Gentlemen
It's something we do at the dry lakes and is in the rule book. Pg.11. It is
recommended that new car / drivers make less then full throttle and full
runs. I see them all and most are doing just that. I would think a new
driver or a new car would demand a lot of thought from one trying to qualify
the first run on a new car. When things don't work it spells trouble. We
discussed a lot of things over the last year and I would hope we all learned
something. A chute failure put a streamliner in the mud early in the week.
As I said yesterday the chute is there to aid in stopping the car. Ask any
drag racer,it's the first thing they go for.
I realize they have less room to stop but knowing you can get off the course
and out of a car is helpful to the guy in line.
There have been a few occasions where things were falling off the vehicle
and others when they had fires and leaks etc. and didn't know it till they
stopped and found a trail of crap for two miles on the course. This creates
more down time.
My thoughts
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
To: "Rick Byrnes" <Rick@rbmotorsports.com>; "Dave Dahlgren"
<ddahlgren@snet.net>; <ARDUNDOUG@aol.com>
Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 10:46 AM
Subject: New Car Procedures
> Ya know what.... We may have a New rule in the making.... or at least a
> Proposition for a new rule....
>
> I don't know why we couldn't follow the current Lic. proceedures. I can
see
> the downside to wearing out a Silver Bullet Motor.... but is that the
motor
> we need in the car in the first place if it's new?
>
> the other side of this might be to actually limit the first pass to say
> 100mph and only 2 miles.... and then we could jump in 50 mph increments?
> thereby protecting the motor but still making a Maiden pass under power
>
> What ya think?
> K
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Byrnes" <Rick@rbmotorsports.com>
> To: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>; <ARDUNDOUG@aol.com>
> Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 11:42 AM
> Subject: Re: wandering track/chutes
>
>
> > Dave is correct in his thoughts about new cars. I have been thinking
> about
> > just that lately since I am doing a new deal. In addition to a lot of
> > scrutiny in Tech, we do need to work up in speeds. This is usually the
> case
> > due to "new car blues", but just in case all goes well, we will have a
> > specific test plan that includes specific events such as parachute
> > deployment, handling at various speeds and lots of practice in emergency
> > bail outs. Gotta get my fat little body out of that skinny little car
in
> 20
> > seconds or less.
> > I think that Dave has not seen a formal process that requires these
> things,
> > and perhaps with so many new cars coming out, there should be a
procedure.
> > I know it would lead to more work load on SCTA and the already
overloaded
> > volunteers, but overall discipline needs to sometimes be shown
publically.
> > In fact it could be as simple as the driver license passes with much
> > attention paid by the course workers.
> >
> > ///
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