Big Bend Open Road Race Here We Come

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Its the third year for us Houstonians to participate in the BBORR. Team Cobra has grown considerably these past three years. This year we will have a Ferrari 308, a Mini Cooper, a few Mustangs including a recently-acquired FR500C Challenge car, a few Cobras, a DEI Winston Cup Car previously raced at Daytona by Michael Waltrip, and a brand new orange McLaren MP4, fresh off the boat. We truly are an "equal opportunity" team. No Chebbies though.

For those who don't know, this is one of the three remaining sanctioned open highway races in the US. From fastest to slowest one hundred fifty cars will cover 59 miles from Ft Stockton to Sanderson Texas via US Highway 287 (closed for the day just for us), line back up and run back north the same route. Elapsed times are averaged and posted against your chosen speed bracket. He/she closest to the benchmark time for that speed group gets the hardware. Generally margin of victory between 1st, 2nd and 3rd is all under 1 second. Unlimited class cars (one GT40 in particular) will exceed 200 mph during the runs and the back of the pack (Earl and Pearl in their showroom new Corvette) will try and nail it in the 85 mph class. Mix a few armadillos and rattlesnakes, some cactuses, a buzzard or two and 100 degree heat and you get a race to hell and back. A cold beer afterward never tasted so good......

I'll try and post up a few pics during the week. Charity events, alternator rebuilding school and practice runs this week, race on Saturday.