Thanks and Welcome Wester.... couple of questions...
Does this lengthen the course from the five miles?
do we now have to make a two way run? to set a record.... and how do they
change the starting line when they do that?
does the one hour return run come back?
I know these sound strange but they are questions that I really don't
understand
Keith Turk
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> From: Wester S. Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
> To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
> Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Salt Flats International Course
> Date: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 3:06 PM
>
> I'm new to this group but have a bit of experience with the salt
flats...If
> I may give an answer to Keith...
> The international course is the one used by all land-speed attempts from
the
> nineteen thirties on. It was the course of choice because of the
> length...some thirteen miles most recently. It begins just north of I-80
> and parallels the Salduro Loop at the start and passes between the loop
and
> the end of the access road. The northmost part aims for Floating Island.
> When John Cobb ran there he looped to the east up there to get more
length
> for his runs. With the flooding onto the area north of the freeway of
> magnesium chloride in November of 1993 from the Reilly ponds, that course
> broke up...turned granular like sugar...and there were some serious
> incidents because of it. We had to move the course several times to even
> have something to run on and have had to do so ever since. The course we
> have used recently is the "hot-rod" course which crosses the
International
> Course at the six mile area. It has been used when the longer
International
> Course has been too wet. That area north of the dike is where Ab
Jenkens,
> and the Brits and the 1970"s runs by Bobby Isaac had their ten mile
> endurance circles. If we have a nine mile course this year you can be
sure
> it is on the International Course. That is the area of the greatest salt
> depth and the longest area of good salt.
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