Desert Dingo Racing

Category: Prairie City

  • The Prairie City roll

    There’s nothing I can add. If you don’t have all day, skip to 4:45 for the roll and aftermath. The roll in pictures is here.

    I think it’s time to spring for the HD GoPro Motorsports cameras.

  • What? Like you’ve never seen a toupee before?

    There’s a new roof in 1107’s future.

    Because we can’t have nice things, we’re going to eventually have to replace 1107’s roof, most likely after the April short course race at Prairie City. We’re meeting Saturday to pull the fenders, engine and transmission and assess the damage. Bob reports he picked up a transmission and four fenders for $100 so we should have plenty to work with.

    Also got a couple of cool things to announce in the next week for so for you iPhone and Android owners.

  • “Because I was Inverted”

    California Sports Spotlight Photo Design captured 1107 rolling during qualification in advance of the VORRA season opener on March 20, 2010. Shawn had his bell rung but is all right. We used pry tools and Seth’s truck’s winch to pull out the dents and had the car ready to race the next morning. We lost the first moto, won the second and blew our transmission during the third. Where else can you say you blew a transmission, lost two races, essentially totaled a race car and can still call it a great weekend?

    We even came home with a donated spare roof, passenger door and pan, courtesy of Jeff “Weasel” Lee and the 1106 Petfinder.com Class 11. And congrats to Gary, Cody, and The Green Booger for taking the win.

    And now, on with the show.

    Wait til you see the in-car video. Also, larger photos here.

  • 1107 coming together for this weekend’s Prairie City season opener

    Ok, now it’s a good engine.

    Crusty reports that he, Skid and Bob are making excellent progress on buttoning up 1107 for this weekend’s season opener at Prairie City, just outside Sacramento. Crusty is welding stuff and Bob is putting in the axles. After that, the re-re-built engine goes in, they test it and do final prep. We head out tomorrow after work. I’ll be blogging and live-tweeting the whole weekend.

    Here’s the schedule, courtesy of VORRA:

    Short Course Event Schedule
    March 20 & 21

    SATURDAY
    8 a.m.-noon
    Tech Inspection & Registration

    2:30 p.m.
    Car & Truck Practice (We’ll be on the track)

    5 p.m.
    Car & Truck Qualifying (We’ll be on the track)

    SUNDAY
    8:15 a.m.
    Mandatory Drivers Meeting

    9-9:30 a.m.
    Practice (We’ll be on the track)

    9:45 a.m.
    First Moto (We’ll be on the track)

    11:30 a.m.
    Second Moto (We’ll be on the track)

    1:15 p.m.
    Lunch (!)

    1:45 p.m.
    Third Moto (We’ll be on the track)

    4:30 p.m.
    Awards Presentation

  • Some days are better than others

    Scott, momentarily not under the car fixing something, fixes something inside the car.

    One week til the the first short course race of the VORRA season and we were all set to button up 1107. Realized that the pulley is tight. Engine was back on the truck. Bob and Mike will be going through it tomorrow. As a backup, we’ll pull 1117’s engine, but we will be racing.

    Some photos from today’s work day.

    It’ll be good as new in a week.