Fang Dan at the 4&Rotary NZ Drift Nationals 2010, held at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, Auckland, New Zealand. Subscribe for more Motorsport! Video By sbpnz.co.nr
Sandown International Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) south east of the city centre. It is considered a power circuit with both its front and back straights over 950 metres in length. With the creation of the V8 Supercars series, they included the Sandown 500 event as part of their calendar until 1998. The race was then held as a sprint round until 2000, then as three 150 km races with pit stops in 2001 and 2002. The event was won by Todd Kelly in 2001 and by Marcos Ambrose in 2002. They returned to the 500 km format in 2003 with a sponsorship deal with Betta Electrical and have been a large part of the series since. The 2003 event was won by Mark Skaife and Todd Kelly for the Holden Racing Team. In 2004 it was won by Marcos Ambrose and Greg Ritter in a Pirtek-backed Stone Brothers Racing Falcon. In 2005, it was won by Craig Lowndes and Frenchman Yvan Muller in a Betta Electrical backed Falcon. In 2006, Ford Performance Racing got its maiden endurance victory with Mark Winterbottom and Jason Bright. In 2007, the major sponsor of the Sandown 500 is Just-Car Insurance and the event is called the Just Car Insurance 500, and was won by Craig Lowndes, his fourth victory, and Jamie Whincup. For the 2008 season, the 500 kilometre endurance race has been moved to the Phillip Island. Sandown remains on the calendar, but will host a regular sprint race format. The 2008 event from 7 to 9 June was known as the Midas 400 …
This side-by-side seat sports car employed an innovative configuration of four separate wheel-speed motors, custom inverters, and a special supervisory controller all designed and constructed by a team of university students from the Metropolitan University of Helsinki, Finland. Using almost 33 kWh of Altairnano lithium titanate batteries optimized for power rather than energy, this densely packaged car weighed 3770 pounds yet demonstrated impressive efficiency. The students used Audi R8 supercar aluminum suspension and brakes to match the driving performance of this vehicle. Given the mass, overall size, and battery makeup of this car, its results clearly show that traditional OEMs could build a similar car with existing technology that would achieve a similar attractive blend of energy efficiency and high performance. Team Name: Raceabout Association Location: Helsinki, Finland Car name: Electric Raceabout Class: Alternative Side by Side No. of wheels: Four Passengers: Two Drive type: Battery electric, all-wheel-drive Power source: 32 kwh lithium-ion batteries Charging: Fast-charging is available, that will charge the car to 80 percent capacity in 10 minutes on a 250 kw supply. For more information: progressiveautoxprize.org GET INVOLVED! Watch Awards Show Live 9 progressiveautoxprize.org Blog autoblog.xprize.org Facebook facebook.com Twitter twitter.com Flickr flickr.com
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