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Volume 19 - Number 10 October 2002 Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor John Calvin &sociate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance Scott Contributors C&C Race Photos Sheryl Cannon Carrera Photography Mike Chamberlain J&L Photography Jim Culp Mike Del Col Martin Holmes Rod Koch Ralph Mason Ron Miller Rene Montana Byrle Moore Troy Robinson Jeff Straw Darryl Smith Tony Tellier Paul Timmerman Trackside Photo Art Director Larry Worsham ia Subscription Rates: $ 25 .00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Sub-scription rates on request. I Contributions: DUSTY TIMES welcomes contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited material will be returned only by request and with a self addressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 87 50-17 3 2) is published monthly by Hill-side Racing Corp, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311, (818) 882-0004 with additional Dusty Times, LLC offices at 415 N. Higgins Avenue, Suite lA, Missoula, MT 59802. Copy-right by Hillside Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the pub-lisher. Periodical Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at additional mailing offices. POS1MASTER: Send address change to DUSTY TIMES, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new address, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. snapshot of the ,-,onth ... Norm and Steve Schmidt took the Class 5 honors at the 1984 SCORE San Felipe 250, they finished eighth overall in their good looking car. DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to 8x10 will be considered. In This Issue ... FEATURES Best In The Desert Tonopah 300 by Judy Smith .................................. 8 52nd Neste Rally Finland by Martin Holmes ....................................... 18 ORW /CODE/FRT Lazo de Amistad by Beryl Moore ...................... 22 Mojave Desert Racing California 200 ............................................. 30 Kempsey 500 In Australia by Ste11e Hilton .......................................... 37 CORR At Crandon by John Cal11in ..................................................... 40 Ontario Off Road At Mohawk by Wes Kibble ................................... 46 California Wild Heritage Act by Sheryl Cannon ................................ 52 DEPARTMENTS Happenings .......................................................................................... 5 Trail Notes .......................................................................................... , 6 American Racing Jeeps peed by Cli11e Skilton ....................................... 48 CRS Report by the Director. ................................................................. 49 Pro Truck Race Report ...................................................................... 54 Good Stuff Directory ....................................................................... 55 Classified Ads ..................................................................................... 62 Index To Advertisers ......................................................................... 63 on The caver Gary and Mark Weyhrich had a great BITD Tonopah 300, with almost zero problems they led all the way, took the Class 1550 win as well as the overall in their Chevy powered J imco. Color Photography byTrackside Photo Richard Boyle took his fourth consecutive overall victory at the MDR California 200, this race he had some real competition but he still took the overall by eight minutes. .. Ou b . Dustyti Color Photography by Track.side Photo Vmt r We Site at mes.com '5ubscribe :Joday lo DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 1 year -$25.00 □ 2 years -$40.00 □ 3 years -$55.00 . (no .credit cards please) □ NEW □ RENEWAL Name -----------------~--Address -------------------City --------------------St ate Zip ------------------Primary Interest Cars D Trucks D Motorcy~les D Send check .or money order to: DUSTY. TIMES 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 Canadian - 1 year $30.00 US ■ Overseas subscription rates upon request Dusty Times October 2002 Page 3

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r 2002 Happenings ... Count') Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH Cum AUToMOVII.lSTICA SAN QmNTIN <www.codeoffroad.com.mx> mail@codeoffroad.com.mx October 4-6, 2002 Los 200 Millas de Bocica Santa Maria Laguna Salada PRO & SPORTSMAN SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP OFF ROAD RACING 192 N. STATE ROAD 267, SUITE 267 AVON, IN 46123 AMERICAN RALLY SPORT GROUP, INc. 3650 SOUTH POINTE CIRCLE, SUITE 205 LAUGHLIN, NV 89208 (702) 298-8171/FAX: (702) 521-0597 E MAIL: roger@rallyusa.com A.MmlcAN TRIALS ASSOCIATION AMA OBSERVED Th.w..s SOUTHERN C ALIFORNIA CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES BILL MARKUM -PRESIDENT (909) 860-1857 24 HR HOTLINE -(714) 562-7742 E MAIL: bmark909@aol.com <www.atatrails.com> ASOCIACION EsTATAL DE AUTOMOVILISMO SAM l.AsELL, TECH INSPECTOR AP-ro42 SAN JOSE DEL CABO BAJA CALIFORNIA DEL SuR. MEXICO AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSIIlP DARRYL SMITH 19 SOMERS ST. CASHMERE, QUEENSLAND, 4500, AUSTRALIA DUSTY TIMES @bigoond.com AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFF ROAD CLASS 10 CARS ONLY RENALD VAILLANCOURT 3069 DAGENAIS WEST LAVAL QUEBEC, CANADA H7P 1T7 (450) 622-4440 BARONA SAND DRAG ASSN. P.O. Box 1521 LAKESIDE, CA 92040 AU Races Are Night Races AU Races At &rona Raceway, Lakeside, CA BBM MARKETING PROMOTIONS OFF ROAD SHORT COURSE RACING & SPECIAL EVENT MARKETING 4344 VALLEY VIEW AVE. NORCO, CA 92860 (909) 340-6474 BEST IN THE.DESERT RACING ASSOCIATION 3475 BOULDER HIGHWAY LAS VEGAS, NV 89121 (702) 457-5775/FAX (702) 641-2431 E-MAIL: bitd@worldnet.att.net September 20-22, 2002 Baja Mex 300 World Championship Baja California, Mexico December 6-8, 2002 Las Vegas 200 BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTERPRISES 341 W. 2575 NORTH SUNSET, UT 84015 (801) 773-1651/(801) 773-9319 FAX BRIGIITON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 BRIGHTON, ONTARIO, CANADA KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/FAX (613) 475-3250 CAJOR CLUB AUTOMOVILISTA /UARENSE DE CHAMPIONSHIP OFF-ROAD RACING 7210 GATEWAY EAST EL PASO, TX 79915 (915) 593-4848 RALPH GARCIA 011-52-16-17-45-42 CESAR FUENTES CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES SUE ROBINSON • DIRECTOR 845 SCHOOHOUSE ROAD RAMONA, CA 92065 (760) 788-3809 E-MAIL: crsdirecc@honnail.com WEBSITE <californiarallyseries.com> JoHN DILLON, SoP AC RALLY STEWARD sopacrallysteward@hotmail.com September 28, 2002 Treeline Clt1b Rally West Covina, CA November 1,2, 2002 Prescott Forest Pro & Club Rally Prescott, AZ December 13-15, 2002 Ramada Express International Rally Laughlin, NV CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box 400 MAYWOOD, -CA 90270 (323) 560-SHOW Dusty Times CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 645 PIERRE, SD 57501 DAVE A.!Y-Ms (PILOTS AND BAJAS) (605) 224-9481 DON ENGL;EMAN (BIKES) (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. RICHARDS P.O. Box 332 FAIR HAVEN, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CI..AmTON HI-JACKERS I.C.O. TOM DELAUDER SR . 1091 TWP. LINE ROAD WELLSVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Harrison CALLE 6TA FRAcc Co. DE SAN QUINTIN SAN QUINTIN, BC, MEXICO HERACLIQ PATINO (011 52 616-5-22--07) Cum AUT0MoVILIST1co SAN VICENTE SAN VICENTE OFF ROAD ENSENADA, BC, MEXICO USA ]AN WRIGHT (011 52 61746834) RAMON CASTRO & RUBEN ACEVEDO (61637/7 0034) CMC CoNTINENTAL MOTOSPORT CLUB P.O. Box 3187 'MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690-3178 FAX: (714) 367-1608 CODE OFPRoAD P.O. Box 2320 CALEXICO, CA 92232-2328 USA PHONE (760) 455-8069 TEL/FAX (01152) 553-4087 Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico November 29-December 1, 2002 Mangiamos 300 Mexicali To San Felipe Baja California, Mexico (This event is a co-promotion with ZR Promotions and will include motorcycles and quads) CoLORADO ffn.L CIDm ASSOCIATION BARB VAHSHOLTZ, PRESIDENT (719) 531-3642 W/(719')687-9827 H P.O Box 8286 COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP P.O. Box 392 CALEXICO, CA 92232 HECTOR CERECER 011-52-65-66-4458 CORR/LucAs On. (317) 272-2827/FAX: (317) 272-2900 CORVA 1500 WEST EL CAMINO, SUITE 352 SACRAMENTO, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA EXT 42 FAX (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS DAVE VAN DEREN 2405 BAKER AVE. EVERETT, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (AU events at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thurston Count, ORV Park, Olympia, WA) DAKAR RALLY DARREN SKILTON BAJA AUTOMOTIVE ADVENTURES 455 E. OCEAN BLVD., SUITE 208 LoNG BEACH, CA 90802 (562) 755-2278/FAX: (562) 590-7925 Baiaautomotive@Yahoo.com GET READY FOR • SCOTT'S SPECIAL BAJA 1000 PLOT TRAIL & DANGER ICONS I Lowrance Globalmap 2400, 3000MT or LCx16 Color ~nits Updated with PCI Special Race Prep. These units have ten 10,000 point plot trails for the unltimate on course detail. Additional features include:. Time, Race Timer, Current, Average, & Max Speeds, Altimeter, Volts. . With these great features you'll know what it'll take to get to the next checkpoint on time. Units Starting at $429.00 Call Scott for how GPS can benefit you. SHOEI HELMETS FOR 1000 MILES OF COMFORT FROM $349 PCI RACE RADIOS. NEW .GLOBALSTAR SATELLITE PHONES $499.00 2888 GUNDRY AVE., SIGNAL HILL, CA 90755 800-869-5636 562-427-8177 FAX 562-426-3589 October 2002 Pages

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' Trail Notes ... _ B IKES AND CARS -We received a lovely present from Jeff Cepielik, the Vice Pre.sid~nt at Toy Zone. A great looking Class I car and a just as good looking motorcycle, just what everyone need to dress up their desk at the office or at home. The models are bedecked with SCORE stickers under an agreement between the two companies and they are complete with working suspension, front and rear and are about as realis-tic as they can be. Look for -them in Wal-Mart or your favorite toy store under the "Toy· Zone" emblem or give Toy Zone a call at 323-881-8928 for your nearest dealer. A RE You SITTING DowN? -Mastercraft and Taylor Made Seats are back together again, after 30 years. Robbie Pierce of Mastercraft and John Tiedemann of Taylor Made announced the signing of an-agreement by which Mastercraft will manufacture, market and distribute the Taylor Made suspension seat. "We are very proud to add 'the Taylor Made seat to our line of race seats. It has a unique style and feel that the veteran drivers have appreciated for years" Robbie stated. "It's great that the Taylor Made name and reputation will carry on, back where it all started", said John. 0 JlBWE FORESTS RALLY -Mark Higgins had a few problems late in the rally but he still managed to pull off his first win on the SCCA ProRally Series. Mark, and his trusty Hyundai, along with co-rider Claire Mole won the contest with over a minute in hand. David Higgins and Daniel Barritt were second in Open, driving a Subaru Iinpreza. Lauchlin O'Sullivan took the Group 2 win in his Mitsubishi Lancer RMR and that gave him the Drivers and Manufacturers title for 2002. Seamus Burke and Rpry Kennedy took the Group N win at Ojibwe, their Subaru lmpreza just edging out the Subaru lmpreza of Tim O'Neal and Martin Headland by 3 2 seconds. Bob Olson and Conrad Ketelsen were the Group 5 winners in their Porsche 911. David and Rick Hintz were second in Group Sin their Mazda RX-7 Turbo. The Production GT division went to Bob Henderson and John McArthur in their Subaru lmpreza WRX, Valdenaras Maciukevicius was second in POT in his Subaru Impreza. Mike Halley and David Weiman took the Production win in their new VW Beetle, Jaime Thomas an·d Tina Lengacher took the runner up spot in their Subaru Impreza. Next on the SCCA ProRally series is the Wild West in Olympia, Washington, September 7 and 8. S CORE 2003 SCHEDULE -Thank you SCORE for your early release of next years schedule. It certainly helps Dusty Times with some of our scheduling. The SCORE Desert Series will be split, three races in Nevada and th.ree in Mexico. As usual, the season ieads off with the Laughiin Desert Challenge, January 16-19, 2003. March 14-15 it's the 171h Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250, May 30 through June 1 it's the 351h Tecate SCORE Baja 500 in Ensenada. It's back to Henderson in July for the 2nd SCORE Henderson's Terrible 250 in Henderson, Nevada. Let's hope the weather gods grant us a somewhat cooler race this time. The 8th Las Vegas Primm· 300 happens on September 12-13 and the grand finale, the 361h Tecate SCORE Baja 100 will be run November 13-16. This is the SCORE official schedule and we hope it's cast in concrete. For more information you can contact SCORE at 818-225-8402 or on the web at www.score-internarional.com A DDITlONAL 2003 RACE SCHEDULES -Dusty Times would like to ask all race and rally promoters to submit their 2003 schedules to us as soon as possible. As you know, we do a center spread layout of schedules of as many series as we know of in our January issue each year. If you would like to be included in this section, send us your schedule right away. There is no c~arge and your schedule will also appear each month of the year in our Happenings section. Thanks in advance for your coopera-tion. MOTORCYCLE SHOWS -TEAM Powersports, producer of Cycle World International Shows, Presented by Toyota Trucks has announced it's 2003 schedule. Commencing early in November in San Francisco, then St. Louis mid November, Dal-las late in November and the first three weeks in December at Long Beach, CA, Seattle and then Denver. All this in 2002. For 2003 the show will be in New York City, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Ohio in January, 2003. In February the show is in Chicago and Detroit. The final two shows, in March will be held in Daytona and Washington, DC. For more information contact TEAM Powersports, 201 Sandpointe Avenue, Suite 600, Santa Ana, CA 92707. 800-854-3112 or 714-513-8400. See ya there! S TREET TYPE MOTORCYCLES -FYI -There is a bike theft preventative ·you sh.ould check out. Ultimate Security Systems has developed "Power Lock-MC, the first system that is guaranteed to prevent hot wiring. The device attaches permanently to the starter motor and cannot be circumvented by cutting or jumping ignition wires. An electronically coded key is used to unlock the system and the system reactivates itself 45 seconds after the ignition is turned off. Suggested retail price is $169-$229. Suggest you give them a call at 800-689-8004. They are located in Irvine, CA. WANNA WIN A JEEP ?-Pacific Northwest 4 Wheel Drive Association is raffling off a 2002 Jeep Wrangler. 4 cylinder, 5 speed, loaded with everything your heart could possibly desire, from Bilstein shocks to the best BFG's available fender flares, Warn winch, all the trick stuff. It's five bucks a ticket, the drawing will be on February 8, 2003 at the PNW4WDA winter convention in Moses Lake, Washington. You need not be present to win. For more info see the Jeep in the October issue classified ad section or call 800-537-7845 for more information. Page 6 DF.CA1UR FOlJR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB DECATUR, TX 76234 ToMAl.LEN (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 DESERT STEEL MOTORSPORTS 1865 CoMMANDER DRIVE LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ 86403 (520) 855-6125 EASn;RN OFF-RoAD RACING A~. TOM DEUUDER, SR. 1091 TOWNSHIP LINE ROAD WELLSVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 f.NsmADA BAJA Ow RoAD RACING Av. REFORMA 1136 ENSADA, BC, MX 011-52-646-1818989 Eus10 011-52-646-1715230 AARON Races for buggys & Motorcycles EsTERo BEACH INTERNATIONAL SHORT CoURSE RACING V!CfORIA GALINOO ENSENADA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO 0ll-52-646-176-6230 FORDA FwRIDA OFF RoAD DRIVER~ Ass'N. JASON LEIBIN . (727) 376-4176 November 17, 2002 Mar, Apr, Ma:y, Noo at Davidson Racewa;, FRT MOTORSPORTS 250 KENNEDY, #2 CHULA VISTA, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 E-MAIL: FlJD9@cox.net September29,2002 Precision Conceptli/Saasta Chevron Motocross October 6, 2002 Cheseburger 100 October 19, 2002 McMillin/RCD Suspensions Superstition November 2, 2002 Saasta Chevron Sweetheart Kiss November 3, 2002 Cycle Parts West Notorious Dawg December 8, 2002 Alpine Tile Rudolph's Revenge December 31, 2002 McMillin Companies Dash Bike & Car Race GORRA GEORGIA OFF ROAD RACING Assoc/AT/ON 4 20 HOSEA ROAD UWRENCEVILLE, GA 30245 (404) 963--0252 GPORRA GREAT PlANEs OFF ROAD RACING Ass'OCIAT/ON PAUL HUFFMAN (402) 296-4349 JESS URWIN (402) 944-2193 AU races art short course, stadium si,le. Classes -Sportsman Bugg:,, 1/2/5-1600, Sport Truck and Quads. Nebraska Raceway Park is just minutes west of Omaha, NE. <www.goorra.com> 10K Fmm WHEELERS P.O. Box 36 CLEVES, OHIO 45002 (AU flltnts staged at the club grounds in Cleves. Ohio) INTERN,-\TIONAL lcE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 ST. PAUL, MN 55108 STEVE BEDDOR (612) 937-3816/FAX 474-2769 INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS PRoMoTioNs, INc. P.O. Box 2910 MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 ]EEPSPEED RACING FOR STREET LEGAL JEEP CHEROKEES 1826 N. WINDES DRIVE ORANGE, CA 92869 (714) 538-7434 <www.)eepspeed.com> e-mail: 1eepspeedcom@aol.com KAMLooPS BRONCO BUSTER 4woCuJB P.O. Box 465 l<AMLOOPS, BC, CANADA VZG5L2 Bos (250) 374-7175 DAYS RANDY (250) 579-9621 EVES. October 2002 WES (250) 351-2819 LAS VEGAS SANDSPORTS & 0FFROAD EXPO (626) 961-3782 <www.orerunners.com> <www.megashow.com> L.I.T.R.E. JEFF ELROD (408) 926-0522 JIM ARUTA (408) 247-4402 MAMAfuuTA ()pp ROAD RACING WIS CAJu.os AlVAREZO PANAMERICANA AVE #5105 Co. JUAREZ, CHIH., MX 0ll-52-1637-1799 MlcmGAN BuooY BUIIDERS DUNE BUGGY TRADE SHOW (517) 543-7214 <www.buggybuilders.com> MicmGAN OFF RoAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 JONES ROAD GRAND LEDGE, ML 48837 (517) 627-6200 Mororc,cks, Quads, A1Vs and Pilots only MAORA MID-AMERICA 0FP RoAD AssOCIATION MIKE TURNER (217) 235-2473 P.O. Box 184 MATTOON, IL 61938 <www .maoraracing.com> LINCOLN TRAIL MOTORSPORTS PARK CAsEY, IL (217) 932-2041 <Off Road Playground.com> (800) 555-3167 TODD AsHWORTH (217) 932-3216 PIANET X-TREME MSP MAsoN, IL 618-686-2650 Short Course Series September28,2002 LTM, Casey, IL Endurance Series September29,2002 LTM, Casey, IL MoJA VE DFSERT RACING 1853 PARKWAY DRIVE s. EL MONTE, CA 91733 (626) 442-9320/(626) 579-6051 FAX E-MA11.: mdrracing@aol.com September 27-28, 2002 Lucerne 300 Lucerne Valley, CA November 22-23, 2002 Stoddard 250 Barstow, CA M.O.R.E. HIGH DESERT CHAMPIONSHIP P.O. Box 1231 BARSTOW, CA 92311-1231 (760) 253-4453 September 21, 2002 Barstow, CA December 7, 2002 Lucerne CA MSBA MICHIGAN SPORT BUGGY AssOCIATJON DAVE BARRET 6363 NIGHTINGALE DR. FLINT, ML 48506 (810) 730-9221 MoToWEST WINTER TRIALS SERIES B1LLMARKHAM (909) 860-1857 <www.lTStrials.com> AU events at Perris Racewa, (At Reed Valle, withaschool) NATIONAL Mun RACING AssN. RT. #l - Box 380 DAVE OR MARLENE RYAN PAlATKA, FL 32177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK ASSN. BUTCH CHAPIN MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS 1404 EAsr 3RD STREET HASTINGS, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 NORTHERN Omo OFF RoAD RAcINGAssN. GARY WULFF (724) 283-2678 OFF ROAD EXPO 2002 (626) 599-8622 October 5-6, 2002 Fairlpex, · Pomona, CA Omo OFF RoADERS INc. 1427 GOSHEN HILLS RrnoS.E. NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO 44663 jIM KENDEL (216) 339-4674 AU races held at Hamson Count:, Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONTARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION RICK T!CHBOURNE, PUBLIC RELATIONS (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) OUTLAW SEVEN PICKUP 9269 UMMELMAN ST. Louis, MO 63123 (314) 631-8140/FAX: ((314) 631-1921 PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP , 495 N. CoMMONS DRIVE AURORA, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100 <www.usoff-road.com> Pnu:s PEAK P.O. Box 6962 CoLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 PINE BARRENS ROUGH RIDERS OFF ROAD RACING SAND DRAGY, Tf.JFF Tht..CKS, lJEsERT SHORT Can& Tht..CKS, B~ & l}uAa, (609) 660-0402/(609) 660-0066 October 13, 2002 Southwick, MA PRoTRuCK RACING SERIES 9409 ABRAHAM WAY SANTEE, CA 92071-2856 (619) 449-6252/FAX: (619) 449-6470 October 4-6, 2002 BITD Baja Mex 300 NovemberS-9,2002 SCORE Baja 1000 . December 6-8, 2002 BITD Las Vegas 200 PlJRE °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 ExrosmoN (888) 836 7918 -SCCA PR.ORALLY SERIES SPORTS CAR CLUB OF AMERICA 9033 E. EAsTER PLACE ENGLEWOOD, CO 80112 (303) 967-9660 October 18-19, 2002 Lake Superior Houghton, Ml Novemberl-3,2002 Prescott Forest Phoenix, AZ SFX MoTORSPORTS GROUP 495 N. CoMMONS DRIVE, SUITE 200 AURORA, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100/(630) 556-6180 FAX SCORE SCORE INTERNATIONAL 23961 CRAFTSMAN Ro., SUITE A CALABASAS, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/FAX: (818) 225-8102 November 20-23, 2002 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 Baja, California Mexico SNORE SOUTHERN NEVADA OFF ROAD ENTHUSIASTS P.O. Box 270516 LAs VEGAS, NV 89127 (702) 452-4522 October4-5, 2002 Gold Coast 32nd SNORE 250 Las Vegas, NV November 15-16, 2002 Western States Championship Barstow, CA December 14-15, 2002 Baja 250 Las Vegas, NV SONS OF THUNDER 4 WHEELERS RACE DIVISION KEITH STEWART (714) 522-1899 SODA SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD DRIVERS AssOClATION TERRY WOLFE 7839 W. NORTH AVENUE Dusty Times

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WAUWATOSA, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA SOUTHEASTERN OPP ROAD CHALLENGE STEVE RULE (800) 313-5621 OR((770) 963-0252 MIKE MOORE - (224) 272-5400 {)pp ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERED SERIES PRESIDENT -GEOFF LEE 1243 TRICE ROAD LEBANON, TN 37087 (615) 453-5830 C!ASS REP. - 1/2-1600 BRUCE MEYERS (865) 453-1005 CLASS REP. - 9 & UNLTD. MICHAEL MOORE (334) 271-7035 OUTLAwREP. DON PONDER (314) 631-8190 (All Races at Wheeling in the Count) 900 Acres) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TIMING ASSOCIATION & BONNEVILLE NATIONALS, !Ne. 43807 40TH STREET EAsr LANCASTER, CA 93535 (MON-FRI 8:30 A.M. TO 1:00 P.M.) (661) 946-6986/FAX:(661) 946-6483 INTERNET: <http://scta-bni.org> SOUTHERN SHORT CoURSE OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. 4305 WOOTLARK DRIVE TAMPA FL 33624 (813) 962-2857 (AU Races at Ea.scba, Racewa-,, Tampa, FL) SUPER SERIES (PTY) LTD. P.O. Box 706 PARJ<LANDS, 2121 SoUTH AFRICA (011)788-5138 FAX (011 ) 880-2170 ToYsFoRTOTS (619) 252-1197 /(619) 252-3093 UNADD.LA VALLEY SPORTS CENTER P.O. Box 5119 EDMESTON, NY 13335 (606) 965-8784/FAX: (606) 905-8784 <www .unadillamx.com> VORRA {)pp ROAD RACING P.O. Box 3362 CARSON CITY, NV 89702 (775) 246-5545/(775) 246-9089 FAX <www.VORRA.com>. September 21-22, 2002 September Sizzler Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA October 12-13, 2002 October Land Rush Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA October26-27,2002 Fall Finale + Mechanics & Ladies Race Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA VICENTE GmlmERo Cm RoAD Cum PROFO. CENOVJO GAMBOA 011-52-616-6-21-91 (2-6 P.M.) WFSTillN Ow ROAD RA.ONG AssoClATION LARRY HENDERSON (604) 538-0692 WORRA P.O.Box 3241 SUMAS WA 98295 W"ESTBtN PFNNsYLvANIA Wmn. To WHEEL OfP ROAD RACING PATRICK McGUIRE P.O. Box 376 ArlA.MSBURG,PA (412) 527-6556 WHLPLASH MOTORSPORTS 2325 E. KINGS AVENUE PHOENIX, AZ 85022 (602) 971-3730 Desert Tour Buggy & Truck Series October, 2002 TBA November,2002 Parker Gran Prix Parker, AZ Deceniber 7, 2002 Point To Point Sonoyta, Mexico Desert Challenge Bike & ATV October, 2002 TBA November 2-3, 2002 Parker Gran Prix Parker, AZ December 7, 2002 Dusty Times Point To Point Sonoyta, Mexico Desert Mini & Peewee Tour October, 2002 TBA November 2, 2002 Parker Gran Prix Parker, AZ November 18, 2002 Whiplash Stadium Style Canyon Oval Motocross & Stadium Cross October 21, 2002 Canyon -November4,2002 Canyon November 11, 2002 Canyon November 18, 2002 Canyon WISCONSIN MOTORSPORTS SHOW (414) 747-1711 WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL TERRY OR BEV FRIDAY 5913 so. U.S. HWY 45 0sHKOSH, WL5490J (414) 688-5509 FIA Woaw R..Au.v CHAMPIONSHIP XTREME INTERNATIONAL 1863 CoMMANDER DRIVE LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ 86403 (520) 855-RACE/(520) 855-2208 BAJA OFFICE: 011-526-6225 zr. PROMOTIONS RENE MONTANO P.O. Box 2122 CALEXICO, CA 92231 Gran Prix October 20, 2002 OHRoad October 4-6, 2002 Las 200 (MXL) November29-30,2002 Mexicali-San Felipe 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 1665 DELAWARE Sr. OSHKOSH, WI 54901 B ORGWARNER SHOOTOUT AT CRANDON -The eighth annual running of this· 10 lap event is looked forward to by all the four wheel drive and two wheel drive trucks as the crowning glory of their season. The winner takes home more than $25,000 and it is also a chance to race with best of the best. This year, the big money and all the prestige that goes with it was taken by Scott Taylor in his 2wd Ford, our sincere congratulations to Scott·on this prestigious win and also for his Pro-2 championship in the just compl"eted CORR Series. We should note here that Scott won the Governors Cup Race at Crandon in June, the first time ever that a 2wd vehicle has won that event. So, icing on the cake, it's the first time a 2wd vehicle has won the BorgWarner Trophy. Second across the line was Johnny Greaves in his 4x4 Toyota Tundra, Dan Vanden Heuvel was third in his Chevy2wd, Tommy Bradley came in fourth, driving his 2wd Chevy, Dan Baudoux was fifth, driving his 2wd Ford. Mike Oberg was sixth in his 2wd Chevy, Gordon Zima took seventh in his 2wd Ford, eighth place went to Mike Savage, driving a 2wd Ford, ninth place was taken by Paul Seidler in a 2wd Chevy and tenth spot went to Carl Renezeder in his 2wd Chevy. ♦••••••••••••••••••• • • S CCA PRORALLY CHAMPIONSHIP -Round 9 of the ProRally Championship was· run in the northwest, near Olympia, I I Washington early in September and Rhys Millen drove his I At ten I .100 I Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII to his first win of the 2002 sea-son. David Higgins took the coveted SCCA Drivers Champi-1 I onship for 2002, with one event yet to run. Higgins was I I among the dnf crew, losing a valve spring in his Subaru on Special Stage 9. In the Open Class it was Rhys Millen l ", I I Paul Choiniere and Jeff Becker were second in their Hyundai Tiburon and Mark Lovell and Steve Turvey were third 1n Open I I in their Subaru Impreza WRX. Tim O'Neil and Martin Head-■ Race &. _Ral}y I land took the Group N honors in their Subaru Impreza WRX, Shane Mitchell and Paul Donnelly were second, also in a Su-l I baru Impreza WRX and third went to Ralph Kosmides and Jimmy Brandt in another Subaru Impreza WRX. The Group 5 I I title went to Dave and Rick Hintz in a Mazda RX-7 Turbo, I 0rg.~· ·. rs I second was Henry and Cindy Krolikowski in their Dodge Neon I I SRT-4. Eric Burmeister and Eric Adams were first in Group 2 in their Mazda Protege MP3. John Hamilton and Ken Sabo I I took the Production Class honors in their VW Golf TOI, . Jamie Thomas and David Weiman were second in a Subaru I M J Ji * I Impreza. The Production GT win went to Bruce Davis and ■ 0 W'IJ" S t e . t1'~e ~n I Lee Sorenson in their Eagle Talon, Roland Mclvor and Bill ,.,.,,. .._.._.._ LV Montgomery were second in a Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX. Next I . I on t.he sche~uie is the Lake Superior Raiiy "in Houg.hton, : suh.mit your 2003: Michigan in Oc,ob« h d l ft. S CORE LAS VEGAS PRIMM -The SCORE troops will be •■ SC e u e ~.. •■ . battling it out at Stateline and there are lots of points titles '-'.._ yet to be decided so the action should be on the fierce side. There should be about 125 cars and trucks in the fracas, Class ■• 1·11.clus1·on ■• 10 being the largest entry, about 30 of them ready for battle. The usual gaggle of Trophy Trucks and the Class l regulHs will be at it hot and heavy. Be sure to read the November I * ~L I issue of Dusty Times where Judy Smith will give you all the ■ in tnese paues·J ■ details and there will be pictures galore. ■ I!,' ■ I List your coming events in DUSTY ■ I I I TIMES free. It is the only way some I I I ■ fans know about your event, if they ■ I I I don't happen to be on your club mailing I I . . I I list. Don't call, but mail your 2003 ■ I . I I schedule as soon as possible· for listing ■ I I I in this column; it could bring you some ■ I I I extra entries! Mail your race or rally I I I I schedule to: I I I i DllliJlil■II i I 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 I • • ••••••••••••••••••• ♦ October 2002 2 003 PIKES PEAK HILL CLIMB -The 2003 Pikes Peak hillclimb _ will be contested for the 81" time on June 28, 2003. SCCA ProRally cars will vie for honors in the Open Class, Group N and in a new two wheel drive exhibition category. They face a ·challenging course of 12.4 miles, multi-surfaced, 156 turns, 2000 foot dropoffs, sans guard rails and a finish line 14,110 feet above sea level. Stay tuned for more news as it surfaces. B ITD BAJA MEX 300 -Just received, Best In The Desert announced that they are offering special Car and Truck classes for the Baja Mex 300 only. Additions are Class 4, Class 6, Class 7, Class 9 and Class 11 . Look for complete race coverage in the next issue of Dusty Times. TOYOTA TRUE GRIT/MILESTONE AWARDS -There are only two Score races left in the 2002 and the list of eligible drivers continues to s.hrink. Non-factory backed competitors in ½-1600, 5, 10 and Score Lites who complete every required mile in the six race series and have the largest cumulative point total in each class split the $12,000 Toyota True Grit award. After the Henderson race, there were only four drivers still eligible, Kash Vessels, Brian Jeffrey, Jake Maness and George Seeley. There are still a bunch of drivers that are eligible for the Toyota Milestone award, and their classes and names follow here. Trophy Truck -Mark Post, Scott Steinberger, Class I -Dale Ebberts, Troy Herbst, Chuck Hovey, ½-1600-Kash Vessels, Brian Jeffrey, Jaken Maness, Class 5 -George Seeley, Class 7 -Craig Turner, Class 5-1600-Rob Taylor, C lass 8 -Nick Vanderway, Class 7S -Dan Fresh, Stock Full -John Griffin, Protruck -Steve Barlow. Dusty Times wishes all these competitors the best of luck in their competition for the Toyota awards. S IXTEENTH ANNUAL BARONA OAKS MINI NATIONAL -The 16'h annual was held _in Ramona, CA for all the little guys and gals to strut their stuff on their motorcycles. Over $40,000 in prizes were given away.· Contributor Homer Eubanks was there for all the action and you'll read all about it in the next issue of Dusty Times. Page 7

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BITD TONOPAH 300 Weyhrichs Take The overall B:, Jud:, Smith Photos: Trackside Photo Steve Strobel soloed the trip in his Class 10 Bunderson, and at the end of the 285 miles was not only the Class 10 winner, but second in the overall standings. The team of Mark and Gary Weyhrich went into the lead early in their Chevy Y8 powered Jimco, and then stayed right there, to take not only the Class 1500 win, but the over-all honors also, at the Best In The Desert Tonopah 300 in August. The course was a 285-mile loop that ran almost entirely north of Tonopah, clear up to Gabbs, and utilized some roads not raced since the early days of the HORA Vegas to Reno events. There were, as always, lots of rocks. Racers commented es-pecially about big rocks lining the side of the course waiting to grab sidewalls if the car moved over. There was a big bed of blow sand; there were wilt beds, some fast roads and plenty of cross grain. The dust was a big factor and the breeze wasn't always stiff enough to clear it away. Gary Weyhrich took the first half of the day, and he had the car in the lead by the time he reached the first checkpoint, at 72 miles along the road. He had only a minute on Sam Berri in his newly Y4 powered Mi-rage, and Tim Scalzo in Casey Jones; Y8 powered Aceco, who were tied. Then it was eight minutes back to Todd Jergensen, in a Smith Built, with V8 Cadillac power. This was the first time out for the Caddy, and it was overheating. Weyhrich had a flat trying to pass another vehicle in the dust, but oth-erwise had no -problems, and at Check B, Mile 141, he had upped his lead to two minutes. ltwas still Berri to second place, and he was liking his new, bigger motor, but he'd been with- . out power steering since going by Check 1. Jergensen was having to pack every now and then to let the Caddy cool off. Scalzo and Jones developed • Custom Pro Cell Bladders wnn seam1ess super-tough, triple coaled construction • 1 O year Bladder warranty · • Safety foam baffling • Custom manufactured aluminum containers • FIA-FT3, SCORE and SODA approved • Custom manufactured fillers Fuel Sale's "Pro Cell" is • (800) 433-6524 technical hotline :;~,':f;,0:i':.:;:::a~;;:g • Over 25 years experience install and it~ backed by a e for more Info call or. write to, fu/110 year warranty. Aircraft Rubber/Fuel Safe EL 63257 Nels Anderson Road I Bend, Oregon 97701 RadlcgCells (5-41) 388-0203 · (5-41 )38&--0307 fax hllp:/NIW'o!.fuelsafe.com Pages a fuel pick up problem. At Mile 216, Check C, Mark Weyhrich had taken over thee driv-ing, and he still had only a minute on Berri who was still having power steer-ing trouble. Mark was making plans for getting a more powerful motor for his car, feeling that the current one "ran out of power" occasionally. Jergensen had fallen back to about a half hour behind Berri, and Jones and Scalzo had lost another 10 min-utes. Late in the day Berri, who drove all the way, was tired and his power steering was still not working. Weyh-rich brothers took the win by 23 min-utes. They had the overall victory by nine minutes also. Berri was second, and Jergensen finished a half hour behind him. In fourth it was Jones, and Scalzo, disappointed about their fuel pickup problem, but happy to be at the finish line., The Trophy Trucks had gone off the line first, and it was Darnen Jef-feries first on the road. Normally, this would be a sign of trouble for every-one else, but at this event he wasn't driving his own Ford Trophy Truck It had been prepped for the upcom-ing Baja 1000 and sat snugly at home, while Darnen went racing in Rick L. Johnson's Toyota powered Protruck So not only was it not his own ve-hicle, 'it was significantly underpow-ered for the class, propelled as it was by a crate motor. He gave it a good shot, but it was Dave Westhem in his Class 8000 Chevy turned Trophy Truck, in front at the first check, with four minutes in Jefferies. Chuck Har-ris, driving Gary Vosburg's Ford Pro truck turned Trophy Truck (it has a bigger motor than Protruckallows), ran third, only three minutes later, and then came Kyle Taylor in his new Ford. That's right-Taylor, who's been racing a Chevy for years, h~d his Ford · Trophy Truck out for its first ride. Jefferies moved .into the lead by Mile 141 (Check B) but he had only three minutes on Harris, who was now starting to feel at ease in the un-familiar truck. Taylor was third only anotjler four minutes back, and West-hem had been run into by a huge rock, which took out the driveline, October 2002 Marc Stein and Mike McComas drove their Ford Expedition to· first in Class 4100, taking the win by over an hour. Chuck Harris drove all the way in Gary Vosburg's Ford Protruck-turned-Trick Truck and finished the day in front. and did sundry other serious dam-age to the truck. He had to stop at Pit 3, near Gabbs, for extensive re-pairs. When he got out of the truck, co-driver Randy Salmont took over, now 40 minutes down to the leader. Harris went into the lead in the next section, his only problem hav-ing been easily solved. His spare tires fell off, and he'd had to stop for a new supply. At Mile 216 he had two minutes on Taylor who was having no "new car trouble", but was find-ing it really dusty. He'd also had a couple of flats, one of which bent the rim into the caliper, and was hard _ to remove. Jefferies was nursing a "hurt" motor, in third, and Salmont was running well, still about 40 min-utes back. Harris had six full minutes by Mile 256, but Taylor kept pushing and at the finish time had narrowed it down to four minutes. Who knows what it might have been if Taylor hadn't flat-tened a rear tire. He drove the final Shawn Wanzek had a terrific day in his Ford. He didn't even flatten finy tires, led all the way, and took the Class 7200 win. John Baker did all the driving in Mike Warren's Ford, to take the win in Class 7100 in spite of some steering problems. Dusty Times

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., Michael Ortiz came down from Montana to drive his Ford Class 8000 truck to ve,y nice second place. Dave Turner led for a little while, but a mechanical problem and a Kyle Taylor had his Ford Trick Truck out for its first race, and except rollover late in the day nearly ended his race. He finished second in for flat tires had no trouble. He finished the day a close second. _C_la_s_s_3_1_0~Q_. _________________ _ several miles on it, finishing second on nothing but a worn out rim. Jef-feries was third, six minutes later, and Westhem and Salmont took fourth. The Protrucks were next to take off, and this time there were five of them. At the first road crossing, about four miles into the race, Rob Reinertson surprised the bystanders by showing up in reverse gear. He'd lost all forward gears and was trying to get to a place where he could get some help (BITD rules don't allow racers to stop just anywhere and holler for a chase crew)-but he was a long way from the first official pit area. He pulled over to let healthier traffic by and his truck "just sank" in the soft sand, losing even more time. Then he learned that he could be towed to a pit, repaired, and then return to where he'd left the course to continue the race. So he got a tow to the pit, changed the transmission, and then discovered they had the wrong torque converter. By the time he'd got the right one installed, he was overtime for the first check, and Dusty Times he was done for the day. this event were Fords.) Jim Stiles ran while the Hunts were about 40 min-216, with seven minutes on Johnson, But in the meantime, Rick D. third, about six minutes later and utes down after some lengthy prob- who flattened a tire in this section. Johnson had gone into the lead in Dan and Dave Hunt, from Colo-lems with a broken brake line. Stiles The Hunts were third, but nearly4O his Ford (the twin to Reinertson's), rado, were fourth. was 20 minutes behind them at this minutes down. And at Mile 256 with just two minutes on Al Hogan, Johnson and Hogan were having point; and then didn't make itto the Johnson had caught up a bit, and he who comes from Montana for these no trouble, and Johnson had just next Check. and Hogan were on the same minute races. (All the Protrucks running at two minutes on Hogan at Check B, Hogan took over the lead at Mile Continued on page 10 Mark and Gary Weyhrich led Class 1500 all the way in their V6 Chevy powered Jimco, and took the win, and first in the overall standings. John Dallaire, a relative newcomer to offroad racing, had a run-in with a power pole, but it didn't slow him much, and he still took the win in Class ~0!_in !}!! ~ An Intimate Gem Adjacent to Bellagio, Caesars & Bally's ._.__,__._...,..,._D~~ @~tr Flamingo & Th Strip 1-888-227-2279 barbarycoastc;asino.com The Place Las Vegans Call Home,., West Flamingo & Valley View 1-888-402-6278 goldcoastcasino.com October 2002 Ask About Our Special Headliner Show and A Room Packages West Tropicana & Arville 'i-800-675-3267 orleanscasino.com Ask About Our Room & Golf Packages ~ml• • ----Alta & Rampart 1-877-677-7111 suncoastcasino.com Page9

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Danny, Jesse and Adam Ashcraft made a great team in their Jimco. Danny and Jesse drove and Adam rode all the way. The team was ~ in Class 1000. Jim Beaver had some carburetion problems with his Ford truck, but Sam Berri tried out his new V4 motor. and it propelled his Mirage still managed to finish third in Class 8000. chassis right into second place in Class 1500. as they headed into the final 30 miles section,. It was close. Hogan also reported a late flat, but he had no other trouble, and, while he finished first, Johnson got the win on corrected time, by just 21 seconds. The Hunts were third about an hour later, and they were the final finishers. The Class 1000 cars went next; with six evenly matched entries. Steve Strobel, from Clarke, Nebraska, put his Type I powered Bunderson into the lead by the first check, but he had only one minute on Ray and Steve Croil in their Type IV powered J imco. They were geared too tall for this course, and were unable to pull fifth gear. Jim Dizney had his Honda pow-ered Jimco in third, and Danny and the Ashcraft car, which Danny was 20 minutes back, iri fourth. off road veteran, Danny. Beaver, in a Ashcraft was fourth in an 1835cc VW said was "a little bit ofa pig in the soft Brown and Knutson were having no Ford, was nine minutes up on Michael powered Jimco. They were each a washes" was now fourth. It was still problems at all, and motored at a Ortiz, who brings his Ford down from minute behind the other. Steve Brown very close. Brown and Knutson were good clip in fifth place. Montana to race in Nevada. Ortiz had and Randy Knutson, old bikers in a still about eight minutes back, but They were all still in the same or- a miserable time on the start line. His car for the first time, ran another eight Weyhrich and Zupanovich had been der at Mile 256, and Strobel was still truck kept stalling, so he had to pull minutes back in their Jimco, and Dick done in when their computer went ·only a minute up on the Croll car. over to the side and let the others go Weyhrich (father of Gary and Mark) belly up. The Ashcrafts were now 10 minutes by. Ultimately, he took off three and and Jim Zupanovich were a half hour Strobel couldn't shake the Croll back in third, and Dizney was nine a half minutes late and then he got a down, having brake problems in their car. He was still just one minute to the minutes behind them, followed by the flat early in the day and fell even fur. Penhall. good at Mile 216 even though the rookies, Brown and Knutson. ther behind. In fourth it was Kurtis At Mile 141 Strobel was still just Crolls had flattened a tire. The Strobel had no trouble at all, and Kupiec, also in a Ford. Kupiecis an-one minute in front of the Crolls. Ashcraft car, with son Jesse driving, thanked his crew profusely for their other new driver, and this was just his · Strobel, who'd been tangled with trees and son Adam riding (he rode all the fine support. Not only did he take the third race. He hadn't been able to fin-a couple of times in the Nevada 1000 way) was third, eight minutes back. win, but he finished second overall, ish either of his other races, and was just six weeks earlier, had brought a · Dizney had a complicated-flat, lost a only four and a half minutes behind hoping for better results here. He'd saw along as part of his on-board tool bunch of time changing it, then tried the Weyhrich brothers. The Crolls been stuck right off the start. He'd kitthistime,butwasgivingthetreesa to catch-up and scared himself, so weresecond,afteronemoreflat,now also hit a ditch and locked up his wide berth anyway. Dizneywas third, slowed to a more sensible pace, and eight minutes back. In third it was the steering so all he could do was big Ashcrafts, another four minutes donuts. He'd had to use a ratchet to down, followed in by Dizney. Then straighten the truck back up, and he'd Brown and Knutson finished in fifth also had to bleed his brakes and grease Tfte Dlfferencel place, a feat they probably won't ap-his steering rack. Not exactly an auspi-preciate until they've been racing a few cious start to his day . . years. Dallaire was still leading at Mile The Class 8000 trucks started 141, but Ortiz had moved into sec-next, with four entries. When they ond place, and his truck had not got to Mile 72 the lead belonged to stalled on him again. Beaver was third, John Dallaire, in a Ford. Dallaire is about 40 minutes down after chang-new to off road racing, but had the ing a rear end. His carburetor was good fortune or good sense to get a jetted wrong, so he was down on lot of good information and help power. 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Cone's son, Nicholas, was problems now. . even serving as navigator in the truck When they arrived at Check C, for part of tl1e day. They had only a Mile 2!6, Dallaire was still in the lead, minute on Jim Beaver, son of another Continued on page 13 Mike Falkosky had a good day in his Ford Explorer. and fought off a tough challenge by the second place car as he took the Class 3100 win. Greg Foutz had a tight race going in Class 8100 most of the day, but hung on with his Ford to take the win by only nine minutes. Dusty Times

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• Tim Braden had his Ford stuck in some blow sand for a while, but after The father and son team of Steve and Ray Croll teamed up to race in Kevin Davis got his Ford stuck in the blow sand, but managed to get getting loose managed to work up to second place in Class 7100. Class 10, and finished in second place, about eight minutes out. unstuck, and got to the finish line third in Class 7100. and now he had 18 minutes on Ortiz. "It feels good!" he said, with a big grin. up. In fact, as Wanzek barreled down his problems or if that's what finished the tough Nevada 1000) with no flat Beaver, who was fresh off a.win at the Next to go off the line were the the road with no problems at all, him off. In the meantime, Wamekgot tires. Jernigan having lots of trouble new SCORE Henderson event, ran Class 7200 trucks, with only two en- Jernigan kept falling further behind. to the finish line,. He had a cracked · during his long day, never completed third with Kupiec only eight minutes tries, both Fords. Shawn Wanzek had At Mile 216 he'd lost two hours and header, which made the truck sound the crucial final 30 miles and was a behind him . .Hewas beginning to think the lead from early on, while Jason by Mile 256 he was four hours down. terrible, but didn't hurt his perfor- · DNF. · he might get a finish. Jernigan had early trouble that cost At some point he'd rolled the truck, mance. He reported that this was his The "stock full size" trucks (Class Dallaire still led at Check D, but him 45 minutes, which he never made but it's not clear if that's what started second race in a row (the other being Continued on page 14 had flattened a tire and Ortiz had closed up to within five minutes of him. Beaver was still third and Kupiec was closing in on a finish, 10 minutes behind him. In the final section Dallaire's truck took an old bounce, hopped side-ways into a power pole, and broke it in half. The pole that is. The only dam-age to the truck was a big dent behind the passenger seat area, but it didn't hurt the running of it any. And the power pole (thought to be a phone line) was also still functioning, the top half of the pole dangling from its in-tact wires. Dallaire headed for the fin-ish with almost no loss of time. And he made it, to take the win by five min-utes. Ortiz was second and a bit over an hour in front of Beaver, and then came Kupiec, delighted to get a finish. Joe Hamner and Kevin Graves shared the racing in their 1600 car, and even though Hamner tipped it up on its side, got to the finish for a win. g Rick D. Johnson had to keep his Ford Protruck moving fast to keep Hogan from catching him. He ended the day with the narrow win, and was third in the overall standings. Automotive • ATV PersanalWatercra ~-1815 MASSACHUSETTS AVE • RIVERSIDE • CALIFORNIA • 92507 • USA PHONE SOS/369-5'144 • FAX 909/369-7266 • www.webcamshafts.com Dusty Times October 2002 Page 13

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• Aaron Dixon and his Ford had serious trouble with the soft sand at Mile 24, and even after losing over an hour he finished the day with the Class 7300 victory. Manny Esquerra and Tracy Rubio had the early lead with their Ford, Chad Half and his Hummer ran up near the front of the pack all day but late trouble dropped them to third place in Class 8100. and finished in second place in the stock full sized truck class (8100). 8100) took the green flag next, and they had a nice entry of six hot-shoes. Some of them had a hard time getting all the way around, Ma11ny Esquerra, in a Ford, took the early lead, with three minutes on Greg Foutz, also Ford; who was one minute up on almost an hour back, after breaking a lost three hours very early in the day, with a bad transmission. Randy Merritt in a third Ford. kingpin and blowing out a shock. and was destined to break for good At Check C there were only three Page 14 In the next section Foutz moved Merritt rolled over in that section and before reaching Check C. Randy Wil- trucks from this class still running. into the lead, and now he had just i:hat put him out of the race, although son, from Oregon, in another Ford, Foutz had the lead, and Hall was eight one minute on Chad Hall in his Hum- he and his passenger were not injured. was stuck in the blow sand at Mile 24 minutes behind him, while Esquerra mer. Esquerra had dropped to third, Eric Henn, in another Hummer, had for a while, and then was out at Pit 1 ran another hour and 17 minutes The SKYking™ Coil Over BY \:~~, SKY JACKER® achieves ,the most of w,hatyqu,,are looking _tot. High PERFORJ\{l~NCE! SKYking™ coil overs shocks outperform the competition in · every situation. . ' . ' .. . ' '97-'02 JEEe WRAN,GLER tJ 4x4 Lift: 4", 6", 8", 9" ....... Location: FRONT This 'Patent Pending' Bolt-On kit requires no welding or any other modifications. Clears 38.5''.. tires. . . =· ~ 4-'01 DODGE RAM 4x4<;ic' 8·, 1/2, 3/4 TON 'i.ii'''·t . t· 3" 5" 7" ·•· . • ' ~ ' , ::: . • • !'• ••• ~ •• 0/DIE~E,L, 3/4, 1 • ti ll ll ·-October 2002 back in third place. Foutz was running clean, with no problems at all, and at Check D he had nine minutes on Hall. He had a couple of flats during the day, and hadn't yet completely solved the over-heating problems that plagued him at the Nevada 1000, but in general had no complaints. Esquerra was moving fine now, but had lost more time than he could make up. Foutz took the win, and Hall finished second, with Esq-uerra nearly an hour down in third. He'd stopped very late in the race to help another competitor get back on his wheels after a roll over. Only one 1600 car came for this race, the Mirage of Joe Hamner and Kevin Graves. They shared the driving and had no problems, except that Hamner set the car up on its side for a while. They got their finish, and win, and were 21st in the overall standings. The 7100 (like SCORE 7S) cars were next, with six entries. At about Mile 10 the Malcolm Vinje/Jim Gil-christ Ford went out when· the tensioner froze up and it slipped a tim-ing chain. Malcolm said that's the first time that particular thing ever gave him trouble. Mike Parsons, in a good looking Toyota, got to Mile 26, and then radioed that he was out. He was later seen on the side of Highway 95, earnestly explaining something to a Nevada Highway Patrolman. There were then only four trucks still mov-ing. John Baker had Mike Warren's Ford in front at Mile 72, and Mike Koenig ran second in his Toyota, 16 minutes behind him. He'd been stuck. in the blow sand, and had flattened a tire getting out. In third, another 40 minutes down, it was Tim Braden and Mitch Griffm in another Ford. They'd also been stuck in the blow sand. And Kevin Davis, who's had nothing but bad luck lately, was nearly two hours down in his Ford already. He'd got stuck in the blow sand when he' cl flat-tened a tire, and therefore got to Pit 1 (at about Mile 50) after its official clos-ing time. But the BITD officials had decided to give the various racers who'd been stuck a-break, and they extended the closing time at Pit 1 from noon to 1:30, or possibly even later. Then, quite obviously, they' cl had to leave Pit 2 open a bit longer also, so they moved its closing time to 2: 15. Some of the stuck drivers had dam-aged their vehicles trying to get unstuck, and thus spent time in Pit 1 making repairs, so it became a real struggle to get to Pit 2, at about Mile 102, in time. Baker led through Check E, and he had 12 minutes on Koenig, and his co-driver, Troy Robinson, who was making up time. In third itwas Braden and Griffin, about 50 minutes later. Davis was another hour and a half down. At Check C it was still Baker in front, but he started to have power Dusty Times

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Rod Hall and Roy Davidson ran close to the leader for a while, but a Al Hogan, Ford, was tied for the Protruck lead at 30 miles before the big problem with broken half-shafts lost them time, though they were finish, but when he got the checkered flag he'd fallen back to second, Dave and Dan Hunt took turns driving their Ford Protruck, had to still second in Class 4100 in their Hummer. _b~y_a_m_er<_e_2_1_s_ec_on_d~s_. ----~-------- -deal with brake line problems, and finished the day in third place. steering trouble. Koenig and Robin-only two minutes back, however. And but still running, in fifth place. him, in fourth. Leavitt was still run-about four minutes back in second son, who were doing short stints of in a dead heat it was Rod Hall in his At Check B, Mile 141, it was still ning, at about the same hour and ten now. Sunderland had moved up to driving, and replacing each other of- Hummer and John Sunderland in his Spirkoff, and now he had three min- minute remove. · third, a half hour down, as Hall, and ten, were still second, and lucky to be Bronco, only three minutes behind utes on Stein and McComas. Hall was Stein and McComas went into the co<lriver, Roy Davidson, broke a half moving. Koenig had got a bit crossed Stein. Ken Leavitt, in another Ford, third, seven minutes later, and lead by Check C, as Spirkoff bent a shaft. uponafaststretch,flewoffthecourse, wasafullhourand lOminutesdown, Sunderlandwasthreeminutesbehind radius arm on a boulder. He was and hit a boulder hidden in the bushes. The impact sent him straight up in the air, and when they landed, they were high centered 0n the boul-der. After a few futile tries, a helpful racer in a Class 8000 truck pulled them off and got them moving again. The truck ran, but the steering was messed up and many turns were three-pointers as they headed for the finish. They were still second at Check C, but now 25 minutes back. Braden and Griffin were nearly two hours behind them in third, and Davis was fourth, another half hour back. Baker's power steering problems led him astray, and he flattened a tire, but held on to his lead through Check D (Mile 256). Koenig and Robinson had fallen out, stopped by a broken brace that wore a hole in the bottom of their radiator and let all the water out. There was no time left to make repairs and still make the checkpoints. Now Braden and Griffin were second, two and a half hours down. Davis was third, only 11 minutes behind them. And at the finish it was the same order, with Baker taking the victory in the Warren truck. Braden and Griffin were a distant second, and Davis finished just eight minutes be-hind them in third place. It had been a tough day for most of this class. Five Class 4100 cars (big SUVs) started next. Jeremy Spirkoff was driv-ing Scott Douglas' Bronco because Douglas had a ra,ce in Crandon, Wis-consin that he needed to drive. The day before the race Spirkoff discov-ered that the ignition on the Bronco wasn't quite legal for the class, and it was suggested that he change it. Sure. He would be happy to do it. But, as it happened, none of the parts stores in town (two of them) had the correct distributor in stock. They were kind enough to call around to stores in other nearby towns (!), but none of them had it either. So then they tried the local salvage yards and found none. Then a friendly local took Spirkoffs wife, Nancy, around town checking under the hoods of parked cars. They finally foun d an old car with a new distributor sort of stuffed into it (but not bolted in place). But the owner wasn't home. The local thought he knew who the owner was, and tracked him down in a grocery store. He took him back to show him what they needed, and discovered it wasn't his car after all. That guy knew the owner, however, and they finally persuaded him that his friend wouldn't mind accepting a super race ignition set up to exchange for the stock distributor. All that was left to do was get it installed in the race truck. At Mile 72 Spirkoff had the lead, so it seemed that the effort had not been wasted. Marc Stein and Mike McComas, in a Ford Expedition, were Dusty Times RACING SERIES AWARD REQUIREMENTS EDRDE sses in which three or m compete. Exclusive use of product visible o filters or covers installed displaying the Lig Claims subject to verification with race offi Constructed of lightweight polycarbonates for shatterproof durability, Ughtforce performance lights are tougher, brighter and more efficient than any competitive off-road Halogen light, An exclusive variable--focus design and easy-to-use filters allow you ·tb adjust your light pattern in seconds without tools, race-to-race or pit-to-pit This kind • of performance can help you finish the race faster than ever before. Using our lights once will prove to you what off-road legend Rod Hall already knows ... October 2002 Continued on page 16 Page 15

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I . I I Darnen Jefferies borrowed a Toyota powered Protruck from a friend Todd Jergensen tried out his new Cadillac motor in his Smith Built (his own Ford was ready for the Baja 1000), and very underpowered, buggy, and had some overheating trouble. He finished third in Class Jason Jernigan had trouble early in the day with his Ford but kept moving almost to the bitter end. Unfortunately, he was a DNF. finished third in the Trick Truck class. 1500. From that point on Stein and McComas led, Spirko££ ran secc,nd and Sunderland Jr. and Sr., along with Buddy Crisp, held firm in third place. Hall and Davidson broke a couple more half shafts and fell back --~-~-----------------a bit further, because as Davidson hour later and the Sunderlands and said, the Hummer would go down-Crisp were third, eight minutes be-hill, but not uphill. Leavitt kept com-hind him. But after the tech team ing. had a look at the cars, both Spirkoff Stein and McComas took the win, and the Sunderland Crisp team were Spirkoff was second, about a half DQ' cl for technical reasons. That by MastErCraft® The 3G combines European styling with MasterCraft's race proven suspension system to increase lateral support-so important in today's racing conditions. Design input and testing from racers Curt and Kyle Le Due along with superior engineering and construction make the 3G the most-advanced seat available. do~ fAom Kartek 909-737-7223 ORW 800-341-7757 Race Ready Products 619-691-9171 McKenzie's 714-441-1212 g '110 PROTRUCK RACING ORGANIZATIO N 4West 800-85 4WEST All-~ro Off Road 909-658-7077 ProTruck 619-390-6252 ~ SCIIE INTERNATIONAi.! OFF-ROAD RACING tat.11:1:1 Co.mg b.lJ oBII tlloofh of: Page 16 October 2002 moved Hall up to second place, and Steve Olliges apparently got out, but Leavitt, who finished four hours be-some damage had been done in the hind them, was third. effort, and he ended his day with-There were three cars in Class out even getting to the first check-7300 (stock mini trucks) and all point. It was reportedly a broken three were stuck in the blow sand. flex plate. Lance Magin also got out, but then by the time he got to the first Pit area he'd broken a spindle. His crew was trying to repair his Ford in time to let him go on, but he'd already lost two hours and ran out of time in between the first Check and the second Check. That left only Aaron Dixon run-ning. He'd been stuck also, but he lowered the air pressure down to about Spsi, used his hi-life jack, bor-rowed a rolled up grate, got some friendly folk to push, and after an hour and a half, had his Ford out of the blow sand. But then he had to run about 25 miles on those al-111ost flat tires. That was a wild ride. Once there, and still well within the closing times, he got new tires and went on. All went well until he got near Gabbs, where he hit a triple ditch way too fast, flew, hit again, and bounced sideways off the trail. He expected to roll over, but landed on all fours, and the truck was still driveable. After that he decided it might be smart to back out of it a bit, and they headed for the finish. Dixon made it in plenty of time to take the victory, his first win, in a time of 8:29: 19. Tne small SUVs were the last group to sta.rt, with three entries. An-thony Napoleon had his Bronco II in the lead at Check A, with just two minutes on the other two trucks. Mike Falkosi<y's Explorer, and David Turner's Ford, which were tied. But then Napoleon didn't get to the sec-ond check, and at about 2:20p.m. word came via radio that he was out of the race. Turner had the lead at Check B, but with only a minute on Falkosky, he needed to keep pressing. At Check C the tables were turned, and Falkosky had nine minutes on Turner. He was having no problems at all. At Check D it was still close, and still Falkosky in front. But then word came that Turner had broken his steering box and rolled the truck. Falkosky sailed on to the finish in good shape, reporting a clean drive. Turner got help from Esquerra to get back on his wheels, and some-one brought him a new steering box, and he finished second, about three hours and 15 minutes after Falko-sky came in. Most everyone got in to the fin-ish in full daylight, and in general they liked the course, but had a healthy respect-for all those big tire eating rocks along the side of the course. The Best In The Desert heads south to Mexico for the first time in September, and will then finish off their season with the Las Vegas 200 in early December. The Dusty Times will be there to tell you all about it. . ·il'C\i Dusty Times

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52ND NESTE RALLY FINLAND Peugeot Picks A Winner By Martin Holmes Photos : Maurice Selden Flying straight and level, Marcus Granholm and Timo Rautiainen head for a well deserved win in their Peugeot 206. Peugeot dominated the Neste Rally Finland, leading from start to finish, scoring their fifth 1-2 re-sult of the season. Gronholm was headed in the early stages by his teammates, first by Richard Burns, who had the advantage of running fourth car on the road and also by Harri Rovanpera, but, by half dis-tance, Granholm was in front and went on to gain a hat trick win on the event. Burns lost time on the second day when a turbo hose broke and Rovanpera, after lead-ing for one stage hit a rock and had a severe tire blowout, he retired when the suspension collapsed. Ford pushed Peugeot from a dis-tance, but after Colin McRae's car was destroyed by fire on the final morning, the first non-Peugeot at the finish line was the Subaru of Petter Solberg. Only one Finnish driver finished in the top five, sixth was Tommi Makinen. Alex Fiorio won the Production Car WRC cat-egory ahead of Kristian Sohlberg while Karamajit Singh consolidated his series lead by finishing third. All finishers in the Group N drove Mitsubishi derived cars. This was the ninth round of the 2002 WRC and this year the event counted for the Production Car World Rally Championship, in-stead of the Super 1600 series, be-ing the sixth out of eight PCWRC events and the last qualifying round in Europe. Apart from the average speeds of the Safari and the Neste Rally, there could hardly be greater difference between the two succes-sive gravel rallies. In Finland, the tracks are generally very smooth and cars fly through the sir due to the natural undulations of the roads, not because of pot holes. Still, no World rally this year has attracted a full compliment of 90 entries: this time 84 entries were received, of whom 77 started. Among the 6-~CE · · ur Ave. · 60005 \ www.freshairsystems.com, Page 18 October 2002 Alex Fiorio and Vittorio Brambilla were the big winners in PCWRC, 1 B'h overall as well in their good looking Mitsubishi Lancer Evo. entries were only three two wheel drive cars, all Super 1600, includ-ing Juha Kangas with his JWRC Suzuki lights, testing new closer gear-box ratios. Two drivers were up for hat tricks: Granholm has won the last two Neste Rally Finland, Colin McRae the last two world champi-onship events. At a Special Stage average speed of 119.99 kph, this was the fastest event in the champi-onship last year. It's been 10 years since the last non-Finn won this event, and this expectation of a home success continued to make this a highly popular event for en-thusiasts. A recent survey stated that 11 % of the population of. Finland was expected to watch the event. There was a major effort to maxi-mize the centralization of the event. All of the main functions (start, rest halts, service parks and finish) were in the same location. The event date had been moved to earlier in the month, not since 1972-74 had the event been run so early in the year. The FIA World Championship Rally Commission was meeting in Jyvaskyla, Finland to consider the implications of a possible return to mixed surfaced world cham.pionship rallying and the practicalities of pos-sible calendar changes for 2003. Pleased that the rough events on the calendar were now behind them, Peugeot arrived with hopes they could arrest Ford's steady re-cent erosion of their championship lead. Gronholm's car was fitted with the controlled anti-rollbar sys-tem, the first time the system had been used on summertime gravel. Ford concentrated on lightening the various parts of their cars to opti-mize weight distribution. There were surprisingly few Subarus on the entry list, only two Works WRC cars and four private Group N en-tries. Both Skoda and Mitsubishi launched their 2002 evolution ver-sions. Skoda had reduced their operation to two team cars, Eriks-son and Gardemeister the drivers. Their new car featured revised front suspension with a lower mounted engine, with considerably revised under hood installation, though their traditional electro-magnetic central transmission sys-tem was retained. For Hyundai, this was one year after Kankkunen first drove for them and their determi-nation to improve was evident. Cit-roen were continuing their learn-ing process. After being the sole category fin-isher on the Safari, Singh had be-come the name on the lips of the Production Car contenders. Only he had scored on every event he entered. Apart from Singh's Pro-ton, every entry in the category was a Mitsubishi. Of all the rallies in the World Championship, Finland's event stands highest in the world as a showpiece of the talents of the na-tional rally drivers. It is also a rally for budding drivers from across the world, not i1ecessarily to show their skills but to gain experience on the world's most driving intensive rally. See, on this event in Group Nin a non-championsbjp capacity were regular Super 1600 drivers Daniel Carlsson, Daniel Sola and Brice Tirabassi. Another unique feature of the event were the two unofficial and national "Test" rallies. Thomas Radstrom won the first, The Mantra Rally, ahead ofTuohino's Focus. Pykalistos led until it suffered an oil leak. The second, The Exide Rally, based at Tampere, was won by Sebastian Lindholm and saw the dramatic retirement of Pykalisto when he crashed his Toyota and it was destroyed by fire. A pleasant surprise was the entry of the 1985 World Champion Timo Salonen in a Peugeot 206. Peugeot had a double pre-rally shock. Panizzi, due to drive a works assisted car had to withdraw, due to a broken collar bone, suffered when he fell from a ladder at his lmrnk b\j,m..5 tRiiis tch~ iwmlld Il!ISTT\ Petter Solberg and Philip Mills get nicely airborne in their Subaru lmpreza, they were :Jd overall in Finland. Dusty Times

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Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya got themselves a fourth place in Finland in their high flying Ford Focus. Keeping the crowd happy, Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena flew their Citroen Xsara to a nice t(Jh overall. Hard right rudder for Jani Paasonen and Arto Kapanen in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo, they were lJh overall in Finland. Rovanpera's co-driver was taken ill and needed immediate surgery, which was successful. Voitto Silan-der, Rovanpera's former co-driver took over. Salonen had to resched-ule his testing to the morning of the start, after the team missed the ferry and were late in arriving. Leg 1 - Ten stages, gravel, 130 kms. There was a very short Super-special on the Thursday evening where Richard Burns pulled out a remarkable lead of almost a second in front of teammate Marcus Gron-holm and Subaru driver Petter Solberg. Gronholm led after the first two proper stages but Richard Burns regained the lead on the third stage. Two of the three Hyundais (Kankkunen and Schwarz) were suffering engine mis-fires, later discovered to have been due to a faulty batch of spark plugs. Makinen said his Subaru's engine was not producing its usual power and Sainz and Martin said they were unhappy with the handHng of their Fords. Martin locked the cen-tral transmission and it seemed to go better. The Mitsubishi drivers felt the new cars wer.e going better. Of the Skodas, Gardemeister had no troubles but Eriksson had hydrau-lic pressure problems, which af-fected the differentials. Early retire-ments were Armin Kremer, stuck in sixth gear and Urmo Aava, who · went off the road, both in Focus'. Kuchar retired off the road as well and Valimaki hit a wall and dam-aged the right side of his car. Gronholm took the next two stages with care and dropped a little but Peugeot continued to hold the top four places. Then news came that Pykalisto was out when the main shaft from the engine to the gearbox broke. Burns lead after the first seven stages was 7.2 seconds. Many drivers had punctures and some were having mousse troubles. Makinen had some smoke in the cockpit, his engine still down on power. Martin had his gearbox changed and was going better. Alis-ter McRae broke a rear shock after a very hard landing. Gardemeister also lost his differential pressure. Schwarz' s engine was stalling under braking and both Passonen and Tuohino were having brake troubles. Skoda lost Eriksson when his engine began misfiring. At the end of Stage 6 he had a small fire, the cause was determined to be a fuel injector stuck open and tre-mendous amounts of fuel were be-ing pumped into the engine. Shortly before Service the car stopped, out of fuel. "There should have been five gallons to spare at this point," said Eriksson. Salonen was enjoying himself, "When I drove a Mitsubishi Lancer Group N, I soon realized that today's rally cars are designed for left foot brakers, which I have never been." Henning Solberg retired with a hole in his sump. Dusty Times Through the day the Peugeot and he slowed through Stage 9 as steamrolled went on. Running first well, dropping to third place, 20 car on the road was a small but seconds behind Burns. There were noticeable disadvantage for Gron- lots more punctures and some bro-holm, but halfway through Stage 8 ken wheels. Makinen was still down a front shock started leaking oil, on power and he bent the steering on a rather large rock. There were arrived at Service, he had hit a rock problems for Mitsubishi when first hard while driving through dust and Francois retired with suspension wrecked the suspension. Tuohino. failure, after power steering failure was having brake troubles and the and then Alister was delayed with dust was a bother, then a stalled shock absorber failure. Duval never Continued on page 120 · OFF ROAD'S MOST WINNING COMMUNICATIONS. OVER 25 YEARS IN RACING COMMUNICATIONS ROADMASTER Off Road's Tough~ Rugged & Most Winning Radio BAJA RACE PREPPED TO OPTIMIZE· PERFORMANCE. $495.00 VERTEX NEED MORE CHANNELS? CHASE FOR MORE THAN ONE TEAM? YOU NEED THIS 99 Channel Alpha-Numeric Display with Scan ON SPECIAL Call for Pricing INTERCOMS WORLD'S BEST INTERCOM NO OTHERS COMPARE FOR OFF ROAD RACING $359.00 <P_CI4LIN/o 2 or 4 SEAT DIGITAL INTERCOM Adapts to work with your Stereo & 2-Way Radio. GREAT FOR PLAY CARS OR PRE-RUNNERS Starting at $349.00 PCI RACE RADIOS 2888 GUNDRY AVE., SIGNAL HILL, CA 90755 800-869-5636 562-427-8177 FAX 562-426-3589 October 2002 Page 19

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\ Talk abut flying, Freddy Loix and Sven Smeets flew their Hyundai Off the launching pad, Janne Tuohino and Petri Vihavainen took their Leaving the dust behind, Toni Gardemeister and Paavo Lukander drove to 121' overall in their Skoda Octavia. Accent to a nice gt, overall at the Neste rally. Ford Focus to 11"' overall in Finland. engine at the start of Stage 9, but In the Production Champion-carried on. On the second group lying 11th, he was the leading pri-ship category, Marcos Ligato led of stages So-hlberg held onto his vateer entry from Finland. On on the first three stages, but then lead, but he was not happy with Stage 10, Sainz made the fastest Kristian Sohlberg went ahead. soft suspension. The rally lost third time, the first time the Peugeot's had Fiorio lost time, dropped back from placed Rowe with 1 bent steering been beaten so far. It was strange, third to fourth driving 8 kms on a arm. Singh was driving the rally care-only four Finns in the top 10 places. flat tire. Martin Rowe reported his fully, "Several times we found we In the two wheel drive battle, anti-lag system was not working. had bad notes, this rally is very dif-Hakkinen (Peugeot) retired with Ferreyros stopped on Stage 4 with ficult for a newcomer." Ferreyros many problems, the ignition system an engine proplem and arrived at was worried about the life expect-being the final nail in the coffin. SeFvice misfiring badly. Beppo ancy of his damaged engine, having Makinen continued to question his Harrach had a rear wheel flat, Pavel driven two more stages on three engine power but Subaru engineers Valousek went off the road and re- cylinders. PHILTR NICS • Rugged con,tmction in di-cast p:>wder coated case • Built JO noise fillering . • Specially de:.igoed helmet loud · s.:io:ikorc & he3d.set-e •Cpen or F/face Nokia or Mili-ta!Y spec 'noise cance ing mil<gs: • Aviation type boom arms • Two way radio & video inter-ENDURO INTERCOM SYSTEMS -.,__: ./L. Optionij: Twos-.!mor ~-:-~ NEW '<: audible warning !>-)'~• ., i/ .,, : lem PHILTR©NICS riil!Lj~ The new Philtronics Rallytrip Pro * Total & interval to 999.99 * Automanc cal1oration • Stage Stopwatch ,. True Average speed • Miles or kms readout • Speed andlor distance • Count up or down or both • Freeze either disp ay • Super LAR,GE LCD read-outs .. ,(: , Triple Layer RPM • Cou,t up or down or both * Freeze eimer cJsp1ay * Super LARGE LCD read-outs _ * On screen menu operation * Wheel sensor included * Remote reset included * On screen menu operation * Wheel sensor included * Remote reset included In the afternoon, Ligato battled with Sohlberg but then Sahlberg had a flat on the ninth stage. He was forced to stop and change it and he dropped back to seventh in the category. Fiorio passed Singh and passed into second place. Man-frinato went flat out on Stage 8 and got best PCWRC time with his battered car but he retired on Stage 9 with his second accident. Man-fred Stohl said, "When you have rolled your car you are free in your mind. You can go flat out without worrying.," Ferreyros was still go-ing, despite misfiring, knowing the car had a damaged valve and pis-ton and the team hoped to change these in the evening service. In the overall Group N category, Daniel Carlsson had led for the first six stages, winx;iing five of them, despite losing fifth gear. Then he retired with a broken power steer-ing/water pump belt pulley. "Never mind," said the Swede, "I showed I was faster with four gears than the Finns with five." At the end of the day it was Ketomaki in the lead, but he went over the time limit in end of day.service, having hit a rock on Stage 9, cracking the gearbo_x case, thus needing·a new box. Juha Salo, therefore, was the overnight leader. Leg 2 - Six stages, gravel, 176 kms. This was a grueling day, last-ing 15 hours with only six stages but there were very long road sec-tions which had to be driven within the restrictive speed limits. Garde-meister had the problem of run-ning first car on the road. Alister McRae had incurred a 10 second penalty when the team had trouble · refitting a sump guard. Gardemeis-ter soon fell back in the running order, his engine stopped working in a control area and after six min-utes (one minute perplty) restarted after he fitted a spare fuel sensor.-: And now the luckless Radstrom was first car through the stages. Burns set a remarkable time on the first stage of the day, jumping from 12 to 20 seconds ahead of Rovan-pera, but then on the second stage he dropped a minute and lost the lost boost pressure and losnwo min-lead when a turbo hose failed. He utes. Harrach went off the road, also lost 20 seconds because oflate-without damage, but he was high ness leaving Service. Kankkunen. centered. Ligato's problem, was not wasn't having much fun, rolling off repaired and halfway through Stage the road on the exit of a corner on . 13 he retired. Ferreyros had already Stage 11. stopped after Stage 12 with no oil Rovanpera was leading by a pressure. On Stage 13 Sohlberg quarter minute and the question drove 8 kms on a flat tire. After was, could he hold that lead 'til the Stage 14 there were only five end of the rally. "Ask me tonight, it PCWRC drivers left. Fiorio led by all depends on who makes the next two minutes in front of Sohlberg mistake." Sadly, it was to be him. and Singh. On Stage 13 he hit a rock, punc-In Group N there were a series tu red the right front tire, lost the of misfortunes. With Ketomaki out tire, then the wheel and then the Salo took the lead but then lost suspension collapsed. Also out was four minutes with a flat, letting Kuistila with the rare Mitsubishi Hellman ahead. Hellman went off 6.5, off the road. Strange doings the road next stage and Miettinen on the long Stage 13, Martin, Maki-took over. Four different leaders nen and Colin McRae all had the in as many stages. Salon continued mousse fail, at the same place, all but then had a blowout, this broke on the right front tire and all suf- an oil cooler and he had to retire . fered vibrations to the end of the Leg 3 -Six stages, gravel, 94 kms. stage. Gardemeister had another Tuohino had a bad time. From ly-fuel sensor fail on the road section ing ninth after Stage 15, he lost 20 to Stage 13 and had more hydrau-seconds on the long Stage 16 and lie problems on the 14th stage. fell to 11th, and on the next two Lindholm had transmission stages fell to 13fh. Alister McRae, troubles and arrived at.Service with who was in 29th overnight, then a driveshaft resting in the back of had another,disaster when he hit the car. Gronholm was leading another rock, breaking a rear sus-Burns by 90 seconds, even though pension wishbone and had to re-he was not happy with his driving. tire. The race was on for fourth On Stage 13 a tire nearly came off place between Sainz and Solberg the rim and on 14 he hit a rock when Sainz incurred a 10 second and suffered vibration from a bent penalty for a jump start! From 8. 7 rim. Colin McRae.was third, keep-seconds behind overnight, Solberg ing in front of Sainz. Solberg made was on a charge and after two stages a great challenge on Stage 15 and had once again passed the Span-got ahead of Sainz but then spun iard. Markko Martin was also go-on 16 and lost the position. Alister ing well, having corrected the car's McRae hit a rock, smashed a wheel, set up. The two Citroen drivers broke a shock, this dropped him were speeding up, intent on getting back to 16th place. 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DRW/CDDE/FRT Lazo de Amistad NlimeroDas Text & Photos: Beryl More It came as no surprise, Chuck Hovey took the Class 1 win and was first overall as well at the Code Tecate FRT ORW Grand Prix. Taking a really hard landing, Sergio Gutierrez went on with his trusty car and took the Class 11 win. The Class 15 Sportsman win went to Jose Montoya, his good looking bug took the win with an 11 minute margin. On some stretches you could go as fast as you wanted, or at least as fast as what was available at the end of your foot. On a couple of other ing event. Thus, the layout and stretches, you might have wondered complexity of the second version of if you were entered in a rock climb- the ORW /CODE/FRT, Lazo de Page 22 rs77?.IC7LY 'ERFORMANCE Duality products bullt In house along with Fabtech, PIAA, BF6oodrlch, _ Weld. Camburg Ef)glneerlng, Autofab. King Shocks. Fuel Safe, plu!i hundred!i of other quality products and acce!i!iDrles. • Shock!i • Roll Ca!Je!!i • Exhau~ Klt!i • Wheel!i & Tlre!i • Sm,pen!ilon Klt!i • Off Road Bumper!i • Cu!itom Fabrication We !ipeclallze In Cu!iitlJm Fabrication And Lang Travel !iuspenslan !iystems. Toll Free: (866) 480-3556 B49 Mitchell Road #402, Newbury Park Tel": (805) 480-3556 • Fax: [BOS) 4BO-3557 strlctlyP-erformance.net Amistad, run this year near Jacume which is about 15 miles north and east ofTecate. The second an-nual competition drew over 100 en-trants from both sides of the border and with two heats, of three laps, over 20 plus miles, there was something for ev-eryone. Hey, the spectators loved it. About 100 yards from the start . was a constructed jump, much as you would see at a closed course or stadium race, "Lots of Air." And many of those spectators were at the jump for the start of each class; then they moved out onto other parts of tne course to watch their fa~or-ites do battle with Continued on page 24 October 2002 Luis Baffagan flies straight and level on his way to the Class 10 win, he was fourth overall as well. Jose Carlos Robles beat out all the other Class 1600'5, he had a good fast run and finished seventh overall. Tough to beat, Ricardo Coronado flew his good looking Ford pickup to the Class 8 win and he was third overall. Joe Heger won Class 5 by almost an hour, he was really fast and he was sixth overall at the well attended race. Grabbing lots of air, Enrique Guerrero flies through the air on his way to a nice Class 7 victory. Dusty Times

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Gerado tribe took the class 5-1600 win but it was a close one, his competition was only a minute and a half behind. nature's own little construction quirks. After the start, they would go out onto the course, take in two or three of the laps, then back to the area of the jump for the start of the next Lots of competition in the Safari Class, Victor Gaska took the Lobsam Yee, the highest flyer of all had to settle for second win by a mere 43 seconds at the ORWICODEIFRT outing. place in Class 1, three and a half minutes off the pace. class. All in all, a great day of racing and with the variable, five to ten ond intervals, and the finish line for driver and fan alike. Even the miles an hour winds, it was more was in a totally different part of weather joined into the festivities; it's than bearable. . the course. As stated earlier, the sta-usually over 100. degrees in the This co-produced race didn't diumstylejumpwasrightatthestart desert, in the middle of August. But, have the usual FUD style grand prix but drivers only negotiated the this weekend, it was only in the 80's start. Cars were sent out at 20 sec-jump once and then turned up into the hills for the rest of the 21 mile course. The average heat times for the three laps were around one hour and 40 minutes. Classes 11, 15 and the Safari's first heat got underway at 7:00 a.m., and Fud just kept wavirig the green for the ensuing classes until around 6:00 p.m. that evening when the second heat for the 1, 10, 12 and 1/2-1600 headed off into the sunset. Actually, Fud didn't wave the flag steadily for 11 hours, there were the hour and a half breaks between classes. C • ~c ~,s llllllllllliiai Victor Gasca ran 1:43 :41 in the morning and backed it up with an early afternoon run of 1:52:36 to take the Safari class. At last year's inaugural Amistad, Gasca was in-volved in a giant size roll-over but kept it upright on both heats for the win. Second spot went to Luivan Velker, with heats of 1:47:22 and 1:49:37 came close only42 sec-onds behind. Third in class was Raul Maya going 1 :49: 13 in the morning and 1:52:27 in the after-noon. There were 13 entries in Sa-fari, however, only five finished. Fourth spot went to Miguel Rubio, with a time of 3:50:06 and fifth to Jose Guadalupe Cervantes in at 3:53:47. All others only made it through just ooe heat or were no times. OlltOS FABRICATION. TACOMA 4WD 6 PRERUNNE/l lONO TRAVElt TOT SUS TRAVE CYCL OPTION Page 24 C October 2002 FER A COMPLETE N SYSTEM FOR Y AND ELIMINATIN L-IT WILL GIVE YOU ME REET AND THE DI Class 11 started five but only two managed to finish for times. Sergio "Coyote" Gutierrez had clean runs morning and afternoon to win the class. His times of 1 :51:23 and 1:45:48 headed second place fin-isher Alberto Ortega by a little over 21 minutes. Ortega, who reported problems with shocks, finished with a time of 3:58:17. Miguel Mexia completed only one heat and Chuck Deck and Gilberto Arreola were both no times. In Class 15, one of the better represented classes, 14, started and six were able to complete both heats. Jose Montoya had the fastest times both morning and afternoon, he ran 1:34:30 in the morning and backed up wit 1 :40:49 after lunch. Martin Lizarraga was very consis-tent with a 1:42:46 in the morning and 1:43:20 in the afternoon, which netted him second spot. Third place went to Juan Guevara a time of 1:36:44 in the first heat and 1:50:01 on the second. Fourth was Edgar Delgado, 3:38:13, fifth was Sergio Silva, 3:42:35 and the sixth spot went to Pete Morquecho, 3:48:56. Two others completed only one heat and six others were no times. Eight-thirty a.m. an d the Fudster's green flag was back to work for the C lass 5, Class 5-1600, Class 14 and C lass 9 starts. Dusty Times

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Second spot in Class ½-1600 was Hirum Duran, he finished about Beny Gane/a, the Indio Flyer lost some fiberglass along the way but Flying higher than most of the big boys, Dave Collier flew to a second place finish in Class 5. five minutes behind the leader, seen here in flight. still pulled out second place in Class 8. In Class 5 there were six starters errez only 13 seconds back at Class 14 had only one driver able and only two made it through two 3 :06:43. Gustavo Rodriguez to complete both morning and af-heats. Two California drivers were 3:17:35, Sammy Martinez, 3:20:42, ternoon heats. Armando Roman a little over 30 minutes apart for Eduardo Orozco, 3:21:58 and wentoutwitha l:41:04andbacked the first and second place, but they Julian Patron, 3:38:34 were the it up later with a 1:56:35 and a were the only two with times. Joe other drivers who finished two heats total of 3:37:39. Roman, who usu-Heger bested Dave Collier, with for times. ally runs around the front of the times of 1:23:36 and 1:31: 05 for a total of 2:54:51, which also net-ted him sixth overall for the day. Collier ran 1:43 in the morning and 1:47:36 later in the day for a 3:31: 19, but, that 30 minute spread was also the difference between sixth overall an 23rd overall. None of the other entries in Class 5 had times. pack, but on this day Adolfo Ayala, was the only entry out of the eight in class, to complete the second heat, which garnered him second place. The other six drivers had vari-ous breakdowns and other prob-lems; most never completed full laps in the morning or afternoon. Class 9 didn't do much better as far as starters vs. finishers was concerned. Eleven drivers pulled up for the green and only two finished the required second heat later in Continued on page 26 Eleven drivers in Class 5-1600 started the morning heat; seven there for the black and white in the afternoon. Leading the pack was Gerardo lribe who had to finish the afternoon heat on three wheels. lribe's morning time was 1:28:57 and his three wheel time was 1:35:53 for a ninth overall. Second spot went to Jason Gregory at 3:06:30 and third to Mario Guti-The good looking class 9 car of Ken Graves is nicely airborne on the way to the Jose Diaz Martinez is one lucky fella, he tookthe Class 7S win by one second, talk class win, with five minutes in hand. about a close race. ---------------------------------~ .. another · :bflsli® The Suspension Company. Dusty Times October 2002 Page 25

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Luis Chavez ran hard in Class 7 but was only able to take the runner Jason Gregory lands nicely in his 5-1600, he went on to second Less than five minutes out of the win, Rod McCain took the second spot in Class 9 in his long, low racer. · up position, some 13 minutes off the winning pace. place, only a minute and half out of the win. the day. Ken Graves had no prob-was determined by who wa able to Ten o'clock Saturday morning lems with his S/S Jimco, running stay in the race the longest. In this and the trucks take the field. The 7's, 1 :35:49 in the morning and com-case, Daniel Reyes was clean in the 8's and 18's blast out of the gates, ing back even faster in the after-morning with a 1 :38: 15, but could over the jump, and on to fame and noon; his second heat time was only finish two laps on the second glory. Twelve entries made up the 1 :34:31 for a three hour and ten heat. Three others, Rodrigo Obeso, Class 7 contingent and four of them minute total. Rod McCain, was five Rodolfo Whilerny, and Alberto managed to complete both heats. minutes back, in second, wit!) runs Mendoza completed only one heat Enrique Guerrero reported no prob-of 1:36:05 and 1:38:56 for a total and the other five drivers were all lems with his 'Willie Valdez' prepped 3:_35:01. Here again the third spot no times. Ranger. With runs of 1:33:30 and 1;38:39, his three hour and 12 minute time brought him il first place class win and 15th overall. Luis Chavez went 1:35:30 in the morning and backed that up with a 1:49:51 in the afternoon. The 3:25:21 time was good for second. Jesus Mendez took third with a total time of 3:40:28 and fourth went to Mario Salciod Reyes in at 3:53:59. Pablo Gamino, Hector Salazar and Matt Carter com-pleted the morning run but didn't do as well in the p.m. Five others were all no times. Class 7s had only five entries, and three of them finished the required distance. First place went to Jose Diaz Martinez, with near identical runs of 1:42:29 and 1:43:34 for a total of 3:26:03. There was only a one sec-Sergio Duron doesn't believe in flying, he took the second spot in 7S, Alberto Ortega tried to make Class 11 a race but he ended up in Martin Lizarraga was second in the Sportsman Class 15, he was just one second away from the win. second place, a bit over twenty minutes off the winning pace. about eleven minutes away from the class win. Page 26 October 2002 Dllsty_ Ji mes..

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An appreciative crowd watches Ruben Godoy running towards second spot in Sportsman Class 18. The Safari Class was hard fought, Luivan Voelk~r only missed the Jesus Mendez made a good run at the Class 7 gold medal but ended class win by 42 seconds, had to settle for second place. up a nice third in class when it was all over. ond difference between first and sec-ond in this class, Sergio Duron went out in the morning with a very nice 1:42 flat, but had to finish the after-noon heat on a flat tire and that time was 1:44:04. Makes you wonder doesn't it? Dave Ahles found the course just a little too tight for his liking but still managed third place with a 3:39: 10. Enrique Loam and Jeremy Johnson were both no times. Broken this and that, and I suppose hurt feelings, but both will return. Thar's what off road racing is all about. Class 8 also had only five entries, and Ricardo Coronado and Beny Canela fought it out as the only two finishers, in this class. Coronado was breaking in a new engine and had the third fastest heat time on his morn-ing run that was 1: 19:02. Only Chuck Hovey in a One Car went faster. More later. Coronado backed this morning outing with a 1 :26:24 for a 2:45:26 total, which was also good enough for third overall. Canela went 1:32:39 and 1:29:26 for 3:02:05 and second place. None of the other Class 8 entries could com-plete the afternoon heats and were, therefore, no times. Class 18, which runs in the Sportsman category in CODE races, had five starters and three of them completed both heats. Raul Montiel, in his very modified truck, took first with runs of 1:33:34 and 1 :35:02 for 3:08:36. Ruben Godoy ran 1:43 and 1:46 for the second spot and German Ramirez"was a distant third at 4:04:57. Luis Rey and Raul Aguilera were both no times. Almost "High Noon" and the shoot out at the Jacume corral con-tinues. The drivers who made up Classes 1, 19, 12 and 1/2-1600 num-bered ten. Three in Class 1, one in Class 12, so he ran with the 10 class and four in the 1/2-1600. Chuck Hovey, Lobsam Yee and Breni: Miller went at each other in Class 1. Luis Barragan took his 12 car up to do battle with Amado Lo-pez and Beto Medina in their 10 cars, and Jose Robles, Hirum Duran, Cesar Dons, and John Manring made up the rest of the field in the 1/2-1600. The temperature was still not all that hot, but the ensuing competi-tion would get to the boiling point. The Class 1 boys were all done in less than three hours for the two heats. Chuck Hovey drove a 1: 17: 5 2 in the morning and backed it up in the early evening with a 1: 16:21. The 2:34: 13 time took the class honors and was also number one overall. Lobsam Yee ran the final few miles of Heat 1 on a flat tire and still managed a 1:20:09. Later in the evening he ran out of gas but still finished the heat with a 1:17:41 only three minutes off the pace. Yee was also second overall for the day. Brent Miller went out in the 1norningwith a 1:24:28 and had an evening run of 1:25:15 which got him third in class and fifth overall. Dusty Times As stated, Luis Barragan moved all forthe day. of 1:28:42 for 3:00:58 and first morning run of 1 :35:21 and an early up to the 10 class and with runs of Last, but not least, the 1/2-1600 place. Six minutes back was Hiram evening back up of 1 :32 flar. John 1:23:16 and 1:25:07 did all right class. Here we had four entries and Duran with heat times of 1:33:57 and Manring was 1:39:25 at noon time for himself. He was the only finisher three of the four finished for timts. 1:32:47. The 3:06:44 netted him sec-but couldn't finish the second heat in the combined class and his time of Jose Carlos Robles did a morning run ond in class and 12th overall. Third so was a no time. 2:48:43 also earned him fourth over-of 1:32: 16 and an evening sojourn place went to Cesar Cons with a Continued on page 28 LIST YOUR PHONE NUMBER, YEAR, MODEL ANO ENGINE SIZE! 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MOJAVE DESERT RACING, INC. California 200 By Sheryl Cannon Photos: Trackside Photo Whit Courtenay and Bruce Fraley combined their talents and ran through the night to a great 1st in Class 10, 4th overall. fhe Class 5 battle went to John Criswell. He won by less than a minute and John was second overall as well at Lucerne. Perhaps nothing can stop Ri-chard Boyle, MDR's white-hot points leader who has yet to taste defeat this season. One thing is certain; racing at night didn't stop him. On August 10, 2002, Boyle bested a stellar field of 87 starters to take this year's "California 200" and post his fourth straight overall victory. Securfng win number 4 was no easy task, because this time Boyle found himself un-able to put away the field. A trio of competitors pressured R.B. all the way to the finish, but the resilient Class 100 win-ner gamely withstood the chal-lenge. Despite some motor problems and briefly getting lost, Boyle's 3:58:31 clocking (54.1 mph) gave him a 7:59 margin of victory over C la ss 800 winner Eric He ide n . The race's overall third and fourth place finishers, John Criswell and George Seeley, also came close to ending Boyle's win streak. Criswell, the Class 500 winner, wound up finishing 14 seconds behind Heiden and 52 seconds ahead of Seeley. Apparently, judging by the The Class 1 win at the MOR Galifomia 200 went to Richard Boyle, he was first overall, seen here at speed. Nicholas Beall was fast, he did his 3 required laps in 3:12:16 and won his class handily, a1most an hour and a half in hand. number of finishers, partici-pants in MDR's lone night race didn't mind swapping visibility for cooler temperatures. Ex-actly t'o/O thirds (58) of those who started successfully made their way through the darkened desert to the checkered flag. Neither dust, nor silt, nor rocks, nor gloom of night could sto p these exhibitionists of speed from the swift completion of their ass igned laps. Now, for all the glorious and goriest de-tails, it's on to race recap time. Class lOO's Daniel Fresh led the parade of vehicles to the starting line and, as fate would have it, the 30-second head start he received was the only time Richard Boyle did not hold the lead on track. For nearly every class, Lap 1 proved the only loop run entirely dur-ing day.light hours. As a result of that fact, divisional fast lap times were posted on Lap I in Classes 100, 500, 5 50, 700, 800, 900, 1000 and 1600. Not surprisingly, Boyle recorded the best lap ofrhe entire day/night. His ultra-swift 41:44 opening loop clinched Class 100 fast lap honors. Richard Lesher was nearly as impressive, as he sped to Class 1000 fast lap time in 42:04. Craig Ayers posted the race's only other sub-43 minute Dennis Boyle took a nice third in Class 1 o, the last two laps being Billy Bunch was a wee bit off the winning time at the Lucerne race, he Greg Crew was third in Class 1300, just a minute and 12 seconds rather slow in the dark of ni ht, but still a good finish. was third in class, 9 minutes off the pace. away from the silver medal, seen here at full throttle. Casey Currie gave it his all, but a fourth place finish in class was the In the 5-1600 class Mark Dee took the bronze podium finish, he was Andy Gaston was not running as well as he would have liked and it best he could muster at Lucerne, a bit over minute out of third. 12 minutes out of the second place spot. . showed, he was a long third place in Class 1. · Page 30 October 2002 Dusty Times

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Eduardo Gonzalez was just a wee bit slower than he wanted to be, he finished second in class, 19 minutes out of the win. ap, a 42:59 gem recor e on his opening loop. Unfortu-nately, despite owning the third fastest ap of the day/night, Ay-ers was denied his division's fast lap honors by that man Boyle. Marie Growe and His Ford were third in class, only an agonizing 11 Mike Harvey was just a minute or two off the winning pace at Lucerne seconds away from the silver medal at Lucerne. and he ended up in second in 1600, five minutes out of the win. Tim Criswell took fast lap honors in Class 500 (44:34), Jeffrey Sack did likewise in 550 (57:09) and Eric Heiden posted the quickest lap (46:11) in Class 800. Elsewhere, Travis Fletcher had the best lap (48:43) in Class 1600 and fast lap honors in Classes 900 and 700 were claimed by Dan Folts (54:56) and Jeff Richardson (55:39) respectively. On the front end, Boyle had assumed is customary position as pacesetter, but Lesher, Ay-ers and Tim Criswell were all hot on his heels. On the ensu-ing laps, Boyle tried in vain to shake loose from his main ri-vals. After two laps, Boyle led Lesher by just over a minute, Dan Folts made it look easy in Class 9, he ran trouble free and took the gold with over an hour in hand. Eric Heiden was flying at Lucerne, he took the Class 8 win with over an hour and a half to spare, seen here at speed. with Criswell and Ayers two and three minutes back respectively. . On Lap 3, Lesher suffered a flat and a broken A-arm, which cost him 30 minutes in• down-time. Still, there· would be no breather for Boyle, as Criswell quickly moved into second and set his sights on the leader. George Seeley and Eric Heiden were also looming dangerous, with that pair racing a joint third about six minutes off the pace. As the field entered Lap 4, Boyle held a seven minute lead over classmate Bill Winger, but he had his hands full with John Criswell, who was less than a minute behind. Boyle fought back gamely during Lap 4, re-pelling the challenges of his ri-vals. When he arrived back at the Start/Finish line, Boyle w·as given the white flag and set out on his final 40 mile loop. The posse, led by Criswell, Seeley, Heiden and now Whit Cour-Continued on page 32 ultimate long travel Get the benefits of our Lang Travel system and 3" rrft spindles, creating 6" of lilt far incredible ground clearance. fil!@r-@ll ■ 3' lift spindles ■ Upper Control arms ~~~w~., ■ Lower Control arms JT ■ Coil springs ■ 3 way front ·shocks ■ Performance rear shocks ■ Rear kit 3-wau adjustable shocR absorber _______ ,,,,.,.,,. __ 0$,t_ PllR,..OftfflAnc• IHOCK# toyota Jong travel system Dur Toyota 2 wheel drive, 6' 1vao Dao' long travel system. Built to satisfy all the serious off roaders out there. Dusty Times ford long travel system custom i beams Ollroad bullet proof design provides maximum strength with 4130 Chromoly steel 1 /Bth' thick plate and tubular inner structure. 1990-94 lord ranger Y " per;formance sustem Dur extended radius arms are offset further inboard offering increased lire clearance and 4' more wheel !ravel Dual Shock System 2 shocks per !rant wheel, adds high performance dampening. 8' Suspension System used in a racing application with coil over shocks. Using Fabtech custom I beams, this configuration cycles out at 19' ol wheel travel. extended radius arms Our extended radius arms are offset further inboard for increased lire clearance. Hanger models shown, which include new pivot mounts. 1998-on lord ranger 2.s .. performance system 2.5' of lilt with a 2' increase in wheel travel. 1973-87 ClO 'I" lono travel sustem Gives you the needed clearance for 33' tall tires. October 2002 t Fiberglass e !! f!Jiberf!! ! include front fenders, bedsides and hoods. The front fenders and bedsides are flared with wheel !ravel in mind. angled ~ spare tire mount Constructed using 1 1/4' steel tubing and MIG welded at the joints for long lasting strength and durability. flat spare tire mount stamped steel tabs Dur vast assortment of stamped steel tabs simplify your fabrication needs. Call for a distributor nearest you Phone 714-990-8850 -Fax 714-990-8854 www.Fabtechmotorsports.com DR E-MAIL US AT inf□@fabtechrn□t□rsports.com Page 31

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Ryan Hasbrouck drove his sanitary truck to fifth in class, less than Jim Heine ran his three required laps quite quickly, but not quick Eric Helgison ran through the night in his Jeep to fifth in class, a good three. minutes faster would have him in second spot. enough, he was third in class, less than six minutes in arrears. run, just a wee bit off the pace. • Jim Highley hustled through the darkness to a nice third in class, Definitely outclassed in Class 8, Mike lsmail's Scout ran consistent Second in 5-1600 went to Steve Johnston, he ran good laps but not fast enough to take the class win at Lucerne. less than two minutes out of second spot. laps but still ended up an hour and a half in arrears. tenay, was *four minutes be-prayers. Boyle took the check-and place second overall. hind, but running out of time. ered flag and, along with it, his Heiden's superb final time of Halfway through Lap 5, that fourth consecutive victory. It 4:06:30 (52.3 mph) proved 14 group must have realized that took the Class 100 and overall . seconds better than the clock-only divine intervention could race winner less than four ing posted by overall third detail the "Boyle Express." As hours to polish off l}is five laps place finisher John Criswell. Boyle sped powerfully through and claim his well deserved "4-Criswell, who spent the latter the race's final miles, it was peat." half of the race trying to stave · clear that the DNF God had Eric Heiden finished s!rongly off the challenge of his turned a deaf ear to the posse's to win Class 800 by a distance archrival George Seeley, PRECISION everything yau need ta build. maintain and operate a racecar emerged with a narrow victory Courtenay resumed his winning in Class 300. At the finish, 52 ways. Courtenay defeated Class seconds was all that separated 1000 runner-up Richard that dynamic duo. Both men av-Lesher by five-plus minutes to eraged just over 52 mph, which record his third win of the sea-placed the 500 winner and run-son. Despite having a new mo-ner-up third and fourth over-• tor, which was "real tight the all. first lap", the always formi-After suffering a rare defeat dab le Courtenay took fifth in his previous race, Whit overall with a time of 4: 16:01 2865 Gundry Ave. Signal Hill. CA 90806 BOD.959. 7757 562.427.2375 Bnlt!!!i. Nut!!!i and Hardware Sparcn Seat!!!i. Steering Wheel!!!i. Suit!!!i and SaFety Equipment Craw Belt!!!i and Harne!!!i!!!ie!!!i Bell Helmet!!!i . Spa/ Fam, Fire Sy!!!item!!!i Silicone Turbo Hn!!!ie Neu Synthetic Lubricant!!!i Aurora. NHBB and FK Rad End!!!i We/dun Fuel and Oil Pump!!!i Fre!!!ih Air Driver Ventilation Sy!!!item!!!i lntercnmp Scale!!!i and Alignment Equipment Earl'!!!i. Aernquip & 5peedflnw Stainle!!!i!!!i Braided Hn!!!ie & Fitting!!!i Fuel SaFe and Triangle Fuel Cell!!!i Setrab. Lang and Fluidyne Oil Cnnler!!!i §ee au.r cam l.ete anline catala at www.baker recisian.cam Page 32 October 2002 Dusty Times

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T Second in Class 9 was Kevin Kopitch. He gave it his all but this night Richard Lesher led the first two laps, had some problems on lap 3 Michael Licari chased the class winner most of the night but problems that just wasn't enough. and ended up in second place in Class 10, 5 minutes out of the win. caused him to withdraw before the final lap. Ricky Long made it look easy, he drove his good looking Ford to a nice class win at Lucerne, 19 minutes in hand at the finish. Brothers Mike and Chris Parr drove their super sano cars to second and fourth places at the MDR Lucerne meet. (50.4 mph). Another good cracking the top 10 in overall battle was staged in Class 1600, scoring helped alleviate any dis-where a similar five-plus min-appointment they may have felt utes was all that separated that after each finished second in division's 1-2 finishers. Robert their division. For the record, Mauritzen came out on top,_ Ayers (7th}) took runner-up after repelling a strong chal-honors in Class 100. Lesher lenge from eventual second (8th) earned a similar placing place finisher Mike Harvey. in 1000, as did Harvey (9th) in Despite running out of gas on 1600. Rounding out the top 10 the last lap, Mauritzen stopped was Jim Varshay, whose solid the clock in 4: 18:44 (49.8 4:38:24 (46.3 mph) clocking mph) to record his first win and piaced him third in Ciass 500. place sixth overall. With some 58 starters also The race's overall seventh finishers, there's simply not through ninth place positions enough space to continue a were captured by the aforemen-"blow-by-blow" account. So, tioned trio of Ayers, Lesher and here's a divisional summary of Harvey, respectively. Hopefully, the significant others. In Class Wes Huston took the class win in his plain wrap truck, his quick laps gave him a 25 minute win margin. Steve Jones wasn't the fastest car in class but he ended up with the win, seen here hustling through the night. Dusty Times 100, A.J. Gaston was the only other finisher. Despit_e losing an alternator belt right at the start and also getting lost once, Gaston completed his five laps in 5:08: 16 (41.8 mph). After playing catch-up the entire race, Gaston's reward was a third in class and 18th overall. In Class 500, Steve Griffith wrapped up the scoring with a fourth place performance. Grittit-h a1so completed the or-der of top 20 overall finishers with a time of 5:14:29 (41.0 mph). It was a good day/night for entrants competing in Class 550. A field of five took part, including the aforementioned Jeffrey Sack. Sack led from flag to flag, parlaying his class best opening lap into an insur-mountable lead. "We had a great time, and the last lap we just cruised because we were way ahead," said Sack. Offi-cially; Sack's winning margin was 12 minutes 10 seconds and his 5:04:44 (42.3 mph) clock-ing ranked 16th ove~all. Stev·e Johnson, with an assist from Jeff Dernier, earned Class 550 runner-up honors. Mark Dee overcame much adversity to record a solid third place per-formance . "I'd like to dedicate this race to my dad, Jim, who died two d0ays ago," said Dee. Joey Hoerr followed Dee in fourth and Kurt Puhl wound up fifth. A match race appeared on tap in Class 700, where the lone entrants were Jeff Richard-son and Steve Lucena. Perhaps a mismatch race more accu-rately describes what ensued. After Lucena endured a 2:21:19 opening lap, he was forced to make an early exit. Continued on page 34 TRANSAXLE ENGINEERJNG, INC. SNORE 1999 Tran.saxle Builder Of The Year Con ...... tulations Ran nes -Drivin the Brad Inch 1600 2nd Overall 2nd 1/2-1600 SNORE/MORE Midnight Special TRANS.AXLE ENGINEERING - 9763VARIEL A.VENUE JEFF nELD CHATSWORTH, CA 91311 818-998-2739 -October 2002 Page 33

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Bob Miller had a horrendous third lap, costing him an hour so he was happy to be able to grab second place in class. Craig Pearson ran good consistent laps and was disappointed with . Charlie Peltzer ran second all the way; taking his Jeep to the second fourth in class, only 40 seconds out of third. spot at Lucenie, less than three minutes out of the win. Bob Mauritzen was the Class 1600 winner, he was fast and consistent and too the gold with five minutes in hand. biggest surprises occurred in their good final times. The runaway winner Eric Heiden, Class 725, and it wasn't the fine Gonzalez brothers, Eduardo but then again, not many did. performance turned in by win-and Jose, combined for a time In Class 900, Dan Folts scored ning driver Rick L0ng. The real of 5:07:37, which ranked 17th· a lopsided one and a quarter shocker was in the number of overall. Highley, who took 19th hour victory over runner-up starters, 12, which made 725 place in 5:09:08, was under-Kevin Kopitch. According to the race's largest class. Long standably thrilled with his Folts, it was a perfect day/ started first and finished first, team's performance. "It's the night. "All we had to do was despite surrendering the lead first one (race) we've finished stop for gas," said Folts, who (temporarily) while fixing this year, so we're all happy," added, "we just cruised the last problems with his tranny he said. Ron Smith finished lap, because we knew we had it cooler, His fifth loop (51:30) well to claim fourth. place in won." Folts' wining time of earned Long 725 fast lap hon-class and Doug Pettterson 4:50:26 (44.4 mph) was good ors, while also helping propel checked in fifth. Unfortunately, for 14th place overall. Three him to a decisive 18+ minute none of the other 725 starters other Class 900 starters took victory over second place fin-completed their assignments. part, however, each fell shy of isher Eduardo Gonzalez. Four of them did, however, completing all five laps. A Long stopped the clock in complete all but Lap 5. That rotlgh 2 : 27 :45 second lap 4:48:46 (44. 7 mph), which quartet consisted of Hank proved Dan Owen's undoing. proved the 13th best overall Beach, Jason Walker, Robert Despite that lengthy loop, time. Gonzalez and third place Anderson and J.C. Andrews. Owen came back strong, com-Thus, Richardson and team-mate Steve Fogliasso cruised to an easy victory timed in 5: 18:21 finisher Jim Highley both ln Class 800, Mike Ismail pletingallbuthisfinallap.In (40.5 mph). One of the day's earned top 20 placement with emerged with runner-up hon-Class 1000, Dennis Boyle raced Damen Jefferies wins overall at Nevada 1000 on Team Gordon Wheels 17" RG.O 1 race wheel available in 0 race lock or street lock for oil Chevrolet and Ford truck applications 15" RG.02 race wheel available in race lock or street lock for VW applications. 7" and 3.5" widths available. Specializing in Off-Road wheels*, ~~~~~~,2nd steering systems. P~ge 34 ( I Team Gordon 2980 East Miraloma Ave Anaheim, CA 92806 Phone (714) 632-0013 Fax (714) 632-0311 TEAMGORDON.COM ---~ October 2002 ors. Ismail proved no match for in the thick of contention for Craig Reynolds led the first two laps, almost lost it all on the third lap but he took the Class 1300 win by only 8 seconds. PIKES service center Baker, California Celebra~ing 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ••• THANKS! RESTAURANT Open 24 Hours -Mobil® SERVICE Every Day Year Round THE BEST IN THE DESERT! Dusty Times =t=

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., Jeff Richardson virtually had no competition but he still tooled around The Class 5-1600 win went to Jeff Sack (front), he was quite quick, George Seeley ran well, was fastest in class for a few laps but he the course in good time and took the class win. led the whole race and took the win with 12 minutes in hand. ended up in second in Class 5, 52 seconds away from the gold. about the first 160 miles. Un-ors. Miller, who shared the third place effort was eventful, think the axle broke and we did get the trailer?" "I said, I came fortunately, the bulk of his drivingdutieswithSteveBucalu tosaytheleast."Wewereabout a couple somersaults, then heretorace,gogetmeanaxle," 4:43:06 (45.6 mph) final time and John (last name unknown), two minutes behind Beall the landed on our side. Chuck said Dill. Pardon me folks, but was recorded during Laps 4 and finished a clear cut second de-first lap, so we tried to step it Kueny (h-is co-driver) broke his you gotta love that! Another 5 when "the spark plug cylin-spite trouble with both his up a little and I don't know thumb, and the first thing they axle, a few tires to replace the ders let go." As a result, Boyle lights and battery. Mike Dill's what happened," said Dill. "I said was, "You want us to go Continued on page 36 had to settle for third in 1000 and 11th overall, after he "crept it the last two laps just trying to finish." Jim Ander-son followed in fourth place and completed the order of Class 1000 finishers. By virtue of his 5:00:03 final time, Anderson wound up 15th in overall scoring. In Class 1600, the aforemen-tioned Travis Fletcher was the third and final finisher from.an original field of five. Fletcher averaged a solid 44 miles per h our for the race and his swift 4:48: 15 clocking proved 12th best overall. This brings us now to the re-maining half dozen divisions seeing action. Classes 1100, 1200, 1300, 1 450 and the JeepSpeed (1700) contingent each received three lap assign-ments. Steven Jones, the lone entrant competing in Class 1400, was asked to complete a total of four laps. It took Jones and teammate Tom Bolha 4:44: 11 (36.3 mph) to· com-plete their uncontested victory romp. The duo's lap times im-proved with each loop. Bolha, who drove the final two, regis-tered the pair's best time (1:02:53) on Lap 4. In Class 1100, a field of three participated. Lap 1 proved an exercise in contrast, as it contained elements of the good, the bad and the ugly. Despite getting caught up in a nasty bottleneck and his points dying, Dennis Sletten's initial loop went pretty good. There would be no second lap for Shuss, nor for his classmate Thomas Pittman, who exited prior to arriving back at the Start/Finish line. With his· competition out of the run-ning, Sletten cruised to the 1100 win in 4:21:56 (26.5 mph). His final loop, which took 1:19:55, also gave Sletten his division's fast lap time. Af-ter completing his victory run, Sletten addressed rumors circu-lating about his alleged depar-ture from Class 1100. "We're going to J eepSpeed next year," he said. "One more race on this beast, then we're going to try the Jeep." Another trio squared off in Class 1200. Nicholas Beall proved too hot to handle, win-ning by more than one hour and 23 minutes over runner-up Bob Miller. Beall's winning time was 3:12:16 (40.3 mph) and his 1:03:22 final loop won him Class 1200 fast lap hon-Dusty Times § 1 New Logo, New Name1 Same Great; Tra:n.sa.xle "The MDS CONTINUES ITS WINNING WAYS IN 2002" Congratulati.ons to all the Winneis! First Place Class 10 Honda First Place Class 12 Terrihle's Town 250 TerrJhle's Town 250 Chris Harrold Ridings Crew First Place Class 12 First Place Class 12 Baja 500 Parker Jerry Penhall Vic Bruck.man/Brian Coneen * Utilizes same "Extreme Duty" gearsets as MD4-2D 100% shot peened. I 2 *. 100% CAD designed. All new billet shift heads and rails .. Ball bearing shift housing. * Available now from all authorized .. Menaeola Dealers." 290 Trousdale Dr. #J, Chula Vista, CA 91910 619-691-1000 619-691-1324fax www .mendeolaractng.com October 2002 § j JJ S 3 Ji SJJIJSJ Page 3_5

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..... Surprise! Dennis Sletten won Class 11 again. He's moving to It wasn't Ron Smith's fastest night, but he hung in there and took the Barrie Thompson took another win in the Jeepspeed Group, leading the class all the way and winning by sligqtly less than 3 minutes. averaged an. even 44 mph, with Heine finished a close up third Reynolds' effort clocked in in 3:0 1: 41 (42.6 mph). Chris-2:53:48. Parr d id everything topher Parr edged the team of but win, while posting three in-Greg Crew and Javier credibly consistent lap times Valenzuela by one m inute and (58:53, 58: 14 and 58:49). Jim change to take fourth place. Ja-JeepSpeed next season, so watch out guys, he's real competition. fourth place in class at the Lucerne night race. flats and Dill finishes the race throats from the outset. After white flag lap, by Reynolds in third. posting 1300 fast lap time hung on gamely to prevail by a A strong field of 11 fought (57:26) on Lap 2, Reynolds' scant eight seconds. 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Wes Huston proved much the best, racing to a strong, 25+ minute win over Michael Licari and Mark Growe. In addition to placing first (2:58:28, 43.4 mph) Huston also emerged with 1450 fast lap honors (58:33). Licari and Growe seemed to take turns leading each other throughout the contest. At the finish, Licari (with an 'assist from Brad Kipp) got the nod by a mere 11 seconds to claim 1450 runner-up honors. Growe settled for third and the entry of Craig Pearson and Mike Homer, who checked-in 40 sec-onds later, took fourth . Amaz-ingly, it was just 15 seconds fur-ther back to Larry Hasbrouck, who, along with Nathan Strong and Ryan Hasbrouck, finished fifth. Dana Dague (6th), Carolyn Hines (7th) and Jason La Fortune (8th) completed the order of Class 1450 finishers. As has become customary, there was a well represented field in the JeepSpeed class. Eleven faced the starter, led py Charlie Peltzer. Despite posting lap times of 59:37, 59:36 and 59: 13, Peltzer came away sec-ond best. The reason was Barrie Thompson stole the show, the win (2:55:35) and even Class 1700 fast lap hon-ors (58: 19). Thompson aver-aged 44. 1 mph and used their three sub-59 minute loops (58:27 & 58:49 were the oth-ers ) to defeat Peltzer by two minutes 51 seconds. Billy Bunch finished strongly to place third, followed closely by Casey Currie in fourth. Eric Hilgison and Jared Prindle wound up fifth and sixth respectively. Mike Barnett (7th) and Bill Frey (8th) completed the order of 1700 finishers. The remain-ing three JeepSpeed starters deserve recognition for com-pleting all but their final loop. That trio consisted of Steve Thomasson, Ricardo Ramirez :rnd Bryan Rogers. That concludes our recap of MDR's 2002 "California 200". At press time, only two races remain on this year's schedule. Hope you can be part of the ac'tion, but even if you can't, -remember, you can still read all about it in Dusty Times. ..·&Jflv Dusty Times

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AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP • ROUND 5 TheKempsey Powerhouse saa Text & Photos: Steve Hilton The Chevy powered Porsche of Graham Lees flies high on the way to victory in the Class 5 competition. · Kempsey in mid July and as usual cool mornings, warm days and cold nights, this mid coast town in New South Wales has ·some beautiful back country and long sandy beaches, a perfect place to holiday, but at this time of the year it is turned over to the running of Round 3 of the Australian Off Road Championship. As in the past the event would be run over two days, Saturday's prologue to determine starting positions followed by the Kings of Kempsey where the top ten would have another run over a shortened prologue course to improve their starting positions and for the winner, the crown King of Kempsey. In the afternoon two laps of the 48 kilometre course and on Sunday two heats each of three laps to an afternoon finish, this is always a tough event. Missing this year's was the Finke Desert race winner Mark Burrows not competing because of business commitments: Prologue This is where all thoughts of the finish to the event are forgotten and only being the top place finisher in your class is important., Class I Unlimited Buggy Brad Zaclca and Gary Turner in the Ford turbo powered Jimco were fastest over the five · kilometre course, with some spectacular jumps and landings saw him set a time of 04:02:8, second in class was the Stealth VS Toyota buggy of Svenson record a time of 04: 14:9, third Bob Mowbray in his V W powered Jimco buggy with a time of 04: 18:2. Class 2 I 650cc Buggy On top of this class were Michael Spokes and Alan Hetherington in a Suzuki powered Rivmasta, their time over the course also saw them set the second fastest time for the prologue 04: 11 :3, second with a time of 04: 2 9 :0 was Ken Houston, third Anthony Lia 04:29: l. Class 3 1300cc Buggy Kevin Lee, fastest with a time of04: 24: 1 and just one position outside the top ten, second Darren Perrin in the Rivmasta 04:30:8, third Trevor Shannon 04:31 :8. Class 5 Limited 2WD Enduro Graham Lees and Angus Laird in the VS Chevy Porsche proved again they would be hard to beat and set a time of 0 4:43: 1, second Michael Latimore 04:50: 1, third was the Laurence and Janelle Svenson won Class 1 by nine minutes and they were first overall as well at the Kempsey Powerhouse 500. current class holder Paul Grant Svenson C lass 2, Michael Spokes in the F150 Ford, his time · Class 2 and Brad Zacka Class l. 04:59:8. Brad Zacka gave the· Class 7 Production 4WD spectators a thrill a minute with The Jeep of Colin Hunter a drive never seen in a top ten and Bronwyn Humphrey were shoot since 1987 when Bob fastest with a time of 04:31 :0, Gordon competed in Australia, second the Mitsubishi of Geoff Zacka and Turner in the Jimco Pickering 04:35 : 1, third the buggy seemed to be one with the Nissan Patrol of Les Siviour track, with nerve breaking jumps 04:37:2. and landings, they were ten Class 8 Unlimited 4WD seconds faster than the next car Steve Corney and David of Hayden Tatnell and faster Watson first with a time of than the two very quick bikes, a 05:06:4, second Scott Foster well deserved win for the car's 05:07:2. owner Paul Zacka and the crown Class 9 Unlimited Single of the King of Kempsey to Brad Seat Buggy as well as starting position one The Tasmanian Hayden for the race proper. Tatnell in his _Nissan powered Saturday Heat One Rivmasta first in class and third Zacka on the start line alone fastest overall, 04: 11:8, second as part of the Kings prize, this in anot.her Nissan powered gave him a dust free run and be Rivmasta Glenn Spizzo 04: 17 :3, able to set a pace the others fifth fastest overall, third Jason would have to run to, at Graham in the Toyota powered Checkpoint 1, 18 kilometres BRB with a ti"me of 04: 18:2 into the event he held a good eighth fastest overall. lead over Tatnell and Spizzo Top Ten with Svenson fourth, through Kings of Kempsey · the centre arena at Checkpoint Ten cars would line up with 5 and still leading, looking very two bikes to contest the prize for comfortable with the Jimco the King of Kempsey, in a runningstrongattheendofLap reverse start position one at a 1 and with no problems headed time over a shorter course, five out of the arena on Lap 2 in Class ls, one Class 2 and four what was now a very dusty race. Class 9 buggies, the running Trouble struck Zacka on this lap order for the Kings of Kempsey with the gearbox shift stuck, were, David Spokes Class 1, unable to change gears a n d J aakko Kylma Class 9, Jason having to drive the entire lap in Graham Class 9, Buddy Crowe second gear, at the end Zacka Class 1, Bob Mowbray Class 1, still led but not by a big margin. Gilellllllcfiibiero ~las a B, p.e,w-encd Continued on page 38 Performance Proven for Desert & Off-Road Use 150 Some Uses: • Pit Truck Showers & Washdowns • Cooking & Kitchen Facilities • Extended Stay Water Storage Tanks • Bike Trailer Water Tanks • Car & Buggy Trailer Tanks • Pressure Washing Storage Tanks • Heavy Duty Sizes.to C~oose from • Non Corrosive Polyethylene • One-Piece Seamless • Heavy .Wall Construction • Custom FiH-ing Locations • New Systems • Auxiliary Systems • Replacements J~~lili·l,~--o. E.M. 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Buddy and Kerry Crowe were second to take the checkers in Class Flying high to a nice win in Class 8, Unlimited 4wd are Steve Gomey Trevor Shannon and Rodney Smith took the Class 3 win (1300cc 2 1 in their Rivmasta, here coming off a sharp right hander. and David Watson, shown here in flight in their Mitsubishi. seat) in their absolutely plain wrap buggy. . Hayden Tatneli was only 0.58 Springs team of Peter Kittle and at Griffith Simon Barber in his seconds behind followed by Adam Ryan, their Jimco Class 2 Rivmasta buggy. Paul Glenn Spizzo another 05: 14 in suffering a lot of damage but Grant in the F150 Ford was also third, fourth was h eld by thankfully both driver and out with a differential failure, Svenson O 1 :48 in arrears of navigator were uninjured, also he was unable to repair th e Spizzo. Out of the event after out with a broken front stub damage overnigh t and retire d hitting a tree were th e Alice axle was the winner of Round 1 from the next day's competition. Class 1 Brad Zacka 1:24:39; Laurence Svenson 1:31:44; Buddy Crowe 1 :32:42 - Class 2 Michael Spokes 1:32:20; Ken Houston 1:34:22; Les Marshall 1 :40:43: Class 3 Kevin Lee 1 :33:59; Trevor Shannon 1:36:53; Darren Perrin 1:37:45 Class 4 Michael Taylor 1:45:55 Class 5 Graham Lees 1 :44:57; Stephen Mubling 1:56: ro Class 7 Colin Hunter 1:36:58; Les First in Class 7, Production four wheel drive was the Nissan Patrol of Les Siviour S iv i Our 1 : 3 9 : 2 1 ; Ge Off and David Gordon, shown here braking hard. Pickering 1 :40:48 Class 8 on landing and heading for the Steve Corney 1 :54:34; Scott drop, the steering column on Foster 1:55:00 theJimcobrokesendinghimoff Class 9 i:he track, this allowed Spizzo in H ayden Tatnell 1 :25 :42; his Rivmasta to take over the Glen n Spizzo 1:30:56; Jaakko lead, a lead he would no t lose. Kylma 1:32:14 The breeze dropped and the T he next day was to see some dust in the trees became a real changestothefieldandallcars problem for the other would start four at a time competitors, Tatnell was still in making for some good'racing to second position and having a the first corner. trouble free run, Spokes in the Sunday Heat 2 Class 2 Rivmasta held his lead A 9:00 a.m. start for Heat 2, throughout the three laps and three laps of the course and was not looking like ever giving Zacka, Tatnell, Spizzo and it up, he held position there Svenson all on the start line followed by Svenson in the together, with a good breeze Stealth still running strong, blowing and the hope it would Heat 3 blow the dust out of the trees Another three laps and again to make for better visibility for the start more important than th e rest of the field. The start ever as the dust is now a real flag dropped and all were away problem. Spizzo was a no show, over the first jump and into the back in the pits with a broken first right hand corner, it was rear torsion bar leaving Kylma, Tatnell leading Zacka over the Tatnell, Svenson and Spokes to second jump and Zacka had contest the start, leaving the line taken over the lead again when Kylm a led followed by Tatnell, On behalf of the entire Price Racing Team, we would like to thank all of you who sent cards, prayers and words of encouragement following the offroad accident which occurred while testing in Barstow· this past July. We extend special thanks to those from the JPR team, Donahoe Racing, Strobel ·construction, Dr. William Akrawi and Elite Motorsports who were there during the incident and immediately following to offer medical aid, comfort and assistance in our time of need. Jim is progressing well after 15 days in the hospital and 4 lengthy surgeries. His next challenge is the hours and hours of pain-staking rehabilitation. He is in good spirits, thankful for life and excited to see all of you at the races soon! Page 38 October 2002 Dusty Times

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First in Class 2 and third overall was the team of Michael Spokes and There was lots of action and there were many close comers, here, Brad Zacka took the Prologue win in Class 1 in his Ford powered Alan Hetherington in their Suzuki powered buggy. a typical shot of the urgency to get to the front of the pack. Jimco, shown here in perfectly balanced flight. Svenson and in the Class 2 result for him, second in Class later finding out he had a 20 J aa kko Ky Im a 5: 5 8: 5 5; calendar. Spokes, first to suffer a 1 and fourth outright. The first minute lead in the class battle Hayden Tatnell 6:44:38. The next round of the problem. Tatnell with a flat finish this year for Les Siviour with Shannon who took the win. Only 16 entries finished the Australian Championship, rear tyre on the Rivmasta, a in the Class 7 Nissan 4.8 litre Class 1 required eight laps leaving 43 to Mildura in the far north west considerable amount of time 4WD he was sixth outright, a Laurence & Janelle Svenson ponder whether next year may of Victoria situated on the lost in changing it, Kylma now good result after all the DNF's 5:55:45; Buddy & Kerry Crowe see them finish this event, one of banks of the Murray took over the lead, Buddy that have plagued him this year, 6:04:22; Nigel Burley, Scott the toughest on the off road Crowe moved up into fourth the battle between Hunter, McNeil 6:54: 18. · position and was making a Siviour and Pickering ended Class 2 charge in his two race old with a blown head gasket on the Michael Spokes, Alan Rivmasta. Kylma crossed the Mitsubishi Pajero and an Hetherington 6:00:54; Graham finish line first with a flat rear electrical problem on the Jeep, Hardaker, David Brew is tyre, this had slowed him down Bobbie-Lee Siviour in the 6:28:45; · Ken Houston, and ended his day second second Nissan 4WD finished the Cameron Ritchie 6:47: 35. outright and first in Class 9. day seventh out right and Class 3 Svenson, second on the road second in class. Class 5 and the Trevor Shannon, Rodney but with Kylma always in sight, V8 Chevy Porsche of Graham Smith 6:48:33; Shane Sansom, knew he had the outright win Lees was the winner coming Peter Eastman 6:59:27; Travis and set a fast time for the Class home in 14th position followed Conrad, Gary Conrad 7:15:00. 1 win, this was Svenson's first by St.eve Muhling who was the Class 5 national championship win, he last to finish the gruelling eight Graham Lees, Angus Laird, has been trying for the past 20 laps. Kevin Lee in his Class 3 7: 14:38; Stephen Muhling, years with no luck un~il now, buggy was leading the class until Robert Heinrich 7:32:48. third outright and first in Class a flat tyre on the second last lap, Class 7 2 Michael Spokes, who had he made it to the pits, changed Les Siviour, David Gordon driven his Rivmasta hard all day, the tyre and headed out, got 6:30:53; Bobbie Siviour, Kate following him was the buggy of another flat and decided to Siviour 6:40:58. Buddy Crowe, another good withdraw from the race only Class 9 ICIIVG,::C~&OGY 714.530.B701 • FAX714.530.B702 1040:/l 7.RA$KAYE., UNff A• OARDENGROV£ CA 9RIJ43 W'fltNV.lcingshocks.co1n Dusty Times October 2002 First in Class 9 (Unlimited Single Seat) and second overall was Jaakko Ky/ma one of only two entrants uncler six ho_urs elapsed time. ·; ,,, ' ,erseria '; 2.5" 2.5" --6!!!!59 Need.coil springs? Coll King Shocks! We hove custom and production coils in stock, and the experience to get you what you need. Call today! Page 39 ....

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CORR AT CRANDON Taylor Takes The Treasury By John Calvin Photos: Tracks ide Photo Scott Taylor took his Ford to a 4th and a 2'd in the two rounds. He took the Pro-2 title for the 4th consecutive time. Scott Taylor took his fourth consecutive Pro-2 championship and he also collected the big bucks when he won he Borg Warner World Champion-ship Manufacturers Chal-lenge. It was the first time that a two wheel drive truck took the win at the Borg Warner race and Scott and his Ford truck worked hard for the honor. It should be noted Page 40 here that Taylor won the Governor's Cup at Cran-don back in June and that was the first time ever that a two wheel drive vehicle won that event. In the Pro-2 category the points battle was be-tween Taylor and Evan Evans. As usual, Taylor jumped in to an early lead in both heats but he was penalized in the first round, as was Evans and in the second round it was nip and tuck near the end but Taylor took a sec-ond place finish and, coupled with a fourth in the first round he took the Pro-2 title with an 11 point margin. Evans posted a pair of fifth place finishes and that relegated him to second in points for the 2002 season. Carl Renezeder let the October 2002 Johnny Greaves drove his Toyota to the Pro-4 championship, recording :Jd and '4th place finishes at the Crandon meet. The Pro-Lite championship title went to Jeff Kincaid, he won both rounds in his Toyota and won by 20 points. points leaders fight it o·ut between themselves in both heats and he took the coveted first place honors in both rounds, a very nice finish to a so1ne-ti mes frustrating season for him. Dan Vand.en Heu-vel didn't have the best of seasons and certainly not the best last couple of races of the season. With a tenth and a third place finish to show for the weekend, Dan ended a winless season and will be working just that much harder in preparation for next year. Kevin Probst p~t together a not too wonderful pair of ninth place finishes to cap his somewhat disappointing season. R.J. Flanagan managed a second and a fourth and a sixth place Tommy Bradley 'swept the Sportsman 2 category for the second time, winning both rounds in his Chevy pickup. Another two time winner, Mark Kleiman took a win in the first round and took his . second Stock Class championship. Dusty Times

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Evan Evans trailed by 6 points before Crandon, a pair of 5'1' place Curt LeDuc garnered a 2>d and a 1•1 place finish at Crandon but it was Rick Huseman had a big lead before Crandon but a 1 :JI'. place finish finishes hurt and he remained second in points in his Pro-2 Chevy. not enough, he was second in points in his Ford. and a dnf dropped him to second in points in his Pro-Lite Ford. finish in the points. Paul first Pro-4 championship points. Josh Baldwin had busy 2002 season, there race. Chad Hord nailed a Seidler took a third and title and was kinda glad a bunch of thirds and was lots of action and lots pair of second places and a sixth in the two rounds, to see the season end. fourths during the season of competition. Not do-he was third in points for the thir d place being his .Greaves was third in the but this weekend he could ing well in the final two the season. Art Schmitt best this year. Harvey first round and that gave only manage a sixth and rounds at Crandon, Billy was fourth in points, a W a l d had a dnf and an him a 10 point cushion in an eighth, only good for Beck, Paul Menard and fifth and a third for the 11th p lace finish to cap t h e points race, a fourth sixth in points. A fifth Mark Krueger failed to weekend and Steve his season with a pair of place finish in the last and a tenth p lace finish score any points. Jeff Federico had a good week-eighth place finis hes, ro.und gave him the Pro-4 was gained by Steve Kincaid, the defending end, a third. and a fourth ninth in points and not a title. LeDuc couldn't McCrossan, seventh in Pro-Lite champion was in saw him finish fifth in happy camper. Donnie have done much better, points while Al Drews was big trouble, he was 16 points. Jimmie Crowder, Roberts had an unspec-he scored a second and a only able to manage a sev-points into second place not looking forward to a tacular 11th and 10th first in the two rounds enth place finish in the fi-and things weren't look-long cold winter had a place pair of finishes but it didn't give him nal round. Kent Brascho ing that great. But, isn't dnf and an 11th place, while Bruce Shilts man-what he wanted, the grabbed a nice second there always a "but", Jeff not helping him a lot but aged a sixth and a dnf for championship. Curt gar-place in the last round drove his Toyota to the he still finished sixth in his swan song of the sea-nered his third win of the and he finished ninth in win in both rounds, for a points. Seventh in points son. Jay Rodriguez only season and, knowing him, points. Jeff Holtger had a lot of points while Rick was Joe Wutke Ill, he fin-managed to score in the he'll be twice as ready seventh and a sixth and he Huseman was forced to ished 12th in the first last round, a seventh next year when the first was the tenth place fin-settle for a 13th (broken round but failed to finish place finish and Jason green falls. Carl Renez-isher in the season points oil line), and then a crash the second round. Randy Janusz scored a seventh eder took the win in-the in Pro-4. in the second round put E.ller managed a sixth and place finish in the first first round and his cham-The Pro-Lite guys had a him out of the points Continuedonpage42 round and that was it for pionship hopes leaped a his weekend. Jimmy bit, but a ninth place fin-O'Neal and Gordon Zima ish in the last round failed to score in either sealed him into third round. place in points. A fourth The Pro-4 points con-and a third place finish test literally went down ended the season for Ja-to the wire· and, in the son Baldwin, he finished end, it was Johnny fourth in the points for Greaves taking the points t h e season. Scott Douglas w ith a margin of cw o , not d id n ' t h ave the best o f a bunch, but one is all it seasons, h e finished with takes. Greaves drove his an eighth and a fifth and Potawatomi Toyota to his t hat put him fifth in Scott Schwalbe was crowned the Super Buggy Champion for 2002, he drove to a fine 1st and 2'd in the two rounds. In Single.Buggy Mike Seefeldt took a 1st and a 2'd and the championship, repeating his win of the 1998 series. Dusty Times Bilstein • Sway A Way Eibach · HM · QA 1 · CNC Bparca • PRP • Fuel Bate Ran Davis Radiators Betrab Oil Coaler, Optima Batteries Mechanix Wear October 2002 Page 41

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Dan Baudoux had three wins in 2002, but it wasn't enough and he Ross Hoek moved into ?I in Stock points with a !JI' and a 1st place Aaron Hawley had 4 wins, 5 seconds but it wasn't enough, a 2"' and a 1st held him second in points in Super Buggy. took the silver medal in Sportsman 2 points in his Ford. finish, his Ford being a very consistent top 5 finisher. -an eighth, eighth in a 15th and a fifth place second in season points. points while Donnie Rob-finish. Al Walentowski Mike Oberg , the third erts jumped into ninth in took a ninth and a 13th mem_ber qf this go for points with a seventh and to end his racing season. broke trio to0k a third a sixth place finish. Kyle In the Sportsman 2 cat-and a sixth and he ended LeDuc, trying to follow in egory, Tommy Bradley up third in points, just dad's tire tracks could drove his Chevy to a re-one point away from Bau-only manage a 14th and a markable seven wins, two doux! Ben Wandahsega dnf, a. most disappointing of them at this last meet had a great weekend, a sec-finish to the season. 11th at Crandon and he took ond and a third and that in points went to Tom the points with a 42 secured fourth in season Hoppock, a 10th and a points margin his second points for him. Jason ninth place in the two championship in this Janusz and Andy Morter rounds, Lee O'Donnell class. Congrats to a young took a fifth and an eighth took a·n 11th and a 12th man we have known since and were fifth in points and Lee finished 11th in birth from a heavily ori-for the season. Michael season points. Rod ented off road family. Savageputtogetherapair VanEperen took a fourth Second in points was Dan of fourth place finishes, and a 10th, l~th in Baudoux, he and his Ford sixth in points while Sam points, Don Ponder man-gave it everything they Konitzer added a pair of. aged an eighth and a sev-had but a sixth place and sevens to his somewhat enth in the two rounds a second place just, and shortened season for a and Kevin Rowland ran to we mean just, kept him seventh in points. An DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME With INTERCOMS & RADIOS from THE SOLDER JOINT (Or we can help you do it over) DO IT RIGHT with the MAXON SP-415O • Military Spec • 45 Watts • 16 Channel • Two-Year Warranty • $385.00 You think you're hard on your radios, you ain't got nothin' on the military! 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When the dust round gave him the had settled it was points for the 2002 sea-Schwalbe taking the son, his sixth win of the points championship year and his second cham-with a first and second, pionship in the Stock Di-Hawley came in second in vision. Ross Hoek was points, finishing with a hoping for the points second and a first. Corry title and a ninth and a Heynen only had two wins win helped a lot but he during the season and his was still second for the third and 17th place fin.-season. Keith Steele had ishes held him to a long a few wins this season but third place in season a 12th and a ninth place points. The Kriemans, finish didn't do too much Steve and Larry, took a and he ended up third in kind of ho-hum fourth points. Don Williams gar-and 11th and they were nered a fourth and a sec-fourth in points. The ond and gave him fourth, Mu.lders scored a nint.h in points for the year. A and a 15th, fifth place in pair of third places for points. The Wallace/ Rhonda Konitzer gave her Erickson combo took a a nice fifth place in long 21st, then a fifth points while Randy and that kept them sixth Zimonick finished sixth in points. Tim Lemons in points after a pair of failed to score any points sixth place finishes. Sev-at Crandon, he is seventh enth in points was Jeff in points and Chris Lutzow with a second and Haenlein was the other an eighth to his credit no point for the weekend and the Tim/John person,Chriswastiedfor Konitzerduoscoredasev-22nd in points with enth and a tenth for Scott Peterson who eighth in points. Rod scored a 20th and a very Wells took a fifth and a nice third place for his ef-fourth, ninth in points forts. Eighth in points while the Anderson/ was David Johnson, an Mellem duo took an 11th 11th and a seventh for the and a fifth, they were event and Paul Heynan 11th in points. Al scored a nice fifth.and a Konitzer had a disap-sixth, ninth in points. pointing 10th and a sev-The 0lsons, Don and enth and Gerry Mannion Scott picked up a sixth had an eighth and an 11th and an eighth and were to finish 14th in points. 11th in points. Scott Not scoring any points in Powell took an 18th and Josh Hintz leapt from second place to champion in the Light Buggy Class, taking a 1st and a 4"' and his first championship. Dusty Times

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Steve Socha had a pretty good year. he finished second in Single Ben O'Connell saw his Light Buggy Championship fly away after an Dan Vanden Heuvel scored a t(lh and a :Jd in his Chevy, he finished Buggy points with a :Jd and a 1?' and a few wins to his credit. accident early in the first round. He finished second in points. the season :Jd in points in the Pro-2 category. Chad Hord drove his Toyota to a great pair of second places at A :Jd and a (JI' place finish in the two rounds at Crandon had Mike Keith Steele's two wins in his Chevy early in the season got him a Crandon, third in points in the Pro-Lite category. • Oberg finishing third in points in his Che'-o/ Sportsman. third place in points in the Stock Class. a fourth, Mike Hester when the final event ar-.Surace had a ninth and a of ll's, 15th in points. great 21st and.19th for only garnered points in rived it was Mike Seefeldt third, Mike Rau improved Adam Geberud managed 17th in points and Dan the first round for a 22nd taking a first and a second a lot with a 23rd and a an eighth and a sixth in Martin finished 18th in place finish. Herman Bar-and securing his second 13th for his weekend and ·his short season, Wade both rounds. Dennis Rog-num was DQ'd for we championship title, the Terry Fitzgerald had a pair Shubert.had a not too Continuedonpage44 know not what in Round first being in 1998. Steve 1 and scored no points Socha took a third and a for the meet. A 13th and disappointing 12th and he a 12th was the best Paul finished in the second Bort could manage and spot in points. Third in Jon and Ron Steiner's points went to Mark 17th place finish in Steinhardt, a fifth and a Round 1 had Barnum, win cemented him into Bort and Steiner tied for third place while Shayne 13th in points. James Pagles took a second and Lair finished eighth in the a 16th, fourth in points. first round, no score for Michael Notary went Round 2, Gary Nierop winless for the season, fin•ished 15th and ninth, scored a fourth and a 15th 15th in points. Tom and was fifth in points. Schwartzburg scored a Bob Blaney took a 22nd disappointing 19th and and an eighth, John 18th, the Christensen/ Svanda took a seventh and Bauman took a 12th and a 22nd and they were a 13th and Joe Wutke sixth and seventh in fool<.'a' 16th"and finisheo 'pc>1nts·. Tohn -Fi'tzgerald 20th in p~ints, not as had a 10th and a seventh good as his seventh in for his efforts, th!! points in Pro-Lite. Jack Erickson/Wallace duo Haenlein was 16th in the were 19th and fifth for second round, Jeff Sands their two rounds and they scored a 10th and a 14th, were ninth in points. Adam Guberud took a Kevin Peck put together a 10th ·in the last round very nice sixth and fourth, and John Mason was 14th 10th in points while Todd in the first round and fin-Crump finished 23rd in ished last in points. the second round and As usual, Single Buggy Tracy Crump was ·13th was hotly contested and 14th, they were 11th throughout the season but and 12th in points. Tom Carl Renezeder had two wins in Pro-2, another win in Pro-4 and finished 5"' and :Jd in points in his Chevy trucks. Dusty Times Wiring Harnesses Worldwide benchmark manufacturer of rnilitery-specification wiring systems for all rnotorsport applications MoTeC Engine l\.1anagernent and Data Acquisition Systems Robust 32-bit sequential fuel and spark control systems buil~ to withstand extreme racing and pre-rt,.1nning . punishment. Turn-key systems available for all popular off-road engine packages. Digital display and. data acquisition systems for all levels of competition. Engine and chassis dynarnorneter services available. Sakata Motorsport Electronics, Inc. 689 S. State College Blvd, Suite F Fullerton, CA 92B31 Tel: 714-446-9473 Fax: 714-446-9247 www.sakatamotorsport.com . o~tober 2002 Utilizing the frnest Raychem System 25 components, the industry standard for all professional racing sanctions. Engineering, assembly, and comprehensive testing perforrned 1 00% in-house. Complete harness assemblies and circuit control components are available tci suit your budget. High-Accuracy Air-Fuel Ratio Meters Lightweight, stand-alone systern works with all engines and alternate fuels -carbureted or fuel injected. For the dedicated engine tuner who needs to know exact;ly what their engine is doing. No flashing lights -just the facts ... Nail it to a nurnber! -~ ~~~<.,.,-=«It,,~ l'V1CJTDRSPDRT ELECT.ADNICS \.'Ve're mElking connections ... Page 43 -_, _______________ _

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X CAB, 92-98 STD CAB 4.□• 88-91 GM Cl 500 ST-CAB 3.□• 99-02 GM Cl 500 ALL 3.5' 83-01 GM 510 3.5' 97-02 Ford F150 3.o· 98-01 Ford Ranger 3.□• 94-01 Dodge Ram Page 44 DE!iERT 97-up Ford F-150 99-up Ford Super D 99-up Chevy 1500 01-up Chevy HD ON SALE for ONLY $475.95. October 2002 a t Crando n . 12t 1 a n a 10t , Jesse In L i gh t B uggy, Ben Moro was 17 th in t h e sec-O'Connell was leading ond round and t h e Josh Hintz by five points G underson/ Rabe team when the racing com-took a 20th and a 19th menced but it all went for their efforts. John away when Ben was in-Huven took a seventh volved in an accident dur-place finish in the second ing the first round and round, Adam Behm had a that was the end of his 16th and a 20th, Mark weekend and his shot at Peterson an 18th and a the championship. Ben 13th and Pat Jankowski ended up second in finished 21st and 26th in points, Josh Hintz re-t h e two rounds. Joe corded a first and a fourth La Rock debuted with 17th and took t h e champio n - a n d 21st place fin ishes and ship b y 25 points. Third J . R . Wagn e r h a d a 24th in p oints was J eff Virnig, place finish in (h e second· a great second place and a round. A select group o,f win capping off the week-three gathered no p oints end. The Stingle/Huven during the weekend, pair scored a n eighth and namely Jim Schmit, James a 23rd, Tracy Peebles had Rogers and Jamie Gilson. an 11th and a third and So another season is Matt Gerald was only six over. Time for a few to points out of fifth with celebrate and for many to his 15th and fifth place go home and lick their finishes. Jason Bort got it wounds, waiting for next all together with a third year. We would like to sa-and a second, the Lernpke lute the top three in each clan, Todd and Nick took class and give them the fifth and 22nd, they were credit they so richly de-eight in points. Chad serve. In Pro-4 it was Dewalltookaseventhand J9hnny Greaves, ·curt an 11th while Steve LeDuc and Carl Renez-Schuch finished his eder. Scott Taylor, Evan rookie season with an Evans and Dan Vanden eighth •in the second Heuvel were the tops· in round and 10th in points. Pro-2. In Pro-Lite it was Jaimie Kleikamp scored a Jeff Kincaid, Rick Huse-ninth and a 25th, 11th in man and Chad °Hord tak-points-and Scott DeGroot ing the honors. Tommy only managed a sixth Bradley, Dan Baudoux place in the second and Mike Oberg were the round. A 13th and a 12th honorees in Sportsman 2 were gathered by Kevin while Mike.Kleiman, Ross Huth and Tra-C Hoek and Keith Steele Fleischman took fourth in took the top three in the first round. The Stoc k class. In Supe r Omans, Steve and Joey Buggy it was Scott took sixth and 15th, 15th Schwalbe, Aaron Hawley in points, 16th sent to and Corry Heynen, in Jeff Schulze after his 19th Single Buggy it was Mike and ninth place finishes. Seefeldr, Steve Socha and John Baumann took 18th Mark Steinhardt and, last in the second round, a but not least, Light Buggy 10th and a 14th went to went to Josh Hintz, Ben Joel Schmit and Brian O'Connell and Jeff Bloomqvist had a 14th and a 16th to his credit. Jason Jankowski scored a Virnig. See ye a r ! ya a 11 next .. ---. Dusty Times

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ONTARIO OFF ROAD AT MOHAWK MOTORSPORTS PARK Text & Photos: Wes Kibble Racin' North Of The Border Dave Guignard drives fast and hard, he had a second and a first for the weekend against some stiff competition. top of the bale, the hot exhaust caught the dry hay on fire! Thanks to the q,uick actions of the cor-ner worker, the flames were ex-tinguished quickly, but not before the fans were treated to an awe-some smoke show. How did I do this? Asks Kevin Kern, it's really embarrassing, but it didn't last forever and no real harm was done. This folks, is the typical action of the Ontario Off Road Racing Association drivers! On the Au-gust long weekend, spectators at the Mohawk Motorsports Park, near Oshweken, ON, were pro-vided with all kinds of action, in-cluding the fiery antics of the OORA dr.ivers as well as the mud bogs on the other side of the com-plex. The short course racing on "All I heard was get out, you're on fire!" said Sonya Morrisette as she sat cross-legged on the ground, looking at the race truck perched on to of the large round hay bale, her nerves obviously shaken. Her boyfriend and driver of the beautiful #403 Chevy, race. As Kevin and Sonya came Saturday was a little dusty ... ac-Kevin Kern, wandered around the into corner No.1 rubbing fend-tually very dusty, due to the wa-truck, inspecting the damage and ers with another racer, they got a ter truck not showing up until af-wondering how the hell he got up little too close to the hay bales ter the race. The Class 1500 bug-there in the first place. It hap-that mark the corners. They went gies ran their qualifying heat first, pened on the second to last lap up ... and never came back down! and the dust kept the passing to a of Sunday's Heavy Metal Feature As the poor truck was stuck on minimum. Except for Ray ~-------~---------------, · Jennings (66) who showed some incredible driving by coming from the last row to place first, most everyone placed where they started. The Heavy Metal drivers decided to run the qualifying round as time trials for safety rea-sons because of the heavy dust. This meant that each vehicle would run one at a time, with the fastest time for three laps becom-ing the winner. Even though it was only one vehicle on the track at a time, there was still some break-age. Dave Guignard (800) in his beautiful black Chevrolet ended up running off the course when he broke a tie rod end. Ed "Pacman" Sanderson, in his yel-low #400 Hummer look alike, broke the front driveshafr hanger bearing in practice, and was forced to run in 2wd for the re-mainder of the weekend. During the qualifying race on Sunday, he Class 1600 leader Ray Jennings takes his well earned victory· lap at Neil Martel competes with the big boys in his Class 7 truck, he is Kevin Aube runs hard, hopefully he landed hard in this picture, Kevin Mohawk, please.pardon our dust. · second in points for the year. lost an engine and didn't have a fun weekend. Page 46 October 2002 Dusty Times

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-, Ric Tichbourne is always competitive in his good looking Chevy, Randy Guenther's car is a bit mud besmirched, but it goes fast, just Getting better by the race, Ed Sanderson is another rookie who is fast learning all the tricks of driving fast. seen here at speed at the Mohawk meet. ask the guys he's ahead of in the 1600 class. proceeded to break the sector of feature event. The race was shaft in his steering box, forcing stopped as Dave Guignard (800) him off the track rather quickly! was about to start his last lap. After the Heavy Metal guys ran, Dave enjoyed his first victory lap three tough trucks came out to of the year, but the smoke show play. Jim Taite, in his Tracker, of Kevin Kern definitely put a to first place, while Sonya damper on his spirits. Again, it Morrisette finished second and was Neil Martel (747) near the third respectively in the first race top in second in his Ranger, fol-they had ever driven in. The driv-lowed by Ric Tichbourne ( 44 7) ers elected to run the Saturday's in his Dirt Eater Chevy, current feature race on Sunday morning Heavy Metal points leader Ed due to the dusty conditions. Sanderson (400) in his yellow The temperature on Sunday Hummer thing and, of course, was a lot cooler and the track Kevin Kern did not finish the was in ideal condition, thanks to race. In the 1600 Buggies, it was J.P. Atkinson and other racers Ray Jennings (66) followed by who worked throughout the Randy Guenther (612) in his night with the water truck and highest finish this year. Bob Jo-tractor. The broken vehicles were seph (33) who drove most of the fixed overnight and everyone was race with his eyes completely full anxious to race. The first set of of mud, Ross McMaster in his races for the day was actually the two seater and J.P. Atkinson feature races for Saturday. In the (611) brought home fifth. Jeff 1600 Buggy class, Bob Joseph in Zoskey (600) limped his dying his #33 single seater, finished engine around for last place. just ahead of Ray Jennings in his Kevin and Sonya managed to get equally tricky #66 two seater. their burned truck mobile again, These veteran drivers have very ailowing Sonya to run it in the fast cars and have been battling tough truck class for a second each other all year for the cham-place finish. Again, Jim Taite in pionship. In third it was J.P. At-his Tracker finished first, fol-kinson (611), followed by the lowed by Sonya and NAME. 2001 Rookie of the Year Jeff The Ontario Off Road Rac-Zoskey (600) and Randy ingAssociationhostsmanyraces Guenther (612), who is vying for throughout the southern por-this year's Rookie of the Year tionoftheprovince.Whilemost honours. In the big trucks, it was of the vehicles run in the 1600 actually the smallest truck that and Heavy Metal class, there is was ahead at the checkered flag. definitely an increase in other Neil Martel in his #747 Ranger classes. There are two Class 7 was the only Class 7 at the start Mini Trucks, a Class 10 buggy of the season and elected to run and Jim Taite's Tracker is legal with the Heavy Metal guys. Since for Class 6. There are two Class then, K·evin Aube in his #789 S- 10 buggies being built and they 10 has come out to the last few should debut before the end of races and runs as the only truck the year. Class 6 is an interesting in Class 7. Dave Guignard lead class in that the participants take right from the start in his big a stock vehicle, add safety equip-black #800 Chevy, but blew a ment such as a roll cage, etc., corner on the second to last lap, and go racing. The economical allowing Neil to slip through on class is starting to get some inter-the inside. In the end, it was Neil est and hopefully we will see Martel (747) in his black Ranger some competition for Jim. As in first -place, followed by Dave mentioned before, there is also Guignard (800) in his big black some interest in the powder puff Chevy. Kevin Kern (403) in his · classes. In fact, I am willing to brightly coloured Chevy in third, bet that the next race that both Ric Tichbourne (447) in his Dirt Sonya Morrisette and Susy Eater Chevy in fourth and Ed Papais are at, we will see these Sanderson (400) in his Hummer ladies out racing against each looking vehicle in fifth. other. After a few years of low The second race of the day car count, the club is on the re-was actually the qualifier for bound with a lot of new racers. Sunday's racing. The two mini Some are building new cars, some truc~s put on a great show as are dusting the cobwebs off old they ran side by side for the ones. In fact, there are a num-whole race. Susy Papais enjoyed her of competitive race cars her first race truck ride with. available for those looking to get Kevin Kern. She enjoyed it so involved at a decent price. For much that both Susy and Kevin's more information on the regular co-driver, Sonya Ontario Off Road Racing Asso-Morrisette, have begun discuss-ciation and off road racing in ing reviving the powder puff Canada, contact me at class. If any ladies are interested www.kibble@rogers.com or check in racing, let them know! out Off Road Action, Canada's Kevin and Sonya's hay bale in- Largest Off Road Racing website at cident was definitely the highlight www.offroadaction.8k.com ... -I lb Dusty Times Dome Light Sidebars Overlais Bumperettes Side Mirrors Rt-DUNE PcRf6~.i1AIICc, !JIC. 1.51 6 ■-STAR PRE-RIii OR RACE PACKAGES I NORTHSTAR PACKAGES ROM $7500.00 COMPLETE 400 HP LS1 PACKAGES FROM $13,500.00 COMPLETE 485 HP WE OFFER COMPLETE DYN0 SERVICES, ENGINE MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS AND AN UNMATCHED REPUTATION FOR CUSTOMER SATISFACTIONH (714> 777-5758 PHONE (714) 777-5759 FAX UH 1!,Sl!NffOWl!lt ClltCLI! ANAffl!IM, CA. •2ao7 Aluminum Diamond Plate Genuine ! ~-~J i[j~Jk I -,_:,,-.:. 732 lf"\digo Court, Pomona, CA 91767 • Limited Lifetime october2002 ... C ::::, Page 47 i

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I ,,,r1tJ' ,,. By Cli" Skilton RACE REPORT AUGUST 10TH MOJAVE DESERT RACING CALIFORNIA 200 LUCERNE VALLEY The fourth round of 2002 American Racing J eepSpeed Challenge was held Saturday night, August 10th, in Lucerne Valley, California. The technical inspection and contingency row was held at the Lucerne Valley High School in 105 degree temperatures from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. There were 11 J eepSpeed entries in a total field of 6. We welcomed two new competitors. Jared Prindle, who towed all the way from Montana, and Ricardo Page 48 Ramirez of San Diego. Billy Frey also entered for the first time in 2002. The first car to start at 7:01 a.m. was the previous race winner Charlie Peltzer. The rest of the field followed at 15 second intervals in the following order. Bryan Rogers, Eri.c Helgison, Barrie Thompson, Ricardo Ramirez, Mike Barnett, Casey Curtiz, Jared Prindle, Bill Frey, Billy Bunch and finally Steve Thomasson at 7:04. With nearly 90 starters on a 42 mitle lap course.the· visibility was terrible due to dusty conditions, although there was_ a slight breeze, and 90 degree temperatures. The J eepSpeed radio relay desk was soon alerted of a major checkpoint problem in a silt area that was creating a panic confusion with the Mojave Desert Racing staff and· some competing teams. Some cars were getting stuck and others were unable to see the checkpoint. Also there were a few near miss problems between race cars and· support pits out in the boonies. Many cars had experiments with lights knowing ahead of time i:hat there would be a dust problem. Billy Bunch and Barrie Thompson had H.I.D. lamps mounted on the roof. Barrie and Steve Thomasson had yellow lights mounted below the bumper to see under the dust. The first car to experience problems was Billy Frey who pulled into the JeepSpeed main pit one mile from the start. All his lights and triple cooling fans were draining his battery due to a faulty alternator wire. There was not enough juice re~aining to fire his fuel injection. He went on his way after a battery change. There were numerous position changes in the first 10 miles. Barrie Thompson got.past Eric Helgison. Steve Thomasson passed a surprised Billy Bunch, Bryan Rogers and Mike Barnett got left behind as they experienced ignition and steering problems. First timer Jared Prindle kept on the bumper of Casey Currie, and turned in a great o-ne hour four minute rookie lap. Charlie Peltzer in his 4x4 battled Barrie Thompson's 2x4 all the way, but it was Barrie's silver Skyjacker car that had the 'lead by one minute starting the second lap. Barrie followed up his 58.2 minutes first lap with two more of 58.19 and 58.49 without stopping for fuel or adjustments, to take his second win this season. October 2002 The closeness of lap times of these two drivers is a testament t'a their car handling skills. _ Billy Bunch picked up the pace with a last lap of 58.3 minutes to take third place. M.D.R. called Billy in for conversation regarding ariving through someo.ne's pit in the dust, but they upheld his positiop. Casey Currie and Eric Helgison, in the Currie Enterprises Jeep, both pitted in the second lap for driver change, fuel, and other adjustments causing a six minute and 10 minute delay, respectively, dropping them to fourth· and fifth positions. Montana first titner, Jared Prindle, in the Advance Framework entry, had a wonderful sixth place finish. They are a team to watch in the future in their well prepare Cherokee. The T&J entry of Mike Barrett got its steering welded in the JeepSpeed pit after a spectacular two wheel stunt on Lap 1 and got progressively faster on the last; two laps to finish seventh. Billy Frey claimed the record of three alternatives and two batteries in 126 miles to finally get it sorted, and turned in a great one minute 11 second final _lap in his Sportsman JeepSpeed Cherokee. Ricardo Ramirez made a rookie mistake of finishing his race after only two laps bv. seeing the checkered flag for the car ahead of him. Newcomers must remember that their race continues until you have covered your required laps within the time limit set. Bryan Rogers parked his A-Fab entry after frying his computer harness. The hard luck award goes to Steve Thomasson in the Rusty's 4x4 Jeep. When running in fourth position on the final lap Steve said "I thought I would kick it up a notch" only to have a front wheel come off and jam under the car when it ended up in a ditch at Mile 27. Steve and his team trailed in at 2:30 a.m. The performance level f all JeepSpeed entries continues to improve. Six en tries all had average speeds above the record set at the last race. The winner's speed being 44.1 mph at this night race. The American JeepSpeed Challenge Series is now headed by Barrie Thompson at 170 points with Casey Currie at 166, and Charlie Peltzer at 155. Charlie also leads the Howe Steering Rookie of the Year points. J eepSpeed has now turned 35 race numbers to different teams, of which 20 have raced this year so far. I I

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II It is our goal to get everyone to the Septe1nber 27-28 race to pose for a 2002 photo of all the teams and cars. From The Director It was an amazing weekend for the Gorman Ridge Rally this year. It was actually cool and breezy, a first time for many of us who have come to expect the blazing summer heat of August. Ray, Donna and Harris hosted a 35 car field for the one day rally and 25 made it to the finish intact ~ sort of. The rally 7an on time with the first cars arriving back at the · hotel as the excellent tri-tip barbecue was just being served. Leon Styles and John Dillon were the eventual winners. In-the OHV Park the lead 1swapped around a s Tonyi1Chavez in his trusty G ala\nt and D oug R o b i n son in the Mazda 323 1ran nose t o n o s e until Tony's car wouldn' t sta r t at t h e beginning of S t a g e 6. However, Robinson only made it an othe r h alf mile before t h e tranny l e t go in the 3 2 3 ·. F r o m the r e _ o n George Pisek, Stephen Verdier and Leon ran for the_ front of the rally. George and Alex Gelsomino took second and Stephan and Allan Walker took third overall. This was Leon's first win. Congratulations. The C RS Stock class was a lso close all day. U nfortunately, Mike and Linda Masano h ad a roll-over l ate in the r ally whic h ·took them out. Sta r t preparing your Captain Crunch stories for the awards ! Terry Stonecipher and Jeff Bruett took first in their Toyota Pickup and Gabe Pare with Paul Nelson in the navigator's seat took second. Loren Worthington and Todd Kinney kept their Corolla on its wheels arid finished third in class. Another Gibeault made her rally debut at Gorman.-This time it was youngest daughter, Karen, who navigated for Doug Whited in· the Stock Class VW. They finished fourth in class just ahead of hus b and and wife team, M arshall and Jana Wilco x i n their Toyota p i c k u p . J a n a w-a s a 11 smiles at her rally debut as w ell. Brian and Ian Hudson w ere n ex t in their Toyo t'a ahea d of Don Shre yer , M arco Pasten and Patrick R odi. Group 2/5 was dominated b y Dave Cole;nan in his m o n st e r Niss a n S e n t r a . Josh Jacquot tried to give him a run for his m o n ey till he had problems w ith his OBA: Discount Foreign We Have In Stock: Ultra Wheels 15x3.5 & 15x7 $84.10 $89._10 Centerline Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15x6 $129.95 $135.95 15 X 10 $146.95 Call for Prices 3636 Meade Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 (702) 247-1266 We Now Do. MAGNA FLUX Dusty Times Plymouth Laser. Jim Pierce and Shane Sims took second in class• Bill Malik and Amy Trowbridge were third in the Volvo. Scott Harvey rolled his Dodge Colt and still managed a fourth place in 2/5. John West and Pete Morris were fifth in the Datsun 510. Pete actually used the Terra trip this ti me! John said he called every instruction, for t h e -entire r ally. Rich ard Byford and F r a n Olson m anaged to rip the entire right rear wheel and suspensio n off their BMW somewhere on Lieb re Mountain. Bummer! CRS-GT was won by Stephan Verdier. First timers Dan Brink and Troy Robinson took second in an Eagle Talon. Not bad for beginners! Ready to give up VORRA for rallying, Troy! Ben and Tony Medeiros came in third after a hard fought battle with Bruce and Pat Brown. The Subaru b attle is on. This year's high point Subaru takes home a great radio controlle d Subaru from t h e folks w ith Subaru of the west co ast. The other two GT competitors the tea1ns of Sean McKenna and Neil Killey and Mike Moyer with Mark Traylor were out early in the day due to mechanical problems. Other Open class finishers were Roger Hull and Sean Gallagher in the Eagle Talon who took fourth in class behind Wolfgang Hoeck and Julie Lin. Of course, Roger, you got beat b.y two Eva's and an Audi so don't feel bad. Julian Masters was fifth ahead of Bob Pendergrass and Jon Weigley in their fire breathing Chevy Blazer. Continued on page5D, · JeePSpeed 2.002 Points Standing -Aug. 12th II Name ~ J!•ntow\l Ridl'"'t Lecente(June ll) 11 L•cenae (Aug 10) 11 Yotal :Point. Polatl Point. 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Tony Chavez did eventually get his Galant to start at Stage 6 and finished seventh in class despite 24 minutes of late penalties. Perhaps the most unfortunate event of the weekend was poor Brad Boli rolling his car before ir"ever got to the rally. It came unhooked from the trailer and rolled down an embankment -basically totaling the car. Brad had great hopes for running this season but now it's back to the shop to work on "Rally X", his secret new rally vehicle. He and Gary Garman are very tight lipped about what they are building but knowing them it will be very quick. Can't wait to see it. It was nice to see a bunch of drivers and co-d rivers wh.o weren't running the rally out working the time controls. I saw Ole Holter, Tom Bier and Jay Streets on the stages we finished. It was also nice to see Matt Sweeny and Lucinda Straub drag themselves away from their Special Effects company to work a stage or two. By the way, the Time Machine they built for the movie was awesome. Rumor has it they are working on a "Charlie's Angels" sequel right now. Next up on our schedule is the Prescott Forest Rally. Bill Barfoot and his group have a great rally planned with some really nice "roads this year. Remember, if you can't attend as a rally team please come anyway and help Bill with his rally. See you at the start line. "CRANDON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OFF ROAD RACE" Seven Good year Protrucks made the long tow to C rand on, Wisconsin and bravely stepped out of their comfort zone to take on the famous Crandon Raceway. With little time on the track, they enthusiastically took teir well-prepped Protrucks into the unknown. Continued on page54 A Paradigm is a pattern or an example. Each of us has established a paradigm based on our previous experience and knowledge. The paradigm draws on information from our mind, gathers it together, and refines it to fit our understanding of reality. Paradigm Race Cars will redefine your perception of reality and present you with a true sense of craftsmanship, safety, and pride in one's work. We have entered the arena of off-road recreation not only to improve on the past, but to create a paradigm for the future. . www.paradigrnracecars.com Shop:714.990.9599 Fax: 714.990.9591 11,, ' ' \ ' > "' Page so r--------------------------------~ I . I I . · I : FOR SALE: 2000 Pre-Runner: I I I I I 2002 Pre Runner - two seat.Manufactured by Pete Corwin Fabrications Car is Brand new, only 25 easy miles set up time,AII chrome molly tubing, completely Heli Arc, Custom aluminum and fiberglass body,Custom dash -Garmin GPS, Vortex v6 Chevy - custom headers.Fortin Transaxle,935 CV's Micro Stubs - 2 inch front spindles.King Shocks,Travel 20 inches Tires 35's rear- 33's front Howe Power Steering,40 gal. Fuel Cell, Much more ! Price $ 69,950 Contact Pete Corwin at: Phone 619 444 6805 Fax 619 444 6802Email pete@gotsand.com I I I I I I I I I I I I ~--------------------------------~ October 2002 Dusty Times

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.... -··cal_iforilia Wild Heritage Act'' Draws Statewide Opposition B:, Sheryl Cannon Photos: Ann Donaldson There were many booths where you could sign petitions and get more information on the Boxer land grab. VISIT US AT QUA \NEEISITE W\N\N.nevac::laoffroac::lbuggy.com BEL RAY CV GREASE SWEPCO GEAR OIL #203 -#212 -#201 10% OFF CASE LOiS HEAVY DUTY CHALLENGER RIMS 930 CY'S AT A LOW PRICE $4-4-.9SEACH ORBUY 4-AT39.95 EACH NEW 4-.86 002 BUS RING & PINIONS USA MADE NEVADA OFFROAD T-SHIRTS SM,MED,LRG,XLG,XXLRG 11 GALLON DUMP CANS WOOVEN BRAKE SHOES OWEL BALL JOINTS HELLA H - I - D LIGHTS PIAA HIGH -LOW LIGHi5 YOKOHAMA TIRES SUPER DIGGER 111 33 X 10.50 X 15 Sl:IIRE/SNURE APPRIIIIE■ l&aa CAIIIIS ' aaa.aau WHILE THEY LAST! C-A.LL TOLL FREE· Page 52 1-88B-755-5900 3054-S . VALLEY VIEW #130 • LAS VEGAS, NV• 89102 HOURS: MON-FRI 9AM-6PM 'SAT 9AM-5PM (702)871-5221 FAX October 2002 Protestors tumed out in force to voice their opposition to the California Wild Heritage Act, another land grab. CJ Stewart and Sheryl Cannon interview Vicki Warren for her views on the Wild Heritage Act. S.2535, Senator Barbara Cassella, President of the Boxer's controversial bill California League of Off seeking Wilderness Desig-Road Voters. nation for 2.5 million "We are here doing a wil-acres of California public derness protest and a pro-land, was the focal point of test against Barbara Boxer protest rallies held in San and her general policies to-Bernardino, Sacramento ward access to public land. ·and Los Angeles on July 11, Boxer and the environmen-2002. talists are locking every Growing increasingly (land) user out and with-tired of politicians telling out justification," said them where to go, Cassella. "F_ourteen per-California's recreational cent of California is wilder-. land users are reaching wits ness we can't access. That end. And as more and more should certain y be of their beloved areas are enough," she added. deemed off limits, outrage Boxer attempted to de-among land lovers contin-fuse the issue and justify ues to grow. her position in a statement "It (S.2535) is not nee-provided to protesters by essary and it is not going her staff. In it, Boxer ex-to protect anything," said plained that land desig-Vicki Warren, one of sev-nated wilderness is not eral dozen protesters as-completely off limits, with sembled outside Boxer's hiking, horseback riding, San Bernardino office. fishing, hunting, cross-"This Wilderness Designa-country skiing and snow-tion is just another ploy shoeing all permitted. Un-by Senator Boxer to elimi-fortunately, among other nate access to public land." things, the act's prohibi-Watren's viewpoint was tion of motorized vehicles echoed by most of those on and mechanical equipment hand, including Michelle makes access via motorized --;c----c;c--::---,.,---,,,c-c,r--, Protestors came from all walks of life, all ages were represented and the M/F count was about 50/50. Dusty Times

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wheelchairs unlawful. That fact was not lost on Nicole Pittel, who drew the attention of passers-by with an ear-piercing whistle. One point everyone agrees upon is that the land is a precious com1nodity, which needs to be pre-served. Environmentalists seem to feel that recre-ational land users, and off road enthusiasts in particu-lar, are doing damage to ar-eas they frequent. To these se 1 f-des cri bed co nserva-tionists, restricting the gen-eral public's access is the best way to ensure preser-vation of the land and its natural resources. CJ Stewart (I) one of the rally organizers, your author and Nicole Pittel, off road activist. Opponents of the Cali-fornia Wild Heritage Act have serious doubts re-garding the motivation be-hind these and other "land grabbing" measures. Many fear that land supposedly being designated to pre-serve it, will instead by sold or developed in the future. We've certainly 9/11-seen enough of that sce-nario lately to raise con-cern. The main issue would appear to be whether or not there is a need to designate more than 14% of California as wilderness. However, the underlying issue may very well be whether it is nec-essary to place restrictions on access to public land at all. Many feel the answer is no. Those of the opposite viewpoint seem to share an almost universal closed mindedness. Do they really believe off roaders are the ones who represent a threat to the land? Or could their constant finger pointing merely be a diversion? The The price tag is $700 million to clear and repair the Pentagon, the building originally cost $49.6 million in 1941 dollars. 1.5 million working hours during 261 days were spent removing the debris at the World Trade Center The best 4-speed in the desert just got better! MENOEOLA's New Extreme Duty 5-speed is now available and affordable for all compe-tition classes, where applicable. RACE PROVEN IN THE 2001 BAJA 500. Call for complete details on this latest innovation in racing transaxle technology. Dusty Times October 2002 A good looking ford Pre-runner was part of the protest rally, we all hope these voices will be heard and common sense will prevail. debate rages on, as both groups and clearing the way sides ready for what looks-for development where na-to be a long, protracted ture once stood. And poli-battle. As the old saying ticians are not the ones or-goes, "the first casualty of ganizing and doing the war is the truth." It's really clean ups. You don't have not that difficult to sepa-to be a rocket scientist to rate the fact from the fie-figure out who really tion. Off roaders are not cares about the land and the ones selling out, cater-who is merely putting on ing to special interest an act. __ . .,,.., This is the :;ystem run by most off road race winners TRI-MIL BOBCAT CHROME 1984-91 CORVETTE 2 1/2" OR 3" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER 13220 HALLDALE AVENUE GARDENA, CA 90249 310-217-9233 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 53 -.

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Pit Team Reports continued ... Pro Trucks at Crandon Saturday's heat race, which was for starting positions only, was wet and slippery. The Protruck drivers carefully felt their way around for 10 laps. Jimmy Nuckles drove for Dwight Lunkley in a tribute to Dennis Dugan, his recently deceased driver, and easily took the win. The Lunkley team was followed by Rick Johnson #43, Rob Reinertson #34, Dan Hunt #26, Dave Hunt #24, Steve Barlow #99 and Al Hogan #28. Sunday was a beautiful hot mid-west day. The record crowd filled the hillside and fence line. Crandon graciously agreed not to water the truck and our now confident drivers anxiously took the starting line. After a heart pounding land rush start, all seven Protrucks came roaring into sight in a pack. Halfway through the first lap in an attempt· to make a pass, the two RJR Ford Protrucks driven by Rick Johnson and rider Brian Salee and Rob Reinertson with rider Dewey Lamora collided together in a heart stopping violent race accident. The race was red-flagged and Rick, Rob and Brian were transported by ambulance to a pearby hospital for evaluation and treatment of injuries. PRO was blessed when NEW FOR 2002! MJcrodrums for 1600 Racecars These trlc~ SCORE legal assembDes are made from . the highest quanty co,... ponents. Gets more travel, more CV angle, and more reDablllty than any other assembly! From Autometer Gauges to Weber carburetors, we have all your racing needs covered! Come Visit our NEW Superstore! 91 Freeway (I) McKinley In Corona -2871 Ragle Way- Corona, CA 92879 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK! 909.737.7223 -www.kartek.com Page 54 they were released after the test results were evaluated. Rob Reinertson fractured his clavicle bone and will be wearing a sling for a while, but all is well. After the accident, the five remaining Protrucks lined up and put on a great show, with only six laps remaining to race, they ran a sprint to the finish and again Jimmy Nuckles, driving for Dwight took home the victory and $7,000 with World Championship title rings for Jimmy, co-rider Jeff Shannon, and one in absentia for the late Dennis Dugan. Dave Hunt got second in the main event, followed by Steve Barlow, Al Hogan and Dan Hunt. "Personally, I was very impressed with your drivers .. . they were all very well behaved, listened well, were courteous to our task workers and personnel." -Doug Davis, Crandon Promoter. *The Protruck Crandon Off Road race will air on the Outdoor Life Network on October 6, 2002, check your local listings. ATTb.NTION PIT Tb.A~6 Send us your pit tales, whether they be of success or woe and they will be featured on these pages (space permitting). Although pub-lication dates vary m onthly, mate-rial received by the first of the month will gene~ally be considered for the next issue. Submit all mate-rial to: DUSTY TIM ES, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, C A 91311 CLUB WATER SYSTEM 9/11-2,000 children lost a parent on September 11, including 146 who lost a parent at the Pentagon. The New York City Fire Department lost 343 firefighters, almost half the number of on-duty deaths in the departments 100 year history. SYSTEM s BY PARKER PUMPER PU'9!!t:r helmets rt,ngat $249f!!OO(wired) The complete source for race,s and·CreM/S 1.B00.700.2350 fax: 909..360.0436 3834 Wacker Drive • Mira Loma, CA 91752 Suspension. Horsepower. Rubber. I I I You've already sweat the big stuff. Now's it's time to hit the track and chill out. .. Finally, a driver cooling system that provides heat relief in your race car! Compact, light weight, easy to install and simple to use. Designed by racers, this system is well built and affordable. -CIILSNiliT Distributed by URAMA SALES & MARKETING 12050 "I' Avenue, Suite F, Hesperia, CA 92345 760-244-1996 1 ! I Fax: 760-244-1787 urama12050@aol.com I t:..;-x,;i.;.;,:.;.;-;,,:--.-...;..,;,,:«s»..'v,.~--«<,QQ,>,-.;,:..----.»,.·.;❖;,,»;-;.;, ___ »x_,»».~·--~=❖:-.-;,,:-:-:,:,;:.::.,~:w,:~-.:-.»:«-------».'-:->."~❖:❖1-•».»:-:❖:«.;..:-:-:-:«-.·❖:.:❖:-.-..J October 2002 Dusty Times

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Classified ... Some of the items advertised in these pages may not be legal for sale or use in all 50 states. Readers are advised to consult ap-propriate local or state authori-ties for information before pur-chase of any specific item. Incredible Deal! '99 F-150 Stock Full-King Shocks. Ex-Andataco Syko truck, Currie, Autometer, BF Goodrich, Master Craft, Huge Ford contingency available. Also, a monster spare parts package and trailer available. 45K OBO. Call on Ref# 848 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. PRE-RUNNER FOR. SALE: 3-Seat Ex-cab F150. Featured inJan 2002 Off-Road Magazine, 20" front travel, 28 • Rear Travel, Clean Truck. Perfect for Baja. $40,000.00. JeffDickerson (760) 427-1471. PRO-TRUCK FOR SALE: Completely prepped and race ready, Over $40,000.00 in spares, includes 1996 enclosed parts trailer, Complete package $125,000.00 Call for spares list. OR Truck only $95,000.00.Jeff Dickerson (760) 4 27-14 71. FOR SALE: 2 Seat Chenowth Sports-man/Touring, Arizona Street legal, 2276, Dual Weber, 23 gal, Bus close ratio, Power steering, 110" wheel base, wide beam, combo's, Coil over 3x.3 rear arms, Fox reservoir, lots of storage~ FOR SALE: Loaded 96 GMC space, spare wheels, many spare parts. SLE; VS Vortec, 6" Lift, Rollcage, Prepped and ready $9,750.00 (714) Dana 60 Rear, 35" Tires, Short-289-8989 Dan. ened 9", $14,900.00US$$. Price includes Shipping to Salt Lake. Phone 1-403-703-7702. or email liquid_bat@hotmail.com. Check out http:/ /www.geocities.com/ truck_ 4 _sale/Title.html for more details. FOR SALE: 98 Mirage Class 1 Single Seat, Mid Engine. Set up for Toyota V-6, Jerico Trans, Field Diff., A-Arm, FOR SALE: 1-1600 Chenowth FOR SALE: Protruck, chassis # SS-1-026, raced 5 times, BEST OF EVERYTHING, rebuilt and race prepped! 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Fresh Terry Smith NASCAR V6 550hp, Fresh Jeff Field Auto, Foddrill, CNC, Howe, Fox Coil & Bypass, Motec Digital Dash, MSD, PIAA, Hella Hid, Halogen Fire System, PCI Set-up, Parker, Mastercraft, Crower Belts, 30 gal cell w/ quick fill, BF Projects, Ultra Wheels, New Paint job, Lots of spare equip-ment inc/2 sets of front arms, spindles, wings, axles, etc, etc. Too much to list, prep by Fod-drill Fab, & Fox Motorsports, Very fast & reliable. Top fin-isher. NEW PRICE $79,900.00. Call Danny Fod-drill (623) 582-2499. FOR SALE: Riviera Racing Class One Car. Nye Frank Suspension, Fresh 5.3 Li-ter Patton Chevy V-6 (450hp), Jeff Fields 3 speed Auto Transaxle, Best of ev-erything. Winner of the 2002 Laughlin Desert Challenge and Laughlin Leap. $65,000.00. Call Jerry Whelchel for Details (949) 472-2024_. ___ ---i FOR SALE: 2000 Kia Sportage, SCORE Class 3. Winner of Class 3 Cham-pionship 97, 98, 99 and 2000. Winner of the Baja 2000 Class 3. New 3.5 li-ter V6 225 hp, Dry Sumped, Can be raced and driven in 4wd. Sway-A-Way shocks, (3" rear, 2" and 2.5" bypass front). Full Floater Rear end. 5 speed Road Race Transmission. Heavy Duty racing clutch. 35 gallon custom Fuel Safe fuel cell. Autometer liquid filled gauges. BFG Baja 33x10.50 tires American Racing Beadlock Wheels. All the best parts, extremely reliable, fast and fun. Many spares available. $25,000.00 Spares Included. Call Darren Skilton. (562) 755-227 8. FOR SALE: 2000 Kia Sportage Cross Country Rally Car. SCORE Class 3 and FIA Class T3. Built in November 1999 for the 2000 Paris Dakar Rally, which it finished. Won Class 3 in 2000 San Feli-pe 250. King Shocks, Full Floater, 5 speed Road Race Transmission "' Heavy Duty Racing ~-Magnum, Hatz motor with zero miles on bottom end, complete ground-up prep with zero miles, all components crack-checked & .shot-peened, featured in VW Trends magazine, winner of SCORE True Grit Milestone Award, Clean & fast. Race ready for Pro1600. $11,500.00 Call Scott Wisdom@ (949) 472-9398. -,-24"Wheel Travel, Fox Shocks, Caris in excellent condition, lots of spares. $45,000.00 does not include engine. 2 Toyota V-6'savailableforadditional cost. Brian (562) 619-9686. FOR SALE: ProTruck-No ex-penses spared. Fresh frame pow-der coat, new front clip. Lots of spares incl: 2 Leon Patton Race Motors, 3 Turbo 400 Trans., 2 Chrisman Rear-Ends, 2 Fuel Cell, wheels, tires much more. $ llOk after race, $120k ready to race. Call SMD Mo-torsports (760) 352-3080 or protruck@smdmotorsports.com. SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY! FOR SALE; Chenowth Mil-lennium Class 1, 3 .2LAcura Motor, Fortin 5 spd., BFG, King Shocks, 934 CV's, Dose Fuel Injection, CNC Brakes. Car is very fast, car is fully prepped and ready to race, fresh paint. Too many spares to list. See more @ waddellracing.com. $57,000.00 OBO. Call Josh @ (760) 356-2131 or (760) 427-5012 . Clutch. 95 gallon custom Fuel Safe Fuel cell for Paris Dakar (550 mile range). Makes an excellent prerunner, Autometer liq-uid filled gauges, BFG Baja 33x10.50 tires, American Racing Wheels, All the Best parts, Ex-tremely reliable and fun. Many spares available. B.eady to win races all over the world. $29,999.00 oho. Call Darren Skilton. (562) 755-2278. ~ •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in === : • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • DUSTY TIMES. DllliJlilfflDS : Classified Advertising rate is only $25 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use of black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. Maximum size 5"x7".All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. 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: Single Seat 1600, Mirage chassis. Just right for "Pro 1600" Ray Riffle Engine, (second engine not assembled). Dave Folts Trans. All Jamar, Elame-out, 2-PCI Radios, Light-ened 930 C.V.s, 5 dump-cans, 3-Pit Chase Boxes, 10 whls & tires. Sway-A-Ways, Fox Shocks, plus much, much more. Carson open t railer, Race tool box. Some shop equipment: bench & 20 ton press. Owned and driven by old retired dir t racer Ray Wright. Call anytime (909) 766-9628. This car is turn key. FOR SALE:. 1969 Volkswagon Class 5-1600 Race Car. SCORE & Best in the Desert legal. Bobby Neth Chassis, Wright Front end, Bilstein Reservoir shocks, 930 CV Combos, UMP Airfilter and oil cooler, Parker Pumper, Beard seats, 5 point harness, Fuel Safe Fuel Cell, Jamar Shifter, Hella Lights, YOO gauges with aircraft circuit breakers, Yokohama Tires, with Ultra Wheel Mags. 900 miles on car since new! This 5-1600 was put together with The Best of The Best! Over $32k in-vested. $19,500.00 OBO (310) 540-5129 Scott. FOR SALE: Chenowth DR2V p re-runner, 2276cc Major Motor, 930 CV joints, Coilovers & Bypass shocks, Disc brakes, Howe Power Steering, ready to pre-run the Baja 1000. (858) 451-1167. Brian Ickler5@aol:com. FOR SALE: Ford Ranger PreRunner, Tig Weld Construc-tion 3 link, fully caged; Ford 9" 31" rear, 24" Front, Sway-A-Way, Wilwood, Optima, Auto-meter, Beard, Goodyear Projects, Fuel Cell, Much More. Everything New, 15 Mi in dirt, Street Legal, featured in Offroad Magazine, Best Parts. Extra Clean. $45K OBO (562) 866-3197. . --:rno,s-== E Dusty Times FOR SALE: Jimco A-Arm, Single Seat, Class 1 or 10. Complete Car Less motor and trans. Setup for Honda and Fortin. Best of Every-thing, King Shocks. Fortin Rack & Shifter, Summers Rear Float-ers for 930 or 934 CVs. CNC 2" Front Hubs, UMP, Mastercraft, FlameOut, Fuel Safe, New PowerCoat. Like New. Call Brian. (909) 277-3547. (661) 857-3013. 2002 PRE RUNNER FOR SALE: 2002 Two Seat PreRunner. Manufactured by Pete Corwin Fabrications. Car is brand new, only 25 easy miles set up time. All chrome molly tubing, completely Heli Arc, Custom aluminum and fiberglass body, Custom dash-Garmin OPS, Vortex V6 Chevy-custom headers, Fortin Transaxle, 935 CV's, Micro Stubs-2 inch front spindles, King Shocks, Travel 20 inches, Tires 35's rear-33's front, Howe Power Steering. 40 gal. Fuel Cell, Much more! Price $69,950.00. Contact Pete Corwin at phone (619) 444-6805 or fax (619) 444-6802 or email: pete@gotsand.com. FOR SALE: Dodge Ramcharger 3 seat PreRunner. Updated in 1998, frnt 14" travel, rear 3" SAW coilover, airbum ps, four link 18" travel. 300hp 360, modified 727 tran s, full floater, Dana 60 rear end, dual Optima batteries, Beard Seats, removable hardtop, Kuster ball joints, full cage, aluminum dash with gauges. $12,000 OBO. Call (562) 755-2278. Cl 7s S-10 4WD. Ex Mac Truck. Hella lights, National Springs, tig welded 4130 cage, Dana 44, Fuel Safe Cell, Autometer gauges, Mas-ter Craft Tilton peddles, 1 built V-6 and 1 stock V-6, 2 trans, BFGoodrich and American Rac-ing. Proven Winner. Profession-ally built in 1986. Clean, Strong and dependable! $13,500.00 Ref # 843. Call Baja Brokers (760) Class 8 Ford F-150 prepped ready to race! Originally owned by Frank Vessels. 428 V-8 (0 miles), dual MSD electronic igni-tion, 44 gal Fuel Safe Cell, Beard, Autometer, Simpson, PCI radios. Kuster 3" Coilovers with 18" travel in front. 3" King bypass and Akan leaf springs with 16" travel in rear. Proven Winner! $32,500.00 Ref# 857. Call Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. Very Fresh Bunderson Cl 1 or 10 single seater A-Arm. 3.0 type 4, Field automatic, new summer hubs, 935 axles and CV's, Char Lynn power steering, 32 gal Fuel Safe Cell, Beard, Master Craft, Park Pump, CNC, Howe. Com-pletely rebuilt in 2001. Prepped ready to race. $39,500.00 Ref #850. Call Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: Toyota Class 7S 4x4 Race Truck, 22 gal Fuel Safe cell, Autometer, PS, 20R with sidedraft Weber, Mallory dist, Flowmaster, Caged front to rear, Downey Springs, triple shocks front, dual rear, Doetsch tech, green sticker, clean truck. Call Phil after 5pm $4,500.00. (909) 949-9636. FOR SALE: FORD Ranger 7S Extra Cab 4.0 V6 motor C-4 tranny plus spare. Bil-stein Bypass and bumps all 4 corners 33" BFG Bajas plus extra set. 9" Rear end. Truck is 1 year old and works great. A real winner. Unique 3 Seater. A must see race truck. $25,000.00. (619) 596-9831. FOR SALE: 7 Unlimited Ford Ranger. SCORE & BITD legal. Fresh 3.8 liter 275hp V-6, C-4 Trans, Floater 9in 3in. King Coilovers with 3" 3 tube King Bypass in rear. Proven Truck that is ready to r ace! Many Spares inc! 24ft Halmark Race Trailer and Ford Busch G .N. 4.5/57 5 h p Race motor. Also Available separate. $29,000.00 OBO (928) 505-5846 (H) or (928) 855-1191 (W). PLEASE! Don't Forget To Support The· Advertisers Who Keep DllliJ~IIIBI Reporting The Off Road News! October 2002 PACIFIC NORTHWEST FOUR WHEEL DRIVE AS-SOCIATION RAFFLE 2002 Jeep Wrangler 4 Cylin-der 5 speed. Tickets $5.00 each. Drawing Feb 8 , 2003. Need not be present to win. Winner is responsible for all state and federal taxes. Many donations make t his Jeep an outstanding Jeep. Make check or money payabl e to: PNW4WDA 3509 N. E. 128'h Court Vancouver Washing-ton 98682. Margaret Hop-per 1-360-892-1712. INDb.X TO AD\/6..Q. Tl6b.R6 Aggressive Suspensions ................. 44 Austecx ............................................ 20 Baker Performance ........................ 32 Camburg Engineering ...................... 41 Coast Resorts ..................................... 9 Cool Shirt ......................................... 54 Dickerson ......................................... 26 Estero Beach ..................................... 4 Extreme Desert Steel ..................... 29 Fabtech ............................................ 31 Fortin ............................................... 12 Fresh Air Systems ........................... 18 FRT Motorsports ............................. 23 Fuel Safe ............................................ 8 Gail Banks Engineering ................... 49 Genuine Steel .................................. 47 German Auto ................................... 36 Kar Tek Off Road ....................... ~~.54 Kawaguchi Honda ............................ 28 KC Hilites ........................................... 2 King Shock Tech .............................. 39 light Force Engineering .................. 15 Mag 7 ............................................... 17 Mastercraft ...................................... ,15: McKenzie Performance Products ... 10 Mendeola Racing ............................ 35 Nevada Off Road ............................. 52 Off Road Expo ................................. 21 Pacific Custom ................................ 27 Paradigm Race Cars ....................... 50 Parker Pumper ................................ 40 Parker Pumper/Competition Air ..... 54 Parker Pumper/Eibach Springs ...... 25 PCI Race Radios ......................... 5, 19 Pikes Service Center ...................... 34 Pre-Runner for Sale ....................... 50 Price ................................................ 38 Race Prep Services ........................ 48 Race Ready..................................... 46 Rancho Performance ....................... 53 Redline Performance, Inc . ............... 47 Ronco Plastics ................................ 37 Sakata ........................................ : .... 43 Sky Jacker Suspensions ................ 14 SNORE ..................... : ...................... 11 Solder Joint ..................................... 42 Strictly Performance ......... , .. :......... 22 Strobel Motorsports ........................ 4f Team Gordon Race Wheels ............ 34 Toyota Motorsports .......... Back Cover Transaxle Engineering, Inc ............. 33 Valley Performance ........................ 49 Tri-Mil ............................................. 53 Web Cam ......................................... 13 Page 63 -

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