And they now compete in straight-line drags or on an oval course, reaching speeds as high as 75 mph, on sleds that are only slightly modified for racing.

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"It's just another type of feeling--it's different, " says Platts, who works on Ford's racing and high-performance teams.

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Johnny Murtagh confirmed his position in racing's elite with his second Derby victory, this time on High Chaparral.

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This includes high speed racing, performing hand brake turns in car parks, or off-road riding on motorbikes.

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Charting a spectacularly erratic 24-hour course, the movie juggles self-consciously hokey small-town comedy with slick (or at least semi-slick) high-tech chase scenes as the road-racing desperado leads Forest Whitaker and the feds on a merry chase through the Southwest in his prototype Corvette 01.

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