LOCAL DRIVERS OFF FOR DESERT.Byline: Tim Haddock Auto Racing A handful of Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. racers are entered in this weekend's SCORE Desert Series San Felipe San Felipe (săn fəlē`pā), pueblo (1990 pop. 1,557), Sandoval co., N central N.Mex., on the Rio Grande; founded early 18th cent. The inhabitants are Pueblo of the Keresan linguistic family. Ceremonial dances are held there in spring and winter. 250, the second round of the six-race off-road racing Off-road racing is a format of racing where various classes of specially modified vehicles (including cars, trucks, motorcycles, and buggies) compete in races through off-road environments. North America Off-road racing began in the early 20th century. season. John Becker of Newhall and Dan Bohning of Saugus, entered in the ProTruck class, are among the more than 220 entries in the desert race through Baja California Baja California, state, Mexico Baja California (Span.: bä`hä kälēfōr`nyä), state (1990 pop. 1,660,855), 27,628 sq mi (71,576 sq km), NW Mexico, on the Baja California peninsula. Mexicali is the capital. that starts today at 6 a.m. Arizona's Bruce Greer Bruce Greer is a longtime native of Longview, Texas. Greer arranged hymns for choir and piano by age twelve, and later received a full scholarship to Baylor University, where he graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Music degree in Theory and Composition. and his co-driver Steve Smith in the Trophy Truck Trophy Trucks are the largest and fastest class of off-road racing vehicles which are designed and built to resemble modern Pickup trucks.Although any truck that meets the safety standards can race the trophy truck class, they, for the most part, feature long travel suspensions division have drawn the first starting position in a Dodge Ram built by desert-racing legend Walker Evans. Among the other Santa Clarita-area drivers entered in the race are Brian Jeffrey of Acton with his brother Joe Jeffrey of Vista in Class 1/2-1600; Darin McGuffin and Tommy Ditteld of Canyon Country in Class 9, and David Ebelstein of Acton in the Sport Motorcycle 250cc class. The Trophy Truck class has attracted some of the top off-roaders in the country, including Herbst brothers, Ed and Tim of Las Vegas, who have won the last three San Felipe 250s driving a Ford F-150 and Dan Smith and David Ashley of Riverside, winners of the Baja 2000 two years ago. Smith and Ashley, who drive an Ford F-150, have four straight class wins in SCORE competition, including this year's season opener in Laughlin. Jim O'Neal of Chatsworth, a 55-year-old motorcycle rider, will attempt to compete in two classes. O'Neal will race separate Honda XR650s in Class 30, for riders 30-years-old and over, and Class 40, for riders over 40. He will split time with teammates. A motorcycle double has never been completed in a SCORE San Felipe 250, but Smith and Ashley drove Class 3 and 4 entries in the 1992 San Felipe 250. --L.A. Kart Club moves to Irwindale: After more than 15 years of racing at Saugus Speedway, the L.A. Kart Club will compete at Irwindale Speedway in 2002. The nine-race go-kart schedule was released this week. The first race will be March 31 and will start at noon. Racing will be on the infield of the half-mile oval. Track designs will incorporate parts of the speedway for the LAKC LAKC Los Angeles Kart Club (California) courses. --Southwest Series champ in Busch race: Craig Raudman of Bakersfield, the defending NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. Featherlite Southwest Series champ, will race in today's Busch Grand National Division race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada, just outside Las Vegas, is a 1,200 acre (4.9 km²) complex of four different tracks for automobile racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. . Raudman will drive the No. 49 Ford for Robinson Racing, it was reported on NASCAR.com. Raudman won four races and led the most laps en route to his first Southwest Series championship last year for Yerf-dog Racing. AT A GLANCE The nine-race L.A. Kart Club schedule at Irwindale Speedway. All races will start at noon: Race 1: March 31 Race 2: April 14 Race 3: May 26 Race 4: June 9 Race 5: July 5 Race 6: Aug. 11 Race 7: Sept. 22 Race 8: Oct. 13 Race 9: Nov. 24 CAPTION(S): box Box: AT A GLANCE (see text) |
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