Hi, Velo Mac...
You've been way too quiet as well!!!
Well, as I flew out Thursday the 8th to Las Vegas, it rained on the Flats.... Needed time to dry... So no races until Tuesday...
Small course only 1 mile 1/2 long, so no way to do qualifier runs there and about 6 to 8 hours wait on the 5 miles only long/short combined course...
Swiftly got called the ""schlong""" course...
Don Campo, ""Race Engineer"" on this forum, did a 5000 mile round trip from his home in Texas to help me with the van and tuning duties, my eternal thanks to him for his tools, efforts and council, well appreciated...
Bike did not work very well.... Either fuel or ignition related... 1st run 43 mph... Mods... 2nd run 10% better, 48mph, then 2 aborted runs... After moult mods and tries, we packed up on Thursday the 15th...
Don and meself next to the temporary sign at the Flats entry:
So we had plenty of socialising time... Don knew guys from the Team Vesco, so we hugged to them and we were indeed treated like equal... Their driver had a 503mph exit speed on the wheel driven Turbinator last October, but like ourselves, were plagued with problems, mostly electronics... We were invited at Rick Vesco's wife's birthday grand dinner ("Jinx"', I understand she was born on a Friday the 13th...) and the whole team was happy to school and tell us a thing or two about how to run such a beast...
The bike just arrived back at my place of work yesterday, I'll pop in today to dismantle the crate to reassemble and clean the bike...
Thanks to all here who have offered help and advice, I'll do a "post mortem" later this year and see what the next step will be!!!
Your friend Patrick...