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05-26-2006 #1Registered User
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Mexican Road Race
Has anyone been here?
www.theunlimitedclass.com
La Carrera Panamericana, traditionally an event for historic cars, has been opened up to modern cars.
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05-26-2006 #2Starting The Transformation- Join Date
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Open road racing in mexico sounds scary. It's bad enough doing baja in a truck with massive bumpers, huge tires etc. But in a car at 180mph.... I dunno about that one
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I've raced in the off-road events in Baja for many years on a bike, so.......... a road race in Mexico doesn't seem that spooky! They've got hot rod Lincolns and Studebakers down there that have been hitting 180 for the last ten years, so I can't imagine a Porsche or a Ferrari are going to change the picture very much. Hey, speaking of 180- sounds like maybe you have something that goes 180?!!
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Originally Posted by Slider
I dunno, after going through some of the baja stuff, thats what scares me. Silver State is bad enough with the birds and what not, don't need to come around a corner at 200+ and find a cow in the road.
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Yeah I'm with you there. Cows at speed are not a good thing. I've run it pretty hard all my life and kind of go with the philosophy "when it's your time, it's your time". I was pre running in Baja one time and had a head on in a blind corner with a 2-seater Buggy going backwards on the course. I wadded my bike on the front of their car, took out the windshield and one of the "A" pillars with my body, and landed some distance off the road out in a rockpile. 3 days later I was racing (not without a few pain killers I must admit). Anyway.....I guess my point is that if you really enjoy whatever it is you are doing, the danger aspect is a non issue.
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Looks like a cool race. I saw Boxster hit a deer at 120-130 MPH yesterday at a race track in GA - it was ugly - especially for the deer. 180 MPH in a Stude or 50's Lincoln
2002 Z06 and 1999 FRC Corvette current track cars in NASA TT. 1978 Nova g-machine running the road with the weathered paint look...
05-29-2006 #7Registered User- Join Date
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I don't think a deer would be much of a match for a 50's Lincoln at any speed. Maybe more like a hippopotamus.
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some day i plan to race in mexico.... once the camaro has the bugs worked out ill be there. I hear its smart to have a vehicle that can run on crappy gas? any one know any thing about this?
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I saw that guy posed with a porsche in some car rag the other day... he was walking with a cane and the porsche was beyond totalled.
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I've been playing down in Mexico and Baja all my life, and 15 years ago it was a bit touch and go with their fuel. The main problem being that "Premium" (92 octane) was not readily available everywhere. If all you could find was "Magna Sin" (86 octane), you better have some boost ready if you had any compression at all! Nowadays the Premium is pretty much everywhere, and I find it actually behaves better than the fuels we have in California here, as it doesn't have all the oxidizers and other BS to make it more environmentaly friendlier.
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Matt
Maybe he hit a cow. LOL
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so the 92 is better then all the other cat piss thats available down there? well thats good because my engine can run on that im sure
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Rob
I had a 9.5-1 smallblock chevy that made almost 600 horsepower on the dyno down there running on Pemex Premium with no problems at all. I know there is no lead in their fuels anymore, but the tailpipe would turn that beautiful light grey/orange just like if you were running race fuel. But yeah, it does stink.
05-30-2006 #14A local guy has done it two years in a row with a 53 Stude - in fact, he's the guy I bought my Stude from...... Anyway, from his account, some of the roads are on par / better than the US. Through some of the larger towns where they run all out the roads are 4-lanes paved w/ no crown. What an adventure though! Would love to put a car together to do it!
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my cars back under the knife getting some major change and i think it would be a good car for mexico. A black car must get hot down there though. better bring the gatorade
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does any body have any information on some proven setups that race? also what kind of medical attention do the drivers get if they wreck?
05-31-2006 #17Originally Posted by RobM
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