I believe the race course is actually 82 nautical miles and the race results are computed on that distance and accordingly, speeds are reported in knots. Don't have the result sheet in front of me but mine was 187.xx knots. 216 mph sounds so much better though : ) In addition, to avoid disqualification, you must swing wide to avoid several areas at Sun'nFun start/finish line and, of course, distance is a bit higher due to the inability to make infinitely sharp turns at the corners of the race. Bottom line is that a lot of consideration went into the determination of speeds and I think they are pretty accurate as reported. Tracy ----- Original Message ----- From: Finn Lassen Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 11:00 AM To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Fw: Sun-100 Race Results Ed Anderson wrote:
>Mark is correct about the average ground speed 216.7 MPH, however, that was
>NOT Tracy's top speed, that includes the take off roll and climb which of
>course lowers the average speed.
>
Not to diminish the results, but I believe the actual lenght of the
course is between 80 and 90 miles, not 100 miles, thus compensating for
the take off roll and climb. I could be wrong. Anybody know if the
average speed is computed from actual length of course or from 100 miles?
Finn
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