Re: silver state classic - a challenge to members of this group

Sounds like very sage advice to me. Inexperienced people with fast cars can
be a recipe for disaster


On 4/29/05 1:13 PM, "Calvin Sanders" <calvins@highrpm.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Dennis@carmemories.com wrote:
>
>> In a few weeks this event is going to happen in Nevada. It is an open road
>> timed event "race" or road rally. They block off a 100 miles or so of rural
>> highway and do this event. Participants put themselves in classes based on
>> how
>> fast you are going to average at the end. Closet time wins that class. Its
>> way
>> too late to participate this year, although there are other events. */
>> [.....]
>> http://www.silverstateclassic.com/
>> http://www.bborr.com/.
>> Dennis
>
> These are great events, but let i tbe known that they can be very very
> dangerous. In the early years of these events they had some really bad
> accidents, far worse than one typically sees on race tracks. I think the
> first person killed in the Silver State was driving a Pantera, and after
> his wreck the car was so destroyed that in the pictures I couldn't see
> anything resembling the unibody of the car. All I am saying is take what
> you are doing very seriously, and prepare everything to those levels. Get
> as much advice as possible from people with experience at making cars go
> 150-200mph.
>
> These events while great fun, are serious business and should be treated
> as such.
>
> Calvin
> http://www.highrpm.net
>