I am told that motor racing started the day the second motorcycle was built.
Thoughout Motorsport there are some iconic events thought out the various forms that any true petrol head should attend. A Formula 1 event to see the hype, to see the speed and to hear the noise. A World Rally event do seeing drivers pushing cars to beyond there limits on gravel roads they are driving based on some shorthand notes their co driver is reading. Bathurst where something that resembles a family car is driven up and over a small mountain for 1000km wih two drivers over half a day.
For me Speedweek is another one of these events. There are a couple of Speedweeks each year. Bonnivile in the States and Lake Gardin in South Australia.
These events are where the bullshit stops about how fast your vehicle goes. This event is all about top speed and not at the end of a quarter mile but sustained over a mile speed trap.
Its a strange kind of an event attended by some teams and a lot of individuals who speed all year working on there machine to go to one event. They don’t have the opportunity to test other than on a dyno because there is nowhere other than the salt that is long enough or flat enough to run their vehicles.
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