Desert Dingo Racing

Category: Prairie City

  • Came for the racing. Stayed for the canapes.

    Came for the racing. Stayed for the canapes.


    Seriously, the Class 11 pits are going to look just like this.

    Update: CBCFS Racing will be hosting a wine and cheese tasting Saturday night and Romy and Jen will be rolling in with hummus, goat cheese, figs and fresh fruit

    When I’m doing the menu, its usually Pop Tarts and coffee for breakfast lunch and dinner, but, fortunately for the team, we’ve got Roxanne, who’s taken the lead on coordinating food for this weekend’s VORRA season opener at Prairie City.

    Here’s the menu for this weekend:

    Friday dinner:
    Roxanne: Marinara sauce with whole wheat pasta
    Dennis & Deb: Camp style potatoes & onions
    Lynda: Big green salad w/ carrots, broccoli, tomatoes, cauliflower, cukes

    Saturday breakfast:
    Roxanne: “Italian” omelot topped with leftover marinara sauce
    Dennis & Deb: Dutch Oven Egg Casserole (Eggs, Potatoes, Onions, Cheese, Bacon, Chorizo)
    Normal & R-Pod: Potatoes, bacon
    Lynda: fresh fruit

    Saturday dinner:
    Roxanne: Black bean chili and tortillas.
    Dennis & Deb: Blasting Baja Spanish Rice
    Jean-Luc: Beef Stew
    Normal & R-Pod: Sauteed vegetables of some sort (seasonal)
    Lynda: Vegetable Soup

    Sunday breakfast:
    Roxanne: Breakfast burritos.
    Dennis & Deb: eggs, chorizo, potatoes
    Normal & R-Pod: Cheddar and bacon omelets (on order), guacamole for the burritos.
    Lynda: Mangoes

    BTW, I snagged the image from one of my favorite TV commercials of all time…

  • Packing for Prairie City

    Packing for Prairie City


    This is what our new tent might look like in a high wind inside a Costco.

    Tonight is packing night as we prepare for this weekend’s racing at Prairie City. Here’s shots of our tubs for electronics, radios, food, racing suits and helmets. Also our Energizer All-In-One Battery, so I don’t drain everyone’s car batteries with the pit radio. Also the pile of stuff for cooking, shelter and a pile of miscellaneous stuff I know I’ll regret if we don’t take it.

    Dixon & Son Tires gave 1107 a full alignment this morning, is on the truck and ready to go. Crusty’s coming by tomorrow to move race fuel from the drum to the 5 gallon jugs. I’ll be dropping off tubs with Dave and Jonah to haul to PC.

     

  • We are roadworthy

    We are roadworthy



    I swear I’m taking Romy to Men’s Wearhouse for a pair of fitted coveralls.

    Bob, Romy and Crusty got 1107 road mobile today, with help from Dixon & Son Tires in Watsonville who swapped out a bunch of good tires off rims we trashed at the last race of 2011 at Prairie City (which, BTW, we won).


     
    1107 goes back to Dixon & Son for an alignment on Wednesday. We deploy to Prairie City on Friday.

  • Buttoning up for Prairie City

    Buttoning up for Prairie City

    What Dave Dougherty of Indefab does when I’m not on the phone to him asking about our skid plate.

    Dave wrapped up some tweaks to our rear skid plate that should make it go on “like butter.”

    Bob and Crusty will be at DDR HQ tomorrow to install the skid plate, get the seats and five point harnesses in and a bunch of other stuff in a crate in the shed. If everything goes as planned we should have 1107 driving around the neighborhood by EOD.

    Less than two weeks to the first race of the VORRA season at Prairie City and we should have 4-5 Class 11s stinkin’ up the joint.

  • Another Class 11 joining the fray

    Another Class 11 joining the fray

    Is VORRA big enough for two white Class 11s? Only time will tell.

    Spent an hour on the phone last night with Paul of CBCFS Racing out of San Francisco. A great guy. He and his buddy are about 95% complete on a Class 11 build that they expect to campaign in the VORRA series and take to the Baja 1000.

    We’ll head up to SF later this month to check out their build and have invited them to come down to Felton to check out 1107. We’ll probably also do some practice together over at Prairie City in advance of the first VORRA race of the season. A good time will be had by all.

    In other news, Romy jumped on a Craigslist ad for a free hood, free front beams, free doors for our year VW. It’s like Christmas in February.