Jason Blanton #966. My KOH Story

[bnsfab]

Jason Blanton & Nick Desimone #966
King of the Hammers 2012-

What a year it was. Full of stress, dust and patience. Our journey started on Sat the 4th. We finally arrived at the lake bed and set up our camp wedging all of our rigs & gear into our slot. This was the 1st year I have been there were it was so busy the Sat before the race. We finished off our trip down with a late night wheeling excursion up Back Door and Resolution.

Sunday came and we realized we could not pre run so we decided to do shock tuning. We found a whooped out section to try our luck at tuning shocks. We made a couple passes and did some adjusting. On our last run of the day we hit some bad chop sending us sideways then into a multiple rotational barrel roll. The funny thing was that we didn

 

[boxboy]

Nice write up! thanks for sharing sounds like a good time! :awesomework::cool:

 

[TreeClimber]

Great write up.
Have you figured out what happened to the steering?

And WOOHOO on the finish. Ya did great!

 

[bnsfab]

Steering fluid overheated and took out the orbital. Time for a oil radiator!

 

[zukkev]

Cool story! Congrats on finishing 21st!!! :awesomework:

 

[Dovetail96]

Congrats Jason. Very respectable finish and a great story. Let me know if you want to go wheeling anytime if my junk will drive after that beating.

 

[TreeClimber]

Congrats Jason. Very respectable finish and a great story. Let me know if you want to go wheeling anytime if my junk will drive after that beating.

Congrats on your finish also. Good job!

 

[War-Jeeper]

Thats awesome Jason congrats big time!

 

[The Mud Addict]

:awesomework: Congrats :awesomework: I am SLOWLY putting your old Bronco II back together:redneck:

 

[Binder]

Nice job!....I think I saw you guys on I-5 Sunday.....

 

[crash2]

Thanks for sharing.

Love watching people change and mature into something cool :awesomework:

 

[Boonie Buster]

BNS FAB = :cool:

Great to see you local bums doing well! Focused. :awesomework:

 

[wheelinjp]

great write-up and super accomplishment. from never finishing to 21st place is spectacular. nice work.

 

[crapyota]

congrats!!!! the rig looks bad ass

 

[Trevor]

Congrats Jason and Crew! Glad to see you finally get across that finish line.

 

[sarg]

congrads Jason and crew:awesomework: hard work does pay off and beer taste good:redneck:

 

[Mrblue]

What a week! 3rd times a charm....and think back to the 1st year when we went to Lil riches pit strategy meeting and realized we were very unorganized and unprepared. Radios this year worth every penny:awesomework:

BLANTON RACING has hit its groove:beer:

 

[Jeepless]

NIce work Jason and Crew!

 

[London Gentleman]

Good story and congrats on the finish! The buggy looks pretty sweet!

 

[Jason C]

21'st :awesomework: *****in finish guys... :cool:

 

[Not Jobless]

Nice dude :cool:

 

[dobber]

Awesome rig, good job:awesomework:

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[bnsfab]

Thank guys. It was quite an accomplishment for us. Thanks for sharing the great pics! Hopefully we keep finishing races this season.

 

[bnsfab]

Official times released yesterday. I moved up to 20th place qualifying me for the 2013 KOH!

 

[crapyota]

Official times released yesterday. I moved up to 20th place qualifying me for the 2013 KOH!

way to go!!:beer:

 

[TreeClimber]

Official times released yesterday. I moved up to 20th place qualifying me for the 2013 KOH!

Congrats! Looks like Casey's move cost him, and benefits you!

 

[War-Jeeper]

Official times released yesterday. I moved up to 20th place qualifying me for the 2013 KOH!

Hell Yeah!!!:cheer::cool:

 

[crash2]

Very cool Jason...