Time Trial

 

After the other races, the time trial is simplicity itself: go out and ride five laps of the course as fast as you can.

It's simple for the racers, complicated for the scoring crew. Each racer gets their own starting time, gets the white flag after 4 laps, and gets the checkered flag when they're finished. This takes some fancy footwork on the part of the flagman, switching flags and tracking riders while pushing the button on the stopwatch and calling times to the scoring crew. It takes four arms and three sets of eyeballs.

Add to this the fact that since they were starting at one-minute intervals and the streamliners started first, some of the streamliners were finished with their laps before all of the racers had started. Steve Delaire once again cranked off consistent 3 minute 20 second laps and completed the almost 10 miles in sixteen-and-a-half minutes. In fact, all the streamliners were very fast- even Lonnie, who fell over at the start and lost about a minute getting taped back in his shell.

Here's the final account:

Number

Name

Category

Vehicle

time trial time

time trial speed (9.75 miles)

time trial place overall

time trial place in category

4nw

Steve Delaire

Streamliner

Big Gun

16:36.0

35.24

1

1

3nw

Dean Pederson

Streamliner

Coyote

17:13.0

33.98

2

2

2nw

Joe Kochanowski

Streamliner

Varnowski

19:20.0

30.26

3

3

6nw

Robert Johnson

Streamliner

Varna clone

20:05.0

29.13

4

4

5nw

Lonnie Morse

Streamliner

Varna clone

21:07.0

27.70

5

5

303nw

Chris Alling

Stock

Cube upright

21:41.0

26.98

6

1

301nw

Michael Wolfe

Stock

M5 carbon fiber

21:46.0

26.88

7

2

114nw

Orin Macquarrie

Super-Street

Rotator Pursuit

22:13.0

26.33

8

1

318nw

Zach Kaplan

Stock

Bacchetta Aero

22:43.0

25.75

9

3

211nw

David Neilson

Super-Stock

Optima Baron

22:50.0

25.62

10

1

101nw

Terry Minor

Super-Street

Gold Rush replica w sock

23:27.0

24.95

11

2

217Jnw

Noah Johnson

Super-Stock

ZOX 20/20

25:23.0

23.05

12

1

121nw

Mark Mueller

Super-Street

RANS Vē w/body sock

26:03.0

22.46

13

3

104Wnw

Laura Minor

Super-Street

Gold Rush replica w sock

27:18.0

21.43

14

1

305nw

Tom Traylor

Stock

FWD carbon

27:48.0

21.04

15

4

307nw

Ted Williams

Stock

So-Low carbon FWD

28:45.0

20.35

16

5

201nw

Todd Marley

Super-Stock

Challenge Jester

29:06.0

20.10

17

2

205Wnw

Diane Wills

Super-Stock

Tour Easy

29:32.0

19.81

18

1

317nw

Michael Kring

Stock

Catrike

29:41.0

19.71

19

6

702Tnw

Keith & Alex Kohan

Stock

linked Kettweisels

30:03.0

19.47

20

1

704Tnw

Steve Nash/Dustin Wood

Stock

back-to-back lowracer

31:09.0

18.78

21

2

215nw

Steve Schuessler

Super-Stock

Longbikes

31:43.0

18.44

22

3

703Tnw

Gary & Judy Dinsmore

Stock

WYMS copy

32:54.0

17.78

23

3