Day 2 of Competition

Today Cade was in the Navigator seat with Rachel, which meant I was driving the service truck. The goal here was to get to the half way stage for the day ahead of the competition cars and set up lunch for them, then get to the hotel for the night ahead of them to check in, and have their luggage ready for them. Piece of cake. I even had time to catch up on my writing. I’d post this to you all, but gas stations in Mexico appear to be short on wireless internet connections.

This stage went from Veracruz to Puebla. On arrival in Puebla, there were apparently

3000 people waiting for the race to come in. It took Cade and Rachel 2 hours and hundreds to signatures to get themselves and their car out of the town center and back to the hotel.

One of the things that made this race so hard was attempting to take care of yourself. The starts are normally around 8am, which meant the car had to be ready to go at the start at 7:30. Working backwards, we were getting up at 6:30. That would be fine, but there was a drivers meeting every night that had awards and changes of information for the following day. Invariably, these were set for 8pm, but only actually started after 9, and finished after 10, sometimes much later. Trying to fit an evening meal between the end of the day’s driving and the beginning of the meeting proved difficult. We were running hungry and tired every day.