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Yeah, the orginal Brock Yates outlaw Cannonball sounds like it was a real hoot. Way more low-key and less competitive than today. Lots of fun stuff. Yates had an ambulance with some monster big block Chev, and the non-drivers on board took turns playing the "patient" and "doctor" in the back in case they got stopped. One couple had their chouffeur (spelling?) drive them in their classic Rolls; stuff like that. Yate started it as a nose-thumbing at the new national 55 mph limit, and speed limits in general. As far as I know they never had a wreck of any kind, and it seemed all in good fun.
The modern One Lap, while all scoring is on the race track, has very cleverly arranged the drive times between circuits. You can make it at the speed limit if you never sleep or work on the car. This allows them to say, officially, that they do not condone speeding on public roads, but...
The other ones, and the ones I really have a hard time with, are the true "outlaw" road races. Race cars mingling with traffic. Driver qualifications are no more than a fat enough wallet. Looking at the Mercedes above (which is no race car, but looks like some one thought it was) is some indication of what happens on these.
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"God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn't rule the world"
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