[NataSS Inc]

Anyone here other than myself planning on attending this event? I will be driving the return leg of the event and making my first assult on 200mph.

[NataSS Inc]

I was co-driving for Jeff this year. Plan was he would drive the south bound leg and I would drive the north bound leg. During practice I was hitting 170+ through the corners and down the trap I was at 180 (my tech for practice). The car was running better than it had in years, power all over the place, glued to the road, did what you told it to do, etc.

On race day we head out and the car is runing like a scalded dog. Oil temp was running a bit higher than normal but still acceptable. Jeff was on the money through the technical section and went through it about considerably faster than he normally does. On the left hand sweeper into the speed trap I had Jeff stuff his foot in it. We were at 205mph and accellerating when the gauges started acting up. Oil temp started climbing, oil pressure was all over the place then you could hear the motor winding down even though Jeff was flat footed. We blasted through the trap at 200.4 mph with the motor winding down and then it happened. Oil temp gauge shot all the way around, oil pressure went to 0psi, water temp went through the roof. I signaled Jeff to kill the motor and we coasted for a couple of miles looking for a good place to pull over. as soon as we stopped the radiator popped its lid and hosed me right when I opened the door to get out. We were picked up by the emergency crew and brought back to the speed trap.

The cool thing was that my girlfriend got to navigate for Richard Hille in the black camaro. I was able to stand about 40ft off the road as she went by at 212mph. I have seen video of 200mph drive by's, been in the car at over 200mph, but nothing compares to standing on the side of the road and watching a car go by that close, that fast. It really put things into perspective about how fast we are really going out there.