OK, for all of yesterday's drama the real Baja action is the four-hour (!) endurance race. In a mass start eerily similar to quitting time on the S&T campus (except baja drivers wear helmets), round after round of cars charge into a lake. Wouldn't be so confusing except that dirt cars don't steer very well in water (or is that just a K-State driver getting chewed out for lousy driving?).
Our Miners developed a strategy to avoid this mess; they simply waited until the first wave (ouch!) either collided and withdrew, or simply sunk as one did, and then waded (sorry!) into the fray. Kept their car nice and clean, too!
Did we mention LADIES?!?! There were at least TWO all-female teams that invaded this bastion of mud and testosterone. Those teams would have had no trouble borrowing tools or materials, but as women they probably wouldn't have forgotten anything in the first place. We also hear that the gender language issue (cuss/no cuss) issue seemed to disappear.
And what would a woman's car be without a little decorating touch?
