Hi again, girls and boys. The steam car saga goes a bit like this.
This morning the car left the line and was building speed just fine. He was running on a 145 record and turned in a 144 last mile. He pulled the chute -- and that's approximately when he went into a flat spin. No, I don't know if he spun and threw the laundry or the chute came out and tugged him around. The wind was not very high at all.
So - he spun and then the car flipped over and landed on the top. It took quite a while to not just get the driver to the ambulance and off the salt, but also to clean up the bits and pieces. Longer than usual, I mean. Maybe the boiler exploded when he went topsy-turvy? I don't know anything about that -- only that the course was on hold for quite a while.
One of the riders with the Fred Vance group went down on her bike. She was riding one of Ryan Ostergard's Busas and for some reason got off at some speed. I talked with Fred afterwards and he knew nothing at that point - and I still don't know any details. The rider was named Jennifer (I think he said that), and it was NOT Brenda Sue. She was with the rest of the crew when I heard from Fred about what was going on.
I think I'll copy this to the WoS results topic, too.
