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The hero of the day and possibly the week will be Bill Caswell, an unemployed gearhead from Chicago who bought a $500 BMW two decades past its prime, fixed it up, drove to Mexico, and somehow placed third in a Rally Car race alongside world class drivers with actual sponsorships, mechanics, and everything Caswell didn’t have.
Caswell became semi-famous (or at least “Mexican Rally Driver Famous”) in the process, all the while going through no fewer than four episodes just as insane as this excerpt:
On the third stage we missed a jump call (our notes were in Portuguese or something) and hit it at like 80 mph or so and exploded into the air. The launch felt like hitting a brick wall and broke a motor mount arm clean in half.
But the jump was amazing.
It’s all far too insane to describe here. Read. Learn. Buy Craigslist car, find loophole in rule book, race to glory. It’s practically an instruction manual for greatness.
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