Not a good signal on site but I am back home now.
As expected it was windy with a strong West/West North West tailwind that seemed to drop and veer suddenly pushing a lot of the top speed bikes off line but apart from a few drops of rain it stayed dry but cool at 60/65F.
Opening shots in the normally aspirated class saw Mika Syren (speeduck) from Finland run a class best in the mile of 226.3 mph followed by Barry Miller with a best of 208.2 mph both on big motor busas.They put the aspirated bikes away then to have runs on Turbo busas.
In the nitrous class Pete Williams long time competitor in drag racing finally got his 200mph ticket age 73 with a 202.4 mph on Saturday backed up on Sunday with a 203.1 mph.
In the turbo Class Becci (angelpaws) Ellis opened with a 246.8 mph followed by an amazing 260.4 mph that just blew everybody away it looked like a perfect run from her
Jack Frost was next up and ran a 254.9 mph to bump his mile speed followed by 251.9 mph.
Les Marsh (Gixxer Les) ran a best of 238.7 mph with a 236.1 mph as a back up. Mika Syren warmed his turbo up with a 235.1 mph run.
I managed a 229.7 mph but suffered another chain adjuster failure at about 130mph that flicked the chain off but did no other damage apart from a few scratches,Fixed that issue properly now so it should not happen again.
Dave Taylor (tinkerbelles husband ) ran a stout 219.9 mph on his own bike to bump his mile speed a little but also ran by special request 144.5 mph with his 89 year old mother on the back who only wanted to exceed 100mph for the first time as a birthday present,she made an excellent pillion Dave said later.
Paul Brookes ran a 207 mph on his new build busa turbo and Barry Beadle ran 207 on his turbo busa James Deegan entered the club with several runs over with a best of 205.1 mph mph.
Brock O'Lee from New York over for the Wheelies borrowed a Holeshot turbo busa to run 230.1 mph and Paddy O'Sullivan from Ireland ran 213.9 mph on a GSXR 1000 turbo as did Ted Brady also Irish and Egg Van Popta ran 201.3 mph on two wheels ans 198mph terminal after keeping the front up for a Kilometre blasting the Wheelie record apart.