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2004 WHPSC Friday Pictures and Racing Results  
Words by Dave "FLJS" Larrington.  Pictures by Mike Mowett unless otherwise noted.  Thanks Mike!

Friday's Results

I should have put this picture in yesterday's article, but forgot because I am lazy and incompetent.  However...

This is why the use of acrylic for windshields is Strongly Deprecated.  Diligent analysis of the high-res version of this photo will show the presence of Blood on the fairing, though it's Paul Krieg's rather than that of rider Hans Wessels.  Sharp.  Just say "no", kids.  Photo by the FLJS.

Anyway, in the morning there were quarter-mile drag races, run out on Muleshoe Road.  Ever at your service, Constant Reader, I did not attend, as I was busy turning out the report on yesterday's racing.  However, Mike Mowett did, and took his camera.

	Vern Forbes, Alice Krause, Rob Hitchcock and Al Krause await the arrival of high-speed loons.
At the start.  L-R: Bill Gaines, George Leone, Carole Leone, Brad Teubner (almost hidden) Dave Kennedy, Jonathan Woolrich, Sam Whittingham (on Baron), Chris Broome (in orange hat), Hans Wessels, Frank Geyer, Ellen van Vugt, Jason Erickson.
	Alice Krause (in hat), Eric Ware and Mark Mueller pose with Mark's correx-faired Greenspeed SLR.
Hans Wessels and Lisa Tonello prepare to start.
	Raymond Gage (L) and Mark Mueller lining up.
Tom Amick and home-built bike.

Quarter Mile Drag Race Results

More bike-fettling in the afternoon, most notably by Steve Delaire, who has bridged the "tunnel" down the centre of the Big Gun's top.  This also required the use of a taller head bubble.  Natch I did not find out about this until afterwards, chiz, so any pictures will have to wait until tomorrow.  A chain retention disc was confected for the Varna Mephisto, carefully installed and then removed, amid a certain number of Harsh Words, to allow the bolts to be repositioned with their heads to the inside.  Otherwise the smallest amount of right lock would have seen the nuts savaging the front tyre.  And we all know what transpires when that happens, don't we, boys and girls?  Say "Yes, Uncle David, we do!" (That's enough of that kind of nonsense - Ed.)

And then to 305 once more.  Wind, and plenty of it, is the order of the day, to the extent that only two riders elect to run in the first session.  Hans Wessels takes the WhiteHawk chassis for a spin in the country, followed by Mark Mueller's correx-faired Greenspeed.  He claims a correx world record with his 44.10 mph clocking, so we BRITONS will have to persuade Nigel Sleigh to get the Plastic Maggot out for a proper run against the clock...

There then followed a lengthy delay before the second group set off, as Mr. Chief Organisator Woolrich was determined to give the wind as much time as possible to die.  It did, in that all the riders in the second group had IHPVA-legal wind, but all five remakred that the wind seemed much harder to cope with than yesterday's illegal blow.  Strange.  Sam Whittingham said that he sailed all the way down, while Steve Nash, chasing Ellen van Vugt, said the Varnowski was drifting from the centreline all the way to the right shoulder of the road before Ellen corrected and steered away from the edge.  Freddy Markham reported that a gust had obliged him to hit the brakes a mile and a half from the traps, but he still managed to set a new personal best and, even more pleasing to him, beat Sam for the first time since 1992!  Steve Delaire said he'd had a nice smooth run, though still being blown around a bit, but he was getting a lot of air coming in around the wheels where he had lacked the time to sort the sealing out properly.  He was one hundredth of a second quicker than Ron Layman in the Velox Solium, who set another collegiate record with a storming 59.89 mph pass in near-darkness( this being the reason why photos of the second group are conspicuously lacking).  But I think all agree that tonight belongs to rider Ellen van Vugt and builder Steve Nash, with what is indubitably a new world record at 65.89 mph!

	I include this photo of the IHPVA timing set-up in order to demonstrate that, in spite of any evidence to the contrary, we are not making this up.
Hans Wessels approaching the halfway point.  Photo by the Author.
	Mark Mueller's correx-faired Greenspeed at the 2.5 mile point.  Photo by the Author.

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