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El Mirage => El Mirage General Chat => Topic started by: azgearhed on October 03, 2019, 03:43:59 PM
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Any chance for racing at El Mirage this year?
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Always a chance, I say cancel the rest and move on so the course can heal up.
J
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I agree with John muutt and maybe look for another(back up lakebed) for next year!
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It depends on the condition of the track and turn out.
Lake bet got .72 in. last month that should help.
Got new tires and seat belts and hoping to go. But will not run if track looks bad.
JL222
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If it's cancelled I like to see a moritorium on the Fire bottle inspection for El Mirage for a year.
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Good luck y'all. I'm back in Virginia for ankle surgery. Next year!
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Nice to see Bonniville Nationals, Inc. promoting El Mirage in the email blast.
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John Wylie put a couple videos he made this week at El Mirage on YouTube. These are the best overview of the track and the whole racing experience including in car footage that I have ever seen. I hope you guys check it out and give him a thumbs up. :cheers:
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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+wylie+el+mirage (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+wylie+el+mirage)
Sorry, Stan :dhorse:
Mike
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Wayno,
I heard on the CB on my way home you earned a spin pin!!!
What happened? Is everything OK?
I worked the AM patrol and it sounded to me like very few vehicles could hook up.
Tom G.
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Tom, I didn't know you were there. Yeah, flat spin a bit before the lights based on a rather wretched course. Tore the hatch off, dusted me. I'm fine.
Wayno
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Wayno,
Glad you are Okay, that is the main thing. Sorry the car got banged up a little but that can be fixed. I just wanted to make sure you were Okay, especially after watching the spin and barrel rolling earlier in the meet. I heard on the CB that you were next to run, then heard spin at patrol 6, then lost reception.
Thanks for the reply.
Tom G.
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Any results yet?
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Here's Mike Kaehny's EM report for the October 2019 event:
Impound Insights for El Mirage October Meet
After months of waiting for the lakebed to be safe enough to race on, the 2019 SCTA racing season finally got under way. Technical inspections were held under sunny skies and some El Mirage horsepower blowing down the course. There was excitement and promise of a great opening round. But Mother Nature is fickle and she showed us so with a change in the wind on Sunday. There were 80 runs made in one round of racing. The fastest car of the meet was the DRM Racing entry at 239.480 mph and the fastest motorcycle was the Ralph Hudson entry at 229.310 mph. There were a few records set and I do mean a few. Very few. First the cars?..
The first car in was the Team McLeish Datsun entry, They rolled into impound holding a 137.236 mph record in H/GCC with Derek McLeish himself doing the driving. In next we had Neil McAlister behind the wheel of the BMR Ferguson entry in XO/BGALT. He pushed the record to 186.293 mph. The last certified record of the day was set by the Lattin Stevens entry in V4F/VGCC on an open record. Bill Lattin now claims that spot with a record run of 103.473 mph. On to the motorcycles?
To start the day for the motorcycle?s, David McLachlan, Bones to the folk who know him was riding a Suzuki Hayabusa for the McLachlan-Noonan entry in the 1000/M-BF class. Against a 172.00 mph min, he now owns it at 182.452 mph. Later in the day, Tim Cunha piloted the Costello/Cunha/Sassano entry in the 1000/SCS-BG class to a new record of 172.500 mph with Suzuki power.
And that my friends is all I got. Hopefully we?ll have a better show for you in November as we close out the shortened season with a two day meet. Technical inspections will be on Friday ( 11/08 ) and racing will begin on Saturday ( 11/09 ) and finish up on Sunday ( 11/10 ). We?ll see you on the dirt!
Mike Kaehny Dan Warner
Record Certification Officer Senior Record Consultant
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BMR got the VO/BGAlt record. My last record. From 83. I'm out of the book now, Congratulations guys,
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I wonder when they are going to post the results and the line up?. Hopefully the ones doing it have left the Association..
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Results are now posted on the SCTA site.
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ELMO ,, last racing of the year .. I'm looking forward to inspecting . I get to see all the great cars and crew , it's special for me !! The Bantam is finished for the year .. Looking at a new profile for the cam now that I'm running a turbo and port injection with alcohol for next year . The little (48 cu. in flathead ) will be working harder next year !!
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Anyone streaming video or audio?
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We made passes both days starting from position 9. Ran 2.5 under both times even major changes on Sunday. Many were running under their personal bests.
Ally Langlo kicked butt with a 256 on a shakedown run with his new streamliner about noon Sunday after the course "went away" :roll:
Ralph ran 240+ on his M/C 2 spots infront of me on Sunday; I watched leave while buckled in. J.D.