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[bob]

any photographers selling photos of competition vehicles from speedweek 2024

[tallguy]

I'm a lousy photographer, and my cellphone does not have a low-glare screen.  So when it's out in the sun, I have trouble
seeing what I'm taking a picture of.

That said, I was on the salt briefly on each of these 3 days:  8/3, 8/4, 8/5.  I took a few pictures, and will soon post them
here -- along with some comments.

[tallguy]

I don't know what class this car runs in.  I'm not even sure it should be called a "lakester".  This car is powered (if I'm not mistaken) by a motorcycle engine of about 1000cc.  I chatted briefly with the owner, who had bought the car from someone else, years ago.  What I found particularly interesting is that each of the front wheels & tires are sandwiched in between non-rotating -- but very aerodynamic -- hardware.  The body of the car has a very small cross-sectional area.  And all the axles have airfoil-shaped covers on them.

[WOODY@DDLLC]

#984 Rex Schimmer and his son Duke! 
I did some work for them and got to crew with them a bit this year - really needed that LSR fix!  :clap :clap

[Stainless1]

Hey Tall... why wouldn't you call it a lakester.... looks like a lakester to me... and one that has a good chance to set a record.  That is a fairly good pic of Rex's lakester...
Hopefully Rex will tell us how the wing worked

[tallguy]

For all I know, it might be a lakester.  I haven't studied the rulebook to learn all the definitions, although I generally have
believed that if the wheels are outside the body, then the vehicle might not accurately be called a streamliner.

My phone takes pictures larger than 500 Kb, so I had to drastically crop this one.  I'll post pics of a few more cars soon, knowing that the pics aren't "professional quality", and I don't have a lot of them.

[tallguy]

Here's a (trailered) streamliner of some kind.  Per one of the crew, the car -- which is fairly wide, actually -- has two engines,
each 1000cc, from some kind of snowmobile or jet ski or similar.  Maybe (just my guess) the engines are side-by-side, thus
accounting for the width of the body.  I don't know much else about this vehicle, other than knowing that it appeared to
represent a serious effort on the part of the builder(s).  I was told that it held a record in its class . . . about 261 mph (as of the day I saw it).  Also, that there aren't many other vehicles in that class.  If I'm wrong about any info here, I apologize.  I wasn't trying, at the time I took the picture, to document anything too officially.

[Stan Back]

Here's what I came up with . . .      And yes, we admired that beautiful car and had a nice conversation with its owner/driver(?).

G/Gas Streamliner -- the record was/is 261.  (The record for a G/B(supercharged)Gas/Streamliner is 352(!).

G -- Displacement of 93 to 123 cu. in.  One motor, two motor, three -- under 124 cu. in. total inplacement.  Could be 13 lawn mowers inline.

The other G means its gasoline must fall in with the variety of gas mixtures used and specified for the event.

The S means Streamliner, the highest-speed vehicles timed.

[aircap]

As to CatZilla 2 - I watched it run on the live streams, and it had a positively nasty and aggressive tone which I quite liked.

[tallguy]

Here's another car that looked pretty serious.  I don't know much about it.

[tallguy]

I apologize for my lack of ability/experience in photography.  My interest is more in the vehicles themselves, compared to
artistic representation of them here.  Showing just part of a car is almost a sin/crime, in my opinion.  Sorry.

What I wanted to show is the variety of types of vehicles, and different approaches -- in design.  For example, this car has
a rear spoiler, presumably to help with traction, so the narrow tires don't spin so much.  I don't know much about the car.

[tallguy]

Here's the last pic I took of a car on the salt at Speed Week 2024.  It didn't look like one of the fastest vehicles there, but
it was so gorgeous and immaculate, I couldn't resist.  And it was representative of one of the different types that people
bring to race -- and to set a new record in its respective class.

All the cars I photographed at this meet were in the staging lane for the long course (I think that's Course #1).  In theory,
those vehicles are typically faster than the ones that run on the shorter course (#2, I think).  I missed seeing -- and photographing many gorgeous and impressive vehicles there, I'm sure.  And some of them, per the posted results, were impressively fast.

Next time I'm at Speed Week, I'll plan to spend more time looking at vehicles in the staging lanes for both courses.

By the way, I'd be interested in seeing photos taken by other folks.  Thanks, all, for your participation and interest in
Speed Week.  I'm a spectator, not a racer  -- and have a great amount of respect for the racers, builders, crew members, and all
the SCTA folks -- and others -- that make these events possible.