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Originally Posted by T. Hoffman
How come your car wasn't numbered 229?
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It's a company car...
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Originally Posted by sanddrag
C'mon. Please stop making us so envious of your job. I mean, you get to play with robot parts all day, you have a rapid prototyping machine in your office AND you get to race go karts. Man you have it good. 
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My job isn't QUITE like that...
I actually spend very little time on robot parts, that is only a small part of our business. I spend most of my time designing stuff like
this, and
this.
It is lots of fun, and very challenging.
(Okay, okay... I DO get to play with robots every now and then.)
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Originally Posted by Andy Baker
A little birdie told me that JVN got banged up in this race. Can you give us some more details, John? Were you running on Michelin tires?
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The little birdie speaks the truth...
In the last race of the weekend, I got in a pretty nasty wreck. (It wasn't my fault, I swear!) I ended up rolling the car, smashing into the hay, and getting nailed by another car. Luckily, no one got seriously hurt... but I got a little beat up in the crash.
IFI's newest intern, Chris Carnevale also had a good wreck. He was in the final race of the lightweight class, passing the leaders when someone he was lapping took him out. He got beat up a lot worse than me, but is also okay.
Chris definitely took the advice jokingly issued from our boss to heart:
"Win or lose... I'd be racing like your job depends on it."
We had a lot of fun, and learned enough that next year the IFI team (we are going to race multiple cars) should have a good showing.
Never a dull moment,
John