World of Speed 2010 reports

[Freud]

Buy Charlie a beer.......Ravenna Garage lakester.

He attends the B'ville NW Reunion.

MODIFICATION:

If he blew it up I imagine he's ready to pack it in for the meet.

Generally he doesn't make a class change down there.

FREUD

[Seldom Seen Slim]

I guess he hurt the motor big time -- they're down for a while doing a full-course sweep.  All's about done with that, though.

750 cc Kawasaki running now on the 130 Club course.  As a refresher -- the 130 Club is run like this -- you get five passes, and the goal is to run a 130-139.999 in the one-mile long course.  First pass is a "calibrate your speedo" run, then you go try to do that 130+ speed.  Go over 139.999 and you're done -- that's why you get the calibrating run.

Ray S. Therat is on his way there pretty quick.  He asked me to tell you all.  His partner, Jim/Texican, is out of commission for a while with self-induced food poisoning, I hear, so it's all up to Ray for now.  He left here with a handful of landracing.com stickers to apply to the race truck, then to remove the blocker plates from the muffler, then to go run it on the course.  Best wishes were sent along with him -- followed by the ever-present last words -- "Be careful out there on the race course".

[Dean Los Angeles]

Hmm. "self-induced food poisoning".

Is that where you take the potato salad out and say, "Well, it's not quite aged enough. I'll wait three or four hours and see if it tastes better."

[Freud]

He reheated his Mexican dinner on the exhaust manifold.

Forgot it and remembered it about bedtime. Had it for a snack

with the potato salad.

Ray Therat didn't have time to eat, so he is the driver.

I learned him all I could over the fone, so he has now lost his virtue to the Salt.

FREUD

[Geo]

Freud,

I learned him all I could

You didn't tell him R was for Race did you? 

He's not going to try that in reverse, is he?   

Good luck Rat.  Whichever way you go.

Geo

[jb2]

Looking at results on usfra.  Wow, no wonder Rains had engine issues.  how bout that first mile?

99   RAINS, JOHN D/BFALT 878.96687 91.13576 0 0 0

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Ray's done with driving for a while -- has to go to town to get a cable for the cxomputer, but he gave me this information before he left on the trip:

He made two passes down the 130 /Club course.  The first one was a 91 mph calibration run, and he was satisfied.  Then -- time to give 'er -- and he railed on it and zoomed through the timed stretch -- at 95.  

Hunh?  95?  Unh, Ray, I thought ----

He explained that there's evidently a wall of air or something out there -- that holds the truck back from doing much more than that.  Hey, I've heard something about air resistance, right?  Whatever -- 95 (although he said he saw a 102 on his GPS at one point).  

Whatever, once he's back on the site I'll let him defend his own honor.  (Umm, "she offered her honor, and he honored her offer, and all night long he was on her and off her"  (best read out loud, you know).

In other information, Gary Allen just drove the Skip Higginbotham 'liner to a 304 mph pass.  And Nancy and I just got back from Dan Warner's hangout at the gateway to heaven (a/k/a Impound), where we got the numbers for the qualifiers so far today -- and the data on the records certified earlier today.  I'll lick this to post and then enter all of the data.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Here's the list of the records certified this morning, the first day of record return runs for World of Speed 2010.

Car 31 -- the Burkdoll/Hawley I/MMP    90.652 down run,  95.687 return run,   93.169 new record.

That's the "format" I'll use for all of the following data.

125 -- George Fields  Trackmaster   E/BFCC  297.568     308.895    303.231

396    Utah Valley Univ.     AA/CBGC    131.876     137.814    134.845

503    Pro Per Racing    G/BFMR     197.578    200.173     198.875

2319    Ye Olde Dragon    186.571    183.345   184.958

Bikes:

3182    Forstall/DeLuca/Knecum    APSG/2000   230.302    252.419   241.360

9392    Jeff Bailey   APG 2000     171.970    175.063     173.516

9472    Jack Broomall  M-G 1650     202.329    199.370   200.849  (Jack is now a 200 MPH Club member)

964    Billy Showmaker / Team Fkawi   M-BF 1350    215.803   208.680   212.241   (New 2 Club member)

Car:    Salt Cat   XXO/BGCC     171.038    179.360   175.449

Those, my friends, are all of the vehicles that qualified yesterday and backed up their records today.  Congratulations to all of the racers and their teams.

Now -- here's the list of who's in impound as of about 1.45PM today:

Bike 1440   Dean Sabatinelli   M-BG 1000  217.722

Bike 3379   Kim Krebs / Greg Waters, Kim up     APS/BG  750    220.213*   Kim qualified in two or three of the miles -- I've listed only her fastest, but she hasn't yet decided which to run on tomorrow.

Bike 6261  Kamphius Racing   A PS P BF 750   95.519


Car 7770   Victory Motorsports   F/GT     172.275

That's the story direct from Dan's binders -- I think it's all correct.  I'll be hanging around the pits for a while again.

[John Noonan]

Thanks for the updates, any news on Nancy, the lectrick bike, Cohn..?  Pictures of Debbie, Dean, Bill, and Bill Shoemakers bike..?

What about Kim on the 750..did she get a hat?

Thanks for the last update..looks like she and others are sitting in the best place..

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Nancy is out for the season.  The motor hurt a valve, we think -- and since the whole head is all new work -- we'll wait for the off season to go through and see why it happened.  The valves are non-stock size and so on -- so repairing out here would be a bugger.  Better to give it up.  Think of it this way, though -- she was ready to quit after this season, but now will most likely be back for more next year, budget permitting.

The electric bike ran earlier today but didn't do much of anything -- was running with a 125 sticker, didn't hurt, didn't break, just had a plain run.  They then went back to inspection for the required visit.  Eva (the rider) pushed the button to depoly the air-actuated outriggers -- but the pressure in the system was low so the bike fell over on the side.  Not a good thing to do with the inspector watching!

Cohn's car is in the pits -- didn't run the return runs this morning because of the tire problem.  I'll go ask Rob and Ron for an update to their story.

Debbie Dross didn't feel comfy riding the Sabat. bike -- so she's done, but Dean did fine.  Qualified with that 217 today but shredded a tire. The bike is in impouond now, all covered with the tarp, and with a new rear tire mounted.

All of the bikes in impound are either tarped or in the trailer now -- so I don't have any photos of them.  When you ask about "Bill" -- which Bil do you mean"  Warner?  He's working with Team Fkawi, as you probably know, and I just got shanghaied into doing some 150 Club bike inspecting.  The rules call for two inspectors -- so Bill got volunteered to do some second checks.  That's it -- he's now back to relaxing, I expect, with Fkawi.

Kim Krebs -- see my post, above.  If she can back it up she'll get the hat, I think -- didn't look it up, but I gotta think that a 220 (Interruption here -- Greg just walked up with further details) will be enough.  Here's what Greg just said:  There is a 215 minimum for the hat in the class -- put up there soon after he got his red hat with a 212 a few years back.  So Kim has qualified in a couple of the miles, and the 220 in the last mile - was followed by a 227 exit speed.  The data logger showed quite a bit less the 100% throttle, at that -- more is there when she wants/needs it.

Other stuff -- Jesse's Truck Shop F/DS is on the course now.  The record is a 199.019, and the car is now going 110 in the first mile and slowing as he goes by at the three.  109 in the first mile, and that's it.

[Freud]

THANKS, Slim

FREUD

[Cole222]

The updates are so much appriciated. Thank You!

Cole

[Bob Drury]

  Not to criticize Robby or Ron, but why would anyone tow all the way to the salt with one set of wheels and tires?  And to lose a record run really hurts.
  Hopefully they find one and get the chance to nail it.
  Anybody who thinks they have had a tough life needs to meet Robby, it will change your view on your own woes..................  Bob

[bvillercr]

  Not to criticize Robby or Ron, but why would anyone tow all the way to the salt with one set of wheels and tires?  And to lose a record run really hurts.
  Hopefully they find one and get the chance to nail it.
  Anybody who thinks they have had a tough life needs to meet Robby, it will change your view on your own woes..................  Bob

we do it every year.

[RayTheRat]

Very quick update...

Yes, I made my first 2 passes on the salt.  About 90 mph and that was all she wrote.  Nothing more.

But.  While I was in town, 3 itinerant salt flats veterans happened to show up looking for work.

First foto.  Alli I can say is that I didn't shoot it cuz I was inside the brain bucket. 

2nd foto.  Apprentice photographer did much better in the launch.

last foto.

Jim, Dickie Milne and Marlo Treit.  Korey Bligh is inside the shell.  Talk about expertise!!!  And appreciated!

They're tryin some other things while I type. 

Kool, kool stuff