Contingency

Today started a bit later…. For that I am thankful. Unfortunately, it was also a day of small mishaps but happy endings. A little work had to be done to swap tires around after rolling the two race cars through contingency. Contingency itself was about like the first year, 2005, that I came down for the Baja 1000. Lots of people all packed in around a long line of race vehicles inching their way towards the SCORE officials who inspected each car to verify class qualification and safety. There was a live band that kept playing various reggaesque songs and inviting random girls up on stage to sing, dance or just make noise.
We planned on getting clear of Ensenada by noon but had several set backs relating to prepping The Dominator for the race. We didn’t pull out of town until around four o’clock. By the time we arrived where we are now at La Tourista motel in El Rosario it was well past dark. The drive down was uneventful, just the way we like it. Everyone is pretty beat and with nothing to really do in this little town, we are all heading to bed early.
We’ll get plenty of sleep and set up pits near Cataviña in the morning. Then we begin the long anxious wait, all ears straining into the dark for the sound of a distant V10 howling into the night. Tomorrow the 40th Baja 1000 begins.