Saturday, October 29, 2011

Ding Dong the Bell finishes La Carrera 2011


Its Friday afternoon in Zacatecas an incredibly beautiful old Spanish mining town. To be honest I have felt better. We are all exhausted. No one has had more than a few hours hours sleep for the last week and everyone has been surviving on ham and cheese sandwiches and the occasional beer. We have had a good couple of days with the old girl getting the better of a few Prosche 911's and some big American V8's. We are kicking ourselves about the penalty's we picked up earlier in the week as we would have been better placed with the good solid times we have been putting in, that would be endurance racing then wouldn't it? We had the after race party last night in a bull ring complete with fireworks, singing and vast amounts of drink. We celebrated finishing, we celebrated our safe arrival and we celebrated with friends new and old... The race is over and against quite substantial odds team 304 pulled it off. We made it, and more than that we did it with some style and a lot of laughs. I am extremely proud of being a part of team 304. We have done what some teams with big trucks, mechanics and massive resources couldn’t do, we have raced the Carrera and finished it.

Thank you Richard for keeping so cool called calling so well, every time. I don't know how you do it.

Good work with the spanners lads and sorry…


In conclusion I would like to thank…

Richard, Faela, Roz, Nick, Tony, Darrell, Jim, Elizabeth, Matthew, Sue, DFS, CIE, Olive, Derek Watson and his boys, friends and family and everyone else who has made this possible.



2013 anyone?



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Some Video....



Below is the penultimate stage of the 2011 La Carrera (I think, R will have to confirm this) the Bell was suffering with suspension, brake and engine issues after 7 days of abuse but she still pulled in excess of 130Mph. The video doesn’t do justice to the heart stopping sheer drops. As you can see we didn’t press our luck…




This is the infamous Mil Cumbres. We did a number of stages through there, is this is one of them. The changes from shade to bright sunshine are challenging, there are big camber changes and climbs and little room for error. We both loved it. The Jag was a crowd pleaser through the tight sections being sideways most of the time, the best road in the world? Probably.



1 comment:

  1. That Mil Cumbres is something else! Now on my 'to do' list for sure.

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