Desert Dingo Racing

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

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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.

Comments

2 responses to “Smell the excitement – what it’s like to desert race”

  1. Fred Schechter

    Whee!!
    Umm,, ok, so exactly what sort of responsibilities go into co-driving for this event?

    Observed thus far
    1.Fist bumping
    2.Looking cool in FIA approved gear
    3.Using iPhone

    Is he
    1.Spotting?
    2.Reading pacenotes/tulip off the iphone?
    3.Do you have an intercom?

    Looks like a blast!! (I’m not being facetious by the way)

    Have a blast at Fallon!!

  2. Jim

    Wait…does the iPhone have an app for pace notes?

    We do have an intercom. Most of the conversations go like this:

    “I need to hit the porta potty one more time.”
    “Too late.”
    “No, I’m serious.”
    “No, *I’m* serious.”

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