El Mirage 5/16/09

[Glen]

The July issue of HRM has a great article on the BMR roadster driven by Fogie. 249 mph in a highboy in the dirt. Fastest ever on the lakes.

[RichFox]

Thanks anyway. Kind of out of the way from where your comming from.

[mkilger]

Glen ,thats cool I will have to get an issue. Lets see if they can do it agin, Fogie is my new hero, never knew Al teague, But he's always been in my top 5. Are you coming out Glen?

[Glen]

Mike, coming down of Friday

[Stan Back]

Mike --

You sure are fickle -- I thought I was your hero.

Stan

(Oh well, I'm my own hero anyway.)

[mkilger]

Stan you are in my top 10 sorry, Its a street roadster thing, hope you understand.  Have you seen the roadster at Al"s ?  I hope you have your roadster at Elmo this weekend.

[Stan Back]

Yeah

Yep

Yes

[desotoman]

Stan,

What is your starting line number?

Tom G.

[Stan Back]

Tom --

Haven't run for 4 years . . . I'm guessing around 170 (or Tuesday).

Stan

[mkilger]

so you are running it? cool 

[bvillercr]

winds could be 10-12 mph ssw.  How much wind does it take to shut down the course?

[Dean Los Angeles]

10-12 is a nice breeze. It takes 20 mph across the course to shut it down. On the other hand, 50 mph down the course is JUST RIGHT. 
Forecast for the weekend.

[bvillercr]

Aaah Dean, I new you had a weather report in ya.

[desotoman]

It takes 20 mph across the course to shut it down.

Dean,

Where did you find that? I just looked in the EM procedures and could not find it. In the rule book it says 15 mph but that could be for Bonneville. Or does that appy to El Mirage also?

Tom G.

[Glen]

Same for El Mirage, I have had to make that call a few times. Remember a tail wind turns into a cross wind when turning out. It has caused a few to spin in the turn out area, The driver should be aware of this condition.