About Our Team

OUR TEAM FOR 2010

You don’t mess with success so this year we’re back with essentially the same team. Conrad Stevenson – Co driver and car builder. Christine Rotolo – Queen Mother and Support Team Captain. Bill Mertz – Young Gun and Support Tech. Mike Sinemus – Car build Support. Dennis, Jon and Dan at Norman Racing – Custom Fab and Horsepower Makers.  Paul and Nancy Frame – Wonder Couple and #1 Map Makers. Peter Lambert – Moral Support. And then there’s, Tasha, James, Cathy, John R. and all the other folks back at Swirl who helped me get organized with post cards, t-shirts and holding down the fort so I can go to Mexico for two weeks.

We hope to finish safely, high in the standings and still friends!

Your author, and Co Driver. Martin Lauber.

OUR TEAM FOR 2009:

What ever possessed us to take a worn, 45-year-old Italian car 2200 miles across Mexico at top speed? It sounded like fun.

The 2009 La Carrera Panamericana will once again see El Taxi lined up for competition. This time driven by yours truly, Martin Lauber and able co-piloto, Conrad Stevenson. After many months of preparation the car is ready and leaving to be towed down to Nuevo Laredo Texas, where it will be met by Conrad and me for the drive into Mexico.

After four days of heading south, we’ll arrive at the start of the race Oct 20th and join 110 other cars in Huatulco Mexico. The race starts Oct 22nd and lasts 7 days, covering approximately 2200 miles of road, highway and village surface streets. Broken up in to Speed Sections where we go as fast as we can and Transit Sections where we go as fast as we can but aren’t supposed to, we’ll quickly work our way up the country stopping at beautiful towns each night, like Oaxaca and Zacatecas.

Follow our adventure here on our blog!