At 5:18 This silver vintage Jetplane Fuel Tank "Pylon Racer" with built in V-8 is AWESOME !!! And thank you for this great video impressions, also inserting that cool music !!! TOP Entertainment...
Here I am again. This popped up in my feed & I just had to watch it again. We're all getting ready for another year. 2020 is our 30th Anniversary so ya just gotta be there!!!
Really fantastic turnout of competitors for what I understand to be a quite remote location. It's almost beyond comprehension to us here in the states that what happens on our salt flats and dry lakes also happens in Australia. However Australia has a great hot rodding heritage. Reflected in the drag racing and land speed racing for sure. Land speed racing is where the true innovation comes into play. Drag racing features classes with each one pretty much having a proven formula for building a competitive car. Probably the T/F bike classes are the most innovative but on the salt there is no proven way to go for many classes. So much stuff on a land speed car or bike is home made one off parts and philosophy.
Remote...HaHa....yeah not like Bonneville that's for sure. Nearly 6hrs from the states capital city, sealed road ends an hour from any civilised town then 100miles to the lake via dirt road. Worth the trip for a few days on the salt.
It's an event run by Dry Lake Racers Australia at Lake Gairdner South Australia usually March April each year. www.dlra.org.au/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Gairdner
8:51 surprised to see the Alfa Romeo sprint running in H/PRO when it appears to be eligible to run in H/CPRO as it looks like an early model, before the plastic bumpers. Perhaps the car is an 1982 model year that just puts it out of the classic class? Does anyone know, also what speeds did it run?
Are you kidding me? @ 51:00 is a streamliner driven by Les Davenport. A Canadian who was partners with Joey Severance on a world championship Top Alcohol Dragster. Even that was a bit of a long distance partnership but running the Australian salt flats? That just blows my mind! Treit & Davenport is a U.S. based team who must have spent a fortune to get that car there.
USA Hey.And yes, What ever it takes. Any way Went for sunday drive( dads day here ) from Whyalla to Mt Ives then on to the lake with help of John, had a look and wow Cheers Frank
haa the Music epic :) 👽👉🎤 Hal we ready to do this run 💻 - Dave do u feel the force flowing past your window 🏎🏃♀️🏍 oh its in OZ - Dry Lake Racers Australia Lake Gairdner South Australia filmed 12-13th March thought in usa 4 a sec :) go aussie's fun day 👍
Hi Guys, Im from the D&D Land Speed Racing Team and I would LOVE the footage you took of our car thats at 1:02:30. Is there any chance we could get it off you?
I had thought that before the first time I went to this event. 4 years in a row in my ute and surprisingly not much picked up after being out on the salt each day, a thorough wash at home after and no corrosion. The race cars pick up a lot of salt due to the speed and distance they cover.
This is a representation of how I saw the event as a visitor. Drones aren't allowed over the course. The closest you can get o the course is at the start line or over 500m away along the 5 mile long track. Difficult to film from that distance without expensive camera equipment.
@@houseofsolomon2440 It's not a great spectator sport but it's cheap to attend. I did visit the salt flats in Utah in 2000. Glad I did. Signed a waiver and watched cars take of at the start of the short course. Really great for checking out the machinery as they start their runs. Really accessible pits too.
Thanks for this video. Awesome. I went to Bonneville in 2016 (late) and 2017 (early Sat & Sun). It was the best time of my life in the middle of nowhere with a lot of gear heads. I can recommend Bonneville (see Target 550 2016 run here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b1pgUulb1Pg.html - ) , but Australia is worthwhile going, obviously. Checking if I can combine with any of the V8 Supercar races, season there starts early. Thanks for the video.
Why no commentary? Somebody must speak a language down there, sheesh, be nice to know some things, like speeds, horse powers, classes, heros, etc, etc, nice eye-candy, meh to music, at least lets hear some of the racers talking...
I'm just a visitor (no association with DLRA), passing through for a couple of days during a week long event. Any Commentary I provide would at best be a guess on the vehicles specs. I've only provided a pictorial point of view as there are professional film crews there doing driver interviews and stories, etc. Music is provided to cover the lack of interesting audio, such as the irrelevant back ground chat and mostly the wind noise. Info on classes, vehicle entered and records set available here.... www.dlra.org.au/
@@coupe545 yet you told us nothing, (ooh, shiny thing, noisey shiny thing, back of shiny thing dissapears, TALK TO PEOPLE, what is it, what have they done thats different, is it better or is it worse, your video work is great, but there is no info, no context, this means nothing to anyone that doesnt know these cars or hasnt been every year, loads of vehicles ive never seen or heard of, and after an hour i still know nothing about them.
@@russtik6140 ok, valid points. I have limited knowledge about them myself. My camera is also not equipped with an extenal mic which is required for comentary when competeting against the wind noise. Will try and add info next year, may even try and put some sub titles in.
Once again, lots og crap Music destroying an otherwise good and interesting coverage. WHY can't these People realize that this is just disturbing? The sound of racing engines IS Music to Our ears - we do not need additional
