They travelled to the south of Spain separately, with Nicoletti going ahead as a scout and the other two cars ten minutes apart. They had no way to communicate between cars except visually. Nicoletti encountered a police block and turned around to warn his accomplices, but even though he signalled them, the first car behind him did not see him and continued until the police checkpoint and turned around. They all met up again, their U-turns having gone unnoticed by the police officers manning the road-check. They then continued south using minor roads to minimise the chance of running into further police activity.