Flew to LA and then drove 90 miles down to the Off Road Warehouse in Temecula on Saturday for the SCORE live drawing party for positions for the 2008 Baja 1000. Great BBQ courtesy of Baja Pits. Lots of booths. A couple hundred people. Hooters girls with a very affable chihuahua.
I twittered the juicy bits (check out the Twitter stream in the column on the right), but in a nutshell Sal Fish said security is much enhanced in Baja. Still not smart to drive at night and best to pre-run in groups. Tourism is way down.
Placement picking started at 2 p.m. and they got to Class 11 by 3. Only two have registered so far. We both went for front starts and Eric got the first, so he’ll be 1101 and we’ll most likely be 1102.
Update: it looks like Brown snuck in under the wire as 1103. I figure there will be 8-10 Class 11s this year.
After the event, Dave Hendrickson, known on the Class 11 Coalition board as DaveCo11, invited me over to his place to check out some of his projects. I had no idea he’d been involved in building as many of the prominent Class 11s throughout the years. Here’s a shot of him with his project car for the Primm 300.
He had the Autism car in his yard. It looks like they put puzzle piece decals on the car with the names of people who donated. I think that’s a great idea and will brainstorm something similar for us. The hero cards and boxes of World Diabetes Day crayons were a hit with the kids at the event.