Joe, maybe I should have quoted him more carefully. Mike told me that they were having troubles with the motor -- that it would only go to 80% power. In those words I think I heard him saying that they wanted to have a 100% motor before they pushed whatever engine is in the bike. Maybe it's 80% okay and 20% broken. It's great looking at their setup -- small, with an EZ-Up and a 20x25 tarp on the ground and a few cars clustered around the pit. Traditional back yard racers having a ball!
There's too much wind right now for Bub to run, I just heard on the FM, and the Missile is being buttoned up and readied for a run. No time forecast yet -- but they'll go sooner rather than later.
and then there's the #757 Camaro over on the other side of the pits. Ray took some photos and will post the information -- but dang it, he's not here to race -- just to do some chute tests during quiet times on the race track.
And I want to tell you that Junior Cook got his Power Ranger truck stuck while wheel-packing an escape route for the Bub bike. He was way west of the pits -- and we're down hard by the freeway -- trying to give Chris Carr an extra mile or so of salt in case he needs it for stopping (in case of chute failure). Junior was pulling the packer and in the pretty soft stuff -- tried turning and realizied he needed to shift down to second, couldn't get it there in time and got bogged down. About a half-dozen guys pushed him out and we all carefully moved the packer back to better ground and Junior hitched up and drove away. He says it's the first time he's ever been stuck in the goop.
PS Ray moseyed over to our truck and corrected me on spelling "escape", which I had done with an "X" instead of an "S", so I've fixed it. Nanny-nanny foo-foo on those of you that missed the original typo.
