Well, we thought this morning would be our big run. The car was in impound for a record run, the weather was cool with zero wind and our engine guru Courtney from Cad Company had just tuned up the boost profile for extra power. Amir said the car felt extremely strong off the start and the car was throwing a huge rooster tail of salt spray, and it was well over 300mph by the half course mark. Then he heard a loud “bang” noise, throttled the car down and pulled the shoots. At first we thought it was a blown tire, but as it turns out we think we hit a pot hole or a large chunk of salt… it tore an aluminum belly panel and made a lot of noise, but nothing else was damaged. We consider it a lucky run.
Metal master Troy Trepanier from Rad Rides by Troy (builder of the BlowFish land speed Barracuda) stepped up and TIG welded the panel for us, since we don’t have a welding rig on site.
The car is back on the ground now, and we’re planning on running again in the late afternoon. If all goes according to plan, we’ll make another strong run and hopefully be back in impound tonight.