1101 with its tracking unit turned on parked at Jeff’s house at Pete’s Camp, a small community on the bearch just north of San Felipe.
Just got off the phone with Mike and Seth. Everyones’ spirits are good, the car is ready to go and it’s about an hour before race start.
Richard and Mike will be in 1101 off the start line (“It’s an all-diabetic start,” Seth says.) Somewhere around the top of the course they’ll switch out and Mike will drive to Route Mile 93 where they’ll hand the car off to Scott and Seth. Scott will drive first and somewhere around RM 160 Seth will take over, driving in the dark, and take it to the finish line.
Seth reports that, for this race, we’ll actually have a jack in the car (we sort of overlooked that at the Baja 1000). Also the new intercom works “fabulous”, though I’ll miss the head butting and hand signals I used at the 1000 in the car with Cary.
Our two chase trucks are fully outfitted and ready to go. We’ll be using Seth scratched up Ford and Jeff’s 70s era Scout. They picked up 27 gallons of 110 octane race fuel yesterday and divvied it between 1101 and fuel jugs in the two chase vehicles.
Everyone went out to dinner last night at Playa del Oro and Seth had everyone tucked in to bed by midnight. Today’s high should be 80 degrees with slight overcast – perfect racing weather. We did see Eric Solorzano doing some pre-running and one other of the Class 11s.
Because they won’t have internet connectivity on the course, I’ll be monitoring the car’s location and sending text messages to their sat phones at 15 minute intervals, relaying location and speed, so it will look something like “RM 33 – 28 mph”.
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