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Nothing to see ?Drama in the pits...
Nothing to see ?Drama in the pits...
I Cant see it eitherNothing to see ?
because we already knew what had happened early on in the race one of the rear calipers broke a bleeder.but when it did the peddle traveled to far and I bent the bar which we some what straightened. we we knew it could brake any time it finally did 50 miles to go the second place wasn't that far behind us and we didn't want to waste any more time in the pits knowing there was nothing we could do to fix it.im not agreeing with what my brother did nor what Jason did who preps the car and does a awesome job won last 3 out 4 races but 30hrs of no sleep sometimes gets to you but at the finish line both of them hugged it out and no hard feelings
Outstanding.I hadn't raced in Baja in years so I wrote up a race summary after 41 hours awake and 13 in the car. It reads more like a stream of consciousness than anything else. Mostly coherent...
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2020 Baja 1000 - Race Summary
After prerunning for 2 days we were pretty sore and tired. We knew there would be some long hours ahead so sleep was at a premium each night. To start off, the racecar was having a hard time getting into reverse so the guys worked on the transmission linkage the night before the race as Rob and...www.dirtsunrise.com
His trophy truck had a fuel system contamination issue with the foam breaking down in the fuel cell. If you watched the videos in quite a few of them you could here the motor not sounding quite right and even backfiring at times. They were sure it effected the fuel pumps, filters and fuel injectors. It was bad enough to where they could not keep it running past mile marker 500 and had to stop for 1.5-2 hours to rebuild the 2 fuel pumps and change filters.Question from a relative newb to the sport, compared to most on here: in terms of the engines the TT's use, what are the main regulations with them? Is there a size limit? a HP limit? Or is it pretty much anything goes? Are there a lot of engine suppliers out there? Or only a few? Are turbos allowed? Or do teams go with NA simply because they're much more reliable/have a much smaller chance of breaking down over a full Baja race? This brings to mind the failed VW V-12 turbo-diesel effort from however many years ago now. Recently I saw Menzies saying his engine was about 950 HP; is this the relative range most top teams are in? Is it hard to go much higher than that with top-line V8 racing engines? Robby's engine sounds like it revs higher than the other teams (Nascar-derived engine, right?), but maybe doesn't have quite the same HP? Whoever wants to take a crack at this I'd love to know more, haha
The penalties did change results in some cases.I'm surprised there hasn't been any comments on the penalty report. (unless I missed something?).
There were only 17, yes Seventeen, Clean runs!!
82 out of 99 of us, had penalties.
@mxben , I know your team fought hard to get to the finish..., I saw your faces when I jumped out of the car on stage, congrats on Your clean run. 3 VCP's missed cost us a 3rd place finish.
I believe you run BFG's and if so, I have a Hat for you that I can bring by the lumber yard. ( If it means anything to
you)
I'll blame it on the other guys as I'm confident we had a clean run. still waiting on Jose G. to reply to an email request.
Don
I don't dispute the penalties at all. the "other guys" were in the car, racing... Hard... power steering issues started at mile 155, changed the first pump at 175... They had a Tough race...The penalties did change results in some cases.
I'm curious: How consistent and strict are these penalties? Your quote sounds like you dispute some of them, but I'm wondering if that's the feeling with everyone. Like, if you blip to 31 mph in a 30 mph zone, is that a sure penalty, or do they levy some grace there? Is there a margin of error built into the enforcement process?
I accidentally but blatantly sped by a lot and did not get a penalty, I really think you need to speed for a minimum of 3 seconds but 5 seconds realistically to be noticed on score tracking.The penalties did change results in some cases.
I'm curious: How consistent and strict are these penalties? Your quote sounds like you dispute some of them, but I'm wondering if that's the feeling with everyone. Like, if you blip to 31 mph in a 30 mph zone, is that a sure penalty, or do they levy some grace there? Is there a margin of error built into the enforcement process?
Most TT's are using some sort of small block V8 engine design, but many are going towards a larger displacement big-block package now-a-days. Most all of these are still naturally aspirated engines, although Josh Daniels ran a twin turbo V8 engine a few years back, I think Dale Dondel of Racer Engineering may have run a turbo engine at some point as well. Turbos and superchargers were only allowed with the rule book in the past 5 years if I remember correctly.Question from a relative newb to the sport, compared to most on here: in terms of the engines the TT's use, what are the main regulations with them? Is there a size limit? a HP limit? Or is it pretty much anything goes? Are there a lot of engine suppliers out there? Or only a few? Are turbos allowed? Or do teams go with NA simply because they're much more reliable/have a much smaller chance of breaking down over a full Baja race? This brings to mind the failed VW V-12 turbo-diesel effort from however many years ago now. Recently I saw Menzies saying his engine was about 950 HP; is this the relative range most top teams are in? Is it hard to go much higher than that with top-line V8 racing engines? Robby's engine sounds like it revs higher than the other teams (Nascar-derived engine, right?), but maybe doesn't have quite the same HP? Whoever wants to take a crack at this I'd love to know more, haha
Yeah Mike you got the whole story right there from your armchair Commodore 64.Those pit guys had no idea how to trouble shoot the brake system. Even the driver is yelling to at least put more fluid in the reservoir and they didn’t even do that. They just kept looking at each corner and could not see anything wrong. But they missed the fact that there are many other places for a failure besides the calipers. They were arguing with the driver as if the driver was making up the brake problem. Haha
I am surprised that with all those guys the fueler is doing that by himself and with zero safety gear.
total mess. Goes to show it’s not how many guys you have helping that matters, you need guys that know what they are doing and know the race vehicle. It’s crazy how things can fall apart fast in the pits under stress.
the big guy was just mad because he didn’t get a team shirt. LOL
Mike