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2002 WHPSC Saturday Racing Results
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Rob English takes a corner in the 1
lap individual TT on his Bike
Friday folder. Rob won the race. Rob also won the award for the fastest man on one foot
afer showing his prowess in hopping around and up and down the bleachers at the rodeo at
high speed. The streamer on his head is left over from a series of shots that the
Smithsonian group was taking to show the aerodynamic streams flowing around different
bikes by taping on streamers to various parts of the rider and bike. |
| Warren Beauchamp crosses the finish
line after the 1 lap TT. Warren is racing the bike inside the
Barracuda streamliner.
I think that Rob won the 1 lap TT,
followed by Steve Delair, then me (Warren).
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Photo by Gabriel Devault |
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The streamliner crowd cruises around the track at the
Battle Mountain airport during the start of the last man out race. The green streamliners
is (I think) the UNLV racer, which looked very nice but was a bit
flexy. |
| Steve Delair in his practical streamliner leads fast Fred
Markham in the Goldrush Colorado during the last man out race. Steve was able to lean
waaaay over in the corners of the tight track, but leaned a bit too far and crashed,
letting Freddy win. |
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Joe Kochinowski cruises around the taxiway in his
Varna-bodied homebuilt streamliner. The bike inside the streamliner is a dual 20 inch
front wheel drive lowracer of Joe's own design. The body is fiberglass with a Nomex
honeycomb core in the high stress areas. |
| Steve did beat Freddy during the road race in a very exciting bumper
car finish around the twisty course through the aircraft tie down area, followed by Rob
and me. |
Photo by Gabriel
Devault |
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Joe pauses for a picture after the last HPRA race. |
| This is the IHPVA side of the table at the pizza place for
lunch. People are (left to right) Bill, Paul Gracy and Chester Kyle. Chester Kyle was one
of the people who founded the IHPVA during the late 1970s as a group to organize HPV speed
events. Paul ran the IHPVA timing equipment for the secondary backup speeds and wind
speeds. |
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Photo by Gabriel
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Easy Racers team racers Mackie Martin and
"Turbo" Tanya Markham pose for a shot behind the hotel
before packing it up to head out to the SR 305 course. |
| At the last night of racing out on Rt. 305, the WhiteHawk
team launches team captain Giudo Martens in the Blue White Hawk. Later that evening,
Chester Kyle presented them with a check for $2500 for increasing the one hour record by
over 3%, as part of the Dempsy McCready prize. The main prize of $25,000
for the first bike to
average 90 kilometers an hour (about 56 MPH) for an hour expires in October 2003! |
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Photo by Charlie
Webster |
Mackie Martin does a 60MPH run in the Virtual
Rush, setting a new junior men's 200 meter speed record.
Sean Costin got a decent run in, but due to
some miscommunications, it was decided that Sean had crashed and
his run was not timed. Later, and approximate unofficial speed of
70MPH was determined through manually timing video of Sean passing
through the traps. Great forensic work by Paul Gracy!
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| Sam Whittingham in the Varna Diablo during his 81.00 MPH
run. Sam won $1000 for his first place effort during this week's events, but fell short of
winning the .decimach prize by 1 MPH. Sam did increase his last year's speed by 0.45 MPH.
The temperature was warmer at about 70 degrees on Saturday. Speeds would have been faster
this year if the temperatures were about 15 degrees higher, as they were last year.
Click here
for a quicktime movie of Sam's 81MPH pass by the timing traps
(best with sound!) by Garrie Hill.
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Matt Weaver in the Kyle Edge turns in a 55 MPH run on the
last day of racing due to problems with something rubbing after several mis-launches
caused a shift in the fairing. Matt has a new bike that is nearly finished, which will
look similar to the Virtual Edge, and will be a major refinement over the Kyle Edge. This
will allow him to get ready to go without a 15 minute tape job, and should be a faster
bike overall. |
| After the races was the awards banquet at the
steak house. Prizes were passed out to the .decimach winners, Sam Whittingham 1st- $1000,
Matt Weaver 2nd - $500, Bearacuda team 3rd - $250. Chet Kyle then spoke and presented the
White Hawk team with the Dempsy McReady prize for significantly increasing the speed for the 1 hour record.
Tanya Markham and Markie Martin were presented with prizes for breaking the
women's and men's junior 200 meter speed records. Andrea Blasecki was presented with a prize for
breaking the women's 200 meter speed record. In addition, Rob
English was presented with a prize for fastest ambulation on one
leg, after showing his prowess hopping up the steps of the
grandstand during the rodeo demonstration. See you
all next year! |
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