At 11am Sunday, it was about 92 degrees . Looks like there are 3 cars in our class, I (cars with unlimited equipment, a couple in IS (SUVs with unlimited equipment), 1 in II (cars, SOP) and a touring SUV. The bikes where broken down into 4 classes.
Last night we ran the 6th of 8 rallies in the local Friday Night Series. Today we’ll load the car and take a quick rerun of a couple of sections of Mountains to the Sea as a refresher.
We’re on the home stretch to the start of the 2010 Summer Alcan. Already weird things are starting to happen. Later while reviewing some TSD stuff, the light above the pool table started switching on/off/on/off/…, so much so that the neighbors called and wanted to know if it was an SOS. Today is Friday the 13th. Monday is the start of the Summer AlCan.
The Gnu had a couple of rough spots — well marked in the route book, mind you — including a short concrete bridge after a turn. found a replacement in Texas. But wait — there’s more This isn’t just a whining post…
Welcome to another edition of Fundamental Physics In Everyday Life. I’d have routed all the juice through one, but (does some quick figuring of watts divided by volts…) 420 watts of lighting pretty much eats up one AWG 8 cable. If you’re gonna run the radiator fan, too, …. * Well, okay — I was thinking that earths are terribly important in older cars, and isn’t it funny how a car’s isolated from the Earth by the rubber tires, so has its own “relative” ground.
