It's the middle of the summer during the hottest time of the year in the desert and yet we still go out and race off-road. Thank goodness this was a night race and the temperature Gods were with us. The Yokohama Off-Road racing team was out in full force this weekend and claimed the overall victory with Class 1 racer Josh Daniel. Josh's race car is fitted with the Geolandar A/T-S-R purpose built off-road racing tire. Josh had no flat tires and started and finished on all four original tires. Cameron brought Josh on board the Yokohama team and he is a very talented driver. We are getting very close with this project tire and thanks to Cameron and Josh for giving these tires a thorough workout. All the miles put on these tires will pay off soon. We will continue to make improvements to the tire as we add more race vehicles to our testing stable.
The race started at 7:00pm and the team leader Cameron Steele started 3rd off the line. Shortly after the first lap of the 44 mile course Cameron passed the first two trucks and took the lead with Josh 1 minute behind in second place. Cameron was stretching out his lead over the rest of the pack when on lap 3 he called in over the radio to the main pit that there was fluid spraying all over the floor and on the dash board of the truck. Fluid spraying inside the cab of the truck is never a good sign but after they realized it was transmission fluid and not motor oil there was a small sigh of relief. It took a couple hours but they were able to change the transmission in the middle of the desert at night and finish the race.
The Yokohama main pit was full of activity all night as we were providing main pit support for 7 different race vehicles. Team Yokohama/Desert Assassins/Ashcraft Racing/Dailey Motorsports/Danzio Performance were all battling for overall and class wins. Of the 7 cars, 4 won their class.
Josh Daniel (overall)
Pat Dailey/ Cody Agee (5-1600)
Adam Ashcraft (1/2-1600)
Trey Piersall/Cody Stuart (unlimited sportsman)
Next race, Primm 300
No comments:
Post a Comment