A big shoutout to Ms. Battistella and her students, Mrs. Velasquez the art teacher, Principal Corpus and everyone else who made our visit to Holly Oak Elementary so much fun. The car looks great. Click here for a few more photos of the event.
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Thank you and more photos of Holly Oak students
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Starting to button it up before heading south
With three days to go, the car is coming together. Yesterday Shawn focused on painting. Cary and Scott tested the pumper unit and comm links. Scott installed the greasy greasy axles. Cary fabbed a box to hold six quarts of oil. Dennis tied up loose ends. I futzed with the cameras. Wrapped everything up by 10 p.m.
ETA for departure is Wednesday morning, arriving in San Diego in the evening and then on to Rosarita on Thursday.
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Testing the GoPro Motorsports cameras
The video quality from the GoPro cameras is much better than you can tell from this clip. I’m testing different frame rates to figure out what we can get away with and still get decent video. This is 12 frames a second.
Here’s a view from the camera we’ll mount on the roof. We considered mounting it behind the driver and co-driver looking out the windshield, but the shot didn’t look good. Now it looks like we’ll go with it mounted on the roof, over the co-driver and between two of the night driving lights. This was rendered at 15 frames per second. In reality, the video is TV quality.
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Desert Dingo Racing in Discovery Channel Magazine
Ok, it’s only one quote in a tremendously cool article written by Judy Smith, a veteran Baja racer and longtime writer for Hot VWs. A good number of the photos were shot by Trackside Photo, which got the great shot of us catching air at last year’s Baja 1000. They even mentioned our fundraising for World Diabetes Day. Click here or on the image to download a PDF of the article.
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Press Banner coverage of us and another local Baja 1000 team
The folks at the Press Banner did a piece on us and a local motorcycle team prepping for the Baja 1000, “1000 reasons“. A great headline. Thank you Chuck and Peter.
Our 1102 numbers arrive from STS Graphics tomorrow via Fedex.
Shawn and I (mostly Shawn) complete painting the car tomorrow. I pick up the Desert Dingo logo for the hood, sponsor graphics and some surprise stuff on Monday.
The team is pulling together spare parts that we’ll either load in the car or carry in the chase vehicles.
We were contacted by the local American Diabetes Association with an offer to display the car at the San Jose City Hall rotunda. Unfortunately, we’ll be down in Mexico doing pre-running. I’ll be meeting with them on Monday, will give them hero cards and loads of crayons and we’ll figure out how we can work together on future events and have the car available. This should be fun.