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Category: 2008 San Felipe 250
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It doesn’t get more exciting than this
We hit a spot of trouble around Route Mile 5 and 1101 stopped for a few minutes. Solorzano has opened up about a six mile lead but we’re back in the action.
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Final pre-race update
1101 with its tracking unit turned on parked at Jeff’s house at Pete’s Camp, a small community on the bearch just north of San Felipe.
Just got off the phone with Mike and Seth. Everyones’ spirits are good, the car is ready to go and it’s about an hour before race start.
Richard and Mike will be in 1101 off the start line (“It’s an all-diabetic start,” Seth says.) Somewhere around the top of the course they’ll switch out and Mike will drive to Route Mile 93 where they’ll hand the car off to Scott and Seth. Scott will drive first and somewhere around RM 160 Seth will take over, driving in the dark, and take it to the finish line.
Seth reports that, for this race, we’ll actually have a jack in the car (we sort of overlooked that at the Baja 1000). Also the new intercom works “fabulous”, though I’ll miss the head butting and hand signals I used at the 1000 in the car with Cary.
Our two chase trucks are fully outfitted and ready to go. We’ll be using Seth scratched up Ford and Jeff’s 70s era Scout. They picked up 27 gallons of 110 octane race fuel yesterday and divvied it between 1101 and fuel jugs in the two chase vehicles.
Everyone went out to dinner last night at Playa del Oro and Seth had everyone tucked in to bed by midnight. Today’s high should be 80 degrees with slight overcast – perfect racing weather. We did see Eric Solorzano doing some pre-running and one other of the Class 11s.
Because they won’t have internet connectivity on the course, I’ll be monitoring the car’s location and sending text messages to their sat phones at 15 minute intervals, relaying location and speed, so it will look something like “RM 33 – 28 mph”.
Best updates are here and via the Twitter stream.
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We’re ready
Ok, so in a few hours there’s going to be a lot of text updates and not a lot of photos, so work with us here and appreciate the logistics required to support a race team in the Baja California Desert. Like Seth’s well-outfitted chase truck.
Uh oh. Someone has some ‘splaining to do.
We may be slow, but we’re ahead of that Stock Mini class truck. In tech, anyway.
1101 in repose.
Watch for Desert Dingo Baja Champion brand tires at a tire store near you.
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Cliff hanger
This just in from Scott…
Jim-Bob,
Yesterday after establishing Pit #2 Seth and I ran into a pair of quads who ran out of gas while pre-running. A splash of Dingo gas and our brothers from Super Cow Racing were back on their way.
This morning Richard & I drove 1101 into town for tech and registration. Lines, lines, lines. My first time in the driver’s seat. That thing rips right along! Far better motor and suspension than I’d anticipated. Good thing we won’t need the brakes much, though. Been a long time since driving something with drums.
Jeff led the way back from town in the Scout, taking the back way through canyon & beach with Seth driving behind. The narrow trail wound through a section of 100 foot vertical mud canyons. Round a corner we spotted a Yamaha Rhino UTV dangling halfway off the cliff, four desperate men trying to keep it from flipping down the cliff. They had honestly been inches from death. We made our way up the back side of the cliff to join them. Tied a couple of straps to the thing, hooked one end to a truck & another strap with 8 people pulling to keep it from tumbling as the truck pulled. New friends. We have video but it’s too large to send.
