Archive for June, 2010
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Barn find
A treasure trove of ovals.
I got word that someone in the San Lorenzo Valley had “a barn full” of Volkswagens. A little bit of sleuthing and earlier tonight Richard and I went to check out the situation. We’re compiling a shopping list. A handful of photos here.
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Saturday, June 26th, 2010
Team meeting
We meet over BBQ, thanks to Bob.
We’ve got a 15 point lead going into VORRA’s Fallon 250 night race. Thursday night we did a post-race debrief on Yerington and Reno. 1107 performed extremely well. We taco’d one rim last weekend but the tire and tube held. Between now and July 16 we’ll moves some tires [...]
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Pre-running the Xtreme Outlaws 250
Since I forgot to turn the camera on for the actual race, here’s video of us pre-running the Xtreme Outlaws 250. Cursed road hooligan Weasel in the red Petfinder Class 11 cuts in front of us without signaling, then we promptly get stuck in the silt and get towed out by a Hummer. Then Roger [...]
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
We officially win Stock Bug class at the Xtreme Outlaws 250
I hadn’t previously mentioned how gorgeous the course was with wildflowers blooming everywhere. Photo courtesy Trevor Piggott.
We got word last night that we officially were awarded first place for the inaugural Xtreme Outlaws 250. (There’d been a question on whether our going out to the first checkpoint on the second lap counted. It did.) Our [...]
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Scenes from an outlaw race
There must be $500 worth of VWs out there!
Finally got caught up on sleep and paperwork and stuff. Here’s a collection of shots by Pepper Cote of Tut Tech Racing and me. Check ‘em out.
Thank you Tut and Pepper for insanely driving 10 hours just to hang out with us in a dirt overflow parking [...]
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
Thank you Dogg and Ginger
Dogg and Ginger and me taking morning coffee on their patio.
All of us with Desert Dingo Racing want to extend our sincerest thanks to Dogg and Ginger for allowing us to invade their lives for five days during the Xtreme Outlaws 250 in Reno this past weekend.
We started showing up around midnight Wednesday and [...]
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
Live tracking us (and everyone else) at the Xtreme Outlaws 250
We’re 1107. Petfinder is 1106. The Green Booger is 1112 If you want to see real speed, follow Roger Norman’s No. 8 Trophy Truck.
VORRA is testing SPOT trackers for second time with this race. They’re a heck of a lot cheaper that what other race bodies have been using and the technology is a [...]
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
Pre-running the Xtreme Outlaws 250
While it may be counter-intuitive, its better to break down during the pre-run, since it’s preferable to discover a problem before the actual race.
Pre-ran the Xtreme Outlaws 250 course with Crusty at the wheel. iPhone battery died part way in so here’s my report: Brutal. After 10 hours of sleep, I still feel like I’ve [...]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
The Xtreme Outlaws 250 course in Google Earth
This should be a walk in the (industrial) park. Also, I lied about the last post being the last one before we leave. This one is.
Sometime around midnight VORRA released the GPS file for the Xtreme Outlaws 250 course. Took about 10 minutes of futzing to get it over to a .kml file and loaded [...]
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Last post before we leave for Xtreme Outlaws 250
As much as I’d like to trade paint with Baja Legend Rod Hall, he’s driving James Garner’s Baja 1000 442 and that would be blasphemy. Now any given H3, on the other hand…
Typically a few days before a race, the organizers release a GPS file compatible with Lowrance GPS units that pretty much all the [...]
