8 Oct

2009 Handcar Regatta Race Results

As proclaimed by Erasmus P. Kitty in Races.

TrophyWe are proud to present The Great Handcar Regatta 2009 race results!

Three cheers for the dedicated teams who battled valiantly against all odds and callouses to complete AND race their fabulous contraptions of kinetic madness!

Race Block 1 — 12:30 pm
# Contraption (Team) Heat 1 Heat 2
001 MOG (Childrens Museum Sonoma County) 0:24.86 0:28.40
282 IronClad Surfer (Ironclad Surfers) DQ DQ
403 Flying Quagmire (Walnut Ct Apprentices) 1:40.31 0:34.19
564 Wonkatania (Uff Da-Loompas) 1:52.97 0:55.27
775 Screaming Vortex (Escape Velocity) 0:42.03 0:50.33
906 Rock*N*Roll Sunday School Fixed Gear
(Strong Men of SR) 		0:43.14 1:46.93

Race Block 2 — 1:30 pm
# Contraption (Team) Heat 1 Heat 2
447 Toad in the Stew (Brothers of Benedict) 0:26.62 0:28.06
288 Cyclotron (South Pacific Coaster) 0:21.03 0:23.17
109 Methodical Juggernaut (Infernal Manufacturing) 0:40.65 0:47.22
810 Murray the Fish (David Farish, Krank-Boom-Clank) 0:43.64 0:35.66
911 Two Penny (Todd Barricklow) 1:30.24 1:57.0
012 Sheffields Fantastic Trolley (Chain Gang) 0:37.10 0:25.36

Break Race

SHOWDOWN!
Whaaaan-dom Tantrum Pampermonium (Krank-Boom-Clank & Fou Fou Ha!) VS Random Tandem Pandemonium (Whiskeydrunk Cycles)

Thenagain Bomber (Whiskeydrunk Cycles) VS Randem Tandem Pandemonium (Whiskeydrunk Cycles as raced by arch-rivals Krank-Boom-Clank)

Race Block 3 — 2:30 pm
# Contraption (Team) Heat 1 Heat 2
613 La Carreta Diabolica (Los Guapos Diablos) DQ 0:29.21
414 Rail Skins (Nordic Track) DQ 2:02.95
915 Hennepin Crawler (Krank-Boom-Clank) 1:05.57 0:28.97
016 Thenagain Bomber (Whiskeydrunk Cycles) 0:34.10 1:11.82
117 Rebel Rollers (Chop’s Teen Center) 0:42.64 1:11.83
518 Bumping Contraption (Psychedelic Engineers) 0:27.13 0:28.0

Race Block 4 — 4:30 pm
# Contraption (Team) Heat 1 Heat 2
The Westerner (Bret Gave – Trek Store Santa Rosa) 0:27.83 DQ
420 The Radmobile (SRJC) 2:18.49 DQ
Velocipede (Rosie) 0:57.72 DQ
022 The Bamboozler (the Bamboozled) DQ DQ

Final Zephyr Speed Race

MOG — Heat ONE: Won due to failure of other team to qualify

Cyclotron — Heat ONE: Did not finish, crash on the tracks

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