This should be a walk in the park. A rocky, silt-filled, multi-water-crossing walk in the park.
“Busboy” Bob Russell reported in just now with an update on car preparation. First thing they had to do was purchase a disposable phone (just like the terrorists use!) because Caliente doesn’t have cell service for AT&T.
With that out of the way, they mounted the new BF Goodrich 7.00×15 tires, which give us an additional 1.5-2 inches of clearance in the back. We’re now approaching Monster Truck levels of ground clearance. Thanks to everyone at Skip’s Tires, one of our sponsors, for mounting those for us.
A serious issue for us is that technical courses like Caliente have a tendency to chew up tires, primarily by sharp rocks cutting into the sidewalls. These new tires have six-ply sidewalls and Bob reports it will require an act of God to puncture one of them.
They’re holding off on installing the skid plates until receiving a new bowden tube from a VW shop in Vegas. Once that’s done, they’ll install everything and run the car through contingency this evening.
#1111 (Felipe Neri-Sanchez) and #1101 (Robert Johnson) are also on site in Caliente.
You can check out a larger version of the Caliente 250 map here.