Like Target 550, the actual world record attempt – the average of two runs in opposite directions – will occur on a special 12-mile track at a separate internationally sanctioned event (also run by the DLRA) the following weekend, but both teams are keen to have a crack at some long-standing Aussie one-way records too. How very Australian! The volunteer starters have been out there since 8am, so what is potentially the fastest car in the world will just have to wait like everyone else. This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for… when the starters announce the track will be closed for an hour while they break for lunch. A big crowd assembles as the cradle lowers the streamliner onto the salt for the first time and the crew undertakes final pre-flight inspections. Like a lot of the fast guys, Treit and Davenport sit out the first day waiting for the wind to ease off.Īfter 60,000 man-hours and 11,000 miles, Target 550 finally makes its way to the Track 1 startline late on Tuesday morning, suspended from a cradle that they’ll also use to retrieve it after the run. The salt is dry and hard, the sky is blue, but the breeze is up. Speed Week has been washed out six times in its 28-year history, and there are no rain dates. We can only imagine the logistics, red tape and expense involved in shipping a streamliner to Australia, let alone Lake Gairdner out in the middle of nowhere.
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