We’re gonna need more laptops.
Desert Dingo Racing’s Logistics Department held its first planning meeting in preparation for the Baja 1000. We had bbq’d tri-tip, potato salad, salad and lots of beer. And we discussed logistics. Figuring out where to set up shop this year (we had some equipment stolen in 2008), how to move chase trucks and people around, and mainly how to improve communications between the team and the car.
We’re looking to go with satellite pagers, since mostly what we need to know is where the car is and what it’s doing. We’ve used satellite phones but they’re expensive and the Iridium system gets overwhelmed by everyone making calls. We understand that the pagers keep trying to send their messages even if the satellite network is busy. That’s a tremendous help. More on these later.
No work on the car this weekend, so here’s a high def video documentary of a trophy truck running the Baja 500: