With seconds to spare as the final qualification day was ending, Boat took out his third car, after he had crashed one and the gauge went out in his second.
By contrast, China's qualification Sunday was viewed by hundreds of millions on television there.
India blew its chances of early qualification Saturday when its later batting dissipated a brilliant performance by its openers, Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag.
For Mexico's coach and players, who have come under enormous pressure from fans and the news media for their fumbling performances during World Cup qualification, Sunday's victory will buy some good will, at least until Aug. 12. "It gives us a lot of confidence," dos Santos said.
He was awarded his qualification Thursday by London's Imperial College after submitting his 48,000-word thesis, "Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud," which seeks to prove that planets and dust clouds in the solar system orbit in the same direction.
The race weekend was scheduled to have two practice sessions on Saturday morning, qualifications on Saturday afternoon with the race on Sunday afternoon.
Jones, who won a silver medal in the hoop at Delhi in 2010, was especially impressive on the way to a second-placed finish in the qualifications for Friday's individual all-around and has booked her place in Saturday's hoop, ball and ribbon finals, completing the full set by qualifying for the clubs final.
Unlike Tim Pawlenty, who attacked Mrs. Bachmann's qualifications at Thursday night's debate, Mr. Perry chose to send a more subtle message: making his first Iowa appearance in her hometown but not taking her on directly.
The talks with the mayor about that possibility grew more serious after an eight-member panel advising Dr. Steiner on Ms. Black's qualifications on Tuesday mustered only two votes unconditionally in support of her, unexpectedly throwing the selection process into disarray.
In team qualifications on Sunday, Biles scored a 16.0.
