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Join me on my vintage motorcycle and car racing hijinks at Bonneville Speed Week salt flats land speed racing (since 2017), Chihuahua Express (since 2008), La Carrera Panamericana (2006-2014), Pikes Peak Int'l Hill Climb (2008-2012), and ECTA Spaceport America Invitational Land Speed Event (2020). La Bandida Racing is sponsored by **TBZ Racing** and **Woody's Wheel Works** and when I'm racing for Puckett Land Speed Racing, we are sponsored by TOP1 Oil.

2006: Where it all began.....

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- May 02, 2007

To read the short version of how this all got started, read the first post.

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2010 Chihuahua Express: Race Cancelled Due to 2 More Fatalities

- March 21, 2010

Yesterday, Day 2 of the 2010 Chihuahua Express , there were 2 more fatalities. At the end of the day in the last transit section (not a speed stage) back to Chihuahua, 2 cars in the Touring Class were involved in a very high speed crash on a divided highway. Hernando "Nanan" Solana (pilot) and Heberto Garcia (copiloto) were in the gray 1997 Corvette and are confirmed dead by Chihuahua Express officials. Luis Angel de la Brena (pilot) and Gerardo Arevalo (copilot) were in the late model yellow Porsche GT2 and their condition is unknown. We came upon the site 30 minutes after the crash and also heard a firsthand account from our guys in the Mustang convertible who were there a minute after the crash. The Corvette did not have safety equipment or a roll bar. Cars in the Touring Class are not required to have this equipment. During a transit no one is required to have their helmets on and racers typically do not cinch down their racing harnesses as tight as when in a speed stage...

2013 Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival & Mini LCP Reunion

- May 21, 2013

The Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival was amazing and the best part was getting to see a whole pile of La Carrera friends. Nothing but smiles and laughter the whole weekend! And there nothing like California wine country, it is so beautiful. Also met some fabulous new friends and spent Saturday with my cousins and Sunday with a dear old friend/former coworker. The Carrera folks I saw included Michael Emery, Luca Maciucescu, Rich Morrison, Martin Lauber and his mechanic Eric, Chip Fudge, and Joe Harding. On Sunday I finally read the race program and was stoked to see that Martin McGlone was racing. I ran all over that place three times looking for him until I learned he had blown his Bugatti engine at Mille a few weeks prior and didn't make this race. Sorry to miss you, Martin! Also had a near miss as Brad and Erin Kaplan are road tripping in their 1929 Ford Pickup and I just missed them by a day but Lauren Scheller sent a photo of...

2010 Chihuahua Express: Day 1 (w/speed stage video clips)

- March 23, 2010

RACE DAY 1 - Thierry and Eric finished 8th overall and 5th in the Pan Am Class (all vintage cars) in the Bag O'Nails on Day 1. Up early, Todd and the team made final tweaks to the cars and got the guys ready to go. Dave and Brian got on the road with truck and trailer very early to get a jump start on the racers and get out to the noon service stop before everyone else. The Bag O'Nails was off with waves and smiles to the formal start in downtown Chihuahua and we thought Team Danger was not too far behind but they had a small overheating problem of the electrical type. Some wires got hot under the hood and luckily they quickly shut the engine off before more damage was done. Todd, Dave and Brian made some quick repairs, and decided it was okay to go. The 2010 Chihuahua Express participant photo from the official start downtown, and a shot of the Renault Clio that suffered a fatal crash today. Ahhh, the Testarossa, shortly before crunching the side against a non-racecar in a r...