NASCAR Driver Tony Stewart and the Office Depot Foundation Team up to Donate 4,200 Backpacks to Chicagoland Children in Need
Stewart’s No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevy to Feature Special ‘Back-To-School’ Paint Scheme at Chicagoland Speedway
Office Depot(R) /quotes/comstock/13*!odp/quotes/nls/odp (ODP 3.94, +0.05, +1.29%) , a leading global provider of office products and services, and the Office Depot Foundation announced today that Tony Stewart, a two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series(TM) champion and driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevy Impala, will join the Foundation on Thursday, July 8 to donate 4,200 backpacks to non-profit organizations and schools in the Chicagoland area. This special event marks the start of the back-to-school season with Stewart hosting the country’s first backpack donation event on behalf of the Office Depot Foundation …Â Details
Crowds at Brands Hatch for the third round of the Pirelli European Drift Championship witnessed a masterly performance by Pete Barber in his Mazda RX7. After a series of impressive runs throughout the day, he fended off rounds one and two winner Mark Luney in the final to claim his first win of the season.
Taking place on Sunday 27th June, the event also hosted a round of the hugely popular Time Attack Series and the ‘Summertime Special’ Modified Live tuning show. Even with the England World Cup match televised in the afternoon, 1000s of spectators came to watch the action, on what was one of the hottest days of the year so far … Details
This has been a project of mine for a while. I have been wanting to install a Jet/Turbine engine in a car for a long time that drives the wheels instead of being “thrust” driven. Having it driven by the wheels allows me to safely drive it without burning the vehicles behind me. This video shows the first start up attempt and the successful second attempt. This engine will run on any type of fuel, but I have decided to run it on the proper jet-A fuel so that the fuel system does not get clogged or gummed up. I will do another video while driving this car to a local car event in the future. Special thanks to Richard Flanagan in helping me with all the one-off machined parts.
Even though this is not a horn,siren, or diaphone. I think it qualifies as a noise maker . At idle (15,000rpm) it pumps out close to 130dB!!! Â
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This engine came from an QH-50 DASH. It was an anti submarine helicopter used to hunt and destroy enemy submarines without detection. Most T50’s/502’s had an output of 165-450 horsepower, This one is one of the rare 550 horsepowerturbines that was used for reconduring the Vietnam war. See my other videos at www.youtube.com/BIGMIKESOCAL
Porsche Wins Again and Breaks Another Record. This time at the Pikes Peak Time Attack Class With a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup and Breaking the Record by 38 Seconds — Ahead of Every Production-based Car Entered. Jeff Zwart, from Woody Creek, Colorado, driving the specially-prepared Luminox Watch Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car, has won and set a new record in the 2WD Time Attack class in Sunday’s 88th running of the Pikes Peak Hillclimb.Â
Zwart, now a seven-time Pikes Peak class winner, not only broke the 2009 class record by 38 seconds, but went faster than all but five of the entire field — three Unlimited Class and two Open Wheels cars, all with 600-plus horsepower. His 911 GT3 Cup car also beat all the production based race car entries