Thursday, May 21, 2009

24 hours



Sometime in 2008, I went to Florida. Watched a space shuttle launch, sat on the beach, and watched parts of a 24 hour endurance race at the Daytona Racetrack.

This picture gives you the cleanest car that I saw. After 24 hours of racing, with rain, all the dirt from tires, and all the usual crap. 600 or 700 laps or so of racing. All the preparation, optimizing the car's performance, drivers must be in good shape. A serious effort indeed.

Why is this car so clean?

It broke something on lap 1, didn't finish the first 2 minutes of the 24 hours.

I felt sorry for those folks.

2 Comments:

Blogger Red Pill Junkie said...

Ugh. What a way to ruin a beautiful car. No wonder they are called 'spoilers'.

Why do you like car races so much, dude?

May 21, 2009 at 11:15 p.m.  
Blogger Bernd said...

Well, I like technology, performance and competition. And you know that the spoiler is for control, not aesthetic appeal :)

May 23, 2009 at 1:22 p.m.  

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