Category: Baja 1000 2014

Toby and Romy working on the front beam.

Rosh, Romy, Toby and I met at Wallentine Motorsports Sunday morning to begin final prep of 1107 for the Baja 1000 in November. (Brian and Tom were delivering a brand new Class 11 to Greg Cottrell of Rugged Radios in Arroyo Seco).

The goal for the day was putting the finishing touches on the first of two beams we’ll take down with us and add cylinder heat temperature and air/fuel mixture sensors and gauges.  Once we get everything bolted back in place we’ll do the first of two test weekends at the test track north of Sparks, Nevada.

A closer look at Toby’s improvised hearing protection.

Rosh installed the Bilsteins in the back.

Brian Wallentine invested in a Port-a-Cool swamp cooler that’s bigger than my first apartment.

It doesn’t pay to be the first one here if you don’t have the shop key.

My office.

The team meets this Sunday at Wallentine Motorsports in Roseville to begin preparation for the Baja 1000 in mid-November. We have two front beams being prepped. We’ll begin a complete nose-to-tail check of every single moving and non-moving piece of the car (thank you Khaled Mabrouk), and we’ll start cataloging our spare parts – what we have and what we need.

With two and a half months to the race, we know of two other teams who are in for the 1,130 mile peninsula run – our friends with Project Baja in Colorado and our very good friends Team H12:One in Ensenada. There’s a couple more teams with potential to make the starting line. It’s going to be an interesting couple of months.

Oh yes, we’ll kick off Sunday’s work day with a gift bucket (race teams don’t do gift baskets, yeesh) sent to us from the great folks at Mad Media.

Dibs on the bucket.