Tag: 230mph


Tuesday 8-14-12 – Our last day on the salt this year with a few final pics of Lee’s car and the ‘Spirit of Orangevale’. For more pics from the rest of our trip, and info on the record setting cars we supported this year CLICK HERE!

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Monday 8-13-12 – Lot’s of pics from the starting line and staging lanes.

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Sunday 8-12-12, Black Opel Racing qualifies for a record and sits in impound waiting to back it up (and there are a ton of other pics too) For more pics from the rest of our trip, and info on the record setting cars we supported this year CLICK HERE!

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These are the pics we took Saturday 8-11-12, the first official day of SpeedWeek 2012

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These are the pics we took Friday 8-10-12, mostly in the hotel parking lot For more pics from the rest of our trip, and info on the record setting cars we supported this year CLICK HERE!

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Speed Week 2008 at Bonneville Speedway

Posted on September 15, 2008

Turns out this was the year for Gary to break the record.  Twice.  In car video of the record run is below. Monday Monday morning Gary pulled a 236mph ‘down run’ to qualify for the record, motor was running great, we put the car in impound until Tuesday morning when we’d come back to try…

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Speed Week 2007 at Bonneville Speedway

Posted on September 20, 2007

Final results for the Stude’ this year:  211mph with 2 cylinders acting up– valvetrain issues. The back two cylinders on the drivers side of the motor had been suspect all week, burning significantly richer than the rest as the story was told by reading the plugs.  Boost (with the wastegates wide open) last year was…

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