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Mark Post
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how to get ballistic:)It all started with Ivan “Ironman” Stewart’s
“Super Off Road” video game. Then the NBC broadcast coverage of the
longest North American off-road race, the Baja 1000. When a family
friend named Michael Gaughn took BJ for a ride in a VW-powered
two-seater Chenowith, he was absolutely hooked. “I remember thinking how
awesome that car was. It was the coolest thing I had ever done. I
couldn’t believe the stuff it was capable of. I wanted to start racing
immediately,” said BJ. After watching the Chenowith Terrible’s 250 his
sister Staci bought him the car. He entered the SCORE championship race
series and placed 6th at the SCORE Primm race that year, and later won
the “Baja in Havasu” race. More 
Racing
at speed across the desert floor, testing the ultimate endurance of man
and machine versus the harsh environment that covers the earth is not
for the timid at heart. In fact, off road desert racing spares no mercy
on anyone, regardless of who you are. Mark Post experienced the first
taste of high-speed adrenaline in 1990 and only a short time later, he
put his race team, Riviera Racing, in victory lane after laboring
through the challenging 1997 SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge. Not only
did Riviera Racing claim the SCORE Class 1 Title, but they claimed their
first overall championship win. Post and his Riviera Racing team were
hungry for their next win. More 
When
Armin Schwarz officially ended his career as a WRC works driver at the
2005 Rally of Australia, journalists were not able to coax a word of
melancholy out of him: “I’m grateful and happy to have experienced such a
wonderful life over the past two decades. But now it’s time for
something new and I can’t wait.“ Indeed, Armin Schwarz had already begun
his future projects: With full throttle, he initiated the Red Bull
Driver Search for German-speaking junior drivers, he worked as an RTL
(TV station) specialist and hatched many other plans. These plans are
going exactly the way Armin himself is: goal-oriented, diligent, with
endurance, competence, and an infectious enthusiasm. Like his “Project
Baja” with which he has attracted high-end sponsors. More