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  • Vegas to Reno Ultra4 Winner Finishes KOH 2010

    RIVERSIDE, CA February 17, 2010:  Kevin Sacalas was one of only 43 drivers out of 100 to successfully complete the 2010 Griffin King of the Hammers race held in Johnson Valley on February 12th.  King of the Hammers was Sacalas’ 2nd race to date driving his #4435 rock racing vehicle which fans have affectionately named “The Big Ugly.”  Sacalas built The Big Ugly in his garage in the summer of 2009 and debuted the vehicle racing as Team Viking Offroad at Best in the Desert’s Vegas to Reno: The Long Way: a punishing 3-day one thousand mile race in which Sacalas took 1st place in the Ultra4 class.

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  • 2010 GRIFFIN KING OF THE HAMMERS FINISHING POSITIONS

    FINISHING POSITION STARTING POSITION CAR # DRIVER NAME START TIME END TIME ADJUSTED TIME
    1 53 667 Loren Healy 8:13:00 15:10:53 14:57:53
    2 88 232 Brad Lovell 8:21:30 15:19:51 14:58:21
    3 41 4420 Derek West 8:10:00 15:10:03 15:00:03
    4 2 554 Rick Mooneyham 8:00:00 15:05:58 15:05:58
    5 16 921 Erik Miller 8:03:30 15:19:35 15:16:05
    6 45 427 John Reynolds 8:11:00 15:43:00 15:32:00
    7 1 4417 Buzz Bronsema 8:00:00 15:40:38 15:40:38
    8 40 8 Rob McKenney 8:09:30 15:56:51 15:47:21
    9 55 17 Matt Messer 8:13:30 16:14:39 16:01:09
    10 17 4444 Jason Pickett 8:04:00 16:07:24 16:03:24
    11 29 4466 JR Van Ortwick 8:07:00 16:13:49 16:06:49
    12 84 444 Gary Ferravonti 8:20:30 16:57:08 16:36:38
    13 51 34 Kevin Yoder 8:12:30 16:51:38 16:39:08
    14 92 805 Tony Pellegrino 8:22:30 17:01:52 16:39:22
    15 95 321 Tom Wayes 8:23:30 17:06:47 16:43:17
    16 49 4411 Dean Bulloch 8:12:00 16:58:57 16:46:57
    17 68 4488 Brandon Watson 8:16:30 17:04:09 16:47:39
    18 38 76 Jason Scherer 8:09:00 17:02:57 16:53:57
    19 72 5 Shannon Campbelll 8:17:30 17:13:16 16:55:46
    20 13 284 Jack Adams 8:03:00 17:00:54 16:57:54
    21 76 101 Adam Woodlee 8:18:30 17:17:29 16:58:59
    22 42 28 John James 8:10:00 17:41:30 17:31:30
    23 85 816 Lucas Murphy 8:21:00 18:05:00 17:44:00
    24 62 4433 Adam Carter 8:15:00 18:09:42 17:54:42
    25 10 212 Matt Peterson 8:02:00 18:02:02 18:00:02
    26 79 4435 Kevin Sacalas 8:19:30 18:42:09 18:22:39
    27 5 202 Ritchie Keller 8:01:00 18:36:16 18:35:16
    28 37 10 Hobie Smith 8:09:00 18:45:46 18:36:46
    29 11 814 Nicole Johnson 8:02:30 18:45:35 18:43:05
    30 20 4422 Todd McCullen 8:04:30 19:34:14 19:29:44
    31 6 4413 Doug Bigelow 8:01:00 19:32:12 19:31:12
    32 73 3 Rich Klein 8:18:00 20:35:45 20:17:45
    33 44 97 David Schneider 8:10:30 20:33:15 20:22:45
    34 50 4450 Greg Hussey 8:12:00 20:36:15 20:24:15
    35 91 20 Brett Porter 8:22:30 20:48:33 20:26:03
    36 12 2713 Ralf Kuller 8:02:30 20:34:26 20:31:56
    37 89 51 Naozumi Tsuda 8:22:00 20:58:13 20:36:13
    38 48 1224 Wayne Israelsen 8:11:30 20:49:55 20:38:25
    39 3 204 Michael Colville 8:00:30 21:00:59 21:00:29
    40 22 4407 Jon Goodman 8:05:00 21:09:18 21:04:18
    41 66 77 Jeff Mello 8:16:00 21:23:19 21:07:19
    42 24 1006 Derek Summers 8:05:30 21:15:34 21:10:04
    43 46 4452 Barry Beadle 8:11:00 21:38:45 21:27:45
    4 1368 Jim Knox 8:00:30 DNF
    7 143 Mike Kleinsen 8:01:30 DNF
    8 4454 Nazir Adam 8:01:30 DNF
    9 686 Joey Weber 8:02:00 DNF
    14 541 Andy Gladen 8:03:00 DNF
    15 112 Tracy Jordan 8:03:30 DNF
    18 209 Brandon Davis 8:04:00 DNF
    19 699 Jack Childers 8:04:30 DNF
    21 22 Chris Ridgway 8:05:00 DNF
    23 4461 Ben Napier 8:05:30 DNF
    25 966 Jason Blanton 8:06:00 DNF
    26 4414 AJ Condon 8:06:00 DNF
    27 4464 Matt Legg 8:06:30 DNF
    28 32 Roger Lovell 8:06:30 DNF
    30 13 JT Taylor 8:07:00 DNF
    31 111 Damian Layer 8:07:30 DNF
    32 807 Drew Goldie 8:07:30 DNF
    33 9 Chris Garrison 8:08:00 DNF
    34 107 Bill Krisel 8:08:00 DNF
    35 69 Charlie Melchner 8:08:30 DNF
    36 41 Eric Holder 8:08:30 DNF
    39 18 Brian Shirley 8:09:30 DNF
    43 75 Jeremy Hammer 8:10:30 DNF
    47 19 Clayton Walters 8:11:30 DNF
    52 4406 Rob Usnick 8:12:30 DNF
    54 4405 Travis Carpenter 8:13:00 DNF
    56 2 Casey Currie 8:13:30 DNF
    57 301 Stephen Watson 8:14:00 DNF
    58 929 Michael Feagins 8:14:00 DNF
    59 66 Eric Anderson 8:14:30 DNF
    60 7 Cottin Rodd 8:14:30 DNF
    61 420 Ian Johnson 8:15:00 DNF
    63 88 Dustin Webster 8:15:30 DNF
    64 133 Brandon Johnson 8:15:30 DNF
    65 42 Kim Sears 8:16:00 DNF
    67 49 Joe Silva 8:16:30 DNF
    69 52 Will Carter 8:17:00 DNF
    70 71 Rick D Johnson 8:17:00 DNF
    71 916 Brian Tilton 8:17:30 DNF
    74 96 Chris Pook 8:18:00 DNF
    75 4424 Matt Enochs 8:18:30 DNF
    77 269 Robert Foster 8:19:00 DNF
    78 770 Bart Dixon 8:19:00 DNF
    80 4410 Curtis Warner 8:19:30 DNF
    81 24 Greg Stone 8:20:00 DNF
    82 222 James Andrus 8:20:00 DNF
    83 4465 Carl Nielson 8:20:30 DNF
    86 210 Greg Adler 8:21:00 DNF
    87 21 Rob MacCachren 8:21:30 DNF
    90 81 Levi Shirley 8:22:00 DNF
    93 343 Tim Emick 8:23:00 DNF
    94 333 Jason Feuilly 8:23:00 DNF
    96 707 Peter Wells 8:23:30 DNF
    97 4499 Jesse Haines 8:24:00 DNF
    98 231 Lou Levy 8:24:00 DNF
    99 4478 Les Figueroa 8:24:30 DNF
    100 4 Ray Mandell 8:24:30 DNF

  • 2010 Griffin King of the Hammers Main Race

    POSITION CAR # DRIVER NAME
    1 4417 Buzz Bronsema
    2 554 Rick Mooneyham
    3 204 Michael Colville
    4 1368 Jim Knox
    5 202 Ritchie Keller
    6 4413 Doug Bigelow
    7 143 Mike Kleinsen
    8 4454 Nazir Adam
    9 686 Joey Weber
    10 212 Matt Peterson
    11 814 Nicole Johnson
    12 2713 Ralf Kuller
    13 284 Jack Adams
    14 541 Andy Gladen
    15 112 Tracy Jordan
    16 921 Erik Miller
    17 4444 Jason Pickett
    18 209 Brandon Davis
    19 699 Jack Childers
    20 4422 Todd McCullen
    21 22 Chris Ridgway
    22 4407 Jon Goodman
    23 4461 Ben Napier
    24 1006 Derek Summers
    25 966 Jason Blanton
    26 4414 AJ Condon
    27 4464 Matt Legg
    28 32 Roger Lovell
    29 4466 JR Van Ortwick
    30 13 JT Taylor
    31 111 Damian Layer
    32 612 Drew Goldie
    33 9 Chris Garrison
    34 107 Bill Krisel
    35 69 Charlie Melchner
    36 41 Eric Holder
    37 10 Hobie Smith
    38 76 Jason Scherer
    39 18 Brian Shirley
    40 8 Rob McKenney
    41 4420 Derek West
    42 28 John James
    43 75 Jeremy Hammer
    44 97 David Schneider
    45 427 John Reynolds
    46 4452 Barry Beadle
    47 19 Clayton Walters
    48 1224 Wayne Israelsen
    49 4411 Dean Bulloch
    50 4450 Greg Hussey
    51 34 Kevin Yoder
    52 4406 Rob Usnick
    53 667 Loren Healy
    54 4405 Travis Carpenter
    55 17 Matt Messer
    56 2 Casey Currie
    57 301 Stephen Watson
    58 929 Michael Feagins
    59 66 Eric Anderson
    60 7 Cottin Rodd
    61 420 Ian Johnson
    62 4433 Adam Carter
    63 88 Dustin Webster
    64 133 Brandon Johnson
    65 42 Kim Sears
    66 77 Jeff Mello
    67 49 Joe Silva
    68 4488 Brandon Watson
    69 52 Will Carter
    70 71 Rick D Johnson
    71 916 Brian Tilton
    72 5 Shannon Campbelll
    73 3 Rich Klein
    74 4477 Chris Pook
    75 4424 Matt Enochs
    76 101 Adam Woodlee
    77 269 Robert Foster
    78 26 Bart Dixon
    79 4435 Kevin Sacalas
    80 4410 Curtis Warner
    81 24 Greg Stone
    82 222 James Andrus
    83 4465 Carl Nielson
    84 444 Gary Ferravonti
    85 816 Lucas Murphy
    86 210 Greg Adler
    87 21 Rob MacCachren
    88 232 Brad Lovell
    89 51 Naozumi Tsuda
    90 81 Levi Shirley
    91 20 Brett Porter
    92 805 Tony Pellegrino
    93 38 Brian Deegan
    94 333 Jason Feuilly
    95 321 Tom Wayes
    96 707 Peter Wells
    97 4499 Jesse Haines
    98 231 Lou Levy
    99 4478 Les Figueroa
    100 4 Ray Mandell

  • BFGoodrich Tires Remains King of the Hammers Official Tire

    JOHNSON VALLEY, CA, FEBRAURY 4, 2010: BFGoodrich Tires continues its reign as the 2010 Griffin King of the Hammers Official Tire. BFGoodrich Tires takes the King of the Hammers race seriously to the point of developing multiple different tires specific for this event and supporting a crew of professional drivers.

    “We are proud to have BFGoodrich Tires on our team. They offer not only great support to our drivers, but also to our event with the BFGoodrich Tires Information and Media Center and also the tools and technology for assisting with race communication,” said race promoter Dave Cole.

    The last two years have brought home the scepter for BFGoodrich Tires, with Kings Jason Scherer and Shannon Campbell taking the wins. “The King of the Hammers race is the perfect next level of proving ground for us. We are proven in rocks. We are proven in desert. Now combine the two, and climb rocks after having to maintain high speed through the desert. It’s exciting to watch this race, and to know that BFGoodrich tires succeed time and time again and prove that success by dominating the podium,” said Roberts Kukainis, BFGoodrich Tires motorsports manager.

    This year, BFGoodrich Tires again has a star studded line up. Rob MacCachren will add one more discipline of racing to his extremely impressive career with a starting spot in the King of the Hammers. Driving a BlueTorch Fab car, MacCachren will be joined by legends of the sport and past rockcrawling champions Larry McRae, Jon Bundrant and Jon Nelson building a very impressive and aggressive team that is bound for success.

    The starting line will be BFGoodrich Tires lined with both Buzz Bronsema and Rich Mooneyham running the BFGoodrich Baja T/AKRT. BFGoodrich Tires has many other team drivers on the starting grid including Greg Adler, Tracy Jordan, two time 2nd place finisher Casey Currie, John Reynolds, Dean Bulloch and Tom Wayes.

    BFGoodrich Tires has successfully developed a new tire that took the existing desert tire with modifications to account for the rocks. The BFGoodrich Baja T/AKRT tire is the perfect tire to go precisely through the rocks and across the desert at high speeds that handles high pressure and is puncture resistant. This year BFGoodrich Tires is introducing another tire to their King of the Hammers specific line up, the BFGoodrich Baja TAKR tire which is a 42×13.50R20 tire. Yes, two major size changes in the tire height and the rim. BFGoodrich Tires team driver and Ultra4 Vegas to Reno champion Kevin Sacalas will be the only driver running these tires on Friday February 12, 2010.

    As with all desert races, BFGoodrich Tires will have their complete crew of top notch workers on site to help support the Drivers. They will also be hosting a BFGoodrich Tires remote pit.

    BFGoodrich Tires- Using motorsports as a proving ground for more than 30 years, BFGoodrich Tires is involved in every type of racing, including oval, sports car, drifting, drag, desert, dirt, rally, and extreme rock-crawling.  BFGoodrich Tires combines technological expertise with vast motorsports experience, delivering a high-performance tire for every type of vehicle.  Visit BFGoodrich Tires online at www.bfgoodrichtires.com.

  • 2010 Griffin King of the Hammers Has over $57,000 of Winnings on the Table

    JOHNSON VALLEY, CA, FEBRUARY 3, 2009: The winner of the 2010 Griffin King of the Hammers will be awarded $10,000 from King of the Hammers in addition to $5,000 from BFGoodrich at the awards ceremony that will commence the 4th running of the King of the Hammers.

    BFGoodrich is not only adding to the cash prize, but is also giving the new King the offer of an eight tire contract for their 2010 racing efforts. Torchmate CNC Cutting Systems will be adding a 2×2 CNC Prototyping System to the New Kings garage. It includes a Thermal Dynamics Plasma Cutter, Hand Torch Holder, Routing Package, Torchmate CAD software, BobCad 3D Software, and is valued over $7,250. If that wasn’t enough, there is an additional $33,700 dollars available to pick up in contingency.

    A company puts up a contingency on a race stating a requirement, for example, must have stickers or their specific product on the race vehicle. They then state an award ranging from thousands of dollars to gift certificates or products depending on the drivers finishing place. Some great companies stepped up to help the drivers with contingency opportunities this year. In the shock world, FOA Shocks put $5,000 up, King Shocks put $4,000 up and Sway-A-Way, Radflo Suspension Technology, and Bilstein Shocks are also participating. Traxxas put out a fun prize of Summit radio controlled monster trucks for the winning driver and crew. The prizes aren’t all for first place, there is contingency money scattered across the board with one of the bigger one a $2,500 cash prize from Longfield Super Axles for the first person to not qualify into the 2011 King of the Hammers.

    The 4 Wheel Parts Last Chance Qualifier is going to be a strategic race for positioning in Friday’s race, but there is also over $1000 of contingency money at stake for first place. Coming out of the Last Chance Qualifier in 1st place puts you 5th position, with the only better starting position being 8th to start in 3rd position, why not go for first and grab some contingency money. There should be an even stronger battle for first now.

    $5,000 will be awarded to the winner of the Pit Bull Tires UTV King of the Hammers race. This is the largest purse in the history of all UTV racing. In addition, there is another $2500 out in contingency prizes that can be awarded.

    The awards ceremony will be a great event where all of the mentioned cash and prizes will be handed out to the very well deserving 2010 Griffin King of the Hammers drivers.

    Please see the specific listings of requirements and awards at www.kingofthehammers.com in the recent news column at the bottom of the home page.

  • 2010 Griffin King of the Hammers DownTown HammerTown

    JOHNSON VALLEY, CA, FEBRUARY 1, 2010: DownTown HammerTown has been laid out and is amazing! The chalk is on the ground and now we are waiting for the tents to be erected and the semi’s to arrive. It is truly a city on the lakebed!

    There are over 80 vendors that will line the rows and fill the big 100×120 circus tent. They range from vendors just showing their products, to massive outfits that have parts on sell for you to take advantage of. You will just about be able to buy anything from nuts and bolts, t-shirts and hats, to some large bolt on items that you can purchase and walk out to install. The best part of the Vendor show is you don’t have to wait to use your newest gadget! You can use it that day!

    The tent that you won’t miss is the King of the Hammers general store. There you will find all the 2010 merchandise and programs. These programs will make you successful during the week at the 2010 Griffin King of the Hammers. It has the schedule of events, the drivers and numbers, the course maps and some great articles about the history of the King of the Hammers.

    There are a number of manufactures that have stepped up to help out with any needs that may arise over the week. There will be multiple shock support rigs here including King, Fox and Bilstein. Torchmate CNC Cutting Systems has offered their services to cut anything that you need right on the lakebed. ReadyWelder will have a welder that drivers can use to tack up a recent break. 4 Wheel Parts will have their semi out with a large assortment of items, but they will also be able to special order you products that will be delivered to the lake bed the next morning. Butch’s Speed shop and PCI Radios will be on site to take care of your last minute racing needs. So don’t worry if something happens while you’re out there, our team of support vendors are there to lend a hand.

    Traxxas is building an RC track that will be utilized for the Pro Driver race on Tuesday night and for anyone that brings their RC cars to play with during the week. RC4WD will also have a rock pile inside the main tent to test their cars.

    Tinaz Tacos and Funnel Cake will be out here the whole week to keep our tummies happy. Don’t worry, Tinaz Tacos serves other dinner items for all of you wanting to eat there all week. And if a hot cooked meal is not what you are looking for, there will be ice, snacks and dry package goods available at New Image 4×4.

    We encourage you to stop by the Land Use Emporium where all the land use groups have bound together and united. It is important that as 4 wheelers we all work together to participate with these groups. Some will be doing raffles and others will just be handing out valuable information.

    DownTown HammerTown will be where all the action is. The Start Finish line is right here. Nightly parties will happen out of the Griffin Pirate4x4 Lounge with the campfire just walking distance away. Cars will fill the aisles for Contingency and Tech and stay in town for the Raceline Wheels Show and Shine. And the Pirate4x4 TV Live! show will be running Live all week.

    Bring your shopping list and increase your line of credit because I guarantee you there will be something here that you want!

    To see all of the vendors and the map layouts go to: http://www.kingofthehammers.com/partners.php

    • 2010 Griffin King of the Hammers
    • 4 Wheel Parts Last Chance Qualifier
    • Pit Bull Tires UTV King of the Hammers
    • Official Tire: BFGoodrich
    • Official Wheel: RaceLine
    • Official Light: Vision X
    • Official Shock: FOA
    • Official Suspension System: GenRight
    • Official Toyota Rock Crawling Parts Supplier: Trail Gear
    • Official Steering: PSC Motorsports
    • Official Oil: Royal Purple
    • Official RC Car: Traxxas