More pics from testing on Thurs. The first is from 2:30AM, having just completed enough of my entry to actually sit and roll down the road in it. Yes, I am supposed to wake up in 4 more hours to head to Bill's:
Upon arrival at Casa Bostic a couple of hours later, snugly in the back of the Kouba-mobile:
Bill, Beau, and Dennis loading the Flyer:
Strapping it in:
After one of the runs:
Back home in one piece, surrounded in the mess of an all-nighter thrash:
(the mess is still there, BTW)
The car ran fantastically with no evil traits. I just held it down the middle for the first of my runs, waiting til the end to wiggle it back and forth. It was very responsive to my input while tracking straight and true to where it was pointed. With the solid tires, the ride was, uh... shall we say, rough? I had to hold my head off the headrest to be able to see anything beyond general shapes and colors- but once I did, everything was a blur going by!
We only really had one side-by-side start, for which Bill jumped the start. The Flyer has got great acceleration! It just shot out ahead of me. Eventually I was able to hold the gap, but by that time we were so far down our run, there was little I could do to close it. I did try drafting him, but he scooted too far ahead for me to pull any advantage from it.
As Bill said, a HUGE thanks goes out to Beau and Dennis for showing up and enabling us to partake in this madness. I also owe a thanks to Bill who is organizing this whole mess and basically crew chiefing on my car as well as running his own. Thanks to ALL for making my madness happen!
If you're looking for more pics of the cars in action, you should come out with us next time. Four is the bare minimum to effectively do this- a driver for each flyer and a driver for each shuttle vehicle. We'd like to incorporate timing into the next rounds of trials, but that takes more people as well. Anyone interested would be appreciated!
Chris
