Have upon ocasion see monster winds at Bonneville. I think it was '92
when
the winds were around 70 MPH.
I really appreciate Jim Bickford's suggestion on the Boeshield T-9. Have
allready placed my order to try some.
JB
At 08:39 AM 7/6/99 -0700, Dick Jurkowski wrote:
>
>
>--- Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net> wrote:
>I saw a neat shade canopy at an SCCA event last
>weekend. The guy had removable poles on the four
>corners of his trailer. In the morning he pitted
>on one side of the trailer and was in the shade,
>at noon he had a lunch setup on the trailer
>itself, and in the afternoon he moved his race
>car to the shade on the other side of the
>trailer. It would take one monster wind to blow
>his canopy away since it was firmly attached to
>the trailer, and he didn't have to mess with
>ropes and pins in the ground or weights. He just
>dropped the poles in the sockets on the traier
>and tightened set screws.
>
>If anybody tries to go racing without a
>checklist, they should really re-think how they
>do things. Both my wife and I are retired from
>full careers on an air force flight-line, and we
>probably overdo the checklist thing, but it has
>saved my butt more than once. We have a
>pre-load/travel checklist, and unload checklist,
>a pre-race checklist, and a post-run checklist.
>We go through every item on the vehicle after
>every race run. I road-raced motorcycles for a
>long time, and she found a loose nut after a
>morning Daytona race that could well have costed
>me my life had I run the afternoon with the nut
>loose and lost it on the banking or
>straight-away.
>
>Ironically, and almost humorously, at that same
>race, a friend of mine drove 400 miles to the
>race only to open his enclosed trailer the
>morning of tech inspection to find that his race
>bike was still back in Pensacola. He used to
>tease us about all our plastic covered
>checklists, but I noticed that at the next race,
>he too had some plastic covered checklists and a
>grease pencil. Although it would be harder to
>forget a race car than a race bike, that
>checklist will certainly insure that you don't
>forget other often left behind things like
>driving shoes, helmets, competition licenses,
>certain tools, vehicle log, credit cards and
>cash, etc.
>
>Dick J
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