Danny and Arnold took over timing this morning so that I could roam around the course during the heats.
Jan Bos in Velox 6 has the first run of the day.
Sherry goes by the traps in Vortex.
Team 60 @ 60 waiting to run their velomobile at start. Check out the small, clear tail fairing.
Other teams parked at start.
Evan getting taped in. He ended up earning a 60 mph hat. I rode the chase vehicle down the track with him.
Sarah at catch.
She set a new women’s arm powered world record of 24.85 mph, just edging out Liz McTernan’s mark from last year.
Vortex headed back up to start. They ran the bike five times this morning with five different riders. That has to be some kind of record.
Dave in his sweep car.
Ken coming into catch.
Larry being freed from Super8.
He looks tired.
Thomas at catch, getting out of Vortex.
Rode the sweep car back up to start with Dave. We went xxx mph through the traps backwards.
Greg Thomas awaits his run in the DF velomobile.
Barclay having the belly hatch of his trike taped up.
Rossdan getting ready for his run.
George and Carole Leone have been our starting officials all week.
Jonathan Woolrich monitors launches to see if they conform to the 15 m rule.
It looks like Andrew Sourk has maintained his sense of humor despite all the problems that he has had this week.
HPVDT meeting at the 2.5 before Chris’ run.
Andrew in TriAge getting ready.
All taped up and ready to go. The Mexican team was crewing for him.
Adam Ince getting ready.
Chris about to ride Vortex for it’s fifth trip down the track this AM.
Triage taking off. Andrew had his first successful run down the track in this last 2.5 mile heat.
Here are the full results.
Some video at catch.
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