Gen. Clark has decided to leave the race, ... I think probably the biggest reason is the tremendous momentum that Sen. Kerry built coming out of the Iowa and New Hampshire races.

General Clark has decided to leave the race,

I'm totally disgusted. This is a brand-new car. I built this car to come here to race.

As the race evolved, we wanted to highlight all the great miles of trails in Durango. As more and more people came to us and said, 'Hey, we want to do both races,' we decided to create the special awards and went so far as to change the name of the race. We're really marketing the double this year.

One reason for this is succinate's broad utility - it can be used to make everything from noncorrosive airport de-icers and nontoxic solvents to plastics, drugs and food additives.

We're hitting good when there's nobody on base. But for some reason, we can't get the hits when we absolutely have to have them. We've done it before though, so I know our kids are capable of doing it again. For whatever reason, they just haven't been doing it lately.