Daily coverage?..... I think the telegraph line is down...and it's too far out to read the smoke signals....the best chance is telepathy
For those unfamiliar with the location and circumstances of Lake Gairdner it doesn't lend itself to the "up to the minute global instantaneous communication".....There is a hard line at the members camp, sat-phones kind of work out there.....but when you guys discuss the occasional problems you have with netlinks at Bonneville you need to add a factor of ten into the difficulty of hooking up, actually it might as well be a hundred........There is no Wendover, the nearest "town" is Port Augusta which is about 140 miles away. But, between there and where the racing happens is 40 miles of highway and then 100 of dirt.....
Despite any prep you may make the conditions tend to wear you down, and this year there won't be an ice truck.Huh?, yep that's right, for the last few meets there has been a ten ton ice truck, they sell between 4and a half and six tons of it in 22lb bags for ten bucks, this year the big touring car race the "Clipsal" is on in Adelaide at the same time as Speedweek and so every ice truck within three days drive will be there...not at Speedweek.That, is bad , bad news. They can ,probably sell two truck fulls in Adelaide so we can't hold that against them, but I have a feeling that this year is going to be a stinker , it can go for a week at 110F out there.
Bottom line is , it'll be a while before we, anyone, can match what we are starting to become accustomed to in the way of updates that we enjoy from the Bonneville events.
