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Race Teams at King of the Hammers! Sound off if you're Racing KOH 2014!

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Old 01-22-2014, 07:54 PM
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Thumbs up Race Teams at King of the Hammers! Sound off if you're Racing KOH 2014!



So many great sponsors and members on the forum who will be racing this year at King of the Hammers. Here's your chance to let the rest of the community know what race you're running and race number so we can look for you at the race.


Saturday, February 1st – 3 PM PST – King of the Motos presented by Trail Tech Qualifying
Sunday, February 2nd 8 AM PST – King of the Motos presented by Trail Tech Race
Monday, February 3rd 6 PM PST – SRRS ULTRA4 King Shocks Shoot Out
Tuesday, February 4th 8 AM PST – 4 Wheel Parts Qualifying – UTV, Spec, Mod & ULTRA4s
Wednesday, February 5th 8 AM PST – KOH UTV Race & 4 Wheel Parts Qualifying
Thursday, February 6th 8 AM PST – Smittybilt Every Man Challenge Race
Friday, February 7th, 8 AM PST – Griffin King of the Hammers Presented by Nitto Tire

Forum Sponsor Teams and Members Racing:
George Kane/Bond Gilmer Rebel Off Road/Holy Moly Racing #420
Larry McRae/Chris Graves Poison Spyder Customs Crispy #4415
Richard Gauthier #4643
Matt Fields #4595
Brian Hogue #1915 RAZR - 900
Melvin Wade Jr. #1951 RAZR - EVO1K (1000)
Mel Wade Off Road Evolution #4651 EVO TJ
Mel Wade Off Road Evolution#4451 EVO1
Jason Kaminsky/Rick Jenkins 4 corners 4x4/4x4tricks #4678
camelspider engineering #1916


If you plan to have an event for the forum members feel free to chime in and feel free to pimp your fan swag here so members can represent for you during the race!

Here's an example:



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Old 01-23-2014, 07:32 AM
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We are in!

This is our second year as a King of the Hammers main event competitor - Ultra4 #420 Holy Moly Racing.

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Yes we will of course be there! Many of you have watched our "Crispy" build thread here on JK-Forum, which is our racer in the Ultra4 unlimited class.

We'll be there all week, beginning the previous Thursday. We'll have our semi set up in our pit area along the short course section of the track, so if you have a pit pass wristband feel free to come by and check things out. We'll also have our display in the vendor area, directly across the bonfire from the stage and Jumotron. So come by there and say hi to Starlie and our sales team, and pick up one of our new 2014 Poison Spyder Racing T-shirts or Hoodies, which sm-rubi posted the back design of. We'll post up the full shirt design soon, and also make them available on the website.

Crispy's car number is 4415. Larry is the driver and Chris Graves is the co-driver. Chris is the guy you see in most of the photos in the build thread, as he's our master fabricator and did most of the work during the build. We'll be in the main King Of the Hammers race on Friday, and also in the Qualifying round on Tuesday afternoon, to determine starting position. We'll try to get Crispy into our vendor display area for a few hours during the week too, for those who can't get into the pits for a closer look. And you can check it out during tech and contingency on Wednesday evening.

For those who can't make it to KOH, we'll be doing a lot of media coverage, including daily video updates on our Youtube channel and Facebook. We'll post more about that soon.


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Old 01-23-2014, 09:38 AM
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My club has two racers in the event, 4643 Richard Gauthier and 4595 Matt Fields.

Richard has been racing KOH since the second event, flopping between 4400 to 4600 class cars. You might have seen him recently as he got about 35% time on the latest KOH video.


This will be Matt's first try at racing.



And look for this one (Avery) on the Backdoor challenge....



And a very slight chance I might get to run the backdoor event as well.... who wants to see a JK spank a bunch of nancy bouncers?

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Good start thanks guys!
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Off Road Evolution will have 4 vehicles running this year...


RAZR - 900 #1915 (Brian Hogue)


RAZR - EVO1K (1000) #1951 (Melvin Wade Jr.)
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EVO TJ #4651 (Mel Wade)


EVO1 #4451 (Mel Wade)
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Originally Posted by drew@offroadevolution
Off Road Evolution


RAZR - EVO1K (1000) #1951 (Melvin Wade Jr.)
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Wow the next generation is racing now pretty cool! Go Little Mel!
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Our local clubs have at least 2 racers that I know of.

One is Jason Kaminsky in the 4600 every man. Hes with 4 corners 4x4 and his co-drive Rick Jenkins is with 4x4tricks

Racer # 4678

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The other is in the razr class. Its run by camelspider engineering.

Racer # 1916

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Old 01-26-2014, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Maertz
Our local clubs have at least 2 racers that I know of.

The other is in the razr 1k class. Its run by camelspider engineering.

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Do you know what the race number is for this rig? Will definitely be pulling for all the JK-Forum sponsors and members racing out at KOH this year and it helps to know who they all are!
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Originally Posted by sm_rubi
Do you know what the race number is for this rig? Will definitely be pulling for all the JK-Forum sponsors and members racing out at KOH this year and it helps to know who they all are!
There stopping by today and I will ask him. I will also ask the other driver if there number is the same as last year or different. I will get them updated as soon as I know.


Also Loren Healy Racer #67 will be there competing from out here.

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