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"Practice, practice, practice," said
Tracy Jordan during the awards ceremony for the ARCA's first rock
crawling event of the season. "Instead of putting any money into
the rig, we put in a lot of practice, homegrown practice," Tracy
said as his brother and spotter Jason nodded in agreement. "We came
out with good confidence to win and ultimately to do some good rock
crawling. That's all we do out in Phoenix, rock crawl." Tracy did a
bit more than rock crawl while on the rocks this weekend. He put on
a show. "There's a loose nut behind that steering wheel," said one
spectator after watching Tracy throttle-romp his Land Cruiser up a
steep-rutted sluice. 
Due to
a tie, the brothers shared first place for the weekend with Shannon
Campbell and Brett Epperley. Driver Jason Paule's most recent
victory at Sports-In-The-Rough's Montrose, Col. event played no
part in the way things went Friday here in Johnson Valley, his
leaf-sprung CJ-7 fell to the fate of breakage and ultimately
timing-out on a few too many obstacles. But yesterday's fate for
Jason, fell upon most others in the field -- today. This allowed
him the opportunity to move ahead, clinching ninth overall for the
weekend. 
"We didn't do too
good yesterday, but now that everybody's breaking down, it'll give
us a chance to catch up," Jason said earlier in the day before
results were posted. Chip Monk commandeered his rock buggy, which
he claimed had a perfect sense of balance. According to Chip who
earned 24th overall, the air bag suspension on his rig equally
distributes the weight of the vehicle at any given moment. Well,
the moment had come to put that theory to the test. Although
lifting a wheel doesn't support that theory, it certainly said a
lot for his bout with gravity, defying its wrath where others had
failed. Hence the obstacle's name, Desperate Measures. 
It was this obstacle which shoved
Walker Evans and his body-less Chevy S-10 over the edge earlier
Saturday. Walker, who finished 11th overall, was not the only
victim. Tri-County Gear's Jason Bunch had his moment. The 24 Hours
At The Hammers winner pulled a stunt Friday which one spectator
dubbed the "Triple Lindy." After rolling once and landing on his
tires, he gave the obstacle one more shot, tumbling down the rock
face once again, before coming to rest at the bottom of the hill.
"I did nothing but wrench the
whole weekend," said Jason. "It was total McGuyver the whole way
through." His efforts earned him 41st for the weekend. John Currie,
in route to a three-way tie for seventh, tested the integrity of
his TJ's roll bar when he rolled early Saturday. Harold Off and
Michael Weaver also finished seventh on the weekend. Defending
champion Chris Durham placed 14th. Dave Knight of JP Off Road
placed 27th. Kathy Crook placed 32th. Ian Liljeblad placed 35th.
Amy Peterson placed 58th. 1. Tracy Jordan (Tie)
