World Finals 2012 Racing

[Bob Drury]

  Just wondering if the SCTA is ever going to post the Saturday results?                 Bob

[doug]

  Just wondering if the SCTA is ever going to post the Saturday results?                 Bob

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The results were there yesterday.

Try this:
http://www.scta-bni.org/Bonneville/World%20Finals%202012/Oct_6/DailyDown-LC.html

[Stainless1]

Must be a misprint on the 2000 MG bike record, I didn't see them yesterday either...
Just another Bob

[Bob Drury]

  If anyone snapped a picture of my car showing a side shot of the rear spoiler side plates I would appreciate your forwarding it to me.
  It has a memorium to Courtney Hizer on it and I would like to send it to Villa (His Widow).
                                                                            Thanx, Bob Drury

[Tman]

  If anyone snapped a picture of my car showing a side shot of the rear spoiler side plates I would appreciate your forwarding it to me.

Going forwards or backwards Bob?


Seriously, that is a nice gesture.

[Bob Drury]

  Ooooooooooooooooooooooh, that hurt's!!!!!
  Actually, I don't even care if its sideways, I took some with it sitting still but I haven't yet found my camera but it may be in the pile of Bville "used" clothes that are airing out before I even touch them. 
  The nice thing is that the pants stand by themselves..............
                                                                       Bob

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Bob, Ray the Rat took a bunch of photos of you practicing the circular braking technique off the line and heading for the push truck.  From what I saw he must have held the button down in "automatic" mode - 'cause there were many shots, one after the other, showing the car from many angles .  I'd suggest sending him a note or PM to ask about said images.

[RayTheRat]

Here's a lo-res image of the side view of the car as you left the line.  There's also a time-lapse video (combined stills) of the spin on my FaceBook page, search for Ray Therat.

[Bob Drury]

  Thanx,Ray.
  I will p.m. you later Today.                           Bob

[ETM]

Keith Copeland's 380.006 run in car video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36_zcCr62_E&feature=plcp


Is there any spectator video of this car at speed?  Would love to see it.

[Tman]

Keith Copeland's 380.006 run in car video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36_zcCr62_E&feature=plcp


Is there any spectator video of this car at speed?  Would love to see it.

Thanks for those vids! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Peter Jack]

Did you figure out why the chutes tangled and how to prevent it? That was a really interesting ride!

Pete

[RayTheRat]

Bob, Ray the Rat took a bunch of photos of you practicing the circular braking technique off the line and heading for the push truck.  From what I saw he must have held the button down in "automatic" mode - 'cause there were many shots, one after the other, showing the car from many angles .  I'd suggest sending him a note or PM to ask about said images.

Yep.  I had the 7D on "High-Speed Continuous" drive mode and yeah, I pretty much held the shutter button down for about 15 seconds.  I ended up with about 40 separate, usable images.

[Dean Los Angeles]

Keith Copeland's car has some serious horsepower. 380 is a stunning number.
It's also obvious that there is still some serious speed left on the table.
The rev limiter kicked in just past the 4 1/2. Imagine if it still pulled to the 5 mile. 390? 395? 400? It was still pulling hard when the rev limiter kicked in.
It looks like traction control would really help in the first mile. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd just spin the wheels.
In 4th gear just past the 1/2 mile. 3900 on the shift at 111 and isn't pulling hard for the next 20 seconds until it hits the the power curve at 6000 and 240.

I'm not dingin the run at all, just demonstrating that there is still way more to go with this bad boy.
I'm always of the opinion that this is a drag race and early acceleration is the key.

If not traction control then I'd change the throttle linkage to get more travel in the upper end. The video looks like it's an on/off switch.

[ETM]

Keith Copeland's 380.006 run in car video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36_zcCr62_E&feature=plcp

Is there any spectator video of this car at speed?  Would love to see it.

Keith wanted an update to a higher resolution so there is a new link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx_7fFQbV1Q&feature=g-u-u

Did you figure out why the chutes tangled and how to prevent it? That was a really interesting ride!

Pete

Highspeed failed to deloy when triggered.  Driver then deployed the lowspeed and the highspeed came
out a half second later (there are sensors at the bottom of the parachute bags for lights and logging).
Two chutes deploying at the same moment isn't what we wanted.