COOK'S SHOOTOUT 2012

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Dean, it's still way too early in LA to be drinking beers, isn't it?  So here's the 8.17 AM MDT update:

Poteet & Main still aren't ready to run - hey, not ready to leave the pit for a run.  So we've elected to run the "Rice Rocket" (Cook's phrase, not mine) first.  The clocks need to be refarbulated - -

Whoops, never mind, Poteet & Main now say they'll be ready to leave the pits in five minutes and head for the north end, so what I was going to say -- that the Rice car would run first -- is now not correct.

We'll see.  I'll letcha know.  In the meantime I'll go fire up the pit bike.

[RayTheRat]

Vehicles are heading out from the pits.  The Demon isn't on the trailer yet, but some things (like the ambulance) are getting into position.

[Tman]

97 bottles of beer on the wall.  97 bottles of beer

[joea]

and so are you Ray (in position), good on you for being out there to add to this coverage..!!

[Glen]

TMAN----a little Irish whisky is better then beer any morning

[Seldom Seen Slim]

The Speed Demon (which I think I'll start denoting by the initials "SD" - takes too long to type the full name each time) will run first using the D motor.  The bodywork is on the car - but it's still not in the transporter.

Yesterday we saw Mike Akatiff and Ken Puccio of the Ack team, and now I see Terry Nish, Cec McCray and a few others wearing Nish team shirts, so - even if the vehicles aren't here to run -- the folks with the vested interest sure are in attendance.  It's good to see 'em all here -- a chance to shoot the breeze in a somewhat-low-stress environment.

All course workers are in place - we'll just sit and wait.

I  know, I know -- 96 bottles. . .

[Tman]

TMAN----a little Irish whisky is better then beer any morning

Don't drink whiskey and am at work anyway. DOT might frown on anything more than my iced tea!

[Tom Slick]

Irish Whisky will make you Frisky, especially on race day

[RayTheRat]

Photos:

Another beautiful sunrise.

The "Rice Rocket"   

And a couple of shots of the Demon which seems to have just barely put on the trailer for the trip down to the mountain end for its first run.  We hope,anyway.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Ray, I'll see your sunrise and raise you two.  The first shot is from the top of the overpass near the truckstop, the second from Land's End.

[Plmkrze]

Good luck to all the racers and have safe runs!!  

Thanks Ray for the pics and updates. I'm at work and check in on my breaks and at lunch time.

Ack Attack team not running is smart! Those men know the vehicle and what it likes and more importantly dislikes at speed. Very good gentlemen, very good. Forgo this battle and in the end, WIN the War!

[Glen]

Slim, do you know who the driver is for the Rice bros car. Mark, James or Alan?

[RayTheRat]

Ray, I'll see your sunrise and raise you two.  The first shot is from the top of the overpass near the truckstop, the second from Land's End.

Kool!!

The Demon left the pits a couple of minutes ago:

[Moxnix]

Glen, one driving N/A, another blown, can't remember which, but James said at BUB he would have a turn.

[BearCat]

Still wrenching away on the Barnyard Bearcat.  Excited to see George Poteet's down run this morning!