Archive for April, 2007
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Team profile No. 2 - Cary McHugh
Cary McHugh” Owner, driver, fabricator, self-described “Big Dog” Cary’s love of motorized sports was born early. From trikes and boyhood dreams of the races to years as a weekend mechanic with World Speed Motor Sports, a Formula Mazda Pro Series team, Cary’s race career has careened forward at breakneck speed. Now that rent is paid, […]
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Privateer pits
Bought our membership and put a deposit down to work with Baja Pits. For those teams that don’t have helicopters, tractor trailors and multiple chase vehicles, there is Baja Pits.
One of Roxanne’s coworkers volunteers with Locos Mocos, which works with Baja Pits, and recommended I get in touch with them. I emailed Russ, who […]
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Wisdom from the Master
I spent 40 minutes on the phone with Eric Solorzano, nine-time winner of the Baja 1000 Class 11 category. As Charlie said, “It’s like having Michael Jordan teach you how to shoot baskets.”
One page of questions turned into four pages of notes. Best part is he invited us to come down to San Diego to […]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
Represent
My next post will summarize Eric (nine-time Baja 1000 Class 11 winner) Solorzano’s advice in our phone conversation, but before I get to that, this came in the mail.
The Stig rocks and I was kicking myself for missing the opportunity to order this shirt online after the Top Gear goes to America show […]
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
We’re in it to win it
How to describe today? Bought 1117 from Charlie. We have a full up race car and will likely run it on a MORE race in June. And spent 40 minutes on the phone with Eric Solorzano, the nine-time winner of Class 11 at the Baja 1000.
We have a lot of work in front of us. […]
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Monday, April 9th, 2007
What’s in a name?….err…number?
We had some discussion about car numbers over the weekend. While we have super secret code names (DS-1, DS-2 etc). We need official car numbers to race. I pinged the Class 11 Coalition forums and so far the info is pick one and hope for the best. In looking at a few of the pics […]
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Sunday, April 8th, 2007
Work Day Two - Stripping the car down
While it may not look like Cary, Skid and new guy Shawn were working very hard at the moment (we were visiting Ishikawa Racing and Mark Ishikawa), we actually accomplished a good amount today.
More work on stripping down the pan to get rid of the sprayed on gunk (needed to ID any rust or […]
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Front end work
Well, the good news is. . .well, there is no good news. The left front spindle (axle) is bent. The drum brake drums are too rusted to use, right on the edge of spec and no larger than 9.114. Damn! OK the good news is we started welding the spot welded seams on the front […]
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Over our heads….
I have heard rumblings that this Dirty Dingo Racing Team might be biting off more than they can chew…or “over our heads” as the saying goes.
Perhaps…
My response to that idea is:
OF COURSE WE ARE!!!!!
That is the point of this whole thing for me. We are Gearheads. Artists. Slackers. Free thinkers.
If something does not challenge me, […]
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
What are the odds?
Driving through Scotts Valley on Saturday I saw a red VW in a bank parking lot with a large No. 11 on it.
Roxanne was kind enough to allow me a quick detour and lo and behold, it was a Class 11 VW for sale - $1500.
Turns out the two guys who built it […]
