Archive | February, 2008

We’re No. 1 (for the San Felipe 250, anyway)

Unless the other teams know something we don’t, we opted to go for a front start at the San Felipe 250. We’d gone for a rear start at the 1000, and all it meant is that we started fourth. SCORE

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Camera mount arrived today

I ordered a camera mount from Chasecam today. We’ll likely mount it on the roll cage between driver and codriver using Scott’s solid state DV camera. If we can get that to work, I’ll try integrating Skid’s bullet cam somewhere …

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Welcoming a new local team

I got a call from Robert in Watsonville a couple of days ago saying he was ready to put a deposit down on 1110, a Class 11 out of Southern California. The car is a strong finisher and well outfitted. …

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Tecate 250 or Bust!

We’ve registered for the San Felipe 250 and the car is being modified from everything we learned from the 1000.

Bugformance has really come through for us and we’re adding their logo to 1146. Today we worked on the bump …

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In praise of the ammo can

We needed something to hold tools in the race car. Something rugged. Something waterproof. Something cheap.

I picked up one of the larger ammo cans on my way back from a client meeting in Monterey. The next largest size appeared …

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