This Open Road Racing Event falls under the category of "Have you ever been VERY bad??" Was it bad? OH YEAH! My first reaction after screaming past the finish line was, "WOW! We did it, and we're still ALIVE!" There are probably other events with a higher fatality rate, like maybe the Virginia or Pikes Peak Hill Climb where one miscalculation sends you flying off into oblivion with no guardrails, hundreds of feet above the valley floor. This event must take a close second! This is where the highway patrol sections off a stretch of regular rural highway in northern Nevada, and you basically drive flat-out as fast as your car will go for one hundred miles! It just proves that anything goes in Nevada. First timers can go as fast as 130 mph tech speed with a 150 top speed. As rookies we decided to do a "conservative" 120 average tech speed with a 140 top speed. We were the only Ferrari entered. To MKM Racing's credit, we were told that they run somewhat safer events than the other sanctioning body, the Silver State Classic, basically because they have course workers and spotter planes that view every inch of the race course. With Tony Zito as navigator, we finished in third place in the 120 Target Speed Class in my Ferrari 308 GTBi at less than a half second off perfect time at only .483 seconds from the mark. Since we were 18 seconds off the mark at the halfway point, we did the return leg much faster at speeds of very close to 140 mph. We had to be very careful because if we went over 140 mph, we would have been disqualified! Read more about it in the Forum under the category category of "Have you ever been VERY bad??" |