Desert Dingo Racing

Category: Sponsors

  • TrailGlow pit signs in action

    Our sponsor, TrailGlow, set us up with illuminated number panels, pit signs and pit crew safety vests. We’ll be using all of them at The 24 on Labor Day weekend.

    Three weeks to VORRA’s 24 hour desert endurance race in Fallon. I spent Sunday checking our electro-luminescent pit signs and safety vests. (They all work fine). The number panels on the car are as bright as neon and we’ve had checkpoint crews tell us they can see us coming half a mile away.

    Racing in Mexico and coming into the pit area at night, it’s all headlights and bonfires. We had no problem spotting our pits thanks to the flashing signs.

    Here’s a quick video of us getting our doors blown off by Koenig Racing last year at the Fallon night race with the number panels flashing.

  • General Tire Supporting Desert Dingo Racing for 2011 Season

    August 8, 2011, Felton, Calif. – Desert Dingo Racing announced today that General  Tire, an industry-leading provider of ultra-high performance, passenger, light truck, off-road and commercial tires, is supporting the team’s 2011 race season.

    “General Tire’s Grabber HTS series tires deliver the aggressive grip and overall durability we need in our off road racing program,” said Desert Dingo Racing co-founder Jim Graham. “GT has a long tradition of supporting off road racing and we’re looking forward to adding a few more wins to their record books.”

    The Grabber™ HTS is one of General Tire’s newest premium all-season tire for today’s light trucks, crossovers and SUVs. Born from Baja, the Grabber™ HTS is built on the technology that went into engineering the company’s Grabber off-road competition tires. 

    Read the entire press release here…

  • Rugged Radios comm install video

    We’re back from VORRA’s USA 500 and kicking the dust out of everything. Rugged Radio‘s chief of marketing, Matt, sent me a link to the video he put together covering the install of the X5500 VHF radio, VHF wide-band antenna and the RRP660 intercom.

    Music via MP3 player (my iPod Shuffle full of the hits of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s) plus a jack for my iPhone, so I can call the Green Booger on the course at night when it’s lonely and I need someone to talk to. Or order pizza.

    Greg and his son, who lives with Type 1 diabetes, do great work with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. And we work with the International Diabetes Federation. We’re working to raise awareness of diabetes and support their outreach and education programs.

    The comm worked flawlessly and 1107 can broadcast farther than it ever could before. This is a game changer for us.

  • Field trip to Rugged Radios (USA 500, also)

    Thanks to Chris (pictured here), Greg, and the entire Rugged Radios team for taking us into the 22nd Century.

    I departed Felton at 4 a.m. this morning, which sounds hardcore until I tell you that Crusty departed Soquel in his rat rod 1951 car carrier with 1107 on top around 8 p.m. Monday night. Both of us bound for San Luis Obispo. I have no idea where Crusty ended up, but I parked in a bar parking lot and started making phone calls around 7 a.m.

    By 9 a.m. Amanda had retrieved Crusty, we’d offloaded 1107 and Team Rugged Radios set to work. Greg, who designs and manufactures his own equipment, has taken us under his wing. Thanks to his team, we have a comm system that’s the envy of Trophy Truck teams, integrates smart phone and digital music players, and, for the first time, allows us to hear who’s talking to us when we’re outside the car trying the figure out how to get it unstuck.

    Here’s a shot of Jason and Kevin testing our new helmets.

    And here’s some photos from the trip. We depart for the USA 500 in a few hours. You can follow us on the Twitter at @desertdingo, the USA 500 festivities using the Twitter hashtag #USA500 and Rugged Radios on the Twitter at @ruggedradios.

  • Countdown to the USA 500

    You need fenders? We got fenders.

    Busy day today. Started loading electronics and our giveaways on the front porch. Shawn and Bob showed up and we loaded up the Satellite Telework Centers truck with painted wheels and body parts. The off to the car where Bob and Crusty finessed the front skid plate, Shawn worked on sponsor logos and Emme Hall of Hall Ass Racing installed the GPS, Camelbaks and breather hoses.

    Emme and I decamped to DDR HQ and spent the afternoon painting spare wheels, bumpers, light bar and spare fenders.

    Tomorrow we finish car prep, load it on Crusty’s 1951 car hauler and head south to San Luis Obispo to Rugged Radios. On Wednesday 1107 departs for Reno for VORRA’s USA 500.

    We’ll be live updating the race events on the Twitter using the #USA500 hashttag.

    Photos from today’s work here.