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- Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:28 pm
- Forum: Australian Event News
- Topic: records
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7255
Re: records
first of all congrats to the members for running a cracker event under trying conditions my first time and not the last. all my business associates and mates now have salt fever oh dear!!! i just have two minor questions 1/ the speed recorded on a licence check in a certain class, is that registere...
- Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:22 pm
- Forum: Australian Event News
- Topic: Two Courses
- Replies: 28
- Views: 31444
another reason the SCTA gets through more runs Speedweek 2009 Inspections Saturday, 07 February 2009 Last night the combined SCTA-BNI boards made the decision to open the salt one day earlier than published for inpection and pit setup. The first day the salt will be available..... Last night the com...
- Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:02 pm
- Forum: FOR SALE
- Topic: FOR SALE - TURBINE ENGINE & DRIVETRAIN FOR STREAMLINER
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18657
- Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:55 pm
- Forum: General Information
- Topic: cost to go 200
- Replies: 16
- Views: 21850
Re: cost to go 200
be carefull for what you wish for.we don't need the bad press if two or three newbies on hayabusas go down.their must be a learning curve in place to limit speeds for new riders /drivers not just tuesday 125 wed.150 wed afternoon 175.as an example the 175 lakester pass at 200,not a good example. ma...
- Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:53 pm
- Forum: General Information
- Topic: cost to go 200
- Replies: 16
- Views: 21850
cost to go 200
I believe its the goal for most of us salties to achieve a speed of 200mph + ( but I could be wrong?)so I will throw open this topic ,what does it cost to go 200 or what do you think it will cost if you have not been there already for me the way to achieve 200+ was an easy choice ,firstly it had to ...
- Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:32 pm
- Forum: Australian Event News
- Topic: Number 2 Stream Lakester
- Replies: 28
- Views: 36873
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:53 pm
- Forum: Australian Event News
- Topic: Two Courses
- Replies: 28
- Views: 31444
Bonneville example
for what its worth I asked some questions on landracing.com , firstly about running 2 courses ,they(SCTA) changed over to 2 courses in 1990 and it had some teething problems the first year , I have yet to assertain how many entries they had back in 1990 ,but expolating for the 2008 data , they put t...
- Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:46 pm
- Forum: Australian Event News
- Topic: thanks to the organisers
- Replies: 43
- Views: 52418
Hi ALL! Here's another idea open for discussion Lets break the meeting in two like they do in Boneville (as a lot of people use Boneville as a reference for ideas) Lets have a car, lakester, truck meeting only and a Motorcycle meeting only this would halve the entries and double the amount of runs ...
- Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:33 pm
- Forum: Build Diaries
- Topic: Mr whippy makeover
- Replies: 60
- Views: 85004
post mortum 09
2009 was not a good year for hawkwind racing , I was not comming to speedweek this year due to the ill health of my wife, but a last minute decission on saturday afternoon saw me hastely packing and hooking up the trailer with a not finished bike ,driving straight through 21 hrs and arriving sunday ...
- Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:01 pm
- Forum: Australian Event News
- Topic: Volunteering yet again
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13505
Volunteering yet again
Yet again we dicuss the subject of "VOLUNTEERING" this comes up each year without a resolution , I believe the offer was made to run the event up till 7pm friday if enough volunteers could be found to say back and help with the cleanup , only the sound of crickets could be heard when volun...
- Sat Feb 07, 2009 7:00 pm
- Forum: Australian Event News
- Topic: Cudal Airport JANUARY???
- Replies: 83
- Views: 90773
- Sat Feb 07, 2009 1:37 pm
- Forum: Australian Event News
- Topic: Cudal Airport JANUARY???
- Replies: 83
- Views: 90773
some rambling thoughts
some rambling thoughts , Interest in this type of event ,will greatly depend on several things ,firstly if gairdner goes ahead this year or not ,if not expect a lot of interest ,if it does then interest may be less ?, secondly how deeply Aus goes into recession ,I would expect many racers to be shor...
- Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:00 pm
- Forum: Australian Event News
- Topic: jackson
- Replies: 30
- Views: 37931
- Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:54 pm
- Forum: Australian Event News
- Topic: jackson
- Replies: 30
- Views: 37931
some further info ,recieved confirmation from durham downs ,not on their property , it is owned by Santos and is a part of the Jackson oil fields ,all access to the area is on private property and access to the public is NOT allowed ,so permission would be required to even see the aerodrome , contac...
- Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:37 pm
- Forum: Australian Event News
- Topic: jackson
- Replies: 30
- Views: 37931
I just did another google earth look at the runway (closeup) and noticed something I missed before ,it has white crosses the entire runway length ,this means its closed to all aircraft ,they cannot use it ,we need to find out who to contact for a look to see if its usuable for our purposes ,this cou...