Rick;
Congrats on this very historic ride! Hopefully you know the entire Ford Fusion
Team and Ohio State Univ has been invited to a Media Event & Car Show after
SpeedWeek,Sat. Aug. 18 in Salt Lake. Welcomed by USFRA. Heres a link: Its
produced by Kent & Brent Singleton. You might remember seeing young Brent
running his elect. Jr Dragster at WOS a few yrs. ago.
http://www.Race2TheFuture.com
Thanks Dale & Rick
Tom Shannon
Magna, Utah
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Rick Byrnes" <Rick@RBMotorsports.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:33:07 -0400
>I AM BLESSED
>OK, now I can finally talk about it publicly.
>Ford came to me thru Roush Ind. to help build a safe, legal race car using
>Hydrogen power for a large array of fuel cells. Safe for LSR that is, and
>safe for me....
>I am also under contract to drive the car at Speed Week this year. We have
>done some testing with battery power, and will test tomorrow on a chassis
>dyno with full functioning fuel cells and this weekend at the test track.
>The fuel cell tray is on line making power, and is ready to go.
>The car is, as the articles say, a highly modified Fusion with lots of aero
>work, and will run for Time Only. There actually is no class for production
>based electric cars, but that is achedemic. The group of Ford Research
>scientists and engineers are demonstrating their level of expertise with
>Hydrogen powered fuel cells, and It is considerable. I won't try to
>describe the technical detail the car because it will speak for itself, I'm
>just the driver. I'm certain though that the LSR community will like the
>car and the presence of Ford at Speed Week. We have been attempting to be
>really low key with this deal, but as you might imagine it is becomming
>harder. The logistics of such a complex program sort of demands lots of
>people and support. The Ford engineering community has been working with
>SCTA so there will NOT be any surprises.
>As for the car itself, it is rear wheel drive, quite conventional using a
>Ford GT gear box, and custom built suspension. The chassis if full boogie
>race car with a funny car/pro stock "Halo" type cage and a full containment
>NASCAR type seat, but lay down of 30 degrees. The driver compartment is
>really small and basically built around me, an average height guy of 5'4"
>tall and 200 lbs :=d (actually less than that when I can finally zip up my
>fire suit.
>We have built a VERY safe car, with and I am quite excited about the
>opportunity given me. As I said earlier, I am blessed.
>
>Rick Byrnes
>
>
>I'm sure there will be more info comi
>
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