Not really 4 in a row

It's fair to say that we dipped into our reserve fund of luck at the weekend. Twice we were lucky to go through elimination rounds that probably we shouldn't. But the end result was we made it to the final and secured another event win - and unofficially the ACU Funnybike championship too.

Qualifying also went really well, with the opening run a new personal best and the first dip into the 7.1's - a 7.1837 @ 181mph. And in the second qualifier a further improvement a 7.1394 @ 181mph, so getting really close to the 7.0's and those runs into a strong headwind too.

Take a ride with us on a 7.18 sec run ...

We qualified 2nd behind ACU newcomer- Kars Van Den Belt, who ran 3 thousands quicker on his turbo Honda blackbird. In the first elimination round we raced our good friend Bob Brooks, he ran his best time of the weekend and i headed for the centerline and had to roll the throttle slightly. I only just managed to stay ahead before the finish line.

In the second round i raced the number 3 qualifier Dale leeks who was on good form running - i think a personal best in qualifying a 7.26. Just before that race we were informed that due to strong wind and gusts the decision had been made to run the bikes over the 1/8th mile only for the duration of the event. It didn't really make much difference to us but meant we weren't going to get the chance to improve on our 7.13 ET. What happened on the line was a first for me - I'm usually pretty quick off the line but somewhere in my head something went wrong and i sat there staring at the tree thinking why haven't the stage lights come on when they were on already and now there's a green showing, Dale Leeks has gone and I'm still sat there.....
I really thought that was the end as I'd never catch him over the 1/8mile, but unfortunately for dale he couldn't shift gear and i managed to get going and catch him just before the line. Lucky! the time was a 4.543 @ 144mph
I had the final to myself too as Kars had injured his engine in the previous round.  We ran a an almost identical time to the previous round a 4.541 @144mph to take the win.

The result of that is we are 800points ahead in the ACU championship and cannot be caught with only one event remaining. FB1 next year.