Howdy! The salt sure looks great. I have not driven the course* yet, but the access roads and other areas are hard and dry and not very bumpy.
*One course this year for WF - a combination short and long course. No, that won't make for long lines because so far there are 53 (or so) entries. But those entries - oh, my, maybe some of youse guys should hi-tail it out here. We've got the new Burkdoll 'liner that Jim and his family have built. It'll be running on a #444 Rick Vesco record of 335+ in C/FS. Ed Umland is here with his B/BGS, Bals-a-Salt in the 135 AA/GALT, Mariani Farms B/GS, the Wolf-Strasburg team and their D/BFL are pitted right across the pit road from me.
There's a new (to me, at least) lakester - XO/BFL with a GMC 6 in it. I'll try to get some photos. Big Tim is here in the new C/DS powered by a Cummins 5.9L motor. Chet Thomas and his B/BSTR and the Cummins-Beck-Davidson-Thornberry AA/BFR are registered, Nish Motorsports is here in the 998 D/FS, and the 1000 Bockscar will show us whether Stainless and Ross and Johnboy and the rest of them made improvements on it since SpeedWeek. The Tradup D/GL, Jack Iliff and his G/GCC, and the Jesel B/BGMP are here. I've seen two cars built in the Jack Costella mode -- Rick Yacoucci's 788 and Jim Hoogerhyde's 2020.
There are fifteen or maybe 20 bikes and I'll get a look at those next. In the meantime, I'll refer you to the cars I just listed - maybe 20 of them, and that leaves maybe an other 15 I didn't list.
Do you think that any of them are short course cars? I doubt it, and that means some fast times if the salt races as well as it looks. Stay tuned for more.