The Mini Revolution

The Mini RevolutionRattlesnake Raceway is a private road circuit, six miles from Midland, Texas, on Route 349, once the, legend-strewn Pecos Trail. I was not called Rattlesnake Raceway out of whimsy: the flat, arid countryside around it, sparsely covered with coarse grasses, tumbleweed, mesquite and other desert vegetation, supports a formidable population of Grotalus atrox. The snakes come out of the bush to sun themselves on the warm concrete of the track, and drivers now and then run over one...