1. The cars now have disc brakes, radial tires, better shocks, roll bars, better safety equipment etc. 2. The drivers are generally older and wiser. 3. We don't race through the cities wide-open. We run it as a T/S/D. 4. All the Velocity or Speed sections (between 10 to 20 kilometers in length) are on roads that we completely close off to the public. There are plenty of "cheap seats" on the hill sides for the locals viewing pleasure.
More later,
Loyal
-----Original Message----- From: Jarrid Gross (Yorba Linda, CA) <GROSS(at)UNIT.COM> To: alpines(at)autox.team.net <alpines(at)autox.team.net>; Loyal Truesdale <lacarrera(at)email.msn.com> Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 7:48 AM Subject: Re: La Carrera
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>From: Loyal Truesdale
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>>In response to Jarrid Gross's message re: mortality rate etc., in the
>last
>>10 years and over 1,400,000 total miles of competition, there has only
>been
>>one fatality and that was a Mexican co-driver in 1994.
>
>Is this not the same La-Carrera Panamerica that was originally halted
>back in the early sixties?
>
>Period magazines touted it to be somewhat of a deathrace.
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>Have things changed that much?
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>Jarid Gross