Desert Dingo Racing

Category: The Team

  • We apparently raced the San Felipe 250 after all

    Apparently a shot of us tearing it up at last weekend’s San Felipe 250.

    Bob worked overnight and through this morning, reporting at 1 p.m. today that he had disassembled, replaced a seized main engine bearing, reassembled and tested the engine. We will be ready to race come Saturday and Sunday.

    El Jeffo, who handle chase duties for us in his tres cool International Harvester whenever we pass through San Felipe (and who is kind enough to let us crash at his place whenever we’re in the area) shot these photos of 1102 during the San Felipe 250 this past weekend.

    This is us apparently leaping a spectator’s truck. Note the vandalism to the passenger side door. What is it with today’s youth?

    And this is us apparently going up a pretty steep hill.

  • Feature on Desert Dingo Racing in The Sporting Life

    Brett Svatek did a piece on the team and I spent most of my time talking about eating.

    INTERVIEW: Jim Graham – Desert Dingo Racing
    The Sporting Life, February 24, 2010
    Jim Graham and his Desert Dingo racing team set out to conquer the Baja 1000 in a car that most people wouldn’t feel safe driving to the 7-11…they are truly living The Sporting Life.

  • Engine teardown


    Mike in mid-engine teardown.

    Bob brought his ace engine guy Mike over today to help us tear apart the engine and decide how much of a rebuild we needed. Initially we planned to just change the rings, but on closer inspection we decided to do a complete teardown so we can start the season with an absolutely fresh engine.

    Crusty focused on a redesign of our rear bumper, valence and skid plate, so that the whole back end mounts as a unit. Here’s a gallery of shots from today’s work day.

  • And we take third overall in SNORE Class 11

    Our personal version of Dust to Glory.

    And we complete our first full season of racing with a podium finish in third place behind two amazing teams – Felipe Neri-Sanchez and Robert Johnson.

    Six SNORE races and the Baja 1000. Third in class at SNORE and 32nd out of 535 entries. Not too shabby for our first full season of racing. Richard Palasik, our driver of record for the SNORE series, will pick up our trophy at the awards ceremony at the Golden Nugget in Vegas on January 9.

    We have a lot planned for 2010. Stay tuned. And thank you for all your support.

  • Happy Holidays from all of us at Desert Dingo Racing

    Happy Holidays from all of us at Desert Dingo Racing