Dry Lakes Racers Australia

Gus, There will be ample opportunity for essentially unlimited runs on Track 2. It's always busy Monday and Tuesday but by Wednesday things start to settle down as more people have either blown up, run out of spares or realised they won't go any faster and the queuing times reduce significantly. By ...

Ditto from me, you blokes have done a top job with this project, I too am looking forward to seeing it.

Cheers
Dave

That's right, just another one of my many super powers!

Thanks Scott, That most recent image from space shows the variation in the blue areas even from the previous image. It is very interesting the way the lake changes, I think the best way to describe it is "it's alive!". Way back in 2009 I caused all sorts of ruckus on this forum by writing ...

Thanks Scott, that would be much appreciated. Are you competing this year?

Cheers
Dave

Getting anywhere around on the dirt would definitely have to be in a vehicle. Any walking across country would be asking for trouble, it wouldn't be easy to recognise landmarks on the way back. Take a GPS with marked waypoints and plenty of water. I like walking on the salt, I'm easily amused so I l...

Actually, when I zoomed into the map tightly enough to see individual trees I dd find a track that comes off the road to the Drivers Camp that heads north and gets within about six kilometres of the closest land to the Blue Channel before it loops away to the east. There may even be more track there...

Take Liz, Please :D ! I was looking at Google maps and, unsurprisingly, there aren't any dirt tracks that head up north towards the Blue Channel, which seems as good a name as any. It would make more sense to drive on the dirt than the salt, I remember Chris Hanlon telling stories of heading north o...

Paul, One day when we've got nothing to do (HA!) we should organise an expedition to head up there and try it out. Perhaps late one afternoon after racing has finished for the day. We'd just have to remember to stop before we drove into the channel. And bring something to read for the photos. Cheers...

Thanks Paul, Thanks for the image. We'll miss you at Track 2. Maybe next year? Apropos of nothing, I can't help wondering about that bright blue stripe running east to west. Presumably it's a water filled channel, has anyone ever been that far north? I wonder if it would be like the Dead Sea in Isra...

Chris, I was once a passenger in an F truck in light rain so I had the opportunity to see what the air was doing over the bonnet at 100km/h. The short answer was Absolutely Nothing. The water droplets did not move. I suspect the blunt nose was just smashing its way through the air and the bonnet was...

Thirty grand?! Tell him he's dreamin'!

I particularly like the use of a full carbon fibre monocoque tub for the driver. This gives huge improvements in driver safety as the tub was originally the full chassis of an openwheeler race car and is now surrounded by a steel chassis and a proper roll cage. Very clever.

And here's a story about the Venturi Buckeye Bullet 3. Beautiful car, I wish they'd come to our Speedweek.

http://newatlas.com/venturi-2016-ev-wor ... 1/pictures

Cheers
Dave

Here's a link to 186 photos from Bonneville:

http://newatlas.com/2016-bonneville-spe ... 3/pictures

Enjoy
Dave