Day three, Puebla to Queretaro,

Carnage. It is the only way to describe yesterday. Following a three and a half hour transit, we started what was a well known and well publicized verydangerousspeed stage. It was high speed, downhill, always a cliff on one side, rough pavement, gravel covered 27 kilometer speed stage. We were all warned; the route book the navigator uses to call the speed stage for the driver had adequate warnings of the dangerous parts. All very clear.

Let me set the stage. The faster cars go first. The stage started of with about 250 yards downhill into a left 1 (downhill left 1 you might have to slow a bit after 250 yards). From there it was down hill to a quick short left then 250 yards down hill to a "left 3! Danger mortal" too fast and went off the cliff, one on top of another. They ended up about 120 feet down, stacked up. The only injury was a broken hip. Several other cars spun out and hit the guardrail until they stopped the speed stage. Then, about half way through the stage another car got out of shape at a very high speed and plunged off a 1000 ft cliff but stopped about 300 feet down and caught on fire. The people surf.ived with only bumps and scratches. Finally, a Porsche lost it and went off a huge cliff and was stopped a few hundred feet down by trees. After seeing the first five cars, I dialed it back a bit. We. We're doing well, cautious where we should be when the gas pedal fell off. It mounts on a splined share and is retained by a set screw and the set screw backed out. No probe, we pulled off and secured it well enough to complete the stage and get to service. Our time suffered greatly, as once we stopped we took all the safety measures before I looked at the problem. Made it to service, Fixed the gas pedal and we were off to the afternoon speed stages. They were fast, with no problems.

Today we are off to Morelia; my personal favorite. The car has been great, no release bearing issues like last year. (Jackie, it is still as smooth as silk).

Looks like the problem in the speed stage cost us big.
Thats all for now.
Kev