Thread: Open Road Race Events - June 24-27, July 22-25, August 19-22
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Old 2004-04-19, 05:20 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by MikeSTI


I would do this if I thought it would be any fun :? but just driving fast on beat up highways doesnt sound all that great...........I could be wrong
I saw an in-car clip from a Silver State run a few years back. Corvette ZR1 doing about a buck-90 around a gentle bend... the backend steps out and the video alone made me just about shit my pants... and we all know from our own in-car footage how little justice an in-car camera does to the real thing. The driver and co-driver must have nearly had a heart attack!

Luckily the driver saved the slide. If he hadn't he surely would have killed himself and his wife (she was the co-driver).

More recently, the organizer of one of these events died in a 200mph tire blowout on the opening run of the event IIRC.
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