Archive for December, 2009

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

And we take third overall in SNORE Class 11

Our personal version of Dust to Glory.
And we complete our first full season of racing with a podium finish in third place behind two amazing teams – Felipe Neri-Sanchez and Robert Johnson.
Six SNORE races and the Baja 1000. Third in class at SNORE and 32nd out of 535 entries. Not too shabby for our first [...]

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Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Happy Holidays from all of us at Desert Dingo Racing

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Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Winter teardown commences

Bob jacks up 1104 in preparation for removing the engine.
1104 moved from my place over to Desert Dingo Racing HQ (aka “Richard’s place”) to begin winter tear down. Powerwashed, engine pulled, transmission pulled, light bar removed, CV joints pulled. We’ve got three months to prep the car for the first race of the 2010 season. [...]

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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Desert Dingoes makes Wired.com

Bob Russell runs through an electrical systems check the night before the Baja 1000.
The folks at Wired.com’s Autopia blog did a great piece on the Rugged Text and Track satellite communications system from EMS SkyConnect and on our illuminated number panels from TrailGlow. You can check it out here…

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