King of the Desert!

My race report for Race-Dezert.com

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The King of the Desert! The race originally brought to fruition by the infamous Otis “FUD” Fudpucker continues on in his honor with the help of the Road Runner Off-Road Racing club now celebrates its 31^st anniversary in the Superstition OHV area. “The King” as many refer to, has a long history of desert racing greats taking the title, names like Smith, Harden, Ashcraft, Roeseler, Sundahl, Corda, Driscoll, Krause, Abbott, Caselli and many more…
In the past years this race was an AMA Hare and Hound National event but with new government restrictions and cost imposed on race promoters in an already tough economy, the club decided to scale down the event to a multi-lap 31-mile course rather than the 100-mile course it had been running in previous years to help cut costs.  “The last six years this race has had a national affiliation.” Said Paul Kirby of the Road Runners Off Road Club. “We took a time out from the national series mainly because of the fees involved. It has hurt us with participants, last year we had 250 riders where as this year we only had 106.” “But we will carry on either way, Fud started The King of the Desert 31 years ago and as long as we’re racing out here we’ll carry on the tradition!”
First to the bomb and off to an early lead was Kyle Corfman, while running first on the road most of the day he later had to pull out of the race due to dehydration.

Kyle Corfman had a commanding lead until dehydration took him out of running

Kyle pulling out of the race handed the race lead to AJ Stewart who took the win in the “King” class and 2^nd O/A taking home $900 dollars. “I got a good start and was second behind Kyle (Corfman) for awhile.” Said AJ. “I just wanted to keep the OH Crap moments down to a minimum and run a steady pace. I have the San Felipe 250 next weekend so I wanted to make sure I was in good shape for that. It was a good day!”

AJ Stewart - 2012 King of the Desert

King of the quads was Josh Row who carried a blistering pace throughout the day riding well into the upper ranks of the open bikes. “I had a good race!” Excitedly replied Josh Row. “I hole shotted the bomb and pretty much just picked my lines since I was in the clear. I had a little get off; I got off a kicker sideways and got pitched, bit my tongue, but after that I got into my grove and started making my way through the bikes and ended up third overall!”

Josh Row ripping his way through to third O/A and King of the quads

The winners, Events sponsors Redination, and the FUD quilt made from Fud event t-shirts

With twelve more races slated over the year, two in the mountains near Jacumba, District 38 continues to promote great off road family fun.

Off-Road racing IS a family sport - for all ages.

HDRA - For the racers, by the racers..!

Coverage: HDRA Redline at Stateline

Jan. 30, 2012 By Art Eugenio

The High Desert Racing Association (HDRA) made its return official with a successful inaugural event with the Redline at the Stateline, which was held just outside of Las Vegas at Primm Nevada.
Just months ago the announcement of the revival of the once great HDRA series put the off-road racing world into a frenzy of excitement and uncertainty. The questions raised be the revival of this series had the off-road community wondering if another series was the answer. With the vision and backing of longtime Trophy Truck racer Roger Norman and the ability and execution of Ken Flippen and Robert Gross, HDRA is certain to try and answer those questions in a positive fashion.

Jole Whitted (1205) had a heated battle with Scott Wisdom (1288), narrowly taking the win for the weekend.

“About 5 months ago I got together with Ken and Robert and started talking about some possibilities, and a week later we announced that we were going to do it,” said Roger Norman. “I’m the type of person that when I say go, it’s go all the way. I knew with all the people involved it would be a sure success and it is. It’s everything I was hoping it could possibly be for this first event. Every racer has told us how happy they are and are coming back for our next race, even the ones who were doing just this one. I couldn’t be happier.

Steven Eugenio (103) took home over $10,000 for the weekend first overall and first in Class 1.

“We really want to grow the sport and bring it up to the level that we all see it as. We had several TV crews here that came from all over. We had a few come out from as far as New York and Florida; another came from San Diego and most of the desert media are here as well. We had Jim Cook filming from the helicopter all weekend, not only following the big unlimited cars but Class 11s and 9’s, everyone. We have big plans and we’re going to see them through.”

Running the show is race director Robert Gross, who ran a tight ship at the first race of experienced volunteers with precision timing. Not one race of the multi-day, multi-heat event was delayed for any reason, a great accomplishment for the first run out of the box.

A great weekend for the father son team of Robert and Derek Eugenio sweeping the weekend in Class 9 (979).

“We’ve taken a lot of time and planning the last few months,” Gross said. “We started with a blank sheet of paper and went from there, with the help from Roger, Robbie, Jake and the his whole crew is incredible, they are the icing on the cake. With everyone we have in place already, my family are all involved, Mark Bass, Gene Lund, Lawton Shank, all the staff in registration, timing, the flagmen, the recovery guys, checkpoint guys, they all want to do this right and we’ve showed it today that we can do it. We put all the right people in all the right places and bam, the lights are on, the world is watching. BLM has us under a microscope and we ran flawless.”

Brandon Arthur went big and took the win in Class 1400.

Overseeing all this is Ken Flippin who, with his vast experience from years of racing and promotion, left his family business to pursue the dream. “I couldn’t be happier, not because of the turnout, not because it was totally safe, not because Ivan Stewart is here, but because everybody who raced came up and said how happy they were,” Flippin said. “That’s why we formed this. We said it’s by racers for racers and we proved that. We’ve started with a ripple and ultimately we’re going to end it with a splash!”

Steven Eugenio, George Antill, Roger Norman and Ivan Stewart.

HDRA forges ahead to its next event to be held in Plaster City, California, a longtime haven for off-road which has been void of racing since the demise of MDR. Many have been wanting and waiting for someone to take the reigns and bring racing back to the area. With the success of this event, promises of the racers to return and the drive to succeed, HDRA should have no problem meeting expectations.

The HDRA media crew collects onboard video footage from the racecars.

Kyle Conlon (103) drove day two for Steven Eugenio. He took the win after taking a huge lead on the field.

(From left to right) Robert Gross, Roger Norman and Ken Flippin.

Patient MacCachren Rolls At Laughlin

by NSSN Staff

Six-time All-America racer Rob MacCachren of Las Vegas bounced back from a flat tire yesterday to patiently master the field of challengers and the rugged Southern Nevada desert Sunday to capture the overall and SCORE Trophy Truck victory in Round 2 of the SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge. (Art C. Eugenio photo)

LAUGHLIN, Nev. — Six-time All-America racer Rob MacCachren of Las Vegas bounced back from a flat tire Saturday to patiently master the field of challengers and the rugged Southern Nevada desert Sunday to capture the overall and SCORE Trophy Truck victory in Round 2 of the SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge.
In earning his 10th career SCORE Trophy Truck race win, MacCachren carefully cruised to a winning time Sunday of 54 minutes, 16 seconds averaging 55.28 miles per hour over eight laps of the rugged 6.25-mile desert race course.
The classes were divided into groups for five multi-lap races as this year’s SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge featured individual races on both Saturday and Sunday. With the start/finish line area and main pits once again located at the Laughlin Events Park, Las Vegas’ B.J. Baldwin was the overall winner Saturday, earning his third SCORE Trophy Truck race win in Laughlin and the fourth career race win in SCORE’s premier racing division for high-tech unlimited production trucks.
Finishing second overall and in SCORE Trophy Truck for the second consecutive day was RPM Off Road driver Juan Carlos Lopez, Tecate, Mexico, who crossed the finish line1:12 behind MacCachren in 55:28, averaging 54.09 mph in the No. 18 Chevy Silverado while third, 12 seconds behind Lopez and 1:24 behind MacCachren was Steven Strobel, Clarks, Nebraska, who finished third overall and in SCORE Trophy Truck in the No. 94 Strobel Motorsports Ford F-150 in 55:40 with an average speed for the eight laps of 53.89 mph.
After a flat tire cost him a chance for the win on Saturday when he ended up in ninth place, MacCachren took charge on Sunday during the first lap when he ran a race-best of 6:39 to take the lead on corrected time although he was still sixth physically on the road after starting ninth. MacCachren continued to pick off racers running third until the last lap when he past Strobel and finishing physically shortly after Lopez who had started second in the 24-truck field.
“Last year we were close and we ended up second but this year is going to be a great year,” said MacCachren, an eight-time SCORE season class point champion who now has eight class win in the SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge. “Last year we swept both rounds in San Felipe and the shocks have really come a long way over the years and these little shock coolers up on top, that’s our secret weapon for San Felipe. The whoops down there are super rough, a lot like here in Laughlin.”
“It was great racing going on today. I can’t wait to do it some more. I went out of here and I knew we had the lead and I was just getting roosted by his (Steven Strobel) rocks. About the time I decided to back off he checked up and moved over for me because we were in his mirror. We got by him at about mile two on the last lap. We got in front of him and then I just wanted to keep him right behind me. He started pressuring me. The truck was flawless. Yesterday was teeing up to be a great battle with B.J. (Baldwin) and I don’t know what happened I just probably threw it into a berm too hard and debeaded the tire. Today we made a little adjustment to that to make sure it didn’t happen so we came away with some success.”
With SCORE Trophy Trucks earning seven of the top 10 overall finishing positions, winning the unlimited Class 1 for open-wheel desert race cars and finishing sixth overall was Cody Parkhouse, Calif., who drove a Chevy-powered Jimco to the class win in 57:10 while averaging 52.48 mph. While earning his first career SCORE Class 1 victory, Cody Parkhouse, 24, was shadowed to the finish line by his father Brian Parkhouse, who finished fourth in Class 1, 2:03 behind his son in another Jimco-Chevy.
Finishing fourth overall and in SCORE Trophy Truck was Las Vegas’ Brendan Gaughan, a NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Truck Series driver who improved two positions from Saturday’s race with a time of 55:58 while averaging 53.60 mph in Collins Motorsports No. 12 South Point Racing Dodge Ram1500.
With nine entries in this year’s SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge, RPM Off Road of Bristol, Tenn. won five classes in addition to Lopez’s second place in SCORE Trophy Truck. With six class wins on Saturday, RPM Off Road leaves Laughlin with 11 class wins and two second places in SCORE Trophy Truck to start the 2012 SCORE Desert Series.
Mexico’s Eduardo Laguna and Rodolfo Iribe won Class 6 (Chevy Colorado) and Class 8 (Chevy Silverado) respectively for RPM Off Road for the second consecutive day. Clyde Stacy, Bristol, Va. won again in Class 2 (PSD-Chevy) and was second in Class 5-1600 (VW Baja Bug). Also on Sunday, Derek Fletcher, Abingdon, Va., won in Class 4 in another PSD-Chevy for the second straight day while RPM’s fifth class win Sunday was recorded by Jim Bunn, Bristol, Va., RGBuggy-Chevy who won for the second straight day in the Sportsman Buggy class.
“I did one lap in the 5-1600 car and one in the Class 2 car today,” said Stacy, 66. “I’m so sore. Overall we had a great day yesterday with six class wins. We backed that up with five wins today so that gives us a great start to the 2012 SCORE Desert Series. All the guys did well. We had several new cars here. The Class 6 performed great and Eduardo (Laguna) did a good job. Juan (Carlos Lopez) did a super job with the SCORE Trophy Truck. We had to put a new motor in the SCORE Trophy Truck Friday night. It was giving out right at the end of the race. We are having so much fun, especially being from the South were desert racing isn’t as big and we can’t wait until the next SCORE race in March in San Felipe.
Adding to his race record of most class wins was Donald Moss of Sacramento, Calif. who capped off a twin-win weekend by wing Class 3 for the 10th time in in Laughlin in his Moss Brothers Racing Ford Bronco.
Earning his sixth class win and second of the weekend in Laughlin was San Diego’s Kevin Carr (Class 5, unlimited VW Baja Bug).
Dan Chamlee, Carpenteria, Calif. (Class 7) won his class in Laughlin for the fourth time and second straight day.
Elias Hanna, Ensenada, Mexico, won for the third time in Class 7SX in Laughlin in his Ford Ranger and Otoneil Huerta, San Luis, Ariz., racing in a Curry-VW, captured SCORE Lites with a 19-second win over the Moulton-VW of Brent Parkhouse, Long Beach, Calif. and 55 seconds over Saturday’s winning team of Rafael Navarro IV, Temecula, Calif./Vic Bruckmann, Lemon Grove, Calif. Navarro defeated Huerta by just two seconds on Saturday and Bruckmann drove the team’s Jimco-VW on Sunday.
After a third-place finish in Saturday’s race in his class, driver of record Robert S. Archibald, El Cajon, Calif., earned a narrow two-second victory in a Mirage-VW over Saturday’s race winner Cody Robinson, El Centro Calif., who drove a Romo-VW to a 1-2 finish for the weekend’s two races. It was the closest finish of the race.
Earning his first SCORE race win, capturing Class 5-1600 Sunday was Canada’s Erich Reisen in a 1600cc VW Baja Bug.
Other class winners Sunday included Michael La Paglia, Murrieta, Calif. (Class 10, Racer-Chevy), Joe Bacal, Anthem, Ariz. (Stock Full, Lexus LX570), Andy Bell, Long Beach, Calif. (Stock Min, Toyota Tacoma) and Billy Wilson, Corpus Christi, Texas (Class 7-2, BajaLite Chevy). Bell and Wilson won both races in Laughlin this weekend.
Winning for the second straight day in Sportsman Truck was Nick Tonelli, Huntington Beach, Calif. in a Ford Ranger.

Laughlin Desert Challenge Day 2

Day 2 of the Laughlin Desert Challenge found Rob MacCachren at the top of the podium after a tough battle with Juan Carlos Lopez. “Last year we were close and we ended up second, but this a great way to start the new season,” said MacCachren.  “Last year we swept both rounds in San Felipe and the shocks have really come a long way over the years and these little shock coolers up on top; that’s our secret weapon for San Felipe.”  “There was some great racing today. I can’t wait to do it some more.”

Rob Mac on his way to winning the LDC

The hired gun from Tecate brought the RPM/Clyde Stacy truck across the line in 2nd position. This solidifies Juan Carlos Lopez’s promise to be a threat in the 2012. “It was very hard and technical out there, lots of whoops,” said a very happy Juan Carlos.  “It was either too soft or too hard, but it was a lot of fun. The truck ran great and we had no problems.”

"PIN" at LDC

Taking home third was Steven Stroble who just came off a stellar year nearly pulling off a championship in a rival race series. “The course changed as the race went on and we lost some right at the end,” said Stroble. “The motor started to go a little bit soft and something in the suspension too.” “It was chewed up out there but we came home with a good finish.” “Right at the end, Rob (MacCachren) caught us so we let him by and we chased him on in to the finish line. I didn’t want to hold him up. We weren’t going to be able to get the win but it’s a great way to start the season. We’re going to San Felipe; we’re running for the points and everything counts to get these things across the finish line.”

Top honors in Class 1 was Cody Parkhouse.  “It is a brutal, brutal track. Everything is more squared off and twice as big – which suits this car well, but it beats you up,” said Cody. “We had no issues at all; we ran clean and ran fast. We got it (the win), but we’ll have to wait until it is official. Once again, I ran around with my dad for a lap or two, and it was fun.”

Cody Parkhouse

Second in Class 1 was Harley Letner. “It was a flawless run but I had to put a backup motor in after Friday, so it’s a little low on power but what it lacks in power, I make up on suspension” said Harley. “Our crew sets it up so great and it just works great. It was rough out there. Yesterday was a freeway compared to now; it was insane!”

And rounding out the top three in Class 1 was Brian Parkhouse. “We had no problems; it was just rough and I couldn’t keep up with the young kids.” said Brian. “I was pretty close to Harley (Letner) on splits, but we’ll take third just the same.” “The car worked great and the setup was good. The course got a lot rougher today. We expected that and made some adjustments on our shock package and compensated for it pretty well.”

Brian Parkhouse

The racing at the LDC was great as always but the overall atmosphere left something lacking compared to years past. What once was a exciting, action packed weekend of watching your favorite racers in door to door combat for the win is now just a shell of its former glory. Over the years, the race has been put through the ringer, shrinking in size and becoming less and less of a spectator sport. Many have speculated why, but from this writer’s point of view, the blame falls directly on the BLM and their questionable interpretation of the law. We keep loosing more and more and becoming less and less free to do what we enjoy doing. The days of treking out with the family, finding a nice spot, setting up a barbeque and watching a race are quickly going away, maybe even gone, and now given way to watching from behind a 6ft fence 300 yards away from a flat section of dirt. Where will it end? This race is a perfect example of why we need to get our asses in gear and fight for our sport. It’s time! Let’s do it!

Baldwin Claims SCORE Off-Road Opener

by NSSN Staff

B.J. Baldwin topped Saturday's SCORE Off-Road racing opener in Laughlin, Nev. (Art Eugenio photo)

LAUGHLIN, Nev. — With fire in his eyes, hunger in his belly and new tires on his race truck, Las Vegas; B.J. Baldwin was able to keep his new year’s resolution by winning the overall and SCORE Trophy victory at Saturday’s season-opening SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge by diligently racing his No. 97 Baldwin Motorsports Chevy Silverado to a winning time of 53 minutes, 45 seconds averaging 55.81 miles per hour over eight laps of the rugged 6.25-mile desert race course.
With entries from 15 U.S states along with Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany and Mexico, Round 2 of the five-race 2012 SCORE Desert Series will be held Sunday along the banks of the Colorado River in the Southern Nevada resort destination of Laughlin. Competition is being held for 20 Pro and three Sportsman classes for race buggies and trucks.
The classes are divided into groups for five multi-lap races each day. The start/finish line area and main pits will once again be located at the Laughlin Events Park just off of Casino Drive in Laughlin. The day-long second race of the weekend will start Sunday at 7 a.m.
Baldwin, who won both the 2006 and 2008 SCORE Trophy Truck season point titles, survived a tight battle for the five laps with fellow Las Vegas Rob MacCachren, finally pulling away on the sixth lap when MacCachren was had to stop to change a flat tire. Baldwin, who was also the fast qualifier for the race and started first Saturday, led physically the entire race although on corrected time he was in a dead heat with MacCachren after three laps and had a 10-second lead after five laps before MacCachren had to stop to change a tire.
Winning the SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge for the third time in the last seven years, Baldwin did not finish any of the four races he ran in last year’s SCORE Desert Series and made a strong commitment to himself and his team to changes things in 2012.
“I made a personal commitment to myself and my team at the end of 2011 to never let anything get in the way of pursuit of a victory,” said Baldwin 32. “Running our race team like a business has sometimes gotten in the way of that and I’m over it, my team’s over it and we are done losing. 2012 is going to be our best year. I’d like to thank everybody that lives here in Laughlin and everybody that lets us race down here. This is a wonderful place to put on an event.”
“We were going to try and go slow for the first three laps because it is so hard on equipment but Rob MacCachren just wouldn’t let us do that. He was pushing the pace and I was trying to go as slow as I can but still go fast. He was catching me a second a lap and then on one of the laps I put three seconds on him and then the next lap he got a flat. To lose to Rob would be awesome but to beat him is even better.”
With SCORE Trophy Trucks, the premier SCORE racing division for high-tech, 850-horsepower unlimited production trucks earning eight of the top 10 overall finishing positions, winning the unlimited Class 1 for open-wheel desert race cars and finishing fifth overall was Adam Pfankuch, Oceanside, Calif., teammate of driver of record Steven Eugenio, El Centro, Calif., drove a Chevy-powered Jimco to the class win in 56:12 while averaging 53.38 mph.
Finishing second over and in SCORE Trophy-Truck was RPM Off Road driver Juan Carlos Lopez, Tecate, Mexico, who crossed the finish line1:06 behind Baldwin in 54:51, averaging 54.69 in the No. 18 Chevy Silverado while third, 25 seconds behind Lopez and 1:31 behind Baldwin was Gary Weyhrich, Troutdale in the No. 98 TSCO Racing Ford F-150.
Steven Strobel, Clarks, Neb., finished fourth overall and in SCORE Trophy Truck in the No. 94 Strobel Motorsports Ford F-150 in 55:38 with an average speed for the eight laps of 53.92mph.
With nine entries in this year’s SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge, RPM Off Road of Bristol, Tenn., won five classes in addition to Lopez’s second in SCORE Trophy Truck.
Mexico’s Eduardo Laguna and Rodolfo Iribe won Class 6 (Chevy Colorado) and Class 8 (Chevy Silverado) respectively for RPM Off Road while driver of record Clyde Stacy, Bristol, Va. was credited with two class wins (Class 2-PSD-Chevy and Class 5-1600-VW Baja Bug) although Steve Arlia, Phoenix and Thomas Fernandez, Ensenada, Mexico, both drive Saturday and Stacy will drive both on Sunday to remain eligible for season points. RPM’s fifth class win Saturday was earned by Derek Fletcher, Abingdon, Va., in Class 4 in another PSD-Chevy.
In the closest class race of the race, Clemson University freshman Rafael Navarro IV, the defending season class champ in his class defeated Otoniel Huerta, San Luis, Ariz., in SCORE Lites by just two seconds in his Jimco-VW.
Adding to his record of most class winners in the this race was Donald Moss of Sacramento, Calif. who won Class 3 for the ninth time in a Ford Bronco.
Earning his fifth class win in Laughlin was San Diego’s Kevin Carr (Class 5, unlimited VW Baja Bug).
Besides Baldwin, also winning his class for a third time in Laughlin was Dan Chamlee, Carpenteria, Calif. (Class 7).

LDC Day 1

January 14, 2012 by Art Eugenio  

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Despite a lower than normal amount of entries (102) the SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge still put on a great day of racing. With a slightly different setup, round 1 of the two race weekend is a full points race unlike past years which was a combine of the two day event. Tomorrow is another full points day essentially making the LDC a double points race.

BJ Baldwin bested the field taking the overall win with Juan Carlos Lopez just over a minute behind in second.,  “I made a personal commitment to myself and my team at the end of 2011 to never let anything get in the way of pursuit of a victory,” said Baldwin. “Running our race team like a business has sometimes gotten in the way of that and I’m over it, my team’s over it and we are done losing. 2012 is going to be our best year. We were going to try and go slow for the first three laps because it is so hard on equipment but Rob MacCachren just wouldn’t let us do that. He was pushing the pace and I was trying to go as slow as I can but still go fast. He was catching me a second a lap and then on one of the laps I put three seconds on him and then the next lap he got a flat. To lose to Rob would be awesome but to beat him is even better. I’d like to thank everybody that lives here in Laughlin and everybody that lets us race down here. This is a wonderful place to put on an event. ”

Taking third spot on the podium was Gary Weyhrich. “The first lap wasn’t bad but every other lap it went away farther and farther,” said Gary. “I think we’ve got to stiffen up the shocks up a bit. As the run kept going we started getting loose in the rear end and it was hard to control it.  It was frustrating because I was pushing and most of the guys I usually run with were pulling away from me. I think we’ll be fine tomorrow but we’ve got to stiffen the whole truck up. There were a couple of guys broken down and a couple on their side. Typical Laughlin: It’s crazy.”

Working his way through the pack and taking first in Class 1, 5th overall was Adam Pfankuch co-driving for Steven Eugenio. “I didn’t push too hard,” said Pfankuch. “We decided to take it down a notch because we wanted to save the car for tomorrow. It was fun. We just cruised and went around all of the big bumps and helped make the car hold up for tomorrow. This thing is a rocket ship but once it gets a little rough out there it comes to our disadvantage so we took advantage of what we have today.”
The next two podium spots were taken by Cody Parkhouse in 3rd and Brian Parkhouse in 4th. “It was awesome,” said Cody. “We’ve got this thing dialed in so good right now. It might have been a little soft but other than that it was as fast as we could go, foot to the floor everywhere.”
A good example of the close racing today was Ronny Wilson’s and Harley Letner’s tie for fourth spot with the exact same time of 59:17.

Harley Letner. “We had a broken brake line and it made it really hard to stop. It was a good race up until that happened on the third or fourth lap and we still caught a couple of guys. We tried not to overshoot turns and make it to the end and get a finish. I was going for a win but I guess we’ll try again tomorrow.”
Ronny Wilson. “I had a couple of slow laps and got out of the groove. Our goal is to come here and maybe get on the podium or get a couple top five finishes and get to San Felipe. Our cars are really more set up for Mexico races.”

With the new format tomorrow brings another chance at the podium and many are working through the night to take advantage of that. What hasn’t changed is how much the 6 miles of Laughlin desert changes within a day of racing. Tomorrows course will be rough… The holes will be BIG… And the ruts deep..!
Starting line up for Sunday:
SCORE TROPHY TRUCK (24)
97 B.J. Baldwin
18 Juan Carlos Lopez
98 Gary Weyhrich
94 Steven Strobel
9 Mark Weyhrich
12 Brendan Gaughan
96 Bobby Baldwin
95 Scott Whipple
20 Rob MacCachren
2 Pete Sohren
47 James Bult
84 Nick Vanderwey
19 Tim Herbst
49 Ryan Arciero
34 Ken Losch
65 Lloyd Sproule
10 Greg Nunley
48 Jimmy Knuckles
30 Robbie Pierce
16 Cameron Steele
14 Cameron Steele
15 Armin Schwarz
68 Marc Ewing
35 Jason Voss
CLASS 1 (20)
101 Damen Jefferies
106 Eric Hardin
102 Brian Parkhouse
107 Ronny Wilson
109 Conan Barker
117 Michael LaPaglia
113 Steven Eugenio
112 Harley Letner
108 Steve Appleton
105 Cody Parkhouse
118 Pete Sohren
149 Louie Serna
148 Kevin Thompson
115 Robert Archibald
110 Monica Greenhill
111 Grant Lenk
114 Clyde Stacy
100 Justin Davis
116 Tony Miglini
119 Jaime Huerta

Laughlin Desert Challenge Qualifying

January 13, 2012 by Art Eugenio  
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High winds throughout the day died down just long enough for BJ Baldwin to take the pole position at this years Laughlin Desert Challenge.
With a blazing fast time of six minutes, 23.99 seconds and 9 seconds faster than second place qualifier Rob MacCachren; Bj will lead the field at tomorrow’s season opener.

“We improved our lap time by nearly nine seconds over last year, so we are very stoked,” said Baldwin, who won this race in both 2006 and 2007 and was second in qualifying last year in Laughlin. “This was our first time running with Toyo Tires and they were hooked up just perfect on this rugged little race course. Our Chevy Silverado is ready to roar on the river and I have to be calm enough to keep from pushing it over the edge.”