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Event Coverage Bonneville today 500 mph Rainout

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  1. RichFox
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    43097427_10215621526706239_2114426165190983680_n.jpg IMG_1707_0.jpg Team Vesco Turbinator 503 mph exit speed. First 500 mph wheel driven car ever.
     
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  2. Mr48chev
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    Whoo Hoo. that is honking.

    Somewhere in my photo archives I have a photo of Don and the car on the starting line on Thursday of the 1998 Speedweek when the clocks went out with the who's who of land speed racing standing around the car. Told some guys next to me that they had better get photos because there was more racing history standing there than they could ever dream of.
     
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  3. sliceddeuce
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    Congrats to all involved.
     
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  4. TWKundrat
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    Awesome! What a great year on the salt. I'm really kicking myself in the ass now for not making it out there at all this year.
     
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  5. Crazy Steve
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    That is damned impressive.....
     
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    :cool:
     
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  7. Dean Lowe
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    Well, that's setting the bar high!!
     
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  8. jchav62
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    DAMN!!
     
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  9. RichFox
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    I kinda hoped Flashpoint would be the first 500 mph car. There can only be one first.
     
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    AWESOME :)
     
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  11. dirt t
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    CONGRATS!!!!!!
     
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  12. Fabber McGee
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    Yes, congratulations.
    I'm wondering where they found a driver. 500 MPH wheel driven, good grief.
    upload_2018-10-2_12-17-23.jpeg
     
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    :eek::D Onward and upward.This looks like a swell thread.I`ll saddle up and go along for the ride.
    Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
    Leo
     
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  14. Stogy
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    That must warrant a real special hat...jeepers...that's just 100 shy of commercial aircraft cruising speed...unbelievable. Great job by all involved...
     
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  15. Jalopy Joker
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    WOW!!
     
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    Five Hundred Miles An Hour.
    Things happen fast at 100+
    Done a little over 165 in a car, it's intense.
    Wow.. Cannot imagine!
     
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    Dang!!!
     
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  18. adam401
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    Wow! What kind of horsepower does it take to push a vehicle on wheels that fast?
     
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    Amazing accomplishment this may be the last barrier ever set by a wheel driver vehicle topping 600 may never happen. This years salt surface while not thick was similar to asphalt extremely hard even if it was only less than an inch thick. There may never be another year like this one on the salt.
     
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  20. 34 GAZ
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    500 mph is quite an achievment. Took a long time to get from 400 mph to 500 mph.
    54 years ago the late Sir Donald Campbell hit 403 mph on Lake Eyre , Australia in his Bluebird. Also wheel driven with 4250 HP from a gas turbine engine. Just compare the size of the Turbinator to the Bluebird. Bluebird_CN7_cutaway_drawing_L_Ashwell_Wood_1964_Bonneville_tail_fin_air_brakes.jpg BLUEBIRD.jpg
     
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  21. Atwater Mike
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    To 'contain myself': "Goodness! My..."
     
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    That gives new meaning to hauling ass.
     
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    It is a T55 turboshaft. So it is probably an Ex-Chinook or Ex-LCAC TF-40. They are 3500ish HP in the craft. I am sure they have it turned up though. Mabe close to 4000.
     
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    HOLY COW, all it needs now is wings and it could fly, Congratulations to all involved. HRP
     
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  25. Michael Ottavi
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    Team Vesco you ROCK!
     
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    2thumbsup...
     
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  27. RichFox
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  29. Rocky
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    YIKES! I can't even imagine. I've gone 179 in a blown ZO-6 but 500? Holy crap!
     
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  30. jim snow
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    Good stuff. Congrats to all. Snowman
     
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