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Re: Saturday 14th May 2011 - A.E.R at Santa Pod Raceway
« Reply #45 on: 15, May, 2011 - 14:31:18 »
Had a nice day out yesterday. Was god to meet up with people again, and get back into C5 ownership  ;D
Enjoyed watching everyone go down the strip, and was great fun listening to the announcers shock that a C5 was doing 55mph  :D :D

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Re: Saturday 14th May 2011 - A.E.R at Santa Pod Raceway
« Reply #46 on: 15, May, 2011 - 16:17:09 »
If anyone wants pics of the day, (the ones available  from Blackett photography) anything that went down the strip, you can get them here, at a cost of course.

http://www.blackettphotography.com

Go to gallery, select RWYB 2011, then date and time.

You will need to create an account, but that only takes a few minutes.


This weekend should be uploaded by Tuesday, apparently   ;)

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Re: Saturday 14th May 2011 - A.E.R at Santa Pod Raceway
« Reply #47 on: 16, May, 2011 - 17:23:31 »
The latest update from Rick at A.E.R ;

Dear all,

 

Thank you one-and-all for putting on a great show at Alternative Energy Racing 2011! This is just a quick email to let you know that the report is now online showing each entrant’s best time. I appreciate that some of the names are incorrect for the actual time set, but as people changed drivers and vehicles I was unable to tell exactly who was driving what on every run, so I used the original entry name against the race number for the purposes of the report. There is also a small formatting error that will be updated shortly, and a picture gallery that will be drastically extended in the next few days.

 

Once again, a huge thanks for coming along. It was great meeting everyone and their machines, and I have a few ideas I’m planning to bring into effect next year, including a shorter sprint track for cycle-type vehicles that don’t make the full ¼-mile

 

Stay in touch, and I will get the details for next year’s event out as soon as possible.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Rick Cuthbert

Santa Pod Raceway

 


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Re: Saturday 14th May 2011 - A.E.R at Santa Pod Raceway
« Reply #49 on: 17, May, 2011 - 17:27:19 »
Hey Steve hit the 75mph mark according to Santa Pods results list !!!!
http://aeracing.org/2011report.php

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Re: Saturday 14th May 2011 - A.E.R at Santa Pod Raceway
« Reply #50 on: 17, May, 2011 - 19:26:33 »
I Love that Pic of Mrs Marty looking at Steve across the track .... ;)

A competitive stare if ever i saw one    :-\

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Re: Saturday 14th May 2011 - A.E.R at Santa Pod Raceway
« Reply #51 on: 18, May, 2011 - 08:36:42 »
Hey Steve hit the 75mph mark according to Santa Pods results list !!!!
http://aeracing.org/2011report.php

..Rick did say in his email that there were a few errors, bit of a wild guess but Steve's time might be one of them  ;D

Assuming the rest of the data is correct then our bunch of c5's did well, "Challenger" being faster than the electric road registered moped and the other c5's being quicker than expected against far more modern technology.
Despite not managing a full run on 48v, the c5000 still managed a 55mph run at 24v which is very impressive stuff. Electricdave is already working on a fix so that the 48v mode will be more reliable.

Bring on the next event  ;D

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Re: Saturday 14th May 2011 - A.E.R at Santa Pod Raceway
« Reply #53 on: 21, June, 2011 - 21:11:32 »

..saw this on You Tube, some footage taken during this years AER  8)

http://youtu.be/9rN281StcKY

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Re: Saturday 14th May 2011 - A.E.R at Santa Pod Raceway
« Reply #54 on: 22, June, 2011 - 10:58:58 »
Got the AER sticker in the post today, cheers Karl  :)

If your there next year ... which i guess you probably will be  :D, then i'll definetly have to have a go down the strip  ;D

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Re: Saturday 14th May 2011 - A.E.R at Santa Pod Raceway
« Reply #55 on: 22, June, 2011 - 18:10:14 »
Got the AER sticker in the post today, cheers Karl  :)

If your there next year ... which i guess you probably will be  :D, then i'll definetly have to have a go down the strip  ;D

Well worth it, but be warned mate ...once you've tried more power on the drag strip, you'll be wanting to go 24v   ;D No-one is immune ,just look at the list of "casualties" so far who are willing to sell their souls  ; RadioMarty, Plod , Ray & Scott to name but a few  :o  :D

 

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Re: Saturday 14th May 2011 - A.E.R at Santa Pod Raceway
« Reply #56 on: 22, June, 2011 - 19:40:59 »
Stickers also arrived this morning in the post, Thanks !   ;D

I have orderd some bits for my 24 volt conversion so on the way to a bit more speed  ;)

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Re: Saturday 14th May 2011 - A.E.R at Santa Pod Raceway
« Reply #57 on: 22, June, 2011 - 23:01:06 »
I already fancy 24v. Your fault Karl for letting me have a go in challenger  :D
Think i'll see how the rest get on with their conversions first before starting on that slippery slope  :D