Hi guys,
It was a truly amazing experience. Just to clarify, as cool as it would be to be a world champion, what I have is the AMA National landspeed record for 350cc Modified Classic Gas category. The official average time is 87.876 mph, with a 89.773 return run my fastest speed. Corrected air density altitude was about 5200 ft. Today was verification of displacement, which means several hours of tearing down on these old Hondas. Pretty cool to have an AMA and FIM official shake your hand and say congratulations, you have the record.
Like the community here, the landspeed community is a family of amazingly nice and generous people. I made so many great new friends it is kind of like a dream. Huge thanks to bottleheads Michael Dunnigan (my teammate who also rode, cutting an impressive 83+ down run with a misbehaving clutch) and Jim Laurel, who with Kevin Curry shot a ton of gorgeous 4K video so we can have some home movies to remember the fun. Thanks also to Cindee Sherman, the ER nurse on our team who kept us all hydrated and electrolyted, flushed burning eyes, treated pipeburns, iced pinched fingers, and massaged cramps out on the hostile salt. Thanks to Jaylin Billig, my race coach who encouraged me to attempt to beat one of her many landspeed records. That woman totally rocks. And of course thanks as always to my Capo Corsa and love of my life Queen Eileen, for putting up with yet another of Doc's cockamamie schemes.
We're gonna start on our way back home tomorrow. If I have a chance I will try to post some pics, and we'll be back next week.
It was a truly amazing experience. Just to clarify, as cool as it would be to be a world champion, what I have is the AMA National landspeed record for 350cc Modified Classic Gas category. The official average time is 87.876 mph, with a 89.773 return run my fastest speed. Corrected air density altitude was about 5200 ft. Today was verification of displacement, which means several hours of tearing down on these old Hondas. Pretty cool to have an AMA and FIM official shake your hand and say congratulations, you have the record.
Like the community here, the landspeed community is a family of amazingly nice and generous people. I made so many great new friends it is kind of like a dream. Huge thanks to bottleheads Michael Dunnigan (my teammate who also rode, cutting an impressive 83+ down run with a misbehaving clutch) and Jim Laurel, who with Kevin Curry shot a ton of gorgeous 4K video so we can have some home movies to remember the fun. Thanks also to Cindee Sherman, the ER nurse on our team who kept us all hydrated and electrolyted, flushed burning eyes, treated pipeburns, iced pinched fingers, and massaged cramps out on the hostile salt. Thanks to Jaylin Billig, my race coach who encouraged me to attempt to beat one of her many landspeed records. That woman totally rocks. And of course thanks as always to my Capo Corsa and love of my life Queen Eileen, for putting up with yet another of Doc's cockamamie schemes.
We're gonna start on our way back home tomorrow. If I have a chance I will try to post some pics, and we'll be back next week.
My potential competitor has a lot of experience and ran in fuel class, but on gas (I ran in gas class). He ran 102 to my 87.876 - he very kindly let me get a record (old record was 62). Next year the gloves are off. I've been crunching numbers and it seems I was down on power quite a bit more than I initially thought, even though it sounded great and seemed to pull pretty well. Plus I had a slipping clutch. Need to find about 20 mph, and so here I go down the rabbit hole! Sure could use an abandoned stretch of road nearby for testing...
