land-speed
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [Fwd: F1 on the Salt Flats!]

To: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fwd: F1 on the Salt Flats!]
From: Ray Buck <rbuck@aros.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 14:44:46 -0600
At 12:49 PM 07/08/2005, Want1937hd@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 7/8/05 2:06:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>mjb@autox.team.net writes:
>Fry said either Adam Carroll or James
>Rossiter, both junior drivers, would steer the car. Bonneville is a 121
>square-kilometre salt flat in north western Utah. The quickest land speed
>recorded there exceeded 600 miles per hour (1000kmh).
>I thought the idea was NOT to steer, do they plan to run Michelin tires? If
>so how wide? Bob in connecticut

I'd be concerned that the banking on the salt flats might be too high for 
the Michelins.

Ray Buck,
Taylorsville, Ut.






<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>