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<div> <font size="2">What a story!</font><br>
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From: Mark J Bradakis via Fot <fot@autox.team.net><br>
To: FoTTriumph <fot@autox.team.net><br>
Sent: Tue, May 19, 2020 9:27 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [Fot] Evo-Spec 2012 Ferrari 458 Challenge for sale on BaT Auctions<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On 5/19/20 6:55 PM, Mike Harmuth wrote:<br clear="none">> What the H can you hit there? There's not even a turn.<br clear="none">> Darwin at work<br clear="none"><br clear="none">There are a few gentle turns and some elevation changes along the route <br clear="none">we picked out. My friend Rich was the main man, I was his assistant. <br clear="none">We spent quite a few hours scouting the rural roads of Utah to find this <br clear="none">spot. And doing a couple of test passes in a Utah Highway Patrol Crown <br clear="none">Vic along the route seemed fine. But we never went over 100 - 110 mph.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The morning of the event there were many drivers ready to give it a go. <br clear="none">About 5th out was this bright orange Camaro, heavily modified. It <br clear="none">finished up at the end of the run clocked at 195 mph. The event was a <br clear="none">fundraiser for the UHP, with the money going into the Fallen Heroes Fund <br clear="none">or whatever it was actually called, which provided financial assistance <br clear="none">to families of troopers who were killed in the line of duty. The kicker <br clear="none">on this event was that the drivers would pay a "fine" of $1 per mph <br clear="none">clocked at the finish. After already shelling out something like 5 <br clear="none">grand for the entry fee.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Anyway, a few cars after that Bitchin' Camaro the jeweler's son took off <br clear="none">in the Enzo. We had spotters along the route at many of the mileposts, <br clear="none">and they would radio in a quick word when a car passed there station. A <br clear="none">rough guess based on the time between spotters calling in the Ferrari's <br clear="none">position was that it was closing in on 200 mph. The spotter who saw it <br clear="none">at the end said it hit a small rise in the road, got airborne and when <br clear="none">the front wheels hit the ground they were pointed in a different <br clear="none">direction than the rest of the car. So it went sideways and rolled 6 - <br clear="none">7 times. At 200 mph. The car disintegrated, leaving major chunks <br clear="none">scattered along the side of the road for about a mile and a half. Left <br clear="none">rear quarter over there, engine and gearbox there, and so on. But as <br clear="none">you can see from the picture, the passenger compartment, the carbon <br clear="none">fiber roll cage, was intact and in one piece. Some fine engineering. <br clear="none">Driver was banged up and bruised, but not as badly as one might expect <br clear="none">given the details of the mishap.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">And over a period of the next few years a local shop pieced the car back <br clear="none">together, making some changes and the driver ended up setting a land <br clear="none">speed record in the car out at the Salt Flats.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">And oddly enough, Rich and I were not contacted about assisting with the <br clear="none">event the following year.
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