Here's Mike Kaehny's EM report for the October 2019 event:
Impound Insights for El Mirage October Meet
After months of waiting for the lakebed to be safe enough to race on, the 2019 SCTA racing season finally got under way. Technical inspections were held under sunny skies and some El Mirage horsepower blowing down the course. There was excitement and promise of a great opening round. But Mother Nature is fickle and she showed us so with a change in the wind on Sunday. There were 80 runs made in one round of racing. The fastest car of the meet was the DRM Racing entry at 239.480 mph and the fastest motorcycle was the Ralph Hudson entry at 229.310 mph. There were a few records set and I do mean a few. Very few. First the cars?..
The first car in was the Team McLeish Datsun entry, They rolled into impound holding a 137.236 mph record in H/GCC with Derek McLeish himself doing the driving. In next we had Neil McAlister behind the wheel of the BMR Ferguson entry in XO/BGALT. He pushed the record to 186.293 mph. The last certified record of the day was set by the Lattin Stevens entry in V4F/VGCC on an open record. Bill Lattin now claims that spot with a record run of 103.473 mph. On to the motorcycles?
To start the day for the motorcycle?s, David McLachlan, Bones to the folk who know him was riding a Suzuki Hayabusa for the McLachlan-Noonan entry in the 1000/M-BF class. Against a 172.00 mph min, he now owns it at 182.452 mph. Later in the day, Tim Cunha piloted the Costello/Cunha/Sassano entry in the 1000/SCS-BG class to a new record of 172.500 mph with Suzuki power.
And that my friends is all I got. Hopefully we?ll have a better show for you in November as we close out the shortened season with a two day meet. Technical inspections will be on Friday ( 11/08 ) and racing will begin on Saturday ( 11/09 ) and finish up on Sunday ( 11/10 ). We?ll see you on the dirt!
Mike Kaehny Dan Warner
Record Certification Officer Senior Record Consultant