Desert Dingo Racing

Author: Jim

  • How many people can you fit in a VW Bug?

    Thanks to everyone who took part in out Twitter project to promote World Diabetes Day.

    In the weeks leading up to the Baja 1000, we asked folks on Twitter to post a message that included @DesertDingo and #WDD09. The former is our Twitter account, the latter is the hashtag to identify messages relating to World Diabetes Day.

    We got a great response and using the latest in communications technology, I printed out everyones’ names, slipped them into a plastic sleeve and used blue painter’s masking tape to affix them to the ceiling of 1104.

    So, thanks to everyone who participated. You can honestly say you made 183 miles in the 2009 Baja 1000.

  • Off the line at the Baja 1000

    Yes, I did tweet off the start line at this year’s Baja 1000.

    Here’s the first five minutes of this year’s Baja 1000 as seen from the GoPro Motorsports HERO wideangle camera mounted on the hood of 1104 and pointed toward Bob and me.

  • Baja 1000 2009 – Seth ‘n Kristy’s photos

    You should see the other photos that TPR (aka Trailer Park Romeo, aka Nathan) took of himself with Seth ‘n Kristy’s camera.

    For some reason, I could never remember “TPR”, so I spent the week calling Nathan “Total Request Live”, “Standing Room Only” and “Survival Research Labs.” I think Lefty settled on “Trailer Trash Romeo.”

    TPR and I bonded when he got hauled to the police station for parking Chase 2 on the wrong side of the street while the team was having dinner one night outside one of the many sidewalk taco places near the Estero Beach RV park, where we stayed. While he was in filling out paperwork, the senior cop and I stood outside checking out his lifted Ford F250 and the new Dodge Avenger police cruisers in the parking lot. I think that may have helped get the fine dropped from $40 to $20. We were back before our carnitas got cold.

    Here are Seth ‘n Kristy’s shots from Baja. 1104 may be back in Felton tonight, parked at my place until after Thanksgiving and then heading back over to Richard’s for prep in advance of the SNORE Laughlin Rage at the River race.

  • Last batch of Baja 1000 2009 photos

    Neither Seth nor Scott look like they spent a freezing night in the Mexico desert.

    This should be the last set of photos, taken by Kristy, Jeff and Scott from this years race. Check ’em out.

  • More photos from the 2009 Baja 1000 (this time from Travis)

    I think this was about an hour before we headed for the start line. (I’m joking.)

    Travis was a picture-taking machine. He even captured the only evidence of vandalism on the car. Here’s a gallery of his photos.