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Re: Congrats to Rick

To: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>, Ed Van Scoy <edvs@idt.net>,
Subject: Re: Congrats to Rick
From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 12:40:37 -0700 (PDT)
... all you would have
> had to do is slow to over 144 for ten miles and
> you would have been under
> the target speed.  ???????????????
Wes, that's against all the laws of nature.  You
cant go as fast as you can go if you lift.

ha ha ha

In all seriouslness, that close to the mark with
no navigator is extrtaorinary.  Rick sure has my
respect and congratulations.

Dick J



--- Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net> wrote:
> Ed,
> A miserable 6th?  Lets put that in perspective
> ... out of fourteen cars, you
> were one of three running without a navigator,
> you averaged over the target
> speed by .6857 over almost ninety miles,
> traveling at an average speed of
> 145, on a two lane Nevada highway, with
> jackrabbits ... all you would have
> had to do is slow to over 144 for ten miles and
> you would have been under
> the target speed.  Pretty impressive I'd say. 
> You just need someone to read
> a stopwatch and GPU for you.
> Wes
> ----------
> > From: Ed Van Scoy <edvs@idt.net> 
> > To: "land-speed@autox.team.net"
> <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> > Subject: Congrats to Rick 
> > Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 08:54:30 -0700 
> > 
> >Congratulations to Rick Doria for setting a
> new Public Highway Land
> >Speed Record this last weekend at NORC -  227
> MPH! Not bad for a little
> >small block!
> >Myself? I finished a miserable 6th place in
> the 145 class with an
> >average of 145.6857 mph. Oh well, always next
> time...............
> >Ed
> >
> >
> 
> 


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