Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
From Race Cars and Google Doodles to Day Spas and Night Lights: Groups Across the U.S. Prepare to Join World Diabetes Day Celebrations Worldwide on November 14
BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 31, 2008/ – Whether your tastes tend toward bright lights and big cities, quiet contemplation or off-road racing, groups around the U.S. are gearing up to celebrate World Diabetes Day and raise awareness of the growing threat of diabetes.
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF), which led the effort to get the United Nations [...]
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Desert Dingo Racing teams with GoPro to capture, upload video during Baja 1000
October 30, 2008, San Jose, Calif, – Desert Dingo Racing and GoPro have teamed to capture and broadcast high quality digital in-car video during the 41st Annual Baja 1000 offroad race in Mexico this November.
Desert Dingo Racing competes in Class 11, which is limited to pre-1983 Volkswagen Beetles and allows for only minor modifications [...]
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
First GPS track released
SCORE released the initial GPS track for the race. We purchase a more detailed version that loads into the Lowrance GPS unit mounted in front of the co-driver. It’s a bit more detailed and has cool little skull and crossbones icons that warn of things like sheer cliffs, deep water and boulder protruding into the [...]
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
KPIX interviews the team
KPIX sports reporter Kim Coyle and cameraman Greg (who swims from Alcatraz for fun) came by last night to do an advance piece on our planning for this year’s Baja 1000.
KPIX followed our exploits last year and you can check out the pieces here, here, and here.
I’m going to be uploading in-car video [...]
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
And when they’re 40 years old, we’ll race them, too.
The LA Design Challenge, which coincides with the L.A. Auto Show, picked “Motorsports 2025″ for this year’s theme. VW went with a Baja 1000 entry in the new “One Tank Unlimited Solo Class.” The only stipulations are one driver and one 10-gallon tank of fuel, forcing competitors to use every bit of technology, strategy, and [...]
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Work day: front end, shocks, new tires, Parker Pumper
We all got together on Saturday to work on the car, soon to be rebadged 1102. Crusty and Richard repositioned the GPS display so that it’s to the right of the rear view mirror. This should make it easier to track and reduce glare. Cary and Scott worked on the front end, fixing damaged [...]
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Ramping up for the 1000
The 1000 is staring at us and we’re ramping up. We’ll be working Saturday and Sunday on the car, taking care of details here so we can focus on pre-running and final tweaking in Mexico.
I’ll have more info on this in a future post, but we’re working with the Federacion Mexicana de Diabetes to [...]
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
We’re officially 1102 for the 1000
Flew to LA and then drove 90 miles down to the Off Road Warehouse in Temecula on Saturday for the SCORE live drawing party for positions for the 2008 Baja 1000. Great BBQ courtesy of Baja Pits. Lots of booths. A couple hundred people. Hooters girls with a very affable chihuahua.
I twittered the juicy [...]
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Preliminary Baja 1000 map online
SCORE has released the preliminary race map for the 2008 Baja 1000. Course is about 634 miles and apparently reuses some of the course from the San Felipe 250. It’s shorter and it’s recycling a previous course, I call that “green.”
Check out the map here.
