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  • “Flying” the VORRA Fallon 250 desert night race


    This is what will be running on my laptop for the next four days.

    About a week before a race, the organizers drive the course with a GPS unit that records their track. That file gets loaded online for teams to plug into their race car GPS units. This is particularly helpful when you’re driving as fast as you can on dirt roads at night in the middle of the Nevada desert. Which is what we’ll be doing Saturday night.

    I take VORRA‘s file and reformat it for Google Earth, and will spend the next few days “flying” the course. You can download the Google Earth KML file here. This course looks fast. Very fast. With a little bit of technical stuff, mostly at the end of each 62 mile lap.

    We depart Felton Thursday afternoon and arrive in Fallon Thursday night. Friday around 11 a.m. we pre-run the course. Race starts around 6 p.m. Saturday night and we have nine hours to do four laps of the 62-mile course.

    Here’s our tentative driver / co-driver line up.

    Pre-run Friday morning
    Richard / Bill in 1107. Scott on motorcycle.

    Lap 1 – Scott / Bill
    Lap 2 – Richard / Bob
    Lap 3 – Crusty / Scott
    Lap 4 – Bill / Jim

  • Smell the excitement – what it’s like to desert race


    This is pretty much “Dust to Glory” packed into five minutes.

    For some unknown reason, one of our GoPro cameras started recording upside down and it took me months to figure out how to fix it. Mostly months because I forgot about it and then about 10 minutes of Googling to solve the problem, courtesy of Quicktime Pro.

    This is Richard and me at the start of the Yerington 300. In this video you see us standing around, get buckled in, I fiddle with my iPhone, we fist-bump and at some point pass a Class 9 car. That’s pretty much desert racing in a nutshell.

    Coming up the weekend of July 16-18 – The Fallon 250 Desert Night Race.