ECTA July 2012

[Flipper_1938]

Nice Sunday afternoon, parked at the starting line.  Hooley made a couple of good passes today, but I'll let someone else post exact numbers.

Good thing no one is listenind to the audio, as my 4G hotspot went gunnysack late this morning.  However, as we are in Wilmington, the Verizon store is right near Walmart and after messing with computers for an hour, the guy that sold me this a few months ago showed me how to reset it with a paperclip.

I'll get some more audio going.  May leave mid-afternoon as I've an early morning activity back in MO tomorrow.  Too bad about the 4G, as both computers were doing very well w/o glitches.  Of course, I have 3G sticks which I failed to bring along forback up.  As the scouts say, be prepared.

Can you post a link to the audio broadcast?

[ulrace]

  Thanks to the FOUR and all the volunteers .Wider finish line was great ! Also the flags at turnoffs really good for those of us with hood scoops! Hot but really sweet event. Bob Stroud seminar was very informative. Now if there was a barry grant seminar, it would have helped our sputtering firebird. Looking forward to september and maybe the texas mile?
Not ready for bonneville yet; still debugging.
bob larimore
1123  b/gc firebird

[Moxnix]

When the webcast is working, (cough, cough) our host is Meridix.  Search for them, open their homepage, put "landracing" in their search window, and you should get to the currently ongoing Landracing.com event, hit the "Listen Live" button and, after a few seconds, it should come through.

Events are archived, too, but all we do at ECTA is have background music and the CB announcements from the timing trailer.  Sunday afternoon a volunteer announcer filled in there and he was entertaining.  However, that's about the time my 4G hotspot went gunnysack until going over to the Verizon store and learning how to reset the gizmo with a straightened out paper clip. 

Bonneville is much easier. 

I've got a bunch of snapshots to post, as soon as the storm damage to our cable service here in Webster Groves is repaired and my Interwebs connection back on.

A beautiful Rambler two door out of Des Moines added nitro and went over 200 on Sunday.  Grandmas of the world would not believe it.

[WOODY@DDLLC]

Still trying to recover from the heat! It was Bonneville Training Day at the Ohio Mile on Saturday!!

Hooley did a 219+ on Sunday and one of the bikes did a 234+ on Saturday. 

Will try to get some pix up later today or it may be tomorrow! Stay tuned!

[Moxnix]

The 200 mph Rambler, owner from Des Moines, IA. 

[Moxnix]

Interesting.

[Moxnix]

Decent.
The guy on the left side of the car in the gray shirt is the owner/builder.

[Moxnix]

Timing trailer, racing trailer.

[Moxnix]

A known car.
A known reaction in the pits when a racer goes really fast through the timing lights.

[Moxnix]

Interesting Ford Sprint car . . .

[WZ JUNK]

Great weekend.

Hotter than the hubs of ####.

Spent time with old friends and made some new ones.

I was really impressed by a couple of street cars that turned high speeds.

John 

[sabat]

Great to see everyone as always, fun meet despite the heat.

Huge thanks to Mark Gordon for allowing me to make a pass on his naked turbo Busa. Awesome bike, and I got my ECTA Wilmington 2-club hat. 

Here's a quick slide show of a few pics from the meet.

Dean

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35699315@N06/sets/72157630512593448/show/

[Captthundarr]

Amy and I would like to thank everyone, esp. the volunteers, for all of the hard work in the heat this past weekend. one smooth event.

[redcatch]

Sorry about the oil down on Saturday. Our vacuum system has a mind of its own. Decided to pump oil and not air thru the puke tank. Problem is being addressed and won't happen again. I Hope!!! Felt bad that Joe and Keith had to move the course in that heat. Wilmington is a class act. ECTA at Wilmington is a neat marriage. We were treated very well. Needed some band saw work and dropped into a machine shop. They dropped what they were doing and the shop foreman fixed us up.Would not take any money.
I have raced both in Europe and the States in a SCCA / FIA venue and this format  is as good as it gets. I would like to see the City get more info out. If we can get more spectators maybe ECTA could get some generators and Air Conditioners for the trailers.

[jreken]

The people of Wilmington have done backflips for us. Maybe the Dayton Air Show and the Goodguys meet in Columbus took away some spectators. Could 100 plus temps have also leaned out the crowds?

John