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2012/05/18
America's first all-electric motocross track
The first electric motor cross track in the U.S. (Penrose, North Carolina)
That MX - motocross is a noisy business, is quite clear. Neighbours complain about the noise often supported by the local "green party" to take this complaints into court, however the MX track was in most cases there before this "green" people moved in the neighbourhood and so a lot MX tracks in Europe are threatened with closure.
Electric MX - Zero motorcycles - Video from another track
The Darkgreenmotorsports 1,400 meter track in Penrose, North Carolina opened in October 2011 and was designed with the help of
experienced motocross riders to try and make sure that beginners and
experienced riders alike would get something special from a visit. Told company founder Stephen Salzman.
Is electric the future of motorsports? If so Darkgreenmotorsports, takes a headstart.
Although I will be missing the smell of gasoline in the morning...
Although I will be missing the smell of gasoline in the morning...
Visit: darkgreenmotorsports.com
British Racing Green
Keith Heckles, IOM TT 1967
BRG - Origins of the association
In the days
of the Gordon Bennett Cup, Count Eliot Zborowski, father of inter-war racing
legend Louis Zborowski, suggested that each national entrant be allotted a
different colour. Every component of a car had to be produced in the competing
country, as well as the driver being of that nationality. The races were hosted
in the country of the previous year's winner. Britain
had to choose a different colour to its usual national colours, red, white and
blue, because those colours had already been taken by Italy, Germany
and France
respectively.
Via: autosavant.com
When Selwyn
Edge won the 1902 race for England in a Napier it was decided that the 1903
race would be held in Ireland, at that time a part of the United Kingdom, as
motor racing at the time was illegal in Great Britain, and the opening of
Brooklands still four years in the future. As a mark of respect for their Irish
hosts[1] the English Napier cars were painted shamrock green. As Napier had
already used olive green during the 1902 event, and had adopted the colour as its
corporate livery,[2] they supported this choice wholeheartedly. Initially the
colour distinction only applied to the grands épreuves, but was later codified
in the Code Sportif International (CSI) of the Fédération Internationale de
l'Automobile (FIA).
In keeping
with these Irish/Napier roots, many of the earliest greens used on British
racing cars were of a lighter olive, moss or emerald green. Later,
darker shades became more common.
Read more: wikipedia.org
British Racing Green Garden at Williams F1’s UK headquarters
Lawless Rocket electric drag bike
201 mph at 6.94 sec - Lawless OCC Electric Drag Bike & Larry "Spiderman" McBride
Via: gizmag.com
Via: gizmag.com
