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As I noted before, I've driven a CTS-V at COTA.  My wife was riding along with the instructor in the car ahead of me.  I was doing all I could to keep up and the driver, she told me, was driving with one hand and talking on the walkie talkie with the other.  I KNOW in the same car any of those drivers would have left me in dust, mostly on the turns and braking.  But I was going a LOT faster in that V than anyone could in an MX-5.

I have a long ingrained idea of being easy on cars so they last longer, it took me a while to realize I should hammer the S out of that Caddy.  They changed the brake pads AND tires after each day's driving.  The tires are around $500 per.  We also did a tight gymkhana course and had significant differences between the students, and they had an instructor visiting who had never driven that course before who beat all of us.  Handily.  But it was a very tight course.

I love that!

back in 09 when they came out with the first iteration of the CTSV, I was invited to a private showing and driving at Monticello raceway in the Poconos, because I had one on order. 

it was pretty cool. The first few laps you had an instructor sitting next to you but then they let you cut loose.

and one exercise they had a lead car with a professional driver and everybody else was to follow. I was in the second car and I had to be forceful about getting that spot because other drivers thought they would be held behind.

The lead professional driver only checked his rearview mirror to see if someone was keeping close, and I was. But when we got to the finish line it was a good 30 Seconds before the third-place car came in behind the professional and then me.  On the track, 30 seconds is an eternity lol.

Speaking of professional drivers being great:

I took my heavily modified three series BMW to Mylan dragway for test and tune night.  The gates always opened at 4 PM, so if you got there early you could get a lot of runs in before it got crowded.

On this particular day both motor trend and car and driver were at the track prior to four to privately test the soon to be released Cadillac CTS – V

I ran in there right at four and grab the guys from MotorTrend and told them to race me one time down the track because I was only a month or two away from receiving my CTS-V
He obliged.

Here is the video and you have to give the guy credit because I had an all wheel drive car and although his car had a lot more horsepower, he started off in the hole and was driving a manual. He caught me at the end and I was so impressed with his skill set.  That’s my two brothers you can hear squawking on the camera lol

https://streamable.com/nz2odu

The lead professional driver only checked his rearview mirror to see if someone was keeping close, and I was. But when we got to the finish line it was a good 30 Seconds before the third-place car came in behind the professional and then me.  On the track, 30 seconds is an eternity lol.

Yeah, 30 seconds is like "who crashed?"

good clean fun

how long was the airstrip for the top speed runs?  shoot

Man, a Buckeye fan admitting to going into Michigan and doing something cool.  What is the world coming to???

Unavoidable lol.  Lived there at the time. 

so many of my closest friends and even some family- are big Michigan fans.  Makes the fall interesting!

For sure.  I'm married to an Aggie, after all...