This summer I started working with a land speed race team, and I wanted to give a well deserved shout out to these guys.
Rick Yacoucci and Jack Costella are the leads of a totally privateer team that have a striking list of land speed records under their belts.
They have been competing for years against the big money teams like Castrol and General Motors, and even though Rick and Jack get squat for sponsorship money, they manage to blow their highly financed competition away at El Mirage Dry Lake in S. California and Bonneville Salt Flats.
Last month at the Bonneville Speed Week event, Rick Yacoucci drove his Streamliner cars to yet more breathtaking records.
Two of these records make Rick and Jack's Nebulous Theorem II officially, and without challange, the fastest 4 cylinder car in the world!
In G class Blown Fuel Streamliner, the old record was 309.607mph and Rick managed to clock in a 348.743mph
In G class Blown Gas Streamliner, the old record was 290.567 and Rick absolutely blew that record away with a 352.525mph!
The Nebulous Theorem II is powered by a 4 cylinder 1300cc Suzuki GSX Hayabusa engine, and of course is chain driven :nod:
(if I mentioned that a special Digilube chain lube was used to keep the chain alive during the weeks brutal runs with life still left in them, where the chains were previously not seeing more life than a couple of Bonneville runs, it might be considered spam, so I digress...:) )
Rick's partner Jack Costella also did some amazing runs at Bonneville Speed Week by piloting a CR125, 50hp, powered bike to speeds in excess of 150mph!
With the margin that Rick managed to break the previously held records, it looks like his name and official times will be at the top of the record book for quite some time. It sure gives the big money boys something to shoot for...
keep dreaming GM! :nener:
http://www.yacoucci.com/
Rick Yacoucci and Jack Costella are the leads of a totally privateer team that have a striking list of land speed records under their belts.
They have been competing for years against the big money teams like Castrol and General Motors, and even though Rick and Jack get squat for sponsorship money, they manage to blow their highly financed competition away at El Mirage Dry Lake in S. California and Bonneville Salt Flats.
Last month at the Bonneville Speed Week event, Rick Yacoucci drove his Streamliner cars to yet more breathtaking records.
Two of these records make Rick and Jack's Nebulous Theorem II officially, and without challange, the fastest 4 cylinder car in the world!
In G class Blown Fuel Streamliner, the old record was 309.607mph and Rick managed to clock in a 348.743mph
In G class Blown Gas Streamliner, the old record was 290.567 and Rick absolutely blew that record away with a 352.525mph!
The Nebulous Theorem II is powered by a 4 cylinder 1300cc Suzuki GSX Hayabusa engine, and of course is chain driven :nod:
(if I mentioned that a special Digilube chain lube was used to keep the chain alive during the weeks brutal runs with life still left in them, where the chains were previously not seeing more life than a couple of Bonneville runs, it might be considered spam, so I digress...:) )
Rick's partner Jack Costella also did some amazing runs at Bonneville Speed Week by piloting a CR125, 50hp, powered bike to speeds in excess of 150mph!
With the margin that Rick managed to break the previously held records, it looks like his name and official times will be at the top of the record book for quite some time. It sure gives the big money boys something to shoot for...
keep dreaming GM! :nener:
http://www.yacoucci.com/