gravitron's tv debut

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After finally re-constructing the speed record vehicle in just a little over 3 hours, we packed ourselves into the van and set off for Kemble airfield to prepare for the live television broadcast.

Cameras were at the side of the runway capturing the kart flying by at over 135mph whilst interviewing Morgan Nicholas (Gravitron’s Technical Director) on this remarkable achievement. Two vehicles shot down the runway. One standard Graviton G60 race kart and the other, the twin motor superkart speed record vehicle. A camera attached to the helmet of Alan Thornton in the standard kart, captured the immense power and performance of the speed vehicle as it pulled away and left the standard kart for dust. At speeds of approximately 120mph the speed record vehicle made the racing kart look slow at 80mph!

The live news bulletin went out without a hitch providing Gravitron with new found public support and recognition. We toasted our drivers and crew with beer as the sun went down on this exciting day. A noticeable confidence was exuded by all that the Electric Land Speed Record should soon have the Gravitron name in tow.

Not bad for a quiet day at work!

Hoping for a quiet day at work after just driving over a thousand miles back from the FIA cup in Austria, the Gravitron team were greeted by a series of phone calls that were totally unexpected.

In response to a number of articles in the local press we were greeted, on our doorstep, by a crew from Radio Gloucester, the local radio station for this area, wanting an interview regarding our attempts to take the World Electric Land Speed Record. By 10am the same morning Gravitron were on the main headlines on Radio Gloucester with short additions hourly throughout the day.

Later that morning we received another unexpected phone call from BBC television. They wanted a live test run of our electric speed kart later that day. Of course we agreed. We hastily unloaded the equipment we had taken to Austria racing and removed the motors and controllers from the test bench and re-built the kart in double-quick time.

As we were busy with the re-building, the phone rang again. This time HTV were requesting an interview complete with film crew. Could they come today they asked?

So as we prepared the kart for the BBC TV crew we were surrounded by journalists, camera crew, sound men from two TV stations and out local radio station all expressing interest in a world record that had up till now been limited in its public interest.

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