Of course, this was not during officially sanctioned driving time, so we were dealing with traffic on the toll road (a few cars and trucks, a couple of goats and a pedestrian or two) some fans at the toll booth, and other La Carrera drivers on the qualifying zone.
Yes, fans.
People in Mexico LOVE this event. We got to the toll booth and found the right lane blocked. A bunch of at the tool booth waved us forward into the coned off area. They started taking pictures by the car, asking questions, and for post cards. (See the post from a few days ago). We've been handing out post cards like mad. Yesterday we had an autograph session at the baseball stadium -- it was weird. Right now, there's some MExican kid with a picture of my GT3 on his wall.
ANYWAY, the qualifying route is highly technical. It's on the side of a mountain. Without a guard rail. At very high speeds. The road is smooth. Like, freshly paved Watkin's Glen smooth. And banked. Like, seriously banked. Like, if these roads were in the US people would be scared to drive on them banked. We passed a few La Carrera cars on the side of the road... slowing to make sure they were ok, of course.
Needless to say, it was a ridiculous amount of fun.
No photos today, but I did make this in-car video for your amusement. We're still working out the audio in the car, but I doubt it'll improve much in the speed sections.
Thursday is qualifying. And if you have not heard, there's a live GPS in the car that you can watch on the Internet. Tune in tomorrow around 5:30 PM New York time and you can see some dots move on a map. I think. As soon as I get my qualifying time, I'll post it up... (Or, hopefully JF will be available to!)
http://panamericana.waypointinfo.com/
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That was awesome. Way better than Ridge Racer on my PSP.
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