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Volume 22 - Number 4 April 2005 DUSlil • li1mos '1--alifornia 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 • allv ., .~eriCs¼l 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: (IS~N 8750-1732) is published monthly by Hill-side RacingCorp,.20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311, (818) 882-0004 with additional Dusty Times, LLC offices at 415 N. Higgins Avenue, Suite lA, Missoula, MT 59802. Copy-right by Hillside Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the pub-lisher. Periodical Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change to DUSTY TIMES, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new address, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. snapshot of the Month ... Where? Riverside Raceway. When? 1980. What? Pepsi Challenge of Champions. Who? Marty Letner ready for touchdown as he flies towards a I st place finish. 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 Parker 425 by Jiuly Smith ................................................................... 8 54th Swedish Rally by Martin Holmes .......................................................... 18 MOR Lucerne 250 by] Preston Bradshaw ................................................. 22 MORE Toys For Tots Holiday 200 by Ann Donaldson-.......................... 22 Film Review -Dust To Glory ................................................................. 27 Sno*Drift National Rally by] Preston Bradshaw ...................................... 28 SNORE Battle At Primm by John Calvin ................................................... 30 VORRA Prairie City Remake by Tony Bond .............................................. 36 CRS Banquet by Scott Bottomley ................................................................ 38 BFG Outhouse Contest by Judy Smith .................................................... 40 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ............................................................................................... 5 Trail Notes ................................................................................................ 6 Pony Express ........................................................................................... 41 BFGoodrich News by Christian Flathman ................................................. 42 Checkers Report by The Big Wah.zoo ....................................................... 4 2 CORE Report by Ann Donaldson ............................................................... 44 Good Stuff Directory ............................................................................. 48 Classified Ads .......................................................................................... 5 4 Index To Advertisers ............................... : ............................................... 55 ON THE COVER Chuck Hovey made it look easy, he drove his Jimco to the Class 1500 win and he was the overall winner as well at the Best In The Desert Parker 425. Plwto by Dave Rivedahl-Trackside Plwto Scott Webster drove Jim Dizney' s Honda powered J imco to the Class 1000 win at the Best In The Desert 4 25, he was sixth overall at the checkers. Plwto by Fidel Gonzales-T rackside Plwto Visit Our Website at Dustytimes.com c5uhscrihe :Joday 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) □ NEW □ RENEWAL Name ---------------------Address --------------------Primary Interest Cars D Trucks O Motorcycles D Send check or money order to: DUSTY T IMES 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 Canadian - 1 year $30.00 US ■ Overseas subscription rates upon request Dusty Times April 2005 Page 3

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3-ea.n. f!.alvi.n 8Ae CW tu Off (ft.gad. rft.g.cin3-!i cJe!it cf 'Ci.en.d. What do you call a person who has been actively involved with the sport of off road racing for almost thirty years? Crazy, ignorant, a glutton for punishment, a masochist, any of the above? Well, I guess you would have to say a bit of all of them, but that's what makes Jean Calvin unique in this sport. She was sort of conned into the sport in 1969 and it certainly took hold of her. It became her greatest passion in life, the participation, the information she is able to disseminate to the people, the love of racing, the love of driving, the peopl~ involved in the sport, but mostly it is the compel-ling urge to succeed, to overcome the obstacles that arise in front of her and overcome them she does. Never known as a quitter, Jean attacked the sport of off road racing with vigor, finding a great outlet for her competitive spirit, racing not only against some other driver, but against the elements themselves. There were days (and long nights) when the temperature was in three digits, when the silt was so thick you could never even see the hood of the car, when the snow was so deep you couldn't find the race course, when your crew stood out there like frozen fools, listen-ing for "Their" engine, and then watching their driver 'plow on by, and Jean was one of those drivers, either freezing or sweating or choking or being blinded in the dust and in spite of it all, having the best time in the world because you were racing, off road racing, and there was still one lap to go, or 300 miles to go, it didn 'l matte'i·, you were where you belonged and you were putting forth your best ef-fort, that too was Jean at all times. Now mind you, Jean wasn't the only driver out there having all that fun, she was one of maybe 450 to 500 active drivers in those days, but she was one of the few women racing the desert and she did her best to beat everybody else out there. Jean raced sports cars with the SCCA for many years before entering the off road world. She had an Austin-Healy Sprite, which was near and dear to her heart and even though it was known as a miserable ill-handling car, she raced it for years, competing against mostly men and refusing to enter the "Women's Races", racing i11-stead against the good ole boys, who detested her when she beat them to the checkered flag. Jean had her share of accidents and flips, including one five time end over end at Santa Barbara; it destroyed the car (except for the roll bar) and Jean ended up with a broken nose and a severely wrenched shoulder. However, as soon as possible an-other Sprite was built and she was at it again. Jean entered the off road world when she did an article on Les Choate, owner of Les's Auto Salvage. Les was involved in the fledg-. ling sport of off road racing and offered Jean and her husband a ride in a "Burro" (state of the art for the time) in the upcoming Baja 500 and except for losing a steering box it was a very successful race. Jean kept running with Les's Auto Salvage Team, sharing the driving with Les and his son Eddie in many races over the next few years, until the "F" bug bit, in this case "F" stands for Funco and that was the beginning of part two for Jean in off road raci_ng. Jean made a deal with Gil George at Funco and a brand new single seater was born, a car that was raced to death but came through the flips and the crashes without too much long term damage. Jean raced the little Funco, mostly-in Class 9, then in 1600 and for the most part, enjoyed every minute of it. Lots of help came to her through Dick McCool and Jerry Lawless who' always made sure the car was up ~o par and both these guys shared the driving chores with Jean on numerous._occasions. We are unable to count the times Jean has taken the green flag in off road, but racing full time for too many years to mention with SCORE, SNORE, WRA. ARVRA, and many many other sanction-ing bodies, she has had plenty of seat time in the desert. Jean had worked for Peterson Publishing back in the sports car days, then put out SCORE News for Sal Fish for some time but in December, 1983 the first issue of Dusty Times hit the presses and the rest is history. Jean knew that the sport of off road racing needed an unbiased journal of the happenings in the desert racing community and Dusty Times was the answer. With help from her husband, Brad Goodrow, Don Goodrow and Jerry Lawless, Dusty Times was born and became another consuming passion in Jean's life. Jean continued racing and publishing Dusty Times with Judy Smith covering some· events, and it wasn't too long before Jean and Dusty Times were becoming the voice of off road racing. Dusty Times was soon covering rallying in Europe and Africa through Martin Holmes and the Australian races were covered by Darryl Smith and Mick Myers. Jean was badly injured in a Baja 500 race some years ago, her racing activities were brought to a sudden stop for a time, but her determination soon had her back covering the races and reporting on the racers she loved so well. Jean left this earth of ours on March 31, 1997. She enjoyed every minute she spent racing, covering the races and, above all, publishing Dusty Times. Jean was blessed with the willpower, the guts and the determination to never give up, she worked the races and the paper in spite of the pain she lived with most days and was always amply rewarded when some racer thanked her for putting their picture in the paper. Jean was inducted into the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2004, a fitting tribute to a woman who lived and loved off road racing for more than 30 years. Jean really was a champion! 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2005 Happenings ... (323) 5.60-SHOW CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 645 SANQUJNTJN CALLE 6TA FRACC Co. DE SAN QUINTIN SAN QUINTIN, BC, MEXICO Grupo Tersa San Felipe 200 San Felipe, B.C. June 17-19, 2005 Accesorios Amado Night Race Mexicali, B.C. 1 OK FmJR WHEELERS P.O. Box 36 CLEVES, OHIO 45002 (AU events staged at the club grounds in Cleves. Ohio) .AMERICAN RAu,y SPORT GROUP, lNc. 3650 SOUTH POINTE CIRCLE, SUITE 205 LAUGHLIN, NV 89208 (702) 298-8171/FAX: (702) 521-0597 E MAIL: roger@rallyusa.com .AMERICAN TRIA1.S ASSOCIATION AMA OBSERVED TRw..s -SOUTHERN CAUFORNIA CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES BILL MARKUM · PRESIDENT (909) 860-1857 24 HR HOTLINE· (714) 562-7742 E MAIL: bmark909@aol.com <www.atatrails.com> AsocJACION EsTATAL DE AuroMOVILISMO SAM l..AsELL, TECH INSPECTOR Ar-ro42 SAN JOSE DEL CABO BAJA CALIFORNIA DEL SUR. MEXICO AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSlllP DARRYL SMITH 19 SOMERS ST. CASHMERE, QUEENSLAND, 4500, AUSTRALIA DUSTY TIMES@bigpond.com AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFF ROAD CLASS IO CARS ONLY RENALD VAIL!ANCOURT 3069 DAGENAIS WEST LAVAL QUEBEC, CANADA H7P 1T7 (450) 622-4440 BARONA SAND DRAG AssN ... P.O. Box 1521 LAKESIDE, CA 92040 AU Races Are Night Races AU Races At Barona RacewaJ, Lakeside, CA BBM MARKETING PROMOTIONS OFF ROAD SHORT COURSE RACING & SPECIAL EVENT MARKETING 4344 VALLEY VIEW AVE. NORCO, CA 9:!860 (909) 340-64 74 BEST lN THE DESERT 3475 BOULDER HIGHWAY !..As VEGAS, NV 89121 702-457 577 5/FAX: 702-641-24 31 April 1-3, 2005 Pro Circuit Nevada 200 Trail Ride April 29, 30 May 1, 2005 Terribles Town 250 July 6-10, 2005 McMillin Nevada 1000 October~, 2005 TSCO Vegas To Reno December 2-4, 2005 Henderson's Terrible 300 B.O.R.E. BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTERPRISES 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 El 200 BP MoToRSPORTs 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 California Cicy, CA BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 BRIGHTON, ONTARIO, CANADA KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/FAX (613) 475-3250 CAJOR CLUB AUTOMOVIUSTA]UARENSE DE CHAMPIONSHIP OFF-ROAD RACING 7210 GATEWAY EAST EL PASO, TX 79915 (915) 593-4848 RALPH GARCIA 0ll-52-16-17-45-42 CESAR FUENTES CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES www.Californiarallyseries.com April 2, 2005 Desert Storm Rally - Coef 2 April 9, 2005 Dusty Times Las Vegas Rallycross I April 30, 2005 Las Vegas Rallycross II May6-7,2005 Rim Of The 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 October 1, 2005 Las Vegas Rallycross III October 7-8, 2005 Tentative 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 PIERRE, SD 57501 DAVE An-.Ms (P1WTS AND BAJAS) (605). 224-9481 DoN ENGLEMAN (BIKES) (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN V AlJ.EY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. RICHAR~ P.O. Box 332 FA1R HAVEN, vr 05743 (802) 265-8618 CI.AmTON HI-JACKERS l.C.O. TOM DEUUDER SR 1091 TWP. LINE ROAD WEUSVJLLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Cou= off Road Racing At Harrison Councy Fair Grounds. Cadii. OH Cum AuroMOVIUSTICA H ERACLIO PATINO (011 52 616-5-22-07) CLUB AuroMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE SAN VICENTE OFF ROAD ENSENADA, BC, MEXICO USA )AN WRIGHT (011 52 61746834) RAMON CASTRO & RUBEN ACEVEDO (61637/7 0034) CMC CoNTINENTAL MOTOSPORT CLUB P.O. Box 3187 MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690-3178 FAX: (714) 367-1608 C ODE OFFROAD CODE OFFROAD USA P.O. Box 2328 CALEXICO, CA 92231-2328 760-455-8069 USA 01 l-52-686-553-4087 MEXICO www .codeoffroad.com.mx April 29-30, May 1, 2005 August 5-7, 2005 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. COWRADO H1LL Cu:MB ASSOCIATION BARB VAHSHOLTZ, PRESIDENT (719) 531-3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P.O Box 8286 CoLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP P.O. Box 392 CALEXICO, CA 92232 Happenings continued on page 6 INTRODUCl~G--YKENWOOD~~~~~ 110 Watts of Power 1160 Channel Alphanumeric I Water Resistant I Mil Spec I Baja 1000 Proven ~~.S ~c.,..r~,.... E'JIIW:.llD/1,.,,..-1..,._,G, T#IE!!: ~~ 0 0 "_1 was in Ensenada, and my crew in San Qulnttn could hear me ISO miles awayl I need these in ALL of my lrucksr -....::.11.. L....::.11.._,,_, ,.l="LL/E:IIE"~ PROTRUCK WINNER. 2002 TECATE/SC0RE BAJA 1000 "_The best communication we've d in over 15 years of off road racing!" -~tDl!ElrJEI ...... ~~ tE6'/E:"F"-T~ #3'ClPWE'#r TDIIEA ,-~I Remole Head opHon avallable. Call ror details. 800.869.5636 562.427.8177 • Fax 562~26.3589 WWW.PCIRACERADIOS.COM 2888 Gundry Ave. • Signal Hill, CA 90755 April 2005 Pages

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Trail Notes ... CORR CHANGES HANDS -Jim Baldwin has purchased Championship Off Road Racing and the production assets of Marty Reid Enterprises from Marty Reid. Baldwin, an off road racer and major land developer in Southern California will now put his skills to work developing the future of the CORR Lucas Oil Series. "I have a passion for off road racing. CORR is entering a new era, so hold on!" said Baldwin. Baldwin said he looks forward to working with the staff of CORR in taking the sport to the next level. In order to do so, Baldwin pointed out that CORR's expansion from it's Midwestern roots is essential to gain national exposure by adding new markets. Baldwin indicated that a key ingredient for CORR's growth is the Southern California area. "California fans, sponsors and racers have been waiting on CORR to bring it's show to the west coast" noted Baldwin. "TI1is will happen very quickly. Several potential Southern California locations are presently being looked at." Founded in 1997 by Reid, CORR has grown into one of the premier off road racing series in the country, with 26 total rounds of racing in eight divisions, covering tl1e Pro and Sportsman Series. In 2004, 167 drivers from 20 states and Canada competed in the CORR Lucas Oil Series. 84 hours of exclusive CORR action is covered on tl1e Speed Channel network. "Since CORR was formed eight years ago, I have always said that if someone came along who could take the organization farther and faster, I would step aside," said Reid. Jim Baldwin's aggressive plan ofattack of growth on television as well as new event markets is incredibly exciting. Sponsors are the backbone of CORR's success. It's exciting to be able to protect their investment and give them their well deserved dividend. Our mission has been very clear, fulfilling sponsor needs with viable markets at each event, delivering quality brand impressions on television, and move tl1eir sales needle. For more information on Championship Off Road Racing and the CO RR Lucas Oil Series, visit www.corracing.com Rumor has it that the CORR 2006 series wiU havefourraces back in the Midwestandfourraces in Southern California. Let's see what develops. We're sure that Jim Baldwin has the best interests of the racers at heart CORR 2004 RACES - You can still catch some of last years CORR action on the Speed Channel. Crandon is showing on March 31 and April 4, Topeka is being shown on April 5, 6 and 7, Bark River is airing on April 11 and 12 and Crandon, once again on April 13 and 14. Check your local listings for the time the programs are aired. Wei! worth watching. SCORE SAN FELIPE 250 -The race was a howling success, the weather was perfect and most of the contestants went home happy, or, at lease semi happy. There were 292 entries, 269 actually started the race and 159 of them made it to the finish line, a 59% finishing rate. Jason Baldwin took the Trophy Truck class, Tim and Ed Herbst were second, some five minutes behind and Michael Jakobson was tl1ird. Andy McMillin and his fatl1er Scott cook tl1e Class 1 honors and they were first overall as well, Chuck Hovey was second co finish in class and Troy Herbst was third. In Class ½-1600 it was Rob MacCachren, Bryan Freeman and Danny Anderson taking the class win, second spot went to Caleb Gaddis and Hector Garcia was third. Don Moss was the Class 3 winner, Ken and Andy Leavitt took the silver medal and Chris Raffo came in third. The Class 5 win went to Tom Brown, Chris Bowman was the runner-up and Nancy Spirkoff came in third. TI1e Class 5-1600 win went to Ernesto Arambula, Marcos Nunez was the second place finisher and Jason Lakin won the bronze medal. TI1e Class 7 win went to Craig Turner, Victor Herrera Jr. was second and Doug Siewert took third place. John Holmes was the only finisher in Class 7S. Rich Severson was the Class 7SX winner and Jeff Lloyd was the runner-up. Todd Wyllie took the gold in Class 8 and Jeff Stowers was second, Dave Raimonde came in third. The Class 9 win went to Eric Fisher, Rohen Jones was second and Luis Guevara finished third. The big Class 10 gold medal went to Bekki and Adam Wile, Hardesty was second and Kash Vessels came in third. Stan Potter took the SCORE Ute win witl1 Chuck Sachs taking second place and Blaise Jackson took third. Billy Bunch took the Stock Full win and Terry Henn was second. Gustavo Vildosola was the ProTruck winner, Charlie McDowell was second and Craig Smith came in third. Tony Robles was tl1e Sportsman Car winner and Bobby Quarnstrom took the Sportsman Truck win. Chris Blais was tl1e big winner in Class 22, Steye Hengeveld came in second, Tim Morton took the honors in Class 21, Kevin Johnson was second. Gerado Rojas won Class 30, Brent Downing took the silver and Jim O'Neal double headed, taking tl1e win in botl1 Class 40 and 50. In tl1e ATV competition the Class 25 win went to Josh Frederick and Kirk Schreier was the Class 24 winner. CORR/BFGOODRICH -2005 will be tl1e eighth season of Championship Off Road Racing, 2005 will also be the eightl1 year that BFGoodrich Tires will be a sponsor of the CORR Lucas Oil Series. BFGoodrich is one of three companies to have sponsored the series since it began. During the first eight years, BFG Tires have been on the winning trucks of each Pro-Lite Champion. The Pro-2 Division also has eight BFG backed champions in the first eight seasons and seven consecutive Pro-2 Division championships.(1999-2004). In the Pro-4 Division, the last five championship trucks were shod with BFG tires. This helps to establish our claim of "The World's Toughest Off Road Tires." r-\FF ROAD EXPO -Just received a friendly reminder from the folks at Off VRoad Expo, even tl10ugh the expo is many months away, booth space is being reserved at a record pace and, if you intend to display your ware tl1eir you'd best be contacting the powers that be and get your space safely tucked away. The show is scheduled for October 8th and 9th, 2005 at the Fairplex in Pomona, California in halls 4,5 and 6 and the surrounding grounds. Over 40,000 people paid their way into tl1e Off Road Expo last year, so if you want to expose you and your products to the population at large, you'd better contact Guy Petersen or Bob Bower at Off Road Expo right away. Phone tl1em at 626-599-8622 or www.offroadexpo.com A NDREITI FACILllY -The Andretti family, Mario, Michael and John are re-.l""\opening their 100,000 square foot facility in Roswell, Georgia after a million dollar renovation. There are two race tracks for Karts, a climbing wall and restaurants within the facility. One race crack is a road course where 20 of the new Super Karts can race against each oth~r and tl1e other track is an oval where 10 karts race each other (Sprint Karts for those over 18 years of age with a drivers license and Junior Super Karts for eight year olds. The new RIMO Karts are powered by Honda, put out 9 horsepower and reach speeds of 38 miles per hour. TI1e rock climbing wall has three different levels of rock climbing for the beginner to the advanced climber. A restaurant and a bar are located within the facility. If you're in the area, stop in at 11000 Alpharetta Highway, Roswell, Georgia. For more info: www.andrettikarting.com SNORE SHORT COURSE - TI1e SNORE folks gatl1ered at Primm, Nevada for their "Short Course Battle At Primm" and, in the short time between rain storms they put on a great race, albeit a bit on the muddy side for the 71 racers that competed against each other as well as competing against the weather and the course. You'll find a full story on the race in chis issue, with lots of pictures. First in class after two days of racing were: Class 1 -Todd Jergensen, Class 10-Page& HECTOR CERECER 0ll-52-65-66-4458 CORR LUCAS OIL SERIES 192 N. STATE ROAD, SUITE 267 AVON, IN 46123 317-272-2827 317-272-2900 fax June 11-12, 2005 Antigo, WI Pro & Sportsman June 25-26, 2005 Crandon, WI Pro & Sportsman July8-9, 2005* Topeka, KS Pro & Sportsman August 13-14, 2005 Bark River, Ml Pro & Sportsman September 3-4, 2005 Crandon, Wl Pro & Sportsman Sept.ember 17-18, 2005 New Berlin, NY Pro Series Only TBA One additional event To be announced •Night Raet:-Friday & Saturday night CORVA 1500 WEST EL WMINO, SUITE 352 SACRAMENTO, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA EXT 42 FAX (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS DAVE VAN DEREN 2405 BAKER AVE. EVERETT, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (AU evmts at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thuman Counr, ORV Park, Olzmpia, WA) DAKARRAu.Y DARREN SKILTON BAJA AUTOMOTIVE AovENruRES 455 E. OCEAN BLVD., SUITE 208 loNG BEACH, CA 90802 (562) 755-2278/FAX: (562) 590-7925 Bajaautomotive@Yahoo.com DF.CATIJR Fo UR WHEEL D RIVE Cum DECATUR, TX 76234 ToMALLEN (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 DESERT STEEL MoTORSPORTS 1863 CoMMANDER DRIVE LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ 86403 (928) 855-2208 ~Ow-ROAD RAONG .A$N. TOM DELAUDER, SR. 1091 TOWNSHIP LINE ROAD WELISVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 ENsf:NADA BAJA OfF ROAD RAaNG Av. REFORMA 1136 ENSADA, BC, MX 0ll-52-646-1818989 ELISIO 0ll-52-646-1715230 AARON Races for buggys & Motorcycles Esrmo BFACH INTERNATIONAL SHORT CoURSE RACING VICTORIA GALINDO ENSENADA, BAJA CALIFORNIA", MEXICO 0ll-52-646-176-6230 FORDA FWRIDA OFF ROAD DRIVER'S AssN. JASON LEIBIN (727) 376-4176 Mar, Apr, Maz, Noo at Dauidson Raawaz FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 1855 PARKWAY DRIVE S. EL MoNTE, CA 91733 626-442-9320/959-579-6151FAX mdrracing@aol.com GORRA GEORGIA OFF ROAD RACING ASS'OCL4TION 4 20 HOSEA ROAD LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 GPORRA GREAT PLANES OFF RoAD RACING .AssoCIATION TIM HODGE (402) 991-6048 SCOTT MORROW (816) 792-2126 (AU races are short course, stadium sr,le Classes -Sportsman, 1/2-1600, 5-1600, Sport Truck, Quads, Tough Truck Nebraska Raceway Park, Exit 420 on I-80 between Omaha and Lincoln.) April 2005 For latest info check < www.gporra.net> HIGH PLAINS OFF ROAD RACING 2000 W. QUINCY AVENUE #B ENGLEWOOD, CO 80110 303-806-8062/303-781-0974 FAX April 23-24, 2005 May22,2005 June 19, 2005 July 16-17, 2005 August 18, 2005 Sept.ember 11, 2005 October 29, 2005 November27 2005 OOERNATIONAL lcE RACING .AssoCIATION P.O. Box 8105 ST. PAUL, MN 55108 STEVE BEDDOR (612) 937-3816/FAX 474-2769 1.NTER-SHows MoTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INc. P.O. Box 2910 MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 ]EEPSPEED 1826 N. 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RACERS ASSOCIATION RICK TICHBOllRNE, PUBLIC REU.TIONS (519)-681-4192(H)/ (519) 457-2913(W) OUTLAW SEVEN PICKUP 9269 UMMELMAN ST. Louis, MO 63123 (314) 631-8140/FAX: ((314) 631-1921 PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP 495 N. CoMMONS DRIVE AURORA, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100 <www.usoff-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 5 59-64 7-613 2 GOINRACIN@HOTMAIL.COM PRoTRuCK 14402 BoNO CoURT EL CAJON, CA 92021 619-390-6252 April 29 -May 1, 2005 BITD Temble's Town 250 Pahrump, Nevada June ~-5, 2005 SCORE Baja 500 Ensenada, Baja CA Mexico July 6-10, 2005 BITD Nevada 1000 Las Vegas, Nevada September 9-11, 2005 SCORE Primm 300 Primm, Nevada October 6-8, 2005 BITD Vegas To Reno Nevada November 17-20, 2005 SCORE Baja 1000 Baja, CA, Mexico PuRE ENERGY PROMOTIONS P.O. Box 50 RICKETTS, IA 51460 (712) 679-2221 ROCK CRAWLERS ASSOCIATION OF AMtluCA P.O. 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Box 2122 Calexico, CA 92231 April 10, 2005 Poker Run May8,2005 Round #3 July 17, 2005 Round #4 Night Race September 25, 2005 Round #S November 27, 2005 GP de Campeones 4x4 FOREVER, LTD, 1665 DELAWARE ST. 0sHKOSH, WI 54901 Attention Race & Rally Organizers List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free. It is the only way some fans know about your event, if they don't happen to be on your club mailing list. Don't call, but mail your 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: " 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 April 2005 Trail Notes ... JC Dean, Heavy Metal -Monte Tibbets, Class 1600 -Mike Malloy, Class 9 -Rick Poole, Class 5-1600 - Billy Worthing, Unlimited Sportsman- Jerry Stewart, Sportsman Buggy - Jeff Shiroky. DNAL FLAG -The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) has learned of I' the trilgic death of Simon Milward, a leading motorcycle rights advocate who traveled the world to raise funds for charity. Milward, a native of the United Kingdom, died as a result of a motorcycle crash in the West African country of Mali on March 4, 2005. A former Secretary General of the Federation of European Motorcyclist's Association, Milward helped organize European motorcyclists in the 1990's. On January 1, 2000, Milward sec off on a homemade motorcycle for an around the world trip. He raised donations for Riders For Health, a charity chat uses motorcycles to bring health care co residents of remote regions, and he also raised funds for Doctors Without Borders. In the United States, Milward joined with AMA President Robert Rasor and ocher concerned motorcyclists to form Motorcycle Outreach, which funneled donations to motorcycle related charities in other countries. Through Milward's influence, organizations aimed at using motorcycles to provide health care to poor populations in remote areas have been formed in countries ranging from Indonesia to South Africa to Argentina. Simon Milward will be missed by motorcyclists everywhere. RIP, Milward. ~ ,f'DR FvD MEMORIAL 200 -The opening round of the MOR Superstition l V !Championship Series ran on March 5m at Plaster City West. It took seven laps of the 28 mile course for a checkered flag. The Class 1 win went co Shawn McCalluni., he was 1" overall as well, Robert Buchanan cook the Class 300 win, Class 5 honors went to John Stevenson, Jason Jernigan was the Class 8 winner, 'ol buddy David Bryan was 2nd in Class8, Rick Poole was the easy Class 9 winner, David Gardner took the Class 10 honors, Heidi Steele took the Class 1300 win, Dick Reeves was the Class 1450 winner and Paul Keller took the Class 1600 win. Look for the whole story with lots of pictures in next month's issue of Dusty Times. CORR LUCAS OIL SERIES - Pit Bull T ires has announced that they will sponsor the 2005 CORR Lucas Oil Series Rookie O f The Year Program. "We are very enthusiastic about being the CORR Rookie Of The Year sponsor" said Michael Green, President of Pit Bull Tires. "In essence, we are rookies too, since this will be the year when we officially launch our 4x4 Rocker, Growler and Maddog product lines." With Pit Bull joining CORR, five tire companies are now a part of the series. SCORE POINT STANDINGS - As the points chase heats up and the drivers seek the Kartek $50,000 year end awards, more and more team effort will be apparent as the season moves along. As of this printing the top 10 in SCORE Points after the second race of the season are: 1", Rob MacCachren/Bryan Freeman, ½-1600, 131 points. 2nd, Kash Vessels, Class 10, 124. 3rd, Darren Hardesty, Class 10, 122. 4"', Andy/Scott McMillin, Class 1, 113. 5"', Caleb Gaddis, ½-1600, 113. 6"', Brian Burgess/LJ Kennedy, ½-1600, 109. 7"', Rick Ellison/Bill Witt, Class 10, 104. 8"', Travis/Brad Fletcher, ½-1600, 103. 9"', Dale Ebberts/Ernie Castro Jr, Class 1, 102. IO"', Ron Dalke, Class 10, 101 points. The race is nice and tight right now but we're sure there will be lots of upsets and changes as the season wears on. Sta) tuned! VARTEK BONUS DOLIARS -In 2004, Kartek jeffe, Roy Dehban put up .1'-$10,000 for the overall points winner in the SCORE Series. This year, 2005, Roy has pledged $50,000 for the 2005 season, $25,000 to the overall points winner, $15,000 goes to second overall and $10,000 goes to the third place overall finisher in points. 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BITD PARKER 425 Hovey Hustles To The overall At Parker By Judy Smith Photos: Trackside Photo Mike Barnett and Bruce Kerstner had no brakes for the final 20 miles of the race, but hung in there to take the win in the JeepSpeed modified class. thanks to the heavy winter rains. It was hard for spectators to see what was happening. In some areas the roof of the vehicle could be seen gliding through the sea of green, then the whole car would pop up as it maneuvered one of the jumps, and then it could disappear com-pletely. On the plus side, the ground was damp, and there was little dust. Once through the tricky infield, which was bordered by the pits, they headed out into open coun-try. Scott Webster drove Jim Dizney's Honda Jimco to the win in Class 1000, and finished sixth in the overall standing while doing it, at the BITD Parker 425 in January. The finish line, as always, was along the river, in the neighbor-hood of the Blue Water Casino. This meant that teams had to keep track of which lap they were on, and on their final loop they turned sharply right instead of going straight, and headed down the three mile to the checkered flag. Parker, Ariz: Chuck Hovey en-joyed a near-perfect day at the Best In The Desert's season opener in January, the Parker 425, and took the overall victory in his V4 pow-ered J imco, beginning his year in a positive way. The event, still fairly new on the Best In The Desert calendar, is nev-ertheless a big favorite with the rac-ers. Many of them remember the old days of racing near the river, and many of them raced the old Parker events, and thus find the course familiar and friendly. As always, with this event, the BITD had a "Time Trials" for any-one who wished to try it. A six mile loop was marked off on the Thurs-day before the event, and those . competing were timed in their dash through the sand. The fastest 20 would start the race in descending order, at the front of the rest of the pack. The rest of those who'd competed would go to the front of their own class. For example: a Class 8 racer, who was, say, 30th overall, could still benefit by being started at the front of his class. This year's Time Trials was extremely sandy, and none of the limited en-The father/son team of Tom and Tommy Bradley teamed up to take the win in Qass 8000 in their Chevrolet. "Utile" Joe Aguirre, from Goodyear Tires, rode a lap in the truck. Ryan Stewart and Kevin Davis shared the driving in their Ford, and with only a couple of problems to slow them down, took the Class 7100 win. Pages gine teams that tried it made the top 20 as they had in years past. This year the course ran "back-wards" from the previous editions, moving counterclockwise over the roughly 135 miles of Arizona. The cars were started out on California Street, then turned left off the high-way and into the desert. About a quarter mile from the start they found themselves in the short course section of the race, a wind-ing trail with several man-made jumps and a lot of turns, snaking i~s way through a huge field that was waist high in green weeds All cars were started one at a time, 30 seconds apart. The weather was on the cool side, good for racing, and very pleasant for spectating as well. First off the line, thanks to his performance at the Time Trials, was Robby Gordon in his Chevrolet Trick Truck. His lead-footed start entertained the spectators and thrilled his fans, but at about Mile Red Burgin and Tom Brown paired up in their Chenowth to take the win in the 1100 class (same as SCORE ute) in spite of a broken spring plate. Eric and Daniel Deen split the driving in their Class 5100 bug and with a "100% day. went home with a first place. April 2005 35 he was already out with a holed pan. It was a huge disappointment to the Gordon fans, who'd hoped to see him go all the way. At Parker, altli.ough many areas are closed to spectators, there are some good places to watch the race and Gor-don fans had expected to enjoy his flat out style at several vantage points. Maybe next time. At the Drivers' Meeting the night before the race, thete was a nice sur-prise. BFGoodrich Tires an-nounced that they'd named Rod Hall the 2004 Motorsports Person of the Year. Describing Hall as a "great legend", and noting that he was an "unusual blend of competi-tor and businessman", Todd Steen, BFG Tires Motorsports marketing manager, described how Hall made "significant contributions to racing, both on and off the track." Hall, taken unawares, made a brief ac-ceptance speech. The audience ap-plauded the award enthusiastically. There were 23 of the Class 1500 cars (open wheel, unlimited) for this event and it was the biggest class. Two of them, the Melton team's Chevy Jimco and the Acuna/Reiling team's car, were out before getting far at all. Then the Weyhrich brothers' Jimco did what was de-scribed as a "hard endo", and was out for the day, and James and Mark Temple, in a Temple Raceco, couldn't get the lap done either. Too bad, it would be nice to see the Temples, part of the sport's history, at the finish line again. At the end of Lap 1 the lead be-longed to Bob Lofton, in a Jimco, but he had barbed wire wrapped around an axle boot and lost some time in the pits. Kelby Pepper ran second in his Jimco, and Pat Dean, in a Chevy Bunderson, was tied with Hovey for fourth place. Then, three minutes back, there was a three-way tie with B.J. Richardson in John Gaughan's Bunderson, Kory Scheeler in his Chevy J imco, and Scott Kincaid in a new Porter. A couple more fell away on the second lap, including Pepper. Kevin Volan in his Chenowth, Wayne Intermill, also in a Chenowth, and Richard Boyle in his Jimco all failed to complete Lap 2. The course was living up to its reputation. But at the end of the second lap the lead belonged to Hovey, who had to make a quick stop in his pit for a new alternator. Richardson was sec-ond and Lofton and his co-driver, Mike Julson, were third, about 13 minutes off the lead pace. Stuart Chase and Billy Robertson ran fourth in their Penhall. Behind them it was a close thing between two interesting teams. One was the team of Hayden Bentley and Jeff Quinn, in Bentley's right-hand-drive two seater from Australia. Quinn met Bentley when he went Dusty Times

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Chris Amrein and Stephen Erdely, both from California, shared the Caesar and Joseph Arias, Nick Lopez and Greg Gilbert, all of Whittier, Mike Alden and Josh Courouble led Class 7100 for a while, but last driving evenly, and finished the day third in the modified JeepSpeed California, finished the day as the third place team in the stock lap problems dropped them and their Nissan to a third place finish. .:..cl..:..a..:..ss.:..·----,---,-------,-----,----,---,----,-,--------,--_Je_e_,_p_S..c.p_e--:ed:-::-c_la_s_s_. ---:=---=------=----,=--:------=------,-to Australia to race, and persuaded at this race they'd been at the front fuel ooze down out of the fuel cell, V8 Chevy powered Jimco, said because he had no dust. He said him to give one of our events a try. of the pack and dnfd due to trans-and had enough to get him to his they'd done 50 miles with no power the c.v. flange on his Chevy pow-If he got tired, he was going to let mission problems. The third place dump cans. He'd tossed a power steering, then changed the pump ered Bunderson pulled apart on the Quinn drive. The other team was finisher was Richardson, who'd run steering belt after Midway on the when they changed drivers. They second lap, and he lost about a half the father and son pair: Lloyd and out of gas at the end of his first lap, last lap and lost about ten minutes. were just under an hour down to hour fixing it on course. Todd Derrick Sproule, from Canada, in just before reaching his pit. He sat Kory Sheeler and Larry Job, who Hovey in fourth. Fifth place went Jergensen brought his Smithbuilt an Aceco. Derrick, who is 17 years there for a few seconds, let some shared the driving evenly in their to Pat Dean, who liked the first lap Continued on pa_ge 10 old, was racing for the first time. Hovey had an uneventful third lap, but his wrist, badly bruised in a testing roll-over a few weeks be-fore this race, was beginning to tire. In the back of his mind also was the threat of running out of gas. He was using 33 gallons per lap, and has only a 35-gallon fuel tank. But nothing went wrong, not even any flat tires, and as he said, there were "so many rocks out there!" He took the Class 1500 win by almost 12 minutes, an had the overall victory by a margin of four minutes and 20 seconds. Lofton and Julson were second, Julson saying, "If you gotta get beat you want to be beat by Hovey!" They were glad to get a fin-ish, not to mention second place, because for the previous two years Dusty Times Scott Douglas liked his Ford's four-wheel-drive in the sand, never got out of the truck and finished the day with the win in Class 3100. An Intimate Gem Adjacent to Beltagiot Caesars & Balfy s Greg Foutz led all the way in his Class 8100 Ford, had no serious problems and took his third win in a row at Parker. Ask About Our Special HtJadllner Stww and Room Packages 'IIOst Tropic.ana & AMl:l& 1-800-67!5-3267 ~i~ The Place Las Vegans Call Hotrre"" Ask Abollt OtJr Room & Goll Packages April 2005 Page 9

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Daniel B., Daniel R., Bradley and Kristina Bolton, half from Gardnerville, Mark Beefer had a new fuel or fuel-pump problem on his Ford, but NV, and half from Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, finished second in the 1800, Dane Crawford and Mike Byrd split the driving in their Class 51 oo car managed to circumvent it and take second place in Class 8000. _S.:....po_rt_s_m_a_n_c_la_ss_._________________ (5/1600) and finished the day in third in spite of a long list of woes. ~ne seater to the finish in sixth him about 10 minutes. He had to used to driving all at once. Scott This was his first Class 1500 race. his Foddrill chassis, and ended the place, reporting that he'd had no use his jack, some rocks and the help Kincaid got his new Porter to the Chase and Robertson dropped to day in 10th, and Sam Berri brakes for a while. It "was tough", of spectators to get unstuck. This finish in eighth place. The car, ninth after a bolt fell out of their changed the power steering and a he said. In seventh it was Bentley, was similar to the Fink race in Aus-which was finished just three days front end and things fell apart. c.v. joint on his Jime0, dropping him who did get tired, but didn't let tralia he reported, but there they before the race, had a couple of Robertson said that it was "enter-to 11th. In 12th place it was Jarrett Quinn drive. He'd lost his brakes, have an overnight rest stop. This boot problems, but otherwise he taining when it came apart." Kirk Lemley and Dale Steinke, in a and "got onto a tree", which cost was many more hours than he was thought it was "very impressive." Kontilis had to change a tie rod on Sandtrixchassis. This was their first Josh Hall had one of those perfect days, never got out of the Hummer. and led Class 4100 all the way to win by two hours. Page 10 Chuck Hovey drove his 4 cylinder Jimco to the Class 1500 win as well as the overall victory, with some quick pit crew work when he needed an alternator replaced. "big race ff, and they were especially pleased with what they said were "great course markings. ff They were the last in this class to finish. There were nine Trick Trucks competing this year, some no doubt attracted by Ford's posting of a $10,000 purse for the class. While Gordon was out early, the Kory Halopoff/Harley Letner truck went away even earlier, and so did the Ruben and Rudy Arzate Chevy. Then Shawn and David Wanzek and David Wilson, in a Ford, ran out of go a bit later. So by the end of the first lap there were only six Trick Trucks still running. And Jesse Jones and Scott Steinberger had spent about a half-hour in their pit at the end of the first lap, when a Continued on page 12 ---The Suspension Company. April 2005 Dusty Times

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Pat Dean drove his Chevy powered Bunderson to fifth place in the Gary. Derek and Stewart Dixon teamed to drive their Class 7200 Class 1500 race, even after some difficult on-course repair work. truck to third place after some time-consuming problems. Aaron and Ian Dixon led for a while, then changed a transmission and finished the day with second place in Class 7300. front shock broke. This was Jones' gas to do that first lap. That was to in the big Chevy Avalanche, ran brand new 2005 Ford. be one of the consistent themes of third, also about a half-hour back, Kyle Taylor on the other hand, the race. Fuel mileage became a se-and Bucky Strunk had his Chevy in had his Ford running right on rious issue. He'd been tied with the same time frame. Todd Gatrell, schedule, but his pit crew was wor- Jones, but going out of the pits had his new truck still not ready, was a ried that he'd used 83 gallons of a half-hour on him. Torrey Porter, pre-runner. Taylor, who's had a string of parts themselves and finally got a non-finishes, thanks to transmis-combination that seemed to work sion troubles, was having a good with his driving style. At the end of day here. He later reported that the the second lap he had about 35 team had worked with two trans- minutes on Jones and his co-driver, mission builders, and built some Scott Steinberger. Porter was steady / MOTORSPORTS " /' . ~ Manqf a~~urer / Di~tributqr of an expanding and uniqu~ produ~\ line of mqtorspqrti prq(uc;.t~~ , G·FOR(~E IIACIN88EJIII Pro Farce Air • Significantly outflows other •btower type' helmets ._ • NOT a converted motorcycle helmet' \ ...,,.- e ltgh!we1ght Composite Shell "--. $-2'9 !J • 9 9 • Snell SA-2000 Automotive Rated • Fire Resistant Interior Special wl FREE .._ _________ ._ Helmet Bag I.! 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Taylor drove smoothly to the fin-ish, where he said; "I was so tired of not finishing. Everything about to-day was good. Great pit stops every time!" He took the win by 4 3 min-utes. Jones, who did two laps, handed over to Steinberger for Lap 3 and with nothing further of con-sequence, they took second. They reported that their truck has a· 7 5 gallon fuel tank, and they used 63 gallons a lap. Porter, who'd tossed an oil pump belt on the second lap, was third and the last in the class to get to the finish line. The Protrucks went off the line next, 10 strong. The first lap leader was Jimmy Nuckles in his Ford, and he had a close bunch right on his rear bumper. Charley McDowell ran second in another Ford, fol-lowed by Steven Staats in still an-other Ford, and Craig Smith was fourth, in yet another Ford. No-body broke permanently, but Gus Vildosola, Jr. came close. He rolled his Toyota going off one of the in-field jumps, before he even got fully out into his first lap. For the rest of the day he had a bent driveshaft. On the second lap it was even closer. Staats and McDowell were tied for the lead, while Mike Voyles, in another Ford, ran about eight minutes back in third. Smith was fourth five minutes later. And they were all still running. Vildosola's crew replaced his transmission. Ryan Staats took over for his _ dad on the final lap, and brought the truck home with the win. He reported that he'd had to "push real hard the last 50 miles to stay in front." Mike Voyles and Dwaine Walter were second, only a minute and three seconds behind. Walter, who did the last lap, said, "I used to race Class 9 - so this is a treat!" McDowell was third about three and a half minutes later. He said his Protruck was "more fun than the old Class 8." He'd had a hole in his radiator, but otherwise a "great day." In fourth it was Al Hogan, who was down to just second gear for the final two laps. Hogan was happy to have his 81-year-old mother at the race to cheer him on. Fifth place went to Craig Smith and Jason Jernigan who had two flats and nothing else. Jernigan said the Protruck is a "lot more stable" than his old Class 7 truck. Rick L. Johnson brought his Toyota home in sixth place, reporting a "bad day." He ran out of gas on the first Dusty Time$

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Scott Dunlap and Mike Harris drove their 1979 Ford to fourth place in '--'==~ Class 8100 (Stock Full) with only minor problems. The truck was Torrey Porter drove all the way in the Chevy Avalanche Trick Truck. Mike Falkosky had a couple of time-consuming problems on his originally raced by Herb Reno. He lost some time with a thrown oil pump belt, but finished third. Ford, but in the end he was second in Class 3100. lap, after Midway, and lost 45 min-utes. In seventh it was J.R. Stanley and Mike Grover, in a Ford, who'd had two flats, and got lost when they missed a turn. They said they'd been racing just a year, and "we're getting faster." Nuckles finished in eighth reporting that he "turned the SOB over again." He said it was "straight upside down." In ninth it was Mike Bilek, who had no prob-lems, and 10th went to Vildosola, who'd had a long, hard day. They'd lost three jacks somehow, along with everything else. Every Protruck that started made it to the finish line. The Class 1000 cars were next, with 11 starters. There were some first lap casualties, including Drew Belk in his Lothringer, Rusty Harling in his ASC, and Blaise Jack-son and Mike Williams in their MECO. But the rest of the group carried on, led by Scott Webster in Jim Dizney's Honda Jimco. Webster had been the quickest of the Class 1000 drivers in the Time Trials. He had only four minutes on Dennis Hunter, who was just three minutes in front of Randy Miller in a Jimco. Justin Lofton ran fourth, a half-hour down, after his Jimco's power steering blew right off the start line, so that when he tried to make the left turn it didn't happen and he ran into a parked vehicle. He was able to keep moving, but with no power steering. At Mile 7 5 he got high-centered, and had to dig for 15 to 20 minutes, and at the end of 90 miles he put co-driver, Matt Loiodice, in to finish the lap, and get to the main pit for a new power Ian Jameson and Lee Jackson shared the driving in their Lothringer 1600 car (Class 2000) and didn't let a quick rollover slow them at all. They took the win. steering pump. Wade Kelson ran fifth in his Jimco, driving in his first race. Steve Brown and Randy Knutson didn't get the first lap completed, nor did Allen and Scott Gerber, in their Lothringer. They broke an axle. The second lap didn't get any easier and Ernest Gauthier and John Kelly fell by the wayside, as did Randy Miller and Bruce Mills, in a Jimco. And Dennis Hunter lost his motor, making him a Lap 2 dnf also. But Webster was having no trouble at all. Dizney had planned to drive, but hurt his back replac-ing the motor a week before the race, so Webster, who hadn't raced in a year and a half, got to do it all. He had an hour on Lofton and Loiodice, who were up to second. And they had an hour on Kelson, who ran third. And that's the way they finished. Webster got the win in Dizney' s car, finishing sixth overall. He'd had a completely trouble-free day. Lofton and Loiodice were second, an hour and 27 minutes later. They'd lost the power steering again, when a line pulled off and blew the fluid out. Then, on the last lap a wire fell off the coil and the car quit. Not their best day. But Mike Julson's daughter, Lauren, rode with Loiodice on the last lap, an event that Julson said was "scary". Lauren liked it. Kelson finished third, an-other two hours down. The Class 8000 trucks went off the line next, except for Curt LeDuc, who'd been the 10th vehicle to start, thanks to a good time in the Time Trials. There were seven The team of Jon Louis, Juan Munoz, Timothy Krueger and Brad Cook brought their modified JeepSpeed to the finish line in first place. of them. LeDuc, Ford, started the race, and ended the first lap in the lead, but he had only four minutes on Tom and Tommy Bradley in their Chevy. Mark Beeler ran third in his Ford, another six minutes back, and John Melsheimer, in a Chevy, was fourth. Greg Saavedra was already out, as was Rick Harrah, who lost his transmission. Mark Shoaff, Ford, also broke on the first lap. LeDuc put his son Todd into the truck, and he broke an axle in Osborne, Wash. He kept going, but they worried that he'd be using more fuel, so he stopped for a splash of gas at the Midway pit. At the end of the second lap, the Bradleys had the lead, with 12 minutes on the LeDucs, who had to cha31ge the axle. Beeler was still third, having fuel pump or fuel pick-up prob-lems. Melsheimer was still fourth, about 18 minutes further back. The LeDucs were running well on the third lap, making up time, with Curt at the wheel again. But then he went to pass a Class 10 car, ;bounced off the rear tire, and r~iled o·ver. A passing JeepSpeed car helped right the truck, but he lost about a half hour. In the. mean-time the Bradley truck lost the link-age on the carburetor and lost a lot of time. The truck wouldn't idle. But they still managed to finish with the victory. Beeler finished second, only six minutes later, reporting that he'd finally solved the fuel prob-lem by taking off the fuel pump and pouring gas in "to get it going." The LeDucs were third, 11 minutes Continued on page 14 B. J. Richardson drove all the way in John Gaughan's Bunderson, Although they had no competition, Tim Hanna and Tony Modica worked Paulden Hepler and Dennis Sletten shared the driving in their limited had some trouble with fuel consumption and tossed power steering hard to get a finish, driving a long way on only three wheels in their Baja Bug and even with a quirky rack and pinion, went home with belts, but finished third in Class 1500. ___ Class 9000 Suspensions Unlimited car. second place. ;======================== Al Hogan had a good day in his Ford Protruck, and for extra luck, had Jesse Jones and Scott Steinberger shared the driving in Jones's his 81 year-old-mother at the race to cheer him on. He finished in Todd Jergensen drove all the way in his Smith Built car, ran out of new 2005 Ford· Trick Truck. They lost some time with a broken fourth place. brakes and found that tough, but still got a sixth place in Class 1500. _s_hoc_ k_, _a_n_d_s_tt_·11_f1_·n_is_h_e_d_s_e_co_n_d_. ___________ _ Dusty Times April 2005 Page 13

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Bob Lofton was one of several drivers who tangled with barbed wire. It tore up a c. v. boot on his Jimco, and sent him to the pit. He and Mike Julson still took second place. Charley McDowell has switched to Protrucks this year, likes it a lot, Keith Moore and Jim Holm, both from Phoenix, drove their Ford to and finished third in his Ford in spite of a hole in his radiator. third place in Class 4100. ----c,---'---,-----,,--,----,--~--------,-------McNeil truck ran at the front, with about 18 minutes on Swift. In third it was Sorenson, who'd lost a driveshaft on the first lap, and re-placed it. Gary Dixon was fourth, and Binns had lost about two and a half hours and dropped to fifth, and last. The crumpled Swift truck moved up to the front of the pack and took the win. At the finish Swift said, "despite the looks it ran bet-ter than it's ever run!" They had 17 minutes on the second place Sorenson truck. Sorenson had been leaking oil because of a hole in the pan, and was down on horsepower he said, because he runs a stock motor. Gary and Derek Dixon fin-ished in third place, over four hours later, followed in by Binns, the early leader, another 45 minutes back. fourth, another minute later. Foutz had his Ford in the lead, with in a row, reporting that at one point Lance Magin had the only Class On the second lap Sexson and 11 minutes on second place Dave he'd had "a buggy underneath" the 3000 (small S.U.V.) at the race. It Edgar continued to lead, but the Morrison in another Ford. Then truck. He also reported no flats, was a new vehicle for him, a Ford, LaRozas were heard on the radio came Chad Hall in his Hummer, and a blown shock, reservoir. He and featured a center seat for the saying they were "waitin' to be res-on the same minute as Randy was 23 minutes up on the second driver (Magin uses hand controls), cued." Jameson was now second, Merritt in another Ford. Scott place Morrison. Although he'd and two passenger seats slightly to only six minutes back, and Dunlap ran fifth in a '79 Ford and been sure to stop and pick up his the rear, one on each side of him. Rossorelli ran third, about 18 min- Larry Tunnell, Jr., in a Chevy, was spare when it fell off, it turned out Unfortunately, he didn't get even utes later. sixth. he never needed it, because he had his firstlap done. Lee Jackson took over for The second lap proved tough for no flats. He'd had a light bar prob-The 1600cc buggies (Class 2000) Jameson, and with a trouble free some. Bill Bunch and Dave Turner lem however. It fell off and he ran started next. David Sexson and run, brought the car home for the had their Ford on a tow strap be- over it. And his motor mounts were Samuel Edgar took the early lead in victory. Sexson and Edgar broke a fore they'd gone two laps, and broken by the time he got to the their Bunderson, and had about 12 spring plate on the last lap, and fin- Charles McDowell (father of Char- finish line. In third it was Tunnell, minutes on the second place car. ished in "limp mode", about 16 ley McDowell in the Protrucks) also whose throttle linkage had fallen That was Steve LaRoza in a Pearson/ minutes behind them for second Ford, lost his transmission. Kent off. He said he'd had a "killer race" Philpottchassis,andhehadjusttwo place. Rossorelli disappeared on Kroeker, in a Dodge, was out for goingwithMorrisonwhenhe'dhad minutes on Buddy Rossorelli and the final lap. · unknown reasons, and Kreg a flat. And he broke a front shock Chris Godfrey. Ian Jameson, There were 12 of the Stock Full Donahoe's Ford also disappeared. mount. Dunlap, who finished Lothringer, who'd already rolled, (Class 8100) trucks, and they all But Foutz held his lead, now about fourth, reported one flat tire and happily landing on his wheels, was made it through the first lap. Greg seven minutes, and Morrison was said he'd lost a power steering belt TIie Dlfferencel still in second. He'd lost his spare three times. His old truck used to early in the day and took the time belong to Herb Reno, who raced to stop and pick it up. Tunnell was with his wife for many years, and third now, Dunlap fourth, and Jim then sponsored Manny Esquerra Beaver had his Ford in fifth place, for some time. In fifth place it was not having a clean day. Randy Beaver who said that "everything Merritt was sixth in his Ford. Hall went wrong that could go wrong", had lost about four hours wen he but he had no flats. He lost three lost all but his reverse gear and had sets of tie rods, two sets of axles, to back to a pit for a transmission and the transmission ran hot. He replacement. Once he was running broke a spring also. This was an-again he discovered that the replace-other old Herb Reno truck. Hall ment had only first and second gear, persevered with just his two gears but determined to get a finish, he and made it to the finish line for soldiered on. sixth place, followed in by Randy 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". 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Dave Morrison had some minor problems with his Ford, but nothing Second-generation racers Matt and Noah Pike, along with Zachary Kory Scheeler and Larry Job paired up in their Chevy Jimco and that slowed him much. He finished the day in second place in Class Churchill and Mike Boe/ts drove their Ford to third place in Class even though they ran 50 miles with no power steering, finished the 8100. 3100. · day in fourth place in Class 1500. him. Merritt was the final finisher, Felix Hurtado, in a Ford, having broken on the last lap. The 7100 trucks were next off . the line, and they all made it all the way. Mike Alden had his Nissan in the lead at the end of the first lap, with about 14 minutes on Kevin Davis in his Ford. Tyler and Blake Henn and their cousin, Julie, ran third in another Ford. Alden continued to lead through the second lap, and his lead had grown to about 26 min-utes. Davis was having some prob-lems. His rear axle hubs came loose and he had to tighten them, and he broke a throttle cable. A friendly Class 8 racer gave him a replace-ment. Julie Henn put the family truck on its side in the short-course section and lost some time, but they kept moving along. The. father and son team of Steven and Ryan Staats had a good race in their Ford Protruck, and had to work really hard to stay in front, but they did it, taking the win by a minute and three seconds. John and Jonathan Swift and Andy Waters survived a rollover in their Ford and went on to take the win in Class 7200. On the final lap Alden lost a couple of hours with some prob-lems, and Davis moved to the front. He took the win, getting his season off to a good start. The Henns were second about an hour later, and then, in another hour and 40 min-utes, Alden showed up for third place. The big SUVs (Class 4100) took off next, with five starters. Josh Hall's day went nothing like his brother's. He put his Hummer into the lead and stayed there, with ev-erything "working great." He had a seven minute lead over Keith Moore in a Ford at the end of the first lap. Marc Stein had his Ford in third place, and John R. and John A. Sunderland ran fourth. Only Gale and Noah Pike, in a Chevy, failed to complete the lap. Hall just kept moving along. But Stein, and his co-driver, McComas, had a close call. McComas was driv-ing and hit a berm too fast, stand-ing the truck on its nose. It hurt his back, and he was unable to move for a while, so medics came out to take him to the hospital. The truck went on with one of the navigators driving, and then Stein got in to go to the finish. At the hospital they determined that McComas hadn't done any serious injury to his back, so they gave him some pain medica-tion and released him. Their truck ran second, and Moore was now third. The Sunderlands dropped out, a rare occurrence for them. Hall, who said he never got out of the car, went on to take the win for Team Hummer. Stein finished second, nearly two hours later, and Moore fell out of the race on the third lap. Class 7300 was next to go with six starters, all Fords. Aaron Dixon had his truck in the lead at the end of the first lap, but Rob MacCachren was very close on his tail. He was having temperature problems. Carl Fitts ran third, an-other two minutes back and John Baker was fourth, four minutes be-hind him. It looked like an "any-one could win" type of race. But on the second lap Dixon's brother, Ian, lost first, third and reverse gears. MacCachren, with no problems, not even the overheat-ing, since they took off the hood, went into the lead. Now Fitts ran second, about 20 minutes back and the Dixons were third, another two hours later, after replacing their transmission. John Webster was fourth, and Baker disappeared. Also gone was the Jerry and Lance Fisher truck, after getting part way through the second lap. MacCachren, who drove the en-tire distance this time, sailed on un-eventfully to take the win. He was two hours and a half in front of the Dixons, who had no further problems once they'd installed the new transmission and took second. Webster, who'd apparently had most of his problems on the first lap, rallied to finish third and Fitts was fourth, the last to finish an-other half hour back. The 3100 cars were next to go, with six starters, all Fords. But it was a short day for two of them. Las Vegas racer Randy Sorenson had some problems with his Ford Barrie Thompson had some small problems with his modified and was down on horsepower, but still pulled out a second in Class JeepSpeed, and was tied for the lead for a while, but finished the day Isaiah and Zachariah Samons couldn't com-plete the first lap, nor could David Moore and Kenny McLain. But the rest got all the way around, with Scott Douglas in front in his four wheel drive Ex-plorer. He had just four m inutes on Mike Falkosky, who was a little over a half hour in front of Matt and Noah Pike and Zachary Churchill. And Stephen Costello and Anthony Napoleon 7200. ================= -;=in=s=e=c=o=n=d=p=la=c=e=. ==================; ran fourth about a half hour later. Douglas was having a smooth day, and happy to have his four wheel drive, because the sand was giving him no problems. Falkosky, On the other hand, had some trouble. For one thing, the torsion bar adjuster came unattached. But he was still second at the end of Lap 2, with the Pikes and Churchill third, about an hour down. Costello and Napoleon dropped out on Lap 2. Douglas never had to get out of the car, and took the win by a little over an hour. Falkosky had some-thing break in the suspension on the third lap, and had it fixed in the BFG pit. He was second, and, he said, "I'm ready to get out," af-ter 12 hours and six minutes. The Pikes finished third, about an hour and a half later. There were seven of the Pro Jeep Speeds (modified), and they went off the line next. This group is required to run only two laps. They are all Jeep Cherokees. Barrie Thompson, an old hand with these cars, led the first lap, with Mike Barnett second, about six minutes back. C hris Amrein and Stephen Erdely were third, another eight minutes further behind. All the rest were still running, although John Copitas had lost about six hours and so had Justin and Robert Mamer. As they neared the end of the sec-ond lap Barnett and Thompson were Continued on page 47 Larry Tunnell, Jr. had a whole bunch of time-consuming problems Mike Voyles and Dwaine Walters are enjoying their new Protruck John Webster and Tim Pierson, from Hollister, California, teamed to with his Chevy, but still managed a nice third place in Class 8100. Ford, and are looking good in it. They finished a close second. drive their Ford to third place in the 7300 (stock mini) class. Dusty Times April 2005 Page 17

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54TH UDDEHOLM SWEDISH RALLY 2005 Solberg/Subaru Shine By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Petter Solberg and Philip Mills drove their Subaru lmpreza to a resounding victory in Sweden, seen here in flight above the snow. Finally, the Scandinavian driver Petter Solberg has won the Swedish Rally! After a hard fight for over two days with Marcus Gronholm (who fi-nally crashed) and Sebastien Loeb (who had engine failure) the opposition fell away and the Norwegian won by over two minutes. "Our strategy worked per-fectly," he explained, "we carefulfy planned how to tackle this event, told ourselves not to worry if the fight got tough, and it allpaid off.1'-Second .place went to Markko Martin despite gear-box problems at" midway, and third place went to Toni Gardemeister, who suffered badly on the first day on ac-count of fresh snow on the roads. It was a spectacular success for Pirelli, us-ing a revolutionary glue-less tyre stud-ding system and whose tyres were used by five of the top seven cars to finish, used by eight drivers from three teams, six of whom scored best times and led all the way. In the poorly supported PCWRC division, T oshihiro Arai (Spec CSubaru) led all the way, pressed hard by Mark Higgins (Spec C Subaru) on the first day, and finally won by 17 minutes in front of Angelo Medeghini (Evo VIII MR) ... One event happily ill founded, icy surfaces predominated though occasionally fresh snow slowed the front running drivers. Seventy-four entries were accepted for the second round of the series - a fair cry from the 34 in Monte Carlo! No fewer than 16 were from registered world championship teams (six two car teams and four extra entries) and ten "Priority 2" (manufacturer-supported entries in World Rally Cars). One dis-appointment was that only nine out of 21 registered contenders in the Produc-tion Car World Rally Championship Per-Gunnar and Jonas Andersson had a good rally, they drove their Suzuki lgnis to the Super 1600 win in Sweden. were present. There was little new about the route, which was based in the for-est roads around Hagfors, 100km north of the base at Karlstad. The main pre-event debate, as usuaL centered on the weather -and whether conditions were going to be favourable.Tradition-ally the scenic sights of snow have made this event popular, but more impor-tant was the condition of the roads, essentially whether there had been a long enough cold spell leading up to the event to make the roads hard enough not to be damaged by the event Only once (in 1990) had the event been cancelled because of sofmess of the roads, but the memory lingered and the threat remained. The problem was that every single" expert" weather fore-cast seemed to predict different circum-stances ... Although the longest stage this year was only 26km the greatest distance between tyre changing points was 57km, a great distance in circumstances when the abrasively hard packed ice (rather than softer snow) was expected to be the dominant surface. In these conditions the challenge is not simply the wear on tyres but the loss of studs. On winter rallies, tyres wear out not so much through friction, but more be-cause the studs heat up and then soften the tread blocks. TI1is makes the tyres less effective and causes the studs them-selves to loosen and fall out. The two main tyre suppliers, Michelin and Pirelli had differing approaches. Michelin used their traditional systems, Pirelli had a newly patented system for inserting the studs. One important fac-tor: this was the first ever world rally where, by regulation, competitors had Toshihiro Arai and Tony Sircombe slide around a corner on their way to the win in the PCWRC class in snowy Sweden. only a single tread pattern design they could use. So far as new regulations were con-cerned, this was the second event with the same engines, those used at Monte Carlo. No problems were experienced but because Armin Schwarz had re-tired, Skoda could change one of their engines. Citroen, however, chose to re-tain the engine that Francois Duval had used before he retired. Schwarz had not fully recovered from his Monte Carlo crash, so there was a driver shuffle in the Skoda team while there were various other changes including Jani Paasonen being chosen as the num-ber three driver rather than as nomi-nated driver. Antony Warmbold now had Michael Orr beside him, his third different co-driver in as many events. There was confusion with privateer Focus WRC entries. Finnish privateer Jouni Ampuja had hoped to enter, but he had crashed his car on the Arctic Rally. Juuso Pykalisto asked ifhe could replace him, the Stewards agreed, but he then apparently failed to raise the necessary budget and also did no start. A strange story was about Thomas Radstrom who was offered a one-off drive with the Olsberg Subaru WRC team but turned it down as the car would be an 03 rather than an 04 car (their regular driver Tobias Johansson had an 04 car). Then Radstrom had his driving licence impounded by the authorities because he was caught driv-ing 111 kph in a 70kph limit back home. An even stranger story concerned Daniel Carlsson. As part of his ongo-ing contract with Peugeot for 2005 he was entered i1,1 this event, but in a pas-sive transmission 206WRC, by Bozian. He told Peugeot Sport he would rather stay at home than drive a non-com-petitive car, and a big argument en-sued. He claimed that Peugeot had of-fered some rallies in a 307WRC, and for Daniel his home event had to be one of them. The cl1ances of his drive seemed doomed, because it was now far too late to change tl1e entry. Even-tually it transpired that the Bozian en-try had never been received by the organisers on account of a broken fax machine. The organisers felt guilty and agreed to accept a late entry, which was Daniel's miracle. The team could hardly refuse him a 307 ! The last laugh, how-ever, lex>ked like being Peugeot Sport's. They found him an old test car, on condition Gronholm and Martin did not dan1age it in pre-event testing. It was the oldest car they had, chassis # 3, built at the start of the 307 programme for the 2004 Monte Carlo Rally. Around the teams Ford had a most happy number two driver, Henning Solberg, brother of Petter, who had never been a fully official team driver before. At Subaru Chris Atkinson had his first works four wheel drive entry, in awe of his new world and even more staggered that next time, in Mexico, he was to be nominated by the team, while the alternative Subaru second driver Sarrazin had a new co-driver, Denis Giraudet. For the fourth year of the Produc-tion Car World Rally Championship, nine of the 21 registered drivers elected this event as one of their qualifying events. The drivers registered for the series came from a total of 14 different countries. Various other top drivers had privately entered the Swedish, no-tably Skoda works driver Jan Kopecky in a Group N Mitsubishi. There was a welcome to the championship for Tobias Johansson, to be the regular driver for the Olsberg team which plan to enter all the events from now to the end of the season.Twenty-three years old, the son of fonner Saab driver Erik Johansson, he served a season-long work experience apprenticeship with M-Sport in 2004. Shakedown saw some surprises. Af. ter a virtual absence of any snow dur-ing recce, there were several centimeters of snow in the area, and the Hagfors service park was a bleak and windy scene. In three teams, the third works entered car beat the two nominated entries: Kresta was fastest Ford, Paasonen fastest Skoda and Daniel Carlsson beat the other Peugeots. Quickest of all was Petter Solberg, ahead of the two Citroens. Leg 1 7 Stages, gravel, 106kms. The weather was amazing. Wednes-day had been virtually snow free, with wind that chilled anyone who strayed outdoors. Thursday had seen heavy overnight snowfall, but sex>n the tern-Fifth overall in their Ford Focus were Henning Solberg and Cato Markka Martin and Michael Park get slightly airborne in their Peugeot Mattias Ekstrom and Stefan Bergman drove their good looking Skoda Menkerud, seen here trying to keep their traction in the white stuff. 307, they finished second overall. Fabia to a decent 1(J" overall in the Swedish snow. Page 18 April 2005 Dusty Times

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First ford Focus was driven by Toni Gardemeister and Jakke Janne Tuohino and Mikko Markkula, Skoda Fabia, were out on the Harri Rovanpera and Risto Pietilainen drove their Mitsubishi Lancer to a first off the podium finish in Sweden. Honkanen, they collected six points for their third place finish. 1!Jh stage with suspension problems, wonder why? peratures were well above zero which rived with a crumpled win, a souvenir the fight for the lead between meant everything was horribly wet. Fri-of a rock hidden in the snow. Henning Gronholm and Solberg. Galli was also day dawned with clean skies and day Solberg suffered high oil temperature, excited. "It is hard to keep calm in the long sunshine with the stages held on former Mitsubishi team driver Kristian circumstances ... !" packed snow surfaces. Petter Solberg, Sohlberg lost a half minute after dam-No top drivers disappeared during with his special glue-less studded tyres, aging his suspension. the day. The two nominated Fords went into the lead, which he held for During the afternoon, Gronholm were not so fast. Henning had a tyre the first two stages but then was slowed pulled out nearly four seconds on explode on Stage 6, finishing the last on the third stage by some suspension Solberg on the first two stages, but then five kilometres on a rim, while Toni changes he personally had made, which suffered broken stud problems on Gardemeister just could not under-at the first service park meant Marcus Stage 6 which slowed him, letting stand why he was unhappy with the Gronholm led Sebastien Loeb by 0.1 Solberg ahead, but regained the lead car. Martin had a broken rim in Stage second, with Solberg the same margin on the short superspecial which ended 4. On Stage 7, Antony Warmbold had again back in third! Daniel Carlsson the day. Star of the afternoon was the engine stop inexplicably for a held third place for the first two stages Galli, getting up to third place when minute while Francois Duval was dis-before he hit a rock and damages his Loeb had troubles on Stage 4. Loeb tracted when the driver's door on his front left suspension, costing him a stalled at the start, then shortly after- Xsara opened. Mikko Hirvonen, now minute. Going well was Gianluigi Galli wards went straight on at a junction in a private Focus, had a lot of tyre who was up to fourth after profiting putting all four wheels into a ditch. He troubles. Carlsson was not making from Jani Paasonen twice stalling his was able to reverse out unaided but much headway, complaining that the engine on the start lines and then by lost in total some 20 seconds. Loeb got tyres felt they had no studs left, when Carlsson's misfortune. Markko Mar- back past Galli, even though Galli they had. In the Skoda team, Mattias tin was originally delayed by a spin but made best time on the final forest stage Ekstrom led Janne T uohino by 3.3 sec-by Stage 3 was up to fifth. Both oftheday,whenthevariousMichelin onds at the end of the day, after Gronholm and Harri Rovanpera, drivers were having troubles, but the Tuohino had a scary moment when unused to Pirelli tyres in wintry condi- world champion had a lot of broken the car failed to downshift on the ap-tions, reported difficulty in judging sruds. Pirelli people were even more proach to a sharp comer. The Olsbergs braking distances. Chris Atkinson ar-excited about Galli's efforts than for Subaru of Tobias Johansson had en-gine overheating. and finished the day still suffering a At the end of the final stage of the lack of traction. Finally Riccardo Errani day the overall lead for Gronholm was stopped with gearbox trouble. 0.2 seconds. Wow, what a race! Loeb Nowadays drivers are penalized un-was set on catching up. He had already equally for the same offence just like made good ten of the 20 seconds he they used to be in rallying 50 years ago. lost on Stage 4. Johansson retired over-Rallying' s traditional "overall classifi-nightwith engine trouble in the Olsbergs cation" has little meaning any more! In Subaru. Paasonen had dropped 20 the non-championship "also-ran" cat-seconds at the midday service, his wheel egory, Andersson was the top Super studs sheared but that apart, the three 1600 driver despite losing a minute on Skoda drivers were uncannily close, the opening stage of the rally ahead of separated by only 20 seconds on Stage Jimmy Joge, who nom1ally drives a 3. Sohlberg had to abandon for the 206WRC in national events. day when the gearbox broke on his Leg 2 Focus. 7 Stages, gravel, 139kms. In the PCWRC things started early. Another change in the weather. It Fumio Nutahara fitted snow rather was now cool, cloudy and dull but than ice tyres and went off the road, the crowds thronged the stages, and Xavier Pons lost a wheel while Joaquim between times the Service Parks. On Roman went missing on Stage 3 with the stages there was ice everywhere, engine failure. Non-championship with just a little snow and gravel in Finnish privateer Jukka Ketomaki led places. Loeb's challenge back to the the PCWRC cars on Stage 1 but then top took two adverse turns: on the Toshi Arai took momentary control first stage he slid into a ditch, on the ahead of Mark Higgins and late cham- second he hit a rock. On Stage 9 pionship entry Aki Teiskonen. Angelo Gronholm found the stage too nar-Medeghini had rear differential trouble Continued on page 20 Value. Professionalism. 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Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena were a dnf in their Citroen Xsara, thanks to a faulty head gasket. Angelo Medeghini and Barbara Capoferri were second in PCWRC in Daniel Carlsson and Mattias Andersson had a decent run in their their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo Vlfl in Sweden. Peugeot 307, they had a decent sixth place in Sweden. row for his wide-track car and dropped behind Solberg, even though Solberg was delayed by a failure of his heated windscreen which caused demisting. T uohino left overnight pare ferme in 10th place, but lost 10 sec-onds leaving service and dropped back to 12th when there was an electrical problem, then he had the engine stall at the start of Stage 8. Rovanpera said his car was still inexplicably weaving on the straights, falling from seventh to behind Gardemeister who had spun and flattened his exhaust falling from seventh to 10th. After the first lap of two stages came snow, making a handicap for the drivers running first on the road., starting with Paasonen, then Carlsson and Kresta. "Not much fun being a snowplow", said Paasonen's codriver, Vainikka. "There must be 4an of fresh snow on the top of the road". Gronholm recovered the lead on Stage 11 with an advantage of just well". It seemed all the oil had escaped. Stage 12, two stages later he was 34 .3 Champion managed. A driver whose 01.1 seconds again, Galli got back Midday service this year was 30, not behind, still third ahead of Martin, life got better and better through the from sixth to fourth despite spins on 20 minutes, and the transmission was Gardemeister, Henning1 Solberg and day was Toni Gardemeister, who even-both Stages 10 and 11. Loeb was not safely replaced in the time allowed. Rovanpera. Cracking on steadily was tually finished third overall . and happy, "Absolutely no grip", he com-On the third sector of the day Atkinson, making no mistakes on a found himself leading the Drivers' plained, but the biggest drama was for Marcus pulled out a six second lead most unforgiving rally, who had championship at the finish! Duval. After a steady run it all went but then lost it all and more on Stage climbed up to 10th, behind Daniel The hopes that Gronholm would wrong on Stage 11. The crew swopped 13, the last forest stage of the day. The Carlsson. Tuohino was 11th and keep up with Petter Solberg ended on round their wheels after Stage 10 and Finn was angry at the end of the stage. Kresta, after going off the road, was the new, fast Stage 16 when he rolled noticed various broken rims and tyres "I absolutely hate this stage, I never do 12th. Duval was a depressed 15th. the car and had to abandon. Inadvert-damaged from impacts with little road- well here," Marcus said. A brave jour- On the first stage of the second day, ently he baulked Solberg for a while. side rocks, but then on Stage 11 a dif-nalist asked him why. "I don't know. second placed PCWRC driver Mark Solberg now had a lead ofa minute or ferent tyre exploded, throwing out the Yes, I do, it's because its close to Nor- Higgins went off the road and had to so over Loeb. And when Loeb disap-mousse and forcing them to stop and way!" On Stage 12 Galli had a bro- retire. There was engine damage and peared the overall lead was up to two change the collapsed tyre. Then fol-ken driveshaft and then on Stage 13 the team realized it would take longer minutesaheadofMartin. Behind them lowed a series of chaotic mishaps, so he lost the hydraulic pressure to the than the permitted allowance to ef-a man on a mission was Carlsson. He that they lost nearly five minutes on gearbox, so the hero of the first day feet repairs, so retirement from the passed Galli into eighth place straight-their rivals. They dropped from struggled to the end of the second day event was unavoidable. Arai, however, away and then set off after Henning fourth to 17th, 12thinlineforcham- ineighthplace. Ekstromlosthispower found another adversary, Aki Solberg'sFord,whichhefailedtocatch pionship points. Another drama can1e steering and dropped from eighth to Teiskonen, who was determined to by only 12. 7 seconds at the end. The to Markko Martin with transmission 16th. Perhaps the biggest news of the press Arai as hard as he could, albeit honour of being the highest placed trouble. "Only third, founh and fifth evening was that Loeb was reported at the start of the day from a minute Swedish driver was his, however. After gears were working, and there seemed having engine trouble. From being behind. 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Duval finished 12th 6 Stages, gravel, 89kms. overall, eighth in the WCR and final Another day, different weather manufacturer scorer. again! This time snow flurries and TI1e PCWRC procession was split colder wind -but again, plenty of up when Teiskonen retired with engine drama. At the end of Day 2 service trouble two stages before the finish, so Loeb's engine troubles were examined only three of the nine completed the and a failed head gasket detected. The route -and another three were classi-Citroen team did what they could to fied as well. This meant that second limit the damage and told Loeb to try points scorer was Medeghini in his first to drive carefully, hoping he could rally for eight years, and the most im-make the finish. Loeb had one item of portant result so far for an Evo VIII luck: overnight over half of the dis-MR. New 2005 versions "Spec C" ranees scheduled for Stages 15/18 Subarus finished first and third. 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April 2005 54th Uddeholm Swedish Rally 11/13.02.2005 Kartstad (S) WC round 2 PCWRC round 1 WC points WR 'tW PC 1 (5) Petter SOLBERG/Philip Mills N/GB Subaru lm~za WRC WTS3SRT (GB) 3h.00m.52.1s, 10 10 2 (8) Mari<ko MARTINJMichael Park EE/GB Peugeot 307 WRC 966PRV75 (F) 3h.03m.03.2s. 6 6 3 (3) Toni GARDEMEISTER/Jakke Honkanen FIN Ford Focus WRC ETS3BDU (GB) 3h.04m06.6s. 6 6 4 (9) Ham ROVANPERA/Risto Pietilainen FIN Mitsubishi Lancer WRC KN04WLZ(GB) 3h.04m.18.5s. 5 5 5 (4) Henning SOLBERG/Cato Menken.Id N Ford Focus ETS3URO (GB) 3h.04m.21.9s. 4 4 6 (19) Daniel Cansson/Mattias Andersson S Peugeot 307 WRC 954PRV75 (F} 3h.04m.34.6s. • 3 7 (10) Gianluigi GALLI/Guido D'Amore I Mitsubi$hi Lancer WRC KR53YPO (GB) 3h.04m.56.1s. 3 2 -8 (17) Roman Kresta/'Jan Tomanek CZ Ford Focus WRC ET53UJP (GB) 3h.05m.31.7s. • 1 9 (16) Jani Paasonen/Jani Vair'likl<a FIN Skoda Fabia WRC 353 1946 (CZ) 3h.06m.03.2s. -10 {11) Mattias EKSTROM/Stefan Bergman S Skoda Fabla WRC 3S2 3101 (CZ} 3h.07m.56.3s. 2 - -Other important finisher$ 11 (14) AntonyWannbold/Michael Orr DIGB Ford Foo.is WRC E003XYG (GB) 3h.07m.56.4s. -12 (2) Francois DUVAL/Stephane Pravot B Citroen Xsara ··WRc 725CZf78 {F) 3h.08m.11.7s. 1 13 (6) Stephane SARRAZIN/Denis Giraudet F Subaru lmpreza WRC RT53SRT {GB) 3h.08m.53.1s. • _ 15 (65) Jukl<a Ketomaki/Mika Stenberg FIN Subaru lmpreza "Spec C" N AG9636 (FIN} 3h.14m.32.8s. - -Dusty Times

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MDR LUCERNE 250 James Takes Class 1 And The overall By }. Preston Bradshaw Photos: Trackside Photo Bobby Quarnstrom Jr. Was the big winner in the Class 1450 battle, he beat out 23 competitors to win the gold medal. The often used Lucerne course was put into service once again in early February as the Mojave Desert Racing crew put the driver's skills to the test yet once more. There were 63 racers rarin' to go and 33 of them would see the finish line. The rest? Well, you can't finish ev-erytime. Class 1 only had four entrants, one of them didn't start and one of them didn't finish. Jim Heine led Mike James drove his great looking car to the win in Class 1 at Lucerne, he was first overall also with a 68mph average. the first lap, Tim Rockenbach was right on his tail and Mike James was a minute and a half behind Tim. On the second lap Heine disap-peared from the scoring charts, Rockenbach led and Mike James was an additional minute in arrears. Lap 3 saw no changes except that James dropped almost another minute to the leader. Everything changed on the fourth lap, Rockenbach had troubles, lost a lot of time and Mike James went into the lead. On the fifth and final lap James added a bit more to the dis-tance to second place and he glee-fully came in to take the checkered flag and a very nice win. Mike's time for the 250 mile run was 3:40:07, an average speed of 68.1 miles per hour, pretty damn quick. A nice win for Mike James, Tim Rockenbach came in second, he was 45 minutes out of the win but he did manage to finish the race. Matt Kupiec did not start the race. There was only one Class 5 car, Christian Hall, he started the race, had major troubles on the first lap, spent over an hour and a half com-pleting his lap and decided to call it a day. The only Class 5-1600 entrant was John Stevenson and he did not get to start the race. Class 700 was another class with only one entrant, Barry Karakas, but Barry was there to race and race he did. Major problems on the first lap cost him well over an hour and a half but from there on in he was rain' and he finished his race in 5:42:16, not bad for all that down time. The Class 700 win went fittingly to car #700, Barry Karakas, seen here at speed Eric Tadeja lifts off the course on his way to the Class 750 win, Eric had an easy There were six entries in Class 7 50, but only two of them made it to the finish line. As they finished their first lap it was Eric Tadeja in the lead, Karl Stokes came along 10 minutes later, Mike Koenig had big problems out on the course and turned in a two and a quarter hour lap and Noe Sierra didn't finish the first lap. Lap 2 saw Tadeja still with a comfortable lead, Mike Koenig was running well now but well in arrears and Karl Stokes went in for major surgery and turned in a lap of 4:21:03. Lap 3 had everybody running decently, it was Tadeja, Koenig and Stokes. On the fourth lap the second and third place run-ners picked up the pace a wee bit while Eric Tadeja was just running at the Lucerne meet. _wi_·n_t_h1_·s_d_a"-y_in_L_u_c_e_m_e_. _________________ _ r-------------------------------------------------------~ I I I I I I I I I I I Performance Proven for Desert & Off.:.Road Use 1 5 0 Heavy Duty Sizes to Choose from Detail & Pressure Wash Tanks Marine Holding & Water Tanks Bulk Storage & Waste Tanks R .. V. Tanks Quality Products & Friendly Service www.ronco-plastlcs.com RONCO PLASTICS, INC. • 714-259-1385 • FAX 714·259-0759 • www.ronco-plastics.com 15022 Parkwav Loop, Suite B • Tustin, CA 92780 • CALL, WRITE or FAX Us to Receive a Free Cata/OQ ~-------------------------------------------------------~ Page 22 April 2005 Dusty Times

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Kevin DeNault flies towards the checkered flag, taking the Class Some precious downtime on the 4"' lap cost Tim Rockenbach dearly, Mike Koenig drove his beautifully painted truck to a second place 1600 win at Lucerne, Kevin was 5'1' overall in the race. he finished second in Class 1 and was 4"' overall in the race. finish in the class 750 conflict, seen here at launch. his race. Eric Tadeja came in for capitalize on it as turried a 1:41 lap, the Class 11 win went to Thomp-did not start. When the two came Ehrhardt turned a 1:09:45 while the win, completing Lap 5 with a so he was still well in arrears. On son (5:39: 10) and Gutzmer got the around at the end of their first lap Avila had mom·entous problems total time of 5:34:54, a very decent the third and final lap for the class, silver medal with elapsed time of it was Larry Ehrhardt in the lead and came around to record a 45 mile an hour average, Mike Brian Thompson turned a 1:26:45 6:16:12. with a nice 1:09:09 in his pocket, 3:16:37 lap time. On the third and Koenig came along next, he was an lap and Jason Gutzmer came in Three Class 1200 cars were on Javier Avila came next with a final lap Ehrhardtturned 1: 12:55 hour and a half in arrears and Karl with another long lap, 2:05:35. So, hand but one of them, Bob Miller 1: 18:01 lap. On the second lap, Continued on page_24 Stokes was, unfortunately a dnf on his last lap. Eduardo Gonzalez and Dave Ewers were non-starters. There were six starters slated for the Class 8 battle, one of them, Andy Schifanelli did not start the race. The remaining five took off for their first lap and when the tim-ers scored that first lap it was Josh Klenske in the lead, Kurtis Kupiec came along a few minutes later and Matt Towery was another minute behind. Joe Patelli had some prob-lems and turned in an hour and a half lap and Raul Flores must have built a new truck, his five hour lap time must have set a new record. When Lap 2 was completed it was l=========:::!:::!:i==l!:!!:i=!:i::S still Josh Klenske in the lead, Kurtis Kupiec was next, he was three min-utes out of second. Joe Patelli and Raul Flores called it a day and were on their respective trailers. On Lap 3 Josh Klenske turned in fast lap for the class. Kupiec was still run-ning in second place, and Matt Towery dropped a few more min-utes, he was still third. The fourth lap saw no changes in the order and when the checkered flag flew it was Josh Klenske taking the Class 8 win, his time of 4:07:55, 60.5 miles per hour average had him finishing third overall in the race. A very nice day for Matt. Unfortunately, Kupiec and Towery were unable to complete their fifth and final lap. Only one contestant showed up in Class 9, Michael Ward, Jr. Michael took the green flat at 7:25 in the morning but he failed to com-plete the lap. Three Class 10 cars were on hand for the race, one of them, Lee Perfect did not start. Mike Dea rd off led the first lap, he came around in 49:06, Matt Klenske, his competi-tion was almost 13 minutes behind at this time. Deardoff opened up a few more minutes on Klenske on the second lap, kept widening the margin on the third lap and showed no signs of slowing on the fourth lap. Klenske was keeping pace now but was well in arrears. On the fifth and final lap Mike set fast time for the class and there was no sign of Klenske, terminal prob-lems had set in. Deardoff easily took the Class 10 win and Mike was sec-ond overall on time as well for the race. There were two Class 11 cars (I bet they wish they still had their heaters installed). Jason Gutzmer was first off in class, Brian Thomp-son followed. On the first lap Brian turned a decent 1:37: 10 but Jason had big troubles and turned a two and a half hour lap. On the second lap it was Brian's turn for trouble, he had a two hour and 35 minute lap but Jason wasn't really able to Dusty Times SI□□ CASH + 5110[) 'lfJUA CHBIEE · 7 OF PAB□UCTS April 2005 Rob Hall, Kyle Taylor, Chad Hall and Team Lighttorce's own Kevin Davis push the envelope season alt.er season. Speeds that feel like Mach a., barrel rolls. free falls, mid-air collisions ... Lightlorce's HID Blitz and variable-focus lights with our innovative filter system translate to shatterproof lights that can change color and beam patterns as last as the terrain itself. Visit LiohtlorceUSA.com to find a dealer near you. Page 23

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Jason Gutzmer had a couple of long laps but he carried on and Clint Fisher drove to a nice second place in the 1300 class, Clint was Second place in the Class 1400 battle went to Steven Michael, seen here in his clean looking pickup in flight. drove his Bug to second place in Class 11 at Lucerne. less than four minutes in affears at the finish. Josh Klenske shows off his travel as he runs to a first place finish in the Class 8 group, he was third overall in the race. Mike Deardoff took the Class 10 honors, he flew around the course at a 61 mph average and was second overall as well. looked like it was going to be quite a battle. Actually, 24 of them started and 14 of them actually made it to the finish, they ran their three required laps. When they came around at the end of the first lap it was Matt Torian in the lead, Bobby Quarnstrom, Jr. was two and a half minutes behind in sec-ond place, Bob Anderson was about a minute later in third place, Eric Wehn was running in fourth and Frank Vernola was in fifth place. The total time split between the first five was just over four min-utes. Running in the sixth spot was Mark Pulido, Pat Kapko was only four seconds behind, Joe Eichelberger was in the eighth spot, Dan Pastor was in ninth place and Bryant Layton was in tenth. The next ten trucks in order were strung out in lap times ranging from 1:11:57 to 3:36:44. and Avila, his problems out of the way, turned a nice 1:29:22. Ehrhardt averaged 42.5 miles per hour for the race, not"all bad. Class 1300 was next up, and there were fou• cars ready for their four laps. When they came around at the end of their first lap it was Terry Ingold in the lead, Clint Fisher was second, just over two minutes out of the lead, Erik Irvine was running in third and Clare Ross was in fourth place. On their sec-ond lap, Ingold still held the lead Page 24 but Fisher was now only a minute behind, Irvine was running third and Ross was still bringing up the rear. Ingold set fast lap for the class on his third lap, Fisher ran that lap only one second off the fast lap time, Ross' lap time was faster this lap by eight minutes and Irvine had lopped a couple of minutes off his previous times. Terry Ingold was really flying on the last lap, he set fast lap for the class once again, this time a 53:49 and took the Class 1300 win. Clint Fisher was second in, he was less than four minutes was fighting to stay close. On their behind the winner at the finish. second lap they turned almost Clare Ross turned an almost one identical lap times and that kept hour flat lap, he finished in third them still three minutes and change place and Erik Irvine came in apart. The third lap spelled disas-fourth, four minutes out of the ter for Michael, he was almost five bronze medal. Ingold averaged 54 hours getting the lap completed miles per hour for his four required and on their fourth and final lap laps. Michael dropped another 20 min-Class 1400 was a contest for utes more. So, the checkers flew two, it started out pretty close: and it was Kenny Walker taking the when the first lap ended it was win in 4: 17:07 and Steven Michael Steven Michael in the lead by three came in second, some four hours and a half minutes, Kenny Walker later. Next up was Class 1450, there were 26 of them on hand and it The second lap saw some po-sition changes and the herd started to thin a bit. Bobby Quarnstrom had moved into the lead, Bob Anderson moved up into the second spot, Matt Torian dropped a couple of spots into third place, Frank Vernola was up into fourth and Eric Wehn was running fifth. Mark Polido was still in the s"ixth spot, Dan Vance had moved up into sev-Continued on page 26 The Class 11 laurels went to Brian Thompson, troubles on the second lap slowed him a bit but he still took the win. lis, Indian~ I~ 1 0 0 .... ·· /Ul/16 . c o m , .. · . .. '/Ht'OHPOHATED Top honors in the 1200 Class battle went to Larry Ehrhardt, seen here at speed in his clean looking truck. April 2005 Dusty Times

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Matt Torian drove his Ford pickup to a nice second place in Class Mike Ward was a bit off the winning pace in the Class 1600 fracas, he Belden Alivio finished sixth in the 1450 clash, he had been as far down as 15'1' place earlier in the race. 1450, he was eight minutes in a"ears at the end. took a second place finish at Lucerne. enth, Belden Alivio had moved finisher, Steve Ruddick was 12th Eichelberger, Allen Byma, Jor-up from 15th to eighth place, in, Frank Vernola was unlucky dan Kundert and Austin Farner Cory Clarizio was now in the 13th, having had major prob-failed to complete their final lap. ninth spot and Bryant Layton lems on the last lap and Eric There were only three Class was still hanging on to the tenth Wehn was the 14th and final fin-1600 cars entered and one of spot. Dan Past"or and Ray isher, spending more than four them failed to start. Of the re-Carmody were out of the race. hours on his last lap. Joe mainingtwoKevinDeNaulttook the lead on the first lap, Mike and Ward was a distant second Ward ran second, some 12 min-place. utes behind. Their positions re-So it ended, a good race on mained unchanged for the bal-the Lucerne course, the weather ance of the race, De Nault took was a bit icy but most we spoke the checkers with elapsed time of to declared that they had a 4:57:94 for his five required laps good time. ~ The third and final lap saw many more position changes but the guy in front remained the same, Bobby Quarnstrom took the win with an average speed of 53.8 miles per hour. Matt Torian had moved up another spot and finished in the second position, Mark Pulido moved from the sixth spot into third on the last lap, Dan Vance also moved up a few spots and finished fourth and Bob Anderson hung on to the fifth finishing position. Sixth place went to Belden Alivio, Lee Orr came in seventh, eighth place went to Pat Kapko, Cory Clarizio was ninth across the line and Bryant Layton was tenth, a posi-tion he had held all race long. Terry Ingold flew nicely to the Class 1300 win at Lucerne, he beat his competition Kenny Walker drove his neat looking Ford pickup to the Class 1400 win at Lucerne, Wes Featherston was the 11th to the checkers by four minutes. _se_e_n_h_e_re_p~~_epa~re_d_fo_r_ta_ke_o_ff._. ______________ _ • GENERATORS • OUTBOARD ENGINES • GENERAL PURPOSE ENGINES • WELDERS • WATERPUMPS • LAWN MOWERS • LAWN TRACTORS • RIDING MOWERS • TILLERS Calilornia's Largest Source lor Honda Power Equipment Parts 8 Inventory IF WE DON T HAVE IT: NO ONE DOE$/ Check Our Website: www.Kawaguchihonda.com Kawaguchi Honda Corp. 0 3532 East 3rd St. • Los Angeles, CA 90063 :H ND.A N h. ' · oeN&RAToRa a PUMPa (323) 264-3936, 264-5858 • FAX (323) 264-2136 ot 1ng s easier. For optimum performance and safety, 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 qualified electrician. ©2005 American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Page 26 April 2005 Dusty Times

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One rainy Saturday we fi-nally got around to looking at the Dust To Glory CD that was sent to us for review. Let me start by saying this: Dana Brown did his daddy proud! I sat and watched the 2003 Baja 1000 unfold before me with some of the best photog-raphy I've seen in many years. The statements of the various drivers really hit home, their driving in the Baja 1000 each year is likened to· a religious experience by many of them and no matter how or when or where they finished the race, mentally they are already preparing for the next year's adventure. And, an adventure is what it is; you are guaran-teed to experience elation, frustration, heartbreak, ter-ror, happiness and a whole bunch more of the mental ex-tremes before you complete your thousand miles. And, whether you complete the race or not, a lifetime of emotion will funnel through your mind before day is done. All of the above are there to be seen in the Dust To Glory movie•,-aughter, tears, shock and anxiety are pro-jected onto the screen and, believe me, you are right there in the midst of it! Dust To Glory is a far bet-ter picture than On Any Sun-day was: the expertise, the equipment, the facilities avail-able are much more sophisti-cated now and it shows. The latest camera and sound inno-vations allow you to experi-ence your stomach going out from under you as you sit in-side the Trophy Truck as it leaps into the air, coming down with a resounding thud. You can almost feel the effect of a very hard landing. There are lots of interviews with many drivers and riders, lots of celebrity appearances and lots of off road action. Trophy trucks are prevalent, as well they should be, as they are the fire breathers of the sport, lots of motorcycle ac-tion, enough to have you grip-ping your armrests in your liv-ing room, some class 11 VW Bugs, the hardiest group of racers in the world, theirs is always a very long and rough day and they are all heroes in their own right. Very little class 10 or class 1600 footage, that will disappoint a lot of people, but, the fact remains, Dusty Times this movie is more than total enjoyment for any off road racer o r enthusiast, and it cer-tainly will excite and amaze the average Joe Public, who has no off road desires. In fact, Dust To Glory could ex-cite some people enough to take an interest in the sport. We salute the camera crews who spent many hours on the race course and in the air above for their efforts and the excellent results achieved but most of all we salute the drivers and their crews who battle the Baja every year on their Dust To Glory adven-ture. A ***** rating from Dusty Times, a must see if you like any venue of car, truck or mot • PLEASE! DDN1T FORGET TD SUPPORT THE ADVERTISERS WHDKEEP DU 1m10 REPORTING THE OFF ROAD. NEWS! -GeNERAT.CON 2 CADOY KIT ZS NOW HEREI _'ll,":,--~V. A .,CU'_~.,. ... -- -'----' Limit Strlips Stainless $fffl/ Kevlar IJrake nas INSTALL COIL OVER a SYPASSl scm. T FOlt IWAL SHOCKSIJ HATING THE TORTION BARSL & STll.l. BOLT ON! WITH 1111: WE ARE TH6 LllADlNG DISTRlaUTOR OF FOX, BILSTEINi AND SWAY-A•WAY SHOCK ABSORBERS IN THE INDUSTRY! WITH OVER 2500+ SHOCKS 1N ST'OCK AT ALL TIHES; RANGING FROH SUHP STOPS TO AIR SHOCKS, EHULS10N'S TO 4 TUBE 3" BYPASS SHOCJ<Sl Bllsteln Shocks Dua/Shocks '' -~ ,\.:~• ' I 1") \ . ._ ~. Fuel Cell Plumbing Components. Always The Best, Always In Stock! ADDED DUAL SHOCK TABS, THE OPTION TO BUILD TO YOUR SPECS IS NOW AVAILABLE! NO OTHER SUSPENSION ON THE PLANET CAN COHPAREJ!J BILLET REMOTE OIL FILTER ,t:. ADAPTER & WELD-ON MOUNT A/I-in-one Transmission & Engine Oil Coolerl Keep both cool in one easy step. Great size, can be mounted In the front or the rear! WE STOCK MORE PARTS THAN ANYONE! TRUCK DEPT: (951) 737-2999 BUGGY DEPT: (951) 737-7223 Wlf.KARTEK.COM April 2005 ~1.l;Ji!il .Y!J!I il~E!J I l J!}lJf/~;! rJ).15; 1·r1 ct:~~.i~E Bala Designs Single HfD Light! Bullt In B;,llast Bo:x, 0'1tter Frame Included, Easy Positioning with Single Turn of the Nob/ Super Lite Weight, and Optimized Lens for no Hot Spots. The E11olutlon In 1/ghtlng HAS ARRIVED! 2871 RAGLE WAY CORONA, CA. 92879 Page 27

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RALLY AMERICA SNO * DRIFT RALLY Richard/Richard conquer sno * Drift By]. Preston Bradshaw Photos: Tom Buchkoe Tree 1, Burke 0: that would be the score after Shamus Burke tangled with a tree and sent his Mitsubishi Evo to the trailer. Patrick and Natalie Richard showed everyone else the way home, the took Group N and the overall win by a big margin in their Subaru WRX Sti. It was sort of a ho-hum vic-tory for Pat and Natalie Ri-chard, they drove their Group N Subaru WRX Sti to a resounding victory, finish-ing over seven minutes, yes, that's right, seven minutes in front of their competition. Not that there wasn't compe-tition, there were some tried and true rallyists eager to rake the gold medal, but they all suffered some malady or a crash that dropped them ei-ther way back in time or out of the contest altogether. Ri-chard is very hard to beat in the winter, especially in the snow, where he has been un-defeated since 2002. Seamus Burke was driving hard as he could to catch up to Richard but it was not to be. Burke ended up crashing hard on Stage 9 on Saturday, he was trying to erase a 30 second deficit but he ended up wrapped around a tree in-stead and although both he and co-driver, Jason Gillespie were injured in the crash, they were cleared by the medical board to continue but their car wasn't having any of it. Matthew Iorio and Ole Holter were second to finish the Sno*Drift seven minutes and 11 seconds in arrears in their Open class Subaru lmpreza. "I succeeded in not getting caught in a snowbank, that was the goal, not to spend any time digging" and it paid off for them, they took home the silver medal in Open class, not too bad a start for the 2005 rally sea-Chris Gilligan and Joe Petersen were second in the Open Class in their Mitsubishi Evo T\I, seen here churning up the white stuff. son. ======================== in a Dodge SRT4, they were more than 10 minutes ahead of their Group 5 competition. Tanner Faust and Scott Crouch were the Production GT winners, they were eighth overall and some 13 min-utes behind the overall winners in their Subaru WRX. The Group 5 win went to Doug Shepard and Bob Martin, they drove to their class win Bill bacon and Peter Watt took the victory in Group N, they fin-ished in their Subaru ., Sti less than a minute ahead of their compe-tition, Otis Dimiters and Peter Monin, who were giving chase in their Suba·ru WRX Sti. Don Jankowski and Ken Nowak drove The Group 2 winners were Matt Johnston and Alex Kihurani, seen the i r D o d g e N e o n here en route in there 1992 Honda Civic. Continued on page 47 Matthew Iorio and Ole Holter were the Open class winners in their Tanner Faust and Scott Crouch took the snow in hand, they went on Doug Shephard and Bob Martin drove their Dodge SRT4 to the Subaru lmpreza but they were second overall in the final standings. to win the Production GT class in their Subaru WRX. Group 5 win and they were a very nice ninth overall as well. Don Jankowski and Ken Nowak drove their Dodge Neon ACR to the Production Class win, they finished 16 minutes ahead of their Jonathan Bottoms and Garolyn Bosley were a decent 2rt1 place in Chris Whiteman and Mike Rossey were second in the Group 5 competition. Group N, seen here fighting the elements in their Subaru WRX. contest, seen here mushing along in their Dodge SRT4. Page 28 April 2005 Dusty Times

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SNORE SHORT COURSE BATTLE AT PRIMM ,-,alloy Makes Merry In The Mud By John Calvin Photos: Trackside Photo It was a great weekend for Rick Poole, he won his heats both days and took the Class 9 honors with three minutes to spare. Mike Malloy had a great weekend, he won his races on both days, took the Class ½-1600 win and he was the overall winner as well. The SNORE folks get to-gether on February 19-20 at Primm to run their short course race on a very muddy, sloppy seven mile course. There had been nothing but rain in the South-ern California, Southern Nevada (Las Vegas) areas for almost two weeks as three major storms moved very slowly through the Mojave Desert, leaving a trail of very wet desert and there was more to come, according to the latest weather forecast. Contingency and Technical In-spection were held on Friday night behind the Buffalo Bill's Hotel and Casino and there was even a bit of a sprinkle through-out that event, but the rain was light enough so as not to be a bother. There were 71 entries ready to ing their race was a downpour. combat the terrain and the ele-Good side, it rained hard enough ments. The 1, 10, 1600 and Heavy to make the car numbers legible, Jeff Shiroky lands a bit hard, no matter, he won the Sportsman Buggy class both days which gave him the overall class win. Metal classes were required to in spite of all the muck they were driving his pre-runner and was course being a lot more chewed run seven laps of the course each running through. having a good time, in spite of up and with lots of deep pools day, Classes 5-1600, 7 and 9 had The Saturday event got under the course condition. Third fin-waiting with open arms, three of to run six laps each day and the way with the Sportsman classes isher on Saturday was Tom the valiant racers never saw the Sportsman classes were required taking the green flag. In the Un-Hood, he got around in less than checkered flag: namely, Brad to complete five laps each day for limited Sportsman division, seven 56 minutes and in the fourth spot Inch, Tom Hood and Bryan Free-a complete race. devoted and determined drivers it was Jerry Stewart, just two min-man. Of the remaining four cars, In spite of the adverse course went off into the morass for their utes behind Hood. Rob McBeath Jerry Stewart was first to find the conditions there was an 80% fin- five required laps. We don't have came around in the fifth spot, checkered flag. Rob McBeath ishing ratio on Saturday and any actual lap times as the scor-muddy but still running, Robert came along in second place, Ja-fully 58% of the racers on Sun-ing program in the computer Gross was the sixth place finisher son Gubler came along three day made it to the checkered flag. went ape, so you'll just have to and Bryan Freeman, driving the minutes later and Robert Gross There was no rain during the bear with us as we give you total four seater and hauling those was the last finisher. racing on Saturday although it time for the five laps each day. around with him that had no When the lap times were all did rain pretty hard on Satur-Fastest of the Unlimited bunch aversion to mud. Surprise! Every-added up it was Jerry Stewart tak-day night. Sunday there was no on Saturday was Jason Gubler, body finished!!! ing the win with a total time of rain until the last race of the day, he finished his stint in just under The Unlimited Sportsman two hours and two seconds, Ja-the Class 1, 10, 1600 and Heavy 53 minutes. Second to cross the race on Sunday had the same son Gubler was second in com-Metal and the rain that fell dur-finish line was Brad Inch, he was seven starters but this time, the bined time, he was 13 minutes ~---~--------------------,~-----------------------,-------~-------------....,.---,.-, Glenn Dicton drove his very clean Class 9 car to sixth on Saturday, A second place and a third place in Sportsman Buggy gave Greg Jason Gubler took the gold medal on Saturday.took third on Sunday second on Sunday and that gave him second overall in class. Frechette a very nice second overall in class. and that gave him second overall in Unlimited Sportsman. Laine Knecht was third on Saturday, fourth on Sunday but his Did he, or didn't he? Ed Stout had a pretty good weekend; sixth on A very clean looking Brandon Hughes car took a second on Saturday, combined times gave him a second overall in Class 5-1600. Saturday, third on Sunday and third overall in ½-1600. fourth on Sunday gave him third overall in Class 9. Page 30 April 2005 Dusty Times

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Steve Alexander was fifth in Saturday's race, third on Sunday and Third overall in Unlimited Sportsman went to Rob McBeath: seen Mr. consistency, heat times of 1 :00:31 and 1 :00: 14 put Eddie Aguiar that gave him the bronze medal for the overall in 5-1600. here ready for touchdown at the short course race. · into third place overall in Sportsman Buggy. He was fifth in 1600. behind the leader, Rob McBeath completed their required laps On Sunday, with the course minutes overall, second spot the Class 9 cars, they had to com-took the bronze medal, he was both days. On Saturday it was rally in bad shape, none of the went to John Copitas. They were plete six laps for an official fin-four minutes out of second spot Tammie Gubler taking the win, three trucks was able to get to the all glad to get the racing over for ish. Rick Poole made it look sort and Robert Gross was the final John Copitas was seven minutes finish line. this weekend. of easy, he took the Saturday win finisher in the Unlimited Sports-behind in second place and Pete So, the overall win went to The second group was ready and was feeling pretty good. man, fully half an hour behind Claas was a dnf. Tammi Gubler, just shy of 53 for combat and it all started with Continued on page 32 the leader. There were 11 Sportsman Buggy cars ready to fight the mud and water on Saturday, but Aaron Hawley did not start the race and Courtney Collins was a rare, for her, dnf. After running the five required laps and when all the mud was cleared away it was Jeff Shiroky taking the Sat-urday win, in second place it was Greg Frechette, less than a minute behind and Orio Cox was the third finisher, he was less than three minutes out of the win. In fourth place it was Dave Deloe, he was another minute back, and the fifth spot went to Eddie Aguiar, he was less than five minutes behind the leader. Sixth place went to Kathryn Der-rick, she was just 12 seconds be-hind Eddie, Jeff Farshler was the seventh place finisher, then came Randy Jones, he was just one sec-ond out of seventh place and Paul Sheldon was the eighth and final finisher in the class, he was a mere eight minutes behind the class winner. As they got ready to attack the course on Sunday, it was evident that the times would be a bit slower than Saturday as the course was really bad. After run-ning through the slop for five laps, once again it was Jeff Shiroky leading the way, he fin-ished his stint in 59 minutes and 30 seconds. Eddie Aguiar actu-ally completed his required laps faster than he did on Saturday and that got him second spot, Greg Frechette was the third place finisher, he was less than 30 seconds out of second, Dave Deloe came along five minutes later, he was fourth and Aaron Hawley was the fifth place fin-isher. Sixth place went to Kathryn Derrick, Paul Sheldon came in seventh and Orio Cox was the eighth and final finisher in Sportsman Buggy. Jeff Farshler, Randy Jones and Courtney Collins did not finisher their required laps. The Sportsman Buggy times were added up and Jeff Shiroky took the muddy win, Greg Frechette earned the second overall spot, he was less than rwo minutes out of the win. Eddie Aguiar was third overall, he was three minutes out of the silver medal, Dave Deloe ended up fourth overall, Kathryn Derrick came in for the fifth overall spot and Orio Cox was sixth on total time and Paul Sheldon was sev-enth overall. 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Mark Gonzalez gets nicely airborne, his combined times for both Bryan Freemal was third on Saturday, tied for second place on Richard Blunk lets it all hang down at Primm, he drove his truck to a Heats put him into third overall in the Heavy Metal contest. Sunday and ended up in third place overall in Class 10. decent third place overall in Heavy Metal. 'Of buddy Jeff Carr ended up fourth overall in the Class ½-1600 Rusty Ruby did some fancy flyin', his combined times from both Robert Gross didn't have too bad a weekend, he finished in the fourth overall position in Unlimited Sportsman. conflict, he was a mere 18 seconds off the podium. days put him into fourth overall in Class 9. Brandon Hughes was second to Sunday's race saw Rick Poole days were added together and conquer the mud, a minute and doing a repeat of Saturday, tak- Rick Poole was the big Class 9 win-a half in arrears, Chris ing the Class 9 win. Glenn ner for the weekend, Glenn DeSousaDias was third in, a mere Dickton figured out the mud and Dicton was three and a half min-22 seconds out of second spot. came in second, only 15 seconds utes in arrears on total time and John Burns came along 52 sec-out of the win. Corey Torres got ended up in the second spot, onds later in fourth place and himself going real well and was Brandon Hughes was third, just a Rusty Ruby was another five sec-the third car in, Brandon Hughes minute and a half away from the onds behind in fifth place. Glenn came in the fourth place and silver medal, Rusty Ruby took Dickton braved the muck and Rusty Ruby put together another fourth overall on total time and took the sixth finishing position, fifth place finish. Joe Forte was Joe Forte was the fifth and final Tom Martin came across the line the sixth and final finisher in finisher in the always competitive in seventh place and Joe Forte was Class 9 . Chris DeSousaDias, class. the eighth and final finisher in John Burns, Tom Martin and There were seven 5-1600's Class 9. Corey Torres and Brian Brian Benson all fell victim to ready for their trials by muck and Benson did not finish their six various maladies and dnf'd. they had a pretty good race on required laps. The finishing times for the two Saturday. When the smoke llri,iag SuHs • Crew HoHorms • Crew Shirls Pu/8 Shirts • blam Jackets • Hats • Gear Bags ~E WT MOTIIJll.,._7"6 • IUrrl/EII..II ~ ·.,,.,..,,,. IVll:llfll/1 WVE L•&IBI • 1:11111 ,_...,,,,,.,. • R.,;, IIE.IIIIY Plllllllll:TS • nl.TIIII ...,... • ..,., .lllllll'EUl!II • .,,.,,. rm ., r:IIIIIINA \-------------------------------------,11 Page 32 April 2005 cleared at the end of Saturday's lot worse thanks to the heavy race it was Billy Worthing taking rains on Saturday night. Six cars first place, but not by much, right left the start and when they had behind him in the second slot was completed their six required laps Gary Messer, just 23 seconds out it was Billy Worthing setting the of the lead and third place went pace with a nice hour and 15 to Laine Knecht who came in just minute completion time. Adam under four minutes in arrears. Fisher lost his first round grem-Fourth place went to Art Savedra, !ins and was second across the he was less then a minute out of line, some six minutes in arrears the bronze medal and Steve to the winner. Steve Alexander Alexander was the fifth and final came along in third place, a finisher for the 5-1600's this day. minute and a half out of second Adam Fisher and Richard Diaz place and Laine Knecht was the succumbed to terminal woes and fourth and final finisher on Sun-were recorded as dnf's. day. Gary Messer and Art The Sunday 5-1600 test saw Savedra weren't able to complete some noticeably longer lap times their required laps and Richard as the course had really gotten a Diaz did not start. Flying low, mud, you know, was Billy Worthing, he ran away with the Class 5-1600 title, seen here on his way to glory. A much too clean Jerry Stewart sets down, second on Saturday, first on Sunday and overall winner of Unlimited Sportsman. Dusty Tinies

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i I Orio Cox raced in Sportsman Buggy and an Class 1600, he finished Landing hard, Charles Sutton went on to a 1 (Jh place on day 1, ninth Randy Jones ran in Sportsman and Class 1600, not a good weekend, sixth in Sportsman Buggy and was eighth in 1600. place on day 2 and that resulted in ninth overall in 1600. he finished 12'1' in 1600 and dnf'd on Sunday in Sportsman. Don Wall's combined times in the ½-1600 class relegated him to a disappointing 11th place finish. Bob Dziviawiec lands hard at Primm, not his best weekend, Bob was Todd Bauman was well off the pace on Sunday, he ended up taking only able to get a 1 :JI' overall finish in Class ½-1600. 1 OIi> overall in the Class ½-1600 battle. hind Carr and Eddie Aguiar was in sixth place, Eddie had also run in the Sportsman class earlier in the day. Seventh spot went to Ed Stout, mind you, Ed was only three minutes behind the winner! Stan Hignet came along next in eighth place, Cody Freeman was the ninth place finisher and Charles Sutton rounded out the top 10 finishers. Todd Bauman came in 11th, Orlo Cox, who also ran in the Sportsman race was the 12th place finisher, Tony Farshler came along in 13th, the 14th spot went to Bob Dziviawiec, 15th place went to Don Wall and Paul Bailey was the 16th and final finisher. Kenny Thatcher, Tom Craig, John Olson and Brad Inch all were dnfs. On Sunday the first five cars from Saturday's race had an in-verted start and they all took off into the muck and mire with much snarling of engines and lots of mud being thrown everywhere. Mike Malloy started fifth and on the fourth lap of the seven re-quired Mike had taken the lead and there he remained. His win-ning time of 1: 13:09 took the gold medal, Aaron Hawley came in second, he was only 25 seconds out of the win! Coming in third was Ed Stout, fourth car in was Jeff Carr and Eddie Aguiar was Monte Tibbets made it look easy, he took the heat wins on Saturday and Sunday and took the Heavy Metal win with 9 minutes in hand. Weighted down with mud JC Dean flew around the course both days, took the Class 10 overall win by two minutes. Dusty Times the fifth place finisher. Sixth place went to Stan Higrtet, Corey Goin came along 23 seconds later in seventh, eighth place went to Orlo Cox, Don Wall came in ninth and Charles Sutton rounded out the top 10. Todd Bauman took the 11th finishing spot, Bob Dziviawiec was 12th, Randy Jones had lots of troubles and was 13th and Kenny Thatcher was the 14th and final finisher. The dnf list was long and impressive. Cody Freeman, Tony Farshler, Paul Bailey and Top Craig all succumbed to various problems. John Olsen and Brad Inch did not start. When the times for both days were put together in Class 1/2-1600 it was Mike Malloy taking the big win, a very happy camper and, Mike had the fastest time for the seven lap racers overall and he was quite pleased with that. Aaron Hawley was second, he was one minute and 21 seconds out of the win. Ed Stout had a good weekend, he finished third in class, Jeff Carr was 18 seconds off the podium, finishing four.th and fifth spot went to Eddie Aguiar. Corey Going wasn't go-ing fast enough and he finished sixth, Stan Hignet was seventh, just 10 seconds out of sixth, eighth place went to Orlo Cox, Charles Sutton was ninth in the standings and Todd Bauman was 10th on total time. Eleventh place went to Don Wall, Randy Jones was a disappointing 12th and Bob Dziviawiec was the un-lucky 13th place finisher overall. The remaining seven cars only completed laps on one day. There were many more classes in the final heat on Saturday and they were required to complete seven laps for an official finish. Continued on page 47 TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING INC. SNORE 1999 Transaxle Builder Of The Year congratulations SNORE Short: Course Battle At Primm Mike Malloy Winner 1/2-1600 TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING JEFF nELD Todd Jergensen Winner Class 1 9763VARIEL AVENUE CHATSWORTH, CA 91311 818-998-2739 April 2005 Page 35

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Fortunately for a lot of the racers, this guy doesn't run with the Class 8 troops. VORRA Hard at work pouring the slab for the timing and scoring building. tures. The new in -A lonely backhoe plies its trade, working on the new course at Prairie City. Prairie City cets $440.000 For Improvements field will feature parking for the racers ca-pable of " handling the big Text & Photos: Tony Bond s e m i trucks and trail-ers. Grassy knolls will overlook the track The new track is taking shape, the 2.5 mile course will be well used and the by the VORRA racers. ponds will be fixed to retain water also to be completed by July. year-round. The perimeter of the All of this has been made pos-track will be full access and RV park-sible by Daphnie Greene and her ing on the perimeter will be terraced staff at Prairie City. They have so that spectators can view the track placed a bug in the minds of the park from the comfort of their RVs. Con- system and the government to which struction management on the site is the possibility exists that off road being done by Bruce Fields and the enthusiasts (off road racing, rock dirt work is being done by Steve crawling, go carts, motocross, etc.), Sullivan, both VORRA racers vol-can co-exist with the environment unteering their time to make the dol- with the right venue. Their empha-lars go farther. Construction is ex-sis is to put more money into parks pected to be complete by July, with that are used rather than put money the track and spectator areas ready into unused parks. Their commit-for the season opener March 12-13, ment to this philosophy was evident 2005. when an event was held for the Sen-The rock crawling site is also be- ate and Legislative fellows on No-ing improved for both events and rec- vember 2nd and 5th, 2004. The fel-reational use. More rocks are being lowship program is a program thru trucked in and portable bleachers are California State University, Sacra-being built for spectators. The rocks mento for future government em-Heavy equipment very busy working on the new track, some 25,000 yards of dirt will be rearranged before it's done. will be concreted together to ensure ployees and legislators to work Prairie City Off Highway Vehicle Park has been allocated $400,000 for improvements to the rock crawling and off road racing section of the park. The allocation of DMV green sticker funds in August of 2004 was made possible by the efforts of the Prairie City park staff and VORRA/ PIKES service center Baker, California Celebra~ing 60 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ••• THANKS! RESTAURANT Open 24 Hours M --b"I® 0-··1 .. SERVICE Every Day Year Round THE BEST IN THE DESERT! Page 36 CALROCS organization to improve safety. Also, the mud pit and hill ar-within the government and receive the site to attract more participants eas will still be maintained. The con- college credits. These fellows work from not· only VORRA and struction of these improvements is with current legislators and report CALROCS events, but -.,,.,-----,---,---..-----,-- - - -,------,-...,,,--, to them on what they also to attract other orga- have seen and experi-nizations such as CORR enced. As our future and Ivan Stewart's leaders, these people PROTRUCKseries. have the ability to influ-Construction on the ence the future of our off road site began on respective activities and January 22, 2005 with venues. This event was to the removal of the old show the fellows how the ~~~~~ ~-~~~ to create the new track. activities were offered. Gone is the old one mile Daphnie had a conver-and 1.5 mile track, as a sation with the fellows new, wider nearly 2.5 mile after their arrival as to track will be cut and the goals of Prairie City groomed for the new fa-Off Highway Vehicle cility. The new track will You can almost see the erected walls and hear the hubbub within as Park and to where the be cut and groomed for the races go on. money was being spent. the new facility. The new ~. Different event areas track will be 60 ft. wide "" had their activity repre-at its narrowest point, sentatives put on a dem-with a huge 200 ft. start onstration for the fel-line for the famous "Cali-lows, including fomia Land Rush" starts VORRA, CALROCS, that are famous with and Hangtown both VORRA and Motocross. Each area CORR. Several new was explained and whoops and jump sec-shown to the fellows. tions will be added for Several CALROCS the spectator enjoyment. trucks showed their Also, a new 13' x 30' scor- prowess on the rocks ing booth will be added and Steve Sullivan took as well as a new vending several of the fellows on area, promotional area, rides in his Class 1 car media towers, bath-A classy looking building, lots of glass, it will be used frequently at this on the old track. rooms and lighting fix-remodeled racing facility. Continued on page 46 April 2005 Dusty Times

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California Rally series Banquet By Scott Bottomley Photos: Motorsports Memories Winners all - Marco Pasten won over Tim Moser, Patrick Rodi, Mike Masano and Don Shreyer in RallySprint Production Class. tify the stage. The three finalists were Tony Chavez, Lisa Klassen and Patrick Rodi. Knowing all the correct answers, which didn't surprise the other final-ists; Tony Chavez was announced the winner. Before moving on to the T-Shirt contest; the annual Captain Crunch was presented-telling of exag-gerated stories of thrashed cars. Taking their best shot were Josh Milos, Tony Chavez, Chrissy Beavis and Michel Hoche-Ming. Dear Reader -Who do you think told the moist outrageous tale? None other than Tony Chavez. Chris Wilson and Martin Plumeri were the big winners in the CRS Rally GT Class, seen here with trophies in hand. Modeling this-year's dry t-shirts were were reviewed and answered by the Linda Masano in a Gorman from three teams; the declared winner was Versace; Lisa Klassen in this-year's latest the Old Team of Tony Chavez and from Prescott; next was Julie Lin wear-Leon Styles. After dinner, which I was ing the best from the House of Ramada; told was better than previous years, Chrissy Beavis chose Rin1 of the World the partygoers' attention was turned to accent the newest styles in vogue and back to the podium for a game called last was Caroline Reed in the natural "Stage Name Game". look from Treeline. Winning the run-Celebrating its 30th year, the Cali-fornia Rally Series kicked off the next 30 years with their annual banquet looking back on the year in rally- 2004 . . Held at a cozy establishment called Grinders in Moorpark and hosted by John Dillon and Julie Lin. Arranged and coordinated by Madame Direc-tor Donna Dillon the fun began early lasting long into the evening. After a few cocktails while visiting friends the night started with the "All About Rally" game; a test of knowledge and of how well you retain infom1ation during the post rally parties. Comprised of three teams the contestants were: Young T earn -Lisa Klassen and Aaron Laeng; Worker Team -Pat and Denise McMahon; Old Team - Tony Chavez and Leon Styles. After all the questions As the name implies, panelists were way competition with pure attitude readpacenotesandwereaskedtoiden-and sass was Caroline Reed in a --"""""-~ Robert Brinkhurst was the star in the RallySprint GT Championship run, seen here Steve Winter took the laurels in RallySprint Open 4WD Class, besting George with the fruits of his talent. Pisek, Leon Styles and Tony Chavez. Aaron Laeng accepted for Steve. Page 38 April 2005 Treeline from Los Angeles. Editor note: Treeline has swept the fashion contest now three years in a row; it's the first year that Treeline has had a rally and tee available for sale in three years. Mike Masano got a surprise "thank you" from the Co3 organizers when they gave him free entries to their events for providing the CFS with Rally Clocks. Showing their appreciation were Prescott, Rim, Ensenada, Desert Storm, Treeline, Gorman and Ra111ada. Now Mike, the question is, can you keep your car together and take advantage of these freebies? In the State of California Rally Se-ries address presented by Ray Hocker, he revealed that the upcoming sched-ule was comprised of eight full raily events that 111ade up 28 coefficients and this was the most compared to any other part of the country. In addition on the calendar were two rally schools and 20 rally-x; again the most for any region in the country. Next up was the perennial awards given each year to those acknowledged by the CRS Board of Directors in vari-ous categories. Presenting i:he Kenneth "Doc" Zimmerman was Paula Gibeault and donating a Cobra seat was Chad DiMarco ofSube Sports. Receiving this year's award were the dynamic duo of Pat and Denise McMahon for their contributions as stewards throughout the entire series and their efforts to make Rim of the World the best on the calendar. Followed by the Bill Moore Award given to the organizer who has contributed as an event coor-dinator and competitor; taking this tro-phy was Mike Taylor of Arizona. Go-ing to the competitor who exemplifies the spirit of the Stock class owner/ driver receiving this year's Galai Souki Dusty Times I '

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I , Taking home the hardware in RallySprint Open 2WD were Scott CRS Stock Class winners: Steve Taylor, Nick Hudson, Mike Masano, Michael Taylor presents the Gala/ Souki Award to Brian Hudson, a Harvey, the champ (R), Jon Rood and Jim Wright. Linda Masano, Tony Chavez, Jonathan Schiller, Michael Taylor. true Stock Class Competitor in the CRS Series. =a::==========:;;::;-Paula Gibeault presented the award: 2"' in Open 2WD Rallysprint Michael Taylor received the Bill Moore Memorial Award for Organizer The Worker Of The Year award went to Carl Schmidt, well deserved and :Id Rally Open 2WD to a smiling John Rood. ;;a;;;.;;;a;;;.;;...,......,ITT Excellance, the Prescott Rally. ;;;;rec .. o_,g;;;;n,a,;·ti;,;;on;,;;;;;fo""r:;:;h:;:;is=la;,;;bo~rs=ina,;2;;;;004=;;;;· =========""7,.;;;;;;;;;j' CRS Rally Open 2WD, Jim Pierce won, then came Dean Burnett, Stewards Pat and Denise McMahon accepted the Kenneth Jon Rood and Jim Wright and Louma Barnett, Co-driving to :Id place. Zimmerman Award for their dedication to the sport. award was Brian Hudson. Of course, by five points to take first place while no tally season is complete without pre-third went to Jim Wright followed by senting the Rookie of the Year award Brad Morris. Next up in Open 4WD to a new driver. Receiving the presenta- Steve Winter took this class doubling tion was Jon Rood. Co-drivers or navi-his closest competitor's points in sec-gators are, of course, not without their ond Leon Styles, Tony Chavez finished recognition; receiving the Rookie Co-in third and fourth went to George Driver of the Year was Piers O'Hanlon Pisek. Performance Stock went to -who is the first to win Driver of the Marco Pasten with 260 points, Don Year the season before. Workers are Shreyer took second with 160 points an intrinsic part of any rally and with- followed by Tim Moser, Patrick Rodi outthemtherereallycouldn'tbeone and Mike Masano. In the Rally cat-without them. Receiving Worker of the egory, in Open 4WD the driver's cham-Year for his professionalism and dedi- pionship went to Vartan Samuelian cation to the sport of rally; this year's while Alex Gelsomino took top prize recipient is Carl Schmid. Following the for co-driving. Finishing in driver's be-perennial awards were the class cham- hind Vartan was Randy Dowell for sec-pionship trophies that everyone works ond, followed by Peter 'Workum, so hard to achieve through the year. George Plsek and Bob Prendergrass. Starting with the Rally-X presentations: Second placeforcodrivingwentto John Rally 4WD: 1st Place Jack Maranto, Dillon,JonathanSchillerandScott Ra-Lorelei Brose, Mark Gardner and dar. In Open 2WD Jim Pierce and Bristol Keele. Steele Modified 4WD~ Adrian Lengsfield each took first place 1st Place Michel Hoche-Ming, Craig in the driver and co-driver categories, Pearson, Skylar Stein. Stock Stock second went to Dean Burnett and 4 WD: 1st Place Mark Anton, Harry Guido Hamacher, third Jon Rood and Allen, Kevin Mount, Gabe Pari and Louma Barnett, fourth Jim Wright and Russ Tinnell. Rally 2WD: 1st Place Piers O'Hanlon and fifth went to John Jacques Levy, Greg Montgomery, Hsu and Rex Lair. First place in CRS Joshua Milos and Jim Wright. Street GT for driver and co-driver were the Modified 2WD: 1st Place D'John inseparable team of Bruce and Pat Keith. Street Stock 2WD: 1st Place, Brown, followed by Stephan Verdier Eli Gilbert, Justin Smith and Don and Martin Plumeri, third went to Chris Shreyer. In this year's Rallysprint Wilson and Tina Brink and in fourth Awards d1ase there were two close class were Scott Clark and Abel Villesca. Per-victories in CRS GT and Open 2WD. fom1ance Stock winners were Mike and After the rally-x presentations rally tro-Linda Masano, second went to Michael phies were handed out to the anxious Taylor and Ole Holter, third place winners; beginning with CRS GT: Rob-we11t to Craig Hollingsworth and ert Brinkhurst took the top spot over Nick Hudson, fourth place went to Bruce Brown by 20 points while third Brian Hudson and Steve Taylor place went to Scott Clark. In Open and in fifth place was Tony Chavez 2WD Scott Harvey nipped Jon Rood and Jonathan Schiller. .. -# CW Dusty Times April 2005 CRS Rally Open 4WD Class: Alex Ge/somino (Winner-Co-Driver), Vartan Samue/ian (Winner Driver), Geoprge Pisek, Jon Schiller, Randy Dowell, Scott Rader and John Dillon. Page 39

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BFG OUTHOUSE CONTEST regulated by varying the pressure on the pedal. Pro Pit outclasses Them All little house. Something to while away the time between race vehicles. It was hoped that the poets would remem-ber that persons of all ages and both genders would be reading the poetry. Through the long night, as they worked on race vehicles, the team could hear visiting racers mashing the pedal to the maximum speed, and honking the horn, as if trying to pass a slower outhouse. By Judy Smith The Pro Pit support team, long one of the mainstays of the BFGoodrich support network at races all over California, Nevada and Baja, took top honors in the BFG Best Outhouse contest at the 2004 Baja 1000. Whenever the layout of the Baja 1000 course means .that the pit sup-port team will have to "camp out" in the boonies, an outhouse has been a part of the equipment brought along, tucked in with tires and welders and dump cans. Once they conceived of the idea, in the mid-90s, it quickly became routine to pack the plywood, already cut to size, and the necessary other accouterments to make it functional and comfortable. Electric " lights became fairly stan-dard equipment by '98, Photos: Trackside Photo nology. There are usu-ally lights, and some-times painted rock or flower bordered path-ways, well lit of course. Previous winners have added such touches as drink holders and coat hooks, along with inter-esting reading material. One year a race poster was mounted inside the door and all who ea-tered were encouraged to autograph it. (One wonders where that poster is now.) In last year's competition, vis-iting guests were given writing materials and encouraged to create After visiting all the outhouses and doing some serious decision making, the outhouse designed and built by the Pro Pit team was declared the 2004 winner. !twas painted in the colors and style of the old Ford Rough Riders trucks, and came complete with win-dow nets, BFG tires, roof mounted "driving lights" and a Ford oval in the grill. The race team name was inscribed on the side wall. Inside there was a steer-ing wheel mounted to the door, along with a functional horn button attached to a set of small air horns, and on the floor, a gas pedal. It would seem at first thought that a cautious individual would never, under any circumstances, step on a gas pedal in an outhouse. But apparently few could resist. And the results were entertaining. As the visi-tor stepped on the pedal the outhouse seat would vibrate and make a "varoom" sound. The speed could be Jack Sypolt, originator of the out-house idea in tl1e first place, and head of Pro Pit, was pleased to be the year's winner. He says he's not sure what they can "do to top this, but the minds are already thinking." It's certain to be an entertaining result. Whatever you do, while chasing or racing at the next long Baja 1000, be certain to have a look at the BFG out-house. They're well worth a little side trip. ..·1, for example. Gradually, First place winner in the BFG Best Outhouse contest, was this the pit teams began try-Rough Rider clone, put together by the Pro Pit team led by Jack ing to outdo each other Sypolt. in the area of comfort an-d-in_t_e_ri~o-r--w-o-r~b-o~f-a_rt _______________ _ decoration. Frank DeAngelo and Jeff The teams begin working on their and recorui..~---"-----------"'"""""------= Inside the outhouse there was a throttle pedal and a horn button, giving the visitors to the facility something to entertain themselves and others. Cummings decided to add a little fun, next design as soon as the race is over, poetry on This view shows the steering wheel mounted on the inside of the and madeitintoacontestforthe 2002 and there have been some remark-the interiordoor to the winning outhouse. Set behind the pit, it added a note of Baja 1000. The outhouses became able advancements in outhouse tech- wall of CM\enostalgia with its Rough Rider colorscheme. Page 40 In 2005, Skyjacker® continues its involvement with the hard-core racing & race fans of Championship Off Road Racing (CORR®). Skyjacker® Suspension is honored to announce a I year marketing partnership with Ross Hoek Motorsports as the Title Sponsor for the Sportsman 2 truck driven by Ross Hoek. yjacker's involvement in motor sports began in the local Louisiana arena of "mud racing" .. While our,.,, .. na has expanded over the years into rock crawling, desert racing and CORR®, the Skyjacker® Motor l-),·:-rts Division is a heart felt part of our off-road industry. All of the drivers we sponsor in every avenue of · motor sports have been a tremendous asset & blessing to our company. "Ross Hoek is a very welcome addi'- · ' tion to our "Motor Sports, Team' her.eat Skyjacker®" · . -Lonnie McCurry, Sr., CEO & President of Skyjacker® Suspensions r---------~:::::;:._:;;. , April 2005 Dusty Times

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Pony Express ... A True Fan Speaks Out I've (font many road racing events in Mexico and the USA, in-cluding NASCAR, SCCA, IMSA and the TECATE Gran Prix series races, but I've never had such a great a time racing as. the San Felipe 250. I have to congratulate SCORE on a well run and exciting event. I was fortunate enough to be hooked up with an experi-enced Class 9 team in Jimmy Richardson and R.C. Jones, whose combined 40 years of experience in SCORE events truly made the decision to join up a no brainer. When Sal spoke at the awards ceremony about the "SCORE FAMILY" he was talking about Jimmy Richardson and his Dad, and RC Jones and his sons Brett and Thomas, and the many friends they had made during the many years of SCORE competition. Family was the key word as I was introduced to these friends during regis-tration and at the Miramar Bar prior to the race. On Fri-day Jimmy is out front of my In-laws (helps to have family in town) tuning up the Class 9 when a guy walks out of the campground across the street. Big smiles and several hand-shakes later and I am intro-duced to Geddo AKA Willy AKA Bob, who turns out to have been on an RC-J o nes SCOR E c rew man y times in the past, a n d had heard that RC and Jimmy MIGHT be making a run at the 250. So he just says c-YA to the wife and job etc. and drives 200 miles. to San Felipe on the off chance that he m ight be able to help. that he was staying right across from us had to be divine interven-tion or maybe Karma? Even more amazing to me were the spectators. R.C. and I started the race, and we got a flat just two miles out-(in the Dump) while chasing down the rest of our field. We pulled off line right in front of a group of spectators. Be-fore I could even get out of my 5 point restraints, these folks had a floor jack under-neath us. With smiles on their faces and electric lug guns in their hands, they had the flat rear tire off, the undersized spare going on front, and the front going back to the rear Ul..Q.t,_ in way less time than a NASCAR crew could have fig-ured chat all our. The lugs were finished with a torque wrench as our "instant crew" gave us their departing words "Living the Dream dude-.. DO IT!". With that kind 4f en-couragement and assistance I now felt duty to bound to not just finish, but finish well. Thirty kilometers further down the road, "some Dudes" were frantically trying to flag us down. R.C . and I stopped, half expecting them to say something about a stuck car up ahead or some such danger in the road. Instead "some Dudes" said they had tires for us. Turns out. they were long time friends of car owner Jimmy Richardson that had Dusty Times decided, just the night before, to grab some spares from Jimmy's shop and head on down for the race, just in case we needed help, So they just camped out in the middle of nowhere overnight waiting to see if Jimmy's car came by .. . unbelievable. So we pulled over to their truck and they re-placed the dead. tire with a right. sized rear, put the front tire back up front, and restowed the undersized spare. What was remarkable to me about this pit stop is that I had no clue these folks were. even in San Felipe let alone waiting out here in the middle of the Baia desert "just in case" we needed help. No radios, no cell phones, so how did they know? Seems they saw us at a major road crossing (Zoo Road) with a dead spare, and "chased" us up course to where we neared a major cross road again, hell bent to ensure we had a shot at a finish. What amazing friends. I'd like to say I've got a six pack of Tecate with their names on it, but I can't. I've got the brew, but I never did catch their names! So after two pit stops, and after a field of 290 vehicles having "enriched" the course before us, I knew it would take an amazing effort to finish anywhere near the front of our class. R.C. Jones showed his experie nce by doing his part an d had us clear up to fourth in class by t he t ime we made our only fuel stop and driver change at checkpoint 2. Having now moved from Navi-gator/ballast to pit crew member , I got to experience the anxiety of not knowing how the car and its occupants was doing while we moved our pit set up to near checkpoint 4, about 18 miles from the fin-ish. We were 40 minutes be-hind the class leader after the driver change, and only had 130 miles to try and make it up. Could it be done without breaking? Did we even have enough fuel in the car? The first leg had seen a lot of 1st and 2nd gear which burned up fuel, and we had only re-placed nine gallons. We de-cided to have a two gallon splash ready for Jimmy just in case he and Brett Jones needed it. About three hours-later, class. leader Eric Fisher came by, looking good and driving hard. Ten minutes later a back running Trophy Truck came by that had left checkpoint 2 just moments, after our little Class 9 far. So I figured Jimmy might finally be within radio range and grabbed the mike. I made a call to Jimmy telling him our location and if he wanted gas. His reply was, loud and clear. .. "I'm at mile 222 and I ain't stopping for noth-ing!" I put down the mike just in time to see our car fly by ... in second place! With only a few miles to go and behind by 20 minutes, there was no way he could catch Fisher, but I de-cided it would be a waste of time to tell Jimmy as ht1 was definitely on a mission. While Jimmy never did catch Eric, during h is-half of the ride he had managed to make up a re-markable 18 minutes, and put us solidly in second place .. An amazing display of driving skill in a nineteen year old car that hadn't seen San Felipe since 1997 ! All in all an amazing race, and an awesome experience. Dirt Rules! John Reed MD ex-NASCAR, SCCA, IMSA, FIA and NASA Driver New SCORE Off Road Addict www.nevadaoffroadbuggy.com R/\fTERIFS Tlit U!.ttM.US Poottl:11 SOUacE• ZTREME TIRE co. NcV Ael' OFFROAO BUGGY T-SHIRT SM-MED-LRG-XXLRG ONLY $10.00 CROW lSlru1EIJ9Pl~ ' .' ' I I [J . ' " , ' I 14 -~ SOI D . • •. HFRf' WE CARRY AWIDE ASSORTMENT OF WELD ON TRICK TABS """~~~ ..... GIVE US A CALL FOR ALL YOUR OFFROAD & SAND NEEDS CALL TOLL FREE 1-888-755-5900 3054 S. VALLEY VIEW #130 • LAS VEGAS, NV• 89102 HOURS: MON-FRI 9AM-6PM * SAT 9AM-5PM (702) 871-5221 fax April 2005 Page 41

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BFGaadricH Tires Report By Christian Flathman BFGoodrich Tires-Ready For Rough, Rocky & Fast Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250; Pursuing 11th Straight Overall Victory In Record Field Of En-tries. San Felipe Mexico-Feb. 24, 2005 BFGoodrich Trres will be pursuing its l 1th straight overall victory at the Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 when the worlds top off-road racers roll into Mexico on Feb. 25, 2005. Often billed as one of the roughest and fastest races on the SCORE International off-road racing schedule, the San Felipe event is known not only for great competition, but for the huge positive economic im-pact it brings to San Felipe. We're really looking forward to this year's race, said Todd Steen, motorsports marketing manager for BFGoodrich Trres. Not only is this one of the most competitive races. of the year, it's also one of the toughest. We are bring-ing multiple tire engineers to this race to get input from our drivers and teams about the Baja T/ A tires performance, We are. always looking to improve our product and this is one of the best places to evaluate your product because of the extremely fast and tough conditions. Round 2 of the five-race 2005 SCORE Desen Series will be held Sat-urday in the tiny fishing village of San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico. With a race-record field of more than 280 en-tries scheduled to compete in 24 Pro and 5 Sportsman classes, the green flag will drop at 8:30 am for car and truck classes. All vehicles will have a 10-hour time lin1it to complete the race and ve-Page 42 hides will start in 30-second intervals. After multiple class and an overall vic-tory at the SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge, BFGoodrich Tires teams sit atop the overall SCORE points race and will be looking to add to their lead. Teams To Watch: Going Postal: 2004 race winner Mark Post is preparing to defend last year's performance and is ready to de-liver his truck to victory lane. Post has added 1997 race winner Curt LeDuc as a co-driver in hopes ofbecoming just the second team to win back.-toback years. Trophy truck teams have had a lock on the overall championship since 1998. Ironically, Post was the last driver to win the race in a Class 1 buggy. Ter-rible News: For everyone else. Ed and Tun Herbst have won this race four times in their Trophy Truck and are looking for more. Lucky 7. Eric Solorzano. has won Class 11 six consecutive yea.rs and is chasing a remarkable seventh straight victory. Check Mate: Eric Fisher (no rela-tion to chess king Bobby Fisher) has-won Class 9 four of the last five years and is looking to further cement his position as one the toughest racers to beat in San Felipe. Driving For Five: John Griffin has won Full Stock for the last four years in a row and 2003 race winner Rob MacCachten is looking for a fifth vic-tory in the race. Collins Card: Brian Collins has won this race three times and is looking to dial in a fourth victory. Tires & Pit Sup-port The BFGoodrich Baja T/A KR offroad tire has become the tire of choice for off-road desert racing cham-pions. With 19th consecutive Baja 1000 wins, more competitors. win on BFGoodrich tires each year than all other combined. TI1e majority of teams race the 3 7-inch Baja T / A tire while a select number of drivers will be using the 39-inch version of the tire. The larger Baja T/ A KR tire features a bigger air chamber for greater potential shock ab-sorption, a key element in maximizing speed and suspension performance in the larger Trophy Truck class. In addition to providing its re-nowned Baja T/ A KR tire, BFGoodrich Tires will once again be providing on-site pit and communications support to teams running its tires through its fleet of off-road motorsports support vehicles. Tilis volunteer crew of mechan-ics and communications experts has quickly developed a reputation for be-ing some of the most skilled and recog-nized mechanics and race support per-sonnel in racing. Tiiese part-time volunteers ace almost as exciting to watch as the race itself, said Steen. They car repair, weld, switch out parts and change tires and wheels faster and better than anyone in the sport. BFGoodrich Tirescombfnes technologi-cal expertise with vast motorsports ex-perience, delivering a high-performance tire for every type of vehicle from ultra-high performance tuner vehicles, sports cars and SlNs to the hottest sport trucks, pickups and rock-crawling~ in the world. - BFGoodrich T rres has built its repu-tation on using motorsports as a prov-ing ground. Success on the street begins April 2005 .,, ,. .,, with winning on the track and BFGoodrich Tires is involved in every type Of racing; including oval, road, drag, desert and extreme rock-crawling. With 19 consecutive Baja 1000 wins, the most wins in rock-crawling history and an un-matched record on pavement, BFGoodrich Tires has proven the only records it breaks are its own. Visit BFGoodrich Tires online at www.bfgoodrichtires.com. . _ .• 'W The Straight Poop from the BIGWAHZOO PARKER 425 -The great experi-ment of attracting more racers and pitters had a fme outing up at this race. The factory sponsored HUMMER Team took advantage of the Checkers offer for any non-Checker racer to 'sample', on a one time basis, the excel-lent pit support the Checkers regularly supply. Tilis is a very obvious attempt to recruit newer members from further away ... and we're basically doing pretty well at it in the short time its been going on. We also had a rookie team of Navy Seals, Dave Sexson and Sam Edgar in a 1/2 1600 buggy run the Parker event with us. They had a great day and came away with a new appreciation for what kind of a security blanket pittin' with the Checkers can be. Chad Ha!L in the pick up Hummer Hl, blew a tranny just outside of Midway, and the Checker pit helped R&R that Hummer trans in a little less than two hours (in the dirt). Afterwards the Hummer guys admit-ted that 'their best time was a little over an hour and a half on a concrete floor in a well-equipped garage. Note: Casey and Dianewentoutoftheirwayto help out the Checkers with some extra pit passes for some of our guys who would be arriving at the race very late. Tunks 'Folks', your cooperation was appreci-ated. CHECKER RESULTS: Con-gratulations to Josh Hall in that big yel-low H2! He won his class goin' away. Tut HUMMER thing weighs about four tons, and Josh seems to be able to drive it around like it was a buggy. The Seal Team of Sexson and Edgar also had a good run grabbing a second place in the 1/2 1600 class. Josh's brother Chad, despite the loss of a tranny man-aged to salvage a sixth place fmish by 11 seconds over the seventh place guy. The Robertson and Chase unlimited V-8 buggywas running high up in the stand-ings into the third lap until Billy had a major bolt break at the spindle/ tie rod connection, which set them back to ninth at the finish line. Billy's hot rod, with Stuart at the wheeL placed 14th during the previous day's qualifying trials and was looking at a good finish before their significant downtime. Atta way' guys! Our DNFs included Tom Koch, who had a coil and shock problem, then blew a motor just a few miles from the finish after he goc back into his unlimited buw for the final leg in from Midway. Tom was overheard complaining that "If this had still been the Parker '400' I'd at least finished the son-of-a-bitch!" Den-nis Crowley's ride in the Sunderland's Dusty Times H

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SUV suffered severe front-end damage 'twice' before they retired it. And Rob-ert Harman's 1/2 1600 ride was cut short when the car lost the engine on the first lap ... buta good time was essen-tially had by all. IDIOTS ON PARADE -Out at the Graham Well pit our guys had an ugly experience with some jerks from San Clemente in truck #l 222. Seems the Club had three pit crews set up side by side in the pit area at Graham Wells when two of the following racers pulled a really stupid stunt. This story involves J. R. Stanley, Mike Grover, John Kilroy, or Jim LeFerry. Apologies to the two guys who weren't in the truck, but ya gotta realize that ya do sometimes get painted with the same broad brush when ya hang around with fools. Seems this Pro Truck, which was not really run-ning in the hunt, decided to do some pit racin' late in the race. First they charged right through the Hummer pit, then through the adjoining Checker pit, and then on through the Sunderland/ Crowley pit before sliding to a stop in their own pit for fuel... but they were not done. They finished off their stupid stunt by rooster tailing their own crew with rocks and dirt as they left! Foolish, dangerous and stupid. TYPESETTER'S ERROR-In last month's Checkers' Column there was a significant mistake made. Now in writ-ing a column titled 'the straight poop from the big Wahzoo' I simply cannot be writing any bullshit! So let me correct this mistake by saying that Jim Gregory was named and awarded 'Checker of the Year' honors by the Club for his significant contribution to tl1e Check-ers in 2004. SAN FELIPE 250-This SCORE race is always a big favorite with the Club, starting with a big Clam Bake feed and party at Tellier's place on Friday after-noon and into the evening. This year Locos Mocos and the Checkers again teamed up to put on an impressive buf-fet of clams, tri-tips, elk meat, tamales, rice, beans, and all the other fixings ... including an impressive bar of beverages. A special thanks to Locos Mocos and all the otl1er non-Checkers who made tl1is annual get togetl1er anotl1er big suc-cess. CHECKERS RES UL TS - Rich Severson (Stretch) and the Milo Brown entry had a great race going in tl1e 7SX class. Milo's truck ran point during the first part of the race until they broke a spindle ... but, we got a new beam pole shaped prospective fromAriwna, who was right there to take over the battle for the first spot. Butwait! ... Stretch sud-denly runs outta gas, immediately going from 'Hotshot' to 'Dumbshit'. Especially when anotl1er 7SX truck goes limping by inheriting a lead that nobody seems to be able to hold. But winners always seem to be such lucky guys. And yep, up drives a !are but a rolling gas station named Trophy Truck #96. And Stretch is able to beg seven gallons from a Checker-friendly Bobby Baldwin. Hey Bobby, the Checkers owe ya one, Dude! And our hero was off again! With Milo still behind hin1, he now quickly passes tl1e lead truck parked on tl1e side of tl1e course. "We could win this sucker", Rich musta been silently whispering to him-self, just as the Milo Brown prepped 7SX went flyin' by them after Checker Pit #4 ... Damn! Botl1 trucks then start hammering their way up through tl1e softer stuff ya find over on the gulf side of this peninsula, on the last leg up to the finish line. But this time it was the Milo truck which had the last bit of hard luck, with tire problems in the deep sand, Continued on page 43 HEAD a NECI RESTRAINT SYSilE • Slows forward motion in tire event al a crash • Allows head movement • No cumbersome collar to wear • Quick, one-time adjustment • Does not hook into lap belt • Reduces neck tension by 45-70% • Great for all types ol motor racing, especially where driver changes are common TIP DRIVERS UTILIZING THE D•CEl George Seeley • Ed, Tim & Troy Herbst • Larry "LR" Roese/er Mark Post • Nick Baldwin • Jerry Whelchel • Alan PFiueger Jason & Josh Baldwin • Rick, Randy & Ronny Wilson Mike Julson • Bob Lofton • Mark & Gary Weyhrich • Dave Ashley Dan Smith • Kyle Taylor • Gus Vildosola • Rob MocCachren {. ~11.:-tW,.,.,jb.,,1 1.B00.700.2350• Fax 909.360.0436 3834 Wacker Drive • Mira Loma, CA 91752 .......... ,, II clo•tn'I hav• lo lte a hollclas, 01 a .. 1,lhclav lo 9lv• to .. •on• pou lov• a 9111 tu .. ,c,lpllon lo Dutlp Tl .. ••• N• .. lle•t of pout pll c••• tut•lt, would 1111• a tu .. ,c,lpllon ancl clon'I fo19•I Aunl Na,lha In lo-■, th•'cl lov• lo ,eacl all a .. oul he, fauotll• n•ph••• Call ut ancl tu .. tctllle -W• D•llv••I Dusty Times April 2005 Page 43

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as Stretch blew by him. This last chunk of down time made the difference, as Rich Severson show'em why he's the defendin' class Champ! Hey kid, ya keep driving like that and we just might vote ya in as a full member. AW ARDS NaT -A sour note on this one-two Checker finish in a good truck class of five was at the awards. Stretch was called up for being the win-ner but Sal didn't even have a trophy for him, much less even a mention for the second place truck. Anybody who ponies up about a grand to a promoter to run his race, and doesn't even get some kinda cheapo trophy for winnin', has a right to be pissed. MORE RESULTS -The Jim Tucker and Tom Koch entry in Jim's unlimited buggy was runnin' for the money when Koch flipped Tucker's car on the pavement right where ya come out of Matomi Wash and head north on the Puentocitos road. They finished fifth. Ron Dalke, also running under out new' one race only' program to en-list new racers, ran up near the front of his Class 10 pack for a lot of the race, but faded to a respectable seventh. Good finishes anyway, guys! Jim Greenway DNFed after stuffing the Class 12 he was driving right into a big power pole. Now I don't mean he just hit it. .. he really smashed it right on dead center and bent the shit outta both the pole and the car. Great aim, Jim. And also, the Big Wahzoo would like to thank FAIR and their Prez Tom Sobray for helping out with some radio relaying. Seems our Club was picking up some interference from the mainland over our Club fre which real! hindered our communications. Thanks again to FAIR! COPS & CHECKERS -This is a story about an old timer and a relatively new Checker. Thumper McDowell (the old guy) and Mark Nacke were driving out of their Checker pit in Mark's truck, down near the bottom end of the Matomi Wash, when they saw the flash-ing lights of a cop car ahead of them. Shit! As they got closer they saw the cop standing in the middle of the dirt road saving for them to stop. But their con-cern of being hassled quickly vanished when the cop told them that he was stuck and wanted them to pull him out. Hmmm? After a little haggling, the cop finally agreed to let Thumper put a Checker sticker on the rear of his police car in return for them pullin' him free. After putting the sticker on, Thumper hooked up the snatch strap while the cop got back into his car to help get the two vehicles moving ... while mumbling something about "going slow". After Thumper got back into the truck, Mark asked him if they were ready ... oh yeah, said Thumper, just floor it! Well they don't c;all those things snatch straps for nothing, and in a big road of engine noise and abigjolttheywereall back on the hard pack in an instant. Thumper got out to unhook their tow strap just about the time the shaken cop wan-dered out of the dust, and that's when they both discovered that the cop's rear bumper was now bent outward into a big V. "Glad to be of help, anytime of-ficer." Thumper quickly got back into the truck, and he and Mark then slowly drove on confident that they had in-deed done their ood deed for the da . WHATS UP?-Our'AnnualSum-mer Party' will be held somewhere in Cal City on June 18th. Sometime in mid-August one of our Wednesday night meetings will be held ata local slick track/ road and drag racing facility. This is a coed affair where wives, girlfriends, and pit tootsies will be welcome. We will have our own large room where we can all eat and drink together between racin' and nerfin' each other in go karts and such. Sign upsheetswillbegoingaround at our meetings as those dates approach. So until next month, try to keep the shiny side up! .. p;1RePorl By Ann Donaldson The CORE pit club had a good showing at he first SNORE race of the season. Six CORE cars made the trip to Primm, Nevad:;i, to race two days in the mud. The battle at Primm would be remembered as the "wet ig-nition race!" The CORE cars were using an aftennarket high voltage ig-nition that, when wet, malfunctioned. There wasn't much dry land for this race after the rains that ounded MSD 6-0llraad Ignition, PN 6470 + Multiple spark series lasts for 20° of crankshaft rotation to improve throttle response and low rpm operation - great far climbing! ~B ~FOROOC!N + An epoxy compound secures the circuits creating a water and vihratian resistant ignition. + Simple installation, easily connects to points, amplifier and mag-netic pickup distributors. Far a FREE MSD Catalog, call(BBB}MSD-RACE,ext.2804 1490 Henry Brennan Dr., El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 857-5200 Page 44 April 2005 ® Southern Nevada and California for a couple of weeks. The course con-sisted of seven mile laps. The normal Start/Finish by the hotel was under water. The main pit was moved and was a muddy mess. The course was described as, of course, muddy, but also containing quite a few spectators out and about. Brad Inch said, "It reminded me of a Mint 400 race when you would drive by and the people would separate. Like a cue ball hitting a rack of pool balls." A total of three Class I cars en-tered, with two of those cars being CORE cars. Since it was so wet out, keeping the ignition dry on the race cars became a battle between man and weather. One CORE member was zapped by the ignition on one of the race cars. The ignition was wet and was arcing all over the motor area. The zap he received was an eye opener, no pun intended. Ted Jergensen won Class 1 in his Smithbuilt two seat buggy. He fought the computer that controls the motor all weekend. Like many electronic parts, the computer was not happy running in the rain. Finishing in second place in Class 1 were brothers Tim and Jeremy Llndsey. Tim commented, "When I was given the green flag it was like a vortex of rain opened and poured on top of my car. That made for an interesting start to my race." Tim took the class win on Saturday. His racing on Sunday was full of troubles, his helmet visor was caked with mud and wearing eyeglasses didn't help Tim, when he tried to clean the visor his glasses became muddy. A constant battle: with one hand on the wheel and the other trying to keep his vision clear. His weekend ended with trans-mission troubles. Three CORE Class 1/2-1600 cars made the trip. Club President, Brad Inch experienced motor problems in his 1600 car. Brad also brought out his pre-runner to run in the Unlim-ited Sportsman Class. The pre-run-ner experienced ignition problems from the rain so Brad called it a day. Co-Driver, Kim Hall commented on the muddy race conditions, "I saw the green flag and that was the last thing I saw!" Tom and Tim Craig finished in fourth place on Saturday in the 3G 1600 car. On Saturday, ·the steering box bolts were sheared off, causing major steering problems. They were able to repair it after the race. Their racing effort also was plagued with ig-nition troubles. One of the great phrases from a film was said by the character Forrest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does." If you park on the outside of a turn and wonder why mud is kicked up from race car tires towards you, then I think that Mr. Gump may as well be talking about you. If you think throwing beer cans at that race car and starting a confrontation with the mother of the race car driver is going to score you any points, it's not! Linda Jones, mother of Randy Jones was not only appalled at the actions of these people, but when she saw them throwing beer cans at her sons car, while he was racing, that was the last straw. No mother is going to sit around and watch that, no matter how old her son is. Linda did not. It seems that the can throw-ing people were belligerent and SNORE of-ficials were called in. TM incident ended with no additional cans thrown at race cars. And, yes, the can throw-ing group continued to park on the outside of the tum so you can see that there is some wisdom in the Forrest Gump quote. Now: back to CORE racing caverage. Randy Janes was keeping a brisk pace hut he rolled the car twice on both days of racing. Like everyone else, Randy also suf-fered ignition problems from the wet conditions. Johnny Burns brought out his Class 9 buggy. He suffered shifter dif-ficulties on Saturday after hitting a mud buried rock. On Sunday his troubles were worse after he rolled the car. The ignition was not work-ing well and he lost oil pressure. Johnny parked the car without want-ing to do any more damage to the motor. The CORE Pit Club plans on pits for the entire MORE race series. Continued on page 46 OBA: Discount Foreign We Have In Stock: Ultra Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15 X 6!5 $135.00 $145.00 & up Centerline Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15 x 6 $129.95 $135.95 15 X 10 $146.95 Call for Prices 3636 Meade Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 (702) 247-1266 We Now Do. MAGNA FLUX Dusty Times

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VORRA Prairie City ••• From Page 36 CORE will also be at the SNORE Buffalo Bill 500 race, scheduled for April 8-10 in Primm, Nevada. · If you have any questions or are looking for a pit club that is experi-enced, fully equipped and willing to set up extra pits when possible, then CORE may be what you are looking for. You can call CORE President Brad Inch at 818352-903 5 or you can check out the Core Club website Update: February 2, 2005: As of February 2nd, the track looks much different. The perimeter parking and RY area is now terraced and smoothed over. The tower and flag stand is now rubble, wirh con-struction of the new media tower be-ginning on February 5th with ground breaking and creating the forms and rebar for the foundation. Some of the dirt work has been done to the upper portion of the track, with 2000 of the 25,000 yards of dirt moved. The overflow parking in the upper portion of the infield is cut and ter-raced. Spectator Hill has been leveled off. Lake Patricia is now drained in preparation for grading and the new year-round pond. The main jump has been widened to 60' and the upper turn is now banked. Steve is putting a lot of effort to make the track specta-tor friendly, trying to minimize the need to use k-rail and huge berms that impair the spectator view. Update: February 5, 2005: Several people showed up to the first work parry, including Steve Sullivan, Tony Bond, Matt Lundershausen from MHL Con-struction, Carl Br6wn from Carl Brown Construction and Bruce Fields. While Steve and Matt con-tinued on the dirt work for the site, Bruce and Tony put up fence to keep people from tearing up the areas that Steve already groomed. Carl started the media tower. Footings were dug with a backhoe and the initial layout of forms was placed. Update: February 27, 2005: Thanks to a break in the weather, Carl Brown brought down one of his employees and with help from Tony, Greg Hossman and others, got the pad for the media tower done. Steve and Matt have completed about 50% of the track, and are con-tinuing to cut new track and widen-ing it out. K-rail has been moved from the entrance to the park to the track, with the initial set placed along the spectator viewing area at the start/ finish line. We also received permis-sion to shut down the track area, whieh is helping with keeping the area orderly while Steve and Matt work. The bricks for the first floor of the media tower will be placed on the 28th and is expected to be com-pleted by the third of March. The top of the tower is to be completed by the first race on March 12-13. The track will be completed by the first race with testing beginning on March 3. The first sign that all of this is paying off: Spike TV will, be out to film the first race. ..-~ Baja 1000 Winners! Martin Christenson Billy Gasper Thanks For Choosing Us! 'foc:ll Power bnttcricii arc hand made to rip,oro11s military smn<larJs. PrO\·iding superior vibrncion and shock rc~israncc, non-spillablc <lcsi:,.rn, .m<l <ldivcr up to 1500 CrJnking Amps in a lightwcif.!:ht b:uccry you c:.in co111n on. C:all us now for more informm:ion. I v,SA ! Phone: l60J34.1618-Fax: 161.134.1323 Gee,· ~ ' ": " ' , 1 . • . . I' Page 46 1&111'1111&• ~ ~. IOCK .... .,._,,'IIECHNOI.OGY 714.530.8701 • FAX714.530.B702 12842 JOY STREET, GARDEN GROVE, CA 92840 1NMNV.Jdngshodcs.co,r, April 2005 ';'2.5" 2.5" B■plllp €(!J,f!£~ Need coil springs? Coll King Shocks! We have custom and produdion coils in stock, and the experience to get you what you need. Call today/ Dusty Times

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BITD Parker ... From Page 17 on the same minute. Barnett did the final 20 miles with no brakes, and a length of barbed wire trailing behind him. Nevertheless, he made it to the finish line 25 seconds to the good, to take the win. His car is the first one built for this series. Behind him Th-ompson missed a turn. He reported a fuel leak, a fuel pump that went out and a motor mount that broke twice. In third, about 50 minutes later it was Amrein and Erdely, and in fourth, John Coleman, only five minutes behind them. He drove all the way, and called the course a "kid-ney beater." But then went on to say it was "really good - relatively high speed." Steve Ghamari, who was fifth, said it was a fun race with no dust, and he'd blown a shock early. Copitas eventually finished, seven hours behind the winning car, in sixth place, and the Mamers were seventh, another half hour later. In the "stock" JeepSpeed group, there were ten starters. Again - all Cherokees, and required to run only two laps to get a finish. Jon Louis and Juan Munoz had the lead at the end of the first lap, with five minutes on Giti and Andrea Gowland. In third place it was David Munsterman, another minute back, followed by James and Jim Hunt and Dave Sanchez. Mike Silverson failed to get the first lap done, and so did the team of Rex, Todd and Josh Lair. So only eight were left moving. Then Gow land dropped away early on the second lap. Louis and Munoz held the lead, and took the win by a minute and 40 seconds. Munsterman was second, saying he'd had a "fabulous day." He'd "kind of smushed the left side" when a Protruck passed "too close", and he'd lost his rear bumper with the jack and spare on the last lap, but other than that he was a happy racer. He was over two hours in front of the third place team of Cesar and Joseph Arias, who said only that they were "ready for a beer." In fourth it was Tim Jeffus and Tarek Karan, who said they'd had a "great time - it was awesome." And they, too, were "ready for a beer." The fifth place finish went to the Hunts who said they'd had a great first lap, but broke a track bar mount on the second lap and had it welded on by "random teams". They finished with barbed wire tangled underneath theirvehicle. Guy Alldredge was sixth, two hours later, and an hour behind him came Victor Almeida, who'd been stuck in the mud early in the day. The limited Baja Bugs (Class 5100) started next, with six entries, and also required to run only two laps, Daniel Deen, who drives a sand-colored bug that looks as if it would disappear from sight in some parts of the desert, had no problems at all and put the car into the lead, but only by three min-utes. Behind him Dennis Sletten and Paulden Hepler were finding the course "fast and a lot offun", as they worked to stay in front of the next guy. And that was Dane Crawford, one of the racers from Parker. He was running about 12 minutes back. Jas-per Oyer, who'd rolled on the first lap, ran fourth. He'd had help getting back on his wheels by another team of racers who were broken near him. Michael Sivak was fifth. The sixth car, another Parker team, couldn't make the lap. Justin and Emmett Brinkerhoff apparently had tenninal problems, because it was reported on the radio that the driver had "walked in to Pit 3." Eric Deen took over for the final lap, and also had no trouble. His "car worked great" he said, and it was a "100% clean, clean day." They also liked the way the course was marked. They took the win by 25 minutes. Hepler and Sletten finished second reporting that their rack and pinion was broken and it would "lock up every once in a while. We did a cou pie of odd turns," they said. In third it was Crawford and Mike Byrd, who had an eventful run. They had a flat, ran out of gas, lost a push rod, got stuck and broke the pitman arm. ("We're tie-wrapped together," they said.) They also lost reverse gear, but they finished third. Forty-five minutes behind them Oyer and his teammate, Tony French, who'd had steering trouble, were fourth. Sivak finished fifth about four minutes later, and he was the last one in. Only one Class 9000 car showed up, but they had a successful race, of sorts. Tim Hanna and Tony Modica drove their Suspensions Unlimited car to a two lap finish, even though they had to do about 80 miles on three wheels. Their only comment upon finishing was that "the trans is junk." There were three Class 1800 cars - Sportsman entries, and they also ran only two laps. Or tried to. Emily Staats, who was probably meant as a chase vehicle for her dad's Protruck, didn't even do the first lap, but the team of Daniel B., Daniel R. Bradley and Kristina Bolton, from Hawaii and Nevada, had a small lead at the end of the first lap. In second it was Dan Moore, in an Arlia's Precision Fab chassis. It was a new car and this was the "shakedown run". It featured a Cadillac Northstar aluminum V8 motor, and is intended to run in Class 1500. At the end of their second lap Moore had the win, reporting only two flats along the way. He said that from now on he'd race in Class 1500. The Bolton team had some long tenn problem, but ultimately finished their two lap run in 14 hours, eight min-utes and 55 seconds. That's persever-ance. The BITD moves to Pahrump, Nevada for the Tertible's Town 250 at the end of April. After that there's a break until July 6 through 10, for the McMillin's 1000, then the October 6, 7, 8 Vegas to Reno run, and they finish their year with the December 2, 3, 4 Henderson event. Dusty Tim~s wi~~ about all of them.~ As~di~ ·--------------------------------· I I I I I I I I I I I I REDL!NE PERf<>R'1ANCE, !NC. 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In the Class 1 contest on Sat-urday, Tim Lindsay finished his laps in 1:10:10, Todd Jergensen came in 18 minutes later for the second spot and John Gould did not start. On Sunday it was Todd Jergensen turning a 1:06:24 time to take the Class 1 win. Tim Lind-say was a dnf on Sunday and once again, John Gould did not start. With the combined times added together, Todd Jergensen took home the gold medal, the others licked their wounds. There were five entries in the Class 10 contest. On Saturday it was J.C. Dean taking the seven lap win, Jeremy Gubler was giv-ing chase but he finished three minutes and change in arrears and Bryan Freemal was the third and final finisher. Paul Sullivan and T.J. Flores failed to complete their seven laps. On Sunday, the three princi-pals picked up the pace, Jeremy Gubler slid into the top spot with fast time for the class, 1:11:35, J.C. Dean and Bryan Freemal turned identical times, they each recorded a 1:12:48 time for their seven laps. Paul Sullivan got his car going and came in fourth while T.J. Flores was yet again a dnf. When the two day totals were crunched together it was J.C. Dean taking the Class 10 win, Jer-emy Gubler was second, less than two minutes in arrears and Bryan Freemal went home with the bronze medal. Paul Sullivan showed up in fourth place with his one day finish. Six of the big guys showed up for the Heavy Metal challenge and they had a glorious time playing in the mud. First to com-plete the required seven laps on Saturday was Monte Tibbets, the Dakota kid, he did his laps in l: 13:08, John Phegley displayed some of his talent as he came in less than four minutes later in his very tall machine. Third into the finish line was Mark Gonzalez and Richard Blunk was fourth to finish and last to finish. Tammie Gubler and Rick Harrah weren't able to finish their laps. Sunday, with even more slop to plow through, Monte Tibbets cut three minutes off his Satur-day time and took the gold medal with a sparkling 1: 10:32. Mark Gonzalez was eight minutes faster on Sunday and came in second, Tammie Gubler got her steed go-ing and took a very decent third place in Sunday's match. Fourth place in Heavy Metal was Richard Blunk and Phegley, who obviously had troubles, came in fifth, over 20 minutes slower than his Sat-urday time. Rick Harrah did not start the Sunday heat. The combined times for Sat-urday and Sunday had Monte Tibbets taking the Heavy Metal win decisively, Mark Gonzalez came in second, he was nine min-utes out of the win, Richard Blunk went home with the bronze medal and John Phegley was first out of the money, by just a minute! So it ended, a not so great weekend, due to the weather and the condition of the course, but it was a good weekend for the racers, a once in a great while short course race for SNORE, lots of weather conditions to overcome and, all in all, as usual, the racers had a good time, win, lose or draw. Next on the SNORE agenda is the SNORE Buffalo Bill's race, scheduled for the 8th, 9th and 10th of April. See ya all there! r/e@ The next even t o n the cale ndar is th e O ree:o n Trail, April 23rd in Portlan d , Oregon. Second in Production GT were Eric Langbein and Jeremy Wimpey, Mike Merbach and Jeff Feldt drove their Volkswagen Jetta to a nice their Toyota handled the snow with relative ease. second place in the Production Class. Dusty Times April 2005 Page 47

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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 purchase of any specific item. FOR SALE: Ford Ranger Pro-Lite. C.O.R.R. series. Everything fresh. Formerly owned by Jimmie Crowder. Best of everything! $29,000.00 OBO Ready to Race. (817) 925-4810. FOR SALE: 2-1600, Ready to Race, Powder coated panels, 091 trans., 930cv's, Fox 2.0's, SAW, Wright, Foddrill, King Kong, CNC, dual mas-ter cylinders, R & P w / UMP power steering, Fuel Safe 24 gal., Beard, PCI intercom, Motorola radio, Hella, hel-mets,.suits, many spares. $12,000.00. STEVE (520) 236-9612 OR steve@bajabymoto.com. 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 rac-ing, $39,000.00 Call Chad@ (661) 904-7077. FOR SALE: Mid travel-Beam car-No VW stuff, V-6 Ford (fresh), 5 speed, power disk brakes, power steer-ing, bump stops, Centerlines, Beard seats, Howe radiator, King/race run-ner coilovers., enclosed cab with heater, lots of racks. AZ license. Powdercoated, tow bar, winch. A clean car. $18,500.00 (928) 680-6790 or (928) 486-6169. FOR SALE: Chenowth 2 seat race car or pre-runner. UMI LSI VS, fresh automatic, NEW front end, rear end, trailing arms, Kartek hubs, brakes, axles, 934 CV's, King Kong spindles & front am1S, Water-oil cool-ers, dash, autometer gauges, wiring, 2 spare set up, dual batts, Kings coils & by-pass, complete chassis powder coated & paint job, Howe steer[ng, halogen fire system, PlAA light bar, FOR SALE: Class 10 BITD 2002 skit plates, K & N filter, 30 gal Fuel FOR SALE: 7S Ford Ranger race truck. This truck has many wins. 4.0L C-4, TCS, Fox shocks, Ron Davis, Fluidyne motor & tranny coolers, PCI Radio & intercom. 9" Wilwoods, BFG projects, Deaver, 10 tires & wheels, HIDs, prepped and race ready. Pit radio, dump can, & a ton of spares. $35,000.00. Call Darrell @ (619) 454-1014 or (760) 789-7663. FOR SALE : 2003 2 seat Tig Weld Jimco Class 10. 1650cc Honda Redline Performance Engine (New). Fortin 5 spd trans, Fox Shocks, Team Gordon Wheelsw/BFGTires(w/6 spares), PCI Radio, MasterCraft Seats, Parker Pumper~. Prepped and professionally maintained by Jimco Racing. With spare parts and dump cans (3). $90,000.00. Jim Slaughter (858) 583-0055. FOR SALE: 1-1600 Che-nowth, Fast, Very Competitive, handles great, Wright ft, Saco magnum rack-n-pinion, 930 CV' s. King triple bypass 7 /8 shaft shocks rears, Fox remote reservoir fronts, Autometer, CNC, Mickey Thompson 2 races, Dual MSD ignition, MSD Blaster coils MSD Biller Distributor. $10,500.00 Mark (801) 550-0527 cell (801) 298-8311 home. Race Car. Bunderson single seater A-safe cell, 4" filler neck, runs on pump FOR SALE: Dircks and Porter Arm, King Shocks, CNC brakes, gas, Dual parkers, Mastercraft, PCI 442 Trophy Truck engine. All alu-Mendeola 5 spd, VW air cooled with set up w/intercom, SACO rack w/ min um Ford. Leon Patton engine. FOR SALE: Jimco 2-1600 completely rebuilt Don Hatz motor, new 091 T ransworks transaxle, micro stubs and disc brakes front and rear. Fox Shocks, Mastercraft seats & belts, Flameout sys-tem. Best of everything and fully prepped and ready to race. (760) 455-2812. $30,000.00 OBO. FORSALE: SCORElega!Chevy,2X Class 8 Champion. Just prepped, highly maintained, ready to race. Chromemoly, tig-welded & heat treated. A-Arm front and back. Many spare parts, everything goes, too much to list. $100,000.00 Call (619) 447-6361. FOR SALE: F-150 Trophy Truck, 351 Windsor, Culhane C6, King 3" shocks, Cone 48 spline 9", Lowrance OPS, 22" front 29" rear, 60 gal Fuel Safe, Beard Seats, 37" Good-years, Sway Bar, Dual Ignition, Contact Patrick (626) 914-5586. 120K FOR SALE: TSCO Motorsports' Class 1 Jimco. Betsy needs a new home. This is one of the best Class 1 cars out there and really needs no introduction. Climb in and win. $125,000. Call Mark at 1-800-547-2414. FOR SALE: 2001 36' Ultrahauler, AC/Heater, Satellite TV Sony Ste-reo inside/ out. PCI Race Radio w/ 20' antenna mounted, 100 gal. wa-ter, shower, hot water, refrigerator, microwave. Stainless steel work-benches/ toolboxes, diamond plated floors, sleeping quarters. Brand new disc brakes. Electric rear door. Electric jacks, electric over hydraulic braking system. New 5500 Kw Onan generator, Electric awnings, Pit Pal Storage compart-ments/ shelves, 97" inside width. Ready for the races!! Over $45,000 invested Sac. $31,500.00 Call (714) 633-9994. FOR SALE: Fresh SCAT V-4, 48 IDFWebers, Electromotive 275 HP, includes Headers & collector, 2 alt, 2 clutches & plywheels. Built by Adam Wik, same motor won BITD championship in 2004. Put in Class 1, Rock crawler, play car. Call Tim (626) 893-1976. $9,000.00 OBO. FOR-SALE: Featherlite 48' Show Trailer. Sleeps 4, refrigerator, stove, full bath, two roof NC units, 6,500 Onan generator, 40ft. aw-ning with sides. Large shop area with numerous cabinets. $30,900.00 (920) 419-8300. dyno sheets, new CV's, "RIMED". ramTCSconverter,Centerline&ul-Rebuilt and ready at Pattons. FOR SALE: BITD Class 3100 Ford New ignition wiring, new ignition sys-tra wheels, on BFG's, all NEW parts. Complete injector's to pan. Mag- Explorer 4 dr 4x4 4.0. Bilstein 9100 FOR SALE: 2004 Porter Race Car, tern. Completely race ready. New Complete car built by Foddrill Fab-nesium Kinsler 8 stack, Dry Bypass Shocks, intercom, builtdiffw/ Race Readyrightnow. Spare tires, alts, wheels, and BFG tires. Lot's of spare rication, very fast and super reliable sumped. Motec M-800 computer. .456 gears & locker 32 gal. Fuelsafe axles, etc. Car was builtwith the best of parts. Call or email Steve Strobel $63,000.00. MUST SELL. For 74 5 h. p. Call for details (602) cell, manynewparts, lots of spares. Call everything. Albins 5 speed with con-scuisteve@clarks.net or (308) 548- moreinfocallCesarFuentes@(915) 708-7090. Mark $35,000.00 DaveMoore(480)688-7535oremail verter. Callnow(951)687-5118.Ask 8029. $32,000.00 OBO. 726-3823. OBO. racedez@cox.net. for Danny . ................•......................................................... ~.=-=.~.=-=.~.=-=.~.=-=.~.=-=.~.~.=-=.~.=-=.~.=-= • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in DUSTY TIMES. 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: 2003-04 Bonnerhawk PreRunner 5 seater Northstar motor, 4 speed Mendeola 934 CV's King Shocks/ Coil Overs 2 ½" rear, 2" Front 35" Beadlock Ultras all around. Kartek stub axles and hubs, (2) HID pins (2) HID Floods, 40 gal. Fuel safe cell, Kenwood stereo and PCI Kenwood Race Radio/intercom for all (5) helmets, completely pow-der coated, $90,000.00 invested Sac. $68,500.00. Call (714) 633-9994. FOR SALE: Class Super 1600 or CORR Class 9 Super Buggy, 2002 Jerry Penhall Chassis, Fox Shocks, Carbon Fiber dash. Autometer, Rabbit engine, gauges, A-Arm 19 ½ front suspension, 20" rear travel, feature article Hot V-W's 2004 August issue, raced only .2 times, $10,000 without motor, $13,000 with motor, Jay Huss (909) 792-8606. FOR SALE: 04 Penhall Diablo 4 seat Pre Runner, Redline 510 HP engine, Mendeola 54, Kartek hub's and 934 n1kro stubs, Fox coilover internal by-pass front , Fox coilover airshock and 3" bypass rear, 4 Hella HID's, Lowrance OPS, Vertex radio and in-tercom. BFG Projects on chrome Robby Gordon Wheel. Too much to list, see more on Penhall Fah.com. (714) 891-0165. $110,000.00. FOR SALE: TSCO Motorsports' 4x4 Bronco Pre-Runner. With sus-pension by Curt LeDuc and finish work by Stewart's Raceworks, this is a great piece. King Shocks, OPS, Hella, CD, AC, PW, POL, PCI ra-dio & intercom. Immaculately maintained by Stewart's Raceworks, $75K. CallMarkatl-800-547-2414. FOR SALE: 1-1600 Lothringer stored 2 years. FAT/Flots alumi hubs, gun drilled axe! 300111, 3 new radios with 25ft base ant. Fresh prep. Lots of spares. 10 tires/ wheels. Best parts. Must see. Call Bob Scott (760) 949-4391 or (626) 442-1090, $22,000 or trade. No race cars. FOR SALE: Two short course trucks. 396 motor runs good. 30" rear 28" front Dana 60 rear end. $30,000.00 Truck needs cage & seats & motor. (702) 361-0989. Dusty Times FOR SALE: 2004 Baja Shop PreRunner, 425hp Fuel lnjectedLT-1, Built 20 4S w/cooler & pump, prepped 935"s, 35" FC !I's on OMF Centerlines, CNC "Z" Hal-lows, King 2.5 bypass & coil overs. Radio, intercom, XM, OPS, Halon system, 2.5 Howe Rack windshield, pumpers .. more 75K. (714) 420-1216 cell, (714) 283-3239 home. FOR SALE: RJR Rick Johnson/ Rob Rinertson Championship Winning Ford Protruck, just com-pletely rebuilt from the ground up, new powder coat, 100% turnkey race ready. Compete for the $100,000 Protruck purse with the most competitive, best handling Protruck out there. Serious in-quires only, call Rick@ (760) 954-0755. Sell your vehicles, equipment and bits and pieces right here! Dusty Times has the readership you're looking for so fill out the form ~ the opposite page and get ad • our next issue. your m FOR SALE: 1990 Jimco Class 9 and 1985 Chenowth Class 9 Prerunner & open trailer, Jimco has all the right stuff, 2nd 1996, 1000 second Class points, 1998- 2nd San Felipe 250, 2004. One race 2005 after complete prep by "Charlie's Garage." Call Charlie (760) 789-5509-email Ed at FAST947@Juno.com. FOR SALE: TSCO Motorsports' Fat Toyota Y-6 race engines. These are the 2 engines thjt won the 2003 SCORE Class 1 Championship. $2,000 each or $3,500 for both. Call Mark at 1-800-547-2414. FOR SALE: TSCO Motorsports' Class 1 Porter. Turn-keyed by Por-ter Race Cars w/Redline Perfor-mance LSl, Fortin 4-speed w/ torque converter. This car has the best components available and has less than 1,500 total miles. The same car is $165,000 brand new. Just get in and race! $145,000. Call Mark at 1-800-547-2414. FOR SALE: Ford Protruck, $95,000.00 Contact Paul Perrizo at Herzog Electric (562) 531-2002 office or (310) ·420-3039 cell. FORSALE: SingleSeatJimcoClass 1 Unlimited, Wiks LS6 Aluminum Chevy V-8 motor with Motec F.I., New Fortin H.D. 4-speed, 35 spline axles, Fortin Rack & Hubs, King Shocks, Hella HID lights, Kenwood radio, rom-pletely prepped & Race Ready with all spares, including spare motor. $122,500.00 Call Jeff Darland at (602) 541-0088. .' .1: '! ,'. ,,; ._J•t~tt: . ~-' , ... ------· . J J . ....,. FOR SALE: 2005 Potter Produc-tions. 4 seat Class One/PreRunner, Redline 510 hp, LSl, Fortin: 4 speed trans/hubs/rack/axles/ and CV's, OPS, Radios intercom, Box arms, King 3" in rear, 48 gallon Fuel Cell, Roof Rack w/HID's, Best of everything. $125,000.00 (714) 306-4328. OFF ROAD MOTORSPORT TECHNICIAN SUPERVISOR Bilstein is known worldwide for manufacturing high performance gas pressure shock absorbers. Bilstein provides an exciting and fast paced environment in the automo-tive high performance industry. Bilstein is a niche company in the TyssenKrupp global community. Visit our web site at www.bilstein.com and www.tyssenkrupp.com Our After-market and and Motorsports Divi-sion in Poway, California has an im-mediate opening for an Off Road Motorsports Technician Supervisor. This position is responsible to pro-vide technical support to the end user for Off Road shock and sus-pension applications. Duties include the following: *Build and repair shock absorbers * Assist R&D with prototype design and testing *Main-tain the Off Road Production Schedule, including supervisory re-sponsibilities *Attend contingency days for Off Road races to provide technical support and promote sales *Visit current and potential custom-ers to promote sales and understand customer requirements. *Provide ride development assistance to cus-tomers *Must be able to travel QUALIFICATIONS: Minimum 5 years technical experience in auto-motive suspension and shock appli-cations: able to read blueprints and schematics, with previous experience operating a Oynamometer a plus. A working knowledge of Word, Excel and Outlook. As a candidate, you must possess excellent technical and customer service skills, be results ori-ented, detailed, team oriented, or-ganized, and a problem solver with the ability to communicate effec-tively in verbal and written forms. We offer a competitive salary and benefit package, including 401(k). If you meet these qualifications, sub-mit your resume, with salary history to the Human Resources Depart-ment. Contact Information: Betty Casillas e-mail: betty.casillas@bilstein.com fax 858-386-5993 EOE April 2005 • POWERFUL • PRECISE 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 Electro Mechanical Assembler Lead-ing manufacturer of equipment, semiconductor industry, has 2 open-ings for Electro Mechanical Assem-bler with emphasis in Industrial Con-trols. Must be able to read and un-derstand electrical diagrams, be me-chanically inclined , have electrical component installation experience, have experience in equipment panel wiring, have own tools, work inde-pendently and with a team, good communication and excellent atten-tion to details. Applicants will be tested. Come join our team of off road racers. Hrs 7:30am-4pm, some overtime. Please send resumes to: SPEC 27963 Franklin Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355. e-mail to: spec@team-spec.com Fax to 661-257-1083 Plastic Assembly Welder Leading manufacturer of equipment, semi-conductor industry, has 2 openings for Plastic Assembly Welder. Must be experienced with tools, have me-chanical background, able to read mechanical drawings and have good communications skills. Come join a team of fellow off road racers. Hours 7:30am-4pm, some overtime. Please send resumes to: SPEC 27963 Franklin Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355 e-mail to: spec@team-spec.com Fax to: 661-257-1083 CHASSIS MANUFACTURER-Full-Time positions with benefits. Minimum 3 years Off Road Experi-ence. Substance Free, Professional. Fax resume to (619) 596-2742. FAB-RICATOR/WELDER-Experienced MIG & TIO. ASSEMBLE/PREP. WANTED: Class 2/1600 car or Class 5/1600 car: needs to be in great shape; with good compo-nents and solid suspension/fuel cell w/rack and pinion power steering/5 point harness, in Cali-fornia area only. Call Greg (951) 858-5332. Approx. price $6,000 to $12,000. INDb..X TO ADVb..r2. Tl6b..r2.6 B.0.R.E ............................................. 21 Baker Precision .................................. 7 Best In The Desert ........................... 11 C&R Racing ...................................... 24 Carrera ............................................. 45 Coast Casinos ..................................... 9 Fabtech .................................. : ......... 37 Fuel Safe ......................................... 39 ISCO ................................................. 55 K&N ..................................................... 2 Kartek .............................................. 27 Kawaguchi Honda ............................ 26 KC Hilites ........................................ 15 King Shock Tech .............................. 46 Light Force Engineering .................. 23 McKenzie's Performance ................ 16 MDR Productions ............................. 29 Mickey Thompson Tires ................. 37 Mojave Desert Racing ..................... 25 MSD Ignition ................................... 44 Nevada Off Road Buggy .................. 41 Off Road Warehouse ....................... 14 Pacific Customs ............................... 31 Parker Embroidery .......................... 32 Parker Pumper .......... , ..................... 43 Parker Pumper/Competition Air ...... 46 Parker Pumper/Eibach Springs ....... 10 PCI Race Radios ................................. 5 Pike's Service Center ...................... 36 Race Ready ...................................... 41 Racer X ............................................ 12 Redline Performance ....................... 47 Rhino Off Road ................................ 33 Ronco Plastics ................................. 22 Sakata ............................................. 20 SCORE ................................ Back Cover SKG Motorsports ............................. 19 Skyjacker Suspensions ................... 40 SNORE .............................................. 34 Team GordonRace Wheels .............. 42 Total Power Batteries ..................... 46 Transaxle Engineering .................... 35 Turnkey Products ............................ 38 United Productions .......................... 45 Valley Performance ........................ 44 Page 55 ' • ;

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