Archive for August, 2009
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Exposed – the truth about off road racing (there’s a lot of standing around not doing a whole lot)
Roxanne put together this video of us at the KC Hilites Midnight Special outside Ridgecrest, Calif. this past weekend. A seven hour drive to get there. A day of standing around watching the team prep the car. A night in a hotel. More daytime standing around and then nine hours of sucking dust while flagging [...]
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Things fall apart sometimes
Scott and Richard take 1107 out for a test drive before the bad stuff happened.
Update: A lot of people have asked, and I told both of them that the reason I stopped Twittering sometime after the car broke is that I rolled the car seat back at Road Crossing 11 some time after we got [...]
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
The course GPS data
The 44 mile course pulled from the GPS track.
I think this is the only race we do where we actually get to sleep in. Everyone will start to gather out at the pits in a bit. Scott and Carrie will do prerunning on motorcycles. Sometime this afternoon is the driver’s meeting and then those of [...]
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
KC Hilites Midnight Special – Day One
Any racer who loves his or her mom so much that they put it on their car is ok with me.
Up at 3:15 a.m. On the road an hour later. Arrived in Ridgecrest with a thousand yard stare around noon-ish.
Found the hotel, then drove out and found the pits. Met up with Jason Mace of [...]
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Buttoning up 1107
1107 in repose in dry, flammable grass.
Crusty, Bob, Richard, Creech and, to a greatly lesser extent I, prepped 1107 for its trip to Ridgecrest, California for the KC Hilites Midnight Special.
Shocks – installed. Quick release steering wheel – installed. Radio – moved. Hood – installed. Headlights – ok, we’re not a NASCAR team. We’ll dial [...]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Less than a week to the KC Hilites Midnight Special
Everyone was running around like chickens with their heads cut off on Sunday.
We’ve got less than a week to go before the KC Hilites Midnight Special in Ridgecrest, California. The team met on Sunday and reinstalled the front skid plate, attached the fenders and moved the race radio so it’s now above the GPS unit [...]
