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Re: Motorcyclists and FIM records

To: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>,
Subject: Re: Motorcyclists and FIM records
From: Henry Deaton <hdeaton@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 08:46:43 -0700
At 10:18 AM 6/16/2002 -0400, Malcolm Pittwood wrote:
>I have been contacted by the offices of the FIM to see if there will be
>International interest in setting FIM World records for all classes of
>motorcycles, motorcycles and sidecars and three wheelers.  The FIM are
>planning to set up a records meeting on the 7 mile circular track at Nardo
>in Italy.  A pavement surface which affords 'easy' 200 mph plus lap speeds.
>The weekend would be "A World Record Challenge" event.
>The plan would be to run for the standing start distances (1/4 mile, kilo
>and mile) then flying start distances (kilo and 1 mile) -  in two
>directions (max 2 hour turnaround) and then to offer the track to those who
>wish to run for duration records from a standing start - 10km, 100km.
>1000km or period records of 1 hour, 6 hours, 12 hours or 24 hours.
>Take a look at landracing.com or fim.com for the current records and
>classes.
>Malcolm Pittwood, Derby, England.

Hi Malcolm,

Looks like landracing.com needs to fix their FIM and FIA records links.

The link for the FIM is www.fim.ch . To find the records at the FIM site, 
first look in the banner for "EVENTS", put your mouse on it and then select 
World Records from the popup menu.

Henry Deaton
SF, CA

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