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Another Class 11 joining the fray

Spent an hour on the phone last night with Paul of CBCFS Racing out of San Francisco. A great guy. He and his buddy are about 95% complete on a Class 11 build that they expect to campaign in the VORRA series and take to the Baja 1000.

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Safety third

We’re in such good shape coming into 2012 we have the rare luxury of looking at tweaks to suspension and transmission support way before our first race of the season. Crusty and I (mostly Crusty) reinstalled the race transmission and did some stuff with a tape measure and grease pencil. I pulled the battery box and found a host of rust. Wire brushed it out and painted.

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Why you don’t want to chew gum while racing

I finally got a chance to read through the “Driver’s Guide to Safe Motor Sports”, which I’d downloaded a few weeks back and had time to peruse while watching the Rolex 24.

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Rolex 24 live online

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And so 2012 begins

Dakar is over, it’s two weeks til Daytona, so it’s time to get to work on 1107. Crusty came by today and installed the steering box. He and Bob picked up a second beam and Crusty will set to work on it this week.

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