SPEED RUN

Topping 200 mph in Hemingway country

- DUNCAN QUINN

When McLaren invited me to pilot one of their cars through a speed- trap flat out in broad  daylight on the Sun Valley Tour de Force in Ketchum, Idaho, I scratched my head and laughed. For where else  is the road shut down by the boys in blue so that a herd of juiced-up speed freaks can screech down the tarmac as if their tails are on fire—punching through the line sans speed limit at over 200 mph? Of course, I said yes to shooting myself mentally out of the universe of 9-to-5 and into the land of who-knows-what.