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RONN BAILEY TO COMPETE IN THE OPIC 2000 TUNISIA RALLY 2008 AS THE ONLY U.S. RACE CAR PARTICIPANT
– The Longest African Road Rally This Year –
LAS VEGAS, (April 23, 2008) – Vanguard Integrity Professionals CEO & CTO Ronn Bailey announced today that he will be the sole U.S. participant entering this year’s most challenging African road rally, the FIA OPIC 2000 Tunisia Rally 2008. The nine day race, which extends over three countries and 4,123 km of terrain, is the first step of the Rally World Cup. The 2008 Tunisian race starts in Marseilles, France on April 23rd, runs through Libya and Tunisia and finishes in the city of Djerba, Tunisia on May 3rd.
Bailey and his co-pilot Sebastien Delaunay will drive a Nissan Patrol. As the sole American race car driver, he will join 97 motorbikes and quads, along with 90 other cars, 11 trucks and 110 support vehicles, in the largest African rally of 2008. “We’ve been planning the Tunisia Rally for some time now but didn’t announce our participation until today for security reasons,” Bailey explains. “Doing the Tunisia Rally was always a given for me -- part of an even bigger plan.” Vanguard Integrity Professionals, which provides enterprise security software to 500 U.S. and foreign governments, multinational corporations and large enterprises, is sponsoring Bailey’s race team in the rally.
Bailey is commandeering one of 14 teams that will fight for victory in the highly challenging “Regularity Rally” competition. The object for each team is to score points by completing timed sections and overcoming difficult navigational challenges. Sections of the course are only for the Regularity class competitors and are intentionally more difficult to navigate.
Bailey will be at somewhat of a disadvantage competing in the Regularity Rally for the first time, going against 13 other professional teams that frequently compete in this type of event. “All of my previous races in Dakar and Morocco have been in the unlimited open class, which requires driving as fast and hard as possible,” Bailey explains. “The Regularity class is a race of strategy and skill, requiring flawless navigation and consistency. I chose to participate in this class to become more skilled in navigation and race strategy which will improve my chances to win the longer and even more difficult TransOrientale Rally in June and the Dakar 2009 in South America.”
In total, the rally's caravan represents nearly 1,000 people and 350 vehicles. NPO has more than 160 people monitoring the race course, including French, Tunisian, and Libyan rescuers, policemen, and armed forces. Security is overseen by 18 doctors, three helicopters, two planes, four "tango" vehicles, two "friends" rescuers on motorbikes and a medical post. Each competitor will have a satellite system that reports their position at every moment, as well as an anti-collision plan and a direct telephonic link with the PC Course.
Bailey concludes, “I’ve been told the deserts in Libya have cathedral dunes that are the most beautiful in the world. This is particularly exciting since this will be the first time in 27 years the race will enter into Libya. I’m really looking forward to experiencing the Tunisia and Libya terrains. It’s a blessing to be able to do it my way – living adventure. Camping out and sleeping on the desert floor will make it an even more enjoyable experience.”
About the OPIC 2000 Tunisia Rally 2008 Course
The race begins with a quick special section through the streets of Marseilles, France on the evening of April 23rd. The 91 cars, trucks and motorcycles participating will cross the Mediterranean sea by boat, and spend the next days racing on some of the most treacherous and beautiful deserts in Libya and Tunisia. The race will consist of nine sections through two frontier countries: Libya and Tunisia. For the first time in 27 years, the Rally enters Libya for a four-section loop, with some breathtaking, barren landscapes and the famous cathedral dunes. More information can be found at http://www.npo.fr/en/
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With 49 deaths in 29 years, the annual Dakar Rally off-road race has been panned by the Vatican newspaper as “the bloody race of irresponsibility.”
NewYork Times, (December, 27, 2007)
- But each year, Ronn H. Bailey is drawn to it nonetheless. Bailey, the founder and chairman of a software security firm based in Las Vegas that protects sensitive corporate and government computer systems, willingly puts himself at risk to compete in the race.
“Statistically and factually speaking, the Dakar is the longest, the toughest, the most grueling and, no question about it, the most dangerous race in the world,” Bailey said in a recent telephone interview. “It is the only race that I know of that has a human mortality rate associated with it. So yes, it’s very dangerous. But you know, I don’t live in fear.”
Instead, he lives in hope that he will hold his own among the 570 teams, which include many professional drivers. The race will begin Jan. 5 in Lisbon and cover more than 5,700 miles, over sometimes treacherous terrain. The route winds down the western coast of Africa, with competitors finishing Jan. 20 in Dakar, the capital of Senegal.
Bailey expects to be there in the end.
His company, Vanguard Integrity Professionals, counts United States government agencies and banks around the world among its clients. The firm has poured millions of sponsorship dollars into helping the Nascar driver Robby Gordon attempt to become the first American to win the Dakar Rally. In return, Bailey, who has competed on his own the past three years, will race as Gordon’s teammate. Both drivers and their navigators will race in equally prepared Hummers.
“He has a passion,” Gordon said in a telephone interview. “I think all of us want to show testosterone at times, right? And I think Ronn is no different than every successful male that has done well. If it’s offshore powerboat racing, or if it’s off-road racing, or owning a Nascar team, or whatever it may be. Successful businessmen love motorsports as well.
“I think it’s just cool that he likes it this much and that he wants to participate at the level that we’re wanting to participate.”
The goals are different, of course. Gordon is a professional driver who competes for his own Nascar team, Robby Gordon Motorsports; he finished 26th in the Nextel Cup points standings this year. He is also an accomplished off-road racer, and has won the Baja 1000 in Mexico three times.
Gordon finished eighth in last year’s Dakar Rally, and he has a 40-man team at his off-road race shop in Anaheim, Calif., preparing for this year’s event. He is even skipping a critical Nascar test at Daytona International Speedway to make another run at the Dakar Rally.
“Our car is quite a bit better than it was a year ago,” he said. “So I feel very confident in the vehicles. I think we have a legitimate shot at winning this thing.”
For Bailey, who fancies himself an adventurer in the mold of Sir Richard Branson, simply finishing would be a first. He has raced the Dakar Rally three times but has failed to complete it on time. He is certainly not alone. Many competitors are unable to make it through the event, with the Sahara doubling as a junkyard of destroyed vehicles.
In his first attempt at the race, Bailey got lost for three days in a sandstorm in Mauritania in the 2005 Dakar Rally. Last year, he said, he survived a spectacular crash in which his buggy flipped over and was nearly destroyed.
The event’s death toll includes 24 drivers, along with some bystanders and children. Even the race’s founder and organizer, Thierry Sabine of France, died when his helicopter crashed in a sandstorm during the 1986 rally.
None of this dissuades Bailey, who said he was involved in military intelligence in the Air Force in the 1970s. He said that once, for kicks, he rode his motorcycle to the northernmost land mass in the Arctic Circle. On another vacation, he rode from the United States to the Darien Gap in Panama and back.
“You know, I don’t really think I’m any different than guys like Branson,” Bailey said. “There’s a lot of men and, by the way, women, who do these things. And while, statistically, they’re very dangerous — this isn’t the kind of thing people should practice at home kind of stuff — there’s a lot of people that do these things.”
Bailey, 58, said he believed he would be the oldest driver in the Dakar Rally, but he figures to be among the more competitive ones. Gordon has been giving him driving lessons.
“He’s taught me some really good technical skills for driving even better off-road,” Bailey said. “Everyone who’s in the Dakar that are racing against me, they’re going to be not necessarily looking in the rear-view mirror at me this year. They will be perhaps looking in my dust cloud.”
But if Gordon has taught Bailey anything, it is to take it easy and make sure to reach the finish in one piece.
“The gas pedal isn’t a switch; you can slow down,” Gordon said. “Nobody says you have to go crazy every day. So it’s going to be important for me, and Ronn, to use our heads and survive the thing. If Ronn survives, there’s no reason why he can’t finish in the top 10 in the vehicle we built him.”
And in the Dakar Rally, it is all about survival.
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Ronn Bailey takes 3rd both Overall and in Class One in the El Golfo 200.
‘Controlled Chaos’: The Triumph of Control over Chaos
Las Vegas, October 22, 2007. The Ronn Bailey Motorsports Team led by amateur pilot Ronn Bailey, powered 3rd both overall and in Class One in the El Golfo 200 on Saturday, October 13th. The El Golfo 200 course runs over some fifty miles of desert dunes and sand-swept beaches bordering the Sea of Cortez for 4 laps. Sponsored by Pro Desert Racing, the El Golfo 200 began and finished in El Golfo, Sonora, about 90 miles south of Yuma, Arizona.
Ronn Bailey Motorsports is sponsored by Vanguard Integrity Professionals, the world-leader in protection the global data assets of Fortune 1000 organizations. For this weekend Bailey brought with him a five-man team: Research and Development Director Brian Marshall, facilities manager Clark Ferrill, Team Manager and Conference Director Michael Johnson, and two mechanics Jason Papa and Jeremy Witt from the Motorsports team. With only three pit crew hands -- and a single chase vehicle to cover over 200 miles of open desert -- the odds against success were daunting. Ronn Bailey Motorsport’s mechanic, Jeremy Witt was the navigator for the race.
At the start line, the race started in a side by side, drag race style and Ronn Bailey lined up next to the only Trophy Truck in the race. When the green flag dropped the race was on, at 25 yards it was dead even, at 50 yards Ronn started to pull ahead and by 100 yards Ronn had two car lengths on the truck and was still pulling away. By the time the road narrowed to one lane Ronn was more than 8 car lengths ahead of the truck proving the all new LS7 640 horsepower engine upgrade was a change for the better.
Of course, there were other obstacles that had to be overcome -- such as having done a complete engine swap only days before the race with fewer than 20 miles of testing and a recurring shock failure problem. However, with a few late nights with the crew working on fine tuning the class one buggy, The RBM team was ready for the race.
Ronn and his co-pilot/navigator Jeremy, executed precisely to plan, with "no problems and no flats." Ronn Bailey stated, "We launched high in the air, on two wheels" concluded Bailey, "but we were able to keep the car from rolling and just inside the zone of 'controlled chaos'". |
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RONN BAILEY MOTORSPORTS AND A.S.O TEAM UP ON DAKAR 2007
“PENS-FOR-KIDS-TO-LEARN CAMPAIGN”
-- Children Chanting ‘BIC, BIC, BIC’ Inspires Educational Charity Program --
DAKAR RALLY, LISBON, January 6, 2007 – Ronn Bailey Motorsports and A.S.O. (Amaury Sport Organisation) organizers of the Dakar 2007 event, will distribute up to 20,000 pens through schools and village representatives in the 2nd annual “Pens-for-Kids-to-Learn” campaign. The Pens-for-Kids-to-Learn campaign is an educational and humanitarian program conceived by Vanguard Integrity Professionals CEO Ronn Bailey who is participating in the third consecutive Dakar as owner/driver of Ronn Bailey Motorsports. “The campaign was such an outstanding success last year, receiving a warm and heartfelt response from the villagers, town representatives and fellow drivers,” explains Bailey. “I conceived the program after learning what the pack of children that surrounded us each day meant by ‘BIC, BIC, BIC.’ With pens and most education staples in such short supply, I’m happy that the A.S.O. and Ronn Bailey Motorsports are once again able to make a difference with the Pens-for-Kids-to-Learn campaign. Each day, the Dakar rally organizers will set bivouac near an African village or small town. Exhausted race competitors regroup and prepare for the next grueling day. This is a major logistical operation and once again, the A.S.O. mission will tackle this benevolent activity.
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GOODYEAR TIRE SPONSORS RONN BAILEY MOTORSPORTS
IN DAKAR RALLY OFF ROAD RACE
First Sponsorship for Goodyear in the Longest, Most Grueling
Off-Road Competition from Lisbon to Dakar, Senegal
DAKAR RALLY, LISBON, January 4, 2007 – Ronn Bailey MOTORSPORTS today announced that Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is sponsoring the amateur racing outfit in their bid to finish the Lisbon-Dakar 2007 rally, the world’s longest, toughest, and most dangerous off-road race, from January 6-21st 2007. Goodyear has been involved in racing for more than 100 years, and today is the exclusive tire supplier to the fastest growing segment of Motorsports including NASCAR's top three series -- Nextel Cup, Busch Series and Craftsman Truck. Their tires are also used in drag racing, short track dirt and asphalt sports racing as well as Formula SAE. As part of the sponsorship agreement, Goodyear will provide customized tires that have been tested on the Team Buggy in rigorous desert conditions, rocky terrain and slippery sand dunes. The upcoming Dakar will only be the ninth off road race and marks the third attempt at the Dakar for Ronn Bailey, owner/driver of Ronn Bailey Motorsports, and CEO and CTO of Vanguard Integrity Professionals, and his co-pilot, Kevin Heath, the CEO of Electra Motorsports. “It is truly an unusual honor for a world class racing tire company like Goodyear to make an investment in our amateur U.S. team and agree to share their resources, racing know-how and tire technology,” Bailey explains. “Working together, we believe we’ll have a significant edge where the rubber meets the sand, the rocks, the bush -- and the road.” This year, Bailey created Ronn Bailey Motorsports, opening a state-of-the art-racing facility in Boulder City to build a buggy that would be highly competitive and finish the Dakar 2007. Bailey had a successful year racing as he won the Sonora 250 in Mexico, scored third overall in the SouthCoast 250 and Midnight Special evening rally and was solidly in first place during the Caliente 250 before an accident knocked him out of the race. Bailey kicked off the 2006 season with an impressive second place finish in the Buffalo Bills 400. Vanguard Integrity Professionals is the primary sponsor of Ronn Bailey Motorsport for Dakar 2007. |
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'The Phoenix Arises' as Ronn Bailey Motorsports Commences Final Preparations for the Dakar 2007
Recovers From a Near-Quest Ending Crash LAS VEGAS, December, 15 2006
While the Dakar 2007, the world's longest, most grueling, most dangerous off-road race, may seem like risky business for the only two American CEOs, it is "all business" in their third attempt to finish the 29th edition of the Euromilhoes Lisboa-Dakar 2007 rally from January 6-21st 2007.
Ronn Bailey, owner/driver of Ronn Bailey Motorsports, and CEO and CTO of Vanguard Integrity Professionals, will maneuver his custom built Chevy LS7 buggy with his co-pilot and CEO of Electra, Kevin Heath, in the 2007 Dakar.
Just three weeks ago, the racecar with Ronn Bailey as pilot, plunged down the face of a 70' dune in the Mojave Desert -- flipping, crashing, and burning. It was one of the final practices before the car was to be shipped to Paris in final preparation for the Dakar. Though no one was injured, more than 40 percent of the race car was destroyed. The subsequent rebuilding effort, dubbed as 'The Phoenix Arises', was accomplished against all odds and an iron-clad schedule.
For the second year, Dakar competitors will start in Lisbon, Portugal on an arduous 8,696 km. (5,400 miles) course including 5010 km. of timed specials in the fifteen stages. Some 525 teams from 42 different countries will be driving some 250 motorcycles, 187 cars, and 88 trucks. The drivers and bikers will first battle it out during two Specials in Portugal and through Spain. Then they will cross the Mediterranean to Africa, where they will face treacherous dunes, long stretches of harsh, rocky terrain and navigational challenges throughout the stages in Morocco, Mauritania, Mali and Senegal (only 40 percent of entrants will make it to the finish).
This year, Bailey created Ronn Bailey Motorsports, opening a state-of-the art-racing facility in Boulder City to build a buggy that would be highly competitive and finish the Dakar 2007. Outfitted with a LS7 engine, the body is composed of lightweight carbon fiber and Kevlar materials aerodynamically shaped with an enclosed cockpit and gull wing doors. A number of new innovations in design and testing have optimized the car to remain extremely competitive despite debilitating sand dune conditions that comprise much of the race.
While Bailey and his team entered a number of races this year in preparation for the Dakar, they also had an outstanding competitive season against many veteran and professional competitors. Bailey won the Sonora 250 in Mexico, scored third overall in the SouthCoast 250 and Midnight Special evening rally and was solidly in first place during the Caliente 250 before an accident knocked him out of the race. Bailey kicked off the 2006 season with an impressive second place finish in the Buffalo Bills 400.
According to Bailey, "If this past year is any indication of what our race team can achieve and how competitive we are, then we can certainly expect to finish and maybe even score first place in our Class I vehicle category. My co-pilot, Kevin Heath is a veteran Dakar motorcyclist with superb navigation skills, as well as a lifelong endurance sport athlete, so we have a lot of factors in our favor going into this incredible life experience."
Bailey, 58, took a remarkable first step in off road racing by entering the 2005 Dakar having never competed in any off road race, and assembled a car and team in only four months. Although he finished the Dakar race, he was declared "retired" by officials after being lost in a blinding sandstorm without gas or food for three days in Mauritania. In only his third race and second Dakar, in 2006, he actually finished in the twelfth position during Stage 8, passing most of the competitors, only to be disqualified in Stage 9 for missing two checkpoints due to mechanical problems.
Co-pilot Kevin Heath, who lives in San Diego, was forced to withdraw in Stage 7 of the 2006 Dakar, after flipping off his cycle and suffering broken ribs and a compound fracture of his arm. In the 2005 Dakar, mechanical problems and a subsequent run-in with local bandits ended that race effort for Heath.
"Ronn has made great strides over the last three years," Heath explains. "He has shown that he has the heart of a champion and has amply demonstrated that he can race competitively under the most extreme conditions. Dakar is all about navigating, and I'm looking forward to playing that role as Ronn's co-pilot."
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Sonora 500: 'Last to Enter, First to Finish'
October 19, 2006
Ronn Bailey Motorsports took first both in class and overall in the Sonora 500 on Saturday winning the prestigious Mayor's Trophy. The Sonora 500, sponsored by Pro Desert Racing/Grupo Producciones De Mexico, began and finished in San Luis, Sonora, about an hour south of Yuma, Arizona.
"Not bad for a race that wasn’t even on the schedule – or even on the team's radar," said Ronn Bailey, owner and driver of the Ronn Bailey Motorsports. Bailey, who is in the final stages of preparation for his third Dakar Rally, was planning to practice dune racing in the legendary dunes of the Sonora Desert. These dunes are the closest to those found in the Sahara, so Bailey planned to practice on them, both day and night, from Friday to Monday.
This all changed at 2:00 am Saturday morning when an off-hand remark at a local cantina, alerted Bailey to the fact that the Sonora 500 was scheduled to run later that morning (in some six hours to be precise), and that entries were being accepted right up until the mandatory pre-race meeting at 7:15 am.
Bailey's race team is sponsored by Vanguard Integrity Professionals, the long-time leader in information security protecting the global data assets of the world’s Top 1000 organizations and their customers. For this weekend Bailey had brought with him a four-man team consisting of the directors of R&D, Training, Facilities Management, and one fabricator/mechanic from the Motorsports team. With only three pit crew hands --and a single chase vehicle to cover over 500 kilometers of open desert-- the odds were overwhelmingly against success. Team Vanguard’s mechanic set in as navigator for the race.
There were other obstacles that had to be overcome, of course, such as having neither fire suits nor fuel, rather mandatory items to running the race. So the race to find these necessities was on. Fortunately, both were found and procured; however only two cans of fuel were available (secured after the race had already begun), which critically impacted the race strategy.
At the Start Line, Ronn Bailey lined up last, since one’s starting position was based on a lottery held the previous evening. It wasn’t long before Bailey raced out in front of every competitor from every class. The two 150-mile long laps went all the way down to the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez) and back to the starting point. Race management had concluded that they would see the fastest of the competitors making ‘the turn’ in about 3:00 hours. You can image how they were taken aback when Ronn Bailey made ‘the turn’ at 2 hours and fourteen minutes!
Ronn and his co-pilot/navigator Jason, executed precisely to plan, with "no problems and no flats." They even masterly handled the high man-made berms that appeared near the Gulf shore. "We launched high in the air," concluded Bailey, "but we were always where we expected to be, in the zone of 'controlled chaos'". However, danger was always lurking. Emergency services were provided by Cruz Roja of Mexico, though helicopter traffic was not allowed in the entire State of Sonora.
A bit of excitement occurred at the final pit stop. As they were beginning to fill the tank, the pit crew saw Ronn’s closest competitor pull into his designated pit area. Not wanting to allow the competitor any chance to jump ahead, Ronn was waved out by his crew back onto the track. The strategy paid off, but barely. Ronn crossed the finish line well ahead of his competitor, of course. But when the crew tried to load the car onto the trailer, it wouldn’t start.
It seems like Ronn Bailey had crossed the finish line, literally, on fumes.
Ronn said "This race proves "heart" is core to success. Yes proper planning and preparation are essential and needed, but in the end it is the heart-of-team that carries you through the checker flag."
On Sunday, Ronn received the race’s highest honor, the Mayor’s Trophy, on the steps of the City Hall in San Luis. In a heart-felt acceptance speech Bailey donated all the winnings to the needy children and families of San Luis, a charitable organization run by the Mayor’s wife.
Immediately after the ceremony was over Ronn and his crew got back on track and spent the next two days and nights practicing for Dakar in the sand dunes of Sonora. |
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SNORE Southcoast 250: Ronn Bailey Motorsports Garners Third Place
October 10, 2006
The Ronn Bailey Motorsports team nailed a Third Place in both Class 1 and Overall in the SNORE Southcoast 250 race last Saturday despite the occurrence of a 'suspension issue' early in the race on the rocky, hilly course.
Ronn Bailey, owner/driver of the Ronn Bailey Motorsports, maintained his 3rd place position consistently throughout the race but was forced to slow down once the suspension issue occurred and then had to endure the suddenly jarring ride for more than three hours. Nevertheless, Bailey and his navigator, Kevin Heath, persevered to finish just behind two veteran competitors who have been racing the Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts (SNORE) circuit for decades. This was the first time Bailey and Heath have co-piloted a race.
Heath, a former IRONMAN tri-athlete and two-time Dakar motorcycle veteran observed, "Ronn displayed an impressive set of driving skills, especially with the mechanical failure, which most other drivers would find impossible to handle. In the brief time he's been racing, Ronn has learned to drive aggressively, but always in control. He doesn't take dangerous chances. His control and reaction time are both excellent and his instincts are those of a seasoned off-road veteran with many years experience."
The Southcoast 4x60 mile lap race caps a brief, but impressive U.S. off-road racing debut for Bailey, who is also CEO and CTO of Vanguard Integrity Professionals, the long-time leader in security for critical infrastructure computing. In three U.S. races, he earned two second place finishes and was running in first place in the Caliente 250 before a serious crash caused by another competitor knocked him out of first place and the race. In total, Bailey has entered only seven races, in the U.S., Morocco, and two trips to the ultimate off road-race, the Dakar Rally.
"We entered these U.S. road races to give our newly formed team the chance to practice working together in preparation for the 29th Dakar Rally in January. The Dakar is known worldwide as the most dangerous and grueling sports event," Bailey said. "With this last race successfully behind us, we're now focused on training, testing the car and making final preparations to be a serious contender representing the USA, in the 2007 Dakar Rally." |
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Ronn Bailey Finishes Second in the Buffalo Bill's 400 Off Road Race April 21, 2006
Vanguard Integrity Professionals, Inc., the world's leading developer of security management software, consulting services, and training programs for IBM's System z (Mainframe computers) and Ronn Bailey MOTORSPORTS announced today that Ronn Bailey finished second in the S.N.O.R.E. Buffalo Bill's 400 off-road race. Mr. Bailey is a two-time participant in the Dakar Rally, which is considered to be the most dangerous off road race in the world. To prepare for the Dakar 2007 race scheduled for January 2007 Ronn Bailey MOTORSPORTS will be competing in several southwestern United States and Baja, Mexico off road races. The Buffalo Bill's 400 was the first domestic off road race and the first of several races that Mr. Bailey plans to compete in. The five-lap 400 mile race took Bailey over what is reported to be some of the toughest terrain in Nevada, testing the skills and endurance of the driver, team, and the racing equipment. Mr. Bailey's times for laps 2, 3, and 4 were faster than the race winners, closing a nearly thirty minute gap to only nine minutes at the end of lap 4. Unfortunately, two flat tires in the final lap cost over ten minutes, putting Mr. Bailey nineteen minutes behind the leader for a second place finish.
"We chose the Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiast (S.N.O.R.E). Buffalo Bill's 400 race to be our first American race for a number of reasons. It was the first off road racing association in America, about as old as Dakar. It's a non-profit organization ran by volunteers. We like that spirit and wanted to show our support. We will now join the other dominant organizations (SCORE and Best of the Desert) continuing our training in the Mexican Baja races and others." stated Mr. Bailey, CEO of Vanguard Integrity Professionals, Inc. and owner/driver of Ronn Bailey MOTORSPORTS.
"Our goal was to gain experience and simply finish the race", stated Team Manager Michael Johnson. "It was our first race with the Class-1 Porter buggy, preparation was rushed. We had some problems with the torque converter and honestly didn't know if we would even finish. My instruction to Ronn was to not try and win, just get to know the buggy and bring it home. Our team and race results exceeded expectations, we finished and took second place as well"
Ronn Bailey MOTORSPORTS next race is scheduled for May 19-20, the Caliente 250, in Caliente, Nevada. |
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