DIXON BROS. TAKE OVER CLASS 7100 POINTS LEAD WITH ANOTHER WIN AT ‘SILVER STATE 300’

Mesquite, NV - September 27, 2008: Driving the #7101 Dixon Bros. Racing Ford Ranger,
Aaron Dixon and navigator Ed Ramirez soloed Best in the Desert Racing Association’s ‘Silver
State 300’, to win their third consecutive race this season. The win moved the #7101 Dixon Bros.
Ford into the Class 7100 points lead with only the ‘Henderson’s Fabtech Desert Classic’ left on
Best in the Desert’s 2008 racing schedule, December 5-7.
Aaron started the race in 3rd position, behind the #7102 and #7114 Fords. There was a
mild breeze, but dust was still hanging in the valleys. The plan was to settle into a moderate pace
and see what competition materialized. Around mile 15 they began to close on the #7102 truck,
but attempting a pass was not worth the risk. Five miles later they encountered some thick dust,
when suddenly the #7114 Ford appeared out of nowhere, lying on it’s side in the middle of the
course. “We almost scraped our door on their roof but made it around the outside of the corner”
Aaron said. “A few miles later the #7102, who was not running on Goodyear’s, was pulled over
with a flat rear tire.” Now in the lead, the #7101 Dixon Bros. Ford found some clean air and
quickly started to catch up to some of the race traffic that started in front of their class. So far the
course had been tight and technical with no room to pass because of the rocks lining the road’s
edge.
At mile 85, bouncing in and out of some silt ruts, the steering started to get tight. Aaron
was having flashbacks of the previous race where we lost our power steering due to a cracked
rack and pinion housing. “As my face shield was showered with what seemed to be power steering
fluid, I kept driving only to later see our engine coolant temp. quickly approaching 280
degrees. We pulled over to find the serpentine belt missing and an empty radiator. We quickly
installed a new belt, as we were being passed by a convoy of vehicles that started behind us.
Moving forward again, we limped into Pit #2, a few miles across the valley, and filled the radiator.
I really thought the engine was cooked, but the temperature held and we were back in the race
in second place behind #7104”.
For awhile Aaron took it easy on the truck, to check the engine temperature, before turning
up the wick through Pit #3. They passed #7104 who was parked in the pit with no one working on
their truck. The #7101 Dixon Bros. Ford Ranger was now back in the lead headed into what they
knew were going to be tough miles. During the pre-run, this area developed some pretty deep ruts
filled with powdery silt. “As we crested one area, what was once a single line had turned into a
giant silt field littered with stuck vehicles trying to dig their way out by hand”, Aaron said. “We
mashed the throttle down and gave it everything we had. I headed left at the beginning and, as our
truck bogged down, I quickly downshifted to first with the engine screaming at full throttle.”
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The Dixon Bros. Ford was moving slower and slower as the relentless silt-beds got deeper. Aaron pointed the
truck downslope toward the left more and more, inching their way along, finally reaching some hard pack. Knowing
that was only the beginning, he slowed a little to keep out of the dust spewing from other vehicles. “Sometimes, it’s
more important to see where you are going, than to try to be fast”, As Aaron would later say. “Our next test was a
small hillclimb we could see in the distance. One truck was stuck halfway up, then another to the left, and another...
I didn’t feel like joining them, so we took a quick left up the side of the hill, narrowly missing a stalled buggy and
clawed our way over the top. At this point, I knew that if we stopped for anything, we could easily get stuck and lose
hours trying to get out. We repeated this at the next hill, just barely getting over the top having to dodge trees, cars,
and people. Miles later, a buggy stuck around a blind corner franticly waved at us to go left. It was too late, there was
nowhere to go as the track was lined with trees and thick mesquite brush. Reacting, I turned the wheels all the way
left and headed directly toward a huge 6' Mesquite tree. The truck jumped up and over the old dead branches as I
heard the driveshaft grinding away at the limbs. We quickly got blinded by the cloud of dust and I kept the throttle
down as we hit another huge tree. Somehow, we made it around the buggy and several other racers buried in the silt.
The race was quickly turning into a quest for survival, not just a finish.”
Somewhat beyond the halfway point of the race, the course began to clear up but Aaron knew that many racers
behind him were having problems. Time splits from the pits indicate that what was once a 6 minute lead, is now a 45
minute lead!!! It becomes apparent to Aaron that everyone else is stuck and the race is ours to lose. The #7101 Dixon
Bros. Ford had no troubles driving over the narrow mining roads into Pit 4 for the final gas stop. Long washes with
tight first gear corners and power robbing loose sand lead the way into Caliente at race-mile 228. “It’s wide open
from Caliente to the finish, was the talk among drivers on Friday”, according to Aaron. “I’m not sure what some
people think this means, but the course remained very technical with plenty of places to end your day, but the Radflo
Shocks never let us down. Up and down, tight corners lined with pine forests, loose gravel roads, occasional rain
showers, and dust from a vehicle ahead of us made the last 60 miles seem an eternity. As day turned to night, we
turned on our KC Hilites just in time to shine on the checkered flag waving at us. It was a long, hard 300 miles, but
was easily soothed by the sense of accomplishment in winning one of the toughest races we have ever entered”.
The #7101 Dixon Bros. Ford took the win after just under eight hours on he race course beating the second
place #7102 Ford to the finish by 2 hours, 12 minutes. The win moves the Dixon Bros. into the Class 7100 lead by
nine points over Heidi Steele, in the #7114 truck and put them on a path to win their second consecutive Class 7100
points championship in Best in the Desert’s Silver State Series with only one race remaining on the 2008 racing
schedule. This would be their fourth Silver State Series Points championship in the past six years.
The final race of the season for Dixon Bros. Racing is Best in the Desert’s ‘Henderson’s Fabtech Desert
Classic’, scheduled for December 5-7 in Henderson, Nevada.
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DIXON BROS. CHASE DOWN COMPETITION TO WIN VEGAS TO RENO

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Reno, NV - August 23, 2008: Although environmental concerns shortened the Best in the
Desert ‘Vegas to Reno’ race by almost 100 miles, the change in length did nothing to make the
course any easier for the competitors. If anything, it was more difficult. Aaron Dixon behind the
wheel of The Dixon Bros. #7101 Ford Ranger started ninth in the gaggle of Class 7100 trucks and
ran a conservative pace, early on, threading his way through the race traffic. About 40 miles into
the race Aaron got caught up in a traffic jam at a steep and silty hill where a number of production
class vehicles were stuck. Those that were not stuck were each forced to wait their turn in line for
20-30 minutes to take a run up the steep hill and get on with their race. Had the race been started
in Johnnie, as originally scheduled, this hill would have been at race-mile 150 and would probably
have been clear since the slower and weaker vehicles would have fallen off the pace by then.
After finally getting past the “hill climb” as Aaron called it, he was moving through some
really extreme braking bumps when the #7101 Ford lost the power steering. “Once we loose
power steering pressure, the feedback from the steering wheel is INSANE and it is impossible to
hold,” said team owner Aaron Dixon. “We pulled off the road to survey the damage and found
that the rack was cracked on the pressure side. We use a factory part, per the rules and were 20
miles from the next pit so we decided to limp it in rather than try to fix it ourselves.”
While trying to get back on the course, they got stuck trying to cross a ditch, which turned
out to be deeper than it looked. “Without the superior traction of the Goodyear MTR tires and our
Radflo Hydra Jack, we might still be stuck!” Aaron commented. Back on level ground, Aaron
with co-rider, Ed Ramirez, continued on their way to pit #2 with no further issues. The steering
was changed in the pit and they were back in the race and running in seventh place after losing
about an hour and a half to repairs. He passed a few broken Class 7100 trucks on the way to
Tonopah at race-mile 150 where Ian Dixon and Phil Ramirez were scheduled to take over.
The Dixon Bros. #7101 Ford Ranger had moved into third place when Ian got behind the
wheel, about 25 miles off the pace set by the #7114 Ford, who had held the lead all day. As
darkness fell, Ian had some trouble working the adjustable actuator on the new light rack but the
headlights and bumper mounted KC HiLites HID’s turned out to be more than enough to light the
way to the next driver change in Hawthorne at race-mile 300.
Along the way Ian had reeled in the leaders and when Aaron took over for the final 155-mile
stretch to the finish, he was in the lead. The Dixon Bros. #7101 Ford Ranger had a flawless ride
to the finish in Dayton, winning the BitD ‘Vegas to Reno’ by 40 minutes over the #7102 Ford,
who had passed the #7114 truck for the second place finish in the final 50 miles of the race.
“We want to thank Robby Woolworth for opening up his shop the night before the race until
midnight” Aaron said.. “We heard some loud gear noise coming from the rear end while loading
up the truck after tech and decided to change out the ring and pinion. I called up Robby and he
said, ‘No problem, I’ll wait for you to get here’. We ended up using our spare 3rd member with a
gear set that had 5 races on it.”
At the finish team owner Aaron Dixon said, “This is how the Vegas to Reno race always
turns out, everyone has problems. Sitting at Pit #2 fixing the steering rack, I really couldn’t
imagine winning this race, but we’ll take it!”
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DIXON BROS. RACING READY FOR ‘TERRIBLE’S TOWN 250 AT PRIMM’

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Lompoc, CA - April 15, 2008: After suffering the loss of their engine, just a few miles after
the start of the season opening ‘Parker 425’in February, the Dixon Bros. Racing #7101 Ford
Ranger has been repaired and is ready to take on Best in the Desert’s ‘Terrible’s 250 at Primm,
April 18-20 in Primm, Nevada. After finishing every race since the end of the 1999 season, the
Dixon Bros. luck finally ran out at this year’s ‘Parker 425’ , when a rock kicked up by another
truck, early in the race, got by all the safeguards and put a small hole in their radiator. Because the
hole was a small one, the damage to the cooling system was not immediately apparent to driver,
Aaron Dixon, who did not notice the gradually increasing temperature of the engine until it was
too late. Although the temperature gauge seemed near the normal operating range, the truck started
running erratically and began to seize up as they pulled over to survey the problem, ending their
race after only 30 miles. Within a week, Ford had a new engine delivered to Dixon Bros. Racing,
in Lompoc, California and not long thereafter the Ford Ranger was dialed in and ready to begin a
new finishing streak beginning with the ‘Terrible’s 250 at Primm’, this weekend.
Best in the Desert Racing Association recently announced a record entry of 225 cars and
trucks, reflecting a 25% increase in entries over last year’s ‘Terrible’s Town 250’, replaced this
season by the ‘Terrible’s 250 at Primm’ as the second event on the BitD Silver State Series racing
schedule. Billed as the “Richest Off-Road Race in Nevada,” the Terrible’s 250 will be hosted by
the Herbst family and Buffalo Bill’s Hotel & Casino. The course will start & finish in Primm,
Nevada and will cover three 84 mile loops for a combined distance of 252 miles. In the interest of
time, some slower classes will only race two laps. The entries will be split into two separate
categories on Saturday with the production and limited classes (Group 1) starting at 5:30 AM and
the unlimited class vehicles (Group 2) scheduled to begin their race at 1:00 PM. As part of the
Group 1 race, the Dixon Bros. Racing Ford Ranger Pickup (#7101) will start fourth in Class
7100 about 6:00 AM on Saturday morning.
Aaron will drive all three laps with co-rider, Ed Ramirez in the navigator’s seat. Rounding
out the team, Jim Dixon (father) and Phil Ramirez, will be on hand to help out in the pits with
additional help from Ed and Phil’s parents, Manny and Andrea Ramirez. Dixon Bros Racing has
been a family effort since the beginning and as a team have won three class points championships.
This year each entry in a Best in the Desert event will be outfitted with the iritrack system so
anyone can track the progress of the race on the internet in real time. You can follow the #7101
Dixon Bros. Racing Ford Ranger by tracking their progress on raceday at www.racetheworld.net.
Dixon Bros. Racing is ready for this event and the team is looking forward to a good finish
in Primm.
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DIXON BROS. RACING BEGIN THEIR DEFENSE OF CLASS 7100

DIXON BROS. RACING BEGIN THEIR DEFENSE OF CLASS 7100
SILVER STATE SERIES TITLE AT SEASON OPENING ‘PARKER 425’
Lompoc, CA - January 29, 2008: The Blue Water Resort & Casino ‘Parker 425’, opening
race of Best in the Desert Racing Association’s Silver State Series, is scheduled for February 1-
3 in Parker, Arizona. The ‘Parker 425’ is a unique blend of tough, technical terrain and long high
speed sections where you have to know when to drive hard and when not to. This sort of varied
landscape is very demanding on drivers, crews and vehicles alike and it’s not uncommon to see
the course littered with cars and trucks whose drivers have simply run out of luck (or talent). The
race will cover three loops over a tough 137 mile course that will finish in the shadow of the Blue
Water Resort, on the banks of the historic Colorado River.
What a difference a year makes! Dixon Bros. Racing is kicking off the 2008 season with a
bold new paint scheme on their Class 7100 Ford Ranger. The crew spent much of the past two
months, since the ‘Henderson 400’, improving and repainting the truck in preparation for the
2008 racing season. At last year’s ‘Parker 425’, the Dixon Bros. barely made it to the start line on
raceday morning with a basically stock Class 7100 Ford Ranger, three weeks in the making and
whose only testing time was in the distance from the garage to the trailer. With the 2008 Best in
the Desert ‘Parker 425’ just a few days away, the Dixons are putting the final touches on their
state of the art #7101 Ford Ranger as they prepare to defend their 2007 Class 7100 Silver State
Series points championship. After “surviving” last year’s ‘Parker 425’ with a second place finish
in class, team owner Aaron Dixon spent the next two races refining the truck and making it
competitive. The Dixon Bros. finished the 2007 season with convincing wins at the ‘Las Vegas
300, the ‘Henderson 400’ and won the Class 7100 points championship by a comfortable margin.
Most would think that after winning the class points championship, the Dixons would feel
more confident about the “Parker 425” this year. “Well, yes and no”, says Aaron Dixon. “The
truck is very competitive, so I can push it a lot harder and not have to worry so much about
breaking. At Parker, last year, I knew the truck was not 100% and I had to be cautious to survive
but, when everything is dialed in and working well, you have to force yourself to be disciplined.
A lot of these guys think they can win the race in the first 100 miles and put their foot to the floor
as soon as the green flag drops. In the early stages of the event, it’s important to just let them go
and concentrate on driving your own race. The fact is that over half of the entries aren’t going to
finish and you don’t want to be a part of that statistic”.
Aaron will drive the first and third laps with co-rider, Ed Ramirez in the navigator’s seat.
Ian Dixon, will be on hand at the main pit to take over on lap #2 with co-rider, Phil Ramirez in as
navigator. Rounding out the team, Jim Dixon (father), will be on hand to chase and help out in the
pits while Ed and Phil’s parents, Manny and Andrea Ramirez, will be on duty in the second chase
truck. Dixon Bros Racing has been a family effort since the beginning and as a team have won
three class points championships. Dixon Bros. Racing is looking forward to a good finish in
Parker and the successful defense of their Class 7100 points title in 2008.

DIXON BROS. WIN CLASS 7100 AT BEST IN THE DESERT’S ‘LAS VEGAS 300’

Jean, NV- October 6, 2007: Aaron Dixon, with Ed Ramirez in
the navigator’s seat, drove the Dixon Bros. Racing #7177 Ford Ranger
to the Class 7100 victory, on October 6th, at Best in the Desert racing
Association’s ‘Las Vegas 300’ in Jean, Nevada. After leading most of
the race the win virtually assures the Dixon Bros. of the 2007 Class
7100 points championship in Best in the Desert’s Silver State Series.
With only one race remaining on the 2007 BitD racing schedule, the
finish gives the Dixon Bros. a commanding lead of 102 points in the
race for the Class 7100 points title. “We had a perfect day,” said team
owner, Aaron Dixon. “I drove the truck about 80% and beat everyone by about 20min. That win also wrapped up the
Class 7100 Championship for us and we only have to start the Henderson race to make it official.”
The Dixon Bros. have had their share of frustrations this year, having overcome problems at the first three races
to record second, third and fourth place finishes while working in their Lompoc, California shop between events to get
their new 2007 Ford Ranger 2WD truck dialed in. The team’s consistency has been the main factor that put them in the
lead for the class points championship and this win assures that they will finish on top. “It looks like we got all of the
little problems fixed”, said Aaron Dixon after the race. “It was great to finally realize our truck’s potential.”
Dixon Bros Racing has been a family effort since the beginning. Brothers Aaron and Ian share the driving duties
while Jim Dixon (father) helps prep the vehicles and support the race team in the pits. The other side of Dixon Bros
Racing would be the Ramirez Family. Manny and Andrea Ramirez,
their Sons Ed and Phil, and grandson Andrew all help out from Codriving
and working on the race truck to firing up the BBQ after a long
day on the course. Racing wouldn’t be possible without the Ramirez’s
support.
We also want to thank our corporate partners, Amsoil Lubricants,
Deaver Spring Company, Ford Truck Motorsports, Goodyear
Tire & Rubber, Premier Racing Products (PRP), Racer-X Motorsports,
Radflo Suspension Technology and Off Road Warehouse (ORW). Without
their help and participation, our success this year would not have been possible.
The last race on the 2007 Dixon Bros. Racing Schedule is Best in the Desert Racing Association’s ‘Henderson’s
Terrible 400’, Nov 30-Dec 2 in Henderson, Nevada. The Dixon Bros.are looking forward to closing out their season
at Henderson and hope to put the #7177 Ford Ranger in the winner’s circle for the second consecutive time.

Dixon Bros Racing - WINS LV 300!!! and Class Championship!!!

We had a perfect day, drove the truck about 80% and beat everyone by about 20min. That win also wrapped up the class 7100 Championship for us and we only have to start the Henderson race to make it official. Looks like we got all of the little problems fixed and it was great to finally realize our trucks potential.

Aaron

DIXON BROS. FORD RANGER DRAWS FIRST STARTING POSITION

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Lompoc, CA - August 20, 2007: Hoping to capitalize on a favorable starting position at Best in the Desert
Racing Association’s ‘Vegas to Reno’ race on August 24th, Aaron and Ian Dixon bring their #7177 Dixon Bros.
Racing Ford Ranger pickup to Las Vegas only seven points off the lead in the race for the 2007 Class 7100 points
championship. The Dixon Brothers, who won this event in 2003, on their way to the Class 7300 Silver State Series
points championship, which they won in 2003 and 2004, have their sights set on another championship in 2007, this
time in Class 7100. Billed as “The Longest Off-Road Race in the United States”, festivities for the ‘Vegas to Reno’
race begin with tech and contingency throughout the day on Thursday, August 23 at the South Point Hotel and Casino
in Las Vegas. On Friday morning the action moves 72 miles west, to the starting line in the old mining area at Johnnie,
NV, where more than 150 cars and trucks are scheduled to stage for the start of the race at 10:30 AM. During the race,
which covers 570 miles across parts of the Mojave and Great Basin deserts, racers will face elevation changes ranging
from 2,000 feet through the sand washes and river beds in the south to over 6000 feet across the northern mountain
ranges to finish in Dayton, Nevada just south of Reno.
There’s no question that such a demanding race requires serious attention to detail if you hope to finish, let alone
finish well. After the ‘Terrible’s Town 250’, in April, team leader, Aaron Dixon began preparing the truck to meet the
challenge of the ‘Vegas to Reno’. Since building the Class 7100 Ranger in January, the Dixon’s have been paying close
attention to any problems in the Ranger’s design and have devoted all of their available time between each race to
perfecting the truck’s performance. After the ‘Parker 425’, Aaron and his crew made a number of modifications to the
front suspension, designed to increase the front suspension travel. At Terrible’s Town however, the increased travel
allowed the shocks to contact the driver’s side upper A-arm at full compression causing damage to both outer shafts of
the front shocks. To cure that problem, the shocks have been remounted to allow for adequate clearance and the
conventional bump stops have been replaced with a set of Light Racing’s JounceShocksTM to eliminate damage to the
front suspension at full compression. Another issue which cost us time at the last race was a fuel starvation problem.
Although it turned out to be nothing more than a fuel line that came loose, repairing it required disassembling the fuel
cell out on the course, costing the team over an hour of downtime, once again demonstrating that the devil is in the
details. Once back at the shop, the cell was disassembled, one more time, and the fuel line rerouted so this particular
gremlin would not jump up and bite us again in the future. After giving the truck a detailed race prep and adding a new
HID lighting system from KC HiLiTES, the #7177 Dixon Bros. Racing Ford Ranger has been tested and is ready to
take the green flag on Friday morning.
Aaron will start the race with Ed Ramirez in the second seat. At Goldfield, 186 miles into the race, Ian Dixon
will take over behind the wheel and Phil Ramirez will navigate until the truck reaches Mina, at racemile 379, where
Aaron and Ed will get back in the truck and take it to the finish. Rounding out this family effort, in the support vehicles,
will be Jim Dixon, the driver’s father and Andrea and Manny Ramirez, the co-rider’s parents. Everyone on the team is
looking forward to a family reunion at the finish line, in Dayton sometime in the early morning hours on Saturday.
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DIXON BROS. FORD RANGER DRAWS FIRST STARTING POSITION
IN CLASS 7100 AT BEST IN THE DESERT’S ‘VEGAS TO RENO’
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