Its that time of year again! Tab and I have our tickets for the Saturday qualifying sessions and the Firestone Indy Lights and IndyCar Series races at the Kansas Speedway. The race is at the end of the month and you can catch the broadcast on Versus or online at Indycar.com.
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We’ve all heard of regenerative braking, but there’s been a technology lurking about that could both aid a car’s handling characteristics while recovering energy at the same time: the Power-Generating Shock Absorber. Recent news articles, like this one…

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I know the Runoffs happened two months ago, but this has been a very busy semester so please forgive the tardiness of this post. The 2008 SCCA Runoffs were held for the third, and last, time at Heartlan…

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We watched the weather report on Sunday morning with great interest. On Saturday, the prediction had been for increasing clouds and thunderstorms, some heavy, through out the afternoon. They couldn’t have been more wrong as Saturday was hot and sunny all day. So when we saw the prediction of the remnants of hurricane Ike hitting [...]

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We watched the weather report on Sunday morning with great interest. On Saturday, the prediction had been for increasing clouds and thunderstorms, some heavy, through out the afternoon. They couldn’t have been more wrong as Saturday was hot and sunny all day. So when we saw…

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Saturday started out slightly overcast, but rapidly became sunny and hot. With all the rain from Friday, it also became incredibly humid! We did run into the strangest sight of the weekend, two cars parked next to each other from completely opposite sides of the automotive design spectrum. We couldn’t help but laugh at the [...]

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Saturday started out slightly overcast, but rapidly became sunny and hot. With all the rain from Friday, it also became incredibly humid! We did run into the strangest sight of the weekend, two cars parked next to each other from completely opposite sides of the automotive design spectrum. We couldn’t help but laugh at the scene.…

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In a word. Ick. Here I refer to the weather, not the on-track action which was amazing. I never did make it to a Formula One race when the the USGP was at IMS, so this was my first time seeing the Speedway in its road course configuration. Looking at the track, the flow of [...]

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In a word. Ick. Here I refer to the weather, not the on-track action which was amazing. I never did make it to a Formula One race when the the USGP was at IMS, so this was my first time seeing the Speedway in its road course configuration. Looking at the track, the flow of the curves, and the transitions from inf…

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There’s no arguing that material science has had a huge affect on all forms of racing, especially IndyCar racing, but since the advent of carbon fiber, there’s not been much in the way of big paradigm-shifting leaps. That may change in the coming years. The current flavor of carbon fiber utilizes small fibers of graphite (ordinary pencil lead carbon) aligned, twisted, woven, and made r…

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