High tide put our La Raza pre-run in the ocean

The course runs along the beach. The tide was in. So Mark Workentine and I did the only thing left to do. We drove through the ocean.

There is no good way to explain that to a chase truck. There is no good way to explain it to yourself, either.

That was one of the smoother moments of the week.

Mark and I pre-ran the RECORD La Raza 200 course in San Quintín on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We own the #55 together and split the driving in Clase Abierta, each of us with our own co-drivers.

The desert started collecting early. Mark had fuel pump issues. Mark had a flat. I broke a ball joint on the Fast 'N Dirty prerunner. And then, because the week apparently wasn't finished with us, the brakes went out on my chase truck.

If you've never lost brakes on a chase truck, I don't recommend adding it to the list.

Everything got fixed. We completed every pre-run. Three days, two of us, and the course got seen the whole way through. Overall, it was a great pre-run.

None of this happens without our team. We appreciate every one of them more than a few lines on a page can say.

That's the part nobody puts on a T-shirt. Pre-running is where you find out what breaks before it breaks on race day. This week, the answer was a little bit of everything.

Tech is Friday. The cars start Saturday at noon. The La Raza 200 runs through Sunday.

We're ready. And I have a brand new respect for tide charts.