Formula Sun Grand Prix 2004
17-21 May, 2004, Heartland Park, Topeka
Page 1: starting line and KSU pics and movies.
At the starting line: UM Rolla, U Minnesota, CATalyst, Apollo, U
Kentucky
Dan Eberle (R, red shirt) and Jim Ploger of the KCC (L, green flag)
prepare to start the cars. KSU's Eli Parke (R, scarf) and Evan
Clark (L) get Apollo set.
Click picture to download Quicktime movie of start (4.6 MB).
CATalyst racing down the straightaway. Upper/left pic links to
movie of racing on track (4.3MB); lower/right links to movie entering
hot pits (4.6MB).
Apollo did herself proud, racing 2.5 days and
easily beating the other stock-class car (Kentucky.) Her racing
ended when the motor mount broke half-way through the third day.
On left/top, she's getting ready to leave the pit after a break to
charge: Lindsay's by the car, Brad's on the barrier, James and Bart are
in the foreground, Jillian (?) in the car. The orange-shirt fellow is
an inspector. On the right/bottom: Apollo racing. Both pics
are linked to 4.6MB movies.
CATalyst in the "hot pit": we raced with "knobby" moped tires on both
cars, so they hardly ever needed tire changes. How to be sure:
jack the car up and roll the tires past (in this case) Francis' sharp
eyes. In foreground is Chris Weber, on the jack are Woody and
Bart, I think. Both MN and Rolla also raced on knobbies; Mizzou
did not, and lost ground to us when the sun came out because Ecopias
don't thrive at Heartland at speed.
