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Volume 22 -Number 2 February 2005 Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor John Calvin Associate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance Scott Contributors C&C Race Photos Sheryl Cannon Carrera Photography Mike Chamberlain J&L Photography Jim Culp Mike Del Col Martin Holmes Rod Koch Ralph Mason Ron Miller Rene Montana Byrle Moore Troy Robinson Jeff Straw Darryl Smith Tony Tellier Paul Timmerman Trackside Photo Art Director Larry Worsham 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. DUSTI 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 415N. Higgins Avenue, Suite lA, Missoula, MT 59802. Copy-right by Hillside Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the pub-lisher. Periodical Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at additional mailing offices. 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 DUSTYTIMES, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. snapshot of the Month ... One word is worth a thousand pictures. Courtesy of Martin Holmes, circa 1980. Who said rallying couldn't be fun? DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to 8x10 will be considered. In This Issue ... FEATURES BITD Henderson's Terrible 300 by Judy Smith ....................................... 8 Ramada Express International Rally by Scott Bottomley ........................... 16 CODE Mexicana Logistics 300 by Byrle Moore ........................................ 18 MORE Toys For Tots Holiday 200 by Ann Donaldson- .......................... 22 Glen Helen Baja Cup Challenge by ]wiy Smith ....................................... 30 Whiplash Vulture Mine by Mike Del Col .......................... ......................... 34 Mojave Desert Racing Awards by Tanna Primante .................................. 38 CODE Race Ready 275 by Byrle Moore ..................................................... 40 MDR Bud Light Dash by Jwiy Smith .......................................................... 46 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ................................................................................................ 5 Trail Notes ................................................................................................. 6 BFGoodrich Corner .............................................................................. 44 CORE Report by Ann Donaldson ............................................................ 44 Fair News ................................................................................................. 51 ORBANews ............................................................................................ 51 Good Stuff Directory··························································:·················· 52 Classified Ads .......................................................................................... 5 8 Index To Advertisers ............................................................................... 59 ON THE COVER Curt LeDuc had a great race, his Ford ran trouble free, and he had time to tow in a friend and still take the win in Class 8000 at the Best In The Desert's Henderson 300. Curt won Every BITD race he entered in 2004. Photo by Jim Ober - Track.side Photo Gary Weyhrich drove solo this race, he had lost second gear in the big Jimco but he still took the Class 1500 win and he was the overall winner as well. Photo by Fidel Gonzales - Track.side Photo Visit Our Website at Dustytimes.com c5ubscr.ibe 7oday lo DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □.1 year -$25.00 years -$40.00 □2 □3 years -$55.00 (no credit cards please) " □ RENEWAL Primary Interest Cars D Trucks 0. Motorcycles 0 Send check or money order to: DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 Canadian - 1 year $30.00 VS ■ Overseas subscription rates upon request Dusty Times February 2005 Page 3

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2005 Happenings ... October l, 2005 Las Vegas Rallycross Ill October 7-8, 2005 Tentative P.O. Box 332 F"'1R HAVEN, VT 05743 ~ (802) 265-8618 CONTINENTAL MOTOSPORT CLUB P.O. Box 3187 MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690-3178 FAX: (714) 367-1608 10K FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box 36 CLEVES, OHIO 45002 (AU events staged at the club grounds in Cleves. Ohio) A.MElucAN RALLY SPORT GROUP, INc. 3650 SoUTH POINTE CIRCLE, Sum 205 LAUGHLIN, NV 89208 (702) 298-8171/FAX: (702) 521-0597 E MAIL: roger@rallyusa.com A.MElucAN TRIALS ASSOCIATION AMA OBSERVED ThIALs SOUTHERN CAUFORNIA CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES BILL MARKUM • PRESIDENT (909) 860-1857 24 HR HOTLINE· (714) 562-7742 E MAIL: bmark909@aol.com <www.atatrails.com> ASOCIACION EsTATAL DE AUTOMOVILISMO SAM l.AsELL, TECH INSPECTOR APTo42 SAN JOSE DEL CABO BAJA CALIFORNIA DEL SUR. MEXICO AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP DARRYL SMITH 19 SOMERS ST. CAsHMERE, QUEENSLAND, 4500, AUSTRALIA DUSTY TIMES @bigpond.com AmocRoss QUEBEC OFF RoAD CLASS 10 CARS ONLY RENALD VAILLANCOURT 3069 DAGENAIS WEST LAVAL QUEBEC, CANAOA. H7P 1T7 (450) 622-4440 BARONA SAND DRAG AssN. P.O. Box 1521 LAKESIDE, CA 92040 AU Races Are Night Races AU Races At &rona Racewa-y, lAkeside, CA BBMMAmcETING PROMOTIONS OFF ROAD SHORT COURSE RACING & SPECIAL EvENT MARKETING 4344 VALLEY V1EW AvE. NORCO, CA 92860 (909) 340-6474 BEST IN THE DESERT 3475 BoULDER HIGHWAY LAs VEGAS, NV 8912[ 702-4575775/FAX:702-64I-2431 February 4-6, 2005 Blue Water Resort & Casino Parker 4 25 Cars & Trucks March 4-6, 2005 Kawasaki Team Green Laughlin U.S. Hare Scrambles April 1-3, 2005 Pro Circuit Nevada 200 Trail Ride April 29, 30 May 1, 2005 Terribles Town 250 July6-10, 2005 McMillin Nevada 1000 October 6-8, 2005 TSCO Vegas To Reno December 2-4, 2005 Henderson's Terrible 300 B.O.R.E. BONNEVILLE OFF RoAD RACING UITERPRISES 341 W. 2575 N SUNSET, UT 84015 801-773-1651 May 14-15, 2005 Red Garter 200 July 1,2, 2005 Jackpot 200 September 2,3, 2005 Ely 200 BP MoroRSPORTS P.O. Box 411 WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91365 760-578-6258/760-578-6259 FAX: 818-348-4648 E-Mail: bpmotorsports@earthlink.net All Events At O.tlifomia Cit,, CA BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 BRIGHTON, ONTARIO, CANAOA. KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/FAX (613) 475-3250 CAJOR CLUB AUTOMOVILJSTA]UARENSE DE CHAMPIONSHIP OFF-ROAD RACING 7210 GATEWAY EAsT EL PASO, TX 79915 (915) 593-4848 RALPH GARCIA Oll-52-16-17-45-42 CESAR FUENTES Dusty Times CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES www.Californiarallyseries.com February 5, 2005 2004 Awards Banquet February 26, 2005 Ridgecrest Rally School February 27, 2005 Ridgecrest RallyCross March 5, 2005 Goodsprings Rallysprint - Coef 1 April 2, 2005 Desert Storm Rally - Coef 2 April 9, 2005 Las Vegas Rallycross I April 30, 2005 Las Vegas Rallycross 11 May 6-7, 2005 Rim Of TI1e World Rally - Coef 2&3 June 17,2005 Ensenada Mexico Rally - Coef 3 July 16, 2005 Treeline Rally - Coef 3 August 20, 2005 Gorman Ridge Rally - Coef 3 Prescott Rally - Coef 2&3 October 29, 2005 Las Vegas Rallycross IV December 2-4, 2005 Ramada Express Rally - Coef 2,3& 1 CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box 400 MAYWOOD, CA 90270 (323) 560-SHOW CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 645 PIERRE, SD 57501 DAVE AO>\Ms (PILOTS AND BAJAS) (605) 224-9481 DoN ENGLEMAN (BIKES) (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. RICHARDS Cl.AmTON lb-JACKERS I.C.O. TOM DELAUDER SR 1091 TWP. LINE ROAD WELLSVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Harri.son Counry Fair Grounds. Cadi~. OH CLUB AUTOMOVWSTICA SAN QulNrIN CALLE 6TA FRAcc Co. DE SAN Qu1NTIN SAN QUINTIN, BC, MEX!(X) HERACLIO PATINO (011 52 616-5-22-07) CLUB AUTOMOVWSTICO SANVICENTE SAN VICENTE OFF ROAD ENSENADA, BC, MEXICO USA JAN WRIGHT (011 52 61746834) RAMON CASTRO & RUBEN ACEVEDO (61637/7 0034) CMC CODE 0FFROAD CODE OFFRoAD USA P.O. Box 2328 CALEXICO, CA 92231-2328 760-455-8069 USA 0ll-52-686-553-4087 MEXICO www.codeoffroad.com.mx February 4-6, 2005 VW Autopartes 250 Mexicali, B.C. Baja, Mexico March lS-20, 2005 OASA San Luis 200 San Luis, Sonora, Mexico April 29-30, May 1, 2005 Grupo Tersa San Felipe 200 San Felipe, B.C. June 17-19, 2005 Accesorios Amado Night Race Mexicali, B.C. August5-7, 2005 Happenings continued on page 6 INTRODUCING_ □ y KEN\! AQQDPREMIUM W~ PRODUCTS 110, Walts of Power 1160 Channel Alphanumeric I Water Resistant I Mil Spec I Baja 1000 Proven ~s ~~~.....,. ~..,..........,, ~ .tPW>~ "_, was in Ensenada, and my crew in San Quinlin could hear me 150 miles awayl I need these in ALL of my trucks!" -...::.11,,,.~JIIW 1-#=L~~ PROTRUCK WINNER. 2002 TECATE/SCORE BAJA 1000 _The best communicalion we've in over 15 years of off road racing!" ~cwt:,~...--~ '1'ME!T Tl#E: .-cat~~ T~I Remele Head opHon avalleble. Cell for deleils. 800.869.5636 562.427.8177 • Fax 562~26.3589 WWW.PCIRACERADIOS.COM 2888 Gundry Ave. • Signal Hill, CA 90755 February 2005 Pages

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Trail Notes ... CORR COURSE USE EXTENSIONS -The short course off road tracks in Antigo, Wisconsin, Bark River, Michigan and Crandon, Wisconsin will continue their tradition of bringing the CORR Lucas Oil Series in 2005 to the fans in the Midwest. The Antigo Kiwanis Club will host CORR racing on June 11-12, the Bark River Lions Club will host the CORR Lucas Oil Series event August 13-14 and the Forest County Potawatomi Brush Run at the Crandon International Off Road Raceway will take place June 25-26. The BorgWarner World Championships will be on Labor Day Weekend, September 3-4 at the Crandon facility. Both Crandon and Bark River signed deals with CORR for dates in 2006 as well. The Crandon International Off Road Raceway celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2004. The Bark River Off Road Raceway has hosted off road racing for over 25 years. For more information on Bark River or Crandon, visit www.upoffroad 100 (Bark River) orwww.crandonoffroad.com (Crandon) For information on the CORR Series go to www.corracing.com. A ARWBA AUTO RACING ALL-AMERICA TEAM -In some of the .rl.closest voting ever for the annual Auto Racing All-America Team, 15 have been chosen in seven categories by members of the motorsports press. Vote totals are not released until after the AARWBA banquet. At that time, the driver receiving the most votes, regardless of category, will be announced as the 35th winner of the Jerry Titus Award, in motor racing, the equivalent of the Heisman Trophy. The First Team is: OPEN WHEEL - Tony Kanaan, Sebastien Bourdais, STOCK CAR -Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson, ROAD RACING -Ron Fellows*, Max Papis/Scott Pruett, DRAG RACING -John Force, Tony Schumacher, SHORT TRACK - Steve Kinser, Bobby East, TOURING SERIES -Martin Truex, Jr., Bobby Hamilton, AT LARGE -Bill Auberlen *, Thiago Medeiros. Second T earn is: OPEN WHEEL - Buddy Rice, Pa.ul Tracy, STOCK CAR - Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne, ROAD RACING - Paul Gentilozzi*, Tommy Kendall*, DRAG RACING - Greg Anderson, Clay Millican, SHORT TRACK -Danny Lasoski, Jay Drake, TOURING SERIES -Kyle Busch, Frank Kimmel, AT LARGE - Scott Speed, Rob MacCachren. MacCachren said," This certainly wasn't my best year in desert racing , but we did accomplish most of our goals and it is especially an honor to be recognized by AARWBA without winning a SCORE Class Championship. We just keep plugging along and win our share of races, it is an honor that we don't take lightly and we accept on behalf of the entire MacCachren Motorsports Team. I know it's a cliche, but we wouldn't be where we are without our great crew." Other off roaders who have been recognized by AARWBA in the past include: Manny Esquerra, Rod Hall, Troy Herbst, Marty Lerner, Rick Mears, Roger Mears, Ri<!h Minga, Larry Ragland, Malcolm Smith and Ivan Stewart. We too were pleased to see Rob Mcu:Cachren recognized for his driving talent and his winning ways in off road racing. The * denotes an SCCA driver. VARTEK OFF-ROAD & HUNTER MOTORSPORTS BONUS$ -J.'-r<ARTEK Off-Road, a major Southern California automotive aftermarket superstore/machine shop and Hunter Motorsports, a Northern California desert racing team are both posting special purses for the SCORE 2005 Desert Series. Kartek Off-Road has increased its posting from $10,000 in '04 to $50,000 for 2005. The monies will be divided up in $25,000, $15,000 and $10,000 to the top three overall points leader from the 2005 five SCORE Desert Race Series. Kartek owner Roy Dehban made the announcement after presenting a $10,000 bonus check to Brian Jeffrey, the 2004 SCORE Desert Series Overall Point Champion. Dennis Hunter, owner of Hunter Motorsports announced a special $25,000 bonus purse for Class 10 at the Laughlin Desert Challenge in memory of his son, Jason Hunter. The Class 10 race at Laughlin has been named the Jason Hunter Memorial Class 10 Race. Jason Hunter was a Class 10 racer who was voted 2002 SCORE Rookie Of The Year. Jason was killed in an automobile accident on January 4, 2004. The $25,000 purse will awarded as follows: 1"' place $10,000, 2nd place $5,000, 3rd place $3,000, 4th place $2,500, 5th place $2,000, 6th place $1,500 and 7th place $1,000. 2005 DARPA GRAND CHALLENGE - It seems that the competition is already gearing up to compete in the 2005 version of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In a press release received here last week Oshkosh Truck is teaming up with Rockwell Collins to develop Oshkosh's second generation, self navigating robotic TerraMax vehicle to compete in the Pentagon sponsored $ 2 million 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. Based solely on sensor data, the vehicle must traverse a 17 5 mile course from Barstow to Las Vegas, making its own decisions on route planning, obstacle avoidance and speed1. without the aid of any human intervention. During the next 12 months a scientific team will undertake an effort to give the TerraMax the intelligence it needs. The platform for TerraMax is the combat proven Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement· (MTVR), originally built for the U.S. Marine Corps. We know that ace reporter Judy Smith is anxiously awaiting the starting gun, scheduled for October 8, 2005. Stay tuned here for the latest in DARPA news. ~ RALLY -The Dakar Rally will be underway, in fact, it will be LJ over when you read this, but we thought you'd like to see some statistics, compliments of Clive Skilton, the JeepSpeedMeister. Last year there were 595 vehicles entered in the rally, 1,250 people were registered to drive, co-drive, navigate, whatever. There were 40 nationalities represented, 80% of Page& ORW Lazo de Amistad Gran Prix Jacume Tecate, B.C. October 14-16, 2005 Mexicana Logistics 300 Mexicali, B.C. December 9-11, 2005 Race Ready 275 Ensenada-Mexicali-San Felipe, B.C. COLORADO HILL Cram AssoClATION 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 0ll-52-65-66-4458 CORR LUCAS On. SERIES 192 N. STATE ROAD, Sum 267 AVON, IN 46123 317-272-2827 317-272-2900 fax June 11-12, 2005 Antigo, WI Pro & Sportsman June 25-26, 2004 Crandon, WI Pro & Sportsman JulyS-9, 2005* Topeka, KS Pro & Sportsman August 13-14, 2005 Bark River, Ml Pro & Sportsman September 3-4, 2005 Crandon, WI Pro & Sportsmah September 17-18, 200S New Berlin, NY Pro Series Only IBA One additional event To be announced *Night Race-FridaJ & SaturdaJ night CORVA 1500 WEST EL CAMINO, Sum 352 SACRAMENTO, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA EXT 42 FAX (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS '' DAvEVAN DEREN 2405 BAKER AVE. EVERETT, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (All events at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thurston Counr:y ORV Park, 0!1mpia, WA) DAKAR RALLY DARREN SKIL"ION BAJA AuroMOTIVE ADVENTURES 455 E. OcEAN BLVD., Sum 208 LoNG BEACH, CA 90802 (562) 755-2278/FAX: (562) 590-7925 Bajaautomotive@Yahoo.com DECA.TIJR FoUR WHEEL DRIVE Cum DECATUR, TX 76234 ToMAu.EN (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 DESERT STEEL MOTORSPORTS 1863 CoMMANDER DRIVE LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ 86403 (928) 855-2208 ~~RoADRAClNGAsN. TOM DELAUDER, SR. 1091 TOWNSHIP LINE ROAD WELLSVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 ENsmAl>ABAJA OFF ROAD RACING Av. REFORMA 1136 ENSADA, BC, MX 0ll-52-646-1818989 Eus10 0ll-52-646-1715230 AARON Races for buggys & Motorcycles Esn:Ro BFACH OOERNATIONAL SHORT CoURSE RACING VICTORIA GALINOO ENSENADA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO 0ll-52-646-176-6230 FORDA FWRIDA OFF ROAD DRIVER~ Ass-N. JASON LEIBIN (727) 376-4176 Mar, Apr, MaJ, Noo at Davidson RacewaJ FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 1855 PARKWAY DRIVE s. EL MONTE, CA 91733 626-442-9320/959-579-6151FAX mdrracing@aol.com February 2005 GORRA GEORGIA OFF ROAD RACING Ass-ocuTJON 4 20 HOSEA ROAD LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 GPORRA GREAT PI.ANEs OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION TIM HODGE (402) 991-6048 SconMoRROW (816) 792-2126 (AU raca are short course, stadium sr:yle Classa -Sportsman, 1/2-1600, 5-1600, Sport Truck, Quads, Tough Truck Nebraska Racewa, Park, Exit 420 on l-80 between Omaha and Linroln.) For latest info check < www.gporra.net> HIGH PLA!Ns OFF RoAD RACING 22000 W. Quincy Unit B ENGLEWOOD, CO 80110 303-806-8062/303-781-0974 Fax OOERNATIONAL ICE RACING AssoClATION P.O. Box 8105 Sr. PAUL, MN 55108 STEVE BEDOOR (612) 937-3816/FAX 474-2769 INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INc. P.O. Box 2910 MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 ]EEPSPEED 1826 N. WINDES ORANGE, CA 92869 714-538-7434/FAX:714-633-1724 February 4-5, 200S Best In The Desert Parker, AZ March 26, 2005 MORE Barstow, CA May28,2005 MORE Lucerne Valley, CA July 6-9, 2005 Best Inn The Desert Las Vegas & Tonopah, Nevada (Non points race) August 13, 2005 MDR Barstow, CA October 29, 2005 MOR Superstitio~ Series Plaster City, CA December 2-3, 2005 Best In TI1e Desert Henderson, Nevada KAMLooPs BRONCO BUSTERS WHISPERING PINES SPORTS & REcREATION CENTER P.O. Box 465 l<AMLOOPS, BC, CANADA VZG5L2 DALE NYESTE (250) 579-8039 TONY (250) 554-97801. Craig Byers (250) 376-8466 LAS VEGAS SANDSPORTS & OFFROAD EXPO (626) 961-3782 <www.prerunners.com> <www.megashow.com> L.I.T.R.E. JEFF ELROD (408) 926-0522 J1MARUTA (408) 247-4402 MAMARRrrA OFF ROAD RACING Luis CARL.os AL.vAREZO PANAMERICANA AVE #5105 Co. JUAREZ, CH1H., MX 0ll-52-1637-1799 MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS DuNE BUGGY TR.A.De Snow (517) 543-7214 <www.buggybuilders.com> MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M. T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 JONES ROAD GRAND LEDGE, ML 4883 7 (517) 627-6200 Motorcycles, Quads, A TVs and Pilots onl::, MAORA MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD AssOCIATION P.O. Box 184 MATTOON, IL 61938 (217) 235-6528 E-MAIL: maora@peako.com <www.maoraracing.com> Short Course Series** Endurance Series#* MDRRACING CALIFORNIA CHAMPIONSHIP OFF ROAD RACING SERIES 1853 PARKWAY DRIVE SOUTH EL MONTE, CA 91733 626-442-9320/FAX626-579-6051 2005 California Championship Series February 5, 2005 Lucerne 300 Lucerne Valley, CA April 2, 2005 Wild Wash 250 Barstow, CA May14,2005 Ridgecrest 250 Ridgecrest, CA June 25, 2005 MDR400 Lucerne,CA August 13, 2005 California 200 Barstow, CA September24,200S Mojave 200 Lucerne,CA November12,200S Stoddard 250 Barstow, CA MDR Productions 2004-2005 Superstition Championship Series All Races at Plaster Cir:y OHV Area March 5, 2005 Fud 200 April 23, 2005 King Of The Desert June 11, 200S Coyote Wash 200 NIGI--ITRACE October 29, 2005 Superstition 250 December 31, 2005 The Dash 200 M.O.R.E. MOJAVE OFF ROAD RACING ENnruSIASTS P.O. Box 1231 BARSTOW, CA 92312 760-253-4453 Vlww.moreracing@earthlink.net January 29, 2005 Lucerne Valley _ March 26, 2005 Barstow May28,2005 Location To Be Announced July 23, 2005 Barstow September 17, 200S Location To Be Announced December 3, 2005 Barstow MSBA MICHIGAN SPORT BUGGY AsSOCIATION DAVE BARRET 6363 NIGHTINGALE DR. FLINT, ML 48506 (810) 7 30-9221 MoTOWEST WINTER TRIALS SERIES BILL MARKHAM (909) 860-1857 <www.lTStrials.com> AU events at Perris Raceway (At Reed Valle, with a school) NATIONAL Mun RACING AssN. Rr. #l -Box 380 DAVE OR MARLENE RYAN PALATKA, FL 32177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK ASSN. BUTCH CHAPIN MoTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS 1404 EAST 3RD STREET HASTINGS, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 NOORA GARY WULFF (724) 283-2678 E-MAIL Kaylaaron@aol.com <www.Nooraoffroadracing.com> Buggies, Pilot/Odysseys, Trucks, Quads (Spring Valle, Raceway, on route 518, 20 minuta SW of Lisbon, OH) (Thunder Va!Je:y located 15 minuta from Spring Valley) NORTHERN Omo OFF RoAD RACING ASSN. 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VOLUNTEERED SERIES PRESIDENT· GEOFF LEE 1243 TRICE ROAD LEBANON, TN 37087 (615) 453-5830 CLASS REP. - 1/2-1600 BRUCE MEYERS (865) 453-1005 CLASS REP. -9 & UNLTD. MICHAEL MOORE (334) 271-7035 OUTLAW REP. Do!-l PONDER (314) 631-8190 (All Races at Whuling in the County 900 Acres) OFF-ROAD SAND & SPEED EXPO Omo OFF RoADERS INc. 1427 GosHEN H1us ROAD S.E. NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO 44663 }IM KENDEL (216) 339-4674 AU races held at Hamson Councy Fairgrounds. Cadil. Ohio ONTARIO OFF RoAD RACERS ASSOCIATION RICK TICHBOURNE, PUBLIC RELATIONS (519)..681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) 0UTIAW SEVEN PICKUP 9269 UMMEIMAN ST. Louis, MO63123 (314) 631-8140/FAX: ((314) 631-1921 PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. OFF Ro,w CHAMPIONSHIP 495 N. CoMMONS DRIVE AURORA, IL 60504 (630) 566-0100 <www. us off-road .com> PIKEs PEAK P.O. Box 6962 CoLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 PINE BARRENS ROUGH RIDERS OFF ROAD RACING CHATSWORTH, NJ (856) 875-7591 PRo 1600 SHOOTOUT CoREY GOIN 559-647-6132 GOlNRAClN@HOTMAlL.COM PRoTRUCK 14402 BoND CoURT EL CAJON, CA 92021 619-390-6252 February 4-6, 200S BITD Parker 425 Parker, Arirona February 25-26, 200S SCORE San Felipe 250 San Felipe, Baja CA, Mexico April 29 -May 1, 200S BITD Terrible's Town 250 Pahrump, Nevada · June 3-S, 200S SCORE Baja 500 Ensenada, Baja CA Mexico July 6-10, 200S BITD Nevada 1000 Las Vegas, Nevada September9-ll, 200S SCORE Primm 300 Primm, Nevada October 6-8, 200S BITD Vegas To Reno Nevada November 17-20, 200S SCORE Baja 1000 Baja, CA, Mexico PuRE ENERGY PROMOTIONS P.O. Box 50 RICKETTS, IA 51460 (712) 679-2221 ROCK CRAWLERS ASSOCIATION OP .AMERICA P.O. Box 1406 RIVERTON, lJr 84065 (801) 446-5337/FAX: (801) 253-3176 SAN DIEGO SHORT CoURSE WINTERNATIONALS A New Srnes lry Snowbird Off Road Racing Pro Trucks, Desert Trucl<s, Buggies, Pilots, Tough Truck <www .snowbirdracing.com> (858) 571-5088 SAN DIEGO OFF RoAD ExrosmoN (888) 836 7918 SCCA PRoRAu.v P.O. Box 19400 TOPEKA, KS 66619 800-770-2055 <www.sccaprorally.org> Dusty Times SFX MoToRsPORTs GROUP 495 N. CoMMONS DRIVE, SUITE 200 AURORA, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100/(630) 556-6180 FAX SCORE SCORE INTERNATIONAL 23961 CRAFTSMAN Ro., SUITE A CALABASAS, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/FAX: (818) 225-8102 <www .score-international.com> February 25-26, 2005 Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 San Felepe, BC, MX June 3-5, 2005 Tecate SCORE Baja 500 Ensenada, BC, MX September 9-11, 2005 SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 Primm,NV November 17-20, 2005 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 BC,MX SNORE SOlJTHERNNEVADA OFF ROAD ENTHUSIASTS P.O. 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Box 2122 Calexico, CA 92231 March 6, 200S Round #2 April 10, 200S Poker Run May8,200S Round #3 July 17, 200S Round #4 Night Race September 2S, 200S Round #5 November27,200S GP de Campeones 4x4 FOREVER, Lm. 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 2005 schedule as soon as possible for listing in this column; it could bring you some extra entries! Mail your race or rally schedule to: DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 February 2005 rail Notes ... the entrants were amateurs, 20% were professional drivers. Entrants by age group: 18-29 years of age, 6%, 30-39 years of age, 32%, 40-49 years of age, 44% and 50-65 years of age, 18%. Of the 595 vehicles that started the rally, 163 of them finished. 195 motorcycles (10 were quads) started and 65 of them finished, 14 2 cars started and 60 of them finished, there were 63 trucks of which 38 made it to the finish. l..et.s see how these stat.s will compare with this years Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon is racing in the 2005 Dakar and we certainly hope he does well. The latest press release says he retook the overall lead, winning the third leg. ]:ND OF .AN ERA - It was with a bit of sadness that we received a notice Dfrom the United States Bankruptcy Court regarding the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group. Mickey was one of the true promoters of the off road racing sport, starting with the founding of SCORE and the promotion of so many short course stadium races through the years. Mickey, and his wife, Trudy, went to an untimely end many years ago and this then is the end of his one major enterprise. A good thought for Mickey and Trudy would never be out of order. Amen. SCORE LAUGHLIN -The opening gala of the year will be at Laughlin as SCORE presents the 11 m Laughlin Desert Challenge and there sure are a lot of cars waiting to do battle. It looks like a record entry will be on hand and the racing should be fantastic! There are 26 Trophy Trucks entered, 33 Class 1 cars, no less than 40 1/2-1600 cars, 3 Class 3's, 2 Class 5 cars, 7 ea 5-1600's, 8 each Class 7 trucks, 5 each Class 7S trucks, 5 each Class 8 trucks, 2 Class 9 cars, 31 Class 10 cars, 17 SCORE lites, 3 each Class 11 and 3 Stock Full. 14 Protrucks are on hand, 2 cars entered in Sportsman and 2 trucks in Sportsman Truck. That is a total of 203 vehicles, which must be a record showing. You'll get the entire story here in the next issue of Dusty TLmes. DUSTI TIMES CONTINGENCY -As most of you know, Dusty Times offers $100 to the last official finisher of each race in the following series: Baja Cup Challenge, Jeepspeed, MDR, MORE, SCORE, SNORE, VORRA and Whiplash. This applies to buggies, cars and trucks only. Remember, you must be a current Dusty Times subscriber in order to win this contingency. We get lots of phone call from folks who believe they have earned the award but they are not subscribers of Dusty Times at the time of the race: you must be a current subscriber a·c the time of the race! Also, we need to be notified by the race organizer of the award and then, the $100 is on its way to you. ~ ,fDR BUD LIGHT DASH - MDR's New Years Eve race was a good l V .lone, 81 were entered, 70 actually started and those that were there and ran the race all had a great time. Mike Deardoff took the Class 10 honors as well as the overall win, Justin Loftin and Darren Hardesty were second and third in class and overall respectively. Greg Hansen was the Class 1 winner, Ralph Mauzy won class 5, TonySteingraber was the only 5-1600 finisher out of 10 starters, Kent Graves took Class ·9, Julie Kerns was second, Tom Barrigan was the Class 12 winner and Eli Yee too Class 13, Mark McMillin put Class 14 in his pocket and Paul Keller was the Class 1600 winner over 20 other starters. Read all about it in next months issue of Dusty Tunes. ON THE MEND - We're happy to report that Larry Roeseler is recovering nicely from hip replacement surgery performed on the 22nd of December. He told us he was out of the hospital after two and a half days, and walking with few problems shortly after that. He apparently found a "Hip Man" who uses the most up-to-date techniques and technology available. If you run into Larry, ask him about it, he's really stoked. And, just a bit over three weeks after the surgery he'll be racing at Laughlin! SNORE NEWS -SNORE Prez announced a change in venue for the February 19-20 race. The race, scheduled to run near the Avi Casino near Laughlin will instead be run at Statline, Nevada, aka Primm. SNORE has a new short course and they are looking forward to a great racing weekend. For more information contact SNORE at 702-452-4522. DT READERS CAN HELP - Pat Sharp, chief engineer and dear friend to all on the Ace Motorsports Team for the last seven years is now in the hospital with Leukemia. Marc Stein is asking all Dusty Times readers to have a good thought for Pat and, if you wish, give him a call at 909-227-0594. Thank you in advance for your prayers and your good thoughts for Pat. CORR FINALIZES SCHEDULE -The 2005 CORR Lucas Oil Series will open on May 21-22, 2005 at the I-96 Speedway, located in Lake Odessa, Michigan. The track is located about halfway between Grand Rapids and Lansing. The schedule now reads: May 21-22, I-96 Speedway, Lake Odessa, ML June 11-12, Langlade County Fairgrounds, Antigo, WI. June 25-26, Crandon International Raceway, Crandon, WI. July 8-9, Heartland Park, Topeka, KS. August 13-14, Bark River Off Road Raceway, Bark River, ML September 3-4, Crandon International Raceway, Crandon, WI. September 17-18, Unadilla Valley Sports Center, New Berlin, NY (Pro only). You should note that the Heartland Park events will run on Friday and Sarurday evenings. Page7

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BITD HENDERSON'S TERRIBLE 300 weyhrich Wins season Closer B-y Jud-y Smith Photos: Trackside Photo The Brothers Weyhrich, Gary and Mark drove their Tube Specialties car to a resounding victory, 1" Class 1, 1" overall! The first annual Henderson's Ter-rible 300 produced by the Best In The Desert, was won overall by Gary Weyhrich in his Chevy VB Junco. The race, on the first weekend in December, was headquartered in Henderson, but actually situated south ofBoulder City, off Highway 95, and east of the McCullough Mountain Range. Pre-race festivities, including live bands, happened on Water Street in Henderson proper, with sign up and the drivers' meeting taking place in the Convention Center. The BITD laid out two courses: one for the bikes and quads and another for the cars and trucks. The bikes and quads started at 7 a.m., ran their first loop on the car/ truck course, but then were shunted off to their own play area. The cars and trucks started at 8:30 and once theywere moving, the two groups never came into contact with one an-other. There was a big infield set up for the four wheeied vehides, which in-cluded a snaky" short-course" with sev-eral jumps, pit rows on both sides, and a long straight on the way out. The Henderson folks had put up a grand-stand, butdidn'tgetitaitnedquite right, so itmostlywentunused. Itdidn'tmat-ter, as there was plenty of room for folks to park; set up their folding chairs and settle in to watch the fun. The weather was nippy most of the day, so many people just watched from inside the comfort of their motorhomes or SUVs. The car/ truck course was 63 miles long, and started near the dry lake in Eldorado Valley, then swept westward to the edges of Jean Ory Lake. It was thought to be smooth and fast when the day started, but rocky, with one area already nicknamed "the rock gar-den." By the time they'd done a couple of laps, it was no longer considered "smooth" by anyone with litnited sus-pension. There were three pit areas out on the course and the Main Pit area at the start/finish. Each vehicle had ten hours to complete the required num-ber of laps. The faster classes did five laps, while some of the litnited classes ran only four. The BITD had Time Trials for any Gary Dircks and Mark Porter drove their Trick Truck Ford to first place in the Unlimited Truck Class, third overall. car/truck racers who cared to enter, and as a result of his fastest time, Kyle Taylor and his Ford Trick Truck would be first on the road. Chuck Hovey was to start right behind him in his 1500 Junco, followed by a string of Class 1500 cars, and then ninth and tenth fastest, Curt LeDuc in his Ford Class 8000 truck and Todd Wyllie in his Chevy Class 8000 Truck. One Class 1000 (Class 10 in SCORE), the Chenowth of Shawn Croll and Darren Ebberts, and one 1600, the Fraley of Rob MacCachren, made it into the top 20 qualifiers who would start at the front of the pack. The 1500 class, with 11 starters, was required to run five laps. As they came around the first time the lead belonged to Pat Dean in his Chenowth. He had just a minute on the next three racers, who were tied: Gary Weyhrich in a Jimco, Kelby Pepper in a Toyota Jimco, and Chuck Hovey in his V4 powered J imco. A tight race was shap-ing up. On the next lap Hovey had the lead, but had only two minutes on Weyhrich, who fmished the lap on a shredded rear tire. Steve Sourapas had his Junco in third, another three min-utes back, and B.J. Richardson was fourth, a minute later in John Gaughan's Chevy Bunderson. On the third lap Hovey held the lead, with Weyhrich four minutes behind him. Sourapas lost his power steering and it took about a half hour to get things fixed again. Steve and Ray Croll moved their Junco into third place, and Dean was now fourth. He had decided to pass Hovey at some point. He said, "I think I got impatient" and the barrel rolled the car. When he landed he'd had three flat tires, and he'd had to drive about a mile on the flats to get things fixed. He said, "We had the lead by 15 feet! It was a good wreck." Hovey led through the fourth lap also, with three minutes on Weyhrich, who drove all the way. He was starting to have some problems with second gear. In third it was Bob Lofton in his Junco, and Pepper, who had some "throttle body problems" and was run-ning at less than full power now, was fourth. High drama developed on the last lap. Hovey lost his transmission. He had a spare (actually, the one he'd used in the 1000 just two weeks before this race), but he couldn't get to it. His crew did some earnest pleading with Curt LeDuc's crew, and LeDuc agreed to tow him in. He made sure that Hovey still had his power steering, because, he said, he was going to need it. It wasn't going to be a slow trip. LeDucwas leading his class also. So, as the Class 1500 cars started to arrive at the fmish line, Hovey got the ride of his life at race speed on a tow strap behind LeDuc in a Class 8 truck. He said, "rocks were bouncing off my helmet". And one of those rocks apparently clobbered a brake line, but no one noticed that. When he arrived at his pit the crew was ready to remove and replace the transmission. He needed to finish to have any chance of a points championship, and he needed to finish in front of Pat Dean. It didn't lookgood. The Class 8 win went to Curt LeDuc and his sons, Todd and Kyte, they were 4th overall, seen here slightly airborne. The Staats clan, Steven, Alex and Ryan drove their Ford to the Pro Truck win with almost 45 minutes in hand at the flag. Weyhrichcrossed thefinishlinewith a time of 5:27:43 to take the overall win as well as the Class 1500 victory. He said his second gear was "toast", and the course "went away", but other than that he'd had a "real clean race, with no flats". Fourteen minutes later it was Bob Lofton's car, with his son Justin at the wheel. Justin had done only part of the last lap, just getting a taste of driving in an Unlitnited car. They'd had only a couple of flats on Flyin' high, Mike Coleman and Tim Lawrence took the Class 7100P Second in Class 1, second overall was the Jimco of Bob and Justin Allen and Scott Gerber with Little Joe Aguirre were second in Class win in their Ford pickup, their competition was 25 minutes behind. Loftin, seen here ready for a nice landing. 10, a minute and a half out of the class win. Pages February 2005 Dusty Times n

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Ken Tapert and Tommy Bradley drove their Porter to a very decent Second in the Class B contest was the good looking Chevy of Todd The Scaroni clan, Matt, Steve and David get the OT award for high 2-place in the 1600cc class, seen here at touchdown. Wyllie, seen here in level night. flying, they were a decent second place in Pro Truck. their way to second place. In third it bit hairy, thanks to that broken brake stop compared to a buggy." Ford and the Steven Staats Ford. Matt lap. His lead grew to 11 minutes on the was Pepper, who did all the driving in line, but he got it done. He thanked Class 8000 had just the two entries. Scaroni had the lead on the first lap, third lap. his car, about 15 minutes behind the LeDuc "My new friend!" LeDuc, who had his son, Todd, riding with one minute on Staats. But then Both teams made driver changes Loftons. Brian Ickier finished in The Crolls disappeared on the alonginhisFord,andWyllie,who'd ScaronigotoutandputCarlosCaya betweenlaps3and4.TheStaatsteam Sourapas' car, in fourth place, report· fourth lap, and B.J. Richardson went just got bade from winning the 1000 in in to drive, and he had power steering put Ryan Staats, Steve's son, in to drive. ing that the power steering repair had out on the third. Todd Cuffaro, rac-the same Oievy he was racing nc,,v, were problems. Staats went into the lead, It was just his second tiJlle to take the been theironlyproblem. ln fifthitwas ing here in an Unlimited car for the on the same minuteattheendof the and had nine minutes on the second Cantinu,~ an p11110 Sam Berri, who had fuel pump prob- first time, also went out on the third ftrst lap. But LeDuc picked up about lems with the V4 motor in his Jimco, lap. nine minutes on the second lap, and and Greg Hansen finished sixth in his There were just two T ride T ruclcs, by the end of Lap 3 he had a half hour new Porter which was out for its frrst but it was a good race for a while. Kyle as Wyllie flattened two tires on the race. It's got an LS 1 motor, and Hansen Taylor had his Ford in front at the end same side of his trude at once. Wyllie' s said he'd had a good day, just flatten• of the first lap, but he had only two lude went downhill after that He said ing one tire on a big rock. minutes on Gary Dirclcs in his Ford. the "transmission burped up oil into About two hours and 4 5 minutes Early on the second lap Taylor rolled the engine compartment" and it caught later Dean came in. It looked as if his truck, but it didn't have a big effect. frre. He got the fire out, got a new air Hovey'sdreamsofachampionshiphad At the end of Lap 2 Dircks had six cleaner, added more trans fluid and been dashed. But it rumed out that minutes on Taylor and both truclcs added oil to the motor, but it sounded Dean had blown a clutch, and had looked good going through the infield terrible after that. Meanwhile, LeDuc managed to complete only four laps. Things closed up a bit on the third had no problems. He piclced up Hovey He was a dnf, reporting that he didn't lap, but then, Dircks did a driver and delivered him to his pit and then have "much transmission left." Five min- change, a rarity for him, and put Jeff went on to take the win, about an hour utes later it was Hovey, completing his Darland into his driver's seat Darland and 20 minutes ahead of Wyllie. This fifth lap with 39 minutes to go before still had a minute on Taylor at the end meant that LeDuc won every BITD the cut-off time. It had taken his crew of the lap. But then Taylor disappeared race in 2~. Wyllie got to the finish two hours and 11 minutes to replace completely, and Dircks and Darland for second place. the transmission, and they'd saved the went on to take the win. Darland liked The Protruclcs also fielded two en-championship. The last lap had been a the ride, said, it was "Cool -hard to tries. There was the Scaroni family's An kltimate GtmM}tJCMt to Bellagio_ Qlesa11 & Bally$ It was a tough run for Justin Loftin, he won Class 1 O but it was just with a minute and a half in hand. Ask About Our SpecJaJ Htladlfner Show anti RoomPacka.ges West Troplc.ena & ANme 1~~-7 The Place Las V69aM CB/1 HotrM,~ Ask About our Room & Golf Pacf<ages Dusty Times Wt$t Flafl'lingo & ~ View 1-aa&-402-8278 ~IICdlo.com February 2005 Page9

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Chad Hall drove his Hummer to the silver medal in Stock SUV. he Rob MacCachren and Steve Olliges drove their Ford to second spot Miguel Alvarado drove his Light Force pickup to a second place was only 13 minutes behind the class winner at the end. in Stock Mini, they were almost half an hour out of the win. finish in Stock Production Class at the Terrible 300. wheel And in the Scaroni truck, it was didn't come around again. In fifth it and he held the lead. By now the power were pleased with a second in just their Jonathan Swift took over for the time for Mark Cowan to take over, was Andy Calhoun in a Rabbit pow-steering was so bad they'd disconnected second Class 10 race, and Harling and remaining three laps. He had a flat and and he'd never driven the race truck ered ASC 10. He was a little embar-it. Loiodice was doing without, and Calhoun, whodidn'thavetimeenough also broke a couple of "horseshoes" before. rassed to be the first car to rollover, in Scott Gerber, who took over for Allen to do their fifth lap, said they were (part of the front suspension), but kept The Staats truck stayed in front and the fust tum off the start line, when his was only six minutes back. Croll and happy with their car now that they'd moving along in front. The Swifts took took the win, calling it a "real clean too-soft front end dipped, dug in and Ebberts were third, and Calhoun's co- done all that adjusting. the victory, and the Pikes soldiered on race."Theywere45 minutes upon the tossed him. He was put back on his driver, Rusty Harling, was now driv-Class 7200 had three trucks for a to take second place. Scaroni, Caya, Cowan team, who'd wheels quickly, but the crew spent some ing. They were doing a "lot of adjust- while. They were required to do only For this event the BITD had put a hadtostoptoaddpowersteeringfluid. timeadjustingthesuspension.Heand ing." four laps. On the first lap Shawn "bounty" on the head of Rob Cowan, all grins at the finish line, said co-driver Rusty Harling were consider- On the fourth lap the Gerbers went Wanzek had his Ford in front by 13 MacCachren and promised some ex-he "loved it." ing this a "test drive" for next season, into the lead, with six minutes on minutes, and Randy Sorenson ran sec-tra money to whoever might beat him In Class 1000 there were five cars, and expected to do a lot of adjusting Loiodice. Croll and Ebberts dropped ond. Larry Roeseler and Mike Ruane in the 1600 class (Class 2000 in BITD). and they all managed to get around throughout the day. out and Harling and Calhoun moved didn't have their usual race truck here, They had nine teams willing to try, but for one lap. Justin Lofton had the lead On the second lap Lofton held his up to third, but they were four hours because it had been rolled and dam-three of them, Kenny Thatcher and in his Jimco, with a minute on Shawn lead, now up to five minutes, in spite of off the pace. aged while doing a demonstration ride Kevin Powers, Eli Yee andAngel Barajas, Croll and Darren Ebberts in their power steering problems. Gerber was Loiodice, his arms "throbbing", ran for PR. So they'd stickered up a pre-and Tom Dunbar and Tracy Axton, Chenowth. In third itwasAllen Gerber second. Croll and Ebberts ran third neckand neckwith the Gethers through runner and were trying to make the all went off early on the third lap. And in his Type IV powered Lothringer. and Calhoun was fourth. the final lap, and just managed to nose best of it, and were another seven min- in the meantime, MacCachren went Wayne Intermill, from Colorado, had Midway through the third lap them out at the flnish, to win by a utes back. into the lead. He had two minutes on his Dirt Works in fourth, but then he Lofton put Matt Loiodice into the car, minute and 37 seconds. The Gerbers Wanzek stayed in front through Kevin and Kent Graves in their new, Tfte Dlfferencel Dual Cylinder Brake Pedal Assembly Short or Tall Master Cylinders Features steel pedal with large foot pad, non-skid foot surface and total seal rubber boots. Adjustable balance bar for precise fronUrear pressure ratios.Standard pedal length is 10.25". (5.2 to 1 ratio) CNC-204SD Steel Pedal, Short or Tall M/C Floor Mount. 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Co-driver Joe Stone did Laps hadn't had any prep. They'd "deaned 3 and 4, and the team took the win. it up", but that was it. The Graves In Class 3000, Stock Mini SUVs, brothers stayed second, now ten min-there were two entries. Andy Waters utes back, and in third it was still Tapert, started in the Swift family Ford and he who had his 13 year old son, Kenny, had the lead over the Pike family Ford, riding with him. Edgar was still fourth, which Matt Pike was driving. At the finding it a rocky course. endofthesecondlap, therewasnearly Danny Anderson took over for an hour difference, and the Swift/ MacCachren on Lap 3, and he held Waters team was still in the lead. Continued on page 12 The Class 1/2-1600 went to Danny Anderson and Rob MacGachren, seen here in flight, they were a respectable 12" overall. Josh Hall, with Rod lending support took the win in the Pure Stock SUV class, they had almost an hour in hand at the end. Dusty Times

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The Sunder/ands, John Rand John A, with Dennis Crowley, ran their Gale Pike, the patriarch of the clan and son Noah had a blast, they Second place in the JeepSpeed Pro class were Ray and Casey Ford to the second spot in Stock SUV at the Terrible 300. were second in Production SWB, seen here in flight. Currie, they were just a minute and change out of the win. on to the lead. He was 11 minutes up son rolled thecar. ltdidn'thurtmuch third and Steve LaRoza and Jesse Harling was also running, way off the finish he said he'd had "no trouble at on the Graves team, and they had five but his pride, and he held onto the Ochoa, in a Pearson Built, were now pace after losing a bolt out of a rear all", completely omitting to mention minutes on Tapert. Edgar put his co-lead. Ta pert' s co-driver, Tommy Brad- fourth. They'd had a costly flat. The trailing arm early in the day. the roll-over. He also said he wished driver, David Sexson into his car, and ley, Jr., was now second, as the Graves jack broke when they tried to use it, so Anderson kept things together for more 1600s had come. Bradley, who they stayed fourth. team loaded their car on a trailer and they had to limp in to a pit on the flat, the rest of the ride, and took the win had his son, Derek, age 12, riding with AtMile42onthefourthlapAnder-headed south. Sexson moved up to and lost nearly two hours. Buster forhimselfandMacCachren.Atthe him,broughtTaper'scarinsecond.lt M.anqf i!«i\~rt!r / Qi~~ri~qtqr Qf an expandina anq uniqu~ prQdu~~ lin~ Qf mcttQ~seqr~\ p,~qqq;~s., /,/_,,,,,. -rG-FORCEI -···---' Pro Farce Air • Significantly outflom other ' blower type' helmets ,._ • NOT a converted motorcycle helmet! • ...,,,,,. • Lightweight Composite Shell '--.. $~29 g • 9 9 : :~:'~!:;::~,:~~:olive Rated Special wl FREE .._ _________ _ Helmet Bag I! 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And in fourth it was La Roza and Ochoa. Actually, their time was 10:01: 15, so although they did five la~, theywere a minute and 15 seconds over time. In the Stock full size pickup Class 8100, there were four trucks, but Randy Merritt got only as far as half-way through the infield before he broke an axle. While he dealt with that prob-lem the rest of them went on. Greg Foutz had the lead in his Ford, with two minutes on Charley McDowell in another Ford. In third it was Chad Hall in his Hi Hummer, and Merritt, once repaired was fourth, about four hours down. McDowell moved into the lead on the second lap, with Foutz second, only four minutes back, with an interesting pattern of wrinkles on one side of the truck, where it had been laid upon the ground. Hall ran third, three minutes later. Merritt had got to the second pit on the second lap and developed seri-ous electrical problems. A little quick math showed him that he'd already run out of time to make the 10 hour time limit, so he'd parked the truck. McDowell led through the third lap, finding that "rock garden" to be "pretty rough". Hall moved into second place, thinking that while the course had been nice for a couple of laps, it was becom-ing "awful" rough as time went on. Foutz was a half hour down in third. On the third lap, McDowell con-tinued to lead, having no serious trouble. Hall held second place, and Foutz went to work to replace his trans-mission. He was watching the dock ner-vously. McDowell, with only one flat to mar his day, sailed on steadily and took the win. Hall was second, reporting nothing serious, and in third it was Foutz. His crew and various fans had worriedly watched the clock as he tried to get to the finish line in time. He radi-oed that he had a leaky brake line and would need to slow a bit, and the min-utes kept slipping away. Finally, his lights could be seen at the end of the infield section, but everyone knew he'd need three minutes to get through it. And he had just three minutes left. Ulti-mately, Foutz crossed the finish line with just 20 seconds to spare, finishing in the time of9:59:40, taking third place, but winning the season championship. Class 4100 started next. Josh Hall put his H2 Hummer into the lead early, but he had only a minute on both John R. Sunderland in his Ford and Marc Stein in another Ford. Hall's Hum-mer had barely made it back from Baja to the shop, where it needed some seri-ous work, since he'd rolled it over down Dusty Times ••

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r The Gymer/Bledsoe/Ganzer trio were the silver medalists in the JeepSpeed Stock class, seen here saving a little tire wear. The Stock Production Class 3100P was taken by Scott Douglas, he Flyin' high, Kelby Pepper went on to take the bronze medal in the drove his Ford to a nice trouble free win. Unlimited Class, seen here in nice, level flight. there. !twas still wrinkled, but it moved all right. On the second lap Stein moved to the front, with two minutes on Hall, who had nine minutes on Sunderland's car. Sunderland broke some rear tie rods (three sets), which cost him about an hour in total, and Stein broke a left front A-arm and had to replace it. He lost an hour and a half. Hall just kept moving along, having just "one little problem with a tire", when he hit a boulder. He went on to take the win, saying we "had a blast!" Sunderland, who handed over to his son,JohnA, for the final two laps, was second, about an hour down. And a little over another hour behind them came Stein, for third place. In Class 7100, there were three trucks, all Fords. Kevin Davis lost sec-ond gear right off the start, and lost a good deal of time trying to fix it. Tim Lawrence went into the lead in Mike Coleman• s truck, but he had only five minutes on Wayne Demonja, who came down from Colorado. Charley McDowell and Chad Cola had a great run, they took the Class 8100P win in their neat looking Ford truck. On the second lap Lawrence stayed in front, while Demonja started to have problems, and Davis moved into sec-ond place, but two hours down to the lead truck. Demonja was another 40 minutes back, and then he didn't do anymore laps. Coleman did the final three laps in his truck, and he had "no flats, no nothin' -and just changed a heim on the steering and had to flip the fuel pump back and forth". They took the win, and were the only truck to get to the finish line. Davis and his navigator, Aaron and Ian Dixon had a great race, they were the Class 7300P winners in their Ford, they won with half an hour in hand. Skyler GambrelL ran out of time to then, a given team might get the cham-finish the last lap. pionship. Numbers were flying Class 7 300 had seven starters, and through the air and each team knew the championship was up for grabs. exactly where they had to finish, and If the right truck finished in front, and where everyone else had to finish or the right truck didn't finish, or fin- nor)togivethemthemostpoints.Steve ished behind a particular competitor, Continued on page 14 ~~~=~----:--== ==, David Sexon/Sam Edgar drove the Bunderson to a very decent third Garf Fitts and John Haase drove their Ford pickup to a nice third Buster Harting and Dan Calhoun were the bronze medal winners in place in the 1600cc class, seen here heading to the checkers. place in Stock Production at the BITD Terrible 300. their ASC in the Class 1 o contest. Dusty Times February 2005 Page 13

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John Holmes was the silver medal winner in the Stock Mini SUV Marc Stein and Mike Mccomas had a bad day, they were able to Not the best race for Greg Foutz, it was a long grind (1 0 hours) to the finish line, third in Stock Full Size Truck. class, they finished 10 minutes out of the class win. salvage a third place finish in their Ford in Stock Full Size SUV. Jonathan Swift and dad John had a nice run, they took the Class 3000P win with ease, seen here at touchdown. Olliges and Rob MacOi.chren were off to a bad start when the rear differen-tial exploded right off the start line. Their truck was back in the pit before the others had left the line. Repairs cost them 48 minutes. In the mean-time, there was a tie at the front of the pack, and Aaron Dixon, Ford, Carl Fitts, Ford, and John Webster, Ford, were "leading". Jerry Fisher, Ford, broke a spindle at Mile 49, and that was the end of his race. On the second lap Webster went into the lead, but he had only a minute on Fitts, who had a minute on the Dixons, who were having no problems so far. Lance Magin, Ford, disappeared on this lap, and Ron Isaacson, in a Nissan, lost about two and a half hours, and then completed no more laps. On the third lap Fitts and the Dixons were tied, and in front. And new Olliges and MacCachren had moved up to third, but almost 4 5 min-utes behind the leaders still. They were dealing with an exhaust leak. Webster was now about 13 minutes behind them, and he'd had broken motor mounts, a broken exhaust, and more to come. The Dixon truck led through the fourth lap,Aaron's brother, Ian, now driving. They'd had a rear fender come loose and had stopped to tie it down, but nothing else had gone wrong. Fitts was second, about four minutes down and MacCachren was third, "driving the s-out of it", and only 24 minutes Charlie Peltzer and Kevin Reardon took the JeepSpeed Pro win, but it was close, their competition was a mere 69 seconds behind. The Class 7200P win went to Randy Sorenson and Joe Stone, seen here in their great looking truck on the way to the checkers. further back. The Dixons' luck held, and they went on to take the win, their first this year, and first in the new truck. Chaos broke out behind them. MacOi.chren and Olliges broke an axle, Fitts got to the final rum and broke a spindle, and Webster continued to have trouble, adding a broken radius arm to his list of grievances. When asked what had happened, he said, "You name it!" Ultimately, MacCachren and Olliges got fixed and to the finish the quickest, and took second place. Fitts was second about eight minutes behind him, and Webster was third, just six minutes short of the cutoff time. The Dixons got the champion-ship. Class 3100 was next off the line, with four entries, all Fords. Scott Dou-glas went into the lead early, and had two minutes at the end of the first lap, with John Holmes running second and Mike Falkosky in third place. David Moore, who drives with hand controls, ran fourth, but they were all within eight minutes of one another. The race stayed fairly tight through the second lap, with Douglas only a minute up on Holmes, then Falkosky, and Moore. No one was having any problems. Douglas, Holmes and Falkosky ran that way to the end of the day. Dou-glas said he had, "No problems what-soever." He has a 63 gallon fuel cell in his vehicle, so he didn't even have to The JeepSpeed Stock went to Giti Gowfand and Jeff Zimmerman, they had 45 minutes in hand when the checkers flew. stop for fuel. Holmes finished with no brakes at all after driving on a front flat the final 10 miles, about 10 min-utes behind Douglas. In third, Falkosky said he was a "little disappointed - I didn't go fast enough. I pretty much had a perfect day and got third!" Moore got partway through his fourth lap, but couldn't make it to the finish line. There were five Sportsman vehicles, and Daniel B. Bolton, from Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, with team members, Daniel R. Bolton, Bradley Bolton and Kevin Repan, led at the end of the first lap, in a Ricochet. They had 11 min-utes on Michael Ahlmeyer and Mike Ponte in a VW. Then it was Don, Dean, Daryl and Wyatt Blakely, in a Jimco, but they'd already lost an hour, and behind them, another hour down, were Gary, Derek and Stewart Dixon in a Ford. The Chevrolet of Mark Por-ter and Jeff Darland hadn't gone any distance at all, but would probably have been able to get to the team Trick Truck if needed. The Boltons led through the sec-ond lap, and they had two hours on Ahlmeyer and Ponte at that point, with the Dixon vehicle another 25 minutes down. The Blakelys had dis-appeared by then. On the third lap Ahlmeyerwas leading, but he was also the only one left running, for a while. None of them made it through the fourth lap, or back to the finish area to report about what went wrong. In between the 3100 class and the Sportsmen, there were 17 JeepSpeed cars. Ten of them were in the "modi-fied" division, and the rest were "stock". They run as two separate classes, but all were required to do only four laps. These are all Jeep Cherokees. In the modified division, only Jus-tin Mamer failed to finish the frrst lap. A disappointment for sure, after the good season he'd been having. Barrie Thompson went into the lead, with five minutes on Charlie Peltzer who ran second. Then Steve Thomasson and John Copitas were on the same minute, another three minutes back. Casey Currie ran fifth, another three minutes back and on the same minute with Billy Bunch. On the second lap Thompson dis-appeared, and Peltzer went into the lead, with three minutes on Currie and Bryan Hardy and Ron Coleman were third in the JeepSpeed Pro The Lair Clan, Rex, Todd, Chris and Josh took home the bronze Not a good day for Kyle Taylor, his Ford Trick Truck never saw the class, seen here just after landing. medal in the JeepSpeed Stock class. finish line at the BITD Terrible 300. Page 14 February 2005 Dusty Times

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Shawn and David Wanzek weren't too elated after they scored a Rob McBeath and Trevor Sche"er weren't able to get their Chenowth Larry Roese/er was not happy with this race, he was an te"ible dnf in the Unlimited Mini/Mid Size Truck Class. to the finish line, they were a dnf in Class 1100P. unaccustomed dnf in Class 7200P at the BITD Terrible 300. Copitas who were tied. Bunch was up He went on to say, "You cannot have nor did Frey, but neither would stop to the wire. It's already on the calendar a good beginning, and then there will to fourth, seven minutes later. Currie more fun than desert racing!" to say what had happened. for next year. be four more events, the centerpiece of had a flat and his electric impact Munsterman was fourth, in his first race The first annual Henderson's Ter-The BITD 2005 season starts on which will be the McMillin Nevada wrench didn't work, costing him about ever, and he told us "It was a hoot, rib le 300 fmished the 2004 season for February 4th, 5th and 6th, with the 1000, a four day marathon in July. ten minutes. Theywere doing their laps worth the trials and tribulations." the Best In The Desert in exciting fash-Parker 4 25, an event for cars and trucks The Dusty Times will be there to tell in about an hour and 35 minutes. Gymer didn't get the fourth lap done, ion, with a lot of races going right down only.1batwillget the new season off to you about them all. ~ On the third lap it was still Peltzer who was having no problems at all, but considered the course "brutal, a challenge." Currie was solidly in sec-ond place, and now John Coleman ran third, an hour back. Copitas lost a couple of hours with some difficulty, and Steve Ghamari came up to fourth. Bunch disappeared. Peltzer ran steadily to the finish and took the win in six hours and 11 min-utes. Currie, who was to celebrate his 21st birthday the day after the race, fin-ished in second place only a minute and nine seconds behind him. In third itwas Coleman, who said he'd liked the track because there was "a little bit of every-thing." And Copitas was fourth, an hour and 21 minutes behind third, and declined to stop and talk. In the Stock division all of them made the first three laps, and it was Tim Hayosh in the lead, with two minutes on David Munsterman, who was followed by James Hunt. Giti Gowland, whose vehicle still bears the scars of a tough roll-over his wife, Andrea, performed while pre-run-ning for an MDR event, held fourth place. The paint job, a multi-color fantasy, made their vehicle a standout midst all the solemn dark colors of most of the rest. On the second lap Hayosh con-tinued his lead, with eight minutes on Munsterman, but now Gowland was third, and Hunt fourth. Rex Lair, driving the only four cylinder in the series, had blown a heater hose at Mile 2 and lost all his water, which cost him an hour and 15 minutes. He was moving along at a good clip now, but had some time to make up. On the third lap Hayosh had just two minutes on Gowland, and then it was about 22 minutes back to Munsterman. Hunt's dad, Jim, was now driving and they were fourth. They'd blown a couple of tires, and also had shock mount trouble. Lair was fifth, Jonathan Gymer was sixth, and Bill Frey ran seventh at this point, nearly four hours down to the lead car. None had dropped out. But Hayosh disappeared on the final lap. Gowland moved to the front and took the win. He reported he'd had two flats, the rear had been "gone all day", and he had "no brakes". He was, his crew reported, ill, and had been throwing up all day. Not a pretty picture. They were nearly an hour in front of the second place car, and that turned out to be Lair in his four cylin-der,. Less is more. They said they'd run the entire season on the same set ofBFG tires, and had no flats all sea-son long. Third place went to the Hunts, who'd had to borrow a tire. Their res-cuer had been Munsterman. Said Hunt, apologetically, "we borrowed a tire from 1771 and then beat them!" Dusty Times ,,,·;>,;; A' 'ff' .!:!:: ;~{,:,qu!fett.··· i'.. ti>:., , ' SENTED'BY CURTL~DUC'S CALIFORNIA PRE-FUN' 9miatiQ1lCc1IIC:urt J.elitc;,(95Jl 845·81320or visit prerun11ers;com , ,,, February 2005 Page 15

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CAUFORNIA RALLY SERIES Ramada Express International Rally By Scott Bottomley Photos: Motorsports Memories Peter Workum and Alex Gelsomino were first overall both days, their Subaru WRX seen here in its fast, winning form. ltwa<ievx:lentfrom the~sragesof the~runningoftheRarnadi.Fxpres; InremationalRallytbarPerer Woda.nnand Alex Geloomino were the ream to beat for the top JXiie in this annually reld event in Lau,gb]in, Nevada. Not surprising that the SS 1 (SilverueekEast;)winneron Frida.yin ~classwas~PaulEklundandJeff Price (Subaru WRX), but that euphoria wouldn't la.st; theywoold finishsixthc,,,erall and never really threaten the leaders again. After resolving their fuel pickup proo-lemsbykreµngthefuel.ceilfullonSSl (Iuer explained itwasan iffirromi:m fire brigade of rut water bottles and siphoned gas pro-vided by the frontrunners Verdier, Hoeck, Pisek and others that kep: the tank full -~wassrillancthersmge~). Pererand Page 16 Alexreally~cb.vn to~µntingtheir Open class Subaru through its µi.ces, finish. ing well ahead of George Pisek and Jeff Burmeisrer in George's Open class Lancer EVO.After the new 53 mile Windy Ibint Oimb(SS3 and 4)~wererun twice. the sarnew.,y, theyfinismi thenightwithasolid bdof30secondslradinginto Day 2. Ona flawless day they won all ofSannday's ab-breviatedscmluledsrages(shcmneddueto winter storms), but SSlO; George Pisek grabbed thewin bythernarginof eighthun-dredth.5. Entering Sunday's leg with a 25 minuteleadtheteam'sthooghtswereon Leg 3 (Special Stages). Thinking that itwas the scariest of the three leg; because of ghosts from rallies rest, "Our thoughts were on Rhy.; Millen when he httherallyonS{Xrial Stages a few~ hi.ck", Peret ooaimed. Theydid9:>wdlCMm)llling~ that they ran CM!l' (their fears) them right intofu:stplarebecause, "Weclrc,.eoute\elt; a sttaightforward driving experience." Third on Operunj?llWltwas theeis?hth seeded team ofBany Hathaw.,yand Ralph Harowidcin theirOpenAWD Eagle Talon, surpcisingmanywithastrongperformance unfortunately their implct would not last another day they would suaumb to me-chanicalgrernlins. In hnth µaceon thefu:st night was the team of Randy Ihvel.l and Jonathan Schiller in Randy's Subaru lmpreza he would finish Sunday seventh c,,,erail in Open class. Rfi:h plare in class and 13tho.-erallwentto VartanSamuelianand Mario Harders in theirSuhnu WRX. Oth-ers in this group included Da\.e T urnerand ~ Takahashi; Brooks FreehillandSean Elliott; and SrottOarlcand Marie lx¥l. On Saturday Open class dmers Clive Skilton and Rex 1.airaroidedaneartragroy when their Jeep Cberokee's front axle was ripped off. Rex was transportro on a back baud from the scene and was latergi\,ena dean billofhealth by medical officials. Hav-ing suffered this kind of injury before in a racing incident; Rexwa.srelie-.rowhen~ were~ Although a small field made up the Group N caregotytheymade their presence known with all three teams finishing in the top 10. With Wolfgang Hoeck, last)l:fil's Group N winner at Ramada teaming up with John Dillon, this )l:fil's SCCA Open G>-~ Champion, they shared a ride for thefu:sttirne in Wolfgang's I.ancer EVO VIL Wolfgang had this tosayabouthis new µirtner, "Thiswas myfirsttimeradngwith someone besides Julie in the car-I a>Ullii.'t have picked a better suh;tirute. The team ,worked well and to take the class win and finish second c,,,erail was a superw.,yto mp the season." On theirwaytovictorytheyset the second fastest time on SSl, won SSl0 (Black Can)On South) on Sannday and challengro for the c,,,erail lead on Friday. Appearing in their mirrors was the team of Victor Kuhns and Abel Villesra (Suhnu lmprezi), ahh:,ugh in sight but never che eroughtochahge ~onSanm:lay's SS5 andSS 11 (Diamond G-eek-twire) and Sunday's SS 13 but it was the early pare of Hoeck and Dillon on Friday that was too much for them. Third runner-up was the samthsoo:lreamcilhigOunisandAhn Perry in their Subaru WRX. February 2005 Cable Rhodes and Ole Holter were unstoppable; they won all the marbles in Group 5 in their Mazda RX-7. In the POT class, Srephan Verdier and Allan w.iJker set the mark h this class; he wonSSl outrightandne-.a-bolcedbackat the rest of the group. They finished hnth fustesto.erailon Day 1 while building neatly a two minute lead in their Suhnu WRX, ti.kingtheclasswinonallofFriday'sstages. Seroad ptw::ewenttothefifthseededciDan and Tma Brink, in their Eagle Talon, they complered Day 2 with a timeof 46:00, they wouli go on to finish second in class. The brom.e medal went to Barrett D.ish and Neil Smith in their Suhnu Legac.y Turbo. Theycxxnpen,l Friday'ssrageswithatirn!of 26:63 for third plare Day 2's elaµ;ed time was 48:98 which was good again for third. Not a bad weekend finishing 12th CM!l'all outof38 finishers. In the 17th imnonafter Fridaywere EnglishmenRooett:Brinldi.urst andMatt~in Rooett'sSubaru l...egac.y, drywerehnthinclassalitrle~aminute behind Barrett Dash. Unfurtunately the Rally God5 were not looking down uµm them, they would drop out on Saturday. Seeded eighth and finishing 22nd CM!l'all were the team.of Chris Wilson and Martin Plumed in their Subaru Legacy; they com-plered Friday's stages with a time of28:95 and Saturday's with a timeof54:37. In the fifthandfinalspotwere the Brown's Brure and Pat in their Subaru Impreza. They wouldfinish28tho=all. c.ableRhodesandOleHolterwerethe guys to beat in Group 5. Their Mazda RX-7 T urboran like a thoroughbredoompleting eachstagewithoutahitch. Theycompletrd Friday'ssrageswithatirneci25:6l;Sanm:lay's withatirneci46:68. Th!ywoulifinishninth c,,,erail on Sunday. Serond in class went to Jim Wright and 1ourna Barnett who fin. mn Friday'ssrageswithatirneofT/:51; they went on to finish 26th c,,,erail on Sunday finishing second in class. Newoomer Lisa Kla.ssen,codrivingwithAIKihurani.axn-~ theqxning&ageswithatirn!ci34.20. They~thehangofitbySundayfinishing thefuurSpedal~withatirneof6:87 in their Ta,ota O:rolla. Thefinalsirtwentto veteran Ix>n S~ and Michel Hoche-Mongin Ix>n'sMaida.RX-7;theyin;reda 29:75 for all stages on Friday but would drop out before Saturday's running. In the largest field of the rally, 14 cars enreredtheGroup2 fi:acas, leavingittoG-aig H~andJason Grahn to take the ~in their VWJettaGU Theyaxnplered the course in 1:21:55; winning eight of the 12~ Sunday'sSpecialS~wereaca-demic-by playing it safe and staying out of trouble they kqx:thecaroffthe dirthmking lining the stages; theyranas low as 10th and finishedSS 15 as high as fifth.All of the rac-ing took pare behind themttxf6000, third, fourth and fifth. Finishingsecondafter Fri-day night were the Robinsons, Ix>ug and Sue, who took two seconds and two thiros to~thehirsragesinT/:16.Sanm:lay's initial~ was their undoing; they loo:30 Winning all the stages, Stephan Verdier and Allan Walker took the PGT Class win with ease in their Subaru WRX. Wolfgang Hoeck and John Dillon drove their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo to the Group N win, they were second overall as well. Dusty Times

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Leon Styles and Lisa Klassen were first overall, first Open 4WD on Jeff Rados and Amar Schmi had a great weekend, they took the Pre-Barry Hathaway and Ralph Hardwick, B seeded, were sixth overall in Open 4WD on Friday, their Eagle Talon dnf'd on Saturday. Sunday, seen here in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII. Runner class with ease, seen here at speed. seronds to Jimmy Keeneyand GarrettKiser inlliig's VWGolfandcoukl~~the timel:adc.Sundayw.isbetrerpladng~ on threeSl:lge;andgettinga thirdons.512. ~finm16th~thirdin~ Meanwhilethesixthseeded teamofKeeney and Kiser running their Honda Ovic took theleastannmtcftimebetween two}X)ints finishingthirdafter Fridayles, tban.24 hun-dredth.5 behind the Robinsorn. The K&K team took second place on Sarurday and kqxitenteringSundaywithaleadcineady oneminute. TheRobinsonschiwedaway 15 seconds to che the final gap to 45 sec-onds. TheHoodaOO)'Sranin thetop~all weekeoo6ni&1ingfifihnw:eand~three timfs.Nextinhnthv.uethe:Ma<mn;,Mike and Linda, who ran out of the top~ just ooceonSS4 WnlylbintHiilClimb2. On Stmclaytheywon two of the four Slllge; and v.uJ!d~fumbedthiniincmifitwmn't for the rood penalties they picked up on Sanndaythatcmthem .40 hundredth& In fifth place was the team of Gavin Seedaf and Grant Barclay in their VW Golf GIT wln,e~shouHsayabc,,,ethm, "We Came, We&i.w,andWeCoul:ll-la-.e Dene It". Exrept for &51 and &52 where they finished 13th and ninth; theyrangreatfrom then on. Theyran in the topfourexceptfor &511 (Diamond Geek)onSan.udaywhere they finished =th. Sixth place went to Bra:l'Marisand}¾0nGutilein~Millen's old Mitsubishi lancer, hev.uJ!d finim 12th overall. Seventh went to Dean Burnett and Musrafu.&nnili(f opa Orolla)whileeighth went to Jon Rood and Piers O'Hanlon in Craig Hollingsworth and Jason Grahn swept all the stages for the Group 2 win, here at speed in their VW Jetta. Sweeping the Production Class in their Acura RSX, Marl< Tabor and Kevin Poirier had a great weekend, seen here at full tilt. Jon's furd Festiva. Next in line were Scott I--laM!yand BooGough, thegenthnanrao-ers, in Scott's Fbcsche911. Tenth went to the Lockharts, Andrew and Robin, in their Honda CRX. Eleventh place and the la& runningrarwere theteamofJohn Hsu and Eric Hill in their VW Beetle. Honorable Mention~ to Tony 013.vez and David Hackett, BillMalikand Clui&ian Edstrom; Chris Bums and Ouissie Beavis I under-stand, rolled out on &51 only a short dis-tance from the start. OO)Qne is okay just some bruised ego;. Running along in the Pre-Runnerclas5 was newromer JeffRada;andAmarSehmi in a familiar furd Ranger which belonged Gavin Seedorf and Grant Barclay share the driving in their VW Golf, they were first Performance Stock on Sunday. Have some sand, John Hsu and Eric Hill were fast in their VW Bug, they were the CRS Open 2WD winners, they won 3 of the 4 special stages. Dusty Times to Jim Pierce. JeHbroughtthe~reandy and already it has prc1vell to be rapible of winning in reliablehands. Jeffwoukl finim 23rd overall. 1bis )'{21"1 s version of Ramada was not with:iutafewchanges, UllilOOreable~ to the outside~ but to the rompeti-torand~theymeantabt Theroods on Friday's hill climb stages (&53 and SS4) were used with pernlli5ion from the Bureau ofl.and Managementandshoukl berome an inregral µutof funrrerallies. Countyroods in Mojave County,Arizooawerefinallyused after having been petitioned bytheARSG fcrse-.erai)ell"S. Rayexpained that, "County had~readied FfCwhenMrs. Morris officiakwerehappytoseeus use the roods, it rea:lhimhi5timefunitheReil.Time~ has taken a while (to ~ permits), were so en theiramp.nerar~ThmkstoPaula eotlOC, treye<.mgradoo. thmfcrll5. "~ Gibeauh: for Course Cla,ing and Smring-diange;williruurethegrowthofrallyingfor e,.,entialdutiesalway.;. Jay Dearonforhi5 lay-the Ramada International Rally. outciSurxhy'sSpecial~andthemlun-MikeGibeaulrdernornttaredhistiming reers-fron-iNonhwestRegion BrubShabell and SOJring e,q:ertise, giving us an amu.<mg and Jan l.illyandSteve Mendez-Oim:torof story inmlving a S(X)USe, romputer rechnol-Physical ~lions. Rallyvideowill be rm-~ and rallying. The story~ that Brad vided by Green light Productions of the Morris ofNorth Carolina with his ax:hrver U.K, which will be aired on Outdoor Life Ry.m Gutile had justromplettda hill climb Network in the furure. Thanks to the staff siagewbenMrs.Mooiscalledtotellhimwhar of ARSG; Roger and Lynette Allison, his timewa.s for thatsrage. You see, Brad still Donna Hocker. . _ . .,, 7LS Dri,iog S11Hs • Crew UoHorms • Crew SI/iris · Po/8 Shirts• Team Jackets •Hats• Gear Hags TEIDBIME #BalST MOTlllffSPIIIIT.S • IUrnEl!nl /IUIC'INIII • E/IIIIIIIUI IUIIJ:IIIIII Sllllll'I IIIMIISI • 1::11111 Rl..,,,,,_S • 1111&1 /III.IUIY 1"1111111111:DI • TBTIIIII IIIIUl.1111 EaPW lllllln!UIIIE • JlllallllA rm Ill l:llllll#A at, _,~~ '7~~ 4911:~ · NIHHIHIJ ; : / ,_ .. .,.,_~ ~.,-IIIIC_,.,., c::::;::71.,, iH1r 3/JH IY.lcier 1/rhe Jlirl ll!lll'l J:I IOli2 -· ,._,._ -.___, _ _ ,.,_ February 2005 Page 17

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CODE/TECATE Mexicana Logistics !DD By Byrle Moore Photos: Foto-Baja-Mex r Ernesto Arambula was fastest of the 22 Class 5-1600 entrants, he took the class win with eight minutes in .hand. First thing you will probably no- rino Pineda, who listed no address, Robles, Jr., Mexicali; his time was tice is that this race was held back in but his time was 2:33 flat. The third 2: 19:50. Second place went to October and it's now sometime in place finisher was Guillermo Fonseca Roberto Villalobos, Tecate with a 2000 and 5 so my apologies go out down from Oceanside, CA, his time 2:25:21 and third went to Steve Huff to all the principals involved in this was 2:44:41. down from San Diego with a time of next to last race of the CODE sea-In the quad class the Pro class 2:29:43. Forty starters and 32 fin-son. Sometimes I guess I am working started six and all six finished. The ishers, an 80% finish rate. on Navajo time and if you check the leader was Miguel Bastidas down And now, on to the cars and Navajo language you will find there from Holtville, CA, his time was trucks, 148 started and 80 made it is no word in their language for time. 2: 10:56, which was also fast enough to the black and white. You do the Not the whole excuse, but it's a start? for fifth overall in the bike quad math? (right John), anyway I am sorry for classes. Second place time of 2: 18: 10 Gustavo Vildosola and Gustavo the delay and now onto the race. went to Joel Leal and Nick Destaud, Vildosola Jr. were the only class fin-October is as October does on the out of San Diego, went third with a ishers of the three lap race. Gus Jr. Northern Baja. The weather in fact time of 2: 19:51. The other three fin- started the race and led the first lap was good. There were a few clouds, a ishers, in order, were Jesus Salem, by a slim two minute margin. How-slight breeze and moderate tempera- riding out of Mexicali, Cesar Chanate ever, just six miles before the driver tures, for the desert. Just right for Lopez up from San Felipe and Sergio change they had a brake line go bad racing and close to two hundred souls Fuentez over from Ensenada. and with no brakes. Gustavo Jr. were at the line on Saturday morn- In the Quad Sportsman class 19 missed a curve and lost the right front , ing. Actually, 188 drivers and riders riders left the green and all but five tire. He nursed the truck around to hit the green. The bikes and quads had times. the pit area where repairs were made, started 40 and all but eight made it First across the line was Javier Gustavo Sr. took over the driving back to the checkered flag for times. First, second and third overall, for the bikes and quads, came from the two wheel ranks. Edgar Espinoza, 1' Mexicali ran 2:01:22 for the gold in ~ class and first overall. Another Mexicali rider, Ivan Estrada, ran sec-' ond a little over a minute back with a ~ 2:02:26 and Francisco Septien, over • from Ensenada, went 2:06:51 for • third. These guys were all entered in t the Pro Motorcycle class. There were four other finishers and only two of the nine ended up with no times. 'i Six riders started the Sportsman c Motorcycle class and all but one of t them had times. First across the line in this class was Mario Moreno over from Tijuana with a time of2:28:57. Second spot went to Rodrigo Me-Gilberto Arreola, he's from Mexicali, had a nice win in Class 11, seen here on his way to the checkered flag. The Class 1/2-1600 honors went to Leo Navarrete, he had less than three minutes on his competition when the checkers flew. Eric Fisher, from Ensenada, was the big winner in the Class 9 conflict, he has 17 minutes in hand at race end. chores and the team ran 3:36:13 for the top spot in class and first overall in the car truck category. Mike and Kevin James out of Alpine, CA, were right on the father son's team trail but lost the tranny just before the end of the first lap. Raul Montiel, Tecate and Eli Yee, Tijuana, both had problems and didn't complete even the first lap. In Class 10 there were ten entries and only three of them made it back to the final checkered flag. Ricardo Malo, Mexicali went gold with a time of 4:00:03, Javier Robles also Mexicali went silver with a time of 4: 11 :54 and Doug Aleman down from Indio, CA., fought off some problems and took the bronze with a time of 6:06:07. Class 8 had five starters, three of them had times. Elias Canchola ran first with a time of 3:50:58 and Ricardo Coronado had a 3:58:21 for second spot. These two drivers call Mexicali home. Beny Canela and Dennis Miller, over from Indio, CA., were third place finishers with a time of 5:45:06. Apparently there were a few breakage problems here too? Victor Herrera over from Tijuana made it a double in Class 7. His time of 3:58:09 garnered him his second win in this race 2003 and 2004. The win in Class 1 went to Gustavo Vildosola, his good looking truck was first overall as well in the fast running 300. Second in the Class B contest was Ricardo Coronado, he drove his Rene Cuevas came over from Sonora, he took a nice second place Victor Lugo was looking for the Class 1/2-1600 win but he could only good looking Ford to a nice second place. in Class 7, seen here in his good looking Ford truck. muster a second place finish, less than three minutes in arrears. Page 18 February 2005 Dusty Times

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Eric Muller was a disappointed second place in Class 5-1600, he's seen here in his good looking Baja Bug. Running hard in the dust, Daniel Reyes came to the checkers in Alberto Iriarte had a decent race, he took the silver medal in the second place in the Class 9 battle in his neat looking car. Class 7S contest, seen here heading for the checkers. Rene Cuevas, San Luis R.C. Sonora; ran a 4:07:18 for second and even with several flat tires and broken wheels, Hector Salazar, out of San Diego, went third with a time of 4:11:08. Fifteen starters in this class and seven finished. The other four finishers in order were Perry McNeil, Carlos Dominguez, Gabriel Barragan and Alex Almaraz. There was a little over three min-utes corrected time for the top three in the 1/2-1600 class. Leonardo and Alejandro Navarrete, Mexicali, had no problems and took the top spot with a 4: 16: 18 time. Second went to another Mexicali driver; that time of 4: 19 :04, was driven by Victor Lugo and the third spot just 55 seconds back was taken by Mario Gastelum out of El Centro, CA His time was 4: 19:59. Twenty starters and nine fin-ishers, six to make it to the checkered flag were Juan Guevara, Jaime Boquiren, Arturo Zavala, David Reyes and Miguel Mexia. Class 5 had two entries and nei-ther car was able to get a time. Two drivers were Rafael Reyes, Tijuana and Rene Labrada, Mexicali. They will be back. Twenty-two starters in the Class 5-1600 made it the largest class of the day and a little over two thirds of them finished. Gold went to Ernesto Arambula, Ensenada; with a cor-rected time of 4:49: 16, silver to Eric Muller and Antonio Lopez, Mexicali; with a time of 4:57:39 and the bronze to Arnulfo Valenzuela also Ensenada, his time was 5:09:58. Elias Canchola drove his Ford pickup to a ve,y nice Class B win, his winning Class 7 was hard fought all the way, the win finally went to Victor Herrera, seen margin was less than six minutes. here in his winning truck. -:=.-=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-~-=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:..-:, San Diegan Sergio Duron had a good run, he took the Class 7S win by almost half Class 14 was hard fought, when the checkers flew it was Jose Luis Sanchez an hour, seen here at speed. taking the win with six minutes to spare. Class 9 had 11 starters and five of them crossed the finish for times. Eric Fisher, Ensenada went first with a time of 4:55:20, Daniel Reyes, Mexicali took second with his time of 5: 12:46 and the third place finisher was Eliseo Garcia with a time of 5: 15 flat. Garcia is also out of Ensenada. There were six starters and three finishers in Class 7s. Sergio Duran, San Diego ran a 6:05: 11 for first, Alberto Iriarte, Tecate was second with a 6:32:28 and Dan Street over-came several problems and managed third with an 8:19:39. A long day for Dan but he managed to add to this championship points total with the hard earned finish. The Class 15 race was a squeaker for a while, when the dust settled at the checkers it was Jose Gutierrez taking the win. Romulo Fonseca took the Class 18 win, it was hard fought all the way, he had less than a four minute lead at the finish. Class 11, better known as the Continued on page 20 Sergio Sarmiento drove his ve,y good looking Bug to a nice second A 'mere six minutes out of the Class 14 win, Fausto Moreno gave it all Whoops, wrong f stop, Omar Dipp had a good race, he took second place in the Class 11 contest, six minutes out of the win. he had but had to settle for the silver medal. place honors in the Class 15 contest, seen here at speed. Dusty Times February 2005 Page 19

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Jorge Rivas made a heel of a try for the Class 18 win but, it was not Lots of light for night, Heriberto Chavez drove his good looking car to to be, he settled for the second spot in the competition. the silver medal in the Safari Class action. Mario Gastelum need just a bit more for second place, he actually finished third in 1600, just 55 seconds in arrears. "bugs that ran" started 13 and and Jose Ramirez, Mexicali. Jorge Rivas with a 2:40:25 and third eight managed times. Gilbert Class 18 just keeps on growing to Fernando Real with a 2:42:11. Arreola, Mexicali, was the first and growing. We had 11 starters in These guys are all from Mexicali. place finisher with a two lap time this race; nine of which are from Finally the Safari class who of 2:53:51. Second went to Sergio Mexicali, and all but three finished. started nine and had seven finish-Sarmiento with a 3:00:02, Sergio Top Gun was Romulo Fonseca, his ers. Gold to Josue Delgado, races outofEnsenada. The bronze time was 2:36:39. Second went to 2:34:06, silver to Heriberto Chavez with a 2:51:40 and the into the "Times" but sometimes bronze to Lorenzo Dojaquez, that's how things go. Look for the 3:07: 12. Again three drivers all out report on the last race of the sea-of Mexicali. son held December elsewhere in This brings to the end another this issue. Meanwhile, see you some-reporting from the Northern place on the Baja. "Come on Baja. Sorry it was so late making it Down." c@> went to Francisco Escareno, Mexicali with a time of 3:19:17. In the ever popular Sportsman class, first overall and first in class went to the 14 car of Jose Luis Sanchez. Sanchez drove the two laps in 5:03:23. He is out of Mexicali. Second went to another Ensenada driver Fausto Moreno who had a 5:09:38 and another Mexicali driver took third with his time of 5:41:25. Jose Gutierrez, over from Tijuana headed Class 15; his time was 5:09:44. Omar Dipp ran a 5: 18:50 for second and Adolfo Aguilar from Chula Vista, CA., was third with a time of 5:32:44. There were two other finishers in this eight car class. They were David The Safari Class is always one to watch, there was lots of action when Josue Andrade from San y sidro, CA Delgado took the win, he finished with a big lead. Class 10 was close, when the smoke cleared it was Ricardo Malo taking the big win, he had more than 10 minutes on second place. • GENERATORS • OUTBOARD ENGINES • GENERAL PURPOSE ENGINES • WELDERS • WATERPUMPS • LAWN MOWERS • LAWN TRACTORS • RIDING MOWERS • TILLERS California's Largest Source lor Honda Power Equipment Parts f.l Inventory IF WE DON T HAVE IT: NO ONE DOE$/ Check Our Website: www.Kawaguchihonda.com Kawaguchi Honda Corp. :El:ON'D.A 3532 East 3rd St. • Los Angeles, CA 9~063 . , . GENERATORaaPuMPa (323) 264-3936_ 264-5858 • FAX (323).264-2136 Nothings easier. For optimum performance and sarety, we recommend you read the owner's 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 qu_alified electrician. ©2005 American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Page 20 February 2005 ., Dusty Times

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MORE Tovs FoR Tors HOLIDAY 2004 Last Race Ends With BBO By Ann Donaldson Photos: Trackside Photo Wayne Nosala ran fast, not fast enough for the overall but he did take the Class 10 honors with ease. First 1600 and first overall as well was the good looking car of Garit Wallace, seen here on the way to the checkers. Tots which provides toys for children during the holidays. A few collection boxes were stationed around the MORE trailer at the start/finish line. Santa. was also present to collect toys. Red Longacre made a fetching Santa.. Class 9 needed four laps for a finish and Kevin Lumsden did finish, in front of all the other Class 9 cars. At last count, 500 toys had been col-food for the BBQ. Many people were lected. The toy collection promises to raving about how delicious the potato happen next year. salad was. Edna Markel was responsible Angel Vanaja drove his clean looking 5-1600 to a very nice class win, it was close, less than 2 minutes in hand. The festive activities after the 200 for the masterpiece. Bill Markel donated mile race included a free BBQ provided hot links, hot dogs and potato chips. by MORE and the racers themselves. Ken and Sherry Tolbert were respon-Everyone was invited. The award com- sible for cases of tortilla chips and salsa. pany was held after the BBQ. Dave, Sherry Martin donated a large sheet "The BB Guy" brought a huge Webber cake to the cause. Suck it Up Racing, BBQ that had many green with envy. Saul and Tami Vasquez, were there sell-Dave hurt his shoulder during the race ing their quality clothing appareL they so he was unable to BBQ too long since also donated 10 cases of beer. You read he was in pain. Rob Strapp took over it right, free beer. Saul also provided a with the help of Nick Parker. Using a large fire that was well received since it BBO that was so lame it was on its own became verv cold durine- the award cer-Mojave Off Road Enthusiasts (MORE) ended a six race season in Barstow, California. Technical inspec-tion was held on a bitter cold Friday evening at the Tanger Mall. Bill Markel trailer. emony. arranged for this race to be a drop off One hundred pounds of tri-tip beef The race was a 40 mile loop with the for Toys for Tots. Many racers brought was donated by Marty Melendrez and amount of laps depending on the class. new and unwrapped toys for Toys for Jim Clements. Jeff Sack also donated The race starred at 8:30am. Sixty-three ,---.;.._---~==.....,....,,,,,,==-="'-=-,...,..,--='=""==~="'ll cars started the race. The first lap proved to be tough with many cars having troubles. Redlands California resident Garit Wallace, driving his blue and whit.e single seat car won not only the 1/2-1600 class for the wins. Many cars were hot on his heels on corrected time until the last lap where the contenders endured troubles. Garit drove the entire five laps encoun-tering only one flat tire. By the time he finished the front right shock seal had failed. Garit wanted to thank Mickey Thompson Trres for providing him with e-reat tires that heloed him see the win not only this race but also the last MORE race held in September; Garit also took the win. Continued on page 24 John McComb had a horrendously long third lap and it was costly, he Doug Si/cock was a bit off the winning Class 9 pace, he took the Ryan Harbottle literally flew across some portions of the course, he finished second in Class BA, over an hour in arrears. silver medal, he was 11 minutes out of the class win. ended up in the second spot in Class 10. Perry Fleming ran a bit off the winning pace in the Class 7A contest, Marty Melendrez ran his good looking car to a nice second place in In the Trophy Challenge Class, it was Clint Fisher taking home the he finished in second place, 25 minutes in arrears. Class 1, a slow second lap cost him dearly. silver medal, a long fourth lap didn't help his cause. Page 22 February 2005 Dusty Times

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Lane Dilbeck had fun in his Ford this weekend, he finished third in the Elizabeth Metzger wanted to win another one but slow second and Class B contest, seen here heading for the finish line. fourth laps relegated her to a bronze medal in Class 9. Dan Folts was a bit off the winning pace on his last three laps, he finished third in a very competitive Class 1600 battle. Class 1 had five entries. His car and decided to vacate. On Lap 4, Bill looked a little green at the finish line but loaded with toys, Bill Markel started had a similar experience. Co-driver, he was more than happy with his win. third off the line. Bill worked hard to Donald Harper, should receive the Car owner, Scott Martin enjoyed his see the finish. He became sick on the first "lronman of the Year" award for stay-birthday on this day with cake served at lap which lasted the entire race. His din- ing in the car the entire race. A joyous the BBQ. Scott was all smiles, the win nerwasn'tsittingtoowellinhisstomach first place finish was the reward. Bill and class championship was wrapped Cttscom uppttr .. · ms Limit !.traps Stain/es$ st.tie// Kevlar Brake lines Bllsteln Shocks Dua/Shocks \ '.\~!: It) l .... Fuel Cell Plumbing Components. Always The Best, Always In Stock! BILLET REMOTE OIL FILTER ,-. ADAPTER & WELD-ON MOUNT Keep both cool In one easy step. Great size, can be mounted In the front or the rear/ up. Suffering two flats and throttle problems Many Melendrez drove his two seat A-arm buggy to a second place fin-ish. Marty commented, "I had three motorcycles parked in the middle of the Jgns Single Light! Built In last Box, Outte,. me Included, Positioning with Ingle Turn of Nobl Super f! Weight, and tlmlzed Lens fol' Hot Spots. The olutlon In fighting ASARRIVEDJ WE STOCK MORE PARTS THAN ANYONE! WII.K4RTE/f.CDM TRUCK DEPT: f951.J 737-2999 BUGGY DEPT: 951} 737-7223 2871 RAGLE WAY CORONA, CA. 92879 Page 24 February 2005 course. Also numerous quads and bikes trying to keep up with me at race speed." Marty said this has never been a prob-lem at a MORE race, he promptly noti-fied race officials. When building a brand new car there is always a need to dial in the car. The brand new car owned by John Gould and Joe Myers spent much of the evening until lam the night before the race dialing in the shocks. Known for building sand rails, Playtech owner, John Gould brought out his new race car. Joe Myers, a former Sheriff Depart-ment driving instructor, drove two laps. This was his first time to drive in a race. Using a Cadillac LS-1 motor, they fin-ished in third place. A black truggy driven by Tun and Rick Scalzo ran consistent laps. A bro-ken wheel bearing on the fourth lap took over an hour to repair. The brothers finished in fourth place. Jennifer Clemison driving a four seat buggy was fifth. Driving a newly bought A-arm Chenowth, Tim Llndsey with brother and co<lriver, Jeremy broke two miles from the start/finish line on the first lap. A broken rear pivot box put him out of contention foreseeing expen-sive repairs on the horiwn. Winning three races this year and the class championship, Wayne Nosala captured the Class 10 win with an hour lead on the second place finisher. Class 10 is a combination of A-arm (Class 10) and beam (Clas.5 12) buggies. Wayne drew the second to last starting posi-tion. Six cars started the race. Wayne drove his blue single seat Jimco the en-tire race.Two rear flats slowed his effort down. On the last lap a flat tire 15 miles from the finish line along with the throttle stuck wide open from sticks and brush in the cockpit CORE Pit D was able to make the repairs. The team of Ryan Harbottle and Dan Martin drove a single seat A-arm Chenowth to a second place finish. Dan said "Ryan was trying to pass Wayne Nosala when he spun the car out, hard." Dan, who is known to get in the driver's seat of just about any class of race car, said "My days of driving a Class 9 are over." Looking at Dan who is about six feet, five inches tall, you can see why he would say that. Dan drove the last half of the race, broke a steering linkage where it was repaired in a remote pit. Other entries in this class had troubles that kept them from seeing the checkered flag. Brian Walsh, driving an A-arm Jimco started off looking very fast. After three laps, the car was no-where to be found. Jason Batulis driv-ing the remarkable Prep by Jake car was looking very fast for the first 15 miles. Jason had to stop when a fan belt came off. With the belt replaced, he made up time until the sea:md lap when the trans-mission failed, ending the day. Behind the wheel of a yellow beam buggy, Craig lspas was only able to finish one lap. Art Velasco was unable to complete a lap. Randy Ross was ready to start, in fact he was staging when a cracked head was noticed on the car. Rather than do damage to the motor on his two seat beam Class 12 car, Randy parked and Dusty Times -,

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John Hays had a great race going, but, he never got his fifth lap into the record books, problem unknown to us. Mike Norris was a bit slow on his first two laps, then he really got Diego Lopez drove his Ford truck to a ve,y nice third place finish in going and took home the bronze medal in 5-1600. Class 7A, seen here heading for the checkers. called it a day. Randy had another car racing, a car his mother and son drove in the Sportsman class that would keep his day busy. Class 5, Open Baja Bugs had three entries. All three entries had a tough day ahead of them. Not one entry was able to complete the five laps for the finish.JohnHayeswasn'tseenafterfour laps. Erik Earnest had a long day, finish-ing in second place. He has a brand new car. Erik said, "We haven't had a chance to dyno the engine and tune it 100%. On Thursday evening we were up to midnight tuning the best we could for the conditions out there." With the help of the other two Open Bugs, Erik tried to tune the motor but complications made it impossible to in the middle of the desert. Erik decided to take it easy. Second off the line, Erik went approxi-mately four miles until the lower front shock mount tore off the arm. This re-pair took quite a while to perform but determined to finish, Erik and his crew repaired the car to get back in the race. He finished the first lap. On the second lap, he lost a fan belt. That was replaced. A co-driver change was performed on the third lap. In the process the collec-tor came off, taking out both the belts in the car. When that was repaired, Erik drove on. Then came Mile 35 where the power steering ram broke off. He said, "Now we know where the weaker points are located and we can correct them." Bill Markel took the Class 1 honors with four minutes in hand, he missed the overall win by three minutes. Craig Reynolds, seen here at speed was the big winner in the Challenger Class, he ran trouble free this race. Erik plans on racing next year. Class champion,John Criswell and Steve Griffith divided driving duties. The Bug suffered a broken header on lap 3. A decision to park the car was made. Class 8 was a variety of different types of trucks. Bob Scheiner drove his GMC truck at a race two weeks before this one to a fifth place finish. Bob then rraveled to Glamis for Thanksgiving weekend. He wanted to use the truck to run around the sand dunes. He then brought out the truck for this race. Bob did all this with no prep on the truck. Bob also has been on the same set of Mickey Th-ompson tires. The first place finish took Bob Scheiner had a good day, he ran fast and consistent and was the Class 8 winner with nine minutes in hand. Eric Tadeja had a good race, he was a bit slower on his last two laps but still took the Class 7A win by over 20 minutes. Dusty Times begins. five hours and 30 minutes. Bob plans on a complete tear down and prep to be comoleted before the 2005 season Driving a burgundy Ford Ranger, San Fernando Valley residents, John McComb and partner Neill Niblett brought out their garage built truck. Continued on page 26 Worldwide benchmark manufacturer of military-specification wiring systems for all motorsport applications ,. ' ' '- ' ... , / . / . / . ~, , / / ·, "" ·,,' " '. ,,. '·., MoTeC Engine Menagernent and Data· Acquisition Systems Robust 32-bit sequential fuel and spark control systems built co w ithstand extreme racing ar·,d pre-running punishment. Turn-key systems available for all popular off-road engine packages. Digital display ar,d data acquisition systems for all levels of competition. Engine and chassis dynamometer services available. Sakata Motorsport Electronics, Inc. 689 s. State College Blvd. Unit K Fullerton, CA Tel: 714-446-9475 Fax: 714-446-9247 www.sakatamotorsport.com February 2005 Utilizing the finest. Raychem System 25 components, the industry standard for all professional racing sanctions. Engineering, assembly, and comprehensive testing performed 100% in-house. Complete harness assemblies and circuit control components are available to suit your budget. High-Accuracy Air-Fuel Ratio Meters Lightweight, stand-alone system works with all engines and alternate fuels -carbureted or fuel injected. For the dedicated engine tuner who needs to know exact;/y what their engine is doing. No flashing lights -just the facts ... NaN it; t;o a nurnber! «: ~ ---------~ ,,,,,,.;:::~.&!l..<.&!lr...-= .&!I..~ IV1DTDASPDAT ELECTRONICS vvere making connecc-,ons ... Page 25

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John Gould had a couple of bad laps, it cost him, he finished third in Third Place in Trophy Challenge went to Rick Waszkiewicz, seen Ron Rash had a very long second lap, he ended up in fifth place in the always very competitive Class 1 fracas. here at speed at the MORE Holiday festival. the Class 9 race, seen here nicely airborne. Jeff Cepielik was just a bit off pace for his five laps and when the Erik Earnest had a three hour first lap, got it going okay but he never David Steveson went faster as the race progressed, he ended up taking fourth place in the Class 5-1600 race. checkered flag flew he took fifth in 1600. finished his fifth and final lap in Class '5. Sporting a combination of new and old third lap sent the crew driving to the not working. The team took home the technology, this truck has equal length local dealership for a replacement. The second place honors. I-beams coil over front suspension and down time was an hour and a half for Behind the wheel of a Class 8s, Lane quarter elliptical rear suspension. A repairs. The fourth and final lap the Dilreckstarted the race behind the Class brand new V6 motor was newly in- two discovered a broken bolt on the 9 cars, but before the lone Class 11 Bug. stalled. A broken steering box on the rear sway bar. The rear brakes were also Lane drove his multi-colored S::hevrolet Page 26 sn@afy fer its, ormahce and' d~ijbility, the Ra!jye 4!!)00 series con-sistently . lights, the way to the winner's circle rn 0ff-road ep<Jur~c::e events. ~G½}l'aW, In addi .. · 1J' 0,:; 9ur~pqQ1.dar ,.. . «;. ID. and xern>~ •'i ,' .~e'tst Het~1& IRa,Hy~ 40QO sen~ lhQludes Com~ ~ Gdmpa.Gf GE,,id~ light nng moo1s: ~h,en y0tJ realty .~~ to lfght it ue, Ffell§t& got all tlie · ~rfo~'Qe you're lookimg for, Hell~ Inc. 1 -877-221:-3562 , WWw.heJlausa.com February 2005 to a third place finish in six hours and in second place was Perry Fleming. He 48 minutes. A bright orange four wheel started the race with a "just finish the Jeep driven by David Hargett was only race" mind-set. Perry did just that. He able to complete one lap before calling also took home the points champion-it a day. ship for the class also. Diego Lopez driv-Mini-truck class, 7 shad four entries ing the Fay Family Ranger finished in travel to Barstow. A few racers have third. Diego finished second in points. banded together to promote this class, The championship was decided at this along with working on class rules with race. Ken Kregal was unable to CO!Jl-using ideas from the racers. plete the required laps. Eric Scheiner bought the ex-Hardin Ten Sportsman entries started the Chevrolet S-10 race truck. This was his race. The different type ofbuggies is one first race in the truck. Dan Dickson drove that makes this class called Sportsman. half of the race. The team wanted to The only promoter to do this MORE shake down the truck for the 2005 sea-race along with a nice trophy. The sec-son. The drivers and truck performed ond place finisher received a payback of well and finished first on a flat tire. #300 from MORE. Making a trip down from beautiful Starting last in the class and driving Big Bear City, California and finishing an Arum, four seat pre-runner buggy Lorenzo Rodriguez was a smidge off the winning pace in the 1600 contest, he finished 11 minutes out of the win. Guy Savedra was right there running for a win all race long, he ended up a very close second in 5-1600, two minutes out of the win. Dusty Times

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Tim Scalzo led Class 1 and overall for four laps but major problems Fourth place in Trophy Challenge went to Greg Crew, he had a slow Shane Reed was the sixth finisher in the Class 1/2-1600 battle, seen on the last lap dropped him into fourth in class 1. first lap but got it all going for the rest of the race. here at speed and slightly airborne . .;, Fifth place finisher in the 5-1600 contest was Jeff Sack, he had a long second lap but never slowed down. The fifth place finisher in the Trophy Challenge was Bill Callen, his third and fourth laps were well off his earlier pace. Steve Dodd had a slow first lap, got it together, ran nice fast laps and finished seventh in the Class 1/2-1600 battle. powered by a V8, Craig Reynolds cap-rured the Sportsman clas.5 honors. Craig drove solo four laps that were required to complete in this clas.5. Craig raced his pre-runner two weeks before this event where he did not finish. Clint Fisher also raced a four seat pre-runner buggy. Clint did not drive alone; sitting in the right seat was James Holmes. A couple problems plagued this effort. They lost a power steering Rick Wasziewia: fmished in third place. belt, the ignition failed and they lost the Driving the Lucas Oil sponsored two rear brakes on the second lap. When it seat buggy, Greg Crew won third place. was time for them to make a fuel stop, Driving a bright orange Funco two seat the two leaped out of the car and buggy,BillCallensplitthedrivingduties grabbed a dump can. They were very in half with John Engle. John's mother, grateful when people saw this and in Kathy Engle rode two laps before get-usual desert fashion, took over the fuel-ting out of the car. She then got back in ing procedure. on the last lap. While at the finish line Behind the wheel of a two seat buggy Kathy said, "The course was rough." '., l&tll"lll&•l!!!!!!t 61-IOCK '.' ....... ._,,niCHNOI.OGY 714.530.BTOI • i:Ax714.5:JO.B7«2 12842 JOY STREET, GARDEN GROVE, CA 92840 -w,11NV.Jcingshodcs.001"1I Dusty Times February 2005 The team finished in fourth place. She has finished third in points twice Don Heinemann said he had a racinginthedesert.Shealsohasnumer-trouble free day and finished in fifrh ous top three finishes and one win. Clare place. Miko Varr started off the starting Ross is a grandmother and off road line in first driving his blue Chenowth racer. Mini Mag. He finished the race in sixth The driving effort was split between and took home the clas.5 championship. Clare and her grandson, Ryann Ross. She started racing sports cars in the The car they drove is an older open Baja 1950's. She has pre-run Baja. She has Bug that Clare's son, Randy, had once helped mark race courses in the desert. Continued on page 28 2.5" --6'!:f, Need coil springs? Call King Shocks! We have wstom and produdion coils in stodc, and ihe experience to get you what you need. Call today! Page 27

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Mike Wright was doing fairly well for four laps but his almost two hour_ Don Heinemann had as good race but he wasn't very happy with his last lap put him into sixth place in 5-1600. sixth place finish in Trophy Challenge. Byron Ziegler spends lots of time in the air, he finished a decent fourth place in the Class 1/2-1600 contest. sold. Randy tracked the car down and free run until she got stuck on a hill. At. Bugs show up to race. The point's cham-bought it back. Ryann started the race. last, she was able to get the car unstuck. pionship was a fierce battle to the check.-He rolled at Mile 18 causing damage to She then drove on a flat for ten miles to ered flag. Point's winner, Jeff Sack, spent the roof and a loss of oil Ryann corn- have the tire changed. She finished in some time repairing the steering on his pleted the first lap. He then turned the seventh place. ride. A broken output shafr was bro-car over to Clare. 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Driving a newly painted red and black Bug, Guy Saveda and Billy Worthington finished in second. Guy drove the frrst part of the race and turned the car over to Billy. Billy knew that the championship along with the win was in his sights. He pushed the Bug to the limit. On the final lap about one mile from the finish, he rolled the Bug. Billy got the car to the finish in second. Billy was a bit dazed from the impact and the team kept a close eye on him. The Seveda car took second in points. The Norris Bug, father, Mike and son, David, came in third place. Mike drove to the first pit and handed the car over to David for the rest of the race. He had two co-drivers for the race, Garrett Osteen and Britney Sanchez. David and Garrett had some down time while they stopped and helped friend and fellow racer, Joey Westhoff roll his Bug back over on its wheels. Fourth place finisher, David Stevenson suffered a flat on the first lap. He spent the third lap battling the Norris Bug for position on the course. David made a pit stop for fuel on the fourth and final lap. David plans on racing the 2005 season. Class 9 had a strong showing with ten cars at the starting line. The last race was the final decision as to the point's champion. The winner of the championship was Doug Silcock. The winner of the race was brothers, Kevin and Andy Lumsden. They were driving a brand new car and this was the first race. The two had a trouble free race and plan on racing the 2005 season. On the first lap Doug Silcock stopped to help a fellow 9 car racer who had rolled and was sruck upside down. Even though they were upside down, they insisted that Doug keep going. They knew he was racing for the points. About ten miles afrer that incident, he got a flat. Doug drove about five miles to a pit where it was changed. Keeping a steady pace and making only one stop before the finish line, Doug took sec-ond place and the championship. Finishing in third and second in the points race, Barstow local, Elizabeth Metzger and her large family have made a good showing this past year. Starting first off the starting line, Chris Dunn driving his yellow Bug finished in fourth place. One lone Class 11 VW Bug driven by Ed Pittman completed the three laps required for his class. At the finish line, the Bug suffered from a broken frame and the shocks went away. Ed was laughing when he said, "I had a great time." The last race of the 2004 season was, agreed by all who attended, a good one. For 2005 MORE plans on a six race season. The first race of the sea-son, the Suck it Up Racing 400 being held in Lucerne Valley on January 29, 2005. Check out http:// www.moreracing.net/ for more details. See you there. !!&~~ Dusty Times

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GLEN HELEN BAJA CuP CHALLENGE Feldkamp Wins By Judy Smith Photos: Trackside Photo Keeping it in the family, Buddy Feldkamp was the big winner, 1•1 overall in Race #2 and 1•1 in Class 1, seen here ready to land in the fog. Buddy Feldkamp outlasted the com-petition to take the victory at the inau-gural Baja Cup Challenge event at Glen Helen Raceway in Devore in late No-vember. When Bud Feldkamp decided to schedule this event, he pictured racers who'd just come from the Baja 1000, bringing their cars as is, straight to his short course track for some racey fun and relaxation. He also thought it might be a good way to say "thanks" to some crewmembers, by letting them have a try at racing. It seemed like a good idea tthe time, butdidn'tworkoutaswellashe'd hoped. The weekend after the Baja 1000 was also the weekend after Thanksgiv-ing-it drew some of the potential racers to the dunes, to the desert or to Grandma's house. And then the weather played a dirty trick. It had turned bitterly cold while everyone was in I.a Paz, snow fell in places that had never seen snow, including Glen Helen, and folks were less inclined to plan a Saturday outdoors than they might have been. It was too bad, because Feldkamp had planned an entertaining event, and created a new, long course for the plea-sure of the racers. On the morning of race day it was im[XlSSible to see the surrounding moun-tains. A bank of clouds settled in and a dreary, persistent drizzle started. As the clouds shifted it often became difficult to see the top of the hills around which, and upon which the racers were driv-Page 30 ing. The course was 2. 7 miles long and wound around its old track, then crossed the entry road and curled around the pit area. There were two tough uphills, one on a narrow canyon, and a precipitous downhill with a kicker about a third of the way down that JX)pped the rear wheels up into the air at a slight angle. One very tight hairpin in front of the grandstands was a "gotcha" for several racers, and in gen-eral the course was fun and it was fun to watch the drivers navigating it. The schedule was for two two-hour races, separated by a short event, called a "Legends Race". Feldkamp hoped to get some older racers to crawl out of their recliners and come out with their old cars to have some fun with him. The first of the two longer events was for a mix of classes, including 5-1600s, 7s, 7, 7S, and 8 trucks, and Mini Mags and the afternoon race was for Classes 1, 10 and 1/2-1600. Each contestant in the long races was required to make two pit stops, and to change a tire in each of them. If they hadn't brought spares, a contestant could just take a tire off, set it down and then put it back on the car. The object was to add some excitement for the spectators. The first race got off to a good start at about 11:30, but for Kathy Fay, in her 7S truck, it wasn't terrific. She rolled over in that grandstand hairpin, and lost three or four minutes, while some helpful folks ran out and worked to-(951) 354 8Z7Z gether to get her back on her wheels. Once going again she was dead last, and not a happy camper. A few laps later one of the Mini Mags stalled in the narrow can)On and caused a traffic jam. There were soon six racers parked and waiting to get moving again so they could go on with their race. At about that time the weather turned re-ally foul and it started to sprinkle. A few cars decided to just eliminate the can-yon and that quirky downhill all-to-gether, while others waited patiently 'til the blockage was cleared and then went on. After about ten minutes the course workers had everything clear. The score-keepers tracked the drivers who'd gone around the blockage. In the meantime, Ken Schertzerand Shane Campbell, in a neat Class 5 Bug, had got to the front and just stayed there. They came around lap after lap, looking good and although they were the only Class 5 car, they were leading the whole shebang overall. Schemer, who built the car himself, was pleased with its performance, and happy to find he'd won overall. He said, "It did get hard to see for a while." Biker and Michael Sherlock led Class 7 with their Ford for a couple of laps, but then, as the motor started to sound unwell, Billy Manroy took over in his Ford. But he managed to complete only five laps before he came to grief and had to have a tractor tow him off the track. Jack Mitman and Lou Fornarotto, in still another Ford, got off to a slow start, February 2005 JJ Hanson had a good day, he drove his good looking truck to the Class 8 win, 3"' overall in Race #1 at Glen Helen. Jack Mitman is ready for touchdown, he took the gold medal in Class 7 at the very foggy and rainy Glen Helen event. two laps down, but once running kept it moving and at the finish found them-selves the Class 7 winners. The Sherlocks finished second. In the 5-1600 class they had a good battle. Guy Savedra was new to short course racing in his Baja Bug, and had the wrong gearing, but managed to look a little better each lap. He had Brianna Tyler riding for the first half, and then she got out and Lorenzo Lorenzana got in to ride, so they took some extra time for a driver change. Christopher and Jonathan Moreno, who for some rea-son were wearing green hair for this weekend, sailed on smoothly and strongly in the lead in that class. Kevin Stevenson and Howard Baca struggled some, and had a lot of down time. The Morenos and Savedra had a good race, and Savedra got up close, but couldn't get around them, although it was obvi-ous he was pushing hard. The Morenos took the win, finishing fourth overall, and Savedra was second and fifth over-all. Doug and Ryan Petterson had a fun day, they drove their great looking truck to first place in Class 7S at the Baja Cup Challenge. 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third. The Legend race was shortened to only three laps because by then it was raining fairly hard and things were get-ting muddy. Feldkamp, who was en-tered, was reported not to want to "get muddy". And who could blame him? He and his I..S6 powered Penhall started and finished in front, so he probably stayed fairly clean. Too bad there weren't more cars, it would have been fun. Ken Parr, father of Chris and Michael drove the surviving Mini Mag in the event, his first time in one of the little machines, and reportedly "had a ball" in spite of the mud and rain. Ken Schertzer made it look easy, he flew his powerful Class 5 Bug to the class win and to 1st overall in Race #1. First in Class 5-1600, Christopher Moreno drove his great looking bug to fourth overall as well in Race #1. The second two hour race started at 2:20, and by that time the flag that tops the hill on the course couldn't be seen. The spectators knew approximately where the rac-ers were by watching their tail lights disappear into the fog. The fans huddled under an assortment of In the Mini Mag, brothers Chris and Michael Parr dueled for several laps until Michael got stuck and caused the jam up. Then, once moving again, they were running close together, and having a great time racing each other until, on about the 16th lap, Chris lost his trans-mission and Michael went on alone to win the class. He was serond on the over-all standings. Chris got credit for sec-ond Mini Mag and ninth overall In Class 8 there were just two trucks, the Dodge of Mike Defeliece and J .J. Hanson, in a late entry, brand unknown. They ran cheek by jowl for the first sev-eral laps, but then Defeliece started to have problems. He lost a lap or two several times, and, while he was there at the finish, he came up short. Hanson took the Class 8 win with 20 laps com-pleted, and was in third place overall. Defeliece was second in Class 8 and sev-enth overall with only 16 laps done. Class 7S had three trucks: Brian Cannon, Doug Petterson and Kathy Fay Dusty Times -all in Fords. As mentioned above, Fay was off to a bad start. Cannon led early, and then fell back as Petterson took over the lead and Fay struggled with some mechanical gremlins. It was a seesaw battle between Cannon and Petterson, but Cannon lost three laps late in the race, and Petterson rose to the top to Kathy Fay is ready tor takeoff, Kathy finished second in Class 7S in her Ford, she was eighth overall in Race #1. February 2005 take the win with 19 laps completed. He was also sixth overall. Cannon was sec-ond with 15 laps done and Fay, who also finished 15, but was a bit later, was Continued on page 32 Mike Defeliece had a pretty good foggy/rainy day, he finished second in the Class B contest and was seventh overall in race #1. Page 31 ,...

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Biker Sherlock is ready for touchdown, he drove his truck to a nice Chris Parr comes back to earth, he finished second to his brother in Guy Savedra isn't afraid of altitude, he drove, or flew his Baja Bug to second place in Class 7 through the elements. the Min Mag Class at Glen Helen. a nice second spot in Class 5-1600. blankets, tarps and ponchos, or The Unlimited cars were repre-and Dennis Boyle. The restwere 1600s, In the 1600 group, Andy Ander-in front early on. Durbin had a diffi-stood under whatever there might sented by Buddy Feldkamp in his LS6 including Cameron Steele, Dave son never came around again after cult day, rolling over once, but hap-be to provide cover. On the pit side powered Penhall and Richard Boyle Hendrickson, Andy Anderson, John doing the first lap, and John Grossini pily, landing on his wheels, and spin-most sat in their vehicles, as did many and Kory Halopoff in a V8 Jimco, and Grossini, Rusty Stewart, Chuck also disappeared after three com-ning out another time. Stewart got who'd parked their cars lining the Clay Bintz was in a T ruggy. In Class 10 Durbin, Jeffrey Hantz, Brian Burgess pleted laps. Hendrickson and Steele only five laps completed. fence on the grandstand side. it was Jeff Elrod with a Rabbit motor, and Jimmy Fishback III. dueled for the lead, with Hendrickson The cars got dirtier and dirtier, and rain became heavier, the track, mud-dier. The lap times slowed considerably. Eventually, Steele got by Hendrickson, and went into the lead, and then he stayed there. He took the victory, with 17 laps completed. Hendrickson and co-driver Garrit Wallace, were second, with 16 laps done, and in third place it was Fishback. Durbin was fifth, and Jeffrey Hantz was sixth and nine com-pleted laps. Page 32 Rell Hall, lfla Taylor, Chad Hall and Team lightforce's own 18"11 Bawls pm 1111 8IIMllfl saasen afler smon. Speeds that f8II lib Mlclt 3, nrrat rnUsi f1111 falls, mid-air Cflltisitms ••. lightforce's HID Blitz 31111 variable-focus llgtlls Will! llllf i.attvt flltll' s• lrallslate to shattBrproo1 lights that can • cakr 81111 beam patterns as fast as tile tmain itself. Visit l.lgldfRUSlcom bl find a dealer near you. February 2005 In the Class 10 group, Elrod and his Rabbit had the lead, and finished with the class win, completing 18 laps. He was second overall Dennis Boyle fin-ished only seven laps, for second place. An hour into the race it was impos-sible for spectators to read the numbers on the sides of the cars. But anyone with ears could differentiate the Class 1 cars. Buddy Feldkamp's I.S6 has a singing note, while Boyle's sounded more like a standard V8 and the front engine Binz T ruggy rumbled and roared, and even-tually did a cartwheel, landed on its side and wiped out the front suspension. It was towed away by the tractor after completing eight laps. Byabout3:15 in the afternoon, the spectators started to abandon ship. You couldn't blame them. Everyone had vi-sions of another snowstorm arriving to clog up the freeways, or floods roaring across the 15 freeway. No one wanted to stick around and chance being stuck. The racers were slowing, adding five or six seconds to every lap. And sud-denly, it became apparent that there were only five cars left moving. The offi-cials came to the same decision that the spectators had, at about that time. Enough was enough. They started wav-ing the white flag at the survivors, al-though it was about a half hour short of the planned two hours. Finally, when the mud-covered fmishers had made their last loop, thewinnerwas Feldkamp, with 18 completed laps. Boyle, although not moving at the finish, was second, with 13 laps done. His car was "buried" out in the muddy distance somewhere. The officials couldn't wait for the few remaining moving cars to get in so they could head out with the tractor to res-cue the various stuck vehicles. The Boyle brothers were towed in together. As the cars cleared the track, almost all the spectators were gone, and at first glance there seemed to be no one left in the grandstands. But then, up at the very top, where the view is best, we saw three figures. Each wearing a hat and a trash bag for protection from the ele-ments, standing and watching until the last car had stopped moving. I twas Brian Jeffrey and his two sons, three of off road racing' s biggest fans. And they were right. The racing was fun, and it was an entertaining show. It's too bad that Mother Na-ture didn't cooperate for the return of the off road cars to Glen Helen. Maybe next time. . _·,I fib Dusty Times

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WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS Wickenburg ··Rookie'' Earns overall Victory By Mike Del Col Photos: Trackside Photo It was a close race in Class 10 but when the smoke cleared it was Ed Beard showing the other guys the way to the checkers. Caesar Fuentes took the Pro 1-2 class with 10 minutes in hand, he also was the overall winner at Whiplash Wickenburg. on the first lap. He never looked and McKenzies. The Beard racing back, and earned the victory with team was pretty excited about get-about 10 minutes in hand, finishing ting the win, and the finish. Ed's car in 3:12:32. Caesar's behemoth Che- just hasn't been the same after Ed's nowth Millennium is for sale, by the big wipeout in Snowflake last year way and would look great under the that sent Ed on a helicopter ride, Christmas tree, or even blazing a and put his racer out of commis-rrail thru a whole field of them. The s10n for a while. Maybe this team is Fuentes machine is sponsored by back on track. Todd Elam chased Foddrill Fabrication, Terry Smith, Ed all day long, but ended up about Pisma/Groupo Fuentes, and BF five minutes in arrears. Todd's Jimco Goodrich. The speedy Melton fam- ran well, but had the Vtec quitwork-ily earned the second overall posi- ing on the third lap. Todd switched tion, with Steve's dad in the right batteries, and the problem went seat, and then Nathan Melton got away. T&R Iron Works sponsor the in a smoked off the last three laps. Elam entry. Watch out for Todd's The Melton racing effort is sup- psycho dog, Dingo. He Bites! John ported by M&M Farms, and Gardner ended up in the third OK-let's be honest. He really isn't a rookie ... he's a veteran. Caesar Fuentes is one of the most recogniz-able, most well known Whiplash rac-ers around. He's also pretty darn fast at the SCORE events he attends, and is always in the hunt. In Whip-lash, he's competed at nearly every active race track, and owns multiple overall wins earned over the years. Caesar earned a pretty special win at Wickenburg, as he has never raced the Wickenburg course. This race was different from years past, with an average turnout, and a Class I car leading the way. This course is the tightest, and roughest of the Whiplash circuit, and stories usu-ally abound with injured and sick drivers. That didn't materialize this year, thankfully. There were very few rollovers, and very few drivers and passengers bailing out of the cars just a few laps into the race. The course was also fairly wet this year, and the lack of dust may have been a posi-tive factor. It wasn't without con-troversy either, with fisticuffs nearly breaking out after the race. Tempers were high, but cooler heads pre-vailed. There was also a sneaky chal-lenge in the 1600 class that may have Marl< Beeler drove his multi-colored Ford pickup to the Pro 8 win at Wickenburg, seen here at speed. repercussions later into the season... Fertizona. Tom Wood was the only place spot in Class 10, completing We'll see. other entry in the Unlimited ranks, four laps in the grand prix finish. After winning the overall and re-and Tom was out early with a John ran the "big" car again at ceiving the checkered flag, an excited cracked head. Wickenburg, and let the motorcycle Caesar Fuentes was pretty happy to Ed Beard persevered thru several car parked cleanly on the trailer. He be out of the car. Caesar's big car problems on the way to a Class 10 finished ala Fred Flintstone style, just wasn't suited very well for the win at Wickenburg, Ed's troubles with the floor pan peeled back, and tight course. With his automatic were not limited to losing the feet dangling. Ron Dalke had a transmission mated to the big Terry Supertrapp exhaust, an extended wicked long second lap, after a g-Smith V6, Caesar could only get stop to change the carb jets to ad-out took out one of his fuel pumps. into third gear in two spots on the just for problem # 1, and having Dalke runs two pumps to feed his course. There just wasn't anywhere power steering issues. Ed's wife, Bar-fuel injection, and ended up having to get it wrapped out, and stretch its hara, was just waiting for Ed to stop to McGyver a work around after the legs ... Caesar found the course to be for a full service oil, lube and tune low pressure pump quit pulling the plenty rough, and muddy, but was up! Ed was fourth overall, and is go-juice. able to get by his competition early sponsored by Beards Super Seats Mark Beeler had the old Ford ,------"'---.......:...----=--------'-.....;;.----.:.._---.......:----, Hay Hauler hauling the mail once Pro 1/2-1600 was hard fought, but when the checkered flag flew it was Jeff Knupp taking the win with 9 minutes in hand. again in the big truck class, and backed up his win at Snowflake with a win in Wickenburg. Mark's son Brendan must be his good luck charm, because the team is batting 1000 with him riding shotgun. The team had a clean run, with the ex-ception oflosing the radio antenna. Beeler averaged about 36 mph on the radar, with a top speed of just over 74 mph. Beeler is sponsored by Chucks Speed Center, and Geiser Brothers. Mike Doherty had his Chevy with new powerplant at Wickenburg. Mike is racing for a points championship, and was ad-mittedly taking it easy on the day. Mike had more than a couple of the buggy guys up in arms over his ca-sual pace on the day, with several complaining about having trouble getting around the big truck. Wickenburg is a buggy course. Mike's Chevy was also spewing gaso-line along the way, and was making some drivers nervous with fuel splashing out of the big truck over every bump, and every mile. Terry Yoakum took the Sportsman Unlimited win, but it was close, he only had two Mike Herrick led from the starting gun, he ran trouble free and took Sportsman 1 o Jammin' Jeff Knupp put on an-other dominating performance in the 1600 class. Jeffs 3:30: 18 was good enough for a class win with a nine minute cushion, and the third overall position in the race. Jeff had a trouble free run, with the excep-tion of clipping a cholla and getting several chunks inside his car, his legs, and more. The human pincushion is on a roll, with three straight victo-ries in the 1600 class. 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Tim Wiley drove his husky looking Jeep to a nice win in the Class 3 As you can see, Steve Melton gave it his all but a couple of slower Todd Elam was a bit off the winning pace for a few laps and it was expensive, he ended up second in Pro 1 o. competition, seen here heading towards the finish. than normal laps had him finishing second in Pro 1-2. and Smooth Designs. The Sullivan He brought his racer home in fourth Bruce Johnson had to settle for the Brothers racing team earned the sec-place with a flapping body panel, fifth place trophy, getting a flat in ond place spot. Danny drove the no clutch for the last several laps, the last five miles of the race, and entire race with daughter Krissy and a broken shock on the left rear. surrendering a position or two in riding shotgun, and taking notes May be time to get some bypass on the process. Tough break. Louie along the way. Danny was pretty that car. He brought his fan club Senna was in attendance for his first fired up at the finish, putting a down with him this trip and ... wow! race, finishing in the sixth place. bump on the Doherty 8 truck. Sullivan complained of Doherty blocking him, and then getting a shower of rocks after getting stuck behind the big truck after the truck pulled over and stopped. Somehow, Danny blew out the reverse gear try· ing to back up, after following the truck when it pulled over. Looks like cooler heads prevailed in the end. Jeffro Wells drove Nollan Blackwell's 1600 to a third place position. Jeff said the car worked really well the first lap, and then the shocks went away and so did the riqe. Jeff hadn't piloted a race car in three years and was happy to be back in the driver's seat. The Blackwell entry is spon-sored by Marana Carpets. Mark Milne made the trip down from Colorado for the Wickenburg race. Jeffrey Braca/e had an easy day, the competition fell by the wayside and he waltzed to the Sportsman Truck class win. Louie had a blast in the 1648 car gun at Wickenburg. Bill Krug hired running in his first ever off road a ringer for Wickenburg, getting race: He picked up a really sharp Kevin Blackwell to run the race in 1600 two seater from "The Other" the single seater. This was Kevin's Don Johnson out of So. Cal. He firstrace in 1600, and finished a very has the backing of Greg Geiser, and respectable sixth place, surviving a had Greg's son, Derek, riding shot-Continued on page 36 The Sportsman Limited win was an easy one for Jim Saraceno, he took the class win with more than an hour in hand. ¾ i.~. THE WORLD LEADER IN MONOTUBE GAS PRESSURE . «·, .. . . • ~ .. t ·~ .. 'l o. :·, .. Bilstein's racing pertorm~nce isJegeodary. A1;1d every shock we build is fillect·wittl the knowtedge we've>'gained from over three ,dec~des of cro_ssing,,1he;tinish lin~;first {" " Bilstein ~as first to unleash the Jhcredible ; '. . pertormance"advantage qt monotube gas,pre~~u5t shock absorber&<over 50 years-a,go and stllUeads:' the way, today.~ ··· L '"c. , Bitstein ... Advanced Te-chnology, Wlnnl11g1Performance, Superior SelectitJn; -, Dusty Times OFF ROJID ~"'~~ Aus,~~~ !~?~N~LOGY ""'·· ·• . . '-'"'-'<Y·<:',.-Y. ·¼·,.-.,._-:-. ' ""' °'SER Blgge range ·yhte le 'Congratulations to'1he_a,J4Champions of the Desert and Baja 100D Winners.RidlngonflilsteJn Shocks ... . ~ / ' ¾., . ·"~-~-,._, "'.-.. SCORE Champions: .. =sr1an Jeff,~ -• 4-Whee/ Vehicle.Overall Points • Plus Class 1/Z.·)600 _Champ Eric Solorzano -Class 11 Matt ScaronJ -(:fotriiciF · <, ·BestJn The Dese1j'C~a"JP?els:; ,)1reg Foutz-Class !100 ~~~~ Marc Stein -Class 4100 ·. ·t.;,.-;t"'¼-, , . " . •. "\i<'C Jonathon Swift-Class 3000 '-"-~, Matt Scaronf'-Protruck - t '.•:•<·.·,~,/ ......... 'spORE Baja 1000 Winne~:,"''' ..,., ""Mark Mitter -Trophy Truck • ~ .., • • • s' " Martin Christensen -Class 10 #fl-tech open classes to restr,cted l1m1ted classe~, . Eric sotorzano ... Class 11 • •· ".., ,, count on the winning performance of."Bilsteint-:"ff;ck_L. Johnson -Protru,ck '> .... \ ❖ t ~t''i:=t ' '"'-. ',, ;'-';, N-·' For more information on Bilstein's complete line of off-road shock absorbers, call or~visit i,ur-wel>~site • . ,.,::Md-::¾i:..fo:>,-.fil•'• ¾ ".;< '.:---~ : ' ~ :_ ~~ ... • ~-.• •• ;. February 2005 Page 35

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The Sullivan/Anderson Team had a decent day, they finished second Red Burgin led the first two laps, slipped a bit on the second two laps Going a bit wide and into the water, Alejandro Jimenez wound up in in the highly competitive Pro 112-1600 class. and ended up second in the Sportsman Unlimited Class. the second spot in the Sportsman 10 contest. Andy Ripberger sports a hefty.push bar on his car, he took home the John Gardner led the first lap, slowed a bunch on laps 3 and 4 and, Jeff Wells drove the Blackwell car to a very decent third place in the silver medal in the Sportsman Limited class. unfortunately, never completed the last lap. 1600 class, seen here at speed. ======================== Third place in Sportsman Unlimited went to Russ Florance, he's Scott Cebu/ski wa~ runni~g strong _in class but a horrendously long seen here at speed in his neat looking car. last lap dropped him to th,rd place m Sportsman 10. Marl< Milne was just a wee bit off the pace at Whiplash Wickenburg, he finished fourth in the Pro 1/2-1600 race. roll over on the first lap. Don't feel try in the class to complete all five for a finish. Don Johnson com-bad, Kevin. All of Bill's hired guns laps. Guest driver Dave Cookman pleted four laps, even with a fat jet do that. Paul Meyer was the last en- also rolled the car, but soldiered on in the car and a subsequently under performing power plant. Steven Long was out early, with a broken PORTABLE • POWERFUL· • PRECl!!iE 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 36 torsion bar. The 1600 class winner had a tech-nical challenge after the race during inspection, when the third place fin-isher challenged the legality of Knupp's winning 1600 motor. A motor tear down was requested, and proved that no cheating was going on. An editorial comment here ... this always seems to happen in the Limited classes when a driver starts winning races. Whiplash has seen it in Class 9, Class 5-1600 and now in Class 1600 as well. Let's face it la-dies, Knupp knows what he's doing in 1600. He's probably got more seat time, prep time, and experience than possibly the remainder of the entire class (except maybe Bill). SO -come on -put those rule books back in your purses, quityer whining, and step it up a notch. The guy's not Su-perman, he just drives faster than the Man of Steel. Tim Wiley had a good race in the Pro 3 class earning a victory. Tim's older Jeep Cherokee ran well on the brutal course, and came away with several broken shocks for his efforts. Terry Yoakam was the big winner in the Sportsman Unlimited division. Terry was unable for comment after the race, but appears to be a new face on the Whiplash racing scene. Hopefully we will see more of him in the races to come. Red Burgin was just about two minutes behind, even February 2005 with driver and rider changes after each lap. Red was just out there hav-ing some fun, and didn't realize that he was in the hunt till it was all over. Russ Florance has the support of Albert McMullen, and debuted a new McMullen chassis 10 car in the class. The car seems to work pretty well, and the team is excited about racing and several promising sponsorship opportunities coming their way. It's got a new VW Rabbit motor for propulsion. The team wanted to thank Team Geronimo for the use of their tools. It was greatly appreci-ated. The McMullen team promised that Albert's new Trophy Truck will be in attendance in Mexico next month. . Mike Herrick snatched up a win in the Sport 10 class in his Toyota powered single seater. This car has a great history, and Mike knows how to put her thru her paces. Mike has all of his motor woes worked out, and is looking forward to the next race. His only issue on the day was losing power steering after Lap 2. Hondo Jimenez chased Mike all day long, and earned the second position in the Sport 10 class. Hondo and.the Screamin' Eagle team was pretty ex-cited about a very good run. Hondo actually ran·the first lap with his belts unclipped, after accidentally tripping open the latch on the first whoop of the race. No chance he was going to slow down to get them re-clipped. Belts? Who needs belts? Scott Cybulski managed four laps in his Honda powered racer to earn the third place spot. Scott Zimmerman completed only one lap, after break-ing all of the motor and tranny mounts in the car. He held down the flopping motor with a tow strap, af-ter the sticky throttle finally war-ranted a stop for inspection. Jeff Bracale's truck looked great in Wickenburg, and Jeff Raced to the class win in the Sport Truck division. Jeff built this 1994 Ford Lightning himself, and the truck works very well. Look for this team to make some im-provements, and graduate to the Pro 8 class next year. Jeff shares credit for his success with his wife, and with Bracale Realty Professionals who sponsor the truck. Jeff also wanted to thank brother Ron Bracale and R& T Iron Works for their support and help. Jim Saraceno was the big winner in the Sportsman Limited class over Andy Ripburger. Jim turned out three very nice laps to earn the class win. Adam Lucas churned out two laps in the Sport Mini class for the win. As mentioned, Wickenburg seemed pretty tame this year, com-pared to years past. The rain kept the dust down, and the conditions were perfect. Typically Wickenburg chews racers up and spits them out. .. but this year yielded a pretty good finish race, and some great racing. Rocky Point is also now in the his-tory books, and a story will be soon to follow. There are some close sea-son championship points races to be decided, so it should be a barn burner. As a preview ... The Melton boys put it all together. .. despite some weather that brought SNOW to northern Mexico ... ~ folks! ~ Dusty Times

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ojave Desert Racing Awards2D04 By Tanna Primante Photos: Trackside Photo Greg Crew won the Donohoe True Grit Award, completing the most required laps in the season worth $1000 and he won Class 1300 honors. On December 5th, 2004 an awards banquet was held at the well facilitated, Doubletree Hotel in Rosemead, Cali-fornia for the 2004 Mojave Desert Rac-ing season. With its Christmas decor in stylish blue and silver, it gave one a feel-ing of, high-class holiday cheer as soon as you entered the hotel's lobby. Promptlyat6:00p.m. we were served our steak dinner that started with a fresh green salad with a delicious house dressing and bread. After the salad the steak entree was served with a twice-baked potato and fresh steamed veg-etables covered with brown gravy and mushrooms. The meal was finalized with a fabulous cheesecake for dessert. The awards presentation began with a few introductions of the people that make this mce class all possible. Califor-nia Off Road Vehicle Association (CORVA) President, Ed Waldheim, was introduced. Mr. Waldheim gave a very informative speech about what it actu-ally takes to be able to recreate in our California deserts. Mr. Waldheim talked about the amount of attention needed in the political aspects of California off road recreation. Our political leaders don't seem to care one way or the other about off road racing. We need to do what it takes, such as utilizing our power to vote, to make the changes needed. Mr. Waldheim has spent many years Mike Barnett took the Class 1700 honors, he had one win and three top three finishes in the 2004 season. and a vast amount of effort towards the fight for our rights. He deserves a big thank you for all the tireless work he does for desert off road racing. The first award presented, the Donohoe True Grit award, was for the driver that has completed the most re-quired laps overall for the race season. It was quite competitive throughout the year between Class 5-1600 driver Paulden Hepler, Class 11 driver Robert Henderson, and Sportsman Class 1300 Greg Crew. The last race, with the fast-est average speed, would be the deciding factor of who would be taking home this award. It was Greg Crew in his white Lucas Oil buggy. Greg was presented a trophy and a check for $1,000.00 from Donohoe Racing. The winners that were unable to at-tend the event were announced next. Between each class award presentation, raffles were held for miscellaneous prizes throughout the evening. First it was the 550 class with #567 Stephen Eavenson in third, #557 Dennis Dunn in second, and in the winner's circle for this class was #550 Paulden Hepler. Next announced was the 900 class with #980 Juan Gonzalez showing in third, placing in second was #986 Tho-mas Byma II, and in the win-spot was #973 Mike Ward. Up next was the 1600 class, they had #1608 Gary Stairs in third, #1673 Mike Wardinsecond,and#l606An:hie Aoyd in first with one first, three sec-·--------------------------------· I I I I I I I I I I REDL!NE PERf6RMANCE, !NC. LIi & N-ITAR PRE-RUN DR RACE PACIAGEI I NORTHSTAR PACKAGES FROM $7500.00 COMPLETE 400HP I LS1 PACKAGES FROM $13500.00 COMPLETE 485 HP I W E OFFER COMPLETE DYNO SERVICES, ENGINE MAINTENANCE I PROGRAMS AND AND UNMATCHED REPRUTATION FOR CUSTORMER SATISFACTIONIII (714) 777-5758 PHONE (714) 777-5759 FAX I 4531 EISENHOW E R C I RCLE, ANAHEIM , CA 92807 ·--------------------------------· Page 38 February 2005 The 550 Class win went to Pauldin Hepler, he drove his neat looking car to the season championship in MOR. Archie Floyd was the big winner in the Class 1600 race, he took the class win over some stiff competition. onds, one third and one DNF. For the l 700 class in third position #1731 Steve Thomasson, for the sec-ond position was# 1700 Charlie Peltzer and in first position was #1701 Mike Barnett with one first, two seconds and one third for the year. The evening continued with the plaque presentations with the 1100 class. In third was # 1153 Leif Christensen, for second was #1115 Brian Thompson, and the winner for this class was# 1101 Robert Henderson, who received a plaque and a check. Robert handed out his own award tro-phies this evening to his crew. Just after handing the last trophy out to his girl-friend, Marjie, for keeping stats and lap times, he then took the opportunity to ask her for her hand in marriage. There was a hush through the room except for one gentleman in the crowd asking her what her answer was. Up to the mi-crophone she went answering with a big "YES." On to the 500 class that had #533 John Hays in third, #529 Jeff Nutter, and in first was #548 Scott Hewitt. The 300 class had only two contes-tants, which were #303 Tyler Stone in second and in firstwas #304SamSuhr. The 100 class had in third #101 Ronny Wilson, in second was #124 Randy Wilson, and in first was #112 Bill Wingerning who received a check along with his plaque. Sam Suhr took the Class 300 win for the season, his great looking Bronco was always a welcome sight on the course. What can you say? The high Flyin' Matt Towery was the Class 8 winner for the 2004 season, nice lookin' truck. Dusty Times

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The good looking Jeep of Bryan Rogers took home all the honors in Jamie Campbell was the Class 725 winner for 2004, he and his truck Robert Henderson drove his go anywhere, any terrain Class 11 Bug Class 1750, he's ready for the new season to begin. performed flawlessly during the '04 race season. to the MOR 2004 championship for the Herbie Class. Class 700 had some good competition in 2004, when the smoke cleared in was Barry Karakas taking home the icing on the cake. Always a tough competitor, Bob Miller made it all pay off as he took How can you not be the Class 500 winner when you drive a -lethal the Class 1200 gold medal for the MOR 2004 season. looking car like this? Ask Scott Hewitt for his secrets. In the 1750 class # 1777 Jim Hunt was third, #1764 Jonathan Gymer in second, and #1758 Bryan Rogers was first AT RIGHT: The hotly contested Class 10 win went to veteran Lee Perfect, his great looking car performed well for him in 2004. Class 1300 had in third # 1301 Christopher Parr, in second was# 1303 Terry Ingold, and the first place winner was# 1302 Greg Crew who gave thanks to our Dusty Times "for the use of all the ink" that went into the write-up; for M.D.R.'s races. The 700 class had a fourth place with #701 Dan Chamlee, two second place winners with #'s 720 Larry Roeseler and 703 Geoff Milke, and first place was #700 Barry l(arakas. For the 800 class had #847 Justin Miller in third place, #815 Mark! Shoaff in second place, and #818 Matt Towery in first place who also aclmowledged and gave thanks to Dusty Times. In the 1000 class there was # 1097 Mark Weger for third place, # 1012 Jim Gledhill for second place, and #1010 Lee Perfect for the winner of this class. In 1450 class there was# 1452 Mark Growe for third, #1490 Mark Sabol for second, and #1495 Austin Farner for first 1200c!tw had in third #1263 Lany Ehrhardt, in second #1215 Mark Hammes, and in first was # 1200 Bob Miller. In the 725 class was #7 57 Jeff Rigel in third, #740 Darrell Herman in sec-ond, and #727 Jamie Campbell in first for this class. Jamie also was the Overall Winner for the M.D.R. 's 2004 Class of races. Ya gotta fly to win, says Austin Farner, whose high flying Ford Pickup took home all the gold in Class 1450. Bill Wingering drove his great looking car to the Class 100 championship, day or night, he's really quick in the desert. Dusty Times Between the 1000 class and the 1450 class awards were given out to Art Savedra for all the Tech. work he puts into the M.D.R.' s class continually. One more award was given to volunteers: Wally, Lori and their girls for all their selfless help in the desert races as well as for the desert clean-up days which en-ables this sport to keep on racing in the California desert. This concluded the 2004 season for the Mo~ D-satRacing. Congratulations to all and may )Oll all have a fabulous off road racing 2005 New Year. !11J1U. February 2005 Page 39

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CODE/RECORD RACE READY 275 Ojas Negras Ta San Felipe, B.C. Mexico By Byrle Moore Photos: Foto-Baja-Mex Kirk Kontilis had some problems during the race but he still took the Class 1 win in his heavily suspended car. Eduardo Mendez was the big Class 10 winner and he took the overall win as well at the Race Ready 275, seen here at speed. The last race of the year was the larg-est participant race of the year. Two hundred and twenty-two bikes and quads and cars and trucks started at Kilometer 39 instead of downtown Ensenada and some four to ten hours later nearly 60% of them had crossed the line just outside of San Felipe. This~• s version of the "27 5" shon-ened the first µin of the course by about 25 miles but still managed to tum it into a 27 5 mile run as the name implies. One thing about it there were no speed-ing tickets on the blacktop for the first 19 kilometers. We had nearly perfect race weather. It was a little chilly overnight on Friday, and just before sunrise and start time on Saturday. However, this writer can remember a cenain 2000 mile race in the~ 2CXX) when it got down to 17 degrees in the fields just west of Ojos Negros, so believe me the low 40's was mild Hey, I remem-ber almost a half inch of frost on my truck when I woke up that year! "Nuff reminiscin." First light came, as first light does, with the sunrise just after six, and with that light, the bikes and quads hit the course. I don't have a moment by mo-ment rundown of how each panicipant -=,:;;;;;;::--------------, Juan Carlos Lopez took the Class B honors, his competition all folded by the wayside, making his win an easy one. Rafael Reyes drove his great looking car to an east Class 5 win, seen here at speed heading for the checkers. Page·40 made it to San Felipe suffice to say that 48 bike and quad riders hit the slopes and when the dust cleared in San Felipe Chuck Dempsey, averaging a little over 50 miles an hour, and with just under five hours of hard riding, crossed the line for the Class and the Overall win for the Pro Motorcycle and Quad classes. Arturo Honold only had one Class 12 competitor but he had to hustle 'ti/ the last lap for the class win. 4:59:26; boys, those shift points re-ally count don't they? A little overa half an hour later the next two riders blasted into town. Francisco Septien took the second spotwith his ride of 5:31: 15 ride and just over two and a half minutes later, Rodolfo lribe, was in at 5:33:39 for third. These two guys were also sec-ond and third overall on the pro bike/ quad classes. Five more riders finished and had times. Edgar Espinoza 5:47:29, Sergio Vega 5:52:30, Jorge Perez 6:01 flat, and Jesus Heredia was in at 6: 19:37. Octavio Ascolani and Ivan Estrada started 30 seconds but broke stuff and never had times. In the Pro Quad go round Nick Destoud went 6: 17: 17 for the gold and seventh overall in bikes and quads. Os-car Arce was only two minutes back for Leo Nava"ete was the Class 1/2-1600 winner, he led all the way and had·tour minutes and change in hand at the end. Class 5-1600 had a really close race, when the checkers flew it was Mark Dee taking the win by 10 minutes. February 2005 the silver; his time 6: 19:51 and Miguel Bastidas took the bronze with his 6:21:12. Six other riders made times and they were Emmanuel K Gust I<), who went founh, Cesar Cuevas fifth, Jesus de la Rocha sixth, Luis Salgado seventh, Joel Aldrete eighth, and Gabriel Valencia was ninth in the class of then. Guess that leaves just Carlos Arce with no time, but I'll bet, "he'll be back." In the Spom;man class we had three groups: Motorcycle Sport, Motorcycle Safari and Quad Spon. Here again the top three Spom;man Overall winners came from the two wheel division. Class winner and first overall was Oscar Hale with his 6:06:59 ride. Sergio Torres was second/ second overall with his 6:20:28 and Alonso Sanchez was third/third overall with a ride of 6:25:06. Seven other riders finished the race and had times; Oscar Legaspy6:38:50, Francisco J. Landeros 6:49:09, Marco Cornejo 6:57:44, Jesus Carrillo Arambula 7:15:00, David Flores 7:49:49, and Carlos Adame 8:05:15 and Robeno Schiaffino in at just over nine hours. Oscar Ochoa, Lance Kane and Sergio Quintero were dnfs but they too will be back. Pedro Azuela headed the Motorqde Safari group, with a 6:40:50 for the first and fifth overall in the Sportsman Motorcycle Quad class. Second place went to Juan Martinez Saito in at 6:52:59, and the third spot went to Manuel Perez with a 6:55 flat. Samuel Medina finished the race and went fourth with his 7:48:37. Leon Garcia, Jorge Luis Gomez and Francisco Nunez were non-finishers no-times. Nine riders were at the green in the Quad Spom;man class but only four made it all the way down to San Felipe. Travis Dillon headed the class with his 7:01:48 ride, Heriberto Marquez ran second with a 7:27:52 and Carlos Mancillas took third with a ride of 8:31:45. One other finisher, Felipe Ruiz, was fourth with a 9:41:55. Two others nevermadeittoCheckpoint4, theywere Mario Juarez and James Jordan; two others never got to see Checkpoint 3, they were Javier Robles, Jr. and Jorge Victor Suarez, and Jesus Lopez never Dusty Times

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Ruben Gutierrez gave it all he and the car had, but it was only good enough for second place in the Class 12 battle. Matt Sherard came in second in the Class 1/2-1600 race, he was Jeff Gain wasn't too unhappy with his second place finish in Class 7, less than five minutes out of the class win at the flag. he's seen here at speed going towards the flag. saws anychedqx>ints. I believe these five will also be seen again at the right end of the checkered flag. Now we move to the four wheel clas.5es. Three entries in the Pro Class OT and only two started and only one fin-ished for time. Raul Montiel had several mechanical things go wrong but man-aged to cross into San Felipe with a 10:45:44 and an average speed of just over 23 miles an hour, which also brought him the 60th overall trophy. This was a rough race course for the four wheel car and truck guys. Carlos Ibarra never saw Check 3 and Marco Guzman never made it to Check 1. There was only one entry in Class 1; Kirk Kontilis finished and took the win with a time of 6: 12:58. Nine starters in the Class 10 field and four of them finished. The first car across the line was that of Eduardo Mendez with a time of 5:13:08, that was also fast enough to win him the over-all points and trophy for the Pro class cars and trucks. Victor Herrera went second with a time of 5 :4 3: 17 and Javier Robles finished third with a time of 7: 17:46. The fourth spot and the only other fmisherwas the 1049 carofDean Watkins with a time ofS:36:55. Class 12 had two starters and the both finished the race. Arturo Honoldo was in at 5:18:31 for first and second overall the second place, class winner, was Ruben GutierrezwithaS:56:39. The 8 class had only one truck made it all the way to Sam Felipe and that was Juan Carlos Lopez, whose time of 5:53:13, wasalsogocxlenough for ninth overall. Gabriel Arce and Todd T ruelson got to Checkpoint 4 and a little beyond. Beny Canela and Warren Thompson made it to Check 3, and Javier Guevara saw the second, Elias Dusty Times Eliseo Garcia took the Class 9 lead midway in the race and had almost half an hour in hand at the end. Canchola saw the first check, but lban Rubio never got to Check 1. A very large field of 24 Class 1/5-1600s were signed up for this race and 14 of them finished. Head of the pack was Leo Navarrete with a time of 5:35:55 quickenoughfortheclasswin and third overall Second place finisher Aldo Romo was the Class lS winner, he went into the lead about half way through the race and had nearly half an hour in hand at the end. was Matt Sherard in at 5:40:31 and Edmundo Fernandez 6:03:44, Jose JorgeSanchezranthirdwithhistimeof Juan Guevara 6:07:41, Miguel Mexia 5:43:28. Otherfinisherswere Francisco 6:22:53, Arturo Velasco 6:36: 12, Bio 5:54:29, Edgar Alvarez 6:01:31, Continued on page 42 There were 22 Class 11 cars, it was a real race and Miguel Mexia took the win with In Sportsman, Jose Luis Sanchez was the big winner in Class 14, · seen here just over a minute in hand. heading for the checkered flag. ----"---'-------'----"'------------------February 2005 Page 41 ·

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Class 5-1600 had 23 entries, Jason Gregory had a decent drive, he Eric Fisher had the early lead in Class 9 but he lost it late in the race Not the best of days for him, Jonathan Betancourt was the runner up took home the silver medal in this most competitive class. and had to settle for a second place finish. Eduardo Gonzalez 7: 18:07, Arturo 6:37:44, and third went to Rene Cuevas Carlos Dominguez and Alex Almaraz Zavala 7:23:58, Pete Morquecho with a 7:14:41. Threeothersoftheten nevergottothecheckeredflag. 7:38:51, Jorge Vargas 8:31:41 and Juan entered had times. Esau Trujillo, fourth Class 5 had two starters in this race Naranjo in with an 8:5 5 :48. with a 7 :50:37, Jose Luis Gonzalez, fifth but only Rafael Reyes made the whole Perry McNeil took the Class 7 win with his 8:15:07 and barely under the trip; his time was 7:38:25.JoseAlberto by more than an hour with his run of wire was Gabriel Barragan with a Bustillos the other got only to or past 5:36:14. Jeff Gain was second in at 9:24:09. Jason McNeil, Victor Islas, Checkpoint3. finisher in Class 7S, seen here at speed in his truck. Anotherlargeclasswasthe5-1600's Cervantes 6:50:39, Guillermo De I.a with 24 entries, of which 13 finished. Herran 7:02:07, Rodolfo Martinez MarkDeeheadedtheclasswithatime 7:13:49, Jesse Lopez 7:42:29, Frank of 6:02:28, Jason Gregory was second Sanchez 7:44:38, Sail Garcia 8: 15:51, with a 6: 12:56 and the third spot went Miguel Rosales 8:22:20, Feliciano to Ernesto Arambula with a 6:21:42. Cervantes 8:48: 13, Gustavo Avina The other finishers were Arturo 8:54:23 and Alonso Angula in at ,.._...,,.,,....,.,_...,.,,,._..,..,.....,,,....,,...,. 9:30:22. Class 9 had ten starters and a 50% finish rate. Eliseo Garcia headed the class with a time of 7 :08 flat. Silver went to Eric Fisher with a corrected time of 7:37:30 and third place went to Marco Antonio Gallo with an 8: 16:03. Fourth place finisher was Tom McAdams 8:58:58, fifth went to Francisco Alcaraz with a 9:52: 13. Daniel Reyes, Alonso Jaquez, Frias Reynoso, Juan Mayoral Jr. and Rodolfo Wilhelmy were all no times. Jose Gutie"ez took the Sportsman Class 15 win with ease, he had more than half Ramon Hurtado took the Sportsman Class 18 win, his good looking pickup is seen Only three of the ten entries in the Class 7s ranks were able to complete the trip to San Felipe; Aldo Romo led thewaywith his first place finishing time of 8:49:42, Jonathan Betancourt made it down, for second place, his time was 9:15:16 and the third place finisher in the class was Danny Street an hour in hand at the checkers. '--'-he::c.1<_e_ra_c_in_,,g,....t'--'-o_w_ard_s_th_e __ fiin_is_h_. _______________ _ Lonnie McCurry is honored hy Off-Road Retailer magazine as one of the five most influential people in the Off-Road Industry. Lonnie McCurry Sr.'s off-road motorsporting roots run deep. Having raced against such legends as Ivan Stewart and Jim Conner in cross country competitions like the grueling Cobra 300 in Oklahoma, he knows first-hand the need for quality-built products that can handle the demands placed on off-road vehicles. His undying dedication to his family and his company, which also employs his son and daughter, make his work at Skyjacker far more than a job. McCurry brings a single minded conviction to achieving total success while evolving his highly competitive business. In fact McCurry's competitive nature may be linked to his pioneering efforts to promote mud-racing back where he was born in Louisiana. As well as fielding an ever-formidable vehicle, McCurry was the first to organize the off-road sport in the Northeast regions. To this day he still races (and wins in the Modified Class) in the Championship Mud Racing Confederation (CMRC). Page 42 February 2005 Dusty Times

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It was really close, Sergio Sanniento was the second finisher in Second place in Sportsman Class 14 went to Oscar Arambula, seen Adolfo Aguilar was the silver medal winner in the Sportsman Class Class 11, he was a mere minute in arrears. here heading towards the checkered flag. 15 contest, seen here heading to the finish. ~~~~~;;:;;;;;;;;=-ii'i° Miguel Angel Jimenez drove his husky looking pickup to the second finishing spot in the Class 18 contest. Second place in the Sportsman SafariRecord went to Francisco The second place finisher in the Sportsman Safari Class was Josue Guerrero, seen here in his good looking Bug. Delgado, seen here heading towards the checkered flag. III, who had a 9:52:16. Apparently Street was very late off the line, 'cause he didn't make it to my shooting spot until well after the other 7 s trucks had pas=l. Carlos Arce, Jose Diaz Martinez, Manuel Villarreal and Angel Bustos, Fernando Munguis, Alberto Iriarte, Henry Velasco and Noe Sierra were all non-finishers, no-times. Twenty-one Class 11 cars hit the green and ten of them had finishes and times. Leading this very tightly contested, top three pack, in the ever-popular class was Miguel Mexia, his winning time was 8:15:05 a little over a minute back at 8: 16:09 was Sergio Sarmiento and an-other minute plus back was Cesar Gutierrez with his 8:17:44. Fourth through 10th went in order to: Ramon Fernandez 8:34:04, Arbundio Pichardo 8:50:53, Guillermo Ruiz 9: 13:51, Roberto Montero 9: 18:52, Jose Ayala 9:53:54, Gilberto Malagamba 10: 11: 10 and Hugo Zamora in with a 10:47:49. And finally, we come to the four wheel, Sportsman category. First in Class 14 and first overall in this cat-egory was Jose Luis Sanchez in with a time of 6:24:52. Second place in class, and fourth overall, was Oscar Arambula with a 6:4 7 :28 and the third place finisher was Hector Pimentel in with a 7:23: 17. Another seven starters, out of the 18-car field had times. They were, in order: David Andrade 7:24:25, Ricardo Vargas 8:21:08, George Jackson 8:24:05, Cesar Gonzalez 8:54:01, Joel Mercado 9:54:28, Marco A Gomez 10:08:48 and Manuel Cota 10:29:30. Class 15 started 11 and six of them were able to make it across the finish line. Leading driver in this class was Jose Gutierrez who had a time of 7:05 flat. Second place went to Adolfo Aguilar with a 7:37:15 and the third spot went to Trinidad Bustillos in with an 8:28:08. Three other drivers had times, they were Everardo Garcia 8:29: 16, Damian Sanchez 9:22:27 and Abraham Marquez in at 10:27:19. There were five other drivers with no times and they were Jorge Martinez, Luis Carapia, Luis Yahir Galindo, Ivan Garcia and Javier Gomez. Six starters in Class 18 and only two made the entire trip. Ramon Hurtado was in at 7:42:15 for first and Miguel Angel Jimenez was second with a time of Dusty Times 8:59:24. German Ramirez, Austin started and three finished the run to Farner, Oscar Rodriguez and Carlos San Felipe. Heriberto J. Chavez went Heraldez were no times. 7 :4 3:26 for first, Josue Delgado was in We had two Safari groups: Safari at 8:04:28 for second and Lorenzo RECORD and the regular CODE Sa-Dojaquez hit a 9:22 flat for the third fari bunch. Safari S was won by Jesus spot. David Morquecho, Victor Jimenez with a time of 8: 15:52, Fran-Guerrero, Jose Guadalupe Cervantes cisco Guerrero was second with his and Miguel Dario failed to get times. 8:35:35 and the third place finisher was The last race of the CO DE season, Gabriel Rodriguez with a 9:02: 10. One 222 entries, which is probably a record other driver out ofthis 14-car field to initself,broughttheoldtimersandsome fmish for time, was Blas Alberto Co- new timers. The upcoming 2005 season rona with a 10:17:52. Miguel P-adilla; looks to be even more successful. The Josef Aguayo, Aldaberto Munoz, Hee-people at CODE want to thank every-tor Maines, Victor Ibarra, Gustavo one, drivers and crews, friends and fami-Amador, Martin Rodriguez, Jesus Perez, lies, all those fans of" doing it in the dirt." Gustavo Sanchez, and Ruben Alvanez They will see you on the Baja six times in were all no finishers. 2005 and as always, "come on own." The final results for this report came Great racing season guys and gals!!! Con-from the regular Safuri class, where seven gratulations to all of you. (8 Heriberto Chavez had a great race, he took the Sportsman Safari class with ease, he had more than 20 minutes in hand at the end. Victor Herrera Jr. had a decent .race, he drove his really good looking car to a nice second place in Class 10. February 2005 There were 14 SafariRecord Class entries, Jesus Jimenez, showed them all the way home, he won the class by 20 minutes. . • . 'M 2865 Gundry Ave. . 'Ila/ Hill, CA 90755 PFans 'I/Coo/a Driving $11/ts Rod EndBoots Neo Synthetic OJI Pedormance Plumbing r~°"'1~ FK~ ••-~)l•IK•J 562-427-2375 Page 43

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Roush is one of the premier perfor-mance engineering companies and after-market parts providers for Ford vehicles,-8 said Thom Peebles, brand director for BFGoodrich Tires. We work with compa-nies like Roush Performance to showcase our products on some of the top vehicles in the world. Working with the right part-ners makes a big difference. The g-Force T/ AKDW tire features technology and insight gained at the race track along with input from tuners, ve-hicle designers and dealers around the country. The g-Force T/ AKDW tire is available in 85 sizes making it the largest single tire line in the world. It has gained a reputation for its ultra-high perfor-mance characteristics both in wet and dry conditions, excellent tread life and a Tires smooth ride. Roush Performance bridges the gap between road and track, the first company to blend leg-endary racing experience with ad-vanced engineering and manufactur-ing expertise. With an unparalleled reputation for innovation and qual-ity, Roush Performance's products are the only aftermarket performance products that can be purchased di-rectly from your local Ford dealer. BFGoodrich Tires combines tech-no logical expertise with vast motorsports experience, delivering a high-performance tire for every type of vehicle from ultra-high perfor-mance tuner vehicles, sports cars and By Ann Donaldson The CORE pit club held the year end banquet on January 4, 2005 at Mulligans in Valencia. The club turned out in force for the dinner and raffle. CORE President, Brad Inch was Master of Ceremony. He an-nounced club officials for the new SUVs to the hottest sport trucks, pick-ups and rock-crawling rigs in the world. BFGoodrich Tires has built its reputation on using motorsports as a proving ground. Success on the street begins with winning on the track and BFGoodrich Tires is involved in every type of racing, including oval, road, drag, desert and extreme rock-crawl-ing. With 19 consecutive Baja 1000 wins, the most wins in rock-crawling history and an unmatched record on pavement, BFGoodrich Tires has proven the only records it breaks are its own. Visit BFGoodrich Tires online at www.bfgoodrichtires.com. year. Brad is still President, Tim Lindsey is Vice President, Dave Girdner took on being Treasurer for another year. Bob Depew is Sergeant of Arms, Wayne Nosala and Larry Altoff will be Race Director and Allison Chase is Secretary. Class rep-resentatives are Johnny Burns and Randy Jones. The first order of business was planning for the 2005 racing season. The club will set up pits at all six of the MORE faces. Along with selected SCORE and SNORE races. Randy Jones will race the SCORE opening race in Laughlin, Nevada in his 1/2-1600 car. Last year in Laughlin, Randy finished in second place so we wish him good luck. Two members plan on racing their new cars the coming race season. Bob Depew has spent quite a lot of time building a Class 11 Bug. 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Each year, CORE mem-bers nominate other members to receive a custom jacket. A jacket is awarded to three club members, Member of the Year, Pit Person of the Year and the last is for Driver of the Year. The jackets are black with yellow embroidery, keeping with CORE club col-ors. Club Secretary, Class 1600 racer, pit help and CORE web site keeper, Dave Continued on page 51 Introducing SKG Motorsports Center, the ultimate custom design and suspension specialists, offering superior-quality custom auto, truck and S.U.V. service and parts. Whether you want to improve the look of your vehicle with a custom suspension kit, or completely outfit your dream machine, trust the SKG experts. Recently opened by three members of the McMillin Racing Team who have a combined 50 years experience in all aspects of the automotive industry, SKG offers customers the highest-quality cus-tom service and parts available. And our work is 1000/o guaranteed. 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MDR SUPERSTITION SERIES BUD LIGHT DASH 200 Deardorff Wins overall By Judy Smith Photos: Trackside Photo Mike Oeardoff had a good New Years Eve, he took the Class 10 battle and the overall win as well at the MOR Bud Light race. Mike Deardorff hustled around the 63 mile course at the Bud Light Dash and fin-ished the afternoon with the overall win in his Class 10 car. The event, the season fin-i~her f~r the if6R Superstition Series (which used to be the Fud races) drew 72 entries, on an atypical cloudy and windy day. Folks who'd stayed overnight didn't crawl out of their camp-ers and motorhomes any ear-lier than necessary, and if you didn't know where east was you wouldn't be able to tell, be-cause there was no sign of the sun. The course was a 63 mile winding trail based in the Plas-ter City West OHV area. It went around the mountains for the first time in a long time, and the course markers had to use some careful planning to avoid the worst of the muddy spots. There was an eight hour time limit, and a varied number of laps depending on the class. The fast cars were required to do four laps. Typical of the races in this area, there were places where incoming and outgoing trails were very close, and this meant good access for chase people, as well as good watching. The holiday season storms had left a lot of wet spots, and a storm was heading south on race day, but happily, it got hung up on the mountains to the west and never rained a drop on the race. The Class 1 cars started (irst, with five entries. The McMillins planned to race a full team, but one car blew a clutch two days before the race and the other lost its motor in prac-tice. That left them with only Corky McMillin's Chenowth, which hadn't been prepped since the Baja 1000, which it finished. Corky was the start-ing driver. It was a toss-up, who was out first, but Josh Waddell prob-Greg Hansen led the Class 1 fracas all the way, he's seen here completing a pass and heading for the bam. ably won. His TLR Truggy was towed back to the main pits on a rope before all the other cars had got the green flag. It never made it back out onto the course. And Bob Lofton, in a J imco, was also out on the first lap, victim of a blown transmis-sion. But Corky McMillin was moving along just fine, and in the lead, with the class fast lap of the day, at 1:08:30 for the 63 miles. Greg Hansen had his Porter in second place, and Brent Miller, in a middle-aged Raceco, ran third, about 20 minutes off his pace with some kind of first lap misery. It all changed on the second lap, because McMillin's car lost a seal on the transmission, giv-ing him an idea of just how many miles the new transmis-sion could go without problems -that would be 1016 plus 63 or so, at speed. Now Hansen went into the lead, and Miller, with better times after some-thing was repaired, ran second. Hansen had about 15 min-utes worth of trouble on the third lap, but Miller had lost more time than that on Lap 1, and it didn't help him. Hansen went on to take the win and Miller was second and there were no other survivors. The Class 10 cars were the second bunch to go with eight starters. Only one of them, Brandon Aymar in his Honda powered Elite, failed on the first lap. Of the rest, Michael Deardorff had the lead, with 22 seconds on Darren Hardesty in a brand new Alumicraft, out for its first race here. Deardorff was a bit of a sur-prise, since he'd started late, and behind the three Class 8 trucks. He'd had to replace his battery, and just didn't quite make the starting line-up. In these MDR races, a late starter is put at the end of the next class, but doesn't incur a time penalty as he would in some other series (where they are given their intended start time, instead of the actual one. MDR considers having to start be-hind a bunch of slower cars enough penalty for the tardy racer). Deardorff, driving a car with a VW beam type front sus-pension, had clearly pushed hard to get around all the trucks and all but one of the Class 10 cars. Justin Lofton was third, about ten minutes back, and running on three cylinders in his Honda Jimco. David Gardner ran fourth, about two minutes behind Lofton. Ralph Mauzy drove his powerful and good looking car to the Class 5 win, seen here driving hard towards the finish line. Tony Steingraber led the Class 5-1600 battle all race long, he took the class win with ease, seen here at speed. On the second lap Deardorff held the lead, now with a bit less than two minutes on Hardesty. Lofton was still third, and Gardner held fourth. On the third lap both Lofton and Hardesty stopped for driver changes. Deardorff stayed in his car. At the end of Lap 3, Hardesty's teammate, Mark Randazzo, who'd never driven a race car before, was still second to Deardorff, but only by four seconds. Matt Loiodice, who took over for Lofton, was determined to catch up, pushing hard and still third, although he was a bit closer. Gardner held fourth. On the last lap Deardorff Brent Miller had a long first lap, then he got going but the best he Todd Stemmerman is just airborne, he ran well but was only able to Julie Kem was a bit off the pace in the Class 9 battle, she finished in could muster was a second place in Class 1. grab the silver medal in the Class 5 competition. the second spot at the MOR Bud Light race. Page 46 February 2005 Dusty Times 7

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Justin Lofton almost had a great day, he finished a very close second Nick Tiedemann drove his great looking car to a squeaky close Carlos Albanez took home the bronze medal in the Class 9 contest, in the Class 1600 battle, seen here touching down. second place in 1600, he was a mere 46 seconds in arrears. seen here churning through the outback towards the checkers. lost about eight minutes some-Norton took the lead in his while Wilson had lost an hour. his third lap done either. lap, but he was only a minute how, but held onto his lead, to Chevrolet, with the fast time for But Norton no sooner got past Next to start were the Class and 46 seconds in front of take the win, which turned out the class, at 1: 16:30, his truck the start/finish line than his 5 cars, with three entries. They Todd Stemmerman, whose car to be the overall victory. He was looking good. Scott Wilson ran rear shocks seized and tore up had a terrific race for a couple was blubbering so badly that a 27 minutes in front of the win-second. On the second lap his rear suspension, turning of laps. Ralph Mauzy went into 1600 passed him, up a hill. He ning Class 1 car. Loiodice, with Norton continued to look what had looked like a good day the lead with a fast time for the was only 34 seconds in front of a lap time inspired by determi-good, and stayed in front, into a dnf. Wilson didn't get class at 1:22:04 on the first Continued on page 48 nation, and still on three cylin-ders, recorded the fast lap of the day, for the entire field, at 1:06:53, and moved up to sec-ond place. Hardesty and Randazzo were third, only 29 seconds later. They were very pleased with the performance of their new race car. Gardner finished fourth and Jose Lopez was fifth, nearly an hour be-hind him. John White was the final finisher in the class, an hour and 43 minutes later. Doug Aleman had become a dnf statistic after two lengthy laps. The Class 8 trucks were next to leave the line, with three starters. Warren Thompson dropped out on the first lap, making it a two truck duel. Jeff Dusty Times Kent Graves led Class 9 for the entire race, he took the win with more than 20 minutes in hand when the checkers flew. February 2005 Tom Barrigan was the sole entrant in the 1200 Class, he had a good time, ran his two required laps and took home the gold medal. Page 47

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Darren Hardesty was third in the Class 1 0 contest, he was less than half a minute out of the second spot. The third place finish in the Class 1400 exercise went to Justin It was close in Class 1600, Ed Stout took home the bronze medal, he Mamer, seen here on his way to the checkered flag. was less than four minutes out of the second spot. Ken Schertzer. They were run-ning in each other's dust, ex-cept, of course, that it was so windy, the dust wasn't an issue. On the second lap they were still close, but Mauzy had built his lead to three minutes. Stemmerman had two minutes and 47 seconds on Schertzer, and they headed out again. Things looked different when they came around the third time, and Mauzy was pretty much by himself. He had a half hour on Stemmerman, and Schertzer had parked some-where for over four hours with serious trouble. Mauzy went on to take the win, and Stemmerman finished 47 minutes behin d him in sec-ond place. Schertzer ran out of time for getting the last lap completed. The 1600 cars came next, with 20 entries. Paul Keller put his Mirage into the lead on the first lap, but he had a tight pack right behind him. Greg car that had stopped. It hurt Art Navarro, who'd lost his seater, happy to have driven his Boyer ran second, about two his back, but he was able to roof on the first lap. first race to a finish, and on his and a half minutes back, and drive to the main pit. When he Keller lost his clutch on the birthday. His roof had tried to then it was Nick Tiedemann in got there, however, he couldn't last lap, but still moved at a come off, and he and his pas-his Jimco, and Clyde Stout in get out of the car by himself. good clip. He also reported that senger finished one lap holding Cameron Steele's Prep by Jake The pit crew called for the he'd had one flat, and "some it in place, so their crew could was fourth. Fifth place was medic team, then tipped his car guys changed it" on the course. "tie it down." (In MDR races, Adam Ashcraft in Eric Allen's over on its side (he threatened He took the win, but was only if a roof comes off, the officials car. Four entries failed to get murder if they so much as 46 seconds in front of will stop the car and require that first lap done. Garit touched the roll cage), and slid Tiedemann, who reported a that it be replaced.) In ninth Wallace broke a kingpin, and him out through the roof open-"perfect day, good prep, no place it was Victor Orellana, Tommy Gaddis, Shea Smith ing. He went to the hospital to flats, nothing." In third place who'd rolled on the first lap and Miles Wyatt were all out be checked out, but later in the it was Stout and Steele, who'd and lost his roof later, and in for unknown reasons. week was reported to be o.k. In recorded the fast lap for the tenth it was Tom Everts and On the second lap Keller con-the meantime, Keller stayed in class, at 1: 11:57, on the last John Manring, whose Raceco tinued to lead, and now he had front of the group, Tiedemann lap. They'd had a brake prob-one seater had blubbered so Tiedemann running second, was second, and Boyer was lem, and a front tire had rolled much early in the day they'd about two and a half minutes third. Cameron Steele took off the wheel, losing them an needed two tries to get up the back. Boyer had dropped to over for Stout, and they were estimated 10 minutes. Ashcraft little hill onto the finish pla-third, and Stout held fourth, still fourth, with Eric Allen, and Allen were fourth, and teau. He also had four flats. with Ashcraft still fifth. Colby who'd taken over for Ashcraft, Gaddis, who had apparently Manring did the second half, Sherard's two seater became a now in fifth place. Thirteen rolled over on the second lap, and for the final 15 miles had dnf on this lap, but that meant cars were still moving. was fifth. no power steering. He was the there were still 15 cars running. On the last lap the Boyer car In sixth place it was Daniel final finisher in this class. Joe Laff fell out on the third went out with a broken front McMillin in his two seater,_fol-The Class 7 trucks were next lap, and so did David adjuster and a broken engine lowed in by Humberto to start, with just two entries. Hendrickson, who ran his two stud. Billy Skinner also went Rodriguez, in seventh. Ian Perry McNeil and his Ford went seater into the back of another out on the last lap, and so did Jameson was eighth in his two away on the first lap, and that TM 1---tf\:---------. 1----riri~------H---,-----1 =---1 Page 48 LIGHT SYSTEM by ~flesigns Gta3bullt [aJ]Jwlred l:n!}headache ("J'J (3 :<mount • • Tig welded chromoly frame - For strength and durability Individual Quick Adjusters - Lights are adjustable four ways Premium glass optics - Provide the best light dispertion possible Pre-mounted Generation 4 ballast - Smaller size, lower weight, more reliable, greater safety Rubber mounted - Vibration isolated lamps - Eliminate the tendency for the lamp to vibrate out of position Light Weight - Single weighs 4 lbs. 10. oz. - Bars are 2/3rds the wieght of competitors lights alone February 2005 Dusty Times 7

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A bit off the winning pace all race long, David Gardner still managed a decent fourth place in the Class 1 0 group. Adam Ashcraft kicks up the dirt as he drives his neat looking car to a decent fourth place finish in the Class 1600 battle. Jose Lopez had a terribly long second lap, he ended up in fifth place in the hotly contested Class 1 o fight. left Neil Hefferman out there, hour down now. a class all by himself. He com-Plunkett continued to lead pleted only three of the re-through the third lap, and now quired four laps, his best time Tony Steingraber (who owns at 2:07:31. So it wasn't a sue-the car), had taken over for the cessful day for Class 7. final two laps. He was finding The 5-1600s were next, with it hard to steer because of the four race cars. On the first lap bent front-end parts. Still, he Dave Collier went into the lead, was only a minute and 42 sec-with seven minutes on Ron onds back at the end of Lap 3. Plunkett. Ismael Sanchez never And, he was thinking about the got the lap finished, and Kris lead car, "Who is that guy? He's Lozano Schulz ran another fast!" Lozano Schulz reported four minutes back in his "little on the radio that he'd lost his window" bug. (VW purists transmission and was out of the would be horrified to think he race and said he, "That burns cut a little window body into a me out!" Bug -and a race car at that.) On the last lap Steingraber On the second lap Mike and Plunkett had a duel, each Ghosn drove the lead car, and passing the other in assorted lost the lead when he rolled the turns, and then Plunkett car and bent a front shock dropped back out of sight. tower. Plunkett now led by just Steingraber went on to finish, over two minutes. Lozano earning a win for himself, Schulz was third, about a half Ghosn and Collier. His last lap Eli Yee saw all his competition fade away in Class 1300, he was the only finisher and took home a nice win. had been the fast one for the class, at 1:31 :57. Plunkett started a long, sad litany on the radio. "I lost a fanbelt!" When he installed the one that had been "attached to the motor" as a spare, it broke right away. Now he started pleading for another. Some pit person re-minded him there was one stored in the door. "No -some-one blanking took it!" he re-plied. From elsewhere, Larry McCallum reported he had a belt and would bring it out. Huge sighs of relief, audible even over the radio. But shortly came word that he was looking for a new pulley. His problems were terminal, and after driv-ing so well for three laps, he didn't make it to the finish line. The Class 725 trucks went next, required to run four laps. It would be a close thing for them to complete their four Heidi Steele (Cameron's wife) laps in time apparently, because ran second about 11 minutes Jim Highley had the best time back in her Raceco, and Don of the few that were done, at Gibson, another Raceco, was 1:44:30. Multiplied by four four minutes behind her. that makes a whisker shy of Yee lost ten minutes on the seven hours, leaving precious second lap and Steele held sec-little time for errors or prob- ond place, still ten minutes lems in a stock truck class. At down. Gibson didn't get the any rate, it was a moot point. second lap done. Yee picked up That quick lap was the only one the pace again for Lap 3, and Highley managed to complete. went on in lonely splendor to And his competitor, Dave take the win, as Steele had Ahles, after doing two laps in problems and also became a five hours and 54 minutes, ra-dnf. dioed in, at quarter to five, Nine Class 9 cars lined up "We're done!" for the start, and they had to Class 1300 went next. This do only three laps. Two of them is the open-wheel Sportsman turned up missing on the first class, and this time it was all lap. Chris Hancock, and the two seat buggies. They were re-team of Mark Green and Brian quired to run only three laps. Deegan. Jose Victoria had the On the first lap Eli Yee and his fast lap for the class in his two Curry in the lead, with the fast seat Chenowth at 1:34:58. Kent time for this group at 1:20:44. Graves, in a Jimco, was just 14 ~-----------------,-----~-,,--,---c---.,----. seconds behind him and Matt Mark McMillin had a ball, he drove his pickup to a nice win in the Class 1400 battle, seen here at speed. Arnold was another 22 seconds back in his one seater. Ju lie Kern had lost second gear in her KIT two seater, and was strug-gling, and Carlos Albanez had rolled h is on e seater and lost about 10 minutes. O n the second lap G raves went into the lead, with about two and a half minutes on Ar nold, who was about two and a h alf minutes in front of Victoria. Mark Anderson's one seater had given up. He'd started the day with his roof blowing open in the wind when he was sitting in staging. Maybe it got to be a problem for him. 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. Pat Sutalo, shy a small bit of fiberglass heads to the finish line, Pat finished fifth in the Class 1400 group. Over the jump, Caleb Gaddis flies his Class 1600 racer towards a Gilmer Conner is missing a few body parts, he drove his Ford to a fifth place finish at the MOR Bud Light affair. decent second place in 1400, just 5 minutes out of the lead. "terrible" after the first lap, and he conjected that some-thing must have been bent. Nev-ertheless, he took the win, his first of the year. Ray Neff had taken over when Kern got out of the car, and he said it was a "big problem" to drive a Class 9 car on that course with no second gear. He'd been stuck in the sand for a few minutes when another car suddenly stopped in front of him, but he still earned a second place for himself and Kern. They were 25 minutes beh'nd Graves. In third it was Albanez and Jesus Velez, who drove the second two laps. He said it was hard to drive because the front beam was bent. Albanez, who usually races in the Mexicali area, thought this course was "too rough for Class 9". In fourth it was Jack Hettinger, a name out of the past, in a single seat car. Victoria's main frame rail broke right at the front beam on the last lap, so he did.n'i: fin-ish, nor did Arnold, for un-known reasons. Clas, 1400 was next to take Paul Keller really had to work for his Class 1/2-1600 win, when the flag flew he had a mere 46 seconds over :?Id place. off, with 11 entries. This is the Sportsman Truck class, and they were to run only two laps. Mark McMillin had his old Ford pre-runner in the lead, even after stopping to replace a tossed power steering belt. He had his 15 year old daughter, Macy, riding with him. In second place it was Greggory Tuck, only 34 seconds behind. Conner Gilmore, in a new late model Ford, ran third. It was his first race in the new truck and he'd done a "somersault" already, crumpling the beautiful roofline. A spectator with a Bronco and a tow strap got him upright quick!'y. Justin Mamer, in his JeepSpeed vehicle, ran fourth, less than two minutes behind him. Only one, the www.nevadaoffroadbuggy.com o,.p, T: / iAf4 1lll: UI.HiWS l'OWEII SOulce-ZTREME TIRE co. NEVA°' OFFROAOBUGGY T-SHIRT SM-MEO-LRG-XXLRG ONLY $10.00 CROW IBlftJ1EDP~ 'i ' .' I I 1 II ... ' ; I - . ..,... . -.._. -SOI I) •. • .· HFRF WE CARRY AWIDE ASSORTMENT OF WELD ON TRICK TABS """"~~ '1t«e ..... GIVE US A CALL FOR ALL YOUR OFFROAD & SAND NEEDS CALL TOLL FREE Page 50 1-888-755-5900 3054 S. VALLEY VIEW #130 * LAS VEGAS, NV* 89102 HOURS: MON-FRI 9AM-6PM * SAT 9AM-SPM (702) 871-5221 fax February 2005 David Santa Cruz had a decent race, he drove his Ford pickup to a fourth place in Class 1400, seen here at work. JeepSpeed of Giti Gowland, failed to finish the first lap. His race car had probably had pre-cious little prep work since run-ning the BITD Henderson race three weeks before Christmas. McMillin didn't have any problems on the second lap and recorded the quick time for the class, ar 1 :25:32 finishing his 126 miles in 3:13:28 for the win. Gilmer, avoiding further upsets was second, only five min-utes later, and Mamer was third, about 12 minutes further back. David Santa Cruz, who has more fun than anybody, was fourth in his Ford Ranger, and in fifth it was Pat Sutado. Rich-ard and Cameron Reeves were sixth, another four minutes be-hind them, and John Coleman, in another JeepSpeed, was sev-enth. Brandon Whitehead was eighth in his Toyota, and ninth, and the final finisher, was Tuck. Joseph Belt, who started an hour late, and then had a troubled lap, didn't manage to get his second lap completed. The last car to start was a Class 1200 Ford Explorer, driven by Tom Barrigan and Ri-chard Keller. This was also a two lap class, similar to SCORE's Stock Mini. Each of the drivers did one lap, and they liked the longer course, enjoying the fact that because of the wind, it wasn't a dusty day. The next event in the MDR Superstition Series will be the March 5th Fud 200 on one of the Plaster City courses. Check the MDR website for exact details. ~ PIKES service center Baker, California Celebrating 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ... THANKS! RESTAURANT Open 24 Hours Mobil® SERVICE E.very Day Year Round THE BEST IN THE DESERT! Dusty Times

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CORE P1TS ••• (CONTINUED) Girdner was given the first jacket for Member of the Year. Hauling the CORE trailer to the races is not a fun job. Bob Depew has taken on the job along with working the pits, and keeping track of main pit radio duties. Bob was awarded a jacket for Pit Person of the Year. Winning three races along with the Class 10 championship is the MORE series, Wayne Nosala received the DriveroftheYearjacke~ The CORE club will be out in force at all of the MORE races. Many races noticed that CORE pits were "every-where" at these races. If you plan on racing MORE this year, give thought to join a pit club for race suppott You can find club information at http://www.corepits.com/ or call Club President, Brad Inch at (818) 352-9035. -.~ .. ¼ ----By Tom Sobray The 2004 racing season has just ended and plans are already underway for the upcoming year. Continuing with our mo-menrum from previous~ FAIR will be offering our members pit support at all six SCORE events in 2005. Kicking off the new year with the SCORE Laughlin Challenge, January 13-16, 2005, FAIR will have marked, desig-nated pit area for all ofour club members racing this and upcoming SCORE events. The short distance and high speeds in-volved racing at Laughlin almost guaran-tees that if you have to pit, you're just rac-ing to finish. This will be a club supported eventwithnopitfeesforanyofourracers. Early indications look as if FAIR will haveOllef 12 enttiessoSCOREhasagreed to mark off a pit area based on car oount Any club memberwith intentions of rac-ing or attending Laughlin neeru to reply to this m~ promptly so we can notify SCORE with an accurate car oount to insure we have adequate space to pit to-gether as a group. Fair will also oontinue our dominate support oflocal racing in Southern Cali-fornia. Supporting the entire 2004 MORE series, FAIR had a racecar oount averaging ewer 13 members for race for all six races, ofren more than double the amount of entries supported by other pit duhi. With three new, larger pit trailers go-ing into service soon, FAIR' s members, results and strength willoontinue to make usthedubtoracewithin2005. Wishingyouandyourfumilythehap-piest of holidays and a prosperous new year! -.~ . ··---ofl..otc ,,,, Bill Dart, well known land use advocate, has joined ORBA's team •• c.r12111111111lllllltlatlMIIIIOIC1811 .... ••--... •n11n• Tow Power blucri0$~ ~ nttde co tigo,ot1$ miliraty$0Uldard Providin supcriorvib~doll irid shock~ non-spilbbtc d~ ind deliver up to 1500 Cnmking Amps in 1. 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Classified ... Some of the items advertised in these pages may not be legal for sale or use in all 50 states. Readers are advised to consult appropriate local or state authorities for information before h f •fi ·t . . . -----~ -~----Af UT Otv10Tl\/b. FOR SALE: 2 Seat Jimco Class 1 Unlimited. 4.9 Liter hevy V-6, 540 HP by H.P. Engine ith E.F.l. en-gine mana ol and data system. Fo d, big ax-les, fuel safe cell HID lights, Fou e Jones wheel, P.C dios, Lowrance col any spare parts. Pre Professionally main-ta in e y Jimco Racing. $95,000.00 Howard Groff (818) 349-5861. FOR SALE: 2000 Chenowth 4 seater dual sport A-Arm car. Mendeola MD4S trans, Major per-formance 2.6 type 4, Fox shocks, Howe steering, intercom Race Ra-dio, MSD ignition, roof rack, new tires and more. $37,500.00. Call Biil Reams (858) i04-9860 for details or email B REAMS Yahoo.com. FOR SALE: Pre Runner/ Race Truck Chevy 224 350 with aluminum heads. Manual shift TH 400 3000 Stall, Ford 9" 4:88 spool. 28" travel with Racer Run-ner remote reservoir shocks. Includes trailer with 80001b winch. $22,500.00 OBO Steve @ (509) 585-2122 Thrasher 18 ?@charter.net. Truck is in Phoenix (602) 421-5386. FOR SALE: Ford F150 PreRunner-Geiser built, 3 seat, Patton big block, Rancho C-6, King, CNC, 37" BFG, Gordon Wheels. Best of everything. Fast and reliable. No trades. Call Kory (702) 477-7575 or emaif realtechreal @msn.com. FOR SALE: Truggy Pre-Runner 3 Seater 130wb, 88" track, all 1" ¾. 120 chromoly, King coil over/bypass each wheel, travel 24"/28". Fresh 5.7 400 HP, Tom Face headers built TCI th400, Winters shifter, Howe radiator & 2 tranny coolers, 3 link gusseted 9" rear 35 spline spool, Superior axles, Willwood disc, FK bearings/heims, K&N, CNC, Momo, Autometer, PRP, Crow, Aero, OMF headlocks, 37" BFG KRs. Plumbed by G&J and professionally wired. Chas-sis dimensions will allow body to fit. Hardly driven. All bugs worked out. Tears up the desert and the sand. Dave (909) 938-5460. $48,000.00. FOR SALE: 2005 Porter Class 1 car. New-never raced. Completed at Herman Motorsports. 500 HP LS 1 motor, Fortin 4 speed with converter, King Shocks, 4" in rear, Fortin Steering, Kartek Hubs, Spindles, Axles, Brakes & Boots, Kenwood radio, Mastercraft, BFG's. Race Ready! $165,000.00. Darnen Jefferies. (760) 948-2898. FOR SALE: Chenowth 1-1600short course car. All Chromoly, Wright, ft control arms and combos, 930's, Sway-A-Way, Summer Bros, Fox, $3,800.00. (702) 324-3816. FOR SALE: 2001 Ford Ranger, 4.0, caged bumper to bumper brand new custom PreRunner. 3-linked, King shocks, H & Long Travel kit, 17" front Travel, 29" rear travel. Goodyear Wranglers, must sell for motorcycle road racing, $39,000.00 Call Chad@ (661) 904-7077. FOR SALE: Fat Performance Toyota V6 3.2 Liter with Mote CM 48 Multi-Port Fuel injected race en-gine, includes exhaust headers, com-plete Management system and har-ness. A Class 1 carbureted version of this engine won the 2003 Score Cham-pionship. $6,500.00 OBO. Howard (818) 349-5861. FOR SALE: 2003 Gnarlybuilt Chromoly chassis. Fox Bypass Shox, FAT motor, Power Box bus tranny, 930 CV's, Fortin Cages, King Kong torsion adjuster& fingers. SwayAway 300m bars. CNC disc & tall 7/8" brake master cylinder. King Kong Leaf adjusters with 6 leafSwayAway tor-FOR SALE: ExRivera Class 1 single seat. Laughlin, San Felipe & True Grit ward winner. 500HP Patton V6 Chevy, Fields auto tranny, Nye Frank Shocks, Very fast and competitive. Very Clean. Motivated seller. Todd (619) 807-7372. toddcuffaro-05@sandiego.edu. $35Kobo. FOR SALE: 1-1600 Suspension Un-limited Race Car. Fresh FAT Motor, 0 miles on T ransaxle trans. Good looking car & works good. Call for more info. (909) 288-0147 cell or (909) 350-2700. FOR SALE: Class 1 Jimco-2000 Se-ries rear engine single seat, fresh Wiks V6 aluminum Chevy, fresh Fortin HD 4 Speed, King shocks, big axles, com-pletely prepped and race ready. Best of everything. $70,000.00 Car is in Las Vegas. No trades. Call Kory(702) 477-7575 or email ,realtechrealty@msn.com. FOR SALE: Chenowth Millenium. sion leafs. Wright2 degree spindles, FORSAI.E: FordRangerCbs57S.BTID Fresh EFI Nascar V6 500 HP, 7/8"linkpins,Foddrillarms,Gnarly 04ClassChampion,Esslingerdrysump FOR SALE: Class 12 (Score Lite) Fresh Transaxle auto, Foddrill, built rear trailing arms. Type 2 bear-motor, C4 Rancho Transmission, TCS, FOR SALE: Class 12 or 10, New Moulton/Mirage Single Seat. CNC, Howe, Fox coil & bypass, ing hubs, stubs & brakes. Lowrance Automerergauges,HoweP/SwithRAM, 0 mile, Mirage front end, Fodrill 1776cc Geoff Hart Engine, Fortin Motec digital dash, MSD, PIAA, 3300 OPS, 2 Hella HID's. 16" ConeFulllbuer9"40spline. GPS,HIDs, Big arms, Dual Sheer steering, 5 spd trans, Fox Shocks, Foddrill Hella Hid, Halogen fire system, PCI Centerlines front. 22 gallon fuel cell, CNC, +sµrres$40,CXX).00inSan Diego, Fox coilovers, Monohan, Rear Arms, Summers Hubs, PCI radio, setup, Parker, Mastercraft, 30 gal Yokos on 7.5 Centerlines in rear. PCI Call Mike (858) 453-4768. end, Woods arms, Lightened 934 etc. prepped and ready to race. cell w/quick fill, BFG projects, Ul- radio & Intercom. 518" heims & FOR SALE: Chase Van 89 Ford C/V's, 300m Gundrilled axles, 24ft enclosed trailer with many tra wheels, New paint job, lots of chromolytierods. This car is fast& E350 2x4, extended body seats 6 Fox's w/bumps, Mendeola trans, spares. Complete package of car, spare equipment too much to list. reliable. Ready to go racing. people. New460motor, newC6 trans, CNC disc brakes, too much to trailer and all spares for Prep by Foddrill Fab & Fox $l9,500.00. Contact Gnarly newfrontend,driveline,newtiresand list, less motor $20,000.00. con-$25,000.00 OBO. Call Jim or Motorsports, Very fast & reliable, ( 760) 471-8469 or wheels, racks inside and on roof tool tact Keith (714) 931-7302/(714) Mike 2upanovich@ (562) 591- Top finisher, $59,000.00. Call Collierdce@procligy.net. Serious in-boxinside. C.allMike,SanDiego(858) 473-1058 5665. Cesar Fuentes@ (915) 726-3823. quires only. FINS no extra charge! 453-4768 . .....•..................................................................... ~.~.~.~.~.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-: Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in . DUSlil : : DUSTY TIMES. lilDIDS : • Classified Advertising rate is only $25 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5 .00 for use of • : black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. 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FOR SALE: Chevy Class 8/Pre-Runner or toy. Fiberglass body, 20" travel front coil w/lightning rods, 22" Rear-Quarter Liptic w/ 3" Kings, Bump stops Ft. & RR., 40 gal. Fuel Safe, 350 LI, 350 Trans, Many more items, needs some work to race. $25,000.00. Call 775-425-5420. FOR SALE: Jeepspeed #1739, 3ro overall in "04 Series. No DNF's vt~ry well sorted out, spares. Call for details. $12,000.00. John (619) 440-5323. FOR SALE: Ford Ranger Pro-Lite. C.O.R.R. series. Everything fresh. For-merly owned by Jimmie Crowder. Best of everything! $29,000.00 OBO Ready to Race. (817) 925-4810. FOR SALE: LS 1 engine and 4 L60E auto trans, Like new 8,000 miles in-cludes wiring harness, computer, alt, water pump, power steering pump, starter, AC compressor, pulleys & belts. $6,500.00 OBO (928) 855-1090. Havasu. FOR SALE: Chenowth PreRunner-Ex Class One 2 seat: FAT Porsche dual plug, fresh Auto transaxle, new King bypass shocks, new axles, zero miles on prep. Fast and reliable. $25,000.00 Car is in Las Vegas. No trades. Kory. (702) 477-7575 or e m a i l real tech rea lty@msn.com. PLEASE Class 1 J imco-2000 Series mid engine 2 seat chassis, fresh Fields Auto trans, Fox shocks, completely prepped and race ready. Cur-rently 1 center seat setup but can be converted back to 2 seat. Best of everything. $80,000.00. Car is in Las Ve-gas. No trades. Call Kory (702) 477-7575 or email realtechrealty@msn.com. Dan.,t Forget Ta Support The Advertisers Dusty Times Ill/ha Keep DU81i7~1DIBG Reporting The OFF Raad /Vews! . February 2005 Sell your vehicles, equip-me1it and bits and pieces right here! Dusty Times has the readership you' re looking for so fill out the form on the opposite page and get your ad in our next ~ ... ____ _ FOR SALE: Porter 1600 2 seat. Wiks motor, King by-pass, CNC disks, Mastercraft. Best money can buy. Super clean and fully prepped. Todd, (619) 807-7372. toddcuffaro-05@sandiego.edu. $30Kobo. FOR SALE: 40' Semi Trailer. 2 gen-erators, air comp, awning 20x.40 with zip on sides, belly boxes, benches inside, tool boxes, Kar bolt drawers, holds 2 trucks. Great for desert or short course. $45,000.00. (951) 845-8820. Position available. Now hiring. Train-ees and experienced fabricators, weld-ers prep mechanics. We are currently building trophy truck, CORR Pro 2, Pro Lite, Rock Krawlers and general fab. Cal Pre Fun, Beaumont, CA (951) 845-8820. INDb.XTO ADVb.12. T~b.12.~ Baker Precision ................................ 43 Bilstein ............................................. : 35 C&R Racing ....................................... 59 Carrera Lights ................................... 48 Coast Casinos ..................................... 9 Fabtech .............................. . .......... 31 Hella Lights...................... . .......... 26 ISCO .............................................. 36 JeepSpeed ............................. ......... 23 Kartek .............................................. 24 KC Hilites ........................................... 2 King Shock Tech ............................... 27 Light Force Engineering ................. 32 McKenzie Performance Produr:ts .... 10 MOR Productions .............................. 21 Mickey Thompson Tires ................... 5 Mojave Desert Racing ...................... 37 Nevada Off Road .............................. 50 Off RoadSwap Meet ........................ 15 OMF ................................................. 30 Pacific Customs ................................ 28 Parker Embroidery ........................... 17 Parker Pumper ................................. 51 Parker Pumper/Competition Air ...... 16 PCI Race Radios ................................. 5 Pike's Service Center ....................... 51 Pro Dirt ............................................. 11 Race Ready Products ....................... 39 Racer X ............................................. 12 Redline Performance ........................ 38 Ronco Plastics .................................. 49 Sakata .............................................. 25 SCORE International .......... Back Cover SKG Motorsports .............................. 44 Skyjacker Suspensions .................... 42 SNORE ............................................... 33 Team Gordon Race Wheels .............. 47 Team Peltzer .................................. 45 Total Power Batteries ...................... 51 Turnkey Products ............................. 41 Valley Performance ......................... 51 Page 59

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