Archive for November, 2009
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Anytime now
Jim called from the start line while trophy trucks were breaking outa the gate. Not sure exactly what he said but it sounded exciting and LOUD.
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
A shoutout to our two technology sponsors!
We’d like to take a moment to share some exciting news and introduce you to two of our sponsors.
Desert Dingo Racing is competing this year using an SMS-based satellite communication and tracking system from EMS SkyConnect. “One of the greatest challenges that any Baja team is faces maintaining communication between the race car, chase teams [...]
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
It’s Race Day
The Twitter stream will be the best way to keep track of our Desert Dingo team. You can also listen to The Weatherman for general race updates at http://www.race-dezert.com/radio/radio1.html ….looks like he’s offline right now, but once he’s back up, we’ll be blaring that Channel to keep track of how everyone is doing and what’s ahead [...]
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Up all night
Crusty and Richard under the car, finishing engine installation.
A full day of running around for parts, working on the car and getting our secret weapon configured. We’re close to getting the car buttoned up. Contingency and Tech are tomorrow. Still need to get the IRC unit. Finish configuring the secret weapon, secure fuel, get registered. [...]
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
If this is the worst that happens, we should be fine
Skid works on something on the car.
A quick update. Driving down we blew an engine in Crusty’s pickup. Lefty and TPR rode in like the calvary the following morning with coffee, hooked up 1104 and the trailer and got us down to Orange County. After a quick reconnoiter, we headed down to the Wal-Mart in [...]
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Countdown to departure for the Baja 1000
We (ok, Richard), needed to modify our light bar to accommodate the bigger TrailGlow HID lights we’ll be running for the first time at the Baja 1000.
Among other things we accomplished yesterday: Modified the light bar to accommodate the larger TrailGlow HIDs, fabbed two rear view mirror nerf bars, installed a smaller fisheye rear [...]
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Baja 1000 pit sign wired
My iPhone cannot do justice to the coolness of our TrailGlow pit sign.
Our pit sign from TrailGlow is dialed. A ton of work on the car today. We start buttoning up tomorrow. Loads of photos.
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Looking for something to do for World Diabetes Day?
Yep, that’s us on the World Diabetes Day official campaign news page.
If you’re looking for something to do to mark World Diabetes Day, might I suggest helping us out with some of our projects, that we’re doing in conjunction with the International Diabetes Federation and World Diabetes Day:
In partnership with 12seconds.tv, we’re encouraging people [...]
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Already planning our invite list for Baja 1000 2010
Robby Gordon and Desert Dingos mentioned in the same sentence is probably about as close as we’ll ever get to each other in Baja.
Ryan McGee isn’t just a great NASCAR writer. He’s a great writer in general and I love reading his stories in ESPN Magazine and on ESPN Online. He’s actually at the top [...]
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
Baja 1000 prep begins
We’re building the workshop around 1107.
Lots of running around to do today with last minute stuff for the Baja 1000. Here’s some shots from the past couple of days.
