Today was interesting, and interesting in a good way. You may recall from
a message a couple weeks back I am part of the road events committee for the
inaugaral Utah Fast Pass event coming up this summer. Today the HMFIC [1]
of the committee and I ( that's the entire committee so far ) worked on
route notes and such for the first leg of the three day course and the
autocross site in Duchesne [ pronounced dew - shane ]
Beautiful winter day, clear and cold. Well, clear once you got out of the
smog in the Salt Lake valley. I had been worried I was going to have to pull
a miracle out of my, uh, hat and run an autocross on some parking lot that
wouldn't be big enough to serve a two bit convenience store, but we ended up
with a site that should be acceptable. It ain't nationals, just 20 - 30
seconds or so of squealing the tires in front of a few locals and then
back on the road.
The impressive part, though, was the car. We took Rich's Jag, a 1983 XJS V12.
What a cruiser. Big, fat and heavy, so much different than any of my Spit
racers. I want one. Smooth and effortless, just kind of chewing up and
spitting out miles of two lane Utah mountain roads. We did this one section
of a road unfamiliar to me, a nice, not too twisty stretch up Indian Fork
Canyon. At one point Rich simply says "buck and a quarter" I would have
sworn we were just bopping along at a mere 60 - 70 mph cradled in comfort.
Sweet. We did a 46.7 mile stretch up through the mountains in 30 minutes.
Someday I'll have to grind through the math to figure out what the average
MPH might have been.
Yep, a Jag V12 is a nice ride.
mjb.
1. HMFIC - Head, uh, motorsports fanatic in charge
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