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    Posted: 28 July 2024 at 9:41pm
It’s just been officially announced in Mr Zuckerberg's Walled Garden that 2024 will be the last time that Al'n'Alice Krause will be Race Directors.  Hopefully someone will step up to the plate to keep the event going in the future, but you may rest assured that this Unit has his squirrels ducks in a row for attendance this year at least.
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Morning all!

This Unit is now in-country and ye Automatick Diary is in business: https://automatic-diary.blogspot.com/
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Not a lot happening yet though I'm told that an idiot van driver rocked up at the high school, used their forklift without authorisation to unload the crate containing Cerberus (the Italian handcycle), got some random stooge to sign for it and b****red off.  This very close to close of play on Thursday pm and with Friday not being a skool day here the machine came perilously close to being marooned until Monday morning.  Fortunately the team managed to track it down and rescue it just in time.

Bit of a volunteer shortage, so there's still time for youse lot to hop on a plane to Las Vegas or San Francisco and come and do your duty Wink
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This just in:

Originally posted by Guillaume de France Guillaume de France wrote:

Bonjour everybody,
On the award cermony of the whpsc 2023, I said IUT Annecy will stop doing the Altaïr bicycle project, in order to start a human powered seaplane project.
Soon after, a little voice sounded in my mind and said : …17 years of world record quest…Altaïr 7 never falls and is ready to go…just inflate the tires…François would like to continue…never been so close of this f****** record…calculations say we could break it with excellent wheater conditions…
Sometimes in life we decide to stop something, and our mind says we have to continue.
Maybe it is because this thing is very important in our life.
And we just have one.
So we will be back in 2025 !
We wish all the best to all whpsc 2024 crew and teams.
Guillaume
IUT Annecy Altaïr Team Manager

Yay!
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First qualifying runs done and dusted.  No silly high speeds except from your intrepid reporter's Kia which, in spite of looking like a garden shed, still reached more than 130 mph according to the speedo, which agrees with GPS at least up to 80.  Wild Bill Thornton fastest at just under 53 mph in a Milan RS velomobile.  Full results:


This Unit's photos in the BM 2024 albums at here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/albums
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Uncharacterstic fall from Ellen? And Adam struggling with the right-way-up gravity?
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Ellen got away OK, it was team-mate David who didn't.  Adam hadn't actually done any testing with the full body on.  Ellen's slow time apparently down to Hans moving the gear shift control after the testing they did back home and then not telling her.  So she couldn't find it...

Evening runs a bust.  Wind.  Not helped by our accidentally starting the evening runs half an hour ahead of schedule.  Lizanne in the MQ2 trike the only runner in heat one - 34.82 mph with a wind about five times the legal maximum.  No takers at all for heat two.  Heat three delayed until its proper time; only Peter in the DF velomobile finished with a 52.56.  Wind had dropped substantially but not enough to be legal.  Ellen pulled up on the course with camera issues; Lizanne having a second go because "I'm an athlete" also stopped with a rubbing tyre.  Not the best evening we've ever had, that.
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Adam & David both qualified. More issues for MQ2 & Cerberus. Got to drive Lynn Briggs' supercharged Camaro. w00t!
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More wind in the evening.  Adam Hari knocking on the door with a non-legal 59.80 mph.  Cyclone's front tyre let go after Daniel had gone through timing.  Rider OK, bike condition TBA.
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