Desert Dingo Racing

Author: Jim

  • Prepping for Yerington

    Dented, but undaunted.

    Work day today with remarkably little to do. Crusty had already pulled the engine, Bob pull the tranny and Richard brought a slide hammer to massage some remaining dents. This coming week Crusty and Bob will make some adjustments to the spacing of the rear skid plate, adding some bushings to increase the distance between the place and the engine and headers, Billy “The New Guy” Rickard will replace wiring going into the engine compartment. Richard will spend some time this week on other prep work. Crusty’s also going to be doing some reinforcement on the FuelSafe fuel cell. Realistically, we could have the car ready as early as this coming weekend for the May 28 race in Yerington, Nevada.

    Some photos from today’s work.

  • Team meeting and BBQ


    Richard ripping it up and Bob holding on for dear life during a practice run at last weekend’s VORRA races.

    I swear this is my last video from the VORRA series this weekend, unless someone wants bloopers and out takes.

    Team meeting tonight at Dingo sommelier “Busboy” Bob’s backyard, complete with BBQ. General consensus, last weekend’s racing went as well as could be expected. We need to get there earlier and practice more. The term “hole shot” was bantied about. Longer term we need a second transmission, to completely rewire the car and label everything this time and sometime before the June race in Reno we need to replace the roof and repaint the car.

    As of right this moment, we’ve had 806 downloads of our iPhone and Android apps (which you can download by clicking on the appropriate icon on the right). Recent coverage in DesertNewz and Diabetes Health magazine, and we were apparently included in last week’s episode of Baja Unlimited on the Outdoor Channel. A very unique media story in the works.

    Much more to come this weekend.

  • Lynda McNeil sings the National Anthem at VORRA

    Desert Dingo team member Lynda McNeil sang the National Anthem Sunday morning at the VORRA races at Prairie City. Yes, that’s Richard walking in front of the camera at the start.

  • Crusty gets us on two wheels


    Car cam video from the third moto at last week’s Bug Invasion I at Prairie City.

    Crusty gets us on two wheels. I honk at the fans. We have a near miss with a baby in a stroller.

  • What you can achieve, even with a flat tire


    Watch Second moto – VORRA Bug Invasion – April 18, 2010

    Because you wanted to see me put my helmet on.

    “Busboy” Bob Russell takes us to a third place finish – our best of the weekend.