We had left for San Felipe a week early to get some valuable per-running in. As we would be making a drivers changes, with separate sections to pre-runners we managed to cover the entire course, up to three times, during the first three days. I did manage to get stuck with our new per-runner but had the pleasure of being help by Cameron Steele and Jesse Jones , now how cool is that, thanks again guys.
Shaffer-Motorsports Wins Class 4 SCORE San Felipe 250
OAKLAND, CA MARCH 13, 2012 Shaffer-Motorsports car #401 won the San Felipe 250 in Class 4 last weekend in Baja, Mexico. After a long week of prerunning and a 24 hour turn around to the US for a rebuilt transaxle, the team made the mad dash to the finish line with only 12 minutes separating them from second. “It was quite a race. From being down at the half way point, then making a great pass at RM194 for the lead, then watching Daniel put some time on them, we just focused on keeping the sprint up,” said Mike Shaffer, driver of record and owner of Shaffer’s Offroad.
Photo Credit: Art Eugenio
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Shaffer-Motorsports Will Race SCORE San Felipe 250 this Weekend
OAKLAND, CA MARCH 9, 2012 Shaffer-Motorsports car #401 will be racing in the SCORE San Felipe 250 this weekend. With the addition of title sponsor Transfer Case Express, the Shaffer-Motorsports black, red and white car is still focused on the SCORE Class 4 Championship. “All the pre-running has gone well this week. We have all ran our sections 3 times, but those San Felipe whoops are still a killer,” said Mike Shaffer, driver of record and owner of Shaffer’s Offroad. “We spent three hours shock tuning to adjust to making it smoother, but I don’t think anything can really soak those up.”
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Shaffer-Motorsports Finishes 2nd at SCORE Season Openers
OAKLAND, CA JANUARY 19, 2012 Shaffer-Motorsports team car #401 finished second on both Saturday and Sunday at the SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge. The team debuted the new black, red and white look for the 2012 season including the addition of title sponsor Transfer Case Express while still being supported by Torchmate CNC Cutting Systems. “We had fun even though we had to pull a motor out on Saturday after running with no clutch during the whole race,” said Mike Shaffer, driver of record. “The wheel to wheel action that was also nose to tail made for a very exciting race to drive, and then it was even cooler that we got to watch all the other classes when we weren’t racing.”
Mike Shaffer was driving the race on Saturday when the clutch went out, Continue reading
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TCE 401 Car Opens Season in Laughlin
OAKLAND, CA JANUARY 11, 2012 Shaffer-Motorsports team car #401 will be competing in the entire SCORE International Racing Series in 2012. With the addition of title sponsor Transfer Case Express, the Shaffer-Motorsports black, red and white car will be focused on the SCORE Class 4 Championship. “When we were deciding on our season we agreed that we loved racing in Baja, so opted to focus all our efforts on the SCORE series in hopes of coming out with a championship,” said Mike Shaffer, driver of record and owner of Shaffer’s Offroad. “This will be our second season with this car and I feel
we get more and more confident of its capabilities after each race and all our testing and tuning sessions.” Continue reading
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Meet Shaffer-Motorsports 2012 Sponsors!
We’re very excited to be welcoming back Transfer Case Express (TCE), this year TCE stepped-up as our Primary sponsor! In 2011 TCE stepped in mid-season and became a invaluable partner for our Vegas to Reno and our Baja 1000 race effort.
We’re also very excited to be welcoming back ALL of our long term sponsors, Torchmate CNC Systems, BF Goodrich Tires, Ruffstuff Specialties, PSC performance Steering and Shaffer’s Offroad. Torchmate has been showing their continuous support as a primary or main sponsor for 5 years and BF Goodrich Tires, they are our longest standing sponsor, they have been with us 10 years!
Returning for 2012 is Advanced Air Systems, aka POWERTANK , they had been valuable sponsor for Shaffer-Motorsports in 2002 through 2007. We look forward to having their invaluable help back within our team.
We wish you all a winning 2012 !
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Shaffer-Motorsports to race SCORE class 4 for 2012 Season
After several post season discussions, Team Shaffer Motorsports has opted for racing to win the season championship with SCORE in 2012. We will complement the SCORE season schedule with race with BITD, MORE and possibly other.
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Shaffer-Mortorsports on BITD podium after Henderson 250
OAKLAND, CA DECEMBER 5, 2011 Shaffer-Motorsports team raced car #1066 at the TransWest Ford Henderson 250 this week end, thereby securing third place in “Best In The Desert” for the season!
This was a very important race to many competitors battling for those final points to take home a Class Championship for the “Best In The Desert” (BITD) 2011 season. The racing was incredible due to the number of vehicles so close in the points race for the Continue reading
Shaffer-Motorsports Finishes 2nd in 2011 Baja 1000
OAKLAND, CA NOVEMBER 29, 2011 Torchmate Racing Shaffer-Motorsports team car #401 finished second in class, for their first apprearance at the 2011 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000, after completing 705 miles through the most grueling terrain in Baja with only 10 minutes separating them from the leader.
Beside Daniel’s driver seat report below, complete race reports Continue reading
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2011 Baja 1000 from the driver’s seat.
by Daniel Aeberli
My Baja adventure started two weeks
before the race when I flew into Oakland, CA to help with final car prep. A week before the race, we drove down to Ensenada and discovered the wash filled bank to bank with water! We hoped it would drain, worse case we though the start/finish would be relocated.
We spent the next three days pre-running the course. The lesson learned was that good offroad vehicles, even with 37′s, do not necessarily make for good pre-runners. The vehicles were great, but with the extra gear and people it made for slow progress. Having said that, I had a blast pre-running, here we were out in the middle of nowhere wheeling with some friends through beautiful and challenging terrain…it doesn’t get much better that that.
On race day I was assigned to Start duties with John, Adam and Hugo. We waited through the re-start of the Trophy Trucks, watched Mike in the Torchmate 401 take off and then Continue reading
