Which springs to use? This is a question we didn’t dig into until it was too late. Back in 2012, we novices built our first Class 11 car from the ground up. We aren’t able to do anything once. Cage, wiring, transaxle, paint… We learned […]
How do you prepare for a race (Chase Plan)
In part two of “how do you prepare for a race” lets go over a long course chase plan, and how we go about making it happen. We are a fairly new and reasonably inexperienced team, so when we started working toward our first Baja […]
How do you prepare for a race? (The Car)
We get a lot of questions from folks who are interested in what we do, and many of those questions are pretty interesting. We are choosing the most common questions to answer. Today, How do you prepare for a race. Since this is a HUGE […]
Sponsorship, earn it
We have been fortunate to have a number of incredible companies come along to support us. No, this doesn’t pay our way across the finish line, but it certainly helps us in our quest to get there. A lot of people think that companies are […]
Piles of money, Piles of time…or both
We get asked a lot of questions but the one that has been sticking in my head lately is: What does it take to get into racing. It’s actually a complicated question, because really you have to hash out what the person is asking. Racing […]
Beat Up and Grinning
Holy. Crap. I seriously don’t even have words to explain what the hell just happened, but I’ll try a little bit. Josh and I got in 1137 around Rm 80 and the car had already started to take a beating. Rear fenders were dented, engine […]
My Baja Experience: Gina Wilson
It’s hard to know where to start… the last several months all seem like a blur. Time seemed to move fast and slow simultaneously. As hard as we tried to be prepared (and we did a damn good job) for months- every day, evening and […]
2014 Baja 1000, through Josh’s Eyes
In May of 2010 we bought a car and stripped it down. This was going to be our race car and we were certain that we would be racing it this year. Our ambition was as big as many of our accomplishments in the past, […]
Contingency Row Madness
Yesterday was Contingency and Tech Inspection and we’re happy to say that 1137 made it through with flying colors! We’ve got trackers and transponders installed and ready to go, and we’re set to go off the line this afternoon. If you want to follow along […]
Follow Us to La Paz – Baja 1000 Race Tracking
With race day fast approaching, if you’re interested in following along with the race, check out the links below. We go off the start line on Thursday, Nov. 13th sometime after 12:30pm PST with a 49 hour time limit to complete the 1,275 mile off-road desert race […]