EL Mirage Season Finale

Hot rods, sedans, sports cars, streamliners, and motorcycles break a total of 29 records at the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) season finale at El Mirage dry lake, California. It has only been a couple weeks since the first SCTA land speed event of the year and already we’ve had the final. Held over two beautiful days in November, the conditions were near perfect with a good course and light winds compared with the October meet when strong winds obliterated the event. The fastest car of the October meeting was the Costella-Yacoucci Waters Nebulous Theorem III streamliner with a speed of . In November, driver Rick Yacoucci bumped his existing record to pretty amazing when you consider that his ’liner is powered by a 250ci small-block Chevy ‘mouse’ motor running on gasoline, albeit turbocharged. In total, 18 car and 11 motorcycle records were broken during the course of the two-day event that saw 220 recorded runs. Other reco