I have a few other actions shots, but they are not as big and clear, and these are my favorite sequence:
I'm waving at the camera guy at the radar trap and here's a screen shot from my video camera recording my speed:
168 mph is the maximum we can go. 169 would have been a DQ. I had 4 GPS speedos and my rally computer all reading 168 so I figured I was safe to hold 168 through the traps.
The Windows blow out, off the tabs about 140 mph and you can tell how fast the car is going by the size of the gap. 168 mph is over 1" gap. The widows are adjusted to have about 2" of inward preload on them at rest and suck back in over the tabs below 120 mph.
I'm waving at the camera guy at the radar trap and here's a screen shot from my video camera recording my speed:
168 mph is the maximum we can go. 169 would have been a DQ. I had 4 GPS speedos and my rally computer all reading 168 so I figured I was safe to hold 168 through the traps.
The Windows blow out, off the tabs about 140 mph and you can tell how fast the car is going by the size of the gap. 168 mph is over 1" gap. The widows are adjusted to have about 2" of inward preload on them at rest and suck back in over the tabs below 120 mph.