The lake bed at El Mirage is an extremely fine dust that pretty much kills air cleaners.
It's also slippery.
The fast guys understand this and adjust. You see a lot of fish-tailing off the line. A lot of guys are off and on the throttle.
Noonan sounded smooth through the whole run. One of the best in the business.
Normally a pretty smooth character, he looked absolutely giddy after the run. 
I do not consider a few tears being giddy
, I was so proud of my team and how well all of our vehicles ran at the end of the day.
I had wanted to run 220 on the sidecar and 230 with the naked bike however I will take the 240.197 all day long! Looks like the most naked bike I have ever seen that still runs, no bodywork, gauges, headlight or bracket etc..
I will post a race report and more pictures later.
J
