Desert Dingo Racing

Category: Baja 1000

  • 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.

  • Home at last

    Sweet crickets, 1107 is finally home. Now the real work begins.

    PLYCAR dropped 1107 off just after 12:30 p.m. today to the welcoming committee of Crusty and me. I drove it back up to Richard and Crusty and Scott are on the case. We’ve got six days to prep the car before departing for Mexico. It’ll be tight, but we should be fine.

    KION published a piece on us on their website: “Felton Race Team Competes in the Baja 1000.” You can read it here.

  • Thanks to Diabetes1.org for supporting our 12seconds.tv project

    The ad running on Diabetes1.org.

    I wanted to take a moment to thank the team at Diabetes1.org for helping us spread the word on our project with 12seconds.tv. They’re running an ad on their home page promoting our project where people can record 12 second long videos describing how diabetes has affected them. We’ll be sporting the Diabetes1 logo on the car at the Baja 1000 and throughout the 2010 race season.

    You can read more about the project and upload your own video here.

    Thanks to everyone at the Diabetes1.org. We appreciate your support.

  • Look on our works, ye Mighty, and despair!

    Ok, maybe quoting Ozymandias is a bit over the top.

    But Richard and Crusty and crew are making great progress on the future home of Desert Dingo Racing.

    1104 is due any day. No really.

  • Setting up operations at Estero Beach RV Park

    What could be more perfect than a beachfront RV park with its own race track?

    We head to Mexico a week from tomorrow. We’ll all meet in the Wal-Mart parking lot and cross the border. Eric Solorzano has his shop set up in the Barnyard in Rosarita Beach. We’ll likely stop there on our way to the Estero Beach RV Park, which comes with its own dirt race track where we hope to do some tweaking.

    If you’ve got Google Earth, this .kmz file has waypoints for the Barnyard, the RV park and race track, the Baja 1000 start/finish line and the entry into the wash.

    All I want for my birthday tomorrow is a race car. The trucking company is assuring me it will be here “no later than Tuesday.”