Gee, all those nice comments - and I didn't post anything after all. The meet's over -- with nothing big to report about the last hour or so. We had a 1 1/2 hour long kitty litter shuffle break. The weather mellowed -- wind died and the cloud cover lightened a bit, so we went back to running. But while the weather was mellow -- the air was very humid and that kept speeds down. And Bill Warner was asked to keep speeds down so he didn't run over 250 for his last run or two.
There's an interesting reality check in itself. "Keep speeds down -- he didn't run over 250". I remember going to Maxton for the first time about ten years ago and getting to know Scott Guthrie and Rich Yancy and a few others that ran fast bikes -- and the concept of more than just a very few folks running over 200 was completely unknown. Now -- bikes run over 2 bills on motor day in and day out, and -- well, what can I say but that 250 is the new 200?
Okay -- about the rest of the runs after the break. By then quite a few folks had put the race vehicle on the trailer and there were only a few racers still running. The roadster Wayne Jesel works with was doing well, and Joe Ledford ran a nice run, and Steve Van Blarcom was ever so close to where he wanted to be-- but the Sunday air just wasn't good to much of anyone. The 9232 car had a goofy run -- because the push truck evidently snagged the chute release wire and triggered the laundry. The chute was under the push truck for the first hundred feet of the run, and the car ran all of 80 miles per hour or so -- tugging a well-blossomed chute behind it through the lights.
That's the kind of stuff that happened at Maxton this afternoon. Well, good news on one or two points - Donna Timney, the first lady of the E C T A, made a handful of runs on the Twin Jugs Racing GSXR 1000. Donna's best was a 168 -- nice run, and I've got photos and some video to show for it. I'll get them posted when we're in a motel, not driving down the road. The file is too big to transfer when going form cell to cell to cell.
Good time -- and we'll be back in about 5 weeks. Later, boys and girls.
