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Volume 25 - Number 11 November 2008 D Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor John Calvin Associate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller · John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance cott Contributors Scott Bottomley J. Preston Bradshaw Jim Culp Mike Del Col Nicole Del Col Steve Hilton Victor Gazca Martin Holmes Rod Koch Byrle Moore Steve Ruddick Maurice Selden Darryl Smith Tony Tellier T rackside Photo Art Director Larry Worsham Ii 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. Uns'olicited material will be returned only by request and ·with a self addressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 8750-1732) is published monthly by Hillside Racing Corp, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311, (818) 882-0004 with additional Dusty Times, LLC offices at 415 N. Higgins Avenue, Suite lA, Missoula, MT 59802. Copyright by Hillside Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher. 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., snapshot of the Month ... Jeep ,i ,w We couldn't resist this undated picture of Curt LeDuc in his younger days, he sure doesn't look like he's having a good time. Hey Curt, cheer up, in another 15 or 20 years you'll be racing more than you would ever believe. 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 )QU wish the photo returned, enclose a scamped, selfo.ddressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to Bx 10 will be considered. In TIiis Issue ••• FEATURES SCORE Primm 300 by Judy Smith ...................................................................... 8 27th ADAC Rally Deutschland by Martin Holmes ....................................... 16 CORR At Chula Vista by Judy Smith .......................................................... 20 B.O.R.E. Red Garter 200 by Mike Chamberlain ............................................ 26 WSORR At Crandon by J Preston Bradshaw ............................................... 30 MOR California 200 by Ste,.,e Ruddick ............................................................. 38 B.O.R.E. Jackpot 225 by Mike Chamberlain ................................................... 42 VORRJ\ Yerir{gton by Troy Robinson ................................................................ 46 DEPARTMENTS Happenings .................................................................................................. 5 Trail Notes .................................................................................................... 6 Baja Pits by Sr. Chucabra ....................................... , ............................................ 49 BFGoodrich News ........................................................................................ 50 ORBA News ................. : ............................................................................. 51 Good Stuff Directory ................................................................................. 52 Classified Ads· ................................................... ~ ......................................... 58 Index To Advertisers .................................................................................. 59 · ON THE COVER Roger Norman and Larry Roesseler let no grass grow under their feet, they flew their Ford F-150 Trophy Truck to the Class win and the overall as well at the SCORE Primm event. Photo by Art Eugenio - Track.side Photo Bekki and Adam Wik had a pretty good day, they drove their Honda Powered Bunderson to the Class 10 win at the SCORE Primm race, 11 'h overall, seen here at speed. Photo by Art Eugenio - Track.side Photo Visit Our Website at Dustytimes.com c5u6scri6e <Jorla_y lo DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRYII □ 1 year -$25.00 □ 2 years -$40.00 □ 3 years -$55.00 (to subscribe online go to www.dustytimes.com) □ NEW □ RENEWAL Name Address _____________________ _ City _ _____________ ______ _ State _____________ Zip _____ _ _ j Primary Interest Can D Truclu D Motorcycles D Send check or money order to: DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 Canadian - 1 year $30.00 US n Overseas subscription rates upon request Dusty Times November 2008 Page 3

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2GD8•20D9 Happenings ••• lOK FoUR WHEELERS • P.O. Box36 CLEVES, OHIO 45002 (All events staged at the club grounds in Clet1es. Ohio) 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 1665 DEIAWARE ST. OsHX:osu1 WI 54901 AMERICAN RALLY SPORT GROUP, INc. 3650 SOlJTH POINTE CIRCLE, Sum 205 LAUGHLIN, NV 89208 (702) 298-8171/FAX: (702) 521-0597 E Mail: roger@rallyusa.com AMERICAN TluALs AssoclATION AMA Observed Trials Southern California Championship Series BILL MARKUM • PRESIDENT (909) 860-185 7 24 HR HOTLINE· (714) 562-7742 E MAIL: BMARK909@AOL.COM <www.atatrails.com> AsOCIACION Es'fATAL DE AuroMOVll.ISMO SAM l.AsELL, TECH INSPECTOR APTo 42 SAN JosE DEL CABO BAJA CALIFORNIA DEL SUR. MExlco AUSTRALIAN OFF RoAD CHAMPIONSHIP DARRYL SMITH 19 SOMERS ST. CASHMERE, QUEENSLAND, 4500, AUSTRALIA DUSTY TIMES @bigpond.com AUTOCROSS QuEBEC ()pp ROAD CLASS IO CARS ONLY RENALD VAILLANCOURT 3069 DAGENAIS WEST LAVAL QUEBEC, CANADA H7P 1T7 (450) 622-4440 BAJA CUP CIIAu.ENGE BARONA SAND DRAG AssN. P.O. Box 1521 LAKESIDE, CA 92040 All Races Are Night Races All Races At Barona Raceway, Lakeside, CA BBM MARKETING PROMOTIONS OH Road Sbort Course Racing & Special Event Marketing NoRCo,.CA 92860 e-mail bbmracing@aol.com (909) 815-5811 BEST IN THE DEsERT 3475 BOULDER HIGHWAY I.As VEGAS, NV 89121 702-4 57-577 5/FAX: 702-641-2431 Decemher S-7, 2008 Henderson 300 BORE RACING 10 ELK MOUNTAIN DRIVE REDSTONE, CO 81623 970-963-4563 623-853-3595 www.Boreracing.net BP MOTORSPORTS P.O. Box 411 WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91365 760-578-6258/760-578-6259 FAX: 8)8-348-4648 E-Mail: bpmotorsports@earthlink.net All Events At California City, CA BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 BRIGHTON, ONTARIO, CANADA KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/FAX (613) 475-3250 CAJOR Cum AVTOMOVILlSTA]UARP.NSE DE CHAMPIONSHIP OPP-ROAD RACING 7210 GATEWAY EAST EL PASO, TX 79915 (915) 593-4848 RALPH GARCIA 011-52-16-17-45-42 CESAR FUENTES CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES <www.Califomiarallyseries.com> November 7-9, 2008 Laughlin Rally (2,3,1) Laughlin, NV CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box 400 Dusty Times MAYWOOD, CA 90270 (323) 560-SHOW Cl!NrRAL Soum DAKOTA RACING AssoclAnoN P.O. Box645 PIERRE, SD 57501 DAVE ADAMS (PILOTS AND BAJAS) (605) 224-9481 DoN ENGLEMAN (BIKES) (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING AssoclATION C.J. RICHARDS P.O. Box332 FAIR HAVEN, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLAIRTON HI-JACKERS l.C.O. TOM DELAUDER SR 1091 TWP. LINE ROAD WELLSVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Harrison County Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH Cum AuroMOVll.ISTICA SANQuINTIN CALLE 6TA PRACC Co. DE SAN QUINTIN SAN QUINTIN, BC, MEXICO HERACLIO PATINO (011 52 616-5-22-07) Cum AuroMoVll.ISnco SAN VICENTE San Vicente OffRoad ENSENA06., BC, MEXICO USA JAN WRIGHT (011 52 61746834) RAM6N CASTRO & RUBEN ACEVEDO (61637/ 7 0034) CMC CoNTINENTAL MOTOSPORT CLUB P.O. Box 3187 MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690-3178 Fax: (714) 367-1608 CODE OFPRoAD USA P.O. Box 2328 CALEXICO, CA 92231-2328 760-455-8069 USA 011-52-686-553-4087 MEXICO l'llACl0S INTIB'ICQMII HIMDlll■1S -tT■ ...,,. - · ff DCll-1. SAT . Jllllfll;1.... ., --November 2008 www.codeoffroad.com.mx Decemher S-7, 2008 Race Ready 275 Mexicali-San Felipe, BC Mexico Col.ORADO IIIll CLIMB AssoclAnoN BARB VAHSHOLTZ, PRESIDENT (719) 531-3642 W/(719}G87-9827 H P.O Box8286 COLORADO SPRINGS, co 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP P.O. Box392 CALEXICO, CA 92232 HECTOR -CERECER 011-52-65-66-4458 CORR SERIES 270 NEWPORT CENTER DR., Sum 100 NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92660 866-501-CORR November 7-9, 2008 CORVA 1500 WEST EL CAMINO, Sum 352 SACRAMENTO, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA EXT 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS DAVE VAN DEREN 2405 BAKER AVE. EVERETT, WA 98201 · (206) 339-9079 (All et1ents at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or ThuTSton County ORV Park, Olympia, WA) DAKAR RALLY DARREN SKILTON BAJA AUTOMOTIVE ADVENTURES 455 E. OcEAN BLVD., Sum 208 LoNG BEACH, CA 90802 (562) 7 55,2278/FAX: (562) 590-7925 Bajaautomotive@Yahoo.com DECATUR FOUR WHEEL l>RivE CLUB DECATUR, TX 76234 TOM ALLEN (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 DEsERT STEEL MOTORSPORTS 1863 COMMANDER DRIVE I.AKE HAVASU Cm, AZ 86403 (928) 855-2208 '&slDNOFF-RoADRACNG~. Continued next page . . RR I · -MOR ' -J§§W§ Pages

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CORR SCHEDULE CHANGE-CORR has canceled their race at Primm, Nevada on October 25 and 26. CORR is expanding the Series season finale in Chula Vista into a three day affair. This allows CORR to maintain the on-site and broadcast production quality and includes two days of live television coverage. The Chula Vista three day event will take place the first weekend in December. For more information, contact CORR at www.Corracing.com. WORLD RALLYING -Martin Holmes 21st annual book on World Rallying with the support of Pirelli will be ready for the rally enthusiasts on December 15, 2008. As usual, a work of art, filled with facts on the entire WRA 2008 season, 208 pages of text and with more than 400 color photos of all the top teams in action, this book is a must for your library. Holmes books are recognized as the leading book on International Rallying. Previous editions have established these books as the leading reference book in the sport, used by journalists, industry and rally fans all over the world. There is also coverage of the IRC, European, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and African regional championships and many regional championships around the world. All the features are illustrated comprehensibly, primarily by Maurice Selden's fabulous photography. The leading, fe;i.tures in Pirelli World Rallying 31 will include a history of Super 2000, the memories and advice from 70 year old Rauno Aaltonen and stories about Prodrive's World Rally Car customer program. Other features will relate to the people and subjects which become topical as the rally season progresses. SCORE READIES FOR BAJA 1000 -November 19-22, 2008, the 41st edition of the SCORE Tecate 1000. A huge entry is expected and many of the class leaders are very close in points so the race could really be an upset for many drivers. As it stands today, Adam Pfankuch, Class 1/2-1600 is the overall point leader with 288 points earned, BJ Richardson, Class 1, is the class leader and has amassed 285 points to date, BJ Baldwin, Trophy Truck, is third in overall points with 271 in hand, Armin Schwarz is fourth overall, second in Class 1 points with 269 in hand and Cory Boyer is fifth in overall points, second in Class 1/2-1600 with 268 points earned. Marcos Nunez is sixth overall and leads Class 5/1600, Don Moss leads Class 3 and he is seventh overall in points, Brian Collins, Trophy Truck, is eighth overall iR points with 254, Mark Post, Trophy Truck is ninth overall with 253 points and Ramon Fernandez, Class 11, is 10th in points with 252 earned. DO YOU NEED HELP AT THE RACES? READ ON - A concierge service? What's a concierge service? And what does it have to do with off-road racing? Most people are familiar with roadside assistance services. Getting help with a flat tire, a dead battery or other road problem is just a cell phone call away. But now Coach-Net, a major supplier of such assistance for RV travelers, has taken that kind of help to a new level of personal service that was previously thought of only in connection with the upscale traveler. And it's geared specifically to motorsports enthusiasts, whether they be NASCAR fans, motorcycle fans, motocross high jumpers, buggy racers, ATV fans or dragsters. "Concierge" is a French term that refers to "a person employed at a hotel or apartment building to help the guests or residents, for example, by dealing with luggage, making travel arrangements, or delivering messages." (Encarta World English Dictionary) More broadly, it is used to describe a person, such as a personal assistant, "employed (as by a business) to make arrangements and run errands." (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) Today the term is also used to describe any kind of personal assistant who Gan help with such things as shopping as well as arranging appointments, scheduling restaurant and travel reservations, and attending to a variety of other personal needs. Still sounds like luxury class? Think again! Motorsports enthusiasts, even those who like to get down and dirty at the off-road trails and tracks, can now get the equivalent of a personal assistant for $109.50 a year plus $10 application fee. Called Motorsports Advantage, this new service provides timely over-the-phone help with the myriad of details that come with participating in a moi:orsports event. And while it was developed by Coach-Net, it is not limited to RVers. Need a camping spot at the track? Just call. Curious about the point standings or looking for a pit pass? Just call. Need to find a nearby hotel in a certain price range for some visiting friends? Just call. Or maybe you suddenly need to find an auto parts store, or a nearby drug store? Just call. Heck, even if you run into legal trouble or (God forbid) need a bail bondsman. Just call! (See comprehensive list at the end of this article) The new service was just launched in April and the initial feedback so far "has been very positive," said Lederer. "But right now, we're they only service of this kind available. People are still getting used to the idea that they could have something like this for only $110 a year. After all, how many of us think in terms of having a personal assistant? For the average motorsports fan, that's not a familiar travel perk." "But it's also true, especially for the traveler, that there are a myriad of details to attend to. Most people are going to the races to have fun, plain and simple. It's those kind of details they want to leave behind for a while, not Page& TOM DELAUDER, SR. 1091 TOWNSHIP LINE RO/\D WELI.SVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 ENsl!NADA BAJA OFF RoAD RACING Av. REFORMA 1136 ENSADA,BC,MX 011-52-646-1818989 Eus10 0ll-52-646-1715230 AARON Races for buggys & Motorcycles Esnao BEACH INTERNATIONAL Short Course Racing VICTORIA GALINDO ENSENADA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEX!= 0ll-52-646-176-6230 FORDA PLoRIDA Ow RoAD DRlvER's AssoclATION JASON LEIBIN (727) 376-4176 Mar, Al!!., Ma~, N011 at Davidson Racewa~ Ful>PUCKER RACING TEAM 1855 PARKWAY DRIVE S. EL MoITTE, CA 91733 626-442-9320/959-579-6151 FAX mdrracing@aol.com GORRA GEORGIA OFF RoAD RACING AssoclATION 420 HOSEA ROAD LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 GPORRA GREAT PLANEs OFF ROAD RACING AssoclATION TIM HODGE ' (402) 991-6048 5=TTMORROW (816) 792-2126 (AU races are short course, stadium st:,le Classes• Sportsman, 1/2-1600, 5-1600, Sport Truck, Quads, Tough Truck Nebraska Racewa:, Park, Exit 420 on 1-80 between Omaha and Lincoln.) For latest info check < www.georra.net> HIGH PLAINS OFF ROAD RACING 2000 W. QUINCY AVENUE #B ENGLEWOOD, CO 80 I 10 303-806-8062/303-781-0974 fax ~ATIONAL ICE RACING AssoclATION P.O. Box 8105 ST. PAUL, MN 55108 STEVE BEDDOR (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INc. · P.O. Bo))'. 2910 MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 }EEPSPEED 1826 N. WINDES Orange, CA 92869 714-538-7434/ fax 714-633-1724 All races for Jeepspeed 1,2 & 3 KAMLooPS OFF RoAD RACING W1UBperiag Pin.ea Sporta & Recreation Center KAMLOOPS, BC, CANADA www.korrbc.ca. Mike Strange (250) 57 3-4003 I.As VEGAS SANDSPORTS &. OFFRoAD ExPO (626) 961-3782 <www.prerunners.com> <www.megashow.com> LI.T.R.E. JEFF ELROD (408) 926-0522 )IM ARUTA (408) 247-4402 MAMAluuTA OFF ROAD RACING LUIS CARLOS ALVAREZO PANAMERJCANA AVE #5105 Cd. Juarez, Chih., MX OJ 1-52-1637-1799 M:IcmGAN BUGGY BUILDERS Dune Buggy Trade Sb.ow (517) 543-7214 <www.buggybuilders.com> M:IcmGAN OFF RoAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Eoterprues Inc. 15529 )ONES ROAD GRAND LEDGE, ML 48837 (517) 627-6200 Motorcycles, Quads, A TVs and Pilots onli November 2Q0S p MAORA PACE MOTOR SPORTS Mm-AMERICA U.S. OH Road ClumpJ.oaab.ip OFF ROAD AssOCIATION 495 N. COMMONS DRIVE P.O. Box 664 AURORA, IL 60504 GREENUP, IL 62428 (630) 566-6100 (217) 962-1318 <www.usoff-road.com> E-MAIL: rooster@maoraracing.us PENNSYLVANIA SHORT CoURSE <www.maoraracing.us> RACING November 1-2, 2008 SMITHTON HOLE RACEWAY No Points Charity Race 313 SKYLINE DRIVE Location to be announced SMITHTON, PA. 15479 MDR PRonucnoNs MIKE GEISER 330-683-6263 1853 PARKWAY DRIVE www.smithtonhole.com SOUTH EL MOITTE, CA 91733 Short Course Offroad Racing 626-442-9320/FAX626-579-6051 All Races At Smithton Hole Racewai c.Jiforala Cbampioaab.ip Serie. November 8, 2008 Poo!sPEAK Stoddard 250 P.O. Box 6962 Barstow "B" CoLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80934 Supentitioa Cbampioaab.ip Serie. (719) 685-4400 December 31, 2008 PINE BARRENS ROUGH RIDERS Bud Light Dash OFF ROAD RACING M.O.R.E. CHATSWORTH, NJ MOJAVE OFF ROAD RACING (856) 875-7591 ENnrusIASTS PRo 1600 SHOOTOUT P.O. Box 1231 COREY GOIN BARSTOW, CA 92312 559-647-6132 760-253-4453 GOlNRACIN@HOTMAIL.COM moreracing@earthlink.net MOREKARTEK PRoTRucx Off Road Gold Cup Series 14402 BoND COURT MSBA EL CAJON, CA 92021 M:IClilGAN SPORT BUGGY 619-390-6252 AssoclATION PuRE ENERGY PROMOTIONS DAVE BARRET P.O. Box50 6363 NIGHTINGALE OR. RICKETTS, IA 51460 FUNT, ML 48506 (712) 679-2221 (810) 730-9221 RALI.Y .AMERICA NATIONAL MoroWEST WINTER TRw.s SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES BILL MARKHAM 2008 Rally America National (909) 860-1857 Cbampiombip Seda Schedule <www.ITStrials.com> RALI.YCROSS NATIONAL SERIES All events at Perris Raceway EVENTS (At Reed Valley with a school) Ea.tan Stareii Cbampioaab.ip NATIONAL Mun RACING AssN. Central Sblreii ClumpJ.oaab.ip RT. #1 -Box 380 Western States Cbame_ionshie. DAVE OR MARLENE RYAN ROCK CRAWLERS AssOCIATION PALATKA, FL 32177 OF .AMERICA (904) 325-5422 P.O. Box 1406 NATIONAL TuFF TRUCK AssN. RIVERTON, UT 84065 Butch Chapin Motonports Promo-(801) 446-5337/Fax: (801) 253-3176 tiom SAN Dn!Go SHORT CoURSE 1404 EAST 3RD STREET WINTERNATIONALS HAsTINGs, MN 55033-1415 A New Series /ry Snowbird Off Road Racing (612) 437-2459 Pro Trucks, Desert Trucks, Buggies, ,I NOORA Pilots, Tough Truck NORTHERN Omo OFF RoAD <www.snowbirdracing.com> RACING AssN. (858) 571-5088 GARY WULFF (724) 283-2678 SAN Dn!Go OFF RoAD ExPosmoN E-MAIL Kaylaaron@aol.com (888) 836 7918 <www.Nooraoffroadracing.com> SCCA RoADRAllY Buggies, Pilot/Odysseys, Trucks, Quads (Spring Valley Raceway, on route 518, 20 P.O. Box 19400 minutes SW of Lisbon, OH) TOPEKA, KS 66619 (Thunder Valley located 15 minutes from 800-770-2055 S[?!_inG_ Val~) <www.scca.org> OFF RoAD ExP0 SFX MOTORSPORTS GROUP SPIN CoMMUNICATIONS 495 N. CoMMONS DRIVE, Sum 200 (415) 380-3890 AURORA, IL 60504 Meghan@seiner.com (630) 566-6100/(630) 556-6180 Fax OFF RoAD RACING AssocIATION SCORE Volunteered Serie. SCORE INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT, GEOFF LEE 23961 CRAFTSMAN Ro., Sum A 1243 TRICE RO/\D · CALABASAS, CA 91302 LEBANON, TN 37087 (818) 225-8402/FAX: (818) 225-8102 (615) 453-5830 <www.score-international.com> CLASS REP. -1/2-1600 November 19-22, 2008 BRUCE MEYERS 41stTecateSCORE Baja 1000 (865) 453-1005 Baja California, Mexico CLASS REP. -9 & UNLm. • select classes, closed-course event MICHAEL MOO.RE (334) 271-7035 SNORE OUTLAW REP. SoUTHERN NEVADA OFF DoN PONDER ROAD ENnruSIASTS (314) 631-8190 P.O. Box 270516 (AU Races at Wheeli!!![ in the Oiun!:1 900 A=) LAs VEGAS, NV 89127 Omo OFF RoADERS INc. 702-452-4522 www.Snoreracing.net 1427 GOSHEN HILLS ROAD S.E. NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO 44663 SoNS OF THuNDER JIM KENDEL 4WHEELERS (216) 339-4674 All races held at Harrison RACE DIVISION Coun~ Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio KEITH STEWART (714) 522-1899 ONTARIO OFF ROAD SoUTHEASTERN OFF RoAD RACERS AssOCIATION RICK TICHBOURNE, PUBLIC RELATIONS CllALu.NGE (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) STEVE RULE (800) 313-5621 OR{(770) 963-0252 OUTLA w SEVEN PICKUP Mike Moore -(224) 272-5400 9269 UMMELMAN SPEED SPORTS ExPO ST. LOUIS, MO 63123 MEGA PRooucnoNs (314) 631-8140/Fax: ((314) 631-1921 3129 S. HACIENQ,\ BLVD. #322 Dusty Times

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HAclENDA HEIGHTS, CA 91745 (626) 961-6522 SCTA SoU'llll!RN CALIFORNIA TIMING AssoclATION & BoNNEVILI..E NATIONALS, INc. P.O. Box 10 OROS!, CA 93647 (559) 528-6279 (559) 528-9749 FAX <www.SCTA-BNI.org> SoU'llll!RN SHORT CoURSE {)pp ROAD RACING AssN. 4305 WOOTlARK DRIVE TAMPA FL 33624 (813) 962-2857 (All Races at EastbaJ RacewaJ, Tampa, FL) SUPER SERIES (PTY) Lm. P.O. Box 706 ToYsFoR TOTS (619) 251-1197 /(619) 252-3093 UNADILLA VALLEY SPORTS CENn!R P.O. Box 5119 EDMESTON, NY 13335 (606) 965-8784/FAX: (606) 905-8784 <www.unadillamx.com> · VORRA VALLEY {)pp ROAD RACING AssoclATION (775) 224-1327 www.vorra.com All events for the VORRA 2008 season have current!, been cancelled. Check their website, above, for additional information, if an,. October 25-26, 2008 Prairie City, CA VICENTE GUEIUU!llo OFP RoAD CuJB PROFO. CENOVIO GAMBOA Oll-52-616-6-21-91 (2-o p.m.) WESTERN {)pp RoAD RACING AssoclATION LARRY HENDERSON (604) 538-0692 WORRA P.O.Box 3241 SUMAS WA 98295 WESTERN Pl!NNSYLV ANIA W HEEL To WHEEL OFP RoAD RACING PATRICK McGUIRE P.O. Box376 ADAMSBURG, PA (412) 527-6556 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS 2325 E. KINGS AVENUE PHOENIX, AZ 85022 (602) 971-3730 <www.whiplashracing.com> W ISCONSIN MOTORSPORTS SHOW (414) 747-1711 W ISCONSIN {)pp ROAD FESnv AL TERRY OR BEV FRIDAY 5913 so. U.S. HWY 45 0sHKOSH, WL 54901 (414) 688-5509 WORLD SERIES ()p {)pp ROAD RACING P.O. Box 99 CRANDON, WISCONSIN 54520 303-880-7221 FIA WORLD RALLY CIIAMPIONSIDP X TREME INTERNATIONAL 1863 COMMANDER DRIVE LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ 86403 (520) 855-RACE/(520) 855-2208 BAJA OFFICE: 011-526-0225 ZR PROMOTIONS Luis RENE MONTANO C. CALZADA INDEPENDENCIA 200 -5 COL. INSURGENTES EsTE 21280 MEXICALI, BC, MX (686) 564 6653 info@zrpromo.com November 30, 2008 ZR Gran Prix De Campeones #6 Motorcycle & Quad Race Dusty Times Tl'IIII Natas ••• remain enmeshed in." "People just need to think about all the things they wish they could have done, or just forgot to do, at the last race because they didn't have time," said Lederer. "Motorsports Advantage provides a fairly inexpensive solution to that, especially if you attend multiple events each year." To learn more about Motorsports Advantage, visit www.motorsportsadvantage.com or call 866-590-5944 Motorsports Advantage 24-hour concierge service including, but not limited to: Assistance in locating and renting of RVs, Recommendations and reservations for motorsports events including parking, camping and more, Recommendations and reservations to NASCAR driving schools, Hotel recommendations and reservations, Up-to-the-minute weather Taxi assistance and shuttle assistance. For more information and comments, contact: Tabitha Lederer 928-855-2601, tlederer@coach-net.com BITD AT MESQUITE -The Best In The Desert troops got together at beautiful, downtown Mesquite, Nevada on September 27, 2008 and a good race they had. Here are the tops in each class. Sam Berri, Jimco, was the Class 1500 winner and the overall winner as well, Steve Olliges, Ford, took the Trick Truck win, Curt LeDuc, Ford, took the Class 8 honors, Kyle Conlon, Jimco, took the Class 10 win, Jonathan Swift, Ford, took Class 7200 honors, Jason Horsley, Chevrolet, was the Pro Truck winner, Josh Hall, Hummer took Class 8100, John Sunderland, Ford, won Class 4100, Amy Perez, Chenowth, was the Class 2000 winner, Aaron Dixon, Ford, took Class 7100, Gavin Skilton, Honda, won Class 7300, Alexa Bilek won Class 1100, Rod Hall took Class 3100 in his Hummer, Brandon Schueler, Polaris, was the Class 1900 winner and Bob Standage, Jeep, took the Class 1700 win. The full story and loads of pictures will be in the next issue of Dusty Times. 3 9TH ANNuAL SNORE 250 -39 years, that's a long, long time. The SNORE folks ran their usual good race. Here are the class winners. Class 1 -1st Tom Koch, 2nd Jamie Galles, Class 10 -1st Dave Terrell, 2nd CJ Hutchins, Class 12 -1st Steve Fuller, 2nd Rob Fiege, Class 1/2-1600 -1st Blai~e Conrad, 2nd Dan Bentley, Class 8 -1st Mike Bailey, 2nd Mike Horner, Class 7 ATTb.NTION Race & Rally Organizers List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES &ee. 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 2009 schedules 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 91311-5003 November 2008 -1st Joe Stone, 2nd Travis Bozzano, Class 18 -1st Mac Marmon, 2nd Rusty Ruby, Class 5/1600 -1st Rulo Solano, 2nd Mark Clifton, Class 9 -1st Corey Torres, 2nd Brandon Hughes, Class 15 -1st Wesley Stephens, 2nd Jens Pfeffer, Class 13 -1st John Houlton, 2nd Briana Bradley, Class 7S -1st Tyler Casoria, Class 1450 - 1st Eric Ludian, 2nd Frank Napoli, Stock Bug - 1st Dick Nichols Jr., 2nd Mark Murrell. Look for the full story and loads of pictures in the December issue of Dusty Times. VORRA -The September 28 VORRA Prairie City race saw Dave Morton taking Class 1, Tyler Mort won Class 10, Brett Yoccheim was the Class 7 winner, Kaile Vierra was the Class 8 winner, Will Domschot took Semi-Pro honors, Mike Jasmann took Amateur Quad, Colton Scudder won the Trophy Kart race, Shania Bennett was the Pee Wee Quad winner, Brad Falin was the Quad Pro winner, Tim Compton won the Pilot Race and Jordan Bender was the Bantam Quad winner. Look for a full story and pictures in the next Dusty Times. GENERAL TIRE/BAJA 1000 -General Tire will provide $170,000 contingency program for the upcoming Baja 1000 for drivers running on General's Grabber competition tires. This will be the largest posted contingency for one race in the history of SCORE. Available to four-wheeled vehicles only, the program awards the winners of four-wheel classes as follows: Overall four-wheel race w inner: $30,000 (In addition to class win award.) Class Awards include: Trophy Truck class: $20,000, Class 1: $20,000, Class 10: $15,000, Class 8: $12,500, Stock Full: $12,500, Class 7: $ 7,500, Class 7sx: $ 7,500, Class 5: $5,000, Class 5/1600: $5,000, Stock Mini:$ 5,000, Score Lites:$ 5,000, Class 9:$ 5,000, Class 11: $ 5,000, Class 1-2 1600: $ 5,000, Class 3: $ 5,000, Class 24: $ 2,500, Class 25: $ 2,500. "The inaugural year of General Tire's return to off-road racing with our new Grabber competition tires has truly exceeded all of our expectations," said Travis Roffler, director of marketing, General Tire. "We are very pleased to be able to thank the drivers who have put their faith in our product with this contingency program at the most prestigious event in all of desert racing. General Tire is the tire for all off-road classes and we excited to be able to provide such a large bounty on the race." To be eligible for the purse, drivers must start, run and finish the race on General Tires on all four wheels including the spare. A minimum of three vehicles must start in class for award payout, and competitors must purchase tires to be eligible for awards. Race vehicles also must display two official General Tire decals (either all white or all black) one on each side in correct official position. Drivers must pre-register with company at www.GeneralTire.com. Awards will be based on SCORE International official results. Program based on product availability. FIN:AL FLAG -It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Mike Hollander. Mike was a journalist and a good one, he brought motorsports on-line in 1979. Mike was a Director of the Motor Press Guild and a Vice President of AARWBA, the (American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association.) Mike served in the U.S. Navy for eight years during the Viet Nam conflict and was awarded several decorations for his service in a combat zone. Mike succumbed to Mesothelioma on September 24, 2008. Mike was 61 years old. Go with God, old friend. TOYOTA MILESTONE AWARDS -Following the first four of five races in the 2008 SCORE Desert Series, 15 of SCORE's toughest drivers are in the hunt to earn 2008 SCORE Toyota Milestone Awards. A Nevada father and son team leads the way as Reno's Rod Hall drives a Hummer H3 in the Stock Mini class and his youngest son Chad drives a Hummer H3Alpha in Stock Full. Giving Nevada four of the 15 racers still in the hunt for 2008 Toyota Milestone Awards are Las Vegas' B.J . Baldwin and B.J. Richardson. Baldwin leads the points in the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division in the No. 97 Baldwin Motorsports Chevy Silverado while Richards leads the unlimited Class 1 in a Chevy-powered Bunderson open-wheel desert race car. The finale of the 2008 SCORE Desert Series will be the 41st Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000, to be held Nov. 19-23 in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. Toyota is presenting these prestigious awards to the world's toughest desert racers for the 23rd consecutive year. The Toyota Milestone awards will go to those drivers who finish every required mile in the five-race 2008 SCORE Desert Series. "Toyota is proud to honor the world's best desert racing drivers, " said Les Unger, national motorsports manager at Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. "For over two decades, we have had the privilege of presenting the ~CORE Toyota Milestone Awards to the toughest racers on the planet." The drivers remaining eligible are: SCORE Trophy-Truck - B.J. Baldwin, Darnen Jefferies, Robbie Pierce. Class 1 -Chuck Dempsey, B.J. Richardson. Class 1/2-1600 -Cory Boyer, Adam Pfankuch. Class 3 -Don Moss. Class 5 - Kevin Carr. Class 5/ 1600 -Marcos Nunez. Class 7SX -Heidi Steele. SCORE Lite -Steve Mamer. Class 11 -Ramon Fernandez. Stock Full -Chad Hall. Stock Mini -Rod Hall. Page 7

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iilHPRIMM :SN Norman-& Raesseler Take overall BY ]UDY SMITH PHOTOS: TRACKS/DE PHOTO .. • • Roger Norman and Larry Roesseler teamed up to take the Trophy Truck win and the overall win at Primm, seen here hustling their Ford F-150. Roger Norman and Larry Roeseler teamed in Norman's Ford Trophy Truck to take the overall win at SCORE's Septem-ber Primm 300. The weather was, as usual, hot, and unfortunately, the breezes died down, making it dusty on course. A nice steady breeze is always hoped for at Primm, but more often than not the winds howl and dust swirls across the desert. Not this year. The course was a 72 mile long loop, starting and finishing ad-jacent to the Buffalo Bill's park-ing lot. The Main Pits were just north of the hotel grounds. Spec-tator access was carefully con-trolled by the BLM, and there was no access to the course by chase vehicles or pit persons. If the driver couldn't fix it, he was through for the day. To help ameliorate the possibility of such a thing happening, a couple of teams entered a second vehicle which was to serve as a chase ve-hicle in the event of a break-down. This wasn't so easy to do here, because all the classes weren't on the course at the same __,,..... _______ _ Aaron Hawley teamed up with Bryan Freeman and they captured the Class ½-1600 gold medal, seen here in their Seagrove. time. In a point-to-point event a team can simply enter a Sports-man truck alrea"Cly loaded with spares, and then made sure it stays behind the vehicle it's sup-porting. Because of the two heat configuration at the Primm race, there were only Class 1 cars, Class 8 trucks, Protrucks and Class 7 trucks on the course with the Trophy Trucks. So to have a "chase truck" on course meant entering someone in a vehicle that could run in one of those classes. There was a Protruck being used that way, and one Trophy Truck was entered as a backup vehicle. The two race format meant that the smaller and slower ve-hicles had to start early in the day, right at sunrise, which was about 6:05 a.m. This group in-cluded Class 10, SCORE Lite, Class 1/2-1600, Class 5, 5/1600, 7SX, 9, 3, Stock Full, Stock Mini, 11, and Sportsman Trucks and Cars. They did varying num-bers of laps, at 2, 3 or 4. In the second group, which started at one p.m., there were the Trophy Trucks and Classes 1, 7 and Protrucks. The Trophy trucks and Class 1 did four laps the others did three. Everyone had a time limit of seven hours. The morning group was led Armin Schwarz and Martin Christensen were the big winners in the Class 1 contest, they were third overall in their Jimco-BMW. off the line by Bekki Wik in her Class 10 Honda Bunderson. There were nine entries in the class. At the end of the first lap she had a lead of five minutes and five seconds. In second place it was Robert McBeath, and in third, another five minutes back, Mark and C.J. Hutchins in their screaming orange Kreger-Honda. Jeremy and Mike James ran fourth, less than a minute further behind, in a Jimco VW . Things changed a bit on the sec-ond lap, except that Wik stayed in front. Her lead was now 11:23, and she was telling her-self to stay cool and not make mistakes. Second place belonged to Adam Ashcraft in his Alumicraft VW. He'd had a flat on the first lap, which he esti-mated used 11 minutes to change. In third it was the McBeath car, another half-minute or so back and fourth belonged to the Hutchins team, When Wik finished her sec-ond lap her husband, Adam, took over, and he was also en-joying almost totally dust free running. He was still in front at the end of the third lap, and their lead was now nine minutes, with Ashcraft second and mov-ing faster than anyone else. He'd also had the fastest second lap. In third place it was McBeath, and the Hutchins car ran fourth. The James team didn't finish this lap. Wik stayed steady, but had some traffic on the fourth lap, and he had a flat tire. Still he kept up a good even pace, and managed to finish first. Then it was time for crossed fingers for a few moments as Ashcraft came in very close behind him, having recorded the fast lap for the class for the day, at l: 14:53. But it wasn't quite enough to do it. The Wiks took the win by a minute and 32 seconds. Bekki said, "Nothing happened." She added, "I backed off -had no dust -didn't have to make any mis takes, or take any chances. You dream of these days -they don't come that often." She said, "The course was fast, rough and rocky. It was fun. The day you dream of!" Ashcraft, who drove the en-tire distance, had only that first lap flat to trouble him, and fin-ished 37 minutes in front of third place Mikey Lawrence in his Lothringer VW. He'd run "A little hot" and had been stuck behind a stuck Bronco at one point. In fourth it was Michael Wichman and Rick Lance in a Chenowth YW. They'd had three or four flats all together, and a "small power steering belt problem." They were another seven minutes back, and were the final team to finish in Class 10. McBeath and Hutchins both faded away on the last lap. In the SCORE Lite class, which had 14 entries, there were 13 different chassis builders listed. At the end of the first lap the lead belonged to David Scaroni in Tom Watson's Prill. But he had less than two min-utes on Steve Mamer in a Raceco. Third place belonged to Mike Sandoval in a MECO, just 11 seconds later. In fourth it was Brian Burgess in a Moulton, an-other 22 seconds further back, and then fifth place was Perry McNeil, in a Lothringer, another 11/seconds later. Two minutes and 31 seconds separated first from fifth. On the second lap things changed a bit. Scaroni held on to the lead, but now he was al-most three minutes in front of Rick St. John, in a Duvel, who'd moved up to second place. Mamer was now third, not quite two minutes back and in fourth it was McNeil, who was running in a lot of dust. Burgess had dropped to fifth place. On the third lap Burgess put Cameron Steele into his car and he recorded the fast lap for the class for the day, and moved the car up into the lead. McNeil was second, about three minutes fur-ther back, and Daniel Folts, in a Seagroves, also had a good lap, and moved into third. Fourth place belonged to Scaroni who'd lost about ten minutes somehow, and in fifth it was Craig Smith, who'd taken over for Mamer. He'd had a plug wire fall off. It was an easy win for Don and Ken Moss at Primm, they drove their Ford Bronco to the Class 3 victory with ease. Kevin Carr was the only entrant in Class 5 at Primm, he raced around the course at an average speed of 44.35mph. Folts dropped out on the last lap, and McNeil ran another steady lap and took the win. He said, "This isn't the car to be in when you're 60 years old!" 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I .. . ' I onds ahead of third place. That was Caspino and Malloy. In fourth it was Pfankuch, who drove all the way, and reported about 20 minutes of down time. He was four minutes behind third. Fifth place went to Hiram Duran, in a Neth, who didn't stop to talk about his day. Marcos Nunez and Norberto Rivera drove their Bug to the Class 5/1600 win, they had less than two minutes in hand at the checkers. Chris Taylor and Josh Quintero drove their Ford Ranger to the Class 7 win at Primm, they had over 20 minutes in hand at the finish. In sixth it was Smith, report-ing "no real problems." Cory Boyer was seventh in a Lothringer, and Arturo Velazco ran eighth in a Porter. Ninth went to Matthew Niles in a Kreger. He was the final finisher. Both Brad Wilson, who broke a front adjuster on his Jimco, and Brian Wilson, who replaced a c.v. on his Jimco, drove four laps, but they were both overtime, so don't get official finishes. Brent Parkhouse, who had a flat when he finished his third lap, and had to change it in the parking lot adjacent to the track, with spec-tators milling about, and people offering advice, also did his fourth lap, but he was also over-time. Steele having driven the final 25 miles with a broken right front trailing arm, and then, to add to his misery, a left front flat, which came off the bean and flopped around. They were a minute and 57 seconds in front of Scaroni and Tom Watson, who'd had no problems on his lap. In fourth it was Mike Sandoval in his Meco, and he'd had one rear flat which he'd had to change himself. Fifth place went to Mamer and Smith, an-other two and a half minutes back. Sixth place went to Dave Callaway and Scott Mapes in their Callaway, and they'd been slowed by a broken rear limiter strap. In seventh it was Bill Hernquist and Scott Reams in a Jimco, each of them having had a flat, Hernquist finished on his. Eighth went to Rick St. John Dusty Times who'd broken a left front trail-ing arm on his Duvel, and had to limp to a pit for repairs. Ninth belonged to Lee Banning, Sr., and Jr., who'd lost a c.v. on their Foddrill, and had two flats. In tenth it was Mike Will-iams, in another MECO, and in 11th, Ty Godde in a Fusion, while John Padgett finished 12th and last, in his Kreger. The 1/2-1600 cars were next to take off with 14 starters. There's a lot of diversity of chas-sis builders in this class also, with ten different builders repre-sented. At the end of the first lap Aaron Hawley had the lead in his Seagroves, with the fast lap for the class for the day, at 1:26:24. He had a little over three minutes on Adam Pfankuch in his Mirage. In third it was Steven Eugenio in a Fraley, having some trouble with his car-buretor loading up. Fourth be-longed to Kevin Smith, in a new Mirage. He thought he was "down on power." In fifth it was Brian Wilson in a Jimco. On the second lap Hawley continued to lead, and now had about two and a half minutes on Pfankuch. Eugenio was still third, about three minutes later, and Smith still ran fourth. But now David Caspino had moved his Lothringer up to fifth place, a minute and 20 seconds behind fourth. Hawley got out of his car and his co-driver, Bryan Freeman got in to do the final two laps. Freeman's nearly a foot taller than Hawley, but they had "pushed the seat back a little" so he could fit. That meant that it wasn't a good fit for either of them. Hawley could barely reach the pedals and Freeman was a 2, 163 Rooms And Suites 60 Table Games 2,300 Slot Machines Poker Room Race & Sports Book 800-Seat Bingo Room 16 Movie Theaters little crowded. He held onto the lead, even though his power steer-ing belt fell off on the third lap. He still had two minutes on Pfankuch at the end of the lap. Eugenio was still third, about three and a half minutes further back, and now Caspino's co-driver, Steve Malloy had their car in fourth. Caspino had caught his arm in the steering wheel somehow, and thought it might be broken. Smith had dropped to fifth. Only two cars had dropped out. Freeman pushed hard on the fourth lap and ran nearly as fast as Hawley's quick first lap. They took the win, finishing nearly nine minutes in front of second place. That was Eugenio, who said, "I did what I could do." He'd had two left front flats in addition to his carb woes, and was only a minute and 21 sec-Class 5 had to do only three laps. Only Kevin Carr came to Primm, and he did his three laps in evenly spaced intervals, the quickest being 1:35:31. Kevin's dad, Bob, rode the last lap. They had no real problems, but lost a coil wire, and said the motor was "heating some", so they took it easy. They thought it was a pretty rocky course, and finished their three laps in 4:52: 12. 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Brian Collins and Chuck Hovey took the silver medal in their B.J. Richardson drove his Class 1 Bunderson-Chevrolet to a second Raul Solano and Richard Garavito drove their 5/1600 Bug to a second place finish, they finished less than two minutes behind the winner. had a flat. He was about 50 min-most of their time in the pit. utes behind Hall. Fifth, and last, There were eight Sportsman was Clyde Stacy in still another trucks in the two lap morning Dodge. His truck had also over-group, and at the end of the first heated, and he'd been forced to lap they were led by Matt Scaroni slow down to keep it cool. With in his Chevy Trophy lite. He had five starters and five finishers, the nine minutes on Jeff Stowers on Stock Full class had a 100 per- a Chevy that looked more like a cent finish record for this race. Trophy Truck than the rest of Dodge Ram 1500, they were just two minutes out of the win. place in class, he finished fifth overall as well. lap the lead belonged to the team done only two, and waved a changed riders three times dur-of Marcos Nunez and Norberto checkered flag at him. Gomez, ing the Primm race, and was an Rivera, and they had almost five who obviously knew he had an-hour and 54 minutes to the good minutes on Raul Solano and Ri-other lap to do, ignored the flag at the end of the second lap. chard Garavito. Gabriel Diaz and went on. Daniel Wright, Daniel Field and Peralta ran third, and Jose On Lap 3 Holmes/ Jeremy Parriott, in another Montoya was fourth. All the Landersman solidified their lead, Bronco, were second. others made the first lap, al-and took the win by 16 minutes. In the two lap morning group, though a couple of them lost They said "It's a very rough the Stock Full trucks had five quite a bit of time. course for the limited suspen-starters. At the end of the first Nunez and Rivera continued sion." However, they had no flats lap the lead belonged to John to lead through the second lap, and no problems, even though Griffin in his Ford. He had a and Solano and Garavito held "we pushed very hard in the minute and eight seconds on on to second place, only about rough stuff." Brugger and Steele, Kent Kroeker in his Dodge. Chad two and a half minutes back. who said the course was Hall ran third in his Hummer, Diaz Peralta handed the car over "rougher than last year" finished and he was finding it hard to to Oscar Venegas, and he had a second. In third it was Gomez, keep up in the "tight-nyisty stuff''. flat on the second lap, but held who ticked off the fast lap for And, he said, "Half the course is on to third place, although they the class for the day, at 1:48:55, that." were down about 20 minutes. but was still down an hour to At the end of the first lap Grif-Both the Solano/Garavito team first place because of his long fin made a quick fuel stop of and the Diaz Peralta/Venegas/ second lap. Fantelli, with a long about 25 seconds. Kroeker, on Negrete team were having to stop third lap, was fourth, just five the other hand, recorded the for fuel more often than they seconds behind Gomez. fast time for the class on his sec-liked. Garavito and Solano had No Class 9 cars came to ond, and last, lap. And that was a 20 gallon fuel cell, but hadn't Primm. in spite of driving the final known that until this race. In Class 3, which was required couple of miles with a flat right Venegas, Negrete and Diaz to do only two laps, there were rear tire. Kroeker's good time Peralta had only a 15 gallon cell. two entries, and Don Moss drove gave him the win, beating Grif-Nunez and Rivera said they his Bronco all the way, to take fin by 18 seconds. Griffin was had a "lot of dust and rocks", the win. He had the fast lap for seriously regretting that fuel but had no flats, split the driv-the class on Lap 2, at 1:59:47. stop. Hall finished third, about ing evenly, and took the win by a He had no problems, even eight minutes further back, and minute and 54 seconds. Solano though his crew had had to do a in fourth it was Justin Matney, and Garavito had the fast lap very quick two week prep job in another Dodge, reporting that for the class on the third lap, at because he'd raced in the recent his radiator overheated and he 1:37:48. They were a half hour BITD Vegas to Reno event. He ran slow to keep it cool. He also ahead of third place. That was Negrete, Venegas and Diaz Peralta, who'd had no brakes on the third lap. In fourth it was Jose Montoya, and in fifth it was Trevor Anderson who drove all the way. This was his first Primm race, and he didn't get to prerun. He liked the course, say-ing it had a "good variety". Anderson had no flat tires, but his clutch was going away. Sixth place went to Tommy and Ron Craft. Ron, who is Tom's father, started the day and he blew the exhaust and had to have it welded. Saul Garcia was the fi-nal finisher, in seventh place, at 6:34:21. Also doing only three laps were the Class 7SX trucks, an-other part of the morning group. There were four of them, all Fords. The first lap lead be-longed to Mark Landersman and he had about eight minutes on Aaron Gomez who ran second. Rene Brugger and Heidi Steele were· third, just 22 seconds be-hind them, and Rodd Fantelli ran fourth, another two minutes back. On the second lap Landersman and his partner, John Holmes, continued to lead, now with 15 minutes on second place Steele and Brugger. They were just a little over a minute up on Fantelli, and Gomez, who'd had a very long second lap, was now last. He was so late that the flagman thought he'd finished three laps when he'd Page 10 John Holmes and Mark Landersman had a great race, they drove their Ford Ranger to the Class 7X win at Primm, seen here at speed. The win in SCORE Lite went to Perry McNeil and Alfie Bueno, Bunderson, they only had two minutes on their competition at the flag. November 2008 In the Stock Mini class there the entries. Third belonged to were three entries. Gavin Skilton Mark Growe in his Ford. had the first lap lead in his Scaroni improved his time by Honda Ridgeline, with just two four minutes on the second lap, seconds on Steve Kovach in his and took the win by 13 minutes, Ford Ranger. Rod Hall ran third reporting no flats and no me-in his Hummer, just a minute chanical troubles. He was hop-and three seconds later. On the ing to demonstrate to the gen-second lap Skilton recorded the era! public that the TrophyLites, fast time for the class, at 1:52:02, which he builds and sells, are and with "zero issues", went on sturdy and quick, and definitely to take the win. Kovach had race worthy. Second place went planned to stop and change navi-to Stowers, whose truck was de-gators, but decided there wasn't scribed as "very trick". In third time for that in such a close race. it was Growe and his son, Keith, He had a good second lap also, who ran the number 1500 be-but not quite good enough, and cause they were last year's season finished second a minute and champs. They lost a limit strap three seconds behind Skilton. In on the second lap and had to the Hummer, Emily Miller had a have welding done. In fourth it good lap, with no problems, and was Kyle Caso in a Ford, who no overheated shocks, but, she had a broken top link, limped said, "The driver needs a little to a pit, and had repairs done. more experience." She and Hall He had a very long first lap. He finished third, only nine minutes also had two flats at once at and two seconds behind second some point. In fifth it was Greg place. The only team to make a Hempel, in a GM, who was re-driver change, they probably lost ported out of the race at one The Wik family, Bekki and Adam drove their Honda powered Bunderson to the Class 10 win, they were the 11th overall finisher. Ramon and Tomas Fernandez came up from Ensenada to take the Class 11 win, they had more than 40 minutes in hand at the checkers. Dusty Times

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I' Adam Ashcraft gave it his all in the Class . 10 contest, he took Brian Burgess teamed with Cameron Steele in the SCORE Lite fracas, John Griffin and Jeremy Spirkoff pooled their talents in the Stock Full home the silver medal, seen here in his AlumiCraft VW they drove their Moulton to a very close second place finish. race, they finished second, 18 second in arrears in their Ford F-350. point. B·ut after a four hour plus S·olorzano lost his ring gear and this group, and a few stragglers Lap 2, i nci u ding Garron fast lap for the day, at 1:09: 17 first lap, he recorded the fast lap ran in first gear for the final 20 from the morning group, anx-Cadiente, whose Ford lost its on that lap. But they'd lost a for the class, at 1:36:33, and fin-miles of his trip. He also had ious to get to the finish and motor, Kory Scheeler, Scott half. hour cooling their truck ished fifth. He was the final fin-three flat tires, and finished sec-avoid any TUR-ins with the big-Stein berger, and Bob by down and adding water and stop-isher in the class. ond about 45 minutes down. In ger, faster vehicles. Baldwin, who was said to have leak on the second lap. Wyllie, In Class 1400 there was just third place it was Diaz, whose In the Trophy Truck class, lost his transmission. who'd been fifth, was seen "smok-one entry, the Chevy powered second lap was a pretty good which had 20 starters, the first But at the front of the pack it ing badly" on the third lap, and Homebuilt of Peter Lang. He one. He was still two hours and lap was led by Mark Post in his was now Roeseler, with nine min-never came around again. drove two steady laps, and re-25 minutes behind the leader. Ford, and he had six seconds on utes on second place Collins. Roeseler got out and put corded another win. One Jeep Speed entry ran at Larry Roeseler in Roger Third belonged to LeDuc in Norman in for the final lap. He Class 11, also a two lap class, .Primm. Scott Watkins did two Norman's Ford. ln third it was Whitton's truck, and in fourth had·brake problems, and tried to had three entries, two of which laps in the time of 5: 18:40, to Pete Sohren in another Ford, 41 it was B.J. Baldwin in his Chevy. get that fixed in a pit, but .they came up from Baja. On the first go home with a win on his seconds later and fourth be-Todd Wyllie was fifth in his went away again, and.he also had lap Ramon Fernandez, who record. longed to Todd LeDuc in Ro;,_ Chevy, about two an.cl a half a flat. But in spite of all that, he drove all the way, had a seven As the afternoon.group lined Whitton's Ford. Brian Collins minutes later. managed to bring the truck to the minute lead on Eric Solorzano. up for staging and starting, the ran fifth in his Dodge, a minute Lap 3 was also led by finish line in first. He had just a Mauro Diaz was having a bad morning group was finishing. and 25 seconds later. The only Roeseler, who now had ten min-minute and 48 seconds on morning, and he used up four Some squeezed between starting one out was Jason McNeil, who'd utes on Collins, who was still in Collins. Collins had planned to hours and 16 minutes for his cars to take their checkered flags. lost his Ford's motor on the first his truck. ln third it was LeDuc put Chuck Hovey in for the sec-first lap. The Trophy Trucks and Class 1 lap. Bill Varnes, who'd started in Whitton's truck, and Darnen ond half of the day, but when the Fernandez had recorded the were to do four laps, the first, in a Ford, wa.s also not Jefferies ran fourth in his Chevy. race was so close, a driver change best lap time for this group on Protrucks and Class 7 had to moving, but his purpose in be-Now Bill McBeath, in a new would be costly in terms of sec-his first lap, at 2:05:31. His sec-run only three. Class 8 didn't ing there was to run as a chase Chevy, built by Bill Savage, ran onds. Not only that; Collins wor-ond lap was only two minutes have any entries. They had a or backup vehicle for Robbie fifth, about four minutes later. ried that a "fresh" Hovey might slower, and he went on with no seven hour time limit, which Pierce if he should be needed. Rob MacCachren, trying i:o drive too hard for "what was left" ,trouble, to take the win. In de-would mean that everyone should He'd gone only a short distance, make up time after Post's truck of the truck. As it turned out, he scribing the -course he said, "It's be done before 9 p. m. There and parked out of the way. had.been sidelined with a water thought he might not have made nice, but it's hotter than Baja!" were 51 vehicles 0n the track in Four more vehicles fell out on leak for a while, ticked off the Continued next page Dusty Times November 2008 Pa_ge 11

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It was a third place finish in Trophy Truck for Ron Whitton and Dale Lenk, Randy Perry and Grant Lenk were only able to muster Dave Caspino and Mike Malloy drove their Lothringer to a third place Todd LeDuc, they're seen here at speed on the course. a third place finish in Class 1, their Penhall Chevy seen here. finish in the Class ½- 1600 competition, seen here at touchdown. n ass , w 1ic starte rig t behind them, there were 24 start-ers. At the end of the first lap the lead belonged to Armin Schwarz in his Jimco BMW, with a little over a minute on Brian Parkhouse in a Jimco Chevy. In third it was Ronny Wilson and fourth was his brother, Randy, in a Jimco Chevy. Fifth belonged to Billy Gasper in his Porter Chevy and he was three minutes and 21 seconds behind the leader, so it was clearly still anyone's race. Three cars had al-ready dropped out. The Stock Full win went to Kent Kroeker and Frank Martwek, they drove their Dodge 2500 to an 18 second win over second place. Gavin Skilton drove his Honda Ridgeline to the Stock Mini win, but it was close, his competition was 63 seconds behind him. On the second lap Schwarz still led,· and now he had 25-seconds on Gasper, who'd recorded the fast lap for the class for the day, at 1: 12:08. In third it was Dale the best decision, because "I made a couple mistakes -1 had two flats on the last lap - I shoulda just backed it down." Collins was also feeling old, complaining that he was "too old" for this, he was brought up short when Roeseler told him that he was 51, six years older than· Collins. Colllins wasn't the only one feeling old at this event. The comment came over and over from drivers in the Trophy Truck and Class 1 cars. The heat, dust and rough terrain took their toll on the mature driv-ers. In third it was probably the oldest of the Trophy Truck driver, Ron Whitton and his much younger co-driver, Todd LeDuc. They'd had no troubles, and Whitton wasn't complaining about his age. In fourth it was Jefferies, who'd broken a coil spring late in the day. In fifth it was McBeath who'd lost a cylin-der and did the last two and a half laps on seven cylinders. Nick and Larry Vanderwey were sixth in their Ford. They'd had a flat on the third lap and been "stuck in traffic". Seventh went to Post' and MacCachren who'd had two front flats at the same time on the last lap. In eighth it was Robbie Pierce, who'd had a couple of flats. One of them had taken out a brake line. Ninth went to Adam Householder in a new Chevy: Adam's a second-gen-eration racer. He lost a fan on the first lap and that cost him we would Uke to congratulate 81TD/llllell IIIIClng IIIVer •• ,.. 500 Alexa llelek • 1• Place 1100 Jonathan SWlft • 1st Place 7200 Chet IIUffman/.lmy WltelCIN!tl Tadd Jergensen . ... PlaCa ff .... PlaCe ff ■.0.11.• Chill COOlloll 2SO ·-&ucern• 150 Aaron Aspel/steve TOibert 1st PICICe 5-1800 A,,.,nl P Place 11100 818-998-2739 9763 VARIEL AVENUE, CHATSWORTH, CA 91311 Page 12 November 2008 about 20 minutes. In. tenth it was Ebberts in a Porter Chevy, and B.J. Baldwin, who had transmis-Parkhouse was now fourth, fol-sion problems. In 11th it was Mike lowed by B.J. Richardson whose Voudouris and Jeff Geiser who'd Bunderson Chevy was overheat-broken a header on Lap 1 and ing. He'd also had a flat on the• had vapor lock problems late in first lap. the day in their Ford. They were Four more cars fell out on the the final finisher. Pete Sohren's third lap, and one of them was motor had sounded bad at the Gasper, who broke a c.v. and was end of Lap 2, and he did one unable to make repairs. more long lap, and then was out. Schwarz's co-driver, Martin In Cameron Steele's truck, Rick Christensen, took over and held Geiser, who had five flats in two on to the lead, now with about laps, and Steele also had a long eight and a half minutes on • third lap and then disappeared. Richardson. In third it' was Only 11 Trophy Trucks finished. Parkhouse's co-driver, Tom Fm~""""!"'lm"-"'""~===.,,,,.,...,,_.,,,,,,.,,.....,-ry, ...... -""". Jason and Rich Voss were the winners in the Pro Truck Class, they drove their Ford F-150 to a nice win at Primm. Scott Watkins and Casey Bount were the winners in the Class 17 contest, they're seen here in their Jeep XJ Cherokee. Dusty Times T

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7 Mike Lawrence and Anthony Lopicallo drove their VW powered It was a third place finish in SCORE Ute for Tom Watson, Tim The NegreteNenagas/Diaz team had a decent race in the Class Lothringer to a third place finish in Class 10, seen here at liftoff. Noe and David Scaroni, seen here in their ood looking Prill. 5/1600 conflict, they took third place honors. Ridings, who was feeling grouchy who drove all the way now had 16 min-Rodriguez whose only problem about the suspension set up in his Penhall Chevy. utes on Rodriguez. was a tossed fan belt. And in (which he'd done) not being right He said he'd "pushed Chamlee had a long third, Chamlee finished with six for such a rough course. Fourth it" the last lap. He was second lap, dealing minutes left of his time limit. place was held by Randy Wilson, only a minute and 17 with fuel problems. It was a typical Primm race, who felt as if he'd been in dust all seconds in front of He finally moved a rough, rocky and dusty. But no the way. In fifth it was Steve Randy Wilson, who fuel line, and that one had any major complaints. Sourapas in an RPS Chevy. He was part of the chorus helped, he said, It was silted well, just off the Buf-was having fun. saying, "I'm an old Taylor and falo Bill's parking lot, but the Christensen and Schwarz had man!" He did drive all Quintero had had convenient grandstand that used one flat halfway through the four laps. In seventh it all their spare, to be set up in the corner, and third lap, and they changed it in was Bill and Daniel parts, oil and fuel which allowed spectators a a little over a minute, thanks to Wingerning in a Jimco stolen the night be-birdseye view of the surrounding their hydraulic lift that jacks the Chevy. They'd had a fore the race. They course and pits was not there. whole side of the car up in sec-broken shifter knob. faced doing the race That's because CORR has built onds. Then Christensen had a flat In eighth place, 11 with nothing -but its track right opposite the north-three miles before the finish, and and a half minutes Heidi Steele and Renee Brugger drove their Ford Ranger to a second other racers came east corner of the parking lot, and just drove in on it. They finished later, it was Guy place finish in the Class 7SX race, seen here headin' for the finish. to their aid, helping its jungle-gym of supports for his in 4:58:54, taking the win by Peterson and Mike Nex, in a pentine belt had melted, but he'd with parts, spares and the like. bleachers completely blocks any seven minutes and 16 seconds. Penhall Chevy. They'd broken had a spare. Also, a weld had The two were extremely grateful, view there might have been. Richardson was second, with the two limiter straps. This was only cracked in the radiator, and They had no down time at all, not SCORE's season now comes fastest last lap, at 1:15:02, and theirsecondrace,anditwastheir they'd had to "JB weld" it, and evenaflat,andtookthewin,and to an end with the Baja 1000, 12 minutes in front of third first SCORE event. Ninth place lost an hour. In 12th it was Rich-said now they'll have to go to the a long and challenging loop place. That was Dale Lenk and went to Sourapas who said, ard Boyle who didn't stop to talk Baja 1000, because they're doing this year, the last event on the Randy Barry in a Penhall Chevy. "That was a long one." He'd had but his day. In 13th it was John well in the points. In second it was calendar Barry, who'd driven the first five flats and was happy to report Herder in the Jimco Viper. He'd three laps had looked less than that the "air jack worked perfect!" had overheating issues, and also graceful at the end of Lap 1 when Ronny Wilson was tenth. He said the shock oil "went away" so he he slid into the "stop" sign at the he'd had a great first lap (he'd had just springs. He said it was a start/finish and wiped it out, but been third), but then the inside good thing he had to go slowly otherwise their day had gone of the muffler came apart and because of overheating, because well. The "stop" sign apparently clogged it up, and the motor that made the suspensicln not feel did not damage, and they said wouldn't run. He'd also broken so bad. Luis Ramirez, Jr., in a they had no problems. They were a limiter strap. Said Wilson, "It's Jefferies, finished 14th, but we eight minutes in front of achallenge-itwasfunthough!" didn'tgettotalktohim.Andin Parkhouse and Ridings in fourth. In 11th it was Chuck Dempsey in 15th, and last to finish, it was In fifth it was Tim McDonnell his HMS Chevy. He said his Ser-Dale Ebberts and Brad Etter in Matt Scaroni took the Sportsman Truck win at Primm, he averaged over 41 · · ookin' Chev Tf'. h Li . It was a second place finish in Class ½-1600 for Steve Eugenio, Steve was a bit less than nine minutes behind the class winner. · Dusty Times their Porter Chevy. They'd bro-ken a c.v. and an axle and it had been too hot to work on. Then, once it was repaired, they'd had to stop and repack it. They fin-ished in 6:56:24, with only three minutes and 36 seconds left of their time limit. They were the fi-nal finishers in the class. In the Protruck class there were only two vehicles, and one of them, the Ford of Max Post, was there mainly to serve as a chase for Mark's Trophy Truck. When Mark had early overheat-ing problems Max and his part-ner "Toyota" Rick Johnson, were asked to park and hang around in case they were needed. So they never got a lap completed. In the meantime, Jason Voss, Ford, drove his three required laps steadily and quickly to get the win. He had on flat, and finished with the truck all decambered in front because the upper balljoint on the left was about worn out. Class 7 had five starters, four Fords and one Toyota. They had to do just three laps. On the first lap Josh Quintero went into the lead in Chris Taylor's Ford, with 13 minutes on second place Ja-son Rodriguez in another Ford. Dan Chamlee was third in an-other Ford, another 13 minutes back. Brandon Walsh, the lone Toyota, was a dnf on Lap 1, as was A.J. Rodriguez in his Ford. Taylor look over the driving midway through the second lap, and he continued to lead. He November 2008 The Lang/Cotter/Jellison trio took the win in the Sportsman Car Class, they're seen here in their Homebuilt Chevy. t:ransman Jack •aunt Kit • Secure mounting platform for racecar, pre-runner or chase vehicle • Self-latching quick-release system locks the jack to the chassis • Spring-loaded quick-release mount ~ecures the jack handle • Flat base increases the jack's footprint and prevents the jack from sinking in sand or silt Page 13

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I.AJ2C: 27™ ADAC RALLYE DEUTSCNLAND Sebastien Laeb • Citroen Take The Win PHOTOS: MAURICE SELDEN Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena took the overall win in Germany, they're seen here traversing the German countryside in their Citroen C4. Citroen are sweeping inexora-bly onwards in their world cham-pionship quest, following their 1-2 victory in Germany, their eighth victory running on this event and Sebastien Loeb's sev-enth successive win, coupled for the fourth year running with also winning the Junior category. The BP Ford team suffered not only with their own misfortunes but also by the efforts of the cus-tomer car driven by Francois Duval, which cost the BP Ford team championship points at a critical part of the season. Not-withstanding expectations of rain to a greater or lesser extent, but always to an unpredictable . degree, it turned out to be a dry and warm event. After many years of struggle the Subaru team pulled back to finish strongly and reliably in the points. The other Sebastien, Mr. Ogier, won the Junior category in his' Citroen and heads a Citroen 1-2-3 in the Junior charts. In the six years since Germany was first included in the world rally championship calendar it has become well established on account of uniqueness in the sport. This is not just because of the specialty and variety of the asphalt stages whi-ch it provides, but also because of the vagaries of the weather in the region. The rally is based at Trier, which is close to the Belgium and Luxem-bourg borders. It is a classic event because of its centralised loca-tion within Europe and the huge number of spectators which it attracts, from a large number of countries. The stages are held over three different areas, with three quite individual character-istics. The Moselle Valley stages are held in spectacular hillside vineyards where the high bushes obscure the range of sight for drivers and create their own tun-nel effect. These are very decep-tive for drivers. The Baumholder stages are spectacular on account of the complexity of their routes. They are run on military ground where the surfaces are often bro-ken and covered with dirt. Fi-nally there are the Saarland stages, run on orthodox closed smooth public roads. Trier" pre-sents a historic base, not the least because this is Germany's oldest city. The Porta N igra is the fa-mous landmark of the city and the downtown special stage is run around this spectacular Ro-man ruin. This year the stage was run as the final stage of the event, delightfully named "Circus Maxim us", and created an excit-ing finale to the event. There are not so many route novelties each Sebastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia took the S 1600 JWRC win in their Citroen C2, seen here working their way up the mountain. year. Event administrator cial entries. Ford came with two Waltraud Wunsch explained: new cars and Suzuki one new "We are fortunate. We have a lot car, for Toni Gardemeister, oth-of available stages in our area, erwise the championship cars and these are rotated year to were familiar. In the Junior cat-year." This year there were not egory there were 13 entries, seven so many of the public stages run of these competing with Group to the south of the region, the R models. With the long period area known as "Saarland Rally" of time since the last asphalt territory. The Citroen legend is event, many drivers were tackling a major part of the Rall ye new conditions. The first asphalt Deutschland story. Citroen are rally for the 2008 Subarus and so far unbeaten on the event, the two privately run Citroen C4 and Loeb has won every year the WRCs, while Ulster driver Kris rally has been in the World se- Meeke had a Renault Clio S 1600 ries. Another great legend of the from the Munaretto team. Mads rally is the weather, and this year Ostberg withdrew his Subaru Rallye Deutschland adopted a while the Focus entry for Gareth new dimension. The first of the Jones was changed to a Subaru. classic asphalt events, and there-As usual there was a large Dutch fore the first time that Pirelli's contingent on the entry. Like hard compound control tyres for Germany, many of Dutch rallies dry asphalt stages were available. are on asphalt. And, there was a The teams had two types of tyre family factor to the rally with to choose from, hard or soft four father and son teams com-compounds, which means that peting. From Holland, the Ford theresultsoftheeventmighteas-Focus WRCs of the van ily, and unusually in this year, Merksteijns and also the Kuiper be based on correct type choices. families, also the Mitsubishi Technical interest centred Group N cars of the van der around the debut for the 08 Fo-Heuvels. From Germany, the cus and the fact there were no Gassner family entered Group N ' fewer than 13 Focus World Rally Mitsubishis. Shakedown wit-Cars, even though the Munchi's nessed Dani Sordo fastest, with team elected not to compete Duval second and Sebastien here. Back again in the world Loeb third, with a big surprise, championship was Francois Henning Solberg was fifth fast-Duval at the wheel of a Stobart est in the Expert Ford ahead of Focus 07. There were two private his brother, Petter. Focus 07s for Peter Van AttheCeremonialStartitwas Merksteijn senior and Andreas a nice, warm, clear and dry Mikkelsen, the first time these summer's day, but the vagaries cars had been seen outside offi-of the weather were never far Performance Proven for Desert & Off-Road Use 150 Heavy Duty Sizes to Choose from Detail & Pressure Wash Tanks Marine Holding & Water Tanks Bulk Storage & Waste Tanks R.V. 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Daniel Sordo and Marc Marti took second overall honors in Germany, seen here in their Citroen C4 at speed. from people's thoughts. It was raining in Saarbrucken and Frankfurt, how long before it would be falling at the rally? Day 1 6 Stages, asphalt, 108.16kms. From a 40% prediction of rain on Friday, overnight the prediction had come down to 10%, and on the first loop it turned out to be completely dry. "There was some powdery gravel on the stages and this gave me a little understeer", said first driver on the road, Mikko Hirvonen, who was lying equal second with Dani Sordo after the first loop of stages, and 15 .3 seconds be-hind Sebastien Loeb. If the teams sacrificed the correct tyres for Shakedown, the world champi-onship teams reckoned they could run all the rest of the rally on the same type of tyres if con-ditions were constant, assuming they had no deflations. From the start Loeb was away. Like all the other top drivers, ex-cept Petter Solberg and Chris Atkinson in the Subarus, he chose the soft compound tyres, and was leading ahead of Sordo and Hirvonen. Subaru played safe with running the harder tyres, feeling inexperienced with the tyre wear rates on the 2008 cars on tarmac. A broken sensor on Duval's car meant the launch control was not operating prop-erly and gear changing was slow, but he was lying fourth through the first loop, ahead of the two Subarus, with a cautious Jari-Matti Latvala seventh. Toni Gardemeister was not happy, having to use his clutch on sharp junctions. Gigi Galli made a slow start. Among the amateur WRC drivers Mark van Eldik drove 7km on a flat tyre and van Merksteijn Snr. had a leak of wa-ter in the cockpit. On the first three stages, three fastest times for Loeb, and a remarkable battle for fifth place between the two Subarus, after each stage the placings changed! The weather factor was a nightmare. For the afternoon stages, the BP Ford team had calculated that Hirvonen had until 1355 to decide which type of tyres, the Pirelli Soft or Hard, he wanted fitted before he could be on his way. He had to keep these tyres until he finished the afternoon stages, after 1700, over three hours and nearly 60km away. At the midday ser-vice halt Latvala had harder springs fitted to his car and was quicker. He took three seconds off the warring Subarus on Stage 4 and leapt past both of them into fifth place on Stage 5. Duval replaced his softer tyres with harder ones for the after-noon loop, commenting he felt the car was better, but he was no faster. Sordo fitted harder tyres for the second loop and found he was slower, "Under braking and under acceleration I was los-ing a lot of time." This enabled Hirvonen to pull away from him in second place. Loeb, however, was supreme, unbeaten all day. On Stage 5 there was a serious accident when Galli cut a fast right hand corner too much and the car somersaulted into the trees on the outside of the bend. Passing cars assumed it was a wreck from the same stage first time around, but then Bernacchini was seen standing dazed by the car and it was obvi-ous this was serious. The stage was stopped and fast interven-tion crews realised it would be difficult to take Gigi out of the wreckage. It was found he had broken his femur and eventually he was flown to hospital. Mean-while the rally started off again with one more stage to run. Loeb was fastest once again, beating Hirvonen. Atkinson slid off the road for a half minute and then the FIA Safety Delegate ordered the stage to be stopped because too many spectators were in bad places. Interruption times were issued by the Stewards, and Loeb finished the day 19.9 seconds in front of Hirvonen. Chris Atkinson and Stephane Prevot drove their Subaru lmpreza to a sixth place finish overall, seen here under a windmill. In JWRC, Citroen C2 S 1600s started off fast even though the non-championship Renault Clio S 1600 of Kris Meeke started off quicker than them all. Sebastien Ogier started off quickest of the registered drivers but then slid wide on a bend but still beating Prokop into the lead. Shaun Gallagher had a lot of trouble with bad rear brake adjustment which caused him to spin several times. He then drove for 2km with a puncture in Stage 3. Jun-ior drivers had special tyre rules. They always had to run the same type of tread pattern but accord-ing to circumstances they could put cuts into the tread patterns. They were also more restricted in quantities of tyres, and ex-pected to have to refit pre-used tyres towards the end of the event. Alessandro Bettega had bent rear suspension after im-pacting a wheel on Stage 2. Dutch driver Weijs lost his brakes and hit the guard rail with the front of his car and damaged the rear suspension as well. Only one driver stopped during the first loop, this was Albertini who had fuel pressure problems. These cars only made one stage in the afternoon, for the second time Meeke beat all the registered drivers, and Prokop went to bed some 7.6 seconds ahead of Ogier. Weijs still had troubles with his car. Brake problems led to a bro-ken differential so he had to cover Stage 4E in one wheel drive. Fanari struggled round the hairpins with a broken handbrake. Meeke finished the day just l. 1 second behind Prokop. Day 2 8 Stages, asphalt, 159. 76kms. This was the big day. The rally stretched eastwards towards St. Wendel and Baumholder and the day was bright and dry. Over-night Galli had undergone sur-gery at Barmherzige Hospital in Trier, to pin the top of his thigh bone which had fractured. The accident occurred when his Stobart team Ford Focus WRC impacted a tree on the driver's side, having been propelled off the road when the driver encoun-tered a rock beside the track, on the line where he was cutting a bend. It was expected Galli would be released from hospital the following Wednesday (20th August). Doctors estimated he would be unable to walk on the leg for six to eight weeks, and will require physiotherapy after this time. The team therefore did not expect Galli to be able to return to rallying for the rest of the sea-son so, with the next event due on his programme to be the Repco Rally New Zealand (28-31 August), M-Sport had to an-nounce a replacement driver without delay. All the team drivers went out on soft tyres for the first three stages, but once again Hirvonen seemed to be sleepy. The stages were generally familiar but to a great extent run in the opposite directions to before, and one driver after another found the challenge difficult. Hirvonen, Duval and (Petter) Solbert all slid off the road. Urmo Aava spun backwards into a tree and damaged his rear wing which wrecked his C4's higher speed handling characteristics. The Citroen of Loeb and Sordo sailed on through unscathed. Loeb admitted however that it was necessary to be careful, but once again he made best times as Sordo got back into second place, ahead of Hirvonen. Khalid Al Qassimi had a bad morning. "On Stage 8 I hit some small trees." On Stage 9 there was more damage. Latvala ad-mitted he had trouble finding a rhythm, he went off the road at a chicane, "We misjudged the ap-proach to a chicane, and I put the car sideways in order to avoid going off the road head-on. The car ended up in a ditch and eventually people arrived to push us back on the road again." Duval thought he was driving with a flat tyre but found in fact, he wasn't. Andersson dam-aged the Suzuki's rear suspen-sion and then had to stop with driveshaft failure, "The bolts snapped after I cut a corner and was trying to regain the road where there was a step. We were able to swap some bolts around, but then the driveshaft became disconnected and we had to drive the long Stage 10 in three wheel drive mode." Gardemeister had his suspen-sion set-up changed overnight, but then found one of the shock absorbers seemed to be sticking. The Subaru drivers were happy at the improved reliability of their cars but dismayed at how much slower they were com-pared with last year, about 0. 7 second per kilometre. For the long 30km Panzerplatte stage all the top drivers, except for BP Ford driv-ers and Duval, went out on hard tyres. Why did Ford use the hard tyres? Hirvonen, "Well, we had to try something! Sebastien is so good in these conditions, where there is changing grip all the time. That is why he is so fast in Ger-many. On other rallies he goes to sleep first thing in the morn-ing, but here in Germany he is wide awake." Not everything for Sebastien was perfect though. "We came to a chicane where the bales were not where we expected them to be. We touched one!" Sordo confirmed he was feeling great, now. On stage 10 Al Qassimi spun 15 metres from the flying finish while Van Eldik stopped to change a wheel. Galli's co-driver Giovanni Bernacchini, who was unhurt in the crash, visited the Service Park and explained, "The impact was against a tree on the left side of the car. The data recorder (com-pulsory in works team rally cars this season), measured the im-pact at 7.2g force." As the cars headed off for the second loop of the stages, Subaru reverted to hard tyres whereas everyone else chose softs. For the long Panzerplatte at the end of the day, all the works cars reverted again to hard compounds. There was less drama this time though. Atkinson had a puncture on Stage 11, "I cut a corner too much and then had to drive 6km on a flat." Then on the final stage Hirvonen had to drive 8km at the end of the stage on a flat tyre, losing his third place to Duval, "We drove over a place where the surface had broken up and the tyre just deflated." And it was here that Loeb finally failed to score fastest time, in-stead it was his teammate Sordo who did. Loeb was like an un-stoppable machine. His first time Continued next page =-~~----~=.,...,.,.~--~-=--=--, Jari-Matti latva/a and Mikka Anttila drove their Ford Focus RB to Fifth overall in the Rally Deutsch/and was Peter Solberg and Aaron Burkart and Michael Kalbach drove their Citroen C2 to a 2"" a ninth overall finish, seen here nicely airborne. Philip Mills, seen here just airborne in their Subaru lmpreza. finish in S 1600 JWRC, seen here before a curious band of spectators. Dusty Times November 2008 Page 17

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Francois Duval and Patrick Pivato piloted their Ford Focus RS to a Henning Solberg and Cato Menkerud finished their rally in the The top two teams celebrate their victory in Deutsch/and, Citroens third overall finish in Germany, seen here before an admiring crowd. seventh overall position, seen here at speed in their Ford Focus RS. finished first and second on the rally. through Panzerplatte was 17m44.5, the second time through was 17m44.2s. The only difference -Sordo was quicker! Andreas Mikkelsen was happy, "Henning told me how to change my suspension settings and it made a huge difference!" Aava and Rautenbach took soft tyres on their private C4s, which Rautenbach said was a mistake. Al Qassimi continued to have a day of adventures. On Stage 11 the car filled with smoke, "I thought the team had already cured that problem", then on Stage 13 he went off the road into a field full of tomato plants. "I used to like tomatoes, but you have have too many of them!" Van Merksteijn, Snr. retired his Focus with clutch failure. The Junior drivers found the open-ing stage a challenge as well. N iegel had to stop and change a broken wheel. Andrea Cortinovis lost five minutes on Stage 7, sliding into and then out of a ditch. On Stage 8 Prokop spun which let Ogier into the lead, and then on 9 Prokop stopped altogether with alterna-tor failure. All morning Kris Meeke was faster than the JWRC drivers and was again the top two-wheel drive car. Dutch driver Weijs was six minutes be-yond his permitted lateness be-cause of a gearbox lubrication problem and stopped for the day. Burkart had a bad morn-ing, breaking a wheel rim on Stage 7 and damaged a steering arm which caused a tyre to be completely worn out on Stage 10. Kevin Abbring thought he was being careful, driving forever in the middle of the road, until he came to a tightening bend over a blind crest, "I was careful not to cut the corner, but that was the wrong decision. I should have!" He lost 15 minutes until specta-tors were able to get him going again. Ogier was fastest of the Junior drivers on the first four stages in the morning. Meeke continued through the day mak-ing best two-wheel drive times and beating all the JWRC cars. "The deal is that we are not us-ing any of the freedoms to which we are entitled, so for instance we are keeping to the same tyre limitations as the Juniors have. And, of course, I am still within the permitted age limits of the other JWRC drivers!" On Stage 11 Schammel went off and hit a tree which let Gallagher up to fourth place. Ogier was forcing himself to keep up his rhythm. Cortinovis retired, off the road while Fanari stopped with gear-box failure. Meeke continued to the end of the day in majestic command. Day 3 5 Stages, asphalt, 84.97kms. Page 18 Pink sky in the morning -but once again no rain was promised. It was cool, sunny and clear. This was going to be an unprec-edented dry Rallye Deutschland! The big debate centred around Ford with Duval ahead of Hirvonen. Ford wanted Hirvonen to salvage as many points as he could. Arrange-ments between team members are acceptable, but Duval was a Stobart not a BP driver ... though arrangements between different teams are absolutely forbidden ... The Citroen robot driver showed a minor fallibility by stalling on the opening stage. His teammate Sordo was work-ing hard at reaching the finish without problems, "The stages today are narrow and it is very easy to make a mistake." Duval demonstrated his independent spirit by making fastest times on the first two stages of the day and pulled further ahead of Hirvonen, who admitted Duval's speed was hard to match. Latvala had what his team chief Malcolm Wilson said was 'his usual first-stage-of-the-day drama', this time punctur-ing. "I took a crest before a bend too fast and slid into a curb. There was a jump just before the bend so I took the jump carefully. Then I discovered that other drivers jumped higher and completely cleared the curb ... " Mikkelsen also punctured on Stage 15. Atkinson had some small problems getting cleanly off the starting lines but Petter Solberg was smiling. When asked 'when was the last time you have been happy with a rally car', Petter replied, "Don't ask me, there are three stages to go. The answer though is three years ago ... " Rautenbach had dramas trying to start from pare ferme. The car needed bump-starting, but was already stuck in reverse gear.Just in time they got going. Erik Wevers had a terrifying mo-ment when his throttle spring broke and the engine stuck in full revs. He brought the car to a halt and jury-rigged a wire to the throttle pedal but lost a quarter of an hour in the stage. The junior van Merksteijn was now the top Benelux World Rally Car privateer, just behind the British privateer Gareth Jones. Van Eldik had some form of transmission problem. Duval was at fu II speed to the end of the fourth stage of the day, al-ways making fastest times, but then came the superspecial at Trier. On the road to the final stage a shock absorber collapsed and Duval had to drive gently to the finish. He still held third place, 10.1 seconds in front of Hirvonen. In the Juniors, Martin Prokop decided not to restart while Schammel's car was too damaged to carry on. Ogier was in a league of his own at the head of the field. Bettega had overheating brakes, "I'm having to train myself not to use left foot braking so hard." Fanari, having restarted now had an engine problem and was having to top up with oil frequently. Weijs retired when the left driveshaft failed, only ten Jun-iors still running. Meeke still the top two-wheel driver, but lost time with power steering prob-lems on his Clio and then on the final stage a gearbox mount-ing broke which broke an elec-trical cable and he lost five min-utes. This meant Citroen S 1600s finished 1-2 in both the Junior WRC and in their class. In the non-championship Group Ns, Hermann Gassner, Snr., fin-ished ahead of his son ... Hermann, Jr. to make it a fam-ily 1-2 in the category but then Hermann, Snr. was excluded and by default, his son won. To cement the impact of Citroen's devastating domination of this event the team took an eight point lead in the Manufacturer's series, having overhauled their rival BP Ford's earlier lead of nine points in the series in three events. Their driver Sebastien Loeb has now taken a four point lead in the Drivers' series. In the Junior WRC Citroen drivers are lying 1-2-3 with Ogier nine• points ahead of Shaun Gallagher. The first Champion of the season was defined, with Francesco Fanari gaining the Rookies title, despite not com-pleting a single one of the ral-lies he's competed this season in the series. lA/c!!!C 27th ADAC Rallye Deutschland (D) Trier 15/17.08.2008 WCR round 10, JWRC Iound 5 WC points WR WD JC 1 (1) Sebastien LOEB/Daniel Elena F/MC Citroen C4 WRC 738EGZ78 (F) 3h.26m.19.7s. 10 10 2 (2) Daniel SORDO/Marc Marti E Citroen C4 WRC 734EGZ78 (F) 3h.27m.07.4s. 8 8 3 (8) Francois DUVAL/Patrick Pivato E007TZR (GB) 3h.21m.39.7s. 6 6 4 (3) Mikko HIRVONEN/Jarmo Lehtinen PXOBAXC (GB) 3h.27m.49.8s. 5 5 5 (5) Petter SOLBERG/Philip Mills WRC 2WRC (GB) 3h.28m.55.0s. 4 6 (6) Chris ATKINSON/Stephane Prevot WRC 3WRC (GB) 3h.31m.05.6s. · 3 7 (15) Henning Solberg/Cato Menkerud EU07SUO (GB) 3h.31m.55.9s. 2 B/F FIN N/GB 4 AUS/B 3 N Ford Focus RS WRC Ford Focus RS08 WRC Subaru Impreza 2008 Subaru Impreza 2008 Ford Focus RS WRC 8 (18) Urmo Aava/Kuldar Sikk EE Citroen C4 WRC 365EHJ78 (F) 3h.31m.57.Ss. 1 9 (4) Jari-Matti LATVALA/Miikka Anttila RS08 WRC PX08AXD (GB) 3h.32m.36.9s. 2 10 (11) Toni GARDEMEISTER/Tomi Tuominen FIN LAX446 (H) 3h.33m.36.Ss. 1 11 (19) Andreas Mikkelsen/Ola Floene N EA07RGZ (GB) 3h.34m.50.5s. 12 (16) Matthew Wilson/Scott Martin GB lES (GB) 3h.35m.07.7s. 13 (17) Conrad Rautenbach/David Senior ZW/GB 733DYN78 (F) 3h.35m.44.4s. 14 (21) Khalid Al Qassimi/Michael Orr OAE/GB EA07PXN (GB) 3h.40m.05,7s. 15 (12) Per-Gunnar ANDERSSON/Jonas Andersson WRC LAX449 (H) 3h.40m.37.9s. 19 (42) Sebastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia Sl600 JWRC 7214NE52 (F) 3h.47m.36.0s. 22 (33) Aaron Burkart/Michael Kolbach D JWRC H-PR 2206 (D) 3h.51m.10.2s. FIN Ford Focus Suzuki SX4 WRC Ford Focus RS NRC Ford Focus RS WRC Citroen C4 WRC Ford Focus RS08 WRC s Suzuki SX4 F Citroen C2 10 Citroen C2 S1600 8 24 (67) · Kris Meeke/Paul Nagle GB/IRL Renault Clio Sl600 A CB655VD (I) 3h.52m.33.9s. 25 (18) Alessandro Bettega/Simone Scattolin I Renault Clio R3 JWRC DF400TV (I) 3h.52m.50.4s. 6 26 (46) Shaun Gallagher/Paul Kiely IRL Citroen C2 Sl600 JWRC ·9147NE52 (F) · 3h.53m.16.9s. 5 27 (72) Hermann Gassner jr/Kathi Wustenhagen D Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX N BGL-CG8 (D) 3h.56m.41.3s.+ -30 (37) Simone Bertolotti/Daniele Vernuccio I Renault Clio Sl600 JWRC BS701BK (I) 3h58m.51.7s. 4 34 (45) Kevin Abbring/Bjorn Degandt NL/B Renault Clio R3 JWRC 30-XL-LK (NL) 4h.09m .. 57.9s. 3 36 (34) Andrea Cortinovis/Giancarla Guzzi I Renault Clio Sl600 JWRC DA262VR (I) 4h.10m.55.Ss. (1) 2 38 JWRC 43 R2 (43) Florian Niegel/Andre Kachel D HF-SR138 (D) 4h.12m.35.9s, (38) Francesco Fanari/Massimliano Bosi JWRC J3184 (RSM) 4h.20m.22.3s.(1) November 2008 Suzuki Swift Sl600 1 . I Citroen C2 Dusty Times

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AT CHULA VISTA Kyla LaDuc: Takes Twa In Pra• BY ]UDY SMITH PHOTOS: TRACKS/DE PHOTO Jerry Whelchel took the Saturday win in the Pro 2 Contest in his Chevy, but he was way back in 21" place in the Sunday event. A great weekend for Kyle l eDuc, he drove his Ford pickup to the Pro 4 win on Saturday and Sunday, seen here way up in the air. drives one lap, pulls into the Hot Pit, gets out of the truck, and the substitute driver climbs in and buckles up and heads out to finish the race. By this time he's a full lap down of course. In Douglas's case, doctors did not want his leg bent or banged up, fearing that he might lose it if further dam-age was done. So Chad Hord, who was to be his replacement driver, simply started each event already a full lap down, omitting all the frantic un-buckling and rebuckling that had taken place earlier in the season when John Greaves Chula Vista, CA: The final few weeks of the summer of '08 were busy ones for off road rac-ers, with desert races and short-course events competing for time and manpower. The mid-September CORR event at Chula Vista was just a month after the previous CORR races (at Pomona), but there were two well-liked desert races sandwiched between them. Many of the west coast CORR racers are also desert competitors, so there were long hours in the garage and shop, as well as the inevitable budget-ary woes. CORR's September event, the 11th and 12thdaysofrac-ing out of a season total of 16, enjoyed nice weather and big crowds, as the points chase automatic reaction, and it knocked himself out in a big gathered steam on its downhill took the brunt of the hit. His practice crash. There was some roll to the end. For one racer, leg broke in several places, and grousing about this new rule, however, the chase came to an his left kneecap was totally dis-but it seemed to offer up the abrupt halt, during practice on located. He was taken to the same results as the earlier sys-Friday. hospital, and the doctors tern, without the additional Scott Douglas had been feel-wanted to perform surgery, hazard for the injured driver. ing good about the way things but his leg was too swollen for The course was the same as were going during practice, and that to happen. He was it had been in previous sessions knew that this could be a very wrapped in bandages, loaded here, but they did scrape the good weekend for him. He was into a wheelchair and sent back top off the bump that had leading the Pro 4 points going to the race track. After a quick launched Douglas. The irony is into the weekend, and the truck meeting, the heads of stage of that the plan had already been felt good. But then he hit a CORR decided that Douglas made to level that bump when bump near the end of the front could name a substitute driver, he took flight. Douglas spent straight and the truck took who would be permitted to part of Friday in the hospital, off. It somersaulted in the air, race in his place the next two but was at the track for much and then landed like a dart, days and earn some points. of the weekend, learning to op-nose down, and very hard. When this happens the proce-erate a wheelchair, and oversee-Douglas had apparently tried dure has been that the injured ing arrangements for rebuild-to brace his body with his left driver starts the vehicle at the ing his truck which was very leg, a natural and practically back of the pack, and then badly damaged in the accident. ~~~~~~,_..,,,..~~or--........., He's since undergone surgery, which went well, and at this writing was on the road to re-covery. His original plan, to be well enough to race at the Oc-tober Primm event were appar-ently scuttled, however, upon the advice of his doctors./ Saturday's entertainment started with practice at 9:45, and there was something run-ning around on the track for most of the day after that. The single Buggies kicked off the racing on the full size track, at 12:25 p.m., with 22 cars on the track. They did a couple of pace laps, and then took the green flag for a clean start. At the end of the lap, Kyle Quinn took a bad bounce, hit the K-rail and came to a sudden stop in Turn 6. The right front corner of his car was broken and that was the end of his day, and begin-ning of a long day for the crew ... In the meantime, Tim Pangborn went into the lead, with Curt Geer chasing him and Brock Krahenbuhl in third place. On the third lap some, one was left on his lid in Turn 2, but for the most part, things were going smoothly. Geer had taken over the lead on the sec-ond lap, and was maintaining a steady pace, while Krahenbuhl tried to catch him. Pangborn ran third. Joe Laff Johnny Greaves drove his Toyota to a third and a second place in It was a pair of second place finishes in Pro 2 for Carl Renezeder, Pro 4, he's seen here going hard to the left. seen here headin' for the finish in his Ford. Casey Currie was a long 171• on Saturday in Pro lite, he came back on Sunday with a second place finish. Joe laff had a decent weekend, he finished second and seventh Rob MacCachren accumulated a pair of second place finishes in the in the Single Buggy contests, he's seen here nicely airborne. Pro Buggy contests, Rob leads the Class point totals for the season. Page 20 November 2008 Chad George, looking a bit the worse for wear was the second place finisher in UTV on Sunday, he finished 141• on Saturday as seen here. Dusty Times

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Rob MacCachren (L) finished fifth in Pro 2 on Saturday, came back with a win on Sunday and he leads the Pro 2 points. was fourth and Rino Navera was fifth. The Competition Yellow came on Lap 6, and at that time it was Geer, Krahenbuhl, Pangborn, Laff and Bryan Free-man. When they restarted things went smoothly, and Krahenbuhl and Freeman en-tertained the crowd by banging on each other as they went down the big hill. Then on the eighth lap Krahenbuhl moved into the lead and Freeman went into second place. Geer was third and pushing hard. On the ninth lap it was Krahenbuhl, Freeman and Geer. But then Geer got past Krahenbuhl for second place. Krahenbuhl was determined to get his position back, pushed a bit too hard and got into the berm in Turn 2. He dropped way back. At the finish it was Freeman, Laff and Geer. When the Single Buggies came back on Sunday there were 21 cars and Cissy Baldwin was on the pole. Racing action started at about 12:20, after a morning filled with practice and Karts. On the first lap Rino Navera rolled over in Turn 2, but lost little time, and then Robert Lansing spun in Turn 5. Otherwise things were or-derly, and Curt Geer had the lead by Lap 2. Behind him it was Baldwin and then Bryan Freeman and Kyle Quinn, whose crew had put in many hours repairing the damage from Saturday's sudden stop. Geer pulled out a long lead as Freeman tried to find a way around Baldwin, who seemed to be using his lines, but at a slower pace. On the fourth lap he managed to edge by in Turn 4, and then went off in search of Geer. Eric Greener devel-oped some problem with Turn 7 and spun out two laps in a row, and Geer was having no problems at all, except that Freeman was slowly catching up. Then it was all academic, as the Competition Yellow came out on Lap 6, and everybody closed up. At this point it was Geer, Freeman, Tim Pangborn, Baldwin and Quinn. Rick Gutierrez developed a left rear flat and headed for the Hot Pit. As the green flag flew again, Freeman was close on Geer and stayed there, and the two of them pulled out a long lead on Pangborn, Baldwin, Quinn, Jeff Knupp and Navera who were all very close. On the 11th lap the order had changed a bit but Geer still led, with Freeman second. But now Knupp was third, Brock Dusty Times Krahenbuhl was fourth, Navera fifth an d Quinn sixth. They had just one more lap to com-Kevin Davis, Chevrolet, took a pair of wins in the Pro Spec class, he has nine first place finishes this season. plete, and held those positions u n til the checkered flag. Free-man congratulated Geer and November 2008 said, "I don't like being second -so we're com in g for h im !" Knupp, who was third, said that he'd had a "bad practice" this morning, when he'd been "flipped over", and he was pleased to get such a good fin-ish. On Saturday the Pro Buggies were second on the program, with 25 cars and the first ten qualifiers were inverted for the start. This put Robert Pecoy and Phil Bollman on the front row, with Greg George and Dale Dondel lined up in the fifth row. Rob MacCachren was starting dead last since his car had barely run during qualify-ing. At the green flag he passed six cars by the time he reached Turn 2. Pecoy held the first position for the first lap, wit h Larry Job in second, and Doug Fortin in third place. Someone came to the end of their day in Continued next page Page 21

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Jeff Kincaid drove his Toyota to a win on Saturday in the Pro Lite, he finished a long t 5'• in the Sunday event. Turn 2 and had to be towed with MacCachren second and off, causing a local yellow in Foddrill third. Dale and Mike that turn. Dondel ran fourth and fifth. On the second lap as Job Foddrill said his brakes had tried to move into the lead, he locked up just before halfway, was catching Pecoy, but nearly but he remembered his dad had fell off the front side of the big said to use the turning brake to hill, giving his Menzies team a jar them loose, and it worked. moment of heart-stopping ex-He needed to remember this, citement. He got his act to-because his dad wasn't here this gether on the next lap, and weekend, instead he was off "try-moved into the front, but now ing to shoot a moose with an he had Greg George in second arrow" according to Larry. place, with Pecoy third and When the Pro Buggies came Fortin fourth. back on Sunday there were 25 On the fourth lap George cars and Mike Dondel and Tim went into the lead in the first Herbst made up the front row. turn, and Job fell to second, Dale Dondel and Rob with Fortin up to third, and MacCachren were in Row 2, Chuck Cheek in fourth. But and Greg George and Chuck then Cheek spun at the base of Cheek were in Row 3. The start the hill, and pulled off to the went smoothly, but when they side for a bit. all got around to Turn 5 things By the seventh lap, which was got interesting as one Dondel the Competition Yellow, ran into the other when he George led and Fortin had spun out. Scott Demmer rolled come up to second by passing over in the same turn, and had Job in Turn 4 (up at the top -to be towed away. before the downhill). Now Job Greg George was leading by was third, Cheek fourth, Larry the second lap, with Mike Foddrill was fifth, Rich Ronco Dondel second, MacCachren was sixth and MacCachren was third and Greg Foster fourth. seventh. By the ninth lap By the fourth lap, as a breeze MacCachren had moved up to kicked up and dust began to fourth, behind Foddrill, who'd blow, George had built a good climbed to third. George and lead, and MacCachren was sec-Fortin were still at the front. ond. Mike Dondel was third As they began their tenth lap, and Rich Ronco had a right with George, Foddrill and front flat. Shawn Gibson's car MacCachren out in front, Job quit in front of the grand-got sideways in the front stands, and he had to be towed straight when his clutch stuck to the infield. On the fifth lap (he'd been having trouble with Job spun in front of the grand-it), and with nowhere to go, stands again, but this time no Cheek hit him. In the ensuing one hit him. melee of cars avoiding the wreck, George and MacCachren and bouncing off one another, had built huge leads, and by Ronco got left behind, not mov-Lap 6 Larry Foddrill had ing. Even Job and Cheek went moved into third. The next lap on. By Lap 11 they were pretty was the Competition Yellow, strung out again, with George which lasted for two laps. leading, MacCachren second Ronco went to the Hot Pit, and and Foddrill third. Scott Randy Minnier also made a Demmer's car sounded sick, and visit to the pits. Jay Halsey was Randy Minnier had a right front towed away during the hiatus, flat, and wasn't running well ei-and then they restarted the ae-ther. George pulled out a tion for the ninth lap. Now it healthy lead and took the win, was George, MacCachren and Rob MacCachren, who'd started fifth, was now tenth af-ter spinning out in Turn 6. On the fifth lap someone got side-ways up between Turns 3 and 4, and brought out a local yel-low, and Robby Woods was stopped at the top of Turn 1 for a while at the same time, but got himself going again. Marty Hart finished second in the Pro Lite clash on Saturday, took the class win on Sunday and he leads the class in points earned. The Competition Yellow came out for Turn 6. Rodrigo Ampudia was black flagged for reportedly passing on the yel-low (easy to do if the driver is looking far down the course -the spotter needs to be really fast with his alerts). MacCachren headed for the Hot Pit with a left front flat. By the time he came back out he was 20th. Jeff Geiser also made a trip into the Hot pit. Foddrill, all bunched up. George and MacCachren pulled out some distance on third place, which was Dale Dondel, who had somehow passed both his brother and Foddrill to move himself up. Tim Herbst spun between Turns 1 and 2 and finished up parked side-ways for a bit. MacCachren was tight on George, but couldn't quite get past him. Mike Dondel spun in Turn 5, and Doug Fortin drove right over his rear tire, seemingly doing no harm to either. On the 13th lap MacCachren got in front of George for a brief moment, but George quickly went by into the lead. At the finish it was George, MacCachren and Foddrill, who'd gone by Dondel on the final lap. The last lap had some anticlimactic excitement as Foster rolled over in the last turn and Ronco ran into him. Ronco managed to get 14 laps completed, but Fos-ter finished the day a lap shy. During the podium inter-views, George said "I couldn't be happier -I've been looking forward all year long to race with Rob like that!" Said MacCachren, "We knew he was gonna be tough -the points battle is tightening up. We'll do some work on this car and give greg a run for his money." Both drivers had been dealing with carburetion problems during practice, but they seemed to have solved them, at least for the moment. Foddrill said, "A lot of guys are getting a lot faster!" As to the carburetor problems: many of the Pro Buggy teams would like to go to fuel injection, but thus far, there's no consensus with the officials on this matter. Third on Saturday's pro-gram were the Pro 2 trucks, which were also "live on SPEED" and thus, had to start on a very precise time schedule. They did a couple of pace laps, with Jerry Whelchel and Greg Adler in the front row, because they had inverted the first eight qualifiers. They got off to a clean start with Whelchel and Adler switching positions for a couple of turns, but by the time they'd completed the lap Whelchel was in front and Adler was second. In third it was John Greaves, and Ricky Johnson was fourth. On the next lap Jesse Jones spun between Turn 1 and Turn 2, and dropped to nearly last. The course was a bit dustier, with big plumes of dust flying up. And, there were big rocks being kicked up by the tires. Ev-ery vehicle has some kind of screening in front of the driver, so the rocks aren't a huge threat here. Also -the course workers have been instructed to toss them off the track between heats anytime one works it way up. Through the fifth lap the lead group stayed the same, and Carl Renezeder had moved into fifth, and stayed there. B.J. Baldwin was racing here for the first time in this heat, and he'd started at the back because he'd had some steering issues with both of his trucks, and wasn't too sure what might happen. On the restart the lead bunch held their positions, but several trucks got tangled and crowded off the turn and onto the bank. A couple made it down all right, but Evan Evans got too sideways, and rolled over and over on his way to the bottom. Then his truck wouldn't restart and he was buried to the axles in soft dirt. They threw another full course yellow on the tenth lap in or-der to safely get a tow truck in to him and take him away. Somewhere in there Renezeder got past Greaves and moved into third. Now it was Whelchel, Adler and Renezeder in front, but on the 12th lap Renezeder moved into second, with Adler third and Greaves trying to get around him. B.J. Baldwin took a quick run into the Hot Pit, because his crew thought he might have a steer-ing problem after a brief run-in with another truck. Mike Oberg's truck was slow and out of sorts. Whelchel held off Renezeder's attempts to pass, though he had a bad moment between Turns 3 and 4 on the 14th lap when Renezeder did briefly gain the lead. It was a It was a pair of wins for Greg George in the Pro Buggy races, he sits second in class points, seen here at liftoff. Dustin Grabowski took a pair of second place finishes in the Kart Quentin Tucker keeps the competition behind him as he took a A second place finish on Saturday, 18th place on Sunday, what a weekend for Mitchell Dejong in the Kart Modified races. Jr 1 contests, seen here at speed on the course. pair of second place finishes in the Kart Jr 2 competitions. Page 22 November 2008 Dusty Times

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very brief moment, h owever, a n d Whelchel regained the front, with Renezeder on his bumper. They went nose-to-tail through Turns 5 and 6 and took the white flag that way. Whelch el continued to ho ld him off, and mean while, G reaves got past Adler to move into third. And that's how they finished: Whelchel, Renezeder and G reaves. Said Whelchel: "I've got the monkey off my back! Renezeder raced me clean this time -it was just awesome!" When t h ey came back o n Sunday there were 25 Pro 2 trucks and Alan Pflueger shared the front row with Carl Renezed er . Je re my M cGrath and Jerry Whelch e l were in Row 2. Ro b MacCachren and John Greaves, the to p qualifi-ers, were in Row 3. B.J . Baldwin started last. The Gene Woods truck was smoking o n the pa-rade lap, which didn' t bode well. After two pace laps, they waved the green flag and Renezeder got the hole shot. Adler spun in Turn 2 and fell to last, while Renezeder took off with Greaves, Whelchel and Jeremy McGrath in hot pursuit. By the end of the first lap Adler had a right rear flat. For six laps the leaders ran in the same order. Adler got a new tire, Mike Oberg visited the pits, and Travis Coyne lost most of his body panels when he got too much air off the big jump and they blew off. By the end of the sixth lap MacCachren was closing up on Dusty Times Bryan Freeman took a first and a second in the Single Buggy contests, it was Bryan's ninth win of the season. McGrath , and they were fifth and fourth. Coyne's truck was now running badly. The C ompetitio n Ye ll o w came out for Laps 7 and 8, and during this time Adler d evel-oped another right rear flat, and Rodrigo Ampudia had a left front flat and headed for the pits. It was busy in there, as Ricky Johnson pulled in, as did B.J. Baldwin and Bryce Menzies. Whelchel pulled in during the eighth lap and was reported to have a broken upper control arm. He never came out again. On the restart it was Renezeder, Greaves, Hart and MacCachren. Oberg spun in Turn 2, and Hart and MacCachren indulged in some banging between Turn 4 and the jump. Renezeder moved out and away from all this ex-citement. Cenni drove over Greaves and that put Greaves out o f the running, and Ampudia also pulled out. On Lap 11 MacCAchren was sec-ond and Hart was third, with Scott Taylor in fourth place. At the end o f the lap as they started the 12th lap, there de-veloped a three car tangle in Turn 1 with Adler and Robby Woods involved. That brought out a full course yellow for Laps 12 and 13. Cenni went into the pits, and Greaves and Ampudia were both parked above Turn 2. Steve Sourapas was given a black flag, and Gene Woods' truck was towed away. It took a while to get all that sorted out. What was left was a "green, white, checkers". Renezeder went into the 15th lap in the lead, but MacCachren got him coming out of the first turn. As November 2008 Curt Geer collected a third and a first place finish in Single Buggy at Chula Vista, seen here on his way to glory. they took the white flag MacCachren was still in front, with Renezeder right on his tail, and a slight gap developing be-tween them and the rest o f the pack. Scotty Taylo r was third. There was so much banging in Turns 6 and 7, and so much dust, it was impossible to see exactly what was going o n . MacCachren emerged the win-ner, Renezeder was second, Ricky Johnson third and Tay-lor, badly crumpled, was fourth. Said MacCachren in his interview, "At the end we just went for it! I decided whichever way Carl went I'd go the oppo-site." His decision worked out well. Renezeder said, "I ran the inside and sure enough -there he was on the outside -he did a good job. He made it exciting for me." Johnson declared that he'd lost a plug wire, and said, " Mayb e having less p o we r helped me - I was able to get around corners." Saturday's raci ng continued with the Pro-Lite race, which had 22 starters. They inverted the top four qualifiers, and that put Jeff Huseman and Jeff Kincaid on the front row, with Robert Naughton and Rodrigo Ampudia right behind him. They got off to a good start, but before they got all the way around Shannon Campbell fell off the top of the hill. He got too far left, apparently, up at the top, and went over and over down the very straight and high embankment, scattering a clutch of photographers who'd been in a "safe" spot at the bot-tom. Campbell managed to get the truck fired up again, but it was soon discovered to have a Continued next page Page 23

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Jerret Brooks took a first and a fifth place finish in the Kart Jr 1 contests, he sits sixth in the Class point race. broken right front corner. The red flags came out to indicate a full stop and restart. Aaron Daugherty went off to the Hot Pits with a flat, and Chris Brandt was parked in the in-field. Brandt and Campbell were both done for the day. The photographers moved over, and they had a restart. It was a clean start, but Todd Cuffaro spun at the top of Turn 1 and Bobby Altamirano had some trouble with the K-Rail between Turns 2 ·and 3, but got moving again. Kincaid, up at the front of the pack, took over the lead, with Huseman second, and Ampudia third. On the second lap Naughton IIPARETIREM II JACKS made a quick trip into the Hot Pit and emerged dead last. Alan Ampudia developed a right rear flat. Meanwhile, Kincaid built a nice lead and Huseman was sol-idly in second, as Marty Hart worked up through traffic to take over third place. Casey Currie ran fourth and Brian Deegan was fifth. Rodrigo Ampudia developed a left rear flat. Rodrigo wanted to pit for a new tire, but his brother was in the family pit, he went around another lap, then, as he passed the exit from the pits, he saw that his brother was done, so he decided he'd rather go in It was a third and a first place finish in Kart Ji 1 for Zachary Hunt, he sits in second place in the season long point race. backwards (well, through the back, door so to speak) rather than do another lap on the flat. This caused some consternation for the flagman, and he made Rodrigo wait 'ti! Alan got out, costing each of them precious seconds. But it was still prob--ably a better choice than doing another la"p. As it was, Rodrigo and Alan were both a lap down by the time the full course yel-low came out on Lap 7. Kincaid still led, with Huseman second and Hart in third. Currie was fourth and Deegan was fifth. They did two yellow laps, and restarted on Lap 9. Kincaid held on, Huseman and Hart chased hard. Currie went off the side of Turn 1, much as Evans had done in the previous race, but he didn't roll, and made it back onto the course before Turn 2. However, he was excited, and messed up, spin-ning in Turn 2, and then got into the berm, and was last by the time he was all settled in and going again. In the mean-time, Huseman disappeared. He just faded out of the pic-ture and did no more laps. Hart moved into second and Chad Hord was third now. Somebody had a right rear wheel smoking, and Daugherty parked at the edge ofTurn 5 (the base of the hill), smoking and obviously done for the day. Currie's truck was no longer running well, and he was slowly making his way around. On the white flag lap it was Kincaid, Hart and Hord, with Naughton fourth. Hart put on a serious last lap drive to try to get Kincaid, but Kincaid's a master at staying in front, and he took the win. Hart and Hord finished behind him, with Javier Sacio in fourth place in what looked like a new truck. Pl#t:H BOSSES II U#IBAll t:UPS "'!!lif,#WIIBB Sunday's Pro-Lite event came late in the day, starting at about 4: 10 p.m. They watered the track, and had the 24 trucks do a couple of pace laps, before getting off to a clean start. Casey Currie and Marty Hart were on the front row, with Chad Hord and Jeff Huseman starting behind them. At the end of the first lap Currie led with Huseman second and Hart in third. Altamirano spun between Turns 6 and 7 and that sent him to last place. At the end of the second lap it was still Currie, Huseman and Hart, with Rodrigo Ampudia in fourth. They were already be-coming quite strung out. On the third lap it was more of the same, and Altamirano, who apparently had the wrong groove on his tires, spun in Turn 5. For another lap it looked the same and then Huseman got sideways in Turn 7 and three trucks went by him. Now it was Currie, Hart, Kincaid, Naughton and Huseman. But on the next lap Naughton's truck took sick, and he went into the pit. He never came back out. As they finished Lap 6 it was Currie, Hart, Kincaid and Huseman, who was making a nice recov-ery. On the next lap Hart slid by Currie right after Turn 7, so when the Competition Yel-low came out it was Hart, Currie, Kincaid and Huseman. Page 24 November 2008 Leroy Loerwald had rolled in Turn 7, and he got going again, but his front end was bent, so he retired. They decided to have a second yellow lap, and Bruce Fraley took advantage and made a visit to the pit. On the restart it was Hart, Currie, Kincaid, Huseman and Rodrigo Ampudia. Matt Barney and Heath Carpenter got turned around in Turn 1, and a local yellow came out to clear Carpenter away. Then Kincaid lost his right rear tire, and driving on just the wheel, dropped to the very back of the pack. Now the order was Hart, Currie and Huseman. Brian Deegan didn't made it through Turn 7 on the 12th lap, and had to be towed away. On the white flag it was Hart, Currie and Ampudia, and that's how it went to the finish. In his interview Hart said it was an "awesome race -clean, hardcore!" He went on to say that he has to "drive 'em as hard as they'll probably go!" Currie, a little disappointed with sec-ond place, said, "We shoulda had it today -one more lap and I would have got it back." The Pro 4 trucks were Saturday's fifth event, and they took off at about 4:05 p.m., with a lot of banging in Turn 2, but no problems. Steve Barlow and Tim Herbst made up the front line, with Curt LeDuc and Troy Herbst in Row 2. LeDuc went into the lead, chased by Troy Herbst. But as they went into Turn 1 on their second lap Troy went oH the embankment, and dropped to last. That is, last except for Chad Hord in Douglas' truck, which had started the required full lap down. On the second lap Kyle LeDuc; went into the lead with his dad in second place and Tim Herbst third. On the third lap Renezeder moved into third, and Steve Barlow was fourth as Herbst dropped to fifth. Kyle LeDuc continued to lead and built some space between him-self and Curt LeDuc and Renezeder, who were doing some rubbing on each other between Turn 1 and Turn 2. Curt held off Renezeder for another two laps, but then not only did Renezeder get by, but so did Rick Huseman, who moved into third. Then the Competition Yellow came out on the seventh lap. They made it into a two lap Competition Yellow, and on the restart it was still Kyle LeDuc in front, Renezeder second and Hus·eman third. LeDuc senior was fourth, but his truck sounded sick, and others began to pass him. He was last by the tenth lap. On the 11th lap, with LeDuc, Renezeder and Huseman still at the front of the pack, Josh Baldwin got sideways in Turn 1 and then Travis Coyne, who just happened to be in that line, nudged him, and Baldwin rolled down the em-bankment. He fired his truck up and got back on the course with very little loss of time, but he lost six positions, and was not happy. By Lap 11, as LeDuc contin-ued to lead, Rene zed er was try-ing more and more approaches to catching and passing him, but nothing was working. The black flag came out for Coyne Dusty Times

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(apparently for the nudge of Baldwin), and still another racer was the victim of Turn 1. Mike Jenkins rolled off it, fired his truck up and went on, while Adrian.Cenni rolled up above, between Turns 3 and 4, remov-ing all the body panels on one side of his truck, and going on as if nothing had happened. LeDuc took the win, with Renezeder second and Greaves third. During the post race in-terview on the podium, the an-nouncer asked Renezeder about his early duel with Curt LeDuc -said Carl, "I don't ever like to complain ... " The Sunday Pro 4 race, which was being filmed for Oc-tober release o n NBC, started at about 3:30 in the afternoon. Josh Baldwin and Travis Coyne were in the front row; Rick Huseman and Troy Herbst were in Row 2. There were 15 trucks, and one of them was the Scott Douglas entry, driven by Chad Hord and starting a lap down. The start was clean and Coyne got the hole shot with Baldwin second. At the start of the second lap, Baldwin appar-ently sensed some serious prob-lem with his truck and pulled out before Turn 1, done for the day. Greaves moved up to second place, and Huseman was third. But in Turn 1 of the third lap Huseman got by Greaves when Greaves got into the berm in Turn 1. Huseman then caught up to Coyne and began to worry about his rear bumper. Meanwhile, Kyle LeDuc had passed Greaves, and Greaves was trying to work back around him, while Renezeder was being chased by Cenni. In Turn 1 of the fourth lap Huseman passed Coyne in Turn 1 to take over the lead. Jerry Daugherty came to grief in Turn 1, and was hung up on the K-Rail. That brought out a full course yellow so they could move a tow truck in to free him. Steve Barlow hustled into the Hot Pits, and never came out. They were ready to restart after Geoffrey Cooley makes it look easy, he took the win both days in the Kart Jr 2 events, seen here ready for an off balance landing. two yellow laps, but the flagman didn't like the way the trucks were lined up, so he let them go around a third time. On the re-start, it was Huseman, LeDuc, Coyne and Greaves, and a couple positions further back in the pack, the senior LeDuc, Curt, went by Renezeder in Turn 2. On the next lap, Renezeder went back by k LeDuc. Meanwhile, Huseman·, Kyle LeDuc and Greaves led the pack. Kyle was slowly chasing on Huseman, and on the 12th lap he went by him at the end of Turn 2. As LeDuc stretched his lead Greaves passed Huseman on Turn 1. Now they were fairly evenly paced: LeDuc, Greaves, Huseman and Renezeder. Then there was a big gap back to Cenni, and then Curt LeDuc. Renezeder got back around Huseman, and he was slightly handicapped by a bit of fender that kept blowing up and ob-scuring some of his line of sight. At the finish that's how it was: LeDuc, Greaves and Renezeder. In their finish line interviews Greaves said, "I waited too long to engage -he runs a good race -next time I'll go after him a little earlier." Renezeder, thinking along the same lines, said "I was a little too conservative at the beginning. And - I had a front fender blowing into my line of . . " v1s10n. The final event on Saturday was the UTV race, which had 21 entries. Jacob Person had the early lead, with Chad George in second place. But on the third lap, with Person still lead-ing, George fell back, his vehicle still moving, but way slow. Now Dan Kelly took over the lead, with Person second. It all closed up with the fourth lap Compe-tition Yellow, but not before Jeffrey Spooner moved into sec-ond place. On the restart they main-tained their order, gradually spreading out again. Kelly, who started 15th, led the balance of the event to take the win. Spooner was second and Cory Weller moved up to take third. Only 13 of the 21 starters fin-ished the heat. Sunday's final event was also the UTV race, with 21 vehicles o n the track. They started at al-most 4:30 and R.J. Anderson got the h o le shot, but Todd Arthur got past him after Turn 2 and Jeffrey Spooner ran third. Arthur pulled out a good lead, and Chad George went by Anderson at the bottom of the big hill on the second lap to take over second place. They ran another lap in that order, and the last vehicle in line rolled over all by himself in Turn 6, putting himself out of the race. Parker Grabowski had a win and a 14th place finish in the Kart Modified races, Parker leads the point race for his class. Michael Harrison, completely besmirched with mud finished 13th and first in the Kart Modified events, seen here flyin' high. Meanwhile, Arthur, George, Anderson and Van Beekum led the race. Then it was Arthur, George and Van Beekum, and in the close quarters up at the top of the ridge, someone nudged Van Beekum and he spun around, and apparently suffered terminal damage to his vehicle. Now it was Arthur, George and Anderson at the front. At the finish it was Arthur, George and Anderson. During his interview Arthur said he'd "got the bugs worked out of the new car", which certainly will make him tough to beat. George said his "car works great - I was giving it everything I could give." The 16 year o ld Ander-son declared that he'd "been chasin' these guys all season -I'm getting closer and closer." It made a good finish to an entertaining weekend. In the interim, Jim Baldwin, head of CORR has announced that the October 25, 26 event at the Primm track has been. cancelled. Citing "the current credit crisis", Baldwin added one day to the early December finale, making it a Friday, Sat-urday and Sunday event, and cutting the season short by just one day of racing. The 2009 schedule is expected to be re-leased shortly. (fill' =,...,..,,,-..... .,,,,,,====r,,,;, =,.,.--=,,,,==-===-------.-::-----;:-------, Connor Hart leads his competition as he runs to a 14th place finish on Ricky Johnson, Ford, slides it wide: he captured a 12th and a Saturday and a second place finish in the Sunday Kart Modified races. third place finish in the hotly contested Pro 2 events. Chad Hord, Mazda mounted, flew to a third and a fifth place Larry Foddrill drove his buggy to a brace of third place finishes in finish in Pro Lite, seen here saving a bit of tire wear. the Pro Buggy contests, seen here nicely airborne. Dusty Times November 2008 Rodrigo Ampudia garnered a 15th place finish and a third place finish in the Pro Lite contests at Chula Vista in his Ford. In the Single Buggy contests, we saw Jeff Knupp driving to a fourth and a third place finish, he's seen here at speed. Page 25

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Rl!D GARTl!R 200 waad Takes overall TEXT & PHOTOS: MIKE CHAMBERLAIN Monte Tibbitts, the South Dakota kid, had a ball at the BORE Red Garter race, he took the Class 8 win with almost an hour in hand at the finish. ' Tom Wood captures the over- as in the past hosted the season cially ended up being four 56-all win at the BORE 2008 sea-opener and as we have come ac-mile laps. The course Main Pit son opener! Tom piloted his customedtosetstageforagreat area is six miles south of Class 1 buggy flawlessly for a to-weekend for all. The weather Wendover on Interstate 93. This ta! four lap elapsed time of turned out especially well for be-year the course would head 5:25:00, besting his closest ing the first weekend in May north from the Main Pit area competitor by 26 minutes. A which just last year brought a back toward Wendover then great victory Tom! snow shower on pre-race day head into the Wilderness Study The season opener had 30 ve-and pretty much took a 74 mile Area along Morgan Basin. Af-hicles get the Green Flag start course down to 54 miles. This ter coming down from this thick which turned out to be a good was not the case this year, the tree lined steep mountain area, turnout for BORE especially temperatures were mild and drivers had a long stretch of flat with the rise of fuel costs and sunny days were the standard. out speed, then negotiated overall economy slowdown. I Pre-race course set up was ac-Spring Gulch and Lion Canyon. heard throughout the pits that complished without incident Drivers then experienced a small many racers had to pick and and the stage was set for the Fri-speed break before heading into choose their racing year care-day registration and pre-run. the Goshute Peak WSA area fully due to the rise of costs. The The course this year was planned and yes, it was steep, tree lined Red Garter Hotel and Casino for five 45-mile laps which offi-and pretty rutted out making It was a nice win for Randel Gardner, he took Class 1600 honors, he's seen here flying through the soft stuff. for a real challenge. After com-ing out of the WSA in one piece and one more major wash to maneuver then it was a pretty fast high speed run to complete the lap. Friday's Tech Inspection was accomplished by Brian and Mike. Kwazi was out of the area for this one. The Red Garter west parking lot served as the in-spection area with registration being accomplished just off the main casino floor area which was great due to the Main Pit area being six miles south of Wendover. During the Drivers Meeting it became apparent that "SILT" was the word of the day. After several of the racers had completed their pre-running re-Tom Wood ran a trouble free Red Garter race, he took Class 1 honors with ease, seen here at speed headin' for the checkers. Larry Schmuesser had a slow first lap but came back strong and was able to take the Class 10 gold medal. ports began surfacing that the course had already started show-ing signs of silting up, and by the end of race day surviving the silt beds was a major race strat-egy. Butch's Speed Shop had set up their trailer in the Tech In-spection area and several racers visited them in need of merchan-dise for race day along with some nice to haves. BORE, as always, values a sponsor like Butch's, bringing products to the racers that get them through the race. And speaking of spon-sors it cannot be stressed enough the value to BORE in the way of the Red Garter Hotel and Casino (main sponsor), Colo-rado Commercial Services, Smith Construction, ACE En-gineering and Bruce Cochran (Powder Shop) sponsorship. Without our valued sponsors, BORE wouldn't be able to put on the class racing that it pro-vides to our race teams. Thank you all very much! In addition to our valued sponsors is the BORE volunteers that make the registration, vehicle technical inspections, checkpoints, start/ finish flagmen, course setup and teardown, and finally those folks who go back and repair the course after everyone has fin-ished and gone home. There isn't enough that can be said for the folks who repair the track, especially after this year's race. This small team of folks with two tractors, four-wheelers and a lot of water spent a combine<;! 30 hours repairing the course from a hard day's racing. Their efforts pay untold dividends ensuring BORE continues to be able to race our public lands. Next time you come across Glenn Cain, Greg (Kwazi) Kimoto, Brian Dick, and Mike Chamberlain let them know their efforts are appreciated. Now for the racing: BORE had seven classes for the season opener: Class 1 buggy, Class 10 buggy, Class 8 truck, Class 1/2-1600 buggy, Class 7 truck, Class 9 buggy, and finally Sportsman. First to hit the course was the two entries of Class 1 buggy. John Uibel piloting the number 173 was off and running but had major problems in the opening lap and was sidelined before completing Lap 1. Tom Wood took the green flag and never looked back. He ran all laps and took the checkered flag not only finishing the race, but achieved the Class 1 top honors and the overall fastest vehicle to get the overall champion. Tom, knowing that his only class com-petitor was out could have coasted through the course and get the class win, however, the competitor in him went full out to capture the overall fastest on the course for the day! Way to go Tom for setting the standard for all to reach! The overall out-come: 1) Tom Wood, 2) John Uibel. Kenny McKnight drove his Red Garter Ford pickup to the Class 7, Mini Metal win, he had an hour on his competition at the flag. It was a nice gold medal win for Dave Morse in the Class 9 Challenger race, he had more than 20 minutes in hand when the checkers flew. The next to pay homage to the silt beds was the Class 10 buggies. There were four com-petitors for this race. The Class Page 26 November 2008 Dusty Times

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Richard Cretsinger leans his Ford a wee bit as he pours the coal It was a nice second place finish for John Sessions in the Class 7 Glen Wise was just a wee bit off the winning pace in Class 8, on, he took home the silver medal in the Class 8 contest. Mini Metal race, he's seen here heading for the checkers. he's seen here hustling his Chevy towards the checkered flag. l0's have been increasing from just one two years ago to now four and with the competition these folks show, it appears to continue to grow. First to take the green flag was the 1081 of Larry Schmueser. After the 1st lap Larry had dropped to third place some 39 minutes back from first place. Larry was ex-periencing mechanical problems that slowed him down but kept in the race. By the second lap Larry had overcome the me-chanical issues and now had a hair thin grip on first place by a mere nine seconds. Larry never looked back after getting into first and continued to increase his lead by the end of the third lap to 56-1/2 minutes and would keep the first place tak-ing the checkered flag becoming the 2008 season opening Class 10 winner. Great job to Larry and his crew for keeping it go-ing. Layne Brown was next on the course and by the end of the first lap had a firm grip on the second place. Layne kept the pedal firmly to the floor, but had slipped to the third place position at the end of the sec-ond lap. Mechanical problems would befall Layne during the third lap which would sideline him for the rest of the race. Dustin Miller was the third Class 10 vehicle to meet the course; unfortunately Dustin would not complete the first lap due to rne-cha ni cal problems. Th!l last buggy was driven by Ryan Howard and by the end of the first lap Ryan was firmly in first place by almost eight minutes. Ryan continued in the Class 10 battle, however, had slipped to the second position by only nine seconds. Ryan apparently was troubled by mechanical prob-lems and by the end of the third lap had secured second place in Class 10 but succumbed to troubles in the final lap and was sidelined. The top three places KING ----------OFF-ROAD RACING SttOCl(S Dusty Times were: 1) 1081 Larry Schmueser, 2) 1199 Ryan Howard, 3) 1099 Layne Brown. Next to hit the northeast Ne-vada desert was Class 8, Heavy Metal Trucks. BORE had 12 en-tries in the big truck class and they proved to be the "heavy" hitters this day. The Class 8's have a reputation of running hard and usually rely heavily on welders and big hammers to keep them going, unfortunately that proved to be not enough as only five of the 12 entries cap-tured the checkered flag. First to take the green flag was racing veteran Glen Wise, piloting the 857. Glen ran hot and fast but settled for fifth position at the end of the first lap. Glen kept the throttle full open but ended up dropping to Position #6 at the close of Lap 2. Not to be kept in the middle of the pack, Glen raised the 857 forward two positions to capture the fourth position and not settling for that, pushed his Class 8 harder and slipped into the third posi-tion. By the end of the day Glen accepted the third place Bronze medal, proving that never giv-ing up pays big in off road rac-ing. Mike Sims was next to take to the dirt and by the close of the first lap was in solid seventh. Mike would start heading to the front of the pack and at the end of Lap 2 had improved two po-sitions to fifth. Although Mike had great expectations and was forging his way to the front, he was sidelined for mechanical problems that could not be overcome. Better running next time Mike and Simco Racing. Mike Hickey was next piloting the 877. Although Mike started in the third position he had slipped to ninth by the close of the first lap. Mike, always look-ing to improve started working his way back and by the end of the second lap improved his position to seventh place. Again (J)BEAR We carry a full line of v~ OFFA~HTING FILTERMAG~ ~~ November 2008 with ever-improving as his pri-mary goal Mike had again im-proved by two positions and was firmly in fifth place. As Mike took the checkered flag, Mike again improved his final position to fourth place. Mike put on a hell of a battle and corning from ninth place to fourth was a great showing. Next off the line was Gary Hull driv-ing the 872. Gary ran a steady race all day and equaled his Lap 1 and 2 place of eighth posi-tion. Gary improved that by the end of the third lap by two po-sitions and had sixth place firmly in his grips. Gary wasn't satisfied with sixth and captur-ing the checkered flag, he had improved to end the day in fifth place. Great work Gary. Next to set the Class 8 standard was Monte Tibbetts. Monte has a reputation for running fast, hard, and straight to the front and this day was no exception. Continued next page Page 27

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Jason Hutter led the first lap in Class 7, but troubles arose and he had Mike Hickey had a long third lap in the Class 8 conflict, he It was a second place finish in the Class 9 Challenger fracas for Dean Blakely, he's seen here at high speed on the course. a verrrry long second lap and finally called it quits after three laps. finished first off the podium after a good hard run. Monte lit up his truck from the had started off really hot and had set himself into fourth drop of the green flag and set by the first lap in had a solid place. By Lap 2 he improved to an awesome pace. By the end of second place showing. Bad luck third position and still had a the first lap Monte was in first would befall Dillon and he firm grip on third at the end of place by two minutes and kept wouldn't be able to continue the third lap. Still pouring it chipping at the clock and by the the race due to mechanical on, Richard pressed the 852 end of the race, Monte had first breakage. and was rewarded with a Silver place by over 26 minutes which Jim Price, piloting the 876 second place finish. The top has become the norm for the was next off the line and drove four finishers were: 1) Monte Class S's. Great racing Monte! for all his truck had, but it was Tibbetts, 2) Richard Cretsinger, Veteran driver Andy Schiffanelli not to be. Jim would be out for 3) Glen Wise, 4) Mike Hickey. was the sixth Class 8 truck to mechanicals at the end of the There were only two buggies in tackle the course. Andy was third lap. Devan Lyman was the 1/2-1600 class. In years past quick to make his mark and put lucky number 10 off the line, the 1600's used to dominate the his truck into third place at the but this day wouldn't be his off road racing scene, but this close of Lap 1. Andy was sure lucky day. Devan was sidelined class has been steadily dropping to show his capabilities and by at the end of Lap 3. Don Linder over the past five years. This is as second lap end had captured was next and it sure wasn't his good a place as any to put the first place and running hard. lucky day either. Don made it word out to all 1600's to come Alas for Andy, his truck didn't through the first lap but and give BORE a run. BORE ac-understand the overall goal and wouldn't see the rest of the race cepts both the new and old styles broke hard putting Andy on the day except from the pit area. of 1600's. With the SCORE rule sideline for the rest of the day! The final Class 8 truck was pi- change for the 1600's it seems that The number 7 off the line was loted by Richard Cretsinger and many a driver placed them in the Bo Brunyer and unfortunately Richard wasn't having any of garage not wanting to make the for Bo his day would end be-the day's misfortune. Richard upgrades. So, if you have one of fore getting in a full lap. Dillon drove his truck for all it was the older styles dust them off and Latour was next off the line and worth and at the end of Lap 1 come join BORE. Now for our Page 28 November 2008 two contenders. Richard Brady him. Anyway, Kenny shoved it was first off the line but would in first gear and ran like a rab-unfortunately only make it a full bit. After finishing Lap 1 in sec-lap. Randel Gardner was second ond, Kenny poured on the coals to test his metal. After Lap 1 he and quickly jumped to the first held the top position and even position after Lap 2 by 47 min-though Richard Brady had utes. By the end of Lap 3, Kenny dropped, Randel continued and had increased his lead to over finished all four laps to capture an hour. By the end and getting the checkered flag. Good going the checkered flag, Kenny was Randel. The top two finishers the Class 7 champion by over were: 1) Randel Gardner, 2) Ri-58 minutes. Great running chard Brady. Kenny! Hats off to your team Class 7 Mini Metal was next also, your team has made a repu-to pit their skills to the test. I'm cation to help any vehicle that not sure where the term "mini needs it at any time, a mark that metal" came from but these truly makes McKnight Racing a folks can take their trucks to the dynamic team. Way to go Team extreme edge just as well and as McKnight! Next off would be fast as any other. Kenny the 777 of Pat Tate, however, McKnight was the first 7 truck Pat never saw the end of the first to take the green flag. Kenny has lap. Better luck next time Pat. several years under his belt in Third to hit the dirt was long the Red Garter sponsored Class time racer John Sessions. John 7 and since coming over from ended Lap 1 about a half hour Class 1600 he has quickly risen behind the top two racers but to the top position and we!-determined not to stay there. comes all challenges to dethrone John began pressing the throttle Dusty Times 'I

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• I Ryan Howard led the first lap in the Class 10 contest but-a long second and third laps led to a dnf. Gary Hull drove his green Ford to a fifth place finish in the Class Devan Lyman had lots of troubles to keep him from the finish line, 8 contest, he's seen here at speed heading for home. he was scored as a dnf, he's seen here in his pit in the Jeep. and by the end of Lap 2 had captured the second place posi-tion. John would continue his hold on to the second position for the rest of the racing day to capture the checkered flag and second place overall for Class 7. Jason Hutter, just back to BORE racing, was the last Class 7 to make his mark for this day. Jason, as in past history, quickly shot to the first place position after the first lap. Jason's day was not to be though; he dropped to third position on Lap 2 & 3 and would never see the checkered flag on this day due to mechanical breakage. The top three finishers were: 1) Kenny McKnight, 2) John Ses-sions, 3) Jason Hutter. The next major class was the Class 9 buggies. We had five en-tries for the first race of the 2008 season and these folks were ready for the New Year. Dean Blakely took the opening green flag for the Class 9s. Dean piloted the 999 tried and true buggy to a first lap, second place position and slipped to third position at the end of Lap 2. Dean regained the second spot by the end of Lap 3 and wouldn't let go getting the checkered flag and capturing second place. Next off the line was the 936 of Cam Blackley. Veteran driver, Cameron is as hard driving, true sportsman as I have ever seen. Cam is always around the front of the pack, however, this day would prove too much and Cam out was during Lap 3. Better luck next time Cam. The third buggy off the line was the 996 of Dave Morse. Dave historically has set the bar for all Class 9s to achieve and today was no dif-ferent. Dave firmly in first place after Lap 1 by almost 10 min-utes. Lap 2 had dropped Dave's lead to four and a half minutes but still firmly in first. By Lap 3's end Dave had increased his lead back around 11 minutes and by the end of lap 4, Dave got the checkered flag and held a comfortable 23 minute lead, capturing Class 9 first place. Randy Kerr was next to take the green flag and had a well rounded steady race all day. Randy was in the fifth spot at the end of Lap 1 and took the fourth position after Cam was sidelined. Randy would stay in the fourth position for the rest of the race. Randy, a lot has to be said for just completing the required number of laps. I raced for many a year and only saw the checkered flag once. That doesn't say a lot for me, but says a lot for you. Good Racing and keep it going! The last Class 9 was piloted by Rod Stevenson. Rod, like Randy, ran a good Dusty Times steady race and cocked off four We only had one Sportsman show capabd1t1es 1t Oakley had 1:iUK.E website at: steady laps to capture the vehicle; a Class 1/2-1600 buggy ran in the 1/2-1600 class that www.boreracing.net. All in all Bronze third place finish. Great piloted by Oakley Alm berg. I'm time was good enough to cap-there was some great racing, some job Rod! The top three finish-not sure but I heard Oakley is ture second place. Oakley, sour breakage, but great fun for ers were: 1) Dave Morse, 2) new to racing and was looking you're ready to join the class, all. BORE's next race will be held Dean Blakely, 3) Rod to get seat time. Oakley com-great running. July4thweekendandhopetosee Stevenson. pleted all four laps and just to For full race results visit the you there. B,OJ'!!11z;A ; / •;• .... . • 100D . ·. · ty "Su®.♦ Ol' 1>oub\ll J)ry')real ~.&Z~etUp ~\iffil~I ~Jglatt.P&~f•t • itaoo,ltadfo & Sirotter l'Mkages • Bandheld Raillos w/Rolsters • Spotter Headsets • :&lmetWiringKit.s • Al1llllllllllllt:my Case Behtt•ts& Bl•wera • Forced Air Snell SA 2005 llelmets • G-Force • Pyrotec • Arai • Wired for Communication Kool Air Blowers • 105, 135, 150 & 235 CFMRatlngs • Filters & Hoses also available .! • Vemd to 11-0'fatt Iwtfo Systems •itH'ilffle~g~J)'.18 ·OllaP&Raoe~~es • • Stationlaokages -♦Jlusle.-Jce ~ ll* & N~k R$suamt • Light&i~to Use • lteqlllred by NAStlAlt Formula 1 &)fany Others • Can Be Used with Any SA Rated.Rel;met • Race Proven • Frealnstallation with Puroh.ase ltiet'leflf"' • 41 l/2 Gallon C~iw.ify • SCOU t •I'fl) rm . .ApJINveci' • Tapered De$Ptolid.s Jn~d GrolllltlCluiuce & Jfa.nmues Us@l11 Fuel YOUR SAFB'l'Y & COMMUNICATIONS SOURCE 10815 Wheatlands Avenue, Suite K • Santee, CA 92071 61t~25tM.tAOE (7223) • Fax 619-258-0883 • www.RacerXms.com November 2008 Page 29

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l@ii! AT CRANDON Steele • Ruppel ~Duble-Dip BY]. PRESTON BRADSHAW PHOTOS: J&L PHOTOGRAPHY Keith Steele, seen here f/yin' his Chevy, took his 7"' and lJtf' win in Super Truck at Crandon, he took the Class Point win as well. Well, it was Labor Day, it was Kyle LeDuc took the bronze medal Wisconsin, it was the beginning of in his Ford, his dad, Curt Le Due Fall and where else would you be was right behind him in fourth but at Crandon?????? If you place in his Ford and Carl -weren't one of the many thou-Renezeder finished fifth in his sands of spectators then you must Ford pickup. Al Drews finished in have been one of the 197 entrants sixth place in his Ford and Jerry at the umpteenth running of the Conrad, also in a Ford finished cars and trucks at Crandon Inter-in seventh spot, Scott Douglas was national Raceway. The weather eighth in his Ford and Mike was good, the fans were well fed Jenkins, also in a Ford, finished in and the racing was, as usual, spec-ninth place. tacular. In the Sunday Pro 4x4 contest Saturday's Pro 4x4 race was a we saw Scott Douglas taking a good one. When they came across nicer win, Carl Renezeder was see-the finish line it was Johnny ond to finish, Curt LeDuc was Greaves taking the win in his third off the podium and Jerry Toyota, Kent Brascho, Chevrolet, Daugherty finished fifth in his was right there in second place, Chevrolet. Mike Jenkins was the =,....,,..,,.._,,,.,.....,, __ __,...,,...,,.,...,.,..,,,-=,,,,,,,,,,,.~,,...,.,~= Johnny Grea ves drove his Toyota to a Pro 4x4 win on Saturday, he finished fourth on Sunday and ended up fourth in the points race. sixth place finisher, Jerry Conrad was stuck in seventh place and Al Drews Collected an eighth place finish. Kent Brascho and Kyle Le Due started the race but failed to finish. The Pro 4x4 points race had Kent Brascho taking the honors with 247 points in hand, Al Drews was second with 198 points, Jerry Daugherty was third with 192 points, Johnny Greaves finished fourth with 92 points earned and Carl Renezeder finished fifth in points with 87. In Saturday's 2WD contest, it was Ross Hoek, Ford, taking his first win of the season, Carl Renezeder, also in a Ford, finished in second place, Scott Taylor fin-ished third in his Ford, Dan Vanden Heuvel, Sr., Chevy mounted was the fourth place fin-isher and Gordon Zima was fifth, he too in a Ford. Kevin Probst, Chevrolet, finished in sixth place, Mike Oberg was seventh in his Chevy, Evan Evans, Chevy, fin-ished in eighth place, Mark Jenkins finished ninth in his Ford and Rhonda Konitzer finished 10th in her Chevrolet. Keith Steele, Chevrolet, finished in 11th spot, Zane Roberts was 12th in his Chevy, Ron Schreiner was 13th in, he in a Chevrolet and Dave Waldvogel came in 14th in his Chevrolet. Sunday's Pro 2WD race saw Scott Taylor back in form as he Eric Ruppel took a pair of wins in Stock Truck at Crandon, he won the Class Point race as well, seen here in his Ford truck. took the gold medal, Mike Oberg came in for second spot, Rhonda Konitzer took a nice third place, Dave Waldvogel finished fourth and Kevin Probst rounded out the top five. Dan Vanden Heuvel, Sr. was the sixth place finisher, Evan Evans came in seventh, Keith Steele finished eighth, Ross Hoek was ninth in and Carl Renezeder was well back in 10th place. Ron Schreiner took 11th place honors, Don Williams finished 12th in his Ford, Gordon Zima was unlucky 13th in, Rob Noughton was 14th in his Ford and Zane Roberts was the 15th and final finisher. The Pro 2WD points win went to Dan Vanden Heuvel, Sr. with 236 points in hand, Kevin Probst was second with 203, Ross Hoek finished third with 193 points in hand, Evan Evans finished fourth with 189 points in hand and Dave Waldvogel was fifth with 168 points earned. The Pro Light group had some great racing at Crandon, on Sat-urday it was Chad Hord taking his second win of the season in his Mazda truck, Randy Eller was sec-ond in his Ford, Jonathon Probst drove his Nissan to the third spot, Fitzgerald finished fourth in his Ford and Lee O'Donnell finished fifth in his Toyota. A sixth place finish went to Josh Hintz in his Nissan, Al McMillan finished sev-enth in his Ford, Jeff Kincaid was well back in eighth place in his Toyota, Mark Oberg finished ninth in his Ford and Steve Federico was 10th in his Toyota. In the Sunday Pro Light race we saw Steve Federico back in form, taking his seventh win of the season, Chad Hord was right there in the second spot, Jonathon Probst was third, again, Randy Eller finished in fourth place and Chad Rayford was the fifth place finisher. Lee O'Donnell was sixth to take the flag, Steve Federico fin-ished in seventh place, Al McMillan came in eighth and Josh Hintz was the ninth and final fin-isher. The Pro Light Points Race went to Jeff Kincaid, he had amassed 245 points, Steve Federico was sec-ond with 213, Lee O'Donnell fin-ished third with 208 points in hand, Jonathon Probst was fourth with 204 points and Randy Eller finished fifth with 203 points. There were a bunch of Super Buggy cars all snarlin' and snortin' and when their fracas was over on Saturday it was Tim Lemons tak-ing a nice win, Corry Heynen was the second place finisher, Ryan Mulder came in third, John Ma-son finished fourth and Stephanie Krieman was the fifth place finisher. Sixth place went to Herman Barnum, Todd Wallace was lucky seventh, Shawn Morris finished in eighth place, Luke Zoetmulder was ninth and Tom Schwartzburg came in 10th. Paul Heynan was 11th in, Chris Haenlein made it an even dozen, John Frana was unlucky 13th, Gary Nierop came in 14th and Scott Schwalbe was the 15th and final finisher. Michael Lucas started the race, but failed to fin-ish. The Sunday Super Buggy race saw Cory Heynen taking a very nice win, Scott Schwalbe was right there in the second spot, Tim Lem-ons rounded out the top three, Stephanie Krieman finished fourth and Luke Zoetmulder came in fifth. Paul Heynan was sixth to finish, Chris Haenlein was seventh in, Tom Schwartzburg came in eighth, Todd Wallace came in ninth and Kyle Lucas was the 10th place finisher. Herman Barnum finished in 11th place, Shawn Morris was 12th to finish, John Frana was 13th, John Mason was well back in 14th place and Ryan Mulder was the 15th place fin-isher. In Super Buggy Points we have John Mason taking the win with 237 in hand, Tim Lemons was sec-ond with 218, Ryan Mulder fin-ished third with 192, Stephanie Krieman is fourth with 184 points earned and Gary Nierop is fifth with 183 points in hand. There were nine Super Trucks Kent Brascho, Pro 4x4, drove his Chevy to a 2"" place on Saturday, an In Pro 2WD, it was Mike Oberg taking a seventh and a second in unwanted dnf on Sunday, but he still took the #1 spot in the points race. his Chevrolet, he's seen here churning up the muck. Randy Eller collected a second and a fourth place finish in Pro Light, he's seen here flying his Ford to the Finish . Page 32 November 2008 . Dusty Times

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Scott Douglas took the Pro 4x4 Class win on Sunday at Crandon, he finished eighth on Saturday and ended up seventh in the Points Race. ready to race and race they did! When it was all over on Saturday it was Keith Steele taking the win in his Chevrolet, Ron Schreiner was second in his UWELD, Dan Baudoux finished third in his Ford, Ben Wandahsega finished fourth, Chevy mounted and Don Williams was fifth in his Ford. Al Konitzer, Dodge, was the sixth place finisher, Nick Lemke, Chevy, was seventh in, Ross Hoek was eighth, driving his Ford and Gary Gottschalk, Chevy, was the ninth place finisher. Sunday's Super Truck race saw Keith Steele take his eighth win of the '08 season, Ron Schreiner was second to finish, Ben Wandahsega came in third, Al Konitzer was fourth in and Nick Lemke was the· fifth place finisher. Sixth place went to Dan Baudoux, Ross Hoek finished in seventh place, Gary Gottschalk finished eighth and Ron Schreiner was the ninth and final finisher. Keith Steele was the Super Truck Points winner with 276 earned, Ben Wandahsega finished second with 236 in hand, Dan Baudoux was third with 226, Ross Hoek finished fourth with 212 in hand and Ron Schreiner was fifth with 187 points in hand. The SRT Stock Trucks had a great time, all 15 of them had a great weekend, The Saturday race saw Eric Ruppel drive his Ford to victory, second place went to Al Konitzer in his Dodge, Don Demeny, in another Dodge, was third to finish, Scott Beauchamp was the fourth place finisher, he drives a Chevy and Dan Beauchamp, Ford, was the fifth place finisher. Jim Van Rixel fin-ished sixth in his Chevy, Dave Schneider, Ford, was lucky seventh in, Jake VandeVoort, Chevy, came across in eighth place, Nick Byng, Ford, finished in ninth place and Terry Kozlowski was the 10th fin-isher in his Chevrolet. Mitch Dorr, Ford was 11th in, Brian Tonn finished 12th in his Ford, Craig Metz, in another Ford, was the 13th finisher and Jay Schaefer was the 14th to finish in his Chevrolet. Sunday's SRT Stock Truck fra-cas saw Eric Ruppel taking yet an-other win and cementing the class points chase, Don Demeny claimed the second spot, Dave Schneider was third truck to finish, Jim Van Rixel was fourth in and Scott Beauchamp was the fifth place finisher. Terry Kozlowski was the sixth place finisher, Jay Schaefer finished in the seventh spot, Craig Rogaczewski finished eighth in his Ford, ninth place went to Brian Tonn and Mitch Dorr was the 20th to finish and Nick Byng came in for 11th spot. Al Konitzer, Craig Dusty Times Metz and Dan Beauchamp filed to complete their required laps. In the SRT Stock Truck Points Ross Hoek drove his Ford to a Pro 2WD win on Saturday, he finished ninth on Sunday and was third in season points. Chase it was Eric Ruppel taking the gold medal with 249 points in hand, Scott Beauchamp is second November 2008 with 221 points earned, Don Demeny finished third with 196 points in hand Al Konitzer fin-ished fourth with 183 points and Jim Van Rixel finished in fifth place with 182 points in his pocket. They turned out 14 strong for the SRT Formula 4x4 races. On Saturday it was Jim Ridderbush taking the win in his Chevy, David Demaegd was the second place fin-isher in his Jeep, Jerry Bundy came in third, Curt Zenefski finisher fourth in his Chevy and Dave Miah was fifth to finish in his Ford. Bradley LaMarche finished sixth in his Ford, Jerry Daugherty was seventh to finish, Chuck Holtz fin-ished eighth in his Jeep, Rick Hiebling was ninth in and Tim Moeller finished 10th in his Ford. Eleventh to finish was Bob Sayers Ford, Kyle Moeller, Chevy, made it an even dozen John Holtz fin-ished 13th in his Jeep and Ben Passa Ford, was the 14th place fin-Continued next page Page 33

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Scott Taylor, Ford, was third and first in the Pro 2WD races and he beat all the 4WD trucks for a great win in the Borg-Warner Shootout. isher. Sunday's SRT Formula 4x4 skirmish saw Tim Moeller take his sixth win of the season, David Demaegd was second to finish, he finished in second spot eight times this year, Bradley LeMarche was third in, Curt Zenefski finished fourth, again and Chuck Holtz was the fifth truck to take the checkers. Sixth place went to Dave Miah, John Holtz was seventh in and Rick Hiebling was eighth to finish. Jim Ridderbush, Ben Passa and Kyle Moeller failed to finish their required laps. In the SRT Formula 4x4 Point Race it was David Demaegd tak-ing the win with 256 points earned, Tim Moeller finished sec-ond with 209 points in hand, Jim Ridderbush was third with 207 points, Bob Sayers finished fourth with 157 points and Curt Zenefski was fifth with 131 points in hand. There was a small herd of 1600 Buggies ready to race, and, as usual, race they did! When the checkers flew on the Saturday fra-cas it was Mark Steinhardt taking his fifth win of the season, Brad Erickson was second to finish, Robert Kinner finished in third place, Kyle Lucas took fourth place honors and Terry Fitzgerald was the fifth place finisher. Mike Seefeldt, Jr. took sixth place hon-ors, Jeff Villemure came in sev-enth, Bob Blaney was eighth, Huven finished ninth and Daniel Martin was the 10th place finisher. John McDonald was 11th to take the flag, Chris Ernster finished 12th, Craig Paid took 13th place, JeffBechinski took 14th and Chris Meyers was the 15th finisher. Ja-son Janusz was 16th in and Heather Sullivan was the 17th place finisher. Jesse Plawman started the race but failed to fin-ish. Sunday's 1600 Buggy race saw Mike Seefeldt, Jr. take a very nice win, Mark Steinhardt was right there in second place, Bob Blaney finished third, Robert Kinner was fourth in and Vanden Heuvel fin-ished in fifth place. Sixth place fin-ish went to Terry Fitzgerald, Jason Janusz was lucky seventh in, Jeff Villemure was eighth to finish, Craig Paid came in ninth and Jeff Bechinski was 10th to take the checkers. Heather Sullivan took the 11th spot, Chris Ernster fin-ished 12th, again, James Garofalo was unlucky 13th in, John McDonald took 14th place and Chris Meyers took another 15th place finish. Brad Erickson was way back in 16th place and Kyle Lucas was the 17th place finisher. Once again, Jesse Plawman took the green but failed to finish the race. In the 1600 Buggy Point Race it was Mark Steinhardt taking the win with 243 points in hand, Mike Seefeldt, Jr. was second with 236, Brad Erickson was third with 212 19th and Barry Wahlen was the 20th finisher. Todd Lemke was back in 21st place, Jamie Kleikamp finished in the 22nd spot and Tracy Peebles was the 23rd finisher. Thomas Virnig and Vincent Lofquist started the race but did not finish. The 1600 Light Buggy Points Race went to Mike Vanden Heuvel with 263 earned, Matt Gerald is second with 215 points, JeffVirnig is third with 190 points, Greg Stingles is fourth with 160 points and Steve Oman is fifth with 153 points in hand. Chad Hord drove his Mazda to a first and a second place finish in the Pro Light races, seen here churnin' up the gravel. The Classix class had 19 trucks ready to race, and race they did! When the Saturday event came to a close it was Justin Keehner taking the win in his Chevrolet, Kurt Schuch was second in, Robert Weiland was third in his Chevrolet, Shane DeGroot, also in a Chevy was fourth and Brent Anderson took the fifth spot. Dale Chestnut, Ford, was the sixth finisher, Galen Gee finished seventh, Jeremy Forbes finished in the eighth spot, Adrian Tomlin was ninth in and the 10th finishing spot went to Randy Pennings. David Geibel fin-ished 11th in his Jeep, Dale Ander-son was 12th in, Jeffrey Tomlin came across in 13th place, Ken Wilson was 14th in his Chevy and Bill Groboski, Sr., also in a Chevy, was the 15th place finisher. Rob Naughton was 16th in, Roger Anderson finished in the 17th spot, points, Terry Fitzgerald finished fourth with 191 points and Bob Blaney finished fifth with 190 points. Next to race were the 1600 Light Buggy folks, there were 26 of them and they did have some really good battles along the way. When the Saturday race came to an end we saw Mike Vanden Heuvel taking his seventh win of the '08 season, Jeff Virnig was right there in second place, Jamie Kleikamp took the last spot on the podium; Matt Gerald came in fourth and Brian Glime was fifth to finish. Chad DeWall was sixth car in, Bryan Norris fin-ished seventh, Greg Stingle took eighth place, Bill Kortens finished ninth and Eric Lear took a 10th place finish. Mike Tikkanen was 11th to finish, Steve Oman was 12th, Todd Lemke finished in 13th spot, Bryan Holtger finished in 14th place and Beau Ambos took 15th place honors. Sixteenth place went to Tony Keepers, Randy Oman came in 17th, Vincent Lofquist was 18th, Barry Wahlen finished 19th and Craig Rabe was 20th to finish. Stephanie Paid was the 21st finisher, Carol Gunderson was 22nd in, Ryan Stingle finished 23rd, Thomas Virnig took the 24th spot and Tracy Peebles was the 25th finisher and 26th place went to Michael Carey. The Sunday 1600 Light Buggy contest had JeffVirnig taking the checkered flag, Mike Vanden Heuvel was right there in second place, Craig Paid took third place honors, Matt Gerald took another fourth place and Brian Glime fin-ished fifth once more. Mike Tikkanen came in sixth, Bryan Norris took another seventh place finish, Craig Rabe was eighth in, Beau Ambos finished ninth and Michael Carey took 10th place honors. Eleventh place went to Carol Gunderson, Stephanie Paid finished 12th, Tony Keepers was 13th in, Greg Stingle was 14th to finish and Bill Kortens was the 15th finisher. Sixteenth place went to Julie De Wall, Randy Oman was stuck in 17th place, Ryan Stingle was 18th, Steve Oman finished Jeff Kincaid took an eighth and a first place finish in Pro Light in his Toyota, he also took top honors in the Points Chase. Scott Schwalbe grabs a lot of air as he heads for a second place Don Demeny took a third and a second place finish in the Stock David DeMaegd took a pair of second place finishes in SRT Formula 4x4, he also was high point man for the senes, seen here in his Jeep. finish in the Sunday Super Buggy race at Crandon. Truck races, he's seen here nicely airborne in his Dodge. Brad Erickson took a second place finish on Saturday in the 1600 Dan Vanden Heuvel Sr., Chevy, took a fourth and a sixth place finish in Jerry Bundy towed some 700 miles to get to Crandon, he logged Buggy conflict, he's seen here at speed on the course. Pro 2V.V, but he had enough points to take the class win for the season. a third place finish in SRT Formula 4x4 for his efforts. Page 34 November 2008 Dusty Times l I

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I I I Kenneth Platted was 18th in his Chevy and Steve Gibbs, also in a Chevy, was the 19th and final fin-isher. Sunday's Classix results saw quite a few changes in the finishing order. Today it was Robert Weiland taking the class win. It should be noted that Weiland's worst finishes were third places, just thirds, seconds and first for the point leader. Brent Anderson was the second place finisher, Kurt Schuch finished third, Jeremy Forbes was fo urth in and Dale Chestnut was fifth to finish. Sixth place went to Bill Groboski, Sr., Dale Anderson was seventh in, Randy Pennings finished eighth, Adrian Tomlin took another ninth place finish and David Geibel was 10th truck in. Justin Keehner came in 11th, FayStateznywas 12th in, Shane DeGroot was unlucky 13th, Galen Gee finished in 14th place and Ken Wilson was the 15th and final finisher. Jeffrey Tomlin, Ken-neth Platten and Rob Naughton Tim Lemons took a first and a third in the Super Buggy contests and he finished in second place in the points race. Corry Heynan, besmirched with mud, took a second and a first in the Super Buggy events, seen here in beautiful, level flight. started on Sunday but failed to fin-with 177 points in hand, Justin When the checkers flew on Satur-ish the race. Roger Anderson was Keehner was fourth with 174 and day it was Matt Dale taking his first dq'd for a rule infraction. Jeremy Forbes was fifth in points win of the '08 season, Brandon The Classix Points Race went to with 157 earned. Rouse was right there in the sec-Robert Weiland with 216 earned, Last, but certainly not least ond spot, Larry Manske finished Kurt Schuch was second with 182 were the Enduro Trucks, 22 in third place, Bob Rinehart took points, Dale Chestnut was third strong and a good race they had. fourth place honors and Ben ..-------------,-----,---------,,---.,...,,,.,.,..,.,. ~ W ierzba finished fifth. Tom Graff was sixth to finish, Erik Morrow was seventh in, Ryan Rebman was eighth to finish, Marc Rogaczewski came across ninth and Ashley McGeshick was 10th to finish. Jim Continued next page Rhonda Konitzer collected a tom and a third place finish in Pro John Mason wasn't too happy finishing 4"' and 14"' but he still Curt LeDuc was only able to grab a fourth and a third place finish in Pro 4x4, he's seen here throwin' dirt in his Ford. 2WD at Crandon, she's seen here just at liftoff in her Chevy. had enough Super Buggy points to take the championship. Dusty Times November 2008 Page 35

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was 17th in, Peter Delorey finished 18th, Jesse Lahti finished in 19th place and Coleman Wilson was the 20th placed finisher. Brandon Rouse started but failed to com-plete the race. In the Grassroots Enduro Truck Points Race it is Jim Van Rixel taking home the bacon with 184 points earned, Marc Rogaczewski is second with 179 in hand, Ben Wierzba is third with 171, Matt Dale is fourth with 159 points in hand and Matt Ives fin-ished fifth with 135 points in his pocket. Mark Steinhardt took a first and a second in 1600 Buggy and he won the Class point race as well, seen here nicely airborne. Mike Seefeldt finished sixth and first in the 1600 Buggy races and he finished second in the season points race for the class. So, the WSORR 2008 season had come to an end, there were 10 races at three different venues and the racing continues to get better all the time. We hope every-one has a good break from the action, gets all the work done on the vehicle and that we'll see you all again in 2009. l!!l3J Van Rixel finished 11th, his worst finish of the year, Dan Bengel fin-ished 12th in his GMC, Paul Jensen was 13th in his Ford, Shaun Bruski was 14th in his Chevy and Samantha Herrmann came across in 15th place. Matt Ives, GMC, finished 16th, Renee Peebles, Chevrolet, was the 17th truck to finish, Craig Rogaczewski finished 18th in his Ford and Brent Smith was 19th to take the checkers. Peter Delorey, Jesse Lahti and Coleman Wilson started the race but were unable to finish. The Sunday Enduro Truck Race was quite a bit different from the prior event. This time it was Craig Rogaczewski taking the gold medal, Matt Dale had to settle for the silver this time, Ben Wierzba took the bronze, Jim Van Rixel fin-ished first off the podium and Shaun Bruski was fifth to finish. Sixth place went to Larry Lanske, Bob Rinehart was seventh in, Erik rounded out the top ten. Tom Morrow was eighth to finish, Varner was 11th to finish, Ryan Brock Smith finished in ninth Rebman was 12th in, Renee and Marc Rogaczewski Peebles was unlucky 13th, Paul ..... _,._,...,,. ....... ..,,..---,.... ________ ....... .....,..,., It was a first and a second place finish for Mike Vanden Heuvel in 1600 Light Buggy and he also collected the honors in the point race. Jensen finished in 14th place and Matt Ives was the 15th finisher. Ashley McGeshick was the 16th finisher, Samantha Herrmann Carl Renezeder took home a fifth and a second place finish in Pro 4x4 at Crandon, he's seen here taking his Ford to the checkers. Christmas IS camlnglllllllllll It's coming ,=astllllllllllllllll 1t·s Time To Get Those Dusty Times Subscriptions For Your Family And crew. It's Time To Get An Ad Together For Printing In Dusty Times, Thanking Your Family And crew For All Their Help During The Year. Most Of All, Think Christmas, Family And Friends A'1d, Above All, Think Of The Kids And How Lucky You 'Are To Li11e Where You Lille And Do What You Do. Page 36 November 2008 Dusty Times

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M,QB,l. CALIFORNIA 2-NDUS8hDld8f overall PHOTOS: TRACKS/DE PHOTO Adam Householder made it look sort of easy, he took the Class 1 honors and he was the overall winner as well. It was a b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-1 day, for a night race. Clear and sunny, blue skies. A high tem-perature of 95F; 53% humidity; winds out of the S/E at 21 mph and gusting to 27 mph. It cooled off to about 91F by 7:00p.m., when the green flag started flay-ing in the wind. It was a 1-o-n-g day, and longer night of fun in da' diRt -in da' Light of da' silvery moon; in the dark desert in Lucerne Valley. The green started flying at 7:00 p.m. Two-by-two they started. Eighty-three entries lined up to battle the desert, in the dark, for the MOR California 200. Moon-rise was about 7:35p.m. The race banners and flags were flapping at full mast in the native winds. The native winds kept blowing all night long. The race leader, Adam Householder in truck #24, com-pleted his first 50 mile lap about 7:45p.m. Fifty miles -in 0:45:00. Householder is from Yorba Linda, CA and ran strong all night long in his "old school" 383CI, carbureted, turbo 400 trans-powered "Truck" to win First Place Overall and First Place in Class; and Fast Lap, too. 108 mph across the Soggy Dry Lake bed, too. "Flawless". Woo-Hoo! It was Course A, counter-clockwise, in Lucerne Valley, CA -off Bessemer Mine Road; Sat-urday, June 16th, 2008. Sixty-three of the 83 entries were in the 1400 and 1450 class series; 76 percent. More trucks of all sizes and shapes and colors and makes and models and setups than this Ace Reporter has ever seen lined up in staging. Mass quantities. Two-by-two they started. It was a flat-out drag race, uphill, for about three miles, from S/F to the first Rock Pile. Sweet. The winds were blow-ing fast enough to clear the ·course of dust for the next duel-ing duo. The winds kept blowing - all night long. Gusts up to 27 mph. It was a 1-o-n-g and dusty night -under the light of a full moon. Classes 1, 10, 1400 and 1600 raced through the dark desert night for four laps; 200 miles. Three laps for Classes 300, 900, 1200, 12-Unlimited, 1300, and 1450; 150 miles. Thirty-three major course changes, two check-points, three remote pits, one RX. Drop-offs and big dips; The Sand Hill; watch out for that "ROCK". Strap in -hold on -we're off and racing -and it's a wild ride! CLASS 1: Four laps; 200 miles. Three In spite of a long third lap, it was a Class 10 win for Larry Dileva at the MDR night race, seen here leaping through the night. entries, two starters, two finish-ers, one DNS. Adam House-holder just flat out hauled *** the whole way. The blue and or-ange #24 completed the whole thing in 3: 12: 14 at an average speed of 62.4 mph. Faster than a speeding locomotive. With clear course in front of him, Householder got the first 50 mile lap done in just 0:44:53 -and won the Fast Lap Award at 67.4 mph. Close to the speed of thrill, I'd say. The OPS clocked #24 at 108 mph across the Soggy Dry Lake lakebed. Householder ran strong all night long in his "old school" 383CI, carbureted, turbo 400 trans-powered "Tro-phy Truck" to win First Place Overall and First Place in Class. Householder was flat out 'fly-ing'! "The course was either**** or fast. The truck ran flawless, and FAST", said Householder. "We slowed down to fuel up on Lap 2. We won AND overalled!" The thrill of victory. It was still a close and com-petitive race for Householder in #24 with Steve Garcia in car # 150. The first lap only saw a 0:00:48 margin of gap between the two speedsters. Lap 2 was a dead-heat at 0:50: 13 for both racers. There was only a 0:00:34 split between the two at the end of Lap 3. Alas -Garcia had trouble on Lap 4 in car # 150, and finished in Second Place in Class in 3:26:52 at 55.3 mph., a final margin-of-victory of 0:29:34 for Householder in #24. The finish was also good enough for a Third Place Over-all for Garcia. CLASS 10: Four laps; 200 miles. One en-try, one starter, one finisher. Larry Di Leva beat the dust and the desert to win First Place and Fast Lap honors in class in car # 1050. Di Leva completed the required laps in 6:12:05 at 32.3 mph. Di Leva also won Fast Lap honors on Lap 1 at 41.4 mph in 1:12:39. CLASS 1400: Four laps; 200 miles. Four-teen entries, 13 starters, eight finishers; five DNFs, one DNS. John Vaughan was first off the line at the green flag, and first at the checkered flag, in truck #1428. There wasn't any race-leader changes in class, in be-tween. Vaughan got it all done in 3:30:34 at 57.0 mph. That finish won #1428 First Place in Class with a 0: 15: 14 margin-of-victory in class -and Second , I Place Overall. Vaughan also won Fast Lap in Class on Lap 1 in 0:47:44 at 63.2 mph. Neal Weaver started slower in the Nunez Construction truck # 1425 and picked up speed as the race went on. Weaver and co-driver Shawn Davis, from Phoe-nix, AZ, got their LSI-powered It wasn't too bad an evening for Alexa Bilek, just a wee bit off It was a second place finish in class for Michael Munez, a long the winning pace, finishing six minutes in arrears in second place. third lap didn't help either, he's seen here at speed. Neal Weaver had a decent evening, he was a bit off the winning pace but he still managed a second place finish at the flag. Craig Reynolds led his class on the first lap, was a bit off the It was a third place finish in class for Juan Munoz, he was less pace on lap 2 and he ended up taking second place in class. than two minutes out of a second in class at the checkers. Page 38 November 2008 Dan Vance lights up the night as he heads for a third place finish in class, he missed a second place finish by a few minutes. Dusty Times

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John Vaughan had a very good evening, he took the gold medal in class and he had 15 minutes in hand when the checkers flew. Toyota to the checkered flag in 3:45:48 at 53.1 mph to win Sec-ond Place in Class by a 0:01:06 margin-of-victory ahead of Dan Vance in truck # 1429. "The course was either very rough, or fast as ****," said Weaver. "We ran super hard in the back stretch and going by the pits on both sides. No problems all day." Weaver's most fun? -"Doing 90 mph across the dry lakebed!" Dan Vance got to the checkers in 3:46:42 at 52.9 mph to win Third Place in Class in the Total Chaos truck #1429. Vance drove Laps 1-2 with co-driver 'Fish' alongside in the spare seat. Fish took over the wheel duties for Laps 3-4 with co-driver Nathan Batchelder along for the ride. "The course was really rough. The Rock Pile section went good. The motor kept cutting out on Laps 3-4, but other than that -we had no issues." Robert and Chris Anderson, San Clemente, CA, won Fourth Place in Class in the Ford Ranger truck # 1413 at 42. 7 mph in 4:41:15. The Anderson brothers were the 1450 Class Champs last year. "We had no flats all night, but the engine computer messed up", the Andersons said. That Fourth Place win was a 0:05:26 margin-of-victory ahead of Ben Wright in truck # 1422. The Wright Bros. racing team is from La-guna in big OC CA. Ben Wright drove Laps 1-2 and Will Wright drove Laps 3-4 to complete the course in 4:46:41 at 41.9 mph -to win Fifth Place in Class. #1422 is a 1994 Toyota with a stock four-banger motor. It was 'built' in two months. "The course was smooth. The most fun was going through the Rock Pile, and passing other racers", said the Wright Bros. Randy Shields started fast in truck # 1404 -and got progressively slower all night. Shields finished in Sixth Place in 4:55:43 at 40.6 mph. Shields said, "It was a good race. The course is [expletive de-leted]!" Tyler Scott finished in Seventh Place in truck #1414 in 5:05:48 at 39.2 mph. Allen Byma was the final finisher in class in truck # 1433 to win Eighth Place in 5:39:01 at 35.4 mph. CLASS 1600: Four laps, 200 miles. Two en-tries, two starters, two finishers. D.J. Jeffreys had a mixed bag of fast and slow racing all night in car #1600. At the finish, Jeffreys was First in Class in 5: 18:00 at 37. 7 mph. Jeffreys also won the Fast Lap Award in 0:58:55 on Lap 1 at 51.2 mph. Ricky Mondragon gave it a good-to-Dusty Times go in car #1613 and completed the race in 5:54:48 at 33.8 mph to win Second Place in Class. D.J. Jeffrey was the big winner in the Class 1600 battle, he had about 35 minutes on his competition when he took the flag. CLASS 300: Three laps, 150 miles. Two entries, two starters, two DNFs. November 2008 Gerrardo Berregan in #304 and Salvador Cervantes in #348 started side-by-side at the green flag. Berregan DNF'd in 1:23:31 on Lap 1 (35.9 mph), and Cervantes DNF'd in 2:23:38 on Lap 1, 20.9 mph. Sometimes you just can't win for trying. That's desert racing, for 'ya. CLASS 900: Three laps, 150 miles. One entry, one starter, one DNF. Hassim Mendez started the race in car #980. He hasn't been seen since. CLASS 1200: Three laps, 150 miles. Four entries, four starters, two DNFs, two finishers. Terry Wyrembrek in car # 1297 fin-ished, and so did Alexa Bilek in the Bilek Racing car #1267. Terry Ingold DNF'd in car # 1203 on Lap 1, and so did Taylor Morford in car #1213. Continued next page Page 39

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The race was on after that. Bilek was off the line at the green flag in #1267 first and 0:01:55 ahead of Wyrembrek in #1297. Wyrembrek was ahead of Bilek by 0:04:49 at the end of Lap 1. Bilek drove some very consistent lap times, but Wyrembrek got # 1297 to the checkered flag with a 0:06:24 margin-of-victory to win First Place in Class in 3: 18:57 at 45.2 mph. Bilek got it done in 3:25:26 at 43.8 mph to win Second Place in Class for the night. Bilek reported "No· flats. Flawless. The fast sections are fun. The whole thing was Fun!" Good job. Competitive open desert off road racing in the dark of night. I love my job. Wyrembrek also won Fast Lap 'bragging rights' on Lap 1 in 1:02:21 at 24.55 mph. CLASS 1200 Unlimited: Three laps, 150 miles. One en-try, one starter, one finisher. That was Bryan Yonan in car #1299. Yonan beat the Mojave in Johnson Valley in 4: 15: 18 at 35.3 mph to win First Place in Class. Yonan also won the Fast Lap 'bragging rights' on Lap 1 at 23.0 mph in 1: 10:50. CLASS 1300: Three laps, 150 miles. Six entries, five starters, four fin-ishers, one DNF, one DNS. It was a close race at the finish be-tween Michael Munez in car #1351 and Juan Munoz in a car #1309, but it was Joe Terry Wyrembeck took a nice win at the night race, he had about seven minutes in hand when he took the checkered flag. Micklus in car #1369 that won First Place in Class with a 0:43: 11 margin-of-victory. Micklus is from Northridge, CA. Debbie Mondragon was the co-driver. Micklus also won the Fast Lap honors on Lap 1 in 1:10:52 at 23.4 mph. "Our race was uneventful. The course was dusty and nasty, and tore up bad the last two laps", said Micklus. "It was awesome!", Mondragon said. Michael Munez won the slowest lap hon-ors in car #1351 in 2:15:33 on Lap 3, but still won Second Place with a total elapsed time of 4:42:50 at 31.8 mph. That was a 0:01: 13 margin-of-win ahead of Juan Munoz in car #1309. Juan Munoz -Norwalk, CA -won Third Place in Class in 4:44:03 at 31. 7 mph. "We didn't have any brakes most of the race" reported Munoz. What a difference a silly 1/10 of a mph a finish can make. First, you must beat the desert. It helps to have brakes, too. It was a very 1-o-n-g race night for Ray Promer in car #1313. "Let's just say it was the longest night of our lives. We left Or-ange County at 2:00 am to ar-rive at the race site by 6:00 a. m. I think we only slept about three hours before our day got started. We waited in line about four additional hours just to check in and do the inspection. Worldwide benchmark: manufacturer of mmt.ery-speett'loetlon wiring eyeterne for en motoreport eppllcetlone Utilizing the finest Raychem System E5 componente. the Industry stenderd for ell profesalonal recing eenotions. Engineering, essembly. end com~ehEtnSlve testing performed 100% in-house. Complete hl!Jl"neSS essemblfes end circuit control components ere ava,1able to suit . yovr budget. 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November 2008 Bryan Yonan was the only one in his class but he completed his three required laps with ease, finished with a 35.3mph average. By then - I was ready to go. My passengers were Chris Martinez from CM Motorsport (Lap 1), Dawn Locher, my girlfriend (Lap 2) and Brandon Alves (Lap 3). The first and second laps went off without a hitch, how-ever by the third lap my alter-nator wire came loose so we had to push start the car. It prob-ably wouldn't have been so bad if 'someone' in the Pit Crew had disconnected the jumper box prior to the push start -and 'someone' also broke off my side mirror in the process. About 30 minutes into the last lap, the link pins came loose from the front end so I had to fight the steering which almost broke my thumb at one point, About six hours and 12 minutes later, I passed the finish line. Honestly -for my first race -I'm just glad I finished,." Was it any fun? CLASS 1450: Three laps, 150 miles. Forty-eight entries, 41 starters, 25 fin-ishers, 17 DNFs, seven DNS. Oh My Gosh, golly, gotham, batman! Mass quantities of 1450's. They were stacked up thick in staging. Ryan Lewis in truck #1466 was in the third set of side-by-sides to start at the green flag. Lewis finished in First Place in 2:54:36 at an av-erage speed of 51.3 mph, with a 0: 11 :49 margin-of-victory ahead of the Second Place winner -Craig Reynolds in truck# 1456. Reynolds started in the fifth set of side-by-sides in class at the green flag. At the end of Lap 1, Reynolds in #1456 was in the lead by five minutes in front of Lewis in # 1466, and Tyler Fain in truck # 1459 was only 17 seconds be-hind Lewis. Reynolds won the Fast Lap Award on Lap 1 at 57.6 mph in 0:52:08. At the end of Lap 2, Fain was in the lead by 45 seconds in front of Lewis. Adam Filbin was in third spot in truck #1485, six seconds ahead of Mike Koenig in truck #1476. Garrick Freitas in truck # 1463 was only 20 seconds be-hind Koenig. Reynolds had dropped to sixth spot in truck #1456, almost 20 minutes be-hind the leader. The class leader at the end of Lap 2, Tyler Fain in the Pump Gas Racing truck #1459, DNF'd on Lap 3. Fain and his co-driver/wife Alexis brought their race ride all the way from Escondido in San Diego County, CA., only to break the third member at the road cross-ing -about 100 yards before the checkered flag. Yep. That close -and No Cigar. Running at the front of the outlaw pack and you get within less than a quar-ter-mile from the border -and your horse kicks the bucket. That will! ruin your day. Talk about "no rules" outlaw racing in Class 1450 - # 1459 is a Toyota chassis, equipped with a Ford 5.0L motor, a six-speed T56 tranny, and a Ford 9 in rear end. Uh huh. Ryan Lewis from San Diego, CA stepped on the gas pedal a little harder on Lap 3 in the Bozen Productions Toyota Tacoma # 1466 and finished in First Place in 2:54:36 at 51.5 mph; with a 0: 11:49 margin-of-victory. Lewis drove it all with co-driver Jeremy Kite in the spare seat; and Christen Van Horne, too. "it was a smooth race", said Lewis. "We race once a year. We passed three 1450's, and seven that were broke down. We lost a bedside panel somewhere. We went pretty wide open through the washboard stuff." Sounds like FUN to me, too! Craig Reynolds, who was almost 20 minutes off the lead pace in #2456 at the end of Lap 2, came out of the dark-horse , shadows to win Second Place in Class at 48.3 mph in 3:06:25; with a 0:05: 17 margin-of-victory ahead of Garrick Freitas in truck #1463. Reynolds also won the Fastest Lap Award in Class on Lap 1 at 57.6 mph in 0:52:08. Freitas and co-driver Steve Shahan, from Tulare, CA took the Third Place win n 3:11:42 at 46.9 mph in the First Bank of Dad (Dan Freitas) race truck # 1463. Freitas races a half-ton 2WD Chevy with cus-tom A-arms up front. "The overflow tank puked. We fin-ished!" Enough said. Mike Koenig and co-driver Troy Robinson came all the way from Sacramento, CA to win Fourth Place in Class in truck # 1476 in 3: 14:06 at 46.4 mph. "We didn't have any issues all night", reported Koenig. Robinson reported his most fun all night was "passing other trucks". Koenig was ahead of the Fifth Place winner, Adam Filbin in truck #1485, by 0:01:29 at the finish line. Filbin completed the race in 3 :15:35 at 46.0 mph. Filbin was ahead of the Sixth Place winner, Melissa Thornton in truck #1451 (my old#), by 0:01:21 at the check-ers. Thornton finished in 3:16:56 at 45.7 mph. The top six finishers in class, all finished within about 20 minutes of each other. I can't write and do in-terviews that fast. Post-tech was getting rather crowded at this point. Move 'em out! The next batch of finishers Dusty Times

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Joe Mick/us took a nice win in the dark, he took the win with forty minutes in hand, seen here airborne in the dark. Ryan Lewis drove his good looking truck to the class win, he's seen here flying towards the checkered flag. FINISHED: 45. A 38 percent carnage asada rate. 62 PER-CENT FINISHED. It was bru-tal racing conditions in the thick dust, in the dark, under the light of a full moon. The native winds were working their wings off. They kept the course mostly clear, unless you hap-pened to be on the receiving side. My eyes were totally sand-blasted. Vysine in mass quanti-ties. Most of the finishers re-ported the course was "Chewed Up!" I guess the DNFs found out the same thing; the hard way. Fifty-eight percent of the total entries were in Class 1450. Fifty-six percent of the total fin-ishers were in Class 1450. Sixty-one percent of all the Class 1450 starters, also finished. Adam Householder won First Place Overall in his "old school" Trophy Truck #24; in 3:12:14. Ray Promer won Last Place Overall in #1313; in 6: 12:31. #24 won Fast Lap Overall at 67.4 mph. # 1313 won Slowest and Longest Lap Overall at 21.9 mph. Ray Promer -you just won a 1-year subscription to Dusty Times! Congratulations! I hope you "DO" have some DT stickers on that thing, yes. Pssst* -Let me know if you don't and I'll give a couple to you. That's a wrap from this 'Ace' Dusty Times re-porter. IUJIJ,l_ in Class 1450 arrived at the checkered flag shortly thereaf-ter. Brett Sloppy delivered truck # 1460 to the finish line and a Seventh Place win in 3:31: 15 at 42.6 mph. Greg Sunds was about five minutes behind in truck #21465 to claim the Eighth Place win in 3:36:09 at 41.6 mph. That was about a one minute + margin-of-victory ahead of the Ninth Place win-ner -Cameron Reeves in truck #1461; Reeves got it done in 3:37:23 at 41.4 mph. Brian Groves in truck #1490 was only 36 seconds behind Reeves for the Tenth Place win in class in 3:37:59 at 41.3 mph. This is competitive, open desert, off road racing at its best -Race Fans. I'm having fun, at least -and hope you are too. Court LeGare in the ORA/Baja Shop Racing truck #1493 found the finish line in 3:39:50 at 40.9 mph for the 11th Place fin-ish. LeGare is from Anaheim, CA and races a '91 Ford Ranger with I-beams, a 3-link rear sus-pension, with coil-overs on all four corners. Justin Scott was the co-driver. "Lap 1 was very fast", said LeGare. "It was really dusty and hard to see, and we nailed a huge boulder. The truck handled kinda sloppy af-ter that". A.J. Steeber was next in line to find the finish line in truck # 1495. Steeber won the 12th Place honors in 3:46:47 at 39. 7 mph. John Alagna, from Chino Hills, CA piloted his Toyota leaf-spring 'Trifecta' race truck # 1453 around the course about one minute later in 3:47:57 at 39.5 mph to win 13th Place in class. Taylor Wolpert and Roy Coon were the co-drivers. "The course was pretty smooth for us", said Alagna. "We had a bad ground to the battery cable, and then took a bad line at the Rock Pile on Lap 1 and got a little side-ways, but we had no flats and got lots of passes". Trevor Leach, from Palm Springs, CA got all his fun done in 3:57:00 at 38.0 mph in truck # 1491 to win 14th Place. Leach races a 1995 Ford F150. Courtney Dawson was the co-driver. "We overheated the whole race; 210-240F", Leach reported. "It was a Blast!", Dawson said. "Awe-some!" Dawson said her most fun was "Honking the horn for people to get out of our way!" The final bunch of finishers in Class 1450 were no less com-petitive than those at the front. Check out some of the times be-tween these racers. I call that pretty**** close racing after 150 miles, and mucho fun playing in the dirt along the way to the checkered flag. 15th Place: McLUVIN, MIGUEL 1460 4:02:46 37.1 mph. 16th Place: SANDS, STEVE 1472 4:03:38 36.9 MPH -Long Beach, CA. "The pickup in the fuel cell was on top of the foam at MM28, and it took 25 minutes to get it fixed", reported Sands. "The truck ran flawless after that". Vince Moralis got the co-driver dudes for Laps 1-2, when first-timer and 'virgin' rookie co-driver Katie Lambert got into the thrill seat. "It was Fun!", Lambert said. "I liked it a Lot! It was hot and sweaty, and the jumps were fun!" 17th Place: HERRERA, STEVEN 1499 4:05: 13 36. 7 MPH -Hesperia, CA. Andrew Lee from C&D Fab was the co-driver. Herrera races a 1993 Ford Ranger with a 302CI small block motor, and "freeway smooth" rear leaf springs. "The race was awesome, and we had all kinds of issues", Herrera said. "We overheated three times every lap, and the plug wires melted. The most fun we had,~as passing al the linked trucks. 18th Place: STEPHENS, AN-DREW 1478 4: 13:02 35.6 mph -Hesperia, CA. Nick Adams and Isaac Russell were the co-driv-ers. "The (full sized Ford Ex-plorer) truck ran nice and smooth all night", Stephens re-ported. "The course was very smooth and fast. We had two flats and issues with the front wheel bearings. The most fun were the dancing girls at MM22." 19th Place: LOPPNOW, BRIAN 1471 4: 14:26 35.4 mph. 20th Place: McENIRY, KYLE 4: 16: 17 35.1 mph. 21st Place: GAY, CRAIG 1488 4:55: 11 30.5 mph. 22nd Place: FUHRING, STEVE 1464 5:07:04 29.3 mph. 23rd Place: HOLGUIN, JAMES 1477 5: 18:43 28.2 mph. 24th Place: THOMAS, JR. JAMES 1492 5:44:05 26.2 mph. 25th Place: PETERSON, ROBERT 1473 6:36:06 22.7 mph. The MDR California 200 Night Race tallied up like this: TOTAL ENTERED: 83. TO-TAL STARTED: 73. TOTAL Steve Garcia was just a tick off the winning pace in Class 1, he took the silver medal, seen here just at takeoff. Garrick Freitas finished third in his class, he was five minutes in Mike-Koenig, with all lights ablaze, heads for the finish line in his The Fi/bin/ Cox truck raced through the night to a fifth place in class, seen here heading for the ever elusive checkered flag. arrears to second spot, he's seen here with all lights ablaze. good looking truck, Mike finished fourth in class. Melissa Thornton, seen here before darkness fell, finished sixth in Brett Sloppy drove his Misery Motorsports truck to a seventh her class in her really good looking truck. place finish in class, he's seen here just at liftoff. Dusty Times November 2008 Greg Sunds ran to an eighth place finish in class, he's seen here with all available lights on the course. Page 41

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JACKPOT 225 Ulllel Takes The overall TExT & PHOTOS: MIKE CHAMBERLAIN John Vibe/ drove his Class 1 heavy to the gold medal and he was able to take the overall win as well at the BORE Jackpot 225. John Uibel captures the over-all top honors; John piloting his Class 10 buggy beat out Monte Tibbitts in his Class 8 truck by only 4 minutes 45 sec-onds to capture the BORE July 4th race overall. Great racing John and a well deserved win! The BORE annual July 4th race was as exciting as in past races here at Jackpot, Nevada. Jackpot is located in the North-East corner of Nevada and the course actually crosses into Idaho along the Northern por-tion of the route. Jackpot has been the July 4th BORE racing scene for what some say is over 20 years and a better place to spend the 4'h of July I can't think of. The town of Jackpot isn't anything to speak of; it's small with only a few casino/ hotels, general store and a couple of gas stations. But the atmosphere during race week is somewhat magical in Jackpot. The host and sponsor for this race as in years past was the Horshu Hotel & Casino. They have a nice outside pool for ev-ery one's use that also serves as the post race awards and get to-gether spot. It sure is a nice break from the typical blister-ing July heat. Other sponsors included: 1) Butch's Speed Shop, 2) Colorado Commercial Services, 3) 4 Wheelers 4x4 Center, and 4) Elliott Lafreniere (Trick Racing Fuel). BORE wishes to thank all spon-sors for their support. The nor-mal course crew began descend-ing on Jackpot the Wednesday prior to the race to tackle the chores of marking the course, setting up vehicle technical in-spection and racer registration. This year BORE chose to re-verse the direction of the course. In doing so a few of the traditional standards such as the "Wash" and the "Big Hill" were eliminated. The course however still maintained the infamous "Easy Street" which is about a mile and a half of rocky, rutted out "Pure Hell" that is known to destroy ve-hicles and kidneys. The course this year was a 35 mile loop that skirted the Jackpot golf course before heading out to the mountain desert then cir-cling around Mule Creek Can-yon, rising to and through a narrow tree lined peak, de-scending down to Rabbit Springs and finally negotiating Easy Street to get back to the start/finish. All in all while there are some definite techni-cal areas, there is plenty of all-out, full-throttle racing to be had to blow the silt out of the cockpit and speaking of silt there was plenty to be had for all. As was at the BORE Wendover race in May, silt was the word or curse word of the day! This apparently didn't slow anyone down because the average lap time was right around and hour to complete. Before any race can happen, there are many volunteers in the back ensuring everything is ready before, during, and after the race such as Registration: Peggy Bowers and Sharon Maness; Technical Inspection: Greg Kimoto, Glen Cain, and Brian Dick; Course Set up & Tear Down: Brian Dick, Greg Kimoto, Glen Cain; Check Points: The Bothers Hamilton and Mike Sullivan; Start/Fin-ish: The Palmers. BORE cannot say thank you enough for your efforts in supporting BORE and all racers who participate. This was echoed many times at the awards by all racers and BORE. Our volunteers are the Best! Oh did I mention the weather? Other than a little windy on Friday, it was a beau-tiful racing weekend. OK, I get it! You want to read about the racing, so here it is!!! We had 26 total vehicles en-ter this race, remember BORE is a small grass roots racing or-ganization so you won't see big numbers here but what you will see and experience if you race with BORE is the fun and ex-citement that any of the big boys have. The breakdown was: Monte Tibbitts gave it his all, he took the gold medal in the Class 8 contest and he was the second overall finisher as well. 1) Class 1 - 3 Buggies (2 -Class l's & 1 off-road speed crawler), 2) Class 10 - 4 bug-gies (3 -lO's & 1 -1600), 3) 9 -Class 8 Trucks (8 -trucks & 1 -jeep), 4) 5 -Class 7 trucks, 5) 4 -Class 9 buggies, and 6) 1 -Sportsman buggy. First off the line for the 4th of July event was the Class l's. Tom Wood took the honors of taking the initial green flag and flying off the line he went run-ning. Tom set the overall fast-est of the race on lap 1 with a time of only 39:56 and firmly in first place by almost 4 & ½ minutes. Lap 2 saw much of the same with the exception of Tom increasing his lead to 7 minutes. Tom wasn't done yet though and by mid-way through the race Tom had a full 20 minute lead and showing no signs of slowing down. As with good things, sometimes they come to an end and it did. Tom started having unknown mechanical problems and by the end of lap 4 had fallen a full 30 minutes back into second. Much of the same was to be the in store for Tom for the rest of the day and when Tom took the checkered flag he was a full 32 minutes back, but still captured 2nd place honors for Class 1. Next off the line was the 173 piloted by John Uibel. John not letting Tom Wood in front of him stretch to far ended lap 1 only 4 & ½ minutes back in 2nd place. John kept his foot down but had dropped to 7 minutes behind the front runner. By lap 3 however, the tables had turned on the front runner and now John was in the lead by 20 minutes and wasn't about to let anyone come near. By lap 4 John increased his lead to 32 minutes and again increased his lead to 38 minutes by lap 5 end. At the end of lap 6, John took the checkered flag capturing the 1" Place position with a Class 1 lead of over 31 minutes. The closest competitor was the Class 8 truck driven by Monte Tibbitts so John also captured overall fastest top honors for this day. Great racing Tom! Next off the Ii ne was the last Class 1 entry of Dallas Lutrell piloting his freshly built "High Speed Rock Crawler", quite frankly I don't know what that is but it looked real mean. Un-fortunately Dallas only made it 20 miles on lap 1 before losing a rear-end ending his day. This was his first run and a shake-down test and as everyone knows sometimes it takes several races before dialing a vehicle in. Hats off to the Lutrell Team! The top finishers were: 1) John Uibel, 2) Tom Wood, 3) Dallas Lutrell. Next to pit their metal and nerves on the course was the Class l0's and starting in the Class 10 pole position was the 1081 of Schmueser Racing with Larry Schmueser at the con-trols. Larry sprinted off the line like a fox with a pack of dogs on his heal. By the end of lap 1 Larry had slipped into the znd position by a mere 40 seconds. By the end of lap 2 however Larry had fallen to en-gine high temp. issues and would never see another lap. Better luck next time Larry. Next off the line was Layne Brown but only made it 17 miles on the first lap before some type of unknown me-chanical problem put in the pits for the rest of the day. The 3'd buggy to put the Jackpot course to the test was Jack Howard. Jack wasn't taking any guff from the demanding course and quickly took his Class 10 to the lead ending lap 1 40 seconds in first. By the end of lap 2, Jack was firmly in 1" place by 9 minutes and contin-ued to stretch his lead to 19 minutes by the end of lap 3. Jack was on his way to a near perfect race and continued to increase his lead for both the 4th and 5th laps to just over 42 Tom Wood led Class 1 for the first three laps but laps four and Bill Clarey runs a 1600 car, he ran with the Class 10 guys this Mike Sims had a pretty good race, he took home the silver medal in the Class 8 contest, he's seen here headin' for home. five did him in, he finished second in the contest. race and took home the silver medal for his effons. Page 42 November 2008 Dusty Times 7T

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I' It was a nice win in Class 10 for Jack Howard, he had over 40 minutes in hand when he came in to take the checkered flag. minutes. Jack, not ever letting down his racing guard took the final lap checkered flag with a first place victory time margin of just over 47 minutes. Now that racing for all he and his buggy was worth. WOW what a run! The last Class 10 off the line was actually a ½-1600 pi-loted by Bill Clarey. Bill's 1600 was the only buggy in his class to show up at Jackpot so he opted to run with the Class lO's. Bill knowing full well that he was out powered but run-ning hard and with a little luck had the chance of taking some prize money. Bill pulled out and gave his 1600 all it could take and his buggy responded greatly. By the close of lap 1 Bill was in 3,d and by the end of lap 2 had 2nd place under his belt. Bill continued to tick off the laps and took the checkered flag to be rewarded with the Silver Metal in Class 10. Out powered and much slower, Bill pulled off a great race and all you can say is "You're the Man"! The top finishers were: 1) Jack Howard, 2) Bill Clarey, 3) Larry Schmueser. The third class off the line was Heavy Metal Trucks, Class 8. There were 9 vehicles in class 8 trucks and 1 jeep. Normally · the Jackpot desert course has a way of taking its' toll with less than a 50% survival rate. This race however had only 1 truck fail to capture the checkered flag an awesome feat. The first to catch the drop of the green flag was the Jeep piloted by Gordon Scott. Gordon drove steady and fierce and ended lap 1 in 6th place. Gordon would slip one more position by the end of lap 2 but set his eye on HO HAVE SEEN TH S~ORE£LASS·CHA11PI 1 BilJy Gasper : Dusty Times Kenny McKnight had some competition in Class 7 when they started but they all fell by the wayside, giving Kenny's Ford an easy win. the lead pack. Within 2 laps, Gordon was heading toward the front and now had his grip on 3'd place. Lap 5 had Gor-don maintaining the 3,d posi-tion by over an hour and sites on taking the Bronze. By race end, Gordon took the check-ered flag and a solid Class 8, 3,d place finish. James Vigil was next off the line in his newly built Class 8. This was the first race for James as driver/ owner and was ready to test his driv-ing and maintenance abilities. Just finishing the race would be a feat and finish he did. James ran steady and true for laps 1 through 3 and was in 8'h place for all 3 laps. Obviously be-coming more confident in his abilities, James pushed forward and by the end of lap 4 was now in 61h place. James continued laying down rubber and again November 2008 was rewarded by increasing his place to 5'h position. Appar-ently James still had something left and pushed it even further and slipped into 4th position by the end of the race by a mere 3 ½ minutes. James' day was a complete success by not only surviving his 1st race and actu-ally getting the checkered flag, because of the number of class competitors he received a 4'h place plaque to put on the wall of fame. The next to go was the veteran team SIMCO Racing, piloted by Mike Sims. Mike has a long standing reputation of being in the front and today wouldn't be any different. Mike was barely hanging on to 2nd place at the end of lap 1 and as a matter of racing there was less than 2 Yz minutes between 1st and 7th place, that is a lot of metal in a short space. By the en o ap 1 e a ta en SIMCO Racing to the lead po-sition by 3 minutes and kept it going. Lap 3 would prove a great lap for SIMCO by still holding onto the pole position by a sliver 24 seconds. Mike continued racing hard but slipped his gripped on the lead position a n d n o w h e ld 2nd• Mike would run for all his worth and was rewarded at the checkered flag with an overall 2nd place in C lass 8. The 4th Class 8 truck off the line was Glen Wise. Glen started off strong and ended lap 1 in the middle of the pack, 5'h place. Remember the only difference between 1" and 7 'h was only 2 ½ minutes so the middle of the pack is full of dust and silt. Glen was able to better his position by the end of lap 2 to 4'h place however, that was short lived dropping to 9th by the end of lap 3. Glen started working his way back toward the front and climbed to 8th place at the end of lap 4. Again not settling for less than his best, Glen im-proved by another position and now was in 7th• During the fi-nal lap and on his way to cap-ture the checkered flag, Glen again improved his final posi-tion of 61h place. Richard Cretsinger took the green flag and poured the coals on and by 1st lap white flag had his grip on 4th place. Richard kept the fuel petal to the floor and fight-ing the massive dust and silt bettered his position to 3'd place by the end of lap 2. Lap Continued next page Page 43

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Dean Blackly wasn't able to complete the race but he went further than anyone else in Class 9 and was awarded the class win. Class fastest lap of 47:38 and now sat in the 1" place position by almost 2 minutes. Monte had a strangled hold on 1" place and wasn't about to re-lease it. By the end of the race and capturing the checkered flag, Monte was firmly in 1" place by over 10 minutes and captured the Class 8 champion. Ken Leavitt, piloting the 806 was next to hit it running. Ken pressed for all he had and was at the end of the 2 minute freight train battling from l " to 7,h place at the end of the l " lap. Ken improved his position to 6th ending lap 2 and again improved to 4,h place by the end of the 3rd place. Some dif-ficulty must have bit Ken dur-ing lap 4 because he slipped to the 9,h position. During lap 5 and the final, Ken continued to fight back and improved his po-sition to the overall Class 8, 7,h place. Jim Price was the last Class 8 to take to the course and placed his truck into the 1" place position at the end of lap 1 by only 7 seconds. Jim did slip to second by the end of lap 2 but it must be said that the difference between 1" and 6th place is less than 5 minutes. Jim did begin a backward slide however and by the end of lap 3 was in 61h place. Something must have gone his way as he charged back to the 4,h posi-tion. Unfortunately, Ken would be sidelined during lap 5 for a broken ring and pinion. The top finishers were: 1) Monte Tibbitts, 2) Mike Sims, 3) Gor-don Scott, 4) James Vigil. The Class 7 Trucks were next to put their skills to the test. There were five trucks for this days' race and each one of them had their sights on cap-turing the top horrors. This was not to be though, as only 1 out of the 5 vehicles would ac-tually see the drop of the check-ered flag. Jackpot would take its' toll on the Class 7 drive lines as each attempted to com-plete the race. First off the line was Brady Sessions in the 702. Brady was running a steady race in the back of the pack in 5,h place. Laps 2 and 3 were pretty much the same with what ap-peared to be a strategy of "Steady As She Goes" and com-plete the race. This was not to be though; sometime during the 4,h lap Brady dropped out for unknown mechanical problems and was sidelined for the rest of the day. Jason Hutter, long time BORE racer was next to pit his metal against the formi-dable course. Jason quickly set a fast pace for all to see, chal-lenging all to better him and by the end of lap 2 was only 58 seconds behind in the #2 posi-tion. Jason must have had the gremlins fighting his truck be-cause he dropped a couple spots during laps 2 and 3 and by the end of lap 3 was in 4th place just over 1 hour behind 3'J position. Fire Guys Racing must have figured out the grem-lin and by lap 4 end, Jason was back to 2nd place and running strong. Lap 5 saw much of the same for Jason as he kept pour-ing it o n and holding a solid 3 had Richard holding firmly onto the 3'J place position but slipped to 5,h by the end of lap 4. Lap 5 would see Richard slipped to 7th spot but was unable to finish it off during the 61h and final lap. Something must have mechanically gone wrong because when the check-ered flag dropped for Richard he had slipped to the 81h over-all spot in Class 8. Gary Hull was the 61h Class 8 truck to for-ward into the dust, rock, and silt to prove he could do it. Gary plowed into the desert and by the end of lap 1 held the 9,h position. Gary was still plowing through the dust and silt but was unable to improve his position. This was not to last long for Gary kept pushing hard and gained 2 positions and was in the 7th spot by the end of the 3'd lap. Gary was able to hold onto the 7th spot end-ing lap 4. Always looking into the distance, Gary forged on and was reward by capturing the 4th place position by the end of the 5th lap. The 6th and final lap would not go well for Gary however, he slipped to the 81h position and there is where he caught the checkered flag. The next to conquer the Jackpot course was Monte Tibbitts. Monte has come to dominate the Class 8 trucks and he lit out as he always does, pedal full to floor and pushing for more. Monte had a slim grip on 3rd place by the end of the 1" lap. Uncharacteristic for Monte, he slipped back to the 5th position during lap 2. Well that was all he needed and by the end of lap 3 had taken his truck to the number 2 spot. During lap 5, Monte set the UCEI & SPECTATOR DISCOUNTS • GENERATORS • TILLERS • OUTBOARD ENGINES • LAWNMOWERS • W-ATERPuMPS California's Largest Source lor Honda Power Equipment Parts 8 Inventory IF WE /JON T NAVE IT: NO ONE IJOE9/ Check Our Website: www.Kawagu·chihonda.com Kawaguchi Honda Corp. 2nd• The gremlin however would win out this day as Jason was on the final lap he lost his clutch and transmission ending his day bur not before securing znd Place in Class 7. Kenny McKnight was the 3'J Class 7 to take too the course and take it he did! Kenny has steadily risen to the top of the Class 7 Trucks and last year Kenny and his Team were rewarded with BORE Champio n h onors. Kenny started the 2008 BORE season hot with a win at the May Red Garter race and today was striving for a repeat win. The McKnight Motorsports Racing team was not disappointed in Kenny's performance and by the end of the Jackpot 225 Kenny rook the checkered flag and Class 7 top honors. The big battle in class 7 was forged in lap 1. By the end of lap 1 only 5 minutes separated the first 5 positions, with Kenny holding on to 3'J. Lap 2 brought much of the same battle between the top 5 trucks, however, Kenny pulled his Red Garter sponsored truck to 1" . place position with a lead of almost 3 minutes over 2nd place Scott Smith. At lap 3s end though the battle between McKnight and Smith saw Smith slipping into first over Kenny by mere 14 seconds. Lap 4 proved to be killer for the ma-jority of the Class 7 folks; Kenny had stretched his lead to over an hour and a half while 3 of the 5 Class 7 trucks were sidelined for drive line prob-lems. Kenny was the only Class 3532 East 3rd St. • Los Angeles, CA 90063 !!2~ (323) 264-3936, 264-5858 • FAX (323) 264-2136 Nothing's easier. For optimum performance and safety, we recommend you read the owner's manual before operating your Honda Power Equipment. 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Jason Hutter grabs a bit of air on his way to a second place finish Gordon Scott drove his long wheelbase Jeep to a third place finish in the Class 7 Mini Metal contest at the BORE Jackpot race. in the Class 8 Heavy Metal contest, seen here in the soft stuff. Scott Smith takes a flying lesson in his Class 7 Ford truck, unfortunately Scott was unable to finish the required laps. Dave Morse gave it everything he had but he was unable to get James Vigil was pretty steady in his lap times in the Class 8 Glen Wise was right there in the running in Class 8 but a long to the finish line in the Class 9 contest. contest, he was the fourth place finisher, seen here at speed. third lap relegated him to a fifth place finish. 7 truck to catch the checkered race. Lucky Man! Dave left-the The final class to hit the dirt a complete success and the class ing chance the website is the flag this day; getting is second start line and had Cam Blackley was the Sportsman Class also by class stats and final positions best place to start. class win in as many races. in his sights but was unable to known as run what you brung. can be seen on the BORE Good motoring to all and we Kenny now 2 for 2 in 2008 sets over take him on the 1" lap set-Steve Millword was the only en-website at: www.boreracing.net. will hopefully see all of you at the his sites on the Ely race in Au-cling for a 2nd place position try and unfortunately broke There are also many pictures, next BORE Race to be held in gust. Good luck to you and for the 1" lap. Unfortunately shortly after taking the green blogs, and many other items of mid August at Ely, Nevada. For McKnight Motors ports in Ely. Dave dropped to the 4th posi-flag. interest for all and if you are more details & registration go the Pat Tate was the 4th Class 7 off tion at the end of the 2nd lap All in all the Jackpot 225 was interested in giving BORE a rac- www.boreracing.net. •9;7:9t the line and run he did! Pat was and ended his day during the in 4th place at end of lap 1 only 3rd lap for unknown mechani-3:46 back from 3'd position. cal problems. Dave Morse pi-Pat did have his sites on im-loting the Purple 996 buggy and provement and by the close of long standing front runner and lap 2 had grip on 3rd by just former champion took off the over a minute. By the end of line determined to take top lap3 Pat increased his hold on honors. Dave settled for a 3rd 3'd by over an hour but his grip place position at the end of the wouldn't last and sometime 1" lap. Not wanting to main-during lap 4 Pat lost his drive tain the status quo, Dave line ending his race day. The fi-pressed on and had taken the nal Class 7 truck was piloted 2nd place position at 2nd lap by Scott Smith. Scott runs as end. With the breakage of the hard and fast as anyone I know 1" and 2nd place runners, Dave and today's race was no excep-now held a slim grip on 1" place tion. By lap 1 end Scott held a by a mere 6 seconds by the end slight lead over Jason Hutter by of lap 3. Clearly in front but only 58 seconds. Jason however with the only class 9 left in the swapped positions with Scott race right on his heels Dave during lap 2 and had a feeble managed to hold onto 1" place lead of only 3 minutes. Lap 3 for lap 4. Bad luck would be-saw another swap of the lead fall Dave during lap 5 and he position with Scott recapturing too found himself out of the the lead by 14 seconds. That race but not before securing the would end the battle though as Class 9 second place finish. The Scott broke an axle and never final Class 9 to test his endur-made it back to the battle. Bet-ance was the 999 driven by ter luck next time Scott. The Dean Blackly. Dean gave all his top finishers were: 1) Kenny buggy had on lap 1 and was in McKnight, 2) Jason Hutter, 3) the 4th position at lap end by Pat Tate. only 5 seconds. Dean began his The Class 9 Challenger bug-march toward the front after gies were next to put their skills settling in and took 3rd position to the test and first off the line by the end of lap 2. Lap 3 saw was the 936 with Cam Blackley another spot forward now to at the controls. Cam set a blis-2nd position and only 6 seconds tering 1st lap coming to the back from the 1" place posi-start/finish with the day's Class tion. Lap 5 ended for Dean still 9 fastest lap of 55:13 and a holdingonto2ndplacebutthe minute and half lead on 2nd battle for 1" place was on and place. On lap 2, Cam again blis-Dean overtook Dave Morse for tered the course and fellow rac- 1" place when Dave was side-ers and had stretched is 1st lined. Not knowing who was in place lead to just of 2 minutes. and who was out in Class 9 Unfortunately Cam's day Dean continued to press for-would end suffering from me-ward but hard broke during the chanical problems. Dave Sams final lap however his time and was next to take the green flag. distance was good enough to Dave usually races his 1600 capture the Class 9 first place class buggy but it wasn't ready award. The top finishers were: for this race and he is lucky 1) Dean Blackly, 2) Dave enough to have 2 buggies to Morse, 3) Dave Sams. Dusty Times We carry iii lul selectlono~ WELD•ON•TABS WELD•ON•EIUNOS tEIMS&RODl!NDS November 2008 (diijlf e~ [CNCJ SACa OffllOH Page 45

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l~IYERINGTON IDD ■e,,1 Takes Class ID And overall Sam Berri is back in form, he took the Class 10 honors at the Yerington meet and he was the overall winner as well. The third and final desert series race for Vorra's 2008 season is in the book and what a great race it was. After hav-ing some bad luck at the previ-ous two desert races Sam Berri was back on top in his Class 10 taking the top overall spot. I have been racing in Yerington for 20-some years and thought I had raced on ev-ery road out there. Wes and the BLM proved me wrong and introduced us to a couple of new sections and about 30 miles of new course - a feat that is unheard of these days. Taking off the start and head-ing up Blue Stone Canyon and running in the counter clock-wise direction, the course im-mediately found new road at the top of the wash. It kept climbing uphill until we were on the highest peak overlook-ing both Smith and Mason Valley. Then it plunged into a new wash with a new Check-point 1 location. It didn't stop there. After a mile or two of old course we were back on new stuff heading into Check-point 2. From there we went over the familiar cattle guard jump, then backwards onto the recent Vegas to Reno course, * Sponsorship Opportunities * finally heading north to Check-point 3. The course then turned south down some really fast gas line roads, then up a five mile "wash from hell" and then into Checkpoint 4 and finally onto Checkpoint 5. Af-ter Checkpoint 5 -past the dollar sign it was a mile or so of new course bypassing the stadium jump and heading over the hill and back to the start/finish . The course was a total of 63 miles -the Pro classes would run five laps, Semi-Pro four laps, quads two and bantam quad one lap. As typical scripted fashion HOSE SMITH PREP SHOPS San Diego * A TIENTION * CONSTRUCTORS RACE TEAMS Hose Smith San Diego is now providing certified internal and external cleaning of your high value racing components including rust and debris removal via our proprietary "Ultrasonic " cleaning technique. Oil Coolers Heat Exchangers - Oil Lines - Engine and Drivetrain - By-Pass Shocks By-Weekly Pick-up and Delivery ia.n,ginevvorks™ ·s:n,cilionexliiu!Jthledermodalnl15)'111tms 619-665-1361 Send Sponsorship Requests and Resumes to: PO Box 1689, San Marcos, CA 92079-1689 Page 46 November 2008 Rob Parsons had a pretty good race, he beat out nine other Class 1 competitors to take home the coveted gold medal. Kaile Vierra had a really good time, he hustled his black Ford to the Class 8 win, he's seen here headin' for the checkers. in Yerington, the weekend starts off Friday night with a welcoming party hosted by Vorra chief Wes Harbor, fol-lowed by the drawing for start-ing positions. Saturday in-cludes race registration and tech inspection, the parade of cars up and down Main Street, then the drivers' meeting. Un-like the Memorial Day weekend race that was all but rained out, this weekend started with a hot Friday. But the weather-man promised strong winds and much cooler temperatures by race day. When have we known a weatherman to be right? Well, this time they were dead on as we were greeted Sunday with strong winds that blew awnings and ez-ups right out of the desert. And as we racers know, strong winds make for great race conditions. Sunday morning before the sun came up and while it was just a bit dark, the quads were off the line with Pro Quad #252 Mason Cole leading the way. Mason made both laps in 2:54: 15 with a 43:39 mph av-erage for the Pro class win. Second in Pro class went to # 104 Brad Falin who com-pleted just one lap before run-ning out of time. Next off the line were the amateur quads. Taking the early lead and class win was #31 Mike Jasmann with a time of 3:00:58 with a 41:78 mph average. Second in amateur went to #55 Kenny Pomeroy and third to #36 James West, who each com-pleted one lap. In the Bantam class (12-15 year olds) #4 Ja-son Pomeroy beat out #7 Grant Mitchell by 13:23 for the class win. Third finisher in class went to #3 Casey Thiering. Once the course was clear it was time for the cars and trucks to do battle. At the last race Jim Paddock # 169 missed the drivers' meeting and it cost him the pole starting spot. Well not this time, as he was first off the line. Unfortu-nately, he wouldn't make it far and would drop out of the race early. Paddock did make it further than Dave Morton # 124 in the Rescue Racing four seater. Morton dropped the clutch off the flag and rolled about ten more feet Dave Schneider showed the other nine vehicles in Class 7 how to do it, Dave hustled around the course and took the gold medal in Class 7. Dusty Times

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Kelly Smith raced his black Baja Bug to a second place finish in the Bruce Fields had terminal troubles with his truck but he was officially Mike Koenig and Troy Robinson drove the good looking jacked-up Class 1 battle, seen here at speed on the course. credited with a second place finish at Yerington. truck to a silver medal finish in Class 7, seen here at speed. The silver medal in Semi Pro went to the Jaklevick/Jones entry, they cruised around and went home with second place. Brad Falin was credited with a third place finish in the Class l Patrick Timmons had major problems early on but he repaired and continued on to take a third place finish in the Class 10 battle. competition, he fell one lap short due to mechanical ills. having blown the transmission. Fairing better was Rob Par-sons # 111, who was charging around the track with a first lap time of 1:13:55. Parsons' lead was 1 :58 ahead of Jeff Stiles# 117 with Jeremy Banks # 125 in the other Rescue Rac-i Q.g four seater and Rick Massey #24 in the Rescue Rac-ing Trophy Truck (hmmm, can I use that name, isn't it patent) close behind. A bit further back a-s Kelley Smith #10'5 'n the black Baja Bug and round-ing out the first lap completers in Class 1 was Brad Falin (#1572). Four hours and 52 minutes after he started the first lap Ryan Sargent #143 came around. He broke a stub axle five miles off the start and hiked down the hill to the pits for a replacement. After two laps of racing Massey was out as was Banks. Parsons and Stiles were close with Parsons just 5:27 ahead. Smith was hanging in for third and Falin trucking along in fourth. On Lap 3 with a heavy battle go-ing between Parsons and Stiles, Stiles right rear suspen-sion filed for divorce from the rest of the car and the desert awarded it. The failure was terminal for the Stiles red four seater. Falin was also out mov-ing Smith up to second. At the finish it was Parsons holding It was a great race for Will Domschot in the Semi Pro Class, Will led from stat to finish and was a very elated winner. out for the win followed by Smith who completed four laps, and Falin completing three laps. Class 10 was next off the line. Five cars in class and Sam Berri (#1049) off to the first lap lead. Patrick Timmons #1030 had problems and had a lengthy stop at Pro Pit for repairs but was able to con-tinue. Second after one lap was Dale Smith #1044. Mike Lehners #1214 hadn't decided to race until the Friday night before the race. He pulled into Yerington Saturday with a car that still had cobwebs on it. He was running third after one In the Amateur Quad Class it was Mike Jasmann taking the big win, he's seen here hustling through the shadows. Dusty Times lap. The top four stayed within 30 minutes of each other all the way to the checkered flag with Berri taking the win and Lehners moved up to second on the last lap. Timmons fin-ished third with Dakle Smith fourth. In the 1600 class Chad Giguiere #2021 was the sole entry after Vince Viola had an unfortunate pre-running acci-dent. Giguiere would finish four laps for the class win,. Class 8 had four trucks take the green. Bruce Fields #858 was flying around the track un-til the valve train in the motor let go around RM 55. He limped into the finish to com-plete just one lap having ter-minal issues on the second lap placing third. Completing all the laps and leading fro Lap 1 was #803 Kaile Vierra in his black Ford step side. Once again the Class 7 fields had a full class with 10 trucks taking the green flag. Off to an early lead on the track was #701 Mike Koenig and Troy Robinson -driven first by Troy Robinson with his daughter Ashley co-driving (if you ever get a chance to take your kid for a ride in a race, do it, it was an amazing lap and a half). Robinson had a 10 minute lead on the class until RM 60 when he clipped a rock breaking the November 2008 The Bantam Class had four entries and when the checkered flag flew it was Jason Pomeroy taking a very nice win. driveline yoke. The repairs took about an hour and they were back under way. Finish-ing Lap 1 in the lead was #784 Scott Rodgers followed by #1705 Dave Snyder, #1734 Bob Roggy, #748 Aaron Osborne and #724 Jeff Sherrill. Rodgers would blow the trans on Lap 2 taking him out of the race. This handed 3rd, and 4th respectively. The biggest class of the week-end was Semi Pro with 13 cars taking the green. # 1223 Will Domschot took the lead after Lap 1 and was running an amazing fifth overall. Second place was #17 Scott Harville followed by #511X Jaklevick/ Jones, #1018 James Allen, Continued next page San Diego 791 S Balboa Ave. 858.565. 7792 the lead over to Snyder on Lap 2 fol-lowed ·by Roggy, Sherril, Koenig/ Robinson and #7638 K.C. Keller. After three laps Snyder was still in the lead, Roggy in second and Koenig/ Robinson had moved up to third ahead of Sherrill. SI\lder was first to the finish line tak-ing the class win. Koenig and Sherril passed Roggy on the last lap placing 2nd, Temecula 26901 Jefferson Ave. 951.328.2880 Escondido 264S Auto Park Way 780. 748.3193 El Cajon 42S N. Marshall Ave. 619.442.8689 El Centro 2298 Merrill Center Dr 780.404.9019 www.offroadwarehouse .com Page 47

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It was a third place finish in the Semi Pro fracas for Derek Boarman, Ryan Sargent started off with an almost 5 hour lap but he carried on Chad Giguiere and JJ Schna" were the only Class 1600 car entered, they ran their required laps and took home the gold medal. he's seen here headin' out on yet another lap. and was awarded a fourth place finish in Class 1. Jeff She"il was playing tag with second, third and fourth place all Bill Hermant gets it a bit up in the afr as he flies to a fourth place Jeff Stiles was fighting for the win near the end of the Class 1 race but his four seater had mechanicals and was awarded fifth place. race long, he finally settled for a third place finish in Class 7. finish in the Semi Pro race at Yerington. #1211 Derek Boarman, #36 At the awards it was Wes' Stolting, Cody Bennett, Kenny Turk Harbuck and #25 Ed turn to thank those that helped Pomeroy, Rob Mitchell, Bob Stolting. After two laps the him put on a great race. That Roggy, Jeff Stiles, and Casey running order had changed list included Team Bankruptcy, Thiering. Bill Minteer won with Domschot still in the lead Advance Powder Coating, D & $100.00 for the longest lap of and with Jaklevick/Jones, who D Tire, Fibercraft, Reno Cycle 5:29:00. $50.00 for the fast-were on a cruise just to finish and Gear (who loaned Wes a est lap in each class went to the race, in second, Boarman quad to mark the course while Will Domschot in semi prom in third and Allen in fourth. his was in the shop), White Kaile Vierra in Class 8, Jeff Heading into the last lap the Hawk Designs, Fran Hall with Sherrill in Class 7, Sam Berri running order was the same the BLM and the Vorra crew. in Class 10 and the fastest lap and at the finish it was A new tradition that Wes of the day went to Rob Par-Domschot winning followed started at his first des1rt race sons in Class 1 with a time of by Jaklevick/Jones, Boarman, just three months ago was draw-1: 15:55-ar over .51 mph. The Hermant and Stolting all of ing giveaways. Those drivers most flats award went to Mike which completed the required who had to be present were: "I never get a flat" Koenig who distance. K.D. Keller, Tyler Mort, Ed edged out Rob Parsons by one The Most Sought After Fuel in Off-Road Racing Today! Ask your engine builder about the increased horsepower, torque and cooler operating temperatures offered by VP's Late Model Plus, C12, VP113 and other great fuels. Then you'll know why champions in each of these series choose VP Racing Fuels. VP Racing is the Official Fuel and/or Contingency Sponsor of: ~IR)fflm~ RACING ASSOCIATION ~StlP ~-RACIIG SCIRE INTERNATIONAi! OFF-ROAD RACING lVI.O.R.E 'le~ For technical help or to locate the nearest VP dealer, call today or visit vpracingfuels.com. 951-696-5100 vppacific@vpracingfuels.com Page 48 World Leader in Race Fuel Technology™ November 2008 It was a gold medal for Mason Cole in the Pro Quad class, Mason is seen here racing hard on the course. half of a flat (Parsons had a tire that went flat after he took the checkered). Koenig was awarded a $250.00 gift certifi-cate to D & D Tire for his two flats. Jim Paddock receiving half of his entry back for be-ing the first car reporting out of the race. Bradley Raceworks has had a "going the distance" chal-lenge to all classes. Those driv-ers that finish all the required laps for all three desert races split $2,000.00. There were seven drivers who did just that and their take each is $281.77. Those drivers are Dale Smith, Patrick Timmons, Chad Giguiere, Bob Roggy, Jaklevick/Jones and quad rid-ers Mike Jasmann and Kenney Pomeroy. Casino West put up $1,000.00 to the top three overall winners and they were $200.00 to Mike Lehners, Class 10 third place overall, $300.00 to Rob Parsons, Class 1 second place overall and $500.00 to Sam Berri, Class 10 and first overall. The 2008 desert series is in the books and if 2009 picks up where 2008 left off look for more money, more sponsors, more miles and new tracks for the Vorra series. ~ Mike Lehners drove his really good looking car to a silver medal finish in the Class 10 competition, dropping cobwebs along the way. Dusty Times

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By Sr. Chupacabra BAJA 1000 HALLOWEEN Course PREP Check out www.myspace.com/ bajacancerfoundation Baja Cancer Foundation P.O. Box 1007 Atwood, California 92811 BREASTCANCERAWARNESS MONfH SrChupacabra in this Interna-tionally distributed issue of "The Dusty Times" calls for all Baja Kin-folk (relatives) to transport into BAJA for the annual Halloween get together of all and anyone that comes to BAJA to prepare the BAJA 1000 race course to cause Grie_f, Frustration, Dislike Condi-tions, Electric Storms, Sewage River Beds, Lost Hopes and Havoc to all racers insane enough to enter and race the 2008 BAJA 1000 in Mexico. After SrChupacabra and his clan set up the BAJA course with the goal of all that enter to lose your mind, we will use our Hallow-een tactics which have evolved from simple dirt humps to elaborate il-lusions to make this race the worst ever for all entrants. We also recommend you have a BAJA TESTED AND APPROVED Video Recording System by www.CHASECAM.com on your vehicle, so when you crash and burn, you can watch what BAJA has done to your wasted race ve-hicle while you recover from the crash. You will at least have action shots of the race you tried to fin-ish. We recommend two www.CHASECAM .. com camera systems for fron·t and rear footage. Beware of our Chupacabra Ways and always share crash footage with others. · Dusty Times Don't even expect to finish this years race as we will put so many boobie traps in your path you will quit after just 45 miles into the race. This Interna'tional race that not even the world militaries will run is sooooooooooo difficult that not even the media will venture into this vulture lined race . .Anyone that has the Denny's Gland Slam courage to enter will be scared out of there. wits after the SrChupacabra fam-ily of evil creatures arrives to turn the BAJA into a Race Course only maybe 50% of you will finish. The Swiss Guard that keeps the Holy Vatican safe won' t even at-tempt to challenge this BAJA 1000 course. As we have told you racers over and over again. The Baja For-gives NO ONE. Not even the Swiss Guard could finish this race and they have God Looking down on them to keep them safe. And a little bit of information you thought you knew, BAJA is exempt from any properly working safety .devices in the world. Anyone that brings safety devices to this race better have a chase truck running very close. Any senses by the Chupacabra Clan that detects a safety device will be disabled by the hand o f Chupacabra and you will be left in the middle ofBAJA NO WHERE until the vultures have their -way with your dead carcass. Go ahead and give it a try, bring whatever you may think is a Safety device to calm your nerves. The pain is about to begin HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Foolish Racers. Sat Phones in the Middle of the course, HA HA HA HA HA HA for you, the batteries will be DRAINED by Chupacabra, Oil Pressure lights come on when the oil pressure is low???? The Bulbs will break and you will never know you have low oil pressure until the mo-tor Locks up, HA HA. HA HA. GPS units tell you to go in all dif; ferent directions. GPS is a video game that is · controlled by Chupacabra. You better be able to read the signs of the Score-Interna-tional labeled course, because Chupacabra's also messes with this marking system. Even NASCAR approved Bajapits has been known=2 Oto float away to other locations that are finally located by serious BAJA 1000 racers. Your Gearbox is suppose to shift smoothly, not if the clutch is gone, Your RO LEX is showing what time it is to stay on track, they fall off your wrist HA HA HA HA, Shift levers on motorcycles fall off, shocks leak, motors overheat, ball joints fall apart, sewer rivers hydro lock your motor, HA HA HA HA, float bowls get stuck open, and silt beds suck you under to the under-world. Don't expect anyone in BAJA to help you since every Chupacabra wants you to FAIL and go home CRYING to your Mommy and Daddy. But the Rac-ers that help the Baja People will be given special treatment. You may get to live this one BAJA 1000 out to finish. Don't forget to make your Will out before entering this•evil area of the globe. HA HA HA HA HAHAHAHA. Other issues at hand are that if you try to pass safely, you will flip over and your vehicle will burst into flames. HA HA HA HA HA HA . Think your fire extinguisher will work on a truck fire. Not out here in BAJA, Chupacabra has many ways to stop that device from safely working. Ever wonder why the class Cars and Trucks have many Rows of Lights? Chupacabra with make them go out one by one until you have to hold that flashlight to see the evil, frustrating course you are trying to follow for the Win. But You won't finish. Play it SAFE and STAY HOME. When you go through our BAJA Rivers fille d with wet Sewage, the spark plug wires will ground out and you will have a motor that cranks over un-til the battery is dead. Yes, My over zealous and arrogant friends, we November 2008 Chupacabra's will make You lost in Action, never to be found. And Halloween brings out the best of our Evil ways to stop you in your (our) tracks. Even seasoned chase truck per-sonnel respect the Chupacabra and help the locaJ Baja Peoples. If not, the fuel they bring to the race may just float away or be tainted with water. Water in your fuel does not get you to the finish line. Many hardships will be upon the Baja 1000 racers this year as Chupacabra feels that his Gold Mines have been disturbed in the past years by racers that try to stop and get Chupacabra's GOLD to help pay for their race costs. Any-one taking Gold from the Chupacabra will pay dearly for this act. It is the Gold of BAJA and is for the childten's future. If you see a vehicle broken down in ·the middle of no where and aban-doned, look for traces of Gold and fresh blood. As the Chupacabra has taken back what is rightfully theirs. What happens in BAJA, Stays in BAJA. Don't mess with BAJA Pilgrims!! And Insurance in BAJA may help you if Chupacabra allows it to be so. Witches are now in BAJA and they get really mean if you racers mess with the fence lines. Many hours of labor go into the fences tha t keep cattle and goats in pas-ture. Mess with those fences and you will pay with your life as the witches will rip out you lungs .to be made into other forms and uses we can not discuss. October is the month when all evil enters BAJA to pre-pare the November BAJA 1000 race course, this is not the month you want to pre-run, But if you are seen by a witch, you will be turned into SILT! Yes a witch can turn YOU into Si,LT. Go ahead and try me!! And, the vehicles that are stuck in the silt will dissolve within six hours. So say good by to your efforts to finish the BAJA 1000 for 2008. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! This articlt; is making it as clear as day, a_nd dark as night that this could be a warning to stay home and not enter this evil, filthy, wicked, disgusting, apocalyptic, RIP, scummy, dreadful, morbid, dusty, scary, smelly race. Just stay home and hide within the stucco walls of your home or better yet join the Army and get an M-16 to see if that keeps you safe. But as for safe races in BAJA, HA HA HA it ain't going to happen. Plan on getting run over by a few trophy trucks, just cause. You are in Chupacabra's territory and that means you racers will kneel before us and we may keep you alive to·tell the others not to come here. We don't want anyone here that thinks they can20finish the BAJA 1000. Go Away!!! Who else shows up during the October month of Halloween??? You just had to ask ...... Goblins that range from 2feet-7feet tall. Some of the Ugliest Goblins show up to make sure the pebbles that get pelted at you while racers pass you are so sharp they will cut you and your vehicle in half or cause major damage. We don't want you to finish!!! Get our Drift Pilgrim racers? A goblin has the worst breath you could ever encounter and can be notices 100 feet away. Better be up wind of a Goblin. Zombies are what you really need to look out for while racing in the BAJA 1000, Even BAJAPITS and LOCOS MOCOS are con-stantly looking for Zombies who just walk around all over with no focus of direction. Many, many rac-ers have ran over the Zombies that come to BAJA for the races. And, are run over. Yet the Same Zom-bies return race after race because you can't kill them. If a Zombie Continued next page RACEREADYPRODtJCTS · 103 MESS LANE SUITE 4 CHULA VISTA, CA 91910 (619) 691-9171 (866)891-9111 TOLL FREE (619} 691-0803 FAX Page 49

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bites you, beware as there is no cure for what you transform into. Zom-bies don't sleep they have torn clothes and reek of SC';wage and dead meat rotting. Pray they do1/t touch you. "Wicked Things" are also part of the race. "Wicked Things" are fast moving little fuzzy tainted ani-mals that will trick you into driving into areas that are not on the course. "Wicked Things" smell like expensive cigars mixed with rwo stroke oil. They are very fast, have lured drivers over cliffs, can't be trusted and can hypnotize you into stopping to get your Berings for rwo to three hours of lost race time. "Wicked Things" also like to take RO LEX watches from your wrist to gleam at when that stop to eat fresh meat that was killed during the race. The only way to scare off a "Wicked Thing" is to flash your HID lights at them and play Gospel Music. Just · another form of evil that is what the BAJA 1000 is all about. We at BAJAPITS have giant HID lights in our pits ran off 30KW Diesel Gen-erators to create enough light and Gospel Music to keep the "Wicked Things" away from harming our pit crews. This is a safe zone for riders who may need to rest while racing the BAJAlO00. "Wicked Things" are not very nice. The Gospel Mu-sic should be in a fast tempo. Ex-Vixes are what you see·float-ing in the air in the dark only. Ooky-Spooky, They love to drop rocks on you as you race the BAJA 1000 Course, Why?? Well if you get hit by a r-ock and hear a screaming laugh, you will know an Ex-Vixes just got you.good. If you can catch one they make really good pets to keep the mice out of your barn. But not many people have ever been able to keep an Ex-Yixes in their possession. We at BAJAPITS never recommend you take any of Chupacabra Kinfolk into you life. diately. Beware Foolish Racers. Ex-Vixes will not entertain your leav-ing the race course in pne piece. Also, Just reminder that we are having the BAJA RAFFLE at www.FUNBIKE.com SAN DI-EGO, CALIFORNIA this Novem-ber 5th 2008@7,30PM. NOW, THAT'S WHAT I'M TALK'IN ABOUT AGAIN? Get a Clue BAJA 1000 RACERS. We at BAJAPITS are an International Organization and we are Having the 7:30PM, 2008 Baja Raffle at the Biggest, Giant, Huge, Humongous, Motorcycle, ATV, Jet Ski, Boats, Sales/ Parts Department in the World. Log on and caeck out Fun Bike Center. We have 15 first prizes that include 1-rwo weeks sat phones. 2-rwo drums of Sunoco Fuel. 3-pair of 14" 2.5 KING SHOCKS. 4-Full Service Pit Sup-port for Cars. 5-Full Service Pit Support M/ C ATV. 6-Four Gen-eral Tires. 7-MC or ATV Desert Tank. 8-One 4 Gallon Dry Break w/stand. 9-rwo weeks Mexican In-surance. 10-rwo new Master Craft Seats. 11-2050CC Pit Bike from Fun Bike Center. 12-$400.00 from JBA HEADERS. And MORE. Call Carlos for your Raffle Ticket to-day. It's only $10.00 Phone in your order at 619 596 8033. You need not be present to win the stuff. We will ship it to you. Or you can pick up your winnings at BAJAPITS. Better get your tickets today! We will have more prizes, but you will have to come to Fun Bike Center in San Diego to see what else we got. Owner Gary Roundy is an avid Off Roader and felt it was about time we had a huge get together at his Off Road Store. More Events to follow. Make sure you buy your Raffle Tickets! W'WWIHEPINKHUMMERCOM with Julie Newell with be there at the FUN BIKE EVENT NOV 5th, , Jon Probst:. flying high e coma, source. tar ra dCre • Driving Suits • Cn1W Unlfatms • CrewShlm • Palo Shirts • Tt1am Jat:k8I$ • Hals • Gearlllltp NOW FEATURING: . In-House Embroidery Driver Names • Team U>fJ().S • Spm1s()r Li,gos 1.BIJ0.'700.2350 • Fax 11119.360.0436 3834 ·wacker Drive • Mira Loma, CA 91752 2008. She also runs WWW.ALOTTAH2O.COM for water truck services in Orange county and attends· Grand Slam Breakfasts at Denny's. Let's help her with the Baja Cancer Foundation Drive for toys for the KIDS of BAJA. As you racers and fans cross the border into BAJA, Take a box . ' . . .. -~-------..,;. of clothes for the kids in the remote area of BAJA that you set up camp to watch the race .. The local kids can use shoes, toys, sox, bo~ks, shirts, pants, cookies, toothpaste, soap, cooking utensils, blankets. You have stuff that sits in your house and collects dust. Put it to a better use and take it to BAJA for the Kids. Chupacabra may even give you a big sloppy kiss and hug for doing so. Make sure you get a www.ChaseCam.com for the race. And for the RACERS that do enter, BAJAPITS will be at mile markers BAJ AP ITS # 1 RM40, BAJAPITS #2 RM85, BAJAPITS #3 RM128, BAJAP_ITS #4 RM 150, BAJAPITS #5 RM 190, BAJAPITS #6 RM230, LOCOS MOCOS #7 RM283, BAJAPITS #8 RM315, BAJAPITS #9 RM355, LOCOS MOCOS #10 RM403, BAJAPITS #11 RM425, BAJAPITS # 12 RM465, BAJAPITS #13 RM510, BAJA PITS # 14 RM560, Iron Range system near Gilbert, Minn. features a system of 36 trails and 1,200 acres of recreation in a north woods setting with scramble areas, training hills and rock crawls, The BFGoodrich grant will be used to preserve the trail system and con-tinue conservation efforts for one of America's premier areas for off- · roading. BFGoodrich Tires, working in conjunction with Tread Lightly!• and United Four Wheel Drive As-sociations (UFWDA), chose the Iron Range system because it pro-vides riding opportunities for many skill levels on varied terrain - rock, dirt, mud and hills. pol.I.Jerad by Fuel Safe. BAJAPITS #15 RM595. Be there or be square. CALL CARLOS AT BAJAPITS TO SIGN UP FOR BAJAPITS SERVICE AT 619-596-8033 "The Iron Range system of trails is an off-roader's paradise because it offers activities for every type of off-roader and obstacles that cover the board in difficulty and skill lev-els," said Joe Mazur, light truck brand category manager for BFGoodrich Tires. "We're honored to join with the Northern Minne-sota Jeepers club to help in the con-servation efforts for this amazing off-road trail system." The Northern Minnesota Jeepers club is a non-profit, organization and supports Off-Highway Vehicle www.fuelsafe.com 1-800-433-6524 Page so November 2008 OUTSf ANOING . l~S BFGoodrich Tires Recognizes Iron Range Trail System as Part of the 2008 Outstanding Trails Gilbert, Minn. - July 28, 2008 -More than 50 off-road enthusiasts and members of the Northern Min-nesota Jeepers club gathered Sun-day to celebrate as BFGoodrich Tires named the Iron Range system as one of its 2008 Outstanding Trails and awarded the club a grant. The ' (OHV) recreation within the spirit of Tread Lightly. The club works in conjunction with other area clubs to assist in the maintenance and preservation of existing 4WD OHV opportunities and the creation of new opportunities where possible. "We are very pleased to have the Iron Range system included in the 2008 Outstanding Trails program," said Phil Anderson, vice president of the Northern Minnesota Jeepers club. "As Joe said, this system has a little bit of everything and we are thrilled that this grant money can be used to keep the trail system open for everyone as well developing new trail riding opportunities." Launched in 2006, the BFGoodrich Tires Outstanding Dusty Times

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2011.L~hts ·6 20ft, $93.40 -82M. $101.20 ·1020fl. $128.2() -122Cft.. $185.20 High Misalignment Adaptars JlfJCT Mries C:hromoly MX$T $2().05 'MX10T$26.1B NIii red&blue Complete Line of NG\,/ Hampshire Bali Boorlngs, lnc, Weld-In l:Jungs · 12T$33c.25 «I~ 14T$60.78 ·· 1U$75.1V '. . , ·•··•··1~ .·. ·PReCISION , ··•i ,. MCI,_ ,..._ ... Trails program is dedicated to the responsible use, and preservation of, off-road trails while providing aid in the trails' conservation efforts. Over the past two years, the Out-standing Trails program has recog-nized 11 off.road trails in nine states and one in Canada. The program has also given $42,000 in grants to clubs and seen more than 1,700 participants in trail events. The following additional five trails have also been selected as part of the 2008 BFGoodrich Tires Out-standing Trails program: BlackCat Trail located on Superstition Mountain near San Diego, California Blacktail / Wild Bill Na-tional Recreation Trail located in northwest Montana Quinn Trail that leads to Quinn Lake in Ottawa, Canada Pritchett Canyon, one of the toughest trails in Moab, Utah Beasley Knob OHV trail located near Blairsville, Georgia To learn more about these trails, visit the Outstanding Trails Web site at www.bfgoodrichtires.com/ outstandingtrails. Both Tread Lightly! And UFWDA are non-profit organiza-tion dedicated to responsible and ethical outdoor recreation. BFGoodrich Tires collaborated with these two groups to select the finest off-road trails, and will con-tinue to work with these organiza-tions on restoration and education initiatives. Tread Lig:htly! Tread Lightly! is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to proactively protect recreation access and opportunities. Tread Lightly!'s strategic-educational mes-sage, along with its training and res-toration initiatives are designed to instill an ethic of responsibility in outdoor enthusiasts and the indus-tries that serve them. The program is long-term in scope with a goal to Dusty Times 2865, .. GLJRQRY AVE.. SIGN ·. .·. · .~ 90755 balance the needs of the people who enjoy outdoor recreation with the needs of the environment and it's leading the way to help remedy cur-rent and future recreation issues. Tread Lightly! is proud to be recog-nized by the USDA Forest Service and its partner actively engaged in collaborating to implement solu-tions to the problem associated with outdoor recreation. United Four Wheel Drive Asso-ciations (UFWDA) United Four Wheel Drive Asso-ciations is the world's leading repre-sentative of all-brand four wheel-drive enthusiasts. UFWDA benefits, developed and tested true over the past 30 years, include four wheel drive safety and awareness educa-tion; user ethics programs such as adopt-a-road, conservation volun-teer, and volunteer trail patrol; as-sistance with new club formation; education seminars to aid four wheelers through complex state and federal programs affecting trail ac-cess; Internet forums designed to connect members globally and in-stantaneously; and unrestrained member access to its full-time legisla-tive advocate and nationally-recog-nized attorney working exclusively for four wheel drive enthusiasts to protect access and prevent road and trail closures. For more informa-tion on the UFWDA log on to www.ufwda.org or call toll free 1-800-44-UFWDA (800-448-3932). BFGoodrich Tires Using motorsports as a proving ground for more than 30 years, BFGoodrich Tires is involved in ev-ery type of racing, including oval, sports car, drifting, drag, desert, dirt, rally and extreme rock-crawling. BFGoodrich Tires combines tech-no logica I expertise with vast motorsports experience, delivering a high-performance tire for every type of vehicle. Visit BFGoodrich Tires online at www.bfgoodrichtires.com BFGaadricH -----------:rer BFGoodrich Tires Featured in NewTHQ Video Game BAJA"': Edge of Control"' GREENVILLE, S.C. - Aug. 12, 2008 - It's no secret BFGoodrich November 2008 Tires knows its way around the desert. For more than three decades of desert racing, BFGoodrich tires have domi-nated events and brought home more class wins and overall trophies than any other tire manufacturer. BFGoodrich Tires has also devel-oped a racer support network that is as close to its heart as the competi-tors that race on their tires. Now BFGoodrich Tires' dedication to its desert heritage is showcased in the most realistic off-road racing video game to date and appropriately titled, BAJA n: Edge of Control™. Published byTHQ Inc., the leader in off-road racing games, BAJA: Edge of Control brings the definitive off-road racing experience to the PS3 and 360 consoles with the largest unpredict-able terrains in the most realistic off-road racing game ever created. Play-ers build the ultimate off-road ma-chine and conquer towering moun-tains and race along steep cliffs. Each vehicle featured in the game will be equipped with BFGoodrich tires and players will have the opportunity to race more than 160 sponsored ve-hicles, including Trophy Trucks and off-road buggies. Throughout the game, players will have the chance to attack vast unforgiving environments, thick mud and deep canyons, while stopping in at several BFGoodrich Tires pit areas to upgrade their ma-chines with a full array of hundreds of authentic parts that affect each vehicle's performance in the relent-less cyber-desert. "The BAJA: Edge of Control racing game pushes the envelope of gaming realism and detail to a whole new level and we are thrilled to be involved," said Tom Jupena, marketing commu-nications manager at BFGoodrich Tires. "BFGoodrich Tires lineage in desert racing is unparalleled and we appreciate what THQ has done to create such a realistic off-road gam-ing experience while sharing our pas-sion for off-road racing with every-" one. For more information on this game visitwww.bajagame.com THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) is a leading worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertain-ment software. The company devel-ops its products for all popular game systems, personal computers and wire-less devices. Headquartered in Los Angeles County, California, THQ sells product through its global net-work of offices located throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. More information about THQ and its products may be found at www.thq.com. THQ, Baja: Edge of Control and their respective logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks ofTHQ Inc. Using motorsports as a proving ground for more than 30 years, BFGoodrich Tires is involved in ev-ery type of racing, including oval, sports car, drifting, drag, desert, dirt, rally and extreme rock-crawling. BFGoodrich Tires combines techno-logical expertise with vast motorsports experience, delivering a high-perfor-mance tire for every type of vehicle. Visit BFGoodrich Tires online at www.bfgoodrichtires.com OFF-ROAD BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, Inc. Environmental Groups Lose Major National Forest Manage-ment Lawsuit. Herger-feinstein Quincy Library Group Manage-ment Plan Vindicated By Federal Court BAKERSFIELD, CA (Au-gust 13, 2008) -The Eastern District of California Federal Continued on page 57 Page 51

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This group was formed in the early 90's by a county supervisor, a timber forester, and an environmental at-torney to try to develop a plan that would protect the environment, promote rural community stabil-ity, and reduce fire danger for lo-cal communities in the northern Sierra's. The plan they came up with was then adopted by local Re-publican Congressman Wally Hergei and Senator Diane Feinstein. The plan included thin-ning overstocked National Forests to improve forest health as well as reducing the potential· for cata-strophic fires adjacent to rural communities. Even though the HFQLG plan was endorsed by environmental-ists· that participated in develop-ing the plan, major national envi-ronmental groups challenged the plan in the federal court system and have blocked projec~s to re-duce fire danger, protect the Cali-fornia Spotted Owl, and improve forest health. The Quincy Library Group intervened in the lawsuit on behalf of the Forest Service, along with several other groups. HFQLG member Linda Blum re-sponded "After the recent fires, the spotted owls and old growth trees will always be near to our hearts, because now little pieces of them are lodged in our lungs. Losing habitat to wildfires is very dangerous to all species. It's just wrong because it could have been prevented." Bill Dart, ORBA's Director of Land Use, was heavily involved in the Sierra Nevada Conservation Framework in the mid 90's that included the HFGLG plan as an element. Dart stated, "The Forest Service was needlessly delayed from moving forward to protect old growth forests arid all of the species that live there: as well as local communities. Short sighted environmental groups were willing to sacrifice habitat, plants, ani-mals, and fish that live there, en-dangering lives and property while denying residents the· chance for good jobs that would have pro-Dusty Times tected all of these things. The Forest Servke can now get back to doing the job they are chartered to do, managing National Forests based upon sound science instead of misguided emotions." Corporate Office 1701 Westwind Dr. #216 Bakersfield, CA 93301 Corporate Office 661.323.1464 National Trail Recreation Group Petitions Ad Council To Pu// Inflammatory Alv Fire Prevention Campaign POCATELLO, ID Quly 21)-A national trail recreation group is strongly urging the Smokey Bear program to revise its current A TV fire iirevention campaign. On be-half of outraged OHV enthusiasts, the BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC) contacted the Ad Council last week strongly urging them to with-draw the inaccurate and inflam-matory A TY-oriented public service advertisements. BRC reviewed the ad material posted at www.smokeybear.comand found the PSA was sending the wrong message to riders operating their A TV s in a legal manner with functioning USDA Forest Ser-vice approved spark arrestors. The ad implied that the proper way for motorized recreationists to prevent wildfires is for them to load up their vehicles and go home. Smokey Bear has historically caution~d the public against care-less acts, such as tossing a lighted cigarette out of a moving automo-bile or not properly extinguishing a campfire. BRC feels this ad · should be focused on educating the public about using approved spark arrestors on their OHYs and confining their use to legal roads, trails, and areas. · Don Amador, BRC spokesper-son on the use of sound compli-ant mufflers and spark arrestors, states, "As an advocate for the use oflegal exhaust systems on public and-private lands, I found the current Smokey Bear A TV wildfire PSA to be offensive, unethical, and un-professional. The ad should have been focused on encouraging en-thusiasts to use legal spark arres-tors on their-OHVs and stay on Response-to-A TV-and 1,200 organization and business Ad-2008]ul 16.pdf members, for a combined total of over ### 600,000 recreationists nationwide. 1--The BlueRibbon Coalition is a na- 800-25~3742. tional recreation group that champi-http:// www.sharetrails.org ~------------------, I "l'rlllPVltlfl Dar Natural Renum1 FOB Name _____ _ TU Pdlh: llllllltl OI FllDM 17't PlltllC" Address ______ I "BRC has heard from a num-ber of our recreation partners and agency staff who are equally out-raged by this PSA It is our hope the Ad Council, Forest Service, and National Association of State Foresters withdraw this ad .and work with BRC and other stake-holders to develop a legitimate outreach program to the OHV I We're Fighting For Your Access Rights! c· · I I J-Oin the ljlueRibbon eoatition ity _______ I I 4555 Burley Dr. Suite A • Pocatello, ID • 83202 State __ Z~ Code Individual Membership: 0 $20/year U S250 Lffetime I I □ Organizaticr}Business Membe/Ship S100iyear I I PAYMENT TYPE: □ Clleci( J Crecit Card (belov;i O VISA O Mutif"...aro () Ame~ Expiess O C'iSco,er h , t ii - I I Cred!Calli•_ _ E,qi. __ J_J_ www.s a e ra s.org .1 L---~~~~~~!~~~~~---J I-I ff,.,, ,. ,, .,,, vacation rentals available In the excluslve Indian Wells country Club in the sunny Palm Springs area of southern caHfornla.. Two or three bedrooms, furnished for your complete relaxation, and, If you are a glutton for punishment, play golf on either of two Deautltul courses .. FYI, wireless internet and long distance_ P_h_ones_ calls (USA) Included._ starting at 54,500 in season (January thru April) or $2,300 per month out of seaso·n .. Call (760) 345-6124 November 2008 Page 57

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FOR SALE: Alumacraft Pre-runner, 4 Seater Set For 3, 4.3 L V-6, 5-speed Mendeola, 50w Road master W /Com, 7" Ops Lowrance, Hid's, 24 Gal Fuel Safe, Pumper, Lots Of Spares, Street Legal, Ari-zona Plates. Prepped & Ready To Go. $55,000.00. Call Jan Or Steve @ 661-294-1866 M/F 7:30 -4pm. Staats Jan@sbcglobal.net FOR SALE: Bryan Freeman's Championship SNORE Car.Tig welded frame, FAT dual port (just serviced),MSD Folts Trans. questek ,gun drilled axels,Pro-Am ,Fox custom 4 tube bypass (set up by Freeman), new Beard T-1, new Simpson , new TCS, new SAW , new adjusters, Roadmaster , new Odyssey, new cooler,dual fuel, BFG, 16' Centerlines, new CNC ,extra body,Fuel Safe,Auto Meter,Howe,Saco,Momo,quick release,SCORE tag.Car is fast and light!Prepped and ready. Serious buyers Only! $29,999. Call 949-291-3912. FOR SALE: Jimco 2000, Excel-lent Condition, Light Weight, Low Miles, 3.5 liter Honda V-6, Mendeola S-5. New parts includ-ing Class 1 rear arms, CVs, wir-ing, seats/ belts, radio/intercom, brake lines, hoses. 8 to 10 mpg on p 1 ump gas. Race in class one or convert back to class 10. 89K Charles 520-97 5-0456 FOR SALE: 2005 Alumi craft Dual Sport Pre-Runner. Acura 3.2 V6 V-Tech. Mendeola S4D Transmission. Fox Bypass Shocks around. 19 gallon Fuel Cell. Fully Loaded w/Race Ra-dio/Parker Pumper. Registered in Ca-Green Sticker good through June 2009. This car pre-runs like a DREAM! Call Troy Wilson at (619) 504-9265 or tkhwi lso n@s bcglo bal. net. FOR SALE: Class 10 Jimco. Honda motor, Fortin 5 speed transmis-s ion, new Fuel Cell, new Bypass Fox shocks, new Pro-Wiring and SCORE tagged. Asking $60,000.00. Call Justin (949) 280-6722. Dusty Times FOR SALE: Foddrill 12/10, 1835 FAT Plenum motor dry sumped w/dual CompuFire, Mendeola se-quential 5 speed w/indicator by Dave Folts, CNC, turning brake w/bias adjuster, Lightened 934 CV's, Kings done by Webber-3 front bypass, 5 rear bypass, Mastercraft w/adjustable drivers seat, BTR wheels, w/beadlock on wheels, Sweet & Howe Oiablo rack, Fuel Safe, cell w/1 dry brake & 1 regular filler, Lowrance 6500 C OPS, lcom radio & intercom, Parker Pumper, Score legal, Alu-minum light bar, Prepped by PBW. Contact Steve (928) 442-9285 or Jim (480) 894-1286. FOR SALE: 1990 Bronco 4WD PreRunner, 302 EFI, Edelbrock t/b, Headman Headers, C6 Trans, 9" rearend, 4:56 gears, with possi. AutoFab Glass+ Sus-pension, Laduc trailing arms. National Springs. 3 Rancho per wheel, full skid plates, 6 point cage, Beard seats. Clean ready to go. George (303) 789-5427. $20,000.00 2006 Jimco Dominator,,400 in. LSI-Redline, Mendeola HD 4, 25" front travel, 27" rear travel, size 30 cv's with sliding axle, TT CNC front hubs, TT rear hubs, Beard, Crow, Fuel Safe 80 gallon tank, BTW wheels, Toyo tires, All spares and a possible parts deal, $145,000.00 OBO, Jeff Quinn/ McKenzies, 807 E. Orangethorpe, Anaheim, CA 92801, (714) 815-8466. FOR SALE: (07) 2 Seat Tatum Class 10 Race Car, Toyota 1750cc AGE Fuel Injected ,mo-tor, Mendeola Trans, Howe Steering, Parkers, OPS, PCI Ra-dio & Intercom, Kartek shifter, Custom Sheet metal. 400 miles on fresh motor & trans, ready to race. $60,000.00 OBO. Call (520) 519-0241. FOR SALE: Pflueger Racing Overall Winning Trophy Truck. Full ground up prep, fresh re-build on Kroyer Racing motor, spare motor (new), many extras, top of the line parts.No expense spared. Ready to race now. $300,000.00. Call shop for de-tails 951-694-9800 FOR SALE: Pre-Runner to Buy. Foddrill 3-4 seat street legal Reg-istered in Texas, LS6 pump gas 400hp, Fortin w/converter, Fox shocks coil over and by-pass, YOO, Howe, WR coolers, 50 gal cell, Mastercraft, BF on JJ wheels, Pro Am hubs and brakes, Roof rack w/light bar , Race radio w/carbon fiber head sets, XM radio w/external speak-ers, OPS, ODO shows 546 miscarbon fiber dash, wind-shield, a set of spare tires w/ wheels, a set of sand tires w/ wheels, chase box, spare parts, single axle open trailer inc. $119,000.00 Negotiable. Cesar Fuentes (915) 726-3823 afuentes@fuentes7.com.mx. FOR SALE: Jimco 2 Seat 1600, Score legal, previous Score points champ, Kings just serviced by Webber, Fresh FAT dual port, Lightweight hoses, OFT Transmission, OFT rear hubs, serviceable, Kartek shifter, Mastercraft with ad-justable drivers seat, Light-ened 930 CV's Fuel Safe w/ dry break, Foddrill Beam & Torsion housings, New Foddrill front, arms & spindells, Sway-A-Way, Sweet Saco & Howe, Lowrance 480c GPR Icom, V-8000 and Inter-com, Odyssey Battery, Parker Pumper, CNC Willwood, Dual MSD Ignition, BTR rims Yokohama tires, Sister car to Bekki Freeman Wik, Car com-pleter rebuilt by Foddrill 4/ 06, Spare parts, contact Steve (928) 442-9285 or Jim@ (480) 894-1286. FOR SALE: 1994 Home-made gooseneck enclosed race trailer, 39', lifted for clearance, 10,000 lb tan-dem t orsion axles, alum sides, 77 ¼" ceiling, fin-ished inside panels, 4kw Kohler generator with s hore power, roof mount Coleman A/C 29' of cargo space, 90.5" wide, 85'x74'h ramp door, awning, genera-tor fuel tank, water tank with outside shower, mounted craftsman tool chest, cabinets with work top, solar charger, exterior lights, carpet, removable screen a t ramp door, less than 1,000 miles o n new brakes, bearings and hubs, 5 new tires, $9,500.00 (602) 989-2488, (480) 516-0880. November 2008 FOR SALE: Pflueger Racing Chase Truck. HD Duramax Die-sel 4x4 Dually. Utility bed crew cab, custom tire rack. Leather in-terior. 110 watt Kenwood race radio. KMC Wheels/ BFG A/T tires. Tranny cooler, 50 gallon fuel tank, tow package. Well maintained, excellent condition. $28,000.00. Call shop for de-tails 951-694-9800. FOR SALE; 5/1600 SCORE le-gal, previous Lonekid SNORE Champ Car, Fresh Motor, Trans, Lightened 930 CV's, BTR Rims, MT Tires, Kings, RacePak Dsch, OPS, Radio IntCom, Fresh Prep,, Dual Spares, Parker Pumper, multiple wins in this car. Very competitive, lots of new parts, too much to list, new paint. $28,000.00 OBO. (714) 636-3135, (714) 606-9039. CLASS 8 GOT MILK? CHEVY: 3 SCORE Class 8 points Cham-pionships, 13 Score Wins in-cluding 6 Baja 500s. Can win its class any day and usually top 20 overall. Best of everything. 700Hp. Comes with spare ev-erything, suspensions, tranny, engine, tires, bodies, etc. Prepped and ready to win. $175,000 Nick Vanderwey (602) 763-3883. FOR SALE: Jimco Champion, less then 400 miles, Race Prepped, LS7-Motor, Stainless Headers/jet coat, Albins 5-Speed Sequential, Tilton clutch, Fox Shocks, Fuel Safe, Drybrakes, ProAm mid-Board 935 Hubs, TCS Axles, New front ProAm Hubs 6 piston cali-pers, OPS 10" Screen, Race-Pak Dash, 179K with motor, 164K without motor. Call Charles 520-975-0456 FOR SALE: Approx. 1.3 acre lot. Paved, gated and well lit. Has a 2 office building with 4 car covered parking. Located at 2980 S Sandhill Rd. Las Vegas, NV $ 4,500.00 per month. Please call (702) 375-3309. David. LAND FOR SALB: ACREAGE FOR SALE: 20 Acres of pine trees and Joshua, high up in the Tehachapi Mountains. Nestled within the borders of a huge ranch, locked gates en-sure your privacy. Two build-ing pads exist with view of the entire Antelope Valley. 70 minutes from the San Fernando Valley. Call Don at 661-268-1644. VACATION RENTAL Vacation Rental in the Exclusive Indian Wells Country Club in the Sunny Palm Springs area of Southern California! 2 or 3 bed-rooms, furnished for your com-plete relaxation and if you are a glutton for punishment, play golf on 1 or both of the beauti-ful courses. FYI, wireless internet and long distance phone calls (USA) included. Starting at $4,500.00 in season (Jan, Feb, March, April) or $2,300.00 per month not in sea-son. 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