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Offline Ellwood

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Re: Speedweekend on Ice 2015
« Reply #15 on: February 10, 2015, 04:59:04 AM »

the weather forecast for the next 10 days is not looking good for our race. Now we are hoping for a cold spell the week before the race to save us from a swimming pool. the ice is thick though 50 cm.


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Re: Speedweekend on Ice 2015
« Reply #16 on: February 10, 2015, 08:42:09 AM »
Ellwood,

What are the entry fees? I was asked to do the North Cape run from Denmark in 2016 but Speedweekend in Sweden looks a lot more fun and with 480bhp on tap in the Healey should make it interesting.

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Re: Speedweekend on Ice 2015
« Reply #17 on: February 10, 2015, 12:54:09 PM »
Ellwood,

What are the entry fees? I was asked to do the North Cape run from Denmark in 2016 but Speedweekend in Sweden looks a lot more fun and with 480bhp on tap in the Healey should make it interesting.

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Ian

1300 sek entry for two days racing. there is also a weekend licence which costs around 250 sek. if youre gonna be going over 250 kmh then you need a roll cage, you can use any tyres.

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Re: Speedweekend on Ice 2015
« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2015, 05:25:23 PM »
the weather is now swinging from a bit warm during days to cold on nights. Our race could still be go. Good ice anyway. but we dont want any swimming pool on top of it

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Re: Speedweekend on Ice 2015
« Reply #19 on: February 13, 2015, 08:52:50 AM »
Yippee, the cold is here, and the track and ice are great. only 13 days to go.

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Re: Speedweekend on Ice 2015
« Reply #20 on: February 13, 2015, 09:24:54 AM »
Good old Swedish winter 8-)
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Re: Speedweekend on Ice 2015
« Reply #21 on: February 18, 2015, 12:08:37 PM »
The race is coming and the conditions look perfect this year! :-)

My turbine bike is almost ready, some minor stuff left to do before it can be loaded to the trailer and hauled to Speed Weeend.







Cheers!
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Re: Speedweekend on Ice 2015
« Reply #22 on: February 26, 2015, 12:12:55 PM »
the race starts in 17 hours. conditions are better than perfect. Records shall be broken tomorrow. YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Re: Speedweekend on Ice 2015
« Reply #23 on: February 26, 2015, 12:30:10 PM »
Good luck, stay safe and if nothing else enjoy! :-D
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Re: Speedweekend on Ice 2015
« Reply #24 on: February 26, 2015, 01:06:56 PM »
Just for the heck of it, John, I've just checked the airfare from Marquette, Michigan.  Trying to get the entire flight on one ticket yields a cost of a bit over $2100.  Wow.  That's more than if I had bought a ticket a few months ago -- lots more.  If I bought one from home to Chicago or New York the total was more like $950 or so - both back in November and now.

So much for selling the last few seats for dirt cheap, hey?  Sorry -- I won't be there this year.  And I was really looking forward to streaming audio from there so the folks in internetland could hear Ander's bike and the sounds of crunching snow and perhaps some wind howling - - and the sounds of Swedes partying.  Skol!  Maybe next time around. . . :cheers:
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Re: Speedweekend on Ice 2015
« Reply #25 on: February 27, 2015, 03:07:51 PM »
I've been checking out the landracing.se sites as well as Facebook and you tube, looks like everyone is having a good time and going fast, some bonneville racers out there, still looking for pix of the Bonneville Bee!
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Re: Speedweekend on Ice 2015
« Reply #26 on: February 27, 2015, 03:45:17 PM »
Congrats to Anders with the turbine bike, average speed 123mph

i think he did top speed over 125mph.

all this on maiden run.

he turns the boost up tonight.

tomorrow will be more speed

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Re: Speedweekend on Ice 2015
« Reply #27 on: March 02, 2015, 03:35:12 AM »
What a weekend! Perfect weather (could have been a bit colder since the track got a bit soft at the end of the days) and thousands of spectators made a great race! Plenty of records broken as well, I hope someone at landracing.se will post a summary here when they have had time to get some sleep. :-)

Here is a video of saturdays run with my bike, I haven´t checked the GPS logger yet so I don´t know the top speed. Feels like I ran faster in mid track than at the finish line so perhaps close to 220km/h top speed. The spiked tyres are extremely draggy, we needed two guys just to push the bike to the starting line so on a paved track with summer wheels on it will be very fast!

http://youtu.be/NOKuBCzApGk

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Re: Speedweekend on Ice 2015
« Reply #28 on: March 02, 2015, 05:55:42 AM »
Crazy Vikings! Don'tcha love them :-D :mrgreen:
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Re: Speedweekend on Ice 2015
« Reply #29 on: March 02, 2015, 10:06:11 AM »
Any problems with sunburn or mosquitoes?