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Re: Oct. Bonneville attendance

To: lsr_man@yahoo.com, ARDUNDOUG@aol.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Oct. Bonneville attendance
From: "tim cunha" <tfc1932@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:48:51 PDT
"cognitive slippage"


>From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
>To: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Oct. Bonneville attendance
>Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:29:05 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Am I having a "senior moment" or aren't the World
>Finals by invitation?
>
>Dick J
>
>
>--- ARDUNDOUG@aol.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 09/15/2000 9:41:58 AM
> > Pacific Daylight Time,
> > gwcrim@usa.com writes:
> >
> > << Is the attendance at the Finals in October
> > anywhere near as much as
> >  Speedweek?  In other words, how many passes
> > can one expect to get?
> >
> >  George Crim
> >  Sportster List Race Team
> >  http://www.sportster.org/LSR
> >   >>
> > George,
> >     My experience with World Finals has been
> > sort of a "good-news-bad-news".
> >     The good news is that there are generally
> > less than 100 entrants as
> > compared to the 300+ at Speed Week. Last year
> > we would tow up to the starting
> > line (one course for everybody) and Starter Bob
> > Higbee would be standing
> > there with his hands on his hips as if to say
> > "Well, let's get with the
> > program and get that fire suit on". The temps
> > were cool enough that the pit
> > shade was never put up, hotel/motel rooms are
> > in abundance unless there is
> > some other big event in town at the same time,
> > and the air density is several
> > thousand feet better (lower) with the cool
> > temps, encouraging somewhat better
> > speeds than at Speed Week.
> >     The bad news is that historically weather
> > has often cancelled the event.
> > I believe that it has averaged out to running
> > every second or third
> > year........Ardun Doug King
>
>
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