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Volume 20 -Number 9 September 2003 DUGliYljl■IG Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor John Calvin Associate Editor Judy Smith Eilitorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance Scott · Contributors C&C Race Photos Sheryl Cannon Carrera Photography Mike Chamberlain J&L Photography Jim Culp Mike Del Col Martin Holmes Rod Koch Ralph Mason Ron Miller Rene Montana Byrle Moore Troy Robinson Jeff Straw Darryl Smith Tony Tellier · Paul Timmerman· Trackside Phoro Art Director Larry Worsham it Subscription Rates; $25.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Subscription 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. · DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 8750-1732) is published monthly by Hill-side Racing Corp, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311, (818) 882-0004 with additional Dusty Times, LLC offices at 415 N. Higgins Avenue, Suite lA, Missoula, MT 59802. Copy-right by Hillside Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the pub-lisher. Periodical Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at addi_tional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change to DUSTY TIMES, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of.address. Please furnish both old and new address, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. . snapshot of tht;! Month ... Lon Peterson and Jim Love drove their almost Lotus looking VW buggy to third place in the Open Division at the East Of Indio Rally, way back in 1984. 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 8x10will be considered. In This Issue .. ~ FEATURES SCOR];: Henderson Terrible's 250 by Jud:y Smith ....... ................................................ 8 31" Cyprus Rally lry Martin Holmes ........................................................................... 18 Spring Time At. Havasu by Byrle Moore ................................... ................... , .... .... ~I Off Road motorsports Hall Of Fame lry Judy Smith ........................................ 24 Kartek More/SNORE by Tony Tellier/Sheryl Cannon ..................................... 26 CORR At Bark River by] Preston Bradshaw ..................................................... 34 · . . VORRA At Yerington by Bu.bba Ray Boudreaux ...... , ........... ............................ 38 History Of The Baja Pit Team by 8-yrle Moore .............................. : .................. 42 UROC Rock Crawl by Craig Stu.mph .................................................................. 44 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ...................................................... : .................................................. 5 Trail Notes ........................................................................................................... 6 Demographic Questionaire ............................................................................. 43 CORE Report ....................... ~ ............................. , .......... : ................................. 46 F.A.I.R. Report ................................................................................................. 46 Good Stuff Directory ....................................................................................... 51 Classified Ads ................................................................................................... 58 Index To Advertisers ........................................................................................ 59 on The caver Tim and Ed Herbst drove their Trophy Truck to the overall win at the SCORE Henderson Terrible 250, a trouble free run on a new type BFG tire. Note mother hen hovering high above. Picture by Byrle Moore - Trackside Photo The 1/21600 win v,,ent to the team of Brian Freeman and Bruce Fraley, who overcame some fuel pump troubles early on to take a nice gold medal at the SCORE Henderson Terrible 250. 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2003 Happenings ... DON ENGLEMAN (BIKES) (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. RICHARDS ENSENADA, BC, MEXICO USA JAN WRIGHT (011 52 61746834) RAMON CAsTRo & RUBEN ACEVEDO (61637/7 0034) December 12-14, 2003 CODE/Record Race Ready 200 Mexicali to San Felipe B.C.,MX A.MEluCAN RAu,y SPORT GROUP ,.INC. 3650 SoUTII POINTE CIRCLE, SUITE 205 LAUGHLIN, NV 89208 (702) 298-8171/FAX: (702) 521-0597 E MAIL: roger@rallyusa.com A.MEluCAN TRIALs ASSOCIATION AMA OBSERVED 'fRIALs SoUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES BILL MARKUM • PRESIDENT (909) 860-1857 24 HR HOTLINE· (714) 562-7742 E MAIL: bmark909@aol.com <www.atatTails.com> ASOCIACION EsTATAL DE AuroMOVILISMO SAM l..AsELL, ·TECH INSPECTOR Al'To42 SAN Jost DEL CABO . BAJA CALIFORNIA DEL SUR. MEXICO Santa Maria, CA John Dillon October 25, 2003 Tombstone Paintball Rallysprint II (1) Corona, CA Gabe Pari November14,2003 T arline Clubrally ( I) Monrovia, CA Pete Morris rallytaff@earthlink.net CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box 400 MAYWOOD, CA 90270 (32}) 560-SHOW CENTRAL Soura DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION . P.O. Box 645 PIERRE, SD 57501 DAVE AD-.Ms (PILOTS AND BAJAS) (605) 224-9481 P.O. Box 332 FAIR HAVEN, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CI.AmTON lb-JACKERS l.C.O. TOM DELAUDER SR 1091 TWP. LINE ROAD WELISVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Harrison Councy Fair Grounds. Cadi~. OH CuJB AuroMovrusncA SAN Qunm:N CALLE 6TA FRAcc Co. DE SAN QUINTIN SAN QUINTIN, BC, MEXICO HERACLIO PATINO (011 52 616-5-22-07) CLUB AuroMovrumco SAN VICF.NTE SAN VICl!NTB OFF ROAD CMC . CONTINENTAL MDTOSPORT CLlJB P.O. Box 3187 MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690-3178 FAX: (714) 367-1608 CODEOmtoAD CODE Offroad USA P.O.Box 2328 Calexico, CA 92231-2328 USA Phone 760-455-8069 Mexico Phone/Fax 0ll-52686-553-4087 CODE Offroad Mexico Calle Bravo # 120B Zona Centro Mexicali, BC 21100 Tel/Fax 686-553-4087 www .codeoffroad.com.mix mail@codeoffroad.com.mix October 10-12, 2003 CODE Mangiamos 300 Laguna Salada Mexicali, B.C., MX CoLORADO Hn.L Cram ASSOCIATION BARB VAHSHOLTZ, PRESIDENT (719) 531-3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P.O Box 8286 CoLORAOO SPRINGS, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP P.O. Box 392 CALEXICO, CA 92232 HECTOR CERECER 0l 1-52-65-66-4458 CORR CHAMPIONSHIP OFF .ROAD RACING 192 N. STATE ROAD, SUITE 267 A\.ON, IN 46123 . (317) 272-2827/Fax: (317) 272-2900 Septembr 13-14, 2003 Pro Series Onl1 New Berlin, NY AuSTRALIANOFFRoAD / """""-------------------------... -----------------.... CHAMPIONSHIP DARRYL SMITH 19 SoMERS ST. CAsHMERE, QUEENSLAND, 4500, AUSTRALIA DUSTY TIMES @bigpond.com AurOCROSS QuEBEC OFF ROAD CLASS 10 CARS ONLY RENAL0 VAILLANCOURT 3069 DAGENAIS WEST LAvALQUEBEC,CANAD\H7P 1T7 (450) 622-4440 BARONA SAND DRAG ASSN. P.O. Box 1521 LAKESIDE, CA 92040 All Races Are Night Races All Races At Barona Racewa;,, Lakeside, CA BBMMARKETING PROMOTIONS OFF ROAD SHORT COURSE RACING & SPECIAL EVENT MAfuamNG 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 December 5-7, 2003 Las Vegas 200 Las Vegas, NV BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING OO'ERPRISES 341 W. 257 5 NORTH SUNSET, UT 84015 (801) 773-1651/(801) 773-9319 Fax BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 BRIGHTON, ONTARIO, CANAD\ KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/FAX (613) 475-3250 CAJOR CLUB AUTOMOVTUSTAJUARENSE DE CHAMPIONSHIP OFF-ROAD RACING 7210 GATEWAY EAsT EL PASO, TX 79915 (915) 593-4848 RALPH GARCIA 0ll-52-16-17-45-42 CESAR FUENTES CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES SUE ROBINSON • DIRECTOR 845 SCHOOHOUSE ROAD RAMONA, CA 92065 (760) 788-3809 E-MA11.: crsdirect@hoimail.com BRAD Bou, SoPAc RALLY STEWARD (702) 303-5628 E,..MA11.: overexposureracing@hotm.ail.com Chris Burns (408) 394-4802 (Home) WEBSITE <www.californiarallyseries.com> 2003 CRS RAu.,y CHAMPIONSHIP *Count in WSRC fcrr 2003 October 3-4, 2003 (TeQtative) , Prescott Forest Rally (2,3) Prescott, AZ Michael Taylor November 15, 2003 Treeline Club Rally (*) Monrovia, CA Pete Morris .December 12-14, 2003 Ramada Express Rally (2, 3, I) Laughlin,NV Ray Hocker 2003 CRS lw.LYSPfUN[ CHAMPIONSHIP October 11, 2003 Santa Maria Rall rint 1 Dusty Times INTRODUCING_ by KEN\! AQQDPREMIUM · W, PRODUCTS 110 Walts of Power 1160 Channel Alphan~meric I Water Resistant I ~ii Spec I Baja 1000 Proven "_I was in Ensenada, and my crew in San Quinlin could hear me 150 miles awayl I need these in ALL of my trucks!" -"""-' L."""-'J-, ,».tf=L.L/E:11~ PROTRUCK WINNER. 2002 TECATE/SC0RE BAJA 1000 "_The best communication we've in over IS years of off road racing!" -~~IBI.,.-~ Gc::T -,-,-.c-,-.,,~~ Tc»~~I Remele Head opHon avallable. Call ror details. 800.869.5636 562.427.8177 • Fax 562~26.3589 WWW.PCIRACERADIOS.COM 2888 Gundry Ave.. • Signal Hill, CA 90755 Septmeber 2003 Pages ,

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SCORE/LAUGHLIN -The SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge has been going -on for nine years. An agreement signed by the sponsors of the event and SCORE International has guaranteed at least three more years of exciting off road action near the banks of the Colorado River. The Laughlin Visitors Bureau, a division of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Las Vegas Events and the Laughlin Tourism Committee have entered into an agreement with SCORE to hold the annual event in Laughlin through 2006. "SCORE International is excited to have a three year contract for this one-of-a-kind-event", said SCORE President Sal Fish. "The agreement guarantees the future of the most spectator friendly event in the SCORE Racing series and desert racing as a whole", he said. "We are pleased to start our six race 2004 SCORE Desert Series in Laughlfn and are especially looking forward to help commemorate a decade of excellence in the Laughlin Desert." FINAL FLAG -We were truly saddened to hear of the passing of Vic Hickey, one of the early off road racing pioneers. Vic passed away on June 13d, at the age of 84, apparently of natural causes. Vic was a Los Angeles native and grew up in the highly formative years of the hot rod era. Vic built Novi Indy cars, but it was in the off road world where he really made his mark. He built the innovative Corvair powered "Trailblazer" and that led to a term at General Motors where he designed the suspension of the Lunar Rover. Vic built the famous Baja Boot, a four wheel drive vehicle and the Boot won the first Baja 500 with Bud Ekins at the helm and Vic in the co-drivers chair. The Boot was later owned and raced by Steve McQueen. Hicky's Oldsmobile Banshee, a mid engined Cutlass ran in many off road races, piloted by James Garner and Mickey Thompson. Our heartfelt condolences to Vic's family. MORE SCORE -The dates for the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 are: November 20 through November 23, 2003. For some reason we have been showing improper dates in the Happenings section of Dusty -Times. Be sure to adjust your calendar to the new dates! PROTRUCK UPDATE -In a release from Protruck dated July 17, 2003, it is stated: The Phoenix event, scheduled for October 11-12, 2003 has been taken off the Protruck race schedule for 2003 and replaced with the La Paz race in September, whi<;h will be televised. MERE PROTRUCK -Some Pro truck deslrt racing and closed course events II be shown on the Outdoor Life Network (OLN). The race at ughlin will air on September 4,5 and 8. The Terrible's Town 250 airs on September 15. The Baja 500 will be shown on September 11 and 12. The Best In The Desert race will air on September 1, 18 and 19. The Protruck Guam race will air on September 22,25 and 26. Check you local listings on those dates fot air times. The programs also include driver interviews and technical features. SCCA PRoRALLY -MAINE FOREST RALLY -The sixth event in the 2003 nine event schedule cakes place in Rumford, Maine on August l" and 2nd. With a huge entry of more than 95 cars, they will compete on dirt and gravel lumber roads in western Maine. The overall Drivers Points Champion, David Higgins will attempt a fifth win of the season in his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. He has won four of the five events run this season. A huge Group 2 field of 22 cars is headlined by Eric Burmeister, competing against Scott Fuller and Chris Whiteman .. The rally is a full points SCCA ProRally Championship event. Hopefully a full report will be seen in Dusty Times. BEST IN THE DESERT BAJA MEX 300 -By the time you read chis the Baja Mex race will be in the history books. BITD announced in July that a new class will be featured in the race, namely the Safari Pre-Runner Class, open to all pre-runners! The race runs on August 23'd, starting in beautiful Downtown .J::nsenada and the checkers fly at the Estero Bea,ch Resort. There are six designated pits along the course. Stay tuned to Dusty Times for a complete race report with lots of photos. DAKAR RALLY -The 26d, Dak·ar Rallye will, for the first time since its inc~ption in 1977 will have a three rider team of American racers. Backed by KTM Sportsmoi:orcycle USA and Red Bull, the team will consist of two veteran riders, Larry Roesseler and Paul Krause, ·who, between them have more than 60 years of off road racing experience. Team member number three has yet to be chosen. KTM has decided to' conduct an unprecedented nationwide search for the third rider. The rider will be selected based on their off road racing experience, capability to make good decisions despite enormous fatigue, adaptability to foreign circumstances and ability to project a ,JOsitive image for America and the team. Stay tuned. UMHO TIRE SUPPORT TRUCK - Kuh mo Tire has launched a new motorsport upport truck and trailer and a trio of Mini Coope-rs. The truck will rovide trackside support at Sports Car Club of America national events and at Championship Off Road Racing events. The Mini Coopers will be used to conduct ride and drive events for tire sealers, consumers and the media. Ah, how well I remember m:, old Mini Cooper! SCORE STANDINGS - 'With only two races remaining on the SCORE calendar, many of the classes are not yet decided and it is anybody's trophy to capture for the 2003 season. To date, the overall points leaders are the young team of Eric Allen and Adam Pfankuch, they lead the Class 1600 group by 44 points and they have the overall lead by 14 points. The boys won the Laughlin race, the San Felipe L.50 and the Baja 500, mighty impressive, and they overcame some difficulties at Henderson to take third in class in their VW powered Jimco. Their KIT team (Keep It Together) has been very impressive and the boys intend to keep it chat way. In the Trophy-Truck class it's another combo that is doing right well this year. Running a Ford F-150 is the team of Gus Vildosola and Rob MacCachren but their lead is only 8 points over the never to be counted out pair of Tim and Ed Herbst in another Ford F-150. The Herbst brothers won the Henderson event and are therefore the winningest drivers in the Trophy-Truck class, they have won 10 of the 60 SCORE Trophy-Truck events. To recap the points standings in brief form we have: Trophy-Truck, Gus Vildosola/Rob MacCachren, 250 points. Tim/Ed Herbst, 242, Mark Pose/Jerry Whelchel, 196, Scott Steinberger/Jesse Jones, 191, Brian Collins, 155, Jim Beaver, 154 and Steve Sourapas, 147. Class 1, Dale Ebberts/Ernie Castro Jr, 289, Mark/Gary Weyhrich, 265, Troy Herbst, 262, Ron Brant, 243 and Chuck Hovey 207. Class ½-1600, Eric Allen/ Adam Pfankuch, 303, James Golden, 259 and Brian Jeffrey, 241. ProTruck, Alan Page& CORVA 1500 WEST EL CAMINO, SUITE 352 SACRAMENTO, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA EXT 42 FAx (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS DAVE VAN DEREN 2405 BAKER AvE. EVERETT, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (AU events at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thurston CountJ ORV Park, Olympia, WA) DAKAR RALLY DARREN SKILTON BAJA AUTOMOTIVE ADVENTURES 455 E. OCEAN BLVD., SUITE 208 LoNG BEACH, CA 90802 (562) 755-2278/FAX: (562) 590-7925 Bajaautomotive@Yahoo.com DECATIJR FmJR WHEEL DRIVE CuJB DECATUR, TX 76234 . ToMALLEN (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 DESERT STEEL MoTORSPORTs 1863 CoMMANDER DRIVE LAKE HAVASU Cm, AZ 86403 (928) 855-2208 October 25-26, 2003 Baja ln Havasu Lake Havasu, AZ EAsn:RN OFF-ROAD RACING ASSN. TOM DELAUDER, SR. 1091 TOWNSHIP LINE ROAD WELLSVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 EN5ENADABAJA 0tF ROAD RACING Av. REFORMA 1136 ENSADA, BC, MX 0ll-52-646-1818989 Eus10 0ll-52-646-1715230 AARON The best 4-speed In the Race.s for buggzs & Motorcycles EsTERo BEACH INTERNATIONAL SHORT CoURSE RACING VICTORIA GALINDO ENSENADA, BAJA WLIFORNIA, MEXICO 0ll-52-646-176-6230 FORDA FLoRJDA OFF ROAD DRIVER'S AssN. JASON LEIBIN (727) 376-4176 Mar, Apr, May, Noo at Davidson Racewa'J FRT MoTORSPORTS 250 KENNEDY, #2 CHL!LA VISTA, CA 91911 (619) 427-5759 E-MAIL: FUD9@cox.net Buggies & Trucks October 17-19, 2003 Superstition 250 XX Plaster City East December 30-31, 2003 The Dash Plaster City West GORRA GEORGIA OFF ROAD RACING AssOCIATlON 420 HOSEA ROAD LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30245 (404) 963-0i52 GPORRA GREAT PLANEs OFF ROAD RACING AssOCIATION PAUL HUFFMAN (402) 296-4349 JESS URWIN (402) 944-2193 AU race.s are short course, stadium stJk. Cla.sses -Sportsman Buggy, 1/2/5-1600, Sport Truck and Quads. Nebraska Racewa1 Park is just minutes west of Omaha, NE. <www.gporra.com> 10K FOUR WHEELERS desert just got better! MENDEOLA1s New &trtlmB Duly 5,.. is now available and affordable for all compe-tition classes, where applicable. RACE PROVEN IN THE 2001 BAJA 500. Call for complete details ~n this latest innovation In racing transaxle technology. September 2003 P.O. Box 36 CLEVES, OHIO 45002 (AU events staged at the club grounds in Clet,es. Ohio) INTERNATIONAL ICE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 S'r. PAUL, MN 55108 STEVE BEDDOR (612) 937-3816/FAx 474-2769 INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS PRoMonoNs, 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: Jeepspeedcom@aol.com • KAMLooPS BRONCO BUSTERS WmsPERING Pxms SPORTS & lb:cREATION CENTER P.O. Box 465 KAMI.OOPS, BC, CANADA VZG5L2 DALE NYESTE (250) 579-8039 TONY (250) 554-97801. CRAIG BYERS (250) 376-8466 Septemberl4,2003 October 51 2003 LAS VEGAS SANDSPORTS & 0PFROAD EXPO (626) 961-3782 <www.prerunners.com> <www.megashow.com> L.I.T.R.E. JEFF ELROD (408) 926-0522 J1MARUTA Dusty Times

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(408) 247-4402 MAMAluuTA ()pp ROAD RACING LUIS CA!u.os"ALVAREZO PANAMERICANA AvE #5105 Co. ]uAREZ, CHIH., MX 011-52-1637-1799 MxcmGAN·Buoov BtmDERS DuNE BUGGY 'TRADE Snow (517) 543-7214 <.www.buggybuilders.com> MICHIGAN ()pp ROAD CliAMPIONSJDPS M. T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 )ONES ROAD 0GRAND LEOOE, ML 48837 (517) 627-6200 Motorcycles, Quads, A TVs and Pilots on!, MAORA Mio-AMERICA {)pp ROAD A:ssOCIATION P.O. Box 184 MATTOON, IL 61938 (217) 235-6528 E-MAIL: maora@peako.com <.www .maoraracing.com> September 27, 2003 Short Course Charleston, IL September 27, 2003 Short Course Casey, IL September28,2003 200km Endure Casey, IL MOJAVE DESERT RACING 1853 PARKWAY DRIVE s. EL MONTE, CA 91733 (626) 442-9320/(626) 579-6051 FAx E-MAIL: mdrracing@aol.com September27,2003 Lucerne 300 Lucerne Valley, CA November 22, 2003 Stoddard 250 Barstow, CA M.O.R.E. HIGH DESERT CHAMPIONSHIP P.O. Box 1231 BARSTOW, CA 92311-1231 (760) 253-4453 September 20, 2003 . Barstow, CA December 6, 2003 Lucerne,CA MSBA MICHIGAN SPORT BUGGY AssOCIATION DAVE BARRET . 6363 NIGHTINGALE DR. FLrNT, ML 48506 (810) 730-9221 MoTOWEST WINTER TRIALS SERIES BILL MARKHAM (909) 860-1857 <.www.lTStrials.com> AU e1ients at Perris Racewa, (At Reed Valley with a school) NATIONAL Muo RACING AssN. RT. #l • Box 380 DAVE OR MARLENE RYAN PALATI<A, FL 32177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TuFF TRUCK ASSN. BUTCH Cl-lAPrN MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS 1404 EAsr 3RD STREET HASTINGS, MN 55033-1415 (612) 4:37-2459 NOORA GARY WULFF (724) 283-2678 E-MAIL Kayla:aron@aol.com <.www .Nooraoffroadracing.com> Buggies, Pilot/Odysseys, Trucks, Quads (Spring Valley Racewa,, on route 518, 20 minutes SW of Lisbon, OH) (Thunder Valley located 15 minutes from Spring Valley) • Septemberl4,2003 Spring Valley Raceway October 12, 2003 Spring Valley Raceway NORTHERN Omo OFF RoAD RACING ASSN. GARYWULFF. (724) 283-2678 OFF ROAD EXPO 2003 (626) 599-8622 October 4-S, 2003 Los Angeles County Fairgrounds Pomona,CA ()pp 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 & UNI.TD. MICHAEL MOORE (334) 271-7035 OUTLAWREP. DON PONDER. (314) 631-8190 (All Races at Wheeling in the °"'ntJ 900 Acres) ()pp-ROAD SAND & SPEED EXPO November 22-23, 2003 Outdoor Sports WorldOntario Convention & Expo Center May 14-16, 2004 Orange County Fairgrounds FoR BooTH INFORMATION CALL: (714) 241-9055/FAX (714) 241-0821 Omo ()pp RoADERS INc. 1427 GOSHEN HILLS ROAoS.E. NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO 44663 )IM KENDEL · (216) 339-4674 \ AU races held at Harrison O,,.nl) Fairgrounds. Cadiz. Ohio • Custom Pro Cell Bladders with seamless super-tough, triple coated construction • 10 year Bladder warranty • Safety foam baffling • Custom manufactured aluminum containers • FIA-FT3, SCORE and SODA approved • Custom manufactured fillers Fuel Sale's "Pro Cell" is • (800) 433-6524 technic~I hotline !!f, 'ft,·,0:i!~%'::a~:~:g • Over 25 years experience Ins/al/ and it"s backed by a e for more Info call or write to: fu/119 year warranty. Aircraft Rubber/Fuel Safe . EL SAF 63257 Nels Andet'SO!l Road • l Bend, Oregon 97701 ' . RadlrgCells -,(541) 388-0203 (541 )388-0307 fax . ·hllp:/Jw..w.fueisafe.com Dusty Times ONTARIO OFF RoAD RACERS ASSOCIATION RICK TICHBOURNE, PUBLIC RELATIONS (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) OuTI.Aw SEVEN PICKUP 9269 UMMELMAN ST. Louis, MO 63123 (314) 631-8140/FAX: ((314) 631-1921 PACE MOTOR SPORTS . U.S. OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP 495 N. CoMMONS DRIVE AURORA, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100 <.www.usoff-road.com> PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 CoLORAOO SPRINGS, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 PINE BARRENS ROUGH RIDERS ()pp RoAD RACING CHATSWORTH, NJ (856) 875-7591 Trucks-Buggies-Ouads November 1-2, 2003 Soutbwicb • .MA September 7, 2003 October 26, 2003 Monster Truck Show PRoTRuCK RACING SERIES 9409 ABRAHAM WAY SANTEE, CA 92071-2856 (619) 449-6252/FAX: (619) 449-6470 PRO September 12-14, 2003 Primm 300 SCORE September 26-28, 2003 Baja Mex 300 BITD November 20-23, 2003 Baja 1000-. SCORE December 5-7, 2003 Las Vegas 200 BITD PuRE ENERGY PROMOTIONS P.O. Box 50 RICKETTS, IA 51460 (712) 679-2221 SAN DIEGO SHORT CoURSE WINTER.NATIONALS A New Series by Snowbird Off Road Racing Pro Tracks, Desert Tracks, Buggies, Pilots, Tough Track <www .snowbirdracing.com> (858) 571-5088 SAN DmGo ()pp RoAD EXPosmoN (888) 836 7918 RoCK CRAWLERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA P.O. Box 1406 RIVERTON, UT 84065 (801) 446-5337/FAX: (801) 253-3176 SCCA PRoRAu.Y SERIES SPORTS CAR CLUB OF AMl!RICA P.O. Box 19400 . TOPEKA, KS 66619 . (800) 7 70-2055 September 6-7, 2003 Wild West Olympia, WA October 17-18, 2003 Lake Superior Haughton, MI SFX MOTORSPORTS GROUP 495 N . . CoMMONS DRIVE, Sum 200 A!;RORA, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100/(630) 556-6180 FAX SCORE SCORE OOl!RNATIONAL 23961 CRAFTSMAN Ro., Sum A CALABASAS, CA 91302 • (818) 225-8402/FAX: (818) 225-8102 . September 12-13, 2003 Las Vegas Primm 300 Primm,NV November 13-16, 2003 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 B.C.,MX SNORE SOUTHERN NEVADA OFF ROAD ENTHUSIASTS P.O. Box 270516 LAs VEGAS, NV 89127 _ (702) 452-4522 October4-5, 2003 Gold Coast 34th SNORE 250 Las Vegas, NV November 22-23, 2003 Western Desert Championship more Happenings on page 57 septmeber 2003 · Pfleuger 208. Class 3, Donald Moss, 175. Class 5, Joe Heger, 226, George Seeley, Jr., 223. Class 5/1600, Jason Lakin/Todd Cunningham, 241, Mario Reynoso and Ruben Gutierrez Jr., are tied with 214 points each. Class 7, Craig Turner, 207. Class 7S, Bob Land, 153. Class7SX, Dan Fresh, 145. Class 8, Dave Sykes/Tony McCormack, 216, Nick Vanderwey, 172. Class 9, Eric Fisher, 175. Class 10, Eli Yee, 249, Steve Myers/George Erl, 248, Ron Brookshire, 231, Martin Christensen, 217. SCORE Lite, Brian Ickier, 274,.Vic Bruckmann, 241, Ken Stroud, 191, Tom Ridings, 180. Class 11, Fernando Flores, 233. Stock Full, John Griffin, 239. In Pro Motorcycles, Steve Hengeveld/Johnny Campbell, 132, Christopher Blais, 116, Jose Meza, 101. Class 21, Eddie Zeller/Greg Fountain and Joe Desrosiers/Ray Suit are tied with 119 points each. Class 30, Ricardo Malo/Greg Bringle 128. Class 40, Jim O'NeaVTim Withers, 126. Class 50, Richard Jackson/Bob Wadlow, 70. Pr~ A'IV's. Class 25, John Gregory/Doug Eichner, 138, Gilberto Santana, 134. Class 24, Earl Thigpen/Brian Pinard, 125. Next up for SCORE is the 8th Annual Las Vegas Primm 300, September 12-13, 2003. The race is run as a multi-lap race on a course of approximately 71 miles. Open wheel (except Class 1) and. Baja Bug classes will start at 6am. All truck classes and Class 1 will start at 2pm. Contingency and Tech Inspection will be on Friday, September 12th behind the Buffalo Bill's Hotel and.Casino from 2 to 6pm. GREAT AMERICAN MOTORCYCLE EXPERIENCE• Adding another dimension to its racing schedule, the GAME has ann·ounced the addition of the Great American Desert Gran Prix. The Gran ·Prix, featuring Pro, Expert, Amateur and Novice will be lreld on Saturday and Sunday, September 20-21 on a special five mile desert track on the northeast corner of Las Vegas Motor Speedway. With a guaranteed Pro purse of over $5000, plus contingency postings, over 500 total riders are expected in this years inaugural Great American Desert Gran Prix. Two full days of racing, the featured two hour Pro event will be held at 2pm on Saturday, September 20. General information and tickets are available at 702-651, 1030 or on the website of GAME2003 at www.great-motorcycle-exp.com. NEW BLM FEES -The Bureau Of Land Management's Barstow Field Office announced that it will implement a Recreation Fee Program for four popular desert off highway vehicle riding areas, effective October 1, 2003. Areas to be included in the recreation fee program include Dumont Dunes (10,000 acres), Johnson Valley (188,000 acres), Stoddard Valley ((53,000 acres) and El Mirage (25,000 acres). Visitors will be charges $20-for a weekly pass or $60 for an annual pass for their primary vehicle. The 22,000 acre Rasor riding area will remain free of any fees. For more information on the Barstow Area Recreation Fee, call Mike Ahrens at 760-252-6000 or e-mail barstowohvfees@ca.blm.gov. Dys FoR Tars -The Off road Poker Run is coming up again. A two day vent on October 25d, and 26th• Two loops of 25 miles each, one for · our wheel vehicles and one for motorcycles and ATV's. Ten Best poker hands from each day win prizes. Yqu may enter both days, as many times as ypu wish. California off road vehicles must have a green or a red sticker and an approved spark arrestor. (Exempt if equipped with a muffler)The entry fee is $25 or $20 and an unwrapped toy. Each rider/driver goes twice for single entry fee. Camping facilities are available. It all takes place at the Slash X Cafe, Hwy 247, 12 miles south of Barstow. All proceeds go to the Barstow charities. For more info call Mal or Connie Wessel at 760.252-3093. NEW FRT DISTRICT 38 VENUE -FRT announced that the Campo Band of Kumeyaay Indians is leasing the Campo MotoCross track to FRT District 38 for both practice and racing. The facility is located just off of 1-8 in East San Diego County near the Golden Acorn Casino. For more info call FRT at 619-427-5759. EL PASO DESERT POKER RuN -Off Road Productions of El Paso is putting on a "Run What Ya Brung" poker run at Lake El Paso. Sunday, October 12th is the date. All race vehicles, play buggies, bikes, ATV's and 4x4's are welcome! It will be the same course as in the past and at each checkpoint you'll be getting cards, the last card obtained at the finish line. There will be prizes and a cash purse for the winning hand. For more info call Joe Vasquez at 915-240-2851. GM KEviN HARVICK DIE-CAST COLLECTIBLE -The #29 GM Goodwrench 1:24 Bud Shootout Monte Carlo Die-Cast car, one of 12,000 in it'-s red and silver paint scheme is available after purchasing any service at a GM Goodwr_ench dealer for $55.75. For more information go-to gm.com. SEMA SHOW -The SEMA Show, the premier automotive specialty products trade event in the world will once again be at the Las Vegas Convention Center from Tuesday, November 4 through Friday, November 7, 2003. More than 100 countries display products in the automotive, truck, SUV, marine and RV markets. There are over 2,000,000 square feet of exhibit and vehicle display area. Th.ere are over 1,400 exhibiting companies and organizations divided into 12 sections, such as tires, wheels, electronics, Racing & performance, trucks, SUV's and business services. For more information contact SEMA at: 1575 S. Valley Vista Drive, Diamond Bar, CA 91765 or call _ 909-396-0289 or www.sema.org. ·oUR BOYS IN NASCAR -As of August -10, 2003, Robby Gordon is 10th in Winston Cup Points, he has 2 wins this season, 4 top 5's and 9 ·top lO's and has 2.5 million$ in winnings. Jimmy Johnson is 4th in Winston Cup points, he has 2 wins, 5 top 5's and 9 top lO's and has 3.8 million$ in winnings. In the NASCAR Truck Division it is Brendan Gaughan who leads ·the points standings. Brendan has 4 wins, 9 top 5's and 1 top lO's. Brendy has won $385,000, the most $ won in the division.. And they said truck racin' doesn't pay. Congrats to our boys, may their season only get better than it is now. RRD/BITD YEAR END AWARDS - Ford Motor Company announced their ear end awards for competitors who race Ford Divisiox:i trucks and UV's in the four Best In The Desert racing series events located in the United States Of America. The -dass champions in classes 3100, 4100, 7300 and 8100 will receive $7,500 for winning their respective championships. more TRAIL NOTES on page 57 Page7

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SCORE HENDERSON'S TERRIBLE 250 Herbsts Take overall By Judy Smith Photos: Track.side Photo Vic Bruckmann and Kash Vessels teamed in Bruckmanh's Jimco to take the win in the SCORE Lite class by 25 minutes at Henderson's Terrible 250. ·. · Henderson, NV: Tim and Ed Herbst drove their Ford Trophy Truck to the overall victory at SCORE's Henderson's Terrible 250, the mid-summer celebration sponsored in a large part by Herbst Gaming. As it did last year, this year's edition of the race included charity bowling a pit-crew challenge, a contingency area live concert and a well attended free buffet diµner, concert and fireworks show for all the race folks at Herbst's hotel and casino on Flamingo Blvd. Although racing numbers had been assigned as entries were received, the drawing for start position didn't happen until midway through the buffet.dinner. This year there were no motorcycle or quads racing, so there was a little more freedom when· it came to organizing the schedule. SCORE· officials decided on a late date contingency and an early morning race. So while the dinner, drawing and fireworks were on Thursday night, the contingency and tech parade didn't start until five o'clock on Friday. It ran until about 10 p.m., and was much cooler and more comfortable tl;ian it had been . the previous year. The Pit Crew Challenge went off during that time period. There were two divisions: Trucks and Open Wheel, and the money was divided Eric Fisher and Isaac Chapluk shared the driving in their Class 9 Garibay. had suspension and brake problems, but went back to Baja with the victory. evenly. In the Truck division the winning team was Alan Pflueger's group, with a time of 53. 79 seconds. In the Open Wheel division, which included the 5-1600s and the Class 11 cars, the Jason Lakin/Todd . Cunningham 5-1600 crew took first place in a time of 49.17 seconds. It was worth the effort, because first place money was a nice $1600 for them. All told there was $7000 cif purse to split up among the top teams. There was additional money up for grabs for the overall winner of the race also, to the tune of $10,000 and in every class that had at least· entries there would be a $1,000 bonus for first place and $500 for the second place finisher. Race day started, at 6 a.m. with Classes 5-1600, 9, 3, 11, Sportsman Buggy and Sportsman Truck scheduled to start at 30 second intervals. The 5-1600s and Class 9 were to do three laps and the others were to do four laps knowing that it would take the 5-1600s and 9s well over two hours to do a lap. Thus, the reasoning went, they'd be half to three-quarters of the way around their first lap by the time the second group started, leading off with the Trophy Trucks at 8 a.m. Except for the fact that four of the 5-1600s ran · their laps in less than two hours it was a good plan. As it turned out, two of the Baja Bugs got. through the start/finish just before the first Trophy Truck took off at 8 a.m. and Rick Ellison and Bill Hernquist teamed in Ellison's Honda·powered Chenowth, had throttle cable trouble, but still took the win in Class 10. the other two were intermingled. Not a happy prospect ·for either class. The Class 9 cars weren't far behind them, and came through the s/f in the midst of the Class 1 starters. In the second group of starters they were all required to do three laps except 7S and 7SX, who did two, and the lone Stock Full entry of John Griffin's Hummer, which r.an only one lap. The temperatures were headline stuff on Thursday and Friday, with the local area reco·rding record-setting highs. The "world's tallest" thermometer at Baker· had reportedly recorded 128 degrees late on Wednesday, and Thursday was also up into the 120s. Sales of water and ice skyrocketed. Racers who ~ow better were concentrating on hydrating their bodies. Out at the start/finish area, a broad dry lake northwest of Boulder City, the local communities set up a string of tents to provide shade for the spectators. A smattering of vendors provided food and drink. There was also a traveling stage, with sound system and an announcer to keep the spectators informed of who was going past. The infield consisted of about seven turns and was liberally sprinkled with bumps and jumps. It was definitely not a high speed infield, and it was a no-passing zone. The pits were set up just before the entrance to the infield, so once through it and past the start/finish check at its end, the drivers could stomp on the throttle again. The course ran almost entirely to the south and west of the dry lake, skirting the eastern edge of the McCullough Mountain Range as it headed south. After about 20 miles the racers headed west, up and across the mountain, and then out toward Highway 15, where Pit B, the designated spectator area, was just east of the town of Jean. At that point they went south again, for about eight miles, and turned back to the north. A~ Mile 50, which was at a point where the inbound and outbound course were at their closest, the racers headed east again, back up through the mountains, and then dropped down into the much hotter valley on the east side of the mountains. It was mostly fast and dusty as they worked their way back to the start/finish line. As always, the Trophy Trucks were first in line (at least, first in the eight o'clock group) with ten entries. But they were reduced to eight before the first lap was over. Jim Beaver and his Ford went out on that lap, and . so did the team of Dave Ashley and Dan Smith, also in a Ford, who were on the trailer very quickly. At the front of the pack the lead belonged to Marty Coyne, in Robbie Gordon's old Ford. He had over two minutes on Larry Ragland in Brian Collins' Chevy, Tim and Ed Herbst ran third in their Ford. They were testing some new BFG tires, 30 inches tall, and liking the way they could blow through the rocks with apparent immunity from tire damage. On the second lap the Herbsts recorded the fast time for the race, at 1:21:41 for the 80 miles, and moved into the lead, with three minutes on Gus Vildosola and Rob McCachren in another Ford. Vildosola had started, and as with · most teams, they'd changed drivers midway through the second lap. Collins and Ragland were now third, a minute and 26 seconds later. Jesse Jones was having electrical problems involving his Ford's alternator and batteries, and was unable to get where there would be someone to help. The BLM had set tight clamps on chase crew travel, and it was a no-no to go out into the desert to help a disabled car unless the team could get permission from officials. That took a good deal of time and · wasn't always feasible. Not necessarily impossible, just too time-consuming to be helpful. Coyne, whose son, Travis, was driving the second half of the race, also had alternator trouble and lost a lot of time. At the beginning of the third lap the Herbst truck made a brief stop just past the start/fin ish, so navigator A.J. Martin could reach over and unhook the drivers' side window net, which had been accidentally snapped down on Ed's helmet pumper hose and radio wire. It tore the wire loose and made the helmet non-functional, so it had to be fixed and it wasn't a one-handed job. It cost them only a few seconds, but the race was tight. They'd had Vildosola's truck in their sights and a couple of Class 1 cars were challenging seriously for the overall also. Bryan Freeman and Bruce Fraley had a good day in their Fraley chassis, and with only a little fuel pump trouble took the Class 1600 victory by just under two minutes. Dan Fresh drove his Class 7SX Jeep Comanche the required two laps with his fuel pumps wrapped in wet towels, to earn the class victory. They charged through the 120+ weather, liking the. new tires more Pages September 2003 Dusty Times

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Brothers Ron and Travis Brookshire piloted their VW powered Jimco . Eric Allen and Adam Pfankuch had power steering and brake problems As always, Bobby Altamirano ran a consistent race in his Jimco, and to fifth place in Class 10, a class that had a hard time getting to the with their 1-2/1600 Jimco, but still managed to finish in third place. .,:..finc:,i-=,sh.::..ed:..::....t:,.:h.::..e-=d.::..a.,_y..:.w,:.:.·t"--'h-'a'-'n-"i.:.,ce.,.:..:fo-=u:,:rtc..:h-fpc..:la,=c...,e_in..:....,:.th'-':e""1-"6c.:OO..:..::..c___.:la:.:.;s,;s=. ==~-=fin=i=sh=l=in=e=. =================== all the time. Ed and Tim finished was the Coynes, the last finishers in one second back. And Ernie Castro, with just 50 seconds on Ragland the class. Kyle Taylor, racing his first Jr., with a Toyota powered Jimco, and Collins, who had tied the fast SCORE event in a Trophy Truck, ran fourth 24 seconds later. John lap time of 1:21:41 on theirlastlap. hadn't had a good day, with two Gaughan had lost about 25 minutes Both teams reported only one flat lengthy laps, and no third lap in his Chevy Bunderson and B.J. each. The Herbsts said the extra two finished. His truck may have Baldwin was down about 20 inches of tire made their ride a "little suffered from overuse -he'd won the minutes in his Chevy Bunderson. cushier", and made the truck a bit BITD Vegas to Reno event overall At the end of the second lap "easier to drive." BFG would have only 13 days before, and had done Herbst moved into the lead with the liked to change all four tires at the nothing but wash it off before class fast lap at 1:22:38, but he was end of each lap, so they could check bringing it to Henderson. only 32 seconds up on McMillin who tire wear on the new compound, but There were 12 Class 1 cars, but was second. In third it was Castro in such a tight race that proved Dan Myers, in a Chevy powered and co-driver Dale Ebberts who'd impossible to do. Vildosola and Jimco, was stuck in gear before he made a driver change, about 28 MacCachren were third, got to the first check, and John seconds further back. Hovey MacCachren bemoaning a flat he'd Marking, another Chevy powered dropped to fourth, a minute and had just five miles from the finish. Jimco, was also out before the first 20 seconds later and the Weyhrich He said he'd been "pushing hard-check. Josh Waddell, who drives a brothers, Mark and Gary, had their hoping Herbst would get a flat." V8 Chevy powered TLR chassis, was Chevy powered Jimco in third, but Jerry Whelchel ·and Mark Post another early dnf, but all the rest were about 14 minutes back and Bob Graham and Mike Homer split the driving evenly in their Class 7S Toyota were fourth in Post's Ford, after got the first lap completed. were losing their clutch. Both Tacoma, and with a trouble-free day, were. rewarded with the victory. having a flat on the third lap that This was another tight race. Scott Gaughan and Baldwin lost well over wrapped around the brakes. Scott McMillin had his V8 powered Porter an hour on this lap, Baldwin with Steinberger's Ford was fifth. He'd in front at the end of the lap, with a electrical trouble. Gaughan· never had a flat on the first lap and found minute and six seconds on Chuck did another lap. that his air bottles had overheated Hovey in his V4 powered Jimco. In The weather got hotter as the and "blown off." He had two more third it was Troy Herbst in his Ford race progressed. But it didn't slow flats on the third lap. And in sixth it powered Smithbuilt T ruggy, another down the drivers. They were mostly o.k. as long as they were moving steadily along but if they had to stop. on course and work on the· car they found themselves easily exhausted, sick and quickly losing interest in the whole thing. But McMillin had no problems. The only tire change he had to make was a preventive one while he was being fueled. He said he "didn't really need to", but it made sense as long as he was stopped. He then finished his trouble-free day with the win, but was a mere 10 Continued on page 10 -----------------"----------------------------------, Dusty Times An Intimate Gem Adjacent to Bel/agio, Caesars & Baily's --\,,J\a,~"---..D ~ @~~ Flamingo & The Strip 1-888-227-2279 barbaryC()l\Stcasino.eom The Place Las Vegans Call Home"' West Flamingo & Valley View 1-888-402-6278 goldcoastcasino.com September 2003 Ask About Our Special Headliner Show and Room Packages West Tropicana & Arville 1-800-675-3267 orleanscasino.com Ask About Our Room & Golf Packages - ~ ~rnrnrnmrn11 . _,..,_ ....... Alta & Rampart 1-877-677-7111 suncoastcasino.com Page9

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Brian Collins and Lany Ragland shared the driving in Collins' <;hevy Mike Doherty decided to race at the last minute, had only minor Trophy Truck and came close, tying for the fast lap of the day. They problems with his Class B Chevrolet, and finished the day in second Dale Ebberts and Ernie Gastro, Jr. teamed up in their Toyota powered Jimco once again, ran three consistent laps and finished the day • second in Class 1 by 1 o seconds. finished second, less than a minute back. place. • Tim and Ed Herbst were testing some new 39 inch tires on their Ford Trophy Truck this event, and the truck liked them as well as they did. They got the class win and the overall victory. seconds in front of Ebberts and Castro, who'd had a clean race alllo. McMillin's time was only42 seconds slower than Tim and Ed Herbst's overall winning time. In third in Class 1 it was Troy Herbst, who'd had two rear flats at once on the last lap, Page 10 while trying to pass in the dust. He. was a little over six minutes behind the two lead cars. Hovey finished fourth. He'd had a flat, changed it and then had another before he'd picked up a new spare. He'd also had trouble .with his pumper hose on the second lap. It would fall off. He tried to ignore it and drive that way, but then the hose became entangled in his arm and the helmet shield fogged, so he had to fix it. It happened over and over. He felt it cost him a lot of time. The Weyhrich team fmished fifth. They'd lost their ignition (a repeat of a problem they'd had in the BITD race two weeks before) and their clutch. At one point when they couldn't get out of a pit the crew jacked them up, got it fired and found a gear then let the jack down and spit them back onto the course. Mike and Robbie Groff had their V6 Chevy powered Ji~co running, but among other things they had to made an unexpected passenger change because their too-tall passenger's head was being pounded down between his shoulders every time they hit a bump. The top of his helmet was seriously marred by the impacts. They finished sixth. Ron Br,i.nt and Richard Boyle were seventh in their Chevy Jimco, and in eighth it was B.J. Baldwin, whose helmets on, and buckle in as they · battery was dead at the finish line. would in a race truck. At any rate, He was the final finisher and had they did finally get to the truck, get survived a three-hour-plus second it righted and send them on their lap so he was in a hurry to find air way again. But they'd lost two hours. conditioning. And Olliges was having a clean run. The Protrucks were almost non-On the third lap Olliges existent here, with only two entries. continued to run clean, not even a At the end of the first lap Steve flat tire disturbing his race. Ragland Olliges had his Ford in front with and Pflueger had a quicker lap, but the fast time for the class of 1:45: 16, Olliges had the win, reporting "no but was only three minutes and 34 driver erroi," even on his way to the seconds up on Alan Pflueger and finish. Ragland and Pflueger were Dan Ragland in a Chevy. But the almost exactly two hours behind second lap spelled the end of the them in second place. hard racing. Ragland (who is Larry's In Class 10, which had 14 brother) got the truck up on its lid starters, the first lap lead belonged ~t about Mile 15. Both Ragland and to the team of Kory Kalopoff and his passenger got out all right, but Harley Letner in their Honda the truck was in a precarious place, powered Jimco chassis. They had and was hit at least once by hard- two minutes and 4 2 seconds on Bill charging racers coming around the Hernquist who ran second in Rick turn where it was perched upside Ellison's Honda Chenowth. Martin . down. The team asked for and got Christensen was a minute and 16 permission to take their pre-runner seconds later in his BMW powered out on the course, but the official Jimco followed by Jason Hunter in permission was a long time coming, a Honda Dunrite. In fifth place it and they had to suit up, put their Continued on page 12 ,_.,,.,...,.. ...... Ill tll•,•nillnl, 11/Wlla 61/ll n,t,s a 11/J/J II tin 1116 Kray,,-Bl1'IB ffllllBIJ. From his years of ripping through CORR short~course races to his Rookie of the 'tear run in the 2002 NASCAR Craftsman Truck season, Brendan Gaughan has always turned.to MS□ to supply the fire. MSD is your complete performance ignition source with a full line of high output CD Ignitions, powerful Blaster Coils, Pro-Billet Distributors and low resistance spark plug wires. Proven pertormance and reliability are the reasons top racers choose MSD! • 1 · AA. September 2003 Dusty Times

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' -Ken and Clay Flippin and Tom Franczak, a Las Vegas team, shared James Golden put together three very evenly paced laps in his driving in their Jimco, end with a nearly perfect day. took second in Chenowth to go home with a fine fifth place in the competitive Class Class 10. 1600 race. John Griffin was the only entry in the Stock Full class for this event, so he and the officials decided that one lap would be plenty. He got the Hummer around in good shape for the finish. was Scott Martenson in a Tatum. He was about seven and a half minutes behind the lead car. Brandon Aymar, in a Honda powered Elite and Will Higman in a VW powered Kreger were both first-~-----~~--~-~-~~~~-~ lap casualties. Eli and Lobsam Yee, On the second lap Halopoff and had put Ellison into the car half way difficulty. They finally put a second through the lap, and Ellison decided return spring on it, and that helped it was sticking more than he liked. considerably. He had another He stopped at a pit to try to get a fix worry, in that the temperature gauge and they discovered that the throttle hovered up in the high numbers on cable had melted and caused his long runs or soft washes. Mark in a Honda J imco, were casualties Letner recorded the fast time for the also, but after losing over two hours class, at 1 :34: 26, nearly a twin of getting to a pit, getting a replacement their first lap, and their lead had axle and making repairs, they did grown to 15 minutes. Hernquist, get back out onto the course. who'd had sticky throttle problems, Super Cell Fits between the frame of ANY truck SCORE & FIA Legar Manufactured exclusively by Fuel Safe Toys Baja 1000 Desert Buggy Metal Mulisha, Baja 1000, LBZ, & Kawasaki Motorcycles Coming Soon: Trophy Truck & Truggy Bones® The best DZUS tool you'll ever own! 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In fourth it was the team of Ken and Clay Flippin in a VW powered Jimco and Ron and Travis Brookshire were fifth in their Honda Jimco. Christensen had an overheating problem and had slowed considerably, while Dennis Hunter had also lost about 20 minutes in the honda Dunrite. Jim Anderson, in a VW Dunrite, was not having a good day either. Hunter and Anderson both failed to get the third lap done and Christensen ground to a half in an area where no help could get to him. The Yees, who'd l!.lready replaced that axle, broke a c.v. joint on their second lap and began the chore of on-course repairs all over again. Ultimately, they timed out. Ellison w;rily watched his temperature gauge, but kept his foot in it as much as he dared, and got the win for himself and Hernquist. They were about 49 seconds ahead of the Flippins, who'd had two flats, both timed so they could get them changed in a pit. In third it was Mark and C.J. Hutchins, about nine minutes further back. Hutchins had actually passed Ellison when Ellison slowed to keep from cooking his motor, but then had slid off a turn and flattened two tires at once, letting Ellison regain his lead. Martenson was fourth another two and a half minutes back, followed by the Brookshires in fifth place. Jason Hunter was sixth about 25 minutes later, and in seventh, and last, it was George Erl and Steve Myers in theirToyotaJimco. Myers had worn himself out on the first lap when he'd lost over two hours trying to fix a problem with a tossed belt, and Erl had taken over a bit early and finished the day. Halopoff and Lerner had apparently lost their motor on the last lap. They never finished. Class 8 had a tough day at Henderson. Five trucks started, but only two made it all the way. Jeff Broughton and Jeff Stowers didn't get the first lap done in their Ford, but David Sykes did, and he held the lead at the Dave Westhem Chevy Silverado. He had three minutes on Dave Raimonde in his Chevy C1500. Mike Doherty had his Chevy in third place, while Larry and Nick Vanderwey, in a GMC, spent fwe hours dealing with some disaster. Neither the Vanderweys nor Raimonde completed a second lap. Sykes did the entire second lap and continued to have no problem, building a big lead. Doherty had a shock reservoir come loose and it knocked off his power steering bolt, which cost some time to track down Dusty Times

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Kory Halopoff and Harley Letner had the lead in Class 10 for two laps and looked like a shoo-in in their Henry's chassis, but they couldn't get the last lap done. Joe Heger and Shawn McCallum had a hard fight on their hands this time, and finished the day in second place in Class 5 by a mere three seconds. Troy Herbst was working up through the Class 1 pack on the third lap in his Smithbuilt Ford Truggy and had two flats at once. That dropped him to third place. and fix. Sykes handed the truck over to Westhem for the third lap, and Westhem had a good run also. He recorded the fast time for the class, at 1:34:56, even though it was stalling occasionally in rough turns. They took the win, and Doherty, who drove all three laps, took second place. He reported only one flat during the trip, and said it was a "pretty fun day." The SCORE Lite class had nine starters. There had been 10, but Jake Batulis, with a new car, had · what was reported as "major motor· trouble" on Friday, and withdrew. The first car out of the race in this class was Jerry Penhall, who was spotted on a tow strap early in the morning. But everyone else got at least the first lap done. And the lead belonged to Vic Bruckmann in a Jimco. He had eight minutes on second place Corey Cook in a Porter. In third it was Troy Stockwell in a Raceco and Keith Basso and Brian Freemal, in a Tatum were fourth. Brian Ickler, usually in front of this pack, ran fifth, 15 minutes off the lead pace after having a problem with the wiring on his Jimco. Kenny Stroud, in a Jimco, got stuck in gear· and after losing a bunch of time, didn't get any more laps completed. On the second lap Bruckmann held his lead, now up to 18 minutes, and it was Basso and Freemal in second place. Cook's co-driver, Bill Witt, ran third, Ickler had moved up to fourth and now Stockwell was in fifth place. Bruckmann' s co-driver, Kash Vessels, who took over midway through the second lap, kept moving along steadily. He said that the two had spent a day working on "dialing in" the suspension of their car a couple of weeks before the race, and it had paid off. They had a flawless day, and Vessels said that part way through the final lap he'd been able to let off a bit and "just cruise." He recorded the fast time for the class, at 1:37 :35 on that lap and they took the win by 25 minutes. Ickler, who had a couple of flats during the day, also had a good last lap, only 38 seconds slower than Vessels, and moved up to finish second. Cook and Witt, who had to deal with a closed air filter on the last lap, were third, followed in by Stockwell in fourth pla<;e. Mark Kyle, who comes from Texas to race, was fifth in his Mirage, followed in· by Tom Ridings, Mirage, who'd lost some time on the second lap with a nosebleed caused by the heat. He was the final finisher. Class 5 had only two entries, but. the best race of the day. Joe Heger started in the McCallum car, and · George Seeley was driving his yellow New Beetle. Seeley had about a three minute lead at the end of the first lap, but it was a transitory Dusty Times thing. They were running close and swapped the lead often. Seeley stopped every lap for gas and oil. Neither was having any mechanical trouble. Heger's co-driver, Shawn McCallum, got in, but he became ill and Heger had to get back in and finish the final lap. Seeley, who's taken a conservative approach to this season, hoping to qualify for the Toyota True Grit award at the end of the season by finishing every race, decided he was a bit bored with that approach, and went for the win this time. Heger always goes for the win,. They were within sight of each other the whole time. Heger led by 45 seconds at the end of the second lap. And at the end of the third lap Heger was physically in front as they neared the checkered flag. Heger crossed the line first, but Seeley was so close behind hifQ that no one could tell who'd won. Seeley had ticked off the best time for their three laps at 1:38:37. Once the scoring team had figured the numbers Seeley had the victory by three seconds. Heger said it was "the best race I've ever had!" In Class 7 there were six starters, but Barry Karakas and his Toyota had terminal trouble on the· first lap, and so did A.J, DeNunzio in his Toyota. A.J.'s truck was overheating and when he got under the hood to see what was what he discovered a non-functioning fan motor. After cooling the truck down he motored to a nearby pit where he made time-consuming 1 repairs. But, once back on course the truck moved along at good rate, its temp in the normal range and steady. Then A.J. goofed, got stuck in some silt, and after a quick check of his watch decided he'd never get the race finished with all the down time. So he hollered for his trailer. But the end of the class was motoring on. Craig Turner had nearly a two minute lead at the end of the first lap, in his ford, and it was Shawn Wanzek, in another Ford, in second place. About 20 minutes behind them Daniel Chamlee and Hector Salazar, both in Fords, were within a minute of each other vying for this place. On the second lap Turner recorded the class fast lap, at 1:39:53, and he was now 26 minutes in front of Salazar. Wanzek had power steering trouble, and drove 30 miles without its help to the· pit where repairs could be made. All told he lost about an hour and 10 minutes, but was third, ,because Chamlee didn't get the second lap finished. At the beginning of the third lap Turner had to replace his drive shaft, bufotherwise he was having Donald Moss drove his Class 3 Bronco all the way, completing his two required laps in just over five hours to go home with a win. Marcos Nunez and Norberto Rivera had a good day until just before the finish when they ran out of gas. A good samaritan gave them fuel and saved their 5-1600 win for them. September 2003 Scott McMillin soloed the day in his VB powered Porter chassis, and with nothing more time consuming than taking on fuel, went home with the Class r win. no problems. He thought the Winovitch were 50 minutes further course was "tough... good back in their Chevy SlO. combination of fast stuff and Both Sohren's truck and the rough stuff." He had no flat tires, Land Winovitch truck fell out on and motored on to take the win. the last lap. Graham's co-driver, Salazar had a long third lap, but Mike Horner, did the second lap, still finished second, almost an and they had no trouble, at all, hour down to Turner, and Wanzek taking the victory in solitary was third. another hour down. No splendor. one else finished. In Class 7S, which is for trucks Class 7S had to run only two that used to run in 7S but are now laps. There were just three trucks. somehow illegal for the class, but Bob Graham had the best lap for not as highly modified as Class 7, the group on _Lap 1, completing the there was just Daniel Fresh in his loop in his Toyota in a time of Jeep. He was also required to do. 2: 11 :03. Pete Sohren ran second only two laps. His bestlap time was in his Dodge, about 30 minutes 2:05:05 on the first lap. Then his later, and bob Land and Jim Continued on page 14 • POWERFUL • PRECl§E 2" Capacity, 180° Bends. Steel, 4130, Stainless, Aluminum Square, Round, Bar, Pipe Perfect for the: • Race Car Builder • Small Fabrication Shop •Home Shop Call for a FREE BROCHURE (541)382-1573 www.tubeshark.com Page 13

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Brian lcl<ler's SCORE Lite Jimco had some wiring problems on the Chuck Hovey soloed this difficult event in his V4 powered Jimco, had Jimco, but an off-course excursion cost them some tires, and they first lap that cost him dearly, but he worked his way back up to some niggling little problems and finished the day in fourth place. fell to third place. _secon __ d___,_p_la_ce_. ________________ _ Ehrenberg were all done in before pump and he brought the car and Brian Jeffrey finish.ed eighth that first 80 miles had been across the finish line first to take and last in his Dunrite. Carr, who completed. the win for himself and Fraley. ran so well for two laps, didn't Steve Olliges drove his Ford Protruck all the way, avoided trouble, had no mechanical problems and took the victory. fuel pumps vapor 1.ocked. So he tied a towel around them, packed them with ice and periodically stopped to wet them down. In that fashion he finished his second lap only about 20 minutes slower than the first, and got his finish. Class 1/2-1600 had the biggest group for this event, with 14 entries. But this race was hard for them apparently, and four of them didn't make it through the first lap. Travis Fletcher, Andrew Rusich, Dave Hendrickson and Sammy But Jeff Carr, in a Mirage, had Whipple and Anderson, who finish reportedly the victim of a the early lead, with four seconds on recorded the class fast lap on Lap blown transmission. Courtney Whipple, in a Fraley ' 3, at 1 :42:01, finished second. · In Class 3 there was only one chassis. In third place it was Eric Anderson said it was a "little , entry. Donald Moss dr~ve both the Allen in a Jimco, and then Brian different ride than I'm used to - lot required laps in his Bronco, and Jeffrey ran fourth in his Dunrite. of fun.". He hadn't raced a 1600 got his finish. He said the "course Bruce Fraley, in another Fraley, was before, but had no trouble figuring had its moments." Describing it as fifth, having some trouble with his it out. They_ were just under two "the worst of this race last year fuel pump. The car was blubbering minutes off the winning team's time. combined with the worst of the noticeably. . In third it was Allen and Pfankuch. Primm." But he was another who At the end of the second lap The power steering had gone away thought it was a good combination things looked different. Fraley's co-on Pfankuch, so Allen got back in of fast and rough. driver, Bryan Freeman was tied for for the final half lap. They'd also Class 5-1600 had seven entries, the lead with Carr, and they were lost their rear brakes, a recurring whichmadeiteligibleforthe$1,000 about three and a half minutes problem, but had no flats. They bonus. Marcos Nunez got right ahead of Whipple, whose co-driver, were 14 minutes in back of second down to business on the first lap Danny Anderson, was now at the place. Bobby Altamirano, in a and recorded the fast time for the wheel.InfourthplaceitwasAllen, Jimco,finishedfourth,andJames class at 1:54:14. He was a big and his co-driver Adam Pfankuch, Golden, in a Chenowth was two surprise for the officials who had and in fifth it was James Golden, in minutes behind hiin in fifth place. thought the times for this class a Chenowth. and he was just 13· Charles Sutton and Dan would be considerably slower. It minutes off the lead pace. Bradley, in a Bunderson, were sixth, must have been a big scary for Freeman didn't have any followed in by Brent Parkhouse and Nunez and his classmates to find trouble with the car once they'd Greg Ryan in a Mirage. In seventh themselves caught by the Trophy "messed around with" the fuel it was Chuck Collins in a Chenowth Continued on page 16 sCORE1HEND1RsoN:, TERR1.BLE i_#' V I'.,. L JcCLASS 12 " 1 ST PLACE -"Qu1cK" Vic BRucKMANN l<AsH "THE l<AsH-INATOR" VESSELS ~ VW PowER Bv MAJOR PERFORMANCE , 2ND PLACE • BRIAN ICKLER Y VW PowER Bv MAJOR PERFORMANCE 3RD PLACE ·- COREY COOK /' Pj/ Bv FAPFORMAN~ 1 ST PLACE -MARCOS NUNEZ -t · VW PowER Bv NuNEZ MoroRSPORTS~ 1 2ND PLACE • JASON LAKIN " t,;' y . VW PowER Bv MAJOR PERFORMANCE RAcHvG CAMs A/tD tJuAury VALVE TRAIN PRooucrs 3RD PLACE • RUBIN GUITERREZ JR. . . Aurc·1DTIIIE • ATV • N1oroRcYa.E /JW Pow;/Bv MAJoR PERFORMA;cEI •· /J · ,// PERSONAL WA1E'IERAR' • 5~1 './I /./ /, · I/__ ,61 !/___ // 1, 11: r, !'✓ I/ .. 1s1s MASSACHUSErrs AVE• RIVERSIDE~ALIFORNIA • 92507 •USA• PHONE SOS.369.5144 • FAX·SOS.369.7266 • WWW,WEBCAMSHAFTS,COM Page 14 September 2003 Dusty Time~

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Todd Cunningham and Jason Lakin shared the driving in their 5-1600, found the motor heating up a bit, but hung in there for a second ,place finish. Ivan Loomis was the only Sportsman Tr'uck entry this time, in his ~~' externally caged Toyota, but he couldn't make it all the way around Scott Martenson raced his Tatum chassis in Class 10 and with three the track. evenly paced la s he finished his da in fourth place. Trucks so early, but they always know it's ij possibility when they drive in a lap race. Ruben Gutierrez, Jr. ran second, about 31 seconds later and Todd Cunningham was third, another three minutes back. Brent Shermak didn't male it around, nor did Gregory Ferruzzo, so there were only five cars moving. Mario Reynoso had already lost a half hour. , They were slower on the second. lap, probably looking for their rear• view mirror. Nunez and his co-driver, Norberto Rivera, held on to their lead. Gutierrez was still second, only four minutes back and Cunningham and Lakin were third. Reynoso was fourth now as Rob Taylor who'd been fourth, failed to make the second lap. As they got almost to the finish, but still near the pits, Nunez and Rivera's car ran out of gas. The passenger climbed out and started toward the pits to see if he could scrounge some, and sure enough, someone came up with a gallon of gas. It was plenty to get them the short distance to the finish line, and they hadn't lost their lead. They took the win by just under five minutes. Cunningham and Lakin, who worried when their motor got hot, had no problems and took second place. In third it was Gutierrez and his co-driver Victor Herrera, Jr. They'd broken a clutch cable. Reynoso didn't get his third lap finished. Class 9 had only three entries, and had only one finisher. On the first lap Eric Fisher had the lea,d in his Garibay chassis, with about a half minute on' Ken Tapert in a Chenowth. Arturo and Abel Velazco ran third in another Chenowth about five minutes back. These cars were part of the six a.m. starting group and found themselves finishing their first lap a~ the Class 1 cars were taking the green flag. Tapert,. whose car is for sale, got clobbered by a couple of Class 1 cars, one bump being solid enough to boot him off the course. He decided that discretion was the better part of valor, and since he'd already bought himself a new 1600 cat and he really wanted to have the Nine car in saleable condition, he withdrew. Isaac Chapluk took over for Fisher on Lap 2 and he had a problem with one of the shocks. He _ also lost a brake line when the mount broke and tore it apart. So Chapluk and Fisher had to have PERFORMANCE 101 SUBJECT: Race winning technolon/eauinment -Shocks: 2.0", 2.5", 3~0" -Emulsion· Remote Reservoir Bypass Shocks Coil Over Springs -Craig Turner FACTORY Pilot -._ .,_, ,, :-_,~ ,: ' Seven time Champion _ All on lilifililli7ifilfiiiill' ~ •, ~ ~ '• : l,,,J~ ~ ~ Call for our NEW 2003 Products Catalog 20724 Lassen Street, Cflatsworth, CA 91311 PH (818) 700-9712 FAX (818) 700-0947 complete line of vw suspension componems www.swayaway.com Page 16 September 2003 George Seeley had an exciting race, switching positions several times, and finished with a breathtaking dash across the finish line, just three seconds in front for the Class 5 win. _some repairs made. The Velazco brothers had the lead at the end of the second lap, and were 20 seconds ahead of Fisher and Chapluk. _ · But the Velazco brothers didn't get their third lap completed and Fisher and Chap,luk took the victory. Fisher had recorded the fast time for the class, at 2:03:38 on the first lap. Class 11 also started with the early group, but neither of them' showed up on time for their green flag. It's not known why Fernando Flores was late, but Eric Solorzano, also tardy, said they couldn't hear any cars taking off and couldn't see . a crowd, so they didn't think anything was happening yet;. and decided to make a bathroom stop. Solorzano had the lead at the end of the first lap, but only by four minutes. Flores had "something wrong" with his steering. Roman Peyreyra, who took over for Solorzano, went off into the second lap in a big hurry, for some reason thinking Flores was in front of him. They'd lost track of him in the big infield pit area apparently. And maybe that was why Peyreyra recorded the fast time for this group Eric Solorzano and Roman Peyreyra drove one lap each in their Class 11 car and took the win in spite of getting a late start. David Sykes· and Dave Westhem had only a little trouble with their Chevrolet stalling in the rough turns, and took the Class B victory. Dusty Times

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Hector Salazar had a couple of long laps in his Class 7 Ford, but still managed to pull out a second place finish. Gus Vildosola and Rob MacGachren came very close to the front in their Ford Trophy Truck, but a late flat dropped them to third place, only two minutes and 20 seconds back. Courtney Whipple had Danny Anderson co-driving with him in his Class 1600 Fraley, and the team recorded the class fast lap, and finished in second plac~ Craig Turner had things going very nicely until he·lost his Ford's driveshaft on the third lap. He managed to make the repairs and go on to take· the Class 7 win. on the second lap, at 2:25:42. He potential yet. Flores finished about and Solorzano took the win, saying 50 minutes behind them, so thirsty it was a great course, "very fast", with that he drank a bottle of water in a nice" cool breeze" over on the part one gulp. · near Jean. Of course, their day was In the Sportsman· Buggy class over by about 11 a.m., and the desert there were two starters, but no hadn't warmed up to its full finishers.. Cory Bantilan rolled his Class 9 Baja Bug about five miles off the start. He got it back on its wheels but had blown the motor before getting much further. Don Wall, in the other car, did one lap in a respectable two hours and nine minutes, but then didn't finish Lap 2. In the Sportsman Truck class the only entry was Ivan Loomis in the Toyota which has the external roll cage. He didn't get his first lap done either. In the Stock Full class only John Griffin entered this event. About a half hour before he was due to start he decided that there would be no point in him going around more than once, so he went to see what the officials thought of that idea. Apparently they concurred, and it was decided that he'd be officially required to do only one lap. At that it took him two hours and 45 minutes. He had a diesel fuel leak when a hose clamp came off. Griffin said this year's course wasn't as "bad as last year." He goes into the record books with a class win. Although the weather was terribly hot, there was some cloud cover early in the day that held the temperatures to a lower level for the morning hours. Either because of what they'd learned last year, or because the start was in the morning instead of the late afternoon as it was last year, there were fewer drivers suffering from the heat and loss of fluids. That's not to say they weren't bushed, but they weren't falling out of their cars and collapsing this year as they did last year. There was a lot of pre-race talk about whether or not it was an advantage to be one of the locals. It's hard to say for sure, but a Las Vegas team did win overall, take a second in the Trophy truck class, and third in Class 1. It was also a Las Vegas team that won Class 1/ 2-Iu00, and the second place finishers in that class were from Vegas also. Second and third place in Class 10 were from Vegas, and the third place team in SCORE Lite hailed from Boulder City and Henderson while the lone survivor in the Protrucks was a Vegas driver. It's-interesting to mull over the meani_ng of all that, but it needs to be remembered that they're all experienced drivers with records of success that go back. for years for the most part. SCORE said that they tried to do away with any advantage the locals might have had due to their familiarity with the terrain, but it's hard to see how they could have done Illich. On the other hand, in November when many of these same folks head for Baja for the Baja 1000, there will be San Diego racers who have the advantage of proximity, and no one worries overmuch about that. The Primm race is ·next on the schedule fqr SCORE, on Septem-ber 19th, and then the Baja 1000 comes in November. Be sure to mark your calendars with the cor-rect date for that one, it's on No-vember 23rd, a change from the date originally published . . _ . .,.., DAVE FOLTS TRANSMISSIONS WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE THE WINNERS OF THE SCORE HENDERSONS "TERRIBLE 250 BRYAN FREEMAN & BRUCE FRALEY FIRST IN CWS 1/2 1600 SNORE TRANSMISSION BUILDER OF THE YEAR! 2000 2001 2002 COURTNEY WH/PJ)LE & DANN'I ANDERSON BONY ALTAMIRANO & JEff l(NU,J) SECOND IN CWS 1/2 1600 FOURTH IN CWS 1/2 1600 ERIC FISCHER ERIC & ALBERT SOLORZANO DAVE FOLTS TRANSMISSIONS GEARED TO SERVE YOU! FIRST IN CWS 9 FIRST IN CWS II DAVE FOLTS TRANSMISSIONS 631 E. LAMBERT RD.-#C LA HABRA, CA 90631 (562)694-559I Dusty Times September 2003 Page 17

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·31ST CYPRUS RALLY 2003 Subaru, Solberg_ score.At Cyprus-By Martin Holmes . . . Petter Solberg and Philip Mills take to the water in their Subaru lmpreza as they head for a great win at the 31'' Cyprus Rally. Subaru are back winning again! After six lean months in which the team had stn.lggled to -make the 2003-version lmpreza reliable, Petter SoJberg had an almost faultless run and won the Cyprus Rally, the hottest .and slowest event in the world rally championship. He eventually won with ease, after holding a constant but slender lead over the only surviving works Peugeot, driven by Harri Rovanpera. Be-hind came the three Citroens which generally performed very poorly but which were, signifi-· candy, extremely reliable. Cham-pionship leader Richard Burns once again suffered mechanical troubles and this time was forced to retire while reigning champion Marcus Gronholm retired after transmission trouble. Subaru not only won the event outright, but three of their latest WRX model lmprezas headed the PCWRC category. This event rounded off the first half of the 2003 season and was the last rough gravel event before the series moves on to asphalt and smooth gravel for the rest of the season. This event, now in its fourth year in the world championship, has become identified as the slow-est rally in the championship, on account of the high proportion of narrow and twisty roads; Coming two weeks after the Acropolis it seemed strange that the only two countries in• the world which officially. speak Greek both had world champi-onship rallies so close to each other. The onranizers implemented the FIA's spectator control mea-sures by limiting attendance of spectators only .to specific enclo-sures, providing "Park and Ride" transport as much to prevent spectators parking close to stages as to prevent them going into un-authorized areas. Three com-pletely new stages were being run, and to the surprise of competi-tors these were slower than ever. In a year in which the island had suffelid for economic reasons, the event was being used as the basis for a major international · tourist _promotion. It was ex-pected 17,000 visitors. would come for the rally. Cyprus was a rally under a cloud, a victim of the popularity of this kind of event. With the pressure from the FIA to lose a rally from the exist-ing WRC calendar in order to make a space for Mexico, .the fin-ger of suspicion was pointing to Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, all · geographically close and of a simi-lar style to each other. Landing fairly hard, Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena drove their Citroen Xsara to a third place finish in Cyprus. · Page 18. Anoth·er open debate was the effect of the new FIA points cal-culation system, at the approach to die half way point in the 2003 season. It was interesting ro see the way that Richard Burns, to his surprise, had increased his lead in the drivers' category de-soite mechanical problems which delayed him in Greece. He was having an extraordinary season._ Of the 113 stages held prior to Cyprus, the. championship leader had only been fastest on 11, and seven of these were ori the New Zealand event .alone. Under the 2002 points system, Burns would have beeµ lying third; behind Gronholm and Sainz! It has been his consistency which gave him the championship's lead. Not a single team brought a new car for this event, and the closeness after Acropolis pre-vented team~ from fully analyz-ing their problems on that event. Citroen were anxious to over-co me the ECU overheating trouble that had afflicted them, while .Peugeot, on instructions from the FIA, had to dismantle the water spray system, which operated on their air condition-ing radiators. Once again they were the only team with air con-ditionit).g fitted to their cars, t}lis time on all four factory prepared cars. They had, however, discov-ered the reason for the gearbox failures on the Acropolis cars of Burns and Rovanpera, which was a new' type of clutch and was found to be too aggressive in its operation. Clutches from an al-ternative supplier were used this time. Gronholm's fuel problem was found to be dtie to the re-turn pipe between fuel tanks be-coming disconnected. Since their win on the Acropolis, Ford's en-gineers devised a new, stronger anti roll car linkage, while Suba-ru discovered the reason Solberg hacl driveshaft failure; the wrongly assembled unit from a supplier. This was to be the final appearance of a works entered Skoda Octavia WRC before the September 200,3 Harri Rovanpera and Risto Pietilainen corner hard in their Peugeot 206 on their way to a second overall at Cyprus. Fabia WRC makes its debut in Deutschland. Since the Octavia debut at Monte Carlo 1999 it has entered 47 events and the team has made a total ·of 111 entries so far. Best performance was Safari• 2001 when Schwarz finished third after initially leading. Justin Dale, reigning British Super 1600 champ1.on driver, started only his second full world champi"onship event -and on both occasions he has been a fully nominated works entered driver, this time by Hyun-dai. This entry is part of a pro-gram of events which includes entries in FIA Middle East cham-pionship event as well, in which he is driving a Subaru. This was the only event in the PCWRC cal-endar in which all competitors had elected to start . . (FIA cham-pionship rules dictate drivers must nominate six of the seven qualifying . events). Marcos · Ligato's team Top Run had been workine hard with Ohlins on sus-pension developments. He also had a new co-driver (Dariusz Burkat, a renewal of an earlier, long time relationship), a latest model car (Evo VII) and a new preparation company (his own, Kulig Preparation) for Janusz Kulig. Hoping for an end to re-cent frustrations was the Roma-nian Constantin "Titi" Aur. "I hope the slow speed of this rally will mean I won't be so far be-hind the others this time!" Cana-dian driver Patrick Richard flew to Cyprus immediately after con-testing the fifth round of his na-tional series, the Pacific Forest Rally -even further away. Rowe and Blomqvist started with new WRX cars run by David Sutton cars, identical to the Procar team car driven to second place in Group N at Acropolis Rally by "Stratissino". ,.An.ticipated weather condi-tions were difficult to predict. A recent hot weather spell caused PCWRC champio·n Karamjit Singh to say "It's actually hotter in Cyprus than at home in Ma-laysia!" Daytime coastal temp.era--tu res in Lemesos were around 30-35 degrees, with a one degree drop for every 200 metres in-crease in altitude. Temperatures in Lemesos were around 36 de-grees on the days up to the start, threatening thundery days to come. This was, therefore, ex-pected to be the hottest rally of this season, and the slowest. The combination of both factors meant the-rally, in human terms, had to be the greatest challenge of them all. The slow speed meant . that the cooling both of the me-chanical parts of the car and the crew themselves could never work as comfortably as on faster events. So far as the drivers were con-cerned, PCWRC driver Niall McShea explained, "With rocks close beside the track you must . not let your car slip even a centimetre off.line." Two veterans were being feted before fhe event. Vic Elford, one. of motor sport's greatest all-rounders whose expertise helped get the rally ·started in the first place a genera(ion. ago, was Guest of Honour. Then Stig Blomqvist, the PCWRC driver in the David Sutton team, winner of the event 30 years ago. "We came over from doing the Acropolis Rally in Greece and asked the mechanics if they wanted to work in Cyprus with us. Two of them agreed, so we did the rally. And won!" Times have changed. This year a gentle-man driver fr.om Po.land entered the rally. Opinions about the-event var-ied. Carlos Sainz would not give a clear opinion. "It is a very good place to bring VIP guests to see a rally. It is the roughest rally of the season and also the slowest rally, and of course· drivers should -excel in every type of condition,." Acropolis Rally winner Markko Martin, "It is quite different from the Acropolis. Greece has flow-ing tracks, here the hacks are narrow and twisty: It is more a matter of survival than speed. For me the Cyprus Rally roads are zero fun to drive." The heat was also quite a challenge. Petter Solberg, "It gets up to 67 degrees inside our cars." Teams shied away from fitting cool suits to the crews, because of the inevitability of damage, though Peugeot per-sisted with their air conditioning, . even though the air conditioning system had to be automatically switched off if the engine began to run too hot. Leg 1 -Four stages, gravel, 99kms. There were to be only four stages, a loop of two run twice, with a two hour rest halt between the sections so that the service crews could check the ex-tent of the interim deterioration of the roads. The second and fourth stages, at 38km were the longest of the event, also the twistiest where it.was hard even to average 60kph. In the morning's first loop, running or-der was going to be critical, but because of the subsequent double usage (as iri New Zealand) only for the first two stages. So it was that the 11th car on the road, the Peugeot of Harri Rovanpera, gained an immediate lead over fifth running Solberg and 13th running Didier Auriol, while first running Richard Burns finished the first stage in 11th place, los-ing a second a kilometre. "It's Dusty Times

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Making a pretty picture, the Subaru lmpreza WRX of Martin Rowe Alistair Ginley and Rory Kennedy fly down the track in their brightly Almost bottoming out, the Citroen Xsara of Colin McRae and Derek ahd Trevor Agnew head for a t(Jh place finish. painted Ford Focus, they were IJf' overall. Ringer finished fourth overall in Greece. · what we had·feared". But happily ten minutes down. While driving Stage 4 when the front suspen-158kms. There was to be a most his driveshaft went "bang" at the the air conditioning was working, with a broken ALS system, he had sion broke, dropping out of sight. extraordinary morning's rally-start of the stage. First Duval up to a point. "It was always turn-hit a rock inside a corner, this had Fourth place KaraJlljit Singh had ing. The first group of three had engine trouble caused by in-ing itself off on the stages, maybe damaged the steering and he had only two wheel drive and fell to stages were held in the far north gestion of dust and sand into the it was only working 20% of the to stop, change the wheel and ex-sixth, so in one stage Stig of Cyprus, close to the border ·engine, then along came Martin" time!" Marcus Gronholm (a Finn, amine the damage. He started off Blomqvist rose from fifth to sec-with Turkish occupied territory. and 500 meters further on his . used to sauna conditions!) delib- again,. and now he had also lost ond and Rowe (despite his engine In the first three hours the event caf-Stopped for the same reason. erately turned it off at the start the power steering. Paniizi fell being starved by dust congestion lost two works Peugeots, two The Ford team had already taken of every stage. Carlos Sainz was from fourth to fifth on the final in his airbox) rose from sixth to works Fords and one works a lot.of trouble trying to elimi-unhappy with the Citroen's han-stage, "The ride height was too third. Subarus finished the day Hyundai, with a works Subaru nate the problem which had dling and traction, Solberg had low." 1-2-3. Trivino still had no brakes being delayed too much to be caused Martin's retirement in an electrical problem which Skoda had now also fallen (for three stages running, around allowed to carry on. Spectators Argentina and now they discov-dropped him from second to ·well back. Gardemeister's fuel 90km of high speed action), who woke up late found nearly ered the solutions had not fourth. Many drivers were in system pro~lem persisted; Auriol Ligato lost more time with shock half the top drivers had disap-worked. At the end of Stage 5 trouble, early on! Francois Duval , (who thought it was going to be· absorbers, Georgi Geradzhiev had pea red! The day started with the two Subarus had made the had an hydraulic problem on very wet in the afternoon)-had the "mc;,st terrible day of my life", Gronholm holding a 6.9 second two best times and Solberg had Stage 2 which immediately upset the wrong tyres, while Hyundai when first his front suspension lead over Rovanpera with gone into the lead, 3.0 seconds the differentials, then the gear- were still struggling. Schwarz con-broke, then the turbocharger Solberg 3.5 seconds further back in front of Rovanpera. Rovan-shifts as well. Freddy Loix had tinued with a differential prob-failed. MarrinCretired when, like and Panizzi another 3.6. Stage pera had troubles with the en-overheating transmission fluid lem. It seemed the hydraulic fluid Manfrinato, he had a heavy land-5, however, saw the end of hopes gine overheating, indeed on all which caused an overheating en- was failing in the heat. On Loix's ing and damaged the car, while for Martin and Duval, for iden-the first three stages the engine gine and loss of power. Toni Gar-car the team detuned the ALS de Dominicus had engine failure. tical reasons, and the start of "safe mode" had operated and demeister lost differential hy-operation; this eased the strain Leg 2 -Eight stages, gravel, problems for Gronholm when Continued en P•D• 20 . draulic pressure and then had on the engine, eased the onset of fuel pump trouble as well, Juuso engine overheating, and when it Pykalisto had an overheating en-ran too hot the safe mode eased gine and the electronics lapsed the problems on the differen-into "safe mode". Didier Auriol, tials ... Pykalisto's power steering. after his impressive start had mis-failed and slowed the British firing towards the end of Stage 2, Gentleman Ford driver Alistair and the engine then cut out on Ginley, who finally decided to the subsequent road section. "We drive into the back of the slow tried and tried to .restart it but moving ~inn and push his Peu-without success. For luck we tried geot out of the way! just one final time -and it fired In PC_WRC, 20 cars started ~p again!" On the arrival at ser-the event, Ramon Ferreyros chose vice 12th running Gilles Panizzi . to drive an Evo VI rather than_ a was second, .with Subarus of VII ("the handling in these con-Tommi Makinen. and Solberg ditions is better"), while both close behind. Hyundai were hav- Janusz Kulig and Patrick Richard ing another bad day. Armin had new co-drivers for this event. Schwarz had to stop on a road Toshihiro Arai jumped into the section to repair a broken suspen-lead ahea~ of Niall McShea and sion bolt while Justin Dale then Daniel Sola, while Marcos reached the end of Stage 2 with Ligato had a collapsed air filter severe overheating and was or-box which cost him nearly a quar-dered by the team to withdraw ter hour to fix. Ferreyros lost the car. four minutes, "I started the sec-Second time round and the ond stage with something broken championship leader Burns on the rear suspension. During hoped his bad times were over, the stage the brakes were affected but t~ere ·were not. 1:"he hydrau-and for the rest of the stage there lies-failed, gear shifting had to-be were no bra~es at all. And then. manual, the differentials did not the twisty down-hill road section work and, worse, the faulty cliffs · after the stage was even inOFe haz-threw all the brake bias to the ardous!" After two stages the ·rear. The Peugeot was hard to original 20 starters had been re-drive. "This is now my third rally duced to 16. Giovanni Manfri-running where the car had given nato landed heavily and de-trouble!" But h.e was not alone, stroyed the intercooler, Richard Martin ·also had hydraulic had suspension problems. So trouble on his Ford for most of halfway through Friday Arai was the long Stage 4, and also the 14.4 seconds in front of Sola. brakes kept locking up. And rally McShea, who had been baulked leader Ro.vanpera as well. In the by dust on Stage 2, was third. middle of Stage 4 the gearshift Ricardo Trivino had driven all the . started to go wrong, the gearbox long stage with no brakes. would stick intermittently in Ferreyros' mechanics hurried gear." This cost time and the lead, to repair his car so as to leave the so that Gronholm finished the service on time, but they never day 6.8 seconds ahead. Gron-cured the brake trouble, and the holm was lucky. "Two kilometers Peruvian retired on the way out from the end of Stage 4 we heard to the third stage. "It would have a noise and eased off. I thouglit been better not to have rushed. it was a _tyre, actually it was some- so much ... " Second placed Sola, thing in the transmission." 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Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen had a pretty good run, they Armin Schwarz and Manfred Hiemer drove their Hyundai Accent to Beautifully airborne, Freddy Loix and Sven Smeets dnfd with engine were fJI' overall in their good looking Ford Focus. a decent seventh overall at the Cyprus Rally. troubles in the Hyundai Accent. taken power away from the en-trouble, but was still amused by The only unresolved business was edge, had to sit in the car with reported misfiring troubles on gine. Stage 6 was a nightmare for his problems with Pykalisto the the fight for the lead. Rovanpera his foot on the brake, but then the final stage, the first signifi-Peugeot. Gronholm, who had day before. "The bumper I made a good time on Stage 11 the car took fire. What to do? cant technical failure the team been running with a broken smashed hitting Pykalisto's car but then dropped more than ten Should his co-driver leave the car had suffered. Team manager, driveshaft, now had clutch cost UKLI000, but it was a very seconds to Solberg on the final to burn beside the road with Francois Onatriot: "Until now trouble and this stopped the car, memorable moment for a pri- stage, in circumstances which he Roman inside, or let Roman the only trouble had been while Panizzi stopped in the stage vateer!" did not understand. The over-jump out and watch the forest Colin's rear suspension damage. with loss of oil pressure and the ·Solberg set off for the second night gap was now 25.3 second. catch fire? Actually it ended hap-We discovered that Colin in fact engine just stopped. Loeb, who leg of the day with a lead of 13.4 "I am going to attack on the first pily. Roman jumped out, the car is a very good mechanic!" At the was running the highest placed seconds, aware that it was stupid three stages tomorrow", s:i.id didn't run down the hillside and end of the first loop Solberg's Citroen, had now.jumped from to think about pushing ahead. · Solberg "but I guess Harri al-the damage to the car was very lead was 47.6 seconds, but then fifth to third, in front of McRae Rovanpera's car was now run-ready knows that!" The main slight! on the first stage of the second and Burns. Further down the ning cooler than before. "Our debate was what action the Cit-At the Service Park after the loop Rovanpera heard a loud field, Loix retired. Now Burns battle with Harri is forming a roen team would take to maxi-first three stages, Frisiero with-bang from the transmission. had trouble with his transmis-pattern", said the Norwegian. "I mize Sainz's championship drew. Stage 9 was a catastrophe Another Peugeot driveshaft had sion. Because of hydraulic prob-am faster downhill and on the chances. Before the rally Burns for many PCWRC competitors, broken and i:he Finn could how lems on the first day he had al-twistier stretches, Harri is faster led him by five points, equiva-four more of them retiring. Singh only hope to reach the end. He ready made two transmission uphill." Rovanpera was anxious. lent to fourth place: currently he and Trivino retired with front sus-tried at the end of the stage to changes and was back on his "I am going carefully, but the was fifth. pension trouble, Sola had his disconnect the broken pieces but original unit. This time the clutch started slipping when we In.PCWRC Arai was leading transmission collapse and Aur re-could not, and the crisis now was trouble was limited to gear shift-drove through a water crossing." as he pleased, troubled only by tired with steering failure. Sud-not so much losing the lead, but, ing, and he had to use manual McRae arrived at service with a steering that was often stiffening denly the runners were down to if they managed to reach the fin-changes instead of the usual driveshaft poised between co-up, but Blomqvist lost his brakes eight, so every finisher would be ish, whether they would still be semi-automatic system. "Just an-driver Ringer's legs. "The bolts in on Stage 6 which dropped him in the points. In one stage Ligato in front of Loeb. By the margin other challenge for me ... ", he la-the rear suspension were broken to third place behind teammate had jumped from tenth to fifth! of just 2.8 seconds, they were. mented. so now the Citroens and we removed the driveshaft to Rowe. Singh climbed to fifth The PCWRC brigade was re-There were no World Rally Car were lying 3-4-5, reporting no sig-get safely to service." Makinen when Kulig fell back with a punc-duced to seven when Geradzhiev's retirements this day, though nificant trouble and becoming a rounded off a fast day, drove ture, but then Singh had trouble car stopped on the road section Ginley reached the finish after strong and reliable menace to straight into the Service Park to with an overheating engine on out to Stage 11 with an electrical driving two and a half stages with their rivals. retire, while Gardemeister had al-account of sand being thrown up problem, but otherwise the situ-no power steering, in a thunder-Schwarz, ·in the last run'ning ready retired when his car had hit by his su mpgua rd. McS hea ation was stable. Subaru leading storm which unexpectedly fell on Hyundai lost third gear, Garde- a tree stump and damaged the en- stopped on Stage 6 with trans-the rally, Subaru leading Group the hills. Solberg was delighted. meister continued with his..fuel gine. Didier Auriol stopped with mission trouble. Ligato contin-N. What a day! • "I do not normally have a plan troubles but even before the first electrical trouble and retired just ued to hav~ shock absorber Leg 3 -Six stages, gravel, but we did this time. It was to stage of the morning he had dif-after the stage, then Burns, who troubles, while Geradzhiev firstly 82kms. Would Rovanpera make start slowly and get faster ferential trouble. Makinen had had survived an overheating en-had the engine involuntarily a fight to the finish, or would he through the event." His team a great morning making fastest gine on the stages, got to within stop, having to run for help settle for second place? It was principal David Lapworth was times on Stages 5, 7 and 8, but two kilometers of the Service from spectators, then he was soon obvious that discretion was delighted. "Petter stuck ice cold he had more drama on Stage 6. Park when his Peugeot engine flagged down by marshals and the game and Solberg progres-to his plan. That's the way to do A tyre had punctured and failed and he had to retire, the ordered to stop because of a re- sively extended his lead. There · well in the championship!" wrapped itself round the suspen-third exit from the four works port of fire blocking the route. was a loop of three stages to the The Subaru procession in sion, and he lost nearly a half prepared cars. Ginley had no This was caused by Joakim Ro-east of Lemesos and this was to Group N continued without hour before he could get going sooner survived his turbo failure man who had slid wide and be covered twice. The surfaces fault but on the first stage of again. This led to him incurring than the engine oil pressure whose car was on the verge of were very loose but the drivers the day the leading non-Suba-too much lateness on the road plummeted. "It is either a blocked toppling down the hillside. This were being cautious. The only ru, Kulig's Mitsubishi, went off section to be allowed to con-oil filter or it will be retirement. caused a dilemma as Roman, not untoward moment at the top the road out of sight of follow-tinue and he knew he would be We shall see!" Pykalisto still had wanting his car to go over the end of the rally was when Loeb ing cars. ..-.IC\r excluded at the next :egroup. serious engine overheating -------------------------------------------. Among the also-rans, Pykalisto trouble and when the Bozian nearly .ran out of fuel due to his technicians saw the car it was re-car having a smaller fuel tank tired. Only one Peugeot was still than th other 206 WRCs and left, while all the Citroens re-only reached the refueling point mained,. and the only technical after switching the engine on to trouble they had so far was "road mode" on the stages, while McRae's suspension. Warm bold abandoned with The last two stages were now fuel vaporisation. Ginley had to be repeated but generally the turbo had then overheating sting had gone out of the event. Throwing lots of dirt, the Subaru lmpreza of Toshi Arai and Tony Sircombe was the Group N winner in Greece. Page 20 31st Cyprus Rally 19/22.06.2003 Lemesos (CY) WC round 7 _PCNRC round 4 1 (GB) 2 3 (F) 4 (F) 5 6 (GB) 1 (GB) 8 9 WC points WR 1fD • PC (7) Petter SOLBERG/Philip Mills N/GB 5h.09m.12.6s. 10 10 (3) Harri RO'\?,NPERA/Risto 290NNN75(F) 5h.13m.26.6s. (lS) Sebastien LOEB/Daniel 5h.13m.29.4s. 6 6 Pietilainen 8 - 8 Elena F/MC (17) Colin McRAE/Derek Ringer GB 5h.13m.57.9s. 5 5 Subaru Impreza S80WRT FIN Peugeot 206 WRC Citroen Xsara WRC 16DIM92 Citroen Xsara NRC 14DIM92 (19) Carlos SAINZ/Marc Marti E Citroen Xsara WRC 39CSP92 (F) 5h.14m..54.8s. 4 (6) Mikko HIRVONEN/Jarmo Lehtinen FIN Ford Focus RS WRC EXOZ,OBB Sh.18m..ll.3s. 4 3 (10) Arm.in SCHWARZ/!lanfred Hiemer D .Hyundai Accent WRC X22HMC 5h.22m..41.6s. 3 2 (32) Alistair Ginley/Rory Kennedy EJ02I<H0(GB) Sh.33m..09.9s. (54) Toshi Arai/Tony Sircombe GMG300NO9070(J) 5h.39m.13.7s.• GB/IRL 1 J/NZ 10 ( SS) Martin Rowe/Trevor Agnew PCWRC X2DSC (GB) 5h.42m.56.7s. Ford Focus NRC Subaru Impreza NRX 10 GB Subaru Impreza WRX 8 PCWRC Other important finishers 11 (65~ Stig Blomqvist/Ana Goni S/YV Subaru Impreza NRX PCWRC XlDSC (GB):_ 5h.45m.30.ls. 6 12 (58) Marcos Ligato/Rub~n Garcia RA Mitsubishi Lancer Eva VII PCWRC CE491CM (I) 5h.50m.50.0s. 5 14 (69) Bob+ Tom Colsoul a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII PCNRC KRS027 (B) 6h.10m.50.7s. 4 17 (70) Riccardo Errani/Stefano casadio Evo VI PCWRC AZ458WC (I) 6h.46m..12.8s. NC/I Mitsubishi Lancer 3 51(20 PCWRC) starters. 17 (6 PCWRC) finishers. *Group N winner. MANUFACTURER REGISTERED DRIVER. Winner's average speed over stages 66.18kph. September 2003 Dusty Times

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·DESERT STEEL MOTORSPORTS EVENTS Spring Tiine In Havasu B1 B1rle Moore It was way back last May, I he: lieve it was, and we had took a bunch of us over to Arizona on the Colorady to do a ·spot o ·fishin. Well we got up with the sun Satidy momin and was just drownin some worms and havin a good old time. Long about ten o'clock, or so, them fish they commenced to quit nibbling so we was just sorta sittin out there on the river takin in the sunshine when I heared all kinds of noise off to the south east. Since them fish weren't hungry any more I decided to go do some lookin for what all that noise was about. Photo5: Foto-Baja-Mex I kinda follered the sounds and some dust and then 'I saw what. looked to be one of them roundy round tracks like back home. Cept The ever white truck of Stacy Pike was the big winner at the Spring Fling, he took on this one someone had hauled a the ,Champtruck win. whole bunch of dirt onto the track know what all. • trucks and they was these here buggy and they had done made a sort of And what all that noise was looking like things with engines in miniature desert there. They was about was all these motor cycles the back and the drivers were all jumps and hills and they was turns and other motor cycles with four trapped inside little cages and they and water splashin and I don't wheels and little trucks and big was a goin all over that there track. ~----=------------------~ In Supertruck 2 it was the potent looking machine of Aaron Whitwer taking the win, against some stiff competition. Curt LeDuc, ever the competitor and the showman performs for the crowd and takes the win in Supertruck 4 at Havasu. They was a jumpin and throwin up dirt and water and people was a sitten there and they was a yellen and a clappin their hands and I don't know what all. · Well I just sorta snuck in a little closer to see if I could figger out what it was they was a doin. ·some . nice lady took some money from me and I made my way up into them stands with all them other people and commenced to watchin what was a goin on out there. Them trucks and them motor-cycles and them there buggys and all that other stuff was just havin a good old time. I watched till the.sun went down and had myself a good old time too and as we was all commincin to leavin I asked one ole boy what it was that they was a doin out there and he said they called it, "Short Course Racing". Multi days, multi races, multi winners. Such was the Spring Fling version of the Baja in Havasu. 50 plus entries made the trip through the springtime desert, coming from the east the west the north and the south, drivers and teams from Cali-fornia, Nevada and of course, Ari-zona, converged on Sara Park which is located about seven miles south of the London Bridge, for the first of two Baja in Havasu hap-penings. The history of this short course Continued orr page 22 Ricky Baldwin took tl)e Superchamp Truck class as well as the Quad Andy Anderson and his great looking car took the Formula 3 win, The· formula 4 (Class 9) winner was Jeremy Elwell, he came all the Expert class at the Spring fling. seen here in flight. way to Sara Park to race, a 10 mile tow. Doesn't matter what she races, Denise Whitman gives it her all, seen The Safari/Novice class was taken by Skip Edwards, seen here Tommy Bradley throws lots of dirt, evidently not enough as he finished here on the way to the Ultralite win. ready for landing at Sara Park. second in the Supertruck 2 class. Dusty Times September 2003 Page 21

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John Beyers Fabtech Ford is well airborne as he heads to a second Matt Carter's Ford comes over the berm on the _way to a second Joe Estaquio bottoms out his front end. Joe was the silver medal place finish in the Champ Truck race. · place finish in the Desert Truck class. _w,_·n_n--:e,-r_in_t--,h,.,e,...Fi_o_nn_u_l_a_1 ..... "_a_ce_._---.----=-=-----.-~-~---race has changed a bunch of times Multi days; multi races. Satur-lowed by the monster truck show. springtime perfect. The people weather. Not too bad and not too in the last 12 months. Ensenada day and Sunday were the days, Then Sunday presented the 12 lap from Desert Steel usually run this cold, just right for racing, short came and went. El Cajon/San Di-with Saturday's two race eight-lap main event to determine the final race in October. Now with the track style. ego came and went, some racing qualification the beginning of the class winners and the fans had a advent of the Spring Fling in May, Registration and contingency teams folded and new ones took multi races. That racing extended ball. fans and racers alike can enjoy the opened on Friday afternoon and their place, but the racing goes on. into the early evening, to be fol-The weather was Lake Havasu, best of Arizona's spring and fall extended into Saturday morning. The track was nearly the same as last year with a few more whoops and corners. -Page 22 1118 Team Lighlfon:e't M ••----•seaalpem1bat ht l WM* 1111 falls, 111111-alr Cllllilll ... Lighlfn's HID Bfitl aatUfla!Jle-focus llgllfl Iii aur IRBvativl flltr .. lranslate to sllattBrpruof liaflts tllat can cllaage cnler anti • patterns as fast as tile tefl1in Itself. Visit Ughlfon:eU~• ft ftlti a daaler uear JOO, September ·2003 _ Stuff for the Big Trucks and stuff for the Buggies, stuff for the Bikes and the Quads and lots of stuff for.the fans that had a great time too. Warm up pre-runs started around 11 a.m. Saturday with the first of Saturday's quali-fying, taking the green, jus_t after noon. The quads and the bikes were stager started and ended up on the course together. The other classes were made up of formula cars and large and small trucks and ran their eight laps in class. On Sun-day the course was reversed and run clockwise. All the Amateur Motorcycle winners were Lake Havasu City hometown boys and Randy Menighan headed the class. Nie Lyon took the silver and Eric Platt was third. One Expert Motorcycle took the class and was seen to lap the. other riders multiple times over the weekend. That rider was George LaMont, over from Stevens Ranch California. Two other California riders took first and second in the Begin-ner Motorcycle class. Top spot went to Robert Hall over from Corona and second went to Joshua Hall out of Anaheim. Havasu City won the top three places in Amateur Quad too. First place went to Darren Wallsmith, second to Mark Platt and third to Marcos Nororia. Home field ad- . vantage maybe, but they were also the only ones to enter. Ricky Baldwin over from Glen-dale, Arizona used his first place win to help map· out the course for later when he ran Super Truck. Don't know' if you can run the same line ih a truck, as on a quad, but he made it work. Two more hometown boys took second and third, they were Michael Butterworth silver and Dave Maserang bronze. In the always popular, Safari class, which was created by Victor Novello at his Estero Beach.short course venues, you enter what you brung till you win. This outing's winner was Skip Edwards, from Lakeside, California, driving his bright, red, Desert Truck. Second went to Pete Class in his four pas-senger 'Dune Jumper' and the fa-ther, Tom Williams, took third driving the family's GAW Formula 2 buggy. The Unlimited class, was again dominated by Denise Whitman driving her 'little red jet.' Whit-man is froll! Scottsdale, Arizona. Dusty Times

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Looking like a potential rollover, Larry Foddril straightened up and Rusty Stewart drove his ve,y recognizable car to a decent second Pete Class drove his four seater to a nice second place in the Safari/ drove on to second ace in Fonnu/a 2. place in the Fonnula 3 contest. Novice class, who says it ain't fun! The Motorcycle Amateur class win went to Randy Menigham, shown here ready for touchdown at Sara Parle. Motorcycle Expert class winner, George La Mont, prepares for landing on his way to the coveted gold, medal. -'. The second spot went to Michael Roberts running out of Phelan, California. Only one finisher in Formula 4 and that was Jeremy Elwell, a Lake Havasu City racer. The Formula 3 winner was Andy Anderson from · Lompoc, California. Second went to Rusty Stewart, Lake Havasu and third went to John Grossini from Grover Beach, California. · -Gary Williams, who is now an old married man won Formula 2 'in the same 1048 car that his dad took a bronze finish in Safari. La;ry Foddrill always puts on a great show but only managed a number two. Larry is out of Glen-dale, Arizona. Another Arizona driver took the third spot. He was, Dwight Lundell, from Mesa. Two guys fro~ California went at each ·other in Formula 1 and Rob Archibald from El Cajon outlasted 'Big' Joe Eustaquio who races out of Moreno Valley. Biker Sherlock who just started driving back in the Southern Cali-fornia Winternationals, is now three for three. Sherlock, who heads Dregs Racing, which used to be Snowbird took the top finish in Desert Truck. Second place went to Matt Carter, and third went to Jack Mitman. Glad· to see these guys together to further the success of the sport. Stacy Pike, from Kingman Ari-zona, headed the Champ Truck di-vision. John Beyer from Norco, California copped the silver and Glenn Grindt from Parker, Ari-zo~a took the bronze. Ricky Baldwin got off his quad and drove his Superchamp Truck to another win. Curt Le Due ·put on a great show for the.crowd in his red and white 'Skyjacker' Super Truck 4. LeDuc's stomping grounds are in Cherry Valley, California except for the time he spends during the summer in the mid-west, on the CORR's circuit. Aaron Whitwer from Poway, California powered his red and green "truggy m~an machine" to the top spot in Supertruck 2. Tommy Bradley from Henderson, Nevada and Larry Goudie all the way over from Mountlake Ter-4 Dusty Times race, Washington, ran second and third in their new, bright yel-low, Quick n' Brite rigs. ABOVE RIGHT: Daffen Wal/smith gets ready to run ! through the water and mud at Sara Parle. Darren took ' the Quad Amateur class win. These guys also win CORR's races during the summer. It was also re-ported that Mr. Bradley decided to be part of the Monster Truck and-Budweiser Jet Truck show Saturday evening. Tommy put on a · short-course-racing demo, which brought the fans to their feet·. Hell he even jumped the wreckage left by the Monster Trucks. Desert. Steel Motor Sports (DSM) would like to thank the backers of the Baja in Havasu se-ries. The City of Lake Havasu, Sunstate Equipment and the not unnoticed talents of Doug Gaebler, "on loan from Dub Campbell." Bradley Chevrolet and audweiser Beer Distributing . are big backers of this event and DSM wants. to again say thanks to them. Jim also wants to hand out a big "thank you" to all the volunteers, who make this all pos-sible. And' of course, thanks to the fans. The fall version of Baja in Havasu will be held at Sara Park on the 25th and 26th of October 2003. For more information please visit <www.DSMevents. com>. I Rob Archibald drove and flew his powerful steed to the Formula 1 (Class 1) win at ' the Meeting in Havasu. This is the system run by most off road race winners GO . FOR. TRI-MIL BOBCAT CHROME 1984-91 CORVETTE 2 1/2" OR 3" S.S. -TARGA MUFFLER 13220 HALLDALE AVENUE GARDENA, CA 90249 310-217-9233 ·WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 23

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OFF ROAD MOTORSPORTS HALL OF FAME Ribbon cutting ceremony B:y Judy Smith Photos: Ton:y Tellier Rod Hall, the driving force behind finding a home for the Off Road Hall Of Fame addresses the assembled invitees. Rodney Hall had a brainstorm a few years ago, and with the energy and persistence he's put to such good use in years .of off road racing, he developed his idea into reality. Hall purchased the assets of N ORRA (North American Off Road Racing Association) late in the '90's, thinking he might want to be able to use that name some day. But when he went through the papers that had collected.in founder, Ed Pearlman's files, he discovered the beginnings of an off road hall of fame. Indeed, Pearlman had gone so far as to induct a group of off road pio-neers·into his fledgling hall of fame in 1978, but he hadn't been able to locate a permanent home for a dis-play. Hall decided to try to do that. He began talking to various off road people, and to businessmen in the Reno area where he lives. Ulti-mately he came into contact with a friend who is on the Board of Direc-tors of the National Automobile Mu-seum (usually thought of as the Harrah's Collection), located in the heart of Reno. It sounded like a good idea to him also, and he took it to the board. And what finally hap-pened was that Hall had found a home for the Hall of Fame. Dave Churchill (center) chews the fat with other interested parties at the ribbon cutting ceremony in Reno. After a lot of meetings and much discussion, a Board of Directors was formed, and Hall was named -presi-dent. A panel of advisors was named, and that group consists of folks well known to most off roaders: Walker Evans, Steve Kelley, Dick Landfield, Billy Robertson, Bob Bower, Sal Fish Bob _Bower was the MC of the ribbon cutting event and did his usual George Thompson, Rod Hall's right hand man in the hall of fame Judy Smith shares some memories with friends at the Off Road Hall great job of keeping everyone interested and occupied. operation evokes a bit of laughter with a Thompson witticism. Of Fame ceremony. r--------------------------------------~-==-~-=-==-~-=-=~-~-==-~-~-==-~-=-=.=-~-=~= Performance Proven for Desert & Off-Road Use 150 Heavy Duty Sizes to Choose from Detail & Pressure Wash Tanks -Marine ·Holding & Water Tanks Bulk Storage & Waste Tanks R.V. Tanks Quality Products & Friendly Service www .ronco-plastlcs.com RONCO PLASTICS, INC. • 714-259-1385 • FAX 714-259-0759 • www.ronco-plastics.com 15022 Parkwav Looo, Suite B • Tustin, CA 92780 • CALL, WRITE or FAX Us to Receive a Free Cata/OQ ~--------------------------------~----------------------~ Page 24 September 2003 Dusty Times

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-r Jim Dizney was in attendance, seen here looking in anxious envy at Casey Folks, Diane and Sal Fish exchange pleasantries at the Old friend Dick Landfield was yet another honored guest at the Rod a Ferrari that he feels should be in his garage. cocktail party following the ceremony. Hall party for the Off Road Hall of Fame. and Casey Folks. These are all people Brian Chuchu11, Vic Wilson and Pete whose contri\>utions to off roading who like the idea, like the location Condos wandering around studying have helped to establish the sport and are willing to donate time and the cur.rent race cars on display. anq industry as we.know it today.n energy to get things done. Then all were invited into the mu- Pearlman's original inductees are still To get things off the ground it seum, to see Gallery 4, where the· the nucleus and they indude, Dick was decided to held a "ribbon-cut- beginnings of the Hall of Fame are Cepek, Brian Chuchua, Pete Co11,-tingn ceremony in conjunction with located. One end of ·the big room · dos, Charlie Erickson, Don Fran-the Best In The Desert Vegas to features a variety of very early off cisco, James Garner, Vic Hickey, Reno race. There would be plenty of road vehicles, mostly racers, but not Steve Mc Queen, Par.nelli J9nes, off roaders in town, and just to spice exclusively. There are some photos, Bruce Meyers, Drino Miller, Malcolm things up the group invited some old and a big banner, which names the Smith, Bill Stroppe, Thurston Warn, timers to come along for the fun. A original inductees. Ed Pearlman, Vic Wilson, Harry block of downtown Reno was roped Plans are to triple this display Bushert, Bud Ekins, Jon Lawler, Ray off, the cars that had just raced the within the next year, and then to-Moon and Mark Smith. 500 mile V to R race were on dis- eventually fill the entire gallery with Keep the Hall of Fame in mind. play, and some short speeches ex- displays depicting the history of off when you get up into northern Ne-plained what the Hall of Fame was road motorsports of all kinds. vada, and stop by for a visit. It's a and what plans· were in the offing The formal name of the collec- terrific project, and maybe you have for its future. tion is the Off Road Motorsports Hall some piece of off road history mold-It was great fun to see Parnelli of Fame, and its goal is to "honor ering in your garage that could help Jones, Walker Evans, Larry Minor, that dedicated group of enthusiasts round out a display. . _ . .,,. Ivan Stewart (L) and Larry Minor Jost in the memories of the days that once were. HONDA Power Equipment EB6500 POWEil .RACER & SPECTATOR DISCOUNTS • GENERA-rORS-•· OUTBOARD ENGINES • GENERAL PURPOSE ENGINES ~WELDERS! WATER PUMPS • LAWN MOWERS • :LAWN TRACTORS' • Rt.DiNG ·Mowe:Rs • TILLERs·-. California's Largest Sou~ce for Bonda Po~er· Equipment· Parts and Inventory IF WE DONT HAVE IT, NO ONE DOES! Check Our Website:.& WWW. Kawag uch-ihonda.com HOND.A Kawaguchi Honda Corp. . , . . 3532 East 3rd St. • Los Angeles, CA ·90063 Nothing S easier. GENERATORS & PUMPS 13231 264-3936. 264-5858 • FAX 13231 264-2136 For Optimum performance and safety, we recommend you read the owners manual before operating your Honda Power Equipment. Connection of a generator to house power requires a transfer device to avoid possible injury to power company personnel. Consult a qualified electrician.© 2003 American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Dusty Times September 2003 Page 25

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KARTEK MORE FREEDOM 250/S'40RE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL Malloy Mauls-Masses In Barstow By Tony Tellier Photos: Trackside Photo John Criswell joined the Class 1 ranks for this race, he made short work of the other three entries, none of whom finished. course and however the rugged ("M&C Motorsports) took his tum Barstow terrain would guarantee that in the driver's seat of the three race no cars would average a mile a minute old '30' machine with veteran rider -even with rare air. Robyn McMullin along side. Tom Mike Malloy ( # 1635 -showing how built the car for myself and the cousins unimportant a "good" draw really is) to drive - the third generation "30" soloed to his win. Mike shrugged that racers -but he exercised his veto "I had no real problems until the last powers and put himself in the driver's two laps, when I had a slipping clutch seat for this race. • a leaky seal? So I had to just work Starting fourth in class (#1604), around it ... keep the engine rewed, Tom quickly worked his way up to don't lug·it." second on the road by the end of the "I passed 15 cars on the first lap second lap and stayed there almost all alone! I had to get into a few people day. First 1600, first overall was Mike Malloy, he beat out 35 other 1600's and took home the 1600 Pro purse of $6500. but really had to be patient. It was Otherthanashortunplannedstop pretty easy up to the College but iri for power steering fluid on Lap 3 and the sand wash visibility was poor and some trouble with the low beam lights I got held up. It was challenging, to say when they were turned on in place of Mike Malloy soloed his Lothringer to the Overall and the Pro 1600 purse in 5:44:30 • at a 45.5 mile per hour average. Malloy eventually dominated at the finish line time, although the victory was not his until a f-cw miles from the fmish, where he passed Bryan Freeman whose car had exploded a c.v. with ten miles to go while leading. The "30 Racing" team of the Craig and Girdner clan was second, back by five minutes. In honor of his dedication to off road racing, the race was renamed the "Mick Newton Memorial Race". Besides being a Parker (AZ) T-shirt printer ("Snortin' Nortins"), Mick raced Class 8 in his '72 Nova for years. This was the fourth race of the Kar Tek Off Road Desert Championship and the Mickey Thompson Tires Baja Pro Cup. The "Mick Newton Memorial" was a multi-sanctioned event, co-promoted by MORE ("Mojave Off Road Racing Enthusiasts") and SNORE ("Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts") and was an official Pro Ryan and Richard Lesher took the class 10 honors, they ran trouble free and i I k f. irl to run throu h th ni ht. 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I wasn't sure if resembled a swamp, it was dusty, as The big Pros -1, 10, 1600, 5 -were that was he pulled over on the last lap. usual, along the southern edge of the scheduled forseven39 mile lap.5within I didn't know until the finish: YES!" course)- the team had no problems. an eight hour time limit from an 1800-Mike started with a full fuel load Tom stopped after the fourth lap for hour start. ThesmallPros-9,5, 1600, sincehe"didn'twanttoworktopass fuel and a rider change, Kevin Heavy Metal, and Mini Metal -were all those guys who started a light load Henriksen got in and they were out of six lappers. The Sportsman Buggies, then have to stop to gas up twice ana the pits in just under 90 seconds. Trucks and Class 11, did, or were lose all those positions." So he went Going out on the final lap, Tom supposed to do, five. heavy, stopped once and won. was still running second physically to There were three checks and six Strategy. Tactics. Whatever. # 1621 (Bryan Freeman). We knew road crossings with the clockwise "My Lightforce lights worked that #1635 (Malloy), third on the course passing behind the ever popular great," Mike enthused. Kevin Davis (of road, had us on corrected time just Slash X after the usual start off scenic DMS) helped me with them. They are before the first Hodge Road crossing. Outlet Center Drive. Weather Report: a great HID light, the (power) box is Tom saw Bryan stopped and off the "It was typical summer. Barstow insidethelightenclosuresoyoujust course, Tom assumed the physical weather plus mud at the north Start/ bolt them on and plug in the wires. lead. Though we were the first car to Finish and fog-like dust on southern They have to weigh half of the Hellas. finish, Malloy stopped the clock a few Hodge side. Track was very fast for I had five of them on and only used minutes faster than we did, denying Barstow, it rained very hard just before three, they were that good." Mike runs the '3O' team back-to-back MO RE the race started and dust was near a Don Hatz engine and rolls on victories. zero off the line!" Yokohamas • 33x16s on the rear. At the MORE race in May, we beat Pro 1600 Mike, who just graduated from Cal Malloy on time and he returned the A 36 car field of restricted buggies State Northridge with a degree in favor this time. It was a really good came out for a large payback and • Business, preps his own car "at my day for the California Pro 1600 "Alert the Media!" - the winner was home and at Kent's shop. Now that I racers, taking four of the top five spots. NOT the seemingly-invincible am out of school I am racing more." Our King Shocks and Transaxle dynamic of duo Rob MacCachren He is currently writing home loans at Engineering trannyworked flawlessly; BruceFraley! "Countrywide Financial", and, ourMickeyThompsontiressurvived While the entry list was large, with speaking of financial, he took home 280 miles without a scratch. Between cars in all classes, the field was over $6,500 from the race. the four CORE pits and our three shadowed by the large Pro 1600 class. Davy Girdner reported for the chase crews, we couldn't have asked With 80 entries, leaving every half runners-up: "'30 Racing' for better support! For '30 Racing' minute, the 39 mile course might be (www.3gra:cing.com) had a GREAT this was our third podium fmish in seeing the leader back just as the final night in our home town! Car owner/ the three MORE races this year and Sportsman entrywas flagged away. Of designer/ prep boss Tom Craig we have used different drivers in each .-!-------=----=:..._--=-------':::...._---'-....:..___:_ ______ --::; race! Mike Ault got off to a slow start in his clean 5-1600 but when the checkers flew he was there to accept the win. September 2003 Tommy Craig is my uncle - he designed and fabricated the chassis from the ground up. His dad, Tom Sr., built the motor with assistance from Ray Riffle and Willie Kalajian. Third place went to Rob Myerly and Randy Jones (#1622) who have been teammates for 20 (!) years. Jones drove from the flag to L5.5 having rolled on the fourth one, subsequently . having oil cooler problems but only lost five minutes when all was done and then said. On one of the early laps MacCachren's (#1625) crew came to the Checker Pit A wanting to use the club's welder. "No problem there, guys." They were going to do the welding. "I asked them to keep the car ' to one side in ~e one of our cars Dusty Times T-

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' . Tom Craig went as fast as he could but it was only good for the Orto Cox led the first few laps in Unlimited Sportsman but could only The Mike Gaughan, Jr. entry led Class 10 for the first couple of laps second spot in class 9, five minutes out of the gold. manage a sepond place finish at Barstow. but settled for the second spot at the checkers. came in. Mac had a broken limiter c.v. and that I now had a good lead. and all was well through Pit & and racing. Congratulations to the winner, driving suit; all dressed up with no strap and apparently had popped an This somewhat-new and wonderful through Pit B. I had a four minute , Mike Malloy, on a great race." place to go. Kenny and Cody Freeman axleoutofac.v. They got on the radio, feeling ofleading a race-not only in lead, when with ten miles to glory, my Bryan Ziegler drove #1631 all but (#1626) had a troubled day blowing and then wanted to borrow the my class but overall - went on even c.v. decided it had had enough and 60 miles, Jeremy Sund drove the car out spark plugs and helicoils plus welder and take it two miles to fix him. · after I received a flat on the fifth lap. just up and quit on me, it actually the final lap and a half to 12th as having three flats while playing catch-Pit Captain Art Velasco said "Noway. Then the seventh lap came around exploded. But I guess that that's Paul Sullivan stood around in his Continued on page 28 You're welcome to weld here, but the welder can not leave." They were fine with that and understood that we might need it for a Checker car. We had everything ready, the welder running with theit guys ready on it. Rob blew by to fourth. They said 'Thanks' and blew out of there." Brad "25.4mm" Inch (#1609) got in one lap and then just past the S/F rolled the car. A couple of spectators helped him back over. His leg was bothering him after that so when he made it to Pit A, after a flat tire, Wayne Nosala got in the c;ar for the remainder of the race. When Brad rolled he tore up two lights, leaving them with only two. They both were very happy to salvage a fine fifth place finish. It has been two years since Wayne has driven Brad's car. Arden Dennington (#1615, sixth) drove all laps, three without eye protection. Bakersfield's Rick Boyer ( # 1619) drove the last four laps; Brad Maurer took the start. Maurer had no problems but that troublesome Boyer had a left rear flat and drove on it for half a lap. "Flap, slap!" He had the floor pan come loose -every time he hit the brakes, the throttle would stick wide open. (Note: Then he shoulda OA-ed the event!) His son, 'Cory Boyer, co-drove the entire seven laps. Maurer started in Boyer's car and after hearing about Day Gang's problems, hopped in her car and drove the last two laps. Paul Keller ( # 1634, eighth) soloed: "All was good until ten miles from the finish wh_en a bolt in the power steering pump came out." Cal Poly-SLO student Cisco Bio (son of Class 9' s famous "Pancho") drove the whole deal in# 1627. Jorge Martinez co-drove it all, too. "We ran a flawless race to ninth. This was my fourth race and my fourth finish." Greg Blakeman (#1607) teamed with Matt Cullen as Blakeman started and Cullen finished. Greg had one flat, drove on it for a long three miles to a solid tenth, all due of course, "to F&L Fuel." Eleventh was #1621, Bryan Freeman, who drove the entire race. Bryan suffered a flat, a broken rear shock, a c.v. ans! finally, broke a link pin a mile out but still "liked the whole race." Bryan Freeman: "This race was going like a dream but it all ended in a nightmare. I started 21st in my class of 36. By Pit B, on the first lap, I was the ninth car through. I _was definitely driving my tail off. By the end of the first lap I managed to be fourth car on the road -that even surprised me when my crew told me that over the radio. Still after that wonderful lap my teammate, and off road racing hero, Rob MacCachren, was still beating me on time! On the second lap I heard on the radio that Rob had broken a Dusty Times GET MICROSTUBS! 934 PRO VERSION Now IN STOCK! NEFI SPECIALIST TUNDRA4WD lONOTRAVEl ~ -~ .. ,: .-v,ir' CO/LOVER & BYPASS SETUP WITH 4WDI ~PErformancE ~ U SuspEnsion 99-03 ,IIlVERADO COilOVE/l KIT NEW UNIBALL KIT AVAILABLE# WE STOCK MORE PARTS THAN ANYONE/ OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK! 909.737.RACE (7223) 2871 Ragle Way Cor.ona, CA 92879 September 2003 TH££DG£ ADVANCED SUSPENSION 4WD ,IUPE/lDUTY lIFTKIT,1 3" TO 12" AVAILABLE! Major Credit Cards Accepted i.. I VISA I ~ DISC VER Page 27

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Paul Smith lights u_B._Jhe !Jight as he flies to a nice second place in the BJ Proctor gets ready for landing as he heads to a second place Brian Flores gets nicely airborne on his way to a third place finish in 5-1600 battle, eignT minutes out of the win. finish in the class 9 battle at the MORE/SNORE race. the Unlimited sportsman baflfe. up -but still got lucky 13th. Lorenzo That incident ripped a c.v. boot; I lost the pack and progressively worked our gordo Panchro-.V .. ill..,.a-ch'a---,i~r,'l'gu_e_s_s.') _ra_c_e_wt--:.,th~B'"'"I..,Gs,-m-u.,...d,-p-u--.ddlc-n--es-.~B~u-t~dus-ty "WR" Rodi;iguez and Brett Maurer - antenna; some wires were pulled out way backwards due to an ignition Courtney Whipple's newly engined on backside." Steve backed off on the meaning "wall builder" in German - under the dash, the target light was problem. It took us about three laps # 16~3 car did-not get very far, indeed. last two laps when it became readily ( # 163 2) were slowed. by ignition smashed, etc. I had 'Main' bring me of running with low power and finally He was the first DNF! The engine quit, apparent that the other cars would problems. Lorenzo drove the first two my lights out to Pit A and I was off the car dying on us before we could broke, stopped, died, blowed up real not be a threat. and Brett the last five to 14th place. again. I had to stop one more time diagnose the problem. After rerouting good-no one is talking right now. Craig Reynolds(# 132) had a fast They liked the race, "It was a good for my amberlightto get fixed-again. a few wires, we were able to get things Jeff Knupp defended his no-show: second lap going but broke a 930 c.v. clean one" and they liked the rain and But I had no problems after that. straightened out and continue. "My car wasn't finished, still in the just before the start/finish, resulting thought that the course marking was (Note: What else could happen?!) "I Unfortunately, we had already lost a rebuild stage; Bobby's (Altamirano) in a 3: 13 lap ·(Criswell was turning good. This was Brett's first race, so drove five laps and then let Brad lap in doing so. The rest of the laps car was a little too worn out after 45s). After a tow for help, the c.v. was what does he know, huh? • Maurer in to finish the last two laps to were just a slow "make it to the finish" Henderson, and we figured it was safer replaced but a lot of time was lost At Ms. Day Gang (#1612) cut right 16th place." approach. As I'm sure you've heard to prepthecarrightandhaveanother the completion of the third lap, race tothechase!"'"r.1yTa=rn.:k~d. \~ll,ilP "lwas just beat from the roll-over from everyone, the course and Mother strong finish at Primm. We're really officials confirmed that John sitting in staging I was pulled out of and frustrated, We needed to finish Nature had just about everything that hoping to get a Top 3 finish in Gaughan (# 107) and Bill Matkel the line up due to an inop amber light the race and I figured itwouid be best you couid th1-ow in. He!!, we even had ----5CO RE ~ints this year. Hopefully ( # 14 3) had not completed three laps I was supposed to start 12th and to put someone in there that would two flash flood river crossings after the monkey is off our back after -and we're not going to, either-and ended up leaving 13th. I'm not sure if just finish the race for nie. Itwas the Pit A After a year and a half of Henderson, I believe I'm starting at Criswell's "5" car was going strong. they started my time when I left the first time in eight years that I've gotten suspension woes, we finally got it close Primm, so that will help also." With second place locked up, Reynolds line or when I was supposed to start. out of the car before the race was over. to being dialed-in and now we had Class 1 parked it because of concerns about (I haven't seen any times yet.) Myfi.rst Brad drove with Rick Boyer (Brad did this stupid ignition problem. One of Four entries, one finisher. the replaced c.v. lap was great after the target light got the first half). Brad jumped in my car these days ... it will all work together." John Criswell (#500) looked at his The Markel car is a Penhall A-arm fixed and I was allowed to leave the and drove the last two laps. I don't Seventeenth place was their reward. one-car qass 5 entry and decided to that runs a Jeff Fields automated to a line. On my second lap, leaving Pit A, know where we finished. Better luck Kash Vessels and Dan Martin move up to" 1" and a good decision it Ford 41. "We're still working out the I rolled the car three times, landing on next time?!?" • # 1618) were in fifth place when, on was, as the other three cars struggled- bugs - the car is still new. We lost a my roof. I had to have my pit people Matt Sherard (# 1638): "For Lap 5. Martin had oil cooler_is·sues. leaving John and Steve -Griffith to pivot boltini:herearttailingarm on come with a truck and flip me back starters, I have no idea where we Kash drove the first four laps but when garner the laurels. Criswell suffered a the third lap and had to call it quits. over. After they got m~ rolled over finished, but at least we did actually Dan got in the seat was broken -they flat on his fourth lap but thought i:hat The owner cifthe car is Scott Martin, and fixed the car it was almost dark. finish. We started near the back of struggled to a DNF. (Danny needs a the course was "fun, wet, a clean (?) Continued on page 30 ® The Suspension Company. Page 28· September 2003 Dusty Times ·

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In the class 1 0 conflict, Randy Ross drove to a decent third place Mike Wright roars through the night on his way to a third place finish Darin McGuffin really gets up there as he heads to a third place finish finish, slowing a bit as the race went on. in the 5-1600 contest at the Kar Tek Barstow night race. in the Class 9 contest, he was less than three minutes out of second. Randy Jones heads through the night as he runs towards a third Fourth place in the Unlimited Sportsman category went to Bob Fourth place in Class 9 went to Johnny Burns, he had his five KC's ready for the black of night. place finish in the Class 1600 battle. 'Wiederhold, seen here flying straight and level. who is paralyzed from the neck down Winners Ryan and Richard Lesher Butch Burnell. lt was co-rider Dave and rides with me. Our sponsors are (# 1047) "lost their lights in a deep Meese's first time in a car. Goodyear, Centerline, The Radiator puddle" but still thanked Lightforce. Class 9 Shop, Tire Express, Iron Rootz Design This was the only second time out for Fifteen entries, six finishers. ( www.ironrootz.com), Kartek and the Randy Ross# 1000. "We still need Class 9 was a large field-15 starters ORV Productions. Thanks to to dial in suspension." RR explained. -but only six did all six laps. Harry FA.LR, and to Donald Harper for Powersteeringproblemsreareditsugly Dunne (#914) could not get done all : , help." head on Lap 2, bedeviling them to the without the eight hour time limit: Class 10 bitter end. Randy split his four laps 8: 12: 18. The Walters guys could, Four entries, three finishers. with Jim Delang, the center laps with however: 6:26: 11. Dwaine Walters (#900) drove the last couple of laps attending ten minutes of down time. with no problems. He lied and said Since they missed first place by ten that he "loved the rough course." Rob minutes, well... you do the math. Walters drove the first four with rear Paradoxically, they reported the suspension problems and it "made course to be both "wet and dusty." him tired." Scott Johnson and Darin B.J. Proctor had a trouble free run McGuffin - "The man who taught in #965 driving the first three circuits. Tom Dittfield all he knows and he's James Ward drove laps to the finish still an idiot" -were beginning to eat and had a right rear flat with an up the engine in old #948: "We had Curt leDuc-2003 Seas,n Barrie ThlfflPSID Best In The Desert Class 8000 • Vegas to Reno ... 1st Place JeepSpeed ................. • 2003 .......... Currently in 2nd Place • Parker 425 ..... 2nd Place Score JeepSpeed Class ...... • 2003 .......... Baja 500, 1st Place Score Class 8 .............. • Baja 500 ....... 1st Place with Nick Vanderway JeepSpeed ................. • 2002 .......... Champion CORR Pro 4 ................ • 9 top 5 finishes Watch Off-Road racing on Television! JeepSpeed ................. • 2001 .......... Champion Get the airdates & times at skyjacker. tv Call 1.866. 4 A DEALER ext. 5008 or go to skyjacker.com to locate the dealer nearest you. Page 30 September 2003 Dusty Times

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Courtney Collins, offspring of Brian Collins had a good race, she took the laurels in Unlimited Sportsman by four minutes. to add oil and we had one flat. I still had fun," which is what it is all about. Their third place was a couple of minutes back. "30 Racing" factoid: Todd Craig, Tommy's brother, co-drove #985 bringing it home in an oily fourth place in Class 9. Johnny Bums: "I started the race and went two laps then was not feeling well so I put my co<lriver, Todd, in. He was goingwell, running for second, then got a rear flat on Lap 4 in a bad spot. He got back going then cracked the engine case, so we added oil for two laps." The first five cars were· spread over a 30 minute gap with George "Oopah!" Degougadis taking fifth ahead of a leisurely Cory and Milo Torres who struggled to sixth in an under-the-wire 7:59:43. Class 5-1600 for the CFD of Smith and Ditzy Dittfield it would have been otherwise. Ault took two hours to do Lap 1 but Smith returned the favor -line-to-line -on his fourth tum. Tiny Tommy Dittfield -the man who taught Daren McGuffin how not to drive-started in car #572 and then had DoR Paul Smith drive the last half. "The throttle was sticking" but not enough to win ... plus they broke a bottom adjuster bolt on the beam. At RMS Paul had a flat that cost them a lot of down time. Honda of North Hollywood Report: "Dittfield called Stuart Chase and I to run a spare six miles out to his co<log. When we got there we found out that they had a left rear flat, no jack, and no lug -wrench." (Note: Smith had had a breaker bar but dropped the socket and lost it in the sand.) "We had a lug wrench but no jack ready for that type of car. Stuart and I lifted the car by hand while the driver pulled off the flat; we rested a second, and then lifted the car again while he put on the new tire. CHECKERS DON'TNEED JACKS. ,. Six starters, three finishers. Mike Ault (#577) had his way over Jesse Newton drove dad's Chevy to the Class BC win in the Mick Newton Memorial five other Bugs but if it had not been Night Race, the elder Newton will be sorely missed by all. Dusty Times September 2003 I can't. believe all these guys were running without a spare· or a jack ... for weight saving!" How about "time saving?' Mike "Big Air, Jr.: Wright (#555) gave Jimmy Hook a second Checker chance, sticking him in the right seat then letting him drive the final two laps. Magnanimous, huh? They were running in third place, reportedly with "the lights facing backwards (?) Continued on page 32 OBA: Discount Foreign We Have In Stock: Ultra Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15 X 6.5 $1·35.00 $145.00 & up Centerline Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15 X 6 . $129.95 $135.95 15 X 10 $146.95 Call for Prices 3636 Meade Av~ Las Vegas, NV 89102 (702) 247-1266 ·we Now Do. MAGNA FLUX Page 31

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;. (W)right in Jimmy's face." (I guess that you had to be there ... or not) when they suffered a fuel filter problem. This was Mike's first race and just to prove it he rolled twice, on first lap. Later Mike said: '"They' hurt my car but I had the time of my life" getting a finish and a third place, out of secorf'd by under nine minutes. The Vsual Suspects, perennial challengers, Brent Shermak (#550), Jeff Sack (#558), and Mark "My Words" Dees (#573) did not even finish the event. Trophy-Trucks Three entries, no finishers. There was a catchall group racing under this banner, including the 1962 Chevrolet Nova ("Nova" -"does not go" in Espanol) of SNortins' Nortin's - in memory of Mick Newton. While a V8 in the desert is not half as unusual as it once was, the roaring unibody car Tfte Difference, Page 32 Dual Cylinder Brake Pedal Assembly Short or Tall Master Cylinders Features steel pedal with large foot pad, non-skid foot surface and total seal rubber boots. Adjustable balance bar for precise front/rear pressure ratios.Standard pedal length is 10.25". (5.2 to 1 ratio) CNC-2045D Steel Pedal, Short or Tall M/C Floor Mount. Fluidyne Heat exchangers & Transmission Coolers DUN-D830500 Heat Exchanger DUN-D830503 Heat Exchanger DUN-D830504 Heat Exchanger DUN-D830612 Trans Cooler w/Fan 2-pc Aluminum Drums 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. For more information give us a call or visit us online @ www.mckenzies.com September 2003 Don Heinneman took the win in Limited Sportsman in spite of many troubles on his second lap at the Kar Tek Night Race. was still a hit. Jesse Newton did three laps. Tech Spy Report: "The SNortins' car appeared that lots of rectangular tubing used to extend the heavily modified stock sub-frame aft, clear to the shackle hangers, if not the rear bumper. ltwas then trussed in typical cage fashion. Looked to be a very stout car. It still has a GM passenger car 12-bolt rear end under it -heavily trussed, gusseted, and braced - with built-into-the-spring-perch lift blocks one inch tall." Diego Lopez and Robert "Not well" Otwell (#748) just called it quits. They used one of their truck's brake lines to fix the hydraulic clutch hose, which was OK since the brakes had gone ~ut earlier, anyway. (Note: Lucky guys and wise men. I had to make one for the Cherokee when the rubber hose split in San Felipe, by brazing a 3/8-copper line onto the two steel reverse-flared ends.) Then the "top end broke" and they limped home to Main. They went two laps with no brakes, and they took 5:22 to do it, too. Tom and Jerry Coon, who usually run in Sportsman Truck, ate up four hours for their only lap. Unlimited Sportsman Eight entries, five finishers. Ms. Courtney Collins #7), yes, those "Collinses", was a winner by a slim four minutes over Orio Cox, #64. Courtney said that she had no problems with the 1600 Wiks/ Lothringer and only got nerfed "a little. Billy ( Goerke) rides with me and helps me a lot. Dad (Brian)won'tridewith me. I don't think he even wants to know how I drive!" Brian Flores and Rick Lance Rob Walters did it again, he took the class 9 honors at Barstow, flying to yet another win. Dusty Times

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CORR AT BARK RIVER Renezeder Tr_iumphs At Bark River By]. Preston Bradshaw Photos: J&L Photo . deft Virnig took a nice 1'1 and 2'° in the rounds at Bark R!lfer ami he leads the Lite Buggy Points by seven. _,age 34 Bi/stein • Sway A Way Eibach · HM · l]A 1 .. CNC Sparco • PRP • Fuel Bate Ron Davis Radiators Setrab Oil Coaler, -Optima Battarie, Mechanlx WBar September 2003 Jason Baldwin had a first and a fourth in the Bark River Rounds, Jason is fifth in Pro-4 points, 11 points in arrears. · With the Lucas Oil Racing Series finished in third place, Josh Bald-more than half over for the 2003 win was fourth and Johnny Greaves season, the racing is getting a bit was fifth to the flag. Scott Douglas tighter, everybody's driving just that had transmission problems half way much harder with seasons end com-through the race and ended up in ing soon and lots of points yet to be sixth place, Steve McCrossan fin-won. The BOSS Snowplow Off ished in seventh place andAfDrews Road Challenge at Bark River, never started. Michigan was hard fought all the In Round 8, it was Renezeder's way, lots of points positions race, he moved through the pack changed, there was one serious acti- and with a few laps to go he took dent, Dan Vanden Heuvel was in- the lead and Carl also got his sec-jured in a crash. Dan's Pro-2 truck ond win of the 2003 season. Scott rolled in the first turn of Round 8, Douglas was rarin' to go and he suffered a compression fracture, drove a good race and took the sil-some cracked ribs, chest and lung ver medal for that round. Curt contusions and a concussion. Dan LeDuc got himself another third was released from the hospital two place finish and Jason Baldwin, who days later and will recuperate at had the lead for a while found him-home for the next few weeks, Dan self finishing fourth. Josh Baldwin said, "I may not be abie to partici-had a fifth place finish, Steve pate in the next race at Bark River McCrossan e~ded up in sixth place in August." The ~taff at Dusty Times arid John Greaves finished in sev-wishes Dan a fast and full recovery. enth, thanks to losing front wheel In Pro 4, Round 7 Jason Bald- drive. Drews never started. win took the lead on the second tum So, the dt.ist has settled on Pro-4 of the first lap and that's all she and Carl Renezeder jumped trom wrote! Jason held the lead 'til the third to first and leads the points checkers and collected his second win with 102 in hand. Guess what? Curt of the season. Carl Renezeder LeDuc is second in points, only two moved through the pack all race long away from the top, see what a bunch and ended up in second place, not of seconds and thirds can bring? too far out of the win. Curt Le Due, Scott Douglas is third in points, only who hasn't had a win this season two behind LeDuc and Johnny Rick Huseman had a fine weekend, a first and a second in Pro-Lite and Rick has an 11 point lead in the hotly contested class. Jamie Kleikamp had a great weekend, a third and a first place finish in the rounds, his best weekend of the season. Dusty Times . 7

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Scott Schwalbe took a seventh and a first place at Bark River, Scott is third in the Super buggy points race. Jeff Lutzow won the first round at Bark River, was seventh in round 2 and is third in Stock points, only three out of the lead. Having a good weekend, John Svanda took home a first and a fifth in the Single Buggy contest and is seventh in points. Greaves is only one point behind Douglas. Jason Baldwin is. fifth in points with 91. In Pro-2 there was lots of action as Scott Taylor took the lead late in Round 7 and went on to take his fourth win of the season, three in a row aii.d he padded his points lead as well. Evan Evans took the lead about half way through the round, bu_t a stop and go penalty cost him dearly and he finished in the second spot. R.J. Flanagan had a pretty good round and he snagged the third ' position on the podium. Steve Bar-low came in for a fourth place fin-ish and Chris Hansen took a nice fifth place. Larry Goudie came in for sixth place, Kevin Probst, who led for a while suffered a broken spindle and ended up in seventh and Tommy Bradley, who isn't having the best of seasons came in eighth. Carl Renezeder, always doing double duty had his worst finish in Pro-2, a not too nice ninth place while Dan Vanden Heuvel finished in 10th place, thanks to an overheating problem. Paul Seidler finished in and, once again, Shilts and Wald 11th. Bruce Shilts and Andy Wald never started. never took to the track. In Pro-2 points Scott Taylor has The start of the Pro-2 8th a big lead, he has 126 points, Evan Round was marre.d by the Vanden Evans is second in points with 92, Heuvel crash. The race was-red Carl Renezeder is right behind in flagged and restarted. At the restart third place with 89 and Kevin Larry Goudie and Tommy Bradley Probst is fourth with 77 points. • leapt into the lead but Evan Evans There were 24 entrants in the was on the move and he took his Pro-Lite class and Jeff Kincaid had a first win of the 2003 season, his four point lead when the weekend 19th win in Pro-2. Scott Taylor gave started. But, ain't there always a but? chase to Evans but to no avail, Scotty When the weekend was over Jeff was had to settle for the second spot this second in points, trailing Rick Huse-time. Kevin Probst was getting back man by 11 points. In the first round on track and came in for a third Huseman was first into Turn 1 ·and place finish while Larry Goudie there was no catching him, his Fab-moved up a few spots from the last tech Ford motored on to take his round and finished in fourth. Steve second win of the season. Jeff Kincaid Barlow dropped a spot into fifth wasn't too far behind, he took a nice place, Chris Hansen came in sixth. second place and Mark Krueger Paul Seidler moved up some spots came in third, his best finish of the into seventh place and Renezeder's season. Kule LeDuc nabbed a fourth smoking truck finished eighth. R.J. place finish, Art Schmitt was fifth Flanagan was a long ninth place and across the line and Joe Wutke was Tommy Bradley was still having prob- sixth. Shayne Pagles, a rookie in this lems and finished in 10th. Needless class was seventh, Steve Federico was to say, Vanden Heuvel didn't finish eighth, Rod VanEperen came in· ninth and 10th place went to Don came in ninth and Don Ponder took Ponder. Rookie Jim Kandel was another 10th place finish. Jeff _11th, Lee O'Donnell was 12th to Kincaid fought a flat tire and fin-finish, Chad Hord had his worst fin- ished in the 11th place, Donnie Rob-ish of the year in 13th, rookie Mark erts was 12th to the checkers, Mark Oberg was 14th, Ted Wubben was Oberg moved up a spot to 13th, Jim 15th and Tom Hoppock was the Kandel dropped a few spots to 14th 16th and final finisher. Donnie Rob- place and Rod VanEperen and Tom erts and Stacy Pike were among the Hoppock had the unfortunate missing. Bryan Cavitt, Javier Scoia, honor of being the 17th and final Al Walentowski, Chris Menard, finisher. Randy Eller and Michael Kelly were Rick Huseman leapt into the all missing from both Pro-Lite points lead this weekend.Jeff Kincaid rounds. is in second spot and not liking it, The second Pro-Lite round saw Art Schmitt is third in points a long Mark Krueger take the lead a few 32 points out of the lead and Chad laps from the end and go on to take Hord is fourth with 78 points. his first win of the season in his Nis- Sportsman 2 was hotly contested san Frontier. Rick Huseman backed at Bark River and the Chevy of Ben up his win with a second place, Chad Wandahsega took the lead early in Hord picked up another third place, both rounds and Ben took a pair of Steve Federico was fourth and Art first place finishers to the bank. In Schmitt picked up another fifth the first round, Ben took the lead place. Kyle LeDuc was sixth-, his fin- and ran away from th crowd. 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r ,. Mike Seefeldt garnered a silver medal and a gold medal at Bark river, Mike is third in points in Single buggy. Mark Krueger took a third and his first win of the season in Pro-Lite, Mark is seventh in points going into Bark River II. In the Super Buggy contest, Mike Geiser had his best weekend of the season, a first and a sixth place finish. third, Don Williams took a nice fourth place and Sam Konitzer hung in there with a fifth place fin-ish. Mike Savage slipped a bit from his usual form and finished in sixth, Bob Gersmehl was seventh in, Ken Hallgren came in eighth, Ross Hoek was ninth and Brian Hinman fin-ished 10th. Gordon Zima was the 11th and final finisher, Adam Daffner never got on the track in either round. The second round was a rerun of the prior race, Wandahsega tak-ing the laurels and giving himself a · good boost in the points. Gordon Zima was back in form, taking a nice second place, the best finish of his abbreviated season. Mike Oberg slipped a cog and finished in third· place, Sam Konitzer was the fourth to finish and Mike Savage was fifth over the line. Ken Hallgren took the sixth place finish, Dan Badoux a rock was the fifth place finisher. dropped a few places into seventh, Don Demeny, a rookie was sixth to eighth place went to Don Williams, · finish, Keith Steele had his worst fin-Brian Hinman picked up a spot to ish of the year, a seventh, Gerry ninth and he was the last finisher. Mannion came in eighth, rookie Bob Gersmehl and Ross Hoek Dave Waldvogel was ninth to finish started the round but failed to fin- ·and 10th place went to Rick ish the required laps. •Hinman. Tim Konitzerwas 11th t~ In Sportsman 2 points, Dan take the checkers, Jason Bort was Badoux holds the lead with 103 12th in, Al Konitzer was unlucky points, Mike Oberg is second, 11 13th, Paul Kozlowski was 14th in poi~ts away, Mike Savage is _third and Vic Anderson was the 15th and with 89 points and Ben Wandahsega final finisher. Randy Zimonick was and Sam Konitzer are tied for a no show for both heats. fourth place with 86 points each. The second round of the Stock In the Stock class, in the first class had Mark Kleim_an backing up round, Jeff Lutzow picked up his his second place finish with a win in second win of the season, Mark this round. Rhonda Konitzer had a Kleiman took a nice second place. great finish, ·second spot ain't bad, Rod Wells took third, his best finish Dave Waldvogel finished a nice third, of the season, Rhonda Konitzer is Randy Rundhaug was fourth to the doing right well, she was fourth in line and Don Demeny was fifth to · this round and Randy Rundhaug, finish. Al Konitzer had his best fin-::e:::ice~:::~=-~:~::.:::.eK~;~;~·~' ,911it~ :y•;.<•{":;••••:.,~~-~d ~ •• ❖", Fabrication is your one stop race shop! Give us a call for more information and experience the dif-ference a KREGER Car or Race· Set-Up can make! Page 36 September 2003 ish this year, sixth, Jeff Lutzow finisher was Corry Heynen, Tim dropped back to seventh place, Christensen was the 17th finisher, Keith Steele finished an unhappy Jeff Sands was 18th, Scott Peterson eighth, Vic Anderson moved up to was 19th and Aaron Ha,;leywas an ninth place and Rod Wells rounded unaccustomed 20th place finisher. out the top 10. John Konitzer fin- Casey Johnson was 21st to finish and ished in the 11th spot, Rick Hinman the Kreimans were the final finish-was the 12th and final finisher. ers, in 22nd phi.ce, Herman Barnum Gerry Mannion started but didn't took the greert flag but never fin-finish the round while Jason Bort ished and Gary Nierop didn't start and Paul Kozlowski didn't start. either round. In the Stock points race, Keith In the second round of Super Steele leads with 103, Mark Kleiman Buggy, Scott Schwalbe took his sec-and Jeff Lutzow are tied for second ond win of the season, Aaron Haw-place with 100 points, Rhonda ley came back like gangbusters and Konitzer is fourth with 80 points finished second, Dave Johnson and Randy ~undhaug is fifth with grabbed a nice third place, Tim Lem-79 points. ons took another fourth place fin-There were 24 Super Buggy en- ish and Paul Bort had a very nice trants and Mike Geiser, making his fifth place finish. Mike Geiser second start of the 2003 season took couldn't repeat his win, he finished the win. Jim Lair was right behind in sixth place, Jim Lair•droRped way him, taking a nice second place, Ryan ,down: to seventh place, John Mason Mulder stayed up in the points with was eighth, Tom Schwartzburg was a third place finish, T_im Lemons ninth and Scott Powell came in for scored a nice fourth place and Scott 15th plae,:e. Tim Christensen finished Olson had a great fifth place finish. in the 11th spot, Jeff Sands was 12th, Tom Schwartzburg was the sixth Jon Steiner finished in 13th again, place finisher, Scott Schwalbe had Herm Barnum was the 14th finisher a decent seventh place finish, Dave and 15th went to Jack Haenlein. Johnson finished eighth, Scott Powell . Todd Wallace was the 16th finisher, was ninth and Jack Haenlein fin- Ryan Mulder had a horrible round ished in 10th. In 11th place it was and finished 17th, Corry Heynan John Mason, Craig Biesik was 12th was 18th, Casey Johnson was 19th to the checkers, John Steiner was in and Craig Biesik, a rookie was the 13th, Todd Wallace was 14th and 20th finisher. Scott·Peterson was the Paul Bortwas the 15th finisher. 16th 21st and last finishing car. Scott In Pro-4, Carl Renezeder went home with a second and a first at Bark River, he leads the points by a cliff hanging 2. 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Scott Taylor took his fourth win of the season, a second in the second Marl< Kleiman is having a good year a second and a first at Bari< river In Sportsman 2 it was no contest as Ben Wandahsega took the_gold round and he leads the Pro-2 points by a husky 34 points. and only three points out of the lead in the Stock Class. medal in both heats in his BFG clad Chevy. Olson started but didn't complete start either Single Buggy round. ' There were 28 Light Buggies en-round but failed to finish. Tom Gilson was the 20th finisher." 21st the round. In Round 2 of the Single Buggy tered and when the dust cleared af-Vimig didn't start this round and to finish was Steve Oman,· Tom In Super Buggy points, Aaron exercise, Mike Seefeldt took the ter the first round it was JeffVirnig Joel Krall didn't take to the track Virnig was 22nd, Matt Gerald was Hawley holds a slim lead, Tim Lem- win, his second of the year, Steve taking the gold medal. The silver in either round. 23rd, Kevin Huth took 24th and ons is in second place, four points Socha picked up the place money, medal went to Josh Hintz, the In the second round of Light TraC Fleishman was the 25th fin-behind, Scott Schwalbe is in third John Fitzgerald moved up a few bronze medal was takeo. by Jamie Buggy, it was Jamie Kleikamp, com- isher. Tracy Peebles dropped way with 71 points and Ryan Mulder is spots to third, Brad Erickson came Kleikamp, fourth place went to ing off a nice third place taking the down to 26th, the last finisher. fourth with 69. "in fourth and fifth place went to Kevin Huth and fifth was taken by victory in Round 8. JeffVimigwas Randy Oman did not start. In the Single Bu~conflict, John John Svanda. Adam_ Guberud took Matt Gerald. Steve Oman was sixth relegated to the second spot this Jeff Virnig leads Light Buggy Svanda got his first win of the year, the sixth finishing position, Bob to finish, Craig Metz notched an- time, Greg Stingle took a nice third points with 86 accumulated, Josh MikeSeefeldtcameinsecond,Steve Blaneymovedupabunchtosev-9ther seventh, Craig Rabe was place.JoshHintztookanicefourth Hintz is second with 79, Ben Socha was third to finish, fourth enth, Mark Steinhardt was eighth eighth, J.R. Wagner was in ninth place finish and rookie Craig Metz O'Connell is in third place with 77 went to Adam Guberud and John to finis , Teny Fitzgerald was ninth and Jeff Schulze took 10th. Steve took fifth place. Chad Dewal.1 points and Matt Gerald is in fourth Fitzgerald was fifth. Sixth place went and 10th went to Michael Rau. Ja-Schuch took the 11th place finish, moved up a bunch to take the sixth with 63 points. to Brad Erickson, Mark Steinhardt son Janusz was 11th, 12th went to Greg Stingle was 12th, 13th went finishing position, Craig Rabe was In the Manufacturers Champi-finished 'in seventh, Todd Crump Len Lindquist, Tracy Crump was to Tom Thomas, Tracy Peebles was seventh, J .R. Wagner moved up a onship race, Ford has a 122 to 110 was eighth, Allen Plawman was 13th, Allan Plawman was 14th and 14th and TraC Fleishman was 15th. spot to eighth, Todd Lemke was point lead over Chevrolet in the Pro-ninth and Tracy Crump was the Heather Sullivan was 15th. Dan Adam Behm took the 16th spot, ninth and Jeff Schulze was 10th. 4 division, Toyota is third with 97 10th finisher. 11th place went to Martin was 16th, Jace Shubert was Brian Bloomquist was 17th, Jamie John Bauman was 11th to finish, points, in Pro-2, Ford has a slight Terry Fitzgerald, Jace Shubert was 17th in and Todd Crump dropped Gilson took 18th, Jeff Schulze was Scott DeGroot moved up 10 places lead over Chevrolet, 126 to 124. In 12th, Jason Janusz was unlucky way back to 18th. Wade Schuoert 19th and Randy Oman took the to 12th, Ben O'Connell also moved the Pro-Lite division, Toyota main-13th, Len Lindquist was 14th in and started but didn't finish the round. 20th spot. Todd Lemke took the up 10 p-laced to 13th, Gerry tains its lead over Ford, 124 to 114. Dan Martin was the 15th finisher. In Single Buggy points, Steve 21st position, Scott DeGroot was Kleikamp was 14th and Tom Tho- Nissan is third with 102 points. Mike Rau wad6th, Bob Blaney was Socha leads with 91 in hand, Mark 22nd, Ben O'Connell was way off mas was the 15th finisher. Adam It's back to Bark River again for a terrible, for him 17th, Heather Steinhardt is second with 84 points, his feed and finished 23rd, Carol Behm was 16th in to the checkers, Rounds 9 and 10 on August 9-10 Sullivan was 18th, Wade Schubert Mike Seefeldt is in third with 80 Gunderson was 24th and Chad Steve Schuch was 17th, Carol and then on to Crandon for the was the 19th and final finisher. The points and Adam Guberud is Dewall was the 25th and final fin-Gunderson was 18th, Brian season ending Rounds 11 and 12. Scotts, Miller and Morrow failed.to fourth with 79 points. · isher. Johµ Bauman started the Bloomquist was 19th and Jamie Stay tuned! . _ .• fb Dusty Times IIUl"lll&.lfllll!!!!!!! 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VORRA AT YERINGTON Denton Dusts The competition Text & Photos: Bubba Ray Boudreaux First Class 1 across the finish line and first overall was the very quick Todd Denton, he averaged almost 54 miles an hour for the race. · · Who: The guys and gals of the sored by Casino West. Where: The Valley Off Road Racing Association. quaint confines of the immediate What: The Yerington 300 spon- desert outside Yerington. Why: For the love of desert racing. It was time for the racers to load up the spare tires and water onto . . -···~ -fifU,Z 61.n ~ ,, . • • ••• www.nevadaoffroadbuggy.com Cnl II! A Oll l!DR All YOUIGSSIOdD IIIIM -1-888-7SS-5900 · eatt TOll ,a11 CV CENTERS . HARDENED 9 UNDERSIZED CV 6All5 NEV/.>DA OFFR0/0 BUC'.,GY T-g-l!RT SM--MID ·LRG· XXLRG ONLY $!000 FOR ADDITiCNAL CLEARENCE MSD IGNITIONS -= WE CARRY A WIDE ASSORTMENT OF WELD ON TRICK TABS 3054 S. VALLEY VIEW #130" LAS VEGAS, NV• 89102 HOU RS: MON-FRI 9AM-6PM • SAT 9AM-5PM (702) 871-5221 fax Sam Berri competes in both Classes 1 and 10. Sam took Class 10 honors and was runner up in the class 1 battle. their race rigs .and head off into a forbidden locale and see if running around in the desert for a few hun-dred miles would be an exercise in futility, or a triumph over nature, bad karma and/ or whatever other unspeakable challenges that would present themselves. · While the citizens escaped the metropolis of their existence to play in the sand of Pismo and Glamis, the off road warriors of VORRA was welcomed with open arms into the Nevada community of Yerington to open up the dance in the VORRA Desert Series. Casino West, located on Main· Street in Yerington was the sponsor of the race. Friday night, a welcome party was held_ for attendees of the race. On Saturday, it was time to get down to business. Tech inspection and registration was held out on the side of Casino West, while racers could be seen returning from pre-running the course. Later on in the evening, it was time for the race participants to wind up the power plants and shoot a cruise down Main Street. Led by a beauti-ful white Ford Crown Victoria with fancy red and blue lights flashingwith one of Yerington's finest in com-mand, the annual Yerington Parade kicked off. Several of the racers had loaded up some bags of candy and was gra-ciously lobbing mounds of the sweet stuff to the kids who had come out with their parents to check out these high powered rides. When we approach an off road trip, whether it be rocks or pre-run-ning, we usually have a laugh over · someone's misfortune after we are assured of a safe and successful tri-umph. Matt Taylor's story was no different. On Friday, Taylor .bad gone off into the desolation to scout the . course. Unfortunately, Taylor's pre-runner suffered a malady of mechani-cal nature. Spotting some "lights" off in the distance, Taylor decided to walk to the "lights", remember this is Nevada we ate talking about After walking, in his words, "20 miles", Tay-lor returned to the truck and enjoyed a night under the stars. Taylor was able to.get the pre-runner back into operational condition and return to the quaint confines of Yerington. The sun rose above the Nevada desert early on Sunday morning, sig-naling the beginning of what would prove to be a hard, long day for some and ~ glorious ·continuance of the season for others. · It was hard to get the racers to come to a consensus on the track conditions. A slim majority expressed an opinion that the 68.5 mile course was rough, while several stated the course was fast and smooth com-pared to years past. There was a lot of mention of a place called Endo· Alley. Respect is what the Endo Alley Auto demanded. Word did filter down that Class 1 driver Steve Sulli-van had pinged 125 mph on one sec-tion of the course. A 8:00 a.m., Rich Klein called the driver's meeting to order. Since this was Rich' sJirst desert race, he turned over the master of ceremony duties to Ed Robinson. After Ed was done, the race setup was read off. The lO's, 1 's, 8's, Semi-Pro's, and 7's were gonna drive around for four laps while the 9 cars were relegated to three and the Pilots one lap. Rich introduced Fran Hull, Outdoo Rec-reation Planner from the Bureau of Land Management, who reminded everyone of their environmental du-ties. When Rich asked if there was any final questions, one Class 7 driver brought up the question of three laps for the class. So Rich adjourned the competitors, except for Class 7. In truly red-blooded American fashion, Rich held a vote among the drivers. Only two hands could be seen raised in favor of a four lap run; while in true DNC fashion, more hands than drivers were seen in favor of the three laps. In retrospect, it was probably the best decision. With SNARS providing radio 13 Semi-Pro cars went off the line and when the dust cleared it was Chere Lehners taking the win, seen here at a road crossing. Dusty Times

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Mike Koenig's beautifully painted Toyota was fastest of the bunch in Clint Wolsey literally flew his Pilot for his one required lap, he averaged '01999, Lee Greig/ow had a wonderful day, he and his team took their Class 7 and he took home the gold medal for his efforts. 38 mph on the 68 mile long course for the win. first Class 9 victory, how sweet it is! _ relay duties, the green flag dropped two off the line and by the time I Allen Rudd in control of the orange turnout. Points leader John Knecth lead. I_twill be interesting to see if the at 9:00 a.m. The ten-hour time Umit arrived at the first road crossing for Class 9 car took over the lead and did not make the trip to Yerington, lead holds for the rest of the season. had started. The super duper fast 1 's picture duty, they came flying by; af-just became faster throughout the so it was going to be a free for all for With co-points leader Fred Cal-and IO's got to go first. In 23 min- ter passing the whole 9 car field. day. Hatch was able to return and the leader's spot. Unfortunately, out osso sitting out this race, the other utes, 46 vehicles had_left the start Une Even though Christenson left the posted the second fastest lap time of of the 13 vehicles that entered the points leader Billy Manfroy in the to begin their journey over the hills, line 30 seconds before Wolsey, Clint the class, but due to the four hours race, only four were able to complete flash and da:sh Ford was. ready to through the valleys. was able to make the pass and took lie endured during the second lap, all the laps. saddle up and get on the throttle. The start saw five Class 1 cars, 11 home the top spot with a time of Creiglow's car took home the first The action was hot throughout Last year's Desert Series champ Matt Class 10 cars, two Class 8 trucks, seven 1 :48:07 at an average speed of 38:01 ever victory for the upstart team with the race though. David Brown rolled Taylor was eagerly awaiting his chance Class 7 trucks, six Class 9 cars, 13 miles per hour; just over five minutes an overall time of 6: 13:42. Sigal around and claimed first on Lap 1, to make a move on the leaders. Ron Semi-Pro entries and two Pilots leave. fastf!r than Christenson. Greenburg, making the first appear- with Wesley Harbor and Tom Kruse Clement threw his hat into the ring A grand total of 46 entries had made The Class 9 field put on quite a ance of the season rolled into second behind him by only two and five min-and perennial superstar dusted off the drive. · show at Yerington. When they came and Hatch posted third. ures respectively. Lap 2 saw Brown the Toyota and was ready to ride. A The weather forecasted a wonder-around to complete Lap 1, Tom Two of the little tidbits of info get even faster, but Harbor made up total of seven. trucks left civilization ful 81 degrees on the mercury read-Hatch had a blazing ten minute lead coming out the Class 9 race was that time on him and Kruse started fall-and began the trek. ings and a slight breeze blew through- over Steve Souza. Hatch clocked the five out of six finishers and Carol ing back. At the first road crossing, the white out the land to sweep the hanging fast lap at 36.66 miles per hour dur- Steiger, driving brother Eric's car on On the Lap 3, Chere Lehners Hayos Motorsports Toyota came to dust off some sections of the track. ing this lap. Unfortunately, Hatch the last lap, brought it home just four turned up the heat. Harbor and a stop with a spitt'n and sputter'n All in all; a good day to beat, bang had a valve spring go north on him . seconds before the cutoff time. Brown started to slow down and power plant. Apparently a spark plug and catch air in the countryside. and fell off the pace considerably. Unfortunately, the Class 8 battle Kruse had fallen way off. Lap 4 saw was subpar in its duties of Ughting Since the Pilot class only had one But in a true show of what this sport was short and sour. The big, bad Lehners turn the fast lap at 46:66 off the fuel. Instead of giving up the lap to complete, their race was short is all about, I ran into Eric Steiger in white Dodge of Mike Viol~ was un-milesanhourinjustover 1:28. When ghost and calling it a day, Hayos kept and sweet. Points Leader Clint Wol-the pits. Steiger was hustling around able to complete one lap due to a they came into the finish, Lehners had the truck together. sey and the man chasing hiin, Mark getting his fellow competitor repaired split in the radiator. Kaile Vierra in all of a one minute and 18 second Greg Hosmann came to town Christenson, were the names in-and back out on the track. the stepside Ford made two laps, but lead over Brown. The average speed looking to right the wrongs that had volved. With Hatch falling off the pace also fell victim to the nasty DNF sta- difference between the two stood at been done to him this season. Un-The two racers did get somewhat and Souza nowhere to be found, tus. a whopping .29 miles per hour. The fortunately, Hosmann continued to shafted through. They were the last newcomers Lee and P,J. Creiglowwith The Semi-Pro class had a large win propelled Lehners into the class Continued on page 40 H n~t justs s for all applications! - d Cars ..#,{:~ /"~,-.,r ., I• Pre Runners Crawlers rt ~acing ed/Dual Rate ems ·\ . m Springs r~ " ur requirements) Complete Inventory in stock and ready to ship. Mirage ~ _acing Pr~ducts -619-562-5533 Dusty Times · _ _; $eptember ·2003

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.> Tony McLaren made his 2003 debut, seen here in his great looking There were no class B finishers although Kaile Vierra made a valiant The Ron Clement Ford leaves a long trail of dust as it heads to a decent second place in the Class 7 action. car, he took home the silver medal at day's end. attempt he was only able to complete two laps. be plagued by broken spindles, two Taylor was greeted by problems home a third place finish. of them this time, and after turning also. When he stopped at the start/ Then there was Billy Manfroy. in a 4:27,37 first lap, the truck lost finishaftercompletingl.ap2,hewent With the reworked truck, Manfroy the brakes on the last lap and into counsel with VORRAstaff. Tay-had been tearing it up at Prairie City, Hosmann brought the truck in just lor was on a mission to not only com- now it was time to see what the truck under the time limit. plete the race, but to at least bring could do in the desert. Manfroy pro-Rt-Dl.JJlc PEMt1R.i1ANCE, !JIC~ 151 & ■-STAR PRE-RUN OR ·RACE PACKAGES NORTHSTAR PACKAGES ROM $7500.00 COMPLETE 400 HP LS1 PACKAGES FROM $13,500.00 COMPLETE 485 HP WE OFFER COMPLETE DYNO SERVICES, ENGINE MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS AND AN UNMATCHED REPUTATION FOR CUSTOMER SATISFACTIONR (714) 777-·5758 PHONE (714) 777.:.5759 FAX '531 elSl!NHOWl!lt CfltCLI! ANAHl!IM, CA. 92107 ceeded to rip off the fast lap on Lap while Patty Hayos and her strong 1 at 42:22 miles per hour, leading willed determination and never say Clement by just over nine minutes. die attitude came in third. Two out Koenig was riding in third with just a of the seven trucks did not complete 33 second lead over Taylor. the race. With only a 37 point differ-On the second lap, Manfroy ence between the top four drivers, slowed down considerably and Class 7 is really heating up this year. Koenig was able to pick up the pace. Class 10 saw a large turnout of 11 Manfroycame into the pits after com- cars come into town. Points leader pleting two laps, and the crew went Sam Berri, as always was also bat-to work. The alternator hook-up tling the Class 1 crowd. David Kor-apparently came apart, so that was donowy was on hand to relate some repaired and a new battery was Yerington "tips" to the newcomers thrown in. While Manfroy was in, and Tony Mclaren was making his Koenig's truck came in and with a first appearance of the season. driver/co-driver change, the black Berrijustaboutranawaywiththe and white Toyota made the pass in race. Berri only suffered from a flat the pits. . tire and other than having to wait on Unfortunately for Manfroy, the his crew to bring a new tire, Berri steering box came apart not too far blasted throughout the Nevada into Lap 3 and his day was done. sands to bring home the class tro-Koenig was able to keep a consistent phy. During impound, there was pace throughout the day and came surely a prayer or two said. Berri had home as the class winner with a win- wrecked a Goil over mount and there ning time of3:26:03 and an average was another unknown suspension speed of 37.82 miles per hour. Clem- problem, but the car held together. ent brought home second approxi- Berri turned in a 5:36:21 time at mately 47 minutes behind Koenig an average of 48.89 miles per hour. When You're Ready To ·Race! Dusty Times

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Having a fairly good first race of the season, Sigal Greenberg drove The parade through Yerington is always a big event, both for the Dave Brown drove his mean looking Baja Bug to a nice second place his neat' looking car to a nice second place in Class 9. drivers, the population and Casino West, th~ sponsor of the event. in the large Semi-Pro class at the Yerington race: He also turned in the fastiapat52.08, donowywere only able to complete ing to see the Class 7 jumble with one at Yerington, it could get inter-ner Todd Denton was serio"usly in-a good four minut~s faster than any-one lap and Steve Sullivan.with the Koenig firmly inserted into the battle. esting. And let us not forget Class 8. ju red pre-running a couple weeks one else'.s laps. Tony Mclaren brought fire breathing bowtie block unfortu- There are only 11 points separating . There should be more parties in- after the race. He has a long, hard home second and Mike Haas took nately retired before the first lap wa the top three in Class 9. Finishing volved at Fallon, so !here should be a . road to recovery so please keep him home third. Unfortunately, the fin- sup. races will definitely be key, but with good race to watch there. and his family in your th.l'ut s ishing rate was not high as seven cars Early on in the afternoon, Mother more repeat performances like the NOTE: Overall Yerington win-and prayers. . .-were unable to complete the race·. This Nature roared with fury when a ma-has enabled Berri to open up a 48 jor wind (even for us Okies) cam.e point lead on the class. whipping down off the majestic Sier-Class 1 had a turn out of five cars. ras. Estimates pegged the wind at be-Todd Denton was the only one. to be tween 40 and 50 miles per hour. This making his first appearance of the sea-wind wreaked havoc throughout the son and he promptly went to work. race land, but none of the competi-Denton ran away from everyone post- tors were caught out on the course ing up a fast lap of 1:15:35 on the brokedownwhenthetimelimitex-first lap at 54.38 miles per hour. He pired. came in fust overall at a blistering pace In the end, 52% of the entries were of 5:05:25 and averaged 53.83 miles "able to finish the race urider the time per hour. In fact, Denton was so con- limit. No injuries and no wrecks were sistent that he managed to keep a dif-reported throughout the day. ~ ference of one minute and 58 seconds · The staff and race crews travel off between his fastest and slowest laps. to the beautiful and quaint commu-That' s quality racing right there. nity of Fallon, Nevada for the Fallon The only other finisher of the race 250 out at the Top Gun Raceway dur-in Class 1 was Sarn Berri. As fast as ing the weekend ofJuly 12 and 13. he is, Berri never came close to cha!-What will happen? Will Sam Berri lenging Denton for the lead. clamp down on his massive point leads Ryan Sargent and Dennis Kor-in Class 1 and 10? It will be interest-.loln Us In Celebra'tlng Tlie {ije of Vanye{{e (Dani) Mester ., · Septembr 7, 1977 -July 9, 2003 Seytember 20, 2003 Start/Finish Line, Outlet _Center Drive Exit, Barstow 7ym · If you have any questions piease contact Ann Domddson: 919-703-1971 or Sheryl Cannon: 626-653-202! Dusty Times September 2003 Page 41 ◄)

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BAJA PITS A Short ·History Lesson For A Newcomer· By Byrle M_oore This isn't all of the Baja Pits crew but it is a goodly portion of the guys who'll service your race car in the pits. Martha, is due to give birth to their first baby, on the day of the race. "We know it will be a boy. In fact, we've already chosen a name." Ernie Alexander Negrete will probably be making racing news in about 20 years? Ernie who is an assistant manager at Fuller Ford says, "There will be more races, but the event of your first born only · happens once." I'm sure this part of the race family will be rooting from their cell phones. The mafra.ger called anothe;--cousin, and within an hour a truck loaded with 10 soldiers and all the tools appeared. Orozco was told that if he wanted to press charges the various tools would have to be kept as evidence. Since he needed the tools for the pits he declined. Other stolen items were recovered from other incidents and those victims prosecuted. Thieves beware! From that incident on, the Baja Pit crews have protection from the time they get to the races until they leave for their various homes. Carlos Orozco founded the Baja Pits 18 years ago and when he's not around the mighty Watch Cat supervises all activities. There is one more NegJete family supporte·r, Larry ana Ernie•' s grandfather Arcadio is 83 years old. This member of the team and family usually provides security for the On this Saturday, 18 May, several members and friends were already pre-running the 500 to mark places for the various pit stops. During the 500 Baja Pits provides up to six stops. During the 1000 the number of pits increases to 15 or more. These persons come from the United States, from Mexicali, from Ensenada, from Tijuana, all over. History can be ·chronicled in many ways. Passed down from father to son, carved on the walls of caves, or during story telling over carne asado. In this case it is the latter and this writer enjoyed the history lesson and the came asado. Baja Pits, which was formed/ brought together by Carlos Orozco, will celebrate its 18th anniversary in July of 2003. The group is made up of all sorts of off road racing types. The used to be racers, the wanna be racers, the. families and friends of racers, and the racers. asado and all the fixins. The team. Yes, there is a shotgun located meetings are held in Perry McNeil's near by. Tool and parts thieves truck/fabrication racing/ beware!!! Arcadio travels with the preparation shop. McNeil is, of family/team to all their races. course, part of our history lesson. Ask Larry about having to drive More later. around a large bail of green leafy As stated, Baja Pits is made up substance during one of the Baja of many different strata of the Off Races??? During a race, the Road Racing community. We hav_e Larry Negrete and Elizandro Yee group is all professional. old time racers like Oscar Ramos. (you've heard that name before), Giving aid and comfort Used to be racers like Carlos started working on VW Bugs at when needed. Adding Orozco. Even waiting to be racers, Larry's Uncle Daniel Rosette's shop fuel, ·changing tires, like four year old Yael Soltero, son when they were 16. Rosette started . rebuilding broken of the current Baja Pits president, racing in 1974. We know how.Mr. suspensions, a little bit Guillermo Soltero. Soltero himself Yee turned out and, of course, of everything. Probably a driver of a Class 9 car watched as about. Larry. the best part of all is the Perry McNeil tried to trade his As stated, Perry McNeil provides friendly support they bright, new, red, F-150 for one of his shop as a meeting place for the provide, out there in the Yael's miniature race cars, this one group. So the ambiance for middle of nowhere, a red Jeep Cherokee about two Saturday's meal was already in someplace on the Baja. • inches long. Yael declined and told place. Race trucks in various stages Every Wednesday his father that Perry was trying to of preparation from the backdrop . evening and one put one over on him. Perry just instead of pal~ trees and candles. Saturday a month, these grinned. The shop security comes in the form off road warriors meet Members of the Negrete Boys of a vicious watch cat, which shares to exchange war stories, Racing Team were in attendance the came asado. (Ever see a cat eat plan for upcoming races, Saturday evening. The Patriarch of came asado?) And the comradeship talk about the this racing family is Rafael Negrete abounds. mechanical P.nd of who retired after 36 years as a Here's another war story for you racing, or just get manager of an Albertsons store in history buffs. Miguel Angel together. On any given San Diego. The team has four sons, Escalante who has been a member evening there can be 10 Larry and Ernie who have entered of the pit crews for about 15 years, to 50 persons gathered. and won many races over the years became famous during the Baja Sort of like the lunch and RaJph and Archie s,hare 500 in 2001. Carlos Orozco's counter or barbershop. driving chores. The guys race a 5-entire supply of tools and And history ;i.bounds! 1600 well prepared VW Bug. equipment came up missing. Stolen Two Saturdays Larry usually starts the race and from the hotel parking lot the night Perry McNeil, who is fresh off his win at the SCORE Baja 250 showed up fashionably late from his home in Lemon Grove. Shared the meat and beans, tried to trade his truck for Yael's Jeep, welded an extension on the seat and handle bar section of a bike and I'm sure discussed and thought about the upcoming 500. The McNeil family have their own racing history. Perry, Perry Jr., and nephew Chad, have all been Class 7 and Class 7 s participants and winners over the years. McNeil has built and builds/ preps racing vehicles for a number of people in the off road community. His shop in Tijuana is · just one example of his on-going support for the industry. If you want more Miguel Escalante has been a member of the Baja Pits crew for more than 15 years. before SCORE's 2003 Ernie takes over as·the exchange before the race. Escalante talked to Baja 500, several of these man. This year's 500 will be short the hotel manager, who just warriors met for came one of the brothers. Ernie's wife, happens to be related by marriage. · information, or would like to apply for membership, or require some great pit support, Baja Pits can be contacted through Carlos Orozco at (619) 596-8033 or Julio Madrigal, the organization's general secretary, at (619) 424-0323 or in Tijuana at 011-52-64-6-38-75-76. Let's go racing! · ..----..---------=,---~-------.,,.,...,,----, Perry McNeil's race shop is where the Baja Pits guys meet for social Perry McNeil chats with Yael Soltero whose dad is the current Perry McNeil and Guilermo Soltero do a bit of welding in Perry's well gatherings and to discuss race preparations. president of the Baja Pits organization. equipped shop. Page 42 September 2003 Dusty Times

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Uke a rearing stallion, this guy comes up out of the deep and back on top There certainly is an attenfive audience as this fellow attempts to move up A BFG clad competitor gets set to commence a run (Jown the hill at an again. to the next level of rock. angle we don't find appealing in any way. UROC RocKCRAWLING COMPETITION ·cedar City Pro Nationals Strength, cunning and angularity are the key word Words at a rock crawling event, with lots of spectators ready to cheer you on. TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING, INC. SNORE 1999 Transaxle Builder Of The Year congratulations 1st Overall 1st 1/2-1600 Mike Malloy 2nd 1/2-1600 Tommy Craig Jrd 1/2-1600 Randy Jones Kartek MORE/SNORE Freedom 350 TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING JEFF FIELD 9763VARIEL AVENUE CHATSWORTH, CA 91311 818-998-2739 Page 44 September 2003 If you make an error, you are liable to end up on your side or your roof, depending on the severity of the situation. Going into the Cedar City event As you can see one position the competitors were closely change equals 10 points. With the bunched with only 10 series points top four places separated by only separating the top four Legend 40 points, any position change in competitors. Ten series points are the finishing order is critical. If Matt accumulated for each position Sisson (first place going into Cedar) change in the line-up. An example fi-nishes one place behind Dean . of this for a field of 30 competitors Bulloch (currently second in series would be as follows:-30 competitors points) Dean and Matt will be tied. x 10 points + 50 = 350. (50 points The Legend series race is as tight as it is a base line that each competitor can be and any mistake can be costly gets for attending each event.) In this ro the leaders. example first place would receive The Unlimited class has a little 350 points, second would receive more room between the leaders 340 points and so on down to the which allows a little less pressure on last place finisher with 50 points. the competitors. Tea11: #80, John Series point winners before Bundrant and Larry McRae, is in Cedar City event: the lead and could be hard to knock Matt Sisson, 680 series points; off considering their team is really Dean Bulloch, 670 series points; strong and may have the best vehicle Chris Holley, 660 series points; Jeff in the rnmpetition. Rector, 650 series points, Ted Going into Day 1 it was Grady, 550 series points. anybody's to win . .--~---~".r'-.--.-:----;---;;--::--.,,..,,,.. Getting upright and then burning off all that oil that collected in the upper reaches of the engine is all part of the game. No smart remarks! It looks to us like this guy is in a bit over his head. Dusty Times

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With wheels and axles going eve,y which way, this guy is on his way to An interested crowd watches this Jeep making ifs attempt on the rock This Jeep seems to be making decent progress on ifs attempt to conquer glo,y at the rock crawl. · · formation. the formidable rock formations. UROC' s TV (Technical Vertical) Championship. Curt Hildebrand, 1410 Bob Stan-dra-g-e,~8,_..6"0-----------;S"'i-ss_o_n_a_r_e-.-b-o-.thc---,ti-ed-r-,fo-r-f~ir_s_t~h-av_e_a obstacles took its toll on inan and 2003 series leaders are as follows: Ken Blume, 1370 Ted Grady, 840 whopping ·60 point lead over Jeff machine. The spotters endurance Unlimited Class: legend Class: In the Unlimited class Jason Paule Rector for second. Who will take the were pushed to the limits. Tracy Jason Paule, 1560 Dean Bulloch, 1040 has a small lead over John Bundrant crown this year? Come to Jordon flipped on Randy's Ringer John Bundrant, 1550 Garrett Sisson, 1040 and Tracy Jordon, who are tied for Farmington, July 4-5 and see who and effectively put him out of Tracy Jordon, 1550 Jeff Rector, 980 second, with Johnny Ga distant pulls it off for the.most dramatic contention for" first place. As the John Gilleland, 1500 Chris Holley, 940 third. Dean Bulloch and Garrett finish ever in rock crawling!! .. ·,II ly competition continued, roll-overs, cones and breakage were taking ~eir toll. At the end of the day, scores were as follows: Unlimited Class: Jason Paule, -1 John Gilleland. + 1 Mitch Guthrie, +6 John Bundrant, + 10 Curt Hildebrand, +24 (2002 Series Champ) Legend Class: Dean Bulloch, 0 Mike Bailey,+ 15 Garrett Sisson, + 25 Jeff Rector, +60 Kevin Hawkins, +62 Each class is won by the team that has the lowest score (i.e., the team that makes the least amount of mistakes). Each of the. top five teams had a shot at winning on Day 2 until the technical UROC courses took their toll on the competition. In the Unlimited class, Johnny G. (John Gilleland) in the Karnivor ~as the first to go down with a roll-over on BFG's Stairway to Heaven. Then, just minutes after Johnny G. rolled, John Bundrant flipped his rig on Tom Wood's Wicked Wedge. This left Jason Paule and Mitch Guthrie the only Unlimited class leaders that ran both days without major mistakes. In the Legend class, the legendary Dean Bulloch was having his way at the event and dominating the field with his conservative driving style. Dean Bulloch (current UROC series champ) on his home turf at Cedar is hard to beat. Dean is known for performing well under pressure and a second win this ".l:ear could ice the series for him. Garrett Sisson, Mike Bailey, Kevin Hawkins and Jeff Rector were running well, but could not catch Dean as evidenced his whopping 37 point lead over second place finisher Garrett Sisson. The Cedar City event winners on Day 2 were as follows: Unlimited Class: · Jason Paule, +22 Mitch Guthrie, + 33 Tracy Jordon, +41 Mike Shaffer, +59 John Bundrant, +60 Curt Hildebrand, +62 legend Class: Dean Bulloch, +65 Garrett Sisson, +97 Mike Bailey,+ 114 Kevin Hawkins, + 134 Jeff Rector, +134 Bob Standage, + 137 The series leader will go into Farmington, New Mexico hoping to capture the second most prestigious title in rock crawling next to the coveted Super Crawl World Championship, the UROC Series Dusty Times UST YOUR PHONE #UMBER, YEAR, MODEL A/ID ENGINE SIZE! Sales Information: Payment may be made by credit card, money order or cashier's check. Personal or business checks are not accepted. C.O.D. orders accepted with 50% pre-payment. $5 Handling charge on all orders. 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By Wayne Nosala CORE had nine cars to pit for at the More/Snore night race. With three cars finishing in the top five in the 1600 battle. Night races are always fun, but the added rain showers made for muddy fun. Everyone I spoke with had a good time. I was all set up to do my pitting duties at Pit A when the call from Brad Inch came in to take over driving duties of hi~ 1600 car. I finished fifth. From behind the wheel, CORE did a great job in the one stop I made for gas. All the pits were well lit. Radio contact was superb. I must say that everyone out there looked like they were having fun. Spectators around the course were cheering for any car that passed. Being on the race course with Snorten Norton's last run was wonderful to be a part of. Godspeed, Mick. I know the crew at Pit A made it a point to cheer on the Nova each lap. Davy Girdner: Davy's homebuilt chassis shows that you don't have to buy a chassis from a well known name. He finished second. His two seat car always seems to work well. He did have to add some power steering fluid and it seems · he too make a co-driver change, thus taking a bit of time. Randy Jones: Raridy was on the pipe as usual. His orange single seat Bunderson was really working well this weekend. He did roll but got back on the pace with no trouble. He drove the entire race and finished up in third. Brad Inch: Brad started ninth. He had a good first lap, he rolled at the start of the second lap. With the help from a couple of spectators, he got back on his wheels. Broke a HID and hurt his knee, otherwise the car was unhurt. Don Johnson: Don rolled his two seat Bunderson 1600 car before the night fell taking out his four Hella's HID lights in the process. He did have a s,pare set but this required a bit of work to uninstall. He called it a night and finished 33rd. Bryon Zeigler: Bryon finished 13th in the 1600 clash. Paul Smith: Paul was doing a terrific job with a half hour lead. He had to change a flat and ended up in second place. The battle for first in the 5-1600 class was very close. Paul and Mike Ault fought until the end. Paul finished up in second place. Ryan Shank: Ryan finished in 21st place in his Bunderson 1600 car. Darin McGuffin: Darin drove his single seat 9 car to a third place finish. The car developed an oil leak, resulting in oil needing to be added throughout the race. This didn't stop Darin from getting to the finish line. Johnny Burns: In his single seat 9 car, with Todd Craig co-driving, they finished in fourth place. Johnny was extremely happy with this ·Fabricators finish that resulted in his first trophy. Johnny also developed an oil leak. After making a few unplanned stops to add oil he brought the car to the finish line without motor damage. Tom Coon: Tom showed up in Pit A during the downpour of rain. His truck needed a couple of repairs before they hit the track. With everyone in the pit drenched and having a good time, the spare tire was taken off along with the bedsides. He almost made a lap. Right before the start/finish an I-beam broke, with no pit in sight and using what was available, he made an I-beam out of the Hi-lift jack to make it back to main. PIT CREWS: Main Pit: Tom Foudy, Bob Allison, Ian Goodyear. I would like to point out that Tom laid out a great pit in main. We had a large number of motor homes, trailers and campers. Jorn and bob did a great job in directing people where to park and getting everyone to fit. Pit A: I, Thom Singer, Ann Donaldson along with Tim Baker, his parents Ed and June, who we would like to thank for the spaghetti din~er Friday evening for everyone at main pit. The best garlic bread I have had in a long time! Also Al Baker came down for the race from Northern California. . Ryan Sharks' crew along with Davy Girdner Sr. We all like Davy Sr.'s pit sign that i:ead "loose gravel". I would like to thank Chrissie who was great on the radio and taking lap times. PitB: Pit B was staffed with father/ daughter team of Gary and Kara Hall, along with Jim Wagner and Mike Ridlin. The leading aftennarket power systems manufacturer, Gale Banlcs Engineering, is seeking Fabricators to design and build custom prototype parts for both diesel and gasoline applicattQns. Must have a minimum of 3 years experience fabricating tubular products. Must have TIG and MIG welding, experience working with SS and aluminum required. Experience with sheet metal. &bricating tubular exhausts and chassis building a plus. · Gale Banlcs Engineering is an Equal Opportunity Employer that offers a competitive salary and benefits package in a pleasant and professional working environment. Explore Gale Banlcs Engineering at www.bankSJ)Ower,CQm. For immediate consideration, please send yom-resume with salary history and current salary requirements to: Page_46 Michele Beaver, Human Resources Recruiter E-mail: jobs@bankspower.com, or fax (626) 691-2179 · S46 Duggan Ave. Azusa, Ca. 91702 September 2003 Pit C: Jerry Lawless and his crew along with Babe Jories were located at inner Hodge. I need to make a point that people who would like to have their race report here in-Dusty Times, need to contact me. In the past I have spent countless of hours tracking down people in order to write a complete report. I need a little help on that and would appreciate people contacting me. Thanks. If anyone would like to be involved in CORE, has pit needs or any questions, please contact me at (818) 703-1971 or Wnosala@aol.com. See ya at the races. ..-.,,. ,,,. By Wes Wisdom · All F.A.l.R. m6mbers went to extend a very big Thank You to Mike Ahrens of the BLM. As the Off Highway Vehicle Program Coordinator out of the Barstow Field Office, he came to our meeting on his own time to talk about what is in the future for racers in the Barstow and Lucerne Valley areas. He explained what is required of the Promoters to put on a race in those areas and how the courses have been laid out. Then he gave an overview of what the BLM is going to do (the rumored "Pay to Play" fees) and why they think it is necessary. This column is not the place to discuss or try to explain this matter because it probably wouldn't be explained accurately. If y9u want the real story on what is happening, contact Mike at the BLM Barstow office. He will be more than happy to fill you in on all the details. F.A.LR. was at two races in July, the SCORE Henderson Terrible's .250 and the M.O.R.E./Snore night race at Barstow. The weather couldn't have been more different. Extremely HOT (comments of 127 degrees were heard several times) at Henderson then lightening, thunder and rain at Barstow. Summertime "weather in the desert sometimes is just weird! Seven cars took the green flag at Henderson flying the F.A.LR. banner and all but one finished. Dale Ebberts had his usual awesome day even though he only finished second in Class 1. But that's not the whole story, Dale was only ten seconds out of first in class. and only 52 seconds out of first overall!! 52 seconds between the first and fourth! What a race! Jn-SCORE Lites, Vic Brockmann ran strong to win the class. This puts Vic real close to the class points leader with two races will to go. Keep it up, Vic! Tom Ridings had some problems but he did get another finish. SCORE Lites is a very competitive class and Tom typifies the "never give up" attitude. Because of that, Tom is having a good year and is only a few points behind the class leaders. James Golden and Brent Parkhouse finished fifth and seventh respectively in Class 1/2-1600. In almost any other year, Golden would probably be leading the class points but the Allen/ Pfankuch steamroller is putting it to everybody. But he is still close enough and the season isn't over yet and we all know what can happen in racing ... By the way, Dale Ebberts, Vic Bruckmann, James Golden and Brent Parkhouse have completed every mile of every race this year! What an accomplishment. We're hoping they all can end up with True Grit awards at the end of the season. F.A.I.R. will do everything we can to help them. The other race F.A.LR. was at the M.O.R.E. Freedom 250/Snore Midnight Special night race at Barstow that was also one of the PRO 1600 events. We were pitting for 17 members and had a lot of fun. Night races have their own PIKES service center ~ker, California Celebrating 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ••• THANKS! 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I • personalities but F.A.I.R. tamed the darkness by providing portable light plants for all the pits. The lights were so good it made the pits look like football stadiums. Each pit could be seen from several miles away so the racers-knew exactly where they were on the course at aU times. This helped the racer's comfort level, for sure. Of the 17 members in the race, Richard Lesher was the fastest. He won Class 10 and was third overall in spite of losing many minutes replacing their amber light ... twice. Except for flats, that was· the only thing that slowed them down. John Criswell, running his Class 5 Unlimited.Baja Bug in Class 1, won the class having lapped all the other class cars. He was running very high in the Overall standings until a very long last lap but still held on to fourth OA. Also in Class 1 were Craig Reynolds and Bill Markel. Craig broke a c.v. on the second lap, fixed it after a long pit stop at Main and got back into the race. After limping around the third lap and having secured second place in class, he put it on the trailer. After two very good laps, Bill Markel had a trailing arm pivot belt come undone. That put him out of the race but he still had a good time. In Class 1/2-1600, the largest at the race with 36 entrants, Greg Blakeman ran a very consistent race and finished with a.10th place against all the PRO 1600 cars. This finish put him into the points lead for the M.O.R.E. class championship! New member Corey Goin was going well until he slowed on the last few laps and he finished just ahead of Brian Logan. Brian lost a c.v. and spent a very long time diagnosing and fixing the problem. Then, at the end of Lap 5, he radioed in asking for Brady Wisdom to drive the last two laps. Brady wasn't quite ready to jump in until he was told the car was only-one mile from the pit. He got dressed in record time. Driving suit, on Parker per -o. deUuer maximum air flow, this HJC helmet is _ -_. I\_ SneU m-rated, and is > . ~·, auaUable in sizes S-XKKL shoes, helmet, gloves in under a minute. Driver change also in under a minute. Not bad. They probably could have finished a couple of positions better if they hadn't run out of fuel just past Pit C on the last lap. Kevin Walsh, up from San Diego, was running well until both of the transmission mounts broke on the fifth lap. Jerry Longo's distributor flooded out then the distributor cap broke: finally, the # 1 spark plug blew out of the head taking the threads with it. That put him out of the race. But Jerry made out back at Pit C 'cuz Tom Mason was cooking really good food for everybody. Tom's -an animal. He did all this cooking in spite of breaking a couple of ribs just prior to the start of the race. Good man. Typical F.A.l.R. attitude. Curt Geer wasn't able to finish due to broken shocks and Brady Wisdom was put out with a broken push rod. Brady had just completely rebuilt their Mirage, all state-of-the-art equipment, and was giving his son, Jacob, his first ride in a race. Jacob was initiated properly when the car rolled on the first lap in a very slippery area. In spite of the problems, the car was working well and Brady was running high in the class when the engine put him out. In Class 9, Dan Folts, with Dad Dave in the right hand seat, was blowing the competition away. He had a seven minute lead by the end of Lap 2, but then the center of the clutch disk broke out ending their race. Harry Dunne motored to another finish, keeping his class points lead, in spite of losing his steering shaft on the first lap. Seems he was coming in_to a turn with a couple of other cars, they turned, he went straight. The coupler on the steering rack came off. The only other problems they encountered were due to all the water on the course. 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AFRICA (011)788-5138 FAX (011 ) 880-2170 ToYS Foa Tors (619) 252-1197 /(619) 252-3093 UNADUJ.A VALLEY SPORTS CENrm P.O. Box 5119 . EDMESTON,•NY 13335 (606) 965-8784/FAX: (606) 905-8784 <www.unadillamx.com> VORRA Valley ()pp ROAD RACING AssN. 920 HlllCREST ST. PLACERVILLE, CA 95667 (S30) 6638370 more Trall Notes ... HAL FLAG -We were very saddened to hear_ of the passing of Max Thuma. Max loved racing; according to Scott McKenzie, "All he cared bout was race cars." Way back Max had a Grand National car. He was working with Dean Jeffries building cars for the Monkee's movie when he met McKenzie. It was 1972 and Max soon was working for McKenzie's Automotive in North Hollywood. Later Max went to work for Modern Motors where he helped in the building of racecars for Johnny Johnson, Ivan Stewart and Bobby Ferro. He later moved to the Mickey Thompson organization where he helped in the development of the MT Shock line and was head of the Technical Inspection force for the Mickey Thompson Stadium Race Series. When the stadium races petered out Max went with the Tracy Valenta Team, fielding cars for Rick and Roger Mears as well as Bobby Ferro. When Tracy closed his shop Max moved to Honda Motorcycles where he remained until his retirement. Max is survived by his widow, Mary Lou, his son Charles, daughters Debbie and Penny and grandchildren Jason, Debbie, Jessica, Logan, Chuck III, Cody, Tara, Mary Lou, Penny Sue and one great grandchild Zoie. Max was a good storyteller and a great listener. Our deepest sympathies go to Mary Lou and the rest of Max's family. We will miss him greatly . . . 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PROMOTIONS RENE MONTANO P.O. Box 2122 CAI.Extoo, CA 92231 September 6, 2003 ZRGnn Prix November30,2003 Gran Prix de Campioncs 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 1665 DELAWARE ST. 0sHKOSH, 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 2003, 2004 schedule as soon as possible for listing in this column; it could bring you some extra entries! Mail your race or rally sched-ule to: DllliJ~IDIII 20761 Plummer St., . Chatsworth, CA 91311 Page 57

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Classified ... Some of the items advertised in these pages may not be legal for sale or use in all 50 states. Readers are ad-vised to consult appropriate local or state authorities for information before purchase of any specific item. FOR SALE: Jeepspeed Pro Class 1997 2 door, 4x4 Professionally built. King shocks. Baja TA's, Na-tional springs. Fully prepped with trailer and spare parts. $22,500.00. (909) 696-9467. Se-rious inquires only. Ready to race. FOR SALE: Class 10 Raceco A Arm. Single seat. Mendeola 002, UMP, Summers, Fresh Fat, 1650 cc Rabbitt Motor. New Bypass all four corners. New side panels, 930 CV's, Saco Rack, Wilwood brakes. $25,000.00 OBO. Can be seen at customcoats.com (760) 427-1476 ohn. FOR SALE: 1998 Mirage Class 1 Single Seat, Mid engine, Toyota Camary V6 325hp, electromotive lMZ injection, Jerico 4 speed trans, Fields cliff, 934 C/Vs, Fortin gun drilled axles, Fox shocks, PCI ra-dio, spare parts, 14 spare tires & wheels, prepped & ready to race, professionally maintained, com-petitive car, $40,000.00 Brian (562) 619-9686. FOR SALE: 2-1600 Dunrite. All new components-less than 350 race miles on parts. All the best stuff in-cluding FAT motor, Dave Folts 091 tranny with aluminum cliff, Fox Shox all around, Kartek drums, MSD, CNC, Howe, Foddrill arms, Saco rack. See http://raggededge.baja.com $24,000.00OBO. Mike (480) 861-5719. FOR SALE: Fully Equipped Race FOR SALE: 1985 Ford F150, Ex-tended cab 3 seat, fully caged, Coilover & bypass shock on each wheel, air bumps, 4 link, equal length I beam w/ center swing steer-ing, Heim ends on pivot points, big spindles & disc brakes, 408ci small block, SCAT crank, Probe pistons, SVO- heads, Holley, 500hp, Mogi trans, Summers rear end w/new drive axles & disc brakes, recent re-build on motor, trans, & diff, power brakes, new custom dash w/ pro comp gauges, completely re-wired, AC, Am/Fm/CD, PCI ra-dio, new paint, all it needs is inte-rior to finish, great Pre-runner. $55,000.00 Brian (562) 619-9686. Radical Pre-runner! 4 seat''99 Tahoe. Only 835 miles new. 115" wheel base. 21" front travel, dual A-Arm, Coil over, Sway-A-Way, Cone and CNC. 24" rear travel, Cone, Dana 60, 3 linked. Turbo 400 Mogi trans. Awesome Nills Castillo motor, 400 c.i. small block. 4 Beard seats, Autometer, Flame-out, PCI, NC. 35" BFG's Champion headlocks. Must see! Super custom! $199K Ref #875 call Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117 or check us out at www.baiaconcepts.com. Transporter: 1989 Peterbuilt, Cab-FOR SALE: Class 8 Chevy. FOR SALE: Look no further, Cus-overw/425 horse 3406B Cat Die-Ready to race. l4" front, 25" tom Built Pre-Runner, Sand Car, sel, 118,000 miles, 18 speed Trans, rear ¼ elliptic. Bearcl seats, Race Car. Best of all worlds no ex-1989 DORSEY TRAILER, 48', Parker Pumper, PCI radio, 4 » d d I Rancho reservoirs per wheel. pense spared. 2002 Chenowth A-99 wi e, Hy rau ic Lift Gate, 2-1600 pkg. 1999 Whiplash over-all points winner! 1990 Jimco 2 seat, special factory Fox shocks, Major motor, Howe power steer-ing, Kennedy clutch, CNC, Woods, Sway-A-Ways. Beard seats, PCI in-tercom and race radio. 6 spares, 2 dump cans, pit boxes, Base antenna, 18' Big Tex trailer with tie rack and pit boxes and spare parts. Will sell package only with prepped race car for $17..500.00. Ref #883. Call Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117 or check us out at www.bajaconcepts.com. '74 Blazer 4x4 Project. Full cage, Bilstein ssocks, custom leaf springs. Set up for 3 seats. Brand new 35" BFGs and alloy wheels. Aluminum dash with gauges (not installed). New motor, 350 small block. No smo needed. Three 5 point har-nesses. 16-18 in.ches of travel. Very clean-needs finishing. Great project with killer cage and bumpers. Body is painted and in excellent condi-tion. Most parts are brand new. Looks Great! $9,800.00 OBO. Ref # 885. Call Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117 or check us out at www.baiaconcepts.com. Arm4-seater. FullChromeAllybuild. Chrome Belly Boxes, Diesel Gen- Easy to update to Bypass and Acura 3.2 -300 hp Haltec Engine . era tor, A/C, Stainless Steel Coilover. Tons of spares including FOR SALE: 2003 Truggy, Class 1, FOR SALE: Chevy Trophy Truck. King Coils, Chrisman, Howe, Fuel Safe, PCI, CNC, Fresh 414 Chevy-Trans & Rear End, 760 Total Race miles since complete rebuild. Ev-erything Powder Coated. Spares, Fuel Dump station w dry brakes, 2001 Custom 28' enclosed trailer. $75,000.00 OBO. Day (505) 327-9409, Night (505) 327-2917. FOR SALE: Class 5 Unlimited. Race or Pre-Run-Registered for Street. All the best, 2.5 Fox Coil front, 4" Wright Arms, J" Sway-A-Way Rear. Ken Majors 2276cc, type 1. J.G type II tranny. Beards/Cen-terlines/BFG's. $17,000.00 OBO. Call for more info (619) 463-4104, cell (858) 395-4565. FOR SALE: Letner Racing (714) 633-0030 Henry or Danny. All · Bonner Hawk Engines-King Shocks. 2 Seat Class 10-Chenowth-Fortin-Honda-$75 ,000.00 Many wins. 2 Seat-Class 12 Score Lite-Henrys · chassis-Mendeola-1835 V.W.$49,000.00 Best of Every-thing. 2 Seat Class 12-Henry-Men-deola-1835 V.W. or 2 liter-$49,000.00. Race Ready. 2 Seat Pre-run or Race-Raceco-Mendeola 2180 Dual Carbs-$18,500.00. d b h h body panels, 16 tires and wheels, 6 Ch s Management, MSD Ignition, Howe Counters an Ca inets T roug - 400 HP V evy, uper T-10, V-Power Steering, Custom Header/Ex- out, Built in Snap-On Boxes, Mi-$ l2,000.00 OBO. ALSO reliable, Drive, Fox ·3.0 Bypass/2.5 Coil FOR SALE: Class 16 single seat h UMPAirFil M d la HD Rf· O B d fresh 475 HP engine, $4,000.00 R F 2 5 B /2 5 C ·1 bu1·Jt to meet SCORE 2000 aust, ter, en eo crowave, e ngerator, n oar Nick Vanderwey (602) 763_3883, ear, ox . ypass . 01 4Speed,BilsteinCoil-Over&bypass. WaterSystem,FullLengthAwning, Front, ·CNC 4 Piston brakes, 2" rules, chromoly 115" chassis, 300M Axles-930 CV's, CNC Disc $100,000.00. Call Travis@Coyne NickVdwey@aol.com. cone front hubs, Mittler Brothers combo spindles, Wright Rack-n-Brakes, Beard Seats, PCI4xlntercom, Motorsports (760) 353-2110 days FOR SALE: 2-1600 Bunderson, rearend, TCS 31 Spline Axles, pinion, 1600 single port built by Halon Fire System, Dual Parker (760) 554-7 546 Eves. 1999 2 Seater, Fresh Prep, All Currie ·strange o.luminum Carrier, Automotive Machine, body built Pumper, Hella Lights, Detachable FOR SALE: Chenowth, single seat, the hest parts, Fox Bypass, PC!, Parker Pumper, Beard, 30" by Big John automotive, World RoofRack, Full Body paneling, Fuel Fox, Beard, Lots of spares includ-300m, Kartek drums, Howe, Big rear,22" front, Howe, Hella, Ultra, of Wheels winner asking Safe, Ultra Wheels,SCORE&BITD ing nice tandem trailer, 2nd points Saco Rae, 930 CVs, PC! Radio Test Time Only, Rear Engine Con-$11,000.00 OBO. Visit SafetyComplaint.Over70Kinvested, M.D.R., Class 9 $5,700.00 Kory & intercom, J-mar, D&L 091, cept. Top Speed 130 mph. www.carlotservices.com/db.htm asking $48,800.00. Call Ben (619) Halopoff work (714) 633-0030, lots of spares. $20,000.00 OBO $65,000.00TylerStone (562) 714-or call Chuck at (254) 552-787-6480. home (714) 921-9845. (760) 242-0341. 9013. 1683 . ....................••••••••.••••.••....................................... -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-: Sell or swap your extra parts arid pieces in DUGlil • : DUSTY TIMES. -:===li1m1s L • Classified Advertising rate is only $25 for 45 words each month, iiot including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use of • . • • • • • • • • black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. Maximum size 5"x7".All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. REMEMBER - CLASSIFIED AD SPACE IS LIMITED - YOUR AD MAY BE PUT OFF ONE ISSUE IF NOT RECEIVED IN A TIMELY MANNER. 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FOR SALE: Lothringer Class 10/ 12 Single Seat. Complete fresh re-build (chassis/ engine/ trans/ shocks), WIKS/Jimenez 1776 Type 1-126hp, Fields091 Trans, Custom Fox shocks with 2-stage internal bypass. Very Fast! $25,000.00. Contact Allen.Russell@RaceFactoryinc.com or (661) 305;5300. FOR SALE: 2002 Jimco 2 seat class 10, everything is fresh. Toyota ZZl, King, For-tin rack, Fortin 934 hubs, Gun drilled axles, OPS, HID Light bar, Mastercraft. Only race 1 season, too much to list, no expense spared. $67,000.00. Dave (623) 764-4657. FOR SALE: 4 seat Jimco, 2800 cc Type IV, Foltz Trans, Coilover, Howe Power Steer-ing, Beard-S-eats, Roof Rack, HID KC HiLites, Beadlocks, Centerline, King Shocks, Disc Brakes, Alu min um Bo.dy, Awesome Pre-runner. Call after 6:00 pm. (661) 298-4351. $36,500.00. FOR SALE: 2001 Jimco Class 10, Toyota ZZ -1, Motec Fuel injection, Fortin trans, rack & hubs, 934 C.V.'s, new Fuel Cell, King Shocks, Lots of spares. Car is fast and very competive. 58K OBO. Call Sean Sessa. (602) .757-3270 or (623) 581-5932 .... FOR SALE: 98 Jimco l_ook-a-like. 2 seat 1600, Fox Shox, Howe steering, CNC, PCI Radio & Intercom, Di-ablo rack, power box motor & trans, Centerlines, Compufire ign. 930 CV's, Bus drums, 300m torsions, Fodrill arms, Many wins and finishes. 6th place Pro 1600 series. $16,000.00 OBO ready to race Call Mike 1 (760) 434-7986. Dusty Times FOR SALE: 2-1600 Mirage. Wiks built engine. Folts trans 091, Fox shocks all around, Fuel Safe, Beard Ultras, BFG's Fresh Custom paint. Good reliable fast car, Great for Pro-16. $17,000.00 OBO. Call Sam or Ruben (323) 563-2224 B-4 5:00 or leave message. FOR SALE: 5-1600 Race car, Fresh motor, Rimco case with supports. Bilsteins, 2 7 /8 large shaft w/bypass on rear, 3/8 shaft Bilsteins on front, 300 Torsions, rear adj+ 1" rear arms, Wright rack, Combo spindles, Centerline, 930 CV's Beard, Fuel Safe, $8,900.00. Must sell, cell# (909) 841-8159 HM# (909) 845-9241. ===== FOR SALE: Trophy Truck. 406 Ford Dry Sump Transprows, C6 Duaf MSD 3 ,;· King Coil over & Bypass, Summers 9", Howe R & P 55 gal Fuel Safe, Master-craft Fluidyne, CNC, Willwood, Ultra Goodyear, BFG, Never Raced $95,000.00. Call Randy at For-tune Fab (909) 687-6416. FOR SALE: Class 10 Single Seat A-Arm. Car Powered by Suzuki. GSXR 1100 130 H.P. 11,700 RPM, 110 + MPH. Weighs 1,100 lbs. 103" wheel base, 81" wide 20" rear travel, 17" front travel. All Chrome alloy 300m Axles. Fox Shocks & Much more. Super fast, great for play, race or Pre-run. $13,000.00 OBO, with trailer. (909) 789-2683. FOR SALE: Raceco Class 1/10 2 seat, type 4 2800cc Fat, 935 OB cv's. Summers bro's hubs, Foddrill arms, Fresh Hewland 5 speed. Parker Pump, Sway-A-Way triple bypass, Fox Coilover, 4x disc, ps, Baja TA's polished Centerlines clean. Over 60k inv. Must sell $21,000.00 OBO. (949) 496-3155 I (949) 678-2208. FOR SALE: 2002 Alumicraft 4 seat Pre-runner. 400+ HP North Star w/rods, pistons, rings, cam & hardworks. Less than 10 hours on motor. OPS, Race ra-dio, intercom, headsets, Hells HID, FOX, etc. The best of ev-erything! 65K serious inquiries only. Please call Mark @ (760) 787-1737. FOR SALE: 1972 Ford F-100, Ready to Pre-run or Chase. Smog Legal 400, Mogi C-6, Summers Bros. 9" Locker, New Fox Shox, Fox Bumps, 35" Bajas, Cab/Bed cage, Glass Hood and Fenders, Mastercraft, Spares, 49 gal tank, all, fresh and much more. $14,750.00 Rick (619) 443-9678. FOR SALE: Jimco Class 1 or 10. Fortin DON, 934 C.V. Summers hubs, CNC brakes, Fox, Ump, MasterCraft, 1915 Type 1. _ $35,000.00 OBO (909) 237-2745. FOR SALE: 2001 Toyota Tacoma V6, Class 7 or 7s, Race Ready, 300 HP Engine, Built by TRD, All Tig welded Chromoly built by Arciero Racing, Auto trans by Rancho Transmission, Currie 9" Ford Locker, Sway-A-way Coilovers, Deaver Springs, BFG's, 45gal Fuel Safe, Brembo Brakes, featured in 4 Wheeler Mag, includes trailer, many spares $35,000.00 OBO. (562) 924-4153. FOR SALE: · 1979 F-150 Pre-Runner: Full Cage, Full Fiber-glass, 400 c.i. C-6 Auto Trans, Art Carr Shifter, Custom Dash/ Interior, BFG's Beard Seats, Autometer Gauges, Dual Batter-ies, A/C, 9" Ford Rear Encl, Cone Hubs, National Springs, 2 Spares, Fuel Safe 70 Gal Fuel Cell, 4 linked, Dual Shocked all corners, Super Reliable. $23,000.00. Call Travis @ Coyne Motorsports (760) 353-2110 days, (760) 5 54-7 546 eves. September 2003 FOR SALE: Built 350 Chevy (415hp), Turbo 400 Trans (auto), 9" Ford Re-end; Power steering, Navigation, dual radia-tors w/fans, disc brakes, 35 gal. Fuel Cell, Roadrunner suspen-sion w/bump stops, (30" of travel), new BFG Mud Terrains, 35" custom Skat-'frak paddle tires, sand or dirt ready, $26,999.00 OBO Call (714) 299-3143 or (714) 915-6161. FOR SALE: 4 Seat Custom Pre-Runner, Beard, Parker Pump-ers, Radio Intercom + wired hel-mets, CNC's, Mendeola 4 speed, Cadillac Northstar, Fuel Cell, 934 CV's, Sway-A-Way shocks, HID's, 2 sets of BFG's with Beadlocks, 100mph & much more! Ready for Mexico. .$85,000.00 OBO. Call Jason (714) 240-9173. FOR SALE: 2 seat 1600, Fraley Chassis, FOX Shocks, Center-line Wheels, C0mbo spindles, 930 CV + Hubs, gauges, rack & pinion All brand new 2003. Must sell, asking $25,000.00 complete ready to race (702) 723-5050 Bus or (702) 723-5071 eve. FOR SALE: Ford Ranger Pro-Lite, C.O.R.R. series. Every-thing fresh. f:ormerly owned by Jimmie Crowder. Best of everything! $45,000.00 OBO. Also have 9.5-1 T & L Chevy NA.SCAR Motor. Complete. Has 10 laps on it. $8,500.00. Stan Rowland (817) 925-4810. FOR SALE: Class 8 Ford Truck, Big Horsepoower, Mogi Trans, Currie cliff, Bea·dlocks, BFG,m Huge I-Beams,National Leafs, Fuel Safe, Lee Steering w/ overdrive, Beard, Diest, Crow, Fox, Autometer, MSD, Winters shifter, Also 8S legal. $9,500.00 OBO. (909) 305-1682 or (626) 644-6693. FOR SALE: 2-1600 Raceco, Mas-tercraft Seats, Fox Shox, .Wright Rack, Charlyn P/S, Jamar ped-als, Flameout system, Fuel Safe Cell, Car has everything. Fast, clean & handles great. H (661) 724-9169 $9,000.00. Ask for Marc. FOR SALE: CNC Front & Rear Disc Brakes Class 10 or 12. Rq-tors, Calipers, Hubs & Cutting brake. $1,900.00. Two 14" x 2.5" Fox external bypass shocks $1,700.00. Two MIT 30.0/7.0-15 Tires on Centerlines with Beadlocks. $400.00. Miscella-neous Fox Shocks 2.0 10" + 12" (707) 664-8457. FOR SALE: Toyota V6 Camary 3 liter motor, Cat 6" Chevy rods, Ross Pistons, total seal rings, Web Cams, electromotive lMZ injec-tion, TRD springs, cups & retain-ers, 8 qt oil pan, 325 hp, fresh re-build, $10,000.00 Brian (562) 619-9686. • IND6-X TO AD\/6-R. Tl-=>6-R.6 Banks Power ......................................... 46 C&R Racing ........................................... 47 Camburg Engineering ............................ 34 • Coast Resorts ......................................... 9 Dave Folts Transmissions .....•...... , ........ 17 Fabtech .................................................. 35 FRT Motorsports ................................... 29 Fuel Safe ................................................. 7 Hypercoils ............................................. 3 9 ISCO ...................................................... 13 Kartek .................................................... 27 Kawaguchi Honda ................................. 25 KC Hilites ............................................... 2 King Shock Tech ................................... 37 Kreger .................................................... 36 Light Force Engineering ........................ 22 McKenzie Performance Products .......... 32 Mickey Thompson Tires ........... : ............ 31 Mojave Desert Racing ............................. 4 MSD Ignition ......................................... 10 Nevada Off Road Buggy ......................... 3 8 Off Road Expo ........................................ 15 OMF ...................................................... 41 Pacific Customs .................................... 45 Parker Pumper ...................................... 47 Parker Pumper/Competition Air ............ 4 7 Parker Pumper/Eibach Springs ............. 28 PCI Race Radios ....................................... 5 Pike's Service Center ............................ 46 Race Prep Services ······:·························· 40 Race Ready Procucts ............................. 32 Racer X Motorsports ............................. 12 Rancho Performance ............................... 6 Redline Engineering .............................. 40 Ronco Plastics ...................................... 24 Sakata ·········································-········· 19 Skyjacker Suspensions ········-··············· 3 0 SNORE ................................................... 11 Sway-A-Way ....................... ; .................. 16 TCR Automotive ..................•................. 26 Team Gordon Race Wheels ......•............ 33 Toyota Motorsports .................. 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