On the Scene at SpeedWeek 2011

[RayTheRat]

Some morning photos.

The lake at Land's End is still there, but it's getting smaller every day.

Lars and his nitro Indian in Impound already so soon.  Amazing.

The Got Salt lakester finally made it to Impound.

The HRM Camaro cooked the motor, but got it running on 2 cylinders.  They changed classes to F/CBFALT and qualified for a record.  Freiberger told me that if he didn't get one h*ll of a good push from the truck, the motor would just stumble all over itself (I wonder why?...,sarcasm intended) so he figgered it was a 50-50 chance of backing up the record.  Still pretty amazing.

Last nite Kenny Hoover ran the Spectre liner with bullet #4 (out of the 5 motors they brought) and almost qualified, but came up a tiny bit short.

Nearburg is on the line, I gotta run.

More later

[Old Scrambler]

I'm thinking Octane will be in the 130+ range on this run........Go Octane!

[hotrod]

Here are a few shots of the mud flats near the bend in the road after the storm on Sunday.

shot #1 mudflats right after the storm with knocked down tents and standing water
shot #2 same time showing mud tracks were I pulled a pickup off the mudflats onto the road as he could not move on the slimy mud once he tried to get off the flat onto the elevated portion of the road in the 2 inch deep goo.

Larry

[hotrod]

This shot is a hand held night shot with available light of the full moon about 3:00 in the morning. The sky was clearing and the full moon was like a street light. Exposure time was 2.5 seconds so it is a little shaky. Everyone that could get their cars off the mud or who arrived back at the bend after the storm found a spot on the raised cause way of the road shoulder and we all slept in our cars or beside them on the ground.


The second shot is another view of the ad hoc parking on the road shoulder at sun rise.

[Rootz]

A good selection of great runs in this video...

...including the Ill-fated #428 Chauvin Emmons fireball run.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l79pAWPiDp4

My favourite is the Blowfish though. She looks SO stable!

Cheerz!

Rootz

[hotrod]

Once the sun came up folks began to access the damages. Several of us had knocked down tents, or blown over canopies. Many tried to move their cars in the mud that by now was very sticky about like walking on peanut butter. It would literally suck your shoes off as you walked, and built up on tires making it very difficult to move vehicles.

Those not in a rush to move their gear simply left it as is until later in the day when the mud stiffened as it dried out. By night fall you could drive on it again if you were careful where you drove.

Larry

[Stan Back]

The video sure had a great shot of a classic Street Roadster spin.  Anyone who thinks they coulda saved that one is wrong.

[RayTheRat]

Nice shots, Hotrod!!!

[4-barrel Mike]

The video sure had a great shot of a classic Street Roadster spin.  Anyone who thinks they coulda saved that one is wrong.

Wilcox Garage!!

Mike

[Tman]

The video sure had a great shot of a classic Street Roadster spin.  Anyone who thinks they coulda saved that one is wrong.

That one came around pretty fast Jim!

[RayTheRat]

A few more shots from this morning:

Charles Nearburg on a record return...I dunno if he made it or not.

It's bright out here!

The Rodders Journal coupe.

[Moxnix]

Nice patina on that one.  You're doing a stellar job, Ray.

[doug]

Nice patina on that one.  You're doing a stellar job, Ray.

Yes, thanks RTR.  The coupe is the one that the door flew open at speed and damaged beyond repair.  So they ran without the doors!  I think the car was out there last year in bare metal.

Oh yeah, Tuesday Long/Dhort Course runs are posted on SCTA site.

[vintage racer]

Lars/Octane did get a record and is in impound/tech right now. I don't think it went as smooth/fast as he hoped, I'm sure he'll update when he can, but the important thing is he's on the salt having a blast.

[RayTheRat]

These photos are of a G/PRO Pinto and a driver who got in from a wheelchair.  My hat's off to him.