alameda_al

Hey Anders... That Corvette ride sounded pretty hot....
Hope you had on your fireproof underwear... he he

Great to hear you had a great time.

Al
devek

Ron_H

The rabbits I have seen on Nevada's highways have all frozen in mid road just as I passed over them and escaped such a fate. Scare the **** out of me though. The worse critters are the birds that sit on the roadway feasting on the dead grasshoppers, and then fly up just as you pass by and splat on the windshield at 135 mph. I got one stuck between the windshield wiper and the windshield and he just sat there until I made it to town. Another managed to get his head wedged between the headlight and the body and displaced the springs that hold the headlight cowling on. What a mess. I always activate my headlights when I come upon slower traffic and then flash them as I get closer behind the slower car. This bird just happened to get into the air as I had turned on the lights. Ask Nicole about my strange headlight usage habits.

disclaimer: the 135 mph was what I heard from a little bird who said he watched as a 928 went by one day. I of course know nothing about that bird's credibility whatsoever; I overheard him speaking to some guy in a bar in Elko one evening. It was a parrot bird with an English major from some school in Nevada, The University of B.S.

IcemanG17

PICS?????????????? George you out there? Any results in yet? Tim-Bill-George?

Bill Ball

George & his navigator Tim placed first in the 160 class.

Tim & Cheryl placed second in the 145 class.

Me? I finished despite my suspension threatening to send me off-road.

Team Porsche won overall. Actually it was a new team made up of Team Porsche and Team Heavy Metal. Scoring was based on the top five scores. TOTAL time variance from target was around 1.5 seconds.

alameda_al

Hi Tim,

I just caught your post on the problem with the heater valve sleeve coming apart.
Glad the tempoaray fix worked.. Look forward to hearing more about your runs.

I mentioned problem to our shop mechanic extraordinaire, Brian and he suggests we find
the upgraded outlet that is one piece aluminum..
We may be able to find one new or used if you need it.

Al

Devek fab guy

Richard S

Official 928 Results:

George Suennen and Tim Bosserman: Target Speed 160mph---1st place, 157.558mph(+45.307sec)

Tim and Cheryl Dey: Target Speed 145mph---2nd place, 144.953mph (+1.049sec)

Bill Ball: Target Speed 145mph---5th place, 141.945mph (+1min 9.412sec)

Richard Sanders: Target Speed 130mph---4th place, 129.974mph (+0.726sec)

Andy Goetting: Target Speed 110mph---3rd place, 110.175mph (-6.753sec)


Worth noting are the following Porsche drivers:

Fred Wagner, (1996 911 Twin Turbo): Target Speed 130mph--1st place, 129.999mph (+0.019sec)

Roger Green, (2004 996 GT-3): Target Speed 155mph---1st place, 155.002mph (-.043sec) (you have no idea how impressive this is, his tech speed is limited to 168mph, so not much room for error....and he didn't bank any time during the first leg!)



Rich

dr bob

Richard-

Your performance is very impressive. It's hard to believe that you can drive that far, over the varying terrain, curves, hills and dales, nail your target within 3 one-hundredths of a mile per hour and within a second on time, and still manage to get fourth in class.

Congrats to you, and to all the rest of the ORR group. Great show!

Richard S

Dr. Bob, thanks for the compliment. Some classes can be unbelievably competitive. The 140mph class had 15 cars. The top 7 all finished within 0.849sec from perfect time. Most people use simple stopwatches, so it all boils down to how accurate your finger is when hitting the start/stop button....and a lot of luck.

Here some more pics. You will have to wait for George to post the good action shots.

Bill and I during our un-official practice session.


Tim and Cheryl cleaning up for the car show.


Andy's GTS at the car show.


The local kids filling in as my cleaning crew.


And I did manage one picture from Donna's Ranch.....notice the line out the door


Rich

jorj7

I'm back to the Bay Area. Had a good time at the Pony Express. The
car ran well on the first leg, but we had some technical problems. One
GPS had wasn't working and Tim B (my navigator), reset one of the
stopwatches by accident (luckily we use two). We have 2 GPSs,
I have mine set up with the map of the road with all the corners
marked (also speed, avg speed, max speed, and elevation) and
Tim has one that shows time, distance traveled, speed, avg speed,
max speed and elevation. My GPS was the one that was not working
so we switched GPSs (I had uploaded the map to both GPSs). But
it left Tim without.

We hit 190 mph (on the working GPS) in the 1st open speed section,
though we had slowed to 187 mph by the time we hit the speed trap
at the end of the open section. As we passed the second speed trap,
Tim said "there's the second time trap". So we didn't get a chance to
get a second run at top speed... We were 7 seconds ahead at the turn
around for an average speed of 160.630. I wanted to be 15-20 seconds
ahead at the turn around, but considering Tim didn't have his GPS.


(avg speed included the trip to the parking lot...)

Since I'm the event photographer, I start last and return first. Usually this
works out well. But this time I think it worked against us. We had to
hurry to refuel, get a drink, take some photos, then go to the starting line.
As we started the return leg, I noticed the car wasn't handling right. It
seemed to want to drift out of the turns. I had to drop 5-10 mph off the
corner speeds (and made me feel more tentative in the turns). It was
similar to what I felt at practice at the Bonneville 100 when the tires were
inflated too high. Anyway we lost a lot of time, and ended up running a
152.306 mph average on the return leg. So the overall average was
157.558 mph. As it turns out, the other two cars in the class had their
own problems and I won the class.

Here are greetings from the other 928s:


Bill on the way to the starting grid


Tim and Cheryl


Rich at the finish


Anthony in his 93 GTS

Here is a sequence of my car in The Gap, shot by my stepson Vincent:

Tenshieternal

Congratulations to all of you, it sounds like you had a great time for the most part.

Great pictures too.

So Bill when are you going to have the Shock Party Redux Think that you should bag the Eibach and go with a set of Hypercoils.

Stan.Shaw@Excell.Net

Nice job all, and congratulations!!!

Bill Ball

Not sure on the next shock party date. Not sure about Hypercoils either.

Here is some of the jack rabbit damage. I used to have a pristine bellypan. He also took out part of the air shrouding in the front bumper and pulled the spoiler down. Those stringy things in the second picture are all that remain of the rabbit along with a few tidbits of flesh around the AC compressor.

lorenolson888

oh bill that is nasty.....

but good job going and keeping her on the road... hope you get the suspension sorted...

LO

IcemanG17

Dang rabbit!!!!!!!!

Robert_H

Wascally wabbit.