Up to this point, everything had gone smoother than a warm chocolate fondue. It's my sixth shot answering the siren's call from the fourteener ' boulders of America's Mountain- the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. The thrills and challenge of open-road racing are irresistible to me. But things have just taken a bad turn. Just three months before, I was on a Third Row Tesla podcast with Ben Sehaffer of Unplugged Performance, the noted Tesla tuner. I needed a ride, so I threw it out there: Say, why don't we ask if we can borrow the Model S Plaid for Pikes Peak? "Not likely," Schaffer said. "But maybe we could run our UP Model 3 Performance."
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