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  • Marines Continue to Pursue Costly Land Grab Despite Public Outcry

    JOHNSON VALLEY, CA – FEBRUARY 28th, 2013: With just under a week until federal sequestration cuts are set to go into effect, the Secretary of the Navy is curiously seeking Congressional approval to move forward with base expansion at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California[1]. Spanning nearly 600,000 acres[2], the combat center is the largest Marine base in the world with a comparable land mass to Rhode Island. Despite strong public opposition and a potential sequester that will cut tens of billions from the Pentagon budget this year, the Marines are asking Congress to approve an acquisition of 168,151 additional acres[3]; roughly the land equivalent of the country of Singapore.

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  • Lucas Murphy 40 Miles of Fury at 2013 King of the Hammers

    Lucas Murphy 1NORTH EASTON, MA      FEBRUARY 27, 2013:   Lucas Murphy designed a brand new car for the 2013 Griffin King of the Hammers.  2012 may have seemed like a quiet year for Murphy’s Law Motorsports, but they placed 3rd at the Ultra4 Rausche Creek Qualifying for KOH, built a new car, and built a toterhome and trailer setup.  On the Johnson Valley lakebed this month, they qualified early on Tuesday keeping the car together and sat in the top 10 for most of the day finally settling at the 52nd starting position for Friday’s race.  They only made it 40 miles in the King of the Hammers before they limped back to main pit with a transmission failure.  “To win, you have to have a perfect day with a proven car.  Our short 40 miles was awesome, and really we could have kept going forward, but we didn’t want to jeopardize anyone else’s race.  It was pretty uneventful,” said car owner and driver of record Lucas Murphy. (more…)

  • The Go RHINO! New Product Launch Continues with the RC2 Front Guard

    The New RC2 has a revolutionary new mounting system.

    e1360802364BREA, CA, February 26, 2013 – The Go Rhino! new product launch continues with the RC2 front guard.  The Go Rhino! brand will continue to develop new products for the market in 2013.  The brand has a stellar focus on innovating the truck accessory market and launching new products in the industry. The RC2’s revolutionary new mounting system is just one of the examples of the Go Rhino! focus on delivering innovative products to consumers. (more…)

  • Dirt Riot Enters Texas for First Central Series Endurance 4×4 Race This Weekend

    Racing Saturday March 2nd Starting at 9am in Bryan, TX at Brazos Valley Off-Road Ranch

    Dirt Riot Brazos Valley Ranch 2PLACERVILLE, CA   FEBRUARY 27, 2013:  The Dirt Riot Central Series drew professional racers, local 4×4 club members and UTV racers to form a 2012 series that was heavily contested in all classes last year.  Levi Shirley, a 20 year old from Kansas, would end the season with the Pro 4400 Central Series Championship and the National Title, a prestigious title awarded to the driver with the most points across all 4 US series.  This weekend the 2013 Dirt Riot Central Series opener will be at Brazos Valley Off-Road Ranch on Saturday March 2nd, with racing starting at 9am.  “The trail system at Brazos Valley Off-Road Ranch is amazing crisscrossing 300 acres of an old gravel pit system.  Our course will only be about 4 miles of their trail system that would take 2-3 days to run,” said Rich Klein, President and founder of W.E. Rock Events.  “Bryan, Texas is a new location for us as an event, so we look forward to exploring the town more and encouraging spectators to come watch this national series.” (more…)

  • Arizona Desert Racing Association Runs Parker 150

    Poker Run Friday March 1st, Racing Saturday March 2ndADRA 1

    GILBERT, AZ    FEBRUARY 25, 2013:  The Arizona Desert Racing Association will start it’s second season with the ADS Suspension Parker 150 desert race on March 1st and 2nd.  Friday’s Poker Run will be between 4pm and 5:30pm, organized as a way to pre-run the racecourse with everyone welcome to participate. Saturday Racing will be broken into two races, one in the morning starting at 9:30am and the second starting at 1:30pm.  “This will be a fun, yet challenging race course for drivers.  We welcome all levels of drivers and have positioned our series for new racers to get their feet wet in the morning classes and the big boys to come out and make some dust in the afternoon class, all at a reasonable and affordable entry fees that include payouts,” said Tim Jones, President of the Arizona Desert Racing Association. (more…)

  • W.E. Rock – What it Takes?

    0006_we_moab_040612While attending any event, it’s easy to think, “I could have coordinated this so much better!” We have all been to some motor sports event, and wondered; “Why did the event planner organize the event this way?” However, have you ever really stopped and thought about what actually goes on behind the scenes of a race or event? This summer 2012, I did just that. I was given the honor of being able to travel all over the U.S. with the organizers and hosts of the W.E. Rock, aka World Extreme Rock Crawling events.

    With the recent excitement towards the Ultra-4 racing, and advancements of the sport, W.E. Rock decided to add a new event to their season. Dirt Riots are their newest venture and get the drivers not only thinking about how to manage the course, but how to do it in the fastest time as well. It is not a race to the finish line, but an endurance race, and the one who manages to make it through as many laps as possible in 3 hours, wins this new style of racing. (more…)