Archive for March, 2010
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Shawn TV
Desert Dingo’s own Shawn Kovach-Long has made his small screen debut in three Comcast commercials now airing nationwide. You can check ‘em out here.
Commercial One
Commercial Two
Commercial Three
No Comments » - Posted in Media Coverage, The Team, Video by Jim
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Desert Dingo Racing Android app goes live
Thanks to the great folks at iSites and Genwi, we’ve just taken our Android phone app for Desert Dingo Racing live. The app aggregates our Twitter feed, blog posts, YouTube videos and photos posted to Flickr.
You can download the Android app here. We also have an iPhone version in the works. Hoping it will go [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Technology by Jim
Monday, March 29th, 2010
Dixon & Son Tires Sponsors Desert Dingo Racing 2010 Off-Road Racing Season
March 29, 2010, Watsonville, Calif. – Dixon & Sons Tires, Inc. announced today that it is sponsoring Desert Dingo Racing’s 2010 off road racing season, including the Baja 1000 in Mexico in November 2010.
“Off road racing is the ultimate test for a set of tires,” said Dixon & Son owner Dusty Dixon. “We like [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Sponsors by Jim
Sunday, March 28th, 2010
What it’s like to race Stock Bug short course at Prairie City
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Bob and Lefty race the first moto at the March 20-21 VORRA season opener.
No Comments » - Posted in Battle at Primm, Prairie City, VORRA, Video by Jim
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Photo recap – VORRA season opener
Lefty and Bob, fresh off the first moto.
Wrapping up coverage of the VORRA season opener with this gallery of photos.
No Comments » - Posted in Class 11, Photos, Prairie City, The Car, The Team, Uncategorized, VORRA by Jim
Friday, March 26th, 2010
The Prairie City roll
There’s nothing I can add. If you don’t have all day, skip to 4:45 for the roll and aftermath. The roll in pictures is here.
I think it’s time to spring for the HD GoPro Motorsports cameras.
No Comments » - Posted in Class 11, Prairie City, VORRA, Video by Jim
Friday, March 26th, 2010
What? Like you’ve never seen a toupee before?
There’s a new roof in 1107’s future.
Because we can’t have nice things, we’re going to eventually have to replace 1107’s roof, most likely after the April short course race at Prairie City. We’re meeting Saturday to pull the fenders, engine and transmission and assess the damage. Bob reports he picked up a transmission and four [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Prairie City, VORRA by Jim
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
“Because I was Inverted”
California Sports Spotlight Photo Design captured 1107 rolling during qualification in advance of the VORRA season opener on March 20, 2010. Shawn had his bell rung but is all right. We used pry tools and Seth’s truck’s winch to pull out the dents and had the car ready to race the next [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Photos, Prairie City, VORRA by Jim
Friday, March 19th, 2010
T-minus 8 hours and ticking til we depart for Prairie City
Without clear directions, what do you expect to happen?
Emily Miller and Wendy Fisher (109) are representing the U.S. at the Rally Eaicha des Gazelles (“Gazelles” for short) in Morocco, which you can track in real time here. All-female teams (except for those two guys who crashed it), and they navigate with compasses and 50 year [...]
No Comments » - Posted in VORRA by Jim
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
1107 coming together for this weekend’s Prairie City season opener
Ok, now it’s a good engine.
Crusty reports that he, Skid and Bob are making excellent progress on buttoning up 1107 for this weekend’s season opener at Prairie City, just outside Sacramento. Crusty is welding stuff and Bob is putting in the axles. After that, the re-re-built engine goes in, they test it and do final [...]
