Landracing Forum
El Mirage => El Mirage General Chat => Topic started by: vintageracecar on November 11, 2015, 11:00:42 AM
-
Guys,
The Final Race of the Season, IT"S A GO.
Weather and courses look good.
Here is the info and schedule as posted on the SCTA-BNI Website & FaceBook page.
Hi Racers,
El Mirage is dry, cool and beautiful like a sheet of glass. The race tracks have been laid out and prepared
for racing. The two courses look great. We should have an excellent event as long as the weather
cooperates. Arm bands are required at the starting line for everyone; you can acquire your armband at
the registration trailer. If crew members need arm bands early on Saturday or Sunday the registration
trailer will be open around 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. We will notify you as soon as possible if the weather
prohibits us from racing.
Friday:
• Inspection & Registration Opens at Noon
• 3:00 Rookie orientation – ALL Rookie Drivers & Rookie Riders Must Attend if you want to run on Saturday
• 4:00 course walk
Saturday:
• Arm bands will be available before racing at registration around 6 to 7:00 a.m.
• Inspection & Registration after 7:00 a.m.
• Patrol meeting 7:00 a.m. at starting line
• Drivers meeting at 7:15 a.m. at starting line
• Racing begins following drivers meeting
• Rookie orientation at 3:00 p.m. – ALL Rookie Drivers & Rookie Riders Must Attend if you want to run on Sunday
• Course walk at 4:00 p.m.
• Land Speed Tire Seminar at 4:30 p.m. (starts after course walk)
Sunday:
• Arm bands will be available before racing at registration around 6 to 7:00 a.m.
• Inspection & Registration after 7:00 a.m.
• Patrol meeting 7:00 a.m. at starting line
• Drivers meeting at 7:15 a.m. at starting line
• Racing begins following drivers meeting
See you all there,
Bill Lattin
SCTA President & Race Director
-
Good luck everybody!! I hope you have a great meet!
-
I was out there last weekend for course prep. The courses look pretty good. :cheers:
-
:cheers:
-
I'm leaving before sun up tomorrow. :cheers: Wayno
-
Lookin' for another 37 RPM :-D
-
I'm leaving before sun up tomorrow. :cheers: Wayno
Wayno good luck. Stay focused and go fast.
-
Lookin' for another 37 RPM :-D
Stan, I'm thinking Wayno is a 33 1/3 or 78 kind of guy :-D
:cheers: and good luck to all
-
Who you callin' Stan? :x
-
Isn't that his name, right under his picture: "Stan complained"? :mrgreen:
Mike
-
Nope. Them is two different Humans. (And I use the term rather loosish) :roll: However, them's both good Humans :cheers: Wayno
-
I should show up around 6:30am sat
-
Nope. Them is two different Humans. (And I use the term rather loosish) :roll: However, them's both good Humans :cheers:Wayno
Thanx Wayno, and yep, I'm a 33 1/3, 78 kinda guy too :-D
-Willie
-
911 high boy at 277 mph in the dirt
-
911 high boy at 277 mph in the dirt
HOLY CRAP!!! Must be a great course and Dave was able to give it a little more throttle :cheers:
Hey...the meets not over, maybe there's more :-D
JL222
-
We were near the end to run. Starting #207..saw some #'s in the mid 230's. Heard there were 160 entries. Course was excellent for us anyway, ran 158.2 on our 158.3 record be out tomorrow and hope to get it.
Skip Pipes roadster finally made it to 200 by running a 206 with Nathan Stewart driving. All therir troubles seem to be behind them as it went perfectly straight.
Jim Loving's Pontiac Firebird went 188+ 7 over his previous best in C/GC. Hopefully better tomorrow with change or 2.
Fergusons's liner went 270+ and Fogy had some fuel problem in the Robinson # 66 roadster. They ready for tomorrow too.
Enough cannot be said about Dave Davidsons 277+ run....JD
-
Many thanks for the quick report :-D, JD....Go get`em tomorrow...
-
My thanks - and I'll extend it from all of us here on the Forum. Thank you very much for the information. :cheers:
-
In September, our apprentice driver ran 192.987 (or so) on our 193.930 record. Yesterday he ran 193.286. Little steps. Very little steps . . .
https://youtu.be/DPu2Hv2Fu3o
-
In September, our apprentice driver ran 192.987 (or so) on our 193.930 record. Yesterday he ran 193.286. Little steps. Very little steps . . .
https://youtu.be/DPu2Hv2Fu3o
Oh So Close :-D
-
Stan Back, I hurd that many of the well funded teams are building cars to challenge that soft record.
FREUD
-
I imagine it is a little soft. We've had it over 10 years. One of the "names" tried it a couple of years ago in a two-day meet -- which allowed them to spin twice -- doubling my spin record at, at least, El Mirage.
I'm beginning to think that it takes a little more practice on the dirt than the five miles at Bonneville. We had the record (set four times) for six years at Bonneville before we were trounced in both horsepower and design. But it's been a great ride.
There's always next year.
Stan
-
Fogie ran 245 this morning. First gear in my car got a "Non-Participant Award" yesterday. :roll: I gave away over half a mile fooling with it. I finally got second gear and went for it to get some data and ended up running 136. Looks like I've got a Winter project or two. As an aside, I trounced the competition in the annual "White Goose Bar Chili Cook Off". The Perpetual Trophy (Toilet Plunger) is mine for one year. :cheers: With impending bad weather both at El Mirage and home (Utah), we decided to pack it in and make tracks this morning. As it turns out, I am pleased with the decision. The car and trailer are tucked neatly away in my shop in anticipation of the snow that's supposed to fall in a few hours. Wayno
-
well its raining South of you---does snow come in from the south?
-
Sometimes Bill. This one appears to be coming in from the North. Wayno
-
Neat picture of Wayno
https://www.facebook.com/Landspeedphotos/?fref=nf
-
That picture is from June. Cool picture, though. Wayno
-
The 2015 LSR season was weird, very few but successfull runs for us.
We bumped the 650 pushrod fuel record from 1995 of 145mph up to 175mph
here is the video of our only one run last weekend.
https://youtu.be/Ioh3hwPcY5c
-
Congratulations are certainly in order for Dave Davidson and crew. They were running as a legal Fuel Roadster, too, which makes it even a greater accomplishment. In previous months, I believe they were running in modified.
Stan
-
The 2015 LSR season was weird, very few but successfull runs for us.
We bumped the 650 pushrod fuel record from 1995 of 145mph up to 175mph
here is the video of our only one run last weekend.
https://youtu.be/Ioh3hwPcY5c
Yeah, BIG congratulations to Alp on that speed. 175+ with a naked 650 pushrod is unbelievable!!!!
-
Wayno, how is the toe healing?
-
Here's another video that shown up . . .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNWzD1L5XFQ&feature=em-share_video_user
-
That silver roadster does not have any identification numerals on the side. Was it "grandfathered in" from the days before they invented numbers?
-
If you are looking at the Stan Back(white) roadster the number is behind the front tire. The guy has a hard head.
DW
-
Dan, I heard Pete Prentice crashed at the end of his run,what happened and is he OK.
-
It looked like when Pete pulled the chute it ripped the rear end loose. The car never overturned or anything. Pete didn't need treatment and was walking around the pits shortly after.
-
If you are looking at the Stan Back(white) roadster the number is behind the front tire. The guy has a hard head.
DW
Nah...
-
I thought Stan's car was white with white numbers.... :-D He is planning to return to the salt after the strip mining has all the white removed so he will have a contrasting color :dhorse:
-
Good to know I wasn't alone. I was starting to think I needed an eye exam update and fresh set of specs :-D
:cheers:
Ed
-
In that case I do not know the roadster of which you speak.
DW
-
The San Berdoo Roadsters roadster has a legal-sized, contrasting, easy-to-read number on both sides of the hood -- right where the only one who needs to read them (the starter) is.
(We're trying to keep it low-key when we drive it on the street.)
Stan
-
San Berdoo has streets now? :-o :cheers: Wayno
-
And I hear some are even paved!
-
That is impressive. A street roadster that races on the salt. has it been able to set any records against the cars that are taken there on trailers?
-
I'm still waiting to see final results, line up order and declared points champs. :|
Also, not to speak for Pete, but he told me that it was getting away from him and he stayed with it a bit too long. Whatever planetary trans he runs locks up when spun backwards which resulted in bad things happening after the car spun. Murfed up the car pretty good but it was good to see Pete walking around like nothing happened.
-
Results have been posted since this past weekend.
DW
-
And for those of you that haven't seen it elsewhere -- here's Dan's report from the Nov '15 EM event.
Impound Insights - November 14/15, 2015
Beautiful Southern California weather greeted the racers on Friday for tech inspection. The downside of the weekend was the cold temperatures experienced by the overnight campers, some reported night time temps as low as 19 deg., the air did make for great horsepower. By the end of Saturday over 195 entries had passed thru tech and made runs, I am told that it was the highest entry count ever for El Mirage. So many entries running on a top notch race course still could not complete round one before darkness began to fall and the course was moved for the following day's events. Highlight of Saturday was the ground pounding run of Dave Davidson in the Cummins Beck Davidson Thornsberry C/BFR at 277.657 mph. This is in a highboy roadster folks! The pits were still abuzz with the speed of the Ferguson Racing B/FS, Don Ferguson III driving, at 270 when Dave made his historic run.
Five new members joined the El Mirage 200 MPH club at this meet. Mike Fitzmorris took a turn at the wheel of the McLeish Bracket Racing Triumph GT6 coupe. Running in the H/BFMS class Mike set a record of 201 MPH. Dean Kennedy had his run in the Kennedy Racing C/GT Corvette. Dean's dad Bill, June meet, and brother Dave, Sept. meet, had made the club roster earlier this season. Dean's speed of 205.8 MPH lasted until the following day when Bill bumped the new record to 206.1. Dennis Mariani Jr. drove one of the many Mariani Farms cars this meet. This meet it was the B/GR '34 Ford roadster entry. Dennis knocked off a great run of 220 late Sunday afternoon just as the wind that shut the meet down came to visit. Chris Rivas was our motoercycle member this meet. Chris ran a fine 208 MPH lap on his Chris Rivas VTwin Harley in the 3000-APS-PBF class. All the way from Evansville, IN Steve Strupp handled the Jack Rogers Racing A/GC Camaro to a new record of 212 MPH. Speaking of Steve's trip, we had several entries from many far flung locations across the country for the two day meet. Thanks everyone for joining us.
In addition to the four car and one motorcycle 200 Club qualified records we had 18 car and 4 motorcycle records set. The previously mentioned B/FS record of Ferguson Racing, Don Ferguson III up, of 270.7 MPH made the list. Ed Fenn set the C/GS streamliner record with the Brissette & Fenn lakester with fenders at 239. Greg Martinez came from San Francisco the set the V4F/BGL class record in the Disturbing Da Peace entry at 158 MPH. Costella/Hoogerhyde driver Jim Hoogerhyde continued his great year at El Mirage. This time the team entered the H/GL class and set the mark to 198.6 MPH. White Goose Bar Racing set another record with Greg Waters driving the Waters/Manghelli/Romero entry in the F/BFMR class. The Toyota 2JZ powered high boy with belly pan set the class record at 219+. SCTA President Bill Lattin, using his alter ego name of William Lattin drove the V4/BFRMR entry of Aardema Braun Lattin to a class standard of 186 MPH. The Kraut Bros., Santa Barbara, CA, did well with Willie Boelcke in the seat setting the C/BGRMR record to 218 MPH. In the Blown Gas Roadster classes the team of Eyres and Son, Eric Eyres driving, set the E/BGR record to 213. The new roadster built and driven by Erik Hansson set the XF/BGR record to 164+. Vintage Hot Rod brought out the 2014 season championship C/AIR roadster with John Beck at the wheel. John bumped up the class record to 179 MPH. Bill Lattin drove a second entry at the meet. The Lattin & Stevens XXF/VGCC setting the record at 167. At the end of the day this entry walked off with a hard won Season Championship. Cohn Jucewic Monza returned to the impound with a C/CGC record of 205 driven by engine builder Bob Jucewic. The Notabusa I/FCC driving by Larry Foley Jr set a final season record of 135.3 MPH. Neil McAlister changed classes this meet and ran the BMR Ferguson Racing coupe in the XXF/BFAlt class with a record of 177+. Steve Hope brought the old H & H Motorsports coupe out of moth balls and set a G/BGC record with driver Jere Teepen at 176 MPH. At only his third meet ever Steve Tillack took the F/BGMS record in his bright red Datsun 240 type coupe using Toyota 2JZ power. Long time Bonneville racer Larry Lancaster came to visit with his '60s style Chevy pick up using GMC 302 power with a blower. The XO/BMP class entry Lilbit 'O Racing set the class record at 133, a well deserved reward at the end of a long road trip.
Motorcycle impound had four more records in addition to Chris Rivas' 200 club run. Motorcycle Season Championship winner Ralph LeClercq set another record on his Team McLeish RS entry in the 125-APS-BG class. Ralph ended the season with a 129.2 record in the class. A very impressive Alp Sungurtekin set a 175 record on his pre-unit Triumph in the 650-A-PF class. Top Speed of the Meet for the two wheel group was set by Ralph Hudson on his 1000-APS-PF entry at 237.5 MPH. Finally, McLeish Bracket Racing had the Silver Rod 1350-SCS-F with Derek McLeish driving and setting the class record at 175.1 MPH.
Top Speed of the Meet was the Vintage Hot Rod entry #911 driven by Dave Davidson on that fantastic run of 277.6 in the C/BFR class. This run also netted the team Top Speed of the Year. Top Speed of the Year for motorcycles is John 'Big Balls'(self named) Noonan at 250.514 in June. The Number one club for 2015 is the Milers.
The lineups for 2016 are set, the rule changes have been published and the date is carved in stone. All that is missing is you and your entry. Good luck to everyone in the upcoming season.
Merry Christmas/Happy New Year , Joanie and I wish everyone the safest of holidays and look forward to seeing you in May at El Mirage.
Dan Warner
Record Certification officer