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Old 10-18-2007, 11:01 AM
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Wink Re: Hybrid Cars to Drive in the 100th Anniversary Great Race

Hi Eric,
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Originally Posted by ericbecky View Post
Up to ten (10) teams will be selected and each will be provided a hybrid vehicle. One common vehicle will be used.
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I hope you' all will be able to publish the average miles per hour and miles per gallon for the vehicles. You'll have some excellent data for each vehicle. Looking at the statistics:

12,323 Total miles
50 Driving days, 65 elapsed
485 Max day miles
78 Min day miles
246 Avg. miles/day

I wonder if the hybrid teams will be able to use battery pre-charging and block heaters outside of the official start of each segment? Heck, just taking a little 'warm-up' drive of 15 minutes would be enough to significantly improve the on-track mileage.

Thanks,
Bob Wilson

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