Showing posts with label Magnus Racing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Magnus Racing. Show all posts
January 27, 2013
Finish the 2013 Rolex 24 at Daytona onboard the Magnus Racing Porsche
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AC
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Follow the longest 4 hours ever with Magnus Racing as they go for a second GT win in a row at Daytona
January 25, 2013
God that sounds awesome: a lap of Daytona with Magnus Racing
by
AC
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Not going to waste your time, just turn it up.
OK no, wait! I do have something to add, you may have seen Magnus' Daytona promo on a couple other web sites yesterday and perhaps you read some of the comments. Seriously there are people who either read or write sites like Jalopnik and have never read a Magnus Racing press release? Let's just say they need to catch up... like a lot of the field at the Rolex 24.
Picture every self important, grandiose, overwrought, pompous, hyper dramatic racing "clip" you've seen online, OK now imagine it directed and edited by Trey Parker and Matt Stone...
July 16, 2012
Fire!
by
AC
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Part of the final test for NASA's competition school involved getting out of the race car, from fully strapped it with the engine on, in fifteen seconds.
It's not as easy as you'd think: you have to shut the engine, open the door, drop the net, undo your belts and radio plug and crawl out. It's a damn good thing to practice though because, you just never know.
And it's not just Ferraris that spontaneously combust, check out what happened to the Magnus Racing Porsche driven by John Potter at the Sahlen Six Hours of the Glen when the electrics let go.
Not sure why Potter does not activate the onboard extinguisher but the fact it takes almost two minutes before a fire extinguisher is deployed might be because the 2012 Daytona winner pulled off the main track and onto the "NASCAR" shortcut, stopping away from a marshal station.
Practice getting out of your car!
UPDATE: Magnus Racing told us Potter did activate the onboard extinguisher but that the system is aimed at the driver's legs, the engine and the fuel cell, not the dash.
You can read Magnus Racing's blog HERE
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