Archive | August, 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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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