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Re: Salt record return runs

To: "Wester S. Potter" <wspotter@jps.net>,
Subject: Re: Salt record return runs
From: John Beckett <johnbeck@blueridge.cc.nc.us>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:35:35 -0400
Wes 

So now I'm really cornfused. OK, basicly we don't have nine miles to run
on, right. So if we use the five mile, for best speed, on the down run we
can use the three mile on the return if we come back from the seven mile?

John Beckett
 

At 07:58 AM 7/21/99 -0600, Wester S. Potter wrote:
>Larry Volk, Save the Salt chairman just gave me the latest on record return
>runs for Bonneville events this year. There is a modification on return runs
>for records. With the course the way it is, we will use the "relative"
>return mile, that is not the FIA same mile rule.  If you set your fastest
>speed in the fifth mile from the start you will be able to take the speed in
>the fifth mile from the north end when you make your return run.  This gives
>you the same length of track to get up to speed.  Under the FIA rule you
>might have to take the speed in a mile nearer the start of the return run. 
>There is not a full nine miles of course available the way the salt is now
>and as a safety consideration the USFRA and BNI representatives decided on
>this solution.  Thought you might llike to know.  Wes Potter, secretary
>USFRA
>



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