishers of "500" Gerardo Gonzalez Steve Downing was done holed the piston. It was the Winner Cesar Cons Molina with Eric Duran followed driving the Tom Watson valve adjustment! Martin (#1603) may have lost his closelybytheVWAutopartes #1636 car: "I was leading Gonzalez (him again) helped power steering during the final house-killer of Pietro Brassea. when I broke. I was in fourth us figure that one out." They 50 miles "but he did good Raul Monttel's "CopyFast" gear out on the flat and the had no further problems to a anyway," said friend and Sportsman 1 Ranger and the engine just revved up. The fifth place finish. Martin said competitor Martin Gonzalez. leading 5-1600 of the Agro tranny? I guess. There was that: "When a racer is down, "I lost it coming into the team were nose-to-dust trail. nothing in any gears. we'll help. You have to -but Borrego whoops," Cons Matt Sherard: "We were Nothing," Steve shrugged. when you're both running, 'Ha admitted, and drove it all right where we wanted to be "TommyhadtobossthebigEl ha!' That's different!" For himself. From the "Tres Palos" until about six miles after Centro parade today so he example Phillips' pit helped Pemex station ro the highway Saldana. We broke an ignition couldn't come. He didn't miss change a tire on Erik Duran's access it was all second gear wire and took about 50 anything," laughed the with his thumbs stuck out to minutes to find and repair the deflated Steve as he wandered avoid getting swatted by the problem. That was all it took off to hand-load the single steering wheel spokes. "No to go from first to fourth. Oh seater. Later, Steve reported flats, no problems," said Cons. well, that's racing. We just that the differential housing "Muy rapido, thanks to hooked up with had spit: "Right where the Ventura Prep and Martin." www.insuranceXtreme.com as ring gear mounts, it was all The fourth starting #1606 our sponsor and we're gone. Never seen that before of the Sherards were leading planning on running the -in a '1600'. It only had two into the bottom of the dry following races in 2001." complete races on it, too." lake, ahead of Cons. They SCORE "San Felipe 250" EasE-ern Arizonan Steve both pitted at Saldana but SCORE "Baja 500" Phillips' #1648 lost car. Gonzalez, "El Padre Gallo," lost a motor right off the start. "I went back to Mexicali to get the spare motor. We then changed a head. We cleared Check 1 with only one minute to spare. Then we had a dead battery -in the sand -and could not push it. We had to wait for someone to come by for a shove. We went into Borrego with no lights -we held a KC out the front," said 2000 Class 1600 champion Gonzalez who had never, ever, expected this 9:00 a.m. start to turn into a "night race" so the crew• did not have a light bar. Anywhere close, anyway. His race time was 9:57:08, just under the ten hour time limit. 1. Cesar Cons Molina, 3:52:12; 2. Eric Duran, 4: 12:05; 3. Pietro Brassea, 4 :18:22; 4. Matt Sherard, 4:37:23; 5. Steve Phillips, 7:22:32; 6. Martin Gonzalez, 9:57:08. CLASS 5 PRO 1 Entry, 1 Finisher I Gerardo Gonzalez, 3:51:22. CLASS 5-1600 PRO 8 Entries, 7 Finishers Winner Steve Kobayashi had no flats, no trouble in the red, white and blue striped Allan Gregory Racing Organization car but their #2 Eibach Springs is proud to announce it's complete line of ultra high qualilv off-road springs. Spring to Success ... Ellac!ISprtagS, Inc. • Phone 949 75Z B700 • 11111111UtOr: ParllBI' Pumper 909 360 1854 Page 26 March 2001 Available in 10, 12, 14 & 16 inch free leng(hS Wllh 3" ID. A well designed & manufactured spring will last thousands of cvcles, even in the cruelest desen environments. That's whv top chassis builder Mike Julson chooses Eibach Springs. He knows what ii takes to win ... Now so do vou. Dusty Times

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a tie rod in the very second hole that we hit. But we did have a spare; see we learn! We started way back, too. We were late getting off '· the trailer." Brother Hector drove to Borrego and Sergio to the finish. The "West (Auto Wrecking) Racing" team was in their second race ever in the #727 Ranger car broke a brake line then · rolled over. Jason Gregory and Matt Petersen were on their lid a mile before Check 4 and were upside down for 20 minutes. They actually found a place where there wasn't any _spectators. "We had to run up the road to get guys to come and help." Jason and Matt's job was to keep Marcos Nunez back in fifth place to guarantee the class championship for Steve and Big Al G. But Nunez got fourth and tied for points: his three wins to Agro's two settled the deal in Nunez' favor. powered by a regular Antonio Macias, Oscar Garcia and Hector Garcia took secondplace Adam Youren, visiting from New Zealand, enjoyed a ride in the Baja (Al said that there was no truth to rumors about teaming with Ledezma ... maybe it was reaming? ... "We can't beat Danny, but maybe we can beat his CAR!") Tractorland's Arturo Cervantes: "We had no hassles, however with Mike's wife (Margaret C. Jones) as co-pilot I took it easy on the car" to third place. Arturo (also third "5-1600" in "B2K") suited up with a snappy pair of reptilian Tony Lamas. "They were my lucky boots." He then explained his retirement: "I am not racing in 200L It was too much this year." ·Tractorland did all the Code races; raced one "outlaw" event south of San Luis R. C.; sponsored the spring ""Laguna / Salada 200"; sometimes raced a second Bug; and finished the massive "Baja 2000". "I have a full t;ime job then I had a full time race prep job." Note: they still had "Mag 7" patches on the driving suits. 1. Allan Gregox:y, 4:04:59; 2. J.A. Covas, 4:16:28; 3. Arturo Cervantes, 4:21:47; 4. Marcos Nunez, 4:26:21; 5. Jason Gregory, 4:44:54; 6. Carlos Davila, 4:55 :56; 7. Javier Medina, 5:43:37. CLASS 7 PRO 11 Entries, 7 Finishers Perry's "Yee" truck was reported to have been leaking power steering fluid before the start' even with the engine not running. The right trailing link was black with fluid. The wily Willy Valdez needed all of his wits to take second place over Sabas Munoz' "Yee" truck; the difference was a pequerio six seconds (00:00:06). At the halfway point Willy was neck-and-neck with. Gonzalez' "Gova" truck but then moved on ahead. Gonzalez ran out of gasoline near RM108 but, 1 uckily, was close to the La Ventana access road so lost only 20 minutes (or make that third place). A Munoz "711" chase truck got flagged over by several Federale "Blancos y. Negros" at the Pete's Camp crucero ... radar is in force. Second generation racer Guillermo Valdez, Jr. was a DNF. l. Perry McNeil, 3:49:39; 2. Willie Valdez, 4:30:05; 3 . Sa bas Munoz, ·4:30: 11; 4. Jose A. Gonzalez, 5: 14:33; 5 . Ignacio Pereda, 6: 12:05; · 6. Cruz Jaime, 6: 19:29; 7. Romeo Rodriguez, 7:34:45. CLASS 7S PRO 8 Entries, 5 Finishers Winner Sergio Duron reported, "At RM2 we broke Dusty Times 3L V6 and hung on inthe250ProMotorcycleclass. Bilsteins. (Their first race was Dan Street, 5:05:07; 3. the not-for-the-shy "N2K".) Fernando Real, 6:26: 16; 4. "We broke a brake line Alberto Iriarte, 6:40:45;. 5. yesterday and had no brakes Jaime Soto, 6:51 :08. past Borrego." Rene of "R & CLASS 8 PRO R Fab" in Chula Vista did the 4 Entries, 2 Finishers work. Dad Danny Street drove 1. Gustavo Coronado, to Check 3 then Rene went to 3:43:36; 2. Elias Canchola, the finish. They won $160 for 4:29:39. second place. "It looks like all CLASS 9 PRO the Code races and the SF250 10 Entries, 6 Finishers next year for. us. Maybe a Winner Leonardo BitD; maybe the '500'." Navarrete drove from Tres They had a bet with the Palos to La Meta, Htirmano Duron team; whichever team Alejandro from the start. Leo_ won got a dinner by the loser said that the race had no -for the entire crew. Note problems; "No nada" -we're that the Duron gang counts already ready for the next race over 20 people! "Street takes (Ramon Castro's "Ojos to San us to El Nido"; Sergio said, Felipe".) "I'd take the Streets to a taco Apparent class winner · stand." Tony Gomez became the heir-Ken Montijo predicted that nonappareni: when while "our '7 22' Mazda (Dave leaciing broke the transmission. Ahles/Steve Moore) and and was either pushed, pulled Sergio's '720' Datsun are or coasted across the finish always in thee; they just make line. Since you have to finish zero mistakes and that truck "under power" he was set back is super smooth. There are a to the. previous checkpoint, lot of Ranges that race CODE, worth only seventh place, and. all should be contenders, but the Herma nos N avarretes .they beat them to death early. took the win. Gomez, ·racing I have yet to meet Sergio, they Code honcho Alfonso have been on the trailer and Lacarra's black Mayoral car, on the way home by the time was rumored to be planning to we get off the course. He has return it hacksawed into the points locked up. Maybe pieces. Lacarra: "Tony knows Mexicali-to-San Felipe will be the rules! He did the same the one for us. It will be a good thing two years ago at Santa race at any rate." Veronica with the same Unfortunately the tow car results. He knew ... " Cherokee of #722 lost some Eric Fisher and Juan Gallo mysterious electrics arriving at were both into BFG at the the starting line - so they quit same time. Gas and a the event even before it replacement tire with a tube started to scurry back to the for Gallo (who used a FraNfer U.S. for Jeep parts, leaving a wheel), but a lengthy passel of chasers and pitters passenger change for Fisher. without much else to do. "XX Bill Hanson's Cafe Combate Time!" #911 also stopped at the same · Moore: "We had some time for a steering "visual." problems with Dave's tow Hanson experienced all of the vehicle. Apparently a wire human emotions: anger, feeding the computer took a depression, happiness, fear dump. Nothing that two days and, finally, relief, "I finished spent in El Centro couldn't on -three wheels with no fix." brakes; I hit a tree to stop -at 1. ·sergio Duron, 4:59:46; 2. the Arches -" with a sixth Perry McNeil drove his yellow Ford King-cab Class 7 Pro truck to the win, finishing 41 minutes in front of the second place truck. March 2001 desert, and took home second place. place finish." Alexandro Lopez was yet another one of those who drove through to get the Checkpoint, then came back to the pits. 1. Alex Navarrete, 4:26:25; 2. Juan Mayoral, Jr., 4:33:05; 3. Jose A. Gonzalez, 4:44:43; 4. Alexandro Lopez, 5:34:48; 5. Juan Gallo, 5:57:22; 6. Bill Hanson, 9:42:49, CLASS 11 PRO 4 Entries, 4 Finishers Relief driver Gerardo Montijo for Alberto Ortega said: "I get· too much air in this car. It's very different from mine -this motor is strong but the suspension _is not so good." Oton Guzman rode solo all the way to take second Ra c e r of No t e : . place in the Open Sportsman class. 2000 class champion 1 Entry, 1 Finisher Fernando Flores' Mexican" Raul Montiel's V6 flagged red, white, and green "Trophy Truck" was built in Autoservicio ]alisco bug Tecate. "We are do.wn at finished all six Code events for Borrego; we broke a the year. suspension. bolt arid had 1. Carlos'Macklis, 5:53:27; nothing -so we stole one 2. Alberto Ortega, 5:57:30; 3. from a transmission mount. Fernando Flores, "9:08:20; 4. The '7 Pros' don't want us to Miguel Mexia, 9:31 :08. race with them. They don't CLASS 1 SPORTSMAN Continued on page 28 Steve Kobayashi and Allan Gregory put their handsome 5-1600 car into the winner's circle, taking the win by 12 minutes. Des □IQltdl PROUDLY C:ommunlc:dtlon ANNOUNCl!S ~l?rVICI?~ "More Than Lightning Comes From The Sky" DCS IS THE PREMIER DEALER IN THE WEST FOR: DirecPC 2 Way Home & Office Networks DirecPC _:: DirecTV Pre/Post Wiring Home Automation 1-877-DirecPC Visit the DCS RACING Mobile Internet Pavilion On Contingency Row ♦ Check E-mail ♦ High Speed Internet ♦MS Office Applications I Powered b10irecl'C·'¥:'r!'lntemd I Page 27

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Gustavo Coronado drove his Class B Ford to the win, finishing third in the overall standings while he was at it. like our suspension. Well, Perry (McNeil) said that it was OK with him but the Gova guys didn't like it. So we are in '1 Sportsman' class." "We raced hard with Perry; we passed him at RM60, then again at Saldana, then Borrego. We could keep with Perry even to RM 160 -with a stock Ford V6." They were the 30th vehicle -counting cars, bikes, quads, Prqs, and Sportsman entries. Of course, the bikes and the cars ran two "different" races, but ... 1. Raul Montiel, 4:36:08. CLASS 1600 SPORTSMAN 5 Entries, 1 Finisher Manuel Ainsle may have looked slow, or tentative, but he was on the way to his win over four other cars in a long 2B65 Gundry Ave. Signal Hill. CA 90B06 B00.959.7757 S6i!.4i!7 .i!37S . . nine-and-a-half hours. 1. Manuel Ainsle, 9:36:25. CLASS 8 SPORTSMAN • 2 Entries, No Finishers Kennedy Valencia's 4WD Chevrolet was leaking lots of oil from transfer case plus was smogging the pits. CLASS 5 SPORTSMAN 3 Entries, 3 Finishers Abogado Arturo Honold was riding with his daughter "Churu" in her first race in the Betillo Race Prep # 5 21 pre-runner. "We were 13 minutes late to the start then the shifter needed adjustment. I am so tired from riding; I got sick! I had to stop for some Pepto-Bismol (but) the best medicine is this Tecate. We caught and passed #589 (Sergio Silva, who had a right rear flat.) We went through the pack -and FAX: 526.426.5294 see our complete product line at www.neasyntheticail.com Page 28 Brothers Leonardo and Alejandro Navarette teamed up in (heir Class 9 car to take the win, six minutes ahead of the second place car. didn't even get the green flag, 1 Entry, No Finishers we were so late." They beat CLASS 11 SPORTSMAN the Pimentels by three 2 Entries, 2 Finishers minutes,· so Arturo's "pit" Carlos Ramirez in the stops had had to be pretty "Sombrero" Bug was second. fast. Or,the Pimentels were 1. Joel Cervantes, 6:21:24; slow; they lost the left front 2. J. Carlos Ramirez, 6:40:54. shock bolt -and were very SAFARI SPORTSMAN lackadaisical to do anything 11 Entries, 4 Finishers about it. · Not only did winner and 2. Churu Honold, 6;13:46; class champ Ricardo Cons M . 2. Hector Pimentel, 6:16:16; finish all of the Safari miles 3. Jose G. Cervantes, 7:06:52. of all the six 2000 Code races, CLASS 5-1600 he won the Safari class each SPORTSMAN and every time. In this race, 10 Entries, 8 Finishers where everybody was 1. Jose A . Soto, 4:53:39; 2. expected to go the full 190 Arnulfo Lopez, 4 :55:48; 3 . miles, Cons was the fortieth Rene Prieto, 4:58:51; 4. Juan vehicle. Carlos Paramo, 5:07:30; 5. Luivan Voelker's "Pitoloco John Ledezma, 5:29:45; 6. Racing" #40 limped in to Sergio SHva, 6 :34:46; 7. Saldana with a broken left Evaristo Nunez, 6:58:50; 8. rear arm. Pit c aptain ~ob Arturo Montano, 8: 10:29. Olivei; spent hours tacking, CLASS 7 SPORTSMAN patching and doubling ... it was such a nice job that he shoulda done the right side, to9. T hey run a Rabbit motor with an exposed timing belt: · Palos Verde limbs = timing ch ange, anyo n e ? Armando Cota was piloting an old Hi-J umper. 1. Ricardo Con s M., 5:04: 11; 2. Jose Luis Sanchez, 6 :09: 10; 3 . Armando Cota, 6:44:48; 4. Luivan Voelker, 6:53:25. EL CHISMOSO Tech-Talk Tech P&G'd all displacement-limited cars and checked the plates on the "1600s"; there were no issues. Cash Back AGRO won $400 from KC for their 5-1600 win for "using" HIDs and-got a total of $630. The S a n Felipe CofC anted up several thousand U.S. dollars, which was split evenly for all Pro class winners. The two "Overalls" won an extra $500 and in any Sportsman class with at Least three entries the finishing winner got back the $150 fee. 2000 Class Champions Overall Pro: Marcos Nunez 5-1600 -"Kiosko" Overall Sportsman: Jose Angel Soto./5-1600 -"Mt Campoy Yo" In Memoriam # 1605 Randy "Bo" Anderson. The Mechanics Championships were based on the season point totals from all racers in all classes: Engines: Lalo Mayoral U!!iie What The Pra!!ii U!!iiel March 2001 Dusty Times

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Racing Express. Transmissions: Federico Montes Transmisiones. Vehicle Prep: Lalo Mayoral Racing Prep. · PRO CLASS 1 2 Entries None qualified (Note: competitors must enter at least three events to be considered for series · points.) PRO CLASS 10 7 Entries 1. Elizandro Yee, 54; 2. "Doc" Raymundo Santos Del Prado, 30. PRO CLASS 11 13 Entries 1. Fernando Flores, 8 7; 2. Carlos Macklis, 77; 3. Alberto "Cerillo" Ortega, 65. PRO CLASS 1600 20 Entries · 1. Martin "Auto Stevens" Gonzalez, 94; 2. Pietro "VW Autopartes" Brassea, 84; 3. Cesar Cons Molina, 79. (Note: Brassea wasn't even racing in the "1600" buggy class until the second Code event, rather he was running his "5-1600" .) PRO CLASS 5 6 Entries 1. Gerardo "AP Labs'' Gonzalez, 87; 2. "Jimbo" Zinn, 32. . . PRO CLASS 5-1600 31 Entries 1. Marcos '.'Kiosko" Nunez, 121; 2. Allan "Agro" Gregory,-l21; 3 . Arturo, . "Tractorland" Cervantes/ Mike Jones, 87 . . (Note: Due to the "throw-Dusty Times away" rule, Allan Gregory discarded, lost, three motor points - 9 vs. 6 -than Overall Champ Nunez. With their subsequent points tie, Marcos won the Overall by virtue of his three class wins compared to Gregory's two. So it goes.) PRO CLASS 7 17 Entries 1. Alberto "Gova" Go n z a 1 e z, 6 8 ; 2 . Tito Buendia and Luis Navarro, ATV Open Sportsman Class, took the Adolfo Arellano, Adolfo Arellano, Jr., and Miguel Arellano took turns lgha c io "Ta lier win, and were first to ride thr9ugh the inflatable Tecate finish line arch. on their Open Lara" Pereda, 61; 3. Jesus "FraNfer" iFernandez, 82. SPORTSMAN Mendez, 40. SPORTSMAN CLASS 1 CLASS 5-1600 (Note: The Ignacio team ·1 Entry 24 Entries was pumped: "Pretty good for 1 Raul Montiel, 43 . 1. Jose Angel Soto, a bunch of rookies!") SPORTSMAN CLASS 10 104; 2. Arnulfo Lopez, PRO CLASS 7S 5 Entries 80; 3. Mateo Pabloff, 14 Entries 1. Roberto Romo, 66. 78. l. La Familia Duron, 93; 2. SPORTSMAN CLASS 11 SPORTSMAN Pedro Mercado, 48; 3. Dave 5 Entries CLASS 7 Ahles/Steve "No Mas" Moore, 31. 1. Juan Carlos Ramirez, 85; 3 Entries (Note: If Ahles had elected 2. Joel Cervantes, 71. 1. Francisco Romo, to start the Mex-a-SF race he SPORTSMAN CLASS 39. probably would have been 1600 SPORTSMAN Second in the series·.) 8 Entries CLASS 8 PRO CLASS 8 1. Javier Pacheco, 67; 2. 5 Entries 7 Entries Cosme Cardenas, _ 25; 3. 1. Emilio l. Armando Bravo, 56; 2. Gustavo Rodriguez, 23. Rodriguez, 43. Jorge Luis Ramirez, 38. SPORTSMAN CLASS 3 SPORTSMAN (Note: Gustavo "Empresa" 2 Entries CLASS 9 Coronado had 39 points but 1. Xavier Reyes, 48. 2 Entries only raced the final two (Note:_ Reyes' little Suzuki None qualified. events, to qualify the DoR has Samurai" also finished the SPORTSMAN to run three.) SCORE ''Baja 2000".) SAFARI PRO CLASS 9 SPORTSMAN CLASS 5 16 Entries 24 Entries 16 Entries l. Ricardo Cns M., 1. Alex y Leo "Rayos" 1. Vi2tor Herrera, 88; _2. 113; 2. Lorenzo Pedro PenatelloandJesusdela Rocha teamed up Navarrete, 116; 2. Juan Martin_ Lizarraga, 71; 3. Jose Dojaquez, 85; 3. totakethird·placeinthe250Probikeclass,finishing Mayoral, 86; 3 . Francis.co Cervantes, 47. Fancisco Delgado, 62. ■ only30secondsbehindsecondplace. Checkers Off-Road would like to thank the following co.mpanies foa;-their generous donations for our 2000 Award iom Koch_ Racing BP Promotions Best in the Desert SCORE · MORE_ WR Racing Trans Transaxle Engineering _ Dave Folts Transmission Fortin 76 Racing Fuel F & L Fuel VP Racing Fuel Sports Racing Gasoline McKenzie's Kar-Tek TCS PCI Dirt Pilot "Magazine Dusty Times ATL Chenowth Banquet Raffle -March 2001 Sign-Pros Sign Tech King Shocks _ Meandeola Racing Mirage Web-Cam Bilstein Shocks Beard Seats Lothringer Engineering Parker Pumper German Auto Terrible Herbst Gold Coast Hotel & Casino BF Goodrich Honda of No. -Hollywood Mickey Thompson Off-Road Advertiser JIMCO KC Highlites Super Boot Trackside Photo NHRA Museum Page 29 •

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• AMERICAN RALLY SPORT GROUPS Ramada Express Hotel-Casino International Rally 2000 By Rod Koch Photos: Bill Rogers John Gotcher and Rod Goyette, in a Mazda RX-7, took first in the Performance Stock class, 15th overall. Rhys Millen and Ken Cassidy, in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI, drove to the Open and overall win a full 10 minutes to the good. weather was great. Rhys Millen and navigator Ken Cassidy, pulled the Mitsu-bishi EVO 6.5 up on the starting ramp at the Ramada Express, and were first away, followed by Mike Whitman and Paula Gib-· eault in their Ford Sierra RS Cosworth. Many time Cali-fornia Rally Series Champ, Lon Peterson followed in the 2000 Subaru lmpreza 2.5RS Turbo with Bill Gutzman navigating. G~ry and I started mid-pack in the 26th spot. By 9:00am all teams were on their way. This year we were allowed Jean Calvin would have Dec. 14th, most of the 43 loved this event. It seemed teams entered, had arrived, to have an atmosphere and set up their pits and passed ambience that I haven't tech. inspection. Mitsubi-seen since the formative· shi, whose global involve-years of the Baja 1000. The ment in the world rally Laughlin Rally, as we com-championship and events petitors call it, just seems to like Paris-Dakar, takes this get better and ·better. This sport very seriously indeed. third annual event, with For this event they were Mitsubishi Motors as the backing Rhys Millen, racing presenting sponsor, showed legend, Rod Mille.n's son, in just what ral1y racing, a new Mitsubishi Lancer American style is all about. EVO 6.5. Then Mitsubishi Three full days of competi-gave each competitor and tion, 600 miles and scenic service crew an exact copy terrain that tourists travel of the 'EVO 6.5 that won from all parts of the world . the world rally champion-to see, beckoned to com~ ship in 1999, well that is an petitors. Whatever the re-exact scale model which. sults, ARSG promised it was included in rally bags would truly be an adven-along with numerous other ture. goodies. A nice way fm; Mit-Roger Allison and Ray subishi to say, welcome ral-Hocker, the guiding force lyists. behind American Rally To demonstrate what is Sport Group, and event special about rally racing, sponsor, The Ramada Ex-American style, ARSG in-press Hotel-Casino, went eludes all of the· national all out in greeting competi-rally classes plus, SUV, Vin-tors at the huge hotel park-tage and Pre-Runner ing lot where a fully en-classes. For those who .::losed tent large enough to wanted to get their stock accommodate registration, SUV's dirty but not in rac-and all of the contingency ing competition, th_e Ad-sponsors was located. By venture Rally 2000, span-early Thursday evening on sored by Falken Tire and --,------,-.,,---------,,,--------, Nick Taylor and Josh Armbruster,_ in a Toyota Corolla, tackle some of the mud on their way to taking first in the Stock class. Page 30 Magellan OPS systems, saw 14 hardy teams sign up to have fun and tour more se-date dirt roads using OPS coordinates. This was to be . a TSD fun type event that would parallel the Interna-tional Rally. . to· trailer the rally cars from Bullhead City in Arizona, the 120 miles to the start of Stage 1, Frazier Wells. At 6500' this stage was graded for the first three miles, with little snow, but lots of slippery mud and ruts. We hit 85 on some straights, but could only guess what speeds the fast 4-wheel drive rally cars were doing. Reading the road ahead, I could see narrow curves and snow going up into the hills. Rounding the first snow packed curves, w saw two sets of skid plates over the side of the ditch with tires pointing skyward. One was George Plsek's #7 Audi Quattro and the other, Mark Nelson and John Bellefleur's '99 Mitsubishi Lancer EVO Vl. No harm, except to bodywork and egos. Rhys Millen won that stage followed by Lon Peter-son. Lauchlin O'Sullivan and John Dillon in their '94 The International Rally was set to start at 8:30am Friday, Dec. 15th. The talk around the tent and im-pound area centered on the weather and what the teams could expect to encounter. We were to run the tough-est, technical stages up on the Hualapai Indian reser-vation at their youth camp area at the 7000' level on Friday.· Snow and heavy mud was expected along with cold temps. At the driver's meeting Thursday evening, Ray Hocker told everyone to expect difficult and challenging conditions on Friday's stages. Driver's were reminded that this was -· a full three day event, not a sprint race. To finish first, first finish!· · Mitsubishi Eclipse were third. Mike Whitman cap-tured the fourth spot with Tony Ghavez' Mitsubishi Galant VR4 in fifth. My navigator, Gary En-glish and I had run this sec-tion last year, encountering a couple inches of snow and below freezing temps. The '99 event had been a cold one as had been the first Laughlin rally in '98 .. We were apprehensive but de-termined to do our best. We had won the vintage class in '99, but this yea I was just hoping for a good finish. My old '67 VW fastback was the oldest car in the event, but a seasoned veteran like its driver and navigator. The "people of the tall pines", the Hualapai Indi-ans, must certainly be fa-vored by the gods or any-way, combined with the rally gods, as Friday morn-ing saw the sun shining and off to the North East, the clouds were gone and the March 2001 Stage 2, Elk Loop, aka, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, is one of the most technical stages I have yet seen. It's seven miles of logging area with stumps, cut down trees and lots of standing trees, with very tight curves and no straight-aways to speak of. Slick mud and snow added to the challenge. Did I mention it was about 40F. so melting show made the mud even more fun. About a mile into this stage, a sh arp right hand curve with heavy mud ruts, slung the VW off the road to the left. Delicately applying power and getting the front wheels straight, put us back on the trail. That ZF limited slip in the transaxle really worked. A big mud hole about one foot deep greeted us around the next bend. We took it straight on, launching the VW a foot OF so into the air. After that it was just sip and slide, until around Mile 5, Dave Turner in his Jeep Cherokee passed us on the right, on the one lane trail. His Jeep was sliding side-ways but 4-wheel drive kept him in control. Gary shouted, stump on left. I corrected just in time to miss the foot high by three feet in diameter stump. Turner was setting some re-ally fast times in that Jeep, finishing fourth overall on Stage 3 , but we heard he slid into a tree on Stage 4 and DNF'd. Too much speed, I guess. Rhys Millen won Stage 2 with Lon Peter-son close behind. Mike Whitman and Lauchlin O'Sullivan had third and fourth fastest times. A short service break fol-lowed, then Stage 3, Pros-pect Ridge. This was a tight twisty 10 mile stage with lots of snow which made it feel more like 20 miles. Lots of sharp rocks hid just u·n-der the two or three inches of snow which made for a rough, rough ride. Half way through, we were within 50 yards of the Grand Canyon . rim. No time to enjoy the sight, as the road took all the concentration I could give it, We passed several rally cars, that had slid over the side, usually stopping within a Jew feet of the road, but one car was block-. ing the road. Gary and I fig-ured we could climb the bank to the left, and would have about an inch to spare between the stuck car and a small Pinion Pine tree. We made it with a half inch to spare on either side and were off down the road again, slinging snow and rocks in a landscape that tended to blend the road in with the trees. Rhys Millen had to settle for second on this stage, as Lon Peterson made fastest time. Doug and Susan Robinson took third in their Mazda 3 23 GTX, with Dave Turner in fourth, and Mike Whitman in fifth. Stage 4, Laguna V alley, 14 miles long, started in the forest and was a roller coaster ride thru tight up and down hill curves with Dusty Times

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iT six inches of snow in many places. Careful application of power was the only way to go with 2-wheel drive. Too much and it was slip and slide off the road into the ditches. Coming out of. the forest, several miles of what was once smooth graded road greeted the drivers. It took full concen-tration just to keep the car in a straight line and avoid-ing areas of deep ruts was a real challenge. You had the feeling that if you stopped in this slime, only a set of chains would get you going again. We had the chains but fortunately didn't need them. The four wheel drive rally cars certainly had the advantage on this stage. However, Bob Pendergrass in his big Chevy Blazer 44x4 said he had an awful time trying to get traction. He had mounted all-terrain tires like m e , maybe mud terrains next time? Front wheel drive seemed to do well in this mud as about three miles before the fin-ish, Chris Burns and Steve Westwood in their Mitsubi-shi Eclipse Group 2 car, passed us and were obvi-ously in better control than we were. Man, I haven't seen mud like this since the '76 Baja 1000 when we had to run 20 miles of Laguna Salada south of Mexicali. One thing this stage did, was turn all of the rally cars one color, mud brown! Our Dave Coleman and Josh Jacquot, Datsun 510, still clean and pretty on the start ramp, won Group 2 finishing 9th overall. car number were totally il-legible by this time and at the next control, the work-ers had to ask what our numbers were. Bob Wager and Randy Sleep in the Pre-Runner class B a j a Bug, looked like a big chocolate drop. Bob and Randy now know why rally cars run mud flaps. Up front, Rhys Millen regained his lead and won the stage over Lon Peterson in second. Mike Whitma·n captured third quickest time with Doug and Sue Robinson in fourth and Paul Timmerman and Suzanne Martin in their Mazda 323 GTX finishing in fifth. A service break followed Stage 4, with the Hualapai 4H clubs serving lunch at the club house. Hualapai stew and indian frybread tasted mighty good after the last few hours of eating mud and snow. After getting their windshields as clean as possible, the rally cars took on the last two stages which were repeats of Stages 1 and 2, Frazier Wells and Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Rhys Millen continued his domination of the first day by winning both Stages 5 and 6. On Stage 5, Mike Whitman came in for sec-ond fast time, followed by Lon Peterson and then Lauchlin O'Sullivan. Doug and Sue Robinson held fifth fastest time and George. Plsek and Alex Gelsomino got their Audi Quattro go-ing again to take sixth best time on that stage. Lon Peterson took second fast PRE.CISION everything yau need ta build. maintain and operate a racecar Jim Gillaspy and Mick Kilpatrick drove their ex-Robinson RX-7 to first in Group 5, seventh overall. time on Stage 6, with Doug and Sue right behind. Lauchlin O'Sullivan came in fourth with Mike Whit-man in fifth. Before 8:00pm, most of the rally cars had returned to the Ramada· Express for the finish of Leg 1. After . crossing the finish ramp, printed provisional results were handed to each team. I think this is a first in American rallying. The re-sults for this first day showed that Gary and I now led the Vintage class as our closest competitor, Richard Byford and Fran Olson in the BMW 200 2 had prob-lems on Stage 4. One other car entered in both Vintage and Stock classes, and prob-ably the underdog of the rally, was the MOB GT of Keith Wheeler and Ken Lazarus. These.fellows gave it a valiant effort but suc-cumbed on Stage 3 with clutch problems. We had also moved the ancient VW from 26th starting position to 13th overall. All cars then headed back across the Colorado River to the two car washes in Bullhead City. Local residents were amazed at the amount of mud being washed off the rally cars. Food and drink greeted the rallyists back at the Ramada Express in the grand tent where tables and benches were set up. Quite a few teams were busy work-ing on their cars in the im-pound area near the tent as starting time for the next day's leg was set for 6:30am. Continued on page 32 i!B65 Gundry Ave. Signal Hill. CA 90B06 BDD.959. 7757 56i!!!.4i!!!7.i!!!375 · FAX: 526.426.5294 Bolts. Nuts and Hardware Sparco Seats. Steering Wheels. Suits and SaFety Equipment Crow Belts and Harnesses Bell Helmets . Spal Fans Fire Systems Silicone Turbo Hose Neo Synthetic Lubricants Aurora~ NHBB and FK Rod Ends Weldon Fuel and Oil Pumps Fresh Air Driver Ventilation Systems lntercomp Scales and Alignment Equipment Earl's. Aeroquip Ii. SpeedF/ow Stainless Braided Hose Ii. Fittings Fuel SaFe and Triangle Fuel Ce/ls Setrab. Long and Fluidyne Oil Coolers see our complete online cataloQ at .www.baker isian.cani Dusty Times March 2001 Page 31

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I Mark Nelson and John Bellefleur, Evo VI, rolled on Friday but won the Sunday sup(}rstage. Bob Wager and Randy Sleep, driving a VW powered Baja Bug, finished the rally, first in the Pre-runner class, 18th overall. Lon Peterson and f:Jill Gutzman pushed Millen hard, but succumbed to a broken transfTjission in their Subaru lmpreza. The next morning, rally cars parted with their ser-vice crews at Peach Springs on old Route 66, after a 90 mile transit from Laughlin. The service crews then had to transit 86 miles to Grand C anyon West for our .one and only service of the day. No chase crews and such allowed in this game. Gary and I left Peach Springs around 9:00am for the 25 mile transit down Diamond Creek Road to the Colo-rado River for the start of Stage 7. This is a 4000' de-cent thru the Grand Can-yon, very majestic and spectacular. We beat the A TC (Arrival Time Con-trol) crew down, but.found their marker and turned around for the 20 mile start of Stage 7, leaving enough room for the 12 cars start-ing ~head of us. The Hualapai weather gods were with us once more as lt was bdght sunshine and about 70F. Despite Friday's attrition rate, over 30 cars showed to take on Sunday's stages. Rhys Millen and navigator, Ken Cassidy were first on the road fol-lowed by Lon Peterson and Bill Gutzmann just two minutes and 26 seconds behind an overall time. Mike Whitman and Paula Gibeault were in third, with Doug and Sue Robin-son in fourth. Paul Timmerman and Suzanne Martin were fifth on the road withJonathan Ryther navigator, Robert Moe and Janice Damitio in an-were driving a Subaru Im-other Subaru lmpreza in preza and were running sixth. Lauchlin O'Sullivan seventh in the 4-wheel held seventh spot with drive Open class. Roger Hull and Michael Our old VW loved this Taylor in their Eagle Talon stage with a wide dry road in eighth. Ninth to start of rocks and gravel criss-was Keith Roper and Ray crossing the wash and even Damitio in their Mitsubishi -going uphill, 90 in fourth Galant VR4. The fastest gear was seen in a couple two wheel drive car had the of sections. We heard Rhys 10th starting spot, a vener-was over 110 in places. able 1971 Datsun 510 Severalmilesintothestage driven by Sport Compact we saw Chris Burns and the Car magazine staf( mem-Eclipse off to the side. Not bers, Dave Coleman and too much farther on, we Josh Jacquot. Gary and I came upon our Calif. Rally were relieved that they Series buddies, Lon Peter-were in Group 2 and not son and Bill Gutzmann. the Vintage class. Chris Their Subaru trans had Burns and Steve Westwood called it quits. They gave us in their Group 2 Eclipse the traditional CRS salute had 11th start with Jim as we blasted by. I hope Gilluspy and Mick Harris got it on film. Rhys Kilpatdck in the Mazda Millen and Ken Cassidy . RX7, 12th on the road and took this stage by a minute first in Group 5. and a half over the Ford Si-Just before· Rhys Mille·n erra of Mike Whitman and started, movie writer and Paula Gibeauit. But director, Harris Done Lauchlin O'Sullivan and landed in his film crew he-John Dillon were only one licopter then quickly took second behind Whitman. off to catch the fast action Doug and Sue Robinson on these very fast Leg 2 came in fourth spot with · stages. Harris, a fast rally George Plsek and Alex driver himself, was fulfilling Gelsomino in the slightly his personal dream of ere-dented Audi Quattro at a ting a rally movie. fifth fastest. Speedvision, will air the Stage 8, 19 miles in film early in 2001. Starting length, started just a just behind us was another couple of miles south of movie producer, Bruce PeachSpringsoffoldRoute Brown. Remember, "On 66. This stage was hard Any Sunday", and "Endless packed dirt with loose Summer"? Bruce and his gravel on top, but generally Do Nore Than Just Hdck Up Dirt! wide and extr:emely ~st in enough tricky sections areas. Also tricky in ~ome which caught several cars sections. The VW's speed-going over the side in the ometer pegged at 110 on '99 event. Not to mention one long straight section in the heard of cows off to the fifth ge a r , but we later -right of us as we came into heard tha t Harris Done's a small valley at about 80 helicopter clocked Mike mph. All the rally cars were Whitman a t 130 and 'Rhys supposed to have deer Millen a bit faster. A half whistles installed. I guess mile before the finish, we they were working as the were overtaken by Chris cows stayed off the road. Acker and Pete Morris in Out of the valley and back Chris' nicely prepped '98 into some low hills, Gary Ford Mustang. The Mus-called out an acute left tang had trouble in the , turn coming up in three mud and snow, but it sure tenths (of a mile). I'd liked these fast stages. Pete dropped into third but sec-said they were hitting 125 ond would have been bet-on this stage. In perspec-ter. This was the acute left tive, Gary and I turqed in turn immediately followed a reasonably_good time of by a tight and twisty down · just over 16 minutes, Rhys hill off camber section that Millen had fast time of just caused Chris Wilson's '99 under 12 minutest The R::ij::i 1000 Cl::iss 8 winning Mustang came in just un-truck to go off last year. I der 15 minutes. However, luckeq out,.as the VW held second best time turned the road and thank God I out to be Lauchlin O'Sul7 have a low third gear and a livan in the older Mitsubi-very torquey Type 4 -VW shi Eclipse at 12 minutes motor. The rest of the stage and 36 hundredths. Mike went well for us. Rhys Whitman was some 12 sec-Millen however, had to onds behind for third, and settle for third fastest time Roger Hull in his Eclipse as Mike Whitman won the took fourth overall time in stage by 10 hundredths just over 13 minutes. Rhys with Lauchlin O'Sullivan Millen now had a comfort-just three hundredths of a able overall lead of some 12 minute behind for second minutes over Mike Whit-fast time. George Plsek and man, bu,t the rally was far the Audi took fourth fast from over at this point. time just 16 hundredths be-Stage 9, about nine miles hind Millen. long started with a medium Stage 10 was an 18 mile width road, nicely graded romp with lots of changes in and fast. But this stage had the road surface and al-' With 7 6 -Rac•na Gasol•ne Page 32 Win free 76 Racing Gas for the 200 Season! One en tty fur 1;:ich ?.5 g..ilh,ns of 10 100 m 110 Octani. 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. ',i,,.: .... .... . ·,. ~. ·' ,· .. ~,~ Mike Whitman and Paula Gibeault, in a 4WD Ford Sierra, finished Rod Koch and Gary English, in a '67 VW Fastback had the oldest car Lauchlin O'Sullivan and John Dillon (L) dice with Doug and Sue second overall, and second in the Open class. . in the rally. Won the Vintage Class, and were 12th overall. Robinson through the Laughlin event park. Both cars finished well. though it had a good many had my sun visor and it re-2 winning Datsun 510 and raising money for the Whitman's Ford Sierra fast straight sections they ally worked. Running di-Group 5 winning RX7. nearby Boys and Girls Cosworth by several car tended to turn into tight and reedy into the sun did slow However, we still had an-Club. Mitsubishi matched lengths. Mark Nelson and technical to medium fast me down a bit, but we other day of racing left to every donation, raising John Bellefleur's EVO 6 sweeping turns. With only didn't put a wheel wrong· go. over $3,000.00 for the that rolled on Friday, was one stage left after this one, on this stage. About six Sunday's SuperStage Club. This gave the drivers now running fine and was I drove conservatively, miles into the stage, we would bring the rally action a chance to check out the teamed against George knowing that Gary and I had spotted Paul Timmerman's to Laughlin's special events course and have a good Plsek and Alex the Vintage class sewed up Mazda 323 off the road, arena located about two time doing it. My vintage Gelsomino's Audi. It was and probably running third rolled but back on its blocks west of the Ramada VW seemed popular and I great action and the crowds or fourth fastest 2-wheel wheels. This was a serious Express. The same· area think I covered t course six. loved seeing these power-drive, which was way cool roll, but although he .may where SCORE presents the times with different specta-ful rally cars going against for us, if we didn't break or need a new car, no-one was Laughlin Leap and off road tors including one 10 year each other wheel to wheel. make any driving errors. We hurt. Halfway thru, with race start/finish. Jay Dea-old boy who, after his ride The EVO q took the Audi completed the stage in just the sun down but still too con from ARSG, again did said, "You guys must sure on this run but. their sec-over 21 minutes. Rhys light to use our lights, and an outstanding job of ere-have fun doing this;" I nod-ond run, it was the Audi Millen took fast time again pockets of dust lying in the ating the two lane parallel ded an emphatic, yes we out ahead by just a car in just under 16 minutes. valleys, we saw lights ap-course of approximately 1.2 do! length. On their third run, Lauchlin O'Sullivan had proaching us from a quar-miles. The course winds Then the serious racing· Nelson's ·EVO edged out second best time in just over ter mile behind. We held thru part of the canyon and began. A number of cars Plsek's Audi, again by one 16 minutes with Mike Whit-the lights off for a couple sandy wash with sweeping that DNF'd oh Friday or ~ar length. Although Rhys man in third at 16 minutes of more miles, but the ca moderate curves to S bends Saturday were allowed to Millen continued to domi-and 36 hundredths. George was gaining on us and was and a few very sharp acute continue and ran in the nate the first three stages Plsek had fourth fastest time obviously faster to have turns. At the North end, SuperStage. Each car was with fastest times, on the at just over 1 7 minutes. gained the two minutes Jay included a quarter mile required to run the course last stage, Rhys had a mi-Nothing like having 4-wheel that separated us from the straight for some drag rac-twice in each direction for nor problem and Nelson's ·drive, around 300hp and a car starting just behind us. ing fun. Each rally car was a total of four timed stages. ~VO took fast time with light machine. After Stage I chose a rocky section of teamed with another, drag Rhys Millen and Ken Cas-Plsek in for second. 10, the rally cars coming off road to slow and let the car race style. An hour before sidy were matched with Back in the ranks, Gary the last hill towards Grand pass, in order: to minimize the start, and again during Mike Whitman and Paula and I were matched against Canyon West, were treated· · his dust. It was Ricardo· the midday break, specta-Gibeault. Millen's powerful that quick Mazda RX7 of to a beautiful view of the Porta in his fast Mazda RX7 tors could take rides with EVO 6.5 --showed its supe-Ricardo Porta and Steve hills and plateaus surround-with a bobbed rear end, their favorite cars and driv-riority to the crowds as he Jasik. We outdragged their ing the Grand Canyon. We making the car quite a bit ers for a $25.00 donation, {inished ahead of l:oritinueil on page-34 were all allowed an hour shorter than a stock RX7. break to refuel, repair and With no wind to speak of, have a great lunch at the it still took a while for his .Hualapai airport at Grand dust to settle. We contin-Canyon West. One hundred ued to have a good run, and fifty yards further on, despite the dust until about one could stand at the edge two miles from the finish. of the Grand Canyon and The route notes indicated view the splendor or watch single caution ruts, but this the helicopters giving rides was a ditch cut clear across and diving into the depths of the road. We hit hard but the canyon. Now that has to the VW settled back down be some cool ride. with no apparent damage. The last stage, Stage 11, I noticed a pull to the left would be the last three side which was becoming stages (8, 9, 10) run in re-worse as we approached the verse, nonstop, for 47 miles finish. We pulled into the of the longest stage in the control arid found just a U.S. The tricky part would flat front tire. A quick be to keep concentration change and we were back for the duration of the on Route 66, transiting 40 stage and to constantly miles back to meet our ser-judge the changes in road v~ce crew. Most of the rally surface. In other words, try cars were back at the not to put a wheel wrong. Ramada Expres·s by One other slight problem 7 :30pm; Printed Provi-arose as Gary and I mo-sional results showed that tored up to the start of this Rhys Millen had taken stage. That nice sun that Mike Whitman on the last had been shining all day stage by over two minutes. and warming up the stages, He also led Whitman in was now setting into the overall standings by 10 East, the directidn we were minutes. Lauchlin O'Sulli-to run in. It would be im-van was in third, another possible to drive into that four minutes behind with sun, along with the dusty Roger Hull in fourth over-road conditions and try to all some seven minutes be-keep the Vw on the road. hind Lauchlin. We had about four minutes Gary and I were pleased to fin a solution before our to learn that we were again start. In Baja engineering the Vintage class winners style, I told Gary to rip off for the second year in a row the back cover of our route as well as 12th overall and notes and give me the duct the third fastest 2-wheel tape. In another minute, I drive car behind the Gr-oup Dusty Times ·RACERS PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT WITH. PHYSICAL DAMAGE INSURANCE FOR YOUR OFF-ROAD RACING VEIIlCLES Call the experts at Michael E. James Insurance Agency. We can satisfy the insurance needs of all off-road racers. Physical Damage Insurance for Race Vehicles Trucks Trailers Tools/Equipment EXA1"lPLE Liability Insurance for Special Racing Events Value of Race Vehicle $30,000 x 3% = $900 Annual Premium $1,000 deductible Coverage -for fire, theft, V &M:r-.1, limited physical damage protection March 2001 Call for free quote and details Michael E. James Insurance Agency 619-445-5797 Page 33

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Christopher Burns and Steve Westwood drove their Eclipse to 17th overall and 2nd in Group 2. George Pisek and Alex Gelsomino, in the Audi, lead Tony Chavez Keith Wheeler and Ken Lazarus, '68 MGB GT, slide through the muck, and Eddie Cardenas in the Ga/ant. Pisek rolled, Chavez hit a tree. heading for 2nd in Stock, 2nd Vintage. RX7 at each start but the Mazda was quicker in the sharp turns and a bit faster on the finish straight away. We did have him on the last stage, but going into the last acute left turn, he got me by a car length. So it continued with the other teams, until we all lined up for the parade back to the Ramada Express and· the Champagne· finish. Again crossing the start/finish ramp with out chequered flag mounted on the front of the VW, we were asked by John Periege, the voice of the rally, to say a few words, Gary and I con-cluded, "Well, it certainly was.one super adventure", as ARSG had promised. Despite the close in car racing on the SuperStage, the first 16 overall posi-tions remained unchanged. Adding up the fastest times for the three days, Rhys fourth in Open class as Goyette in another Mazda out to the winners along Millen and Ken Cassidy in well. Ninth overall and the RX7 as well as first in Per-with beautiful trophy the Mitsubishi EVO 6.5 second fastest 2-wheel formance Stock. Other plaques and contingency took a well earned overall drive car with a spectacu-creditable finishes went to awards. Mitsubishi pre-win and first in the Open lar drive went to the Dat-the 18th overall finisher, sented a special perpetual class. Mike Whitman and sun 510 team of Dave Bob Wager and Randy trophy to Rhys Millen and Paula Gibeault came in for Coleman and Josh Jacquot Sleep in the Baja Bug with Ken Cassidy with their a well deserved second who also won first in Group_ a well earned first in Pre-names on it and the names overall and in Open. 2. John Teeter and John Runner class. Nick Taylor of the overall winners of Lauchlin O'Sullivan and Forespring took the 10th and Josh Armbruster had the past two years. Mitsu-John Dillon captured third overall spot wfth a fifth in lots of adventures in their bishi then presented special overall and first in the GT Open class as well. Bruce Toyota Corolla but still .black leather "Dakar" jack-class. Fourth overall and Brown and Robert Moe wori. the Stock class and·· ets to each class winning second in. GT was Roger brought their 4-wheel drive 22nd overall. Keith driver and navigator. Hull and Michael Taylor. Subaru_lmpreza in for 11th Wheeler and Ken Lazarus Remember those Adven-Fifth overall and third in overall and sixth in Open did get the MGB GT going · ture Rally 2000 partici-GT went to Keith Roper class. Twelfth overall went again and although finish-pants? Falken Tire gave the and Ray Damitio followed to yours truly along with ing 24th overall, did take best finishers new sets of by sixth overall and third in first place in the Vintage second in both the Vintage tires for their SUVs and Open, Doug and Sue Rob-class. Ricardo Porta and and Stock classes. Twenty-Magellan let each team inson. The fastest 2-wheel Steve Jasik were 13th over-six cars were declared as keep their GPS units, plus drive car, the RX7 of Jim all and second in Group 5. official finishers. other awards were also Qillaspy and Mick The 14th spot went to Nick The Ramada Express given to these hardy adven-Kilpatrick took the seventh Korpal and Eric Schleicher hosted the awards presen-tures. All in all, it was not overall spot and first in in their Mazda 323 along tation at the hotel that just an adventure as prom-Group 5. 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WHIPLASH ··noUBLE OASIS TO oasis·· Brian Brown ··Hor· In Beach cou.ntry By Tony Tellier Photos: Trackside Photo # . . '{' .. , Glen Greer transplanted a Type IV motor into his Chenowth, and found himself in second place at the end of the day Brian Brown ran a flawless motored cars it was a gas hog. out. That was miserable!" Sonoran race in the V6 Toyot~ Class 8 "Terminator" Mark "Paul Kennedy and I had a Jimco by beating Glen Greer) Beeler ran to his victory at a fuel more eventful day in the bowtie hurried re-engined Type IV consumption rate of two miles V6. I blame Rick Geiser for Millennium,by over 36 minutes. per gallon: '.'There was too much jinxing me. A few weeks ago he As brother Ron said: "Brian had sand, plus I was driving by the oil asked how many flats I have had a great day in the.Toyota Jimco, temperature gauge." Don Kolt racing. I could only ·recall one, no down time, stopped for fuel made a tactical error, which occurred at the GRR once, and smooth sailing from magnanimously, nay foolishly, 'Buckeye 250'." (Q: Wasn't that there on." Recall the problems ·letting Beeler by, then spent the almost lb years ago.?)_ that Johnny Herder had in this rest of the day right on his tail, '<This race we had three flats same car? Ancient history? eating old Ford dust. There were resulting in four tire changes, all Some sort of vague land nine Class 8s; attrition ate up rears. The first occurred at 50 dispute or a running wash that 66% of them. A smooth Jeff miles. Paul and I changed that changed the course boundaries Wells (for a change) - Class 10 -one ourselves. We then stopped or different property ownership was without four minutes of the at the industrial park (sic) for a or some such mumbo-jumbo had third place Brown/Kennedy V6. new rear tire. During these stops forced a last minute change of Note that Wells is the Overall Glen Greer, Jesse Jones, and a the start from the Sonora 2000 Points Champion. Sonoita couple of '10' cars passed by. By bullring, south of the Arizona hot shoe Hector "Pacho" Garcia the time we got back to the main border, down to the Rocky Point took care of the "1600" race, in• pit we had caught the '10' cars "Oasis Bar and Grill." Whatever. spite of an ill-timed personal and Jesse. Greer was ·in the pits The "Point-to-Point" now had "pit" stop. when we arrived." no "point" at all. Pros rac d two There were 41 Pros with 18 "We fueled and Rick noticed 11 7 miles around a clockwise finishers; 10 Sportsman and only that our new rear was going flat loop. The Sportsman got off easy five finished. There were no "5-so they changed that and Greer this time, doing only one. If that. 1600", "7", "11" nor "7S" entries. got out of the pits ahead of us. The course ran portions of the Hint, hint. We caug}:,.t him on the fence line original route backwards so that PRO 1 whoop road and passed him. the high speed Well Road, rather 5 Entries, 4 Finishers Shortly after that we passed than providing respite after the "What can I say abut the 'P-Phillips along the side of the dreaded sand whoop section, to-P' race", reported Ron Brown? track. Now only Brian was ahead rocketed the racers into the "Other than that Brown Racing of us. We stopped for fuel again worst part of the desert while the missed a 1-2 overall finish by four at the. ind us tria 1 park ( we cars were packed bumper-to-· seconds. Oh well... it was a fun couldn't make a full lap on one du~t. In addition to being an race course, except the whoops tank so we had to splash some en gine eater for the small along the fence line 30-40 miles gallons both laps), and then ~-------------------------~ Jeff Wells ran hard all day to win both the Class 10 race and the overall season championship. headed for the finish." "But our excitement was far from over. We were on the race track paralleling the Caborca Highway and traveling at 100 mph (we know because a pickup was pacing us). About 1/4 mile from the road crossing, and at speed, we blew out another rear tire. The car stepped out and started fishtailing. It was an intense few seconds but we got it stopped. The guys that were passing us stopped and helped us change our fourth tire and put the front spare on the rear. After we got going we were taking it easy as we were only eight miles from the finish and did not want to blow out the front spare we had put on the rear. We finished with Greer 26 seconds behind us (on a 30 second start) to take · away Second Place. Heartbreaking ... " "We were cleaning up the race cars today and I found a hole in the side o·f the distributor cap on the two seat car. When I removed the cap, the rotor fell off. Apparently the screws, which hold the rotor down, came out, and one was pushed through the cap. I guess it's lucky we finished at all." "Upcoming for Brown Racing: We are going to run the (winning) Jimco at Laughlin and the two seater at Parker." Greer had to pull out the ailing Scat V4 powerplant and successfully transplanted an old Type IV resurrected from some old Foddrill bone yard. John Phillips (Sr.) soloed in the Geiser-supported NGM Jimco and had a flat right rear: "I even changed it myself. We changed to a bad spare then to a good spare. I lost the crank trigger which cost some time. We had tweaked the rev limiter from 6K up to 6,5000." 'Bert Wood reportedly had a (not very rare) computer failure on the stock Subaru flat six for a DNF result: Did Not (Get) Far. "This was the third time that these Electromotive units have failed at a race! We replaced the stock computer and got more power but ... I knew something was wrong right off the start. I could only pull '55' then it started to 'Pop'. Then it quit." The Buckeye Boys take their racing very seriously and this trip to the trailer does not set well. Wood also noted the enormous lead time for speed parts: "We've been waiting for a set.of cams for months." PRO 10 9 Entries, 4 Finishers Tucson's favorite son, Jeff Wells, ran on the rev limiter all day long and took home an important class win with just enough points to become the Whiplash Overall Champion. Ronnie Dalke laughed and told the usual "I was winning until" story. "Milt Moore and- I were first off and Charles Lathrem caught me at the Well Road but he couldn't make the pass until the fence posts along the dunes. He checked out and said 'later'. (Charlie-Joe Lathrem would eventually move way up into second overall behind Brian Brown but would not finish the lap.) "I ran with Greer", Dalke continued, "then lost third gear at RM80 on the first lap. Now, I remembered that Jim Taggart had won the last two Rocky Point races without third so I figured that I could do OK, too, for the points, at least. I just up-shifted and held it wide open in fourth. Wells caught me by the 'old cars', like near the 'Big Tree', then Kuker's Toyota went by at the Caborca Highway, then Mike Sulgar. His tranny let go after his gas stop." "I stopped to change the tranny with Milt, Don and Noel helping; I figured that I would get some of the cars back. And I was right. Zizzi, that new guy, in the blue and yellow Raceco, was stopped, out of gas; Sulgar lost his tranny; and Ed Beard blew the motor at RM33 in the dunes. "I was running down Sulgar", Beard later said. "And then Sullivan really roosted me!" "Over The Top" Willie Cummins was "Off The Throttle" for no laps. PRO 1600 9 Entries, 3 Finishers Winner Hector Garcia Dave Coohman's Sportsman Unlimited Bug was in ill health, but better than the rest, taking the one-lap victory. Hector Garcia had help from his "Formula 1 class" pit crew, and took the win in the 1600 race by four minutes. actually "stopped to 'pee-pee' -that felt so good! I had to! It was so sandy. I had the last.start but had the lead starting the second {last) lap. The 'old man' (i.e., the seasoned Bill Krug) is a good Page 36 March 2001 Dusty Times

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Ron Brown had a bunch of flat tires, but still managed to finish in third Ron Dallke had to replace his transmission, but still managed to Steve Kuker's Toyota powered Class 10 car, always a threat, got him place in the Class 1 race. salvage a third place in Class 10. to the finish in second place, only six minutes out. driver. He moved over to let me "I swear. .. if I didn't ~h-av-e---"--Tb-a~d-~th~e~le-a~d~e-r_o_n_c_o_r-re-c-te-d~ti_m_e-.=,,-~A~d~a-m-s~had squeezed out two Report: by but still was on the gas!" luck I would have no luck at all. "Then the Well Ro'ad: First more race points they would have "During the race the first Hector thanked Tecate, Ventura Rocky Point is my fourth race in the radio died, then we hit the been the Whiplash Overall indication we had of (Brian Race Prep ofMexcali, the "Super this new car and I have yet to deep, deep sand. The car was Champion! · · Shugart's Honda CBR600-S" gas station in Sonoita, and the finish a race in it. You know what slow but still moving. Then all of PRO 3 powered 'Troublemaker') behind ubiquitous Martin Gonzalez. happened at Snowflake and a sudden I heard a loud 'Bang' 3 Entries, 1 Finisher us was of him passing us while Garcia h;:ts already made his mark Holbrook ... but we also went up and blue smoke pouring out of Winner Tom Swanson: "It ·gesturing something like we were as the man to beat in the Code to Vegas to race the SNORE the rear of the car. I knew our was rough for us; along the fence 'Number One' in his book, or Corp races in Mexicali, so his win 'Reserve 250'. We had two flats, day was finished. So we broke out line; the silt was worse than ever. something. Five or six miles here was of little surprise. They ill-handling suspension, and, oh the food, the smokes and parked. My tranny gauge only goes to 250 down the road we saw a black actually said that, next time, they yeah, a roll-over. We did finish our ass in the sand to watch the and we buried the needle. We column of smoke on the horizon. would change tires between the that race but not officially since rest of. the race. And since our carried some water to cool the As we approached we made out sand and the firmer soil sections: we came in after the time limit radios died, I had no way of coolers then used Gatorade: his car. (I was in the process of "We have 'Fl':class pit ·crews!" had expired." . letting my crew know what had However, the motor ran like a closing in on AC Commons in He got $710 US. "And now Rocky Point, which happened. So Gus Valenzuela, top; it never went over 180. We another Class 3 when this· all Frank Rascon's "Fortuna is one of my favorite races. We my co-driver, and me spent about gave a '10' car some gas. It was came about.)" Wash Special" was leading Pacho were doing great. We started . six or seven hours out there." · the. ~lue and yellow (Zizzi) car. "AC stopped and gave him and Krug at the railroad but ninth (dead last in class). I "I want to thank the white We can actually get 33 gallons his extra fire extinguisher. The would soon 'blow' the motor. caught and passed the eighth-Ford F-350 that pulled us; Ed out of our JO-gallon cell. We had driver (as reported by AC) was Frank turned his one lap way starting car within the first mile. Beard, and that 'Troublemaker' some driveline vibrations but ·1 very excited (!) and ran around faster than the other ~'1600s", Then we passed the seventh and motorcycle car out ... The truck can't see anything wrong right AC's Bronco truck a few times right? Krug had a fine race with sixth cars at RMS and 15, thatpuJled us out all at once on now. It's a John "Dir Trix" Dyck before he found the spare a couple of strong laps, the last respectively. When we had come a 'train'." motor -550 horsepower. I· had extinguisher. I pulled up and my one was even quicker than through the Well .Road check James Adams was wobbling on lots of bump steer and wheel co-driver readied our sole fire Pacho's. point, my crew had told me that• the highway with a flat and was feedback." · extinguisher if (Brian) needed Mike Leung ( #1615) writes: I was only about a minute behind carrying no spare. Catch this, if The Scooby Firefighters · Continued on page 38 ~AN IJFF IIIMD ,oil Rl611IG· Northern California & Nevada P.O. Box 3362 Carson City, NV 89702 (775) 246-5545 Fax (775) 246-9089 All New.Promoter, All New Race Format Qualifying and Tire Changing Competition on Saturday 2 Motos Per Class Racing on Sund~y SEASON OPENER -March 17 & 18 -Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA ONE TIME ONLY $250 TO FIRST PLACE FINISHER OF 1-2 1600 CLASS!!! (Sponsored by Fasttrack Enterprises) $175 Pro Class; $125 Limit_!d _pro; $100 Sportsman y eteran; $50 Sportsman Novice; $50 Pilots SPRING SPECIAL -April 21 & 22 -Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA Dusty Times March 2001 Page 37 '•.

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Veteran Bill Krug brought his 1600 single-seat car to the finish in Team Arnold entered a four-seat play buggy with a NissarfV6 motor In the Pro Challenger class Ray Newton finished in second place, second place, only four minutes behind the winner. in the Sportsman 4-2 seater class, and took home the win. only 41 seconds behind the winner after two laps. 'clunking'. I looked over my out at RM34 then broke the pumped about fmally spendmg shoulder, started to smell oil, rear shock cross bar." AC moves enough money and time on his Using Gatorade as a coolant helped Tom Swanson get to the finish, and victory, in Class 3 in his Jeep. and noticed a four-foot flame in January to Florida's Hurlberg truck and that is now capable coming from the motor. So I AFB for reassignment. "I have of a win. Beeler beat him by 30 jumped out and put it out with plenty of leave and vacation seconds after 200 miles." Kolt: my fire extinguisher and as I time, I'll try to run a few races "Ifl had to do it again whenever took off my helmet· the next back here." That Florida off I see blue and yellow I'll floor thing I know is the car is on fire road stuff looks like 'Sippy Hole' it." Kolt, unfortunately, had let again and ·I had nothing left in mud hogger races. Beeler by who then "was not the extinguisher! My_ idea was PRO 8 going away." Next time, no to throw sand on the car but 9 Entries, 3 Finishers· more Mr. Nice Guy! that was doing nothing so all I Mark Beeler put in a good Danny Sullivan went could do was to hope someone first lap to cushion his race airborne for a paced-off 75 feet, was coming-and I was in luck!" against a full field of Geiser berm-to-berm-to-lid, at RM27 "Ummm ... the only thing is I vehicles. Beeler agre<!d with on his initial lap -at a zigzag on dunno who gave me the fire everyone else that "there was the soft part of the Well Road. extinguisher· so if you could, too much sand; I was driving by He hir-chhiked out in a gravel pleas~ help me. I have already the oil temperature gauge." The truck then got the truck pulled went out' and got another one Jesse Jones team gave fuel to back over by another local to replace his and I would like Beeler, as did Rick Wiseman's worker. "Do we have to replace to get it to him soon. I know it team. "I only got two miles per the divots?" (See the was a white Class 3." gallon", Beeler exclaimed. "We embarrassment, and other it. AC continued on down the car wa_s running great! "On another note about used 50 gallons per lap. Coming sights, at http:/fhome.off-course so we started to take off, Within the first mile I had 'Troublemaker' we have just off the mountain area, it was so road.com/-tonytellier.) but paused a moment to make already passed three installed the new Kawasaki fast. It was scary." The ebullient Dean Whitaker's driver Chris surethefirewasout.Thedriver ''Challengers'. At the first 1100cc and has yet to be Jesse Jones agreed and added Frederick (the brother of usual did not seem very confident in spectator spot I already had over tested." that "It was rough in spots." driver Aaron, who was busy fire fighting techniques, once 10 minutes on the second place "I didn't realize when we Cantina Tequila Chatter: DNFing in on a Pilot!), "was too we were sure the fire was out we competitor." stopped to assist that it was the *Mark Beeler: I never lifted!" slow" in his first "Black Thunder" took off down the course too, as "But at about RM3 2 I 'gestui;ing' car until Chad told *Jesse Jones: "If you had, we truck race," according to absentee fast as we could go down the noticed the car was getting. me after the race. We still would would have gotten you!" owner Dean: "They houred us fe·nce line (not very fast but hot ... then very hot and then have stopped." *MB: "That road around the out." The Strunk Family rough as hell)." the gauge pegged at 300. I knew AC: "The Bronco was · fence -get rid of that!" ' "Predator" put in a good race Brian Shugart: "On the 'P2P' something was wrong and as I running perfect to the *JJ: "We were smelling until a drive axle pulled out of fire,lhadgottenoffthelinean~ pulled over I heard a very fast 'Industrial Parque' but I g-ed something in the rear end(!), the splines. One wheel drive is ----•-------•---------------------------. at first it was 'Oh no! We holed not the hot setup for the beach TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING. INC SNORE 1999 TransaxleBuilder Of The Year Congratulations Wide Open Baja 2000 Competitors First Place Andrew Hassard-Elliott Forbes Robinson ~. """·· . ;•-,,.j·~ '• ,:4"'it ,l ~: ·. 1 ~ . , . Jay Culbertson-Chuck Springs 8 cars, 8 transaxles, 64 drivers/co-drivers 1 broken reverse-Not too bad, huh? Transaxle Engineering Jeff Field Page 38 818-998-2739 9763 Variel Avenue Chatsworth, CA 91311 March 2001 a piston!" sands of Penasco. *MB: "I got a flat at RM15. Keith Moore said that Brian We never got a flat from the Shugart's "Troublemaker" rocks in Nevada but got one burned up bad. "We stopped and here in the dunes. Go figure used AC's extinguisher and then that." (That flat put Mark back Scooby stopped. The little car to seventh at RM25.) looked pretty ugly." Moore *JJ: "Our OPS said we were reported running 60 along side going 115." the Caborca Hwy, off camber, *Jones' trusty sidekick Travis and mashed the gas and the truck Williams confessed: "We hit Jeff came around on him. Beeler was (Wells) twice; we got tan '10' paced at 75 in that soft stuff. paint on the bumper to prove it. Moore and Bill Baranko had We had a seven minute pit but "a" flat rear ... four flats on the still averaged 58 to '102'." first lap. "We ran out of gas but Beeler's new passenger Tom it was along the highway so we Lake is rebuilding an old filled from the chase truck. The DirTrix "1600" car. "It's the old fence line in the back section was · Rich Roberts car -now with so soft ... the oil temperature went Kings (who doesn't have a set?). up to 240 so I shut it down and .We went 96.7 mph. It was fun, waited for it to cool. We aired except for the flat tire - I had to down the tires. Later we had to toss (drinking) water on the go slow with the tires down so cooler behind me. When the much. We were outa tires, outa gauge went past 190 that gas, outa oil." Bill said that "the dropped it by 20 degrees! The race was a lot of work: I had to oil temp went way up toward get inn out almost 50 times!" 300." !! The Dan Winters Report: Mark's B2K race was weird: "The Predator had a good race "I rode right seat for 138 miles in Rocky Point. It ran among the from the start then drove for . 'Eights' most of the first lap. 430 more - 2 7 hours -to Bay of Bucky reports that he just wanted L.A. -through Nuevo Rosarito to stay in contact with the leaders -and the silt!" In a DeNunzio-and make a lap so he could race supplied Class 3 from the last 100 miles. His plan was Oklatucky. You can take a boy foiled near the 100 mile mark of out of a CJ but you can never Lap 1 when the Sandy Cone rear take the CJ out of the boy! nd malfunctioned.I use the term Kolt: "It was brutal, brutal. I "malfunction" loosely. The rear had a flat but that was in the end was sold to us wfth the wrong pits. We beat ourselves to the axles and one side came out of wall." Mike Doherty wrote that: the hub and quit driving. Rather "Scoob says that Don Kolt is than risk further problems Bucky Dusty Times . T

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Oaniei Allen ran a pair of evenly paced laps to finish third in the Challenger class with his two-seater. It was his first race after recovering from a broken back, and Dave Raimonde brought his Chevy home in third place. Mark Beeler thought there was too.much sand, and so did his Ford, getting only 2mpg, but they won Class B. came in on the Highway to race again. The problem has been assessed and is under repair as I write." "Don Kolt told me today that he followed the Predator for 50 mils and couldn't pass it. He said it seemed to work well. Don said he. had a couple of opportunities but when he got right up behind it Bucky shut the door and he just stayed back until Bucky stopped for fuel. Number Two is being finished and will be at Parker." The Rick Geiser Report: "The only '8' we don't do is · Doherty's!" laughed Ricky. "We redid Kolt's front suspension, remounted the motor and put in a 'rocker' cross-over steering." For Keith Moore we did the front ·then made the rear arm assemblies and all that junk, which he installed himself. And a sway bar after (his roll-over at) Snowflake. Danny Sullivan? We did everything you can imagine. Yes sir. The cage, new body - a full face lift. Jesse Jones - we did Oh, yeah, we're working on Rick a lot and gave it a good race prep. Thomas' old "Otterberg" '8', For Rick Wiseman we did too." We just sent 'Arnold' out everything from new motor the door on a 'Reliable Trucking' mounts to a fuel cell to the new flat bed. Larry'll race at Parker." aluminum work." Jesse Jones: "I "The ,much-expected new drove Wiseman's truck and ifhe John Herder Trophy Truck will can drive at all he should put laps be tested this Friday and we hope on the rest of us. The truck is so to have several 500 mile runs on fast." (Too true, Rick's first lap it before Laughlin. I ain't telling was six minutes faster than anybody where we're testing. No Mark's.) Wiseman reportedly way. Pete Sohren called and I broke a crank. told him 'You ain't goin'. Your "For Sullivan we went off the brother ain't goin'. You dad ain't existing mounts; for Wiseman it goin.' Darland said that 'Well, I'll was all our own deal. Dave be offended if I can't go'. 'Well, Raimonde's (CWI) truck was a you'll have to be offended, then,' bare frame when we started. We I told him. No riff-raff!" did everything, even the wiring. · "Vosburg's new pre-runner is This race was Dave's first try after 'close' and the Jeff Darland Clan breaking his back in Nevada; to is getting a Jimco with a Chevy see if he could, physically, do it, V6. Want an '8'? Send me · take it. And he had no pain, no $50,000 and we'll have it ready problems." And was a third place by August!" Maybe ... better finisher., "Eight" than never, I ·guess. "On Gary Dirck's "7" we redid PRO 9/Challenger the front, the back put in new 4 Entries, 3 Finishers coolers and added a sway bar. Paul Matthews pulled the VW Congratulations to Baja 2000 Class Champions: Class 10 Class 12 Class 5 Mike James FAT Type IV Class 1 0 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 MDR: Class 1 Class 10 CORR: out of the hat with a 40 second S P O R T S M A N squeaker over Sgt. Pepperspray UNLIMITED 1 · Newton. Todd Ford was 4 Entries, 1 Finisher ignominiously DNFed on the Dave Cookman's VW was trailer with a flat left rear. shooting ducks and sounded as if VINT AGE PRO (over 12 it had no second gear. He lucked years) out as the other three cars were 1 Entry, 0 Finishers DNFs. . SPORTSMAN LIMITED SPORTSMAN 4-2 SEATER 2 Entries, 1 Finisher 1 Entry, 1 Finisher Duane'Davenport ground to a Arnold's four seat play buggy, stop along the Caborca · Road with a junk yard Nissan V6, had with a silted-up distributor then the nets zip-tied in the first race was dusted by a hard-charging on the car. Novice Arnold was Greer. The old Woods car got the top Sportsman by over an running and Davenport finished hour over Cookman. his first race. . EL CHISMOSO SPORTSMAN 10 Cholla Bay Sign Of The 2 Entries, 1 Finisher Times Jack Farmer is in that "Tir Chop" McMillin-liveried car but can't POINTED COMMENTS seem to work the same magic Whiplash's point system that the Corky Clan wields. Jack works well, except in multi-lap, is fit to be TY-ed. GP-style events. After all, what SPORTSMAN TRUCK describes a "finish" or an MX 1 Entry, 1 Finisher course? How· many laps is a Grant Wilson bounced his "finish"? All? A percentage? stick-shift Bronco to a finish. Some? 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TECATE/ZR PROMOTIONS SANTA VERONICA GP Escobar #9 from Ensenada, Mexico took away D avid Romero's unbeaten three in a row wins, both racing in Suzukis. Mariano Jr. defeated the rest in both heats to take · home the first place leaving Samuel Montalvan #3,.in porte d n o t having a n y trouble only that Wilson was with no doubt way too fast, this in the Open class for Pros. Wilson and Salas Take The overall In 125cc Pro the young Jua n M anuel Vega #19a (D eposito C apistrano # 1) took first place in D aniel's Avilea Honda. He struggled on the last turn to get to the finish line, because he was stuck in the famous rock where many others got stuck. H e said there was a 125 from one of the Novices blocking his way out, and he had to help them move it out of the way. In second another kid, a more grown up kid Cam-eron Corfman (Threat Rac-ing, Pro Choice .Graphix) took the crowds' cheers when he passed through the finish line. Corfman, who is 10 years old raced on his KTM SX 65cc which he should have raced on the kid's track, but earlier that day when he saw the. big track he asked his father's permission to go over the track, and he rode ·the track successfully and ended up where his father had told him. After having gone three By Rene Manteno & Misael "LALO" Franco Juan Manuel Vega (19) was the winner in the 125 Pro class, and Francisco Iniguez (88) took the honors in 125 Expert at the ZR Promotions Santa Veronica Gran Prix. With a . very technicaf ground~ of the hotel "Haci-track of six miles approxi-enda Santa Veronica", seven mately Ron Wilson·#2x., mile_ssoutho(theTECATE-wins the overall in motor-MEXICALI, freeway as you. cycles once again, this time come in through ~M.98 and in 'the fifth round of the-the-village "El Hongo". To TECATE ZR PROMO-get to the track the road is TIONS, · series and so did quite slow, but all the haz-Arturo Salas # 10-, in the ards are rewarded when you Quad divfsion in Tecate, actually get to the track and Baja Mexico. · .. _ experience a sense of nature The track is located in the in the woods and it is also Page 40 ProSeat Mandated by g PROTRUCK RACING ORGANIZATION www.mastercraftseats.com second place and Francisco Photos: ZR Design Montalvan #6, in third place, both brothe r s of Tecate, B.C. They both raced on their brand n ew Hondas. In fourth place the kid from Mexi-cali Victor Jose Malo #7, and in fifth place the leader in " points in this class David . Romero, who changed his mechanic be-cause he was not pleased with him enough and in sixth the young Kesmian Campa from Jamul, CA. I n Class B (8 years Arturo Salas, from Tijuana, was the wfnnerin the Pro Quad old and »" division. Here he skims the ground past the odd structure under) , that gave spectators a great view of the racing. A 1 e x very entertammg. Cona #33 repeated The start out of this track his triumph from the is around the tower that is last two races. The used as an observatory, en-kid from Mexicali tering the woods from the runs in his Suzuki and west to go down south becomestheleaderin through the somewhat tech-points in his class. In · Continued en page 42 nical course, after the first second place Kristian half the course returns north ·Campa from Jamul, und'erneath the big trees CA and· the well where the fun actually be-known Ignacio gins. It is here where the Benchez #7 (Choral course passes through the Racing). who had an bed of a small dry creek only acci,dent on the sec-to go up a road full of cracks · ond heat in which he that were left behind after suffered a broken heavy rains of a few days be-· foot. In the girls class fore. You then pass over the Er,i.cka Muller (rom· topofabigrockuntilyouget Mexicali kept the _ to the place where many re-· first position. mained stuck. You then The big mo-come up to a big turn with a t ·o r c y c l e s big broken rock and exactly "Wally Jones" Jaime Sanoja applies aliffle English as he flies the jump on his way toward a third place in the Open Expert bike class on his 250cc Yamaha. in the middle of this road is #2x best where you get to the wide known as Ron open course. · Wilson took The event initiated with the overall in the race for kids within the the race with-series ZR KIDS. There were out any pres-two heats for motorcycles sure in his well and mini ATVs, beginning known Yamaha with the two wheel motor-400 for moto-. cycles in Class 60cc and cross. He even. 50cc. Erick Vela (Payco Spe-had enough cialties, Inc.), dominated time to stop Christian Marthiens oflmpe-and say hi to a rial Beach both on Kawasa-baby that was in kis KX 60s. On the 50cc Beto his mother's Berber Jr. (Vesacom, Preci-arms in the goal sion Concepts, Acerbis, zone. Wilson Thor) backstroked James (Acerbie, Ap-Shafer, who had previously plied Com; Pre-heat him on the first race of cision Con-the series. Shafer (Lazy Liz-cepts), with ard, Desert Fuel Stop, this win got his Cerveza Flats), raced on his third consecu-HM CRX while Verber raced tive first place. on his KTM Jr. Pro. In third Wilson left be-position came young Hector hind Edgar Es-Jarquin from Tijuana on his pinoza · # 7x Yamaha Peewee, this his (Sano ·Racing), first race in the series. who raced on The Mini Quads in Class his black CR A (ages 8 and up.), Mariano 2 5 0 and re -March 2001 Brian Salley, from Encinitas, California, on a 2SOcc Honda CR, took the win in the Veteran division (for riders over 30 years old). Dusty Times

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Tito Alvarez, who finished in second place in the Pro Quad class, is havin a ood season, leadin the quad points overall. Edgar Espinoza, who hails from Mexicali, rode his 250cc Honda CR Rafael Cabrera enjoys one of the smooth parts of the course here. He to second place in the Open Pro division. • rode his '87 250cc Suzuki to second place in the Novice Quad group. is response was 'yes' an w o is one of our sponsors his KLX 300. In second place, then he went where all the (NDESTRUCK Restaurant Samuel De La Torre #76x Pros were getting ready to Bar) Hector Garcia #Bx fell from Tecate, racing in his Su-race at the starting line. He back when his motorcycles zuki for the first time in the was next to Ron Wilson who, broke down. In the 125cc ex-ZR series. In third place the surprised, asked Corfman if perts, Francisco Iniguez leader in points In this class he had gone over the track. #88a Esteban Garcia # 140a Reynaldo Gonzalez # 11 x rac-ln the Open class the ex-(NDESTRUCK). ing his XR 400. And in fourth Joselito Muro, National City, California, bounds past some spectators on his 250cc '86 Honda Cuadra, heading for the victory in Quad Expert. pert Juan Angel Moreno #4x In the Vets category (30 place Ricardo Aviez #7x from from Tijuana took all the years and up) Brian Salley Tijuana on his powerful honors. Moreno (Angelica) #39v from Encinitas, CA Yamaha. In fifth place Jorge made a good race when he took the first place home, Antonio Perez #77 from En-had a hard fight with the sec-Salley (Acerbis, O .J. Simp-senada who raced on his ond place Victor Gutierrez son Knife Co.) remained Yamaha 125, leaving Fran-#9x from Tecate and the constant in his CR 250. In cisco Javier Landeros #34x third place Jaime Sanoja second place Juan Lora #l0v (Pane.ho's Motoa Ensenada) #103x. Sanoja (Tractor Rae-in his new 01 Kawasaki 250 in sixth place. Miguel Pene ing, Auto Servicio Silverado, who had gone several months # 1 x from Tijuana finished in La Cochinita Fundadores), is without participating in any seventh place and Jose Anto-the leader in the general races, came back with a new nio Malo #9x was eighth, and table of motorcycles. In motorcycle. In third place was left behind on the track fourth place and and also on a Kawasaki but after he fell off the motor-representating his brother 500cc, Jimmy Lizarraga cycle. times around it, he asked his the grownups. His father father if he could race with asked him if he was sure and 4aa1:, !A•,C:1,~4; ~-~4~ Ur~raen1.:=■on1.:=~---~ =:,,~ =:.•~ '=:,, 4010N.PALMST#I03 Page 42 FORMERLY FABTECH MOTORSPORTS FULLERTON, CA 92835 6" ULTIMATE LIFT .r CAST U'1' SNNDLU unH COHTIIOlAaMS COM.SNWGS UAIIROOIS6Uaotn 4 l'MTKH ~ SHOCKS s1749.95 INSVWLD 6" ULTIMATE LIFT r ...-r SPlNDUI u,,na CONT1tOI. A1tMS COil .snwGS UAII 11&.0CXS £ U aot.n 4 ,MTKM ~ SHOOtS s1549.95 INSOUUD 2WD F150 6" ULTIMATE LIFT .-LWTSPfHOl.u"""91CONTitOI.ARMS eotlsnaNGS UMl&OOCSAUIIOl.n 4 P'AITKH f'lltHMUIIANCa SHOOCS $ 1699.95 ll'ONUD FORD SUPERDUTY 4WD F250/350 5.5" PERFORMANCE LIFT . JOn" .,.,_ P1tONf UAP Sl'aNGS ,WONT 90X KIT nM NDOCS 4 ,.MTROt f'ERFOIIIIAHCI' SHOOCS s1349.95-r LIFT ALSO IN STOCK ERS DSIDES HOODS GLASS 89.95 J MON-FRI 8:00-6:00 SATURDAY 9:00-4:00 FINANCING AVAILABLE / __ .-. =-__....~ RaceRunner AUfOTMO( INHVUH,UT ....... ,,., 1/" ·~ FORD SUPERDUTY .......-'1~:.~:,: PD~!fl.f~J;?,?. 4-~p"ln~cf.i~~s~FT BFGoadrlcf!~ !CENTER ~I ~E.;.E:~ trailmaster ,;,ooa/'YEAR Bn1011EB11JnE ==~=!=r=1r=KH?=~=·=ts=5=~=~=N=~-PIAA e1 Ls1E1 N , @t?J:?tt TOWING ACCESSORIES SMITTYBILT SURESTEPS S99.95,~ FROM $ 189.95 March 2001 (Mariscos Sarandeado) is the In the Class 125cc novice leader in points in this cat-Rafael Munoz #7a from Ense-egory. And in fourth place nada took first place in his from San Diego, CA #OHv Honda leaving David Pat Kearney (Acerbis, Baja Quintanille # ·13a Susuki, Bound) who apparently from Tecate in second. raced on Mrs. Morton's mo-Pedro Alvarez in the 80cc torcycie. class (Servicio Mecenico In the Novice category m/c Buckovecz, Happy Kid open, motorcycle #61 x driven Disfraces) took the first place by Eloy Magallanes (El Trac-in his first competition in mo-tor Racing), took the trophy torcycles. In second place back to Tijuana, after winning Daniel Munoz in his KX leaves the first place in his class on Narain Gonzalez (lntalacions Teen-ager Robert Buendia did some high flying on his '86 250cc Honda Quad as he rode to the win in the Novice category. · Ron Wilson, from Encinitas, California, takes a quick look backward as h"' rirtes his 400cc Yamaha YZ~vic~ry in the Open Pr.; division. Times 11

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Eric Anthony Vela, age 8, from National City, rode his '95 60cc Juan Melero, from El Cajon, drove his 400cc '89 Honda Pilot to second Kawasaki KX to victory in the 60cc Kids category. place in the Quad Expert division. the parts new, and so ( Pro mo c i o n e s they did and all the Barn Barn, parts were the same so Autoservicio La Narain did run after · Perlita, Honda De all and accumulated Mexicali) got more points in his third place. Leal, class. raced on his Hon-QUADS da Defending his lead-came to the ership in points in the race unpacked class, Pro Quad, Tito from his honey-Alvarez (Empressa moon since he got Guardado, El Pollo, married a few DRD, Skin, Roll De-weeks before. sign & Duncan Rae-In the Quad ing) took the holeshot Experts, the first Silhouetted against the sky, Francisco Espinoza comes off a jump as he rides his 250cc Honda to a fine third place in the Expert Quad class. Roberto Buendia (Taller Buendia, Cueva Del Peluro) took first place in the Novice Quads · • class in his new yel-low Bonda, leaving behind the yellow Suzuki of Rafael Cabrera (Taller Bojorquez, De Goya Boutique, CRT, 98.3 FM) and with this he takes the lead in points in his class. at the start of the placewasgivento BetoVerber,Jr.,age7,rodehis50ccKTMJr.Protothewininthe Quads to keep himself Quad #8, Joselito Kids 50cc motorcycle class at the Santa Veronica event. in front just by a turn Muro (Cerro Colorado Rae-his Honda Pilot. In third place because really close to ing) who raced in a black from Mexicali, Francisco Es-him was Arturo Salas Honda. In second place Juan pinoza (Oficentro), and in # l O also from Melero #100 (Payco Speciali-fourth place Jesus Marquez Tijuana. Salas raced ties) from El Cajon, racing in #3. At the end of the awards everybody was invited to the next and last event of the se-ries where all champions will be decided. This will be on November 26. ■ Victor Gutierrez, from Tecate, right down the street from the racetrack, rode his 2_50cc Yamaha to third in the dust of Alvarez chasing him until Alvarez had problems when his motorcycle broke down, and Salas place in the Open Expert division. . · Electricas Talnar) in third place. He had problems with his motorcycle and reported he was not racing, he then saw another Honda a little bit older than his and decided to ask the owner if he could rent it from him to run the race. The owner of the motorcycle was mechanic Saul Bojorquez who was there with Rafa Cabrera who races in a quad. Saul Bojorquez offered Gonza-lez to take apart both motor-cycles and if the parts fit his motorcycle he could sell him the parts, because he had j~t set up his motorcycles with all Dusty Times passed him and didn't even look back. Salas drove his two wheel motorcycle from Tijuana to Tecate together with his friends. Salas bor-rowed Gilbertos Santanas Roll Design to race, Ruben Martin registered Salas while he prac-ticed and Curiel, another friend of his, was the one to pick up the awards for Solos, because Salas drove back his motorcycle to Tijuana. This was all a team's work as you can see. Arturo took the first place leaving Tito Alvarez# l in second place, while Joel "Cho co" Leal # 16 'P Transax.les is your complete high per-formance off-road transaxle authority! From Pre-Runner to all-out competition, our skilled technicians will ro-vide you with gearing des specifically for your vehicl style and performance needs. For more information call (800) 30-4Trans South111n California's 1arg11st Distributor of M1nd1101a Transa111sl 1631 Placentia Ave. Unit G Anaheim, CA 92806 • Fx: (714)680-3110 March 2001 Page 43

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Challenger corner By Joel Mohr BACK BY POPULAR DE-MAND!!! I really appreciate all of the calls and e-mails over the last few months asking about "The Corner". The shop has kept me crazy busy and I haven't had a moment to write. In case you haven't noticed I'm not one of those people that can just "spit it out". I have to try and get something down and go over it a hundred times or so to have it make any sense on paper. ON WITH THE SHOW! RACE RESULTS -MOR 200: Five of us made the start to a "sooner than expected" first race of the 2001 season. Five 42 mile laps on a new course had every-one on their toes. MOR and crew did a great job of marking, and it was the dustiest and rockiest stuff that the famed Barstow OHV area had to offer. But that doesn't mean it was "NO FUN". It was a great race right from the This is the :,ystem run by most off road race winners GO FOR start. After spending about a week FINALLY fixing the roof on my "8 revolution roll-over at the KARTEK 400" Suspensions Unlimited two seater, we made it to the start line on a gorgeous Barstow desert morning. Unfor-tunately for Rob MacCachren, his day would end early with his motor losing its "Texas Tee". At the end of the first lap, Robbie Cockrell, Dan Folts and then us, were all tied together. Just out on the next lap, Cockrell got a rear flat and had to limp it in to his next pit that was about six or seven miles away. I caught Folts, but the dust was so bad I decided not to take any chances and just stay where I was. Cockrell was still third, and Dan Owen was fourth. At the end of Lap 2 the order stayed the same, and on Lap 3, I had crept up to Folts' bumper just as he dove into his pit for fuel and to let Harry Dunne in to finish up. That put us in the lead, but I noticed that my oil light was flashing. I watched it fqr a few miles and by then it was on steady. Hoping it was just the wire, but wanting to play it safe, I stopped and had TRI-MIL BOBCAT CHROME 1984-91 CORVETTE 2 1/2" OR l" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER --, . .., 13220 HALLDALE AVENUE GARDENA, CA 90249 310-217-9233 Page 44 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED some spectators check it out. Apparently I had hit the only rock in Barstow, and knocked off a valve cover (first time in ten years!}. The spectators turned our to be Barstow racer Tom Craig and his family, and they gave me a quart of oil and sent me on my \\lay. THANK YOU! Luckily FAIR main was about two miles away an I babied it in to have the crew fix us up. Thanks again guys, and 'specially Bill Markell. While we were in this pit, Harry went by, and got out on us a few minutes. The race was on! I caught Harry about half way through that lap, and was just going to "bide my time" when he decided to let me go. Hoping that I would have more problems, Harry did what I consider to be the smart thing and ran his own pace. Cockrell was still running third and Dan Owen was having his crew fix a broken torsion bar. At the end of the fourth lap, we were leading by only a minute, and Harry was doing a great job of staying close. (For those of you that don't know Harry, he's prob-ably around 80 years old and still driving 9 cars. What a guy ... ) Cockrell had another problem, a flat I think, and was still in third. Owen got fixed and was back on the road but about an hour down. And that's the way we finished, The Mohr Performance Special ffrst, Folts second only three min-utes back, and Cockrell third. ---~-----"" • "' +♦♦►►►-.... +=PY♦ 4Q p Owen made it in before the cut-off, and recorded a fourth. Not a bad start to the 2001 season for everyone involved, and I know the next race is going to be even better. SNORE AVI 250: Sixteen Challengers started the first SNORE race of the year, and it proved to be a close battle. 2000 SNORE champ Joe Sheble was there, ~long with a few of the SNORE regulars like Harmon, Taliaferro, Thatcher, Forte and Dickton. The Walters brothers had their new car out, the Schank brothers are back, and I saw some names on the roster that I didn't recognize. Hey all you old timers, let's make sure the ne~comers feel welcome! At the end of the first lap, Jeremy Harmon just edged out Joe Sheble for fast lap, and in third were the Walters. Fourth was Kisner, fifth was Schank, sixth was Jeremy Evans, seventh was the T aliaferros, eighth was Rick Poole, ninth was Shupp, and for the sake of my typing fingers I'll stick to the top ten who was Lynn Dickton. Jason Cepi;:lik in his first race ever, tried to double a fa-mous "car killer" and ended his day. On Lap 2, Sheble took the lead, with the Walters now in second, and Harmon close be-hind. Fourth was now Poole, and Evans rounded out the top five. Uncharacteristically, the Schanks would disappear. Lap 3, Sheble was still leading, but the Walters were giving him a hard time. Third was Poole, Harmon was fourth, but suffering from a blown axle seal that would even-tually take out the trans. Sneak-ing up to fifth was Dickton, and on this lap Chad Shupp would disappear. On Lap 4, Sheble was holding on, with the Walters still nipping at his heels. Third was still Poole, and Harmon in fourth was trying to keep this car to-gether. Kisner was having some sort of problem but was now up to fifth. The returning Champ was showing his colors and took the win by four minutes on the Walters. (No "new car blues" for these guys!} Poole was third, an-other 12 minutes back. Fourth to finish was Kisner, and fifth was Jeremy Evans. Ten of the 16 starters made it to the finish, and the pack is getting tighter. GOOD JOB! It looks to be an-other exciting season, and I'll do my best to keep you posted. WHIPLASH PARKER 400: I don't have much information other than the Formulanine.com Webmaster Tim Hayosh edged out the competition to win in only his second race as a PRO 9. GOOD JOB! RUMOR MILL: This year should prove to be very interest-ing with a few new cars nearing completion and a few old cars changing hands. 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pionship winning two seater for sale. The Robert"Riffle -Robert Otwell ·single seat Jimco is now in the capable hands of the Cepelik clan that used to n,m with us out at the LaRana races. Jason is the nephew of old hot shoe Jeff, and I'm sure it won't take a lo t of coaching to get him up front. T he Walters are back in fine form and plan to run as much as "tirne from work" will allow. Robert Otwell bought Jimmy Messick's old two seater, and is updating it to run at the MORE events. Doug Silcock, who used to wrench for Dan Owen, is. just about dialed in and will be running at MOR. If you haven't discovered it already, Class 9 now has a website. It's called FORMULANINE.COM. · Thanks to webmaster Tim Hayosh, the site looks really cool and he updates it regularly. THANKS TIM! Anyone looking to buy o sell a 9 car can contact me and I'll try to hook you up with someone. We're also in con-stant development on new prod-ucts, and if you need any answers to "constant problems", feel free to call or e-mail me and I'll help any way I can. My e-mail address is MOHRPRF@JUNO.COM. My phone number is (760) 947-6647. SEE YOU AT THE RACES!!! by The New Wahzoo It seems as. if some of the younger/newer members have been vocal about.expressing feel-ings of dissatisfaction with your new Wahzoo ... well, all that is OK, and to be expected around· this time of year. Year end awards have been presented, the new rac-ing season is well underway, and in between people are getting bored so they resort to sniveling. In response, my.question is what part of the m-ayonnaise jar's func-tion do they not understand?? Being current on what's happen-ing day to day within the club is what's happening, they say. The Wahzoo only knows the "old stuff", they say. This Wahzoo says that the "old stuff" is not only entertaining, but a part of the important bonding process which allows us to have the motto "A Few Good Men" or "Checkers Eat Their Dead". Let us not forget that the guys who were a part of all that "old stuff' essentially for-mulated the very concept of the meaning of being a Checker. This W ahzoo also says that getting INK or current stats on the club is par-tially the responsibility of the cur-rent membership, young or old. Perhaps we need to resort to more simple means ... either get a larger mayo jar at the club house to at-tract attention for contributions, or if space there permits, get some etch-a-sketch boards conve-niently located in proximity to the mayo jar. All you snivelers, get a grip on the friggin' mayo jar!! Have I said enough?? Not having mentioned B2K pitters in my last column, or not having mentioned the club's new officers was an oversight. We are pleased to present the new offic-ers for 2001: George Seeley, Jr., as Prez. A very capable Randy Spahr is our new V.P., with Dan Dusty Times Martin filling the role of Trea-the hand that feeds us!! surer. Jim Gregory is our new Sec-The great Crackle and El Presi-retary, while Mike Alt fills the dent fiasco over mutual admira-position of pit coordinator and tion awards has finally died a.slow garage dude. Our board has ex- death. I am surprised it went as panded to include Jim Tucker as · far as it did. So what, if these guys our computer maestro, and Dick decided to recognize each other McCool as club historian. I regret for services rendered to the club? that as of deadline today there has Yes, the awards. presentation at been no list provided of B2K pit- the NHRA museum ra·n overtime ters. as a result of this, but again, so Rumor has it that the new what? This recognition, even if Wahzoo's readership is growing. misunderstood by some attendees,· We have heard favorable com- was appropriate in view of the fact ments from BFG's Frank de that their enthusiasm and sense Angelo and Debbie Dickerhoof, of commitment kept the club on who hopefully will follow the tra-an even keel last year. I challenge dition of Dan Newsome, who has anyone to deny just how much · been observed in years past of guf-our El Presidente and company fa wing while reading· earlier have done for the club. Wahzoo's words of wisdom. The matter of club shirts for Therefore, I find it especially ap- prospectives has reared its ugly propriate to report that our an- . head again. Just when you think nual presentation of the Vic Van • things are running smoothly, Ella Memorial award last year someone with too much free time went to BFG Racing, for sports-on their hands stirs up some fecal manship and excellence in off matter, and makes some prospec-road racing. Now there is a well tive, note valuable prospectives, deserved switch ... . the Checkers feel like said fecal matter over the giving BFG an award for doing simple entitlement of proudly what we always do. We'll be right wearing a club shirt. These guys back. complaining should spend less In other news, we are saddened time worrying about pissing off to report the passing of brother our prospectives and more time Gene Dillon. Gene had been ill, on concentrating on the quality and passed away at home onJanu-of the new members we are get-ary 20,th. Gene had been a valu- ting! able member of Checkers for many yeas, and is a recipient of one of our Checker of the Year awards. Memorial services were held January 22nd, with about 22 Checkers among the attendees at Riverside National Cemetery. We'll miss you, Gene! . It was reported that B.J. Bates has some sort of intestinal ail-ment, one of those. medical names 'you just can't remember where a portion of your intestine has to be Rumor has it that Tom Koch stepped on his Johnson at the• MDR Barstow 250 by putting his 15 year old son in the co-driver's . seat of Richard Boyle's car he was driving, then letting him out of the car when the boy got a little sick. It seems the boy was visibly shaken and was observed wander-ing about aimlessly for some time after getting out of the car. Rules aside, attaboy Tom, for providing a ride in true Checkers fashion. Speaking of stepping on one's Johnson, SCORE has done it again, by mandating fuels for 2001; come on!!! Is this deregu-lation in reverse, or what? All buggy classes are now required to run 76 fuels; while truck classes must run VP fuels only. Motor-cycle fuels, at this printing, have not yet been decided. Appropri-ately, the word "kickback" comes to mind,. Word has reached the Wahzoo that our Dr. Checker will be tak-ing a 180 mph champ car ride in a CART program entitled Driv-ing 101, courtesy of his· wife Jan. It is rumored that the good doc-tor will perform this feat on or near his 60th birthday this June, at Las Vegas. Stay tuned. Keep stuffing the mayo jar, folks; that's where a lot of this good stuff comes from. C.O.R.E. Pit Report By Sandy Parker MDR-WILD WASH 250 All the teams were busy in the short off season to be ready to run for the points championship in the series of their choice. The club appears to be split between MORE, MOR, SNORE and BID. Brad Inch, the Lindsays, and the Travis team, new to SCORE de-cided on running the MOR series. · RACE REPORTS TEAM INCH (Class 1600) If Brad was ever on a mission, this was the race and this is the year. Brad has made many changes which will allow him to better focus on his own racing ef-fo,rts, and the changes were no-ticed. Brad also decided on run-ning for both MOR and SNORE points championships in 1600. With a new motor and suspension package, Brad first headed to Bar-stow with hopes to pull out to an early lead in the MOR series. Brad intended to solo the race, which he was able to do even with this especially rough Barstow course. · Continued on page 46 EAT PP U O ETE L E CNC YOUR OFF-ROAD SPECIALISTS! PHONE: (714) 441-1212 FAX: (714) 441-1622 2366 E. ORANGETHORPE AVE., ANAHEIM, CA 92806 Rallye4000 HID Lamps 35 watts - Black HEL-74801 Rallye 4000 Euro Beam HEL-74802· Rallye 4000 Pencil Beam ::E ll G) I --i I 0 ::E m --i ~ 0 z :n ;:,;; ll 0 0 m z 0 removed. Perhaps this accounts for the fact that at a recent meet-ing he was fined for not only bringing his girl friend, but for al-lowing her to get out of the car! In addition to.the recent Wahzoo bashing that went on at this meet-ing, it was learned that Ty Goode was the subject of much ridicule; the club had three entries at the Laughlin Pit Crew Challenge, where Ty entered himself, but not as club entry. This team, using Ty's car, earned a third place in the competition, and a nice pay-off of $1500.00. The five "work-ers" were given $500.00, the club was given $500.00, with Ty keep-ing the other $500.00 where it was felt that the workers should have gotten that money. Russ Butow suggested that the club give their $500.00 back to the workers, but it seemed to fall on deaf ears in spite of the fact that our treasury's account balance is healthy. Now this statement will no doubt open another can of worms, since it has been club policy to have a zero balance in our account at the turnover to a new board. OK, we have a surplus, mostly from the success of our booth at the Off Road Expo. Why leave this money in the account when it could be put to the best possible use in years of buying new pit equipment and outfitting the club in a man-ner to which it should be accus-tomed!! We don't have anyone we know of with access to thos·e funds who may have sticky fin-gers, like we heard about happen-ing at another club where their former treasurer supposedly ab-sconded with $6K. Checkers may eat their dead, but we don't bite en :::, ~ (.) Designed by Raceco in 1990 for military use, re-designed by McKenzie's for Off-Road use in 1994. This unit gives you more travel, less stub axle load and lighterweight, comes complete with arm mount-ing flange, disc brakes with billet calipers and pads, Battery Boxes • :A.· MET-229 Optima Battery Box ~ MET-229DD Optima Dimple Die MET-236 Stock VW B. Box (./) ;:,; C) d 0 r-~ UJ UJ I ~ UJ z ::; a: UJ 1-z UJ (.) en a: UJ ~ ID <( ~ ID en a: UJ ~ U:: z ~ ~ (.) it C!l :::, ID bearings and chromoly stub axles. 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' .. He started the race second off the line and quickly caught and passed the only 1600 car in front of him. Now in first place, his only goal was to haul a~s and put as much distance and time between him and the 1600 pack. Never giving the ca a rest, Brad in-creased his lead every lap. Driv-ing thru the MDR Start and Fin-ish, Brad looked in his rear·view mim;:,r and saw "fire". Probably thinking that the wind would blow it out or whatever it was would bufn off the car, he stomped on the gas and never looked back. A tail light broke off the car and the wires grounded out so when he stepped on the brakes, he burnt and melted the entire wire harness from the en-gine to the dash. Luckily for Brad, the now bare wires melted in the "ON" position and lasted four more laps. On Lap 5, he stopped · in a CORE pit for a 40 second splash of fuel and a quick tire change (a tire with a round rim with the tube not visible). Brad completed his mission in style, winning 1600 class and finishing fourth overall. An excellent effort and a great start of the new year. CONGRATULATIONS BRAD!!! . TEAM LINDSAY (Class 5-1600) I talked to Tim and Jeremy Lindsay on the day before the race and they told me they have worked very hard on the car and should be in a great position to win the race. I might have accused anybody else o.f bragging but not these brothers. These guys are the nicest, down to earth people, and perh,aps two of the most intense, talented, and de-termined racers I have ever met. In only their second season in off road racing, they exhibit the exper-tise of veteran off road racers. They are not racing rookies by any stretch, but they have used their experiences from other forms of racing to excel at this sport, and they have. They were so close last year but had to pull out near the end. They are ready to run for the MDR points, and their competitors better look out. Tim and Jeremy started the race and were held in place driving in the very bad Bar-stow dust. Near the end of the first lap, the dust cleared a bit and they were able to begin passing cars. By the second lap they were in the lead and never looked back. They did radio back as they asked for constant split times from the five outlying CORE pits. Their stron-gest competitor said he would run a conservative fist half then push it in the later stages of the race, and that is exactly what happened. The last three laps were intense as Jer-emy screamed over the radio they had a front flat five miles from the Main Pits. Now slowing the pace, they turned a perfectly good front -centerline rim into a very mangled clock frame to hang in the garage. They pulled lnto Main, got the tire changed in 30 seconds and took off on their last lap. Keeping only two minutes ahead of the second place car from pit to pit, this was a real good race. Flying by our pits, they asked for another split time. After we reported the second place 5-1600 car was two minutes late, they cruised into the finish line. Just short of the finish line, they did stop in Main pit and said they were hungry, thirsty, and yes to thank the family, friends, and CORE for all their help. Driving over the finish line, they finished first place in 5-1600 in the first race of the year. A very tough race but an emotional win for the Lind-say racing family. CONGRATU-LATIONS, GREAT WIN!!! TEAM TRAVIS (Class 10) This was the first race for the Travis Team racing with CORE Pit support, and hopefully the begin-ning of a long relationship. This is a very tough new "all girl" driving team that will send many of the Class 10 boys home crying. I say new all girl since Terrie's husband · John ordered his own Class 10 car so now the girls don't have to turn the car over to the boys. The Travis racing team just won both the VORRA overall and Class 10 championships, so they are expe-rienced racers. Terrie Travis driv-ing with Deanna Schmaus riding started the race and were immedi-ately introduced to the roughness of the Barstow desert. Terrie says .CAil T0ii lFREE 11-888-755-5900 WE CAN SHIP UPS TO YOUR DOOR WE OFFER THEIE ./ERVICEI ** WE SERVICE FOX, BILSTIEN, KING, SWAY A WAY SHOCKS ** MAGNAFLUX SERVICE ( WITH QUICK TURN A ROUND .. ) **GEARBOX REBUILD SERVICE (NO MORE WEIRD NOISES •• ) CLASS 9 OWEL BALL JOINTS UPPER & LOWER $13.50 EA. TYPE 3 BRAKE KIT (BACKING PLATES,SHOES, WHEEL CYLINDERS, SPRINGS AND DRUMS) $250.00. FRONT ARM STOP KIT $15.00 REAR TAIL BRAKE LIGHT (ALUMINUM HOUSING} $8.00EA. BALL JOINT REPLACEMENT BOOTS SET OF FOUR $4.95 CLASS 1/2' 1600 5/1600 - SPORTSMAN 930 CV JOINTS $55.00 TYPE 3 BRAKE KIT (BACKING PLATES, SHOES, . 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They kept the pace up for the last few laps but were slowed on the last lap with a flat tire. They drove a few miles on the flat before having it changed at a ·CORE pit. After the tire change, they had to nurse the car in the last few miles with a badly slipping clutch. After the dust settled, the girls finished third in Class 10, not too bad for you first trip to Barstow. Terrie e-mailed me a picture of her and Deanna flying a Stoddard Wells road crossing, about 87 feet in the air, showing that they have the guts to run with the big boys. All the CORE people were impressed with the intensity of their team and the true grit of the girls and hope to assist them in many more races in the future. CORE PIT SUPPORT CORE MAIN (Sidewinder/Outlet Center Road) · Darrin and Victoria along with help from both the Lindsay and Travis teams manned the Main Pits. They were on their toes all day and made some very quick pit stops keeping the CORE cars ahead of all the rest. They changed a left front tire on the Lindsay car,. reat-_tached the pumper hose for Brad Inch, and dumped some quick splashes of fuel. CORE PIT ABLE . (Stoddard Wells Road) Gary, Kara, and Kimberly Hall along with Jeff Holmes ran the Able Pit and were ready for any-thing but ended up waving to all the CORE winning cars as they flew by. CORE PIT BAKER (Inner Hodge Road) Davy Girdner along with Wayne Fitzpaldi and Mark Earnhardt waved at the cars until Brad stopped to again have his pumper hose attached. CORE PIT CHARLEY (Outer Hodge Road) Rob Stapp, myself, Nicholas Parker, Andrew Freney, Darin McGuffin, and Kyle Gomolka en-joyed the beautiful weather and watcliing cars fly by. The second half got busy when we did a fuel stop and changed a tire for Brad's 1600 and later changed a tire for the Travis Class 10 car. 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 meeting or call me (818) 341-1810 or e-mail me at race975@aol.com. FIRST Al$0CIAJION OF INDEPENDENT RACERS by Wes Wisdom Wow! I can't believe its al-ready been three months since the Baja 2000. I don't think I'm totally recovered from it yet. I guess time really does fly when you're having fun. You know, that's the only way off road rac-ers know what time of year it is. It's either "It's been how long since the last race??!" or "There's only how much time left to prep the car??!" Well F.A.l.R. racers went to three races in January. We'll take them in order: MDR Mojave 200 If you weren't there you missed the absolutely best. weather ever for a Barstow race in January. It was beautiful, shirt sleeves only, clear, blue skis, a slight breeze to keep the dust down, a perfect day for racing and there were good races throughout the field! Too bad for all you racers who stayed home. F.A.l.R. was pitting for eight· racers. As usual, all the pits were manned by the best, most com-petent pitters in the desert, my totally unbiased opinion, of course. Seriously, we're good and we're·always there ready to help. In Class 100 there was Ron Osborne and Andrew Gaston. Ron had a very good day. Ran first or second all day. He was leading on the next to last lap when he had to stop for fuel and they found a tire needed to be changed and a CV boot needed repair. The winning Class 1 passed him while he was getting the work done. Still it was a good race with a second in Class 1 and third overall. Andrew Gaston had a little longer day. He had power steer-ing ram problems ·an day long causing a bad "wobble" at speed. But, in the best tradition of off road racing, he motored on and finished fifth. In 5-1600s Curt Geer and Rich Fersch were entered. Rich's ride was kind of a surprise. I got confused when he tried to ex-plain how it came abut. If you want to know, ask Rich. Anyway, Rich and Danny Drake were pushing the leader all day when, on the last lap just before Pit C, both rear drums spu·n their splines. Tl\ey lost about 50 min-utes and wound up third in class. Curt Geer's day never really got started. He started first in class and was behind a Class 8 truck in the dust and tried to pass him on the inside of a turn, hit deep sand and then high cen-tered on· a bush. Couldn't get • himself off the bush until a friendly Jeep came by and pulled him out. Meanwhile, all the 5-1600s and one '9' car got by. Then, at about the nine mile mark, the carburetor was clogged or something and the engine wouldn't run. His chase crew got to him and replaced the carb to get him going again. He made it to Pit A where it was found that the stud holding the carb onto the manifold was stripped out. A new bolt was put in and Curt was _on his way again only to get a flat tire almost immediately. He made it to Pit B for a tire change and took off again. Finally, after a three hour first lap and half way through Lap 2, a broken rear tor-sion put him out. A lot of effort for a DNF. Probably the best race of the day was in Class 9 where Joel Mohr and Dan Folts were fight-ing it out. Joel had the lead by less than a minute when he lost a valve cover on the third lap. Bill Markel at the F.A.l.R. Main pit scrounged up a cover and ball and had to do some repair work Dusty Times

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to fix the problem. Joel only lost five/six minutes but he also lost the lead during the repairs as Dan passed him while the work was going on. Dan kept the lead until Lap 4 when Joel passed him during a fuel stop/driver change. Harry Dunne got in but Joel was long gone and not looking back by then. Joel finished first and Dan was second only about two and a half minutes back. A great race for·both. · By the way, Dan is pretty new at this, only has a few races un-der his belt. Joel, you better keep watching your rear view mirror cuz' Dan is coming. Joel got fast class lap but Dan was only four seconds slower! · F.A.I.R. usually has a bunch of l/2-1600s racing but only.Jerry · Longo showed up this time. Not much to say about his race be-cause Jerry had a trouble free day. He finished third in class and ninth overall. Good job, Jerry! Last but not least, Dan Vance in the Baja Shops truck. Well, let's see. Three flats on the first lap, some welding needed at F.A.l.R. Main, except for an-other flat, a good second lap which was fast lap for the class, then a blown engine on Lap 3 a few miles past the Start line. I guess you'd call that an up and down day but they said they had a good time. If they can keep their problems down they are very competitive. Laughlin Desert Challenge The weather in Laughlin was a lot different than Barstow. It was cold with a stiff breeze. The wind kept the dust blown away so the racers and all the specta-tors and pitters were pretty much dust free. Made for a great week-end! There were seven F.A.I.R. racers entered. Brian Parkhouse in Class 1, Brian Logan, Mitch Griffin and Greg Blakeman _in Class 1/2-1600, Curt Geer in 5-1600, Tim Braden in Class 7S and Tom Ridings in Desert Lights. I haven't talked with any of them since the race so I'm work-ing by, memory and the race re-sults. Parkhouse and Ridings didn't have much luck. Brian broke an J1Xle after only one lap. Tom only made two laps. Don't know what happened to him. In 1/2-1600, Logan and Grif-fin had a good race going be-tween themselves finishing sev-enth and eighth respectively. Only 1: 14 between them. After a mediocre Saturday, Mitch had a great run Sunday. After starting mid-pack, he passed everybody that started ahead of him and was only passed by MacCachren and Pfankuch. Not bad. Moved up eight posi-tions in class. Blakeman ran without prob-lems all weekend. Greg driving Saturday and Matt on Sunday. Very steady and they moved up six positions on Sunday to finish 14th. Curt Geer turned around his hard luck at Barstow and won Class 5-1600! Whatever they did after the MDR race really worked for Laughlin. Don't know what happened to Tim Braden. H e was fourth on Saturday but· apparently only did two lap.s. on Sunday a n d DNF'd. Dusty Times M.O.R.E. This turned out to be a fam-ily event as the Dunne and the Fay families took on the 20 mile laps that M.O .R.E. sets up. Both of them always say how much fun they have at these races. Maybe the rest of us should take a look. Harry and his youngest son, Christopher, ride the first five laps with him and then his son from Vegas, Bill, got to ride the last te.n laps. Harry had to drive the whole thing and was really whupped when it was over. Two hundred miles of Barstow in a Class 9. Not bad. Now we'll have to call Harry the Iron Man instead of the old man. He only had one problem, hit a rock, bent/broke a rear wheel push-ing two of the spokes up into the inner tube, but was able to limp it in to the pit to get it fixed and went on to a win! Kathy Fay didn't have quite that good a day in their truck. The mid-bearing on their drive shaft broke at about the 16 mile mark on the first lap. Kathy was able to drive it back to the pit with the drive line flopping around but Jim wasn't able to fix it so they packed it in. The good news is that it's al-ready. fixed and ready for the next MOR race. Before finishing this up, F.A.I.R. wants to give Sheryl Cannon a very big Thank You for coming to our meeting and giving us a presentation, on how to handle income taxes for a racing venture. She's sharp and gave us a good idea of what's required for Uncle Sam. Very beneficial. You couldn.'t go wrong by calling for her help. Income taxes, don't get me started. Someone once said, I wish I could remember who, that it's morally wrong to pay any more taxes than absolutely necessary so take all the legal deductions you can. Especially when they take our money and use it to close down the deserts. I told you not to get me started. · For this and other really in-teresting stuff, come to one of our meetings. We meet on the first and third Wednesday of every month at the Radisson Hotel in Fullerton. For informa-tion, call me, Wes Wisdom, at (714) 841-8935 or get on our website, fairpits.com, and e-mail. 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WHIPLASH 11OASIS TO OASIS." Dayton ·~Flyer'' Takes Off In season Finale By Tony Tellier Photos: Trackside Photo Dayton Raper got·away from the pack at the start and had a dust free race and he took the overall by eight minutes. • Eillat:h •HM· QA1 · , Bpar,:o • l'B, " ·, ,4, Ron DavisB Betrall llil Cao IP Optim11,· Batteries Mechanl Page_ 48 March 2001 Churning through the soft sand, Mark Oberparleiter took the MCS class and he was second OVIJra/1 as well. Rick Walker rides across the soft stuff on his way to the MCS Class win. He had two minutes in hand at the end. months before I am ready." ATVO Dan Parker took advantage of large DNF rate in the premier A TV class to the win and a 33st Overall on a course on which top speed played a major role. The.usual strong Dave Wylie effort ca·me to naught with a tossed chain and a crunched case. · MCSr Pro The "Seniors" put two riders into the "podium" position: Second and Third Overall: Mark Oberparleiter and Will Mundy. Todd Johnson stalled his new WR426 -after years on a '92 XR600 - and was on the steep ramp-up portion of the re-start learning curve. "This was my first race on the new bike. I was running Second, overall, at '40', then killed it at '98'. I kicked it until I couldn't breathe! Five minutes? A guy from another pit came over and helped. I was still fifth overall at the end. I had a huge lead, I was rattled, I didn't pull the compression release and stroke it through like I should have." Johnson said that he is now actually practicing hot starts. "I want to 'Overall' a race!" Todd had been riding an old '93 XR600, which he blew up at "Snowflake." The bottom end went out, it was an old tired engine. He thinks "Champion Yamaha and Honda", "Pop's Racin_g", "Diamond Hitch Construction" ceramic tile, and Charlie Elliot. The ever-racing Gwin Vaughan had a good ride, as did son Ashley (fourth in MCI). ATVSr Pro The troublesome Kirk Sheier "blew it up! I went from dead last to 'First' then blew it up at (race mile) 20. It squeaked it then I got a pull-start and it did it again within two miles." The outgoing racer will expand his horizons, adding the Best In The Desert series to his full schedule, teaming with the Strunk brothers, Shane and Shiloh (who was the A TV 1 winner), second in points at BitD. Shiloh said that he's trying to talk dad Bucky into letting them race the "Predator" V8. Fat chance, I'd wager. MCI Adam Johnston thanked wife Trea but not before admitting that he got lost on the jetting loop! "I was turned around, so was Mike Baldwin. After that I had a good day." Adam is racing, a '99 CR250 -"It's a magic bike!" Trea races Expert Quad and was third ATVl and 51st Overall! She said that the race went well for her until a flat at RM50 after dicing with Shiloh and Max Hernandez. Kyle Beshaw accurately reported that the "P2P" was "Fast! Real fast. It wasn't particularly dangerous; no long whoop sections. But my bike wasn't fast enough." Kyle selected a KX250 rather than the 500: "We thought that it would be the usual Sonoita course, with long whoop areas which favor the lighter. bike. The '500' kicks me around a bit. But this was fast. The '250' could do, maybe, 90-95. ·1 was holding it tapped. I stayed on the bike tlie whole time" for second place. Note~ Kyle is racing Destry Abbott's 2000 race KX250 Kawasaki. Tony French (CR250) was misled on the fetting loop, too. "I followed Adam (Duh!) .... then I was playing catch-up all day -but was so far behind." Dusty Times

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Second in Class MC5, Tom Chronerberry pours it on as he heads for George Tachick wanted the MC7 class win badly but it was not to be, Arthur Sims ran as hard as he could but he couldn't get the extra two minutes he needed for the win in MC2. the finish line of the very long lap. he finished second in a well run race. French used to race a T-Mag and the Pro ATVs." to race with archrival Wayne "Challenger" swinging-axle He was fifth Quad and 46th "Damage" Brasher, who buggy at SCORE events: bike. Look for TP to be moved to MC2: "Now I need Parker, San Felipe. The old bumped to "ATV 1" in· one to move up so I can beat him "With age you get a cage" adage quick moment. He won ATV3 straight up." appears to be somewhat at Snowflake then ATV2 here Parks started the year, his erroneous; in this case. "With at the beach. first racing, in MC9 and has years you get sequential gears?" Way-back Gary Ben almost been a rapid move-upper. His "My first bike race was in caught Bill Esquerra but did 2000 YZ250 will be a K-Mart '83 at some ADRA event." not: they finished 00:00:06 "Two-for-one" special, with And Chris Godfrey? The apart and glad to be there. his next class bump Mike will son of taciturn Steve Godfrey MC3 carry #241. The title agent (remember "Station l "?) was Mike Crawford, the Racing and partner of Crawford tough but never quite there at R e a 1 t o r thanked "The Pit Enterprise" the finish. (wwwm:iawhd.ceon.uy21[:h::x:nix.o:.m, and "Re al racing". ATVl lost the engine in his CR500. After the race they all went Shiloh Strunk crashed, "I was wide open, I heard a to the "Crystal Palace". bent a tie rod, and then toe-clanking noise and then I "That's the first time my wife outed his way to the win even spent six hours out there. It has ever been in a after scrubbing a front tire to wasn't bad but I saw a buzzard #####house", someone death and blowing it! that saw me ... " The Gary remarked. In jest. I guess. Jeffrey Spooner (Jr.) just Anderson racing associate Hmmm. "took the race easy", promised: '"Top· Five' next MC6 explained Dad Jeff, who season." Steve Richards has parlayed eschewed his normal right seat Mike Parks got a good start his bike riding into decades of with the Danny Sullivan's from the third row of the large excellence. Way back the gymnastic Class 8 Chevrolet class then tossed it away'in a back when, Steve raced a rare in order to dump gas. "Jeffrey barbed wire snag. "At (RM25) KDX200 with surprising already had the championship Mike Baldwin (#100) was results. Now he is on a 2000 locked up, almost. He just had stopped with a blown engine. YZ250 purchased from class to get the finishing points." There were two strands; one competitor (and "P2P" Spooner was one of the four went under my fender and the winner) Steve Feld. "I wheelers racing this January other caught the number changed the suspension, for 13th at "Bank One". plate." No matter, Mike still my setup, and a damper. I had Kevin Wilson's bike blew caught some MC2 riders and a good race; I stayed on it the the gearbox after just two took second place. Parks was whole time." Note that Feld miles. Que lastima! disappointed in being unable was tenth overall. Woulda MC2 How about that Desi Wolfe, all the way down from Salome: "Where She ·Danced". Desi, along with local hero Ken Montijo, hail from the same town as Garth Sweetland. Mike Thompson said that "The 'P2P' was not good for me." Mike was one of these who were out early: "I seized the 2000 CR250 at (race) mile two! It tied up; I had re-jetted from a '170' to a '180' ... but ... ", he paused. "But if I have a bad day I like it to be right next to the highway", Mike laughed. The "Desert Rage Racing" team had a poor day: Mike Baldwin (MCI) was Paul Williams won the MC9 Class in Mexico, shown here at speed on his Yamaha another DNF, although Chad ;::h=ea=d=in::'.".g=fo=r=th=e=c=h=e=ck=e=red=="=7a=g=. =======================::::;=====:=:;-Charman was eighth in MC3. ATV2 Tony Pedotto continued his blatant cherry-picking ways. "It was a fast race", the ex-Class 1 buggy racer laughed. "By the Caborca highway crossing I only had one (A TV2) bike physically ahead of me (Corey Mellick) after starting dead last. I only stopped, at all, once; at the top end of the course, at the 'Industrial Parque' for gas. I had no get-offs and the dust wasn't that bad." Being up front, I guess not. "I was racing with the Class 4 bike.s -I was up and running hard from them by the Well Road Steven Weinstein made it look easy as he won the MC7 Class in Mexico with (RM2 5), with the Pro Bikes _al_m_o_st_t_en_m_ in_ut_e_s _to_s_,_p_a_re_. _______________ _ Dusty Times March 2001 expected much more from long time racer Neil Goodell. MC7 That pesky Steve Weinstein, Divorce Lawyer To The Stars, swung a stumpy leg over his brand new 520 KTM and won the first race that he has ridden in years. Steve had had to wait for-ever to get the bike but it looks, well, worth it. If race results are any indication. $$$$. The four stroke powerplant is stuffe_d into a "300" frame; it is actually a tiny bike. With all of the bells and Austrian whistles. Winer reported reeling in "MC4" riders. · Steve writes: "The course must have been specially designed for the KTM 520 EXC. This was my first race since the 'Rock-to-Rock' last year and that was the only race I did since mid 1998 ! 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Class MC4 was kinda tight but when the checkered flag fell it was Jeff JB Minogue, shown here flying through the brush gave it his all but it Adam Johnston had a good day, he ran quick enough to take the MC1 Sims taking the gold medal. was only good for second place in MC4. Class win by eight minutes in Mexico. Kyle 'Beshaw pushed hard all race long but he was destined to a Desi Wolfe only collected the second place honors in Class MC2, Brian Birchfield flies through the scrub, knowing that the MC3 class second place finish in Class MC1. ======= finishing an agonizing 11 seconds out of the win. win was his and he took it with two minutes to spare. Mike Parks doesn't like playing catch-up in Class MC3 but this race Steve Feld races across the flat on his Yamaha, taking the coveted Tony Pedotto poured it, on in Mexico and it certainly paid off for him, he took the ATV2 class win by four minutes. he was relegated to the silver medal. win in MC6 by almost two minutes. (two or three times last year) rider four times then he'd Langham? Dal had had his until November when I got crash." Tom got a flat front on thorax split open like a the new scoot. Can't wait to his XR600 and praised the Christmas goose for multiple race again -but only who Scott's steering damper: "It's cardiac bypasses. Now he rode know when that will be." the best investment I ever the Sonoran sands only a few The hirsute Tom "Tech" made! The bike handled OK, months later. Fisher repo~t~-dly-"h;-d a blast. 'cept in a few tight turns." · ----MC4 --I did real well. I kept a steady MCB Note the famous "Ragland" pate and passed the same '7' How about that gutsy Dal name in the "DN" column! Page so 11)0~·~1r 1f10V161t1r 1r,o ilU/[)1)10Vlr lrltilt A\/l)V/tVlrliltVi WltiO 11\lt~V IJt IV10V 1r1~16 lrltilt 10 /f lf l210A\II) ~ltWi:t Chad actually had hoped to be able to run the race in the family "Arnold" Trophy-Truck but a PR photo shoot obviated that chance. 1. Sims, Jeff. 440 2:33:44; 2. Minogue, J.B. 403 2:36:27; 3. Ornelas, Marco. 427 2:40:08; 4. Espinosa, Javier. 407 2:40: 17; 5. Jochen, Joey. 448 2:44:25; 6. Simpson, Ron. 425 2:45:27; 7. Martensen, John. 411 2:47:14; 8. Birchfield, Dan Jr. 453 2:49: 14; 9. Trejo, Chris. 400 2:51:24; 10. Brewer, Mark. 480 2:51:58. MC5 Neil Wright was the last bike to finish the course 3:41:45. 1. Walker, Rick. 590 2:37:30; 2. Chronerberry, N.A. 548 2:39:28; 3. Cummings, Mike. 1524 2:42:57; 4. Johnston, Jon. 507 2:44:53; 5. Gardner, Jason. 554 2:48:24. 6. Komack, Robert. 530 2:49:22; 7. Garza, Butch (Raul). 505 2:52:11; 8. Rellstab, Leon. 504 2:54:03; 9. Epperson, Richard. 563 3:00:22; 10. Gain ey, James. 562 3:02:35. MC9 1. Williams, Paul. 905 2:36: 19; 2. Middleton, John. March 2001 The MC2 class was a tight race all the way, but when it was all over Olen Webb Jr. was the winner. 907 2:44:07; 3. Siemion, Dean. 902 2:46:30; 4. Schmidt, Chuck. 903 2:59:51; 5. Graves, John. 906 3:36:43. ATV9 Teague, Jared. 972 DNF PILOT PRO Frederick, Dak. 662 DNF PILOT SPORT Aaron shoulda raced the Dean Whitaker "Black Thunder" Chevrolet ... Frederick, Aaron. 682 DNF EL CHISMOSO A Clean Sweep Larry Beshaw had a good, long, but boring, day. The sweep rider did the first half before the race to ensure course markings then went back to the start via the tarmac then swept the complete route, "so I rode about 200 miles. There were no significant injuries. A quad rider said that he broke his leg but then he helped me push the bike off the course", Larry grinned. "Most problems were seized motors ... within the first three miles!" Puts A Damper On The Program Larry's son Kyle took a tumble Christmas Eve day and got wadded up with the bike:· his Scotts went through his goggles and under his helmet, slicing hi_s forehead deeply: "Sixteen stitches, six internal. The hand damage was worse." Beshaw had his left hand tangled with his hand guard and crushed the bone in his "pinkie". ■ Dusty Times

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AUTOMOTIVE FOR SALE: Triple E tubular chas-FOR SALE: 1980 Black F150 sis, 360cc water-cooled 2 cycle, elec-Stepside PreRunner, 92 Body tricstart, belt drive. Updatedsuspen- Style, Full Cage, 15" front & 18 FODOR RACING PACKAGE OR sion. Aluminum powder coated Rear Lravd. New JJxl0.50 Yoku-PIECES-(A) 44' Gooseneck Com- body. Lots of spare parts. This car is hamas, Beard Seats, Art Carr petitive Trailer, Roof platform, triple fast and reliable. $5,000.00 OBO. shifter, 32 gal alum tank, new axle, front parts room, extra tall ceil- Call Stu at (619) 296-1060 or (619) gauges, 9" rear end with locker, 4 SEATER PLAY Car- Built using ing,fits2cars,Ref#806, $14,900.00, 925-0945. National Springs. Must Sell. Ask PRO TRUCK DODGE; Great Spec Class race truck. 360cid V* {f urbo 400/ Bilstein coilover and bypass/Chrisman/etc .... Stop racing checkbooks and start racing trucks! Truck has all the legal updates. Ready for Baja 2000, BITD or? Complete with spares and full prep. Ev-erything goes! $68,500.00 Baja Brokers. Go to bajaconcepts.com-Ref# 787. Class 1 race car parts, Summers Bros. (B) Laughlin 2000 winning Class 12 A-ARM CHENOWTH 2 SEAT, for Tim_ (619) 258-1746. outboard floater hubs, Summers Single Seater Chenowth, Major mo- Porsche 3.6 cylinder, Fields auto HOT CLASS 10-Dunrite chassis front hubs/brakes, Brakes, Bilstein tor, King Bypass, prepped and ready transaxle, 934 CV's Sway-A-Way, with Honda motor/Nlendeola trans, 9100 Series race shocks, coilover to keep winning Ref # 807, Fod Fab, Bilstein coilover/bypass, rnid-engine2seat,Kingcoiloverand front end, Bus Box, 300M torsions, $24,900.00 (C) PreRunner Raceco Howe power steering, Fortin, Jamar, King bypass shocks, all the best parts, 930CVjoints,ARPM2387ccType 2-1600 with new front end and a Halon anti-fire system, Simpson, Verysanofabrication,likenew,only FOR SALE: 5.3 Liter Chevy, 1, Hezco, Deist Centerline, Yoko-1915cc motor, very dependable, all VDO, Mastercraft, BFG, Centerline raced once, back injury forces sale, · Fields Automatic, All fresh, Nye -hama, UMP, etc ... Very fast, very fresh shocks, and a radio, all for + spares, with fresh prep. $45,000.00 radio, helmets, and trailer included! Frank built. Fast car $75,000.00. beefy! Ref #785 $28,500.00 Call $8,900.00 Ref# 808. Call Baja Bro-obo Ref #794. BajaBrokers (760) Ref #750 $59,000.00Call Baja Bro-Call Dale (909) 766-4222 days, Baja Brokers at (760) 723-2117. kers at (760) 723-2117. 723-2117. kers at (760) 723-2117. (909) 652-1880 eves . ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• : 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 µhoto, 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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FOR SALE: Class 10 Lothringer single seat, Honda VTECH Motor, Fortin 5 speed, Fortin Rear Hubs, 934 CV's, Electromotive Fuel Manage-ment System, Fox Shocks, Hella Hid Lights, Flameout, The best of every-thing. Fully prepped and ready to race. $50,000.00 or $25,000.00 with-out motorand transmission. CallJim Tucker (760)375-0::::27::;3:;:. ::;;:::;;;;::;:;;;:;:;;;, 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, Ba·a Brokers 760 723-2117. Bob Gordon's Class 1-Chenowth MilleniumCar Package, Fat 3.0L V-6, Fresh top of the line Fortin Box, Sway-A-Way, BFG Projects, rear bead locks, 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. 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, },fastercraft, Flame Out system, some spare parts included, 250hp Ref # 805. $35k. Call Baja Brokers at (760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: Fortin trans, set up for Honda w/big CY"s and built for rear engine $8,500.00. (949) 289-0251. Tim Scalzo. FOR SALE: Triple E tubular chas-sis, 360cc water-cooled 2 cycle, elec-tric start, belt drive. Updated suspen-sion, Aluminum powder coated body. Lots of spare parts. This car is fast and reliable. $5,000.00 OBO. Call Stu at (619) 296-1060 or (619) 925-0945. Page 58 FOR SALE: 2000 Jimco, Single Seat, A-Arm, Class l. No expense spared, works awesome, very reliable and ready to win! SCAT Y-4 rear engine, Fortin DGN 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: Chevy Pre-runner/8S 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. 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: Alumicraft 4 seat PreRunner 20" Wheel travel Hon-da Y-6, Mendeola MD4Sm, 930, 4-piston CNC , Howe Power rack, Fox coilover and bypass, 2" frt hubs, Beard, PIM, PCI, Diest, Lowrance 1600 GPS, Fuel Cell, removable windshield, roof rack, as new condi-tion. $48,000.00 858 451-1167. :i'• tr FOR SALE: Moulton/Mirage SCORE Lite Class 12 Single Seat, completely prepped and ready to race proven winner and finisher. Built with the best, Geoff Hart 135 hp motor, Fortin Trans, Fox Shocks, Foddrill Arms and spindles, Summers Bros. Hubs, 930-30 spline axles, PCI Radio, etc. plus many spare parts, tires and wheels. ALSO, 22ft enclosed trailer with cabinets and portable work bench and open trailer with tire rack. Everything goes, $30,000.00. Call Jim or Mike Zupanovich@ Har-bor Diesel (562) 591-5665. 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. 1)11 for only $80,000.00. Call Robbie at (702) 889-07 50 or Email I at ofrdracer@aol.com. I 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: A-Arm PreRunner For $ale. 400 hp 351 Trick C4, 20' ft travel, 26' rear travel. Super Clean. $70,000.00. Call Dale @ (909) 766-4222 days, (909) 652-1880 evenings. FOR SALE: 1998 XR400 Honda Desert Race Bike. Pro tapers, Emig triple champ, Acerbis, White Bros, White Power filters, Precision con-cepts suspension, IMS tank 4.0 guards, Pipe tip brushing guards, Alu-minum ramp & stand. Spare parts incl. Asking $4,150.00. Will deliver - 760 922-8486 lv messa e a son. FORSALE: 2001 Champion Buggy, Attig built CORR 1600- Fresh Fat motor and Attig trans w/new ring & pinion, spares. Race Ready with per-fect set up. Go · to www.federicoracing.com for more info. Also, extra Fat motor and At-tig trans. Call Steven at (84 7) 251-4 789. $13,500.00 car, $2,500.00 mo-tor and $1,700.00 trans. March 2001 FOR S~E: RACECO ,~/1600 One FORSALE: CORRProLiteToy~ta Of_A K~d Tandem-118 Chromol~ Truck. Greaves built w/new dyno He'!11 shifter, many n~w partS, axles, time only Probst motor. Also new ra-CY s boots, d~, spnng plates, front diator & Howe steering. Truck is a~s, suspension beam, ~ox shocks, 7 I prepped and race ready by Greaves 8 shafts, D.J. 091 trans with_Hewlands, and is in Green Bay Wisc. $50,000.00 New Lawless motor, 150 miles on new or partial trade for street rod-drag car prep. Gould also be single seater, w/ra-or? Call (210) 533-8056. dio and spares, very reliable car. $9,500.00 or trade. (760) 956-2741. FOR SALE: Score Lite; Toyota True Grit winner ZK, 2nd in points (Score) has finished every mile in new millen-nium. BFG's, FAT motor, Fox bypasses & coils. Moulton chassis & rear anns. All Foddrill front end. Ready to win San Felipe. $29,000.00 obo (some spares) Call Ty (661) 947-2131. FOR SALE: Pro-Lite Ford Ranger Esslinger-2700cc tall block, dry sump, King, Beard, Cone axles, Willwood, CNC power cylinders, Fiberglass, all new $35,000.00. Call Joe (520) 667-2194. FOR SALE: Excite Pro-Truck. Complete package up for grabs. Fin-ished 3rd in points last year. All the best stuff, Leon Patten engine all up-grades on chassis, by-pass shocks. Tons of spares including spare Leon Patten engine carb to pan. Too many others to list. Asking 110k. including all parts. You couldn't re-place it for over double ... Also avail-able race Semi complete (old Herbst tractor and trailer) asking 90k will accept reasonable offer for whole package. Serious inquires only please call Greg @. Foutz Motorsports. (480) 838-2100. FOR SALE: 5 Seat chromoly chas-sis, 23" travel with 3rd generation Mazda fuel injected turbo charged motor with inter cooler, Mendeola MD4S trans, Sway-A-Way shocks with By-pass shocks on the rear, Douglas rims, chrome package in-cluding floor boards and center con-sul, Interior side panels upholstered, and many more extras. Very clean must see. $45,000.00 Phone (909) 849-2568. FORSALE: 2000VWBugDragCar, Tube Chassis, Mendeola MD4 Trans, Stranger frt struts, 4 wheels disc, rear coil over, Centerline wheels, MT slicks, 2234 cc VW air cool engine in rear, 52mm Webers. Too much to list, $25,000.00 OBO (775) 355-7440 775 851-9656. . FOR SALE: 1999 BITD Pro Truck Championship truck. Laguna Seca Champion . Lots of spare parts; tranny converters, tires & rims, radia-tor, ball joints, uprights plus a lot more. Engine by Hammes Bros., Prepped ready to race. $80,000.00 w/ parts. Call Jeff Hoskins (760) 344-2790. email Jeff @ HoskinsRacin .com. FOR SALE: Cindy Greinkes 2/1600, 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 s12are parts and motor and trans for$$$. Contact Baja Brokers Ref# 790 (760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: Class 7S 1993 Ford Ranger Longbed, 1999 Laughlin win-ner, Currnuit shocks, 40 spline Ford 9 inch full floater, Cone spindles & Hub, National Springs, T-5 trans, Race Ready with complete spare package. $19.900.00 obo. Joel (760) 256-2941 or 760 252-2206. FOR SALE: Class 4100 Ford Expe-dition, Ready for upcoming BITD April race. 1st place pays$ 10,000.00, 2nd pays $5,000.00. Only 5 in class! Great opportuniry-many spare parts. Popular truck! More photos at www. tearnexped i tion. com. $32,000.00 Call David (806) 358-4956. Dusty Times

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-tr FOR SALE: CORR SPORTS-MAN-2 FOR SALE; 2nd in points in 2000, 1 win, 9 top 5. 700 hp Ki-netic Racing engine, Walker Evans Racing Shocks, Summers Bros 40 spline axles, American Racing rims, AutoMeter Ultralite gauges, C&R Racing radiator. Spares include trans, 2 converters, gear set, drive-shaft, axles, rims, new /used fiberglass. Includes 20'x 20' canopy. Race Ready $30,000.00. Visit www.georgeschultz.com or call George@ 1-847-687-6933. 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. SATURDAY FOR SALE: 7S Toyota Tacoma, 1997 & 2000 Toyota Milestone 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 days. A TIEN SHORT COURSE RAC-ERS-Pro 2 CORR Ford Lucas truck, $69,000.00 obo-PRO4 Dodge CORR/Borg-Warner Champion $59,000.00obo (1) Jeep UltraStock remaining $14,000.00 obo. Excellent 48' Tractor Trailer, belly boxes, gen-erator, compressor, loaded, complete with Tractor $33,000.00 obo Ref 779-784. Call Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. FORSALE: 5/1600ForSale. Turn-key, ready to race. Wiks engine, built by Lothringer, too much to list. MUST SELL QUICKLY, broke my neck on dirtbike. $6,500.00. (661) 946-6124. FOR SALE: Ford Class 1/8, 485ci, Kriptonyte crank, Cobra Jet Heads, JE Pistons Dyno 6K RPM @611 hpw/ 53516 tq, 4 new King Coilovers, 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. FOR SALE: Lee Leighton built, 2912 Type 4 race engine 48 Weber dry sumpt Trick head and intake work. Parts best money can buy. (reliable and fresh) For more information on engine specs call (Lee 909-682-3816) $7,000.00 or best offer. Must sell ($16,000.00 in motor). 3RD ANNUAL OFF-ROAD SWAP MEET PRESENTED BY: CURT LE DUC'S CALIFORNIA PRE-FUN FOR SALE: Class 5 Unlimited. Pautter Type l 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 comers, SACO magnum Steer-ing box w/ram, PCI hook up, Centerline oeadlocks 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. APRIL 14,2001 7 AM T03 PM LOCATION & DIRECTIONS R & B AUTO CENTER FONTANA, CALIFORNIA EXIT CITRUS OFF RAMP ON 10 FREEWAY 4 MILES NORTH TO FOOTHILL BLVD. TURN LEFT BUY AND SELL PARTS FOR ALL YOU'RE OFF-ROAD TOYS AND RACE VEHICLES "SUPER DEALS" Section 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Swap Meet is arranged to include the following sections: group cost used parts and accessories $40.00 race trucks $35.00 race buggy's $35.00 motorcycles $15.00 sand toys $35.00 quads and 3 wheelers $20.00 trailers and tow vehicles $35.00 pre-runners MFG & RETAIL DISPLAYS $35.00 $40.00 size 1 0xl 5' 1 0xl 5' 1 0xl 5' 3x8' l0xl 5' 5x8' 1 0xl 5' 1 0xl 5' 1 0xl 5' l O 4x4 jeeps $35.00 l Ox 1 5' CLEAN OUT THOSE GARAGES AND BRING YOUR OFF ROAD COLLECTABLES TO THE 3RD ANNUAL OFF-ROAD SWAP MEET. ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND IN SO. CALIFORNIA'S HISTORY. BRING THE FAMILY ADMISSION: $5.00 PER ADULTS AND KIDS UNDER 16 ARE FREE Please Print TO RESERVE A SPACE, FILL OUT FORM AND MAIL WITH A CHECK BEFORE APRIL 11 TH TO: CALIFORNIA PRE-FUN 39067 ORCHARD STREET CHERRY VALLEY, CA 92223 Name:· Phone ------------------------------------Street: ____________ City _________ .State __ Zip ___ _ Section desired: Amount of spaces: Enclose check for required spots MOVE IN ON FRIDAY APRIL 13TH@5 PM UNTIL OPENING SAT. MORNING@ 7 AM. FIRST COME FIRST SERVE. DON'T BE LATE FOR MORE INFO: NANCY OR CURT l-909-845-5292 E-,MAIL: OFFROADMOM@HOTMAIL.COM OR R&B l-90 9-8 29-1140 Dusty Times March 2001 FOR SALE: Class 9 Single Seat, Fat Motor, fresh trans, Fox shocks, Wright rack &pinonon Board Flame out, Dual cyl. Brakes, KC Lights, Sway A Way, Fast and reliable, race ready, #904 VORRA car. Northern CA $4,500.00. Call Dave (415) 479-3271 days, (707) 792-1164 eves. 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, racing and military use for the -last 20 years. Applicant should be skilled in MIG and TIO welding tech-ajques, and have a general under-standing metallurgy. Medical benefits and a profit sharing program are of-fered. Please send resumes to: Chen-owth Racing Pro.ducts 94 3 Vernon Way El Cajon, CA 92020. MISCELLANEOUS SALE-SALE-SALE-Two Way radio-with scan, Superior performance 55 watts, too manv features to list. New lower price $299.00. For more info Call Chuck Strange (909) 657-8525. TAKE THE JEEPSPEED CHAL-LENGE in a street legal Cherokee at 3 even ts commencing at MDR Ridgecrest April 21st. $6,000.00. Prize fund. Visit www.jeepspeed.com for details. Numerous cars are now under construction. CALL MIKE AT T &J 4X4. (714) 633-0991.W e 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. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Aggressive Suspensions ........................... 42 Baker ............................................................ 31 Best In The Desert ..................................... 11 Bilstein Shock Absorbers ........................... 5 Cactus .......................................................... 18 Camburg Engineering ................................ 48 Checkers ...................................................... 29 Coast Resorts .......•....................................... 9 Digital Communications Systems ............ 27 Eibach Springs ............................................ 26 Estero Beach ............................................... 23 Fabtech .•...................................................... 34 FAT Performance .................................•..... 39 Fox Racing Shox ......................... Back Cover Fuel Safe Racing Cells ..................•......••... 20 German Auto ............................................... 25 Michael E. James Insurance Agency ...... 33 Kartek Off Road •.......•.......................... 47, 49 Kawaguchi Honda ...................... : ............... 13 King Shock Tech ................. ., ...................... 44 LeDuc's Off Road Swap Meet .................. 59 Mark V Fiberglass ...................................... 17 Mastercraft .................... · ............................ 40 McKenzie Performance Products ............ 45 MDR ................•............................................. 41 M.O.R.E ........................................................ 19 Nevada Off Road Buggy ............................ 46 Neo Oil ......................................................... 28 PCI Race Radios and Equipment ................ 2 Pike's Family·Restaurant.. ........................ 16 Race Ready .................................................. 43 Rancho Performance ................................. 43 Short Course Off Road Racing Assn ....... 22 SNORE ......... : ....................•...................... 4, 35 Sway-A-Way Corp ...................................... 12 Transaxle Engineering .............................. 38 Tri-Mil Industries ......••............................... 44 Union 76 Racing Gasoline ..............•.......... 32 · Valley Performance ...•............................... 15 VORRA .......................................................... 37 Page 59

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