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HAMMER DOWN, CHIN ON SWORD—-HERE WE GO.
The Virginia City Hillclimb, which races up Nevada State Route 341, is 5.2 miles in length, features 20 corners, and rises from 5,000 feet above sea level at the bottom to 6,200 feet by the time you cross the bridge just below the sheriff’s detention center that serves as the finish line. The event was first run in 1964, and I was invited to drive in this year’s by the event’s director of technical operations, Scott Strohmeyer. Naturally, I brought a Cadillac.
Not your granddad’s floaty, fits-five-corpses-in-the-trunk Cadillac, mind you. No, I elected to go with the fastest, most powerful production Caddy of all time, the 2016 CTS-V. Capable of hitting an honest-to-insane 200 miles per hour, the…