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

[vincent9993]

More detail info from Lori-Ann! Thanks for the update.

Good Morning Vincent,

I spoke with Mike last night. The tow'd got to Lareto about 9pm and are having some clutch issues again. The Manxter was still missing at that time. The teams were waiting for race control to locate but they arrived under their own power around 10:45pm. All personnel is accounted for.

Stage 3 line up:
Andrew and Mike are back in #166 the Tow'd and their start time is 0950 MTN.
Brad and Paul are back in #00 Manxter and start time is 1005 MTN

Mike said it "should " be a shorter day today.
I'll let you know what I hear along the way.

--Bruce's buggy is already on the trailer with an "oil" issue so they were riding with the Dinkels. Then something went wrong with their car. Didn't get any more info regarding that one yet but I guess they got it fixed because they all made it back to the hotel last night.

Lori Ann

[vincent9993]

They're off on the 1st Special of the day. 71 miles to go over the mountains.



Unfortunately, I've come up dry in terms of pictures. None of the media channels had any pictures of Team Meyers Manx... Perhaps they were too quick for them.

[vincent9993]

I have to wonder, could this be Mike Dario holding the funnel? No wonder he's busy, he's been helping out the competition!

[vincent9993]

Got a short clip of Team DS leaving Salidas Carros Santo Tomas

FF to 12:05
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQDZQpjRkgA[/youtube]

Still looking for team Tow'd in that clip but does not appear to be in order as posted...

[vincent9993]

Just got an update from Graham

I got this message from Andrew 2 hours ago

Both cars had slipping clutchs and the Tow'd's clutch is not real flash again so motor back out again, all the big teams just astounded what we have done so far

Stay tuned...

[vincent9993]

Looks like Team Tow'd is less than 10 miles from the end of the 1st special! Fantastic driving boys!

[vincent9993]

Woohoo! Team Tow'd has made it to the start of the 2nd and last Special of the day!



Unfortunately, Team DS' tracking is still stuck and we can't know for sure where they are...

[vincent9993]

Mark just texted Lori-Ann and said the Tow'd just took off and is headed on the 2nd off road section doing great !!!

Unreal!

[vincent9993]

Can you believe that they're only 70 miles behind Robby Gordon?! ...And Robby started much earlier than them!

[rich.roy.9]

Thats crazy


Ride on

[vincent9993]

Let's not forget that those 2 cars were built in 3 weeks... and started as a pile of steel...


[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... 1vcZ5ucJjA[/youtube]

[vincent9993]

Stacy Smith dug up a few more pictures from the Interweeb

[aBuggymom1]

Photo credit Baja Dust Photography

[vincent9993]

After a brief break at RM 237, Team Tow'd is heading south again towards La Paz at 30mph. They have less than 60 miles to go.

[RedBaronofRedBud]

Go Tow'd!!