Father-son duo race for the gold in Baja 1000
For immediate releaseContact: Chad Ragland602-695-1100e-mail protected from spam botswww.raglandracing.comFather-son duo race for the gold in Baja 1000Phoenix, Ariz. - Larry Ragland of Cave Creek has been racing in the SCORE International Baja 1000 Trophy Truck race since 1980. After 23 races, 5 overall first place trophies, thousands of hours of training, crashes, injuries, and breakdowns, why is this veteran racer so excited about this year's race? "This is an important and exciting race for me because it's the first race I've done with my son, Chad, as my co-driver," Larry said. With over 220 of the world's top drivers competing in 24 Pro and 5 Sportsman classes for cars, trucks, motorcycles and ATV's, this year's race looks to be an exciting one for everyone.???Larry will be heading to Ensenada, Mexico this weekend to begin pre-running for the race, which takes place at the end of the month on November 20 through 23. "We'll spend a lot of time going over and over the course of the race, marking dangers, identifying fast areas, scouting out fuel stops, and planning our race strategy," Larry added.
In the course of the next month the team will go over the race's course 6 times, taking about 3 days for each time. "This is a tough, tough course even for very experienced drivers," commented Chad, "We'll be covering over 750 miles of some of Baja's best desert racing terrain that includes dirt roads, highways, cattle ranges and all the other variables that come up in the desert," he added.The Ragland's race team includes drivers Larry and Chad Ragland, as well as 25 crew people to keep the truck running smoothly throughout the race. The team is sponsored by Bothwell Motorsports, BFGoodrich Tires, AEM and Your Source Financial. Larry will be driving a Chevy Silverado and will turn over the driving to Chad for the middle section of the race to give him a strategic break. Chad brings years of award-winning motorcycle racing and driving to this race.The approximately 14-1/2 hour race begins at 8:00 a.m.
on November 21, so over half the race is driven in the dark. "It's imperative the drive team know the course well when so much of the race will be done in the dark," stated Larry.In addition to the Ragland's, entries have come from 26 U.S. states, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Guatemala, France, Brazil and Uruguay. For more information about the Baja 1000 and Ragland Racing, please call Chad Ragland at 602-695-1100 or visit www.raglandracing.com- 30 -.
The Speedster Training System Has 20th Birthday
(ContentDesk) October 30, 2005 -- A professional speed enhancement device and program will start it 21st year in helping athletes this week. Tim Newman, a 1985 graduate of Lawson High School in Lawson MO, played football for the Cardinals. As a starting Quarterback and Cornerback, Tim was always looking to become faster. Tim tried many different devices but none of them worked, so he designed and developed the Speedster Training System. The Speedster was a simple design at first with just a harness and rope dragging a couple of old tires across the football field.
Today, the Speedster has the same philosophy but a much better design. This total resistance device along with training program has changed the live of athletes around the world. In 1989 Tim started a company called Greater Performance Inc (GPI-USA). This company is responsible for many different sports related training products, but the Speedster is the root of most of the others.Some household names like, Rich Gannon...
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How Aftermarket Accessories Made Me Love My Blazer
Are you a truck enthusiast? Or just take pride in the looks of your truck? Aftermarket truck accessories are what can separate your truck from the pack. I am a big fan of aftermarket truck accessories because I love the feeling of driving by another vehicle and watching the heads turn to stare at my ride.
I personally drive a 1999 Chevy Blazer. I have several add ons on my Blazer. Let's start with the rims. I have 20 inch chrome Rozzi Detentions wrapped with 255/35/20 Falken GRB FK-451 tires.
Once I put on my new rims I loved them, expect for the large gap that I now had in my wheel well. So I bought a Belltech 3/3 drop kit and lowered it 3 inches.
As I started to look at pictures online and in magazine of other Blazers I realized that I had not yet begun to scratch the surface of the potential that my Blazer had. I decided to remove the
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