For all that driving the truck was pretty exhausting, the next few days were far, far worse. With driving, at least you have adrenaline and urgency. After handing the truck over to Jim and Doug, though, the adrenaline was gone and it was time to keep moving to support the truck on its [...]
After all of the confusion and delays, my turn to drive had finally come. As I climbed into the truck and got the air and comm lines plugged into my helmet, I was definitely suffering from some jitters. There’s always a bit of adrenaline in any kind of race situation, but this [...]
You know how sometimes the simplest things turn out to be way more complicated and difficult than they have any right to be? Such was the case in getting from pit #4 to pit #5, a mere 35 course miles and maybe 50 miles on road (this was one of the cases where the [...]
We got started bright and early Tuesday morning, with all of the usual pre-race confusion and mayhem. We had a few helmets that needed last minute tech inspection, the chase cars needed to grab water and snacks, that sort of thing. The truck was lined up in its starting place, the GPS course [...]
Wow. Just wow. Now that was an experience. It’s going to take a while to digest and write about, so in the interest of keeping family sane in the face of inevitable media reports of the deaths and serious injuries that occured, let me first say that I survived, in one [...]
We’re just heading down to the race start. Apparently, there’s some way to track our progress online; we are Trophy Truck #34. I’ll be driving from about 11pm tonight until about 7am tomorrow. Next update from Cabo… hopefully!
Woohoo! This week I will be part of a team driving the Baja 1000. It’s one of those things that I’ve always wanted to do, but never thought would be possible. It should be a pretty amazing week, though I’m definitely having a few of the “what the hell did I [...]