Last weekend was the Best in the Desert Parker 400, and it seemed like a course that would not be to tough on my car, "El Gusano". The Parker race is split up into two days of racing with mostly buggies on Friday and the bigger faster trucks on Saturday, which is nice since it is not fun to be holding up a big truck. Parker is also a loop race consisting of 125 mile laps. the fast cars get three laps and the slower and Vintage class that I was in do two laps.
The Vintage class has four entries with two older ford trucks with modern suspension, an older Class 1 buggy and then my pretty much stock suspension Manx. Vintage class is pretty open in BITD and it's just nice that they let me race, even being out matched.
The race went well for us. My son Kevin was my co-driver for the first lap and then my normal co-driver Joe hopped in for the second lap. We had Filmore at the main pit and Jim took care of pit 3 at Midway. Other than fuel and one tire change for a bent rim at the main pit, we kept the car moving all day.
We almost got second place in class with one of the trucks breaking down and the Class 1 had some issues but past us in the last few miles of the race, putting us in third. We did manage to finish our 250 miles with the sun still up in 7 hours and 43 minutes. Not to bad for a little Manx.
