Club Arnage

Martin Hill has just set the world's fastest terminal speed for a Jet powered Funny Car (in fact ANY jet car) over a 1/4 mile from a standing start at 336.10 mph  :o

story here : http://www.eurodragster.com/news/news.asp?Story=mar27#mar27 (http://www.eurodragster.com/news/news.asp?Story=mar27#mar27)

(http://www.dragula.co.uk/FireForce/gallery/martin_hill_6%20(Small))

I thought you WERE going Steve??

Dodgy looking weather and pressure from SWMBO to do some gardening  :'(

I'm glad I'm not the only one cursing my luck Steve...
Only twice have I decided not to bother going to a meeting...

First time was the first 4
Second time was this..

At least I didn't miss Kim Reymonds 4.8 or Barry's 300..

Roll on The Main Event

PS: John Webster ran his first 4 at the Thunderball as well.

Strange that!!  My weekend involved something along those lines too. Anyone would have thought we'd been away for the previous weekend!!  ;)

Yeah, bizarre eh!

Sickening isn't it.  I missed Sheavils blow over but managed to see all the Andy Carter 4's in the UK last year.

Sickening isn't it.  I missed Sheavils blow over but managed to see all the Andy Carter 4's in the UK last year.

Did you see the first UK blowover?
Rico Anthes back in the late '90s....
Or am I just proving that I'm old???

Yes, pretty much put the wind up him too.  Didn't he 'retire' after he wasn't the first European to run a 4?

(http://www.rico-anthes.de/picts/1993%20.jpg)

I always got the feeling that he 'Took his ball home'
When you consider the amount of money he makes out of running the Nitrolympics at Hockenheim he could come back with a pretty class act.
Last I heard he was building a 2 seat T/F car for passenger rides at Hockenheim.

Was that your own photo of Rico?

Another good weekend outing this year if you get the chance is the Britcar. I was up at Silverstone on Saturday and the racing was thoroughly enjoyable. A bit disappointed that a few of the rumoured entries didn't show, but still good fun racing.

Sh*T, you feel old, I was at the Pod in the late 70's when the Houndog Funny (they also had a rail) car stood on end due to an incrroectly setup slipper clutch (if my memory serve me correctly).

Ian, Bootsie Herridge (of Houndog) also drove Gladiator in the 70's - here's one of my old photo's I've recently scanned of a great funny car from that era - a bit of nostalgia.

Those were the days 8)
Brad has just transfered a video of old Super 8 cine films, shot at Blackbush, Silverstone, Snetterton, and the Pod,  on the his PC ready to burn a DVD - if it comes out OK we could start a distribution roundy roundy for anybody who's intersted?

Great Ian, I'd be definately interested in seeing that.

Put me on the list for that one please Ian

OK, I'll get the boy going, apprently he is trying to find some free / avalible DVD formatting software - any Ideas?

Once done I will post a new thread along the same lines as the Audi DVD.

What do you mean by formatting software? I got all kinds of software to write them, and some to author them (som of which is untested yet)

Might be able to help out...

We have a bit of a biking club at my local and we have been toying with the idea of arun down to the pod for a "run what ya brung" day any one been to one???

I use Pinnacle Studio DV it will accept video from most formats as an input either drag and drop or through video in. Can do you a copy if you want.

I clearly dont have a bloody clue! over to you Brad.

Thanks for the offers of help guys. What I've got is a WMV file which I wasnt to turn into a VCD or SVCD.  I have a copy of Adobe Premier 6.5 but its a bit ropey on  my machine (whilst it runs 512 mb of RAM, Im sure it has SOMETHING draining the resources on it - just cant tell what it is) Also adobe doesnt seem to allow you to produce the DVD makeup on to a CD - by make up I mean menus etc and the ability to play on a standard DVD player.

If anyone has anything which might work please let me know as I really dont fancy having to buy a DVD writer when I know the file in its current format is about 500mb.....

Cheers
Brad

I was up there too, with a freind who is sponsering the MG in the production class (S1 I think its called) they won there class, pity there was not a better crowd - I did meet a certain Dumbreck who has a Le Mans pedigree ;)

Tho I have to say I would of loved to have seen the Jet car at the Pod. Thinking about it if they could of done a return run that would that not of been a Brit Land Speed record  - mind you I think the Shed might of got in the way!

The rules of the Land Speed Record are a bit different.  Instead of a terminal speed, the record is the average speed of a car through a measured mile (or kilometre).

Hence, a car runs up from 1 or more miles before the measure mile and trys to maintain a high average speed through the measured distance.
Additionally, the record speed is the average of two runs in opposite directions and both runs must be completed within one hour.

The current British land speed record is 300.3 mph set by Colin Fallows in the Vampire jet car in 2000 on the Elvington runway.

Thrust SSC does not qualify for the British land speed record as the 763 mph World land speed record was not set within the UK.

(http://www.bluebird-electric.net/bluebird_images/vampire_dragster.jpg)

Hi Steve,
              I would point out that Speed Records have so many variables that one must read the fine print.
Wheel driven vehicles are one category, Jets another.
All have to be witnessed by approved judges.
Canada Phil

Phil, true.  Thrust SSC holds both the absolute World Land Speed Record and the Unlimited Jets category record.

The Wheel Driven World Land Speed Record is currently held by the late Don Vesco at 458 mph at Bonneville.

Records are observed and timed by approved officials (generally the USAC in the USA) and are ratified by the FIA (or the FIM for motorcycle records).

For all you 2 wheeled fans, the current FIM / AMA motorcycle record is 322 mph - set by a dual-engined, nitro-burning Harley that was claimed to be producing around 450 horsepower.

(http://www.petersen.org/images/Exhibitimages/Teresi-Campos-EasyRiders.jpg)

Otherwise known as "bugger that for a game of soldiers"

However, we digress......could anyone think of a package which will do the previously mentioned tasks??  

If so, can anyone sort a copy for me??

I've just had another look through the footage, and for an amateur cine user, and an amateur cine transferrer (i transferred it when I was about 15) its all come out quite nicely really......

Now all I need to do is transfer it to a format which a DVD player can read and we're laughing!

Great to know that there is someone apart from me that remembers drag racing at Blackbush.

Never got to Blackbush, my first meeting was bay in 1977, Easter at The Pod. When Ray Beadle brought the Blue Max over.
Was it '77 or '78 that Pete Crane upset Big Daddy Garlits by beating him?