Last summer’s Pikes Peak International Hill Climb weather was hot, dry, and windy and it caused headaches for a chunk of the competitors who battled the 14,115-foot Peak’s challenges.
Not so for David Kern and co-driver Allison Kern of Centennial, Colorado, who rocketed their way to the finish line in a record 11:48.434 to run away with the Time Attack 4WD crown in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX. That broke the old mark (12:49.064 by Nathan Conley, 2007) by more than one minute and beat their closest competitor by nearly 40 seconds.
Their record setting run was also fif5th fastest over all making their Mitsubishi EVO IX the fastest full-framed car to make it to the top…. More info
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If you’re a teenager, hanging out on a boat with an iPod full of music, a cell phone to text your best friends and a world wakeboard champion to critique your moves would rank pretty close to nirvana.
At Freeride Wakeboard School, campers do just that. Wakeboarding wizard Billy Garcia picks them up in his version of a limo — a Malibu boat with built-in ballast tanks that create the perfect wake for flipping and jumping.
On this day last summer, he welcomes 13-year-old pals Tori Showalter, Sara Shaw and Claire Prewitt aboard at the Loop 360 boat ramp on Lake Austin. Once the girls settle in, boat driver J.D. Day revs the engine and they buzz up to Emma Long Metropolitan Park to pick up a fourth camper, 15-year-old Taylor Ferris…Â More info
A total of four teams, three in the Nationwide and one in the Truck series, were penalized Thursday for infractions that happened at Daytona last weekend.
Blake Bainbridge, crew chief of the No. 09 Ford driven by John Wes Townley, was fined $15,000 and placed on NASCAR probation until June 30, 2009 for altering a roll cage inside the car. Jay Robinson was penalized with the loss of 100 NASCAR Nationwide owner points while Townley was docked 100 NASCAR Nationwide driver points.
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George Bartlett, crew chief of the No. 84 Chevrolet driven by Mike Harmon, was fined $10,000 and placed on NASCAR probation until June 30, 2009 for rule violations discovered during opening-day inspection and post-race inspection on Feb. 14, respectively.
In pre race NASCAR found …Â More info
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When he trademarked the Santa Cruz Surfing Club name, Ryan Rittenhouse didn’t know he was unleashing a battle royale between old friends and generations of surfers.
Robert Rittenhouse Sr., a tall and dignified 84-year-old with a neat part in his white hair, sits in the drafty warehouse offices of the Santa Cruz Surfing Club Inc., reminiscing about the business’s namesake, the original 27-member club he started with his friends as teenagers in the 1930s.
“We were all kids,” he says. “[At one point], the club thought, we should buy Cowell’s Beach up there where the hotel was. We never knew anything about real estate, but we thought, gee, maybe Cowell would sell it.”
He chuckles gravely.
“We went up to San Francisco and actually had enough nerve to …Â More info