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Good morning Riley,

Odd that you should mention that. The guy that put on Race the Base and who owns ZR Exotic Cars in Calgary, Zahir Rana did exactly that I believe. A very long stretch of road, maybe 6 or 8 miles in ranchland country in southern Alberta somewhere. Got together a whole bunch of high sticker priced cars and were seeing on the plus side of 320 km/hr. There were YouTube video's if I remember but this was a few years ago. Word was that the RCMP may have gone to pay him a visit about the event as well which may have been released on DVD possibly????

No doubt liability would put the kibosh on that, who would want to take on that sort of responsibility today! Or go through the hassle of having waver/release forms for the drives to sign?

Probably the other problem is getting someone to train us on what to expect when a car gets to that speed and what to do if something goes wrong. Some of the speedways around here do have race days but like straightaway speeds of "only 150 mph" and briefly.

I guess we'll all have to take a road trip to Texas for that top speed shoot-out there on those long Texan roads!

Cheers,

Garry

<blockquote data-quote="VelocityYellowRules!" data-source="post: 27554" data-attributes="member: 1318">Good morning Riley,Odd that you should mention that.&nbsp; The guy that put on Race the Base and who owns ZR Exotic Cars in Calgary, Zahir Rana did exactly that I believe.&nbsp; A very long stretch of road, maybe 6 or 8 miles in ranchland country in southern Alberta somewhere.&nbsp; Got together a whole bunch of high sticker priced cars and were seeing on the plus side of 320 km/hr.&nbsp; There were YouTube video&#039;s if I remember but this was a few years ago.&nbsp; Word was that the RCMP may have gone to pay him a visit about the event as well which may have been released on DVD possibly????No doubt liability would put the kibosh on that, who would want to take on that sort of responsibility today!&nbsp; Or go through the hassle of having waver/release forms for the drives to sign?Probably the other problem is getting someone to train us on what to expect when a car gets to that speed and what to do if something goes wrong.&nbsp; Some of the speedways around here do have race days but like straightaway speeds of &quot;only 150 mph&quot; and briefly.I guess we&#039;ll all have to take a road trip to Texas for that top speed shoot-out there on those long Texan roads!Cheers,Garry</blockquote>

[QUOTE="VelocityYellowRules!, post: 27554, member: 1318"] Good morning Riley, Odd that you should mention that. The guy that put on Race the Base and who owns ZR Exotic Cars in Calgary, Zahir Rana did exactly that I believe. A very long stretch of road, maybe 6 or 8 miles in ranchland country in southern Alberta somewhere. Got together a whole bunch of high sticker priced cars and were seeing on the plus side of 320 km/hr. There were YouTube video's if I remember but this was a few years ago. Word was that the RCMP may have gone to pay him a visit about the event as well which may have been released on DVD possibly???? No doubt liability would put the kibosh on that, who would want to take on that sort of responsibility today! Or go through the hassle of having waver/release forms for the drives to sign? Probably the other problem is getting someone to train us on what to expect when a car gets to that speed and what to do if something goes wrong. Some of the speedways around here do have race days but like straightaway speeds of "only 150 mph" and briefly. I guess we'll all have to take a road trip to Texas for that top speed shoot-out there on those long Texan roads! Cheers, Garry [/QUOTE]

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