Desert Dingo Racing

Tag: 2009 Baja 1000

  • 1107 on the playa

    1107 and Logistics Maven Seth Schrenzel on the playa. (That’s Seth on the right.)

    Creech hauled 1107 out to Black Rock Desert for Fourth of JuPlaya and a plethora of team members took turns at the steering wheel. The consensus is that 1107 is “ready to win.” It hauled PVC to Double Hot. It floated across the mud flats and we’ve still got intercom issues. (You were expecting perfection, maybe?)

    Now that 1107 is back, we’ll be fixing a few bent parts and shipping the shocks down south to Bilstein for upgrades. There’s a lot more in the works as we prepare for the KC Hilites Midnight Special in August, the World Diabetes Congress in October and the Baja 1000 in November.

    This has nothing to do with us, but who doesn’t want to see what Top Gear can do with Ken Block:

    Updates as they occur. (Photo of 1107 courtesy of Michael “Skid” Aquino)

  • Baja 500 in progress

    Hear Weatherman get really cranky with people, live on the radio.

    We’re saving up our pennies for the Baja 1000, but this is the weekend for the Baja 500. Nearly as fun as being in the car sucking in lungfuls of silt is listening to Weatherman get increasingly cranky with people who walk over his broadcasts, who are universally referred to as “Richard Craniums.” He’s also threatened to lock some kid in a closet full of spiders for playing with a radio and broadcasting over him. Then there was this:

    “Weatherman, radio check.”

    “You’re a 10.”

    “Is 10 good or bad? Is the scale from 1 to 10 or 10 to 1?”

    “10 is good. It goes from 1 to 10.”

    “Ok, thanks Weatherman. Out.”

    Thanks to the Race Dezert folks for rebroadcasting this.