Glenn Barrett's comments are precisely what the sport needs to flourish.
With so much competing for the attention of youngsters, the responsibility
of attracting "new blood" falls to those already involved.
Shirking that duty may cause a "flatline" whihc will eventually kill the
sport when too few dedicated and knowledgeable and safety conscious sare
around to put a meet together.
On another painful note, My hard drive took a header into cyber oblivion
Saturday morning. With it went the Bonneville book, all my notes, email
address book and my racers database. We are sorting through the backups to
see what survived and I am shipping the drive off to a big money doc to try
to save the data, but I am not hopeful.
I ask all racers to send me a message with theior contact info so that I
might rebuild from the smoldering ashes. Anyone with a contact database who
might be willing share with me would be fantastic.
I got word from MBI Friday . . . it is official, they want me to write a
book on the history of the dry lakes. So any help anyone can offer would be
very much appreciated.
I am devastated. three years of notes, database and email compilation gone,
all gone.
Sigh,
LandSpeed Louise
-----Original Message-----
From: Glen Barrett <speedtimer@earthlink.net>
To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
Cc: ardunbill@webtv.net <ardunbill@webtv.net>; land-speed@autox.team.net
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, January 30, 2000 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: Youngsters
>Hi Gang
>
>Some 3 or 4 years ago we did try to start up a JR. Lakester class for the
>youngsters coming up. Mike Cook , Ron Pruett and a couple of others brought
cars
>up. We set up a 1/4 mile course with a 132 ft trap just like the big guys.
Rick
>Vesco also set up a mini course at Bonneville. They run a JR. Streamliner
and
>lakesters also a couple of mini bikes. Myself I think its great, We should
>encourage the kids to follow on. Look what neat people us oldsters are
because
>we had something to aim for.
>
>One other thought, at the lakes we let 50 60mph small cu/in motorcycles run
the
>full course,why not the JR cars if they make a comeback. Just my feelings,
just
>wish I could have started out that way with todays equipment.
>
>Glen
>
>Keith Turk wrote:
>
>> My thoughts were that this sorta class would be just the ticket to have
some
>> fun.
>>
>> wouldn't be the fastest class but it would up the number of entries at
all
>> out events.... K
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <ardunbill@webtv.net>
>> To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 9:15 AM
>> Subject: Re: Youngsters
>>
>> > Yeah, Keith, that's a good idea, like AMA Class C racing was originally
>> > supposed to be. An '82+ Camaro with V-6 only, gas only, otherwise any
>> > engine mods ok, BUT, a claiming rule with a low $ figure, like $2000
(if
>> > that is realistic). So people could use their ingenuity for low bucks
>> > to get max safe speed. But anybody else could buy your car, for the
>> > claiming price. AND NO HARD FEELINGS.
>> >
>> > The old AMA motorcycle racing system broke down and was full of factory
>> > specials supplied to professional riders, simply because the privateers
>> > were fooled into believing it was "unsporting" to buy one of these
>> > factory toolroom jobs for the (low) claiming price in the rules which
>> > was put there in the first place to discourage people from spending
>> > large sums on exotic development of what were supposed to be road
bikes.
>> > Of course if the privateer had claimed one of these factory bikes, he
>> > would have had the problem of replacing one-off parts when they wore
>> > out.
>> >
>> > Regards from ArdunBill in the Great Dismal Swamp, Chesapeake, VA
>> >
>> >
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