Watch out vermin, Buffy the mouse slayer will get you!
Watch out vermin, Buffy the mouse slayer will get you!
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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
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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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+Jeff Jarvis as he so often does calls out the flaws in Mike Daisey's logic,…
+Jeff Jarvis as he so often does calls out the flaws in Mike Daisey's logic, especially mistake #2 Thinking that if you don't call it journalism, it doesn't have to be true. Falso.
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This American Life retracts its most popular show (podcast) ever: Mike Daisy's monologue and "reporting" on Apple's factories in China.
From the press release: "I'm not going to say that I didn't take a few shortcuts in my passion to be heard," Daisey tells Schmitz and Glass. "My mistake, the mistake I truly regret, is that I had it on your show as journalism, and it's not
journalism. It's theater."No, Daisy's dangerous mistake #1: Thinking that shortcuts lead to the truth, not away from it.
Daisy's dangerous mistake #2: Thinking that if you don't call it journalism, it doesn't have to be true. Falso.
Daisy's suicidal mistake #3: Thinking that, once discovered, This American Life of all shows would let him get away with it. Wrong.
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The picture speaks for itself 4
The picture speaks for itself
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Michelin also stepped up to develop brand new tires for the Deltawing 2
#lemans #highcroftracing #deltawing #michelin
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Earlier this week, it was revealed that the Detroit automakers missed out on a huge…
Earlier this week, it was revealed that the Detroit automakers missed out on a huge opportunity to demonstrate some true innovation innovation on the race track when they took a pass on supporting +Highcroft Racing and the Deltawing project. Two of the three Detroit companies have four cylinder engines with direct injection and turbocharging that would have made a perfect basis for propelling this radical new machine.
Into the breach stepped +Nissan with a modified version of the engine from the Juke compact crossover. Autoextremist Pete De Lorenzo has a great column this week that praises Nissan and rips into the domestics for this missed opportunity. http://www.autoextremist.com/fumes1/2012/3/13/fumes.html
Meanwhile Highcroft brought the Deltawing to Sebring yesterday to run some demonstration laps in between practice sessions for the 60th annual 12 Hours tomorrow.
#sebring #sebring12 #americanlemansseries #lemans #alms #highcroftracing #nissan
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Fortunately modern rally cars are seriously tough
Fortunately modern rally cars are seriously tough
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This Is Why Rally Cars Have Roof Scoops
If you've ever wondered what those air scoops on the roofs of rally cars are for, this clip of Russian driver Evgeny Novikov having a massive crash in last weekend's WRC Rally Mexico should help you u…
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If this is true, it's yet another piece of evidence that the TSA needs to be… 6
If this is true, it's yet another piece of evidence that the TSA needs to be completely disbanded.
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Add this Air Puffer to Your List of Silly Things Banned by the TSA
While the TSA may have a point not allowing cannonballs and ninja stars onto flights, it bars way more innocuous items like baby food and…air puffers?
Apparently a redditor, the marvelously named Gy…
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