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Video from VORRA’s “The 24″

This is what awesome sounds like.

1107 has been parked on Crusty’s rat rod car hauler at IndeFab for the past few days. The plan this weekend is for me to meet up with potential new team member Eli, who …

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We win VORRA’s “The 24″ desert endurance race (in our class)

Friends don't let friends drink and co-drive

Pepper and Emme at the end of VORRA’s “The 24″ desert endurance race.

Here’s my post race recap. Tons more to come over the next few days.

With most of Desert Dingo getting their freak on at Burning Man, …

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Two weeks to “The 24″ and 1107 is on the truck

1107 set up for a lot of night driving. This photo appears to have been taken in the late 1960s.

I met Crusty Thursday noon-ish and drover his 60-year-old no-power-steering ’51 car hauler down to Bayside Oil II to pick …

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The Hartl Bend



Crusty demonstrates the Hartl Bend.

Paul Hartl, Canadian rally driver, came out of nowhere to take Class 11 racing by storm. Sidelined in 2010 with a blown engine, he forged a relationship with Desert Dingo Racing in 2011 and was …

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One (bar) is the loneliest number

It's lonely at the top.

This is my favorite photo from the USA 500 and it’s not even of us.

Rob Messer of Messer Motorsports (No. 1177 and USA 500 winner) sent me this photo that I think captures the absolute frustration when things go …

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