Stevensville Mike (Offline)
#37
12/18/23 11:28 PM
Originally Posted by racefan20:
Actually I saw a race between "electric" cars. It was from IRP and it was a competition between 4 colleges to create battery powered cars. Pretty sure it was on TV as a support class to one of the USAC classes. It was very strange to hear only the squealing of tires but no motor sound. Anyone else remember this, it was probably late 90's
Saw the same at Winchester after a Hooters Pro Cup race about that era. Your description of the sounds/lack of sounds is spot on. I think there were eight of them. They had live pit stops about half way through a 30 lapper to change out the batteries. All colleges.
Chiming in live from the West Coast of Michigan.... Mike