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Volume 19 -Number 7 July 2002 001"'1i1moo Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor John.Calvin Associate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance Scott Contributors C&C Race Photos Sheryl Cannon Carrera Photography Mike Chamberland J&L Photography Jim Culp Mike Del Col Martin Holmes Rod Koch Ralph Mason Ron Miller Rene Montana Byrle Moore Troy Robinson Jeff Straw Darryl Smith Tony Tellier Paul Timmerman Trackside Photo Subscription Rates: $25.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Sub-scription rates on request. Contributions: DUSTY TIMES welcomes contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited material will be returned only by request and with a self addressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUS1YTIMES: (ISSN 8750-1732) is published montl;ly by Hill-side Racing Corp, 20761 Plummer St., Chats~orth., 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 th.is publication may be reproduced without written permission from tl1e pub-lisher. Periodical Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at additional mailing offices. P0S1MASTER: 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. In This Issue ... FEATURES Tecate SCORE Baja 500 by Judy Smith ............................................... : .................... 8 Cyprus Rally by Martin Holmes ............................................................................... 20 CODE Grupo Tersa BFGoodrich 200 by Byrle Moore ....................................... 24 Rim Of The World Rally by John P.M. Dillon ..................................................... 30 VORRA Prairie City by Forest Creasy ..................................................................... 34 KLXS 97.1 FM Malibu Dan by Sheryl Cannon ..................................................... 38 Guam Enduro by Judy Smith ..................................................................................... 40 BORE Wendover Express b:, Mike Chamberland ............... : .................................. 44 CORR In New York b:, John Calvin ...................................................................... 46 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ............................................................................................................ 5 Trail Notes .............. ................................................................................................ 6 Checkers by John Hastings ........................................................................................ 48 CRS Report by The Director ..................................................................................... 49 Good Stuff Directory .......................................................................................... 52 Classified Ads ...................................................................................................... 58 Index To Advertisers ........................................................................................... 59 on The cover Scott Sellers,seen here at speed in his Honda powered Chenowth, ran solo in the Baja 500, took on all comers ans beat them all to the finish line, taking the Class 10 honors. Color Photography by Trackside Photo Troy Herbst teamed with Lury Roeseler in the mighty Class 1 "Truggy" and they fought all race long to get to the front and finally did in the last section of the race for a great Baja 500 win. Color Photography by Trackside Photo Art Director Larry Worsham Visit Our Website at Qustytimes.com snapshot of the Month ... Tales from the past. Walt Lott (L) and Mel Larson, covered with silt and grime as they lay out a portion of the good old Mint 400 course. We believe the year is 1983, hut we-'.re not positive of the date DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to 8x!0 will be considered. 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2002 Happenings ... CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. RICHARDS RAMON CASTRO & RtlBEN ACEVEDO (61637/7 0034) CMC Promotions and will include motorcycles and quads) COLORADO HILL Cram ASSOCIATION AMERICAN RALLY SPORT GROUP, INc. 3650 SOUTH POINTE CIRCLE, SUITE 205 LAUGHLIN, NV 89208 (702) 298-8171/FAX: (702) 521-0597 E MAIL: roger@rallyusa.com AMERICAN TRIALS ASSOCIATION AMA OBSERVED TruALs SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES BILL MARKUM· PRESIDENT (909) 860-1857 24 HR HOTLINE - (714) 562-7742 EMAIL: bmark909@aol.com <www.atatrails.com> AsOCIACION EsTATAL DE AuroMOVILISMO SAM l.AsELL, TECH INSPECTOR APTo42 SAN JOSE DEL CABO "BAJA CALIFORNIA DEL SUR. MEXICO AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CliAMPIONSIIlP DARRYL SMITH • 19 SOMERS ST. CASHMERE, QUEENSLAND, 4500, AUSTRALIA DUSTY TIMES@bigpond.com AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFF ROAD CI.ASS 10 CARS ONLY RENALD VAILLANCOURT 3069 DAGENAIS WEST LAVAL QUEBEC, CANADA H7P 1T7 (450) 622-4440 BARONA SAND DRAG AssN. P.O. Box 1521 LAKESIDE, CA 92040 AU Races Are Night Races All Races At 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 BOULDER HIGHWAY LAS VEGAS, NV 89121 (702) 457-5775/FAX (702) 641-2431 E-MAIL: bitd@worldnet.att.net 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 SUNSET, 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-I HO (613) 475-1102/FAX (613) 475-3250 CAJOR CLUB AUTOMOVILISTAJUARENSE DE CHAMPIONSHIP OFF-ROAD RACING 7210 GATEWAY EAST EL PASO, TX 79915 (915) 593-4848 RALPH GARCIA Oll-52-16-17-45-42 CESAR FUENTES CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES SUE ROBINSON -DIRECTOR 845 SCHOOHOUSE ROAD RAMONA, CA 92065 (760) 788-3809 E-MAIL: crsdirecr@hotrnail.com WEBSITE <californiarallyseries.com> JOHN D1LLON, SoPAc RALLY STEWARD sopacrallysteward@hotrnail.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, Iv. 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 P.O. Box 332 FAIR HAVEN, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLAIRTON Hr-JACKERS I.C.O. TOM DELAUDER SR 1091 TWP. LINE ROAD WELLSVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Harrison County Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH Cum AUToMOVILISTICA SANQuINTIN 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 (Oil 52 61746834) CONTINENTAL MOTOSPORT CLUB P.O. Box 3187 MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690-3178 FAX: (714) 367-1608 CODE OFFROAD P.O. Box 2320 CALEXICO, CA 92232-2328 USA PHONE (760) 455-8069 TEL/FAx (01152) 553-4087 <www.codeoffroad.com.mx> mail@codeoffroad.com.mx August 9-11, 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 Mangiamos 300 Mexicali To San Felipe Baja California, Mexico (This event is a co-promotion with ZR y BARB VAHSHOLTZ, PRESIDENT (719) 531-3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P.O Box 8286 CoLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP P.O. Box 392 CALEXICO, CA 92232 HECTOR CERECER 011-52-65-66-4458 CORR/LucAs OIL PRO & SPORTSMAN SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP OFF ROAD RACING 192 N. STATE ROAD 267, SUITE 267 AVON, IN 46123 (317) 272-2827/FAX: (317) 272-2900 June 22-23, 2002 Pro & Sportsman Series Crandon, WI July 13-14, 2002 cJfl=> by SWAY-A-WAY® .• \ ~ , ITV f OBT~IN:~P,TIMAL)lERe~~ftllp.NCE r FADING Cfuse9:ev HEAT ANO JMVITATIOf'.I , t <-· -~ >· l ·--~, " - _FJ~E TUNINq' SUSPtNSION \ • ">. , ' • .,.~ t t, ~ ,,,_,.. ~ \ CE PROVEN QUAL ~,. AND ~c~R.EQF,t_~A~.~E . \ · ~2.5" AND 3" DIAMETEftAVAl(AB(E ,,, ' \ ' ~ Distributors Camburg Engineering Off-Road Warehouse 714-848-8880 858-565-TT92 Baja Concepts 760-723-2117 July 2002 -~<:~½, Pages

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Trail Notes ... ZR PROMOTIONS - ZR Pro m otions held their m otorcycle/ Quad meet on April 26-28 and a good time was had by all that were in attendance. In Open Pro the winner was Aaron Tuck and Craig Smith, they rode their Honda XR to the class win as well as the overall. Second in Open Pro was Sergio Vega, an Ensenada resident, also on a Honda XR and he was a bit over three minutes away from the win. In the Open Pro Quad division, Arturo Salas took the win on a Yamaha NTR. Second in the class was Tito Buendia and Mariano Sanchez, riding a Honda TRX and they were about seven minutes away from the class win. In the M/C 250 Pro, Pedro Penatello and Antonio Macias rode their Kawasaki KX to the win and they were followed by Edgar Espinoza and Oscar Garcia on a Honda CR. They were 15 minutes off the winning pace. In the M/C Open Sportsman division, Sergio Torres and Miguel Hernandez took the gold medal on a Honda XR 650. Nine minutes later, Manuel Salazar came in on his Honda XR to claim second in the class. In the M/ C 125 Pro class Tito Colon and Ernesto Ramirez rode their Yamaha YZ rode to the class win, the only ones to finish in that class. There were a total of 41 entries and 29 of them made the full race. """'-'"uvN INTERNATIONAL OFF-ROAD RACEWAY -Three major races at the Crandon Raceway are of note to all off roaders. The Forest County Potawatomi Brush Run races are held on June 22-23, the Forest County Potawatami Friday Night Xtreme Thunderfest takes place on Augus t 30 at 7 :30 in the evening, and, last, but not least, the BorgWarner World Championship Off Road Races on August 31 and September 1. This is the 33,d season for the raceway, located on a 400 acre tract of land with campgrounds and lots of great spectator viewing. The track is 1. 7 5 miles in length, features an "Oklahoma Land Rush start and you should plan of attending one or more of the races for a complete weekend of e1{joyment. For more information contact the raceway on their toll free nu1nber, 888-611-6092. Fax them at 715-478-5815 or on the web at www.crandonoffroad.com. FRT CoNQUlSTA -Lake SuperstitiQn was the site for the FRT Conquista race on M ay 13t1,. There is a full story with lots o f pies in this issue but here is the rundown on the winners. In the cars and trucks, Chuck Hovey took the Ciass i win, Todd Stemmerman took the C°Iass 5 ·honors, the Class 7S win went to Mark Handley, Jason Corfma n w as the Class 8 winner and Rod McCain took Class 9 . In the bikes it was Aaron Tuck, 1st overall and first in Open, Dewey Belew took the Veteran-class, Cory Brewer was the first 250 to finish and Bill McNeer was the first 4 stroke. Stretch White took the ATV win, PJ Armstrong was the first Superlite and Jamie Schuetz took the 125 Jr. class. For the kids it was Tomas Gray winning the 80cc class, Preston Hutchinson held sway in the 60cc class and Tommy Herbert was the 50cc winner. SCORE BAJA 500 -May 31-June 2 are the dates for the race and as you read this there is a full blown story with lots of pictures for you later in this issue. We thought we'd give you a few of the statistics available to us late in May. As of this date, 159 cars, buggies and trucks are entered and 59 motorcycles and quads are ready to attack part of the Baja peninsula. Class 1 and 10 have 25 entries each, there are 13 each Trophy Trucks and Class 5 vehicles. There are 15 cars in the Score Lites class, and 12 vehicles each in 1600 and the ProTruck class. There are 10 entries in 1600. There are 9 entries in Class 9 and Class 3. There are 6 Class 8 trucks and 6 each 7S trucks. Class 7 has 3 entries, as does class 11 and Sport Buggy. There are 2 entries each in Class 5 and Stock Full and there is 1 entry in Stock Mini. S CORE HENDERSON'S TERRlBLE 250 -We keep getting press releases from SCORE on their Henderson race, which is looming on the horizon, July 10-14. There is a $10,000 bonus to the first overall finisher in the car and truck classes, and, according to SCORE, with that bonus and over $30,000 in added purse and w~th a 50% payback of entry fees the cash and contingency prizes will surpass the $500,000 mark for the new race. More attractions and events are being added and, as of the 20th of May, here is the schedule. On Wednesday, July 10 there is a bowling tournament, a silent auction and a slot tournament. On Thursday, July 11 there is a media tour of the course, driver/rider/media registration, driver appeararice/vehicle display and the drawing for start positions. On Friday, July 12th, course reconnaissance, driver/rider/media registration, contingency and tech inspection, Henderson's Terrible Wedding Fiesta, IGT Pit Crew Challenge, mandatory race vehicle impound, the mandatory driver/rider reception And, to cap off the Friday schedule, the Tommy Rocker Concert, free to all. Saturday the race vehicles will parade to the Start/Finish area. Bikes and Quads start at 0600, cars and trucks have a 1500 (3pm) start. There will be a Page 6 Pro & Sportsman Series Bark River, MI July 27-28, 2002 Milan ,Ml August 10-11, 2002 Pro & Sportsman Series Bark River, MI August31-September 1, 2002 Pro & Sportsman Series Crandon, WI CORVA 1500 WEST fa CAMINO, SUITE 352 SACRAMENTO, CA 95833 1-800-4 2 CORVA EXT 4 2 FAx (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS DAVE VAN DEREN 2405 BAKER AVE. EVERETT, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (All euents at Hannigan race track, BeUingham, WA C1T Thurston Count)' ORV Park, Ol1mPia, WA) DAKAR RALLY DARREN SKILTON BAJA AUTOMOTIVE ADVENTURES 455 E. OCEAN BLVD., SUITE 208 LoNG BEACH, CA 90802 (562) 755-2278/FAX: (562) 590-7925 Baiaautomotive@Yahoo.com DEcATIJR FoUR WHEEL DRIVE CuJB DECATUR, TX 76234 TOM ALLEN (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 DESERT STEEL MoTORSPORTs 1865 CoMMANDER DRIVE LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ 86403 (520) 855-6125 EASTERN OFP-RoAD RAcING AssN. TOM DELAUDER, SR. 1091 TOWNSHIP LINE ROAD WELLSVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 f.NsENADABAJA OFF ROAD RACING Av. REFORMA 1136 ENSADA, BC, MX 011-52-646-1818989 Eus1O Ol 1-52-646-1715230 AARON August 3-5, 2002 Corona-Budweiser/ Home Saga Ensenada 300 Above Races fC1T buggzs & Motorcycles EsrERo BEACH INn:RNATIONAL SHORT CoURSE RACING VICTORIA GALINDO ENSENADA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO 011-526-176-6225 FORDA FLoRIDA OFF ROAD DRIVER'S A.s:s-N. JASON LEIBIN (727) 376-4176 July 13, 2002 August, 2002 TBA September 14, 2002 November 17, 2002 Mar, Apr, May, Nou at Davidson Raceway FRT MoroRSPORTS 250 KENNEDY, #2 CHULA VISTA, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 E-MAIL: FUD9@cox.net Motorcycles, ATVs & Dez Superlites MX And OH Road Short Course (All at Imperial Valley Expo, Imperial, CA) 2002 Buggies & Trucks CorkyMcmillin Companies Superstition Championship Series August 10-11, 2002 CODE/FRT Tecate, Baja California Mexico October,19,2002 Superstition 250 Plaster City East December 31, 2002 Dunaway Dash Plaster City West Motorcydes, ATV's & Desert Superlites July 14, 2002 Desert Sprint July 27, 2002 C/M Nice Team Race August 10-11, 2002 Lazo de Amistad Gran Prix August 25, 2002 Sweethearts Kiss S~ptember 21, 2002 Thunder In The Valley Imperial Valley Fairgrounds September 29, 2002 Cheese Burger 100 Octobel' 19, 2002 July 2002 Superstition 250 XIX November 2, 2002 Thunder In The Valley Imperial County Fairgrounds November17,2002 Notorious Dawg 3 Hour Team Race December 1, 2002 Rudolph's Revenge Desert Gran Prix December 8, 2002 Thunder In The Valley Imperial County Fairgrounds December 31, 2002 Dunaway Dash GORRA GEORGIA OFF ROAD RACING AssOCIATION 4 20 HOSEA ROAD LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 GPORRA GREAT PLANES OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION PAUL HUFFMAN ( 402) 296-4 349 JESS URWIN (402) 944-2193 June 29, 2002 York,NE July 30 Nebraska Raceway Park August 3, 2002 Nebraska Raceway Park August 17, 2002 Nebraska Raceway Park Septemberl4,2002 TBA AU races are short course, stlldii,m style. Classes -Sportsman Buggy, 1/2/ 5-1600, Sport Truck and Quads. Nebraska Raceway Park is just minutes west of Omaha, NE. <www .gporra.com> 10K FoUR WHEELERS P.O . Box 36 CLEVES, OHIO 45002 (AU events staged at the cli,b grounds in Cleties. Ohio) INTERNATIONAL ICE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 ST. PAUL, MN 55108 STEVE BEDDOR (612) 937-3816/FAx 474-2769 lNTER-SHows MoTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INc. P.O. Box 2910 MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 }EEPSPEED RACING FOR STREET LEGAL JEEP CHEROKEES 1826 N. WINDES DRIVE ORANGE, CA 92869 (714) 538-7434 <www.Jeepspeed.com> e-mail: leepspeedcom@aol.com KAMLooPS BRONCO BUSTER 4wnCLUB P.O. Box 465 l<AMLOOPS, BC, CANADA VZG5L2 Boa (250) 374-7175 DA.YS RANDY (250) 579-9621 EVES. WES (250) 351-2819 LAS VEGAS SANDSPORTS & 0FFROAD EXPO (626) 961-3782 <www .prerunners.com> <www.megashow.com> L.I.T.R.E. ]EFFfaROD (408) 926-0522 ]IM ARUTA ( 408) 24 7-4402 MAMAluurA OFF RoAD RACING · LUIS CARLOS ALVAREZO PANAMERICANA AVE #5105 Co. JUAREZ, CHIH., MX Oll-52-i637-lW MxcmGAN Buoov BUIIDERS DUNE BUGGY TRADE SHOW (517) 543-7214 <www.buggybuilders.com> MicmGAN OFF RoAD CIIAMPIONSHIPS M. T .B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 ]ONES ROAD GRAND LEDGE, ML 48837 (517) 627-6200 July 28, 2002 Mason,Ml MotC1Tcycles, Quads, ATVs and Pilots onlz MAORA MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION MIKE TURNER (217) 235-2473 P.O. Box 184 MATTOON, IL 61938 <www.maoraracing.com> LINCOLN TRAIL MOTORSPORTS PARK CASEY, IL (217) 932-2041 <Off Road Playground.com> (800) 555-3167 TODD AsHWORTH (217) 932-3216 PLANET X-TREME MSP MASON, IL 618-686-2650 Short Course Series 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 MoJA VE DF:sERT RACING 1853 PARKWAY DRIVE S. EL MONTE, CA 91733 (626) 442-9320/(626) 579-6051 FAX E-MAIL: mdrracing@aol.com June 21-22, 2002 Johnson Valley 400 Lucerne Valley, CA August 9-10, 2002 California 200 Lucerne Valley, CA September 27-28, 2002 Lucerne 300 Lucerne Valley, CA November 22-23, 2002 Stoddard 250 Barstow, CA M.O.R.E. HIGH DESERT CHAMPIONSHIP P.O. 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) 7 30-9221 MoToWEST WINTER TRIALS SERIES BILL MARKHAM (909) 860-1857 <www.lTStrials.com> AU events at Perris RacewaJ (At Reed Vallez with a school) NATIONAL Muo RACING AssN. RT. #l -Box 380 DAVE OR MARLENE RYAN PALATKA, FL 32177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK AssN. BUTCH CHAPIN MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS 1404 EAST 3RD STREET HASTINGS, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 NORTHERN Omo OPP RoAD RACING AssN. GARY WULFF (724) 283-2678 OFF ROAD EXPO 2002 (626) 599-8622 October 5-0, 2002 Fairlpex, Pomona, CA Omo OFF RoADERS INc. 1427 GOSHEN HILLS ROAD S.E. NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO 44663 )IM KENDEL (216) 339-4674 AU races held at Harrison Councy Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONT ARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION RICK TICHBOURNE, PUBLIC RELATIONS (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) OuTLA w SEVEN PrcKUP Dusty Times

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9269 UMMELMAN ST. LOUIS, MO 63123 (314) 631-8140/FAX: ((314) 631-1921 PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP 495 N. COMMONS DRIVE AURORA, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100 <www.usoff-road.com> PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 PINE BARRENS ROUGH RIDERS OFF ROAD RACING SAND DRA~ Tuff TRI.CKS, .lJEsERr SHORT CouRSE TRUCKS, BtxnES & QuADS (609) 660-0402/(609) 660-0066 September 7-8, 2002 Septemberl5,2002 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~. 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 50 RICKETTS, IA 51460 (712) 679-2221 S.C.A.T. INc. MICHAEL R. ICING P.O . Box 277 MORRISONVILLE, NY 12962 (518) 561-3208/(518) 236-7897 SAN DIEGO OFF ROAD EXPOSITION (888) 836 7918 SCCA PRORALLY SERIES SPORTS CAR CLUB OF AMERICA 9033 E. EASTER PLACE ENGLEWOOD, CO 80112 (303) 967-9660 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, SUITE 200 AURORA, lL 60504 (630) 566-6100/(630) 556-6180 FAX SCORE SCORE INTERNATIONAL 23961 CRAFTSMAN Ro., SuITE A CALABASAS, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/FAX: (818) 225-8102 July 11-14,2002 Terrible's 250 Henderson, NV September 13-14, 2002 Las Vegas Primm 300 Primm,NV November 20.23, 2002 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 Baja, California Mexico SNORE SOUTHERN NEVADA OFF ROAD ENTHUSIASTS P.O. Box 270516 LAs VEGAS, NV 89127 (702) 452-4522 July 26-27,2002 KC Midnight Special Boulder City, NV October 4-5, 2002 Gold Coast 32nd SNORE 250 Las Vegas, NV Dusty Times November 15-16, 2002 Western States Championship Barstow, CA December 14-15, 2002 Baja 250 Las Vegas, NV SONS OF THUNDER 4 WHEELERS RACE DIVISION KEITH STEWART (714) 522-1899 SODA SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD DRIVERS AsSOCIATION TERRY WOLFE 7839 W. NORTH AVENUE WAUWATOSA, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA SOUTHEASTERN OFF RoAD CHALLENGE STEVE RULE (800) 313-5621 OR((770) 963-0252 MIKE MOORE-(224) 272-5400 OFF RoAD RACING ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERED SERIES PRESIDENT -GEOFF LEE 1243 TRICE ROAD LEBANON, TN 37087 (615) 453-5830 CLASS REP. - 1/2-1600 BRUCE MEYERS (865) 453-1005 CLASS REP. -9 & UN LTD. MICHAEL MOORE (334) 271-7035 0 UTLAWREP. DON PONDER (314) 631-8190 (All Races at Wheeling in the Omnty 900 Acres) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TIMING ASSOCIATION & BONNEVILLE NATIONALS, I.Ne. 43807 40TH STREET EAsT LANCASTER, CA 93535 (MON-FRI 8:30 A.M. TO 1:00 P.M.) (661) 946-6986/FAX:(661) 946-6483 INTERNET: <http://scta-bni.org> SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE OFF RoAD RACING AssN. 4305 WOOTLARK DRIVE TAMPA FL 33624 (813) 962-2857 (AU Races at Eastba;, Raceway, Tampa, FL) SUPER SERIES (PTY) LTD. P.O. Box 706 PARKLANDS, 2121 SOUTH AFRICA (011)788-5138 FAx (011 ) 880-2170 ToYs FoR ToTs (619) 252-1197 /(619) 252-3093 UNADILLA VALLEY SPORTS CENTER P.O. Box 5119 EDMESTON, NY 13335 (606) 965-8784/FAX: (606) 905-8784 <www.unadillamx.com> VORRA OFF ROAD RACING P.O. Box 3362 CARSON CITY, NV 89702 (77 5) 246-5545/(77 5) 246-9089 FAX <www.VORRA.com> July 13-14, 2002 Fallon 250 Desert Race Fallon, NV August JI-September 1-2, 2002 Lovelock 250 Desert Race Lovelock, NV September 21-22, 2002 September Sizzler Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA October 12-13, 2002 October Land Rush Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA October 26-2 7, 2002 Fall Finale + Mechanics & Ladies Race Prairie City SVRA Sacramento, CA VICENTE Gm=luu:Ro OFF RoAD CuJB PROFO. CENOVIO GAMBOA Oll-52-616-6-21-91 (2-6 P.M.) WFSTERN OFF ROAD RAaNG AssoaAnON LARRY HENDERSON (604) 538-0692 WORRA P.O.Box 3241 SUMAS WA 98295 w~ i>ENNSYLVANIAWHFE. To Wm:a OFF ROAD RACING PATRICK McGUIRE P.O. Box 376 ADAMSBURG, PA (412) 527-6556 WfilPLASH MoTORSPORTS 2325 E. 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U.S. HWY 45 OSHKOSH, WL 54901 (414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP XTREME INTERNATIONAL 1863 COMMANDER DRIVE LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ 86403 (520) 855-RACE/(520) 855-2208 BAJA OFFICE: 011-526-6225 zr. PROMOTIONS RENE MONTANO P.O. Box 2122 CALEXICO, CA 92231 Gran Prix August 4, 2002 September 1, 2002 October 20, 2002 OHRoad October4-6, 2002 Las 200 (MXL) November 29-30, 2002 Mexicali-San Felipe 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 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 happen to be on your club mailing list. Don't call, but mail your 2002 schedule as soon as possible for listing in this column; it could bring you sorne extra entries! Mail your race or rally schedule to: 000"7i.1muo 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 July 2002 Trail Notes ... Checkered Flag Fiesta from 8pm to 2am featuring refreshments and race videos. Admission is $5 in advance, $10 at the door. Sunday, the Awards Brunch at Terrible's Hotel/Casino followed by the awards. Whew! If you need more info call SCORE at 818-225-8402. ABOOK FOR ALL SEASONS -We ran across Backcountry Adventures the other day, a book written for any and 11 with any kind of a sport utility vehicle and a wee bit of adventure in their soul, this book is a must! The Southern California edition is 640 pages of the most precise, informative descriptions of every trail, railroad, town, ghost town that you have ever heard or read about and there are plenty of descriptions in this book that I know you've never heard of! All on fine glossy paper with loads of pictures and map drawings, and, get this, there are OPS coordinates almost every step of the way. The Southern California edition covers the area from Bishop to Monterey and all the way south to the Mexican border. 150 trails are detailed in the book and Dusty Times feels it is well worth having for your weekend off road driving pleasure. This is the best buy we've seen in a long time and it should be in your home. Backcountry Adventures: Southern California is available at local bookstores, map shops, 4WD stores and sporting goods stores for a measly $34.95. You may also contact the Publisher: Swagman Publishing, 800-660-5107 or at www.4wdbooks.com. S USQUEHANNOCK TRAIL RALLY -The fifth rally of the 2002 season, the SCCA ProRally Susquehannock Trail Rally gets going on June 1 in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. All of the big names and current point leaders will be in attendance on this very grueling course, especially known for lots of dust and a 1nost famous water crossing. In the Open class some of the entrants are: Seamus Burke, David Higgins, Paul Choiniere, Mark Lovell, Mark Higgins, Karl Scheible, Ramana Lage1nann, Rhys Millen and many, many more. It should be a very interesting rally. Hopefully there will be a full report and pictures in the next issue of Dusty Times. MORE SCORE NEWS -Just in over the transom, SCORE announced that Optima Batteries will be the title sponsor for the 2002 Optima SCORE Desert Series. Natch, the Optima battery will be the official battery of SCORE. Another hot SCORE flash is that Ford Trucks have become the official vehicle for the 2002 Optima SCORE Desert Series. And, last but not least SCORE announced that the Primm race, September 13-14, 2002 is once again co-sponsored by The Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority, Las Vegas Events and Primm Valley Resorts. TIYOTA MILESTONE & TRUE GRIT AWARDS -For the past 6 years Toyota has given the Toyota Milestone Award o the off road competitors who complete every required mile in the SCORE series. There are four races yet to complete. Non-factory backed competitors in 1600, 5, 10 and SCORE Lites who complete every required mile in the series and have the largest cumulative point total split the $12,000 Toyota True Grit prize fund. There are still 35 drivers eligible, some of whom will no doubt be out of the running after the Baja 500.Stay tuned to this column and as soon as we get an update from Toyota you will see it here. BI-NATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE -You will find an advertisement in this issue for this emergency medical service. Bi-National is there to help you if you become sick or injured while traveling in Mexico. They will facilitate your safe return to the US via air or ground ambulance. A small annual membership fee is all that's required. Check into it! · RIM OF THE WORLD RALLY -The "Rim" crew always tries to see how much money they can make for the local "Antelope Valley" charities and this year was no exception. Hyundai auctioned a Mongoose Mountain Bike, Subaru contributed to the Petter Solberg ride which was an auctioned ride with him and there were charity rallysprint rides and Michelin donated a set of tires for auction and, when the day was over the South Antelope Valley Emergency Services Food Bank and the Healthy Start School Intervention Program were· richer by more -than $5000. Good Show! ANOTHER BOXER LAND GRAB -The Sierra Club's best friend, Barbara Boxer is at it again. Unhappy with the 14,000,000 acres of California already designated as wilderness and therefore off lim.its to horses, bicycles, grazing, logging, mining, oil drilling and, of course, any and all off road activity and other commercial development, our Babs wants to add another 2,500,000 acres to the pot! 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• TECATE SCORE BAJA 500 Herbst & Roeseler Team To Win By Judy Smith Photos: Trackside Photo Jerry Penhall and L. J. Kennedy teamed in their Penhall, to have a near-flawless day and take the victory in SCORE Lite by about a half-hour. Troy Herbst and Larry Roeseler pooled their considerable talents for the Baja 500 and it proved to be a winning combination. Even a scary, near-disastrous moment when Herbst came face to face with on-course traffic couldn't slow the duo enough to lose them the race. The Smithbuilt Ford powered Truggy had an untroubled day for the most part, but finished the tight race only seven minutes in front of the second place vehicle. With the biggest entry since 1990, this edition of the Baja 500 brought huge, colorful crowds to Ensenada for the traditionally noisy and crowded contingency day in the vacant lot across from the Riviera Convention Center. The weather, while threatening a tropi-cal storm, decided to cooperate, and mild temps and gentle breezes were the norm for the weekend. Even the usual springtime early m.ornirig fog sat offshore for the most part. The course started in front of the Convention Center and then finished at the northeastern out-skirts of town, after traversing some 473.6 miles of Baja's best. There has been little rain in Baja and the course was dry and dusty except for a couple of places where the booby-trappers were at work. The course turned off the highway onto the old, familiar road up to Mike's Sky Ranch at about Race Mile 140. About a quarter mile into the dirt the locals had opened a six-inch pipe and flooded the course. It was flooded during the pre-run a week before, and then they turned it on again a day or so before the race and just let it run. It had the antici-pated effect. And in what amounts to the same neighborhood, though it was many miles later on the race course, the locals had dammed up the river crossing just before Simpson's Ranch on the way down from Mike's. What had been a mere trickle pre-running became a six foot deep pond on race day. Just some of the exigencies of racing in Baja. Otherwise, it was racing as usual. From Ensenada, northeast into Ojos Negros, then a bit south to-wards Tres Hermanos and back to and across Highway 3 at Cerro Colorado. Then they paralleled the highway to the infamous "Goat Trail" where they dropped down onto the highway on the outskirts of Valle Trinidad. The racers turned off the highway at Mike's Road, splashed through the flood and ran up to Mike's and beyond, crossing the San Telmo Road east of Meling's Ranch, then turning westward to Santa Cruz and gradu-ally curving northward and again crossing the San Telmo Road. Then they picked up the old road up to Mike's that came in from the west, past El Coyota, anc;l at the turn off toward Simpson's, dropped down the hill, across the river and gradu-ally ran downhill to the outskirts of Valle Trinidad, near the power station. After that they headed downward and westward, crossing Highway 1 at Llano Colorado, and following the road out to the beach, where they turned north, through Ensenada. A little more beach running brought them to the fine, winding road up into Santo Tomas, then there was a brief pave-ment run to Uruapan, where they turned back into the dirt. After that it was tight and technical through Tres Hermanos, then back into Ojos and a 63 mile return trip on the same road that went out-bound in the morning. There was a 20 hour time limit. The bikes and quads were started off at 6:00 a.m., and the cars went at -uh, well, the cars went ~ at 7:30. But for a variety of rea-sons, some folks, about half of them evidently, thought that the cars wouldn't start until 8:00 a.m. Stag-ing was a little hairy as the first three Trophy Trucks were lining up on the ramp, the next three sched-uled to leave were threading their way through a hundred miscella-neous buggies and trucks as their occupants hurriedly buckled seat belts and strapped on their helmets. More of the same. was g9ing on fur-ther back in line. The staging crew was kept unusually busy, trying to fit the latecomers into their slots. Eventually they were all safely off, some no doubt a little less relaxed P'l77lfil1D:'ITTW'l"""' The three-man team of Ernie and Larry Negrete and Victor Herrera seen here charging through the silt, had some bad luck, but still managed second place in the big 5-1600 class. Miguel Rosales and Edmundo Fernandez, both from Ensenada, had only one flat tire all day, and took the victory in Class 5-1600. than they'd have liked. No one try to drive straight down and out seemed to know how the mix-up the other side. But the truck caught developed -it was just one of those on something and rolled over five Baja things. or six times, landing on its wheels The Trophy Trucks took to the at the bottor;1 with a broken four road first, and three of them came link. He was done. Now Ibarra, was to grief early in the day. The Ford in the lead and he 'had three min-of Dan Smith and Dave Ashley lost u res on Herbst who'd come head-its motor, as did the Chevrolet of on into a local's vehicle while on Brian Collins. And Jesse Jones, the way up to Mike's. No serious who'd been to quote him "scared damage was done, but they'd to death" thanks to his number 1 needed some time to check things start position for his first race in a out. Mark Miller, driving another Trophy Truck, was also done in early Chevy Protruck turned Trophy in the day. Truck, ran third, pushing hard af-Amongst the survivors the lead ter having an early time consuming belonged to Ed Herbst in his Ford, brake problem. He wanted to catch and he was just 20 seconds up on up. And in fourth it wa's Stewart. Juan Doan:a in another Ford. In Scott Steinberger's co-driver, Dane third place it was Gus Vildosola in Cardone, had their Ford stuck on his handsome new Ford, and Craig a berm. After a while, said Scott, Stewart ran fourth in a Chevrolet they "became the berm," and it took Protruck-turned-Trophy truck, but them over an hour to get moving they lost a bunch of time due to a again. fueling problem of some sort. Mark They went down to the cool Post and his crew were doing a trans-beach and started back up into the mission replacement at Ojos Ne-highlands again, where, at gros. Uruapan, 372 miles into the race, When they'd gone up into the the lead belonged to Miller's co-mountains and back down again, driver, Larry Ragland. Miller had they were missing a few more com-pushed so hard to catch up he wore· batants. Vildosola was gone, as was himself out. Ragland had originally Alejandro Mendez, Darren Skilton planned to drive with Brian Col-in the Kia, and Glen Greer in his lins, but when that car broke he Dodge Greer slid off a corner and became available for Miller. Herbst got stuck on a hillside. When he and his brother, Tim, were now sec-couldn't get unstuck, he decided to · Continued on page 10 Craig Turner had wet ignition trouble with his Ford, then chased hard, Cory Susag and Doug Siewart plow through an early water crossing New to the Protruck class, Dave Sykes and Marc Stein had their only to lose time to broken parts 20 miles from the finish. He was on their way to the win in Class 7S in their Chevy Ford hustling right along, and finished the day in third place. _se_c_o_n_d_ in_ C_la_s_s_7. _________________ _ Pages July 2002 Dusty Times

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Arturo and Abel Velasco, shown here just starting their day, had only Nick and Larry Vanderwey and Curt Le Due dealt with a sick motor all a few problems with their Chenowth, and finished the race in second Gary and Marl< Weyhrich struggled with brake trouble but piloted day in their GMC Class 8 truck, but still finished in first place. p,__l_ac_e_i_n_C_l_a_ss_ 9_. ----,------,------,---,--,--------,--their Chevy powered Jimco to second place in Class 1 anyway. ond, a real feat since the truck had Scheeler, all from Las Vegas. First Gary Weyhrich, in a V6 Chevy spotted a boogered wheel stud and It wasn't long before word fil-been having ignition problems most to get there was the team of John J imco, in fifth place, recovering decided they had to replace it in tered back to the finish line area of the way and really ran poorly. Marking and Rob MacCachren in from what they called a "botched case Troy had a flat and needed to that Marking and MacCachren had Post was third and Steinberger was Marking's V8 poweredJimco. They fuel stop" a bit earlier. Lobsam Yee change the tire. He had been only a lost their transmission -actually it an hour further back in fourth. had 42 seconds on Roeseler in had lost his motor in that section minute down, but lost a few min-was the input shaft. They were out, Stewart's co-driver, Richard Hoff-Herbst's Truggy. ln third it was and the Mike and Robbie Groff utes with that pit stop. Then he lost and Herbst took over the lead for man, ran fifth, having a little prob-Andrew Myers in his V6 Toyota car disappeared also. Mike Groff a bit more when he came, literally, a few heady moments. After Herbst lem keeping the wheels on the Camry powered Jimco, another actually got in trouble at Mile 100, up against a non-race vehicle on hit the car, it was Hovey in front. ground. Both lbarra and the minute and 13 seconds back. Mark when he missed a turn, hit an em-course. It was a head on meeting, Then there was a long wait. And Bald wins, Jim and Joshua, were McMillin ran fourth in his V6 Ford bankment and broke his left wrist but, as with his brother, there were finally the first vehicle appeared at gone for good. powered Chenowth only 17 sec-and right finger. Passenger Barry no injuries or serious damage. Troy the finish line, and it was Herbst. Ragland had no problems and onds later, and in fifth it was Da-Beacham drove him to the El Alamo thought the front end might have Hovey'd had another flat, in the with a very good time for the final men Jefferies in Rick Romans' Type Road and his chase truck took him been banged up, but nothing came wash. Herbst and Roeseler, with a 100 miles, brought the team back IV powered Jimco. Jefferies was away for medical attention. ofit.Somekindofodd harmonics time of 2:13:54 for the last 100 in time for the Trophy Truck win. committed to the BITD race in a Beacham then went on, attempting were hovering over the Herbsts to miles, had taken the win. And the The Herbsts were second, about a few weeks in his Trophy Truck, but to get the car to Robbie Groff, who cause both of their cars to run head Weyhrich car came in next, sliding half hour later and still not run-hated to miss the 500, so he'd was waiting at Mile 209. But just on into non-race vehicles in the up onto the first cement chicane, ning well, and another 45 minutes rented his friend's car and was so-after Mile 180 he stuck the car on same event. and flattening a front tire within back it was Post and Whelchel. loing. the edge of a drop-off and burned In third at this point it was feet of the checkered flag, because Steinberger and Cardone were In the next section, up through the clutch trying to get out. Hovey, who'd just had a flat, and of their lack of brakes. ln third it fourth and Stewart and Hoffm.an the mountains, Marking and Mac- Now they hustled down to the in fourth, Myers. Mark Weyhrich was Myers, who'd had no problems were fifth, and the iast ones to fin-Cachren continued to lead. They beach, arriving there in the late af-who' cl taken over for Gary, ran at all, stopping only for fuel, and ish. had over three minutes on Roeseler ternoon, and hitting Uruapan, at fifth, struggling with a lack of front was justifiably proud to have driven The Class 1 cars went off the and Herbst when they came back Mile 372 at 3:30 or so. It was still brakes, a problem they'd had all the entire distance. Hovey, who lost line next, with 26 entries. Only three to Valle Trinidad again, at Mile 271. Marking and MacCachren, with day. Jefferies had got to Mile 280 about 18 minutes all together with failed to make it to our fitst unoffi-Chuck Hovey had moved up to Herbst's car, Troy now at the wheel, and broken a camshaft, so he was that flat, was fourth. And Alberto cial timers at Mile 132. They were third in his V4 poweredJimco, and in second place. He'd lost a few out, but the rest were all moving Coppola and Javier Zumaya, in a Pat Dean, John Gaughan and Kory Andrew Myers was fourth, with minutes in the pit when his crew along. For a little while anyway. Continued on page 12 Page 10 An Intimate Gem Adjacent to Bellagio, Caesars & Bally's ~.__'.J,.._._,____D,._ ~ @~~ Flamingo & The Strip 1-888-227-2279 barbarycoastcasino.com The Place Las Vegans Call Home1 .. West Flamingo & Valley View 1-888-402-6278 goldcoastcasino.com July 2002 Ask About Our Special Headliner Show and A Room ~ackages West Tropicana & Arville 1-800-675-3267 orleanscasino.com Ask About Our Room & Golf Packages ~ • _,..,_ .... 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George Seeley's day started out in the pits, but once back on track he moved along smartly and in the end took the Class 5 win. Toyota powered Chenowth with were fifth. Ron Brant and Richard "bad rear suspension", and a front Boyle, with a Chevy VB in their tire on the rear due to a late flat, J imco for the first time, were sixth Ti EBEA Scott Sellers drove the entire distance by himself in his Honda powered Chenowth, avoided trouble, and took the Class 1 O win by a half-hour. saying they'd had no brakes and Scott McMillin who'd had a trans-had a "lot of offs" but the motor mission problem at Uruapan and was awesome. In seventh it was had decided to let his teenaged son, Skyjacker Suspension·s brings 'Racing Technology' ..... to our 'Suspension Technology' ... or was.it vice versa? With a Skyjacker Suspension you can leave the co_mpetition in the dust or by the trail side. If you want the maximum performaf')ce from your 4x4, race to the nearest Skyjacker Authorized Dealer and join the family of winners today. Call 1.866.4 A DEALER Ext. 5005 or go to www.skyjacker.com for all the details you need to make a ·wise suspension choice. CONGRADULATIONS go out to Curt & Kyle LeDuc! CORR Series Curt LeDuc - PRO 4 Kyle LeDuc - PRO-Lite Edmeston, NY .... .-....... Second Place Win ........... Fifth Place Win Antigo, WI ................. Second Place Win ........... Seventh Place Win Page 12 . July 2002 Andy, drive the V8 powered Porter the rest of the way in. Scott rode. Mike and Kevin James were eighth in their J imco, reporting that Mike had spent some time" off the edge." Stuart Chase and Billy Robertson were ninth in a Porsche Chenowth, and in tenth it was Marty Melendrez, Rick Wilcoxon, Bob Bryant and Nick Gula who all drove their Jimco. They'd been briefly stuck in a ravine about four miles from the end of the race when they followed an arrow that had been turned the wrong way. Daniel Myers, with his dad, Gary, riding along, was 11th in the family's new V6 Chevy powered Jimco. (Their car had a windshield when it started, one wonders how that worked out.) They had run into a Trophy Truck, which broke a front shock and its bypass tube, and had done a lot of welding and reweld-i ng. And in 12th it was Dale Ebberts and Ernie Castro, Jr., who'd had a major fuel clog in their Jimco and were running back with the Class 9 cars. As a final igno-miny that wrong-way arrow suckered them and Castro got stuck in the ditch for about 45 minutes before his crew could get in to pull him out. They were the last Class 1 car to finish. The only other team to drop out in the final section was Larry and Miles Wyatt. The Class 10 cars were next. There were 23 of them, and most of them. made it to Mile 132. But Ron and Travis Brookshire, Jose Canchola and Tim Hayosh all broke before then. The lead at that point belonged to Steve Melton in a Toyota powered Jimco, and he had a minute and five seconds on Kory Kalopoff in his Honda pow-ered Chenowth. In third place it was Scott Sellers who was going to solo in his Honda Chenowth, only another 36 seconds back. Martin Christensen was fourth another 19 seconds behind Sellers, in a BMW powered J imco, and in fifth it was Ray Croll, a minute later, in a Toyota Chenowth. But the road up to Mike's and back proved to be the end for sev-eral of these guys, and not only did Christensen lose his motor, but so did Eli Yee, who had Doug Fortin as a co-driver this time in his Hon-da J imco. Also disappearing in here were Smitty Schmidt in his Honda Chenowth, and Richard Beck in a VW Jim.co, as well as Jay Culbertson. Culbertson was one of the original Wide Open Baja en-tries from the Baja 2000, and he had so much fun in that event that he decided to build himself a car and go racing again. When they'd completed that sec-tion it was about three in the after-noon and Sellers was in the lead. Croll had rnoved up to second, about four minutes later, and in third it was Mark Hutchins in his Toyota Jimco. Melton, who'd had a few flats, ran fourth, about 20 minutes later, and in fifth place it was Ron Dalke, in his Tatum. fn the next section Hutchins' co-driver, Danny Anderson, had chased Sellers down and led by about three and a half minutes. Sellers was second, having no prob-lems except a rock in his shoe, and he said he just "got comfortable with it." Croll was third, and co-driver Darren Ebberts was prob-ably driving by now, and now Steve Myers, who'd taken over from George Erl in his Toyota Jimco, moved up to fourth, while Dalke held fifth. Rick Ellison, who'd had early problems with his Chenowth, Dusty Times

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Ken Browne, one of the few tough ones to drive all the way, kept his Eugene and Dan(el Mora, a father-and-son team, shared the driving Steve Barlow, always a hard charger, splashes through a water Dunrite moving along smoothly and finished his day in second place in their Chenowth, and took the Class 9 win by almost 40 minutes. crossing here as he heads for second place in his Ford Protruck. _in_C_l_a_ss_ 1/;_'2_-_16_0_0_. ________________ _ disappeared in this section. Olivas, who had rolled their Hon- dad. He finished just two minutes Pflueger put his Chevrolet into the Sellers, who hadn't had any flat da powered Dunrite. And in 12th, and nine seconds behind him in his lead by Mile 132, but he had only tires even , recorded the best time it was Jason Hunter, Dennis' son, Honda-Dunrite. He was the last fin-12 secon~s on Alan Hogan in a for this class from Uruapan to the who'd broken an A-arm a:nd a isher in the class. Ford. Then, just three minutes and finish, at 2:24:35 for the 100 miles spindle and after lengthy repairs The Protrucks started right be- a few seconds back it was a tie, be-and took the victory. Myers, whos~ had run hard to try to catch his hind Class 10, with 11 entries. Alan rween Steve Barlow _and his Ford transmission kept popping out ~f gear, was quick enough to take sec-ond for himself and Erl, while Dalke was third, about four min-utes later reporting a good day with no flats or problems. In fourth it was Melton and co-driver John Herder. Melton's morning h ad been fairly clean, but he'd had a couple of flats. As he charged up that nice, wide, flat road leading from the beach to Santo Tomas, Herder's right rear wheel came off. The car did some fancy sliding, and ended up parked in a ravine. There were some helpful local folks there, and they tried to help him, but the studs were messed up and a couple were missing. He lost an hour or so. And when he got to his pit they spent more time running around to find some replacement studs. They still managed to finish in fourth place. And in fifth spot it was Dave Sundquist and Jeff Gei-ser, in a Toyota Jimco, who had only a couple,of flats and "went off the mountain" a couple of times. In sixth place it was Mark Hutchins and Danny Anderson. Anderson, who'd climbed up to the front of th e pack, said he d idn't kn ow exactly what happened , but he "ran out of talent" and ended up rolling down an embankment. He was there for a while. Then, along came Stein berger, late in his Trophy Truck, and he stopped to help. He tied a tow strap to the buggy and yanked it up to the top of the hill, with Anderson in the driver's seat to steer. Just as it got to the top the tow strap broke, and Anderson rolled over three times on his way to the bottom for the second time. Steinberger left him the tow strap and went on. When Alan Pflueger came by in his Protruck he had better luck and this time the tow strap held, and Anderson was back on the course. Letner and Halopoff were seventh. Letner said he had lots of prob-lems: he lost his brakes, went off a cliff and hit a tree. Other than that, he said, "it was good." He thanked his grandpa (Danny Lerner) and Henry for all their help. In eighth place it was Mike Williams in a Honda Meco, and in ninth, Sean Sessa in a Toyota Jimco/Geiser. Sessa said there was a five foot ditch that "got" him at Mile 40 and he lost a couple of hours. Rick Geiser drove the M.ike's loop for him. Jerry and Will Higman finished tenth in their 2000cc Type IV VW powered Kreger chassis. It's a good lookin' new car, with a snazzy body but they said they had a "bunch of stupid little problems, new car stuff." That's a familiar story. In 11th place it was Dennis Hunter and Lee Dusty Times 1st Place • All classes in which three or more entries compete. Exclusive use of product visible on vehicle with filters or covers installed displaying the lightforce logo. Claims subject to verification with race officials. e.d . · 11.Qhtweight polycarbonates for .. bility, Ughtforce performance brighter and more efficient e off-;,road Halogen light, Aq cus design and easy-to-use filters your light pattern in seconds to-r.ace-or pit-to-pit. This k~nd. help you finish the race faster ing our lights once· will prove to gend Rod Hall already knows .. , July 2002 and John Becker in another Ford. Only Ryan Herzog failed to get this far. He was out after hitting a ditch so hard it injured his back. In the next section they lost an-Continued on page 14 Page 13

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Kenny Stroud and Dave Richardson, seen here at the start, proved to be a good team, and they piloted their Jimco to third place in the SCORE Lite class. Troy Herbst and Larry Roese/er shared the driving in Herbst's Ford powered Truggy to take the win in Class 1, as well as the car/truck overall. Here they're passing Darren Ski/ton's Kia. other truck when Dan Hunt, al-ready about four hours off the pace, failed to make it. But now Hogan was probably in the lead, but our unofficial timers didn't get him written down. Barlow, who'd been stuck near Mike's was just four minutes in front of Pflueger who'd lost a bit of time. At the end of the next section Hogan had a 25 minute lead, and it was Barlow, who'd had a flat and some brake problems, in second place. Pflueger' s co-driver, Brian Stewart, ran third, another half hour down. . While the lead cars went on smoothly, the Ford of David Sykes and Marc Stein was having "all sorts of trouble", which included losing the power steering belt about 20 times. And Jim Stiles, who was hav-ing to solo this race because brother Jeff had shoulder surgery not long before the race, had no flats, but got himself high-centered on a rock. He was thinking, "I'm too old for this-." Gary Magness, who drove from the start to Santo Tomas in his Ford, was having a good day, as were Steve Knudson and Todd Burt, co-driving the other team truck at about the same pace. At Santo Tomas Wally Hrdlicka took over for Magness and Rob Kittleson took over for Burt. Then, when Hrdlicka rolled the truck coming out of Uruapan, Kittleson stopped to help. It turned out that Hrdlicka's truck had some-thing broken in the steering, and wouldn't turn as far left as it ought to. At the finish line the first truck to show up was Hogan, barely vis-ible through the post-sunset gloom, he rolled across the finish line with no lights. He never had any on the truck, that's why, he said, he "had to hurry." He was 14 minutes in front of Barlow who finished sec-ond. Pflueger and Stewart were third, another 45 minutes back, but were later given a technical [?Q for having the wrong brand of tire on the truck. That moved Sykes and Stein up to third place. This pair, a new team in this class, say they're enjoying the Protruck very much. Stiles, still mumbling about being too old, was fourth. Then came Knudson and Kittleson in fifth and Hrdlicka and Magness in sixth. John Becker was the final finisher, in just over 15 hours. Only three of this class failed to make it all the way. The Class 8 trucks went next, starting the day with seven trucks, most of whom had a hard day. Kurtis Kupiec failed to make the first 132 miles, and so did Beny HONDA Power Equipment POWEil 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 DONT HAVE IT, NO ONE DOES! Check Our Website:1.., __ www.Kawaguch-ihonda.com Canela in his Ford and Joe Patelli in the Chevy Blazer. But Nick and Larry Yanderwey got their GMC Sierra there in first place. And even they had trouble. They'd hit a bump in Guadalupe Wash and lost a cyl-inder. They didn't know if they could make it or not, but, prod-ded by Curt LeDuc, who was riding and has a "never quit" attitude, they decided to keep adding oil and go on. Said Curt, "it either would, or it wouldn't." Thomas Greer had his Dodge in second place at Mile 132, only seven minutes back, and in third it was Juan Lopez, another 12 minutes back. Dave Raimonde had his Chevy in fourth place, but he'd already lost an hour or so with some problem. Just before they went up into the mountains, Greer stopped for fuel. Due to some unnoticed malfunc-ticrn of their "gravity quick fill stand" his truck got only 36 gallons. Greer's co-driver, Ben Myers, got in to do the Mike's loop and took off. But he ground to a halt at mile 215: out of fuel. (Ed. Note: Our calculator tells us they were getting about 2.5 miles per gallon.) By the time his crew could get to him with more fuel they had missed the clos-ing time of the nearby checkpoints. That was the end of the Greer truck. Now there were only two trucks left running, because Lopez disap-peared in the mountain section HONDA Power Equipment 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 manual before operating your Honda Power Equipment. Connection of a g~nerator to house power requires a tr<!nsfer de.vice to avoid ,possible injury to power company personnel. Consult a qualified electrician. · ©2002 American Honda Motor Co, Inc.• 4--2<H>l .z_108 Page 14 July 2002 Dusty Times

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Ron Dalke and Rich Ronco had an almost perfect day in their Tatum, and even with a brief off-course excursion finished in third place in Class 10. Gordon Frevel, Pedro Morales, Ricardo Morales and Leopoldo Morales drove their 2200cc Ty IV powered Baja Bug to the win in the Sportsman Buggy class. John Griffin and Mike Sabbarese shared the driving in their AM General Hummer and won the Stock Full class in the time of 17 hours and 19 minutes. also. The Vanderweys still led at the second Valle de Trinidad stop, and now they had nearly two hours on Raimonde. And when they reached Uruapan Raimonde was gone. It didn't get easy for the Vanderweys and LeDuc because they were never sure just how far the truck could make it, and they kept stopping to add oil. LeDuc did the driving from Trinidad to the finish, and the team made it all the way, finishing in a cloud of steam and sm.oke, to get the win. ltwas LeDuc's fourth Class 8 victory this season (not all in SCORE events of course). The SCORE Lite cars took the green flag next, with an entry of 17 cars. Three of them were out early. Tom Ridings, his personal cloud of bad luck still hovering over him, was gone in the early morning, and so was Mark Kyle, who came all the way out from Texas to break down early in his Mirage. And Shad Kennedy's co-driver, Chris Wyborny had the worst luck of all. He didn't see a ditch, hit it at about 70 miles per hour, and broke his back. He was airlifted out to Scripps, and as we write this he'd had surgery. Some bone from his hip was used to replace the missing bone in his back, two rods and four screws were inserted, and the hos-pital says they expect him to make 100% recovery. Chris surely faces a long rehabilitation period and we wish him the speediest possible re-covery. At Mile 132 the lead car was Jerry Penhall's Penhall, and he had only three minutes on Vic Bruck-mann and/ or Brian Coneen in their Jimc~. In third place it was Steve Greinke and Ty Godde in a Porter, another 19 seconds back. Ken Stroud had his Jimco in fourth place, and Mike Cohert and Tom Schilling ran fifth in another Jimco. The mountains bit a bunch of these folks. Schilling lost his steer-ing box and narrowly missed slid-ing off that nasry off-camber turn that catches so many folks and the Bruckmann/Coneen team disap-peared as well as Greinke/Godde. Toby Gaerin and his Jimco also faded away, as well as Mike Voyles, who's back to racing after a long time away. Too bad it didn't last longer. It was like a new race now, with the 2nd, 3rd and 5th place cars gone. Penhall was still in front when he got back to Valle de Trinidad, and he put L.J. Kennedy into the driver's seat for the rest of the way. They had 24 1ninutes on Stroud, whose co-driver, Dave Richardson, an old Baja hand, had done the Mike's loop. In third it was Arturo .Honold, who'd let his co-driver, Alberto Medina, take the middle part. Honold had flattened two rear tires at Mile 35, and since he had only one spare with him, had been forced to drive the 20 miles to a pit on one of those flats. Medina Dusty Times had nicely made up a lot of time had a broken steering rack on his for him. Also having flats was ]imco and had lost 20 minutes with Morley Williams, in his Meco, but repairs at the first pit, was now in he was now up to fourth place, and fifth place, and he put his brother, he put Jon Kennedy, Sr. into the Derek, in to do the second half. driver's seat. David Deatley, who'd The lead three cars held their relative pos1t1ons through Uruapan: Penhall/Kennedy, Honold/Medina, and Stroud/ Richardson. But the Deatleys moved up to fourth with just four minutes on Kennedy and Williams Extreme Performance For Serious Off-Readers Full on off-road after Kennedy had a c.v. joint come out and take his rear brakes with it. Somewhere in this section Oscar Alfaro and Fernando Leon came to the end of their trip. Continued on page 16 · racing shocks featuring advanced· engineering with long travel, remote reservoir and externally adjustable bypass technology. ... from Bilstein These versatile nickel-plated, completely rebulldable shocks . are hot on prerunner trucks, buggies and recreational off-road vehicl,s •• Traditional Bilst_ein technology ' wil'1 applications for lifted trucks, Jeeps, prerunners and rockcrawlers. Patented 'Digressive',Valvlng System delivers full damping control jjJd a smootliride on any surface at aU speed,.;< > , ' \ · · When It Comes. To Otf-Road ... Nothlng Beats k8ilstein! ~ ,:::~·,, : , ~· ' See Your Neare Off-Road Qealer or Call: :,, ,,1'-.>_:, ·.... . July 2002· (. • RUPP BILSTEIN OF AMJRICA ThyssenKrupp ;\utomotive Company . ..., ""'i:.. -""; Page 15

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-~ C,,: .. -":\-{ 0 '"'':;':':-❖: ~--------~~---~--~-~-----~ Ed and Tim Herbst had a mixed bag of luck in their Ford Trophy Truck Brothers Jared and Eric Hardin teamed in their GMC Sonoma, to that had ignition problems all day. Here they're apparently entertaining Al Hogan, in a Ford Protruck, flies low over a bump, in a hurry to get to the finish because he hadn't put any lights on his truck. He took the win. make a steady run and take second place in Class 7S. spectators. They finished second. Penhall and L.J. Kennedy had a and unsuspecting, Eddy drove into had got a flat front and that put terrific day, marred by only one flat that long mud puddle, got the car him back amongst the small trucks; front tire. They took the win with all sideways, thought he'd roll, but and then he got into some dust, 40 minutes to spare. Honold and didn't, but did blast himself and tangled with a 1600 car and fell off Medina were second, just nine min-the passenger with mud and grit. the course even before getting to the utes in front of Stroud and Rich-Their visors got so scratched when pavement of Highway 3. There were ardson who finished third, after they tried to clean them that he fi-no big trucks there to help him back drivingthefinalfivemiles ona flat nallydecided todrivewithhisopen. up, but he tied his tow strap on front. The Deatleys were fourth, Then he got his eyes full of dirt and and a big crowd of spectators, their most serious problem coming sand, a painful situation. They were which looked to George "like Ro-from being stuck behind slower traf- having a good day for a bunch of man soldiers", pulled him up the fie in a tight area. Just behind them novices, and it looked as it they had hill and back to racing. To brighten itwasWilliamsandKennedy,Sr., a finish, but at Mile 455, with hisdayevenfurther,he'dhadtogo who'd lost a long time with the c.v. Sherrill driving, the power steering up the pavement with a flat rear joint/brake problem. Luis and suddenly quit. Then, immediately, tire. But eventually he got to Mile Hector Barragan, a team from the alternator light came on. They 132, in third place. Only Hector Mexicali, were sixth, reporting a figured they'd lost a couple of belts 'fei:-an was behind him, another busy day. They'd had two flats, and jumped out to put the spares half hour or so, and then Teran rolled over at Erendira and been on, only to find that the pulley it-didn't make it back down out of lost at that point near the finish self was missing. They were only 20 the mountains. where the arrow pointed the wrong miles from the finish, but their ra-Heger continued to lead way. They had been able to get out, dio had gone south, and they through the second stop at Valle lift up their front end and turn the couldn't call anyone, so when some de Trinidad, and now he had an car around while Ernie Castro friendly people in a 3/4 ton truck hour and 15 minutes on Seeley, watched in envy. In seventh place it came by and asked if they wanted a who was running around. Jakob-was Rick St. John and Adam Pfank-tow out they went for it. son had flattened one front tire, uch in their Kit Racing car. St. John Class 5 took off next, with four run out of gas and had a steering had no problems, but Pfankuch entries. They all made it through ram come unbolted. He said his had five flats and the posts had the first 13 2 m.iles, and Joe Heger back hurt, so he got ut atthat point broken off his battery. Ar one point was in the lead, with eight minutes and put Todd Sanderson in for the the Dale Ebberts team came to his on Mike Jacobson. (Joe was driving balance of the way. They were a half rescue and gave him a tire. They the old Outlaw car, which up until hour behind Seeley. were the last finishers. And the last about a week previous to the race Heger got out and Sean McCal-non-finisher was the team of Jeff had belonged to the Dondel broth-!um got in, and he continued to Sherrill, Ron Thomas and Paul ers. Larry McCallum bought it, lead through Uruapan, where he Eddy, driving their first Baja race madesomesuspensionchangesand had just 14 minutes on Seeley in Ty Godde's old Moulton. Tho-augmented the new black paint job, who'd broken his reverse gear when 1nas started and had an uneventful and took it to Baja.) An hour back, he fell off that hill, and was trying trip to Mile 132, where Eddy got after a discouraging beginning to to make no mistakes. When he got in. All pumped up on ·adrenalin his race, was George Seeley. Seeley to Erendira George was tickled to ,. Kash Vessels and Jason Hatz drove the Vessels Chenowth practically into the ground, but still won the 1/2-1600 class by 12 minutes. see "George Seeley" signs all over town. lt seems he has a friend who lives there who pits for him and his friend had planned the surprise. Sanderson, in the meantime, had driven off the road and about 100 feet down into a ravine on the way to Erendira. That cost him over two hours. Seeley kept going, but McCallum did not. Seeley, who reported that someone had fed him barbecued chicken and ribs at his pit stop on the· beach, took the win. He was four hours and ten minutes up on Jakobson and Sanderson, who were second. McCallum and Heger, after looking good for so long, never got there thanks to a broken pin-ion gear. The Class 7 cars started next, Rodolfo Gomez, Marco Guzman and Rodi Amaya teamed in their Ford to take the win in Class 7 even after changing a transmission. with nine entries. Both Jorge Mendez and Isidro Ochoa failed to get to Mile 132, qut the rest arrived in fairly good order, with Ernesto Cervantes in front and Perry Mc-Neil 32 seconds behind him in his Ford. In third it was Chad McNeil, another 15 minutes back. Craig Turner, normally also up front in his Ford, had done a Seeley and slid off the side of the hill early, then been pulled back up by a bunch of Ensenada fans. Gotta love those local fans! Rodolfo Gomez, Marco Guzman and Rodi Amaya had al-ready changed a transmission in their Ford, and were moving fast once again. But the mountain roads were treacherous, and both Cervantes and Perry McNeil disappeared, as did Rafael Carrillo, and the team of Rick Taylor and Hector Salazar in Taylor's Ford. Now, with only three trucks left running, the team of Rodolfo Gomez, Marc Guzman and Rodi Amaya was leading in a Ford, with Chad McNeil just un-der an hour behind them; and in third, Craig Turner, another half hour down in his Ford. Turner had got his ignition wet in the flooded section and lost over an hour be-fore he could get the truck running again. By the time they reached Uruapan, with Gomez/Guzman and Amaya still leading, Turner had moved up to within an hour and 15 minutes of them, and Mc-Neil was over two hours behind him. But then Gomez/Guzman and Amaya had no more problems (un-less you count the fact that they forgot to put a stub can on the car) and went on to finish first. Turner had them in sight at about 90 miles out, but then the lower passenger side control arm broke. By the time he had it fixed and got going again it was a close thing with the cut-off time. But he made it for the finish and second place, in 19 hours and 48 minutes. Tired and crotchety SCORE officials spent some extra time on the radio verifying the pres-ence of the first truck at all the ap-propriate checks, because, while they'd tried to save the stubs in their gloves and pockets, invariably, some turned up missing. The 1/2-1600 buggies took off next, and all but three made it the first 132 miles. Juan Naranjo and Mike Leung were two of the early DNFs, and the third was a gentle-man named Ramirez. Up at the head of the pack Brian Ickier was in front in his Jirnco, with Kash Vessels giving him a good fight, four minutes later in his Chenowth. In third it was Gus Vildosola, Jr. in his Jimco, only two seconds back. Alejandro and Leonardo Navarrete ran fourth in a Jimco, and in fifth it was Chuck Sacks. Vessels moved into the lead in the next section, with Ickier drop-ping to second, and Vildosola dis-Continued on page 18 Arturo Honold had some early bad luck, but with some help from co-Chuck Hovey did all the driving in his V4 powered Jimco, and except Cousins, Mario and Danny Ledezma teamed up in their 5-1600, and driver Alberto Medina, they got back in the thick of things, and finished for a couple of flats had a fine day going. At the finish line he was had a long series of problems culminating with a broken transmission, second in their Jimco SCORE Lite. fourth in Class 1. · but coasted across the finish line in third. Page16 ~uly 2002 Dusty Times

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John Marking and Rob MacCachren looked like certain overall winners in their VB powered Jimco, but broke very late in the day, to put an end to their hopes. Mark Miller drafted Larry Ragland to finish the day in his Protruck Andrew Myers piloted his V6 Camry powered Jimco to 3"1 in Class 1 turned Trophy Truck and the pair took the win in their slightly battered with a flawless drive. His family entered three cars all told, and appeared. Eric Duran moved his Chenowth into third place, only 10 minutes back, and the Navarrete brothers were fourth, followed by Steve Roberts in a Lothringer. Rob-erts had already had two flats and a roll-over, but the car was still in good shape. Vildosola had disap-peared, and so had Hector Na-varro. Vessels got out and Jason Hatz took over, and he had just three minutes on Ickler's co-driver, Dar-ren Hardesty, as thev reached Uruapan. Rick Boyer took over for Roberts, and he was now third, another 23 minutes back. The Navarretes were in here somewhere, but the unofficial scorers failed to note down their time, and Ken Browne now moved his Dunrite up to fifth. He was driving the whole distance. By now Victor Lugo had broken down, and so had Jeff and Mickey Quade, but we don't know what happened to either car. Things got busy in the final 100 miles. Hardesty had a flat and the spare had so much mud on it, that he couldn't break it loose, and was forced to travel a distance, and up a big hill, still on his flat tire. He also broke a throttle cable after Ojos Negros, and since for these guys it was good and dark, he Chevy. couldn't see to make repairs, since he didn't have a flashlight. So he just used his vise grips to jam it on, and headed for the finish. Hatz got to within 30 miles and something major broke in the rear. It was ei-ther a torsion bar, adjuster or spring plate, and the end result was a left rear corner only an inch or so off the ground, and a right front corner barely touching ground. He did not enjoy the ride from that point on. The Navarretes had a flat and changed it, and then went a distance and the wheel came off. They had to wait for a new wheel and tire to be brought to them. But in spite of everything, they got to the finish line. Vessels and Hatz took the win, Hatz grumbling about what a terrible ride it had been. Browne, who'd had nothing more serious than losing a "little oil", moved up to finish second, only 12 minutes later. In third it was Duran, who didn't stop to talk, and in fourth it was Roberts and Boyer. Boyer had nothing beyond one flat. The Navarretes had dropped to fifth place, a n1.inute behind fourth. And in sixth place it was Ickier and Hardesty. Sacks and his co-driver, Gregg Ryan, wer.e seventh" and re-ported being lost in the canyon that trapped Ernie Castro. Jake Man-camR._/i source for ra dCre • Driving Suits • Crew Uniforms • Crew Shirts • Polo Shirts • Team Jackets • Hats • GearBags NOW FEATURING: In-House Embroidery Driver Names • Team Logos • Sponsor Logos ess, Bryan Stuart and Thor Hansen took turns driving. They had an interesting day, what with a sheared spring plate bolt, a roll-over and a broken front brake drum. They bought a replacement front drum from a Mexican bystander. Man-ess, who hails from Colorado, was having a great time. They finished at about 1: 10 a.m. Travis and Brad Fletcher had flat tires and ignition problems and stuck their car off a cliff. But they finished in ninth place. And last to finish was the team of Lorenzo Rodriguez and Joe and Brian Jeffrey in a Jimco. This team of veterans lost a hydraulic clutch line at Mike 8, finally got a throttle cable and pieced things to-gether at Ojos Negros, then got a replacement part from Ridings at Valle de Trinidad and got the thing fixed. They were tenth, the last 1600 car to finish in 17 hours and 55 minutes. The 7S trucks got the green flag next, in a group of seven. Eduardo Diaz was the only one who didn't make it to the Valle de Trinidad area, but a couple of those who did were already struggling. Pepe Rod-riguez, in a Ford, had major prob-lems and took five hours and 44 minutes to get there. In the front of the group, however, was Eric 1.800.700.2350 • Fax 909.360.0436 3834 Wacker Drive • Mira Loma, CA 91752 Page 18 July 2002 finished all three of them. Hardin in a GMC. He had 21 sec-onds on Cory Susag in a Chevro-let. And in third it was Daniel Fresh, in a Jeep, who was about 45 min-utes back. He had an overheating problem, and was taking all the water crossings "full on" to cool things down. When they arrived back down out of the mountains, Susag was in front, with 27 minutes on Hardin. Fresh was third, over an hour later, and Bob Graham ran fourth in a Toyota. Rodriguez was gone by now and so was Alfonso Bernardino. Susag got out and Doug Siewart took over, and he had no problems either, and held on to the lead. At Uruapan they had 25 minutes on Hardin. Fresh got there after dark, and was happy to find that his truck cooled off somewhat after the sun went down. Mike Horner, who took over for Graham, was still fourth. And they ran that way to the finish line. Susag and Siewert re-ported a flawless day, without even a flat. Hardin finished about 36 minutes behind them, in second place. In third it was Fresh, and al-most an hour behind him Horner and Graham came in reporting a broken torsion bar somewhere along the way. Class 5-1600 was next to start, with 21 cars and lots of potential winners. A whole mess of 'em couldn't get the first 132 miles done, and we don't know why. But all of the following bombed out early: Roberto Jimenez, Hector Rodriguez, Enrique Avalos, Hector Sarabia, Sergio Hernandez and Jeff Holmes, Jr. Rob Taylor went into the lead, with three minutes on Vic-tor Herrera in the Negrete car. Miguel Rosales and Edmundo Fernandez were third, and Ernesto Armabula and his brother Adolfo ran fourth, with Mario Salazar in fifth place. Allan Gregory had tipped his car up onto its side, crum-pling the bodywork, before he even got to Ojos Negros. In the next section three more entries disappeared: Daniel Lopez, Oscar Galinda and John Castillo. Our time-keepers missed some of the cars going through Valle de Trinidad the second time, probably because so many were covered with mud from that flooded section that it was impossible to read their numbers. Nunez and Rivera were having electrical problems, and so were Oscar and Jaime Venegas, who'd also replaced a transmission. The Arambulas had shred of the foam that lines their fuel cell in their fuel lines, and clogging things up pretty badly. When asked how old the fuel cell was they laughed. Rosales and Fernandez were at or near the front, and so were the Negretes and Herrera, and the Le-dezmas. Mario had started and had gone into a ditch early and lost a half hour. Danny got in at San Telmo and had trouble right away. He had a front flat, lost a rear brake cylinder and when that was . fixed his starter wasn't working. He had to bump start it on a hill. Then he had a rear flat, and by then had no spare. So he put the flat on the front and a front on the rear to climb the hill up towards Mike's. Near Simpson's he finally got a tire from someone. Down near Santo Tomas he ran out of gas. Rob Tay-lor was running well in this section, also near the front. Itwasjustdarkwhen the leaders in this class came into Uruapan. The Ledezmas were in front, but Rosales and Fernandez were up there also, and so were Herrera and the Negretes, Larry and Ernie. They'd blown an oil cooler and had a new one put on out on the bench, and had lost four positions, of which they'd regained three by now. Pabloff and Fernandez had a flat and then their wheel came off a bit later. When they found it they-had to cannibalize nuts from the other wheels to hold it on. Fernandez and Rosales, both from Ensenada, came back home as the winners of the class. They had the least entertaining race of all, having only one flat tire all day. In second it was Herrera and the two Negretes, who'd had other trouble, but no flats. They were 45 minutes behind the winners. In third it was Ledezma, coming across the line quietly, pushing the car the final 100 yards or so. The transmission had been howling since Erendira. Also, the motor was losing com-pression in one cylinder, so he'd been babying it. But then when he was almost to the finish line the transmission locked up. Danny took one axle off-so it would roll, coasted for a while, then pushed it across the line and down to tech. He said it had been "one thing af-ter another." Pabloff and Fernandez were fourth a half hour later and followed in by Nunez and Rivera. Rivera had rolled ten miles out of Ojos, landed on his wheels, but it broke a brake drum and he'd had no brakes the rest of the way. They were sixth, 11 minutes out of fifth. In seventh it was Oscar and Jaime Venegas, who'd had little trouble after replacing that trans-mission. Allan and Steve Kobayashi were eighth, losing time when Kobayashi broke an axle. In ninth it was Ruben Gutierrez, and Rob Taylor, who led early in the day, finished 10th and last, only seven minutes before he would have run out of time. The Stock Full class had only two entries, and John Griffin and his AM General Hummer went into the lead from early on. Griffin drove to Mile 130, and his co-driver, Mike Sabbarese got in and went to Mile 271. They were having no problems. Jose Pitones ran sec-ond through Mile 132, but then Dusty Times -t

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Mike Jakobson and Todd Sanderson had a very long day that included Fernando and Mario Flores and Miguel Mexia were the only Class 11 Steve Myers and George Erl drove a Toyota Celica powered Jimco running out of gas and parts coming unbolted, but were second in team to survive, and they had a good day, without even any flat tires, to second place in Class 1 O about a half-hour behind the wifilning car. _C_la_s_s _5_a_ft_e_r _1_9_h_ou_rs_. ___ ~------------_to~ta_k_e_th_e_v,c::·c,_to_ry.~·--=c-----,-....,...,-____,,.--------=---:----=-c-didn't make it back down into Valle it to the finish, they'd had them Class 11 did a little better. There didn't even have any flats. They a half with some problem. He de Trinidad again. welded. In third it was Aguiar and were five starters, but three didn't were back at the finish line to take didn't make it back to Uruapan, Griffin got back into the truck Haro who'd had a "little prob-get far at all. The team of Alfredo the victory in 17 hours and 24 min-and Frevel, with his three co-driv-and ran until Ojos, where lemwithathrottlecable"andhad Chavarin, Gilberto Patron and utes.Andtheywerenotthelastfin-ers: Pedro, Ricardo and Sabbarese got back in and drove also been stuck on a hill back by Colt Meling (a member of the ishers of the race. Plenty of people Leopoldo Morales went on with to the finish. They had a totally San Telmo. They were 44 minutes Meling family which established the had longer days. no problems. They took the win clean day, and finished in a time of behind second place. In fourth it rancho past which the race course There were five Sportsman in the very good time of 16:39, 17 hours and 19 minutes (about was Eliseo Garcia and Michael ran), were early non-finishers, and Buggies, but two of them, Victor and reported ·no trouble at all. 2:20 a.m.). Ch rich ton. They had a different so were Dave Hendrickson and Lugo and Abraham Flores, didn't In the Sportsman Truck class There were two trucks in the driving pattern than most. Gar- Scott Pellerin, as well as-Pancho Bio make it to the pits at Mile 132. only Fred Bates took the green flag, Stock Mini class: Bob Land in his cia drove the start to Ojos, then and Sergio (Coyote) Gutierrez. George Jackson had his buggy in and he was sidelined before Mile Isuzu Rodeo Sport, and Chris went down the road to the turn-That left two cars running. Eric the lead at that point, but was 132 with sorne unknown disaster. Bainum and John Bosh in their Kia off to Mike's and caught the race Solorzano had his car in the lead only two minutes in front of Gor-There were no protests, and nci Sportage. Neither got even as far as car there to do Mike's loop. In at Mile 132, but he had only 13 don Frevel's 2200cc VW pow- CRB action, so all the results stood. Mile 132. between Chrichton drove Ojos to minutes on Fernando and Mario ered Baja Bug. Terry Stuart ran The SCORE folks are busy The Class 9 cars were next. Trinidad, and when Garcia got Flores and Miguel Mexia. And then third, but already an hour and a this summer, preparing for their There were 12 of them, and while down out of the mountains, Solorzano didn't 1nake it back to half behind. And then Stuart new Henderson event on July they all m.ade it through the Mile Chrichton drove Trinidad to Valle de Trinidad. The Flores/ didn't make it up and around the 11th through the 14th, in I Ien-132 landmark, they didn't all make Ojos, and then Garcia got back Mexia team had a good day. They mountains. derson, Nevada, and they're also it back to Ensenada. At that point in and went to the finish. Whew! did get "a little stuck" near San When they ca me back into already deeply involved in the Scott Johnson had Daren They had some brake problems, Telmowhen they had trouble with Valle de Trinidad the second time planning of the November Baja McGuffin's Mirage in the lead with but concentrated on getting a an ignition switch, but the rest of Frevel had the lead, and Jackson 1000 which will run from Ense-five minutes on Eric Fisher in his finish. And in fifth place it was their day was trouble free. They had dropped back an hour and nada to La Paz this year. .. -.1:&lw Garibay. You will remember that the oldest driver in the race, Ed McGuffin and Fisher made history McLean, at age 76, had only one by being the first tie winners in flat tire on his section of the race, SCORE history at the San Felipe then he handed the car over to 250 in March. In third it was Eu- Ralph Finisterre, who rolled it gene Mora in his Chenowth, an-when he got sideways in the other 14 minutes back. Arturo and flooded section. But he kept Abel Velazco were fourth in their moving alon·g, and eventually gave Chenowth, and in fifth it was Luis it to Rudy lribe, who had some fuel Guevara and Federico Montes in a pump problems, but brought it Tubular Designs chassis. · home for their fifth place finish. In the next, very tough section Behind them Scott Hewitt, Francis of ti~ course, Fisher disappeared Fernandez and the Guevara/Mon-which is very rare, as he almost al-tes team, which had been in front, ways finishes. Also gone were Tho- all disappeared, and failed to get mas McAdas and Tony Modica. to the finish. McGuffin's car still led, but Tommy The Class 3 cars were next off Dittfield was driving it now. He had the line. There were six cars, a good 23 minutes on Guevara and Mon-group for this class, but two of tes who'd moved up to second them, Barrie Thompson and Chris-place. In third it was Mora another topher Pit failed to make it to Mile seven minutes back. And the 132.OfthosethatmadeitOonald Velazcos were still fourth while Raul Moss and Kenneth Moss had their Aguiar and Miguel Haro had Ford Bronco in front by just a bit brought their car up to fifth place. over a minute. Behind him was Now they dropped down to- Casey Currie in a Jeep Cherokee, ward the coast and then ran north-and another 17 minutes back it was ward toward Erendira, Santo Billy Bunch in another Jeep. In Tomas and Uruapan. When they fourth place was Rich Severson in reached Uruapan it was 8:30 or the old Jeep that belongs to Grant later. They still had a long way to Randall. This was to be his swan go and it was full dark. McGuffin song with the car, and then it was was having no problems at all. He going back into retirement in was in the car, still leading, and al- Randall's backyard. ready past Ojos when someone big- Severson got out and put his sec-ger and faster than the Class 9 car ond driver, Phil In-Albon into the caught up with them, hit them hard driver's seat, and In-Albon hustled and pushed them into a ditch. The up the mountain, trying to catch impact broke the balljoints and the others. And catch them he did. shock on the left side of the car. He found Bunch heading back out McGuffin tried to limp in from of the mountains and obviously there, but about 12 miles before _ done for the day, and then a bit the finish the swing axle broke, and further along he saw the Currie that was the end of their race. team at the side of the road hold-Daniel Mora took over for his ing a set of jumper cables. And be-son, and even though his power yond Mike's was the Moss Bronco steering wasn't working properly, parked in the bushes. ln-Albon he moved into the lead and stayed knew he'd moved into the lead, and there. They hadn't had any flats he was delighted until at Mile 265 all day. The Moras took the vie-he broke a steering drag link. He tory, winning by 40 minutes. In was only about.three miles from the second place it was the Velazcos, power plant at Trinidad, where who'd had the front beam. bolts Seversonwaitedtogetbackin. But come off, and spent 20 minutes it was the end of their race also, getting a fix. Then, when they got and thus, no Class 3 cars made it to Ojos, just to be sure they made to the finish. 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2002 WRC CYPRUS RALLY By Martin Holmes Gronholm2 Peugeot4 Photos: Maurice Selden Marcus Granholm took the overall win at Cyprus, shown here cornering his Peugeot 206 on the dry {here) gravel course. Four in a row! After defying season, and, it gave Peugeot of their drivers held the lead, the rapidly clearing gravel con-their fourth successive 1-2 win but it all ended in.tears as three ditions on the opening three and greatly increased their al-times their cars ovenurned on stages and holding second ready substantial grip on the the first day and they finally place on the first day, Marcus 2002 World Rally Cham.pion-ended up with only two cham-Gronholm won the Cyprus ship. The event was supposed pionship points to show for all Rally, his second win of the to be a breeze for Ford, three their efforts. The weather con-■ ■ Page 20 ~SHOCK ...,-WX:HNO&OGY 714.530.B701 • FAX 714.530 .. 8702 10IIO::Z 71lA$K AV£, UNff A• GARDENGROV,Z CA 9,::,843 MNVtN'.kJngshodcs.c:o,n July 2002 ditions varied to the extrerne and Granholm was very happy that it all ended well, despite Ford's efforts. Gronholm noted, "I think even including last year's Portugal, the condi-tions on the second day were the worst I have ever met in European rallying." This was supported by his second place teammate , Richard Burns, "On one stage we were not driv-ing on mud, we were driving on water, but I think it is more exciting chis time of year." The Cyprus Rally, the fifth round out of 14 jn the World Rally Championship, comes into the second quarter of the series and yet was the first or-thodox gravel event of the sea-son and the first in over four months. It was the third suc-cessive rally in the Mediterra-nean region. Cyprus is the slowest event in the series, al-though last year's twistiest roads were not being used this time and this year's event was the shortest in terms of stage distance ever, though not in terms of the length of time the cars would be running at maxi-mum speed. Traditionally, Cyprus ha_s been the hottest event of the series, but now was run at an earlier date and to what extent it would be cooler than before remained to be seen. The six regular champion-ship teams had entered, but, as planned, Automobiles Cit-roen were absent. There were no special technical surprises. Peugeot, for the first time in sen '; 2.5" 2.5" --€1'!4~ recent events ran four works dlrs (gravel rally cade t driver Panizzi having the tea m s re-built test car). The pressure was on Ford, the winners of both previous Cyprus world rallies. Colin McRae's broken finger was improving and he planned to use an orthodox right handed gear change system this time (a special left handed de-vice was used in Catalunya, but he said, "Cyprus is a bad rally for someone with a hand in-jury, it is the worst event of them all for having to hold on to the steering wheel!" Luis Moya was back, .nursing his ribs that were broken in the first of Sainz's Cacalunya crashes, but he opted out of· pre-event test work. Being unsure of the weather conditions, teams came pre-pared for hot weather and the need to have special cooling devices. Subaru had an interior fan and changes were made to the roof scoop. There was still no news of a return to compe-tition for Makinen's co-driver, Mannisenmaki. Mitsubishi en-tered a third car at the last moment for Jani Paasonen, again at the wheel of a reno-vated rest car. Hyundai made a surprise fourth entry for their asphalt specialist Tomasz Kuchar, with no gravel driving opportunity at all. Skoda were using active rear differentials on gravel for the first time on two cars. This was the third round out of eight in the Production Car World Rally Champion.-Need coil springs? Coll King Shocks! We have custom and produdion coils in stock, and the experience to get you what you need. Call today! Dusty Times

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Karamijit Singh and Allen Oh took the Group N honors and were 17th overall in their Proton Pert. Tommi Makinen and his Subaru lmpreza took the third place overall position, shown here in dry conditions. Colin McRae and Nicky Grist drove their battered Ford Focus RS to sixth overall, a pretty good accomplishment. ship, and the only event in the series to have been selected by every competitor as one of their six qualifying events. This was the World Rally debut of Subaru's latest Group N Im-preza WRX, the Type GD Sti version, fitted with a specially homologated five speed gear-box, driven by Toshihiro Arai. More drivers had progressed from EYo VI to VII models, though some preferred the VI for this event. Both Trelles and Ferreyros opted for Vlls, be-cause of the shorter wheelbase, more suitable on such a twisty event. Hamed Al Wahaibi was a non-starter, his anticipated funds not being available be-cause of the Middle East cri-sis. Manfred made his first WCR entry with a Ford Focus and McShea was loaned an old version Group N by rally pa-tron John Lloyd;, Another Ar-gentine driver appears on the European scene for the first time, Luis Perez Companc. Championship-wise, pat-terns were being formed. Peu-geot started the event with as many world championship points so far this season as all the other 1nan ufacturers to-gether! Collectively their driv-ers have scored even more than their rivals, 60 points out of a possible 104. This was the first gravel event on which the new offi-cial FIA reverse order regula-tion was enforced and whereas the declared objective was to bunchy the top runners to-gether and reduce the need for unsporting ga1nes1nanship tac-tics, the weather had a hand. Ford mastermind Phil Short noted, "There are many un-knowns about this event. Firstly, people forget the effect of the double uses of stages, so the stage cleaning only takes place on some of the stages. Then the roughness of the course is bound to have its ef-fect. There are high chances of punctures and damage to wheels and suspension, not to mention the effect of tire wear and the softness caused by re-cent rains. Actually, I think the Peugeot drivers running at the head of the field might have an advantage under the rules this time!" · Leg 1-Six stages, gravel, 96kms. Finally 60 cars took the start, the first world rally in which every single car was turbocharged and with four wheel drive. It was Ford all the way, with three different drivers leading on the first three stages, before Colin McRae slowly started to inch ahead. Dry conditions nd rocky surfaces tested suspensions to the limit. Ford did not have every-Dusty Times thing their way as Sainz had a bro-joyed faster, if rougher conditions. ken driveshaft on the first stage and McRae was running seventh. Go-had to drive through the second ing well was Duval, running 11th and third stages in three wheel drive (he took the lead after Stage 2 but before reaching service. The stages was slowed by a spin). Panizzi rolled were cleaning and later runners en-his 206 on the third stage and was lucky to be pushed back on his mode, then on Stage 3 he lost four wheels, with only body damage. minutes with a broken throttle. At Makinen found his chosen suspen-the end of the first loop of stages, sion too soft and teammate Solberg Markko Martin, running 11th, was had a transmission problem which forced the car to run in front wheel Continued on page 22 GERMAN AUTO DEIST SEAT BELTS The greatest name in driver safety equipment. 4-point sand rail seat belt RACE BELTS 2"-5pointmount 3 • · 5 point mount SIDE COVERS IRS. 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Annin Schwarz and Manfred Hiemer were the seventh place finishers Kenneth Eriksson and Tina Thorner drove their good looking Skoda Francois Delecour and Daniel Grataloup drove their net looking at Cyprus, their Hyundai Accent shown here at high cornering speed. Octavia to ninth ·overall at the Cyprus meet. Mitsubishi Lancer Evo to 13th overall at Cyprus. . the surprise leader as he related his Com pane third. Manfrinato was tin had two flats but lost little time, matter of importance. nen was third, nearly a half troubles. "I drove 24kms with a driving all the time with the little while McRae's 8.4 second lead over In th e Production Car series, minute further back. puncture. I was astonished the finger of his left hand broken! The Gronholm was almost taken away Manfrinato rolled on the sec-The sky was clear and the mousse worked so well." It was only leader of the rally was also driving when he lost a lot of his assisted on.cl stage and was out, donat-conditions on the s.,tages were on the second batch of stages, us-with a broken left finger as well. power steering on Stage 9. Panizzi's ing the lead to Singh with the drying out after the rains of the ing the same stage again, that the Ferreyros had a misfire on the first crew found problems with the dif-non-championship driver day before. Pozzo had a front front runners had a better chance. stage but it cleared itself in short ferential but the car was going bet-Com pane not far behind in strut snap in half, Kuchar was First car on the road was Gron-order. Trelles started carefully in an ter, despite its damaged bodywork third. V alousek also retired and still overheating and had a flat holm who got going in the after-historic Lancer. Stage 3 was and Kuchar arrived with severe over-joined the back to the hotel that h e couldn't change as the noon stages and pulled up to sec-stopped after half the Group N heating. crowd. Singh was having shock jac k broke. Sainz again had ond, 6.9 seconds behind McRae at drivers had passed, when smoke Now came the afternoon of problems and 6kms before the power steering failure and the overnight break. from a forest fire blocked the route. the rains. No driver who left end of Stage 9 the shock to p Solberg rolled on the first cor-The Hyundais were going well The times for drivers who did not Limassol considered there was mount failed. Co1npanc arrived n er of Stage 17. The damage but Kuchar felt the car was driving pass were estimated but Singh was a chance ofrain on the next three with collapsed right rear suspen-seemed trivial but then a fire in rear drive mode, and three times angry that Ferreyros, who had stages and the"y left with cars sion. The race was now on for started in the cockpit and we he spun and stalled. Pozzo lost time passed through before the block-shod for dry conditions. the last position in the PCWRC found the steering rack was with his Skoda when there was a age was given a faster time. Fiorio Solberg was on a run, making category. After Barratt's damaged. Rovanpera started 17 transmission problem, eased by tak-retired with a fan through the ra-fastest time on each of the three troubles. the night before, she with four tires with no air in ing off the prop shaft for the road diator, the same fault affecting his stages, gaining a place, a stage, restarted the rally in last place, them. Eriksson had rear sus-section back to serv~ce. The teammate, De Dominicis. A d isap-and like everyone else, was hor- bu t then Harrach had a wheel pension trouble, a strut had Mitsubishi's of Delecour and Alis-pointing retirement was that of rified at the conditions they un- rim break, and lost 20 minutes failed and a driveshaft became ter McRae had the same problem, Toshihiro Arai whose Subaru Sti expectedly faced . Burns said he trying to remove· the remains, d etach ed, which in turn broke both had the front driveshafts suffered chronic misfiring. was aquaplaning for 5kms in the which involved having to dis-a brake line. Stohl retired, off break, both in Stage 3, and their In the afternoon, Ligato had his running water. "The w ipers mantle the brake. Then on the the road . transmission problems continued engine suddenly fail, and he retired. could not cope with the amount next stage he lost another 12 The big excitement in the fi-into the afternoon. Schwarz had Many drivers were concerned with of water." Many drivers had to-minutes when the fuel pump nal stages was the race for sec-two punctures with the tires almost tire wear. Sahlberg retired with tal wiper failure, such as Delee-failed. He thereby inherited last ond place, between Makinen coming off the dms but he didn't steering failure. Natalie Barratt had our and. Gardemeister. Martin place. Singh was now nursing his and Burns, finally resolved when lose a lot of time. a series of problems, a strut which had windshield heat failure and car, the alignment of the rear Makinen spun on the final Gronholrnbitsomerockstwice had broken through the top hearrivedatservicewithashat-sus pension was unpredictable. stage. Eve n though the sun duringtheafternoonandflattened mount, two flats and no brakes, tered windshield, th anks to a Trelles had a flat and stopped n ev e r s to pped shining in the left front tire. The impact holdingupSingh,whowasbehind truckthatthrewuparock on a to c h a nge it o n t he stage, Li1nassol, there wasagainheavy caused a horizontal crack across the her. O n the final stage of the day road section . As if th e condi-Compan c went off th e road and rain o n the stages. McRae then windshie.ld. Kankkunen retired Ferreyros crashed hard and was tions weren't bad enough, Pozzo retired as did Marrini. Baldini carried ou t his final indiscretion with a rock through the sump while flown to a hospital but was released had p ower steering trouble again was losing engine power. Trelles of th e rally o n Stage 19, rolling Makinen found his chosen tires were later that evening. M anfrinato was and Eriksson was still having dif-n ow h ad to make up time on o nce again and losing more than too soft. Panizzi was unable to drive ah ead, despite a broken b attery ferential troubles. R o vanpera Live , g·aining half a minute on two minutes, which dropped his car smoothly and eventually and some differential problems. rolled his car but spectators got Stage 13 and ending the d ay . him from second to seventh. On rolled and Sainz, on Stage 4 had Leg 2 - Seven stages, gravel, him upright again. M akinen hit 61.8 seconds behind, in third th e final stage he recovered one power steering failure at exactly the 116kms. This was the first day of a rock hard an d shattered a place. Singh was nearly seven p lace and crept into the points. same place where the driveshaft reverse order rallying on an ortho- · wheel. There was cam.age on the minutes in front. Of the 18 H ow M arcus snatched victory failed in the morning! Burns fin-. doxgraveleventunder the new rules 12th stage. Kresta went off the starters in the PCWRC , only will long b e a topic of discus-ished the day exhausted, "The heat and two drivers were hoping they road and retired, Alister McRae eighth were still going. sion. C ertainly the wrong pit just builds up, there is no air pass-would start to regain lost ground. had tranny troubles, Loix re-Leg 3 - Six stages, gravel, sign on Stage 15 led to McRae ing through the cockpit at all!" Ro-Solberg started the day in 16th (hav-tired with gear selection prob-89kms. It looked like a cinch easing his pace and placing him vanpera smiled, "Richard hasn't ing earlier fallen back to 34th) and lems, Thiry went out with bro-that Colin McRae would just under pressure to regain the driven the Peugeot very much, you Sainz started the day in 23rd place. ken suspension, and in all this, cruise to his second successive advantage. He then crashed on know." Solberg had a puncture on With Tuchino and Stohl relegated Colin M cRae pulled out a lead win on this event and Ford t h e n ex t stage and the rest is Stage 6, the end of a miserable day out of the reverse order seeding sys-over Granholm. McRae's lead their third, but, there can be history. For Michelin, the rally of rallying and Alister McRae had tern, the first driver on the road was was now up to 25.4 seconds. problems, even in the best or-was a fine showing for their new two more broken driveshafts. De'. Pozzo, with Solberg second car on The organizers canceled Stage · ganized camp. Halfway through OW tire. lecour had more transmission prob-the road. Overnight rains in the 14, due to have been the fin.al th e firs stage of the day, McRae In Group N, Trelles caught lems, with the rear wheels spinning hills had made Stages 7 and 8 stage of the day, so only one was given the wrong -interval and passed Live after three all the time. Martin found his car muddy, though 9 was dry. Paasonen stage .remained before the night timing informatio n and eased stages, and of the eight champi-didn't like turning left and Freddy broke his steering and was unable halt. Makinen tried some off for the rest of the stage. In- onship survivors, only Harrach Lobe twice had troubles with the air to continue and Duval had an un-changes to the_ ride height but stead of being 26.2 seconds in had drama, rolling his car. inlet duct, starving the engine ofair. specified engine problem. This led it did not help. The first eight front he was now only 13 .6 Baldini discovered his engine Gardemeister was delayed with a to a loss of oil pressure and the rally cars passed through 13 in the and it was time to try to re-problems were due to a faulty broken ALS system. Duval had the was abandoned. Pozzo meanwhile dry, but then a storm came and gain the lost ground in the five turbocharger and arranged to engine misfire on the last stage of had power steering failure. Mitsu-Martin was the first to tackle it remaining stages. Instead, he h ave it changed for the final the day and Schwarz was having bishi was in trouble, Alister McRae in the rain. Gardemeister broke overturned, rolling two times, three stages, while last finisher shock troubles. Paasonen had three turned his car over and Delecour a wishbone and hobbled into landed on his wheels, luckily, H arrach overturned but was more spins. Pykalisto retired his had anotber driveshaft failure. service. Kuchar's engine was still on the rally road. The damage able to carry on. Live fell back Toyota with gearbox failure, losing Solberg spun into the bushes on running, thanks to constantly appeared to be mostly cos-with an injured hand with three all hydraulics. Stohl drove on a flat Stage 7 but continued on. Maki-adding water. McRae led Gron-metic, but the power steering stages to go but reached the end for lOkms and Pozzo had differen-nen had an airlock in the engine holm by 26.2 seconds with four had broken and he lost a lot in fourth place behind Singh, tial troubles. cooling system which caused a stages designed to obviate tac-of time before reaching service. Trelles and Baldini. Only eight In Group N there was a surprise. power loss on Stages 7 and 8 be- tics, nobody gave it a moment By now Granholm had passed m anaged to make the finish, The initial leader was a driver who fore the crew themselves could bleed of thought, just getting through into the lead and Colin was and the first four were on Pir-had never rallied outside his home the system and regain full perfor-;:.th~e....:s~t:::o:,:r~1n~h'...'..a~d::._.:b'.:'._e=:e:.n'...'.._~th~e:.._:o~n:.'.;l'.;!y_.:::_5~0;::-:.:5'.........:s~e~c~o:.:n.'..:d::s~b'..'.:e::h~i::n~d::·__.::M~a'.:k~i-_ _.::e=l~li:..t~i::r::,e~s-:_ ____ ....._.-:I·..-...~-!, country of Argentina before. Luis mance on Stage 9. Loix stopped in Perez Companc led all the champi-the water crossing on Stage_8 , just onship contenders on the first stage, as he had done at the same place before letting Singh into the lead on Stage 4. He also had two tires for most of the day. By the after-nearly pull off the rims, just like noon Manfrinato, at the wheel of Schwarz had suffered the day be-an old Evo VI speeded up, and on fore. Eriksson had front and cen-the final s_tagt of the day went into tral d ifferential failure in the m iddle the lead, with Singh second and of Stage 9 and lost some time. Mar-JO'" Cyprus Rally 19/21.04.2002 Limassol (CY) WC round 5, PWRC round 3 1 (2) Marcus GRONHOLM/Tmo Rauliainen FIN Peugeot 206 2 ( 1 J Richard BURNS/Robert Reid GB Peugeot 206 3 (10) Tommi MAKINENn<aj Lindstrom FIN Subaru lmpreza 4 (3) Harri ROVANPERA/Risto Pietilainen FIN Peugeot 206 5 (11) P.iter SOLBERG/Philip Mills N/GB Subaru lmpreza 6 (5) Colin McRAE/Nicky GriSt GB Ford Focus RS 7 (17) Annin SCHWARZ/Manfred Hiemer O Hyundai Acc:ent 8 (6) Markko MARTIN/Michael Park EE/GB Fold Focus RS 9 (14) Kenneth ERIKSSON(rUla Thomer S Skoda Oc:tavia 10 (23) Gilles + Herve Panlzzi F Peugeot208 Page 22 July 2002 we points WRC 938NVB75 (F) 4h.21m.25.7s.• WRC 952NVB75 (F) -4h.22m.22.5s. WRC X27SRT (GB) 4h.22m.24.7s. WRC 344NOZ75 (F} 4h.22m.4Us. WRC PT02SRT (GB) 4h.23m.43.6s. WRC Y129XEV (GB) 4h.24m.11.21. WRC X15HMC (GB) 4h.24m.13.1s. WRC Y3FMC (GB) 4h.25m.48.3s. WR 'I-. 10 10 6 6 4 4 • 3 • 3 2 • 2 1 , WRC M8012-30 (CZ) 4h.28m.43.4s. • WRC 286NNN75 (F) 4h.29m.37.91. Dusty Times

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CODE SAN FELIPE, BC, MX GrupoTersa BFGoadrich 200 Text & Photos:Byrle Moore Elisandro Yee finished the race in less than four hours, first in Class 10 and a sparkling first overall as well. While most of Southern San Diego County and the Northwestern Baja Peninsula either put up with or worried about "April Showers", the last weekend of the month, Saturday, in San Felipe, dawned bright and clear. Not too many "May Flowers" in the hills and deserts around the race course, but with a variable breeze all day long. lt was a nearly perfect day, for racing. lt turned out to be a more nearly perfect day for some drivers than others, but all racers and fans alike seemed to have a great weekend. With 41 bikes and quads entered, and only 11 finishing for a 25% finish rate, it was a little less perfect for the smaller two and four wheel classes, than for the cars and trucks, which started 113 and finished 58, or a start/finish rate of slightly over 50%. This is one of the CODE races than combine M/Cs, Quads, witl1 the Cars and Trucks and Aaron Tuck, riding out of Brawley, CA was able to out last Sergio Vega, over from Ensenada to win the M/C Open Pro. There were less than four minutes separating the two riders.Tucks' time of 2: 16:53 also brought him the overall win for the bike and quad classes. Second place and second overall went to Vega with a time of 2:20:10. Third place in class and third overall in ilie division went to Steve Rich, from La Mesa, CA., with a nice time of 2:33:53 for the one lap 114 mile course. Fourth in the Pro class was Rodolfo lribe, who rides out of San Diego. lribe's time was 2:44:49 and sixth went to Alex Martinez, down from Mexicali, who finished in 3:52:47. ln the M/C c!~ss, 250 Bro there TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING, INC. SNORE 1999 Transaxle Builder Of The Year First Overall M.O.R.E. Badla.n.ds 250 TRA.NSAXLE ENGINEERING JEFF FIELD 9763VARIELAVENUE CHATSWORTH, CA 91311 818-998-2739 Page 24 July 2002 Miles Wyatt and dad Larry took the •Class 1 win with ease and were second overall in the 230 mile run. Luis Barragan finished on 3 wheels, was penalized back to the four wheel checkpoint but still took the Class 12 honors. were three entries and only two finished. Class winner was Pedro Penatello, from Fontana, CA; his time for 114 miles was 2:43:49. A little under 15 minutes back was Edgar Espinoza. Riding out of Mexicali, • Edgar's time was 2:58:38. German Martinez, also from Mexicali was the third rider in this class, but was dnf/ no time. l11ere were three entries in the Pro 125 M/C also, but here only one rider managed to get a time, and that was Tijuana's Tito Colon, who tdpk the class with 3:01:20 reading. The otl1er two entrants had no time. They were Nestor D. Castro, another Mexicali rider and Luis Santos out of Chula Vista, CA. Eight riders started the Quad Open Pro and five made it to the checkered flag. First in class and fourth overall in M/Cs and Quads was Arturo Salas, one of several rider-drivers out of Tijuana. Sales' winning time was 2:39:11. Second in class and eighth overall was Tito Buendia, from TJ with a time of 2:46: 15, and third with a time of 2:48:25 wentto Ismael Gonzalez, down out of Mexicali. Saul Bojorquez was fourth with 2:55:20 and fifth went to Oscar Mejia in at 3:10:03. The M/C Open Sportsman class had 11 entries and seven crossed the finish line for times. First in class was Sergio Torres out of Tijuana with a time of 2:44:31, second spot went to Manuel Salazar from San Diego, his time was 2:53:50 and one minute behind was Miguel Mercado, with a time of2:54:50. Mercado rides out of San Diego also. The fourth spot in this class went to Ocon Guzman from Mexicali, his time was 2:56:58 and Rene Magana, San Diego, came in fifth witl1 another under tlrree hour time. That time was 2:59:02. The Quad Open Sportsman class started ten and all but one finished the demanding sometimes-technical course. Adolfo Arrellano, Tijuana, crossed first in three hours, one minute and 16 seconds. Second spot went to Javier Rob !es with a time of 3:03:19 and Francisco Espinoza Rios took third with a time of 3: 10: 16. Fourili place went to Jose Selem with 3: 13:49. Selem, Rios, and Robles all ride out of Mexicali. Fifth and sixth places went to Mauricio Ojeda and Stephen Huff, both out of San Diego. Ojeda's time was 3:20:53 and Huffs time was 3:21:03. No, they weren't holding hands as iliey crossed the finish line. That brings to the close of the one lap section of the race featuring Quads and Motorcycles. Some of the earliest finishers were heading for the checkered flag, even as the cars, trucks, and buggies, were waiting for the green. These guys and gals were The Class 1600 win went to Dave Scaroni and Tom Watson who made the long run in just under five and a half hours. Dusty Times

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Jose Montoya came over from Ensenada and took the Class 15 win Class 18 only had one finisher and that was Ruben Godoy, shown Miguel Rubio took the Safari Class win, one of five finishers out of 12 starters. on a trouble free run to the checkers. going to run the same course, but they needed to do it twice and as stated earlier this wasn't just a Saturday drive. Not one of the classes had the same amount of finishers as starters. The first 40 miles were "forty miles of bad road". As stated before the course was technical and demanding like all races in San Felipe are, and the Grupo Tersa lived up to that history. In the PRO class, the Class 1 entries were all "good old boys" from up north. Four entries and three of them made it across the finish line. Miles Wyatt out of Brawley led the pack with a first place class and his time of 4: 13:46, was good enough for second over all. Remember, these guys did two laps and almost 230 miles. Wyatt reported no major problems and put his father Larry behind the wheel for the run to the checkered. Second in class and third overall, for the big stuff, was Josh Waddell, racing out of Holtville. Kirk Waddell, the team leader and the father of Josh said, "The transmission was making some very funny noises and we were leaking some fluid,.but because Josh nursed the shifts, and didn't power cut after each shift, we were able to make it to the checkered flag. Hey, we were glad to finish, let alone winning second in class and taking third place overall." Their time was 4:33:25. Speaking of finishing, the Riviera Racing Team brought their new trophy truck down just to test it out for the rest of the season. With Nick Baldwin behind the wheel, the team did several practice laps on Thursday and Friday just to get a feel for the truck and to work out any problems that might crop up. However, during the actual competition on Saturday, the tranny gave out around Mile Marker 27. They replaced the transmission and went another 100 plus miles only to blow a front shock reservoir in almost the same place during the second lap, they replaced that too and were able to finish in the allotted time. Even with the "27 mile marker jinx" they ran the course in 7:15:18. . The final Class 1 entrant Steve Scaroni, from Heber, CA, was leading in class and was also the overall leader, in his Pro-truck until Mile 80 of the second lap. At that point he overshot a tum, went into a small ravine, and managed several endos. Steve and his co-rider, came out of it with a few safety harness bruises, but were otherwise, all right. The same couldn't be said for the truck so it was a no time/ dnf. However, we can make a safe bet, that both driver and truck will return to the frays ahead. Three entries in Class 10 and two finished. Elisandro Yee, down from Tijuana continues his winning ways. H_is time of 3:59:52 was good enough, for not only the class win, bu twas also almost 15 minutes ahead Dusty Times here on his way to the checkered flag. of all others for the overall win. Yee, Wash, during the first lap, Lopez hit reported no problems, "Just a drive said tree. He replaced himself with through the park." Second in class his new partner ex-quad rider, first went to Armando Lopez from time car racer, Javier Robles, who Mexicali, who managed to find one quickly figured out how to drive while of only three trees in the Hustamote sitting down for the entire race. Their finishing time was 4:41 :37. The third entry was Eduardo Gonzalez, from Chula Vista, who blew a motor before Checkpoint 1 and was **n/t. In Class 12 there was only one entrv in the person of Luis Barragan, out of Mexicali. Luis and his co-driver were .having a nice ride until just before the finish line when the right front spindle broke. Thinking as an engineer would and not as a Continued on page 26 "The MD5 CONTINUES ITS WINNING WAYS IN 2002" Congratulations to the winners in Class 12 1st Place-Baja 500 1st Place - Terrible's Town Jerry Penhall Vic Bruckman/ Brian Coneen 1st Place - San Felipe 250 1st Place - Parker Arturo Honold * Utilizes same "Extreme Duty" gearsets as MD4-~D 100 % shot peened. * 100% CAD designed. All new billet shift heads and rails. Ball bearing shift housing. * Available now from all authorized "Mendeola Dealers." Mike Cohen/ Tom Schilling 290 Trousdale Dr. #J, Chula Vista, CA 91910 619-691-1000 www.mendeolaracing.com 619-691-1324fax July 2002 Page 25

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race car driver, Barragan had his co-driver get out and stand on the opposite side bar as a counter balance. They crossed the finish line in this configuration. Trouble is the CODE officials were still thinking like race car people and not engineers; they penalized Barragan back to the last check he had passed before the spindle problem. The car was dnf., but, since theywere the only class entry they won. :.:;.;_ ___ -"", .. ~,,~-....:.:.== ~~ ~ Class 1/2-1600 had 11 starters and six finishers. Another Scaroni, this one son Dave, out of Heber, CA kept the shiny side up and took the class win and ninth overall with a time of 5:20:01. Tom Watson drove the last part of the race and neither reported any problems. Second place went to Federico Regala, in his very first race. Regala, from Mexicali also reported a clean, no problems race. His time was 5:28:28. What is it they say about "beginner's luck"? Nice job Federico. Third spot went to Martin Juan Lopez, from Tecate, had a great day, driving his Ford to the Class 8 win in five and a quarter hours. Hats off to Michelle Gastelum, she flew around the course in her neat looking bug, took the Class 5 win and was eighth overall as well. Gonzalez, also out of Mexicali. The car was pushing oil out of the sensor connection and Gonzalez was forced to make continuous stops to replace the lost oil, but he still had a good Jason Jernigan came down from Imperial, CA to win the largest class in the race, Class 7 which he won by a mile. another Page 26 time of 5:41:35. The other three reported a great day, and won Class finishers were Guadalupe Perez, 8, even after getting stuck while trying 6:04:30, Hirum Duran, 7:33:45 and to go around Beny Canela's chase Gustavo Rodriguez, 7:46:08. truck somewhere in the Huatamote Juan C. Lopez from Tecate, Wash.Lopezhadatimeof5:13:20: ....-..;;_----------=-------.......c--.,, The 5-1600 class had nine entries and the win went to Marcos Nunez with a time just over six hours. July 2002 There was protest from another class entry (#504) about excessive nerfing, which cost Richard Coronado his second spot. Coronado's time was 5: 15: 13, but since he didn't appear to give his side of the nerfing story, the penalty and the bump to third place stood. Second place was awarded to Armando Bravo, who had been having overheating and brake problems throughout the day. Bravo's time was 8: 12:44. Pat Barbee from Holtville and Beny Canela from lndio had various problems and were n/ts. Three entries in Class 5 and only Michelle Gastelum, from Tijuana, in her new, completely redone car, made it the whole distance with a time of 5: 19: 18. This time also earned her eighth overall. Nor bad, for a girl. I only say this because l overheard part of Michelle's interview with one of the Mexica n TV stations during contingency/ check in/inspection. Dusty Times

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Pedro Penate/lo won the 250 Pro Class, certainly worth the trip down from Fontana, CA for a class win. Josh Waddell was second in the Class 1 conflict, third overall and Nick Baldwin did a shakedown on his new Trophy Truck, had lots of had to back pedal a bit after hearing some strange noises. problems but still managed a finish. Something about "being treated and respected as a driver not as a female driver." Well, when you back up your words with action it's easy to say, "Way to go Gastelum." The other two class entries were Conrad Diaz, San Gabriel, CA, who broke the transmission in his pink? convertible. Diaz was just happy to be back into racing after a four year break. Jose Guadalupe Collins from Mexicali, blew an engine, and was dnf, but should be back for the next race. Rafael Reyez, Tijuana was also a non-finisher. With a total of 17 entries, Class 7 was the largest class in the Grupo Tersa. Jason Jernigan from Imperial, CA out lasted all 17 with a time of 4:38:46, which got him the class win, fourth overall and the biggest payback of the day. Jernigan also took home $1,500 from Home Saga. Not a bad payday for a little over four and a half hours work. Second spot and 10th overall went to Perry McNeil, out of Lemon Grove, who nursed a less than great running truck through the 230 miles for a time of 5:21:42. Perry, also took home an extra $1,000 from Home Saga. In at third was Willie Valdez over from Ensenada. His 6:04:57 time earned him $500 from Homa Saga. Thanks go our to Home Saga for the added monies to the Class 7 drivers; there might by 27 entries in this class next time out. Other class finishers were Chad McNeil, 6:28:33, Jose Gonzalez, 6:44:02, Geoff Milke, 7:39:36, Mario Salcido, 7:49:29, and Romeo Rodriguez, 7:57:52. Don't have much information concerning Class 5-1600, which started nine, and had all but two, make i.t to the flag for times. Marcos Nunez, Ensenada, reported no problems and finished first with a time of 6:03:21, second spot went to Jason Gregory, El Cajon, CA, his time was 6: 10: 26, and third place went to Julian Patron, Chula Vista, in at 6:59:34, Larry Negrete, 7: 13:43, Jorge Ruvalcaba, 7:18:34, Jorge Angel Soto, 7:55:16, and Miguel A. Rosales, 8:34:35 were the other 5-1600 drivers with times. In Class 9 all three first place finishers had one problem or another. Juan Mayoral, Jr., who was the eventual winner ran out of fuel near one of his pits and lost some time when The Auto Club of Baja didn't show up with fuel. He had to figure a way to make it to the pits; in this case, it was called pushing. Mayoral's time was 6: 19:41. Finishing No:2 was Francisco Fernandez, who was slowed all day with a loose pulley belt and ultimately just plain fatigue, crossed the finish in 6:29:07. Third place went to Daniel Reyes, who struggled with carburetor problems throughout the entire race but still managed at 7: 18:05. Five out of the other 11 starters had times. They were Alejandro Lopez, 7:54: 12, Luis Rivera, 8: 12:46, Dusty Times Rodrego Obeso, 8:48:14, Rudolfo riderDeanWatkins,bothoutofSan the first lap near Checkpoint l," anothereightrninutes.Ahles'winning Whilemy, 8:5 2:27, and Tom Diego. The 7S truck was sporting a Ahles said. time was 7:37:52, second went to McAdams, 9:23:17. new black paint job and Lothringer This was a tight race from start to Refugio Fonseca, who finished with David Ahles drove the entire race Engineering shocks, tuned just for this finish, and only 13 seconds separated 7 :38:05, and third place went to as sole owner of the Makena race. "Thetruckworkedgreatallday, thefirstandsecondspots,whilethe Enrique Loam, 7:46:49. Motorsports Class 7S Truck with co-although we did have one flat during third place finisher was only back Continued on page 28 July 2002 'RE/Ii 'C ZNOW VA ··ncJ~~U~sones AYS A WEEK Page 27

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Armando Lopez and Javier Robles split the driving and came in for a Federico Rega/a, driving his first race, took the silver medal in 1600, Perry McNeil had some mechanical woes during the race but still nice second place in the Class 1 O fracas. a great start in a hopefully long career. managed a second place finish in Class 7. ~hies reported just how close 7 :4 2: 13, Hugo Avila o-u~t ~o-frrS' a-n--d' r-:i-v7ir-1g---,l'"'o~r-:C"u~a-t_e_r_o_s'R"a-c-:-in_g_,_w_o_n_;=-~--------='--------'-------------------, things were. "Fonseca led the first lap Ysidro, CA, reported no problems both the Class and Sportsman with a time of 3:52. I crossed the first with his ride. Avila said, "It was a long Overall for the second time this year. time at 3:53." Loam finished thatlap tough race." Second place with a time Their time was 5:36:42. Thesecond in 3:55. "I was able to catch up to of 8:03:45 was Alberto Cerillo spotandsecondoverall,Sportsman Fonseca somewhere in the infamous Ortega. Ortega managed to bend time, was 6:08:43. Roman challenged Huatamote Wash and then I passed both rear trailing arms and lost both all day, but couldn't catch the leader. him, about 20 miles out. I knew that rear shocks and still made it to the Hector Pimentel, Armando Silvestry, I had to make up the 40 second checkered. However, with the shape and Francisco Rojas, all out of difference in starting times, so I just the 11 car was in he almost didn't Mexicali and Luis Floriano, from drove as hard as I could to the make it from the finish line to final Tijuana and Jose Guadalupe checkered flag, and luckily 13 seconds tech. Miguel Mexia, Roberto Solorio, San Diego were all non-was enough ." Loam, racing out of Escobedo and Arturo Garcia, the finishers. Tecate, lost 10 minutes changing a other three starters, broke stuff like Thirteen drivers started in Class fan belt somewhere after the last transmission and things and were 15 and here only five reached the checkpoint and finished in a little non-finishers. black and white. I told you the over nine minutes back. Yes racing The Sportsman section was attrition rate was high,Jose Montoya fans, itwasclose. Theotherfinishers broken into four classes. Class .14 over from Ensenada, reported no in class with times were Alfonso started seven, and two were able to problemsonthewaytoaclasswinning Bernardino, 8:48:39, and Jose Diaz make it to the finish line. Adolfo time of 6: 17:57. Overcoming two flat Martinez, 8:55:36. Ayala, down from Tijuana and tires and a broken shock mount, Class 11 sported five entries of Armando Roman from San Diego, Efrain Pelayo finished in 6:54:49. which two finished. 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The other finishers in class were Pedro Marquecho, a 8:25: 11 and Martin Lizarraga, 9:30:03. Ruben Godoy was the only one to finish of the four entries in Class 18. Godoy's time was 8:42:13. Luis Rey Hernandez, Raul Aguilera and German Ramirez, all our of Mexicali, broke various stuff and didn't get times. Last but never least, the Safari class started 12 but finished only five. Miguel Rubio took top spot with a timeof?:21:47. Luvan Voelker second with 7:29:19 and third went to Francisco Maya with a time of 7:55:34, Raul Maya, 8: 15:40 and Jesus Lopez, 9:52:48 were the other two finishers. With another 170 plus entries, this second race of the CODE season was another success. Everyone likes to go to San Felipe. They like to party, to fish, to bask in the winter sun, or in our case, to do a little off road racing. San Felipe puts our the welcome mat for all types and we types always have a great time doing_ our various things and as usua1, ours is a dirt thing. CODE continues to grow, continues to succeed, and continues to put on races that driver and fan alike seem to enjoy. Next up if the KC Highlites Nite Race, June 22-24, 2002 at Laguna Salada, outside Mexicali. See you all there and see you here next time around. Saludos. David .Ahles took the Class 7S win in his ve,y handsome pickup, seen here at speed on the course. Picture by Kathi Ayles It was a long day, but Hugo Avila and his pet VW made the course in a bit over eight hours to take the Class 11 win. Dusty Times

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SCCA PRORALLY SERIES 2002 Rim Of The world Rally By John P.M. Dillon Photos: Trackside Photo David Higgins and Daniel Barritt drove their great looking Subaru lmpreza to the Open Class win as well as the overall at Rim. The 2002 edition of the Rim of the World Rally, headquartered in Palmdale, CA, saw 81 cars at the start-ing line ~n May 3, a new record for Rim. "Our sport has enjoyed explosive growth in the last few years," said organizer Paula Gibeault. "We worked closely with our friends at the Forest Service to be allowed to start rnore cars this year. I'm happy to say t hat they were willin g to try out a larger limit and we filled every spot." In addition to providing the roughest roads on the SCCA ProRally circuit since Prescott was removed from the calendar, Rim featured two spectacular stages adja-cent to host hotel Holiday Inn, as well as a major fund raiser event for the local Boys and Girls Club and the Antelope Valley Search and Rescue team. For some of t h e fans, in-cluding hundreds of Subaru enthusiasts, the h ighlight of the weekend may be have been meeting World Rally Cham-pionship driver Petter "Hol-lywood" Solberg. Solberg, who proved to be as friendly and accessible as any begin-ner club rallyist, detnon-strated his star quality by help ing raise over $1200 for the local charities. Rim has a reputation for punishing unprepared team.s with its bone-jarring water bars (grooves cut across the Miggie Motorsports Spring Cleaning 1987 Ford Pre-runner $13,000 obo Ford Ranger Class 7 2.9V6 Fuel Injected Mogi Transmission Art Carr 3 Speed Shifter 9" Locker Rear End K1ng Shocks F&R Disc Brakes F&R Fully Caged For Info Call; Michael Jakobson 805-386-1243 Office 805-701-9058 Cell Todd Sanderson 760-942-9904 Office 760-535-9673 Cell SCORE Class 5 Unlimited $45,000 obo $20,000 less Eng & Trans Molton Chromo Frame Rev-Power 3 Liter Type IV Fortin 5 Speed Trans With Oil Cooler System King Coilovers F&R King Bypass F&R Centerlines-BFG's Also: Have A Trophy Truck Project For Sale Not Completed - Call For Info Page 30 July 2002 Craig Peeper and Ian Bevan rush by an appreciative crowd on their way to the Group N win in their Subaru WRX. road to contr o l drainage), b u t t h is year m a n y of th e roads were smoother than in past events. N o n etheless, nu-merous cars faile d to finish the grueling event. In previous yea rs even the spectato r stages have b een known to take no prisoners and 2002 was n o exception . The highest profile v ictim of this year's first stage was past ch ampion Rod Millen who debuted a new Mitsubish i Lancer Evo VII. A suspensio n failure on th e car meant the veteran rally is t was back in t he hotel bar before the rest of the teams made it to the mountains for· the first "real" stages. Like Millen, Doug Shep-herd didn't do well on the spectator stage but at least he and Pete Gladycz were able to continue. "Pete and I had aq adventuresome rally in the Dodge SRT-4," reported Shepherd. " W e broke the right halfshaft in Turn 4 of the spectator stage,· which left us with one wheel drive until service. Not impossible as I practiced this frequently 15 years ago in t h e Daytona, but a slow way to get to service. Uphill on gravel with one w heel drive is s lower than walking! We were lucky there was a bunch of pavement." Meanwhile M illen's son Rhys was more successful at the beginning -he led the rally after the first two stages, tie-ing for quickest on the short spectator stage and picking up over 20 seconds over 2001 champiOJ:?. Mark Lovell on Stage 2. However, a flat tire on the third stage and a wrong turn cost him over six minutes. Two stages later a broken differential ended the day for him and Garry Cowan. M ark Higgins and Mich ael Gibso n took the ov erall lead on Stage .3 wit h his n e w Hyunda i, b u t team mates Paul C h oinie r e and Jeff Becke r sna t ch e d the point one stage later, only to suffer a mysterious drivetrain fail-ure on Stage 5 . The proble m resulte d in Choinie re's fourth consecutive DNF for the seaso n. Subaru's Lovell, with Steve T u rvey co-driving, struggled to stay in the top three much of th e first night, even with a roll-over on Stage 4 , but w ith teammates Ra1nana Lagemann and Brian Maxwell turning up the w ick and David Higgins and Daniel Barritt getting their handling problems sorted out. Lovell finisl1.ed the first evening in fourth p lace. Lagemann fin-ished the night sandwiched between the Higgins broth, ers, with Mark first overall. In Group N, it was Peter W o rkum wh o took th e early lead. Workum's driving has improved significantly over t h e past year. He and co-driver Alex Gelsomin o fi n-ished the first day ninth over-all, almost two minutes ahead of Wyeth Gubeltnan n and Therin Pace. Ralph Kosmides and Jimmy Brandt narrowly avoided getting time barred after losing both a cylinder and the right front suspen-sion in their Ruby's Restau-rant Subaru. A week before Rim, PGT racer John Nelson didn't know who he'd have co-driv-i ng for him. At the last minute he hooked up with Mustafa Samii, a veteran of many years of European and· middle eastern rallies. The pair worked well together, seizing a narrow early lead over Bob Henderson and Jeff Field and David Weiman churned up the dust as they sped to the Production win in their Celica GTS. Dusty Times

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John Nelson and Mustafa Samii took the Production GT win in their Mark Higgins and Michael Gibson were second in the Open class in Bob Henderson and John McArthur were the second place finishers Subaru 2.5 Rs: their Hyundai Tiburon at Rim. in the Production GT class in their Subaru WRX. John McArthur despite driv-than a minute an'd.----t.-h~r-e-e--a--,f"'l-at-ti-re_o_n-th.-e-t-.h.,...ir~d.----s~ta-g-e--a--.h-e-a--.d-of Workum and Production. Andy and Julie ing in near darkness part of other class leaders separated cost them five minutes, an in-Gelsomino. Styles and Dil-Sharples came down from the evening. "The third stage the two POT teams: Dave and surmountable gap in such a lon completed the podium Washington to finish second started off on a good note," Rick Hintz in Group 5, competitive field. another 25 seconds in ar-in. POT (eighth overall). The said Nelson, "and I started Lauchlin O'Sullivan with At the end of the first rears, but over a minute next two teams, Jay Streets/ to build a rhythm making rookie navigator Aaron Laeng night of rallying, the top ten ahead of Doug Havir and Jan.ice Damitio and Dave good time and clean corners in Group 2, and Jeff Fields were Mark Higgins, Ramana Scott Putnam. Nat T-Stow Coleman/Ryan Cavalier, tied until about half way and Dave Weiman ip Produc-Lagemann, David Higgins, and Ben Bradley finished on time for the Group 5 class through." Then, he con tin-tion. Mark Lovell, Karle Scheible fifth ahead of POT winners win. Winners in the Califor-ues, "We hear this banging in Though the roads proved (with father Wayne co-driv-Nelson and Samli. Terry nia Rally Series classes were the front, no lights and then smoother than years past, the ing), Mark Nelson and Char-Stonecipher, with co-driver Eklund/Huhn in Open a loud series of clunking other traditional Rim com-lie Bradley, Paul Eklund and Jeff Bruett, were the first 4WD, Nelson/Samli in GT, noises as my light bar rips plaints of choking dust were Scott Huhn, Scott and Rob-club-only entr:ants on the re-Stonecipher/Bruett in Perfor-out of the front of the car and voiced in full volume. Mark ert Trinder, Workum, and sults sheet, finishing first in Continued on page 32 is soundly crunched by our Higgins reported early on Leon Styles and John Dillon rr=======================================i1 tires and undercarriage." The that "the dust is very heavy in George Plsek's Audi Quat-loss of the lights led to a and visibility is limited." His tro. slight collision with a guard-brother agreed that his AV On the ClubRally side of rail later in the evening. 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Jon Hamilton and Josh Wes/hover drove their Golf Tdi to a nice David and Rick Hintz took the second place honors in Group 5, Second place in Group N went to Ralph Kosmides and Jimmy Brandt in their neat looking Subaru WRX. second place finish in the Production category. shown here in their Mazda RX-7 at speed. mance Stock, and Streets/ Solberg for an astonishing John K. Shirley (a competi-Damitio in Group 2/5. $ 1200. Though many of the tor) when not serving on the Saturday morning began teams failed to deliver char-Cherokee Trails organizing with the traditional ity rides, several of the club committee) drove the fundraising charity rally racers stepped up to the plate Gibeault's championship sprint. The organizers auc-and kept the crowd enter-winning VW Jetta on numer-tioned off a ride with Petter tained. Visiting dignitary ous runs to "prime the The Dodge SRT-4, piloted by Doug Shepherd and Pete Gladysz took the gold medal in the Group 5 competition. New pump" for the other racers. In the end, $xxx was raised. Finally the time to resume proper racing arrived. The crews each ran the spectator stage one more time, then turned to the north for the classic Del Sur stages. Watch any "highlights" video from Rim and these are the stages you'll see. Del Sur South starts off wicked fast, then turns deceptively tighter as you approach the finish line. It takes a fine balance to keep the car on the road while avoiding going off the edge at the bigger jumps. At the end of Del South the cars re-group. When the field is col-lected, they turn around and July 2002 race the other way. This year of the podium. Mark, with the SCCA added a clever Michael Gibson at his side, fin-twist, weighing the top ten ished second. "I talked to my cars while in the turnaround mom right before we started," area. "We just wanted to said Karl Scheible, "and she make sure that nobody's bal-warned me to bring back my dad last fell off the cars on the in one piece!" Not only did last stage," said Doug Robin-Wayne and Karl finish in one son, Scrutineer for the series. piece, they took home a brace of As expected, all cars passed third-place-overall trophies. muster. · Tough the brothers waged the Saturday belonged to the battle at the front, several teams Higgins brothers. Mark proved mixed it up for second and third fastest oq the first two stages (in-quickest on the stages. Lovell and eluding the spectator stage), then Turvey's wadded up Subaru con-David proved fastest on 9 and tinued to prove itself mechani-10, then Mark took 11 through cally sound as the pair snagged 13, then David claimed the last the lion's share of second fastest two. Though they regularly out-times, but Mark Nelson and ran each other, it was Mark who Charlie Bradley snuck in a couple held a steady, early lead until of star performances as well. At Stage 11 when David overtook the end it was Lovell/Turvey the lead. The time differentials fourth overall just ahead ofNel-between the two never unseated son/Bradley. Subaru loaned a him from that point forward. At new transmission to Paul Eklund the finish ramp it was once again when his tranny failed on the David and hi co-driver Daniel press stage. Eklund and Huhn Barritt standing on the top rung put it to good use, finishing sixth I I

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Second place in Group 2 went to the Volvo 240 of Bill Malik and Christian Edstrom, seen here at speed. Paul Eklund and Scott Huhn drove their Subaru WRX to the Open and overall win in Saturdays Club Competition. The Subaru WRX of Karl and Wayne Scheible finished third in the Open class at rim. overall just ahead of the Widget Rally Team's Styles and Dillon. The Trinders, whose car was magically held together by the Herculean efforts of Tom Laeng and his crew, finished eighth over-all, ahead of Havir and Putnam. Craig Peeper and Ian Bevan placed their Group N car into the top ten after Workum's transmis-sio n failed on the 12th stage. Even more astounding was the perfor-mance of Lauchlin O'Sullivan. His co-driver, Aaron Laeng, had only recently entered the sport as a competitor -this was his first Pro Event. Sixteen year old Laeng, son of O'Sullivan's 2001 crew chief Tom Laeng, adapted quickly to O'Sullivan's smooth driving style. Their car, a Group 2 Mitsubishi Lancer RMR has much less horsepower than its 4WD Evo cousins campaigned by the Millens, yet it managed to take O'Sullivan and Laeng to 11th overall. Additionally this team rallied with a route book instead SCORE Baja 500 . Class 10 Winner Scott Sellers Honda VTEC of the newer, more detailed rallying and then win the "Stage Notes" preferred by PGT ProRally and both the most of the competitors, the Club Rally PGT titles in the highest finishing "route toughest rally in the US, The book" team. Rim of the World. Our Behind O'.Sullivan and thanks to the organizers and Laeng was the Production all the workers for a great winning Toyota Celica of Jeff· job." Field and Dave Weiman, who On the ClubRally side of in turn bested the Group 5-Saturday, the podium was winning Shepherd and filled with Eklund/Huhn, G ladycz. The 10th stage, re-then Styles/Dillon, and lastly ported Shepherd, "seduced Tim Paterson and John Allen, me into making a hard run whose Evo had broken the after just the first dozen cor-night before. C lass winners ners." Subsequently, the car's were Malik and Edstrom performance was hindere d (Group 2 and C RS Group 2/ with split driveshaft boots, 5), Stonecipher/Bruett (Pro-repaired with racing tape. duction and CRS Perfor-Two steps further down, John mance Stock), Nelson/Samii Nelson and Mustafa Samii (PGT and CRS GT), and Jim completed the collection of Gallaspy and Mick Kilpatrick class winners in their PGT (Group 5). Subaru. The two, who RimoftheWorldhasatra-· start:ed 59th overall, moved dition of rewarding competi-up to 15th at the finish. "It tors who successfully over-was great to come back to co1ne the punishing terrain, Rim after five years of not the stifling heat, and the choking dust. David Higgins, Daniel Bruett and the AV Sport team proved once again that well funded and properly prepared privateers can overcome factory backed efforts, but Hyundai's and Subaru's Open class results, along with O'Sullivan's drive for Mitsubishi, show that the manufacturers will continue to push hard to make any SCCA Pro Rally victory a well deserv~d victory. · ~½ Terry Stonecipher and Jeff Bruett kick up the dust in their Toyota pickup, 1st Production in the Rim Club portion. 2 1600 Winner Is & Jason Hatz Powered By Fat Performance acing Engines rite Race Cars SCORE Baja 500 Class 12 Winner Jerry Penhall vw Powered By Fat Performance , "'6'·•.·.· ~~ .'.~~-·.h:;::• e Train P SCORE Baja 500 limited Winner George Seeley Porsche Powered Sy Fat Performance ~4-}M@.%::t}:,:c:i,r' HHS MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE• RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA 92507 USA• 909/369-5144 • FAX 909/369-7266 • www.webcamshafts.c.om Dusty Times July 2002 Page 33

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It was no surprise when Forest Creasy took the win in both motos Paul Franklin took a second in moto #1, a win in the ?'1 moto and that In Class 1 it was Dennis Dugan in his great looking car losing a few and the coveted Class 9 crown. gave him the overall for the day in the Pilot Class. gears and taking the second place honors. broke a right stub axle on the big with five strong. In the first moto and Richard Steiger in fifth. controversy. Fred Calosso, as usual, The second race was even better yump, and lastly Dale Smith, who Forest Creasy took the lead from the Class 7 Open and Class 7 Stock went on to victory in the first race as Calosso was cleaning everyone's didn't get a lap in. start to lead green to checkered, with each had four entries. In the Open with Kevin Davidson in second. How-clock. Millward ro lied halfway In the second moto, Kordonowy Steve Sousa in second and Eric Steiger class Patty Hayos and Billy Manfroy ever, the battle for third was heated through the race. I guess racing blood switched powerplants, which is legal in third. In the second moto, Steiger battled back and forth all day, but at as a hot and heavy Steve Millward is thicker than water, because Cal-in short course racing, raced across took the lead early, but Creasy over- the end Hayos got the last laugh as used the pick and roll to pass James osso clipped Millward after the roll-the line first in class and first overall, took Steiger halfway through the race she took home the gold medal, while . Fuhs in the hairpin turn. A couple over and both were tossed for high Elrod finished second, with Berri and pulled away for a second straight Manfroy settled for second. Matt turns later Fuhs passed Millward sticking. That left Fuhs with the win third. After all said and done the gold win in this an early 2002. Steiger held Taylor and Mike Anderson each back and Fuhs' co-driver had some- for the day. Well earned. With wenttoKordonowy,thenBerri,Lewis on for second and second for the broke in Round 1 and could not thing to say as he did his best Davidson takingaclosesecond. and Timmons in Tom Spider's ride. day. Third went to Souza, then compete later in the day. NASCAR helmet throw after the On to better and brighter things The Class 9 cars were out next Vanessa Cannon in a single seater, The Stock class had a bit more crossed the finish line. Continued on page 36 Eric Steiger led the second moto for a while but had to settle for a Kevin Davidson drove his yellow Ford to a pair of seconds in the Clint Wolsey had a fairly unusual day, having to settle for the silver second overall in Class 9 for the daL_ . ___ motos and that gave him second in 7S for the day. medal this day. · A Paradigm is a pattern or an example. · Each of us has ., established a paradigm based on our previous experience and knowledge. The paradigm draws on information from our mind, gathers it together, and refines it to fit o .,understanding of reality. · · e Cars will_ redefine Dusty Times ..... •···~~-·-...... .......,., .. ,. ·--· .... -~~;.,-. :.~~.~; .. i ·. ~ "i '";°"": ~ ~ :. ,,0.-.::, *, 1~ *~"-:;:=.,.)~r.;--:,, . -July 2002 -------.. --__.. ....... _.,..__.....,.. ---··--Page35

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¼( -A,~1¥--- . ' . Kevin Lewis gets airborne as he heads for the checkers and a third Billy Manfroy battled all day long in his keen looking Ford but settled Displaying his loot from the tire changing contest, Glen Murfin (center) overall finish in class 10. for the silver medal in Class 7. receives congrats from Dennis Kordonowy (left). Tris ton Butcher drove her Jackass Racing car to a nice third place in the Semi-Pro division. Mike Povey entered the Class 1, Class 8 combo race but he had troubles and dropped out early on. Matt Taylor's great looking truck didn't have great luck and he Was out of competition early on. as the Semi-Pro class waged war with 13 large in the trenches. A number of entries bowed out early including Lenney McLean, Glen Murfin, Jason pos, who finished second in the first Sacks, Lionel Borba, Donald Moss, moto was unable to make the second and Hooter Meyer. Also Jaime Cam- race and took the collar. Also John Tfte Blfferencef Page 36 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 fronUrear pressure ratios.Standard pedal length is 10.25". (5.2 to 1 ratio) CNC-204SD Steel Pedal, Short or Tall M/C Floor Mount. Fluidyne Heat exchangers & Transmission Coolers DUN-0830500 Heat Exchanger DUN-0830503 Heat Exchanger DUN-0830504 Heat Exchanger DUN-0830612 Trans Cooler w/Fan 2-pc Aluminum Drums Race Prep'ed CV 's MCK-0250-1 CV Jt. w/Cage-930 MCK-0251-1 CV Jt. w/Cage-934 IRS Axles from Sway-A-Way™ Driving Suits Standard Fire Retardant Cotton Proban Driving Suits. 300m 930 Race Axles For more information give us a call or visit us online @ www.mckenzies.com July 2002 Knechtli failed to complete all the laps in the second race and looked for-ward to the next race. Leftovers included Terry Shelton, BJ and Tristan Butcher of Jackass Racing, Rich Fletcher, Ryan Sargent and Kevin Kleinsmith. Kleinsmith lost the linkage in both races and settled for fifth. Sargent muscled through the crowd for a fourth after break-ing a torsion bar in the first race. The boys from Jackass finished third af-ter a good run in both motos. Fletcher, in a new car to him chewed up the competition and outlasted the crowd for numero-dos. Lastly, Shel-ton used every pony he could as he bested each for a double win and the victory for the day as his motor seized crossing the finish line. The Pilots always get the nod from the YORRA folks and four strong hit the ground running. Clint Wol-sey is normally up on the top shelf, but struggled in the first round be-fore winning the second stage and ending up finishing second on the day. The winner for the day with a second and a first in respective heats was Paul Franklin.· Mark Christianson and Tony Romo both finished all the laps, but fell a little short looking forward to the desert. On to the desert. Strap on the spares, gas cans, margarita mix, and lawn chairs. I will be the second from the left with Hawaiian shirt and the half drunken glass of cool refreshing beverage. Work hard. Play hard. Screw that Call in Sick and Go Racing Out. $$$ 7,000, 7,000, 7,000 dollars to be given away on Labor Day in Lovelock, Nevada. Check out VORRA.COM for details. . The Class 7 honors went to Patty Hayos after a good battle in which her Toyota performed flawlessly. The Semi-Pro win went to Terry Shelton, just, as his engine seized crossing the finish line in the ?d moto. Dusty Times

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+ If you like big tires and wheels and aren't afraid of heights, you might take one of these babies out for a run in the dirt. Hardly a pre-runner, this sand dragster is made only to 1 go fast for a Rally cars don't prerun but they sure take a pounding while running very short distance. the rally course. family of four roaring past a competi-tive vehicle during a live desert race, but. .. For those of you who may be unfamil-iar with the evolution of the off road pre-runner, here•; a brief synopsis. Growing tired of the age old practice of pre-running courses on motorcycles, off road drivers began exploring the idea of creating a sturdy four wheel vehicle strictly for the purpose of famil-iarizing themselves with courses they were about to compete on. Race teams with a high quality secondary vehicle enjoyed a huge advantage over their counterpatts:i as they could test drive the entire co~, while saving their first string vehicle fur the actual race. The benefits of these high-tech "chase ve-hicles" do not end there, either. Most pre-runners are street legal, which al-lows them to also be driven to and from race events. In addition to the aforementioned Herbst clan, Scott Steinberger's P.C.l. Race Radios T earn was another formi-dable Trophy Truck competitor tak-ing part in the festivities. A few of the celebrities s ed " n the Hill" were These pre-runners are almost too nice to be going pre-running, but even after a long run a bit of soap and water will make them look like this again. This good looking Toyota powered car can be a pre-runner or you can take it for a run in any off road race that suits you. Ivan "Ironman" Stewart and the al-of the sport also took the opportunity popular as ever. Oh, and speaking of ways entertaining Nick Baldwin. There to promote their own upcoming Off popularity, neither man nor macl1ine wereplentyofvendorsonhandhawk- Road Expo slated for October. could match the popularity of the 97.l ing their wares, and anyone desiring an Not surprisingly, the live broadcast of FM "Bcxl Squad". Mere words could not expert opinion no doubt gravitated to-the Conway& Steckler Show was one of do these gals justice. ward Guy Petersen and Bob Bower. the highlights of the event. "Malibu Dan" The outrageously curvaceous crew Those two ultra-knowledgeable gurus puttogethera~tshow, and remains as had no trouble luring a handful of ~-~--~-~--~---------~ mesmerized m.ales (and one adventur-ous female) on stage to have their heads shaved. It was all in fun, and fun was truly had by all. Kudos to "Malibu Dan" and it's a safe bet that the off road set will be anxiously awaiting his next event/ party/ expo. · The "Off Road Expo• folks were there, letting people know about Scott Steinberger/PC/ Off Road Team presents the beautiful Ford A big Cadillac sedan pre-runner sits next to an older but still very their October expo at the Pomona fairgrounds. pre-runner of the late Larry Plank. functional Ford Bronco, the pre-runners pre-runner. Dusty Times July 2002 Page 39 ,I

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(. RACING ON THE ISLAND OF GUAM Alvarez Wins Enduro By Judy Smith Photos: Michael Rudd lkua Hanawa found that his Isuzu could fly the double jump just fine, and he charged to the front to win the second heat on Saturday. Rick Johnson brought his Ford Pro Truck back to Guam for the second time, had a mixed bag of luck and finished the two day event in second place in the Pro Truck standings. Ray Alvarez and his Mini-Mag One very big change made by the outlasted a lot of faster and bigger GR'F for this event was the installa-race cars during the hour long "En-tion of a transponder scoring sys-duro" that capped a full weekend · tem. Each vehicle (including all of exciting events at the Calvo Me-those bikes and ATVs) had a trans-morial Off Road Park which is a mitter attached to it, and each lap part of the Guam International they were required to run over a Raceway Park. buried loop of wire in front of the Eight months earlier Ivan scoring tower. This functioned as Stewart's Pro trucks had sailed the receiver and it sent the tran-across the Pacific to participate in sponder number to the computer• the grand opening event at the Race- which recorded the time it crossed. way. Work has continued. on the All of the local cars were given park, with some major improve-transmitters t.P hard-wire into their men ts including canopies for shade electrical system, but the visiting cars over the grandstands, a terrific con-(and bikes) were using rechargeable cession stand (with killer transmitters, that had to be taken smoothies), fully functioning off overnight so they could be re-restrooms and a bigger pit area. charged. This was the first time the The course had been reworked ORF had used the system, and it some to remove as many rocks as worked remarkably well. possible. They not only did a lot Installation of the transmitters more grading, but also trucked in was very simple. They'had to be all tons of dirt to make a better sur-at the same end of the vehicles (this face, and redesigned the jumps and group chose the front) and no some turns. In addition the ORF more than two feet above the (Guam Racing Federation) had gr'ound (four feet for the bikes), built a mud-bog pit, and a long rock with no metal or carton fiber be-climbing area, to give the public a tween the transmitter and the chance to see some different kinds track. Maximum operating tern-of off road fu:n. perature was not to exceed 122 There were a couple of days for degrees. In other words, don't in-practice and adjusting to race cars' stall it next to the exhaust. No one setup, and then there were two full had any problems finding a place days of racing. For the spectators to attach the little units, which mea-that is. There were lots of bike and sured about two and a half inches ATV classes, and they did their rac- by an inch and a half and were in'g in the early part of the day, leav-about three-quarters of an inch ing the afternoons for the think. During the entire weekend Protrucks and various buggies. only two of the transmitters fell off, ~----------=--=------'--Brian Stewart drove Ryan Herzog's Ford for the weekend, and with one win and a couple good finishes, he was the weekend's Pro Truck winner. Page 40 but the ORF had back-up scorers to take care of such an eventuality. Immediately after each heat the scoring system generated a range of reports, allowing the officials to Amauchi Masakazu, from Japan, won Sundays Buggy Heat in his Toyota powered announce who finished it what po-Chenowth, but dropped out of the Enduro with only 20 of the 36 laps completed. sition in a very short time. The re-time it was dust. Although the GRF rounded a turn in front of the ports could pinpoint who had the had a water truck wet it down be-grandstands, Simpson bumped fast lap, and on which lap he did it tween heats, the constant traffic Flores and nosed him into a huge and they could show the time dif- dried it out quickly. Thick clouds earthmover tire that was being used ference between positions. It took of red dust sometimes obscured the for a course marker. Flores didn't a little getting used to on the part drivers' view of the track. There was have a reverse gear, so instead of of the scoring folks, but the system generally a breeze, but it wasn't al- backing up he tried to climb up and is apparently almost foolproof and ways up to the challenger. over the tire. The result was that he solved a major problem. When the In the first heat on Saturday Kirn got high-centered and cracked his bikes and ATVs get muddy it's al-Pangelinian got the hole shot in his oil pan. He was done for the day. most impossible to read-their num- Mini Mag with the 700cc-snowmo-By the sixth lap, with Alvarez still bers, and it can ·happen with the bile motor, with Alvarez right be-in front, Simpson was closing on bigger vehicles also. With the tran-hind him in another snowmobile him, and on the eighth lap he went sponders no one has to even try, powered Mini Mag. Eddie Cruz, in into the lead. Bµt sharp observers except for the occasional odd ve-the third Mini Mag, had some could see that every now and then hide whose unit falls off. problem and got off the track some-one of Simpson's front wheels The Protrucks had two heat how. The Japanese entry of Kenji would stop rolling. It was later dis-races on Saturday, each one lasting Morii, a right hand drive turbo-covered that a puck had fallen off 15 minutes plus a lap, and the bug- charged Mitsubishi, spun out in the the brake and was jamming the gies had the same schedule. Then bowl. wheel. This was making it hard for Sunday would be time for the By the third lap the lead be-him to steer. But he was hanging Protruck main event, another 15 longed to Alvarez, and behind him on to the lead. minute race, but going off the line Patrick Flores had his Oldsmobile Alvarez was now closing on Sim-in a land-rush start. And the bug- powered 20 year old Chenowth in pson, and Masakazu Arnauchi ran gies had a main event on Sunday hot pursuit. The car was equipped third in a Toyota powered Chen-also, and then in the late afternoon with VW type suspension and a owth with VW type frqnt suspen-they all went together (whoever was Type II gearbox. Henry Simpson, sion and A-arms in the rear. Simp-left running) in a scheduled two one of the folks who ramrodded son had a hard time with the turns hour Enduro. the race course into being, was push- .thanks to the brake problem, and This season the race course was ing him hard with his 1600cc Chen-was ricocheting off the big tires dry. When the Protrucks last went owth, originally built for the Micky occasionally. One such impact to Guam it had been the rainy sea-Thompson stadium races, in the broke a rear A-arm bolt, and that son, and the course never dried out. "Super 16" class. sl_owed him sufficiently for Alvarez Mud was a big problem then. This On the fourth lap as they to get by him on the 15th lap. And ~-----=-=-------------------=-------, they were in that order at the finish Dennis Dugan, partner of Dwight Lunkley, drove their Ford at top speed all weekend, and came within a whisker of the Enduro victory. July 2002 with Amauchi in third. Simpson had recorded the last lap, a 57.88 seconds on Lap 5. They went back to their pits to lick their wounds and try to get ready for the next heat later in the day. Eddie Cruz had struggled on one cylinder with one carburetor flooded out; Morii had lost something, possibly the turbocharger, on his _Mitsubishi. And Simpson had to get a replace-ment bolt made before he could run again. Pangelinian had lost the spring off his clutch which left him running in too high ~ gear, so he had work to do also. And in the meantime the Protrucks were lined up and ready to go. Tneir start order for the first heat was determined by the luck of Dusty Times

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lkua Hanawa seen here about to pass Eddie Cruz in his Mini Mag, brought his Isuzu from Japan and fed the enduro much of the way, but finished third. Henry Simpson looked like a winner in his .1650cc powered Chenowth, but an assortment of mechanical woes .either slowed him down or put him out at the last minute. Hachiki Nobu flew the American flag all weekend on his Toyota powered Chenowth which featured a VW front end and A-Arms in the rear. He was fourth in the big race. the draw. Wally Hrdlicka got the hole shot in his Ford, and Rick Johnson was right behind him in another Ford, followed by Brian Stewart in the Ryan Herzog Ford. They disappeared in a cloud of red dust. Tony Licitra's Chevy had a flat and he had to stop for a new tire, which put him down a lap. They were still running in the same order at the end of the third lap, with Dennis Dugan Dwight Lunkley's partner, in fourth place. Gary Magness got up on two wheels and did a donut down in the bowl. He pulled out a bit later because the truck wouldn't go straight. On the sixth lap it was still Hrdlicka, Johnson and Stewart, and then, as they rounde.d the ~lump of palm tt:e;s nicknamed the coconut grove Johnson got past Hrdlicka and a little anxious, Hrdlicka got in trouble and rolled the truck. While the rescue Hum-mer worked on uprighting him, Johnson, Stewart and Dugan went on. The dust was still terrible. t one point, blinded, Jeff Dickerson rear-ended Licitra and knocked off his spare tire and fuel filler. The tire now on on-course, and was another hazard for the drivers. Dugan came up on it in a cloud of dust, never saw it, and ran over it. A couple oflaps later he pulled into his pit to check on a vibration, which turned out to be a bent driv-eline. Now, on the 12th lap, Johnson led, Steward was second and Dickerson was third, feeling bad about Licitra 's damaged truck. Dugan was down a lap, and so was Licitra. Johnson recorded the fast lap time in this heat, at 56.39, and he · place belonged to Amauchi stayed in front to take the win. Masakazu, another Japanese racer, Stewart finished in second place in another Toyota Chenowth. and Dickerson was third, the only Hanawa had lagged behind a bit in three still on the lead lap. Most had the first heat because he was leery some work to do before the next of a double-jump at the entrance heat, Licitra's truck looking like the to the grandstand bowl. He said his worst problem with the fuel fillet car was "too short, and it was very neck gone. But a sharp pit person scary", so he slowed each lap and discovered that the lid from a jar thumped over the two lumps. But of salsa was an exact fit, so they apparently he watched the snugged it down with a couple Protrucks carefully, and decided strands of twisted wire, and the re-that if they could do it so could he, pair was done. and this heat he was flying over it When the "buggies" lined up for easily, though he later related that their second heat they were minus it was still "scary". Pangelinian was Simpson, and Flores, but both gone because he'd got a rock be-teams were in the process of getting tween the skid plate and the engine ready for Sunday. This start blew and it had crushed his fuel pump. up a big cloud of red dust also, and (Ed. Note: We use the word "rock" when it lifted there was Bill todescribewhatareactuallylumps Wyndham, upside down. He hadn't of coral that broke off the solid gone any distance at all in the first base of this part of the island dur-heat because of a carburetor prob- ing the shaping of the race track. lem, and this time he discovered he They don't have any rocks as we had no brakes at the worst possible know them, neat little baseball size time. They got him back on his lumps of granite for example. They wheels, but he wasn't able to con- have a mix of coral and lava and tinue. it's all one big, solid entity until Pangelinian had the lead bur he someone breaks off a hunk.) was being chased hard by Ikua One Lap 9 the order was still Hanawa from Japan, in his Isuzu the same, the cars so far apart it Geolander. And Alvarez was third. would be hard for anyone to get Morii had some problem with the around another. Then, on the 11th Mitsubishi, parked for a while, and lap Alvarez pulled out with a bro-then went on slowly. Hachiki Nobu, ken A-arm, and Nobu moved up from Japan, in a Toyota Chen-to third place. And that's how it owth, did a donut in the bowl. went to the end, the three Japanese Nobu's car was flying an American racers, Hanawa, Masakazu and flag for the whole time, a sentiment Nobu taking the top three posi-appreciated by his hosts. tions. Masakazu finished on a flat Hanawa went into the lead on front tire. the third lap, with Alvarez now sec-The second Pro truck heat ond and Pangelinian in third. But roared off the line a few moments by the sixth lap while it was still later, and this tie the early lead went Hanawa and Alvarez, the third to Gary Magness in his Ford. Be-hind him it was Dugan and then ditch, about 200 feet long and abut Licitra, Stewart, Dickerson, 15 feet wide, and filled it with big Hrdlicka and Johnson. After they'd chunks of coral. These were really done the second lap Stewart moved big chunks, probably three or four into third, and when they charged feet across. They were piled into the out of the infield, there was length of the ditch and it was to Dickerson, struck, high-centered on serve for the rock-crawlers. These the big tire. He'd been cut off in folks have no actual rock-crawling · the turn, so he braked, the engine experience to draw on, because of died, and someone behind him the complete lack of boulders on bumped him up onto it. The tow-the island. They do a lot of "trail-H um mer had to push him off and ing" in the mountains, and they play he was a distant last when back on around in the clay. They said, "Ba-the ground. sically, we're used to the mud." By the third lap Dugan was right Dwayne Taitomo drove a Suzuki behind Magness, and on the fourth Samurai as did Robert Torres and lap he was in front of him. Licitra Joey Quichocho had an '87 Jeep and Hrdlicka were having a close Wrangler with one-ten axles, a GM duel, banging on each other with 14 bolt rear-end and 456 gears. It pieces of body panels flying and took the first one to try it about entertaining the spectators. five minutes, then the second cov-By Lap 6 Dugan had a long lead, ered the route in a little over four and Stewart was closing on minutes. Quichocho, who studied Magness. Then, on the seventh lap, · their errors, and also had a slightly Licitra had tipped over on his side more sophisticated vehicle, did it out near the coconut trees. On the in two and a half minutes to the ninth lap Dugan continued his delight of the spectators. They're long lead, but then came Magness, hoping to get more folks interested, Stewart and Johnson as close to-and the rock-crawling course is a gether as cars in a freight train. permanent part of the facility. Hrdlicka and Dickerson struggled Sunday's schedule started with at the rear, and Licitra went off a morning full of motorcycles and course to replace a rear flat tire. quads, ridden by racers of both Stewart passed Magness on the sexes and in all age groups, begin-10th lap, and they went on to the ning with kids as young as four years finish with Dugan taking the victory, old. But most of the afternoon was Stewart second and Magness third. given over to cars and trucks. It was now time for the crew to re-The final buggy heat was the first fresh and repair the vehicles, get- event, and this time Masakazu got ting them ready for the important the hole shot and went into the lead main event on Sunday, which would with Hanawa following and Alvarez begin with a "Land Rush" start. behind him. Wyndham didn't The final event on Saturday's come back, as he'd torn up a hub schedule was a demonstration rock when he rolled over the day before. crawl and the new rock-crawling Masakazu had a healthy lead by the "course". The ORF had dug a long Continued on page 42 Performance Proven for Desert & Off-Road Use J 5 0 Heavy Duty Sizes to Choose from Some Uses: • Non Corrosive Polyethylene • One-Piece Seamless • Pit Truck Showers & Washdowns • Heavy Wall Construction • Cooking & Kitchen Facilities • Extended Stay Water Storage Tanks • Bike Trailer Water Tanks • Car & Buggy Trailer Tanks • Pressure Washing Storage Tanks • Custom Fitting Locations · • New Systems • Auxiliary Systems • Replacements O.E.M. Trailer & Van M~ . In uires Are Welcome RONCO PLASTICS, INC. • 714-259-1385 • FAX 714-259-0759 • www.ronco-plastics.com 15022 Parkway Loop, Suite B • Tustin, CA 92780 • CALL, WRITE or FAX Us to Receive a Free Catalog · Dusty Times July 2002 Page 41

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Kenji Morii, from Japan, had problems with his right hand drive Mitsubishi, which included a broken turbocharger which left him seriously down on power. Kin Pangelinian got the hole shot nearly every time the green flag waved, but his 70cc motor was no match for the bigger power plants and he finished (;th in the Enduro. The Mud Bog was a new feature at the race course, and an assortment of good sports lined up to give it a try, entertaining the spectators as muddy water sprayed high and wide. third lap, and Nobu had moved up one space, getting around Pangelinian. Simpson was back, and he was trying hard to catch Alvarez. By Lap 6 with Masakazu still in front and Hanawa second, Simp-son had moved up to third and he had Hanawa in his sights. Morii was having some problem with his Mit-subishi again, he had rear drive only and was down on power and he'd lost a lap. When they came around the ninth time Hanawa was right on Mazakazu's bumper and Simpson was gaining on both, but that struggle was to continue. Nobu pulled into the infield with a rear flat and a lap later Alvarez parked also with what he thought was a broken steering box. Simpson was right up with Hanawa and the two were doing some pushing and shov-HoOd locks Dome light Sidebars Overlays Bumperettes Side Mirrors Aluminum Diamond Plate ing, but Hanawa held his position. ting he found a broken cam. It wasn't until the 15th lap that Masakazu on the other hand, said Simpson managed to squirt by him, he'd had no problem at all. in the coconut grove, where his. The Protruck main event came smaller size and better maneuver- next, and the start was to be a land-ability paid off. He was a bit shaken rush type. The start line had been right then, having landed so hard marked off on the far side of the off the big jump that he knocked course, up on the high ground, and himself out for a second, and bit the trucks would arc across, to a his tongue as well as cracking his point just before the double jump. front bumper. He took off in pur-The aggregate position of the trucks suit of Masakazu nevertheless, and after two heats determined the or-as he rounded the turn at the far der in which they picked their start end of the course he was even with spots. They liked the outside posi-him and obviously about to pass tions. They liked the start also, him, when his car quit. He coasted though it was hard for the pit to a stop as Masakazu went on to people to see because of the dust, take the win, with Hanawa in sec-but the spectators in the stands had ond. Simpson got third place with a great view. Brian Stewart got the 14 laps done, and Pangelinian was hole shot. Johnson ran second, fourth. Dickerson third and Dugan fourth. When Simpson started to inves-Quarter panels were flapping in the tigate the reason for his car quit-breeze already. 732 Indigo Court, Pomona, CA 91767 • Limited Lifetime Warranty on a Page 42 July 2002 There was a big purse, $10,000 up for this race, so the racing was serious. Pit crews that had radio communications worked like the spotters in NASCAR races, tell-ing their drivers where the com-petition was, a big help for the driver who doesn't mind having a little voice in his ear. The order stayed the same; Stewart, Johnson and Dickerson. Dickerson would get closer to Johnson, then fall back, and Dugan would be on him like a sticker, but by the sixth lap they were becoming pretty well spread out, and still in the same order. Licitra had a little problem with the infield turn, but didn't lost a position, and Johnson seemed to close up on Stewart in the turns. On the 11th lap he was right with him, and Dugan was close on Dickerson, but then they spread out again. By the 14th lap Stewart was closing up on Hrdlicka, who was running last this time, and while the crews wondered if he would slow Stew-art and let Johnson close up, Hrdlicka pulled neatly to the side and let him go. Stewart went on to take the win, with Johnson second and Dickerson third. Dugan re-ported th.at the belt over his left shoulder had broken off the mount and got· wrapped up in the steering wheel. It was floating around loose in the cab for sev-eral laps, and he'd finally sat on it to keep it under control. Stew-art went away with the $10,000, Johnson earned $5,200, Dickerson $2,400, and t went downward from there. The "two hour" Enduro was the final event of the weekend, but there was a break now for the crews to get the trucks back in shape for racing. When the race finally started there were two miss-ing. Dickerson said he'd lost oil pressure during the main event, so he chose not to race, and Johnson opted out also. There were eight of the "buggies" still running, including all of the Japa-nese contingent, but lacking Sim-pson. For this event, as they had for some of the big bike events, the ORF chose to run the "long" course, which went up the hill, around a section of jungle, made a sweeping off camber turn and then came back down, adding about a half mile to the length of the track. One foreseeable prob-lem was the dust. Guam was in the midst of a severe drought (very reminiscent of Southern California's, with people being asked to not wash cars, etc.), and in the interest of conserving wa-ter, they hadn't run the water truck any more than was abso-lutely necessary. And, while it took a run up and around the hill, it couldn't lay down enough moisture to really help with just one application. So it would be dusty. Kin Pangelinian got the hole shot for this one, his Mini-Mag looking mighty small out th.ere with Hanawa's Isuzu right behind it. Then came Alvarez, and in fourth place it was Geno Lici tra, son of Tony, who was driving his first truck race. He has raced bikes. Hanawa took over the lead on the second lap, and Licitra passed Alvarez and was now trying to get by Pangeli11ian. Morii's Mitsubi-shi was smoking, but it kept mov-ing. And Flores, with a new mo-tor in his chassis, had some other problem and was lagging behind, and soon to be lapped. Henry Simpson, his Chenowth buggy out of commission, was driving the Herzog truck with one of the race sponsors riding along. Rob Kittleson was in the Magness truck, with Senator Larry ~asperbaucr, one of the politi-cians instrumental in getting the race track built, riding along. Alvarez, who co mes from Spain, raced here in 2001 and he had a four gallon fuel tank at that time and stopped several times for fuel. This time he was running his 10 gallon tank, and would not have to make any fuel stops. Licitra was past both Mini-Mags and in second place by the third lap. Morii lagged behind and made a pit stop on his fourth lap. Licitra pushed hard, trying to catch Hanawa, but on the fifth lap he disappeared up around the top turn. Hanawa was still in front, now followed by Alvarez, Pangelinian and Nobu. Word came through that Licitra's truck was on its side in the hole at the edge of the off-camber turn. Both driver and passenger were said to be alright. A medic team on a quad began to make an approach, thinking to go up and check on their welfare. There is no buffer zone between the course and the jungle, unfortunately. If a vehicle needed to get up to that point the only way to go was on the course. Perhaps in the future there will be an access road blitzed through the jungle, but right now there's either jungle or race course. The race course is, at least, very wide and visibility is good for most of it. Meanwhile, the race went on. Hanawa continued to lead, fol-lowed by Alvarez, but now Den-nis Dugan ran third, having moved up on the tenth lap. The quad that was trying to approach the course by moving along the edge of the downhill (against traf-fic) made Kittleson move over unexpectedly, and as he did Alvarez was bounding down the hill, thinking to pass him, and he ended up with one of his front Dusty Times

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The GRF built a rock-crawling course in the infield of the race track, Jeff Dickerson was at Guam for the first time, and had a great time and some of Guam's rock crawlers did a demonstration that awed Tony Licitra and his son, Geno, both drove the family Ford. Tony had better luck than Geno who was racing for the first time and tipped the truck on it's side. with his Ford, finishing the weekend third in the Pro Truck standings, the spectators. Rocks are scarce on Guam. wheels in the bed of the Protruck. around, because under ORF laps, and then Alvarez got past When they were untangled rules it's legal to run into the pits Hanawa. Pangelinian had pitted Alvarez went into the pit to check they'd been in when stopped. It and lost a lap. things out. was decided that rather than run Now the lead cars held their In the midst of all this, word for two hours, they would go positions for the next ten laps or came that the tipped-over truck until 5 p.m., and throw the white so, weaving through lapped ve-was leaking fuel. The ORF has a flag. That was just fine with ev-hides. Steve Knudson, in the #40 rule that calls for a red flag when eryone. Protruck instead of Hrdlicka, a car is leaking fuel, and someone The race had been going for made an error and ended up gave the word, and they red-approximately 19 minutes when parked on the embankment at the flagged the race. They did not wait it was red-flagged, and it was an-base of the big hill, but he was no for the lead vehicle (Hanawa) to other 18 minutes before they got threat to traffic, so he just stayed come around and stop it in front everything back in order and there. of him; they just flagged it when started it up again. At the end of the 33rd lap, theyheardabouttheleakingfuel. Hanawa started in front, Dugan had a low tire and went Of course, in the meantime, as is· Dugan second, Alvarez third fol-to his pit for fresh rubber. That so often the case in off road lowed by Pangelinian and moved Alvarez to the lead, events, someone had tipped the Masakazu and six more vehicles, Hanawa to second place and · truck partway back up, and it was some of which had been lapped. dropped Dugan to third, at the · no longer leaking fuel. The driver When they rnmpleted the 16th back of the pack, with lapped cars and passenger were given a ride lap, Dugan was in front and between him and the two leaders. ba~k to the pit area, but the red Hanawa was second. Now they On the final lap as Alvarez still flag stayed out. Cars wandered ran in that order for about six led, Dugan got by Hanawa, to put Bilstein . Sway A Way Eibach · HM · IIA 1 · CNC--~~--Sparca • PRP • Fuel Bale Ran Davis Radiator., Setrab Oil Caol1r1 Optima Batteries Mechanix Wear Dusty Times July 2002 himself into second place. Alvarez reported that the trucks threw a lot of rocks. He called them "boulders", and said he was "eatin' rocks". But he had no mechanical trouble at all. Only the first four vehicles were on the lead lap: Alvarez, Dugan, Hanawa and Nobu. It was al over but the celebrating. The Guamanians know how to celebrate. A fancy buffet dinner at one of the big resort hotels the next eveniµg capped the week of racing, and race related activities. Everyone This is the :,ystem run by most off road race winners GO FOR. from the tiniest quad rider to the veteran class was represented on the podium, and most went home with some sort of trophy. Senator Kasperbauer and Lieutenant gov-ernor Madeline Bordallo were both in attendance, and promised to do what they could to ensure the completion of the racing complex as planned. It was a terrific race weekend, with lots of good, close competition for the entertainment of the spec-tators. It's to be hoped it will hap-pen again and again. . _ . .,,, TRI-MIL BOBCAT CHROME 1984-91 CORVETTE 2 1/2" OR 3" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER t--1 13220 HALLDALE AVENUE GARDENA, CA 90249 310-217-9233 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 43

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BoNNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTERPRISES _ 2aa2 Wendover Express By Mike Chamberland Photos: Jeff Straw Mike Sims, with help from Jerry Bell and Denise Lange took the Heavy Metal class win as well as the overall. BORE opened the 2002 season again a beautiful day for pre-run-with the usual suspects showing up ning final vehicle preparation and early to get things started. The track tech inspection. BORE sure made was completed, marked and ready tech inspection great by dispatch-for play and competition by Fri- ing the inspectors to the pits where day, May 4. The folks that continu-the vehicles are located instead of ally show up early to set up each moving the vehicle to where the in-track can't be thanked enough for spectors are. Good call on General their volunteering spirit, but thanks George's part, simple yet effective. to all that makes the racing possible. Friday ended with all vehicle inspec-This year's opener saw some well tions completed and General thanked changes, the most signifi- George announcing that starting cant was the deletion of the infa-positions will be completed at mous silt beds. They have been Saturday's pre-race drivers' meet• known to swallow any unsuspect-ing. ing racers and small condos to boot. Saturday, race day, started with The course ran n1.ore to the south wonderful racing weather. Presi-approximately 10 miles making for dent and Low Master of BORE, the a 50 mile loop. The majority of the honorable Les Wolfe, went over the course and gottcha's stayed the safety and fair play rules with all same. drivers and pit crews. It was finally This year's event brought a lot time for all drivers to pull for their of the old favorites and several new- starting positions. Rurin ~ng order comers to BORE (welcome all). A would go with 1/2-1600 starting total of 24 vehicles came ready from first followed by Heavy Metal, Chal-Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, lenger Class 9 and Sportsman at South Dakota, Montana and theend. Canada. That's a pretty good -FiPst to the line to take the sea-spread. They came to test their driv- sen opening green flag was the team ing skills, vehicle preparation and of Glen Cain and Todd Bingham sheer nerves in the Northeastern in Glen's Bud Light sponsored desert of Nevada. single seater, followed by the red, The weather for this year's white and blue eagle of Ty Bowers. opener couldn't have been better. Last year's Class 1600 champion Thursday volunteers set up the Scott Smith and teammate Gary track, pit areas and completed the Brennan pulled out in the third logistical stuff that the average racer spot and making their 1600 class doesn't see, but sure appreciates debut was teammates Brian dick when things run smooth. Friday was and Mike Chamberlain (just up CACTUS RACING RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES BELL, SHOEI. SIMPSON From $299.00 Helmets Helmet & Skirt SNELL 95, SA 95 FOR SODA Complete Blower Systems for single or double seat cars. Helmet conversions, cool boxes, Complete line of PYROTECT, FILLER Safety Products & BE Motorsports. We ship UPS daily. Vi~-Mastercard 5 I 53 Bowden Avenue - San Diego -CA-92117 -858-279-2509 Page 44 from Sportsman class) in the fourth position. Mark Rancher and Cam-eron Blackley started fifth and pull-ing the tail spot with another new Class 1600 starter was the team of Kenny and Terry McKnight (again up from the Sportsman class). At the end of the first lap Bow-ers had pulled into the top spot by seven seconds over Gle n Cain. Scott Smith came in the third posi-tion followed bv Team McKnight, Brian Dick and Rancher finishing the field. Lap 2 saw Ty Bowers with only a few seconds hold on the pole position, with Cain still in the sec-ond spot. McKnight pulled in the third position when cott mith had to pit due to a broken push rod. Scott proved he might be down but now out by a long shot. His pit crew feverishly worked to get him back in the game. Rancher now had the fourth position followed by Brian Dick. At the close of the third lap, Ty and Glen continued to battle for the top spot with Ty still holding the first position. McKnight and Dick had the third and fourth spots with Rancher falling to the fifth spot. Scott Smith was back in the race and coming up strong in the backfield. The fourth and final lap had Ty Bowers taking the sea-son opening checkered flag. Glen Cain took the Silver medal in sec-ond followed by the team of Kenny and Terry McKnight in their 1600 class debut. Fourth place and fast-est lap for class and the race was . 1:09: 15 by Scott Smith. The team of Mark Rancher and Cameron Blackley pulled a fifth and debu t-ing in their first 1600 race was Brian Dick and Mike Chamberlain. Brian had to drive the final five miles on a flat tire and watch fe l-low racers speed past. Better luck next race Brian. Next to the line was the Heavy Metal class. These boys had a good showing of 10 vehicles to get the opener started off with a statement. First off the line was the team of Andy Schifanellr and Andre Truchot followed by the team of Jason Hunter, Paul Blangsted and Kevin Grove. The third shooter out was the team of Greg Becker, Rick Harrah and Jason Morrow. The fourth spot c6nsisted of Monte July 2~02 Leaving everyone in their dust, Grant and Brenda Baylis came down from Canada to take the honors in the sportsman cl_a_ss_. ________ _ Scott Butcher and Mike Conner out-drove the flames on their car and took the first place honors in Class 9. Tibbits and jason Bettelyoun. Cam Peacock and Pat Tate started in fifth followed by the Mike Sims, Denise Lange and Jerry Bell team. Seventh position was team Mike Hickey, Bo Brunyer and Pat Tate. Pat, was this a roster typo or did you pull double identity? Willard Myers, Rodnie Scheilreff and Matt Cardwell shot out in eighth fo llowed by Joe Kellogg, Ken Sonislo and John Turner. The final Heavy to take to the track was Rodney Moffit. At the end of the first lap the Heavy Metal boys wer; setting the pace for the day's event. The team of Greg Becker had the number 1 spot followed in second by the Colo-rado team of Sims only 23 seconds behind. The Monte Tibbits team held the third spot followed by Team Hunter. Randy Moffit had a decent grip on the fifth spot. Andy Schifanelli's team held the sixth position with the Hickey team stomping at Andy's heels in seventh. In eighth position was the team of Joe Kellogg and pulling up the last two positions was the team of Cam Peacock and Willard Myers. By the end of Lap 2 everyone decided to change positions. Team Sims now had. first place with Team Tibbits only 24 seconds back in second place. Jason Hunter moved into the third position with Team Becker in the fourth spot. Schifanelli moved up to the fifth spot as well as Mike Hickey in sixth. The rest of the field was made up of Teams Moffit, Myers and Kellogg. Cam Peacock had a DNF for unknown reasons. By the end of Lap 3 two more teams pulled DNFs. The teams of Tandy Moffit and Mike Hickey had suc-cumbed to known problems. Mike Sims still held first position with a slight s~read over Tibbits team in second! Team Schifanelli had moved up a couple of positions to get third spot followed by the Becker team. The final three teams finishing the third lap were Teams Hunter, Myers and Kellogg. At the end of t}i.e fourth and final lap had the Colorado Team Sims taking the checkered flag. In second was Team Tibbits and Andy Schifanelli 's team taking the Bronze followed by Team Hunter in fourth. The teams of Becker, Myers and Kellogg fell to the track DNFs. The fastest lap for the Heavies was 1:13:29 by Team Sims of Colorado. Next to test their skills, ~its, and machines was the Class 9 Challeng-ers. The teams of Cameron Black-ley and Mark Rencher started in the pole position followed by the team of Robert Bass and teammate Jacob Buhler. The third off the line was the ever smooth talker of Stacy Temple followed in the fourth spot by the "never beer empty" motto of Scott Butcher and Mike Conner. The fifth and final Challenger po-sition was the team of Dave and Mark Morse. Upon completing the first lap the tape had Team Butcher in the lead position closely followed by Team Bass. Stacy Temple main-tained the third spot with the team of Blackley Rencher succumbing to mechanical problems and would not finish the race. The team of Dave and Mark Morse also fell out of the race due to transaxle problems. With the end of Lap 2, Butcher still had a firm grip on first position over Team Bass in second. The only other Challenger still in was the third place spot holder of Stacy Temple. Lap 3 had all drivers hold-ing onto their positions. The fourth and final lap had Scott Butcher taking the first place check-ered flag. The team of Robert Bass and Jacob Buhler took second place and Stacy Temple getting the third place. The fastest lap was 1:23:31 completed by Scott Butcher. This was a·well deserved and long time coming for Scott. We only had three ·entries in the Sportsman cl ass, but they were ready to do battle just as much as the pro-racers. The team of Grant and Brenda Bayliss took Dusty Times

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CORR IN NEW YORK Off Road In The Empire State By John Calvin Photos: Trackside Photo Rick Huseman took the win in both rounds in his Pro-Lite Ford, off to a good start for the 2002 CORR season. The first CORR race of the sea- down and the racing was fast and was a Pro Series event and the Pro-son took place in upper New York furious as the 2002 scramble for 2, Pro-4 and the Pro Lite guys were State with the weather gods smiling points began. This season opener there in force. There were some bug-The best 4-speed in the desert just got better! MENDEOLA's New Extreme Duty 5-speed is now available and affordable for all compe-tition classes, where applicable. RACE PROVEN IN THE 2001 BAJA 500. Call for complete details on this latest innovation in racing transaxle technology. Page 46 July 2002 gies racing, mostly lo-cal heroes but their at-tendance was purely for show and no points were awarded for their activities. The facility was per-fect for off road rac-ing, natura 1 terrain, ala Crandon but a bit shorter and, as far as we can reckon, the cars were never out of sight of the spectators, and there was a goodly amount of them on the premises. Johnny greaves grabbed a pair of second places in In the Pro-Lite di-Pro-4 and he holds the points lead in that class. vision, Rick Huseman drove his In the sixth spot it was Harvey Wald, Fabtech Ford to the first place po-Chevrolet, seventh was B.J. Flana-sition both on Saturday and Sun-gan, another Chevy, eighth place day. On Saturday Huseman and went to Dan Vandenheuvel, in, Jeff Kincaid started on the front guess what, another Chevy and row but it was Huseman getting to Gordon Zima brought up the rear. Turn l first and there was no catch-On Sunday, there was just as ing him. He ran well in front of the much action and this time it was rest of the field and there was no Renezeder taking the coveted way they could put a move on him. checkered flag. Scotty Taylor was That was his first 20 points of the the second truck to take the flag, weekend. Jeff Kincaid was second Vandenheuvel was the bronze in his Toyota and he picked up 16 medal winner this day, Kevin Probst points for his efforts. Art Schmitt had to settle for a fourth place fin-was third in a Nissan, Lee O'Don-ish, R.J. Flanagan came up two nell was fourth across the line, Kyle spots from Saturday and finished LeDuc brought his Ford in for a in fifth. Sixth place went to Paul nice fifth place, sixth place went to Seidler, seventh was Harvey Wald, Steve Federico, old lately from Evan Evans had problems and fin-Florida Jimmy Crowder was seventh ished eighth and again Zima was across the line, Chad Hord was disappointed. eighth, Tom Hoppock was the AttheendoftheweekendCarl ninth finisher in class and Joe Renezeder and Kevin Probst were Wutke and Donnie Roberts tied in points at 32, each with a brought up the rear. win and a fourth place finish. Scott Sunday in rhe Pro-Lire d ivision Taylor had 30 points to his credit, it was Jimmy Crowder taking the Evan Evans had 24 points, Flana-bit in his teeth and he held his lead gan had 20 points, Harvey Wald for a few laps bur then his Ford has 19 and Gordon Zima has zero. stalled and rhere went the lead. Jeff In Pro-4, as always, the action Kincaid waved to Jimmy as he went was hor and heavy and rhe eight byandnowbyledtheclass. Kincaid trucks went ar it hammer and had a nine second lead over Huse-tong, nothing new here, much ro man ar the halfway point but he the delight of the audience and was in Kincaid's mirror. Kincaid the consternation of the pit crews. stalled his Toyota on the last lap Carl Renezeder drove his first race and that enabled Huseman to fly in Pro-4 and after a two lap battle by for his second win of the week-with John Greaves he took his end. Kincaid got going again and first win in the highly competitive took the silver m edal while Crow-class. Johnny Greaves was second, der came in for third. Art Schmitt still losing air in a tire and not ended up in fourth, Hord was fifth, moving as quickly as he was ca-Federico had another pable of, Steve McCrossan came sixth place finish, Wutke was seventh, Kyle LeDucwas eighth, Hoppock took an-other ninth place, O'Donnell was 10th and Roberts never made it. So, at the end of the first round, Huse-man leads the points with a perfect 40, Kincaid has 32, Schmitt has 26, Crow-der 23, Federico 20, Hord and LeDuc have 19, O'Donnell has 18, Scotty Taylor drove his Ford to a 3" and a 2., place in Hoppock 14, Wutke New York, not exactly where he wanted to finish. 10 and Roberts none. In the Pro-2 battle on Saturday it was Kevin Probst showing everyone the way home in his Chevy as he led the entire race and took the honors and the 20 points that come with the win. Second across the line was Evan Evans, also in a Chevy,J:hird was Scotty Taylor, the first Ford in, Carl Renez-eder was fourth in his Chevy, Paul Seidler Art Schmitt wasn't too happy with a :J"d and a 4'" place was the fifth finisher. finish in the Pro-Lite contest. Dusty Times 7

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' Carl Renezeder soars like an eagle in his Chevy, heading for the In Pro-2 Kevin Probst took the win in round 1 but was only able to Jeff Kincaid picked up two second place finishes in New York, he's round 1 win in Pro-4 and a 4th and a 1st in Pro-2. grab a fourth in the second round. second in points in Pro-Lite. in thirq, Jason Baldwin came in unable to continue, retiring to a medal. A fine third and a podium fourth, Josh Baldwin was fifth, watchful state in their respective finish was in the cards for Curt LeDuc, who wasn't having pits. Be it luck or driving-still, McCrosson (his second third his best race was sixth, Scott Dou-Curt LeDuc came out of the place finish for the weekend), Ja-glas was seventh and Al Drews pileup in the lead and there he son duplicated his fourth place came in eighth. remained, taking a nice win in finish again on Sunday, Al Drews Douglas were out with mechani-credit, Jason Baldwin and Al cal woes from the first lap bash. Drews are tied with 19 points In Pro-4 points Johnny each, Josh Baldwin has 12 points . Greaves has the lead with two sec-for his one finish and Scott Dou-ond place finishes and 32 points. glas has lO points. Round 2 of the Pro-4 contest Pro-4, his ninth win in that class made it a fifth place finish and on Sunday started with a major in his career. Johnny Greaves Carl Renezeder was only able to pileup in Turn 1 and both Scott poured the coal on and was able garner a sixth place finish. As Douglas and Josh Baldwin were to pass McCrossan for the silver noted, Josh Baldwin and Scott Curt LeDuc and Carl Renezeder Next race, a wee bit closer are tied in second with 30 points to home for most of the guys each, the result of a sixth and a is at Antigo, Wisconsin, June first place finish. Steve 8 a,...d 9. Stay tuned here for McCrosson has 28 points to his those results. Curt LeDuc took a first place in Round 2 after a disappointing 6'h pace It was that kind of weekend, Evan Evans could only record.a 2'" and Steve Mccrossen flies straight and level to a pair of third places in in the first round of the Pro-4 class. _______ an B'h place finish. _________ _th_e_P_~_o_-4_ c_on_t_e_s_ts_. ______________ _ ultimate long travel Get the benefits of our Long Travel system and 3" lift spindles, ueating 6" of lilt for incredible ground dearance. r;;i-=.,,. .-11 ■ 3' lift indles 1.,,._.-~ ■ Upper~ontrol arms (M~~W~,, ■ Lower Control arms .JT ■ Coil springs ■ 3 way front shocks ■ Performance rear shocks ■ Rear kit 3-may adjustable shocR ab.sorfler 0-;eJ touota Jonu · travel system Our Toyota 2 wheel drive, 6' 1van Dan' long travel system. Built ta satisfy all the serious all raaders out there. Dusty Times ford long travel system custom i beams Olfroad bullet proof design provides maximum strength with 4 130 Chramaly steel ! /8th' thick plate and tubular inner structure. 8' Suspension System used in a racing application with coil over shacks. Using Fabtech custom I beams, this configuration cycles out at 19' of wheel travel , 111PiHiiiC extended radius arms Our extended radius arms are offset further inboard far increased tire clearance. Ranger models shown, which include new pivot mounts. 1990-94 ford ranger " .. performance system Our extended radius arms are offset further inboard offering increased tire clearance and 4' mare wheel travel. Dual Shock System 2 shacks per front wheel, adds high perf~rmance dampening. 1998-on lard ranger 2.s .. performance system 2.5' of lift with a 2' increase in wheel travel. 1973-87 ClO y ·· long travel system Gives you the needed clearance for 33' tall tires. July 2002 angled {! !! f!Jlbbe!!!! include front fenders, bedsides and hoods. The front fenders and bedsides are flared with wheel travel in mind. spare tire moun~ .r-L ·~-Constructed using 1 I/ 4 • steel tubing and MIG welded at the joints far long lasting strength and durability. flat f:~,;_ •.. r~~,,,-· ·. ~ --· Over 25 Styles spare tire mount stamped steel tabs Our vast assortment of stamped steel tabs simplify your fabrication needs. Call for a distributor nearest yo Phone 714-990-8850 -Fax 714-990-8854 wwwJabtechmotorsports_com DR E-MAIL US AT inf□@fabtechrnotorsports.com Page 47

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(Ain't no Wahzoo) Well folks, I have had an interesting month pass by since last writing so I think I'll jump right in and share it. First off, great news. I have nego-tiated a lease on Checkerville so we won't be homeless after all. I've always said there's nothing worse than a whole gaggle of home-less Checkers wandering the streets! This means ya'll got no reasons for not coming to meetings. We are currently making decisions about how much fun to allow our-selves at our July 27th summer party in Cal City. We have purchased six new awesome pit boxes and are planning among many other things, to raffle off the old Checker pit boxes out there. To have a shot at these pieces of Checker history you must be there partying with us. There'll be loads of food and enter-tainment to be· had by all, come to the meet-ings for details. We had a couple races during May to keep us finely honed at what we do best. The MORE is MORE Lucerne Valley Race on May 19th drew out a handful of Check-ers with two cars compet-ing, a bachelor party and a chilly cook off all hap-pening. Jim Clemens once again put on a great event with seven rough ,20 mile loops. Gary Bates brought out his cool tandem car and split the driving with B.J. An excited Austin rode the whole way with his Uncle and Grandfa-ther keeping the thrills a coming. They ran strong all day finishing with a respectable fourth place. Maxine contrib-uted a couple mill ion gallons of her world fa-mous spaghetti salad to the chilly cook off after the race. Now we also had Marq with a Q out there hosting his going away, I mean bachelor party and giving his brand new four seater a shake down in Class 1. Marq had some design flaws giving him trouble, but that's to be expected with any new race car, fortunately he had Checker Pit B on hand. Pit captain Josh Gilliam, John Murphy, Fred Nel-son with young Fred, a friend and I were ready to weld his front shock towers back in place and do a little recon run to drag him off the course. Marq was out on Lap 5 with the rear spindle parting ways with the rest of his car, no chance for repair even by Check-ers. The Baja 500 for me was a great experience this year, kind of a race with a view so to speak. Michael Lee and I headed up a Checker Relay from 8,000 ft. by the observatory. Weath-erman Bo·b steered us into a primo locatio.n just below the observa-tory. I have a new found respect for what he does for all the racers at ev-ery race. We had great communications with cars and crews alike, no problems reaching both sides of the peninsula. With seven entries out there to keep an ear on, we stayed busy. We also were able to reach all our pits, n problems. We had pits at the road to Mike's. Malcolm Bryce with Alex Long and Mark Herrick handled that one, next was San Telmo with Dan Martin and Sporto handling things, then over to Valle de Trinidad where Gary Bates was the cap-tain. Gary had his # 1 helper Maxine with him along with Bobby McCall. I know we kept Bobby busy running back and forth to BFG's· pit. Next on the course was the always present Jorge Espino covering Erendira. George is al-ways a professional pres-ence and a pleasure to deal with on the radio. Next pit was the Santo Tomas pit with Randy Spahr as Pit Captain. He helped out by V.P. OUTLAW RACING FORSALE SCORE CLASS 5 UNLIMITED 45,000 OBO 20,00 NO ENGINE OR TRANS ~ CENTERLfNES, BFG' S 1967 FORD PRERUNNER 55,000 OBO • SCORE CLASS 8 READY • FORD SVO 520 Cl • CHRISMAN REAR END • KING COIL OVERS • BUILT BY STEW ARTS RACEWORKS · • ONLY BEST PARTS AND EQUIPMENT For more information call Mike James (619) 445 5797 ext 115. For more pictures and detail go to www.outlaw-race.com E-mail outlawraceteam@yahoo.com Page 48 July 2002 Reese King. 0 u r next Pit Captain was a famil-iar face for our drivers who made it to Oso Ne-gros because it was his double duty day. Mal-colm saw the need for this pit to exist and de-cided to take it on after he closed up his pit at the road to Mike's. This is not the first time Mal-colm has com~ thru by taking the tough pits or double pits, this guy is pure Checker. I know we had a lot more Check-ers running around the pits because I was run-ning into them at Thumpers annual Bash at the Bahia on Friday. Unfortunately, I got cor-nered outside the meet-ing and didn't get to hear all the pit reports, anyway, thanks to _all of you pitting. Now let's talk drivers here. We had six cars and Mike Childress on 15x running. Tom Koch ran his pro truck, Billy Robertson and Stuart Chase Class 1, George Seeley IN HIS 5 CAR, Jimmy Hook and Cash Vessels ran 1600, Ty Goode ran 1200 and Tommy Dittfield and Darrin McGuffin ran in Class 9. Tom's truck was knocked out right when Lee Patton hooked up on some rocks and tore up the front end the day early. George Seeley, Jr., in his championship style once again showed us what it takes to win. Ty Goode was running with Steve Greinke and ran into clutch problerns somewhere after Valle de Trit.idad and was DNF. Tom Dittfield and Darrin McGuffin ran up front in Class 9 almost to the end when prob-lems end their day and they wound up DNF. Stu-art Chase and Billy Rob-ertson ran strong all day and wound up with a ninth in class. We were all well informed of the. Car 122's progress in the later parts of the race course with Tony Tellier's mileage up-dates which were helpful to us doing the radio re-lay and had to rely on what we heard. Mike Childress wound up with a seventh place finish in class and we were kept abreast of his progress by Reverend Roy, who was chasing Mike. Roy was helpful in relaying mes-sages to cars and pits as he ·was ahead of the progress of our cars. Once again a great job by everyone down there showing off our Checker pride racing and pitting. Checker pits and driver entries are already filling for the upcoming MDR Kartek 400 and pit boards are always out for sign ups to every race. · Keep your eyes pee led for news coming soon on our Expo booth and su-per special raffle. We al-ways have· something new up our sleeves so you need to stay in touch through meetings. If you're interested in becoming a Checker or need to contact us or curse us call (818) 790-1161. We still meet on Wednesdays at our sam.e 1111 Foothill Blvd. loca-tion in La Canada. View us on the web at www.checkersoffroad.org. SEE YA IN THE DEZ, EL PREZ. . 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From The Director The Gibeault family and their army of volun-teers pulled off another spectacular Rim of the World Rally. They handled a big field of rally cars, 7 8 starters, a record number of spec-tators, and a huge pres-ence by the big three rally car manufacturers: Subaru, Mitsubishi and Hyundai. The best part was it all came off like clockwork. Subaru brought WRC driver, Peter Solberg, over for the rally. He signed autographs and drove the opening stage Friday. He really fits into our rally crowd, I heard he was in the bar at 2am when my timing crew got in from the course. On Saturday they auctioned off a ride with him in the Charity rally cross. Two ladies got in a bidding war and finally one of them paid $ 1200 for the honor. Thanks Subaru for your h elp in raising funds for the local chari-ties who benefited. There was a tremen-dous increase in the number of spectators on the course and at the pare expose on Saturday. I have never seen so many Subarus all in one place! They were every-where. I think every Im-preza owner in Califor-nia came down for Rim. The CRS had a signifi-cant number of entries in the rally. Lots of new faces and new rally cars out for the first time and the competition were fierce. Leon Styles and John Dillon had a great week-end in the Plsek Audi. They were third and second overall in the ClubRallys. On Friday they finished behind Peter Workum and Alex Gelsomino, who were in a Subaru Im-preza. Only 20 seconds separated them on Fri-day night. Brian Scott and Ed Wahl also fin-ished both days in the Open class followed by Julius Vasari and Stuart Gater on Friday night. Bob Pendergrass and Jon Weigley had an "Oops" on Friday Dusty Times night, but finished Sat-urday in the Chevy Blazer. Maybe it is time for a rally car instead of a raLly truck. Tony Chavez and Eddie Cardenas had radiator woes on Friday and then had a good run on Saturday to finish eighth overall in the ClubRally 1.n the trusty Galant. The CRS Stock clans were dominated by Terry Stonecipher and co-driver Jeff Bruett in their Toyota pickup. They took the class both days. Mike and Linda Masano gave them a run Friday night and were close on them again on Saturday till the FX 18 got hung up on a berm. Gaba Parl, our Tombstone rally cross organizer, and navigator, Paul Nelson, were consistent top 20 finishers both days. It is fun to organize but it is really fun to rally-right Gabe?! Doug Whited and Pe-ter Soper finished Friday in the red VW GTI but had problems on Satur-day. Rally sprint roll-over expert, Loren Worthington and co-driver Todd Kinney kept their Nissan Sentra up-right and finished both days in the Stock class. You are officially no longer rally virgins! Don Shreyer and Ken Tooker had problems Friday but finished on Saturday in the RX7. CRS rally school student Amy BeberVanzo drove her Eclipse cleanly to the fin-ish both days. Scott and Mark Peterson debuted their new VW GTI and finished both days. They said they just don't know what to do with all this power after the Dodge Colt. Scott Harvey, one of the original CRS ral-lyists came back after many years away and had · a good run Friday night. Group 2/ 5 had a huge entry this year. Jay Streets in the Volvo 760, and Dave Coleman in a Nissan Sentra, were duking it out on Friday. Jay beat Dave by hun-dredths of a minute. They must have worn each other out because neither one finished on Saturday. Jim Gillespy and Mick Kirkpatrick who finished third on Friday by only three sec-onds, took second in the class on Saturday. Will-iam and Julie Yates fin-ished fourth in the MR2 on Friday and fifth on Saturday. They just keep coming. Bill Malik took first place in his Volvo on Saturday after a dis-appointing run on Fri-day. Richard Byford and Fran Olson finished in their signature yellow BMW Friday ni7ht.· However, they didn t re-start on Saturday. The VW fastback of Rod Koch just keeps on run-ning. He and Kengo Takahashi motored around both days having a great time. Ricky De La Cuesta has a new car for this year, a Toyota Starlet. Robert Shibeo brought out his new car, a Ply-mouth Laser and took the tail end reward on Friday. Jon West and Peter Morris battled Robert Shibeo in their Datsun 510 on Saturday for the tail end position and finally triumphed by five min-utes. Bruce and Pat Brown had their hands full in the GT class with new competitors B e n Medeiros and Sean McKenna. Bruce gra-c io usl y a I-lowed them to beat him but just wait till next time. Steph-en Verdier, C h r i s Hamilton and Scott and Tamara Clark were all non-fin-ishers in the class. A big thank you . goes out to all of the rally teams who ran the event and an even big-ger thank you goes out to over 300 volunteers who made it all hap-pen. Mike Gibeault and Craig McHugh and their crack scoring team, Paul Timmerman and his spectator con-trol crew, Steve Bender who kept everything moving at the hotel, Denise and Pat McMah?n who orga-nized all of the volun-teers and the many other people behind the scenes who made Rim of the World the best National event this year. Next up is a Tomb-stone Rally Cross and then Gorman Ridge Rally. C heck out our website at <californiarallyseries.com> for more information. See you at the start line. 'S7RIC7LY 'ERFORMANCE Duality products built In house along with Fabtech. PIAA, BFGoodrlch, Weld. [amburg Engineering. Autofab, King 5hocks, Fuel 5afe. plus hundreds of other quality products and accessories. • Shock§ • Roll Cages • ExhaU!st Kit§ • Wheel§ Ii Tlr-e§ • Suspension Kits • Off Road Bumper-§ • [u§tom Fabr-lcatlon We !ipeclallze In Cust:am Fabrication And Lang Tra11el !iuspenslan ·!!iystems. Toll Fr-ee: (B66) 4B0-3556 B49 Mitchell Road #40~. 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The message is: Opposition to Boxer's Wilderness Bill, Reform the Endangered Species Act, support responsible mu ltiple-use on public lands, support BlueRibbon Coalition Back Country concept and to support Congressman Doolittle's "W ilderness Snidy Area Release Act." Your support is desperately needed. For more information contact Jon Crowley at 530-677-1651 oron. the web atcrowley9@pacbell.net. DO IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! S V SQVEHANNOCK TRAIL R ALLY -For a change the Susquehannock Trail rally was run in beautiful weather and the stage speeds were up in the stratosphere. 44 of the 88 entries actually finished the rally. History was made as David Higgins and Daniel Barritt, both from the United Kingdom drove their Subaru Impreza WRX to the overall and Open Class win, their fourth successive win1 That is really imprezzive. Congratulations to both of them. Mark Lovell and Steve Turvey were second in Open, also in a Subaru lmpreza WRX. Mark Nelson and Charles Bradlkey were third in a Mitsubishi Evo IV. Peter Thompson and Keith Townsend took the Group N honors in their Subaru Impreza WRX, Eoin McGeough a:nd Jason Gillespie were the Production GT winners in their Eagle Talon while Laughlin O'Sullivan and Matt Chester took the Group 2 win in their Mitsubishi Lancer RMR. The Group 5 honors went to Dave and Rick Hintz, driving their Mazda RX-7. Hopefully we'll have a full story in the next issue of Dusty Times. CRANDON INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY -Crandon Raceway is featuring a new class of Semi-Pro 4x4 race trucks this season. These trucks are a hybrid class incorporating Class 3 and Stadium Pro Tuff trucks. Crandon is looking for semi-pro drivers who want to compete for the prestige of winning at Crandon, some money and a World Championship title. The races will be sponsored by Johnsonville Sausage and the prize monies are: l" -$900, 2nd - $600, 3'd -$500 and 4th -$400. Entry fee is a very reasonable $90. For more information on this series call the raceway at 715-478-5815 . BEST IN THE D ESERT-By the time you read this the Best In The Desert Nevada 1000 will be in the record books. A full story with lots of pictures will be in next month's issue of Dusty Times. As of the fourth of June there were 160 entries, 62 are motorcycles and quads and 98 are buggies and trucks. As usual, there will be lots of competition and, this race is billed as the longest race inside the US of A so lots of territory will be covered and those chat complete the race, never mind win their class, have bragging rights for a tough race completed. CORR LUCAS OIL SERIES -With one makeup round to be run, the CORR series ran three heats at Antigo on the weekend of June 8 & 9. In Pro-4, Scott Douglas won the l" round, John Greaves round 2 and Douglas repeated and took the 3rd round. In Pro-2 Scott Taylor won rounds 1 and 3 while Evan Evans took rhe middle race. In Pro-Lite Art Schmitt took round 1, Steve Federico won the 2nd round and Jeff Kincaid cook the 3'd round. In Super Buggy, Las Vegas driver Aaron Hawley took the first heat, Scorr Schwalbe took the second round and Mike Seefeldt took round I in Single Buggy, Steve Socha took round 2 and Mark Steinhardt was the round 3 winner. Matt Gerald took the light Buggy 1st round, Greg Steven/John Huven took round 2 and Ben O'Connell was the 3,d round winner. In Sportsman 2 another Las Vegas driver, Tommy Bradley rook the I" and 2nd round wins and Dan Badoux took round 3. ln the Stock Class Mark Kleiman won the first 2 rounds and Keith Steele took round 3. In points so far, Johnny Greaves leads Curt LeDuc 77 to 70 in Pro-4, Scott Taylor leads Kevin Probst 82 to 78 in Pro-2 and Art Schmitt leads Rick Huseman 76 to 74 in Pro-Lite. In Sportsman 2Tommy Bradley leads Dan Badoux 56 to 4 2, In Stock, Keith Steele and Mark Kleiman are tied with 52 points each , Aaron Hawley leads Scott Schwalbe 52 to 50 in Super Buggy, Mark Steinhardt and Mike Seefeldt are tied wirh 50 points each in Single Buggy and in Light Buggy, Ben O'Connell leads Josh Hintz 52 co 38. Stay tuned to Dusty Times for more CO RR results. PROTRUCKS IN BAJA -There were 11 Pro Trucks entered in the SCORE Baja 500 and Al Hogan was first of the group to finish. Steve Barlow came in for the second place spot and David Sykes fought power steering belt problems all day but still took third. Jim Stiles took the fourth place finishing position and Wally Hrdlicka finished fifth. In Pro Truck points, the top 5 are Al Hogan 465, Steve Barlow 364, Rick Johnson 362, Dan Hunt an d Rob Reinertson with 326 points each . 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Adam Wik BIICINB ..... BF.lUCE HENDEL Regional Manager SCORE ENGINE BUILDER OF THE YEAR 1994, 1998, 1999,2000 Race Cars Dune Buggies Lorenzo Rodriguez Baja Bugs VP Racing Fuels, West Co\!~f P. 0. Box 1319 Phone: (909) 674-9167 Fax: (909) 674-7367 Pager: (909) 694-7392 From Parts To Complete Engines Transmissions - Parts - Service - Welding V.W -Porsche -Nissan - Toyota -Honda 34283 'Monte Vista Wildomar, CA 92595 3675 w. Taco Ave. unn 8, Las Vegas, NV 89118 702-837-2522 850 S. Alta Vista Ave., Monrovia, CA 91016 (626) 914-8147 www.wrtrans.com ( <o).<o) ~-S?.ACe <lh~~ ,Ila i\\e BUMP STOPS. HERE 00~~~ .. -Stop the up-travel on your suspension w this ad e umn "'to s stem. Front & Rear Trailing'Arms • Spindles Suspension Specialist • Custom Race & Play Buggy Chassis A-Arm Front Ends • Beam Front Ends ~ PA!Nr flNP C04TING'S"'-GRA/¥/KS-w J,(J/lOS ' ♦/Vr,f!!".'==ro~~ MAJN!lNANCf• 5""~/.IYAC<j'-J,ffFR/Nt;• Jack Woods 602-242-0077 Fax 602-242-7283 ECONOMICALLYPRICED.AT319.90PERPAIR. _; 760-949-1220, 9608 N. 21st Dr. Phoenix, AZ 85021 Yarnell Specialties, Inc. 102 Crestview P.O. Box 845 1-928-427-3551 Yarnell, AZ 85362 Motorcycles· * KTM Dealer for over 20 years * Stock parts * Supports top riders suspension * Accessories Automotive• ATV• Motorcycle . · Tires/knowledge · Open 1815 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE RIVERSIDE CA 92507 USA 909.369.5144 • 909.369.7266 FAX WWW .WEB CAMSHAFTS. CO 114 Classified ... NOTICb. Some of the items advertised in these pages may not be legal for sale_ or use in all 50 states. Readers are advised to consult appropriate local or state authorities for information before purchase of any specific item. 0 Arm. Class 1,10 or Use for Pre-Run-ner. 1835 Type 1, Rose Trans, Bil-stein Bypass & Coilovers throughout. Fortin rack & shifter, Curnutt 934.5 Outboard hubs, New fiberglass body panels, New Beard Ultras, 25 gal Fuel Safe, CNC, Spares, $19,500.00_ Scott (949) 661-7880. FOR SALE: 2000 Ford Ranger Stock Mini, B.I.T.D. Ford Contingency money winner. All the best equip-ment. Ready to Race with n u m e rous spares_ Call David (775) 3 59-4811. $19,995.00. FOR SALE: Ford Ranger PreRunner 4x4, 4.0 liter V6 au-tomatic standard cab long bed. Fiberglass front, 30 gallon tank, Fox shocks Beard seats. Great project. Run ~ good. $3,500.00 (949) 645-3223 . FOR SALE: Raceco Class 1, 2 seater, Ford SVO V-8, Rancho Updated Fields Auto Mike Smith Bypass, Many extras, Just prepped and ready to race. Ex-Riviera Car. $28,500.00 OBO (619) 469-0400. FOR SALE: 1995 Competi-tive 40' 5'h Wheel trailer, liv-ing quarters, 1nicrowave, re-frigerator, shower, toilet, king size bed, 7k generator, air compressor, lined & insu-lated, lots of cabinets, work-bench, llOV & 12V lights_ 75" interior heigh t-White Xlnt. $20,000.00 Call Tom @ (562) 618-4826_ FOR SALE: Class 5 Unlimited SCORE/MDR winner. All 4130 steel, complete race prep. Fresh Fortin 5 and FAT 3.0L 230HP dry sump engine. New powder coat, crow belts, PCI intercom, Au tometer, Weber 48s, Jet coated headers, custom paint job, Beard seats. Momo, King by-pass, Foddrill big arms, big beam, drop spindles, 934 cv's, 35" BFG ultra bead locks, 28 gal Fuel safe, Howe steering, W ilwood brakes, Some spares. This car is fast and fun_ Asking $40,000.00. Call Dave @ (949) 642-5158. days. * 12pm--6pm M -F Various Saturdays 714-449-1271 * 714-449-1374 Fax www.KTM-Zracing.com 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, PC!, $21,000.00 OBO. ALSO Hallmark 24' enclosed trailer,Air, toilet, Spare Rack, $8,500.00. David (928) 220-2291, (928) 567-0347. FOR SALE: 92 Ford Bronco PreRunner, 9" FORD full floater rearend, 4 link, Kings, 4 wheels disc brakes, Custom front beams with Kings, fully caged, custom interior with 3 or 4 seats, Fuel injected 3 51, 4 W.D., glass front end, white exterior, grey interior, 60k orig. mis, $44,000.00 or trade. (562) 618-4831. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• : Sell' or swap your extra parts and pieces in DUGlil : : DUSTY TIMES. ===lillBG : • • • • • • • • • • • • • Classified Advertising ra te is only $25 for 45 words each month, n ot including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use of black and white photo , or a very sharp color print. Maximum size S"x7".All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. 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FOR SALE: Turn-Key Super 1600-T wo bodies: Two transmissions: two complete long block, dry sump VW engines; one rwin cam 4-valve; the other 2-valve cross flow head. Zero hours on both engines. Four mounted tires; new BFG un-mounted tires. Lots of spare parts, too many to list. $22,000.00 US, OBO. Call Bill for details at (905) 877-37.,,,16,...,,,_...,,,,. 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, Bilstein, Wright front end, adjusters front & rear, remov-able windshield, trailer, $9,000.00. (949) 493-6037. FOR SALE: 2002 Porter Truggy. 500 + H.P. Fuel Injected Chevy V6. Turbo 400 Trans. Casale Y-Drive, CNC brakes, Cone Hubs, Howe Rack, 60 gal Fuel Cell w/ dry break. Built exactly like Da-rnen Jefferies winning Trophy Truck. Call Porter Racer Cars@ (909) 687-5118. FOR SALE: Class 10 or 12 Two seater 123 in, 1780 Rabbit w/Fat Head, 091 Tranny, SwayA-Way 300M axles, Torsion's 930CY w/ 300M cages. Micro Stubs, Fox, Pumper, PCI radio w/intercom. Ron Davis Radiator, UMP, Wright Rack, CharLynn / Howe Power Steering, Simpson, Kennedy, Pertronix Ignition. $15,000.00 (209) 772-0215. GMCADON@EARTHLINK.NET FOR SALE: Class 3 Isuzu Amigo. Centerline Rims, BFG tires, PCI Radio w/intercom. 4 wheel drive. Great for PreRun Fun. 2.6 4 cyl. All tube chassis. Over 80k in-vested. Also have trailer. Asking $9,000.00 OBO (714) 412-5983. FOR SALE: Jimco Class I FAT Toyota V6-Fields Auto Trans 3" Ryerson shocks Front & Rear. Best ride in the desert. ALSO 2 seat-Raceco Prerunner. Type 4 5-Speed-real nice car. Call days (760) 344-0535 nite (760) 344-1328. Class 1-$38,000.00, PreRunner $18,000.00. FOR SALE: PreRunner 4 seat Truggy, Street legal 350 Chevy Y8 New carb, Headers, Flowmaster ex-haust, Fast, 2 sets Goodyear Wran-gler like new 3 5 ", Beard Seats, Hella, Bosch Lights, Bilsteins, 22 gallon Jaz, Fuel Cell, Luggage Rack, Suicide doors. $15,000.00 OBO. Chuck 928 704-2660. ----~ FOR SALE: Class 5 Unlimited Type IV new 27 55cc, 21" rear travel, 16" in front. All disc brakes, 4 way by-pass, 930 cv's 300m axles, safe cell, All Coilover car with 1 Y4 shafts in back, New tranny tall Gem Gears. Invested $43,000.00 Asking $17,500.00. Scott (505) 867-1371 (214) 244-4659. FOR SALE: 95 Fl50 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. FORSALE: 1993ATSTR5'hWheel 40' Race Trailer. 3 axe!, 5 KW gen-erator, 110V and 12V lights, cabi-nets, awning. $8,500.00. Call Tom @ (562) 618-4826. Dusty Times Classi.ied Pages JVhere Your Ad Reaches The Readership Youre Looking For! Dusty Times hair. ProSeat Mondatedby g PRDTRUCK RACING ORGANIZATION PLEASE! DON'T FORGET TO SUPPORT THE ADVERTISERS WHO KEEP DUGliJlilDIIG REPORTING THE OFF. ROAD NEWS! July 2002 CHEVY BLAZER PRE-RUN-NER FOR SALE: Fiberglass front end, all tube frame, A-Arm front, Coil over on all corners, Sway bars front and rear, Brand New 383 w/aluminum head motor w/New Allison 4 speed, New 9 inch Christman rear end w/vented disc brakes on all cor-ners, telescopic and tilt steering wheel, AC, radio, 3 or 4 seater w/ 4 point harness, custom dash, 2 glove boxes, 27 inches of travel, 4 New 35" BFG project tires incl. Spare, lots of storage space. Run on pump gas, very strong and reliable, electric win-dows and locks, easy co 1nain-tain, $45,000.00 Call Danny Foddrill (623) 582-2499. Don't miss this one, excellent truck for the money; no expense spared very detail work. FOR SALE: 1999 Santek 40' 24 feet living. Sleeps 6 adults. 100 gallons of water. Very nice 16 foot garage with lifting header. Overhead and underfloor stor-age 2-75 gallon fuel stations Must see! $60,000.00 obo Call (714) 434-7500 days. FOR SALE Toyota Tacoma short course, Stadium, rough 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: Raceco 3 Speed Auto Transaxle. Two Complete w/Torque Converter for sale. One set-up for midmount and the other for rear mount engine. Flush-board 934 CY Flanges. Both $17,000.00 OBO or Each. $9,000.00 OBO. Jimco 2000 Fuel Safe Fuel Tank Complete $400.00 OBO. Contact Henk (714) 962-3501 (h), (714) 959-2215 (c), FOR SALE: Class 5 Baja; Built by Lothringer in 1989 from a 1969 bug. Fox shocks up-dated by Loth-ringer in 1998, Fortin Bus box, Centerlines and much more. Last raced 3 years ago. Complete car except engine and radio. $4,500.00 OBO. (760) 240-3543. FOR SALE: 125" Raceco Class 1, 2 seat, 3 L SCAT, Fortin 5 speed, 935.CV's, Summers Bros., Beard Seats, Hella Lights, Bilstein shocks, Race safe extinguisher, 5 radios, 3 pit boxes, 4 sets tires & rims, 110 gals race gas. · Every-thing thing is new. 0 miles since complete rebuild. ALSO 30' 3 axle fully enclosed trailer w/6.5 ONAN generator. $29,000.00 for car. $6,000.00 for trailer. (209) 785-4143. FOR SALE: 79 F150 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. P061TION6 WANTb.D HeWrites4U is here to help you with Press Releases, Technical Writing, Il-lustrations and Public Relations cam-paigns for you or your company. Published in dozens of magazines, particularly automotive related and able to help you when you need it most. For more information call (619) 561-5881 or email Hewrites4 U@aol.com. INDb.X TO ADYb.Q. 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