Looked at program schedule. Will there still be vehicles on display on Sunday ?
-----Original Message----- From: listserv-boun...@floridaeaa.org [mailto:listserv-boun...@floridaeaa.org] On Behalf Of montreal73 Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:17 PM To: FLEAA Mailing List Subject: [FLEAA] Battery Beach 2009 Good news. Bad news Let me get the bad news out of the way first.The Electric Imp will not be running at Battery Beach Burnout this year. We have been hard at work with a total refurbishment of the Electric Imp trying to incorporate all the lessons we have learned over the last few years of racing an electric car. We are raising the motor's continuous power rating by improving cooling. We are changing our gearing to increase low end acceleration. We are revamping the battery pack to hold, cool and protect the cells better. These tasks, as well as cleaning, checking and lightening every part we can is time consuming but we need to do them right. While I am disappointed that I will not be driving the Electric Imp to defend it's record winning ever Battery Beach Burnout autocross so far, I will be at Battery Beach. Thanks to Palm Beach Toyota, I will be piloting a 2009 Toyota Camry in the Hybrid division. The Toyota is a solid and powerful car and should do well. This year's Battery Beach will be a full weekend. Friday night there will be an informal drag racing gathering at the newly reopened Palm Beach International Raceway. http://racepbir.com/. Matt Graham will be out there with a Kokam lithium polymer batteries /AC Propulsion powered Porsche 911. Shawn Lawless is planning to be there with a rail dragster mounting four 9 inch motors and 4 Zilla 2K controllers. Lowell Simmons will bring the Miramar 924 Porsche. Everyone is welcome. Gates open at 6 PM. The track charges $30 to race and $15 to spectate. All other events will be at FAU. Direction here: http://wise.fau.edu/jupiter/about-fau/campusmap-directions.php Saturday events include a Show and Shine, a scooter cross and an electrathon. The schedule is here: http://floridaeaa.org/modules/content/index.php?id=9 Sunday will be the autocross with both Electric and Hybrid divisions. For a little inspiration, we have posted the Electric Imp's in-car video from BBB 2008 on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ElectricImp See you there! Cliff Rassweiler www.ProEV.com _______________________________________________ Florida EAA mailing list listserv@floridaeaa.org http://www.floridaeaa.org _______________________________________________ Florida EAA mailing list listserv@floridaeaa.org http://www.floridaeaa.org
