This event had the potential in seeing some really great speeds from multiple bikes, but mother nature had different plans for those 230+ passes. As Scott mentioned, the crosswinds were strong all weekend. We measured a few 30 mph gusts and other than a small window on Sunday morning, sustained winds in the double digits. The real wind issue was the gust directions were variable and different based on where you were on the track. I don't think, other than Guy on a slower data pass, did any big fairing bike run. On Saturday afternoon, 150+ mph bikes were not allowed to run and on Sunday afternoon, we were warned at the start of the crosswind speeds. I prep'd my nitrous bike on Friday, but left it in the pits. But I did run my overgeared production BMW all weekend and to give you an example of the winds: At 3 pm on Sunday, after Greg Neal bumped me off the 1000 cc N/A leader board (on my own bike), I did an "aggressive run" to try and knock him off. Left the line with a 12 mph cross/head, dropped over the hill (1/2 mile) hit a big cross gust that pushed me (chattered the front) to within a few feet of the cones. I corrected, shifted into 6th, just to be pushed back with a 23 mph headwind. Geez!
Now with that said, Shane did awesome with that 248.0706 run.
