Official NORRA 2015 MEXICAN 1000 thread (April 25-29)

[PowersBuggies]

Us New Englanders need to get to try a little offroading like that!

[rich.roy.9]

Sounds good to me


Ride on

[vincent9993]

Here's another picture of the Manxter #00 from day 1

[vincent9993]

I get goose bumps listening to the young lad's comments. You have to watch this!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fdqDQA8hUY[/youtube]

[manxvair]

Good morning from La Paz race fans. 1 more day to go, we'll give the buggies some love and head out for the final stages of this adventure, it's been incredible. The video clip Vincent posted was going into a wash about 1/4 mile before the end of the 2nd special, they were testing you all the way to the end. The Tow'd barely fit along that fence line on the up hill side, fortunately that silver truck took out the fence to give the Manxter enough room. When it comes to the silt, try to imagine driving through 3' of talcom powder while having your head buried in a bowl of chocolate pudding, you don't want to stop and you just wait to hit something because you have little to no control of the steering. Thanks for following our journey, we'll try to get some pictures up in the next day or 2.

[abgiles]

Thank you all so much for sharing all of this with us cubicle jockeys!

[vincent9993]

We received (possibly a delayed message) from Paul...

Got these messages from Paul. Not sure the timing as it's the first I've heard from him since the start of the race

Yeah Manxter still going transponder wasn't working and it broke down and we lost it for about 12h

They bought a thermofan off a farmer's atv cuz the alternators reg died pumped out 17v and killed the fan they had beers with some police while broken then came across the stage end at about midnight

Normal Mexican expectations I guess!

[vincent9993]

Lori-Ann got some more details from the boys on the ground

start time 10:48 #00 D- Chris, N-Buck, switching half way

start time 10:55 #166-D - Jon, MIke, Mark & Andrew switching after each stage, Andrew and Mark to cross the finish line.

I will let you know if I hear anything else

Lori Ann

[vincent9993]

Team Tow'd #166 are on their way to the start of today's 1st Special.

[rich.roy.9]

Ride on

[vincent9993]

The penalties have also been updated...

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Team Tow'd #166
16 M Late at D1TC2   0:16:00
3 M Late at D2TC3    0:03:00
Speeding at ENDD3 	0:25:20

Caught speeding...

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Team DS #00
3 M Late at D2TC3   0:03:00
20 M Late at ENDD2  0:20:00
20 M Late at D3TC2  0:20:00
2 M Late at ENDD3   0:02:00

Team DS much more disciplined!

[rzeller]

The penalties have also been updated...

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Team Tow'd #166

Speeding at ENDD3 	0:25:20

Caught speeding...

I'll bet it was that Dario guy. You know those Californians have a lead foot.

[LADTOWD]

The #166 Tow'd has just entered the 1st "special" GO TEAM GO !!!

[vincent9993]

Woohoo! Team Tow'd #166 has only 10 miles to go on today's 1st Special! Average speed of 26.4mph! Robby Gordon's average speed was 27.6!

[rich.roy.9]

Thats crazy


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