Hell Hath No Fury Like Louise Scorned...

[Bret Kepner]

She's on the rampage...and rightfully so:

----- Original Message -----
From: LandSpeed Louise
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:54 AM


TV's Jesse James fraudulently claims besting BMW's FIA ratified hydrogen-powered World Record Speed Record

Cable TV personality Jesse James claims he set the world record for hydrogen-powered vehicles on June 16th on the southern California El Mirage dry lake.

The claim is without merit since the activities were conducted without benefit of any motorsports sanctioning authority. The vehicle was neither inspected, nor certified and all the timing personnel were on the James TV payroll.

World speed records require two runs over a one-mile course within one hour. James was 5,148 feet short -- being timed one-way for a total of 132 feet; he made only three or four passes over an eight to ten-hour period. Any world record holder will tell you it’s quite a technical feat to hold speed for a full mile.

The baseless speed stunt was reportedly for "the season-ending episode of James's TV show, Jesse James is a Dead Man." The episode is set to air in early August.

James claims to have bested the FIA ratified BMW HR2 record of 185 mph. The BMW HR2 race car set 9 international and FIA-ratified land-speed records for hydrogen cars at the Miramas Proving Grounds in France. The BMW HR2 is one of the few hydrogen cars developed with internal combustion engine (ICE) technology instead of fuel cell technology.

Mr. James efforts count for absolutely nothing on the world motorsports stage and amount to little more than a self-promoting “TV racer” PR stunt since he chose to ignore the sport's sanctioning rules that have applied to all records certified for the past 80 years.

When contacted to explain the fraudulent claim, James responded with a short crude retort that reminded this writer that vulgarity is indeed the refuge of a destitute mind.

[John Noonan]

http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,6235.0.html

Old news...

[Bret Kepner]

Damn! Missed bein' current by twenty minutes! 

[Stainless1]

Dodge! Missed bein' current by twenty minutes! 

Luckily that never happened while you were on TV.....
See ya at the 3....

[DiveEZ]

Where is it that Jesse James hemself is saying he broke the record, all I've seen is other people saying he is saying it, does that makes any sense

[jimmy six]

For me the one thing Jesse can claim is being faster than the BMW record.

I'm sure Glen and the "older-wiser" guys will step in but I don't remember Mickey Thompson ever making 2 runs to hold the official Land Speed Record but he was always known as the King of Speed. Nobody is bad mouthing him. He went 406 and was always known for that. He did use the same car at an SCTA-BNI meet to hold the A or AA  streamliner record at 354+ I believe in 1960.

According to other threads Jesse's attempt was awarded with a certificate of speed showing how fast he went which is faster than the BMW and what he was trying to do.

Hopefully this will all blow over and not cause any more flack than it already has with the LSR community...................................

[Glen]

I have no comments, I stated in another post that it was not a record and that he received a certificate of his speed. If he wants to run at speed week he will be running on Burklands 417 mph record.