Just what can one man do with six grandfather clocks? That’s Jimmie Johnson’s latest predicament after securing his sixth Martinsville Speedway victory on Sunday.
Martinsville’s traditional grandfather clock came with the win, and Johnson has collected five of the timepieces in the last six races. Does he put them all in his trophy room? Or does he spread them around his expansive Charlotte home? Or maybe he lends them out to friends and family.
He can ask teammate Jeff Gordon, who has seven of his own clocks, for advice. Or they can together talk to Richard Petty, who has… DetailsÂ
Bill Dubé gets giddy when he talks about batteries and speed.
After all, his 500-horsepower Killacycle electric motorcycle goes from 0 to 60 miles per hour in under a second. He claims it is the fastest electric vehicle on the planet. In October, the Killacycle traveled a quarter mile in 7.89 seconds, topping out at 174 mph, a record.
Dubé, 56, an engineer and Rhode Island native whose day job is designing air chemistry instruments at the University of Colorado, is … Details
Ashley Force beat a “Who’s Who†of Funny Car drag racing that included her famous father, points leader Ron Capps and defending race champion Del Worsham on the way to a Sunday victory in the 22nd annual O’Reilly Spring Nationals that stamped her as more than just a novelty in the hunt for the 2009 NHRA Full Throttle Championship.
No victory was bigger, though, than a final round conquest of “Fast Jack†Beckman, the man who taught not only her, but her younger sisters and her mother to drive competitively… DetailsÂ
A number of governmental departments around the world are looking to serve as a good example to their citizens by adopting petrol/electric hybrid vehicles such as the Toyota Prius for government fleets. Now Mazda is providing an even greener option in Japan by commencing commercial leasing of their Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid, a hydrogen hybrid vehicle that combines Mazda’s hydrogen rotary engine with an electric motor.
The Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid improves on their …Â Details