Junqueira leaves foes in his wake.

Byline: Dale Hofmann

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. _ They were running the right race here on Walden Pond, they were just using the wrong equipment.

On a Sunday for salamanders, Bruno Junqueira won the annual Motorola 220 driving a Toyota Lola, a.k.a. "Miss Budweiser." It was an event only a mudder could love.

"Have you ever water-skied in your life?" the damp and shaken Mauricio Gugelmin inquired rhetorically. "That's what it was like. These are race cars, not power boats."

Whatever they are, let's hope they're recyclable. Twenty-six of them crossed the starting line slightly after noon, and 10 were no longer intact three hours later. Television had …