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October 24, 2006 Rocking out with 2005 UROC Super Modified Champion Shannon Campbell GREENVILLE, S.C. – Gilbert, Arizona's very own Shannon Campbell is one of the Rockcrawling world's top drivers. In 2005 he was UROC Super Modified Class Champion and he was named Driver of the Year by DirtSport magazine. He says he owes his winning ways to his BFGoodrich® tires. 
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October 24, 2006 Climbing the (rock) walls with 2004 Super Modified UROC Champion Tracy Jordan GREENVILLE, S.C. – Tracy Jordan, sometimes known as 'the Steel Horse Cowboy', was the 2004 UROC Super Modified Class Champion. He also is an off-road desert racer, competing in the venerable Baja 1000. Whether he's defying the dessert heat or getting vertical on a slickrock wall this versatile driver is riding on BFGoodrich® tires.
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October 24, 2006 The man that would be king of the hill, 2004 UROC Modified Class Champion Dean Bulloch GREENVILLE, S.C. – With numerous divisional championships Dean "Iceman" Bulloch, the driver for the On Track Krawler Team, is one of the winningest competitors in UROC history. This self-confessed adrenaline junkie says he owes at least some of the credit to his BFGoodrich® KrawlerTM T/A® tires.
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October 24, 2006 Talking rock with 2005 UROC Modified Class Champion Brad Lovell GREENVILLE, S.C. – Brad Lovell has been tackling tough trails since his father first took the family for weekend treks in the Colorado Mountains. In three years of competition Lovell has earned some significant wins including the 2005 UROC Modified Championship. From his earliest rides on the rock, Lovell has always crawled on BFGoodrich® tires.
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October 7, 2006 UROC and BFGoodrich® Tires Team Up for New Rock Crawling Race Series to Debut in 2007 RockCross to Feature Head-to-Head Racing Format and $10,000 Triple Crown Bonus POMONA, Calif. - Oct. 7, 2006 - A new sport is about to hit the desert, merging the lightning speed of off-road racing with the rugged determination of rock crawling. This describes the BFGoodrich® Triple Crown of RockCross, a fast-paced, rock-conquering 2007 race series announced by the United Rock Crawling and Off-Road Challenge (UROC) and BFGoodrich Tires during an exhibition at the Off-Road Expo in Pomona, Calif.
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September 24, 2006 A Cypriot Hat-Trick for Sébastien Loeb/Daniel Elena (Citroën/ BFGoodrich® Tires) GREENVILLE, S.C. – Like the Goddess of Beauty Aphrodite who is said to have emerged from the waves on a Cypriot beach near the event's host-town Limassol, Sébastien Loeb rose to the highest step of the Cyprus Rally podium for the third year in a row. And like Aphrodite, his Citroën Xsara WRC/BFGoodrich® Tires, which was 'born of the blood of Kronos', is endowed with the fascinating power of ensuring a perpetual desire... for victory.
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September 2, 2006 A Memorable Fight Earns a 27th World Class Win For Citroen/ BFGoodrich® Tire's Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena GREENVILLE, S.C. – World rallying history books will remember that it was on the Japanese island of Hokkaido that Sébastien Loeb (Citroën/BFGoodrich® Tires) notched up the 27th World Championship win of his career after a thrilling clash with Marcus Grönholm (Ford/BFGoodrich Tires). Loeb's score of 27 wins takes him one better than the record previously held by Carlos Sainz.
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August 27, 2006 Scoop Vessels' F-100 Earns Place at Off-Road Hall of Fame Reno, Nev. - Honoring three decades of BFGoodrich® Tires' off-road supremacy, which began with Frank "Scoop" Vessel's success, the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame (ORMHOF) officially displayed the Vessels F-100 at the 2006 ORMHOF induction ceremony last night. Located in Gallery Four of the National Automobile Museum (The Harrah's Collection), the Vessels F-100 display debuted at a ceremony honoring inductees Sal Fish and the late Corky McMillin, both of whom helped establish BFGoodrich's dominance in the desert.
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August 26, 2006 BFGoodrich® Tires Dominates the Desert in the Vegas to Reno Race RENO, Nev. - BFGoodrich® Tires proved its off-road dominance yet again this past weekend, running over the competition and taking home the top prize in the tenth anniversary of the Best in the Desert (BitD) 2006 TSCO Vegas to Reno event, the longest point-to-point race in the United States.
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June 6, 2006 BFGoodrich® Tires Gears Up for 2006 Championship Off-Road Racing Series GREENVILLE, S.C. - After a very successful 2005 Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR) season, BFGoodrich® Tires returns in 2006 looking to continue its off-road dominance in the extremely competitive series. BFGoodrich Tires teams won more races in 2005 than all other tire manufacturers combined, taking home class championships in the Pro-4 and Pro-2, Pro-Lite, Single Buggy and Light Buggy classes.
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June 4, 2006 Moss Brothers Score 20th Class Win At Baja 500 Sacramento, CA - The 38th annual SCORE Baja 500 is over and the record books will reflect that the four-time SCORE Class Three champions Don and Ken Moss captured their 20th Class Three win at this 2006 event. The race featured 464 entries from 28 U.S. States, Mexico, Canada, Colombia, France, New Zealand and Japan, the largest race field ever!
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May 15, 2006 BFGoodrich® Tires Launches Mud-Terrain T/AKR Competition Tire for CORR Series CHULA VISTA, CALIF. - BFGoodrich Tires is launching a new competition version of its highly popular Mud-Terrain T/A® off-road tire. The new Mud-Terrain T/AKR tire (size: 35x12/50R17) boasts an advanced tread design that is optimal for Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR) competition and features the maximum tread width allowed (10.2 inches). The new tire will make its racing debut at the start of the CORR season May 20 - 21, 2006 in Chula Vista, Calif.
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April 2, 2006 BFGoodrich® Tires Makes Rousing Debut at Formula D Championships GREENVILLE, S.C. - BFGoodrich® Tires smoked the competition in its official drifting debut this weekend at round one of the Formula D drift championships in Long Beach, Calf. Newly-signed BFGoodrich drifter Samuel "The Crazy Swede" Hubinette (Mopar/BFGoodrich Tires) took first place while Yukinobu "Boney" Okubo (Signal/BFGoodrich Tires) of the Signal Auto team was the top qualifier of the weekend.
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March 31, 2006 BFGoodrich® Tires Dominates the World Rally Championships with One-Two-Three Podium Finish and Fourth-Straight Win GREENVILLE, S.C. - Three weeks after his triumph in Mexico, Sébastien Loeb (Citroën/BFGoodrich® Tires) was in winning form again during the fourth round of the 2006 World Rally Championships in Catalunya this weekend. The two-time World Champion finished clear of Spanish driver Dani Sordo (Citroën/BFGoodrich Tires) and Finland's Marcus Grönholm (Ford/BFGoodrich Tires). The BFGoodrich Tires g-Force Profiler proved to be the fastest tire over all sixteen stages on the Catalan asphalt, helping BFGoodrich drivers to monopolize the top-six positions in the final standings.
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March 31, 2006 BFGoodrich® Makes Successful World Rally Championship Debut GREENVILLE, S.C. - In 2006, BFGoodrich made its debut in World Rally Championship (WRC) racing to further demonstrate the brand’s dominance on one of the toughest testing grounds known to man. During the year-long series, BFGoodrich tires will go head-to head with ice, snow, gravel, desert sands and every kind of weather Mother Nature serves up.
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March 14, 2006 BFGoodrich® Wins Third-Straight WRC Event - Loeb, Elena, Kronos and BFGoodrich Score Their First WRC Win Together GREENVILLE, S.C. - After finishing second on two occasions so far this year, Citroën/BFGoodrich's® Sébastien Loeb claimed his first win of 2006 by beating Petter Solberg (Subaru) in this weekend's Rally Mexico. The duel between the pair kept spectators on their toes until the end of leg two when the Norwegian driver was slowed by power steering trouble.
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March 2, 2006 BFGoodrich® Tires' Studs Star in the Swedish Snow GREENVILLE, S.C. - The thrilling clash between Marcus Grönholm (Ford/BFGoodrich®) and Sébastien Loeb (Citroën/BFGoodrich) that marked the 2006 Swedish Rally continued all the way to the final stage, eventually ending in the favor of the Grönholm to take his score to a total of four wins on this event.
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March 2, 2006 BFGoodrich® Tires Claims Its First WRC Victory in Monte Carlo GREENVILLE, S.C. - After years of chasing after his first-ever asphalt win, the two-time world champion Marcus Grönholm finally succeeded in achieving that feat on probably the most complex sealed surface round of them all, the legendry Monte Carlo Rally. The two-time world champion finished clear of the triple Monte winner Sébastien Loeb (Citroën/BFGoodrich®) and fellow Finland driver Toni Gardemeister (Peugeot/BFGoodrich) who was once again a strong contender in the Alps of southern France.
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March 2, 2006 BFGoodrich® Tires' Official World Rally Championship Debut GREENVILLE, S.C. - For 2006, BFGoodrich® Tires is set to enter another form of off-road racing to further demonstrate the brand's dominance on one of the toughest testing grounds known to man: the World Rally Championship (WRC). In this overseas venture, BFGoodrich will partner with some of the series' most exciting race teams, including Kronos Racing, BP Ford, OMV Peugeot Norway, Stobart VK M-Sport Ford and Red Bull Skoda. These teams consist of many of the world's most talented drivers such as the reigning, two-time World Champion, Sébastien Loeb (Kronos Racing).
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March 2, 2006 BFGoodrich© Tires Starts Off the New Year Right GREENVILLE, S.C. - BFGoodrich® Tires already has something to cheer about as the brand kicked off the 2006 racing season on a winning note. BFGoodrich’s persistent dominance in two of the world’s foremost racing series, SCORE International Off-Road Racing and Best in the Desert; bolster the brand’s claim of being "The World’s Toughest Off-Road Tire."
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