More teh suxx0r weather for Wednesday evening. It's turned cloudy and cooled off from 90 F to about 75, but the wind still refuses to cooperate. Only two riders were mad enough to try starting in either of the first two heats and only Jennifer made it to the other end. Calvin fell at the start and loosened Eta Prime's stem, unless it was the other way round.
All change for heat three. Andrea scratched which allowed Calvin another run. Lieke is tantalisingly close to the record with a 74.3, Ishtey's 60.85 was a fraction slower than his world record from last night, Calvin did a 76.78 which we think is his best so far this week. And Ken Talbot in ARION 4 smashed it with 51.58 for the Liverpool team's second arm-powered world record of the day
Big ups to Karen, Ken and the whole Liverpool squad and to Soup Dragoneer Russell Bridge, who qualified faster in Greg Cantori's Milan SL but declined to ride on the long course tonight in favour of Ken.
ETA Soup Dragon update: It's here and undergoing major fettling. Russ has tested the chassis out on Poo Road and all seems to work provided he doesn't attempt any violent manoeuvres. A crack team of fettlers is working on the body, led by George Leone (surfboard maker, recently retired from running the workshops at Cal Poly, HPV designer and builder of a Several of decades lying down). We're running the five miles heats tomorrow before the qualifiers so if all goes well Russ can qualify tomorrow and ride in earnest Friday morning. If all goes
very well he could ride tomorrow night.