SCORE Journal - The Official Publication of SCORE Off-Road Racing
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belt pulley, and they missed a checkpoint while trying to fix it and get back on the race course. Further up the road, Rodriquez-Cops nearly flipped his car backward on a steep hill that everyone struggled to climb. From his vantage point after getting his car back on the course, Hollenbeck got a view of what transpired the rest of the way. "Solorzano was way out in front. I passed Nauleau at some point. Then he passed me and this continued all the way to mile marker 350," said Hollenbeck. "Near race marker 333 the team of Rodriquez- Cops called themselves out. It looked like a catastrophic front end failure." With Rodriquez-Cops out of the race, Solorzano held the lead going into Laguna Chapala. Team Nauleau/CBCFS, was in second, followed by Hollenbeck/RLM de Mexico and Wallentine Motorsport's team. "I remember being with Solorzano at mile marker 390 near the deep silt, where he had stopped dead in his tracks," said Nauleau, who took over the lead. "We had a good battle going on. But Solorzano eventually got in trouble when he tried to get through the silt with a damaged suspension." That took Solorzano officially out of the race, and the field was dwindling due to the deep ruts that were chewing up everyone that was left in Class 11. At this point, there were only three teams remaining in the race. INTO THE BLACKNESS The darkness blanketed the course, and what remained of the Class 11 racers where were Neauleau/CBCFS, Brian Wallentine/Wallentine Motorsports, and Hollenbeck's RLM de Mexico crew. These cars were flying faster than ever as the hours ticked 071 SCORE JOURNAL TEAM RLM DE MEXICO WHIPS THEIR VW INTO A CORNER. BAJA DESIGNS, GLS SPRAY, BILSTEIN, KW MACHINE WORKS, PCI RACE RADIOS AND MAXTRAX ARE A FEW OF THE PROUD SUPPORTERS OF THE DENNIS HOLLENBECK'S EFFORTS.