[Land-speed] Ford's Hydrogen 999 racer shooting for fuel cell land speed record » Hybrid News

[Tom Shannon]

Rick;

Congrats on this very historic ride! Hopefully you know the entire Ford Fusion Team and Ohio State Univ has been invited to a Media Event & Car Show after SpeedWeek,Sat. Aug. 18 in Salt Lake. Welcomed by USFRA. Heres a link: Its produced by Kent & Brent Singleton. You might remember seeing young Brent running his elect. Jr Dragster at WOS a few yrs. ago.
http://www.Race2TheFuture.com

Thanks Dale & Rick



Tom Shannon
Magna, Utah



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Rick Byrnes" <Rick at RBMotorsports.com>
Date:  Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:33:07 -0400

>I AM BLESSED
>OK, now I can finally talk about it publicly.
>Ford came to me thru Roush Ind. to help build a safe, legal race car using 
>Hydrogen power for a large array of fuel cells.  Safe for LSR that is, and 
>safe for me....
>I am also under contract to drive the car at Speed Week this year.  We have 
>done some testing with battery power, and will test tomorrow on a chassis 
>dyno with full functioning fuel cells and this weekend at the test track. 
>The fuel cell tray is on line making power, and is ready to go.
>The car is, as the articles say, a highly modified Fusion with lots of aero 
>work, and will run for Time Only.  There actually is no class for production 
>based electric cars, but that is achedemic.  The group of Ford Research 
>scientists and engineers are demonstrating their level of expertise with 
>Hydrogen powered fuel cells, and It is considerable.  I won't try to 
>describe the technical detail the car because it will speak for itself,  I'm 
>just the driver.  I'm certain though that the LSR community will like the 
>car and the presence of Ford at Speed Week.  We have been attempting to be 
>really low key with this deal, but as you might imagine it is becomming 
>harder.   The logistics of such a complex program sort of demands lots of 
>people and support.   The Ford engineering community has been working with 
>SCTA so there will NOT be any surprises.
>As for the car itself, it is rear wheel drive, quite conventional using a 
>Ford GT gear box, and custom built suspension.  The chassis if full boogie 
>race car with a funny car/pro stock "Halo" type cage and a full containment 
>NASCAR type seat, but lay down of 30 degrees.  The driver compartment is 
>really small and basically built around me, an average height guy of 5'4" 
>tall and 200 lbs :=d   (actually less than that when I can finally zip up my 
>fire suit.
>We have built a VERY safe car, with  and I am quite excited about the 
>opportunity given  me.  As I said earlier, I am blessed.
>
>Rick Byrnes
>
>
>I'm sure there will be more info comi
>
 
 
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