So we’ve made it to the start of the Chihuahua Express race. The journey here has been 1 part boredom and about 27 part screaming irritation at the bureaucratic nightmare that is attempting to get 1 Car, one trailer and one racecar into Mexico. Today we spent over 8 hours trying to do just that.

8 hours.

In case you missed that, it took 8 hours to get everything we needed into Mexico. At one point even the Tahoe wasn’t allowed into Mexico because it was too new.

Everyone here says that every time they come over the border they the rules change, and there’s always going to be a problem. I guess that we should be grateful that we have made it here and we are somewhat ready to start the race.

We have been given a summary of the race and that looks pretty interesting, with a number of the stages around 40 kilometers long, much longer than anything we ran on the La Carrera. There will be around 200 km of speeds stages on each of the three days. I think we will both be suffering from exhaustion at the end of this race.

The big thing for us in the Elise will be how twisty the stages are. If that are very twisty then we should be able to do pretty well, but too many straights and the top speeds of the other cars will kill us.

We’ll let you know tomorrow when we get the route books.