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Unread 24-06-2005, 13:27
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@JohnVNeun
AKA: John Vielkind-Neun
FRC #0148 (Robowranglers)
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Re: pic: IFI in the Lead?

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Originally Posted by T. Hoffman
How come your car wasn't numbered 229?
It's a company car...

Quote:
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.
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?
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
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