BITD - Nevada 1000 - Race - Day 2

[klaus]

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Robby Goerke via phone

at Caliente pits (10:35pst) : Class 1400...
1) Kyle Taylor
2) Damon Jefferies
3) Herbst TT - had to stop to change a flat, Damon passes and droppes them from 2nd to 3rd in pos.
4) Dave Westhem - no problem, no stop

next stop & phone. Cathedral Gorge pits, Panaca, Nv

[klaus]

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Cathedral Gorge, Panaca
Herbst's 1st, into Cath. Gorge pit- @ 11:42pst (Goerke)

[klaus]

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at Cathedral Gorge, Panaca, Nv
class 1400
starting @11:42
1st) Herbst TT -stopped for gas
2nd) Baldwin -stopped for gas
3rd) Jefferies -stopped for gas
4th) Westhem -no stop, no prob (4 minutes behind Herbsts and 1 minute behind Jefferies)
5th) Kyle Taylor - stopped and changed co-drivers (1:45 behind Westhem)

no flats for any of these between Caliente and Cathedral
(per Goerke)

next stop is Bristol Wells....

[Curtis Guise]

well folks the cell phones finally ran out, I knew they would way up there but I am promised phone calls tonight when the teams set down in Ely. more reports later.
calls in are expected from ...

Mike McClintock, chasing Jim Dizney in Class 10
Robby Goerke, chasing Dave Westhem in Class 1400 TT's

Eric

[Gabe_Lara]

This just in, Compliments of Eric Record @ Go-Desert.com:

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Nevada 1000 live update @17:55hrs PST (5:55pm - R. Goerke, phone) from the
finish of race day 1 in Ely, Nv

finish at Ely
Class 1400 and class 1

1st) Herbst TT - dominant lead, truck is flawless
2nd) Baldwins -
3rd) Doug Fortin (Cl 1) - obvious overall leader at day one finish, finished 2 minutes behind the Herbst TT and less then a minute behind Baldwin
4th) Damon Jefferies - clean no probs
5th) Wehrich (Cl 1) having some motor probe 'puking oil'
6th) Dave Westhem
7th) Kyle Taylor - had trans failure, had to replace trans at pit 4

Pat Dean lost a trans / will fix at Ely in work area
Danny Anderson (Cl 1), finished but also has trans probs, will work on them
tonight.

a little later tonight the sorting order for tomorrows start will be phoned
in and posted.
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Gracias, Eric!!

-Gabe

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by klaus on 06/20/02 07:43 PM (server time).</FONT></P>

[klaus]

Finishers of day one.

In class one:

- Fortin
- Ebberts
- Lofton
- Weyhrich

In Trick Truck

- Baldwin
- Herbst
- Jeffries
- Westhem

[klaus]

Chronologically from the On-The-Road-Off-Road-Team of Thompson & Tellier


DAY ONE
• Weather: Hot & Sunny
• Mood: Pensive

• Wake-up call @ 0400
• On the road @ 0440


THE START
Jesse Jones was putting Jeff Darland in for the start: “At least I get some driving,” Jeff needled Jesse. They had had to send the twin-plug Porsche back to Fat after sanding the engine at Terrible’s Town. “Anyone following us didn’t have any dust – I the engine sucked it all in!” They said that they used a poor oil for the filter: “Let’s see, K&N oil is two bucks, the engine rebuild cost $13,000. See anything wrong here?”

Darland was wearing “little ballerina slippers”, pointed out Jones. “I wear something that I can walk in!” Darland countered that maybe Jesse needed some shoes that allows him to push down on the gas a little more.

Mike Julson reported that the big “1” teams had lobbied Casey to have the Top Twenty of each day start in their elapsed time order – as opposed to the original plan of each group starting within their own class, e.g., the slowest, most-troubled Trick-Truck would start ahead of the fastest “1” buggy. Mike also agreed with Jesse that keeping a cool head through the rocks would guarantee a good finish; a flat would ruin the chances for being in that exclusive Top 20 – a position that would be well-worth the care required.

Jesse said that at the “500” he ran anywhere from 60 – when they saw a radar gun – to 125 when Mark Miller caught up to him: “I wasn’t about to let Mark get by me!” At about 50 miles – nearing the Ojos fields, a rear wheel came off and buggered up the studs, “so I left Travis with the car and walked out.” Darland came in on a borrowed XR650 and fixed it! Loose lugs nuts …”Now I’m having Barry Beacham do the car and the team.” He’s doing Scott’s Trophy-Truck and the Groff’s.”

The Chad Hall Hummer had upper shock bolts from Cat heads. Brad: “Those ¾-inch-diameter bolts normally cost $25 each. We replace them if they are corroded and I can then use them.” In a Cat that are loaded axially but here they are in double shear so the loading is substantially less – and in a different plane.

#1020 is Sammy Ehrenberg entered in “10” with only the restrictor plate removed on the “1600” single-seater. “We tried a ‘10’ engine but it was too tough on the bus box.”

#1516 Tim Scalzo/Casey Jones Aceco truggy runs a remote Turbo 400 mounted at the diff via a long engine-speed drive shaft. Cliff Hagan was right seat with Tim. Cliff was once a Baja KTM teammate of El Gonster.

#1220 Chet Huffman said that “We get way too many flats. I don’t come out here to change tires!”

The McMillins bought Jesse’s ex-Rod Muller’s Porter: “That car handled really bad. It went sideways a lot. They redid the rear.”

#1517 Mike Julson: “I have the fastest car out here!” He runs 33s on the front. Weyhrich runs a different tread on his front.

#1535 Jeff Darland was starting with an empty right seat.

#1227 Scaroni’s ProTruck carries a rolled-up length of carpet – Berber. Nothing’s too good for the Heber gang..

#7303 Aaron Dixon said that they were pulling a Mike Doherty: “We didn’t test!” Then Aaron admitted that they forgot the toolbox back in Lompoc ... they discovered this at Baker.

Open-Face Racers:
• Lloyd Ruby
• Ivan Stewart
• Ed Beard w/ red bandanna
and
• Rod Hall

#4107 Eldon Coats’ Bronco has a manual floor shift. Steve Olliges: “That takes the cake … crazy!” And steel wheels. Must be an Oregon thing.


PIT 1
DRY LAKE VALLEY
RM60
• Greg Foutz & Steve Wheeler stopped with hood up and on a jack.
• Manny Esquerra through, Greg Foutz & Steve Wheeler follow @ 1036
• #1015 Terri Tavis
• #8103 Chad Hall @ 1045 – reports passing Greg Foutz & Steve Wheeler (assumed down)
• #1112 Conrad
• #1020 Steve Downing/Sammy Ehrenberg
• Ace pit tootsie reports “personal” shave job to crew and bystanders – shows same.
• Hall reporting heating – needs RH hood strap Re-fastened at Pit 2 Caliente (this is an item that Greg Foutz & Steve Wheeler put his hands on before the start!!) and two turns out of the front shocks. Wants different thermostat this evening.


PIT 2
CALIENTE
RM105
1. #1227 Scaroni – 1117
2. #1220 Chet Huffman –
• RJR reported with fuel problems
3. #1299 Steve Barlow
• Kyle Taylor 1st car
• Herbst 2nd
4. #1256 Kevin McGillIvray
• “Darland stalled and hard to refire – electrical?” – Danny Foddrill. Rear cage off? Jesse in?
• #1529 Groffs did not stop at BFG where they were sked 30 gallons
• #1243 long stop – fuel problems?
• Jeff Lothringer hangin’ @ Hunters
• 6. #1269
• #1016 Diz – 1128
• #1014 TSCO – 1130
• #8011 LeDuc – 1130
• #1011 Ashcraft – 1132
• #1013 Jason Hunter – 1133 in, out 1134
• #1017 Dennis Hunter single seater – in @ 1134, out @ 1135
• #1511 Danny Anderson
• Chad Hall called in a flat; did the hood strap; did the shocks
• 7 #12xx
• 8. #1226 Al Hogan – RR bed panel gone
• 9. #1243 Rick Johnson - out @ 1141
• Jason Jernigan – 1144
• #1020 Sammy – 1147
• #1004 Steve Strobel – 1147
• #1022 Cartlidge III “putt-putt”
• #7210 Shawn Wanzek – 1149+
• #1015 Terri Tavis – 1150
• Fontana
• #8104 Manny Esquerra in – 1152, 2 qts oil plus cool and, Out @ 1157
• Feldkamp had to change a CV boot at Pit 1
• #1120 Bruce Conrad out of BFG @ 1202
• 10. #12xx Tom Koch in no front fenders
• #2020
• #8009 Ortiz – adjust rear bypass
• Dougie Brown: “Feldkamp on he twheels, looks OK, changing a tire?”
• #7101 Joe Custer into BFG pit, gets out, crew under truck
• #2052 – 1211
• #8103 Chad Hall – 1212, GRT does hood hitch pin – out @ 1213, 16 minutes behind Manny
• #8102 Greg Foutz & Steve Wheeler in 1214

PIT 3
CATHEDRAL GORGE
RM155
• #12xx Tom Koch said to have cartwheeled the ProTruck …. ergo, i.e., no front fenders, scraped hood.
• #8011 Curt LeDuc – 1254 w/ a strap a-`dragging
• Dodge ProTruck
• #1226 Hogan – 1257
• #1004 Steve Strobel
• “Herbst through Pit 4 @ 1258”
• #1243 RJ stops – 1301
• #2020 Steve Downing getting in for Sammy, the outerwrap -was silt coated, they changed it, Wik motor spotless: “The shifter was hung up when I blasted a water crossing it free up.” Steve WD-40-ed the assembly. “I was way out-horsepowered but when it got tight? I excelled! I caught and passed them back. And it is not a smooth course!”
• #7213 Jernigan – 1309; lost the antenna on low-hanging trees. Mike York got out. Low right rear tire caught just when ready to go. Put on a different treaded-tire but checked the torque with a flex handle. We had to bypass two stuck ‘1s” and tore off a fitting on a cooer and had to jumper it. Running strong.
• #1022 – 1310
• #1411 Kyle Taylor seen putting up the asphalt
• Rumor – 1227 SMD “out”
• #1015 Terri Tavis – 1317
• #8005 Fontana – 1318
• #12xx Tom Koch – 1321
• #2020 changed crew – 1322, car hates to idle. Fuel crew forgot to pull the vent plug. Tsk tsk. Kevin Graves: “I was going slow through this water crossing and a ProTruck knocked me into it. I roosted him – but it feels good!”
• Manny Esquerra– 1332. Leading
• #1017 Hunter – in 1325, out 1330
• #1112 Conrad –1326
• #1256 Kevin McGillIvray – 1327 … he and RJ still in the pits @ 1358
• #8102 Greg Foutz & Steve Wheeler -1334
• “Excursion stuck in silt beds”
• #8103 Chad Hall – 1334, stop for fuel
• #8009 Mike Ortiz – fuel and a left rear caliper
• Manny Esquerra vs. Chad Hall delta– 15 minutes
• #7101 Custer – 1338
• #1529 Brian Parkhouse fuel, rack looks galled, pushing metal: “It’s like [censored]; its skatey; the brakes feel like its locking up”
• #8009 Marc Stein: “Its great! It was a casual ride!” Mike McComas out at 1346
• #1529 Tom Ridings out in Parkhouse car – 1346 – car loading up BAD!
• #7105 Malcolm Vinje – 1348
• #1525 Groffs – 1350, lots of silt into the car.
• #4103 Rod Hall in 1353, out 1356


BRISTOL WELLS ROAD ENTRANCE
#7105 Malcolm: Vinje: “When I passed Rod he moved right over. He is a kind gentleman.”


PIT 4
BRISTOL WELLS
RM206
• #1020 Steve Downing/Sammy Ehrenberg – 1433
• #12xx Tom Koch - gassed up, spill up, in 1442, changed crew
• Tom: “Well, after the roll-over it didn’t go that bad! A little turn, a little uphill.”
• Dougie Brown: “It’s so nice, like where I like to ride, up in the forest, just railing it There were dead soldiers everywhere. We were upside-down, jacking and building a rock pyramid. We were all bumming. We didn’t drop and foe or any oil or any tranny fluid.” A sorry day in Checker history?
• Manny Esquerra– 1454
• #1256 Kevin McGillIvray – out 1458
• Bruce Conrad: “The T(oil) went way up off the start. - It’s a new engine - 260 - so I backed it down to 3,500 – 4,000 revs. When I hit the water crossing the water cooled it off. I musta just been breaking it in. There was everything: silt like Punta Prieta and Santa Rita … lots of it and deep. Zero visibility. We saw Scaroni and Greg Foutz & Steve Wheeler stopped. And some cars laying over in the ditch. This was s great deal, high speed, pine trees, easily marked, never a doubt. Danger markers were by a bike guy, of course. So they were pretty much ON the danger.”
• Chad Hall through 1505.


PIT 5
PONY SPRINGS
RM235
• #1256 Kevin McGillIvray– 1540
• #8103 Chad Hall – 1545
• #1227 Matt Scaroni drove off a big cliff. “A 100 mile-an-hour straight then a hard turn. Either roll or go off. I went off. I had a huge lead – that cost 45 minutes but didn’t hurt the truck. My Goodyears did not even get a flat after 150 hard miles … they looked like a BFG after 400. My Dad wouldn’t let me enter Trick-Truck.”
• #8104 Manny Esquerra–1537 gas and a visual
• #1112 – 1539
• #1017 Hunter – in 1540 out


PIT 6
GEYSER RANCH
RM285
• Bypassed – heading toward Ely for an auto parts store.

Major’s Junction – Home of The $9 six-pack of Bud.


FINISH
BFG RELAY DNFS
• #1004 Steve Strobel
• #1011 Ashcraft
• #1013 Jason Hunter
• #1228 Dan Hunt
• #1233 Greg Hansen
• #1243 Rick Johnson
• #1256 Kevin McGillIvray
• #1421 Roger Gray
• #1521 Feldkamp on the trailer
• #1537 Kory Scheeler
• #4102 Sunderland out of race RM155
• #4112 Scott Douglas
• #7210 Shawn Wanzek
• #8107 Henns on BFG Relay traffic …

• #1017 Scott Webster brought the Diz Jimco in the Top Twenty with nothing more than a flat tire.
• Manny Esquerra complained of heating problems: “We took out the (cooling system) restrictor and I ran a little harder. And we have an oil leak that we haven’t found yet.”
• The Wilson’s Scat car had two flats and were in the Top Twenty “Where we need to be! I saw one of the McMillins and Scalzo’s Acco Truggy but I don’t know what was up.”
• #1256 Nils Castillo did not have a Nice Day: ;o(. The carb was acting up, boiling the fuel?
• #11110 Matt Cullen also suffered the high T(oil) that Bruce Conrad experienced in the first art of the day’s race but only to 220F. “I cruised a bit but when we got to 7,200 feet I thought, ‘How can this be hot up here?’” Conrad refused to consider any evening maintenance: “This thing did the ‘2000’ without an evening’s ‘fix-it’ time!”
• Scott McMillin lost all gears in the auto except top – so he legged it in that way.
• #4102 Mike McComas said that the ACE Explorer was underpowered: “This has 220 hp and this is heavy. When we get into the silt it’s in First roaring but no going.” They had no trouble other than cleaning the mirrors.
• #1013 Jason Hunter lost P(oil) way back and the event was over for him.
• #1017 Dennis Hunter couldn’t get the car started at the finish. They were looking at P(fuel) and out-of-gas syndrome.
• #7301 Ian Dixon said that the worst thing they had happen was loosing a hood pin. “The new 3” Fox shox really work, although they are kinda mushy. But way better.”
• CONTROVERSY! The “Top Twenty” deal was not sitting well with those not in the “Top Twenty”.


“They” say that Doug Fortin was first. Other top performers were Julson/Loftin, Herbsts … I just got off the road.

[klaus]

Chronologically from the On-The-Road-Off-Road-Team of Thompson & Tellier


DAY ONE IMPOUND
• #7303 Aaron and Ian Dixon finished within ten minutes of Rob MacCachren and Steve Olliges. They changed the power steering pump.
• Syko only threw three belts! Still not amused. Syko was also unhappy with #1233 Greg Hansen: “This guy was holding up the show!” Dave had a lot to say: he stopped for Matt Scaroni’s down-slope excursion and even offered to pull him out. Psych said that Matt dithered so much that two buggies got by and then never actually hooked up the strap. Sykes split. Mike Lesle will start on Day 2.
• Jim Dizney and Scott Webster were in the Top Ten
• Dick Weyhrich and Jim Zupanovich were assessed a 15 minute penalty for a highway infraction – vague enough? Diz said that the TSCO car was pretty beat up from “trying to keep up with us!” Torn brake lines, banged A-arms. Diz n Scott had one dinged rim.
• #1522 Randy Wilson had a Fortin go bad – Doug, Sr. got into pulling the nose cone in situ.
• Pat Dean lost the auto in the Porsche car and had to take a full penalty + two hours.
• #7213 Jason Jernigan hit a tree – a BIG tree and lost most sheet “metal” on the right side.
• Greg Foutz bent an I-beam
• #1227 Scaroni got stuck then Foutz got him out. Then Foutz got stuck and #1227 got him out, so reported “Hired Gun” Scott Steinberger. “When I got in there was no power! I thought ‘Jeez, their engine guys hasn’t got it!’ Then we changed the air filter and ‘Wow”, some power.”
• Marc Stein said that he helped Foutz get unstuck, too.
• Strange alliances are formed and dissolved hour by hour.
• Feldkamp had shock shaft woes and elected to trailer in and round up Brett King.
• Sam Berri finished Third but then had to dig into the bowels of the engine: pushrods, lifters, rockers. And was rewarded with a time penalty.
• The Mongoids started off tossing belts with in a few miles of the start and never stopped .. never stopped tossing belts. They cleaned out the Caliente NAPA. Misalignment. They shimmed it right but lost mucho time.
• Ace 3101 Dave Turner underwent an extensive shock mod rework with cutoff wheel, wire welders and BIG hammers.
• Mark McMillin’s engine had the valve cover off and an oiling question seemingly unresolved.
• Jeff Darland got motion sickness (so sez owner Jesse Jones) and Jess took over unannounced. He was Ninth.
• Brian Parkhouse was pulling the Jericho top-loader … looked like a difficult and time-consuming task.
• Chad Hall changed the H20 pump on the Hummer.



Tellier & Thompson
Ely, NV