| Re: Silver state challenge
Dave, No. I have known a couple of guys that ran bikes and cars at Bonneville. The deal there is you had better bring about 6 guys with you to clean the car after each run. HUGE amount of work taking the car apart down to pieces just to get the salt out of everything. The same thing goes for Murdock dry lake in SoCal. except its dirt....very fine dirt.
The same goes for a bike except of course less to take apart but no less salt in everything.
The Silver-state deal looks like fun except that under about the 130 class it might be a bit boring. Above 150 and the car prep is getting pretty close to a full on race car. Cooling and tires are the main deal I would guess. A lot of open road for race tires and a lot of very high speed for street tires. It is in fact very dangerous. No run offs, barriers, or tire walls. Going off there in a street car at those speeds....well check the Nissan video. By the time he left the road he was down to third gear....and it still took the car apart. Without the full on cage he would have been dead. I do believe there have been people killed there.
The full length on-board is around the 130 class I would guess.
I bet the party in Vegas would be worth going to.......... |