2001 DLRA Lake Gairdner Speed Week

Preliminary Report This years event was a huge success, with 36 vehicles and 55 drivers making the trek to Lake Gairdner. There were several best speeds attained, many licencing passes achieved and even a world record. Most notable was the 205MPH by Gail Phillips in her little Austin Healey, the 181MPH from in the Moe Boys XA Falcon Coupe. There were also several new members to the "Spin Doctors" club, Bob Bowman was the first, then Keith Stamp the obliged the crowd on his first pass and in the same car Steven Stamp and Greg Hamilton. Many new cars made their debuts this year including Rod Hadfield's new Commodore.

The track was not as good as it has been in other years with some drivers describing the surface as looking like a moonscape, covered with little (and not so little) craters. The drag that was used to prepare the track was only mildly successfull in removing these. There was also a set of humps just after the start of the 3 mile and the 4th mile. Many drivers choosing to use the full long track to attain their best speeds.

The weather was hot, most days hovering around the 100 degrees F mark with about 36% humidity. The winds in the morning were usually slight and from the north, in the afternoon these would swing around to the east and become stronger and guster with the track being closed on the Wednesday afternoon. Typically Friday provided the best conditions.

Most of Monday was taken up with track preparation and setting up of the timing equipment with a couple of shakedown runs later in the day. There was a record 83 passes made on the Thursday.

Please come back to this page over the next couple of weeks as the information will be added as it becomes available. All photos to get captions. A full race report by the Secretary will follow soon. Note: the results are only preliminary.

Preliminary Results of Speed Trials 2001, March 5th - 9th 2001 - Peter Noy, Chief Timer
Any application for amendments to these results must be made on the Results and Records Amendment Form.

Records shown are either Open or a Record prior to this meeting.
Speeds shown in RED are records set for this year

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