This would be the woman behind last nights post on the flat tire. 1999 Chevrolet Corvette - Got Salt? Gail Phillips Land Speed C5 Shakes Things Up At Bonneville Drag racers earn their excitement in reaction times, 60-foots, and quarter-mile e.t.s. The terminal velocity achieved over the 1,320 isnt nearly as important as the time it takes to get to the finish line. But land-speed racing is a motorsport in which speed is the ultimate goal, and competitors brag of reaching 200, 250, and even 300-plus miles per hour. Al and Gail Phillips, a husband-and-wife racing team from Pismo Beach, California, belong to the land-speed-racer coterie, and their current weapon of choice is a heavily modified 99 Corvette. In 1993, NASCAR Winston Cup racer, car builder, and driver Doug Odom began constructing a land-speed race car. According to Gail, Al told him it would be more interesting for a woman to be the driver, especially if he was going for a world record. Also, it might help get media attention and sponsors. So Doug asked him if I could be the driver. Gail thought her husband was crazy when he explained what land-speed racing was and how it worked, but she was more than up for the challenge. Before long, she was invited to El Mirage Dry Lakes in the Mojave Desert of California to watch a land-speed competition. It was hot, windy, dirty, noisy, exciting, exhilarating and scary. I was in, Gail says.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 23:34:28 +0000
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