Although Velox V was pronounce fit and healthy last night the team didn't show this morning for qualifying
A bit too breezy for most people's runs, on both the short and long courses, but Ellen van Vugt bagged a women's multi-track world mark with a legal 51.92 in Garrie Hill's machine CO2 (a replica of the former trike world record holder Completely Overzealous). Apropos noxious gases, Todd Reichert has a CO
2 meter inside Eta. I don't know whether it helped but he became the fourth person to exceed 80 mph here, albeit with a breeze coming from his left stern quarter.
Jan-Marcel dropped his chain (the left side final drive one this time) in his qualifying run but still did almost 58. Some filing and graunching ensued and he then did a 76 over the full course. This is pleasing, as I am a semi-official part-time member of Team Cygnus this year. As long as they pay me with stroopwaffels.
Dave Collins also dropped a chain in ARION1 and coasted in for 39.5 mph, allowing Larry Lem to get in too close for the latter to be given a speed, but They reckon about 66 mph. Liz McTernan ran unfaired over the full course and did 28.84 mph, but the wind was too high for this to be a new record.
They're showing off the machines to the Tinies at the moment, which makes my feet hurt, so I grabbed the free lunch, took some photos, grabbed another free lunch and came back to the motel to upload the next tranche of pictures. Look for "BM2015 - Tuesday" at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/sets/ as they're still at it.
Blowing a bit and only 20 degrees but there's still a couple of hours before the evening sessions even start getting set up.
ETA: Evening session rained off. Piss.
ETA: This is what Tuesday evening looked like from timing:
Pic by Danny Guthrie
Monday evening looked even worse.