Another roadblock-running dick this morning, this one from the Bureau of Land Management's Fire Department. Urgently needed at a fire. In Tonopah. Which is two hundred miles away. We managed to stop him from getting any further than catch and fortunately it was Niklas in the Milan SL coming the other way, so a bit easier to stop and steer than some of the other vehicles.
Good morning for wind, with only Niklas in the last run of the morning not getting legal wind. Enzo Yokota and Diego Colombari in Phoenix and Cerberus respectively, both qualified on the short course at 34.81 and 37.70 mph. Enzo was slowed by, we think, an improperly seated tyre - Matilde's crash yesterday having been caused by a flat. Next up was Alyssa Miller (12) starting from 600 metres out. Her 22.72 mph constitutes a World Record for Women's Multitrack age 12-13 (?), as she was in a different age group last year.
Alyssa (12) picks up her traffic ticket from last year by
Mr Larrington, on Flickr
Sparsely attended runs on the 5 mile course followed, with the French, the Aussies, Peter and Wild Bill all sitting it out. Daniel did 54.74 in the Milan RS, followed by the Sprockettes whose 59.69 added 14 mph to the previous Women's Multitrack Multi-rider record. And was faster than the men made the Rocket go in 2019, though the machine has been improved a bit since then.
P9110005 by
Mr Larrington, on Flickr. If this video works it'll show the stately departure of the Sprocket Rocket from the start.
Only Matilde in the second heat: 60.33 for the fastest run of the morning. And only Niklas in the third: 51.65. Let's hope those clouds bubbling up over there <<< go off and water somewhere else.
Edit: We have put Eri[c|k] of the Sprocket Rocket team on duty assisting the flagger at the offending ranch road tonight. He is built like a USAnian football team and has only to lie down in the road to stop a three-ton pickup dead in its tracks