If you have any news of the race results, video, or gossip, this is the place to post it!
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I found this by David: http://www.electricracenews.com/201...es.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitterIf you have any news of the race results, video, or gossip, this is the place to post it!
Heh... I bet this was for Kleenspeed. I only know this because they bought our throttle assembly, and then proceeded to ask me lots of technical questions which, they admitted, their inverter/motor package supplier should have answered. Not too impressive, that....As a side note, I did a wire harness and bench test for a motor/controller to be used in one of the EVs to compete. However I don't know the team name. I'll know the car when I see it. So I hope they run.
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Brute dude,The Pikes Peak event is next weekend. I can hardly wait!
Monster Tajima isn't racing!?! Woohoo! The rest of us have a chance!!...1 Nobuhiro Tajima Tokyo, Japan Electric 2012 Tajima Motor Monster Sport Pikes Peak Specail 1 No
Hello All,running order
name, number plate, car, qualifying times
Nobuhiro Tajima 1 (Monster Sport E-RUNNER Pikes Peak Special) 2:36
Fumio Nutahara 230 (toyota evpoo2) 2:44
Elias Anderson 311 (HCE Lightning XP12) 2:58
Hiroshi Masuoka 32 (Mitsubishi i-MiEV Prototype) ??
Ikuo Hanawa 16 (EV Sports Concept HER-02) 2:55
Micheal Bream 13 (bmw m3) 3:11
Becky Gordan 34 ( Mitsubishi i-MiEV) 3:54
Both electrics have been like that....I am watching the progress, live, right now.
Did Lightning motors' bike (# 311) crap out? They had good times for sections 1-3, and then all the numbers were reset to 0.
Nope. I can't make heads or tails out of that mess. It doesn't help that I can't resize the page to avoid the annoying vertical scroll bar that's at the bottom of the page.Am I the only one scratching his head at that live timing page???
It's too bad Tajima went up in flames, in the practice video he looks smooth and the car sounds good.Nobuhiro Tajima, the favorite and overall record holder, did not finish:
fire in the cockpit after 1/2 mile, driver is fine. They had problems towing
him back down, because of direct drive, and because battery kept on of
catching tire. They couldn't leave the car up there, because of the danger
of starting a forest fire.
Very kool Thanks.Hi guys, I was up on the hill and here's some video I took of the EV competitors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtK0TfwTApM&feature=youtu.be
Makes a diyer proud!Hey guys!
...Another item that wasn't mentioned much is the sheer amount of EV engineers on the mountain. Tajima had a crew of no less than 27 engineers with him, and another dozen folks from GoPro. It was madness just to watch it. Same with Toyota Motor Germany, Mitsubishi, and Yokohama (whom we beat). There was just an absolutely insane amount of support for these guys. On our side, we had myself, Matt Hauber, and my dad, plus our 2 girls. That's it, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. We figured just their budget to get there was more than our whole entire budget for the car and the race...