FIRST = Racing?

[David Kelly]

Originally posted by Andy Baker
The TechnoKats have an OK relationship with the Delphi Racing people here in Kokomo. The Motorsports department at Delphi has given us some shirts for our team to use during the past two years. We've also used the "Delphi Racing" logo on our team shirts.

We would like to have a closer relationship to the Delphi IRL or NASCAR teams in the future, that's for sure.

I was wandering around Gasoline Alley during a practice day for this year's Indy 500, imagining Scott Sharp or Mark Dismore (Delphi IRL drivers) driving around our team 45 robot on their down time... this made me realize that "TechnoKart" was not a good name for our robot, if we want to be more closely related to the IRL team (IRL and CART are rivaling factions of open-wheel racing).

Andy B.

When I first realized that you had named you robot "TechnoKart" I thought, "Why would they name their robot after that other EVIL racing series (CART)." But I then realized it was a lot better name than ours which is "Beefeater" which, for the record, has no afiliation the the alcoholic beverage. Delphi sponsors top teams in both Winston Cup (Hendrick Motorsports) and IRL (Kelly Racing). That'd be really cool if you guys were close to them because if you were I would have to transfer to your team when I graduate.

I ment no offense to supporters of CART. I'm for Tony George and what he has done for drivers in the IRL.