Texas: BIG BEND OPEN ROAD RACE

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BIG BEND OPEN ROAD RACE

From The New York Times:

April 26, 2009

Lonely Texas Highway Becomes High-Speed Racetrack

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SANDERSON, Tex. (AP) — Once a year, to the delight of speed demons from around the country, a stretch of normally deserted highway becomes a Texas version of the autobahn — a road with no speed limit.

And better yet, the traffic cops allow it. They have been known to encourage the speeders who sometimes top 160 miles per hour.

“It’s like grown-up summer camp,” said Lester Pittenger, a 55-year-old retired social worker from Somerville, N.J.

Pittenger drove his white 2001 Corvette 1,965 miles to West Texas to take part in this weekend’s Big Bend Open Road Race, one of only a handful of opportunities for people with fast cars to go real fast — legally — on a regular highway.

“People can hardly believe it when you tell them about this,” he said. “They go like: ‘You’ve got to be kidding. Race 120 miles on a public highway?’ But it’s true.”

Pittenger is among 160 drivers who paid a minimum of $300 — most pay much more depending on how fast they want to go — for the privilege of maybe skidding off U.S. Highway 285.

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