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2011 Volume 28 Number 8 Dusty Times Magazine

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Volume 28 • Number a • August 2011 S2.SO ISSN8750-1732 covering the world of competition in the dirt •••

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T Volume 28 -Number a August 2011 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 Gau:a Martin Holmes Rod Koch Byrle Moore Steve Ruddick Maurice Selden Darryl Smith Tony Tellier Trackside Photo Art Director Larry Worsham I B.O.R.E. -....o.. .... --~ 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, prepai,d. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 8750.1732) is published monthly by Hillside Racing Corp, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311, (818) 882-0004 with additional Dusty Times, LLC offices at 415 N. Higgins Avenue, Suite lA, Missoula, MT 59802. Copyright by Hillside Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher. Periodical Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change to DUSTY TIMES, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new address, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20761 Plummer St., SNAPSHOT Oli= THE MONTH ••• Baja 1000, 1980. Jimmy Jones raced this International Harvester Turbo Diesel Scout in the SCORE BAJA 1000. Jimmy ran the 980 mile race with a total fuel cost of $23.00. Ah, the good old days. Photo fry Trackside DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only prints up to 8xl0 or electronic media submitted via email will be considered. In This Issue.~. FEATURES MORE Freedom 250 by Steve Ruddick... ................................................. 8 Acropolis Rally by Martin Holmes .......................................................... 16 Lucas Oil at Miller Park by]. Preston Bradshaw ...................................... 20 Nor Cal Rock Racing by Tammie Wise .................................................. 28 Traxxis Tore at Crand0n by Mike Reusche ............................................. 30 VORRA Master Pull 500 by Troy Robinson ............................................ 34 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ............................................................................................ 5 Trail Notes .............................................................................................. 6 BFGoodrich Reports ............................................................................ 39 The Blueribbon Coalition ................................................................... 40 Checkers Newsletter ............................................................................ 41 Good Stuff Directory ................................................................... , ...... 43 Classified Ads ....................................................................................... 47 Index To Advertisers ............................................................................. 47 ON THE COVER Zak Langley took Class 1 honors at the MORE Freedom 250 contest, beat-ing out 15 others in Class 1 and he was the overall winner too! Trackside Photo Rob Naughton received the gold medal in both Pro 2 Unlimited races at the Lucas Oil meet at Miller Motorsports Park. Photo fry Race Marker Photo Visit Our Website at Dustytimes.com Su.d-4,e,,,td-e 7tUUUf 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 O Motorcycles□ 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 Dusty Times August 2011 Page3

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2011-2012 Happenings ... 10K FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box36 CLEVES, Omo 45002 <4x4 forever.org> (All events staged at the club grounds in Cle=. Ohio) 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 1665 DELAWARE ST. 0sHKOSH, WI 54901 AMERICAN RALLY SPORT GROUP, INc. 3650 SoUTH POINTE CIRCLE, SUITE 205 LAUGHLIN, NV 89208 (702) 298-8171/FAX: (702) 521-0597 <web 1. userinstinct.com/271413 25-ameri-can-rally-sport-group.htm. E Mail: roger@rallyusa.com AMERICAN TRIALS ASSOCIATION AMA Observed Trials Southern California Championship Series BILL MARKUM, 2010 I'REsIDENT (909) 860-1857 · 24 HR HOTLINE, 2010 (714) 562-7742 E MAIL: BMARK909@AOL.COM <www.atar:i-ails.com> ASOCIACION EsTATAL DE AUTOMOVILISMO SAM l.AsELL, TECH INSPECTOR APro 42 .. SAN Jos£ DEL CABO BAJA CALIFORNIA DEL SUR. MEXICO AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP DARRYL SMITH 19 SoMERS ST. CASHMERE, QUEENSLAND, 4500, AUSTRALIA DUSTY TIMES @bigpond.com AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFF ROAD ClAss 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 702-457-5775/FAX: 702-641-2431 <www.bitd.com> August 18- 20, 2011 Tsco "vegas To Reno" "the Longest Off-Road Race In The United States" Points For All Classes· No Pre-Fun Run October 14-16 2011 Bluewater Desert Challenge "the American Challenge Continues" Parker, Az Car/Truck & Uw 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 p'iease www.BORracing.org BP MoTORSPORTS P.O. Box 411 Dusty Times WoomAND HILLS, CA 91365 760-578-0258/760-578-0259 FAX: 818-348-4648 E-Mail: bpmotorsports@earthlink.net All Events At California Cicy, CA BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 . BRIGHTON, ONTARIO, CANADA KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/FAX (613) 475-3250 CAJOR CLUB AUTOMOVILISTA }UARENSE DE CHAMPIONSHIP OFF-ROAD RACING 7210 GATEWAY EAST EL PASO, TX 79915 (915) 593-4848 RALPH GARCIA 0ll-52-16-17-45-42 CESAR FUENTES CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES <www.Californiarallyseries.com> August 27, 2011 Gorman Ridge Rally (3) Frazier Park, CA September 30-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. Box645 PIERRE, SD 57501 DAVE ADAMS (PILOTS AND BAJAS) (605) 224-9481 DoN ENGLEMAN (BIKES) (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY August 2011 RAcING Assoc1ATION C.J. RICHARDS P.O. Box332 FAIR HAVEN, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLAIRTON HI-JACKERS I.C.O. TOM DELAUDER SR 1091 TWP. LINE ROAD WELLSVILLE, Omo 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Har-rison County Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICA SAN QUINTIN CALLE 6TA FRACC Co. DE SAN QUINTIN SAN QUINTIN, BC, MEXICO HERACLIO PATINO (011 52 616-5-22-07) CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE San Vicente Off Road ENSENADA, BC, MEXICO USA JAN WRIGHT (011 52 61746834) RAM6N CASTRO & RUBEN ACEVEDO (61637/7 0034) CMC CONTINENTAL MOTOSPORT CLUB P.O. Box 3187 MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690-3178 Fax: (714) 367-1608 CODE OFFROAD MADERO 621-A MEXICALI, MEXICO 21100 760-455-8069 USA 011-52-686-553-4087 MEXICO www.codeoffroad.com.rnx COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION BARB V AHSHOLTZ, I'REsIDEN'f (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 Continued on page 6 Pages

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Trail Notes ... FINAL FLAG -We were distressed to hear of the passing of Corey Wilcox. Corey passed away on March 4, 2011. He deeply enjoyed off road racing and he helped out in the pits. His passion was welding and fabricating and he loved helping friends and strangers alike fix their cars and race trucks. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him. MILLER MoTORSPORTS PARK TO HosT ROBBY GORDON SPEED ENERGY DESERT CHALLENGE -Scott Michaels, co-founder of Mi7 Events, announced in a press conference on July 26 that a major off-road race will take place at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah, September 29 -October 2. The inaugural Robby Gordon SPEED Energy Desert Challenge is a joint effort among NASCAR driver Robby Gordon, Mi7 Events and Blessing Bridge International that will be staged on a 900-acre parcel of private property located on the east side ofN. Sheep Lane in Tooele, across from Miller Motorsports Park. An international cast of world-class off-road racers and extreme-sports athletes will participate in the event, which will be open to a variety of vehicles that normally compete in long-distance desert racing events such as the Baja 1000. Boasting a series of star-studded concerts and a freestyle motocross exhibition showcasing the world's best, this weekend promises to be nothing short of spectacular! Although the event will utilize certain elements of Miller Motorsports Park's existing facility and staff, the event will be wholly operated and promoted by Mi7 Events, a Las Vegas-based event-management company. The race will take place on a 7-mile desert-racing course constructed specifically for this event and will provide spectators with an excellent view of all the action and access to the drivers for autographs. Joining Robby Gordon in the Robby Gordon SPEED Energy Desert Challenge will be other top racing, greats, including: "Ballistic" BJ Baldwin (Monster Energy); Bryce Menzies and Gus Vildosola (Team Red Bull); "Pistol" Pete Sohren; and Joe Willardsen (Team Nitro Circus), plus top off-road teams from as far away as Canada and Mexico to showcase Trophy Trucks for the first time ever in Utah, In addition, Class 1, Class 10, Class 12, Class 16 and Class 72 vehicles will be eligible to compete. The Freestyle Motocross exhibition will feature Mike Metzger, "the Godfather of Freestyle Motocross," along with FMX superstars from around the globe including Brody Wilson, Libor Podmol (Czech Republic), Allistair "Jackalas" Sayer (South Africa), Rob Adleberg (Australia) and many others. These incredible athletes have competed in venues including The Dew Tour, X Games, IFMA, AFMXA, Rockstar Mayhem Festival Tour, Journey's Backyard BBQ Tour, Gravity Games and Red Bull X-Fighters. A portion of net proceeds from the Robby Gordon Speed Energy Desert Challenge will be dedicated to benefit various children's charities in the United States, through Blessing Bridge International. More information is available at www. Mi7Events.com Media Contact - Natalie Mell - 610-618-6134 Natalie@ Mi7Events.com MASTER Puu SIGNS ON As TITLE SPONSOR FoR INAUGURAL VoRRA UsA 500 OFF RoAD RAcEJULY 14-17 IN SPARKS, NEVADA - Sparks, Nev., July 5,.2011 -The Valley Off Road Racing Association announced today that Master Pull, the world leader in synthetic ropes and recovery gear for off road, military and commercial fishing, has signed on as title sponsor of the July 14-17 USA 500 in Sparks, Nevada. The four-day event will be called the "Master Pull USA 500" and include static vehicle exhibits, driver autograph sessions, tech and contingency in downtown Sparks, live music, motocross demonstrations including riders from the Metal Mulisha, the area's first outdoor enduro-cross time trial, a 529-mile off road race on Saturday, July 16 and a 219-mile motorcycle race on Sunday, July 17. "We want this to be a 'must do' race for off road racers around the U.S. ;md provide maximum exposure and interaction with the public," said VORRA Race Director Wes Harbor. "Master Pull shares our vision for creating something new and exciting and we're proud to have them on board as title sponsor." In addition to serving as title sponsor, Master Pull will be demonstrating their products with the enduro-cross course and rock crawling exhibitions in Victorian Square. They will also unveil the newest Master Pull Recovery Vehicle. "The USA 500 is the perfect race for us and in VORRA we've found an ideal teammate," said Master Pull Off-Road Director Alex Riedo. "Although we sponsor several racing vehicles including the Hall Racing USA Rally Truck, and have provided equipment and recovery support to events such as King of the Hammers, we've been searching for an organization and event that mirrors the quality and professionalism of our product line. VORRA's innovative approach to off-road racing is setting them apart in the sport as is the excellent value they provide their racers." To learn more about the event, view the course map and register online, go to http://www.vorra.net. Follow VORRA on Twitter at@vorra_racing. Get USA 500 updates-via Twitter using the hashtag #USAS00. About Master Pull - Master Pull is the world leader in synthetic rope technology . . Our vehicle recovery products are the strongest, lightest, and most durable in the industry. We differ from a growing field of pretenders in that our products are built to withstand Page 6 HECTOR CERECER 011-52-65-66-4458 CORR SERIES 270 NEWPORT CENTIR OR., SUITE 100 NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92660 866-501-CORR CORVA 1500 WEST EL CAMINO, SUITE 352 SACRAMEN10, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA Exr 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 CRS CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES <www,CaliforniaRallySeries.com D&T PROMOTIONS DAVE VAN DEREN 2405 BAKE.RAVE. 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).(;62-3649/(214) 641-2090 DESERT STEEL MOTORSPORTS 1863 COMMANDER DRIVE LAKE HAVASU Crrv, AZ 86403 (928) 855-2208 EAsrERN OFF-ROAD RACING AssN. TOM DELAUDER, SR. 1091 TOWNSHIP LINE Rol'J) WELLSVILLE, OHIO 43968 (330) 532-4589 ENsENADA BAJA OFF RoAD RACING Av. REFORMA 1136 ENSADA, BC, MX 0l l-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 ED R EXTREME DESERT RACING P.O. Box 91615 AusnN,TX 78709 (512) 848-4344 /E FAx (1512) 687-5310 www.EDRTexas.com Car Truck Series October 7-8, 2011 West Texas 300 Notrees,TX Championship awards Odessa,TX Bike Quad Series FORDA . FLORIDA OFF ROAD DRIVER'S ASSOCIATION 1 JASON LEIBIN , (727) 376-4176 Mar, Apr, May, Noo at Davidson Raceway GENERAL TIRE TROPHYLJTE SERIES DRIVE RACING ORGANIZATION 760-352-6020 Las Vegas, NV GLEN HELEN OFF-ROAD BAJA CuP CHALLENGE SERIES PO Box6950 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92412 CoNTACT: Bos BEYER, OFF-ROAD DIREC-TOR PHONE: (909) 815-5811 www.glenhelenoffroad.com August 27, 2011 Day Race December 17, 2011 Night Race Short course, stadium and desert race classes GLEN HELEN BAJA CUP CHALLENGE SERIES PO Box6950 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92412 CONTACT: Bos BEYER, OFF-ROAD DIRECTOR PHONE: (909) 815-5811 August 2011 www.glenhelen.com August 27, 2011 Day Race December 17 Night Race G ORRA GEORGIA OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION 420 HOSEA ROAD LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 GPORRA GREAT PLANES OFF RoAD RACING ASSOCIATION TIM HODGE (402) 991-6048 Scorr MoRRow (816) 792-2126 (All races are short course, stadium sc,le Classes, 2010 Sportsman, 1/2-1600, 5-1600, Sport Truck, Quads, Tough Truck Nebraska Raceway Park, &it 420 on 1-80 between Omaha and Lincoln.) For latest info check < www.gporra.net> HIGH PLAINs OFF RoAD RAcING 2000 W. QUINCY AVENUE #B ENGLEWOOD, CO 80110 303-806-8062/303-781-0974 fax INTERNATIONAL lcE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 ST. PAUL, MN 55108 STEVE BEDDOR (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 INTER-SHows MoTORSPORTS PRoMoTioNs, INc. P.O. Box 2910 MISSION VIEJO, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 jEEPSPEED 1826 N. WINDES ORANGE, CA 92869 714-538-7434/ fax 714-633-1724 KAMI.OOPS OFF ROAD RACING Whispering Pines Sports & Recreation Center l<AMLOOPS, BC, CANADA www.korrbc.ca. Mike Strange (250) 573-4003 LAS VEGAS SANDSPORTS & OFFROAD EXPO (626) 961-3782 <www.prerunners.com> <www.megashow.com> L.I.T.R.E. JEFF ELROD (408) 926-0522 JtMARUTA (408) 247-4402 LOORRS LUCAS OIL OFF RoAD RAcING SERIES September 24, 2011 Round 11 Speedworld Off Road Park Surprise, AZ Septembert. 25, 2011 Round 12 Speedworld Off Road Park Surprise, AZ November 5, 2011 Round 13 Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas, NV November 6, 2011 Round 14 • Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas, NV December 10, 2011 Round 15 Firebird International Raceway Chandler, AZ December 11, 2011 The Lucas Oil Challenge Cup Firebird International Raceway Chandler, AZ MAMARRITA OFF Ro.AD RAcING LUIS CARLOS AlVAREZO PANAMERICANA AVE #5105 Co. JuAREz, CHIH., MX 011-52-1637-1799 MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS Dune Buggy Trade Show (517) 543-7214 <www.buggybuilders.com> MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 JONES ROAD GRANO LEDGE, ML 48837 (517) 627-6200 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> 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 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) 730-9221 MOTOWEST WINTER TRw.s SERIES BILL MARKHAM (909) 860-1857 <www.ITStrials.com> All events at Perris Raceway (At Reed Valley with a school) NATIONAL Mun 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 HASTINGS, 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 Valley Raceway, on route 518, 20 minutes SW of Lisbon, OH) (Thunder Valley located 15 minutes from Spring Valley) NORRA NATIONAL OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION www.norra.com (661) 268-1232 OFF ROAD EXPO SPIN COMMUNICATIONS (415) 380-3890 Meghan@spinpr.com OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Volunteered Series PRESIDENT, 2010 GEOFF LEE 1243 TRICE ROAD LEBANON, TN 37087 (615) 453-5830 CLASS REP., 2010 1/2-1600 BRUCE MEYERS (865) 453-1005 CLASS REP., 2010 9 & UNLm. MICHAEL MOORE (334) 271-7035 OUTLAwREP. DoN PONDER (314) 631-8190 (All Races at Wheeling in the Counc, 900 Acres) O m o OFF RoADERS INc. 1427 GOSHEN HILLS ROAD S.E. NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO 44663 JIM l<ENDEL (216) 339-4674 All races held at Harrison County Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONTARIO OFF ROAD RACERS AssOCIATION RICK T!CHBOURNE, PUBLIC 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 Dusty Times

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-, PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. Off Road Championship 495 N. COMMONS DRIVE AURORA, IL 60504 (630) 566-0100 <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 Racewa:, 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 PROTRUCK PROTRUCK MANAGEMENT INC. 11409 PINEHURST DR. LAKEsmE, CA 92040 (619) 885-4458 PRo 1600 SHOOTOUT CoREYGOIN 559-647-6132 GOINRACIN@HOTMAIL.COM PURE ENERGY PROMOTIONS P.O. Box50 RICKETTS, IA 51460 (712) 679-2221 R.Au,y AMERICA <www.rallly-america.com> 22ND RAU:YE AlcHA DES GAZELLES The Only All-Women's Off-Road Rally Raid In The World U.S. Liaison:Kelly Van Hoesen 203-249-1340 Skype: kellanvanhoesen kellan@soulsidenet.com <www.rallyeaichadesgazelles.com> March 17-March 31, 2012 France and Morocco RG CANNING PRODUCTIONS, INc. OFF RoAD SwAP MEET P.O. Box400 MAYWOOD, CA 90270-0400 New/Used Off Road Related Parts & Accessories MIKE CAMPBELL 323-560-7469 Ext 507 mc@rgcshows.com Sunday, September 18, 2011 At Primm - Buffalo Bills 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 ExPOsmoN (888) 836 7918 SCCA RoADRAu.Y 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) 566-0100/(630) 556-0180 Fax SCORE SCORE INTERNATIONAL 23961 CRAFTSMAN Ro., Sum A CALABASAS, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/FAX: (818) 225-8102 <www.score-intemational.com> 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 NEVADA OFF RoAD ENTHUSIASTS Dusty Times P.O. Box 270516 LAs VEGAS, NV 89127 702-277-2295 www.Snoreracing.net October 22-23, 2011 SNORE 250 Pahrump, NV December 10-11, 2011 Rage At The River Laughlin, NV SONS OF THUNDER 4 WHEELERS RACE DIVISION 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 Eastba, Racewa:,, Tampa, FL) TRAXXAS TORC SERIES Sept 3-4, 2011 Crandon Off Road Crandon, WI Sept 15, 2011 Chicagoland Speed SUPER SERIES (PTY) LTD. P.O. Box 706 ToYsFoR ToTS (619) 252-1197 /(619) 252-3093 UNADILLA VALLEY SPORTS CENTER P.O. Box 5119 EDMESTON, NY 13335 (606) 965-8784/FAX: (606) 905-8784 <www.unadillamx.com> VORRA VALLEY OFF RoAD RACING ASSOCIATION 1970 EAST 2ND STREET RENO, NV 89502 775-287-0615 <www.vorra.net> September 2-5, 2011 24 Hour Endurance Race Fallon, NV October 1-2, 2011 Short Course Reno/ Sparks, NV October 29-30, 2011 Short Course Prairie City OHV Park Folsom, CA VICENTE GUERRERO OFFRoADCum PROFO. CENOVIO GAMBOA 0ll-52-616-6-21-91 (2-6 p.m.) WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING AsSOCIATION LARRY HENDERSON (604) 538-0692 WORRA P.O.Box 3241 SUMAS WA 98295 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA WHEEL To WHEEL OFF RoAD RACING PATRICK McGUIRE P.O. Box376 ADAMSBURG, PA (412) 527-6556 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS 2939 E; Grovers Ave. PHOENIX, AZ 85032 (602) 971-3730 <www.whiplashracing.com> December (fBA), 2010 ACP,AZ WISCONSIN MOTORSPORTS SHOW (414) 747-1711 WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL TERRY OR BEV FRIDAY 5913 so. U.S. HWY 45 0sHKOSH, WL54901 (414) 688-5509 WORLD SERIES OF OFF RoAD RACING • FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP P.O. Box99 CRANDON, WISCONSIN 54520 303-880-7221 <WWW.WRC.COM> XTREME INTERNATIONAL 1863 COMMANDER DRIVE LAKE HAVASU Cm, AZ 86403 (520) 855-RACE/(520) 855-2208 BAJA OmcE: 011-526-0225 ZR PROMOTIONS LUIS RENE MONTANO C. CALZADA INDEPENDENCIA 200 -5 CoL lNSURGENTES EsTE 21280 MEXJCAU, BC, MX (686) 564 6653 info@zrpromo.com Attention Race & Ra~r Organi:ers List your coming events_ in DUSTY TIMES free. It is the only way some fans know about your event, if they don't hap-pen to be on your club mailing list. Don't call, but mail your 2011--2012 schedules as soon as possible for listing in this column; it could bring you some extra entries! Mail your race or rally sc;hedule to: Dusty Times, 207 61 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311--5003 August 2011 Trail Notes ... the harshest environments, heaviest loads, and are meant for repeated and constant use. Our vast equipment line provides a product range that addresses specifically the needs of recreational four wheelers, professional racers, and tactical vehicle recovery required by the military. Whether you are looking for a winch line, a kinetic recovery rope, winch accessories, or you have a custom application in mind; we can provide you with the highest quality rope for the job. For more information call 877. 797.0202 or visit us online at http://www. masterpull.com. About VORRA-Valley Off Road Racing Association (VORRA) was established in 1975 and has operated as a family-oriented organization for over three decades. It is currently led by Wes Harbor who believes that" off road racing has its roots in people's garages" and continues to keep the entry fees to a minimum while maintaining a high quality racing experience. For more information, visit http://www.vorra.net or call 877-418-6772. S CORESETSTECATESCORESANFELIPECHALLENGEOFCHAMPIONS DESERT RACE To BE HELD IN SAN FELIPE, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO -Insurance issues cause SCORE to move Primm race South of the Border. SCORE International confirmed today that the next race of five-race 2011 SCORE Desert Series will be the new Tecate SCORE San Felipe Challenge of Champions to be held Sept. 9-11 in San Felipe, Baja, California, Mexico. The race replaces the Primm 300 race that was cancelled this year because of insurmountable insurance issues. The new race, for 17 Pro and 2 Sportsman classes for cars and trucks, will run over the same course that was recently used for this year's MasterCraft Safety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 in March of approximately 250 miles. After executing the event agreement today in Baja California with SCORE President/CEO Sal Fish, Francisco Perez Tejada Padilla, Mayor of Mexicali stated that, "The cities of Mexicali and San Felipe are pleased to announce that SCORE has decided to continue supporting Baja California by adding another race to their calendar in Mexico. This shows the great communication achieved by the Federal, State and Municipal authorities with Sal Fish. We are pleased that SCORE recognizes our previous hard work and continues to have confidence in our support. This new race will become the epicenter of desert racing during the month of September." Fish stated that, "While SCORE regrets ending a 16 year relationship with the Primm Valley Resorts and Las Vegas Events, we are pleased to open a new door with Mexicali and San Felipe and provide our participants with an exciting Baja racing challenge in the friendly, relaxing and scenic city of San Felipe." Elaborating on the cancellation of this year's Primm 300, Fish confirmed that, "The sole reason for the decision was due to insurance requirements and cost. The Primm entities dramatically increased the liability insurance requirements for the event, which made conducting the event cost prohibitive." 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 ROD HALL RAcING TAKES ON VoRRA's INAUGURAL MASTER PuLL UsA 500 -Rod Hall Racing rolled the race proven HUMMER H3 through contingency at the inaugural Master Pull USA 500 at John Ascuaga's Nugget in Sparks, Nevada on July 15th. The wining truck was entered in VORRA's Full Metal class. Saturday morning, the first vehicle left the starting line at 8:29 am and each vehicle was given twenty-one hours to complete the course. Hall has proactively assisted Valley Off-Road Racing Association to launch the greatly anticipated race. "I applaud Wes Harbor and VORRA in their efforts to build a new, premier off-road race in northern Nevada. Given the difficulty race promoters face, this event is welcomed by our sport to keep off-road racing alive and thriving in the U.S.," exclaimed Baja legend Rod Hall. The course has been described as a smooth and fast loop race, with varied technical sections for a ~tal of 529 miles. Race director Wes Harbor designed the course to require fewer chase crews and spectator viewing areas where the racecourse can be viewed safely. The event also included freestyle moto demos, live music, rock crawl demos and other entertainment on Victorian Square. On Sunday, VORRA hosted the USA 200 motorcycle race. To learn more about the Master Pull USA 500, log on to VORRA. net. Race results will be posted at rodhallracing.com and updates on Twitter @rodhallracingl. To win a ride with Rod Hall, stop by Reno GMC and register for the drawing on July 18th. THE DAKAR Fl.AG HUMMER ON DISPl.AY -An additional show of support by Rod Hall Racing was highlighted by Hall placing the Dakar Flag H 1 HUMMER on display in Reno this week including the event staging area at Victorian Square adjacent to the Nugget. Rod and Chad Hall were the first American team to finish the famed Dakar Rally in the H 1 and went on to win four Baja 1000 races in the Stock Class before the vehicle was retired. The Flag HUMMER can normally be viewed as part of the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame Collection inside the National Automobile Museum. To learn more, log on to ORMHOF.com. Page 7

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FREEDOM 250 Langley Takes overall By Stephen Ruddick Photos: Trackside Photo Zak Langley had a wonderful race, he took the checkered flag in 4 hours, 14 minutes, 22 seconds, seen here at a rough touchdown. Hello Race Fans. 'Ace Re-porter' for Dusty Times here. I'm back in beautiful Barstow CA again for the 2011 M.O.R.E./ Royal Purple Freedom 250 at the Stoddard OHV. The weather couldn't be better - clear blue skies, temps in the 90's, and enough Barstow 'breeze' to keep the course mostly free of dust without ripping the course flags to shreds. The Mojave Desert can be pretty brutal and unforgiving in the warm California sun in the middle of July. The humidity at Start time was 11 %. The kind of weather that will sap every drop of moisture from your body. You were expecting an A/C'd Press box with all the trimmings and luxuries? It's Barstow -in the middle of summer - in the Mo-jave. My office is my truck. It's Course B -clockwise. 36 miles per lap; as assigned by BLM. 7 Road Crossings (RX) - six Spectator Viewing Areas, and 2 remote pits. This is get-ting to be one chewed up -tore up -rutted out -rock strewn, obstacle course; wored out after years of use. Kind of like them old wagon trains - pilgrim after pilgrim following along in the same rut. Whenever I got 'dust-ed' - I just let the truck follow the deepest rut. That's what us Ace Reporters call 'drivin by the seat of your pants'; pre-GPS. All that Barstow has to offer takes its toll on both man and machine. The only way to win -is to beat 'The Barstow'. May the force be with you. The waving of the green flag commenced at 4:00 PM PST. 97 Racers started in 14 different Classes. One-third of all the starters DNF'd, and 64 racers survived 'The Barstow' and finished all the required Laps within the 8-hour Max al-lotted time to see the checkered flag waving in victory. S'-lnset was about 8:00 PM. There was a full moon. Classes 1 -10 -12 -Su and 5/16 - 1600 -3000 raced for six laps; 216 miles. Classes 9, 13, and 1400 did five laps; 180 miles. Classes 7s/1700 and 1450 raced four laps; 144 miles. Classes 3 -3700 and 11 did 3 laps; 108 miles. CLASS 1: Six laps; 216 miles. Sixteen starters; 9 Finish-ers. Oh My Goodness! That's a lot of pony power. If each power plant produces 650 horsepower, that is equivalent to a wagon train with 10,400 horses. Move Ryan George had a runaway race win, he took the gold medal in Trophy Challenge with ease, he's seen here beautifully airborne. 'em out! Richard Boyle got the pole start at the green flag in car #102 and was immediately beset upon by 'The Barstow' with a lh:44m down time on the side-lines. George Pondella was next off the line in car #58, followed by Lee Finke in car #111. Shelby Reid emerged from the Class l -'wolf pack' to take the lead in car #1568 after Lap 1 was done -with a 2-minute:49-second time advantage in front of Eric Jacobus in car #167. Out in front with a 2m:49s time advantage is good - especially when Reid had five other cars running behind -and they were all bunched up within 54-seconds of each other. The wolves chasing the fox. Eric Hardin in car #155 was 18s be-hind Jacobus in car #167. George Pondella in car #58 was 13s behind #155. Zak Langley in car #101 was 19s behind #58. Sean Dunn in car # 123 was 4s behind # 101. Wuff wuf. Pondella and Finke DNF' d after Lap 1. Reid slowed down on Lap 2 and the Class 1 wolf pack feed-ing order changed again. Rick Romans was now out in front in car #22 with a 42s lead in front of Eric Hardin in car# 155. Sean Dunn was in hot pursuit in car # 123, only 19s behind Hardin. Dave Bonner had moved up to fourth spot in car #1580 but was running 6m:39s behind the lead-er. Hardin DNF' d after Lap 2 in car #155, along with Scott Buch-witz in car # 105 and Scott Foster in car #26. 'The Barstow' takes its toll. Sean Dunn slowed down on Lap 3 and that put Zak Lang-ley in second spot in car #101 about 38s behind the leader -Rick Romans in car #22. Langley was ahead of Dave Bonner in car #1580 by Sm: 16s, and Bonner was out in front of Brad Etter in car #156 by another 4m:53s. Ty-ler Morgan in car # 113 was only 64s behind Etter. Zak Langley handed over the wheel duties to Dan Martin in car # 101 after Lap 3 and the rest of the race was on. Romans was in the lead by 38-seconds in car #22 at the start of Lap 4 -with three laps left to race. Martin found some more gas pedal to apply or drove a better line, or both, on Lap 4 to win the Fast Lap award at 52. 7 mph in 39m:39s in the COPS Racing car #101. Romans did it in 45m:52s at 45.8 mph. That put car #101 out in front by 6m: 13s ahead of Romans in car #22 at the start of Lap 5. Romans picked up the pace on Lap 5 and narrowed the gap on #101 by ZS-seconds. Brad Etter was still in the running when #156 DNF'd after Lap 5. Romans was delayed further with a flat on Lap 6, and that put the COPS car #101 into the Winner's Circle atop the podium in First Place in Class Vincent Dudash was well off the winning pace in the Trophy Challenge but he still pulled out a second place finish in the class. It was a second place finish in class for Clint Berry, a long fifth lap didn't help him much, seen here charging for the checkered flag. Michael Fox drove his extended cab truck to a silver medal in the Ultra Truck race, he's seen here at speed on his way home. , ·.t•, '-• .. ,~ ..... ,_.~'! ,.).,~~r 'f . " 'J.,:<l:. N(, -\ ..... ~~ .. ' ~ ~,-.. ,t<. • Guy Savedra didn't have too bad a time, he took second place honors Billy Bunch ran his Jeep in the Class 7A contest, he didn't fare too Matt Creveling raced hard at Freedom, he took second place honors in Class 5 with his 5-1600 car, here flying on the course. bad, he was the second vehicle in the class to take the checkers. in Class 9, he was three minutes in arrears at the finish. Pages August 2011 Dusty Times

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Jay Wallick took his class win with 15 minutes to spare, he's seen here just at liftoff on his way to the checkers. Bryson Hopfe had a good run in the Ultra Truck battle, he took the gold medal with 24 minutes in hand. to go up against a big field with so many good drivers and come out with a win feels really great! I think that racing class 12 then getting seat time in class 10 re-ally helped, not to mention all the advice and mentoring I've had from great drivers like Dan Martin, Dale Dondel and Bernie Carr. It's a cliche, but we had a textbook race. No mechani-cals or flats. My co-driver Sean Williams kept me focused and we handed the car off to Dan Martin and Brandon Chrisman. They drove a perfect race and put more time on the field. I'm really proud of the whole COPS racing team for such a great job!" Sounds good to me too. [Mean-while - back in the driver's seat of reality Langley said: "I had butterflies banging in my stom-ach and thought I'd puke before getting off the line". Eeuuwww* Then Langley caught and passed a trophy truck in the first four and First Overall - by a 13m:50s margin of win at 49.5 mph. "Beautiful!" Dan Martin said after. "The competition was great. The COPS Racing car was ·phenomenal. We had no issues. It was fun!" "We're relatively new to this great sport, "says John Langley, speaking on behalf of his sons and the rest of the COPS Racing team. "But we're hoping to up our game with every race, and I'm proud to say Zak has made a great debut in Class 1 with his win at the Freedom 250. He's also running 3rd place in Class 12 in the SCORE series, so we're hoping he can keep it together after his 2nd Place showing at the Baja 500 this year. In any case, the kid is showing great promise!" COPS Racing Team takes its name from the television show -which is produced by Langley. "This was a really important race for me," said Zak Langley. "This was my first class 1 race so C1ntinu1d ,n ,111 10 Brian Potts was really flying during the Class 10 race, he's seen here Joey Chott was the silver medal winner in the Class 88 competition, Mike Meehan took a second place finish in the Class 1600 on his way to a second place finish in the class. he's seen here at speed just before liftoff. competition, Mike is seen here on his way to the checkered flag. Dusty Times 2,160 Rooms And Suites 60 Table Games 2,600 Slot Machines Poker Room Race & Sports Book 640-Seat Bingo Room 16 Movie Theaters 9 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 1 LAS VEGAS BLVD AT SILVERADO RANCH• SOUTHPOINTCASINO.COM August 2011 Page 9

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miles so he settled down and ended the first three laps run-ning in 2nd spot. Dan Martin hopped in and sealed the deal in the next three laps, duking it out with Romans/Jeffries in car #22 until he came in with a good lead to take the Overall and First Place wins. "The dust hung like dirty blankets everywhere and made passing tough unless you hit clean air on an alternate line", Martin said.) Nice win. The reality is -just Finishing is a victory when you beat 'The Barstow'. Winning too is what makes it all fun -in the warm California sun, in the Mojave -in Barstow. Rick Romans won Second Place in Class and Second Over-all in car #22 in 4:28: 12 at 47 mph by a 30-minute margin of win ahead of the Third Place winner -Dave Bonner in car #1580. Bonner completed all the required laps in 4:49:31 at 43.5 mph and by 2m:35s in front of Tyler Morales in car #113. Mo-rales finished in Fourth Place in 5:02:06 at 41. 7 mph. "Oh *#@!*", Morales said after. "That was rough. We didn't have any flats but we wore out the shocks. It was painful". The OPS showed 92 mph. Evan Stanley was co-driver. Sean Dunn got all the required laps done in 5:08:10 at 40.9 mph to finish in Fifth Place in car #123. Dunn won by a 2m:26 finish in front of Mark Johnson in the DK Rac-ing car #177. Owner Dan Kin-caid said, "We run in the 7200 truck class and came out to Barstow to test the suspension. It works great". I asked: How was the course? "Rough doesn't even come close" Johnson re-plied. But Shelby Reid made it a close race when she finished in 5: 11 :32 -just 58-seconds behind Johnson in #177 to win Seventh Place in car #1568. "The car ran good", Reid reported. "We had some P/S servo issues but no flats. It's rough. The light bar fell off. It's Barstow." Yea huh. Richard Boyle was sidelined by 'The Barstow' on Lap 1 in car #102. Boyle got it fixed and to Richard Garavito had a fun race, he had a trouble free run and he took the Class 5 win with 33 minutes on his competition. the finish line in 5:52:50 at 35.7 mph to prevail in Eighth Place. Erik Jacobus finished in Ninth Place in car # 167 in 6:31 :35 at 32.2 mph. CLASS 10: Six laps; 216 miles. Seven starters; 6 Finish-ers. John Langley started in the pole position in car # 1002 upon the waving of the green flag, followed by Mike McGee in car # 1011 -Phillip Isabelle in car #1069 and Chad Dohrman in car #1025. Cody Reid started toward the back of the pack in car # 1068 and was out in front by lm: 15s ahead of Dohrman after Lap 1 was done. Dohrman was ahead of both Brian Potts in car # 1082 and Isabelle in car # 1069 by only ten seconds, and Tim Scott in car #1051 was only 24-seconds behind them. Scott DNF' d after Lap 2. Reid was still in the lead in car # 1068 after Lap 3 by 4m: 15s ahead of Brian Potts in car #1082. Potts was about 4-minutes in front of Mc-Gee in car # 1011 and Dohrman had slipped back to fourth spot in car #1025 about IO-minutes behind McGee. McGee and Isabelle and Dorh-man were all beset upon by 'The Barstow' slows on Lap 4 and the pack got reshuffled for the remaining race to the finish and glory. Cody Reid cranked it up a notch on Lap 4 in car #1068 to record a tie for the Fast Lap award at 47 mph. Brian Potts did the same 47 mph on Lap 6 but clocked in at 3-seconds faster to win Fast Lap honors in car #1082. Reid was still the fastest overall for the day in car # 1068 and won First Place in 4:40:31 at 44.9 mph by a 9m:28s margin of victory. "Awesome!" Reid said after. "We just got the car a week ago and worked on getting the suspension dialed in, and turned a 'shake-down' into a win". Nicely done. Brian Potts got all the required laps completed in 4:49:59 to win Second Place in class at 43.5 mph in the Toyota-powered BP Air Racing car #1082. "We had a good race and a good run", Potts said. "We had 1 flat and lots of fun. Thanks to Jeremy Stafford, Alex Coronsa and Chad Cum-mings for helping it happen". Mike McGee won Third Place in class in the Pony Expresso Racing car #1011 in 5: 15:50 at 39.9 mph. "We had suspension issues all day and made 12 shock adjustments", McGee reported. "It rides rough and the course was brutal. We had 2 flats and ignition problems too. Thanks to Checkers pits". McGee gave '2 thumbs up'. Chad Dohrman finished in Fourth Place in 5:40:45 at 37 mph in the Dohrman Family Racing car #1025. "The P/S broke on Lap 2 and we munched the right front hub on Lap 3", Chad said after; (the brake ro-Javier Avila flew his Chevy to the Class 7A win at the Freedom race, Javier had 50 minutes on the second place truck. tor and caliper were gone). "The rear shocks gave out too". That's what hardcore desert racing is all about, Race Fans. True grit. John and son Morgan Langley finished in Fifth Place in car #1002 in 5:52:54 at 35.7 mph, after a flat and some mechanical problems. Said father Langley, "We didn't have the great run Zak and Dan had (in car #101) but we had a whole lot of fun in a competitive field." 'Dad' Langley was first off the line and caught up with two Class 1 cars but was completely dusted out on two lines when they split and left him in a dirt fog that slowed him down. Then Langley had a flat on the off camber ridge at around mile 18 or 19 and took a 25 minute delay with jack prob-lems and a slow change. After getting back in the race, with no spare, a class 3000 car smacked #1011 and tore off his muffler and dusted him out. Langley fought back through dozens of slower classes once he got a spare at mile 27 or so, but the dust and delays took #1101 out of conten-tion once Morgan got in after lap three. That's what hardcore desert racing is all about, Race Fans. It all adds up to a great day of racing -in the warm Califor-nia sun -in the Mojave - in The Barstow. CLASS 5u-5/16: S i x laps; 216 miles. Seven starters; 4 Finishers. The Class 5 buggy classes combined for this race. Kevin Heitritter was first off the line at the green flag in car #5025, followed by Richard Gar-ravito in the ORAF -Franken-stein Racing car #505, Larry Atu-na in car #507 and Guy Savedra in the A.R.T.S. Racing car #559. Garravito left the competition in his dust and was out in front of Scott Moldenhauer in car #501 by 2m:20s on Lap 1. Molden-hauer was ahead of Larry Atuna in car #507 by lm:4ls after Lap 1 was done. Heitritter hit the gas on Lap 2 and won the Fast Lap award at 41.8 mph in 50: 13 in car #5025 and was running back up in second spot at the start of Lap 3 - with Guy Savedra in car #559 only 31-seconds off his rear bumper. Savedra got the pass on Heitritter and car #559 was running in second spot after Lap 3 -and about 14-minutes behind the front runner in car #505. Heitritter was now about 5-1/2 minutes behind Savedra, and #5025 was unable to answer the bell for Lap 4; DNF. Larry Atuna DNF'd in car #507 after Lap 4 and Jim Crawford followed suit on Lap 5 in car #580. Garravito handed the wheel duties in car #505 to Rulo after Lap 3 and Rulo finished all the laps required to win First Place in 5:17:45 at 39.7 mph in the ORAF Racing car #505 -and Dave Bonner gave it all he had but this time had to settle for the Eric Fiorino was a wee bit off the winning pace in his class and he Allen Byma had rather long 4th and 5th laps which certainly didn't bronze medal in Class 1, he's seen here really haulin' freight. had to settle for a third place finish, here just at takeoff. help him, he still managed a third place finish in the Ultra Truck race. Wendell Mortensen had a rather long first lap which hurt him badly Giti Gow/and ran hard as he could but had to settle for a third place Mike McGee had a long fourth lap but he still managed a third place on time, he still managed a third place finish in Class 5. finish in the Class 9 contest, seen here headin' home. finish in the Class 10 contest, seen here racin' hard. Page 10 August 2011 Dusty Times

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1 Linda Allen raced her Ford Bronco to the Class BA win, she's seen here racin' towards that sometimes elusive checkered flag. by a 34m: 15s margin of win. "We had a good clean race; no flats", Garravito said. "There was a lot of dust on Lap 2 and we had to adjust the front coils on Lap 5 but it was smooth and no 'driver error' this race"; (Garravito rolled it in the last race). Guy Savedra handed the wheel duties in car #559 to Donald 'XYZ' Harper after Lap 3 and Harper completed all the remaining laps to win Second Place in Class in the A.R.T.S. Racing car #559 in 5:50: 19 at 36 mph. That is a 5/ 16-class car winning against Class 5-unlim-ited cars, Race Fans. Woo -Hoo! Wendell Mortensen won Third Place in class in car #527 with an overall elapsed time of 6: 17: 2 9 at 33.4 mph. Scott Moldenhauer gave it a run in car #501 but just couldn't make up the time he lost sidelined on Lap 2. Mold-enhauer still Finished in Fourth Place in 6:43:53 at 31.2 mph. CLASS 12: Six laps; 216 miles. Seven starters; 5 finishers. Art Velasco Sr. was staged at the front of the line in car # 1116 at the green flag. Dave Hill was next in line in car #1259, followed by Ralph Potts in car # 1117 and Roger Starkey in car #1210. Starkey got the jump on the competition -0n Lap 1 to take the lead by 7-seconds ahead of Gregg Ryan in car #1181. #1210 DNF'd after that. Velasco made it through Lap 3 when # 1116 DNF'd too. That's 'The Barstow' at work taking its toll. Ryan was out in front in car # 1181 with a 19-minute lead ahead of Mike Buschman in car # 1205 after half the laps were done. Hector Garcia Jr was running in third spot in car #1206 about 12-1/2 minutes behind Buschman. The order didn't change the last three laps but the gap between them did. Gregg Ryan and Ron Hardy completed all the laps in 4:49:55 at 43.5 mph in car #1181 to win First Place in class by a 47m:42s margin of victory ahead of Mike Buschman in car # 1205. Hardy described it this way: "Perfect. No flats. No problems". His co-driver - Kali 'helmet hair' told it like this: "It was a rough ride. There was lots of traffic. My thumb is sore from honk-ing the horn. Does my hair look horrible?" Buschman won Second Place with an elapsed time of 5:37:37 at 37.3 mph and by a 5m:54s margin of vi_ctory ahead of Hector Garcia Jr. in car # 1206. Garcia won Third Place in 5:43:31 at 36. 7 mph and by a 35-minute margin ahead of Dave Hill in car #1259. Hill finished in 6: 18:39 at 33.3 mph to grab Fourth Place for the day. Ralph Potts recovered from 'The Barstow' to finish in Fifth Place in car #1117 in 6:33:07 at 32.1 mph. CLASS 3000: Six laps; 216 miles. Eight starters; 5 Finishers. Eric Fiorino was ·staged up at the front of the class 3000 line at the green flag in car #6088. Nick Bayes was next in line in car #3006 -with Karl Scanlin behind in car #3019. Scanlin was trailed by Reynolds in car #3056 and Earl Fraser in car #3068. Fraser was at the front of the line after Lap 1 was done by 25-seconds ahead of Jay Wallack ip. car #3088. Eric Fiorino was in third spot after one lap in car #6088 trailing behind Wallack by 47-seconds. 'The Barstow' recorded another notch in the Got'cha column when Scanlin DNF'd before #3019 completed the first lap. Ouch. The compe-tition grew thinner when Blake Slater DNF'd too in car #3069 after Lap 1, and so did Fraser in car #3068 after Lap 2. All those DNF's, and a Fast Lap at 45 mph on Lap 2, helped launch Jay Wallack out in front in car #3088 with an 11 m: 12s Cody Reid was the gold medal winner in the Class 10 contest st MORE Freedom, Cody had nine minutes on second place at the finish. Dusty Times Brandon Heald took the big win in the Class 9 contest, it was tight, he had a cushion of three minutes at the end. time advantage ahead of Clint Berry in car #3020 after Lap 3 was done. Berry was ahead of Fiorino in car #6088 by 2m:02s at that point. The race leader changed three times in the next three laps so hold on to your seats, Race Fans; it's a wild ride. Wallack slowed on Lap 4 in car #3088 and both Berry and Fiorino got the pass. Berry was ahead of Fiorino by lm:54s, and Fiorino was ahead of Wallack by 4m:52s. Then it was Berry's turn to get bit by 'The Barstow' slows on Lap 5 and Fiorino jumped into the lead going into the last lap in car #6088. And then -Fiorino encountered August 2011 'The Barstow' slows on Lap 6 and Wallack re-passed them both to take the First Place win by a 15-minute margin of victory in 5:25:28 at 38. 7 mph. Clint Berry recovered to win Second Place in class in 5:40:19 at 37 mph in car #3020 and by 25-minutes ahead of Eric Fiorino in car #6088. Fiorino recovered and finished in 6:05: 10 at 34.5 mph to win Third Place in class. Hard won victories. That's pretty exciting open desert race action, Race Fans. And - AND! - Reynolds in car #3056 was the winner of the highly coveted Dusty Times Contingency Award for finishing absolutely last in all classes with-in the allotted Max time limit at 11 :35 :03 PM. Congratulations! Well done. CLASS 1/2-1600: S i x laps; 216 miles. Seven starters; 5 Finishers. Julie Meehan started in the pole position in class at the green flag in car # 1698. Eric Andersen was next in line in car #1652, and Art Velasco Jr. was staged up next in car #1637. Mike Ward - #1673, Mike Mee-han • # 1699, and Matt Gumz - # 1606 - were staged up in the rear-start spots. The green flag flew and the race was on for Lap 1 class leader and Mike Meehan ended up out front in car # 1699 by 2-seconds ahead of Velasco Jr. in car # 1637. Matt Gumz was lm:43s behind #1637 and Julie Meehan was 29-seconds behind Gumz after Lap 1. Gumz pro-ceeded to top speed on Lap 2 and won the Fast Lap honors for the day at 42.2 mph. That feat of speed propelled Gumz into sec-ond spot on Lap 3 - just 24-sec-onds behind Mike Meehan in car # 1699. 'The Barstow' slows caught up with Meehan in car #1699 on Lap 3 and Gums and Velasco Jr. got the pass. Gumz was out front by 16m:47s in car #1606 ahead of Velasco Jr. in car #1637 after Lap 3, and Meehan slipped back to third spot. 'The Barstow' slows also caught up with Velasco Jr. in C1ntinu1it ■n p111 12 Page 11

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Hector Garcia Jr. took the bronze medal in the Class 78 fracas, Hector Rhonda Parkhouse was a wee bit off the winning pace in the Class Mike Ward gave it all he and the car had but this time he had to settle is seen here at high speed headin' for home. 88 action, She took third place honors in the class. for the bronze medal in Class 1/2-1600. car # 1637 on Laps 4 and 6 and that allowed Meehan, and Mike Ward in car # 167 3, to get the pass and reshuffle the race order deck. Gumz motored on to win First Place in class in 5: 16:59 at 39. 7 mph in car # 1606, and by a 31-minute margin of win. Gumz said: "That was no fun". Welcome to 'The Barstow'. Mike Meehan won Second Place in class in car #1699 at 36.2 mph in 5:47:53 and by a 15-minute mar-gin of victory. Mike Ward mo-tored car # 167 3 across the finish line in 6:03:03 at 34. 7 mph to win Third Place in class with about 7-minutes to spare. Art Velasco Jr. fought off 'The Bar-stow' slows to finish in Fourth Place in 6:09:59 at 34.1 mph in car #1637. Julie Meehan got all the laps done in 6:45:28 to fin-ish in Fifth Place at 31.1 mph in car #1698. CLASS 1400: Five Laps; 180 miles. Nineteen starters; 12 Fin-ishers. My goodness, Race Fans. A whole herd of race trucks. And mucho carnage asada too. Five racers DNF' d after the first lap. Race trucks broke down everywhere. Welcome to 'The Barstow'. After the initial shock and awe wore off -Ryan Agi-us emerged out front in truck # 1484 by 8-seconds ahead of Bryson Hopfe in truck # 1401 after Lap 1 was done. Alan Byma in truck #1433 was only 13-seconds behind Hopfe. Agius DNF'd after that. Hopfe gave it more gas on Lap 2 to win the Fast Lap honors at 45.2 mph in 46:27, and Byma applied more gas in pursuit. Byma applied more gas than Hopfe did on Lap 3 and truck #1433 was in the lead by 36-seconds in front of Hopfe in truck #1401 after Lap 3. And then - Byma ran afoul of 'The Barstow' on Lap 4, and that allowed Hopfe to regain the lead -and for Michael Fox to get the pass in truck #1420 too. Hopfe kept the pressure on the gas pedal on Lap 5 and won First Place in the Chester Avenue Brake truck #1401 in an elapsed time of 4:00: 12 at 43.7 mph with 24m:12s to spare. This was Hopfe's third race and second win in his 'dad built it in the garage' in Bakersfield prepped truck. Nice job Dad. Jeremy Brown got the ride in the extra seat. "We had a great race", Hopfe said in the winner's circle. "No problems. No flats. Great pit crew. The biggest chal-lenge was not driving over my head and finishing. My neck is sore". Michael Fox finished all the laps required in 4:24:25 to win Second Place in the GMC-truck #1420. Fox and co-driver Kellan Meadows finished with over 30-minutes to spare in front of Allen Byma in truck #1433. "That was pure fun", Fox said. "Great weather. No flats. Lots of rough and rutted out ruts and square faces. TY M.O.R.E. for an awesome event!" Byma got all the laps done required to win Third Place in 4:56:37 at 35.4 mph. Allen Byma drove Laps 1-3. "The truck ran good", he said. His brother Thomas Byma drove Laps 4 and 5. "We had a flat on the last lap ang snapped the throttle cable on Lap ? but we still managed a solid finish", brother Thomas said. "The race was lots of fun. It was exciting having such a great turnout and competition. We were doing 80-90 mph in spots and did battle with #1401 and #1420 all day". Thomas also extended a big TY to his brother Allen "for all the hard work he did (200 hours) af, ter (Allen) crashed the last ,race". That's nice -you broke it -so you fix it. HA! Don't laugh - it made it to the finish line yes. James Gill and co-driver Mark Stewart made it a close race in truck # 1461 when he finished a slim lm:35s behind Byma to win Fourth Place in 4:58: 12 at 35.2 mph. "This was our first race", Gill said. "We had two flats and .fuel pump issues, and we tore off the sway bar on the last lap and nursed it to the finish". That's good -because Ryan Greene was about 5-minutes behind in truck #1411 and was closing the gap faster than Gill was nursing it. Greene got it done in 5:03:27 to finish in Fifth Place at 34.6 mph in truck #1411. CLASS 9: Five laps; 180 miles. Nine starters; 5 Finishers. Derek Dixon was first off the line at the green flag in car #938 -and the first to DNF before the first lap was done. Jared Sluder was next to get the Go in car #903, followed by Matt Crevel-ing in car #990. Creveling was out in front in the lead by 13-sec-onds ahead of Sluder after Lap 1. Brandon Heald in car #916 was 63-seconds behind Sluder. Kurt Young in car #959 was only 6-seconds behind Heald. And Adonis Barela in car #909 was only 8-seconds behind Young. Sluder and Creveling slowed on Lap 2 and Heald didn't and got the pass in car #916 to take the lead. Barela DNF' d after Lap 2 in car #909. Heald slowed on Lap 3 and Creveling re-took the lead in car #990 2-minutes ahead of #916. Giti Gowland had moved up into third spot in car #992 after Lap 3 but was run-ning 15-minutes behind Heald in #916, and Mike Brown in car #924 only 3-seconds behind Gowland. Kurt Young DNF'd after Lap 4 in car #959. Brandon Heald put some more gas pedal to the metal on Lap 4 and got the pass on Creveling in car #990, and #916 held a faster pace to the finish line to win First Place in class by a 3m: 10s margin of victory in 5: 17:43 at 33 mph. Heald also get credit for the Fast Lap honors on Lap 2 at 34.5 mph in 1:00:48. Matt Creveling completed all the laps required to win Second Place in 5:20:50 in car #990 at 32. 7 mph. Giti Gowland gave it some more gas in car #992 to win Third Place in 5:38: 17 at 31 mph and by a 51-second margin ahead of Mike Brown in car #924. Gowland took off his helmet and said: "That was rough. The course is too beat up. There are cars upside down everywhere. I'm gettin' too old for this." Those Class 9 buggies are about as basic a racecar as you can get, and it is a rough and brutal ride Race Fans. 'Old bones' beware. Brown finished in Fourth Place with an elapsed time of 5:39:08 at 31 mph. Jared Sluder brought his bruised and battered car #903 to the finish line to place in Fifth Place in 6:36:32 at 26.5 mph. CLASS 13: Five laps; 180 miles. Four starters; 3 Finishers. Ryan George got the pole start in car # 1301 at the green flag and made a mad dash for the lead at 40 mph to win the Fast Lap hon-ors in 52:33 on the way. That feat of speed put # 1301 out in front of Richard Dormack in car #1336 by 15-minutes after Lap 1. Dormack was being chased by Vincent Dudash in car # 1367 -who was only lm:53s away from Dormack's rear bumper. George kept up a faster pace on Lap 2 in car #1301 and Dormack fell off the pace with a case of 'The Barstow' slows. That moved Du-dash up into second spot in car # 1367, followed by Fred Mooney in car #1373. Dormack DNF'd after Lap 3. Ryan George was way out front with a 52-minute lead in car #1301 after Lap 3. Vincent Dudash was running in second It was a fourth place finish in Class 1 for Tyler Morales, he's seen Nick Bayes gets our award for the hardest landing of the race, Nick Jim Gill was the fourth place finisher in the Ultra Truck Class, Jim here with the power on headin' for the checkers. finished in fourth place in his class, ouch!!!! was only two minutes out of a podium finish. Scott Moldenhauer finished first off the podium in the Class 5 contest, Mike Brown took a fourth place finish in the Class 9 contest at Chad Dohrman had a rather slow second and fourth lap, he ended up Scott is seen here just a second before touchdown. Freedom, Mike was less than a minute out of a podium finish. in fourth place in the Class 10 fracas in his really good looking car. Page 12 August 2011 Dusty Times

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r Dave Hill had a fairly decent day, he took fourth place honors in the Hassim Mendez suffered a terribly long third lap and ended up taking Art Velasco Jr. was the fourth place finisher in the Class 1/2-1600 Class 78 contest, he's seen here at speed headin' for the checkers. fourth place honors in the Class BB contest. battle, Art is seen here at high speed just at liftoff. spot in car # 1367, and Fred Mooney was running in third position in car # 1373 about 10-1/2 minutes behind Dudash. George backed off the race pace a bit on Laps 4 and 5, and still maintained a winning pace all the way to the checkered flag and the First Place win in 4:47:24 at 36.5 mph and by a 1 :20:46 margin of victory. "The course was not too bad", George re-counted. "It was rough in spots. I hit some big rocks. No flats. We broke third gear. It was good clean fun". Vincent Dudash completed all the laps in 6:08: 10 at 28.5 mph to win Second Place in car #1367. Third Place went to Fred Mooney in car #1373 at 26.8 mph with an overall elapsed time of6:l:45. CLASS 7s/1700: F o u r laps; 144 miles. Three starters; 3 Finishers. Guillermo Herrera was first in line at the green flag in truck #769. Javier Avila was staged up next in truck #721, followed by Billy Bunch in the Jeeps peed # 1799. Herrera got off to a slow start and both Avila and Bunch got the early pass on Lap 1. Avila posted the Fast Lap of the day at 33-mph and was out in front of Bunch by 8-1/2 min-utes at the end of Lap 1, but Her-rera was only 49-seconds behind Bunch at that point. Avila kept up the pace and widened the gap to 29-minutes after Lap 2, but Herrera was now out in front of Bunch by 5-minutes. Bunch re-passed Herrera on Lap 3 but Avila was way out front. Avila got all the laps done in 4:31:46 at 30.9 mph to win First Place in class by a 49m: 15s margin of victory in truck #721. Bunch won Second Place in 5:21:01 at 26.2 mph in #1799, and by 67-minutes on the clock. Herrera finished in 6:28:02 to win Third Place at 21.6 mph in truck #769. CLASS 1450: Four laps; 144 miles. Seven starters; 5 Finish-ers. Jeff Musgrave was the first in line in .class to get the green flag in truck #1467, Brian Groves started next in truck #1490 -and was the first to DNF before Lap 1 was done. Musgrave set the Fast Lap pace on Lap 1 at 36 mph and #1467 DNF'd before Lap 2 was done. [If you see a pattern developing here Race Fans -it is because nobody ever wins an off-road race on the first lap. It is because 40-60% of all DNF's occur on Laps 1 and 2.] Meanwhile -Ernie Seras had a rear-start at the green flag in truck # 1491 and was out in front by 32-minutes after Lap 2 was done. Joey Chott was running in second spot in truck #1453, followed by Rhonda Parkhouse in truck #1496 about 15-min-utes later. Hassim Mendez was in truck #1482 about 3-minutes behind Parkhouse. The only thing that changed the last two laps were lap times and speeds and Ernie Serfas did it the fastest in 4:21:29 at 32.1 mph to win First Place in class by a 39-minute margin of win in truck #1491. "We had a good race; no problems", Serfas re-ported from inside the winner's circle. "It was rough· as usual, there was lots of competition, the weather was perfect; I lost a tooth". Serfas built the front-end on his '94 Ranger racer. "Finish-ing, and winning, was the most fun!" Serfas said. Joey Chott won Second Place in truck #1453 in 4:58:20 at 28.2 mph. Rhonda Parkhouse got all the laps done in 5:51:24 to win Third Place at 23.9 ~ph in truck #1496. Atta-Girl! Hassim Mendez completed all the laps in 6:50: 18 at 20.5 mph to finish in Fourth Place in truck #1482. Yukitomo Miyama recorded the overall Slowest Lap 1 of the day in truck #1451 -but recovered nicely to finish in Fifth Place in 6:58: 12 at 20.1 mph. CLASS 3: Three laps; 108 miles. One starter; 1 Finisher. Linda Allen was the sole starter in class in the Ford Bronco #302. Allen won the Fast Lap honors on Lap 1 at 24.5 mph. Allen was A good day for Matt Gumz, he took the Class 1600 win with 31 minutes in hand, he's seen here at one of many takeoffs. Dusty Times out in front and lead the race from start to finish. Allen beat 'The Barstow' in 4:40:36 at 22.5 mph to win First Place in #302. CLASS 3700: Three laps; 108 miles. One starter; 1 Finisher. Cary Jones was the sole starter in class in car #3765. Jones was out in front and led the entire race from start to the First Place fin-ish in 6:28:41 at 16.2 mph. Jones also won the Fast Lap honors at 21.3 mph on Lap 3. CLASS 11: Three laps; 108 miles. One starter; 1 DNF. Bob Depew was the sole entry in class in car # 1153. Depew recorded no laps. Reporters NOTES: Chalk up another WIN! for the M.O.R.E./Royal Purple team for another safe and successful and fun off-road racing event. Kudos go to all the volunteers, too. There were lots of thrills and spills, and several rollovers -but no injuries or otherwise were reported. BLM was out in full force enforcing the rules. Remember: All liquid fuel must be stored inside a container -and inside another container of equal or larger size, at all times. Yep. Spill and Drip pans for your dump cans; even the fuel for your portable generator! Keep those fuel-rated and charged-up fire extinguishers handy and nearby, and manned during pit stops. Even M.O.R.E. was required to purchase an indepen-dent emergency fire pump and storage for S/F. BLM doesn't have anything better to enforce because there are no spectators to keep safe and out of harms way. All the spectators seemed to have been scared away by the sensational headlines because they are mostly few and none to be seen these days. I know there aren't as many around these days because I give out free compli-mentary copies of DT every race. I give free complimentary copies to the BLM rangers too, and they are out in full force. How many watchers does it take to enforce the rules? It takes 40-60 volunteers to watch the watchers to make sure they are doing their high-paid job and enforcing the rules fairly. I actually get paid (not much) to be a Professional Spectator and report what I ob-serve. Who's going to watch the watchers if we don't? Keep up the good work. It was a large crowd of un-controlled spectators that got in the way that fateful day. There was one BLM on patrol. Those that paid the price with their life that fateful day didn't obey the #l spectator Rule upon entering a OHV during a high-risk SRP event -Get Out of The Way! Now there are six designated Spectator Viewing Areas and 12 BLM on patrol, and there are no spectators to control. So BLM has turned their attention to controlling the racers. I feel safer now. According to the new Rules -even I have to sign a waiver and release of Liability form and get wrist-banded up for safety. Press Pit Pass? Nope. According to the new Rules - I am forbidden from cruising Pit Row - unless I do so from in back of the course setback. That makes my job a bit harder because it's hard to distinguish one pit from another from the backside. It also means I have to watch out for all the 'Other idiots' and uncontrolled hordes of humanity who don't have to sign a release and waiver of liability form because most of them don't have a wristband on. The point is -behind the Pits is probably the least safest pla,e to Cantinued on page 14 we would Like to congratulate Matt Gumz 1st Place 1/2·11100 MORE Freedom 250 1.ee us t:ee You To The Winner's Circlet Call Jeff or Johnny 818-998-2739 se,vicing All T,ansaxles Fonin, Mendeola, A/bins, All vw, 010 AU~0S 9763 VARIEL AVENUE, CHATSWORTH, CA 91311 August 2011 Page 13

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A fifth place finish in the Class 1 battle went to Sean Dunn, Sean is Ryan Greene was the fifth place finisher in the Ultra Truck Jared Sluder had a few long laps to add to the agony, Jared finished seen here at very high speed on his way to the flag. competition, Ryan is seen here racing to the checkers. in fifth place in Class 9 at Freedom, here at touchdown. ~--=-::--=-~-::--:---:------:-~--:------..;:::::=::;;;:;;,.,,,;:::;:;;;;:===:;:;::=:::;::::;;;;:;;==========; be now -under the new Rules. Prevailing wages applies. All I built-in incentive to burn up At least that is my experience. can say is that my 'billing rate' the first SO-hours quick and get The point is -it is safer now for for govt work was usually be-to the real meat at $ 120/hour spectators under the new Rules tween $ 7 5-$120/hour but I was rate asap. I mean -it's the same · because there are no spectator lucky to actually make 38-54% Course A or B at both Stoddard crowds to control. The specta-of that amount. The point is -and Johnson OHVs. It's been tors I do encounter are mostly you never do it for less than you that way for years. Same old mixed in with the masses along actually budgeted for in govt. I same old, same as it always was. Pit Row. They mostly observe mean -do you know what kind It only takes so much red tape to the Rules. There certainly isn't and how much red tape you have process it, time after time and the 'frenzy' along Pit Row there to cut lengthwise if you actually year after year. Boiler plate. So -was before -because now it all do it for less? O! vey. Every red it takes BLM SO-hours to process goes on out back and behind cent gets spent on covering the the red tape, and then the $120/ Pit Row. Go figure. Watch out overhead costs of something. hour Cost Recovery Fee kicks in. for all the 'Other idiots' on the I mean - Lets get real about I'm still waiting to hear why road. Excuse me while I get out the current Federal Budget im-it takes twelve BLM to monitor of my way. passe. Do you see any elected and enforce each· event when The point is - BLM has not politician in any party suggesting there are only 8 assigned to all accounted for why their rates that 'their' automatic pay in-of BLM Barstow? That means jump from $37 /hour to $120/ creases be reduced or eliminated BLM Barstow has to call in extra hour after SO-hours of time, or postponed? Or -that 'their' reinforcements from elsewhere and the $14,500/race it totals office and staff and other 'perks to cover their ***. That means up to in SRP "Cost Recovery of the job' be reduced even ten -overtime and travel and per Fees". I used to manage people percent? I think not. What I see diem room and board and .. -it and budgets for Govt agencies is Politicians and professional bu-adds up to $120/hour/ BLM. It's in my former professional life. If reaucrats and Big Biz continuing called feeding high on the hawg BLM gets paid time+ 1/2 -that to feed high on the hawg at the at the off-reader's expense. How is $55.50/hour. If BLM gets paid taxpayer's expense. It's a Federal many BLM are assigned on pa-double-time -that is $74/ hour. bureaucracy, Race Fans; BLM. trol at the Stoddard and Johnson That means that somewhere Regardless of political affiliation. OHVs on 3-day holiday week-between $46-$64.50/hour [38- I just want to see the BLM SRP ends when they are jam-packed 54%] of the BLM Cost Recovery Cost Recovery Fee accounting with non-SRP off-readers. How Fee is going toward paying for spreadsheet; show me where the many injuries occur then? The something else besides wages. fee goes and for what. Follow the fact is -organized SRPs are the That 38-54% usually goes to-money; every red cent. most regulated and monitored ward paying for retirement and I mean - Lets get real about events you will find in the deserts health benefits, travel/mileage, the BLM SRP, and Cost Recov-in SoCal. Compare that record per diem reimbursement for ery Fee. The basic SRP Permit of safety and injury with those food and board, vehicles and costs $37/hour to process - for of any 3-day holiday weekend at maintenance, office space, and which you get 50 hours of work. Glamis or Dumont Dunes. How just about every other 'overhead After 50 hours -the rate jumps many BLM are assigned to patrol cost' you can get away with. It's a to $120 per hour per person. and enforce off-road activities at Federal bureaucracy, Race Fans. Yoikes!! As I see it -There is a those OHVs then? Rick Romans was just a bit off the winning pace in Class 1, Rick was 14 minutes in arrears when he took the checkered flag. The point is -it doesn't seem that other big non-SRP off-road activities attract the numbers of BLM that off-road racing does, and they are every bit as danger-ous. I don't see BLM out in force enforcing the speed limit rules around 'social groups' on jam-packed 3-day holiday weekends at Glamis or Dumont Dunes or Stoddard or Johnson. I don't see BLM out in force enforcing the 'fuel containment' rule at these other gatherings; its federal law no matter who or where. I remember one race when a guy in a nearby pit was throwing raw gas across the track and lighting it on fire. Fireworks* He had little kids running around inside his pit. I went over and tried to tell the guy that's a no-no and got *#@!* in return. I just dialed 911 and a non-BLM cop appeared to enforce the rules because the race was over and all the assigned BLM had left. Go figure. The point is -OHVs are dan-gerous places under any and all circumstances. Accidents and injuries occur regardless of BLM on patrol or not. I can't remem-ber any incident at Stoddard or Johnson OHV where a pit or a fuel can exploded or caught fire" at an SRP. Keep up the good safety. Everybody is responsible for their own reckless conduct and behavior upon entering any OHV anywhere under any and all circumstances. Watch out for all the Other idiots. C'ya some-where in the dust, Race Fans. Be safe out there. M,0 R.E. ~,'<4.,...,._ ,_ John Langley drove his COPS car to a fifth place finish in Class 10, he's seen here with the power on and headin' for home. Yukitomo Miyama finished fifth in the Class 88 drama, a two and a Julie Meehan was the fifth place finisher in the Class 1/2-1600 action Mark Johnson was the sixth place finisher in the Class 1 contest at Freedom, he's seen here flyin low towards the finish. Page 14 half hour first lap wasn't on his timetable. at the Freedom Race, seen here hustlin' towards the finish line. Shelby Reid is seen here in her good lookin' Class 1 car, Shelby had to settle for a seventh place finish in class. August 2011 Steve Fike, less some fiberglass is seen here on his way to a seventh place finish in the Ultra Truck battle. Dusty Times

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DllliJlilfflll Here are the results from our survey back in April. Not too surprising, but draw your own conclusions. These numbers are all averages, not completely scientific. A-PERSONAL Al-65.8 56.3 A2 100 Male responded A3 Married 69% Single 8% Divorced 23% A4 Self Employed 50% W-2 Wage Earner 42% Retired 8% A5 Annual Income $300,000* A6 Own Home 100% A7 Children 2.5 Ages 34 Sex Male 16% Female 84% AS Household Residents 4.1 A9 Read Dusty Times 72% Al0 12th Grade 23% 2 Yr College 8% 4 Yr College 69% . Al 1 Spouse Education 12th Grade 15% 2 Yr College 15% 4 Yr College 70% A12 TV Sets 2.8% A13 Hours Watched 6 B-VEHICLES 1. Cars 4 Trucks 4 Trailers 1.5 Motor Homes .9 Motorcycles 2 .2 Quads 3.6 Tire Brand 2. 3. BFG 69% Toyo 15% Goodyear 9% Bridgestone 7% Compete Off Road Yes 70% No 30% Driver 68% Co-Driver 32% Own Race Car Yes 38% No 62% Prerunner 61 % Motorcycle 38% Other 1% Tire Brand You Race BFG 53% Yok 15% Gdr 17% Toyo 15% 4. Compete 7 Times yearly 5. Support 7 Times Yearly 6. Just Watch 2 times yearly C. ~NUAL EXPENSES 1. $ On Race Vehicle 21,175* 2. Lodging 4,600 3. Tobacco 38 4. Alcohol 1,022 5. Tires 1,220 6. Fuel 2,250 7. Motor Home Repair/Maint 1,525 8. Repairs/Maint on tow car 2,371 9. Repairs/Maint on Trailer 1,017 D-LOCATION 1. State you reside in CA 50% NV 16% OR 16% co 8% Baja 8% 2. Not appropriate 3. Population of town you live in Over 100,000 51% Over 50,000 16% Over 5,000 33% * Numbers are high as one survey showed extremely high number on their return. Dusty Times August 2011 Page 15

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lJ\JcC: ACROPOLIS RALLY Ogier/Citroen Take The Gold By Martin Holmes Tensions within the Citroen camp emerged at the end of an immensely successful 1-2 result for the team on the Acropolis Rally, the halfway mark in the 2011 world championship. Sebastien Ogier capitalised on running order handicap to snatch victory on the final day from Sebastien Loeb. Clever tactics on both Day 1 and Day 2 by Ogier against his teammate Loeb produced the result he desired but reduced the championship advantages for Loeb, though he gained his 100th podium finish in the WRC series. For half the event Petter Solberg led, before becoming ensnared in the road cleaning problems of being front-runner, which heightened the political pressures on the FIA to find a happy solution which would obviate these factors This was, however, probably to be one of the last occasions in the 2011 season in which running order would play such a major part, and certainly Ogier played his cards to the full. Mikko Hirvonen eventually gained third place, passing Solberg on the final day. In the secondary series, Juho Hanninen won the SWRC category by nearly five minutes from Bernardo Sousa, who was the category winner in Jordan. Citroen now led Ford by 55 points in the Makes' series, with Petter Solberg's team still the best of the one driver teams. In the Drivers' series Loeb's lead at the head of the field is 17 points over Hirvonen while Ogier is just five points further behind. The gap between these three front runners and fourth placed Latvala is now 48 points. Back again in the world championship after a one-year break, the Acropolis Rally of Greece is one of the original classic events in the series. It ·has been slotted back into the FIA's 2011 calendar at a most significant moment, exactly in time to become the 500th event counting for the championship. The WRC series started in 1973, and Greece's round has only twice been missing. The fuel crisis stopped the rally in 1974 and an FIA event rotation plan meant the event was not held in 2010 in any form. Only the rallies in Finland and Great Britain have counted for the world championship more often than Greece. This year there is a major organisational change. The event was once again run by ELPA, the national sporting federation and the national automotive touring company, but was promoted by a new company called Celeritas (meaning "Speed") founded by Greek businessman Aris Vovos, who in his alter ego is one of the country's most successful rally Photos: Maurice Selden drivers. Much of the organisation of this year's event was in the hands of his partner Pavlos Athanassoulas. There were some important changes in the itinerary from that of 2009. Pursuant to the FIA's current policies, there was a nighttime stage and (b) there was a different location for the remote service during the first day -at Kamena Vourla, instead of Itea. But it was the nighttime stage on the Saturday evening which caused anxiety among the crews. The last time the Acropolis Rally incorporated stages in the dark was in 1985, and the demise of this feature was originally on account of safety as well as the unfair advantage to the front running competitors because of dust. In the old days all the cars ran at one-minute intervals. Now the top drivers run at two or even three minute intervals, and on this year's event all the drivers tackled the night stage at three minute gaps. Although half-light or night time gravel tages have been run in recent years in Britain and in Japan, these have been in wet or damp conditions. It must be more than 20 years since a WRC event l1ad run a dry night gravel stage, where dust could be an issue. Kamena Vourla was familiar territory for the Acropolis Rally. It was the overnight halt Juho Hanninen and Mikko Markkula were the SWRC champions this rally, they're seen here in their Skoda Fabia. location on the event in the 1994-1997 period. The event was again based at Loutraki, the popular coastal spa town some 90km Wtl6t of Athens, with a ceremonial start in the capital city beneath the site of the historic Parthenon. Day 1 of the route again encompassed stages in central Greece, second day the stages were in the Peleponnese and the shorter final third day had stages in the hills behind Loutraki itself. All the stages were hard packed gravel which in dry conditions clean a lot and were expected to be very dusty. As in Argentina, the Power Stage was shorr - just under 4km, and this time used a road which was also formed part of three different special stages, including the night stage. There were several new ideas in the event's promotion, notably the inauguration of a slogan - Rally of the Gods. The total number of entries was low - only 4 2 cars -but the strength of competition was high. This time there were 18 World Rally Cars: for the first time six DS3s, ten Fiestas (each team running two official team cars) and two customer Minis. Of the Fords, still only the two Abu Dhabi entries ran with the new cylinder heads. Among the customer World Rally Car entries were two Dutch father-and-son entries. For the first time father Rene Kuipers was teamed with his son Dennis both in Fiesta WRCs while once again Peter van Merksteijn senior and junior each had a Citroen DS3 WRC. Dennis Kuipers had a brand new Fiesta while Dad had his son's old car ... When driving the previous-generation Ford Focus WRC cars, all four have competed the same event in identical cars. The Russian driver Evgeniy Novikov had a new codriver, Denis Giraudet, whJ;> was set to compete with two Russian drivers within a month. The second driver to be Vladimir Antonov, the new Global Promoter of the WRC, on the Midnight Sun revival rally in Sweden for historic cars. In the Drivers' series, the route confusion in Argentina cost Hirvonen the chance to sneak a one point lead in the series, he therefore started Greece 13 points behind Sebastien Loeb. In the Manufacturers' series Citroen Total led Ford Abu Dhabi by 33 points, while Petter Solberg's team was the best of the "single-entry" teams. In addition all ten registered SWRC drivers were present, but there were no Guest drivers. This was the fourth round of the series and a different Fiesta driver had won each of the previous rounds. All the Fiesta S2000s except for Turan's had 2011 specification engines. Among the non-registered drivers was once again the leading Saudi driver Yazeed Al Rahji but with a different codriver, now Bjorn Degandt, the Russian Nikita Kondrakhin, who won the "Group N" class 3 in Sardinia, again in an Evo IX, and Paulo Nobre who now had a brand new Mitsubishi R4. There was one other unusual aspect to the rally, the~• Athanassoulas effect! Lambros· Athanassoulas and his elder brother Pavlos are enthusiasts local to Loutraki, where they have various business interests, including the local Jet Oil fuel station opposite to the local Casino which itself serves as the rally headquarters, and they have become integrated into the whole Acropolis scene. While Pavlos works with Aris Vovos, 34 year old Lambros is a little known driver outside Greece, who has been embraced by fans as a folk hero of Greek rallying. For the 2011 Acropolis he launched a website to raise sponsorship from fans and admirers for his entry, and this time entered a Fiesta WRC. He remains the protege of Stratis Hatzipanayiotou, who u ed to compete very successfully under the pseudonym 'Stratissino'. For this event the only control tyres seen in the service park were Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen drove their Ford Fiesta RS to a Petter Solberg and Chris Patterson finished fourth overall at Hermann Gassner and Katharina Wustenhagen finished in third place third overall at acropolis, seen here completely airborne. Acropolis, seen here in their Citroen DS3. in their Skoda Fabia, they were 14th overall at the finish. Page 16 August 2011 Dusty Times

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Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena drove their Citroen DS3 to a silver medal finish at the Acropolis Rally. • the hard compound Michelins, even though there had been a lot of rain in the area in the weeks before the event which introduced mud to the stages in time for the recce. In one way the rain was welcome, as it made the thought of the controversial night stage more agreeable. Two drivers were in trouble during recce. Citroen driver Petter Solberg had an engine failure while Ford driver Mads Ostberg had engine mounting failure. Both had been driving Subaru recce cars! Solberg had to borrow a Subaru estate car to finish his work, while Ostberg had to use ratchet straps to tie the engine to the chassis. Ostberg's problem came on top of the devastating theft of his proven pace notes from previous years, taken during a train journey in Britain. "It was a big blow, especially because so many of the stages this year are the same. The other things in the bag were replaceable, but pacenotes never are." The recce itself was cartied out in the dry. Sebastien Loeb was quickest at the 3km Shakedown 0 . 7 seconds faster than Petter Solberg with Mikko Hirvonen another 0.6s further back, big margins! Conditions started off very muddy but as soon as the sun came out the surfaces started to dry. Eyvind Brynildsen made a surprisingly good time in his Skoda Fabia S2000, ahead of seven WRCars and 3.1 seconds better than the next SWRC driver Nasser Al Attiyah. There was curiosity over Brynildsen's time, "I waited a while as the conditions dried out and then went flat out to see how quick we could go. Just ask the photographers at the water crossing. I have never seen people run away so fast!" Armindo Araujo broke the suspension on his Mini on his fifth run and had to be rescued. To the extent conditions would change overnight would decide whether running first car on the road through Day 1 would present problems for the championship leader Sebastien Loeb. Day 1 - 6 Stages -Gravel - 141.33kms Everyone artived in Loutraki so 41 competitors took the start, but then Yazeed Al Rahji withdrew due to illness.' The Ceremonial Start on Thursday evening was held in Athens with the iconic Parthenon Acropolis building as backdrop, but not all was well. An hour before the start the rain arrived and it got heavier and heavier, finally stopping just a few minutes after the start. It was dry when the cars arrived at the start of the Thiva stage Dusty Times on the Friday morning, after a two hour transit section up from Loutraki and as expected Sebastien Loeb found it was a stage cleaning scenario, with fifth running Petter Solberg making best time, ten seconds faster than first running Loeb over a 23km stage, and with 16th running Evgeniy Novikov third! All cars were running at two minute intervals during the day. For Loeb the running order was specially difficult. Of the 141 stage kilometres on the day, he was running on virgin surfaces over 118km, as only stage 1 was repeated. The main challenge facing everyone, however, was the fact that during the 141km (which represented 40 percent of the total event stage distance) there was just one remote service. Anyway Solberg was fastest again on the 39km stage 2, the longest of the event, which had many muddy patches. Here Loeb punctured 5km from. the end of the stage but he was still able to make fourth fastest time! Latvala held second at the remote se.rvice after the second stage, 7.5s in front of Hirvonen, while Loeb was less than one second behind in fourth. Loeb was towards a half minute behind Solberg, with a mysterious electronic problem which lit up his warning lights after a water crossing. Ogier had a tyre pull off the rim. Villagra punctured and then lost his brakes. Athanassoulas withdrew after suffering a fracture of the track control arm and while Novikov was reported to have retired for an identical reason, in fact he sheared the bolrs attaching the TCA wishbone to the front upright, probably caused by stress when the wheel had lifted off the road in the inside of a corner, then touched the ground again. Stage 3 started dramatically when van Merksteijn Junior hit a rock in top gear and rolled, causing codriver Eddy Chevalier to be taken to hospital with back pains for precautionary checks. Father passed the crash scene without realising what had happened but then the stage was stopped for later cars. Hirvonen meanwhile punctured on stage 3 but only lost seconds and kept 2.9 seconds ahead of Loeb and by stage 4 Solberg was still unbeaten on the stages. Villagra was struggling with only three working brakes. By stage 5, the only stage of the day which was repeated, Ogier was coming into his own. He jumped from fifth to third place, so now the top five places were held in exact reversal of their running order, with Loeb suffering the worst of the conditions, together also with a front wheel puncture for about 10km. With one more A A~• ... ; • A ¥ ':~ ~: Bernardo Sousa and Antonio Costa drove their Ford Fiesta to a second place finish in SWRC, they finished 11th overall in the rally. stage to go Loeb was 53.2 seconds behind Solberg. Loeb around one minute behind? That sounds familiar... Ostberg slid off the road on stage 5 with less dramatic results. Father Morten later explained, "We believe that as a result of an earlier impact with a rock on the road the intercooler and also the cross member were damaged, this led to the erroneous impression of a problem with the power steering. In fact, the place where the suspension finally failed was very fortunate, Mads could easily have gone off the road at a very dangerous place." Oliveira stopped on stage 5 with unspecified problems. Amid the worries about the safety of codriver Eddy Chevalier, it went unnoticed that Peter van Merksteijn Senior had also retired, after he had also overturned on stage 5. Raikkonen found his car difficult on the first day, the front differential had broken. Villagra arrived with front end damage and finally withdrew after struggling with the consequences of the brake problems. Then came the dramas the final sta the teams August 2011 planned whether this was time for tactics, and what tactics there should be, and Latvala noticed something was wrong with the transmission on his way to the start of the final stage. He telephoned the team to warn them the car was switching without warning from two to four-wheel-drive and back again. "The last thing I wanted to do was tell the team by radio, as then Citroen would have known!" It was serious and lost him more than three minutes on the final stage, including pulling over to let rally leading Solberg drive past. Ogier decided to play tactics, voluntarily losing 15 seconds or so, but enough to drop from third to fourth which allowed Loeb and Hirvonen to pass him in the classification order, while Hirvonen lost a handful of seconds which in fact saw him rising from fourth to third, because of Latvala's trouble. Latvala finished the day a disappointed eighth. It had been a long day, and because of the night stage at the end of Day 2, Saturday likewise was going to be another long one. Nasser Al Atti ah started the event with high hopes in the SWRC, and led after the first stage but then the power steering failed on stage 2. Ott Tanak, on his first outing in Greece, took over the lead. Immediately in trouble was Prokop with front cliff problems and he lost a lot of time. Karl Kruuda had a spin and had trouble adjusting to the increasing in-car temperatures. Juho Hanninen punctured on the first stage, but only 5km from the end and on the second stage he hit a rock quite heavily but was nevertheless still second, ahead of Sousa. On stage 2 Eyvind Brynildsen broke the rear differential which left him with only front-wheel-drive while Hermann Gassner spun about 2km from the end of the stage. First time in Greece, third WRC event for Turan, he had a good steady morning in fifth place. Llovera was in a lot of discomfort finding conditions· tough going with his hand-controls. With a long delay waiting for the Stewards to award interruption times for stage 3 it was impossible to find out what inroads the SWRC cars were making into the ranks of World Rally Cars, but after stage 2 Tanak was already in eighth position overall. Al Attiyah damaged the rear suspension of his car and lost his brakes, and on stage 5 the team told him to stop on the stage as the SupeRally penalties would be less than he would incur if he struggled on. Prokop continued throughout the afternoon still with no front cliff, making many spins and finding it very difficult to drive. Tanak found it all very quick and difficult but good. Hanninen had another puncture while teammate Gassner found his gearbox was leaking at the remote service, he then lost his Continuedon , 18 Page 17

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Matthew Wilson and Scott Martin drove their Ford Fiesta RS to a Kimi Raikkonen and Kaj Lindstrom finished in seventh place at Mads Ostberg and Jonas Andersson perform surgery on their Ford sixth overall finish at Acropolis, seen here at very high speed. Acropolis, they're seen here in their Citroen DS3. · Fiesta RS, in spit of their troubles they finished in 12th place overall. brakes on the final stage so was Solberg completely lost his brakes, a lot of damage. At 2000 there after stage eight and lost four in with a chance -if he could pleased to have got to the end of Daniel Oliveira reported power was still rustling in the trees. minutes (40 second penalty) on handJe the pressure but Petter the day. Turan was going steadily steering failure. Raikkonen's Petter Solberg looked up and the road section to the start of Solberg's chances seemed to be and passed Gassner at the last team discovered the reason his hoped that the wind was about stage nine. Hermann Gassner fading away. On the penultimate minute to snatch fifth by two car had been so difficult to drive to cease... The night stage came broke the front left driveshaft on stage Latvala had a rear anti-roll seconds. Brynildsen still had a was that the front differential and went, but although Petter had stage eight. Kart" Kruuda stopped bar break which he had to endure broken rear cliff. Llovera broke had been broken and today it the best of the conditions he lost in stage eight with a broken top through the final stage. The his rear anti-roll bar and the was much better. Novikov was some seconds, with a pacenote suspension mounting. Brynildsen excitement certainly mounted vibration driving over the rocks delayed by two small errors, then problem. Ogier, still running stopped with suspension damage. as the Power Stage, run with made handling difficult. Sousa as the day heated up there were fourth, played the tactics card and Al Attiyah won all the stages the top 12 cars in reverse order, was going splendidly. Kruuda some curious misfiring troubles, made sure he covered the stage during the afternoon loop, approached. Loeb had dropped could not start his engine after sometimes causing the engine to in exactly the right time so as to including the night stage and back to more than ten seconds waiting for the final S'tage of the stop on road sections. Villagra fall back enough to finish the from then on the running crews behind Ogier and was now only day. found the engine would often ·day in second place, 2.2 seconds eased their way to the finish of 2.6 seconds in front of Hirvonen. Day 2 - 7 Stages -Gravel die when he accelerated. Rene behind his teammate Loeb. By the event. That was as far as Hirvonen - 141.89kms Kuipers Fiesta WRC stopped a strange coincidence the split Day 3 - 5 Stages -Gravel would go. The times on the Overnight news was that Eddy for a while on a road section timing system gave .trouble and -65.55kms Power Stage reflected the final Chevalier had been flown from as did Lambro Athanassoulas' the outside world could not tell if Araujo and Tanak did not overall positions with Ogier and the local hospital at Lamia to similar car. Matthew Wilson also Ogier slowed voluntarily or not, reappear for the final day, so 37 Loeb separated by just under a a hospital in Athens for closer reported curious and occasional but the team admitted he did. crews restarted. There were five hundredth of a second, while attention. Amazingly only the misfiring. Armindo Araujo then Latvala was quickest: "The night stages, two stages done twice, Ford felt relieved that Hirvonen two van Merksteijn Citroens had power steering failure like the stage went well for us, I was really then the final Power Stage which retained third place, but that were missing at the restart, given other Mini, and was withdrawn at enjoying it, I had a good feeling. covered the first stretch of the was not much on an event they the traditional harshness of midday service on account also of I was afraid of the dust in the first of the two previous stages. had been expected to win. O gier the Acropolis Rally, as the rally an electrical problem. beginning, but only in the first Ogier immediately took the and Loeb were now equal on headed off for the two loops of The Citroen steamroller drove two kilometres and then at the lead on stage 14 - by 0.1 second, three wins a-piece this season. stages in the Pelepponese. As for onwards and on the first stage end, the rest of the time was fine, he dropped 0.1 second behind Petter Solberg eventually finished the Mini of Oliveira, the team had of the second loop Ogier passed really enjoyed it. I had to ease off Loeb on stage 15 -and would fourth ahead of brother Henning changed all the electrics after the Solberg into the overall lead. speed a little bit, however, only you believe it, there was more for whom fifth place was his best car was recovered, and everything One stage later and Loeb was up a couple of places. Night stages trouble with the split timing! result in 18 months. was working fine again. The to second. Far too late to be a can be OK, but I do not want to It looked as if Citroen had In SWRC, Nasser Al Attiyah format of the day was more threat, Latvala was now enjoying be driving special stages all night." discovered some novel trick, but was fastest on four of the day's orthodox -three stages repeated himself with a new turbocharger. In SWRC, Tanak's joy was the timig officials said that the five stages but it was to no avail so Solberg only had to face 62km Wilson struggled on with the dented 50 metres after the start problem was genuinely technical. in the results. The positions--of virgin conditions before the loss of power. Dennis Kuipers of the first stage of the day when Hirvonen meanwhile pulled up stayed unchanged through the 17km night stage which was also reckoned his engine troubles were he rolled off the road into an to third place but his progress day as Hanninen gained his and run for the first time. Ogier's due to an overheating throttle olive grove and lost a quarter did not seem impressive enough Skoda's first category win of the tactics had evidently paid off. sensor behind the pedal box but hour, dropping to last position to challenge the two Citroens season, by nearly five minutes, From fourth place overnight he Villagra said his troubles were fuel in the category. Juho Hanninen in front. Federico Villagra had ahead of Sousa and Tu ran. Of was second at the end of the first pressure related. Oliveira in the inherited the lead, despite sliding more problems with the engine the ten starters in the category stage and had taken 17 seconds remaining Mini had one of the twice off the road, having driven pressure and eventually retired. only Tanak, who retired,· failed off the leader Solberg. Latvala exhaust pipes fracture. Novikov past Tanak's crash without Oliveira went off the road on the to score points. In the Super reported he lost power toward the stopped on the road section up noticing it at all. Albert Llovera first stage of the day and retired 2000 series Hanninen leads end of the stage while Hirvonen to the final stage with alternator stopped on the first stage of the as well. For the Ford team all Prokop by 11 points with Sousa was surprised at the speed of the belt failure. Debate at the early day with power steering failure was not yet lost. Citroen had third seven points behind while Citroens. Ogier was once again evening service halt concerned on his Fiat. Eyvind Brynildsen not yet won -it all depended on three points cover Kruuda and fastest, while the fastest Ford the expected conditions on the suffered the same. Up in to how much time Loeb and to a Tanak in fourth and fifth places. was third placed Ostberg! Petter night stage. Athanassoulas had a second place came Bernardo lesser extent Ogier would lose They have each competed three Solberg's team felt they were lucky moment when he discovered Sousa, despite a puncture. on the gravelly surfaces to come. rounds apart from Kruuda who now the victims of circumstance, a shock absorber had broken Nasser Al Attiyah found a rear Hirvonen had never looked like a has competed all four rounds but were alarmed· at quite how before it had the chance to cause suspension bolt hac,i loosened winner, but he was still strongly held so far. l.n.J2C: quickly their hard-fought lead evaporated, not helped on stage eight when Petter overshot a turning and lost a handful of seconds. From an overnight lead of 51.6 seconds over Loeb they were just 5.4 seconds in front of him at the midday service. Ogier felt that this time his tactics of the evening before had been successful while Loeb was sure he was still in the hunt for victory, "It has been like a completely new rally for us today," as he found he was much closer to the lead than he had expected. It was Hirvonen who was worried, wondering if it was the car that was slow or hi~ driving, "We are . so close but so far away." Latvala was in despair. He sensed the lack of power had to be turbo related, but did not know how. All he could see was that in the first three stages of the day he lost nearly a quarter of an hour. The tracks of Greece continued to test the cars to their limit. Henning Page 18 57th Acropolis Rally (GR) Loutraki 17/19.06.2011 WCR round 7, SWRC round 4 1 (2) Sebastien OGIER/Julien Ingrassia F Citroen DS3 (M) 2 (1) Sebastien LOEB/Daniel Elena F/MC Citroen DS3 (M) 3 (3) Mikko HIRVONEN/Jarmo Lehtinen FIN Ford Fiesta RS (M) 4 (11) Petter SOLBERG/Chris Patterson N/GB Citroen DS3 (M) 5 (15) Henning Solberg/Ilka Minor • N/A Ford Fiesta RS (M) 6 (5) Matthew WILSON/Scott Martin GB Ford Fiesta RS (M) 7 (8) Kimi RAIKKONEN/Kaj Lindstrom FIN Citroen DS3 (M) 8 (25) Juho Hanninen/Mikko Markkula FIN Skoda Fabia S2000 (M) 9 (4) Jari-Matti LATVALA/Miikka Anttila FIN Ford Fiesta RS (M) 10 (9) Dennis KUIPERS/Frederic Miclotte NUB Ford Fiesta RS (M) 11 (24) Bernardo Sousa/Antonio Costa P Ford Fiesta S2000 (M) 12 (6) Mads OSTBERG/Jonas Andersson N/S Ford Fiesta RS (M) 13 (29) Frigyes Turan/Gabor Zsiros H Ford Fiesta S2000 (M) 14 (27) Hermann Gassner/Katharina Wustenhagen D Skoda Fabia S2000 (M) 15 (21) Martin Prokop/Jan Tomanek CZ Ford Fiesta S2000 (M) 16 (23) Nasser Al Attiyah/Giovanni Bemacchini QA/I Ford Fiesta S2000 (M) 17 (16) Rene Kuipers/Annemieke Hulzebos NL Ford Fiesta RS (M) 18 (28) Eyvind Brynildsen/Cato Menkerud N Skoda Fabia S2000 19 (19) Lambros Athanassoulas/Nikolaos Zakheos GR Ford Fiesta RS (M) 20 (18) Evgeniy Novikov/Denis Giraudet RUS/F Ford Fiesta RS (M) 21 (53) Kikita Kondrakhin/Nicola Arena RUS/1 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX (P) J3 (26) Karl Kruuda/Martin Jarveoja EE Skoda Fabia S2000 (M) 24 (30) "Alberto Llovera/Diego Vallejo ANDIE Fiat Grande Punto S2000 (M) 41 (10 SWRC) starters. 35 (9 SWRC) finishers. MANUFACTURERS' DRIVER. (M) = Michelin tyres, (P) = Pirelli tyres. (Missed stages or road sections) Winner's average speed over stages 85.50kph. + = J:ower stage points . LEADING RETIREMENTS (7) Federico VILLAGRA/Miguel Diaz (12) Daniel OLIVEIRA/Carlos Magalhaes (14) eater VAN MERKSTEIJN jr/Eddy Chevallier ( 17) Armin do Araujo/Miguel Ramalho (20) Peter van Merksteijn Sr/Erwin Mombaerts (22) Ott Tanak/Kuldar Sikk RA BR/P NUB p NUB EE Ford Fiesta RS (M) Mini John Cooper Works (M) Citroen DS3 (M) Mini John Cooper Works (t,1) Citroen DS3 (M) Ford Fiesta S2000 (M) RALLY LEADERS P.Solberg stages 1-9, Ogier 10-12, Loeb 13, Ogier 14, Loeb 15, Ogier 16-18. SWRC LEADERS Al Attiyah stage 1, Tanak 2-6, Hanninen 7-18. August 2011 WCR points WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC SWRC WRC WRC SWRC WRC SWRC SWRC SWRC SWRC WRC SWRC WRC WRC 3 SWRC SWRC WRC WRC WRC WRC WRC SWRC BF911XB (F) BF735XB (F) PX60AVJ (GB) .SH528BM (F) PX60AVE (GB) 1ES(GB) BN346MV(F) 11R0173(CZ) PX60AVK (GB) PX11AMV (GB) PX59AVG (GB) PX60AVF (GB) 750BDK (EE) Kl521CR(A) 06R0023 (CZ) PX59AXA (GB) PX60AUY (GB) BAS 135 (SK) PX60AUV (GB) RU55ALM (GB) NM-04761 (D) 14R 0200 (CZ) DL998WL (I) PX60AVO (GB) PR04OOR (GB) BF137XC (F) OY11 BY J (GB) BK391DW(F) PX59AVU (GB) WCR WCD SC 4h.04m.44.3s. 25 25+3 4h.04m.54.8s. 18 18+2 4h.04m.57.8s. 15 15+1 4h.05m.23.1 s. 12 12 4h .10m.09.0s. 10 4h.11m.39.0s. 10 8 4h .13m.13.7s. 8 6 4h.16m.19.0s. 4 25 4h .17m.53.1s. 6 2 4h .19m.54.4s. 4 1 4h .21 m.13.6s. 18 4h.22m.01 .7s.(3) 2 4h.22m.36.3s. 15 4h.23m.27.7s. 12 4h.25m.17.4s. 10 4h.26m.23.9s.(2) 8 4h.35m.56.7s. 4h.37m.41 .5s.(3) 6 4h;40m.08.7s.(3) 4h.46m.31.7s.(5) 4h.46m.46.6s. 5h .06m.22.1 s.(5) 4 Sh .1 0m.50.Ss.(7) 2 LAST STAGE COMPLETED fuel pressure (1) 16 accident (2) 13 accident 2 withdrawn 9 accident 4 accident 7 Dusty Times

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~ AT TOELLE ~ -Naughton Takes TWO By ]. Preston Bradshaw Photos: Race Marker Photo Carl Renezeder took the Pro 4 Unlimited race on Sunday, Carl finished second in the Saturday affair, seen here at speed. Kyle leDuc (right) had a good weekend in downtown Tooele, he won the Pro 4 Unlimited race on Saturday, finished second in the Sunday affair. lt was another great week-Rob Naughton had a really great weekend in Utah, he took the win both days in en cl for the Luc as O il c On-the Pro 2 Unlimited races, seen here at hard right rudder. tenders as they gathered at ing a nice win in his Ford, place. Miller Motorsports Park in Carl Renezeder was right on The Sunday Pro 4 Unlim-beaut"iful downtown Tooele. his heels in second place, ited race had 10 entrants and They had raced here before Adrian Cenni came along they put up a great battle as but on an improvised circuit. seven seconds later in third they all initially raced for the This course was brand new place, Todd LeDuc was five win. This date it was Carl and permanent and every-seconds later in fourth spot Renezeder taking the win in body loved it! There was a and Josh Merrell was another the 21 lap race, Kyle LeDuc t'otal entry of 135 vehicles, five seconds back in fifth took second place honors, the weather was perfect and place. Sixth spot went to he was 2 seconds behind the .. all we talked to had a great Travis Coyne, Kent Brascho winner; Kent Brascho was the time, win, lose or draw. finished in seventh place, bronze medal winner, Jerry The Pro 4 troops had a Jerry Daugherty was the eight Daugherty took fourth place sparkling race on the Satur-guy in, Curt LeDuc only got honors and Travis Coyne day, 11 trucks at full tilt and in 18 of the 20 required laps, was the fifth truck to finish although there were many Rick Huseman was seven laps and Curt LeDuc was sixth to changes in order throughout short of a finish and Aaron finish. Adrian Cenni was· a Casey Currie literally flew his Nissan pickup to the victory in the Saturday Pro lite the race, when the checkers Daugherty only got two laps lap short in the race, Todd Unlimited race, seen here beautifully airborne. flew it was Kyle LeDuc tak-in and was shown in 11th LeDuc only got in 20 laps, ;::===================,.;=::::;::::=--.----__:.---------, Adrian Cenni was the third place finisher in the Saturday Pro 4 Jeremy McGrath, a bit besmattered with mud finished second in Pro Rodrigo Ampudia took second place honors in Pro lite Unlimited Unlimited race, Adrian finished seventh in the Sunday race. 2 Unlimited on Saturday, Jeremy finished sixth in the Sunday event. on Saturday, he was shown in seventh place in the Sunday race. RJ Anderson had a pretty good weekend at Millers Park, he took the Mike Porter (right) finished second on Saturday in Pro Buggy Broe Dickerson had a fairly good weekend, he took the silver medal silver medal in Super lite both days, here hustlin' to the checkers. Unlimited and Mike took third place honors in the Sunday event. both days in the Kart Jr. 1 events, seen here nicely airborne. Page 20 August 2011 Dusty Times

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A silver medal finish both days in the Kart Jr. 2 events went to Brock Mitchell Dejong took second place honors on Saturday in the Kart Corry Weller took a pair of second place finishes in the UTV races Heger, he's seen here at high speed headin' for home. Modified fracas, Mitch was shown in 13th place in the Sunday event. on Saturday and Sunday, seen here ready for a semi hard landing. shown in eighth place, Josh Merrell was listed n in th with 17 laps complete an d Rick Huseman was shown in 10th place with 13 laps completed . Pro 2 Unlim ited h ad 13 entries in the Saturday event, they h ad 22 laps to run for t heir race. R o b N aughto n was the b ig winner in the event, Jeremy McGrath was second in, h e was 1.2 sec-onds in arrears at the finish, Rodrigo Ampudia came in a half second later in the third spot, Carl Renezeder finished first off the podium, almost a full second later and Brian Deegan claimed fifth place honors. Greg Adler claimed the sixth finishing position, Chris Brandt was the big winner in Pro Lite Unlimited on Sunday, coupled with his third place finish on Saturday it was a pretty good weekend. Patrick Clark took the gold medal in the Saturday Super Lite race, Patrick had a fourth place finish in the Sunday event. he was a loooong 23 sec-completely off his feed was onds further back, Greg was the ninth place finisher and moved up a spot due to a Jeremy Stenberg was 10th revised black flag call, Jere my in, the last of the 20 lap fin-Stenberg finished in the sev-ishers. Carl Renezeder was enth spot, Rob MacCachren shown in 11th with 15 laps was an unaccustomed eighth under his belt, Robbie Pierce place finisher, Jeff Geiser only got 6 laps completed was the ninth truck in and and was shown 12th and Ro-Robby Woods rounded out drigo Ampudia was shown in the top 10 finishers. Greg 13th place with only one lap Nunley completed the re-completed. quired laps and finished in Next up on Saturday was the 11th spot, Robbie Pierce the Pro Lite Unlimited Main was shown 12th with 17 laps event, there were 14 of them completed and Phil Bollman snortin' and rarin' to go and was shown 13th with only they had 18 laps to com-one lap completed. • plete for their race. When The Sunday Pro 2 Unlim-the checkers flew it was Casey ited race also had 13 entries Currie taking a really nice and, they had 20 laps to run win, Rodrigo Ampudia was for their race. Once again secpnd to finish, he was two Rob Naughton was the big seconds in arrears, Chris number 1 finisher, Brian Brandt picked up the bronze Deegan took second place medal for his efforts, Cam-honors, Robby Woods took eron Steele was another four the third position, Jeff Geiser seconds later in fourth place finished first off the podium and Jimmy Stephensen took and Greg Adler was the fifth f ifth place honors. Sixth place finisher in class. Jeremy place went to Matt Cook and McGrath was down a bit from Brian Deegan was moved to Saturday, he finished in sixth last place on the lead lap for place this day, Greg Nunley rough driving. Austin Kim-came along 10 seconds later brell was shown in eighth in the seventh spot, Phil Boll-place with 17 laps completed, man was the eighth vehicle Jacob Person was shown in to finish, Rob MacCachren, ninth place, he too with 17 The Limited Buggy race on Saturday saw a high flying Quentin Tucker take the gold, Sunday he finished in a looong 10th place. Dusty Times laps complete and RJ Ander-son was 10th with 16 laps completed. Kyle LeDuc was shown in 11th place with 15 laps under his belt, Stephan Papadakis was listed 12th with 19 laps completed, Corey Sisler had eight laps complete and was shown in 13th place and Matt Loiodice was shown in the 14th • spot with two laps under his belt. Currie finished in eighth place, he too with 20 laps complete, Jacob Person fin-ished ninth, he had 19 laps complete and Jimmy Ste-phensen took 10th place, he had 16 laps completed. Kyle LeDuc was well back in 11th place, Kyle only had a dozen laps completed, Austin Kimbrell made it an even dozen, he too with 12 laps completed and RJ Anderson was shown 13th with only two laps complete. The Saturday Super Lite Main had 15 entrants, they had 15 laps to show their stuff and they certainly did. C1ntin11d 1n ,111 22 The Sun-day Pro Lite Unlimited• Main event had 21 laps to run for their race, there were 13 ready to race and when the smoke and dust cleared it was Chris Brandt taking l\\d West 100 -HDDTIDI IIJI· a really nice win, Brian Deegan was a scant second in arrears as he took the silver medal, Corey Sislar came along six seconds later in third place, Matt cook took fourth place honors and Stephan Pa-padakis was fifth to take the check-ered flag. The sixth place a ward went t o C a m e r o n Steele, Rodri-go Ampudia finis hed in seventh place with only 20 laps com-plete, Casey Side X Side._.. Jiolacl by Yellowstone Polaris C.U Clwl for info (406) "'SCY17Tl Tech Info: Char6e (4o6) ~ General Info: Al (4o6) 321-4644 Charlie (4o6) 6g8-9536 Don (4o6) 248-7349 sPIC:IBL THIDBI To. Inland Truck Parts Big Ed Melcher Insurance Montana Motor Repair Tooke Inc Sports Hut Columbus Big Sky Septic Service Midwest Truck Parts Silver Tip Propane Tntennountain Distributing Throttle Down Customs Columbus Tire Stray Moose Productions Yellowstone Polaris Powell Valley 4 Wheelers Stillwater Excavating August 2011 Page 21

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Kent Brascho finished seventh in the Saturday Pro 4 Unlimited race, Rodrigo Ampudia was the third place finisher in the Saturday Pro 2 Brian Deegan finished seventh in the Saturday Pro Lite Unlimited Kent took a bronze medal finish in the Sunday battle. Unlimited race, on Sunday he was only able to get one lap complete. race, on Sunday he scored a nice second place finish. ----'------'------'-----=------'-;::::::;;::==-===:::=======:;;:;;;:;:=:;:::=:;:::=:;;::::::;:::=:;:::=:;:::=:;:::=:;:::=:;;; Patrick Clark was the big Kirchner, Mike McCarthy was three quarters of a second winner this day, he had 1.6 another half second back in in arrears, Dawson Kirchner seconds on RJ Anderson who 12th place and Austin Kim-came in for the bronze medal, took the silver medal, Chad brell was another half second Patrick Clark was the fourth George came along two sec-back in 13th place. He was to finish and Chad George onds later to take third place the last of the 15 lap finish-was the fifth place finisher. honors, Jacob Person fin-ers. Brent Fouch was shown Austin Kimbrell was the sixth ished first off the podium in 14th place, he had 14 laps place finisher, seventh spot and Jessie Johnson came in completed and Garrett Pole-went to Ryan Hagy, Luke for fifth place honors. A sixth man was shown in 15th place Johnson was the eighth place place finish went to Luke with 13 laps under his belt. finisher, Brent Fouch was Johnson, Dawson Kirchner The Sunday Super Lite the ninth car in and Mike was another second back in Main event had the same 15 McCarthy rounded out the seventh spot, Ron Duncombe entrants, the same 15 laps top 10 in the class. Jessie was six seconds further back to run and fully 13 of the Johnson was the 11th car to in the eighth spot, Jason El-entrants made it all the way. finish, he was four seconds lis was another five seconds When the checkered flag in arrears at the finish, Jason back, he finished in ninth flew it was Wyatt Kirchner Ellis made it an even dozen place and Ryan Hagy was the right there to take a really as he finished 12th in class, 10th finisher, another eight nice win, RJ Anderson made Garrett Poleman was the 13th seconds in arrears. The 11th the valiant effort but was place finisher and he was the John Fitzgerald took the Limited Buggy win on Sunday, John had finished in fifth place in the Saturday event. finishing spot.went to Wyatt second in, he was a mere last of the 15 lap finishers. finish line for a fourth place Jacob Person was shown in finish and John Fitzgerald, 14th place with 7 laps com-another three seconds back pleted and Ron Duncombe rounded out the top five in was shown in 15th place with the race. Dave Mason fin-only for laps completed. ished in the sixth spot, he The Saturday Limited Bug-was another two and a half gy Main Event had 12 en-seconds further back, Kevin trants and they each had to McCullough came in almost put 15 laps on the ground four seconds later to take to be an official finisher. the seventh place honors, When the checkers flew it eighth place went to Kenny was Quentin Tucker taking Freeman, he was another the big win, Bruce Fraley was two seconds in arrears at the half a second in arrears when flag, Geoffrey Cooley was the he took the finishing flag, ninth place finisher, he was Bradley Morris was another a mere four thousands of a half second back when he second behind Kenny Free-took the checkers for a third man and Zachary Hunt was place finish. Curt Geer was another three seconds back and Greg Crew was the final finisher, he was in 12th place when he took the flag. All of the contestants finished their 15 required laps. Twelve of the Limited Bug-gy contestants were ready to do it all again on Sunday, 11 of them would make it all the way and a few could not com-plete their 15 required laps. Fi rs t to take the checkered flag was John Fitzgerald, a truly nice win, Bruce Fraley " was a scant second in arrears when he crossed the finish line, Curt Geer came along a second and a half later for the third spot, Dave Mason finished first off the podium and Zachary Hunt came along JustinSmithtooktophonorsonSaturdayintheProBuggyUnlimitedrace,Justin another second and a half in in 10th place. Lindsay Geiser took a second place finish in the Sunday race. arrears when he crossed the was the 11th place finisher E~rrr=m;:::=====================,r====-__;,--------------. :::'.'"----• Continued on page 24. -------= :re Chad George took the bronze medal on Saturday in the Super Lite Bradley Morris took third place honors in the Limited Buggy race on In Pro Buggy Unlimited it was Doug Fortin taking the bronze medal event, Chad was the fifth place finisher in the Sunday event. Saturday, Bradley finished eighth in the race on Sunday. on Saturday, Doug finished first off the podium on Sunday. Preston Roben took third place honors in the Saturday Kart Jr. battle, Preston was the fifth place finisher in the Sunday affair. Page 22 Maxwell Ries was the third place finisher in the Saturday Kart Jr. 2 Blake Lenk took third place honors in the Saturday Kart Modified event, Max finished in fifth place in the Sunday race. event, Blake only got nine laps in on Sunday. August 2011 Dusty Times . 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I ,_ It was a third place finish for RJ Anderson in the Saturday UTV race, Jerry Daugherty finished eighth in the Pro 4 Unlimited race on Brian Deegan was the second place finisher in Pro 2 Unlimited on RJ was the sixth place finisher in the Sunday race. Saturday, Jerry finished first off the podium in the Sunday action. Sunday, Brian was the fifth place finisher in the Saturday event. a half second later to secure a fifth place finish. Kevin McCullough took sixth place honors, he was three seconds and change behind Zachary, Lindsay Geiser finished in the seventh position, Bradley Morris finished in eighth place, he was just less than four seconds in arrears, Greg Crew finished in ninth place, he was nine seconds further back and Quentin Tucker - - a ........ ,1 •• COME MIIY TO IIAI 1NIIIIA1'MDNI RalllHOIAI INOIIIINIIIIII Page 24 was the 10th car in, he was another 15 seconds in ar-rears. Geoffrey Cooley was shown in 11th position, he had only completed 13 of the 15 required laps and Kenny Freeman only got in one lap before disaster struck. The main event for Pro Buggy Unlimited consisted of 10 cars with 18 laps to go for a completion. Nine of the 10 cars were able to get 1811111. LNMIIID um .... _. ....... ..... all their laps in. First to take the checkered flag was Justin Smith, he averaged a bit over 70 miles an hour to take the class win, Mike Porter took the silver medal for the class, he was three seconds behind the leader when he took the checkers, third place went to Doug Fortin, Doug was another two seconds in arrears at the flag, Steven Greinke was the fourth place finisher, he was another sec-ond in arrears when he took the flag and John Holmes was the fifth place finisher, he was another three three seconds in arrears. Bobby Pecoy was the sixth car to take the checkered flag, Jerry Whelchel was the seventh car to finish, eighth place went to Brandon Bailey, he was another second back. Gregg Reichmann took ninth place honors, he was another 30 seconds in arrears at the flag. Cody Freeman was shown in 10th place, Cody only got 10 laps in before he retired. The Pro Buggy Unlimited Eliott Watson had a wonderful weekend, he swept the gold medals both days in the Kart Jr. 1 races, seen here in a very clean Kart. In the Kart Jr. 2 raoes it was Preston Roben all the way, he took the vvin in both races, seen here just at touchdown. In the Kart Modified events it was Sheldon Creed taking the win on Saturday, Sheldon took a second place finish in the Sunday fracas. August 2011 troops were up next for their Sunday race, there were 10 of them entered and they had to put in 18 laps for a finish. Never underestimate Cody Freeman, he was a dnf on Saturday and on Sunday he decides to win the race and win he did, he took the gold medal happily, Justin Smith was 1.6 seconds behind Cody at the checkers, Mike Porter was the third place finisher, he was another three and a half seconds back, Doug For-tin was first off the podium to finish, he was two and a half seconds further back and John Holmes came along some four seconds later in • the fifth spot. Steven Greinke was the sixth car to finish, Brandon Bailey was seventh car to finish, Jerry Whelchel was the eighth place finish-er, Bobby Pecoy finished in ninth place, he was another 16 seconds back and Gregg Reichman was the 10th and final finisher, all cars han-dling the 18 required laps with ease . The Saturday Kart Jr 1 Main Event was next on the card, there were 18 of them entered, they had 10 laps to run for their race and, wow!, all of them made the required laps. When the smoke and dust cleared after the race it was Elliot Watson taking a re-ally nice win, Broe Dickerson took second place honors, he was less than a minute behind the leader, in third place was Preston Rohen, a second and a half in arrears, Travis Pecoy was the fourth place finisher, he was another half a second back and Gavin Harlien finished in the fifth spot, he was another six sec-onds and change in arrears. Cole Dexheimer took a sixth place finish, Christopher Polvoorde finished ii). the seventh spot, Philip Winbury was eighth to co.me in, Dylan Winbury was the ninth place finisher and Jack Yeiser came along half a second in ar-rears in 10th place. The 11th place spot went to Wolfgang Ries, Corey Geiser made i.t an eve.n dozen in the finishing column, Darren Hardesty fin-ished four and a half seconds later in 13th place, Blaze Nunley was the 14th vehicle to finish and Dean Duro was the 15th place finisher. Rayce Geiser was the 16th vehicle to take the checkers, Tyler Stephensen took a 17th place finish and Barrett Nunley was the 18th and final finisher. The Kart Jr. 1 Sunday race was a repeat of the Saturday race, as far as the first two Dusty Times I

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Corey Sisler only got eight laps in on Saturday, (we think we know why) Wyatt Kirchner (center) took the Super Lite win on Sunday, Wyatt Curt Geer (right) is nicely airborne, flying to a third place finish on Sunday Corey came back on Sunday with a third place in Pro Lite Unlimited. was a long 11th place finisher in the Saturday affair. in the Limited Buggy race, Curt finished fourth in the Saturday event. positions were concerned, Elliot Watson was the big winner once again and Broe Dickerson took second place honors once again. There were still 18 vehicles and they still had to race for 10 laps and, once again, all 18 cars completed their required laps. So, Elliot Watson took the win once again, Broe Dickerson finished in sec-ond place, he was one and a quarter seconds behind the leader, Darren Hardesty came in third, some six sec-onds later, Philip Winbury finished first off the podium and Preston Rohen was the fifth vehicle to finish. Chris-topher Polvoorde finished in sixth place, he was two and a half seconds in arrears, Travis Pecoy was the seventh vehicle in, he was half a second out of sixth spot, Corey Geiser took eighth place with ease, Cole Dexheimer finished in the ninth spot and Jack Yeiser was 10th to finish, he was almost 18 seconds behind the leader. In the 11th spot was Wolfgang Ries, Dylan Winbury was 12th to finish, he was moved from 10th to 12th for rough driving, Ty-ler Stephensen was 13th in he was five seconds behind Winbury, Blaze Nunley fin-ished in the 14th spot and Rayce Geiser held down the 15th finishing position. Dean Duro finished in 16th place, Barrett Nunley finished in 17th spot and Gavin Harlien was the 18th and final fin-isher in the class. The Kart Jr. 2 Main Event on Saturday fielded 15 ve-hicles with 10 laps to run for their race. 10 laps later, whern the smoke cleared it was Preston Rohen taking a really nice win, Brock Heger came along a scant ¼ second later to take the silver medal and Maxwell Ries was the bronze medal winner. Chad Graham came in a second and a half later for a fourth place finish and Shelby An-derson came in for a fifth place finish. Weston Schuck took sixth place honors, Paige Porter was seventh to take the checkers, Carlye Lenk was the eighth place finisher, Parker Steele was ninth to finish and Isabella Naughton took 10th place honors, she was only 15 seconds behind the winner. Alyssa Fortin was the 11th place finisher, Isabella Bus-nardo made it an even dozen and Parker Porter finished 13th and was the last ·of the 10 lap finishers. Myles Cheek only got in two laps and was shown as 14th and Hailie Dusty Times Deegan was shown as 15th with only 2 laps completed. The Sunday Kart Jr. 2 Main Event was another siz-zler, 15 entrants, 10 laps to run and when the checkers flew it was Preston Rohen duplicating his Saturday win, he took the gold medal with a half second margin, Brock August 2011 Heger was again the second place finisher, Myles Cheek was the third place finisher, Chad Graham finished first off the podium and Maxwell Ries took fifth place hon-ors. Weston Schuck was the sixth vehicle to finish the race, Carlye Lenk was lucky Continued on page 26 Page 25

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Cody Freeman took the Pro Buggy Unlimited win on Sunday, Cody Darren Hardesty took third place honors on Saturday in the Kart Jr. Myles Cheek (right) took the bronze medal in the Sunday Kart Jr. 2 was the 10th place finisher in the Saturday event. 1 event, Darren was the 13th finisher in the Saturday fracas. event, Myles only got in two laps in the Saturday affair. seventh place, Hailie Deegan came in for an eighth place finish, Isabella Naughton took ninth place honors and Isabella Busnardo was the 10th vehicle to finish. 11th place went to Paige Porter, Parker Steele took a 12th place finish, Alyssa Fortin slid in for a 13th place fin-ish and Parker Porter was the 14th place finisher. Shelby Anderson was only able to get 2 laps in before retiring. The Saturday Kart: Modi-fied Main Event saw 16 en-trants ready to race for 13 laps and they really went at it. When the dust cleared it was Sheldon Creed taking a really nice win, Mitchell Dejong took second place honors, he was half a second out of the win, Blake Lenk was the third place finisher, he was another half second back, Cole Mamer was the fourth place finisher, another half second in arrears and Jeff Hoffman was the fifth place finisher. Jerett Brooks was the sixth place finisher, he was less than four seconds behind the leader, Brooke Kawell fin-ished in seventh place, anoth-er three quarters of a second back, Chad Graham was the eighth vehicle to finish, Ster-ling Cling was ninth to finish and Anthony Busnardo took a A gold medal went to Dan Kelly in the UTV Main Event on Saturday, Dan was a long 10th place finisher in the Sunday race. Cooper was shown 16th with finish went to Cole Mamer, 7 laps complete. Sterling Cling was lucky sev-Su ndays Kart Modified enth to finish, Chad Graham Main Event was a good one, was eighth in, Anthony Bush-there were 15 entrants and nardo took ninth place and they all had 13 laps to go Brock Heger was the 10th for a finish. Kyle Hart, who place finisher. 11th place only got nine laps in on Sat-went to Jerett Brooks and Jeff urday showed everyone the Hoffman was the 12th vehicle way home in the Sunday race to finish 12 laps. Mitchell with a great win, Sheldon Dejong was shown in 13th Creed, Saturdays winner was place with 10 laps completed, the second place finisher Blake Lenk finished 9 laps in the Sunday event, Scotty and was listed in 14th place Steele took home the bronze and Brooke Kawell was shown medal, Bradley Morris was in the 15th spot with only 1 the fourth place finisher and lap completed. Mitch Guthrie Jr. took fifth The UTV Main Event on place honors. A sixth place Saturday fielded 11 entrants 10th place finish. ..---------,._-_-;;;;,.j~i------...,..,----, The 11th place • and they had 12 laps to run for their race. At the end of the 12 laps it was Dan Kelly taking a really nice win, Corry Weller was second in, he was just a quarter of a second behind the winner, RJ Ander-son took 1third place honors, he was sev-en seconds behind the winner, Tyler Winbury finished fi'fst off the podium and Bryan Osborn finish went to Mitch Guthrie Jr., Brock Heger came in 12th, Bradley Morris was shown in 13th place, he only completed 12 of the 13 required laps, Scotty Steele was shown in 14th place with 12 laps completed, Kyle Hard was shown in 15th place, Kyle only finished 9 laps and Terrell Kyle Hart only got nine laps complete in the Saturday Kart Modified race, on Sunday he showed them all and took the win. Bruce Fraley took the second place finishes in Limited Buggy on Saturday and Sunday, kinda makes life worth linin'. Doug Mittag finished eighth in the Saturday UTV race, he came back on Sunday for the win, he's seen here in level flight. took fifth place honors. Rob-ert Vanbeekum was shown in sixth place, having completed only 11 laps, Ryan Beat was listed in seventh place, he too only getting 11 laps in, eighth place went to Doug Mittag, he had completed 10 laps, Chad George completed eight laps and was shone in ninth place, John Dempsey was shown in 10th place with 6 laps complete and Code Rahders was lisfed in 11th place with 4 of the 12 re-quired laps completed. The Sunday UTV Main Event had the same 11 rac-ers all ready to go and, like the day before they had 12 laps to show how fast they were. When the checkered flag flew it was Doug Mit-tag taking a really nice win, Corry Weller took the silver medal for his efforts, he was nine seconds behind the lead-er, Robert Vanbeekum was awarded the bronze medal for his third place finish, John Dempsey was awarded fourth place honors and Tyler Winbury finished the race in fifth place. RJ Anderson came along another five seconds later in sixth place, Bryan Osborn was seventh to cross the finish line and Chad George finished in the eighth spot and Chad was the last of the 12 lap finishers. Code Rahders only got nine laps completed and was shown in ninth place, Dan Kelly was shown in 10th place with 4 laps completed and Ryan Beat was listed in 11th place with one lap complete. Robby Woods took third place honors in the Sunday Pro 2 Unlimited race, Robby was the 10th place finisher in the Saturday altercation. Matt Cook, (leading) was the sixth place finisher in the Saturday Pro Lite Unlimited, Matt finished first off the podium in the Sunday event. And so it ended, Great competition, great course and great weather. See ya all at the next Lucas Off Road Rac-ing Series event. Page 26 August 2011 Dusty Times

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Dusty Times Final Flag -We are deeply sorry to report the passing of Ted Johnson, a long time friend of off road racing and a part of the SCORE organization from its inception. Born January 23, 1919 in North Freedom, Wisc., Johnson, 92 passed away on June 18, 2011 near his long,time California home in Woodland Hills, Calif. Ted succumbed from the lingering affects of the serious stroke he suffered over one year ago. Theodore Albert (Ted) Johnson graduated from the University of Wis, consin, served four years in the U.S. Army during World War II, primarily in Italy and received a purple heart. After the war, he helped start the Department of Veteran Affairs at the University of Wisconsin. Prior to moving to California in the late 1940s, Johnson worked for Youngstown Steel Products as an accountant. His professional career included time as the vice,president of Schief, fer Manufacturing as well as handling the finances for all of Mickey Thompson's companies. He also assisted Keith Black Company for several years and was an active partner with Sal Fish with SCORE until the early 2000s. Ted Johnson and his wife Betty of 45 years (who passed away in 1990) had three daughters, Christine, Nancy and Sue. Sue Johnson has been the Administrative Director of SCORE for more than 20 years. Ted had four grandchildren, Brian, Tiffany, Paul and Shawn and two great grandchildren, (newborn twins) Isabella and Colton Royal who he did get to meet two days before the end. (I knew Ted for many years and he was a real gentleman.) Ted was awfully fond of cats. If you would like to make a donation in his name, please do so at the Humane Society. To donate go to: www.sonomahumane.org/support_us/ways August 2011 --Page 27 ,.

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-NOH 1:AL HOCK RAl!ING R 0 CHANIPIONSHIPSERll:S DUND NE Hardaway Takes It All By Tammie Wise Photos: CS Designs Alex Hardaway spent a lot of time in the air, Alex won all the heats this day and was one happy fella for many reasons. The first event of the 2011 season for the Nor Cal Rock Rac-ing Association would be held on June 18th. The heat of the week-end added to the heat the racers were turning up on the track. After a long anticipated wait, John Goodby (promoter and owner of Nor Cal Rock Racing) brought this 4wd racing back to Prairie City in style. 2011 would see an end of the two by two racing of the past and the introduction of all out Rock Racing for Nor Cal competitors .... With the addition of the qualifying spot to the grand daddy of all Rock Races KOH ( "King of the Hammers", which is held mid February in Johnson Valley, CA). having a three moto set up similar to that of the famed Motocross races that are held at Prairie City each year. The format would con-sist of 2 three lap motos and a 5 lap main. The competition was fast paced, challenging, and entertain-ing to be a part of. In order for all the drivers to get as much seat time as possible, John decided that rather then split the field all racers would run all three of the races. In addition to the new format, the Nor Cal crew had built a chal-lenging diverse track for the racers to run, with all the high flying and speed sections that Nor Cal fans have come to expect, as well as a rock pile that would put even the most seasoned rock crawlers in the field through their paces. The plan with the rock pile was to get the guys into low gear, it worked. John Goodby and crew would take the event to the next level, Mike Smith gave the fans a thrill when he spun across the track and disappeared into the surrounding brush. The classes for the day would consist of a "pro" and a "sports-man" class. The pro's had the option of paying an additional Jeremy Hengl and Randy Avery (Jeep) had a really good battle during the first moto, seen here with all the power they have to give. $100 to be a part of the KOH hunt. The pro purse was a guaran-teed $2000. The field consisted of 7 pro and 2 sportsman racers. The racers were ready for bat-tle, the Nor Cal crew was primed, and the spectators had no clue, as the first green flag dropped, the crowd watched from the famed hill top and the bleachers by the birds nest. All were in awe as the field came alive roaring up the hill and around the first right hand sweeper. No one had announced the new format to the onlookers, so the surprise could be heard as a roar of cheers rolling across the track. The first moto of the day was fast and furious. Recent KOH qualifier Alex Hardaway, in his #4481 Efficiency Delivery spon-sored buggy would lead the pack into the 2011 Nor Cal Rock Racing season, holding the top spot from flag to flag. The racer showed what he was made of set-ting a pace that wouldn't be chal-lenged all day. The fight for 2nd would be heated with Randy Av-ery and Jeremy Hengl going toe to toe. Randy would finally come out ahead when Jeremy's #85 Wrap Concept sponsored buggy took a wrong bounce in the formidable rock pile and would find itself on its side, giving Randy in his Metal Cloak sponsored jeep the second spot for the moto. Harold Fijman in the #777 Aaron's Bodyshop sponsored buggy would stay out of the fray and end the run in a solid Harold Figman's Jimmy's built buggy flew as smooth as silk, seen here probably setting an airborne distance record. • Performance Proven for Desert & Off-Road Use 150 Heavy Duty Sizes to Choose from Detail & Pressure Wash Tanks Marine Holding & Water Tanks Bulk Storage & Waste Tanks R.V. Tanks Quality Products & Friendly Service RONCO PLASTICS, INC. • 714-259-1385 • FAX 714-259-0759 • www.ronco-plastics.net 15022 Parkway Loop, Suite B • Tustin, CA 92780 • CALL, WRITE or FAX us to Receive a Free Catalog VISA ~-------------------------------------------------------~ Page 28 August 2011 Dusty Times

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Joe Hutchins flew his CS Designs sponsored buggy as long and as high as he could, here in beautiful level flight. third place. The toughest wreck on the day would belong to that of Mike Smith in his #56 Yoda Man racing buggy. As he came through the rhythm section on the front side of the track the buggy was sent spinning, luckily Mike was able to right the rig, but not before taking the racer in a pirouette across the track. Going into the second moto the teams would have plenty of time to get their rigs sorted. As most of the racers had found their pace in moto one the field spread out cleanly, the rock pile would bring them back together each lap as it was designed to do. The air and speed the guys were able to achieve through the other sections was impressive to say the least. Alex showed his talents and was able to hold the first place spot from moto to moto. Mechanical difficulties would slow Randy Avery in moto 2 and would move Harold into the second spot for the race. The hard start for the #56 wouldn't faze this diehard team, they would come back to run strong in the second moto and take the third spot for the run. The main event would be a spectacular display of speed and tri-umph. The two racers that earlier in the day were spinning and flip-ping around the track would show their talents rubber side down giv-ing Alex a run for his money. Mike Smith and Jeremy Hengl fought back and forth through out the race for the second spot with Mike taking it in the end. The three top racers of the day: (I to r) Mike Smith, third place, Alex Hardaway, biggest winner and Harold Fijman, second place. The top spot for the day would racing team in their Hutchins go to Alex Hardaway in his #4481. Auto, Raceline Wheels sponsored In Alex's opinion it was the best Pandora buggy, piloted by Joe day of racing he has had so far in Hutchins. When asked about the his career. He had huge thanks day, Joe was all smiles, with this to his being his first rock race he was parents for all of their support, pleased with the 4th place finish, as Alex put it "I couldn't do this as Joe put it "This was awesome, with out all of their help". Second I couldn't have asked for a better spot went to Harold Fijman in time, I had my co-driver push-the #777 and third to Mike Smith ing me, my car held up, and the in the #56. When asked about course was rough but fun". Jeremy the racing all three had the same Hengl fought his way back pick-thing to say. "It was fast and fun", ing his way through the field to stating they would be back to run finish the event in a respectable in the July event. Only Alex has 5th. Randy Avery would bring in secured his spot for KOH so it is his Red racer 6th on the day. The going to be fun to see the hard 7th spot went to Jimmy Haughty pounding racing that will take in the #55. place in July. One face that was missing from Fourth through 7th places the Pro field was that Of Kevin Yo-would be led by the #8 BSW der and his #4434. Kevin is slated to be back at the July event. There are two more races to go in the fight for the coveted KOH spot. So the position for first will be a great battle for sure. The Standings for the "pro class" 2011 season: Name Points Alex Hardaway 25 Harold Fijman 22 Mike Smith 20 Joe Hutchins 18 Jeremy Hengl 16 Randy Avery 15 Jimmy Haughty 14 Kevin Yoder 13 The Sportsman field consisted of Mike Foster in his #3430 Wrap Concepts 4 cylinder and James Durtr in the MOD Works buggy. The first moto for the Sports-man class would find Mike mak-ing quick work of the race holding the lead from flag to flag. The second moto would be a different story, with Mike break-ing on the first lap and not being able to continue. James took ad-vantage of the seat time and would finish all three of the circuits for moto 2. With Mike not being able to go on, the Sportsman would not run a main event race. Nor Cal will be back in Prairie City July 23rd for round two in the series. It is going to be interest-ing to see how things may change when Kevin Yoder will be making his first appearance in his Barn built racer, it is sure to be a high flying great time. See you there! NOA CAI.ROCX WINC CKAMPIIMHIP SBIIES The #55 of Jimmy Haughty was either flyin' or picking its way Mike Foster and James Dutra ran within sight of each other all day And the race is on! Here we see some of the competitors rushing through and over the boulders, seen here pickin' as fast as he could. long, seen here at high speed racin' hard as they can. through a fairly fast section of the race course. The rock pile certainly slowed 'em down a lot, here two competitors Once they cleared the rocks it was pedal to the metal and they were Alex Hardaway puts his suspension and his steering to the test, he's pick their way through the rock pile. off in a burst of speed that was amazing to watch. seen here navigating his way over the boulders. Randy Avery lifts off beautifully from the back side of the table top, Randy is seen here in bea11tiful flight. Pie #13 The noise and the horsepower was a stimulant to the spectators, seen here screaming for their favorite as they race away. Dusty Times August 2011 Page 29

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liM AT CRANDON's BRUSH RuN Stingle Wins 1600 Light Buggy By Mike Reusche Photos: Mike Roth Greg Stingle had a decent day, he took the win in the first 1600 Light Buggy race and took the silver medal in the second race of the day. The second weekend of the would determine the starting 2011 Traxxas TORC Series positions for Round 3, as well presented by AMSOIL saw as, the starting positions for 127 Sportsman and PRO com-the drivers participating in the petitors lineup for the Brush Potawatomi Chairman's Cup. Run in Crandon, Wisconsin. The Crandon track crew had After having Mother Nature the "Big House" in great shape cancel almost half of the race as PRO-Light, PRO-2WD, and schedule at the season opener PRO-4x4 drivers went out for in Buchanan, Michigan, the a three lap qualifying session. sunny skies of Northern Wis-After the dust settled, Greaves consin were a welcome sight. Motorsports qualified in the Unfortunately, weather would top spot in two of the three once again play a role in the PRO divisions. Teenager CJ results of the TORC weekend. Greaves was fastest in PRO-In the meantime, Friday after-Light and the newest member noon hosted PRO practice and of the team; Marty Hart was then a qualifying session that on top of the PRO-2WD time ---~--.;._...;.. ______ ,,,,,.. __ ...;..,,_,,_ sheets. Meanwhile, New York's Adrian Cenni just missed the track record by .02 seconds as he led the PRO-4x4 group. Saturday morning saw a light drizzle blanket the area dur-ing the final practice session, which made near perfect track conditions that lasted during the entire day. The first race of Round 3 was the six lap combined Clas-six/ Formula 4x4 race. The two classes are unique to Midwest off-road racing as they had their beginnings at Crandon and are really fan favorites. The Formula 4x4 quickly saw Bob Birkholz cuts inside of Brendon Rouse to take the win in Stock Truck, Bob finished in third place in the second race. the top three drivers establish themselves at the front of the field. Dave Miah and Brad LeMarche, both driving Ford Broncos, battled the entire six laps, never getting more than a couple of truck lengths apart from each other. While Milan Mazanac in his FORD F-150 kept the two front-runners hon-est, as he tucked in right behind the Broncos. At the finish it was Miah tak-ing the win, with LeMarche in second, and Mazanac in third. The Classix bunch saw local favorite Dave Weiland in his 2WD Chevy Blazer overtake hole shot winner Dale Chest-nut and his 2WD Ford Bronco on lap two for the lead. The top two racers held their posi-tions all the way to the finish. The final spot on the podium saw a couple of different driv-ers occupy the spot, but with two laps to go, Crandon's own Fay Statenzy in his 1973 Chevy Chevelle took control of third place. It is pretty safe to say, the meticulous Chevelle has com-peted at more Crandon races than any other race vehicle in Crandon's history. Next up was the Stock Truck group, which saw one rook-ie driver takin on ten vet-eran truck racers. The rookie, X-Games Snowboarder Nick Baumgartner, grabbed the hole shot and never relinquished the lead. Matt Ives held the runner-up spot the entire way; the Up-per Michigan native got close to Baumgartner on the final lap, but ran out of time to challenge for the win. It looked like Bran-don Rouse in his 2011 Chevy Silverado had the final podium spot, but Red Bud winner Bob Birkholz made a late race charge for a third place photo finish. The fastest TORC Sports-man division, Super Truck was next on the schedule. Super Trucks are nearly identical to the PRO-2WD trucks except for a different engine package. The six lap race included a mid race mandatory yellow. The land rush start saw Lower Michigan's Dan Baudoux lead from start to finish. Behind the multi-time class champion, the runner-up position would be occupied first by Crandon native Zane Roberts, and then Minnesota's Don Williams, who overtook , Roberts on lap four, only to have Roberts regain the spot as Wi"lliams pulled of the track with mechanical issues. While this was going on, Bob Gremler found his groove and over took Roberts on the final lap. At the checkered flag it was the Ford of Baudoux taking the win, with the Chevy's of Gremler and Robert finishing second and third. It was the bronze medal for Zane Roberts in the Super Truck action, he's seen here all nice and clean at high speed. Nick Baumgartner had a really good day, he took a third place finish in Round 1 and took the win in the second round for a big win in Stock Truck. The largest Sportsman divi-sion, Light Buggy was next in line. The field of seventeen VW based racers saw Neenah, Wisconsin's Matt Gerald lead from flag to flag. The reigning class champion Greg Stingle shadowed Gerald the entire way, but never got close enough to challenge for the win. The fi-nal spot qn the podium was an-other tight battle between Bill Kortens and Todd Lemke. With two laps to go, Kortens made one sli ht mistake and Lemke -.. In the Super Buggy contest it was Andy Zipperer taking sixth place Barry Wahlen was the 11th place finisher in the 1600 Light Buggy Bob Klaus had a decent day at Crandon, he took third place honors honors, Andy is seen here at high speed headin' for the checkers. contest, Barry finished eighth in the second event. in the always hotly contested Super Bug~y action. Page 30 August 2011 Dusty Times

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Mark Steinhardt finished 11th in the first race, took second place in race #2 and that catapulted him into fourth place overall in 1600 Buggy. Johnny Greaves really has the power on as he drove to a fourth and a first in the Pro 4x4 battle at Crandon.• was able to capitalize, taking Beauchamp grab the early lead and Red Bud winner Brock lap affair, Danny Beauchamp the final spot on the podium. with fan favorite Al Konitzer Smith tangled, heading into the slowed his pace due to· an over-The Super Stock Truck in second, and Nick Byng in Red Bull Jump. Somehow Keeh-heating issue and Konitzer was battle had some very familiar third. But before the entire ner and Maciocek were back in the pits with mechanical names running at the front of field could get down the front running at full power, as Smith problems. While this was hap-the field. The land rush start straightaway, Larry Maciosek limped his way back to the pits. pening, two-time class cham-saw Upper Michigan's Danny spun, as Iowa's Justin Keehner By lap three of the ei ht-pion Scott Beauchamp moved r◄iiilllllliiiiii::----'-----"--------"--..;;.__~ through the pack and into the lead. Then Don Demeny, Red Bud runner-up, moved around Nick Byng for second place. The next couple of laps would see Jerry Conrad and Larry Ma-ciosek, move ahead of Byng as well. Heading into the final lap, Beauchamp and Demeny were comfortably running first and second, when Jerry Conrad who was now running third, caught a rut, rolling his truck and ending his hopes for a podium finish. This moved Maciosek into third. At the checkered flag, Scott Beauchamp returned to his winning ways, with Don Demeny finishing second, and after a first turn spin, Larry Ma-ciosek charged his way back to a third place finish. The 1600 Buggy race was next as the field of ten single seaters, had a stacked field of podium finishers. The land rush start had Nebraska's John Continued on page 32 . I Justin Keehner, in the Super Stock Truck Division took 10th place Bob Gremler Jr. raced his Super Stock Truck to a fifth and a fourth Keith Steele had a disappointing weekend, he was a dnf in the Pro honors with ninth and 10th place finishes in the two races. in the races, that gave him an overall fourth place in the class. 2WD first race; finished ninth in the second race, not a lot of fun. Dusty Times Body and Chassis in Good Shape New Tires and Spares Awning • Outside Sound System Outside Lights Generator Air Compressor with Drops Lounge with TV, Refrigerator, Microwave and Two Beds Bathroom with Shower $28,000 August 2011 Phone: 928-855-0912 2169 Daytona Ave Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 Email: jcrace@ctaz.com Page 31

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Randy Eller flew his really good lookin' truck to an eighth and a The Pro Lite start was something to behold, here Sam Hubinette Mike Oberg leads Chad Hord in the Pro 2WD at Crandon, Mike seventh place finish in Pro Lite at Crandon, seen here in flight. and Brad Lovell lead the pack out of the first turn. finished 3rd and 8th for 5th place, Chad beat him out for fourth place. ------'---:--:-----:----:--:---:-----.==========-======"""""~=======,-""'iiiiiii;;;;;;::;:;;;;;;;; Fitzgerald take the lead with Mark Steinhardt right on his bumper. The top two spots on the podium held their positions all the way to the checkered flag. The final spot on the po-dium wasn't solidified until two laps to go. Brad Erickson took command of third place, mak-ing it back-to-back early season podium finishes for the man from Upper Michigan. The final Sportsman race of the day had ten Super Buggies take the green flag. The veteran from Las Vegas, Larry Job, im-mediately grabbed the lead and held it all the way to the check-ered flag. Teenager CJ Greaves nearly matched Job lap for lap, but never got close enough to challenge for the lead. New York's Bob Klaus held the third position from start to finish. Throughout the day TORC was raffling ride alongs in the TORC RAM two-seat PRO-2WD pace truck. There were several winners, but three lucky ticket holders got the ride of their lives, as Walker Evans suit-ed up to put the truck through its paces. The speed he car-ried through Turn One was incredible, and really surprised everyone in attendance. The distance off the Traxxas Fly Zone Jump was second to none, and the intensity he hit the in-field whoops made you think he was leading the final lap of the Potawatomi Chairman's Cup. It looked like the Off-Road Leg-end was planning a comeback. Once Evans performed his last demo, seventeen PRO-Light trucks came charging into Cran-don' s infamous Turn One. Before the field could clear the Red Bull front straightaway jump, the red flag was waving as a mid-pack incident saw several trucks spinning and collecting into one another blocking the track. The wreck saw Randy Eller with his rear wheels stuck up in a retaining fence, while Scott Beauchamp drove his Super Stock Truck to an eighth and a first place finish at Crandon, seen here with the hammer down. the front bumper was planted Bonus. One other note, after in the ground; CJ Greaves and being involved in the first lap RJ Anderson were stuck to-incident, CJ Greaves and Randy gether blocking the track. For- Eller came back to finish sixth tunately, everyone was able to and se~enth, respectively. make the grid for the restart. Next up was the nine-truck The restart saw all seventeen field of PRO-2WD trucks. Ev-trucks cleanly getting through ery driver in the field has won the opening lap. The Traxxas at least one off-road champion-backed RAM of Andrew Cad-ship in their career, so to say dell quickly nabbed the top the lineup is loaded with talent, spot, with Red Bud double win- is truly an understatement. ner, also in a RAM, Sam Hubi-The start saw the RAM truck nette right behind in second, of Rob MacCachern take the and the AMSOIL Ford of Brad lead right from the start. Bryce Lovell in third. By lap three of Menzies in his Red Bull RAM the nine-lap affair, Hubinette tucked right behind his Las Ve-dropped way off the pace, mov- gas neighbor. Third place was ing Lovell to second, and the a fight between the Chevy of All-star Performance of Ross Mike Vanden Heuvel and the Hoek into third. Miller Welders Ford of Scott The mandatory yellow came Taylor. As the top two estab-out on lap five, putting the en-lished their positions, Taylor tire field nose to tail. On the re-took control of the third spot start Caddell opened up a com-right up to the halfway manda-fortable lead over second place tory yellow lap. Lovell. Meanwhile, the Perfor-When the race went green, mance Chevy of Shawn Morris the two RAM trucks stayed out took advantage of Hoek and front, as the Traxxas Ford of moved into third place. The re-Jeff Kincaid moved pa'st Taylor. maining three laps saw the top With two laps to go, MacCach-four maintain their positions em and Menzies were well out ending Hubinette's win streak in front, with Kincaid trying to at two. Caddell also recorded close the gap when, fourth place the fastest lap of the race tak- Taylor rolled and the AMSOIL ing home the Traxxas Maxx Lap Chevy of Mike Oberg lost his motor. Fortunate-FOR SALE 7s#7110-2002Lothringer, ly, Taylor landed Stock Ford engine, complete rebuild by Total right on his wheels Performance ($6,000). Dynode before & after and continued to HendersonRace. 180hpatwheelsaM95mph. the fi·ni·sh. When New headers and custom exhaust. Has won & placed in top 3 in many races: BITD, Score, Snore, the checkered flag MOR. Best of everything. 6 Pit boxes of spares, came out the fin-drive shaft(+ spare), Deaver springs(+ spare), 6 ish ing order was extra wheels & tires (3 spares are on beadlocks). Rob MacCachern New front and rear end bumper (Chromoly) custom 1st, Bryce Menzies fabricated by Alan Coffee. Professional crew 2nd, Jeff Kincaid available: Manager & 2 part time mechanics; all 3rd, Chad Hord know the truck very well. King shocks serviced, Culhane Transmission serviced every 4 races. 4th, Scott Taylor Howe (new & spare). Ball joints new with spares, 5th, and Keith an y one, ua ptimas, dual fans with cages, 2 new Vision X's up front, Steele 6th. Parker (dual) extra filters, lots of spare parts & tool bags. Full. Spare alternator The PRO-2WD (mounted), large new Auto Meter gauges. Large G.P.S., Whail -Yelp, Hom, Oakley Bomb went Mastercraft seat belts, PCI intercom. Lots of custom tab parts. Front steering & to Rob MacCach-rack (Chromoly) heavy duty with gussets throughout. Extra custom rear fenders, em for fast lap of Kenwood radio with 2 antennas, Art Carr shifter, Memo steering wheel. Truck is the round. ready & prepped. $46,000 or trade for a diesel truck & cash. The final race of Don (619) 571-1504don@nielsenbeaumont,com the day was PRO-Page 32 August 2011 Rob MacCachren, #7, in heavy traffic went on to win both Pro 2 Wheel Drive races, beating out some really heavy competition. 4x4. A total of ten trucks lined up for the start. Adrian Cenni won the hole shot, with Mon-ster Energy's Johnny Greaves and Red Bull's Ricky Johnson right behind New York City's "Wildman." The lead was short -lived as Cenni's pace drasti-cally slowed, due to a flat rear tire. As Cenni was fading, Scott Douglas challenged Johnson for second. The pressure from Douglas seemed to get Johnson to pick up the pace and onto the bumper of Greaves. At the same time Douglas was feeling pressure from Mark Jenkins and Steve Barlow. Every position on the track could change at a mo-ment's notice. At the halfway mandatory yellow, the run-ning order was Greaves, John-son, Douglas, Mark Jenkins, and Steve Barlow. When green flag racing resumed, everyone stepped up their game. An ener-gy drink battle broke out for the top spot. In the process, both drivers broke the track record. Traxxas' Mark Jenkins made an aggressive move that put AM-SOIL Scott Douglas back in the order, as Metal Mulisha driver Steve Barlow took advantage of the situation to move into fourth. Then .with two to go, with Greaves in the lead and John-son in second, Barlow moved into the final podium spot, as Jenkins slowed his pace. Scott Douglas tried everything he could, but couldn't get past Bar-low in the remaining laps. At the finish it was Johnny Greaves 1st, Ricky Johnson 2nd, Steve Barlow 3rd, and Scott Douglas 4th. The PRO-4x4 Oakley Bomb Award for fastest lap went to Johnny Greaves. His fastest lap broke the old track record set by Rick Huseman by nearly .2 seconds. Many of the competitors commented on the great condi-tion of the 1. 7 5 mile layout. The track maintained a high level grip all day long with a minimal amount of watering. One of the reasons could have been a paper mill byproduct solution that is used to hold moisture in and keep dust to a minimum on area logging roads. Whatever the reason, it meant incredible top speeds and record lap times. When the competitors awoke Sunday morning, they found a section of the track covered in • nearly two feet of water. Heavy rains swept through much of the area all night long. This caused the infield pond, known as Parson's Pond to overflow onto the front straightaway. Since the ground was already saturated from above normal rainfall in the area, there was nowhere to pump the water. At the morning drivers' meeting TORC and Crandon officials cancelled all racing activities. With that said, everyone start-ed home much earlier than planned. The cancelled round of racing and the Potawatomi Chairman's Cup Race will be made up at a later date. The details will be announced in the near future. As the teams were packing up, everyone continued to talk about Saturday's incredible track conditions as well as the record crowd that came out on Saturday to wat~h some of the best PRO and Sportsman off-road racing the Midwest has ever seen. During the month of July the TORC schedule splits. The Sportsman racers are headed to the Langlade County Fair-grounds in Antigo, Wisconsin for two days of racing beginning on July 9. While the PRO driv-ers head to the Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina for two nights of racing beginning July 24. I can't wait to order An-tigo's famous deep fried Cheese Curds. -r~ Dusty Times

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MasTER PuLL saa Cathrun Takes It All By Troy Robinson Photos: Reno Photographic am ot run ma e it oo easy, e rove 1s true t e reqwre aps an was proc a1me t e overa wmner o t e ong distance race. With a number of the desert races across the Unit-ed States getting smaller or moving south of the border it's good to know that new and even longer races are still showing up. At the be-ginning of the year VORRA chief Wes Harbor announced VORRA would be doing its very first ever 500-mile race. Named the USA 500 this new race venue would be hosted by Sparks Nevada's John Ascuagas Nugget Hotel Casino Resort just outside of Reno. By mid-June a title sponsor was on boarcr and the race was renamed the Master Pull VORRA USA 500. Excitement was in the air waiting fo,: this race to become part of off-road rac-ing history. The race course would be an all new track layout tak-ing us on the north side of Interstate 80 and returning after a five year hiatus to the Lovelock area and to the original track where VORRA raced in the late 90's. The start finish line was located right off I-80 in Fernley about 29-miles east of Reno. The track layout would take rac-ers 45-miles out of Fernley to Pit A where we would start a 155-mile loop then return 30-miles back to Fernley for the finish. Early pre running and recon had racers think-ing this was going to be a fast and easy course, but by the time the race started the pre-running had chewed up the silt beds and moved some rocks around which made the course super challenging. The gas line road with its roller-coaster gotcha's would prove challenging as well if you didn't have your course notes accurate. Thursday night in Victo-rian Square right outside the host hotel Nugget is a weekly local Farmer's Market which kicked off the festivities for the weekend. Race car show Hall Racing took the win in the Class 1 competition, they finished second overall in the race, 13 minutes out of the overall. The Class 10 win went to Red Team Racing, all of their competition were dnf's, Red Team is seen here in action. and shine with autograph session was followed by a fund raiser at the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame where the 2011 inductees were announced. Friday af-ternoon Victorian Square was open back up for Tech and Registration. In the adjacent lot was rock crawling and freestyle motocross expedi-tions. Contingency row also stretched nearly 4-blocks. Fri-day night the Nugget hosted the drivers meeting with the National Anthem and race car drive off immediately following. Saturday morn-ing at 8:29 the "production" classes of 9, 11, full metal and Zukiworld. Two hours later the pro and sportsman classes would start. The time limit for this race would be 21 hours to complete the 529-mile distance. First off the line was the lone class 9 entry of Jay Schro-eder (903). Unfortunately Schroeder was only able to make it the check point 3 be-fore dropping out of the race. Another lone entry class was the UTV's where Dennis Jean (1959) completed one lap for the class win. Also in the first wave of starters was the full metal Gary Hull was the second truck to finish in the Group T competition, Gary is seen here saving a bit of tire wear. The Team Jean OffRoad Racing UTV only had to do two laps of the Rick Massie drove his Chevrolet pickup to a second place finish in Jay Schroeder was the only contestant in the Class 9 contest, unfortunately Jay only made it to check #3 before retiring. Page 34 race for their win, seen here early on in the race. Class 1, he's seen here with all the suspension hanging out. The Desert Dingo Team had all sorts of troubles to deal with but they Ben Phillips had a decent race, he finished third in Group T, seen still managed a decent second place finish in Class 11. here with it all hanging out racing across the desert. August 2011 Dusty Times I

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Bob Messer was the big winner in the Class 11 fracas, Bob beat out his competition by two hours, seen here just at liftoff. Damien Michelin drove the rod Hall Hummer to the Full Metal Class win, seen here at high speed flying across the desert. veloped throughout the day. Pre-race favorite Sam Berri (149) was down early with rear shock spring failure. Shannon Harwell (132) was out front and running well with a 12 minute lead until the trans-mission broke taking them out of the race. The Hall Rac-ing (6) Extreme truck had rear differential problems at mid race but stopped for repairs and continued racing. Rick Massie (24) cruised on most of the day and night and mo-tored on towards the finish. The Hall racing truck despite the down time ran a faster pace and made the pass on the last lap and went on for the win. Massie drove on for 2nd place. Greg Kudrna (101) finished the race in 3rd place. class with two entries. Matt Myers (863) was off the line in his full size Ford Expedition ahead of Damien Michelin (7611) in the Rod Hall racing H3. Myers didn't pre-run the first leg of the course so Mi-chelin quickly caught up and passed for the lead. Not a few miles later however Michelin had a flat tire and Myers moved into the lead. He car-ried that lead to just before Pit B where the engine started running hot and upon inspec-tion found the wires to the fans melted. While making the repairs Michelin passed and never relinquished the lead after that. Myers would have a good run through-out the night after handing the wheel to his wife for the middle leg of the race. At the checkers Michelin was the winner 45 minutes ahead of Myers. Incredibly they scored 10th and 11th overall as well. The class 11 's had 3 en-tered and as a class they voted to race the entire 529 mile distance. The 3 cars battled it out most of the day. Despite lawn darting along the gas line rollers the Desert Dingo team (1107) took out the front fenders, bumper and skid plate but no mechanical damage. Later in the night they were bumped by an over-anxious class 7 truck, a no-no in any racing, bad voodoo karma happens to those who nerf an 11 car. The bump knocked the deck lid into the alternator pulley breaking the pulley. They were able to JB weld the pulley back together and continue on to the finish. Good news is they were under the allotted time limit; bad news is Bob Messer (1177) was there first for the class win. Gary Herrod (1112) made the finish line but timed out and completed just two laps. A new class to VORRA was the 2ukiworld class. This class is limited to Suzuki based ve-hicles like the short wheel base Samuri. There were six entered and were to run two laps around the course. These short wheel base entries had 6 entered and were to run 2 Japs around the course. Da-vid Capell (21045) finished the race in 11:27:08 for the class win. Jason Hutchinson (25150) placed 2nd finish-ing the race with a t ime of 13:42:27. The no·n-finshers all had issues on therir own, being their first desert race but they all had happy smiles at the end of the night. This Dusty Times is a great entry level class for those that want to get into desert racing. The sportsman class also 18:20:24 was Ben Vanzutphen had 6 entries and taking the (44). win with a finish time of In Class 1 a great race de-ry real ower • 100 Gallon Capacity • Single or Double Dry Break • EZSetUp • Affordable IndyCar Fl Technology .lec11aorlea •Dump Cans •Hoae • Reducers • Filler Necks & Caps elaeta • Snell SA 2006 Forced Air Helmets G·FOUCli • Wired for Communication & Ear Bud Beady ---PYAOTECT [IJ HJC MOTORSPORTS • Racing Optics Tear Offs • Universal and Cllltom Kolded Ear Buds • Helmet Skirts • Shields Koolllrftl Blower Syn••• • filghest Flowing Systems! • 106, 135, 150, 235 and 250 CF)[ Ratings • IDgh Flow Filters & Cllltom Hoses • Trophy Kart Kits for Driver & Clutch Cooler c,ntinud ,n •••• 36 co-ulcatloa Syneaa • Vertex 6 to 110 Watt Radio Systems • ID-Fi Intercom Systems • Chase & Race Packages • Base Station Packages • Crew Chief & Kart Packages b Car C1.1111ra Sy.tea • EZ 1 Button Operation • Exclusive Racer X llotorsporte Package • 6.7 houn ofmgh Resolution recording time • Up to 12 hours of operation on 4AA Lithium Ion Batteries • Can be Interfaced to Intercom for full audio experience XCellftl • 411/2 Gallon Capacity • SCORE/ BITD / FIA Approved • Tapered Design Provides Increased Ground Clearance & Jlaximizes Usable Fuel • Fuel Level Sending Units Available • Caps, Necks, Hose, Filters and Pumps Available YOUR SOURCE FOB PROFESSIONAL RACE PRODUCTS 10815 Wheatlands Avenue, Suite K • Santee, CA 92071 619-258-RACE (7223) • Fax 619-258-0883 • www.RacerXms.com August 2011 Page 35

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Team Myers had a decent race, they raced the big wagon to a second Greg Kudrna took third place honors in the Class 1 conflict, Greg is Bill Jarvis drove his big Ford to a first off the podium finish in Group place finish in the Full Metal contest, here at high speed. seen here at high speed as he chases the finish line. T, Bill is seen here goin' for it in a big way. Jason Hutchinson finished in second place in the Zukiworld action, The Altered Racing Group were out there ready to race but problems Jim Carius was ready for battle in the Class 10 conflict but he was sidelined during the chase and ended up as a dnf. he's seen here at one of many high speed landings. thwarted their efforts and they were an unwanted dnf. After several hours of down The Group T class was the pulling over 60 mph and lawn time Berri made repairs and largest class with 11 entries. darted off the first big drop finished the race in fourth Right in the beginning of the off. They estimated they flew place. loop Mike Koenig (603) was over 220 feet before landing 9~ KEIIWOOO :!:e Page 36 August 2011 nose first. They didn't roll but the sudden stop hurt the truck and the co-driver as well. John "Mongo" broke the Ll vertebra in his back and was taken to the hospital. The truck was repaired but later in the night the clutch broke ending their race. Meanwhile Sam Cothrun (7272) annihilated the com-petition and went on to the class win and overall win as well with a time of 12:04:51. Finishing 2nd in class just 22 minutes back was Gary Hull (8088). Despite going off the course in the hill climb section trying to get around a slower truck Ben Phillips (6043) finished the race in 3rd place. Bill Jarvis (8028) came home in 4th place with Jake Mathis (872) in 5th. Af-ter rolling on the first lap the Dodge Power wagon of Gary Taylor (813) rounded out the finishers in Group T. In class 10 Red Team Rac-ing (1029) had a co-driver suf-fer chest pains but turns out it was not a heart attack. The team motored on throughout the night and took the class 10 win as the only finisher in " the class. Class 7 had 3 entries and Continued an pag■ 38 Ben Vanzutphen runs in the Sportsman Class and of the six vehicles in the class, Ben was the only one to finish the grueling race. David Capell drove his Suzuki Samurai to the Zukiworld Class win, David is seen here at high speed on the desert floor. Dusty Times 7

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Tired OI It 1111, Ceballos Motorsports took a nice win in the Class 7 contest, they're seen here in their Toyota pickup at speed. the Toyota of Cebellos Motor-sports (77 5) was the winner after 14:57:23 in the seat. Despite being one lap down the Reno Motorsports Ford (7163) made the finish line. As mentioned before, Sam Cothrun was the overall win-ner. Hall Racing was the 2nd place overall finisher and 3rd overall was Gary Hull. It was a very successful inaugural race with 46% of the starters finishing the required dis-tance. Wes Harbor and VOR-RA seem to be heading in the right direction with summer desert races in northern Ne-vada. 529 miles of nearly all new desert terrain within the border of the United States takes a lot of hard work and co-operation with the BLM and Harbor has proven he is a leader to make that relation-ship happen. 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 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 38 August 2011 Dusty Times

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'Gaadricli Bf Goodrich® Tires Upgrades Summer X Games 1 7 Rally Competitors, X Fest LOS ANGELES (July 27, 2011) -BFGoodrich® Tires, an official sponsor of Sum-mer X Games 17, will upgrade the experiences for both rac-ers and fans at the upcom-ing event July 28-31, 2011. Not only will rally teams and drivers be challenged with a new race course leading them through the streets of down-town Los Angeles, but fans can win unique prizes -including a trip to the Skip Barber Rac-ing School -and check out the SCORE Baja 500-winning race truck and a special tire carving at the BFGoodrich Tires booth at X Fest. BFGoodrich Tires has es-tablished itself as a dominant force in X Games rally com-petition and has the opportu-nity to add two more rally gold medals to its X Games trophy case -one in the Rally Car Racing competition and one in the RallyCross competition. Since 2006, BFGoodrich-shod race cars have won 17 of the 20 medals awarded, including five of six gold medals: Travis Pastrana (Subaru) won gold in 2006 and 2008; Kenny rack (Ford) won gold in 2009; and Tanner Foust (Ford) won two golds in 2010. "BFGoodrich Tires and ESPN X Games competition has been a winning combina-tion for years, and we've just upgraded that combination with our enhanced X Fest presence, our association with some of the best drivers and teams, and, of course, our re-lationship with Shaun White," said Jamey Fish, director, con-sumer experience at BFGo-odrich Tires. "Thousands of BFGoodrich Tires employees and enthusiasts look forward to an exciting X Games on the streets of Los Angeles." Teams Upgrading to BFGo-odrich Tires BFGoodrich Tires will be the tire of choice for many of the top teams this year in-cluding all three Subaru Rally Team USA drivers, a handful of Ford Racing competitors and a number of privateers. Drivers running BFGoodrich tires include superstars Travis Pastrana, Dave Mirra and Tan-ner Foust; rally champions David Higgins and Marcus Gronholm; and almost alt of the top-ranking privateers. Trre choice will be critical as the course winds through the streets of downtown Los Angeles, which will include the famous 52-foot gap jump. The BFGoodrich® RC0l Rally (asphalt) tire will be the tire of choice for many teams, as more than 90 percent of the course will be on paved city Dusty Times ms streets. BFGoodrich Tires will have engineers on site assisting teams with compound choices, sizing and all related tire issues in order to optimize driver and vehicle performance. BFGoodrich Tires Up-grades X Fest BFGoodrich Tires will also be upgrading X Fest, where fans will have an opportunity to win a number of prizes at the BFGoodrich Tires booth, including Skip Barber Racing School packages, backpacks, posters, patches and more. Two unique sl\ow cars will also be on display, the SCORE Baja 500-winning Trophy-Truck of Team BFGoodrich member Bryce Menzies, fea-turing BFGoodrich® Baja T/ A®KR tires, and a new. Ford Mustang modified with an X Games theme by famed cus-tomizer Galpin Auto Sports, featuring BFGoodrich® g-Force™ T/A®KDW tires. In addition to the give-aways, BFGoodrich Tire carv-ers will be on site to hand carve a special edition X Games BFGoodrich tire. Lo-gos of X Games sponsors in-cluding BFGoodrich Tires, Ford, America's Navy, Casio, Mobil 1, Shark Week and HRE Wheels will be carved into the special edition tire during the event. Fans unable to attend X Games can follow the action by logging onto BFGoodrich Tires' Facebook page (www. face book. co m/bfgood rich-ti res) and Twitter account (www.twitter.com/bfgoodrich-tires) where BF.Goodrich will be· posting exciting photos, up-to-the-minute news and prize opportunities through-out the X Games weekend. Wave the BFGoodrich Tires Checkered Flag for V Foundation BFGoodrich is helping up-grade the racing experience by auctioning the opportunity to wave the checkered flag during the Rally Car Racing compe-tition on Saturday, July 30. Fans can bid on this once-in-a-lifetime experience during a silent auction to benefit the V Foundation for Cancer . Research (www.jimmyv.org) at the ESPN X Games Kick-Off Bash on Wednesday, July 27. Rally Car Racing will be aired on ESPN on Saturday at 7 p.m. (EDT), while Ral-lyCross will be aired on ESPN on Sunday at 8 p.m. (EDT). Please check local listings for repeat airdates and times. For the latest list of invited X Games Rally and RallyCross athletes, click here. Using motorsports as a proving ground for more than 40 years, BFGoodrich Tires is involved in every type of racing, including oval, sports car, drag, desert, dirt, rally and extreme rock crawling. BFGoodrich Tires combines technological expertise with vast motorsports experience, delivering a high-performance tire for every type of vehicle. Visit BFGoodrich Tires at www.bfgoodrichtires.com, on Face book at www. facebook. com/bfgoodrichtires, or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ bfgoodrichtires. II Bf Goodrich® Tires Upgrades Its Online Experience BF Goodrich Tires. com Now Includes an Extended News Section, Events Calendar and More GREENVILLE, S.C. (July 6, 2011) Today, BFGoodrich® Tires is launching its upgrad-ed website at BFGoodrich-Tires.com, which offers many new and expanded features. The site caters to all enthu-Continued on page 40 ,, l•-~;,,;~a,,;;,;;,;;;.~~~~------, Th Pd 1/t llllllld Ot FROM TIii ,,11 ,, Address I I We're Fighting For Your Acce$s Rights! ·-----------1 I Join the rJlueRibbon eoalition City I 4555 Burley Dr. Suite A• Pocatello. 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siasts by connecting them to their desired driving experi-ence and conveying the per-sonality of the brand with a fresh look, easier navigation and a robust news section. "The new BFGoodrich Tires website is a destination where driving enthusiasts can find a tire that will not only get them from point A to point B, but also fits their lifestyle," said Duane Thomas, Brand Com-munications Manager for BF-Goodrich Tires. "Consumers can choose the correct tire by driving through the upgraded, comprehensive tire selector, as well as view compelling video that brings the BFGoodrich Tires experience to life." Upgraded features at BFGo-odrichTires.com include: Driving scenarios -Visitors can explore various scenarios from everyday driving on the BFGoodrich® Advantage T/ A® tire to trail rides on the BFGoodrich® Mud-Terrain T/ A® KM2 tire. Page 40 Tire selector -The most-vis-ited section on BFGoodrich-Tires.com has now been up-graded to include more than 500 vehicles, including the latest sedans; muscle cars and off-road trucks. Ratings and reviews -En-thusiasts can now rate their own BFGoodrich tires or re-view feedback from others on any tire in the lineup. Social integration -Cus-tom-designed social media tools allow for the integration of social feeds from BFGo-odrich Tires' Facebook, You-Tube and Flickr pages. Videos and photos of BFGoodrich's lineup of tires in action are featured throughout the site. News, events and Team BF-Goodrich -With the latest information on BFGoodrich Tires, Team BFGoodrich mem-bers and automotive events, BFGoodrichTires.com serves as a_n entertaining and infor-mative source for news, dates and locations of events, and videos from Team BFGoodrich members and its partners. 115 years of heritage -The proud history of BFGoodrich Tires is displayed .on the new website, which in the coming months will include an inter-active timeline of the brand's 115 years of innovation. BFGoodrich Tires will con-tinue to upgrade its website as the online space evolves to give enthusiasts the most enjoyable online experience possible. Using motorsports as a proving ground for more than 40 years, BFGoodrich Tires is involved in every type of rac-ing, including oval, sports car, drag, desert, dirt, rally and extreme rock crawling. BFGo-odrich Tires combines tech-nological expertise with vast motorsports experience, deliv-ering a high-performance tire for every type of vehicle. Visit BFGoodrich Tires at www. BFGoodrichTires.com, on Facebook at www.Facebook. com/BFGoodri'chTires or on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/ BFGoodrichTires. BFGoodrich has announced . its 2011 Team BFGoodrich members and announced a contest where fans can vote to send 4 Team BFGoodrich members to race the SCORE Baja 1000. Additional infor-mation below and attached. Also attached is a screengrab of the FB page and contest. Here' a direct link to con-test on BFGoodrich's Face-book page http://on.fb.me/ o038F8. Feel free to share on your Facebook pages and Twit-ter accounts. 2011 Team BFGoodrich ® Named, Fans Vote on Baja 1000 Competitors GREENVILLE, S.C. (July 22, 2011) -Today BFGo-odrich® Tires named the 23 members of the 2011 Team BF-Goodrich roster. Since 2010, Team BFGoodri<!h has includ-ed a variety o( top motors-ports superstars, key industry partners, market influencers and enthusiasts who share the BFGoodPich Tires passion for driving -from motorsports and car building to engineer-ing and everything in between. Fans can participate in Team BFGoodrich activities by voting for their favorite tearp members on the. BFGoodrich Tires Facebook page ( HY-PERLINK "http://www.face-book.com/bfgoodrichtires" \t " blank" www.facebook.com/ bfgoodrichtires). The winning Team BFGoodrich members may attend the SCORE Baja 1000 race in November or have an opportunity to par-ticipate in the Skip Barber Racing School. Voting starts today and will close o·n Aug. 31, 2011. "Both Team BFGoodrich August 2011 members and fans of the brand are critical to the BF-Goodrich Tires family," said Duane Thomas, BFGoodrich's marketing communications manager. "They're enthusiasts like us, and we want their in-put when developing new tires or expanding programs. This Facebook vote is a fun way for BFGoodrich Tires fans to interact with their favorite mo-torsports personalities and de-cide which Team BFGoodrich member will race in Baja and attend the Skip Barber Racing School." Six drivers will pilot the BFGoodrich Tires' Wide Open Excursion vehicle in the Baja Challenge (BC) Class in the 44th Annual SCORE Baja 1000. Four of.these drivers will be Team BFGoodrich members who were chosen by their fans, and the two remaining seats will go to the 2011 SCCA Na-tional Runoff's Champions. Team BFGoodrich members already participating in the SCORE Baja 1000 will also be a part of the vote with the chance to win a trip to Skip Barber Racing School. Members of 2011 Team BFGoodrich: • Andrew Comrie-Picard • Andy McMillin • Brad Lovell • Bryce Menzies • Bud Brutsman • Dan McKeever • Daniel McMillin • Dean Bulloch • Emily Miller • Jason Childress • Jason Scherer • Kevin King • Kyle Tucker • Lars Wolfe • Rich Minga • Rob MacCachren • Rod Hall • Rodrigo Ampudia • • Roger Lovell • Samuel Hubinette . • Terry Earwood • Tracy Jordan • Troy Trepanier Team BFGoodrich mem-bers and BFGoodrich Tires support each other through a variety of initiatives including media outreach, advertising and event presence. For an updated list of the motorsport events where Team BFGo-odrich members will be par-ticipating, visit BFGoodrich Tires' newly upgraded website at www.bfgoodrichtires.com. The Team BFGoodrich Baja 1000 program began in 2010. Brutsman, Scherer, Tucker, Wolfe and Casey Currie drove in the 43rd Annual SCORE Baja 1000, placing second overall in the BC Class. "Having the chance to race the SCORE Baja 1000 was a · dream come true," said Scher-er, Team BFGoodrich member and 2009 King of the Ham-mers winner. "I couldn't have asked for a better group of people to share the experience with. Our second-place finish in the BC Class was quite an accomplishment, especially when you consider that most of us had never raced the Baja 1000 before. I'd love to come home with a first place win this year!" More information about Wide Open Excursions and Skip Barber Racing School can be found at www.wideopenex-cursions.com and www.skip-barber.com. Using motorsports as a proving ground for more than 40 years, BFGoodrich® Tires is involved in every type of racing including oval, sports car, drag, desert, dirt, rally and extreme rock crawling. BFGoodrich Tires combines technological expertise with vast motorsports experience, delivering a high-performance tire for every type of vehi-cle. Visit BFGoodrich Tires at www.bfgoodrichtires.com, on Facebook at www.face-book.com/bfgood rich tires, or on Twitter at www.twit-ter.com/b f good rich ti res. BLUE RIBBON COALITION Calls for Legislation to Amend Recreation Permitting Process The survival of local clubs, the backbone of a land manager's OHV resources are at risk. POCATELLO, ID (July 21)--The BlueRibbon Coalition, a national trail based recreation advocacy group, issues a call for legislation to amend the recreation permitting process on Bureau of Land Manage-ment and U.S. Forest Serv.i.ce managed lands. The Coalition cites numerous examples of an overly bureaucratic process and arbitrary application of fees and other requirements that unfairly harm non-grofit recreational clubs. The Coalition's Executive Director, Greg Mumm, said, "the current implementation of the recreation permit regu-lations no longer serves the public interest or support the goals and objectives of land use planning. The recreation permit process must be re-vised. We believe that legisla-tion is necessary to fix the problem." Brian Hawthorne, the Co-alition's Public Lands Policy Director, is concerned that the permit process is endangering the existence of not-for-profit recreation clubs. He says the clubs often partner with land managers, providing assistance in management, maintenance and enforcement. "Federal land managers need healthy and growing clubs that can help manage recreation, espe-cially in light of declining bud-gets. Sadly, some land manag-ers require expensive permits for a simple club ride of only a few persons." Don Amador noted that his-toric and popular competitive events that have been occurring without problems have been recently subjected to arbitrary Dusty Times

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fees. He also observed that· in some areas, the application process to obtain an SRP is being used to prohibit and/ or severely restrict otherwise allow-able activities. "We have tried for nearly a decade to encourage the land managers to streamline the permitting process. These efforts have not been effec-tive, even when we have willing agency partners. The time has come for Congress to step in and mandate a solution." The BlueRibbon Coalition is calling on its members to ask · their U.S. Representatives to support a legislative fix to the permitting problems. The Coalition posted a web-page detailing problems with the permitting process and outlining its suggested solu-tions. View the webpage here: http://www.sharetrails.org/ pub lie-lands/? section =srp It also has asked recreational users to send in examples of arbitrary implementation of recreation permit regulations. A few examples have already been posted on the Coalition's permit webpage. BlueRibbon Coalition Auction Initiated by Clint Carter POCATELLO, ID Quly 7) -Clint Carter (of Inner Air Lock, internal bead locks) has initi-ated a huge auction to help sup-port the BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC) and its mission to protect your recreational access. Clint has started things off with a bang by throwing in the Ultimate Adventure rig, Whop-per Jr, as his way of helping us save trails and keep the sport alive. Check out this '98 Ford F250 that kicked it in the 2009 Ultimate Adventure (Petersen's 4Wheel & Offroad Magazine). Bidding starts at $500 and continues throughout the 2011 Ultimate Adventure. The truck comes with a DVD featuring highlights of the 2009 Ultimate Adventure, a signed plate from everyone at Petersen's 4Wheel & Offroad (4WOR), and your picture .with your "new" Ulti-mate Adventure truck in a fu-ture issue of Petersen's 4WOR Magazine. "It's a SWEET rig. Thank you, Clint," said Del Albright, BRC Ambassador. "And WOW, what a bunch of stories and memories this truck has. What a trophy it will make for the lucky auction winner!" "It's the simple things that we all can do to make a differ-ence in saving trails and sup-porting BlueRibbon Coalition," Del continued. "No matter how big or small; it all helps." Additional items may be added to this auction from the many fine sponsors. These sponsors include Petersen's 4Wheel & Offroad, InnerAi-rLock, Extreme Off Road Parts (E.O.R.P.), Sunfire OffRoad, Zone Offroad and more! "Kudos and thanks to Clint, Petersen's and all the spon-sors for being so generous and creative in making this happen for the BlueRibbon Coalition," said Greg Mumm, BRC's Execu-tive Director. "Everyone should jump on this awesome way to help us fulfill our mission." For additional information and updates, or to jump into the bidding right away, visit the InnerAirlock auction webpage. ### The BlueRibbon Coalition is a national recreation group that champions responsible re.creation, and encourages individual environmental stew-ardship. With members in all 50 states, BRC is focused on building enthusiast involve-ment with organizational ef-forts through membership, outreach, education, and col-laboration among recreation-ists. 1-800-BlueRib -www. sharetrails.org 1969 FORD RACE COMPLETELY REBUILT: THIS 69 FORD TRAVEL/ 20" OF FRONT TRAVEL ON Fl •POWERED BY A FORD 351 BORED AND STROKED TO •RDE "TROPHY TRUCK" TH400 MANUAL VALVE BODY •RDE 9 -INCH GEAR WITH SPOOLED THIRD MEMBER, •DIRT-TECH "PRO" HOUSING AND TRAILING ARMS, •TUBEWORKS 6 X 6.5 REAR HUBS: •37-INCH BFG PROJECT TIRES. •17 KMC BEADLOCK WHEELS. •14-INCH ROTORS, July Checkers Report by El Chinero SUMMERTIME BLUES -Not Much Goin' On In an effort to accommodate the Checkers living in the outlying areas, e.g., Norco, Yucaipa, "The Pride of the Foothills", and BFE, the meeting on the Sixth of July ("Buy a fifth on the Third for the Fourth") was out in the Outland Empire at the "Screaming Pollo Saloon": "Highly recommended! Great place, with a pizza joint (?!) just down the road that delivers. Semi-live entertainment (Ed.: "Al-most dead?"), real cold beer." (Ed.: In spite of his glowing recommendation, last year's Pres showed up late; how soon they do forget!) This eastern location brought out the likes of noted recluses such as "Big John" Files. Presi-dent Lin Neal thinks that this should be a regular stop in our monthly rotation of locations. "Mother's" in Sunset Beach will also be a regular stop. POTENTIAL PITA? According to the BLM no fuel containers can be placed directly on the ground. Any container must have "some sort" of (second-ary) container under it, which will hold the full amount of the con-tainer if that should leak. (Ed.: Does a pickup bed qualify?) This includes all dump cans, as well as 55-gallon drums. If not in compli-ance all cars using that pit will be "subject" to a DQ. Also if working on a car and there is any "possibil-ity" of fluids leaking there must be carpet or some other (unspecified) •CNC 4-PISTON BRAKES WITH HYDRO BOOST ASSIST ALL AROUN •HOWE STEERING BOX, PUMP AND HYDRAULIC ASSIST SWING SE •52-GALLON FUEL CELL, •EQUAL LENGTH "I-BEAM" FRONT END DESIGNED AND BUILT BY MARK NEWHAN, '•4· LINK REAR SUSPENSION DESIGNED AND BUILT BY MARK NEWHAH, •FRO NT SHOCKS ARE 2 . 5 FOX COILOVERS AND 3.0 FOX BYPASS SOCKS •REAR SHOCKS ARE 2.5 FOX C~ILOVERS AND 3.5 FOX BYPASS •NEW ALUMINUM DASH WITH AUTOMETER GAUGES. •KENWOOD 150-WATT RACE RADIO WITH PC! INTERCOM, • LOWRANCE 9200 COLOR GPS. SALE PRICE: $125,000 Dusty Times August 2011 "material" under the car to catch any leaks. · (Ed.: "Quotes" added.) All rules will be strictly enforced. M.O.R.E. Kar-Tek "Freedom 250" July 16, 2011 Barstow, CA USA "With twelve cars entered it was a fun, full night. Main Pit was hopping all night and a big thanks to everyone. Dan Martin and Sean Williams did us proud by winning Class 1 and the Over-all. Brian Potts came in second in Class 10; we had eight finishers. L. " m. Lee-Bob Finke, #lll, "lost" the left front corner - DNF. No other reports on Checkers racers -what a shame. Checkers #2 Pit Report Lou Peralta No Checkers flags in any of the (pit) boxes We checked a car to see if any-thing was loose. It was OK. #1002 -Matt Cullen - We re-placed his (missing) spare tire. # 1637 -.Art Velasco, Jr. - We changed a flat tire. IP D Other than that we waved a lot. The restrictions of pit speed allowed me to run next to the race cars and ask if they needed anything. (Ed.: I call "BS" on this one.) Thanks to Thumper for getting there at 6 am and holding our pit. Florence kicked him out of ·the house because she had better things to do. He handled the Checkers "Stop" sign as deftly as he has be-ing doing for the last 25 years. Thanks to Rev Roy for bringing "seventeen" spare tires. We used one. He then brought "sixteen" tires back to the Main. Good communications be-tween Checkers #2, Checkers Re-lay, and Checkers #l, the "Chatty Master Bates." RACING QUOTE "The crashes people remember, but dri11ers remember the near . " m1Sses. -Mario Andretti r 0 Page 41

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Classified ... Some of the items adver-tised in these pages may not be legal for sale or use in all 50 states. Readers are ad-vised to consult appropriate local or state authorities for information before pur-chase of any specific item. FOR SALE: $19,000,00 OBO. This 7S Ranger is BITD Champ in 2004!! It has Esslinger, MOGI Trans, King, Lothringer, DOSE FI System and many spare parts and tires! Best of the Best!! Also a 24 ft enclosed trailer! For any questions Call (818) 621-3471. ..... - { FOR SALE: Ford Ranger 7S. No Motor, set-up for 4 cylinder. 2 Automatic transmissons. Lots of spares, Only $5,500.00. Call (210) 415-7446 or email: first-choicesigns@hotmail.com. FOR SALE: F150, 4 link, 21 in rear, 19 ½ front, 4130 Chromo-ly, PCI radio, intercom and base, OPS, FOX, Curry, Borla, Beard, MSD, Parker Pumper, helmets with radios, Willwood, Fuel Safe, KC, spares. Lot there for $18,000.00 OBO. More pictures on request. Ken (530) 824-3203 or Michael@theskybeam.com. 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