Before I retired, my AF flight helmet storage bin as indicated in big numbers on the bag tag, was 666. It’s just a number. The aircraft never fell out of the air, I never suffered any injuries or other bad luck, and the devil never appeared to me to lure me to the dark side. There is plenty of evil to worry about in the world besides a number.
It’s just a number. Use it to your advantage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_666
That said surely the race administrators saw this coming.