Once last pre dawn departure for the course.
First heat: unusually, there was wind first thing in the morning, and all runs were not wind legal. Mathilde went through the traps at 71.44 mph. Then Chris Hall continued his evil luck with wind, but went 68.85 mph.
In heat 2, Sprocket Rocket went 61.52 mph into a fairly stiff crosswind/headwind.
Next Diego went over 50 mph for the first time, going 51.00 mph but not wind legal.
In the third heat, the wind started to die, and Matilde set a wind legal personal best of 73.97 mph, putting her at #7 on the all time women’s speed records.
Then Bill went 53.86 mph. He has been significantly slower than last year, but he has been sick for most of the week.
In the final heat, Mike took this fun panorama of the Sprocket Rocket, which went 61.24 mph.
Finally, in his second run of the morning, Diego went a wind legal 51.45 mph.This just shy of 51.58 mph, the record set by Ken Talbot back in 2018. He is the second arm powered rider to exceed 50 mph, earning himself a hat. He’ll be running again tonight.
At the racers’ meeting, Alyssa was presented with her trophy as she is leaving before the awards banquet tonight. She leaves with a world record in Girls age 12-14 multitrack that she set on Monday, and then proceed to improve three times, with a final speed of 24.72 mph.
Shortly afterwards I see Policumbent looking for an additional 0.14 mph.
Full results.
Start order for tonight.
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