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2013: La Carrera Panamericana BEST FINISH EVER for TBZ Racing

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Sorry for the lack of posts!  I am sure everyone got the good updates from the other awesome bloggers.  I will spend time when I get home writing the stories and posting the photos as usual. We got 3rd in class (Turismo Produccion) and 27th overall!!! We are so stoked! Felicidades a todo de TBZ Racing: Geezer, Vance III, Rene, Bimbo, Tonio, Imelda, Juan, Carlos, Jose Luis, Fernando, and Juanito!!!  We could not do it without the big team effort. El Jefe rolling through the finish lines and crazy crowds in downtown Zacatecas. It is our 3rd year getting 3rd overall in class and last year we were 29th overall so we are doing the slow crawl up, which is what we do.  The guys in our class ahead of us were way up there - 5th and 11th overall - so it is fun to run with the big dogs! The legendary "Cowboy" from the Australian Holden FJ team. Robert Gehlen navigating Miles Jones to the finish! El Zorro (Fernando Garcia AKA El Fer)! My dad's girlfrie

2013 La Carrera Panamericana: Day 3 Mexico City to Queretaro

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Skipping ahead, will go back and fix the blog later.  For now, great family photos! El Jefe's successful finish in Queretaro! Rudi and darling son Sammi, who visit us every year in Queretaro! Rudi, Sammi and K Julio yah baby The annual smokie smokie picture.  Love Geezer's smile in this one. The whole enchilada!  Tonio, Geezer, Rene, Stewie, K, Bimbo

2013 La Carrera Panamericana: Day 1 Veracruz to Oaxaca

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These blog entries are pretty rough; I don't know how I used to articulately blog when I was young (i.e. 2006) AND race AND party!   I got up around 7am, which wasn’t too bad, and had a WTF moment when a guy banged on my door at 7:10am and I was in scanty PJs and he said he needed to check the mini-bar.  Ummm, okay.  He did and he left.  I don’t know, I don’t ask, I just keep rolling! I got to the truck and Rene said, “Where you been?”  I was 2 minutes late.  I said, “You said 8am,” and he said, “I said 7:30am.”  Umm, okay, just keep rolling.  So Rene, Bimbo, Tonio and I headed for the mountains to meet the race car at service.  It was a long morning climbing several mountain passes in the rain and fog that were nearly 9,000 feet in elevation.   The temperature was a perfect 72 when we left Veracruz and now we were a wet, cold 56 in the mountains. The guys listen to fantastic music and for that I am grateful.  My favorite was sort of a techno tune that went,”LIVE