Bill Ball

Tim posted a brief report on Cheryl & his run in my Gamblers Run ORR report thread. It CLEARLY deserves its own thread. I quote Tim's report below.

Folks, you don't see this everyday - trap-measured at over 200MPH on a public, two-lane, rural road.

This is a two-way run and the speed trap is not set up at the most hospitable location. On the Northbound leg, the trap is just before a turn I take at 150 at most. On the return leg, you enter that trap just after this turn. The trap is a 1/8th mile in the middle of a 5 mile speed zone. Outside of that speed zone, Tim & Cheryl's 160 class is tech-limited to 180MPH. That means they have to accelerate from there to 200+ in a couple of miles, hold it for a while, then get off the gas.

MAJOR KUDOS TO CHERYL AND TIM

Here is Tim's report. Tim & Cheryl, please feel free to expand on it.


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After the fog cleared on Sunday morning from our celebration Cheryl and I reflected on the weekends results. Awesome, Yipee, E gads, Holy Smokes, Spectacular!!! On the way down (northbound) the car was a rocket. We ran the trap at 207 mph, the promoter clocked us at 205 average over a measured distance so that is the number that will stand for the north bound run. I on the other hand will count my proven mph as 207. (See below) At MKM you must backup your run on the way back or it doesn't count as a "200 Club Member" so we prepared the car at the turnaround for the return leg.

Just before we go off the line the starter Lincoln tells up that the winds have come up and we will be bucking a 15 - 20 mile head wind on the way back and to be carefull because deer have been reported at the haystack ranch. Great, how about no issues for a change. The first 2/3rds of the run were non issues and when the car comes to the crest turn to start the 2 1/2 mile runup the wind hits us and we LOSE 4 mph. Wonderful, I press the pedal all the way down and am pretty sure I have dented the floorboards. The car is accelerating very slowly and I briefly think about downshifting then realize that at 192 I really can't do that. One 1/2 mile to the trap and we are at 197 and not going anywhere. All of a sudden the wind absolutely dies and the car takes off. We go throught the trap at 200 even on the GPS. I keep the pedal down because it is a measured average and I don't want to come up short. About .5 mile past the trap is a left hand "kink and we blast around the turn at 202 mph. Never done that before and won't do it again. The car never slid, slipped or became unsettled in the turn but that was stupid. Cheryl and I are horribly disappointed because we know that our gps reading will be reduced by 1 or 2 mph. We try to get back on time but we have run so fast for so long that we cannot drop that much time before the finish line without being disqualified for going to slow. (minumum speed for SS is 130 mph). We cross the finish line with a bad attitude and a very dirty car because the expansion tank hose came off and dripped oil all over the passenger side. We don't stay at the finish to talk and drive back to the parking lot at the hotel. We immediately break out the beer and begin drowning our miserable performance and I am really p*ssed off about not making the 200 mph club. The other SS guys come up and try to cheer us up but that is not working very well.

We briefly consider not even going to the banquet because in our quest for the speed we really did not time keep this on this run. Cheryl's main job this time was to keep me on the road and give me speeds and directions. We finally decide to go to the banquet and take our personal shame and try to hide it. All of our friends are receiving there trophies and they get to the 160 class and call third place. Not us? Uh Oh, I know we did really badly, did we get disqualified for busting tech again? Crap we thought. 2nd place goes to ... Car # 4, Tim & Chery Dey? Really, maybe a small consulation but not the one I wanted. Then they announce that there is another award to the newest member of the "200 mph Club". WE MADE IT!!!! Exactly 205 and 200mph. I was so thrilled I could not stand it. Remember that 202 turn, the radar guys said that if I would not have kept the throttle on I probably would not have made it. So now I'm happy, we have accomplished the first part of what we set out to do last year.
Thanks to everyone that has ever helped with this car! Bill, George, Paul, Rich, Dave everyone who has helped us at the races.
Thanks also to DEVEK for building the car and believing in us and our goal. I owe Marc & Susan a big thank you.

Later

Tim
Lake Tahoe, Ca

88 S4 / 5 sp / Diamont Blau "The Beast" 6.4L *200 mph Street Legal ORR Car*

94 GTS / 5 sp / Grand Prix White (Back to a Garage Queen)

"The highway of life is full of flat squirrels that could not make up their minds"
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Bill Ball

Photos courtesy of George Suennen.

Cheryl and Tim receiving their 200MPH Club award:


The Beast on the road:


GPS evidence:

ROG100

That is just awesome and very well done!

jorj7

Congratulations Tim and Cheryl. It's a great accomplishment, and makes all the rest of
us appreciate our cars even more.



Now it's Cheryl's turn to drive.

John Veninger

Great result!!!!!!

Jim R.

WOW!

Jim

Bill Ball

Now Tim will get to find out that navigating at 200+ is undoubtedly far scarier than driving.

Tahoe Shark

Next year you will definately see the lovely Cheryl doing some driving. She has passed her rookie orientation so we will start in the 130 Class I think. She is really looking forward to being in the drivers seat for a while. I'll probably mess her up at first but hey I'll learn the right seat.

I can hardly wait until you are up there George receiving yours. If not the Pony then Bonneville next year. Do you remember a long time ago you shared your notes when you were in the 150 / 155 classes and we had our first race in the 125 mph class?. I looked at your turn speeds in disbelief when you gave me a sample route sheet / course notes. This year we took many turns in excess of 180 mph. Unbelievable, thanks for all of your help when we started out and the help you provide even now.

Later

Rick Carter

You're in a small elite group, congratulations.

AO

Congratualtions! I heard an interesting statistic (not sure if it's true or not) that said more people have climbed Mt Everst than belong in the 200MPH club. Very elite indeed! Well done!

Nicole

I know you guys planned thoroughly, trained well, and worked your ways up to this. It's a great accomplishment, and your award is very well deserved. Congratulations!!!

mark kibort

so does Devek still have the record at 209mph? actually, its kind of the same car with a different chassis, right ??

Great job. you guys are brave!!!!!!

mk

Darien

OUTSTANDING

Tahoe Shark

Marc & Susan still have the record and I don't think we will beat it this year. We have been running in very hot weather with some decent headwinds at each attempt. Their record will stand until we can go faster.
The motor started out as the White Car motor but has kind of evolved into its own little package. It is still an NA 6.4L with a kind of stock intake (plates and porting and lots of etc.), and stock ignition The chasis is all ours and even Marc has commented that this car handles better than the White car did. The full welded in cage and fuel cell was done at DEVEK. This is not a stripped down race car. All interior pieces are on the car.We drive it on the street and it looks very good and is actually quite comfortable.

Emickelsen

Very nice!! Congratulations! Soooooo.........how much you chargin' for rides?