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To: Radix
I drove to the top of Mt. Washington years ago.

So you know how long it took, and the road conditions.

Last summer, Travis Pastrana, set a new record of 5 minutes 28.67 seconds at the 2021 Mt. Washington Hillclimb in an 850 Horsepower Subaru built by Vermont Sports Car, in Milton, VT.

I was the mid point ham radio operator.

He came out of the turn below us airborne, drifted a little and poured it on in the short straight.

33 posted on 01/11/2022 10:30:43 AM PST by Mogger
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To: Mogger
"Last summer, Travis Pastrana, set a new record of 5 minutes 28.67 seconds at the 2021 Mt. Washington Hillclimb in an 850 Horsepower Subaru built by Vermont Sports Car, in Milton, VT."

Available on Youtube and worth anyone's time. At 3:50, right after switching off the pavement onto the dirt & gravel, Pastrana briefly overcorrects out of a slight right-hand slide after taking a right corner, and it appears the left wheels contact the boulders off the left side of the road, literally just a foot away from dropping off into the void. Then seconds later, a bird hits the right corner windshield.

89 posted on 01/12/2022 9:53:50 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least 1 of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Merck and GSK)
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