April 2010, WOW what a meet!
April 17th, 2010
The grounds were immaculately groomed, the shut down section of the track repaired for a wider path and the shutdown lines repainted for better visual guidance through shut down! Great improvements to the track! The weather was picture perfect! Cool, gentle breeze, bright blue skies! What more could you ask for? Speed you say? Yes, that we had plenty of!!!Bradley Everhart rocked the track with an outstanding 200.529 MPH run on a PUSHROD motorcycle!! This earned him entry into the ECTA 200 MPH club! This is the first pushrod motorcycle to enter the 200 MPH club since 1997!!!
Mike Reichen of MRM Racing upped the track record for cars with a fabulous 237.634 MPH record run!
Steve Van Blarcom & Eric Yost entered the 200 MPH club in their cars with record runs of 210.494 MPH & 233.731 MPH respectively.
Eric Yost started off Sunday morning with an awesome run of 241.408 to claim the track record for cars!
Shane Stubbs of Scott Guthrie Racing banged out an amazing run of 264.375 MPH to up the motorcycle track record that had stood since 2005!
Bill Warner then laid down a phenomenal pass of 272.340 MPH to claim the track record for motorcycles. This is also the fastest speed ever recorded for a motorcycle on a one mile track in Land Speed Racing!
Eric Swarr of Half Fast Racing and George Gallimore of Buckwheat Racing rounded out the meet with entries into the 200 MPH club in their cars at speeds of 205.914 MPH and 212.493 MPH respectively.
To summarize, the motorcycle track record was upped twice by two different bikes, the car track record was upped twice by two different cars and there were 5 new entries to the 200 MPH club, one bike & four cars! How’s that for a meet packed full of speed!!!
The Hot Rod Magazine Top Speed Challenge was a great success! Racing entries were high and spectator attendance even higher! Details on all of this will be posted later and likely published in the newsletter.
Meet results have been posted and can be reviewed by clicking here.
Motorcycle Top Speed Shootout racers please read the article below for an important updated for 2010!
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