Just back from the salt lake with exciting news. John Lynch finally got his 300 mph in his bellytank lakester, going 301.729 on Tuesday afternoon. We stood at the four mile marker on the rocky outcrop and watched him go through - awesome. Much excitement and celebration in the pits afterwards and the whole emotional scene captured by the Aussie 60 Minutes crew who were filming out there all week. I had Ryan Pierse with me who works for Getty Images, a worldwide news photo service (also my daughter's boyfriend) and some of his pictures are on the getty website. Not sure if I do this link properly but go to http://editorial.gettyimages.com/ms_gins/source/home/home.aspx?pg=3
and look for the salt lake pic. click on that and you will get the selection of 15 or so awesome pics. This page keeps moving forward as more items are added so while it is on page 3 when I posted this it may move on to page 4 etc as time passes. Some other speeds current as of Wednesday midday when we left:
Stamp/Soderblom A roadster 180 mph
Rod Hadfield/Lionel West Commodore 254 mph
Norm Bradfield Mustang 201 mph
Norm Hardinge/Wayne Belot 34 roadster 188 mph
Bob Ellis XP Falcon 203 mph
Mark Hadfield/Wally James Mustang 187 mph
Green VL Commodore from Pt Pirie 193 mph
Ray Charlton 32 roadster 181 mph
There were several street motorcycles going really fast, one reaching 216 mph.
Now I have to catch up with work again. Will post more as soon as some of the teams get back if I can squeeze in the time.
and look for the salt lake pic. click on that and you will get the selection of 15 or so awesome pics. This page keeps moving forward as more items are added so while it is on page 3 when I posted this it may move on to page 4 etc as time passes. Some other speeds current as of Wednesday midday when we left:
Stamp/Soderblom A roadster 180 mph
Rod Hadfield/Lionel West Commodore 254 mph
Norm Bradfield Mustang 201 mph
Norm Hardinge/Wayne Belot 34 roadster 188 mph
Bob Ellis XP Falcon 203 mph
Mark Hadfield/Wally James Mustang 187 mph
Green VL Commodore from Pt Pirie 193 mph
Ray Charlton 32 roadster 181 mph
There were several street motorcycles going really fast, one reaching 216 mph.
Now I have to catch up with work again. Will post more as soon as some of the teams get back if I can squeeze in the time.