A team of Scottish racers are frantically thrashing to piece their hot rod back together and make a final run at the 313mph I/Blown Fuel Streamliner record. For starters that is a 313mph record set with a ONE LITER engine! This team runs turbocharged, sleeved down, Kawasaki Ninja engines on methanol. They suffered big issues on Tuesday when a drive chain broke on a run and smashed the engine and transmission case to pieces. Enter the LSR family.
The team was able to (we’re guessing through the tight network of racers on the salt) locate a machinist on the East Coast who would make them a new case and get it to them within two days(!?) so their dream is not dead. On the rocks yes, dead, no.
With an investment of nearly $500,000 to make this project happen over the course of a few years, there is a lot riding on the team’s shoulders in the coming days. The record they are shooting for has stood for 12 years and through several attempts to knock it over.
Hit the link below for a good read from the Scottish perspective. Perhaps we take too much stuff for granted. For this team’s quest to make one of the largest media outlets in Scotland shows that this LSR business still has lots of meaning all over the world.
Good luck boys!
Source — The Scotsman.com — Scots set for 313mph bid after engine scare
