Alan Rice just spent a couple of minutes over here with some thins-n-that stuff.
First of all, the motor is a 'Busa engine, but - it's built as a turbo motor. They're running NA now, so it's sorta "detuned". They'll use the same engine later this week on spray, too. The car is geared for 200 at EM -- got a maroon hat with this gear set. So here he was in a soft part of the powerband.
But Alan wants to officially thank Dave Petrali for doing the timing of the run. Way back when the R/V team started thinking about running at this event - they began making plans for someone other than their firm - Chronologic - to do the actual timing of the runs. And the final result is that Dave used the USAC clocks just now to time the Rice/Vigeant car's run. No conflict of interest this way - no questions about the veracity of the timing.
Jamie Williams, per Drew Gatewood, is still in the pit but five-ten minutes from getting the bike on the transport trailer to go down to the start point a few miles up the course.
Speed Demon has been rolled forward from the work area in the pits to in plain site. Big crowd around the car -- I can't see, from here for sure, but it looks like there is daylight visible in the engine compartment - like maybe the motor has been pulled. I'll go look -- don't ask questions of me while I'm gone, you hear?
