Daily Archives: March 17, 2012


Judging by the performance so far at Sebring, it looks like the Honda Performance…

Judging by the performance so far at Sebring, it looks like the Honda Performance Development ARX-03a of Mucle Milk Pickett racing will be the car to beat in the rest of the American Le Mans Series season. For most of the race the HPD car has been running a strong third to the two leading Audi R18s and even now is only down one lap. A second ARX-03a run by the JRM team is running fourth.

What's interesting is that this is basically a four year old design. The ARX-03a is an evolution of the ARX-01e that +Highcroft Racing took to second overall at Sebring last year. That car was an update of the ARX-02a the same team used to win the LMP1 class in 2009 when it still carried Acura branding.

The elimination of the P1 class from ALMS in 2010 meant that Highcroft went back to an updated version of the original ARX-01a P2-class car that the team had run since the Acura/HPD prototype effort began in 2007.

Even now, the car still bears a strong resemblance to its forebear. The fact that the ARX-03a and the P2 class ARX-03b remain so competitive in their sixth year of competition is a testament to the fundamental goodness of Nick Wirth's original design.

#americanlemansseries #hpd #hondaperformancedevelopment #sebring12

2009 Acura/HPD ARX-02a

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Eight and a half hours into the 12 hours of Sebring, there is a great battle raging…

Eight and a half hours into the 12 hours of Sebring, there is a great battle raging in GT. The first four cars in the class are running practically nose to tail with Corvette, BMW, Corvette and BMW and then the fifth place Porsche 911 less than 10 seconds back from that group.

#sebring #sebring12 #alms #americanlemansseries

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Mike Daisey is right about not being a journalist, but that doesn't mean he's… 1

Mike Daisey is right about not being a journalist, but that doesn't mean he's not influential.

When his tale about working conditions in Chinese consumer electronics factories exploded onto the headlines it raised awareness about the human effect of the products we buy every day. Despite the exaggerations and fabrications in Daisey's version of the narrative, the reality is that China has a manufacturing advantage over the United States because of generally poor working conditions and low pay.

The flexibility and responsiveness that Apple likes to tout from its Chinese suppliers comes from having tens of thousands of workers living in crowded dorms adjacent to the factory that can be pulled in day or night and put to work. That sort of behavior would never be tolerated here and should not be tolerated in China. Cranking up production of a new phone or tablet is simply not so important that humans need to be abused in this way.

The blowback against Daisey's actions may well inoculate companies like Apple, HP and Dell as well as suppliers like Foxconn so that people ignore the problem that is all too real.

#China #chinesefactories #apple #foxconn #mikedaisey

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Mike Daisey "undermined the cause he purported to advance. That's the real scandal."

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Worse Than Kony2012: The Tragedy of Mike Daisey's Lies About China
American
consumers can't do much for Central Africa or Afghanistan, but they
have real power to improve Chinese labor abuses. Will they be less
inclined to believe the next person who tells them ho…

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