As this is being written, it’s very much the morning after the night before. We have just arrived at our team member Bruce’s house in San Diego, after an extreme weekend at El Mirage dry lake bed. What an amazing place! Despite being organised and run brilliantly by the same people as Bonneville speed week
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This particular update is being written by our driver Ian, for reasons that will soon become apparent. Hello everyone, please forgive me, but this is an update that is very dear to my heart and I’m going to be a little self indulgent. It’s safe to assume that most of you did not have the
Almost inevitably the last month has been very quiet for the team here at WFJ towers. With the car and the bikes left in California, other than a little bit of tidying up and quite a bit of jet lag to recover from, there really is very little to do. This of course has given
Please allow us to start this update with an introduction to the two newest members of our team. Our regular readers will have noticed our regular footers regarding the people and places we have been. This year was no exception and we were honoured to get to know two exceptional gentlemen. Rich Stratford a long
We really thought we were onto a winner this year. We had the car (and bikes) shipped out in good time. Although it was a little last minute we managed to get the engine in and running. We drove across western America in a late night dash to be at Bonneville Salt Flats in plenty
We left you in a state of pent up excitement as the car required some small adaptations for tech inspection and the track was under water. Tuesday dawned bright. hot and sunny after a very breezy night. Throughout the night the weather had pushed all of the water from the entrance to the salt into
After the rain delays of the last few days, the weather has been kind and the salt has been (slowly) drying out. As a result the SCTA have allowed us onto the salt. For both Ian, Bruce’s engine builder buddy Rich and the other motorcycle riders (Andy and Steve) this was their first opportunity to
We have finally made it to Bonneville. After some mad last minute rushing about and a 13 hour drive across some beautiful parts of America. Unfortunately, there was some rain on Wednesday night which has given the course a proper soaking. This has led to a delay to the start of the event. The excellent
Good morning all, The 2023 team has made it succesfully to the USA. We all arrived via various different flights and destinations to Bruce’s workshop to gather all of the necessary to prepare our selves for this year’s event. Nearly everyone made it safe and sound (Pete our thoughts are with you and love to
As the fictional Colonel John ‘Hanibal’ Smith was fond of saying “We love it when a plan comes together!” Thanks to the wonderful people at Transglobal Logistics all of the race vehicles arrived safe and sound exactly when they said it would. The good ship MSC JEONGMIN docked at Oakland California (very near San Francisco) on the
To us in the team, we have a number of priorities. The engineering behind turning a classic GT car into a land speed racer. Trying to improve the top speed of our car by 155%. Taking our opportunities in life. Inspiring others to consider trying something a little unusual. By far, the most important (to
As the car is on the water at the moment our opportunities for any engineering improvements are severly limited. The last few years have been very hard on the project and all of the delays and global price rises in all aspects have had a negative affect on the team. For the movie buffs amongst