Just a heads up on some Land Speed Racing in Northern Maine this weekend Jul 31- Aug 2.....Any H.A.M.B. Members going to be there? The weather looks great for Sat and Sun....Hope some guys and gals make it up here!! Here is some more info on the event: http://www.lta-lsr.com/HOME.htm
At 10:10am 8/1/09, relative humidity 64%, barometric pressure 29.9, density al***ude 1841, water vapor gain 73.23. Everything dropping except barometric pressure. 12:00 FIRST RUN, 1st vehicle has pushed off at 12:00 today. FREE HORSEPOWER WORLD RECORDS ABOUT TO DROP.
At Loring Air force base: Randy Holbrook's world record in the 1350 production cl*** is 205.658. The old record at Bonneville was 205.2. Scott Guthrie Team broke its own world record of 250 by more than 10 miles an hour. At 11:47 am, Sunday, August 2nd, Scott Guthrie was asked this question: "What do you think of the venue"? He replied " We may very well skip Bonneville for the Loring Air force Base". <!-- / message -->
Come on fellas, please don't start claiming new world records unless you get the SCTA to go to Loring AFB and certify the vehicles, co**** and times. If you want to create your own Loring LSR records, like Maxton does, fine, just don't go down a road that will only lead you to a cliff. On the positive side, congradulations on pulling your project together. I wish you all nothing but continued success.
Interested? 11:37am, August 2nd, Limestone, Maine: 72.9 degrees - 76% - 29.13" STD correction - 1.0625 Dens. Alt. - 2452 Dew Pt. - 65.2 H2O - 93.103 Pres. Alt. - 739 Average wind - 10.2 mph (perfect tail wind) Maximum wind - 19.6 mph A special thank you to all those compe***ors from "away" (CA, TX, KY, FL, OH, IA, TN, GA, SC, NC, VA, NY, NJ, CT, RI, MA, VT, NH and any that I have missed) who participated in adding yet one more new chapter to land speed racing and opening the door to a fast new future. The hard work and sacrifices made by the members of ECTA and LTA deserve our most sincere respect. In providing yet one more venue to those of us in search of speed, they have created real opportunity. All communities have naysayers, village explainers, and small minds and land speed racing is no exception. For two days, in remote Maine, people had fun, made new friends, went fast and broke down many barriers. Again to those who have made it possible and opened a door to the future a heartfelt thank you from a few of us who went fast and made history. <!-- / message -->
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