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Chasing the dust in the high desert (Read 2184 times)
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Chasing the dust in the high desert
07/20/11 at 13:41:02
Mods, please remove if it does not belong here. However, since I was proudly wearing a suit with MLRC logo on it, I thought I might post my story from my participation in the last weekend's USA 500 here.
Here is the link:
http://www.desertdingo.com/blog/2011/07/20/vorra-usa-500-race-recap/
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07/20/11 at 18:28:18
Paul i do not care if you posted that in the want ads. That is a great story and a spectacular finish.
Congrats.
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07/21/11 at 07:51:00
Awesome story, and a great read
How does the co-driving work in these events? I'm guessing it's too long to have notes, so do you just use a GPS and such to give a rough idea of where you're going? Is there any warning about jumps and bad corners?
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07/21/11 at 08:10:16
The course is on the GPS (ours did not work) and you can pre-run (we did not have time), but no notes are created and then read back .
The co-driver is basically a second set of eyes.
So if you do not have GPS and do not pre-run you drive according to what you can see and according to the arrows that point you where to turn. SOMETIMES there are arrows for a sharp corner with a big drop off on the outside, sometimes there is a caution sign (usually on a huge rock - it does not make much sense to me, because I saw the huge rock before seeing the caution sign on it).
The crests are interesting. I was scolded by Crusty for going too fast over the crests. So I slowed down. About 5 miles later I came over a (no caution) crest and faced a 50-60 feet of a cliff with such a slope I was afraid the car might roll over its front
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