Sandhills Open Road Race Record Run Part 1

[STANLEYSTICKLER]

Cool shit dude! Glad your wife could pull that off! mine well lets just say.......I'd hope our insurance would cover the wreckage!

[toastedtires]

I really need to see about getting into this race someday. I live in Missouri and I've heard about this race before.....I would love to see if a modern v8 monte carlo could hang on a back road flat out. Nice run man. That engine is freaking redlining ain't it.

[666curt]

good god!dude get a male navi.this broad is screaming and nervous.I know shes probably your wife,so your use to the shrillness.best of luck to the both of you

[OpenRoadRacer]

Well, she is my wife of 35 years, but she is loud because of 2 things: The sound level in the car is OVER 145 decibels, and we were using an intercom system we hadn't tested before, and we could not adjust it easily while on the course. Since we were using precise turn speeds for each turn, we felt it was more important to make sure I heard her correctly than go off course! When she said, "AHHH," she had looked up from her notes at exactly the wrong time and got startled. Surprise!

[OpenRoadRacer]

Actually, it WAS (and still is) Ken's personal bike. I recently assisted him on an attempt at a motorcycle land speed record, using this same bike -- but with a turbo and about 500 HP. (Sadly, the engine failed.)

Sorry, but "legend" is not what I would call anyone who recklessly endangers innocent others for his own glory. Ghostrider is an outlaw, nothing else.

[henrymarkstewart10]

Real shame there's no footage!

like i said, GHOST ain't gonna win motogp

(or ama, wsb, bsb or the iom tt races for that matter) but he is a legend in his own life time at his particular forte whether or not people agree with his antics

i'll check out some of the tt results to see how ken did (i'm guessing he didn't use his Busa for that haha)

[henrymarkstewart10]

not anyone can go that fast on a bike, it takes huge amounts of skill, if you knew anything about bikes you'd know that!

your cars might be faster on this kind of course but bikes are still beter because its not how fast you get there, its how much excitement you have on the way!

cars cant compete with

wheelies

stopies

leaning over

why the nasty comment at the ed though? makes you seem like a child?

[OpenRoadRacer]

Sorry, I was referring to Ghost Rider, thinking he was you. His illegal, reckless activities, i.e., racing recklessly amongst innocent motorists and jeopardizing their lives as well as his own, sets back our promotional efforts to attract bikes to legal, safe, sanctioned events like Open Road Racing. There are plenty of racetrack venues for bikes to do wheelies, stoppies, and leans off of the street. If you ride like Ghost Rider than you are the child, and anyone who idolizes him is an idiot.

[henrymarkstewart10]

i am not ghost rider, he is patrick furstenhoff from sweden 40yrs ish ish if you believe all the hype surrounding him!

i agree he is reckless and i don't agree with what he does (or others like him) BUT he is highly skilled in his field (he's not gonna win motogp in a million years)

i though ken merena competed in the open road race (no youtube footage i can find?) on a Busa

[OpenRoadRacer]

Ken Merena entered as a special exhibition in the 1999 Pony Express event, averaging 187 mph over 30 miles in a stock Busa. There is no video of his run, but I was there to see it. (BTW, Ken is three times the rider that Ghost Rider is, with the racing credentials to prove it, and is a veteran of the Isle of Man race.)

[henrymarkstewart10]

why so slow?

ghost rider did a run on public roads averaging 170mph + and the roads where not closed!

visit my homepage to see his vids and other related ones too

[OpenRoadRacer]

So, what's your point? Any moron on a crotch rocket can tear through city streets illegally. Retards like you are the reason state officials refuse to allow motorcycles to participate in our Open Road Race events with us. It's too bad, too, because if bikes WERE allowed you would get creamed by all of the top racers in our sport, where the AVERAGE speeds are between 194 mph and 207 mph over 90miles on the faster courses. Please go away, and make sure you update your Organ Donor card.

[scriccoracer]

That's fun, but what's with all the coasting? Problems with the brakes?

[OpenRoadRacer]

No, just conservative driving as this was the first time we had run this course at this speed. We were braking also, but this type of racing is not as agressive on the brakes as track events. The object is to carry speed as much as possible. We can probably run this course 5-10 mph faster now that we are more familiar with it.

[turbotoolman]

Excellent! Looking forward to seeing everyone again in August!!

[npj1989X55]

Where is Sandhills?

[OpenRoadRacer]

Arnold, Nebraska, a very small community in central Nebraska, near North Platte.

[npj1989X55]

Thanks, Open road racing is so cool. One day I will do it. You are a great driver. What are the safety requirements for your class?

[668ENTERPRISE]

Loved the fact you left the engine sounds in there!!!:-)))

[mouse66]

you call that twisty farm road, you most have some hellish main roads then

[yesac41]

you should go to the big bend open road race. i have videos posted of it if u wanna check em out.

[musewolfman]

what do the numbers mean? are they degrees, or reccommended top speed? or something completely else?

[OpenRoadRacer]

The numbers being called out are the turn speeds in mph we were using from our course notes.

[musewolfman]

oh, sweet. See, I want to try this kind of thing one day. I have a 1987 camaro with a 305, so, I'm not an unlimited competitor, unless it's a class for just seeing how much you can do.

[mercoid]

ORR, Is your wife the navagator? If so, you are a lucky man to have a wife that cool! My wife would shit a brick, then murder me when the car stopped.