[jdm61]

Tell us how the sport class races turn out. That and the Red Bull stuff (yipe! cool to watch, but not exactly racing.....kinda like freestyle skiing) are the wave of the future and may actually bring the sport a large audience once again, albeit never as large as it was in the 30's. I hope that the Nemesis NXT teams have the kinks worked out. Kinda boring watching the Lancairs win all the time. The Thunder Mustangs never really amounted to much with those NA V12 Falconer motors at that altitude in Reno. Makes for a 15-20% loss in power......like when us NA 911 guys drive over Newfound Gap. One guy was actually running a separate, 2 stroke engine powered supercharger a couple of years ago on one of the regular aircooled planes to get sea level horsepower at Reno without getting the parasitic drag.....kinda silly, but innovative nontheless. Somebody told me last year at Sun n' Fun that they were working on a turbonormalizing setup for the Thunder Mustang, but I haven't heard anything since. The Lancairs and NXT's make a lot more sense cost and complexity wise anyway. Glad Rare Bear is back. It was getting boring watching the same two Mustangs win the Unlimited Gold race all of the time too....lol