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Dempsey-Vesco Racing
National T-III Record
Team Vesco Racing of Murrieta, CA joined Dempsey's World Record Associates in September of 1999 to form Dempsey-Vesco Racing. Just prior to their joint venture, DWRA purchased a T 55 L-11-ASA turbo shaft engine, from Competition Specialties in Auburn, WA. This is the engine that powers Dempsey-Vesco's streamliner, Turbinator. Don Vesco, driver of Turbinator, holds 18 motorcycle and 5 automotive records. Don held the Motorcycle Land Speed Record for 19 years at 318.598 mph. In October 1999, Dempsey-Vesco set a new national land speed racing record of 427.832 mph at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. ( see press release Vesco Sets Speed Record, or visit Team Dempsey-Vesco Racing at www.teamvesco.com).
Dempsey-Avon Aero Supply
F.I.A. World T-II Record
In 1998, DWRA teamed with Bruce Linsmeyer of Avon Aero Supply, a surplus turbine-engine supplier in Danville, IA, and owner of the record breaking turbine-engine car #912. Owner/driver Linsmeyer currently holds 2 Bonneville National and 2 F.I.A World Records - the most recent being a Class T-2 record set in October of 1999 at 254.437 mph. (For more information, visit Avon-Aero's website at www.avonaero.com.)
Maniac Mazda
NEDRA National Street EV Record
The fastest "Street EV", this 1979 Mazda RX-7 was winner of the C-Stock class at the 1993 APS Solar and Electric 500 held at the Phoenix International Raceway, the fastest one-mile oval in the United States. Due to competition class changes, the Maniac Mazda is now a drag strip racer. In August of 1999 at Portland, OR, home of NEDRA (National Electric Drag Racing Association - sponsored by DWRA), driver Roderick Wilde brought the Maniac Mazda to a new world record, reaching a 1/4 mile speed of 114.85 mph in 11.039 seconds. ( Additional information is available from the Wilde Evolutions homepage at www.evparts.com).
The Human-Powered Vehicle
"Hour Record Prize"
Through the Human Powered Vehicle Association, Dempsey's World Record Associates and human-powered flight innovator, Dr. Paul MacCready, are offering a $ 25,000 prize to the first person to reach and maintain a one-hour speed of 90 kilometers per hour (55.924 mph), in a human powered land vehicle. The current record is 49.173, set in 1998 by Canadian, Sam Whittingham. (For additional information see "Feats of Feet". Orange County Register 10/28/99)
C.A.T.S. ( Cheap Access to Space)
" Rocket into Space Prize"
Another exiting world record attempt, but this time Ed Dempsey and physicist Shawn Carlson Ph.D., Executive Director of the Society for Amateur Scientists and recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, plan to smash the world record for the highest altitude reached by a non-governmental rocket. The C.A.T.S. prize is sponsored by the Foundation for International Non-Governmental Development of Space. FINDS will award $50,000 to the first group to reach 120 km, and $250,000 for the group that reaches an altitude of 200 km. (The current record is 36 km, which Carlson plans to squash by more than 7-fold!) After performing the final motor tests look for the rocket, SASSY FLEA, to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in February or March of 2001.
NEDRA 2000 Electric Drag Races
The fourth annual Electric Drag Races were held at the Woodburn Dragstrip (Woodburn, OR) on August 26, 2000. The event, sponsored by Dempsey's World Record Associates featured 26 vehicles. For results please visit: http://www.nedra.com/woodburn00.html.
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