2011 Dakar Rally starts on New Year’s Day

The 2011 Personal Dakar Argentina-Chile Rally begins Saturday, with the ceremonial start in Buenos Aires; it will finish in Victoria, Argentina, on the first night. Actual timed racing begins on Sunday, with the first day of racing covering 566 km from Victoria to Cordoba. This the 32nd edition of the rally, taking place in Argentina […]

Local boy done good: John Penton’s scrapbook

This is why you should support your local library. While poking around on ohiomemory.org recently, I came across a couple of scrapbooks created by Al Born, a member of the official Penton Motorcycle racing team, one of which was presented to John Penton in 1999. Penton – a native of Amherst, Ohio, is today remembered […]