Desert Dingo Racing

Author: Jim

  • We’re winning by that much

    There are lies, damn lies and season point scores
    I credit clean living with our two point stranglehold in season points.

    VORRA posted season points post Fallon 250 and for some reason that probably requires long math, we’re still in first place, albeit by two whole points. Hawthorne should be a fun time.

    If you can close your eyes and imagine Bob “Busboy Bob” Russell as Ken Block and me as Alex Gelsomino (except without the cool accent), this is pretty much what it sounds like inside the car when we’re racing. Also, we’re not going that fast, we’re not usually around trees, and our car doesn’t look anywhere that cool. We do drive through cattle guards, though.

    The VORRA Hawthorne 250 is Labor Day weekend.

  • A special thanks to Shannon and Off Course Racing

    Shannon
    We drive an ’80s era Ford F-350. Shannon drives a bad ass Toyota pre-runner. (Thanks to David Oram for the photo).

    Shannon and Off Course Racing saved our bacon not once, but twice at the VORRA Fallon 250. First time bringing Richard and Crusty back into the pits after spending two hours in the Nevada desert when 1107 broke a ball joint. Then, when our support F-350 developed vapor lock, he drove back out, picked up Richard and Crusty and helped us replace the broken part.

    Shannon built his own Class 1, he coached me on how to put together a radio mast so we might actually be able to talk to 1107 on the course, and he had water misters in his camp. He epitomizes what makes racing fun.

    Now, all that being said, Sabrina, his wife and co-driver, is 10x cooler than he is. Here’s a hi-res version of the above photo.

  • No, I wasn’t exaggerating about how bad we had it at the Fallon 250

    I’m not sure what’s worse: the dust devil that ripped through our camp, pinning Crusty under a shade structure, or me being so delirious from the heat that I keep filming rather than rescue him.

  • Watch us get schooled by Total Chaos

    The Koenig Racing Total Chaos team is the best. I greatly appreciate their friendship and support. So I’m shocked…SHOCKED…that they have to blow past us in this otherwise awesome-tastic video from the VORRA Fallon 250 desert night race.

    That’s us at about 2:19 into the video getting our doors blown off. We’re the ones who look like one of those flying saucers from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

  • Start of the VORRA 250 desert night race

    Anyone can show you race footage. We’re showing you the behind the scenes footage of what happens before the race footage. Mostly its banging on the hood of the car and people pointing at you telling you where to put the car.