Desert Dingo Racing

Category: Baja 1000

  • And the repairs begin…

    A chorizo pizza, the size of the hood of a Baja 1000 pre-runner, delivered by motorcycle in Tijuana

    Sometime Sunday Creech is coming by with a Checker cab outfitted with a tow hitch to trailer 1102 to his place in Ben Lomond. Bob “Bus Boy” Russell, our team sommelier, will drop the engine and transmission. We’re pricing spare race transmissions as I write this, and looking to folks to rebuild our primary tranny.

    Photos tomorrow. It’s a new race day for the team.

    And, at Eric’s Tijuana workshop, that was the best chorizo and jalapeno pizza – the size of a car hood – I’d ever had.

  • 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.

  • The exotic life of the Baja 1000 racer

    Here’s a quickie video of us prepping all the vehicles on Race Day morning. We all headed across town in a caravan around 10:15 to line up for an 11:30 a.m.-ish start.

    The neighborhood kids would hang out with us. I took some photos. You can check out the gallery here.

    Kids in the hood

  • Maybe we should go for the Baja 1000 Flugtag

    Another angle, courtesy of Aura 360 of our flight off the Red Bull jump in the Ensenada wash.

  • Airborne at the Baja 1000

    1102 airborne at the Baja 1000

    There’s been a lot of discussion (if you consider three of us instant messaging each other as “discussion”) about how much air Scott and Seth caught off the Red Bull jump in the Ensenada wash.

    I think Richard thought it was about 12-18 inches. I maintained three feet, based on watching the video something like 50 times. I forget what Skid thought. I got a call from Eric Solorzano today and he maintains we could have jumped another Class 11.

    Judge for yourself. I edited the full Ensenada Deportes video down to our jump. (I included a trophy truck for comparison).

    I like this photo. It was the last time the car was clean.

    1102 on the staging ramp