Archive for March, 2009
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
Mint 400 – Race Day
“In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Super Bowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the Lower Oakland Roller Derby Finals all rolled into one.”
~ H.S.T.
(Thanks to Indigo for reminding me about this quote).
What to say about the race? Scott and Carrie started out at a few minutes after 8 [...]
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
First day in Las Vegas for the Mint 400
Carrie signs autographs for some of her biggest fans.
Creech, Richard, Skid and I drove overnight from Felton to Vegas, pulling somewhere around 5 a.m. Got a couple hours of sleep, wrenched on the car for a bit and then piled into Creech’s 4WD truck to pre-run the Mint 400 course.
We cried surrender after 15 miles [...]
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
One week to the Mint 400 and counting
The sound (and smell) of precision.
Major work day in preparation for our Wednesday night departure for Las Vegas and the Mint 400.
Started with a team meeting to iron out last minute details. Scott will drive the first 100 mile leg with co-driver Carrie. Richard will drive the second leg with Creech as co-driver. Bob will [...]
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
Mint 400 team meeting tomorrow
Team meeting Sunday, 11 a.m. Pacific Time. Working final logistics for the Mint 400 and a lot of work to do on the car.
Yes, we have drum brakes. We do, at least, use brass lined brake shoes that, once they warm up, stop us a little shorter.
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Line up for the Mint 400 announced
Cursed road hooligan “Uncle” Ed Mahoney posted the starting lineup for Stock VWs (with his own commentary) for the upcoming Mint 400 in Vegas. As it stands we’re fifth off the line:
#1121 Garey Leavitt (Clean Air, Welcome Back Kotter)
#1106 Jeff Lee (Doing Good For Dogs, Eating Light Dust)
#1111 Felipe Neri Sanchez (Fast At BAP But [...]
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
2140 just means she’s big boned
Richard and I took 1107 to the Ben Lomond Transfer Station today because they’ve got the closest truck scale. Needed to weigh the car for several reasons. One is that we have a toy hauler and the car needs to fit in it. A.J. also went nuts and bought a 28′ used U-Haul truck (more [...]
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
Airborne at the Baja 1000 redux
Scott qualifying for his pilot’s license at the 2008 Baja 1000.
Just ordered a couple of print copies of these photos from Trackside Photo. Jim Ober and his team are some of the best shooters who cover all the major races.
I’ll be out of town, but the team meets on Sunday to continue prep work [...]
