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<blockquote data-quote="TomDirt" data-source="post: 1971088" data-attributes="member: 57425"><p>A lot of the courses are over actual roads driven by the locals everyday. In old beaters, definitely NOT in something like a Raptor. The scariest races were run before there was a way to monitor and enforce speeding on the highway; you were supposed to stay within the posted limit, but nobody did. I was with a crew running a road crossing north of San Ignacio one year; we were controlling highway traffic as racers turned off the course onto the southbound lane. By the time the lead Truck (Ivan Stewart's mid-engine V6 Trophy Truck) came by, the spectators had kept a safe distance, on the inside of the turn. As soon as he went by, they showed up like ants at a picnic, crowding both sides of the course. A couple minutes later Robby Gordon came by at warp speed; throwing rocks and dust until he hit the asphalt. (It was dusk, the most dangerous time to be driving into traffic because they have regular headlights and you have 20X their lights). </p><p>When he got on the pavement the front lifted up so quickly I remember seeing the light beam bounce off the clouds. He was out of sight within seconds, but we could hear the motor blip from gear to gear and the headlights reflect off the sky until he was at WFO on the highway at maybe 130mph. With oncoming traffic. That was the scariest sh it I've ever witnessed on a race course.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TomDirt, post: 1971088, member: 57425"] A lot of the courses are over actual roads driven by the locals everyday. In old beaters, definitely NOT in something like a Raptor. The scariest races were run before there was a way to monitor and enforce speeding on the highway; you were supposed to stay within the posted limit, but nobody did. I was with a crew running a road crossing north of San Ignacio one year; we were controlling highway traffic as racers turned off the course onto the southbound lane. By the time the lead Truck (Ivan Stewart's mid-engine V6 Trophy Truck) came by, the spectators had kept a safe distance, on the inside of the turn. As soon as he went by, they showed up like ants at a picnic, crowding both sides of the course. A couple minutes later Robby Gordon came by at warp speed; throwing rocks and dust until he hit the asphalt. (It was dusk, the most dangerous time to be driving into traffic because they have regular headlights and you have 20X their lights). When he got on the pavement the front lifted up so quickly I remember seeing the light beam bounce off the clouds. He was out of sight within seconds, but we could hear the motor blip from gear to gear and the headlights reflect off the sky until he was at WFO on the highway at maybe 130mph. With oncoming traffic. That was the scariest sh it I've ever witnessed on a race course. [/QUOTE]
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