BAR to run at Bonneville?

[dwarner]

This email just came in today from James Rice, SCTA-BNI time clock guy.
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 just got back 15 minutes ago.  Yes, we timed  the F1 car.  They were clearly ?sandbagging? it.  Fastest 2 way average was about 160.  This was all just practice and photo shoots, the real runs will be in October.  Man, can that car come to a stop and turn around in a hurry.  These land speed cars should feel ashamed if they can?t return run in an hour.  He?d make 4 runs in about 8 minutes.

 
James Rice
Engineering Technology Specialist
Lennox Hearth Products
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Warner230

[promachine]

how was the coarse Dan?

[dwarner]

John,

Hard and rough. Dragging will continue until the last possible second. I'm sure that all measures will be taken to give us the best possible courses.

Warner230 (on a constant search to come up with a viable screen name)

[Dynoroom]

I wonder why my "inside source" say's they found the salt flats tougher than they thought . He also said they ran over 200 mph, but will they go back? 250 mph seems a long way off for now. We'll have to wait for the real story. [-( I hope they enjoyed it and come back with some trick production cars too.

Dan, how about the "Conductor to Warnerville"

[promachine]

I like woozy Warner , or Dan Dan the beer man.

[TheMatt]

Just thought I'd add a link to BAR's site: Bonneville400.  The "The Car" section has some interesting words from Gary Savage about the setup of the car.

[JackD]

An F1 car went faster in Europe prior to 79 and it wasn't a "Lakester" then either.

[Sumner]

(picture from http://www.7extrememotorsports.com/formula1/cars/bar-honda.htm )

It will be neat to see how this car does.  

I've never seen one in real life, but if it is like the one in the picture above it looks to me as if there is a lot of the car outside the inner most plane of the wheels/tires, so I wonder about their plans to run it as a lakester?

c ya, Sum

[aircap]

"so I wonder about their plans to run it as a lakester?"

AGAIN - they just want to see how fast the sumbitch will go!!

They don't need no stinking classes.....

[Sumner]

"so I wonder about their plans to run it as a lakester?"

AGAIN - they just want to see how fast the sumbitch will go!!

They don't need no stinking classes.....

Not what they now say on their site   .

Doesn't make any difference to me.  I'd like to see how fast it runs also .

c ya, Sum

[Leon]

They claim it fits into F/GL

[JackD]

A F1 car won't go it's fastest on the salt anymore than a fish will win a bicycle race.

[interested bystander]

They are to run beginning Oct 4 and therefore it must be their own deal.

[Malcolm UK]

What advice are the BAR team getting from the States that makes them think that they have a Lakester?

Perhaps as a 2005 Spec F1 car they hope that no one will find the traction control line in the lectronic brain perhaps or the roll bar will be overlooked.

As to 400kph - the McLaren road car went just short of this at 240.1mph.

Now if they had gone for the closed course lap record speed then we might all think better of them.

Is the SCTA/BNI having an official role in this private time (if they do mean 30 days away) bid?

Perhaps someone from the USA will let me know how the 'attempt' is being recorded - one way, peak speed, average two runs,

If its only being done as an F1 'thing' then JackD is right to term it a 'stunt'.

[interested bystander]

We all know a lakester's bodywork cannot extend past the inner plane of the tires and the ROLL CAGE has to have the 45 degree gussets.

Not a lakester, certainly an engineering masterpiece.

5 mph in pickup in pits