MXOffroad.com News - Team McLeish Bros. Sets 5 Land Speed Records at Bonneville

Feb. 01, 2006 By ORC STAFF
Team McLeish Bros. Sets 5 Land Speed Records at Bonneville

August 21, 2002
Press Release - Team McLeish Bros.

To all of you that were promised daily reports from the salt flats, I and AOL, apologize. Seems our mid-week report went into the either around Bonneville, Utah. AOL did not like the format of our addresses!

The big news was Nolan White going 422mph with his twin Chevy streamliner, blowing both parachutes on the backwards return run, and running past the start line crowd at over 250 MPH on his way to getting stuck in the mud close to I-80!

Al Teague tried to beat Nolan's record with the AA Blown Fuel Hemi on the retirement run of his car, but came 15 MPH short. Al still has the world's fastest wheel driven single engine record at 409 MPH.

Team McLeish set 5 records in the 100cc, 125cc, 175cc and 250cc classes and just missed setting a sixth record by .2 MPH. We had one mechanical problem, a loose fuel solenoid, other than that the Team McLeish Bros. Yamahas ran perfectly. In fact our 125cc record of 117.9MPH is faster than the 350cc, 650cc, 750cc, and 1000cc class records!

Thanks to our supporters, Yamaha Motors, RLV Expansion chambers, MyChron data acquisition, Brad Griffeth, Doug Plank, Robert McLeish, Doug McLeish and Charlie Guthrie.

A special thanks goes to Doug Robinson for making it possible to get our last two records.

A full story with pictures is in the works, but here are a few shots for now.

Derek McLeish
Team McLeish Bros.

 

 


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