Mike Cook Shootout / Washout 2013.

[gerry jenkinson]

This is a video I made at the Mike Cook Shootout last year. https://vimeo.com/84049377
Eva Hakansson and Husband Bill explain  “Killajoule” their electric motorcycle sidecar streamliner which they have brought  to Bonneville hoping to improve on the previous year’s first run of 212mph.  They intend to run again in 2014 and almost certainly will become the fastest sidecar and the fastest female motorcyclist in the world. 
As Lincoln Steffens said:  “I have seen the future and it works”. 
Eva says “Gasoline is so last Century”.

Drayson Racing describe their new electric car.
BUB 7’s crew and Rocky Robinson (Ack Attack 396mph) come over to talk motorcycles, while others wait on the beach!

Gerry Jenkinson
Email      gerry@vindeo.co.uk
Videos   https://vimeo.com/channels/vindeo

[jimmy six]

So do they recharge the batteries with solar or do they possible use a "gasoline/diesel" powered generator......JD

[Speed Limit 1000]

They charge with a generator

[WOODY@DDLLC]

Seems like all them there newfangled 'lectric thingies still have tail pipes or smokestacks somewhere in the supply chain! 

[Speed Limit 1000]

They need nuke power so they can be clean

[Rob]

They need nuke power so they can be clean

Ask a Fukushima or Chernobyl local about that one! 

[Speed Limit 1000]

$hit happens

[F104A]

Is that the 2 wheeled record?  I think the 3 wheel record is 512 MPH held by Kitty O'Neil.

[PorkPie]

Is that the 2 wheeled record?  I think the 3 wheel record is 512 MPH held by Kitty O'Neil.

Eva is going for the sidecar record....the SMI Motivator of Kitty O'Neil is under the FIM regulations a tricycle.....

Sidecar....two wheels in line, one sticks out to the side

Tricycle..... one wheel centered, two left and right....

I don't like to repeat, but there is no 512 mph record....it could be

here some history:

1963....Craig Breedlove run the Spirit of America (Three Wheeler) for a record....this record was certified by the FIM as a tricycle...first over 400 mph record
1964....Tom Green and Art Arfons set records on four wheel...certified by FIA
1964....Craig Breedlove beat Art Arfons record with the Three Wheeler....this time FIA certified...end of the year Craig Breedlove set the first over 500 mph record with the same vehicle.....certified again by FIA.....

very strange...the last 64 record from Craig was only measured over the flying mile....there is NO KILO record...Craig Breedlove's second record was also a kilo record...but under 500 mph....so the 512 mph from Kitty O'Neil could be a "normal" record....and needs not to be called "Women" record....

The speed was set in Oregon, correct under the regulations of FIM as a tricycle record attempt....this is confirmed...but never certified....the team never paid the fee....Hal Needham wasn't very happy about Kitty's achievement....

[Malcolm UK]

In "Weltrekordfahrzeuge - Ferdinand Kasmann" (c2002) there is an entry against the 15 October dates in 1964 for the kilo distance with a time of 4.24 sec and 526.33 mph speed by Craig. The entry did not however appear in the authors earlier book. This is the only source of a speed timed over the kilo that I can find, no other author mentions this faster kilo speed, just the mile at 526.28 mph for the mile.

Great shame that the hollywood money was not able to get FIM ratification for Kitty O.Neil, as the HQ of that organisation has no documents for the 'records' that could be referred to. 

[PorkPie]

Malcolm,

you be right with the show up in the list of Fred's book....

but I got some weeks ago a FIA official booklet in my hand - for 1964 - it shows the mile speed but not the kilo....maybe Dave Petrali can clarify this answer...his dad Joe done the timing to this time and Dave got all the paper as scans.....

would be great to know what is correct.....a problem for ever with the FIA.....

but in fact....it is uninterested if Craig also set the kilo record....this was under the regulations of FIA....and the SMI run FIM....in the FIM list was still the 1963 record (in 1976, when Kitty run at Alvord desert)....just thinking loud....

...a other questions is.....is this record still part of the records list after the FIM freeze a lot of records and classes?

to Hollywood....it was not the money...also, Kitty paid for this ride....20 000 dollars as sponsor money....it was just the p.ss off from Hal Needham....because Kitty run the car straight like an arrow....Needham never had the SMI so perfect under control as she had.....

[TrickyDicky]

In "Weltrekordfahrzeuge - Ferdinand Kasmann" (c2002) there is an entry against the 15 October dates in 1964 for the kilo distance with a time of 4.24 sec and 526.33 mph speed by Craig. The entry did not however appear in the authors earlier book. This is the only source of a speed timed over the kilo that I can find, no other author mentions this faster kilo speed, just the mile at 526.28 mph for the mile.

A 1964 or 1965 Hot Rod Magazine article (see page 2 of http://wildaboutcarsonline.com/members/AardvarkPublisherAttachments/9990352576539/1965-01_HR_World_Land_Speed_1964_1-4.pdf just above the picture of Spirit of America) has 526.28 mph for the mile and 527.33 mph for the kilo.

It seems highly probable the kilo was timed, but maybe not accepted by the FIM for some reason?