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Volume 19 - Number s May 2002 DUGlil • li1UIBG ~-~ alifomia Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor John Calvin Associate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance Scott . Contributors C&C Race Photos Sheryl Cannon Carrera Photography Mike Chamberland J&L Photography Jim Culp Mike Del Col Martin Holmes Rod Koci, Ralph Maso n Ron Miller Rene Montana Byrle Moore Troy. Robinson Jeff Straw Darryl Smith Tony Tellier Paul Timmerman Trackside Photo • ally ~ --,cries Subscription Rates: $25.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Sub-scription rates on request. 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. DUS1Y TIMES: (ISSN 87 50-1732) 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 !A, 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._ POSTMASTER: Send address change to DUSTY TIMES, 20761 Plutnmer 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. In This ·issue ... FEATURES BlTD Terrible's Town by Judy Smith .................................................................... 8 51st Swedish Rally by Martin Holmes ..................................................................... 20 FRT King Of The Desert .................................................................................... 24 Sno*Drift Rally by John Calvin ............................................................................... 26 . /,; VORRA Season Opener by Forest Creasy .............................. : ....... : ....................... 28 Whiplash Gila Be~d by Mike Del Col... ................................................................. 32 FRT 200 At Plaster City West by Judy Smith ....................................................... 35 Doo Wop Club Rally by Jim Culp .......................................................................... 37 46th Tour de Corse by Martin Holmes ................................................................... 43 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ............................................................................................................ 5 Trail Notes .............................................................................................. ................ 6 American Jeep Speed by Cli~e Skilton .................................................................... 40 Mag 7 Race Team by Stephen Stenberg .............................................. : ...................... 40 Protruck Racing Report ............................................ : ........................................ 42 Good Stuff Directory ................. : ..................................... , ................................... 47 Classified Ads ........................ .' ............................................................................. 53 Index To Advertisers ............................................................. : ............................. 55 on The cover Curt LeDuc drove the Skyjacker Ford to a nice first place in Class 8 at the Best In The Desert Terrible's Tow1,1 250, his second win of the year. Color Photography by Jim Ober • Trackside Photo Vic Bruckmann and Brian Coneen spray sand and gravel in a right hander on their way to a nice victory in Class 10 at the BITD Terrible's Town 250. Color Photography by Byrle Moore• Trackside Photo Art 'Director Larry Worsham Visit Our Website at Dustytimes.com snapshot of the Month ... JVho are th.ese helmeted men? JVhy, it's Michael Gaughan and Mike Growney, exiting th.e car after a long hard run, ably assisted by Lenny Newman anef Eddie Webb at a Gold Coast race some years ago. Picture by Pat Webb DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to 8xl0 will be considered. Dusty Times May 2002 c5uhscrihe <Joday lo DUSTY. 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2002 Happenings ... Maywood, CA 90270 (323) 560-SHOW CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 645 Calle 6ta Fracc Cd. de San Quintin San Quintin, BC, Mexico Heraclio Patino Mexico June 22-24, 2002 l<C Hi Lites Night Race Laguna Salada Mexicali, Baja California Mexico 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 AMERICAN TRIALS ASSOCIATION AMA Observed Trials Southern California Championship Series Bill Markum - President (909) 860-1857 24 hr Hotline -(714) 562-7742 E Mail: bmark909@aol.com www .atatrails.com Mayl9,2002 McCain Valley/SDTR ASOCIACION ESTATAL de AUTOMOVILISMO Sam Lasell, Tecl1 Inspector Apto 42 San Jose del Caho Baja California del Sur. Mexico AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSIIlP Darryl Smith 19 Somers St. Cashmere, Queensland, 4500, Australia · DUSTY TIMES @bigpond.com AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFFROAD 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 All Races Are Night Races All Races At Barona Raceway, Lakeside, CA BBMMARKETING 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 May 3-5, 2001 KTM Vegas 150 Motorcycles & Quads only June 19-23, 2002 Nevada 1000 August9-11, 2002 Tonopah 300 Tonopal1, NV 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 Nortl1 Sunset, UT 84015 (801) 773-1651/(801) 773-9319 Fax May 3-4, 2002 Wendover Express Wendover, UT July 5-6, 2002 Jackpot 250 Jackpot,NV September 6-7, 2002 Ely 200 El NV BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-3250 CAJOR Club AutomovilistaJuarense 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 Schoohous6 Road Ramona, CA 92065 (760) 788-3809 E-Mail: crsdirecc@honnail.com Website <californiarallyseries.com> Dusty Times John Dillon, SoPac Rally Steward sopacrallysteward@honnail.com May 3-4, 2002 Rim Of The World Pro & Club Rally Palmdale, CA August 24, 2002 Gorman Ridge Club Rally Frazier Park, CA September28,2002 Treeline Club Rally West Covina, CA November 1-2, 2002 Prescott Forest Pro &_ Club Rally Prescott, AZ December 13-15, 2002 Ramada Express lnternation;i.l Rally Laughlin,NV CANNING ATI'RACTIONS P.O. Box 400 Pierre, SD 57501 Dave Adams (Pilots and Bajas) (605) 224-9481 Don Engleman (Bikes) (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.]. Richards P.O. Box 332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLAIRTON HI-JACKERS I.C.O. Tom Delauder Sr 1091 Twp. Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Harri.son Councy Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICA SANQUINTIN OM BILLET MATI;~IALS REMOTE ,RESEIWt11R Perlermance POS oH;li;EJltsi . vri ID F'O f() (011 52 616-5-22-07) CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SANVICENTE San Vicente Off Road Ensenada, BC, Mexico USA Jan Wright (011 52 61746834) Ramon Castro & Ruben Acevedo (61637/7 0034) CMC Continental Motosport Club P.O. Box 3187 Mission Viejo, CA 92690-317_8 Fax: (714) 367-1608 CODE . Bravo 120-B Zona Centro, Mexicali, BC, MX 011-52-553-4087 www.codeoffroad.com mail@codeoffroad.com April 26-28, 2002 San Felipe 200 San Felipe, Baja California ..... August9-11, 2002 ORW Gran Prix Tecate Tecate, Baja California Mexico October 4-6, 2002 Los 200 Millas de Botica Santa Maria Fiestas del Sol Mexicali, Baja California Mexico November 30 -December 2, 2002 Mangiamos 300 Mexicali To San Felipe Baja California Mexico COLORADO HIU CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholcz, President (719) 531-3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P.O Box 8286 cJfr by SWAY-A-WAY® AND tx~RNAl,.~DJUSTABILITY TO OBTAIN ~PTIMAL PERFORMANCE E$ERVOl8"T01A°ESjST FADING CAUSED BY HEAT AND CAVITATION 1c;::~-. ·2 A · TUSE DESIGNS FOR. FINE TUNING susPiNSION ./'i:-• ' 1 \,· .,. J ·RACE PROVEN QUALITY AND PERFQf!,A.NCE_>.,t ,~; ! •2.5" AND 3'" DIAMETEl>AVAILAB[E • · ;;, Distributors Goto Camburg Engineering Off-Road Warehouse Race Ready Products 714-848-8880 858-565-n92 619-691-9171 W yaway.cam to learn more or call Baja Concepts McKenzie's Prowler$ Kartek Raceshock Co, 760-723-2117 714-441-12.12 661-288-57.S7 909-628-0833 602.--493-3700 [ 1 SJ 7D0-971 e. Sway-A-Way, Inc. Chatsworth, CA May 2002 Pages

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Trail Notes ... SCORE POINTS -After two. rounds of the SCORE Desert Challenge, Laughlin and San Felipe, the points garnered have been tabulated and it shakes out this way. Eli Yee, the 28 year old from Ensenada leads in Class 10 points and in the overall points as well with 110 points earned in a third place at Laughlin and a first at San Felipe. In the Class 1 ratings, Troy Herbst leads with 105, Dale Ebberts has 89 and Lobsam Yee, younger brother of Eli is third with 82. The Trophy Truck lead is held by Dan Smith and Dave Ashley with. 102 points, Scott Steinberger is second in his new class with 83 points and Brian Collins is in next with 79 p_oints. In Pro Truck, Steve Barlow leads with 102 points, Rick Johnson is second with 90 points and Al Hogan is third with 77 points earned. In the Vz-1600 battle, Kash Vessels and Jake Maness are tied with 77 points each and Brian Jeffrey is third with 72. Don and Ken Moss lead Class 3 with 99 points, George Seeley has 84 points and leads Class 5. In 5-1600, Allan Gregory leads with 102 points, Rob Taylor has 82 points and Ruben Guitierrez, Jr. is third with 58 points. Craig Turner leads Class 7 with 85 points and in Class 7S it's Dan Fresh with 92 points, Doug Siewert and Cory Susag are second with 61 points and Eric and Jared Hardin weigh in with 49 points. Joe Patelli leads Class 8 with 88 points, Nick Vanderway is right there with 86 points and Benny Canela weighs in with 72 points. Tony Modica is the Class 9 leader with 78 points. Eli Yee leads Class 10, Steve Schmidt is tied with Martin Christensen with 93 points and Chris Harrold has 82. In SCORE Lite competition, Ken Stroud leads with 77 points, Vic Bruckmann has 61 and David DeAtley has 57. Eric Solorzano leads Class 11 with 84 points, and in Stock Full, John Griffin leads with 84 and Marc Stein and Travis Walser are tied in second with 57 points. In Stock Min, Bob Land leads Dr. Macrae Glass by 19 points. On motorcycles, Gerardo Rojas leads Class 21, Steve Hengeveld and Johnny Campbell lead Class 22 with 46 points, Aaron Tuck and Craig Smith are second with 40 points and Andy Grider and Danny Cooper are third with 36. Kevin Ward leads Class 30 and Jim O'Neal is the Class 40 leader. In ATV action, Jimmy Stephenson and Mike Cafro lead with 50 points, Earl Thigpen is second with 44 points. RED FACE DEPARTMENT -In last month's story about the San Felipe 250, I talked about Rick Ellison and Bill Hemquist finishing in 10th place in Class 10. That was an error. They did not actually finish, although they came into town on the course, passing through the Tecate arch and in front of timing and scoring, giving some of us the impression that they were finishers. I should have checked the official finish list more closely. Sorry -Judy Smith AW ARD TIME - Eagle One, Carlsbad, CA will present the Eagle One-Shav Glick award to Parnelli Jones, recognizing distinguished achievement in motor racing by a Californian. For your information, Shav Glick has been heavily involved in reporting motor racing for the Los Angeles Times for many years and Pamelli has a list of records as long as·your arm in other forms of motor racing besides off-road. B ITD TERRIBLES TOWN 250 -Best in the Desert kicks off their racing season at Pahrump the first weekend in April and the turnout looks pretty good. Officially entered as of March 26 are 56 motorcycles and quads and 88 cars and trucks are all ready for the initial BITD competition. Look for the full story elsewhere in this issue of Dusty Times. MORE SCORE HENDERSON TERRIBLE 250 -For the first time in many years, SCORE has included motorcycles and quads in one of their US races. As usual, the bikes and quads will start at six in the morning but the cars and trucks will not leave the start line until 3pm. There will be an eight hour time limit on the race but the SCORE officials are forecasting a four hou~ run for the faster vehicles. Stay tuned! OVER THE TRANSOM -Many pe_ople don't r·ealize that Fox bought Speedvision last summer. Apparently, they'd had an option on the network for a long time. Since then, they've made lots of changes to the TV part, including a bunch more NASCAR coverage. A few weeks ago, Speedvision became Speed Channel. At the same time, Fox deleted a huge portion of the website. The Classic Car, Marine, Aviation and Automotive sections, and all the stories in them simply vanished. No archives, no mention of their removal, no nothing. Those areas seemed to be pretty popular, so that slick little move probably chased off a lot of people. Fox wasn't done though. For their next trick, the same geniuses set-up the new website so that you can't even get in unless you have version 5.0 or -newer of your internet browser. That swift move locked out probably half to two thirds of their totals potential market. On top of th_at, if you can get in, there isn't much to see. It looks as though the whole thing has been put together by one overworked guy, trying hard to keep up appearances. Good marketing, huh? Color us gone! FINAL FLAG - Ray Brock, former editor of Hot Rod and Motor Trend slipped away from us April 2. The following was sent to us by Bill Sanders. Ray Brock, a pioneer in the Hot Rod industry and off road racing passed away on Tuesday, April 2, 2002. He.was 75. Ray became involved in hot-rodding after WWII and was ·as, )ciated with other pioneers such as Vic Hickey, Vic Edelbrock, Wally Parks, Alex Xydias, Bill Stroppe and many others. After graduating from USC Ray joined Peterson Publishing, working with_ Page 6 Colorado Springs, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP P.O. Box 392 Calexico, CA 92232 Hector Cerecer 011-52-65-66-4458 CORR LUCAS OIL PRO AND SPORTSMAN SERIES Championship OH Road Racing 192 N. State Road 267, Suite 267 Avon, IN 46123 (317) 272-2827/Fax: (317) 272-2900 May 25-26, 2002 Pro Series Edmeston, NY June 8-9, 2002 Pro & Sportsman Series Antigo, WI June 22-23, 2002 Pro & Sportsman Series Crandon, WI July 13-14, 2002 Pro & Sportsman Series Bark River, MI July 27-28, 2002 Milan ,MI August 10-11, 2002 Pro & Sportsman Series Bark River, MI August 31-September 1, 2002 Pro & Sportsman Series Crandon, WI CORVA 1500 West El Camino, Suite 352 Sacramento, CA 95833 1-800-4 2 CORVA Ext 4 2 Fax (818) 957-4435 D&TPROMOTIONS Dave Van Deren 2405 Baker Ave. Everett, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (AU e11ents at Hannigan race !Tack, BeUingham, WA or Thurston Councy ORV Park, Ol1mpia, 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 &jaauromotive@Yahoo.com DECATUR FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 DESERT STEELMOTORSPORTS 1865 Commander Drive Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 (520) 855-6125 EASTERN OFF-ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Tom Delauder, Sr. 1091 Township Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 ENSENADA BAJA OFF ROAD RACING Av. Reforma 1136 Ensada, BC, MX 011-52-646-1818989 Elisio 011-52-646-1715230 Aaron May 3-5, 2002 Pacifico/Home Saga 200 Ojos Negros August 3-5, 2002 Corona-Budweiser/Home Saga Ensenada 300 Above Races for bugg;1s & Motorcycles ESTERO BEACH INTERNATIONAL Short Course Racing Victoria Galindo · Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico 011-526-176-6225 FORDA Florida Off Road Driver's Association Jason Leibin (727) 376-4176 May 18-19, 2002 June 1, 2002 July 13, 2002 August, 2002 TBA September 14, 2002 November 17, 2002 Mar, Apr, May, Nov at Davidson Raceway FRT Motorsports 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 E-mail: FUD9@cox.net May 2002 Motorcycles, A TVs &.Dez Superlites MX And Off Road Short Course (All at Imperial Valley Expo, Imperial·, CA) 2002 Buggies & Trucks Corky Mcmillin Companies Superstition Championship Series May 18, 2002 . Conquista Lake Superstition August 10-11, 2002 CODE/FRT Tecate, Baja California Mexico October 19, 2002 Superstition 250 Plaster City East December 31, 2002 Dunaway Dash Plaster City West Motorcycles, ATV's & Desert Super lites May4,2002 Timnder In The Valley Imperial Valley Fairgrounds Mayll,2002 Conquista Gran Prix June8,2002 Thunder In The Valley Imperial County Fairgrounds - July 14, 2002 Desert Sprint July 27, 2002 C/M Nice Team Race August 10-11, 2002 Lazo de Amistad Gran Prix August 25, 2002 Sweethearts Kiss September 21, 2002 Thunder In The Valley Imperial Valley Fairgrounds September29,2002 Cheese Burger 100 October 19, 2002 Superstition 250 XIX November 2, 2002 Thunder In The Valley Imperial County Fairgrounds November 17, 2002 Notorious Dawg 3 Hour Team Race December 1, 2002 Rudolph's Revenge Desert Gran Prix December 8, 2002 Timnder In The Valley Imperial County Fairgrounds December 31, 2002 Dunaway Dash GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association 420 Hosea Road Lawrenceville, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 GPORRA Great Planes Off Road Racing Association · Paul Huffman (402) 296-4349 Jess Urwin (402) 944-2193 June 1,2002 Nebraska Raceway Park June 29, 2002 York,NE July 30 Nebraska Raceway Park August 3, 2002 Nebraska Raceway Pa:rk August 17, 2002 Nebraska Raceway Park September 14, 2002 TBA AU races are short course, stadium scyle. Classes -Sportsman Bugg:y, 1/Z/5-1600, Sport Truck and Quads. Nebraska Racewa1 Park is just minutes west of Omaha, NE. www .gporra.com IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box 36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 (All e11ents staged at the club grounds in Cleves. Oluo) . INTERNATIONAL ICE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 St. Paul, MN 55108 Steve Bedder (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O. Box 2910 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 JEEPSPEED Racing For Street Legal Jeep Cherokees , 1826 N. Windes Drive Orange, CA 92869 (714) 538-7434 www.Jeepspeed.com e-mail: Jeepspeedcom@aol.com KA.MLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER 4WDCLUB P.O. Box 465 Kamloops, BC, Canada VZG5L2 Bob (250) 374-7175 days Randy (250) 579-9621 eves. Wes (250) 351-2819 LASVEGASSANDSPORTS& OFFROAD EXPO (626) 961-3782 www .prerunners.com www .megashow.com LI.T.R.E. Jeff Elrod (408) 926-0522 JimAruta (408) 247-4402 MAMARRITA OFF ROAD RACING Luis Carlos Alvarezo Panamerica.na Ave #5105 Cd. Juarez, Chih., MX 011-52-1637-1799 MICIIlGAN BUGGY BUILDERS Dune Buggy Trade Show (517) 543-7214 www .buggybuilders.com MICIIlGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSIIlPS M. T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 Jones Road Qrand Ledge, Ml 48837 (517) 627-6200 July 28, 2002 Mason,MI Motorcycles, Quads, ATVs and Pilots on! MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION MAORA 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 Planet X-treme MSP Mason, IL 618-686-2650 Short Course Series April 2 7, 2002 LTM, Casey, IL May 18,2002 Bonpaw MSP, Sumner, IL June 15, 2002 Luka, IL July 13, 2002 Planet Xtreme, Mason, IL August 3, 2002 Bonpaw MSP, Sumner, IL August 24, 2002 Planet Xtreme, Mason, tL September 7, 2002 TBA September28,2002 LTM, Casey, IL Endurance Series April 28, 2002 LTM, Casey, IL May 19,2002 Bonpaw MSP, Sumner, IL July 14, 2002 Planet Xtreme, Mason, IL August 4, 2002 Bonpaw MSP, Sumner, IL September 29, 2002 LTM, Casey, IL MOJAVE DESERT RACING 1853 Parkway Drive S. El Monte, CA 91733 (626) 442-9320/(626)-579-6051 Fax E-Mail: mdrradng@aol.com June 21-22, 2002 Johnson Valley 400 Lucerne Valley, CA August 9-10, 2002 California 200 Lucerne Valley, CA 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. 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May 18, 2002 Luceme,CA July 20, 2002 Barstow, CA September 21, 2002 Barstow, CA December 7, 2002 Luceme,CA MSBA Michigan Sport Buggy Association Dave Barret 6363 Nightingale Dr. Flint, Ml 48506 (810) 730-9221 MOTOWESTWINTER TRIALS SERIF.s All events at Perris Raceway Bill Markham (909) 860-1857 www.lTStrials.com (At Reed Valley with a school) NATIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION Rt. #l - Box 380 Dave or Marlene Ryan Palatka, FL 3 2177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK ASSOCIATION Butch Chapin Motorsports Promotions 1404 East 3rd Street Hastings, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 NORTIIERN OHIO OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. Gary Wulff (724) 283-2678 OFF ROAD EXPO 2001 (626) 599-8622 · October 5-6, 2002 Fairlpex, Pomona, CA OHIO OFF ROADERS INC. 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.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 Tichbourne, Public Relations (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) OUTIA W SEVEN PICKUP 9269 Ummelman St. Louis, MO 63123 (314) 631-8140/Fax: ((314) 631-1921 PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. OH Road Championship 495 N. Commons Drive Aurora, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100 www.usoff-road.com PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 Colorado Springs, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 PINE BARRENS ROUGH RIDERS OFF ROAD RACING Sand Drags, Tuff Trucks, Desert Short Course Trucks, Buggies & Quads (609) 660--0402/(609) 660-0066 June 1-2, 2002 September 7-8, 2002 May5,2002 September 15, 2002 October 13, 2002 Southwick, MA PROTRUCK RACING SERIES 9409 Abraham Way Santee, CA 92071-2856 (619) 449-6252/Fax: (619) 449:6470 May 31-June 2, 2002 SCORE Baja 500 June 19-25, 2002 BITD Nevada 1000 Aug~st 16-18, 2002 BITD Tonopah September 13-14, 2002 SCORE Primm October 4-6, 2002 BITD Baja Mex 300 November 8-9, 2002 SCORE aaja 1000 December 6-8, 2002 BITD Las Vegas 200 PURE ENERGY PROMOTIONS P.O. Box 50 Ricketts, IA 51460 (712) 679-2221 S.C.A.T. INC. Michael R. Icing P.O. Box 277 Dusty Times Morrisonville, NY 12962 (518) 561-3208/(518) 236-7897 SAN DJEGO OFF ROAD EXPOSITION (888) 836 7918 SCCA ProRally series Sports Car Club of America 9033 E. Easter Place Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 967-9660 May 3-4, 2002 Rim Of The World Palmdale, CA June I, 2002 Susquehannock Trail Wellsboro, PA June 28-29, 2002 Pikes Peak Hillclimb Colorado Springs, CO July 26-27, 2002 Maine Forest Rumford,ME August 16-1 7, 2002 Ojibwe Forests Bemidji, MN September 7-8, 2002 Wild West Olympia, WA October 18-19, 2002 Lake Superior Houghton, MI November 1-3, 2002 Prescott Forest Phoenix, AZ SFXMOTORSPORTS GROUP 495N. Commons Drive, Suite 200 Aurora, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100/(630) 556-6180 Fax SCORE SCORE International 23961 Craftsman Rd., Suite A Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/Fax: (818) 225-8102 May 31 -June 2, 2002 Tecate SCORE Baja 500 Ensenada, Baja California Mexico July 11-14, 2002 Terrible's 250 Henderson, NV September ll-14, 2002 Las Vegas Primm 300 Primm,NV November 7-10, 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 June 7-8, 2002 Dusty Times 250 Caliente, NV July 26-27, 2002 KC Midnight Special Boulder City, NV October 4-5, 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· 4WHEELERS Race Division Keith Stewart (714) 522-1899 SODA Short Course Off Road Drivers Association Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD CHALLENGE Steve Rule (800) 313-5621 or((770) 963-0252 Mike Moore - (224) 272-5400 OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Volunteered Series President -Geoff Lee 1243 Trice Road Lebanon, TN 37087 (615) 453-5830 · Class Rep. - 1/2-1600 Bruce Meyers (865) 453-1005 . Class Rep. - 9 & Unltd. Michael Moore (334) 271-7035 Outlaw Rep. Don Ponder (314) 631-8190 (AU Races at Wheeling in the Couni, 900 Acres) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TIMING ASSOCIATION AND BONNEVILLE NATIONALS, INC. 4 3807 40cl1 Street East 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 Wooclark Drive Tampa FL 33624 (813) 962-2857 (AU Races at Eastbay Raceway, Tampa, FL) SUPER SERIES (PTY) LTD. P.O. Box 706 Parklands, 2121 South Africa (011)788-5138 Fax (011 ) 880-2170 TOYS FOR TOTS (619) 252-1197 /(619) 252-3093 UNADILLA VALLEY SPORTS CENTER P.O. Box 5119 Edmeston, NY 13335 (606) 965-8784/Fax: (606) 905-8784 <www.unadillamx.com> May 24-26, 2002 CORR/Lucus Oil Truck Racing Series Unadilla Off Road Raceway New Berlin, NY VORRA Off Road Racing P.O. Box 3362 Carson City, NV 89702 • (775) 246-5545/(775) 246:-9089 Fax www.VORRA.com April 27-28, 2002 Spring Special Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA May 25-27, 2_002 • Yerington 300 Desert Race Yerington, NV July 13-14, 2002 Fallon 250 Desert Race Fallon, NV" August JI-September 1-2, 2002 Lovelock 250 Desert Race Lovelock, NV September 21-22, 2002 September Sizzler Prairie City SVRA Sacramenco, CA October 12-13, 2002 October Land Rush Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA October 26-27, 2002 Fall Finale + Mechanics & Ladies Race Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA VICENTE GUERRERO OFF ROAD CLUB Profo. Cenovio Gamboa 011-52-616-6-21-91 (2-6 p.m.) WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Larry Henderson (604) 538-0692 WORM P.O.Box 3241 Sumas WA 98295 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA WHEEL TO WHEEL OFF ROAD RACING Patrick McGuire P.O. Box 376 Adamsburg, PA (412) 527-6556 WHIPLASHMOTORSPORTS 2325 E. Kings Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85022 (602) 971-3730 Desert Tour Buggy & Truck Series . May4,2002 Rock To Rock Rocky Point, Mexico August30-31, 2002 Poker Run Snowflake/ Airpine, AZ October, 2002 TBA November, 2002 Parker Gran Prix Parker, AZ December 7, 2002 Point To Point Sonoyta, Mexico Desert Challenge Bike & ATV May 2002 Trail Notes ... Bob Peterson on Hot Rod. Ray eventually became publisher of Hot Rod and then Motor Trend. In the NORRA Mexican 1000, circa 1967, Ray teamed with Ak Miller and· they won the Production 2 Wheel Drive class in a Ford Ranchero. They won again in 1968 and 1969 in a Ford 2 wheel drive pickup FlO0 and in the inaugural Baja 500 in 1969 Ray won again in the Ford pickup. Ray and Ak won the class again in 1971, after losing to Walker Evans in 1970. A memorial for Ray was held at the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 9 and was attended by hundreds from the auto· industry and the off road racing community. Ray Brock and Jean Calvin are probably bench racing up there. Good bye Ray. We all loved you and will miss you. You were the best boss anyone could have ever had. Thanks Bill, for your efforts. S CCA PRO RALLY TV SCHEDULE -The SCCA P·roRally Championship series will be shown on Speed Channel. Using all new digital in-car cameras, helicopter and ground cameras and lots of interviews. All the programs are 30 minutes in duration except for the one hour year in review program. All times are EDT. April 18 - .11 :30pm -Sno *Drift, May 16 -11:30pm -Cherokee Trails, June 13 -11:30pm -Oregon Trail, July 11 -11 :30pm -Rim Of The World, August 8 -11 :30pm -Susquehannock Trail, September 19 -11 :30 -Maine Forest, October 3 -11 :30pm -Ojibwe Forests, October 31 -11 :30pm -Wild West International, November 28 -11 :30pm - Lake Superior, December 26 -11:30pm - Year In Review. We have seen some of these rallies by happenstance late last year and the coverage is really great! Try it, you'll like it! FINAL FLAG -Another one of the "Good Guys" has left us and Bill Sanders sent DT this obituary. Ro Jarve, a_ Chevrolet dealer and driver in the early days of off road racmg passed away on Sunday, April 7, 2002 at his home in Valencia, California. He was 75. Ro owned and operated Rancho Chevrolet in Reseda,. California from the 1960's to the late 80's. In conjunction with the dealership, he also operated the Rancho Off-Road Center and was one of the first dealers to sell KC Hilites and Hickey Off Road Products. Ro discovered an obscure, sp0ecial order Chevr.olet paint color, bright orange, and used that as the Rancho signature. Many orange Blazers and Pickups were sold in that color and you always knew where they came from. In the mid 70's, Ro acquired a Chevy LUY pickup and he prepped· it and raced it for several years in the Trail Notes continued on page 54 May4,2002 Rock To Rock Rocky Point, Mexico August 31-September 1, 2002 Poker Run & Race Airpine,AZ October, 2002 TBA November 2-3, 2002 Parker Gran Prix Parker, AZ December 7, 2002 Point To Point Sonoyta, Mexico Desert.Mini & Peewee Tour August 31, 2002 Snowflake Airpine, AZ 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 November 4, 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 Oshkosh, WI 54901 (414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY 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 June 30, 2002 August 4, 2002 September 1, 2002 October 20, 2002 OHRoad April 26-28, 2002 San Felipe 200 October 4-6, 2002 . Las 200 (MXL) November 29-30; 2002 Mexicali-San Felipe 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 1665 Delaware St. Oshkosh, Wl 54901 Attention Race &Rally Organizers List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free. It is the only way some fans know about your event, if they don't happen to be on your club mailing list. Don't call, but mail your 2002 schedule as soon as pos-sible for listing in this column; it could bring you some extra entries! Mail your race or rally schedule to: 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 Page 7 - ·

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BITD TERRIBLE'S TOWN Herbst & Raeseler Win By Judy Smith Photos: Trackside Photo Curt LeDuc borrowed a Ford truck so he could have a try at Class 8000, and he went home with the first place trophy. · Larry Roese/er and Troy Herbst shared the driving in Herbst's Smithbuilt Truggy to win the BITD Terrible's Town 250 overall. Troy Herbst shared his driv-got back to the finish. In contrast with last year's ing seat with Larry Roeseler at A total of 103 cars and winter storm, this year the the BITD Terrible's Town 250 trucks took the green flag at weather was relatively mild and the mixture was unbeat-one minute intervals, but it and there wasn't enough wind able. From a starting position didn't help much with the to keep things clear. The spec-of 16th in the line-up, they dust. By the time they got out tators liked it just fine. All the threaded the Ford powered of the paved parking lot of the pre-race activities took plac:e in Truggy through some of the H erbst's in town casino, they town, with contingency in the fastest of the fast to be second were in heavy dust. Some never parking lot of the Terrible's on the road by the time they saw clear sky all day. Town Casino right on High-Rob MacCachren and Steve 01/iges hung some new underpinnings on their Ford Ranger and drove it to the stock mini truck (Class 7300) victory. ultimate long travel Get the benefits of our Long Travel system and 3" lih spindles, ueati11g 6" of lih for inuedible ground dearance. [Fi (j) EP@I . ■ 3 • lift spindles ■ Upper Control arms (M Pll~ \l'J"t,,t ■ Lower Control arms JT · ■ Coil springs ■ 3 way front shocks ■ Performance rear shocks ■ Rear kit 3 -wau adjustable shock absorb.er 0MJl . ,*~ -::!p"i,df'ECH:. "' '( P8R#'Ol\fflAACf!' IHOCKS .. ,;;, ..... ):t-.-.. ,.· .. toyota lono travel system Dur Toyota 2 wheel drive, 6' 'Ivan Dan' long travel system . . Built to satisfy all the serious off readers out there. Pages way 160. That was also he site of sign up and tech inspection. The drivers' meeting and the awards after the race traveled a few miles out of town to the Herbst's h andso m e RV Park and Casino. Continued on page 10 ford long travel system custom i beams Dffroad bullet proof desig□ provides maximum strength with 4130 Chromoly steel I /8th' thick plate and tubular inner structure. '• ,.,,,,>" 8' Suspension System used in a racing ' apphcation with coil over shocks. Using Fabtech custom I beams, this configuration cycles out at 19' of wheel travel. 'I FlfffHEHC extended radius arms Dur· extended radius arms are offset further inboard for increased tire clearance. Ranger models shown, which include new pivot mounts. 1990-94 ford ranger 'I .. p erfor m ance s ystem Dur extended radius arms are offset further inboard offering increased tire clearance and 4 • mare wheel travel Dual Shock System 2 shocks per !rant whee~ adds high performance dampening. 1998-on lord ranger z .s .. performance system 2.5' of Wt with a 2' increase in wheel travel 1973-87 C10 'I-lono tra vel st/stem Gives you the needed clearance for 33' tall tires. May 2002 e e !!Jiber!!! ! include rront fenders, bedsides and hoods. The rr□nt fenders and bedsides are flared with wheel travel in mind. angled ~ spare tire mount . _ Constructed using 1 I/ 4 • steel tubing and MIG welded at_the joints for long lasting strength and durability. ~ flat -spare tire mount . r ' ? ~ Over 25 ·Styles stamped' steel tabs Dur vast assortment of stamped steel tabs simplily your fabrication needs. Call for a distributor nearest y Phone 714-990-8850 -Fax 714-990-8854 wwwfabtechmor-orsports.com DR E-MAIL US AT info@fabtechrnotor.sports.com Dusty Times

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Randy Merritt and his Ford survived some carburetor problems to Mike Julson and Bob Lofton piloted their Jimco to second overall and Tom Koch and Lee Patten, driving together for the first time, brought get the best finish they've had, a nice second in the stock full-size second in the unlimited class only five minutes behind the winner. their Ford Protruck back to the finish line in second place. _cl_a_ss_,_8_1_0_0_. _____ , _____________ _ and the California state-line. there was a gap, and the cars and well. This was the first ra.ce they Before hitting Amargosa Val-trucks took off at 9 a.m. Still, the put their theory to the test. ley the racers crossed Highway Truck Trucks caught the slower Jefferies had started second, 95 and then stayed co the east quadsandsm.allerbikesfairlyearly, · behind Jason Baldwin, but by of it until north of Beauty. Up. and they had to deal with one an-Mile 30 he was the first truck there, where the highway other. on the road, a big advantage. comes close to the Cactus Flat In the Trick Truck class Da-At Check B, Mile 94, he had area of the government land, men Jefferies had his Ford in the lead by three minutes, and they crossed back over 95 and the lead at Check A, which was it was Steinberger in second. then headed south, between some 61 miles into the course Now Westhem was tied with the highway the boundaries of in Amargosa Valley. He had Bruce Greer in his Dodge for the Death Valley National one minute on Scott Stein-fourth place, and Taylor had Monument. They dropped all berger in another Ford, and he dropped a couple of minutes. the way through the Amargosa was a 1ninute up on Kyle Tay-At Mile 124, Check C, Stein-Desert, and near Johnnie ran lor in his same old Class 8 berger had taken over the lead, at: near or on the outbound Chevy,. running as a Trick ter Jefferies had come over a dse, course, through lots of rocks, Truck. Taylor was tied with smacked a rock before he could Kevin McGillivray had his Chevrolet Protruck in front most of the distance, an</ avoided problems all along the way to take the win. For this event the Herbsts had posted an additional $10,000 to the overall car/ truck winner, and again, for the fifth year in a row, a Herbst car has been the overall winner, saving the family a bundle of Page 10 cash. The course started and ended in Pahrump, and on the outboard leg it headed north through the narrow bit of no . man's· land between the vast Nevada Test Site (or Area 51) ·then picked up a series of fast Dave Westhem, also in his avoidit,andbrokeawheelandtire. pole line roads that brought Class 8 truck, which had been When he did the tire change the air them back into Pahrump for a modified somewhat over the hose fitting broke, and they had to total of 259 m-iles. It's a see-hiatus. Both Taylor and West-resort to a wrench. He was tied with nic trip, and fairly easy to chase hem had theorized that if they Tim and Ed Herbst in their Ford. and support. There were five got to start nearer to the front Taylor was fourth, two minutes be-stop checks and seven pit area, of the line (not back in the hindthem.AndWesthemwasgone. not necessarily in the same third or fourth group as usu-He didn't make it to Mile 124. places. ally happens with Class 8), At Mile 155, Check D, TheBikesandQuadsstartedat that they'd have less dust and Steinberger had a minute on 6 a.m., with about 80 riders, then stood a good cha nee to do Jefferies who held second, and· An Intimate Gem Adjacent to Bellagio, Caesars & Baily's ..,_,,._~,.._,_D'-~ @~tr Flamingo & The Strip 1-888-227-2279 barbarycoastcasino.com The Place Las Vegans Call Home"• West Flamingo & Valley Vtew 1-888-402-6278 goldcoastcasino.com May_ 2002 Ask About Our Special Headliner Show and Room Packages West Tropicana & Arville 1-800-675-3267 orleanscasino.com Ask About Our Room & Golf Packages ~~-.. _,..,_ ..... Alta & Rampart 1-877-677-7111 suncoastcasino.com Dusty Times

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Noah and Matt Pike, and their dad, Gale, dusted off their 1978 Dodge Marc Stein and Mike McComas once again teamed up, and they led Scott Steinberger is doing just great in his first year in a Trick Truck. and each drove a third of the way, to take fifth place in the stock full for a while, but mechanical trouble bumped them back to second He challeng~d hard for the lead, but finished second in his Ford, only size class (8100). place in Class 4100 in their Expedition. two minutes out. now Taylor, Baldwin and the He took the win by ju,._s_t_u_r-1.d--;-e-r--str_o_n-g,-s-ta_r_t-ed--;-'-n-ex- t.-A;--n- d--,---th,---er-e-w-as--.=====:........::======================:::::::-Herbsts were on the same two minutes, Steinberger was some fierce competition in his minute. Baldwin had drive-second, and Taylor who'd had group. At the first check the lead shaft problems and a total of four flats had broken two belonged to Mike Julson in his four flats for the day. wheels and ran the final 20 Jimco, and he had two minutes on In the next section the miles with no rear brakes, was B.]. Richardson inJohnGaughan's Herbsts lost their motor, and third. Baldwin was fourth fol-Chevy powered car, and Wayne Jefferies went back into the lowed in by Greer who'd done Lugo in his Craig Stewart built lead, as Steinberger had a flat most of his trip with no sec- Truggy, and Pat Dean in his Chen-and his rookie passenger ond gear. In fifth it was Gary owth who Were all on the same (who'd been pressed into ser-Vosburg in his Ford, who re-minute.RunningfifthwasChuck vice when the scheduled rider ported that his main problem Hovey in his Y4 Jimco. ran afoul of the local speeding had been flats, two at one time At the 94 mile mark it was laws and didn't get to the at one point. He was only six still Julson and now he had start), lost some time due to minutes behind Greer. just one minute on Hovey and unfamiliarity with the equip-An interested spectator with Richardson, who were tied. ment. At Mile 218 Jefferies was a radar gun reported that at Then came Dale Ebberts in his back in the lead, but he had Mile 34 the fastest car through Toyota Jimco and Lugo, and only two minutes on Stein-the area was Darnen Jefferies' Larry Roeseler in Troy berger and Taylor who were Ford, traveling at 96 mph. Herbst'sFordpoweredTruggy, AnthonyNapoleonhastriedtwicebefore,butthistimehegotitdone,withawinin tied. Baldwin ran fourth, an-Baldwin was clocked at 93 and all on the same minute, just the small SUV class (3100), driving his Bronco II. other five minutes back. Troy Herbst at 91. Others two minutes behind the lead When they reached Mile back. For the most part the Jefferies ran out of gas about might have been as fast or even car. 124 the lead was shared be-class was in good shape; some 10 miles from the finish, but faster,butiftheywererunning Josh Waddell, Rick Ro-tween Julson and Roeseler. hadafewflatsandsomehada when he switched fuel pumps in the dust, or slowing for mans, and both Randy and Ebberts ran third two minutes lot of dust. But there weren't the second one apparently had some other reason, the read-Rick Wilson we.re already out later, and then Keith Cunning-a lot of mechanical problems a better pickup, and there was ing was skewed. of the running, none of them ham, in a Bonner Hawk, was bothering them. Roeseler let enou h fuel left to et him in. The Unlimited buggies, 27 getting to Check A. tied with Dean another minute Continued on page 12 .----------------..;;;.;;;._.;.._~.....;...;~...:.:.:.:..;,;;.;,.,;_;;_ ___ ..:..:,:~::.::..; rh® qq..-, The Suspension Company. Dusty Times May 2002 Page 11

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and they all went on. Except Hovey, who somehow got trapped on the side of a long slippery slope. He couldn't go forward and he couldn't get himself unstuck. Those who saw him declared it would need a 4x4 to shake him loose. So there he sat for the duration. John A. and John R. Sunderland, a father and son team, brought their Explorer home in first place to take the win in the big SUV class (4100). At Mile 155 it was Herbst in the lead, followed by Lof-ton, then Castro and then Gaughan and Dean tied for fifth. Herbst's lead was three minutes there, but at Mile 218 it had grown to 10 minutes. ln the last stretch he admitted to "pushing a little" and he had a couple of flats, reducing his lead to five minutes. And that was his margin of victory. Jul-son and Lofton, who were sec-ond in class and second over-all, were only five minutes be-. Troy Herbst get into his car, Dale Ebberts and John Gaugh-and Bob Lofton took over for an replaced Richardson. Craig Julson. 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All Skyjacke~ products are guaranteed to perform and backed by a Limited Lifetime Warranty. age 12 information on our products, our dealers, .. eve calendar plus a lot more. /''""\ Or Call 1.800.4 A DEALER·at Ext. 500 an Authorized Skyjacker® Dealer.,. 24 Hours - 7 Days a Week! \ May 2002 hind him. 1 n third rt was Castro and Ebberts who re-ported no flats at all, but dust every mile of the way. Gaugh-an and Richardson also had no flats, but their suspension had gone away, and they were another 20 seconds back in fourth. In fifth it was Keith Cunningham who didn't stop to chat, saying he had "zero oil pressure" at the finish. Of the 27 starters, only eight failed to finish. Pat Dean was one of those. He had two flats at once and had only one spare. He changed one tire and tried to go on, only to get stuck. Gary Weyhrich came by and gave him a tire so he could go on, but then he broke a hub. He said this was the last race for this car anyway. And Weyhrich didn't have everything go his way. H e got distracted by the sight of Hovey hanging over the edge of the hill and slid off the road himself. He decided not to mimic Hovey, so he just drove on down and then tried to find his way out. It took a long time, and at one point the rocks were so big he and his passenger were using a ham-mer and a big screwdriver to reduce their size. He did get out, and finished, but was 15th, an hour and ten minutes in back of Herbst. The Protrucks went off that line next, with 10 starters. Greg Hansen didn't get any distance at all, but all the rest went at least through the first checkpoint. At that point it was Kevin McGillivray in the lead in his Chevy, with a minute on Tom Koch in his•Ford. Alan Hogan had his Ford in third place another two minutes back and then it was Rob Reinertson in yet another Ford, about six minutes behind him. When they reached Mile 94 it was a tie between McGillivray and Koch, and Hogan was still third, with Reinertson in fourth. But in the next section things changed a bit. While McGillivray held onto his lead, having no problems at all, Koch went into second and Hogan third, but John Becker put his Ford into fourth, while Reinertson dropped to fifth. They were still all very close. Chet Huffman's Ford was having a lot of flats, and ulti-mately he ran out of spares, and Dan hunt was a couple hours off the pace and had been looking for rod ends for his Chevy. Steve Sca-roni was also having a lot of fl<\;j:s on his Ford. For some reason McGillivray had fallen into a dust free pocket, and he was having a great day. He simply stayed out in front. At Mile 124 he had a minute on Koch's truck, and again it was Hogan in third and Becker in fourth. And at Mile 155 he'd built his lead to three minutes. Koch had got out and put Lee Patten in to finish the day, and they fell to third, with Reinertson in fourth place still. Hunt, who'd lost a brake line, had also burned up a wheel bearing and got stuck in the silt. This was his first desert race, and he was getting a lot of experi-ence. When they went through Check D McGillivray still had just three minutes and now it was Hogan in second place. Patten ran third and Reinertson was fourth. Huffman was done and so was Scaroni, both out of spares. Hunt still struggled, having a lot of flats on top of ev-erything else. • McQillivray successfully negoti-ated the spot near Check 7 that caught him and rolled him over and out of the race last year, and went on in good shape to the finish, where he declared "I redeemed my-self today!" Patten and Koch were second, Patten coming in with no left rear tire and a wheel worn down to just the center part. Hogan fin-ished third, but received a 15 minute penalty for an improper stop at a road crossing, which dropped him to fourth place. And Reinertson, who had some prob-lem with second gear that caused his truck to go into freewheeling, said he'd had to use the brakes a lot. He was happy with his newly upgraded brakes, reported only two flats, and took third. The Class 8 trucks were next to start and all but one of them sur-vived the first 81 miles. Keith Moore from Phoenix retired early, but Dusty Times

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Kyle Taylor's Chevy is still legal for Class 8000, but he ran in the Trick Miguel Alvarado had three flats and he got his Jeep stuck for a while, Danny and Jesse Ashcraft teamed up in their Class 1000 Jimco to take second place, even with no power steering for the final 80 miles or so. Truclf class so he could start further up in front. He took third place. but in the end, he took second place in Class 7100. Curt LeDuc, in a Ford and Rick dio didn't work for a while and he by now. Thomas in a Chevy were tied at was hanging right in there. In third At Check D LeDuc had a lead · Check A, while Jim Beaver, son of it was still Beaver, and Michael Ortiz of 20 1ninutes and Thomas held Dan Beaver from Parker, racing a moved up to fourth in his Ford as firm in second, with Ortiz, who Ford, ran third, only a minute be-Dallaire lost about 10 minutes. came south from Montana for this hind them. In fourth place it was LeDuc, who's just returned to race, in third place. He was driving John Dallaire in another Ford, desert racing after being busy else- in only his second desert race. about 10 minutes down. where, was having a blast, and stayed Raimonde was eight minutes be-LeDuc was driving what used to in front. At Check C he was still hind him in fourth. Beaver was up be his old pre-runner, ~hich he'd just a minute up on Thomas, then to speed again, but he had a lot of borrowed back from Jim Bosman. came Ortiz and in fourth now, Dave catching up to do. It's a ten year old truck, but still Raimonde in a Chevy. Beaver broke By Check E LeDuc had 24 min-obviously functioning well, and at, a rear spring and lost about an utes, and he still hadn't had any the second check he was in the lead, hour and ten minutes. Dallaire lost problems, not even any flats. Then but only by one minute. Thomas more like seven hours, and the~ came Thomas, Ortiz, Raimonde was hav_ing no trouble with his truck never went any further. Keith Fon- and Beaver. And that's the way they either, beyond the fact that his ra-tana and his Chevy were also out finished. LeDuc had a 21 minute· cushion on the finish line. He's ex-cited to be racing in the desert again, and when he combines that with his midwestern short course events he's going to be a busy racer. The Class 10 cars were next, and this time there were nine of them. Eli and Lobsam Yee had their Hon-da powered J i1)1co in front at the first check and B.J. Baldwin ran sec-ond in his Bunderson, three min-utes back. In a dead hear for fourth it was Jim Oizney in is new Jimco and Danny Ashcraft in another Jimco. Brian Coneen was fifth in Vic Bruckmann's SCORE Lite Jimco. The BITD does not have a class for the SCORE Lite cars, so they include them with the Class 10s. The Yee brothers, fresh off a Class 10 victory at San Felipe, held their lead, and were five minutes in front of Ashcraft at the next check. Coneen was third two 111.inutes later, followed by Baldwin. These folks were having a lot of dust. Steve Strobel had moved up to fifth as Dizney and is crew and some new friends worh;d madly to replace a lot of parts damaged when he was rear-ended while stopped behind another race car at a road cross-ing. He lost his power steering pump, power steering pulley, crank pulley, and the bracket for the power steering, and he had some exhaust damage. The repair team did som.e fine Mexicaneering, which included using part of the crushed Continued on page 15 TIie Dlfferencef Brian Coneen and Vic Bruckmann shared the driving in Bruckmann's Jimco and took the Class 1000 win by almost a half-hour. 2" Capacity; 180° Bends Steel, 4130, Stainless, Aluminum Square, Round, Bar, Pipe Perfect for the: • Race Car Builder • Small Fabrication Shop •HomeShop Call for a FREE BROCHURE (541)382-'157. www.tubeshark.com · Dusty Times Dual Cylinder Brake Pedal Assembly Short or Tall Master Cylinders Features steel pedal with large foot pad, non-skid foot surface and total seal rubber boots: Adjustable balance bar for precise front/rear pressure ratios.Standard pedal length is 10.25". (5.2 to 1 ratio) CNC-20480 Fluidyne Heat exchangers & Transmission Coolers 0UN-O830500 Heat Exchanger 0UN-O830503 Heat Exchanger 0UN-O830504 Heat Exchanger 0UN-O830612 Trans Cooler w/Fan 2-pc Aluminum Drums . Race Prep'ed CV 's May 2002 MCK-0250-1 CV Jt. w/Cage-930 MCK-0251-1 CV Jt. w/Cage-934 IRS Axles from Sway-A-Way™ Driving Suits Standard Fire Retardant Cotton Proban Driving - Suits. 300m 930 Race Axles 300m 934 Race Axl~~ A For more information give us a call or visit us onli~e @ www.mckenzies.com Page 13 [· I

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pump pulley welded with parts of an oversized Ford pulley, wh ich meant one pit person did a run to Beatty to buy some new, longer belts for the modified system. It· took about three hours and 20 minutes to get it all together again. Meanwhile, everyone else went on. At the third check it was still the Yee team, and now they had seven minutes on Coneen, who was three minutes up on Baldwin. Ashcraft dropped to fourth and Strobel was still in fifth. Also run-ning was Jason Hunter who'd lost 20 minutes before the first check · and another two hours plus in this section. He'd replaced a clutch. Dick Weyhrich and Jim Zupanovich had long since broken their Penhall, and Jeff Shiroky and Kevin Colan didn't get any distance in their GB Defender either. In the next section most of the teams changed drivers. The Yees held their lead, apparently having. no problems at all. They were nine minutes in front of Bruckmahn, who was also not having any trouble, and in fact, was having a lot of fun. Baldwin was third, en-joying the course, but finding it very dusty. And Jesse Ashcraft had taken over for Danny and ran fourth. Strobel was another half hour down in fifth, and two hours be-hind him came Scott Webster in Dizney's car, followed by Hunter. The Yees held onto the lead, and at Mile 218 they had 12 minutes on Bruckmann. He was trying hard to catch them, but was a bit handi-Kevin Davis moved his Ford up through the ranks to finish in first place in Class 7100 (7S) with over two hours to spare. capped by the fact that h e had the SCOR E Lite suspension. The Ashcraft car moved u p to th ird as Baldwin lost 45 minutes somehow, and Strobel was still fifth. At Pit #7, near Johnnie, and only about 30 miles from the finish, the Yees pulled off the course. Bruck-mann never saw them again, and he and Coneen went on to take the win. Ashcraft, who drove with no power steering for the last 80 miles or so, brought the car back in sec-ond place. Baldwin moved up to third, followed in two minutes later by Strobel. Dizney and Webster, who'd had one late flat, were fifth. Hunter came in two hours later in sixth pl~ce, and the Yees didn't get to the finish line. The Class 7200 (Class 7) trucks went off the line next, and Shawn Wanzek put his Ford into the lead at the first check, with about two minutes on Jason Jernigan in an-other Ford. Behind them it was Rick Taylor, still another Ford, and then Gary Dircks in, you guess it, a Ford, ran fourth. Taylor and Dircks had both already lost time; Taylor was down a good half hour and Dircks was an hour off the pace due to an ignition problem. Jernigan went into the lead by the next check and put seven min-utes on Wanzek. Behind thei11 Tay-lor and Dircks was a half hour be-hind him. In the next section Jernigan ran steadily, but Wanzek lost a brake line and it took about a half hour to make repairs. Now Wanzek and BEL RAY CV GREASE SWEPCO GEAR Oil #203 -#212 -#201 10% OFF CASE LOTS 11 GALLON DUMP· CANS WOOVEN.BRAKE SHOES OWEL BALL JOINTS HELLA_ HEAVY DUTY CHALLENGER RIMS H - I - D . LIGHTS 930 CY'S AT A LOW PRICE $44.95 EACH PIAA HIGH - LOW LIGHTS YOKOHAMA TIRES SUPER DIGGER Ill OR BUY 4 AT 39.95 EACH NEW 4.86 002 BUS RIN"G & PINIONS USA MADE 33 X 10.50 X 15 WHAT WE CAN DC> TC> PUT YOU IN T H E WINNERS Cl~LE .,.. MAGNAFLUX SERVICE * TRANSMISSION SERVICE * SH<:;,CK SERVICE (REVALVE/REBUILD) * DRUM STUDDING ftEUADA OFFRDAD WOULD LIKE TD conaRATULATE DAnn, AnDERSOn ···-···--·····-········ 2001 SCORE CLASS CHAMPIOn MACCACHREII/FRALEY MOIG■aPGRT~ ....... 2891 SC8IIE evERALL & CLASS CHAMPIGII •.••••• 2001 SIIORE OVERALL & CLASS CHAfflPIOII mqCCACHREII fflOTORSPORTS ••....•.• 2001 BITD CLASS CHAfflPIOII Dusty Times 2001 CORR PRO 4 CHAMPIDR 1~888-155-5900 3054 S, VALLEY VIEW #3 * LAS VEGAS, NV * 89102 HOURS: MO,u:Jll 9A/l,UIPM * SAT 9AM-5PM (702)871-5221 FAX .May2002 Kevin Graves and Joe Hamner split the driving in Hamner's Joe-Co chassis, enjoyed a clean run and took the win in the 1600 class. Taylor were on the same minute, 100 miles or so to catch up all he'd and Dircks ran about 40 minutes lost in the beginning. Taylor disap-further back. peared before the fifth check, and Jernigan was having no problems never got to the finish. except for a couple of flats, and he The stock fu ll sized trucks stayed on the gas, and took the win. started next, with nine entries: two Wanzek pushed hard and made up Hummers, one Dodge and six eight minutes of his lost time, but Fords. But they were down to six couldn't catch the lead car. He fin-before Check A, because Randy ished second, followed in by Dircks, Wilson or Oregon, Jim Bosman who ran the best times in the last and Darren Oliver, and Eric and two sections, but needed another Continued on page 16 This is the 1,ystem run by most TRI-MIL BOBCAT qIROME off road race winners GO FOR 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 15

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John Gaughan and B. J. Richardson paired up in their Chevy powered Dale Ebberts and Ernie Castro Jr. drove their Toyota powered Jimco Bunderson, lost their suspension, but finished the day fourth in the Jason Jernigan drove his Ford all the way, had only two flats and to third place in the unlimited class, fighting dust all the way. _un_l_im_,_"ted_c_la_ss_._________________ took the win in the modified little truck division (7200) by an hbur. Terry Henn (in one of the Hum-of the many Parker, Arizona en-haven't raced as a team for years. started, had a flat only a few miles -minute on Hall. Hayley and Esq-mers) all br-oke for good before tries, was another minute back and_ Each was scheduled to run a third, into the day. uerra were tied, and 13 minutes then. Chad Hall had his Hummer Robert Hayley ran another six min- giving 71 year old Gale, one of off Hall had to stop to pump up behind them, followed by the Pikes in the lead, followed by Manny Es-utes back in fourth. Down a bit was road racing's pioneers, the final sec-his shocks a couple of times, and and then Greg Foutz, more nor-querra in Tracy Rubio's Ford, only the Dodge entry, belonging to tion. The 1978 Dodge used to be-Merritt moved into the lead at the mally fqund at the front of the line, a minute back. Randy Merritt, one Matt, Noah and Gale Pike, who long to Rod Hall. Noah, who second check. But he had only a in his Ford. Foutz had broken all "The MD5 CONTINUES ITS WINNING WAYS IN 2002" Congratulations to the winners in Class 12 • 1st Place - San Felipe 250 1st Place - Baja 1000 Arturo Honold Jerry Penhall/LJ Kennedy 1st Place - Laughlin 1st Place - Parker Vic Bruckman/ Bruce Coneen * Utilizes same "Extreme Duty" gearsets as MD~-2D 100 % shot peened. Mike Cohen/ * 100 ~ CAD designed. All new billet sldft heads and rails. Tom Schilling Ball bearing shift housing. • * Available now from all authorized "Mendeola Dealers." 290 Tro_usdale Dr. #J, Chula Vista, CA 91910 619-691-1000 619-691-1324fax www .mendeolaracing.com Page 16 May 2002 kinds of things, losing over four hours in the process. He'd already replaced a steering box, driveline and transmission. At Check C, which was close to the halfway point, Hall had four -minutes on Merritt while Hayley and Esquerra ral) about 17 min-utes back, still in a dead heat. The Pikes were another half hour down and then Foutz came along, at speed finally, but out of the hunt. At the fourth check Merritt took over the lead as Hall's crew made fast work of replacing an Aarm belt assembly. Merritt enjoyed a full minute's advantage. Esquerra got about nine minutes on Hayley also, and came up to third place. Hayley had a brake line problem. At Check E Hall was back in front, and was four minutes to the good. Merritt had over a half hour on Esquerra, and then ca1:ne Hay-ley and the Pikes. Hall then went on trouble free to take the win, while Merritt had to stop briefly at the last pit for some repair. He fin-ished second about 33 minutes down. Hayley came up to finish third, while Esquerra finished with a tow strap still tied to his front end, apparently having had some serious problem right at the end of things. He didn't wan_t to hang around and talk about it. In fifth place it was the Pikes, who said they had "just cruised". They're think-ing of running the June Nevada 1000, and were looking at this race as a sort·of practice run. Foutz sttaggled in two hours later, getting an unusual sixth place. There were only two 1600 bug-gies in this event, and they were next off the line. Right off the bat they had to work their way through all those full sized trucks, a major handicap for the buggies, who should probably have been started in front of them. Kevin Graves and Joe Hammer led all the way in their Joe-Co, while Cortney, Calvin and Wesley Whipple, in a Fraley, ran almost identical times except for the first stretch, where they lost "a half hour-or so" by setting the car up on its side. They got the roof all dented, but apparently did no damage to the running gear. Ham-mer and his co-driver, Kevin Graves, had no trouble and no flat tires.and won by 34 minutes. The Whipples had two flats in addition to their upset. The 7100 trucks (7S) started next, with eight entries. Two of them, Jim Wimmer in the lone Toyota and John Holmes in a Ford, couldn't get to the first checkpoint. Malcolm Vinje, who was celebrat-ing his 59th birthday, put his Ford Continued on page 18 Dusty Times

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Chad Hall had to pump up his shocks a couple of times, but otherwise had few troubles with his Hummer and took the win in the stock full-size truck division. into the lead, and had four min-dropped out, leaving only four utes on Tim Braden and Mitch trucks running. Vinje had nine min-Griffin, in another Ford. Kevin utes now, and Braden and Davis Davis, having some fuel regulator were tied in second place, while Al-problems, had his Ford in third varado brought up the rear after place a minute later, and Miguel being stuck for about an hour. Alvarado ran fourth in the only At the third check, Mile 124, it Jeep, but he'd already lost about was still Vinje, then Davis had 20 minutes. moved up to second, Braden and Before the second check both Griffin were third and Alvarado Dan Street and Mike Warren ran fourth. 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(The race truck was seriously damaged, but none of Malcolm's family or ere~ were injured.) At Check D the lead belonged to Davis, who was having no prob-lems at all. He now had 26 minutes on Braden and Griffin, who were losing belts. All told they tossed three power steering belts, two al-ternator belts and a timing belt. This was the first time out for their truck, and they said, "It's going to be a nice truck." Alvarado held steady in third. They r~n in the same order through Check E, but in the final section as Davis took the victory, Alvarado moved up to second place while Griffin and Braden dealt with that final belt. They took third place. The big SUVs, Class 4100, went off the line next. There was a total of six, including one Hummer and five Fords, and they almost all made it back to the finish line. Marc Stein had the lead early in his Expedi-tion, with three minutes on Scott Douglas, in a Bronco. In third it was John R. and John A. Sunderland, in another Bronco. Douglas, who's been racing in the midwest for years, hadn't competed Presents The in a desert event for a long time. Matt Scaroni had his Excursion stuck in the silt, and Rod Hall broke a front shock on his Hummer. Stein stayed in front through the second check, still followed by Dou-glas and the Sunderlands. And he was still there through the third check, although now the Sunderlands moved up to second as Douglas lost abut 10 minutes. Hall was moving steadily again, but had about an hour and a half defi-cit to make up. At the fourth check, Mile 155, while Stein still led, the Sunderlands were.within 12 minutes and Hall was third, although an hour and 20 minutes down. Douglas lost over an hour when he ran out of gas. Tommy Watson was now in the Scaroni ·Excursion, and it was his turn to get stuck in the silt for a while. The Sunderlands moved into the lead by the fifth check, as Stein and his co-driver, Mike McComas, lost their front differential, in ad-dition to having five flat tires. Hall was still third, and Douglas was fourth, with the Excursion fifth and in a very distant sixth place it was Dale Chestnut of Wisconsin, in an elderly Bronco. He made a game try of it but ran out of time. The Sunderlands, who had no flat tires, had to fix their power steering a couple of times and broke their suspension four miles from the finish, bur took the win with a half hour to spare. McComas and "A New Off-Road Adventure in Mexico" DATE CHANGE~NEW DATE IS September 20, 21, 22, 2002 The Baja Mex "300" race date has changed. This date change was out of our control and we are VERY SORRY for any inconvenience this may cause you. If any hotel reservations were booked at the Estero Beach Resort, the management has moved your reservation for you, you do not need to call them. It's Coming in September 1002!! ! 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Rick Thomas did all the driving in his Ford, and his only problem Shawn Wanzek drove the full distance in his Class 7200 Ford, had was a non-functioning radio for a while. He finished second in some major brake line trouble and finished second, with a severe This race marked the debut of the new Toyota powered Jimco of Mike and Robbie Groff and Marty Fiolka. An early rollover and broken arm set them back a long way. Class 8000. oil leak. Stein were second, having lost the. front end twice. Hall and co-driver Roy Davidson came in third, only four minutes behind them, and then Scaroni and Watson were fourth, over an hour later. Dou-glas finally made it in to take fifth, barely beating his cut-off time. -------c------~-~~~-~-~~--n ow sports all the latest running to within two miles of the finish, "little spring problem". But then through Check C and then she things went sour. Between Checks lost major parts of her trans-D ad E Falkosky lost a balljoint, • mission and packed it in for and the only way for him to get the day. And the Sportsman another one was to walk out, get .Unlimited Chenowth of the part and then walk back in, car-Arthur· Basile and Adam rying the 40 pound balljoint. He Delmonte didn't make it to the started hoofing. Turner, mean-first check, nor did the Class while, got just past the check and 8 Sportsman Chevy of Ed and blew a power steering pump and Michael Geoffrey and Steve belt. He drove that way to Mile 24 7 Robledo get there. There was ooly one vehicle in the short wheelbase 4x4 division and that was Hiro Matsushita in his Mitsubishi. He. made good time through the first two checkpoints and then tore up some major part of the suspension on a big rock, and didn't get to finish. In Class 7300, or stock mini trucks, it was Aaron Dixon in the lead at the first checkpoint in this all Ford class. He was followed 11 minutes late·r by Steve Olliges, and then it was Lance Magin and Mac-rae Glass. Glass had lost over a half_ hour when a fuel pump quit and he had to wait for another race ve-hicle to bring him a replacement. By the second checkpoint Olliges had gone into the lead. His Ranger gear, and can be called an "FX4 popped a front spring, blew out a Ranger" these days. He had 11 min- tire and lost an oil line, "all in one utes on Dixon, who was nine min- shot." The repairs cost him dearly. utes up on Magin, and Glass still Glass moved up to finish second; had that half hour to contend and Dixon limped in, leaning with. heavily to the left, in third" place. At Check C Olliges had 16 min- Magin was fourth about a half utes on Dixon, and he was a half hour later, giving this class a 100% hour in front of Glass who'd finish record. moved up a bit as Magin began to The small SUYs took the green have problems. He had three flats, flag next, with a field of four. It lost "a couple of fuel pumps" and was down to three early in the mom-had brake trouble during his long ing, because the Ford of Greg day. He was now fourth, about an Pachman, Frank Papp and Steve hour down to Glass. Szabo didn't even get to the first MacCachren took over his truck check_. But Mike Falkosky had the after about 100 miles and he con- lead in his Explorer, followed by tinued to have no problems, and Anthony Napoleon in a Bronco II, at Check D he had about 20 min- just two minutes back after an early utes on Dixon, whose day was go-flat, and then Dave Turner, Ford, ing smoothly also. Glass was then about 20 minutes behind him. third and Magin ·fourth. And at They ran very evenly matched Check E it went the same way. times, but Falkosky, who'd had no MacCachren brought the truck problems so far, stayed in front. At home for the win, starting another Check O he had seven minutes on potential championship season for Napoleon, who had about two himself and Olliges. 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Turner got himself back and try again." repaired in time for second place, Next on the agenda for the and Falkosky finished third, just BlTD is their June Nevada 1000, a about 25 i'ninutes short of his cut-three day event that will make a big off time. loop out, around and back to the The Class 1100 buggy (10 vicinity of Las Vegas. The Dusty Light) of Lynn Venier got only Times will be there. · i!BEi5 Gundry Ave. Signal Hill. CA 90806 B00.959. 7757 5Eii!!!.4i!7.i!!!375 FAX: 526.426.5294 ·Bolts. Nuts and Hardware 5parco Seats. 5teering Wheels. 5uits and !iiafety Equipment Craw Belts and Harnesses Bell Helmets Aurora. NHBB and FK Rod Ends Fuel 5afe and Triangle Fuel Cells !iietrah. Lang and F/uidyne Oil Coolers Weldon Fuel and Di/ Pumps Fresh Air Driver Ventilation Systems lntercomp 5cales and Alignment Equipment Earl's. Aeroquip Ii. Speedflaw 5tain/ess Braided Hose Ii. Fittings see our complete online catalo at www.baker recisian.ca,n Dusty Times May 2002 Page 19

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51st UDDEHOLM SWEDISH RALLY Peugeot Wins Third consecutive Swedish Rally-By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Marcus Gronholm and Timo Rautiainen fly through the snow in their Peugeot 206 to a beautiful first overall at the 51st Swedish rally. Peugeot won the 2002 Swedish Rally for the third successive time, and were within eight second;, of a 1-2-3 victory as well! A broken wheel for Colin McRae mid-way through the event removed Page 20 the last of the realistic hopes of defeat for Peugeot, who have moved ahead of Ford and Su-baru in the World Champion-ship hunt. It was left to McRae's Ford teammate Car-los Sainz, who scored his sixth podium finish in seven Swed-ish rallies, to beat off a last day charge by World Champion Richard Burns. Both official Subarv's and two of the three works Hyundai's retired on an event in which there was a high May 2002 Kristian Sohlberg and Jukka Aho took the Production honors in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo and they were 24"' overall. percentage of finishers, and it was heartbreak for Skoda when Kenneth Eriksson's engine failed on the final stage of the rally, and he was fifth overall! Kristian Sohl berg· was the new Production Car World Rally Championship winner in a Mitsubishi and victory in the Group N category went to Daniel Carlsson, on the final stage. This was the second round of 14 for the 2002 FIA World Rally Championship and the first of eight for the Produc-tion Car Championship. The new Production Car World Rally championship supersedes the old Productioh Cup. The series is still for drivers com-peting in Group N cars but new for 2002 is the require-ment that drivers had to regis-ter with the FIA. The series will run on the eight events in the 1nain series, not counting for the Super 1600 Junior Cham-. pionship and the drivers had to nominate which six of the eight events they would be eli-gible. Of the 26 drivers regis-tered for the series, 15 entered this specialist event, all but one in Mitsubishis. Outside of the PWRC, there were a fur-ther 23 crews competing in the Swedish Rally h,.Group N se-ries. There· were 86 entries, less than the maximum of 90 al-lowed so there was no need to initiate the FIA's entry selec-tion process. There 19 works entries, three works approved cars and four second priority cars. This highly specialized event, run on frozen roads, had never been won by a non-Scan-dinavian driver, the last remain-Dusty Times

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Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya comer hard ifJ their Ford Focus on their 1st Group N and 2(Jh overall were Daniel Carlsson and Mattias Rushing across the snow, Janne Tuohino and Petri Vihavainen took their Ford Focus to 'l'h overall. . way to a very nice third place in Sweden. Andersson shown here at the pre rally festivities. ing examp e o a wor c "lam-pionship rally which has never been won by an invader. There was no Superspecial stage this year, this ended a long stand-ing Swedish tradition which included stages on running paths, lakes, rivers, a ski jump area and a specially frozen course at Karlstad. Mar o Martin s id his Ford time to repair it before the of-into a snow bank, which cov-ficial start. One<:> again, Gron-ered something immovable. holm was the fastest in shake·-The suspension was wrecked down, a full second faster than and so was the chassis. The car Freddy Loix. 124kms. It was raining on the had been seeded first on the pre-dawn drive from Karlstad road. Not realizing that snow to Hagfors, but by the time was about to fall, Makinen had the cars reached the higher el-fitted ice tires rather than snow evations it had turned to snow, tires and when he got to ser-was withdrawn, as there was no Leg 1 -Five stages, gravel, bad news for the drivers who Continued on page 22 The rally was run one week earlier this year to avoid a me-dia clash with the Winter Olympic Games and this led to worries about the weather. Although the ground was hard, it was only the week before the rally that the snow really started falling. There was one completely new stage (#10) and all the other stages were slightly different regarding lengths. Following the fiasco at Monte Carlo, Citroen with-drew their appeal, which meant the official winner was Tommi Makinen on his debut appear-ance with Subaru, but Citroen had claimed their brie.f mo-ment of success. Subaru was in good spirits, they had last won that event in 1997 and they wete Makes Champion that year. There were mixed pre-rally fortunes for Ford. Colin McRae was frustrated because there was no snow at his pre-Swedish test. The next day the snow arrived and Markka M ar-tin had a lot of unexpected opportunities to drive the -car. T hen, as Sainz was just about-to end his testing period he destroyed the car in a collision with an Elk. Peugeot's official ~ team swapped Fanizzi for Ro-vanpera. Skoda had Stig Blomqvist and Hyundai had Juha Kankkunen ready for a shot at the win and Freddy Loix was cleared medically to drive his Hyundai. There was a high concentra-tion of Group N cars entered, the first world event on which they were admitted this year, and many of them were priva-teer entries. On no other event in the championship is the weather so important. Ten days before the event there was no snow on the ground although the ground was frozen hard. The official forecast for one week before the event was for snow and cold conditions. This duly arrived and from then on it was a race against time for the organizers to have the stages ready for the official start of the reconnaissance on the 28th of January. On to ·shakedown runs there were some unfortunate incidents. Gardemeister went into a snow bank and every-thing stopped for a while 'til they got his car towed back. Dusty Times Extreme Performance For Serious Off-Road~rs ~ 00 - - • · aturilfg •d ineeting w l,remote ""-:. These versati completely reb e hot on preru gies and recr oactvehicle _,>.<: .• ,.:;i.c-._7;,:· ' -Traditional Bilstein Jech~ofdgy with applications for lifted ·trucks, Jeeps~ -prerunners and rockcrawlers~ Patented Digressive Valving_ System delivers full damping control and a smooth rlde on any surface at all speeds. May 2002 -\. t, ,Fbr,·tai Rea Page 21

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., Alister McRae and David Senior drove hard in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo, resulting in a nice S'h place finish. Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena drove their Citroen Xsara to a sort of disappointing t]'h place in Sweden. Kenneth Eriksson throws a huge wake of snow, unfortunately he retired his Skoda with engine problems. vice after two stages he was run-ning 22nd, one place i:n front of Loeb, who had started sec-ond. Granholm led, running fifth on the road. As the cars passed by they were cleaning off the snow, a definite advantage for those following. Solberg had trouble with a switch, which cut off the hydraulics on his Suba-ru on Stage 1. Garde-meister found his Skoda diffi-cult to handle in the clearing snow and on -d1e second stage Radstrom spun backwards into a ditch. Janne Tuchino's Fo-cus was laying fourth, the first of the non-factory cars. On Stage 3, the conditions were still heavily against the front running ·cars. Makinen was 19th after Stage 3 and Rovan-pera took over the lead from Granholm. Then Makinen went off the road and suffered tenninal overheating, snow packed into the cooling ducts. Duval spun, lost half a minute, Radstrom made best time for Stage 4 but like all the others, suffered from bad light and low visibility on Stage 5 . Burns hit a snow bank and after extricating himself he had to remove all the snow fro1n the air inlets, costing him a minute or so and Loeb lost about three minutes in a si1ni-lar situation and Radstrom lost about seven 1ninutes shov-eling his car out of a bank. Solberg slowed with a bad vi-bration, Gardemeister's Skoda was losing power and Tuchino fell back when his tires started overheating. Blomqvist slid-off the road and lost a bit of time and up front, the running was close, from third to 12th place was just 8.5 seconds sepa-ration. Loix was moving fast, even with his broken foot, Granholm had the wrong tires and Rovanpera also had ice tires 1nounted, a correct choice for the later runners. Gran-holm got a 4.1 second advan-tage over his teammate on the final stage of the day and this put him .9 seconds ahead at the end 0f the leg. Colin McRae had snow tires, made third fastest time on Stage 4 and fastest on Stage 5. Rich-ard Burns spun and stalled three times getting going again. Both Delecour and Schwarz lost time off the road and Lol}( was up to fifth. The visibility was getting worse, Loeb was struggling with bad handling (29th place), Schwarz was 35th and Delecour was 67th out of 69 cars still running. Only five cars had retired so far. In Group N, the local driv-ers, who were seeded near the back of the field, were consid-erably faster than the better seeded championship drivers. Fastest championship driver on Stage 1 was Arai in his old model Impreza 555, quite good for his first rally on stud-ded tires and for the only non-Mitsubishi in the category. On the second stage Kristian Schlberg got ahead in his· Mit-subishi. Markko Ipatti was go-ing well, as was Martin Rowe, on his first winter event. Alex Fiorio was third and Gustavo Trelles was fifth on his first winter rally in three weeks: On the long Stage 3, Schlberg extended his lead, Trelles fell back after going off the road and lpatti was having throttle response problems, Joakim Roman went off the road for three minutes and de Domin.ids was struggling with a broken rear suspension. Leg 2 -Six stages, gravel, 129kms. At the end of Leg 1, the officials faced the chore of deciding the starting order for the second day, taking account of the new reverse seeding or-der system. They had to select 15 drivers, there were 15 driv-ers eligible for manufacturers points still in the event bu_t the officials decided not to con-sider Schwarz or Delecour and included Duval and Lindholm into the mix. Presumably the Citroens were not considered, as the_y were not eligible for Makes points. Citroen had to change the turbo . on Radstrom's car, which led to time penalties and dropped . him down in the running or-der among the Group N cars. Loeb's car underwent a com-plete overhaul at service and ran a lot better. The first stage was a repeat of the 40km stage from the day before but the conditions were different. The day was wanner, the snow melted but the gravel was still 51st Uddelholm SWedish Rafty 1/3.02.2002 Karlstad (S) WC round 2, Production round 1 1 (2) Marcus GRONHOLM/T"imo Rautlainen FIN Peugeot 206 2 (3) Harri ROVANPEIWRistO Pletilainen FIN Peugeot 206 3 ( 4) Carlos SAINZ/Luis Moya E Ford Focus RS 4 (1) . Richard BURNS/Robert Reid GB Peugeot 206 5 (8) Alister McRAE/David Senior GB Mitsubishi lancer Evolufun 6 (5) Colin McRAE/Nicky Grist GB Ford Focus RS 7 (33) Janne Tuohino/Petrl Vlhavalnen FIN Ford Focus RS 8 (19) Juha KANl<KUNEN/Juha Repo FIN Hyundai Ac~nt 9 (31) Seba!tian Undholmffimo Hantunen FIN Peugeot 206 10 (23) Francois Duval/Jean-Marc Fortin B Ford Focus RS Page 22 WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC frozen beneath. Colin McRae, running 13th made best time, surprisingly, as he had snow tires mounted. Granholm inched a bit further ahead of Rovanpera and Paasonen dropped from fourth to Sl}(th when he stalled the engine. Kankkunen lost time when hydraulic pressure failed, but the 1nain shock was the retire-ment of Solberg with a me-chanical engine failure, erid of the Subaru challenge. Both Paasonen and McRae da1naged wheels on stones hidden in the deepening ruts, costing about three 1ninutes. Paasonen struggled to reach the stage end while McRae was forced to stop and change the wheel. Eriksson flew on Stage 8 and scored second fastest ti1ne in his Skoda. Radsttom overcame the problem of runni1~g with the slower cars by checking into a control 17 minutes early. Colin McRae's broken wheel took away any sense of opposition to the two leading Peugeots and as Granholm continued with unabated ·speed at the head of the rally and Rovanpera eased off to de-fend his second place position,. it seemed the Team orders had already been given. Condi-tions were unpleasant as night approached, Stage 11 being particularly bad with heavy lay-ers of fog. Gardemeister crashed into retirement six kms after the start of the final stage. Sahlberg pulled ahead in the Production category until he hit a bank and slowed hi.m down, but he still finished 14.8 in front of Arai. Fiorio had passed Rowe and Ipatti to finish the day in third place. Trelles changed the front cliff and was handling better. Sahlberg once again made fast-est time of the championship contenders and Ipatti fell be-hind Trelles due to tire heat. Ipatti changed his tires ·and started going better: Arai was having shock trouble and couldn'y challenge Sahlberg. Rowe was having gearbox troubles. Trelles went off the road and retired. lpatti had fit-ted Michelin tires and was fly-ing, he made best tim.es in the WC points 945HVB75 (F) 3h.07m.28.6s. • WR WO WP 10 10 943NVB75 (F) 3h.08m.531s. 6 6 Y128XEV (GB) 3h.09m.54.4s. 4 950NVB75 (F) 3h.10m.02.5s. KP51RWN(GB) 3h.11m.~.3s. 3 Y129XEV (GB) 3h.11m.43.6s. 2 V9FMC{GB) 3h.11m.52.0s. X11HMC (G8) 3h.12m.05.5s. 84966 (FIN) 3h.12m.25 2s. -X8FMC (GB) 3h.14m.01.9s. May 2002 4 3 2 1 champions ip c ass on t e ast three stages of the day and pro-gressed fron1 fifth to third. In the overall Group N battle Walfridsson led from tl~ start and the local drivers were well ahead of the cham-pionship cars in overall classi-fication. He then had elec-tronic troubles and stopped for a while on Stage 8. Backlund had a high speed spin and by mid afternoon Kangas was ahe;id but Daniel Carlsson was pushing hard, only 4.1 seconds behind a-r day's end. Leg 3 • Four stages, gravei, -105kms. There were two crises the organizers had to deal with on the final day. First, the fuel problem, there had been so few retirements.there was a possi-bility that the official FIA fuel suppliers might not have enough fuel to last the event. Of the 7.5 cars that had started, only 14 had retired. Secondly, the weather continued to get ·warmer and there were now serious worries about the con-ditions of the stages. On Stage 13 the cars had worn the track through into the gravel and had started to break up the ice covering and there was· serious doubt that an ambulance would be able to reach the scene of any accident which might occur due to the muddy conditions. So Stage 13 was canceled and the fuel people breathed a bit easier. There was again difficulty understanding the running order, the non-of-ficial driver Sebastian Lindholm was among the "Privileged 15" while Schwarz and Delecour _were not. And Citroen, not entitled to n~anu-facturers points saw Loeb sent away first car while Radstrorn was outside the 15. Cal)celed stages are bad news· for drivers wanting to catch up after earlier misfortunes, like Colin McRae who felt there was a chance he could work his way into some manufacturers points and for Richard Burns who was aiming to give Peu-geot a 1-2-3 finish. So the day started on Stage 12 and the rest of the day's route was un-c :iange . Burns pu e a ea of Loix into fourth place, so only Sainz prevented the Peu-. geot hat trick. Schwarz had hydraulic pressure problems and on the following road sec-don he withdrew. No sooner had the 14th stage got under-way than Loix was out with sus-pension failure. Bad news for Hyun~ai but it meant that Colin McRae, after passing Kankkune·n in the third Hyun-dai was in the points for Ford. With only the final long stage to go, Sainz was still 12.5 sec-onds ahead of Burns. Kenneth Eriksson retired with radiator damage. The loss of Skoda meant that Hyundai, through the efforts of Kankkunen, came back into the points. It was a fight for fifth place, won .by Tuch.ino, in front of both the McRae brothers. Then, Tuchino volunteered to leave service one 1ninute late in his Ford Focus (IO second pen-alty), dropping him from fifth to seventh, th.us giving an ad-ditional championship point to Alister McRae and a point also to Colin. Beating the works team drivers at their own game is never a bad move for an aspiring rally driver. In the overall Group N category, Carlsson inched closer to the leader with each ~tage, 4.9 seconds after Stage 12, 1.8 after 14, and just one second q_ehind with_ one stage to go. Svedlund, lying fifth in Group N ·went off the road and on the final stage Walfridsson retired with en-gine failure. For Carlsson, who in 2001 finished seventh, the highest placed privately owned car, this was a drea1n win.Just one week before the rally he decided not to run in his Evo VII because it was not ready. At the last mo1nent, some friends offered him their car and he took if to the.win with no damage to the vehicle. In the Production champi-onship, Schlberg maintained his lead of 45 seconds over Arai. Ipatti was awarded a one 1ninute penalty which was later reversed. Granholm leads the Drivers points with 12, Makinen 10, Sainz 8, Loeb and Rovanpera 6 and McRae 4. In the Manufacturers points, Peugeot 20, Ford 16, Suba-ru 12andMitsubishi3 ... -ICU 1----------: FREE! 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Mark Lovell and Steve Turvey recover from a slide on their way to Mike Purzycki and 16 year old daughter Karen had a great family Tad Ohtake and Bob Martin spray lots of slush as they head to the second place in Open, second overall. outing, sometimes we forget it's supposed to be fun! Group 5 victory in their Ford Escort. Cornering hard, Jouni Pohjolainen and John· Matikainen took thf Mark Higgins and Michael Gibson threw a rear tire but they still came The Group N win went to Mark Utecht and Jeff Secor, shown here turning hard right in their Subaru WRX. Production GT win with ease in their Eagle Talon. on strong, third in Open in the Hyundai Tiburon. all new 2003 model Tiburon and 2000 series Group 5 cham-Higgins has 14, Seamus Burke coupes at the Cherokee Trail Inter-pion debuted his new FIA Group comes in with 12 points and the national Rally, Round 2 of the se- N Subaru WRX, finishing the firs Kemp and Hendrickson duo has 10 ries. day ninth overall, second place in points. The mixture of icy and muddy Group N, less than 30 seconds out rpads made tire choice a most im-of first. portant decision and the crew In Group 2, Eric Burmeister is chiefs and drivers were delving trailing Matthew Johnson by just deep into' their bags of tricks in over a minute, Johnson is leading hopes of coming up with the right the class. selection for these very tricky At the end of the second day roads. Cars were leaving the start Frank and Dan Sprong le took line with uhra thin ice tires, tra-the overall' win after running a ditional gravel rally tires and ev- well driven rally in their Hyundai erything in between. At the end Elantra. Mark Lovell took second of the first day it was clear that place honors, just a minute and many of the crew chiefs were right a half out of the win in the Suba-on the money, the top 30 cars ru WRX. Mark Higgins, In a were separated by less than 10 Hyundai Tiburon was third, just minutes, the top five by less than a minute and seven out of the sil-two and a half. Retirements were ver medal. quite low, only three were re-As noted earlier, this was a re-ported in the 67 car field. tirement party for the Hyundai Lots of cars and drivers were off cars, they are all being repla~ed with to a rocky start. Rhys Millen slid all new Tiburon coupes for Round off the road in his Lancer Evo and 2 and the competition is anxiously stuck himself in the mud. His team- (ugh!) awaiting their arrival. mate, Laughlin O'Sullivan tried to There wasn't a lot of snow this free him but to no avail. O'Sulli-year but it did make life a bit more van driving what may be the only enjoyable and there were many two wheel drive rally Lancer in the more· spectators out on the course universe slid into an ice bank on than in previous years. SS2, cutting two tires. Running out Seamus Burke, Mitsubishi of time, hewasonlyabletochange Lancer Evo 6 and Jon Kemp, one tire and had to run SS3 on a Audi 4000 Quattro kept every-flat, dropping him ut of the top 30 body ,honest, they both drove on the first day. hard and well and the winners Ramana· Lagermann had a run knew they were there all the time. in with a good sized tree and he did Kemp proved that old hardware a good bit of damage to the rear is still highly competitive in the suspension of his Subaru WRX. right hands and can still run in Peter Lahm came along next and or near the front of the pack. he finished the tree off and did quite Also, his vehicle was one of the a bit of damage to the front of his, few in the top 10 that finished Mitsubishi Lancer. 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Mike Povey runs with lots of spare tires on his Ford and he ran Eric Steiger garnered a third and a second in Class 9 and that With only his number legible, Lenny McLean took a second and a third in the heats for an overall second in the Semi-Pro class. thlbugh the mud to take second place In the Class 1-8 combo. transcended into second-overall in the class. pace. large bling while Havos took the very competitive a1~d highly enter-The racing began mid-morning second spot and some homework raining Class 10 races. The mud in with the Sportsman -taking the in order to beat Calosso in April. the first moto put a handicap on green flag two by two at the line. Fuhs held on to take third in the engine size and put the capabilities Eight strong started as Kevin first race of the season. in the hands of the drivers more Kleinsmith took the lead halfway The highlight of the day was the than ever. The first four cars came through and lead the pack to the across the checkered on a: string early in the race and went from first with Jeff Elrod, Sam Berri, Patrick · to worst, but gained some momen-Timmons and Kevin Lewis all within tum and finished a nice fifth even a turn of each other. with the wrong rear tires for the David Kordonowy, son of Den-mud. In sixth was Terri Tavis in her nis Kordonowy, had some miscues Continued on page 30 finish line in Moto l. He repeated in the afternoon race and with a pair of wins took home the blue ribbon. He thanked his family and the Tavis Racing Group for all their help. Extre111e Suspension Specialists A couple of good finishes helped Lenney McLean to a second pla_ce finish and Jason Sacks slipped up a little in the morning, but a strong second race helped him to take the third position. The rest of the field, including BJ and Triston Butcher had some transmission mount problems, Glen Murfin broke in the first race, Lionel Borba, Hooter Meyer, and Ryan Sargent, who bounced aroun.d all day, all said they'd be back to wrestle away the top spot in the April race. After the Sportsman had all their fun, the Class 1 vehicle of Sam Berri went around the track tun-ing up for his Class 10 race taking both heats for the Class 1 win. He was combined with the Class 8 ve-hicle of Mike Povey who motored around to take the Class 8 win try-ing to stay our of the way of the Class 9 vehicles.that started behind them. Steve Souza, the reigning Class 9 champion started strong once again, winning the first round look-ing good in doing so. Forest Creasy, out for his sixth Class 9 champion-ships got spun around once and followed in closely with second in hand. Frank Pelko, starting for Eric Steiger in the first race, struggled "through the mud, but finished strong in third. In the secor'id moto Creasy went for the hole shot and led from start to finish taking the win for the day with the win in the tie breaker sec-ond moto. He thanked his grand-father for all his help and VEEDUB MOTORWERKES for their sponsorship building his en-gine and transmission. Souza was on Creasy taillights, but got clipp~d passing another car and the trans-mission went away on him prob-ably a result of the impact. That left Steiger to gain rhe second spot and finish second on the day, with Souza in third. Class 7, the mini trucks, went off the line next, yielding a competitive field of six brightly colored trucks. Midway through the day Fred Cal-osso looked unbeatable, taking the first round while Patty Hayos in a Toyota took second. Following Hayos were James Fuhs in the red, white and blue, then Chris Fuhs, Steve Millward with belt problems, and Matt Taylor who had to put in on the trailer. Deja vu as Calosso bounced the other Class 7's taking home the Dusty Times \ G) •.!.:':';"'•", \ .. ,..-----7" Get some tr el out of your ·97.02 F1 Exp itionl CST Performan . Suspension is now in production with tti first long travel coilover syste for the Ford A-Arm su§ot n ion. This suspension comes with weld-o ho~ hoops, upper and lo~er arms, and Sway-A-Way~oilover shocks utilizing Eibach rin9'! Call for more information or check out our new website! 1.') ~ 2/11_.:...., I ..., t Kartek has the answer for you Toyota 2WD & 4WD owners. Total Chaos. hands down offers best quality suspension systems for Toyota & Nissan trucks Kartek has a complete suspension package for you! Checb out all our trucb products on our NEW websit_e! WWW.KARTEK.COM or call 909.737.7223 Kartek Off-Road - 2871 Ragle Way - Corona, CA 92879 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK! May 2002 Page 29

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WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS Short ·Course Action At Gila Bend, Arizona By Mike Del Col Photos: Trackside Photo .;. Tom Wood made it look easy as he took first place in both motos, thus taking the coveted Pro 1-2 .win at Gila Bend. The 2002 Whiplash Gila Bend Gila Bend course, and this year was gravel pit where the race tradition-race was very different from years no exception. The 30 mile course is ally starts. Despite the low numbers, past. Whiplash typically draws good no more, and racers were instead the racing was exceptional, and there • numbers to Gila Bend, and tradition- treated to a three and a half mile was the usual breakage that puts win-ally 10 plus Class 8 trucks. Not this short course style race, with side-by-ner on the trailer, and .makes new year. Due to land use issues, Whip- side starts, and sub five minute laps. winners out of finishers. Cars were lash has had to make changes to the The course was run in the "bowl" or lined up sometimes four abreast at Nol/an Blackwell was the Challenger, Class 9 winner at Gila Bend, winning both motos. the start, and dipped into the gravel bowl to start the race. The format was that racers would compete in two 45 minute heat races, with the com-bined effort to determine the overall class winners. The weather was a little cool, and a stiff breeze helped clear the dust for the racers, and fans. In the first heat race of the day -Tom Wood was the big winner in Class 1, getting 11 laps done dur-ing his 45 minute race. Tom is spon-sored by BFGoodrich, Kirk's Auto, Wayners, Wood Brothers Hay Company, and also by his co.driver. Tom was also the winner in Hea.t #2, and his combined total for the day earned him the # 1 position in Class 1. Tom was able to turn 10 laps in the main heat, with his fast-est lap ticking off in just four min-utes and 32 seconds. Tom Labrie ran nine laps in Moro #l, taking second place in the first heat race. The McMillin Racing team (spon-sored by Kevin McMullen Ra~ing Off Road trans, and McMullen Brothers Racing) looked like the team to beat in the early going, but gremlins struck them early, and the completed only two laps on the day. The McMullen team has really struggled in 2002 - coming out like they were on fire each race, only to· have problems take them out. Their car· is a rocket ship - so watch out once they get the bugs worked out. The Pro Class 1-2/1600 was the biggest pro class of the weekend, pulling six cars into the field. Moto # 1 was dominated by Hector "Pacho" Garcia in his super clean 1600 car, despite a rear start draw. Hector fought his way through the entire field of 1600 cars to earn the victory. Hector thanks his sponsor, Tecate. Hector's winning ways con-tinued in the main race of the day-getting the win, and earning the win for the weekend. James Adams and James Adams took second in both motos and was the easy second Ron Bosley had a third and a secofJd in the heats and that eamed Jeff Gilbert had no opposition so he just motored around and took the place winner in •the 1/2-1600 category. · him second place in sportsman 10. Pro 7 win. ------------------------Page 32 May 2002 Dusty Times

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Steve LaBrie didn't have the best of day1, two second place finishes Chris Peterson took a second and a first in Sportsman Limited and It wasn't too good a day for Andy Simmons, a fourth and a third was gave him second in Pro 1-2 but his perlormance bothered him. that gave him the class win. · all he could muster in 1-2/1600 for a third overall finish. the black Action Gear sponsored the Avi 250. The team finished Geiser Brothers. was running well, but broke a front his first Whiplash race, and was #1682 car fin1.shed second to Hee-both motos to earnlthe victory. The Todd Elam challenged Mike trailing arm, and ran a few laps with charging hard11and pacing the lead-tor in both ra'ces. The Adams team crew wanted to extend much thanks Herrick in the Sportsman Unlim-the front wheel looking like it was ers much of the race before prob-may have made an incorrect tire to Sofa City, Best'Chair, Bodyline, ited class and earned a runaway vie- going to fall off. Mike is from Cot- · lems slowed 11,i's pace. Stu had an igni-choice, running a shorter stadium Legends, Comp Communications, tory after an exciting and tight race. ton wood, Arizona and is spon-tion coil con e loose, and then was type tire on the rear of the car. They Big-O-Tires, and Dan Essay at Todd battled broken wheel studs sored by Herrick Motorsports, and plagued bya clogged fuel filter caused had the handling, but just didn't Carquest. during Moto #2, but soldiered on Flame Propane. by deteriorating foam in his fuel cell. have the speed of the faster Pacho Michael Harris ran away with to complete six laps and earn the Scott Bachelor was the big win-The team was able to re-group for car. Third place for the weekend the victory Class 5-1600 in his red tall trophy. Todd's unique racer is ner in the Sport 10 class. Scott is the Moto #2, and get the car running, was Andrew Simmons in the# 1621 #599 machine. Harris-is sponsored a bright yellow tandem Funco chas-brand new owner of Ron Dalke's but the fuel filter again plugged and buggy. Andrew had some difficulty by Red Eye Racing, and _Harris sis that was originally designed to reliable and fast Class 12 green ma-ended his day. Stu wanted to thank in the final moto completing only Motorsports. Michael finished first position the co-driver in line behind chine. Scott let Rea put the car Finishline Motorsports for his finish. six laps. Bill Stoner finished fourth in both motos, turning consistent the driver. Todd currently runs the through her paces for Moto #l, and Other notable DNF's in the class was for the weekend, and was another laps of under six minutes en route car with the fuel cell in the rear seat, Scott came out and blasted through the Todd Fqrd entry in his home built racer who did not fare well ion to victory. John Aguilar made the but he hopes to someday find the Moto #2 to earn first lace finishes in pre-runner. Todd's car was piloted Moto #2. Bill only got two laps journey from El Paso to compete special fuel cells required to return both motos. The green machine is as by brother John in Moto #2, and done. Bill is sponsored by Woods and earned a second place finish. the car to its original form. Todd's fast as ever. Ron Bosley raced hard the car did not return to Moto #2 Off Road Products. Finishing fifth John has raced several local races racing efforts are sponsored by enough to earn second place in the after "breaking everything." The for the race was Krissy Sullivan in in El Paso, and wanted to test his T&R Iron Works, and he would class, with a combined third and sec-Crook/ Arthur/Lee team also was a the Sullivan Builders sponsored skills against the Whiplash veterans. like to thank his pit crew for their ond place finishes in the moto heats. DNF after a second place finish in two seater. Krissy had a good race John was taking the "just finish" fine work. Fly'n Mike Herrick chal- Kevin Stewart, aka "Stu" brought his Moto #2. The competing car is actu-with great fin~shes in both heats. approach in his first Whiplash race. lenged Todd early in his unlimited Rabbit powered single seater home ally a short course stadium car owned Unfortunately she was.given a DQ John's team would like to thank his Toyota powered single seater. Mike in third place. Stu was competing in ' Continued on page 34 and a last place finish for forget-sponsors Manny at Mackintosh ting to put a co-driver in the right Racing, Armando Morga, sear during the second moto. Ac-Powership, and Four Wheel Cen-tually, sh_e just forgot to change her ters. Justin Brinkerhoff in the #573 restrictor place to match the rules car earned the third finishing spot for a single seat racer. She definitely in the class. had the right stuff for a podium Nollan Blackwell fought finish in the money if not for this through some mechanical woes to slight oversight. She also had report-earn a close victory in the Class 9 edly tangl~d with the #1674 car of Challenger class. Nollan's Marana Don Johnson, who debuted his new Carpets, TUF machine had a hy-single seater at Gila Bend. TLF Off draulic clutch cylinder bolt come Road sponsors Don. The story goes off during Moto # 1, and spent that Krissy Sullivan and Don had mµch of the race "slam" shifting the some contact in Moto # 1, and the car to get through the gears. Dur-contact caused a dislocated valve ing the second moto, Nollan's cover on Johnson's motor. Donny's problems continued, and broken motor seized after eight laps of · tranny mounts caused more pain. Moto # 1. Nollan was forced to drive with one Only one Pro class truck came hand, and hold the car in gear with to play at Gila Bend. Jeff Gilbert the other due to the fracture. His made the trek from Lake Havasu determination was the key to the City, Arizona with his Sofa City victory. Nollan also wanted to sponsored Ranger. Jeff shared the thank motor builder -driving responsibilitie~ with Dave extraordinaire Don Johnson of the Morris, the crew chief of this team. TUF team for his strong power After a clean first race, the Class 7 plant. Finishing in the runner-up truck developed a growl in the ring spot was the #911 bright red Phoe-and pinion in Moro #2; causing nix Fire Department sponsored _ Dave to take it easy, and just nurse entry of Brad Leakey. Brad ran con-the truck through the 45 minute sistent laps, but could not catch heat. This truck is nearly new, with Nollan. The #911 machine also Gila Bend just the third race on sports the sponsorship of Renegade the vehicle after the Parker 400 and Products, CPR Plus, Tatum, and CACTUS RACING RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES BELL, SHOEI, SIMPSON Helmets SNELL 95, SA 95 FOR SODA · Complete Blower Systems for single or double seat cars. Helmet conversions, cool boxes, Complete line of PYROTECT, FILLER Safety Products & BEL Motorsports. We ship UPS daily. 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.,. by Denny Lee, and was temporarily outfitted for the desert. The car ran superbly, but lost third gear during the last lap of Moro # 1. Benny Fenn came out and took the win with first place finishes in both motos in the Sport Truck class. Benny gives the credit for his race to his parents, who are his main spon-sor. The Fenn Entry turned quick laps to stay ahead of the charging Bronco of Grant Wilson. Grant's notable blue Bronco ran well, but the short wheelbase wasn't the an-swer to the tricky off c;_amber corners, and loose turns. Olde English Cre-ations, TUF Off Road, and Speed Unlimited sponsor Grant's beauti-ful machine. Forbis racing teams brought two racers to Gila Bend, and came away with the two tallest trophies in the class in the Sport Mini Truck class. Randy Forbis piloted his # 1746 racer to first place in both motos, covering seven laps in both heats. River Island Market and Gas, and Forbis Auto sponsor Randy. The second place Forbis entry was hot on Randy's heels, but could not get the job done. Tony Stuflick came to Gila Bend to race, but had a tough day complet-ing just one lap in each moto. Tony's efforts did earn him a third place fin-ish. In the Sportsman Limited contest, "Crazy Dazey" Christopher Peterson brought his green Class 11 car to Gila Bend and put on a show. Crazy Chris broke off a rear shock on his racer in Moto #l,.and spent much of the race with the rear end bounding madly going through the bumps. The car held together, and Chris enjoyed his first place finish. Chris is sponsored by RaceShock Company. Bruce Scott Batchelor took the Sportsman 10 contest, winning both motos for the honor. Jacob Forbis had a second and a first and his total of 14 laps gave him the Sport Mini win at Gila Bend. Johnson seemingly had the race in hand, and was driving away, but could not keep the car together and completed 'Only five laps in Moto #2 to give the win away. The next 'stop on the calendar for Whiplash wtll be the Rock to Rock on May 4-5. Rocky Point is • Benny Fenn was the Sport Truck winner, running to First place in both heats in his clean looking truck. Michael Harris had a good run, he won both heats·and took the 5-1600 Class win with more than three minutes in hand. the location, and g good time is guaranteed in this little town on the water. Look for the entry numbers to be way up, with the return of the "thunder" trucks to the Whiplash circuit. The Tecates will be cold, and the weather will be great. Hope to see you there! . _ . .,,., Auto • ATV • Motorcycle Choice of Champions . :. . . ~ WEB-CAM RACING C:AMSHAFTS, THE INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE LEADER. AppHcations for street', strip and Off-road Page 34 When you'r~ looking at performance camshafts, Web-Cam'.~ffers the finest cams available. With national championships and national reto;rds under our ·belt, top professionals put their trust in our continuing research and development program that includes race track and dyno testing . a~ ~ . San Felipe Wi"nners Arturo Honold Major Perf Racing Engines Class 12 Winner Allen Gregory Major Perf Racing Engines Class 5-1600 Winner Brian Ickier Major Perf Racing Engines Class 1-2 1600 Winner Dave Cua Class 5 Unltd. Winner Phone 909.369.S144 • Fax 909.369.7266 -181S Massachusetts Ave.· Riverside, CA 92S07 ·USA• webcaminc.com *Performance cams are not legal for sale in California on pollution controlled vehicles. May 2002 Dusty Times i7

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FRT 200 AT PLASTER CITY WEST Schmidt And Smith overall By Judy Smith ;. Smitty Schmidt and George Smith pooled their driving skills to take the Class 10 win and the overall as well at Plaster City. Smitty Schmidt and George ager, 18 yearold George Smith, who Smith, a veteran and a novice, was driving a race car for the first teamed their talents ~n their Hon-time. Smith was only 20 seconds da po'fered Class 10 Chenowth to behind McMillin and he was in a taketli.e overall win at the FRT 200 1700cc Class 10 car. Smith's secret in late March. weapon was apparently Cory The site of this event was the Brewer, a 15 year old who does the OHV area west of Plaster City, navigating for the team. Brewer has which welcomed the racers with apparently got a killer eye for the warm, sunny and breezy weather. best time on a race course, and ac-The occasional howling gales that cording to Smith and Schmidt, he can occur in that neighborhood never.steered them wrong. Unfor-failed to show, and the weather was tunately, their· intercom wasn't just about perfect for racing. working so he had to do his navi-The course was about 20 miles gating by pointing, but it seemed to long1 and all the Pro classes ran 10 be working just fine. lapsJwhile the Sportsmen did only • Behind them,_in second place in • Hve.l Since there were no bikes or. Class 10, was the team of Justin quads racing in the morning, the Lofton and Matt Loiodice in their cars and trucks went off the line at dad's pre-runner, a nice Jimco. Jus-8:00 a.m., and the finish was early tin was driving, and his dad, Bob enough to allow for a nice lunch (Mike Julson's co-driver -Matt is and then a leisurely drive home for Mike's stepson) was l'iding. In third Sunday's Easter doings. it was Greg Burgin and Kirk Kontilis It started out looking like a lot in a Chenowth, while John and of other FRT races, with Chuck Blake Reed, in a Raceco, ran Hovey, driving his elderly Raceco, fourth. out in front after recording the first Smith was having what he called lap for the day, at 16:59. But he "pure fun" and he ran all his laps was being hotly chased by Andrew under 18 minutes. No problems "Beebo" McMillin, Scott McMillin's cropped up, and he made no seri-14 year old son. McMillin was driv-ous errors. By the end of Lap 5 he ing his dad's V8 powered Porter for had about nine minutes on Lofton. the first tim · ·n a race, and was only Burgin and Kontilis had a pretty eight seconds behind Hovey. Later good second lap and an even bet-Hovey said, "That kid got awful ter third lap and then didn't come close!" Sitting in the passenger seat around again. And the Reeds ran next to McMillin was his·dad, who'd ju~t fin_e on Lap 2, slowed a bit on never had the pleasure of riding Lap 3 and slowed a whole bunch before. on their fourth lap, and then didn't But on the second lap Hovey, come around again. still in the lead, got about 16 miles At the end of the fifth lap both in and as he hustled down the road teams changed drivers, and now at about 100 miles per hour his Loiodice had the wheel in the rear hub came apart. The car Jimco, and Smitty, a veteran (who started doing an interesting side-to- was the winner at the very first FRT side motion, and it took Hovey a Superstition 250 about 18 years little while to get it whoaed down. back) of uncertain age, hopped into It had only front brakes because his car. Loiodice decided he was when the hub fell apart it took the going to try to "catch" the lead car. rear disc with it and sent it spin-That cost hirn about a half hour. ning out into the desert like a Japa-He got in some dust, and "it got nese martial arts weapon. Hovey was black". The car ran into an embank-done for the day. ment. It rolled over, the hood McMillin was now running by smacked the ground and the car himself for the Class 1 win, but be-ended its tumble on its lid. There hind him there was another teen-was no way Matt and his passenger Dusty Times Photos: C&C Race Photography: Kent Graves and brother Kevin took the Class 9 honors, shown here saving wear and tear on their tires. could upright it themselves, so they had to wait for help. A tire had been flattened also. Smitty ran se-renely on. As the race neared its end the McMillin crew, family and friends gathered to welcome the 14 year old as he took the checkered flag for his first win (in his first try). Smitty's buddies were also gathering, hop-ing that the Class 10 team could pull a rabbtt Ot!t of a l1at' and ger the overall win, but the Class 1 car had five minutes at the end of Lap 8, and five and a half minutes after nine laps. McMillin would have to• BIIBtein . Sway A Way Eillacll • HM • QA 1 • CNC==,c··,_...... Bparca . PRP . fall ,.,. Ran Davis Radiator, letrall Oil t:ooler, % ¼ • Optima Bar111rles Mechanix Wear May 2002 have a disaster. Then the news came through the radio that McMillin's car had lost a spindle about seven miles shy of the finish line. A bolt fell out and everything came apart. The crew hustled to get fresh parts and get them out to the race car, while Smitty, having no i)roblems at all, finished his five evenly paced laps in first place overall. So Smith and Schmidt took the honors while the McMillins made repairs. Meanwhile, Loiodice, after his miserable first lap, got quicker each Continued on page 36 Page 35 ' ...

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Andy McMillin, Scott's 14 year old son took the Class 1 win, a Justin Lofton and Matt Loiodice few their great looking Jimco to a Todd Stemmerman was the only Class 5 car entered so he prudently ended his race after eight laps, still taking the win. tremendous victory for his first time in a race. nice second spot in the Class 1 0 competition. lap, even the lap when he was briefly and had a terrific first lap, then seen again. struck, and he had no more started having some problems. In the 1600 class it looked like a trouble. He got to the finish line in Stemmerman was having trouble good race for a little while. Steve good shape to get second place in with his limiter straps and lost Reynolds who says his Bunderson Class 10 for himself and Lofton. about 20 minutes on his sixth lap, "is dialed in -just need to get myself McMillin was repaired and back on but seemed to get back to speed dialed in", was in front with about the road after about 40 minutes . again, and then finished only eight a minute and 24 seconds on Garit and he came on to take the Class 1 laps. That still puts him into the Wallace. Wallace lost about five win, but was second in the overall record books as the Class 5 winner minutes on the next lap, and then standings. He said his dad was "a for this event. gave it up on the third lap. It seems good navigator." In Class 8 the truck of Robbie his power steering had gone belly Todd Stemmerman was the only Faulkner ran well for two laps, then up, and the car had developed a Class 5 car to come out to the desert . slowed a bit and lost ten minutes mind of its own about which direc-for this weekend, but he ran hard on the third lap. After that it wasn't tion it wanted to travel. OFF-WOAD CHAUIMCI HOT LUI J:00 PJI\ UCII AT 4:oo Plli ARENA STYLE SHORT COURSE TRACK Claaes 1/2/S-1600 Sport 1'1-uck Reynolds, who soloed the race, drove a very steady pace to take the win, hrs fast lap coming on Lap 7, with a 22:45 for the 20 miles. He took the win, and was also third in the overall standings. The Class 9 race was hot 'n' heavy for a while, with Kent Graves in the lead on Lap 1 in his Jimco, followed by Trey Sommers in another Jimco, and then Julie Kern in her -Kern co. They stayed in that or-der t hrough the fourth lap at which time Graves had five minutes on Sommers, and . Sommers was 39 seconds up on A dam Pfanku ch who'd taken over for Kern. class had a scarcity of entries also, In the Sportsman class there so for this race the promoter was a mixed bag, and everyone paired them with the Class 8 truck was prepared to have a good for the purse, each still earning time. Don Gibson was there with points in their own class. Todd his 1985 copy of a Raceco, a car Richards had a nice looking ex-which still sports a sticker from MacPherson Chevy truck out for the 1986 Mint 400. It's appar-the day, but it broke an axle on the ently been retired since '86, and first lap. The team decided to make Gibson, who'd had it for five repairs and go on. The lap, includ- years, has not been in a hurry to ing repairs, took three hours and get it race ready. Gibson's return-15 minutes, but then they did three ing to racing as a driver, having more laps, with Rodd Fantelli help-been co-rider/mechanic with ing with the driving, each in about Mike Hart, the '93 FRT season 41 minutes. The truck is normally champion in the Unlimited class. four wheel drive, but after their "re-Also in the Sportsman divi-pair", which involved welding to- s1on were Megan Allen and Cera gether a bunch of sockets to hold Lindsey in their Kernco and a the broken end of the axle in place team from below the border, so the bearing wouldn't fall out, it Arturo Gutierrez and Miguel was three wheel drive. Their four Vargas, in a car that was more or laps completed gave them the less a 5-1600. They were driving "mixed truck"• victory for the week-in their first race. end, and also the small truck win Allen and Lindsey, who are in for the record book. their third year of racing, took Spo,t:mnan Buggy By the end of the fifth lap Pfankuch was second, and af-ter six he was in the lead by 26 seconds. Kevin Graves had taken over for his brother (usurping his dad, Hal's, place in the driver's seat) and was suf-fering cultu re shock because -he hadn't driven a Class 9 car for a long time, instead enjoying the luxury of the 1600 class Megan Allen and Cera Lindsey hustled across the desert for a nice win in the Sportsman Division. the early lead, with about a minute on Gib-son. Gutierrez and Vargas, who were woe-fully under-suspended, ran third. Gibson lost about five minutes on his second lap, but oth-erwise ran about the same lap times as the Allen/Lindsey team. At least until the third lap when someone in a faster · car gave hini a polite bump on the rear to ask him to move over. Some-thing in his shift linkage got jarred in the process, Z Stroke ATV 4 Stroke ATV THAMitlTO: ► J.\OGUl.91 TOWING ► 11tTRIMI AVTOJ.\OTIVI ► CR4'4 FOREIGN AUTO ► TAC PRICIIIOM PI.RFORJ.\AMCI ► RAIJ.\UIIIM AUTO IUPPI.Y . ► YOR.It JAYCIII ► G.RIAT P:L4IMI OFF ROAD RACIMG Page 36 Contaet: Paul }foffrnan 402-2%-4349 J~e Crowden 1-800-4S6-9917 Da1:3s 402-732-6736 £venings 1#1#W.GPORRA.CO.M. handling. At the end of the seventh lap Pfank-uch and Kern led by just under three minutes, with Graves second and Sommers, who was having some kind of suspension prob-lem, in third. But on the eighth lap the Kern/Pfankuch car disappeared and Graves went back into the lead. They went on to take the win, while Sommers faded away on the last lap, never mak-ing it to the check-ered flag. The small truck Steve Reynolds made it look easy as he went all the way for the 1600 Class win at Plaster City. Todd Richards and Rodd Fantelli drove their 'Three Wheel Drive" truck to the Small Truck class win. May 2002 and from that point on he couldn't get third and fourth gear. Lindsey and Allen went on with no obvious prob-lems and took the win, ac-tually finishing six laps for some unknown reason. Gibson was second, and lucky his car was still mov-ing forward, finishing his fifth lap just 13 minutes off the pace,..Vargas and Gutierrez, whose Bug was loading up along with the suspension problem, had a tough day and got only four laps done, for third place. All the racing was fin-ished by about 2:30 in the afternoon, and the awards were handed out about an hour later. Some folks headed back to the dunes, some to the river, and some went home for their Easter celebrations. The next FRT event will be the Conquista Gran Prix on May 18, and the site is planned to be on the Pole Line,. east of Lake Supersti-tion. ... .IC\¥ Dusty Times

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T Dave and Rick Hintz drove their sleek looking Mazda to the Doo The Doo Wop Series Production Class win went to Jamie Thomas Sliding around a corner, Andy and Julie Sharples took the Production Wop Series win for Group 5. and John Reed in their good looking Subaru lmpreza. Class win in Doo Wop 2. 2002 DOO_ Wop ClubRally Text & Photos: Jim Culp Jay Streets and Chris Aksdal, shown here with lots of opposite lock on the Volvo, were the Group 5 winners in Doo Wop 2. Nat T-Stow and Ben Bradley claimed the overall title in the 2002 Doo Wop ClubRally Series _when Carl Jardevall and Amity Trowbridge went from first in Doo Wop 1 to last in·Doo Wop 2. The Doo Wop ClubRally Series traditionally opens the rally season for the Northwest Region of the Sports Car Club of America. Starting in the historic Washington seaport of Hoquiam and running along the Pacific shore to the fast forest roads of the Quinault Indian Nation, the Doo Wop concludes with the famous dash from the Brooklyn Tavern over the ridge tops to the Oakville Grange. The Doo Wop event was selected as the 2001 SCCA Club Rally of the Year and 2002 may have been even better. Rally chairman Ray Damitio really out did himself, scheduling sunny days and Technicolor sunsets ·~~r. -, .. ..,, to go with the great roads for both days. Doo Wop I After Jardevall and Trowbridge pulled away from the start of Doo Wop 1 the competition n(;'.ver got a second look at the immaculate Nordic Motors four wheel drive Mitsubishi Evo 4. The Evo was fastest on every stage, averaging 63 mph over five stages and 39 stage miles to finish almost two minutes ahead ofT-Stow and Bradley. When Jardevall and Trowbridge left that ceremonial start they left the competition behind. On Stage 1, a seven mile jaunt through the City of Hoquiam's watershed forest, the Swedish blue Evo turned in a time of 7:22. That was 21 seconds faster than Todd Hartmann and Sean Callahan in the• amazing Group 2 Intrax Volkswagen GTI, everyone else was Nat T-Stow and Ben Bradley were second in Dao Wop 1, first in Doo Wop 2 and took the Series Crown in their Subaru WRX. Dusty Times still getting warmed up as the rest of the pack followed the VW. Jardevall and Trowbridge maintained their gap on Stage 2, a quick one minute pavement stage and then extended the lead all the way to the finish. Fastest on Stage 3 by 20 seconds, fastest on Stage 4 by 27 seconds, and fastest on Stage 5 by 17 seconds. T-Stow and Bradley in the Cascade Autosport Subaru WRX locked up the second overall spot when Paul Eklund and Scott Huhn in the Primitive Racing Subaru Impreza USX clipped a barrier in a chicane set up to slow the top speeds on one of the long straights. That slip cost Eklund a 30 second penalty and the second spot. Fourth overall, topping a great field of two wheel drive cars, were Hartmann and Callahan. Averaging 59 mph, the normally aspirated two liter Golf out muscled the more powerful Group 5 cars, including John Lane and John May 2002 Todd Hartmann and Sean Callahan took fourth overall-in Doo Wop 1 and were the Group 2 winners in their sleek vehicle. Allen who finished fifth in the flaming blue Volvo 262 turbo. Todd and Tina Lengacher claimed the Northwest Region's Class 2 victory with a sixth place finish in the TNT Audi 4000 Quattro. Seventh went to the Titanium Racing Audi Quattro Coupe of Mike Mailman and Don Flagg. Mailman was another chicane victim, losing a fifth place finish and the Class 2 trophy when he collected the penalty for barrier bumping. John Teeter and Kyle Flanigan were eighth in a Mitsubishi Galant just ahead of Dave and Rick Hintz in a Mazda RX-7 turbo, the second Group 5 car. Ted Wilkinson and Bill Westhead were tenth in a Toyota Corolla, the second Group 2 car to finish. ' . Arizona's Brian Scott and Billy Williams captured the Production GT class win for Mitsubishi, while Mark Tabor and Kevin Poirier were the Production class winners in the Tabor Racing Nissan Sentra. In the NW Region classes, Jardevall and Trowbridge nabbed Class 1, the Lengachers topped Class 2, and Roger Jackman and Kathryn Hanson were the Class 3 winners in an ageless Dodge Colt. Warren Brough and Chris Davis topped Kristen and Janice Tabor to win the coveted Geo Metro spec car class. The 44 starters were well hosted by the Quinault Nation, with a service area set up within sight of the, rocky Pacific shore. In spite of the speeds and the sunshine, 36 cars survived to make the run to the finish at the Continued on page 38 Duality products built In house along with Fabtech. PIAA. BF6oodrich, Weld, Camburg Engineering, Autofab, King !ihocks. Fuel !iafe, plus hundreds of other quality products and accessories. • Shock!i • Roll Cage!i • Exhau!it Klt!i • Wheel!i Iii. Tire!i • Su!ipen!ilon Klt!i • Off Road Bumper!i • Cu!itom Fabrication Travel !iu11pen11lan !iylitem!i. Toll Free: [B66) 4B0-3556 B49 Mitchell Road #402, Newbury Park Tel: [B05) 4B0-3556 • Fax: [B05) 4B0-3557 strictlyP-erformance. net Page 37 ...-

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..... Roger Jackman and Kathryn Hansen won the Regional Class 3 field in Doo Wop 1. Paul Eklund and Scott Huhn, shown here sliding a corner were Brian Scott and Billy Williams start a left hander as they wend their second overall in Doo Wop 2 in their good looking Subaru. way to the Production GT class win in Doo Wop 1. Quinault Beach Resort. finish on the last stage when the a freeze plug and lost some essential the first stage the Nordic Motors and 6, but the delay left Jardevall Notable on the DNF list were Janice Damitio and Larry Nielsen in the long awaited debut of the Vanquish Racing Eagle Talon. Damitio and Nielson lost a top ten shift linkage parted and left them fluid. Evo slipped off the road and stuck and Trowbridge stuck in 35 th with nothing but neutral. Jay DooWop2 inthemuckoftheMontesanoCity place,lastamongthefinishers. Streets and Chris Aksdal dropped Almost ·everyone anticipated a Forest. After 50 minutes, the Evo · With the Mitsubishi out of the out on Stage 2 when the ex-Jardevall/Trowbridge repeat on returned to the road and posted picture, it was a three car scrap for Jardevall Volvo 740 turbo popped Sunday, but less than a mile into the fastest times on Stages 2, 3, 4, 5 · the lead. T-Stow and Bradley in the RACING SERIES AWARD REQUIREMENTS 1st Place -All classes in which three or more entries compete. Exclusive use of product visible on vehicle with filters or covers installed displaying the Lightforce logo. Claims subject to verification with race officials. ' .\ f Constrµcted of lightweight polycarbonates or 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 to 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 ... Page 38 May 2002 Cascade WRX, Eklund and Huhn in the Primitive USX, and Mailman and Flagg in the Titanium Quattro were just four seconds apart until the Audi dropped back, overheating on Stage 4. In the end it was Subaru one, two with T-Stow and Bradley edging Eklund and Huhn by 11 seconds. Mailman/Flagg held on for third ahead ofDamitio/Nielsen fourth in the revived Eagle. The first 2WD car, Streets and Aksdil in the flaming yellow Volvo, claimed the Group 5 title in the fifth .spot overall. Teeter and Flanigan were sixth, ahead of Hartmann and Callahan the Group 2 winners again. The Hintz brothers RX-7 was eighth, one second ahead of Carey Wright and David Kean experiencing the joy of rear wheel drive with another RX-7. Andy and wife Julie Sharples were tenth in a Subaru 2.5 RX edging John and daughter Laura Nelson in another 2.5 RX by 11 seconds to take the Production GT class win. Subaru also grabbed the Production class win when Jamie Thomas and John Reed topped the class in a screaming yellow lmpreza. Winners of the Northwest Region classes were T-Stow/Bradley in Class 1, Mailman/Flagg in Class 2, John and Laura Nelson in Class 3, with Brough/Davis again topping the Geo class. The last stage of the day was the historic run from the Brooklyn Tavern. That's seven miles of gravel that eight time US Rally Champion Paul Choiniere calls "the best rally road in America." J ardevall and Trowbridge may have been stuck in last place, but they have a specia l relationship with the road from Brooklyn, and there was a lot of anticipation that Choiniere's record run of 6:42 might fall. The Nordic Motors Evo flew up t.he hill and over the ridge top, but l_ost a few seconds slowing for a washout, and a few more on the slippery new gravel going downhill to the finish. At the flag it wa~ very close, Jardevall and Trowbridge turned in a time of 6:4 5 (an average speed of 62.1 mph) the second fastest ever. Paul Choiniere and Jeff Becker will hold the Brooklyn record for at least one more year. Forty cars started Doo Wop 2, and 35 finished the 46 stage miles. At the Oakville Grange, Ray Damitio handed out the traditional Doo Wop vinyl awards to the series class winners. T-Stow/ Bradley overall and open class. Hartmann/Callahan in Group 2. Hintz/Hintz in Group 5. Sharples/ Sharples in PGT and Thomas/ Reed in production. . _ . .,,., Dusty Times

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LEST WE NOT FORGET Baja 500 second Edition BROWSING THROUGH SOME OF THE OLD FILES THE OTHER DAY AND CAME ACROSS THE LIST OF OFFICIALS AND THE ENTRY LIST FOR THE SECOND AN· NUAL BAJA 500, JUNE 9·12, 1970. ED PEARLMAN WAS THE PRESIDENT, DON FRANCISCO WAS THE EXECU· TIVE DIRECTOR, DICK KEITH WAS THE STARTER AND GOOD OL' ERNIE WAR· ING WAS THE CHIEF TECH INSPECTOR. MALCOLM SMITH WAS ENTERED ON A HUSKY IN THE BIKE DIVISION _AND IN THE CARS THERE WERE SOME FAMILIAR NAMES. GIL GEORGE AND JOHN THAWLEY WERE ENTERED IN A FUNCO, DICK LANDFIELD WAS RUNNING A FORD TRUCK, BILL STROPPE ENTERED IN A BRONCO, THE HERBSTS AND COL· LINS WERE ENTERED IN A REV MASTER, LARRY MINOR IN A BRONCO, CLARK GILLIES AND HERMAN MAURER IN A V"!,N, GENE HIGHTOWER IN A JEEP AND SAL FISH WAS ENTERED IN AN EMPI VW. . IT WAS A 557 MILE RUN, STARTING IN ENSENADA, TO CAMALU, TO EL ROSARIO, RANCHO SANTA YNEZ, RANCHO CHAPALLA, PAPA FERNANDEZ, SAN FELIPE, VALLE DE TRINIDAD AND THEN THROUGH 0JOS NEGROS TO THE FINISH, BACK IN ENSENADA. NORRA SUPPLIED FUEL AT SIX OF THE NINE CHECKPOINTS AND THERE WAS. A 30 HOUR TIME LIMIT FOR THE RACE. THE EXISTING RECORD FOR THE BAJA 500 WAS HELD BY BUD EKINS AND GUY JONES IN THE OLDSMOBILE BOOT; THEIR ELAPSED TIME WAS 15 HOURS FLAT. So IT WAS OVER 30 YEARS AGO, MANY OF OUR CURRENT RACERS WEREN')" EVEN BORN BUT THE SPORT WAS FLEXING ITS MUSCLES AND STARTING TO GROW INTO THE SOMEWHAT CONFUSED BUT LOVABLE GIANT THAT IT IS TO· DAY. ONLY WITH YOUR HELP AND PARTICIPATION WILL IT CONTINUE TO THRIVE SO THAT YET ANOTHER GENERATION WILL BE ABLE TO ENJOY IT'S FRUITS. 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-4150 • 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! DO IT RIGHT with the RADIO LAB INTERCOM • Fully Digital, Fully Modular, Fully Custom • Fix on the fly with swappable parts • Two-Person $365, Trae Four-Person $480 .. DO IT RIGHT with HELMET KITS and HEADSETS • Race today, Play tomorrow with interchangeable headgear Helmet Kits from $83.00 • Headsets from $94.00 · . Let our 26 years in the business help you! ~ER..WflMI~ 808 N. Tustin Street • Orange, CA 92867 1::~ e~ 800-345-7234 • www.thesolderjoint.com Dusty Times May 2002 coming Next Month ... SNORE Buffalo Bill's 400 MDR Ridgecrest 300 WRC Catalunya Costa Brava CODE San Felipe 200 't;,, ch more ... Plus AD The Regular Features NEW FOR 2002! Mlcrodrums for 1600 Racecars These trick, SCORE legal assemblies are made from the highest quallty components. Gets more travel, more CV angle, and more reliabllty than any other assembly! From Autometer Gauges to Weber Carburetors, we have all your racing needs covered! Come Visit our NEW Superstore! 91 Freeway @ McKinley in Corona 2871 Ragle Way-Corona; CA 92879 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK! 909.737.7223 -www.kartek.com Page 39

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By Clive Skilton Race Report And Nevvs Second Round 2002 American Racing Jeepspeed Challenge ... Ridgecrest, CA. Saturday, April 13 ... organized by Mojave Desert Racing. Jeepspeeq once again turned out the larges-t class en try with Jeep Cherokee teams from Alexis Alexander/Gene Jacobsen Memorial Team ... Charlie Peltzer/ Peltzer Farm.s ... Brian Rogers/Keep It Together Racing from A-Fab Packaging ... • Scott The best 4-speed in the desert just got better! McKinney/McKinney Racing... Billy Quitmeyer/Quitmeyer • Racing and Ajax Autos ... Barrie Thompson/ Skyjacker Suspensions and Desert Station Race Cars ... Casey Currie/ Currie Enterprises ... Mike Barnett/T&J 4x4 Center. .. Dave Turner/ Rusty's Off Road and Turner Motorsports ... Billy Bunch/Bunch Racing and Ajax Autos ... Eric Helgison/Currie Enterprises and Helgison Racing. The J eepspeed class started at approximately 8:05 and the race was run over the roughest course so far for Jeepspeed at midday temps exceeding 90 degrees. The race was very, very· close all day with the first three cars of Peltzer, Rogers and Thompson always grouped in a 60 s·econd battle until they pitted si1nultaneously at the half way point. The second group of Currie, Quitmeyer and McKinney also ran within 60 seconds of each other until the latter two broke leaving the Currie team in the 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 i~novation in racing transaxle technology. Page 40 hurry up offensive to catch the lead trio. Unfortunately the fast car of Bunch and Kearney had a steering failure in the first 15 miles that set them back all day. Mike Barnett wrestled with new tranny bugs, Dave Turner broke on the second lap, we are not sure about Helgison but he got the high flying awards when he was moving, and Alexis Alexandre and co-driver Michelle Nelson drove a sensible race in the late Gene Jacobsen Jeep. At the half way pit stop Peltzer was out with N as car efficiency four minutes ahead of Rogers with Thompson 30 seconds behind Currie came through about 20 minutes later on a high speed mission without stopping ... it must have got pretty wild as Peltzer had to stop for adjustments unknown, Rogers had a fµel pump wiring glitch, and Currie· made up a quick 10 minutes on the lead car of Thompson. At the time of writing -this report (Saturday night), we do not have May 2002 the· complete official finish line up. As it stands it was 1 ... Barrie Thompson, 2 ... Casey Currie, 3 ... Charlie Peltzer. This Jeepspeed race was dedicated to the late Gene Jacobsen and his Jeepspeed Team. The Gene Jacobsen Memorial Sportsman Trophy was awarded to the first Jeep finisher running stock axle assemblies. This went to Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Peltzer who also won the first Rookies trophies to go with their third place winnings. A great day for this new team. The Currie team now lead the 2002 Challenge Series in points. The entire J eepspeed race was recorded by Rolling Art TV ... we will publish air dates, later. They had cameras in the main pit, at Pit A and C ... plus thanks to Mike Barnett for in-car camera and Gavin Skilton with mobile mountain top coverage from his Honda 65. OTHER NEWS ... SEVEN NEW Jeepspeed car constructors at.tended this race with their cameras and note books. Some of them came on our Friday pre-run. This pre-run will happen at all our ·MDR events and all Jeep drivers are weCcome. We had 14 Cherokees and Wranglers at the Ridgecrest Pre-Run and a good time was had by all. Future Pre-Runs will leave the start/ fin is h line at 9am sharp on each Fri.day before each race and we will be back in time for lunch then contingency in the evening. ..-.lfle Magnificent Race Team By Stephen Stenberg, President Hello everyone! As the Score Baj a · 5 00 approaches, so does Mag 7's timetable to get ready. We are running nine pits, one every 50 miles ( + or -five miles for pit accessibility) for the 500 this season. As is usual at this time of year, there are generators and welders to check. Light bulbs to turn on, dump cans to clean and pit boxes to put in order. Since the Score Mailer came out two weeks ago, applications have been coming in for this year's Baja 500. For me, this is especially important, it will be my first race of the decade with Score. And my first race on a vintage bike as 'Well. I'll see all of you at the finish line when it is over. The Mag 7 Race Team was offered a chance to pit the Nevada 1000 with BITD. As much as I wanted our team to go, our pit captains said different. Moving from pit to pit for two days and taking off another week of work this year wasn't in the taking. The Baja 1000 pits are already planned and most guys only get 1-2 weeks off a year, if that. Before going on, I wish to offer an apology to one of our guys. It seems that I received information at the San Felipe 250 that wasn't quite true. I spoke of Kevin Walsh supporting our team. In reality, Kevin does an excellent job as our 'Webmaster and happened to be sponsored by BFG for the SF 250. So I offer my apology to you Kevin for any bad feelings caused by my comments. · Back to the Baja 1000 now, our plans are underway for that race now. Mag 7 is planning o n 5 0 mile pits ( + or -five miles 'for pit accessibility) from start to finish. That should be 20-22 pits, depending on terrain and location. As is usual, May 7 'Will be running 76 Race ·Fuel fr.om our Baja distributor. That would be Bill "Merno" Rodriguez. Mag 7 will be offering both 92 Octane and 110 Octane. This will be for both the Baja 500 and the Baja 1000 races. At the same time, we have been in discussion with Carlos Orozco and Carl Augustine of Baja pits Race Team. Bill Rodriguez of Baj a Pits himself brought us together for a meeting last month in March. Carlos ca1ne to our monthly Mag 7 meeting and presented his team to us, along with history and the mission of Baja Pits. (It must be noted that Baja Pits and Pro Pits of Baja are t'Wo very different teams.) At the Baja 2000, Mag 7 has a major misunderstanding with Pro Pits of Baja, a Tijuana based race team. So we were a bit cautious Dusty Times

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when Carlos came to our monthly meeting last month in March. However, by the end of the meeting, all that attended the meeting that night would probably agree that Carlos made an impressive speech about the Baja Pits Race Team., and that our memory of Pro Pits should be just that, a very distant memory. So with that knowledge., Mag 7 again met with Carlos Orozco and Carl Augustine in El Cajon this month to discuss ways on how our two teams would split up duties, fees,· fuel, radio communications, pits and spares. The pit organization that Baja Pits has in Baja Norte and Sur is simply amazing. Pre-positioned welders and pit equipment scattered down the peninsula along with help from all seven race teams based out of La Paz. A radio relay system that mirrors what BFG offers their racers, and a trucking system that delivers fuel barrels before the race starts to all pits. Unlike the Baja 2000, Mag 7 will only run 76 fuel in two octanes, 92 and 110. In the 2000, we took on four fuel companies with seven octanes altogether. Way too confusing at times for our pit crews to· deliver with 100% accuracy. We did it, but the strain was heavy with that cask. So for this year as we did in 2001, we will run only 76 Race fuel in those two octanes. I ·would like to take this time to thank our sponsors who made racing a possibility for us.· In no certain order of importance they are SKS Valvo line and Jim Arbuckle, GPR Products with Randy Norman, Juice Designs with Curtis Guise, Off Road Warehouse with John Brindell and Rudy, Industrial Liquidators with Michael Graham, IMS Products with Steve, DeWalt Tools with Andy Pina from Encompass and Red-D-Arc Welding • with Jeff Berry. I would also like to thank 76 Race fuels, Mr. Bill Rodriguez, for their sponsorship of three of our n1otorcycle racers as well. Thanks go out to all of these companies and their representatives that we deal with. Please stop at these con1panjes who support off road racing so willingly. That is it for now. If you need to contact Mag 7, you can by going to our website at www.Mag7race,com. You can also reach us through our Race Dusty Times Di rector, Mike Wickersham. His e-mail address is Racedirector@rnag7race.com. Finally, you can call or fax us at (619) 303-6283. Out cut-off for the Baja 500 will be May 14th for en tries taking fuel and spares. If you ,want to add your narnes to our free racer T-shfrts, your application must be in and paid in full by May 7th at midnight. For ernergency service only, the cut-off is _May 3 I st for the Baja 500 pits. Take care and see you in Baja or the desert. Adios from Team Baja, the Magnificent 7 Race and Pit Team. ~ Continueil"'B'n ji1"Je 42 DEIST SEAT BEL TS The greatest name in driver safety equipment. 4-point sand rail seat belt RACE BELTS 2' -5polnt mount 3"-5polntmount SIDE COVERS IRS. Swing axle KENNEDY PRESSURE PLATES 200mm-1700# 200mm-up to 3000! GERMAN AUTO PRESSURE PLATES 200mm 1700# -2400# RACING PERFORMANCE CLUTCH DISC· Cushlocks .............. . 4pucferramic ........... . 4 puc ferramic with spring hub Attention Pit Tean1s Send us your pit tales, whether they be of success or woe and they will be featured on these pages (space permitting). Although publication dates vary monthly, material received by the first of the month will generally be considered for the next issue. Submit all material to: · DUSTY TIMES 207 6 ~ Plununer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 -GERMAN AUTO SACO MAGNUM RACK BIiiet housing, 1 ½ • allow gear, through bolt mounting complete with stops SACO CV CAGES, BOOTS, -AND FLANGES 930or T-4 cages 930 or T-4 or T-2 flanges Trick boots (specify) . 930CVstar ; i: +f "WEEKEND-WARRIOR" LONG TRAVEL BEAMS 8" travel-stock width 8" travel-widened beam 10" travel-stock width 10' travel-widened beam TRI MIL EXHAUST T· 11 'lz • chrome T·111/z"raw T-11 518" chrom T-115/8' raw -T-4chrome T-4raw GERMAN AUTO -HATS GERMAN AUTO 'T-SHIRTS. specify 1,/,LG.XLG PORSCHE STYLE FAN SHROUD Fits T-4 engine, utilizes T-1 alternator, includes alternator stand MAGNUM SPINDLES _ MK/. MK/I PEDAL ASSEMBLIES CNC Clutch and brake assemblies for cable throttle With black pedal With chrome pedal. With hydraulic throttle Replacement slave SACO RACK AND PINION The toughest available anywhere, alloy gears, full contact housing, hard anodized. Standard rack and pinion . Mount plate Coupler. Rack steering stops VALVE COVERS T-4 "no leak" style fits 1. 7, 1.8, and2.0 SACO ALUMINUM WHEELS Polished finish, bolt .together rears lite spindle mounts too FRONT TRAILING ARMS Link pin . 4130 Chromolv Stock length . ........ pr. 1 ¼"longer .......... pr. 2'1, •longer .......... pr. 4 • longer-coil over style pr. CHROMOL Y TIE RODS 1" chromoly tie rods w/ends. · r.~_oecifv Ford or International) set SACO REAR-TRAILING ARMS 3" X 3' ....... . 1-21600, 5-1600. CAT~LOG ... 11324 Norwalk Blvd. Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 562-863-1123 FAX 562-929-1461 May 2002 Page 41

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Best In The Desert Terrible's Town 250 April 5-7, 2002 Pahr1:1mp, Nevada KEVIN MCGILLIVRAY WINS THE TERRIBLE'S TOWN 250 The SPEC Chevrolet takes home the gold PAHR UMP, NV, April 6 -In a few short years, Best In The Deser.t Racing Association's "Terrible's Town 250" is among the favorite races on Casey Folks' calendar, attracting • Custom Pro Cell Bladders with seamless super-tough, triple coated construction • 10 year Bladder warranty • Safety loam baffling • Custom manufactured aluminum containers • FIA-FT3, SCORE and SODA approved • Custom manufactured tillers Fuel Sale"s "Pro Cell" is • (800) 433-6524 technical hotline :;~11:,·,0::!~:;~:a'::~:g • Over 25 years experience ins/al/ and i/'s backed by a e for more info call or write to: luff 10 year warranty. Aircraft Rubber/Fuel Safe EL 63257 Nels Anderson Road Bend, Oregon 97701 RaciJtgCells (5-41)388-0203 · (5-41)388-0307 fax hllp:/lwww.fuelsafe.com competitors from across the nation. On this beautiful weekend of racing in the Nevada desert, the Protruck entries reached ten. The 250 mile loop started and finished in the town of Pahrump, 60 miles northwest of Las Vegas. In five hours and 07:09, the # 1256 SPEC Chevy of Kevin McGillivray took the victory capturing the first place crown. Kevin was second off the· line, and in the lead before Pit 1. He held the lead throughout the race with no flats! He claims, "the truck is ready to run another two thousand miles. It ran good, stopped good, we had a perfect day!" Kevin finished 14th overall and clocked in at 5:07:09. The second place trophy was awarded to Torn Koch's Ford#l229. Tom was in dust most of the way, pushing hard. They changed drivers at Mile 105 and Lee Patten took the wheel. He had a flat after Pit 6 and one after Pit 7 trying to catch the lead. Tom said they had a ·"good time" and getting ready for the Baja 500. They clocked in at 5:14:12. Al Hogan Ford #1226 from Columbia, MT finished third. Rob Reinertson, ofSan Francisco, CA., brought his #1243 RJR Ford into a fourth place finish. John Becker took home a fifth place in the# 1222 Ford. New Protruck owner Dave Sykes, of Del Mar, CA finished sixth in his Ford #1269. Dan Hunt of Arvada, CO., finished seventh. Seven out of ten Protrucks finished this event. DNFs included Chet Huffman Ford #1220, Steve Scaroni Ford # 1227 and Greg Han-sen Dodge #1233 . .. -.ICU OUTLAW RACING FOR SALE SCORE CLASS 5 UNLIMITED 45,000 OBO 20,00 NO ENGINE OR TRANS • • • OVERS FIR • PASS REAR • FORTIN 5 EEO TRANS • CENTERLINES, BFG'S • • • • • • 1967 FORD PRERUNNER 55,000 OBO SCORE CLASS 8 READY FORD SVO 520 CI CHRISMAN REAR END KING COIL OVERS BUILT BY STEWARTS RACEWORKS ONLY BEST PARTS AND EQUIPMENT For more information call Mike James (619) 445 5797 ext 115. For more pictures and detail go to www.outlaw-race.co01 E-mail outlawraceteam@yahoo.com · Perforrnan·ce Proven for Desert & Off-Road Use 1 5 0 Heavy Duty Sizes to Choose from Some Uses: • Non Corrosive Polyethylene • One-Piece Seamless • Pit Truck Showers & Washdowns • Cooking & Kitchen Facilities . • Extended Stay Water Storage Tanks • Bike Trailer Water Tanks . • Car & Buggy Trailer Tanks • Pressure Washing Storage Ta,:>ks • Heavy Wall Construction • Custom Fitting Locations • New Systems • Auxiliary Systems • Replacements O.E.M. Trailer & Van.Mli . In uires Are Welcome RONCO PLASTICS, INC. • 714-259-1385 • FAX 714-259-0759 • WWW.ronco-plastics.com 150?2 Parkway Loop, Suite B • Tustin, CA 92780 • CALL/ WRITE or FAX Us to Receive a Free Catalog Page 42 May 2002 Dusty Times

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4&™ TOUR DE CORSE By Martin Holmes Peugeot Dominates 1, 2, 3 Photos: Maurice Selden Gilles and Herve Panizzi are immortalized by the photographers as they head for a 1-2-3 win for Peugeot, a remarkable feat. It was strictly a French Spanish Citroen Team, able not only to be fast show as Peugeot and Cit-the official Citroen in the dry, but also pull roen dominated the Team was absent from further ahead in the scoreboa.rd, taking the this event. Gilles Panizzi rain." first four positions and gained his second Cit-Ramon Ferreyros took it was a 1-2-3 for Peugeot roen win in three years, the Group N category at the 46th Tour de leading the rally all the and won the Production Corse, aka Rally de way and winning more Car World Champion-France. It should be than half the stages. ship, which brought Mit-noted that the Citroen "For me this was my best subishi their first major was a rivate entr of the success because I was victor with an Evo VIL TRANSAXLEENGINEERING;INC. SNORE 1999 Transaxle Builder Of The Year Congratulations Ric:Jtard Boyle Class 1 Winner MDR Ridgecrest 300 TRANS.AXLE ENGINEERING JEFF FIELD 9763VARIEL AVENUE CHATSWORTH, CA 91311 818-998-2739 Dusty Times May 2002 Ramon Ferreyros and Diego Vallejo took the Group N title in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, seen here cornering at speed. Both Ford and Subaru to be Armco barriers pressed the French cars where Makinen. crashed hard but Solberg was de-last year and water filled layed with a spin and plastic barriers at other then two punctures. hazardous locations. In Colin McRae then took fact, the Arn1co never up the challenge but he was erected oue to labor crashed on the pen.ulti-strikes on the island and mate stage of the event. the two stages concerned Only Peugeot and Ford were drastically short-finishe·d with two cars in ened. However, a surpris-the Makes points, while ing number of features Peugeot now has as n1any were new. The main points as second placed sponsor had been Ford and third placed Su-changed from Play Sta-baru together, and Gron-tion 2 to Inmarsat and holm held an eight being that the rally had point lead over Makin.en never been held this and Panizzi. early in the year there The third round of 14 were grave concerns for the 2002 World Rally about the weather, there Championship doubled was snow on some ·of the up as the second round roads a few weeks before of six for the Production the rally. Car World Rally Cham-There was some inter-pionship. This was the esting rivalry between first of two successive all Mitsubishi, -Peugeot and asphalt rallies and ·the Subaru as these three first non-winter rally of had each achieved 3 4 the season. The change World Championship in the championship cal-victories. For the record, eridar meant that this Lancia has 74 wins and was the second Tour de Ford has 40. The new Corse in five months. 2002 ·version rally cars And it _is here that Suba-were extensive redesigns. ru and Hyundai The Subaru featured launched their 2002 ver-relatively few changes sion World Rally cars. and Hyundai'.s Accent 3 With such a short were aimed at engine time between the-2001 performance and a con.-and the 2002 events, the sidera ble number of organizers played safe changes under the hood, and virtually Tepeated new turbo, etc. Tomasz the last event held here. Kuchar was making his To comply with the FIA debut for the Hyundai rule.that the course must Team, the first Polish be changed 20% each driver to have a foreign year in the nature of the works drive since 197 9. route, they reversed the It seemed strange that direction of special stage last year's.winning team, 3/6. There was supposed Continued on pag_e 44 The great looking Bugalski/Chiaroni Citroen Xsara was fourth overall at Corsica, shown here against a magnificent backdrop. Page 43

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Cornering hard in the rain is the Subaru lmpreza of Petter Solberg and Phillip Mills, 5"' overall at Corsica. sent but they were repre-sented by a car from their Spanish National Team and driven by two time winner Bugalski. There had been hopes of a ·battle. between the latest version Group N cars, but it was not. to be as the Lancer Evo VII for asphalt was ready but the "New Age" Subaru lmpreza was not. Every car entered in the Pro-duction Car World Championship category was a Mitsubishi variant. Three top drivers miss-ing from the event were last year's winner, Jesus Puras, six time winner Di-dier Auriol, and, because of the absence of the of-ficial Citroen Team., Sebastian Loeb. While the shakedown runs cannot be guaran-teed to be an accurate pointer, Solberg was re-to beat the Peugeot driv-ers, Burns, Gronholm and Rovanpera. Panizzi's car had a suspension failure and had not time recorded. Duval was the fastest Ford, fifth fastest overall. Freddy Loix was the fastest Hyundai, tenth overall. The two Mitsubishis were off the pace, 12th and 14th over-all. . Carlos Sainz gave some cautious words of support for the event. "I thirik the organizers have been a bit unlucky, I think that Australia is more dangerous than Corsica, and the drops at Monte Carlo are far worse than here. " Dele-cour added, "For me the drops in Cyprus are the worst of all." Of concern was the small entry in Group N. There were only 15 en-tered, six of them mousse and he Evo Vll's and all had to drive the of them last two clicks on Mitsubishi's in the wheel rim. one form or an-Gronholm lost an other. Ten of ·alternator belt them were regis-with 10 clicks to tered in Italy. go and he felt the Leg 1 Five engine was losing stages, asphalt, power. This al-95kms. The day lowed Panizzi to started clear and pull ahead by 18.5 dry but the clouds seconds, though started to cover Gronholm stayed the island and a second. Garde-storm crossed the meister had a rally area in the blocked exhaust, afternoon. Just ::is Thiry was having the shakedown shock problems had indicated, and had problems Peugeot started off selecting the as they intended proper damper set-to continue, win-tings on the ensu-ning every stage of ing stages and the the day and finish-Mitsubishi's were ing 1-2-3. Solberg well off the pace. was the only It was now that driver able to chal-,Corsi~a played its lenge them, until Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya corner hard through the true game. As they he slid off the mountains on their way to a ·nice 6'• place in the Ford were contesting road and lost a .:..F..:.0..:.:cu=-=s~-----------------Stage 4, it started minute. Kuchar had big Stages 1 and 2 Sainz's car to rain on Stage 5, with. troubles, his throttle flicked itself from first no chance to change stuck wide open, he con-gear into neutral, Duval tires. Then, for the later tinued the stage, using stalled twice at the start runners, especially his brakes to slow but of Stage 1 and Col in Group N, the rain they overheated so badly McRae stalled at the moved across to the he was unable. to con-start of the final stage of fourth stage. Solberg tinue. the day. spun, hit a rock, dam-The only problem the With his crash here aged the left rear suspen-Peugeots were having last year still on his sion and lost almost a was a damaged wheel on mind, Makinen was un-minu·te. By evening, Gronholm's car after he able to match teammate Gronholm had pulled kissed a rock. All the Solberg's times. The back to three seconds be-while, Panizzi was in stages were becoming hind Panizzi and Burns front and despite him prog.ressively dirtier as was third after a very calling his car "un-the cars threw up mud consistent day. stable", he won the first from the sides of the The Production cham-four stages and only lost road. 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too wide on a corner. As the rains came, Ferreyros took an extra spare wheel and tire on board (permitted in Group N) so he could change to west between Stages 4 and 5. By then, however, it was Stage 4 where it was raining and it had stopped on Stage 5. He still held his lead but it was down to 1.1 seconds. Manfrinato changed a flat and then went off· the road and out of the event while the only other Production Cup re-ti re men t was De Dominicis, whose car caught fire at the end of the third stage. Leg 2 -Seven stages, asphalt, 149kms. The same conundrum faced the teams as before. What was the running order going to be under the new system? Policy was becoming more de-fined, running in reverse order were not just the top 15 Makes champion-ship cars, but the top 15 Priority 1 drivers, which meant all the manufac-turer entered cars plus the manufacturers ap-proved entries as well, so we saw Thiry restart third on the road in his Bastos Team Peugeot and Duval in the fourth Focus in fourth place, each be-hind the two remaining Hyundais. Rain was in Dusty Times the air, and during the long first stage condi-tions changed, from half way through the stage to rain for the whole way, for the leading cars. Few drivers felt they had the best tires for the occa-sion, but Subaru was happy, first and second on the stage, Makinen pulling ahead of Burns into third place. Loix was slow and Gardemeister said he had no grip at all. Schwarz and Eriks-son both spun and Mord's Peugeot came to an· abrupt stop in the middle of the track with transmission failure. Getting tires to work in the rain continued to be the challenge. Bugal-ski stated to be happy with the Citroen and began to climb up the field. Solberg fell back, suspecting a shock prob-lem and both Panizzi and Burns reported brake fade on their Peu-geots on Stage 9. Stages 7 -9 formed a loop and these were repeated for 10-12. The rain moved around and sometimes the clouds came down to ground level. On Stage 10, Makinen was out, af-ter yet another accident on this island, this time aquaplaning into a rock wall. This was his third successive Corsica that ended in a crash. Mar-tin was going carefully but stalled on a corner when the master switch turned itself off. Solberg had a flat on the final stage and Gronholm was going better. In Production Group N Trelles lost about nine minutes stopped on Stage 6 with a differen-tial electronic problem and this dropped him from fourth to eighth. For the Group N cars it was raining all the way on Stage 6. Ferreyros left service with two interme-diates, two dries and two spare intermediates. He changed these round be-fore the stage and pulled 18 seconds out on Al Waihaibi, who had driven slowly to the end of the stage after sliding into a wall, but still safely in second place. The loop of Stages 7-9 was the time for Ferreyros' big attack, but he need not have bothered as Al Waihaibi threw it all away. After 8kms on Stage 9 he spun off the road and lost six min-utes, then 8kms from the end he cut a turn too sharply and damaged the steering. Driving towards the service park he broke a wheel and was now trying to reach the control on time. He got as far as the en trance road when the car Lifting the left rear wheel, the Loix/Smeets Hyundai Accent heads to a ninth pace finish at Corsica. lurched sideways into a boulder, bringing the car to its final rest. Ferreyros was now well ahead of the Bulgarian, with Mar-tin Rowe now in third. Trelles was pulling back up and by the end of the day went from eighth place to fourth. Leg 3 -Four stag.es, as-phalt, 112kms. The sun can'le out at last but the roads were still damp, es-pecially on the northern side of the hills where the sun had not yet reached. With a buffer building up behind them, the Peugeots were comfortable in their po-sition. Gronholm stated there was no hope of catching Panizzi. Colin started the day five sec-onds behind Bugalski and made fastest time on the first stage. Panizzi and Gronholm were eas-ing their pace. Burns felt his brakes going soft on the long downhill on Stage 14. Bugalski said his Citroen felt like a rear drive car on Stage 13, and this let McRae up to fourth. The Mitsubishi's were still not competitive, in the Hyundai camp, Loix's brakes were unstable and Schwarz had excessive tire wear on Stage 13. At Skoda, Eriksson retired after the gearbox case Continued on page 46 Ito. PerClass I 1 , \ . . \ chance to i, ~ WIN~ · · illllii~!c! ... ll'-.::!l.e-::-aa~ · . 17 --7"•awaiian TriP ~,, .,. May 2002 Page 45 ,.

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logging best time on the last stage. The Production Car Championship category leader Ferreyros was go-ing steadily, aware that there was a lot of mud on the road surfaces by now. Rowe was aston-ished at the way the stages seemed to get ever more twistier, easing his pace to cool his brakes and tires and he was aware that his shocks were seizing up. Roman was continuing well as he could in Ferreyros recce car, while Kollevold was finally having a clear run, not having to drive behind a two wheel drive local driver. Baldini was the ninth and last driver re-maining, still suffering from brake troubles. Panizzi was de°Iighted, not just to gain his fourth World Rally win, but because he was able to hold his own and pull ahead in the rain. Ferreyros went on to score an impressive de-but victory in the cat-egory for Mitsubishi and as the teams packed up to leave the island, the sun started to shine. _ _.· ... II-The village of Moca on Stage 3 gets a great look at the cars as they pass through town at high speed. broke o ·n the start line of the 14th stage. Duval rolled four times off the stage, the cause, a fiat tire with the mousse not working correctly. On the final lap of the mountains, for Stages 15 and· 16, came Colin's second major accident on this event in three years. Lying just seven seconds ahead of Bugal-ski after 5kms of Stage 15, he found unexpected mud lying on ·a lefr hand corner and this thre~ him off line for the en-suing right hander. His Ford ·Focus heavily im-pacted on a tree, collaps-ing the roll cage into the steering wheel. Colin had a slight concussion and an injured finger. The stage was stopped after Granholm had passed, and before Panizzi which immedi-ately threw into question what to do with the stage, and how could the interruption rule be fairly applied. Eventually the officials decided to give Panizzi the same R~llye de France 46"' Tour de Ccne 8/10.03.2002 Ajaccio (F) we round 3, PWRC round 2 , (3) Gil~s PANIZZI/HeM PaniUI 2 (2) Marcus GRONHOLMITmo R1ui.1nen 3 (1) Richard BURNS/Robert Reiel 4 (25) Phijippe Bugalsb'Jean-Paul Ctlllroni 6 (11) Petter SOLBERG/Phillp MIiis 6 (4) C.rlos SAINZ/Luis Moya 7 (7) Francois OELECOUR/Oaniel Gritaloup a (6) Markko MARTIN/Michael Park 11 (18) Freddy LOOOSVen Smetb 10 (8) AJll1er McRAE/Dal/id SenlDr Page 46 F Peugeot206 WRC FIN Peugeot206 WRC GB Peugeot206 WRC F caroen Xsara WRC NIGB su1>a111 lmpren WRC E Ford Focus RS WRC F MbUl>iShi Lancer Evolution WRC EOOB Ford Focus RS WRC B Hyundai Accent WRC GB Mbubbhl Lanc1r Evolution WRC Chair. ProSeat Mandated by tirne as Granholm, lying second, but the time for the slowest driver 'til then, as dictated by the interruption rule time (Gardemeister's) for ev-eryone else. 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T wp Racing Gears ....,, Ultra High Quality Gears with Race Proven · · CT:) Stre .. ngth an. d Per1ormance. Available for VW 1 Tr.. ( -~ . Type 1, Type 2. 091 Bus. BUMP STOPS HERE i\\e Stop the up-travel on your suspension · umn ,;to s stem. Automotive • ATV • Motorcycle 1815 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE RIVERSIDE, CA 92507, USA 909.369.5144 • 909.369.7266FAX WWW.WEBCAM INC.COM ~\~--.::Fi,_:: .. --:!.::\.:-094. MD4S. and 5-speed --;;;--.· ··~. ~ .,---.. ,_ 1\\\'.,..._ ... · -transaxles. Huge selection -, . , --~ of ratios 1n stock. --~·-~ :·,: .-' ,.:..~~\ FREE CATALOGUE Adam Wik SCORE ENGINE BUILDER OF THE YEAR 994, 1998, 1999,2000 From Parts To Complet~ Engines . - -~--~--~ (805) 696-9665 ~ Weddle Engineering• P.O. Box 1075 • Goleta, CA 93116 Y•lllmtlbe . .,. fll'OIQ S35 818-882-0004 ECONOMICALLY PRICED AT 319.90 PER PAIR. Yarnell Specialties, Inc. 102 Crestview P.O. Box 845 1-928-427-3551 Yarnell, AZ 85362 Motorcycles • KTM Dealer for over 20 years • Stock parts • Supports top riders suspension • Accessories . · Tires/knowledge · Open • 12pm-6pm M-F Various • Saturdays K:iN 714-449-1271 * 714-449-1374 Fax · 3675 w. Taco Ave. Unit 8, Las Vegas, NV 89118 702--837-2522 SPORTMOTORCYCLES www.KTM-Zracing.com ttr~~/a RIICINIJ Get the word out about your business, Big or small . Front & Rear TrailiniArms • Spindles Suspension Specialist • Custom Race & Play Buggy Chassis · A-Arm Front Ends • Beam Front Ends Race Cars ..... Dune Buggies Lorenzo Rodriguez Baja Bugs P~t your business card in the "GOOD STUFF DIRECTORY" and reach new customers Good Stuff Directory Ads 9608 N. 21st Dr. Phoenix, AZ 85021 · Jack Woods 602-242-0077 Fax 602-242-7283 Transmissions - Parts - Service -Welding V.W. - Porsche -Nissa11 - Toyota -Honda 850 S. Alta Vista Ave., Monrovia, CA 91016 (626) 914-8147 www.wrtrans.com ( <c:>.io1 ~St'-AC:e _are merely $35.00 per month. 818-882-0004 Classified ... NOTICb.. I Some of the items advertised in ~ese 'pages may not be legal for sale or use in all 50 states. Readers are advised to consult appropriate local or state authorities for information before purchase of any specific item. FOR SALE: Class 9 frame, 2180 air cooled engine with dual carbs, 2 Desert dog 10-15 LT tires on 5 spoke rims, 2 5.60-15 off road tread tires, ·Bus tranny extra shocks, steering brake system, and all other extra parts. $900.00 for everything. (814) 677-2251. FOR SALE: Chenowth Class 12/ 10. Single seat, new stroked 1776 with MSD, fresh Mendeola MD 4S, King by-pass, Howe Steering with filler, Summers out-board hubs & 300m axles, 33 gal fuel safe, Beard Ultra, Motorola radios, CNC, Cen-terline beadlocks, Car is prepped and ready to race with spares and 2 bodies. Call Jeff at (520) 631-0482. $18,000.00 FOR SALE Toyota Tacoma short course, Stadium, tough truck, 2 motors, Jerico tranny, 3"'Kusters, Fox bumps, 2 gold star clutches, Ford 9" 12 extra tires. All the good stuff, over $30,000 invested. Wife is sacri-ficing for $10,800.00 (262) 335-0300 or (414) 870-7586. Larry. · MOTORS FOR SALE: 427 CI Small block Chev. 18 degree Heads, Used 6 races $16,000.00. 396 CI Small block Chev. 18 de-gree Heads, used one season, then freshened $14,000.00-(920) 739-4934. FOR SALE: 1964 5-1600 fresh motor and trans, 2 new 9100 Bilsteins in front and 2 new large 1" shaft Bilsteins in rear with 3/8" shaft Bilsteins also, 300m Torsions, rear adjusters, Wright, 930cv's Combo Spindles, + 1 front and rear arms, $9,000.00 (909) 225-1989 cell, or hm (909) 845-9241. FOR SALE: Bus 091 Race Tranny out of Class 5 Unlim-ited car. 0 miles on Fresh rebuild. FTC gears, 930 Flanges. $2,800.00. (909) 245-1603. Classified Advertising rate is only $25 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use of black and white photo, or· a very sharp color print. Maximum size 5"x7".All Classified Ads must be PAID IN AD-VANCE. REMEMBER - CLASSIFIED AD SPACE IS LIMITED - YOUR AD MAY BE PUT OFF ONE ISSUE IF NOT RECEIVED IN A TIMELY MANNER. Enclosed is $ ____ _ Name Address City ___ _ (Send check or money order, no cash) Phone State _____ Zip ___________________ _ Please run ad ________ times Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer Street Chatsworth, CA 91311 FOR SALE: Class 12 Mirage 1835 Engine, l, seater, Fox Shocks w/coilovers in front, new trans, new axles, new motor, new car. Never ·raced not finsished. Almost race ready. I lave all parts. Steve (805) 522-1952 Price $20,000.00 OBO. FOR SALE: '87 GMC Sub-urban ¾ ton, 454, .Edelbrock, 425 h.p. Thorley headers, 60 series Flowmaster, Limited slip dif-ferentials, not street legal. $7,000.00 OBO (760) 321-4466. Deadlines for 2002-3 ISSUE DEADLINE June May 10, _2002 July ~ Jun 7,2002 August Jul 12, 2002 September Aug9,2002 October Sep6,2002 November Oct 4, 2002 December NovB,2002 .. • January Dec 6, 2002 • • February . JanlO, 2003 • March Feb 7, 2003 • • • • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Dusty Times May.2002 Page 53

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more Trail Notes ... Continued from page 7 Mint 400, in bright orange, of course. Ro raced in what is now Class 7, he didn't have a lot of success but he enjoyed having a lot of fun with his friends. In the late 70's, Ro met and married his soulmate, Joanie and together they enjoyed over 20 years of good times and happiness. Ro's funeral was April 11. Ro and Jean Calvin were good friends and they're probably having a few gin martini's upstairs and talking about the good old days. We'll miss your gravelly voice Ro, but we know you're in good hands. Thanks for your help, Mr. Sanders, we really appreciate the effort. SNORE BUFFALO BILL'S 400 -The SNORE Buffalo Bill's 400 went off without a hitch in nice weather and no major incidents to report. Ed Stewart took Class 1 and the overall, Steve Croll was the Class 10 winner, Bruce Fraley and Rob MacCachren did it again in 1600, besting 60 others in class, John Phegley took Heavy Metal honors, Shawn Wanzek took Mini Metal, Mike Blanks was the 5-1600 winner, Joel Mohr took the Class 9 medal, Sportsman Buggy went to Greg Frechette and Eric Gremm was the Sportsman Truck honoree. The full race story with lots of pies will be in the next issue of Dusty Times. MR RIDGECREST 300 -The MDR Ridgecrest 300 kicked ff on the same weekend as above and a good race was had y all. Richard Boyle took Class 1 honors and first overall as well. Dale Dondel was the Class 5 winner, Steve Johnston made the 5-1600 race look easy, Doug Peterson took Class 7, Eric Heiden took: Class 8 honors, Kevin Kopitch was the Class 9 winner, Whit Courtenay took the Class 10 medal, Class 1200 went to Mike Dill, Clint Fisher took Class 1300, Class 1400 went to Craig Pearson, Billy McCool was the 1600 winner and Barrie Thompson won Class 1700. Look for the full race report in next months issue of Dusty Times. NEW VIDEO -If you're tired of bowling and Bob Vila on your massive tv screen, Curt LeDuc has co-produced an off road video that should get your heart beating again. Called "Never Lift", the 45 minute show includes action filmed in Mexico and Nevada, as well as the Pikes Peak race, the CORR Series and some bits from the Paris To Dakar rally. You will also see Robby Gordon and LeDuc flying at Glamis. It's an entertaining video and between action sequences there are some bits of pithy off road phi-losophy from LeDuc. Call Peak Productions at 805-383-9367 or on line at www.neverlift.com OFF ROAD SWAP MEET -Curt LeDuc is doing it again, his Off Road Swap Meet has a new date, June 30; 2002 and a new location, California Speedway. Expanded meet now includes Sandcars and 4x4's as well as Off road racing parts, new and used. For more information call (909) 845-8820. (See our ad in the June issue of Dusty Times.) Why aren't you subscribing to Dusty Times? Only $25 per year puts Dusty Times in your Mailbox every month. What are you waiting for? more Classified ... AUTOtvl-QTI b. CONTINU6..D FOR SALE: 95 F150 Fo'rd Stock Full, 351 Motor, Mogi Trans, King Shocks, too many parts to list. $50,000.00 Call (818) 764-3038. SCORE and Best in the Desert legal. FOR SALE: Class 7 truck-New never raced. Computer designed and professionally built at Foutz Motrosports 20" front travel, 30" rear travel. All the best parts. 4.5 L V6, E40D trans, Bilstein, Howe Rack, BF Goodrich, too 1nuch to list. For st>ri011s inquires call Greg Foutz at (480) 838-2100. SEMI AWNING FOR SALE: 48' 2 ¾" x 21' white w/side curtains BFG logo $3,000.00 (920) 739-4934. LIQUIDATION SALE: Chenowth Magnum short course car and Pro-Lite 7:"oyota for sale. Both ve-hides all have top of the line parts. Extra new chassis, ex-tra 1notors, trannys, bead-lock wheels/tires and numer-ous other parts that go with the buggie. The Pro-Lite has extra motor + parts and has been raced very little. I am selling everything associated with off-road racing. Call Steve Sallenbach for details at wk (402) 443-4117 or HOME: (402) 625-2802. FOR SALE: Raceco Class 10 or 12, 1835cc Type 1, 091 Buss Tranny, Fox Coilover with custom bypass shock each corner, Sum-mers Bros. hubs, 930 cv's New Fuel Safe Cell, Parker Pumper, Beard Seat, Fodrill front a·rms and spindles, Saco rack, MSD Ignition, This car is fast and re!1dy to race. $17,500.00 (520) 744-4005 or (520) 885-5578. FOR SALE: Raceco Two Seater, Class 10 Powered by FAT, Toyota 4AG, New Seats, New Rear Arm's and brakes, All Fab work done by Pen-hall Fab. Radio & intercom, Power Steering, Bilstein by-pass in rear, coil over in front. Very clean car. Have spares $20,000.00 Baja Brokers Ref #838 (760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: NOT YOUR FATHERS MANX BUGGY, 96" WB, Full Tube frame, IRS Bus trans, Close ratio gears, 6 Fox Shocks, 10" front & Rear Beard seats, Wright Rack, 90.5 x 74 1904cc motor, 40x35.5 heads, Weber 44, Current CA licensed, no smog re-quired, complete with spares & tools, 15K invested, $9,500.00 OBO. (909-) 393-7512. FOR SALE: Transmission-Bus Box-Built by Trans-West for Class 10 car. Best of .ev-erything. Great for race or sand car. One-race on re-build. $1700.00 (928) 636-3972. <Don't Porget <To Support <Tlie _ft_.dvertisers Wlio 'JCeep DIBliJlil■II ~porting_ <Tlie· Off (J(oad Nerws ! Page 54 May 2002 FOR SALE: 1-1600 Fibercraft. less motor, D.J. Trans, Wright, UMP, FOX, Hells, Centerline, Cactus air, Neal, Simpson, Di'est, Yoko-hama, 930 C.V.'s, SAW, Fuel Safe. Car has never fin-ished less than third. 2 class championships. $7,000.00 Evenings. (530) 544-8319. FOR SALE: FORD 150 Stock Full, SCORE Legal or 8100 BITD. Built with best parts, National, PCI, King, Parker, etc. Truck load of new spare parts. Engines, transmissions, rears, too much to list. Very reliable, places in top three and fin-ishes every race. Very well maintained. Truck is prepped and race ready, chase crew and initial sup):>0rt available $60,000.00. OBO. Call Al (406) 321-4644. Possil;>ly trade part of price towards Prerunner. FOR SALE: 1996 Sport 5th wheel car hauler-new tires, rims, brakes. Onan 4000, 100 gal water, 45 gal gas, A/C, Stoye/Oven, Refer/Freezer, Micro, .TV, VCR, hot water, coffee maker, Awning, sleeps 7, heater, perfect for 1600. Call for complete list. Porter (702) 525-1051. $20,000.00. CL. 12-2 seat. Super hot package. Jimco King shocks, Mastercraft, Wik's, Fodrill Summers· Bros, new powder coat and fresh prep, CNC, H.l.D. lights complete. Best of the best & fast. 35k Ref #840 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. FOUR ENGINES, 2-430 CI W /Brod ax Heads, 2-430 CI W /SB 2 Heads, front engine aluminum mounting plate w/ all accessory drive equipment mounted to them, freshened, · $12,500.00 each run $10,000.00 each. ALSO FOR SALE C&C Standard-Modern Model 17x60 Lathe w/ Anilam 1200-$38,500.00 OBO, Please call (608) 254-4788 Flannery Racing AKA Off-Road Logging. Dusty Times

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+ FOR SALE: 96 Jimco A-Arm Chass Single Seat FAT Toyota V6. Fields Auto Trans Axle, new Trick R. Ryerson 3 in front coilover & 3 in By-pass rear shocks, New Race;-A-Arms & rear hubs-Car maged Clean-Prepped & ready to race. Can meet in the desert for test $42,000.00 Days (760) 344-0535 Eves (760) 344-1328. FOR SALE: F-150 Prerunner/ Chasetruck, 450 hp, built C6 Guss. 9" 20" front travel chro-moly beams and radius arms 3" coilovers 18" rear travel Deaver race springs 21/2" triple bypass 320 cell mounted pit box us-able bed space. Autometer; De-ist, Beard, Art Carr full int. a/ c heater, pwr. everything, 35" Baja TA"S too much too list $15,900.00 OBO (714) 473-1058. Race or Play. Ultimate pre-runner Blazer. 8 first place MOR wins! Champion '99 and '01. I-Beam front sus-pension, 4130 cage, Coilover and bypass front and rear, 30" front, 28" rear travel, Willwood disc brakes, Sum-mers hubs, Walker Evans built front suspension, Don-ahoe prep, maintenance and fab. Howe power steering, Dana 60 rear, Summers Bros 40 spline, full floater, 440 HP engine, 50 gallon Fuel Safe cell, 17" Ultra bead locks with BFGs, MoMo, dual batteries, PCI, OPS, AutoMeter, Beard, Deist, MSD, Art Carr, 67K Ref #844. Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: Score Lite-Class 12 single seat Jimco_ Fresh Ken Majors 1776cc, fresh JG type 11 tranny, 3" Sway-A-Way bypass, w/coil over Fox combo. All Wright up front. 'UMP! P/S, 930 CV's, Mas-tercraft, 28 gal Fuel Safe, Xtremely competitive, 3'd at "Pri1nm", lots of spares, Race Ready! Wk (858) 571-4911, hm (619) 463-4104, cell (619) 540-8815. Dusty Times Cl 7s S-10 4WD. Ex-Mac truck. Hella lights, National Springs, tig welded 4130 cage, Dana 44, Fuel Safe cell, Auto Meter gauges, Master Craft, Tilton· peddles, built 2.8 V-6 BF Goodrich and American Racing. Proven winner. Professionally built in 1986. Clean, strong and dependable! Ref# 843 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: 1996 Motorcoach, sleeps 6-8, fully self contained, oak cabinets, 3 cylinder, diesel generator. Custom built on 1990 Inter-national tractor $70,000.00 (920) 7 39-4934. FOR SALE: 79 F150 Ford Stock Full, 460 Motor, Mogi Trans, King Shocks, lots of parts. $25,000.00 Call (818) 764-3 03 8. SCORE and Best in the Desert legal. FOR SALE: 2002 Alumicraft Pre-Runner. By-pass Chassis, Mendeola MD 4, Vortec V6, 285 HP, Fox by-pass, 35" projects, Beard, Ultra , Billet spindles, 935 CV's, big axles, Fuel Safe, windshield, roof rack, powdercoated, 300 miles on car. New cond. $52,000.00. Call (619) 972-7209. Class 7 Toyota-Super Tough, dependable, 22R motor, four wheel drive, straight axle, Bilstein 60mm shocks, super clean fab, 12" front travel, 17" rear travel, Centerforce clutch, rr disc brakes, 32 gal tank, Aicoas, BFG, PCI Roadmaster, MSD, Beard seats, National Springs, 35 Spline 9'.', Strange rr cliff, $18k. Baja Brokers Ref# 839 (760) 723-2117. . FOR SALE: 1990 Peterbuilt, 800,000 mls. 60 series De-troit Diesel, Eaton 13 sp. Axle, New Goodyear tires, New brakes, Air Cond. Front and rear, synthetic oils only, exc, cond. and ready to work. For sale or trade for A Arni Class· 1 or 2 Roller Frame. (909) 245-1603. FOR SALE: 1-1600 Never Raced since reco~dition. New Foddrill arms & spindles, Brakes, & drums, Mastercraft Seat, Center-lines, & Tires, 930 stub Ax-les, Power Steering, pump oil cooler, skid plates, plumbed & wired. Ready to Race, less engine and trans, $8,500.00 (909) 845-3259. CHEVY BLAZER PRE-RUN-NER FOR SALE: Fiberglass front end, all tube frame, A-Arm front, Coil over on all corners, Sway bars front and rear, 350 Crate motor w/ Allison 4 speed automatic, 9 inch Christman rear end w/ vented disc brakes on all cor-ners, telescopic and tilt steer-ing wheel, AC, radio, 3 or 4 seater w/4 point harness, cus-tom dash, 2 glove boxes, 27 inches of travel, 35" BFG project tires incl. Spare, lots of storage space. Run on pump gas, very strong and re-liable, electric windows and locks, easy to maintain, $45,000.00 Call Danny Fod-drill (623) 582-2499. Don't miss this one, excellent truck for the money; no expense spared very detail work. FOR SALE: Single Axel trailer, perfect for Class 1 to Class 11 buggy or bug. Tires and wheel bearings in great condition. Call Mark (408) 768-4733 or email MrBell66 at Hotmail.com. FOR SALE: 3.6 Porsche Twin plug motor. Recent Overhaul-JE Pistons 12:5 comp. Dual Webbers-Ex-haust-Clutch-air cleaners-igni-tion (310) 328-3595. Ron Brant. May 2002 FOR SALE: Class 5 Unlim-ited New Typed IV 2755cc Fat motor, 4 way bypass in back Bilsteins & Fox Shocks. All coilover car progressive suspension. Will part motor out for $9,500.00 or whole car for $20,000.00 (505) 867-1371. (214) 244-4659. Scott Baxter. · FOR SALE: Class 12 or PreRunner, 2 . seat, Fox Coilovers, 300m Sway-A-Way, 930 CV's, Double Shear combo spindles, power steering, Fields Bus Box, 25 gal Fuel Cell, Parker Pumper, Beards, Disc Brakes, 2180 FAT Motor, $12,500.00. New 8 ½ x 14 x 7' enclosed trailer w/diamond plate & shelves $4,000.00. (818) 606-9559. FOR SALE: BITD C lass 1000 Champion Car 2001-New motor (Yolks). No races on Fully prepped car. Over-haul trans, Mar 02. No races on trans or motor: Asking 35k or best offer. Kevin (702) 269-0013 (hm) (702) 407-6700 (wk). . FOR SALE: 1-1600 Lothring-er. Wiks engine, JG Trans, Power Steering, Fox Shox, many spares, with trailer. $10,000.00 (805) 520-1687 or (818) 807-6409. Peter. · b..t\/lPLOYtvlb..NT TWO POSITIONS AVAIL-ABLE-LOOKING FOR A Sales Consultant with counter sales experience and off-road racing parts knowl-edge. Organizational skills a must. ALSO available, Shop Manager including fabrica-tion and installation. Must be an honest, self-starter with vast experience. This posi-tion holds great potential for the right person who is ready for a long term commitment. Send resume to Baja Con-cepts 1040 S M ain St. Fallbrook, CA 92028 or fax to (760) 723-9938. Sell Your Car, Pre-Run-ner, Parts or Bits & Pieces Right Here ... Dusty Times Has The Off Road Readership You're Looking For. Only $25 for up to 45 words plus $5 with photo. Form o n Page 53. HeWrites4U is here to help you with Press Releases, Technical \Vriting, Illustrations and Pub-lic Relations campaigns for you or your company. Published in dozens of magazines, particularly automotive related and able to help you when you need it most. For more information call (619) 561-5881 or email Hewrites4U@ool.com. PARKER 400 V IDEO: 2 hr 13 mins of action on VHS. Copies $15 ea. Contact Tony @ Y-Not Productions www. y-n ot-pro d uc ti o ns. Online ordering via Pay Pal or (760) 641-9356. To order by mail send cash or check to: 1120 S. Pacific Apt D. Oceanside, CA 92054. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Aggressive Suspensions ........................ 2 7 American JeepSpeed ·challenge .............. 4 Austecx ................................................... 18 Baker Performance ................................. 19 Best In The Desert... .......................... 9, 18 Bilstein .................................................... 21 Cactus ..................................................... 33 Cam burg Engineering ............................. 3 5 Coast Resorts .......................................... 1 0 DCS -Digital Communications Systems ............... 2 2 Fabtech ......... : ............................................ 8 FAT Performance ................................... 44 FRT Motorsports .................................... 2 3 Fuel Safe Racing Cells ........................... 42 Genuine Steel ......................................... 3 3 German Auto .......................................... 41 GPORRA .................................................. 36 ISCO ........................................................ 13 Kartek Off Road ............................... 29, 39 Kawaguchi Honda .................................. 31 KC Hilites ................................. Back Cover King Shock Tech .................................... 2 6 Light Force Engineering ....................... ~ 38 Mc1stercraft ............................................ 46 McKenzie Performance Products ......... 13 Mendeola Racing .................................... 16 Mickey Thompson Tires ........................ 2 8 Mojave Desert Racing ............................ 14 MORE ...................................................... 25 MSD Ignition .......................................... 20 l'tevada Off Road Buggy .......................... 15 Outlaw Racing Sale ............................... 42 Parker Pumper ........................................ 24 Parker Pumper/Competition Air ............ 46 Parker Pumper/Eibach Springs ............. 11 PCI ............................................................. 2 Pike's Family Restaurant ...................... 44 • Race Prep Services ................................. 3 0 Race Ready .............................................. 3 2 Rancho Performance ............................. 40 Ronco Plastics ........................................ 42 Skyjacker Suspensions .......................... 12 SNORE ..................................................... 17 Solder Joint ............................................ 3 9 Strictly Performance ............................. 3 7 Sway-A-Way Corp ..................................... 5 T ransaxle Engineering ........................... 43 -Tri-Mil Industries .................................. 15 Valley Performance ................................ 3£, VORRA ..................................................... 45 Web Cam ................................................. 34 Page 55

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