Keith
To answer your questions;
I am sure the course will be a full nine miles...three to get up speed,
three timed miles and three to slow down if we follow the way we used to set
up the course. I can't see why we would change that. The quarter mile trap
would fall in the first quarter of the third mile from the start for 175 mph
qualifying speed to take the entire three timed miles.
I would imagine that the two way run rule will be in effect...USFRA changed
it to a one way two run situation for the shorter course when the BMW
streamliner missed everything, catch net, mile markers, blew through the
starting line area at some speed and ended up in a pond where the dike had
broken down. They repaired the dike...no more ponds and that dike is a
nasty hit at speed.
The one hour rule is an FIA thing, really only strictly enforced for their
certification. They require timing over the exact same piece of real
estate, i.e. same mile where the car qualified for the record, as well. With
the runs in the same direction there was still only an hour allowed to work
on cars, in impound, that qualified for record runs even though there could
be much more time between runs.
The start for return runs will be at the opposite end of the course. Most
often Gordon Hoyt of 200 Club has been the starter there at World of Speed.
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> From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
> To: "Wester S. Potter" <wspotter@jps.net>
> Subject: Re: Salt Flats International Course
> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 22:03:43 -0700
>
>Thanks and Welcome Wester.... couple of questions...
>
>Does this lengthen the course from the five miles?
>
>do we now have to make a two way run? to set a record.... and how do they
>change the starting line when they do that?
>
>does the one hour return run come back?
>
>I know these sound strange but they are questions that I really don't
>understand
>
>Keith Turk
>
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>> From: Wester S. Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
>> To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
>> Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net land-speed@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Salt Flats International Course
>> Date: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 3:06 PM
>>
>> I'm new to this group but have a bit of experience with the salt
>flats...If
>> I may give an answer to Keith...
>> The international course is the one used by all land-speed attempts from
>the
>> nineteen thirties on. It was the course of choice because of the
>> length...some thirteen miles most recently. It begins just north of I-80
>> and parallels the Salduro Loop at the start and passes between the loop
>and
>> the end of the access road. The northmost part aims for Floating Island.
>
>> When John Cobb ran there he looped to the east up there to get more
>length
>> for his runs. With the flooding onto the area north of the freeway of
>> magnesium chloride in November of 1993 from the Reilly ponds, that course
>> broke up...turned granular like sugar...and there were some serious
>> incidents because of it. We had to move the course several times to even
>> have something to run on and have had to do so ever since. The course we
>> have used recently is the "hot-rod" course which crosses the
>International
>> Course at the six mile area. It has been used when the longer
>International
>> Course has been too wet. That area north of the dike is where Ab
>Jenkens,
>> and the Brits and the 1970"s runs by Bobby Isaac had their ten mile
>> endurance circles. If we have a nine mile course this year you can be
>sure
>> it is on the International Course. That is the area of the greatest salt
>> depth and the longest area of good salt.
>
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