How exciting, at the tender age of 60 this is my first blog, and it's all about the infamous La Carrera Panamericana - the totally non PC road race from the bottom to the top of Mexico.
Simon Jefferies, my Co Driver, and I leave from Heathrow on Monday morning to fly to Mexico City, we will be accompanied by our old pal Rupert Clevely who will be joining our Belgian friend Marc Devis in Mexico city, and after a good nights sleep we will all fly down to Tuxla on tuesday morning to meet the other members of our driving team, they are John Gross and martin Mc Glone - also from the UK and the 6 of us make up The Mule Team.
Simon and I did this event last year as rookies, and we sprang a big surprise on the establishment, we were leading Historics by a massive margin and had the class win in the bag plus a fourth place overall untill I made an error and plonked our trusty Mustang GT 350 R off the stage and over the edge.
Luckily there were large trees to prevent our descent, and we suffered very little damage, apart that is, to our pride as we lost our lead and finished 6th overall and second in class.
At the time we were both gutted, and so were the team lead by our Guru Todd Landon, who had worked so hard to not only build and prepare the car, but to keep it flying during the event.
So - here we are back again to see if we can go one better.
Todd and his gang are leaving as I write this, wednesday 15th October, for the massive road trip from Minnesota all the way down to the bottom of mexico, and we expect to meet up on Tuesday 28th in Tuxla, so i will file a report when we arrive.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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