A little back story to the train wreck leading up to the race. With striking an agreement to have BJ Baldwin race the 4471 in the 2010 KOH, i knew my time to do major rework to the car to both make it more comfortable for someone over 5′10, but to also help improve it’s offroad performance time was limited. So i used the time between Offroad Expo and Henderson to do that, because BJ would be very busy with preparing for the Baja 1000.

With seeing the level of work Shaffer’s Offroad did to Jason Scherer’s car, and how well it performed afterwards, the decision was obvious who I wanted to oversee the work!

With being as far along as we possibly could be a week before the race, waiting on some very specific key part’s to arrive via the brown truck, we were becoming pressed for time to be ready. Talks of withdrawing from the race came up, but knowing what the bigger picture was, if we could just start the race, we pushed forward. Read more »