Desert Dingo Racing

Category: 2008 Baja 1000

  • Final night of prep before departing for the Baja 1000

    I accidently left the digital still camera at home, so decided to capture the final night of prep on the car with video. Richard, Dennis and I made a run up to Auburn to retrieve the trailer. Shawn completed the last of the painting and graphics. Bob, Scott and Cary did final buttoning up and then began pulling together all the spare parts and tools we’d be taking down with us. Elektra is headed to Sonoma today to pick up fuel cans we’re borrowing again from World Motorsports. Charlie even dropped by.

    The car moves from San Jose to Felton this afternoon and we head out for Mexico at the crack of dawn Thursay.

  • Laying down the decals

    Sponsor shout out

    Shawn and I (again, mostly Shawn) got started putting on sponsor decals and our numbers tonight. We needed to do some touch up on the paint, so we’ll finish it off tomorrow, after Richard and I return from Auburn with the trailer.

    Two days to Mexico and counting. Photos of Shawn’s handiwork here.

  • Thank you and more photos of Holly Oak students


    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.

  • Starting to button it up before heading south

    Junior Spacemen Scott 'n Cary

    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.

    Here’s a gallery of photos from yesterday’s work.

  • 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.