The eventful race-life of Pablo Escobar

Posted on 29-04-2016 at 19:10 by jaapiyo – 28 Comments”

The cute drug lord and namesake of the fictional airport in ” GTA: Vice City’ has a lot on his might. He sent sicario’s on traitors, was a politician, and led eventually to war against the government of his country. The man, however, also had a passion for racing cars, is less well known.

People who the series ‘Narcos’ have looked to know that Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria is not always a great peer was towards his fellow human beings. The income from his drug trade were so large that seven years he was included in Forbes’ list of global billionaires. In 1989, he was, according to Forbes even the-seven-after the richest man in the world. Also, he would have offered to the entire public debt of Colombia to redeem in exchange for immunity.

Imaginative business, which is not, however, conceal that the man many people, directly or indirectly, the death of native. Just like many other rogues had the mustachioed narcotraficante, however, also some relateerbare human traits. In this case, it is true that even a little extra for us car enthusiasts, because Pablo loved because of to the accelerator pedal quite a way down.

That the chubby white goods-dealer does with his wealth is an eclectic collection of beautiful and less beautiful cars provided, that we already reported earlier. That are autoliefde him to the circuit brought in, we have, however, all this time, secretly, for our consideration. But there has now come to an end.

The neuspoeder-supplier felt in 1979 clearly the need-for-cocaïna-speed in his life and enrolled in for that year launched Renault 4 championship, that is held at the Autodromo Ricardo Mejia in Bogota.

The lover of the song ‘rush rush’ took a whopping four Renault 4’s to the race. One for him, one for his cousin Gustavo Gaviria and two reserves, in case there is damage. The Ochoa brothers were also of the party, so the Medellín-cartel was well represented.

Pablo came to the races under the pretense that he was a businessman that cycling did, but his opponent Julian Calle doubts as to whether someone believed this, because Pablo is no secret made of its stock of plata:

“Escobar’s team would show up to races with two support trucks. He was the only one with that kind of operation, he would arrive in a helicopter. But after the race he would sacrifice everyone lavish meals with champagne and unbelievable women. I wonder if anyone really believed he did not sell sell drugs.”

According to tradition, went to Pablo during the races best hard on his own supply, but especially on the straight. Despite that the class is a spec series, and it seemed that the cars of Escobar always a little harder to walk than the rest. He torste so, in any case, not too many plomo. Oddly enough, there’s never been a technical breach of the regulations laid down. Evil tongues claim that there are sometimes weird things happened around the races with opponents. So claims a formidable opponent, Alvaro Mejia, for example, that he, before the start of the first race that will be broadcasted on TV would be suddenly for hours was stopped by the police:

“The Police kept us on the side of the road for hours checking papers. We got there minutes before the start.”

But, counter-clockwise or clockwise was Pablo after six races second in the championship. Not wrong. In addition to racing with the Renault’s did the lover of plaid polo’s also hillclimbs with the better work.

With this 560 hp strong Porsche 935 he wrote, for example, for a race in Medellin. He had a bet ended with Ricardo ‘Cuchilla’ Londoño, at the time Colombia’s most famous race car driver, that he was within 15 seconds of him would finish the race. Cuchilla was almost the first Colombian in the Formula 1 has become. In 1981 he raced in the Brazilian Grand Prix in free practice for Ensign, but Bernie made sure that he was not superlicentie received because he found out where the sponsorship came from.

Escobar ended up in the 935 with Martini livery, eventually, eight seconds behind Cuchilla. That last was in 2009 shot down, 16 years after Pablo’s death in 1993. Eight seconds is of course an eternity in such a race, but Pablo was nevertheless glad that his bet had won. It was probably Cuchilla also not too bothered at all by the way, it would be ‘m just even some extra years on this earth produced can have…(via Axis of oversteer)