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Wednesday, February 14, 2018
This Is Truely Being Able To Do Something You Love
How A Bunch Of Volunteer Honda Employees Working After Hours Ran An NSX At Daytona
Honda of America Racing Team [HART}. They’re an all-volunteer team of regular Honda employees recruited mostly by word of mouth for one purpose: racing the cars Honda makes.
HART has competed in endurance races since its inception in 1989, but those early races were little SCCA amateur events. Slowly HART climbed up, steadily moving into ever-more competitive series, then taking a year off in 2017 to simply shadow a more professional team. This year they’re tackling their biggest challenge yet: the North American Endurance Cup, which includes the United States’ four most grueling endurance races. When I met them, they were running an Acura NSX at the 24 Hours of Daytona. They’d come a long way from wheeling Civics around a track.
Because it’s largely a volunteer effort, though, the team operates on a fraction of the budget compared to the others running in their GT Daytona class. Much of HART’s funding comes from Honda itself. HART is actually a department within the administration division of Honda, and a form of Human Relations within the company ultimately allocates their funding. Because this was a bigger than usual effort for HART, some of their funding came from selling off previous parts, cars and tools.
“Even though this isn’t our regular job and we don’t have much experience in this—the reason they give us the funding to do this is, we design and develop the car in Ohio, in the U.S.,” Gilsinger explained. “It’s not just that we’re taking the car and going racing, but we’re taking a car that everybody around [on the team] had something to do in creating it,” he added.
The team is a hell of a perk, despite functioning somewhat as a second job within the company. In fact, the existence of the HART team actually convinced Gilsinger to work at Honda, despite also having a job offer from Ford.
(Jalopnik.com)
Honda of America Racing Team [HART}. They’re an all-volunteer team of regular Honda employees recruited mostly by word of mouth for one purpose: racing the cars Honda makes.
HART has competed in endurance races since its inception in 1989, but those early races were little SCCA amateur events. Slowly HART climbed up, steadily moving into ever-more competitive series, then taking a year off in 2017 to simply shadow a more professional team. This year they’re tackling their biggest challenge yet: the North American Endurance Cup, which includes the United States’ four most grueling endurance races. When I met them, they were running an Acura NSX at the 24 Hours of Daytona. They’d come a long way from wheeling Civics around a track.
Because it’s largely a volunteer effort, though, the team operates on a fraction of the budget compared to the others running in their GT Daytona class. Much of HART’s funding comes from Honda itself. HART is actually a department within the administration division of Honda, and a form of Human Relations within the company ultimately allocates their funding. Because this was a bigger than usual effort for HART, some of their funding came from selling off previous parts, cars and tools.
“Even though this isn’t our regular job and we don’t have much experience in this—the reason they give us the funding to do this is, we design and develop the car in Ohio, in the U.S.,” Gilsinger explained. “It’s not just that we’re taking the car and going racing, but we’re taking a car that everybody around [on the team] had something to do in creating it,” he added.
The team is a hell of a perk, despite functioning somewhat as a second job within the company. In fact, the existence of the HART team actually convinced Gilsinger to work at Honda, despite also having a job offer from Ford.
(Jalopnik.com)
A Thought To Ponder
Everyone in this world works based on their own time zone.
People around you might seem to be ahead of you.
That’s total fine. Some are behind you.
Everyone is running their own race in their own time zone.
Don’t envy or mock them.
They are in their own time zone and you are in yours.
Life is about waiting for the right moment to react.
(CavemanCircus.com)
People around you might seem to be ahead of you.
That’s total fine. Some are behind you.
Everyone is running their own race in their own time zone.
Don’t envy or mock them.
They are in their own time zone and you are in yours.
Life is about waiting for the right moment to react.
(CavemanCircus.com)
I'd Daily The SS & Track The STi
These Are The Best Performance Cars On A $50,000 Budget
Complete list (CarBuzz.com)
Subaru WRX STI $36,095
The WRX STI is not a refined and luxurious sedan.
It does not offer a soft suspension setup to absorb road
irregularities. What it does offer is Subaru’s symmetrical
all-wheel-drive system, a 305-hp turbocharged 2.5-liter boxer engine and
the kind of handling prowess that will have you hounding supercars up a
mountain pass. At $36,095 it undercuts just about all of its natural
rivals and is available solely with a 6-speed manual transmission.
Chevrolet SS Sedan $46,625
The Chevy SS is no more.
This big and brash V8 sedan was a characterful alternative to the
anodyne and all too straight-laced modern turbocharged sedan and it will
be sorely missed. The big and booming 415-hp 6.2-liter LS3 V8 gave it
proper pace with 60 mph taking only 4.7 seconds and you could even have
it with a 6-speed manual transmission. It wasn’t all old-school either,
magnetic selective ride control and powerful Brembo brakes were standard
fitment, a bit of good news is that they are still listed on
Chevrolet’s website which may mean that there are a few SS sedans still
waiting for a new home.
Complete list (CarBuzz.com)
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