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2008 PanAm: Racing is Serious But There's Always Time for Buffoonery

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In the wise words of the La Carrera's North American Coordinator, Gerie Bledsoe, "La Carrera Panamericana is a long, hard endurance race. Like other forms of motor sports, it is extremely dangerous." Yep, it's scary, difficult, risky and sometimes fatal. But with high stress comes the need to relieve all of that excess energy and many PanAm teams find humor is the answer. Geezer's got a big head of hair so we got him a bald clown wig. The funny part is that he had been stung on the nose by a bee a few days prior so his nose was already big and red like a clown. We got the deluxe suite at the beautiful Holiday Inn in Puebla and I got a free pair of slippers - sweet! The original Stewart conehead mask from the mid-1970s: I told him his pants were sagging so he yanked them up.... Uriel in training to be a TBZ crew member in a few years. Simon, doing his normal thing. Thanks for the kiss, love. Richard is looking extra sexy in the background. Not really sure what to s

2008 PanAm: Survival

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Another year of racing La Carrera Panamericana brought another rash of carnage - it always does. Thankfully there were no serious injuries to my knowledge, though it is not my intent to minimize injuries like Linda Robertson's compressed neck vertabrae. In my opinion, after watching the video of their crash and seeing the cars afterwards, they are all lucky to be alive, let alone to have walked away from the wreckage. There were so many beautiful cars at the start in Oaxaca. I usually spot a few cars that I absolutely do not want to be raced because I know they will be beat up and often times totalled along the way. I want to keep them pretty instead! Here are some "after" pictures. The Mustangs seemed to take an intense beating this year - not too many survived. All 4 of our cars survived unscathed this year. Mustang Carnage: More crashes, aches and pains: An offroad excursion on Day 1. What was once a beautiful Sunbeam Tiger. The Dover Brothers unfortunately were rea