My iPhone cannot do justice to the coolness of our TrailGlow pit sign.
Our pit sign from TrailGlow is dialed. A ton of work on the car today. We start buttoning up tomorrow. Loads of photos.
Author: Jim
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Looking for something to do for World Diabetes Day?
Yep, that’s us on the World Diabetes Day official campaign news page.
If you’re looking for something to do to mark World Diabetes Day, might I suggest helping us out with some of our projects, that we’re doing in conjunction with the International Diabetes Federation and World Diabetes Day:
- In partnership with 12seconds.tv, we’re encouraging people to record 12-second-long video public service announcements on their experiences with diabetes.
- We teamed with local graphic artist Bubba Shelby to create super hero The Blue Circle. People can download copies of the Blue Circle for children to color with crayons here.
- Twitter users who post a tweet using the hash tags #WDD09 and @DesertDingo will have their Twitter nicknames and messages carried in the Desert Dingo race car during the Baja 1000.
And, before you do any of that, you must watch this video “All the Diabetics” by Suga Sheen:
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Already planning our invite list for Baja 1000 2010
Robby Gordon and Desert Dingos mentioned in the same sentence is probably about as close as we’ll ever get to each other in Baja.
Ryan McGee isn’t just a great NASCAR writer. He’s a great writer in general and I love reading his stories in ESPN Magazine and on ESPN Online. He’s actually at the top of my RSS feed. He was even kind enough to do an online piece on us during our second attempt at tht 1000 last year.
I was hoping he’d be able to accompany us this year, but a little thing called The Chase precluded it. Next year, however, for sure. Because you don’t know racing until you’ve had a chorizo pizza the size of a car hood delivered by some guy on a motorcycle.
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Baja 1000 prep begins
We’re building the workshop around 1107.
Lots of running around to do today with last minute stuff for the Baja 1000. Here’s some shots from the past couple of days.
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Dump cans on their way
You can find these at floral supply wholesalers everywhere.
Sometime around noon today I’ll be heading over to San Jose to pick up these three dump cans being loaned to us by Pepper and Tut Cote of Tut Tech Racing. Pepper, who I met through TrailGlow founder Paul Lukey, races a Sportsman Class 13 in the Mojave Offroad Racing Enthusiasts (MORE) series. I mentioned offhand that I was looking to find some of those fast-fill dump cans “like the NASCAR guys use” and a day later three of them that they have were being shipped to an associate’s floral supply wholesaler in San Jose for us to use at the Baja 1000.
Prep on the car continues. I also expect to pick up one of the configured sat comm units from Mike Aquino, our chief electronics guy.