#80 Hayden Thomas, second Big UTV Overall on Saturday and #2020 Jeremiah Scott, third in the same class
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t may have only been March but things were already heating up in the 2020 AZOP Rowley White RV Series championship races! As spring weather rolled through the southwestern US, AZOP’s desert racers headed for the unassuming small town of Vicksburg, Arizona to stage a race at a truly unique venue:
a private junkyard! Presented by The
Hideaway Grill and Roadhouse as well as MRT, the Junkyard GP was run on a track approximately five miles in length which first snaked through the abandoned cars and other collected residue of the junkyard before heading out to the silt beds and even an old abandoned runway. Weeks of work went into the creation of the manmade portions
of the track and water was dumped onto the infield sections near the pits in an attempt to keep the dust down, both for those in attendance as well as the drivers on Interstate 10, which borders the northern edge of the property. While all the watering and prep time certainly helped, after two days with hundreds of contestants pounding around and plenty of hot
sun and wind, the dust clouds raised by the soft Vicksburg soil were still epic. The full-size UTV classes had an especially tough time as the dust from the large field of entrants eventually limited visibility along the entire track. Continued on next page
The real story of the weekend was the silt. The second half of the
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