| Olympics show why seat belts save lives - Sun-Journal Posted: 23 Feb 2010 08:19 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. It's been more then 40 years since seat belts were first required in cars, and more than 25 years since a state, New York, first required people to use them. Despite years of progress and legislation, it's remarkable that about one in five auto occupants still does not wear one. Count 21-year-old Zachary Tenenbaum of Brunswick among them. He was thrown through the side window of a car Sunday when it rolled over on Route 9 in Durham. He survived, and should count himself a lucky man. The driver, Tevis Yarmala, 20, of Bowdoin did not require medical attention, no doubt because he was wearing a seat belt which kept him in the vehicle during the crash. The unbelted Tenenbaum, meanwhile, was hospitalized. We spend so many hours in motor vehicles, and they are now so comfortable, that it is impossible for most of us to imagine the violent potential of a crash or rollover even at moderate speeds. That's why watching the winter Olympics is, when you think about it, instructive. Over the past 10 days, we have seen over and over what happens to a human body out of control. Some of the crashes on the downhill ski slopes have been frightening to watch as young men and women lose control at high speeds, sometimes in excess of 60 mph. While some skiers have been injured, most, fortunately, have walked away to compete again. But these crashes occur under ideal conditions. The competitors wear helmets, the area has been cleared of stationary obstacles and fences have been erected. Unlike people thrown from cars during accidents, the skiers also aren't trying to dodge several tons of flying, rolling metal vehicle. The disturbing video of Georgian luger, Nodar Kumaritashvili, is sadly more representative of an automobile accident. The young man was thrown from his sled and directly into a steel beam. Highways are lined with such objects, from trees to rocks, to bridge abutments, guardrails and, yes, steel beams. Most rollover victims are thrown into such an object, or crushed by a vehicle as it rolls. Anyone who doesn't make a habit of wearing a seat belt is, as the Olympics and the statistics show, playing roulette with their life. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. ![image]() |
| Growing Field Preparing as Pre-Running Starts Saturday for 24th ... - Who Won Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:59 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Tuesday, February 23, 2010Growing Field Preparing as Pre-Running Starts Saturday for 24th MasterCraft Safety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250
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by Dominic Clark
LOS ANGELES -- As pre-running over the rugged race course starts Saturday for next month's 24th Annual MasterCraft Safety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250, a growing field that includes many of the world's best desert racers have entered this popular spring race. Attracting entries from 22 states and eight countries, the lineup includes a race-record 34 entries in SCORE Trophy-Truck, the marquee racing division for high-tech, 800-horsepower unlimited production trucks.
Round 2 of the 2010 SCORE Desert Series will be held March 12-14 in Mexico's picturesque fishing village of San Felipe, located 120 miles south of the U.S. border on the East side of the Baja California peninsula along the azure waters of the tranquil Sea of Cortez.
With nearly 275 entries expected, which would be in the top five in race history, competition will be held in 28 Pro and 6 Sportsman classes in the 232-mile race. The green flag will drop at 6 a.m. Pacific time on Saturday, March 13, for the motorcycle and ATV classes, followed three hours later by the car and truck classes at approximately 10 a.m. local time. The start and finish line for the race will once again be the landmark San Felipe Arches on Highway 5 on the outskirts of San Felipe. One vehicle will start every 30 seconds in the elapsed-time race, with a 10-hour time limit to become an official finisher.
Following January's season-opening SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge, the World's Foremost Desert Racing Series will visit Mexico for the first of three races in 2010.
"This year's 24th MasterCraft Safety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 is quickly shaping up to be one of the top five races in the great history of this popular SCORE Baja race," said Sal Fish, SCORE CEO/President. "SCORE has never had more cooperation from the Mexican authorities, the course is Baja spectacular and we are getting a superb entry list—all the ingredients that should add up to another amazing SCORE Baja race."
This year's race will use a similar 232-mile race course as the past two years with a few modifications other than those caused by weather conditions. Running in a counter clockwise direction out of San Felipe up to and then parallel to Highway 3 (south side) and then south back down through three of the most picturesque and challenging washes in all of Baja.
After the start at the landmark San Felipe Arches, the race will proceed north towards Zoo Road. The area approaching the Zoo Road crossing has been bladed again, which makes it a safer approach to the popular spectator area. That area will again be fenced, have grandstands and a jump and will be patrolled so that spectators can watch the action but not put themselves in way of the action.
For the first time the course will travel east of instead of on the graded Morelia Road (after the Zoo Road junction) to the entrance to Matomi Wash. This will be one of the few times that SCORE will run through the majestic Matomi Wash before the other washes instead of following the others. After Matomi, the challenging course will run through two more of the infamous Baja canyons—Huatomote and Chanate before heading back Northwest for the final sprint to the finish line.
SCORE Trophy-Trucks have won 14 overalls in San Felipe in their 16-year history. Southern California's Mark Post/Jerry Whelchel in 1997 and San Diego's son/father team of Andy and Scott McMillin (2005) have the only two Class 1 wins since SCORE created the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division in 1994.
Both teams are now racing in SCORE Trophy-Truck where Post has two class and overall 4-wheel wins and the McMillins will be looking for their third consecutive SCORE Trophy-Truck race win and overall victory having won last year's season-ending Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 and this year's season-opening SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge.
In all nine of last year's 10 SCORE Trophy-Truck finishers are entered led by runner-up Robby Gordon, Charlotte, N.C., the NASCAR Cup team owner/driver who won last year's SCORE Trophy-Truck and SCORE Overall season point championship in the No. 1 Team Gordon Chevy CK1500.
Post was third last year with Rob MacCachren (who will drive the No. 20 Chevy Sivlerado this year) in the No. 3 Ford F-150 while fourth was the team of Chet Huffman, Northridge, Calif./Jerry Welchel, Portola Hills, Calif. (No. 40 Chevy C1500) and fifth was Adam Householder, Orange, Calif. (No. 24 Chevy Silverado).
Sixth last year in SCORE Trophy-Truck was Las Vegas' B.J. Baldwin (No. 97 Chevy Silverado) while the balance of the SCORE Trophy-Truck finishers were Las Vegas' Troy Herbst (No. 49 Ford F-150), Robbie Pierce, Santee, Calif. (No. 30 Chevy Silverado), Greg Nunley, Visalia, Calif. (No. 10 Chevy Silverado) and Ed Stout, Santa Ana, Calif. (No. 13 Chevy Silverado).
Desert racers Ron Whitton of Arizona and Southern California's Robby Bell received the first starts for four-wheel and two-wheel vehicles in the computerized drawing for starting positions held Feb. 13. Whitton races in the featured SCORE Trophy-Truck division while Bell competes in Class 22 for open motorcycles.
Drawing the first starting slot for the unlimited Class 1 open-wheel desert race cars was Germany's Armin Schwarz and teammate Martin Christensen, Escondido, Calif. Riding the first ATV off the line will be Class 25 team led by Wayne Matlock, El Cajon, Calif.
With a race-record 34 entries so far in the marquee SCORE racing division for 800 horsepower, unlimited production trucks, Whitton, 66, owner of one of the largest plumbing contractor companies in Arizona, will lead a strong field in SCORE Trophy-Truck that features many of the world's top desert racers in the No. 39 Whitton Companies Ford F-150. Whitton, Mesa, Ariz., and his co-driver Chas Dana were fifth and 10th respectively in last year's Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and Tecate SCORE Baja 1000.
Last year's overall motorcycle and ATV winners are entered this year. Last year's overall motorcycle champion was the Johnny Campbell Racing Honda team of Kendall Norman, Santa Barbara, Calif./Tim Weigand, Santa Clarita, Calif. on the No. 1x Honda CRF450X and the Overall ATV winners were the team of Wayne Matlock, El Cajon, Calif./Harold Goodman Jr., Brownstown, Mich./Josh Caster, El Cajon, Calif., on the No. 1a Honda TRX700X. Norman's team will start seventh in Motorcycles while Matlock's squad will be the first ATV off the line.
Bell, 24, of Sun City, Calif., who left the factory Honda team at the end of 2008 after winning the two-wheel overall title in San Felipe three straight years (2006, 2007, 2008), returns to San Felipe for the first time since on a Kawasaki, leading a two-motorcycle Bruce Penhall Motorsports charge to Baja on the No. 2x Kawasaki KX450F. His co-rider, also a former Honda champion, is legendary SCORE Baja racer Steve Hengeveld, 34, Oak Hills, Calif., who was the overall San Felipe motorcycle winner for four straight year's with Honda icon Johnny Campbell (2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004).
Kawasaki will have factory-supported entries in San Felipe for this first time since 1996 and will attempt to break the JCR Honda dynasty which has won 12 of the last 13 SCORE San Felipe 250 races.
In the first 23 years of this race, Honda has earned 14 overall motorcycle victories (including the last four years), Kawasaki has six, KTM has two and Husqvarna has one.
As of today, SCORE Trophy-Truck had the most entries with 34, followed by the unlimited Class 1 with 19 and Class 1-2/1600 with 12. While 208 entries have been received to date, late registration will be accepted up until race morning and as many as 100 additional entries are expected.
Among the motorcycle classes, the open Class 22 has the most vehicles entered to date with 11.
Besides the K. Norman and Matlock teams, the other defending class winners entered this year are: Ronny Wilson, Long Beach, Calif. (Class 1), Mike Lawrence, Sunset Beach, Calif. (Class 10), Marc Burnett, Chula Vista, Calif. (Class 6), Jose Canchola Jr., Mexicali, Mexico (Class 7 but has switched to Class 6), Dave Crinklaw, Reedley, Calif. (Class 8), Eric Solorzano, Tijuana, Mexico (Class 11), Gavin Skilton, Anaheim, Calif. (Stock Mini), Mike Johnson, El Paso, Texas (Class 30), Jim O'Neal, Simi Valley, Calif. (Class 50), Craig Christy, Burbank, Calif. (Class 24), Reid Rutherford, Montrose, Colo. (Class 26 but has switched to Class 7-2) and returning with SCORE Trophy-Truck regular Cameron Steele as rider of record is Brian Campbell, Bakersfield, Calif. (Class 40).
Christy, last season's SCORE Overall and Class 24 ATV season point champion, has also entered a team that he will lead this year in Class 25 as well, seeking a pair of class wins in San Felipe.
Also returning this year to defend his Sportsman class race victory for the third straight year among those entered so far is Sportsman Car winner Peter Lang, Santa Rosa, Calif.
The pre-race Manufacturer's Midway and tech inspection of the vehicles in the race will be held on Friday, March 12 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the picturesque Malecon, flanked by the Sea of Cortez on one side and the popular restaurants and night clubs of San Felipe on the other.
At 10 a.m. on Sunday (March 14), the awards celebration will be held in front of The Beachcomber Night Club on the Malecon.
At the 24th MasterCraft Safety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250, MasterCraft Racing has entered not only company owner Robbie Pierce's No. 30 Chevy Silverado SCORE Trophy-Truck, but also the No. 20 Chevy Silverado SCORE Trophy-Truck to be driven by eight-time SCORE season class point champion Rob MacCachren of Las Vegas and the No. 42 Chevy Silverado driven by Will Staats, Valencia, Calif. All three trucks were built by prominent chassis builder Mike Julson's Jimco Racing Products of Santee, Calif. Julson is listed as a co-driver for both Pierce and MacCachren for this race, if needed.
The MasterCraft racers will not be eligible to win any part of the special $10,000 MasterCraft Safety cash contingency bonus purse MasterCraft Safety has offered for this year's San Felipe race.
In San Felipe, Pierce will start fourth, MacCachren 21st and Staats 25th in the massive SCORE Trophy-Truck field.
A new attraction this year during the pre-running window will be the San Felipe Tequila Festival March 5-7.
In addition to season class point championships, drivers in the Pro car and truck classes are also racing for part of the nearly $400,000 in cash purse and contingency postings as well as earn prestigious SCORE Toyota Milestone Awards given to all car and truck class drivers who complete every required mile of the five-race season. Being presented by Toyota Motorsports for the 25th consecutive year, a total of 59 drivers remain eligible after Round 1 of the 2010 SCORE Desert Series. Racers are also competing for the annual SCORE Off-Roadsman of the Year awards, including the MasterCraft Safety SCORE Rookie of the Year award.
Current SCORE official annual sponsors are: BFGoodrich Tires-official tire, Volkswagen of America-official vehicle, Sunoco Race Fuels-official fuel supplier, Bilstein-official shock, Instant Mexico Auto Insurance-official Mexican auto insurance, Slime-official tire sealant and Red Bull-official energy drink. Associate sponsors are: Tecate Beer, Coca-Cola of Mexico, Las Vegas Events, MasterCraft Safety, Blue C Advertising, Off-Road, SignPros, P.C.I. Race Radios, McKenzie's Performance Products and Advanced Color Graphics.
Associate sponsors for the MasterCraft Safety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 are the Tourism and Convention Bureau of Mexicali/San Felipe and Cotuco. Additional sponsors in Baja are the Office of the Secretary of Tourism of Baja California and ProTurismo de Ensenada.
The race annually provides a greater economic impact to San Felipe than the popular month-long 'Spring Break'.
For more information regarding the series, contact SCORE at its Los Angeles headquarters 818.225.8402 or visit the official website of the 2010 SCORE Desert Series at www.score-international.com.
24th MasterCraft Safety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250
Round 2 of five-race 2010 SCORE Desert Series
March 12-14, 2010—232.0 miles
San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico
Total Entries: 207 (as of 2/22/10)
(from 22 States, Austria, Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, Mexico)
Pro Cars & Trucks
SCORE TROPHY-TRUCK (34)
39 Ron Whitton
1 Robby Gordon
19 Tim Herbst
30 Robbie Pierce
21 Gus Vildosola Jr.
23 Mark McMillin
8 Roger Norman
16 Cameron Steele
31 Andy McMillin
40 Chet Huffman
37 Bruce Greer Jr.
76 Jesse Jones
51 Kory Scheeler
2 Pete Sohren
68 Marc Ewing
96 Bobby Baldwin
84 Nick Vanderwey
7 Jimmy Nuckles
10 Greg Nunley
78 Jesse Ashcraft
20 Rob MacCachren
35 Jason Voss
9 Gary Weyhrich
74 Rob Bruce
42 Will Staats
24 Adam Householder
13 Ed Stout
97 B.J. Baldwin
3 Mark Post
49 Troy Herbst
36 Glen Greer
47 James Bult
22 Damen Jefferies
95 Scott Whipple
CLASS 1 (19)
101 Armin Schwarz
100 Randy Wilson
103 Robert Ross
104 Dan Martin
105 Guy Petersen
106 Daniel McMillin
107 Mario Acosta
108 Mike Voyles Sr.
109 Kory Halopoff
110 Ronny Wilson
111 Cody Parkhouse
112 Conan Barker
113 William Eriksen
114 Josh Daniel
115 Paul Keller
116 Armin Kremer
117 Mark Weyhrich
118 Eric Chase
119 Richard Boyle
CLASS 1-2/1600 (12)
1601 Jorge Sanchez
1602 Luke McMillin
1603 Rick Steven
1604 Carlos Montalvan
1605 Arnoldo Gutierrez Jr.
1606 Brad Wilson
1607 Rob Archibald
1608 Brian Wilson
1609 Arturo Velazco
1647 Juan Gallo
1648 Arnoldo Ramirez
1600 Hiram Duran
CLASS 3 (0)
CLASS 5 (3)
500 Kevin Carr
501 Carlos Albanez
519 Che Corlett
CLASS 5/1600 (2)
551 Trevor Anderson
579 Gustavo Avina
CLASS 6 (4)
601 Jose Canchola Jr.
602 Steve Kovach
603 Marc Burnett
600 Heidi Steele
CLASS 7 (2)
701 Arturo Alvarez
700 Dan Chamlee
CLASS 7SX (2)
741 Elias Hanna
759 Ted Moncure
CLASS 8 (6)
801 Juan C. Lopez
802 Dave Crinklaw
803 Noah Ostanik
804 Michael Brett
805 Rick Sanchez
800 Clyde Stacy
CLASS 9 (1)
901 Luke Babb
CLASS 10 (5)
1001 Lars Ferry
1002 Alejandro Navarrete
1000 Mike Lawrence
1004 Sergio Salgado
1005 Jesus Gonzalez
SCORE LITE (15)
1201 Lee Banning
1202 Cody Freeman
1203 Francisco Villagomez
1204 Matthew Kupiec
1205 Samuel Araiza
1200 Brent Parkhouse
1207 Bill Hernquist
1208 David Callaway
1209 Luis Barragan
1210 Mike Williams
1211 Zak Langley
1212 Perry McNeil
1213 Arturo Honold
1214 John Langley
1249 Justin Davis
CLASS 11 (3)
1101 Gustavo Garayzar
1100 Eric Solorzano
1149 Alejandro Rivas
STOCK FULL (3)
861 Pedro Vargas
860 Justin Matney
879 Joe Bacal
STOCK MINI (1)
760 Gavin Skilton
PROTRUCK (0)
CLASS 4 (1)
401 Edward Zimmerman
CLASS 7-2 (2)
721 Reid Rutherford
722 Fawn Finchum
PRO MOTORCYCLES
CLASS 22 (11)
2x Robby Bell
3x Colton Udall
4x Ivan Ramirez
5x Ryan Penhall
6x Bret Freeman
7x Cory Evenson
1x Kendall Norman
9x Cameron Corfman
10x A.J. Stewart
11x Chad Hubbard
12x Chuck Neugebauer
CLASS 21 (2)
101x Jesus J. Gonzalez
102x David Gonzalez Jr.
CLASS 20 (4)
150x Jesus Rios
151x Manuel Reyes
152x Joey Black
169x Anna Cody
CLASS 30 (5)
301x Javier Hernandez
302x Jim O'Neal
300x Mike Johnson
304x William Peel
305x Sol Saltzman
CLASS 40 (7)
401x Peter Hardy
402x Louie Franco
403x Duane Dickinson
404x Tom Vogt
405x Henrik Andersen
406x Cameron Steele
449x Terry Peregoodoff
CLASS 50 (4)
501x Ryan Armitage
502x Charlie Marshall
518x Jose Chavez
500x Jim O'Neal
CLASS 60 (2)
608x Donald Lewis
609x William Rogers
PRO ATVs
CLASS 25 (5)
1a Wayne Matlock
2a Javier Robles
3a Fernando Huerta
4a Craig Christy
5a Josh Edwards
CLASS 24 (12)
101a Abraham Romero
102a Roberto Ruiz
103a Victor Lopez
100a Craig Christy
105a Alonso Ruiz
106a Brandon Brown
107a Luis Berumen
108a Adrian Valdez
109a Marco Marrujo
110a Heriberto Marquez
111a Carlos Jimenez
112a Oscar Arce
CLASS 26 (0)
SPORTSMAN
SPT CAR (4)
1400 Peter Lang
1401 Wendell Mortensen
1402 Shawn Hamlin
1403 George Jackson
SPT TRUCK (3)
1500 Joe Aguayo
1501 Nick Tonelli
1502 Brent Downing
SPT UTV (6)
1801 Robert Viau Sr.
1800 Thomas Graves
1803 Dave Roberts
1804 Sergio Castillo
1805 Michael McCulley
1806 Peter Hajas
SPT M/C
201x Fred Sobke
202x Greg Willitts
203x Carlos Becerril
204x Carlos Valdez
205x Conrad Batham
206x Ricky de la Pena
248x Matt Ladendorf
249x Kelley DeLoach
SPT M/C> (9)
251x Salvador Sainz
252x Jimmy Boutwell
253x Tibi Imbuzan
254x Craig Anstine
255x Ty McPherson
256x Oscar Fazz
257x Joel Blocksom
258x Paul Lopez
298x Ken Kosiorek
SPT ATV (10)
51a Daniel Montano
52a Samuel Garcia
53a Brad McLean
54a Juan Dominguez
55a Efren Carrasco
56a Ciro Calderon
57a Roger Fastring
58a Jeff Sanca
59a Bill Hackler
99a Gustavo Ameca
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