Desert Dingo Racing

Category: 2008 San Felipe 250

  • Seventh overall in SCORE Class 11 standings

    Points standings for the SCORE 2008 series

    Considering we only did the San Felipe and the Baja 1000, we still racked up 64 points and finished 7th in all the Class 11s competing.

    Wait til we win both races next year.

  • Another brief glimpse of us at the San Felipe 250

    Crusty and 1101 rolling toward tech at the San Felipe 250

    The production on this piece Race Dezert is actually pretty good compared to a lot of work out there. Don’t blink or you’ll miss us.

    Click here or on the image to watch the video.

  • Why we love Class 11

    San Felipe 250 our first flat tire

    One of the great things about Class 11 is that folks are more than willing to help, like when Richard and Mike got their first flat at the San Felipe 250.

    Second shot of of folks working on the car.

    When we got stuck in silt outside the Ensenada dump during the Baja 1000, four spectators helped me push the car out of it.

    Finsh shot of the flat fixing.

    Thanks to Jose Castellanos of Rosarita for sending us the photos, and definitely check out his video of our unscheduled pit stop that I posted a few days ago.

  • Se poncho el bocho 1101

    Thanks to Henryque for translating it to “The bug 1101 got a flat.” The first of three 🙂

    Thanks very much to Jose Castellanos for shooting and posting the video!

  • Post race update

    Richard and Skid take a well-deserved break.

    This report from Seth (who also sent the photos):

    Our valiant attempt to conquer the Baja 250 came to an end at Race Mile 72. In those 72 miles, we suffered 3 (three) flat tires, which when added to the two on Friday, were 2 more than we could handle.

    Many of you know that we race to raise awareness of diabetes. That said, we decided to have our two diabetic team member start this race. Skid and Richard left the start line at just after 11 a.m. The first flat tire occured near race mile 5 (!). After a quick tire change, they were off again. At Mile 22, they were joined by Chase Captain Seth. There, they replaced the spare wheel with spare #2, performed a helmet swap, fixed the radio, and pulled the damaged bumper (from an early close-encounter with a creosote tree).

    Off again, the course claimed tire #3 at Race Mile 46. The decision was made to run the car with the flat, and this they did admirably. And, at Race Mile 55, another tire went flat.

    Richard and Skid carried 1101 all the way to Race Mile 72 with all tires on the left side of the vehicle flat. They finally stopped because they could not see through the smoke coming from the flat tires.

    We chased them for 2 hours, and loaded 1101 onto the trailer. No racer wants to see the trailer…I think they were hoping we might have some more extra wheels and tires, but we did not.

    1101 is now trailered, and will soon go home. But, as always, lessons were learned, and 1101 will not be down long.

    You can check out race day photos here.