I know Ghost has mentioned being interested in helping chase for us at Vegas 2 Reno next month. Would anyone else be interested out of curiosity? Here's the break down for planning basically...
Tech is Thursday 8/13. Open invite to everyone in general, not just those that are helping with the race. If you want to chase and can't make it, not a big deal though. We'll likely be doing a pit meeting at my house that Wed or Thur evening though I'd imagine. 8/12 or 8/13 most likely. Again, if you can't make it, we can work around it.
Race day is Friday 8/14. The race starts in Beatty and runs basically up to the Reno area. It WILL BE A LONG DAY!!! I'm talking LONG... The friend that is riding shotgun in the truck for the first half of the race took 24 hours to finish last year with some issues to give you an idea. I think in a perfect world we can do it in 12hours but that's talking absolutely perfect, zero issues, zero stuck in silt, perfect! Point being, there's a good chance you'll be up all day and all night and you'll be catching naps here and there on the fly as you can.
We don't have a full chase crew logistically figured out yet though so as far as ride sharing goes, we don't know yet. We figure we'll see who we've got on the table, who's got vehicles they're willing to run and go from there. If absolutely needed I can offer up my explorer to chase out of even.
Race finish... Sometime on Sat and we'll be up there assuming all goes well. I don't want to plan for failure but if for whatever reason our day ended at Tonopah or something like that, we'd likely head back home. If there's a day ender scenario based on where we are and how far up we are we'll make a call as to what we're doing.
Assuming all is well though, we'll hang in the Reno area that Sat and stay the night up there. Jason and I haven't talked rooms yet, it's a conversation we'll have soon though. Perfect scenario, we'll caravan home on Sunday.
If you're interested let me know and maybe throw in a rough percentage as to how committed you are to it. If you're 100% in awesome, if you're 50/50 we'll plan accordingly as well. Just gives us an idea of what we're working with. Also, if you're interested, let me know if you're willing to run your own vehicle north and what the vehicle is so we can plan gear/vehicle wise depending what we have on the table. Just cause you are willing to drive your own ride doesn't mean you will, I'm just seeing what we have for options. I mean if you say yeah, you're 100% in and will drive up in your Civic, well, you likely will be riding shotgun in someone elses truck or something and your Civic will likely chill in Vegas that weekend. LOL
Our goal is to have one dedicated chase team on their own. We will be pitting at a paid pit service. They will actually be doing all the fuel dumps for us. You would be there to help and to basically have our gear on hand if really needed. Perfect world, you'll have fun watching a race all day and night and watch us drive by a bunch of times. We also want to have a 2nd team that will caravan with my van/trailer all the way north too. We're likely going to have the Van doing most of the fuel stops. The solo team may have to do one... When I say that I actually mean you'll be transporting our fuel cans for us to that paid pit team.
This kind of race is actually typically a TON of fun to chase for cause you're not sitting in one place all day. You'll be on the move quite a bit leap frogging to stay ahead of the race truck.
Anyways, let me know if anyone is interested and about how committed and if you're willing to drive and what the vehicle is if so...