The awards banquet was very good....outstanding food.....a little long due to the auction......due to the
economy the dollar prices were down, in fact the dollars ($1600) we put up for the sidecar classes is now
one of the bigger ones. John Renwick from the UK. got the $800.00 for the fastest streamliner sidecar,
(we gave him cash this year due to the fact when he won the money last year, buy the time the various
taxes were payed for both US. and UK. he got $500.00) Fritz Egli from Switzerland won the dollars for the "normal" sit-on sidecar. (208+ mph. on a Turbo/Busa...."wheel on a stick" outfit).
Actually, the fastest streamliner sidecar was Craig Anderson (Peg Leg Craig) but he was test running his outfit on "Run what ya brung" which did not count for the dollars.
I plan to increase the sidecar dollars for the 2010 BUB......I have been trying for many years now to get more interest in LSR sidecars, this year at the BUB we had 11 outfits competing for records and dollars....
so I have been somewhat successfull. If we can get some of our roadracing sidecar racers to come an play with us on the salt......we should see some outstanding speeds for the future. For the last couple of year we have had Rick Murray and his passenger wife Nida racing on the salt with us...Rick and Nida have been the main driving force in N.American sidecar roadracing, in fact they upped their record by 10mph this year on the salt...