Torchmate Racing Mike Shaffer Takes on Best in the Desert Bilek Silver State 300

RENO, NV     APRIL 27, 2011   Mike Shaffer will compete in Class 1000 at the Best in the Desert Bilek Silver State 300 race this weekend.  Representing Torchmate Racing, Shaffer will start 9th in Class 1000 in car number 1066. The BITD Bilek Silver State 300 starts in Alamo, Nevada, a tiny town on Hwy 93 about 95 miles north of Las Vegas. The Aliante Casino & Resort is host to this race and will be home to tech and inspection on Friday morning before the race.  
The race winds through some of the most beautiful desert Nevada has to offer. However beautiful it may be, it will provide for some hairy situations with terrain for a very challenging race. The weather will be a Springy 80 degrees with wind to clear the course of dust, or reek havoc depending on the direction.
Shaffer-Motorsports is competing with the Torchmate 10 car for the entire BITD series, so the plan is, above all, to finish. "We will be running with a bit more reserve than the "test our limits" plan we had for Mint400," Daniel said, "but this still is a race and we will be aiming for the podium."  Shawn added, "we will also be using this race as a preparedness test for our chase teams, we want to be at 100% for race such as the Vegas to Reno and the Baja 1000, where this will play a major role for a good finish."
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More about Mike Shaffer:  Mike Shaffer is the owner of Shaffer’s Offroad that helps customers build the vehicle of their choice, from bolt on accessories to custom one off vehicles.  Shaffer has been racing for 27 years, starting with BMX and then age 16 in drag racing and his first desert race was fourteen years ago.  Shaffer was driver of record for 3 Baja 1000 wins, 3 SCORE Championships and one BITD Championship in Class 1700, along with rock crawling National Championship and ARCA Championship. 

More about Shawn Twitchell: Shawn Twitchell started desert racing motorcycles in 1972, went to drag racing in the 1980's, circle track in the 1990's and is now back in the desert driving with Shaffer Motorsports.  He has been a member of Shaffer Motorsports team since 2008 helping win three SCORE 1700 Championships. Twitchell is the Business Unit Manager for FMC Technologies’ Technisys Group and has been married for 30 years to Vickie.  Desert racing is in their family encompassing four generations including his son Ian, who will co-drive for Shawn. Two of seven grandkids are already earning their stripes in the pits and at the shop.

More about Daniel Aeberli: Daniel Aeberli is the CTO of Meditron, a Swiss medical distribution company that he co-founded 20 years ago in Switzerland.  He raced with the Shaffer Motorsport team in 2010 helping them win SCORE Primm in Class 1700.  Aeberli drove the first section of the 2010 SCORE Baja 1000 and is looking forward to coming back to the United States to race in BITD including Vegas to Reno and SCORE Baja 1000.  Active in many sports, he especially enjoys skiing and hangliding in Switzerland.