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Volume 19 -Number 6 June 2002 Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor John Calvin Associate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller Joh n Calvin Marketing Par Caplan Circulation Vance Scott Contributors C& C Race Phoros Shnyl Cannon Carrera Photography Mike Chamberland J&L Photography Jim Culp Mike Del Col Marrin Holmes Rod Koch Ralph Mason Ron Mill.-r Rene Montana Byrl.- Moore Troy Robinson Jeff Straw Darryl Smirh Tony Tellier Paul Timmerman Trackside Phom Art Director Larry Worsham Subscription Rates: $25.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Sub-scription rates on request. Contributions: DUSTY TIMES welcomes contributions, bur is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited material will be returned only by request and with a self addressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 8750-1732) 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 IA, 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 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new address, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth. CA 91311. snapshot of the Month ... We nonnally don't have our picture taken, hut here's a good shot of right ann Bekki, that great voice you talk to on the phone, your liiendly editor in the middle and the world famous Martin Holmes, Eurvpean correspondent, all posing in front of Dusty Times Chatsworth, CA of.ice. DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your mapshot of something comic or some disaster for. consideration. DUSTY T IMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, selt~addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to 8xl0 will be considered. In This Issue ... FEATURES SNORE Buffalo Bill's 400 by John Calvin ............................................................ · .. 8 38th Rally Catalunya by Martin Holmes ................................. .............................. 16 MDR Ridgecrest 300 by Judy Smith· . ._ ..................................................................... 20 Australian Griffith City 500 by Stephan Hilton ................................................ .. 28 M.O.R.E. Balls Out 250 by John Calvin ....................................................... ......... 33 BITD Terrible's Town Motorcycles by Mark Kariya ........................................... 35 E tero Beach International Short Course by Sheryl Cannon ........................... 39 O regon Train Pro Rally by Jim Culp ................................... ................................... 44 O rego n Club Rally by Jim Culp .............................................................................. 46 DEPARTMENTS Happenings .......................................... ................................................................. 5 Trail Notes .............................................................................................................. 6 Checkers by John Hastings ........................................................................................ 48 Core Pit Report by Wayne Nosala ............................................... .. .......................... 48 CRS Report· by The Director .............. ........................ ............................................... 49 FAIR News by Wes Wisdom ........... ........ _. ................................................................... 50 Protruck Racing Report ...................................................................................... 51 Good Stuff Directory .......................................................................................... 52 Classified Ads .......................................... .......................................... .................. 58 Index To Advertisers .............................. : ............................................................ 59 on The cover Ed Stewart and Scott Sellers had a great race at the SNORE Buffalo Bill's 400, they rocketed around the 400 mile course with hour and a quarter laps in the powerful Jimco. Color Photography by Carrera Photo Whit Courtenay and Gene Brown drove their Toyota powered Jimco to the Class 10 win at the MDR Ridgecrest tourney, running trouble free and finishing with half an hour in hand. Color Photography by Trackside Photo Visit Our Website at Dustytimes;com <Jubscribe :Joda_y lo DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! D 1 year -$25.00 · □ 2 years -$40.00 D 3 years -$55.00 (no credit cards please) □ NEW □ RENEWAL Name ----------------------Address --''---------------------City ----------------------St ate Zip --------------------Primary Interest Cars O Trucks O Motorcycles 0 Send check or money order to: DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 Canadian - I year $30.00 US ■ Overseas subscription rates upon request Dusty Times June 2002 Page 3

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2002 Happenings ... AMERICAN RALL y 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 TruAf.s SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES . BILL MARKUM -PRESIDCNT (909) 860-1857 24 HR HOTLINE -(714) 562-7742 E MAIL: bmark909@aol.com <www.atatrails.com> AsocIACION EsTATAL DE AUTOMOVILISMO SAM i..ASELL, TECH INSPECTOR NTO 42 SAN JOSE DEL CABO BAJA CALIFORNIA DEL SUR. MEXICO AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSlDP DARRYL SMITH 19 SOMERS ST. CASHMERE, QtJEENSLAND, 4500, AUSTRALIA DUSTY TIMES@bigpond.com AmocRoss QUEBEC OFF RoAD CLASS 10 CARS ONLY RENALD VAILLANCOURT 3069 DAGENAIS WEST LAVAL Qt IEBEC, CANADA H?P IT? (450) 622-4440 BARONA SAND DRAG AssN. P.O. Box 1521 LAKESIDE, CA 92040 All Races Are.Night Races All Races Ar Barona Raceway, Lakeside, CA BBM MARKETING PROMOTIONS OFF ROAD SHORT COURSE RACING & SPECIAL EVENT MARKETING 4344 VALLEY VIEW AvE. NORCO, .CA 92860 (909) 340-6474 BEST IN THE DESERT RACING ASSOCIATION 3475 BOl ILDER HIGHWAY LAS VEGAS, NV 89121 (702) 457-5775/ FAX (702) 641-2431 E-MAIL: bitd@worldnet.att.ner June 19-23, 2002 Nevada 1000 August 9-11, 2002 Tonopah 300 Tonopah, 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 NORTH St INSET, UT 84015 (801) 773-1651/(801) 773-9319 FAX 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-lHO (613) 475-1102/FAX (613) 475-3250 CAJOR CLUB AUTOMOV/L/STA/UARENSE DE CilAMPIONSHIP OFF-ROAD RACING 7210 GATEWAY EAsT EL PASO, TX 79915 (915) 593-4848 RALPH GARCIA Oll-52-16-17-45-42 CESAR FUENTES CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES S1JE ROBINSON· DIRECTOR 845 Sc HOOH011sE RoAo RAMONA, CA 92065 (760) 788-3809 E-MAIL: crsdirecr@honnail.com WEBSITE <califori1iarallyseries.com> Joi-IN DILLON, SoPAc RALLY STEWARD sopacrallysteward@honnail.com August 24, 2002 Gorman Ridge Club Rally Frazier Park, CA September 28, 2002 Treeline Club Rally West Covina, CA Dusty Times November 1-2, 2002 Prescott Forest Pro & Club Rally Prescott, AZ December 13-15, 2002 Ramada Express International Rally Laughlin, NV CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box 400 MAYWOOD, CA 90270 (323) 560-SHOW CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 645 PIERRE, SD 57501 DAVE ADAMS (PILOTS AND BAJAS) (605) 224-9481 DON ENGLEMAN (BIKES) (605) 224-4967 Camburg Engineering 714-848-8880 Baja Concepts 760-723-2117 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 Twr. LINE ROAD WELLSVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Harrison CountJ Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH Cum AmoMOVILISTICA SAN QUINTIN CALLE 6TA FRAcc Co. DE SAN QUINTIN SAN QUINTIN, BC, MEXICO HERACLIO PATINO (011 52 616-5-22-07) CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE SAN VICENTE OFF ROAD ENSENADA, BC, MEXICO USA )AN WRIGHT (011 52 61746834) . June 2002 RAMON CASTRO & RUBEN ACEVEDO (61637/7 0034) CMC CONTINENTAL MOTOSPORT CLUB P.O. Box 3187 MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690-3178 FAX: (714) 367-1608 CODE BRAVO 120-B ZONA CENTRO, MEXICALI, BC, MX 011-52-553-4087 <www.codeoffroad.com> mail@codeofftoad.com June 1-3, 2002 KC HiLites Night Race Laguna Salada Mexicali, Baja California Mexico August9-ll, 2002 ORW Gran Prix Tecate, Baja California,Mexico October 4-6·, 2002 Los 200 Millas de Botica Santa Maria Laguna Salada Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico November 29-December 1, 2002 Bypa Mangiamos 300 Mexicall To San Felipe Baja California, Mexico (This e11ent is a co-promotion with ZR Promotions and will include motorcycles and quads) · COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION BARB VAHSHOLTZ, PRESIDENT (719) 531-3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P.O Box 8286 COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP P.O. Box 392 CALEXICO, CA 92232 HECTOR CERECER Ol 1-52-65-66-4458 CORR/LucAs OIL PRO & SPORTSMAN SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP OFF ROAD RACING 192 N. STATE ROAD 267, SUITE 267 AvoN, IN 46123 (317) 272-2827/FAX: (317) 272-290w, Shack by SWAY-A-WAY® .cam to learn more or call 81 BJ 700-9712 Sway-A-Way, Inc. Chats\Narth, CA Pages

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Trail Notes .... SCORE BAJA 1000-SCORE announced that the 2002 SCORE Ba.ja 1000 will start in Ensenada (for the 27th time) and will finish in La Paz (for the 15th time). SCORE also announced that the dates for this most memorable race will be November 20-23, 2002. All pre-race activities will be held in Ensenada. The final race route, which is still being plotted, will be close to the 1000 mile mark. MORE SCORE -Motorcycles and Quads were added to the SCORE Henderson Terrible's 250 event in July, the first time in nearly 10 years that bikes and quads have raced in the USA under the SCORE banner. They have also announced that the race will be a season points race for the bikes and quads as well as _for the buggies, cars and trucks. SCCA PRoRAlLY OREGON TRAIL RALLY -The third round of the SCCA ProRally series took place on April 6 and 7 in the Portland, Oregon area. David Higgins and Chris Patterson took the Open Class and the overall win in their Subaru WRX. Rhys Millen and Garry Cowan were second in Open, second overall in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo. Mark Higgins and Michael Gibson were third in the Hyundai Tiburon. Ralph Kosmides and Jimmy Brandt took the Group N category in their Subaru Impreza WRX-Sti. The Group 2 winners were Scott Fuller and Jeff Call in a VW Golf Gti. David and Rick Hintz took the Group 5 medal in their Mazda RX-7 Turbo. Production category was won by Josh Jacquot and Dave Coleman, in their Hyundai Tiburon. The Production GT category was won by Bob Henderson and John McArthur in a Subaru WRX. The Drivers Points look like this: David Higgins 45, Mark Higgins 38, Mark Lovell 32 and Rhys Millen in 4th with 24 points. Manufacturers Championship points are: Hyundai 40, Mitsubishi 29 and Subaru 27. In the 2WD Manufacturers points, Mitsubishi leads Mazda 40 to 32. See the complete story on page 36 of this issue. CALIFORNIA CoNCOURS D' AUTOMOBILE-If you like Ferrari, and whether you own one or would like to own one, you can see a bunch of them at the Concours that is featuring the Ferrari Marque on June 23, 2002 at the Rainbow Lagoon ·Park in Long Beach, CA, next to the Convention Center. For more information call Maurice at 562-429-7151 or on line at www.calconcours.com. RIM OF THE WORLD RALLY -The fourth round of the SCCA ProRally Championship took place in the mountain~ surrounding Palmdale, Ca. on May 3rd and 4th and, as usual it was well attended and a great success and, again, as usual, the weather was as close to perfect as you could get. It was the rhird consecutive overall win for the independent David Higgins, each win with a different co-driver. Visiting WRC driver Petter Solberg stated that the conditions here are very similar to the Acropolis and Cypress rallies, two of the toughest and most challenging rallies on the WRC schedule. A full report will be in the next issue of Dusty Times. Some of the winners in various classes are: David Higgins and Daniel Barrett in a Subaru WRX, taking the Open Division and the overall, second in Open was Mark Higgins and Michael Gibson in a Hyundai Tiburon, third in Open was the father/ son team of Karl and w;yne Scheible in their Subaru Impreza. In Group N it was Doug Havir and Scott Putnam in their Subaru WRX. In Production GT the win went to Brian Scott and Ed Wahl in their Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX. Lauchlin O'Sullivan and Aaron Laeng were the G 2 winners, driving a Mitsubishi Lancer RMR. Jeff Field and Dave Weiman took the Production division in their Toyota Celica GTS. Doug Shepherd and Peter Gladysz took the honors in Group 5 and Bill Malik and Christain Edstrom won the Group 2 laurels. Some notable retirements were Rod Millen, Mitsubishi, Lon Peterson, Subaru, Tony Chavez, Mitsubishi, Paul Choiniere, Hyundai, all of these on the first day. On day 2 Rhys Millen retired his Mitsubishi and Ramana Lagemann also retired in a Subaru. As best as we could find out all these retirements were for mechanical, electrical or suspension problems. In Drivers Points, David Higgins leads with 67, brother Mark Higgins has 50, Mark Lovell has 44 and Mark Nelson and Rhys Millen are tied with 25 points each. In the Manufacturers Points Hyundai leads the group, Subaru is in second and Mitsubishi is in third. A full report on the "Rim" will be in the July issue of Dusty Times. CARLISLE CAR SHOW -We talked about the show in Pennsylvania a few issues back and now that the figures are in the book we are happy to report that the 26th annual show had good and hot weather and more than 121,000 enthusiasts spent some of their time and money at the show. The 82 acre site saw all of the 8,200 ventlor spaces full of parts, accessories, literature and memorabilia. The Car Corral had more than 1800 collector cars and trucks from all eras and in all conditions. The 2003 edition of the Spring Carlisle Collector Car Swap Meet and Corral will take place Wednesday, April 23 through Sunday, April 27, 2003. For more info, call 717-24 3-7 85 5 or www.carsatcarlisle.com. A NEW ERA -As most of you know, Dusty Times has been giving a hundred dollar bill at selected races to the last official tinisher for quite a few years with no requirement other than being last. · However, effective with this issue, in order to win the Dusty Times money, you must be the last official finisher AND you must be a current Dusty · Times subscriber. 'Nuf said. RED FACE DEPARTMENT -In last months Trail Notes we noted that Craig Pearson had won the Street Legal Class at the MDR Ridgecrest 300. We were in error, the class was actually won by Ed Moore who put in a very long hard day. Sorry Ed, read Judy's story in this issue for your just deserts. Page& May 25-26, 2002 Pro Series Edmeston, NY June 8~9, 2002 Pro & Sporrsman 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 1-800-42 CORVA EXT 42 FAX (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS DAVE VAN DEREN 2405 BAKER AVE. EVERETT, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (All events at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA <rr Thurston Count)' ORV Park, Ol7mpia, WA) DAKAR RALLY DARREN SKILTON BAJA AUTOMOTIVE ADVENTURES 455 E. OCEAN BLVD., SUITE 208 LONG BEACH, CA 90802 (562) 755-2278/FAX: (562) 590-7925 Baiaautomotive@Yahoo.!;;Qill lli:cATUR FoUR WHEEL DRIVE CuJB DECATUR, TX 76234· ToMALLEN (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 DESERT STEEL MoTORSPORTS 1865 COMMANDER DRIVE LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ 86403 (520) 855-6125 EASTERN OFF-ROAD RACING ASSN. TOM DELA! IDER, SR. 1091 TOWNSHIP LINE ROAD WELLSVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 f.NsmADABAJA OFF ROAD RACING Av. REFORMA li36 ENSADA, BC, MX Ol l-52-646-1818989 Eus10 0ll-52-646-1715230 AARON August 3-5, 2002 Corona-Budweiser/Home Saga Ensenada 300 Above Races f<rr buggys & Mot<rrcycles EsrERO BEACH INTERNATIONAL SHORT COURSE RACING VICTORIA GALINDO ENSENADA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO 011-526-176-6225 FORDA FLORIDA OFF ROAD DRIVER'S As:s-N. JASON LEIBIN (727) 376-4176 June 1, 2002 July 13, 2002 August, 2002 TBA Septemberl4,2002 November 17, 2002 Mar, Apr, Mai, Noo at Davidson Raceway FRT MoTORSPORTS 250 KENNEDY, #2 CHULA VISTA, CA 920ll (619) 427-5759 E10tAII.: FUD9@cox.net Motorcycles. ATVs & Dez Superlites MXAnd OH Road Short Course (All at Imperial Valley Expo, Imperial, CA) • 2002 Buggies & Trucks CorkyMcrnil/in Companies Superstition Championship Series ;:.·.·: August 10-11, 2002 -''· CODE/FRT · Tecate, Baja California :.,:. Mexico ·:.._-· October 19, 2002 '.~:~· Superstition 250 :;-.. -· Plaster City East :-December31, i002 Dunaway Dash : Plaster City West Motorcycles. A TV's & Desert Superlites June8,2002 Thunder In The Valley Imperial County Fairgrounds June 2002 July 14, 2002 Desert Sprint July 27, 2002 C/M Nite 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 TI1e 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 Thunder In TI1e Valley Imperial County Fairgrounds December 31, 2002 Dunaway Dash GORRA GEORGIA OFF ROAD RACING AS:S-OCIATION 4 20 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 Park August 17, 2002 Nebraska Raceway Park September 14, 2002 TBA All races are short course, stadium style. Classes · Sp<rrtsman Buggy, 1/2/ 5-1600, Sp<rrt Trnckand Quads. Nebraska Raceway Park is just minutes west of Omaha, NE. <www.gporra.com> 1 OK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box 36 CLEVES, OHIO 45002 (All events staged at the club grounds in Cleves. Ohio) INTERNATIONAL lcE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 ST. PAUL, MN 55108 STEVE BEDDOR (612) 937-3816/FAX 474-2769 INn:R-SHows MoTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INc. P.O. Box 2910 MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 }EEPSPEED RACING FOR STREET LEGAL /EEP CHEROKEES 1826 N. WINDES DRIVE ORANGE, CA 92869 (714) 538-7434 <www.)eepspeed.com> e-mail: Jeepspeedcom@aol.com KAMLooPS BRONCO BUSTER 4woCuJB P.O. Box 465 KAMLOOPS, BC, CANADA VZG5L2 . Bos (250) 374-7175 DAYS RANDY (250) 579-9621 EVES. WES (250) 351-2819 LAS VEGAS SANDSPORTS & OFFROAD EXPO (626) 961-3782 <www.prerunners.com> <www.megashow.com> L.I.T.R.E. JEFF ELROD (408) 926-0522 ]IM ARLJTA (408) 247-4402 MAMAluuTA OFF ROAD RACING • Luts CARLOS ALvAREZo PANAMERICANA AvE #5105. Co. JUAREZ, CHIH., MX 011-52-1637-1799 MicmGAN BUGGY BUILDERS DUNE BUGGY TRADE SHOW (517) 543-7214 <www.buggybuilders.com> MicmGAN OFF RoAD CHAMPIONSlilPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 ]ONES ROAD GRAND LEDGE, ML 48837 (517) 627-6200 July 28, 2002 Mason, Ml Motorcycles, Quads, ATVs and Pilots only MAORA MID-AMERICA OPP ROAD AsSOCIATION MIKE TURNER (217) 235-2473 P.O. Box 184 MATTOON, IL 61938 <www.maoraracing.com> LINCOLN TRAIL MOTORS PORTS 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 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, IL September 7, 2002 TBA September 28, 2002 LTM, Casey, IL Endurance Series 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: mdrracing@aol.co!'n 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 25-0 Barstow, CA M.O.R.E. HIGH DESERT CHAMPIONSHIP P.O. Box 1231 BARSTOW, CA 92311-1231 (760) 253-4453 July 20, 2002 Barstow, CA September 21, 2002 . Barstow, CA December 7, 2002 Lucerne,CA MSBA MICHIGAN SPORT BUGGY ASSOCIATION DAVE BARRET 6363 NIGHTINGALE DR. FUNT, ML 48506 (810) 730-9221 MoTOWEST WINTER TRIALS SERIES BILL MARKHAM (909) 860-1857 <www.ITStrials.com> All events at Perris Raceway (At Reed Valley with a school) NATIONAL Mun RACING AssN. RT. #l -Box 380 DAVE OR MARLENE RYAN· PALATKA, FL 32177 : . (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK ASSN. l:kiTcH CHAPIN MoTORSPORTS Pio1Ao110Ns · 1404 EAST 3RD STREIT. HASTINGS, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 . .. NORTHERN Omo OFF RoAD RACING AssN. 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October 5-6, 2002 Fairlpex, Pomona, CA Omo OFF RoADERS I.Ne. 1427 GOSHEN HILLS ROAD S.E. NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO 44663 )IM KENDEL (216) 339-4674 All races held at Harrison County Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONTARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION RICK TJCHBOURNE, PUBLIC RELATIONS (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) OUTLAW SEVEN PICKUP 9269 UMMELMAN ST. Louis, MO 63123 (314) 631-8140/FAX: ((314) 631-1921 PACE MoToR SPORTS U.S. OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP 495 N. COMMONS DRIVE AURORA, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100 <www. us off-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 TRCX:KS, lJEsERT SHORT CoURSE TRUCKS, BUGGIES & QuAJJ5 (609) 660-0402/(609) 660-0066 June 1-2, 2002 September 7-8, 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 June 19-25, 2002 BITD Nevada 1000 August 16-18, 2002 BITD Tonopah September 13-14, 2002 SCORE Primm October 4-6, 2002 BITD Baja Mex 300 November 8-9, 2002 SCORE Baja 1000 December 6-8, 2002 BITD Las Vegas 200 PURE ENERGY PROMOTIONS P.O. Box SO RICKETTS, IA 51460 (712) 679-2221 S.C.A.T. INc. MICHAEL R. ICING P.O. Box 277 MORRISONVILLE, NY 12962 (518) 561-3208/(518) 236-7897 SAN DIEGO OFF RoAD ExrosmoN (888) 836 7918 SCCA PRORA.LLY SERIES SPORTS CAR CLUB OP AMERICA 9033 E. MSTER PLACE ENGLEWOOD, CO 80112 (303) 967-9660 June 1, 2002 Susquehannock Trail Wellsboro, PA June 28-29, 2002 Pikes Peak Hillclimb Colorado Springs, CO July 26-27, 2002 Maine Forest Rumford,ME August 16-17, 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 SFX MoTORSPORTS GROUP 495 N. COMMONS DRIVE, SIJITE 200 . Ai !RORA, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100/(630) 556-6180 FAX SCORE SCORE INTERNATIONAL 23961 CRAFTSMAN Ro., Si JJTE A CALABASAS, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/FAX: (818) 225-8102 May 31 -June 2, 2002 Tecate SCORE Baja 500 Dusty Times Ensenada, Baja California Mexico July 11-14, 2002 Terrible's 250 Henderson, NV September 13-14, 2002 Las Vegas Primm 300 Primm,NV November 7-10, 2002 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 Baja, California Mexico SNORE SOUTHERN NEV ADA OPP ROAD ENTHUSIASTS P.O. 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U.S. HWY 45 OSHKOSH, WL 54901 (414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSIIlP 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 June 2002 Trail Notes ... BEST IN THE DESERT -Just in over the transom is big news that Casey Folks will be putting on a race in Parker next year. Entitled the "Parker 425" and being promoted as "The Legend Lives On" the Parker 425 will be held on February 7, 8, 9, 2003 in Parker, Arizona and BITD has added 30 miles to the existing 3-loop course. The race will start in downtown Parker and finish at the Blue Water Resort and Casino. Motorcycles, Quads, Cars and Trucks will be competing and the bikes and quads will race a new format, called the Parker Hare and Hound. For more information call Diane at 702-457-5775 or bitd@worldnet.att.net JUST FoR FUN-Our circulation manager, Vance Scott rides a motorcycle and he has hooked up with a group in Simi Valley, California called SCAMROF. The acronym stands for "Seasoned Citizens And Motorcycle Riding Old Farts .II. We just had to let you all know about it. ETERO IN'.[ERNATIONAL -The Estero International Short Course race was held the last weekend in April at the Estero Beach Resort. There is a full report in this issue of Dusty Times. We can give you the class winners in a nutshell here. In Supertruk it was Lance Rhinehart taking the win, Bob Beyer took the Champtruk honors and Jack Mitman was the Desert Truck champion. Supertruk 4 was · won by Carl Renezeder and Gerardo Novelo took the Super Champtruk honors. Aaron Whitmar was the Formula 1 winner and Kimberly Anderson took Formula 3 honors. The Baja 1 win werit to Gary Williams, Guy Savedra took the Baja 2 win, Jesus Torres took the Safari class while Gerado Waumann was the Rally A winner. The motorcycle Open class winner was Salvador Hernandez, Tony Menhigan took the 125 motorcycle class win and in the ATV department Tito Alvarez took the Pro win and Gerado Sepulveda was the ATV Sportsman winner. SPEED SPORT EXPO -The Anaheim Convention Center will host the Speed Sport Expo on Sat~rday and Sunday, August 17 and 18, 2002. Featuring more than 300 exhibits, including sand off road, water sports, street and competition the show: will have something for every enthusiast. The latest in 4x4's quads, sand rails, Baja Bugs, karts and a giant selection of custom street domestics and imports. There will be plenty of mini trucks, cruisers, motorcycles, hot rods, and classic cars and trucks. There will also be the latest in boats and personal watercraft on· display .. There will also be accessories on display, tires, wheel, fuel engines, lights, roof racks, trailers, shocks and suspension pieces. For more. information call Mega Shows ar 626-961-6522 or go to www.megashow.com. SCORE BNA 500-The end of May is fast approaching and that means it's Baja 500 time. Boy, how the time flies! 20 of the anticipated 250 entries are already in the bag. Pre-running begins on the 17th of May and continues with some restrictions through the 31st of May. 13 Trophy Trucks are entered and Class 1 and Class 10 each have 25 entrants, so as usual it's going to be a good race. We'll have it all for you in the next issue of Dusty Times, with ace reporter Judy Smith doing the honors and Trackside Photo will be out in force for the best pies available. Ro 1600 NEWS -Just in over the transom, the Pro 1600 guys are naking the SNORE/MORE Midnight Special a non-points race. Race dates is the 26th and 27th of July in beautiful downtown Boulder City, Nevada. If you are not a Pro 1600 member, just pay the extra $125 and come on out and get into the middle of the competition. You can get more info at www.Prol600.com and check out the 100% payback sheet. August 4, 2002 Septemberl,2002 October 20, 2002 OHRoad October 4-6, 2002 Las 200 (MXL) November 29-30, 2002 Mexicali-San Felipe 4x4 FOREVER, Lm. 1665 DELAWARE ST. OSHKOSH; WI 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 hap, pen 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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John Phegley has the worst luck. A five and a half hour first lap didn't Scott Steinberger ran four good laps in Class 1 but had to park in on Eric Pavolka was running quite well but trouble started on the fourth lap and that fifth was not to be. deter him and he turned a pretty good 1 :56 on lap 2. the fifth when some major problems arose. t ere were nine o t em rea y on t at ap. On t e final lap, problems all race long, just for a good run and it was Gary Ray Croll had it all his own that the course was very rough. Weyrich who led the first lap, way as he and youngest son B.J. Baldwin, Dan Bentley and Ed Stewart was'second, a few Shawn came across the finish Gary Wise all succumbed to minutes later, then came Scott line, the only finishers in the the course and so with 13 Steinberger in his Trophy class. Ray said they had had no Class 10 cars taking the start, only one managed to complete ways seems, John had a five the 375 mile endurance run. and a half hour first lap, God There was only one entry in knows what they replaced and the Heavy Metal division, John then came back with a pretty Phegley in his super tall orange swift 1:56 and took the Heavy four door vehicle and as it al-Continued on page 10 Truck and Eric Pavelka was fourth and Danny Anderson never got his first lap com-pleted. As they finished the second lap we were short a few of the contestants, na1nely, Weyrich, Stephan Jangfaard and Robert Bryant. Ed Stew-art was leading Steinberger by three minutes, Pavelka was third, Jason Yoe·man was fourth and Willie Cummings was really struggling. On the third lap Scott Sellers was in for Stewart and they still led, Steinberger was down a few more minutes, Pavolka still in third, Cummings was still turning two and a half hour laps and Yoeman had left the charts. On the fourth lap Stewart was still way out in the lead, Steinberger had picked up a couple of minutes on him, Pavolka's lap time went a bit over two hours in third and Cummings cut almost an hour off his lap times, still in fourth. Then tragedy struck everyone but Stewart on the last lap, he wa_s the only one to come around, Steinberger, Pavelka and Cummings all disappeared from the scoring charts and the Ed Stewart/Scott Sellers combo took the Class 1 win as well as the overall, having no problems, just declaring the course really rough. Next to go was Class 10 and there were 13 cars ready and able to go. After scrambling around in the dust and dirt the 10 cars finished their first lap with Darren Ebberts setting the pace, Steve Croll was two and a half minutes back and Michael Gaughan Jr. was only five seconds behind in the third spot. B.J. Baldwin was fourth, Dan Bentley was run-ning fifth but we never saw Jim Malinonski or Guy Gordon. At the end of the second lap, it was Michael Gaughan in the lead, B.J. Baldwin was second, Dan Bentley and Gary Wise were fighting it out for third and we had lost Darren Ebberts and Keith Basso. On Lap 3, Steve Croll moved into the lead, B.J. Baldwin moved into second, Dan Bentley was in third place and Michael Gaughan and Tim Hayosh were no longer in the battle. On the fourth lap, Ray Croll took over his son's driving chores and continued to lead the Class 10 pack. It was still Baldwin, Bentley and Gary Wise making -a race of it. We lost Jeff Moore and Jeff Sherrill Dusty Times "The MD5 CONTINUES ITS WINNING WAYS IN 2002" Congratulations to the winners in Class 12 tst Place -Terrible's Town 1st Place - San Felipe 250 Vic Bruckman/ Brian Coneen Arturo Honold tst Place-Parker r' Place - Laughlin Mike Cohen/ Tom Schilling * Utilizes same "Extreme Duty" gearsets as MD4-2D 100% shot peened. * l 00 % CAD designed. All new billet shift heads and rails. Vic Brockmann/ Brian Coneen Ball bearing shift housing. * Available now from all authorized "Mendeola Dealers." 290 Trousdale Dr. #J, Chula Vista, CA 91910 619-691-1000 619-691-1324fax www .mendeolaracin .com June 2002 Page 9

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Brian Logan took the bronze medal in 1600, he had power steering troubles and was just a minute and a half out of second. Scott and Brian Steele and Tevin Maurachanian split the driving fun Jon and BJ Almberg broke 51,me torsion bars, Jost their brakes but and took fourth in 1600, notwithstanding the broken tie-rod. still managed a nice fifth place in the 1600 battle. Joel Mohr took Debbie Holmes for a four lap ride and the Class 9 win with only one flat to contend with. sticky throttle cable kept them. on their toes most of the day. Shermak, Brinkerhoff and Savadra never completed their final lap, reasons unknown. C lass 9 had 20 cars on the line and rhey all knew they were going to win. As they com-pleted their first lap it was Jer-emy Harmon in the lead, Joel Mohr was second, six seconds behind, Todd Johnson was in third, a minute and a halfback and Jeremy Evans was fourth and fifth spot went to Doug Silcock. Mark Gonzalez and Steve Johnson didn't complete their first lap. As they came through after the second lap Mohr was in the lea,d, Johnson was in second, some four min-utes in arrears, Rick Poole was rhird, Doug Silcock was fourth and Clay Leonard was in the fifrh position. Five cars fai led to complete their second lap, namely, Jeremy Harmon, Jer-emy Evans, Jim Neal, Danny Fox and Drew Kelty. As they finished the third lap, Dwaine Walters had taken over the driving chores from Todd Greg Frechette made it a solo run and run he did, the Joss of a gear didn't keep him from taking the Sportsman Bu gy win. Bryan Anderson just missed the Class 1600 win, he was only 31 seconds away from the gold medal and settled for second_s..,__p_o_t. _____ _ Dusty Times Johnson and had the class Walters was secon to finish, on Hug es finishe seventh, lead, Clay Leonard had moved fighting a broken throttle cable he had carburetor problems into second, Ken Tapertwas in on the last lap. Clay Leonard on the third lap, had to pull the third spot, Joel Mohr had came in third, driving solo, the carb and repair it but he dropped to fourth and Tom Troy Shackleton riding all the soldiered on in for a nice solo Martin was in fifth. We never way and they had some broken drive. Doug Silcock came in did see Rick Poole, Ken spark plug wires to fight dur-eighth after two long hard laps Thatcher or Paul Mathews fin-ing the race. Ken Tapert fin-and jay Duncan was the last ish their record lap but the ished fourth, he was a solo Class 8 finisher after a very nine cars that started their driver and reported no prob-long third lap, costing him al-fourth lap all made it around lems, just a very rough race most an hour. to the finish. We heard later course. Tom Martin drove al-The Sportsman Buggy class that Thatcher had broken a most all the race but Scott was next to start and they had ring and pinion on the third Fraser jumped in for the last three laps to make it a race. lap and we don't know if Lorna half of the last lap and they There were 10 of them ready Olcott e:ver got into the car. were very happy with their for battle, but, just like most As they came in for the check-Doug Ingram built car. We of the other classes, only a ered flag it was Joel Mohr tak-didn't get to talk to Tom small percent of them, 30% to ing the win by 14 minutes. Joel Vanderploeg after the race, he be exact, would ever see the made it a solo drive, he had a finished sixth, but we assume finish line. To simplify the re-flat on the last lap and he had he had some sort of a problem porting, five of the ten e1;itrants the company of Debbie on the third lap which prob-Holmes all the way. Dwaine ably cost him a position. Bran-Continued on page 12 Tfte Blfferencel 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-2045D Steel Pedal, Short or Tall M/C Floor Mount. Fluidyne Heat exchangers & Transmission Coolers DUN-D830500 Heat Exchanger DUN-D830503 Heat Exchanger DUN-D830504 Heat Exchanger DUN-D830612 Trans Cooler w/Fan 2-pc Aluminum Drums Driving Suits Standard Fire Retardant Cotton Proban Driving Suits. Race Prep'ed CV 's 0 MCK-0250-1 CV Jt. w/Cage-930 MCK-0251-1 CV Jt. w/Cage-934 IRS Axles from Sway-A-Way™ 300m 930 Race Axles For more information give us a call or visit us online @ www.mckenzies.com June 2002 Page 11

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Adam Pfankuch had a few flats to b&ighten his day, a small engine Brad Inch and Tom Craig had a pretty good race, took 7'"' in 1600, but Bryan Freeman led one lap of the 1600 fracas but shock problems slowed him and he ended up in the B"' finishing position. problem to boot but he took sixth place in 1600. they made special mention of a very rough course. never completed their first lap. around on the end of the first was running fifth. The second James Green, Thomas Rack, lap it was Brian Flores in a com-lap had a bit more attrition as Todd Vanderwalker, Billy m.anding lead, six minutes Brian Flores and Bert Shapley and Arthur Basile ahead of Joe Bourland, then Schneider never completed took the green flag but were came Greg Freche~te, Eric that lap. So, at the end of the never seen again. As they came Shepard and Bert Schneider second lap, Greg Frechette was ~ THEBE RDF§U§PE SIDN§ A Reputation For Innovation It's "Innovation not imitation" that drives our company to reach new heights of achievement. Skyjacker® offers More Parts for Less Money. You can't build it or piece it together for the same amount of money. Whether you're conquering rocks, slinging mud, throwing sand, cruising the streets or just showing-off, Skyjacker® has the right combination of lift height and ride characteristics you desire. And ALL Skyjacker® products are guaranteed to perform and backed by a Limited Lifetime Warranty. Page 12 Go to www.skyjacker.com for lots of information on our products, our dealers, event calendar plus a lot more. Or Call 1.866.4 A DEALER at Ext. 5004 to find an Authorized Skyjacker® Dealer ... 24 hours a day - 7 days a week! June 2002 in the lead, Eric Shepard was on the second lap and found second and Joe Bourland was the course to be very rough third. One lap to go and at the and dirty. Second in was Eric end of the final lap it was Greg Shepard, he had a flat on the Frechette taking the checkers. first lap and a broken exhaust Greg said he lost second gear was stealing some of his power. Third and last finisher in class was Joe Bourland. Joe said his . engine quit for no reason and it took him over five min\.!tes to get it started again but he was glad it was over. The Sportsman Truck class was a bit of a disaster also. here were three trucks entered and they all succumbed to some problems. Tammie Gubler had her truck all primed and ready but halfway through the first lap she pulled over to let a Class 10 go by and she mired herself and her daughter in the sand. They were eventually pulled free but decided to call it a day. Sam Chambers never completed his first lap so he joined the many other dnfs that were scattered around the track. Eric Gremm managed to get one lap in, a very fast 1:40: 11 but we never saw him again and so we give him the Sportsman -:fruck win by de-fault. As usual, I saved the biggest class for last. There certainly was a slew of 1600's. We counted 60 of them off the line and they too didn't have the best of days, 42% of them managed to get in their re-quired five laps. Eight of them never made it around for one lap, namely, Charles Sutton, Davy Girdner, Brian Crawford, Scott Webster, Michael Duenas, Tony Murray, Frank Wagner and Craig Forrest. As they came around at the end of the first lap it was Randy Jones in the lead, Bryan Free-man was second, a 111.inute be-hind, Rob MacCachren was in third, less than a minute out of second, Mike Malloy was fourth, less than 30 seconds out of third, C.J. Hutchins was fifth, 9nly nine seconds out of fourth and then came Kenny Freeman, running sixth and ·only five seconds out of the top five. Next came Brian Lo-gan, Bryan Anderson two sec-onds back of him, then it was Rick Boyer in ninth place and, rounding out the top 10 was B.J. Alm berg. There were 38 cars running behind this top 10 but many of them would .fall by the wayside before the day was over. The second lap for the 1600's saw four more drop from the scoring chart. Travis Fletcher, Paul Keller, Frank Puglia and Aaron Hawley and we're sure Hawley was ready for the trailer after a five and a half Continued on page 14 Dusty Times

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Rick Boyer and Steve Roberts had alternator troubles but still finished Joe Bourland had some engine problems on the second lap but he Clay Leonard had some electrical problems but carried on and took Bil' in 1600, in spite of Rick's illness. got running again,and took a third place finish in Sportsman Buggy. a nice third place in Class 9. hour first lap. So at the end of The third lap saw more attrition Boyer was in the fifth spot and B.J. Randy J on_e_s_ w_a_s----;£a---o-u-r'th_ a_1_1d...---=B-o'b'b_y_ A-.---.l-t.,...i 1_n_a_r-cci_n_o_,--,S~t-e_v_e the second lap it was Bryan and we lost Garit Wallace, Arden Almberg was running sixth. B.J. Almberg was holding the Dodd and Ray Newton never Freeman in first, Mike Malloy Dennington, Brady Wisdom, Kash At the end of Lap 4 we lost fifth spot. · ·made it through that final lap. in second but close to Bryan, Vessels, Clay Carr and the Kenny/ a few more, Mike Malloy, Lor- As we awaited the cars at the As they started to finish it was Randy Jones was in third, Cody Freeman combo. This lap it enzo Rodriguez, Corey Goin, finish of their fifth lap we once Bruce Fraley taking the big Brian Logan was in fourth, was Mike Malloy with a small lead, Don Johnson and Jack again had some missing mem-class win, he drove the last lap Bryan Anderson was fifth, Rick Bryan Anderson was in the second Clinkenbeard. Leading after bers. Barry Roland, Aaron for MacCachren, complaining Boyerwassixth,andthenthere spot, Guess who, Rob MacCach-the fourth lap was Rob Mac-Shupp,JeffCarr, Mike Leung, only of los of flat tires to was still 47 cars running in he ren had moved into the third spot, Cachren, Bryan Anderson was Brent Parkhouse, Victor brighten their day. Second in class. Randy Jones was fourth, Rick second, Brian Logan was third, Bussey, class was Bryan Anderson, he Eric Shepard had a flat and some exhaust problems but he soloed on Brent Shermak had his share of problems but he still managed a nice Ken Tapert had no problems, turned nice consistent laps and took a and took second spot in Sportsman Buggy. second place in 5-1600 at Buffalo Bills. ______ fine fourth place in Class 9. DAVE FOLTS TIANSMISSIONS WOULD Lll(E TO CONGRATULATE ALL THE NRTICIPEN1S OF THE BUFFALO I/LU 400! A SPECIAL CONGRATULATION GOES TO THE 10P THREE FINISHERS ... ROB MACCACHEN & BRUCE FRALEY IIIIA#LOIMII Page 14 FIUTPLACE BUFFALO I/LU 400 SECOND PLACE BUFFALO 8/LU 400 DAVE FOLTS TRANSMISSIONS 631 E. LAMBERT RO. #C LA HABRA, CA 90631 (562)694-5591 GEARED TO SERVE 'IOU! June 2002 111110 PLACE BUFFALO BILU liOO WE WOULD. AUO Lll(E TO CO#GRATUIATE THESE OTHER TOP 10 FIIIISHE1lS ... 5TH I.J. AIMIE1ll BrH RYAN FREEMAN 9TH RICI( IOYE1l 10TH CORTNEY WHIPPLE Dusty Times

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Dwaine Walters and Todd Johnson split the driving and took a second Courtney Whipple had a good race, taking tenth in the 1600 Tom Martin and Scott Fraser joined forces in class 9, split the drive place finish in Class 9 at the SNORE Buffalo Bill's 400. _ba_t_tl~e_. ----~-~---~----------80/20 and were quite happy with their 5"' place finish. soloed the race and said his lous Day Gang had her share for 22nd, his day all went away mentioned earlier, the course Next on Snore's agenda is only problem was a sagged-out of troubles and finished 20th, with a three hour plus fifth was very rqugh, it was also very the Dusty Times Caliente 250, front end. Brian Logan was about 20 spots from where lap. Matt Sherard was the 23rd dirty in sorne sections but for-June 7 and 8 and we hope to next across the line, also a solo she'd like to be. C.J. Hutchins finisher and Robert Naughton tunately, there was a breeze all see you all there for a fun race drive, he lost his power steer-was 21st, after a terribly long was the 24th and final finisher. race long and, nobody was in the trees and through the ing about ten miles from the third lap. Randy Jones came in It was quite a race, as we hurt. water in a great little town in finish. Brian Steele was fourth, but it was Tevin Marachanian who drove the last half of the race. They had a broken tie rod to contend with earlier on. B.J. Almberg was fifth, he drove the first three laps then Jon Alm berg took over, they suffered some brake loss and broken front torsion bars. Adam Pfankuch was sixth, he soloed the drive, had a couple of flats and his engine kept cutting our on the last lap. Dear old friend Brad Inch was seventh, Brad drove the first two laps and then Tom Craig drove the final three. They broke a c. v. bur had no other problems, just describing the course as very rough. In eighth place it was Bryan Freeman, his was a solo drive and his prob-lems began with a broken rear shock and he had to go a long way in that condition. Finish-ing ninth was the Rick Boyer/ Steve Roberts duo. Steve drove the last two laps, unscheduled but Rick was feeling a bit un-der the weather,· that's when Steve got in. They lost the al-ternator on Lap 4, their only problem. Courtney Whipple finished in the 11th spot, but he drove off and we were un-able to interview him. Russ Winkler drove Laps 1, 2 and 5 while Robby Valenzuela drove the middle two laps. They lost some c.v. bonrs ::ind worse, they lost fourth gear on the last lap. Ken Browne was next in, 13th place. He drove solo, only had one flat to slow him down, no other problems to report. Curt Geer was next in, the 14th finisher. Curt drove the first three laps and Sean Bennett took the last two. They changed tires after the first lap, the removed ones be-ing too tall and then some dis-tributor problems hampered them during the race. Kurt Brewer came in 15th, actually Bob Elio drove the first two laps then Curt took the last three. They reported a trouble free day, just talking about a very rough course. 16th across the finish line was Jeff Knupp, he drove the first half of the race, then handed over to Eric Green. They had some carbu-retor problems and Eric flipped the car on the fourth lap. The babnce of the finish-ers we were unable to interview but, in 17th place it was Kevin W alsh, Mike Boyd was 10 min-utes behind in 18th, Brad Maurer came in 19th, the fabu-Dusty Times ., ~· >, (q#/j7A. ~ ' ·~~ PllE/li ,, 'a . TllAVE/, NOW AVA//,ABlE roducts and · EN 7 DAYS A WEEK June 2002 Page 15

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JB'H RALLY CATALUNYA·COSTA BRAVA Panizzi/Panizzi/Peugeot By Martin Holmes Photos Maurice Selden . Gilles and Herve Panizzi are watched by an admiring crowd as they head for the overall win in their Peugeot 206 WRC. Gilles Panizzi won his fifth roen team , Peugeot held the While Peugeot calmly domi-world championship rally at first two positions all the way nated the rally , the Citroen Catalunya, his second victory through the three day all-as-Team which had performed so in succession in 2002. Despite phalt rally, scoring their third well at Monte Carlo, were the presence of their rival Cit-successive one-two result. badly disadvantaged. Citroen's Stiffnen; tloll</lOCl<s Oome light Sidebars Overlays Bumperettes Side Mirrors Aluminum Diamond Plate '1 Genuine ~-j_2:L::U...J 732 Indigo Court, Pomona, CA 91767 • Limited Lifetime Warranty on a Page 16 June 2002 Daniel Sola and Alex Romani drove their Citroen Saxo KC to a great first in the Junior World Rally Championship, 19'• overall. only fastest stage time, coining from their former tea1n driver Jesus Puras in an old 2001 ver-sion car run by the Spanish National Team. Subaru driver Petter Solberg again proved he is the strongest threat on as-phalt rallies from a non-French teatn. Ford were the only team apart from Peugeot to bring two cars into point scoring places, although they lost Car-los Sainz who crashed, avoid-ing badly placed spectator cars. This was his second crash of the rally week. His first was in testing when his co-driver was injured, and there was 1nore. Carlos' teammate Colin McRae finished with a broken finger. Peugeot now hold as many championship points as all five other eligible teams to-gether with Marcus Granholm leading Panizzi by a single point in the Drivers Series. This was the fourth round of 14 in the 2002 World Rally Championship, and the sec-ond round out of six in the Junior World Rally Champi-onship. Run on classic moun-tain roads in the hinterland of Costa Brava and Costa Dorada in northeast Spain, · the event-was the second successive and the third out of five all-asphalt rallies this season. It was the second of five occasions this year with only a fortnight be-tween events. It was also th e second successive event i n which th e previous year's win-ner was absent, the first being Jesus Puras in Corsica, now Didier Auriol in Catalunya. And, once again, this was an event with long road sections. Apart from the Safari Rally in Africa, the Catalunya rally has the longest distance of any world championship rally, a sharp contrast to the previous event, Tour de Corse, which had the shortest. Changes this year included, for the first time; a cere1nonial start on the Thursday evening · on the main road leading to the seafront. TI-1en, the order in which the groups of stages were tackled was changed to· reduce the mid-rally movement of service vehicles. The first leg stages were therefore to be found in the Tarragon a region, the second and third legs in the Ripoll-Lloret-Vic region. A more controversial change was that th.ere were only two days for reconnaissance, although the FIA permitted three passes per stage. It seemed the orga-nizers had been listening to Carlos Sainz's advice. This was apparently supported by other professional drivers, that only two passes were necessary and so the organizers decided this would apply to everyone, whether or not they had done this rally previously. This led to an extra day of testing, and it was on this day that Sainz crashed and put his regular co- • driver of 14 seasons into the hospital with broken ribs, and, needless to say, out of the event. Most of the stages were well known even though the orga-nizers once again kept the de-tails secret until one month be-forehand. This led to a dra-matic moment when. the co-driver of Miguel Campos was caught on the rally route TWO months beforehand, which led to Campos losing his compe-tition license for a year. It was doubly ironic that the first time the stage concerned was to be used, it was cancelled. Other pe.ople also questioned about these matters. Martin Rowe had to cancel his Puma shakedown test, waiti11g for four hours for the organizers to consider reports that he had reccied excessively, only to discover there was an error in the information they were given. Rowe, however, had lost his chance to set up the car before the vent. Peugeot came to the rally with three previously used cars. Marcus Granholm remained the only team driver not to use the hydraulically controlled anti roll bar system. Ford had a team of unfit drivers. After Carlos' practice crash, Marc Marti substituted for Luis Moya and Colin McRae started the rally despite suffer-ing a broken left finger in Cor-sica. The team installed a sec-ond gearshift control system on the left hand side of McRae's car , so that he could keep his one strong hand for holding the steering wheel. Sainz and McRae had new cars, featuring revised roll cages and a spe-cially lowered seating position for McRae's co-driver. Tommi Makinen's conva-lescing co-driver, Risto Man-nisenm.aki had his official seat fitting session after Corsica but it was decided he would not compete either in Catalunya or in Cyprus. His introduction to Subaru high speed action would, therefore, not be until a gravel rally test in April, so reserve co-driver Kaj Lindstrom would take part on the next two events. Mean-while, the team had to re-pre-pare Makinen's Monte Carlo Dusty Times

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The Bugalski/Chiaroni Citroen Xsara does a little ground scraping an Freddy Loix and Sven Smeets roar past some of the spectators in With a town in the background, Delecour and Grataloup drove their Mitsubishi Lancer Eva to a 9'h place finish. . the way to a nice third overall at the Catalunya rally their Hyundai Accent WRC3, taking a t(Jh place. car upgrade to 2002 specs crash, save t at e ost control health t han Kuchar had to at short notice to replace the in fifth gear and the Focus w ithdraw. Kuchar had a most car Makinen crashed in Cor-went into a rock face, for rea-unpleasan t road accid en t dur-sica this year. Mitsubishi wa~ sons that were not clear. A t ing recce wh e n his car was hit struggling, still trying to catch Hyu nd:c1i, no sooner was by an o ncoming truck which up for time lost in testing. All Freddy Loix b_ack to good had lost control after its cargo had shifted. Kuchar was follow-Leg 1 - 5 Stages -Asphalt -ing Armin Schwarz at the time. 164kms Finally the rally got under Schwarz swerved to avo id the way. The first stage of the rally was truck and was horrified to see cancelled due to the high number the impact with Kuch ar's car of spectators, so there were now five in his m.irror. Continued on page 18 three Corsica Hyunda i cars were used again in Catalunya, alth o u gh th ere h ad n o t been tim e to discover why Kuchar h ad his throttle proble m or why Schwarz's revised power steering system had failed on the final stage in Corsica. The b iggest crises in t h e S ko d a camp h ad been to tr y to sal-vage 2001 FIA Group N ch am-p ion Gabriel Pozzo's semi-o f-fic ial Octavia WRC program, after t h e withdrawal of com-m e rcial support fro m Argen-tina. The S ko d a factory was offered e n ou gh help to allow th e A rgen tine driver to start this event, and urgent inqu ir-ies were con tinuing in the h op e som e o f the othe r planne d events can still be entered . · GERMAN AUTO Following experience gained by Phillipe Bugaiski a t the Tour d e Corse, the three offi-c ial C itroen entries were 2002 version cars, all previously used vehicles brou ght up to the lat-est specs, while Puras drove a 2001 m odel which was brand n ew. The 2002 evolutio n car h ad been h o m ologated just in time for Corsica and featured ch anges to th e· exhaust, inter-cooler and turbo , air intake sys-te_rns and a n ew lightweight fly-wheel. In th e Super 1600 cars, n ew technical p ieces had been ho-mologated fo r the Ford Pumas and Peugeot 20 6 's.The Puma had bigger front b rakes w ith monobloc calipers, closer gear ratios and changes to the inlet manifold . A new system of a separate belt drive for power steering and water pump was to follow later on. Duval's works development car was fit-ted-w ith all these p ieces. Peu-geot had homologated new suspension p ieces but th e de-c ision whether to use them would be mad e after last minute testing. Following the Citroen Saxo clutch proble ms in M onte Carlo , revised pieces h ad b ~en tested in Belgium, Russia and Italy in a variety of conditio n s witho u t renewed failu res. There were special celebra-tions from Spanish enthusiasts when Carlos Sainz started his 15 5t1, world championship rally, making him the most experienced championship driver in histor y, unfortu-nately, without his friend Moya to· share th e occasion. The main topic of conversation was the in jured drivers. Ford was saying lirrle abo u t Sainz's Dusty Times DEISl SEAT BEL TS The greatest name in driver safety equipment. 4-point sand rail seat bell RACE BELTS 2• -5pointmount 3" · 5 poinr mount SIDE COVERS IRS . 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Petter Solberg and Philip Mills hurtle through a turn in their Subaru lmpreza, they finished fifth overall. Sixth overall went to Colin McRae and Nicky Grist, they were the first The Gardemeister/Lukander Skoda Octavia finished 11th overall at Ford to take the checkered flag. the Catalunya Rally. stages in the day, each being re-peats. Panizzi set off to win every stage, despite admitting it took him a while to "wake up!" Gronholm had a bad day, starting with a han-dling fault on the second stage. Colin McRae's co-driver, Nicky Grist, sitting close to the floor, said that it was not easy for him to get the right rhythm on the fast and twisty roads. McRae was changing gears with his left hand and manag-ing quite well. Louc spun on the sec-ond stage and Thomas Radstrom, driving his first event on asphalt in four years was gradually gaining confidence. Puras arrived at the end of a stage with brake fluid pouring out of the left rear caliper. On stage 3, die first run through the event's longest stage, Gronholm lost his brakes before half distance. Maki-nen lost transmission hydraulic pressure, Rovanpera had a tire tread fly off and Solberg braked so hard he actually twisted the brake pedal. Loix also had a tire tread fly off, Eriksson had power steering failure right off the start. Schwarz had to stop and change a tire and Puras had the other rear caliper let all the fluid escape. Bruno Thiry had to stop to change a tire , find-ing flames coming from the front hub and noticed when he drove away that the grass was now burn-. ing as well. Everything was happen-ing! On the second run through the stages things began to settle down but everyone complained about the gravel thrown up on the road surface by the cars passing earlier. Solberg had his throttle stick wide open, Alister McRae finished a stage on a rim, no tire and Gardemeister slid into a ditch and damaged the rear of his Skoda. Pozzo had dif-ferential hydraulic fluid leaking into the passenger compartment, and on stage 6, Makinen went off the road and finished the stage completely out of coolant. Radstrom retired after sliding off the road and wrecked the right rear suspension and Pozzo retired halfway through the final stage when oil dripped onto the turbo and the ensuing under hood fire made retirement a must. Blomqvist had alternator prob-lems on the run back to Lloret de Mar and the Skoda's engine finally stopped with no electrical power on the road just before the Barcelona area. Makinen reached Lloret but the team was worried about pos-sible damage to the engine caused by the overheating. So ended the longest day of the event, but the sec-ond day was bound to bring new challenges, 1nostly theses were ex-pected to be the gravel thrown on the road during the first day. Re-me1nber, the first 15 were to run in reverse order. In ther Junior World Championship category, Daniel Sola took the immediate lead, just Page 18 as he has in Monte Carlo, buit then a permanent halt, damage from the their efficiency on stage 12 and too late to make much differ-he eased a bit to conserve his brakes overheatingearlier. he lost ground. Gardemeister ence. Puras, 12th overall was and this let Andrea Dallavilla go Panizzi once again made fast had hydraulic problems, fluid happy in his Citroen and made ahead. Francois Duval had a lot of time on stage 10, even going leaking from the differential best time on the secori.d stage problems with his brakes, then he easier. Colin McRae's injured unit. Granholm continued to of the day. could not downshift properly and hand was becoming sore and have brake problems and had In the final loop the battle his power steering failed as well. the team arranged for it to be the rear brakes catch fire. It is was for ninth place and the last Most drivers were consciouslydriv-re-bandaged at service, while said that the left foot brakers remaining point was won by ing to avoid the gravel and stones another problem with the re-have the brake problem.s. Delecour, though the gap un-in the road (mousses being banned verse order system became evi-In Super 1600, Citroen ti! 11th pace was only 6.6 sec-for Super 1600 cars). Daniel dent. When the stage was can-Saxos were strongly placed 1-onds. Panizzi spun in front of Carlsson had his engine quit after celled and the drivers drove 2. Sola made fastest time on thousands of spectators at the hittingabump,onlytodiscoverthe through in convoy, it was not stage 9 but Dallavilla still led. famous viaduct bridge, just to masterswitchhad turned itself off. the first runners that attracted Caldani was having engine amuse them. Roger Fenghali was driving with a the wrath of the spectators, it power loss, Evans had his In the Junior World Cham-broken anti-roll bar. The Suzukis was those running further power steering pump changed pionship category, Sola lost the were going faster than at Monte back, the rally leaders. Sainz but his car now had engine lead on stage 15 with a flat tire, Carlo, though Juha Kangas had was quizzed endlessly by his water disappearing. By stage so from an 18.9 second lead, moregearshiftselectionproblems, countrymen. "I think we will 11, and on home ground, Sola with only three stages to go, complicated by a slipping clutch have to have a new philosophy passed Dallavilla into the lead. he was now 24.3 seconds be-and power steering troubles. Both in rallying. The control of the Kangas still had gearshift prob-hind Dallavilla. On 16, Sola Schelle and Kangas could not use stages must be governed with lems and Evans retired the MG took back 6 .1 seconds, but on first or second gear. The long road the same professionalism as the shortly after the start of stage 17 he only took 1 second away section to and from theTarragona rest oif the sport." He had also 11 with steering failure. frorn the leader. It looked area caused havoc with some cars. lost some time, as had hap-Leg 3 - 6 Stages -Asphalt bleak, but, on the final stage Stenshornehad theoilblowoutof pened-in Corsica, when he -106kms -Warm, clear Dallavilla had a flat and the the engine, which led to engine fail-could not engage a gear at the weather greeted the competi-victory went to Sola! Also, on ure on the first stage to be run and start of the stage. Martin had· tors on the final leg of the rally. the final stage Niwa went off Katajamakialsohadenginewoes hydraulic troubles. "The car Everything was calm in the theroadsoSuzukididn'tbring and soon retired with driveshaft -was locking its wheels Peugeot camp, indeed, the all three cars to•the finish. failure. Valimaki and Foss both umpredictably but I_ am lucky, greatest drama-was the race for Doppelreiter lost 2 minutes went off the road and Carlson re-this started to happen on the the final championship point. on stage 15 with a flat, which tired with a failed engine. A total of way to stage 7, and the can-With none of the Citroen.s nor lost him his battle for ninth six retirements in the category on celled 7 and 8, so I could have the third Peugeot, or that of pace with Schelle. Duval lost the first day! Haaflost 15 minutes been worse." Eriksson's Skoda Rovanpera being eligible for four minutes going off the when he hit a wall, then had two indicated it had lost all oil Makes points, just 18. 7 sec-road with double punctures flats and yet another flat on the pressure, which see med onds separated Gardemeister and Roig (Fiat) lost eight min-nextsection. McShea opted to run strange, as there was still oil in (Skoda), Loix (Hyundai) and utes, trying to find a place to with one spare tire, had his first flat the engine, but he took no Delecour (Mitsubishi) for stop and change a flat tire. On after 7kms, then another after chances, being able to free ninth place overall. After the the final stageNiwa went off the 20kms and he reached the finish wheel most of the way from the first stage of the day, the dif-road , so there were only 15 losing 10 minutes, driving on the end .of the stage to service. A ference between the 9th placed cars still running, but this was rim but by then the suspension had new oil pump cured the prob-driver and 11th place was seven more than had ever reached the collapsed and the Opel was out of lem. Thiry was out with clutch seconds, after the second stage finish of a 1600 event before. the fray. Galli lost five minutes failure in his Peugeot. it was five seconds, after the The final excitement was the changingatireonastage,Schelle There was a big debate third satge 7.9 seconds. Then arrival at the finish ofGarde-lost some time with a broken en-about the wisdom of trying to Loeb crashed on some gravel meister and Lukander, pushing gine mount while Feghall and run the series of three stages a and lost four minutes, drop-their Skoda. · The engine had Baldacci retired with various woes. second time but eventually the ping him to 12th• This was good expired a few kms from the fin-Lag 2 - 4 Stages -Asphalt -organizers did. The police re-news to McRae, elevated into ish, but they pushed it to the 78kms-The weather was glorious, moved more than 200 cars the Drivers points. Citroens ceremonies on the sea front. warm and sunny and the Spanish from their place beside the were not eligible for Makes Puras was h appy, he was spectators were out in force, in course, but the rally drivers points and did not affect the Citroen's only stage winner, numbers far too great. The trouble were far from happy, least of main battle. Loeb retired at and this was the first time he wasthatmanyhadarrivedthenight all Sair;z, who crashed out of the end of the stage with bro-had finished his country's before and slept in their cars on the rally on stage 10. He swung ken suspension. Others with world championship event. the side of the stages. There had a corner too wide trying to problems on the first of the the With Burns having finished been no control of people and their avoid spectator cars and ended three stages: Martin had soft the last four events in 8th, 4t1, vehicles until the morning the rally up going down the stage back-brakes on the long stage 15 and and 3'd and now second place, wasduetopass,andbythenitwas wards and hit a rock on the the semi-official Ford of willCyprusbehisfirstPeugeot impossible to run the stage. Actu-side of the road, wrecking the Kremer which went off the win? "Hard to say, gravel will ally, it was impossible to run the rear suspension. road for a minute. McRae spun be more of a level playing first two stages and there were wor-Solberg' s victory on stage near the end of the first stage field" Peugeot's Sporting Director ries about cham pio[).ship points a 1-1l~0~c!a.!;1n:!,e~a~t~a~c;:;o:,::s~t,:,!!th;!:e:..!;t!.!i r::;e;;;s~l~o~s:,:;t _ _:a!,!n;!:d;!..s::,:t;;:a:!l!:le:,:d:!,·;_!H:!_'.o~w:'.,!e;.:v::;e~r:,., .,;i~t~w~a:!;s::__s;::a:!i!;!d;,;.. _:W:!e;.!s h!.!.:a.!.ll~se~e:.;! ___ J------~!!!lllt location. The rule books were • scanned and it was found that if less than two thirds of the planned stage distance is run, then only half points would be allocated. First car through the stages was Alister McRae's Mitsubishi. "The problem was not so much the num-ber of spectators, but the way the organizers allowed them to park their cars along the side of the stage. Also, the way they were often walk-ing along the stage, even when we were coming!" On the run to the first service park, Makinen came to Rally Catalunya Costa Brava - Rally de Espana Uoret de Mar 21-2.( March 2002 WC. round -4, JWRC round 2 1 2 3 • 5 II 7 8 9 (3) (1) (22) (2) (11) (5) (23) (6) (7) 10 (18) 11 {15) 12 (2!1) 13 (8) 16 (17) 17 (14) 19 (65) 20 (51) 21 (63) 23 (6') 24 (62) 2!I (S5) Giltea PANIZZIIHerve Paniui Richard BURNS/Robert Reid Phll~ BUGALSKf/Jean-Paul Chlaronl MarctJS GRONHOLWTlmo Rautlak"lan Petter SOLBERG/Philip MIiia Colin McRAE/Nicky Or-Harr1 RO\lanpera/Rhrto Pletilalnen Martko MARTIN/Michael Park Francots OELECOUR/Oanlel Grataloup Freddj LOIX/Sven Smo9t:. Toni GARDEMEISTER/Paavo Lukander Jesua Puraateartos Del Barno Altstef McRAE/David Senk>r Arm\n SCHWARZ/Mantred Heimer Kennett\ ERIKSSON/Tlna Thorner Oanle4 Sola/Alex Romani Andrea Dallavilla/GJovannl Bemacchlnl Glandomeni;o Ba■soll.uigi Pirollo Gianlulgi Galli/Guido d'Amore .Janne TuohlnoiPetrl Vihavatnen Francoa OuvaUJean-Marc Fortin June 2002 ;, GB F FIN N/GB GB FIN EE/GB F B FIN E GB D s E I I I AN B Peugeot 206 Peugeot 206 Citroen Xsara Peugeot 206 Subaru lmp,-•za Ford Focua RS Peugeot 206 Ford Focus RS Mtblubishl Lancer Evolution Hyundai Accent Skoda Octavta Citroen Xsara Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Hyundai Accent Skoda 0ctavta Cttro,-nSaxo ClrOen Saxo FlatPunt.o FlatPunto Citroen Sa,oo Ford Puma WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC S18 SHI S18 S16 S111 S111 334NQZ75 (F) 330NQZ75 (F) 31CSP92(F) 290NNN75 (F) X26SRT(G8) EK51NXZ (GB) 206NAP75 (Fl X7FMC(GB) KP51R'JIIO (GB) X21HMC(GB) MBOn-2!1 (CZ) S9710BBF (El KS51XPN (GB) X19HMC(GB) MB072-24 (CZ) 8038NA52 (F) BX467PC(I) BY57QNX(I) BY571NX(I) E627(FIN) EX02PXL (OB) WC po4nts 3h.34m.OO.Os. • 3h.34m.◄6.3s. 3h.35m.22.5s. 3h.35m.51.7a. 3h.36m.10.6a. 3h.37m.36.3a. 3h.37m .49. 1s. 3h.37m.52.9s. 3h.39m.37.8s. 3h.3Gm.39.S.. 3h.39m.44.2a. 3h.41m.27.9s. 3h.42m.30.8a. 3h.4 ◄m.49.7s. 3h.4Sm.04.8s. 3h.52m. 11.55. 3h.~3m.01.8s. 3h.54m.2!5.6s. 3h.58m.46.3a. 3h.59m.31.3s. 3h.~9m.33. 1s. 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1 I MDR'S RIDGECREST 300 Koch And Boyle Take A Tough one By Judy Smith Photos: Trackside Photo Whit Courtenay and Gene Brown teamed in their Toyota powered Jimco and with no problems to bother them, took the win in Class 10. Tom Koch and Richard Boyle teamed in their Jimco to take the win in the MOR Ridgecrest 300 by the slimmest of margins. Tom Koch and Richard Boyle are tough to beat on their home course at Ridgecrest, but this time someone came close. When the scor-e rs had checked and double-checked their winning margin was one second. Koch and Boyle teamed in their Tvpe IV powered single seat Jimco, and led for most oi" the day on a rugged and dus·ry 36 mile loop. The course, located north of Johannesburg and off the Trona Road, started and finished on Gasline Road just before it crossed the railroad track. Then it traveled fo a clockwise direction generally northward, then eastward and over to roughly parallel Randsberg Road for a while as it dropped into a southeasterly direction. A wan-dering trail then led from east to west and back to the Gasline Road, for a looong straight downhill ap- I proach to the pit area and the end of rhe loop. A new section, neared to avoid a piece of terrain desig-nated as "sensitive" gave new mean-ing to the word "rough" according to the racers. And since there had been no rain in a coon's age, it was very dusty with little wind to help. Mike and Dale Dondel bought a new-used Class 5 car, changed the paint scheme, took it to Ridgecrest and went home with the win. Clint Fisher and navigator Skyler Cadman piloted their four-seat Toyota powered Lothringer to the win in the Pre-runner Buggy_c_la_s_s_. ____ _ Page 20 On this particular race day it decided to be summer, and tem-peratures soared up into the high 90s, sending the pit crews ducking under the canopies and digging into the ice chests. The cars were flagged off the stan line at about 7:35 a.m., at 30 second intervals, though a couple of classes were sent off 15 seconds apart, apparently to shorte1i the time needed to get 'em all going, so a lead car wouldn't come around and run smack-dab into a car still in staging. Mike Dill had one troubled lap, but with three good ones, managed to take the victory in the Stock Mini Truck class. Tommy Koch was first off the line into what amounts to his back yard, since he lives in Ridgecrest, but· at the end of the first lap the lead belonged to the Ronny and Randy Wilson V6 Chevy powered J imco. They had Koen by a margin of eight seconds. This was the Wilson's day to pay back folks who'd been help-ing them, and they not only had three drivers, letting Jeff Quinn do a couple of laps, but also changed passengers every lap. Michael James had his new V4 powered car out for a spin, and he was in third place, about two minutes back. Koch moved into the lead on the second lap, and the Wilson/Quinn team dropped to second, but only about three minutes down. In third now it was the Type IV powered Jimco of Rick Romans, just under an-other two minutes back. Andrew Myers had started the race in his new Unlimited car, but he had no luck here and was unable to get even one lap in, while Bob Hansen suf-fered through a three hour and · 28 minute first lap and then called it a day. Dave Massingham lost about an hour and ten minutes with what his crew called "major welding" on the first lap, and then had just one more long lap before he, too, decided to park it. Koch's lead had increased to about eight minutes by the end of the third lap, and the Wilson/ Quinn team held on to second with James in third. But then James never came around again. And Andrew Gaston, in another VW powered car, managed to get only three laps done and then he never made an-other appearance. Koch, who had an injured shoulder and was scheduled for surgery the week after the race, let Richard Boyle take over on the fourth lap. They held on to their three minute margin and with the Wilsons and Quinn still in second, -Romans was back in third, about ·eight minutes further back. In fourth place it was the team of Den-nis Boyle (Richard's brother) and Frank Hines in a V8 Chevy (Cor-.,,,,.,====="""'==-=---==="'""'==== Eric Heiden had a good day and led the Class 8 race all the way to the end, taking the win by over two hours. ----'----------------------------June 2002 vette) powered Lothringer, who were having trouble with fan belts. They said they "lost a bunch." Richard Boyle had some trouble as the mounts on his seat had bro-ken and the seat had slipped back a bit, making it just not quite the right distance from the pedals. Still, he hung onto the lead, and at the end of Lap 5 was about two and a half minutes up on the Wilson/Quinn car. With Romans' co-driver, Da-men Jefferies, now driving his car a_nd still third. He had Roy Durban, from Kartek, who was the title sponsor at the SNORE race at Primm on this same day, riding with him. Roy said he was sorry to miss that race, but he wouldn't have missed a chance to ride with Jeffer-ies for anything. Boyle had trouble with a cramp in his throttle foot, but at the end of Lap 6 he still led, now five min-utes up on Jefferies, who'd moved to second when the Wilson/Quinn group broke an axle. That cost them about two and a half hours and Hines and Boyle moved into third place. Boyle struggled with his cramped up foot, while Jefferies ran the fast lap of the day, at 42:34 on the last lap and got so close to him that no one could tell who'd won. Once the official score sheet was printed it was time for Koch and Boyle to cel-ebrate: they'd won by just one sec-ond! Romans and Jefferies, whose Jimco was also powered by an air-cooled Type IV motor had pushed them hard, but missed by an eyeblink. Hines and Boyle were third about 50 minutes later, and the Wilsons and Quinn were still another hour back in fourth place, and the last in the class to finish. Class 10 went off the line next and three of them, Kory Halopoff, Jeff Elings and Joseph Lacore came to a stop early in the tlay, never get-ting that first lap done. It was Rich-ard Lesher in the lead at the end of the first lap, with the fast lap for Continued on page 21 Dusty Times

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Jeff and Jason Cepielik and Jimmy Tarento teamed to take third Greg Crew did all the driving in his Pre-Runner Buggy class Raceco, John and Tim Criswell teamed up in their Baja Bug, survived a major place in the 1/2-1600 class in their Suspensions Unlimited chassis. and with his son, Brian, riding, took third place. electrical problem, and finished the day in second place. 7th-e-----iclra-ss_a_t_4"7,;--m--:i-n-u-te-s--,farla-t-.'H'e~hra-dT-'-r=========~==;====================,----just 26 seconds on Brian Walsh, Sr. in a Honda powered car, and in third about a minute and a half later, was Frank Omboli, in his Lothringer. Whit Courtenay ran fourth in a Toyota J imco, less than two minutes later. On the second lap Omboli tied Lesher's fast time, and moved into the lead. Now he had almost 50 seconds on Walsh, and then Cour-tenay was third and Will Akwari was fourth in his Lothringer with a new two liter single carbureted Type IV motor. Lesher had made good time around the course on Lap 2, but at a price. As he came into his pit he was hollering on the radio, "two flats, right front and left rear!" And s_o it was. But when his crew did some routine checks of the car as others changed tires they discov-ered a trans fluid leak and a leaky oil pan. He was there for a long The team of Jimmy Hook, Jimmy Messick and Billy McCool drove Hook's Mirage to the victory in the 1/2-1600 class. Ed Moore and John Kiser teamed in their Pro Street Legal class car, and even with a lot of serious breakage, managed to get all five laps done to eam a win. time. At the end of three laps Walsh had the lead and he was now a minute ahead of Omboli. Cour-tenay was still third and Akwari ran fourth. Lesher was fifth about eight minutes later after a longish lap, and then he didn't make another lap. Omboli went back into the lead on the fourth lap, with Walsh sec-ond only 57 seconds later. Courtenay's co-driver, Gene Brown, ran third and Jeff Lothring-er, who took over for Akwari ran fourth. Walsh didn't make the fifth lap, to us up an hour and 42.minutes and Omboli now had a lead of on Lap 1, over two hours on Lap seven minutes with Brown in sec-2, and an hour ten on Lap 3. His ond place, Lothringer third and fourth lap looked fairly normal at David Callaway a distant fourth. 50 minutes and his fifth lap was Callaway was having some kind of only 57 minutes, so it seemed he'd miserable trouble that caused him made a good recovery. He was, how-ultimate long travel ford long travel system Get the benefits of our Long Travel system and 3" lilt spindles, creating 6" of lilt for incredible ground clearance. [r°@f'@ll ■ 3 • hlt spindles ■ Upper Control anns ~~~W)' ■ Lawer Control arms ■ Cail springs ■ 3 way front shacks ■ Performance rear shacks ■ Rear kit 3-wau adjustable. shocR-absorber ('mfil, wwr-FRD touota Jong travel system Dur Toyota 2 wheel drive, 6' 'Ivan Dan' long travel system. Built to satisfy all the serious □!! roaders out there. Page 22 ---,,-f!'/ti!fifi@'fu)¾~t-----,,,--n · B' Suspension System used in a racing application with coil over shocks. Using Fabtech custom I beams, this configuration cycles out.al 19' of wheel travel. custom i beams Dllroad bullet proof design provides maximum strength with 4130 Ou-omoly steel I /8th' thick plate and tubular inner structure. 1990-94 lord ranger ., .. performance system Our extended radius arms are □!!set lurther inboard o!!ering increased tire clearance and 4 • more wheel travel. Dual Shock System 2 shocks per front wheel, adds high performance dampening. extended radius arms Our extended radius arms are offset further inboard for increased tire clearance. Ranger models shown, which include new pivot mounts. 1998-on ford ranger 2_s·· performance system 2.5' □I lift with a 2' increase in wheel travel. 1973-87 CIO ., ·· lono travel sustem Gives you the needed clearance for 33' tall tires. June 2002 Fiberglass e f! e ~berf!s! ! include rront fenders, bedsides and hoods. The front lenders and bedsides are flared with wheel travel in mind. angled spare tire mount Constructed using I I/ 4 • steel tubing and MIG welded at thejoints for long lasting strength and durability. flat . ' fT spare tire mount Over 25 Styles stamped steel tabs Our vast assortment of stamped steel tabs simplify your fabrication needs . . Call for a distributor nearest ydti Phone 714-990-8850 -Fax 714-990-8854 wwwfafltechmotorsports_ com DR E-MAIL US AT inlo@fabtechrnotorsports.com Dusty Times

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Casey Currie drove a steady pace in his Jeep, to take second place Mark and Keith Grawe drove their Ford Ranger to second place in Mike Harvey drove all the way in his Porter chassis, and even with no the popular Sportsman Street Legal class. power steering for three laps, he took second place in the 1600 class. Craig Pearson and Mike Horner teamed in Pearson's daily driver, worried about high tranny temperatures, but still won in the Sportsman Street Legal class. ever, two hours and 45 minutes behind the leader. Behind him Louis Grivas and Tom Taggart were in just as bad shape after starting driver Grivas got sick, parked at a distant pit and then had to wait almost two hours for Taggart to get there and get in the car. Afrer six laps Omboli had seven minutes on Brown who had one flat during is stint, and Lothringer was third another 50 minutes back and having repaired a broken lim-iter strap mount. Then_itwas Grivas and Taggart and finally, Callaway, who'd racked up another two hour plus lap. Omboli was zipping along antici-pating his win when a rear arm broke and took his c.v. joint with ir. While he spent over two hours in repairs Courtenay and Brown rook the win. Lothringer and Akwari, bemoaning the fact that the rules allow only one carburetor, finished in second place and Om-boli came in about 20 minutes later in third. Grivas and Taggart were fourth, and Callaway did the sev-enth lap, but finished a minute and 32 seconds over the time limit. He wasn't having a good day. Class 5 had a good sized group of entries, but they had a hard time at Ridgecrest. Tim Sharp managed only one lap of an hour and 23 minutes and then couldn't get a sec-ond one done, and Kevin Loggins used up two hours and five min-utes and then parked with a blown clutch. Thar still left five cars out there playing -and at the end of the first lap it was George Seeley in his yellow New-Beetle looking car in front. He had only six seconds on Tim Criswell with a 2800cc mo-tor built by his dad. He ran with no passenger this race. In third was a snazzy looking black car with me-tallic accents driven by Mike Doug Petterson Jed the Stock Production Mini Truck class all the way in his Ford Ranger and took the win with ease, the only one to finish out of seven starters. Dondel. Mike and his brother, Dale, had been car trading over the break since Laughlin, and just the week before had bought Mike James' terrific ."Outlaw Racing" car, got the new paint job, and decided to give it a· try here. They hadn't had time to pre-run. (While they were at it they traded their LaLtgh-lin winning car for Nick Baldwin's Nye Frank built four wheel drive car which they may keep or may trade for a Trophy Truck. But things may change by the time you read this.) At the end of the second lap the Dondel car was in front, by just un-der a minute, Criswell was second and Seeley was third 13 seconds later. Dondel took about a 20 sec-ond penalty for having "bumped" a car in a slower class. At the end of the third lap Seeley was back in front, the Dondels had dropped it to second after losing an alterna-tor, and Criswell was still third in spite of a flat. Dondel was held again at the start/finish line, appar-ently not having been penalized enough the first time. In fourth place was Dale Hines, son of Frank in the Corvette powered car, and he was about another nine minutes back. Fifth belonged to Steve Grif-fith, another minute behind him, and giving him a good race. The Dondels were back in the lead at the end of four laps, but only about a half minute up on Seeley who must have thought this was his worst nightmare come to haunt him. Here was that d-d Outlaw car again, and in the hands of the Dondels who used to give him a hard time when they ran Class 5 a few years ago. Criswell was now about six minutes back fol-lowed by Hines and then Griffiths, who dropped back a bit after a long lap, and then didn't come around again. Criswell's brother, John, got in for Lap 5 and had an exotic prob-lem that started with "oil on the black box" which caused the alter-nator to quit functioning, and then the battery to go dead. By the time they'd figured out what was wrong, cleaned it up and got a jump-start, they'd lost about two and a half hours. The Dondels had a lead of a minute and a half on Seeley, and now Hines was third, about 32 minutes later, but then he never came around again either. The Dondels had recorded the fast lap for the class on their sec-ond lap, at 46:53, and then on Lap 6 they came close, with a 46:54 lap, but it was overkill. Seeley was parked and involved in a three and a half hour project to replace a broken axle. With the Criswells still working on their "black box" prob-lem, the Dondels sailed on in soli-tary splendor, to take the victory by a margin of two hours. The Criswells were second, and Seeley never got his last lap completed. The Class 8 trucks went off the line next, ahd Eric Heiden went into the lead with about seven minutes on Randy Shoaff, who was 24 min-utes up on Doug Seymour. Heiden had 15 minutes by the end of the second lap and it was still Shoaff in second, and he now had 35 min-utes on Seymour. Bur at the end of the third lap, with Heiden still in front, Shoaff was gone, and Sey-mour was second, though 50 min-utes down to the leader. 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Eric Helgison ran a steady pace in his Jeep, to finish the day fourth Frank Hines and Dennis Boylesharedthedrivingin their VB Chevrolet Joey Hoerr ran second in the limited Baja Bug class (5-1600) all day, in the JeepSpeed standings. powered Lothringer to take third place in the unlimited class. and kept things together to finish second. main pit for the fix. He was still Mirage in front, but only a skinny berg a distant foucth. And at the Class 7, the Unlimited· mini third lap the other trailing arm leading, and still 50 minutes in minute in front of Max Hanberg in end of four laps it looked the same. trucks were next to start, and they broke, using up more pit time for front of Seymour at the end of the his Mirage. And another minute Messick got out then and let Billy had a bad day. Steve Lucena did repairs. By now he was over six lap. And chat's the way it went for and ten seconds later it was Mike McCool in, and Cepielik put Jason one troubled lap and then never hours into the race. On the fourth the rest of the afternoon. Heiden Harvey in his Porter. Jeff Cepielik Cepielik into the driver's seat, while came around again, while Mike lap he drove gingerly and didn't went on to take the win, reporting had his Suspensions Unlimited car Hanberg had got out a lap earlier Becker s_tarted off well, but. hen have too bad a time, but on Lap 5 only one "driver incurred" flat tire. in fourth place, about seven min-and installed Bernie Carr. spent two hours and more on the they separated an alternator fan-He dedicated his win to recently de-utes later. When they'd completed five laps second lap, almost as much on the pulley, so they did some coasting ceased Gene Jacobsen, whom he de-. Hock had another good lap, but McCool led with 11 minutes on third, and almost three hours do-on the downhills, hoping to cool scribed as a "long time friend." He . didn't like his carburetor, so Harvey who now had no power ing Lap 4. At that point he either things off. Still, he got his official reported that the cours_e had been stopped in his main pit for a new steering. In third it was still the broke permanently or figured he finish, with a time of 9:49:56, and so rough he felt as if he'd driven "a one. He decided he wasn't feeling Cepielik team, and Carr. was was out of time, and he never went now has a win on the records. He is 500 mile race." Seymour gave it a very good either, and got out, put-fourth,. On the sixth lap McCool around again. So the class was v·ery grateful to his family and crew good try, but was apparently beset ting Jimmy Messick in the car for recorded the fast lap for the class 100% in the DNF column this time. for all the extra long hours they put by trouble and while he finished all the next couple of laps. Harvey had at 51 minutes and he was still in In the Street Legal class only Ed in. seven laps he was four seconds over- taken over the lead while Hook had front, now by 19 minutes. Harvey, Moore decided to race in the Pro The 5-1600 cars went off the line time and goes into the books as a his carb replaced, and he had who's still a new racer, was soundly division. He started next, and next, and Jeffrey Sack put his car DNF. Sad story. about. a minute and a half on in second. needed to do five laps to get a fin-into the lead. He had about a The 1/2-1600 cars lined up Hook/Messick, with Cepielik now McCool, Messick and Hook ish. His first lap didn't go badly but minute and a half on Joey Hoerr next, and due to the competing third, ten minutes later and Han-went on to take the victory, placing on the second lap things started who ran second, and was two min-race, which had drawn the Pro bergalatefourth.He'dlostacoil, fifth intheoverallstandingsalso poorlywhenhegotatentstakeina utes up on Steve Johnston. 1600 group, there wasn't a big en-and while he sat in Pit B the spare Harvey, having done three laps with rear tire (or why we should always Stephanie Lozano was another two try here. But there was some good was in Pit C. They'd elected not to no power steering, was second; fol-clean up after ourselves). Then he minutes back, and then came Mark racing. Three racers, Alvin Fussell, carry a spare coil in order to "save lowed in by the Cepielikand Jimmy tore off some rear shock mounts, Dee, who'd used three hours and Jerry Longo and Andrew Rusich weight", he later reported. Taren to who drove the last lap. In and limped slowly back to the pits. 24 minutes to get his first lap done. were unable to get the first lap done, Messick went back into the lead fourth it was Hanberg and Carr When the crew was welding on the He did another lap that cost him so that shrank the group even more. at the end of Lap 3, with Harvey who will always carry a spare coil in mounts they found a cracked trail-an hour and ten minutes and then Of those left, Jimmy Hook had his second, Cepielik third and Han-the future. ing arm and repaired that. On the Continued on page 26 '1"'4--,,.,·y ~'"-·~ ,, t ' . _:'-i tf 'i , •·,t -~ h , le Bruckma ,,,·,,_. . Page 24 June 2002 Dusty Times

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Todd and Shirley Jergensen and Jim Teagarden shared the driving in their 1915cc-powered pre-runner. to take second in the Pre-runner Steve Johnston and Jeff Grenier teamed in their 5-1600 car to take Richard Lesher had a tie for the class fast lap, but with two flats at one Buggy class. second place in the ve,y competitive class. time and other trouble, his day went downhill fast and he didn't finish. Frank Omboli led part of the way but then broke a rear arm on his Will Akwari and Jeff Lothringer were testing their new 2-liter type IV Class 10 motor in their Lothringer, and it worked well enough - they took second place. Lothringer and by the time he was fixed had dropped to third in Charlie Peltzer was one of a good-sized bunch of drivers who entered Class 1 O. in the JeepSpeed class. All but three of them finished. He was third. he didn't come around again. At the end of Lap 2 it was still Sack, Hoerr and Johnston, with only ten minutes separating first· and third. Lozano was another four minutes back in fourth. They ran the same way on the third lap also, and on Lap 4 Johnston put his co-driver, Jeff Grenier into the car for the next two laps, and the order was the same except that Lo-zano had a time of two hours and 26 minutes, which put her a full lap off the pace. Lozano is just back to racing after a devastating fire at her home which destroyed her race car. On the fifth-Lao Sack aooarentlv put his car on its lid, and he lost over three hours getting back to-gether. That let Grenier take over the lead, and now he had about 45 minutes on second place Hoerr. Lo-zano, and her husband, Leroy, who helps drive, were now third, and Sack had dropped to fourth and last, another six minutes back. Johnston got back in and held the lead through the sixth lap, with Hoerr, Lozano and Sack following in order. They all headed out into the desert for the last trip around the course, which was very rough for their limited suspension. Johnston came back in good time to take the win, and Hoerr followed along in second place as expected. But Sack moved up to take third, only another 13 minutes back, and the Lozanos came down the long road, knowing they were in trouble. They radioed their crew to check up on the rules about pushing a car across the finish line. Their motor was sick, and they pulled over to work on it for a while, then limped a bit further, but it died just a few feet short of a finish, making them a DNF for this event. Class 900 failed to show for this event, except for Kevin Kopitch and Kim Wright in their Chenowth. They ran a steady pace, with no ma-· or troubles, except that Wright's TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING, INC. 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On the third lap Smith dis-appeared and so did Anderson and Jacketti. Now there were only four left, and Petterson was still in front. He had 15 minutes on Graham, and Fay ran third but about an hour and 25 minutes down. Walker was another 40 minutes back in fourth. When the fourth lap was done there was no one left but Petterson. He went on to get his finish, and his win, reporting "no problems whatsoever" with his Ford. The Stock Mini Truck class, which had to do only four laps, started next. Nicholas Beall was in the lead by just over a minute with Mike Dill in second place. It looked as if a good, tight race was develop-ing. But it wasn't to be. Beall's day started to nirn· sour and he lost over a half hour on Lap 2. Dill now led by 25 minutes. And on the third lap Beall had a time of almost three hours. Dill now led by two hours, and at the end of Lap 4 he had three hours, as Beall struggled. So Dill got the win and Beall was sec-ond after a lon g hard day. The next group to go was the Sportsman Street Legal trucks, and all but one made it through the first lap. Steve Ruddick never got back around, and Eric Berros almost didn't, using four hours and 25 minutes for just one loop. But Dan Vance was in good shape, and he led by seven minutes over Mark Grewe in a Ford Ranger. In third it was Craig Pearson, in his "go to work" truck, and Carolyn Hines was fourth in her Ranger. Hines is the wife of Frank in the Corvette powered car, and the mother of Dale in the Class 5 car. Must be nice to have the whole family rac-ing, but what do they do for pit crew? Grandma and Grandpa? This class was expected to run only four laps, and 1nost of them made it. At the end of Lap 2 it was still Vance in front, and now he had about nine minutes on Growe, whose son, Keith, was navigating. In third it was Hines, and Pearson dropped to fourth. Vance had a problem on the third lap and lost an hour, which put Pearson's co-driver, Mike Horner, into first place. His trans-mission temperature was so high that the truck was going in neutral every now and then, but he just kept moving along. Growe was still second and Hines ran third as Vance dropped to fourth. In fifth, another half hour down, was Michael Licari. Pearson and Hor11-er stayed in front and took the win, beating sec-ond place Growe by a mere 14 min-utes. The Groves had a nice ride in their truc°k which has its windows and air-conditioning to keep them cool on a hot day like this one. Hines, who drove all the way, fin-ished in third place reporting no flat tires and no mechanical trouble. And Vance was fourth after an-other slower lap, followed in by Licari who also had troubles, in fifth. The next group to start was the Pre-Runner Buggies, who were re-quired to run only four laps. Only one, Jonathan Buss, failed to get the first lap done. The lead be-longed to Clint Fisher in a four seat Lothringer chassis powered by a 2.5 liter V6 Toyota motor. This was the second race for the car , and it was not quite five minutes up on Don Plymale. In third it was Todd Jergensen in a Raceco with a 1915cc VW motor. In really is Jergensen's pre-runner, he says he also has a Class 1 car, "but it's always bro-ken." Fourth place belonged to Greg Crew in a Raceco powered by Dust¥. Tigies.-

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a 1776cc VW, about seven minutes behind the lead car. After the second lap, when he ran the fast lap for the class at 52:30, Fisher still had the lead and now he was 21 minutes up on Jergensen who'd come up to sec-ond. Crew was third and Plymale dropped to fourth after rolling his car and putting a big dent in the roof. In landed on its whe~ls, so he didn't lost a lot of time. Fisher ran steadily on, and had a lead of 29 minutes by the end of the third lap. His one problem, if it can be called his problem, was that his navigator, Skyler Cadman, be-came carsick and "upchucked all over". Jergensen, who shared the driving with his wife, Shirley and also a buddy, Jim Teagarden, was still second. In third it was Plymale again, and Crew was back in fourth place. Fisher and his carsick navigator went on to take the win, finishing 25 minutes in front of second place. The Jergensen team was second, and just 13 minutes behind them was Crew, who reported" not one prob-lem all day long." And fourth went to Plymale. Finishing in fifth, about three hours later was Michael Parr, who was followed in by Christo-pher Parr in sixth, and then in sev-enth, Jason Wagstaff in nine hours and 18 minutes. The JeepSpeed cars were the next bunch to rake off, and this was Rick Romans and Darnen Jefferies teamed up in Roman's Type IV powered Jimco and nearly took the overall win, missing by just one second. another four lap group. These are back. Billy Bunch was running (obviously) all Jeeps, and it's like a dead last after breaking his tie spec class, but they start with ordi-rods, and then replacing them nary Jeeps and add certain required with a stock set, which meant he'd products and some allowable up-need to drive_judiciously for the grades to make them into race cars. remainder of the race. There were 11 of them and only At the end of the second lap it one dropped out on the first lap. was Peltzer in front, with abut a BillQuinnayerwasreduced to spec-minute and 10 seconds on Th-tator status as all the rest went by. ompson. Rogers r_an third, and At the end of that lap it was McKinney was fourth. Dave Barrie Thompson in front, after Turner was in his pit for 40 min-recording the fast lap for the class utes with a serious fan shroud at 1:09: 12, with about two min-problem, and then he got no more utes on Bryan Rogers, who had laps completed. This also turned just 21 seconds on Charlie Peltzer. out to be the last lap for McKin-1 n fourth place it was Scott riey. McKinney, another six minutes After Lap 3 Thompson was Barrie Thompson and Nick DeAvila celebrated DeAvila's birthday by getting the win in the JeepSpeed .class, finishing 20 minutes up on second place. back in first place, now 11 min-second place it was Currie, only utes in front of Casey Currie, who 20 minutes back, and followed in was 14 minutes up on Peltzer, by Peltzer, only three minutes who had five minutes on Eric later. Helgison was fourth, and Helgison. Bunch handed his car the Kearneys and Bunch finished over to John Kearney and his son in fifth place. Alexis Alexander Matthew, who both drov~, being was sixth, Rogers was seventh and care"ful of those tie rods. Rogers Barnett finished eighth. lost a half hour that lap, and • The lone Class 11 car, driven Mike Barnett had a couple of dif-by Matt Shuss did one lap in the ficult laps. very long time of four hours and Thompson had Nick DeAvila, 54 minutes, and was later seen who•was celebrating his birthday, being towed back to the pits, for riding with him, and they had no an ignominious end to a bad day. problems and motored on to the The MDR moves on to victory. They dedicated their race Johnson Valley for their next to Gene Jacobsen, whom they de-event; the Johnson Valley 400 on scribed as "a beloved friend." In June 21 and 22. ..-.llt? HONDA -Power Equipment · EB6500 T ) .. HONDA Power Equipment Dusty Times . ~~"' . . . ' ' . . . : ... "'°'-TO-RACER & SPECTATOR DISCOUNTS •GENERATORS• OUTBOARD ENGINES • GENERAL PURPOSE ENGINES •WELDERS• WATER PUMPS •LAWNMOWERS• LAWN TRACTORS • RIDING MOWERS • TILLERS California's Largest Source for Honda Pow-er Equipment Parts and Inventory IF WE OONT HAVE IT, NO ONE DOES! Check Our Website:, WWW .Kawaguchihonda.com Kawaguchi Honda Corp. . , . 3532 East 3rd St. • Los Angeles, CA 90063 Nothing S easier. (323) 264-3936, 264-5858 • FAX (323) 264-2136 Please read the owner's mal']ual before operating your Honda Power Equipment. co·nnection of a generator to house power requires a transfer de.vice to avoid .possible injury to power company personnel. Consult a qualified electrician.· ©2002 American Honda Motor Co, Inc.· 4_20-01•2_108 June 2002 Page 27

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ROUND 1 OF THE AUSTRALIA OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP The run ro Stackpoole was to be fast with this section taking only one hour two minutes 12 seconds set by the Class 2 buggy of Shannon Irving, followed by Jason Graham . in the Class 9 buggy, his time of one. hour two minutes 17 seconds, third to the finish was another single seat buggy. Paul Styles, his time over the 100 kilometers, one hour two minutes 28 seconds. The new rules for the use of pump fuels only seemed to play a big part in the number of entries out in the first section of the race, out with engine troubles was the current Australian champion Mark Burrows, with him prologue winner Jamie Robinson, also out Les Marshall with a blown engine. Laurie Svenson in th~ Stealth V8 Toyota powered buggy was the big mover, starting from position 23 worked his way to sixth. Graham, the loss of a fan belt, Andrew Brown iri the Frontera set the fastest tiITte, one hour 38 minutes 17 seconds followed by Nigel Burley coming from sixth place, his time one hour 38 minutes 39 seconds. Laurie Svenson had dropped in Section 3 to ninth position but set the fourth fastest time, one hour 39 minutes to goto Position 4. Th·e Griffith City 500 Text & Photos: Steve Hilton Only 24 finished the four sections and with combined time of five hours 24 minutes 55 seconds Simon Barbary and Alister McClelland in the Class 2 Rivmasta were the overall winners followed by Nigel Burley and Karen Denniss in another Class 1 Rivmasta, their time five hours 25 minutes 32 seconds, third outright with a time of five hours 31 minutes · 34 seconds was the Class 8 team in the Frontera of Andrew Brown and Daniel Brown. Simon Barbary and Alister McClellend had the best time in Class 2 in their Rivmasta and were the overall winners. The run home to Griffith, this time it was Jason Graham in front with a time.of one hour one minute 26 seconds, followed by Bob Mowbray, his time one hour one minute 56 seconds. Les Siviour maintained his fifth position over the two sections, a good result for the stock 4WD. Others not making it to the finish of this section were Geoff Pickering out with a gearbox problem and Trevor Growden in .the Rodeo, problems with the engine turbo. Class I: Bob Mowbray at the end of Section 1 was the leader followed by Svenson, third saw the buggy of Burley and Rentsch fourth. Section 2 and Mowbray again on top, the other positions had not changed. Sunday and the longer laps, Mowbray again proved he was going to be hard to beat, Rentsch moved to Position 2 followed by Burley and Svenson. The return home to the finish and Mowbray was out leaving Burley to take the class and second overall honors, followed by Svenson in the Stealth V8 Toyota second and Rentsch third in the Funco. Simon Barbary & Alister McClelland 'Mn the Griffith City 500 This year the season opener was held at Griffith in the central west of New South Wales, the event attracting 67 cornpetitors spread over the nine classes. The race this year to be held over two days, Saturday, prologue for starting positions and then Section 1, a 100 kilometer race to the Stackpoole property, then a one hour service, and time for the track to clear before the return. Section 2 the return run over the same 100 kilometers to Griffith. Sunday morning Section 3, this time a 150 kilometer run to Stackpoole, service break and then the last section, the run home to the finish, a total of 500 kilometers. Saturday's Prologue Class 1: Unlimited two seat buggy. Jamie Robinson and Deon Beattie in the Rimco turbo powered buggy were fastest with a time Porsche 911 was the fastest, his time 7:26:76 over the 15 kilometer 08:05:92, second Alan Dobbs in course set around the Griffith the Ford F150 08:33:17, third in countryside, second with a time of class Geoff Teagle in the Ford 07:59:66 was Glen Towers in the Falcon 08:39:65. Rivmasta, third Bob Mowbray in Class 7: Stock 4WD. To plan it the Jimco Baja 07:39:77. was Les Siviour in the Nissan Patrol Class 2: 1650cctwoseatbuggy. who was fastest 07:56:51, closely Shannon Irvin in the Rivmasta, followed by Colin Hunter in the 07:44:78 the fastest in this class, JeepWrangler08:10:04,thirdthe closely followed by Les Marshall in current class holder Geoff Pickering the Mirage Toyota buggy 07:58:84. in the Mitsubishi Pajero 08: 10:59. Third with a time of08:06:21 was Class 8: Unlimited 4WD. An Mat Ryan in the Funco Toyota. amazing drive by Andrew Brown in Class 3: 1300cc two seat buggy. the Holden Frontera, his time of Darren Perrin first with a time of 07:31 ,65 also saw him as the second 07:58:73, second Graeme Julius faHest overall, second in class 08: 12:19 and third Travis Conrad Andrew Stott in a Nissan Patrol 08:27:74·. 08:18:84, third Steve Corney in Class 4: Unlimited Trucks and Mitsubishi l200 09:31 :68. Baja single or two seats. Tr~vor Class 9: Unlimited single seat Growden set the quickest time in buggy. Jason Graham in the BRB his Rodeo 07:50:32, second Shaun buggy set a time of 07:41:04, he was Goss in another Rodeo 08: 19:38, also third quicl,:est overall, second third the Chevy of Wayne Attard Paul Styles in a Chenowth 07:57:60 08:24: 11. and third Andrew Ziems in the Class 5: Unlimited 2WD. Cougar 08:02:52. Graham Lees in the Chevy powered Saturday Section I & 2 Sunday Section 3 & 4 An 8:30 start and Jason Graham in the Class 9 single seat first away for the 150 kilometer run to Stackpoole's followed one minute behind by Bob and Jeanette Mowbray in the J imco, at the end the roles were reversed and Mowbray was the leader having set the fastest time of one hour 35 minutes seven seconds, Jason Graham's time of one hour 36 minmes 37 seconds, third in this section was Jaakko Kylma in the Rivmasta Class 9 buggy coming from ninth place, his time one hour 36 minutes 59 seconds. Out in this section was Graeme Julius in the Class 3 with a gearbox failure, he was holding 10th position. The Nissan of Les Siviour out with engine problems, Paul Styles a broken link pin and Paul Grant in the F 150 a transmission failure. The return to Griffith and to the winner's podium was to be a battle, Mowbray out after leading the event with an engine electrical problem, also Jason Class 2: Shannon Irvin was the fast mover followed by Simon Barbary second, third Justin Anderson and fourth Stephen Burrows over Section 1, the return and Barbary took control behind him in second was Anderson, Irvin third and Marr Hanson moved up to fourth position. Sunday again Barbary held the lead, Burrows moved to second and third was taken by Irvin. On the run home Barbary set the fast time to take the class and overall win followed by Burrows in the Cougar and Anthony Lia third. Class 3: Graeme Julius on the Saturday Section 1 was the first home followed by Conrad and Walker, the return run and Conrad took the lead followed by Julius and Woods. 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and Bromfield, however, with the accumulated times Conrad was the winner in class, second Woods and third Sansom. Class 4: Only three trucks started and it was Trevor Growden in his rodeo first in Section 1 followed by Goss and Collerr, the return and Growden out with a transmission problem he would return for Sunday's sections, second home Collett. Sunday the trip out and Goss again the quickest followed by Growden, this time Collett was out with transmission trouble. The return and Goss with no problems over the weeken<;I took the win and was the only one in the class to complete all four sections. Class 5: Paul and Fay Grant in the Fl50 were the quickest to Srackpooles, GeoffTeagle in another Ford, a Falcon Ute was second and third position was taken by Kilby in the Toyota Hilux V8, the return and Teagle took over the lead followed by Grant and Dobbs: all Fords. Sunday and afrer 150 kilometers Dobbs led over. Teagle tollowed by the Chrysler Valiant of Williams, Paul Grant out with transmission woes. T he return and Teagle was o u t, electrical problems in the Falcon, leaving the win to Williams, he was the only one to finish all sections in the event. Class 7: Les Siviour and the Nissan Patrol were first at the end of Section 1 followed by Pickering in the Pajero and Bobbie Siviour in another Nissan Patrol, Hunter in his Jeep was out with a transmission failure. The return home and Pickering was out also with transmission problems, leaving rhe father and daughter team of the Siviour's ro fill first and second. Sunday and only the two Siviour Patrols and Pickering to start, at the end at Stackpooles no sign of Les· Siviour, he had blown an engine leaving Pickering to rake the win followed by Bobbie Siviour, on the return to Griffith Pickering again took the win but on the combination of all times, Bobbie Siviour was the winner and the only one in the class to finish all sections. Class 8: Andrew Brown, after setting the second fastest time in the prologue was going to be hard to beat in the race, however, in Section 1 Andrew Stott in an older Nissan Patrol was the quickest to Stackpooles followed by Brown and Bowen also in a Patrol, the return and Brown took the win over Bowen and Stott. Sunday morning Brown again with the win over Stott and Bowen. The return to the finish at Griffith and Brown showed his dominance to take the class win over Stott and Corney in a Misubishi. Bowen failed to finish this, the last section. Class 9: Jason Graham in the BRB car was fastest in Section 1 followed by Paul Styles in a Chenowth, third home Jaakko Kyltna in a Rivmasta, the return and again Graham the fastest followed by Kylma and Peter Sowter taking third. Sunday and Graham taking the win over Kylma, Styles out with a link pin breaking on his Chenowth, the return home and Graham out, a fan Continued on page 32 r--------------------------------------------~ I I I I I I I I I I Dusty Times is glad to be able to give our readers a look at the Australian Off Road Racing Series once continue this coverage again. We will in the future and sincerely much as we hope you enjoy the do printing it. coverage as Other racing groups are invited to con-tact Dusty Times for possible inclusion of your races in our publication. I I I I I I I I I I L---------------------~----------------------~ 2B6 5 Gundry Ave. 5ignal Hill. CA 90B0Ei PRECISION BDD.959. 7757 562.427.2375 every thing you need tu build. maintain and operate a racecar Bolts. Nuts and Hardware Sparco !ieats. • Ste e r ing Wheels. Suits a nd Safety Equipment Crow Belts and Harnesses Bell Helmets Spa/ Fans Fir~ Systems Silicone Turbo Hose Neo Synthetic Lubricants Aurora. NHBB and FK Rod Ends Weldon Fuel and Oil Pumps Fresh Air Driver Ventilation Systems lntercomp 5ca/es and Alignment Equipment Earl's. Aeroquip Ii. Speedflow 5tainless Braided Hose Ii. Fittings Fuel 5aFe and Triangle Fuel Cells 5etrab. Lung and Fluidyne Oil Coolers §ee a -ur complete anline catala at www.baker recisian.can, Page 30 June 2002 Dusty Times

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\. Nigel Burley and Karen Oenniss were second overall on combined Andrew and Daniel Brown come out of a right hander on the way to The Travis/Conrad buggy went well and they took the Class 3 win, time and the Class 1 winners in their Rivmasta at the Griffith City 500. the Class 8 win in their Nissan Patrol. ===== shown here at speed in the reddish dirt. This is the :;ystem run by most TRI-MIL BOBCAT CHROME off road race winners Page 32 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 ABOVE: The only Class 5 car to finish all the sections, Bobbie and Katie Siviour took the Class 7 win although they didn't Ke/ and Gary Williams took the class win against all lead all the sections. odds. b=-----cel=-t-c_o_11_1._it_1.g-of.,,,f=-t...,.h_e_ca_r __ __,.A....,ft_e_r_t~h-e.....,d,-u-st.....,h,-a-d=-s-e-tt~le-d=-a-n-d=-a~ll AT LEFT: Shaun Goss and Jeff Long had a trouble free weekend and they collected the coveted Class 4 win in their Rodeo. and doing some minor vehicles were home thoughts moved ~~ $1,025 Also Avallable In e-& II .. kits Call for DEtalls damage, this.left the win to the next event in the championship, and class honors to central Australia and the Finke Desert Jaakko Kylma. Race in June. . ./Jtll!!il,. Jeep 6rand 0-,erokee 95-97 3 Susptnsion Lift $520.00-XJDlerokee 95-97 3 Suspension Lift $535.00rlla..llulw Jeep Wrllngler y J 86-96 2.5 Suspension Lift $569.00-Jeep Wrangler TJ 97-01 2.5 Suspension Lift $699.00rlla..llulw Chevy Sllverado ISOOHD/2S00HD 2001-2002 6 Suspension Lilt /1,106 ms 315/75Rl6 Tires NEW KIT!i from ~ 8 Suspension Lilt $2,341 FITS 37/12.50Rl6 Tires i!WD lllfr ZONE II-It !WI &1511 ¥f, Ultimate lift ¥3 Cast Lift Spindles ¥Coit Springs ~~~tntrol Arms Perfonnance Shocks ¥Rear Blocks & U Bolts lttll.lS {Run 33 tires without a body lift) &l[Yr II-II tWI &ISII ¥ 7 U I ti mate Lift ¥4 Lift Spindles ¥C9il Springs ¥Upper Control Arms ¥Rear Blocks & U Bolts ¥4 Fabte<h Performance Shocks llltl.lS {Run 33 tires without a body lift) 1111£ IHI !WI l1• 1511 ~ Shocks llt35.IS [Run 15 tires without a body lift) FIii II-It !WI 1151 ¥7 Ultimate Lift ¥Upper Control Arms ¥Rear Blocks & U Bolts : ~otfsp~l~t sSpind1es ¥4 Fabtech ~erformance Shocks llt75.IS (Run 35 tires without a body lift) ~Dn 41 ).,I Lift Spindles flomTHE KING of 2WD Lift P.pplication 4.D' 88-98 GM ClSDD/25□□, X CAB, 92-98 STD CAB 4.D' 88-91 GM Cl SDD ST-CAB 3.D' 99-D2 GM ClSDD ALL 3.5' 83-D1 GM S1D 3.5' 97-D2 Ford Fl SO 3.D' 98-D1 Ford Ranger 3.D' 94-D1 Dodge Ram June 2002 DE!iERT 97-up Ford F-150 99-up Ford Super D 99-up Chevy 1500 01-up Chevy HD ON SALE for ONLY $475.95

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t-MORE Balls Out 250 Rick Wilcoxon took the Class 1 win in his neat looking car with an average speed of almost 48 miles per hour. The MORE Balls Out 250 took opened the lead up to three min- pleting his eight required laps in five place on a fairly cloudy day and utes on the second lap, dropped a hours· and 43 minutes. Richard there was some good competition minute on the third lap, lost the Lesher only got in two laps, the first and all involved had the usual good lead to Wilcoxon on the fourth lap, being quite long, his second in the time, win, loose or draw. turned the fastest lap of the race very low 40's but he was never seen· The Class 1 battle was looking on his fifth lap but it was all in vain again. good for a while but it sort of pe-as Morley never competed his sixth The Class 1600 contest started tered out as the day wore on. of the required eight laps. off tight and stayed that way for Morley Williams was a man on a Wilcoxon kept r-ight on lapping the the entire race. They too had to run mission, he led the first lap by 12 course in the low 40 minute area eight laps foi: a finish and most of seconds over Rick Wilcoxon, and he took the Class 1 win, com-them did and their lap times were Dennis Peterson drove some laps, handed over to Todd Craig and they took the Class 9 win with time to spare. · close enough that the winner was in doubt 'ti! the last minute. The 1600s had eight laps to complete for the race and they all had their sights set on the checkered flag .. On the first lap Roger Starkey took the lead, only by 22 seconds but it was a leg up on Bryan Geer. Gerald Longo was third, 42 seconds in ar-rears, Brad Fletcher was fourth, Greg Blakeman was running fifth, Vic Bussey held the sixth spot and Andy Rusich was bringing up the rear. At the end of the second lap Starkey was still leading, Longo had moved into second, Fletcher was third, Blakeman was in fourth, Geer had dropped all the way to fifth, Bussey was still in sixth and Rusich was still the tail on the dog. At the end of the third lap Fletcher-had taken over the lead, Longo had moved into second, Blakeman was up to third, Rusich had moved from last into fourth, f J _.,,,.,,r,a Geer was still in fifth, Bussey still held the sixth spot and Starkey had an upside down excursion and dropped to seventh place. After the fourth lap it was Gerry Longo in the first spot, Fletcher was in sec-ond, Bryan Geer was now in third, Blakeman was fourth, Bussey was in fifth, Starkey was a long sixth and Andy Rusich had disappeared from the charts. Lap 5, we're on the downhill side of the race and Longo still had the lead, Geer had moved into second, Bussey had moved up to third, Star-key was into fourth, Fletcher had dropped to fifth after a two hour and change very long lap and now Blakeman was gone. At the end of six laps, Longo still led with a com-fortable margin, Bussey had moved into the second spot, Geer was in third, Starkey was still in fourth and Fletcher was still fifth. Continued on page 34 ·; 2.5" l<IIVGl1:c4'&00r 714.530.8701 • FAX T74.53D,,,B70::Z ~ 1RASK AV£.,. UNff A• GARDENGROV£ CA 9::1843 IN'fNtN'.lcingsbot:ks.corn Dusty Times June 2002 rm: mrsmsuaswn2ns22wzsu2;2nns 2.5" --6'llKI Need coil springs? Call King Shocks! We have custom and production coils in stock, and the experience to get you what you need. Call today! -· Page 33

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Steve Mitchell took the win in the somewhat abbreviated Sportsman The Unlimited Sportsman Class went to the team of Todd and Shirley Gerry Longo worked his way through the pack and when all was Class in his clean looking bu . Jergenson, shown here taking the flag. done, he was the Class 1600 winner by almost 15 minutes. Don Heinemann didn't have the best of days, buthe took a nice BJ Proctor led the Class 9 fray for a while but ended up in the second Bryan Geer led the Class 1600 battle for a bit but a long sixth lap put him into second in class at the end. second place in the Unlimited Sportsman Class. ~--~ spot in the Class 9 fight. Lap 7, r 1e race was growing checkered flag, it was Gerry Longo fourth, only a minure and a half short and Gerry Congo srill had a taking a nice win, Bryan Geer slid our of a podium position. nicelead,Busseysrillr:rnseconcl, inrorhesecondspor,somel3min-The Unlimired Sporrsman Geer still running rhird and Star-ures off rhe pace, Vic Bussey came class had to make six laps for a key was still fifth and Brad Fletcher next, 1-ess than two minutes out of finish but only a few of them were was gone. As they arrived for the second and Roger Starkey slid into able to take the checkered flag. 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VALLEY VIEW #3 • LAS VEGAS, NV • 89102 HOURS: MON-FRI 9AM-6PM • SAT 9AM-5PM (702/871-5221 FAX .-June 2002 On the first lap it was Craig Reynolds in the lead, Shirley and Todd Jergenson were only 11 sec-onds behind in second, Don Heinemann was in third and Bob Hansen was fourth. After the sec-ond lap, Reynolds still held the class lead, the J ergensons were still second and I leinemann and Hansen were still holding their re-spective positions. Ar the end of three la-ps, Reynolds was still lead-ing the Jergensons, Hansen had moved into third and Heinemann had dropped to fourth. Craig Reynolds was still fead-ing as the fourth lap came to a close, the Jergensons were still holding their second spot and Don· Heinemann was third and Bob Hansen had disappeared from the lap charts. At the end of the fifth lap, the Jergensons had moved into the lead, Don Heinemann was second and Craig Reynolds failed to make the lap. So the race ended for the Un-limited Sportsman, the Jergensons took the win very happily, Don Heinemann came in for second, al-most an hour out of the win but all · agreed it had been a good race. · The Sportsman class also had to make six laps for a race, but there really wasn't much of a con-test. Steve Mitchell went into the lead on the first lap, Sta<;y · Fay was 13 minutes off the pace in her truck and the other con-tender, Mike Halliday, failed to start the race. Steve held the lead for the entire race, Stacy was a bit further behind, but she defi-nitely picked up the pace on the last two laps. When the Checkers flew, it was Steve Mitchell taking the class win in his Baja Bug and Stacy taking the flag a mere 34 minutes later. Not too bad, con-sidering the difference in the ma-chines. Last, but certainly not least was the Class 9 battle, and it too was a good one. B.J. Proctor took the lead on the first lap, Dan Owens was a bit over a minute behind in· second, Jerry Burke was rhird, less than a minute.in arrears, Dennis Peterson was in fourth and Mike Norris was fifth after a troubled first lap. On the second lap, Proctor still held the lead, Peterson was still holding second, Owens had dropped into third, Norris was in fourth and Jerry Burke failed to make the lap. On Lap 3, Proctor still held a decent lead, Peterson was still in second, Norris moved up to third and Owens was in fourth. No change in position on the fourth lap and on the fifth lap also there was no change in the running order but Dan Owens had disap-peared. Proctor still led on the sixth lap but Peterson, who had handed over to Todd Craig was closing in, narrowing the time margin a bit. Norris was·still in third. On the sev-enth lap, Todd Craig moved into the lead, Proctor slipped to second and Norris was still third, a long way back. 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BITD SILVER STATE SERIES • RoUND 3 · TERRIBLE'S TOWN 250 A Win-Win Situation For Abbott/Esposito Photos: Trackside Photo Oestry Abbot and Shane Esposito rode their Team Green Kawasaki to a nice overall win at the BITO Terrible's Town. When you put $10,000 up for racers -ar least you'd better nor. Desert Silver State Series event, grabs, it makes the average desert Still, the Terrible's Town 250 of which this was Round 3. How racer push just a little harder. Of out of Pahrump, Nevada, with its else could you explain the fact course, you can't really call guys exclusive $10,000 winner's bo-that four previous editions of this like Desrry Abbott, Brian Brown, nus, does rend to generate a level race produced four different win-Johnny Campbell, Ty Davis or of competition a bit higher than ners? Shane Esposito average desert normal for even a Best in the That would change at the fifth The 4STK P class win was taken by Bert Bradford and Rob Phillips, the first KTM to finish, 4"' overall. TT 250. Brown and new partner David Pearson got out front early on their Chevy Trucks/Team Green/ Maxima KX500, having passed the Matt Gosnell/Nick Pearson Montclair Yamaha/Moose/GPR YZ426F -who drew first positio n in the o ne-a-minute starting o r-der - around Pit 2 at 51 miles. "It started off really good, then it got really rocky," Nick Pearson said. "I don't know, maybe I got a little scared. Brian and David were right behind us. They caught me heading out of the second pit and passed us." The Abbott/Esposito Chevy Trucks/Team Green/NGK KX500 also eased past Gosnell/ N.Pearson, and the two Kawasa-kis began to draw away from the field. Brown/D.Pearson enjoyed being out front and out of-the dust, with Brown entertaining thoughts of being the first repeat winner (he and Abbott teamed up for the '99 victory). But Ab-bott/Esposito in a comfortable second place physically also held that goal and they crept up on th eir fellow Team Green racers unofficially drawing even on ad-justed time at Pit 3 . By Pit 4, Abbott reported , "I was able to make 15 seconds up on Brian so we were 15 seconds ahead. The next section, from [pit] 4 to 5, David Pearson got the bike; he put a little time on me - he rode really well. I gave it back to Shane [at Pit 5 then] he was going at it with David and [Brown]." Pearson continued to lead the race physically with Esposito run-ning behind him. but ahead on ad-justed time. However, Team Green personnel at Pit 6 saw Esposito Continued on page 36 Christopher Blais, a 21 year old from California was the lronman The Open Expert class went to Billy Hagen, Danny Linnell and Aron Brian Pinard and Bo Harris were the 4 Stroke Expert winners, riding Expert winner and he was 5'h overall on his Honda. Huntington, their Yamaha winning by just 50 seconds. their Honda to a nice 12h place overall. DUS.tV. Ji,n.e.s_ June..2002. P.age..35 -

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Damon Gill and old friend Eric Shenberger rode their Yamaha to a The Over 30 Expert class went to Brett Marshall and Cory Ayers on The Over 40 amateur class win went to the Karell/Trotter/Hernandez nice 1s' place in 4STK A at Terrible's Town. _th~e_ir_.H_u_s_a_be_r~g~, ~22'_ d_o_ve~i~a_ll. ___ ~~,...~~----~ Honda, 26"' overall at the finish. slide to a stop first. Pearson had ing to ride that little much more. almost 20 minutes behind the prevent the ear y-starting brokendownafewmilesback,he ThenespeciallywhenlOgrand'son $10,000 winners. "After [Davis motorcycles/ATVs confirmed, As it turned out, the line, people are going a little stopped for Campbell), the leaders from running head-on Pearson's bike broke its water pump harder than they should." kind of checked out from us," Pear- into.late-starting, slower impeller, and that led to the engine The defending race champion, son lamented. "We just kind of trucks/buggies still nego-getting overheated and breaking the Campbell, never got to Pit 2 to rode; it was one of those days." tiating the first 38 miles) piston. It took a while, but Pearson hand off his American Honda/Pre-Older brother Nick and part-just trying to hold on." eventually reached the pit, got the cision Concepts/ Acerbis-backed ner Gosnell finished third, over 13 Aron Huntington, engine replaced and at•least finished XR650R to new partner Steve minutes back of Davis/R. Pearson. Billy Hagan and Danny (seventh Open Pro) to salvage a few Hengeveld. Instead, he took a rare Bert Bradford and Rob Phillips Linnell came through points. big crash in a fast section and ended took fourth overall in winning the for second Expert finish-Despite taking extra time to re-up unconscious with two broken four stroke Pro class on their Rocky ers, winning the Open place the rear brake pads (and later bones. Davis was the first to reach Mountain MC.com/Pro Cycle/ Expert division and falling on a pavement crossing that him, and the Yamaha racer stayed Moose-backed KTM 520, an excel- claiming eighth overall a water truck doused), Esposito with Campbell until the other lent job for the first year Pros. on their Cliff's Texaco/ gave Abbott a very comfortable American Honda entry of Andy Christopher Blais put in one of Gone Wild Yamaha. margin. "At that point when [Es-Grider(ridingwith DannyCooper) the rides of the race in finishing Bryan Folks and posito)gavethebikebacktome,we camealongandvolunteeredtostay fifth overall to earn top Expert Wade Phillips took had, like, a 12 minute lead so I said, with the fallen champ until medi- honors. Note that there are no part-250cc Pro and 10th 'Well, I just better get this thing to cal assistance arrived. ners listed; that's because he's an overall on their Sports-the finish. I don't need to hold it "That probably cost [Davis and lronman Expert, which means he man Cycle/Pro Circuit/ wide open any more.' partner Russell Pearson) the race," not only beat all other Iron man Dunlop KTM. The next "So I turned it down a little bit - Esposito admitted. "But any one but all other Expert teams on his 250 was about 11 min-not much-and we finished 10 min-of us would've done that." For the Blaisracing.com/IMS XR650R. utes and four places be-utes ahead. record, Esposito declared, " .. .I And it marked his first race -and hind, though it was the "I'm just so excited to win this want it known that I was in front one of his first rides - since break- 250cc Expert winners: race two times now. I'm happy to ofJoh'nny [when he crashed]," the ing his hand at the season opener Tony Aguilera, Mike get the 10 grand, but mostly I'm Kawasaki rider having passed the at Laughlin in February. Aguilerlt and Kelly Hall glad we won it for Kawasaki. I knew big red thumper earlier and, thus, "Everything felt good," he in-on their Team Aggie/ it was possible [to repeat as being in front of and unaware of sisted. "It's just that I haven't rid-Bushwackers M.C./ Terrible's Town winners), but there Campbell's tumble. den a lot in a while, so my hands God-backed '98 KTM. are so many fast teams now. The Despite the downtime, Davis/ started cramping. I started feeling Bo Harris and Brian pace is so fast. Campbell's a great Pearson rallied to end up second it 80 miles in! It really started get- Pinard had to replace a Through the cut, the Tony/Mike Aguilera, Kelly Hall KTM took the 250 Expert class with six minutes in hand. rider; [him crashing out with injury] on their Montclair Yamaha/Race ting bad in the motorcycle-only sec-broken exh_aust system and later a just shows that everybody's just try-Tech/Moose-sponsored YZ426F, tion {the course split at Mile 227 to flat front tire in their day, but it overall on their Temecula Motor-sports/1 MS/MS R-s po n sored XR650R. r--------------. ________________________ 7 ended with a come-from-behind Continued on page 38 four stroke Expert win and 12th ,-----~~-------------------- ~ BINATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE COMMITTEE ·1n case you or a loved one become sick or injured while you are traveling in Mexico, our 24 hour bilingual service will facilitate your safe return into the United States via air or ground ambulance. 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Jimmy Stephensen and Michael Cafro were the Quad Pro winners The Quad Expert win went to the Barnett/Parton/Rose trio, shown Bryan Folks rode his KTM to a nice win in the 250 Pro class, seen on their Honda, but it was close, only 6 seconds in hand. here at speed on their Honda. here on his dusty ride. Forty-something's Randy Blevins Robinson and Justin Wray were gory held the top spot in the final and Kurt Sofka, Jr. came away vie-among the exceptions, and they dash to the finish, with Eichner torious in Over 40 Expert, finish-were rewarded with the win in confident he could hold the lead ing 19th overall on their Flow Ex-· 125cc Expert. They finished 25th on their Golden West Cycle/IMS/ haust/Dunlop/Temecula Motor-overall on their Pro Circuit/Di-ITP Roll Design machine. After all, sports XR650R. rect Sports West/VP Fuels-when Eichner checked over his For being such a punishing backed machine. shoulder, he could see the Michael course, lronman ended up doing Orange County Honda-spon- Cafro/Jimmy Stephensen bike and remarkably well. Not only did sored Nelson Hernandez, John figured it wouldn't be much trouble Bla~s overall the Experts, but Jerry Karell and Jack Trotter finished one maintaining the one minute cush-Fisher overalled the Amateur spotinbackofthe125towin0ver ionthey'dhadsincethestart. ranks in winning the yellow-plate 40 Amateur. Next in line were However, Stephensen ended lronman division. He placed 21st Northern Californians John Clay-up ambushing Eichner. Keeping overall on his Jerry Fisher Ce-ton, Phil Douglas and Rex Fleck, his Maxxis Tires/LT Racing/ ment, lnc./IMS/Hutchins Motor the Over 35 Expert victors on their Temecula Motorsports Honda Sports Honda. Numbers 2 and 3 Aftershocks/Fremont Cycle/JLM pinned, Stephensen was the sec-in class -Aaron Griffin and Mike Recoveries Kawasaki. ond ATV to see the checkered Kaplan, respectively - were also In the ATV classes, the Terrible's flag wave, but he managed to the second and third Amateurs TownCasinodidn'toffera$10,000 creep up six seconds into overall, finishing 23rd and 24th bonus, but that didn't keep the race Eichner's one minute cushion. overall. from being hard-fought and close. That gave Cafro/Stephensen the For some reason, not many try How close? Six seconds. win by a narrow margin, 5:58:42 running 125s any more. Jason Doug Eichner and John Gre-to 5:58:48. 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, True Four-Person $480 DO IT RIGHT with HELMET KITS and HEADSETS • Race today, Play tomorrow with interchangeable headgear • Helmet Ki~s from $83.00 • Headsets from $94.00 ,,___g) Let our 26 years in the business help you! ~ER.W!iwllliM'i. 808 N. Tustin Street• Orange, CA 92867 ;e4Wl9 e~ 800-345-7234 • www.thesolderjoint.com Page 38 June 2002 Justin Wray, a 17 year old and Jason Robinson, both Nevadan's, took the 125 Expert win and were 2S'h across the line. Tony Bienert and Mike Johnson were a distant third over-a 11 in 6:20:30 on their Edelbrock/Ohlins/ Alpinestars Honda. Robert Barnett, Warren Par-ton and Martin Rose teamed up for fourth overall, first ATV Ex-pert on their Barnett Electric/ Screwie Lewie's Motorsports Honda. That gave them about two minutes and one place over class runners-up Brian Butler, Tyson Leaver and Shaun Moore, who used a Floyd's Ace Home Center/ Arizona West/Man kens Allstate Cannondale. ATV Amateurs Nick Canjura, Jeff Garrahan and Ken Sypoit survived to take their class victory and 11th overall on their Garrahan Electric/Diamond G. Racing/Knutz Concepts Bombar-dier. They ended up with almost an hour and a quarter qver class runners-up Cevin Cram and Wilber "Bob" Morrison's Rain-bow Trailer Sales/Royce Indus-tries Yamaha. Round 4 of the series -the KTM 150 north of Vegas - takes place in one month. · ,-The Kawasaki of Rex Fleck, Phil Douglas and John Clayton took the Over 35 Expert class, 2?" overall. The Amateur Quad win went to the Garrahan/Canjura/Sypolt Bombardier, the Californians were 11th overall. Dusty Times

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2002 ESTERO INTERNATIONAL Short course Championship Event By Sheryl Cannon Photos: Byrle Moore_ The win in the Super Champtruk division was taken by the promoter and host, Gerado Novelo, here showing 0s winning form. __________ _ ____________ _ lt was back to Baja April 27-28, Saturday's race schedu le called for a and Pre-Runner classes. When the field for this year's edition of the Estero total of five 15-minute, combined was dispatched, Chris Moreno imme-lnternational. The popular short- class heats. Another 10 races were diatelyseizedcommand.JesusMartinez course event feanired its usual mix of carded for Sunday, with each of those was away second, followed by Sergio competitive racing and fun-in-the-sun contests scheduled to last 10 minutes. Gutierrez and Gerardo Waumann. relaxation. Half-a-hundred entrants All weekend long, competition was Mark Bailey, Louis Vasquez and Javier trekked south of the border to ac-fierce and the action was "bumper-Alpizar were the early trailers. The fol-cept the open invitation extended by to-bumper" and that was just in the lowing six laps saw very little change in gracious host Gerardo Novelo. The hotel bar! Sorry about that. We cer-tl1e running order, as Moreno contin-Estero Beach Resort Hotel and its tainly wouldn't want to reduce the ued toshowthewaywithMartinezand adjacent Autodromo grandstands pages of D.T. to "tabloid" status, so Gutierrez racing second and third re-were filled to capacity for the two day on to Race Recap Time. spectively. Bailey had worked his way ·event. There was certainly no short- TI1e racing kicked off on Saturday up into the fourth spot, and took over age of action, as entrants from 21 with a heat event featuring eight en- third from Gutierrez on the following classes vied for victory spoils. trants from the Rally A & B, Safari lap. There would be no further changes .-----■-------------------------------· I Miggie Motorsports I I Spring Cleaning I I I •• I 1987 Ford Pre-runner SCORE Class 5 Unlimited I $13,000 obo $45,000 obo I I $20,000 less Eng & Trans I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Ford Ranger Class 7 I I 2.9V6 Fuel Injected I 11 Mogi Transmission ~ - . . _ Molton Chroma Frame I Art Carr 3 Speed Shifter Rev-Power 3 Liter Type IV 9" Locker Rear End Fortin 5 Speed Trans With II King Shocks F&R Oil Cooler System I 11 Disc Brakes F&R King Coilovers F&R I Fully Caged For Info Call; King Bypass F&R • Michael Jakobson Centerlines-BFG's 11 805-386-1243 Office I 805-701-9058 Cell I Todd Sanderson I 760-942-9904 Office 1, 760-535-9673 Cell I . I I · Also: Have A Trophy Truck Project For Sale Not Completed - Call For Info L--------- I Dusty Times June 2002 Carl Renezeder established himself as the truck to beat, taking on all comers in Super Truck and Stock Truck categories. The GAW Racing Team scored big in the Formula 1 class, Gary Williams took the honors, seen here close to the ground. the remainder of the way, as Moreno completed his flag-to-flag, Safari class win in impressive fashion. Martinez wound up second in both Safari and overall scoring. Bailey, who was next across the finish line, placed first in the Pre-Runner class. He was followed by Gutierrez, the Rally B winner, and Waumann, who finished first in Rally A. Race 2 was comprised of 10 start-ers representing a total of four divi-sions, Baja 1 & 2 and Fonnula 2 & 3. Initially, it was all Gary Alan Williams as he bolted into the early lead. Ken Schertzer was away second, followed by Richard Burnworth, Steve Errea, Guy Savedra and Carlos Ztiniga. Ser-gio Silva, Rusty Stewart, Chris Ringlstetter and Kimberly Anderson held the final four positions entering Lap 2. Williams continued to race strongly on the lead, establisl-i.ing a clear Continued on page 40 Jack Mitman launches his Ford pickup, gets airborne and continues on for the Desert Truck class win. CACTUS RACING RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES BELL. SHOEL SIMPSON Helmets SNELL 95. SA 9.'i FOR SODA Complete Blower Systems for single or douhle seat cars. Helmet conversions. cool hoxes. Complete line of PYROTECl. FILLER Safety Products & BELL MoLOrspons. We ship UPS daily. From $299.00 Helmet & Skirt Vis~-Mastercard AMEX-Discover 5153 Bowden Avenue...,. San Diego -CA - 92117 - 858-279-2509 Page 39

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Gerado Waumann drove his neat looking Toyota to the Rally A Class win at Estero Beach. The Safari Class followed home the winner, Jesus Martinez took the honors in his neat and tidy car. In the Baja 2 Division, it was Guy Savedra taking a nice win and . some glory back to Las Vegas. advantage over his rivals in the process. By completion of lap 2, Errea and Zuniga had taken over second and third place respectively. TI1at pair main-tained those positions into the race's white flag lap. As the field entered that fmal loop, Errea pulled out all the stops in a valiant attempt to catd1 the speedy front-runner. Errea closed to within striking distance and loomed boldly as the two leaders streaked toward the checkered flag. In a thrilling finish, Wil-liams held on by the narrowest of mar-gins to place first in Baja 1. Errea fin-ished an ultra-game second overall, while recording an uncontested win in the Fonnula 2 class. Next came Zuniga, the Formula 3 class winner, followed by Burnworth, the Baja 1 runner-up. Race 3 fean1red a field of 16 bike class entrants competing in four divi-sions, ATV Pro & Sport and Moros Open & 125. !twas Ron Wilson who grabbed the holeshot and established must have happened between the white the early lead. Wilson's exhibition of flag and the finish, but whatever it was speed went almost unnoticed by fans took place out of this reporter's view. who were mesmerized by the show put Irrespective of how, Tito Alvarez was on by Salvador Hernandez. Upon re-first to the checkered flag and the race's solving the green flag, Hernandez overall winner. throttled off the line and into a wheelie Race 4 featured a field of nine en-which he maintained the length of the trants fro~ the mini truck divisions. straightaway.Afterdelightingthecrowd The four classes represented were with his acrobatic antics, Hernandez Champ Truck, Super Champ Truck, set out about the business of catching 7S and Desert 7. Bob Beyer grabbed the leader. Second after completion of the holeshot and established the early Laps 1 and 2, Hernandez engaged Wil- lead. Matt Carter and Javier Sacio were son during Loop 3. Third time proved away second and third, followed by the charm for Hernandez, who as-Jack Mitman, Gerardo Novelo, John sumed command of the race on lap 3. Beyer, Raul Flores, Matt Cannon and Meanwhile, after racing mid-pack in the Rick Huseman. Wait. No way. Tut race's early stages, Gerardo Sepulveda can't be? Yeall, that's his number but ... and Jeffrey Spooner suddenly found is it him?Whoa ... ok. Huseman was the themselves in the second and third po- early trailer. Beyer continued to show sitions. That pair continued their pur-the way through laps 2 and 3, with suit of the new leader as the field en-Carter and Sacio his closest pursuers. tered the final lap. Something drastic Meanwhile, at the other end, the back FOR SALE Ed Stewarts 2000 Series Jimco Unlimited Buggy • • • • • • • • 406 ci 565 Hp Chevrolet V8 516 Hp "Back up" Motor (New) 2-3 speed automatics with gears Fox Racing Shox Braswell Carburation Many Spares Available 3 Races, 3 Wins Pro Dirt Ready . Price quotes for serious inquires Contact Ed Stewart Page 40 (949)498-9250 June 2002 Bob Beyer is both a race promoter and a driver, he took the Champtruck class at the Estero Beach event. marker (Huseman) closed from ninth to fifth on lap 2, and from fifth to third on lap 3. By the time the field completed lap 4, Huseman was back in his customary position at the front of the pack. Beyer was now in second and Sacio was challenging Carter for third. From that point on it was all Huseman and Beyer, as that pair slugged it out to the finish. Beyer re-established the lead with one lap re-maining, but Huseman swept clear late to claim the Super Champ Truck and overall race win. Beyer settled for first in the Champ Truck class, Sacio took first in Desert Truck 7S and Carter was the uncontested winner of Desert Truck 7. Race 5 was the Saturday finale, and featured a field of seven.Two entrants, Aaron Whitwer and Gary Alan Will-iams, were competing in the Fornrnla 1 class. The remaining five represented three classes, Super Truck 2, Super Truck 4 and Stock Truck. JimmyO'Neal proved quickest off the line, as he grabbed the holeshot and the early lead. Whitwer was away second, followed closely.by Juan Carlos Ibarra. O'Neal, who along with Ibarra and Lance Rhinehart raced in the Super Truck 2 class, looked very strong on the front Aaron Whitwer keeps his nose to the grindstone as he heads for the Formula 1 win at Estero. The Yamaha motorcycle of Tony Menhigan flies gracefully through the air, heading· for the 125 Bike win. Dusty Times

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r. The Formula 3 glory ended up on the shoulders of Kimberly Anderson Gerado Sepulveda flies higher than the Corona Beer bottle as his Second in the Safari class went to the good looking car of Tom Williams, another of the GAW Racing crowd. who piloted her way to victory. seen here in flight. Honda heads for the ATV Sportsman victory. en . 0 Nea set a azing ear y pace, Gerar oSepu ve a, prove est in e tiononSun aymorning.Jac Mitman with Whitwer and Ibarra hot on his ATV Sportsman class. Securing that led the field through Laps 1 and 2, heels. A bit further back, Carl Renez.. division's runner-up position was withJavierSacioracingsecond and Bob eder was working his way into con ten- Rafael Pinedo. Beyer third. Rick Huseman, who again tion. By the race's halfway point, Ren- In the mini truck division, all nine started in the second flight, was seventh ezeder had sliced through the field and of Saturday's starters returned to ac-after one lap and fourth after two. The comp etion of the race changed dra- unable to put Novelo away, "Rocker matically during Lap 3, with Huseman Rick" held his main rival at bay and taking over the lead and Gerardo No- went on post the Super Champ Truck velo moving up into second. Beyer con- win. Novelo finished a game second, a tinued to race in third, with Mitman short distance back of his classmate. and Raul Aores a bit further.Although Continued on page 42 was challenging for the lead. O'Neal fought back gamelv. but eventually suc-cumbed to rear-end problems. Once Renezeder had taken control, the race was basically for secorid place. Renez-eder easily distanced himself from the field to claim the overall and Super Truck 4 class win. Ibarra, affectionately known as "El Tigrillo", finished first in Super Truck 2 and second overall. Whi twer checked in next, powering his Truggy to a first place finish in the For-mula 1 class. Williams landed that division's runner-up honors, and Dan Gum in was credited with first in Stock Trnck. Each division raced twice on Sun-day, with heat races taking place dur-ing the morning hours and main events run after the mid-day break. The first championship decided was in the Sa-fari class. With a timely win in his division's main event, Jesus Torres of Ensenada, B.C. emerged as the Safari class champion. Runner-up honors were claimed by Tom Williams. C,erar-do Waumann followed suit in the Rally A class, parlaying a win in rhe main event into the Rally A championship. Score another title for the hometown crew, as Waumann also resides in En-senada, B.C. Itwas a foregone concltr-sion that the Rally B class champion would also tum out to be an Ensena-da resi<lenl. Especially when consider-ing that both Rally B entrants lived there. The overall winJ¥r turned out to be Javier Alpizar, who proved too hot for runner-up Sergio _Gutierrez. San Dimas, CA resident Mark Bailey snapped the hometown heroes' win-ning streak when he emerged as the uncontested champion of the Pre-Runner's class. The Baja 1 Class Championship was claimed by Gary Alan Williams of San Juan Capistrano, CA Runner-up honors went to Richard Burnworth. In the Baja 2 division, Guy Savedra captured the class championship. Sa-vedra, of las Vegas, NY, edged rnnner-up Dennis McKenzie by one point. Northern Cal Gal, Kimberly Ander-son, emerged as the Formula 3 class champion. Runner-up honors in that division went to Carlos Zuniga. Steve Errea, of Woodland Hills, CA, proved the Formula 2 class champion in a walkover. Ir was a rather productive weekend for the Menhigan family of Hesperia, CA Tony Menhigan snared the Mo-torcycle 125 class championship and Kevin Menhigan collected the division's runner-up honors. In the "Open" class, Salvador Hernandez placed first for the weekend. Hernandez, a resident of Ensenada, B.C., bested Ron Wilson who finished second. Tito Alvarez won the top prize in the A TV Pro class. The .Tijuana, B.C. product outraced run-ner-up finisher Jeffrey Spooner to claim the title. Fellow Tijuana, B.C. resident, Dusty Times RACE11UGGYS Mo{ORCYClES SMllT~ QQQ.S&3-W ··•· I s Be sure to clean-out those garages and bring yoqroff-road colh'Htta Annual Off-Road Swap Meet. The only one of it's l<ind in Southern Galik> $10.00 ADULTS & ~~DS UNDER 16 ARE FREE! ··= ----....... .:.~·~·....w..------------------_--_i·~----------------------------,.-,-:--,;.>ok--• To reserve a space fill out this entry form and mail with a check to California Pre-Fun, 39067 Orchard St., Cherry Valley, CA 92223 before June 15, 2002. Name. _____________ Street __________________ _ City ___________ State ____ Zip _______ Section _____ _ Move in Saturday night, June 29 until show opens at 5 am on Sunday June 30, add $5.00 late fee after 5 am on June 30. Booth space available day of show. 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Richard Burnworth let no grass grow under his car as he heads to a Always a good competitor, Dennis McKenzie drove to a silver medal Carlos Zuniga is airborne and listing a bit to port as he takes the nice second spot in the Baja 1 class. in the Baja 2 class at the Estero extravaganza. second spot in the Formula 3 contest. -' J Kevin Menhigan flies past the scoring table as he heads to a very Ron Wilson flew his Yamaha to a nice second spot in the hotly Jeff Spooner came over -from Phoenix to soar to a second place decent second place in the 125 motorcycle division. contested Open motorcycle division. Beyer checked in third overall and first his truck after hitting a large hole on fully, he was not seriously injured, bur in the Champ Truck class. Next came the first straightaway. Neatly, the en-RH was done for the weekend and Miunan and Mait Cannon, the respec- tire field swept by, as course workers ore than a little bit sore. At that point tive first and second place finishers in came to his aid. Undeterred, Huse- in the race, Gerardo Novelo must Desert Truck 7S· man was quickly righted and con tin- surely have heard a loud tappii1g TI1e weekend's biggest upset mate-ued his title quest. For the first time noise. It was the sound of" opportu-rialized in the mini truck main. The in this reporter's memory however, nity" knocking at his door, and No-race began innocently enough, with Huseman would not leave Estero velo answered. The host with the most Bob Beyer showing the way through Beach with the championship. The gave his hometown fans the prize they Lap 1. Beyer's lead proved short lived "Rocket" lived up to his nickname had been longing for, The Super however, when perennial Estero through the remainder of lap 3, as Champ Truck Championship. No-Beach mini truck champ Rick Huse-he hammered his way back into con- velo was in total control of the pro-' man took over on Lap 2. "Rocket te!ltion. Unfortunately, disaster ceedings, as he led the field through Rick" looked well on his way to an- struck again on Lap 4 in the exact its final three laps. The crowd cheered other powerful score, as he roared same spot. This time, Huseman was wildly with each pass, as their home-pqst the stands and into Lap 3. launched skyward then into a spec-town hero sped to victory. It was a Shortly thereafter, Huseman rolled tacular end-over-end roll. Thank-feather in the cap of the man who Page 42 June 2002 finish in the Pro ATV division on his Honda. · brought rac;ing to Estero Beach and yet another championship for a resi-dent of Ensenada. Matt Carter of San Diego, CA finished second in the main event and first in Desert Truck 7. Bob Beyer also exited with a cham-pionship, placing first in the Champ Truck class. His brother, John, was next to the finish and took third over-all in Champ Truck. Sandwiched between the Bevers in overall scoring was the division's runner-up finisher Raul Flores. Jack Mitman took the Desert Truck 7S championship back home with him to San Diego, CA and Matt Cannon claimed the run-ner-up honors. Last, but not least, ·an unlucky Rick Huseman exited sec-ond best ... this time. After three defections from Saturday's line-up, Sunday's final heat race fean1red an abbreviated cast of four entrants. Aaron Whitwer grabbed the early lead,. with Lance Rhinehart second, Gary Alan Williams third and Carl Renezeder bidding his time in fourth. Whitwer continued to .show the way through Lap 2, as Renezeder loomed up into the second spot and took dead aim on the leader. Some-thing went amiss with the Truggy on the following lap, forcing Whitwer to exit prematurely. At that point, Renez.. eder assumed command with Rhine-hart his only real danger. Rhinehart put up a good fight, trying hard to cling to the lone Super Truck 4 entrant, but Renezeder was just too tough. Renez-Salvador Hernandez performs before an appreciative crowd as he hustles to the Open motorcycle win. Tito Alvarez makes like Peter Pan as he rides his flying Honda to the ATV Open class win. Dusty Times

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r.-Rafael Pinedo gave it his all but this time it was only good enough for Mait Cannon chased the gold ve,y hard but had to settle for the silver John Beyer chased his brother for most of the weekend but the best a second place in the ATV Sportsman. medal in then Desert Truck class. he could muster was a second place finish in the Champtruck class. Juan Carlos Ibara flew his Chevy pickup for most of the race but was Ga,y Williams really wanted the Formula 1 win this weekend but it Rick Huseman flew fast and long and high but he still only took the second spot in the Super Champtruck class. relegated to a second place in the Supertruck 2 class. was not to be, he finished second in the class. eder gradually drew off to win as he ing the early laps, Sunday's grand fi-at all. When Renezeder visited the hot pleased. Rhinehart was second and first nale looked like an instant replay of pit area with three laps remaining, in Super Truck 2, and Williams com-the earlier heat. Aaron Whitwer again Whitwer re-established the lead. Ibarra pleted the order of finish with a first in throttled into the lead, with Rhinehart, jumped into action with two laps to Fonnula l. ·Williatns and Renezeder followed in go, and Whitwer was still the race's The final race of the weekend was that order. This time it took Renez-leader entering the white flag lap. The the main event for these same divisions. eder a total of four laps to work his weekend, however, clearly belonged to 111e same quartet faced the starter, with way through the field and into the lead. Renezeder. His final surge carried him. the only variation being a late race ap-However, this time Whitwet didn't go past Whitwer and on to the checkered pearance by Juan Carlos Ibarra. Dur-away quietly. In fact, he didn't go away flag. Officially, it was Renezeder, of San Dusty Times June 2002 Diego, CA claiming the Super Truck 4 No, wait! I almost overlooked Dan championship. Whitwer, a resident of Kannon's first place effort in the Lake Havasu City; AZ, was the For-Stock Truck class. Now, that's a wrap. mula 1 champion. Rhinehart, who Congratulations to all those who took hails from San Jose, CA, emerged as part, especially the 2002 Baja theoverallSuperTruck 2 class winner. Internacional Super Champ Truck Williams garnered runner-up hon-Champion. And fmally, a big thank ors in Formula 1 and Ibarra did like- you to Victor Mercado and Monica wise in Super Truck 2. And I believe Novelo for their much appreciated as-that covers all the weekend action. s:stance. Hasta la vista. . .-dllJ A fill SIRVICI PRIPARATION fAGIITY DIDIGATEI TO . QIAIITY Ill • Preparation • fabrication Mzlile lork • Shock Service • R1e logistics ~ ~ Page43

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SCCA PRORALLY CHAMPIONSHIP David Higgins Captures Oregon Trail ProRally Text & Photos: Jim Culp . " ~.;.•· .. _ <~.,... . ,}"fl. I ,,..:..:,.'.~ . '«t,J .. ~W , .. ,:..; -"' .... *;-.... . ·;..' .... ·~ ~ :~ .',. -..... ~ ,.;., ., David Higgins and Chris Patterson took the overall win at the Oregon Trail ProRal/y in their Subaru WRX. Do you remember the Sunday school story about David and Goliath? Well, that's also the story of the Oregon Trail ProRally, Round 3 of the Sports Car Club of America's (SCCA) ProRally Championship. In our updated tale, David (Higgins) drives a Subaru WRX for AV Sport, an independent tuning shop in Tempe, AZ. While Goliath flexes the combined might of the rally teams representing the SCCA's sponsoring manufacturers; Hyun-dai, Mitsubishi, and Subaru. You know know how this story ends, David tosses a few stones at Goliath and wins the day, but the real story is what happened before Goliath fell to earth. Higgins and co-driver Chris Patterson were the fastest on only one stage; it was their consistency that brought them to the finish first. Our. modern David was born on the Isle of Man 29 years ago, he currently resides in Wales and racks up frequent flier mileage by run-ning in both the U.S. and U.K rally championships, while doing a bit of rally car testing, and also teach-ing at the family rally school in his · spare time. Andy Brown and the AV Sport team have built a tidy package for Higgins and their WRX powered by an open class motor built by Cobb Tuning in Dallas. On the first stage the Goliaths jumped into the lead with a differ-ent Higgins, brother Mark and co-driver Michael Gibson driving for Hyundai and 2001 series cham-pion Mark Lovell with Nicholas Beech in a Prodrive Subaru WRX tying for the lead. It was a short event for Lovell and Beech who re-tired when a half shaft failed on Stage 2. Two more former champions dropped out early when Paul Choiniere and Jeff Becker retired their shiny new Hyundai Tiburon with transmission failure on Stage 2. When asked about the early re-tirements, Becker surmised "we're all running really hard, asking ev: erything from cars and crews, things are just bound to break." Page 44 Mark Higgins and Gibson were fastest on Stage 2 and 3, building a nice lead that evaporated when their transmission hung up on Stage 4. The Hyundai lost a minute on that stage and two minutes on Stage 5 before they were able to make repairs at service. David Higgins and Patterson took the AV Sport Subaru into lead on Stage 4 and ground out a 30 second lead during the night sta·ges. Rhys Millen and Garry Cowan in a Mitsubishi Lancer and Ramana Lagemann and Mike Kidd in the second Prodrive Subaru were just two seconds apart at the overnight break. In spite of the lead, things didn't look that good for Higgins/ Patterson anhe end of Day L The Goliaths were nipping at their heels and a transmission problem on Stage 7 had the AV Sport crew scrambling to make overnight re-pairs. Early on Day 2 Lagemann and Kidd turned on the pressure, jumping into the second spot ahead o(Millen and Cowan. Lagemann looked strong until his transmission failed on the next to the last stage forcing the second Subaru USA entry to the side of the road. At the end of the trail, the over-night repairs held and it was David in the independent Subaru atop the charts with a time of 2:06:38 and an average speed on 53.6 mph. Millen and Cowan were 44 seconds back in second, while M. Higgins and Gib-son in the Hyundai fought their way back up to third, 2:24 behind the leader. Another independent entry, Carl J ardevall and Amity Trow bridge fin-ished fourth in the Nordic Motors Mitsubishi, less than a minute behind the third place Hyundai. Mark Nel-son and Charlie Bradley were fifth in a TAD Mitsubishi Lancer followed by Nat T-Stow and John Elkin in the Cascade Autosport Subaru WRX. Pete Lahm and Mike Fennell were sev-enth in another of the TAD Lancers. The Group N class battle filled the next four slots with Subaru WRXs. Ralph Kosrnides and Jimmy Ralph Kosmides and Jimmy Brandt took the Group N win in their Subaru WRX in Oregon. Brandt in the Ruby's Subaru claim-ing the class crown by 54 seconds over Peter Workum and Allesandro Gelsomino in an AV Sport entry. Weyth Gublemann and Thenn Pace were tenth overall ahead of Doug Havir and Scott Putnam. So AWD cars filled the first 11 spots, six Subarus, four Mitsubishis, and a Hyundai. The first two wheel drive car to finish was the mighty yellow Group 2 Volkswagen Golf driven by Scott Fuller and Jeff Call, 12th overall. Second in Group 2 were Lauchlin O'Sullivan and Matt Chester in the BIIBIBln . Sway A Way Elllach • HM • QA 1 · CNC ~""-' l11arco • l'RP • FUii Bale Ron Davis RadlalllPB letrall OIi ~;,,,,,., a111Ima Battllr/11 Mechanlx w,~r June 2002 Lancer entered by Mitsubishi USA, while the Intrax VW of Todd Hartmann and Shawn Callahan fin-ished third in class. Dave Hintz and Rich Hintz were the first rear wheel drive finishers, topping Group 5 in their 1990 Mazda RX-7 turbo. Al Kaumeheiwa and Craig Sobczak were second in Group 5 in a 2003 Dodge Neon SRT-4. The new Dodge looks a lot like a 2WD WRX pumping "over 200" intercooled horsepower out of a turbocharged 2.4 liter four. Production class was won by Josh Jacquot and Dave Coleman in the Dusty Times

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Rhys Millen and Garry Cowan drove hard and fast but were relegated The te"ibly good looking Hyundai Tiburon of Mark Higgins and Michael Dave and Rich Hintz took the Group 5 honors in their sleek looking to second in Open in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6. Gibson was the third place finisher. Mazda RX-7 Turbo. ABOVE L to R: Josh Jacquot and Dave Coleman roared through the forest to 1st in Production Class in their Hyundai Tiburon. The Group 2 trophy went to Scott Fuller and Jeff Call in their Volkswagon Golf. Carl Jardeva/1 and Amity Trowbndge spew lots of gravel as they head to a 4th place in the Open division. 2003 Libra Hyundai Tiburon press car, followed by Jeff Field and Dave Weiman in a 2002 Toyota Celica GTS, with Jamie Thomas and John Reed third in class with the scream-ing yellow 1.8 liter 1993 Subaru Im-preza. Bob Henderson and John McArthur cruised to the PGT class win in a WRX ahead of Bruce Davis and Claire Chizma in an Eagle Talon TSL Only 27 of the 40 starters were running at the finish. Three cars dropped out on the first stage, in-cluding one of the Group 5 favorites Jay Streets and Janice Damitio who lost oil pressure in the ex-Jardevall Volvo 740 turbo. Also out on the first stage were open class competi-tors Tim Paterson and John Allen who broke a differential in their TAD Lancer. John la.ne and Ray Damitio were early leaders in Group 5 until a broken wheel hub on Stage 4 put their Volvo on the trailer. Bench racing conversation at the rally centered on the stage notes that were provided to competitors to supplement the route book. Stage notes are similar to the pace notes that are used on the World Rally Championship. They provide every-one with the same kind of objective information about the road (turns, bumps etc.), but they don't include the subjective information a team would develop from pre-running-the rally stages (speed, gearing, etc.). Fourth place co-driver Trowbridge co111n1ented "the stage notes were a bit difficult at first, but once we got used to them we did pretty well." The notes are a big change for Ainerican teains who are used to run-ning_the stage "blind", limited by what they can see and anticipate from the road and the terrain. The official SCCA word is that stage notes will improve safety, but it's generally agreed among the competitors that stage notes increase speed. Since in-creased speed usually doesn't do much to help safety, this could be an interesting season. -• .,, Dusty Times Your car Stops here! 934 MlcroDisc Hub Assemblies If you're looking for the.best in off-road braking, look no further. Kartek n·ow makes the top-of.the-line MicroDisc assembly. Perfect for Big Horsepower Prerunners! . Built by the people who know ofkoad racing! . DON'T FORGET! KARTEK 400., JUNE 21-22 -/,IICE/lNE VAUEY, CA Come Visit our NEW Superstore! 9 I Freeway @ McKinley In Corona 2871 Ragle Way-Corona, CA 92879 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK! 909.737.7223 -www.kartek.com June 2002 ~ . . . ... . • .. ,,. ·,-....... .-• A~_•••;,'""""...: A.,,~~~ .. : ENDURO INTERCOM SYSTEMS Rugged construction in di-cast powder coated case Built in noise filtering . Specially designed helmet loud speakers & headsets Open or F/face Nokia or Military spec "noise canceling mikes Aviation type boom arms Two way radio & video interface (optional) :;:,-..... f'~./L~ Optional: Two sensor audible .>-_ NEW?:_ / ---vv----:s. warning system PHILTR@NICS r:wlla.ft The new Philtronics Rallytrip Pro ⇒ Total & interval to 999.99 ⇒ Automatic calibration ⇒ Stage Stopwatch ⇒ True Average speed ⇒ Miles or kms readout ⇒ Speed and/or distance ⇒ Count up or down or both ⇒ Freeze either display ⇒ Super LARGE LCD readouts ⇒ On screen menu operation ⇒ Wheel sensor included ⇒ Remote reset included Model: Milano FIA Construction: fiberglass $398.00 standard width $420.00 wide (+1 inch) Plus frei?,ht Model: Podium FIA Construction: Kevlar $550.00 standard width $578.00 wide (+1 inch) Optional: Head restraint Colors available: red, black, royal blue. navy blue. Also custom colors/ combinations. Trim and fabric choices available. More models available Allow 4 weeks for delivery Trip/eLayerRPM j---1 /!Fm\ Corsa Race Suits ~ _ _ Triple layer Nomex Suit. • The RPM Corsa comes ,, $90.00 1 • . in a range of colours •. $699_00 Group A Gloves i~ .... M l Nomex and leather ~ Phone: 512 565-1864 Email: austecx@onr.com 9915 Dcrccho Urv. Austin, Fax: 512 301-5058 WWW: Austccxracing.com TX. 78737 Page 45

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Todd Hartmann and Shawn Callahan were 2'd overall, first in Group The Crazy Finn Rally Team, Mika Lepisto and Jeff Sponaugle took The Group 2 win in the Oregon Trail Club Rally went to Derrick 2 in their Volkswagon Golf Gti at Trait's End. the Trait's End Production GT class in their Subaru WRX. Nelson and Lea Flagg in their Mazda 323. the new Open class Primitive Racing and Beatty were sixth in the mighty Burstis in the Lancer were tenth. failed on Stage 4. Thirty-six cars the foothills of Washington's Subaru WRX, just one second blue New Beetle, with Foster and Tabor and Poirier again wrapped up started the coefficient two event and Olympic Mountains for the Dryad behind Wright and Kean. Mike Perry seventh in the AWD Mazda. the Production class win with the 30 finished the quick five stage tour Quest and Shitepoke, two coefficient Lepisto and Jeff Sponaugle were Eklund and Huhn edged the Sentra. of Oregon's Coast Range. three events that should help clarify second in PGTancleighthoverall with Group 5 winning Hintz brothers for Styles and Dillon were running Next up on the Northwest the early season jumble in the points the CoolArtCars WRX. the eighth spot, while Nelson and am.ong the leaders until the oil pump ClubRally schedule is the return to standings. . _·.,:cw Gary Cavett and Rob Dupree were ninth in another Open class lmpreza, followed by Dave LaTourette and Paul Beatty in the only new Beerle on steroids, the DaveSport AWD turbocharged model who tied for tenth with Andy and Julie Sharples in their PGT class Subaru 2.5RS. While Workum/Gelsomino finished ·n10re than two minutes ahead of the second finisher, a ·two minute span covered the next_ ten cars. With competition that close, a single missed shift or poor corner could cause a team to drop half a dozen spots in the 'finishing order. Other ClubRally class winners included Ross Foster and Alan Perry who topped the Northwest Region Class 3 in a Mazda 323 GTX. Derrick Nelson and Lea Flagg with a Mazda 323 in Group 2 and Mark Tabor -and Kevin Poirier with the Tabor Racing Nissan Sentra SE-R in the Production class. There were 33 finishers out of the 49 starters. Last among the finishers were Mike Mailman and Don Flagg in the Titanium Audi who ran with the leaders until they lost an hour with a roll on Stage 5. Among the DNFs were John Lane and Ray Darnitio in Lane's Volvo 240 turbo, the fastest overall on Srage 1 but out with a broken hub on Stage 4. The Oregon Trail event was a real endurance test for the ClubRally crews. Starting in the morning sun at Hillsboro Stadium, the steep hilly stages in the Tillamook State Forest weren't completed until almost midnight. Trail's End ClubRally. Worku1n and Gelsomino completed the AV Sport sweep of the weekend's events with another first place finish in the Trail's End ClubRally, but this win wasn't as easy as the first. Todd Hartmann and Shawn Callahan in the In trax Volkswagen Golf GT! jumped into first place on the Stage 1 and held on to the lead until the final stage. The AWD Open class Subaru edged ahead of the 2WD Group 2 VW on the very last stage to take the win by just eight seconds. Third overall were Wolfgang Hoeck and Julie Lin from Thousand Oaks in the Mozart Racing Lancer. Hoeck and Lin are new arrivals on the US rally scene after several successful seasons running an RX-7 in SCCA-Solo2 and ProSolo competition. The battered Titanium Audi Quattro of Mailman and Flagg finished fourth, one spot ahead of the PGT class winners, Lepisto and Sponaugle in the Crazy Finn Rally Team's Subaru WRX. LaTourette Dusty Times RACING SERIES AWARD REQUIREMENTS 1st Place • All classes in which three compete. Exclusive use of product visibl filters or covers installed displaying th Claims subject to verification with r Constructed of lightweight polycarbonates for shatterproof durability, Lightforce performance lights are tougher, brighter and mor~ 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 one'.,e, will prove to you what off-road legend Rod Hall al~.~_ady knows ... June 2002 Page 47

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Well, as we start into our mid season of racing we are faced with a new obstacle. Life seems to bring us obstacles in any ways. When racing, we seem to usually make it around most of these, and I have confidence that we will with this. This, as I refer, is the loss of our meeting location/ clubhouse. As most of you probably heard at this time I sold my business and all of the property as well. We are again temporarily homeless. We have several new options we are looking into but are all ears to others. It has been an incredible time in this location and is extremely hard for me to let it go but times call for change. Speaking of change, some of our ideas may require more ofit, we need some serious input from all members and are hoping that all Checkers will make the effort to come to the meetings and enjoy our last couple months in our clubhouse. We're outta there in July. Well race fans, we were back at it with the TI 250 BITD race. Tom Koch took his Pro Truck up to Pahrump and showed us again he has what it takes. He is just beginning to bond with this new truck and it seems it was meant to be. He brought home a strong second place finish, having only lost to a second flat while Lee Patten was behind the wheel. We had good Checker support in Pahrump with the presence of some long time Checkers, Jeff Hibbard, Tom Jeremiah, George Thompson, Dennis Crowley, Tony Tellier and Rex Keeling. Our next stop was out in the Lucerne Valley at the MO RE is MORE race where Victor Bussey was representing the Checkers Team. Vic finished with a second in class and a second overall at this race maintaining a high Checker standard. Next on our racing adventures: We had a double header with a two in the same weekend. We had three cars running at the SNORE Buffalo Bill's 400, and four at the MDR Ridgecrest 500. Competing at the SNORE race was Mike Duenas/Jim Greenway, Brian and Scott Steele, and Vic Bussey. All three of our cars were competing in the second round of the Pro Dirt 1600 series. Our pits were well covered with Revenue Roy taking the Main, GeorgeJirka, Peter Presenstien took a pit, Randy Sphar took a pit and Richard Young took the fourth pit. Results were Duenas/Greenway with no record of any time, so I'll have to figure they ran into trouble from the start, the Steeles took fourth in class and Vic Bussey's lap times stopped on Lap 5, where he ended 31st in class. This info will have to be updated next month as I'm already late on this press deadline. We had hot weather and a good showing of Checkers out in Ridgecrest to cheer on local hero and a man we refer to as "The Ridgecrest Rocket" running with another local legend Richard Boyle. We also had the honor of cheering on Class 5 champion George Seeley and Hooked up our hopes with our proven McCool winning entry of Jimmy Hook, Billy McCool and Jimmy Messick. Our fourth entry, Marq Prince was unveiling his brand new car, but ran into some R&D problems while testing on Friday. Unfortunately, Marq was unable to make a start time on Saturday. George Seele·y was running a fantastic race with some hard pressing competition by the 501 car of Dale Dondel. The fast pace set by both of the drivers finally took its toll o·n George's classic 2002 Baja styled Class 5 car. He broke an axle and was unable to get a replacement in time to finish out the race, having to settle with a DNF after such an incredibly competitive day of racing. Great job George! Jimmy/Billy/Jimmy ran a great race taking the lead right off. These guys The CORE pit club is welcoming volunteers to join club outings and racing events. We meet at Mulligans restaurant in Valencia, CA the first Tuesday every month. Anyone is welcome. If you are a race team looking for qualified pit service, CORE can haul tires, pit boxes & spares to outlying pi ts. We have radios, welders & tons of pitting equipment. We also organize desert outings & BBQs. For Info Contact Wayne Nosala: 818-703-1971 Wnosala@aol.com Brad Inch: 818-352-9035 FAT Champions and Winners 2001 SNORE -Buffalo Bill 400 1st Place Class 1 O: 1st Place Class 1/2 1600 Jeremy Gubler/Danny Anderson Bruce Frailey/Rob MacCacrhen FATVWType I FATVWType 1 SCORE -Baja 500 1st Place Class 5 Mike James 1st Place Class 1 /2 1600 Rob MacCacrhen SCORE - Primm 300 1st Place Class 5 George Seeley Best in the Desert-Vegas to Reno 1st Place Class 1 Dale Ebberts 1st Place Class 10 Steve & Ray Croll VORRA -Yerrington 250 1st Place Class 1011st Overall Mike Lehners 2001 POINTS CHAMPIONS CORR CORR MOR MOR Super Buggy Single-Seat Buggy Class 1 Class 10 Scott Schwalbe Mark Steinhart Richard Bovie/Tom Koch Whit Courtenay Follow their lead! This space available for your team. We use & recommend Visit us at www.ranierronnance.com Page 48 FAT VW Type IV FATVW Type I FAT VW Type IV FAT Toyota V6 FAT Toyota 4AG FATVWType I FAT Toyota 4AG FATVWType I FAT VW Type IV FATfa IIIIQJICI 1558 No. Case• Orange, CA 92867 (714) 637-2889 • Fax (714) 637-7352 June 2002 were running so strong from the start that they had time to do a carburetor change and still maintain the first place position. It was a close race most of the day not allowing them any room for error. They finished with a first in class finish when all was said and done. Great job guys! Tom and Richard certainly had no room for error as the final finishing times reflected. These guys won their class · and the overall by one second. They beat Rick Romans' time by one second; this was a good thing for those of us in the pits that had worked on the car. I'm glad the tire change in Pit C didn't take any longer because somehow I'm sure I would have been fined for it. As usual, this incredibly competitive tea1n was a treat to watch as they worked their magic on the race course, fast and furiously they chewed it up. In true Checker style, we had all pits well covered at this race as well. With two races going on the same weekend we were still able to fully cover seven pits. The four in Ridgecrest were as follows; Main Pit was Dick McCool, Jake Smith, Ty Goode, Roger Byrd, Josh "Elvis" Gilliam and Malcolm Bryce. Pit A was Dave Shell, Tom Jeremiah, Fred Nelson, Bobby McCall and Gary Bates. Pit B was Jimmy Tucker and Mike McGee with some help from non-Checker 1nembersAaron Tucker, Zach Fava, Bryce Rowland and Bobby McCloud. Pit C was well covered by Big John Files, Granddad to be Michael Lee Thompson, Steve Coley, myself and Doug Brown. Most pits spent more time cheering on our racers than working on them. As usual Ridgecrest was an exciting event and one we all eniov. Well, time to put this one to bed, remember, we need ·all men1ber's input on a new location for our meetings, bur tintil then we can still be found on Wednesday nights at 8:00pm at 1111 Foothill Blvd., La Canada or on the web at www.checkersoffroad.org. If ya need to curse us or praise us or just plain ole converse with us, we can be reached at (818) 790-1161. Remember, we're always on the lookout for a "Few Good Men" especially si~ce we just lost a couple to Elvis drive thru in Vegas. It seems that Dave Shell and Josh Gilliam both made speed runs to the drive thru chapels over the last two weeks and did the deed. We'll be on the lookout for the big reception hoe-downs to follow. SEE YA IN THE DEZ, EL PREZ. ■■■■■■■■ 12 --,_o-,,,O't' "" , By Wayne Nosala For those of you new to off road racing, CORE is a volunteer pit club, which has been in existence since the dawn of the sport. A lot has changed over the years, but CORE has remained dedicated to -its goal of providing first class pit support to those in need of assistance. For all the benefits CORE provides, the club asks very little i1f return. Attendance at our monthly meetings is, of course, desired, but we fully understand that many racers live a great distance away. For all the racers, both near and far, CORE asks four things in return for its services: 1. Each team requesting pit support make available two individuals to help man our various checkpoints. 2. Each requestor give at least limited advance notice of his/her need for pit support. 3. Each race team make a $50 donation to enable CORE to continue pi;oviding racers with the kind of support that wins races. 4. Each race team promptly notify CORE if they are out of an event. We don't want our crews to wait in a · pit for a race car that is broken on a trailer. Recently, the club has seen an increase in the number of racers who have failed to give notice of their intent to race and/ or their need for pit support. This puts a huge strain on our members and our resources. Spare tires and other parts you would like to have available for pitting purposes should be delivered well in advance of start time. These types of things should be handled.long before donning a driving suit. CORE also understands that occasions do arise when team does not have two bodies to help out in the pits. However, those that are able should remember to do their part. That line of thinking also applies to the $50 donation. When you think about 'it $50 is really a small price to pay for the backing of a dedicated crew. It might also be wise to bear in mind that CORE members trek to these· events on their own dime and ask nothing for their services. Helping out with able bodies strengthening the club and pitching in financially ensures that CORE will continue to be a recognizable force in the future of off road racing. CORE regularly maintains a booth at contingency, and staff' members are glad to answer any questions you might have concerning the club. CORE truly values the hard work of its members, and expects to see its membership grow as the season progresses. Anyone interested in being a part of .the racing action, rather than merely witnessing it, is encouraged to contact me at (818) 703-1971. . Snore Buffalo Bill's 400 race report: Casinos, buffets, hanging out in the Tree Bar, technical inspections, contingency and the race course all are located within walking distance, you have got to love this ra e. Gary Hall and his family along with Tim Lindsey set up a booth in contingency to help promote the club. They also signed up a few racers for us to pit for. Team Inch: Brad started the race in 35th position with a total of 53 1600 cars, he had his work cut· out for him. Brad managed to run a trouble free first la·p. During his second lap he blew a front right tire while approaching Pit A All we could do was watch while Brad turned around. He threaded his way back to our pit where we promptly changed the tire. A quick inspection showed that barbwire had wrapped around one of the rear axles resulting in a torn c.v. boot. Brad opted to have the whole rear axle changed. He then instructed the main pit via radio to take the rear axle assembly out of his pre-runner. Main pit would swap the whole assembly in to his race car. When Brad arrived, Tommy Craig took over driving duties, the swap was Dusty Times

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T performed, fuel dumped and away the Lothringer went. The rest of the race was uneventful. Brad and Tommy brought home a seventh place finish. Team Rarnly Jones: Randy with Patricia Payne co-driving made a valiant effort in the older Bunderson built 1600 car. Randy's driving skills quickly moved the car to third position and kept it there for three laps. On Lap 4, Rob Myerly and Ken Hezlbaker took over the car. They kept up the pace Randy had set. They unfortunately ran into some trouble. The steering rod broke on a front spindle. This resulted in down time welding it back together. When the dust cleared, Team Jones finished in 22nd place. Randy may have finished down in this race but he did win the CORE "Longest Race Radio Toss" recorded in a pit. It seems that the radio mount broke during Lap 2, Patricia managed to wrestle the radio out. When they arrived at Pit "B" she threw the radio out, where it came in contact with a spinning rear tire resulting in the radio flying 30 feet into the air,. amazing the crew and anyone who witnessed it. Needless to say they ran without radio contact the rest of the race. Team Davy Girdner. Davy didn't have a good race. He lost the motor in his 1600 car on the second lap, • thus ending his day much earlier than he anticipated. Team Freeman: Cody and Kenny Freeman (Snore President) experienced a long day. The 1600 entry blew a piston early in the race. He and his crew spent valuable time replacing the piston, barrel and head assembly. The rebuild was completed and car continued on. With the intention to finish for points, he later broke a front spring adjuster ultimately retiring for the day. Ken Tapert: Ken reported no problems with his 9 car for this race. He did note the rough progression of the course. Ken brought his car in for a fourth place finish. Tom Vanderplog: CORE performed some last minute repairs on Tom's 9 car before the race. Tom, along with co-driver Shannon Switzer, reported having a couple of flats in the first half of the race. Shane Switzer and Allen Yanderplog then took over driving duties. They brought the car home for a sixth place finish. Doug Silcock: This was Doug's first time using CO RE as a pit service. He reported no.problems during the race. Doug brought his 9 car in for an eighth place finish. PITS: Main: The Main Pit crew was Gary Hall and his family, Sharon, Kim and Kara, along with Darrin and Vicky Griffin and Steve McMullen. Gary handled the radio in his usual professional fashion. Kara did her usual great job of keeping track of positions. Along with fuel stops and driver changes, Main Pit also swapped Brad's rear axle assembly in record time. Pit"A" Myself along with Ann Donaldson, Tom Greig, Sr. and Dave Lilavios, we changed some tires, ate dirt and enjoyed the luxury of having the only motorhome in the pit. Pit "B" This pit was comprised of Tim and Jeremy Lindsey, Dave Girdner and Larry Altkoff. This crew was kept fairly busy throughout the race. This • Solberg to the Rim of the World was also the pit that witnessed and Rally to drive a Subaru as course dodged the 30 foot radi_o toss. opening car at the spectator stage. Changing tires, fueling and helping This not to be missed. with drivers changes also kept them The Seed 9 Rally Sprint on on the go. April 6th was a big success again If you are looking for quality pit this year. The Las Vegas SCCA service, considering becoming a region boys, Tom Grossman and member of CORE, have any Scott Bottomley, used the questions or comments about my Tombstone Paintball Park in ramblings, please contact me, Wayne Corona, CA to host their event. 21 Nosala at (818) 703-1971 or e-mail competitors showed up to tackle the me at Wnosala@aol.com. twisty course Leon Styles has ■ created for us. Racing started around 5 :30pm so driving lights were needed. The spectators loved watching the Robinson Mazda 323 The CRS has been the lucky recipient of a big dose of generosity from Subaru of America's Western Coast Division this year. We have received a new generator to run our computers at the events plus sponsorship for the pizza and beer parties at our two rally schools. Now they have stepped up again and donated funds to buy a set of timing equipment for rally cross even ts. Phil Pausmer has been helping to coordinate these gifts to the CRS. We want to extend a big thank you to Subaru and Phil in particular. In addition it looks like Subaru will be bringing WRC driver Peter run after dark with flames shooting from the exhaust due to its turbo anti-lag system. Leon Styles was the eventual overall winner in the Audi which he has leased from George Plsek for the season. Great start Leon. Doug Robinson and Julius Vasari were second and third in the Open class. Dave Coleman flogged his Datsun 510 around the course and won the Group 2/5 class. Richard Byford was second. In the CRS Stock class it was Brad Boli in his Honda. A big surprise at the event was Don Shreyer in his RX7. He really picked up the pace and did a great job driving. He had a few anxious moments when the Mazda wouldn't start for him as he waited in line. Loren Worthington had his first taste of rallying and got so excited he rolled his car. At least it was in front of spectators so he can't lie about it. You are up for the Captain Crunch award now! Other faces at the event were Gabe Pari, who didn't roll. Robert Sudhop, who has been road racing, came back to run with us. Tony Chavez was there only long enough to blow up the new turbo in his Galant while driving the parade lap. Tony De La Cuesta came in his new Toyota. The Clarks were present for one lap till they broke the suspension on their Subaru. The trophy girl this year was a vast improvement over Tom Grossman in a dress. This year they brought a full size cardboard advertising girl to have her picture taken with the winners. Dave Coleman was going to steal her for the night. Leon received the "I Spanked Everyone at the Seed 9 · . Rally Sprint" t-shirt for his win. Looks like Tom and Scott have a four stage event planned for next year. They have received the "okay" to use some roads out by Jean. NV. This will be a great prep event for our first of the season full rally Rim of the World. Hope to see everyone there. The CRS Rally School hosted by Ray and Donna Hocker was well attended. They had about 80 people show up to go through the course. A whole bunch of CRS members showed up to help run the course with Ray. Subaru hosted the beer and pizza "feed" Saturday night. On Sunday the Rally Cross at the fairgrounds in Ridgecrest had a big entry. The CRS signed up 20 new members at the event. Lots of drivers are coming out for our Tombstone PainrbalLcom Rally Cross championship this year. I guess everyone got to see the cash Continued on page 50 . .,.,w .,,.,,_,,_ ..... .,.,..,,,_ ....... ,.,..,..,, __ ·····-.. . A Paradigm is a pattern example. Each of us has established a paradigm based on our previous experience and knowledge. The paradigm draws on information from our mind, gathers it together, and refines it to fit our understanding of reality. Paradigm Race Cars will redefine " your perception of reality and present you with a true sense of craftsmanship~ ~afety, an~ pride in one's work"' have flQJ:I th,a arena of o ad re 11of , ·~ only to improve ,op the-but to :: (;teat a f)a,IJ3i:ligm for Dusty Times *4)~~ * @miloo, . -· -* ~ n_n::c,""'1T "" .•· tJ • June 2002 ---~-------,--~ ___ _....,......_,.,,_.,,,,,,.,,,,,,"'""-..-.--.,,-•.,....,,.,.,.... -···--,·•·-, ... ~~..;:~ .,...,...,._,.. __ ~:::,..;...,.-::::-_.,_:::::-Page 49

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awarded at the banquet this year to the top class finishers in the rally cross series. Last weekend was Oregon Trails in Portland, OR. Six teams of CRS competitors drove up to compete in the rally. Josh Jacquot and Dave Coleman had the best trip with a win in the Production class with the Hyundai provided by John Buffum. Lauchlin O'Sullivan and Matt Chester took second in Group 2 in the team Mitsubishi Eclipse. Teams with less luck were Jay Streets in his Volvo which dumped a turbo. Leon Styles and John Dillon were having a good run till the oil pump let go in the Audi they leased from George Pisek, Jr. Chris Burns had an engine let go in his car and Richard Byford and Fran Olson were plagued with fuel pump problems which finally took them out. Everyone agreed it is fun to head out to other regions and see what their roads offer for rally. Plus this rally had stage notes which is new to most of us and gave the navigators a lot to do. Thanks Ben Bradley and crew, you did a great job with this year's Oregon Trails ProRally. Next up is the Rim of the World Rally in Palmdale, CA. They are looking for a record number of entries this year. CRS class winners and post rally information will be DBA: Discount Foreign We Have In Stock: Ultra Wheels 15x3.5 & 15x7 $84.10 $89.10 Centerline Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15 X 6 $129.95 $135.95 15 X 10 $146.95 Call for Prices 3636 Meade Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 (702) 24 7-1266 We Now Do. MAGNA FLUX rsTRIC:ZLY in next month's column. See you at the start line! ■■■■■■■■ ~---By Wes Wisdom First of all, apologies to everyone who missed seeing the FA.LR. column in last month's issue. It was a casualty of the "Two Races On One Weekend" syndrome. Too much to do, too little time and racing has priority over writing this column. We'll try to catch up on last month's happenings as well as the current month. FA.LR. had six members race the M.O.R.E. Balls Out 250. Scott Wisdom was the Race Manager and none of the three pits reported having much action. Harry Dunne's son, Christopher, somehow finagled a ride with Kathy and Stacy Fay in their Class 7 Ford. TI1e truck developed a power steering problem on Lap 1 and then a loud "thunking" towards the end of the race but finished in a good second place. By the way, the "thunking" was never found. P.S. -Christopher decided he prefers riding with his dad in their Class 9. Speaking of Class 9, Mike Norris and Jerry Burke had their cars in the race. Mike was lost for a while and then a rocker arm broke. He was able to scrounge a rocker arm assembly from a play car that was parked close and went on to a well deserved third in class. Unfortunately for Jerry, his engine seized on the second lap for a DNF. Richard Lesher was running real well in Class 10 until engine problems put him out. Too bad, the car is really fast! TI1e strong and competitive Class 1600 had two F.A.l.R. entries, Brian Geer and Jerry Longo and both did very well. Brian lost a lot of time with electrical problems, but, with some driving help from Sean Bennett, finished second in class. Jerry Logo had a great day! When things go well there isn't much to talk about and things went so well for Jerry that he was first in Class 1600 and second overall! More racers should take advantage ofM.O.R.E. Jim Clements puts on a good race with better payouts than any other series. This brings us to "Double Race Weekend II". It was a lot tougher to pull off than the Laughlin/Parker weekend in January. There were only three pits to cover that weekend but this tin1.e there were nine between the two racers. Dave Massingham stepped up to drive the van to the MOR Ridgecrest 300 and to be acting Race Manager. He had seven cars and five pits to manage and he was racing, too! What a guy! Unfortunately, a steering shaft broke on his Class 1 modified "WayneZilla" on the first lap. He was able to drive it back to the Main Pit using the highway with his co-driver sitting on the hood pf the car steering with a pair of pliers! That must have been a sight to see! Repairs were made but they were forced to retire on lap 2 with other problems. Richard Lesher was running well again until the transmission let go on Lap 4. Richard is running in just about every race that is being run this year and if he can get the car sorted out he'll start winning some races. Tim Sharp, in his Class 5 car, came upon a truck that had just rolled in a sand wash. He slowed to check if they were okay and then, wouldn't you know it, their car got buried in the sand! It must have been pretty bad at this particular spot because there were many other vehicles also stuck. Tim wound up with a DNF on Lap 2. Frank Omboh was annihilating the very fast Class 10 field. He had a -45 minute lead on the last lap when · a trailing arm broke. Even with an hour lost while Pit B was welding it up he still was able to finish third in class and ninth overall. Kathy Fay, in Class 7, finished three laps before something let go in the transmission and A.J. Gaston 'ERFORMANCE Page so Duality products built in house along with Fabtech. PIAA, BFGoodrich, Weld, [am b urg Engineering, Autofab, King 5hocks, Fuel 5 afe, plus hundreds of other quality products an d accessories. • Shacks • Rall [ages • Exhaust Kits • Wheels & Tires • Suspension Kits • Off Raad Bumpers • [u5tam Fabrication • Billet Grill5 & Acce55arie5 Tra~el !iuspenslon !iy!!items. 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Because the PRO1600 group had chosen this as one of their races, there were 59 starters in Class 1/2-1600! With beautiful racing weather it was what off road racing should always be like. Tom Sobray took on Race Manager duties for the event and had ten F.A.I.R. cars and four pits to cover. With the van going to Ridgecrest, all of the F.A.I.R. trailers were hauled up to Primm Valley, nee Stateline, NV. Jeff Sherrill with a Class 10 c ar had a long day. The engine started missing just after passing the Main Pit off the Start line. It stalled two miles before Pit A. Jeff changed a coil but needed a tow to the pit. The Pit A people changed the points and got it running. Still, it wasn't running very well and, after a roll-over on Lap 2, tl1eydid complete three laps in the time limit. We had one 5-1600 car. David Foss came from San Francisco to race in the Nevada desert. The car ran well on the first lap. They changed drivers for Lap 2 but a torsion adjuster finger broke going into Pit A. (Actually, it had broken prior to the driver change and the broken piece was found laying in the front bumper of the car. Nobody could figure out where it came from because the car looked okay and so it was sent off.) Pit A installed a new adjuster, borrowed from.Jeff Knupp, but then a trailing arm pivot bolt broke before they made it to Pit B. There were eight Class 1/2-1600 cars using F.A.I.R.'s services. Frank Wagner blew his engine 20 miles in to the race. Don Johnson suffered the same fate on Lap 4. Brice Crawford, down from the Reno area, had a tough weekend. It started off badly when his pit crew broke down in Beatty on the way to the race with all his spares. Then he had electrical problems right off the start and it took 45 minutes to find and repair the problem. He finally DNF'd when the woodruff key on the crank pulley broke or came out. Weird things happen when it's just not your race. Your problems can be caused by other drivers, too. Just ask Brady Wilson. He and Jerry Longo were driving Mike Long's car. Jerry started and was passing some cars when another car tried to pass him. This other car was so out of control he T-boned Jerry and rolled him over. There didn't appear to be much damage other than a bent up roof until Brady took over on lap 3. The ring and pinion in the transmission went out, probably caused by the roll-over. Out illustrious President, Brent Parkhouse, deserves an award for perseverance. They broke a front torsion adjuster while testing in Barstow on the way to the race. Brady Wilson supplied the replacement parts (at 3:00 a.m. Friday morning while Brent was at the Craps table) but the adjuster bracket broke on the pre-run. The whole ming was welded up solid for the start of the race but he other adjuster broke at Pit B. That was also welded up. Then, when the car got back to the Main Pit, the clutch master cylinder push rod was broken. That was fixed and then a rear torsion adjuster broke. Pit B fixed that bur, on the last lap just 40 miles from the finish, the other rear torsion adjuster broke. What a shame. With all that effort they Dusty Times

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couldn't at least get a finish. Curt Geer and Kevin Walsh both had some minor electrical problems and both were able to finish the race. Last but notleast, F.A.l.R.'s "Hero of the Race", Brian Logan. Brian's race started well when he was picked to be the first 1600 car in the 59 car class and he stayed first on the road for the entire race! Two other cars did beat him on time though it was only by a couple of minutes. A very great third in class! Watchihg Brian's race made the weekend. Everybody was watching their stopwatches to check the time splits. Great fun! Thanks Brian. All in all, it was a race weekend to rememher. Ir's too bad that those at Ridgecrest missed out on the Buffalo Bill's race and those at the Buffalo Bill's race missed out on Ridgecrest. Hey, you promoters, give us and yourselves a break. Don't schedule races on the same day! •••••••• GUAM PROTRUCK CHALLEN CE APRIL 18-21,. 2002 GUAM, U.S.A. Winner: Brian Stewart, Herzog Auto Racing Ford #13 Yigo-Guam ... The second annual Miller Smokin' Wheels event on the luscious island of Guam was a huge success this past weekend. Seven Protruck teams from the mainland made the voyage to the welcoming island arriving last Wednesday evening. Hosted by the Guam Racing Federation (GRF) and the Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB) the Protrucks, drivers and teams once again, stole the hearts of the locals, and other racers from around the world giving the island a weekend full of some great off road racing! The week was full of exciting racing, promotions, and lots of beautiful_ Guam weather (ranging from 85-95 during the day with a tropical breeze and 80-88 at night). In addition to the Protruck Challenge, other classes included all divisions of motorcycle and ATV racers, buggies, and local rock crawling and mud bogging competitors. The condition of the course was totally different than last year where the red clay-like mud engrossed every inch of everything! This year the course was very dry and dusty and soaked up every bit of water than was sprayed on it. TI1e dust was blinding at times. They Dusty Times finished the motocross portion of the track in fro•nt of the grandstands adding a few double, triple jumps, fast "woops", and the flat oval around the bowl. Everyone had a great time, did a lot of sightseeing, snorkeling, and enjoyed a lot of culture, and brought back a piece of tl:i,e historic island in our hearts. **The ·Miller Smokin' Wheels Protruck Challenge event from 2001 and 2002 will be broadcasted on the ESPN International Network, reaching half billion viewers!!! Big thanks to Jerry Garrett and Laura Byrd from Arrow Productions. The week started on Thursday, 4/17/02 when we unpacked and practiced most of the day. We ended the night with a Protruck team dinner cruise around the scenic area ofTumon Bay, Guam -which was very entertaining. Friday 4/18/02 -Technical inspection, practice and press/ sponsor rides kept everyone busy most of the day. Final preparations were made to the track and to the Protrucks as they got ready for Sarurday, which was the first day of competition. Saturday4/19/02 -Heat One The racers were all in island mode by this time and had to get focused as they drew for starting positions. Off the line was Wally Hrdlicka #40, Rick Johnson Ford #43, Brian Stewart -driving the Herzog Electric Ford # 13, Gary Magness Ford #50, Dennis Dugan Ford #52, Jeff Dickerson Ford #23 and Tony Licitra Chevy #42. They held tight to their positions until Lap 3 when Wally Hrdlicka (40) did a side flip in the coconut trees. His buddy, Gary Magness (50), was leading the pack until he stopped to check if the #40 truck was okay. After this, Rick Johnson (43) led the Protrucks to the end wit:1 Brian Stewart (13) in second, Jeff Dickerson (23) third, then Dennis Dugan, Wally Hrdlicka (40), Tony Licitra (42) and Gary Magness (50). Heat Two The starting order was reversed on how the drivers finished in Heat l. Gary Magness (50) led until Lap 4, then Dennis Dugan (52) moved up a few spots and took over the lead until the checkered flag. The remainder of the trucks battled in the dust, and fought for and held onto their positions. Brian Stewart gained four positions finishing second. The finishing order was 52, 13, 50, 43, 40, 23, 42. The finishing positions in both heats were added up in points and the driver with most points from both heats got to choose their starting position for the Land Rush start in the Sunday main event. Brian Stewart # 13 had the first choice and he chose the inside, followed by Dennis Dugan #52 next to him, Rick Johnson #43, Jeff Dickerson #23 chose the opposite end-outside, Gary Magness #50, Wally Hrdlicka #40, and Tony Licitra #42. LET THE GAME5 BEGIN!!! Sunday 4/12/02 Excitement was in the air, the sun was shining and the wind was blowing forecasting a perfect race day. After the motorcycle race was complete, and a final track watering, the Protrucks took their positions in the land rush start format. Engines were roaring and the spectators were on their feet, waiting for the green .. __________ ,._. ___ ,,,,, ____ ,__:,,_,,..._ __ ,,,,, ______ ~---flag and trying to decipher how these trucks could maneuver themselves together before the hard left turn (about 200 yards) away at the bottom of the bowl. Flag dropped, and it was obvious that Brian Stewart # 13 chose the perfect starting position as he charged to the front of the pack, followed by Rick Johnson, Jeff Dickerson, Dennis Dugan, Tony Licitra, Wally Hrdlicka, and Gary Magness. They were racing hard as can be, but Brian was holding on strong to his lead position with Rick Johnson trying hard to yank it. Gary Magness jumped two spots on Lap 3 and the competitors managed to hold onto their positions throughout the race. When the checkered flag dropped, they cat)le flying in ... 1st: Brian Stewart # 13, $10,000; 2nd: Rick Johnson #43, $5,200; 3rd: Jeff Dickerson #23, $2,400; 4th: Dennis Dugan #52, $1,600; 5th: Gary Magness #50, $800; 6th: Tony Licltra #42, $600; 7th: Wally Hrdlicka #40, $400. Smokin' Wheels Enduro The Protrucks were ready for some more action, with five out of the seven trucks ready to take on the two hour endurance race, there was a total of 14 entered, r'acing along with the buggy/ car class. By the first lap, Geno Licitra #42 (son of Tony Licitra), had.the crowd on their feet a:s they watched him chasing the !eader Ikuo Hanawa in the Isuzu Geolander of Japan and m.oving up two spots. In the meantime, Henry Simpson, Guam Racing Federation's founder and Miller Smokin Wheels promoter, was in the driving seat of Ryan Herzog's Ford #13, and Rob Kittleson #50 was giving Guam's Senator/Vice Speaker Larry Kasperbauer a ride of his life. On Lap 5, as Geno Licitra #42 was moving fast and reeling in for the lead, a damaging nudge by another car on the north portion of the track (unseen to spectators) sent him into a hole on its side of the edge of the jungle, unable to get pulled out. The red flag was dropped for about 15 minutes, everyone was okay and the race went on. By Lap 7, the Japanese were still in the lead with local Saipan resident Ray Alvarez behind them, Dennis Dugan #5 2 was in sixth place, with Henry Simpson behind him, Steve Knudson driving #40 in eighth, and Rob Kittleson #50 in ninth. By Lap 11, Dennis Dugan charged through the traffic to the second place spot, following Hanawa of Japan, making remarkable time and by Lap 13 was in the lead. They were going strong until Dennis had a flat from a damaged body hanger, that set him back a few spots but thanks to the pit support of the teams he ':Vas able to get out of there in less than a minute and chased the leaders to the checkered flag finishing second. Smokin Wheels Enduro Winners! 1. Ray Alvarez; 2. Dennis Dugan (52); 3. lkuo Hanawa; 4. Hachiki Nobu; 5. Henry Simpson/Ron DeWolf (13); 6. Kin Pangalinan; 7. Rob Kittleson/Tom Effy (50); 8. Eddie Cruz; 9. Steve Knudson (40). •••••••• /lEDLUIE PEAf61li1A/JCE, we. 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r. FOR SALE: Class 12 Raceco. SS. FAT Motor, Fortin, King Bypass with Coils, Foddrill Arms, CNC, 38 gal. Fuel Safe, BFG's on Centerlines, UMP Power Steering, Parker Pumper, PCl, $21,000.00 OBO. ALSO Hallmark24' enclosed trailer, Air, toilet, Spare Rack, $8,500.00. David (928) 220-2291, (928) 567-0347. FOR SALE: Ex-Walker Evans. Chevrolet Pro-2 Corr truck, new 366 cid engine, 18 degree Brodix, Moree injected, 650hp, Chrisman rear end, SAE trans, Walker Evans shocks, CNC Auto Meter, Ultra Wheels. Spares include: lx 413 cid eng fresh 18 degree, SB-2 Chap-man heads, Cola, Manley, Barry Grant Carb, MSD, 730hp, all ac-cessories, lx new SAE trans. lx MSD ign. lx Chrisman center, wheels and tyres, long range fuel cells, and much more. All the very best gear. This truck is in immacu-late race and show prep, raced once in Australia bur driven successfully to a series win by Brendan Gaugh-an in 99. y.i outright in the Finke desert race. The lot, 89k ono. Will consider separation. e-mail: attardsracing@hormail.com FOR SALE: 79 Fl50 Ford Stock Full, 460 Motor, Mogi Trans, King Shocks, lots of parts. $25,000.00 Call (818) 764-3038. SCORE and Best in the Desert legal. FOR SALE: F-150 Prerunner/Chasetruck, 450 hp, built C6 Guss. 9" 20" front travel chromoly 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, Deist, Beard, Art Carr full int. a/c heater, pwr. everything, 35" Baja TA"S too much too list $15,000.00 OBO (714) 473-1058. FOR SALE: Rivera Racing Class One Car. Nye Frank Suspension, Fresh 5.3 Liter Patton Chevy V-6 (450hp), Jeff Fields 3 speed Auto Transaxle, Best of everything. Winner of the 2002 Laugh-lin Desert Challenge and Laughlin Leap. $75,000.00. Call Jerry Whelchel for De-tails (949) 472-2024. FOR SALE: 1-1600 Never Raced since recondition. New Foddrill arms & spindles, Brakes, & drums, Mastercraft Seat, Center-lines, & Tires, 930 stub Axles, Power Steering, pump oil cooler, skid plates, plumbed & wired. Ready to Race, less engine and trans, $8,500.00 (909) 845-3259. PIKES service center Baker, California Celebra~ing SD YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS .•. THANKS! RESTAURANT Open 24 Hours Mobil® SERVICE Every Day Year Round THE BEST IN THE DESERT! Dusty Times ___ ,... ___ ._ FOR SALE: 2000 Kia Sportage Cross Country Rally Car. SCORE Class 3 and FIA Class T3. Built in November 1999 for the 2000 Paris Dakar Rally, which it finished. Won Class 3 in 2000 San Felipe 250. King Shocks, Full Floater, 5 speed Road Race Transmission Heavy Duty Racing Clutch. 95 gal-lon custom Fuel Safe Fuel cell for Paris Dakar (550 mile range). Makes an excellent prerunner, Autometer liquid filled gauges, BFG Baja 33xl0.50 tires, Ameri-can Racing Wheels, All the Best parts, Extremely reliable and fun. Many spares available. Ready to win races all over the world. $29,999.00 obo. Call Darren Skil-ton. (562) 7 55-227 8. =====-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 Bypass rear shocks, New Race; A-Arms & rear hubs-Car maged C lean-Prepped & ready to race. Can meet in the desert for test $42,000.00 Days (760) 344-0535 Eves (760) 344-1328. FOR SALE, 125" Raceco Class I, 2 seat, 3L seat, Fortin 5 speed, 935 CV's, 300mm axles, Sum-mers Bros., Beard Scars, Hella Lights, Bilstein shocks, Race safe extinguisher, 5 radios, 3 pit boxes, 4 sets tires & rims, 110 gals race gas. Everything thing is new. 0 miles since complete rebuild. ALSO 30' 3 axle fully enclosed trailer w/6.5 ONAN generator. $38,000.00 for car. $8,000.00 for trailer or $43,000.00 for both. (209) 785-4143. FOR SALE: Class 12 Mirage 1835 Engine, 2 seater, Fox Shocks w/coilovers in front, new trans, new axles, new motor, new car. Never raced not finsished. Almost race ready. Have all parts. Steve (805) 522-1952 Price $20,000.00 OBO. FOR SALE: 95 F150 Ford 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: Open Sportsman or PreRunner, 2 seat, 102"wb, 2332cc race trans w/Hewland, Charlyn Power Steering, 930's, Centerline Wheels, 18 gal fuel Cell, Bilsrein, Wright front end, adjusters front & rear, remov-able windshield, trailer, $9,000.00. (949) 493-6037. FOR SALE: Class 1 Touring/ Prerunner, street licensed PWR Steering, 2276 YW Weber 44, Coilover Fox Shocks, UMP· Airfilter, Oil Cooler, 930 cvs, Combos, Beard Seats, 5 pt. Seat Harness, CB, Centerline Wheels, No Sales Tax. Must Sell $12,500.00 OBO Garnett Col-lins, • (714) 281-2327. GCOLL84M@AOL.COM. Chair. ProSeat Mandated by g PROTRUCK RACING DRGANIZA TION www.mastercraftseats.com June 2002 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 sacrificing for $10,800.00 (262) 335-0300 or(414) 870-7586. Larry. FOR SALE: Class 5 Unlimited Type IV new 2755cc, 20" rear travel, 16" in front. All disc brakes, 4 way by-pass, 930 CV' s 300m axles, new cell, All Coilover car with 1 ¼ shafts in back. Asking $17,500.00 or best of-fer. (505) 867-1371. Scott Baxter. P061TION6 WANTb.D HeWrites4U is here to help you with Press Releases, Technical Writing, Illustrations and Public Relations campaigns for you or your com-pany. Published in dozens of maga-zines, particularly automotive re-lated and able to help you when you need it most. For more infor-mation call (619) 561-5881 or email Hewrites4U@aol.com. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Aggressive Suspensions ............................ 32 American JeepSpeed Challenge ................. 21 Austecx ......................... : ............................... 45 Baker Performance ................................... 30 Bi·National Emergency ................................ 36 BORE ............................................................ 25 BTI ................................................................ 28 Cactus ........................................................... 39 Camburg Engineering .................................. 44 Coast Resorts ............................................... 10 CORE Pit Team ............................................. 31 Dave Folts .................................................... 14 DCS · Digital Communications Systems ....................... 34 Ed Stewart .............................................. 13, 40 Fabtech ......................................................... 22 FAT Performance ......................................... 48 FRT Motorsports .......................................... 29 Fuel Safe ...................................................... 50 Genuine Steel .............................................. 16 German Auto ................................................ 17 Kartek Off Road ....................................... 15, 45 Kawaguchi Honda ........................................ 27 KC Hilites .................................................... 19. King Shock Tech .......................................... 33 LeDuc Swap ................................................. 41 Light Force Engineering .............................. 47 Mastercraft .................................................. 59 McKenzie Performance Products ................ 11 · Mega Show .................................................... 4 · Mendeola Racing ........................................... 9 Miggie ........................................... : .............. 39 Nevada Off Road Buggy ............................... 34 Outlaw Racing ............................................. 50 Paradigm., .................................................... 49 Parker Pumper ............................................ 42 Parker Pumper/Competition Air ................. 46 Parker Pumper/Eibach Springs ..................... 8 PCI Race Racios ............................................. 2 Pike's Family Restaurants ........................... 59 Race Prep Services ..................................... 43 Race Ready Products ................................... 35 Rancho Performance ................................... 46 Redline Performance, Inc ............................ 51 Ronco Plastics .............................................. 23 Skyjacker Suspensions ............................... 12 SNORE .......................................................... 37 Solder Joint ................................................. 38 · Strictly Performance ................................... 50 Sway-A-Way .................................................. 5 Toyota Motorsports ...................... Back Cover Transaxle Engineering ................................ 26 Tri-Mil .......................................................... 32 Valley Performance ..................................... 50 Web Cam ...................................................... 24 · Page 59 4 -

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