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Volume 28 - Number 4 April 2011 DllliYlil■I I Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor John Calvin Associate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance Scott Contributors 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 Trackside Photo B.O.R.E. ---°"~~~ Subscription Rates: $25.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign · Subscription rates on request. Contributions: DUSTY TIMES welcomes contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited material will be returned only by request and with a self addressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 8750-1732) is published monthly by Hillside Racing Corp, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311, (818) 882-0004 with additional Dusty Times, LLC offices at 415 N. Higgins Avenue, Suite IA, 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., In This Issue ... FEATURES SCORE San Felipe by Judy Smith ............................................................. 8 11th Rally Of Mexico by Martin Ho!mes .................................................. 14 Lucas Oil At Fire bird Raceway by] Preston Bradshaw ............................. 18 MORE Balls Out 250 by Steve Ruddick ................................................... 20 VORRA At Prairie City by Troy Robinson ............................................... 32 BLM Insight by Steve Ruddick ................................................................... 36 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ····························'-=································································5 Trail Notes ................................................................................................ 6 Checkers Newsletter .............................................................................. 38 Tell Us About Yourself (Demographic Survey) ....................................... 41 Good Stuff Directory ............................................................................ 42 Classified Ads ......................................................................................... 47 Index To Advertisers ............................................................................... 47 ON THE COVER It was a great win for Rob MacCachren at the SCORE San Felipe 250, Rob drove his Ford F-150 Trophy Truck to the victory in 4:17:50, fastest finisher in the race. Photo by George Iribarren for Trackside Photo Andrew McLeod had a wonderful race at the MORE Balls Out 250, Andrew took Class 1 honors and he was the overall winner as well. Photo by Alan Madden for Trackside Photo Art Director Larry Worsham Visit Our Website at Dustytimes.com SNAPSHOT OF THE MONTH ••• Larry Noel and Tim Kennedy were first in the Class 1 contest at the 1984 Baja 500 eve"nt, seen here at verrrrry high speed. DUSTY TIMES will fi,ature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only prints up to Bx 10 or electronic media submitted via email will be considered. Dusty Times April 2011 Sud-ae-1ttd-e 7~ to-DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 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 _______ _ Primary Interest Cars D Trucks D Motorcycles D Send check or money order to: DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 Canadian • 1 year $30.00 US - Overseas subscription rates upon request Page 3

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-r 2011 Happenings ... lOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box36 CLEVES, OHIO 45002 <4x4 forever.org> (Al! events staged at the club ·wounds in Cleves. Ohio) 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 1665 DELA.WARE ST. OSHKOSH, Wl54901 AMERICAN RALLY SPORT GROUP, INc. 3650 SolJTH Po1NTE CIRCLE, Sum 205 LAUGHUN, NV 89208 (702) 298-8171/FAX: (702) 521-0597 <webl.userinstinct.com/27141325-ameri-can-rally-sport-group.htm. E Mail: roger@rallyusa.com AMERICAN TRIALS ASSOCIATION AMA Observed Trials Southern California Championship Series BILL MARKuM, 2010 PREs!DENT (909) 860-1857 24 HR HOTUNE, 2010 (714) 562-7742 E MAIL: BMARK909@AOLCOM <www.atatrails.com> AsocIACION °&TATAL . DE AUTOMOVILISMO SAM WELL, TECH INSPECTOR Arw42 SAN JosE DEL CABO BAJA CAUFORNIA DEL SUR. MEXICO AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP DARRYL SMITH 19 SOMERS ST. CA5HMERE, QUEENSLAND, 4500, AuSTRAUA DUSTY TIMES @bigpond.com AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFF ROAD Cuss 10 CARS ONLY RENALD VAILLANCOURT 3069 DAGENAIS WEST LAVAL QUEBEC, CANADA H7P 1T7 (450) 622-4440 <www.autocrossquebec.com/pages/ indexpag.html> BAJA CUP CHALLENGE BAJA PROTRUCK OFF ROAD RACE SERIES 14402 BOND CoURT EL CAJON, CA 92021 619-390-6252 The Protruck schedule for 2011 will consist of both the SCORE and Best In The Desert races. 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 Off Road Short Course Racing & Special Event Marketing NORCO, CA 92860 e-mail bbmracing@aol.com (909) 815-5811 BEST IN THE DESERT 3475 BoULDER HIGHWAY LAs VEGAS, NV 89121 702-457-577 5/FAX: 702--641-24 31 <www.bitd.com> March 4, 5, 6 2011 Gpr Stabilizers Laughlin U,S. Hare Scrambles "the Most Technical Desert Race In The U.S." Laughlin,NV Motorc:,cle Points Onb -No Pre-Fun Run March 25-27 2011 Motion Pro Nevada "200" Trail Ride (Non-Competitive Event) "an Epic Off-Road Adventure" Caliente, Nv Mc Only -Invitation Only -No Points -Call For More Information April 29-30, May 1, 2011 Bilek Racing Silver State "300" "the American Adventure Continues" Points For Al! Classes -Pre-Fun Run April May 13-15 2011 Epic Racing Bluewater Gran Prix "the Superstar Of Gran Prix Races" Parker,)µ Motorcycle, Quad & Ut11 Points Only (Mini Race) -No Pre-Fun Run August 18- 20, 2011 Tsco "vegas To Reno" "the Longest Off-Road Race In The United Dusty Times States" Points For All Classes -No Pre-Fun Run October 14-16 2011 Bluewater Desert Challenge "the American Challenge Continues" Parker, Az Car/Truck & Ut11 Points Only-No Pre-Fun Run December 2- 4 2011 Transwest Ford Henderson "250" "a Classic Off-Road Race" Henderson, Nv Points For All Classes • No Pre-Fun Run BORERAcING Allen Gerber 801-380-9011 - after 5pm please www.BORracing.org BP MoTORSPORTS P.O. Box 411 Woom.A~D HILLS, CA 91365 760-578-6258/760-578-6259 FAx: 818-348-4648 E-Mail: bpmotorsports@earthlink.net All Events At California Cir,, CA BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 BRIGHTON, ONTARIO, CANADA KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/FAx (613) 475-3250 CAJOR CuJB AUTOMOVILISTA }UARENSE DE CHAMPIONSHIP OFF-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> March 3-6, 2011 Desert Storm Rally (1,2,3) Blythe, CA April 9, 2011 High Desert Trails Rally,(3) April 2011 Ridgecrest, CA May 21, 2011 Plan B Rally (3) Indio,CA · June 18-19, 2011 Idaho Rally (2,3) Boise, ID July 8-9, 2011 North Nevada Rally (2,3) Lovelock, NV August 6, 2011 Mendocino Rally (2) Ukiah, CA August 27, 2011 Gorman Ridge Rally (3) Frazier Park, CA September JO-October 1, 2011 Prescott Rally (2,3) Prescott, AZ November 5, 2011 Seed 9 Rally (2) Jean, NV CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box400 MAYWOOD, CA 90270 (323) 560-SHOW CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 645 PIERRE, SD 57501 DAVE ADAMS (PILOTS AND BAJAS) (605) 224-9481 DoN ENGLEMAN (B1KES) (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. RICHARDS P.O. Box332 FAIR HAVEN, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLAIRTON HI-JACKERS I.C.O. TOM DELAUDER SR 1091 Twr. LINE ROAD WELLSVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Har-rison County Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH Continued on page 6 Pages

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Trail Notes ... SNORE MINT 400 -There were 187 entries in the Mint 400, there were 24 classes racing and 97 cars and trucks made it all the way. BJ Baldwin took the Unlimited Truck win and the overall, Bobby Baldwin was second in Unlimited Truck and second overall, Mike Childress won Class 1 and he was third overall, Karl Scanlon won Class 10, Dwayne Reinert took Class 12, Class 13 went to Steve Shimp, Gregg Zumwalt captured Class 1450, Tony Scott won Class 15, Blaine Conrad was the 1600 winner, Daniel Maurer won Class 18, Mike McCarthy took Class 4, Steve Alexander won Class 5, (thank God), Mike Boone won Class 5/1600, Bryce Yarbrough took the gold in Class 7, Macrae gold medaled in Class 8, Daniel Lutz was the Class 9 champion, Perry Coan won the Jeepspeed challenge, Tom Barnett was the JeepSpeed Cup winner, Robbie Cockrell won the NAPA Chassis 7S Challenge, Robert Johnson took the StockBug Class, Randy Merritt won the StockFull Class, Troy Messer won Trophy Lite and David Ecker was the VORE-VC winner. The full story and tons of pies in next months issue of Dusty Times. LUCAS OIL & MT TIRES -Mickey Thompson Performance Tires & Wheels joins forces with the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series this year as a sponsor. Through this program, Mickey Thompson will provide the legendary Baja tires and track-side support to racers. Mickey Thompson will work collaboratively with teams in the Pro-Lite Unlimited and Pro-Buggy Unlimited classes to test and prove their off-road tire products. "This is a fantastic venue for us to be involved in," stated Ken Warner, VP of Sales and Marketing for Mickey Thompson Performance Tires & Wheels. "Lucas Oil puts on the best short course race in the industry today and we are thrilled to be a part of the program. Back when Mickey Thompson himself was promoting his Mickey Thompson Stadium Series/ MTEG, he was the leader in this type of racing. We've built on that passion, and in 2011 our plan is to return to short course racing and prove our tires and increase our involvement as we go." About Mickey Thompson Performance Tires & Wheels Mickey Thompson Performance Tires & Wheels markets racing and high-performance tires and wheels for street, strip, truck, and off-road applications. The company was founded in 1963 by racing legend Mickey Thompson and is headquartered in Stow, Ohio, USA. For more information, visit http:/www.mickeythompsontires.com/. About the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series: The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series is the evolution of the long standing support of short course racing by Forrest Lucas and Lucas Oil Products. Steeped in the Midwest tradition of short course off road racing infused with a West Coast influence, Lucas Oil Off Road Racing brings intense four wheel door to door action to challenging, fan friendly tracks. Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series: This is Short Course. For more information please visit www.LucasOilOffRoad.com PRO PIT SERVICE GROUP -The Pro Pit pit service group Founded in 1985 by Jack Sypolt and his son Ken, was sold this year to Pat Bonse and Mike Hardesty. Pro Pit started in 1985 with just a pickup, a hand full of tools, bailing wire, a roll of duct tape, and a couple quarts of oil at a Vorra race. In 1991 we became part of the BFGoodrich Motorsports Support team. With BFG's help, Pro Pit also provided tire service at race events. Over Pro Pit's past 25 years they have worked with Vorra, BITD, Score, and several rock crawling organizations and 4 wheel drive groups. The new owners have worked with Pro Pit for the last 3 years and have a pretty good handle on the operation. Pat is an experienced Racer, mechanic, fabricator, and tire buster. Mike an USAF vet is also a racer, mechanic, fabbie, and electrical trouble shooter. These guys, along with Brenda Sellers who runs the radios, keeps times, cooks, hands out cold drinks, and cleans goggles, will be there helping racers get to the finish line. I would like to thank BFGoodrich tires and all the folks that have helped make Pro Pit a success and I hope the new owners will find it as rewarding as I did. Jack Sypolt CONTINENTAL TIRE -International automotive supplier Continental Tire announces its solidarity with the people of Japan and provides €250,000 in emergency aid for those living in the regions destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami. "Our thoughts are currently with the people of Japan who are living through one of the country's worst cri~es. Management and employees alike have been devastated by the disaster and its consequences. Fortunately, our own locations and employees have been largely spared the effects of this catastrophe. Precisely because of this, and because the Japanese people have always proven to be extremely willing to help in emergencies, we feel it is our duty to provide immediate aid," said Dr. Elmar Degenhart, Continental AG CEO, on Tuesday in Hanover in reference to the developments in Japan. "It is important for many Continental employees all over the world to help the people in Japan in their hour of need. This has often been the case in the past. For this reason, we recommend that our employees contact the familiar aid organizations if they wish to make personal donations," added Degenhart. "We are particularly concerned about all our employees in Japan. We-have set up a crisis team of specialists from various departments in order to use all of our resources to provide support to our colleagues in Japan and their families," explained Degenhart. C ontinental employs n early 950 people at a total of seven locations in Japan. With sales of € 26 billio n in 2010, C ontinental is among the leading auto m otive suppliers worldwide. A s a supplier of brake systems, systems and components for. powertrains and chassis, instrumentation, infotainment solutio n s, vehicle electronics, tires and technical elastomers, Continental contributes to enhanced driving safety and global climate protectio n . Continental is also an expert partner in networked automobile communication. C ontinental Page 6 Cum AuTOMOVILISTICA SAN QUINTIN CALLE 6TA FRACC Co. DE SAN QUINTIN SAN QUINTIN, BC, MEXICO HERACLIO PATINO (011 52 616-5-22-07) Cum AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE San Vicente Off Road ENSENADA, BC, MEXICO USA JAN WRIGHT (0115261746834) RAMON CASTRO & RUBEN ACEVEDO (61637/ 7 0034) CMC CONTINENTAL MoTOSPORT Cum P.O. Box 3187 MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690-3178 Fax: (714) 367-1608 CODE OFFROAD MADERO 621-A MEXICALI, MEXICO 21100 760-455-3069 USA 0ll-52-686-553-4087 MEXICO www.codeoffroad.com. mx COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION BARB V AHSHOLTZ, PRESIDENT (719) 531-3642 W/ (719)687-9827 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., SUITE 100 NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92660 866-501.CORR CORVA 1500 WEST EL CAMINO, SUITE 352 SACRAMENTO, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA EXT 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 CRS CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES <www,CaliforniaRallySeries.com D&T PROMOTIONS DAVE VAN DEREN 2405 BAKER AVE. EVERETT, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (All events at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thurston Count)' ORV Park, Olympia, WA) DAKAR RALLY DARREN SKILTON BAJA AUTOMOTIVE ADVENTURES 455 E. OCEAN BLVD., SUITE 208 loNG BEACH, CA 90802 (562) 755-2278/FAX: (562) 590-7925 <www.dakar.com> Bajaautomotive@Yahoo.com DECATUR FoUR WHEEL DRIVE Cum DECATUR, TX 76234 ToMALLEN (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 · DESERT STEEL MoTORSPORTS 1863 COMMANDER DRIVE LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ 86403 (928) 855-2208 EAsilRN OFF-ROAD RACING AssN. TOM DELAUDER, SR. 1091 ToWNsHiP LINE ROAD WELI.SVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 ENSENADA BAJA OFF ROAD RACING Av. REFORMA 1136 ENSADA, BC, MX 0l 1-52-646-1818989 Eus10 011-52-646-1715230 AARON Races for buggys & Motorcycles EsTERO BEACH INTERNATIONAL Short Course Racing VICTORIA GALINDO ENSENADA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO 01 l-52-646-176-6230 EDR EXTREME DESERT RACING P.O. Box 91615 AusnN,TX 78709 (512) 848-4344 / E FAX (1512) 687-5310 www.EDRTexas.com Car Truck Series March 4-6, 2011 Texana 225 Blackwell,TX May 13-15, 2011 April 2011 Texas 400 ORANGE, CA 92869 Notrees,TX 714-538-7434/ fax 714-633-1724 July 29-31, 2011 Sept 10-11, 2010 LoneStar 250 MORE Chilli CookOff 250 Blackwell.TX Lucerne Valley, CA October 7-8, 2011 Dec 3-4, 2010 West Texas 300 BITD Jeepspeed Challenge Finals Notrees,TX TBA Championship awards KAMLooPS OFF RoAD RACING Odessa,TX Whispering Pines Sports Bike Quad Series June 25-26, 2011 & Recreation Center Texas Baja 250 KAMLOOPS, BC, CANAD~ Blackwell, TX www.korrbc.ca. November 12 Mike Strange (250) 573-4003 Big Bike 200 LAS VEGAS SANDSPORTS & TBAFORDA FLORIDA OFF ROAD DRIVER'S OFFROAD EXPO ASSOCIATION (626) 961-3782 JASON LEIBIN <www.prerunners.com> (727) 376-4176 <www.megashow.com> Mar, Apr, May, NO<J at Davidson Raceway L.I.T.R.E. FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM JEFF ELROD (408) 926-0522 1855 PARKWAY ORNE J1MARUTA S. EL MONTE, CA 91733 (408) 247-4402 626-442-9320/959-579-6151FAx mdrracing@aol.com LOORRS GENERAL TIRE LUCAS OIL TROPHYLITE SERIES OFF ROAD RACING SERIES ORNE RACING ORGANIZATION March 12, 2011 760-352-6020 Round 1 Las Vegas, NV Firebird International Raceway Chandler, AZ GLEN HELEN OFF-ROAD BAJA March 13, 2011 CUP CHALLENGE SERIES Round 2 PO Box6950 Firebird International Raceway SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92412 Chandler, AZ CONTACT: BoB BEYER, OFF-ROAD D1REc-April 16, 2011 Round 3 TOR Speedworld Off Road Park PHONE: (909) 815-5811 Surprise, AZ www.glenhelenoffroad.com April 17, 2011 April 9, 2011 Round 4 Day Race Speedworld Off Road Park July 9, 2011 Surprise, AZ Night Race May 21, 2011 August 27, 2011 Round 5 Day Race Glen Helen Raceway December 1 7, 2011 San Bernardino, CA Night Race May 22, 2011 Short course, stadium and desert race "Round 6 classes Glen Helen Raceway GLfilll' HELEN BAJA CUP San Bernardino, CA CHALLENGE SERIES June 25, 2011 Round 7 PO Box 6950 Miller Motorsports Park SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92412 Tooele, UT CONTACT: BoB BEYER, June 26, 2011 OFF-ROAD DIRECTOR Round 8 PHONE: (909) 815-5811 Miller Motorsports Park " www.glenhelen.com Tooele, UT April 9, 2011 August 6, 2011 Day Race Round 9 July 9, 2011 Glen Helen Raceway Night Race San Bernardino, CA. August 27, 2011 August 7, 2011 Day Race RoundlO December 17 Glen Helen Raceway Night Race San Bernardino, CA GORRA September 24, 2011 GEORGIA OFF ROAD Round 11 Speedworld Off Road Park RAcING Assoc1ATION Surprise, AZ 420 HOSEA ROAD Septembert. 25, 2011 LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30245 Round 12 (404) 963-0252 Speedworld Off Road Park GPORRA Surprise, AZ November 5, 2011 GREAT PLANES OFF RoAD Round 13 RACING ASSOCIATION Las Vegas Motor Speedway TIM HODGE Las Vegas, NV (402) 991-6048 November 6, 2011 ScoTTMORROW Round 14 (816) 792-2)26 Las Vegas Motor Speedway (All races are short course, stadium style Las Vegas, NV . Classes, 2010 Sportsman, 1/2-1600, December 10, 2011 5-1600, Sport Truck, Quads, Tough Truck Round 15 Nebraska Raceway Park, Exit 420 on l-80 Firebird International Raceway between Omaha and Lincoln.) Chandler, AZ For latest info check December 11, 2011 < www.gporra.net> The Lucas Oil Challenge Cup Firebird International HIGH PLAINS OFF ROAD RACING Raceway 2000 W. QUINCY AVENUE #B Chandler, AZ ENGLEWOOD, CO 80110 303-806-8062/ 303-781-0974 fax MAMARRITA OFF ROAD RACING Luis CARLOS ALvAREZO INTERNATIONAL lcE RACING PANAMERICANA AVE #5105 Assoc1AT10N Co. JUAREZ, CHIH., MX P.O. Box 8105 011-52-1637-1799 ST. PAUL, MN 55108 MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS STEVE BEDDOR (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 Dune Buggy Trade Show (517) 543-7214 INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS <www.buggybuilders.com> PR0MoT10Ns, INc. MICHIGAN OFF ROAD P.O. Box 2910 CHAMPIONSHIPS MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 JONES ROAD }EEPSPEED GRAND LEDGE, ML 48837 1826 N. WINDES (517) 617-6200 Dusty Times

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Motorcycles, Quads, ATVs and Pilots only MAORA Mm-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION P.O. Box664 GREENUP, IL 62428 (217) 962-1318 E-MAIL: rooster@maourracing.us <www.maoraracing.us> MDR PRODUCTIONS OFF-ROAD RACING SERIES 1853 PARKWAY DRIVE, 2010 SollrH EL MONTE, CA 91733 PHONE: (626) 442-9320 FAX: (626) 579-6051 E-Mail: Info@mdrracing.com <www.mdrracing.com> 201 I California Championship Series 2011 Superstition Championship Series All Races 2010 at Plaster Cit;,, West/Ea.st M.O.R.E. MOJAVE OFF ROAD RACING ENTHUSIASTS P.O. Box 1231 BARSTOW, CA 92312 760-253-4453 <www.moreracing.net moreracing@earthlink.net Jan 22, 2011 2 Loop Short Course Barstow, CA March 19, 2011 Balls Out 250 May 21, 2011 Royal Purple's Memorail Day 500 July 16, 2011 Kar Tek's Freedom 250 September 10, 2011 Kartek Chili Cook Off 250 October 8, 2011 6th Annual Powder Puff December 3, 2011 Holiday 200 Toys for tots race MICHIGAN SPORT BUGGY AssocIATION DAVE BARRET 6363 NIGHTINGALE DR. FLINT, ML 48506 (810) 7 30-9221 MO'l'OWEST WINTER TluAI.s SERIES BILL MARKHAM (909) 860-1857 <www.lTStrials.com> AU euents at Perris Racewa1 (At Reed Val~ with a school) NATIONAL Muo RACING AssN. RT. #l, 2010 Box 380 DAVE OR MARLENE RYAN PALATKA, FL 32177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK AssN. Butch Chapin Motorsports Promo-tions 1404 EAST 3RD STREET HAsnNGS, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 NOORA NORTHERN Omo OFF RoAD RACING ASSN. GARY WULFF (724) 283-2678 E-MAIL Kaylaaron@aol.com <www.Nooraoffroadracing.com> Buggies, Pilot/Odysseys, Trucks, Quads (Spring Val~ Racewa1, on route 518, 20 minutes SW of Lisbon, OH) (Thunder Val~ located 15 minutes from Spring Val~) NORRA NATIONAL OFF RoAD RACING ASSOCIATION www.norra.com (661) 268-1232 May 4-8, 2011 2011 Mexican 1000 Rally OFF ROAD EXPO SPIN COMMUNICATIONS (415) 380-3890 Meghan@spinpr.com OFF RoAD RAcING AssocIATI0N Volunteered Series PRESIDENT, 2010 GEOFF LEE 1243 TRICE ROAD LEBANON, TN 37087 (615) 453-5830 CLASS REP., 2010 1/2-1600 BRUCE MEYERS (865) 453-ioos CLASS REP., 2010 9 & UNLTD. MICHAEL MOORE (334) 271-7035 OUTIAW REP. Dusty Times DON PONDER (314) 631-8190 (All Races at Wheeling in the Count;, 900 Acres) Omo OFF RoADERS INc. 1427 GOSHEN HILLS ROAD S.E. NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO 44663 }IM KENDEL (216) 339-4674 All races held at Harrison County Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONTARIO OFF RoAD RACERS ASSOCIATION RICK T!CHBOURNE, Pusuc RELATIONS (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) OUTLAW SEVEN PICKUP 9269 UMMELMAN ST. Louis, MO 63123 (314) 631-8140/Fax: ((314) 631-1921 PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. Off Road Championship 495 N. COMMONS DRIVE AURORA, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100 <www.usoff-road.com> PENNsYL v ANIA SHORT COURSE RACING SMITHTON HOLE RACEWAY 313 SKYLINE DRIVE SMITHTON, PA. 15479 MIKE GEISER 330-683-6263 www.smithtonhole.com Short Course Offroad Racing All Races At Smithton Hole Racewa1 PlKEs PEAK P.O. Box 6962 COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 PINE BARRENS ROUGH RIDERS OFF RoAD RAcING CHATSWORTH, NJ (856) 875-7591 PRomucK PROTRUCK MANAGEMENT !NC. 11409 PINEHURST DR. LAKEs!DE, CA 92040 (619) 885-4458 PRo 1600 SHOOTOUT COREY GOIN 559-647-6132 GOINRACIN@HOTMAIL.COM PURE ENERGY PROMOTIONS P.O. Box50 RICKETTS, IA 51460 (712) 679-2221 RALLY AMERICA <www.rallly-america.com> February 25-26, 2011 Rally in the 100 Acre Wood National Rally Championship Event Salem, MO April 30 - May 1, 2011 Olympus Rally National Rally Championship Event Ocean Shores, WA May 13-15, 2011 . Oregon Trail Rally National Rally Championship Event TBD,OR June 3-4, 2011 Susquehannock Trail Rally National Rally Championship Event Wellsboro, PA July 15-16, 2011 New England Forest Rally National Rally Championship Event Newry, ME RALLYE AlcHA DES GAZELLES The Only All-Women's Off-Road.Rally Raid In The World 203-249-1340 Skype: kellanvanhoesen kellan@soulsidenet.com <www.rallyeaichadesgazelles.com> March 19-April 2, 2011 France & Morocco ROCK CRAWLERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA P.O. Box 1406 RIVERTON, UT 84065 (801) 446-5337/Fax: (801) 253-3176 SAN DIEGO SHORT COURSE WINTERNATIONALS A New Series lry Snowbird Off Road Racing Pro Trucks, Desert Trucks, Buggies, Pilots, Tough Truck <www.snowbirdracing.com> (858) 571-5088 SAN DIEGo OFF ROAD ExrosmoN (888) 836 7918 SCCA RoADRALLY P.O. Box 19400 TOPEKA, KS 66619 800-770-2055 <www.scca.org> SFX MoTORSPORTS GROUP 495 N. COMMONS DRIVE, Sum 200 AuRORA, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100/ (630) 556-6180 Fax SCORE SCORE INTERNATIONAL 23961 CRAFTSMAN Ro., Sum A CALABASAS, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/FAX: (818) 225-8102 <www.score-international.com> March 11-13, 2011 25th MasterCraft Safety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 San FeUpe, BC, MX June 3-5, 2011 43rd Tecate SCORE Baja 500 Ensenada, BC, MX August 26-28, 2011 16th SCORE Las Vegas Terrible's Primm 300 Primm, NV November 17-20, 2011 44th Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 Ensenada, BC, MX SNORE SOUTHERN NEV ADA OFF RoAD ENTHUSIASTS P.O. Box 270516 LAs VEGAS, NV 89127 702-277-2295 www.Snoreracing.net February 19-21, 2011 Battle At Primm Primm, NV March 26-27, 2011 MINT400 Moapa,NV May 14-15, 2011 250 Race NV July 30-31, 2011 Midnight Special Moapa, NV October 22-23, 2011 SNORE 250 Pahrump, NV December 10-11, 2011 Rage At The River Laughlin, NV SONS OF l'HuNoER 4 WHEELERS RACE DMSION KEITH STEWART (714) 522-1899 SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD CHALLENGE STEVE RULE (800) 313-5621 OR((770) 963-0252 Mike Moore, 2010 (224) 272-5400 SPEED SPORTS EXPO MEGA PRODUCTIONS 3129 S. HACIENDA BLVD. #322 HACIENDA HEIGHTS, CA 91745 (626) 961-6522 SCTA SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TIMING ASSOCIATION & BONNEVILLE NATIONALS, INc. P.O. Box 10 OROS!, CA 93647 (559) 528-6279 (559) 528-9749 FAX <www.SCTA-BNI.org> SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. 4305 WOOTLARK DRIVE TAMPA FL 33624 (813) 962-2857 (All Races at Ea.st001 Racewa1, Tampa, FL) TRAXXAs TORC SERIES Apr 30-May 1, 2011 Cycle Ranch San Antonio, TX May 28-29, 2011 Red Bud MX Buchanan, Ml June 18-19, 2011 Crandon Off Road Crandon, WI June 26, 2011 Pikes Peak International* Colorado Springs, CO July 22 -23, 2011 Charlotte Motor Speedway Charlotte, NC Aug 13-14, 2011 Bark River Off Road Bark River, Ml Continued on page 40 April 2011 Trail Notes ... currently employs approximately 150,000 people in 46 countries. HEIDI STEELE -Yokohama Tire Corporation-sponsored Heidi Steele captured her first race of the season, winning the Class 6 title at the 25th MasterCraft Safety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 in Baja, California on March 12. Driving her customary Ford Ranger, Steele, the former Class 6 (unlimited, production mini trucks) and Class 7 (open, production mini trucks) champion, and her co-driver and Desert Assassins teammate Rene Brugger, finished the demanding course on off-the-shelf Yokohama Geolandar M/T +® tires in 5:50:40. "This was the roughest course I have seen in the six years I have raced here," said Steele. "My Yokohama tires performed well; we had one flat tire due to driver error. It's awesome to add a San Felipe 250 win to our Baja racing history. It's truly an accomplishment!" Go GREEN AuTo RALLY TAKES THE STING OuT OF RISING GAs PRICES -Free Event Proves Any Driver Can Save Big Money On Their Car's Fuel Bill -Rally Draws Unique Cross-Section of Cars and Car Owners -American Muscle Dominates Inaugural Green Driving Event of 2011 and Proves Detroit Might Makes Right MIAMI, FL -13.4% of a family's income is spent on gas in Mississippi -7.7% in California, and an equally uncomfortable 8.17% is spent by consumers on their commutes in Florida according to a recent CNNMoney.com poll. As gasoline prices approach $4 per gallon -Americans are spending more and more of their incomes on fuel. Families and fleet operators alike are searching for ways to lessen the blow of rising gas prices as recent turmoil in the Middle East and last week's earthquake in Japan fuel concerns over the high cost of vehicle operation. From individual drivers to large organizations and governmental agencies with many vehicles on the road, drivers face myriad challenges this year in getting the most bang for their buck. To relieve the crushing cost of fuel in the US - a small startup has combined big corporate support with a seemingly unlikely partner -auto racing -to teach drivers how to be more efficient behind the wheel in free events in major markets around the country -saving drivers up to 25% in fuel costs. Go Green Auto Rally (GOAR) is a free program that teaches drivers to be more efficient behind the wheel of their current vehicles -no matter what they drive. The hands-on driving program is taught at events in the US and Europe by professional racing drivers in partnership with the American Le Mans Series and tire manufacturer Pirelli. GOAR markets the free program to consumers and fleet operators with excellent results. Drivers regularly post fuel economy savings up to 25% after attending the 1-2 hour programs, and are able to reduce their carbon footprint and increase safety as well. The 'Green Driving' principles taught by GOAR help increase a driver's situational awareness and the program trains drivers to anticipate potential obstacles and behavior that may lead to aggressive maneuvering. GGAR's proprietary smartphone application is used in concert with the classroom and in-car training and can be utilized in any driving situation. GOAR brought its innovative Green Driving program to Miami, Florida last weekend during the Bacardi Miami Sailing Week presented by EFG Bank. The company kicked-off the Miami Rally with Green Driving instruction to teams from the City of Miami, the US Navy and Air Force, the City of Miami Police and Fire Departments as well as students from the University of Miami and Miami-Dade College. "The Go Green Auto Rally program produces fun, friendly and competitive events for drivers to discover that no matter what they drive, they can have a positive impact on our environment," said Tim Mayer, Chief Steward of Go Green Auto Rally. "Participants in our program are taught how to reduce their CO2 emissions, lower their fuel consumption, save money and drive safe in their own vehicles with driving instruction and.our smartphone app. The GOAR program provides proven fuel cost savings from 8-25%, increased safety behind the wheel, and more environmentally sustainable driving through decreased Co2 generation and less use of fossil fuels." Participants drove a pre-mapped, 11 mile· route through the City of Miami to set a baseline reading for GGAR's smartphone app. The app recorded each driver's telemetry and driving attitude based on their behavior behind the wheel. After returning to Rally HQ, drivers were then briefed on Green Driving practices by GOAR instructors -including special celebrity driving hosts Allan McNish and Gunnar Jeannette of theAmerican Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron-and were asked to re-drive the same route, this time armed with Green Driving principles they learned. The results were extraordinary -and are representative of the dramatic results drivers can expect from participation in GGAR's ground-breaking program. "A big part of Green Driving is awareness," said Allan McNish, American Le Mans champion driver and celebrity co-host of the GOAR Miami Sailing Week event. "On the racing circuit we have to be more efficient and off the circuit, in your everyday life, you have to be more efficient as well. We can bring that across to people in a different way with Go Green Auto Rally." McNish and Jeannette spoke to drivers about the importance of Green Driving and illustrated how driving Green is not about driving slow -it is about situational awareness and efficiency. "Green Speed" was on everyone's minds as McNish held court in front of the backdrop of his Le Mans winning Audi R8 race car -on site to help promote next weeks 59th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida (10:30 a.m. ET on Saturday, March 19.) "I was very happy to see that we discovered very clean-running, very efficient drivers at the Miami GOAR event," said Jean Paul Libert, co-founder and CEO of Go Green Auto Rally. "The performance of the A(Ilerican muscle cars and light trucks was remarkable and showed that the each driver can make a difference with any type of vehicle. We had a large variety of cars and drivers for a great Continued on page 39 Page 7

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IIU.:11 MASTERCRAFT SAFETY SAN FELIPE 250 Maccachren Takes The overall! By Judy Smith Photos: Track.side Photo Rob MacCachren had a great race! He took the Trophy Truck win at San Felipe and he was the overall winner as well in his Ford F-150. San Felipe, Baja Ca., Mex: Rob MacCachren piloted his Ford Trophy Truck through the whoops and ruts of the San Felipe 250, to win overall, beating even the first bike in the process, with his time of 4:17:45. On a course which hasn't been smoothed out by winter rains, as sometimes happens, the whoops become a big issue, and that was the case this year. Pre-race plan-ning often centered around how to make the shocks live in the rugged terrain. to the finish. The grand total was crowd the town and surrounding 252 tough miles. None of it was on areas even more than the Spring pavement, so there were no speed Breakers do. Huge crowds watch limits to worry about, as happens in the cars go through the Zoo Road the 500 and 1000 events. But there area, about seven miles into the were 22 "virtual checkpoints" at race, and when the cars have gone areas where SCORE did not want through they don't pack up and go racers cutting corners. Racers who home. Instead, they pack up and did not heed the warnings, found mov outh, traveling down the old themselves with added minutes on road to the point where the racers their total time at the end of the exit Chanate Wash. Booby traps event. The time limit was 11 hours sometimes enliven their fun, but for everyone. SCORE tries hard to keep watch At the Drivers' Meeting, Sal Fish over their enthusiasm, so as to spoke briefly about the passing of lessen the chances of a disaster. Pepe Limon, in November. Limon, The in-town part of the course a Baja citizen and a long-time sup-was the same as always, almost. The porter of off-road racing, worked in start/finish line was at the Arches, various capacities with both local with long lines of tee-shirt vendors and federal tourism offices through along the sidewalk on each side of the years. Known to many as a pro- the street. But the crowds of last prietor of Club de Pesca, a camp- year hadn't appealed to the SCORE ground in San Felipe that has wel-officials, so this year they fenced off corned racers for three generations, an area all the way down to the dirt Limon was also often able to help lot next to the Tecate building. Fin-solve problems of all types for the ishers, once they'd given up their racers. He gave his time cheerfully, lriTrack equipment, were to drive and earned the lifelong gratitude of down the street and turn right into many a Baja race driver. Limon, 73 the dirt lot to do their post-race in-at the time of his death, leaves his terviews and photo-ops there. Quite wife, Letizia, three daughters and a few racers either didn't under-several grandchildren. stand, or figured they'd just skip it The weather was typical of San all, and head on out the street and Felipe; just warm enough to be into town, a shower and dinner. comfortable for the spectators and Only those who knew they had to crews, and not so hot that the . go to tech were sure to turn in. The big win in Class 1 went to Justin Davis, he's seen here in his EMS-Chevy, Justin had less than two minutes on his competition. there was a gap before the Trophy Trucks took off. Everyone went off the line in 30 second intervals. DO WE DISCUSS THE ACCIDENT AT MILE 5??? WAIT FOR JOHN C TO CALL. The first Trophy Truck, the Vanderwey "Cow Truck", went off the line at 9:47 a.m., and before all the rest of that class had taken the green flag, the winning bikers were sliding across the finish line. SCORE's timing and scoring crew had to record both starters and finishers for what must have been a tense hour-and-a-half, 'til all the cars were on their way. There was barely time for those who'd flagged the cars off to go get breakfast, before the Trophy Trucks were heading in. It had been close all the way, with the lead trucks in sight of one another most of the day. The first three finished so close together that it was impossible to know who had won. It wasn't until the timing crew worked their magic that MacCachren was announced as the winner. He had just 44 seconds on the second place truck. Mac-Cachren, who was the 11th truck to start, reported that he'd been strug-gling with his power steering since Matias (Mile 60). He said there'd been "tons of feedback" and he'd had to drive a conservative pace, because he couldn't correct with the steering in the sand washes. But the other trucks "started drop-ping one by one". He passed Jesse Jones when he flattened a tire at the beginning of Matomi and then passed Gary Weyhrich at the end of Matomi and stayed in front from then to the finish. MacCachren had no flat tires. Jones, who started tenth, fin-ished second in his Ford. He said "I got a goddam flat and got stuck in the wash -my fault, I threw the race away - it was a mistake." Jones, who'd been in San Felipe prerun-ning for many days, had logged up-wards of 1300 miles on the course in his prerunner, and felt he knew the course really well. He went on to say, "We all got to race really, really close." He had predicted that he'd finish in four hours and 15 minutes to four hours 30 minutes. His time was 4:09:59. Andy McMillin was third in his Ford. His was the 20th truck off the line. He drove all the way and said it was a "really, really fun day." But then he said that about three miles before the finish the truck started "bobbling" and he'd backed down from 110 mph to about 80 mph. Then the truck died in a corner, costing about 30 seconds, and he didn't know why it had happened. He added that they'd had bad fuel mileage and had to The course began and ended at the arches, traveling north from the green flag, up to Three Poles, then swinging left and westward, parallel-ing Highway 3, up to Matias Wash. Then the racers dropped down to Diablo Dry Lake, and fought the dust, silt and bumps to Morelia Junction. At that point, which was about Mile 90, the course made a bend, then continued south-ward, paralleling Morelia Road, all the way to the top of Matomi Wash. After dropping down to the old Puertecitos Road they turned north on it for about ten miles and then climbed up Huatamote Wash. Then for a while they paralleled the out-going course, until they got to Mile 225, at which point it began the final descent, in Chan-ate Wash. Once back down on level ground it was about 12 miles drivers suffered. This event draws The bikes and quads were start-Cody Robinson and Roberto Romo took the gold medal in ½-1600 in their Romo car, huge numbers of specta;.to:.:r:.:s.:., ..:w.:.:h:.:o:...._::.ed:,..:o:.:f.:..f..:t.:.:h.:.e..:l.:.:in.::e:...:.at:..:6..:a:.:·.::m.:.:·:.• .:a.:.:n.:d..:t::h:.:e:.:n:_..:t=he=y=h=a=d==101m-;;;;;in;;u;;;;te;;;;s=o;;;;n=t=h=e;;::r=es::;t=o=f;::th=e=c=la=s::;s::;;. ==============. / ., ! Jesse Jones drove his Ford F-250 to a second place finish in the Trophy Brian Parkhouse won the gold medal in the Class 1 action, Brian was Jorge Sanchez and Arturo Zavalla took second place honors in the Class Truck Division, Jesse was exactly one minute in arrears at the end. less than two minutes in arrears at the finish in his Jimco-Chevy. 1600 fracas, they're seen here in their Romo. Pages April 2011 Dusty Times I , I

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and went boing." He went on to say that he thought the course was the roughest it's ever been. His time was 4:27:07. · In sixth it was Bryce Menzies, in a Ford. He did at least some of his pre-running with Jones, and spent many days learning the track. He said he'd had a flat, "changed it, got back in, power steering was gone." He reported that he'd taken it easy off the start and passed McMillin when he'd pulled over. He drove the final 40 miles with no power steering. His time was 4:28:38. Kevin Carr, Noe Valdez and Kent Lothringer took the win in Class 5 at San Felipe, seen here haulin' freight he~ing for home. Heidi Steele and Rene Brugger were the big winners in the Class 6 contest, they're seen here making a hard left in their Ford Ranger. Adam Householder was seventh in his Chevy. He reported that he'd had one flat, and his rear shocks had "melted away." They started leaking at about Mile 101 he said, and added, "I probably pushed it ten miles an hour too fast at the be-ginning." He added that the course "was rough, but it was fun - I love this course." His time was 4:32:41. make an unplanned stop at Mile 101 and Bryce Menzies had passed him there. He also said that the fuel vent on his tank broke and each fuel dump took longer than usual, about a minute instead of the usual six seconds. When asked his opin-ion of the course McMillin said "Omigod!" His time was 4:18:53, just 24 seconds behind Jones, and a minute and eight seconds behind MacCachren. Fourth went to the Vanderweys in their Chevy. Nick drove to Mile 120, and then brother Larry went to the finish. He said the course was "really, really rough", but they'd tried to have a flawless day. And apparently, that's what they did, reporting no flats and no troubles -"all in all" they said, "a good clean day." Their time was 4:26:53. Gary Weyhrich, who soloed his Ford, was fifth. He said he'd had no problems, but that he needs to work on the truck's set-up a little bit. He'd had no flats, and "hit re-ally hard only once - got off center Jesse James finished eighth in his Chevy. He said "it was rough -Continued an p111 1 D David Caspino and Neal Mason took the silver medal in the Class 6 Sergio Salgado/Gustavo Pinuelas/Cesar Castillo drove their Jimco-Honda Perry McNeil and Alfie Bueno piloted their Lothringer to a second place contest, They finished 10 minutes in arrears in their Ford Ranger. to a second place finish in Class 10, seen here seen here at speed. finish in SCORE LITE, they were 21 minutes behind the leader. Dusty Times 2,160 Rooms And Suites 60 Table Games 2,300 Slot Machines Poker Room. Race & Sports Book 640-Seat Bingo Room 16 Movie Theaters 8 Restaurants 75,000 Sq. Ft. Of Meeting Space 4,500 Seat Equestrian & Event Center 80,000 Sq. Ft. Exhibit Hall Spa & Fitness Center Showroom 64-Lane Bowling Center 7/Ucfut ~~ LAS VEGAS BLVD AT SILVERADO RANCH • SOUTHPOINTCAS/NO.COM April 2011 Page9

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it was good - it was fun", and then reported just one flat that had to be changed on course. His time was 4:35:56. Mark McMillin and Chuck Hovey, in McMillin's Ford, were ninth. McMillin started and Hovey finished. McMillin had one flat and the impact gun was dead. Some locals helped with the tire change, but the lost time dropped them back to "dead last." Hovey said he'd had a great run, but it was hard to pass in the dust, though "not as bad as Nevada." Their time was 4:36: 18. In tenth it was Tim Herbst and Larry Roeseler in a Ford. Herbst started and he hit something that took out the brake lines and the sway bar. He also had a flat. LR. Dan and Tom Chamlee were the winners in the Class 7 contest, they're seen here at drove his section with no rear high speed in their Ford Ranger. Elias Hanna and Jose Castro drove their Ford Ranger to the gold medal in the Class 7SX action, seen here at high speed. brakes and no sway bar. He said He drove part of the race with just Last to finish was Roger Nor- time he'd been in a limited car. His the truck "Was a monster - no pun front brakes, and then the rest with man, Ford, who'd been third to time was 4:42:42, good for 12th intended." And added that a driver fronts and one rear. He found him- start. Norman blew both his front overall. "can't be aggressive with no brakes self stuck after changing the flat, shocks early, but kept going and Second in Class 1 was the team - you have to have a clean run." and had to "jack and push" to get changed them at Borrego (roughly of Brian and Cody Parkhouse in Their time was 4:41:07. going again. His time was 5:14:58. Mile 40). Then he'd had a flat their Jimco Chevy. Brian, the dad, Eleventh went to Cameron Adam and Jesse Ashcraft were when a wheel broke and it fell off, rolled the car at Mile 7, and al-Steele in his GMC. He had Cody 15th in their Ford. Adam started at Mile 160. That time he'd had to though he landed on his tires, he Stuart, Justin Smith and Pat Dean and Jesse finished. They said they wait for a chase truck to come in to •did some damage to the roof, which all listed as co-drivers, but it's not lost two cylinders because they had help repair things. While he waited included removing his antenna. known who drove what. Steele said two bad injectors, but fixed that at for his crew to come in, a Class 6 As a result the team had no radio they'd had to change three tires, but Mile 107. Then it happened again. Truck rolled over nearby, and when or OPS for the remainder of the "everything else was pretty good." Jesse limped in, and had transmis- it landed it was on fire. The driver race. The intercom did work. Cody, Their time was 4:52:49. sion problems along with the injec-and navigator in the truck didn't Brian's son, drove the second half In twelfth it was Dave Crinklaw tor troubles, but they had no flats. realize they were aflame, but Nor-of the race, getting in at Mile 120. who drove all the way in his Ford. Their time was 5:34:01. man grabbed his extinguisher and He said it wasn't too bad to have no He said he'd had no flats but had Pete Sohren and Armin Schwarz ran over and put out the flames. OPS because they know the course to change an alternator at Mile 120, teamed in Sohren's three-seater Ultimately, Norman's chase crew well, but when he was in dust he which cost ten minutes. He said it Ford. They were the last Trophy arrived and repaired him and he missed it. Their time was 4:46:15. was a "rough 250 miles." Crinklaw Truck to start. Schwarz is part of went on, "at 75%", to the finish. Darnen Jefferies was third in missed one of the virtual check- the All German Motorsports team, He said, "We were battling the his Avenger, the first he built, in points, which added ten minutes which is building themselves a new Class 11s!" He finished after 8 p.m., 2006. He drove all the way and said to his official time, putting him at Trophy Truck, and he wanted a in the time of 10:03:21. he had a little problem with water 5:03:25, but didn't change his fin- chance to drive one in a race. The Robbie Pierce, jefe of Master- temperature, but wasn't surprised ish position. truck sported Sohren's colors on craft, title sponsor of the event, about that because his motor al-The Vildosola Ford was 13th, the left side and AGM colors and didn't get to the finish in his Ford. ready had two Baja 1000s on it. He and Gus and Gus, Jr. said "we just logos on the right. Sohren's truck He lost his transmission at Mile said it was a "good day" with no had a bad day." Something was may not have been the best choice 172. And Robby Gordon, the ap- flats and no problems. "It was just wrong with the rear suspension Schwarz could have made, because parent favorite of the local citi- hot and dusty. The course was very before Zoo Road (Mile 7), and the it's a three-seater and the driver zenry, if the number of Gordon tee rough - brutal. I didn't even pre-truck wouldn't stay in the corners. sits in the middle, which means shirts seen wandering around was run a lot of the course because the Then, after Diablo the transmission there's a lot more vehicle to the left any indicator, also failed to finish, pre-runner I was in was such a piece case broke and they lost 45 minutes of him than he was probably used but didn't report back. of junk." His time was 4:47:06. working on their transmission. But to. Very early in the day he got into In the Class 1 ranks, the first fin-In fourth it was Randy Wilson they had no flats. Their time was some rocks and flattened both left isher was 17-year-old Justin Davis in and Jeff Quinn in a Jimco Chevy. 5:03:57. side tires as well as tearing off the his ESM-Chevy. Davis, who drove Quinn started and Wilson fin-Ken Losch was 14th in his brake calipers. A lot of time was the entire distance, said he had a ished, getting in at Mile 120, which Chevy, and he drove the entire dis-lost. Sohren drove the second half "good race - perfect". This was only was Check 2. They broke a caliper tance. He said he'd had a cracked with terrible brakes. Their time was the second time he'd raced on the off the right front brake very early _r_im....;.., _a_n_d_b_le_w_th_e_l_e_ft_re_a_r_b_r_a_k_e_. _5_:...;4...;4_:0_6_. ______ .-----.....::S.;;:a;.;n...;F...;e::.li:.£:p...;e...;c;.;o;.;u;.;r;;.se;;,.:,...;a;.;n;.;d;..t;.;h;.;e;..pl..r;.;e;.;.v;.;io;..u;;,;s;,._..:i:.;.n;...;;th:.;.e;;..;;d;:;ay and it um ed all the brake fluid out, so they didn't have any brakes for a while. They finally got rear brakes at Mile 168, but said it was a "hard drive with just rear brakes." Their time was 5:01:41. Steve Appleton finished fifth in his Jimco Chevy. He drove all the way, but said he was "bummed" because he broke a CV jojnt at Mile 175. It took about an hour to get it fixed, and their only other problem was one flat. They were determined to finish in the top ten so they'd be in the drawing for a good start position for the Baja 500, and since they accomplished that goal he said, "I guess I can't complain too much." This was Appleton's first time racing at San Felipe, he said, "It was rough." His time was 5:28:48. In sixth it was Josh Rigsby and Randy Ross in a Penhall Chevy, with Tony and Mike Lury doing the navigating. They said they had a cooling issue because the fan was cutting out. They fixed that, but from Mile 17 5 to the finish they were on "six-and-a-half cylinders", and they didn't know why. Their time was 5:36:41. The seventh place car was Dan-iel McMillin's Jimco-Chevy. He didn't stop to talk. His time was 5:57:38. In eighth it was Conan Barker and Scott Zeppenfeldt in a Porter Chevy. They were both in the car all day, and switched seats. They blew a tor ue converter line and had to John Griffin, Mark Grawe and Jeremy Spirko ff took the silver medal in Reid Rutherford and Dana Dague drove their Mason Chevy to a second The Mc Millin 's, Andy and Scott had to settle for a third place finish in Stock Full at San Felipe, they're seen here in their Ford F-350. place finish in the Class 7-2 contest, seen here at speed headin' for home. the Trophy Truck competition, seen here in their Ford F-150. Damon Jefferies took home the bronze medal in the Class 1 competition, Luke McMillin teamed with Andy Devercelly IV to take third place honors Peter and Steven Hajas drove their Kreger-Chevy to a bronze medal finish Damon is seen here in his Jefferies- Chevy haulin' freight. in Class 1600, seen here in their AlumiCraft at speed. in the Class 10 competition, here shortening the berm. Page 10 April 2011 Dusty Times

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Noah Ostanik and Kevin Guevara took the class 8 contest win in their Ford F-150, they had almost three hours on their competition at the end. let the car cool. They cut the line, thinking that they were part of the spliced it together and added oil, "same team." Unfortunately, the and "Here we are!" But it cost them rules have a much tighter descrip-an hour. Their time was 6:39:33. tion of "team", wherein it means Ninth place went to Mark Law-only individuals banded to drive or rence and Joe Lifge in a VW pow- ride in the disabled vehicle. So Wil-ered Tatum. They didn't top to talk son and Herder were DNFs also. about their day. Their time was In the SCORE Lite class the 7: 14:44. winning team of Steve Eugenio and In tenth it was David and Mike Adam Pfankuch, in a Prill, were Greenhill in a Jimco Chevy, who'd quick enough to be fifth in Class been first in the class to take the 1. Pfankuch started and Eugenio green flag. They lost an alternator got in at Mile 120 and went to the belt, had a flat, and had converter finish. They had brake issues which problems. They also had a battery had them out of the car twice, but break loose and then everything other than that no problems, no died, and once they stopped in a flats. Their time was 5:23:08. pit and then the car wouldn't start Second place in the class went to again. They had a long day and a Perry McNeil and Alfredo Bueno in time of 10: 11 :56. a Lothringer. The 60 year old Mc-Dan Martin and Dale Dondel, Neil drove all the way and Bueno in their Racer Chevy, got all the way navigated. They lost their power to the finish line, but apparently steering before Diablo, (about Mile had help getting there. They're list- 80) and tried tightening the belt, ed as non-finishers, due to a viola-but that didn't help, so the last 160 tion of General Rule 13L which has miles was difficult. They also start-to do with being towed or pushed ed to lose a cylinder at the end of more than 1 % of the course, or Diablo (about Mile 90) and by the across the finish line. Ronny Wil- time they got to the finish they were son and John Herder had the same definitely on just three, and in fact, problem. They broke a CV on their barely made it into the tech inspec-J i mco Chevy and the other car tion area. Their time was 5:44:07. in their team, driven by Ronny's In third it was Lee Banning, Sr. brother, Randy, pushed them in, and Rick Graf in a Foddrill. Ban-Steven Eugenio and Adam Pfankuch had a great race, they took the gold medal in the SCORE LITE contest, seen here in their Prill buggy. John Matney, Jim Bunn and Jim Fuller took Stockfull honors in their Dodge Ram 2500, seen here at speed on the course. Dusty Times Matt Cullen and Chuck Sacks drove their AlumiCraft VW to the Class 10 win at San Felipe, seen here flying on the course. ning started with Chris Godfrey navigating. They had early shock issues, but kept tuning on them and had got up to ninth or tenth by the time they changed drivers. Rick Graf drove to the finish, and he said he "drove hard." They had no flats or other problems, and their time was 5:57:07. Fourth place went to Luis Marti-nez and Victor Lugo in a Foddrill. They had Fernando Mayoral and Pete Morquecho as navigators. They said they'd broken a through pin on the front end and had to do some welding, which cost them eight or ten minutes. Their total time was 6:01: 17. In fifth it was Rafael Navarro IV and Vic Bruckmann who shared the driving in their Jimco. Navarro started and Bruckmann finished. At Mile 100 they replaced a power steering ram, and then their CV boots tore. They stopped at one pit and the crew said they were "smok-ing", so they tried greasing it and it worked. After that they decided to keep on, doing it. Their time was 6:05:31. Samuel Araiza, Ernesto Cer-vantes and Humberto Osuna, in a Curry, were sixth, finishing about five p.m. They didn't stop to talk about their day. Their time was 6:33:30. The seventh place finishers were Jack Moreno, Juan Guevara and Ca-leb Gaddis in a Jimco/Curry. They said they'd had a blown shock, couldn't get first gear and had to force third gear, but they'd had no flats. They'd also been stuck for 25 minutes. Their time was 6:45:29. In eighth it was Carlos Gonza-lez, who drove all the way in his Por-ter. He said he had no problems. His time was 6:49:51. The ninth place finisher was the father and son team of Steven and Tony Lisa in a Foddrill. Steven, the dad, had endoed the car in testing two days before the race, but the Foddrill crew worked most of the night to put it back together so he could go through contingency. Steve then started the race and proceeded to roll the car again. He tore off the antenna, so there was no radio or GPS, and there was also no power steering. Midway through the event he handed over to his son, who drove the second half, and seriously missed all those handy , -"' ,. ~ ,. ~ amenities. Their time was 7:23:13. In tenth place, and finishing at about 7:35 p.m., it was Zak Lang-ley, and Bernie Carr. Langley did the second half, and he had a flat in Matomi, and then had a flat in Huatamote, and he also broke an axle and a front beam. His chase crew brought an axle out to him. Their time was 9: 13:55 and they were the final team in the class to finish. In Class 10, which had eight starters, the winning car was the AlumiCraft of Matt Cullen and Chuck Sacks. Cullen started and drove to Mile 108, and then Sacks went to the finish. They said they'd had no flats but lost their power steering servo, and it had been leaking fluid all over the floor in front of their seats, making their shoes slimy and slippery. The power steering went in and out because of this, and they added fluid about seven times. Their winning time was 5:45:56. In second place it was Sergio Salgado and Tavo Pinuelas in a Jimco Honda. At Mile 107 the car had seemingly been on fire, and everyone apparently knew about it, thanks to the Weatherman's radio broadcasting, except the driver. Eventually he was made aware, and got the fire out and the oil leak re-paired. Other than that they'd had no problems, no flats and finished in 6:01:18. Third went to Steve Hajas, from Minnesota in Will Higman's old Kreger, now with a Chevy motor. Scott Heber navigated. The motor was brand new, and it ran hot. They also blew two tires, and sometimes had trouble pulling first gear. Their time was 6:01:41. The fourth place team was Alex Mendez, who started and finished, and Lobsam Yee who drove from Mile 60 to Mile 180 (Matias to the beginning of Huatamote). 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Luis Martinez and Victor Lugo took third place honors in the SCORE LITE Nick, Larry and Michael Vanderway raced their Chevy Silverado to a Brian Wilson and Kyle Quinn Raced their Kreger to a first off the podium category at San Felipe, here at speed in their Foddrill. first off the podium finish, they're seen here at high speed. finish at San Felipe, seen here just at liftoff. Jessica McMillin and Rhiannon Frailey were the big winners in the ProTruck event, seen here moving tons of dirt with their Ford F-15O. had "engine problems". They said pre-running. In the race LaPaglia they'd had a "40 minute lead and said, "We broke so much *#!*." lost a cylinder." Their time was They'd broken a front shock and a 6:08:58. rear shock, when they ran through John and Morgan Langley were a 6x6 fence post in the dust at Mile fifth in their Racer Chevy, nearly 90. They had to "putt" through three hours later. Finishing at about the whoops after that. They also ten after 7 in the p.m., Langley said, lost a limit strap on the left side. "There's no fool like an old fool!" He said "we were battling with the He reported that he'd been stuck, guy in last place on a quad!" And and then had helped someone else he reported that he was lost for and all together lost an hour. Their 40 minutes. He finished fourth or time was 8:53:35. thereabouts, but somehow, while There had been one other fin- he was lost, he'd apparently totally isher. Michael LaPaglia, in a Chevy missed Checkpoint 3 (Mile 165 Racer, hadn't been sure he'd go rac-near the bottom of Matomi) and ing in Mexico for the first time, and thus, found himself disqualified didn't decide to do it until Thurs- and dropped to DNF status. day. He didn't have time to do any The Class 8 trucks had an entry of five trucks, and just two finish- wouldn't "come back." So he had to ers. Noah Ostanik and Kevin Gue-go into a pit for a fix. But, he said vara, in a Ford, took take first place, it didn't cost him too much time. reporting that they'd had "minimal Their time was 6: 11 :40. issues". They'd had a driveshaft In fourth place it was the team problem at about Mile 115, and of Brian Wilson, who started and "just took care of it." They said the Kyle Quinn, who finished, in a course "was extremely rough, but it Kreger. They said their day "went was a good day. We'll take the win good 'til it got real rough -we had any day." Their time was 6:37:31. no power in the silt." They also had In second it was Justin Matney a flat and had trouble with the jack, and Clyde Stacy in a Chevy, who and they lost their brakes. Their didn't stop to talk. Their time was time was 6:31:33. 9:20:39. Justin Munyon and Brad Wilson The Protruck class consisted of finished fifth in another Kreger. Jessica McMillin in a Ford. She said Wilson said this was "The worst she'd been stuck a couple of times course I've ever driven -that's and had "lost some steering pump Mexico, though, right?" They had thing - so it steers like a beast." one flat and no "mechanicals." McMillin went on to say that "Dad Their front bumper was smashed (Scott) always says teamwork is im-almost flat, the result of hitting a portant and we had a lot of that go-Class 8 truck, they said. And they ing on. And Grandpa (Corky) said added that their brakes were fading. that you had to finish." In fact, her Their time was 6:34:57. dad had started and took the truck In sixth place it was Hector Sara-to Mile 92, and then Jessica got in bia and Juan Gallo in a Curry, with to drive to the finish. Her father Carlos Game navigating the begin-then rode with her. She drove a lot ning and Jeff Inebriates navigating of miles without the power steering, the second half. They ran out of gas but had her dad's left hand on the at Mile 220 because "it was so soft." steering wheel to help as needed. Their chase crew was nearby, but And, she said, "I had fun!" Her they lost 20 minutes. Their time time was 10:25:37. was 6:43:53. Class 1-2/ 1600 had 14 starters. The seventh finisher was the At the finish it was Cody Robinson team of brothers, Arturo and Abel and Roberto Romo in a Romo. Velazco in a VBR. They said "We Robinson finished, and he'd had had technical difficulties -we to stop to grease a C. V. boot at broke the car." They'd broken a Mile 180. Romo started and had no front shock mount and their crew problems. This made it two-in-a-row had to rebuild the mount. Arturo at San Felipe for the team. Their started and Abel drove from Mile time was 5:52:57. 168 in. Their time was 7:48:40 and In second place it was Jorge San- they were the last in the class to chez, who drove all the way in his finish. Curry. As he slowly got out of his In Class 4 there were three en-car he said, "I am 44 years old and tries. First place went to the team of the others are 17 years old - this is Clyde Stacy and Eduardo Laguna in my problem." His time was 6:02:44. a PSD Chevy. They finished in the (Actually, Romo and Robinson are time of 7:37: 10 and did not stop in 21 and 19 and Luke McMillin, who the interview area. Their time was finished third, is 18, but< Sanchez 7:37: 10. had a good point.) In second place it was the team And McMillin had Andy De Ver-of Azizi Kareem who drove the first celly IV, who is an elderly 28, as co-section, Brian Hewitt who did the driver. He started the day in their second stretch and Sam Hewitt AlumiCraft, andMcMillin got in at who drove in to the finish, in their Mile 100 and finished. He said they Predator Xl8-Chevy. They said were running about fourth and he they'd broken a rear A-arm, broke was charging hard - a bit too hard a belt, and broke their light bar. Bruce Finchum and Rogerio Pereira flew their Trophylite-Chevy to the Class 7-2 win, apparently, because he bent the Their time was 8:66:35. They were rth:;:e;;;;y;:;'r:;:e ;:;seie;;:n;:;h;:;e;:;r;:;e;;;;ju;:;s;;;t ~a;;:t l;;:if;:;to;;:f;;:f. ;;;::;~~;;::==::::::==:=:::=i:iii==:::;:::TT~mr,r====-.:;:th:..:,r:..::o~t.:;:tl~e~e:::d::.:a~l--a:::n:..:,d::......:t.:;:h~e.:;:n;_..:;:th.:;:e::.....::c.::.ab:::.l:..::e:.._...:t.:;:h~e...:l:::as~t...:t,o finish in the class. Class 5, the big Baja Bugs, start-ed the day with three entries and they had three finishers. In first place it was Kevin Carr and Kent Lothringer. Lothringer started and went to Morelia. He collected a big tire mark on the side of the car. With Carr driving they "lost oil for some reason". They also had to "grease up" a c.v. boot, and they tied rags on it to hold it in. Carr said they lost the lead while adding oil, but regained it down the road. Their time was 6: 11:33. In second it was Cody Kellogg, who drove all the way, and said it was "a long day." He said the course was "really rough" and he'd had c.v. boot problems also, as well as a flat tire, and a dead coil. "Other than that it was good - a tough time in the sand." He went on to say that the car "was just having a hard day -no bottom end." His time was 7:27:59. Third went to Victor Cesena, who also drove all the way. He said he broke the rack and pinion and fixed it on course, then met his crew and changed it. This was the first time he'd raced in San Felipe. He's from Caho San Lucas and usu-ally races in that area. His time was 8:32:10. Class 5-1600 had only one en-try, driven by Emilio Salcido, who drove the whole distance. He said he broke a left rear shock and had a flat tire. His time was 8:51:46. In Class 6 the winning truck was the Ford of Heidi Steele and Rene Brugger. Brugger started and went to 168 and Steele drove to the finish. They said they'd had no problems and just one flat. Their time was 5:50:40. Javier Manzo and Sinuhe Na-varrete, in a Ford, were second. Manzo did all the driving, and said he'd had a steering problem and "changed it" at Mile 170, which took an hour. His time was 7:47:43. In third it was Marc Burnett in a Ford. He said he'd blown a motor two days before the race, and just barely got it fixed in time to make the race. Then the throttle cable broke on race morning, and made him very late to the start lineup. His day didn't get much better, because he broke his shocks earl . Rafael Navarro IV and Vic Bruckmann raced their Jimco to a fourth place It was a fifth place finish in Trophy Truck for Gary Weyhrich in his Ford The Rigsby/Murray/ Wisdom trio drove their Class 1 Penhall-Chevy to a finish in SCORE LITE, they are seen here racing for home. F-15O, Gary is seen here at high speed headin' for home. fifth place finish in class, seen here just at touchdown. Page 12 April 2011 Dusty Times

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Brad Wilson and Brian DeNault drove their Kreger to a fifth place finish Lee Banning and Rick Graf drove their Foddrill to a fifth place finish in It was a sixth place finish for Bryce Menzies in the Trophy Truck in Class 1600, seen here at speed headin' for the barn. their SCORE LITE competition, seen here spewing dirt. competition, seen here at lots of speed in his Ford F-150. So he had to take it slow, but was still running third, and in Dave Caspino's dust and missed a turn and rolled. (This was the truck that caught fire and had Roger Nor-man's services as-fireman.) Once back on their wheels they went on, but then lost their steering rack, so they replaced that, and finished at 8 o'clock in the evening, with a time of9:17:45. Caspino also finished in his Ford, doing all the driving. He said he'd had a fire also, because his air cleaner and oil breather dumped on the exhaust. He used "one fire extinguisher and one igloo" to put the flames out. The fire came and went the rest of the way to the fin-ish. Unfortunately, Caspino was disqualified, for violation of Rule GL 13, the rule that has to do with being towed or pushed more than 1 % of the course, or across the fin-ish line. In Class 7 the winning truck was the Ford of Dan Chamlee. At the start he'd said he'd be lucky to finish because he was already hav-ing problems, but he made it all the way. His truck was overheating most of the way, because he'd lost a cooling fan and holed the radia-tor. He patched it with epoxy, and further down the road met his son, Thomas, who brought him a new cooling fan, and then he could go faster. His time was 8:24:37. In second it was Brandon Walsh who did all the driving in his Toyo-ta. He said he'd lost his power steering at Mile 35 and went to about Mile 75 without it, then got it fixed. He was stuck a couple of times and did a "lot of pushing, and a lot of jacking and a lot of rocks." His time was 9:09:06, and he was the last finisher. Class 7-2 had four starters, and at the end of the day Bruce Fin-chum was the winner in his Chevy Trophylite. He drove all the way and said he'd had a flat in a pit, and the course was rough. His time was 7:06:01. In second it was Reid Ruther-ford, who did the start and finish in his Mason Pro-runner Chevy, and Dana Dague, who drove from Mile 108 to Mile 216. They had no flats, and no other problems, and said they'd have a brand new fin said that in the dust it was hard truck in three weeks. Their time to find his way without that OPS. was 7:07:54. His time was 9:58:00. Third in this class was Wes Third place went to Wes Bevly Bevly, in a Baja Lite Chevy. He III, in a Ford. He didn't stop to drove all the way and reported that comment. His time was 10:43:09, he'd had a flat and had been stuck, only 17 minutes before he'd have which cost an hour. But that was all been out of time. the trouble he'd had. His time was Joe Baca!, in the Lexus, was 7:14:08. stuck in Huatamote behind a In fourth it was Fawn Finchum, Sportsman Truck and a Class 9 car, Bruce's wife, in another Chevy and apparently no one could figure Trophylite. She said she'd had no out how to get the Sportsman truck problems, except that there were out of the way, so the three of them "way too many whoops." But she timed out. added, "It was fun!" Her time was Class 11 had four entries, and 7:44:41. So the entire class finished, no finishers. This course is always and were within 38 minutes of one tough for them also. another. In the Sportsman Truck Class In Class 7SX Elias Hanna took there were four starters, and one the win in his Ford. He drove all finisher, the Ford of Nick Tonelli the way and said he'd had a "perfect and Ben Wright with Kyle Scott as race", no flats, and the shocks were navigator. Tonelli did the first 120 perfect. But then he said that he'd miles and he lost his brakes. They had temperature problems again fixed one brake at Check 2. They and had to run 80%. His time was also had overheating problems. In 7:52:11. Matomi they stopped to pull 605 Second in class was Rich Sev-(Burnett) onto his wheels. They erson, who finished at about 8:45 had no flat tires. Their time was p.m. in his Ford. He said he'd had a 6:53:41. "motor issue" at Mile 198. His mo-In the Sportsman Buggy class tor was missing, and they'd stopped (sometimes called Sportsman Car to change fuel pumps, and then class); the win went to Peter Lang in started to take off and found they his Homebuilt Buick, the most out-were stuck. They were there for a landish looking vehicle in the race. couple of hours, and finally a Mc-But its appearance matters not: it Millin chase truck pulled them out, has a splendid finish record. Peter for which they were grateful. Their Lang started and Brian Jellison time was 9:58: 11. navigated, then Peter Irving drove In Class 9 there was just one the second half, with Graf Moore entry, and it did not get to the fin- navigating. They said they'd had no ish line. problems, and no flats. Their time The Stock Full class had four was 7: 17:32. starters,' and at the end of the day, Second in the class was the San and we do mean the end of the day, Felipe based George Jackson, and the winner was John Matney and Brian Siler in a Jimco VW. Siler Jim Fuller in a Dodge Ram 2500. started and Jackson finished and This course is always tough on this Chuck Millar navigated. They had class. Matney said they had "electri- carburetor problems and also the cal problems for one thing", and a motor was using oil. They flat-problem with a transmission cooler. tened one tire, and changed the Their time was 9:53:56. distributor in Matomi. Their time John Griffin was second in his was 10:40:48. Peter Lang and Brian Jellison raced their Homebuilt-Buick to the win in the Sportsman class, they had three hours in hand at the end. blocked us for about ten minutes." Other than that, he said, there were no problems. It was a "beautiful race." This was the second race for the car. He said, "This is fun -ev-erybody has been the most help-ful." And, surprising most of those standing nearby, he thanked Sal Fish for a "good course." His time was 10:05: 16. Just before the start of the Tro-phy Trucks there'd been a radio report of an accident in which a young person was said to have been hit by an SUV or a pickup, and either gravely injured or killed. SCORE personnel spoke to every starting driver and asked them to be aware and careful, not knowing exactly where the reported event had taken place, except that it was somewhere near Zoo Road and might have been near the course. The incident was never confirmed. Mexican military personnel were on duty in that area at the time. On the Monday after the race, Sal Fish checked with Mexican officials, but still could not confirm that the ac-cident had actually occurred. The course was rough, but the racing was close and exciting in many classes. The season points chase has tightened up already as Jesse Jones and Justin Davis are now tied for the lead. SCORE now moves on to their Baja 500 ear\y in June. SCIII: Ford. He said he'd been stuck for There were four Sportsman 45 minutes at Mile 199, near the UTVs, and one of them finished. top of Huatamote, when he'd lost Bill Morris, in a Polaris 4 seat-his OPS and couldn't see. Some er turned two-seater, with a 108 "drunk Mexicans" tried to help inch wheelbase, said, "I wanna go him, but couldn't get him unstuck,- again!" He drove the full distance. and then the Locos Mocos crew He'd had electrical problems, and The Sportsman Truck win went to Nick Tonelli, Benjamin Wright and David Crum, came up and pulled them,,:o:::u::_:t::.. ,:G::_:r::if:.:,• __ " s~o:!.!m~e_T!.r~o~h~..!T!r~u~ck~i!;n~a..!c:!!a~n~o~n:.._..:t=he:::::y=''=e=s=e=en;--;h=er=e=h=u=s=tt,=·n::'.:g=th=e=ir=F<=o=rd=R=an:::::g:::e=r=to=th=e=f,=fn=is=h=. ========::::::; Sixth place in the Class 1 competition went to Steve Appleton, he's seen It was a seventh place finish for Adam Householder in Trophy Truck, Jesse James gave it all he had but this race had to settle for an eighth here in his Jimco-Chevy heading for the checkered flag. Adam is seen here at high spewed in his Chevy Silverado. place finish in Trophy Truck, here in his Chevy Silverado. Dusty Times April 2011 Page 13

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lJ\J2C: 11™ RALLY GUANAJUATD MEXICO Loeb/Elena/Citroen Take The Gold By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena flew across the Mexican desert for the rally win, they're seen here in their Citroen DS3. The great Citroen driver Sebas-of one sort or another, in the top of the event was at the low level, just tien Loeb came back to take victory ten. Mikko Hirvonen overcame the 25 cars entered, the fourth smallest in Mexico after his disappointing disadvantage of running first on in the history of the WRC series, defeat on the opening round of the the road on the first day and fin-but the new-generation World Rally WRC this year in Sweden. It was an ished second in front of teammate Cars filled almost half the field exciting win, Loeb battling head-to- Jari-Matti Latvala. A Fiesta won the and of the four different classes head with his teammate Sebastien S2000 support championship event the WRC class was easily the best Ogier, who eventually crashed on but in World Rally Car form they supported. Citroen brought three the final morning. Citroen's rivals were off the pace of the Citroens. not four DS3 WRC cars (this being Ford scored their best result for four There was quality if not quantity one of the three events Raikkonen years on this high altitude event, in Mexico! Maybe the total entry has opted to miss) but Ford again finishing with seven Fiesta cars, for the world championship section brought nine Fiesta WRC cars. This Tired ,,, It.,,, vacation rentals available in the exclusive Indian Wells country Club in the sunny Palm Springs area of southern California. Two or three bedrooms, furnished for your complete relaxation, and, if you are a glutton for punishment, play golf on either of two beautiful courses.-FYI, wireless internet and long distance phones calls (USA) included. Starting at 54,500 in season (January thru April) or $2,300 per month out of season. Call (760) 345-6124 Page 14 April 2011 • m .~\~ . Ill Martin Prokop and Jan Tomanek drove their Ford Fiesta to the SWRC win in Mexico, they were the seventh overall finishers. was the first time in the champion-ship this year for Argentine driver Federico Villagra, while in the M-Sport "rental car" (driven in Sweden by PG Andersson) was the 20 year old Russian Evgeniy Novikov, mak-ing a return to the world champi-onship after a break of 17 months. Once again there were ten WRC drivers registered for makes' cham-pionship points: first time eligible for manufacturers' points this year were the Petter Solberg World Rally Team and the Munchi's World Rally Team, not registered were Matthew Wilson and Novikov, though each as usual were eligible for drivers' points. In the way that the opening round of the WRC season, Sweden, was the "bete noire" for Citroen's re-cent rally fortunes, Mexico has been the same for Ford. Since the team won the event in 2004, Ford Focus WRCars changed from six-speed to five-speed gearboxes and have never won the event. Now the WRC rules require all the new-generation WRCars have six-speed units, so maybe a reversal for Ford's fortunes would be seen? The basis of Ford's Mexico problems had been widely considered to be the high altitude of the event, in which the average elevation of stages is quite the high-est in the WRC. This year the new smaller size engines and turbocharg-ers bring new challenges. Strategically Sebastien Loeb looked to have a strong advantage, starting the rally running sixth car on roads which had thoroughly dried out after long spells of warm weather. But this in turn raised the spectre of dust, which would clearly favour the three Ford drivers start-ing at the head of the field. Condi-tions could hardly be more different from Sweden, where temperatures dipped down towards minus 30 de-grees, while here they were hovering around plus 30. FIA rules, which ban pre rally testing QUtside Europe, and prevent opportunities for high altitude test work, raised more un-certainty as to how these still-new cars would perform. The support championship cat-egory assigned to this event was the Super 2000 WRC, in which there were five entries - three Ford Fiestas and two Skoda Fabias, but none of the new Group R4 cars which are currently in process of being ho-mologated. All the SWRC cars have orthodox normally-aspirated 2-litre engines, as cars fitted with the 1.6 litre turbo option engines are not al-lowed in this year's series. Although the two car Red Bull Skoda team runs two cars in the series this year (IRC champion Juho Hanninen and Hermann Gassner Junior), for logistic and economic reasons they only had one driver in Mexico (Han-ninen) and will have the other in Jordan (Gassner). Hanninen drove the car rallied by Vouilloz in Monte Carlo this year. Martin Prokop and Nasser Al Attiyah drove Fiestas run by their usual teams while the 18 year old, former JWRC competitor, Karl Kruuda drove a Skoda Fabia run by the Czech JM Racing team. This was the first gravel rally for the new tyre suppliers. All regis-tered drivers ran Michelin "Latitude Cross" tyres, although an alternative supply of DMack "DMG2" gravel tyres were available if required. This was also the first "long-haul" rally of the season, and was held only three weeks after the preceding and three weeks before the following WRC event, logistics were critical. Although three of the Fiesta WRCs are brand new, the other six cars used in Sweden were in fact back at base for nine days before being shipped to Central America. The Fiesta WRCs were flown from Lux-embourg to Mexico City, before be-ing taken by road 400km up-country to the rally base at Leon. There were two major novelties about this year's event. The end-of-day superspecials held on the local race circuit on the Friday ano Saturday evenings were run later in the evening, under floodlights. The biggest excitement however was the stage run on the Thursday night, immediately after the cars left the start line, largely using underground roads beneath the historic city of the state capital Guanajuato. The underground roads are a feature of the city, running along the courses of now diverted rivers. At various places en route spectators were able to look down on the rally cars as they passed by. This was the second time that a "Power Stage" would be run in the championship, this time over an eight rather than a four kilometre stage. Tyre tactics played a major role in the results of, and the supplementary championship points allocated from, the Power Stage in Sweden. Citroens proved fastest in the 5km shakedown, with Ogier 0.2sec-ond ahead of Petter Solberg and Loeb third, a second slower. Lat-vala was fourth quickest, best of the Fords while Al Attiyah was the quickest S2000, over a second in front of Hanninen. There was an hour's delay while spectators were being controlled, and this caused shakedown to be extended back into an already crowded day. This year the rally actually started in Leon, be-fore the run out to the underground stage at Guanajuato. 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.. Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen took silver medal honors in Mexico, they're seen here in their Ford Fiesta RS. called his entree into the WRC was here in Mexico two years ago when he won the JWRC category, quite an occasion, last year he was on the po-dium and today he was quickest in shakedown. An interesting pointer: it was the first time the Michelin Latitude tyres were being used in anger. Hirvonen admitted hitting a big rock but without a problem. There were no reports of punctures, notwithstanding rocks were being dragged on to the tracks. One of the four local two-wheel-drive Peugeot 206XS cars non-started, leaving a total of 24 to go, while the indepen-dently run national category cars attracted 12 mostly non homolo-gated cars, mainly from north of the border in the USA. There was good news for Citroen drivers. The organisers ordered every car to start with three minute gaps reducing the peril of hanging dust that Ogier, Petter Solberg and Loeb had been worried about. Day 1 part 1 - 6 Stages - Gravel - 137.42kms The opening stage was probably, at 1.05km, the shortest stage in the recent history of the world champi-onship, even shorter than the old Millennium stadium stage on Wales Rally GB. Regulations state you cannot have a ceremonial start if there is a special stage on the Thurs-day evening, but that did not deter the organisers of the rally. There was a long and colourful display to entertain the crowds. Citroens made the three fastest times for the second time in the day, this time on a main road surfaced with a mixture of tarmac and cobbles, using gravel tyres. This time Petter Solberg was marginally in front, and once again Jari-Matti Latvala was the quickest non-Citroen driver. Juho Han-ninen banged the side of a tunnel and damaged the rear of his Skoda. There was misery for Ken Block whose car had electrical troubles and could not start the stage. Block was allowed to restart on the Friday, with a mandatory ten minute pen-alty under SupeRally rules. Ford mechanics spent four hours over-night changing all the electrical com-ponents as a precaution, but there were some electrical components that could not be bench tested until they were back in Britain. They were no wiser as to what had caused the car to stop. Day 1 part 2 Warm air on Friday morning and a light breeze in the air so there was no problem with lingering dust. Half of the entry restarted for the first full day were Fiestas of one sort or another. Ford knew that there was going to be a problem with running three cars at the head of the field. Latvala: "I guess there are going to have to be tactics on the rally, there is just so much loose gravel in the road." Should Ford deliberately ease off during Day 1 or should Citroen try to pull out a big lead? Should both drivers in a team have the same strategy? Driving the furthest back Loeb had the best opportunity to keep control of the other drivers and drive according to strategy. Conditions were unusual. Latvala: "There have always been a lot of water crossings on this rally, but although they are still there, there is no water in them. Never been so dry before." Drivers were curious to discover how the new smaller engined cars would react to the high altitude. At the end of the first gravel stage came these comments. Hirvonen: "With the engine down on power it feels like you aren't carrying the right speed through the corners." Petter Solberg: "You really have to work hard to keep up the speed." Loeb: "Because you do not have so much power, even when you are not on a clean line you do not have so much trouble with traction." Mat-thew Wilson: "It is difficult to find the correct gear, especially as most of the stages this morning have been uphill." Drivers of the old 2-litre, normally-aspirated, S2000 cars also clearly noticed the altitude. Nasser · Al Attiyah: "You have to concentrate on being in the right gear all the time." The more immediate challenge of the first loop for the drivers were the cleaning surfaces and the un-Juho Hanninen and Mikko Markkula drove their Skoda Fabia to a second place finish in SWRC, seen here kicking up lots of dust. known strength of the new control tyres. The first time for the new cars on gravel and the new tyres. Predict-ably Citroen held the advantage given by their running order in the conditions, and held the top three placings through the morning with Sebastien Ogier in the lead but with Loeb within two seconds off the lead through the first loop. On the first stage on Friday (stage 2) Villagra went off the road and was forced to stop for the rest of the day, having pulled a wheel off his Fiesta. On the second stage Mads Ostberg lost four minutes, "We had a slow puncture right before the start of the stage. I could not understand how it could be a puncture but it was, so we had to stop and change the wheel." Then on the third stage Latvala had the same, "Do not know what happened, don't think we hit any-thing but suddenly had to stop and change the wheel," over two minutes lost and all hope of keeping close to the Citroens had gone. Ogier was flying, fastest on stages two and three, and only 0.4 second slower on stage four, slowed in Latvala's dust. Citroen boss Olivier Quesnel noted Mexico was like Sweden in reverse, "Now we are running 4-5-6 on the road we are lying 1-2-3 overall. Too early to say what tactics will be at the end of the day, we could well have punctures which would upset the circumstances." At M-Sporf Malcolm Wilson was not pessimistic despite Latvala's delay, "We are 50% better placed than we were at this time here last year." When the cars returned at mid-day to Leon Ogier held a lead of 1.2 second. There was a short asphalt stage round a car park and Loeb sneaked in front of Ogier in overall times by 0.7 second as the cars went to service. But there was pandemonium outside the service park. Ogier made a disastrous mis-take when he inadvertently missed entering the regroup rone before going to service. He drove up into service before the mistake was re-alised and had to retrace his course back to the regroup. He was allowed to continue thi:ough the afternoon, while people wondered what sort of offence he had committed. This happened within metres of where Petter Solberg had his disastrous flat battery and unauthorised assistance incident seven years earlier. On the first stage of the afternoon (stage 6) Petter seemed to have a serious electrical problem with his Citroen, losing over six minutes. Loeb was marginally slowed passing Solberg on the stage, and this allowed Ogier to go ahead on times by exactly a half-second! Stage times indicated that the anticipated road cleaning had not fully happened and that driving first cars on the road was still a disadvantage. On stage 7 Matthew Wilson stopped allowing Evgeniy Novikov up to fourth, with Latvala now fifth having climbed up six plac-es in four stages. Mikko Hirvonen was driving consistently and im-pressively, again driving with a re-newed confidence compared with his struggles in 2010. But now came Citroen's matter of marshalling the running order for Day 2, which de-pended on the classification at the end of stage eight the final orthodox stage of the day, complicated by not knowing whether Ogier would be penalised for his earlier error. Any-way, something had to be done by Citroen and so Loeb finished stage eight just one second faster than his teammate. Importantly Loeb was still in second place overall, 1.6 sec-ond behind Ogier, lm18s ahead of Hirvonen. Latvala's rise continued as he got ahead of Novikov while Henning Solberg, who was having an unhappy day, got in front of Dennis Kuipers. Petter's electrical trouble was traced to a broken wire which was mounted on the top of the engine while M-Sport concluded Wilson's car had suffered an impact which led to damage to the wiring harness. In SWRC, Nasser Al Attiyah led throughout the day, with Ott Tanak pulling ahead of Martin Prokop who was slowed by the wrong gear ratios. On the first stage of the day Juho Hanninen spun and broke his reverse gear trying to set, forcing the crew to get out and push the car back round again. Karl Kruuda stopped after the end of stage four with fuel pressure trouble. Han-ninen was still around two minutes behind Al Attiyah - the fourth and last of the SWRC cars still running. It had been an incredible day. Of the 12 World Rally Cars, one crashed, Wilson stopped for the day, Petter Solberg stopped for a devastat-ingly long time, and Block stopped for the second time in 24 hours. Yet the gap between the two leading Citroen drivers was never more than 2.6 seconds! The day finished with two runs at the racetrack superspe-cial held after dark, won by Loeb and then Ogier. Day 2 - 6 Stages -Gravel - 152.90kms A lot of the unlucky drivers from Friday rejoined the fray and there were many drivers with motivation to improve. Mads Ostberg was ly-ing 11th, six minutes behind, Petter Solberg 13th, seven minutes behind, while Wilson, Block and Villagra were hopeful SupeRally restarters. · Another nice day was in store for the competitors but immediately there was more drama. Wilson only got going after a five minute delay at the early morning service but then he stopped on the road section shortly before the start of the first stage. Then came news that Hen-ning Solberg had power steering failure even before he arrived at the start of the stage. On the first stage (stage 11), Latvala punctured again, and had to drive five kilometres on a flat tyre, while Dennis Kuipers went off and retired, his car upside down. Times on this stage indicated that cleaning was not going to be the expected issue after all. Day 2 running order was Ogier, Loeb, Hirvonen then Latvala. Fast-est on stage 11 was Loeb, Petter Solberg, Ogier, Hirvonen, Latvala. On stage 12 Petter was fastest ahead of Loeb, Latvala, Hirvonen, Ogier. Quite a correlation with the run-ning order, not the inverse of it that was expected. At the top end of the field, stage 12 was critical - a very twisty stage where unusually road cleaning was serious and Loeb made his big attack, increasing his lead from 2.4 to 17.8 seconds as Ogier struggled being first car on a fast-cleaning road, and where eighth running Petter Solberg scored his second stage win of the event, de-spite a broken hand brake. Evgeniy Novikov lost a couple of minutes on the first two stages suffering an oil leak but then stopped on the road section before stage 13. Still holding fourth place Latvala arrived at the end of stage 13 complaining that he had a distracting problem with down-shifting, while Federico Villagra finished the stage with no brakes at all. This meant that only one Fiesta WRC was having no problems, Hirvonen's. On the fast stage 13, conditions were once again Continued on page 16 Jarri-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila are beautifully airborne as they Petter Solberg and Chris Patterson finished first off the podium in Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino were 12th overall in the rally, they're head for the finish line in their Ford Fiesta RS. Mexico, seen here at high speed in their Citroen OS 3. seen here on a rocky trail in their Ford Fiesta RS. Dusty Times April 2011 Page 15

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~ tJf:~.~ :~ .__............................ __,,_....,...:.::...;;...;...,; ~""""='"--'.......... .. f.~ ~ Mads Ostberg and Jonas Andersson were the fifth place_ finishers Sebastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia had an accident on the 19th Evgeniy Novikov and Stephane Prevot were out of the rally on the in Mexico, here in their Ford Fiesta RS passing the statue of Christ. stage and they and their Citroen DS 3 were out for good. 12th stage with engine problems, here in their Ford Fiesta RS. not cleaning, and conditions looked good for the final stage of the rally which used a section o_f this stage. Block went off the road for two min-utes, his codriver went looking for spectators assuming the car was not retrievable, but when he got back spectators had managed to recover it! In the four stages of the morning Petter Solberg had climbed to sixth, Mads Ostberg to seventh. · It was noticeable that Ford had not capitalised on their running order opportunities during the first loop, which was disappointing for them, and that all the Fiestas except Hirvonen had now had some prob-lem or other. It was now a little be-yond half distance so what were go-ing to be Citroen's tactics? Quesnel, "There will be no team orders which will be good for the media, and I am pleased the DS3 has proved itself very competitive, but we have to be sensible. I hope they make a deci-sion about Ogier's mistake quickly. This is a dangerous sport and I do not want my drivers fighting each other unnecessarily." At the midday service, after the repeat of the short tarmac town stage, Loeb led Ogier by 19.7s, Hirvonen lm43s behind the leader. The excitement was still there, as Loeb discovered when he struggled through heavy traffic to arrive at the start of stage 15 on time, only to find his car was stuck in third gear. Panic! By cannibalising part of the rear bumper he was able to make the gear selection work again and contributed, once again, to a Citroen domination finishing the 30km stage only 1.3 seconds behind Petter Solberg's winning time. Stage 15 was the first time a Ford denied Citroen cars taking the best two times on every stage when Latvala, in a happier mood having had the transmission changed at midday service, was second fastest. Henning Solberg had more power steering trouble and felt on the verge of giv-ing up altogether, but gamely carried on, even though he dropped back behind brother Petter in the pro-cess. Thtn came stage 16, a repeat of the nightmare stage 12 where Ogier had lost so much time on the first run through, and the same happened again. Still running first car on the road, and with Loeb now in full flight, notwithstanding his make-shift gear selection repair, and now running strategically third car behind Hirvonen, Ogier lost more than 14 seconds to Loeb, and sud-denly Ogier's lead of 24.1 seconds plummeted to 10.4. This time it wasn't just the road surface, for the last three or four kilometres of the stage Ogier explained he had lost en-gine power. On stage 16 another Fi-esta WRC went missing when Block once again stopped, this time when he impacted a rock and a wheel came off the car. Was Loeb interest-ed in getting ahead of his teammate on stage 17, the final orthodox stage Page 16 of the day? If he did it meant he must then run first car on the road for the final day. Loeb pushed on through the stage but then the hand-brake failed, and the car stalled at a hairpin near the end of the stage. Final day running order therefore was Ogier, Loeb, Hirvonen, Latvala and Petter Solberg. What would the champion do on the shorter 62km final day? "Push, I guess", he said. Latvala finally scored a fastest time on the event for Ford on stage 17. Henning reached the service park safely, having now had brake failure on stage 17. Petter was late into the stage when his car refused to re-start, and he found he had a broken gearlever just as he came up to a major jump and was afraid of having a high speed spin. Ostberg, having had a similar power steering problem to Henning's in the morn-ing, had the steering rack changed at midday and this allowed him to continue driving sensibly on his first rally outside Europe. He ended the day in sixth place. Novikov's team announced that they were having to retire from the event on account of impact damage which had fractured a water pipe and caused the engine to overheat. Loeb scored best times on both superspecials. In SWRC, Nasser Al Attiyah planned a careful day to keep Mar-tin Prokop at bay with Juho Han-ninen a further minute behind. Tanak went off the road on the first stage of the day and down an embankment where the car stayed, and he stopped for the rest of the day. The three surviving S2000 cars were running eighth to tenth, with less than a puncture buffer be-tween them. Each driver took turns in making category scratch times. Kruuda stopped after the second stage of the day with a repeat of fuel pump problems. Day 3 - 3 Stages -Gravel - 62kms Overnight the tension between· the teams were first eased and then inflamed again. Finally the Clerk of the Course referred the Ogier affair to the Stewards, who deliberated and decided that no sporting ad-vantage had been gained by Ogier's mistake which "did not devalue the competition". The Stewards' Deci-sion quoted the Scrutineer assigned to watch the team as confirming "no service was undertaken". Brit-ish media however reported that Ford then invited Stewards to view independent video footage which showed a Citroen mechanic actually putting a. jack beneath Ogier's rally car and another mechanic touching the car, both acts in contravention of pare ferme rules which applied immediately after Ogier had left the Regroup In control. Clearly this matter looked like continuing beyond the moment the rally physi-cally came to an end. Rodrigo Salgado, overnight lead-er in Class 3 in his Evo IX, did not restart so it was Benito Guerra in his Evo X who took over the lead in this class and the honour of being the highest placed Mexican driver. It was cooler in the valleys on the final morning but the battle for the lead between the two Citroen drivers was intense until 14km into the first stage (stage 20) when Ogier went off the road and out of the rally. Suddenly the rally and the ten-sions calmed down, but maybe we had seen a worrying consequence for the Citroen team's no-orders policy. Loeb was the first past Ogier's stricken car, "Not so nice to have to push a teammate but it was my job to pressure him." Everyone went up one place. Now eyes were on the Power Stage and the need to adopt strategy mode again. As soon as Loeb saw Ogier's plight he eased right off to preserve his tyres. Petter Solberg, now fourth, said he saved weight by carrying only one spare wheel. So another trend was emerging. The points incentive in the Power Stage was already spoiling the spectacle on the preceding stages of the final day, a pity. On the penultimate stage Block lost over 20 minutes with apparent electrical· trouble and Villagra got to the end of the Power Stage with a broken driveshaft. In SWRC, Han-ninen was fighting hard to catch Prokop but rolled slightly on the penultimate stage so settled for third place in the category. Nasser Al Attiyah cruised to what he thought would be his first SWRC win, with-out serious problems. His seventh place the best overall placing for a S2000 on a WCR event so far. Hen-ning Solberg finally finished what for him had been ·an anguished event, made worse by having to replace a power steerin.g belt dur-ing the final day. Hirvonen made a mighty, almost uncharacteristic, Ith Rally Guanajuato ~o -RaUy Mexico (MEX) Leon .flT.OS.2010 WCR round 2. SWRCNtrcclPCWRC round 2 10 11 13 (1) Sebastien LOEB/Oanlel ElenaF/MC Citroen Ct WRC AJ083ZN (F) 3h.42m.41.7s, 25 (11 ) PetterSoabefg/PhlhpMllis NJGB C11roonC4 WRC Al289AN (F) 3h ◄3m.06.95 WRC .AJ607MN (F) 3h.•3fn 07 0. 25 18 18 (7) (3) (4) (6, (9) Mikko HIRVONENtJarmo Lehtinen FIN Ford Focus RS WRC SA09VHR (GB) 3h ◄4m 29 25 15 J~attl LATVAUVMnkka Anttda FIN FOl'O Focus RS WRC PXD8AXB (GB} 3h.•4m 56 8s 12 tierln.ngSOLBERG/!lka M100fNIA F01d Focus RS WRC E.U07SSZ (00) 3hA5m.29.7s. 10 Fedenc:O VILLAGRAIJorge Perez CompWIC RA Fon! Focua RS WRC EU07SUF (G8) 3tl 52m 55 1s (28) Xavier Pons/Alex H•ro E Ford Fiesta S2000 SWRCWRCC Mt.1590RT (GB) 41'1 01m 261a • (21) Martin Prokop/Jan Tomanek CZ Fotd FieStai S2000 SWRCNVRCC PXSMVJ (GB) ◄ h.01m •3 7s (31) ArrruodoAravp'M,guel Ramalho Mitaubllhi l.ancw EW> IX PCWRC OJ924GW (I) (32) Toshr AtwOantel Barritt JIGS Subaru lmprez.a N14 PCWRC GMG301T0.103 (J) 4h 07m 30 9s RA Mittubltri Linter Ew lX PCWRC 9027XA (MEX) 4t1 1 Jm.27 2s (2) Dani SORDOIMarc Mafti E Citroen C4 WRC AJ110ZN (F) 4h.22m.34.1~(9} 6 15 C•9) BeNtoGueml/Jav,erMarin MEX MltlublShlL.ancerEvoX PCWRC 7531!GLW(E) 4h23mZ38s(•l 16 17 (5) Matthew WTLSON/Sr.xJtl Martsn (33) Qanluca LNnt'Pau&o Gregorian• GB Fonl Foan RS WRC PXD8AXC (06) 4h.2Sm 58.9' (9) 4 Subaru lmpreza N14 PCWRC OW355PX(I) 4n 26m.16,9s. 18 (55) Ken fflOdv.Alex Geisornirio USA f«d Focus RS WRC AG57CKA (GB) 4h.~ 32 Os.(9} 20 21 22 (23) MtChal 1<01ciusz:ko1Mociek SlC.lepllf'll9k PL Fotd Fiesta S2000 SWRCIWRCC PX!QAXA (GR) 4h 35m 02 Os (9) (25) Evv,nd Btynltdsen/Cato Menketuel N SkOol Fabla S2000SWRCWRCC 9568EW (Bl 4h 35rn.~.9s.(8) (30) Abtrl LlownJBor)a Rozac:la ANDIE fiat Gtatm P\llto S2000 SWRC OK077GT (I) 4h.3&n.31.7s(3l -attack on the Power Stage, and won his three extra points with a time 2.1 seconds faster than Sebastien Loeb who was equal with Petter Solberg. Now, what happens about the 2 or 1 points? Who said that the Stewards would have nothing to do after the finish? Certainly there is no pub-lished provision of how to decide allocation of points in the case of a tied result on the stage! Although Loeb and Solberg tied to the tenth of a second, times to a smaller frac-tion of a second were actually, se-cretly, taken so the Stewards decided that Loeb took two extra points and Petter one. · Then came the final drama, exclusion of the SWRC winner Al Attiyah because of an irregular fuel tank ventilation system which on this hot, high altitude rally, is a tricky technical issue. This then elevated Martin Prokop to victory in the category. ll\.l2C WCR~nta 15 12 10 25 18 10 WCR WCD S WC PC 25 18 25 18 15 12 10 15 15 12 12 30 (5 SWRC/5 WRCC/7 PCWRC) 1tarters 25 (5 SWRC/4 WRCC'5 PCWRC) ftnlSherl. +Group N MW!t. MANUFACTURERS' REGISTERED DRIVER (M,sMd st.ao-or road Mcilor'ls) Winner's average soeed OVfl' tt.ages 92,95kph. LEADING RETIREMENTS LAST STAGE COMPLETED Kimi RAIKKONEN/K8j l.Jndstrom FIN Cttroen C4 WRC A.I05nN (F) 8CCKlenl 7 (8) (22) (◄1) Nasse, AJ Att,yahKiic:wanni Bemacchlnl OM SkOol Fabla S2000SWRCWRCC 401S3E (CZ) manlfok:I 16 Giofg10 8acco'Gi<.wanni Agr1Ha Uit&ubi&N Lancer Evo IX PCWRC OM2:98A.N (I) -6 (50) Rodngo+o.odoroSalgadO MEX Mbubl$h!Ltnc::el'Evo1X PONRC notregistel'fld l'lre(5) 18 RA.L.LY LEADERS P Sotberg stages 1-10. Loeb 11,22. SWRCIGROUP N LE.ADE.RS l<OICIUSzkostagt5 1-5. Pons 6-10. Prokop 11•18. Pons 18-22 • . PCWRCLEAOERSArau,ostage1 M12-5 A.rallf06·9.Araut()+An410.Arau,o11-22. The ROUie Restarting J)OSlllOOS 1 Day 1 Leon poifon.m (Friday 0700} • 3 asphalt-6 92km 379.251un Loeb 8 6 g~-132 36km Polrfonln(Frklay 1718) P Solberg7 Oat 2 PoitfOl'l.lTI (Saturday 0700) - 3 asphall-6 97km 340 44ltn27 H""°""". (10-18) Poitorum -Poifoo.m (Saturday 1731 ) Day 3 POkforum (S1.#lday 0745) • 1 at,phelt-i •2km 136.~26 (19 21+22) Leon Pollf<Wurtl {Sul'IC:lay 1300) 2gravel-4664kJ'TI Vllagiw Railtkonen 856 05km SWRC Kosciuuko won 9 stages, Pons 8, P~op ◄. /4J Attfyoth & Bfyrntdsttt1 1 Aeh. • · -· · • · · - · · • · --· -· •• • · - · - - · - • · • • · - · - - · - · · - · • -·-- · - • · • · · - · --· - -·•• --· --·-- · • PCWRCAntv,o& Ar.w won 10 stages ead'I. Goen-a I Ceternon1al ~"1an at GuanaJuato on Thursday at 2000 Stage 20 canc.iled before the start • road repairs, GROUP N Kosc1usZk.o woo 7 Sl;agtt, Pons 5, Prokop 4. Arauto 3, Al Atbyah & Wr..3ther warm and dry No st&QM in darkness Positions 1nWortd Chetnpionshlplof Rallies (WCRl BP Fo,c, A.bv Dhabi WRT67 points, Citroen TotalWRT61. Citroen Junior 32 Stobaft VK M..Spor1 Ford RT 28 Munchfs FcwdWRT 8 Leading posmons ll"l Wor1(t Champt0nst11p tor Omter, {WCO) Loeb •3 points, Htl"IOMf'I 37 Ogief' & l.atYllla 25 P $o1betg 20 H SOlbofg 16 $ordO 12 Wilson & Y1llagra G ~tt;)ef'g & Pons 4, etc Leading positions in Super 2000 WOrld Champtanshlp for Dmers (SWRC) Round 2/10. Prokop 33 po.nts, AodeRson & Pon1 25 8ryrvldsen 22 Tuohtno 1 B. e~ Positions 1n WRC Cup fot Teams (WRCC) Round 2/10 Czech Ford National Team 36 points.~ & Nupel Globet Racing 25 Skod.J..Rene Georges Rally Sp011 24 Red Bui RT & Oynamc WRT 15 Team fOfdiOU111ta do Lorde 10 leading po!litlons In Producuon Car WRC (PCVtJRC) Round 219 Ataujo 40 pointl Flodin 25, GroncW & Arai Uli. linari 1ft. etc April 2011 Dusty Times

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jean. e_alvin '8Ae CW cu tJff (ha.d <:Jwcin3-j c}et <f 'Ci.en.d. What do you call a person who has been actively involved with the sport of off road racing for almost thirty years? Crazy, ignorant, a glutton for punishment, a masochist, any of the above? Well, I guess you would have to say a bit of all of them, but that's what makes Jean Calvin unique in this sport. She was sort of conned into the sport in 1969 and it certainly took hold of her. It became her greatest passion in life, the participation, the information she is able to disseminate to the people, the love of racing, the love of driving, the people involved in the sport, but mostly it is the compelling urge to succeed, to overcome the obstacles that arise in front of her and overcome them she does. Never known as a quitter, Jean attacked the sport of off road racing with vigor, finding a great outlet for her competitive spirit, racing not only against some other driver, but against the elements themselves. There were days (and long nights) when the temperature was in three digits, when the silt was so thick you could never even see the hood of the car, when the snow was so deep you couldn't find the race course, when your crew stood out there like frozen fools, listening for "Their" engine, and then watching their driver plow on by, and Jean was one of those drivers, either freezing or sweating or choking or being blinded in the dust and in spite of it all, having the best time in the world because you were racing, off road racing, and there was still one lap to go, or 300 miles to go, it didn't matter, you were where you belonged and you were putting forth your best effort, that too was Jean at all times. Now mind you, Jean wasn't the only driver out there having all that fun, she was one of maybe 450 to 500 active drivers in those days, but she was one of the few women racing the desert and she did her best to beat everybody else out there. Jean raced sports cars with the SCCA for many years before entering the off road world. She had an Austin-Healy Sprite, which was near and dear to her heart and even though it was known as a miserable ill-handling car, she raced it for years, competing against mostly men and refusing to enter the "Women's Races", racing instead against the good ole boys, who. detested her when she beat them to the checkered flag. Jean had her share of accidents and flips, including one five time end over end at Santa Barbara; it destroyed the car (except for the roll bar) and Jean ended up with a broken nose and a severely wrenched shoulder. However, as soon as possible another Sprite was built and she was at it again. Jean entered the off road world when she did an article on Les Choate, owner of Les's Auto Salvage. Les was involved in the fledgling sport of off road racing and offered Jean and her husband a ride in a "Burro" (state of the art for the time) in the upcoming Baja 500 and except for losing a steering box it was a very successful race. Jean kept running with Les's Auto Salvage Team, sharing the driving with Les and his son Eddie in many races over the next few years, until the "F" bug bit, in this case "F" stands for Funco and that was the beginning of part two for Jean in off road racing. Jean made a deal with Gil George at Funco and a brand new single seater was born, a car that was raced to death but came through the flips and the crashes without too much long term damage. Jean raced the little Funco, mostly in Class 9, then in 1600 and for the most part, enjoyed every minute of it. Lots of help came to her through Dick McCool and Jerry Lawless who always made sure the car was up to par and both these guys shared the driving chores with Jean on numerous Occasions. We are unable to count the times Jean has taken the green flag in off road, but racing full time for too many years to mention with SCORE, SNORE, WRA, ARVRA, and many many other sanctioning bodies, she has had plenty of seat time in the desert. Jean had worked for Peterson Publishing back in the sports car days, then put out SCORE News for Sal Fish for some time but in December, 1983 the first issue of Dusty Times hit the presses and the rest is history. Jean knew that the sport of off road racing needed an unbiased journal of the happenings in the desert racing community and Dusty Times was the answer. With help from her husband, Brad Goodrow, Don Goodrow and Jerry Lawless, Dusty Times was born and became another consuming passion in Jean's life. Jean continued racing and publishing Dusty Times with Judy Smith covering some events, and it wasn't too long before Jean and Dusty Times were becoming the voice of off road racing. Dusty Times was soon covering rallying in Europe and Africa through Martin Holmes and the Austtalian races were covered by Darryl Smith and Mick Myers. Jean was badly injured in a Baja 500 race some years ago, her racing activities were brought to a sudden stop for a time, but her determination soon had her back covering the races and reporting on the racers she loved so well. Jean left this earth of ours on March 31, 1997. She enjoyed every minute she spent racing, covering the races and, above all, publishing Dusty Times. Jean was blessed with the willpower, the guts and the determination to never give up, she worked the races and the paper in spite of the pain she lived with most days and was always amply rewarded when some racer thanked her for putting their picture in the paper. Jean was inducted into the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2004, a fitting tribute to a woman who lived and loved off road racing for more than 30 years. Jean really was a champion! 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• AT FIREBIRD Huseman Takes Two In Pro 4 By ] Preston Bradshaw Photos: Kermit Lennick Rick Huseman took a nice win on Saturday in the Pro 4 race and he repeated the win in the Sunday affair, seen here in his Toyota. What a weekend, the Lucas Oil Stadium Series opened at Firebird Raceway on the March 19 -20 week-end and it couldn't hav~ gone better. The weather was cooperating, it was balmy and fairly warm and there were 136 vehicles all i:eady to go out on the track and perform flawlessly. Some of them actually did! It was a great weekend of racing for the drivers and for Lucas Oil. There were 15 trucks en-tered in the Pro 4 Unlimit-ed main event on Saturday and quite a race they had. When the smoke cleared it was Rick Huseman taking a really nice win, Carl Rene-zeder took second place honors, he was a bit over two .seconds in arrears, Travis Coyne was third in, he was another seven sec-onds back, Curt LeDuc fin-ished first off the podium, Curt was another four sec-onds in arrears and Aaron Daugherty was fifth in, he was another second in ar-rears. Kent Brascho took sixth place honors, Jerry Daugherty was seventh in, Todd LeDuc only got in 19 of the required 20 laps, Johnny Greaves wa.s three laps shy at the finish, Steve Barlow had 14 laps under his belt and John Harrah had 13 laps completed. Kyle LeDuc only got 11 laps in, Josh Merrel had seven laps completed, Adrian Cenni only got ¼ of the race in and Ricky Johnson only had 1 lap completed for a very bad race. The Sunday Pro 4 Unlim-Rob Naughton, #54 mixes it up with Rodrigo Ampudia on his way to the Pro 2 win in the Sunday event, he was none the worse for wear. ited Main saw Rick Huse-man taking another nice win, he had exactly one sec-ond on Johnny Greaves and Carl Renezeder was anoth-er seven seconds in arrears. Adrian Cenni was another two seconds back in fourth place and Todd LeDuc was another second back in the fifth spot. Josh Merrel came in another nine sec-onds back in sixth place, Kent Brascho finished sev-enth, he was another eight seconds back, Jerry Daugh-erty was the eighth place finisher, Curt LeDuc was ninth in, John Harrah took 10th place honors and Tra-vis Coyne was the last of the 20 lap finishers in 11th place. Ricky Johnson was a lap shy with 19 com-pleted, Aaron Daugherty got 16 laps in, shown in 13th place, Kyle LeDuc got 11 laps under his belt and Steve Barlow only had 4 laps completed. The Pro 2 Unlimited race on Saturday had 21 en-trants just itchin' for a win. The first to complete the required 20 laps was Bryce Menzies, a great win for him, Carl Renezeder came in for second place, he was two seconds back, Robby Woods came along in third place, he was another seven seconds back, Greg Adler finished in fourth place and Brian Deegan took fifth place honors. Sixth place belonged to Rodrigo Ampudia, Rob Naughton took seventh place, Nick Tyree was eighth in, Rob-bie Pierce was another sec-ond back in ninth spot, Craig Potts finished in 10th place and Rob Mac-Cachren was the 11th place finisher and last to com-plete 20 laps. Jesse James was a lap shy in 12th place and Greg Nunley was 13th with 19 laps completed. Jeremy McGrath was shown in 14th place with 18 laps completed, Marty Hart was next with 17 laps under his belt, Myan Spaccarelli was shown 16th, he too with 17 laps completed and Jeff Geiser was shown in 17th place with 16 laps in. Pete Sohren had 15 laps com''. pleted, shown as 18th, John Gaston was 19th, Jeremy Stenberg was shown 20th with 12 laps completed and Scott Martenson only had two laps completed, shown in 21st place. Chris Brandt drove his muddied Toyota to the win on Sunday in the Pro Lite contest, Chris was the second place finisher in the Saturday race. RJ Anderson does a snap roll during the Super Lite race, RJ took the win on Saturday and he finished third in the Sunday event . Only 19 showed up for the Sunday Pro 2 Unlim-ited Main on Sunday and it was Rob Naughton tak-ing a really nice win, Jer-emy McGrath was two sec-onds back in second place, Brian Deegan was anoth-er three seconds back in third place, Greg Adler was another second back in fourth spot and Marty Hart rounded out the top five finishers. 11 seconds later it was Carl Renezeder in the sixth spot, Robbie Pierce was another five sec-onds back in seventh place, Myan Spaccarelli finished • Johnny Greaves flew his Toyota to a 9th place finish in Pro 4 on Patrick Clark is a bit off kilter in his Mazda pickup, he finished second· Travis Coyne finished in third place in Pro 4 on Saturday, he was well Saturday, Johnny finished second in the Sunday race. on Saturday and fourth in the Sunday race. back in 11th place in the Sunday fracas. Page 18 April 2011 Dusty Times

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Adrian Genni took a fourth place finish in Sundays Pro 4 fracas, Adrian Greg Nunley ran his first Pro 2 races at Firebird, Greg finished 13th Jimmy Stephensen, #33 finished third in Pro lite on Saturday and was a dnf on Saturday, seen here holding Rick Huseman at bay. and 11th at the Lucas Firebird battles. took a second place in the Sunday affair, seen here in his Nissan. his belt. eight laps completed. Josh The Limited Buggy race Stechnij was shown 11th on Saturday had 16 cars with 8 laps done, Chad all ready to go, they had George was shown 12th 16 laps to go for their race with eight laps in and Ty-and nine of them made it ler Winbury did not com-all the way. plete a lap. The UTV race on Sat-The Limited Buggy race urday was 13 strong, they on Saturday had 16 cars had 14 laps to complete entered, they had 16 laps for a finish and when ev-to run for their race and erything settled down in when the smoke cleared it was Corry Weller taking a was John Fitzgerald tak-really great win, Doug Mit-ing a really nice win, Curt tag finished less than a sec-Geer was just a second and ond behind for the silver a half behind in second medal, Chad George fin-place, Bradley Morris was ished in the third spot, he another second back in was less than two seconds third place, Quentin Tuck-behind the winner, Robert er took fourth place honors Cody Rahders flew his Rhino SR1 to the UTV win in the Sunday contest, Cody finished in ninth place in the Saturday race. Vanbeekum was the fourth and Dave Mason rounded the leader, Jeffrey Kargola place finisher and Tyler out the top five cars. Lind-was ninth in and Jacob Winbury finished in the say Geiser finished in sixth Person was the 10th place fifth spot. John Dempsey place, Kevin McCullough finisher. Jason Ellis fin-finisher in the sixth spot, was lucky seventh, Toby ished in 11th place and he was the last of the 14 Bost had eighth place Mike McCarthy finished lap group, Dan Kelly was locked down, Joe Whiteley in 12th place, the last of shown seventh with 13 laps took ninth spot and Dillon the 14 lap finishers. Jesse completed, Keaton Swayne Ayers was shown 10th but Johnson got in 13 laps and was eighth with 12 laps un-he did not complete his· was shown 13th and Austin der his belt and Code Rah-final lap. Jeff Richards, an-Kimbrell was shown 14th ders was shown ninth with other 15 lapper was shown with six laps completed. 12 laps done. Finishing in in 11th and Tatum Ronco finished sixth, 11 seconds behind the leader, Kyle LeDuc was seventh, Pete Sohren was the eighth place finisher, Ryan Beat was ninth in and Richard Cassey rounded out the top 10. Brian Deegan was a lap do~n in 11th place, Corey Sislar was also a lap in arrears, he was 12th and Austin Kimbrell was shown in 13th place with 11 laps completed. Matt Cook only finished six laps and was shown in 14th place and Matt Loiodice was shown as 15th with only 3 of the 18 required laps completed. There were 14 entrants in the Super Lite conflict and on this Saturday 12 of them finished the required 14 laps·. When they came around for the checkers it was RJ Anderson taking a very nice win, Patrick Clark was second in, he was a mere second in ar-rears, Chad George, an-other two seconds back was in third place, Brent Fouch was the fourth one in and Wyatt Kirchner was the fifth place finisher. Sixth place went to Ron Dun-combe, Colton Greaves was lucky seventh, Dawson Kirchner finished eighth, he was 12 seconds behind The Super Lite race on 10th spot was Bryan Os-was shown 12th with 15 Sunday saw Jeffrey Kar-born with 11 laps complet-laps complete. Greg Crew gola taking the class win, ed, Greg Franz was shown was unlucky 13th with 14 Colton Greaves finished 11th with four laps in, laps complete and Geof-in the second spot, he was RJ Anderson was 12th, he frey Cooley was 14th, he two seconds in arrears, RJ completed three laps and too with 14 laps in. Bruce Anderson was third in, he Josh Stechnij only complet-Fraley retired after 9 laps was another second back, ed two laps. and Zachary.Hunt only got Patrick Clark finished first The Sunday UTV race six laps in. off the podium and Chad had Code Rahders taking Sunday's Limited Buggy George was the fifth car a really nice win, Corry event was once more for 16 in. Sixth place went to Weller was the second ve-cars and 16 laps of racing. Jesse James, Austin Kim-hicle in, John Dempsey Curt Geer moved up a spot brell was lucky seventh, took the bronze medal, from Saturday and took a Wyatt Kirchner was eighth Greg Franz finished first nice win, Dave Mason was to take the checkers, Ron off the podium and Bryan second in, he was seven Duncombe was ninth in Osborn took fifth place seconds behind the winner, and Mike McCarthy round-honors. Sixth place went Quentin Tucker came in ed out the top 10 finishers. to Keaton Swayne, he was third, he was another four Brent Fouch was the 11th the last of the 14 lap fin-seconds back, Toby Bost car to finish and the last ishers. Doug Mittag had claimed first off the po-of ·the 14 lap group, Jacob 13 laps completed and was dium, another 10 seconds Person finished 13 laps shown in. seventh place, in arrears and 'Dillon Ay-and was shown 12th, Jason Dan Kelly finished 12 laps ers took the fifth position. Ellis was 13th with 13 laps for an eighth place slot, Sixth place went to Geof-completed and Dawson Robert Vanbeekum was frey Cooley, Lindsay Geiser Kirchner was shown 14th, shown ninth and RJ Ander-finished seventh, Zachary he only had two laps under son was shown 10th with Hunt finished in eighth .,....----------------------, place, Tatum Ronco fin-ished ninth and Jeff Rich-ards rounded out the top 10 cars. In 11th place was Greg Crew, John Fitzgerald was shown 12th with 15 laps complete, 13th went to Kevin· McCullough with 12 laps finished, Bradley Morris was next, he had 11 laps done, Joe Whitely was shown 15th with 3 laps complete and Bruce Fraley, having the worst weekend of racing in his life only had one lap complete. The Pro Buggy boys were next up, there were 16 of them ready to race and they had 18 laps to do it in. Tak-ing a really nice Saturday win was Doug Fortin, Jus-tin Smith was five seconds behind in second place, Jerry Whelchel was anoth-er second back in third spot, Steven Greinke fin-ished in fourth place and Phil Bolman was the fifth place finisher, 12 seconds behind the winner. Rich Ronco took a sixth place finish, Joe Masek came in five seconds later in sev---enth place, John Holmes finished eighth, he was 21 seconds behind the leader, Brandon Bailey was the ninth finisher and Mike Porter took the 10th fin-ishing positi.on. 11th place went to Patrick Pendley, he was the last of the 18 lap finishers, Justin Davis only got in 14 laps, shown in 12th place, Gregg Reich-man was shown 13th with 7 laps completed, Wade Wyman was 14th, Bobby Pecoy was shown 15th with 4 laps complete and Eddie Tafoya was 16th , he too with 4 laps complete. The Sunday Pro Buggy race was just as interesting as the Saturday event, this race was 19 laps long and Mike Porter, who finished in 10th place yesterday happily took the check-ered flag on Sunday for a Kevin McCullough gets a bit wild in the limited Buggy race, Kevin Greg Franz drove his Rhino SRI to an 11th place finish in the Saturday Rob MacCachren had a horrible weekend, he finished 11th in Pro 2 finished seventh on Saturday and 13th in the Sunday affair. UTV race, Greg carded a fourth place finish in the Sunday fracas. on Saturday and only got in five laps on Sunday. Page 20 April 2011 Dusty Times

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Nick Tyree and Rohby Woods fly together, Nick was 8th and 15th in Casey Currie was credited with a sixth place finish Ofl Saturday and · Rich Ronco lfttfrally flew his car, to a·pair of sixth place finishes in the Pro 2 and Robby took a 3rd on Saturday and wa~ 16th on Sunday. a fifth place finish on Sunday In t/ie Pro lite·skirrliishes: : • ~ · -Pra Buggy races, seen here slightly out of shape. 16th, Ricky Gutierrez was Philip Winb.ury finished race sported 17 entries, even dozen, Parker Steele Guthrie Jr. took the eighth shown 17th with 12 laps seventh, Gavin Harlien was they had to complete 15 took 13th place and Carlye spot, Cole Potts was ninth complete, Lauren Knupp eighth, Wolfgang Ries took laps for a finish . . When Lenk finished 14th and to finish and Kyle Dodd r a n 1 8 t h , C o r e y G e i s e r a n i n th, p I a c e f i 11 i s h a n d t h e i r f i r s t I a p e n a e d i t was the I as t of the 15 1 a p rounded out the top 10 in was shown 19th and Travis .Dylan ·Winbury'was 10th was Myles Cheek t.aking finishers. Jeremy Davis was class. Scotty Steele was the Pecoy was shown 20th with in. Corey Geiser was 11th a really big ·win, second a lap"down,· shown in 15th 11th place finisher, Brooke 6 laps completed. to finish, Barrett Nunley place went to Shelby An-place, Alyssa Fort-in was Cawell made it an even The Kart Jr. 1 Sunday was 12th, Conner McMul-derson, just a half second shown 16th, 13 laps com-dozen finishers, Kyle Hart race saw Travis go from len was 13th, Eliott Wat-in arrears, Chad Graham pleted and Maxwell Ries was 13th in, Cole Mamer one extreme to the other son was shown 14th and took third place honors, was shown 17th with 9 laps took the 14th place finish as Travis Pecoy, who was Matt Crowell was shown as Weston Schuck finished complete. and Bradley Morris was dead last on Saturday took 15th. Shown 16th with 13 in fourth pla.ce and Brock The Sunday Kert Jr. shown 15th with 14 laps the class win in the Sunday laps completed was Blaze Heger was fifth in. Isabella 2 event, also for 15 laps done, Chad Graham was event, Prston Rohen was Nunley, Ricky Gutierrez Naughton took sixth place saw Maxwell Ries go from shown 16th with 13 laps less that two seconds in showed 17th with 12 laps honors, Sterling Cling was dead la.st on Saturday to complete, Sheldon Creed arrears at the finish, Dean complete, Sammy Gutierrez seventh in, Paige Porter the winners circle in the finished 11 laps, he was Duro was another 2 sec-showed 18th with 11 laps took eighth spo,t, Preston Sunday race, Myles Cheek shown 17th and Jeff Hoff-onds back in third place, in, Lauren Knupp, 19 with Rohen was ninth in and finished 3 seconds in ar-man was dq'd, reason un-Broc Dickerson finished 11 laps in and Tyler Ste-Hailie Deegan was 10th to rears, Paige Porter, third known to us. fourth and Darren Hardes-phensen listed at 20th with cross the line. 11th spot place finisher, was anoth-The Sunday Kart Modi-ty was fifth in. Jack Yeiser 4 laps in. went to Riley Herbst, Isa-er 2 seconds in arrears, fied race was also for 15 took sixth place honors, Saturdays Kart Jr. 2 bella Busnardo made it an Brock Heger was fourth laps and when all was said PINCH BDBBEB II UNIBAU t:UPB ,~ 2111 lEJAl IA "~ · RATEi BElllETI _ -~ 1-CEl Ir . .,,.,., Page 22 l BEBH B BYBTEM 'AB /IEIIA -·--·-------· . RACE RAO/OS •~KENWDBB :!:r April 2011 in and Riley Herbst took and done it was Mitch fifth place honors. Jeremy Guthrie, Jr. taking the Davis took a sixth place class win, Mitchell Dejong finish, Isabella Naughton was a quarter of a second was lu'cky seventh, Parker behind for a second place Steele finished in eighth finish, Jerett Brooks was place, Chad Graham was a second behind in third ninth in and Shelby An-spot, Bradley Morris was derson rounded out the fourth in and Trent Wil-top 10. Sterling Cling was Iiams rounded out the 11th to finish, Preston Ro-first five to finish. Kyle hen finished in 12th place, Hart was sixth in, Jef(. Weston Schuck came in Hoffman finished in sev-13th, Hailie Deegan was enth spot, Myles Cheek 14th to finish and Isabella finished in eighth place, Busnardo was the 15th and Scotty Steele was ninth final finisher. Carlye Lenk and Cole Mamer took 10th was a lap shy for a fin-place honors. Brock Heger ish and Alyssa Fortin was was 14 seconds back of the shown 17th, also with 14 leader in 11th place, Blake la'ps completed. Lenk was 12th in, Broo"k On Saturday, the Kart Cawell was 13th to finish, Modified group, some 18 Kyle Dodd was the 14th strong commenced to give finisher and Cole Potts it all they had and it was was the 15th to fin is h . Mitchell Dejong taking the Chad Graham finished in class win, Jerett Brooks the 16th position, Riley took second place honors, Herbst only got in 5 laps Brock Heger finished in and was shown 17th and third place, Trent Wil-Sheldon Creed was cred-liams finished fourth and ited with zero laps. Myles Cheek took a fifth And so it ended, a great place finish. Blake Lenk start for the Lucas Oil Off was sixth to f,j n is h, R i -Ro ad Racing Series, lots ley Herbst was the lucky more to come as the weeks go seventh finisher, Mitch by, seen ya all there! Pie #21 Curt Geer leads a gaggle of limited Buggies, Curt finished in second place on Saturday and took the class win in the Sunday event. Dusty Times

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r MCCioud Is The overall Winner By Ste11e Ruddick Photos: Trackside Photo Andrew Mcleod was the big winner at the MORE Balls Out 250 in Barstow, Andrew had five minutes on his competition at the checkers. It was the 2011 M.O.R.E./ Roy-al Purple Ballsout 250 + the '5/16 Shootout' at the Johnson Valley OHV in beautiful Barstow Cali-fornia. 104 racers started; 50 Fin-ished. Andrew McLeod was First Overall winner in car #144. George Pondella was the fastest in car #58 at 53.7 mph on Lap 1. Scott Boyd was the slowest at 14.1 mph on Lap 1 in car #2055. Jared Sluder won the highly coveted Dusty Times contingency prize for finishing all the required laps last within the max 8-hour time limit at 7:57:45 in car #903, by a 2m: 15s margin of victory. Congratulations all! The skies were overcast and cloudy all day, and the Barstow breeze was blowing. It gets a bit cool an d chilly when th e Bar-stow breeze blows in early spring; bundle-up weather. A.R.T.S. and Ernie Negreti were responsible for the 5/16 Shootout and several racers came norte' from Mexico to compete. The Barstow breeze got brisk and then got windy as race day wore on. The breeze became gale force winds and whipped the course flags without mercy. Bill Markel stood his ground at S/F and manned the flag waiving du-ties all day. You knew it was windy when the winds started blowing their own dirt and dust up and about and the course flags dipped their colors in respect. Airborne rooster tails of dust and dirt in the distance. You know the winds are blowing briskly when you get passed by your own rooster tail. People pitted to the east of S/F got more than their fair share of blowing dust and dirt because they were on the downwind side and bore the brunt of the Barstow breeze blowing through. Wind everywhere. Air borne dust and dirt awaited those downwind any-where. You smell that? Do you smell that? Dust and dirt, Race Fans. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of dust and dirt on race day. It was Course A at Barstow. 34.5 miles clockwise around the loop with 9 Road Crossings (RX) and 5 designated Spectator Areas. There was an 8-hour time limit to get it done. 104 racers started in 14 different Classes and 50 Finished. Barstow beat the other 54. Carnage asada. One racer hit a big rock and tore the entire front spindle off. There were a lot of broken right-front shock mounts [indicating it was all the co-drivers fault because it happened on their side of the Mike Donahue took the gold medal in the Trophy Challenge race at Barstow, Mike had over half an hour in hand at the close of the race. ride). The Overall Winner didn't have any flats all day - except in-side the winner's circle during his post-race interview. People have been using old pallets for firewood for years at Barstow and the whole place is littered and strewn with old rusty nails. There's a fortune in recycled metal just lying on the ground. I went and checked out a candidate site for a cell phone tower along 1-40 once and brought back about $100 in recycled brass ammo casings. There was mass quantities of them everywhere. Flat tires have lost many a race at Bar-stow. I ran out of spares one race. Rocks and petrified creosote bush-es everywhere too. If you swerve to miss one - you run into two others. That big rock was not here the last lap. WT*? There seemed to be a lot of roll-overs around MM 14. Nobody was physically hurt or seri-ously injured - except the pride of those responsible for driver error. Oops. Classes 1, 10, 12, 1400, 1600, 3000 and 5-Unlimited did the full 7 Lap monte; 242 miles. Classes 1300 (Beyl), 900, and the 5/16 Shootout cars did 6 Laps; 207 miles. Class 1450 raced for 5 Laps; 172 miles. Classes 300 and 1100 competed for 4 Laps; 138 miles. 104 started; 50 Finished. It's 'Bar-stow'. It's brutal. It's the same well-worn groove that has been raced for decades. Many a famous name racer has probably passed this same way before on the same patch of dirt. Even the 5/ 16 racers who came up from baja to race Barstow said it's rougher than baja. It is a test of man and machine against the desert and Barstow has it all to offer. Woo Hoo! CLASS 1: 7 Laps; 242 miles. Ten starters, 8 Finishers. Max Thieriot was first off the line in car #155, followed by Lee Finke in car #111 and Dave Bonner behind the wheel of #1580 - in 15s intervals. Andrew McCleod was fourth in line at the green flag in car #144, George Pondella was next in #58 and Alex Cody came next in #122. Rick Romans in car #22 was in the number seven slot at the go line, with Shelby Reid behind in car #1568 at the rear of the pack. Pondella broke the Barstow land speed record and grabbed the fast lap honors on Lap 1 at 53. 7 mph in #58, and had a 2m46s lead ahead ofThieriot in car #155 after Lap 1 was done. Thieriot DNF'd after Lap 1. Pondella was done for the day after Lap 2 was done; DNF. That put Dave Bonner in the lead in car #1580 by almost 4-minutes and reshuffled everybody else in the race pack at the end of Lap 4; midpoint in the race. Richard Woods was running in second spot" in car #198 behind Bonner. But Woods was in front of Andrew McCloud in car #144 by almost six minutes. That's a lot of time and distance and separation to make up in any class. But don't starting counting those chickens, or race points, quite yet. Yep. Dave Bonner was out in front in car #1580 going into the last lap headed for the winner's Performance Proven for Desert & O.ff-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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The win in the Ultra Truck class went to Bryson Hopfe in his plain wrap pickup, Bryson had 50 minutes on the next car in class. circle -when - it broke on the last lap. Ouch! Richard Woods was on Bonner's tail the whole way in car #198 until - it broke on Lap 5. Lee Finke in car #lll was in the run-ning but broke after Lap 5 too and recorded a DNF for the day. Oi vey. Carnage asada. Broken parts every-where. This Barstow is one tough piece of desert dirt. It takes a beat-ing and keeps on dishing it out. That put car #144 out front and Andrew McCleod cruised on to win Overall Winner and First Place in Class in 5: 13:26 at 46.6 mph with a Sm: 13s margin of victory. "It was awesome!" McCleod said. "It was really rough and it was really fast, and there were 'bugs' everywhere. The car held together real good, we had great pits, and no flats. The back section is the roughest Barstow has to offer. Cameron Parish and JC Burgholds shared the co-driver and wheel du-ties. The driving was the most fun, and watching all the 5/16 'bugs' go at it. Everyone was courteous and everyone had fun." Dad (aka South West Boulder) added: "I couldn't be more proud of Cameron and Andrew. Seeing their smiles makes it all worthwhile." Shelby Reid made it a competi-tive race all day after # 1568 recov-ered from a case of the slows on Lap 1. Reid drove faster lap times the latter part of the race than McCleod did but just couldn't make up the time lost on Lap 1. Reid finished all the required laps in 5: 18:39 at 45.9 mph to win Second Overall and Second Place in Class in #1568. Rick Romans applied some more gas pedal to car #22 the last two laps to win Third Place in 5:30:01 at 44.3 mph, but got tagged with a 20-minute time penalty to boot. #22 still won by a 15-minute margin of victory. Dave Bonner was in the lead position coming into the last lap of the race when # 1518 broke. It took Bonner an hour to fix it and get it across the Finish in 6:05: 19 at 40 mph to finish in Fourth Place. That's determination. CLASS 10: 7 Laps; 242 miles. Seven starters; 3 Finishers. Philip Isabel was at the front of the line at staging and got to the green flag first in car #1069. Holly Bechard was next to go in car #1019. Tim Scott was third in line at the green flag in car #1051. Mark Barnes was lined up in car #1050 behind Scott, and Kathy Kirkmeyer was next in car # 1021 after Barnes. Mark Barnes set a blistering pace on lap 1 at 43.53 mph and earned the fast lap honors in car #1050 for the day, and a lm:_14s lead in front of Kathy Kirkmeyer in car #1021. Kirkmeyer had a lm:04s lead ahead of Isabell in car # 1069 after the first lap and Isabell had a Dusty Times ten minute lead ahead of Tim Scott in car #1051. Holly Bechard was beset by gremlins on lap 1 in car The Class 5 win went to Mike Belk in his good look in' VW, Mike had over an hour in hand when he took the checkered flag. #1019 and was down for over two after four laps were done -Kirk-hours getting it fixed. Ouch! meyer was done for the day in car At the midpoint of the race #1021; DNF. Kirkmeyer was run-April 2011 ning in second spot up to then and that DNF reshuffled the race pack order. Barnes was now out in front of Scott in car #1051 by almost 25 minutes, but Isabell in car #1069 was only two minutes off of Scott's behind. Holy Bechard got car #1019 fixed and back on the track but only made it through Lap 6 be-fore #1019 DNF'd too. Barnes just keep his foot on the gas pedal in car # 1050 and got to the checkered flag in 5:28:12 at 44.5 mph to win First Place in Class -by a rather comfortable 32m: 15s margin of victory. Tim Scott got all the laps done in 6:00:27 at 40.5 mph in time to win Second Place in class in car #1051. Phillip Isabell kept up a race pace to the finish line in car # 1069 and closed the gap on Scott but there wasn't enough laps left and Isabell finished in Third Place Continued on page 26 Page 25

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Danny Ledezma was the big winner in the Class 5/1600 contest at Barstow, he's seen here on his way to glory. in 6:01:13 at 40.4 mph. Barnes reported: "We had a trouble-free race and no problems at all, all day. It was fast (84 mph). It was great! Excellent! It was rough in spots and there were lots of rocks everywhere." It helps to live in Barstow with an OHV to play in too. Ha! Tim Scott, and co-driver Reid Davis from Cypress CA, re-ported from the Victory Off Road Racing -DunnTech car #1051: "It was crazy rough. This is a heavy car and we had flats on Laps 1 and 3. 1 ,;,,; ... , , ~ -··. -~ ,,, ~~ We had a good time". Enough said. ClASS 12: 7 Laps; 242 miles. One starter; 1 Finisher. Tom Stew-art was the sole entry and sole Finisher in Class in car # 1216. Stewart got a clean start in the sole pole position at the green flag. Stewart was the class pack leader at the end of Lap 1 by a wide margin. Stewart won the Fast Lap honors on Lap 3 at 40.7 mph in 5lm:15s. Stewart was way out in front at the midpoint of the race. Stewart completed all the laps required to win First Place in 6: 13:35 at 39.l mph. Stewart and car # 1216 beat barstow! ClASS 1400: 7 Laps; 242 miles. Seven starters; 2 Finishers. Things change fast in Class 1400. 70% of the class turned into carnage asada on the way to the finish line. Ouch! Honk if you need spare parts. Allen Byma got the pole position start in truck #1433, followed by Michael Fox in truck #1420, followed by Tim Griggs in #1424. Ryan Agius in truck #1484 was lined up be-hind Griggs, and Andrew Jacques was in truck # 1441 lined up behind Agius. Bryson Hopfe was staged in the number 6 starting spot in truck #1401, followed by Joe Miller in the rear start spot in truck #1403. The Barstow got to Miller on Lap 1 and that was all the fun that #1403 got done; DNF. Byma maintained his front position place through Lap 1 with a 40s lead in front of Ryan Agius in truck #1484. Bryson Hopfe had moved up to third spot in truck #1401 after Lap 1 and was 2m:23s behind Agius. Griggs was behind Hopfe and got through Lap 2 in truck #1424 before The Barstow declared victory; DNF. The same fate befell Andrew Jacques in truck #1441: DNF-Lap 2. Ryan Agius turned up the ac-celerometer in #1484 and had a 20-minute lead ahead of Byma in truck #1433 at the midpoint of the race. Byma in #1433 DNF'd after Lap 4 was done. Byma's DNF put Agius out in front in truck # 1484 by 30-minutes ahead of Michael Fox in truck #1420. Fox DNF'd in truck #1420 after Lap 5. The Barstow caught up with Ryan Agius on Lap 5 too, and truck # 1484 was out-of-working order for over 2 hours. All those changes and carnage asada and Bryson Hopfe got truck #1401 through it all in 6:24:43 at 38 mph to win First Place by a 49m:24s margin-of-victory. Ryan Agius got truck # 1484 fixed and across the Finish Line in 7:14:07 at 33. 7 mph to win Second Place for the day. HINT: The winning strat-egy is to cruise along at 60-75% un-til most of the other competition in class has turned into carnage asada, and then go fast to beat whoever is left out in front because their truck has been more hammered by The Barstow. ClASS 1600: 7 Laps; 242 miles. Twelve starters; 6 Finishers. The Barstow beat half the racers in class 1600 before the race day was done. More action and ouch and Taylor Rauls gave it the old school try but had to settle for a silver medal finish in the Trophy Challenge, Taylor finished second in the class. Nie Bayes was the big winner in the Class 3000 fracas, he had two Ryan Agius was doing just fine leading the Ultra Truck class, then, to compete with but they both failed to finish, it was good for Bayes. a horrible two hour fifth lap dropped him into the second place slot. DEERING INDUSTRIES The largest selection of aircraft hardware on the West Coast! including 12PT AIRCRAFT BOLTS MS•NAS•AN 150,000 items in stock - 100% American Made 12 pt Nuts·• Jet Nuts • Nut Plates • Washers 562-595-1668 3300 Cherry Ave • Long Beach, CA• fax 562-595-1678 • e-mail: deering.industries@verizon.net Page 26 April 2011 Dusty Times

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carnage asada to report to our Race Fans. I love my job. Jim Goff was at the head of the line in the pole position in car #1646, followed by Keith Rogovin in car #1688. Joey Black in car # 1630 was lined up behind Rogovin, and Mike Mehan in car # 1699 was staged up behind Black. Kyle Quinn was staged in the number five starting slot in car #1695, with Mike Ward in car #1673 behind him. Bill Markel flagged them through at 15-second start intervals. Mike Mehan maneuvered his way to the front of the class race pack in car # 1699 by the end of Lap 1 with a 5-second lead in front of Craig Forrest in car #1635. For-rest started at the rear of the line in tenth spot at the green flag. Bryan Meyers started at the very rear in class in car #1631 and was now running in third spot about 21 seconds behind Forrest. Quinn in car #1695 was running in fourth position about 13 seconds behind Meyers. Quinn DNF'd after Lap 3. At the midpoint in the race -Forrest in # 1635 had passed Mehan in #1699 and had a 19 second lead advantage. Mike Ward was running in third position in car #1673 about llm:33s behind Mehan, and Laurie Pfankuch was running in fourth position in car #1649 about 4m:35s behind Ward. Pfankuch DNF'd after Lap 4. Bry-an Meyers DNF'd in car #1631 after Lap 5. Keith Rogovin DNF'd in car #1688 after Lap 6. Ouch. Reshuffle the deck. Craig Forrest (San Clemente CA) kept the pres-sure on the gas pedal in car #1635 all the way to the checkered flag to win First Place by an llm: 16s margin of victory in 5:34:54 at 43.6 mph. Forest also won the Fast Lap honors on Lap 3 at 45.5 mph. Forrest said: "It was rough and technical. It was a blast! The car ran good; no flats or mechanical problems .• We started last and just started picking off cars." Dwayne Walters (Valley Center CA) drove three laps. Mike Mehan (Oak Hills CA) made it to the waiving checkered flag in 5:46:10 at 4Z.2 mph to be the victor of Second Place by a 6m:58s margin of win in the # 1699 Fairly easy sledding for Mark Barnes at the MORE Barstow affair, Mark had 32 minutes on the second place car in the Class 10 contest. R&E Fab race car. Meehan said: "It upon by The Barstow gremlins was a rough but fun course. There and was down for 2-1/2 hours on are a lot of rocks on the back sec-Lap 1. Ouch. Voracious things. tion out by the Slash-X, and there Mike Belk completed the first lap were several pretty tight turns. We in 46m:5ls to take the lead in car had no radio or intercom, and one #529 with a lm:26s time advantage flat tire. It was a pretty good race in front of Richard Garravito in but tiring. My gloves are too tight." car #505. Garravito was running Meehan's co-driver Rick Waszhiew- ahead of Larry Antuna in car #507 ziwc said: "I don't want to get by 4m:50s after Lap 1 was done. back in this thing. I'm sticking to At the midpoint of the race trophy trucks." Doug Renfro got - Mike Belk was out in front in car #1698 through all the competi- car #529 with a 18 minute time tion to claim Third Place in Class advantage in front of Garravito for the day in 5:53:08 at 41.4 mph. n car #505. Garravito was out in Mike Ward gave chase in car #1673 front of Larry Antuna in car #507 to Finish in Fourth Place just by about 13 minutes. Daryl Clifton lm:27s behind Renfro, in 5:54:35 in car #525 and David Totten in at 41.2 mph. Jim Goff just couldn't car #516 were both having bad race make up the time he lost on Lap 2 days trying to fend off The Barstow in car # 1646 but still managed to gremlins. Larry Antuna DNF' d in Finish in Fifth Place in 6:06:20 at car #507 after Lap 5. Daryl Clifton 39.9 mph. Joey Black followed in completed 6 laps in car #525 be-car # 1630 in 6:46: 12 to Finish in fore he ran out of time to complete Sixth Place at 36 mph. the last lap. David Totten com-CLASS 5-Unlimited: 7 Laps; pleted 6 laps in car #516 after the 242 miles. Seven starters; 2 Finish- max 8-hour time limit had expired. ers. The Barstow beat 70% of the Mike Belk completed all the starters. M.O.R.E. carnage asada. laps required to win First Place in Ouch. Mike Belk got the pole car #529 in 5:33:33 at 43.8 mph position start in class in car #529, and by a 1 h: 10m:6s margin of followed by Daryl Clifton in car victory. Richard Garravito encoun-#525 - followed by Keith Heitritter tered gremlin problems on the last in car #5025. Richard Garravito lap in car #505 but got it to the started in the fourth spot in line at checkered flag in 6:39:39 to win the green flag in car #505, followed Second Place in class at 36.6 mph by David Totten in car #516. Larry nonetheless. Antun·a in car #507 was staged up CLASS 3000: 7 Laps; 242 miles. behind Totten. Heitritter was im-Three starters; 1 Finisher. Mike mediately besieged and pounced Frisby got the pole position start Scott Wisdom had a fairly easy day, he was the big winner in the Class 111 contest, he's seen here at speed on the course. at the green flag in car #3030. Frisby set the Fast Lap pace on Lap 1 at 36.9 mph and was in the lead by 3-1/2 minutes after Lap 1 was done. So was Frisby; DNF. Eric Reynolds was next off the starting line in car #3056 and was plagued by The Barstow gremlins immediately: 2h: 15m worth of down time. Ouch. Reynolds got it repaired and competed five laps before #3056 ran out of time to do any more. Nie Bayes got the rear start in car #3006 and kept a steady pace to finish in 7:53:58 and win First Place at 30.8 mph. That was cutting it pretty close to the max 8-hour race time limit. CLASS 1300: 6 Laps; 207 miles. Six starters; 3 Finishers. Richard Dormack was lined up in the pole position start in car #1336. Ricky McCormies was next to stage up in car # 1388, followed by Ryan George in car # 1301. Mike Dona-hue was staged up in fourth spot in car #1312, followed by Andy Rob-erts in car #1348. Taylor Rauls was in the rear"start spot in car #1329. Ryan George proceeded to DNF in car #1301 before Lap 1 was done. Andy Roberts in car #1348 and Richard Dormack in car #1336 both got in one lap of fun before their race day was done, too. Mike Donahue in car #1312 and Ricky McCormies in car # 1388 both had identical lap times and speed on Lap l; a Kodak moment finish. Taylor Rauls was running in sec-ond spot in car #1329 after Lap 1 was over, about 10 minutes behind the two tied leaders. After three laps of racing -Mike Donahue was in the lead in car #1312 by 31 minutes ahead of Taylor Rauls in car #1329. Ricky McCormies ran into a whole herd of gremlins on Lap 2 that put # 1388 out of commission for over two hours. Ouch. Donahue had his own troubles on Lap 5 that cost valuable time. Rocks on the left of me - gremlins on my right. It's a thin race line to follow to avoid both; close to the edge. The edge on the margin of victory or defeat. Mike Donahue was challenged by The Barstow and won First Place in Class in car #1312 in 7:00:54 at 29.8 mph by a 33-mninute margin of victory. Taylor Rauls beat The Barstow to win Second Place in car #1329 in 7:33:53 at 27.6 mph. Ricky McCormies repaired #1388 and finished all the laps required to win Third Place in 7:50:09 at 26.6 mph. CLASS 900: 6 Laps; 207 miles. Thirteen starters; 8 Finishers. A herd of Class 9 cars staged up at S/F. Bare bones budget racing with a lot of unforgiving ride. Michael Cote was staged up at the front of the class 9 starting pack in car #925, followed by Adonis Barela in car #909 and Brandon Whitehead in car #988. Marv Creveling was in car #990 lined up behind White-Centinued on p11e 28 Richard Garavito was a wee bit off the winning pace early on in Class Second place in 5/1600 went to Gustavo Avina, it was close, 7 seconds Giti Gow/and took second place honors in the Class 9 race, he was 5, a long seventh lap put him into a second place finish. difference after 5 hours of racing, can't get much closer than that. eight minutes in arrears when he took the checkered flag. Tim Scott had a few bad laps in his Class 10 race, Tim ended up in Ryan Greene had a fairly good race, he took second place honors in Mike Meehan was just a bit slower than the leader in Class 1/2-1600 overall 2nd place when all the racin' was done. the Class 88 truck fracas, seen here at very high speed. he took the silver medal, Mike was 12 minutes in arrears at the end. Dusty Times April 2011 Page 27

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Tom Stewart was the winner in the Class 78 contest, he's seen here on his seventh and final lap for the class win. head. Jane Rubidoux was in car #977 behind Creveling and Jared Sludar was in car #903 behind Ru-bidoux. Another seven Class 9 cars were lined up behind them. Adonis Barela took the early lead at the end of Lap 1 in car #909 with a 43-second time ad-vantage ahead of Bud Ward in car #907. Jorge Ventura maneuvered car #984 from rear start to third spot at the end of the first lap and was 33-seconds behind Ward at that point. Michael Cote slipped from head of the line to fourth in line in car #925 after Lap 1 was done and was running lm:52s behind Ventura. After three laps of fun -Adonis Barela was sill in the lead in car #909 with a 3m:45s time advantage in front of Bud Ward in car #907. Ward had a 6m:43s lead ahead of Michael Cote in car #925. Jorge Ventura was running in fourth position in car #984 about 2m:30 behind Cote. The race pack order got reshuffled after that. Jorge Ventura DNF'd in car #984 after the third lap was done. Adonis Barela DNF' d in car #909 after Lap 5 was over but not before he won the Fast Lap honors on Lap 2 at 37.6 mph. Bud Ward had a slow lap 5 in car #907 but was in the lead after Adonis DNF' d on lap 5. Ward went on and com-pleted all the laps required to win First Place in car #907 in 6: 15:44 at 33.3 mph and by a 7m:40s mar-gin of victory. Giti Gowland start-ed at the back of the class 9 race pack in car #905 at the GOw line, and was running in six spot at the midpoint of the race. Gowland motored on to win Second Place in 6:23:24 at 32.7 mph and by a 2m:34s margin of victory. Michael Cote finished the required laps in 6:25:58 at 32.5 mph to win Third Place in car #925. Jared Slauder finished the race in 7:57:45 to win the highly coveted Dusty Times contingency prize for finishing in absolute last place in all classes within the maximum race time limit. Woohoo! The 5/16 Class Shootout: 6 Laps; 207 miles. Seventeen start-ers; 11 Finishers. Those hombres A.R.T.S. Savedra and Ernie Ne-grette called for a 5/16 Shootout at the Johnson Valley corral in Barstow -and seventeen racers turned up to duel it out. Bugs everywhere. Thick and zesty and itchin' for a clash. A whole herd of bugs headed north from Baja Mexico to join in the fray and fun in Barstow. Time to rumble! (Honk if you need ammo*) The line up of bugs at staging at S/F was long; they just kept on coming in hordes. Steve Patton was at the head of the starting line in car #564. Ruben Guitierrez Jr was lined up on his rear bumper in car #558, followed by Anthony Munoz in bug #568. Aaron Aspel was in car #573 behind Munoz and Brent Cook was in car #576 behind Aspel. Ernie Negrette was in car #551 lined up in the number six slot starting spot. Our racing amigos from Mexico occupied the rear starting spots so they didn't get run over and squashed like a bug on an unfamil-iar course. OPS? Que? Raul Solano started toward the back of the 5/16 shootout swarm of bugs in car #554 and weaved his way to the front of the line by the end of Lap 1 with a 28-second time advantage ahead of Danny Ledezma in car #556 who started one spot in front of Solano at the GO line. Gustavo Avina started in car #577 one spot behind Le-dezma and was running 19-sec-onds behind Ledezma at the end of lap 1. Steve Patton slipped from in front to fourth spot at the end of Lap 1 in car #564, and Aspel slipped from fourth to fifth in line in car #573. That's called a lot of back-and-forth action, Race Fans. Bugs swapping positions within the swarm. Ernie Negrette was. overcome by gremlins and DNF'd after Lap 2 in car #551. Guy Save-dra didn't even make it through Lap 1 before a gremlin grenade ex-ploded the tranny in the A.R.T.S. powered car #550. Ouch. At the midpoint of the com-petition - Solano was still leader of the pack in car #554 with an 18-second tiII}e advantage ahead of Ledezma in #556. Ledezma had a 1.6-second time advantage in front of Avina in #577. Avina had a 4m:4ls lead in front of Pat-ton in car #564. Then -on Lap 6 - with victory in sight - Solano ran out of gas. That put Solano on the sidelines but #554 recovered and did make it to the Finish Line. That got' cha cost Solano the winning prize but it also opened the way for Danny Ledezma to get all the laps done required to win First Place in car #556 in an elapsed time of 5: 13:07 at 40.0 mph, and by a slim 7-second mar-gin of victory. Gustavo Avina in car #577 was hot on Ledezma rear bumper the entire race and made it a race all the way to the Finish Line. Avina won Second Place in 5: 13: 14 at 40.0 mph in car #577. It doesn't get much closer or better than that, Race Fans. With the help of a friendly trackside interpreter, Ledezma said: "The car was too loose in back. It was definitely rough but we took it easy and had no flats or mechanicos. Some rocks got inside and got stuck behind the brake pedal. The whole race was fun." Mario Jr was the co-driver in car #556. Gustavo Avina and his brother co-driver Lucio came all the way from Ensada Mexico to compete in car #577 _ #577 just happens to also be the SCORE and RECORD 2010 Class 5/16 Champion. "There was a lot of good competition and we were feeling the pressure. The course was very bumpy. We had a rear start and passed fifteen cars. We took it easy the first three laps. Then we ran the last three laps at max - cojones out". The 11-Broth-ers Racing car #564 got all the laps needed done to win Third Place in Class in 5:23:51 at 38. 7 mph. "It was a good race. We got passed on Lap 3 and got mashed when the brakes locked up, but we kept a steady pace". Madison Hale, also with 11-Sisters Racing, got a ride in car #984: "It was brutal but fun", she said afterwards. CLASS 1450: 5 Laps; 172 miles. Seven starters; 3 Finishers. The Class 1450 'outlaws' showed up to watch the 5/16 Shootout and go ballsout in their own unique way. The outlaws were out to duel for bragging rights and a place on the podium. Rhonda Parkhouse was behind the wheel of truck #1496 and staged up first in the start-ing chute. Ernie Serfas followed suit in truck #1491 and Spencer Smith pulled truck #1459 into the starting line behind Serfas. Yuki Miyama - all the way from Japan - was at the wheel of #1451 and lined up behind Smith waiting for the starting gun. Miyama shot to the front of the line in truck# 1451 by the end of lap 1 with a 3m:35s lead in front of Smith in truck #1459. Ernie Serfas slipped from up front in line to the rear of the line on Lap 1 in #1491. Rhonda Parkhouse slipped from the leader to third spot at the end of the first lap in #1496. Serfas recovered from a slow lap 1 and was now in the front spot in truck #1491 at the midpoint in the race by a commanding I-second lead ahead of Miyama in #1451. Bumper to bumper race action. Ryan Greene was now running · in third position in truck #1461 about 5 minutes behind Miyama, after starting last in line at the green flag. Smith in #1459 was about 29 seconds behind Greene and Parkhouse in #1496 was only lm:49s behind Smith. The Bar-stow gremlins took their toll after that. Parkhouse DNfd in truck #1496 after the third lap was done. Smith DNF'd in #1459 after Lap 4 and so did Miyama in #1451. Ouch. Ernie Serfas survived to win First Place in Class in 5: 18:09 at 32.8 mph in #1491 and by a 8m:5ls margin of victory. It helped when Serfas also turned in the fast-est Fast Lap pace on Lap 2 at 34.9 mph. Ryan Greene got all the laps needed to win Second Place done in truck #1461 in 5:26:54 at 31.9 mph by a 20m:45s time advantage. Casey Benito kept enough of truck #1462 together to win Third Place in 6:17:43 at 27.6 mph. CLASS 1100: 4 Laps; 138 miles. Two starters; 2 Finishers. Bounc-ing around Barstow in a mostly stock VW bug can be a bumpy ride but these folks have fun doing it. Scott Wisdom in bug # 1103 and Bob Depew in bug #1153 battled it out in the desert in Barstow. They both beat The Barstow. Wisdom got four laps of Barstow done in 5:30:44 at 25.3 mph and Depew did it in 5:52:32 at 23. 7 mph. Wis-dom clocked the Fast Lap of the day at 27.8 mph on Lap 3. · 48 racers racing for seven laps started; 23 Finished. About half made it from the starting gun to the checkered flag. 36 racers raced for six laps; 22 Finished. Seven " raced for five laps and 3 .Finished. Two raced two laps and both Fin-ished. Ninety three started; fifty finished. The thrill of victory ... and the agony of defeat! The drama of man and machine and competition in The Barstow. Barstow will just beat you up, chew you to pieces, and leave parts and carnage asada Rick Romans took a 20 minute penalty during the race and he still Ricky McCormies was the third place finisher in the Trophy Challenge, Michael Fox look really good here in the Ultra Truck event, but his took third place overall honors in the Class 1 contest. Ricky is seen here with the power on headin' for the checkers. GMC failed him and he only got in five of the seven required laps. Kevin Heitritter was the bronze medal winner in the Class 5 contest, It was a third place finish for Steve Patton in the Class 5/1600 Michael Cote drove his plain-wrap buggy to a third place finish in the Kevin finished 11 minutes behind the second place finisher. contest, Steve is seen here just at liftoff. Class 9 contest, Michael was just two minutes out of second place. Page 28 Aprll 2011 Dusty Times

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'I in its wake. The Barstow. Have fun and be safe out there Race Fans. Patton used it to practice desert warfare at The Barstow. All those surplus military jeeps after WWII had to have someplace to go and play and Barstow was that place. Barstow was one of the birthplaces of off road racing; fertile ground for fun in the warm southern California sun. You had to have a rugged and dependable vehicle to get to all those mines all over the desert out around Barstow and Lucerne Valley and Bessimer Mine Road. The wild, wild west - in the warm southern California sun. There was no I-XX freeway back then. It was only accessible by state highways and Route 66. It was Ike who saw the autobahn in germany and built the Interstate system we all use today. It is Barstow that attracts huge numbers of people and their toys and invites them to come and play in the sand and the warm socal sun. The money they spend to do so helps fuel the Barstow economy and pay for the wages and salaries and benefits of all those BLM rangers stationed in the Barstow field office. The BLM needs to be wary of biting the hand that helps feed them. A lack of off roaders (boycott) will turn Barstow into a barren wind-blown pile of sand and rocks for the BLM Bar-stow to patrol. It's a big desert out there with plenty of other places to go and play and spend your money. What's the old adage -money talks? Use your money to speak and send a loud and clear message to BLM Barstow. What would BLM do if all the racers just decided to gather up and congregate and descend upon The Barstow without there being a sanctioned SRP event? Mass quantities and confusion everywhere. The same speed limits apply around any "social group" gathering but the only rule is -"you" are responsible for your own reckless conduct; no insurance required. You don't need any in-surance to take your ride out to El Mirage dry Lake and pay your $10 entry fee and race in a straight line for all out speed. You don't see BLM imposing the same health insurance requirements for any high-speed high-risk SRP events at El Mirage. What's up with that anyway? Make sure BLM imposes the same requirements on all SRP events throughout their domain in California. Ask for a detailed accounting for each and every BLM personnel and the hours they spend on each and every SRP event everywhere. It's called the Freedom of Information Act; FoIA. Use it to your advantage to teach BLM how to cut red tape lengthwise. Use the system to make the bureaucracy ac-countable. Bring the heat and light of accountability to bear on BLM. Cost Recovery fees everywhere. FoIA requests everywhere. You get the idea. Do it. Well - Race Fans .. this might be the last off-road dirt race ever seen in the Mojave Desert of south-ern Cal if the BLM Barstow Dis-trict Office has any say over it -and they do. BLM issues the Race Permit to M.O.R.E. BLM keeps adding m-o-r-e 'conditions' to each and every subsequent permit they issue. BLM can't just 'pull the plug' on off-road racing because The Desert Plan calls for "multiple-uses". What BLM can do is impose so many 'conditions' on the permit that it makes it too expensive to afford doing for any promoter or racer. Slow but steady - keep adding more 'conditions'; more cost and money. Fencing for 5 designated Spectator Areas and a volunteer at each to keep the spectators under control. Each pit must now have a large plastic tub to catch any spillage from race gas containers or refills. Different Speed Limits for different parts of the course depending on what part, and more volunteers and radar guns to en-force them. + FIRE trailer* More money. This is the issue: BLM now wants to impose a requirement that M.O.R.E. provide a $10,000 health insurance policy on each and every person that enters the Johnson val-ley OHV on race day. I can use a lot of adjectives to characterize that tid-bit of folly -but they can't be printed in DT. Just plain stupid -in my opinion, of course. That sounds like the lawyer's full-time employment act: chasing ambulances. Let's not forget the BLM Cost Recovery Fees being imposed now too. Entry Fees went from $200 to $340 PER ENTRY for the Sports-man classes [+$140 each], and from $350 to $500 PER ENTRY for the Pro classes [+$150 each]. That BLM Recovery Fee goes to pay the (overtime) pay for a dozen BLM Rangers, their BIG gov vehicles, their medical benefits and retire-ment, and other overhead. Just the BLM Recovery Fee alone adds up to over $10,000 PER RACE for M.O.R.E. Yoikes! That sure is a lot of govern-ment oversight. Before the tragedy at the "MDR" night race - there were 2 BLM Rangers assigned on patrol at each race event. Now there are twelve. That is a 600% increase in the number of BLM bodies. "MDR" estimated that 100-200 spectators would be at the night race event. BLM reviewed and issued the Permit, and more than 1,000 spectators showed up. Ten times the number estimated. BLM has different kinds of 'rangers' deployed now at every race; between 10-12 at each. -The Rangers who carry guns make about $ 125/hour. The rangers who don't, make about $75/hour. They all drive big, new trucks. They get paid to observe and make sure nobody breaks any of the rules. I get paid to observe too. I observed two BLM personnel in 2 big, new trucks sit in the same spot 'socializ-ing' for over five hours; they didn't move. They sat there until after 7PM, well after everybody else was gone. Your Recovery Fees at work. The latest BLM folly to be im-posed is a $10,000 medical in-surance policy that covers every "body" at the race; no matter how reckless their actions are. You must still sign a waiver form releasing anybody and everybody from any liability, but now they will have medical insurance to cover their own reckless behavior. I feel safer now. Do the math -and it adds up to BIG $ fast - if you have 100 racers at $10,000 each -equals $1,000,000 (million). If each racer brings ten people at $10,000 each -equals $Ten Million ($10,000,000). That is not reasonable. The tragedy at the 2010 MDR Night Race cost 8 lives and $28.5 million for the BLM to settle. Ini-tial press reports said another 12 people were injured seriously, and seven were airlifted to local hos-pitals and trauma centers. I don't want to appear callous -but that is all BLM can call for. BLM cannot say everybody must sign a waiver and release of liability form -and then turn around and require ev-ery body be covered by a $10,000 medical insurance policy. That is being conflicting and at odds. It results in the promoter being held responsible for everyone's reckless behavior; which is to the contrary of what the court's have always said in such matters: you are respon-sible for your own reckless conduct whenever you enter a designated OHV anywhere, under any circum-stances. BLM is attempting to shift the liability of blame and responsi-bility from BLM to the promoter in order to Cover-Their-***. There is a 2-man private Am-bulance at S/F now. I assume they are paramedics qualified to handle life-and-death incidents. I assume a 2-man paramedic team with a fully equipped ambulance can handle the first-responder re-quirements at an incident like the 2010 MDR night race: eight fatali-ties and 12 serious injuries. I don't know if any of the BLM rangers on-scene at every race now have any medical certification at all: First Aid; CPR; EMT; ? but that seems like a good idea since they respond to all kinds of accidents and injuries in the Johnson Valley OHVanyway. I did carrera rescate down in baja for several years before I got behind the wheel and raced. We had 3-5 teams of PA's, ER and other Nurses, EMTs and Certs, for every event. We went prepared Ernie Serfas had a fairly easy day, he beat out his competition in Class 88 by 8 minutes, their shovels were not needed this day. because the medicos in mexico is not have similar designated spec-few and far between and ~re not tator areas or setbacks from the exactly well equipped to handle course. They hold speed trials at race-related injuries. That meant El Mirage dry lake. I can pay $10 full trauma gear. I don't carry a to get in and spectator. I wonder First-Aid 'kit' in the race truck; I if my $10 entry fee includes a carry a trauma bag. Be prepared. $10,000 medical insurance policy? What kind of emergency medical Glamis? Dumont Dunes? gear does the BLM carry in their I don't think BLM has any legal big, new trucks? authority to impose a 'condition' Hhmmm * The last time I requiring what they are asking for. checked - it took an Act of Con- Previous Court rulings make it gress to mandate that everybody quite clear: "you" are responsible shall have medical insurance cov-for your own reckless conduct erage -and that doesn't even take whenever 'you' enter an OHV effect until 2014. BLM can require area for anything; and especially so on their own? I don't think so. when a high-risk event is being M.O.R.E. attracts racers and held. Even CA law only requires their sizeable entourages from all liability coverage when you oper-over the state,-and even racers ate a registered motor vehicle. from out-of-state. Yazi jap has even Off-road vehicles are not required come all the way from Japan just to be registered. What is it BLM to drive #1451 in the M.O.R.E. doesn't seem to understand? races. The 2011 M.O.R.E. balls It isn't reasonable of attain-out 250 also made history by ment. I guess you can get an in-getting fifteen Class 5/16 racers surance policy to cover just about from Baja Mexico to compete anything -if your wallet is fat -including the 2010 SCORE enough. It's all about risk; what and RECORD Class Champion are the odds? Off road racing is -Name in car #5?? Wow! Even a high-risk event. Even I have to these guys said Barstow was rough sign a "Release of Liability" form and they had to push their cars to to get wrist-banded up at every the limits. event. Spectators don't. It is not I have been at every M.O.R.E. reasonable to require a promoter race since the "MDR" n.ight race to insure racers or people in their tragedy -and nobody has been social group at a high-risk event killed or maimed or seriously in-when they have already required jured at any of them. A gal broke them to sign a waiver releasing her leg. A racer reported a "stiff them of liability. neck". The Symones ambulance In English -that is called a stationed on the scene has a front double negative. It is internally row seat at S/F -and hasn't rolled inconsistent and contradictory. In on a single call. I check in with insurance lingo it is called "Com-the BLM Rangers on scene and parative Negligence". You release they all report no incidents or ac-everybody from any liability and cidents; 'M.O.R.E. is doing a good you are responsible for your own job', they say. I observe. I ask ques- reckless conduct. It is hard for tions. I report what I see and hear. BLM to impose any 'condition' I have looked at BLM OHVs requiring medical insurance for all around the state -and none of operating a vehicle at or while at-them are imposing similar 'condi- tending a high-risk off road event tions' on their 'Special Use' Per-because even the state of CA mits; only BLM Barstow is. Prairie doesn't require it for a registered City SAC? Nope. Rock crawler/ vehicle. The Federal gov certainly jeeps clubs are not being 'condi-doesn't require it. So how is it that tioned' for similar special events BLM Barstow thinks they can? like 'poker runs' on a designated It certainly doesn't add up to course. Rock Crawling events do Continued on page 30 Phillip Isabell gave it a good run in the Class 10 fracas, he was a Casey Benito took third place honors in the Class 88 contest, Casey Doug Renfro was the third place finisher in the Class 1/2-1600 contest mere minute out of a second place finish when the checkers flew. had a long fourth lap which didn't help him very much. at Barstow, he's seen here just at liftoff. Dusty Times April 2011 Page 29

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common sense. Then again - we are dealing with the Federal gov too. I mean -when was the last time you ever saw a -politician use common sense? My experience is -common sense is not that com-mon when you are dealing with_ any gov agency or politician. I ought to know - I worked as a gov bu-reaucrat for 30 years in my former professional job. !ha You can require that a perfor-mance bond be posted in a certain amount for special use events for things that are related to public health and safety. Medical insur-ance is not within the realm of health and safety that gov agency can impose any 'conditions' on. That takes an Act of Congress to do. For example - A special use event permit is required if you want to hold an 'October fest' that is open to the public. The local gov can require you to post a perfor-mance bond in the event that local police or fire or paramedics have to respond to deal with drunks and DUis attending the special occa-sion. They cannot impose a condi-tion requiring a medical insurance policy be obtained for everyone attending the special event. Com-mon sense prevails. What is it that BLM Barstow doesn't seem to understand? I can remember the last SCORE Firecracker 250 that was held at Barstow. A pro photographer got killed right at the S/F line when 2 well-known Professional racers came in hot and one hit the pho-tographer dead on at speed. I can remember off road races promoted by "MDR" before the 2010 night race where people got killed be-cause they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. BLM Barstow took no corrective actions then, and continued to issue special use permits to "MDR" to which 2 BLM Rangers were assigned to cover each. The fact of the matter is - BLM Barstow put out a Press Release ac-cepting responsibility and liability for the tragic events at the 2010 MDR night race; because -The regulators weren't doing their job. It was their own lack of enforcing • I A good race for Craig Forrest at the M.O.R.E. race in Barstow, Craig completed his seven required laps in 5:34:54. their own 'rules' that was at fault. It isn't about more rules that need to be imposed - it is about BLM doing their job in the first place. What BLM is doing now is called Cover-Your-***. One way to do that is by point-ing the false finger of blame at the promoter - it's all 'the other guy's' fault. -It's called the Strawman strategy - erect one near the real issue and show them no mercy. The real issue here is BLM failed to adequately enforce their own rules. What BLM is doing now is called Cover-Your-*** -at the other guys expense. There is a meeting between when you read this and the next edition of DT - so stay tuned; if I still have a race to report that is. When I spoke to Jim Glements at M.O.R.E. - he said it was just too*!* expensive to do; an absurd amount of money. "This might be our last race". What the BLM is trying to do is over regulate off road racing out of existence by making it absurdly expensive to do because they failed to do their job. The tab BLM is charging to do their job somehow resulted in a 600% increase in the number of BLM Rangers at each event - to the tune of over $10,000 in Recov-ery Fees for each race. For 12 BLM Rangers -that is $833 per person for one day. I wish I could make that kind of money. And you wonder why gov bureaucrats get the reputation of feeding high on the hog at the taxpayers expense? At that rate -each BLM Rang-er is making $18,326 a month! $219,912 a year! My goodness! I wish I could make that kind of money. In other words - BLM is over-in-flating their cost, or they are trying to justify how much it really costs for them to do their job in the first place. Or - they are trying to "re-cover" the $28 million in lawsuits against them as a result of them not doing their job at the 2010 MDR Night Race. Cover-Your-*** -at the other guys expense. I want to see an accounting spreadsheet from BLM that details exactly what 'rangers' did what and when and how much that costs for each one. Just what is it exactly that our Recovery Fees are paying for? Account for every red cent. Here's the cold hard facts gleaned from the many pages of internal BLM Report on the Aug 14 2010 MDR night race: BLM is understaffed everywhere with what they call LEOs (Law Enforce-ment Officers). There are 51 LEO positions in the BLM California Desert District (CDD; approxi-mately 11 million acres of public lands), and 10 are assigned to the Barstow Field Office, where the MDR California 200 event was held. On August 14, 2010, only 7 of those LEO pos1ttons were filled. However, 1 LEO was on Shelby Reid had a fairly good weekend at the M.O.R.E. Balls Out 250, she was a mere five minutes behind the class leader at the flag. medical leave, 1 was at basic law required to provide an operating enforcement training, 1 was on plan that includes safety measures vacation, and 1 was on temporary for participants and spectators, detail to another BLM office. Of certifies safety training for staff, the 3 available officers, 2 were and provides an appropriate liabil-originally assigned to work the• ity insurance policy to cover the permitted race in Johnson Valley, event. BLM staff review the pro-but one called in sick that day. posed plan and issue a permit only The CDD District Manager if "the permittee formally agrees asked for suggestions regarding pit to comply with all Federal, state, safety; hazard mitigation; emer-and local laws, ordinances, and gency fire, qi.edical, and com-regulations". The permittee is also munications plans; and spectator "required to make every reason-control. At the first MORE race able effort to ensure compliance after the MDR incident there was with these requirements by all 14 BLM personnel on site. Not all agents of the permittee and by all were LEO's. BLM sent every single clients, customers, participants, body from the Barstow Field Of-or spectators under the permit-fice out there to cover the race tee's supervision". It appears that along with the available LEO's; it takes 10-12 BLM employees at including a semi-retired, reserve the Barstow Field Office "more officer. In 2010, the BLM has is-than 50 hours for processing and sued more than a hundred special administering the M.O.R.E. SRP recreation permits for motorized permit, and requiring more 'over-racing, and thousands of partici- · sight' from the BLM to check for pants attend these races. Since the policy compliance and program August 14 accident, more than a consistency". And that's why we dozen authorized SRP events have have the new and improved BLM occurred since and four special "Recovery Fee". recreation permit applications People have inquired about have been denied. "If our field of-the type arid coverage of the medi-fices cannot fulfill or complete all cal insurance BLM is asking for the required steps in authorizing -and no insurance carrier will this event, then no permit will be touch it. In Insurance lingo, it is issued." called "Comparative Negligence" Remember - BLM is the au- for both parties. The courts have thorizing agency that reviews and consistently ruled that "you" are issues a Special Recreation Permit. responsible for your own reckless Individuals or organizations seek-conduct upon entering an OHV. ing a special recreation permit are The CA Vehicle Code has explicit Dave Bonner was the fourth place finisher in the Class 1 contest, Dave had a very long seventh lap, he's seen here at speed. Ruben Gutierrez was assessed a three minute penalty and ended Mike Brown ran pretty good in Class 9 but he didn't run good enough, up in the fourth spot in Class 5/1600 at Barstow. Mike had to settle for a fourth-place finish in the class. Mike Ward gave it all he had this day but it just wasn't enough, he Aaron Aspel ran consistent lap times but he just wasn't fast enough Marr Creveling took fifth place honors in the Class 5/1600 event at had to settle for a fourth place finish in the Class 1/2-1600 battle. this day, Aaron was the fifth place finisher in Class 5/1600. Barstow, Marr is seen here getting ready to go airborne. Page 30 April 2011 Dusty Times

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It was a fifth place finish in Class 1/2-1600 for Jim Goff, Jim is seen Tom Bird was well off the winning pace in the 5/1600 battle, Tom Brandon Whitehead had fun, but not a lot of it, he was the sixth place here in beautiful flight on his way to the checkered flag. finished in sixth place, he was 71 minutes behind the class leader. finisher in the always close Class 9 battle at Barstow. speed laws and other safety require-ments that apply specifically within OHV areas. To my knowledge -the CHP has not issued their report of the events of August 14 2010, and they are the primary LEOs responsible for investigating vehicle related deaths and injuries in OHV areas. The issue is whether BLM can require an SRP permitee to pro-vide a "$10,000 medical insurance recklessly and you are responsible report on. It's the end of off road policy" for 'all agents of the permit-for your own reckless conduct. racing in the Mojave Desert in tee and for every individual and BLM will not pay your medical southern Cal. It's been fun for me, all clients, customers, participants, bills if you seriously injure yourself Race Fans. Hope you enjoyed it too or spectators'. That is called gov or others while behaving recklessly. while it lasted. "oversight" with a BIG price tag. That is called personal liability for .It might be a good idea to have 1,000 partakers et al adds up to a behaving recklessly. some spectator info sheets at the $TEN Million "Comparative Negli-Yes. My Ace Reporter 'job' with 5 different designated Spectator gence" health insurance policy. On Dusty Times is at risk. If there are Areas -just so, you know -that the other hand - you can go to JV no more M.O.R.E. races - I don't first-time and amateur spectators OHV any other time and behave have any other assignments to know the Rules to abide by. Us ,------------------------, • "professional" spectators get paid to. Ha! What's the tally of serious inju-ries or deaths at all the permitted SRP events since August 14 2010 in the BLM Barstow District JV OHV -compared to the tally of serious injuries or deaths in the BLM Barstow District JV OHV during non-SRP events since Au-gust 14 2010? ~:.Q~.lh Joey Black was the sixth place finisher in the Class 1/2-1600 contest, _Raul Solano was having a really good time racin' in Class 5/1600 until Brian Caudill was really having a good race until trouble struck on the Joey had a terrible first lap and it really killed him. he spent 2 ¼ hours on his last lap and ended up a long seventh place. 5th and 6th laps, Brian ended up taking 7th place in Class 5/1600. FIOEICOMISO PUBLICO PARA ~¥iiii M II JI: IC 0 Dusty Times 1 2011 MEXICAN 1000 RALLY May 4-8, 2011 V DON'T MISS THE GREEN l_LAG GEf If IN__Q_E.AR! BEGISTER NOW at MEXICAN1000.com Secure your place now in our amazing 2011 event! Or just come down and rub shoulders with the legends at contingency on May 4th, watch the ceremonial parade of historic vehicles to the start on the 5th, or meet up at the finish in La Paz on the 7th. SCHEDULED TO PARTICIPATE: Larry Roeseler, Walker Evans, Larry Ragland, Mark Post, Larry Hall, Jim Kirby, Scott Steinberger, Charlie Rauseo, Rick L. Johnson, Mark McMillin, Bud Feldkamp, Marty Fiolka, Chilly White, Gustavo Vildosola, Judy Smith, Bill Brindle, and more ... Check the entry list online for updates, vehicle photos, history and driver bios! Questions? Just call us or visit our website for all the details and updated info. HONORING THE PAST. See you in Baja. Ole! National Off Road Racing Association I \ Since1967 FORGING THE FUTURE. www.MEXICANlODO.com 661.268.1232 1 April 2011 Page 31 -

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-SEASON OPENER Sam Berri Does It Again Text & Photos: Troy Robinson After the long winter hiatus the 2011 VORRA season opener was finally here. While the win-ter break saw a couple of new cars, new paint and some new faces in the VORRA crew the overall car count was unfortunately low for VORRA's 36th year of off-road racing in Northern California and Nevada. Maybe the more than a dollar per gallon fuel hike we have seen in the past couple of months deterred some racers and fans. Perhaps sharing the weekend with the Score San Felipe 250 deterred some racers too. Maybe we just weren't ready for the race season to start. For this race a slightly dif-ferent format was used but the Domschot (23), Bill Hermant 3-moto system would still be (91) and Max Baggett (42). It used. Qualifying would take took just a couple of laps for place on Saturday with the fastest Domschot to jump to the lead qualifier being inverted to the with Baggett close behind. An-back in moto 1. Moto 2 start other lap later and Baggett was and the starting order would be around and running up front. inverted of the finish of moto Meanwhile Domschot was in the 1. And moto 3 would be a heads pits with power steering issues. up start as you finished moto 2. At the finish Baggett had a huge Also, 8-laps for each moto would lead with Hermant 2nd and Boar-be the required distance. man a distant 3rd. Domschot got The sportsman class lined up the car going again, didn't lose a first on a perfectly groomed track. lap and finished in 4th. Tony Domschot was the fastest of the Sportsman Class, he took the win in two of three motos and came out on top of the winners list. Same lap and a scary moment for Bill Minteer (25), it seemed he broke the rear skid plate off early in the race and while it continued to rip out of the car it took parts of the engine case with it too. When that happened the case split open bursting the engine on fire. The track crew quickly had the fire extinguished and the car towed off the track. Meanwhile Domschot went on to the moto win with Boarman running 2nd. Moto 3 only had Domschot and Boarman make the call where Domschot led flag to flag for the moto and overall win. Boarman finished 2nd and Hermant was awarded 3rd place. In class 9 Jay Schroeder (903) went wire to wire in all 3 motos for the overall win. Schroeder wasn't out front alone however as Vorra saw a new young racer Aaron Anderson (917) give Schro-eder a run for his money in all 3 motos where it was close each time. Eric Steiger (952) rolled in the east turn on lap 1 moto 1, had some motor issues in moto 2 and ran well in moto 3 and finished 3rd for the day. Class 11 had a new team and just the one car entered. The all women team consisted of Jessica Dobyns and Heather Jacoboni in moto 1, Maureen McBride and Dobyns in moto 2 and Jaco-It was a fun day for Jay Schroeder, he took the win in all three motos and thus was the overall winner in the Class 9 contest. Taking the hole shot was Derek Moto 2 and it was Domschot Boarman (11). Derek is building to the lead early with Baggett, a new car and brought out the Boarman and Hermant giving old underpowered single-seater chase. Mid race and Baggett to gain season points. Falling in snapped a stub axle taking him line behind Boarman was Tony out of the racing for the day. .------------=----------====;---;:::::=================:; Aaron Rupley was the overall gold medal winner in the Pilot races, Steve Sullivan finished third, second and second in the motos which Derek Boarman finished third, second and second in the motos and he took all three motos for the win, seen here in perfectly level flight. gave him a second overall finish in the Class 1 battles. finished second overall in the Sportsman category. Russell Anderson grabs a bit of air on his way to the silver medal in Ben Phillips captured a second, third and fourth place finish in Group Class 9, Russell finished second in all three motos for a second overall. T, Ben is seen here in level flight on his way home. Page 32 April 2011 The Red Team Racing group captured a second overall finish in Class 10, they took a second and two thirds in the motos. Dusty Times

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·-Tyler Mort takes to the air on his way to a third place finish in the Jake Hallenback finished third overall in the Group T competition, It was a second place overall finish in the Ultra4 contest for Michael Class 10 competition, he had a third and two seconds in the motos. Jake is seen here in beautiful, level flight. Foster, he's seen here headin' for the barn. 2nd. By 6th lap Cothrun was around Hallenbeck and was head-ing for the checkers. Hallenbeck settled for 2nd with Wolfe in 3rd. The 3rd moto was all Cothrun as he pulled the lead from the start and never looked back. Hal-lenbeck ran another great race and finished 2nd. Taking over the 6043 was Justin Havins who in the east turn rolled the truck onto its lid up the back and fortu-nately rolled back down the bank and onto his wheels. Havins finished the moto in 3rd with a pretty banged up truck. In the overall standings Cothrun won the gold, Wolfe/Havins Silver and Hallenbeck the bronze (the moto 1 incident with Stockwell cost them some missed laps and scoring points). In the Ultra 4 class Bill kreisel (407) went wire to wire in all 3 motos over Michael Foster (430). Foster has new car whoas and wasn't able to finish all the laps. The class 10 was swept by Patrick Timmons for the top spot. Bill Lott drove the Red Team Racing (1029) in moto's 1 and 3 while guest driver For-est Creasy drove moto 2. They finished 2nd for the day despite 2-thirds in moto's 2 and 3. Tyler Page 34 Dennis Jean had a great three motos, he won them all and was the uncontested winner of the UTVBOO group, seen here reachin' for the sky. Mort and Tristan Butcher (1022) wrap. Harwell split the transmis-had distributor issues in moto 1 sion case in moto 1 and called it but came back with seconds in quits for the day. moto's 2 and 3 but the missing While the racing was tough laps scored them 3rd for the day. on some racers as less than half Class 1 was swept too by Sam the cars that started were still Berri (149) with crew chief Bobby running at the final checkered Martin driving the 3rd moto. flag I'm sure we'll have a bet-Steve Sullivan (118) had battery ter turn out for the next ·race issues in moto 1 and broke a stub as the internet is a-buzz with axle in moto 2 but still placed talks of new cars in the works 2nd for the day. This was over and time for everyone to get Shannon Harwell (132) who was their cars fixed for the Spring sporting a new full color body Special in April. April 2011 Jon Crowley gets a lot of air under his wings, he's seen here on his way to the UTV1000 victory at the VORRA season opener. It was great racing for Patrick Timmons, Patrick took the win in all three motos and was the big winner in the Class 10 competition. P.T. Barnum once sa•d: 66Wkhout Promotion somethina terrHtle happens: ~ /lothin11" If thn is your sHunion let Dusty fimes help you promote your business. For 28 years we han been the Yoice of the Off Road Racina community, You adveNisement in Dusq fimes will put your product in front of many people, Some will need your produce, some wm not. Aren't you Just anxious to know who really needs you1 Call us for fuNher information, 818-88 2-0004 Dusty Times

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Steve Ruddick Analyzes the BLM at Barstow Patton used it to practice des-ert warfare at The Barstow. All those surplus military jeeps after WWII had to have someplace to go and play and Barstow was that place. Barstow was one of the birthplaces of off road rac-ing; fertile ground for fun in the warm southern California sun. You had to have a rugged and dependable vehicle to get to all those mines all over the desert out around Barstow and Lucerne Valley and Bessimer Mine Road. The wild, wild west - in the warm southern California sun. There was no I-XX freeway back then. It was only accessible by state highways and Route 66. It was Ike who saw the autobahn in germany and built the Interstate system we all use today. It is Barstow that attracts huge numbers of people and their toys and invites them to come and play in the sand and the warm socal sun. The money they spend to do so helps fuel the Barstow economy and pay for the wages and salaries and benefits of all those BLM rangers stationed in the Barstow field office. The BLM needs to be wary of biting the hand that helps feed them. A lack of off roaders (boycott) will turn Barstow into a barren wind-blown pile of sand and rocks for the BLM Barstow to patrol. It's a big desert out there with plenty of other places to go and play and spend your money. What's the old adage - money talks? Use your money to speak and send a loud and clear message to BLM Barstow. What would BLM do if all the racers just decided to gather up and congregate and descend upon The Barstow without there being a sanctioned SRP event? Mass quantities and confusion ev-erywhere. The same speed limits apply around any "social group" gathering but the only rule is -"you" are responsible for your own reckless conduct; no insur-ance required. You don't need any insurance to take your ride out to El Mirage dry Lake and pay your $10 entry fee and race in a straight line for all out speed. You don't see BLM imposing the same health insurance requirements for any high-speed high-risk SRP events at El Mirage. What's up with that anyway? Make sure BLM imposes the same requirements on all SRP events throughout their domain in California. Ask for a detailed accounting for each and every BLM personnel and the hours they spend on each and every SRP event everywhere. It's called the Freedom of Informa-tion Act; FoIA. Use it to your advantage to teach BLM how to cut red tape lengthwise. Use the system to make the bureaucracy accountable. Bring the heat and light of accountability to bear on BLM. Cost Recovery fees every-where. FoIA requests everywhere. You get the idea. Do it. Well - Race Fans .. this might be the last off-road dirt race ever Page 36 seen in the Mojave Desert of southern Cal if the BLM Barstow District Office has any say over it -and they do. BLM issues the Race Permit to M.O.R.E. BLM keeps adding m-o-r-e 'conditions' to each and every subsequent permit they issue. BLM can't just 'pull the plug' on off-road racing because The Desert Plan calls for "multiple-uses". What BLM can do is impose so many 'conditions' on the permit that it makes it too expensive to afford doing for any promoter or racer. Slow but steady - keep adding more 'conditions'; more cost and money. Fencing for 5 designated Spectator Areas and a volunteer at each to keep the spectators under control. Each pit must now have a large plastic tub to catch any spillage from race gas containers or refills. Different Speed Limits for different parts of the course depending on what part, and more volunteers and radar guns to enforce them. + FIRE trailer* More money. This is the issue: BLM now wants to impose a requirement that M.O.R.E. provide a $10,000 health insurance policy on each and every person that enters the Johnson valley OHV on race day. I can use a lot of adjectives to characterize that tid-bit of folly -but they can't be printed in DT. Just plain stupid - in my opinion, of course. That sounds like the lawyer's full-time employment act: chasing ambulances. Let's not forget the BLM Cost Recovery Fees being imposed now too. Entry Fees went from $200 to $340 PER ENTRY for the Sports-man classes [ +$ 140 each], and from $350 to $500 PER ENTRY for the Pro classes [+$150 each). That BLM Recovery Fee goes to pay the (overtime) pay for a dozen BLM Rangers, their BIG gov ve-hicles, their medical benefits and retirement, and other overhead. Just the BLM Recovery Fee alone adds up to over $10,000 PER RACE for M.O.R.E. Yoikes! That sure is a lot of govern-ment oversight. Before the trag-edy at the "MDR" night race -there were 2 BLM Rangers assigned on patrol at each race event. Now there are twelve. That is a 600% increase in the number of BLM bodies. "MDR" estimated that 100-200 spectators would be at the night race event. BLM reviewed and issued the Permit, and more than 1,000 spectators showed up. Ten times the number estimated. BLM has different kinds of 'rangers' deployed now at every race; between 10-12 at each. The Rangers who carry guns make about $ 125/ hour. The rangers who don't, make about $75/ hour. They all d rive big, new trucks. They get paid to observe and make sure nobody breaks any of the rules. I get paid to observe too. I observed two BLM person-nel in 2 big, new trucks sit in the same spot 'socializing' for over five hours; they didn't move. They sat there until after 7PM, well af-ter everybody else was gone. Your Recovery Fees at work. The latest BLM folly to be imposed is a $10,000 medical insurance policy that covers every "body" at the race; no matter how reckless their actions are. You must still sign a waiver form releasing anybody and everybody from any liability, but now they will have medical insurance to cover their own reckless behavior. I feel safer now. Do the math -and it adds up to BIG $ fast - if you have 100 racers at $10,000 each - equals $1,000,000 (million). If each racer brings ten people at $10,000 each - equals $Ten Mil-lion ($10,000,000). That is not reasonable. The tragedy at the 1010 MDR Night Race cost 8 lives and $28.5 million for the BLM to settle. Initial press reports said another 12 people were injured seriously, and seven were airlifted to local hospitals and trauma centers. I don't want to appear callous -but that is all BLM can call for. BLM cannot say everybody must sign a waiver and release of liability form -and then turn around and require every body be covered by a $10,000 medical insurance policy. That is being conflicting and at odds. It results in the promoter being held responsible for every-one's reckless behavior; which is to the contrary of what the court's have always said in such matters: you are responsible for your own reckless conduct whenever you enter a designated OHV any-where, under any circumstances. BLM is attempting to shift the liability of blame and responsibil-ity from BLM to the promoter in order to Cover-Their-***. There is a 2-man private Am-bulance at S/F now. I assume they are paramedics qualified to handle life-and-death incidents. I assume a 2-man paramedic team with a fully equipped ambulance can handle the first-responder requirements at an incident like the 2010 MDR night race: eight fatalities and 12 serious injuries. I don't know if any of the BLM rangers on-scene'at every race now have any medical certification at all: First Aid; CPR; EMT; ? but that seems like a good idea since they respond to all kinds of acci-dents and injuries in the Johnson Valley OHV anyway. I did carrera rescate down in baja for several years before I got behind the wheel and raced. We had 3-5 teams of PA's, ER and other Nurses, EMTs and Certs, for every event. We went prepared because the medicos in mexico is few and far between and are not exactly well equipped to handle race-related injuries. That meant full trauma gear. I don't carry a First-Aid 'kit' in the race truck; I carry a trauma bag. Be prepared. What kind of emergency medical gear does the BLM carry in their big, new trucks? April 2011 Hhmmm* The last time I checked - it took an Act of Con-gress to mandate that everybody shall have medical insurance cov-erage -and that doesn't even take effect until 2014. BLM can require so on their own? I don't think so. M.O.R.E. attracts racers and their sizeable entourages from all over the state, and even racers from out-of-state. Yazi jap has even come all the way from Japan just to drive #1451 in the M.O.R.E. races. The 2011 M.O.R.E. balls out 250 also made history by getting fifteen Class 5/16 racers from Baja Mexico to compete -including the 2010 SCORE and RECORD Class Champion -Name in car #5?? Wow! Even these guys said Barstow was rough and they had to push their cars to the limits. I have been at every M.O.R.E. race since the "MDR" night race tragedy -and nobody has been killed or maimed or seriously in-jured at any of them. A gal broke her leg. A racer reported a "stiff neck". The Symones ambulance stationed on the scene has a front row seat at S/F -and hasn't rolled on a single call. I check in with the BLM Rangers on scene and they all report no incidents or accidents; 'M.O.R.E. is doing a good job', they say. I observe. I ask questions. I report what I see and hear. I have looked at BLM OHVs all around the state -and none of them are imposing similar 'condi-tions' on their 'Special Use' Per-mits; only BLM Barstow is. Prairie City SAC? Nope. Rock crawler/ jeeps clubs are not being 'condi-tioned' for similar special events like 'poker runs' on a designated course. Rock Crawling events do not have similar designated spec-tator areas or setbacks from the course. They hold speed trials at El Mirage dry lake. I can pay $10 to get in and spectator. I wonder if my $10 entry fee includes a $10,000 medical insurance poli-cy? Glamis? Dumont Dunes? I don't think BLM has any legal authority to impose a 'con-dition' requiring what they are asking for. Previous Court rulings make it quite clear: "you" are responsible for your own reckless conduct whenever 'you' enter an OHV area for anything; and especially when a high-risk event is being held. Even CA law only requires liability coverage when you operate a registered motor ve-hicle. Off-road vehicles are not re-quired to be registered. What is it BLM doesn't seem to understand? It isn't reasonable '1f attain-ment. I guess you can get an in-surance policy to cover just about anything -if your wallet is fat enough. It's all about risk; what are the odds? Off road racing is a high-risk event. Even I have to sign a "Release of Liability" form to get wrist-banded up at every event. Spectators don't. It is not reasonable to require a promoter to insure racers or people in their social group at a high-risk event when they have already required them to sign a waiver releasing them of liability. In English -that is called a double negative. It is internally inconsistent and contradictory. In insurance lingo it is called "Comparative Negligence". You release everybody from any li-ability and you are responsible for your own reckless conduct. It is hard for BLM to impose any 'condition' requiring medical insurance for operating a vehicle at or while attending a high-risk off road event because even the state of CA doesn't require it for a registered vehicle. The Federal gov certainly doesn't require it. So how is it that BLM Barstow thinks they can? It certainly doesn't add up to common sense. Then again -we are dealing with the Federal gov too. I mean - when was the last time you ever saw a politician use common sense? My experience is -common sense is not that common when you are dealing with any gov agency or politician. I ought to know - I worked as a gov bureaucrat for 30 years in my former professional job. !ha You can require that a per-formance bond be posted in a certain amount for special use events for things that are related to public health and safety. Medi-cal insurance is not within the realm of health and safety that gov agency can impose any 'condi-tions' on. That takes an Act of Congress to do. For example • A special use event permit is required if you want to hold an 'October fest' that is open to the public. The local gov can require you to post a performance bond in the event that local police or fire or para-medics have to respond to deal with drunks and DUis attending the special occasion. They can-not impose a condition requiring a medical insurance policy be obtained for everyone attending the special event. Common sense prevails. What is it that BLM Barstow doesn't seem to understand? I can remember the last SCORE Firecracker 250 that was held at Barstow. A pro photographer got killed right at the S/ F line when 2 well-known Professional rac-ers came in hot and one hit the photographer dead on at speed. I can remember off road races promoted by "MDR" before the 2010 night race where people got killed because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. BLM Barstow took no corrective actions then, and continued to is-sue special use permits to "MDR" to which 2 BLM Rangers were as-signed to cover each. The fact of the matter is - BLM Barstow put out a Press Release accepting responsibility and liabil-ity for the tragic events at the 2010 MDR night race; because -The regulators weren't doing their job. It was their own lack of enforcing their own 'rules' that was at fault. It isn't about more rules that need to be imposed - it is about BLM doing their job in the first place. What BLM is doing now is called Cover-Your-***. One way to do that is by point-ing the false finger of blame at the promoter - it's all 'the other guy's' fault. It's called the Strawman strategy - erect one near the real issut} and show them no mercy. The real issue here is BLM failed to adequately enforce their own rules. What BLM is doing now is called Cover-Your-*** - at the other guys expense. T here is a meeting between when you read this and the next edition of DT - so stay tuned; if I still have a race to report that is. When 1 spoke to Jim Clements at M.O.R.E. - he said it was just too *!* expensive to do; an absurd Dusty Times r

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amount of money. "This might be our last race". What the BLM is trying to do is over regulate off road racing out of existence by making it absurdly expensive to do because they failed to do their job. The tab BLM is charging to do their job somehow resulted in a 600% increase in the number of BLM Rangers at each event - to the tune of over $10,000 in Re-covery Fees for each race. For 12 BLM Rangers -that is $833 per person for one day. I wish I could make that kind of money. And you wonder why gov bureaucrats get the reputation of feeding high on the hog at the taxpay-ers expense? At that rate - each BLM Ranger is making $18,326 a month! $219,912 a year! My good-ness! I wish I could make that kind of money. In other words - BLM is over-inflating their cost, or they are trying to justify how much it re-ally costs for them to do their job in the first place. Or - they are trying to "recover" the $28 mil-lion in lawsuits against them as a result of them not doing their job at the 2010 MDR Night Race. Cover-Your-*** -at the other guys expense. I want to see an account-ing spreadsheet from BLM that details exactly what 'rangers' did what and when and how much that costs for each one. Just what is it exactly that our Recovery Fees are paying for? Account for every red cent. Here's the cold hard facts gleaned from the many pages of internal BLM Report on the Aug 14 2010 MDR night race: BLM is understaffed everywhere with what they call LEOs (Law Enforce-ment Officers). There are 51 LEO positions in the BLM California Desert District (CDD; approxi-mately 11 million acres of public lands), and 10 are assigned to the Barstow Field Office, where the MDR California 200 event was held. On August 14, 2010, only 7 of those LEO positions were filled. However, 1 LEO was on medical leave, 1 was at basic law enforcement training, 1 was on vacation, and 1 was on temporary detail to another BLM office. Of the 3 available officers, 2 were originally assigned to work the permitted race in Johnson Valley, but one called in sick that day. The CDD District Manager asked for suggestions regarding pit safety; hazard mitigation; emergency fire, medical, and com-munications plans; and spectator control. At the first MORE race after the MDR incident there was 14 BLM personnel on site. Not all were LEO's. BLM sent every single body from the Barstow Field Office out there to cover the race along with the available LEO's; including a semi-retired, reserve officer. In 2010, the BLM has issued more than a hundred special recreation permits for motorized racing, and thousands of participants attend these races. Since the August 14 accident, more than a dozen authorized SRR. events have occurred since and four special recreation permit applications have been denied. "If our field offices cannot fulfill or complete all the required steps in authorizing this event, then no permit will be issued." Remember - BLM is the au-thorizing agency that reviews and issues a Special Recreation Permit. Individuals or organizations seek-Dusty Times ing a special recreation permit are required to provide an operating plan that includes safety measures for participants and spectators, certifies safety training for staff, and provides an appropriate li-ability insurance policy to cover the event. BLM staff review the proposed plan and issue a permit only if ''..the permittee formally agrees to comply with all Federal, state, and local laws, ordinances, and regulations". The permittee is also "required to make every reasonable effort to ensure com-pliance with these requirements by all agents of the permittee and by all clients, customers, partici-pants, or spectators under the per-mittee' s supervision". It appears that it takes 10-12 BLM employees at the Barstow Field Office "more than 50 hours for processing and administering the M.O.R.E. SRP permit, and requiring more 'over-sight' from the BLM to check for policy compliance and program consistency". And that's why we have the new and improved BLM "Recovery Fee". People have inquired about the type and coverage of the medi-cal insurance BLM is asking for -and no insurance carrier will touch it. In Insurance lingo, it is called "Comparative Negligence" for both parties. The courts have consistently ruled that "you" are responsible for your own reck-less conduct upon entering an OHV'. The CA Vehicle Code has explicit speed laws and other safety requirements that apply specifically within OHV areas. To my knowledge -the CHP has not issued their report of the events of August 14 2010, and they are the primary LEOs responsible for in-Dry lrea.k Tawer • 100 Gallon Capacity • Single or Double DryBreak • EZSetUp • Affordable IndyCar Fl Technology .lect•sortes •Dump Cana •Hose • Reducers • Filler Necks & Caps Belaets • Snell SA 2005 Forced Air Helmets G·FORCE • Wired for Communication & Bar Bud Ready RACINIICIEAR HJC MOTORSPORTS • Racing Optics Tear Offs • Univers&l a.nd Custom Molded Ea.r Buds • Helmet Skirts • Shields Iool!lr,. Bl wer Sy1tem1 • Highest Flowing Systems! • 105, 135, 150, 235 and 250 GFM' Ratings • High Flow Filters & Custom Hoses • Trophy Kart Kits for Driver & Clutch Cooler vestigating vehicle related deaths and injuries in OHV areas. The issue is whether BLM can require an SRP permitee to provide a "$10,000 medical insurance policy" for 'all agents of the permittee and for every individual and all clients, custom-ers, participants, or spectators'. That is called gov "oversight" with a BIG price tag. 1,000 partakers et al adds up to a $TEN Million "Comparative Negligence" health insurance policy. On the other hand - you can go to JV OHV any other time and behave recklessly and you are responsible for your own reckless conduct. BLM will not pay your medical bills if you seriously injure yourself or others while behaving recklessly. That is called personal liability for behav-ing recklessly. Yes. My Ace Reporter 'job' •• with Dusty Times is at risk. If there are no more M.O.R.E. races - I don't have any other assign-ments to report on. It's the end of off road racing in the Mojave Desert in southern Cal. It's been fun for me, Race Fans. Hope you enjoyed it too while it lasted. It might be a good idea to have some spectator info sheets at the 5 different designated Spectator Ar-eas - just so, you know -that first-time and amateur spectators know the Rules to abide by. Us "profes-sional" spectators get paid to. Ha! What's the tally of serious inju-ries or deaths at all the permitted SRP events since August 14 2010 in the BLM Barstow District JV OHV -compared to the tally of serious injuries or deaths in the BLM Barstow District JV OHV during non-SRP events since Au-gust 14 2010? co-uleatlo• s,..t ... • Vertex 5 to 110 Watt Radio Systems • Hi-Fi Intercom Systems • Chase & Race Packages • Base Station Packages • Crew Chief & Kart Packages IJl Ca C era Syuem • EZ 1 Button Operation • Excl1181ve Racer X Motorsports Package • 5.7 hours of High Resolution recording time • Up to 12 hours of operation on 4AA Lithium Ion Batteries • Can be Interfaced to Intercom for full audio experience xcenn • 41 1/2 Gallon Capacity • SCORE / BITD / FIA Approved • Tapered Design Provides Increased Ground Clearance & Maximizes Usable Fuel • Fuel Level Sending Units Available • Caps, Necks, Hose, Filters and Pumps Avail&ble YOUB SOUBCB FOB PROFESSIONAL BACB PRODUCTS 10815 Wheatlands Avenue, Suite K • Santee, CA 92071 619-258-RACE (7223) • Fax 619-258-0883 • www.RacerXms.com April 2011 Page 37

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By El Chinero LIN NEAL SPEAKS PRESIDENTIALLY: "All Checkers are reminded to have Checker stickers on both sides, front, and back and to use the Checker radio frequency so we can communicate!" PERSONNEL Three State-of-Intents were voted in as Prospectives: Robert Kelley (two "es") - El Presidente's son Ian Maxwell sponsored by An-Page 38 drew Neal. Nepotism at its finest. Bob "El Jamon" Ham. Amaz-ing - very Chicago Politics-like. Joe Desroisers voted in as a Checkers RECENT EVENTS SNORE Battle At Primm Andrew Neal - First in 1600: Kicked names, took a$$. Ken Tapert -DNF in 1600 Ian Maxwell (SOI) - Fourth in Class 9er Bob "Alphabet" Dziurawiec (Prospective) -Fourth in Class 1800 Guy Peterson (Prospective) -Sixth in Class 1 on Sat and DNF on Sun Travis Howard/ Billy Gereghry -Fifth in Class 1200 SCORE International "San Felipe 250" March 12, 2011 Well, it was the best of times; it was the worst of times. The Letner "1" car did not start the event - lucky for the rest of the field! Dan Martin's COPS "1" car first "1". DQ due to one-mile-push/tow rule violation = $5.00 fine? The Mike Lawrence two-liter air-cooled "1" got a finish, Ninth Place. Rich "Sliced Stretch" Severson persevered through a two-hour stuck situation to finish Second in 7SX. "The Mailman" - while Rich delivers, he does not look much like Karl Malone. Joe "Hauler" Desrosiers timed out in the China Syndrome "402" rubber band car. Too much moly on the drive belt, it seems. Noah Ostanik got stuck, Checkers 2A changed a propel-ler shaft, and he still won Class 8. Strong non-glacial run, when running. Jimmy Hook - graying at the temples - got involved, how odd, in a pit imbroglio. The Tire Bake and Clam Drop was a rousing success with do-nated goodies and Checkers swag raffled. Kras won the tamale-consuming contest, again. 960 clams, 150 tamales, 200 bottles of beer. (Ed.: The raffle was a success: Stu's Raceco light bar, Jose Howler Ts, 2007 "SF250" Ts, coozies, socks, laser pens, clocks ... Pit Reports Checker Pit 1, RM170 Pit Captain -Mike Ward Pitters Dr. Checker(s) Ponytail Guys Replaced Joe 402's starter us-ing thirteen 3/8-inch extensions stacked together. Horrible car to work on. Checkers Pit 2, RM 108 Pit Captain Ken Tapert Pitters: A Flamboyance of Flamingos in pink shirts Billy Robertson & friends Lar-ry & Bruce Bob "Alphabet" Dziurawiec Dave Dietrich - "Los Campe-o nes" and "Rancho Carrera" 'Friend of the Checkers' "Pinky" Gary Johnson - AZ Prospective Greg Krasnow -Defrocked President Pontificating Lucho Peralta MarQ Prince Mike "TaTa" McDowell Milo Brown Mister Rogers Russ Butow Steve Ransom - Mesa SOI Stuart Chase Tim Flahart -SOI Tony Tellier & friends Ed and Pete Trevor Fl.ahart -SOI Walter Prince Work Done Crew change & fuel in Law-rence "1" Checker 2 Alpha, RM121 Pit Captain: Dennis Crowley Pitters: Robert Harman Jake the Snake Smith Gregg Hawks Work Done Noah's driveshaft. Checkers Pit 3, RM170 Pit Captain - Justin Grossman Pitters Checkers Pit 4, RM216 Pit Captain Joe Cota Pitters: The guys from Pit #2 moved April 2011 over to Pit #4. Work Done & Other Interest-ing Stuff 1455 Hours -Dan Martin's COPS car first "1" -17 minutes ahead of second "1" - no stop. 1514 Hours - #1002 Matt Cul-len (non-Checkers) stopped in for fuel splash -by permission 1535 Hours - # 1206 Navarro IV /Bruckmann ("Pete's Camp") -not official Checkers entry al-though Vic is a Checkers - fuel & rider change, packed torn CVs (Fourth in SCORE Lite) 1613 Hours - #801 Noah Os-tanik - no stop 1636 Hours - #148 Lawrence -no stop 1815 Hours= #1202 Zak Lang-ley (non-Checkers) - new CV and welded front beam tube (Tenth in SCORE Lite) 1931 Hours - #741 Rich Sev-erson - fuel; added CO2 to rear tires (dropped to '10' when stuck) 2045 Hours -#402 Joe Des-rosiers - oiled snowmobile drive clutch; Char-Lynn power steering leaking, no fix attempted -too close to time-out at Checkpoint 4. Pit Equipment Used/ Pit Equipment Issues Welder - would not run prop-erly with air filter. Sending to BR's shop (Ed.: i.e., rings) A special thanks to TT and Laurie (Ed.: plus El Kras) for the Clam Bake. And A Poignant Story Ten cars from the border, after 2-1/2 hours, this kid in a new 'Lawrence Equipment' T climbed onto Milo's side and asked him if he could use him as Santa Claus to charge his buddies to take pictures with him. (Ed: "Candy in the car, little fellow!") Milo told him how the hawg ate the cabbage. Broke a street urchin's heart! MORE "Ballz-Out 250" - Bar-stow, CA, USA March 19, 2011 We had three cars. Dennis "Mister" Rogers #501 lost a motor early - RM4 1st lap. Lee Finke - Class 1 - had one of his drivers tear a rear corner off after losing third gear. Only (Checkers) finisher was Brandon Chrisman (SOI) #576 ... may have earned a free subscrip-tion to Dusry Times ... " had been down for an hour because he lost his alternator belt and strangely did not carry a spare. Hibbard would have been amazed at how someone seeking entry into the club would have overlooked the Prime Rule from his book about tie-wrapping a spare belt to your car before even starting the motor. Brandon will learn a lesson from this." -ORT Pitl Lin Neal Craig Brabant Tom Koch ORT Pit 2 Dwight Fore!! George R. Thompson Martin Gill Mike McClintock Rory Ward from "Racers Only" ORT "Race started late because of accident on 1-15 between Hodge and Outlet Center. Pit speed limit sign was placed 3/ 4 of the way through the pit and not many slowed down until they got to it - if they did at all." - Der Kernel PIT 3 Robert Kelley John Hastings Tom Koch Crackle Lee (asking for TJ bail money from Dr. Checkers!) ORT FUTURE EVENTS The 'Mint' is on for 3/ 26. We have seven cars and three pit captains. We need one more captain - Hastings and fruit-of-his-loins "Reckless" Kelley stepped up, again, for the fourth PC. (Ed.: The manzana does not fall far from the tree!) THE ON-TOP-OF-IT SECTION "I won't have my passport in time for the race - can anyone tell me if I can get back across with my birth certificate and drivers license? - Tata" ("When we came back from SF, ABC had not only forgotten his passport but his drivers license. He had his sales license and a biz card. They did not give a #### ... waved us thru after looking at 'em.") A CHECKERED PASSED Walter "Candy Cane" Prince not only developed "The Prince Telescoping Race Car Ramp with Fold-Down Wheels and Iceberg Prow" he was an active thorn-i n-the-side of the Los Angeles Ciry Council, circa 1991, includ-ing recall efforts and "a lawsuit that sought $297,000 in damages against a tire store owner accused of stealing campaign signs in a 1991 Los Angeles Ciry Council election. The parties were barred from disclosing the amount of damages awarded, said Prince ('a serious contender for City Council who is fair, sincere, scru-pulously honest and who continu-ally stands up for 'the little guy.'), a plaintiff and a candidate who tried to unseat the Councilman in the bitter political contest." "Prince, the wealthy owner of a Northridge janitorial firm, said he has abandoned the idea of run-ning as a write-in candidate in the runoff." -LA Times CHECKERS RACEBOOK "Chad, be careful about bitch-ing about all the emails. You may end up getting your name in the Checkers column in 'Dusry Times -Tata" Then: "So the first time I say some-th in' about anything, people might talk about me in the Check-ers column? WTF. -Chad" Oh, so true. RACE QUOTE "Straights are for fast cars. Turns are for fast drivers." Dusty Times

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more Trail Notes ... sampling of what Floridians are driving, and the data collected this weekend will serve all of our partner agencies such as the US Navy, US Air Force, City of Miami and the University of Miami as well as Miami-Dade College." "We rewarded efficient drivers who improved their emissions significantly," added GOAR co-founder Jason Altzman. "By and large, our participants were not driving a new generation of green cars - they were driving the domestic and foreign cars and trucks you and I see every day. So you can imagine that if you put those drivers behind the wheels of a new generation of cars it is possible that the efficiency gain would be even more outstanding as would their fuel consumption and emissions!" Participants such as the City of Miami have identified GGAE. as a responsible way for the City to save money, increase their driver's safety and raise sustainability levels. Known in the City of Miami as the "Green Commissioner," District 2 Commissioner Marc Sarnoff set the tone at the top for the City at the Rally and has an unprecedented record of park and greenspace creation in the city. An avid cyclist, he champions alterna-tive transportation and sees GOAR as a way to incentivize Floridians to drive green and conserve energy. "As the Go Green Rally shows us, even small changes in how we drive can make a big and positive impact on the environment. I'm proud to have played host to the Rally, and its sponsors, and hope that they come back to the City of Miami again. " Or-ganizations such as the US Navy came prepared to learn -and will take the program back with them to teach to their recruiting structure. "Go Green Auto Rally will improve the environment and our community at the same time," said Chief Petty Officer Gabe Puello, public affairs officer of NRD Miami. "It exemplifies our ongoing commitment to provide a healthier and safer place to live, work and play. We have 43 stations with 3-4 vehicles per station in our recruiting command and the Green Driving skills we learned today will be shared with all of our recruiters." The top three finishers overall drove some of Detroit's most powerful V8 vehicles - two Dodge Ram pickup trucks and a Ford Mustang GT con-vertible. Teams pre-registered for the event -with vehicles as diverse as full-size SUVs to economical city cars. GOAR Challenge winner William Withers brought his 2001 Dodge Ram truck to the event, hoping the learn ways to save on his fuel bill. "I'm glad the Rally wasn't solely focused on participants driving 'green' cars," Withers said. "It gives everyone the chance to do right by the environment. It's nice to know I can also contribute to be-ing environmentally responsible - even if I drive a pickup." Withers won the grand prize and the "Beat the Pros" competition, besting ALMS drivers McNish and Jeannette's course scores -winning a full set of Pirelli tires courtesy of Pirelli Tire North America and an iPad for his efforts. The top three finishers from each sub-group (Police Challenge, Fire Fighter Challenge, University Challenge and Women's Cup also won iPads, iPods, fuel cards and tickets to the 59th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida next week. Competitor Jason Schneider saw the event as a win-win for the City and himself. "(GOAR) was a great eye opening experience into how much money you can save and still be environmentally sustainable" he said. GOAR has been named as an Award finalist by the internationally-known 2011 Edison Best New Product Awards™. Go Green Auto Rally by Dojupa is a finalist in the In-Car Driving Aids category, one of twelve categories honored by the Edison Awards. Go Green Auto Rally (GOAR) teaches drivers to reduce their carbon footprint, save money through less fuel consumption and to increase their safety behind the wheel of their own vehicles -no matter what they drive. To learn more about the GOAR smartphone app and to attend a Go Green Auto Rally in your area - please visit GOAR online at www.gogreenautorally.com, call 1-866-GO-GREEN (1-866.414.6473) or check us out 011 twitter and facebook. Go Green Auto Rally - Drive green because you can! GLOBAL RALLYCROSS -Two-time World Rally Champion Marcus Gronholm will travel to the United States to compete in the first round of the Global RallyCross Championship: The Revolution, taking place March 25-26 at Irwindale Speedway on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Gronholm, who will pilot a 600-hp all-wheel drive Best Buy Ford Fiesta in the contest, joins a list of top-ranked international motorsport and action sport stars racing in the Global RallyCross Championship. Also planning to compete are three-time X Games Rally gold medalist Tanner Foust in his Ford Fiesta, Rhys Millen and five-time British rally champion Marcus Dodd in Hyundai Veloster rallycross cars, and Subaru Rall)' Team USA's Dave Mirra in a Subaru WRX STI. "Rallycross is good fun, with a lot of cars running at the same time," said Gronholm. "It's quite different from rally but it's excellent to come to the USA and it feels nice to be involved again with the team." In addition to two World Rally Championship titles (2000, 2002), the legendary Finnish driver also won the 2002 Race of Champions and earned the Nations' Cup at the contest in 2006. He also took on the 2009 Pike's Peak International Hill Climb in a similarly prepared Ford Fiesta and will be reunited with the Olsbergs MSE team for this event. "We are thrilled that Best Buy, the world's largest electronics retailer, is working with Marcus Gronholm who has conquered the rally world twice," said Mark Williams, president of Best Buy Financial Services. Drivers in the Global RallyCross Championship are vying for a chance to win the first-ever series title -and a chance to earn an invitation to X Games 17 Rally competitions held in downtown Los Angeles this July. Two-wheel drive entries also have a shot at a $5,000 prize purse to benefit grassroots competitors at the contest. Racing this month will take place on an inventive dirt and tarmac track configuration on the speedway oval. The highlight of the course is a huge gap jump that will see competition cars fly 70-feet through the air. This is the first time a gap jump has ever been included in rallycross competition outside the X Games environment. "We're thrilled that Marcus Gronholm will join us for the first round of Global RallyCross Championship," said series co-founder Chip Pankow. "We are building a truly international series featuring top talent from around the world." Competitors will next travel to a rural-industrial complex outside of Seattle, WA, for Round 2: Twin Peaks (April 15-16), and meet again in Colorado at the Pikes Peak International Raceway for Round 3: Last Chance Oune 17-18). Invitations for X Games Rally events will be announced soon after the conclusion of the third and final round of the 2011 series. The RallyCar organization will sanction the Global RallyCross Championship events. Competitors in the Global RallyCross Championship may also elect to score points in U.S. Rallycross Championship events. YOKOHAMA TIRE - From rugged desert terrains to legendary tracks such as Sebring International Raceway, Yokohama Tire Corporation's motorsports program will be in full swing in 2011. Once again, Yokohama will be involved in off-road racing's SCORE, SNORE and Lucas Oil series, as well as endurance racing in the competitive ALMS classes. Additionally, Yokohama's breakthrough eco-racing campaign will continue in the GT3 and OTC series with its orange oil-infused ADVAN® ENV-R2™, the first -and only - environmentally-friendly tire used in a racing series. "We're definitely ready and eager to begin our motorsports season," said Andrew Briggs, Yokohama senior manager of motorsports. "Cameron and Heidi Steele, both past off-road champions, are ready to reclaim their titles,. and in ALMS, we have aligned with new racing partners." The Yokohama-sponsored Steeles -Heidi and Cameron - have a score to settle this season. Heidi, a three-time titlist, looks to reclaim her Class 6 SCORE (Southern California Off Road Enthusiasts) championship, while husband Cameron, a Trophy Truck class veteran and TV commentator, is aiming for more podium finishes. Heidi is off to a great start, winning the Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 in San Felipe, Baja, Mexico, which took place March 11-13. Cameron, a two-time SCORE Person of the Year, has a new No. 16 Geiser Brothers Chevrolet truck this season. The 800-horsepower machine is mounted with 37-inch Yokohama Geolandar A/T-S® R tires specially engineered for extreme off-road conditions. The next race is the Baja 500 in Baja Mexico, June 3-5. Fox RACING SHOX - Larry L. Enterline has been appointed CEO of FOX Racing Shox effective March 22, 2011 replacing retiring CEO, Bob Kaswen. Mr. Kaswen will remain active with the company as a consultant. "I have thoroughly enjoyed helping FOX Racing Shox achieve so much over the last eight years. It has been a pleasure to work with such a dedicated team of professionals andJ look forward to continuing with the company in an advisory capacity going forward," said Kaswen. "The appointment of Larry Enterline represents the culmination of a year of planning with our board of directors and senior management team as I have sought to take a step back and spend more time in support of my family. In Larry we have found a strong leader and manager who will build upon our historic successes," Bob went on to say. Most recently, Larry L. En~erline served as Chief Executive Officer of COMSYS Holdings, Inc. from which he retired in April 2010 after the sale of the company to Manpower, Inc. Prior to joining COMSYS, Mr. Enterline served in a number of senior management roles with Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. from 1989 to 2000, the last of which was corporate senior vice president for Worldwide Sales and Service. "I am excited to be able to join such a dynamic and growing company. Bob Kaswen and the FOX team have built an industry leader and I look forward to working with them and taking the company to the next level," said Enterline on his appointment to the role. For over three decades, FOX Racing Shox has been the industry leader in the design and development of high performance shock absorbers and racing suspension products for ATVs, Motorcycles, Mountain Bikes, Offroad trucks and cars, Snowmobiles and UTVs. In 1974, Bob Fox started racing his products in motocross and they haven't stopped racing since. FOX Racing Shox equipped vehicles and racers have stood atop podiums in every sport they have competed in - from the sands of Baja to the dunes of Dakar. FOX' s team of engineers perform rigorous tests with their athletes year round, and the data FOX collects from performance testing and the application of that knowledge to their products is what separates FOX Racing Shox from every other suspension company. World Headquarters are in Watsonville, CA with its Offroad Division in Santee, CA. FOX Racing Shox distributes its products in more than 40 countries. LUCAS OIL &. 4 WHEEL PARTS - Just as the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series is the biggest short-course racing series in the world, 4 Wheel Parts is the biggest retailer of off-road truck parts, so it's only natural that 4 Wheel Parts has upped its involvement with the Lucas Continued on page 40 Dusty Times April 2011 Page 39

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Trail Notes ... Oil Off Road Racing Series for the 2011 to become the official off-road parts retailer of the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series. And this is before you consider that 4 Wheel Parts president and CEO actually races in the championship! President and CEO of 4 Wheel Parts, Greg Adler, finished ninth overall in the 2010 Pro 2 Unlimited championship series, meaning he's equally comfortable in a business suit or a fire suit, and it's that sort of expertise that he and his company bring to the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series as well as to the 55 4 Wheel Parts Performance Centers nationwide. For this reason, 4 Wheel Parts will be carrying Lucas Oil products in all 55 stores as well as online. "Lucas Oil's race-proven products are an excellent fit for our enthusiast customer base," Adler says. "Their commitment to off-road makes it a clear and easy choice to sell through our 55 retail stores and online at 4Whee1Parts. com. The entire Lucas team has been fantastic to work with and we look forward to long and successful partnership." This partnership is mutually beneficial, says Lucas Oil Motorsports Business Manager Jamie Devney. "Lucas Oil Products has been a huge supporter of off-road racing for years," says Devney. "This new alliance with Greg Adler Racing and 4 Wheel Parts brings our investment full-circle. We are very excited to name 4 Wheel Parts the 'Official Off Road Parts Retailer of the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series'. The company is clearly the leader and puts a priority on placing our additives, oils, and vehicle-care products in front of the consumer. Off-road fans and enthusiasts can now purchase Lucas Oil products directly from the 4 Wheel Parts retail stores, online, and from the 4 Wheel Parts display trailer at each Lucas Oil Four Wheel Drive Jamboree an.cl Truck and Jeep Fest events across the country." RALLYE AICHA -The streets of Sete, France will be lined with fans and spectators Saturday, March 19th to cheer on 220 women representing 16 countries as they compete in the 21st edition of the Rallye Aicha des Gazelles. For 2011 , the noted grueling Franco-Moroccan rally will be marked by an increase in United States participation. The rally pushes competitors for fifteen days -nine days of competition, six days of inspections, transits and ceremonies in France and primarily Morocco. It stands apart from other off-road events where the competition's goal is to finish with the fewest number of kilometers as opposed to finishing with the fastest time. The rally is open to professionals but teams are primarily amateurs with a serious sense of adventure. Outdated maps, no OPS, no cell phones and no support crews add to the challenge, pushing each driver and navigator to their limit. There is no prize money at the finish, just accomplishment and pride. Three Americans will be competing this year, hailing from both coasts. Emily Miller, professional off-road racer, returns-for her third competition with French navigator and 2008 rally winner, Armelle Medard to form Team #109. The American-French duo are slated the team to watch in 2011. Newcomers to the rally are team # 107 comprised of sisters Amy Lerner and Tricia Reina. Growing up in a family that loved cars and racing, they began training last year for the specifics of the unique format. Lerner will take the role of pilot and Reina will primarily handle the navigation duties. Joining the United States competitors will be the rally's first American sponsor, Pompeian Olive Oil (www. Pompeian.com). "The Rallye Aicha des Gazelles and Pompeian join together to support and celebrate the inspiring stories of everyday women who are driven to compete," declared Pompeian's Marketing Manager, David Bensadoun. "In addition, the rally's dedication to humanitarian efforts and environmental initiatives are in alignment with the values we share at Pompeian. We are honored to be a part of an inspiring, eco-friendly and influential event." Those interested in learning more . and following the rally can track it live via satellite by visiting www. rallyeaichadesgazelles.com. To follow the progress of the United States effort, join on Facebook at U.S.A. Gazelles. About The Rallye Aicha Des Gazelles: The Rallye Aicha des Gazelles was created in 1990 by Dominique Serra. The event, held annually in Morocco, is owned and produced by Maienga Communications, France. In addition to serious competition, the rally is known and respected for extensive humanitarian and environmental efforts. Focused initiatives combined with staff and competitor support have brought significant improvement to the health and welfare of the region and serve as an environmental example to other rallies being the only off-road event in the world to achieve ISO 14001 certification. To learn more, log on to www.rallyaichadesgazelles.com. MECHANIX WEAR - As relief efforts continue in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that have rocked Japan, Los . Angeles-based Mechanix Wear Inc. is sending help to the Red Cross relief workers -in the form of 8,400 pairs of high-performance Mechanix Wear work gloves. Mechanix Wear and their long-time glove manufacturing partner, Hyun Jin Corp., are working together with their Japan based synthetic leather supplier, Kuraray Co. Ltd., to deliver the gloves. Bari Waalk, vice president of Marketing for Mechanix Wear, is proud that the company can assist the relief workers with their efforts. "It is our hope that these gloves will provide· some comfort and protection for the thousands of people working day and night on rescue, recovery and the eventual rebuilding from these tragic events," said Waalk. Mechanix Wear, the # 1 glove in racing, is the motors ports industry's first and foremost company dedicated to providing gloves to help you work faster, safer and· cleaner. From the introduction of the Original glove in 1991, Mechanix Wear has contimlally defined the state of high quality performance work gloves by adding products specifically designed to enhance comfort and resist extreme wear, temperatures and impact. Mechanix Wear gloves can be found in toolboxes everywhere and are used for hundreds of applications from motorsports and automotive work to construct1on and DIY home improvement; military, Page 40 tactical and government applications; industrial and safety jobs; and emergency services and law enforcement applications. LARRY RoESELER -Legendary Baja Champion.Larry Roeseler is off for another "Go Baja Riding Tours," rip to the tip, 7 day Ensenada to Caho expedition. As Team leader and adventure guide, for Go Baja Riding Tours, Larry Roeseler states, "These personalized alumni groups are a great adventure and a super fun bunch to roll South with." Big days, old Missions, and parts of the Baja 1000 race course, under the Baja sky's it just doesn't get any better than this. Contact Larry Roeseler and receive information on tours with Go Baja Riding Tours at www. gobajariding.com. DESERT DINGO RACING -Desert Dingo Racing announced today that BR0KINB0NZ® Clothing, an injury based line of clothing and accessories, is sponsoring the team's 2011 race season. BR0KINB0NZ is providing the team with customized t-shirts, hoodies and accessories based on the.number bones each team member has broken. "I broke a leg in two places at the 2009 Baja 1000 and fractured a rib during a high speed rollover at the VORRA Hawthorne 225," said team co-founder Jim Graham. "It was a no-brainer for us to partner with BR0KINB0NZ. People love to talk about how they've injured themselves." Each t-shirt and hoodie is custom printed with the BR0KINB0NZ logo and your personal fracture fraction - the number of bones you've broken out of the 206 in the human body. "I founded BR0KINB0NZ to celebrate the little piece in all of us that just isn?t quite right," said company CEO Julie Sampson Tarbush Aspinall. "Let's face it, sometimes things just don't work out the way we planned. The clothing line celebrates pain and creates dialogue among people of all walks of life." Other accident-prone team members include logistician Seth Schrenzel (eight ribs, elbow, shoulder), driver/paint and graphics Shawn Kovach-Long (two ribs, forearm, wrist) and driver/ fabricator Scott Anderson (wrist). SCORE -With 'the 2011 season reaching the midway point, the competition in the SCORE Desert Series has never been closer as veteran SCORE Trophy-Truck driver Jesse Jones and young gun unlimited Class 1 racer Justin Davis lead their respective classes and are tied at the top of SCORE point leaderborad following the recent 25th MasterCraft Safety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250. SCORE points are based on starting, finishing, placement and number of official starters within each class, Jones, 45, of Litchfield Park, Ariz., and Davis, 17 of Chino Hills, Calif., not only lead their respective classes following Round 2 of the five-race 2011 SCORE Desert Series, they are tied for the SCORE Overall point lead with 139 points each. SCORE racers are now preparing for the season's next race, the 43rd annual Tecate SCORE Baja 500 to be held June 2-5 in Ensenada, Mexico. The computerized drawing for starting positions, by class, for Round 3 of the world's foremost desert racing series, will be held at SCORE's Los Angeles headquarters on Sa§Urday, April 23. The event will be the second of three SCORE races held annually on the majestic Baja California peninsula. Picking up his eighth career SCORE Trophy-Truck race win in San Felipe, MacCachren, an eight-time SCORE season point champion, is third in overall and second in SCORE Trophy-Truck points so far after finishing fourth in Laughlin with 138 points, just one shy of Jones and Davis in the No. 20 MasterCraft Racing Ford F-150. Second in Class 1 and eighth overall is Brian Parkhouse, Long Beach, Calif., with 117 points in a Jimco-Chevy. Jessica McMillin is one of two female drivers leading a class so far this season as Heidi Steele, San Clemente, Calif., leads Class 6 in a Ford Ranger following her class win in San Felipe. In addition to season class point championships, the racers are also competing for part of the nearly $400,000 in cash purse and contingency postings each race. Drivers in the Pro car and truck classes are attempting to earn prestigious SCORE Toyota Milestone Awards given to all car and truck class drivers who complete every required mile of the five-race season. Being presented by Toyota Motorsports for the 26th consecutive year, a total of 37 drivers remain eligible after Round 1 of the 2011 SCORE Desert Series. Racers are also competing for the annual SCORE Off-Roadsman of the Year kwards, including the MasterCraft Safety SCORE Rookie of the Year award. For more information, contact SCORE at its Los Angeles headquarters 818.225.8402 or visit the official website of the 2011 SCORE Desert Series at www.score-international.com. Attention Race & Rall}' Organizers List niur coming l'\l'nh in DL 'STY Tl;>.1ES frl'l'. 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