It started off very wet on Friday/Saturday as per the forecast and although we started running early afternoon the track was never really dry until late afternoon so very few speeds were recorded over 200mph plus we had a 12mph to 15mph crosswind which does not help.
Sunday morning was dry with a heavy dew on the ground and a 6 to 8 mph wind that was mostly threequarters tail and it soon dried the damp off and improved grip but it was fairly cool around 65 F at best so grip was still an issue for most of the bigger power bikes although the wind increased to around 15/18 mph with stronger gusts later but was swirling around a little so not perfect.
fastest time of the meeting was Jack Frost well off his track record with 237.7 mph late in the day with British record holder Mike Grainger second at 230.1 mph Jo (tinkerbelle) Stevenson at 228.7 mph Myself 228.2 mph Becci (angelpaws) Ellis 227.3 mph Mike Merse over from Germany riding his "street bike" 223.5 mph Les Marsh with a new personal best of 222.2 mph exactly the same as Richard Warlow having a guest ride on my bike as he blew the motor on his first run Sunday AM,Merrill Corbett riding another of Frostys Holeshot bikes 219.5 mph Barry Miller 208.6 mph on a turbo Busa completed the over 200 in the mile group.
We also ran an extra quarter of a mile on another speed trap over the same course and interestingly very few of the turbo bikes ran any faster but the "Class two" stock with bolt on extras only had Bob Clegg 202.4 mph Phil Lovatt 200.9 mph Mike Grainger 200.2 mph all on Zx14r so I think this shows the tricky conditions over the weekend.
Fastest "built" big bore was Barry Miller on his own Busa at 205.1 mph and new rider to top speed Paul Callow was fastest nitrous bike at 197.6 mph.
around 2:30 pm on Sunday the wind started to increase with a few spots of rain so the decision was taken by the organisers to stop there as the forecast was for much worse weather on the way which proved to be a good call as within an hour it was much worse.
