Not bad for a beginner, although professionals can run the same oval in 12 seconds, breaking 180kph on the tiny straightaways.

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To save the horses from missing turns, he said, the tracks were laid out as straightaways of about a quarter mile.

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Take a shuttle bus (about 20 minutes) from the village to access the sledding route, that traverses floodlit tunnels, hairpin turns and screech-to-a-stop straightaways.

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Not bad for a beginner, although professionals can run the same oval in 12 seconds, breaking 100 miles per hour on the tiny straightaways.

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The road bends just five times in the 21 miles north of the Arizona border, and drivers have noticed that the straightaways lend plenty of room for acceleration.

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As his mildly traumatized former passengers can attest, Derek got the most out of those days, hugging turns and accelerating through straightaways like he was auditioning for a car commercial.

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