It was an exciting 9-day event in Moab for the 2008 Moab Jeep Easter Safari, especially for the Rancho Team, including a tenth place finish for Rob Bonney of Team Rancho Racing and a twenty-eighth place finish for Rancho’s Bob Willis.
After running several trail days with wheelers from all over North America, we set up our display at the Jeep Safari Show inside the Moab Arena. Willis even managed to get interviewed by the local news station…make sure you check out this video:
We also ran our Rancho Interactive Garage – an awesome display that has several Rancho trucks, Jeeps and ATVs – in downtown Moab, at the Checkers Auto Parts store for a couple of days. Make sure you check out more about the RIG. We’ll be taking it to several different events across North America this summer and fall, and you don’t want to miss out.
After several days of trail rides, Rancho sent our racers out to take on the rock racing competition in the 2008 XRRA series. The season opener was Saturday, March 22, 2008, in Moab, and we were excited to see where our racers – Rob Bonney and Bob Willis of Rancho – would finish.
XRRA Action
After a couple rounds of exciting racing, including Willis endoing and causing some frontal damage to the Rancho Rock Buggy, Willis fought back in the third and fourth rounds of competition to only get sucked into Cancer Canyon, a tricky portion of Moab’s XRRA course. After hauling in the “Crane of Shame,” Willis’ buggy was pulled back onto its feet for the fourth race of the day. Willis posted the fifth fastest time in history for the course after all of his technical difficulties in previous rounds.
And just to prove to you how tough the course was out at Moab, Rob Bonney finished tenth overall…and we captured some awesome footage of him eating up the course. Check it out…
Bonney Crawls through XRRA Race
Bonney Eats Rock Garden
Bonney Flies through Moab Course
Bonney Pulls through Cancer Canyon
Bonney Hits a Double-Double
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