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

[Ed Weldon]

Mayf--
Sounds good on paper; but who's going to want to tell his crew and
especially the people who bankroll his effort for a publicity return that he
waited for shorter lines and got an event killing thunderstorm and 4 inches
of water on the Salt instead or project problems that took more than 3 days
to solve after the first run?
OK, GM had their chance to get a good reputation and ended up with some egg
on their face.  Now it's Ford's turn.  They pretty much blew it when the
universities like UC Davis handed them hybrid technology on a silver platter
in the early 90's annual competitions.  We'll get a chance in our own
"house" to see if they've managed to shed any of the hubris that seems to
grow like weeds around Detroit.
These things always make an interesting study.  I hope the layers of Ford
management directly involved will listen to Rick and not just treat him like
just another hired gun to be used and discarded when it's convenient.
Ed Weldon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "drmayf" <drmayf at mayfco.com>
To: "James Tone" <gmc6power at earthlink.net>
Cc: <land-speed at autox.team.net>; "Rick Byrnes" <Rick at RBMotorsports.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Ford's Hydrogen 999 racer shooting for fuel cell
land speed record ; Hybrid News


> heck, JD, I am gonna yell *with* you! ..............Another thing they
could do to help
> the rest of us, is to show up for the last 3 or 4 days only. A lot of
> folk have gone home by then, hardly any tech line at all, no big crowds,
> yet the publicity woud still be there.
>
> mayf