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It was pretty easy to stop racing dirt stocks cars and go to asphalt modifieds . I had decent to good results on dirt. Asphalt mods for a time on the West coast I could run with the top three guys at any track we went to.
Then the grind of 50 hrs a week working on the car and all the bitching and whining from others at the track made it no fun. Cut back to 4 hrs prep for a race and became a 5th place car . Done with that in a hurry.
We love Baja and decided some off road racing was the thing to do. 7s 3rd place at Yerrington and did donuts at the finish . That was fun ! 7 open in a POS truck I bought then junked ,learned a lot .
2008 bought used TL #1 race ready ,LOL . What a rig with a mile of all red wire . Made every update imaginable and raced the crap out of that 2.2 . Learned from the McMillions at the 09 V to R the only truly really valuable thing in the desert on a hot day is water . We had it and they didn't . Nice guys they let us use their sat phone while drinking our 140 d. water bottles zip tied to the frame. Bought #20 w a buddy raced,updated and then sold it . Ordered #28 and sold #1 . Built $28 from bare frame . Only 1 red wire in the truck ! I learned a ton from #1 and 20 . Baja 500 first race Joe Moore meets me to do some shock testing on the way South . Roll it 3 B rolls because driver (me) is an idiot. Joe aint too smart either as he gets back in for 2 more hours and finishes testing and tuning. Great guy that Joe is ! 18 hrs and B500 finish !!!!!
Mostly skip TL races with a few exceptions and run Vorra , Score , NORRA ,Dos Mares . Cant get enough Baja ,still cant . Won unlimited sportsman at 14 B1k 43 hrs in the seat ! I cant believe how much work I put into that entire race .
Couple of more races after that. We were able to lead in each race and had DNFs engine failure , trans and then limp mode issue at Parker .
Getting to the point of too much work and too little time and money to spend on racing,at least as an owner. You probably have to own a truck/buggy to fully understand . Being in Nor Cal is another ball buster for making it to Baja with everyone and everything in tow. I can still run the truck hard and fast while not tearing off parts . Just cant do the whole deal . Between Rick Johnson ,TL rental trucks and who knows what other deals I think I can still get some good racing in.
Now to inventory a gazillion dollars worth of spares and try to sell everything for maybe 40% of the cost .
Not sure why I wrote this . My mind is made up . Maybe just need to make it final.
Of course building that 79 Bronco pre runner or maybe my Checker Marathon into a NORRA class 6 will happen........................................ wish me luck Ben R Phillips 6043
Then the grind of 50 hrs a week working on the car and all the bitching and whining from others at the track made it no fun. Cut back to 4 hrs prep for a race and became a 5th place car . Done with that in a hurry.
We love Baja and decided some off road racing was the thing to do. 7s 3rd place at Yerrington and did donuts at the finish . That was fun ! 7 open in a POS truck I bought then junked ,learned a lot .
2008 bought used TL #1 race ready ,LOL . What a rig with a mile of all red wire . Made every update imaginable and raced the crap out of that 2.2 . Learned from the McMillions at the 09 V to R the only truly really valuable thing in the desert on a hot day is water . We had it and they didn't . Nice guys they let us use their sat phone while drinking our 140 d. water bottles zip tied to the frame. Bought #20 w a buddy raced,updated and then sold it . Ordered #28 and sold #1 . Built $28 from bare frame . Only 1 red wire in the truck ! I learned a ton from #1 and 20 . Baja 500 first race Joe Moore meets me to do some shock testing on the way South . Roll it 3 B rolls because driver (me) is an idiot. Joe aint too smart either as he gets back in for 2 more hours and finishes testing and tuning. Great guy that Joe is ! 18 hrs and B500 finish !!!!!
Mostly skip TL races with a few exceptions and run Vorra , Score , NORRA ,Dos Mares . Cant get enough Baja ,still cant . Won unlimited sportsman at 14 B1k 43 hrs in the seat ! I cant believe how much work I put into that entire race .
Couple of more races after that. We were able to lead in each race and had DNFs engine failure , trans and then limp mode issue at Parker .
Getting to the point of too much work and too little time and money to spend on racing,at least as an owner. You probably have to own a truck/buggy to fully understand . Being in Nor Cal is another ball buster for making it to Baja with everyone and everything in tow. I can still run the truck hard and fast while not tearing off parts . Just cant do the whole deal . Between Rick Johnson ,TL rental trucks and who knows what other deals I think I can still get some good racing in.
Now to inventory a gazillion dollars worth of spares and try to sell everything for maybe 40% of the cost .
Not sure why I wrote this . My mind is made up . Maybe just need to make it final.
Of course building that 79 Bronco pre runner or maybe my Checker Marathon into a NORRA class 6 will happen........................................ wish me luck Ben R Phillips 6043