Going out for coffee?

[Pilgrim]

Here's a run up a hill by a guy who REALLY knows what he's doing......

Ontario, Calif. (June 30, 2011) – It's a race that defies logic – an old Nevada mining town straight out of a Sergio Leone Western flick, a wild cast of characters, German supercars, Italian exotics, home-brewed racers, vintage muscle cars and even a few helicopter cameraships – all racing up a 5.2 mile mountain road with 500-foot drop-offs and no guard rails. The 2011 Speed by Spectre 341 Challenge hill climb, held in Virginia City, Nevada (aka the Nürburgring of Nevada) is in the record books, logging 48 drivers, 391 runs and five new members of the exclusive Spectre 3:41 Club. It was a wild success.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32HIRotuBt8&list=PLDDAE12412BCB1F76&feature=player_embedded

[lowend1]

Hey, I see plenty of guardrails.
What is this guy driving? An R/C car? A mosquito?

[Pilgrim]

More info: http://www.spectre341challenge.com/

I don't know which car the video was taken from - everything running that hill is highly modified, from 'Vettes to Camaros to Road Runners.  But the acceleration of the camera car was pretty unreal.  I can hear a turbo bypass letting pressure off every time the driver's foot comes off the gas.

[the mojo hobo]

The description from YouTube:

Ride along as AutoWeek's Jake Lingeman takes a run up Nevada's Highway 341 in a Cadillac CTS-V wagon, the route used by nearly three dozen exotics and sports cars in the Spectre 341 Challenge

But it don't sound like any Cadillac I've ever heard

[sniper]

what got me was not the popoff valve. it was the tire chirping. with todays suspension and tire technology it is very dangerous to do any 60's Stirling Moss type "power sliding". when i heard the tires chirping i noticed how long it took him to gain control back and i would estimate about 10/100ths of a second or even quicker. watch it again and notice how long it takes him.

at the point of the tire chirping, his backside should already be telling him it is going out of control, he has to back out, regain control and get back into it to complete the task. see how long you think it takes him.

[Pilgrim]

I just know that even though I've been through a couple of driving schools and done my share of autocrosses and road tracks, he's a lot smoother than I am.