This is, what Malcolm wrote us on a other LSR list. Hope this gives some answer......
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Fortunately I was not at Goodwood this year gathering any autographs - (you want to see the copious amounts of money within motor sport then you have to go), as I have had to organise a land speed record attempt for PrimeTime with their three LSR cars. The main attraction of the record attempt is the jet car 'shoot out' between the current record holder 'Vampire (300.3 mph average speed in 2000) and the new lighter weight car - 'split second'. The electric car e=motion geared for the shorter course is entered as well.
The link to the USA is that the runway used is at RAF Fiarford
Gloucestershire, which is a base of the USAF here in the British Isles. It
was thanks to a General somewhere within the Pentagon that we got access to
the finest runway in the UK. Two and a quarter miles or so of pristine
asphalt that is self draining. Timed distances of 1/4 mile, 500 metres and
1 kilometre are being set up.
The reason for it being this weekend is that one of the jets will open the
display at RIAT 2006 - the World's largest air tattoo - next weekend, on
each of its two public show days (15th & 16th July if you are here).
see ya