Our thoughts and prayers go out to those affected by last night’s tragedy at the MDR California 200.

We’ve made a small donation to Fast Aid, which was established to help racers and fans in situations like this. If you have anything you can spare, it will be greatly appreciated.

Here’s the link.

Scott and Scott confab on the tranny.

Richard, Scott ‘n Crusty spent Tuesday with Scott Sebastian at MetalCraft in Sanger. Sebastian took the parts from our assorted broken and junkyard-scavenged transmissions and built us the first of what will likely be two or three. The first one gets installed Saturday.

A handful of shots here.

One week til Bug Invasion I at Prairie City. More news to come on that tomorrow.

You must watch this.

I’ll be briefing Skid this weekend that I’ve signed him up for the Super Moto and Scott and Carrie for the jumpy stuff.

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

Lefty and Bob, fresh off the first moto.

Wrapping up coverage of the VORRA season opener with this gallery of photos.

Apparently a shot of us tearing it up at last weekend’s San Felipe 250.

Bob worked overnight and through this morning, reporting at 1 p.m. today that he had disassembled, replaced a seized main engine bearing, reassembled and tested the engine. We will be ready to race come Saturday and Sunday.

El Jeffo, who handle chase duties for us in his tres cool International Harvester whenever we pass through San Felipe (and who is kind enough to let us crash at his place whenever we’re in the area) shot these photos of 1102 during the San Felipe 250 this past weekend.

This is us apparently leaping a spectator’s truck. Note the vandalism to the passenger side door. What is it with today’s youth?

And this is us apparently going up a pretty steep hill.

Brett Svatek did a piece on the team and I spent most of my time talking about eating.

INTERVIEW: Jim Graham – Desert Dingo Racing
The Sporting Life, February 24, 2010
Jim Graham and his Desert Dingo racing team set out to conquer the Baja 1000 in a car that most people wouldn’t feel safe driving to the 7-11…they are truly living The Sporting Life.

Mike in mid-engine teardown.

Bob brought his ace engine guy Mike over today to help us tear apart the engine and decide how much of a rebuild we needed. Initially we planned to just change the rings, but on closer inspection we decided to do a complete teardown so we can start the season with an absolutely fresh engine.

Crusty focused on a redesign of our rear bumper, valence and skid plate, so that the whole back end mounts as a unit. Here’s a gallery of shots from today’s work day.

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 full season of racing. Richard Palasik, our driver of record for the SNORE series, will pick up our trophy at the awards ceremony at the Golden Nugget in Vegas on January 9.

We have a lot planned for 2010. Stay tuned. And thank you for all your support.