[Land-speed] Car Exiting Problems

[Sparky]

John,  That might have been the American Eagle H/BFL car my friend Kevin 
Draper owns---Kevin is fighting cancer and is on "Chemo"  he had some sever 
issues with bailout as I undestand.

Due to heat exhaustion and possibility other issues Kevin did not make a 
start after waiting most of the day to make the first run.  I was approached 
about driving it---the next afternoon I spent several hours in their pits 
getting familiar with the car, basacially a bike with 4 wheels,  Lord that 
thing is beautiful---next morning Jim Travis checked me out on "Bailing 
Out".  I got the car up to 175-180 for a 145 mile time on the first pass for 
the car.
      Sparky
AA/_ L  2211
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Burk" <joyseydevil at comcast.net>
To: "LandSpeed List" <Land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Car Exiting Problems


> This Speedweek as a lakester or streamliner (I've forgotten which) came to
> the line and there was several minutes of discussion between the driver 
> and
> the starter and they pushing back to the pits . As I got it , the starter
> thought the large driver couldn't have passed the bail-out test . Does
> anybody know more on this ?
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