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The Evolution of Lost Boys Racing
c. 1997 Demo Car. The famous 911 Lincoln. It’s last race in Indio. Left to Right: ?, Derek Dixon, Richard Schouten
This Lincoln raced live on TNN with Steve Evans from Reno, NV. This car survived nine demolition heats including one 1st place in Victorville, CA. Driver: Gary Dixon Crew: Derek Dixon and his High School friends.
c. 1998 Stewart Dixon, Age 14 receiving his 11th consecutive 1st place trophy of the day at the California State Finals.
Stewart crossing the finish line in 1st place for the 11th time.
Gary Dixon (#398) racing with GI Joe in the over 40 class in Perris, CA.
c. 2000. Derek playing Rugby in the center with the ball.
Lost Boys Racing first race in Henderson, NV2002. Gary had the crew actually wax the paint!
The very first race truck; it still had paper plates and the radio and A/C were still running.
Gary & Derek don’t know how to put on the new fire suits.
Our first Baja 1000, 2006. Around mile marker 525.
Parker 425 Pre Run
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Harvest New Year’s Eve Car Show
We had a great time at the New Year’s Eve Car Show at Harvest Church in Riverside. Click on the photo above for a slide show of the event.
Paradigm The Movie
PARADIGM THE MOVIE from Paradigm Productions on Vimeo.
Derek and I attended the Paradigm The Movie premiere at the OC Tavern in San Clemente over the weekend.
There were over 100 people there to watch some great race footage. The movie included shots from all over including, Laughlin, Parker, Vegas, and Mexico. I give it 4 stars and 5 beers!
We also had a great time speaking with Andy McMillin. He shared lots of great racing tips.
Henderson 2009
Best in the Desert.
Casey always comes through. After the closures by the BLM he relocated the Henderson Fabtech 300 to Jean, NV. He set up a great camping area with two access roads, toilets, a trash collection area, and hired water trucks to work everyday to keep the dust down. Down the road was a great spectator area with plenty of room. This was another great race by Best in the Desert.
The blading done by Casey actually made racing harder for us. The speed we maintained took a toll on our truck. With our GPS scaled down to .15 of a mile, I still could not call out the turns fast enough for Stewart. If it wasn’t for the dust, we could have passed anyone in our class. In fact, we passed four 7200 trucks, one class 10, two class 8 trucks including Greg Biffle from NasCar and Rob MacCachren on the first lap. After being hit by a trophy truck we broke two 3/4″ bolts that keep our rear trailing arms on. The end with the threads just broke off.
Derek and Stewart made emergency repairs and attempted to drive the truck into the main pit, this was 17 miles away and very dangerous. After two near misses with high speed collisions they decided to use an access road to repair to the main pit. We were officially out of the race at that point, only half way done.
The gains our race team have accomplished this year are many but don’t look very good on paper, with our one finish this year being Vegas to Reno. Everything on our new truck is a learning experience, the big question is can we keep it up. In the past seven years we have finished 3rd place in at least a dozen races. And in this sport, nobody cares who comes in 3rd. Our goal this year was to finish 1st or break it trying. At least we accomplished one of our goals.
Click HERE for a slide show from the race. If you see anything cool on the web regarding Henderson, send it our way.
Henderson Event Shirts
We need to thank the event tee shirt designer, Greg Antill for his support of Lost Boys Racing. It feels fantastic to see our truck on the shirt! Everyone on our team truly appreciates your participation with Best in the Desert. We wish you and your family a Merry Christmas.
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Henderson Desert Classic
Last minute updates:
We have been working on rebuilding our engine, I should say, Dave Whitehead has been rebuilding our engine. After a complete tear down it was apparent that our engine was destroyed in the Vegas to Reno race during day1. It was a miracle we finished that race. Starting the Silver State 300 with that engine was proof w should go back to school for a refresher course in racing engines. Or probably is was just my hope that this engine would last four races and that it wouldn’t need rebuilding until after Henderson. Look for a complete update on this in our tech tips coming soon!
Please check the BitD site for a complete update on Henderson there are a lot of changes. If you are going to the race, bring LED lights for your rig in the main pit.
SEMA 2009
Our first time at SEMA and Jeff and I left for Vegas about 12am Thursday night, or is that Friday morning? Our plan was to be the first ones there on Friday. We received our badges at 7:30 pm and the show doesn’t open until 9am. But there was plenty to see outside.
Just where do you start? Well, I figured I’d would take pictures of everything before the crowds arrived. This show covers the entire car and truck world.
If you haven’t seen a SEMA show, you will really need two days to see everything. The walking distance is around 18 miles to see everything and if you did that in one day, all your pictures would be blurry!
We had a great day. I took lots of pictures, you can see the slide show HERE, check them out.
Off Road Expo Photos
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