Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Aguascalientes

We arrived in Aguascalientes last evening. Some cars are sporting scars but most are still looking good.

We moved up to 39th. We do well on the downhill sections where driving skills are paramount and not so well on the uphill sections where our small power to weight ratio slows us down.

A Jaguar XKE that came a little too close to a rock wall.


Phinix with some of its competitors. The yellow car on the right is a Facel Vega, a French car that was not imported into the US.


With all the crowds it's really hard to get pictures of just the cars. This Lamborghini is an exhibition car supplied by Fiat, one of the race sponsors.

Even though the roads are closed for the Special sections you still have to be careful. We've come around corners to find Burros, Cows, downed trees, and rocks. But the worst are the photographers. You round the bend and there's one standing right in the middle of the road intending to snap a picture and run, but you don't know which way he will run or when. Some of them leave their cameras in the road and dart out to click the shutter and dart back.