Monday, June 28, 2010 | 3:20 p.m.
A 37-year-old race car driver from Las Vegas was killed when his Porsche slid off a curvy, mountain highway in Nevada that had been closed to traffic for a sanctioned speed race near the historic mining town of Virginia City.
Alexander Djordjevic died Saturday afternoon while competing in the Speed by Spectre 341 Challenge.
State trooper Chuck Allen says Djordjevic was wearing a seat belt and helmet. But he says the silver 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo was traveling at an "extremely high rate of speed" before it rolled down an embankment off state Highway 341 southeast of Reno.
The sponsor, Spectre Performance, had billed the race as pitting "the world's fastest street cars against the clock in a full throttle blast up a mountain road."
An investigation continues.
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Information from: Reno Gazette-Journal, http://www.rgj.com
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