May 25th
2003
ECTA Newsletter
Written by: Lionel Williams
What a great
meet! We finally had two great days of racing without
any rain what so ever! This was another very safe meet,
with no incidents on the racecourse. Again the Suzuki's
provided the 200+MPH runs.
Scott Guthrie
again had top speed with his best speed ever at Maxton,
228+MPH with a back door of 231+MPH.
"Mr.
Motorcycle, The Sultan of Speed" Scott Guthrie
had five bikes entered this weekend. Entry # 1117, a
2000 Model Busa, was the fastest of the lot. Early Sunday
morning in the cool air, Scott reeled of a great run
of 224+MPH, Happy but knowing there was more left. Scott
went back to the line and held on for a great 228.449
MPH run, which is also the new record in APS/BF 2000!
Then he puts Teammate Wayne Pollack on the same bike
and Wayne rips off a great 225+MPH run for the new standard
in APS/BF 1350! Overall, Scott Guthrie Racing Team accounted
for 8 new records, the point's lead, and fast speed
of the meet! Not bad for the old man.
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Guy
Caputo
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Scott
Guthrie
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Guy Caputo
was back for his second meet of the year with his Tiger
Racing entry # 3135 2001 Suzuki Busa. At the March meet,
Guy had run a fast 199+MPH but had hurt his engine and
was not able to go 200MPH. Well, all's better now with
3 new records and a lifetime membership in the ECTA's
200 MPH Club. Guy's first record and the green hat run
was a 210+MPH blast in MPS/F 3000. He also set records
in APS/F 3001+ and APS/F3000! He seemed Happy! Guy also
writes for a great web site called Dragbike.com that
covers a lot of Motorcycle Drag Racing including Land
Speed Racing here at Maxton. Check it out! Congrats,
Guy!
Todd Brooks
had his 2000 model Hayabusa back out. The Double Busa
entry # 842 had several runs over 200MPH, but no records.
Well, Mr. Brooks and Todd Dross took all the fairing
off and entered into the M/BF 1650 class late Sunday.
Good idea because Todd Dross rode the bike to a new
record of 202+MPH!
The Seldom
Seen Slim Land Speed Racing Team of Jon and Nancy Wennerberg
made the long trip down from "Way Up North"
and picked up their 2000 Kawasaki 1270 cc motorcycle.
It has a lot of new bodywork and engine work and this
was just some shake down runs. However, before the weekend
was over, entry # 436 had set 2 new records in the M/G
1350 and M/F 1350 with a best speed of 185+MPH! Nancy
hopes to have her turbo 250 Kawasaki at the next meet!
Mark Wolniak
brought a couple of bikes up with him for this event.
One is a "New" '94 model ZX7RR 750. With this
entry # 673, Mark was able to set 2 new Records with
a top speed of 168+MPH in MPS/G 750. Mark also ran a
fast 176+MPH on his Entry # 698, a 2001 Suzuki GSXR1000!
Rich Yancy
had his bright red Budweiser # 8 entry back out to go
fast. He had the fast time of the year at 224+MPH before
Guthrie took it away Sunday morning. Rich's best run
of the weekend was a smoking 221+MPH run Sunday morning
that was a great run, but not what Rich is looking for.
Should be interesting to see who ends up with Top Speed
of the year between Yancy and Guthrie!
The Sportster
List Race Team had a couple of bikes entered for this
event. Guess what? They were both Sportsters! The first
was entry # 1012, a 2001 883 Hugger Sportster, running
in P/PP 1000 class. Rider Ray Kimbro was able to up
the record to a fast 141+MPH on this bike. Ray also
rode the "New" 506 entry "Whiplash"
to a new record of 163+MPH in APS/PBF 1650 class. Engine
builder Art Northrup expects a lot more out of this
entry in the near future.
The Old Farts
On Speed (OFOS) Team of Jim "Keno" Cannon,
Ken Weaver, TJ Cannon, Kevin Unphlett, Dale Thomas,
Bill Van Dyke and a host of others were on hand again.
They entered five bikes and made many runs over the
weekend. There fastest run was a 183+MPH blast by Jim"Closing
his Flapper" Cannon for the record in S/F1350 on
entry # 922, a Suzuki Busa.
New to Maxton
was the dual engine entry of Bill Van Dyke. He had a
couple a problems and was not able to run the bike this
meet, but thanks to Jim Cannon and Ken Weaver, was able
to get a few runs on the "Monster Mile" with
their bikes.
Kevin Umphlett
and TJ Cannon swapped the record back and forth in S/BG1000
all day Saturday and Sunday with Kevin finally getting
it at a fast 152+MPH on Entry # 1058, a 1987 Suzuki
750. Good Job Guys!
The Lone Eagle
Racing Team of Chris "Dad" Land and Mike "No
Muffler" Shedd had 3 bikes entered this meet. Dad
is getting the first runs on his Iron Head Sportster
Entry # 4B. He's done a lot of work to the world's fastest
naked Iron head and is getting ready for a trip back
out to B-ville to try to set the record even higher!
Mike had his 2001 Buell 500cc back out and was able
to get a record at 82+MPH. Still not what Mike is looking
for from the # 10B entry, by getting there. The Long
Eagle Team, along with new member and rider Roscoe Ingram
were able to set 7 new records on a 2001 Kawasaki 125cc
street bike, entry # 851. The fastest speed was an incredible
63+MPH. Proving again that you don't have to go really
fast to set records and have fun.
The ECTA "Web
Slave" Debbie "DahMurf" Heneman had her
little 1968 Harley Davidson Sprint 250 out for a couple
of runs and unfortunately, the little bike must have
run lean because there was aluminum on the spark plug
and it ended her runs for the weekend. Todd Dross will
probably have the little bike, entry # 1301 back out
at the next meet.
Mad Dog Motorsports
Team mates, Thomas Barker and Rickard Tackett, had their
Suzuki Busa back out again for the second time this
year. Their still getting use to the course and getting
their license up graded. They're coming right along
with runs in the 199+MPH range for the entry # 9300.
Shouldn't be long before they have a couple of records
and maybe a green hat!
Vincent Hill
was back down from D.C. with his bright green 2000-model
Kawasaki 1200. Vincent's best speed of the meet was
a fast 182+mph on the #482 entry! While Vincent's getting
seat time, he's still looking for his first ECTA record
and the way he's running, should have it before long!
Another new
entry was the # 9210 Vista Scooter of Randall Reusche.
The Grose Hosenhangen Racing entry was clocked at a
blistering 56+MPH for the record in P/P 125/2. He even
had the factory spare tire mounted in case he had a
flat on the course!
The Snart
Racing Team - http://www.snartracing.com/ had their
entry # 7625 1998 883cc Sportster back out again, and
as usual, set a new record with the bike. This time
is was rider Harry Malphus running a fast 130+ MPH for
the new record in MPS/PBF 1000. The Snart Team of Larry
Young and Lee Tindall, among several others, always
seem to set a few records and have their bikes well
maintained.
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The
Snart Racing Team
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Thomas
Cronan
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"In The
Middle Racing" entry # 2201, a Honda 250 Rebel,
owned and ridden by Thomas Cronan, must have made 25
runs or so. Thomas kept setting the record up in M/F
250/4 and had it to 88+MPH when he let rider Lee Tindall
have a shot at it. Lee was able to coax 90+MPH out of
the little bike for the new record.
Another small
bike was the unusual entry # 740 of Ed Tilley. It's
a 1982 Morini 500cc V-twin. The unusual bike ran a 97+MPH
speed on an 110+MPH Record. I'm sure Ed will keep working
on it until he has the Record!
Last of the
bikes is the bright yellow machine of Gregory Town Racing,
Rick Denham. The 1990 XCH Harley, entry # 346, was able
to up the record in MPS/PBG 1350 to a fast 152+MPH.
This is another rider that seems to set a new record
every time out. Shows he's doing something right.
Well, that's
all the Bikes for this meet, and now here is Lionel's
Corner
As I said
in the newsletter, this was a super meet, good weather,
good friends, and a safe meet! As usual a lot of volunteers
stepped up to help out with the running of the show.
It takes more people than you might think! My personal
thanks to each and every one of you! Many people are
getting ready for the trip out to Bonneville this August;
we still have one more meet for you to get your tune
up right. Maxton is really great for people to get some
laps in so that they don't tow all the way to Utah to
discover a problem that could have already been fixed.
I'm happy to be helping Brett and Regan Yates on their
Firebird that they bought from me last winter. This
will be their first trip out west, and they are really
looking forward to it.
It's real
good to see people having run and enjoying themselves
in this land speed sport. Sometimes it's easy to loose
focus on things and see some one like Brett and Regan
enjoying themselves helps out a lot.
I've already
received several phone calls and E-mails from people
that enjoyed this last meet and wanted to thank me and
the rest of our volunteers. The real thanks goes to
the folks that show up and race!
Thanks to everyone that helped!
Later,
Lionel
Lionel Williams
can be contacted at ecta251@aol.com
| Vehicle |
Date |
Entry |
Driver/Rider |
Class |
Speed |
| 346 |
5/25/03 |
Gregory Town Racing |
Rick Denham |
MPS/PBG-1350/4 |
152.88440 |
| 436 |
5/25/03 |
Seldom Seen Slim Land
Speed Racing |
Jon Wennerberg |
M/F-1350/4 |
185.56700 |
| 436 |
5/25/03 |
Seldom Seen Slim Land
Speed Racing |
Jon Wennerberg |
M/G-1350/4 |
181.70810 |
| 506 |
5/25/03 |
Whiplash |
Ray Kimbro, Jr |
APS/PBF-1650/4 |
163.77340 |
| 673 |
5/24/03 |
Mark Wolniak Racing |
Mark Wolniak |
APS/G-750/4 |
168.25890 |
| 673 |
5/25/03 |
Mark Wolniak Racing |
Mark Wolniak |
MPS/G-750/4 |
168.59620 |
| 842 |
5/25/03 |
Double Busa Racing |
Todd Dross |
M/BF-1650/4 |
202.52030 |
| 851 |
5/25/03 |
Williams / Lone Eagle
Racing |
Roscoe Ingram |
A/G-125/4 |
63.15080 |
| 851 |
5/24/03 |
Williams / Lone Eagle
Racing |
Roscoe Ingram |
M/G-125/4 |
62.77814 |
| 851 |
5/24/03 |
Williams / Lone Eagle
Racing |
Roscoe Ingram |
M/G-175/4 |
62.80925 |
| 851 |
5/25/03 |
Williams / Lone Eagle
Racing |
Roscoe Ingram |
M/G-350/4 |
63.12644 |
| 851 |
5/24/03 |
Williams / Lone Eagle
Racing |
Roscoe Ingram |
MPS/G-125/4 |
63.10077 |
| 851 |
5/24/03 |
Williams / Lone Eagle
Racing |
Mike Shedd |
P/P-125/4 |
60.08000 |
| 851 |
5/24/03 |
Williams / Lone Eagle
Racing |
Mike Shedd |
P/P-175/4 |
61.36200 |
| 1012 |
5/24/03 |
Sportster List Race
Team |
Ray Kimbro, Jr |
M/PG-1000/4 |
139.18530 |
| 1012 |
5/25/03 |
Sportster List Race
Team |
Ray Kimbro, Jr |
P/PP-1000/4 |
141.37380 |
| 1058 |
5/25/03 |
OFOS Racing |
T.J. Cannon |
S/BG-1000/4 |
152.97020 |
| 1114 |
5/24/03 |
Scott Guthrie Racing |
Wayne Pollak |
MPS/F-1350/4 |
209.88320 |
| 1114 |
5/24/03 |
Scott Guthrie Racing |
Wayne Pollak |
S/F-1350/4 |
207.52630 |
| 1117 |
5/25/03 |
Scott Guthrie Racing |
Scott Guthrie |
APS/BF-2000/4 |
228.44960 |
| 1117 |
5/25/03 |
Scott Guthrie Racing |
Wayne Pollak |
APS/BF-3001+/4 |
225.24780 |
| 1117 |
5/24/03 |
Scott Guthrie Racing |
Scott Guthrie |
S/BF-1650/4 |
219.13270 |
| 1117 |
5/24/03 |
Scott Guthrie Racing |
Scott Guthrie |
S/BF-2000/4 |
220.30750 |
| 2201 |
5/25/03 |
In The Middle Racing |
Lee Tindall |
M/F-250/4 |
90.03511 |
| 3135 |
5/24/03 |
Tiger Racing |
Guy Caputo |
APS/F-3000/4 |
211.55560 |
| 3135 |
5/24/03 |
Tiger Racing |
Guy Caputo |
APS/F-3001+/4 |
208.31890 |
| 3135 |
5/24/03 |
Tiger Racing |
Guy Caputo |
MPS/F-3000/4 |
210.12820 |
| 7625 |
5/25/03 |
Snart Racing |
Harry Malphus |
MPS/PBF-1000/4 |
130.16130 |
| 9210 |
5/24/03 |
Grose Hosenhangen
Racing |
Randall Reusche |
P/P-125/2 |
56.49221 |
| 10-B |
5/25/03 |
Lone Eagle Racing |
Mike Shedd |
S/PG-500/4 |
82.06886 |
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