[Land-speed] Tearing up the salt

ed at vetteracing.com ed at vetteracing.com
Wed Aug 22 16:03:05 MDT 2007


As you know, this isn't the first time a motorhome has gotten stuckjust off
the starting line. The damage done in the Coddington incidentmay never heal.
But some years it is hard as I-80 on the returnroads so it might not make
sense to make a hard & fast rule(no salt pun intemded)
Ed

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Wester Potter [mailto:wester6935 at comcast.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 02:01 PM
>To: 'list LSR'
>Subject: [Land-speed] Tearing up the salt
>
>Apparently Boyd Coddington's motorhome bogged down after going through
>the thin salt crust. The rescue vehicles didn't fare much better and
>there is a very long, deep gouge in the salt and mud where they were
>marooned. Pure speculation on my part ... but I can see the day when
>those big transporters may have to offload their cargo at the end of
>the pavement to preserve the salt surface for racing. The motorhomes
>may have to be under a certain weight and restricted to a narrow alley
>leading to and from the pits and no using them as push vehicles.
>
>The talk that the salt is back may be more fiction than we would like
>to believe.
>
>Wes
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