Off to Querétaro!!

A beautiful morning in Puebla with Mexico's volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl, car & team ready! Off to Queretaro! 

Pau

All together!

We're at the Puebla Zocalo about to have some dinner and off to bed! Tiredness seems to be the theme right now, with great hapiness, but tiredness nonetheless!

The car is running great and the spirits are running really high!

What an amazing experience!

Priscila

At the service stop!

A good morning, the gearbox is working great! Just checking minor details from last night's work. See you in Puebla!

Alive and well!

The unrelenting 288 is back!!!

Changing the gearbox

It's location requires major disassembling to remove and change.... What normal people would consider a two day work, the Aguirre duo completed in 8 hours. Amazing.

Quick update

Sorry we haven't posted much, but yesterday before the service stop, the little 288 has a major malfunction with it's transmission and was unable to continue. After a few a hours of wating, the tow truck arrived and we took off towards Oaxaca.

In the mean time, we had contacted the office back home and had our guardian angel, Omar, bring the spare gearbox. He took a 9 hour bus and arrived just as Adrian was lowering the ruined one, talk about timing!

It was a long night with hardly any sleep for our driver and codriver, but they got it done!! The car is at the starting line, and we are on our way to the service stop, 75km from Oaxaca.

To say that Adrian and Guillermo are Superhumans is putting it midly.

We're very proud of our team and are charged and ready to give our all in this amazing race! We'll keep you posted.

Priscila

Start day 2 - Oaxaca

Adrian

Day 2 - start!

After a broken down transmission just before service yesterday, the car is back after an overnight transmission swap..!

And nothing like a good shine to make it fasy!

Adrian

The Panamericana Goes Gourmet!!

Does anyone care to join us? It's a beautiful day in Huajalpan de Leon and It seems this year we'll be upgrading from store bought sandwiches and processed food thanks to our beautiful and lovely chef Paulina!! This is a 5 star service all the way, the cars are running a bit late, but it shouldn't be to long now!

Priscila

Stage #1 done! But it got cancelled, so we didn't quite run...

Adrian

Pico de Orizaba

Pico de Orizaba in the background

300km until we reach the pit stop, beautiful drive. Back in Veracruz the first cars must be taking off, good luck! See you soon 288!

Race day! Day 1!

Adrian

And we're off!

Friday morning, leaving Veracruz for the service stop in Huajuapan de Leon, 412km! We're expecting the first car at 1pm, our 288 should arrive around 230pm. We'll keep you updated!

And we're off!

Friday morning 7am, leaving Veracruz for the service stop in Huajuapan de Leon, 412km! We're expecting the first car at 1pm, our 288 should arrive around 230pm. We'll keep you updated!

2012 LCP Blog for car 288

For 2012 we'll have all the team posting on the blog! So hopefully we'll have a ton of pics!   You'll have pics from Priscila, Guillermo, Paulina and Myself. Cheers!

Un cochecito muy coqueto

Todo esta casi listo, el cochecito irradia felicidad y buena vibra, esta será una carrera memorable!

Sunset in Veracruz

We are ready on the eve of our departure!

Car ready!!!

Bienvenida Jarocha!

Ha sido por mucho la mejor sede para la arrancada de la Carrera. Sólo Veracruz es bello!